Warriors Heart opens Detox Center for Veterans and First Responders

April 4, 2018, 12:09 am

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To heal veterans and first responders dealing with addiction, PTSD and other reoccurring issues, Warriors Heart has opened the first and only private Detox Center in the US for “warriors only” entering their residential treatment program.

SAN ANTONIO (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

Warriors Heart, first private and accredited residential treatment center in the US for “warriors only” (military, veterans and first responders) announces the opening of a Detox Center on-site at their 543-acre ranch in Bandera, Texas. Warriors Heart has a full staff of licensed addiction specialists who provide the highest quality treatment possible around-the-clock.

The Warriors Heart programs include a Detox Center, Residential Treatment (inpatient), Day Treatment, Intensive Outpatient and long-term Sober Living treatment to those who put their lives on the line for our safety. This new detox program allows the client to receive seamless treatment and heal with “dignity, respect and courage” with an experienced clinical team.

What is different now at Warriors Heart is that clients can remain on-site at the ranch for detox, and then enter the residential treatment program at the same location. To support this new Detox Center, Warriors Heart has 24x7 licensed nurses, along with a Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director.

Warriors Heart Medical Director Jeffrey R Holt described their detox program this way, “While many detoxes take place in a more sterile-like hospital setting, Warriors Heart continues to stay true to our model of having a comfortable, serene environment that doesn’t feel like you are in a hospital. It’s hard enough to go through the pains of detox, we want our warriors to be as comfortable as possible with dignity and respect.”

When a Warriors Heart client goes to residential treatment, individuals are initially screened to determine if drugs and alcohol are still in their system. If yes, depending on the substance, a client will need a medically supervised detox first. Anyone currently using alcohol, pain medications, benzodiazepines (examples: Valium, Xanax), heroin, or other drugs, must receive detox before entering their 42-90-day residential treatment program.

On average, detox treatment at Warriors Heart lasts 24 hours - 10 days. Alcohol detox averages 3-5 days versus pain medication detox could take 4-8 days, depending on their symptoms. The length of time really depends on how long and how much the client has used before treatment, along with withdrawal symptoms.

In 2017, Warriors Heart sent 70% of clients to detox. By setting up a Detox Center on-site, the military, veterans and first responder clients can now heal faster by staying in one place amongst peers.

And what makes Warriors Heart even more unique is the peer-to-peer program where military, veterans, law enforcement, firefighters, EMTs and other first responders can feel safe to share and heal with fellow protectors because the program is not mixed with civilians. While other rehabilitation centers have a veteran track, the veterans are in group therapy with civilians during treatment compared to Warriors Heart that serves “warriors only.”

About Warriors Heart Medical Director Jeffrey R Holt
Warriors Heart Medical Director Jeffrey R Holt recently joined Warriors Heart with over a decade of experience in drug and alcohol treatment. Dr. Holt received board certification in Addiction Medicine in November 2014. He previously served as the Medical Director of the One-Eighty detox service at Hill Country Memorial Hospital and continues to work with Awakenings Hill Country (alcohol and drug detox and rehabilitation center for women), Serenity House (alcohol and drug rehabilitation) and Hill Country Memorial Hospice. Dr. Holt received his B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin, completed medical school at the University of Texas at Houston, and did his Family Medicine residency training at the Waco Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Holt is grateful for the opportunity to help serve those in the military, veterans and first responders at Warriors Heart.

About the Warriors Heart (Bandera, Texas, near San Antonio):
Warriors Heart is the first private treatment center in the U.S. solely dedicated to healing Warriors (military, veterans and first responders) dealing with chemical dependencies, PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and other reoccurring issues. This rehabilitation program provides a unique peer-to-peer based solution to help the over 13.3 million American Warriors faced with the self-medicating struggles of alcohol addiction, prescription and drug addiction, PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and mild TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) in a private, 40-bed facility on a 543-acre ranch. Warriors Heart work has been featured in Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, CBS Health Watch, KENS5 CBS News San Antonio, FOX 10 News Phoenix, PoliceOne, Warriors Magazine, Woman’s Day and Addiction Pro magazine. There is a 24-hour Warriors Heart hotline (844-448-2567) answered by Warriors.http://warriorsheart.com

Media Contact for Warriors Heart:
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NYCB LIVE, Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Hempstead, New York Receives 2017 Emerald Brand Sustainability Award for Sports and Entertainment

April 4, 2018, 12:09 am

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Emerald Brand recognizes NYCB Live for its environmental achievements. By converting to Emerald Brand’s sustainability program, NYCB Live has saved a total of 138 trees, 8,597 pounds of plastic, and 34,210 gallons of water.

SYOSSETT, N.Y. (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

Emerald Brand, maker of everyday products that are sustainable, rapidly renewable, and environmentally responsible, announced the winners of its Fifth Annual Emerald Brand Sustainability Awards. Each year, the company recognizes its clients who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to implement sustainability programs through the use of Emerald Brand’s Tree-Free™, compostable, and BPA free products and Emerald Ecovations’ environmental programs.

By converting to Emerald Brand’s sustainability program, NYCB LIVE has saved a total of 138 trees, 8,597 pounds of plastic, and 34,210 gallons of water.

“Seeing any organization commit to protecting our environment is always great, but when it’s on our doorstep here on Long Island, it’s particularly satisfying. NYCB LIVE has consistently lived up to its promise of minimizing its impact on the environment and protecting the health of its many thousands of guests,” commented Ralph Bianculli, CEO. “We are proud to partner with such an important local venue and the realization of our shared environmental mission.”

Sports teams, artists, and fans showed an outpouring of appreciation for NYCB LIVE’s recent sustainable decision to renovate the structure instead of demolishing it.

“We’re committed to doing whatever we can to reduce our environmental footprint and contribute to the reduction of toxic landfill waste. Emerald products offered us the alternatives we needed to take such an important step; affordable and effective, they have proven to be hugely successful for us,” commented Stephan Urbanowycz, Director, Arena Operations at NYCB LIVE.

NYCB LIVE’s decision to utilize Emerald Brand’s complete sustainable janitorial program, including Tree-Free™ products such as towel and tissue items throughout the arena, will not only make a difference, but will set a sustainable example for other businesses in the area.

About Emerald Brand:
Family owned and operated since 1997, Emerald Brand produces everyday disposable products made from sustainable, alternative materials at affordable prices. Committed to sustainable and rapidly renewable solutions, Emerald Brand's innovations in Tree-Free™ technology and petroleum free plastics are revolutionizing packaging and disposables worldwide. Emerald Brand's growing suite of 250+ sustainable finished products offers the workplace a healthier and more sustainable environment.

In 2017 Emerald Brand’s products and programs saved 19,589 trees, 748,047 pounds of plastic and 5,392,089 gallons of water.

Emerald Brand’s corporate solutions include educational forums, measurable environmental impact statements, and consulting services that are at the forefront of future movements in composting and recycling. Emerald Brand, in conjunction with Emerald Ecovations Material Technology Group, will continue to innovate Emerald Brand’s growing lineup of finished goods and retail packaging materials. The company’s mission statement “Farm to Tissue, Made in the USA” is on track to revolutionize the entire industry.

Products are available for consumer purchase at http://www.emeraldbrand.com and for businesses at http://www.paradigm-grp.com.

About NYCB LIVE, Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum:
NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum re-opened on April 5, 2017 with a concert by Billy Joel after an 18-month, $175 million renovation. Continued development at the NYCB LIVE site will make this historic arena the centerpiece of a reimagined sports & entertainment village that will be Long Island’s premier entertainment destination.

The arena is home to the NBA G-League’s Long Island Nets, a direct affiliate owned by the Brooklyn Nets. The 416,000-square-foot arena will feature capacities of 14,500 for concerts, 13,500 for basketball and 13,900 for hockey. The unique 5,000-seat Coastline Theater configuration will offer a new, intimate experience for both artists and fans. With 77 acres of property to work with, NYCB LIVE is prepared for large-scale festivals that expand beyond the building’s walls.

The Coliseum first opened on February 11, 1972 with an ABA game between the New York Nets and the Pittsburgh Condors. With an initial capacity of 15,000, the arena occupied 63 acres of Mitchel Field, a former Army/Air Force base, and was built at a cost of $32 million. The arena was home to the Nets and New York Islanders and several other professional sports teams, in addition to hosting major artists and events such Elvis Presley, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, the NCAA Tournament and WWE before closing for renovations following a concert by Billy Joel on August 4, 2015.

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San Diego Harley-Davidson Earns Prestigious Bar & Shield Award

April 4, 2018, 12:04 am

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San Diego Harley-Davidson® earned the prestigious Bronze Bar & Shield Circle of Recognition Award for 2017.

(PRWEB) April 04, 2018

San Diego Harley-Davidson® earned the prestigious Bronze Bar & Shield Circle of Recognition Award for 2017. Presented by Harley-Davidson Motor Company, this award is given to dealers based on motorcycle and related product sales performance, customer service and satisfaction, and operational measures.

“We’re proud to present this high honor to New York Myke, Ty Miller and Jen Miller in recognition of the outstanding work being done at San Diego Harley-Davidson,” said Dave Cotteleer, Vice President and Managing Director for the United States. “Dealers like New York Myke, Ty and Jen, are a big reason why Harley-Davidson is one of the most respected and recognized brands in the world and why we enjoy having the loyalty and commitment of our riders.”

Bronze Bar & Shield Award recipients, like San Diego Harley-Davidson, consistently elevate the brand by providing their customers with exceptional and authentic Harley-Davidson experiences.

About San Diego Harley-Davidson

San Diego Harley-Davidson consists of two full service dealerships, Morena Blvd and Kearny Villa, plus a gift shop in Seaport Village. They are family owned and operated by proud veterans and consistently give back to the community. In 2013, the largest Harley-Davidson® Dealership in California opened as San Diego Harley-Davidson’s main location on Morena Blvd off the I-5. The impressive space offers extraordinary Motorcycle Sales, Parts, Service and MotorClothes Departments, along with Rebel Hair & Tattoo Shop, a Convenience Store and a dedicated Event Room. Reported by PRWeb 8 hours ago.

nablet to exhibit many new and updated products at NAB Show

April 4, 2018, 12:09 am

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nablet, a leading provider of media processing technologies, will be demonstrating a wide variety of new and updated products at NAB Show 2018. While introducing new products to meet market needs, the company also focuses on enhancing its existing SDKs and other tools.

AACHEN, Germany (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

nablet, a leading provider of media processing technologies, announced that it will be demonstrating a wide variety of new and updated products at NAB Show 2018, April 9-12 at the Las Vegas Convention Center:· XDCAM encoder: all-new version including higher performance, various enhancements, FFmpeg integration and more.
· H.264 SDK XAVC encoder: all-new v2 featuring greatly optimized multithreading, highly optimized LongG encoding, new AVX2 optimization, support for Panasonic formats, and a beta XAVC Smart Render SDK
· mediaEngine transcoder: all-new version of our powerful live and file-based transcoder featuring improved threading, optimized codecs, and an optimized muxer and demuxer.
· mE Works: new broadcast format transcoder based on the new mediaEngine v2, including all updated nablet codecs.
· XAVC S encoder plugin for Avid Media Composer (beta): new addition to our popular plugin lineup, adding XAVC S export to Avid Media Access.
· nablet proTech forensic watermarking: new tools for adding non-visible watermarks into existing video files. Key features include live and offline modes, watermarking without re-encoding, web API support, and protection against cropping, re-encoding, file size reduction and block artifacts.
· Closed captioning SDK: new multiplatform toolkit including encoder, decoder and support for widely used formats and standards.
· SRT Libav integration: new tools providing subtitle support for popular architectures.
· MXF SDK, IMF SDK and other MXF tools: significant updates including new OP1B muxing and demuxing, speed enhancements, and enhanced DirectShow and GStreamer filters.
· videoProcessingEngine (VPE) SDK: significant enhancements to this powerful toolkit for deinterlacing, denoising, scaling and color conversion. It also includes CoderXR, a powerful video and image enhancer that can dramatically reduce file size and bitrate without sacrificing quality.

“While introducing new tools to meet ever-expanding needs, we are always focused on enhancing our existing SDKs that include codecs, analytics and media processing,” said Muzaffer Beygirci, CEO of nablet. “We have recently released major updates of most of our SDKs, and we are already working on the next-generation video processing tools that we will release within the next six months.”

nablet will be exhibiting at the 2018 NAB Show, April 9-12 in Las Vegas, in the Hiscale booth, SU13713. Both companies will be showing Hiscale’s FLICS elastic transcoding system which utilizes nablet codecs and other technologies.

To meet with nablet at the NAB Show, please visit http://www.nablet.com/contact-us/.

About nablet

nablet is a leading provider of codec, streaming, media processing, automated metadata and MXF technologies which are used widely in entertainment, broadcasting, OTT and related industries. Clients include Sony, Intel, IBM, Rohde & Schwarz, WDR, Vizrt, Syncbak and many more prominent companies. In addition, nablet is the official developer of the Sony format plugins for Avid Media Composer. Based in Aachen, Germany, the company was founded in 2011 by industry veterans who developed many of the most widely used codecs and related components in use today. nablet serves customers around the world, and recently expanded its global presence by opening its USA headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Additional information is available at http://www.nablet.com.

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RFOptic and SummitCSC Are Celebrating the 6th Anniversary of Their Cooperation

April 4, 2018, 12:04 am

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RFOptic Ltd. and Summit Communications Solutions, Corp are celebrating six years of successful cooperation in the United State of America.

(PRWEB) April 04, 2018

RFOptic Ltd and SummitCSC closed a distribution agreement over six years ago. Since then, SummitCSC has been selling, distributing and supporting RFOptic range of products in North America, Canada and the Caribbean.

SummitCSC's consultants have forged long and successful relationships with North American defense contractors, aerospace companies, research labs, radar suppliers as well as governmental and commercial corporations to sell RFOptic’s high quality RF over Fiber and Optical Delay Line solutions. RFOptic Solutions have been tested and approved by major labs such as Rohde & Schwarz and Naval Research Labs.

Oz Abramson, Senior VP at RFOptic stated: “We chose to work with SummitCSC as our distributor since it is a leading company in electro-optical field. The successful contacts that this distributor was able to close, demonstrate its ability and knowledge that made us as RFOptic succeed in the US and Canadian markets. The cooperation has exceeded our expectations, resulting in a very close cooperation between the two companies.”

Omer Sabuncu, President of Summit Communications Solutions, added: “We are looking back at a great partnership over the last 6 years. Due to the very strong demand for RFOptic’s high quality solutions, we were able to bring major deals to the table to our mutual benefit. We are looking forward to many more successful years working together and making the RF over Fiber and Optical Delay Line solutions of RFOptic an industry standard.”

Omer Sabuncu added: “RFOptic’s innovative and customized solutions have been a hit in our markets.” For example, RFOptic’s Progressive (aka programmable) Optical Delay Line solutions provide variable delay line capabilities from 20 nanosec up to hundreds of microseconds. Further, the solution supports up to 1028 delay line combinations which is unheard of in the industry. Another example is the programmable RF over Fiber link which is the only solution of its kind in the marketplace. This solution allows customers to adjust the RFoF link parameters to fit their overall system design and not the other way around”

About RFOptic
RFOptic is a leading provider of RF over Fiber (RFoF) and Optical Delay Line (ODL) solutions. For the last 20 years, its team of industry veterans has been developing, designing and integrating superior quality technology for a wide range of RFoF and ODL solutions. The solutions are deployed at various industries, including broadcasting, aviation, automotive, and defense. RFOptic offers its customers and OEMs various off-the-shelf products, as well as custom-made solutions optimized for a wide range of RFoF products at affordable prices and with a quick turnaround. RFOptic’s mission is to help its customers to turn innovation into real business by providing them with the highest quality, cutting edge RFoF solutions as well as customized solutions based on individual requests and objectives.
For more information about RFOptic, please visit http://www.rfoptic.com/

About Summit Communications Solutions
Summit Communications Solutions, Corp., is RFOptic’s longtime partner in delivering RFOptic's high quality RFoF and ODL Solutions to aerospace, defense, research and other industries in North America. SummitCSC consultants provide technical and commercial support throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico and Caribbean regions. For more information about Summit CSC, visit http://www.summitcsc.com/

Media contact:
Ms. Debra De-Jong    
E-mail: debra@rfoptic.com
http://www.rfoptic.com Reported by PRWeb 8 hours ago.

SourceCode Communications Builds Martech Practice, Announces AOR Relationship with Yotpo

April 4, 2018, 12:04 am

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Fresh off an In2 Sabre Award win and expanding team, agency expands adtech practice with the leading consumer reviews and user-generated content marketing platform

NEW YORK (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

New York City tech agency SourceCode Communications announces today a new client engagement with Yotpo, an eCommerce digital experience and marketing technology fresh off a $51 million Series D lead by Bessemer Partners, Access Industries and Blumberg Capital. The team will focus on telling the brand growth and corporate narrative and building creative campaigns that position Yotpo at the forefront of brand commerce. The signing marks seven consecutive months of growth off the heels of the agency launch this past September.

Yotpo has developed the most advanced platform for user-generated content marketing, helping direct commerce brands easily collect and leverage higher-converting customer content like reviews and photos throughout the buyer journey to deliver a more engaging customer experience. Enabled by artificial intelligence, the platform also analyzes review data at scale to deliver real-time business intelligence to inform operational, commercial, and product development strategies.

Yotpo’s Sr. Director of Marketing Communications, Cristina Dinozo, stated: “SourceCode clearly researched and understood our market, developed some truly insightful thinking and came to the table as if they were already a partner. The approach helped accelerate the ramp up so that we could begin seeing immediate results.”

SourceCode Communications Managing Partner, Becky Honeyman remarked: “We’ve seen six months of growth across the business but the team’s expertise in communicating adtech, brand and retail stories has fueled a series of wins, of which Yotpo is the most recent. We’re passionate about consumer behavior and the ways in which brands engage to build meaningful relationships in an increasingly promiscuous world - and Yotpo is a clear leader in this space.”

Since launching in early September 2017, its focus on strategy, insights and creative narrative development has won the SourceCode team more than 10 clients as well as key industry accolades. SourceCode Co-founder Greg Mondshein was named to the PR Council Next Board, The agency was recently named a top NYC tech agency by the Observer and won an In2Sabre Award this past February. SourceCode has also relocated to accommodate the growing business. The agency will operate out of TechSpace, the co-working office in Union Square, Manhattan.

About SourceCode Communications
SourceCode Communications a 2018 In2 Sabre Award winning communications marketing agency launched in 2017 by technology PR industry veterans Greg Mondshein and Rebecca Honeyman. Based in New York, the agency is focused on delivering measurable business impact to brands in five major sectors - consumer lifestyle, enterprise technology, marketing technology, mobile and telecommunications and financial technology. For more information, please visit http://www.sourcecodecommunications.com. Reported by PRWeb 8 hours ago.

Cohesity Expands EMEA Management Team

April 4, 2018, 1:09 am

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Johannes Kunz, Thomas Boele, and Claudia Zieschang Head Up Channel, Systems Engineering, and Field Marketing in the Rapidly Growing Region

MUNICH, Germany and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cohesity, the leader of hyperconverged secondary storage, today announced it has expanded its management team for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and appointed Johannes Kunz as senior director channel sales EMEA, Thomas Boele as senior director systems engineering EMEA, and Claudia Zieschang as head of EMEA field marketing. The company has thus filled three key positions with well-known industry veterans. With this management team, Cohesity wants to increase its market penetration and communicate the benefits of Cohesity’s hyperconverged data platform to even more customers and sales partners. All three come to Cohesity from SimpliVity.Johannes Kunz has more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and management, most of them spent in international positions. As senior director channel sales EMEA at Cohesity, he is responsible for indirect sales, the go-to-market strategy, and channel development in EMEA. Before that, he worked as VP channel sales EMEA for SimpliVity and also held various roles in channel sales, marketing, and product marketing at Hitachi Data Systems. Further companies in his career include NetApp, CA, and Cheyenne Software.

With over 20 years of experience in technical presales and marketing position, Thomas Boele brings a vast spectrum of expertise to Cohesity. In his new role as senior director systems engineering EMEA, he focuses on the development and expansion of the presales teams and technical customer service in the region. Before joining Cohesity, he held a variety of positions at SimpliVity, most recently that of vice president solutions architecture EMEA. He has also worked at Riverbed, NetApp, Cisco, and 3Com, amongst others.

In the past 15 years, Claudia Zieschang has occupied various positions in marketing at leading US companies. As head of EMEA field marketing for Cohesity, she is responsible for strategic brand development and related activities in EMEA – a role she previously held at SimpliVity. Before joining SimpliVity, she was responsible for marketing in North and Central Europe at F5 Networks and also led strategic enterprise marketing at VMware Germany.

“When I joined Cohesity at the end of 2017, I knew that our hyperconverged platform approach and our native integration into the cloud gave us a unique opportunity to start a revolution in the European IT market. However, we can only achieve our ambitious goals with the right people,” said Klaus Seidl, VP sales EMEA at Cohesity. “I am pleased to welcome three experienced colleagues to the team who, together with me and the rest of the team, will turn the EMEA market for data protection and hyperconverged secondary storage upside down and support our growth objectives in the whole region.”

*About Cohesity
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Cohesity makes your data work for you by consolidating secondary storage silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that spans both private and public clouds. Enterprise customers begin by radically streamlining their backup and data protection, then converge file and object services, test/dev instances, and analytic functions to provide a global data store. Cohesity counts many Global 1000 companies and federal agencies among its rapidly growing customer base and was named to Forbes’ “Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2017,” LinkedIn’s “Startups: The 50 Industry Disruptors You Need to Know Now,” and CRN’s “2017 Emerging Vendors in Storage” lists. For more information, visit our website www.cohesity.com and blog https://cohesity.com/blog/, follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/cohesity and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/3750699/ and like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cohesity/.

*Media Contacts*
Jenni Adair
Head of Corporate Communications
jenni@cohesity.com
650-400-1871

A3 Communications for Cohesity
Heather Stewart
+49 (0)177 3309468
Cohesity@a3communications.co.uk

BOCA Communications for Cohesity
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A Flea in Her Ear – ACT Brighton

April 4, 2018, 3:19 am

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Equipment Leasing Group of America, LLC (ELGA) to exhibit at the 30th Annual National Funding Conference, April 10-12 in Chicago

April 4, 2018, 4:04 am

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CEO Brian Trebels will welcome conference attendees at Booth 409 in the Conference Center at Swissôtel Chicago.

NORTHFIELD, Ill. (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

Equipment Leasing Group of America, LLC (ELGA) will be exhibiting at the 30th Annual National Funding Conference, April 10-12, at Swissôtel Chicago.

The conference is sponsored by the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association which represents financial services companies and manufacturers in the $1 trillion U.S. equipment finance sector.

The annual conference is a principal forum and marketplace for finding equipment financing, providing an opportunity for institutional borrowers to meet funding sources face-to-face in an efficient, professional setting.

This year, the CEO of Illinois-based ELGA, Brian Trebels, will welcome conference attendees at his company’s Booth 409 in the Swissôtel Conference Center.

ELGA creates custom equipment-finance solutions for manufacturers, healthcare providers, construction contractors, government agencies and more in the U.S.

Said Trebels: “This annual conference is an unparalleled yearly gathering of funding sources that enable infrastructure projects of enormous value to two nations, from the rebuilding and expansion of roads and bridges, to construction contractors, and agencies in need of reliable new fleets of vehicles for the delivery of vital local and regional services. We are excited to make our lending services available to this unique North American audience and help them reach their goals.”

In addition to ELGA CEO Trebels, representatives from ELGA will include Executive Vice President Brent Trebels and Credit Manager James Rusch.

WHAT:
The ELFA National Funding Conference

WHEN:
April 10-12, 2018

WHERE:
Booth 409
Swissôtel Chicago
323 E. Upper Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601

About ELGA

ELGA was formed by veterans of the leasing industry with over 40 years combined experience in creating custom equipment solutions. Where other lenders fail to meet needs, ELGA provides equipment finance solutions for A, B, and structured credit profiles. As an independent financing partner, ELGA is uniquely suited to serve the needs of middle-market businesses. Leases from ELGA have included enterprise software, assembly-line equipment for manufacturers, high-end diagnostic and surgical-suite equipment for healthcare providers, and conventional construction equipment such as excavators and bulldozers.

CONTACT

Garnet Sherman
847-784-0011
garnetsherman@elgallc.com
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Bright Now! Dental Olympia, WA to Host Free Dental Day for Veterans

April 4, 2018, 5:06 am

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In Partnership with Smiles for Everyone Foundation, Bright Now! Dental Will Provide Free Dental Services to Veterans and their Dependents

OLYMPIA, Wash. (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

To honor our veterans, Bright Now! Dental has partnered with the Smiles for Everyone Foundation to open its Olympia, WA office to provide free dental services for veterans and their dependents on April 21 from 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Dental services provided include x-rays and exams, fillings, extractions, cleanings, fluoride treatments, and sealants. A limited number of appointments are available. Please visit the Bright Now! Dental website for more information.

About Bright Now! Dental
Bright Now! Dental provides general dentistry, children’s dentistry and, in select locations, specialty care services such as orthodontics, oral surgery, periodontics and endodontics at over 150 offices across Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Bright Now! Dental’s Olympia office is operated by Nurani, P.C. (the “Group”). The Group is affiliated with Smile Brands Inc., one of the largest providers of business support services to dental groups in the United States. Smile Brands Inc. provides comprehensive business support services through exclusive long term service agreements with affiliate dental groups, so dentists can spend more time caring for their patients and less time on the administrative, marketing, and financial aspects of operating a dental practice. Smile Brands is a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors (“Gryphon”), a leading middle-market private equity firm based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit smilebrands.com.

About the Smiles For Everyone Foundation
The Smiles for Everyone Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of delivering smiles for everyone by providing free dental care for those in need, both at home in the U.S. and around the world. Since 2011, the Smiles for Everyone Foundation has delivered over 14,000 smiles and $12 million in donated dentistry. The foundation currently supports programs which provide free dental care to those in need in Cambodia, Ghana, Laos, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Thailand and the United States. For more information or to make a donation, visit http://www.smilesforeveryone.org.

Contacts:
Bright Now! Dental                    
Jody Martin    
PR(at)smilebrands.com                            
714.427.1299                    

Smiles for Everyone Foundation
Crystal Strait
crystal.strait(at)smilesforeveryone.org
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Momentum Funding Founder Elizabeth Pekin to Speak at Mass Torts Made Perfect: Invited to Share Insights on “How to Strategically Use Legal Finance & Medical Funding”

April 4, 2018, 5:06 am

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The founder and entrepreneur will offer expert advice on the basics and benefits of the consumer legal funding industry for both the plaintiffs and attorneys, how to use medical funding as a solution for personal injury cases and how legal funding transactions work to add value to cases. Pekin will present during the event's finance track on April 13th at Wynn Las Vegas.

BOCA RATON, Fla. (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

Momentum Funding LLC, the premier legal finance company specializing in non-recourse funding to personal injury plaintiffs, proudly announces that its Founder, Elizabeth Pekin, is speaking on “How To Strategically Use Legal Finance & Medical Funding” at the upcoming Mass Torts Made Perfect (MTMP) Conference at Wynn Las Vegas on Friday April 13, 2018.

Pekin, who has spent more than a decade disrupting the funding industry, is presenting as part of the event’s Finance track at the plaintiff attorney conference, discussing the benefits of the legal and medical funding industry in the LaFleur 1 Room at 10:45 a.m.

MTMP is the largest conference in the nation for plaintiff mass torts. It is held for both newcomers and veterans in complex mass tort litigation. The conference is designed for lawyers who want to learn how to improve their practices, stay ahead of the competition, and gain more clients.

Pekin has been invited to present and share her diverse and unique knowledge on: the basics and benefits of the consumer legal funding industry for both the plaintiffs and attorneys, how to use medical funding as a solution for personal injury cases and how legal funding transactions work to add value to cases.

“I am looking forward to educating attorneys attending the Mass Tort Conference on how to help their clients when they need it the most,” said Pekin, a personal injury attorney who founded Momentum Funding in 2015 after realizing the need to establish a seamless process for plaintiffs in need of financial assistance.

“Plaintiff Legal Funding has evolved exponentially since its inception several decades ago. Momentum has changed the playing field by creating ways to use the funding strategically. We have opened the dialogue as we advocate for client-centric funding and work with clients as financial partners,” said Pekin.

Pekin has been on the forefront of the legal education circuit, speaking throughout the country. She recently spoke at the National Trial Lawyers Summit in Miami Beach, Fla., where she appeared alongside Gloria Allred, F. Lee Bailey, Lisa Blue, Mark Geragos, Christian Searcy and LegalZoom Founder Brian Liu.

About Elizabeth Pekin

Elizabeth Pekin is a licensed attorney and the Co-Founder and President of Momentum Funding. She is a leading personal injury and workers’ compensation attorney with more than a dozen years of experience as a top-performing executive in the legal funding industry. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her to found Momentum Funding, LLC, a national legal and medical funding company in 2015. As the former Executive Director at Oasis Legal Finance, she built an extensive client base, funding thousands of plaintiffs. She is a published author and speaker at trial attorney organization conferences and national workers’ compensation conferences. Elizabeth has her J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and her undergraduate degree from Tulane University. She was born in Gainesville, Fla., and resides in Boca Raton, Fla., with her husband, Momentum Funding CEO Michael Pekin and their three children.

About Momentum Funding

Momentum Funding LLC is a premier national legal finance company headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., with regional offices in Clearwater, Fla. and Chicago, Ill. The company provides non-recourse funding to plaintiffs in personal injury cases. Momentum Funding is committed to helping plaintiffs with urgent financial needs, while also focusing on attorney relationships. Momentum Funding was founded in 2015 by industry leaders Elizabeth Pekin, Esq. and Elisa Moss. The Momentum Funding team has more than 40 years of combined experience in personal injury law and legal finance. The executive team at Momentum Funding is dedicated to Moving Your Case Forward with personalized service, conservative underwriting, and a quick and simple funding process. For more information visit: http://www.momentumfunding.com/ Reported by PRWeb 3 hours ago.

National Commander of The American Legion to Visit Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital

April 4, 2018, 5:39 am

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BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American Legion:   Who: The National Commander of The American Legion, Denise Rohan, is scheduled to visit Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital (Bedford VA) at 4 p.m., April 5 to meet with the director, Dr. Joan Clifford, talk to Veterans receiving care at the facility and participate in a groundbreaking for a new gazebo donated by Home Depot and The American Legion.   As national commander, Ms. Rohan leads the nation’s largest wartime veteran serv Reported by Business Wire 3 hours ago.

Ology Bioservices Strengthens Board of Directors with Appointment of Industry Veterans James M. Robinson and Gerard Cunningham

April 4, 2018, 5:39 am

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ALACHUA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ology Bioservices, Inc., a biologics-focused contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) serving both government and commercial clients, today announced the election of industry veterans James M. Robinson, PE and Gerard Cunningham, to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Cunningham bring more than 25 years of industry experience in the development and manufacturing of vaccines and biologicals. Their appointm Reported by Business Wire 3 hours ago.

MOAA, Syracuse University, Seek Active Duty Troops for Absentee Voting Survey

April 4, 2018, 6:35 am

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Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is teaming up with researchers at Syracuse University to study absentee voting challenges that active duty servicemembers face.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is teaming up with researchers at Syracuse University to study absentee voting challenges that active duty servicemembers face each election cycle.

The nonpartisan survey, conducted by MOAA’s charitable foundation, MOAA Military Family Initiative (MMFI), and the university’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), will gather information from active duty servicemembers to study this select group’s perceptions of the voting and absentee voting processes. Participation in the survey is voluntary and will remain anonymous. Guard and Reserve members, veterans, and family members also may participate.

In 2016, through a project funded by the Democracy Fund, MMFI conducted an outreach campaign to inform and educate military families about absentee voting. Project outcomes suggested a need to better understand these families’ perceptions and understanding of the absentee voting process and use those findings to help increase military family participation in the voting process.

By analyzing survey responses, the foundation and university hope to identify perceived obstacles, dispel myths, and — wherever possible — identify best practices for military family voters and state boards of elections.

MOAA will publish a report containing the analysis and any suggested actions early this summer. MMFI representatives also attend National Association of Secretaries of State meetings. The report will better inform state leaders as they administer their state absentee voting systems.

“This educational report will complement MOAA’s vital advocacy work on behalf of military families and reinforce an important theme: ‘You, through your vote, are your most powerful advocate,’” says Col. Mike Turner, USAF (Ret), vice president of development at MOAA.
The study and report are made possible by a grant from the Democracy Fund, a bipartisan foundation that invests in organizations working to ensure every American’s vote is counted. The Democracy Fund also helped MOAA launch its Absentee Voting Guide in 2016.

Survey link: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6Ex8TvAdWDNvDjT?RID=MLRP_ddtzXBI1MxB4d3D&Q_CHL=email

About MOAA:
Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is the nation’s largest military officers’ association with more than 350,000 members from every branch of uniformed service, including active duty, retired, National Guard, Reserve, and former officers and their families and survivors. MOAA is a nonprofit and politically nonpartisan organization and an influential force in promoting a strong national defense. MOAA represents the interests of service members and their families in every stage of their lives and careers, and for those who are not eligible to join MOAA, Voices for America’s Troops is a nonprofit MOAA affiliate that supports a strong national defense. For more information, visit http://www.moaa.org or http://www.voicesfortroops.org/. Reported by PRWeb 2 hours ago.

Robin Cloud Platform announced as the First and Only Container Solution certified to run Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)

April 4, 2018, 6:52 am

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Robin’s unique Application Defined Infrastructure approach enables the use of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®) with Docker containers

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robin Systems, the only container-based Application-Defined Infrastructure (ADI) software provider, announced today that Robin Cloud Platform is the First and Only container solution that has been certified to run Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®) solution. Robin Cloud Platform significantly simplifies the deployment, management and consolidation of the containerized Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®) solution; on-premise or in the cloud.“Hortonworks recognizes the multiple benefits of Docker container technologies when compared to virtual machines and how Robin Cloud Platform best enables the use of Containers for complex data-heavy pipelines. Since Robin was the first Container solution to be tested for HDP certification, we dedicated our own QA team to put Robin Cloud Platform’s HDP support through a rigorous suite of tests across all components and aspects of our platform. Hortonworks is excited about this collaboration and looks forward to working with Hortonworks support subscribers who choose the Robin Cloud Platform for their HDP deployment.” said Scott Andress, Vice President, Global Channels & Alliances, Hortonworks. 

Unlike other solutions in the market that target only container orchestration, Robin Cloud Platform addresses the entire application IO path – a more complete view allowing application workflows to auto-configure the compute, network, storage layers. This is a key differentiation in supporting data-intensive applications like Hortonworks HDP that require fine tuning of all infrastructure layers to get the best performance and reliability. Robin’s architecture enables IT teams to meet the most demanding requirements for SLAs and performance isolation between HDP services even in a shared infrastructure environment, while letting development and scientific user teams enjoy an app-store experience with 1-click self-service workflows to deploy, scale and manage HDP clusters.

Robin’s architecture differentiation also applies to all Big-Data, NoSQL and RDBMS applications like Cassandra, MongoDB, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, IBM-Db2 and SAP-HANA. In fact, Robin Cloud Platform has the broadest support of enterprise data apps in the market, is the only solution that lets you share resources across multiple applications and users while guaranteeing performance isolation and the only solution that slashes deployment, as well as management times from days to minutes.

“We are honored to be the first and only Hortonworks’ certified partner designed and optimized for container technology. We specifically architected Robin Cloud Platform for complex distributed applications like HDP that need much more than just Docker containers with storage plugin in order to meet production deployment and support requirements. I am happy to see this validated by Hortonworks testing as this is good peace of mind for our customers deploying HDP atop Robin Cloud Platform.” said Premal Buch, CEO of Robin Systems.

Robin Cloud Platform is a Container-based pure software solution that sits between the application and the infrastructure and enables 1-click application workflows for the user by letting the applications auto-configure storage, compute and networking across on-premise and cloud-based environments. It has REST APIs and hooks to interface with the rest of the ecosystem and requires no changes to the applications.

Robin also offers two Free editions: 1. *5-Day Free Trial* with unlimited scale, scope and a full feature set, and 2. Free for life *Community Edition* (CE) with a full feature set with up to five Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) AMIs of any type or size.

*About Hortonworks*
Hortonworks is a leading provider of enterprise-grade, global data management platforms, services and solutions that deliver actionable intelligence from any type of data for over half of the Fortune 100.  Hortonworks is committed to driving innovation in open source communities, providing unique value to enterprise customers. Along with its partners, Hortonworks provides technology, expertise and support so that enterprise customers can adopt a modern data architecture. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.

Hortonworks and HDP are registered trademarks or trademarks of Hortonworks, Inc. and its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions. For more information, please visit www.hortonworks.com. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Hortonworks Contact
John Roehm (408) 809-0773, comms@hortonworks.com

*About Robin Systems*
Robin transforms the way enterprise applications drive the infrastructure by bringing together purpose-built container-aware block storage with application-aware manager into the cloud (private and/or public). This demonstrates unique benefits to distributed, clustered and stateful applications including Big-Data and Databases. With a team that includes industry veterans from leading enterprise technology companies such as NetApp, Oracle, and Veritas, Robin seeks to disrupt the $20 billion-plus virtualization market with its container-based compute and storage platform software that delivers better performance higher consolidation and a much simpler application lifecycle management than traditional hypervisor-based virtualization. Founded in 2013, the San Jose California-based company has raised more than $27 million in venture funding from leading investors such as  Clear Ventures, DN Capital, USAA, Hasso Plattner Ventures and CloudScale Capital Partners.

Website: www.RobinSystems.com
Twitter: twitter.com/RobinSystems
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/robin-systems
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RobinSystems

Robin Systems, the Robin Systems logo and Robin Cloud Platform for Enterprise Applications and Application-to-Spindle Quality of Service Guarantee are trademarks or registered trademarks of Robin Systems, Inc., and are protected by trademark laws of the United States and other jurisdictions. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact for Robin Systems
Andrea Corry
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Smithfield Foods and The Global Good Fund Announce Custom Leadership Development Program for Veteran Entrepreneurs

April 4, 2018, 6:35 am

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COLUMBIA, Md., April 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Smithfield Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Smithfield Foods, Inc., and The Global Good Fund, are pleased to announce their partnership to launch the Veterans Leadership Program. The Global Good Fund, a leadership development enterprise built by and for social entrepreneurs, will identify six veteran entrepreneurs to take part in an eight-month program focused on creating sustainable jobs and supporting job search and placement for underemployed and unemployed veterans.According to the Small Business Administration, there are 2.5 million veteran-owned businesses that employ more than 5 million people. While many military leadership traits translate well into business, many veteran entrepreneurs face unique challenges in growing and scaling their businesses.

“Smithfield’s generous support of the Veterans Leadership Program will provide new learning opportunities and resources for our participants – catalysts for personal and professional development,” said Carrie Rich, co-founder and chief executive officer of The Global Good Fund. “This partnership speaks to Smithfield’s impressive commitment to finding innovative ways of making a long-term impact for veterans.”

Funded by a $400,000 grant from the Smithfield Foundation, the Veterans Leadership Program will support the needs of its participants through personalized leadership development, executive mentoring, and targeted capital to invigorate leadership growth.

“Part of Smithfield’s social purpose is to honor the service and sacrifice of American veterans. As such, we are proud to support veteran social entrepreneurs as they build successful businesses. Through social entrepreneurship, these companies will not only benefit veterans, but also provide solutions to social issues. As a company firmly rooted in sustainability, this is a ‘win win’,” said Keira Lombardo, senior vice president of corporate affairs for Smithfield Foods and president of the Smithfield Foundation. “We are committed to showing our gratitude for these men and women and look forward to witnessing the enduring impact the Veterans Leadership Program will have for years to come.”

Smithfield has a long history of supporting veterans and military families through volunteerism, food and charitable donations, and partnerships. In 2016, Smithfield introduced two new veterans' initiatives — Operation 4000! and Smithfield Salutes. Smithfield Salutes is an employee engagement program that helps veterans working at Smithfield in their transition to civilian life. Through Operation 4000!, Smithfield is working to employ 4,000 veterans—10 percent of its U.S. workforce—by 2020.

To learn more about Smithfield's support of veterans, visit smithfieldfoods.com/veterans.

For more information about The Global Good Fund, please visit globalgoodfund.org.

*About Smithfield Foods*
Smithfield Foods is a $15 billion global food company and the world's largest pork processor and hog producer. In the United States, the company is also the leader in numerous packaged meats categories with popular brands including Smithfield^Ⓡ, Eckrich^Ⓡ, Nathan's Famous^Ⓡ, Farmland^Ⓡ, Armour^Ⓡ, Farmer John^Ⓡ, Kretschmar^Ⓡ, John Morrell^Ⓡ, Cook's^Ⓡ, Gwaltney^Ⓡ, Carando^Ⓡ, Margherita^Ⓡ, Curly's^Ⓡ, Healthy Ones^Ⓡ, Morliny^Ⓡ, Krakus^Ⓡ and Berlinki^Ⓡ. Smithfield Foods is committed to providing good food in a responsible way and maintains robust animal care, community involvement, employee safety, environmental and food safety and quality programs. For more information, visit www.smithfieldfoods.com.

*About The Global Good Fund*
Through its Fellowship program, The Global Good Fund invests in the human capital of high potential leaders committed to social impact around the world.  Fellows are individually paired with senior business executives who serve as mentors and are provided with seasoned leadership development coaches, assessment resources, a network of peer leaders, content expertise, and targeted financial capital.   The Global Good Fund created the 360 MIRROR – the first evidence-based leadership assessment for social entrepreneurs and impact driven corporate leaders – which is available to the public, modeled after the proven tools and services of The Global Good Fund Fellowship since its launch in 2012.

Media Contacts:

Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Diana Souder
dsouder@smithfield.com 
(757) 357-1675 The Global Good Fund
Jamie Turow 
jamie.turow@globalgoodfund.org
(301) 233-5254 

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Qwilt Announces Enhanced Cloud Capability for Open Edge Service Provider CDN

April 4, 2018, 6:35 am

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Enhanced Cloud-based APIs and Edge Delivery Offer Service Providers a Web-Scale, Next-Generation Content Delivery Network

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Qwilt today announced its enhanced Open Edge Service Provider CDN — an application within its line of Open Edge Cloud solutions.  The Open Edge CDN, with an augmented suite of APIs, extends Qwilt’s expertise in edge computing, open caching and web-scale content delivery with an innovative, cloud-based service provider CDN offering built on the Apache Traffic Control open source project. This combination of cloud-based CDN operations and edge delivery results in two unique benefits to the service provider:  web-scale architecture and low-latency, high-quality content delivery from the network edge.   *Open Edge CDN – Another Application of the Qwilt Open Edge Cloud*
The Open Edge Service Provider CDN is another application in Qwilt’s edge cloud portfolio.  The Open Edge CDN enables cable, telco and mobile network service providers to build a private CDN to distribute their own or partner’s managed content to their subscribers with a broadcast TV-like experience, regardless of the type of consuming device or the subscriber location.  The Open Edge CDN is optimized to support streaming delivery of TV services including video-on-demand (VoD), live events and cloud digital video recorders (CDVR). 

The comparison between the legacy approach to building and operating a service provider CDN and Qwilt’s solution is striking.  In the legacy approach, the service provider needs to navigate a complex process of engineering, procuring, deploying and operating a content delivery network to satisfy ever-changing requirements and use cases.  The complexity is compounded by the need to frequently upgrade hardware, software and interfaces to keep up with new requirements, and changing content formats, content partners and streaming protocols. 

*Deploy and Scale Qwilt’s Open Edge CDN in Three Steps *
In contrast, deploying Qwilt’s Open Edge Service Provider CDN consists of three basic steps.  First, deploy Qwilt software delivery nodes on commodity hardware deep in edge of the service provider network.  Qwilt’s edge delivery software is now able to support unified delivery of service provider, partner and OTT content from a single platform. Second, connect Qwilt nodes to Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud to enable secure access to the service provider’s cloud-based dashboard, which manages configurations, operations and performance.  Third, with this Open Edge CDN solution, the service provider configures, operates and monitors content delivery services in real-time. As with all open cloud architectures, the Qwilt Open Edge CDN includes a rich suite of open API services that allow service providers to scale delivery at the edge of their networks. These APIs have been enhanced in the newest version to improve performance and to reflect the broader functionality and use cases approved by the Streaming Video Alliance in the past year.  This cloud-based, open architecture means service providers can leverage the reach, scale and performance uniquely available in their last-mile network. The result is full service provider control over a web-scale content delivery solution with low-latency, high-quality edge delivery.

"Qwilt’s Open Edge CDN solution provides our customers with a new, web-scale architecture for content delivery," said Alon Maor, CEO at Qwilt. "We invite service providers to join the movement to the edge.  Our Open Edge CDN is another mission-critical application for the service provider edge cloud.”
                                                                                                                                
*Leveraging the Power of Open-source – Agility, Community, Scalability*
Qwilt’s Open Edge CDN is based on the Apache Traffic Control open source project.  Traffic Control was first developed by Comcast and then open-sourced in 2015. Qwilt has enhanced the core Traffic Control baseline with web-scale technology and cloud-powered Qwilt management. Further, Qwilt has placed significant design emphasis on simplicity and ease of management, as well as increased resilience and scalability offered by the cloud.  The result is an extremely fast, reliable and secure CDN solution that flexibly meets the needs of a wide range of service providers. 

“Qwilt’s innovative work on the Open Edge CDN is exactly the sort of thing we were hoping to see when we open-sourced Traffic Control,” said Jan van Doorn, Fellow at Comcast. “We applaud Qwilt’s ongoing contributions to the open-source community and their engagement with the growing movement of Apache Traffic Control users.”

*Open Edge CDN – Part of Qwilt’s “3-in-1” Solution for the Service Provider Edge Cloud*
Qwilt’s Open Edge CDN solution is one of the “3-in-1” set of applications which support three primary edge cloud use cases for content delivery within the service provider network.  Each Qwilt edge node can support the following three modes of content delivery: 

1. *Open Caching*:  Delivery of 3^rd party and partner content, both HTTP and HTTPS, through delegation and using specifications approved unanimously by the Streaming Video Alliance.  Open Caching can be used by commercial and private CDNs to delegate delivery to edge nodes deployed in the service provider network.
2. *Transparent Caching*:  Delivery of partner, OTT and service provider owned HTTP content through transparent caching.  Transparent caching works autonomously to detect, classify, cache and deliver popular content at the network edge.  In this way, transparent caching optimizes streaming content across the network. 
3. *Open Edge CDN*: Delivery of service provider owned content, both HTTP and HTTPS, via edge nodes deployed in the service provider network and managed by cloud-based operations.   

The benefits of the “3-in-1” solution include better utilization of edge cloud infrastructure – both hardware and software – integration of edge cloud operations on a single platform and optimization of all content delivery through a web-scale platform.  Through Qwilt’s solution, the service provider realizes the significant economic and operational benefits of a single, unified platform for content delivery. 

*About Qwilt **
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Qwilt’s unique Edge Cloud Platform and Open Caching software solutions help Internet service providers address the dramatic growth of streaming media on their networks and the need for a low latency, high scale infrastructure to support future applications. Qwilt’s cloud managed open platform, running on commodity compute and storage infrastructure and deployed close to consumers, creates a massively distributed Edge Cloud that supports applications such as Open Caching, 4K Live Streaming, AR, VR, Self- Driving Cars and IoT. This low latency Edge Cloud architecture enables a high-quality streaming experience for consumers on a massive scale. A growing number of the world’s leading cable, telco and mobile service providers rely on Qwilt for Edge Cloud applications.

Qwilt is a Founding Member of the Streaming Video Alliance and a leader of the Open Caching industry movement.  Founded in 2010 by industry veterans from Cisco and Juniper, Qwilt is backed by Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Ventures, Disrupt-ive, Innovation Endeavors, Marker and Redpoint Ventures. Learn more at www.qwilt.com.  

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Next47 Adds VC Veterans and Entrepreneurs to Firm’s Roster

April 4, 2018, 6:35 am

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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Next47, the $1.2 billion global venture fund backed by Siemens, is excited to announce the expansion of its US team with Matthew Cowan and T.J. Rylander joining as Partners and Ching-Yu Hu as a Principal. With backgrounds in venture capital and as founders of businesses, Next47’s newest members expand the firm’s expertise and network, allowing it to build on recent investments in Markforged, Fair, and DeepScale. “Our goal at Next47 is to identify entre Reported by Business Wire 2 hours ago.

Golf Academy of America Student and Graduate to Appear on Golf Channel Competition Show ‘Shotmakers”

April 4, 2018, 6:52 am

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Golf Academy of America is thrilled to announce that a student and an alumnus will both be competing in Golf Channel’s newest competition show Shotmakers. Andrew Bachelder and Chad Pfeifer will be among the 18 contestants vying for the top prize.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

Golf Academy of America proudly announced today that a current student and a graduate would be featured on Golf Channel’s upcoming competition show Shotmakers. Andrew Bachelder, who attends Golf Academy of America in Dallas, and Chad Pfeifer, an alumnus of the Phoenix campus, will both compete in the innovative new show.

Bachelder and Pfeifer are both combat wounded veterans who have used golf as a method of recovery. Both also serve as ambassadors for David Feherty’s Troops First Foundation, have played in the Simpson Cup and have won the Bush Institute Warrior Open. Additionally, both Bachelder and Pfeifer credit golf with saving their lives.

Though the two have much in common, they will be competing against each other in the upcoming show.

Made possible by a partnership between Golf Channel and Topgolf, Shotmakers pits nine co-ed two-person teams against each other as they test their precision shotmaking and their strategic decision-making skills in an intense and fast-paced environment. The show is set to premiere on Monday, April 9.

Filmed with a live studio audience, Shotmakers combines technology, golf and entertainment seamlessly into a captivating competitive show. The seven rounds of competition will air on Monday and Tuesday nights until the show’s conclusion on April 30. At the end of the show, one team will be crowned champion.

“We are so proud of Andrew and Chad, who have been so successful inside and out of the classroom,” said Steve Newman, Golf Academy of America National Director of Operations. “We at Golf Academy of America will be watching the show and rooting for both of their teams!”

According to Golf Channel, Shotmakers will be aired in more than 60 countries throughout the world.

About Golf Academy of America
Golf Academy of America (formerly the San Diego Golf Academy) is the largest and longest-running two-year golf college in the world. Golf Academy of America's 16-month program balances classroom studies, practical experience and comprehensive understanding of both the game and the business of golf. Campuses are located in San Diego, Phoenix, Orlando, Myrtle Beach and Dallas. For more information, call 800-342-7342 or visit http://www.GolfAcademy.edu. Golf Academy of America schools are owned and operated by the Education Corporation of America. Reported by PRWeb 1 hour ago.

Greenberg Traurig to Add Barry Vitou to Launch U.K. Corporate Crime and White Collar Defence & Investigations Practice

April 4, 2018, 7:36 am

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Renowned white collar defence and investigations attorney Barry Vitou will be joining the global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder to launch and lead the firm’s White Collar Defence & Special Investigations Practice in London.

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 04, 2018

Renowned white collar defence and investigations attorney Barry Vitou will be joining the global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder to launch and lead the firm’s White Collar Defence & Special Investigations Practice in London. Vitou will join from international law firm Pinsent Masons.

“Companies and individuals facing scrutiny from the United States or foreign governments need experienced practitioners available worldwide at a moment’s notice. Greenberg Traurig’s White Collar Defence & Special Investigations Practice recently ranked among the Top 10 in Law360's Mightiest Practice Groups’ and the launch of our London White Collar and Special Investigations Practice with Barry further enhances our capability in Europe,” said Richard A. Rosenbaum, Executive Chairman at Greenberg Traurig. “We are now one of a select few with this level of expertise on both sides of the Atlantic in this critical area. Developing top-tier teams in key areas of practice important to industry-leading businesses has been our stated strategy while retaining our focus on delivering value. This focus has allowed us to quickly achieve strong recognition in our European locations and strong financial gains well beyond headcount growth. And our shareholders remain hungry for further evolution to satisfy clients' evolving needs. Our practice in White Collar Defence & Special Investigations has been involved in most major global landmark cases and Barry will further that involvement in additional key markets.”

Greenberg Traurig’s White Collar Defence & Special Investigations Practice is comprised of nearly 100 trial lawyers, including a significant number of former prosecutors, who have tried hundreds of criminal cases and who have served at the highest levels of federal and state government.

“London is a dynamic office that has experienced tremendous growth in headcount and activity in the past 18 months. We are always exploring ways to enhance what we can offer clients. This is one of the things we will achieve with the expected addition of Barry Vitou,” said Paul Maher, Vice Chair of the firm, who focuses on strategic business development globally and works closely with Rosenbaum with respect to the London office he founded in 2009. “We never grow simply for the sake of growth; this addition will be impactful on our office, practice, and firm for a long time to come.”

Vitou said, “Greenberg Traurig’s culture and stellar white collar practice will be a perfect fit for me. With the criminalisation of corporate law continuing apace and cross-border cooperation among law enforcement agencies investigating and prosecuting white collar crime, a truly integrated global white collar defence practice levels the playing field. I look forward to providing the very best advice and defence from Greenberg Traurig’s global platform.”

Vitou’s representative matters include advising in connection with investigations and prosecutions conducted by numerous law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in the U.K. including the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Conduct Authority, and Information Commissioner’s Office. He defended the first corporation in the U.K. prosecuted for failure to prevent bribery and advised in connection with the SFO’s civil recovery of dividends flowing from corrupt conduct. Outside of the U.K., Vitou frequently represents clients under investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies, including the U.K.’s SFO, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Vitou has dealt with law enforcement investigations all over the world including the European Union, Russia, and the British Overseas Territories. He also conducts internal investigations around the world and handles self-reporting actions. Vitou has conducted numerous compliance advisory mandates and his work is praised in the Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 directories.

"Our team utilizes the deep reservoir of knowledge from veterans in related fields across the firm to develop and integrate global strategies for our clients. Armed with this experience, intimate knowledge of the government process, and an arsenal of global resources, we tackle criminal, regulatory, and other mission-critical investigations that arise out of the unforgiving surveillance businesses face today,” said Jacqueline Becerra, Marc L. Mukasey, and A. John Pappalardo, co-chairs of Greenberg Traurig’s White Collar Defence & Special Investigations Practice.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, Chair of the firm's Cybersecurity, Privacy & Crisis Management Practice, added, “Barry is a terrific lawyer who will be a great addition to our team in London. His experience will further enhance our global white collar practice; adding value for firm clients worldwide.”

The firm has broad related experience in China and Latin America, providing global coverage. Greenberg Traurig teams in Shanghai, the U.S., and Mexico have represented companies, boards, audit committees, and senior executives in internal investigations relating to various issues such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, securities fraud, insider trading, import-export issues including export control, employment issues including sexual harassment, accounting irregularities, conflicts of interest, and related party transactions. The firm has a multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary team that consists of compliance specialists and corporate lawyers with substantive knowledge of health care, internet-related issues, technology, real estate, manufacturing, retail, international trade, and other regulated industries.

Vitou received LLB Honors from Leicester University in 1990 and Law Society Finals in 1992. Before working for Pinsent Masons LLP, Vitou was a partner with a well-known U.S. law firm in its London office. He is admitted to practice law in England and Wales. Vitou is a frequent speaker and regularly appears on television and radio interviews in connection with white collar matters. He also writes at http://www.thebriberyact.com.

About Greenberg Traurig’s White Collar Criminal Defence Practice

Greenberg Traurig’s White Collar Defence & Special Investigations Practice has wide-ranging experience protecting companies and individuals under government scrutiny. The firm’s creative defence lawyers are at the forefront of client service in this area, and Greenberg Traurig is one of very few firms with more than 90 former federal and state prosecutors in its litigation group, and where the majority of litigation shareholders and counsel have first-chair trial experience. The team's defence capabilities includes vast experience in structuring internal investigations, developing guidelines and implementing compliance programs, and addressing issues of voluntary disclosure, as well as extensive representations involving alleged securities fraud, FCPA violations, health care/pharmaceutical fraud, environmental crimes, money laundering, financial services fraud, public corruption/campaign finance, tax corruption, defence contracting, and bankruptcy fraud.

About Greenberg Traurig’s London Office

Greenberg Traurig, LLP in London has established itself as a multidisciplinary law firm, with more than 80 lawyers and growing. The London office provides partner-led advice to domestic and international clients on a range of matters across the legal spectrum. Lawyers at Greenberg Traurig in London advise U.K. and multinational clients operating in many different sectors, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, energy, real estate, financial services, automotive, retail, and communications. For additional information, please visit http://www.gtlaw.com.

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