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What a difference a week or so can make in the ACC. Just 11 days ago, Wake Forest beat a ranked Clemson team to cement themselves as 2nd place in the ACC and had a solid chance of making the NCAA Tournament. Now, the Deacs have basically blown 3 games in a row and are slowly working their way into the opening day of the ACC Tournament. At this rate, Wake will be lucky to make the NIT. I’m not going to say much about this game because I’m fairly angry and I don’t think any of it would be…

IN PREPARATION for each new fiscal quarter, our publisher and board of directors invite us to a seminar designed to better position our website in a shifting global marketplace. The one that preceded “JAN. 2023” focused on search-engine optimization and various metrics of on-page engagement; it was run by a team of neuroscientists and the people whose hands you see in those birds-eye cooking videos. Their latest recommendations are anniversaries (round numbers), cross-media connections, and American exceptionalism “but in a fun way.”¤ In the opening scene of Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon, a man who we are expected to believe is…

It was all about the value tourism adds to the local economy at Saturday’s Chase County Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting. Chamber Executive Director Toni Schneider hosted an engaged group of civic-minded citizens and special guest speaker Bridgette Jobe, Director of Kansas Tourism, for the luncheon event.“I love getting out all across Kansas and being able to talk about why tourism matters in our state,” Jobe said. “We are recovering well; some states really struggled during the pandemic. But Covid presented us with some opportunities as well. We are back to 2019 levels of travel in Kansas now.”The group convened…

Pursuing his graduation, Kabiir Mangghnani is a 20-year-old entrepreneur. Kabiir’s passion for sofa-making and furniture drove him to start his business in the same line. His family was a significant support to him during his journey. He was so inspired by furniture designs that he wanted to study sofa-making in Milan, but the pandemic prevented him from doing so. When asked what motivated him to study furniture even after the pandemic, he replied,” I could not research sofa-making in Milan as I planned after XII. To be very honest, I lost hope once for that. The Corona time was also…

Loading“There is also the issue of greenwashing and the overall flooding of information about sustainability. Small businesses are short on time throughout the day: they are worried about overheads, sales, and on top of this, they also need to improve what they are currently doing. There is no resource that kind of easily points them in the right direction,” he says.Greenwashing is defined as creating a false impression about how environmentally friendly an organisation’s products and goals are.But Twemlow said small businesses can examine who they bank with, where their energy comes from and where they are spending money.“That means…

Are you ready to take the plunge and open your photo studio? To photograph your subjects, you need to choose the ideal location, invest in lighting accessories and, of course, find the best camera. But what about the environment? You must pay close attention to every single detail you include in the photo, including the studio background, because each component of a photo has the potential to enhance or detract from the overall impression. Finally, the context of a subject is just as important as the subject itself. An excellent strategy for advancing your photography is to use the ideal…

Much of the advertising industry has been focused on purpose driven marketing the past few years — connecting brands to social causes that aligns with core values.A lot of good can come from that approach, but it’s time that brands direct some of that purpose where they spend the lion’s share of their dollars — media.Local media investment by brands can be the most meaningful social cause in Canada, and connects to all the big issues we care so much about — the environment, our society, and democracy. Local media, including radio, TV, and print, is indispensable to delivering valuable…

Anti-feminist blogger Jean-Claude Rochefort, who was convicted of fomenting hatred against women, has been sentenced to 12 months in jail.The 74-year-old had been arrested in December 2019 in connection with posts and doctored images he had posted to his blog, in which he praised Marc Lépine, who murdered 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989 in an anti-feminist attack.Charged in 2010 for making death threats against women on his website, Rochefort was writing under a pseudonym. Montreal police’s cyber investigation team nevertheless managed to find him and charge him again in December 2019.He was found guilty of wilfully promoting hatred…

At a recent gathering of human resources professionals in Manchester, the 100 or so attendees were asked if they had signed up for the state’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave Program. Only one hand went up: Josh Robinson’s.“There is almost zero interest,” said Robinson, president of Checkmate Workforce Management Solutions in Concord.While a few other firms besides Robinson’s have signed on or are about to, there’s nothing more beyond interest — at least so far. It’s hard to judge how much more, because as the program approaches its second month, the state has yet to release any figures on…

Leer en españolConcepción Jiménez cleans Valley homes for a living, an occupation she has perfected after 20 years of living in Phoenix. Decades of experience in the cleaning industry have allowed her to build up her clientele.But it wasn’t until 2022 that she officially established her own cleaning business. According to Jiménez, 47, she was able to do that thanks to Fuerza Local’s Latino business accelerator program, offered by Local First Arizona.She was one of 45 Valley entrepreneurs who were celebrated on Wednesday night at the Versailles Event Center in Maryvale. Jiménez, along with other Maryvale, south Phoenix and Mesa…