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Sunday, May 6, 2018

Jeri Robinson Honored with the Association of Children’s Museums’ Champion of the Field Award

Jeri Robinson, Vice President of Early childhood Initiatives at Boston Children's Museum, will receive the first-ever Champion of the Field Award from the Association of Children's Museums (ACM).

"Throughout her career, Jeri been instrumental in recognizing the importance of early childhood development, creating policies and programs that have directly shaped the world of early childhood education," said ACM Executive Director Laura Huerta Migus. "We're so incredibly proud to honor her as our first-ever Champion of the Field."

Robinson will accept the award on May 15th at the Inaugural ACM Awards Dinner during ACM's annual conference, InterActivity, in Raleigh, NC. She and Jennifer Farrington, ACM Board President and President and CEO of Chicago Children's Museum, will reflect on her forty years of service to the children's museum fi eld during a fireside chat. The Awards Dinner will also honor those receiving conference scholarships through the InterActivity Small Museums Financial Aid Program, sponsored by JRA, and the Diversity in Action Scholarship.

"For many years, Jeri has been a role model for me, and for the entire children's museum field," said Jennifer Farrington. "Her knowledge, ideals, and commitment to young children and families have moved the field forward in immeasurable ways. As ACM Board President, I am so proud to present her with this inaugural award, and to share and honor the work of her extraordinary career."

Jeri Robinson joined Boston Children's Museum (BCM) in 1973, and has more than forty-five years of experience teaching and consulting in the field of early childhood education. With the PlaySpace exhibit, she developed one of the earliest prototypes for early learning family spaces in museums. She also founded the Boston Cultural Collaborative for Early Learning, and co-founded the Families First Parenting and "Count Down to Kindergarten" programs.

"I can think of no better recipient of the Champion of the Field Award than Jeri Robinson," said Carole Charnow, President and CEO of Boston Children's Museum. "Jeri's decades of commitment to addressing the needs and aspirations of children and families in a museum setting is unparalleled in our field. Her legendary exhibition, PlaySpace, has set the standard for exhibitions worldwide, and her tireless service to children in Boston and beyond has reverberated nationwide. We are so honored to have Jeri as our colleague and friend at Boston Children's Museum and extend to her our most heartfelt thanks and congratulations."

The Champion of the Field Award was instituted in 2018 by the ACM Board of Directors, as part of the organization's ongoing efforts to recognize excellence in the children's museum field.

ACM's long-standing scholarsh ip programs, Diversity in Action and the Small Museums Financial Aid Program, represent the field's key value of accessibility and inclusion, making the conference available to all. Hosted by Marbles Kids Museum from May 15-18, InterActivity 2018's theme is Open Source Play, Sharing the Creative Code. The annual conference convenes hundreds of children's museum leaders, staff, and stakeholders to share knowledge and advocate for the children's museum field.

More about ACM
The Association of Children's Museums (ACM) champions children's museums worldwide. With more than 400 members in 48 states and 20 countries, ACM leverages the collective knowledge of children's museums through convening, sharing and dissemination. Learn more at https://www.childrensmuseums.org.

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Saturday, May 5, 2018

1-800-PetMeds® Announces Return of Popular Golden Bone Giveaway

With over 20 years in business, 1-800-PetMeds® continues to pride itself on providing savings to pet parents on the rising costs of pet medications and supplies. Now, more than ever before pets are considered as family members. As a result, pet parents want to provide their pets with the best quality care their pockets can afford.

Covering the cost of pet medications and supplies is a struggle many pet parents face. America's Largest Pet Pharmacy ® love pets and strives to help pet parents save money on necessary pet medications and supplies. In further efforts to help alleviate rising costs of pet medications and supplies 1-800-PetMeds® has brought back a popular promotion, which gives away pet meds to one customer each day for one month.

< p>The Golden Bone Giveaway was first introduced in February 2017, refunding one lucky customer's order each day of the month. Since then, Golden Bone has refunded over 150 customers' orders. Delighted and grateful winner, Paula said of the Golden Bone card, "Thank you so much! Sizzle loved the bone and we loved the offer of a free order."

The 1-800-PetMeds® Golden Bone Giveaway runs through the end of May. Everyone who places an order through May 31st has a chance to receive a Golden Bone Card, as one is randomly placed in an outgoing package once daily. Customers who find a Golden Bone card are instructed to respond with a photo of their pet with the card and their order number for reimbursement for their purchase. Buy something from 1-800-PetMeds® today or anytime during May 2018 for a chance to get your order free! Visit the Golden Bone Winners Page to see previous winners.

About 1-800-PetMeds®
Founded in 1996, 1-800-PetMeds® is America's Largest Pet Pharmacy® providing fast, easy and helpful service to customers across the U.S. By delivering prescription and non-prescription medications and pet supplies for less, direct to the consumer through its 1-800-PetMeds® toll-free number, on the Internet through its website 1-800-PetMeds.com, or with the 1-800-PetMeds® mobile app available at Google Play for Android and the App Store for iOS.

APTARE® Announces Backup Manager Solution Now® Certified in the ServiceNow® Store and will demonstrate at Knowledge18

APTARE Inc.,the global leader in IT Analytics for Hybrid Cloud environments, announced today that it has received certification of its application by ServiceNow, available now in the ServiceNow Store and will showcase Backup Manager Solution at Knowledge18 in booth E59.

Certification by ServiceNow is only granted to apps available in the Store and signifies that APTARE Backup Manager Solution has successfully completed a set of defined tests focused on Now Platform™ security, compatibility, performance, and integration interoperability. The certification also ensures that best practices are utilized in the design, implementation, and integration of APTARE Backup Manager with ServiceNow.

APTARE Backup Manager provides reporting and analytics across enterprise global data protection environments , independent of the underlying backup technologies. APTARE Backup Manager optimizes the global data protection environment, illuminates both over and under-protected digital assets, and streamlines audits and associated compliance reporting requirements.

The APTARE Backup Manager Solution for ServiceNow allows corporations to significantly reduce the time-to-resolution for complex or voluminous data protection incidents. Users in ServiceNow can see key issue details such as client, policy, error number/message, to quickly identify root-cause and resolve the problem. Backup details and incident numbers and status are automatically synchronized between the APTARE and ServiceNow applications providing the full audit trail required for SLA reporting and compliance.

APTARE Backup Manager dramatically reduces the complexity and cost of compliance reporting as well as an organization's risk of data loss due to data protection failure, and gives IT Managers the confidence that their corporate data is protected.

APTARE Backup Manager Solution for ServiceNow can dramatically eliminate data protection service outages by proactively identifying root-cause issues and pinpointing areas of potential disruption. With this focused analysis the results can be fed into ServiceNow to seamlessly orchestrate remediation.

"With 35% of the Fortune 100 using APTARE, we are excited to respond to the market need to provide a seamless integration of APTARE Backup Manager into ServiceNow, and are thankful for the initial co-development by ServiceNow to guide our investment", said Rick Clark, CEO APTARE Inc.

Mike Mayer, ServiceNow's VP of Solution Consulting for global pa rtnerships said, "It was great partnering with APTARE on the initial prototyping and design of APTARE's Backup Manager Solution integration. We were excited to prove the ServiceNow platform's rapid application development capabilities! APTARE's up-front investment here demonstrates a great focus on the success of our joint customers, and will be further strengthened by certification in the ServiceNow Store"

About APTARE
APTARE is the global leader in IT Analytics for Hybrid Cloud environments. APTARE provides unified backup and storage reporting for heterogeneous IT environments, from on-prem to cloud services. Customers rely on APTARE, the industry's only independent IT analytics platform to optimize consumption, mitigate risk, streamline compliance reporting, and significantly reduce IT costs. APTARE provides actionable intelligence, through a si ngle-pane-of-glass console for enterprise data wherever it resides. To see the comprehensive view of cloud, storage, data protection, and virtualized systems that APTARE supports, visit http://www.aptare.com/environments.

ServiceNow Store
The ServiceNow Store is the exclusive source for Now® Certified apps from ISV Technology Partners that complement and extend ServiceNow and accelerate time to value for customers.

About Knowledge18
At Knowledge18, 18,000 attendees will participate in more than 300 breakout sessions and 120 labs, specialized networking events, and the exhibition hall with 175 sponsors representing solutions for IT, customer service, human resources, and security. With the combination of pre-conference training, a diverse content catalog, conversations with peers and ServiceNow experts, and CreatorCon, the conference presents the best opportunity for ServiceNow customers and partners to learn to create delightful experiences for employees and customers. Come see how to make the world of work, work better for people.

WhoaZone Set to Open at Michigan’s Holly Recreation Area’s Lake Heron

Located within a three-hour drive from three major Midwestern cities, Michigan's popular Holly Recreation Area gets ready to open the hottest thing to hit the beach since the bikini – the WhoaZone at Heron Beach. Made up of giant slides, towers, trampolines, ramps, wiggle bridges and other play features, the WhoaZone offer guests the chance to bounce, slide, climb, jump, and splash – from Memorial to Labor Day, 2018.

officially opening May 25th, The WhoaZone at Heron Beach is amongst the popular growing trend of active, on-water entertainment and recreational activity at public facilities across the USA. The park provides family fun and excitement for capable swimmers, 7 years or older, and offers 1-hour sessions for $15 per person. Tickets can be purchased by visiting http://www.WhoaZoneHolly.com . Group tickets, double-sessions, private events, and birthday parties are also available. Managed by Empire Recreation Management (ERM) the park is a joint venture with the state of Michigan.

"WhoaZone at Heron Beach is our second park", says Mike Martin, Regional Manager of ERM, "and we are confident this park will be as popular as our Whihala Beach Park in Whiting, Indiana was last summer. People love it", he adds, "and our joint venture with the state of Michigan means we are also providing a viable revenue stream, that allows state and local governments to better provide goods and services to their constituents."

The Holly Recreation Area off of Interstate 75, located between Detroit and Flint, is already recognized as an iconic nature-based summer activity area, and the WhoaZone will significantly increase the destination's "wow factor" and draw new users to experience the park for the first time.

About WhoaZone --- WhoaZone is an on-water obstacle course featuring products manufactured by Germany's Wibit Sports, a respected global leader in inflatable water-play equipment. You can learn more by visiting http://www.WhoaZoneHolly.com

About Empire Recreation Management --- Empire Recreation Management brings vast operational and recreational park execution experience to facilities across the USA. They provide fun but safe recreational activities for consumers of all ages.

For more information about WhoaZone and Empire Recreation Management, contact Shannon Brower at 608-497-2213.

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Software Reviews names Deltek ERP and Workday Financial Management as Enterprise Resource Planning Customer Experience Award Winners

Software Reviews, a division of world-class research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group Inc., published its 2018 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Awards naming two award winners in the space: Deltek ERP and Workday Financial Management.

Unlike traditional software awards, Customer Experience Awards are based solely on user reviews and determined by a transparent proprietary methodology that is available in full in Software Reviews' 2018 Business Intelligence Software Report, also published today.

For the full list of vendors evaluated in this space visit: https://www.softwarereviews.com/awards/customer-experience-awards-2018-enterprise-resource-planning

About Customer Experience Awards and Software Reports
Software Reviews Customer Experience Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplac e as evaluated by their users. They are awarded based on vendors' Net Emotional Footprint score, which measures user sentiment toward the vendor across an inventory of criteria spanning five areas: Service Experience, Negotiation & Contract, Conflict Resolution, Product Impact, and Strategy & Innovation. The top five vendors in a software category are eligible to receive Customer Experience Awards, provided their scores meet the threshold for sufficiently high user satisfaction. Full vendor evaluations are available in our in-depth software evaluation reports.
Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors based on numerous data points within the areas of evaluation mentioned above. Software buyers can use this information to make more informed and data-driven purchasing and renewal decisions.

About Software Reviews
Sof tware Reviews is a division of Info-Tech Research Group Inc., a world class IT research and consulting firm established in 1997. Having worked in the vendor space for two decades, SoftwareReviews is a leading source of expertise and insight into the enterprise software landscape and client-vendor relationships.
By collecting real data from real IT and business professionals, Software Reviews provides an accurate and unbiased understanding of complex software purchasing decisions. Our methodology produces the most detailed and authentic insights into the experience of purchasing and owning software.

Pixel Film Studios Unveils TransPack Dynamic for Final Cut Pro X.

TransPack Dynamic is a set of 20 versatile transitions with simple customization options created exclusively for use within Final Cut Pro. Utilize on-screen controls, animation pop-up menus, and animation strength sliders to create a new and unique animation within seconds. Seamlessly bounce, whip, and rotate from one scene to the next with Pixel Film Studios transitions.

TransPack Dynamic features simple motion blurred transition animations for use in Final Cut Pro. Pick and choose from bouncing, whipping, scaling, rotating, and swinging presets with incredible customization options.

Video editors can select from Animate In or Animate Out presets. Animate In presets seamlessly animates the second scene in, while Animate Out presets will animate the first scene out. Move from one clip to the next with Pixel Film Studios transitions.

Trans Pack Dynamic presets a variety of options including anchor point, camera, light, speed method, and direction controls. Shift the anchor point to change the animation origin point. With Camera Controls, users can adjust the angle of view to create a more dynamic perspective in rotating presets. Using speed method and direction drop-down menus, editors can create brand new animations with a single click.

TransPack Dynamic provides users with an easy way to add simple motion blurred transitions to footage in Final Cut Pro X. Instantly move from one scene to the next without ever having to set a keyframe. Editing has never been easier in Final Cut Pro X with Pixel Film Studios.

Established in 2006, Aliso Viejo, California-based Pixel Film Studios is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple FCPX. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac OS X, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

WhoaZone Set to Open at Michigan’s Holly Recreation Area’s Lake Heron

For more information about WhoaZone and Empire Recreation Management, contact Shannon Brower at 608-497-2213.

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