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Thursday, January 3, 2019

Vectorworks, Inc. Sponsors the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for the Third Time

For the third year in a row, global design and BIM software solutions provider Vectorworks, Inc. is sponsoring awards at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). KCACTF is a national program designed to celebrate college theater in the United States and help students develop their creative and technical skills. This year marks the 50th anniversary of KCACTF.

Every year, KCACTF hosts eight regional festivals for college theater students across the United States. The festival activities include workshops, discussions, regional-level scholarships and award programs. The first regional festival begins on January 8 and the last festival ends on February 28.

"As we gear up for another exciting festival season for KCACTF, once again new doors will open for a handful of students because of the connections between KCACTF and our industry-leading sponsors, such as Vectorworks," said KCACTF National Chair of Design, Technology & Management Jesse Dreikosen. "The company's sponsorship helps foster students' creativity and supports them every step of the way as they discover new innovative ways to communicate their design ideas." Read here.

This year, each winner of the eight festivals will receive a free professional license of Vectorworks Designer, a solution that offers lighting, rigging and rendering tools in a single interface.

"Our involvement with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival the past two years has been wonderful, and we look forward to supporting the next generation of entertainment professionals once again," said Frank Brault, product marketing manager at Vectorworks. "This is such a great opportunity for college theater students to showcase their talent, and we can't wait to see what they come up with."

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You can learn more about KCACTF's network with more than 18,000 student participants and over 600 colleges, as well as each festival at http://www.kcactf.org/regions.

About KCACTF
The purpose of the KCACTF presentation and response is to provide outstanding student designers and technicians with the opportunity to showcase their work at regional festivals, where they will receive valuable feedback from professionals working in the field. Awards are presented for designs and other allied crafts appraised based on quality, effectiveness, originality and visual presentation techniques.

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About Vectorworks, Inc.
Vectorworks, Inc. is a global design and BIM software solutions provider serving over 650,000 professionals in the architecture, landscape and entertainment industries. Since 1985, we've been committed to helping designers capture inspiration, nurture innovation, communicate effectively and bring their visions to life. With our cross-platform software, designers can build data-rich, visual models without sacrificing the design process, while collaborating efficiently throughout the project life-cycle. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with offices in Newbury and London, England and Vancouver, Canada, Vectorworks is a part of the Nemetschek Group. Learn how we empower designers to create experiences that transform the world at vectorworks.net.

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North Estonia Medical Centre Expands Clinerion’s Patient Network Explorer Hospital Network in Estonia

North Estonia Medical Centre (NEMC) consists of seven clinics and 32 specialist centers, and is the most important caregiver in the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, as well as in the northern part of the country. As a tertiary care center, it covers two thirds of the population of Estonia. NEMC's team has over 4000 doctors, nurses, caregivers and other specialists. Over 500 of them are doctors and more than 150 are medical residents.

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During 2017, about 35,000 inpatients and 306,000 outpatients were treated on 1,146 beds (52 ICCU/ICU beds) and about 27,700 operations were performed.

NEMC is a leading hospital in acute cardiac care, having the highest number of acute myocardial infarction patients treated among Estonian hospitals, offering 24/7 primary PCI service.

NEMC has a leading expertise in clinical trials in Estonia, where continuous education programs about GCP and clinical trials methodology have been provided for many years for different target groups – investigators, pharmacists, nurses and study coordinators. The first courses specifically for nurses and refresher courses for experienced investigators in Estonia were started at NEMC.

NEMC currently runs about 85 clinical trials per year, 25 of them begun in 2018, with the capacity and expertise to run many more. By joining the Patient Network Explorer platform, the hospital's clinical trials facilities will be exposed to a wide range of global clinical trials run by Clinerion's clients, international pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations.

"We expect significant increase our visibility on international level and access to many more different international research projects in the next years. I hope that this collaboration will open doors to innovative new treatments for our patients and give our colleagues the opportunity to participate in R&D activities from earlier phases of clinical trials," says clinical pharmacologist and senior cardiologist Dr Toomas Marandi.

"We are thrilled to have the North Estonia Medical Centre on the Patient Network Explorer platform. It's a sign of the trust and success of our approach that Clinerion now has coverage over a significant part of Estonia," says Ian Rentsch, CEO of Clinerion. "We welcome the high professionalism and strong medical expertise of the NEMC."

About Clinerion

Clinerion accelerates clinical research and medical access to treatments for patients. We use proprietary technologies for analysis of patient data from our global network of partner hospitals. Clinerion's Patient Network Explorer radically improves the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical trial recruitment by offering data-driven protocol optimization, site feasibility evaluation and real-time patient search and identification to match patients to treatments. Our technology solution provides real-world evidence analytics for medical access. Clinerion facilitates the participation of partner hospitals in leading-edge, industry-sponsored trials and time savings in patient recruitment. We create innovative and disruptive fit-for-purpose solutions which enable pharmaceutical companies to shorten patient recruitment and save costs by streamlining operations and leveraging strategic intelligence. Clinerion's proprietary Big Data analytics technologies leverage real-time data from electronic health records which comply with international patient privacy and data security regulations. Clinerion is a global data technology service company headquartered in Switzerland.

Clinerion website: http://www.clinerion.com
Clinerion's Patient Network Explorer: http://www.clinerion.com/index/OverviewOurSolutions/ClinerionPatientNetworkExplorer

For more information, please contact:
Le Vin Chin
Director, Head of Marketing & Communications
Clinerion Ltd
Elisabethenanlage 11, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 61 865 60 54
media@clinerion.com

About North Estonia Medical Centre

North Estonia Medical Centre (NEMC) is one of the top health care providers in Estonia. With seven clinics and 32 specialist centres NEMC is the most important caregiver in Tallinn and Northern part of Estonia. Similarly to European university hospitals, NEMC offers medical care in all specialist fields and is involved in teaching and research activities. NEMC is committed to professionalism, innovation and teamwork with over 4000 people involved – doctors, nurses, caregivers and other specialists. NEMC is a first ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) Designated Centre of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care for 2019-2021 in Baltics area.

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North Estonia Medical Centre website: http://www.regionaalhaigla.ee

For more information, please contact:
Hede Kerstin Luik
Head of Communications
North Estonia Medical Centre
SA Põhja-Eesti Regionaalhaigla
Sütiste tee 19, 13419 Tallinn, Estonia
HedeKerstin.Luik@regionaalhaigla.ee

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Petco Foundation Invests in Paws of War’s Life-Changing Work Supporting Service Animals

Paws of War of Nesconset, NY, announces it has been awarded a $15,000 grant investment from the Petco Foundation to support its new Vets to Vets Mobile Veterinary Clinic serving disabled veterans' pets and service dogs.

Paws of War is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to train and place shelter dogs to serve and provide independence to our U.S. military veterans that suffer from the emotional effects of war serving the United States. Since 2014, Paws of War has supported over 120 Veterans with service dogs rescued from kill shelters.

This grant was made possible through the Petco Foundation's annual Helping Heroes fundraising campaign, in partnership with Merrick Pet Care. Each October during the campaign, Petco customers are invited to donate online and in Petco stores across the country to support the life-changing work of service, therapy and working animals. Continue reading.

To date, the Petco Foundation has invested more than $12 million to support the transformative effect that therapy, service and working animals that have on people across the globe. The Petco Foundation investment will help Paws of War to continue their mission and will directly impact the lives of veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and helping rescued dogs get a second chance at life while providing services on their new "Vets to Vets" Moblie Veterinary Clinic.

"On behalf of Paws of War, I would like to personally thank The Petco Foundation for making our mission of 'helping both ends of the leash' possible. We could not offer this amazing free veterinary care to our disabled heroes without their support. We thank The Petco Foundation for being our first large provider of these important services" said Dori Scofield, co-founder of Paws of War.

For more information about Paws of War or the Petco Foundation, visit http://www.pawsofwar.org or http://www.petcofoundation.org. Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or by using the hashtag #HelpingHeroes.

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About Paws of War
At Paws of War our mission is to suitably match rescued dogs from shelters and pairing them with military veterans suffering from the emotional effects of war such as PTSD who seek the therapeutic and unconditional love only a companion animal, emotional support or service animal can bring.Your support helps to save, train, feed, house, provide veterinary care and transport a dog to his/her veteran in waiting. We hope you will become part of our Paws of War family! For more information please visit the website, http://www.pawsofwar.org. Read latest news here.

About the Petco Foundation
At the Petco Foundation, we believe that every animal deserves to live its best life. Since 1999, we've invested more than $230 million in lifesaving animal welfare work to make that happen. With our more than 4,000 animal welfare partners, we inspire and empower communities to make a difference by investing in adoption and medical care programs, spay and neuter services, pet cancer research, service and therapy animals, and numerous other lifesaving initiatives. Through our Think Adoption First program, we partner with Petco stores and animal welfare organizations across the country to increase pet adoptions. So far, we've helped more than 5.5 million pets find their new loving families, and we're just getting started. Visit petcofoundation.org to learn more about how you can get involved.

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Katz, Goldstein & Warren Announces 20 Years of Growth and Change in Matrimonial and Family Law Practice

The law firm of Katz, Goldstein & Warren reached a significant milestone in 2018 by observing its 20th year of practice in matrimonial and family law in Bannockburn, Illinois.

The firm, which primarily serves the upper-income North Shore suburbs of Chicago, has doubled in size during those 20 years, now employing seven lawyers who focus on various aspects of divorce litigation, including complex financial and parenting disputes as well as prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements. More lawyers on staff enable the firm to handle increasingly complex cases of matrimonial and family law. Read all the related news.

The practice of matrimonial law has changed dramatically over the past 20 years, particularly in the past five years. "Both societal trends and changes in the law have had a big impact on our practice. We see couples marrying later and having more pre-marital assets to protect, an increase in divorces among couples over age 55 who are particularly concerned about retirement savings, and the legalization of same-sex marriage with a corresponding rise in same-sex couples with children," said Principal Todd R. Warren.

The landscape of post-divorce childcare has also been altered. "For families with children, the old terms and practices of maternal child custody and paternal visitation have been replaced by a more balanced allocation of parental responsibilities and parenting time," continued Warren. "Parenting agreements are also broader in scope these days, including such matters as who will pay for children's extracurricular activities, college and cars as well as visitation rights for extended family members such as grandparents and non-biological parental figures."

Warren has 30 years of experience in navigating high-asset divorce cases. Ilene B. Goldstein, the firm's other current principal, has almost 35 years in this field. This area of practice requires an attorney to have an acute understanding of how financial changes and tax laws impact divorcing individuals.

"I cannot overstate the value of long-term experience and financial aptitude when handling high-asset divorce negotiations," said Goldstein. "Our clients come to us with a complex mix of business assets, real estate, stock and bond portfolios and retirement accounts. To ensure an equitable division of assets and provide for the long-term needs of our client and their dependents, we have to look at the total financial picture, including asset valuation, cash flow and tax implications."

Goldstein points to a recent change in federal tax law as another reason high-asset couples need attorneys who understand their particular needs. Generally, the payer of spousal support has a substantially higher income than the recipient. For divorces finalized prior to 2019, the payer can deduct spousal support dollars from their taxable income, while the recipient pays the federal income tax on those dollars at a presumably lower tax rate. The new law effectively increases the tax burden on the couple as a whole. For divorces finalized after January 1, 2019, payers of spousal support will pay federal income taxes on their entire income, including spousal support dollars, and recipients will receive those dollars tax-free.

As the firm neared its 20th anniversary, it received several honors including:

About Katz, Goldstein, and Warren
Established in 1998, the law firm of Katz, Goldstein & Warren concentrates their practice in the areas of matrimonial and family law. From its Barrington, Illinois, office, the firm primarily serves upper-income clients in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, but their practice area extends across Lake, Cook, McHenry, Kane, DuPage and Will counties. The firm is comprised of attorneys with deep financial and legal experience who act as powerful advocates to protect their clients' interests. They are also compassionate attorneys who are sensitive to the strife and emotional stress that often accompany divorce and other matters of family law. For more information, please visit the firm's website at https://kgwlaw.com.

U.S. Consumers Report That Credit Cards Now Their Most Preferred Payment Type in Stores

The most recent Insight Summary Report from Mercator Advisory Group's biannual CustomerMonitor Survey Series, titled U.S. Consumers and Credit: Rising Usage, reveals that 62% of U.S. households use credit cards in 2018, up from 60% of U.S. Households in 2017. Rising use of online shopping appears to make credit cards more attractive, as the survey also finds that U.S. consumers are now more likely to prefer using credit cards rather than debit cards or any other payment type at online retailers, for online travel, digital content, and even online bill payments than since we started tracking usage preference in 2015.

Debit cards, however, are often preferred for small purchases and everyday in-store spending such as groceries. But when consumers were asked to choose their single most preferred payment type in stores, 36% prefer credit cards and 33% prefer debit, the top two payment types, followed by 18% who prefer using cash. Surprisingly, the preference for cash remains strong, particularly among Gen Z young adults aged 18 to 24 who, since the CARD Act of 2009, are less likely than older adults to use credit cards. This study also finds that consumers using credit cards are more likely than ever to be paying their monthly balances in full, though young adults are less likely than average to do so.

The report presents the findings from Mercator Advisory Group's CustomerMonitor Survey Series online panel of 3,002 U.S. adult consumers surveyed in June 2018. The study examines the demographic distribution of credit card use in the United States, use of co-branded credit or charge card programs by type, changing patterns of credit card use relative to other payment types, credit card payment habits, and self-assessed credit history, as well as notice of and reaction to merchant steering practices, usage of peer-to-peer lenders by brand and reasons for use, consumer experience of changing fees, APRs, motivators to increase credit card borrowing and credit card spending, methods used to shop for new credit cards, application channels used for general purpose credit cards and store credit cards, and consumers' notice of and reaction to merchant rules for credit card use and interest in mobile-based account controls.

"In 2018, credit cards rewards and online shopping appear to be driving stronger use of general purpose network branded credit cards, especially since 3 in 10 credit cardholders say they use premium credit card s that have an annual fee. Consumers recognize the security that credit cards offer particularly online. When it comes to fraud and disputed charges, it's easier to deal with when the money is borrowed from the issuer, and not their own," stated Karen Augustine, manager of Primary Data Services, including CustomerMonitor Survey Series, at Mercator Advisory Group, the author of the report.

Highlights of this report include:

The report is 83 pages long and contains 38 exhibits.

Companies mentioned in this report include: Acima Credit, Affirm, Avant, Bread, Klarna, Lending Club, Prosper, SoFi, and Upstart.

Members of Mercator Advisory Group CustomerMonitor Survey Series Service have access to this report as well as the upcoming research for the year ahead, presentations, analyst access and other membership benefits.

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About Mercator Advisory Group
Mercator Advisory Group is the leading independent research and advisory services firm exclusively focused on the payments a nd banking industries. We deliver pragmatic and timely research and advice designed to help our clients uncover the most lucrative opportunities to maximize revenue growth and contain costs. Our clients range from the world's largest payment issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and associations to leading technology providers and investors. Mercator Advisory Group is also the publisher of the online payments and banking news and information portal PaymentsJournal.com.

Apple MFI Certified Keyboard by HITEK, Now with Lightning Connector

This Apple MFI Certified iPad Wired Keyboard with 8-pin Lightning connector is compatible with all iOS devices, tested with the latest version of iOS. This has the 8-pin Apple Lightning connector for iPads that are build in 2013 to present. It is made from a high grade white polycarbonate frame with white plastic keys. No batteries are required, it is powered by whichever iOS device it is paired with. HITEK's case is by far the best and smoothest typing experience of any third party keyboard.

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HITEK's iPad Wired Keyboard is the perfect companion to their iPad Slim Tough Case. Slim Tough case is the top in iPad protection. Its highlights include a dual-layer rugged design including a protective silicone skin over an inner hard case and a naked frame for the very best touch experience, which is 100% stylus compatible. The Built-in stylus glides smoothly on the glass screen and keeps it clean. Handy magnetic closure keeps the folio cover shut when closed and the strong kickstand with stainless steel pins provides superb stability.

Wired keyboards are recommended over Bluetooth for large deployments and standardized tests due to their superior reliability, reduced interference, and easy management. This keyboard is made from a high grade white polycarbonate frame with white plastic keys and provides the best and smoothest typing experience of any third party keyboard including dedicated short-cut keys for frequently used iOS functions. No batteries are required, the keyboard is solely powered by the iOS device. As with all HITEK products, bulk pricing is available on quantity orders. Keyboard dimensions are: 11.25"x4.75"x0.6875"; Weight: 11.4 oz.

This keyboard takes school iPad usage to the next level. When paired with an external keyboard like HITEK's, the iPad becomes a serious writing tool. According to ipad.appstorm.net, there are definitely added benefits to using an external keyboard for iPad. They state: "...Paired with an external keyboard, though, the iPad is an even better writing machine. Just like serious artists may want to invest in stylus for iPad painting, if you're regularly writing hundreds of words on your iPad, it might be time for a real keyboard. You can still type on-screen when you want, but for longer pieces, the keyboard will help you type your fastest."

About Sunrise Hitek
Sunrise Hitek is a leading maker of protective gear for schools' 1:1 technology programs. HITEK has been designing tech accessories since 2013 and expanding ever since. Their primary customer are K-12 schools, leading them to recently develop the hitekcases website specifically for the educational sector. Sunrise Hitek Group, LLC, also operates Sunrise Hitek, a leading color printing company based in Chicago. As a G7 Qualified Master Printer, Sunrise is uniquely qualified among protective gear makers to offer a wide array of customization options, ensuring the most consistent and accurate color reproduction. Sunrise is an Inc. 5000 company established in 1988 and employs the most advanced equipment and technology, such as G7-certified HP Indigo and UV flatbed presses, and digital die-cutting, to create best-in-class products. A privately-owned enterprise, the company is based in Chicago and sells products worldwide.