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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

ACCEND Construction Welcomes Tony Fontanetta as General Superintendent

ACCEND Construction LLC, a new general contracting firm with a fresh approach to commercial construction, is pleased to announce that Tony Fontanetta is joining as General Superintendent. Read all the related news.

"At ACCEND, we strive to make the lives of everyone we interact with better, and Tony makes that happen every day," said Andy MacGregor, ACCEND's President. "He is proactive, innovative and a true client partner. Tony is one of the most sought after superintendents in the industry given his depth of experience and his ability to foresee and avoid potential issues on the jobsite well before they occur. Having worked with Tony for eleven years, I know that he will make a meaningful impact in mentoring staff and creating the best construction experience for our clients." More info here.

In his position, Fontanetta will oversee projects to ensure they are completed within budget, on schedule, and in accordance with client specifications. Fontanetta will also ensure that jobsite safety and quality control are maintained during projects.

Over the course of his 34-year career, Fontanetta has overseen 6.5 million square feet of construction including office interiors, hospitality and restaurant projects, new construction and heavy renovations. In his previous position, Tony helped oversee and grow the field from 0 to $400 million. Prior to joining ACCEND, Fontanetta worked as a Senior Superintendent and Team Leader, where he led projects for notable clients such as JP Morgan Chase, Chapman and Cutler, Here.com and The Latin School.

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ACCEND Construction LLC opened its doors for business in Chicago in February 2019. By utilizing an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), ACCEND is one of the very few general contractors to offer every single employee the opportunity to be an owner. For more information, visit http://www.accendconstruction.com.

About ACCEND LLC
ACCEND Construction LLC is a general contractor with a fresh philosophy and approach to commercial construction. Led by industry veteran Andy MacGregor, ACCEND is catapulting the industry forward. It brings energy and vigor for full project optimization, streamlined processes, thoughtful ideas and a sincere desire to make the construction experience fun. ACCEND is one of the very few general contractors in Chicago that is 100% employee owned through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). For more information, visit http://www.accendconstruction.com.

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VetStem Biopharma Shares the Story of Sonny Bar Lisa Who Was Successfully Treated With VetStem Cell Therapy

Sonny Bar Lisa, or Sonny for short, is a quarter horse that was lame on his left front limb for approximately two months. After a series of diagnostics, an MRI was performed which revealed Sonny had torn his left front deep digital flexor tendon. Sonny's owner, Alison, researched the injury and found that VetStem Regenerative Cell Therapy may be a treatment option for her horse so she brought the information to her veterinarian.

Sonny's veterinarian had experience utilizing VetStem Cell Therapy and agreed to try stem cell therapy to help with Sonny's condition. An incision was made at Sonny's tailhead to extract a sample of fat tissue. This tissue was aseptically packaged and priority shipped to the VetStem laboratory in San Diego, California. Typically, once the fat is processed and injectable stem cell doses are created, they are immediately shipped back to the treating veterinarian so the patient receives treatment within 48 hours of the initial fat collection. For Sonny's case, his veterinarian wanted to make sure he had a specific number of doses so instead of shipping the cells out immediately, all of the cells were put into culture. The culture process is used to expand and "grow" additional cells to ultimately create more stem cell doses. The process took a few weeks to complete and once the cells were ready, the doses were shipped to Sonny's veterinarian for the scheduled injection.

Sonny received three stem cell injections: two intra-lesionally into his injured deep digital flexor tendon, and one intravenously. His veterinarian also elected to treat Sonny with platelet rich plasma in conjunction with the stem cell therapy. Platelet therapy is a process by which an injectable concentrate of a patient's own platelets is created utilizing the patient's blood. The concentrate is then injected into the site of an injury where the platelets release growth factors that attract stem cells and stimulate local tissue repair. Stem cell therapy and platelet therapy are believed to work synergistically.

After treatment, Sonny went through a twelve-month rehabilitation program to slowly get him back to where he was prior to the injury. According to Alison, Sonny was 99% sound after that twelve months however it was determined that he had a small crack in his navicular bone. For this, his veterinarian performed a treatment with a medication that is indicated for the control of the clinical signs of navicular syndrome in horses. After three months, Alison reported Sonny was 100% sound. Alison stated, "Initially we just did pleasure riding and trail riding, but we have recently started retraining in dressage and he is now competing at introductory level classes locally! He is a very happy horse!"

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Stem cells are regenerative cells that can differentiate into many tissue types, reduce pain and inflammation, help to restore range of motion, and stimulate regeneration of tendon, ligament and joint tissues. In a clinical case series using VetStem Regenerative Cell Therapy in horses with tendon and ligament and joint injuries, it was found that VetStem Regenerative Cell Therapy helped these horses to return to full work or to the activity level that the owner desired.

About VetStem Bio pharma, Inc.
VetStem Biopharma is a veterinarian-lead Company that was formed in 2002 to bring regenerative medicine to the profession. This privately held biopharmaceutical enterprise, based near San Diego, California, currently offers veterinarians an autologous stem cell processing service (from patients' own fat tissue) among other regenerative modalities. With a unique expertise acquired over the past 15 years and 17,000 treatments by veterinarians for joint, tendon or ligament issues, VetStem has made regenerative medicine applications a therapeutic reality. The VetStem team is focused on developing new clinically practical and affordable veterinary solutions that leverage the natural restorative abilities present in all living creatures. In addition to its own portfolio of patents, VetStem holds exclusive global veterinary licenses to a large portfolio of issued patents in the field of regenerative medicine.

Blackhawk Technical College Selects Starfish by Hobsons as Student Success Platform

Hobsons, the education technology leader and company behind Starfish, today announced that Blackhawk Technical College has chosen to partner with Hobson's Starfish Enterprise Success Platform in order to provide flexible learning and impactful advising for all students.

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Blackhawk Technical College, located in Janesville, Wis., serves over 11,000 students, many of whom are non-traditional students, including part-time students and adult learners. Blackhawk Tech's mission is to help students build their future with flexible education in a supportive environment.

"As part of our strategic initiative Guided Pathways, BTC is committed to helping students through impactful advising, progress monitoring, and meaningful interventions," said Dr. Melissa Lantta, BTC Student Pathways Coordinator. "Starfish will give college faculty and staff the opportunity to celebrate student success as well as make referrals to the appropriate office or individual to assist each student."

BTC is excited to continue its mission to provide flexible learning in a supportive environment.

Lantta continued, "This platform will help improve our ability as a staff to work together as a team to support and celebrate student learning and success."

"It is Starfish's mission to support all students in obtaining their education and life goals through focused and accessible student success resources," said Howard Bell, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Starfish. "We are proud to partner with BTC in their mission to implement Guided Pathways and to provide all students with the advising and support necessary to achieve with goals."

The Starfish Enterprise Success Platform helps nearly 500 colleges and universities - more than all other organizations in the industry - scale their student success efforts so more students can achieve their academic and life goals. By helping higher education institutions leverage reliable data to pinpoint areas of concern and opportunity within courses and student populations, as well as institutional programs and services, Starfish connects these findings to action by identifying at-risk students, connecting students with valuable resources, and building career and academic plans to achieve student goals with the least momentum lost.

To learn more about Starfish, visit http://www.starfishsolutions.com.

About Blackhawk Technical College
Blackhawk Technical College provides real-world experiences and hands-on training in a flexible, supportive environment. Our vision is to deliver innovative education that enriches our communities. By working with area school districts, community partnerships and local employers, we are responsive to needs of the region. BTC has campus locations in Monroe, Milton, and Janesville as well as class offerings in Brodhead and Beloit.

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About Hobsons
A leader in education technology, Hobsons helps more than 15 million students to identify their strengths, explore careers, match to best-fit educational opportunities, create academic plans, and reach their education and life goals. More than 13,000 K-12 and higher education institutions partner with Hobsons and leverage our expertise and our solutions -- Naviance, Intersect, and Starfish -- to improve college and career readiness, college recruiting and admissions, and higher education student success to support millions of students.

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nablet Releases HEVC SDK Leveraging Scalable Video Technology for High-Performance Transcoding at NAB Show

nablet, a leading provider of media processing technologies, announced today that it has released its HEVC SDK at the 2019 NAB Show. The new toolkit builds on the Scalable Video Technology for HEVC (SVT-HEVC), an open source project contributed by Intel in September 2018, and part of the recently announced Open Visual Cloud initiative. It is designed to achieve software encoding speeds on general-purpose processors that rival those of expensive, single-purpose hardware. The HEVC SDK continues nablet's tradition of optimizing its codecs for the latest Intel processors to accelerate video transcoding.

nablet also supports the recently announced Open Visual Cloud initiative which promotes the vision of open, scalable, optimized cloud computing based on interoperable, multi-vendor solutions for visual cloud services.

"As a codec provider serving the production and broadcast markets for many years, we have to react quickly to meet changing market needs," said Muzaffer Beygirci, CEO of nablet. "As HEVC became a standard 4K HDR delivery format, we based our new SDK on SVT-HEVC to provide our customers with a high-quality and extremely scalable solution. Our codec and optimization expertise combined with the architecturally superior implementation of SVT-HEVC enabled us to bring a world-class solution to market quickly."

"With the introduction of the Open Visual Cloud, and the optimized media ingredients like Scalable Video Technology (SVT), nablet is helping to grow a strong ecosystem to accelerate innovation for visual cloud services," said Lynn Comp, vice president and general manager of the Visual Cloud Division at Intel.

The HEVC SDK is already helping nablet partners create mission-critical solutions. For example, Hiscale provides highly scalable transcoding solutions and services. As more and more customers need 4K + HDR with HEVC as their delivery format, the nablet HEVC Encoder is perfect for the Hiscale cloud environment. It provides CPU-powered software encoding with ultra-high speed and quality.

"In cloud environments it is often very difficult to find GPU-supported transcoding hardware. And often, such solutions won't meet the requirements of our customers," said Tilo Skomudek, CEO at Hiscale. "The nablet HEVC Codec gives us the high-quality Ultra HD delivery with HDR that our customers expect from us."

nablet provides its new HEVC Codecs as a multiplatform SDK and as part of its mediaEngine live and file-based transcoder. The SDK is available for a one-time license fee of 9.900 € with an unlimited usage model. Optional yearly maintenance and support packages are also available.

nablet will be exhibiting in the Hiscale booth, SU12003, at the 2019 NAB Show in Las Vegas.

Additional information on the HEVC SDK is available at http://www.nablet.com/hevc.

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, IBM, Rohde & Schwarz, ARTE, Vizrt, Syncbak and many more prominent companies around the world. 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 in use today. nablet develops all of its codecs and related components in-house. The company recently opened its USA headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Additional information is available at http://www.nablet.com.

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Monday, April 8, 2019

Altec Showcasing DocLink at 2019 RSM Technology Summit Series

Altec, a leader in enterprise document management and process automation solutions, will be presenting and exhibiting at RSM's Technology Summit in Des Moines, Iowa tomorrow, April 9, and in Denver, Colorado on April 18.

Altec's presentation, "Taking Everything Digital with DocLink," will detail for RSM's customers how they can utilize DocLink to connect their people, processes and data for competitive advantage. By eliminating paper, DocLink's document management capabilities fully utilize and enhance any Dynamics solution, enabling documents to be created, processed, viewed and approved by anyone on any device. Going paperless with DocLink enables companies to digitally transform their operations, improving productivity, visibility and control to the entire document lifecycle, and saving significant time and money.

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Curt Hixson, Altec Sales Director presenting in Des Moines states, "In today's digital world, companies have to make significant changes to their business processes in order to remain competitive. Events such as this provide a great opportunity for Altec to share with end-users how DocLink's full integration to their Dynamics solution can help them go paperless and automate everyday processes in every department. Purchase orders, invoices, credit/debit memos, human resources, expense reports and other processes can be streamlined, essentially enabling everyone throughout an organization to be more effective."

About Altec
Altec is a leading provider of integrated document management and process automation solutions. Its flagship product, DocLink, helps companies connect people, processes and data providing them with the ability to store, search, retrieve and send any document securely. DocLink effectively eliminates the need for paper while automating processes that improve organizational efficiency and reduce costs associated with human errors. With thousands of customers globally, Altec enjoys collaborative partnerships with Sage, Microsoft, Acumatica, Intacct, Key2Act, SAP B1, Amtech, Epicor and more that deliver flexible, comprehensive solutions to adapt to an ever-changing global market. Learn more at http://www.altec-inc.com. Read latest news here.

Now in Early Spring is the Time to Start Worrying About Ticks and Homeowners Can Protect Their Property with Tips From Giroud Tree and Lawn

While some bugs are just annoying, others can pose serious risks, and ticks are at the top of the list. Ticks carry a variety of diseases that can harm people and pets and can cause some pretty awful symptoms and side effects. Lyme Disease, Powassan Virus, Alpha-Gal Syndrome and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever are some of the worst for humans and pets.

Not Just a Summer Insect
Ticks will go into hiding once the temperature dips below freezing, but once it's consistently above that 32 degree mark, they are back out and ready for action! That means ticks are out and about NOW in Pennsylvania! Fortunately, there are many actions homeowners can take to protect properties from dangerous ticks and the illnesses they can carry.

Controlling ticks in the yard
The best way to control ticks is to target their habitats to make the yard a place where ticks don't want to hang out. Here's what homeowners can do now to control ticks on the property:

1. Clean Up the Yard: Ticks are shade lovers and can't survive in the sun! Cleaning up the overgrown vegetation will give ticks fewer places to congregate. Additionally, pruning tree branches and shrubs around the lawn edge will let in more sunlight. Mow the lawn regularly because longer grasses help ticks circulate around the yard.

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2. Choose plants that deter ticks: Ticks are deterred by mint, lavender, rosemary, marigolds and citronella grass. An added bonus is that mosquitoes and fleas also hate these strong smelling plants, so start planting! Read here.

3. Keep Deer Off the Property: Deer are the primary carrier of ticks through the yard. Use Deer Repellent treatments to deter deer from feeding on valuable plants and carrying ticks into the yard. Homeowners can go a step further and check the landscape to identify and remove plants that are attracting deer to the yard.

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4. Tick Control Treatments: There are organic and traditional chemical based treatments available to control ticks. Homeowners should call a Tick Control Expert to assess the property for tick "Hot Spots" and suggest a treatment plan to attack ticks where they gather. An expert will treat around the perimeter of the property and other high-risk areas where ticks are likely to live.

Check for ticks after outdoor activities: Even with tick control in the yard, it's still important to check family members and pets after any outdoor excursion.

"Tick protection starts with controlling ticks in the yard, the place where everyone spends the most time outdoors," says Lou Giroud, President and ISA Certified Arborist. "However, families must take additional precautions by checking for ticks after outdoor activities and if discovered quickly removing ticks before disease can be spread."

To find ticks on the body, the CDC recommends:

Removing a Tick Embedded in the Skin: If a tick is discovered, the CDC offers detailed instructions for removing a tick:

About Giroud Tree and Lawn
Giroud Tree and Lawn specializes in tree service, lawn care and mosquito and tick control programs that make customers love doing business with the company since 1974. Serving Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties, the company offers professional tree and lawn evaluation, tree pruning, tree removal, insect and disease control, fertilizing, stump removal, traditional and 100% organic lawn programs and mosquito and tick control. Giroud Arborists are certified by the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) and have the knowledge and experience required to properly diagnose, treat and maintain trees and lawn health. The company is Accredited by the Tree Care Industry Association and Better Business Bureau. Giroud has also been awarded the Angie's List Super Service Award® every year since 2005. The "Giroud Treework for Charity" program donates free tree care services to parks, historical sites and other non-profit organizations located in the Company's service area. For more information, visit the company website at http://www.giroudtree.com or call 215-682-7704.

American IRA, a Self-Directed IRA Administration Firm Informs (and Warns) About LLCs

Because investors can hold an LLC in a Self-Directed IRA, this can seem like a great option for anyone looking to invest their retirement portfolio horizons beyond the typical stock and bond funds, but should investors weigh more variables before considering an LLC? A recent post at American IRA argues that retirement savers should be aware of a wide range of these considerations before starting with an LLC in their Self-Directed IRA.

The post notes that holding an LLC within an IRA means that the IRA, not the individual, should be listed as the member - and investors will need an operating agreement document tailored specifically to their Self-Directed IRA. A standard operating agreement that most attorneys use for standard LLC products will not suffice for this kind of arrangement. The article further recommends sending a copy of that managing operating agreement to American IRA or whichever custodian or third-party Self-Directed IRA administrator the investor collects.

Because the IRA can be a member in an LLC that is owned by multiple partners, these issues can grow complicated. American IRA recommends taking the process slowly but thoroughly to ensure that every step is fulfilled.

"LLCs can be complicated on their own," said Jim Hitt, CEO of American IRA. "So, it's no wonder that some people who are just entering the world of Self-Directed IRAs can be a little reluctant to try them out within an IRA, but that does not mean that investors have to be put off, either. When they understand what will be required of them and have a sense of the steps to take, there's plenty they can do to protect themselves and ensure that the process works smoothly."

There are other limits, such as purchasing an investment property using an LLC within a Self-Directed IRA and not being able to use the property for one's own personal benefit or convenience, which includes the use for spouses, children, and other relatives.

For more information about these limitations—and what a Self-Directed IRA can accomplish—visit AmericanIRA.com or call 866-7500-IRA.

About:
American IRA, LLC was established in 2004 by Jim Hitt, CEO in Asheville, NC. The mission of American IRA is to provide the highest level of customer service in the self-directed retirement industry. Jim Hitt and his team have grown the company to over $400 million in assets under administration by educating the public that their Self-Directed IRA account can invest in a variety of assets such as real estate, private lending, limited liability companies, precious metals and much more.

As a Self-Directed IRA administrator, they are a neutral third party. They do not make any recommendations to any person or entity associated with investments of any type (including financial representatives, investment promoters or companies, or employees, agents or representatives associated with these firms). They are not responsible for and are not bound by any statements, representations, warranties or agreements made by any such person or entity and do not provide any recommendation on the quality profitability or reputability of any investment, individual or company. The term "they" refers to American IRA, located in Asheville and Charlotte, NC.