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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Accelerated Innovations announces today a new partnership with Snohomish County Public Utility District 1

MyMeter will serve as the full My Account platform for Snohomish Co. PUD's approximately 350,000 electric and 21,000 water customers across a 2,200 square mile service territory, including all of Snohomish County and Camano Island.

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In addition to the full suite of offerings—data presentment, usage analysis, bill pay and customized messaging—customers will eventually be able to receive conservation tips or pay their Snohomish Co. PUD bill by voice, using platforms like Amazon's Alexa. Click here.

"We expect customer engagement to continue climbing as we get ready to roll out another wave of improvements to the customer experience," says Cathy Patterson, PUD Senior Customer and Energy Services Program Manager. "As we launch our new customer portal, we are also adding new payment options, redesigning our website, and that's just the start. The next few years will see a lot of positive changes for our customers and for the utility."

MyMeter will enable Snohomish Co. PUD customers to:

"We are excited to work with Snohomish Co. PUD," says Josh Headlee, Founder and CEO of AI. "Our teams' goals are well aligned. Together we are expanding and improving customer capabilities and finding new, innovative ways for customers to engage with and manage their utility bills." Continue reading.

"We are committed to providing our customers with best in class service, and our partnership with AI will help us deliver on that promise." says Pam Baley, PUD Assistant General Manager of Customer and Energy Services. "Meeting our customers where they are by opening new channels, accessibility and functionality is a key goal. Leveraging AI's technical expertise with our dedicated and knowledgeable staff has produced a path for exciting new tools for our employees and new options for our customers."

AI has been connecting communities through technology-driven energy data across the United States for more than a decade. By including Snohomish Co. PUD in its portfolio of utility partners, Accelerated Innovations continues to strengthen its position as a secure, one-stop shop for customer care, customer account access, customer experience, and billing and payments.

About Accelerated Innovations
AI is the team behind MyMeter, the energy engagement platform that powers the digital experience for millions of customers worldwide. MyMeter does everything: electric, water, and gas—all without expensive, lengthy implementations. Utilities partnering with AI realize verified savings and improved customer care through increased engagement opportunities and tools for utility use data, feedback, alerts, analytics, and prepaid billing.

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More than 600 Barbies with Prosthetic Legs Donated to Children of Shriners Hospitals

When 18-year-old Chloe, a longtime patient of Shriners Hospitals for Children®, saw that Barbie® made a doll with a prosthetic leg – the Barbie Fashionista™ Doll #121 – she was more than excited, and she wanted to share them with others like her, too.

On Monday, Chloe and her mom delivered more than 400 of the Barbie dolls – collected through family and friends – to Shriners Hospitals for Children — Springfield in Massachusetts. Mattel, Inc., maker of Barbie, sent an additional 200 dolls to the hospital. Chloe was able to present one of the dolls to a fellow patient during her visit, and she says she hopes her donation will help other kids and teens with limb differences feel more confident.

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As a teen with a prosthetic leg, Chloe didn't have a doll that looked like her while growing up, so she knew this would mean a lot to others with limb differences. She decided she wanted to collect as many of the dolls as she could for other kids at the Springfield Shriners Hospital, where she has received prosthetic services since she was a toddler.

Chloe's mom, Cindy, took to social media to ask friends and family to purchase the dolls as they found them, offering to pay. The request went viral and eventually Barbie herself got word of their efforts and replied to a tweet from Chloe's brother who shared the story on Twitter. "The world needs #MoreRoleModels like Chloe. Sending a little something your way, @shrinershosp," said the Tweet from Barbie. Donations poured in, filling Chloe's dining room. No one asked to be reimbursed.

The donated dolls will serve as tools in therapeutic education and medical play for kids facing amputation – and their siblings – to help explain their situation, says Brock McConkey, CPO, Manager, Pediatric Orthotic and Prosthetic Services (POPS) — Northeast, LLC. McConkey is the prosthetist who has fabricated and fitted Chloe with her legs for most of her life, and the person she says inspired her to make the donation.

This generous gift will be shared with Shriners Hospitals for Children's 16 Pediatric Orthotics and Prosthetics Services (POPS) locations around the U.S., where our teams design and customize orthotics and prosthetic devices that are tailored to the unique needs of each patient. Be alert to the latest news.

We are very grateful to Chloe, her mom, and the friends and families who supported these efforts, and to Mattel for their donation and their inclusive range of dolls to inspire kids like Chloe.

About Shriners Hospitals for Children

Shriners Hospitals for Children is changing lives every day through innovative pediatric specialty care, world-class research and outstanding medical education. Our locations in the United States, Canada and Mexico provide advanced care for children with orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate, regardless of the families' ability to pay.

Shriners Hospitals for Children is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and relies on the generosity of donors. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. For more information, please visit shrinershospitalsforchildren.org.

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Contact:
Jennifer Tross
Shriners Hospitals for Children — Springfield
413-735-1291
jtross@shrinenet.org

Student Surveys Conducted by Industry Leader Pride Surveys Along with Surveys Conducted by Two Additional Organizations Show Large Increases in Vaping by 12th Graders

Statistics from Pride Surveys, a national leader in student survey data collection, show that vaping increased across the board for all students in grades 6-12 over a two-year period. The largest increase was found amongst 12th-grade students, 32.6% of whom reported using a nicotine vaporizer in the last 30 days, an increase year over year of 10.8% between 2017 and 2018.

These numbers are especially concerning given the CDC's guidance on vaping tobacco products: E-cigarettes are not safe for youth, young adults, pregnant women, or adults who do not currently use tobacco products. Equally alarming is the current outbreak of identified cases of lung disease related to vaping products.

The Pride Survey and the Pride Survey Plus collected data from 5,306 12th grade students across the country and in communities where there are active community coalitions combating substance use in youth. The data are self-reported statistics from students used to evaluate the effectiveness of programs that are being implemented in the communities and to determine the need for such programs.

The publicly funded Monitoring the Future Survey, the National Youth Tobacco Survey, and the Pride Survey all show similar rates of increase in tobacco vaping. The Monitoring the Future Survey shows a 9.9% increase over the previous year and the National Youth Tobacco Survey shows a 10.8% increase which matched the increase reported by the Pride Survey. Although the surveys are not directly comparable due to differing methodologies, question structure, and cohorts, the similarities in these statistics help validate each other.

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"The news about the current health issues and, in some instances, deaths are devastating. The Wilson County Substance Prevention Coalition is taking these reports seriously and is currently looking into educational materials and programming that can be distributed/presented to our counties youth in hopes of curbing the appeal of vaping/e-cigarette use," said Jeff Hill, Director, Wilson County Substance Prevention Coalition. "The WCSPC feels that by providing access to real-time data and information, we can educate youth on the harms of e-cigarette usage, as well as parents in ways to identify when, how, and if their child may be using these products." Read this for more information.

"Here at Pride we have been monitoring e-cigarette use for our customers for the last five years and have seen the numbers explode. We feel it is important to lend our data to the conversation during this 'wild-west' time for vaporizers," said Jay Gleaton, President and CEO of Pride Surveys. "While we are still learning about the impact of vapor on the lungs, we already know about the habit-forming and developmental effects that the chemical nicotine can have on children and young adults' brains." Click here.

These survey results come at a time when big tobacco is taking notice of the trends in vaporizer products with the parent company of Marlboro buying a 35 percent stake in the vaping company JUUL for 13 billion dollars.
Pride Surveys has been collecting data on youth substance abuse and behavioral trends since 1982 and providing schools and communities with the ability to perform their own valid and reliable needs assessments tailored to the students in individual school settings.

About Pride Surveys: Pride Surveys was created in 1982 by professors at Georgia State University in Atlanta and Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY. Their purpose was to help local schools measure student alcohol, tobacco and other drug use through the use of student surveys. Since then, the survey company has developed a full range of survey products that measure behavior on many crucial issues that can affect learning, such as school climate, family, discipline, safety, substance use, perceptions of harm and more.

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For more information on Pride Surveys, visit http://PrideSurveys.com, Facebook and Twitter at @ISAPrideSurveys, and LinkedIn at @Pride Surveys/International Survey Associates.

Announcing InterActive Cards Inc. – A Mini Computer on a Card

With over ten years of mostly under-the-radar research and development completed, InterActive Cards (IAC) can turn any inanimate card into an actual consumer electronic device.

To do this, IAC's objective is to not only bring interactive cards to the global market, but to do so collaboratively by teaming with existing card manufacturers as well as component suppliers.

"This is a truly exciting time for IAC because we can now provide conventional card manufacturers and component suppliers the ability to leverage IAC's unique interactive card manufacturing process to "bring to life" cards that have only been non-interactive pieces of plastic for decades. And, most importantly, we can do this work as collaborative partners," says David Patterson, IAC President.

IAC, formerly known as FiTeq, has the ability to ramp their manufacturing capacity to over 1.5 million units, per production line, per month. With this production capacity, Patterson believes there is a unique opportunity for conventional card manufacturers:

"One of the most appealing attributes of IAC's InterActive Inlays™ is that changes to the production requirements or manufacturing processes of the partner card manufacturer are negligible. No new equipment or materials are necessary for a card manufacturer to successfully integrate an interactive inlay within a plastic/metal card," he says.

About InterActive Cards Inc. - IAC seeks to bring together component suppliers, card manufacturers and other industry partners to manufacture and promote the use of interactive cards as an alternate class of smart device. IAC has over ten years of development experience in interactive cards and has developed an automated process for prototypes as well as high throughput production of InterActive Inlays™ and cards, each meeting ISO and Mastercard CSI standards.

SnapStream, Official Volicon Transition Partner, Launches Its New Monitoring and Compliance Product

SnapStream, a Houston-based software company, launched SnapStream Monitoring and Compliance today at NAB Show New York, adding a new offering to its TV recording, searching, and clipping products that are already used by hundreds of customers.

The launch of SnapStream Monitoring and Compliance follows SnapStream's agreement with Verizon Digital Media Services in April 2019 to be the official Volicon transition partner. Since then, more than 100 Volicon customers have transitioned their support to SnapStream Support.

The launch of SnapStream Monitoring and Compliance is the next phase of SnapStream's successful takeover of Volicon. SnapStream's new product has all of the core monitoring and compliance features:

"The SnapStream Monitoring and Compliance launch builds on our depth of experience and extends SnapStream into an exciting new market," said SnapStream founder and CEO Rakesh Agrawal. "The amazing SnapStream team is what differentiates us—from our engineers, who build user experiences that save our users time, to our support team, who deliver on a high standard for responding to customers and resolving issues, to our customer success team, who deliver the best on-boarding experience."

"I have gotten to know SnapStream really well through the Volicon transition process and they have all the key ingredients to pick up where Volicon left off: SnapStream has excellent management, engineering, and support, and SnapStream Monitoring and Compliance is built on a strong technical foundation that's been in use for over a decade," said Gary Learner, cofounder of Volicon.

SnapStream Monitoring and Compliance is an ideal solution for local TV stations and local TV station groups, broadcast networks, cable networks, and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs). SnapStream Monitoring and Compliance has several key differentiators from other products on the market:

Those who are interested can be among the first to see SnapStream Monitoring and Compliance at NAB New York 2019, or can contact SnapStream to learn more.

Press can contact pr@snapstream.com to learn more.

About SnapStream

SnapStream is a Houston-based technology company that enables organizations to record, clip, share, and monitor broadcast TV and live video. With SnapStream, users can choose to do everything from instantly capturing, creating, and sharing video clips and GIFs to social media, to monitoring their feeds for regulatory and business-mandated compliance. SnapStream's hundreds of customers include The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, CBS, Major League Soccer, Talking Points Memo, and Politico.

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Aliant Payments to Pay Its Employees a Compensation Package in Cryptocurrency

Aliant Payments, a leading U.S. based provider of merchant services and payment processing, announced today that it will be paying each of its employees part of their compensation package in cryptocurrency. The employees will be paid in a combination of Bitcoin and Litecoin.

"The fintech industry is growing and changing rapidly, and this is a way for our employees to be a part of Aliant's involvement in this shift to digital currency," said Aliant CEO Eric Brown. "Each member of the Aliant team now has a vested interest in cryptocurrency not just as something they work on in the office. The more our team utilizes digital currency, the better our customer user experience will be. This benefits Aliant as a company, and our employees as invested customers."

Aliant became one of the first payment processing companies to offer merchants the ability to accept cryptocurrency payments in September 2017. In July 2018 it announced that it had developed its own domestic, fully compliant solution that processes crypto payments, converts cryptocurrency to USD, and offers merchants next day payouts. Aliant's payment processing system, called CryptoBucks, mitigates the risk of volatility of cryptocurrencies for merchants, making easier the adoption of cryptocurrencies by anyone.

"Adoption happens when you're able to earn cryptocurrency, and then go on to spend it," said Aliant CEO Eric Brown. "Being a leader in the crypto and payments space, the Aliant team is always working to educate merchants, and lead by example. I'm so grateful to work with this amazing team, and I can't think of a better way to compensate them for the value they bring to our community."

For more information, please contact Casey Olsher at casey(at)aliantpayments.com.

About Aliant Payments
Aliant Payments is a South Florida‐based financial technology company providing credit, debit, ACH and cryptocurrency payment processing for merchants worldwide. Founded in 2003, Aliant continues to pioneer the payment processing landscape. To learn more about Aliant Payments, please visit http://www.aliantpayments.com.

EMA to Host Research Webinar on Workload Automation (WLA) Trends and Enterprise-Class WLA Products

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT and data management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host a research webinar titled "The Great Scheduler Migration: Disruption to IT Infrastructure Tools in the Wake of Digital Transformation and Application Modernization," featuring Dan Twing president and chief operations officer at EMA.

Application modernization and digital transformation are the driving forces in many organizations. These activities, however, are stressing scheduling and automation tools to the point at which many are looking for better answers.

This global study was envisioned following research conducted in 2018, which uncovered that 37% of workload automation users only began to use an enterprise-class WLA in the previous four years. EMA wanted to understand how many organizations remained that were not using an enterprise-class WLA product and, therefore, how much growth in net new users might be on the horizon. EMA included Asia in this research for the first time to get a truly global view of these trends.

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During this webinar, Twing will explore the results of this new research, including:

The webinar is Thursday, October 31 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. Registration is available at http://info.enterprisemanagement.com/the-great-scheduler-migration-webinar-pr

About EMA
Founded in 1996, EMA is a leading industry analyst firm that specializes in providing deep insight across the full spectrum of IT and data management technologies. EMA analysts leverage a unique combination of practical experience, insight into industry best practices, and in-depth knowledge of current and planned vendor solutions to help clients achieve their goals. Learn more about EMA research, analysis, and consulting services for enterprise line of business users, IT professionals and IT vendors at http://www.enterprisemanagement.com.

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