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Valiant Eagle Inc. (OTC:PSRU) is pleased to announce that it acquired Franchise X Entertainment LLC, a full-service record label and artist management company.

Reform-a-nation Campaign/Docuseries Focuses on Injustice & Wrongful Convictions Like Anand Jon Alexander and Others in California and Beyond

The new leading and free independent movie streaming platform Vyre Network releases the controversial feature film "Blue Lives Matter".

Dr. Holstein is an award winning Selfie Filmmaker, Positive Psychologist and podcaster who helps young people overcome anxiety and alienation through multiple media channels.

National Police Support Fund publishes comprehensive report outlining the outcome of over 100 referenda presented to voters on behalf of police operations and law enforcement during the 2017 through 2019 election cycles.

High-volume discount on photo editing services amid coronavirus crisis

Variety of Creative Business Owners Locate in the Design District

The award, based on reviews by couples on WeddingWire, recognizes top wedding professionals in the United States who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism

Intellectual disability coaching site now accepting scholarship applications and donations

Part of economic recovery involves keeping restaurant patrons safe by boosting public health and safety practices

Bare tables are a breeding ground for bacteria, restaurants should consider table linens to keep guests safe

Amazon's Smart Ring launch marks the beginning of a new era for Smart Rings - they are now mainstream, and the market growth will accelerate. Haltian's Smart Ring whitepaper analyzes the market and helps companies define their go-to-market strategy!

Learn how to get over the fear of writing a book

Bid Desk Publishes Online List to Help Consumers Create Healthier Work from Home and Homeschooling Spaces

Each decade has an investment theme that favors one asset class over another. What performed well over the last decade generally underperforms during the next.

Google this week announced that Google Authenticator users can now transfer 2-Step Verification (2SV) secrets between devices.

The new feature is meant to make it easier for users to manage their Google Authenticator 2SV codes across multiple devices.

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American Eagle Auto Body, a Los Angeles-based auto shop, is the winner of the City Beat News Spectrum Award for Excellence in Customer Service.

BeepUAE guarantees to finalize all of their car buying deals in just 30 minutes while paying the seller with instant cash at the rendezvous.

Cashyourcaruae is an instant car buyer introduced in UAE. Service is absolutely commotion free and company buy cars of all makes and models and provides customers with an ideal deal in less than 30 minutes.

Schachter, Hendy & Johnson (SHJ), a personal injury law firm with a long heritage of serving clients in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and nationwide, is now Hendy | Johnson | Vaughn | Emery (HJVE) - "Justice Starts Here."

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Los Angeles has been a 24-hour city for much longer that most would imagine, and transit service has played an important role in keeping the city moving overnight for over 100 years.

(LAMTA Car 3022 trundles down the R Line tracks on owl service in 1963. Photo courtesy of Alan Weeks)


According to the September 11, 1906 edition of the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper, in a brief article entitled “Owl Cars Are Run on Principal Lines”:

The “owl” car service began last night. Cars on the principal lines left First and Spring streets at 1 and 2 o’clock. They were well patronized. The lines included are Boyle Heights, Grand Avenue, Vernon Avenue, University, Main Street, and Pico Heights.

We wanted to share important (and frankly, frightening) news with you regarding the findings released last week of an audit of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

The audit (42p. PDF) was prompted in part by the loss of the Wright Brothers' original patent and maps for atomic bomb missions in Japan.

These losses led investigators to discover that some of the nation's prized historical documents are in danger of being lost for good. It follows a previous audit (66p. PDF) earlier in October highlighting oversight and management improvements, but pointing out that more action was needed.

The Government Accountability Office has also released a Summary Of Audit Findings as well as a Highlights page. The NARA website has posted a Statement in response to the audit findings from Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero.

Nearly 80 percent of U.S. government agencies are at risk of illegally destroying public records and the National Archives is backlogged with hefty volumes of records needing preservation care, the audit by the Government Accountability Office found.

The report by the watchdog arm of Congress, completed this month after a year's work, also found many U.S. agencies do not follow proper procedures for disposing of public records.

The report comes more than a year after news reports of key items missing at the nation's record-keeping agency. Some of the items have been missing for decades but their absence only became widely known in recent years.

The patent file for the Wright Brothers flying machine was last seen in 1980 after passing around multiple Archives offices, the Patents and Trademarks Office and the National Air and Space Museum.

As for maps for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, military representatives checked them out in 1962, and they've been missing ever since.

The GAO report did not specifically mention those or other examples of missing items including Civil War telegrams from Abraham Lincoln, Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent and some NASA photographs on the moon.

Meanwhile, some documents face the threat of deterioration even though they're already at the Archives. Figures from 2009 show 65 percent of its holdings need preservation steps. In some cases, a document's condition already is so poor, it can't be read – a backlog amounting to more than 2 million cubic feet of records.

The National Archives and Records Administration has 44 facilities in 20 states, including 13 presidential libraries, funded by about $470 million this year from Congress.

NARA also maintains a "Help The National Archives Recover Lost And Stolen Documents" website.

The Salute to Veterans Trading Scholarship will be awarded to 100 U.S. veteran or active military reservists who want to learn how to trade the futures markets.

Designed to help real estate brokers and agents get their MLS listings published across the web on up to 154 MLS publisher sites

JW Michaels makes comparing executive salaries of the financial service industry a snap with release of compensation data report data

RIA network responds to advisors seeking principal-, income-protection for clients near and in retirement by providing product access to non-members at no cost

B+E, the first brokerage and technology platform for net lease real estate, announced the listing of the Codale Electric Distribution property located at 50 East 1300, Price, Utah for $4,200,000.

IGN's Monster Hunter expert Casey DeFreitas makes her Unlocked debut to give her impressions on the upcoming Monster Hunter World: Iceborne expansion. Plus, the crew discusses 343's commitment to a solid Halo Infinite experience on Xbox One, how The Outer World's toughest difficulty setting will completely change the game, and Ninja's move to Mixer along with the streaming service's odd clothing policies.

Livestream Deep Learning World Munich 2020 from the comfort and safety of your home on 11-12 May 2020.

Here is an overview of another great natural language processing resource, this time from Microsoft, which demonstrates best practices and implementation guidelines for a variety of tasks and scenarios.

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For many sophisticated marketing technology platforms, it is nearly impossible to be a technology-only company.

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Cathleen Benko, vice chairman and chief talent officer for Deloitte LLP and coauthor of "The Corporate Lattice."

Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile, executive director of UN Women.

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of "Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business."

Susan Cain, author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking."

Karen Dillon, author of the "HBR Guide to Office Politics," talks with Dorie Clark, author of "Reinventing You."

Harvard's Robert Kegan on companies that do really personal development.

Nikil Saval, editor at n+1, on how gender, politics, and unions have affected the American workplace since the Civil War.

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author of the HBR article "Ace the Assessment," explores the rising practice of using tests in hiring and promotion decisions.

Kimberly Elsbach, author of the HBR article "Collaborating with Creative Peers," on collaborating better with a certain type of colleague.

The research shows we shouldn't be afraid to ask for help. Francesca Gino and Alison Wood Brooks, both of Harvard Business School, explain.

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried says too many people find it difficult to get work done at the workplace. His company enforces quiet offices, fewer meetings, and different collaboration and communication practices. The goal is to give employees bigger blocks of time to be truly productive.

Roger Martin of Rotman School of Management, Paul Zak of Claremont Graduate University, Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and HBR Editor-in-Chief Adi Ignatius respectively discuss customer loyalty, the neuroscience of trust, entrepreneurship in Africa, the source of innovation, and the new, hefty magazine. For more, see the January-February 2017 issue.

Freek Vermeulen, an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the London Business School, argues that too many companies are following so-called best practices that are actually holding them back. They do it because of deep-seated industry tradition—and because it’s hard to know how seemingly successful business models will hold up over the long term. That’s why, he says, organizations should avoid benchmarking and instead routinely test their business practices before there’s a problem. Vermeulen is the author of “Breaking Bad Habits: Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business.”