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Business: Insurance

Why Should Drivers Take Pictures Immediately After An Accident?

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“Drivers should carefully document the accident scene. Taking photos will support your claims and get the right amount of reimbursement”, said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company.


LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)

Compare-autoinsurance.org has released a new blog post that explains why it is important to take pictures immediately after an accident.

For more info and free car insurance quotes, visit https://compare-autoinsurance.org/why-its-recommended-to-take-pictures-after-a-car-accident/

Everyone’s safety is of the utmost importance. Check if everyone is alright and call the ambulance if needed. After making sure that everyone is safe, it is time to document the accident. Taking photos will allow the drivers to gather relevant data about the circumstances of the accident

Taking photos will help drivers:


  • Deal with insurance companies. Being involved in an accident where the other driver is involved, gives you the right to ask for compensation. It is possible that the company of the guilty driver will try to partially blame the victim or refuse to make compensatory payments. In this case, clear photos of the accident can become undeniable evidence that will resolve any dispute. If the company still refuses to pay, talk with a lawyer and provide the photos.

  • Gather crucial info about the circumstances of the accidents. Taking photos of the accident scene, the surrounding area and road conditions will help the authorities determine who and what caused the accident. Specialized criminalists can analyze all details and assemble the bigger picture.

  • Document the injuries. Again, this must be done in order to receive fair compensation. Take photos of injuries, bruises, cuts, burns, lacerations. Make sure to keep all medical receipts.


For more information, money-saving tips and free online quotes, please visit http://compare-autoinsurance.org

Compare-autoinsurance.org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc.

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Business: Executives

Patrick S. O’Neale, P.E. named President of Massachusetts Water Works Association

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Patrick S. O’Neale, P.E.

Patrick’s passion and unwavering commitment to promoting clean and safe drinking water to the Massachusetts community will be a true asset as he assumes this position.


MARLBOROUGH, Mass. (PRWEB)

The Massachusetts Water Works Association (MWWA) announced that Patrick S. O’Neale, P.E. has been appointed as President of the Association, effective November 1, 2019. Patrick is a Senior Vice President at Tata & Howard, Inc., a Northeast leader in water engineering and consulting.

O’Neale is a seasoned engineer with more than 38 years of consulting experience with specialized expertise in water treatment, water distribution system analysis, design, and construction. Patrick has served on the MWWA Board of Directors since 2015 and has been a member of the Program Committee since 2010 where he most recently served as co-chair. He is looking forward to serving as President and assisting in MWWA’s commitment to the drinking water profession. Patrick’s Presidency will promote the new MWWA Vision Statement of professionalism, stewardship, and confidence in every drop.

“Tata & Howard has a longstanding relationship with the MWWA, and we are pleased to see Patrick take on this exciting new role with the organization,” says Paul Howard, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Tata & Howard. “Patrick’s passion and unwavering commitment to promoting clean and safe drinking water to the Massachusetts community will be a true asset as he assumes this position.”

The Massachusetts Water Works Association, Inc. is a membership organization dedicated to the advancement of the drinking water profession. Through education and advocacy, MWWA is committed to public health by promoting a safe and sufficient supply of drinking water to Massachusetts consumers.

Founded in 1992, Tata & Howard, Inc. is a 100% employee-owned water, wastewater, and stormwater consulting engineering firm dedicated to consistently delivering innovative, cost-effective solutions in the water environment. Tata & Howard has gained a solid reputation as an industry leader in the Northeast by bringing knowledge, integrity, and dedicated service to all-sized markets, both public and private. The firm has offices in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Arizona. For more information, visit http://www.tataandhoward.com.

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Dwight Affordable Assisted Lifestyle Community Celebrates a Decade of Serving Area Seniors and Their Families

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“With the opportunity for seniors to live with dignity in their own apartments and receive the assistance they need, we are proud to say we continue to set the standard for assisted living in the Dwight area.”


DWIGHT, Ill. (PRWEB)

Heritage Woods of Dwight is celebrating 10 years of service to area seniors and their families with an anniversary party from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 7.

“Since the beginning, Heritage Woods of Dwight has established itself as the premier affordable assisted lifestyle community,” said Rod Burkett, CEO of Gardant Management Solutions, the company that manages the community. “With the opportunity for seniors to live with dignity in their own apartments and receive the assistance they need, we are proud to say we continue to set the standard for assisted living in the Dwight area.”

Over the past decade, Heritage Woods has spent more than 5 million minutes touching lives and providing love, compassion and care for residents.

Heritage Woods also has a significant impact on the local economy and employs 40 people.

Special guests for the anniversary celebration will include Dwight Mayor Jared Anderson and representatives from the Dwight Economic Alliance and the offices of Sen. Jason Barickman and Rep. Thomas Bennett.

Beth McCleary will entertain guests as she plays the piano during the celebration.

Heritage Woods combines residential apartment home living with the availability of personal assistance, help with medications and a variety of convenience and support services.

“We provide a wonderful alternative to a nursing home or to struggling alone at home,” explained Heritage Woods Administrator Brandy Scheer.

Residents live in private apartments that they furnish and decorate to their tastes. Each of the studio and one-bedroom floor plans includes a kitchenette, spacious bathroom with shower and grab bars, individually controlled heating and air conditioning, and emergency alert system.

Certified nursing assistants, working under the direction of a licensed nurse, are on-duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Meals, housekeeping and laundry are among the included services.

“Residents also benefit from all of the opportunities that are available to socialize with friends and neighbors and participate in activities and special programs,” said Scheer.

Heritage Woods of Dwight is fully certified to operate through the Illinois Supportive Living Program. Gardant Management Solutions is the largest provider of affordable assisted living in Illinois and the 10th largest provider in the nation.

Gardant also manages the Heritage Woods communities in Manteno and Watseka.

For more information about Heritage Woods of Dwight, call 815-584-9280.

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Technology: Electronics

Diversified Technologies’ Pulsed Electric Field Pre-Treatment System Increases Food Processing Yields with Huge Energy Savings

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Capable of 100 - 10,000 liters/hr. throughput, depending upon parameters including conductivity, the DTI Industrial PEF Unit can be modified electrically and physically.

Capable of 100 – 10,000 liters/hr. throughput, depending upon parameters including conductivity, the DTI Industrial PEF Unit can be modified electrically and physically.

Designed for food drying, extraction, and tissue modification production processes, these compact systems can be custom configured for specific applications.


BEDFORD, Mass. (PRWEB)

Diversified Technologies, Inc. has introduced a PEF production system for pre-treating multiple tons of whole pieces of fruits and vegetables per hour to improve processing.

The DTI Industrial PEF Unit can pre-treat whole pieces of fruits and vegetables at the rate of multiple tons per hour to increase juice yields by up to 50% and achieve up to an 80% reduction of drying energy. Designed for food drying, extraction, and tissue modification production processes, these compact systems can be custom configured for specific applications.

Capable of 100 – 10,000 liters/hr. throughput, depending upon parameters including conductivity, the DTI Industrial PEF Unit can be modified electrically and physically over a wide range of specifications. Readily integrated into various processing systems, they have maximum 50 – 600 kW power, field strength to 50 kV/cm, peak voltage of 10 – 40 kV, peak current to 500 A, and pulse frequency to 4 kHz.

DTI Industrial PEF Units are priced from $500,000.00, configured to meet processing requirements. Price quotations are available upon request.

For more information contact:

Diversified Technologies, Inc.

Michael A. Kempkes, VP of Marketing

35 Wiggins Ave.

Bedford, MA 01730-2345

(781) 275-9444 x211 FAX (781) 275-6081

e-mail: kempkes@divtecs.com

http://www.divtecs.com

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Industry: Healthcare

Tyler Cymet and A. Jeffrey Ellington have been elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Healthcare Trustees

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Integrative Approaches to Pain Assessment and Management:
Solutions to the Opioid Crisis

“The American College of Healthcare Trustees is very proud to haveDr. Tyler Cymet and Mr. Jeffery Ellington serving on our Board ofDirectors,” said David Levien, MD, MBA, FACS, President and CEO of ACHT “They’ve contributed greatly to our upcoming conference on opioids crisis, just 10 days away!”


WASHINGTON (PRWEB)

The American College of Healthcare Trustees (ACHT) is pleased to announce the election of the two new members to its Board of Directors.

Tyler Cymet, DO, FACP, FACOFP, FACHT is a visionary leader and medical educator. As Chief of Clinical Education at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Cymet is responsible for developing training programs for medical educators, sharing information on new methods and programs for training physicians and developing consensus among the colleges on curriculum. He is a physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland and Past President of the Maryland State Medical Society. Dr. Cymet trained at the Yale University School of Medicine in Internal Medicine, taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and has written for the New York Times News Syndicate, Untold Stories of the ER, and has authored a number of textbooks including the Ad Diction Ary of Drug User Terms.

A. Jeffrey Ellington Is Managing Director of ConcentricDNA which provides research on best healthcare industry practices. It is comprised of a collegial, interdependent, collaborative, aligned functional team of proven leaders passionate about improving the healthcare experience and associated outcomes. Its “Heroic Leadership Compensation Model” enables benefits advisors, CEOs, and stakeholder leadership to be highly rewarded for serving community healthcare needs. Jeff is also Project Development Manager on Sustainable Innovation in Healthcare at Best Industry Research, located in Research Triangle Park, NC. Jeff is also Founder of Creative Capital Companies, also located in North Carolina. They are engaged in monetization of uninsured and insured operating risks for privately-held, public, and non-profit companies and integration of enterprise risk management, insurance, and re-insurance analytics to drive increasing profitability.

“The American College of Healthcare Trustees is very proud to have

Dr. Tyler Cymet and Mr. Jeffery Ellington serving on our Board of

Directors,” said David Levien, MD, MBA, FACS, President and CEO of the

American College of Healthcare Trustees. “ACHT is a trusted source of support to members of Boards of Directors, healthcare executives, physician and nurse leaders, entrepreneurs and others.”

Dr. Levien continued: “This is an especially opportune time to add to our distinguished team of Board Directors, just 10 days away from our important conference, ‘Integrative Approaches to Pain Assessment and Management: Solutions to the Opioid Crisis’, to be held at The American College of Surgeons’ Conference Center in Washington, DC.”

For details, conference registration and sponsorship opportunities, visit: http://bit.ly/ACHTconf.

About ACHT

The American College of Healthcare Trustees (ACHT) is a national professional association dedicated to promoting high performing, competent, qualified, ethical governance and leadership in healthcare that is person-centered and accountable by providing continuing education, resources, and networking.

Become a Fellow now: https://www.facht.org/aws/FACHT/pt/sp/membership_howto

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Business: Insurance

NFP Acquires Transit Insurance Services, Inc., Expanding its Property & Casualty Capabilities in Commercial Transportation Services

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“We are thrilled to welcome someone with Cindy’s vision and proven success, as well as the full Transit Insurance team, to NFP and the West region,” said Ed Kurowski, NFP West region managing director.


NEW YORK (PRWEB)

NFP, a leading insurance broker and consultant that provides property and casualty (P&C), corporate benefits, retirement, and individual solutions, today announced that it has acquired Transit Insurance Services, Inc. (Transit Insurance). The transaction closed effective August 1, 2019.

Transit Insurance is a P&C broker, based in Ontario, CA, offering coverage to trucking fleets across the Western US. The firm has more than three decades of experience customizing truck insurance packages that meet the diverse needs of its clients. Their longstanding industry knowledge, exceptional customer service, and relationships in priority markets align with NFP’s focus on growing its commercial transportation insurance services. Transit Insurance General Manager and Producer Cindy Cheatham will join NFP as a vice president.

“Cindy brings more than 35 years of experience developing, implementing, and managing complex commercial truck insurance needs for clients. We are thrilled to welcome someone with her vision and proven success, as well as the full Transit Insurance team, to NFP and the West region,” said Ed Kurowski, NFP West region managing director.

“NFP’s continued focus on expanding its specialty P&C offerings, its commitment to delivering extraordinary service to clients, and building a welcoming culture for employees aligns perfectly with our values,” said Cheatham. “We’re excited to have found a new home for our team with NFP.”

About NFP

NFP is a leading insurance broker and consultant providing customized property and casualty, corporate benefits, retirement, and individual solutions through its licensed subsidiaries and affiliates. NFP enables client success through the expertise of over 5,400 global employees, investments in innovative technologies, and enduring relationships with highly rated insurers, vendors, and financial institutions. NFP is the 6th largest US-based privately owned broker, 5th largest benefits broker by global revenue and 7th best place to work in insurance (Business Insurance); 10th largest property and casualty agency (Insurance Journal); and 13th largest global insurance broker (Best’s Review).

Visit NFP.com to discover how NFP empowers clients to meet their goals.

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Business: Executives

Wayback Burgers Launches Newest Location in Brunei

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Wayback Burgers

We are thrilled Lim Hui and Gina are opening our newest Wayback Burgers locations in Brunei. We expect Lim Hui and Gina to flourish as Wayback Burgers owners, and we look forward to helping them open many more locations as well. – Bill Chemero


CHESHIRE, Conn. (PRWEB)

Wayback Burgers, America’s favorite hometown burger joint and one of the nation’s fastest-growing burger franchises recently opened its newest restaurant in Brunei. The first location in Brunei is now open and operating, and there are two more Brunei-based Wayback Burgers restaurants coming soon.

The newest Wayback Burgers restaurant is owned by Lim Hui Ling and her business partner Gina Tan. Together, they run multiple international brands in Brunei and are excited to bring Wayback Burgers to their country.

“We chose Wayback Burgers because of the freshly-made quality of the food,” says Ling. “We are looking to draw more people into the shopping mall here in Brunei, and we want to do that through quality food like what Wayback has to offer. We love the variety and are confident locals here will love it, too.”

Ling and Tan are committed to their local community. They actively participate in local charities to support children and families in need, as well as kids with disabilities. With more than 10 years of experience in the food industry, they are passionate about providing locals with a place to enjoy top-quality food and spend time together with friends and family. Wayback’s nostalgic feel and proven menu options will do just that.

Wayback Burgers Chief Development Officer (CDO), Bill Chemero, is impressed with Ling and Tan’s success to date and believes the company’s fast-casual burger concept is a perfect fit for Brunei.

“We are thrilled Lim Hui and Gina are opening our newest Wayback Burgers locations in Brunei,” said Chemero. “They both have years of experience in the food industry, know what the Bruneian people want. They possess the perfect skill set to run a successful Wayback Burgers location. Plus, it’s obvious they are both deeply committed to their community and support countless local organizations. We expect Lim Hui and Gina to flourish as Wayback Burgers owners, and we look forward to helping them open many more locations as well.”

For more information about Wayback Burgers, please visit https://waybackburgers.com/.

For more information about Wayback Burgers franchise opportunities, please visit https://franchise.waybackburgers.com/.

About Wayback Burgers

Founded in 1991 in Newark, DE, Wayback Burgers is a Connecticut-based fast-casual franchise with a reputation for cooked to order burgers and thick, hand-dipped milkshakes, served in an environment that hearkens back to a simpler place and time — when customer service meant something and everyone felt the warmth of the community.

Wayback Burgers currently operates in 30 states with over 160+ locations nationally and internationally in Brunei, Sudan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Manitoba, Canada and The Netherlands. Through its executed master franchise agreements, Wayback Burgers plans to open in 38 provinces/countries in the Middle East, Northern Africa, South Africa, Argentina, Bangladesh; Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Canada, Ireland and the Netherlands, with a pending letter of intent sent out to Germany.

For more information about Wayback Burgers, please go to https://waybackburgers.com/.

For franchising information about Wayback Burgers, please go to https://franchise.waybackburgers.com/.

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GW Holdings to unveil an extensive range of products under its newly launched “House of Brands”

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LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)

GW Holdings, LLC has announced the launch of its “House of Brands.” in Los Angeles. The company will continue to provide resources for its own brands, while helping new brands, companies, and individuals alike bring products to market. The new product lines target niche demographics, including a new ultra-luxury brand.

With an in-house creative team, procurement, manufacturing and distribution networks, GW Holdings is aiming to solidify a hold on the California market for curated cannabis and CBD products. With the re-launch of its Magic brand later this year, a brand that once served the medicinal market in California, GW looks to address customers who seek premium cannabis infused with concentrates. Moreover, Lime, a new and trending brand with affordable premium products in Los Angeles is the latest addition to the GW umbrella.

With the addition of these new brands, GW is recognizing and adapting its offering to the niche markets within the cannabis and CBD space, which still remains somewhat in its infancy. Giovanti Humphries, CFO at GW Holdings explains: “As the cannabis industry is finding its footing, we are utilising years of production and manufacturing expertise to bring new exciting products to market. By leveraging our streamlined sourcing & manufacturing process of hand selected flower, we can serve niches that previously had restricted or no access to the products of this caliber.

The new Lime product lines are now available for purchase at several MedMen locations in Los Angeles, with expansion throughout California slated for the end of this year. The Lime range of CBD products and Magic luxury CBD products will be available for online purchases in the US by early 2020. Products currently being offered under the GW house of brands include a variety of pre-rolls, blunts, flower and concentrate cartridges, with an edible range soon to follow.

With a strong foothold in the Los Angeles marketplace, GW Holdings are not only consolidating brands that cover the broad market, but are also targeting those that are carefully crafted for the underserved connaisseur submarkets in today’s industry.

About GW Holdings

GW Holdings are a Californian based holding company with a large portfolio of both cannabis and CBD brands. The company has a competitive edge through their offering of premium products and streamlined in-house manufacturing processes. For more information on GW, or its brands, visit gwholdings.co or brand sites mymagicpipe.com and letmelime.com

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Technology: Computer

Baidu Wins Superuser Award With Massive-Scale Deployment of Open Infrastructure Technologies in Production

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Baidu cloud products, including both VMs and bare metal servers, cover 11 regions in China with over 5,000 physical machines. Today, 17 important online businesses have been migrated to the Kata Containers platform thus far.


SHANGHAI (PRWEB)

The Baidu ABC Cloud Group & Security Edge teams is the 11th organization to win the Superuser Award. The news was announced today at the Open Infrastructure Summit in Shanghai. Baidu ABC Cloud Group and Edge Security Team integrated Kata Containers into the platform for all of Baidu internal and external cloud services including edge applications. Their cloud products, including both VMs and bare metal servers, cover 11 regions in China with over 5,000 physical machines. Today, 17 important online businesses have been migrated to the Kata Containers platform thus far.

Elected by members of the OSF community, the team that wins the Superuser Award is lauded for the unique nature of its use case as well as its integration and application of open infrastructure. Four out of five nominees for the Superuser Award presented today wer from the APAC region: Baidu ABC Cloud Group and Edge Security Team, InCloud OpenStack Team of Inspur, Information Management Department of Wuxi Metro, and Rakuten Mobile Network Organization. Previous award winners from the APAC region include China Mobile, NTT Group, and the Tencent TStack Team.

Baidu Keynote at Open Infrastructure Summit

On the keynote stage in Shanghai, Baidu Cloud Senior Architect Zhang Yu explained that Kata Containers provides a virtual machine-like security mechanism at the container level, which gives their customers a great deal of confidence. When moving their business to a container environment, they have less concern. Kata Containers is compatible with the OCI standard and users can directly manage the new environment with popular management suites such as Kubernetes. Kata Containers is now an official project under the Openstack Foundation, which gives the company confidence to invest in the project.

“Baidu is an amazing example of how open infrastructure starts with OpenStack,” said Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation. “They’re running OpenStack at massive scale, combined with other open infrastructure technologies like Kata Containers and Kubernetes, and they’re doing it in production for business-critical workloads.”

*** Download the Baidu Kata Containers White Paper ***

The company has published a white paper titled, “The Application of Kata Containers in

Baidu AI Cloud” available here.

About the OpenStack® Foundation

The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure globally, across a community of over 100,000 individuals in 187 countries, by hosting open source projects and communities of practice, including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container infrastructure.

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Technology: Electronics

VividCharts Brings on Robert Fedoruk as New CXO

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Tell Stories with Your ServiceNow Data

Their product amplifies a message that has resonated from the very beginning: the data we collect in ServiceNow tells a valuable story. If you’re not telling a story with your data, you’re wasting time and money.” – Robert Fedoruk, VividCharts CXO


LEXINGTON, Ky. (PRWEB)

VividCharts, a ServiceNow Elite Partner and the winner of the ServiceNow 2019 CreatorCon Challenge, has named Robert Fedoruk as Chief Experience Officer (CXO). Robert will apply his 12 years of ServiceNow platform experience to drive new value for VividCharts’ customer base, by bringing a range of vertical solutions to market.

Robert started his ServiceNow journey as one of the first customers. Since then his accolades have included 7 ServiceNow Knowledge speaking engagements, 4 hackathon victories, and multiple years in the top 10 contributors to the ServiceNow Community. He’s become one of the most trusted and leading voices in the industry.

“Robert joining the VividCharts team is a massive win for our customer base, and the ServiceNow ecosystem as a whole. Robert has become one of the most respected voices in the space because of his passion for the Now platform, and his history of solving big problems with solid architecture. His impact at VividCharts will be felt across the industry.” – Rob Walsh, VividCharts CMO

“I couldn’t be happier to join the VividCharts team. Their product amplifies a message that has resonated from the very beginning: the data we collect in ServiceNow tells a valuable story. If you’re not telling a story with your data, you’re wasting time and money. Every time I see a VividChart, I think ‘now this is making ServiceNow work for you’”. – Robert Fedoruk, VividCharts CXO

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