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The Walt Disney Company and National Geographic Celebrate Earth Month With New Global Cross-Platform Campaign, ourHOME

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Monday, April 1, 2024

The Walt Disney Company and National Geographic announced today a new global cross-platform campaign, ourHOME, timed to coincide with Earth Month.

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  • The Walt Disney Company and National Geographic announced today a new global cross-platform campaign, ourHOME, timed to coincide with Earth Month.
  • ourHOME will touch every area of The Walt Disney Company:
    DisneyPlanetPossible.com – Destination detailing actions The Walt Disney Company is taking to protect, restore and celebrate our planet.
  • All relevant social handles will be celebrating ourHOME all month long, including: @Disney; @Disney+; @NatGeo; @NatGeoTV; @NatGeoWILD; @NatGeoTravel; @Disney; @NatGeoAdventure; @NatGeoDocs.
  • ourHOME campaign will be part of Disney Earth Month celebrations around the world in major regions in EMEA, APAC and LATAM.

Wallets Market size to grow by USD 11.12 billion from 2022 to 2027, The market is fragmented due to the presence of prominent companies like Hidesign, Bellroy Pty Ltd. and Buffalo Jackson Trading Co., and many more - Technavio

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Friday, October 13, 2023

The wallet market is fragmented owing to the presence of many global and regional companies.

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  • The wallet market is fragmented owing to the presence of many global and regional companies.
  • A few prominent companies that offer wallets market are BAGGIT, Bellroy Pty Ltd., Buffalo Jackson Trading Co., Burberry Group Plc, Calleen Cordero Designs Inc., Da Milano Leathers Pvt.
  • Hidesign - The company offers wallets such as the MC2 Fleming wallet, MC2 Fleming long wallet, City 3CC card holder, and Pilo pouch.
  • The polypropylene fiber market size is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 5.63% between 2022 and 2027.

AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings and Assigns National Scale Rating to National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines

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Friday, September 22, 2023

AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” (Good) of National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines (Nat Re) (Philippines).

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  • AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” (Good) of National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines (Nat Re) (Philippines).
  • Additionally, AM Best has assigned the Philippines National Scale Rating (NSR) of aa+.PH (Superior) to Nat Re.
  • For additional information regarding the use and limitations of Credit Rating opinions, please view Guide to Best’s Credit Ratings .
  • AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specialising in the insurance industry.

Air traffic control chaos: how human error can lead a tiny glitch to spiral out of control

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Several thousand passengers were stranded at airports, hotels and connection depots following the recent system-wide glitch of the UK air traffic control systems.

Key Points: 
  • Several thousand passengers were stranded at airports, hotels and connection depots following the recent system-wide glitch of the UK air traffic control systems.
  • So what was the glitch and how did it create so much chaos?
  • The problems appear to have been caused by unusual data in a flight plan submitted into the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) system by a French airline.
  • But, in my experience as a researcher of management, managers further up the chain can often pay more attention to immediate threats.
  • They may therefore underestimate the impact of accumulated errors, or may not have enough time to monitor them.

Bigger picture

    • “This system should be designed to reject data that’s incorrect, not to collapse,” Walsh explained.
    • Lundgren said a review of the situation should determine whether NATs is “really fit for purpose, not only on the systems but on the technology, on the staffing levels”.
    • Another point to bear in mind: many senior managers – particularly at chief executive and managing director level – are not necessarily technicians.
    • Unfortunately, as long as the glitch is not salient and the machine still works, people usually ignore it.

Next steps

    • But managers and authorities should also offer replacement flights, coupons or other objects of comparable value as compensation.
    • Managers have been improving communication between technicians and non-technicians and should be praised for this change in attitudes.
    • The risk for the industry is that passengers affected by the problems may look to alternative forms of transport in the future.

Weights & Biases Raises $50 Million Round Led by Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, Announces W&B Prompts

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

"Weights & Biases found their footing by helping developers supervise model training, where they are the popular choice for practically everyone we know -- from Meta to OpenAI to Microsoft," said Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman. "Now that the industry is maturing, they're expanding from training to prompting – helping enterprises around the world use LLM platforms in a safe & reliable way. It is rare to find a team and company so well positioned to capture share of the ever-growing AI market – all while maintaining terrific SaaS margins."

Key Points: 
  • The round was led by Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, with additional participation from Sapphire Ventures.
  • The team will use this new influx of capital to continue to build out these tools, including the launch of Weights & Biases Prompts.
  • "Weights & Biases found their footing by helping developers supervise model training, where they are the popular choice for practically everyone we know -- from Meta to OpenAI to Microsoft," said Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman.
  • Sapphire couldn't be more excited to partner with Co-Founder and CEO Lukas Biewald, and the entire Weights & Biases team."

AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” (Good) of National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines (Nat Re) (Philippines).

Key Points: 
  • AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” (Good) of National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines (Nat Re) (Philippines).
  • The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.
  • For additional information regarding the use and limitations of Credit Rating opinions, please view Guide to Best’s Credit Ratings .
  • For information on the proper use of Best’s Credit Ratings, Best’s Performance Assessments, Best’s Preliminary Credit Assessments and AM Best press releases, please view Guide to Proper Use of Best’s Ratings & Assessments .

This Mother's Day, McCain is on a mission to celebrate the moms who bring us together by getting them in more family photos.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

According to a recent study, 84% of Canadian moms say that when they're together with their family, the person taking the photos most often is them.

Key Points: 
  • According to a recent study, 84% of Canadian moms say that when they're together with their family, the person taking the photos most often is them.
  • When Mom's the one capturing the memories and moments that we cherish, she's left out of the picture in the process.
  • 77% of moms say they're in less than half of the family photos on their camera rolls.
  • In April 2023, McCain conducted an Angus Reid survey with a representative sample of 500 Canadian moms to determine how many family photos moms typically appear in.

Manatt Enhances National Litigation and Appellate Capabilities With Preeminent Trial Lawyers in Boston

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Monday, May 1, 2023

“Joan and Marty are two incredibly respected and well-known lawyers throughout the complex civil, commercial and criminal litigation landscapes, both in Boston and nationwide,” said Donna L. Wilson , Manatt’s CEO and Managing Partner.

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  • “Joan and Marty are two incredibly respected and well-known lawyers throughout the complex civil, commercial and criminal litigation landscapes, both in Boston and nationwide,” said Donna L. Wilson , Manatt’s CEO and Managing Partner.
  • Lukey and Murphy regularly serve in leadership roles for associations and foundations aimed at legal excellence in Boston and across the nation.
  • Both are active members of the American College of Trial Lawyers, with Lukey having served as the first woman to be elected president and is also currently president of the American College of Trial Lawyers Foundation.
  • At their prior firms, they also held leadership roles with Lukey as co-chair of her previous firm’s Complex Trial and Appellate Litigation practice and Murphy as co-chair of his previous firm’s Litigation Department.

Quebec Defends Title of Worst Roads in North America, According to Nokian Tyres

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Quebec has the worst roads in North America, according to voters in a monthlong campaign from Nokian Tyres.

Key Points: 
  • Quebec has the worst roads in North America, according to voters in a monthlong campaign from Nokian Tyres.
  • Quebec defends the honor won by Montreal during the first iteration of Nokian Tyres’ Worst Roads in North America competition in 2021.
  • “We appreciate the response we received from drivers in Quebec and across the continent during our Worst Roads campaign,” said Nokian Tyres Senior Communications Manager Wes Boling.
  • If a tire suffers damage from a pothole or other road hazard, Nokian Tyres will replace it for free.

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AND RARE RECORDINGS FROM CHARLIE PARKER'S FRUITFUL TIME IN LOS ANGELES RELEASED ON NEW COLLECTION, "BIRD IN LA"

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Friday, March 24, 2023

LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Throughout his brief but influential life, Charlie "Bird" Parker made an enormous impact on popular music as one of the architects of modern jazz. The jazz titan, inarguably one of the greatest saxophonists of all time, grew up in Kansas City, Mo., and spent much of his adult life in New York. Nonetheless, Los Angeles looms large in his musical life as he spent more time in L.A. than anywhere outside of K.C. and N.Y. From 1945-1954, Parker made half a dozen trips to the City of Angels and recorded many of his greatest musical triumphs there. In December 1945, Parker and Dizzy Gillespie changed music forever by bringing the sound of bebop from the East Coast to the West Coast for a fabled two-month residency at Billy Berg's Supper Club in Hollywood billed as "Bebop Invades the West." Entranced by the city, Parker would end up staying for an extended amount of time in which he gigged all around town, recorded at a Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) concert, and made some pivotal recordings for the nascent Dial label. Following a drug-fueled physical and mental collapse at the infamous July 29, 1946 "Lover Man" session, he was committed to Camarillo State Mental Hospital for a six-month stint for his heroin addiction. Shortly after being released in January 1947, Bird would stick around for a few more months, which included a well-documented two-week engagement at the Hi-De-Ho Club, before heading back to NYC. He would return to L.A. four more times, briefly in November 1948 with JATP, for a three-month stay during the summer of 1952, and for shorter visits in 1953 and 1954.

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  • Nonetheless, Los Angeles looms large in his musical life as he spent more time in L.A. than anywhere outside of K.C.
  • and N.Y. From 1945-1954, Parker made half a dozen trips to the City of Angels and recorded many of his greatest musical triumphs there.
  • Experienced together, Bird In LA serves as the perfect soundtrack and companion piece to the graphic novel.
  • On its own, the emergence of the rare recordings on Bird In LA represent a major cultural event and a significant addition to the Parker catalog.