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Dr. Ava Shamban Joins MedSpa Partners

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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TORONTO, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - MedSpa Partners Inc. ("MSP") is proud to welcome Dr. Ava Shamban and her team at Ava MD to its top-tier North American medical aesthetics platform.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - MedSpa Partners Inc. ("MSP") is proud to welcome Dr. Ava Shamban and her team at Ava MD to its top-tier North American medical aesthetics platform.
  • Speaking on her reasons for joining MedSpa Partners, Dr. Shamban shared, "Like many of my colleagues, I was approached by numerous groups looking to acquire my practices.
  • MSP CEO Dominic Mazzone commented, "While Los Angeles can be associated with some of the more extreme approaches to cosmetic medicine, Ava Shamban is an icon for the kind of natural, individualized, and responsible medical aesthetics that MedSpa Partners promotes.
  • We couldn't be more excited to welcome Dr. Shamban and the exceptional team at Ava MD to MedSpa Partners."

TicketOS Announces New Integration with Tickets.com to Revolutionize Corporate Ticket Management

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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NEW YORK, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TicketOS, a premier provider of corporate ticket management solutions, today announced a new comprehensive integration with Tickets.com.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TicketOS, a premier provider of corporate ticket management solutions, today announced a new comprehensive integration with Tickets.com.
  • With this new integration, TicketOS offers corporate premium ticket holders:
    A Comprehensive Management Solution: TicketOS is a full-featured ticket management system, simplifying suite and premium ticket administration for companies.
  • Streamlined Ticket Allocation Process: TicketOS automates the entire ticket lifecycle from loading to fulfillment, which eases the burden on corporate ticket administrators.
  • To learn more about how TicketOS can transform your corporate ticket management, visit https://www.TicketOS.com

Striker Lights Unveils Exclusive Corvette C6 Tail Lights and Side Markers for a Show-Stopping Look

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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KAUKAUNA, Wis., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Striker Lights, the leading aftermarket lighting manufacturer catering to car enthusiasts, proudly announces the launch of its exclusive Corvette C6 Tail Lights and Side Markers.

Key Points: 
  • KAUKAUNA, Wis., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Striker Lights, the leading aftermarket lighting manufacturer catering to car enthusiasts, proudly announces the launch of its exclusive Corvette C6 Tail Lights and Side Markers.
  • The RGB Flow Series lighting technology accentuates your Corvette C6 with vibrant bursts of color, creating a show-stopping look.
  • The introduction of the Corvette C6 Tail Lights and Side Markers by Striker Lights represents a landmark moment in the aftermarket lighting industry.
  • To learn more about the Corvette C6 Tail Lights and Side Markers, as well as explore the full range of offerings from Striker Lights, visit their website or contact their customer service team today.

More Than Two Dozen Former Residents of Good Shepherd Services Allege Sexual Abuse by Nuns, Priests and Staff at Notorious Youth Residential Treatment Facility

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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BALTIMORE, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The State of Maryland, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, Maryland Department of Human Services and Maryland Department of Health are being named in a civil lawsuit today alleging that at least 26 individuals were sexually assaulted as children while housed at Good Shepherd Services, a former residential facility for foster care youth. The lawsuit was filed in the Maryland Circuit Court for Baltimore City by attorneys at Slater Slater Schulman LLP, a leading, full-service law firm with decades of experience representing survivors of traumatic and catastrophic events.

Key Points: 
  • Originally opened in 1864, Good Shepherd Services operated until 2017 as a multi-use, state-run residential treatment facility for children in Halethorpe, MD.
  • It housed children with behavioral health issues, as well as foster care youth sent through the Department of Human Services.
  • It also served as a secure facility for children sentenced to correctional incarceration through the Department of Juvenile Services.
  • The abuses at Good Shepherd Services were first reported on by The Baltimore Sun in 2013.

Monster Energy Athletes Claim Victories in Key Events at the 2024 Dew Tour Copper Mountain Snow Sports Competition

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo., March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- So many wins at Copper! Monster Energy congratulates its team of freeski and snowboard athletes on a strong performance in the 2024 Winter Dew Tour Copper Mountain competition in Colorado.

Key Points: 
  • Monster Energy congratulates its team of freeski and snowboard athletes on a strong performance in the 2024 Winter Dew Tour Copper Mountain competition in Colorado this weekend.
  • Monster Energy congratulates its team of freeski and snowboard athletes on a strong performance in the 2024 Winter Dew Tour Copper Mountain competition in Colorado.
  • Before coming to Dew Tour Copper 2024, Brookes clinched X Games Aspen 2024 Slopestyle gold and earned the 2023 FIS World Championships Freeski Slopestyle title.
  • Follow Monster Energy on YouTube , Facebook , Instagram , Twitter and TikTok for exclusive updates as the 2024 snow sports season continues.

Kitchen Mama Cooks Up Culinary Game-Changers at The Inspired Home Show

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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NEW YORK, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kitchen Mama, innovator of game-changing kitchen gadgets that make cooking simple, accessible, and fun, is thrilled to bring its newest culinary tools to The Inspired Home Show in Chicago, Illinois, from March 17th to 19th (Booth #S246).

Key Points: 
  • Kitchen Mama knows the kitchen serves as more than just a place to cook, but as the heart-of-the-home where culinary magic comes to life.
  • "We can't wait to show off our latest and greatest at The Inspired Home Show," said Gavin Huang, co-founder of Kitchen Mama.
  • Check out what Kitchen Mama has cooking up at Booth #S246, located in the South Building.
  • For more information on Kitchen Mama or to set up a time to stop by the booth, visit www.shopkitchenmama.com or reach out to [email protected] .

The cocoa price has doubled in mere months, but it shouldn’t add much to the price of chocolate: here’s why

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Friday, April 5, 2024
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So it would be natural to expect the price of chocolate to soar, and to expect cocoa growers to get more.

Key Points: 
  • So it would be natural to expect the price of chocolate to soar, and to expect cocoa growers to get more.
  • But, as surprising as it seems, my calculations suggest neither is likely, although we can certainly expect the price of chocolate to rise.
  • The price of cocoa is soaring because intense heat and rains have hit harvests in West Africa.
  • But it does mean the recent explosion in cocoa prices doesn’t explain much about what’s happened to the price of chocolate.

Higher prices no bonanza for growers

  • Many of the 800,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana survive on just US$2 a day.
  • The average cocoa farm in West Africa is just three to four hectares, producing less than one tonne per year.

Farmers don’t get futures prices

  • And the higher futures prices might not last.
  • If traders become less worried about prices going up, the current high futures prices could fall before they get fed into the prices paid to growers.
  • As well, farmers get very little of the price – on one estimate only 6–7% of the price.
  • I look forward to the day when a chocolate company says its prices are going up because it has decided to give the farmers who grow its cocoa a living income.


Darian McBain is affiliated with Be Slavery Free Australia.

FTC Issues Third Report on E-Cigarette Advertising and Sales in the U.S.

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Friday, April 5, 2024
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E-cigarette companies also spent $90.6 million more advertising and promoting their products in 2021 than in 2020.

Key Points: 
  • E-cigarette companies also spent $90.6 million more advertising and promoting their products in 2021 than in 2020.
  • Some have rechargeable batteries and changeable prefilled cartridges; others are disposable after running out of charge or e-liquid.
  • Reported sales of cartridge products increased from $2.133 billion in 2020 to $2.496 billion in 2021; sales of disposable, non-refillable e-cigarette products increased from $261.9 million in 2020 to $267.1 million in 2021.
  • Follow the FTC on social media, read consumer alerts and the business blog, and sign up to get the latest FTC news and alerts.

FTC Issues Third Report on E-Cigarette Advertising and Sales in the U.S.

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Friday, April 5, 2024
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E-cigarette companies also spent $90.6 million more advertising and promoting their products in 2021 than in 2020.

Key Points: 
  • E-cigarette companies also spent $90.6 million more advertising and promoting their products in 2021 than in 2020.
  • Some have rechargeable batteries and changeable prefilled cartridges; others are disposable after running out of charge or e-liquid.
  • Reported sales of cartridge products increased from $2.133 billion in 2020 to $2.496 billion in 2021; sales of disposable, non-refillable e-cigarette products increased from $261.9 million in 2020 to $267.1 million in 2021.
  • Follow the FTC on social media, read consumer alerts and the business blog, and sign up to get the latest FTC news and alerts.

From where we work to what we spend, the ABS knows more about us than ever before: here’s what’s changing

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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That’s the change that month in what the Bureau of Statistics calls the consumer price index “excluding volatile items”.

Key Points: 
  • That’s the change that month in what the Bureau of Statistics calls the consumer price index “excluding volatile items”.
  • The items it excludes (because they are often affected by supply disruptions) are fruit, vegetables and fuel.
  • Up until late 2022, the consumer price index was calculated only four times a year, and even that was a herculean feat.

A ten-fold increase in data

  • But in the last few years the use of supermarket scanner data, “web scrapping” to collect online prices, and data feeds direct from the computers of rental agents and all sorts of other businesses have cut costs enormously and increased the number of prices collected each quarter almost ten-fold to 900,000.
  • That’s just one of the ways in which an explosion of previously-inaccessible data is transforming the way the bureau goes about its job and is set to make statistics that used to be only fairly reliable suddenly very reliable.

Retail figures set for the chop

  • And the retail survey was always a pretty rough-and-ready way to find out what we spent in shops.
  • It covers far more retail outlets than the retail survey ever did, as well as spending on services and spending overseas, and it divides spending into categories based on the type of merchant.
  • It’ll replace the retail survey from the middle of next year.

Millions instead of thousands

  • While payroll numbers can’t tell us everything the employment survey does (they can’t yet tell us the hours people work and whether are looking for work) they cover millions of Australians instead of thousands, and come out weekly.
  • For more than a century it has surveyed farmers to find out what they are growing.
  • Read more:
    You can't fix it if you can't see it: how the ABS became our secret weapon

Big data, timely insights

  • A lot of the so-called administrative data provided to banks and other organisations isn’t sorted in a way that makes it useful.
  • The more it succeeds, the less it will need to bother us and the better the information it will produce.
  • In February, the consumer price index excluding volatile items did not change, meaning in that particular month, inflation was zero.


Peter Martin is Economics Editor of The Conversation.