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Shokz Announces Exclusive Partnership With Four-Time World Champion, Hellen Obiri, Ahead of Boston Marathon

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星期一, 四月 8, 2024
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Shokz , known for its open-ear headphones with patented bone conduction technology, announced its partnership with four-time world champion, Hellen Obiri , today.

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  • Shokz , known for its open-ear headphones with patented bone conduction technology, announced its partnership with four-time world champion, Hellen Obiri , today.
  • “I love how comfortable Shokz headphones feel around my ears while providing great sound during my run,” said Obiri.
  • Shokz headphones allow me to do both.”
    Ahead of the Boston Marathon, Shokz is hosting a pop-up shop happy hour with light food and drinks from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
  • “It’s incredibly exciting to be the exclusive headphone partner of world class athlete, Hellen Obiri,” said Vincent Xiong, Chief Executive Officer at Shokz.

Best-in-class UK market entry support programme opens for applications

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星期一, 二月 19, 2024
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BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The West Midlands' official investment promotion agency has launched its 2024 Global Growth Programme – a unique, nine-month package of free market entry support, providing US-based companies with a springboard to success in the region.

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  • BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The West Midlands' official investment promotion agency has launched its 2024 Global Growth Programme – a unique, nine-month package of free market entry support, providing US-based companies with a springboard to success in the region.
  • Developed by the West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC), the programme aims to boost investment in the West Midlands from overseas tech businesses through access to the ultimate suite of support, designed to accelerate their growth journey at the heart of the UK.
  • With only 40 places available on the West Midlands Global Growth Programme for 2024, WMGC is now accepting applications.
  • "Being part of the West Midlands Global Growth Programme gave us a real head-start on our UK growth journey.

Best-in-class UK market entry support programme opens for applications

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星期一, 二月 19, 2024
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BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The West Midlands' official investment promotion agency has launched its 2024 Global Growth Programme – a unique, nine-month package of free market entry support, providing European companies with a springboard to success in the region.

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  • BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The West Midlands' official investment promotion agency has launched its 2024 Global Growth Programme – a unique, nine-month package of free market entry support, providing European companies with a springboard to success in the region.
  • The West Midlands Global Growth Programme has been designed to address the key challenges faced by ambitious, innovative companies at every stage of development – from scale-ups to large corporates – when entering the UK market for the first time.
  • With only 40 places available on the West Midlands Global Growth Programme for 2024, WMGC is now accepting applications.
  • "Being part of the West Midlands Global Growth Programme gave us a real head-start on our UK growth journey.

Black Family Announces David Black's Retirement from Black Press

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星期一, 一月 15, 2024
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SURREY, BC, Jan. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - The Black Family today announced that David Black, president and majority owner of Black Press, is retiring after a long and distinguished career leading the company.

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  • SURREY, BC, Jan. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - The Black Family today announced that David Black, president and majority owner of Black Press, is retiring after a long and distinguished career leading the company.
  • David retires as a pillar of Canadian print media, having founded Black Press in 1975 when he purchased The Williams Lake Tribune.
  • On behalf of David, the Black family would like to thank the exceptional employees of Black Press for their years of dedication and professionalism, and our valued partners, readers and advertisers for their continued support of community journalism.
  • The Black family is confident that the restructuring of Black Press announced today will be successful and enable Black Press to continue to provide high quality community journalism, and that the proposed new owners will be excellent stewards of Black Press' treasured publications.

Ninepoint Partners Announces Sponsorship of Canadian Olympic Swimmer Summer McIntosh

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星期三, 一月 10, 2024
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TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ninepoint Partners LP (“Ninepoint”), one of Canada’s leading alternative investment management firms, announced a new sponsorship agreement with Canadian Olympic swimmer Summer McIntosh.

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  • TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ninepoint Partners LP (“Ninepoint”), one of Canada’s leading alternative investment management firms, announced a new sponsorship agreement with Canadian Olympic swimmer Summer McIntosh.
  • The Toronto native plans to compete with Team Canada at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Ninepoint is proud to support her in her efforts to achieve excellence.
  • “Summer is truly an extraordinary athlete and a shining example for young Canadians across the country,” said James Fox, Ninepoint co-CEO and Managing Partner.
  • At the 2022 Commonwealth Games she became the most decorated Canadian athlete of the games, taking home six medals and paving her way to Paris 2024.

Who is Jacinta Allan, Victoria's new premier?

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星期三, 九月 27, 2023
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Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan, from the Socialist Left faction, was widely tipped to become the next premier, especially as she had Andrews’ endorsement.

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  • Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan, from the Socialist Left faction, was widely tipped to become the next premier, especially as she had Andrews’ endorsement.
  • But who is Jacinta Allan and what challenges await her as premier?

From Bendigo East to premier

    • She became the youngest female elected to the Victorian parliament when she first won the seat of Bendigo East at age 25 in 1999.
    • After holding several ministerial positions, Allan was selected as the deputy leader of the Labor Party, and therefore deputy premier of Victoria, in 2022.
    • This was interpreted as a clear indication that Premier Daniel Andrews had anointed her to take over if he was to retire before the next election.

Public profile

    • Such was his dominance, and the media’s interest in him, that other ministers have often struggled to increase their public profile.
    • Allan has arguably developed a stronger public profile than other potential challengers.
    • As the minister responsible for the games, Allan was the target of the opposition’s attacks on the government.

Victoria’s second female premier

    • The late Joan Kirner made history in 1990 when she became the first woman to be premier of Victoria.
    • Kirner was also left with a divided Labor Party that had been in power since Cain first led the party to victory in 1982.
    • The new premier must now work through the fallout from the pandemic.
    • Read more:
      Is 5 senior ministers quitting Victoria’s Andrews government a sign of renewal – or decline?

Dan Andrews leaves office as a titan of Victorian politics - who drove conservatives to distraction

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星期二, 九月 26, 2023
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Daniel Andrews, who has announced he will step down after nearly nine years as premier, leaves office as a titan of Victorian politics.

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  • Daniel Andrews, who has announced he will step down after nearly nine years as premier, leaves office as a titan of Victorian politics.
  • An activist premier, a gifted political communicator and a hard man of politics, he has been an enormously consequential leader and one of national significance.
  • He is the fourth-longest serving premier in Victorian history, and the longest-serving Labor premier.

The hard man rises

    • The first that it’s his natural style – Andrews is a classic strong leader, command and control is his modus operandi.
    • Victoria’s infrastructure was run down and no longer fit for purpose, unable to cope with its booming population.
    • Andrews understood that in Victoria, perhaps more than anywhere else in Australia, there was leeway to pursue a progressive social agenda.
    • Read more:
      'A political force of nature': despite scandals and a polarising style, can 'Dan' do it again in Victoria?

A democratic deficit

    • On law and order, for example, his instincts were conservative.
    • For example, on his watch discriminatory bail laws contributed to Indigenous Australians being incarcerated in disproportionate numbers.
    • He has also chafed at being accountable, leading to a democratic deficit on his watch.

#IstandwithDan v #DictatorDan

    • His daily press conferences during the darkest days of the crisis were eagerly watched across the nation.
    • With the harshest and longest lockdowns in the country, social media gave the impression of a deeply polarised state: those who said #IstandwithDan and those who were enraged by #DictatorDan.
    • Read more:
      Strong political leaders are electoral gold – but the trick is in them knowing when to stand down

The Dan vacuum

    • In more recent times his forcefulness had morphed into something darker.
    • His going in that sense is a healthy thing: it will disturb the power relations that have centred on him.
    • He will leave an enormous vacuum, both in the party he has led for 13 years and the government he’s led for nine.
    • Whoever becomes premier will have to tackle some significant economic challenges, including ballooning infrastructure spending, and the fallout from massive COVID spending.

New tech roles reinforce West Midlands' world-class innovation strengths ahead of global Birmingham Tech Week event

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星期一, 九月 11, 2023
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Other Global West Midlands activity during Birmingham Tech Week include a series of sector-focused events, covering creative & digital technologies, data-driven healthcare, BPFS, future mobility and visitor economy and West Midlands tours for international delegations, including Central Europe and USA.

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  • Other Global West Midlands activity during Birmingham Tech Week include a series of sector-focused events, covering creative & digital technologies, data-driven healthcare, BPFS, future mobility and visitor economy and West Midlands tours for international delegations, including Central Europe and USA.
  • During the 2022/23 financial year, tech and digital represented the sector attracting the most FDI into the West Midlands, resulting in 17 new projects.
  • "Our flair for innovation is a part of our heritage and is very much in the DNA of local people right across our region.
  • The West Midlands Growth Company focuses on the WMCA geography of Greater Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, and the Black Country.

Strong political leaders are electoral gold – but the trick is in them knowing when to stand down

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星期一, 八月 28, 2023
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The photographs and their hostile treatment in The Daily Telegraph the next day by journalist Alan Reid were damaging.

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  • The photographs and their hostile treatment in The Daily Telegraph the next day by journalist Alan Reid were damaging.
  • Reid decried Calwell’s “night watch” as “a sad commentary on the decline in status of Labor’s parliamentary leadership”.
  • Leaders of the major parties invariably attempt to project strength, insight and control.
  • Just weeks before the 2007 election campaign, Labor’s Kevin Rudd unilaterally decreed that he alone would appoint his ministry, rather than the caucus.
  • In other words, the shift of power from party members and cabinets to leaders exercising unfettered authority from the top.
  • Yet he surrendered the WA premiership earlier this year, having led Labor to its most electorally dominant position in its history.
  • Mostly, though, leaders have to be endured long past their popular high-water mark, because, well, they’re irreplaceable.

LNP takes lead in Queensland Resolve poll, but Labor still far ahead in Victoria

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星期二, 八月 22, 2023
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Since the May 2022 federal election, Resolve has had better results for Labor in its federal and state polls than other pollsters, so this is a particularly bad result for Labor.

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  • Since the May 2022 federal election, Resolve has had better results for Labor in its federal and state polls than other pollsters, so this is a particularly bad result for Labor.
  • The only other recent Queensland poll was an early July Freshwater poll that gave the LNP a 52–48 lead.
  • Labor has governed in Queensland since early 2015, but federally, Queensland is the most conservative state.
  • By the October 2024 state election, Labor will have governed for almost ten years, so there could be an “it’s time” factor for voters.

Victorian Resolve poll: Labor down but still far ahead

    • The Poll Bludger estimated this poll would give Labor a 60–40 lead, a 2.5-point gain for the Coalition since June.
    • The July federal Resolve poll was conducted entirely before the games cancellation was announced on July 18, so only the August part of this poll would include reaction to this decision.
    • Read more:
      Victoria's Labor Party plunges in a Morgan poll after Commonwealth Games axed

Federal Morgan and Redbridge polls give Labor large leads

    • In last week’s Morgan federal poll, conducted August 7–13 from a sample of 1,452, Labor led by 54.5–45.5, a one-point gain for Labor since the previous week.
    • Primary votes were 35.5% Labor, 34.5% Coalition, 12% Greens and 18% for all others.
    • The Poll Bludger reported on Sunday that a Redbridge federal poll, conducted last week from a sample of 1,000, gave Labor a 55.6–44.4 lead, from primary votes of 38% Labor, 32% Coalition, 10% Greens and 21% for all others.

Additional federal Resolve questions

    • I previously covered the slide in Labor’s vote, Albanese’s ratings and support for the Indigenous Voice to parliament in a federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers that was conducted August 9–13 from a sample of 1,603.
    • In additional questions from this poll, 54% wanted the next federal election after a full term is served in early 2025, while 20% wanted an early election in 2024.
    • By 35–33, respondents did not think Labor’s housing policy important enough to call a special early election of both houses of parliament.

Newspoll to be administered by a new pollster


    The Poll Bludger reported on Sunday that Pyxis Polling will conduct Newspoll. Pyxis was formed after two senior staff at YouGov, which used to conduct Newspoll, resigned to start their own polling company. I do not know when the first new Newspoll will appear, but it has now been five weeks since the last YouGov-conducted Newspoll.