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Journalist Yuyu Dong's Detention Extended Two Months By China

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Saturday, December 30, 2023
Family, Multimedia, Journalism, Freedom, Arrest, Human, Great, Crime, Press club, Club, Publishing

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Eileen O'Reilly, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, on the extended detention of Chinese journalist Yuyu Dong.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Eileen O'Reilly, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, on the extended detention of Chinese journalist Yuyu Dong.
  • "We have learned through the family of Chinese journalist Yuyu Dong that his unjust detention has been extended two months.
  • This extension will now push Yuyu's detention beyond the anniversary date of his arrest in 2022.
  • It is time for China to step up and release Yuyu to his family.

What COVID diaries have in common with Samuel Pepys' 17th-century plague diaries

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Saturday, December 30, 2023
People, Atmosphere, Coronavirus, Borthwick Institute for Archives, Walking, Diaries, Family, Trauma, Attention, Risk, DR, Death, Archive, Fear, Government, Plague, Research, Bell, Diary, Health, Disease, Wood, BBC, Great Plague of London, Doctor of Philosophy, Statistics, Sympathy, Uncertainty, World war, Black Death, COVID, Confusion, Great, Social media, Time

The UK’s former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance’s diaries have been a key source of evidence, exposing the chaos within government at the time.

Key Points: 
  • The UK’s former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance’s diaries have been a key source of evidence, exposing the chaos within government at the time.
  • In my PhD research, I’ve been exploring the COVID diaries of ordinary people, as well as diaries kept during the Great Plague of London in 1665-66.
  • I’ve been looking specifically at 13 COVID diaries donated to the Borthwick Institute for Archives and the East Riding Archives, both in Yorkshire.
  • I have been reading Pepys’s diaries alongside the modern COVID diaries, and have been struck by the common themes in how people navigated their pandemic experiences.

Recording statistics

  • Throughout the COVID pandemic, statistics of cases and deaths were everywhere, and were key to how we judged the impact of the virus.
  • All of the modern and historical diaries I have looked at include these statistics – some sparingly, others with meticulous regularity.

The blame game

  • As cases rose, restrictions were enforced and the effects of plague and COVID loomed large in the lives of our diarists, narratives shifted to confusion and blame.
  • And in spite to well people, would breathe in the faces … of well people going by.
  • In the heighth of it, how bold people there were to go in sport to one another’s burials.
  • And in spite to well people, would breathe in the faces … of well people going by.

Staying positive

  • A more optimistic theme to emerge in the diaries was the ability to find positivity amid the chaos.
  • Pepys and modern diarists were thankful for the blessings of health, family and security.
  • They praised those who went the extra mile to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on those around them, despite the risk to their own health.
  • It must be awful to live ten floors up in a high rise block with two children, and not be allowed out except for once per day.
  • But by exploring the innermost thoughts of people with an element of shared experience, we see that fundamental aspects of the human condition endure.
  • When faced with uncertainty and upheaval, our instincts are to record, find answers, and reclaim joy.


Mary Rehman receives funding from University of Hull Doctoral College

PhotographyCourse.net Positions Photography Community for Success in 2024 with the Launch of its New Trend Report

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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Photography, Workflow, Education, AI, NFT, Great, Social media, Compost, Creativity, Nature, Fashion design

The trend report provides dynamic insight into emerging trends for 2024 through the eyes of photography masters across the world, who provide strategies to help photographers amplify their success in the next year.

Key Points: 
  • The new trend report offers a comprehensive analysis and forecasts of emerging trends shaping the photography industry in 2024.
  • More than half of the experts featured in PhotographyCourse.net's trend report forecast that AI-generated photography will play a massive role in 2024 photography trends.
  • In addition to the trend of AI-enhanced photography, Russian award-winning landscape photographer Daniel Kordan foresees virtual and augmented reality photography ranking highly among emerging trends for 2024.
  • Also, for a limited time, PhotographyCourse.net is offering a 50% discount off their membership plan for those who opt into the trend report.

Central Phuket Shopping Center Prepared Surprises This Christmas & New Year 2024

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Luxury, Other Retail, Toys, Other Travel, Tourist Attractions, Retail, Destinations, Vacation, Travel, Music, Multimedia, Agoda, Christmas carol, IRON, Shoe, Payment card, THB, Cotton candy, Great, Singing, Christmas, Professional sumo divisions

Central Phuket Shopping Center, the luxury lifestyle landmark of Phuket, invites everyone to celebrate Christmas and New Year 2024 in The Great Celebration 2024 Campaign.

Key Points: 
  • Central Phuket Shopping Center, the luxury lifestyle landmark of Phuket, invites everyone to celebrate Christmas and New Year 2024 in The Great Celebration 2024 Campaign.
  • Joining hands with global partner, ‘The Pokémon Company’, Central Phuket bring over Pokémon, the super cute character popular worldwide, for all locals and international fans.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231220890074/en/
    Central Phuket Shopping Center Prepared Surprises This Christmas & New Year 2024 (Photo: Business Wire)
    This December, Central Phuket offers shoppers a festive treat!
  • Don’t miss the Christmas Carol that everyone loves; little Santas spread freshness by singing together in the Christmas Carol activity.

Hoegaarden witbier brews the progression of event marketing into a new paradigm - An immersive brand theatre conceptualized by Torre - a Shanghainese creative director.

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Friday, December 22, 2023
Moon, Veteran, Marketing, Culture, Multimedia, Into, Milk, Cola, Wheat, Fendi, Chicago World's Fair, Great, Hoegaarden, Wrigley Company, History, Great Wall of China, Communication

It is said that event marketing gave birth to brand activations, and it gradually evolves into brand experiences with the time moving on to the 2000s.

Key Points: 
  • It is said that event marketing gave birth to brand activations, and it gradually evolves into brand experiences with the time moving on to the 2000s.
  • In 2023, Hoegaarden witbier brews the progression of event marketing into a new paradigm - an immersive brand theatre that filtered out a brand challenge.
  • For years, witbier fans enjoy their Hoegaarden moments, slow down and unwind, but hardly did they know about the brand's Belgian heritage.
  • The brand takes out 3 of its milestones in history and vivifies the stories via theatre play with characters and interactive scripts.

Les Entreprises Antoine Stabile & fils inc. has been fined $25,000 for violating the Species at Risk Act

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Climate change, Biodiversity, Order, Government, Environment, Act, Saint-Philippe, Schedule 1, Great, The Act, Chorus frog, Risk, Hunting

On December 14, 2023, at the Longueuil courthouse, Les Entreprises Antoine Stabile & fils inc. pleaded guilty to one count of violating prohibitions under the Emergency Order for the Protection of the Western Chorus Frog (Great Lakes / St. Lawrence–Canadian Shield Population) (the Emergency Order), in contravention of the Species at Risk Act.

Key Points: 
  • On December 14, 2023, at the Longueuil courthouse, Les Entreprises Antoine Stabile & fils inc. pleaded guilty to one count of violating prohibitions under the Emergency Order for the Protection of the Western Chorus Frog (Great Lakes / St. Lawrence–Canadian Shield Population) (the Emergency Order), in contravention of the Species at Risk Act.
  • The investigation revealed that between October 27 and November 7, 2022, Les Entreprises Antoine Stabile & fils inc. operated heavy machinery in the Emergency Order area.
  • A violation of the provisions of an emergency order constitutes an offence under the Species at Risk Act.
  • The Act prohibits killing or harming a wildlife species that is listed as threatened and the damaging or destroying of its habitat.

Home Sales, Mortgage Originations Likely to Begin Slow Recovery in 2024

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Monday, December 18, 2023
ESR Group, Forecasting, Fannie Mae, Sale, Economy, Housing, ESR, OTCQB, Federal Reserve, Engineering, Great, Growth, Fed

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Single-family home sales likely bottomed out in Q4 2023 and, due to the recent pullback in mortgage rates, are expected to begin a slow but meaningful recovery over the course of the next year, alongside upward-trending mortgage origination activity, according to the December 2023 commentary from the Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. Purchase mortgage applications have rebounded approximately 15 percent from their trough in November, a trend that the ESR Group expects to continue if mortgage rates continue to slide. However, the same dynamics that kept home sales in 2023 at their lowest level since the Great Financial Crisis, including affordability challenges, the lock-in effect, and a lack of homes available for sale, will likely persist in 2024. As such, the ESR Group expects the home sales recovery to be meaningful but slow.

Key Points: 
  • Purchase mortgage applications have rebounded approximately 15 percent from their trough in November, a trend that the ESR Group expects to continue if mortgage rates continue to slide.
  • As such, the ESR Group expects the home sales recovery to be meaningful but slow.
  • Duncan continued: "Notwithstanding the recent mortgage rate rally, housing and mortgage markets will enter 2024 at approximately the same level as they entered 2023.
  • To receive e-mail updates with other housing market research from Fannie Mae's Economic & Strategic Research Group, please click here .

ACTIONIQ REVEALS SIX MARKETING, DATA AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE THE INDUSTRY IN 2024

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Monday, December 18, 2023
Composable disaggregated infrastructure, Adobe, LLM, CDI, Generative, Acquisition, LiveRamp, Great, Salesforce, SQL, Synthetic media, Investment, Privacy, CDPS, DMPS, Heart, Smoke, Marketing, M&A, F500, Database, Martech, Customer data platform, AI, Snowflake, CDP, Snowplow, Noise, Sales, Computer data storage, Investment company

NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ActionIQ , the leading Enterprise Composable Customer Data Platform, today released six key trends the company anticipates will shape the future of marketing, data, and technology in 2024, from tech stack shifts and enterprise priorities, to data, technology, and Generative AI.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ActionIQ , the leading Enterprise Composable Customer Data Platform, today released six key trends the company anticipates will shape the future of marketing, data, and technology in 2024, from tech stack shifts and enterprise priorities, to data, technology, and Generative AI.
  • As marketing clouds lose their grip, a new incarnation of Database Wars emerges
    The battle for who owns the data among marketing solutions will continue.
  • This tension will continue as marketing clouds like Adobe and Salesforce seek to be the source of truth for enterprise data.
  • Data warehouse vendors will try to ship SQL LLMs with their data, however LLMs will need to be trained on an enterprise's own proprietary data.

TackyLightTour.com Celebrates 100 Million Christmas Lights Shared with Families Worldwide

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Monday, December 11, 2023
Television, Lighting, Great, Decorator, Multimedia, ABC, City, Christmas Story, Kringle, Department store, Christmas

RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TackyLightTour.com, the leading online platform and smartphone-friendly website for enthusiasts of extravagant Christmas light displays, is thrilled to announce a monumental achievement as it crosses a major milestone of 100 million Christmas lights. Established by Matt Burgess in 2005 to help families easily find the best Christmas displays in Richmond, the platform has grown into the global hub for decorators who take holiday lighting to the next level by creating over-the-top Christmas displays that captivate audiences around the world.

Key Points: 
  • In its 18th year of operation, TackyLightTour.com recently passed a major milestone of 100 million Christmas lights shared by hundreds of active Christmas displays around the world.
  • Decorators are invited to share their display through this online platform and families are welcomed to plan a tour to see Christmas lights nearby.
  • The journey to 100 million Christmas lights represents not just a numerical achievement but a testament to the collective joy and enthusiasm that decorators from various corners of the globe bring each Christmas season.
  • Key Highlights of TackyLightTour.com's Accomplishment:
    Global Participation: Decorators from nine countries have contributed to the 100 million Christmas lights shared on TackyLightTour.com, highlighting the international appeal of over-the-top holiday displays.

Hope and peril for Killer Whales and other Canadian species

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Diet, Research, Climate change, Recreation, Maa-nulth First Nations, Great, Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands, Risk, Science, Gekkoninae, Inbreeding, Limnanthes, Atlantic Ocean, Culture, Macoun apple, Threatened species, Light, COSEWIC, Whale, Committee, High Arctic relocation, Calf, Salmon, Biodiversity, Human, Chinook salmon, Noise, Name, Travel, Whaling, Arctic, Chinook, Pacific Ocean, Trillium, Endangered species

Killer Whales are top predators, found in all the world's oceans.

Key Points: 
  • Killer Whales are top predators, found in all the world's oceans.
  • Southern Resident Killer Whales on the Pacific coast mostly eat Chinook Salmon.
  • Much less is known about Killer Whales in the Eastern Arctic and off the Atlantic coast.
  • Back on the West Coast, perched above the Pacific Killer Whales' home live two wildflowers, Hibberson's Trillium and Macoun's Meadowfoam.