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Peach New Media, an Abila company, announced today that Freestone™ Learning Management System was recently named one of the Top 10 Association LMS Solutions in the world by Talented Learning for “providing a comprehensive learning management system that meets the unique needs of associations and credentialing bodies."
Mary Beth Westmoreland, from product development SVP to chief technology officer, Blackbaud, a software and services provider.
Tom Mullen to newly created position of COO, Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, from chief administrative officer, Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board. He succeeds CFO Wayne Arita, who retired in September.
Michael B. Hoffmann, to managing director, Waldorf Astoria New York and the Towers of the Waldorf Astoria. from brand performance support VP, Waldorf Astoria and Conrad Hotels.
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Trade Show Executive magazine honored Global Pet Expo with the top honor of Greatest Show on Earth. Global Pet Expo is presented by American Pet Products Association and the Pet Industry Distributors Association. The record-breaking 2015 show featured 6,061 buyers in attendance, more than 3,000 new pet product launches, 1,051 exhibitors and 3,113 booths sold. Overall attendance totaled nearly 15,500 people with the show floor totaling an impressive 311,300 net sq. ft. Twenty percent of exhibitors were international, making up 213 of the 1,051 exhibiting companies; 29 percent of buyers were from outside of the U.S., coming from 82 countries. Global Pet Expo 2016 will take place March 16-18 in Orlando, Fla. at the Orange County Convention Center.
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According to ESPN, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association is pulling its winter conference, scheduled for January, out of Nevada and is cooperating with a federal investigation into daily fantasy sports operators. FSTA president Paul Charchian said that due to the move by the Nevada Gaming Control Board this week, which required daily fantasy companies to be licensed in the state, and by the way the action was taken, "continued patronage in Nevada is impossible for our industry at this time.” The control board made the case within the state that daily fantasy was in fact gambling despite the companies' belief that they were protected against such a classification -- and therefore regulation -- by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Association of National Advertisers has hired Ebiquity and K2 to conduct an inquiry into allegations that undisclosed rebates are influencing media agencies' work on behalf of marketers. The selections are part of a series of actions that the ANA, the main trade organization for major marketers, has taken to address its members' concerns that agencies are collecting media rebates in the U.S. without their knowledge.
American Cancer Society recommended that women move away from the early and frequent mammograms that have been standard practice in the U.S. for nearly two decades. The new guidelines call for women to begin getting annual mammograms at age 45, rather than at 40, as the group had previously recommended. At 55, the age used as a proxy for menopause, women should transition to having mammograms every other year, and continue as long as they are healthy and expect to live at least 10 years, according to the new recommendations. The latest guidelines, which apply to women of average risk, reflect a growing concern that the benefits of the test may have been oversold and that overdiagnosis and false positives are resulting in unnecessary anxiety and costly treatments.