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"Concentration of a lot of people in one area, breathing the same air (are places where the flu can be spread easily)," said Bideau.
So, how do you avoid catching it if you have to go to the doctor for something else?
"Arriving early in the morning before a lot of sick kids are in," said Bideau. "Or later in the day when mostly everybody is gone."
The problem is, it's not only where you go, it's what you touch along the way.
"Countertops, door knobs, shopping carts," said Bideau. "But remember with the flu, it's mostly in the air."
She recommends having antibacterial wipes handy and using them on your kids' hands as a way to try to prevent the flu.
The best line of defense? Experts say get your flu shot.
Marketing and talent lead Jane Fordham and head of digital Alex Brittain (pictured) are among a spate of senior figures leaving Golin's London office, although the business has recently been boosted after successfully re-pitching for npower.
Fordham has been with Golin for nearly 15 years, and is due to go freelance to concentrate on diversity issues. Latterly, she has been helping craft Golin's reputation as a forward-thinking employer both in the UK and globally, with programmes such as its 'returnships' for mothers coming back from maternity leave, as well as its unlimited leave programme.
Brittain is a newer recruit - he joined at the end of 2016 from online marketing firm Razorfish.
PRWeek has also learned that Sian Boisseau, executive director of the firm's healthcare practice since 2012, and HR director Fraser Sinclair left last year. A further six staff in junior and mid-ranking posts across the corporate and tech teams are also leaving.
These are in addition to the departures in the second half of last year of creative lead Charlie Coney, who transferred to a role in Golin's Los Angeles business, and social and digital head Neil Kleiner, who has joined Porta.
It can also be revealed that its UK consumer and corporate brief with energy firm npower has been extended after a review last year.
Elsewhere, the business has recently won a major new brief with German pharma firm Merck and appointed a new UK deputy MD and a new global head of data and analytics – the latter after Daniel Stauber took a role in Dublin with Facebook.
Golin's UK MD Bibi Hilton said: "Golin has incredibly long tenure: a quarter of our team has been with us five years or more. With 160 people in our London office, inevitably their lives change while they’re with us, which occasionally means they want to do something different.
"We’re proud that we created a role for Charlie Coney in LA and support all of our people in realising their ambitions and potential. This January, we have won more new business than at any time in recent history. Change can be a good thing and with Emily Luscombe as our new deputy MD and Jonny Bentwood as our new global head of analytics, we are looking forward to an exciting 2018."
Of the npower retention, she said the firm was proud of its work over four-and-a-half years with the firm, including its launch of Fuel Banks and initiatives in support of cancer charity Macmillan.
Zoe Melarkey, npower head of consumer PR, said: "I’m excited to be working with Bibi and the team at Golin again this year. Following the announcement of the planned merger between npower and SSE, it makes sense for us to retain with an agency which really understands our business."
The firm was 17th in the PRWeek UK Top 150 for 2017.
A British supermajor has invested in a U.S.-based company to bring mobile charging stations to its service stations in Europe and the United Kingdom.
Jan. 30 (UPI) -- As a U.S. counterpart pledges billions for spending on shale, British energy company BP said Tuesday it spent $5 million on Europe's electric vehicle network.
BP said it invested $5 million in FreeWire Technologies, a U.S. company that makes charging stations for electric vehicles. BP's plan is to bring the charging units to retail service stations in the United Kingdom and Europe throughout the year.
"Mobility is changing and BP is committed to remaining the fuel retailer of choice into the future," Tufan Erginbilgic, the chief executive for BP's refining business, said in a statement.
European companies are pushing the accelerator for electric vehicle networks. In November, German utility company E.ON said that, with $11.6 million in funding from the European Commission, it would work with service provider CLEVER to link Norway to Italy with a network of 180 charging stations for electric vehicles.
Charging stations will be spaced every 90 miles or so across Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway during the next three years. For BP, the company said its work with FreeWire, which is based in California, will help mobilize the electric vehicle charging industry.
"We believe its mobile fast charging technology will be one of a number of fueling options that will be needed to address the future of lower carbon mobility," said David Gilmour, a vice president at BP's investment arm, BP Ventures.
Two million electric vehicles were on the road globally last year, though nearly all of those were in China, the European Union and the United States. BP's announcement Tuesday came as Exxon Mobil committed tens of billions of dollars to the U.S. shale oil sector, which it said was in part a response to a corporate tax break championed by President Donald Trump.
BP said it expected a $1.5 billion one-off non-cash charge from the U.S. corporate income tax reduction.
Exxon in December opened eight Mobil-branded service stations in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. The company said it represents its first footsteps in the Mexican retail gasoline market and 50 service stations are planned by the end of the first quarter.
AWS gets serious about hybrid cloud with Outposts, so who is it for?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) made a hybrid cloud splash during its re:Invent conference with the announcement of Outposts, a new service where AWS delivers pre-configured racks to customer premises where AWS services can be run as though it were in their data centre.
It was the announcement that really got tongues wagging, with some heralding it as a step change in what 'hybrid' cloud really means.
Microsoft and Azure Stack users may disagree with that assessment, but at worst the announcement marked a significant step towards greater hybrid cloud acceptance from a vendor that has long been an exponent for customers to go 'all-in' on its public cloud.
Essentially, Outposts is a fully managed service from AWS where customers get AWS configured hardware and software delivered to their on-premise data centre or co-location space to run applications in a cloud-native manner without having to run it in AWS data centres.
That infrastructure is installed, managed, maintained, and supported by AWS, but pricing and specifics on specs are still light on the ground at this point ahead of a 2019 rollout.
Outposts should be of particular interest to customers that are looking to move to the cloud but who have certain applications that will need to remain on premise for the time being, such as low-latency applications on a factory floor, or those with data residency concerns.
Speaking on stage during AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, alongside VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said: "We have customers who have a number of workloads that will live on-premise for a long time and there are lots of different reasons for that, oftentimes they need really low-latency for something that sits on premise, so in a factory or something like that.
"What they have asked us for is a way to provide AWS services, like compute, like storage, on-premises but in a way that really seamlessly and constantly interacts with the rest of my applications and services in AWS."
Essentially customers want consistency in their control plane, APIs, tools and basic functionality between their on-premise and cloud applications, and while AWS has capabilities that allow enterprise customers to make that transition - like Virtual Private Cloud, Direct Connect or Storage Gateway - that's not true hybrid cloud in the eyes of some customers.
"We had a breakthrough a few months ago when we were working with a customer trying to get compute and storage from AWS on-premises, and connect back seamlessly with the rest of their AWS presence in the region closest to them, and we thought that could be a more generalised idea," Jassy said.
The result is AWS Outposts, coming next year, which will bring AWS hardware, just as it is configured in its own data centres, to the customer, where they can lift and shift applications to run within their own data centre, but in a way that runs like an AWS application.
"Customers will order racks with the same hardware AWS uses in all of our regions, with software with AWS services on it - like compute and storage - and then you can work in two variants," Jassy said.
Those two flavours are: run VMware Cloud on AWS, or run compute and storage on-premises using the same native AWS APIs used in the AWS cloud.
As AWS UK managing director Gavin Jackson - who is a former EMC and VMware executive - told Computerworld UK: "We think we've had a pretty good hybrid story for a good while now with Direct Connect and Virtual Private Cloud, so that's inside your data centre stretching out to the cloud.
"Still there are some companies that have said they will be running applications on-premise for the foreseeable future, but still want access to the tools and fine-grained services we build on the AWS platform, so now we get to package all of that up and ship it to the client's data centre in two days."
This functionality could be of particular interest to the financial services industry, as head of financial services at AWS Scott Mulins told Computerworld UK, particularly as a means of overcoming some of their data residency issues.
"There are still some countries in the world where there are issues around data sovereignty and data residency," he said, meaning a true hybrid option could be of keen interest to certain clients residing in geographies where AWS doesn't have a region, like Switzerland for example.
Kurt Marko, an independent technology analyst told Computerworld UK: "Symbolically, Outposts is another acknowledgement by AWS that most enterprises want or need to split workloads and data between on-premise systems and public cloud services."
He notes that this is something Microsoft has offered for years through its Azure Stack. However, Marko said: "Outposts is the first time AWS users will be able to deploy a subset of core AWS services in their own data centres or co-located racks."
That being said, "there's still much we don't know, particularly the pricing model, hardware specifics and deployment process," he added.
Unfortunately for him, the news media love a good royalty scandal and, in the last few weeks, he has been getting the royal treatment on a variety of matters, including the nonprofit’s relationship with the head of venture capital firm Elevation Partners.
Last month, Mr. Wales was accused of intervening to protect the Wikipedia page of a TV news commentator with whom he had a romantic relationship. The accusations were fueled by text messages, said to be between Mr. Wales and the commentator, Rachel Marsden, that were published on a gossip Web site.
And there have been persistent questions, chiefly raised by a former employee, that Mr. Wales has abused his expense account, including filing for a $1,300 dinner for four at a Florida steakhouse that was ultimately denied and lacking receipts for $30,000 in expenses.
In some ways, these allegations – whatever their merits – illustrate the growing pains Wikipedia is now experiencing. The populist impetus for Wikipedia – building an open-source encyclopedia – has been spectacularly fulfilled with more than 2.2 million separate articles in English, 52 million unique visitors in December in the United States, according to comScore Media Metrix and brand recognition that puts it in the upper echelon with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Until recently, however, Wikipedia was run more like a storefront community center than a digital-age powerhouse. What was a nine-person operation – a top 10 Web site had a paid staff of less than 10 – has just recently grown to a 15-person operation. Last year’s $2.2 million budget grew to $4.6 million this year.
“A surprising number of people don’t even know it is a nonprofit,” Ms. Gardner told The New York Times. “They say, ‘How do they make their money, anyway?’ They assumed there were ads or some other way.” In fact, the project relies on fund-raisers, and its latest one, Ms. Gardner said, received donations from 45,000 individuals, with a $30 average contribution.
Mr. Wales and the board of the Wikimedia Foundation have tried to professionalize the project, moving its offices from St. Petersburg, Fla., to San Francisco, to be near the talent, entrepreneurial spirit and wealth of Silicon Valley. The board of seven trustees, made up of appointed and elected members including Mr. Wales, has brought in new administrators, beginning with Ms. Gardner, a former journalist who had run the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Web site.
But members of the Wikipedia community, scattered around the globe, writing in more than 200 languages, remain consistent in their belief in a decentralized power structure and noncommercial principles. And they aren’t sure what to make of the move to the big city, with its reputation for providing irresistible temptations.
The persistent arguments about whether to accept any kind advertising, no matter how indirect, to increase revenue – something Mr. Wales and Ms. Gardner among others say they oppose – have recently flared up again.
And there have been questions raised about the foundation’s close relationship with Roger McNamee of Elevation, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, and who has helped arrange two sizable donations to Wikipedia.
Some members further wonder if Mr. Wales, who has created a company, Wikia, to make money from wikis and to implement a volunteer-created search engine, will reduce his role within Wikipedia.
But Mr. Wales said he was adamant.
It is natural that over time a visionary leader’s role is diminished and that is good thing, he told The Times, quoting Bertolt Brecht, “unhappy is the land that has no heroes – no, unhappy is the land that needs heroes.” Despite some of the attacks on Mr. Wales, he is still largely a hero within the Wikipedia community – walking through the annual conventions with assistants in tow, greeting the most enthusiastic Wikipedia contributors from across the globe, receiving invitations to the World Economic Forum in Davos, attending George Soros’s birthday party.
Ms. Gardner said there will always be a need for what Mr. Wales provides.
Mr. Wales wrote on his user page that he would not interfere before meeting Ms. Marsden, and summed up, “My involvement in cases like this is completely routine, and I am proud of it.” However, the incident did pry open his personal life to Silicon Valley gossip sites (he said that he had been separated from his wife when he met Ms. Marsden) and has created the embarrassing spectacle of having his old laundry put up for auction on eBay.
Beyond the personal questions, many Wikipedia members have expressed reservations about the project’s relationship with Elevation Partners.
Mr. Wales said in an interview that Elevation Partners had expressed interest initially in business opportunities with Wikipedia, but “it took one meeting for them to realize it was off the table.” He added: “Certainly there can be no investment in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a nonprofit and always will be.” He said he also has had inquiries from other venture-capital firms, who likewise were told to look elsewhere.
Ms. Gardner said that Mr. McNamee in the past had lined up a $500,000 donation, and arranged another $500,000 donation that came through last week.
Florence Nibart-Devouard, the chairwoman of the Wikimedia board, who has never met Mr. McNamee, did not sound enthusiastic.
She said that she had proposed a resolution, passed recently, to require that any donation larger than 2 percent of revenues be approved by the board. And she said she would “make some noise” if a venture capitalist were to try to become a board member.
While Ms. Nibart-Devouard worries about the provenance of donations, Mr. Wales and Ms. Gardner say they must worry also about sustainability. “A big piece of my day is thinking about money,” she told The Times.
Mr. Wales said that “existing on donations keeps us on a shoestring budget” adding that he was not opposed to leveraging Wikipedia’s brand, consistent with its free-culture values, of course.
As long as he is involved with Wikipedia, however, Mr. Wales will continue to be a guiding light for its many contributors – as well as a lighting rod for its critics.
Railway crossing reconstruction will result in the closure of several streets this week.
Jefferson Avenue will be closed to eastbound and westbound traffic at the railway crossing on Jefferson Avenue between Vanier Drive and Parr Street starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday until 7 p.m. on Friday.
Murray Avenue will also be closed to eastbound and westbound traffic at the railway crossing on Murray Avenue between Vanier Drive and Ferrier Street starting Thursday, October 4 at 6 a.m. until Wednesday, October 10 at 6 a.m.
Motorists are reminded to allow additional travel time and to use alternate east — west routes such as Hartford Avenue or Inkster Boulevard.
Authorities responded to the crash at about 2:30 a.m. near Nacogdoches Road and Evans Road. When they arrived, the vehicle was fully engulfed in flames, and the driver was trapped inside.
A driver was killed early Monday when they veered off a Northeast Side road into a ditch, causing their car to burst into flames, police said.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze, revealing the victim's burnt body inside. The medical examiner's office pronounced them dead at the scene.
When there’s news at a publicly traded company, there’s probably also an 8-K filing.
These are the filings that many investors watch most closely, and among the ones companies file most often.
Form 8-K is a very broad form used to notify investors of any material event that is important to shareholders.
That isn’t surprising: 8-Ks are easily the most varied of the disclosures commonly filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. They don’t appear at regular intervals. Companies file them for dozens of reasons, from disclosing the sudden departure or death of a chief executive to recording minor changes in an obscure ethics policy. And plenty of companies file still more of the documents voluntarily.
But don’t be intimidated: 8-Ks are also among the most reporter-friendly filings a company makes. They tend to be short and are usually clear about what they disclose. They even come numbered to indicated the general topics they cover, using an SEC-standard coding system.
In these posts, we’ll look at what companies tend to disclose in 8-Ks, and how reporters can use them most effectively, whether to break news, stay on top of a beat, or inform a feature or investigative piece.
Routine to dramatic: 8-K filings run the gamut. Click for larger image.
Officially, 8-K filings are called “current reports.” As the name suggests, they’re intended for disclosing timely information.
In fact, they can be used to disclose pretty much any information the company chooses to consider significant and timely enough to put on paper. Some companies, especially small ones, seem to file an 8-K for every press release (and then some).
But there are some events or developments that require companies to file an 8-K. These include signing or ending significant contracts (including employment agreements with top executives), filing for bankruptcy, acquiring or selling significant assets, releasing an earnings report, getting kicked off a stock market (“delisting”), changing auditors, revising flawed financial results, the departure of top executives or directors and disclosing the results of annual annual meetings.
Below, I’ll go into more detail about some of the more useful categories of 8-Ks. In addition, the SEC has its own partial list in its How to Read an 8-K investor bulletin (PDF).
Note that several kinds of 8-Ks — including most of the above list — must be filed within four business days of the event that triggers a disclosure requirement (i.e., weekdays excluding federal holidays). Companies sometimes miss this deadline, though, or push filings to the very last minute, so keep your eyes peeled.
New look: Edgar’s redesigned Company Search page keeps things simple. Click for larger image.
You can find 8-K filings the same way you find proxies and quarterly reports: via the Edgar database or any of the various services that build on it. From the SEC’s Edgar search page, enter the company’s name or ticker symbol, and hit Enter (or click Search). The results page includes most or all filings by the company; to get just quarterly reports, type “8-K” in the Filing Type field and hit Enter.
You can also pull up the most recent 8-Ks for all companies by going to the SEC’s Most recent filings page, and entering “8-K” in the Form Type field. (Note that doing this will automatically capture amended 8-K filings as well as ordinary 8-Ks.) You can also narrow the search by company name or, if you know if, the company’s Central Index Key (see Glossary); unfortunately, ticker searches aren’t supported here.
Many 8-Ks include exhibits, listed in the index page (“Filing Detail”) in Edgar.
If you had to describe the internet to somebody, you might say, “It’s a place where people waste an inordinate amount of time when they could be doing productive things in the real world.” Or, you could just show them this video of the entirety of Rush’s prog rock suite “2112” synced up with old clips from Peanuts cartoons. It is—in both its meticulous construction and utter pointlessness—the internet in a nutshell.
Though he’s undoubtedly producing content for a niche audience, it can’t be denied that Lazar has a skilled hand as an editor. It boggles the mind to think of the time it took to sync Pig Pen’s drumming up with Neil Peart’s legendary fills, but this mad man did it. There’s a reason this isn’t the first time we’ve brought him to the public’s attention.
On the off chance you watched the full “2112” video and your mind hasn’t completely turned to mush, may we suggest you check out another recent, more conceptual work from Mr. Lazar. It’s called “Cartoon Characters In Reality Slideshow 4” and it is possibly the last pure and innocent thing in this terrible world. Enjoy.
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AT&T has again renewed its support for the Air Force Association's CyberPatriot, the National Youth Cyber Education Program. For the fourth consecutive year, AT&T is continuing its generous support with a donation of significant network connectivity used by participants during the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition. In addition, AT&T Aspire, the company's signature education initiative, is funding support of the overarching program.

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