Fatigue Puts U.S. Businesses at Risk of New COVID Wave, Advises SaferMe

Fatigue Puts U.S. Businesses at Risk of New COVID Wave, Advises SaferMe

As European COVID deaths rise, it's time for businesses to review their pandemic planning and ensure lockdowns won't be needed or even recommended

AUSTIN, Texas - October 18, 2022 - (Newswire.com)

As European countries see an increase in their COVID infections, providing an early indication of what is potentially on its way to the USA, SaferMe, a leading pandemic readiness company, is recommending that local businesses review their pandemic readiness plans in the face of a potential winter surge of the virus. 

The European Centre For Disease Prevention and Control has stated that it has begun "seeing indicators rising again in Europe, suggesting that another wave of infections has begun." Pooled COVID data up to the end of week 40, 2022 (the week ending Oct. 13), in Europe showed "widespread increases were being observed in all indicators, with one third of EU/EEA countries reporting increases in COVID-19 deaths." 

"What is concerning is that many U.S companies are developing COVID fatigue and are becoming complacent with their planning, despite growing health indicators in Europe. It is just good business continuity protocol to ensure that pandemic plans are always up to date," says Clint Van Marrewijk, CEO and founder of SaferMe. "Companies that rely on outdated historic pandemic plans or adopt a wait-and-see approach are potentially jeopardizing business operations, supply chains, and jobs."

Additionally, America will also be heading into its flu season. "Irrespective of the pandemic type or its magnitude, now is the time for businesses to take the responsible steps to be prepared for all types of pandemic eventualities. Companies that are well prepared can avoid complete lockdowns. We have had some bitter lessons in what not being adequately prepared means. Businesses have a duty of care to look after their employees and all visitors on company premises," adds Van Marrewijk.

To mitigate against the impact of poor pandemic planning, SaferMe recommends that companies develop an integrated response, which can be activated within 48 hours of a virus risk surpassing the company's risk tolerance. The following steps will help companies achieve this:

  • Monitoring health developments inside their business as well as up and down their supply chain and the environment in which they are located
  • Contacting partners, suppliers and customers to ensure that they have up-to-date pandemic plans
  • Avoiding "siloed" pandemic plans that exist in isolation. Instead, incorporate an integrated pandemic plan into the company's business continuity planning
  • Pre-approving response systems, such as technology, that can confirm which employees have been in contact with each other (only when needed). This information is derived from second-generation contact tracing, which makes the old-fashioned phone tree systems completely obsolete — these must be removed from all plans 
  • Develop a virus toolkit that exist in a state of readiness and can be activated at a moment's notice. The toolkits must contain personal protective equipment, a supply of hygiene supplies such as hand sanitizers, an automated contact-tracing system, and company-wide health-check ability.

About SaferMe:

SaferMe is one of the world's leading pandemic readiness and workforce safety companies, and it advises governments, Fortune 500 businesses, and some of the world's most prominent brands in over 30 countries. It is on a global mission to keep employees healthy and safe while at work to make organizations resilient and pandemic-ready, and keep them open for business. SaferMe has offices in the United States, New Zealand, Sweden, and Australia. For more information, www.saferme.com.


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Visited Releases List of Top 10 Most Popular Ancient Sites

Visited Releases List of Top 10 Most Popular Ancient Sites

Travel App Visited Compiles Users' Data to Determine the Most Visited Ancient Sites in the World

TORONTO - October 18, 2022 - (Newswire.com)

The travel app Visited by Arriving In High Heels Corporation has published a list of the top 10 most popular ancient sites that international travelers visit. 

Visited, available on iOS or Android, is a top app for international travelers. The travel app allows users to check off places they've been, see custom maps of their travels, discover new destinations, get custom-printed travel maps, and set travel goals. 

The top 10 most visited ancient sites include:

  1. The Colosseum in Rome, Italy is the largest amphitheater in the world and one of the oldest, dating back to A.D. 70. The famed Roman gladiator battles took place in the iconic circular arena. 
  2. The Acropolis, in Greece, is an ancient citadel that includes historic masterpieces like the Parthenon overlooking the city of Athens. 
  3. Pompeii, Italy, draws tourists seeking stunningly detailed glimpses of the past, with the well-preserved ancient city of Pompeii that was buried by a volcano in AD 79. 
  4. Stonehenge, England is a prehistoric monument that dates back 5,000 years and includes construction from the Neolithic age. 
  5. Athenian Agora, Greece brings to life the ancient Greek agora, or public gathering place, with remaining temples and beautiful ancient architecture. 
  6. Chichen Itza, Mexico is a complex containing ancient Mayan ruins, including an expansive step pyramid. 
  7. The Great Pyramid at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid and the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 
  8. Machu Picchu, Peru is an Incan citadel dating back to the 15th century. 
  9. Tulum, Mexico is home to some of the best preserved ancient Mayan ruins, with remains of a walled city.
  10. Roman Baths in the city of Bath, Somerset, England, feature an ancient Roman bathing complex and temple with hot springs that still run today. 

To see the full list of the most visited ancient sites and over 50 lists of the most popular travel destinations in the world, download Visited on iOS or Android

To learn more about the Visited app, visit https://visitedapp.com

About Arriving In High Heels Corporation

Arriving In High Heels Corporation is a mobile app company with apps including Pay Off DebtX-Walk, and Visited, their most popular app. 

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HTC VIVE Partners With Imversed Enabling Avatars for Sake of Vtubers’ Economy

HTC VIVE Partners With Imversed Enabling Avatars for Sake of Vtubers’ Economy

SINGAPORE - October 17, 2022 - (Newswire.com)

Thousands of metaverses have emerged a year after the world discovered the concept of the metaverse. Today, the avatar user experience in a metaverse is still far from that of gaming, in both movements and visualisations. Little breakthroughs have managed in the metaverse visual experience, however, in sight of the long-term growth of Web 3.0, avatars are looking to grow into capitalised money trees for users. An avatar will be able to have a fanbase, its own music and videos, its own ancillary products, and even have its rights commercially represented and managed. This requires levels of technical support that most metaverse systems are just not there yet.

HTC VIVE has brought some exciting breakthroughs in the part they play, integrating the latest avatar technology with Imversed quick release NFT technology. On top of this, VIVE recently upgraded the use of facial and motion tracking technologies to improve user experience, enabling avatars in metaverses to have body movements and facial expressions, intended to integrate interactive engagements with the immersion of reality with the virtual in an instant integrated interaction, so that avatars can behave like a real person would. Synchronized imaging technology that is used also gives avatars freedom to take photos and selfies anywhere anytime in any-verse. Trekking to outer space, other planets, deep sea, or show up in various movie scenes, and capture moments of virtual travel and track memories, even recording the travel journeys, then mixing or editing together the content to share on their social media platforms will become a norm. Avatars can grow influence by gaining followers and make hot new topics or trends like any current 2D influencer. There are already influencers and celebrities building up their virtual self making it into an intellectual property to profit from and its nowadays not uncommon to gossip about celebrities such as Bruce Willis using DeepFake.

Talks of avatars interacting with real humans in the real world, and even perform without time and space restrictions, can now be done by a person's endorsed avatar identity in Imversed XR-Land brought into reality by using AR tools via projections creating a new type of Vtuber, this is what we had seen in the past in many superhero movies. Imagine further, where Vtubers with fanbases using the Imversed XR-Land to NFT minting function to distribute NFT digital assets, will be rolling the dollars in whilst the user in flesh is asleep at night. Limitations of the interactions between virtual reality IPs and the reality are now gone as Vtubers can interact with their fans, and a larger Web 3.0 asset empire and a scaled revenue system can generate continual income.

In 2023, tech brands are wanting to be releasing AR glasses. If so, XR-Land technology will catapult in its value bringing the avatar economy to a whole new level. Much of this technology will be available for public demonstration from this November onwards making it the right time to get started particularly with Viverse, which is currently the biggest industry partner of Imversed XR-Land, and this partnership soon will join forces also with popular gaming companies. The joint ventures makes Viverse readily available now to create personalized avatars. People of all ages should be ready to take part in this new wave of revenue stream from a personalized avatar no matter where and which verse or universe they are in at in any point in time. Creating and owning an Avatar with its own story and generating a personalized income in the expanding metaverse economy is hot the new trendy way to enrich an integrated virtual in reality lifestyle.

Stay tuned for more news updates on VIVE and Imversed:

VIVE:

Website: https://www.vive.com
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/QAtV6xXT5t
Twitter: https://twitter.com/htcvive

Imversed:

Website: https://imversed.world
Discord: https://discord.gg/umaeRaGXD2
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imversedhub

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Blame Her Ranch Featured on the ‘World’s Greatest!’ Television Show

Blame Her Ranch Featured on the ‘World’s Greatest!’ Television Show

Blame Her Ranch Featured on the ‘World’s Greatest!’ Television Show
Image courtesy of Blame Her Ranch

Overview of the property.

SANTA FE, N.M. - October 17, 2022 - (Newswire.com)

 Blame Her Ranch is pleased to announce that the private home and ranch of Linda and Steve Blamer will be appearing on the TV show "World's Greatest!" on Oct. 22 and Oct. 29, 2022.

"World's Greatest!" is a 30-minute show which airs on Bloomberg Television dedicated to highlighting the world's greatest companies, products, places, and people. Every show is a high-speed tour featuring behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and breathtaking visuals from locations around the world.

Blame Her Ranch was selected to appear on "World's Greatest!" because of its unique and iconic location on Glorieta Mesa, along with the Blamer's strategic pivot to market the ranch for weddings, events and multigenerational travel. Blame Her Ranch has been named "Best Wedding Venue in the U.S. in 2022" by Wedding and Honeymoons Magazine and featured as one of the Best Wedding Ranches in the U.S. by the Knot

"After years of hard work and continuing to expand and enhance our property, it is wonderful to be recognized as one of the World's Greatest! In recent years, we have not only added novel accommodations like covered glamping wagons and Airstream trailers, but we have invested in environmental interventions and created an agroecology corridor on the property to ensure the health and success of the land for generations to come," said, Linda and Steve Blamer. 

As part of the show, a film crew spent time on the ranch with Steve and Linda in Ribera, New Mexico. The Blame Her Ranch segment will air on Bloomberg Television at 1:30 p.m. MT on Oct. 22 and Oct. 29. Bloomberg Television can be found on Channel 353 on DirectTV and Channel 203 on DISH Network—or check your local cable provider. The episode, as well as other episodes of World's Greatest, will be available free online through World's Greatest's website at www.worldsgreatesttelevision.com.

Watch the trailer: 
https://youtu.be/vZExW396aHQ

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ABOUT BLAME HER RANCH:
The over 2,000-acre Blame Her Ranch (BHR) sits at the southernmost tip of Glorieta Mesa only 45 minutes from Santa Fe, New Mexico. The ranch's entire western edge is adjacent to the 1.6-million-acre Santa Fe National Forest, which provides extreme privacy. BHR is located at 7,000 feet, with both southern and northern views of at least 70 miles—maybe some of the best in all of New Mexico.

Rented as an Airbnb, BHR is the ultimate location for a wedding, a family reunion or a girls get-a-way! For additional information, please visit: www.blameherranch.com


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Yolk Partners With Stan’s Donuts & Coffee on a Collaborative Brunch Dish

Yolk Partners With Stan’s Donuts & Coffee on a Collaborative Brunch Dish

Iconic Chicago brands, Yolk and Stan's Donuts & Coffee, partner up to create a donut-inspired brunch dish.

CHICAGO - October 17, 2022 - (Newswire.com)

On October 22 and 23, Yolk will be serving up a Stan's donut-inspired dish, Stan's Toffee Donut French Toast. The Fall-themed dish will consist of two fresh Stan's toffee donuts made into french toast, then stuffed with a house-made mascarpone toffee filling, and served with warm syrup. The special limited edition dish will be available at all nine Chicagoland Yolk locations until supplies last. 

"We love supporting Chicago brands and felt like a partnership with Yolk was a no-brainer," said Stan's founder and CEO, Rich Labriola. "Our toffee cake donut is one of the most popular and we knew it would lend itself perfectly for a collaboration. We can't wait to share the 'Toffee Donut French Toast' with Chicagoans."

Constantly pushing the envelope with new and creative brunch dishes, specialty juices and its own private-label premium coffee in urban, upscale settings, Yolk is known for its delicious breakfast and lunch fare. Yolk's menu includes signature specialty dishes like eggs benedict, gourmet five-egg rolled omelets, a wide range of skillets and scramblers, pancakes, frittatas, crepes and many more scrumptious options, like the Breakfast Mac & Cheese, from the brand's inventive Test Kitchen joining the menu on a regular basis.

"I am very excited to be able to partner with Stan's Donut & Coffee!", said Taki Kastanis, CEO and Founder of Yolk. "Nothing like two great Chicago brands working together to create something delicious for our home city."

About Yolk

Founded by Taki Kastanis in 2006, Yolk has rapidly expanded to 16 locations in Illinois, Indiana, Texas and South Florida. Each one beloved by locals and tourists alike, Yolk is continuously expanding to be able to serve each and every community possible. Rated "Best Breakfast" by Zagat, Yolk's menu features a balanced mix of upscale breakfast and lunch items guests would expect to find on the menu, as well as a range of deliciously innovative creations. The Yolk experience goes far beyond what's on the plate - bringing creativity to the kitchen. Yolk's team is dedicated to making each guest's experience unique, personable and one that makes them hungry for more. For more information about Yolk, visit www.eatyolk.com, download the Yolk app, or connect with Yolk on Instagram and Facebook

About Stan's Donuts & Coffee

Stan's Donuts & Coffee serves up freshly made donuts of extraordinary flavors and textures and an excellent cup of joe. Master baker Rich Labriola of Labriola Baking Company opened the first Stan's Donuts & Coffee in Chicago in 2014, the result of a friendship and partnership with Stan Berman, founder of the iconic Los Angeles shop that bears his name. Since then, Stan's has grown to 16 shops in the Chicago area, serving a vast array of award-winning donuts, coffee, dunkable cookies, specialty drinks and whimsical experiences. Stan's ships nationwide via Goldbelly and doles out sweet rewards to its devoted fans via the Stan's Loyalty App. For more, visit stansdonuts.com and follow Stan's on InstagramFacebook and Twitter.


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Gianluca Pesce
Director of Marketing & Communications
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