Aurora this week awarded the city's 24th -- and final -- recreational pot license to The Green Solution after spending several weeks evaluating and scoring four candidate businesses.
Reported by Denver Post 1 hour ago.
Final available recreational pot license issued in Aurora
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BlackBerry Aurora Name and Specs Confirmed, Goes on Sale on March 13 for $260
Indonesian company PT BB Merah Putih has just listed the BlackBerry Aurora on its official website, hence confirming the smartphone is real. Moreover, we've learned the handset will hit the shelves in mid-March for an affordable price. According the PT BB Merah Putih, the Aurora will be available for purchase starting March 13 for only $262 outright. Initially, the smartphone will be launched in Indonesia only, and there's no telling whether or not it will be rolled out in other countries. The good news is customers who pre-order the BlackBerry Aurora for the amount mentioned earlier will also receive a free JBL Go Speaker, as well as a flip case. The BlackBerry Aurora will ship with Android 7.0 Nougat operating system right out of the box. It features a convenience k...
Reported by Softpedia 12 minutes ago.
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These Disney Princesses Have Been Reimagined As Women's Rights Activists
Let’s get down to business, to defeat... the patriarchy?
These Disney princesses want to be where the protesters are in these resistance-inspired illustrations. Oregonian Amanda Allen Niday has created nine picketing princesses who take on issues like racism, sexism, and xenophobia.
Inspired by the Women’s March and my firm belief that these Princesses would be out there. Dream Big, Princess! See the full images on my tumblr! amandaniday.tumblr.com Prints available at my Society6! https://society6.com/amandaallenniday #dreambigprincess #disney #disneyprincess #protest #fanart #womensmarch #nodapl #nobannowall #noban #series #snowwhite #cinderella #sleepingbeauty #aurora #briarrose #thelittlemermaid #ariel #Thebeautyandthebeast #belle #aladdin #jasmine #pocahontas #mulan #theprincessandthefrog #tiana
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The 27-year-old illustrator told Teen Vogue she got the idea after watching women gather for the Women’s March in January.
“I felt inspired by the way women expressed themselves on their signs, from the witty and charming to the downright scathing. Women coming together from all backgrounds to say ‘we are HERE and we MATTER,’” Niday said. “I wanted to hold onto that message as my newsfeeds dissolved back into squabbling and finding faults in our difference, rather than understanding.”
Niday used that inspiration in combination with lines the princesses said in their respective movies to create the images you see below.
She chose quotes that “would allude to their story as whole, had deeper meaning within the movie, or referenced modern issues.”Disney princesses have oft been reimagined ― primarily because they’re such iconic figures in pop culture. Niday told Teen Vogue that she wanted to use these characters to “remind girls that they’re brave, strong and valuable” and “symbolize what women can or should do.”
If you want to check out more of Niday’s work, here is her Instagram and her Society6 page.
h/t Teen Vogue -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 3 hours ago.
These Disney princesses want to be where the protesters are in these resistance-inspired illustrations. Oregonian Amanda Allen Niday has created nine picketing princesses who take on issues like racism, sexism, and xenophobia.
Inspired by the Women’s March and my firm belief that these Princesses would be out there. Dream Big, Princess! See the full images on my tumblr! amandaniday.tumblr.com Prints available at my Society6! https://society6.com/amandaallenniday #dreambigprincess #disney #disneyprincess #protest #fanart #womensmarch #nodapl #nobannowall #noban #series #snowwhite #cinderella #sleepingbeauty #aurora #briarrose #thelittlemermaid #ariel #Thebeautyandthebeast #belle #aladdin #jasmine #pocahontas #mulan #theprincessandthefrog #tiana
A post shared by Amanda Allen Niday (@amandaallenniday) on Feb 11, 2017 at 1:23pm PST
The 27-year-old illustrator told Teen Vogue she got the idea after watching women gather for the Women’s March in January.
“I felt inspired by the way women expressed themselves on their signs, from the witty and charming to the downright scathing. Women coming together from all backgrounds to say ‘we are HERE and we MATTER,’” Niday said. “I wanted to hold onto that message as my newsfeeds dissolved back into squabbling and finding faults in our difference, rather than understanding.”
Niday used that inspiration in combination with lines the princesses said in their respective movies to create the images you see below.
She chose quotes that “would allude to their story as whole, had deeper meaning within the movie, or referenced modern issues.”Disney princesses have oft been reimagined ― primarily because they’re such iconic figures in pop culture. Niday told Teen Vogue that she wanted to use these characters to “remind girls that they’re brave, strong and valuable” and “symbolize what women can or should do.”
If you want to check out more of Niday’s work, here is her Instagram and her Society6 page.
h/t Teen Vogue -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 3 hours ago.
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Aurora immigration center detainees join class-action suit
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — About 62,000 people who were held at an Aurora immigration detention center and required to work for as little as $1 a day have joined together in a class-action lawsuit. The Denver Post reported Thursday (http://dpo.st/2lHzlI7 ) that that the detainees have been certified as a class in their lawsuit […]
Reported by Seattle Times 2 hours ago.
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Praedium Group buys another apartment complex
A New York investment firm has bought another Denver-area apartment complex — this one for more than $30 million. The Praedium Group said it's bought the 16-year old, 216-unit Centennial Park Apartments complex in Aurora. Coupled with its $69.9 million purchase in December of the 258-unit Helios Apartments on East Belleview Avenue, The Praedium Group has spent $100 million in the Denver area in the last few months buying apartments. "Both properties were built to a very high standard and are…
Reported by bizjournals 48 minutes ago.
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Michael Grebe joins Aurora Health Care as new chief legal officer
Aurora Health Care Inc. has named Milwaukee-area attorney Michael Grebe as its chief legal officer. Grebe, who starts his new role March 6, most recently was executive vice president and general counsel at Waukesha manufacturer Husco International Inc. His 25-year law career also includes serving as a partner with Quarles & Brady LLP in Milwaukee. In 2015, he was named to a seven-year term on the UW Board of Regents. “Michael has served as a key strategic adviser to numerous corporations and…
Reported by bizjournals 24 minutes ago.
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Enemy Of The People, The Musical! Move Over Hamilton, Meet Benjamin Franklin Bache
While the infamous “Reynolds Pamphlet” on Alexander Hamilton’s sex scandal takes center stage in the Broadway musical phenomenon “Hamilton,” the assault on the free press and the First Amendment in its bitter aftermath might be the most chilling cautionary tale for our times.
Move on Alexander Hamilton. Meet Benjamin Franklin Bache, the first journalist “enemy of the people.”
Politics were bitterly divided in 1798, too.
Noah Webster, whose hallowed dictionary we all cherish now, employed a few choice words against the Democratic Republicans and journalists in opposition to the Federalists: “The refuse, the sweepings of the most depraved part of mankind from the most corrupt nations on earth.”
An inordinate fear and fearmongering over a growing immigrant population took place among politicians in those times, too.
President John Adams touted an Aliens Friends Act to deport anyone he deemed dangerous. But an alien invasion from France was the least of his concerns.
Adam was a thin-skinned president, vaguely reminiscent of present-day office holders. He brisked at the giggles over his moniker as “His Rotundity,” and railed against what he considered deceptive and false characterizations of his administration by certain journalists. Fake news, in today’s parlance.
Enter Benjamin Franklin Bache, the badass grandson of the inventor, and muckraking editor of the Philadelphia Aurora newspaper, who didn’t cower to Adam’s monarchical haughtiness.
The European-educated Bache had already been banned earlier that year from covering the proceedings of the House of Representative on the floor with the rest of the journalists after his reports exposed some salty language from a brawl. “The right of the people of the United States to listen to the sentiments of their representatives,” he declared in vain, “was acknowledged by the first agents whom they appointed to express their voice in that assembly.”
Adams might recall a certain president today in more than one way. He once wrote about preferring the title of “His Highness, the President of the United State and Protector of the Rights of the Same.”
Bache simply found him an “old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams.”
It was Bache’s Aurora newspaper that chastised Adams for Alexander Hamilton’s infamous case of adultery, after the release of James Thomson Callender’s scandalous “Reynolds Pamphlet.”
Bache didn’t earn a musical―and his role as the first journalist to hold the line on the freedom of the press has been forgotten in history.
Far from ignoring Bache and others, Adams, and other Federalists, had other ways to deal with journalists they considered the opposition.
This is the cautionary tale that didn’t go well for Americans.
Under the guise of a threatened nation, invoking unholy French alliances among the American press and supposed spies, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798 intently to clamp down on the emerging free press hailed by Bache.
“To write, print, utter or publish, or cause it to be done, or assist in it, any false, scandalous, and malicious writing against the government of the United States, or either House of Congress, or the President”―-this was now a high misdemeanor, warranting imprisonment for journalists.
What President Trump deemed the “enemy of the people,” in other words, was not simply dismissed on twitter—but jailed, in a harrowing reminder of political power gone awry.
Even before the law was passed, a Federalist-appointed judge issued an arrest warrant for Bache, who was hauled to the Philadelphia jail. He was charged with “tending to excite sedition, and opposition to the laws, by sundry publications.”
Released from jail, Bache wouldn’t back down. His newspaper office was attacked repeatedly with rocks. “Like the British monarch, John Adams now has the Alien and Sedition Acts to silence his critics,” he wrote to his readers. He defended the First Amendment in defiance. Legions of other newspapers and critics defied Adams and the Federalists.
Unfortunately, Bache would never have his day in court; he died a few months later from the scourge of yellow fever. The scourge of the Sedition Act witch hunts would continue against select journalists for another year, including Hamilton critic Callender, though not without consequence.
Every musical has its last epic scene.
Igniting a backlash against Adams and the Federalists, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison led a movement in Virginia and Kentucky against the repressive acts against free speech and freedom of the press, leading to Jefferson’s presidential election in 1800. The Acts expired three days before Jefferson’s inauguration.
An unfortunate footnote in history, Bache’s admonition to other journalists, and all American citizens, should resonate today: What alternative do we have between an abandonment of the constitution and resistance?
It may take a musical on Broadway, unless we see the revival of Alien and Sedition Acts in 2017 from a White House and Congress offended by journalistic inquiry and challenge, to answer that question.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 20 hours ago.
Move on Alexander Hamilton. Meet Benjamin Franklin Bache, the first journalist “enemy of the people.”
Politics were bitterly divided in 1798, too.
Noah Webster, whose hallowed dictionary we all cherish now, employed a few choice words against the Democratic Republicans and journalists in opposition to the Federalists: “The refuse, the sweepings of the most depraved part of mankind from the most corrupt nations on earth.”
An inordinate fear and fearmongering over a growing immigrant population took place among politicians in those times, too.
President John Adams touted an Aliens Friends Act to deport anyone he deemed dangerous. But an alien invasion from France was the least of his concerns.
Adam was a thin-skinned president, vaguely reminiscent of present-day office holders. He brisked at the giggles over his moniker as “His Rotundity,” and railed against what he considered deceptive and false characterizations of his administration by certain journalists. Fake news, in today’s parlance.
Enter Benjamin Franklin Bache, the badass grandson of the inventor, and muckraking editor of the Philadelphia Aurora newspaper, who didn’t cower to Adam’s monarchical haughtiness.
The European-educated Bache had already been banned earlier that year from covering the proceedings of the House of Representative on the floor with the rest of the journalists after his reports exposed some salty language from a brawl. “The right of the people of the United States to listen to the sentiments of their representatives,” he declared in vain, “was acknowledged by the first agents whom they appointed to express their voice in that assembly.”
Adams might recall a certain president today in more than one way. He once wrote about preferring the title of “His Highness, the President of the United State and Protector of the Rights of the Same.”
Bache simply found him an “old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams.”
It was Bache’s Aurora newspaper that chastised Adams for Alexander Hamilton’s infamous case of adultery, after the release of James Thomson Callender’s scandalous “Reynolds Pamphlet.”
Bache didn’t earn a musical―and his role as the first journalist to hold the line on the freedom of the press has been forgotten in history.
Far from ignoring Bache and others, Adams, and other Federalists, had other ways to deal with journalists they considered the opposition.
This is the cautionary tale that didn’t go well for Americans.
Under the guise of a threatened nation, invoking unholy French alliances among the American press and supposed spies, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798 intently to clamp down on the emerging free press hailed by Bache.
“To write, print, utter or publish, or cause it to be done, or assist in it, any false, scandalous, and malicious writing against the government of the United States, or either House of Congress, or the President”―-this was now a high misdemeanor, warranting imprisonment for journalists.
What President Trump deemed the “enemy of the people,” in other words, was not simply dismissed on twitter—but jailed, in a harrowing reminder of political power gone awry.
Even before the law was passed, a Federalist-appointed judge issued an arrest warrant for Bache, who was hauled to the Philadelphia jail. He was charged with “tending to excite sedition, and opposition to the laws, by sundry publications.”
Released from jail, Bache wouldn’t back down. His newspaper office was attacked repeatedly with rocks. “Like the British monarch, John Adams now has the Alien and Sedition Acts to silence his critics,” he wrote to his readers. He defended the First Amendment in defiance. Legions of other newspapers and critics defied Adams and the Federalists.
Unfortunately, Bache would never have his day in court; he died a few months later from the scourge of yellow fever. The scourge of the Sedition Act witch hunts would continue against select journalists for another year, including Hamilton critic Callender, though not without consequence.
Every musical has its last epic scene.
Igniting a backlash against Adams and the Federalists, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison led a movement in Virginia and Kentucky against the repressive acts against free speech and freedom of the press, leading to Jefferson’s presidential election in 1800. The Acts expired three days before Jefferson’s inauguration.
An unfortunate footnote in history, Bache’s admonition to other journalists, and all American citizens, should resonate today: What alternative do we have between an abandonment of the constitution and resistance?
It may take a musical on Broadway, unless we see the revival of Alien and Sedition Acts in 2017 from a White House and Congress offended by journalistic inquiry and challenge, to answer that question.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 20 hours ago.
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Alaskan Way Viaduct inspection over, but Aurora will close for event Sunday morning
The Alaskan Way Viaduct has reopened after a brief closure for inspection, the Washington State Department of Transportation said Saturday. But Aurora Avenue North will close from 6 a.m. to noon on Sunday due to an event.
Reported by Seattle Times 2 hours ago.
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9News: Thrift-store chain closing all Colorado locations (Video)
By Krystyna Biassou, KUSA-9News If you get a kick out of thrifting, you only have a week to visit one chain before it closes all of its stores in Colorado. Colorado's last three locations of the Savers thrift store chain will shut their doors March 13. The chain, which sells "gently used" clothing, has locations in Littleton, Aurora and Highlands Ranch. The retail manager of the Highlands Ranch store says the market has become too crowded for them to stay open. The chain is a unit of Savers…
Reported by bizjournals 2 days ago.
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Nurse raped by boss with checkered history sues Aurora nursing center
A former Cherry Creek Nursing Center nurse -- who was raped by a supervisor with a history of sexually assaulting and harassing subordinates -- has filed a federal lawsuit against the nursing home and its Maryland parent company.
Reported by Denver Post 1 day ago.
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Sean Crumpler, accused Aurora child sex trafficker, due in court Monday for disposition hearing
A man facing charges for allegedly using a rented Aurora home in 2015 to sex traffic boys is due in court Monday afternoon for a disposition hearing.
Reported by Denver Post 1 day ago.
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Richard Greco, Jr., President of The Montfort Academy, Announces Girls Basketball Team Wins League Championship for the 4th Year
Mt. Vernon, NY. The Montfort Academy’s President Richard Greco, Jr. today announced that Montfort’s Girls Basketball team defeated EF Academy by a score of 39 to 29 in the championship game of the Westchester Independent Athletic Association yesterday. This is the 4th year in a row that the Lady Knights earned the status of League Champions.
Mt. Vernon, NY (PRWEB) March 07, 2017
The Montfort Academy’s President Richard Greco, Jr. today announced that Montfort’s Girls Basketball team defeated EF Academy by a score of 39 to 29 in the championship game of the Westchester Independent Athletic Association yesterday. This is the 4th year in a row that the Lady Knights earned the status of League Champions. Mr. Greco said, “I am always impressed how our girls keep their cool and play with virtue under the immense pressure of competition, especially in a championship. I am really, really proud.” The scoring was balanced as Colleen Daly, Marcela Lara, and Caroline Davis each had 9 points, while Adriana Shkreli and Eleanna Ventura each scored 6 points. A great part of this victory was the loud cheers from the bleachers as parents and students came to root on the girls. Teammates Aurora DeSantis, Yessica Marte, Claudia Greco and Alexis Santos were ready, willing and able to come off the bench and help any way they could as they have done all year.
“This is an amazing group of girls, some who have never played before. They were sponges taking everything Coach Mike Flanagan taught them and putting it into practice,” noted Director of Athletics Bob Greason. Coach Flanagan agreed, “I've been coaching the Montfort Lady Knights basketball team for the past four seasons and I have never been more proud of a team and what they were able to accomplish. I'm very happy for the girls that all of their hard work and effort turned into an undefeated season and a fourth consecutive WIAA championship.”
About The Montfort Academy
The Montfort Academy, founded by former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Richard Greco, Jr., is an award winning classical Catholic high school in Mt. Vernon, NY, serving the communities of Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, the Bronx, and the surrounding areas. Ranked among the top private schools in New York and the best 50 Catholic high schools in America, Montfort is one of the only high schools in the nation to conduct classes using the Socratic methodology. The Montfort Academy’s curriculum draws on thousands of years of educational tradition, offering courses in Latin, Greek, Astronomy, Debate & Rhetoric, Civics, Geography, Chivalry, Economics, and many other subjects in the sciences, mathematics, technology, literature, and history. The Montfort Academy has a 100% college admissions rate and seeks to graduate students prepared for college and beyond, well-balanced and rich in mind, body, and soul. For more information on The Montfort Academy please call headmaster David Petrillo (Lt. Col. USAF ret.) at 914-699-7090 or visit the website http://www.themontfortacademy.org. Reported by PRWeb 19 hours ago.
Mt. Vernon, NY (PRWEB) March 07, 2017
The Montfort Academy’s President Richard Greco, Jr. today announced that Montfort’s Girls Basketball team defeated EF Academy by a score of 39 to 29 in the championship game of the Westchester Independent Athletic Association yesterday. This is the 4th year in a row that the Lady Knights earned the status of League Champions. Mr. Greco said, “I am always impressed how our girls keep their cool and play with virtue under the immense pressure of competition, especially in a championship. I am really, really proud.” The scoring was balanced as Colleen Daly, Marcela Lara, and Caroline Davis each had 9 points, while Adriana Shkreli and Eleanna Ventura each scored 6 points. A great part of this victory was the loud cheers from the bleachers as parents and students came to root on the girls. Teammates Aurora DeSantis, Yessica Marte, Claudia Greco and Alexis Santos were ready, willing and able to come off the bench and help any way they could as they have done all year.
“This is an amazing group of girls, some who have never played before. They were sponges taking everything Coach Mike Flanagan taught them and putting it into practice,” noted Director of Athletics Bob Greason. Coach Flanagan agreed, “I've been coaching the Montfort Lady Knights basketball team for the past four seasons and I have never been more proud of a team and what they were able to accomplish. I'm very happy for the girls that all of their hard work and effort turned into an undefeated season and a fourth consecutive WIAA championship.”
About The Montfort Academy
The Montfort Academy, founded by former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Richard Greco, Jr., is an award winning classical Catholic high school in Mt. Vernon, NY, serving the communities of Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, the Bronx, and the surrounding areas. Ranked among the top private schools in New York and the best 50 Catholic high schools in America, Montfort is one of the only high schools in the nation to conduct classes using the Socratic methodology. The Montfort Academy’s curriculum draws on thousands of years of educational tradition, offering courses in Latin, Greek, Astronomy, Debate & Rhetoric, Civics, Geography, Chivalry, Economics, and many other subjects in the sciences, mathematics, technology, literature, and history. The Montfort Academy has a 100% college admissions rate and seeks to graduate students prepared for college and beyond, well-balanced and rich in mind, body, and soul. For more information on The Montfort Academy please call headmaster David Petrillo (Lt. Col. USAF ret.) at 914-699-7090 or visit the website http://www.themontfortacademy.org. Reported by PRWeb 19 hours ago.
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Gaylord Hotels Partners with MeetingPlay to Revolutionize Guest Experiences with New Indoor Wayfinding App
Gaylord Hotels, which range in size from 1,500 to nearly 3,000 guestrooms, has become the first hospitality brand to introduce AppAtlas - indoor wayfinding and navigation apps - across its four resorts.
Richardson, Texas (PRWEB) March 07, 2017
MeetingPlay’s AppAtlas, the breakthrough hospitality technology provider of indoor venue wayfinding apps and mobile guest engagement platforms, is officially changing how guests navigate Gaylord Hotels’ massive resorts.
Gaylord Hotels, which range in size from 1,500 to nearly 3,000 guestrooms, has become the first hospitality brand to introduce AppAtlas across its four resorts.
Utilizing iBeacon technology and advanced indoor 3-D mapping, AppAtlas and Gaylord Hotels have created Navigate Gaylord Hotels, a game-changing app experience with turn-by-turn, point-by-point navigation and directions at the touch of a guest’s fingertips.
“Taking a proven process in our engagement platform and applying it to the hospitality market, MeetingPlay was able to build on Gaylord Hotels’ commitment to exceeding guest expectations and help them dive even deeper in creating easier, more engaging visits for its guests,” said Joe Schwinger, CEO of MeetingPlay.
“Navigate Gaylord Hotels represents a combination of technology and ease that fits with our goal of providing flawless service to our guests,” said Mike Stengel, senior vice president of Gaylord Hotels. “The app is innovative, interactive and impactful, especially when it comes to enhancing guest satisfaction in getting from point A to point B with ease.”
Once guests have downloaded the free Navigate Gaylord Hotels app, they can use the app for step-by-step directions to their room, meeting areas, the nearest restrooms, fitness center, pools and other locations in the hotel.
Additional app features include finding services like ATMs, restaurants and shops utilizing a “Near Me” function. The app’s “Location Tagging” makes it easy to share one’s location with others. The app also lets guests make dining reservations or even book tickets for hotel attractions.
MeetingPlay’s AppAtlas apps are focused on creating integrated venue experiences between the guest and the venue, allowing venues to cater to their guests in an entirely new and more personalized way.
For more information, visit http://www.meetingplay.com/blog/meet-appatlas-indoor-navigation-apps.
About MeetingPlay:
As the premier event technology solution, MeetingPlay develops custom mobile event apps and wayfinding apps, helping produce meaningful experiences for guests and attendees at events and onsite locations. AppAtlas, powered by MeetingPlay, is the market solution to indoor wayfinding, navigation, and connecting across the hospitality industry. Powered together, MeetingPlay and AppAtlas provide a solution built to maximize ‘delight’ for guests and attendees; and provide a powerful, real time tool to ‘connect’ for onsite managers.
About Gaylord Hotels:
Gaylord Hotels, part of the Marriott portfolio of brands, offers extraordinary environments with everything in one place— diverse dining options, full-service spas, pools, top-notch entertainment, shopping and more. Locations include Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee; Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee, Florida; Gaylord Texan on Lake Grapevine, Texas; Gaylord National on the Potomac in National Harbor, Maryland; The Inn at Opryland in Nashville; and Gaylord Rockies opening in late 2018 in Aurora, Colorado. For more information, visit http://www.GaylordHotels.com. Reported by PRWeb 18 hours ago.
Richardson, Texas (PRWEB) March 07, 2017
MeetingPlay’s AppAtlas, the breakthrough hospitality technology provider of indoor venue wayfinding apps and mobile guest engagement platforms, is officially changing how guests navigate Gaylord Hotels’ massive resorts.
Gaylord Hotels, which range in size from 1,500 to nearly 3,000 guestrooms, has become the first hospitality brand to introduce AppAtlas across its four resorts.
Utilizing iBeacon technology and advanced indoor 3-D mapping, AppAtlas and Gaylord Hotels have created Navigate Gaylord Hotels, a game-changing app experience with turn-by-turn, point-by-point navigation and directions at the touch of a guest’s fingertips.
“Taking a proven process in our engagement platform and applying it to the hospitality market, MeetingPlay was able to build on Gaylord Hotels’ commitment to exceeding guest expectations and help them dive even deeper in creating easier, more engaging visits for its guests,” said Joe Schwinger, CEO of MeetingPlay.
“Navigate Gaylord Hotels represents a combination of technology and ease that fits with our goal of providing flawless service to our guests,” said Mike Stengel, senior vice president of Gaylord Hotels. “The app is innovative, interactive and impactful, especially when it comes to enhancing guest satisfaction in getting from point A to point B with ease.”
Once guests have downloaded the free Navigate Gaylord Hotels app, they can use the app for step-by-step directions to their room, meeting areas, the nearest restrooms, fitness center, pools and other locations in the hotel.
Additional app features include finding services like ATMs, restaurants and shops utilizing a “Near Me” function. The app’s “Location Tagging” makes it easy to share one’s location with others. The app also lets guests make dining reservations or even book tickets for hotel attractions.
MeetingPlay’s AppAtlas apps are focused on creating integrated venue experiences between the guest and the venue, allowing venues to cater to their guests in an entirely new and more personalized way.
For more information, visit http://www.meetingplay.com/blog/meet-appatlas-indoor-navigation-apps.
About MeetingPlay:
As the premier event technology solution, MeetingPlay develops custom mobile event apps and wayfinding apps, helping produce meaningful experiences for guests and attendees at events and onsite locations. AppAtlas, powered by MeetingPlay, is the market solution to indoor wayfinding, navigation, and connecting across the hospitality industry. Powered together, MeetingPlay and AppAtlas provide a solution built to maximize ‘delight’ for guests and attendees; and provide a powerful, real time tool to ‘connect’ for onsite managers.
About Gaylord Hotels:
Gaylord Hotels, part of the Marriott portfolio of brands, offers extraordinary environments with everything in one place— diverse dining options, full-service spas, pools, top-notch entertainment, shopping and more. Locations include Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee; Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee, Florida; Gaylord Texan on Lake Grapevine, Texas; Gaylord National on the Potomac in National Harbor, Maryland; The Inn at Opryland in Nashville; and Gaylord Rockies opening in late 2018 in Aurora, Colorado. For more information, visit http://www.GaylordHotels.com. Reported by PRWeb 18 hours ago.
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Bertha is back to work after a small course correction
Tunnel machine Bertha is back on a slightly shifted course this week, after measurements confirmed it was 6 inches east of the correct position. It should break into daylight near Aurora Avenue North sometime this spring.
Reported by Seattle Times 9 hours ago.
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$27,000 reward offered for help finding killer of Aurora Good Samaritan
Law enforcement and friends of Good Samaritan Kelly Acosta hope a $27,000 reward will help track down his killer.
Reported by Denver Post 5 hours ago.
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Aurora Crime Blotter: Woman makes off with wigs
Mannequins were robbed of their wigs in this week's Aurora Crime Blotter.
Reported by Denver Post 4 hours ago.
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These photographers' proposal photo will blow your mind
Thanks to social media, it is possible to witness all kinds of marriage proposals, from the most disgusting to the sweetest ever.
SEE ALSO: Couple choo choo chooses each other with wedding proposal on packed subway train
But nothing can beat this proposal in terms of spectacularity. It helps that both the future groom and bride are landscape photographers in Australia.
Dale Sharpe got down on bended knee to pop the question to Karlie Russell in front of a stunning northern lights display, in the heart of the Arctic Circle.
"It's taken a few years to plan but I (Dale) always had this moment in mind & it seemed fitting as we are both landscape photographers who share a passion for photographing the aurora," he said. Read more...
More about Photographers, Australia, Arctic Circle, Proposal, and Northern Lights Reported by Mashable 18 hours ago.
SEE ALSO: Couple choo choo chooses each other with wedding proposal on packed subway train
But nothing can beat this proposal in terms of spectacularity. It helps that both the future groom and bride are landscape photographers in Australia.
Dale Sharpe got down on bended knee to pop the question to Karlie Russell in front of a stunning northern lights display, in the heart of the Arctic Circle.
"It's taken a few years to plan but I (Dale) always had this moment in mind & it seemed fitting as we are both landscape photographers who share a passion for photographing the aurora," he said. Read more...
More about Photographers, Australia, Arctic Circle, Proposal, and Northern Lights Reported by Mashable 18 hours ago.
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Aurora couple charged with child abuse after two babies die under similar circumstances
An Aurora couple face child abuse charges after their two infant children died under similar circumstances within two years of each other.
Reported by Denver Post 7 hours ago.
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BlackBerry Aurora to Be Introduced on March 9, Out on March 16
Great news for BlackBerry fans living in Indonesia, as the Canadian company, through PT BB Merah Putih, the firm in charge with the distribution of BlackBerry-branded smartphones in this country, will be launching a brand new handset, the Aurora. This isn't the first time we're reporting about the BlackBerry Aurora, but we've just learned that the phone will be officially introduced in Indonesia on March 9. The smartphone should go on sale on March 16, but customers can already pre-order the BlackBerry Aurora for $260. Moreover, some retailers in the country offer a free JBL Go Speaker and a flip case with each BlackBerry Aurora pre-order, which is a great deal considering the phone's specs. Speaking of which, the Aurora's hardware config...
Reported by Softpedia 3 hours ago.
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BlackBerry Aurora affordable smartphone launched: Price, specifications, features
In less than ten days since the first leak, the BlackBerry Aurora has been officially launched by BB Merah Putih. The company holds the license for manufacturing and selling BlackBerry-branded smartphones in Indonesia and hence, the smartphone is exclusive to the country. Priced at Rs IDR 3,499,000 (Rs approximately Rs 17,500), the smartphone is available in color choices of black, silver, and gold. It will be up for pre-order till March 12 at various online e-commerce sites in Indonesia. BlackBerry Aurora features, specifications The BlackBerry Aurora features a 5.5-inch HD (720p) display and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 chipset clocked at 1.4GHz. There is also 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, which is expandable up to
Reported by BGR India 16 hours ago.
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