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Oxford, United Kingdom, February 06, 2023 — About The River:

The story is set in the early days of the Second World War and tells of a young Jewish boy, Alfie, from the East End of London who is evacuated to a farm in Gloucestershire.

The experiences there are very new to him, and he meets a young Gypsy girl. Esmeralda, and together they forge a friendship that grows stronger as they experience adventures together.

Their adventures cross boundaries of time and countries and give them a close insight into important episodes in American history.

They meet many diverse characters from a historical period of great upheaval whilst still retaining a foothold in the traumas of wartime England.

In the end, however old or young we are, love can grow from friendship, but friendship is the most important ingredient.

This work is available worldwide via Amazon and all good bookstores:
Paperback (324 pages)
Dimensions: 15.24 x 2.06 x 22.86 cm
ISBN-13 9781800944848 / 9781800944886
Kindle eBook ASIN B0BSDHRWVN
Amazon URL: http://mybook.to/THERIVER
Published in the UK by Michael Terence Publishing, 2023

About the Author
David Clay was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1943.

His Father was a General Practitioner who after distinguished service in the war joined a practice in Letchworth Garden City.

David’s Father was unfortunately killed in a motor accident in 1958 and David left school at 16 to take up an apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering.
The majority of his working life was spent in the Construction Industry.
David is married to Angela Clay and they live near Cambridge. They have two children, Arabella and Daniel, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
David only started writing in his seventies. After being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2016, his wife, Angela, underwent a long but successful operation to have it removed, followed by an extensive period of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

It was during this period of caring for his wife that David started writing The River.

Daid says, “The writing took my mind off the worry and stress during that difficult period of recouperation. For two or three hours in the evening my mind was filled with the process of writing and the development of the adventure. Each evening I would read what I had written to my wife who became my greatest encouragement.”

About Michael Terence Publishing – Web: www.mtp.agency
Michael Terence Publishing is a UK-founded hybrid publishing house and literary agency founded to give worthy authors a platform to publish their works and to promote their success via online and traditional channels.

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Memphis, TN, February 06, 2023, The Hickory Hill community in Memphis, Tennessee has officially become the future home of The Culture Collab. Opening in early March, The Culture Collab will be Memphis’ first Coworking Space geared toward the growth, education, and community of Black and BIPOC Creators and Entrepreneurs. The Culture Collab will provide space for small businesses to benefit from the surroundings of creative and collaborative energy.

Founder Melissa Nelms, Owner of The Virtual Vision Brand has years of experience in business development from strategy and development to talent management which further inspired her to create this space right here in her own town of Memphis. “What I’ve seen in my work with Creatives and Entrepreneurs in cities like New York, Atlanta and LA, is that they benefit from a strong network of peers and they all feed off of each other. I want to provide a hub for that type of interaction for creatives here in Memphis,” says Melissa. In addition to offering physical, permanent office space and an inspiring atmosphere, The Culture Collab aims to anchor and assist in the scaling of Memphis based businesses and talent through a series of events, workshops and networking opportunities.

Memberships to The Culture Collab are offered to individuals, Entrepreneurs and organizations to further their business and outreach goals. The Culture Collab will also offer elevated perks for non-profit organizations such as free event space and possibly discounted memberships. “We aim to provide everything from enriching events and networking opportunities, real-life and practical educational resources and tools, office space at an affordable rate, to just a needed escape from the home office,” Melissa explains.

Interested and potential The Culture Collab Members can visit www.theculturecollab.co for additional information and rates and follow @TheCultureCollab for updates.

About The Culture Collab:
The Culture Collab will be located at 6041 Mt. Moriah Rd. Extended, Suite 1&2 in the Hickory Hill community and house up to 50 small businesses in the Memphis area. Memberships start on March 1, 2023 and membership fees vary from $250-$450 per month. Owner Melissa Nelms is also Founder of The Virtual Vision Brand, a Memphis based agency focused on business development, brand partnership, administrative and personal brand management with clients spanning the country.
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Miami Lakes, FL, February 06, 2023  Rilion Gracie Miami Lakes BJJ Academy & Self Defense School is excited to announce that they will be offering one week of free trial classes to all new students interested in learning jiu-jitsu, wrestling, and MMA.

Located at 7337 Miami Lakes Dr. in Miami Lakes, Rilion Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Miami Lakes is a premier martial arts and self defense facility that offers top-notch jiu-jitsu, wrestling, mma, and competition training for people of all ages and skill levels.

Under the guidance of black belts head instructors Carlos Ramirez and Wilson Sgai, students will learn the principles of jiu-jitsu and how to effectively apply them in self-defense situations. The academy also offers wrestling and MMA classes in addition to competition training sessions to help students reach their goals.

Rilion Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Miami Lakes is committed to creating a welcoming and challenging environment for all of their students. They believe that jiu-jitsu is a great way to improve physical and mental health, build self-confidence, and make new friends.

“A free week trial of our classes is a great way for someone who has been interested in trying jiu-jitsu to get a taste of what the martial art and sport is like without any financial obligation,” said Ramirez.

“Sometimes this free trial is all one needs to light a spark and begin a journey in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,” said Ramirez.

To take advantage of this offer and sign up for a free trial class, visit the Rilion Gracie Jiu-jitsu Miami Lakes website at https://riliongraciemiamilakes.com/ or call (305) 582-3405.

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Professor Carlos Ramirez established the Miami Lakes Branch of Rilion Gracie Academies in 2014. He began his jiu-jitsu education under Master Rilion Gracie when Master Gracie moved from Brazil to Miami. Professor Wilson Sgai, began his jiu-jitsu journey in the year 1995 in São Paulo – Brazil training under the legendary Ryan Gracie. Professor Wilson is a 4th Degree Black Belt who moved to Miami in 2016 as a BJJ Athlete under Master Rilion Gracie as the head-coach of Rilion Gracie Miami Lakes.
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Columbia, MD, February 06, 2023, Williams Asset Management, a leading wealth management firm located in Columbia, Maryland, has been named one of the Largest Wealth Management Companies in the Baltimore Business Journal.

The Baltimore Business Journal’s annual list recognizes the top wealth management companies in the Baltimore area based on the number of local financial advisors and assets under management.

“We are honored to be included on the Baltimore Business Journal’s list of the Largest Wealth Management Companies,” said Gary Williams, CEO of Williams Asset Management. “This recognition is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our team, and we are committed to continuing to provide exceptional service and financial guidance to our clients.”

Williams Asset Management was founded in 1994 and has grown to become a leading provider of wealth management services in the Baltimore area. The company offers a range of financial planning and investment management services to individuals, families, and businesses.

“At Williams Asset Management, we understand that every client’s financial needs are unique,” said Williams. “We take the time to get to know our clients and develop personalized financial plans that are tailored to their specific goals and objectives.”

For more information about Williams Asset Management and the services they offer, visit https://www.williamsassetmanagement.com/.

About Williams Asset Management:
Williams Asset Management is a full-service wealth management firm located in Columbia, Maryland. Founded in 1994, the company offers a range of financial planning and investment management services to individuals, families, and businesses in the Baltimore area.

*2022 Largest Wealth Management Firms in Greater Baltimore area, created by Baltimore Business Journal. Presented 12/2/2022. Firms were ranked by the number of Baltimore-area professionals they employ at the time they completed the survey.. An unknown number of Advisors were invited to submit information for consideration. These numbers were not independently verified. Advisors may pay a fee to hold out marketing materials. Not indicative of advisor’s future performance. Your experience may vary. Visit BBJ for most recent award information: https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/subscriber-only/2022/12/02/largest-wealth-management-firms-in-greater-baltimore.html
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Groton, CT, February 06, 2023 – Steve Straight is presented with the 2023 William Meredith Award in Poetry for his book, “Affirmation,” published by Grayson Books. For many years, he worked with William Meredith on the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. Former Connecticut Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson has described his work as “restorative, playful and wise poems by one of Connecticut’s best poets.”

In “Telling the Bees,” Straight asks, “How to tell them how much trouble, we are in how close we are to ruin, how very much we need their help.” As Margaret Gibson says, “We are indeed living through a time of social and political and environmental peril.” In “Seat 1A,” Straight realizes that he must be prepared to save all passengers in case of an emergency, but that we are all siting in seat 1A. Man’s cruelty to man seems to have reached a new low as a donkey is strapped with explosives and sent into the marketplace. He ponders the farmer with his wife turning back to look at their animals, the tall ears of the donkeys, the tufts backlit by the rising sun, the coarse mane and soft fur and dark eyes, ordering the farmer – “Choose the one.”

The answer is to affirm our common humanity. One thinks of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” when Straight has us repeat, “We live in a beautiful, harmonious world, without war, or pestilence, or famine.” Now, the injunction is “to make it happen.”

Like a Reiki master, he is aware of the synchronicity in the world, that we are all connected to all things. In an extraordinarily moving poem, he finds a dead crow among the hyacinth. He recalls that crows can remember a specific human face and even hold a grudge against it. (Who knew?) But now, he realizes the caws are not complaints or arguments but eulogies. He buries the crow in the back of the property. The crows gather in the maples nearby “softly keening now witnessing my respects.” And there is no little humor as he outlines the trouble we are in: “Nowhere Man,” he is “past the spot, where Christ parked his bicycle.” The irony of “Some Assembly Required,” is priceless.

Mindfulness and Zen wisdom keep the poems in place. “So, I finger the beads, one at a time, beads of bone, beads of wood, working out my place, my part.”

In “Vincent,” the chipmunk who has lost an ear and has disappeared has now mysteriously reappeared. He sits in the farmer’s hand eating a black seed. The poet says, “breath deeply in the palm of the present, to shuck what isn’t and savor what is.”

It is such a joy to savor the wit and wisdom in these poems that recall the work of another “farmer poet,” the master, Wendell Berry.
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Richard Harteis
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Barcelona, Spain, February 06, 2023 — At Integrated Systems Europe 2023, oomnis Limited is unveiling today its next-generation workspace management under a new brand identity: FlexEZ.

After 5 years and three major releases and a multitude of minor release under the FlexO brand name and to accompany and leverage the major shift globally towards new work habits and models across not only offices but throughout whole enterprises, FlexEZ (pronounced flex-easy) was selected as the new registered brand for oomnis’ next-generation workspace management solution.

As part of the change, FlexEZ focus shifts from being a resource-centric solution to being a user-centered and user centric solution, beginning with a fantastic new UI/UX experience, build on top of the latest dynamic web application development frameworks, leveraging the state-of-the-art web technologies such as React, WebSockets and NEXT.JS.

FlexEZ continues being built upon the existing mature high-performance workspace booking engine that has a successful deployment track-record including many prominent and notorious Fortune 100 companies in various industries such as institutional finance, high-end car manufacturing, global freight management or public transportation operation companies.

With a release date planned for Q2’2023 and in addition to the major user-interface rewrite, FlexEZ will be bringing the following new key features to enterprises facing the challenges of the new hybrid work model.

First, FlexEZ will ship with a brand-new presence planning engine, making it possible for organizations to plan and organize the company work schedules. It allows team leaders to request their team to enter and allow them to visualize the current and future expected locations of work, travel schedule and personal time-off as planned by each team member. By enforcing company-mandated presence policies, organizing e,g, mandatory-presence days turns into a mundane task.

A major milestone with FlexEZ release will also be the unveiling and support of a full line-up of custom hardware systems and accessories starting with:

– The advanced room entrance tablet under the “eztablet” brand, a 10″ Android-based PoE-enabled tablet hardware and sporting a NFC reader compatible with the majority of NFC cards.

– The brand-new room entrance tag, under the “ezroomtag” brand, our very low-power 7.5″ eInk battery powered tag that can be installed anywhere and makes it possible to display updated meetings information without rooms while minimizing energy consumption, helping achieve your companies sustainable development goals (shipment starting in Q2/Q3 2023).

– The eInk desk check-in tag, under the “ezdesktag” brand, our very low-power 4.2″ battery powered tag for easy booking of desks or other smaller individual resources such as bike racks, personal lockers etc. (shipment starting in Q2/Q3 2023).

Finally, FlexEZ will release with the full support for the following industry leading systems:
– Lutron lighting system can now be fully automated through FlexEZ, making it possible to automatically switch on and off room lighting based on room bookings schedule or at check-in time.
– The Atlona OCS-900N sensor room small form-factor occupancy sensor is now fully supported, making it possible to automate room equipments, lighting or HVAC according to the occupancy status of the room.
– The QBIC TD-1070, the latest room entrance panel from QBIC Technologies is now fully supported with FlexEZ.

Packing hundreds of new features and improvements, the release of FlexEZ expected in Q2’2023 will be a significant milestone for oomnis making it possible for oomnis’ network of resellers to provide their customers around the world with a very capable solution available under either a permanent licensing or subscription licensing model to be deployed either on-premise or in the cloud.

Guillaume Proux, Managing Director at oomnis Limited commented: “More revolution than evolution for oomnis, FlexEZ v3 will be a tool companies can rely on to solve their hybrid work model challenges thanks to its user-centric dynamic new UI and our new fantastic supporting hardware line-up.”

oomnis Limited is an innovative workplacetech company and proud creator of the mature and FlexEZ workspace booking and management solution suite. With our network of resellers deploying its solution across all major markets including most countries in Asia-Pacific, oomnis provides the system of choice for companies ranging from small companies looking to equip their meeting rooms with slick nice displays to global companies looking for a reliable solution for their workplace management that seamlessly integrates with the main modern online collaboration tools. More information about FlexEZ is available at the following website: www.flexez.io

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Stockholm, Sweden, February 06, 2023 —- Mariem joins SkySparc from Credit Agricole CIB and has previously held positions with BNP Paribas Securities Services and digital transformation consultancy Wevioo. In addition to an engineering degree in computer science from ENSI in Tunisia, Mariem has a master’s in financial management from the Institute of Administration of Companies in Paris.

She brings to SkySparc’s Murex practice a combination of financial markets back-office processing experience with comprehensive financial services products and systems knowledge. Furthermore, Mariem brings business know-how and technology deployment expertise to client engagement from her previous project management and business analyst roles.

For Mariem’s first assignment with SkySparc, she will be deployed to the team working with a large French financial institution and development organisation.

“I am looking forward to applying my expertise, in particular with the Murex platform, in working closely with SkySparc clients on their highest priority technology deployment and upgrade projects,” Mariem Ben El Heni said of her appointment.

“We are excited to have Mariem further boost our growing Murex consultancy practice. Her vast, specialist financial systems know-how, and ability to navigate the often-complex challenges of tech upgrades and deployments will greatly benefit our clients,” said Stellan Råberg, Head of Murex Practice, SkySparc.
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Center Point, LA, February 06, 2023 —- Fulton Books author Tina Penrose, an accomplished writer who loves to create stories that engage and educate readers, has completed her most recent book, “Demarcus the Devious Spider”: an amusing and crafty tale about the rivalry between spiders and humans.

“Demarcus stretched his long black legs to loosen up his muscles for the long night that lay ahead,” writes author Tina Penrose. “He was excited about the devious plan he had in store for Laken as she scurried off to work in the morning. This would be day three if his plans were pulled off successfully. He took pleasure in seeing her jump around, trying to get out of his webs each morning.”

Published by Fulton Books, Tina Penrose’s book follows a sly spider named Demarcus who lives outside the home of a girl named Laken. Lately, he’s been spinning webs at night in order to watch her get stuck in them in the morning. After two days of torment, Laken declares that she will never run into Demarcus’ spider web again.

Encouraged by this, Demarcus sets out to create his most intricate web yet. He works tirelessly through the night in order to get a good scare out of Laken. But will his wonderful web weaving work? Will Laken once again fall into his trap? Find out within the exciting pages of “Demarcus the Devious Spider.”

Readers who wish to experience this entertaining work can purchase “Demarcus the Devious Spider” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

Please direct all media inquiries to Author Support via email at support@fultonbooks.com or via telephone at 877-210-0816.
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Northeaston, MA, February 06, 2023 — Fulton Books author Terese Walkeapaa, who holds a bachelor’s degree in early education and has thirty-two years of experience as an after-school childcare professional, has completed her most recent book, “My Tiny Shiny Shell”: a poignant tale that explores how loved ones who have passed are never truly gone from one’s life.

“Life is a beautiful thing, and we all have our time on earth,” writes Walkeapaa. “Our physical bodies may no longer live, but our presence, beliefs, values, and views live on with everyone we knew and everything we did. No matter who you are or how old you are, you will experience loss in your life. ‘My Tiny Shiny Shell’ reminds you that though a loved one is no longer physically here, they are with you on your life’s journey, no matter where that is.”

Published by Fulton Books, Terese Walkeapaa’s book is a powerful and moving tale that readers from all walks of life will be able to connect with. “My Tiny Shiny Shell” helps to remind readers that one’s legacy lives on through the lives of those who they have impacted

Readers who wish to experience this uplifting work can purchase “My Tiny Shiny Shell” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

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Wilmington, DE, February 06, 2023 -)– Fulton Books author Jonathan Bacher, a former professional engineer who lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with his wife of thirty-eight years, has completed his most recent book, “The Key Master: When Seasons Collide”: a fascinating historical fiction that centers around a man who is transported back to the year 1773, and finds himself suddenly torn between returning to his time or staying put.

“Based upon the hatred that existed between the English and both the Dutch and Swedish settlers of the new Americas, this story takes place in New Castle, Delaware, which played a pivotal but rather unknown role in our nation’s history as the original center of colonial government prior to William Penn establishing Philadelphia as such,” writes Bacher. “Ironically, it was in New Castle where William Penn first touched the shores of the nation that would become the United States of America. As a thriving port enterprise, New Castle served as the residence and meeting place for many who were involved with both the striving for independence and, for some, the ultimate signing of the Declaration of Independence. Among them were Benjamin Franklin, John Dickenson, George Read, and Thomas McKean.

“When a man is given a special gift that will allow for him to travel through time, he awakens in the year 1773 in his hometown of New Castle, Delaware. Through the course of routine circumstance, he finds himself accepted by some yet deceived by others. Remembering his past, which is really his future, he longs for a return to those associated with his life in the year 1986. The story becomes complicated when he learns that his close friend’s family is descendant of a plot and murder that took place in 1777. This would be a plot that would question the very existence of the family name and all that they had acquired.

“In the end, he must now make a choice. Perhaps the most difficult choice of his many life cycles. Does he return to be with his wife and maintain a tarnished relationship? Or does he remain in a period where potential for true love awaits him?”

Published by Fulton Books, Jonathan Bacher’s book will take readers on an unforgettable journey as they experience American history brought to life like never before. Expertly paced and full of suspense, Bacher delivers a captivating story that will keep readers on the edge of their seats and remain with them long after its stunning conclusion.

Readers who wish to experience this engaging work can purchase “The Key Master: When Seasons Collide” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

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