Category business

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
Contact
Williams Asset Management
Marie Lee, Director of HR & Executive Assistant to the President
(410) 740-0220
www.WilliamsAssetManagement.com
ContactContact

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.
Contact
William Meredith Foundation
Richard Harteis
860-961-5138
www.poets-choice.com
www.WilliamMeredithFoundation.org
poets-choice.com
Art@zenithgallery.com
ContactContact

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

oomnis Limited – (www.oomnis.com)
Contact
oomnis ltd.
Guillaume Proux
+852 8192 7080
www.oomnis.com/
ContactContact

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.
Contact
SkySparc
Cathrina Henriksen Cabrera
+33 6 289 874 24
www.skysparc.com
ContactContact

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.
Contact
Fulton Books
Media Relations
800-676-7845
www.fultonbooks.com
ContactContact

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.

Please direct all media inquiries to Author Support via email at support@fultonbooks.com or via telephone at 877-210-0816.
Contact
Fulton Books
Media Relations
800-676-7845
www.fultonbooks.com
ContactContact

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.

Please direct all media inquiries to Author Support via email at support@fultonbooks.com or via telephone at 877-210-0816.
Contact
Fulton Books
Media Relations
800-676-7845
www.fultonbooks.com
ContactContact

Bakersfield, CA, February 06, 2023 — Fulton Books author Larry Brewer, a musician and composer who took up writing when he lost his hearing, has completed his most recent book, “Ballad of Danny Deer”: a gripping and potent period piece about one of the most exciting and challenging times in recent history.

“The 1960s and 1970s were a magical time in America’s history—rock and roll music, muscle cars, cruising, drive-ins, and Vietnam,” says author Larry Brewer. “Danny Deer was a young man just out of high school and ready to take on the world cruising with his buddies and girlfriend and racing cars made for an ideal life. But when one of Danny’s friends crashes his car while drag racing, life suddenly starts to become real.”

Published by Fulton Books, Larry Brewer’s book follows happy-go-lucky Danny Deer as his life gets turned upside-down by the 1969 Vietnam draft. Danny and his buddy enlist in the marines, hoping to set out on an adventure that will change their lives for the better. But life doesn’t always go according to plan.

While Danny is away, his family members back at home worry. Jenny, his fiancée, tries her best to prepare their home so that they can live happily as a married couple upon his return. She, along with everyone who has a loved one in the service, lives in fear of the day she may answer the door to a uniformed officer holding Danny’s hat. Over in Vietnam, Danny finds himself along with the rest of his squad caught in a jungle trap. Can he save his squad, even if it means sacrificing himself?

Readers who wish to experience this absorbing work can purchase “Ballad of Danny Deer” 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.
Contact
Fulton Books
Media Relations
800-676-7845
www.fultonbooks.com
ContactContact
Categories

New York, NY, February 06, 2023 – Bebbie Hickman has completed her new book, “The Hidden Land of Youngsters: The Reconnect”: a captivating science-fiction story filled with adventure with God at its core.

Author Bebbie Hickman has had several articles published in “Reminisce” magazine in the past, as well as inclusion in volume 3 of “Scott County, Virginia and Its People 1814–2003” history annual. Bebbie’s first nonfiction book, “From the Eyes of a Sister,” was published in early 2021 by Covenant Books.

That accomplished, Bebbie decided to try her hand at science fiction geared to the youth genre. The result: “The Hidden Land of Youngsters” and its series were born. Bebbie’s passion is to offer the younger generation an exciting and adventurous book free from curse words, sex themes, and evil influences while at the same time presenting parents with a choice of wholesome materials that allow their child’s imagination to expand in a good and fun way. Parents can confidently purchase Bebbie Hickman’s books without the worry of undermining moral principles.

When not writing, Bebbie can be found bowhunting in deer season with her husband, Darius, in the beautiful mountains of Southwest Virginia or sharing a good cup of coffee on their large and comfy porch overlooking Poor Valley.

Bebbie writes, “Zeb’s frustration was apparent in his voice. Levi, now thirteen, knew better than to bring up the subject of the Hidden Land to Zeb for fear of this very reaction, but hashing it out now might do them both a world of good. The idea of reuniting with the Youngsters gnawed at Zeb, taking chunks, bit by bit, out of his daily thoughts.”

Published by Covenant Books of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Bebbie Hickman’s new book takes young readers on a fascinating adventure.

Readers can purchase “The Hidden Land of Youngsters: The Reconnect” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Covenant Books is an international Christian owned and operated publishing house based in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Covenant Books specializes in all genres of work which appeal to the Christian market. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Covenant Books at 843-507-8373.
Contact
Covenant Books
Media Department
800-452-3515
www.covenantbooks.com
ContactContact

Chicago, IL, February 06, 2023 —- Stenetta was an educator for 22-plus years before she became a published author. Now writing books that foster education, persistence, love, and acceptance. Anthony’s desire is to encourage and inspire people to follow their ambitions, and write their own life stories.

When Ella’s friends tell her elephants don’t dance ballet, she wonders if she will ever learn how to perform her favorite dances. Ella sometimes gets discouraged but doesn’t give up and becomes the graceful, twirling, leaping ballerina she always imagined she could be.

Stenetta’s latest release has already garnered Golden Wizard and Literary book awards, as well as receiving a 5-star Reader’s Favorite book seal.

Readers can purchase “Ella Learns to Dance” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon or Barnes and Noble. As well as Anthony’s two other stories; The Love Story and A Home for Sally.

Covenant Books is an international Christian owned and operated publishing house based in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Covenant Books specializes in all genres of work which appeal to the Christian market. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Covenant Books at 843-507-8373.

To set up an interview, reading, signing, or for information, please contact Stenetta Anthony at stenetta.anthony@gmail.com or visit stenettaanthony.weebly.com.
Contact
Covenant Books
Media Department
800-452-3515
www.covenantbooks.com
ContactContact