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Today, nearly all arenas, stadiums and ballparks have WiFi; it's become the No. 1-requested amenity among consumers. "In fact," Perrone said, "WiFi is one of the only services where you have high customer demand, low friction and no need to change behavior, so there is an enormous opportunity to capture that data and d... |
The SocialSign.in experience is simple. Visitors sign in to the guest WiFi with their email or Facebook profile to validate their identity, and upon entrance to the network, experience a personalized interaction curated by the team or venue, featuring branded content like surveys, coupons, contests, promotions, etc. |
The SocialSign.in software enables the guest WiFi to remember the customer and automatically sign him/her into a tailored experience on future visits, displaying highly relevant content driven by specific social profiles and prior actions. This first-party personalized marketing experience provides another channel for ... |
According to MVPindex CEO Stan Woodward, new and emerging regulations around privacy and data are causing many organizations to rethink how they approach marketing and the use of third-party data. |
"The ability to build direct, first-party relationships has become critical," Woodward said, "Like us, SocialSign.in is GDPR compliant, and their software enables us to validate and collect first-party data on behalf of our clients at the time of highest engagement. Coupled with MVPindex's end-to-end audience measureme... |
Since its founding, MVPindex has become the de facto social media measurement and sponsorship valuation platform in sports and entertainment. MVPindex measures audience engagement and values sponsorship activations for 100,000-plus popular and niche social accounts across hundreds of millions of social posts. In 2018, ... |
Adrian Ao un, found and CEO of Forward. |
Adrian Aoun, the founder and CEO of healthcare startup Forward, recently spoke at Business Insider's IGNITION 2018 conference in New York. |
Aoun talked about the importance of not only providing reactive care, but prioritizing preventative care. |
Forward plans to "build the first billion-person healthcare system" on top of its platform by turning healthcare into "a product." |
Adrian Aoun, the founder and CEO of healthcare startup Forward, spoke about the importance of preventative care at the annual IGNITION conference, hosted by Business Insider, in New York on Dec. 3. |
Aoun, a former Google executive, started Forward just two years ago, and has since opened futuristic-looking doctors offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City. Memberships work like that of a gym: you pay a monthly fee, starting at $150, and doctors work alongside patients to monitor health risks with ad... |
If you'd like to watch his presentation, it starts at 2:23:14 here. |
"Health problems are all around us, happening to everyone. There's always a surprise. So how are we getting blindsided by these? How could we miss this? The clues on how to solve these problems are everywhere," Aoun said. "I want a healthcare system that is preventative, not reactive. One that listens to the clues inst... |
At the conference, Aoun used his brother's recent heart attack as an example as to why reactive healthcare can be problematic. |
A slide about Forward's car dic ultrasound technology, from Aoun's presentation. |
"Our cardiovascular ultrasound, that our doctors can take to your carotid artery and your heart so you can literally see how your valves are opening and closing live right in front of you," he said. "The first time my brother had this done was in the ER when he was literally having a heart attack. If we had just listen... |
"The sound of your heart is it speaking to us. There is data in your everyday." |
A slide from Ao un's presentation. |
Forward begins by "looking for clues in the past" of each patient, Aoun explained. It does that by digitizing old medical records and using advanced AI technology to get a better picture of each patient. |
A typical doctor visit at Forward starts with a 3D body scan, measuring things like resting metabolic rate (when your body is at ease) and body composition. |
A slide from Aoun's presentation at the IGNITION 2018 conference. |
"We take a millimeter-precision body model so we can listen to the clues. Even things as simple as your hip-to-waist ratio are good predictors of whether you are going to develop heart disease." |
Then, a one-on-one meeting with a doctor fills in remaining questions about family medical history, in addition to ordering blood tests and creating a preventative plan. |
The body scan and an EKG take less than two minutes to complete at Forward, said Aoun. Forward is also located in convenient places, like shopping malls in major cities for those with busy schedules. |
The startup has three locations in Los Angeles, one in San Francisco, and two in New York City. |
"We sequence your DNA to equip doctors with 3 billion clues about you." |
Forward also analyzes genetic data to determine whether or not a patient is prone to hereditary diseases, like the gene mutation that causes colon cancer. |
"When you combine all the clues, that is how you change healthcare," said Aoun. |
Patients can monitor their preventative care plan on the Forward app, plugging in data points every day, and the app is compatible with some wearable tech products like the Apple Watch. |
"Our vision is to create the first healthcare system at scale. When you think of scale in terms of healthcare, what do you think of?" asked Aoun. |
Aoun said Kaiser is one of a few healthcare companies in the industry that is changing the way patients receive care. |
"Kaiser has 11.7 million lives, that's less than three percent of the United States. If Kaiser was a tech company, you would have never heard of it and you wouldn't have the app on your phone," he said. "Why haven't they been able to scale to billions of users like tech companies have? Well, it turns out that $200,000 ... |
Aoun concluded his conference presentation by saying, "We want to listen at scale. We want to build the first billion-person healthcare system." |
"The way to do that is to take healthcare from being a service into being a product — reinventing the healthcare system on top of a platform like Forward." |
Read more from Business Insider's IGNITION 2018 conference here. |
The following is a preseason look at Greater Western Ohio Conference American North girls high school basketball. |
2017-18 standings: Tippecanoe (25-3 overall, 15-0 GWOC American North); Butler (15-9, 11-4); Greenville (14-10, 10-5); Troy (12-11, 9-6); Piqua (7-16, 4-11); Sidney (2-21, 2-13). |
Head coaches: Andy Holderman (Tipp), Rachel Kerns (Greenville), Jon Dolph (Piqua), Lauren Stefancin (Sidney), Molly Bardonaro (Butler), Aaron Johnson (Troy). |
• A former Wright State basketball 3-point specialist and Butler and Tipp boys assistant, Holderman has turned the Red Devils into a D-II area girls power. Major graduation losses must again be overcome, but haven’t been an issue yet. |
• Dolph succeeds Brian Gillespie. A former standout football and basketball player at Piqua, Dolph previously was the Indians’ freshman boys coach. Piqua hasn’t had a winning season since 1999-00. |
• Bardonaro is in her sixth season guiding the Aviators. |
• Kerns is in her fifth season as head coach of the Green Wave. |
• A former Troy football and basketball standout, Johnson is in his third season as the Trojans’ head coach. |
• This is Season 2 of Sidney’s rebuild with Stefancin. |
Notable from last season: Everything begins and ends with Tipp. The Red Devils blew through the North unbeaten for their second divisional title in as many season. Tipp also takes a 30-game unbeaten GWOC North streak into this season. |
Tipp appeared to be the successor to Alter’s grip on the D-II regional. Instead, it was Bellbrook that stung Tipp 47-41 in a regional final. It was the fourth straight season Tipp was ousted at the regional level, all but one in the final. Two high-scoring reasons for Tipp’s great run was graduates Maddie Frederick (Io... |
Top returning scorers: Alina Kindle, sr., G, Sidney, 11.2 points; Abbie Schoenherr, sr., G, Butler, 11.0; Tyree Fletcher, sr., G, Butler, 10.8. |
Top returning rebounders: Tia Bass, jr., F, Troy, 9.0 rebounds; Fletcher, Butler, 8.7; Lauren McGraw, jr., F, Troy, 5.0. |
What to know: Tipp is the team to beat again, and this is the final season for GWOC teams to do that. Senior Brooke Aselage (6.0 points), junior Kendall Clodfelter (3.7) and sophomore Ashleigh Mader (2.5) form a proven Red Devils’ nucleus. |
• This is the final season for these six teams to compete in the GWOC. They’ll join GWOC American South members Fairborn, Stebbins, West Carrollton and Xenia in reviving a 10-team Miami Valley League. |
• GWOC crossover games against American South teams count in divisional standings. |
Quotable: “Their leadership and toughness have set the tone for this season. They are mature and are confident in what we are doing. They will be responsible for much of our success.” – Greenville coach Rachel Kerns on four returning seniors. |
Openers: Russia at Sidney (Fri., Nov. 23), Ponitz at Greenville (Fri., Nov. 23), Troy at Springfield Shawnee (Mon., Nov. 26), Northmont at Butler (Mon., Nov. 26), West Liberty-Salem at Tippecanoe (Mon., Nov. 26), Graham at Piqua (Tue., Nov. 27). |
N'DJAMENA, Chad -- At "Ground Zero" in Africa's counterterrorism fight, senior U.S. officials warned of deepening links between the Islamic State and Boko Haram and prodded Chad's ruling strongman to introduce reforms for the sake of long-term stability. |
But in a rare appearance before foreign journalists at his presidential palace, Chadian President Idriss Deby indicated he wouldn't help in the U.S.-backed effort to install a unity government in Libya, his country's northern neighbor, a former foe and an incubator for Muslim extremist groups. |
The visit to Chad by America's U.N. envoy, Samantha Power, and top U.S. military officials such as Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc, commander of special operations in Africa, highlights the country's precarious position dealing with a multitude of hostile militant groups and unstable neighboring governments. It also underscor... |
The Boko Haram-IS nexus may pose the greatest immediate threat. Although Boko Haram pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State last year, the operational connection has been unclear. |
Bolduc said the groups clearly share "tactics, techniques and procedures," from the way they conduct complex ambushes and set improvised explosive devices like roadside bombs, to how they undertake high-profile attacks on hotels. |
Suggesting the relationship is expanding, he said Chad on April 7 intercepted a "large cache of different types of weapons" sent from Libya and intended for the Lake Chad region. These included small arms, machine guns and rifles. |
"You can, I think, draw a conclusion," Bolduc told reporters. The implication was that the weapons were sent by the Islamic State, which has established a foothold along Libya's Mediterranean coast, near the city of Sirte. |
Given the range of threats here, he said the "Lake Chad Basin region is Ground Zero" in the fight against extremism in Africa. |
Maj. Gen. L.O. Adeosun, head of the five-nation African force fighting Boko Haram, expressed a more muddied picture. |
Adeosun cited "information," but not confirmation, of Islamic State members embedded within Boko Haram. But he said intelligence suggests Boko Haram still hasn't satisfied certain conditions set by the Islamic State for greater operational cooperation. He didn't elaborate. |
At a briefing at the Multinational Joint Task Force's headquarters in Chad's capital, Adeosun showed reporters gruesome photos of the victims of Boko Haram attacks and the types of weapons employed. |
One picture showed a bird with an explosive strapped on its back, demonstrating "a lot of ingenuity," Adeosun said. |
Stressing the civilian aspect to defeating Boko Haram, a once indigenous Nigerian militant movement whose rebellion has morphed into a regional force, Power stressed the need to bolster economic development, job opportunities and political inclusiveness. |
The message carried added weight, coming less than two weeks after Chad held elections that are widely expected to return Deby for a fifth term as president. Deby has led the country since 1990. Election results haven't yet been announced. |
"We noted how far Chad has come from the dark days of dictatorship to today," Power said. |
But she expressed displeasure with a "crackdown on freedom of protest" and a government decision to shut down the Internet and text messaging throughout Chad for several days around the time of the vote. |
Deby rejected opposition claims that some 60 security forces who voted against him in the elections have since disappeared. |
"There are no disappearances," he stated. "They will be presented on television, in front of the world." |
As Power's delegation arrived in Chad, U.S. embassy staff warned accompanying journalists numerous times about rules prohibiting unauthorized photography in the country. They also told reporters not to ask Deby any questions. |
But a somewhat reclusive Deby, who has survived at least a dozen coup plots and assassination attempts during his quarter-century in power, welcomed the opportunity to speak his mind. |
The 63-year-old Deby, who seized power himself in a coup after helping Chad defeat Libya in the 1980s, said Washington and other powers were partly to blame for the Boko Haram-IS threat. He said they are destabilizing Libya through their effort to install a functioning government. |
"The international community is imposing a unity government from outside Libya that will fail," Deby said. |
The Volkswagen Phaeton is a full-size luxury sedan sold by VW in the U.S. only from the 2004 through 2006 model years. It was a large and luxurious four-door sedan that shared some underpinnings with the Audi A8 and Bentley Continental models of the same years. |
But the Phaeton's unlikely presence in VW showrooms with a price two or three times that of the average Jetta or Golf puzzled the buyers of more mass-market models and failed to attract those shopping for an alternative to conspicuous luxury. It was widely viewed as a sales disaster for the brand, and while the Phaeton... |
From the outside, the Phaeton was a conservatively styled upright luxury sedan roughly the size of a Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Remove the round VW logos, and no one would have known what it was--but put them back on, or put the car in the Volkswagen showrooms it was sold from, and it suddenly looks a bit large a large Vol... |
Interior trim featured eucalyptus wood for the V-8 model and walnut for the W-12, stainless steel pedals, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel. The Phaeton seated five passengers comfortably, or four luxuriously, and the rear-seat armrest folded down to give access from the trunk to the interior for long items--complet... |
The VW Phaeton came with standard all-wheel drive and a choice of two engines: a 335-horsepower 4.2-liter V-8 mated to a six-speed automatic transmission, or a massive 420-hp 6.0-liter W-12--boosted to 444 hp for 2006--that powered the car through a beefier five-speed automatic. Top speed was limited to 135 mph, and fu... |
As a full-on luxury car, all Phaetons were fitted with a panoramic sunroof, four-zone automatic climate control, a premium audio system featuring a six-CD changer in the glovebox and 10 speakers, 12-way heated front power seats with adjustable lumbar supports, self-dimming mirrors, high-intensity discharge (HID) headla... |
The lower-level V-8 model featured 17-inch alloy wheels, while the more powerful W-12 rode on 18-inch alloys. Other upgrades for the high-end model included a more powerful 12-speaker sound system, heated seats for all passengers, and heated and ventilated front seats that adjusted in 18 different ways and offered a ma... |
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Those who were "personally and profoundly impacted" by the explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line will be able to run in next year's race under a special invitation that event organizers extended on Monday. |
Having already expanded the field by 9,000 to accommodate those who were stopped on the course when two bombs went off at the finish line, as well as those who want to run the first race after the bombings, the Boston Athletic Association said it has set aside up to a few hundred additional entries for those who can ma... |
"We are making additional entries available by request to those who were personally and profoundly impacted," B.A.A. Executive Director Tom Grilk said. |
Grilk said this is in addition to a special allocation of entries for The One Fund, the charity established to help the bombing victims, and for first-responders and for Boston-area hospitals where the wounded were treated. Nor is it specifically for athletes with disabilities, including those wounded in the explosions... |
Those who would like to apply need to make their case in 250 words or fewer and submit it to the B.A.A. website, www.baa.org, by Nov. 27. A committee appointed by the B.A.A. will allocate the entries and notify those who were successful on Dec. 4. |
Those entering must be 18 years old on race day and be prepared to show they can compete the 26.2-mile distance in less than 6 hours, 30 minutes. |
Three people were killed and at least 260 wounded when two bombs exploded on Boylston Street during this year's race. |
An expanded field of 36,000 — the second-biggest in the race's 118-year history — is expected to line up on April 21 for the run from Hopkinton to Boston's Back Bay. |
Empire Creator Lee Daniels Sends Emotional Message to Jussie Smollett: "Hold Your Head Up" |
Empire creator Lee Daniels is sending his love to actor and activist Jussie Smollett after news broke that he was hospitalized after being assaulted in Chicago. |
Earlier today, E! News learned that Smollett was the victim of a possible homophobic and racist attack, and the writer-director wants the actor to stay strong through all of this. |
Daniels shared his emotional reaction to the news on Instagram, saying, "It's taken me a minute to come to social media about this because Jussie, you are my son." |
"You didn't deserve to have a noose put around your neck, to have bleach thrown on you, to be called 'die f––––t, n––––r,' or whatever they said to you. You are better than that. We are better than that. America is better than that. We have to love each other regardless of what sexual orientation we are, because it sho... |
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