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LONGVIEW, Texas, Dec. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BuySTARcase.coma leading innovator in mobile phone accessories -- has been named a CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree for its revolutionary STARcase.

The STARcase is an innovative, app-controlled smartphone case with automatic charge technology that displays customized notifications on a LED screen for calls, texts, emails, and third-party apps. The STARcase syncs with the user's contacts and apps, allowing the user to choose from hundreds of light shows, animated icons, and customizable scrolling text to view messages and notifications on the back of the phone. It also provides industry-first "smart charging" capability, allowing the user to customize whenand how muchto charge the phone from the case, reducing the prospects of ever being caught with a dead phone battery.

"We are thrilled to be named a CES 2022 Innovation Award Honoree," says Tom Coverstone, Chief Innovation Officer, at BuySTARase.com. "We have spent years engineering, modifying, and perfecting the STARcase. It is an honor to be recognized with the prestigious CES Innovation Award as recognition for the team'sexceptional efforts."

The CES Innovation Awardsare an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products across 28 product categories. This year's CES Innovation Awards program received a record-high number of over 1800 submissions, and the STARcase prevailed in the Mobile Phone and Accessories Category. The honorees of this highly anticipated competition receive global recognition from industry leaders and media who use the CES Innovation Awards to identify outstanding products, upcoming trends, and how companies are using technology to change lives for the better.

An elite panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers, engineers, and more, reviewed submissions based on innovation, engineering and functionality, aesthetics and design.

About BuySTARcase.com

The history of BuySTARcase.com parallels the story of American innovationthat with hard work, collaboration, and persistence, an idea can become a reality. The STARcase was invented, designed, and is assembled in the USA. The STARcase team is committed to utilizing the highest quality parts available that are hand-selected and tested for quality and durability. Their extensive patent and trademark portfolio reflects and validates a commitment to innovation. The STARcase mission extends to the global community. It is their genuine hope that the STARcase connects and brightens the lives of people across our globe. For more information visit: https://buySTARcase.com/.

About CES

Join BuySTARcase.com at CES 2022, the world's most influential technology event, happening Jan. 5-8 in Las Vegas, NV, in person and digitally.

Owned and produced by CTA, CES 2022, the global stage for innovation, will convene the tech industry giving global audiences access to the latest technology as well as the world's most-influential tech leaders and industry advocates.

To schedule a meeting or for media or business inquires with BuySTARcase.com at the upcoming conference, please contact Business Development at: sales@buystarcase.com.

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While the showdown with a mutating virus may have hogged the political limelight this year, there has been another global outbreak which may have an even more profound impact on our collective wellbeing: the corrosion of trust in information.

Where once access to information was regarded as a self-evident liberating force, we appear to have reached an inflection point where exponential growth in flows of content is clogging our public square in muck.

This is a contagion that threatens to divide us, undermine our efforts to mediate our differences and respond to our collective challenges, anchored to a commonly agreed set of facts.

The impact on our civic spaces has hit us in waves over the past 12 months, from the attacks on the US Capitol over a stolen presidential election, to the fervent anti-vaxxer protests, to our own governments stubborn refusal to address climate change.

While the voices that dominate these outbreaks of collective madness may appear to come from the fringes, their impact is shared in an unrelenting diminution of our trust in institutions and ultimately in each other.

After a short renaissance in public trust in 2020, figures in this weeks Guardian Essential Report show the majority of Australians end the year with little or no trust in the information we receive from government, with similar disdain for the output of the traditional news media and other institutions involved in public discourse.

As we enter the pointy end of the political cycle, this becomes an acute challenge with the real potential to influence the ultimate outcome of the election. Like a utility delivering dirty drinking water, we enter this critical moment unsure of the quality of what we are consuming.

These low levels of trust in information have a political impact. Confusion is a friend of the status quo if you cant agree on the problem, theres not much value in an answer.

While scientists maintain high regard for their information, there are a still quarter of Australians who say they have little or no faith in people whose careers are dedicated to separating the facts from the feelings.

Despite our relative success in managing the pandemic, other questions in this weeks poll show the consensus around public health measures declining as the Omicron variant threatens to take hold.

Pointedly, the trade in vaccine disinformation has created a new fault line to divide around, with majority support for establishing a two-tier health system where the unvaccinated would be asked to pay for any Covid treatment.

These results also show there is a particular disdain for the digital platforms that have built their unimaginable wealth and influence by monetising division and anger in an effort to extract and then sell our attention to the highest bidder.

In a separate question there is majority support for measures to regulate social media platforms and disrupt their model of collecting user information. There is also a growing appetite for the government to play a role in supporting alternative networks that operate in the public, rather than a commercial interest.

As QUT academic Axel Bruns argues in his contribution in a new book of essays released by the Australia Institutes Centre for Responsible Technology, The Public Square Project, providing independent researchers with access to the secret black box of platform algorithms is essential if we are to secure a clean supply of information.

Bruns, who works to chart the flow of disinformation through social networks, argues a critical driver of conspiracy is the interaction with traditional media and public figures, be they elected officials or celebrities.

To its credit, the Morrison government has bookended 2021 with attempts to place greater responsibility on to the platforms, first with the news media bargaining code forcing the platforms to fund journalism and more recently, with measures to force greater responsibility for the behaviour of users online.

But the way the prime minister approaches the election campaign will be just as telling as any legislative push. Already he appears to be conjuring his own virtual reality, where Gladys Berejiklian is the victim of a kangaroo court, Labors climate plan will destroy the economy and household prices will inevitably rise if he is no longer in control.

A real leadership test as the election heats up would be to self-moderate these flows of disinformation and vitriol rather than micro-targeting lies and anger at vulnerable voting groups.

Last time it was Death Taxes, the previous election it was Labors Mediscare, each brutally effective confections. Each success in political disinformation builds on the next until elections cease to be a contest of real ideas, but a cartoon cut-out of tropes and cliches.

Elections are rarely won pretty, but Trump showed there is a limit to and consequence of fully embracing the ugly. A multi-partisan commitment to ending the digital disinformation arms race would be a transformative commitment to a reality-based future from all sides.

Peter Lewis will discuss the latest Essential Report findings with Guardian Australia political editor Katharine Murphy at 1pm on Tuesday. Free registration here

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CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Benchmark Digital (Benchmark), a leading provider of cloud-based Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) software solutions invites you to a virtual ESG Executive Collaboration Forum on December 8, 2021. The session is the second in a recurring series of virtual forums designed to share best practices among ESG practitioners and equip organizations with practical insights into the evolving ESG regulatory and standards landscape (GRI, SASB, TCFD) and strategies for addressing ESG disclosure and the operational foundations necessary for ESG performance excellence.

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In this 1-hour session, experts will provide takeaways from COP26, a real-time update on the global ESG regulatory and reporting landscape, and the role of management systems in ESG disclosure and data management, including a case study of Global Partners LP and their climate program. ESG leaders will be able to connect in an open exchange of insights and best practices, find out how their peers are overcoming common challenges, and learn what they can do to strengthen their ESG programs and their companys results.

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The Portland Trail Blazers have had a horrendous start to the season. New head coach Chauncey Billups has not been able to get his team playing the way he had hoped. Despite Damian Lillard expressing a desire not to leave and join another team, if the Blazers keep playing this poorly, he may have to leave, for the sake of his career.

CJ McCollum spoke recently about the situation in Portland with The Athletic. He said that the circumstances are different from anything he has seen before. Everything that has happened has an effect on the teams performance on the court. But this is taking a massive toll on him.

This is different than anything Ive ever experienced because of the circumstances. This is the first year of my career where we lost our whole coaching staff, brought in a new coach, a new staff, the GM gets fired in the middle of the season all of that affects you on the court. But there is no excuses. I didnt come here to tell you Theres a lot of sh*t going on but yeah, there is. Theres sh*t going on every day. And Im a f*cking human being. But look, at the end of the day, my job is to play basketball. So I go play basketball.

McCollum has not had an easy road so far, and things have gotten worse, even suffering a significant injury, a collapsed right lung that will keep him out indefinitely. Things have gone from bad to worse so far for McCollum and the Blazers, and it has not just been on the court.

The Blazers have been a franchise in disarray for some time. Aside from their 11-14 record, they have had internal problems, especially when it comes to their front office.They recently fired their president Neil Oshey, which could put a lot of their teams structure into jeopardy.

On top of that, there have been reports that Damian Lillard wants to play with Ben Simmons. Any fans of the Blazers will hope that things will settle down, but it will take a lot of progress from the franchise on all fronts to make that possible.

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Although media often portray femicides as spontaneous crimes of passion when men kill their female partners, these femicides are the culmination of a history of violence in more than 70 per cent of cases and are more often crimes of control.

This article byJordan Fairbairn, King's University College; Ciara Boyd, University of Guelph; Myrna Dawson, University of Guelph, and Yasmin Jiwani, Concordia Universityoriginally appeared on the Conversation and is published here with permission.

On Dec. 6, 1989, an act of violent misogyny killed 14 young women at cole Polytechnique at Universit of Montral.

This mass femicide, though carried out by a lone male, grew out of a societal environment of gender inequity, misogyny, colonialism, racism and other intersecting systems of oppression.

Femicide, which refers to the sex/gender-related killings of women and girls, does not occur out of the blue. Although media often portray femicides as spontaneous crimes of passion when men kill their female partners, these femicides are the culmination of a history of violence in more than 70 per cent of cases and are more often crimes of control.

They are also often more likely to be premeditated than non-intimate partner killings. So many of these deaths are preventable, and we must use every tool at our disposal to increase public awareness and enhance prevention.

Holding officials to account

Public health efforts around the COVID-19 pandemic have illustrated the importance of clear messaging, prioritizing expert voices and holding political leaders and social institutions to account to save lives.

As these efforts continue, we once again mark Dec. 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, and reflect on the ongoing pandemic of male violence that continues to take the lives of women and girls worldwide.

Our work at the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability keeps track of this extreme form of sex/gender-related violence. As is so evident with the COVID-19 pandemic, the media play a critical role in informing us about how threats are defined, what aspects to pay attention to and how to deal with a given problem.

In short, the media frame the problem and suggest the solutions. As such, the media can be a key mechanism for primary prevention, but only if the problem is represented accurately.

In covering femicide, media have a leading role, not only in awareness and education generally, but in actively shaping the construction of attitudes and beliefs that can help prevention efforts.

In contrast, harmful representations include those that portray these killings as isolated or individualized events, focus on victim behaviours to suggest (implicitly or explicitly) that they were to blame for their own death or marginalizing certain groups based on race, religion, socio-economic class, sex-trade involvement, sexual orientation and other factors.

There is also the matter of who isnt represented at all. The missing white girl syndrome underscores that white, usually class-privileged victims receive copious amounts of media coverage while missing and murdered Indigenous, Black and other racialized women and girls are excluded from large-scale societal attention. Therefore, some women and girls remain invisible in life and death.

Media reporting on femicide is key

How reporters frame femicides is therefore critical for accurately informing the public. Media coverage of femicide has the potential to connect it to broader issues related to violence against women, thereby educating the public about these crimes, their broader societal causes, consequences and implications.

This media coverage might include terminology such as femicide, statistics on the number of women killed by intimate partners, domestic violence resources or new expert sources who are more qualified to speak on femicide, including front-line service providers, advocates and researchers.

In addition to providing more in-depth, empirically supported context about femicide, this type of coverage raises public awareness about the issue. It reports on femicides not as isolated incidents but more directly highlights community and societal solutions.

That can include funding services that help victims of violence, prevention education, legal reform and cultural change, such as targeting the attitudes that support or normalize violence against women.

As we remember those women and girls killed by violence in Canada, we can critically reflect on how their stories are told and how the media educate us about their deaths. We can move beyond relying on police narratives and cultural framings about femicide, drawing from the experiences and expertise of survivors and those who have lost loved ones to violence.

We can reduce sensational, graphic reporting of femicide and stop suggesting any victims actions, behaviours or lifestyles contributed to their deaths.

Femicide is a tragic loss of life. It is the most extreme act of violence against women, a human rights violation and part of a public health crisis. An accurate representation of this crime by the media must include perspectives that address all three of these areas.

Jordan Fairbairn, Associate Professor, Sociology, King's University College, Western University, King's University College; Ciara Boyd, PhD Student, Sociology, University of Guelph; Myrna Dawson, Professor and Research Leadership Chair, Sociology, University of Guelph, and Yasmin Jiwani, Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University

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