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People on the Move, July 18: Notable New Hires and Promotions – Biz New Orleans

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NEW ORLEANS Here are notable new hires and promotions in the greater New Orleans area:

Tulane Names Abbott to Head Enrollment Management

Tulane University has named veteran admissions leader Shawn Abbott to head enrollment management. He has held leadership roles in enrollment management at NYU, Stanford, Columbia and other top universities. Building the future of Tulane by attracting the best and brightest students from Louisiana, the nation and the world and supporting their success is a central goal of our university, said Tulane President Michael A. Fitts in a press release. The search committee [thinks] that Shawn is the best person to achieve these goals, possessing the experience and passion to grow Tulanes admissions and create classes that will have a profound impact at Tulane and beyond while also increasing access for students from all backgrounds.

Lakeview Regional Medical Center Announces Hires, Promotion

Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a campus of Tulane Medical Center, announced two promotions in the critical care services department. Daphne Guidry is the departments new director, and Katherine Katie West is the new manager. Guidry has more than 24 years of nursing experience specializing in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation. She will provide clinical and operational oversight in her new role and lead patient care, quality, and service initiatives. West has been a nurse for 17 years, most of her time spent in the ICU and cath lab. She joined the Lakeview team as an ICU nurse in 2017 and was promoted to clinical supervisor in early 2020.

Lakeview also announced the recent appointment of Hannah Fowler, RN, as the new outpatient surgery manager. Fowler has worked in the outpatient surgery department at Lakeview Regional since May 2021. Hannah is self-motivated and always delivers a high level of service and support to her patients, said Marc Junot, associate administrator. Her team-oriented approach to leadership makes Hannah an excellent choice for this very busy department. We are thrilled to promote her to this position.

Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects Announces Promotions

Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects is proud to announce the promotion of Madeleine Matchett to director of interior design. She received her Bachelor of Arts in interior design from Louisiana State Universitys School of Interior Design in 2014 and started working for STBA in 2017. She has led the design effort on many of the firms projects, including the Slidell Memorial Hospital surgery addition and Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy Middle School Campus. STBA also announced the promotion of Cait Behrens to architect. She earned her Masters of Architecture degree from University of Louisiana at Lafayette and joined STBAs award-winning Healthcare Studio in 2016. B

Greater New Orleans Foundation Welcomes Devon Turner, Dan Favre

Devon Turner and Dan Favre have been named directors of the Greater New Orleans Foundations programs team. Turner is the director of nonprofit leadership and effectiveness. Prior to her arrival at the foundation, she served as executive director of Grow Dat Youth Farm, a local youth leadership development organization that uses food production as a platform to facilitate leadership development. Favre will take over as the foundations director of environmental programs. He was executive director of Bike Easy, the Greater New Orleans bicycle education and advocacy organization.

Zehnder Promotes Georgia Gilmore, Expands New Orleans Team

Zehnder Communications a full-service advertising agency with locations in Louisiana, Tennessee and Florida has promoted Georgia Gilmore to senior art director. Gilmore joined Zehnder in 2007 as a media coordinator. In her new position, she will coordinate equipment and software training updates as well as lead the production of client video shoots. She earned a bachelors degree from Tulane University. Zehnder also expanded its New Orleans team with the hiring of Avery Anderson as a web content specialist in its creative department. Anderson joins the Zehnder team with a bachelors degree from Tulane University. She previously worked as a content and SEO specialist for Online Optimist.

Garrison Joins CenterWell Senior Primary Care

CenterWell Senior Primary Care, a senior-focused and value-based care provider, announced the addition of Dr. Teresa Garrison to its center in Slidell (1300 Gause Boulevard). Board-certified in geriatric and internal medicine, DGarrison has been in the healthcare field for 10 years. Prior to joining CenterWell, she was a primary care physician at a senior care clinic for three years and later was part-time hospice medical director for the LHC Group, where 90% of her patients were seniors. Earlier in her career, Garrison helped develop a successful clinic for medically complex, high-risk adult and senior patients.

Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana Announces 2 New Board Members

Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana has announced the appointment of two new board members: Charique L. Richardson of Digital Innovation Media Group, and David P. Vicknair of Scott Vicknair LLC. Our board of directors is composed of a dedicated team of community leaders committed to providing strength, stability and self-reliance throughout the southeast Louisiana community, said Voris R. Vigee, president and CEO of Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana. We are excited to have Chariques and Davids talent, expertise and energy added to our existing board to help further our mission. Additionally, a new slate of officers took their oath of office at the June board meeting.

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Need a Midday Work Nap Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois? A Stand-Up ‘Nap Box’ is in the Works – wkdq.com

Many times I have had the need to take a nap at work. Sometimes, it's been so bad that I have crawled underneath my desk, on a yoga mat, with a small throw pillow from home, and tried to get a little shut-eye to get me through the rest of the day.

Once, a co-worker was so startled when they walked by and saw me curled up under my desk that they immediately tried to wake me up to see if I was ok. They thought I had fallen or had a heart attack or something. The gesture was very thoughtful, but they woke me up which did me no good.

- CNBC

More and more companies and the managers and executives that run them, are trying to make, not only a better work/life balance but a better work environment as well. Many companies not only allow workplace napping but encourage it by providing spaces to do so.

One such company is Google, which has been deemed the wackiest place to work. Google not only provides free gourmet meals, a swimming pool, and putt-putt golf courses, but they also provide napping pods.

- Yahoo

Like my company, your company probably doesn't provide any place at all to nap, no less an EnergyPod. But, a company in Japan has invented a stand-up Nap Box that you could put in the corner of your office.

Two Japanese companies plan to release vertical nap boxes to help with a healthier workplace. Yes, they are vertical, not horizontal, so you stand up and sleep.

- Bloomberg

On the inside of the pod, there are shelf areas to help support your knees, head, and butt.

Take a look at the Nap Box. Much of the video is from a press conference or board meeting. But, you can see the design of the napping pod.

Just in the planning stages, there is no word on price or availability, yet.

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Biden Reinvigorates Captive Nations Week By Listing Russia And Other Non-Communist Countries As Most Oppressive States OpEd – Eurasia Review

When the US Congress passed the resolution in 1959 requiring the president to issue a proclamation on Captive Nations Week every July, this measure was viewed both by its authors and those opposed to it as directed against the repression of nations by communist regimes.

Until the collapse of the Soviet bloc and then the USSR in 1989 and 1991, these messages served as an indicator of how the US government viewed these communist. In the years since, the messages have celebrated the freeing of nations in the former communist states and focused on nations who remain under communist rule.

That is appropriate because of how much progress in fact has been made, but it is incomplete for two reasons. On the one hand, it ignores the fact that the Captive Nations Week resolution focused not on communism as a doctrine but communism as a practice that involved repression not limited to communist states.

Victories over communism led to many victories, but many who proclaimed themselves as non-communists or even anti-communists have continued or revived the kind of ethno-national repression that the Soviet communists carried out in the past and that the few surviving communist regimes, China first among them, are carrying out to this day.

And on the other hand, focusing on progress alone not only overshadows just how much evil has been and is being carried out by nominally non-communist regimes and also how much work remains to be done in countries like the Russian Federation. There, for example, two of the nations the resolution spoke of, Idel-Ural and Cossackia, remain victims of repression.

In his proclamation of Captive Nations Week this year, US President Joe Biden has corrected this trend and returned to the principles underlying the original resolutions concerns about the victims of imperialist oppressionregardless of what those carrying it out call themselves(whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/07/15/a-proclamation-on-captive-nations-week-2022/).

Biden makes three key points: First, Captive Nations Week is not about anti-communism per se but rather against repression, regardless of what the states carrying it out do. Only three of the regimes he lists among the worlds most repressive are communist Cuba, North Korea and the Peoples Republic of China.

The other six are either former communist countries or have never been communist Russia, Iran, Belarus, Syria, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and it is no accident that the US president listed Russia first among all these countries, not because of its communist roots but because of its continuing imperialist behavior.

Second, Biden was explicit that governments which repress their peoples at home as all nine of these countries do seek to repress others abroad through various kinds of repression. Russias invasion of Ukraine is only the most obvious case of this; and it is no surprise in the current environment that the American president focuses on that.

And third, and this may be the most important aspect of the Captive Nations Week resolution this week, Biden makes clear that Americans cant remain unconcerned about such repressive be it within countries or between them and their neighbors. They must stand in solidarity with the brave human rights and pro-democracy advocates around the world.

The US leader concludes with the following words: May Captive Nations Week reinvigorate our efforts to live up to out ideals by championing justice, dignity and freedom for all, words that apply not only to communist countries, post-communist countries, countries that have never been communist and the US as well.

Biden does not say but his words clearly imply something that has often been forgotten: we are anti-communists not because people call themselves communists; we are anti-communists because of what communists have done. And we are equally against former communists or those who have never been communists who do the same things.

Those are words that the still enslaved peoples within the borders of post-Soviet Russia and within other countries communist or not will certainly welcome and hope that Bidens suggestion that Captive Nations Week can reinvigorate the American commitment to be on their side will take the form of concrete actions and support.

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Creation of CBDC Are Communism in its Purest Form Says Robert Kiyosaki – Coinpedia Fintech News

The US along with several other nations are examining the viability of CBDC introduction. The author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, has harsh criticism for the likelihood of their introduction as envisioned in the White House executive order.

The governments position on cryptocurrencies and the potential creation of CBDCs were outlined in President Joe Bidens Executive Order, which was signed in early March.

The move is harshly criticized by Kiyosaki who called this action the most treacherous move in US history.

Jim Rickards made his most important announcement today. Its about the most treasonous act in US history Bidens Executive Order 14067. Its communism in its purest form, the creation of CBDC Cental Bank Digital Curreny. Stay awake. Tune in to Rickards. Tune out Biden Take care

Also, Kiyosaki went so far as to call the development of CBDCs communism in its purest form.

In this tweet from July 18, 2022, Kiyosaki was referring to Jim Rickards, a former CIA insider who is also an economist and investment banker with 40 years of Wall Street experience. Rickards had broken the most important news on the presidential order and CBDCs.

As a refresher, President Bidens Executive Order 14067, to which Kiyosaki was alluding, instructs agencies to investigate the potential risks and rewards of establishing the United States own CBDC with the greatest urgency.

Despite his criticism of CBDCs, Kiyosaki is a supporter of Bitcoin (BTC) and the decentralization it offers. In a recent statement, he advised investors to get ready for the biggest sale on Earth after the anticipated bubble breaks.

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