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Springfield Catholic ran the table at the 2024 Big 8 Conference Spring Softball Championship, winning four games in two days, April 12-13, to claim the program's first league title. On Friday, the Irish won a 13-12 thriller over Lamar before run-ruling Hollister, 17-0. Saturday culminated with a win over defending Big 8 champion Mt. Vernon, 14-7, before another securing another walk-off victory in the championship game against East Newton, 6-5.
We mark Remembrance Day with our Poppy Pebbles 2023 campaign
This year, the Forces Employment Charity is marking Remembrance Day by inviting students to take part in our #PoppyPebbles23 project. 2023 marks the third year we’ve run this popular campaign, with previous participants including Garway Primary School in Herefordshire, singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor and blogger Sophie Bradbury-Cox.
CLIVE BARKER'S DARK WORLDS (REVIEW)
Author. Phil Stokes, Sarah Stokes Reviewer. Martyn Wakefield "We have such sights to show you" those famous words uttered by Clive Barker's most treasured creations, Pinhead, as played by Doug Bradley in the 1984 classic HELLRAISER. A film that is so stapled to Barker not just because it is a fantastic film, but one born of his own creation and given directorial freedom to showcase that vision on screen.
Clive Barker’s Dark Worlds
A deep dive into the creative world and personal archive of the master of horror Clive Barker, from Hellraiser and Candyman to today "I've seen the future of horror . . . and his name is Clive Barker." In the mid-1980s, Stephen King inducted a young English novelist into the world of great genre writers, and since then, this genius creator has only continued to expand his field of activity.
Clive Barker's Dark Worlds — The Clive Barker Archive
We're delighted to announce that Abrams Books is set to publish Clive Barker's Dark Worlds, a wide-ranging book covering Clive's decades of creative work, as he celebrates his 70th birthday in October 2022. Assembled with Clive's full input and assistance, drawing on his archive and covering all aspects of his work, this richly illustrated volume showcases a creative life unconstrained by genre or medium.
The Official Clive Barker Website
The Book Of Hours became Abarat and the proliferation of paintings, combined with the burgeoning storyline, caused Abarat to split into 4, then 5, separate books. The first volume - called simply Abarat - arrived on UK & US shelves in October 2002 and then spread across the world in foreign language editions with additional text-only softback versions in the UK and US. The second volume - Abarat : Days of Magic, Nights of War - was published in September 2004.
The Official Clive Barker Website
The Thirty-Fourth Revelatory Interview By Phil & Sarah Stokes, 9 to 24 April, 2020 Revelations : "Clive, although we speak often, we’re conscious that that this is the first conversation we’re putting on record as a Revelations interview for some time.
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Jared Olsen: HR Achievement Awards
What are some unique HR challenges you face in your industry? Complacency and fear are the biggest challenges I see in the HR industry. HR has historically been the department who has created red tape, smothered innovation, and taken the safe path. The HR industry is in need of some serious disruption. What aspects of human resources do you believe are ripe for disruption? Results only work environments (ROWE) are such a simple illustration of where HR is ripe for disruption.
Dianne James: HR Achievement Awards
How have you helped to develop and foster the culture within your company? Due to the uniqueness of our structure, and that our growth over a number of years has come from acquisition, I would say that we have a blending of cultures. It’s something that makes us unique and is much valued by our bank leaders. In HR, we consider ourselves “culture keepers” and one of the ways in which we “keep our fingers on the pulse” is through our company-wide employee survey.
Heidi Humphries: HR Achievement Awards
How have you worked to effectively recruit top talent and retain that talent? It’s critical for hiring managers to understand what’s important to their prospective new hires. I firmly believe that the employer-employee relationship is a value exchange, and both parties need to feel that they’re getting what they need from the relationship.
Charlotte L. Miller: HR Achievement Awards
How have you worked to ensure greater diversity and inclusion at your company? Greater diversity and inclusion requires daily work and individual interaction. While president of the Utah State Bar, I learned that the graders of the bar exam were all men, even though women had been a substantial percentage of law school graduates for some time. To change the situation, I and others reached out to women to invite them to be part of the Bar examination group.
Kathy Brown: HR Achievement Awards
What is a unique HR challenge you’ve face in your company? Just last month, we just finished a 40-employee acquisition. When you only had 160 employees to begin with, that’s a pretty big undertaking. … We did a lot of project planning; we did a lot of things preemptively to try and help respond to a lot of the questions that you get when you’re doing an acquisition transition. … HR is a pretty integral part of an acquisition in that you’re affecting peoples’ lives.
Cathy Donahoe: HR Achievement Awards
What are the processes or programs you’ve helped implement regarding talent development? One program that I’m particularly proud that we’ve had since day one is a high-performance culture (HPC) program, something a lot of technology companies are implementing today. HPC is a modern way to view performance management, by focusing on 3–4 key questions about performance so that it’s actionable.
Cassie Whitlock: HR Achievement Awards
What are some unique HR challenges you face in your company, and how have you helped your company address those challenges? The biggest challenge I face, alongside my HR team—and likely the biggest challenge for HR in most organizations—is balancing business needs and individual employees’ needs. In HR, it’s crucial to find a win-win scenario as opposed to a win-lose outcome.
Heather H. Fisher: HR Achievement Awards
How do you view your role within the overall management team at your company? Our executive management team is committed to creating a strong and healthy culture for our employees. As the HR manager, I find they engage me in conversations about the decisions that affect employees and we evaluate the potential impact of any proposed changes. We connect regularly on any issues facing our employees, and they empower HR to do what’s right for our employees.
Bob Sant: HR Achievement Awards
What do you enjoy most about your work? I enjoy being involved in all aspects of the company, from day-to-day interactions with employees to serving on the executive management team and assisting in the company’s overall direction. I especially enjoy helping employees succeed, which in turn, helps the company succeed. What are some unique HR challenges you face in your company, and how have you helped your company address those challenges?
Troy Anderson: HR Achievement Awards
How do you view your role within the overall management team at your company? I don’t see myself limited to a traditional learning and development type of role. Rather, I’d like to think of myself as an internal organizational development consultant and executive coach. I’ve had the good fortune of being able to mold my position to what I enjoy doing, where my skill sets lie, and more importantly, where I can add value most in the long term here at Instructure.
Summer Scoville: HR Achievement Awards
How have you helped to develop and foster the culture within your company? The Dell culture is one of customer first, high collaboration, work hard/play hard environment, and part of a family feel. We also value a culture of winning together, innovation, results and integrity. The leadership team encourages participation in community involvement such as the food bank, blood drives, STEM efforts in local high schools, etc., and [employees] receive paid time during this involvement.
Frances A. Hume: HR Achievement Awards
Frances Hume has been in the human resources profession for four decades. After several years working for corporations, she launched her own consulting business in 1998. She’s been involved with SHRM leadership since 1979 and was chair of the national SHRM board in 2009. How has the role of the HR professional changed within organizations?
Mircea Divricean: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Mircea Divricean, president and chief executive officer at Kostopulos Dream Foundation and Camp Kostopulos. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. When Mircea Divricean worked as a counselor Camp Kostopulos one summer during college, he thought he was just there for a job. But one summer became two, and two became three. After graduating with a degree in finance, Divricean spent a year working in finance before realizing that something was missing.
Nathan Rafferty: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Nathan Rafferty, president and chief executive officer at Ski Utah. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. On a day when the mountains are blanketed with a fresh coat of white powder, you won’t find Nathan Rafferty or anyone else from Ski Utah in the office—they’ll be hitting the slopes, practicing what they preach. “We made an official policy that when it snowed over a foot, there was going to be an option for everybody in the office to go ski.
Joel Clark: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Joel Clark, chief executive officer at Kodiak Cakes. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. When Joel Clark was 8 years old, he was a fixture in the neighborhood, selling lunch sacks filled with his mother’s pancake mix to neighbors. “She always thought there was a market for more healthy products, but this was the ‘80s, and there were some but not as many,” Clark recalls.
Vivien Bohme: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Vivien Bohme, chief executive officer at Bohme. She was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. It may look like fun and fashion, but the retail game is not for the faint of heart, says Vivien Bohme. “Women’s apparel is really fun, because you get to deal with designers, but there’s also a lot of stress because it’s a gamble. Until a customer touches it, you don’t know if it’s going to work or not, and sometimes the trends aren’t there,” she says.
Randall Hales: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Randall Hales, president and chief executive officer at ZAGG Inc. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. When Randy Hales was just starting his first job out of college, he had an extremely demanding boss. He flew all around the country, taking “airplanes like some people take buses to work,” he says. He would show up to work at 6 a.m. and wasn’t allowed to have a scrap of paper on his desk.
Andrew Limpert: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Andrew Limpert, director and chief executive officer at FireFly Automatix, Inc. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. When Andrew Limpert was a child, he and his friend Steve Aposhian would play baseball together—with no idea that later in their lives, they would work together on a turf harvesting agricultural technology company: FireFly Automatix.
Jim Carlson: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Jim Carlson, co-founder and chief executive officer at Zurixx, LLC. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. After years of helping start and grow several other businesses—in industries ranging from multimedia publishing to financial sales—Jim Carlson and business partners, Cris Cannon and Jeff Spangler, decided to start a new venture in the financial education industry.
Scott Beck: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Scott Beck, president and chief executive officer at CHG Healthcare. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. For most of his life, Scott Beck thought he would follow in his oncologist father’s footsteps and become a doctor. At the University of Utah, Beck took some marketing and business classes and fell in love with entrepreneurship instead—but he never stopped wanting to work with physicians and in healthcare.
Ryan Westwood: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Ryan Westwood, co-founder and chief executive officer at Simplus. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. Ryan Westwood founded Simplus in 2014 and in less than four years has turned the company into a Platinum Salesforce Partner with Series A and B funding rounds under its belt. The company ranked as the No. 78 fastest-growing company in North America on Deloitte’s 2017 Technology Fast 500, and it more than doubled its workforce in 2017.
Chris Klomp: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Chris Klomp, chief executive officer at Collective Medical Technologies. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. When Chris Klomp left college with a degree in Economics, he embarked on a marvelous career at Bain & Company, transitioning to Bain Capital. He was a member of the firm’s private equity team, and he was really good at it. “He was a star at Bain Capital,” says Clint Peterson, managing partner at Peterson Partners.
Steve Daly: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to Steve Daly, president and chief executive officer at Ivanti. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. For Steve Daly and the company he leads, 2017 was a big year—and it was a year that topped off a half-decade of growth through strategic acquisition and new technology development. From 2012 through 2016, the company acquired six different tech companies.
John B. Lund: CEO of the Year
Congratulations to John B. Lund, president and chief executive officer at America First Credit Union. He was named one of the 2018 CEO of the Year honorees. John Lund took a job at America First Credit Union in 1975—and never left. He began working as a clerk for the credit union while he was in school, but stayed after graduation. There were always opportunities to learn new things, he says, and he steadily advanced up through the organization. Lund was named president and CEO in 2012.
Melissa A. Beutler: Forty Under 40
Congratulations to Melissa A. Beutler, vice president general counsel at Big-D Construction. She was named one of Utah Business’ 2018 Forty Under 40 honorees. Melissa Beutler is a national leader in the realm of construction law. Prior to joining Big-D Construction in 2014, she served at Holland & Hart, where she became an equity partner at the age of 31.
Kevin Knight: Forty Under 40
Congratulations to Kevin Knight, chief marketing officer at Experticity. He was named one of Utah Business’ 2018 Forty Under 40 honorees. In today’s world, there are all kinds of ways to turn off ads, from DVRs to ad blockers. To Kevin Knight, the challenge of how to make people pay attention to advertisements represents an opportunity to be cleverer about how they’re presented.
Zion Natl Park Forever Project: Sales & Marketer of the Year - Utah Business
Congratulations to the Zion Natl Park Forever Project and Love Communications. Together they were honored for “Integrated Marketing Campaign ” at Utah Business’ 2018 Sales & Marketer of the Year (SAMY) awards. Zion National Park has breathtaking vistas and excellent hiking—and a growing number of visitors to match. But as federal funding for its support and upkeep remained stagnant, the Zion National History Association sought outside help.
Traeger Grills: Sales & Marketer of the Year - Utah Business
Congratulations to Traeger Grills. They were honored for “Best Use of Video” at Utah Business’ 2018 Sales & Marketer of the Year (SAMY) awards. In 2017, Traeger Grills released a series of short snappy videos and utilized social media hype, native social advertising and an epic live launch of the company’s new Timberline grill on the Traeger website and Facebook page.
Landmark Home Warranty: Sales & Marketer of the Year - Utah Business
Congratulations to Landmark Home Warranty. They were honored for “Digital Campaign” at Utah Business’ 2018 Sales & Marketer of the Year (SAMY) awards. At the beginning of 2017, Landmark Home Warranty set some ambitious goals: to save 10,000 labor hours and company time through automation and by driving more people to the website to order and renew; to track and report marketing-generated revenue and orders; and to optimize its new website, which launched January 2017.
Edge Marketing Team: Sales & Marketer of the Year - Utah Business
Congratulations to the marketing team at Edge | The Service Company. They are one of Utah Business’ 2018 Sales & Marketer of the Year (SAMY) honorees. Last year, the marketing team at Edge | The Service Company shifted their efforts to a wholesale digital campaign in order to effectively target potential customers. On top of that, the team assumed control of their pay per click efforts and have been able to generate more leads at a lower cost. In 2016, Edge saw 21,020 leads for the entire year.
Preston Van Dyke: Sales & Marketer of the Year - Utah Business
Congratulations to Preston Van Dyke, vice president, search at Clearlink, one of Utah Business’ 2018 Sales & Marketer of the Year (SAMY) honorees.
Cameron Johnson: Sales & Marketer of the Year - Utah Business
Congratulations to Cameron Johnson, enterprise campaign manger at 97th Floor, one of Utah Business’ 2018 “Sales & Marketer of the Year (SAMY)” honorees. During his marketing career, Cameron Johnson has developed and directed marketing strategies for both startups and Fortune500 corporations. One recent client was national lawn care franchise Lawn Doctor.
Paul Grant: Sales & Marketer of the Year - Utah Business
Congratulations to Paul Grant, chief revenue officer at MarketStar Corp., one of Utah Business’ 2018 “Sales & Marketer of the Year (SAMY)” honorees. Paul Grant may have just completed his first year as chief revenue officer for MarketStar Corp., but he’s managed to accomplish a great deal in that short amount of time.
John Harris: Sales & Marketer of the Year - Utah Business
Congratulations to John Harris, EVP, sales and marketing at EnerBank USA, one of Utah Business’ 2018 “Sales & Marketer of the Year (SAMY)” honorees. Usually, the best business decision and the easiest—or fastest—decision are two different things. For John Harris, taking quiet time every morning to think about strategy, tactics and messaging helps him ensure he’s making the best possible decision for EnerBank USA—and for its customers.
Consumer Attitudes are at an All-Time High - Utah Business
SALT LAKE CITY—After consecutive record-setting highs in October and November, the Zions Bank Utah Consumer Attitude Index (CAI) dipped slightly, decreasing from 124.4 in November to 118.7 in December. The overall Utah CAI currently sits 1.1 points lower than its level 12 months ago. Although the Utah Consumer Attitude Index posted a slight decrease in the month of December, an index level of 118.7 indicates extremely positive consumer attitudes regarding the economy.
Overstock's tZERO to take 24% Interest in StockCross - Utah Business
SALT LAKE CITY—Overstock.com CEO and tZERO Chairman, Dr. Patrick Byrne announced his company’s intent for blockchain subsidiary tZERO to purchase a minority stake in StockCross Financial Services, Inc., a U.S., DTC Clearing Firm. The parties have executed Letters of Intent for tZERO to purchase a 24 percent stake in StockCross.
Micro Companies: Best Companies to Work For - Utah Business
Congratulations to the “Micro” companies honored in the 2017 Best Companies to Work For program. Companies in this category have between 25 and 50 full time employees. All of the companies that participated in the Best Companies to Work For program went through a rigorous examination of workplace elements such as benefits and pay, fairness and opportunities, corporate culture, internal communication and employee pride.
Little America Hotel: Creating Lasting Memories for Clients and Guests
Take just one step inside the Little America Hotel and you’ll immediately know that you’re somewhere special. From sparkling chandeliers to English wool carpets to European décor, every corner of the hotel is a welcoming embrace. But it’s not just the immaculate décor that makes it stand out. Whether you’re an overnight guest, event attendee or client, or a staff member, when you’re inside the hotel, you become part of the Little America family.
Kory Stevens: 20 in Their 20s - Utah Business
Kory Stevens and his wife Mallory started Taft as a Kickstarter for men’s socks in 2014. Since then, the brand has grown into a luxury direct-to-consumer shoe company, with shoes crafted from high-quality materials by artisans in Spain. Stevens designs all of the shoes himself, visits his manufacturers abroad frequently, and has seen his brand featured in Forbes, GQ, Business Insider, and other publications. Taft reached $5 million in revenue this year.
Ryan Stringham: 20 in Their 20s - Utah Business
In the summer of 2012, Ryan Stringham became Lucid Software’s first engineering intern. Today, he is the front end architect on a team of nearly 60 engineers. In this role, Stringham has led many ambitious projects for the company, including redesigning the LucidChart editor using Angular 2 – a project that then saw him invited to speak at the keynotes of ng-conf in Salt Lake City and AngularConnect in London.
Don C. Willie: 20 in Their 20s - Utah Business
Don C. Willie believes in the phrase “if you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backwards” – and he’s chosen to always be moving forward. He credits working both smarter and harder with his success, of which he’s already had much. As a program manager for the state AmeriCorps program, Willie oversaw 10-12 AmeriCorps programs and a $3.2 million budget.
Genevieve Smith: 20 in Their 20s - Utah Business
Genevieve Smith moved Columbus Community Center “out of the dark ages of paper processing into an age of big data,” says CEO Kristy Chambers. With a background in economics, Smith has helped Columbus Community Center develop key performance indicators and use that information to drive business decisions.
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