Only Beatrice and Eugenie can revive our royal soap operaARLINGTON, Texas , Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the growing global health crisis caused by stress—responsible for 90% of all diseases according to the World Health Organization—Luraco Technologies is proud to announce its latest innovation: the Luraco Wellness Medical Massage Chair . This revolutionary product is poised to redefine how we think about wellness in both personal and corporate settings. As stress continues to cost American businesses over $300 billion annually due to absenteeism, healthcare expenses, and insurance claims, the need for effective wellness solutions has never been greater. Luraco Technologies, known for its American-made, cutting-edge therapeutic products, has developed the Luraco Wellness Chair to provide a holistic and scientifically-proven solution to this growing epidemic. Made in U.S.A. with multiple U.S.-patented technologies and certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for safety, this FDA-registered medical device offers a range of therapeutic benefits. The chair incorporates advanced techniques such as Dorn therapy for spinal alignment, reflexology to stimulate organ function, and acupressure to target key meridian points within the body's Chi energy system. These methods aren't just wellness buzzwords—they've been scientifically validated. A recent study from Weber State University on over 3,000 users revealed significant health improvements, including reduced blood pressure, lower heart rates, and diminished levels of stress and pain. Designed to meet the growing demands for health and wellness in corporate culture, the Luraco Wellness Medical Massage Chair provides the ultimate personalized experience. With the ability to store up to 1,000 individual user profiles, employees can instantly access customized massage routines tailored to their specific needs, skipping the hassle of repetitive body scans. But the innovation doesn't stop there. Luraco has introduced optional vending functionality, transforming the chair from an expense into a potential revenue stream. By offering massage sessions as a paid service, companies can generate income while promoting wellness in the workplace. "Luraco is committed to providing real solutions to the stress crisis, and the Luraco Wellness Medical Massage Chair is a game-changer for both personal wellness and corporate health programs," said Robert Nelson , Representative for Luraco Technologies. "This chair is more than a luxury—it's an investment in health, productivity, and well-being." Click to watch the video below for more details. (YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTTl03gj-Q&t=2s ) Luraco proudly sponsors the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) to provide Medical Massage Chairs to the FOP members with a discount. If you are a member of the FOP, please contact the FOP or Luraco for more information. Businesses and wellness-conscious individuals are encouraged to take the first step toward a healthier future by visiting www.LuracoChairs.com or calling 800-483-9930 to learn more about the transformative benefits of the Luraco Wellness Medical Massage Chair . Media Contact: Robert Nelson Manufacturer's Representative Luraco Technologies Phone: 817-633-1080 Ext 225 Email: Robert.Nelson@Luracotech.com Website: www.LuracoChairs.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/luraco-technologies-unveils-the-next-generation-of-wellness-introducing-the-luraco-wellness-medical-massage-chairs-302336733.html SOURCE LURACO Technologies, Inc.
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 21, 2024-- On November 14th, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the honorees of the CES 2025 Innovation Awards®. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) will once again sponsor the Japan (J-Startup) Pavilion at CES’ startup arena Eureka Park from January 7-10, bringing 31 rising startups from Japan to Las Vegas. This year seven of the Japan Pavilion exhibitors have been designated CES Innovation Award honorees. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241121357473/en/ JETRO to showcase 31 rising Japanese startups at CES 2025 Japan Pavilion (Graphic: Business Wire) The CES Innovation Awards® program highlights exhibiting products with “outstanding design and engineering.” Judges review products across a multitude of consumer technology categories, and recognize as honorees “the top-scoring products in each category.” Among the seven honorees, BionicM was awarded “Best of Innovation” in the Accessibility & AgeTech category for their product Bio Leg®, a cutting-edge robotic prosthetic leg that transitions smoothly from sitting to standing and even moving in different terrains. Best of Innovation Awards are presented to “the highest-scoring products in the program,” according to the CTA. This year, the Japan Pavilion matched its 2023 record of seven Innovation Awards received, but this is the first time a Best of Innovation title was included among those seven awards. JETRO seeks to spotlight groundbreaking technologies from Japan on the global stage, with an emphasis on “first in the world, first in the region, and first in the industry” innovations. JETRO will provide networking support and pitch training to all participating exhibitors. Many of the exhibitors will participate in pitch battles held at the pavilion itself, as well as media-focused events during CES week, such as CES Unveiled , ShowStoppers , and Launch.IT . The Japan Pavilion will be located at Tech West Venetian Expo 1F Hall G Booths 61000-61001 ( see map ). In addition, Innovation Award honorees will be able to display their products at the Innovation Awards Showcase in the Venetian Expo. For up-to-date information about the Japan Pavilion at CES, please visit: http://www.jetro.go.jp/usa/topics/ces-2025.html Japan (J-Startup) Pavilion Full Exhibitor List CES 2025 “Best of Innovation” Honoree BionicM – “Bio Leg®” Category: Accessibility & AgeTech Bio Leg is an electrically powered prosthetic knee that replaces leg strength lost due to amputation. Bio Leg uses powered assistance to reduce the physical burden on users and provide a smoother ambulatory experience, and the product’s bionic muscle technology is designed to ease transition between different positions and terrains. Bio Leg also has a natural-looking silhouette that promotes balance and visible harmony. CES 2025 “Innovation Award” Honorees FingerVision – “FingerVision R1” Category: Robotics FingerVision R1 is a robotic hand fitted with FingerVision’s proprietary vision-based tactile sensors. It can sense slippage, firmness, and other information, which is combined with advanced object manipulation capabilities, allowing FingerVision R1 to grip and pick up delicate, soft, or uneven products, as gently as a human hand would. Kailas Robotics – “MobiRobo” Category: Robotics MobiRobo is a robotic arm that automatically captures objects using eye-tracking technology, and provides haptic feedback. This technology can be applied to a wide range of situations and applications, from precision soldering for electronic devices to prosthetics and assistive devices for individuals with disabilities. Monoxer – “Monoxer Junior” Category: Mobile Devices & Accessories Monoxer Junior is a home learning app for students entering elementary school. It uses AI to change question formats to match the user’s level and memorization status, generating questions of optimal difficulty level for that user. The app is designed to help children study and learn in a stress-free, fun, and educational manner. Qolo – “Qolo Rehabilitation” Category: Digital Health Qolo Rehabilitation is a device designed to support patients learning to stand again, by providing repeatable stand-up movement training and real-time data monitoring. Its unique technology increases the efficiency of training, while reducing the physical burden on physical therapists. It is compact and portable, reducing location restrictions and increasing patient access to the device. RevComm – “RevComm” Category: Artificial Intelligence RevComm is an AI-equipped analysis system and IP phone that converts conversations into big data. From telemarketing to web conferences to offline negotiations, RevComm helps users and businesses make data-driven decisions, increase sales, and improve customer satisfaction scores. RevComm was named one of Forbes’ “The AI 50 2023.” ROMS – “Nano-Stream” Category: Industrial Equipment & Machinery Nano-Stream is a Japanese-made fully automated small-scale warehouse system, featuring built-in high-density automated storage and retrieval capabilities. Its setup starts from as small as 100 square meters, but can be scaled up (or down) over time to meet warehouse and business needs. About JETRO The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a Japanese government-affiliated agency that supports Japanese businesses expanding globally and international businesses entering Japan. JETRO’s Startup Division assists innovative Japanese startups in entering the global market, supporting over 700 startups each year across 15 different acceleration programs. JETRO has organized the CES Japan (J-Startup) Pavilion since 2019. About J-Startup J-Startup is a startup support program launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2018 to boost innovation activities and help promising startups compete globally. Operated collaboratively by JETRO, METI, and other public agencies, the program provides startups chosen through a rigorous selection process with various resources and support. View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241121357473/en/ CONTACT: Ken Yoshida Will Ferguson JETRO San Francisco Email: Startup@jetro.go.jp Phone: +1-415-392-1333 KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA NEVADA UNITED STATES JAPAN NORTH AMERICA ASIA PACIFIC INDUSTRY KEYWORD: VOIP SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ROBOTICS APPS/APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RETAIL DATA ANALYTICS TELECOMMUNICATIONS HEALTH PHYSICAL THERAPY SOURCE: Japan External Trade Organization Copyright Business Wire 2024. 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Students from the Sault will heading to Sudbury next month to take part in Cambrian College's second annual VEX V5 Robotics Competition. The competition has expanded and will now take place over two days, beginning Jan. 10 and wrapping up at the end of the day on Saturday Jan. 11. Judges’ interviews take place Friday afternoon with a full day of competition starting Saturday morning. Teams interested in registering can do so here . For more information, see the press release below. SUDBURY – It will be a day of innovation, ideas, creativity, top-level competition, and fun as high school students from across Ontario gather at Cambrian College next month for another shot at claiming top prize at the VEX V5 Robotics Competition. “This is such an exciting competition and you really do get to see how brilliant and resilient these young students are when it comes to robotics,” says James Allman, Program Coordinator and Professor of Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering Technology at Cambrian College. “Competitions like this really do expose young students to how fun, adventurous, and invigorating science and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) programs can be. Last year was such an amazing competition and this year is going to be even better.” The competition has expanded and will now take place over two days, beginning Jan. 10 and wrapping up at the end of the day on Saturday Jan. 11. Teams from such communities as Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Blind River, and Richmond Hill are taking part. “Last year provided an invaluable experience for our students, as it allowed them to test their planning and building skills in a competitive environment, solidifying their efforts from the start of the season and preparing them for what they will see at provincials,” says Amanda Farrell, VEX Robotics head coach at Korah Collegiate in Sault Ste. Marie. “We don’t always have the opportunity to attend tournaments in southern Ontario, so having a local competition not only supports our robotics program but also fosters greater interest in STEM across Northern Ontario.” Judges’ interviews take place Friday afternoon with a full day of competition starting Saturday morning. “It’s so satisfying seeing young students interested in robotics,” adds Allman. “The fact that there is also a $2,000 Cambrian scholarship up for grabs has also injected some serious enthusiasm into the event too.” There is still time to register a team. For full details, visit www.robotevents.com. Cambrian College thanks its sponsors for the 2025 VEX V5 Robotics Competition:Gaza aid groups express concern after US asked for famine warning retraction
There was a roughly 10% increase in the number of lobbyists who registered for the 2023-24 session compared to the previous one — for a record of 3,245 people, according to the Secretary of State’s office. What’s behind the jump? Longtime lobbyist Chris Micheli sees it as the result of high turnover in the Legislature — leading to an “exodus of legislative staff” who went into advocacy. In what was dubbed the Great Resignation of 2022, for example, 26 members opted out of seeking re-election , in addition to the seven who reached term limits. Micheli said he has also seen a rise in state agency rule-making, which motivates those in support of or against regulations to lobby: “Some of these regulatory bodies, like the Air Resources Board — the number of regulations that they’re undertaking and their significance has been growing in recent years.” Meanwhile, the number of legislative staff has shifted only slightly since the mid-1990s, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures. The staff count can impact how much time members have to write and research legislation. The increase in lobbyists means there’s now at least one lobbyist for every staff member, compared to two staffers per lobbyist back in 1995, the earliest data available from the Secretary of State’s office. “The fact that the number of registered lobbyists has risen so high and outstrips the number of actual staffers that legislators have to help them with people’s work shows how skewed our system has become towards the interests of wealthy interests that also dominate campaign spending, rather than regular people,” emailed Trent Lange, executive director of California Clean Money Campaign — an advocacy group that aims to combat the influence of money on politics. Lobbyists are required to register with the Secretary of State’s office, and report on their activities each quarter. That’s according to the state’s Political Reform Act , which passed in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal in 1974 in an effort to combat political corruption. The law defines lobbyists as those who are paid to influence legislation or regulation through direct communication with lawmakers, outside of public comments. They can be hired as contractors by companies, or work to influence policy as an employee, although those who spend less than one-third of their time lobbying don’t have to register. Lawmakers and those who work for state agencies legally must wait one year after leaving state jobs before working as lobbyists. Legislative staff do not have that requirement. The recent jump in new lobbyists was the highest since 2011 , when a law signed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went into effect requiring placement agents — financial officers who solicit investments from the state workers’ and teachers’ retirement funds — to register as lobbyists. The law nearly doubled the number of registered lobbyists, from 1,237 for the two-year session ending in 2010 to 2,353 in 2012. The second highest bump came in the session that ended in 2020, with 257 more registered lobbyists compared to the session before, according to the Secretary of State’s office. The rise in the number of lobbyists coincides with an uptick in money spent on lobbying, with industry and advocacy groups spending record amounts each year since 2022 . Spending to lobby California legislators hit nearly $420 million in just the first nine months of 2024, compared to $484 million in all of 2023 and $443 million in the entirety of 2022. Included in the recent boost: a summer lobbying blitz by Google to influence whether it would have to pay news outlets for publishing their content. Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of the good governmental advocacy group California Common Cause, labeled it “absolutely wild” that nearly $1 billion was spent on lobbying last session. “Sometimes people in the capitol community,” he said, “lose sight of how staggering it would be to their constituents if they knew how much money is spent to, in many cases, divert policy decisions away from the reason everyone originally went to Sacramento, which is to serve the public interest without fear or favor.”Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised more combat test-firing of an experimental hypersonic missile launched at Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for updated air-defence systems to meet the new threat. The latest statements from the leaders came hours after Ukraine's parliament shut down over heightened fears of a missile attack. A day after Moscow fired the new missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, Putin said there would be more tests of the new Oreshnik missile. "We will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and character of the security threats posted to Russia," Putin said in a televised meeting with military chiefs. Russia would also begin serial production of the experimental weapon, he added. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday it was already looking for updated air-defence systems from its allies in response to the new threat. Earlier Friday, China's foreign ministry had repeated its call for "calm" and "restraint" in the war after Russia confirmed it had fired the ballistic missile. In his video address however, Zelensky said: "From Russia, this is a mockery of the position of states such as China, states of the Global South, some leaders who call for restraint every time." The introduction of the new weapon into the battlefield has further raised tensions in the nearly three-year-long war, and comes as Kyiv's forces are struggling on the ground. On Friday, Russia claimed the capture of another village in eastern Ukraine. Putin's hints Thursday of strikes on Western countries raised fears of the war spilling over into a global conflict. That sent the Russian ruble plunging on Friday to its lowest level against the US dollar since March 2022. In a hawkish address to the nation on Thursday, Putin said Russia reserved the right to fire missiles at countries that allow Kyiv to hit Russian territory with their weapons, after the United States and the UK gave Kyiv the green light to do so. Those strikes could be by the new Oreshnik missile. Experts believe it flies at 10 times the speed of sound and may be able to strike targets up to 5,500 kilometres (3,400 miles) away -- enough to make good on Putin's threats of targeting Kyiv's European allies but not enough to reach the United States. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed the alarm felt by some in Europe Friday, speaking at a teachers' union event. "The war in the east is entering a decisive phase. We all know this...," he said. "The events of the last several dozen hours show that the threat is very serious and real when it comes to global conflict," he added. Branding the strike "this latest bout of Russian madness", Zelensky on Friday urged Ukraine's allies to step up their provision of air defences. "Whatever the Russian missile threat, it cannot be ignored," the president added -- especially with Ukraine's army on the back foot. A source in the Ukrainian military said Russian forces were advancing by "200-300 metres a day" near the besieged Ukrainian logistics hub of Kurakhove, in the eastern Donetsk region that the Kremlin claims is part of Russia. In Moscow, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said Russia's advances in war-battered eastern Ukraine had "ground down" Kyiv's best units. Russia also said its forces had "liberated" the frontline village of Novodmytrivka, about 10 kilometres north of Kurakhove. In Kyiv, frequently targeted by Russian drones and missiles, parliament cancelled its usual Friday questions to the government over fears of a strike. Several MPs said they were working remotely and that Friday's session had been scrapped. Lawmaker Yevgenia Kravchuk told AFP there were signs of "increased risks of attacks" to come. Unlike the rest of the capital, the government district has until now been spared of bombings. Analysts say Moscow and Kyiv are racing to gain battlefield advantages ahead of January 2025, when Donald Trump is due to take office in the United States. Trump has vowed to end the war, without saying how. Thursday's Oreshnik missile attack, which apparently targeted an aerospace manufacturing plant in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, sparked immediate condemnation from Kyiv's allies. In the streets of Moscow however, supporters of President Vladimir Putin voiced confidence in Russia's victory. "Russia will overcome everything... Nobody can defeat it," said Alexei Peshcherkin, a 57-year-old plumber. But Yulia Kim, a 52-year-old doctor, said: "I am worried that a nuclear war will start". burs-jj/sbk Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines, sports, arts & entertainment, state legislature, CFD news, and more.