Jim Keet, Nick Roye and Antwan Phillips of the Little Rock Advertising & Promotion Commission
Jim Keet, Nick Roye and Antwan Phillips will serve on the Little Rock Advertising & Promotion Commission.
Keet was re-elected unanimously as the commission chair. Keet, who owns 11 Taziki’s Mediterranean Café restaurants, has helped start numerous businesses in the hotel, restaurant and real estate industries.
Roye, who was appointed as finance committee chair, has experience in the banking and finance industry and is the executive vice president of hotels for CSK Hotels LLC, which includes downtown Little Rock’s Comfort Inn & Suites Presidential and Holiday Inn Presidential.
The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo by Susan Heller Evenson.
Hours before Myanmar’s new parliament was set to begin session on Monday, Feb. 1, Myanmar’s armed forces known as the Tatmadaw staged a coup d’état.
State Counsellor and de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint, and other elected members and high-ranking officials of the National League for Democracy (NLD) whose party had captured 83% (396 out of 476) of available parliamentary seats in the November 2020 election were deposed and detained.
Citing electoral fraud, the Tatmadaw and its leader Min Aung Hlaing declared a one-year state of emergency, promised elections in a year’s time, and accused Aung San Suu Kyi of an obscure violation while keeping her under house arrest. On February 2, the military regime formed a military junta to rule the country, christening it the State Administrative Council (SAC).
April 1, 2021
With more than 204 million paid memberships, Netflix self-describes as the world’s leading streaming media service. Traditionally, it hasn’t said much about addressing its emissions and other environmental impacts but the company stepped into the spotlight this week with a net-zero emissions pledge.
That shouldn’t surprise you. But other companies could learn a thing or two from Netflix’s move to be transparent about the coming attractions of its strategy and just how much work lies in this pre-production phase, if you will.
The plan was developed by Netflix’s inaugural CSO Emma Stewart, a well-known sustainability professional who was involved in the development of the frameworks for science-based targets and wrote one of the first corporate expressions of that strategy for software developer Autodesk, where she was previously employed. She made the leap to Netflix in October after advising its team for about eight months as a consultant with Eng
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Winrock International of Little Rock announced Wednesday the launch of its Small Business E-commerce Local Learning (SELL) project to support small businesses in northwest Arkansas.