Industry veterans Tom Cook (Hanna-Barbera Studios, “Smurfs”), Phil Ortiz (“The Simpsons,” “Muppet Babies”), Brett Weldele (“The Surrogates,” “Vampirella 1969”), Jonathan Hallett (“Hereditary,” “Action Point”), Christopher Priest (“Black Panther,” “Captain America: Civil War”), Jed Thomas (CryptTV, “The Amity Wars”), Joe Wos (“Mazetoons,” “Charlie the Tuna”) and Randy Emberlin (“Amazing Spider-Man,” “Venom”) are among the leading creators scheduled to populate Artist Alley at the eighth annual Wizard World Portland at the Oregon Convention Center, January 24-26. The weekend will also feature many demonstrations and discussions at the Creative Stage, as well as numerous local Oregon creators.

Greater Portland creators on hand include Mitzi Fordyce (sculptures/jewelry), Tayler Howard (illustrations), Dezra Otto (Disney, Motion Logic Studios), Christopher Levin (graphic design, illustrations), Michael Flynn (graphic art/retro), Brad Eastburn (Lucky Comics, video game art), Celeste Ingalls (original art prints, stickers), Collin Schlicht ("Jak and Daxter," Hero Complex Gallery), Kate Patrick (illustrations), Becca Wilson (Geek it Up Portland, pop culture pillows), Alexander Burrows (illustrations, fantasy art), Melissa Kaylor (pixel art, plush toys), Misty Figueredo (sculptures).

Wizard World Portland will also include non-stop live entertainment, gaming, exclusive Q&A sessions with select celebrities and autographs/photo ops with top stars such as “Smallville” headliners Tom Welling (“Clark Kent”), Michael Rosenbaum (“Lex Luthor”), Erica Durance (“Lois Lane”), John Glover (“Lionel Luthor”) and Laura Vandervoort (“Kara/Supergirl”), Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), Dylan McDermott (“American Horror Story,” “The Practice”) and James Marsters (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Vidiots”), Chandler Riggs (“The Walking Dead,” “A Million Little Things”), Robin Lord Taylor (“Gotham”), Craig Parker (Lord of the Rings, “Spartacus”), Nick Zano (“Legends of Tomorrow,” Minority Report), Holly Marie Combs (“Charmed,” “Pretty Little Liars”) and more, along with Wizard World’s Master of Ceremonies, Kato Kaelin.

Wizard World events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop culture: movies, television, gaming, live entertainment, comics, sci-fi, graphic novels, toys, original art, collectibles, contests and more. The second event scheduled on the 2020 Wizard World calendar, Portland show hours are Friday, January 24, 4-9 p.m.; Saturday, January 25, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, January 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Kids 10 and under are admitted free with paid adult.

Wizard World Portland is also the place for cosplay, with fans young and old showing off their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the convention floor and participate in the famed Wizard World Costume Contest on Saturday evening.

For more on the 2020 Wizard World Portland, visit http://wizd.me/PortlandPR.

About Wizard Entertainment, Inc. (OTCBB: WIZD)

Wizard Entertainment, Inc. (www.wizardworld.com) produces comic, gaming and pop culture conventions across North America that celebrate the best in pop culture: movies, television, gaming, live entertainment, tech, comics, sci-fi, graphic novels, toys, original art, collectibles, contests and more. A first-class lineup of topical programming and entertainment takes place at each event, with celebrity Q&A's, comics-themed sessions, costume contests, movie screenings, evening parties and more. Additional initiatives may include an augmented touring schedule of Wizard World shows, fixed-site installations, curated e-commerce, and the production and distribution of content both in the U.S. and internationally. Fans can interact with Wizard Entertainment at www.wizardworld.com and on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and other social media services.

The 2020 Wizard World convention schedule is available at: http://www.wizardworld.com/comiccon.

Operation Food Search (OFS), a non-profit hunger relief organization, recently named Laura Bryant, Nik Brym, and Steve Spratt to its board.  Board members are eligible to serve two consecutive three-year terms.

Laura Bryant is Assistant Vice President of Government & Public Affairs Communications for Enterprise Holdings, Inc.  She previously worked at McDonnell Douglas Automation Company (McAuto), Southwestern Bell (now AT&T), and later at The May Department Stores Company.  Bryant’s career includes 14 years of public service including as an official for the City of Creve Coeur, Mo.  She was first appointed a member of the municipal Planning & Zoning Commission and was later elected a Ward 4 representative on the Creve Coeur City Council, eventually serving five two-year terms before being termed-out.

Nik Brym is an accounting manager at GardaWorld Security Services.  Prior to joining the board, Brym spent seven years serving on OFS’s young professionals’ board with the last four years as its president.  He mentors UMSL students, as well as serves as a board member for Strange Cares, a nonprofit that helps underprivileged children by offering scholarships.  Brym is the current president of his children’s school parent association.

Steve Spratt is the Vice President of Marketing Operations at Ascension.  He currently serves on the Board of Norwood Hills Country Club.  Previous board experience includes The First Tee of Greater St. Louis and the Board of Education for the Ladue School District.

“Laura, Nik, and Steve will make excellent additions to our board based upon their commitment to serving our community ,” said OFS’s Executive Director Kristen Wild.  “They each bring a diverse skill set to our group, and we look forward to all that they will accomplish for our agency.”

Founded in 1981, Operation Food Search (OFS) is a hunger relief organization that provides free food, nutrition education and innovative programs proven to reduce food insecurity. With a strategic focus aimed at ending childhood hunger, OFS empowers families and increases access to healthy and affordable food. The agency provides food and services to nearly 200,000 individuals on a monthly basis – one-third of whom are children – through a network of 330 community partners in 30 Missouri and Illinois counties.  For more information, call (314) 726-5355 or visit www.OperationFoodSearch.org.

Turf Feeding Systems has developed a new High Yield Growing System™ (HYGS) for Greenhouse and row crop farming, which produces over 80% of the vegetables for the world food markets.

Food production and food security is critical for any country and vegetable production is an important segment.   The new HYGS combines new water treatment technologies and probiotic biology to produce nutrient rich (sweet) irrigation water to increase the efficiency of irrigation and grow plants faster at less cost. This will increase crop production up to 50%.

Michael Chaplinsky, the president of Turf Feeding Systems states, “Our new HYGS is revolutionary combining our fertigation system with MagTek water treatment and other technologies to turbocharge the irrigation water with nutrients and grow plants  as fast as an enclosed hydroponic system, but without cost of the exotic hydroponic system.

Our new H5000 is one of our special packaged HYGS for greenhouse up to ten hectares or an irrigated row crop up to 50 hectares.  Photo Attached

We can add our HYGS to any greenhouse or irrigated row crop and it can grow plants as fast as an exotic hydroponic system.  For an irrigated row crop farm we can create “Open Field Hydroponics” with high yield and lower costs.

Chaplinsky continues, “We have been in the fertigation business for over 30 years and the HYGS is our new Supercharges Fertigation system to help the greenhouse grower and row crop farmers increase their crop production and reduce costs.  We have small HYGS for small greenhouse growers and small rural family farmers, which make up 70% of world farms, and large systems for multi-house greenhouses and row crop farms over 200 hectares.”

Turf Feeding Systems is a fertigation manufacturer in Texas that produces fertigation system for horticulture and agriculture as well as other markets like golf, sports and landscapes.  It has produced fertigation systems for over 30 years and ships worldwide.

Michael Chaplinsky concludes, “We offer the best high-quality affordable fertigation systems for horticulture and agriculture and I am personally focused helping the rural family farmers of the world become more efficient and profitable.”

Bio:

Michael Chaplinsky is the president/founder of Turf Feeding Systems, Inc. a Texas company that manufactures in packaged fertigation systems for agriculture, horticulture, sports, golf and landscapes worldwide for over 30 years. He is an expert in water and soil quality and health as well as irrigation, fertilizers and horticulture and agriculture.

He speaks and lectures worldwide at agriculture and irrigation conferences, and consults on several large international agriculture projects.

His passion, interest and work is to help the rural family farmers worldwide to become more efficient, more self-sustainable, more profitable and more independent from the chemical traders and chemical industry. 

Contact Info:

Turf Feeding Systems, Inc. 19915 Morton Rd., Suite 200, Katy, Texas 77449

Tele +1 832 321 3311

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website  www.turffeeding.com 

Managing this relationship is crucial to build customer loyalty, which in turn affects revenue. In the past, this meant keeping bulky files on customers in heavy metal cabinets. However, today, successful companies rely on web Custom CRM systems and applications to automate processes and expedite customer travel through the sales funnel.

In summary, web-based CRM systems are critical for tracking your customers and automating workflows. The problem is that ready-to-use CRMs come with features that are expensive and overrated. While they can offer a solution for your business, sometimes what your company needs is an application adapted exclusively to your needs, and that is a custom web-based CRM application.

Top 4 Reasons to Create a Custom CRM system for your business

So, instead of investing tons of money in a complicated and cumbersome CRM software package, why not create an optimized and designed CRM application at a fraction of the cost?

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Do you need more convincing?

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Pre-constructed CRM solutions are created to attract most companies. They are packed with all kinds of functions and features that may not even be useful for your unique workflows. These additional features only add to the complexity of the suite, and complexity is expensive both in time and money.

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Most CRM "solutions" are priced per user, a concept of the business age that many software companies still hold on to today. This model does not match reality, where most organizations have different needs for use in different groups. For example, while vendors need daily access to a CRM, other departments may only need to log in occasionally.

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A custom CRM application is an incredibly valuable asset that is at the center of many procedures throughout the organization. With Archiz, all departments are empowered to create applications based on the same CRM database with ease.

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What does this mean for your organization?

Not only does it allow several departments to create their own custom CRM system, but it also ensures that customer data remains accurate, consistent and available in these departments. All teams can interact with confidence with any customer knowing that they have updated data in their back pocket.

Create a Custom CRM Application with Archiz

Custom CRM applications have worked wonders for both large companies and small and medium businesses. In the case of Direct Line Cruises, a cruise booking agency based in New York, provided an effective way to manage customer data and track every interaction to provide excellent service. With the help of the Archiz low-code platform, they were able to implement more than 100 applications, including very necessary custom CRM applications for their agents.