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Both singers were known as quite the womanizers in the 1980s, with George hinting several times he might be bisexual.
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I tried distressor on my voice for a while. Lots of fun, but it does sound sterile, or, say, more sterile than an old urei 1176 I compared it to. The distressor is sharp and in your face while the 1176 is rounder and has more life to it.
So I ordered an Slate Dragon. If the hype is real this is a 1176 turned into a swiss army tool. We´ll see!
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What compressors would you compare the Daking to? Is it 1176ish? Or is it something else?
What kind of color/texture does it have?
Does it tighten or loosen the bottom end in normal mode with the sidechain eq out of the equation?
Although I recognize the idea I think it very much has to do with the method of working method and with the medium. Using compression when tracking can give you the right "colour" for further development towards the final result. An "analogue tone" before going into a DAW has it's advantages.
Some people like to record a sound which does not need very much alterations in the end mix.
I can compare the sound of an MC76 to the UA units. Purely subjectively, of course, so good luck interpreting this... FWIW I've read that MC76 & MC77 sound different, so take this with a grain of salt.
MC76 sounds urgent & "in your face" relative to the 1176LN reissue, which has a very musical "refinement" and smoothness. I mix & match, depending on what I'm after. Generally speaking, on a big rock mix I would use MC76 on lead vocals, whereas 1176LN would shine on a more elegant acoustic tune. That said, I love 'em both, and wouldn't hesitate to use either one for either application, and have a pair of each in my compressor rack.
Re: the 2-1176, I had one for a few days. Although "The 1176 Sound" is present in the unit, the meter and the settings were different enough to an 1176 that it made more sense for me to send it back and get another pair of 1176s. In my case, I'm so accustomed to having the 1176 knobs react a certain way that it was worth the few hundred extra dollars and the extra rack-space real estate. If you haven't spent many years with an 1176, you'll be able to start with a clean slate and get the same sounds out of the 2-1176, albeit at settings different to what you'd expect from an 1176LN.
Its Fet, people say its like a cleaner 1176. I have the Fet 2 (a pair of them) which has transformers on the I/O. It sounds different than the Fet 3 which has no transformers. It sounds really awesome, but man I really wish it had faster release modes. I'm thinking about asking Geoff if its a possible mod.
Really great compressor, but from my limited time with it I don't know how someone could use it as their only piece with 500 ms being the slowest release time. (Thankfully, its not my only piece). I am beginning to grow more fond of slow release constants though.
MC77 and BAC-500 are the ones I've been most happy with. Nail for more subtle sounding compression and natural sounds, like acoustic guitar. Didn't think the Germs got aggressive enough compression wise though I like all the tonal variations. Oh and of course the mighty Zener has not been mentioned, for drums it cannot be beat!
Anyone compared the Purple MC77 with the MOHOG AUDIO MoFET76 Limiting Amplifier?
Look at the thread that has a poll of people's favorite 1176s. Del Cosmos compares the Purple and the Mohog in that thread.
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Anything in the FCS line improves on the Distressor issues referred to by the OP, and the units are super versatile in degree of control. My Distressors have moved to the back seat on every session for a long while.
Try the Chandler Germanium comp. Can do what you want in a splendid fashion. Promise.
What is the FCS line?
What is the FCS line???
I did a search and couldn't find anything about the Distressor mods. Will you tell us more about it?
I still stand by this. I wish i had another one so I had a pair. Maybe some day but now I am focused on other things.


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Baltimore Orioles name Brandon Hyde as new manager
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Brandon Hyde
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Brandon Hyde, rumored to be the next manager of the Baltimore Orioles all week long, earned the title officially Friday afternoon.Hyde, 45, becomes the 20th manager in Orioles history. He begins his first Major League managerial role following 16 professional seasons in the coaching ranks and four professional seasons as a player. Hyde most recently served as the Chicago Cubs bench coach in 2018, his second season in this role (also in 2014).Orioles Executive Vice President and General Manager Mike Elias released a statement, saying, "After conducting an intensive search, I believe that we have found the ideal leader for the next era of Orioles baseball. Brandon's deep background in player development and Major League coaching, most recently helping to shape the Cubs into a World Champion, has thoroughly prepared him for this job and distinguished him throughout our interview process. I look forward to introducing him to our fans next week and to working together with him to build the next great Orioles team."The turnaround won't come quickly in Baltimore as they totally rebuild the farm system in terms of players and philosophy. The challenge for Hyde will be to get the best out of what will admittedly be a team at the Big League level with less talent than the rest of the AL East.Hyde also spent three seasons as the Cubs first base coach from 2015-17, and previously served as Chicago's director of player development from August 2012 through the 2013 season, after joining the Cubs in December 2011 as their minor league field coordinator. The Cubs qualified for the postseason four times during his tenure, including winning the franchise's first World Series title in 108 years during the 2016 season.Prior to joining the Cubs, Hyde spent nine seasons in the Miami Marlins organization. The Santa Rosa, California-native signed with the Chicago White Sox in 1997 as an undrafted free agent out of Long Beach State University. He spent four seasons in the White Sox minor league system, as a catcher and first baseman, reaching the Triple-A level in 2000. In 2001, he played 17 games for the Chico Heat of the Independent Western League. The Orioles plan to introduce Hyde during a press conference on Monday.
Brandon Hyde, rumored to be the next manager of the Baltimore Orioles all week long, earned the title officially Friday afternoon.
Hyde, 45, becomes the 20th manager in Orioles history. He begins his first Major League managerial role following 16 professional seasons in the coaching ranks and four professional seasons as a player. Hyde most recently served as the Chicago Cubs bench coach in 2018, his second season in this role (also in 2014).
Orioles announce 2019 coaching staff
Orioles Executive Vice President and General Manager Mike Elias released a statement, saying, "After conducting an intensive search, I believe that we have found the ideal leader for the next era of Orioles baseball. Brandon's deep background in player development and Major League coaching, most recently helping to shape the Cubs into a World Champion, has thoroughly prepared him for this job and distinguished him throughout our interview process. I look forward to introducing him to our fans next week and to working together with him to build the next great Orioles team."
The turnaround won't come quickly in Baltimore as they totally rebuild the farm system in terms of players and philosophy. The challenge for Hyde will be to get the best out of what will admittedly be a team at the Big League level with less talent than the rest of the AL East.
Hyde also spent three seasons as the Cubs first base coach from 2015-17, and previously served as Chicago's director of player development from August 2012 through the 2013 season, after joining the Cubs in December 2011 as their minor league field coordinator. The Cubs qualified for the postseason four times during his tenure, including winning the franchise's first World Series title in 108 years during the 2016 season.
Prior to joining the Cubs, Hyde spent nine seasons in the Miami Marlins organization.
The Santa Rosa, California-native signed with the Chicago White Sox in 1997 as an undrafted free agent out of Long Beach State University. He spent four seasons in the White Sox minor league system, as a catcher and first baseman, reaching the Triple-A level in 2000. In 2001, he played 17 games for the Chico Heat of the Independent Western League.
The Orioles plan to introduce Hyde during a press conference on Monday.
O's Executive Vice President and General Manager @MElias on new manager, Brandon Hyde. #Birdland pic.twitter.com/8Cd48CnvxT
— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) December 14, 2018
It's official: Brandon Hyde has been named the 20th manager in #Orioles history. Welcome to #Birdland, Brandon! pic.twitter.com/EJtdSitB6X

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Volume 21, Number 8—August 2015
Bartonella spp. and Coxiella burnetii Associated with Community-Acquired, Culture-Negative Endocarditis, Brazil
Article & Appendix
Rinaldo Focaccia Siciliano , Jussara Bianchi Castelli, Alfredo Jose Mansur, Fabiana Pereira dos Santos, Silvia Colombo, Elvira Mendes do Nascimento, Christopher D. Paddock, Roosecelis Araújo Brasil, Paulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira Velho, Marina Rovani Drummond, Max Grinberg, and Tania Mara Varejao Strabelli
Author affiliations: University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil (R.F. Siciliano, J.B. Castelli, A.J. Mansur, M. Grinberg, T.M.V. Strabelli); Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo (F. Pereira dos Santos, S. Colombo, E.M. Nascimento, R.A. Brasil); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (C.D. Paddock); State University of Campinas Medical School, Campinas, Brazil (P.E.N.F. Velho, M.R. Drummond)
We evaluated culture-negative, community-acquired endocarditis by using indirect immunofluorescent assays and molecular analyses for Bartonella spp. and Coxiella burnetii and found a prevalence of 19.6% and 7.8%, respectively. Our findings reinforce the need to study these organisms in patients with culture-negative, community-acquired endocarditis, especially B. henselae in cat owners.
Worldwide, Bartonella spp. and Coxiella burnetii endocarditis have varied prevalences and clinical effects (1,2). Detection is difficult in routine blood cultures, so different diagnosis methods are needed. Our study investigated the frequency of and the risk factors for Bartonella spp. and C. burnetii infection in cases of culture-negative, community-acquired endocarditis.
During January 2004–January 2009, the Infection Control Team from the university hospital at São Paulo, Brazil (Instituto do Coração–Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo) used active surveillance to identify 369 patients with endocarditis. The study focused on community-acquired endocarditis caused by fastidious bacteria. Patients >18 years of age with confirmed endocarditis were included as a prospective inception cohort of patients (3). Excluded were patients with health care–associated endocarditis (i.e., patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis in the first postoperative year, hemodialysis patients, and nosocomial endocarditis patients) (4).
Indirect immunofluorescence assays (IFAs) were performed for all patients with negative blood cultures <7 days after admission at a referral center for rickettsial infections (Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo). The same observer analyzed all assays; IgG titers ≥1:800 for B. henselae and B. quintana (5) and anti–phase I IgG titers ≥1:800 for C. burnetii (6) were considered positive (Technical Appendix). New diagnostic criteria for Q fever endocarditis were used (6).
Immunohistochemical and molecular methods were applied to valve tissue specimens and serum samples of patients whose serum samples were positive for Bartonella spp. or C. burnetii. DNA from paraffin-embedded valve tissue specimens and serum samples were extracted. Samples positive for Bartonella by IFA were analyzed by using 5 different PCRs to 4 distinct regions. Tissue and serum DNA from patients positive for C. burnettii by IFA were tested by quantitative PCR (Technical Appendix Table 1) (7).
Of the 369 identified endocarditis patients, 221 (59.9%) were included in the study; median age of included patients was 53 years. Of included patients, 144 (65.2%) were male; 107 (48.4%) had prosthetic valves; 209 (94.6%) had left-sided endocarditis; and 152 (68.8%) had concurrent conditions. Of patients with concurrent conditions, 62 (40.8%) had hypertension, 17 (11.2%) had diabetes, 53 (34.9%) had heart failure, and 36 (23.7%) had other conditions. Of the 221 patients included in the study, microorganisms were identified in 170 (76.9%); specimens from 51 (23.1%) patients were culture negative.
A standardized questionnaire regarding exposure to cats, ectoparasites, or farm animals was administered to patients with culture-negative endocarditis. For the 170 samples in which microorganisms were found, the most commonly identified bacteria were viridans-type Streptococci (81 [47.6%]), Streptococcus bovis (17 [10.0%]), S. pneumonie (6 [3.5%]), S. agalactiae (2 [1.2%]), S. pyogenes (2 [1.2%]), Enterococcus fecalis (13 [7.6%]), E. faecium (3 [1.8%]), other enterococci (4 [2.4%]) and Staphylococcus aureus (14 [8.2%]).
Figure. Distribution of patients etiologically diagnosed with endocarditis and admitted to the heart institute (Instituto do Coração) at the University of São Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil, January 2004–January 2009....
For the 221 patients in the study, findings from 10 (4.5%; 95% CI 3.96%–5.09%) patients (Figure) showed Bartonella spp., and 4 (1.8%; 95% CI 1.58%–2.04%) showed C. burnetii endocarditis. For the 51 culture-negative endocarditis patients, Bartonella spp. was found in cultures from 10 (19.6%; 95% CI 9.8%–33.1%), and C. burnetii was found in 4 (7.8%; 95% CI 2.2%–18.9%). The Table shows the immunohistochemical and molecular biology analyses for patients with positive IFA results. Bartonella spp. DNA was detected with >1 PCR in all 6 patients whose paraffin-embedded valve tissue samples were found positive for Bartonella spp. For the other 4 patients with Bartonella spp., DNA was detected in 2 serum samples. Amplicons were sequenced, and their analyses showed that the cultures from 2 patients had 100% similarity with B. quintana (GenBank accession no. BX897700.1); cultures from 4 patients had 100% similarity with B. henselae infection (GenBank accession no. BX897699.1). Cultures from 2 patients were positive for Bartonella spp. by using IFA but negative by using PCR.
All patients used antimicrobial drugs for 7 days before sample collection. All endocarditis patients whose cultures were found to be positive for C. burnetii by using IFA were also positive by using quantitative PCR: 3 by serum samples and 2 by paraffin-embedded valve tissue specimens (Technical Appendix Table 2).
Clinical and follow-up findings from Bartonella spp. and C. burnetii endocarditis patients are shown in Technical Appendix Table 3. Bartonella spp. infection was associated with low levels of C-reactive protein on admission and chronic symptoms related to endocarditis (Technical Appendix Table 4). Three (75%) of 4 patients with Bartonella henselae endocarditis were associated with a cat living in the patient's home, compared with 6 (12.8%) of 47 patients with culture-negative Bartonella henselae negative endocarditis (p = 0.015 by Student t-test). Hydroxychloroquine was unavailable in our facility; therefore, we used a second-line therapy for C. burnetii endocarditis. Hydroxychloroquine was replaced with ciprofloxacin, and treatment was extended for 72 months (8). Subsequently, symptoms resolved, and antibody titers reduced substantially, considered a favorable response (9) (Technical Appendix Table 3).
In this study, the systematic use of IFA detected a 4.5% (10/221) prevalence of community-acquired endocarditis due to Bartonella spp. and a 1.8% (4/221) prevalence due to C. burnetii. For the 51 culture-negative endocarditis patients, IFA enabled recognition of the endocarditis etiology in 14 (27.5%) patients (Bartonella spp. in 10 [19.6%] and C. burnetii in 4 [7.8%]). Some of these patients have been recognized as having the first cases of endocarditis caused by these microorganisms in Brazil (10,11).
Prevalences of Bartonella spp. endocarditis vary worldwide by region studied (1). In a broad series of 759 culture-negative endocarditis patients in France, serum samples showed high sensitivity for detection of C. burnetii and Bartonella spp. infections, compared with other diagnostic tools, such as PCR, cell culture, and immunohistochemical analysis (2). In Brazil, studies of Bartonella spp. infection among culture-negative endocarditis patients have shown varied results. A retrospective case series of 51 surgically treated, culture-negative endocarditis patients found 2 cases of Bartonella spp. and 1 case of C. burnetii by using PCR on valvular tissue (12). Another series of 46 culture-negative endocarditis patients from the city of São Paulo used PCR to investigate Bartonella spp. in blood and found 13 (28%) patients with positive results (13).
We found an association between B. henselae endocarditis and the presence of a cat living at a patient´s home, a risk factor indicating that clinicians should consider this infection when assessing endocarditis patients. The relatively small sample of patients with endocarditis caused by Bartonella spp. and C. burnetii limited the statistical analyses of factors associated with these infections. Serologic investigations of infections by these agents were applied only to patients with negative cultures. Although rare (2,14), co-infection by these microorganisms in culture-positive endocarditis is possible, so frequency of Bartonella spp. and C. burnetii infections in these patients may be higher than shown. Our study indicates that systematic serologic research for Bartonella spp. and C. burnetii in community-acquired, culture-negative endocarditis may be clinically useful, particularly in screening for B. henselae in cat owners.
Dr. Siciliano is an infectious disease specialist working in infection control at the Heart Institute at the university hospital at São Paulo, Brazil, a tertiary care hospital dedicated to care of heart disease patients. His clinical research interest is endocarditis.
Tattevin P, Watt G, Revest M, Arvieux C, Fournier PE. Update on blood culture-negative endocarditis. Med Mal Infect. 2015;45:1–8. DOIPubMed
Fournier PE, Thuny F, Richet H, Lepidi H, Casalta JP, Arzouni JP, Comprehensive diagnostic strategy for blood culture-negative endocarditis: a prospective study of 819 new cases. Clin Infect Dis. 2010;51:131–40. DOIPubMed
Li JS, Sexton DJ, Mick N, Nettles R, Fowler VG Jr, Ryan T, Proposed modifications to the Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Clin Infect Dis. 2000;30:633–8. DOIPubMed
Ben-Ami R, Giladi M, Carmeli Y, Orni-Wasserlauf R, Siegman-Igra Y. Hospital-acquired infective endocarditis: should the definition be broadened? Clin Infect Dis. 2004;38:843–50. DOIPubMed
Fournier PE, Mainardi JL, Raoult D. Value of microimmunofluorescence for diagnosis and follow-up of Bartonella endocarditis. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2002;9:795–801 .PubMed
Raoult D. Chronic Q fever: expert opinion versus literature analysis and consensus. J Infect. 2012;65:102–8. DOIPubMed
Schneeberger PM, Hermans MH, van Hannen EJ, Schellekens JJ, Leenders AC, Wever PC. Real-time PCR with serum samples is indispensable for early diagnosis of acute Q fever. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2010;17:286–90. DOIPubMed
Raoult D, Houpikian P, Tissot Dupont H, Riss JM, Arditi-Djiane J, Brouqui P. Treatment of Q fever endocarditis: comparison of 2 regimens containing doxycycline and ofloxacin or hydroxychloroquine. Arch Intern Med. 1999;159:167–73. DOIPubMed
Rolain JM, Mallet MN, Raoult D. Correlation between serum doxycycline concentrations and serologic evolution in patients with Coxiella burnetii endocarditis. J Infect Dis. 2003;188:1322–5. DOIPubMed
Siciliano RF, Strabelli TM, Zeigler R, Rodrigues C, Castelli JB, Grinberg M, Infective endocarditis due to Bartonella spp. and Coxiella burnetii: experience at a cardiology hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2006;1078:215–22. DOIPubMed
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Figure. Distribution of patients etiologically diagnosed with endocarditis and admitted to the heart institute (Instituto do Coração) at the University of São Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil, January 2004–January 2009.......
Table. Serologic, immunohistopathologic, and molecular test results for patients with infective endocarditis caused by Bartonella spp. or Coxiella burnetii, Brazil
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Former chief of Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary and environmental activist shot himself dead in his office in 1990. His death raised public awareness about environmental protection.
Huai Kha Khaeng became a World Heritage site in 1991.


This winter we decided to make it a work season. We usually enjoy celebrating Canada's coldest season simply by not being here. Hockey lovers, skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, cross country skiing lovers and all those other winter pastime people are pretty much crazy in our minds. Sure, if you're stuck here anyway you should make the most of it and provided the weather is nice all of those can be quite enjoyable. We however, would much rather be just about anywhere else during the season of snowstorms, windchill warning days and "the greyness" as we like to call it.


Over the past three decades many hundreds of Continette baling presses have been sold worldwide. Almost all of them are still performing today. Like all BOA baling presses, the Continette is a real workhorse. Reliable, robust, strong and easy.
The Continette II builds on the strengths of the original Continette: reliability, durability, compactness, strength and low-cost. However, wherever improvements are possible, they are made. Basically, the BOA engineers turned the Continette II into the compact version of its revolutionary high-end baling press, the Impress.
The result: low-maintenance, low-cost baling presses offering long-term operational reliability of almost 100%. For decades.
The Continette II is a low-cost channel baling press of the cutting press type, with automatic tying system and hydraulically controlled press channel for fully automatic production and high capacity.
The baling press is available with a variety of cutters, depending on the type of material for which it is used. The cutters are located under the robust cutter bar in the press frame and on top of the pressing ram.
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08.07: We will give a lesson at Monday, 14:00-18:00. All the groups are welcome.
The lesson will include solving of the exercises 10-12, and afterward, we will respond to questions about the material.
Students are asked to send questions by E-mail, until Sunday at 16:00 so we can prepare properly.
Moreover, we will give back Exercises 10-12.
25.05: The students of groups 07, 08, are required to submit exercise 8 until Wednesday, 18:00, to Gilad's mailbox (58).
23.05: Due to changes in the Studends' day, the recitation at Wednsday, 12:00-14:00 is cancled. The Students can come to the recitation at Tuesday, 18:00-20:00.
14.04: Exercise 5 will be due between April 27th and May 2nd (at your respective recitations). We will publish it within the next couple of days. During the recitations from April 21st to April 25th, we will be solving exercises 1-4. The Tuesday group is invited to join any of the other groups meeting for this purpose, as they will not be meeting that week.
We are giving you a week's break from the exercises. Please be sure to use it wisely. Also, starting from exercise 5, we will no longer tolerate students submitting their exercise to a group they are not enlisted in. You need to receive explicit permission to do this, and we will be tracking it.
08.04: Due to Holocaust Memorial Day, the lessons on Sunday ends at 18:00. Therefore, the recitation of group 05 will be held at 8 am, Building 105, class 106. Exercises 3 must be submitted on Sunday (at groups 04 or 05).


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AcuityAds Provides Q2 2021 Update on its Advertising Automation Platform, illumin
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AcuityAds Announces Board and Management Changes
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There are two landlocked countries in South America. One is Bolivia, and what's the other?
And the answer: Paraguay.
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One of the two landlocked countries in South America, Paraguay shares borders with Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. As written in their 1992 constitution, the official languages of Paraguay are Spanish and the indigenous language of Guaraní, which is more widely spoken throughout the country than the Spanish language.
Sometimes called the Heart of South America due to its central location in the continent, Paraguay is the only country in the Americas to have never had a coast. Interestingly, however, Paraguay has the largest navy of any landlocked country in the world.
As a cattle-raising country, beef is an essential element of Paraguayan cuisine. In fact, Paraguay actually hosted the world's largest barbecue in 2008, with about 30,000 attendees (talk about a beef cake!). Other notable Paraguayan dishes include the sopa paraguaya (a spongy cake similar to corn bread), mbejú (a starch cake), and soyo (a thick meat soup, seasoned with spices and vegetables).
Paraguay is home to around 7 million people, and clocks in as just about the most ethnically homogenous country in Latin America. The vast majority of Paraguayan residents identify as Mestizo, meaning mixed European and Indigenous race. Paraguay is a bilingual country where most speak Guaraní and Spanish, many of whom identify nationally with the ability to speak Guaraní. Jopara is a mix of the two that is sometimes similarly used.
Paraguay has many curious demographics and practices. Despite colonization, the majority of its population speak the native language and participate in native customs. This is due to the fact that Jesuit missionaries and Spanish conquerers learned the Guaraní language to better ally themselves with the population. Over time, while more Mestizo children were born, Guaraní continued to be taught. Spanish conquerers permitted this transaction of language as it helped save their efforts in key moments of battle. Today, native Guarani culture continues to be celebrated.
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Industry News: Main contractors must adhere to new prompt payment requirements in order to tender for Government contracts.
By Causeway on Apr 21, 2022 •
Topics: E-Invoicing, Tradex
With the government using its immense buying power to turn the screw on late payers in construction, there has never been a better time for contractors to invest in this area. Since 1 April, all bidders for public-sector contracts above £5m have to show they pay 95 per cent of invoices within 60 days. For those achieving 90-95 per cent, a clear plan to improve must accompany their bid, while bidders running below 90 per cent are disqualified altogether.
Following last year's changes to the Prompt Payment Code, which mean signatories must pay 95 per cent of firms with fewer than 50 employees within 30 days, the need to pay on time is ever clearer.
So why do contractors still find themselves wasting time and energy sorting out unpaid bills from frustrated suppliers?
"I think it comes down to a fear of change," says Rebecca Sperti, sales director, supply chain solutions at Causeway Technologies. "We see organisations making incremental improvements, but not addressing the underlying cause of their inefficient processes."
She adds: "They try to avoid impacting their supply chain, so they limit themselves to adopting PDF attachments or scanning paper invoices they receive, but that doesn't solve the problem. Our analysis shows that 10 per cent of all invoices are rejected simply because they don't contain the information that's needed – that's tens of millions of invoices being manually checked and returned to the supplier across the construction industry every year."
Sperti says technology can help suppliers and their clients achieve their shared goal of seamless, timely payment. Causeway's Tradex platform can be used by contractors to receive, validate and match invoices to purchase orders and 'goods received' notes, and automatically trigger payment.
"Only 25 per cent of the top 250 contractors have adopted electronic invoicing capable of automating the invoice process for them. The key is in early validation of the content of the invoice that's been received," she explains.
"If an invoice submitted via Causeway Tradex lacks any of the information needed, it will be pushed back to the supplier for correction within seconds. This kind of automated intervention not only saves administrative time and cost at both ends; it speeds up the process of getting the bill paid and – crucially – improves trust and understanding."
Causeway Tradex was created specifically for the construction industry, taking account of its quirks, and it has clocked up three decades of use. It already boasts a community of some 75,000 construction-related suppliers, with more joining all the time. Many routinely ask new clients to use it.
Construction suppliers can log into the free Causeway Tradex portal to submit invoices and see the status of an invoice, creating more transparency and aiding stronger relationships, which ultimately pays dividends on site.
Sperti says that when new main contractors come on board they typically find 70 per cent of their supply chain are already using Causeway Tradex to invoice other contractors. "It means it is actually often more disruptive not to adopt this technology," she adds.


Ms. Agree is a member of the Real Estate and Business Practice Groups. She concentrates her real estate practice on commercial sales, leasing and financing, including securitized loans.
Ms. Agree also counsels corporations and limited liability companies of all types in a wide range of business planning, operational and contractual matters, mergers and acquisitions and taxation.
In addition, she has formed and represents numerous nonprofit corporations, including organizations that are tax exempt under IRC 501(c)(3).
Ms. Agree has lectured and written on such topics as Michigan's residential seller disclosure requirements, mortgage financing and nonprofit formation. She has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America – Consumer Guide. Ms. Agree served on the Board of Directors of The Village Educational Center.
Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Agree served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Gerald E. Rosen in the United States District Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.


The school has an excellent relationship with the parish church - St John's, Fulham which founded the School in 1836. And the experience of faith, inclusive and affirming of each human being, lies at the heart of our worship of God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Together we are committed to ensuring that the experience of belonging to a church or world-faith community is affirmed, enjoyable and adds to each child's experience of education at St John's.


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COMPETITION: Win My Brilliant Friend - Series 2 on DVD
My Brilliant Friend - Series 2 is out on DVD on August 3rd
The award-winning, beloved Neapolitan Novels by Italian author Elena Ferrante tell an epic, riveting tale of love, loss, hardships and the enduring power of female friendship.
Elena Greco is an elderly writer whose best friend Lila has disappeared without a trace, so Elena begins to write the story of their lives growing up together in a mob-ruled, poverty-stricken neighbourhood in 1950s Naples. As children, Elena (Elisa Del Genio) and Lila's (Ludovica Nasti) friendship is put to the test as financial disparities provide them with very different opportunities in life. Lila's writing genius is stifled after her parents can no longer afford further education and put her to work, while Elena flourishes in school, no longer in the shadow of her friend's brilliance.
The second series follows the Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila (Gaia Girace) as adolescents into the Swinging Sixties, where this fierce, complex friendship must endure romantic rivalry and shocking violence, as the notorious Solara gangster family becomes harder to avoid entanglements with. Both growing into beautiful young women, they draw the attentions of a powerful gang-leader's son, a grocer, a mechanic, a schoolboy and his father, all while navigating the trials and tribulations of marriage and university, abuse and motherhood, and critical acclaim for a novel that sparks jealousy between these women whose lives are so closely intertwined.
This dramatic and deeply moving story of a lifetime shared is deftly directed by celebrated Italian filmmakers Saverio Costanzo (Hungry Hearts) and Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzarro). Delve into this decades-long, push-and-pull friendship filled with secrets kept, and trust built and broken. Will Elena ever unveil the mystery of Lila, her brilliant friend, and her worst enemy?
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WHO recommends faster and cheaper treatment for Multi-Drug Resistant TB
This is a critical step forward in tackling the MDR-TB public health crisis, says organisation
By Kundan Pandey
Last Updated: Thursday 12 May 2016
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released new recommendations for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and stated that countries should move toward shorter treatment regimens for people with the disease, including those co-infected with HIV.
"This is a critical step forward in tackling the MDR-TB public health crisis," said Mario Raviglione, Director of WHO's Global TB Programme. "The new WHO recommendations offer hope to hundreds of thousands of MDR-TB patients who can now benefit from a test that quickly identifies eligibility for the shorter regimen, and then complete treatment in half the time and at nearly half the cost," he added.
At less than US$ 1000 per patient, the new treatment regimen can be completed in 9–12 months. Not only is it less expensive than current regimens, but is also expected to improve outcomes and potentially decrease deaths due to better adherence to treatment and reduced loss to follow-up.
The conventional treatment regimens, which take 18–24 months to complete, yield low cure rates: just 50 per cent on average globally. This is largely because patients find it very hard to keep taking second-line drugs, which can be quite toxic, for prolonged periods of time. Therefore, they often interrupt treatment or are lost to follow-up in health services.
The shorter regimen is recommended for patients diagnosed with uncomplicated MDR-TB, for example those individuals whose MDR-TB is not resistant to the most important drugs used to treat MDR-TB (fluoroquinolones and injectables), known as "second-line drugs". It is also recommended for individuals who have not yet been treated with second-line drugs.
WHO's recommendations on the shorter regimens are based on initial programmatic studies involving 1,200 patients with uncomplicated MDR-TB in 10 countries. WHO is urging researchers to complete ongoing randomised controlled clinical trials in order to strengthen the evidence base for use of this regimen.
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US approves new drug that can cure even drug resistant TB
Drug-resistant TB spreading fast, says WHO
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Social justice activist and Cave Canem fellow Ama Codjoe blogs about participating in a P&W–supported Cave Canem regional workshop with formalist poet Marilyn Nelson in 2009.
In fall 2009, Poets & Writers supported a Cave Canem regional workshop with Marilyn Nelson. Nelson is a goddess of formal poetics. Before taking a workshop with Marilyn I had little experience with sonnets, sestinas, or ballads. Through a series of lessons on meter, rhyme, and phrasing, I learned the arithmetic of formalism.
Nelson asked us to pay particular attention to the construction of the poetic line. Through a sequence of assignments we experienced how careful and intentional construction could lead to a meaningful, surprising, and exciting composition. Formal verse provides the writer with added parameters. Nelson's poetry exhibits how such constraints used skillfully can produce poems that are wild, challenging, liberating, and free. Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden offer examples of how constraint or restraint can be used to describe terror, horror, beauty, and oppression. In these ways formal poetry holds paradox with nimble hands.
To conclude our time together Marilyn asked us to write one sonnet. About two years later, a childhood friend reminded me of a series of poems that we read when we were teenagers. "Don't you remember?" she asked. "Who touches this poem touches a woman." I did remember. The last line of Julia Alvarez's last sonnet was a line that moved my teenage-becoming-a-woman self. Rereading those sonnets from Alvarez's first book, Homecoming, was a kind of homecoming. I admired the way her sonnets sounded both casual and intimate. The themes she was obsessed with: relationships, God, marriage, and womanhood resonated with the preoccupations of my thirty-something mind and heart.
By experiencing the resonance of a poetic line as a teenager and returning to that line as an adult, I began a process of constructing, revising, and building a sonnet cycle of my own. I am grateful for Nelson's instruction and for an introduction to formalism that continues to shape and propel my work.
Photo: Ama Codjoe. Credit: Amanda Morgan.


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Riot in Paris are a hip-hop rock duo from Brooklyn, NY. Mercy and Pete Hype were initially solo acts performing in the New York City area when Grammy-winning producer Devo Springsteen first discovered the two. They changed the group name to Riot !n Paris shortly after signing with Springsteen's production company, Liquor & AMMO. The interactive, "Choose Your Your Own Adventure" video for their first single "Attack of the 5 ft. Hipster" was released on YouTube via Kanye West's blog to critical acclaim and heavy blog traffic in August of 2010.
Riot !n Paris recently toured Switzerland and France performing at Bypass in Geneva and Le Privilege and Showcase in Paris. They also performed at the 2009 New York Afro-Punk Festival in Brooklyn, NY alongside Elevator Fight, Janelle Monae and Saul Williams.


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December 1 2010-State Bar Association Applauds Report Issued By Chief Judge Lippmans Task Force To Expand Access To Civil Legal Services
STATE BAR ASSOCIATION APPLAUDS REPORT ISSUED BY CHIEF JUDGE LIPPMAN'S TASK FORCE TO EXPAND ACCESS TO CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES
New York State Bar Association President Stephen P. Younger of New York (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP) applauded Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and the members of the Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York for their comprehensive report issued today, which provides a roadmap with common sense recommendations to address the critical need to provide counsel to low-income New Yorkers in civil cases.
"The findings of the task force are overwhelming. The quality of justice in New York's courts is diminished and the rule of law undermined when so many New Yorkers go without legal representation in matters that involve day-to-day life. Overwhelmingly, it is the most vulnerable, low-income New Yorkers who suffer the consequences. As this report clearly documents, failure to provide these New Yorkers with a lawyer to advocate on their behalf results in increased homelessness, domestic violence, and poverty - something we can ill afford during this time of fiscal uncertainty," said President Younger. "The State Bar applauds Chief Judge Lippman and the task force for providing a sensible roadmap that will help ensure that the unmet civil legal needs of all New Yorkers are addressed."
Younger continued, "The Chief Judge is right. New York must be able to provide a steady source of funding targeted to the 'essentials of life' - housing, domestic violence, access to health care - reliably and quickly. I look forward to working with task force members to ensure that the basic right to equal justice is no longer denied to our citizens."
Judge Lippman established the task force earlier this year as part of his efforts to ensure that the courts can meet their constitutional mission of ensuring equal justice for all citizens. This fall, the Chief Judge presided over a set of public hearings in each of the state's four Judicial Departments. At Judge Lippman's request, members of the State Bar Association assisted in presiding over these hearings. The hearings assessed the extent and nature of unmet civil legal services needs throughout the State in order to help formulate recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature on the appropriate level and source of public resources to meet those needs.
Founded in 1876, the 77,000-member New York State Bar Association is the official statewide organization of lawyers in New York and the largest voluntary state bar association in the nation. The State Bar's programs and activities have continuously served the public and improved the justice system for more than 130 years. For more information, visit us at our Web site at www.nysba.org.


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Ep. 120: Alternatives: the Final Frontier of Investing with Matt Brown, CAIS
"It's a very competitive world out there right now and alternative investments are stepping in and filling the gap in client portfolios. Advisors are disappointed with traditional long only approach to investing, that broken 60/40 model. It's never been about lack of desire to have access to these types of funds and products. It's always about the how, and what we've been able to do is solve that problem. So we can bring these products and opportunities to the advisor in a more streamlined way and work within the protocols of the large enterprise firms, IBDs, broker dealers and, of course, the RIA community."
— Matt Brown, Founder & CEO, CAIS
The WealthTech Today podcast features interviews, news, and analysis on the trends and best practices in wealth and technology for wealth management, asset management, and related areas. This episode is part of our December focus on compliance. We're talking to influential industry leaders who can provide technology solutions that help advisors build stronger relationships, improve outcomes, and enrich their clients' lives. A quick shoutout to our sponsor, the Invest in Others Foundation, please go to InvestInOthers.org, and be sure to subscribe to our show wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss future episodes.
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How Broker-Dealers Can Expand Their Use of Alternatives
Alternatives Are the Final Frontier of Investing
Leveraging Data to Help Asset Managers Target The Right Advisors
Record Numbers of Advisors Are Jumping Onto the Platform
Product Roadmap for 2022
Craig: I'm excited to introduce our next guest on the program, Matt Brown, founder and CEO of CAIS, Matt welcome.
Matt: Thanks, Craig. Great to be on WealthTech Today.
Craig: Thanks for being here. I'm glad we could work it out. We're getting towards the end of the year. Any big plans?
Matt: Yeah, finally going to spend a little time with my wife and four children. It's been quite a hectic year. Very busy, exciting. But nevertheless, looking forward to some long overdue family time.
Craig: I hear you on the same way. I've got three kids myself, we got to got to fit those in while we can. So thanks for being here, I really appreciate it. CLet's just jump right in. Can you give us the 30-second elevator pitch for CAIS?
Matt: Absolutely. CAIS is a financial technology platform. We connect two communities. One community is the alternative asset management community. So think hedge funds, private equity, private markets, overall private credit, real estate, those funds and products and of course structured notes to another community, which are financial advisors. We are a B2B2C platform. So our client is the financial advisor, who then of course serves their end client who's their investor.
Craig: We're seeing a lot of that it's really changing the industry I think how firms like yours are making these assets, these different securities more available to advisors. So if I'm an enterprise wealth management firm, which is a lot of our listeners, how can they best use your product? Give me an example of how they would implement it.
Matt: Sure, the CAIS platform is is extremely flexible and customizable. But if you're an enterprise wealth management firm, I you may want to either use the platform end to end in which case it's a very easy integration. We're cloud based, and you are having an experience where you're coming into the platform, you are seeing menus of products, you're engaging in our educational platform. You are seamlessly transacting in what used to be very complicated, private funds, and you're having a pre-trade, trade, and posttrade experience that feels a lot more like a mutual funds and ETF and private markets or hedge fund.
Matt: If you are owning part of the value chain that I just described, and you only want to use pieces of CAIS for example, maybe you have fund selection or product selection internally, and you may want to put your funds on our platform for you. We can accommodate that. So your menu will be curated of our products. From an integration standpoint, we can integrate into all the compliance and existing workflows of an enterprise firm so that CAIS is now part of how you do your business. And of course, we can also appear in any of the existing desktop applications that are currently being used or other service providers that you work with. We call those our integration partners. So the platform is modular and very customizable to really meet the needs of the Enterprise client.
Craig: Yeah, I was surprised as we work with a lot of the biggest broker dealers, and a lot of them use your tools to power their alt platform.
Matt: Well, it's a very competitive world out there right now and alternative investments just overall are stepping in and filling the gap or client portfolios. Advisors are getting disappointed with traditional long only approach to investing, that broken 60/40 model. It's never been about lack of desire to have access to these types of funds and products. It's always about the how, and what we've been able to do is just solve that problem. So we can bring these products and opportunities to the advisor in a much more streamlined way and work within the protocols of the large enterprise firms, IBDs broker dealers and of course the RIA community.
Craig: It was interesting when you talked about how you're making these very complicated securities, almost like trading an ETF, making it so simple. How does that increase the use of alts at some of these firms?
Matt: Well, we've done a lot of surveying with the advisor community at large. And we were surprised to find out very early on, we've been in business now 10 years trying to solve as many of these hurdles and problems as possible., but advisors are very busy. As you know, I used to be an advisor. We have a lot going on, we're dealing with clients, we're investing, we're making decisions. If you put up too many structural barriers to anything, they're just going to get avoided.
So what was happening with alternative investments and one of the main reasons why the allocation rates in the independent wealth channel, including the IBD space, are low single digits, as compared to even the large wirehouses or the institutional market where they're double digit, 15, 20, 30% is because it's very complicated, operationally intensive to actively allocate to alternative investments. So problem number one that we solve was just making sure they were easier to purchase. We then had to go to new frontiers like making sure that everyone understood the products, we invested tremendous amount of time, effort and capital in an artificial and machine learning, learning platform, educational platform to make sure advisors understand alternatives. Understand that were to implement them in client portfolios, both at the strategy level and also down to the product level.
Craig: You're leading me right into my next topic. So looking at industry trends, you mentioned the final frontier or the the new frontier, and you're sort of moving into those areas with your platform. One of the things you had mentioned about industry trends was what's driving your data insights platform, and you mentioned a little bit about it with the AI, ML. Can you explain what that is and how it's using artificial intelligence machine learning to understand advisor buying behavior?
Matt: Sure, we kind of call the next level, the next frontier at CAIS, which is many FinTech companies, and they've done a great job, have brought automation to really back office or middle office manual processes. And that's important and we do too. But really the big jump is when we can automate the top of the funnel engagement, learning, buying patterns. Understanding what's going on, and how do we break out of this traditional mold of white papers and conferences and human beings and salespeople to really use technology to drive demand in a thoughtful way.
Matt: So what we've done at CAIS is we've really invested in data, we use Snowflake, we use other vendors, our data warehouse. We have been able to understand the buying behavior, the interest level, predictive analytics, from advisors, and that informs us to build our menu of products or service offering overall. We're kind of meeting the advisor or the asset manager where they need to be met in a predictive way.
Matt: In 2022, we're excited to announce that we're going to be able to bring that data to the advisor community in the asset manager community for their use. So not only will they have an experience of as a user of CAIS will now begin to see anonymized data that will inform potentially trends and other things that they may find to be useful.
Craig: That could be huge. We work with a lot of FinTech firms, and we're always pushing them to do more with the data they have. And when you're successful as your firm is you've got thousands and thousands of advisors interacting, why not bubble up the trends that you're seeing and present that to other advisors saying, Hey, this is what your peers are doing, why aren't you doing that as well?
Matt: Yeah, you can really index advisors. There's definitely a community of financial advisors out there that we've been able to identify that are often ahead of the trend in investing and often right. I can give an example, qualified opportunity zones, it's a big topic out there investing in qualified opportunity zones, who are the advisors that were early thinking about that, wanting to learn about that, how to implement those strategies, get access to those strategies. That's just one example. But how about if we were able to bring those kind of leaderboard players in a way that would be trackable, whereas a financial advisor, you're always seeing advisors or having access to advisors who are oftentimes kind of on their front foot when making investment decisions? Could that be useful data for them? So we're always thinking about kind of creating that expert network and tracking them and of course, bringing those data insights at an anonymized basis. I want to be clear on that to the community.
Craig: Oh, obviously, all of this data is anonymized. That's kind of an expectation. But you were also talking about the last mile and the final frontier, and it's more about understanding needs rather than just making manual processes more efficient.
Matt: Yes. When you think about an old fashioned roadshow riders typically break this down and you kind of you're out there talking to a lot of people and sometimes you're getting on a plane or a train and showing up in a city and taking 10 meetings, a couple cancel. Five aren't interested. What's your hit ratio there? What if you knew ahead of time that everyone you're going to be speaking to or spending time with is interested. They are on their own time learning about the strategy so they're up to speed, and maybe you use virtual communication to reach them. What ends up happening is that you just become much more efficient as a business and you're not wasting time. And of course, you're allowing the technology to really drive distribution. And for us, that's kind of the magic, the magic sauce.
Craig: It's all about distribution. I hear that so much. On the asset management side, do we work a lot of asset managers and that's really their mantra, how do we improve distribution?
Matt: Yeah, I think distribution is sometimes considered not a positive word. When people think of distribution and think of product sales. Distribution is the expansion of a shareholder base with individual investors or advisors who want to be exposed to your strategy, and just doing it in an efficient way. So we think about helping asset managers right the other side of our platform, get better distribution, what we're really saying is, hey, there's a multi trillion dollar untapped market of investors that are being overseen by financial advisors who really want access to the strategies to improve the outcomes for their portfolios. So let's work together., but let's not waste time with those folks who aren't interested. Let's help people learn and then get exposure to your strategies., and that will result in asset managers growing their shareholder base with investors who are knowledgeable, and everyone wants a knowledgeable investor.
Craig: You talked about qualified opportunity zones, and avoiding roadshows, where you have a hit hit rate that's kind of low but it'd be better if you know that the people you're talking to are interested in your product. That's something that your data is able to provide.
Matt: Yeah. I mean, I imagine if you and I started a Whole Foods together, and we knew every single person that was walking through our door was going to buy a certain product before they walked in. Like that's kind of where we are and where we're at least driving towards.
Matt: So because we work so intimately with the financial advisor and we use data, we understand what their buying behaviors and interests are, we understand what their clients portfolios look like. When we add a private equity fund as an example to our platform, we already know where the advisor community that has the highest probability of investing in that fund is. We don't have to scour the universe starting at zero again, and that's very effective. And the data that we use and gleaned to be able to do that allows everyone does save a tremendous amount of time and cost, even to the point where we can start to empower asset managers with that data, and even potentially allow them to self serve. And when I say self serve, really use the platform as a tool to really do their own distribution.
Craig: That's that's kind of revolutionary because most of the other firms out there, they have self serve but it's very manual self serve, like go here, click this do this, you're kind of using the platform on your own, but you have to be an expert how the platform works, as opposed to what you're saying is they can use the platform but the platform is going to give them advice as to where they should be going and what they should be doing.
Matt: On the manager perspective., so there's the financial advisor on one side of the asset manager and the other, on the on the asset manager perspective, many of them want to participate in their own distribution of product. And yes, other platforms out there kind of allow a self serve, but that's often in the back and middle office functionality, that pre-trade, trade, post-trade experience, or we're actually talking about is including the asset manager in the front end of the funnel in the engagement portion. And that really is driven by the efficiency and the data that we're given. And that's been very welcomed across the board by the asset management community.
Craig: I'm sure they would love that, who wouldn't want to know exactly which advisor community will be most likely to be interested in your product? Out of all the hundreds of thousands of advisors out there, you can kind of micro target just the ones who based on your data will be most interested in it.
Matt: Absolutely. If you think about the budgets of these large asset management firms, the marketing and distribution budgets are enormous. And the vast majority of that is salaries. And humans are needed, but you may not need hundreds of people canvassing thousands of investors not knowing who's interested, just to dumb it down, in their products or who has the highest probability based on interest or buying past buying behavior. So the ability for us to be able to be an effective partner to the asset manager allows them also to be more economical on their end on their marketing and distribution spend.
Craig: What I really like about this, we do a lot of research into not necessarily asset management, but distribution platforms such as model marketplaces, or TAMPs that are distributing asset management products. And what we're seeing is the ones that can provide this type of information are way more successful than ones that say, well, we'll just make you available, but then you need to go out and send teams of wholesalers out to knock on doors and make sales. And as you said, your software, while you still need people. It's going to make them it's going to push them up the value chain. They're doing the grunt work of knocking on doors and making phone calls, they can really focus on building relationships with the right advisors.
Matt: And also, you're absolutely right. But the other end of this is that advisors don't want to be bothered with things they're not interested in. So both communities want the value of this on the CAIS platform. It's not just that the asset manager is now going to have more of a qualified, targeted approach to distribution raising assets, which clearly they are. But the advisor knows that if opportunities are being presented from the CAIS platform, it's because there's a high probability that they have an interest in it as well. So it's kind of that both communities are invested in making that work, and so far, it really has been taking off and I think it's going to be a big part of our 2022.
Matt: I also want to go back though, and just kind of take a half step back on this topic, which is just customization generally, not just with data. When we think about customization, many of the firms that we work with are complex. The least complex firm could be maybe a small RIA that would want to use our platform end to end but you also have very complex firms with thousands of advisors with compliance protocols and workflow. Our platform really has the ability to customize around all the individual needs, and now really be used in an unbundled format. Not end to end.
Matt: So for example, I'll just isolate one thing or two things are transaction engine. Firms have their own products, they find their own funds and many advisory firms really do enjoy seeking out opportunities doing their due diligence, but they do want that operational efficiency. What our platform is able to do is really almost be wiped clean of the existing marketplace and menu and onboard all the ideas and products of a firm that they may have that are not organized, centralized or platformized. And that feature has been extremely popular of our platform. Basically, it's a little bit like creating your CAIS, or your experience.
Matt: From the advisor side the ability to really personalize or customize our platform, isolate functionality that's important to you and add what you want is important. We also see this in the educational area of our platform. We have a state of the art educational platform, I mentioned artificial intelligence and machine learning powered, and we see a lot of advisors firms now especially in the enterprise world are asking are asking our platform if they can create customized learning modules based on the products that they've selected. So now when you're logging into the CAIS platform, you not only have products that you like, if you're an advisor that you may have found yourself, but you have corresponding educational protocols, which need to be woven in especially in the more regulated firms like the broker dealers as a needed step before investing.
Craig: I can see that all these tools have really driven growth at your firm, can you share any statistics run usage or volume that you have available?
Matt: Sure, we do. There's billions of dollars a year that flow across our platform from the advisor community into the asset management community. But just to give you some stats, Q3 alone was our highest volume quarter. I think it was up 75% year over year. We're seeing a record number of advisors adopt the platform, because they realized that they need to be competitive and have access to alternative investments in a streamlined fashion, if they want to retain or deepen wallet share for their clients. And we have adoption rates now, I think it's over two firms per day, are making their first transaction on our platform. Effectively, first time users are averaging two a day will bring on over 500 new firms this year alone. That doesn't include of course, firms that have already made their first transaction are now doubling down.
We see rates of adoption or use of alternatives growing exponentially once a firm plugs into the platform. There's a bit of a pent up demand feeling that we see and many firms have this very steep curve. Once they're on the platform, they start using it. Portfolios get diversified, the 60/40 model breaks it's now adding alts into the equation. I think we've had over 100% year over year, just overall usage on the platform growth this year. It's been a pretty pretty big year. I do want to mention also we talked a lot about funds, but we have the largest structured notes technology platform available as well, where financial advisors who like to buy structured notes, they're the credits of the largest banks, and we do that enormous growth in that business.
Craig: Thanks for sharing that, you guys are just killing it. There's so much need out there. As you mentioned, once you once your platform goes live, the use of alts grows exponentially because the advisors are used to a very difficult process. They're used a lot of paperwork, they're used a lot of manual effort. And your platform reduces a lot that friction. And I think that's that's really gonna be helping grow the use of alts across firms. A lot of these larger RIAs to work with, we work with some of the same ones, the $10 billion and up firms. They're really targeting wirehouse advisors, and wirehouse advisors often have a high percentage of alts in their portfolios and they want that same ability when they move if they leave and go breakaway or they leave to join a big firm. So I think you can help facilitate a lot of that.
Matt: That's our main bread and butter. There was a little bit of a David and Goliath story but CAIS that often gets talked about. Really our strength is kind of the IBD enterprise and the RIA community and, they're often in competition with the largest 5-10 firms out there, what we often call the wirehouses. So our ability to deliver a platform solution for alternative investments, that feels a lot like a wirehouse platform solution, because of course those biggest firms have built businesses like CAIS. This is a real leveling of the playing field. We've had advisor advisor in the enterprise level and beyond, keep telling us that, you know what, I would never be able to have the wallet share from my client if I didn't have the opportunity to have alts, I would never have the opportunity to win that client didn't have access to alternative investments because they would have gone with JP Morgan or Goldman. And then of course, there's just the firms that are growing and building through acquisition, they would never be able to attract a breakaway advisor out of UBS because they're heavy alts users unless they had access to a platform like CAIS. So CAIS has been a real equalizer and giving everyone a fair shot to attract new business and grow their business.
Craig: I want to be cognizant of the time, we're almost out, and I didn't want to let you go before you talk about some new products and services that are coming down the pike. Can you tal about some things you're doing for 2022?
Matt: Sure. Well, I mentioned the big one, the data insights platform, really allowing our community to get the benefit of all the data we've been collecting for over a decade.
Craig: So what does that mean? Because now you're offering that data so that data is available on the platform, but you got to make it more of a DIY so they can can they plug into API's? Is it more of a dashboard? How's it gonna work?
Matt: Yeah it'll be a dashboard. You know, so, again, I can't do the big reveal just yet because it's going to be great, but if you look at all the data we've collected and the way we can display it, and the way we can make it available and start to expose that data. It's a big piece of our 2022 roadmap. With that, there's also a huge need for deeper and engaging content in education. So as we think about the 2022 initiatives, data clearly one, and bringing that data to our community in a usable, thoughtful way. And we'll start small like everything and grow big. And then of course, making sure that there's enough digestible, thoughtful content for advisors so they can understand strategies they can understand implementation, and allow the end client to also get exposure to that content and educational material.
We can't just load the adviser up with all the information and expect them to kind of carry the water themselves. Not to go into the trend but the democratization and the speed of information to the end investor, we see it in all different areas. Well, let's try to help the financial advisor by bringing information to the to the end investor directly.
Craig: Will that dashboard be customizable or configurable?
Matt: Of course, everything we do at CAIS is customizable. We build it with intent, and just think of it more like an app store that you can customize each app. So if you want different views or different feeds or different comparisons, it's going to be there.
Craig: Oh, I love the App Store. We can talk about that. I want to get on the App Store. How do I get in there? So how would firms work with that? I know we're running up against the end here, but in just one more minute, how would firms work with that? That app store concept?
Matt: Well, when I say the app store concept, I mean this as an overall architecture for our platform, we view all the components of the functionality very much individualized, almost like an app, right? You can connect them all together. You can pick one or two or you can just pick one, and then within that functionality, call it data insights, you'll be able to customize your journey and experience. So it's a customized platform and a personalized experience.
Craig: That is awesome. I'm really looking forward to seeing that. Hopefully I can get a demo when you guys launch that.
Matt: You'll be the first in the list, Craig.
Craig: All right, you heard it here, I'm going to be first. We're gonna hold you to that. So Matt, we're out of time. Tell everyone who's listening how they can find out more about CAIS.
Matt: Go to our website, CAISgroup.com. CAIS stands for capital integration systems known as that question anymore but I thought I'd volunteer it, so go to CAISgroup.com and we will start your journey and get you as competitive as possible overnight.
Craig: I don't want to insert myself into your branding, but CAI also stands for Craig Allen Iskowitz which is my name, so it's a perfect combination.
Matt: Isn't a natural fit. Let's do more podcasts together.
Craig: That's right. We will, we have to now. Cool, Matt, thanks so much for being here.
Matt: See ya.
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BACK TOO SOON?Networks upset with A&E for reinstating 'Duck' star
LOS ANGELES – A&E was quick to reinstate Phil Robertson on "Duck Dynasty" following last month's controversy over comments he made to GQ magazine about homosexuality. Now an insider tells FOX411 there is still heat on the network for their about face.
According to a well-placed source, higher-ups at several networks – including executives at both ABC and CBS – remain hopping mad with A&E for "caving" to the backlash from "Duck Dynasty" fans.
"Several high-ranking executives have expressed upset over the way this all played out. The network execs think that in allowing Phil to come back so quickly and seamlessly, without apology, sets a bad standard," the source told FOX411. "The standard being that talent can say whatever offensive thing they want about gay people or other groups and get away with it. No consequences."
A devout Christian, Robertson ignited a firestorm when asked by the men's magazine what he considered to be sinful, and responded: "Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men."
We're also told that power players at both ABC and CBS are annoyed – and were quite frankly "shocked" – that the Robertson family patriarch was suspended for just a week and welcomed back so warmly.
"It's all about money. I guess many feel that A&E should have taken a stronger stand," added the source. "Where do moral standards go from here? Does this now mean stars can say whatever offensive things they want under the guise of freedom of speech, without repercussion?"
One industry pro says things could have been far worse for the cable channel if A&E had not backed down and brought Robertson back.
"At the end of the day, entertainment is big business and clearly A&E decided that 'this too shall pass.' Sometimes avoiding the major news as would have occurred has they fired him would have been more damaging to their brand then simply having Robertson continue on," noted Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR. "Not all press is good press."
Despite the flap, the highly-anticipated season five of "Duck Dynasty" returned Wednesday night with family leader Phil in full glory – and camouflage.
CBS declined to comment. ABC and A&E did not respond to a request for comment.
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