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Connecticut is testing a belief that remote work will outlive the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting challenges and opportunities for a workforce that might lack digital skills yet benefit from telecommuting.

Twenty-eight unemployed men and women began an experimental workforce development program Monday that will teach skills necessary for remote employment and place them in paid internships.

While most of the program involves recorded classes over Google Classroom, it kicked off with a live one-hour orientation conducted, naturally enough, over Zoom.

Emmanuel Vega, wearing a black mask, watched over a smartphone from Central High School in Bridgeport, where he is learning the life skills necessary to live independently.

“I’m in a wheelchair,” he told the class. “I have spina bifida.”

Only 17.9% of persons with a disability were employed in 2020, down from 19.2% in 2018, according to a survey published early this year by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Joseph Carbone, who has worked on workforce development for 25 years with an entrepreneurial eye and evangelical zeal, said one of the disappointments of his career has been the inability to “get beyond those shameful numbers.”

He is the president and chief executive officer of The WorkPlace in Bridgeport, a regional job-training organization that is offering the remote-work class in partnership with Sacred Heart University.

About 17 years ago, Carbone said, The WorkPlace was one of three job-training agencies involved with a federal program to explore the demand for remote workers and the skills and habits necessary to make it work.

“It never went anywhere. And it never went anywhere because the market didn’t call for it,” Carbone said.

Carbone said employers have grown increasingly comfortable with remote work during the pandemic, and many companies are struggling to fill vacant jobs.

“So, this is the moment,” Carbone told the students. “This is the moment for us to make something out of this.”

It is being funded with $500,000 in federal CARES Act money administered by the state Office of Workforce Strategies, an agency created by the administration of Gov. Ned Lamont to better match training programs with employer demands.

“Joe is very creative,” said Kelli-Marie Vallieres, the director of the workforce strategies office. “He’s always looking forward.”

Vallieres said an appeal of the program was testing the notion of expanding opportunities for both persons with disabilities and workers left on the wrong side of the digital divide.

“It’s really important that we help people who have kind of been marginalized get back to work, and there’s a lot of people who have certain barriers to actually physically getting to a workplace every day,” she said. “And now that the world of work has really changed, our employers are starting to understand that their employees don’t have to physically be in a location to be very productive.”

Not only is remote work an opportunity for those who might be physically unable to work in a standard setting, but it can provide the ability to work off-hours and flexibility for a range of workers.

Carbone made a point of speaking at the orientation from his kitchen.

“I was going to do this from my conference room or my desk, and I thought, wow, why are you doing that? I mean, that defeats the purpose of the day, because this is about remote learning. This is about telework,” Carbone said.

Carbone said he was one of those bosses who did not embrace remote work prior to the pandemic. Over 25 years, he guessed, he had approved telecommuting for maybe three employees, all for medical reasons.

But the pandemic hit as The WorkPlace was about to move to new offices.

“We operated in the world of technology, in cyberspace, for a period of three months. We didn’t have an office. We didn’t have a place to go,” Carbone said. “But our programs continued. We transitioned all of our programs within two or three weeks at the beginning of the pandemic into technology.”

Even those responsible for the program assured the students the pandemic has taught them all a few things about virtual learning and remote work.

“Throughout the pandemic, I had to learn from my 7-year-old son how to use Google Classroom as he was remote learning at home,” said Annie Suffredeni, a former corporate recruiter who will be the students’ contact at Sacred Heart. “It’s intuitive, it’s easy to use, and that’s where all of our assignments and our modules will exist.”

A module on resiliency developed by Sheryl L.W. Barnes, a life coach and employment consultant, is part of the curriculum.

Barnes is a consultant living the reality of making an income in the virtual world. Her significant book of training contracts with universities, non-profits and other clients all disappeared with the arrival of COVID in March 2020.

“And then one by one — this is what is interesting — one by one, every single one of those contracts came back, and I did them virtually,” Barnes said.

But she gave her first lesson when it was her turn to speak. She smiled and said, “Well, one of the things I’ve learned is to make sure I have unmuted myself.”

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It’s been an active four quarters for technology IPOs. If you rewind the clock to Q4 2020, we’ve seen megawatt public debuts from tech shops of all sorts. Airbnb recovered from COVID-19-induced lows to list, while Roblox delayed its IPO and went out with a direct listing. DoorDash went public. C3.ai had an explosive offering late last year as well.

Things have largely continued in 2021, with IPOs throughout the first and second quarters leading to debuts from Freshworks, Toast and, most recently, filings from GitLab, Rent the Runway, NerdWallet and others.

Many startup founders aspire to an IPO, even if the average time horizon for the liquidity event has now stretched as capital flows into the private tech market. But how to get a company ready for an IPO isn’t normal fare in startup conversations — it’s a bit like talking about your 21st birthday when you are in middle school. Sure, it’s a thing that will happen someday, but not much of a pressing concern.

You’d think so, at least. The prep process for going public is actually somewhat long if done well, and startups might need to get started with prepping their operations for the public markets earlier than they think. It’s a topic that we explored during TechCrunch Disrupt 2021, where I hosted a conversation with Lux Capital Partner Deena Shakir, Madrona Managing Director Hope Cochran, and CrowdStrike CFO Burt Podbere.

The entire discussion is embedded below, but I’ve pulled out a few key moments for those of you who are more reading-based learners than video-watchers. Topics follow by subheadline, with the video at the bottom. Enjoy!

You can prep too early

Heading into the conversation, I expected to encounter three folks all nodding their heads sagely, intoning in unison that startups can’t really start IPO prep too early. That was not what I wound up hearing. Cochran said this, following my question about how early a startup should start prep for its public debut:

You hear many people talk about, “Oh, you need to start thinking about going public really, really early” and building that rigor. I’m actually more on the camp of: “Let’s let the company run and be agile for a while and put in processes as they’re needed.” You will get there in the appropriate amount of time.

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Before we jump in, let’s turn to Los Angeles and the coming wave of eVTOL companies hoping to take flight there. Aria Alamalhodaei took a deep dive into Urban Movement Labs, a non-profit organization that spun out of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office, and what it’s doing to prepare the city for eVTOLS. If we have learned anything from ride-hailing and scooters, cities can’t start thinking about future forms of transportation too soon.

As always, you can email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, criticisms, opinions or tips. You also can send a direct message to me at Twitter — @kirstenkorosec.

Micromobbin’

This week, I sat down with Mike Radenbaugh, CEO of Rad Power Bikes, as part of an ongoing TechCrunch+ series picking the brains of transportation founders. Radenbaugh started his company when he was only 15, throwing together parts he ordered from Radio Shack and eBay to create the earliest versions of what are now wildly popular e-bikes.

We talked about how to navigate logistics in these tricky times, how to make a bike that people actually want to ride and what it takes to power the e-bike revolution. The interview is behind a paywall, so here’s a quick excerpt (but you should definitely subscribe to get the full content):

The mission-driven nature of business is that this stuff is in my blood. It flows through everyone in this organization; we are all here on that same mission. There are a lot of new entrants into the space that are trying to replicate what Rad does at a much smaller scale, or are in it for more mercenary reasons, and it’s a very different business. It’s just the way we think about building something that really can solve the climate disaster.

Meanwhile, Bird had a busy week. The micromobility startup officially launched its sidewalk riding detection technology in Milwaukee and San Diego and has plans to expand it to Madrid by early next year, followed by more cities. The tech, which is co-developed by wireless semiconductors and high-precision positioning module producer u-blox, will be on all new vehicles coming off the assembly line.

This development makes Bird the latest of shared operators to announce the addition of what I like to call scooter advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that can detect poor rider behavior and correct it in real time by bringing the rider to a stop. Superpedestrian recently acquired Navmatic to integrate a similar technology, which relies on hyper-accurate positioning and sensor fusion to determine sidewalk riding, whereas other companies like Spin, Voi and Helbiz are attaching cameras to their scooters for a more computer vision-based approach.

In other Bird news, the company also nabbed $150 million, up from $40 million, in a financing credit facility from Apollo Investment Corporation (Disclaimer: Apollo acquired Verizon Media Group, which owned TechCrunch. The company is now called Yahoo Inc.). This upsize will go into effect once Bird’s SPAC merger with Switchback II Corporation officially closes. The shareholder meeting to approve and confirm the deal is happening on November 2. The extra funds will help Bird purchase more vehicles this winter so it can further expand its footprint, giving it time to earn revenue in spring and summer which it will use to pay Apollo back, according to the company.

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Speaking of expanding footprints, Russian tech giant Yandex is developing more of a presence in Israel with the recent acquisition of shared e-scooter company Wind’s Israeli operations, which includes 10,000 Wind scooters. Yandex only recently launched an e-scooter sharing service in its home market, but only has about 5,000 scooters on the ground, so this will significantly increase the company’s fleet size. The Russian company is already operating or testing out other mobility platforms in Israel; it has a ride-hailing and last-mile delivery service Yango and an express grocery delivery service Yango Deli on the ground, and is testing out autonomous delivery robots and self-driving cars.

Dott is joining the multi-modal game with its launch of an e-bike-sharing service in Paris. The bikes will join Dott’s fleet of e-scooters in the City of Love, along with Lime and Tier.

Gogoro, the Taiwanese e-scooter maker, officially launched its popular battery swapping service in China with 45 stations in Hangzhou. The company is targeting 80 stations by the end of the year before expanding into other major cities with its partners Yadea and Dachangjiang Group (DCJ).

Swft, a budding mobility startup that started late last year selling electric hoverboards and has since launched three e-bikes and an e-moped, has raised $10 million in seed funding. The company plans to use the money to expand its light-duty vehicle offerings, adding to its lineup a couple of electric motorcyles, a four-wheeler, a three-wheeler and a scooter over the next couple of years. Swft operates on a D2C model but says it’s bikes are also being sold through Best Buy.

VanMoof has teased its new high-speed bike, the VanMoof V, via live YouTube video. The plan is to release the bike, which should cost about $3,598, by the end of 2022. The company says the bike will be able reach a top speed of 37 miles per hour. That doesn’t mean riders will be able to accelerate up to 37 mph, since speed restrictions in Europe, and elsewhere, fall well below that. Maybe VanMoof will force transport authorities to take another look at the current regulations for what does and does not maketh a bike.

Populus could probably help with that. The company’s platform pulls data from fleets of shared vehicles and delivers that info to cities to help planners understand and manage how streets are used. Populus is now beginning Phase II of a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded initiative to work with micromobility operators and leverage data from over 80 million trips to help public agencies create safer streets. Over 15 cities are participating, including Cleveland, Washington D.C. area cities, Bay Area cities, Lexington, and Charlottesville, among others. Maybe they’ll come to the conclusion that we’ve known all along — find ways to take more space from cars and create more protected bike lanes…

…so that sweet scooters like the new Blizwheel can ride safely! The Blizwheel is a portable, foldable wee thing, weighing under nine pounds and only 15.6 inches in length. Despite its size, it is mighty, with a top speed of 12 miles per hour. The eight-mile range leaves something to be desired, but presumably, if it makes it to market, that’s something the company can work on. Blizwheel has so far been funded over 1033% via kickstarter with around $109,000 in funding.

Finally, let’s wrap with this fun and fresh news. MoonBikes, the maker of electric snowbikes (!!!) has announced the close of a $5 million seed round. The MoonBike created by engineer Nicolas Muron, who was born and raised in the French Alps, actually looks like an e-bike and a snowmobile had a baby, with a light frame, one ski in the front and a track in the back. The target rider for this contraption is a resident of an icy tundra who wants a cool way to commute, or a mountain person who wants something three times lighter than a snowmobile. It can climb groomed slopes with a 40% steepness grade, has a top speed of 26 miles per hour and a range of up to three hours with the optional dual battery.

 — Rebecca Bellan

Deal of the week

Vroom, the online used car marketplace that filed to go public in 2020 and is now listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the VRM ticker, is using its access to capital to swoop up other companies as it seeks out new ways to generate revenue.

This time, Vroom has agreed to acquire auto financing company United Auto Credit Corporation for $300 million in cash. The financial terms are subject to adjustment based upon UACC’s closing book value. This is the third acquisition by Vroom, which is financing the purchase price through cash on hand.

This is Vroom’s second acquisition in less than a year. The company acquired CarStory, an analytics and auto retail services company, in December 2020. And way back in 2015, when online used car marketplaces were a favorite investor hangout, Vroom acquired Texas Direct Auto.

UACC is going to become an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Vroom and will continue to operate under the UACC name. Vroom noted that following the closing, “the acquisition is expected to immediately be accretive to Vroom’s earnings.”

The transaction is expected to close either late in the fourth quarter of 2021 or early in the first quarter of 2022.

Other deals that got my attention this week …

BMW Group has invested, through its venture capital fund, in Lilac Solutions, a U.S. startup that has developed and patented a process designed to improve efficiency, costs and sustainability by extracting lithium from brine resources, which are natural deposits of salt water. The investment was not disclosed.

CarDekho, an Indian search and e-commerce platform for new and used cars, raised $250 million in debt and equity in its Series E financing round. The round, which valued the Jaipur-headquartered firm at $1.2 billion, was led by LeapFrog Investments. Canyon Partners, Mirae Asset, Franklin Templeton, Harbor Spring Capital as well as existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Sunley House also participated in what CarDekho has described as its pre-IPO round.

Crabi, an auto insurance company based in Guadalajara, Mexico, raised $4 million in a seed funding round led Kaszek Ventures with participation from Tuesday Capital and Redwood Ventures.

Hailo, which makes edge-device chips customized to work with AI workloads, raised $136 million in a Series C round of funding, one of the biggest to date in the AI chip market. TechCrunch confirmed with sources close to Hailo that the investment values it at around $1 billion. Poalim Equity and Gil Agmon co-led the round, with participation from previous backers Hailo Chairman Zohar Zisapel, ABB Technology Ventures (ATV), Latitude Ventures and OurCrowd; and new investors Carasso Motors, Comasco, Shlomo Group, Talcar Corporation Ltd. and Automotive Equipment (AEV). The company has now raised some $224 million to date.

MotorK, an automotive sales startup based in Italy, wants to raise 150 million euros with an initial public offering of shares on the Dutch stock exchange Euronext Amsterdam, Reuters reported.

Pon Holdings, the Dutch owner of bike brands including Gazelle, Santa Cruz and Urban Arrow, agreed to buy Cannondale, Schwinn and Mongoose from Dorel Industries Inc. for $810 million. The merger, if approved, will create one of the largest bike makers globally with 2.5 billion euro in estimated annual sales, according to Pon.

Reliable Robotics, an autonomous cargo plane developer, raised a $100 million in a Series C funding round led by Coatue Management.

Rose Rocket, a transportation management software startup based in Toronto, raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Addition Capital and Shine Capital.

Woven Capital, the investment arm of the Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet Group made an undisclosed investment in the Climate Technology Sustainability Fund of 2150. The fund, commonly referred to as 2150, is a London and Copenhagen-based venture capital firm investing in technology companies that seek to reimagine the urban environment and reshape it sustainably.

Policy corner

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Policy Corner.

President Joe Biden is reportedly facing pressure to pass the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and the Democrat-crafted $3.5 trillion budget bill before the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland at the end of the month, The Hill reported. The budget bill in particular contains a number of spending provisions aimed at driving down the country’s carbon emissions, like a clean energy tax credit and a methane emissions fee for the oil and gas industry.

But there are still a few major sticking points. Beyond the sheer size of the budget bill — which has both conservative Democrats and Republicans leery — there are a few provisions that are still facing major opposition. Last month I wrote about how automakers like Honda, Toyota and Tesla are opposing a section that would expand tax incentives by as much as $4,500 for electric vehicles that were manufactured in union shops in the United States.

It seems that the fight is far from over. Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia — a state home to a single auto assembly plant by Kia — sent a letter to Georgia’s congressional delegation urging them to oppose the additional incentive. He said in a statement that limiting the tax incentive “puts Georgia workers at a severe disadvantage.” South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster sent his own letter urging the removal of the provision. South Carolina is home to three assembly plants, respectively owned by BMW, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz.

Lobbying by automakers has already increased so far this year compared to the same period last year, according to spending transparency platform OpenSecrets. Toyota spent $3.3 million in the first half of this year, compared to $2.9 million for the same period of 2020; both Ford and General Motors have also spent more on lobbying this year compared to last.

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I was also interested in this small piece of news out of Colorado, where the state’s largest investor-owned utility, Xcel Energy, is commencing a new pilot plant with six automakers to study how to best match EV charging times with times of day when renewable energy is plentiful.

The Charging Perks pilot is open to 600 drivers of BMW, Chevy, Ford, Honda or Tesla EVs. Without getting too far in the weeds, the pilot will use day-ahead forecasts of renewable energy availability and pair that with drivers’ charging needs to create a customized charging schedule.

This caught my eye because it’s well and good to say you want a million EVs on the road by 2030 — which is Colorado’s stated goal — but without proper planning it’s hard to see how we’ll get there without overwhelming the electric grid. Electric utilities are going to be key players in ensuring any kind of transition to electric mobility, so I’ll be eager to see the results of this pilot (or if it scales in the future).

— Aria Alamalhodaei

Catching up with Kodiak

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A few weeks ago, Kodiak Robotics revealed details about its fourth-generation autonomous truck system and announced it was expanding its own fleet by 15 PACCAR Class 8 trucks. (They have 10 trucks in the field today)

The tl;dr: the fourth-gen truck has a modular sensor suite that includes a center pod on the front roofline of the truck as well as pods integrated into both of the side mirrors. I caught up with co-founder and CEO Don Burnette, at the time, to learn more about what one of the last smaller AV developers is doing as is goes up against better funded and larger companies also trying to commercialize self-driving trucks.

The first thing on my mind was why should I care about this new generation truck? And what does it mean for Kodiak? My assumption, and likely yours as well, is that this new truck is an improvement over the previous version. But I wanted to know exactly what improved. Burnette said one of the primary goals was stability.

“Part of the challenge in self driving is that you have hardware, sensors, computers, network switches, cables and power systems — and decisions that need to be made, all the time, 10 times a second or even 100 times a second. And computers are finicky, these components and bits are finicky. The more we can improve our systems to deal with errors and handle errors is great, but actually building more reliable hardware — in the first place — and building more reliable architectures — in the first place — really helps improve the stability of the overall system.”

Burnette said that, in turn, accelerates development of software and ultimately allows the company to show better performance on the commercial side. The upshot: this new generation is more “stable” and “rugged.”

The other significant “improvement” or change at this stage is that Kodiak is able to start to showcasing where they’re going in the future. Previous generations were a bit more “prototype-y” (Burnette’s word, not mine). This generation is more integrated, has more redundancy, is more sophisticated and is pushing into the industrial design phase of Kodiak’s development program. Importantly, he said “we really wanted to put a stake in the ground and make a statement about how we envision the use case of this technology in the long run.”

Burnette said that trucking fleets care a lot about downtime. And as he began to think through what deploying an AV fleet at scale might look like, he imagined there would be a need for specialized technicians throughout the country, ready to diagnose an issue and repair a sensor. “I think that’s a high bar — that’s a lot of burden to place on the maintenance infrastructure network of various fleets, and so we wanted to create a design that was particularly modular so that in the field, if there’s an issue, you can just pull off the modular system and put on a new one.”

Obviously, that means these systems have to be robust, easy to install and sensors have to be calibrated correctly and in advance. Without getting too deep in the weeds, Burnette said that’s exactly what they’re doing. And he mentioned they’ve already tested swapping out one modular system after one of the mirrors on a truck was damaged (while parked btw). The change worked and the truck was back testing the following day. “We think we can get that time down considerably and at scale for real commercial deployment.”

Notable news and other tidbits

ADAS (meaning drivers still must take over)

AAA found in a new study that advanced driver-assistance technology is significantly reduced by moderate and heavy rain, especially auto emergency braking and lane-keeping systems.

During closed course testing, AAA simulated rainfall and found that test vehicles equipped with automatic emergency braking traveling at 35 mph collided with a stopped vehicle 33% of the time. Lane keeping assistance didn’t fare any better with test vehicles departing their lane 69% of the time, according to the study. AAA pointed to the results as another reason that testing standards should incorporate real-world conditions that drivers normally encounter.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a pair of letters to Tesla targeting the company’s use of non-disclosure agreements for owners who gain early access to its “full self-driving” software beta as well as its decision to use an over-the-air software update to fix an issue that regulators say should have been a recall.

The letters signal NHTSA’s increasing scrutiny of Tesla and its practices related to over-the-air software updates and automated driving features within its Autopilot advanced driver assistance system.

Autonomous vehicles (no driver? no problem)

Waymo vehicles in San Francisco got a bit of extra attention from a local TV network, which then spread like wildfire on social media, when the AVs kept going down the same dead end street, where they would be forced to make three-point turns. I asked Waymo about this. Here’s their statement:

“We continually adjust to dynamic San Francisco road rules. In this case, cars traveling North of California on 15th Ave have to take a u-turn due to the presence of Slow Streets signage on Lake. So, the Waymo Driver was obeying the same road rules that any car is required to follow. “

That didn’t really answer my question as to why the cars kept going down the street, especially since the “slow streets” designation had been in place for some time. Apparently, this was a street that Waymo wanted to drive on and learn from and  that the vehicles are now being limited in that area.

Electric vehicles

Electric Last Mile Solutions, commercial electric vehicle company, said it will open a new tech hub in San Francisco. The “urban mobility lab” will focus on advanced in-vehicle technology, edge-to-cloud architecture, data-intensive applications and machine learning.

General Motors started shipping to dealers replacement battery modules for recalled Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles after delays caused by shutdowns at multiple manufacturing plants as a result of the widespread shortage of semiconductors. Meanwhile, LG Electronics agreed to reimburse GM up to $1.9 billion to pay for the recall and repairs to thousands of Bolts. The issue isn’t totally resolved yet; GM says it will idle the Orion Assembly plant where Bolts are produced until November 1 so it can focus on repairing the EVs that already exist before it makes any new ones.

National Grid in New England used aThomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus equipped with a Proterra battery system to send electricity back into the regional grid over 30 events this summer, an example vehicle-to-grid technology.

Porsche’s electric Taycan outsold its iconic internal combustion-powered 911 sports car in the first nine months of the year, a milestone for the EV that was introduced in late 2019. Sales overall were up 13% compared to the same 9-month period last year, an increase driven by a nearly threefold increase in Taycan deliveries as well as growth by its popular gas-powered Macan vehicle. Porsche delivered 28,640 Taycan vehicles in the January-to-September period and 27,972 of its 911 sports cars, which also grew compared to last year.

In-car tech

Hyundai Motor is the latest automaker to announce plans to develop its own semiconductor chips in order to reduce reliance on chipmakers.

Spotify’s in-car entertainment system “Car Thing,” which launched this spring on an invite-only basis, is now becoming more broadly available, TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reported. Car Thing will become available to U.S. users who want to purchase the $79.99 device.

Volvo is working with a company called BreezoMeter, which uses a network of about 47,000 sensors and satellites to detect and report on air quality. The company delivers micro-local environmental intelligence (within 5 meters of the driver) through the vehicle’s HMI (human-machine interface). The information is available on all new 90 and 60 Series Volvo models.

Misc. stuff

AB Volvo, the construction truck arm of Sweden’s Volvo Group, unveiled a new vehicle made with a majority of “fossil-free” steel. The company plans to begin smaller-scale series production using the new material as early as 2022. The prototype vehicle, a fully electric and autonomous load carrier for use in mining and quarries, is composed of over 3,000 kilograms (6,600 pounds) of the new steel. Volvo said it targeted construction trucks first because, on average, around 70% of the vehicle weight comes from steel and cast iron.

Financial Times digs into the flaws of Biden’s “open all hours” ports strategy.

Luminar has hired two new executives, Debra Poppas as its quality leader, who previously was a vp of quality at PACCAR, and Sameer Ladiwala as chief accounting officer. Ladiwala held a similar position at the semiconductor and software design company Arm.

Swvl, Treepz, Jatri, SafeBoda, Urbvan, Chalo and Buser are some of the startups that have popped up in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America in recent years, all with a focus on providing on-demand access to transportation. Not only are these startups products of the emerging markets, but because mobility is so essential to a thriving economy, they’re actually driving development. Rebecca Bellan gives us an introduction into these startups and how they are driving growth in this sector.

By Harlee Hunsaker

It’s the middle of October, so one can expect falling leaves, sweaters, and pumpkin carving. 

What people don’t expect is snow, but the snow is here! Due to its early arrival, few people have had time to prepare.

“It snowed today!” energetic 2-year-old Jaxton Frodsham said. The Frodsham family lives in Logan where it snowed 11 inches in the first winter storm. 

The Frodsham’s knew the snow was coming, but they were not prepared for how much. 

“Since it snowed really early, there were still leaves on the trees…they weren’t strong enough and it snapped,” Jeff Frodsham said. His drive to work was lined with fallen trees. 

The snow also ruined their tomatoes and basil in their garden. 

“The garden was just smashed, bent in half like flat,” he said.

The power went out for about eight hours which made the winter storm a little colder. 

Although the snow has yet to hit Provo, BYU students are not looking forward to the inevitable. 

“Not a fan, not a fan,” anthropology student Amanda Wisner said. “It feels like fall is honestly like 2 weeks this season.”

“I know not to drive my wife’s car because her tires are pretty bald,” Joshua Miller said. “I am going to drive my truck.”

It seems too early to put on snow tires, but tire specialist at Les Schwab, Johnathon Gimlin, said it’s not. “Any time after October 15th we can start putting the snow tires on,” he said. Gimlin said if you spend lots of time in the mountains, your car needs snow tires. 

“Snow tires come with lots of siping. Siping is all the tiny cuts in the tire which creates better traction,” Gimlin explains.

So whatever winter prep looks like for you, whether that’s putting snow tires on or taking care of your garden, perhaps consider doing it a little earlier this year. 

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PHILADELPHIA – It has been a few seasons since the Eagles have beaten a defending Super Bowl champion. The last time the Eagles faced off against a team in that position was the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII. The quarterback in that game, Tom Brady, watched his last-second Hail Mary bounce off the turf at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis as Eagles players celebrated the first world champion in the franchise’s history.

The Eagles find themselves in the same position to be Brady. This time, the quarterback is with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who the Eagles will play Thursday night.

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Brady injured his right hand in the second quarter of the Buccaneers’ 45-17 win over the Miami Dolphins last Sunday. Brady showed up for his press conference Tuesday with his right hand, the one he throws with, taped up. Although his hand is not 100%, Brady expects to face the Eagles’ defense.

As for the defense itself, Brady said it would be a tough challenge going against the Eagles, saying the team has a lot of talent on that side of the ball.

“I think they are kind of an ascending football team,” Brady said. “They are a very dangerous football team. They are explosive on defense. Fletcher Cox and (Javon) Hargrave are great players. Derek Barnett is a great player. They have a lot of guys who can rush, and they have a few tricky blitzes. In coverage, they really make you earn it. They don’t give you anything. It’s a challenging game.”

Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians took it a step further when it came to praising the defensive line.

“Their front four might be the best front four we face all season,” Arians said. “They don’t have to do a heck of a lot. Those guys can wreck a game in a heartbeat. For us, it’s controlling the line of scrimmage and controlling those guys. They have a really good young secondary. I like what I see. They are very, very sound. They are going to make us beat them. They’re not going to beat themselves.”

For the Eagles to have a chance to defeat the defending Super Bowl champions, they will have to have their front four get pressure on their own without having to blitz, getting hits on Brady.

The Eagles will need as many players as possible in coverage against Buccaneers receivers Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, and Antonio Brown. According to Sharp Football Stats, the Buccaneers are tied for eighth in the league for their usage of “11″ personnel (68% of offensive snaps), meaning three wide receivers, one tight end, and one running back. Defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon will have to adjust because the Eagles have only faced “11″ personnel 45% of the time, the second-fewest amount with only the Detroit Lions seeing less of the personnel grouping (40%).

However, the Eagles have not consistently stopped three-wide receiver sets this season. The website said it deems a successful play as one that gains a minimum of 40% of yards-to-go on first down, 60% on second down, and 100% on third or fourth down. Opposing offenses have the fourth-highest success rate against the Eagles 11 personnel (54%). Cornerbacks Darius Slay, Steve Nelson, and Avonte Maddox will have their hands full, along with the rest of the Eagles linebackers and secondary, in trying to stop big plays from happening.

Gannon said it would be tough going against the Buccaneers’ receivers.

“I always thought, from a receiver standpoint, if you have 11 personnel out there, and you have three guys who all have different skill sets, that makes it a big-time challenge because of how you have to defend each guy within each coverage. “What we are playing is different, and our guys have to grasp that and understand that, which we do because we have smart players.”

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Chris Franklin may be reached at cfranklin@njadvancemedia.com.

After defeating its crosstown rival last week, the Permian football team has another highly anticipated matchup coming up against Midland High this week.

The Panthers will travel to Midland to face the Bulldogs at 7 p.m. Friday at Grande Communications Stadium.

It’ll be the 63rd meeting between Permian and the Bulldogs, with the Panthers leading the all-time series 49-13.

Permian came away with a 42-14 victory last season against Midland High, but the Bulldogs have undergone some changes since the end of the 2020 campaign.

Midland High is now led by head coach Thad Fortune, who spent seven years as Permian’s offensive coordinator before making the jump to his new role.

The Bulldogs now feature a veer offense and defensive scheme similar to the Panthers’, with their players slowly getting a better grasp on what they need to do within Fortune’s system.

It won’t be the first time Permian has faced an option-based offense this year, as it played Amarillo Tascosa in one of its nondistrict games.

Midland High is coming off a 41-17 loss on the road against San Angelo Central, while Permian will look to extend its winning streak to three games.

Permian head coach Jeff Ellison said he thought his team adjusted well in the second half of last week’s matchup on both offense and defense.

“The staff and the kids did a great job with that,” Ellison said. “As much as they threw the ball, I thought we covered well.

“Throwing it that many times, they’re going to get you on a couple and they did but we were able to get things corrected on the sideline and halftime.”

>> MOVING FORWARD: Ellison said every week is a work in progress to make sure the team is in its best state going into its matchups.

The coaching staff looks to tweak things and make changes to achieve one of the goals of getting better every week.

Improving reads and blocking on the offense go along with making more secure tackles and understanding run fits on the defensive side of the ball.

“It’s a work in progress week in and week out, but we’re getting better,” Ellison said.

One of the things Permian will look to fix is its penalty issues, after being flagged 10 times last week for 114 yards.

>> OLD FRIENDS: Fortune is looking forward to leading his team against the program he coached at for seven years.

Many members of Fortune’s current coaching staff at Midland High spent time at Permian, including assistant head coach Kirk Thurman and co-defensive coordinators Stacey Martin and Eric Jonas.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for Coach Ellison and his staff, and a lot of respect for Permian,” Fortune said. “I was there for seven years, it was really instrumental in my career and that place was good to me and good to my family.

“We’ve got nothing but gratitude toward that place and everything that it represents in Texas high school football.”

Fortune added that he still has good relationships with players and coaches at Permian, but once the game starts the focus will be solely on what’s happening on the field.

It will be an important game for both teams, as they try to make progress in the District 2-6A playoff picture.

>> WINNING STREAK: When Permian played Odessa High last week, the Panthers went into the game on a seven-game winning streak against the Bronchos.

They have a four game winning streak against the Bulldogs, with Midland High’s last victory coming in 2016 in a 49-48 shootout with the Panthers.

Over the last four years, the Permian defense has surrendered 30 points combined in four games against Midland High while scoring 173.

>> SUBVARSITY: The Permian subvarsity teams had a strong showing last week against Odessa High, with all four teams picking up shutout victories.

The Junior Varsity Black team defeated Odessa High 28-0, while Junior Varsity white won 41-0.

Freshman Black and Freshman White picked up similar results, defeating the Bronchos by 27-0 scores.

This week, JV White will play Midland High at 5 p.m. Thursday at Ratliff Stadium and JV Black will host the Bulldogs at 6:30 p.m. at the same venue.

The freshman teams will travel to Midland, with Freshman White playing Midland High at 5 p.m. and Freshman Black facing the Bulldogs at 6:30 p.m.

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PERMIAN AT MIDLAND HIGH

>> When: 7 p.m. Friday.

>> Where: Grande Communications Stadium

>> Last Season: Permian 42, Midland High 14

>> Records: Permian 5-2 overall, 2-1 District 2-6A; Midland High 2-4, 1-1.

>> Radio: KMCM (FM-96.9).

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PERMIAN PLAYER OF THE WEEK

RODNEY HALL

Height: 5-foot-11

Weight: 170

Class: Junior

Position: Quarterback

Last Week: Spearheaded the offensive attack against Odessa High, throwing for 244 yards and two passing touchdowns to go with 96 rushing yards and a score on the ground.

This season: Leads Permian with 1,015 yards passing and 12 touchdowns. Also has 516 rushing yards and five TDs.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – With snow possible in the forecast for later this week, service technicians say now is the time to prep your cars for winter.

There are a few key items experts say drivers often forget to check before hitting the road in winter weather.

“We have a lot of people coming from out of the area and different locations,” said Travis Rodefer, a Phil Long dealerships service technician. Rodefer explained for folks unfamiliar with how Colorado winters impact vehicles, now is a good time to learn.

Antifreeze is the first example of this. “Your antifreeze protects the vehicle and the engine block from freezing. It keeps it at operating temperatures,” Rodefer said. “It’s not as important if you’re in the south or somewhere in the 70s … but here in Colorado, you want to make sure you have the correct antifreeze levels and that it’s not contaminated.”

Next, tires. “Tire tread depth is a key thing. The worn-down tread factor is going to reduce your stopping distance and can cause hydroplaning … Ice is ice, we all know that, but the better the tread, the better you’re going to be,” Rodefer said. Experts advise taking a quarter upside down and placing it in the grooves on your tires. If the tire hits at or above Washington’s head, the tires have enough tread. If the tire hits below Washington’s head, its time to replace your tires. (demonstration pictured below.)

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Check your battery. “The winter months put a strain on your battery, especially if the vehicle is kept outside,” Rodefer said. He advises starting to think about replacing batteries around 5 years old, saying, “Five years you are sort of cutting it close, so keep an eye on your battery making sure your vehicle is starting properly.”

Also check wiper blades. “When you can’t see, you can’t drive … We don’t get a lot of rain here, so people don’t really check their wiper blades until it does rain, and then all of a sudden it’s streaking, the blades have been dry rotted, and they fly off and cause other damage … so just do periodic maintenance of your wiper blades, making sure they’re ready for the snow.”

Experts say to always make sure jumper cables are in the car.

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JACKSONVILLE, Florida — David Duval has returned periodically to the Timuquana Country Club near where he grew up learning to play golf.

Saturday was a bit different: he was hitting shots on the course that counted … not to the results of the Constellation Furyk & Friends PGA Tour Champions event.

That will come next year.

But the shots Duval hit with three Hall of Fame athletes during the Furyk & Friends Celebrity Challenge for Charity counted towards a bigger picture than a golf tournament.

Duval, a 13-time PGA Tour winner, the 1999 Players champion and 2001 Open champion, teamed up with former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann against World Golf Hall of Fame member Annika Sorenstam and former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith in a nine-hole scramble in which $100,000 was designated for either K9s for Warriors (the Duval-Swann charity) or Wolfson Children’s Hospital (Sorenstam and Smith).

Duval and Swann had won $44,000 in skins through eight holes (thanks in part to an iron shot Swann hit at No. 17, setting up a 10-foot birdie putt for Duval), while Sorenstam-Smith had earned $16,000.

The groups tied on No. 18 and decided to designate $50,000 to each charity.

“It was so great to be back where I grew up,” Duval said. “This is a big event and playing with this group of Hall of Famers was actually really nerve-wracking.”

Duval said the Furyk & Friends was doing Timuquana proud.

“Hats off to Jim and Tabitha [Furyk] for what they have accomplished,” he said. “I’ve played thousands of rounds on this course. I take a lot of pride in playing here and it was such a pleasure to see the turnout from the fans and to see the field that showed up this week.”

Before the competition, Duval gazed out at the range where he hit balls for thousands of hours under the tutelage of his father Bob Duval, Timuquana’s head pro at the time.

“It’s different, the scale of it,” said Duval, who now lives in the Denver area. “I remember it as being a lot bigger because I was a little person growing up here. It’s always cool to be back.”

Duval was greeted warmly by the crowd around the 10th tee when the event started after the final group in the tournament cleared the hole.

“Welcome back, David,” one fan yelled.

And another reminded everything that the Episcopal High graduate was the original “Duuuvaaallll!” when he belted out that ode to Jacksonville.

“It’s really cool to see it like this and have it so cleaned up, with all the work they’ve been doing for years here,” Duval said of the course and how it presented itself for the tournament. “It makes it incredible.”

Duval missed being eligible to play in this tournament by 32 days. He turns 50 years old on Nov. 9.

However, he plans on competing on the PGA Tour Champions next season and Furyk & Friends is already on his list of planned starts.

“Obviously, it will include this,” he said. “I plan on playing and see how everything works out, my health and all that good stuff.”

The charity Duval and Swann were playing for, is close to Duval’s family and his heart. His father and step-mother Shari launched the charity in 2011, which provides service dogs for the military who have returned wounded or suffering from PTSD.

“The charity has saved lives, really, of those warriors,” Duval said. “Placing those dogs gives them some semblance of normalcy in their lives. To have had Dad and Shari start it, it’s wonderful.”

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Maryland Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) said the state will be ready to administer more booster shots and vaccinate children between the ages of 5 and 11 once the federal government gives the go-ahead.

Federal approval for the boosters and vaccines for younger children is expected to arrive in the next few weeks, and Hogan said he is hoping to see it before Halloween.

At a Thursday news conference, Hogan said 140,000 booster shots have been administered in the state already, and 80,000 residents have appointments to receive a booster of the Pfizer vaccine. Hogan said he expects those numbers to rise dramatically once booster shots for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are approved.

He also said the state has been preparing to ramp up a vaccination campaign for children between 5 and 11 once the federal government authorizes it.

“The state health department is working with our local school systems and our county health departments to try to make sure that everybody is ready to immediately begin those vaccinations the moment that we’re given the authorization to do so,” Hogan said.

He said the state has a sufficient supply of vaccines to administer boosters, but has also coordinated with the White House to ensure that the supply chain is ready in case the vaccines for younger children are different doses than standard vaccines.

“The federal government has not made the determination about dosing sizes so you can’t have the vials already ready until that decision is made, but the White House has assured us they will have no problem … they say their supply chain will be ready to immediately get that out to the states,” Hogan said.

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Sadly, because humans are not like alligators and eat several times a day, we inevitably spend a lot of our waking hours cooking meals. 

One way to spend less time in the kitchen is by meal prepping, which at its core is making all or part of a meal in advance so that it’s easier and faster to cook when you need it. 

There are different approaches you can take—from making one or two recipes at a time to making everything you’ll eat for a month at once. It can be as simple or as elaborate as you want it to be.

Meal prepping 101

Before you get started with meal prepping, there are a few things that you’ll need. 

Somewhere to store your food

A freezer is your best option. Set at or below zero degrees Fahrenheit to inactivate any bacteria, mold, or yeast and prevent it from spoiling your food. According to Julie Garden-Robinson, professor of nutrition and food safety at North Dakota State University, freezing is one of the best ways to preserve food, helping it keep more of the original color, flavor, texture, and nutrients. 

[Related: The best way to freeze fresh meat]

Like many meal preppers, I have a dedicated freezer at home, but your refrigerator freezer will work fine as long as you manage the space. If you don’t have and don’t want to get a freezer, then storing the extra food in your fridge works, too—you just need to make sure you eat it before it goes bad. 

On that same note, always make sure to safely defrost food by thawing it in the refrigerator, in cold water, or in the microwave rather than just leaving it out on the counter where bacteria can grow.

Food-safe packaging

You’ll need to make sure that your packaging is food-safe and freezer-safe. My wife and I find that gallon-sized freezer bags work fantastic, as do freezer-safe food containers. We also invested in a vacuum sealer system, which optimizes space, but also keeps food fresh while frozen by removing the air that can lead to freezer burn. 

For smaller-use items, like diced jalapenos or garlic, we’ll actually freeze them in ice cube trays, creating individual portions to pop out of the freezer and directly into the pan.

Label your prepped meals and ingredients

Frozen foods are sometimes hard to identify in the package. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost a game of “is this spaghetti sauce or chili?” This is why it’s crucial to label each and every container you put in your freezer. 

But don’t just write down what the food is—make sure to include the date it was frozen so you can eat the oldest foods first. If you want to keep things even more organized, you can also keep an inventory of what you have so that you don’t need to dig through your freezer once a week to remember. A list on your fridge door or a spreadsheet you can access on your phone can come in handy.

Double cook freezer-friendly meals

The most straightforward meal prep is to make two of the same dishes at the same time and freeze one of them, which is what I do most often. The goal is always to save yourself the most labor-intensive parts of cooking in the future, so your second meal doesn’t require much beyond thawing. 

Usually, doubling the volume of a recipe only requires a little extra time and a few more ingredients, but you don’t have to limit yourself—you can make as many batches as your prepper heart desires. Just keep in mind that the more meals you get out of it, the more ingredients you’ll need and the longer it’ll take you to prepare.

An easy meal to double-up is meatloaf. Most of the work in this recipe is mixing everything together and forming the loaf into the pan, so it’s just a matter of mixing up four pounds of meat instead of three and making two loaves instead of one. The only real extra time is chopping some extra veggies. 

Freeze the second meatloaf raw in a heat-proof baking dish lined with parchment paper (you can skip the sauce since it’s easy to make and better fresh). When you want meatloaf again, mix up the sauce, pour it over the frozen loaf, let the pan come up to room temperature, and pop it in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 to 60 minutes. The easiest meal you’ll ever make. 

It’s also a great idea to double batch chili and spaghetti sauce, which you can fully cook before freezing in rigid plastic containers. When you need them, you can defrost them in the microwave or, as I prefer, in a pot on the stove.

Finally, for meals that require lots of measured ingredients, you can double batch the spice or make sauce packets. For recipes like butter chicken and Asian lettuce wraps, for example, it can take up to fifteen minutes just to peel and dice the garlic, shred the ginger, and measure out the various other spices and liquids. If you have the packets already made, you can thaw them and dump them in with the meat and veggies while they cook. If you use a multi-cooker, you can even just walk away until it’s ready. 

Other meals that we commonly double or triple up on are: 

Prep common ingredients or tasks

Another strategy is to focus on batching out ingredients and common tasks rather than specific meals. Chopping vegetables, for example, is one of the most time-consuming parts of most meals. But once you’re doing it, adding a few carrots and onions is not a big deal. My wife and I will dedicate a few hours on Sunday afternoon to doing all of our cutting for the week at once while watching football.

You can make this even more efficient by using a food processor or blender—you’ll get a lot done and you’ll only have to set up and clean the machine once. 

[Related: Best food processor: Chop your way to easy meal prep]

You can also do this with meat. If you’re having tacos and spaghetti in the same week, for example, you can brown several pounds of ground turkey or beef, and season it appropriately when you need to warm it up. Similarly, you can grill a couple of pounds of chicken breast that you can eat as is, chop to use later on a chicken salad, or shred to add to chicken in tacos. 

The benefit of this method is that you’re impacting more meals, and you don’t necessarily need freezer space to do it because you’re only storing portions of chopped veggies, browned meat, or spices for a few days. However, it does require some advance planning and setting aside time that you wouldn’t otherwise use for cooking.

Batching out time-consuming tasks for the whole week can make each night’s cooking a lot easier to face. With a little bit of planning, you can take some of the pressure off and still have a delicious home-cooked meal.