Birdie was brought to the shelter with her young babies. Now that she's done being a mom, she's ready for a loving home of her own. Photo from Summit County Animal Control and Shelter
The following animals are available for adoption at the Summit County Animal Shelter. Call the shelter at 970-668-3230 with questions. The most recent list of animals available for adoption can be found via their website.
ZUMA, no age, domestic shorthair, calico, spayed female
Lucas is a 4-year-old, neutered, pit bull mix. He is reported to be good with other dogs, but shouldn’t live with a cat — they’re just too fun to chase. Photo from Summit County Animal Control and Shelter
RENI, 1 year 1 month, German shepherd and Siberian husky mix, black and tan, spayed female
Joint Base Charleston has a variety of different missions executed by every military branch. The 841st Transportation Battalion is one Army unit that works closely with Joint Base Charleston to support the warfighter and help deliver cargo to wherever it needs to go.
Specifically for this mission, U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Will Twigg, a reservist assigned to the 841st Transportation Battalion, verifies equipment as it comes off the cargo vessel and ensures that it is staged in the appropriate areas for easy port clearance.
“We’re the ones that are doing the tallying and receiving of tally sheets which allows us to reconcile the accounts, and make sure that all documentation is in order to execute a download or upload,” said Twigg.
Port clearance is the final phase in which the 841st TB has 10 business days to get the cargo cleared from Joint Base Charleston’s Naval Weapons Station TC dock.
In June, the battalion alone moved over 4,000 pieces of cargo in 30 days.
“It’s a phenomenal amount of work that was put in by not only military green suitors, but also by Department of the Army civilian employees that work very hard here,” said Twigg.
It is essential that all the work done by the battalion is efficient and orderly. For U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Blake Interdonato, a reservist assigned to the 841st Transportation Battalion, this rings true.
“We deliver the best product that we can to that unit,” said Interdonato. “If something does not get booked correctly or logged where it’s supposed to go, that piece of equipment goes from being $2,000 to move, maybe could go upwards to $10,000 to get that one piece of equipment to its proper destination.”
The battalion plays a crucial role in delivering equipment and cargo from any eastern sea port.
“It’s a huge responsibility,” said Interdonato. “We take that responsibility very seriously and we come to work every day to give it our best.”
The 841st TB is just one mission partner here that strengthens Joint Base Charleston’s sea capabilities.
“Our mission set is to move cargo from the port to the fort, and the fort to the port to support the warfighter,” said Twigg.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WHDH) - A Boston man is under arrest after police say he struck and killed an off-duty Stoughton nurse who was helping someone at the scene of a rollover crash in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Sunday.
Troopers responding to a crash on Route 95 north around 1:45 a.m. were told that a red-colored vehicle had struck a good Samaritan who stopped to render aid to a passenger in a rolled over vehicle by Exit 30, Rhode Island state police said.
The good Samaritan, identified as Jennifer Toscano, 34, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
The driver of the red-colored vehicle, Luis Baez, 22, of Jamaica Plain, allegedly fled the scene but was found by state police a short time later and arrested on charges of driving under the influence of liquor and or drugs, resulting in death, driving so as to endanger, resulting in death, leaving the scene of an accident, resulting in death, and operating on a suspended license, resulting in death, police said.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Providence District Court.
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Ports have been a fixture on mobile phones since their inception -- dating all the way from the iPhone 12 back to "dumb phones" from decades before. But even when it comes to ports, Apple has done things its own way. In 2012, the company made its own accessories obsolete when it switched from a 30-pin connector to a proprietary Lightning port, even though USB-C is widely accepted as the universal connector. (There are Lightning-to-USB-C cables, however.)
But if long-running industry rumors are to be believed, Apple is planning to kill the Lightning port on the iPhone, making way for a completely portless phone. One of the latest indications we're moving closer to this port-free life is Apple's introduction of MagSafe on the iPhone.
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The wireless charging system relies on an embedded array of magnets that snap the iPhone 12 onto a MagSafe puck. To charge your iPhone 12, rest it on the circular charging pad, then wait for the charging indicator on the screen to confirm it's working. This eliminates the need for a Lightning connector, and while Apple kept the port on the iPhone 12, it did remove the wall adapter and wired earphones from its box.
After the addition of MagSafe, a wireless future seems inevitable for the iPhone. It offers a glimpse into Apple's vision where a cord-free iPhone accessory ecosystem is made possible by magnets, not ports.
"Wireless technologies have reached a level of maturity where a portless device is much more viable than it's ever been," said Tuong Huy Nguyen, senior principal analyst at Gartner.
Some Chinese phone-makers have also beaten Apple to the punch, launching portless phones of their own. And many examples of emerging tech, like VR headsets and smart glasses, are wireless too. Whether Apple will head down this path remains to be seen, but there are many reasons why the time is right for Apple to finally introduce a portless iPhone.
An iPhone 7 Plus with a Lightning port sits atop a Google Pixel 2 XL with a USB-C port.
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Apple is making more things wireless
Ports are a practical conduit for phones to deliver three key functions: charging, data transfer and audio output. Before adding MagSafe to its phones, Apple developed AirDrop and iCloud for data transferring. As for audio, Apple kicked off the mainstream trend of wireless earbuds in earnest when it introduced the first-gen AirPods in 2016.
Apple also unveiled a MagSafe-compatible leather wallet that clips on to new iPhones and costs $59.
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MagSafe is the wireless bridge to wired accessories
MagSafe is Apple's answer to wireless charging for the iPhone 12. But to convince more people to live without a Lightning port, Apple needs to offer a wireless bridge for other wired accessories. MagSafe seems to serve exactly that purpose, opening up possibilities for a whole new world of iPhone attachments that magnetically snap on.
These accessories could include "game controllers, camera grips, selfie sticks and, yes, wireless charging battery packs that could change the way we hold or interact with an iPhone," according to CNET executive editor Roger Cheng.
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Apple keeps improving wireless charging
After holding out for years, Apple embraced wireless technology in 2018 when it added support for the Qi-based wireless inductive charging standard to its iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Apple initially limited the power to just 5 watts, but later boosted it to 7.5 watts via a software update. This was an indication that Apple was regarding wireless charging not as a specialty feature, but as a necessary one.
There's also chatter about a new wireless charging pad in the works to replace AirPower, which was ultimately canceled before it had a chance to hit the market. Rather than charging multiple devices simultaneously like the AirPower promised, this Qi pad would likely charge one device at a time.
Apple's MagSafe charging system relies on magnets to autoalign the charging puck with any phone from the iPhone 12 family.
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Now Apple says MagSafe works even faster than Qi chargers. Its charger now offers twice the amount of power at 15 watts, which could bring it on par with the Quick Charge technology that Android phones have long enjoyed. Admittedly, Apple has some catching up to do versus Chinese competitors such as Xiaomi and Oppo, but overall the industry is charging forward.
For many years, wireless chargers have been painfully slow compared with their wired counterparts, taking nearly twice as long in some cases. But that gap is narrowing. Earlier this year, Oppo launched a 65W wireless charger, dubbed AirVOOC, that it says can fully charge a battery in 30 minutes. Meanwhile, Xiaomi is working on an 80W wireless charger that promises to fully refill a 4,000-mAh battery in under 20 minutes.
Apple has killed once-standard features and will likely do it again
Apple isn't above axing popular product features even if people crave them years after they've gone. Apple killed the DVD disc drive in its Macs, for example, and it bid farewell to the headphone jack by removing it from the iPhone 7 in 2016. Longtime Apple executive Phill Schiller said that took "courage," positioning it as an innovative shift away from outdated technology. "It makes no sense to tether ourselves with cables to our mobile devices," Schiller said when Apple unveiled the AirPods at the same event.
Apple unveiled its first-gen AirPods in 2016 alongside the iPhone 7 line, which were the first iPhones to ship without the standard 3.5mm headphone jack
Though many decried the move, other phone-makers followed Apple's lead. Samsung, OnePlus, Google and others dumped the 3.5mm headphone jack from their flagship phones soon after, leaving a USB-C port in its place.
Apple still sells tens of millions of iPhones and AirPods every year, proving that many people are willing to adapt to its newer tech.
"A smartphone is a device with limited space for all the components, but it will also be important for the smartphone makers to provide better or more functions to stay competitive," said Research Manager Will Wong at IDC's Asia Pacific. "Thus, a portless phone is likely to be an unavoidable trend."
A portless iPhone will allow Apple to better differentiate between models
Apple analyst Ming-Chi- Kuo predicts that Apple will launch a portless flagship iPhone by 2021. Kuo reported that having a wireless phone will "create more differentiation" between top-tier iPhones and base-model iPhones. Going by iPhone 12 naming standards, this would mean it's possible that the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max would be portless, while the iPhone 13 Mini and regular iPhone 13 would keep their Lightning port.
"We expect that the highest-end model would cancel the [Lightning] port and provide the completely wireless experience," Kuo wrote in a 2019 report.
Differentiating more between models could make it easier for Apple to command higher prices for its fancier iPhones. These would target people with bigger budgets who care about being on the cutting edge of Apple's technology.
Apple wouldn't be the first to experiment with a port-free phone
Apple usually isn't the first to jump on mobile phone trends. It wasn't the first to release phones with 5G or wireless charging, and we've yet to see a foldable phone from Apple. So it's not surprising that there are already portless phones in existence, either. Chinese phone-maker Vivo launched a port-free and button-free Apex concept phone last year, which relies on a magnetic clip that connects behind the phone for charging. It also has virtual pressure-sensing buttons instead of physical buttons, but it's not available for the mass market yet.
Chinese phone-maker Vivo launched a port-free concept phone last year called the Apex 2019 (pictured) that it followed up this year with the Apex 2020.
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No ports would also mean more durability
Whenever Apple closes off a port, a chorus of criticism over forced obsolescence tends to follow, among other things. Some iPhone users feel Apple is robbing them of perfectly fine input points.
Those accusations aside, sealing off ports could make iPhones more durable. The logic is this: Having no ports means fewer seams and therefore fewer opportunities for dust and water to get into the phone. It also means fewer points of vulnerability for cracks.
Apple has been equipping its iPhones with features designed to improve durability. This year the company placed emphasis on the ceramic shield screen on its new iPhone 12 models. It also introduced water resistance to iPhones in 2016.
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Boston’s arts scene has rebounded with a profound force — and this glimpse into November’s lineup of events is proof. Oh, there are miles to go with a score of clubs and theaters still dark, but artists and organizations have done everything they can to keep audiences engaged. Give them some applause (and some cash) either in person or online.
The Every Voice Concert, available Nov. 8, online
The Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage with a concert full of female composers including queer women, women of color and local luminaries. The program will feature “Venite, laetantes, Op. 20, No. 12” by famed Italian composer Isabella Leonarda, Mari Esabel Valverde’s “Prelude for piano in A-flat Major” and “A White Rose,” “Out of the South Blew a Wind” and “Song to the Dark Virgin” by New England Conservatory trained composer Florence Price. More details at handelandhaydn.org.
All Banjo Open Mic, Nov. 11, online
Club Passim, Harvard Square’s legendary folk (and a dozen more genres) club, has been keeping the open mic tradition alive online. Every Tuesday, fans log on to get hip to new talent. On Nov. 11, Passim turns things over to banjo wizards for a night of clawhammer and bluegrass. A $10 suggested donation is appreciated for the club’s streams on Facebook and YouTube.
The Triad, Nov. 15, online
The American Repertory Theater and Oberon present a trio of ace artists: hip-hop wonder Brandie Blaze, the pop/hip-hop/r&b powerhouse Kaovanny, and Anjimile — a singer-songwriter who swings from experimental folk to electro-touched indie rock and is arguably the biggest Boston success story of 2020. Pay-what-you-can tickets and stream info at americanrepertorytheater.org.
Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression, the Museum of Fine Arts, starts Nov. 15
On its 150th anniversary, the MFA celebrates Claude Monet with a rare chance to see all of the museum’s 35 oil paintings by the French impressionist master. The museum’s treasures will be on display with Monets on loan from private collections and other works that influenced the artist. More info at mfa.org.
Jack and the Beanstalk: A Musical Adventure, starts Nov. 27, online
A new, 45-minute Zoom trip through storyland, this classic fairy tale gets a contemporary makeover thanks to the inventiveness and hard work of Harvard undergraduates Julia Riew and Ian Chan (who created last season’s “Thumbelina” at the American Rep). Rebecca Aparicio makes her A.R.T. directorial debut here after serving as assistant director on “Endlings” and “Gloria: A Life.” Details at americanrepertorytheater.org.
First Thursdays, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, ongoing
The Gardner has started admission-free afternoon and evening hours (3 to 9 p.m.) the first Thursday of every month through June. With its push to dramatically expand its free hours, the museum also added a range of free digital programs at gardnermuseum.org.
Chattanooga's entrepreneurial ecosystem has launched more than just groundbreaking businesses rooted in the Scenic City over the past decade. It has also produced a generation of startup junkies who are building careers on long days, high pressure, no playbook, and uncertain outcomes — all laced with the tantalizing prospect of changing everything from the ground up.
"Once you start, it feels odd not to be working on some sort of innovation," says Matt Averyhart, co-founder of Onsight Fitness and an early employee of Chattanooga-based startup juggernaut Bellhop. "Once you turn on the entrepreneurial side of your brain and become innovative, you are constantly thinking about innovating things."
Matt Averyhart
Startup background:
* 2014: Bellhop
* 2016: Onsight Fitness
Staff photo by C.B. Schmelter / Founder Matt Averyhart poses at Onsight Fitness on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The cultures that coalesce around startups tend to build on themselves, spinning out new ideas and sparking careers across industries, says Marcus Shaw, CEO of CO.LAB, a nonprofit organization that boosts startups in the Chattanooga area and connects founders to resources.
"That's how you end up with people going from one company to another," he says.
The Chattanooga startup culture differs in one important way, however, from similar ecosystems in bigger cities, Shaw adds. "The common theme is that, maybe more so than large corporate ecosystems, our startup ecosystem is incredibly relationship-driven," he says.
For Emily Maxie, the chief marketing officer for Very, the experience of building a strong team under intense pressure has kept her coming back to startups again and again. Since 2012, she's moved between four high-growth, tech-focused employers in Chattanooga.
Emily Maxie
Startup background
* Very: 2017-now
* Skuid: 2015-2017
* SIGNiX: 2012-2015
* TransCard: 2012
Staff photo by C.B. Schmelter / Very Chief Marking Officer Emily Maxie poses in her home office on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 in Ooltewah, Tenn.
Very, which has grown from 33 to 60 employees during Maxie's tenure, is an 'internet of things' shop that incorporates online tools with everyday items — from fish tanks to slow cookers. She has spent the last 3-and-a-half years growing the marketing strategy of a company in high-growth mode.
"There is something special about working really hard on something that has no guarantee of success with other people who are working really hard on it and you all believe in it and you also are kind of terrified it might not work," says Maxie, who has also worked for Skuid, SIGNiX and TransCard. "There's something about the relationships you build in those situations."
Her biggest complaint about startup life is that more people don't consider it, Maxie says.
"In college, no one was like, 'You could start your own company and that's a viable path.' Instead, it was, 'You could start your own company and that's really risky.'
ALWAYS STARTING SOMETHING
Ustin Zarubin and his business partners didn't actually have a business to pitch when they applied to high-stakes startup accelerator Y Combinator. But that's not the kind of thing that stops a guy who's on his fourth startup in seven years.
"Y Combinator accepts companies at any stage — but this was just an idea, not a company," Zarubin says. "No customers, no revenue, not incorporated."
They did it anyway, and the idea for Batch, a kind of time machine for corporate data, was promising enough to get them funded for the August 2020, 12-week accelerator program.
"It's a super well-oiled machine," Zarubin says. "You're constantly working with partners to build the company in a successful way, help with fundraising, business introductions, connections to alumni and networks."
But there's no such thing as part-time Y Combinator, Zarubin adds.
Ustin Zarubin
Startup background
* Bellhop: 2013-2016
* Shimmur: 2016-2018
* Community.com: 2018-2020
* Batch: Now
Contributed photography / Ustin Zarubin
The expectation is you leave your job and do this full time," he says. "It was definitely absolutely insane, but this opportunity doesn't come to anyone, so we decided to take it."
That meant leaving Community.com, a thriving startup he had co-founded that enables influencers and celebrities to communicate with fans through text. That business was born from Shimmur, another startup where he'd worked that created a 'weird' product that allowed teenage influencers to interact with fans directly.
The work is intense and demanding, but there's also some luck involved, Zarubin says. And the key to luck, he adds, is taking your shots.
"How do you generate luck?" he says. "Put yourself in as many positions as you can that have the potential to generate a positive outcome."
Zarubin, another early employee of Bellhop, came to Chattanooga and the startup life accidentally, applying at the last minute for the Gig Tank program through CO.LAB one summer when he was a physics student at the University of Georgia.
After college, he was determined to return to Chattanooga, where his summer experience had shown him the potential of the local tech startup environment. In 2013, he landed at Bellhop, becoming engineer #4, which set him on the path to entrepreneurship.
"I'm very thankful for all the things they did for me and taught me," he says.
Now Zarubin is working around the clock, building out Batch with his partners. During Y Combinator, they built a product in two months and launched it successfully. Batch has scored some big clients, attracted additional investors, and is now in rapid growth mode — which comes with its own challenges and pressures, Zarubin says.
"We have all these investors now, and we have to build this and be successful," he says.
PUTTING DOWN NEW ROOTS
Amna Shah was living in Chicago and had never even heard of Chattanooga when she was recruited to work for international shipping and freight startup Steam Logistics in 2013.
"They wanted me to come and interview, and I had not a clue where Chattanooga was," Shah says. "I kind of fell in love with the people — how down-to-earth they were."
She also fell in love with the startup experience and, after a little more than a year at Steam, decided to launch her own startup focused on helping companies implement cargo systems that make their processes more consistent and efficient.
Amna Shah
Startup background
* Steam Logistics: 2013
* AHS Consulting: 2014-now
* i-Card: 2015-now
Staff Photo by Matt Hamilton / Amna Shah at AHS Consulting. Monday, Oct. 5, 2020.
Starting my business was taking my expertise and saying I could do to help more companies," she says. "That's very close to my heart — how do you use technology in an archaic industry like freight forwarding? You want to get them to the next level."
That drive is crucial to surviving the pressure cooker of startup life and building a business that succeeds long term, Shah says.
"The one single skill you need is the passion you have for what you want to do," she says. "You have to day in and day out breathe the business."
The local startup community has been inspiring from the very beginning of her time in Chattanooga, Shah adds.
"Our startup community just brushes off on you its energy," she says.
And the need for what she does at AHS Consulting was clear, she says.
"The company grew exponentially," says Shah, who now has 12-15 employees. "We did a million (dollars) in the second year."
In addition to her consulting business, Shah has launched a product called i-Card, a virtual business card app that eliminates the need for paper cards. It uses QR code scanning technology to share information between individuals, which lets users keep information up to date an all in one place.
Her success as an entrepreneur has put Shah in a spot to give back, and she has founded a middle school in her home country of Pakistan, among other philanthropic endeavors.
"I've kept myself pretty busy," she says.
THE BOUDINET GUARANTEE
Jeremy Boudinet's first brush with entrepreneurship came when he was a political science student at the University of Tennessee, when he gained fame as a talented ghostwriter for people who needed help polishing their papers.
His reputation grew to the point that he developed the Boudinet Guarantee: Earn an A or a B or get your money back. By the time he graduated in 2009, people were calling from hundreds of miles away for help, but Boudinet still hadn't figured out what to do for a career. So he did what so many good writers do when they don't know what to do next: He went to law school. It did not go well.
"I hated law school, hated it," he says. "I was a fish out of water."
While Boudinet was finishing a degree he didn't really want, his college friends had been successfully pitching Ambition, their sales-performance tech company, at startup accelerator Y Combinator. When the funding came through, they needed someone to produce great content to market and grow their new business.
And they remembered the Boudinet Guarantee.
"They had 13 employees and two customers — this was April 2014 — and they called and said, 'Would you be down to come and work for us?'" Boudinet says. "Sight unseen, I moved to Chattanooga. There wasn't a name for my role, but it turned into director of marketing."
Jeremy Boudinet
Startup background
* Ambition: 2014-2018
* Nextiva: January 2019 to now
Contributed photography / Jeremy Boudinet
He didn't happen to know anything about marketing at the time, but that was no problem. Boudinet jumped in, read everything he could find on the topic and figured it out.
"One benefit of startups, you learn faster than you would anywhere else," Boudinet says. "You can open doors for yourself and be of service to a company in a meaningful way."
Ambition grew fast, and Boudinet spent 4 years immersed in keeping that momentum going. Then, burned out and ready for a rest, he moved to Florida to start his own media and content company.
One of Boudinet's clients was a voice-over-internet-protocol company called Nextiva — which had also been an early Ambition client. In January 2019, Nextiva recruited Boudinet to come to Arizona to help the 13-year-old company chase aggressive growth.
"My boss was the company's original marketing leader," Boudinet says. "I'm seeing how they manage a big team, how they don't get burned out, how they inspire people and delegate work, and it's fascinating to watch."
But his Chattanooga startup experience has also stayed with him, Boudinet says.
"What an exciting time — the energy was phenomenal, it was the opportunity of a lifetime," he says. "I still have mad love for Chattanooga."
Startup City
The roots of the economic development ecosystem in Chattanooga and Hamilton County:
* Chattanooga/Hamilton County INCubator offers low-cost space and assistance for startups on the North Shore.
* The Company Lab, also known as CO.LAB, provides counseling, accelerator programs and hosts Gig Tank and Startup Week.
* The Enterprise Center promotes research, facilities, collaboration and programs to aid startup success.
* Tennessee Small Business Development Center offers counseling and courses for startups and growing small businesses.
* LAUNCH Chattanooga offers assistance and accelerator programs for startups.
* Brightbridge, Kiva, Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union Idea Leap program and the Small Business Administration offer low-interest loans and assistance for startups.
* Dynamo Fund, The Jump Fund, the Renaissance Fund and other venture funds provide seed and equity capital for startups and growing businesses.
* EPB offers up to 10 Gig internet connections citywide, proclaiming Chattanooga “Gig City,” and helps house a local office for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s commercialization programs.
* At UTC, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship helps foster startups and internships for local small businesses while the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress, or CUIP, is helping drive the city’s Smart Community Collaborative.
A new, 45-minute Zoom trip through storyland, this classic fairy tale gets a contemporary makeover thanks to the inventiveness and hard work of Harvard undergraduates Julia Riew and Ian Chan (who created last season’s “Thumbelina” at the American Rep). Rebecca Aparicio makes her A.R.T. directorial debut here after serving as assistant director on “Endlings” and “Gloria: A Life.” Details at 
