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ORLANDO, Fla. — In response to Hurricane Nicole hitting Florida, area theme parks and attractions made adjustments, with some closing in advance of the storm with other changing their hours of operation. 
Here’s a list of closures and reopenings. It will be updated as new information becomes available.
Aquatica Orlando will be closed Wednesday and Thursday due to Tropical Storm Nicole. The water park plans to reopen on Friday. 
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay will be closed Thursday due to Tropical Storm Nicole. In a statement, the park said it made the decision after "reviewing the latest route of Tropical Storm Nicole and to ensure the safety of our ambassadors, guests and animals." Busch Gardens is enouraging visitors to check its website for updates on the park reopening. 
Disney World closed all four of its theme parks early on Wednesday ahead of the storm. The resort is moving forward with a phased reopening of its parks and Disney Springs on Thursday. Here are the hours.
Magic Kingdom will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party scheduled for 7 p.m. will take place.
EPCOT will be open from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. 
Disney’s Animal Kingdom will be open from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. 
Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be open from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., but Fantasmic! will not be performed. 
Disney Springs also began a phased reopening at noon Thursday.
Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon water park will be closed Thursday, while Winter Summerland and Fantasia Gardens mini-golf courses closed early on Wednesday (at 7 p.m.) and remained closed Thursday.
Gatorland will be closed on Thursday due to approaching weather conditions from Tropical Storm Nicole. The park expects to reopen on Friday, with regular hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Wheel at ICON Park closed at 3 p.m. Wednesday and remained closed Thursday. The Carousel on the Promenade will be closed Wednesday and Thursday. 
Resturants and other attractions at the complex will remain open for business, according to officials, unless the weather becomes too severe. 
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex announced it will be closed Wednesday and Thursday because of expected severe weather from Tropical Storm Nicole. The visitor complex plans to reopen Nov. 11 after conducting a “thorough assessment of the property.”
Legoland Florida Resort adjusted its park hours in response to Tropical Storm Nicole. On Thursday, Legoland Florida Theme Park will be open from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., while Peppa Pig Theme Park will be open from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Legoland Water Park will be closed. 
Legoland Florida’s hotels will remain open and continue normal operations. 
SeaWorld Orlando closed at 4 p.m. Wednesday due to Tropical Storm Nicole. The park remained closed on Thursday and plans to reopen on Friday. 
"Precautions are in place following the park’s comprehensive weather preparedness plan to ensure the safety of our animals and ambassadors during this time," SeaWorld said in a update on its website. 
Universal Orlando closed its theme parks and CityWalk early on Wednesday.
On Thursday, the resort announced that Universal Studios Florida and CityWalk had reoopened at 2 p.m. with limited experiences for Universal Orlando hotel guests only. Universal’s Islands of Adventure reopened at 3 p.m. for hotel guests only. 
Volcano Bay water park remained closed Thursday.
The resort is scheduled to reopen for all guests at regular hours on Friday.

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Published: 8:59am, 11 Nov, 2022
Updated: 8:59am, 11 Nov, 2022

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Posted 11 Nov 2022
Closes 11 Dec 2022
GYROstream is looking for an experienced DistroDirect Product & Client Relations Specialist to work across its DistroDirect white label product. 
A market disruptive White Label B2B (Business to Business) SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, DistroDirect provides a fully customizable and automated distribution platform, delivering music to over 100 DSPs globally including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Deezer, TikTok and more. The platform allows any music company to add digital distribution to their current business services, to scale their artist network and increase revenue for their business. Since launching in 2020, DistroDirect has welcomed over 250 hyper-local micro-distributors in over 35 markets globally.
You will assist the senior management team to coordinate the onboarding, day to day communications and premium client services for all existing DistroDirect B2B clients. A quick learner and early adopter of new technologies, systems and processes, you will be required to know the DistroDirect system and its features intimately in a short time to assist in servicing clients to the highest level. Alongside the CEO, you will coordinate communications with DistroDirect clients and assist with additional promotional and pitching services including scheduling and the roll out of global DSP pitching operations. 
In addition to servicing existing clients you will help coordinate the administration process for DistroDirect’s US, EU and LATAM based sales teams and inbound leads process as well as sitting in on and conducting software demonstrations and onboarding training sessions with new and potential clients. 
The job requires a knowledge of the music distribution process, IT knowledge and a quick learner who is eager to get across new technologies quickly and able to manage multiple partners and relationships to a high standard. Many of DistroDirects partners and all of its sales teams are based offshore, this means you may be required to work hours outside of the usual Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm cycle to accommodate multiple timezones and client needs in a timely manner. 
The job requires an exceptional administrator and a confident, enthusiastic and results-driven communicator who thrives on finding good music and has a passion for the independent music sector and building relationships. Ideally you have a minimum of two years experience within the music distribution landscape and you are someone who can develop highly effective systems and work quickly to achieve real and measurable results.
 
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QUALIFICATIONS/ SKILLS REQUIRED
The role is based in Brisbane with a global focus. GYROstream is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. 
 
About GYROstream
GYROstream is the leading independent and Australian-owned digital music distribution and artist services company, delivering music to Spotify, Apple, TikTok, Amazon, Youtube and 100+ more. Launched in 2018 and based in Brisbane, Queensland with offices in Sydney, the company represents tens of thousands of Australian and New Zealand artists for global distribution. 
Awarded The Music Network’s Music Distributor of the Year award in 2021, GYROstream and its artists are seeing increased success in both AU/NZ and beyond. The company distributed five independent releases landing in the 2021 triple j’s Hottest 100, recently achieved an ARIA number one album with Ruby Fields ‘Been Doin’ It For a Bit’, and is achieving global recognition for artists through targeted DSP playlisting and promotion with stacks of local and international editorial playlist wins every week.
Through its B2B SaaS export product, DistroDirect and niche genre promotional brands therestisnoise and Soothe Sounds, and upstream programs such as GYROgold and GYROrecords, GYROstream as a parent company is expanding rapidly on a global scale. 
Much more than just global music distribution, GYROstream also offers additional ad-hoc and bespoke services for independent artists and labels such as PR, digital marketing, playlist pitching, sync opportunities and more. A company that prides itself on premium artist support, GYROstream aims to assist and educate independent AU/NZ artists about effective release strategies to get the best results for their music. 

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The proposed timeline for the East End Master Plan process, which San Miguel County kicked off over the past week with advisory and focus group meeting. (Courtesy image)

The proposed timeline for the East End Master Plan process, which San Miguel County kicked off over the past week with advisory and focus group meeting. (Courtesy image)

San Miguel County has begun the East End Master Plan update process, which kicked off with an introductory advisory meeting Thursday, followed by several focus group discussions this week — all of which were and are open to the public.
“We’re really happy to begin the East End Master Plan update. This will replace the Telluride Regional Area Master Plan, which was adopted in 1989. A lot has happened since then. Things that weren’t even an idea in planning back then have become much more important, like sustainability and resiliency. As a community, we’ve grown so much since then. There has been so much change. We’ve had Lawson Hill, the airport, incorporation of Mountain Village, and that just gets us through the ’90s,” county planning director Kaye Simonson said Thursday. “So with that, welcome, the purpose of the advisory group is to help us along in the process. We’re going to be working to get a lot of information about all the focus group meetings coming up (throughout the week), and you’re all welcome to attend those. And then we’ve got the next phase will be going out more to the public and, presenting them information that we know, and starting to get ideas and input from the public. And then the third and final phase is where an actual draft plan is presented, and we once more gather input before ultimately hopefully, adopting the plan. It is the planning commission’s duty to prepare and adopt plans, so you’ll have very heavy involvement from the planning commission throughout. And we’re also hoping that as we move forward through engagement that we’re reaching out to the entire community. If along the way you notice that we’re not reaching somebody or there’s some information we don’t seem to be getting, please let us know. And we’ll figure out how to bring them in.”
The county is working with Design Workshop, a national design studio and consultant with offices in Denver and Aspen that has worked with the towns of Telluride and Mountain Village before.
“In that amount of time, there’s been a lot of population changes, housing challenges, transportation needs and industry shifts, so a master plan is a good opportunity to check in on those, gather baseline data, talk with the community about what the vision is for the future and then create supportive goals and recommendations from there,” Design Workshop Project Manager Callie New said during the initial master plan meeting.
Monday’s first focus group meeting covered “Tourism, Recreation, Visitors,” while Tuesday’s included “Housing Considerations” and “Environmental Stewardship & Priorities.” On Wednesday, “Mobility & Transportation” and “Equity, Inclusion & Livability” will be discussed at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., respectively. Then on Monday, Nov. 14, at 3:30 p.m., all the topics will be considered. Meeting information, including Zoom links and passcodes, can be found on the county’s master plan website at sanmiguelcountyco.gov/eastendmasterplan. Comments can also be emailed to [email protected].
Simonson again spoke about the master plan during Monday’s intergovernmental meeting and stressed that the beginning of such a process includes a lot of information gathering. Other than the recent focus groups, the county plans to host “community pop-up” events sometime in December to help spread the word and gather public feedback.
“We are open to suggestions on times and locations, but it’ll be sometime in December for that. And then we’ll be moving into January with actual community outreach events where we’ll be presenting a lot of the information that we’re gathering now, so that people can make informed comments to us and give us informed feedback. That will be coming out in the early part of the year,” she said. “And then our goal is to hopefully have a draft that we can present to the community by May, and hopefully then adopt in the summer.”
San Miguel County Commissioner Kris Holstrom is part of the advisory group and commented on the initial meeting, while asking for input from Telluride and Mountain Village officials who have gone through similar processes recently as well.
“In a nutshell, there was a good initial meeting. We got some really great suggestions on general education about the master planning process, as well as ways to move forward. So again, there’s the website, there’s the email address, please do reach out and make sure that your input is heard,” she said.
Mountain Village Town Manager Paul Wisor, Mountain Village Mayor Laila Benitez and Telluride Council member Geneva Shaunette all stressed the importance of community outreach and making sure residents are aware of what’s happening and why, including when meetings are scheduled.
The master plan area has expanded since 1989, according to the current map that has been shared thus far, to include the Ophir, Ames, San Bernardo and Trout Lake areas. The boundary also now ends at the eastern county line. Residents questioned the increase in the area during recent meetings. Design Workshop Principal-in-Charge Jessica Garrow explained that the current map is only a draft during Monday’s focus group.
“This map on the screen illustrates the initial boundary of the planning area. This is going to be refined through the community engagement process. It has been created following extensive conversation with the planning commission about what areas this plan needs to cover to adequately address topics like growth, land conservation, housing, transportation and the environment, just to name a few,” she said. “It is larger than the 1989 Telluride regional area master plan, and that’s really to reflect some of the changes that have happened in the county since that time. But again, it is a draft planning area at this point and will be refined through the community engagement. In terms of what is different, it does cover more areas to the south, like Ophir, Ames and Trout Lake, and it goes all the way to the county boundary in the east.”
Upwards of 50 people attended the initial meetings, either in-person or virtually. On Monday, Garrow again reiterated the notion behind the master plan process.
“It’s been over 30 years since the county last had a community-wide conversation about the vision and goals for the region. Since the last plan was adopted, many of its recommendations have been implemented, such as development of the gondola, the airport expansion, as well as several housing developments. That plan was really visionary, and a lot of things have happened to implement it, which is a great testament to the San Miguel County area,” she said. “It’s really time to think about what’s next, what’s happening. Also, since that time, the region has experienced some growth and changes to things like population, housing, transportation and the economy. This master plan is really an opportunity to check in with the community about the current state and to develop strategies together to plan for the future.”
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Toll Brothers Apartment Living has officially opened its 323-unit community in Phoenix after welcoming its first residents earlier this year. The firm started construction on Haverly in 2020.
The property was designed as a five-story building wrapped around an eight-story structured parking garage. The community offers studio, one- and two-bedroom units that range from 573 to 1,314 square feet. The units were built with private balconies, kitchen islands and smart home tech, while select apartments have double bathroom vanities, soaking tubs and walk-in closets.
The developer’s design called for 12,000 square feet of indoor amenity space, which includes a lobby lounge, package room, fitness center, bike storage and electric vehicle charging stations. As for outdoor amenities, the community has a coffee bar, dog park, pet spa, pool, rooftop lounge, grills, fire pits and courtyard lounges. Residents also have access to a parking garage with 468 spaces.
Located at 31 E. Thomas Road in Phoenix’s Midtown neighborhood, Haverly is roughly 2 miles away from downtown Phoenix and its many restaurant and retail offerings. Residents will have nearby access to the area’s major attractions like the Heard Museum, the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Chase Field. The community is also next to the Valley Metro rail stop, making for an easy commute throughout the city.
According to a NorthMarq report examining Phoenix’s multifamily market in the second quarter of the year, the metro is seeing plenty of new construction that should help balance out the high demand for apartments. Vacancy rates hit 5.4 percent for the market, representing a year-over-year increase of 130 in basis points. Even with slower absorption, rents in Phoenix rose 18.6 percent year-over-year to an average asking rent of $1,661.
Toll Brothers is looking to capitalize on the city’s growing fundamentals. Charles Elliott, president of Toll Brothers Apartment Living, said in prepared remarks that the firm also opened Canvas, a student housing community near Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. Besides student housing, Toll Brothers began leasing at Callia, another luxury apartment community in Phoenix’s Midtown neighborhood earlier this year. The firm is also working with EJF Capital to build a 313-unit downtown community called Henri.
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November 08, 2022
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Jessica Flores-Faisal never intended to go to college.
“When I was in high school, I didn’t really think about pursuing higher education,” she said.
The 28-year-old, who was born in Mexico and adopted and raised in Aurora, joined the Air Force Reserve at age 17. She has spent over a decade in the military.
Today, she has her bachelor’s in Health Care Management from Metropolitan State University of Denver and is working toward her master’s degree with the University while stationed in Germany. She credits MSU Denver for meeting her where she was: passionate about her experience in the military and looking for a career where she would be able to grow her service in new directions.
Flores-Faisal initially pursued a degree in Mechanical Engineering at a different four-year college but ultimately decided the program didn’t align with her passions. A friend who is a nurse in the Air Force suggested she look into health care administration because Flores-Faisal is detail-oriented and enjoys helping others.
“I ended up transferring to MSU Denver because it was the only school that offered a bachelor’s degree in Health Care Management,” she said.
Once enrolled, she found that the smaller class sizes, more diverse student body and one-on-one interaction with professors felt more personal. She appreciated that strong communication in particular since her classes were remote.
Amy Dore, Ph.D., has been a key figure in Flores-Faisal’s education journey. Dore, who graduated in 1996 from the HCM program — which is celebrating its 50th anniversary — has been teaching at MSU Denver for more than 20 years. “So when I get the opportunity to work with students like Jessica, it’s extremely rewarding,” she said.
Flores-Faisal knows she wants to be a health care administrator in the Air Force but said getting chosen for that duty is intensely competitive. “It seemed like a lot of people that were getting selected for it had their master’s degrees,” she said.
So after finishing her bachelor’s degree in May, she immediately began the master’s program in Health Administration (MHA).
In January, she’ll start a job in financial management in the Air Force. She hopes that after completing her MHA degree in December 2023, she’ll be selected for the Medical Service Corps Program — a group of professional health care administrators and executives within the Air Force’s large, diverse health care system.
While taking classes in Health Care Management, Flores-Faisal learned about aging services and the stigmas older adults face in health care and in broader society. The field immediately sparked her interest.
“I wanted to continue that knowledge of aging services and bring that awareness to other individuals,” she said, “especially because the older population is just continuing to grow.”
At the same time, Dore was working to develop an Aging Services Leadership Certificate and Digital Badge, something she had heard about at conferences. Micro-credentials are short learning programs focused on gaining specific skills or knowledge, while badges are electronic emblems or icons that students can put on digital résumés or social media that link to the sponsoring college and credential criteria.
“I thought a digital badge could be a really great way to serve our population of students who might want to dip their toes into a topic that they don’t know much about or maybe they would want to add on to and enhance their portfolio,” Dore said.
That turned out to be true for Flores-Faisal, who recognized that her interest in studying aging populations and aging services would be amplified for future employers.
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She became the first student at MSU Denver to pursue the Aging Services Digital Badge and complete five milestones, which include the Ageism First Aid Certificate from the Gerontological Society of America. Today, the badge is visible on Flores-Faisal’s LinkedIn profile, with live links to the relevant credentials and coursework she completed.
“The badge is innovative in the way that it celebrates specific learning that students can showcase to future employers,” said Shaun Schafer, Ph.D., associate vice president of Curriculum, Academic Effectiveness and Policy Development at MSU Denver. “We want as many students as possible to take advantage of digital-badge opportunities to help demonstrate their own achievement.”
For someone who never thought she would pursue higher education, Flores-Faisal is proving her mettle with her accelerated studies and lofty career goals.
“I really enjoyed the coursework at MSU Denver,” Flores-Faisal said. “I did my internship at Swedish Medical Center, and then I got to shadow different departments.
“And so all that confirmed that this is definitely what I want to do with my future.”
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Food competition series premieres December 9

Claudette Zepeda, Gesine Bullock-Prado, Jamie Bissonnette, Karen Akunowicz, Kwame Onwuachi, and Nick DiGiovanni join the series as guest judges 
 

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CULVER CITY, California—November 10, 2022—Amazon Freevee has released the official trailer for America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation, hosted by Daytime Emmy winner Jeannie Mai Jenkins. The 10-episode food competition series will bring home cooks inside the real America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) studio and put them to the test, to determine if they have what it takes to win $100,000, the opportunity to author their own cookbook, and a spot on the coveted ATK team. The series premieres on December 9, with new episodes released weekly through February 10 on Amazon Freevee in the U.S. and UK.

Chefs Claudette Zepeda, Gesine Bullock-Prado, Jamie Bissonnette, Karen Akunowicz, Kwame Onwuachi, and Nick DiGiovanni will serve as guest judges, joining previously announced series regulars—and ATK icons—Dan Souza, Elle Simone Scott, Jack Bishop, and Julia Collin Davison.

Freevee customers enjoying the series will be able to cook along with their favorite home chefs. Each week throughout the series’ initial airing, the weekly challenge recipes and list of ingredients will be made available for customers to purchase on Amazon Fresh. In addition to the series, customers can now stream the America’s Test Kitchen Specials FAST channel, which includes 48 episodes of seasonally relevant content for the holidays. The channel, which launched on November 8, is exclusive to Freevee, with eight original episodes of ATK featured alongside a set of exclusive content from ATK’s archives.

America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation is executive produced by David Lonner, David Nussbaum, Jack Bishop, Jenn Van Persaud, Madeline Langlieb, Mark Itkin, and Mark Levine. Teri Weideman (Project Runway, Bobby’s Triple Threat) is also an executive producer and serves as the series’ showrunner.

Meet the 11 contestants competing for the job of a lifetime: 

Antoinette Johnson
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Hometown: Lexington, KY
Johnson is all about accessible recipes with Southern inspiration. She looks to cut down on cook time while still achieving delicious results, like her one-hour burnt ends.  Johnson loves finding new ways to make classic dishes, such as scallops and spinach with bacon beurre blanc or broiled carne asada with charred red onions.

Johnson has recently started her own social media business. Winning the competition would help catapult her career and prove that she is ready for the next chapter in her culinary adventure. She also wants to be an inspiration to her daughter, to show her that anything is possible.

Dr. Basil Maqbool
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Hometown: Winchester, CA
Maqbool was born and raised in the United States, and grew up cooking alongside his mother who immigrated here from Pakistan. He loves the kitchen and celebrates his heritage with flavors from his childhood, and says the dishes pair nicely with any cuisine, especially Latin American and European. His favorite kitchen tool is his knife, essential and versatile. He also likes to sous vide and grill. He can cook anything this way, including vegetables, but he’s most interested in cooking proteins.  As a pharmacist by training, Maqbool focuses on the science of food. He enjoys studying the chemistry of cooking and flavor, and learned techniques like geometric mixing in grad school, which helps to enhance his experiments in the kitchen.

Maqbool is no stranger to competition, and won Top Chef Amateurs in 2021. Winning America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation would help turn his passion into a career; something he’s been passionate about his entire life. If he wins, he is proving that he is meant to be in the culinary space. With the prize money, he would build an outdoor kitchen and make more food content with the help of his wife and children.

Brooke Baevsky  
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Hometown: Santa Monica, CA
Baevsky, professionally known as "Chef Bae,” is a professional Private Chef in Los Angeles. She grew up in Massachusetts, not too far from the ATK office! Baevsky’s mantra is "food for all," and she specializes in catering to dietary needs and restrictions, including gluten-free, dairy-free and refined-sugar free. She breaks the traditional allergy-friendly food stigma with delicious, elegant, and viral recipes that do not compromise on taste, photo-ready appearance, or social-media-worthy fun.

Baevsky captures the online attention of millions with her innovative approach to health-forward dishes and unique flavor combinations. She is best known for eye-catching recipe reels and bubbly, comedic content, all while disrupting classic chef fashion. Baevsky has partnered with some of the largest food companies in the world, to develop better-for-you products for international consumers. She is passionate about creating a healthier world, starting with diet and founded a nonprofit cooking program for inner-city children and families. If she wins would use the money and the ATK platform to expand her philanthropic reach and aid inner-city food programs

Christina Phan
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Hometown: Long Beach, CA
As a self-taught home cook, food has always been at the center of Phan’s life. Her parents were Vietnamese refugees and her mother was always cooking large Vietnamese meals for their equally large family. As a young adult, Phan became a self-proclaimed “food nerd” and visited as many restaurants and cities as she could. It opened up her eyes to all sorts of different cuisines, and she became obsessed with cooking. She cooks with an understanding of the history of her dishes, the purpose of the ingredients, and the evolution through generations.

If Phan wins America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation, she will be finally able to pivot from the fashion industry to the food world full time, perhaps melding different types of cuisine that are found in her Southern California neighborhood into one concept or pop-up shop. Phan would use her winnings to start a local pop-up supper club, much like the one where she became inspired to dive into the culinary world. Full circle.

Corrina Sepulveda  
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Hometown: Costa Mesa, CA
Sepulveda’s inspiration is pulled from her Colombian and Mexican heritages, with American classics. She loves to cook savory and sweet; whether a flame-broiled birria or dulce de leche macarons, Sepulveda does it all. This chef is gluten intolerant and prefers to eat a gluten-free diet; however, she cooks everything! Ideally, all of her dishes would be gluten-free, but she doesn’t want to sacrifice flavor in the competition.

ATK has been a critical part of her journey in the kitchen. She has been watching for many years, soaking up hours of online content. She appreciates how straightforward the ATK content is. Sepulveda hopes to bring her skill set to a larger scale in this competition and prove to herself, and others, that anything is possible. Her father is an immigrant from Colombia and winning would be Sepulveda’s version of the American Dream.

Garrett Schlichte
Pronouns: He/They
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Schlichte is a freelance writer and a talented home chef whose culinary style is “FUN.” Cooking is an expression of love. It should be bold and unafraid. Anything to impress a party. Their favorite tool in the kitchen is the cast-iron skillet, because it can do it all. Schlichte started their competitive cooking at age 12 when they won the “Mary T Schlichte Apple Pie Contest” at the county fair, named after their late grandmother, who used to win the contest every year.

Schlichte wants validation that moving away from home and truly finding who they are in this world was worth it. If they win, Schlichte would like to start their own cooking series called Ugh, That’s So Good! Schlichte will donate part of their winnings to The Okra Project, which is an organization that provides food security for trans people.

Jessica Lawson  
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Lawson grew up in a very close-knit family. As a child, Lawson was fascinated by her elders' cooking and loved to be assigned kitchen chores. Her grandmother is her cooking inspiration and she would always pull up a chair to the kitchen counter and let Lawson climb up and help her. Lawson loves to bring people together through food and is always cooking for her family and friends.

ATK is everything Lawson loves about cooking—the science, the precision, and the techniques – and it would be her real-life dream come true to be a part of the cast. Lawson is doing this for her grandma and knows that she would be so tickled if she could see her now! In addition to running her food blog, Big Delicious Life, Lawson is also a co-founder of The Mariposa DR Foundation, a nonprofit that educates and empowers girls. Lawson is passionate about showing other girls that look like her that if they can dream it, they can do it!

Marc Sievers
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Hometown: Lawrence, MA

From a young age, America’s Test Kitchen has been instrumental in teaching Sievers how to be a home cook. A self-taught chef, cookbook author, food content creator and food stylist, he still makes his nana's famous grilled cheese for his family, especially when his cousins are all together. Today, his focus in the kitchen is on elevated vegetarian comfort food, perfect for entertaining. Sievers comes from an Italian and French heritage rich with meaty dishes. His vegetarian cooking is inspired in part by what he learned growing up on his grandmother’s comfort food and instilling elegant flavors with simple steps for everyday cooks. Sievers will use the prize money to purchase a home and expand his cookbook production facility.

Peter Cardoz
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Hometown: Malden, MA

Cardoz is the son of the late, world-renowned chef Floyd Cardoz, who taught him everything he knows. Cardoz’s parents immigrated from India and always kept spices at the forefront of their home meals. Cardoz is now the owner of a cannabis consulting company called Cardoz Blended Gourmet, which specializes in formulating products for licensed cannabis manufacturers, as well as educating and inspiring home consumers to create their own products and blends. He recently launched his own line of CBD infused culinary products focusing on the flavors of hemp, including truffle and chili finishing oils.

Since the passing of his dad, Cardoz finds himself supplementing what he learned from his father with America’s Test Kitchen videos. Winning America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation would mean so much to Cardoz, who never got to work alongside his father. Winning would help launch his new cannabis-focused culinary program, and enable him to reach more people who could benefit from the products.

Rashmi Primlani  
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Primlani lives in Orlando, Florida but was born and raised in Delhi, India. Primlani, a self-taught home chef, learned how to use spices and aromatics to heighten dishes. She started cooking as the family's head cook at the age of 12 and today is also a freelance wine educator and writer, sharing her unique insights as “Indian Wine Goddess” on Instagram. Primlani describes herself as having the soul of a Mexican grandmother, the heart of an Italian mother, and the aspirations of a French chef.

Primlani may have a leg-up on her competitors because she has a photographic memory and can reverse-engineer any meal she’s had once and recreate it.  Primlani wants to share the spotlight with other mothers that put their families first. She sees this competition as a chance to step out from the shadows and take back her personal passions. Primlani also would like to start an ethnic culinary teaching program, focusing on local produce and incorporating global cuisines including Israeli, Mexican, Italian, Spanish, Thai, and Indian.

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Guevarra grew up in New Jersey in a large Filipino family, where food was the center of every gathering. His father worked in food hospitality and shared his love for cooking and being adventurous through food with his son. Much of his devotion and interest in cooking started with his dad, but it was Guevarra’s mom who taught him technique and inspired him to use  traditional Filipino flavors.

Guevarra’s parents sacrificed a lot to give Robbie a wonderful life with great opportunities like appearing on America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation. Winning would mean honoring their support and proving to his dad that cooking can be a fulfilling, sustainable career.

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The fall of Roe v. Wade put abortion front and center in campaigns, and motivated voters to support abortion rights or reject more restrictions in several states.
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It was a driving force for a retired banker in San Antonio, an artist in Racine, Wis., an event planner in Miami Beach. It motivated college students and retirees, men and especially women. Even those who might usually skip a midterm election had been compelled to make time to cast a ballot.
Across the nation, voters felt an obligation to weigh in on what, for many, was a vital matter: abortion rights.
“Abortion was my main, core issue,” said Urica Carver, 41, a registered Republican from Scranton, Pa.
A single mother of six children, Ms. Carver, a caseworker for the state, said she would have most likely supported Republicans in the midterms. But the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer magnified an issue that outweighed all others, she said. Abortion, she said, was a personal decision, and she would want her own daughters to have the option if needed.
Ms. Carver voted a straight Democratic ticket. “If they didn’t support that right, regardless of who they were,” she said, “they were not getting my vote.”
Abortion played a larger role in midterm election results than even many Democrats, who had made it central to their campaigns, expected. Pre-election polls had shown Americans fixated on inflation and crime, with abortion still a concern but not as much of a priority.
Those opposed to abortion rights also said the issue moved them to vote. But in states with ballot initiatives that could affect abortion access, the issue drew more people who supported abortion rights, or did not want more restrictions.
In all five states where abortion-related questions were on the ballot on Tuesday, voters chose to protect access to the procedure or reject further limits. And in some places where the future of abortion rights were uncertain, Democratic candidates who campaigned on the issue fared well — particularly in Michigan, where voters re-elected the Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and in Pennsylvania, where the Democrat Josh Shapiro won the governorship and the Democrat John Fetterman won the Senate race.
Interviews and exit polls showed abortion rights was a top issue for many voters, even across party lines. That tracks with longstanding polling that has shown most Americans support abortion rights, with some restrictions.
Much remains uncertain. For the second Election Day in a row, election night ended without a clear winner. Nate Cohn, The Times’s chief political analyst, takes a look at the state of the races for the House and Senate, and when we might know the outcome:
The House. Republicans are likelier than not to win the House, but it is no certainty. There are still several key races that remain uncalled, and in many of these contests, late mail ballots have the potential to help Democrats. It will take days to count them.
The Senate. The fight for the Senate will come down to three states: Nevada, Georgia and Arizona. Outstanding ballots in Nevada and Arizona could take days to count, but control of the chamber may ultimately hinge on Georgia, which is headed for a Dec. 6 runoff.
How we got here. The political conditions seemed ripe for Republicans to make big midterm pickups, but voters had other ideas. Read our five takeaways and analysis of why the “red wave” didn’t materialize for the G.O.P.
But even as abortion-rights supporters won several key races, there were clear limits on the issue’s impact. In candidate matchups in which voters were weighing multiple concerns, many Republicans who have supported abortion limits prevailed, including in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, South Dakota and Texas.
Voters supported abortion rights in several states and elected governors friendly to access in some of the most competitive races. Other elections remain too close to call.
Voters who oppose abortion said they, too, were motivated to have their voices heard.
Addy Diaz, 59, of Miami Beach, said the election was about supporting Republicans who would protect what she felt was a traditional value.
“This is the reason we put these people in power, because they’re pro-life,” she said. “It’s what we’ve been waiting for a long time.”
In Kenosha, Wis., Lupe Roginski, 43, a homemaker and nurse, said she voted for the Republican candidate for governor because of his opposition to abortion.
“That became the deciding factor for me — that he was pro-life,” said Ms. Roginski, whose candidate lost to the Democratic incumbent, Tony Evers, in a tight race. Abortion is illegal in Wisconsin, but Mr. Evers supports abortion rights and has called for a ballot initiative to repeal the state’s ban.
The impact of abortion rights was clearest in states where the legality of the procedure was unsettled, including in Michigan, where a 1931 law banning the procedure remains on the books but had been temporarily blocked by a judge. Voters there decisively chose to add abortion protections to the State Constitution on Tuesday, while also re-electing Ms. Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel, Democrats who both campaigned on abortion rights.
“If we were to pick just one issue that made the biggest difference here, by far it’s abortion,” said John Sellek, a Republican public relations consultant in Michigan. He called Tuesday the “worst day in the modern Michigan G.O.P. history.”
Stephanie Chang, a Democratic state senator from Detroit, said she believed the abortion ballot question brought left-leaning voters to the polls who may not have voted otherwise.
“The Dobbs decision was devastating, but in a way I think it was a wake-up call to a lot of people across our state and country,” Ms. Chang said, referring to the Supreme Court decision in June.
The issue also gained traction in California, where abortion is legal and the Democratic governor has vowed to help women from other states access abortion in the state.
Outside a Peet’s Coffee in Berkeley, Calif., Susan Kopman, 75, said this year’s election took on a different tone in an area where residents were accustomed to liberal politics. Voters in California overwhelmingly decided to add abortion rights to the State Constitution.
Ms. Kopman said that she and almost everyone she knew had previously just accepted abortion as a human right and a fact of life.
“This makes me really sad to have to codify it in the Constitution,” she said.
Voters in Vermont, another liberal state where abortion is already protected by law, also opted to add protections to their Constitution. In Montana, voters rejected a proposed law that would have required medical interventions to save those that the state defines as “born alive” infants.
In Raleigh, N.C., Nancy Bush, a retired nurse, said she chose candidates based on whether they supported abortion rights. Abortion is legal in North Carolina up to 20 weeks of pregnancy, and the state’s Democratic governor has pledged to stop any attempts by the Republican-controlled legislature to pass new limits.
“I don’t like abortion, I prefer no abortion, but certainly the rights of women come over that,” said Ms. Bush, 79.
The resonance of abortion rights was not limited to Democratic voters. In Kentucky, where the Republican senator Rand Paul cruised to re-election, voters also rejected an attempt to amend the State Constitution to say there is no right to abortion. That result keeps the door open to a legal challenge to Kentucky’s abortion ban that the State Supreme Court will hear next week.
“I believe in personal agency and personal autonomy, and bodily autonomy is a big part of that,” said Jacob Ballard, 21, a music education major at the University of Kentucky in Lexington who voted against the amendment.
In August, in the country’s first major post-Roe test of abortion at the ballot box, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to remove abortion rights from their state’s Constitution, a race that showed the political potency of the issue. Representative Sharice Davids, a Democrat from the Kansas City area, emphasized her support for abortion rights in her successful re-election campaign.
Ashley All, a senior adviser for Families United for Freedom, an abortion-rights group that was involved in the ballot questions in Kentucky, Michigan and Montana, said some Republican voters were also determined to protect abortion access.
“There were a lot of issues that were front and center but this one goes to core, fundamental rights,” said Ms. All, who was the spokeswoman for the successful abortion-rights campaign in Kansas. She added: “That is something that is very motivational for a broad and diverse group of voters.”
Howard Nichols, a retiree from Dumfries, Va., said he identified as an independent but voted for Representative Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat. Mr. Nichols, 79, said he had been turned off by Ms. Spanberger’s opponent when she suggested that pregnancy from rape may be unlikely in a leaked audio recording.
Even in Wisconsin, where residents were not voting directly to protect or restrict abortion, many were still mulling abortion rights.
Mary Anne Bunkers, 86, of Franklin, Wis., said it was one of the reasons she had been motivated to head to the polls, although there is no realistic path for abortion to be legalized in the state because of an 1849 law that banned the procedure. Republicans have large majorities in the Wisconsin Legislature.
“I consider myself pro-life,” she said. “However, I do not feel the government should be involved in people’s personal lives.”
In Arizona, the future of abortion still hung in the balance with races for governor, attorney general and the makeup of the State Legislature still too close to call on Wednesday.
Jolie Amaya, 34, of Mesa, spent hundreds of hours knocking on doors and chatting up voters in the hopes of electing Democrats who support abortion rights.
The Democratic nominee for governor, Katie Hobbs, made abortion rights a focus of her campaign while her Republican rival, Kari Lake, expressed support for an 1864 law — on hold for the moment — that could effectively outlaw almost all abortions in Arizona.
“I’m still sitting on pins and needles,” Ms. Amaya said.
Reporting was contributed by Julie Bosman, Emily Cataneo, Eliza Fawcett, Jack Healy, Jon Hurdle, Michael Majchrowicz, Amy Qin, Edgar Sandoval and Holly Secon.
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“Hey,” says Sonic Lamb’s voiceover guy, “we’re here to give you an eargasm.” Sorry, I’ve just been rowing and I’m worn out from an Earth-shattering oargasm. But these hybrid-drive headphones do certainly take sub-bass frequencies to another level.
This Indian company has just opened up Indiegogo orders on its first set of headphones based around a “world first” speaker system that uses a traditional speaker driver to deliver most of its audio, but then splits off the low end into a separate system that transfers vibrations directly to your skin and bone. The crossover between these systems happens around 200 Hz, or if you’re looking at a piano, somewhere around G below middle C.
We’d dispute the world first claim – after all, five years ago, we had our first experience with Nura’s remarkable adaptive headphones, which may have used a different system, but they essentially did the same thing, sending the bulk of the audio through an in-ear speaker and the bass through a skin-conduction system built into their silicon ear pads. It was an incredibly effective device, and contributed in part to the Nuraphones’ long-standing reign as the best-sounding headphones I’ve ever tested, and the sonic standard against all others are measured.
In terms of comfort, the Nuraphones definitely feel a little strange though, as an over-ear headphone with a protrusion that gently pokes into your ear as well. So I was interested in seeing how Sonic Lamb’s system measures up.
First things first: the review units sent to us are pre-production beta testing prototypes, and they look like they’ve been around the block. There’s some surface wear developing around the headphone pivots, the pads have begun to settle into a slightly wonky shape, the rubber in the headband has settled into a weird, uneven shape, and there’s some plastic inlays starting to come loose. We’d consider all of this reasonably normal for early prototypes.
Slightly more concerning are the plastic volume and power/play buttons, which sit unevenly and frankly, as the main tactile controls on the headphones, make these things feel a bit cheap and tacky. But these all seem like simple problems Sonic Lamb can fix before mass production ramps up in February next year.
They charge via USB-C, and battery life is rated at between 6-24 hours at max volume, depending entirely on how hard you crank the bass driver. This can be done on the fly using a little plastic scroll wheel that takes you between four “modes.” Like the buttons, this thing feels cheap and plasticky. But on the other hand, all the controls are easy to find with your fingers, so in functional terms I’ve got no complaints whatsoever.
There’s something that looks like a 3.5-mm jack in the headphones, but it’s not there to give you a wired connection option; you can only get that via USB-C. Instead, these headphones ship with a little bendy boom mic that you can plug in when you’re making a phone call if voice quality is paramount.
The built-in dual microphone noise cancelling array will do the job if you don’t have the boom mic handy, but it’s a fairly basic system; wandering near a suburban street on a phone call, traffic noise was audible to my conversation partners. Attaching the boom mic makes an immediate and impressive difference to voice quality, and if you don’t mind looking like a help desk operator, you can just leave the thing there all day.
Comfort-wise they feel nice, and don’t give me many reasons to take them off. They come with a hardy-feeling travel case. They connect quickly via Bluetooth, and they offer multipoint to connect to more than one device at a time. The connection is generally strong and reliable, although occasionally there’s some hiccuping when you first connect. They don’t feature active noise cancellation, which is something I’m surprised to find missing at Sonic Lamb’s price point.
But they sell themselves on a transformative sound experience, so here we must go with our usual disclaimer. If Nura’s hearing-adaptive headphones taught us anything, it’s that people’s hearing experience is surprisingly widely varied. Your physiology is vastly different from mine, and we each hear the world through a vastly different EQ curve. So take other people’s opinions on sound quality with a hefty grain of salt; I can only review these things with the ears I’ve got.
Objectively, the hybrid-drive sub system does make for a powerful bass boost – indeed, it can be overwhelming when you’ve got the volume and the bass both cranked up – bass drum hits start to feel like small assaults to your head, and extended bass notes can feel like they rattle your teeth. As with the Nuraphones, you can definitely crank these things up until the bass becomes physically unpleasant. So you do, and then you crank them back down a bit and find a good listening level.
Running a frequency sweep, there’s no obvious moment when the skin-conduction bass driver gives way to the speaker, although I will say that there seems to be a disproportionate boost to frequencies approaching the 100Hz range. Sonic Lamb says the woofer extends down as low as 20 Hz, but I can’t hear or feel much until 30 Hz. Mind you, that’s about when my studio subwoofer starts to wake up as well, so I think the range here is pretty solid. They certainly don’t feel like they lack low end.
Subjectively, and purely based on my personal opinion, the sound of these things out of the box doesn’t blow me away. They don’t sound bad in isolation, but in my experience the best headphones can deliver a spectacular sense of space, air, presence and separation, a connection to the wood and wire of acoustic instruments and the atmosphere in the recording studio. I’m not getting that here; the stereo spread seems a little close and instruments a touch less distinct when I A/B these things against my Nuraphones or the ancient, wired DT770s I use in the recording studio.
It’s worth noting, Sonic Lamb may be able to address this in its smartphone app, which takes you through a “two minute” audiometry hearing test in order to personalize an EQ curve to fit the way your ears work. Some of what I’m missing here is the classy sheen of a crystal clear top end, and it could be a simple fix. Unfortunately, since we’re at the pre-production stage here, I don’t currently have access to the app. So we’ll update this review when we have a chance to test that.
Of more concern is the fact that when you run a low end-heavy track like Janelle Monae’s Tightrope or Beyonce’s Summer Renaissance at full volume with the bass on anything but the lowest setting, the low frequencies begin to crush and distort unpleasantly in a way other cans don’t, indicating that the bass system might be getting pushed past its capabilities.
Two other things worth mentioning are the balance of the bass system, which seems biased toward my right ear on these prototypes, and a very occasional pop that seems to happen randomly whether I’ve got music playing through the headphones or not.
Again, these are pre-production prototypes, and Sonic Lamb has ample opportunity to deal with these and other small issues, either in hardware or software by the time they reach customers. But as things stand, without access to the personalization app, I can’t see them giving audiophiles many “eargasms.” They deliver big bass, but to my ears (which are very different from yours) the effect feels a little crude compared with the way it’s implemented by Nura, and the overall sound is otherwise unspectactular.
Sonic Lamb has launched its Indiegogo campaign, crushing its goals very early, so it’s definitely going ahead and the company’s now taking pre-orders at US$199 for an early bird discount on a retail price of US$299, a price point that puts them up against some pretty decent competition, and one at which I don’t think cheap-feeling plastic or unspectacular sound are ok. Deliveries are set to begin in March next year. Standard crowdfunding cautions apply.
Source: Sonic Lamb (Indiegogo)

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Keeping up with the breakneck music industry of 2022 is a difficult task. Once upon a time, billions of streams were dazzling enough – now the industry is bursting with avatar bands, metaverse livestreams, increasingly-sophisticated DAW or plugin options, emerging collaborative platforms, NFT surges and flops, and resource-intensive, immersive audio experiences.
It’s a dizzying explosion — especially when it comes to the topic of powering it all. Concepts like complex spatial audio environments and real-time jamming sound great on paper, but is there enough processing power for all of it?
As advancements in tech surpass imagination, computing demands for audio dutifully follow. Upgraded tech like spatial audio, neural networks, machine-learning-based plugins, and heavy virtual analog plugins now highlight a massive need for music developers. A new ‘standard of processing’ is needed to go where tech is going.
The pro-audio industry has tried numerous prospective solutions, from SHARC to FPGAs. But no company has successfully enabled the underutilized power of graphic cards. The tech had been thoroughly idealized yet never effectively executed due to the fundamental differences between GPU architecture and the sequential nature of audio processing.
Currently the only company able to fully exploit the processing capability of built-in GPUs, GPU Audio founders refer to themselves as ‘unlockers’ and ‘enablers’ of  ‘accelerated audio computing.’
Judging from initial user feedback, the company appears to be filling a real gap in the industry. Alexander “Sasha” Talashov, co-founder and co-CEO at GPU Audio, described the company as ‘a conductive layer that connects companies, complex tasks, and systems.’ Just recently, the company joined forces with DMN to broaden adoption and accelerate the growth of this powerful solution.
GPU Audio launched its Early Access plugin at NAMM, and it’s already being touted as a solution that brings parallel processing back to the forefront of music production. Post NAMM drop, GPU Audio’s pre-beta users increased 33-times this summer and currently stand at over 20,000 users — up from 600 in the first couple of days of June. Just weeks ago, they further released the “Beta Suite” featuring a growing toolset of audio plugins, beginning with classic, mainstay effects: Flanger, Phaser, and Chorus.

Talashov spoke about the company’s broader mission of establishing new standards for pro-audio, and enabling connections to other computing technology advancements. According to Talashov, a good example is the current VST3 standard. “The VST3 doesn’t provide any new features; it doesn’t connect us with anything. No new hardware, no new software, no new bridges to the rest of the world. So we began there — by connecting it to the GPU.”
Speaking about building this bridge with GPUs, Talashov added, “This is not only connecting platforms — it’s connecting industries.”
Fiendish latency has destroyed the sanity of audio producers everywhere. Then there’s trouble rendering out STEMS, summing a group of mixes, or having to freeze or export and import tracks to save DSP power. But even an investment in expensive hardware fails to defeat bad renders, off-beat STEM processing, and choppy audio workflows in Dolby Atmos. Despite the considerable advances in Apple silicon, walk into an Atmos-certified studio, and you still find engineers using two or three computers to execute projects.
A bottleneck-free hardware setup can easily cost $4,000 or more when purchasing computing power for audio production. In comparison, a $900 hardware setup will run programs that usually require external acceleration hardware or expensive desktop-grade solutions. By enabling existing GPUs, users can fire up a neural GP, amplifiers, processing, and other essentials with huge performance implications.

Speaking about what GPU Audio is doing, fellow co-founder Jonathan Rowden said, “We greatly power up spatial audio tools. We speed up machine learning and AI tools – even the basics. Tools that use GPU Audio will turn your GPU into a DSP accelerator, saving your CPU headroom for other tasks.”
Speaking about these latest Macbook processors, Rowden appeared unconcerned. “People talk about M1 and M2 MacBook processors as though these eliminate the need for acceleration, but there are still limitations when ‘going native’ for consumer-grade systems. Apple silicon also has GPUs, and we’ll be enabling and unlocking those as well. We’re already working with Apple on solving this and the results are extremely promising. The feature will be available in Early Access in just a few weeks–or less.”
Talking about what’s coming within the next few months, Talashov said, “If you have a Windows laptop, you can download it today. Our first Beta Suite Bundle was made public on October 8th. It’s compatible on PCs with NVIDIA GPUs. AMD support is now in ‘Early Access’ and available on the PRO Driver based GPUs. Internally, we already have Mac OS support for M1 and M2 GPUs, along with AAX support for ProTools – and before long, users can test this in early access.”
As the system is developed, there’s also the promise of exciting implications for real-time collaboration. Cloud-based DSPs can provide real-time, non-destructive workflow opportunities that could change the game in myriad industries. Rowden elaborated on this, saying, “We operate on the grounds of core-level innovation. GPU Audio can make audio renders available instantly. We can get rid of the export button. Imagine how a simple feature can change the game of how companies design the future of workflows and the impact it will have on creative output – from such a fundamental level.”
GPU Audio is focused on the tech’s scalability and upgradability, and is acutely interested in collaborating with third parties to develop products. Speaking about this, Rowden clarified, “This is what we mean by bridging accelerated computing and pro-audio. This tech is a new standard that we believe can be used anywhere.”
From the accelerating computational needs of gamers and PC users to manufacturing industries running mammoth equipment for complicated computations, unlocking the potential of GPUs is what gets the ball rolling.
According to Rowden, “Anywhere a GPU is present, GPU Audio powered applications will be able to harvest its power.”
In the final weeks of October, the GPU hardware powerhouse AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) also invited GPU Audio as guests to the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. Rowden called AMD one of their ‘strongest supporters,’ and added, “AMD wants to bring GPU-accelerated audio processing to their creative users – video and graphics creators. Senior leaders at AMD expressed that everything their creative user base needs is accelerated by GPUs, and it makes sense to expand this to audio.”
Designing robotics, industrial equipment, and autonomous vehicles require data input from various sources and sensors, such as video equipment and audio sensors. New neural network models, techniques, and use cases appear rapidly. For speech and image recognition demands and other language processing, GPUs accelerate data ingestion and expedite the entire AI workflow. With the acute interest and support of leaders at multiple GPU hardware companies, GPU Audio is working on a backend and front-end solution for making AI-based audio applications faster and more powerful.
GPUs may also supply the enormous computing power needed by web3 developers, so the industry can tackle the massive amounts of channels and pathways that go into metaverse creations.
Rowden is clearly thinking big. “Because GPU Audio utilizes a source of compute that makes up a vast processing infrastructure – especially cloud-based – it stands as the most powerful potential resource for the future of cloud-based DSP. This has massive implications for metaverse and web3-focused projects,” he explained, adding, “GPU powered plugins will be easily deployed on the cloud, and it won’t stop there.”
On this front, US-based NVIDIA, a world-leading designer and manufacturer of GPUs, chipsets, and other multimedia software has also taken an interest in what GPU Audio can bring to the table. NVIDIA has asked the company to implement more focused efforts on the development of AI advancement tools and metaverse applications.
NVIDIA is currently developing Omniverse, a collaboration platform for developing metaverses and related products and ecosystems. As that initiative takes root, NVIDIA is now exploring how GPU Audio processing can transform the ‘cost’ of audio processing bottlenecks into an advantage on their cloud.
This is just one example of the pioneering tech that GPU Audio says will change the world – as they continue to enable GPU solutions.
GPU Audio greatly encourages anyone interested to join their more than 20,000 users to participate in Beta and Early Access Testing. Beta addresses the production suite of plugins, while Early Access features a convolution reverb to address new features like Mac M1/2 support before it reaches beta.
Please contact Jonathan Rowden at [email protected] (or LinkedIn here) to learn more.

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Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Unforgotten is a blend of 13-year-old bourbon and eight and nine-year-old … [+] rye whiskey.
The first bottle of the Wild Turkey Bourbon was filled in 1940 in the heart of the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Its name came after a group of friends tasted an earlier version of the 101-proof spirits while on a wild turkey hunt and loved it. The bourbon quickly spread beyond Kentucky as drinkers fell for its robust flavor. Not long after, in 1954, Jimmy Russell, a Kentucky native, started working at the distillery learning the craft of making bourbon from Master distiller Bill Hughes. There has been a Russell involved with crafting the whiskey ever since.
By 1967 he became the third Master Distiller and was enshrined in the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame in 2000.
Known as the “Buddha of Bourbon,” Jimmy still roams the distillery, but it’s often alongside his son Eddie Russell, a Master Distiller and member of the Hall of Fame himself. This living repository of knowledge has helped keep Wild Turkey at the forefront of bourbon drinkers’ mindsets.
Wisely recognizing what they have in the father and son duo, the owners of Wild Turkey, the Campari Group, have given them a pretty free hand to craft a lineup of limited-release bourbons over the last few years in their Master’s Keep Series. The bottles sell for several hundred dollars at retail and can hit four digits on the resale market. Their latest release is the Master’s Keep Unforgotten, a homage to a famous mistake made years ago that retails for $200.
We caught up with Eddie in New York City, where he was promoting his latest creation to ask him a few questions about the bourbon business, what’s next for his famous family, and what he likes to drink.
Every bourbon maker these days is rolling out new and exciting products. What is driving this change?
For a long time, everybody basically had one product; there were no special releases and such. There was no reason to expand. The basic customers were older southern gentlemen who drank bourbon, and they kept the major distillers in business. It was the bourbon boom in Japan in the nineties that changed everything. It opened some eyes to the possibilities of bottling something different. Elmer T Lee released a single-barrel bourbon, Jimmy released a barrel-proof bourbon called Rare Breed, and other distillers started experimenting. Even though most of them, including my dad, were not really that big into expanding.
It was really when the young bartending community emerged and started looking towards old classic cocktails, many that were bourbon-based, that the entire industry shifted. They were calling for new and interesting bourbons, and their enthusiasm spread to a whole generation of 21-40-year-old drinkers. I think it’s really cool how things have changed, and there is this energy in the bourbon space.
Eddie and Jimmy Russell tasting one of their products.
You are the driving force behind the Master’s Keep Series, where you push the boundaries on what to expect from Wild Turkey. What led you to this idea?
Jimmy did a few limited releases back in the day, and when I became Master Distiller, I wanted to bring that back, so I did. That’s what the Master’s Keep Series is all about. The first one was called 17-year-old, and it was the most unique whiskey we ever had. It had been aged in brick warehouses, unlike our regular rickhouses that are metal clad and much more sensitive to temperature changes, so it was a very smooth and consistent whiskey. People gobbled it up, so I said let’s do something different with the next release, and we have been having fun ever since.
My son is the rye guy in the family, so he’s the one that pushed me to experiment more with rye whiskey in the series. We put back some rye, aged it to nine and eleven years old, and brought out a non-chill-filtered barrel proof called Cornerstone. It was so good. That led to this year’s Unforgotten, a mix of bourbon and rye whiskeys that has a funny backstory.
I have heard about that backstory. Can you tell me about it?
In 2009 one of my employees accidentally put rye on top of bourbon, and Jimmy wasn’t happy at all. He wanted to fire both of us. See, back then, we only made rye two days a year, and we had just wasted six months of our liquid in one fell swoop. I told him to take it easy and see what came from the mistake. It tasted great, so we decided to do a limited release and called it Forgiven. So, I used that idea, but it’s a different type of whiskey this time. Where the Forgiven has a very sweet front to it, and all the rye was on the back end, this whiskey uses bourbon to round off the edges of the rye.
It’s made from a blend of 13-year-old bourbon with eight and nine-year-old rye finished in rye casks. It takes the raw spiciness of the black pepper flavors of the rye and mellows it out with sweet vanilla hints from the bourbon. This one is at 105 proof, and I am already working on the next version of this style. It takes about 12 to 18 months for me to make the next entry into the Master’s Keep. I want to ensure that we honor Wild Turkey’s roots in tradition while trying things that are different from what we have done in the past.
What does Jimmy think about all of these new releases?
When Jimmy, Booker, Elmer, and all those guys drank bourbon, they wanted to know it was bourbon as soon as it hit their mouths. You know, I always teased those guys. They’d make this big face when they take a drink and go, Oh, that’s good. It was, but now I’m trying to produce products where drinkers can taste the creaminess, vanilla, caramel, sweetness, fruity, nutty, or whatever product we’re putting out there. So, it’s definitely a different profile than back in the day.
My main goal is to bring out different taste profiles. I mean, look at Longbranch, our collaboration project with Matthew McConaughey. It’s probably as far away from the Wild Turkey DNAs as you can get for how smooth, soft, and easy to drink it is. You know, Jimmy’s not drinking any of that, but many consumers out there are looking for that type of taste profile.
Master Distiller Eddie Russell checking out the progress of a barrel of Wild Turkey.
What’s next for the Russell family and Wild Turkey?
My son Bruce has been here in Kentucky for the last three or four years after spending several years in Texas as a brand ambassador. I’m really focusing on with him more on the blending part of it, the tasting part of it. That’s become a more common theme in our industry. It’s more of a master taster or master blender than a master distiller. Because if you look at Fred Noe, Craig Beam, and me, we’re probably the last ones that started out rolling barrels, dumping bottles, stacking cases, and mowing grass. My niece Joanne is in New York, working as a brand ambassador and loving it. I don’t know if we will ever get her to move to Kentucky to work at the distillery.
Last question for you. You are on the road a lot. What do you drink if they don’t have one of your bottles?
I’ve got Wild Turkey in my blood, and I’m sure not going to run out of it. If I am out traveling and they don’t have Wild Turkey, I will drink a cocktail with somebody else’s bourbon. I have tried them all. I’ll drink a little tequila or wine, but never any Jack Daniels; no self-respecting Kentuckian would ever do that. It’s funny; I have heard people ask my dad that question for years, and he would always say he would have some Elmer T Lee if Wild Turkey weren’t available. The only reason he would say that was Elmer T was his good buddy. I have never seen him actually drink a bottle of it. He was just being nice.

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