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- Dates of Creation1882 Mar.As a family company that has operated in Austin for over six decades, we consider our larger community as an extended family. Since our modest beginnings, we have done what we can to serve the less fortunate and unburden the burdened. A large part of that effort is through the Statesman’s Seasons for Caring program. Our ‘all under one roof’ approach puts us in a unique position to offer sweeping solutions for home-centric problems. This year, and moving forward, we hope to expand this partnership and initiative. Here are a few of our past endeavors.
José & Manuela Alcantar’s 53-year-old son Horatio Ochoa has a brain injury and lost almost everything from the Onion Creek Floods during Halloween 2013.
- Improved the home’s accessibility by building transitions at the home’s entrances.
- Various home repairs.
Gordan Meeler is a Vietnam vet who is bound to a wheelchair due to an aneurysm that paralyzed the left side of his body. Because of this, he was confined to the living room and kitchen of his Southeast Austin mobile home. He could not access his bath and toilet since the narrow halls were too small for his wheelchair to fit through.
- Converted a bedroom with a small bath into one big accessible bathroom.
- Enlarged the doorway, added grab bars, installed storage space, and made the room much brighter and pleasant.
The Marvels both have intellectual and developmental disabilities. Mr. Marvel works to support Joyce who sustained an injury from a bus accident. With the money she received from the accident, they were able to purchase their South Austin condo.
- Transformed the old bathroom to create a new open space with a roll-in shower with grab bars, a new toilet, and new vanity and shelves.
- Repaired kitchen cabinets and installed new appliances.
- Installed a new sliding glass patio door.
- Replaced all carpet with durable vinyl flooring.
- Applied a fresh coat of paint.
Mr. Gomez has been confined to his wheelchair ever since his second leg amputation, which limits his mobility to the first level of his home. He slept in the family room and showered with a hose either in the garage or the backyard since he could no longer access the cramped downstairs bath.
- Converted the family room into the master suite by building a wall with a pocket door.
- Converted the powder bath into an accessible bathroom with a low threshold shower, grab bars and a roll-up sink.
- Enlarged the closet.
- Replaced all the carpet with durable flooring.
Velma & Johnny Pace have been married for 53 years and their adult son, Howard, was born with intellectual disabilities. With Jonny’s dementia diagnosis and recent hip injury, they’re in need of an accessible bathroom, a bathroom with a tub that Howard can get into, new paint for Howard’s room, new hard flooring on their first level, and new exterior doors.
This project is still in design and due to the pandemic, the development is currently on hold.There was a time when Nvidia Corporation was a darling of fund managers. I recall an interview I did with artificial intelligence fund manager Chris Ford two years ago, where the technology expert said his role in developing “morally good” deepfakes was just one of his many achievements.
But Nvidia’s market value has soared then crashed in recent years – shares peaked at nearly $330 in late 2021, but are now worth $131, meaning its capitalization has fallen from $822 billion to $328 billion today.
Nvidia is an American success story of sorts. But last year the fallout from its global expansion plans suggested it had stepped too far.
The story didn’t end well for Nvidia, or for the 1,000-ish staff at ARM that faced redundancy after the deal was terminated in February this year. Having originally declared the transaction the seeds of “the world’s premier computing company”, both parties were left red-faced.
Other issues have weighed on Nvidia’s image too. In May this year the company agreed to pay a $5.5 million fine for failing to disclose to the US Securities and Exchange Commission the precise contribution to its bottom line made by crypto-mining. That is but a drop in the ocean in financial terms, but the reputational impact was certainly apparent.
But that’s still not all. Quite apart from getting caught up in big regulatory battles, Nvidia has also found itself an unlikely pawn in geopolitics.
At the beginning of September, the Chinese government hit out at the US government’s decision to restrict the export of powerful processors to the country. The move affects products containing Nvidia’s A100 and H100 graphical processing units, both of which are used to make the machine learning process faster. Nvidia will now need licenses to continue selling them.
“US officials have told chipmaker Nvidia that it will need special licenses to sell Chinese customers two of its processes that are widely used to speed up AI calculations,” the Financial Times reported.
In the most recent analyst note on Nvidia published at the beginning of this month, sector strategist Abhinav Davuluri said the geopolitical intervention by the Biden administration was “troubling.” That said, he stopped short of sounding the alarm, given the strong consumer base Nvidia supplies.
“Nvidia’s major cloud customers include Chinese firms such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu for a variety of applications such as natural language processing, image recognition, and deep recommendation engines,” he says.
And as for Chris Ford, his fund has rebranded following new ownership and is now Sanlam Global Artificial Intelligence. But it still holds Nvidia, and, over five years at least, the firm has been among the fund’s top performance contributors, below Tesla, Roku, Alphabet, and Netflix (in that order).
Is it game over for Nvidia? Far from it. But its challenging chapter isn’t finished just yet.
Look around. See all the stuff you own that you totally take for granted? Everything has a history you know. The safety pin, can opener, beer, the toilet, back scratchers, buttons, deodorant, condoms, everything. So let’s pick one thing to do a little exhaustive research on and learn about its history. How’s about the lowly but important and hugely big-business toothbrush?
Yes, we all have one, or some, or ought to if we don’t. After all, no human wants to have much truck with another human who does not brush his/her teeth. Eeuw. Those are the people one avoids at parties. No, that’s not true; they’re not actually ever invited to parties.
Expensive, important tools are they. But, where did toothbrushes come from? After exhaustive research I’m happy to tell you, so that tonight or tomorrow when you pick up that plastic stalk with the bristles at the end you’ll have the proper respect.
Around 3000 BC give or take a millennia, some Egyptian person, probably a mother, was sick and tired of being grossed out by her kids’ rotten mouths and so invented a “chew stick” which she said she’d use on their hind ends if they didn’t use it in their mouths as she insisted. It was a simple stick made of whatever tree was popular in Egypt at the time, about the size of today’s pencil, and one end was frayed to a fibrous, soft condition. The ends of those sticks were rubbed against the teeth which was better than nothing considering that toothpaste, mouthwash and floss string had yet to be invented. One would hope that Egyptian water was used too in that process, and that the stick was well washed off after each use,-- and of course thrown away and replaced every three months.
We’re certain about all this because chew sticks have been found in Egyptian tombs from 3000 BC. I guess they were put in there with all that gold and other things the dearly departed mummy would need in his afterlife. Good hygiene after all, is important in all planes of existence, right? Even Ye Gods dislike hanging with beings who are groom-challenged.
So the wee stick with the frayed end began it all, and I suspect that when young Egyptian lads were yearning for the hand of young Egyptian lasses they gave their teeth a good scrub before they made their moves. I mean even back