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☆ Nashville added nearly 100 new residents per day in 2022. Here's why people are moving to Music City
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Over the past 30 years, Nashville, Tennessee — a city known for country music — has seen a flood of transplants moving from higher-cost cities. For new residents, "everybody has a different story," said Jeff Hite, chief economic development officer of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. In 2022, the Nashville metropolitan area grew by about 35,624 people, or roughly 98 new residents per day, according to Census data compiled by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce's Research Center. Since 1990, the population has grown 81%, with more than two— million residents in the Nashville metropolitan area in 2022. Attracted to a "central location," some 43% of downtown residents moved from out of state, survey data from the Nashville Downtown Partnership shows.

Persons: John Greim, —, Jeff Hite, Hite, Nina Dietzel, Tom Turner, Turner, we've, we're Organizations: LightRocket, Nashville Area, of Commerce, Commerce's Research, Nashville, Images Downtown, Nashville Downtown Partnership, Partnership, Vanderbilt University Locations: Nashville, Nashville , Tennessee, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego and New York, Images Downtown Nashville

The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. And it made its author, Shere Hite, a deeply polarizing public figure. But cultural memory can be short, especially when it comes to pioneering feminists — even ones who have sold 50 million books. “We love Shere Hite!” Newnham recalled Johnson and her producing partner Ro Donnelly responding. Seeing Hite walk out of an interview was not uncommon, especially after the publication of “The Hite Report on Male Sexuality” in 1981, which proved even more divisive.

Persons: ”, Shere Hite, Hite, Erica Jong, —, she’d, Nicole Newnham, Oscar, Newnham, Dakota Johnson, ” Newnham, Johnson, Ro Donnelly, “ Organizations: Playboy, The New York Times, IFC Films, “, NBC News Studios, TeaTime Pictures, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Locations: U.S, The, decamped, Europe

☆ Voxel uses AI and computer vision to improve workplace safety. Check out the 8-slide pitch deck it used to raise $12 million.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A startup that uses AI and computer vision to detect and prevent workplace accidents has just secured $12 million in strategic funding from Rite Hite. San Francisco-based Voxel, which launched in 2020, allows companies to integrate its AI tool into their security cameras. "Despite the rapid advancements in AI and computer vision, their potential remained largely untapped in ensuring workplace safety," said Alex Senemar, cofounder and CEO of Voxel. The startup's AI tool also integrates with existing security camera infrastructures, so companies don't have to buy new equipment. It provides tiered pricing, as well as analytics on workplace safety, so corporations can assess how to create a safer setting for workers.

Persons: Voxel, Hite, Alex Senemar, Senemar, Rite Hite Organizations: Rite, PPG Industries, Eclipse Ventures, MTech Locations: San Francisco, Rite Hite, North America

☆ Simple, Satisfying 3-Ingredient Barbecue Sauces
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Steven Raichlen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

South Carolina’s contribution to regional American barbecue is mustard sauce. Barbecue buffs — from Columbia, S.C., through Georgia, and in parts of Kentucky and Florida — understand the wonders that mustard can work on pork; how the spice enhances the meat’s sweetness, while the acidity cuts through the fat. Mustard may be the addition of the German immigrants who settled in South Carolina in the 18th century and whose descendants opened barbecue restaurants still revered in the state, such as Bessingers in Charleston, Sweatman’s in Holly Hill and Hite’s in West Columbia. A good mustard sauce is a study in balance: the bite of mustard and mouth-pucker of vinegar offset by the sweetness of honey or brown sugar. Tradition calls for using ballpark-style mustard, but try the suaveness of Dijon-style mustard or a grainy mustard from Meaux in France.

Persons: — Locations: Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, South Carolina, Charleston, Sweatman’s, Holly Hill, Hite’s, West Columbia, Dijon, Meaux, France

Fourteen of the top 30 advertisers on Twitter stopped all advertising on the platform after Musk took charge on October 27, according to the Pathmatics estimates. Pathmatics said the previously unreported figures on Twitter advertising are estimates. read moreThe Pathmatics estimates show continued upheaval in Twitter's main revenue stream heading into 2023, led by a pullback from top consumer brands. Among consumer brands, Heinz ketchup maker Kraft Heinz Co(KHC.O) and Stouffers meal manufacturer Nestle SA (NESN.S) stopped all advertising, according to the Pathmatics estimates. Financial technology provider SmartAsset and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said Pathmatics estimates showing an increase in advertising were inaccurate.

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