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News24
02-07-2025
- Business
- News24
Modern makeover for legal chambers in Cape Town's CBD
The heart of Cape Town's legal district just got a sophisticated upgrade. A new dedicated legal workspace, Cape Town Collective Legal Chambers, officially launched in May at Wale Street Chambers, bringing contemporary infrastructure and flexible working solutions to an industry long anchored in tradition. The event, attended by Premier Alan Winde, representatives from The Cape Bar, PABASA, AFSA and numerous legal professionals, highlighted a growing appetite for innovation in the legal sector. A keynote by Tim Harris, former Wesgro CEO and current lead of the Mission for Inner City Cape Town (MICCT) set the tone for what the launch represents: not just new offices, but a vision for a rejuvenated city core. Supplied A New Home for Cape Town's Legal Minds Cape Town Collective, the brainchild of property developers Jeffrey Kleu and Josh Carey, offers serviced office space designed specifically for attorneys, advocates, and legal consultants. With 60 private offices, shared boardrooms, high-speed fibre (1 000mbps), concierge services, and on-site amenities like showers and secure parking, the facility is tailored to meet the professional and logistical demands of legal practitioners. Supplied 'This is more than just a building, it's a solution,' said Kleu. 'We've spoken to dozens of legal professionals who all want the same thing: proximity to court, prestige, and none of the overhead and hassle of running their own office.' Supplied From Heritage Buildings to a Legal Powerhouse Located steps from the Western Cape High Court, the seventh-floor chambers are part of a R140 million redevelopment project transforming an entire city block. The initiative, led by Kleu's Klarey Property Group and supported by public and private partners like MICCT and the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID), reflects a broader movement to revitalise the CBD. 'This is a pivotal moment in reimagining the city centre,' said Harris at the launch. 'By reinvesting in these heritage-rich spaces, we're creating a Cape Town that's safer, more functional, and more inclusive.' Adding an artistic touch to the launch was Cape Town and Miami-based muralist Sonny Behan, commissioned to create two signature wall pieces in the chambers. Pause area Supplied A Flexible Future for Legal Work CTC also offers a range of virtual office packages starting at R995 per month, giving professionals a premium address, call-handling, and access to business lounges and boardrooms. Gold-tier clients benefit from up to eight free boardroom hours monthly—designed for advocates who need the infrastructure without the long-term lease. Additional legal-specific perks include: ● Pay-as-you-use court messenger services ● VOIP telephone answering ● Facial recognition security ● Bespoke office furnishings ● An integrated booking portal Redefining Legal Workspaces—One Office at a Time With demand for flexible work on the rise, and a renewed push to restore vibrancy to Cape Town's city centre, the launch of Cape Town Collective's Legal Chambers couldn't come at a better time. 'This isn't just a workspace,' said Carey. 'It's a platform for legal professionals to connect, collaborate, and redefine how they practise law in the 21st century.' For tours, please email hello@
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Advocates speak out against Missouri concealed carry age bill
ST. LOUIS – It was just before 4 p.m. when shots rang out at January-Wabash park in Ferguson. Police say they arrived within 50 seconds of the 911 call—only to find no victim in sight. Shortly after, they got a second call—leading officers to a church nearby, where a teen was found with a gunshot wound to the arm. He was treated on-site and rushed to the hospital. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now 'The victim arrived supposedly a few minutes prior to or really seconds prior to the. Somebody yelled and then gunshots,' said Captain Tim Harris, Ferguson police captain of Investigations. 'So they all separated and it was the end of it.' Police say it began with a dispute between a group of 18-22 year-olds. No one is claiming to know the shooter, and investigators are reviewing video from the park and nearby church. 'But this incident that happened, I grew up here. I went to Ferguson middle. I went to McClure and never in my life have I seen anything like this,' Lorenzo Clark, a citizen, said. 'So I don't know what's going on with these teens nowadays but they need to get a handle on them.' The shooting comes the same day Youth Violence Prevention advocates rushed to Jefferson cCty, speaking out against a Missouri House Bill that would lower the legal concealed carry age from 19 to 18. 'It's just okay. It's scary! We're already in crisis mode but it puts you even more in crisis mode. Almost like all the work you're working towards is just backwards,' said Precious Jones, a Youth Violence Prevention advocate. The bill, already passed by the house, would also allow guns on public transportation and in churches. Family sues youth league after teen's suicide following coach's alleged abuse Democratic Representative Chanel Mosley says lawmakers outside urban areas don't see the daily violence. 'They're not in a city where they see gun violence often. Like you said, they are in rural areas or just in small areas where they don't have those types of problems, so they don't know what the bill will be doing to our area,' Mosley said. Individuals like Clark have no issue with the bill. 'I don't have an issue with lowering the age. I do believe everybody has the right to defend themselves but I do believe folks need to have some type of psych paperwork that they have to go through to be able to carry,' Clark said. Gun violence is now the leading cause of death among children and teens in Missouri. With this latest shooting and legislation in motion, advocates fear what might come next. As police continue to investigate, several youth violence prevention organizations are taking action. On April 22, they'll head to Jefferson City to present their 'Safer Summer Streets' initiative, with local doctors, teachers, and community leaders sharing the real impact of youth gun violence in St. Louis. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI Veterans Mike Henry and Tim Harris Launch Parasail, the First AI Deployment Network With Access to the Largest Supply of On-Demand GPUs
Dozens of the fastest-growing AI-native companies are running billions of tokens on Parasail's AI Deployment Network—accessing more true on-demand capacity than Oracle's entire cloud—at 15-30x lower cost. SAN FRANCISCO, April 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Parasail today introduced the first AI Deployment Network, giving AI companies fast, scalable, and cost-efficient access to compute and the latest cutting-edge AI models. Parasail provides the largest truly on-demand GPU compute supply, aggregating top-tier hardware—including H100s, H200s, A100s, and 4090s—and optimizing AI workloads so companies can experiment, deploy and scale fast, without complexity or constraints. Parasail connects companies to a massive, contract-free fleet of high-performance GPUs and allows them to scale from zero to enterprise workloads at record speed. Beyond access to compute, companies also need optimal performance. Parasail's orchestration engine automatically matches workloads across a global GPU network for the best performance and cost, solving the permutation problem and eliminating the complexity of workload management. Its plug-and-play inference ensures workloads run only when needed, minimizing idle costs. "Most cloud providers make the false promises of on-demand compute, and they fail to deliver on that promise," said Mike Henry, Founder and CEO of Parasail. "In reality, legacy cloud providers use small amounts of compute capacity to lure customers into long-term contracts. At Parasail we are providing the first real-time, true on-demand access to massive compute without the hidden constraints." Parasail is founded by AI veterans Mike Henry and Tim Harris. Henry has spent his career building AI infrastructure and high-performance computing solutions, founding Mythic in 2012, an early AI hardware company that raised $165M in venture capital, and later served as Interim Chief Product Officer at Groq, where he helped launch a successful LLM cloud service. Co-founder Tim Harris is CEO of Swift Navigation, a key player in early autonomous vehicles with $250M in capital raised. Parasail is backed by $10M in Seed funding by Basis Set Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Buckley Ventures and Black Opal Ventures. "Legacy cloud providers weren't built for AI, making it difficult and expensive for AI-native companies to access the compute they need. Parasail's deployment network gives teams fast, affordable access to high-performance infrastructure—so they can focus on building and shipping breakthrough AI products," said Tim Harris, Co-Founder of Parasail. Parasail's AI Deployment Network allows companies to deploy production-ready endpoints to dozens of GPUs within hours, with minimal setup—enabling inference in minutes and accelerating complex AI workflows. Companies migrating from OpenAI or Anthropic can reduce costs by 15-30x. On top of that, Parasail delivers an additional 2-5x cost advantage over other open-source providers. Companies achieving more efficient deployments with Parasail: Elicit scaled scientific paper screening with real-time processing. "Elicit is using LLMs to screen more than 100,000 scientific papers each day, but the cost of high-quality real-time processing was prohibitive. Parasail was essential for removing this bottleneck," said Andreas Stuhlmüller, CEO of Elicit. "Working with Mike and the Parasail team has been refreshingly straightforward. They're responsive, technically excellent, and helped us get high-throughput screening into production with minimal engineering overhead. We're already exploring the next use case for their platform." Rasa improved real-time model deployment in Europe. "We needed to deploy our custom model quickly and cost-effectively. Parasail got us up and running in no time. Their team responded immediately to our request for lower latency in Europe, setting up an endpoint that improved user experience for our customers," said Alan Nichol, Co-Founder and CTO of Rasa. "The economics were so favorable that we could make our tutorial model publicly accessible for free without asking customers to enter API keys or credit cards." Everpilot slashed inference costs by 10X. "Parasail's inference pricing is the lowest I've seen, and they made it effortless to run open-source models as if they were hosted by Big Tech. I had to read the quote three times to believe it," said Ted Benson, Founder and CEO of Everpilot. Weights & Biases needed DeepSeek capacity, fast. "Parasail moved at lightning speed to get us set up with massive DeepSeek capacity and top-shelf throughput. They will give you the latest and greatest faster than anyone else," said Shawn Lewis, CTO of Weights & Biases. Oumi streamlined dataset generation with batch processing. "Parasail's batch processing made it much easier to generate millions of responses for dataset building and research. It saved significant time and effort compared to managing individual requests with retries and rate limits," said Oussama Elachqar, Co-Founder of Oumi. The Future of AI Compute is Open AI infrastructure is shifting toward open-source AI, multi-supplier aggregation, and compute network solutions. Parasail is leading this transformation, providing scalable, affordable, and flexible AI infrastructure. "The future of AI infrastructure isn't about a single cloud provider—it's about an interconnected network of high-performance compute providers," said Henry. "Parasail is making that future a reality today." About Parasail: Parasail lets AI builders experience AI on demand. Parasail's AI Deployment Network offers a new compute grid, connecting companies to the best infrastructure for their workloads—without complexity, or vendor lock-in—enabling open, customizable, and scalable deployments. With Parasail, companies achieve faster, cost-efficient AI processing without rate limits. For more, visit: View source version on Contacts SutherlandGold for Parasailparasail@
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Knoxville Wholesale Furniture donates $1M to Samaritan's Purse for hurricane recovery
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Knoxville Wholesale Furniture donated $1 million to the non-profit Christian relief agency Samaritan's Purse to support ongoing recovery efforts in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. 'It was right here in our backyard in East Tennessee. People in Newport, Cocke County, different counties. Plus, North Carolina. We're in the furniture business. North Carolina is the hub of the furniture business. [I] Made a couple of trips over there and saw it firsthand. We knew the need was great,' said Knoxville Wholesale Furniture President Tim Harris. 'I talked it over with my son one day and said, 'we need to do something substantial here.' We have always been a big fan of Samaritan's Purse because they help people in desperate need in Jesus' name. That fits both profiles of what we like to do.' 'We lost our home, our clothes, our everything': Family recovering from Helene with help from Samaritan's Purse 6 News has shared stories of people like Dina and Dumitru Gyska, who received a commercial van free of charge from Samaritan's Purse after their home and business was decimated by flood waters. 'We checked them out. They limit their overhead to eleven or twelve percent. So, almost all of the money goes directly to people,' Harris said. 'I called a lot of my friends after a month. I said who is doing the best job here. It was unanimous. Five different people without prompting said them first and then they said local churches.' 'I have really enjoyed volunteering with them because I feel like this is where God wants me to be,' said Sarah Rutland, a Samaritan's Purse volunteer from Niota. North Carolina woman getting new home after property flooded during Helene 'I could cry over some of these stories. Just the selfless sacrifice,' Harris said. 'There are some people who picked up and moved over there. They're still over there today, helping these people.' Harris said that this represents the company's single largest donation ever. In addition to the direct donation, Knoxville Wholesale Furniture has led a fundraising campaign to raise additional funds for relief. If you're looking to help with recovery in the aftermath of Helene, visit Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
