From the Ground Up Books and Mystic Bliss Creations Expand to Shepherdsville, KY

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Grand Opening Party

Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024

Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM EDT

Location: 160 Frank E Simon Avenue, Shepherdsville, Kentucky, USA

Venue: From the Ground Up Books/Mystic Bliss Creations

What to Expect:

Join From the Ground Up Books for an unforgettable celebration as they unveil their brand-new bookstore/gift shop concept. From the Ground Up Books and Resources is more than just a place to purchase books; it’s a vibrant hub that fosters creativity, learning, and community engagement. Here’s what you can look forward to:

Meet Lynn Tincher: Their passionate founder, Lynn, will be present to share her vision for the new store and answer any questions you may have.

Meet Missy Steier: Their jewelry maker, owner of Mystic Bliss Creations and Reiki Master will be preset to answer your questions.

Explore Unique Gifts: Discover a curated selection of books, unique gifts, and holistic items and services.

Connect with Fellow Book Lovers: Engage with like-minded individuals who share your love for literature.

From the Ground Up Books and Resources LLC believes in the transformative power of words. Whether you’re an aspiring writer, a seasoned reader, or simply seeking inspiration, their Shepherdsville location promises to be a sanctuary where stories come alive.

About From the Ground Up Books and Resources:

From the Ground Up Books and Resources LLC is not only a new and used bookstore and gift shop, it is also committed to nurturing the literary community. Our mission is to create a space where imagination thrives. With a focus on education, holistic services through Mystic Bliss Creations, and community building, we invite you to embark on this journey with us.

About Lynn Tincher:

Lynn Tincher is an Author, Publisher, Podcaster, Bookstore Owner, Public Speaker, and Film Executive Producer. AFTERTHOUGHTS, the first book in her Mind-Bending Series, was optioned for film by Kilted Pictures. The short film of the same name was a finalist for the Imadjinn Award in Film and was shown in the Louisville International Festival of Film, Show Low, Pasadena International, Imaginarium, and Worldfest Houston Film Festivals where it won the REMI Award. Her book, The Devil’s Mark, was a finalist for the Best Thriller Imadjinn Award. Lynn has appeared center page for a story in Leo Weekly and has appeared in Today’s Woman Magazine. She also is the Associate Publisher for Stardust Romance, an imprint of Hydra Publications. As a public speaker, Lynn has developed and teaches classes on interviewing characters, and speaks at schools and other events. She currently writes, edits, and designs book covers and is the Executive Producer and Co-host for Weirdos in the Wild, a paranormal podcast.

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Homeinc Receives Prestigious Honor from Voices for Children of Broward County

 Homeinc, a prominent house-buying company, received the Voice of Distinction Award from Voices for Children of Broward County on March 7, 2024. Presented by the Inglis Giving Fund, the award was in recognition of Homeinc’s work with Voices over the last five years. The organization works to improve the lives of thousands of children in foster care throughout the county. Homeinc fully supports this effort and is proud to be honored by such a meaningful organization.

Voices praised Homeinc’s efforts with the following statement: “We pay tribute to our esteemed honoree, Homeinc, whose unwavering dedication has been a guiding light for countless children on their journey.” The organization further noted, “As we reflect on our journey ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow,’ we are filled with gratitude for each and every one of you. Your support is the golden brick road that leads to a brighter tomorrow for children in foster care.”

This year’s event was highly successful. The reception and dinner were sold out, and those lucky enough to get a ticket experienced a “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” theme. The surroundings created a magical ambiance for over 200 guests celebrating a record year of fundraising to support vulnerable children. Homeinc representatives expressed gratitude for the award and reiterated their support of the charity that improves the lives of foster children, a population that faces many challenges.

Voices for Children of Broward County

Voices for Children of Broward County’s mission is to provide meaningful programs and resources to help child victims of abuse, neglect, and abandonment in Broward County. It focuses on meeting the children’s educational, health, and social needs, supplementing government efforts. Voices works with the 17th Judicial Circuit Dependency Court Division and other community partners to aid children with open and active dependency court cases throughout their court proceedings.

The organization is focused on improving the foster care experience for child victims. They offer many services, including advocacy, age-appropriate referrals, case management, and other assistance. Their programs include:

– Emergency & Normalcy Needs Program: Provides advocacy and financial resources to meet individual, health, social, and educational needs of foster youth, a high-risk population.
– The Fostering Hope: Transitioning into Adulthood Program: Aids foster youth ages 17-22 preparing to leave the foster care system and live independently.
– Dream Big Days: Provides enriching, memory-making experiences through visits to cultural institutions and enjoyable events throughout the year.
– School Break Food and Wellness Program: Ensures proper nutrition for foster youth during school breaks and provides opportunities for physical and wellness activities.

Voices embraces a holistic philosophy that provides foster children with the tools they need to experience healthy, happy childhoods. The organization believes these young people should do more than survive; they should thrive. It cannot do so without the type of additional support Voices provides.

Homeinc Advantage

Homeinc believes it has a social responsibility to the community beyond buying homes from eager sellers. This belief is why the company works with Voices of Children of Broward County to enrich the lives of foster children facing difficult futures. Homeinc further serves the region by providing a premium real estate service that finances its charitable efforts.

The Homeinc team has a combined 100 years of experience in the home-buying industry, outlasting many competitors. They bring extensive knowledge to the home-buying process. Their success comes from paying top dollar for the homes they purchase without collecting unnecessary fees such as commissions, closing costs, probate fees, etc. In addition, Homeinc has flexible policies that allow for more complicated sales, such as long closings, liens, tenants, and violations.

The company simplifies the sales process for homeowners. Homeinc has a unique approach that includes a free property analysis that includes necessary repairs, property age, ownership issues, and market position. Homeowners working with the company receive real, competitive cash offers for their homes. They are not obligated to accept the Homeinc offer and are free to make other arrangements after the assessment.

Property Types

The company buys all types of homes in as-is condition. Homeinc purchases houses with structural problems, roof damage, code violations, etc., and then does the necessary repairs and alterations. In addition, it buys homes with difficulties, such as liens, probate issues, and insurance disqualification.

Homeinc buys single-family homes, multi-family homes, townhouses, condominiums, and mobile homes, all for cash. These homes include those in emerging neighborhoods and those that cannot get mortgages. Homeowners who need a fast and fair sale will find the answer at Homeinc, no matter their property issues. For many, a traditional home sale is not possible. Homeinc is a proven alternative.

Homeinc Promise

Homeinc gives homeowners a competitive cash offer for their property in minutes and does not charge commissions or other unnecessary fees. The owners choose their closing date, which can be as soon as five days. The money is then directly wired into their bank account. This method is life-changing for property owners who need fast cash without the difficulty many home sales bring.

Areas Served

The company buys properties throughout Georgia and Florida, including Broward, Dade, Brevard, Volusia, Pasco, and Orange counties. It also serves Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and Savannah in Georgia.

Homeinc fills a special need in the real estate industry. The company provides ethical solutions to homeowners who want or need a quick cash sale. It also helps owners with difficult property situations who face many challenges with the traditional sales route. Homeinc allows homeowners the flexibility they need to sell their properties successfully.

Homeinc and Voices for Children of Broward County

The Homeinc and Voices partnership improves the lives of at-risk foster children who have already been victimized. They face unique difficulties that require special programs and resources, such as those offered by the Voices organization. These children have a better chance of success thanks to the efforts of Voices for Children of Broward County and socially conscious companies such as Homeinc, this year’s Voice of Distinction Award winner.

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Sweeney Excavation, Inc. Expands Construction Capabilities by Joining Forces with Gargiulo Construction

 Sweeney Excavation, a prominent leader in excavation and site-work construction, and concrete foundation construction for the region, proudly announces its acquisition of Gargiulo Construction, a proven concrete foundation contracting company with over 35 years of experience. This strategic move will double Sweeney’s current capabilities in its Concrete Foundation Construction Division and aims to enhance Sweeney’s current comprehensive construction capabilities, offering clients a seamless solution for both excavation and concrete foundation construction needs.

The acquisition stems from a long-standing relationship between Bob Sweeney, founder of Sweeney Excavation, and Gene Gargiulo, founder of Gargiulo Construction, spanning over three decades. Having collaborated on numerous projects, both parties recognized the collective opportunity between their respective businesses and decided to join forces to better serve their customers.

Reflecting on the acquisition, Sweeney’s founder, Bob Sweeney, stated, “There are many shared values between the teams-with the quality of the working being foremost. Both organizations are leaders in our respective industries, in developing our people, and both our teams have been early and consistent implementers of technology.”

Employees from Gargiulo Construction will also now have access to enhanced benefits, including medical coverage and retirement plans.

Sweeney Excavation’s unique ability to provide and streamline sitework and foundation construction for the last 20 years will now be greatly enhanced by this acquisition. Bob stated, “We look forward to reaching an entire new group of customers that Gargiulo Construction has served wonderfully for many years, and introducing them to the seamless process of performing both site construction and foundation construction on their projects.”

As the companies integrate operations, customers can anticipate a smooth transition with minimal disruption to ongoing projects. Sweeney Excavation will undergo strategic branding efforts throughout the course of this year, resulting in an updated website and online presence.

For more information about Sweeney Excavation and its services, visit sweeneyexcavation.com or contact Kimberly Burns at kimberly@sweeneyexcavation.com.

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NetQuest Introduces Next-Generation Lower Density Streaming Network Sensor

 NetQuest, the market leading global provider of ultra-scale Flow and Packet-Based network intelligence solutions for cybersecurity visibility today announced the expansion of its Streaming Network Sensor™ portfolio to extend powerful network visibility further out to the network edge. The next-generation SNS750 is a compact one rack unit (1RU), high-performance monitoring appliance that delivers 1:1 unsampled NetFlow with Enriched Flow Intelligence™ for 100% of the packets observed at line rate to enable highly optimized and unobscured visibility into clear and encrypted network traffic.

As organizations are confronted with the massive amount of network traffic to monitor, they struggle with cost-effectively gaining visibility into all network traffic crossing the network estate. Traditionally, network traffic monitoring has been focused at peering points or other high-density aggregation locations due to monitoring device size and high costs. While NetFlow generation has become ubiquitous in routers and switches, these platforms typically provide sampled NetFlow, where only a portion of network traffic is analyzed to limit the undesirable performance impacts from NetFlow creation. While sampling reduces the processing burden on performance-sensitive infrastructure, it also significantly reduces the traffic visibility value and fidelity, which can miss important indicators of malicious threat activity.

The new SNS750 addresses both of these challenges. The SNS750 consolidates and integrates the deployment-proven, ultra-scale DPI classification and Machine Learning Enriched Flow Intelligence capabilities found in the larger and higher density 3RU SNS1000. The SNS750 has been optimized for deployment at the network edge and smaller or space-constrained sites where fewer ports are needed. The compact 1RU platform supports up to four ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet, and up to 400Gbps of network traffic ingest to support lower density deployments without compromising performance or the depth of enriched traffic visibility. The rich network intelligence delivered by the SNS750 allows operators to achieve unobscured observability of clear and encrypted network traffic to identify evasive and emerging malicious activities sooner in the kill chain.

“The SNS750 enables our powerful carrier-class Streaming Network Sensor technology to be deployed more affordably in areas closer to the user, including mid-tier distribution points, branch offices, smaller PoPs, and remote data centers,” said Jesse Price, president, and chief executive officer, NetQuest. “By combining and integrating the same advanced Enriched Flow Intelligence capabilities found in our higher capacity SNS1000, the SNS750 appliance has been rightsized without compromising performance or scale to meet the mission-critical requirements of service provider, government and enterprise organizations to enable deep and sustained visibility into high-volume, transaction-intensive network traffic for deployment at the network edge.”

The Value of Unsampled Flow Metadata

Organizations everywhere struggle to keep up with the massive amount of network traffic to monitor. The continuous monitoring of network traffic on a single 100 Gigabit (Gb) link can generate up to 45 Terabytes (TB) of raw packet traffic per hour. This equates to more than 1 Petabyte (PB) of traffic per day. Unsampled flow metadata is a direct 1:1 abstraction of network traffic based upon full packet analysis of the wire data. It provides a lower footprint, high-value data set with critical insights about who is connecting to the network and what is being accessed and shared without the burden of collecting, storing, and sifting through massive volumes of network packets at the analysis layer. Translating network traffic one-for-one to metadata results in up to a 99.5% reduction in traffic load and overcomes the unsurmountable challenges network traffic volumes pose to the continuous observation of all traffic in motion. Unsampled Flow-based network visibility is extremely effective at exposing new, unknown malware, zero-day exploits, and attacks that are slow to develop and can identify rogue behavior by network insiders, or insider identities that have been hacked.

Enriched Flow Intelligence

SNS750 provides uncompromising application-level and encrypted traffic visibility that automates and accelerates the detection of threats, anomalous activity, evasive traffic, and Indicators of Compromise (IoC), to enable deep network and user traffic intelligence. With Enriched Flow Intelligence activated, the SNS750 automatically discovers and exposes application classifications, protocol-specific attributes, and encrypted traffic metrics at ultra-scale speeds with no performance impacts or reduction in sensor capacity.

Encrypted Traffic Analysis (ETA)
Identifies encrypted flows and automates the extraction of fingerprints signatures, and heuristics. This enables identifying threats hiding in encrypted traffic such as command and control attacks, malware, and data exfiltration. This includes encrypted traffic analysis of TLS, TLS 1.3, QUIC, SSH and extracting encrypted traffic fingerprints such as JA4, JA3C, JA3S, HASSH.

Protocol and Application-Level Enrichment
Identifies the applications in use and relevant Layer 7 attributes within the network traffic to power deep network and user traffic intelligence that accelerates the detection of threats, anomalous activity, and evasive traffic. This includes identifying 3800+ Layer 7 applications, exposing protocol-specific metadata, such as DNS, HTTP, SIP, BGP, MPLS, SIP, and relevant mobile user details such as IMEI, IMSI, MSISDN.

“Today’s highly distributed computing environments require network observability close to the edge to identify threats before nefarious actors have a chance to penetrate deeper into critical systems,” said Stephen Collins, principal consultant at 1024tm. “Security analysts require in-depth, gigabit-speed, packet-level network intelligence at the edge, and at an affordable price point. NetQuest’s expansion of its Streaming Network Sensor portfolio satisfies this need, providing extensive visibility into traffic flows, including encrypted sessions, to expose threats that would elude less powerful observability platforms.”

Availability

The Network Intelligence provided by the Streaming Network Sensor provides invaluable real-time insights that are easily consumed by a wide range of security platforms such as SIEM, SOAR, XDR, NDR, Threat Detection, and security monitoring, and can be delivered to security data lakes and warehouses that gather network intelligence for multiple security applications. The SNS750 is currently in field trials and will be generally available in early Q2 2024.

About NetQuest
NetQuest provides market-leading Ethernet and WAN Flow and Packet-Based traffic monitoring solutions that deliver the highest levels of accuracy, capacity, and performance at scale. Monitoring solutions from NetQuest are deployment-proven across thousands of network segments in enterprise, carrier, government, and defense agency networks across the globe, empowering security operations teams with high-scale visibility and actionable traffic intelligence. Founded in 1987 and based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, NetQuest is an employee-owned business with a 30-year track record of providing innovative and market-defining traffic monitoring solutions. For more information, visit https://www.netquestcorp.com.

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Kert Stevens Joins the Meadows Bank SBA Team as SVP, Business Development Officer in Utah

 Meadows Bank announced today that Kert Stevens has joined Meadows Bank as an SBA, Senior Vice President, Business Development Officer. Kert brings nearly 25 years of commercial banking experience, specializing in SBA loans.

Kert came to Meadows Bank most recently from Rock Canyon Bank in Utah, where he was SVP, Business Development Officer for the past 11 years. Prior to that, Kert was with Titan Bank, Capital Community Bank and Far West Bank.

“Kert’s years of business development and SBA/Commercial lending experience will be a tremendous asset to Meadows Bank,” said Cal Regan, President, Small Business Lending Division. He added, “Kert will focus on developing the SBA 7(a) and 504 market in Utah.”

Kert obtained a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Utah State University. He loves to travel and spending time in the outdoors with family and friends.

About Meadows Bank
Meadows Bank is a full-service community bank committed to valued partnerships with our clients. Our relationship-based approach to banking focuses on making decisions locally, close to our clients. The bank offers a full suite of lending and deposit products and services. Meadows Bank was founded in 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada and is a National SBA Preferred Lender with loan productions offices throughout the US. Meadows Bank currently has branches in Las Vegas, NV; Henderson, NV; Reno, NV; Pahrump, NV and Phoenix, AZ. For more information on the bank and its products and services please visit our website at www.meadowsbank.bank.

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