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Huntington Late Nov-Dec 22

Oct-Nov 2022 Happy Thanksgiving

https://www.ffxnow.com/2022/11/23/huntington-metro-area-development-plan-passes-planning-commission-with-big-height-reduction/

The Federal Reserve is the most powerful, and everything is coordinated through them. Bank of Canada, Bank Of England, ECB)Frankfort) and the other big ones coordinate with Federal Reserve for two reasons 1) US Economy is the biggest 2) the US dollar is the reserve currency on 61% of global trade and the most held reserve Around the world.

https://fee.org/articles/kevin-o-leary-on-inflation-you-printed-7-trillion-in-30-months-what-did-you-think-would-happen/?fbclid=IwAR03Mo2K8X3kC66ystnG61iN41Qs9JsCHSIuk1dXCD2lb_sern6O-MGs80g https://tacticalinvestor.com/fiat-money-the-main-driver-behind-boom-bust-cycles/?fbclid=IwAR0Zi_U71ds6Hbtw9pmIppZUgTeePM8idtUzyakBnilnHOGsiU16L43YUDQ

https://mises.org/wire/despite-their-hubris-monetary-authorities-do-not-have-total-control?fbclid=IwAR0VNuagObrOdqDE7Oz4WzxdakFhxR7guQOp2uBiMEHQ3zub1R_KfCmqzAE

https://fee.org/articles/kevin-o-leary-on-inflation-you-printed-7-trillion-in-30-months-what-did-you-think-would-happen/?fbclid=IwAR18BbqEGL-VIP4j7BCSSy2IfoiD36BxuL5RmQPPk3gzAdrYh7yd7Z4lSNg https://mises.org/wire/despite-their-hubris-monetary-authorities-do-not-have-total-control?fbclid=IwAR0VNuagObrOdqDE7Oz4WzxdakFhxR7guQOp2uBiMEHQ3zub1R_KfCmqzAE

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/26/how-suneera-madhani-beat-self-doubt-to-build-a-billion-dollar-start-up.html?utm_content=Tech&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1xDSknwpNx8T9gR-1-XCVpYi64f38qw6J6q5XFZLleaelVH9q6dRscxTc#Echobox=1667857978 How this 34-year-old CEO beat self-doubt to build a $1 billion start-up: ‘I was the last person to bet on me’ Published Thu, May 26 202211:33 AM EDTUpdated Thu, May 26 20225:29 PM EDT Tom Huddleston Jr. SHAREShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Suneera Madhani, 34, is the co-founder and CEO of payments start-up Stax, which attained a $1 billion valuation in March. Source: Stax When it comes to unicorns, payments start-up Stax may be one of the rarest of the rare. The Orlando-based payments start-up sits nearly 2,500 miles away from the tech incubators of Silicon Valley. And it’s a billion-dollar start-up run by a minority woman – 34-year-old co-founder and CEO Suneera Madhani, the daughter of two Pakistani immigrants – at a time when just a tiny fraction of venture capital funds go to women founders and people of color. Madhani and her brother, company president Sal Rehmetullah, started Stax in 2014 as a payment platform for businesses that operates through flat-rate monthly subscriptions, rather than percentages of sales. Today, the company employs 300 people and has processed more than $23 billion in transactions for thousands of businesses over the past eight years. But it almost never launched in the first place — and now, Madhani wants to encourage other women who look like her to take the leap. ″[I was] a reluctant entrepreneur,” Madhani tells CNBC Make It. “I was the last person to bet on me. And I think that’s the case for a lot of women.” ‘I just wanted ... to work for a company that believed in me’ Growing up, Madhani personally witnessed the pain points of running a company. Her parents ran multiple businesses, from convenience stores to cafes, and she’s previously discussed how those ventures mostly ended in failure. (Madhani’s father, who died in 2020, endured a years-long bankruptcy struggle that ended in 2019.) After studying finance at the University of Florida, the self-professed “data nerd” found herself working for a third-party affiliate of Atlanta-based payment processor First Data, selling payment terminals to business owners. Her parents’ business experiences gave her an idea: Some companies might prefer flat monthly rates over sales percentages. Depending on the client, her employer could potentially make more money, too. Madhani pitched the idea to her bosses, who said no. Then, she pitched around it to “probably 12 different banks and processors,” she says, all of whom also said no. Giving her idea away — to a competitor, no less — was preferable to taking the entrepreneurial leap. “I just wanted to be part of the process,” she says. “And to work for a company that believed in me.” 14:55 How a 31-year-old built a $4.2 billion aerospace start-up She soon found herself venting her frustrations at the dinner table in her parents’ house in Orlando, and recalls her father responding with some stark questions: “Why are you trying to give this away to everyone? Why do you need anyone?” ‘I’m so glad we didn’t fold’ Madhani’s parents advised her to take six months to see if she could make some progress toward launching her own business. So did her brother, a former Deloitte consultant working in Silicon Valley for a software start-up called Anaplan. So, after building a basic payments platform and registering it with Visa and MasterCard, Madhani drove around Orlando in her Volkswagen Beetle, pitching her new company to other start-ups and small businesses. Ultimately, she signed roughly 100 clients — and won multiple local start-up pitch competitions, earning prize money worth roughly $200,000 in total, she says. Over the next two years, the company raised $2.25 million from Orlando-based venture fund VenVelo. It wasn’t long before a larger rival came calling, offering $17.5 million to buy Stax, which was then known as “Fattmerchant.” Madhani’s investors were adamant that she should sell. Instead, she says, she saw the buyout offer as validation that she was on the right path. Her company only had enough money to cover four more months of payroll at the time, she says, but she and her brother turned down the deal anyway — taking out a $500,000 loan to keep the lights on, instead. Six months later, the company landed a $5.5 million investment from Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners. Today, Stax has raised more than $263 million in total funding, obtaining its billion-dollar valuation in March. (A company spokesperson says Stax “has a viable path to profitability,” but is currently focused on growing toward a future IPO.) “I’m so glad we didn’t fold,” Madhani says of the 2017 buyout offer. “I look back at my 26-year-old self and I’m like, ‘Why didn’t I think that I could do it?’ I want to tell her, ‘You’re going to do amazing things. Just go for it.’” ‘Representation matters’ Madhani can’t speak with her former self, of course. But she can advise other young women — which, she says, is why she launched a podcast and mentorship course for female entrepreneurs called CEO School in 2020. Her lessons range from pitching start-up ideas and figuring out pricing models to maximizing profit and learning to be an effective leader. Her top takeaway, she says: Stop trying to be someone you’re not. “I’m not your traditional CEO, and I was tired of trying to fit into this box that everybody wanted me to fit into,” she says. “There was a time that I was trying to fit into this world of fintechs, trying to fit into the boys’ club, until I realized I’m just not a man in a skirt. I had to authentically be who I was as CEO.” In her early 20s, Madhani says, she rarely saw other women working in fintech — let alone as CEOs or start-up founders. She notes that it can be “lonely as a woman” in the tech industry, where less than a third of workers are women, and female leaders are few and far between. That lack of representation can make you doubt yourself. “That’s why I believe representation matters so much,” Madhani says. “Because, as cliche as it is, seeing is believing.”

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/transportation/sites/transportation/files/assets/documents/pdf/transportation projects, studies and plans/huntington/final_huntington metro ats_with appendix.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0VjsqP_XVzakVTJnaah2yZTfKlOj5wQLSqTRmP-Xdfmm8X3P2Tzz25l7Y https://www.ffxnow.com/2022/09/13/study-recommends-more-crosswalks-wider-sidewalks-in-huntington-metro-corridor/ Study recommends more crosswalks, wider sidewalks in Huntington Metro corridor Matt BlitzSeptember 13, 2022 at 2:15pm Huntington Metrorail Active Transportation Study recommending where to implement “Safe Streets” (image via Fairfax County) Previous Image1/4Next Image A new county-supported study is recommending pedestrian and bike-friendly improvements in the Huntington Metro corridor, including more crosswalks, wider sidewalks, additional lighting, and increasing shared-use paths. At a virtual meeting tomorrow (Sept. 14) night, a Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) study – “Huntington Metrorail Active Transportation Study” – will be presented to the public that looked into the pedestrian and biking conditions within the Huntington Transit Station Area (TSA). The Huntington TSA covers an area bordered by North Kings Highway to the south, Huntington Avenue to the north, Telegraph Road and Jefferson Manor Park to the west, and Richmond Highway to the east. As the study points out, the area is continuing to grow in density. “The Huntington TSA has been transitioning from low density to mid density for decades and will continue to become denser,” it reads while providing a list of new developments and projects that will contribute to the growing population in the years to come. Along with that, the Richmond Highway Bus Rapid Transit is expected to create a “greater need” for pedestrian access and safety in the corridor when the system opens within the next decade. While considering all future conditions and projects up to 2045, the study concluded generally that the corridor is “uncomfortable” for pedestrians and bicyclists. That’s due to a prevalence of narrow sidewalks, lack of bike lanes, high speed of traffic, and the far distance pedestrians have to go to cross major roads. “Almost all of the analyzed roads were deemed highly uncomfortable for pedestrians… due to narrow sidewalks, large crossing distances, and high speeds,” reads the study. “It is also worth noting that areas around community resources such as Mt. Eagle Elementary School and the Huntington Community Center are also highly uncomfortable due to sidewalk quality and a lack of pedestrian scaled lighting.” Three intersections are particularly worrisome due to the crossing length exceeding 400 feet. These include Huntington Avenue between Biscayne Drive and Foley Street, North Kings Highway between Telegraph Road and Jefferson Drive, and North Kings Highway between Fort Drive and Fairhaven Avenue. There are also no official bike lanes in the Huntington TSA. To rectify these issues, the study recommends a number of fixes and solutions. At the intersections with long crossing lengths, it’s suggested that “high visibility” crosswalks be added with crossing warning signs and pedestrian refuge islands. Where pedestrian crossings currently exist in the Huntington Transit Station Area (image via Fairfax County) There are also suggestions for implementing for a number of roads the concept of “Slow Streets,” where traffic speeds are lowered and entry points are closed to traffic to create a safer space for pedestrians. In terms of costs, the study notes that “improving sidewalk quality” is a lower-cost option than adding new or widening sidewalks. The highest cost options are changing road diets, adding new bike and pedestrian facilities, like shared use paths, or subtracting traffic lanes. Overall, the study recommends potential options for individual streets with a focus on lower and medium-cost options. For example, on Monticello Road in the Jefferson Manor neighborhood, the recommendation is to fix the “cracked and failing” sidewalk and widen it to 8 feet in some places plus adding more lighting. On North Kings Highway, the recommendations include new traffic signs telling traffic to stop for pedestrians, restricting truck traffic with signs, a new crossing location at Fairhaven Avenue, and a high-cost option of removing traffic lanes on Jefferson Drive. Besides this study, a number of other planned infrastructure improvements are found in other county-supported plans, including a 10-foot wide path along N. Kings Highway and Huntington Avenue, narrowing travel lanes on N. Kings Highway to allow for wider sidewalks, installing more barriers, lights, and crosswalks, and installing a beacon crossing signal in front of Mount Eagle Elementry School. Throughout the county – and region – car crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists have continued to be a major and tragic problem. In July, a woman was killed by the driver of a car who hit her while she was crossing an eight-lane section of Richmond Highway included in this study. There have been 10 fatal crashes involving pedestrians on Richmond Highway since 2017.