30+ Canadian industry leaders sign up as mentors for Athlete Tech Group’s first-of-its-kind program empowering student BIPOC women athletes TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Athlete Tech Group announced today the launch of Athlete Women Empowered (AWE) – a new mentorship program that uses ground-breaking technology to address barriers faced by BIPOC women athletes and prepare them for life after […]

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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 12th, 2022. In today’s article, we’ve got some news …

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Krafton’s battle royale, PUBG: Battlegrounds, has finally been made available as a free-to-play game for all. The shooter was originally supposed to enter its new free state a couple of days ago. However, some technical difficulties prevented that. Classic PUBG. PUBG was one of the first shooters to get the battle royale formula working successfully. It had some golden days, even years, but has now fallen on less popular times. PUBG Corp. could have done a lot more to prevent the game’s decline. But the developer always seemed to focus on unimportant issues and made a series of bizarre decisions. Like the current name, PUBG: Battlegrounds. That stands for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds. Okay then.   Free for all In response to the large decline in player numbers, Krafton believes that making its battle royale free to play will help reinvigorate PUBG. The announcement says that the move will expand the community, reduce matchmaking queue times, and put you barrel-t...

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When we think of “Bob” and cannabis, we typically first go to Bob Marley, however Bob Saget has a strain of cannabis named after him called, “Bob Saget” or “The Bob”. This Sativa Dominant Hybrid boasts over 20% THC and is said to give you a real energized head high. Here’s one review from Leafly on the strain...

Reading Time: 2 minutes The SPROWT Foundation Leading and Growing Together hosted the very successful inaugural edition of TheGenderful Society Exhibition through its PIONEER Leadership Network for Women inpartnership with Mozambican Fashion Week (MFW): an exhibition aimed at raising awarenessabout Gender and Diversity & Inclusion through art and culture. Genderful is a concept to […]

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When I go, it’s for gold: DAMWON Gaming and Suning face off in League of Legends World Championship Final

Don’t let AR K-pop stars distract you — this Saturday at 3 a.m. PDT, all eyes will be on DAMWON Gaming and Suning, the last teams standing in the 2020 League of Legends World Championship.
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Team MAJKL wins 1st all-women Valorant Ignition Series tournament

Team MAJKL became the first all-women Valorant squad to win a Riot-sponsored championship title Sunday, taking home first place — and $25,000 — in the FTW Summer Showdown without dropping a single map.
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Looking back on the summer of 2020, it’s inspiring to see the many fundraising groups across the country who rose to the challenge of raising money during a pandemic – and succeeded!   Nonprofit orgs, community clubs, sports teams, scouts, and more found restaurant takeout fundraisers to be a creative solution to the limitations of […]

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It took me a few days to even think about a world without Mike Welch.  Mike was truly a special man.  He was special not in a flashy way but special in a very specific way; he made everyone's life a little bit better.  He was a friend to me, a business mentor to me, a supplier in some instances and he was a model of community involvement for the community my family lived in for so many years.  He made our life better.

I feel a need to tell the story of how Mike and I met and started working together.  In 2004 I was the General Manager of a the Ford Service Parts Business working for Schneider Logistics (SLI).  Ford was building out their Daily Parts Advantage service model and asked SLI to somewhat replicate what we were already doing for GMSPO.  As the GM I had to find dedicated carriers to make all the deliveries nationwide to almost 5K dealers and we were having trouble finding a carrier in Evansville, Indiana.

Luckily, I had an acquaintance who used to sell truck parts but now owned a company called Segmentz.  They were a very small LTL company and at the time Ford wanted to really look at costs and so we took a chance on this small, unknown and very inexperienced company.  Right after we contracted with them they purchased Express-1 from Mike Welch.  This acquisition is what made Express-1 a public company and it turns out the only real profitable part of the merger / acquisition was the part we contracted with for the Ford Service Parts. 

This caused Mike to become President of the combined company and they shed just about everything that was Segmentz.  This is how I met Mike.  I was living in Novi, MI and Green Bay, WI at the time.

Fast forward to 2005 and I had decided to leave SLI and went to Whirlpool in St. Joe Michigan.  One morning I went to get my haircut and who was in the barber chair but Mike Welch!  I was shocked as I really had no idea they were based in Buchanan.  We talked a lot and it turns out Mike was deeply involved in my son's school and he was a great expedite provider to Whirlpool.  This meant I was able to rekindle both our professional work and our personal relationship.   So, what did I learn from Mike:

1. He was a humble man and he taught me the art of humility.  While being wildly successful in the logistics business he never sought the spotlight.  He made his business better, he took care of his associates and he made his customer's businesses better. 
   
2. He taught me about giving back.  While he clearly made a lot of money when he sold to XPO he always took care of the community.  He always was there when we needed him for the boys and girls clubs, the Lakeshore Foundation and anything else which would make the community better.  He was always there.
   
3. He never forgot his friends.  While I considered him a friend I would not say we were super close however every time I saw him you would think we had been friends since grade school.  He always had time and he always engaged.
   
4. Finally, he was a great businessman.  He was an entrepreneur, he served his customers, he was proud of what he built and he always was innovating.  I learned a lot about just down to earth business concepts from him.