Tupperware Brands agreed to sell its business to a group of lenders for $23.5 million in cash and over $63 million in debt relief, avoiding an open-market auction. The sale comes after Tupperware filed for bankruptcy with $818 million in debt and faced opposition from some lenders regarding its proposed auction.

Tupperware Brands has been granted approval to sell its assets to its lenders, enabling the company to exit bankruptcy. Unable to find a buyer to pay off its $818 million debt, Tupperware will transfer its brand name and key assets to investment firms Stonehill Capital Management Partners and Alden Global Capital. The company plans a digital-first, asset-light business model post-bankruptcy.

The Temasek and SoftBank-backed company’s operating margins also grew significantly, with Lenskart clocking an Ebitda of Rs 856 crore in FY24, against Rs 403 crore in the previous fiscal. In an interview with ET in October, Lenskart’s founder and chief executive officer Peyush Bansal had said the company is making a $200-million investment in its new manufacturing facility in southern India.

Millennium Babycares Ltd announced the closure of a Rs 122 crore private placement round with Bharat Value Fund (BVF), which acquired a significant minority stake. BVF is managed by Pantomath Capital and targets a corpus of Rs 2,000 crores. The funds will be used for market expansion in India and internationally.

On Tuesday, November 12, streaming industry consultant Nadine Krefetz will moderate the panel "Cloudsplitting: Tackling Common Cloud Live Broadcast Workflow Challenges." Some elements of streaming workflows and architecture may always stay on-prem. However, the cloud affords streaming pros opportunities for scaling and cost-cutting that make the lure of cloud workflows too powerful to resist for most live streamers intent on managing large and unpredictable audiences, improving QoE, increasing ROI, and satisfying brands. The panel of experts from AWS, TV 2 Danmark, Alibaba Cloud, and Console Connect will discuss actionable insights on refining and streamlining your scalable cloud live-streaming workflows and jump and dodge the hurdles that threaten to break your stride.

Were you really that frozen with fear? Doubtful

There's nothing I can say to this dismissive nonsense that won't get me thrown off Metafilter.

White people are very invested in treating racism as extreme and exceptional when it is in fact commonplace and pervasive. White people are not credible judges of what non-white people describe as experiences of racism. Racism is the Occam's Razor explanation. These so-called academic framings describe patterns that white people would prefer remain undescribed.

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police reform is the issue that made a lawyer named Lori Lightfoot a political presence in Chicago when she was head of the Chicago Police Board. Of course, she is now Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago and said this week that police misconduct and brutality, quote, "tarnish the badge." Mayor Lightfoot joins us now. Mayor Lightfoot, thanks for being with us. LORI LIGHTFOOT: It's my pleasure, Scott. SIMON: You've led investigations into brutality cases when you were head of the police board and the CPD's Office of Professional Standards. Must also be said that as an attorney in private practice, you represented some police officers. How difficult is police reform? LIGHTFOOT: Well, having seen this issue from a lot of different angles - I also prosecuted corrupt police officers when I was a federal prosecutor. So I've been around this issue for a long time, and really, it comes down to this. You can have all the policies that you want,

Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Presidential inaugurations are supposed to be about unity. That may be more inspirational than aspirational, rather, than anything else this year. Donald Trump will be sworn in later this morning in the wake of a divisive and ugly campaign that perhaps describes the deeply partisan era we're living in. We're hearing different perspectives on Trump's Inaugural Day this morning and one of them is that of the novelist Attica Locke. She is also a writer on the TV program "Empire," and she spoke to our own Steve Inskeep. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We called you up on the morning after the election. That sounded like an excruciating morning for you. ATTICA LOCKE: It was, and I can't say that things have gotten necessarily better for me. INSKEEP: What do you mean? LOCKE: I wake up every day and think, this is how much this country can't stand black people that this has happened. Or I think, this is how much this country did not want a

In our triumphant return to posting podcasts at the turn of the month, Jess and I talk about time management and reminders, complicated conversational dynamics, the assassination of JFK (but only very briefly), and a bunch of somewhat more MetaFilter-centric things. We time-managed our way up to about 93 minutes. Also I play a euphonium.

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I love podcasts, woo woo woo! I love podcasts, how 'bout you? Here's episode 181, with jessamyn and I contemplating the idea of a week and a month and talking about misc. MetaFilterian stuff. Runs about 90 minutes.

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- "It's like people who try to clone their dogs" by jessamyn
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I know a lot of us are in the path of Helene in Florida and Georgia (Alabama, Tennessee, SC, NC, too! It's a big storm!). I thought it might be nice to have a (text-based, low bandwidth) place to check in and provide information updates as it moves ashore this afternoon and across the Southeast overnight and through tomorrow.

I started a Substack to promote some liberal, progressive friendly views online.

At this time it feels like the right-wing echo chamber is growing larger and larger by the minute and progressive voices are drowned out. This obviously is a result of the devastating outcome a few days ago. My attempt is to offer some analysis and strategy. I will also try to cover the numbers in a bit more detail while also putting them in a narrative that is easily digestible (or so I hope).

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Patricia Linares habla sobre los testimonios presentados ante la JEP

Jaramillo habla sobre el papel de las redes frente al Coronavirus

Panelistas analizaron las dinámicas de violencia y presencia de actores ilegales en zonas como Arauca; Cauca y Nariño. Sostienen que hace falta acción de las FFMM.

Panelistas plantearon soluciones como la necesidad de políticas públicas de largo aliento para poner fin a la difícil situación humanitaria.

Escritores debatieron cómo es escribir en pandemia, por qué los colombianos leemos poco y qué uso le estamos dando al lenguaje.

Panelistas creen que apoyo a las manifestaciones se puede erosionar en la medida en que la violencia gana terreno; apuntan que legitimidad de las instituciones se debe recuperar.

Cuatro mamás relataron el dolor por el que han pasado; hacen un llamado a que se detenga la violencia y piden justicia para esclarecer lo ocurrido.

Panelistas consideran que no es un regreso al pasado, creen que es algo continuo bajo contextos de actores distintos y dinámicas regionales focalizadas.

Expertos analizaron los errores cometidos en El Campín; el comportamiento de los barristas, así como una mirada a las soluciones para poner fin a la violencia.

Panelistas consideran que no hay una política pública actualizada para enfrentar los problemas de la niñez; insisten que no hay interés del Estado por resolver los problemas.

Panelistas plantearon que preocupa la violencia registrada en las Circunscripciones Transitorias Especiales de Paz.

Panelistas analizaron el aumento de feminicidios en el país, las políticas fallidas y las claves para eliminar violencia.

Panelistas consideran que una tropa desmoralizada es una de las causas, otros creen que hay relación con la falta de inteligencia y refuerzo de la seguridad por parte de las Fuerzas Militares.

Panelistas consideran que las causas de la violencia están en estereotipos de género y roles impuestos en la sociedad. Creen que rutas y vías de atención no están funcionando ni están siendo implementadas.

Panelistas señalaron que el gobierno arriesga las posibilidades de diálogo al hacerlo público. Creen que extradición y narcotráfico serán claves.

Panelistas plantean que el silencio puede ser una estrategia para evitar polémicas. También hicieron referencia al acogimiento del Clan del Golfo del que habla el Canciller.

Panelistas creen que debe haber claridad sobre la ley de sometimiento y la diferenciación entre organizaciones. Les preocupa violencia entre bandas en ciudades como Barranquilla y Bogotá.

Panelistas creen que decisiones como excarcelación de manifestantes van en dirección de atender la paz total; para resolver el conflicto creen necesario detener violencia entre organizaciones armadas.

Panelistas consideran que las emociones exacerbadas, las redes sociales y la polarización son elementos que nos mueven hacia la violencia, así no sea una constante en la sociedad.

Dos gobernadores, la alcaldesa de Bogotá, un analista y un negociador de paz analizan los hechos con los que el país inicia la semana.

Panelistas consideran que la primera fase del cese será compleja y que no deberían sorprender las acciones violentas de la guerrilla.

Panelistas consideran que hay poca novedad en la estrategia del gobierno para enfrentar la violencia en la ciudad; consideran que lo ocurrido con bandas criminales era predecible.

Panelistas analizaron las altas temperaturas que se han registrado en el planeta los últimos días y debatieron sobre las acciones necesarias. También un balance sobre el primer año del gobierno Petro en materia ambiental.

Panelistas consideran que no es una buena idea aplazar elecciones y que es necesario tener mayor coordinación entre las dinámicas locales y las políticas nacionales.

El Defensor del Pueblo hizo referencia al panorama de violencia en elecciones y aseguró que están a la espera de planes de acción.

Panelistas consideran que las negociaciones se deben mantener, pero que se deben afinar estrategias de seguridad y mecanismos de vigilancia a los ceses.

Panelistas analizaron qué rumbo toma la paz total ante la declaración de la Corte Constitucional del estado de cosas inconstitucional por el asesinato de líderes sociales.

El ministro Andrés Camacho aseguró que se envía un mensaje en el que la institucionalidad actúa de acuerdo con la situación.

Panelistas creen que crisis en seguridad se ha profundizado, que el diálogo con Iván Márquez será difícil ante las barreras constitucionales y creen que la movilización busca ejercer presión por vías no institucionales.

Panelistas debatieron sobre el camino recorrido, los logros alcanzados y los desafíos que tienen las mujeres a la hora de participar en política.

Updated at 5:45 p.m. ET President Trump dismissed outrage over police killings, saying Tuesday that "more white people" are killed by police than Black people. "So are white people!" Trump said when asked in an interview with CBS News about why so many African Americans have been killed at the hands of police. "So are white people! What a terrible question to ask." Trump added that "more white people, by the way" are killed by police than Black people. More white people may be killed by police annually, but Black Americans are killed at a far higher rate. According to a database of police shootings since 2015 compiled by the Washington Post , 1,301 Black people have been killed by the police in the past five and a half years; 2,495 white people were killed. But, importantly, African Americans, who make up a far smaller portion of the total population than whites, are killed at a rate more than twice that of whites. In another comment also sure to inflame racial tension, Trump said that

Air Force combat veteran MJ Hegar will face Republican incumbent Sen. John Cornyn after winning her Democratic primary in Texas, while Maine's Democratic Speaker of the House Sara Gideon has secured the right to challenge her state's vulnerable Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November. Meanwhile, Ronny Jackson, President Trump's former physician, will be the Republican nominee to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry in northern Texas. It was a primary night that also resulted in a humiliating defeat for Jeff Sessions, the former attorney general who was forced out by the president in 2018. He lost to former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, a political neophyte who nonetheless enjoyed Trump's backing (see story here ). In Texas, Hegar got the nod over Black state senator Royce West in a close race for the Democratic nomination in a state that has long been red, but that analysts say is in a state of political flux due to changing demographics. Even so,

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about last week’s “Spring Loaded” product announcements from Apple: subscription podcasts, AirTags, Apple TV, colorful Apple Silicon iMacs, and the M1 iPad Pros.

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about Elon Musk’s impending acquisition of Twitter, Apple’s credibility problem when arguing against being required to allow sideloading on iOS, and Glenn’s new (and much-needed) book, “Take Control of Untangling Connections”.

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.

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