Less than a year after raising seed funding from Milwaukee venture capital firm Gateway Capital Partners and relocating from Madison to Milwaukee, health data technology startup Geno.Me (pronounced "genome") is ready to go to market.

Geno.Me is a data exchange platform that connects researchers with anonymized health data and pays consumers who opt to share their own medical and genomic records from sites like Ancestry.com and 23andMe. The company has raised a total of $400,000 (U.S.) in funding over 1 round. This was a Seed round raised on Nov 11, 2021.

It is a data exchange platform that links a person’s genetic report with their electronic health records.

The company’s platform connects electronic health record data with genomic information from services like 23andMe, MyChart and Ancestry.com in hopes of furthering medical research. Individuals who share their data with the platform are compensated on a monthly basis, while the business promises them total privacy and anonymity.

These linked datasets are encrypted and sold to companies conducting precision health research and developing pharmaceuticals.

Geno.Me was founded by Britt Gottschalk, a management consultant who has worked in health care, insurance and business communications.

The company was just launched and there isn't much information about it available online. You can see the limited information that has already been published at https://www.yourgeno.me/. However, I suspect we all will hear more about Geno.Me before long.

From an article by Bryan Grabauskas published in the wibw.com web site:

The legacy of a former Kansas judge is helping others leave their mark.

The Kay McFarland Japanese Garden played host to the launch of “Lasting Legacy Online.”

It is a website allowing users to log their own life stories to share with their loved ones.

Funding provided through the McFarland Living Trust will help preserve stories forever and keeps it free to use.

“You are able to upload documents, photographs, songs, recipes; anything that is of value to you and that you want to continue to pass on to your family and friends,” said Shawn Wesner, Communications Expert for Lasting Legacy Online. “This is the website where you can do it all.”

Details may be found at: https://bit.ly/3UOroBA

After finding documents revealing new family history, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer made a trip to Auschwitz on a journey of reflection and discovery. You can watch this documentary in a YouTube video at: https://cnn.it/3E80heW

A federal judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit against Ancestry.com before lawyers could get it to trial.

Chicago's Judge Virginia Kendall on Sept. 16 granted summary judgment to the company, which was accused of violating the Illinois Right of Publicity Act when it published old yearbook photos without permission to advertise its pay service.

Kendall had already thrown out claims under Illinois' Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act in late 2021.

Plaintiffs lawyers failed to work around what Kendall determined was the IRA's one-year statute of limitations by arguing each payment Ancestry made to a company that licenses yearbook names and images started the statute over.

"But Ancestry derives no financial benefit by paying another company; the licensing agreement is an expense incurred by the company, not a profit from the use of someone's image," she wrote.

"Ancestry never republished or reused (the plaintiff's) image in these transactions. These payments were simply a routine part of the company's business."

You can read more in an article by John O'Brien published in the Legal Newsline web site at: https://bit.ly/3dP9gXV.

From an article by Billy Kobin published in the Louisville Courier Journal

To ensure future generations can look back on defining moments in Louisville's history, The Courier Journal is donating its library of an estimated 3 million photographs and negatives to the University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections.

University of Louisville basketball team members and others on firetruck at airport, Louisville, Kentucky, 1956.

The Courier Journal, winner of 11 Pulitzer Prizes throughout its 154-year history, was joined by its parent company, Gannett, in donating the collection, which is being appraised and is expected to be worth tens of millions of dollars. This move will allow the public access to the collection, which chronicles history in Louisville as well as Kentucky and the nation.

The collection includes images from daily happenings and major events from approximately the mid-1930s to the early 2000s when digital photography began to replace the use of film to capture images. The collection might have dated back further, but Louisville’s Great Flood of 1937 destroyed much of The Courier Journal's photo and negative library.

If some of your ancestors emigrated from India, you may be interested in this article:

The United States Mission in India launched a website to celebrate the intangible cultural heritage of the indigenous tribes of Arunachal Pradesh as part of the celebrations of 75 years of bilateral relations between Washington and New Delhi.

The United States Mission in India joined representatives from the Ministry of Tourism’s Northeast Regional Office and UNESCO’s International Information and Network for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific (ICHCAP) at an event to celebrate the intangible cultural heritage of the indigenous tribes of Arunachal Pradesh through the launch of a new website, www.arunachallivingheritage.com.

The event also included films, performances, exhibitions, and demonstrations showcasing traditional Arunachal Pradesh culture.

In December 2021, the United States launched a program through the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation to work with tribe members from 39 villages across the state to preserve and document their heritage through a series of short documentary films. One of these films, The Living Heritage of Arunachal: Beauty in Diversity, premiered during the event.

In remarks delivered at the event, US Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Brian Heath said, “As the United States and India celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations, it’s important also to highlight the wealth of stories and experiences that come together to make our societies what they are today. The United States is proud to support Arunachal Pradesh’s culture, ensuring preservation of its intangible heritage.”

You can read more at: https://bit.ly/3Chqzdk.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the National Archives, who came under GOP scrutiny after the FBI’s search for government records at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, deadlocked in a party-line committee vote Wednesday.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee voted 7-7 on the nomination of Colleen J. Shogan to be Archivist of the United States for the National Archives and Records Administration. That means it was not able to be favorably reported. A committee aide confirmed to CNN it was a party-line vote.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will still be able to discharge the nomination from the committee, however, so Shogan should still be able to be confirmed on the Senate floor regardless of the committee vote. Committee chairman – Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan – said after the vote, “While I’m disappointed this nomination will not advance today, I’ll work with the Majority Leader to have Dr. Shogan’s nomination discharged from the committee for consideration to the full Senate.”

You can read more at: https://cnn.it/3SKMgbl.

This is a follow-up to my earlier article, "I May Be Off-line For a While" at https://eogn.com/page-18080/12933198 that I posted 3 days ago.

The hurricane has come and gone and it did not follow the track that the weather forecasters had predicted. (They included a disclaimer that hurricanes often change their tracks.)

I lost power about 10 PM last night as the wind and rain was steadily increasing. According to an online map on a local television station this morning, the eye of the hurricane passed through the town where I live around 2 AM. It is possible that the eye of the hurricane passed directly over my house but I don't know that for a fact as I was asleep at the time.

This morning, I am still in the midst of the hurricane although obviously on the backside of it. The wind is presently about 40 or 50 miles per hour and it is still raining, but lightly.

Best of all, the power came back on about 9 AM. I am back in business! (Admittedly, the power has briefly gone off and then back on a couple of times since then.)

A quick walk around the inside and outside of my home this morning shows no damage.

Think we had some wind during the night? Look what happened to the street light in front of my house:

There is a small pond across the street from my house and this is the first time I have ever seen white caps on that tiny pond! Yes, the wind is still blowing.

All in all, it's been an exciting couple of days but I don't need excitement like this.

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