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LEGAL PERSPECTIVE BY MARIO VASTA
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Protecting your business website from fraudsters looking to hijack your clients
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oday it’s relatively easy to have a professional-looking website that inspires confidence and drives customers to your company. If a particular domain name is available, you need only use an internet domain registrar to make it your own. Unfortunately, the ease of registering a domain name comes with a price: it can allow fraud to proliferate. For example, imagine you run a home security company. You have a website: TheBestSecurityCompany.com. By virtue of owning this domain name, your employees can use email addresses with “@TheBestSecurityCompany.com” as the suffix to communicate with customers regarding many subjects, including billing. One day you realize that one of your oldest customers failed to pay an invoice, and you reach out to the customer and find out that she believes she already paid the invoice. The customer tells you three weeks ago she received an email from Jane, your company’s billing clerk, providing new account information for payment of the invoice. As a result, the customer sent Jane electronic payment to that new account. You are stunned. Your company has not sent out new billing information. You discover that the customer had not been contacted by your billing clerk, but rather the customer had received an email from “jane@TheB3stSecurityCompany.com,” where a “3” had been substi-
grants broader rights. Most businesses use their trademark (e.g., their name) as part of their domain name. Accordingly, a company can use trademark rights to protect its domain name. Even without knowing the identity of the “real” party that owns the offending domain name, the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is likely available to bring some resolution to your situation in a short time frame and at a relatively low cost. UDRP proceedings are likely the fastest way to address domain name confusion issues. The UDRP provides a straightforward procedure for transferring an offending domain name into your ownership and control—or to cancel a domain altogether. The policy is implemented through arbitration and is handled online. A trademark holder can file a complaint to show Traditional remedies may that the offending domain not work name is confusingly similar to What options do you have Efficient and practical ways the holder’s trademark, that the domain name registrant to stop these bad actors? to fight back has no legitimate rights to use Although fraud is a crime and complaints can be filed with Fortunately, there are other the domain name, and that it has been registered and used the authorities, it is rare that a routes to stop users of misvictim would receive satisfac- leading domain names by us- in bad faith. The UDRP process tory or timely resolution. Even ing your company’s trademark sometimes produces results normal civil litigation may not rights. Nearly all companies be a good option unless you will be able to claim trademark with lightning speed—getknow the identity of the per- rights so long as they are using ting a website removed in petrator and how to find that a name, mark or logo in com- as little as five days from the person. Even then, you may merce to identify the company date of filing. Even when it takes longer, final results face significant legal fees. as the source of goods or Unfortunately, it has services. The trademark need are usually obtained in six to eight weeks. Such swift action become increasingly diffinot be formally registered, cult to identify the person or although a formal registration is normally unheard of in a tuted for an “e” in the domain name. Your customer was scammed. But you don’t want to make this loyal customer pay twice, so your company eats the bill. You realize several of your customers are also late on payments this month, so you make more calls. There are countless similar scams where typo-squatters can take advantage of you and your customers by registering confusingly similar domain names. Nefarious actors may create websites that look nearly identical to your own and purport to sell your products or services, perhaps at a steep discount. When a would-be customer attempts to order from the fake website thinking it’s genuine, and no goods are sent in return for the payment, your reputation is sullied, potentially leading to bad reviews of your genuine business.
company that owns a particular domain name. As a result of the evolution of privacy laws, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), tools like the Whois search site now provide very little help. The websites that register the domains, known as registrars, will usually not provide any information due to the privacy rights of their customers. It is difficult to file a lawsuit when you do not know whom to sue. Although obtaining the identity of the registrant by issuing an early subpoena to the registrar may be worth doing in certain circumstances, a response from the registrar might reveal only that the domain was registered with a fake identity or by an overseas actor. All the while, your customers continue to fall victim to the fraudulent website, you continue to lose business, and your goodwill suffers as defrauded customers associate you with a scam.
litigation context. If the fraud on the website is particularly obvious, or if there has been a history with similar typo-squatters in the past, the registrar tends to remove the website more quickly. In all cases, when the appointed arbitrator, or panel of arbitrators, makes a decision, it is published and the registrar behind the domain administers the decision. In addition, you may be able to obtain identifying information for the registrant at the beginning of the process. In some cases, such information may lead to the ability to pursue further relief from the perpetrator after the domain has been removed. The UDRP process itself is not a way to recover monetary damages. In this age of internet anonymity, attempting to use standard methods when you fall victim to a typo-squatting fraudster may ultimately increase the costs to resolve the issue and waste valuable time. Contact a trademark attorney to discuss what options are appropriate for your specific circumstances, and always stay vigilant when conducting online commerce. Mario Vasta is an attorney at Fennemore focusing his practice on civil litigation where he represents clients in domestic and international intellectual property matters. These include trademark cancellation and opposition actions, counterfeiting issues and litigation relating to trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Reach him at mvasta@fennemorelaw.com.
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The University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management has selected Karthik Kannan, PhD, as the college’s new dean. Kannan, who joins UA from Purdue University, is set to take the lead role at the business school on August 1. “I would like to thank everyone for their patience and perseverance as we navigated this search,” said Jeff Schatzberg, who has been serving as interim dean. “It has been my sincere privilege to serve as the Eller College dean for an interim period and I look forward to making the transition process for Dr. Kannan as smooth as possible.” Kannan is currently an associate dean for research and partnerships at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue, as well as director of the Krenicki Center for Business Analytics & Machine Learning. Kannan earned his PhD in information systems from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. He also holds master’s degrees in electrical and computer engineering and public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon. The Eller College of Management is home to 5,800 undergraduate and 750 graduate students who work at a crossroads of entrepreneurship and research.
The Drawing Studio founder receives Buddy Amos Award Lucila Herrera
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Tucson Values Teachers gave their Teacher Excellence Award for April to Lucila Herrera, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Prince Head Start school. She has worked at Prince Head Start for nearly two decades. Tamara Paganini, the Site Supervisor at Prince Head Start, nominated Herrera because of her work to individualize and support the students’ developmental and emotional needs. “Lucy believes that every parent holds the key to a child’s growth, development and overall academic success,” Paganini said. “She involves parents in setting individual and family goals. In addition to all of the above, she does all of this with laughter and joy.”
The City of Tucson’s Economic Initiatives Director has been named one of North America’s Top 50 Economic Developers by Consultant Connect. Barbra Coffee is responsible for the city’s economic development strategy, annexations, and workforce grants program. Under her leadership in Tucson, she has grown the Office of Economic Initiatives team from three to eight people. “Economic development is really a team sport,” Coffee said. “And recognition like this is a great reminder that it takes a community of partners to develop and implement an economic development strategy that has a positive impact on our communities.”
Southwest Super Lawyers has included Tucson Snell & Wilmer attorney Jeff Willis in their 2022 rankings. Super Lawyers is a listing of lawyers who have attained “a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.” Willis was ranked in the Business Litigation practice area. He has a regional commercial litigation practice and regularly appears in Federal and State Courts in Arizona, Nevada and California. He has tried many cases to verdict before juries and judges for more than 40 years. He has also handled a wide variety of other disputes and arbitrations.
The Arizona Land & Water Trust has promoted Cameron Becker to the position of Land Program Director. Cameron joined the Trust in 2015 and works on critical conservation issues based in Tucson. He earned his degree in Natural Resources from the University of Arizona in 2012. Cameron is a fourth-generation Tucsonan who grew up exploring and enjoying the outdoors from the evergreen Madrean Sky Islands down to the coastal deserts on the Sea of Cortez. Arizona Land & Water Trust is a nonprofit committed to the protection of Southern Arizona’s landscapes, farms, wildlife habitat and the water that sustains them.
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The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona has awarded Andrew Rush with the 2022 Buddy Amos Founders Award. The award, established in 2015, is named after CFSA founder George “Buddy” Amos. The award recognizes nonprofit founders who have demonstrated “inspirational leadership in the areas of community service, philanthropy, mentoring” and more. In 1992, Rush founded The Drawing Studio, which offers classes, workshops, and fosters community for the Tucson arts. “At The Drawing Studio, I take great pleasure in working with people from all walks of life who bring incredible life experience and richness to the study of art, a richness that informs their visual expression once they have the tools and practices to inform their work,” Rush said. Rush is a former professor of art at the University of Arizona, as well as a printmaker, sculptor and drawer. According to CFSA, he has been active as an American artist since 1959. His art has been included in many national exhibitions, especially of prints and drawings, and he has been a book illustrator and public artist.
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he Rio Nuevo downtown development district unanimously approved multiple projects at their most recent meeting. Among these projects is a multiphase hotel and residential complex on Sixth Avenue just north of the Union Pacific train tracks. The project will take up the entire block, located two blocks west of Fourth Avenue. The plans were presented by Scott Stiteler, the developer behind multiple downtown projects, including the AC Marriott hotel at Broadway, the One North Fifth apartment building, and the canceled $88M Rialto Theatre Hotel project. The project is planned in three phases. Phase one will be an $8M renovation on the Corbett Building, which will include a burger restaurant, a beer garden, five pickleball courts, and 188 parking spots. The second and third phases contemplate a new 10-story hotel and 15-story apartment complex with an investment from Stiteler of over $180M. “There isn’t anyone with that kind of scale contributing to downtown right now,” said Rio Nuevo
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chairman Fletcher McCusker. Rio Nuevo agreed to a GPLET lease, tax rebate of approximately $5M and a $500K cash contribution to launch the first phase. Rio Nuevo’s other approved projects include a $125K allocation to activate “pop-up” retail in the vacant Rialto Block properties at Congress and Fifth Avenue; an investment of up to $500K to activate the public spaces improvement plan for the El Presidio District downtown; and a $125K investment to be the title sponsor for the 2022 Dusk music festival.
multi-tenant industrial property located on 1.74 SALES acres at the northwest corner of Runway Drive and Weymouth Street in northwest Rhino Realty of Nevada, Tucson, just off the Prince LLC purchased 99,858 square Road/Interstate-10 Interfeet of industrial space at change. The 25,360-squareEastside Research Commerce foot industrial complex was Center, 1800 S. Research purchased for $1,850,000 Loop in Tucson, from Java from the Howard S. Feldman Property Investments, LLC Testamentary Trust, Harriet for $9,357,692. Ron ZimS. Feldman Revocable Living merman, Principal, Industrial Trust, “Trust A” under the Specialist with Cushman & Forrester Family Trust. Paul Wakefield | PICOR, repHooker, SIOR, Principal, resented the seller in this and Industrial Specialist transaction. Grant Traub with with Cushman & Wakefield Colliers International AZ, | PICOR, represented the represented the buyer in this buyer in this transaction. transaction. John G. Yarborough and David Carroll, with Romano BLW Holdings, LLC, Real Estate Corporation, purchased a two-building, represented the seller.
225 W Flores, LLC, and Colonia Properties TIC I, LLC, purchased Flores Apartments, a 20-unit, 9,255-square-foot multifamily investment property located at 225-255 W. Flores St. in Tucson. In an associated transaction, Colonia Investments, LLC, purchased Ventura Apartments, a 3-unit, 2,532-square-foot multifamily property located at 244 W. Ventura St. Both transactions, consisting of 23 units and 11,787 square feet of multifamily space in Tucson, were purchased from QOF, LLC for $1,491,000. Allan Mendelsberg, Principal, and Conrad Joey Martinez, Multifamily Specialists with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented both parties in these transactions. SBA Management, LLC purchased Units 4, 5, and 6 of Building 4 at Eastside Industrial Center, 1828 S. Research Loop in Tucson. The 48,853 square feet of industrial space was purchased from Tucson Industrial Real Estate Company, LLC for $1,150,000. SBA also owns two other buildings adjacent to the development, operating as Airtronics, Inc., a precision manufacturing, machining, and engineering shop. Stephen D. Cohen, Principal, and Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented both parties in this transaction. Torch Properties, LLC purchased 1,320 square feet of office space at 6783 E.
Camino Principal, in Tucson, from MJN Enterprises Inc for $200,000. Molly Mary Gilbert, and Thomas J. Nieman, Principal, Office Specialists with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the seller in this transaction. RSK 5140, LLC purchased an 8,492-square-foot medical office located at 5140 E. Glenn St., in Glenn Medical Village, Tucson, from DBS Property Holdings, LLC, BS & AD Investments, LLC, and Constantin C. Boiangiu for $4,028,000. Richard M. Kleiner, MBA, Principal, and Office Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented both parties in this transaction. Tucson Cathodes & Tankhouse Services LLC, a corporation formed to serve the copper mining/metallurgical industry in Arizona, all the United States and Mexico, purchased Alvernon Rail Center Lot 14, at 4050 E. Columbia St. in Tucson. The 8,603-square-foot industrial building was purchased from Dick Cole Properties, LLC for $1,635,000. Industrial Specialists with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR handled this transaction. Robert C. Glaser, SIOR, CCIM, Principal, and Paul Hooker, SIOR, Principal, represented the seller. Stephen D. Cohen, Principal, and Andrew Keim, represented the buyer. 331 S Railroad Holdings LLC purchased a
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6,552-square-foot multifamily complex located at 331-337 S. Railroad Ave. and 322-328 S. 3rd Ave. in Tucson. Railroad & 3rd Four-Plexes, an 8-unit property, was purchased from 324 3rd Ave LLC for $1,620,000. Allan Mendelsberg, Principal, and Conrad Joey Martinez, Multifamily Specialists with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented both parties in this transaction. Mortazavi Properties, LLC purchased a 6,615-squarefoot professional office located at 1640 E. River Rd., Suite 215, in Mesquite Corporate Centre, Tucson, from K O P E Real Estate, LLC for $1,356,075. Richard M. Kleiner, MBA, Principal, and Office Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the buyer; and John G. Yarborough, with Romano Real Estate Corporation, represented the seller in this transaction. TMZ Dunkin’ Properties LLC, dba Dunkin Donuts, purchased Block D of South Gate Business Park, 1991 E. Ajo Way, in Tucson, AZ. The 22,395-square-foot pad was purchased from South Gate Partners II, LLC for $375,000. Rob Tomlinson, Principal, Retail Specialist, and Ron Zimmerman, Principal, Industrial Specialist, with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the seller in this transaction. Kevin Volk with Volk Company, represented the buyer. 1991 E Ajo Way LLC, dba Eegee’s, purchased Block C of South Gate Business Park, 1991 E. Ajo Way, in Tucson. The 32,696-square-foot pad was purchased from South Gate Partners II, LLC for $375,000. Rob Tomlinson,
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Principal, Retail Specialist, and Ron Zimmerman, Principal, Industrial Specialist, with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the seller in this transaction. Terry Dahlstrom with Volk Company, represented the buyer. TMC Holdings, Inc. purchased 5265 E. Knight Dr., a 4,140-square-foot medical office building located in Tucson Medical Park, from Johnson-Corcoran Office Building Partnership, LLP for $372,600. Richard M. Kleiner, MBA, Principal, and Office Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the buyer in this transaction. Automotive Payment Solutions, LLC purchased a 2,175-square-foot industrial building located at 3137 E. 47th St. in Tucson. The single-tenant property with yard, was purchased from Willie L. Hardin, Sr., and Jane Henderson-Hardin for $275,000. Ron Zimmerman, Principal, and Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the seller in this transaction. LEASES Pima Vox LLC leased a 1.84-acre industrial yard from DVLP LLP, located at 4261 N. Sullinger Ave. in northwest Tucson. Ron Zimmerman, Principal, and Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the landlord in this transaction. Freig Carrillo Forwarding, Inc. leased 26,000 square feet of industrial space from Nogales Warehouse, LLC, located in Border Warehouse, 772 W. Frontage Rd., Suite 1 in Nogales, AZ. Jose Dab-
doub, Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the landlord in this transaction. Lucette Mimiaga, with Agave Premier Properties, represented the tenant. Nexus Arizona LLC leased 18,813 square feet of office space at Butterfield Technology Center, 4775 S. Butterfield Dr., Suite 149 C and D in Tucson, from Butterfield Technology Center, LLC and Foodtown Development Company, L.L.C. Robert C. Glaser, SIOR, CCIM, Principal, Industrial Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, and Isaac Figueroa with Larsen Baker, LLC represented the landlord in this transaction. John Barnes and Matt Fitz-Gerald with Colliers International AZ, represented the tenant. Diego Dominguez and Gerardo Dominguez leased 15,355 square feet of retail space from CRE Strategic Investments, LLC, located in Santa Cruz Plaza, 3662 S. 16th Ave., Suites 100, 102, 104, in Tucson. Ron Zimmerman, Principal, Industrial Specialist, and Andy Seleznov, CCIM, Retail Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the landlord in this transaction. Bowman Consulting Group, Ltd. leased 10,148 square feet of office space from CALDOR Investments of Arizona, LLC, located in Ina Corporate Center, 3275 W. Ina Rd., Suite 220 in Tucson. Thomas J. Nieman, Principal, and Office Specialist with Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, represented the landlord in this transaction. Keith Lammersen, with Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc., represented the tenant.
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Creative Carbon Capture and Missile Money in hopes of slowing or even reversing global warming. The startup, Atmospherica, is a collaboration from reith a major searchers in planetary sciencresearch univeres, biosystems engineering, sity right in our and ecology. Atmospherica backyard, a strong military focuses on “scalable atpresence and innovative mospheric carbon dioxide companies throughout the removal and sequestration” metro region, there’s often by creating photosynthetic a plethora of interesting micro-algae. science, medical and techEarth’s carbon cycle natunology news to be found in rally releases carbon into the Southern Arizona. Here’s a atmosphere, which is then breakdown of the most inter- re-absorbed through geologesting recent developments. ical and biological processes. However, since the IndusCreative Carbon Capture. trial Revolution, humans A new project out of the have released a significantly University of Arizona aims to additional amount of carbon use algae to capture carbon, dioxide into the atmosphere, Jeff Gardner
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causing global temperatures to rise. For the company, UA professor of astronomy and planetary sciences Daniel Apai researched single-celled marine algae called coccolithophores, which use atmospheric carbon dioxide and calcium from saltwater to create calcium carbonate shells. Apai wondered if it would be possible to grow coccolithophores on a large enough scale to extract a significant amount of carbon from Earth’s atmosphere. The company then patented an “air accordion photobioreactor.” According to UA, the air accordion consists of a rectangular
metal frame with horizontal bars, like steps on a ladder. A polyethylene bag full of nutrient-rich saltwater is woven throughout this ladder-like frame. Air is pumped in from the bottom and circulated through the saltwater mixture. The design maximizes the liquid-mixing capacity of air bubbles pumped in from the bottom and allows for even distribution of light and dissolved nutrients. This shape makes it possible to efficiently grow large amounts of algae that are protected from predators. And because of the format, it is easily scalable. However, how efficiently scalable it is remains to be seen in future tests. “Climate change is one of the great challenges we are facing as a species and civilization,” Apai said. “Our goal is to reach a gigaton-per-year level of carbon dioxide extraction capacity, while remaining affordable and with very limited environmental impact.” To ensure that their method is scalable and confirm how much net carbon dioxide it pulls from the atmosphere, members of the Atmospherica team plan to build a “demonstration facility” in a greenhouse atop UA’s Sixth Street Garage and a larger facility at the Biosphere 2 research facility north of Tucson. They also plan to “do a full accounting of its carbon footprint, from cradle to grave.” “We have completed a promising exploratory
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The “air accordion” photobioreactor to quickly produce carbon-capturing algae.
but if fully exercised over five years, can be worth as much as $1.6 billion. “This contract underMissile Money. In April, scores our role as a systems integrator, which goes the US Navy awarded beyond offering customers Tucson-based Raytheon weapons and radars,” said Missiles & Defense a contract potentially worth more Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Dethan a billion dollars. The fense. “Our team provides contract is for the “activation and fleet introduction Zumwalt destroyers extensive support, from engineering of the three Zumwalt-class destroyers, while continuing and cyber protection to software development and to develop technology and warfare capabilities.” These upgrades.” Raytheon Missiles & Dedestroyers are high-tech fense, a subset of Raytheon stealth ships with a focus on land attack, but can also Technologies, is Tucson’s second largest employer with provide anti-aircraft and naval support. The contract a staff of more than is initially for $483 million, 9,000. ITB analysis and plan to publish a paper on the subject this summer,” Apai said.
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New TMC medical rovers make old-fashioned house calls Nicole Feltman
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ext time you need to go to urgent care, you might be able to get an old-fashioned housecall instead. Tucson Medical Center officials announced last week that they have partnered with DispatchHealth to give patients comprehensive, at-home, acute care. TMC is currently the only hospital in the Tucson metro area providing this mobile urgent care model. DispatchHealth currently has four active “rovers” (cars) in action serving the larger metro from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week, including holidays. Every rover has an emergency care-trained DispatchHealth medical team and is fully equipped with necessary tools and treatments to give patients in-home care, including on-site diagnostics and a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act-certified lab. Lead Nurse Practitioner Robyn Green said the service her colleagues provide is so stellar that she would trust them enough to care for her own mother. Green has been a nurse practitioner for eight years and has been working with Dispatch Health in Tucson for the past 15 months. She has already made 2,500 visits in the few months Dispatch and TMC have been partnered.
With the rover, Green can do EKG scans, set up an IV, provide medications on scene, sew up cuts, diagnose COVID-19, flu, UTIs and STDs, do blood tests, perform ultrasounds and X-rays, and more. “I know this is the future of health care,” Green said. “People want to be at home, they don’t want to leave.” This partnership is offering an alternative to patients who do not want to visit the hospital or do not have access to a primary care doctor. It can also be a safer option for patients who don’t want to risk catching COVID or another bug at an ER or urgent care facility. TMC Director of Case Management Jeanne Rhodes said that not everyone who goes to the ER or to urgent care needs to be hospitalized. Instead, they can be very well served in the comfort of their own homes. “People for the most part, if surrounded in the right environment, get better at home in that environment, so that will allow us to make the right call at the right time for the right patient,” Rhodes said. Through Dispatch Health Bridge Care visit, any patient admitted to TMC who might be up for readmission will be visited by Dispatch and be met anywhere between 24-72 hours. They will assess their house, food insecurity and social determinants that would hold back
health care. The TMC and DispatchHealth partnership is helping not only patients of the hospital, but also relieving stress on TMC’s overwhelmed system. Over the course of the COVID outbreak, many hospitals were frequently overloaded and sometimes had to send patients to other hospitals, sometimes in other states. Dan Gibson, TMC’s director of Communications and Marketing, said the hospital wanted to lower their number of readmissions into the hospital. DispatchHealth has a history of reducing readmissions by 30 percent. “We at Tucson Medical Center wanted to do something different above and beyond what other organizations are doing primarily to continue to provide great care and access to our patients in the community,” Gibson said. “You look to find partners that do something exceptionally well and when we could bring that into this market and work together to take care of people in a better way, it is a simple decision for us.” Many people do not have access to technology, healthcare or transportation, so this collaboration is offering an accessible alternative for all those in the Tucson Metro area. Dispatch health will be accepting most insurance companies. ITB For more information, visit dispatchhealth.com.
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Tucson researchers help image black hole at center of our galaxy hole: the Messier 87* black hole some 50 million lightyears away. Now, they’ve revealed the second black hole ever directly imaged, n Thursday, May Sagittarius A* at the center 12, people across of our galaxy, which is the world set their eyes on the first ever image 26,000 light-years away. Multiple Tucson-based of the black hole at the astronomers and scientists center of the Milky Way galaxy. This image was the work on the Event Horizon Telescope team through result of an international the University of Arizona. scientific collaboration In total, the collaboration called the Event Horizon involves more than 300 Telescope, and marks the most significant finding in scientists and 80 institutions around the world. all of astronomy — at least “Until now, we didn’t since the last time the Event have the direct picture conHorizon Telescope team firming that Sag. A star was imaged a black hole. indeed a black hole,” said In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope gained Event Horizon Telescope worldwide fame by unveil- science council member ing the first image of a black Feryal Özel, a UA professor Jeff Gardner
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of astronomy and physics. “This image shows a bright ring surrounding the darkness: the telltale sign of the shadow of the black hole. Light escaping from the hot gas swirling around the black hole appears to us as the bright ring. Light that is too close to the black hole, close enough to be swallowed by it, eventually crosses its horizon, leaving behind just the dark void in the center.” This second black hole image looks very similar to the original black hole image: a blurry orange ring within the blackness of space. Özel says they look similar because they are the outcome of the same fundamental rules of physics. Courtesy photo
By their very nature, black holes do not emit light. So the image is not of the black hole itself, but of its absence as it distorts the light around it. The Sagittarius A* black hole is estimated to be 4 million times the mass of our sun. “The fact that the light appears like a ring, with the black shadow inside, tells you it’s purely gravity,” said astronomy and physics professor Dimitrios Psaltis in a UA release. “It’s all predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, the only theory in the cosmos that does not care about scale... Wherever we look, we should see donuts, and they all should look more or less the same.” The Event Horizon Telescope is not a single
telescope, but a network of telescopes across the world that combine their information to produce these images. Current locations include observatories in Arizona, Spain and Mexico. The Messier 87* black hole and the Sagittarius A* black hole appear roughly the same size. However, this is only because Messier 87* is 1,500 times more massive but 2,000 times farther away. “Now we can study the differences between these two supermassive black holes to gain valuable new clues about how this important process works,” said Event Horizon Telescope scientist Keiichi Asada. “We have images for two black holes — one at the large end
and one at the small end of supermassive black holes in the Universe — so we can go a lot further in testing how gravity behaves in these extreme environments than ever before.” Looking forward, Özel says the Event Horizon Telescope team is also interested in how black holes change over time. “If you looked at the source one day versus the next, or one year versus the following year, how would that change, and how much light would it emit in different wavelengths?” Özel said in a UA release. “What could we predict about that? And how could we use our observations to understand that black hole’s environment?” ITB
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TCC Music Hall renamed in honor of Linda Ronstadt Jeff Gardner
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he Tucson Convention Center Music Hall is now officially named the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, in honor of one of Tucson’s most famous singer/songwriters. Tucson mayor Regina Romero announced the declaration at the Music Hall during the 40th annual International Mariachi Conference on May 7. “Linda Ronstadt is the daughter of Tucson. She has inspired and entertained generations of young women and Mariachi performers through her interpretations of the music of the Sonoran Desert,”
Romero said. “This renaming is another step at reclaiming our public spaces to recognize the significance of Tucson’s Mexican American history and the role of women.” Romero was joined on stage by Ronstadt herself, Rio Nuevo Board President Fletcher McCusker, and Visit Tucson President & CEO Felipe Garcia. The declaration came after the Mayor and City Council voted on May 3 to officially commemorate the space. With a career spanning five decades, Ronstadt earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Academy of Country Music awards. She worked in the styles of country, rock, pop
and folk, which resulted in her being one of the best selling music artists of all time. She is perhaps best known for her covers of the songs “You’re No Good” and “Blue Bayou.” At the ceremony, young mariachi women serenaded Ronstadt with a reimaging of “Blue Bayou,” signifying not only her enduring legacy in Tucson, but also her continued impact on female singers. With more than 2,000 seats, the Music Hall hosts a variety of opera, theater and touring performers. It also serves as a venue for multiple Tucson festivals and events, including the aforementioned Mariachi Conference, and Gem Show events. ITB
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Thanks to his astounding Barrio Bread, Don Guerra is up for a James Beard Award next month Nicole Feltman
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on Guerra, who has earned a reputation as one of the most celebrated bakers in the nation, is up for a James Beard Award next month. Guerra, founder and owner of Barrio Grains and Barrio Bread, has come a long way since baking bread out of his garage in 2009. Besides a planned expansion of his midtown bakery, Guerra has launched two projects with the celebrated team behind El Charro. This is the third time
Guerra has been nominated for a James Beard Award, the “Oscars of food.” “There is something to this three, three is my lucky number,” said Guerra who was previously nominated for a Beard Award in 2019 and 2020. Guerra is up against four other contenders in the outstanding baker category. The winner will be announced on June 13 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. “I am super pumped for this,” said Guerra. “It’s exciting. I love this thing because I love to see energy in our community.”
Guerra is up for the award based on his Natural Love and Bread, which uses local grains and an ancient French sourdough technique without sugars or oils. The result is deliciously fluffy and hearty loaves that sell out at his shop in Broadway Village at the corner of Country Club Road and Broadway Blvd. Guerra and his bread have been celebrated in national publications, with The New York Times calling him “a leader of the local-grain movement in Tucson” who “challenges others to reimagine craft baking with an eye towards
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Latino and Indiginous roots.” As he wants to find his ingredients within 100 miles of Tucson, Guerra’s need for local grains has helped Southern Arizona growers develop a market for locally grown grain. He recruits farmers to plant grain through a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant under the Sustainable Agricultural Research Education (SARE) program. By seeking local ingredients, Guerra says he’s proud to support a local and greener economy. “I am most passionate about the work I do, connecting people and being a part of a community,” Guerra said. “My genetic
makeup is this bread.”
bread professionally when he was just 20 years old, landing a job at Boulders uerra, 51, has been Resort in Scottsdale in the making this style of early ’90s. Guerra got an bread for roughly itch to learn about making three decades. European-style bread. He After graduating high spent hours in the library school in Phoenix, he searching for books on got an academic scholarbread and baking. ship for the University of Guerra eventually found Arizona. He was the first in Arizona Bread in Scottsdale his family to go to college and helped build a bakery and described himself as a for a family that wanted to kinesthetic visual learner, incorporate European style so attending traditionbread. While assisting with al university courses was this project, he enrolled challenging at times and he in Paradise Valley’s Comended up dropping out, munity College’s one-year although he says that his intensive business program. self-development at the Guerra would wake early university was helpful for in the morning to attend his future. his classes, then would bake Guerra started baking bread all throughout the
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night on four hours of sleep. After he graduated from the business program, he moved to Flagstaff to start a bakery with a business plan that he wrote when he was 23 years old. By the time he was 27, Guerra was the owner of two bakeries with 40 employees in two states, Arizona and Oregon. He ended up selling both bakeries because he was overwhelmed running two businesses at such a young age. Guerra moved back to Tucson in 2001. He missed the sunsets, sunny weather, and, most importantly, the people. He had a vision for a new bakery in Tucson. But when Guerra moved back here, he took a detour from baking. He went back to the UA to study teaching. His wife was a teacher, so he thought he would give it a try. He went to work for the Tucson Unified School District in 2002. It was one of the best things he could have done, he says. Working as a teacher made him realize that he really wanted to be a baker.
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n 2009, Guerra left his teaching job and founded Barrio Bread in his garage. He was making about 900 loaves of bread a week using an Italian deck oven. “Everyone thought it was this crazy idea, but I am a dreamer,” Guerra says. “What you can think of and dream up, I want to live as a reality.” The business took off. Soon he had his Broadway Village storefront (which he’s looking to expand
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in the near future.) The bread on the bakery’s shelves sold out regularly and before long, he was supplying it to local restaurants. He recently joined forces with the Flores family that runs Tucson’s El Charro restaurants for two projects: Barrio Charro, which features “tortamano” sandwiches, as well as The Monica, a new downtown venture. Carlotta Flores, the owner and executive chef at El Charro Café, had a simple answer when asked when she wanted to go into business with Guerra: “Why not Don?” Carlotta Flores says Guerra shares her love of giving back to the community. “He is not only a master at what he does, but a gentleman.” Guerra anticipates more side projects and is increasingly eager to work with other people. “I’m usually one step ahead,” he says. “I get on that wave just right and I ride it.”
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hile many restaurateurs struggled during the pandemic, Guerra says it actually helped his business. Nine months before COVID hit, Guerra had video modules up and running on his website for people to learn about how to make Natural Love and Bread. With a shortage of bread on store shelves at the beginning of pandemic, those lessons were embraced by Tucsonans who were mostly stuck at home, so they had time to experiment with baking. He had
hundreds of thousands of pounds of flour to share with the community. Guerra is a big supporter of hyper-localism and simply prepared foods with fewer ingredients. The pandemic and, more recently, problems with supply chains have put a focus on locally prepared alternatives. Guerra has also found time to spread the gospel of his bread-making techniques. He’s given talks around the world in Mexico, Taiwan, Poland and elsewhere on his baking process and lessons he’s learned about cultivating local grains. Guerra says that his biggest goal is to leave a legacy of grain growing and food production with local grains in Tucson with the hope that people embrace those techniques long into the future. “It’s important to be a knowledge keeper, but also give other people knowledge and share it forward,” he says. Guerra says hard work and passion started his journey, but it’s the support of the Tucson community that has brought him success. “I was the creator of it,” he says, “but it has to live on its own.” While the last five years has been a whirlwind, Guerra expects the next five will be even bigger. “I have this beautiful career,” he says. “I had no idea what happened. It was all bread.” ITB Follow Don Guerra on Instagram @barriobaker. Visit Barrio Bread’s website at barriobread.com to get more information on Guerra’s bread and grain.
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BUSINESS CALENDAR Tuesday, May 24 • It’s the Marana Chamber of Commerce’s recurring Fourth Tuesday Mixer, where you can engage with a wide range of local businesses and professionals. The Marana Chamber reminds you to always bring plenty of business cards to these events! At the Members Grill at the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, 6501 W. Boulder Bridge Pass. 5 to 7 p.m. info@MaranaChamber. com or call the office (520) 682- 4314
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• The Arizona Sands Club is hosting a “Multi-Chamber Membership Blitz.” Here, you can mingle with other business professionals and learn more about membership with the Arizona Sands Club, as well as earning a “preferred joining offer.” • It’s a collaboration There will also be a bar and between local chambers and appetizer station. Other towns. At the Tucson Metro organizations like the Oro Chamber’s Interface event, Valley Chamber of ComOro Valley Town Manager merce and Marana Chamber Mary Jacobs will be speakof Commerce will also be ing about her career, being a • The Tucson LGBT present. 5 to 7 p.m. 565 N. member of the International Chamber is hosting a Cherry Ave, Floor 5. Free. City/County Management one-on-one business and Please RSVP. clubcorp.com/ nonprofit mentoring session Association, and community clubs/arizona-sands-club and economic developat the e Joel D. Valdez ment. The Metro Chamber’s Main Library. These are by appointment only, and help Interface series provides an you start, sustain, and grow opportunity for business • The Tucson LGBT your business. 9:30 to 11:30 owners and executives to Chamber is hosting a speak directly with public a.m. At the Joel D. Valdez one-on-one business and officials from throughout Main Library, 101 N. Stone nonprofit mentoring sesAve. Free. Schedule at (520) Southern Arizona. 10:30 to sion at the Joel D. Valdez 505-3636. Tucsonlgbtcham- 11:30 a.m. At the Tucson Main Library. These are by Metro Chamber, 212 E. ber.org appointment only, and help Broadway Blvd. Virtual and • The Desert Stars Toastyou start, sustain, and grow master Club is meeting with in-person. Free for Tucson your business. 9:30 to 11:30 Metro Chamber Investors. the University of Arizona a.m. At the Joel D. Valdez Tech Park, where employees tucsonchamber.org Main Library, 101 N. Stone across campus are invited Ave. Free. Schedule at (520) to participate as visitors or 505-3636. tucsonlgbtchammembers. Toastmasters is an ber.org international organization
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Guest Commentary: Strategies to Help Strengthen Your CORE While Working Remotely Dr. Russell Amundson
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ven as we learn to live with the persistent spread of COVID-19 in Arizona and nationwide, the pandemic’s repercussions will likely be evident for years to come. One such outcome is the wider adoption of remote work, with approximately 45% of Americans now telecommuting either all or part of the time. This means that for some people office furniture may have been replaced by makeshift desks and household chairs, or even a spot working from a sofa or bed. Such setups typically lack the same ergonomic design as a traditional office, and over time can contribute to an array of health issues, including back pain or other orthopedic problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome or tendinitis. In fact, an estimated 50% of U.S. adults are affected by so-called musculoskeletal conditions, with associated treatments for these issues accounting for 10% of annual medical expenses, according to a 2020 Healthcare Economics analysis of UnitedHealthcare claims. When it comes to back issues, about 80% of people experience this condition at least once during their lifetime. While sometimes back
pain and other orthopedic problems can’t be avoided due to previous injuries or other factors, it’s important for people to focus on their CORE, which stands for correct posture, overweight (avoid it), relax and exercise. To build on that concept, here are five strategies and evidence-based care methods to consider to help prevent or treat this common issue. Focus on Posture. Whether you are now working at the kitchen table or on the couch, focusing on proper posture may help. Make sure you are sitting up straight with your knees at a 90-degree angle, with your shoulders in a straight line over your hips and your ears directly over your shoulders. If you’re working at a computer, adjust the screen height to eye level and consider elevating the keyboard to help keep your hands, wrists and forearms in line and parallel to the floor. Also, note how often you are on the phone, which may contribute to poor neck posture. Instead of tilting your chin down, raise the device to eye level and avoid tucking it between your ear and shoulder, or opt for a speakerphone or headset. Take Breaks. You may notice you feel sore even if you maintain good posture throughout your workday. If you stay in one spot for too long, your muscles and
joints may get stiff. Consider taking quick breaks every 30 minutes to get up and stretch or walk around. This may promote better blood flow for your muscles and joints, and it may also give your eyes and mind a break. Stay Active. While some people with back pain or other muscular issues may be tempted to consider rest, staying active in many cases may be the best option. Low impact activities to consider include walking and swimming, while research indicates that strengthening leg muscles may also prove helpful. You might also try yoga and tai chi, as they’ve been shown to ease moderate to severe back pain. If time is a factor, a brief walk at lunch or going up and down the stairs a few times can help you stay active. Eat a Healthier Diet. The bones, muscles, discs and other structures in your back need proper nutrition to help support your body. Eating a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, lean protein and healthy fats may help reduce inflammation, often a contributing factor to chronic back pain. Eating a healthier diet may also help you maintain a healthy weight, which may also reduce your risk for back pain. Examine Your Options. The American College of Physicians recommends
exercise-based therapies first, including nonsurgical options such as physical therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture and over-thecounter anti-inflammatory drugs. To make access even more convenient, new virtual physical therapy options have emerged, including some that provide users with on-demand, 24/7 exercise feedback powered by artificial intelligence. These noninvasive options, which in some cases may be included as part of your health benefit plan, may help 95% of
people with low back pain recover after 12 weeks. Muscle relaxants should be a secondary option, and imaging (such as an MRI) and surgery should be a last resort. However, certain “red-flag” symptoms, such as fever or loss of bladder and bowel control, may require immediate testing and intervention. While surgeries can be beneficial to treat back pain or other orthopedic issues, a recent study found that some treatments are no more effective than noninvasive options such as
exercise and physical therapy. Even for people with chronic back pain, only a small percentage may need imaging or surgery. Taking these preventive steps—and selecting evidence-based care approaches when issues arise—may help reduce the risks and complications associated with back pain and other orthopedic issues. ITB Dr. Russell Amundson is national medical director for United Healthcare.
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UA’s rainforest in the desert is a testing ground for understanding methane Hope O’Brien Cronkite News
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t the foot of Mount Lemmon, down a short, winding road off State Route 77, a tropical rainforest stands inside Biosphere 2, the University of Arizona’s 3-acre environmental laboratory in the Sonoran Desert. Research in the rainforest
better grasp the seasonal dynamics and other factors that Joost van Haren gets excited affect emissions in areas that when talking about methane are both terrestrial and aquatemissions and how they feed ic. For the project, van Haren climate change. An assistant and his team have designed professor at UArizona, he’s specialized equipment, which the co-principal investigator they’re testing in Arizona. for a project in the Biosphere Van Haren said the collected 2 rainforest designed to data will be a starting point to determine how much methunderstand these mismatches ane is emitted by seasonally and poorly understood pieces flooded areas of the Amazon. of methane emissions across Researchers hope to better the globe. explain what’s known as the “There’s that mismatch be“methane flux,” the difference tween the measurements,” van between emissions from all Haren said. “But there is also sources and how much of the still in the global budget an gas is absorbed by oceans, the issue: that we don’t understand soil and the atmosphere. what causes the annual varia“People have pointed to the bility in the methane flux.” flooded forests of the Amazon Two devices are set to be Basin as being the (methane) tested in Biosphere 2’s consource you can’t see,” van trolled environment before Haren said. “But we do not they’re sent to Brazil to take know that for certain, and so measurements, van Haren this project sets out to figure said. that out.” Methane is the secThe project, according to its ond-most-common greenproposal, aims to establish the house gas, according to the first-ever “whole-ecosystem European Environment measurements of methane Agency, and is “more than emissions” in a seasonal flood- 25 times as potent as carbon plain forest of the Amazon dioxide at trapping heat in the to understand the mismatch atmosphere,” according to the between bottom-up and top- U.S. Environmental Protecdown methane estimates and tion Agency.
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The EPA says methane is emitted through natural sources and through human activities. Trees growing in the floodplains of the Amazon emitted more methane than all of the Earth’s oceans combined, a 2017 study published in the journal Nature showed. Going beyond the norm Designing the system required innovation, van Haren said, because the automated system needs to be able to take continuous measurements in an area of the forest that can experience up to 5 feet of flooding every wet season, which runs roughly January through June. The devices have to adjust to changing water levels, as even a small amount could destroy them. Biosphere 2 is unique in that it offers a controlled environment where the new equipment can be tested before it is shipped to Brazil. “We don’t want to test things out in Brazil because fixing it is a much more difficult problem,” van Haren said. Once the systems are deemed fit, they’ll be installed at selected sites in Brazil. ITB
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Art Galleries Rank Business 2022 Address 2021
Phone Company Email Website
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DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Museum 6300 N. Swan Rd. Tucson, AZ 85718
(520) 299-9191 cs@degrazia.org degrazia.org
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Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery 6872 E. Sunrise Dr., Ste. 130 Tucson, AZ 85750
(520) 722-7798 office@medmanart.com www.medicinemangallery.com
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Tucson Jewish Community Center 3800 E. River Rd. Tucson, AZ 85718
4
It's A Blast! Glass Gallery 927 North Swan Road Tucson, AZ 85711
Gallery Notable Artists Square Footage
Specialties
Art Formats
Top Local Executives
Year Establ. Locally
N/A
Southwestern Art and Architecture
N/A
Lance Laber
1965
7,000
Ed Mell, Howard Post, Glenn Dean, Fred & Deborah Fellows, John and Terri Moyers
Maynard Dixon Museum, Early western artists, Taos Founders, Native American Antiques, Contemporary Southwestern Paintings Sculpture
Paintings, Sculpture, Textiles, Pottery, Jewelry
Dr. Mark Sublette Megan Laughlin
1992
(520) 299-3000 info@tucsonjcc.org tucsonjcc.org
2,100
N/A
20,000 sq. ft. outdoor sculpture garden, two indoor fine art galleries
N/A
Todd Rockoff
1955
(520) 327-7879 gallery@its-a-blast-glass.com www.its-a-blast-glass.com
1,400
Phil Kindler, Tom Philabaum
Sandblasted Glass Drinkware, Home Decor, Custom Gifts & Awards
Glass, pottery, ceramics, photography, wood
Marsha A Jacquay
1992
15,800
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Phone Company Email Website
Number of Seats Adult Admission Specialties Available Fee
Top Local Executives
Year Establ. Locally
1
The Gaslight Music Hall 13005 N. Oracle Rd. Oro Valley, AZ 85739
(520) 529-1000 heather.gaslight@gmail.com www.gaslightmusichall.com
210
N/A
Live music, comedy, murder mystery shows, magic shows, car shows, and more!
Tony Terry
2016
1
The Gaslight Theatre 7010 E. Broadway Tucson, AZ 85710
(520) 886-9428 Tonyterry@qwestoffice.net Thegaslighttheatre.com
210
N/A
Family, Fun Live Melodrama Theatre and Live Concerts
Anthony D. Terry
1977
3
Unscrewed Theater 4500 E Speedway Blvd #39 Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 289-8076 unscrewedtheater@gmail.com http://www.unscrewedtheater.org/
120
8.00
Improv Comedy
Chris Seidman
2014
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