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Associated Press
08-07-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Authorium Appoints Alexis Bonnell to Board of Directors
Bonnell Leverages Experience With OpenAI and Air Force Research Lab SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / July 8, 2025 / Authorium, the cloud-based technology platform that automates and improves complex government processes, announces that Alexis Bonnell has been appointed to Authorium's Board of Logo Alexis Bonnell served as the Emerging Technology Evangelist at Google, the Chief Information Officer and Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and in April 2025, Bonnell joined OpenAI - best known for developing ChatGPT - where she currently serves as the company's Partnership Manager for the U.S. Labs in Washington, D.C. She held prior leadership roles with USAID, the United Nations, and was one of the first staff of the original Internet Trade Association. 'I'm thrilled to join Authorium's Board of Directors and look forward to leveraging my public sector experience and work in AI to support this public benefit corporation,' said Alexis Bonnell. 'I believe AI is making a true difference in supporting public servants and their incredible missions.' Authorium's platform is GenAI-enabled for government teams looking to expand their impact and efficiency. In early 2025, Authorium launched AuthorAI, the first-of-its kind AI-powered solution trained on a proprietary database of 15+ million government procurement documents to generate high-quality statements of work in minutes. At the federal level, in 2024, Authorium was awarded a SBIR Phase II Contract focused on AI-enhanced procurement for rapid deployment of defense technologies and compliance to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of Defense. 'We welcome Alexis' experience in government and her active work in using artificial intelligence to solve global challenges - many of which our government partners tackle in their own organizations,' said Kamran Saddique, co-CEO of Authorium. 'Now more than ever, departments and agencies are looking for ways to leverage GenAI to deliver better service, drive economic prosperity, and serve their missions, often with fewer resources; today's announcement demonstrates our commitment to the ever-evolving AI landscape for the public sector,' said Jay Nath, co-CEO of Authorium. About Authorium Authorium is a no-code, cloud-based platform exclusively for government administrative operations. Government teams rely on us to support budget and grant administration, contract lifecycle management, HR processes, procurement, and legislative analysis. As a public benefit corporation, we serve the government workers that serve their communities, including the California Department of Finance, Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs, and Florida Department of Children and Families. Learn more at Contact InformationAuthorium Press Marketing 877-757-4982 SOURCE: Authorium press release
USA Today
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Salma Hayek, Linda Evangelista and how to successfully co-parent in blended families
Salma Hayek, Linda Evangelista and how to successfully co-parent in blended families Show Caption Hide Caption Relationship expert has tips to start dating again after a divorce Moving on after a divorce can be challenging, but relationship expert Dr. Ramani has tips to help you dip your toes back into the dating pool. Co-parenting can be hard. But celebrities are showing how it's done. Linda Evangelista, Salma Hayek and French billionaire François-Henri Pinault were all smiles as they huddled together in Instagram photos celebrating their son Augustin Evangelista's high school graduation. Antonio Banderas recently commented on a photo featuring his daughter Stella Banderas and ex-partner Melanie Griffith: 'Happy to see you all happy!!' Jennifer Garner also took to Instagram stories to wish her ex-husband Ben Affleck a happy Father's Day, according to a screenshot taken by E! News and Page Six. They share three kids. What's the secret to a successful co-parenting relationship? Emotional maturity, healthy boundaries, skillful communication and child-focused parenting, said Karen Bonnell, psychotherapist and author of the 'The Co-Parenting Handbook' and 'The Stepfamily Handbook.' It's 'no small task,' she said. But children ultimately benefit when parents do the work. 'Whether graduations, weddings, moving into a dorm room in the fall – parents who are able to share space responsibly honor their children's special events,' Bonnell said. What is co-parenting? In 2023, more than 2.3 million children under 18 lived in stepfamilies, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Co-parenting exists on a continuum and occurs when two people share a child, Bonnell said. Parallel co-parenting exists at one end of the spectrum, while cooperative co-parenting exists at the other. Ex-couples practicing parallel co-parenting maintain a formal, rule-driven, low-engagement and 'business-like' relationship as they raise their children, she said. The only things required for it are basic civility, skillful problem-solving and responsible communication. Cooperative co-parenting describes a more 'collaborative' relationship. Parents may share holidays, transition from one home to the other and maintain a good relationship with stepparents. 'Parents have grieved the end of their intimate partnership freeing them both to devote their co-parenting relationship to working well enough together across both homes on behalf of the children,' Bonnell said. Co-parenting dynamics typically exist somewhere on the spectrum and may change over time, she said. Children can 'emerge into adulthood whole and healthy' regardless of where parents find themselves on the continuum. Interesting: Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are embracing free-range parenting. What is that? How to successfully co-parent The first step in developing the foundation for a good co-parenting relationship is a thoughtful parenting plan, Bonnell said. It also takes emotional maturity – 'the capacity to grieve the loss of the intimate partnership, relinquishing dreams that surround being part of an original family and allow the future to be whole and healthy,' she said. This emotional maturity should include letting go of any resentment, anger and contempt toward a former partner so it doesn't indirectly affect the children. Responsible communication – regarding sports, academics, healthcare and the future – is also key to a successful co-parenting relationship. Parents should avoid telling children 'adult explanations' of their separation or divorce that can impact how they view their parents, Bonnell said. Children also suffer if they lose their relationship with one parent or if they feel "caught in the middle" of their parents' conflict. 'Divorce is a shift in family structure that involves important change and loss – that said, divorce is not a trauma,' she said. 'What makes divorce a trauma for children is when they are put in impossible situations between their parents, when they are used as pawns or living in ongoing, toxic conflict between their parents.' Living room or bedroom kid? What it says about your family dynamic You don't need two to tango The bulk of parents want what's best for their children and simply need information, support and skills to help coparenting, Bonnell said. But some exes are toxic and prolong conflict that affects children. Unfortunately, there's not much a parent can do to change their ex-partner's behavior unless it crosses the line to violence or other misconduct that can be addressed in the legal system. But the good thing about co-parenting is that you don't always need a cooperative ex-partner for it to be successful, Bonnell said. 'Skillful co-parenting doesn't actually need both parents to work together,' she said. 'One parent can commit to healthy, skillful co-parenting regardless of their child's other parent's interest or willingness to participate.' As long as the parent cares for their children and listens to them, while providing warmth, structure and healthy boundaries, they're able to successfully co-parent regardless of how the other parent responds. 'It's not a question of whether you'll co-parent,' she said. 'The question is how skillfully you will co-parent.' Adrianna Rodriguez at adrodriguez@
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Salma Hayek, Linda Evangelista and how to successfully co-parent in blended families
Co-parenting can be hard. But celebrities are showing how it's done. Linda Evangelista, Salma Hayek and French billionaire François-Henri Pinault were all smiles as they huddled together in Instagram photos celebrating their son Augustin Evangelista's high school graduation. Antonio Banderas recently commented on a photo featuring his daughter Stella Banderas and ex-partner Melanie Griffith: 'Happy to see you all happy!!' Jennifer Garner also took to Instagram stories to wish her ex-husband Ben Affleck a happy Father's Day, according to a screenshot taken by E! News and Page Six. They share three kids. What's the secret to a successful co-parenting relationship? Emotional maturity, healthy boundaries, skillful communication and child-focused parenting, said Karen Bonnell, psychotherapist and author of the 'The Co-Parenting Handbook' and 'The Stepfamily Handbook.' It's 'no small task,' she said. But children ultimately benefit when parents do the work. 'Whether graduations, weddings, moving into a dorm room in the fall – parents who are able to share space responsibly honor their children's special events,' Bonnell said. In 2023, more than 2.3 million children under 18 lived in stepfamilies, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Co-parenting exists on a continuum and occurs when two people share a child, Bonnell said. Parallel co-parenting exists at one end of the spectrum, while cooperative co-parenting exists at the other. Ex-couples practicing parallel co-parenting maintain a formal, rule-driven, low-engagement and 'business-like' relationship as they raise their children, she said. The only things required for it are basic civility, skillful problem-solving and responsible communication. Cooperative co-parenting describes a more 'collaborative' relationship. Parents may share holidays, transition from one home to the other and maintain a good relationship with stepparents. 'Parents have grieved the end of their intimate partnership freeing them both to devote their co-parenting relationship to working well enough together across both homes on behalf of the children,' Bonnell said. Co-parenting dynamics typically exist somewhere on the spectrum and may change over time, she said. Children can 'emerge into adulthood whole and healthy' regardless of where parents find themselves on the continuum. Interesting: Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are embracing free-range parenting. What is that? The first step in developing the foundation for a good co-parenting relationship is a thoughtful parenting plan, Bonnell said. It also takes emotional maturity – 'the capacity to grieve the loss of the intimate partnership, relinquishing dreams that surround being part of an original family and allow the future to be whole and healthy,' she said. This emotional maturity should include letting go of any resentment, anger and contempt toward a former partner so it doesn't indirectly affect the children. Responsible communication – regarding sports, academics, healthcare and the future – is also key to a successful co-parenting relationship. Parents should avoid telling children 'adult explanations' of their separation or divorce that can impact how they view their parents, Bonnell said. Children also suffer if they lose their relationship with one parent or if they feel "caught in the middle" of their parents' conflict. 'Divorce is a shift in family structure that involves important change and loss – that said, divorce is not a trauma,' she said. 'What makes divorce a trauma for children is when they are put in impossible situations between their parents, when they are used as pawns or living in ongoing, toxic conflict between their parents.' Living room or bedroom kid? What it says about your family dynamic The bulk of parents want what's best for their children and simply need information, support and skills to help coparenting, Bonnell said. But some exes are toxic and prolong conflict that affects children. Unfortunately, there's not much a parent can do to change their ex-partner's behavior unless it crosses the line to violence or other misconduct that can be addressed in the legal system. But the good thing about co-parenting is that you don't always need a cooperative ex-partner for it to be successful, Bonnell said. 'Skillful co-parenting doesn't actually need both parents to work together,' she said. 'One parent can commit to healthy, skillful co-parenting regardless of their child's other parent's interest or willingness to participate.' As long as the parent cares for their children and listens to them, while providing warmth, structure and healthy boundaries, they're able to successfully co-parent regardless of how the other parent responds. 'It's not a question of whether you'll co-parent,' she said. 'The question is how skillfully you will co-parent.' Adrianna Rodriguez at adrodriguez@ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Salma Hayek, Linda Evangelista and how to successfully coparent
Hamilton Spectator
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Theatre CBS takes three awards
Theatre CBS's first appearance at the province's Annual Provincial Drama Festival last month was an impressive one, as the troupe racked up nominations for eight awards and received three. Their play, Duckish, won awards for Best Production, Best Lighting, and Best Set. Not surprisingly, the people behind the troupe are pretty pleased with the fast progress they've made in such a short time. One of them is Susan Bonnell, vice president of Theatre CBS' board of directors. Bonnell has been involved with theatre most of her life, but drifted away a bit once she got married and started a family. She returned to theatre in 2015. 'My husband actually said to me, 'You know, Susan, I don't think you're as happy as you could be, and you should try and get back into theatre,'' Bonnell recalled. She did just that, first auditioning for a role in a production by Shakespeare by the Sea. 'It's been nonstop ever since,' she said. In 2021, Bonnell received a call from Vicki Greenslade, who wanted to form a community theatre group in Conception Bay South. Bonnell met with Greenslade, Gord Billard, and Jacqueline Cook at Greenslade's home that summer, and Theatre CBS was born. The troupe put on a show that Christmas and have done a couple of shows a year since then. It should be noted that Theatre CBS is not limited to CBS residents. The group has members from Holyrood, St. John's, Mount Pearl, and Paradise. A couple of years ago, Theatre CBS decided to apply for inclusion in the Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Society. They were accepted. Last year, they attended the provincial drama festival in an observer's role. 'The drama society wants you to observe for a year before you compete,' said Bonnell. So, this year, when the provincial drama festival was held at the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre, Theatre CBS got to compete and perform Duckish. The play is Bonnell's adaption of the fairy and ghost stories of Tom Dawe, an internationally recognized poet and author from CBS. 'One of our mandates for Theatre CBS is to celebrate the shore and all things Conception Bay South, so we knew we wanted to do something to honour Mr. Dawe, and this is what emerged,' said Bonnell. Theatre CBS first performed Duckish at the Manuels River Centre in March 2024. The play was presented in the round, meaning the actors were in a circle in the middle of the audience. 'We were trying to create that sort of campfire vibe of telling ghost stories sitting around a campfire, or in a kitchen party, that kind of an experience for the audience,' said Bonnell. They reached out to Veronica Nugent who at the time was a teacher at Queen Elizabeth Regional High. She got the school's art club to help create a set. 'The audience walked into a forest and they were on the inside of the set,' said Bonnell. At the drama festival, the group had to perform on the Arts and Culture Centre's main stage. 'So, the first thing that I had to do was rewrite the show,' said Bonnell. 'We had to adapt it for the stage because performing in the round and performing on a proscenium arch stage is a really different experience.' The group also had to thin out the cast. In the March 2024 performance, the Duckish cast consisted of over 20 people, including children. The theatre group could not afford to bring so many people to Corner Brook and so narrowed down the cast to nine. They also used puppets to represent the fairies and tell some of the ghost stories. For the March 2024 performance, they worked with professional puppeteer Baptiste Neis, who did a workshop with the cast and created a couple of puppets for the show. 'So we used that experience of working with her and we created a bunch more puppets,' said Bonnell. 'We had shadow puppets, and we had some creepy doll puppets that the audience loved in Corner Brook.' Susan's husband, John Bonnell, created a new lighting plot for the show's Corner Brook performance, which won the festival's Best Lighting Award. The music also went through changes. Maureen Chafe was the play's music director in March 2024. 'We used her soundscape and then augmented it, enhanced it with some other original pieces,' said Bonnell. Bonnell's niece, who is studying music in Michigan, wrote a piece for the play that was nominated for a sound award. Duckish was also nominated for Best Costumes, and Brad Jones, who played the character Tom, was nominated for Best Actor. Bonnell said directing is different from acting. 'I've mostly been an actress over my life, and certainly in the last 10 years since coming back into theatre,' she said. 'But, as an actor, you certainly understand and know, appreciate, what it is that you like in a good director. So, I tried to embody all the things that I always look for in a good director.' Bonnell said she enjoys bringing texts to life, taking something from an idea all the way to a finished project. 'I was certainly very, very proud of what we brought to Corner Brook,' she said. 'So being novices at the drama festival, it was a very rewarding experience for everybody involved.'
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Yahoo
Ex-Green Beret's wife accused of killing and dismembering him after he revealed divorce plans
The wife of a recently retired Green Beret who disappeared in late January is accused of killing and dismembering him after he told her he wanted a divorce, authorities in North Carolina said. Shana Cloud, 50, was denied bond Monday after she was charged with first-degree murder and concealment of death in the killing of Clinton Bonnell, 50, court records show. Bonnell's remains were discovered in a body of water in a rural area southeast of Fayetteville in February, the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. DNA testing confirmed the remains were those of Bonnell last week, according to the statement. Citing Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West, NBC affiliate WRAL of Raleigh reported that the remains were a dismembered human torso. West said authorities gathered digital and video evidence alleged to link Cloud to the area where the torso was found, the station reported. Cloud's attorney, James McRae Jr., told reporters that she is innocent and looks forward to her day in court. Bonnell retired from the military in December after more than two decades. He was attending a physician assistant program at a local university when an official with the school reported him missing shortly before 3 p.m. Jan. 28, according to an affidavit in support of a search warrant. When deputies spoke with Cloud, she said she'd last seen him the day before at a gym in Fayetteville, according to the affidavit. She said that they'd left in separate vehicles, the affidavit says, and that he'd planned to go to the university campus to study for a test the following day. When Cloud awoke the next morning, she told deputies, Bonnell's vehicle was at their home, but she was unable to find him, according to the affidavit. The affidavit notes that she declined to file a missing persons report. Bonnell's girlfriend — who filed a missing persons report hours after the school official — told deputies that Bonnell talked to a lawyer about divorcing Cloud on Jan. 27, the day before he disappeared, according to the warrant. She last heard from him that night, when he sent a text telling her that he was home and that he'd told his wife he wanted a divorce, the affidavit says. This article was originally published on
