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• Origami Risk, the industry-leading risk, safety and insurance Software as a Service (SaaS) technology firm today announced Pie Insurance (“Pie”), an insurtech specializing in commercial insurance for small businesses, has helped bring the company’s workers’ comp insurance claims function in-house through the implementation of Origami’s multi-tenant core solution.
• In the past year, Pie has heavily invested in claims including expanding the team to more than 50 claims professionals.
• Through the company’s focus on claims and strategic implementation with Origami, Pie is making the claims experience simple and streamlined for both small business customers and the partner agents who serve them.
• “Our implementation of Origami for claims administration is another milestone in Pie’s overall investment and commitment to building a world-class claims organization from the ground up,” said Carla Woodard, vice president of claims at Pie.

• BT Brands, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTBD and BTBDW), today reported its financial results for the thirteen weeks ending October 1, 2023, and for the 39-week period then ended.
• The results for 2023 include a full quarter for the three 2022 restaurant acquisitions, and our 41.2% share of Bagger Dave’s Burger Tavern results with its six locations.
• Our two Florida locations continued to perform below our expectations during the third quarter of 2023.
• Conference Call: Management will host a conference call to discuss the second quarter financial results today, November 15, 2023, at 4:30 p.m.

• Between Nov. 8 and Dec. 31, 2023, all existing Pie Life Rewards Members, and any new Pie Life Rewards members, receive our exclusive Pies and Perks status!
• Simply put, Pie Life members who purchase a Craft Your Own pizza by December 31, 2023, unlock Perks with every Craft Your Own pizza purchase until December 31, 2024!
• "I am proud to announce 'Pies and Perks'—the latest addition to our innovative 'Pie Life Rewards' loyalty program," said Shawn Thompson, CEO of Pieology.
• To be eligible for the Pies and Perks status, guests must be a Pie Life Rewards Member.

• Hopefully, unlike last year’s final, it will be a gripping match.
• Perhaps most importantly, after lean years during COVID, there has also been bountiful spectator interest this season.
• All this follows a bumper season for the AFL, with 36,110 attendees per game, the league’s highest average since 2010.

Rivals with September history

• No other two clubs have faced each other more in an AFL grand final.
• The Magpies lost to the Lions in 2002 and 2003, so they will be especially keen to soar against their Queensland rivals.
• As with last week’s preliminary final, Collingwood will have the advantage of playing in Melbourne against an interstate rival.

The Lions are reborn

• In 1996, the Brisbane Bears were reinvented as the Brisbane Lions following an AFL-managed merger with the financially distraught Fitzroy Lions.
• A move from the Gold Coast’s Carrara Stadium to Brisbane’s Gabba embedded the newly branded Lions in Queensland’s capital.
• That said, after the heady three-peat of 2000-3, the Lions endured some very lean years, making the finals only once between 2005 and 2018.
• That year, the Lions were eliminated in the preliminary final, so it was a metaphorical opportunity lost.

Collingwood’s transformation

• But sport is not simply about winning or losing; it’s also about how you play the game – both on and off the field.
• In that respect, Collingwood is undergoing a renaissance that could not have been imagined just two years ago.
• This led to the 2021 release of the “Do Better” report, which found evidence of systemic racism at the club.
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  As the 2022 AFLM season comes to a close, the game must ask itself some difficult questions – especially on racism