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Global Times: So-called ‘caotai banzi’ – ragtag set-up – reflects resilience to fight for dreams

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BEIJING, June 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Once having a hard time helping his child with homework yet later managing to write To Live, celebrated Chinese writer Yu Hua recently shared a short video on social media, drawing the attention of many, including Zhang Xue, a former poor repairman who is now leading his motorcycle brand onto the global stage. What resonated between these two rookies-turned big shots? The answer lies in the short video’s theme: “caotai banzi.” 

Caotai banzi originally referred to a type of itinerant amateur performing troupe, traversing from one rickety venue to another. But over time, it has evolved into a slightly sarcastic internet slang describing things or people that lack resources, experience and preparation but still show up when needed. The term can be roughly translated as “a ragtag set-up.” A caotai banzi event is one that is poorly prepared, somewhat chaotic, yet carried out against all odds. 

Meanwhile, someone with caotai banzi character can be called a “scrappy amateur” – they rush into things with no resources or plan, recklessly eager to get moving and damn the costs.

For a long time, caotai banzi was a negative term for many Chinese. But when the recent short video ended with a statement of “caotai is the best team,” viewers surprisingly did not fight back. Instead, many began to see it in a positive light. Zhang is one of them. He commented on the video: “Ragtag set-up or not – who cares? Just get the team together and turn that grassroots stage into a podium.”   

What brought this negative-to-positive change is actually the life stories of Zhang himself and the protagonists featured in the video who have freed the term from its stereotypical definition. In other words, people have discovered the admirable courage behind those scrappy amateurs who rush into things without being fully prepared.

In the video, there is a 16-year-old girl chasing her documentary dream. No experience. No knowledge of film terms. She even forgot to charge her camera before shooting. But despite being such a rookie, she still yearns to try. 

Though he doesn’t appear in the video, Zhang was a rookie too who was born in a poor, remote village. At a young age, he once rode his motorcycle over 100 kilometers to chase down a journalist just to get a few seconds on TV. That move was once his only hope to be noticed by a professional racing team. 

These stories sound absurd, but beneath them lies something truly precious – the resilience to fight for a dream. To some people, they were just “fools” wasting their time, or not qualified enough to even try. But it is this “foolish” spirit that gives them the courage to learn as they go.

In other words, if it weren’t for their various limitations or shambling beginnings, these people may not have gained a deeper faith in their dreams. To some extent, the more amateur someone is – in other words the more they belong to an underestimated ragtag set-up – the more eager they are to act in the game of success. 

Hence, instead of only seeing the awkwardness and messiness behind caotai banzi, it’s better to see that awkwardness as the very drive to strive forward. As the video puts it: “The timing will never be perfect, but you are always qualified [to try].” 

In everyday life, haven’t we, at one time or another, been inspired by clumsy beginners like that – people who just won’t let go of their dreams, no matter how awkward they seem?

So far, the online interaction between Zhang Xue and Yu Hua has become a trending topic on Sina Weibo. On the surface, it’s netizens having fun with the two figures’ public exchange. However, deep down, it is hard to ignore that the fresh interpretation of caotai banzi has already resonated with people. 

For generations, the Chinese people have felt a deep, natural resonance with the story of starting from scratch. From a grand scale, it can be seen from the transformation of the Great Northern Wilderness in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province into a granary of abundance. On a smaller scale, it can be captured in those rags-to-riches stories of countless Chinese families. The courage to face challenges head-on and the will to raise a “tower from flat ground” have always been engraved in the Chinese tradition of grit. 

Although times change, this fighting spirit has never faded. Instead, it has gradually become a cultural norm, influencing younger generations. Just as the 16-year-old girl in video put it: “I can enter the scene clumsily and learn as I go,” she said. “If I mess up, I just get up and try again.” 

The author is a reporter with the Global Times. life@globaltimes.com.cn

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Mission Critical Partners Announces Launch of its Justice Integration Hub in Support of the City of New Orleans

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The $30 million ARPA-funded initiative connects public-safety and justice agencies, accelerates case processing and improves service to the community.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Mission Critical Partners today announced the launch of its Justice Integration Hub in support of the city of New Orleans’ Justice Technology Modernization Program (JTMP). JTMP is a multiyear initiative that replaced several decades-old systems with a unified, cloud-based platform designed to improve public safety and access to justice by streamlining operations and strengthening transparency across the city and Orleans Parish criminal-justice ecosystem.

“The Justice Integration Hub is not just a technology milestone; it’s a fundamental shift in how justice is delivered,” said Darrin Reilly, president and CEO, Mission Critical Partners.

The Justice Integration Hub facilitates the seamless flow of information throughout the Parish’s complex criminal-justice ecosystem. Funded through a $30 million allocation from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), JTMP represents one of the most comprehensive justice technology overhauls in the country, modernizing and transforming more than 40 years of legacy infrastructure. The program integrates the area’s entire criminal justice ecosystem — including the New Orleans Police Department, Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office and Justice Center, District Attorney, Public Defender, Criminal District Court, and Clerk of Court — into a single, connected environment.

“The integration hub fundamentally changes how our justice agencies work together,” said Nathaniel Weaver, JTMP director. “Instead of information stopping at the boundaries between agencies, it can move securely in real time, allowing people to spend less time reentering data and more time making the decisions that move cases forward.”

From Fragmentation to Real-Time Coordination

For years, criminal-justice agencies in New Orleans and Orleans Parish operated on outdated, siloed systems that limited collaboration, slowed case processing, and created cross-department inefficiencies.

The Justice Enterprise Hub is built on Microsoft Azure and leverages a standardized enterprise data model aligned with national data-sharing models. A secure integration hub enables real-time data sharing across agencies, ensuring that critical information is accessible when and where it is needed.

Immediate Impact Across the Community

The Justice Enterprise Hub already is helping to deliver measurable improvements:

Patrol officers now have additional hours each week to spend in New Orleans communities and respond to emergencies due to more efficient digital arrest-processing workflows.Data sharing from the jail to the court facilitates automated creation of cases and scheduling of court appearances, saving approximately 6,000 hours of time clerks would spend on data entry.Faster information sharing between agencies is helping reduce hearing delays, streamline inmate transport coordination, and improve overall justice system efficiency. This significantly reduces incarceration costs and generates measurable operational savings.

A Foundation for the Future of Justice

With the core platform now fully operational, New Orleans and Orleans Parish are positioned to build on this foundation with advanced capabilities, including AI-assisted case processing, digital evidence management, and expanded state-level data integration.

“The Justice Integration Hub is not just a technology milestone; it’s a fundamental shift in how justice is delivered,” said Darrin Reilly, MCP’s president and CEO. “New Orleans and Orleans Parish now have a nation-leading, scalable, and future-ready system that enables agencies to work together more effectively and collaboratively to better serve the public. We look forward to bringing this solution to more communities across the nation.”

The system was implemented in four phases, following a competitive nationwide process that selected Mission Critical Partners and Major Services, a New Orleans-based IT consulting firm, to oversee JTMP’s development, implementation, and coordinated go-live activities across all participating agencies. Those four phases went live in succession, between November 2025 and April 2026.

About Mission Critical Partners (MCP)

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) is a leading provider of data integration, consulting, network, and cybersecurity solutions specializing in transforming mission-critical communications networks into integrated ecosystems that improve outcomes in the public-safety, justice, healthcare, transportation, and utility markets. Our comprehensive experience and vendor-agnostic approach help us develop modernized solutions that maximize value, improve efficiency, and mitigate risk. Additional information and career opportunities are available at MissionCriticalPartners.com.

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MadeAi Launches Dossier Expert, Bringing Agentic AI to Formulary and Value Dossier Development

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New AI-powered solution transforms dossier creation and maintenance with source-level traceability, cross-functional collaboration, and up to 70% faster authoring and updates

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — MadeAi™, a leader in AI-enabled evidence synthesis and life sciences solutions, today announced the launch of MadeAi Dossier Expert, a new AI-powered solution designed to transform how pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations create, review, and maintain formulary and value dossiers.

Traditionally, developing AMCP dossiers, global value dossiers, and health technology assessment (HTA) submissions requires months of coordination across HEOR, Clinical, Market Access, and Medical Writing teams. Evidence is dispersed across multiple sources, citations require extensive manual verification, and updates often trigger lengthy rounds of rewriting and review.

Dossier Expert replaces this fragmented process with a living, evidence-linked document that evolves as the underlying science changes.

Built to address one of the most time-consuming challenges facing Market Access and HEOR teams, Dossier Expert brings evidence management, AI-assisted authoring, citation verification, and cross-functional collaboration into a single, continuously updated environment.

From Static Documents to Living Evidence

Unlike traditional dossier authoring approaches that focus primarily on accelerating initial drafts, Dossier Expert is designed to streamline the entire dossier lifecycle—from first creation through ongoing evidence updates.

Key capabilities include:

AI-Powered Dossier Generation: Create structured AMCP, HTA, and value dossiers using customizable templates and AI-generated, evidence-grounded content.One-Click Citation Verification: Trace every AI-generated claim directly to its source document, with the supporting passage highlighted for immediate verification.Intelligent Evidence Updates: Automatically identify sections affected by changes in underlying evidence and selectively regenerate outdated content without overwriting human edits.Integrated Evidence Hub: Organize and connect indexed source materials directly to relevant dossier sections.Integrated MadeAi-LR: Access AI-enabled literature review directly for in-platform literature review support.Seamless Collaboration: Enable HEOR, Clinical, Market Access, and Medical Writing teams to work within one document, with built-in commenting, assignments, approvals, and version control.Flexible, Submission-Ready Outputs: Export approved dossiers to Word or PDF.

Accelerating Market Access Without Compromising Scientific Rigor

Dossier Expert is designed to deliver up to 70% faster dossier authoring and updates, while reducing the manual effort associated with evidence verification, document management, and recurring revisions.

“Creating a dossier is only part of the challenge. Keeping it scientifically current, fully traceable, and aligned across multiple stakeholders is where organizations lose enormous amounts of time,” said Gaugarin Oliver, Founder and CEO of MadeAi. “With Dossier Expert, we’re moving beyond AI-generated first drafts to a fundamentally different model: a living dossier that connects every claim to its evidence, identifies what needs updating, and enables experts to focus on scientific judgment rather than document administration.”

By combining AI-powered efficiency with human oversight and transparent source verification, Dossier Expert helps life sciences organizations accelerate evidence communication while maintaining the rigor required for payer and HTA engagement.

Learn more about Dossier Expert at www.madeai.com.

About MadeAi

MadeAi™ is an award-winning AI-native evidence synthesis and life sciences solutions platform designed to help pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device organizations accelerate evidence generation and scientific communication. Combining advanced agentic AI capabilities with human expertise, MadeAi supports workflows across HEOR, Market Access, Medical Affairs, and RWE, delivering greater efficiency, transparency, and scientific rigor.

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Meghan Oates-Zalesky, MadeAi, 1 617 435 2470, meghan.oates@madeai.com, www.madeai.com

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Peloton Launches Peloton Broker to Streamline Early-Stage Land Acquisition for Energy Projects

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New tract-based pre-leasing tool joins the
Land Data Management solution in the Peloton Platform

CALGARY, AB, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Peloton, a provider of energy data management software, today announced the launch of Peloton Broker, a tract-based pre-leasing management tool built for energy projects. Peloton Broker gives brokers, consultants, land departments, and legal teams one place to handle ownership discovery, negotiation tracking, and title curative work, so they can move from prospect to signed lease without re-entering data or juggling separate systems.

Peloton Broker is part of Peloton’s Land Data Management solution in the Peloton Platform, alongside LandView, LandView Map, and Peloton Dashboards. It extends Peloton’s trusted foundation to the earliest stage of land acquisition, with pre-leasing work carrying straight into agreement-based lease management in LandView.

“The pre-leasing stage has always been where land data is most scattered, with ownership research in one place, negotiation notes in another, and title issues surfacing late,” said James Hatcher, Product Manager – Land Data Management at Peloton. “Peloton Broker brings that work into the Peloton Platform from day one, so land teams start every lease with a complete picture and the rest of the organization gets land data it can trust.”

Built for the start of the lease lifecycle

Peloton Broker helps land teams at oil and gas operators and renewable energy developers:

Track ownership at the tract level, covering both surface and mineral rightsManage negotiations in integrated workflows that record every offer, contact, and status changeCatch title concerns early with title curative support, before they hold up executionWork from the map with GIS-driven prospect management connected to LandView MapKeep audit-ready records with full traceability from first contact to executed lease

Connected across the Peloton Platform

The Peloton Platform is a SaaS solution hosted by Microsoft Azure that brings well, production, and land data together in one environment. With Peloton Broker on the platform, customers get:

A single source of truth. Land, operations, and finance teams work from the same accurate, up-to-date information, with master data such as business associates, wells, and units shared across products.Linked lifecycles. Land data ties into well and production data in WellView and ProdView, and integrates with third-party ERP and financial systems.Enterprise-grade security, backed by Peloton’s SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications.

Peloton Broker is available now. To learn more, visit peloton.com/products/land-data-management/broker.

About Peloton

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, and founded in 1991, Peloton created the energy industry’s original data management solution, and it remains the standard today. With more than three decades of industry expertise and over 700 clients globally, Peloton offers software across the well, production, and land lifecycles. The Peloton Platform brings all three together in one integrated SaaS environment, hosted by Microsoft Azure.

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