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Blue Duck Tavern has a lot to celebrate. Attached to the Park Hyatt in West End, the restaurant recently celebrated its 11th anniversary. Blue Duck also learned last week that it maintained its Michelin star, awarded last year when the food guide (finally) expanded to D.C.
But most importantly, two new chef shuffles have done little to unmoor the restaurant from its reputation as being one of the original (and now near-ubiquitous) "farm to table, regional, sustainable" eateries in D.C., with a menu that still notes every farm where the main ingredient for the dish was raised or grown.
In February, Troy Knapp took over as the new executive chef of the Park Hyatt Washington family, overseeing all of the hotel's culinary operations, including Blue Duck. And in early August, the restaurant welcomed Daniel Hoefler as its new chef de cuisine.
Starting us off was a round of the new, seasonal (of course) cocktails on the restaurant's fall menu. Highlights included the Cinnamon Toast Punch, a creamy concoction that consisted of mezcal, cognac, cinnamon, and horchata; the Lapsang of Luxury, a deeply complex drink of tequila, Chinese lapsang souchong black tea, and mole(!); and the Black Beauty, a perfect fall cocktail that combined rye whiskey with a pleasantly bitter house amaro and dehydrated blood orange.
Chef Hoefler's dinner menu is similarly situated to the dropping temperatures (well, somewhat dropping – I don't think the chef anticipated 75* days in late October). The herbal crunch of the endive salad is offset by rosy slices of tea-smoked duck breast; a foie gras terrine is decadently creamy and rich, paired perfectly for Autumn with a spiced maple syrup, pumpkin puree, and a smoked apple compote. The braised cranberry beans accompanying a dish of crispy pork belly make for the best bite of the night, but the bone marrow is the hands-down star of the "starters" portion of the menu: oven-roasted and topped with beef cheek marmalade, a BBQ spice crust, and charred lime.
The chef also has a deft touch with both land and sea proteins: a wonderfully-cooked filet of Skuna Bay salmon sports a shatteringly crisp skin-side, day boat sea scallops are seared hard and paired with an onion soubise and micro cilantro, and a braised beef rib with pickled fresno chimichurri is the elevated pot roast of which dreams are made (and for which bread is provided, all the easier to mop up that sauce).
Pastry chef Erin Reed is a Blue Duck veteran, and with good reason: even this non-dessert eater could get down with her Butternut Squash Cake with cream, curry roasted apples, and coconut sorbet. But the surprise of the night was Chef Reed's triple cream panna cotta, with hints of funky Brillat-Savarin cheese, lemon curd, candied figs, and a quenelle of a bracing concord grape sorbet.
Blue Duck Tavern deserves its accolades – it hires well, and continues to serve regional, sustainable products at a (somewhat…this is D.C., after all) reasonable price. BDT just celebrated its 12th anniversary, which is all the more reason you should stop in to celebrate yours. All special occasions welcome.


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Can NFT Show 'The R3al Metaverse Appeal to Viewers Beyond Early NFT Adopters?
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NFT collections like Cool Cats and Bored Apes Yacht Club have essentially become media franchises. The digital artworks are showing up as members of music groups, characters in comic books and stars of movies and TV series.
So it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a tried-and-true idea in franchise making: bring these disparate characters together in one show, much like an Avengers-style movie. That was the beginning of a brainstorm that led animation startup Invisible Universe to create its new series, "The R3al Metaverse," which launched Tuesday. (Disclosure: dot.LA co-founder and executive chairman Spencer Rascoff is an investor in Invisible Universe)
"We at first were joking and saying, 'Yeah, put them in a reality show, like all of [the NFT avatars] move into a house,'" Invisible Universe CEO Tricia Biggio recounted. "All of a sudden we were like, 'Wait, is that a great idea?'"
"The R3al Metaverse" is an animated parody that follows five NFT characters who move in together and experience life in Los Angeles. Cast members are inspired by five major NFT collections: Bored Ape Yacht Club, World of Women, Doodles, Cool Cats and Robotos.
The short-form comedy, released as one- to two-minute episodes on social media, pokes fun at reality TV tropes and the debate over NFTs. In one episode, the characters stare at a painting and are confused by its lack of "real-world application" besides being a wall decoration.
Unlike traditional media franchises, NFT collections aren't completely controlled by a single company. Each project has thousands of individual NFT holders who often have their own commercialization rights over their artworks. Invisible Universe bought three NFTs and secured licenses for two more to get characters that fit well with "The R3al Metaverse" story, Biggio previously told dot.LA.
In keeping with the decentralized ethos of blockchain technology, the Los Angeles-based startup plans to sell 7,200 "Producer Pass" NFTs that will let holders influence the show's direction and give them a chance to bring their avatars onto the show. Invisible Universe, which recently raised $12 million in Series A funding, hasn't yet decided how much these NFTs will cost when they drop next month, but Biggio said they'd likely be within the range of $150 to $200 each.
A crop of NFT media projects have similarly given individual holders creative input, from a community-driven novel project called Jenkins the Valet to an upcoming horror flick by filmmaker Kevin Smith. As it happens, the production company behind a reality TV show that Invisible Universe is parodying—"The Real World"—has its own plans to create NFT-backed programming.
It's too early to know if such projects will appeal to a wide audience beyond early NFT adopters. Another looming question is whether giving fans input will help or harm the creative quality of such works. Biggio acknowledged that balancing act, saying her company has set "creative guardrails" such as the traits and motivations of main characters.
"But within those bounds, there's tons of room for collaboration," Biggio added. For example, NFT holders will help write characters' "confessional interviews," a common reality TV device in which cast members speak directly to the camera.
Invisible Universe will release the first six episodes over the next two weeks on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other platforms. Fan contributions will start to show up within the first 10 episodes, Biggio said. The startup plans for at least 34 episodes.
"There's an opportunity to poke fun at reality TV, as well as to poke fun at the kind of absurdity of the metaverse," she said. "People struggle to define the metaverse or define Web3, and we think that there's a lot of comedy in that."
Correction: An earlier version of this post misstated how many "Producer Pass" NFTs Invisible Universe is creating.
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Fleeing war and chasing new opportunities, more than a dozen Ukrainian entrepreneurs have landed in Los Angeles, finding an unexpected community in the city of dreams. These entrepreneurs have started companies that are collectively worth more than $300 million, in industries ranging from electric vehicle charging stations to audience monetization platforms to social networks.
Dot.LA spent an evening with this group of Ukrainian citizens, learning what it was like to build startups in Ukraine, to cope with the unimaginable fear of fleeing war, and to garner the resilience to rebuild.
Andrew Skrypnyk, CEO of learning platform Promova, decided to enter tech after being awed by 3D graphics on a computer. He went on to spend time in a variety of software development roles, learning more than 20 programming languages in the process. Artem Kudymovskyy, founder of software development firm ITRex Group, similarly became inspired when he saw his first personal computer and met a former programmer who taught him to code.
Others took more winding paths. Vlad Klimchuk studied biomedical engineering and then became one of Ukraine's highest-grossing filmmaker before switching into tech and co-founding image-based social network TLPRT. Dana Sydorenko spent time as a military paramedic and created Ukraine's best army supply company before co-founding GameTree with John Uke.
Despite taking different paths, what these founders share is a passion and ingenuity for solving their own problems and developing creative solutions.
For instance, when Oleksiy Malytskyy first moved to Los Angeles, had a difficult time finding an apartment which led him to co-found co-living startup Sota. When Alexey Menshikov, a former sound designer, became frustrated that the gaming company he worked for wouldn't accept his ideas, he decided to start Beatshapers, his own company in immersive gaming.
The sense of resilience and adaptability these entrepreneurs share is exactly what investors look for in startup founders.
"Startup life is really hard. And it's a grind to go from a zero to a one and to have something that's just a concept, or an idea and bootstrap that and build it and get to a place where you're actually making money," said Brandon Gerson, a former entrepreneur turned venture partner at Expert Dojo.
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Starting a tech company isn't easy being with, but in Ukraine it's especially hard. Ukraine's challenging history includes the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, numerous financial crises, and of course the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine amongst other events.
Each of these events caused the economy to sink, businesses to collapse and access to capital to dry up. Over the years Ukraine's annual GDP has swung wildly as result, from highs of 10%+ annual GDP growth to lows of -20% growth. Ukrainian founders not only face the normal challenges of managing a startup, but have the added pressures of navigating rapidly shifting economic conditions.
The limited number of venture capital firms in the country also means access to capital is hard to come by, and thus harder to scale.
This wasn't always the case: Ukraine was broadly known for having a thriving tech scene before the war. Between 2015 and 2016 for instance, investors pumped more than $200 million into startups and Ukraine's IT outsourcing sector was worth billions.
But as Sydorenko, the paramedic turned GameTree co-founder, put it, "at some point Ukraine has limits." Not only is it difficult to raise money in Ukraine, but "you will never be able to build a publicly traded company over there because this market does not exist," she said.
Although Sydorenko and her team were able to build a social network in Ukraine that now has over 500,000 users, fundraising was difficult. It wasn't until moving to Los Angeles that they were able to raise a significant amount of money: $650,000 in their most recent round.
By virtue of being from Ukraine then, these entrepreneurs naturally have resilience and adaptability in spades. "Someone who comes from Ukraine and having gone through what those folks have gone through, I don't even mean just in the war, just in history, they're prepared in a way that most of the folks are not," said Brian MacMahon, whose accelerator Expert Dojo has invested in more than 200 startups across Africa, Latin America, and India among other regions.
Now the Russia-Ukraine war has threatened to dismantle the country's tech industry as infrastructure is destroyed, internet access and electricity are cut off, and tech companies and their workers flee.
Even still, Ukrainian tech workers are carrying on in astounding fashion.
One Ukranian man, who was locked in his dimly lit basement for weeks, carried on programming and coding even while bombs were going off overhead, said Kudymovskyy, as an illustration of Ukrainian resolve.
By some estimates nearly 90 to 95% of all startups fail, but in the experience of Pavlo Shlapak, founder of Phygit, which creates digital experiences for physical products, the survival rate for Ukrainian startups is significantly higher. "And that's because we can adapt, we have a positive mind, great sense of humor, and it's a super valuable source actually in crisis situations," he said.
For Ukrainian founders then, relocating and building a startup in sunny Los Angeles, is almost easy by comparison. Access to capital is plentiful, networking opportunities abound and the Los Angeles tech community is thriving.
Despite being separated by more than six thousand miles across the Atlantic Ocean, several Ukrainians saw parallels between Odessa, Ukraine and Los Angeles for example.
"Odessa is the most diverse city in Ukraine," said Primeclass founder Ivan Kovpak, who noted the connection between his hometown and Los Angeles. Kovpak, Skrypnyk and Kudymovskyy agreed that both cities possess comparable climates, proximity to water and similar levels of openness and diversity.
"In California, everybody kind of likes Silicon Valley, but there's something very special about this place," said Kudymovskyy, a former consultant who moved to Los Angeles in 2012 before starting his own firm ITRex Group. Kudymovskyy also said that diversity and access to different ideas can actually make startups more successful.
The culture of creativity and storytelling was one of the main appeals of relocating to Los Angeles, according to several founders. More than one joked that Ukrainians are not the best salesmen or marketing gurus. But living in the filmmaking and content creation capital of the world, they now had the perfect combination of storytelling and tech.
The combination of a U.S. founder with sales experience and "a founder from Ukraine who will develop a product is the killer combination," said Malytskyy, co-founder of Sota.
Other founders agreed. "I think the combination of Ukraine and LA is our key of success," said Sydorenko. "If you take almost any company, you have developers in Ukraine, you test your product in Ukraine, and you have people who create networking and promote your product in LA, any sort of company will be successful," she said.
Although it may seem more obvious to build a startup in Silicon Valley rather than Los Angeles, several founders thought otherwise.
"It makes perfect sense that if you want to build a startup, you think that San Francisco is the spot," Sydorenko added. "But actually it's the worst place to build because the cost per developer is extremely high [and] you need to compete with the biggest companies in the market," she said.
Plus as more Silicon Valley investors open offices in the city and startups relocate their headquarters, Los Angeles is quickly becoming a new tech capital in its own right, said Menshikov.
In many ways Los Angeles was the perfect landing spot for this group of entrepreneurs. But as the Russia-Ukraine war rages on, many of the founders can't help but feel the tug of home.
They each grappled with the dual responsibility and tension of building successful startups in the U.S., while still supporting their country and taking care of friends, family and employees back home.
Founders often find themselves helping colleagues find shelter and safe places to work back in Ukraine or working to relocate family members. At times this can mean ceasing startup operations to assist with the war.
"Every Ukrainian is in one way or the other contributing to the war," whether they are on the front lines or not, said Malytskyy, who organized a resistance group inside of Russia at the start of the war.
For the founders, this often means using money as a form of resistance.
"We also fight on the economical front," said Skrypnyk. In his mind they are financial soldiers, helping to wage war by beefing up the Ukrainian economy, sending monetary support to the military and propping up families and businesses.
Although these founders have physically left Ukraine, they brought with them their country's sense of resilience, humor, purpose and passion. For now, Los Angeles is home, but the spirit of Ukraine lives on.
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What Happens After An Influencer Quits Their Day Job?
Kristin Snyder
Kristin Snyder is dot.LA's 2022/23 Editorial Fellow. She previously interned with Tiger Oak Media and led the arts section for UCLA's Daily Bruin.
Every day at noon, Katie Peirce would stream "Sea of Thieves" on Twitch. The 27-year-old had spent a year cultivating an audience of 50 viewers who would tune in to watch her play the video game.
But after an hour of gameplay, Peirce had to sign off and resume her full-time job—digital marketing for a financial tech company.
"On Twitch, if you're not live you can't really get discovered," Peirce says. "For me, I knew I was going to have to devote more time to this if I wanted to take it seriously."
So, in 2022, Peirce, like many during the "Great Resignation," took the jump and decided to become a full-time content creator. One survey from last year found that at least one in four members of Gen Z want to make social media their only gig.
Peirce knew it was a gamble—she and her boyfriend had just bought a house, and she was letting go of a $45,000 annual salary amidst their mortgage payments. As a part-time streamer on Twitch, she was making between $800 and $1,000 a month.
"It was really scary because you're giving up some semblance of financial stability to take a risk on yourself," Peirce says.
Almost a year later, Peirce now makes between $3,500 to $4,000 a month streaming five hours a day. Within a few months of quitting her full-time job, she became a Twitch partner, which meant she could monetize her channel. In addition, Peirce became an official partner for "Sea of Thieves," which allowed her to give away in-game prizes to her subscribers. And when Twitch introduced an ad-revenue program for streamers, her income stabilized to the point that she no longer had to rely on donations from her subscribers and could earn 55% of the ad revenue from each stream.
But streaming every day has its own set of concerns. Peirce has to troubleshoot internet issues, fiddle with audio-visual settings and keep up with the latest software. Her free time is spent prepping for how to make her next stream more engaging. Even when she isn't streaming, she's thinking about streaming.
"I didn't know how hard it was going to be," Peirce says.
YouTuber Paige West had planned to wait a full year to build up her following before quitting her engineering role. But six months in, the stress from her nine-to-five led her to quit.
"I was really optimistic when I quit and felt like I could make this work very quickly," West says. "I'll be able to grow an online presence so much faster when I'm not working my nine-to-five job, but that just wasn't the case."
West's YouTube channel wasn't even monetized when she decided to leave her job as an engineer. She and her husband had savings she could dip into. And she supplemented her income by driving for Instacart and pet sitting. Technically, she had lost money on the endeavor, as she had invested in a camera and an online coaching course.
But two months after quitting her job West monetized her first video. In it, she talks about why she quit her corporate job. And though she only made $100, West says, "It felt like I was going in the right direction."
That said, West took a different path to full-time content creation: She used her online presence to build up her freelance life coaching. And though YouTube ads don't come close to her previous job's salary—last year she only made $1,500 from the platform—it's through YouTube that she finds most of her clients.
Even so, West predicts that the ongoing layoffs will lead to more people dipping their toes into the content creation pool. But, she warns that, "It's not a get-rich-quick concept."
As for Peirce, she knows that her monthly income will fluctuate from month to month. She believes her previous success on Twitch combined with her few personal expenses has set her up to weather the recession. Still, she says that only some creators have that luxury.
"It's not the end of the world if I do have a low month," Peirce says. "But for some creators, it can be really catastrophic."
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Snap Inc.'s trend of growing its user base but failing to adequately monetize them continues.
The company reported its fourth quarter and 2022 annual earnings Jan. 31, and almost immediately, the market reacted negatively to news that after 12 years of operations, Snap still hasn't found a way to achieve profitability with its camera app.
Snap's been steadily growing its daily active user base the entire past fiscal year. In fact, it posted positive user growth every quarter in 2022, on average adding about 18% more users each quarter. Snap ended the year with 375 million users, another 18% increase annually.
But the trouble for Snap – and beleaguered CEO Evan Spiegel – is finding a way to squeeze enough money out of these users to keep the company afloat. At this point, just having a growing user base isn't enough, and profitability seems more like a pipe dream each quarter that Snap reports it's failed to monetize its loyal demographic.
Snap ended the 2022 fiscal year with revenue up 12% to $4.6 billion, but its net loss skyrocketed. Its fourth quarter revenue didn't move much from last year, either – in Q4 Snap's sales were a paltry $1.3 billion, a figure Wall Street analysts expected but the lowest growth figure for Snap ever since it went public in 2017.
And, Snap continues to hemorrhage money. The company's net loss in 2022 was $1.4 billion, which included $189 million in "restructuring charges." That's a steep increase from the $488 million Snap lost at the end of last year. Snap lost $288 million in the fourth quarter, a major blow considering that in the previous year's fourth quarter, it managed to break even and post net income of $23 million.
In an earnings release Tuesday, Spiegel said the company "continue[s] to face significant headwinds as we look to accelerate revenue growth, and we are making progress driving improved return on investment for advertisers and innovating to deepen the engagement of our community."
The company is so pessimistic about its upcoming financial situation that it warned it would not provide expectations for revenue in the upcoming first quarter 2023 because of "uncertainties related to the operating environment."
One way Snap could begin to wring some money out of its user base is through its new premium offering, Snapchat+, which it launched in June. Snap said the service, which offers around a dozen experimental pre-release app features for $3.99 per month, has 2 million subscribers. But that's a tiny fraction of its overall user base of 375 million willing to pay for the app.
The company will also look to court more advertisers and retain the ones that are still on board. Snap noted in its report that it's investing in a partnership with BigCommerce, which should allow "tens of thousands" of companies to advertise more effectively. Spiegel said in a shareholder letter Tuesday that Snap is "also working to deepen engagement with our content platform to expand our overall content monetization opportunity."
Noticeably absent from this quarterly earnings report was mention of Spiegel's longtime pet project, wearables. Snap's ill-fated Spectacles camera glasses or Pixy drones were nowhere to be found. Instead, the focus is now on augmented reality; Snap noted to date people have developed over 3 million AR lenses on the app. The company's using AR for ads, too – Snap said it ran partnerships with retailers including H&M, Adidas and Walmart that encouraged users to virtually try on their products in the app.
Snap's stock was hit hard as investors realized the company's sales were stalled. Its stock was down more than 14%, continuing a trend of its value being erased on the heels of lackluster earnings.
Snap said it will share more information about its operations at its annual investor day, Feb. 16 at 9 a.m. PST.
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Trophy recipients in Macquarie Hunter Athletics Club's Athletes with a Disability program.
Athletes' talent and perseverance recognised
Nine Athletes With a Disability (AWD) from Lake Macquarie were recognised at a presentation at Hunter Sports Centre on Saturday.
Each athlete, representing Macquarie Hunter Athletics Club, received a trophy and a gift voucher for their performance.
Coach Rachael Keyes commended the competitors for their dedication and perseverance.
"You are serious track and field competitors and trained for the whole season," she said.
"You are an inspiration to all of us and we are very proud of you."
Athletes present coach Rachael Keyes with a gift as a token of appreciation.
The nine athletes were: Caleb Black, Nicholas Goodwin, Jamie Lewis-Hughes, Bryce Lloyd, Megan Nay, Elizabeth Purkiss, Caleb Smith, Jessica Thomas, Makenzie Wilson.
The trophies were presented by Ken Crawford and in his introduction, Ken said, "Rachael should be praised for her dedication to the athletes and her contribution to AWD over a very long time. She has certainly gone the extra mile with her commitment. Rachael has been running the AWD program on behalf of Macquarie Hunter Athletics Club every Saturday from September through to March for approximately 15 years."
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"As a community, we are all in this together supporting each other," he said.
"When we see these amazing athletes achieving so much, we must ask ourselves: are we up to the challenge? Do we do our best each day? AWD athletes inspire us to do better."
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Q: Making Glyphicon Calendar icon clickable with React JS Is there a way to make the calendar glyphicon open the datetime picker when clicked? I currently just have the button but it can't be clicked. I've been struggling to find something that's specific to React.

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and write logic in showCalendar function of your component to show Calendar component.
For more details on event handling have a look at official documentation of react.
Components state is used for conditional rendering of component. You should place all variable which can change view in state object of component and call setState method to update state, it will automatically re-render component.
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Check the Fien Print: Netflix Watch: "Jesus Camp"
In a Nutshell: Great moments with evangelicals No. 4520: Playing in the schoolyard at recess, back when I was growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, a more Jesus-friendly classmate and occasional friend came up to me and asked, without irony or judgment, "If you believe what you believe and I believe what I believe, why can't you believe what I believe?" It may have been one of the least persuasive spiritual pitches ever made, but it sticks with me for a simple reason: To the other kid, it made absolute and perfect sense.
My point, I think, is that if you've lived a life in which you've never had a third or fourth grader attempt to convert you, the things in Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's "Jesus Camp" are likely to seem shocking. I suspect there'll be a large number of viewers in the South or in the Midwest (where the movie was actually filmed), who will respond to the knowledge that one party of the evangelical movement is attempting to brainwash young children into becoming Warriors for Christ with, "Yeah that's sad, but duh."
Ewing and Grady aren't able to (or interested in?) progress very far beyond that surface level of shock. They show images of the same four or five kids -- Ramona Quimby Girl, Rat-tail Boy, Easy-to-Cry Moppet, etc. -- bawling, speaking in tongues or supporting Samuel Alito and think that's enough to create a developed portrait of what is obviously a cultural phenomenon. Me, I wanted more. There aren't nearly enough interviews with the kids or their parents. Certain kids and grown-ups appear in group scenes saying or doing things that almost demand qualification (I'm thinking of the one boy who gets looks of horror when he admits to watching Harry Potter movies at his father's house as one example), but I don't think the filmmakers had enough access. Despite the title, the actual Jesus Camp gets maybe 20 minutes of screentime, which leaves the movie feeling awfully diffuse, as if the main chunk of the movie wasn't enough for a feature and it was padded to get to a too-short 84 minutes. And what's up with radio talk jock Mike Papantonio? Why was he the lone vocal representative for the secular world? Why was a vocal representative of the secular world even required?
Being ever-handed isn't just avoiding a snarky voice-over and threatening lighting and camera angles. It's also letting the people speak for themselves, either to defend themselves or hang themselves, depending on the point of view of the observer. Becky Fischer, the shepherd to these impressionable sheep, comes the closest to getting a nuanced profile, managing to be alternatingly scary and reasonable. Given the material the filmmakers had, the movie probably should have been shaped around her, rather than shaped around the culty children, who are probably being exploited by Ewing and Grady, albeit on a different level.
Done and done. Did I just accomplish anything?
i'm not sure wh. is the lesser persuasive theological arg.: the logic your fourth grade acquaintance used or being proselytized by a bumpersticker -- or anything that adheres to one's car, really.
your little anecdote reminded me, i used to get into some pretty deep theological conversations, for a pair of 10 yr olds, with this girl back in elem. school during long bus rides. it was less a matter of wanting to convert one another (at least on my end) than wanting to compare notes about basic creed and doxology -- she mormon, me RC. this kind of real dialogue -- 4th grade ecumenism, if you will -- seems like the exact opposite of what people are teaching their kids to do in jesus camp . sigh.


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(The LGA taskforce had made a big play about empty city centre apartments unfairly pushing up their empty homes figures....).
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It amused me to a degree, that even Milton Friedman had provided evidence MGR had got it right in 1973: that capitalism and socialism could co-exist.
Milton Friedman, the 1976 Nobel memorial prize winner for economics and the highly decorated high priest of American capitalism, died on November 16th, at the age of 94. I have saved the contents of this essay for a future dual biography book on MGR and Kannadasan, but felt that it is also timely now to share it with the readers following the death of Milton Friedman.
It may be strange for some to believe that I became interested in Milton Friedman's writings only through MGR. Partially the blame should go to the school and university curriculum used for the 1960s and 1970s in post-colonial Ceylon as well. Once I chose to study [natural] sciences at the age of 12 in 1965, there was no opportunity for me to sit in any class teaching economics, until I graduated in Zoology from the University of Colombo in 1976. Thus I missed out on Milton Friedman in my salad days.
Luckily for me, my movie idol MGR had other plans. He had been thrown out of the Karunanidhi-led DMK party in October 1972. This led MGR to found his own party immediately, which he named Anna DMK, to honor C.N.Annadurai (Anna), his political mentor and founder of the DMK party. On September 17, 1973 (even before his newly founded party reached its first anniversary), MGR in his inimical fashion announced that the ideology of the ADMK was 'Annaism'. This was a new word in the Indian political lexicon. To the question, what is the essence of Annaism, MGR had a ready answer; "a proper amalgam of capitalism, socialism and communism".
Only the charismatic MGR could deliver such an obscurantist response and still stay in the political theater without being chased away as a crackpot. Remember that in the India of 1970-1977, led by Indira Gandhi, socialists and communists of the 'home garden' variety and the 'foreign-returned' variety chased their dreams on the politically red hued rainbows of socialism and communism. For them, capitalism was an anathema. Even Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (Rajaji), a renowned freedom fighter and later the first Governor General of independent India, had to fold his pro-Capitalist Swatantra Party for lack of popular support. From the podia of their English press, the pen wielders of socialism and communism naturally ridiculed MGR (a primary school dropout turned a stage actor and then a successful movie idol) for his ignorance on economics and government.
It amused me to a degree, that even Milton Friedman had provided evidence MGR had got it right in 1973: that capitalism and socialism could co-exist. Meanwhile, MGR had passed away in December 24, 1987 – two years before we heard from the American high priest of the capitalist economy.
I provide below the entire text of Milton Friedman's mini-essay, which appeared in the New York Times of December 31, 1989. I consider this a masterpiece of lucid writing for commoners by an egghead wizard of economics. Words in italics are in the original essay.
Major premise: Socialism is a failure. Even lifelong Communists now accept this proposition. Wherever socialism has been tried, it has proved unable to deliver the goods, either in the material form of a high standard of living or in the immaterial form of human freedom.
Minor premise: Capitalism is a success. Economies that have used capitalism – free private markets – as their principal means of organizing economic activity have proved capable of combining widely shared prosperity and a high measure of human freedom. A private market system has proved to be a necessary though not a sufficient condition for prosperity and freedom.
Conclusion: The U.S. needs more socialism. An obvious non sequitur, yet there is no denying that many apparently reasonable people – including most members of Congress and of the Bush administration – accept all three propositions simultaneously.
What is socialism? In its purest form, socialism is government ownership and control of the means of production. Ownership of anything implies the right to the income produced by that thing. All means of production in the United States – people, land, machines, buildings, etc. – produce our national income. Spending by government currently amounts to about 45 percent of national income. By that test, government owns 45 percent of the means of production that produce the national income. The U.S. is now 45 percent socialist.
Ownership of anything also implies control of how it is used. An owner may delegate detailed control to agents, as most private stockholders of private corporations do, while retaining the right to replace the agents. Government is in that position with respect to many of the means of production that produce the income it receives.
Beyond that, however, government exercises extensive direct control over how the means of production may be used: It prohibits certain uses (to deliver first class mail, to sell some drugs at all, to sell others without prescription, etc.); it controls other uses through laws governing wages, hours and working conditions, rent control and in other ways.
I do not know how to express the importance of such controls as a percentage of national income, but clearly they are important and their existence means that 45 percent understates the degree of socialism in the U.S., perhaps appreciably.
Socialism has proved no more efficient at home than abroad. What are our most technologically backward areas? The delivery of first class mail, the schools, the judiciary, the legislative system – all mired in outdated technology. No doubt we need socialism for the judicial and legislative systems. We do not for mail or schools, as has been shown by Federal Express and others, and by the ability of many private schools to provide superior education to underprivileged youngsters at half the cost of government schooling.
Airlines have had no difficulty in acquiring the planes and personnel to handle the increased traffic produced dy deregulation. What has been the bottleneck? Airports. Why? Because they are government owned and operated.
We all justly complain about the waste, fraud and inefficiency of the military. Why? Because it is a socialist activity – one that there seems no feasible way to privatize. But why should we be any better at running socialist enterprises than the Russians or Chinese?
By extending socialism far beyond the area where it is unavoidable, we have ended up performing essential government functions far less well than is not only possible but than was attained earlier. In a poorer and less socialist era, we produced a nationwide network of roads and bridges and subway systems that were the envy of the world. Today we are unable even to maintain them.
What had Milton Friedman omitted in this 1989 essay?
While mentioning that military spending in the USA is a "socialist activity", Milton Friedman had omitted to elaborate on an important component of military spending; that is spending by the gumshoes on spying. It appears to me that some aspects of military spending such as spying were 'no touch' territory for even Nobel prizewinning economists, like Milton Friedman. I checked the New York Times archive (LexisNexis Academic database, from June 1980), and 521 items came up for Milton Friedman alone. But when I combined the search for Milton Friedman and the CIA, there was only one item in the past 26 years, which was also not a direct contribution from the economist.
Thus, while the highly decorated ivory tower academic had provided evidence that 45 percent of American spending is 'socialist', to learn about what he had refrained from mentioning, I turn the readers' attention to a thought-provoking essay by Andy Rooney, one of the leading American humorists/satirists, to shed light on the communist angle of American capitalism.
Spying is illegal, immoral and unethical.
Spying doesn't work and it's a waste of money.
…Intelligence agencies of every country work the same way. They convince citizens that they're about to be attacked by another country and, because of the threat, there's a need for all sorts of spy and intelligence activity. When the threat doesn't materialize, the intelligence agency doesn't admit it was wrong. It's smarter than that. It takes credit. It says the enemy didn't attack because it warned us so we built up our defences. The enemy knew we were prepared so they changed their minds about attacking us….
The course of events in the world has been little changed by anything spies ever came up with. They make good movies and good novels but they aren't good for much else… Spies are, generally speaking, maladjusted social misfits who can't make a living at anything else. The spies of our country and the spies of the enemy are the same people. They're interchangeable. When you hear of defectors, it's almost always spies who defect, not other government officials. Spies defect more often because dishonesty is what they deal in and they get their kicks out of deception.
Intelligence agencies are impervious to the kind of inspection or criticism that other agencies of a democratic government are subjected to. When the CIA is questioned about anything, agency officials have a standard answer: 'Sorry. Torture us but we're patriotic Americans. To reveal that information would compromise the security of the United States.' They spend half their time not spying but trying to catch other spies.
Andy Rooney had lucidly presented a case that as far as the functioning of gumshoes in America, there exists hardly a difference from them to those of the Communist breed. Vladimir Putin, the current leader of Russia is an ex gumshoe of Communist Soviet Union, from 1975 to August 1991. The same goes to Robert Michael Gates, the newly nominated Secretary of Defense in the Land of Liberty. Gates had served 26 years in the CIA.
"Milton Friedman should know better than to confuse Communism with socialism (''We Have Socialism, Q.E.D.,'' Op-Ed, Dec. 31). The 'purest' form of socialism is not, as he states, 'government ownership and control of the means of production,' but worker ownership and control of the means of production. What Professor Friedman describes are Communist societies, not socialist ones. The difference is crucial. Worker ownership can be achieved through cooperatives, private nonprofit corporations and labor unions, all distinct from, maybe even inimical to, the interests of government. The 20th-century Communist governments have used some elements of socialism: guaranteed jobs, housing, education, transportation and medical care, but they have not been socialist societies. They have not been because the state has owned the means of production, not the workers.
Further, Professor Friedman is wrong to accuse the United States military of being socialistic. True, it has some elements of socialism, but military personnel do not control the military, and they certainly do not own it. Government (not the people) controls the military, and the host of private military contractors are very largely the owners of the military. Government, through the appropriate House and Senate committees, has historically danced to the tune of the military arms inventors and suppliers. This is not socialism, but state-sponsored capitalism.
Prof. Joseph Fahey may indeed be correct that socialism in its pure form has not been tried in any country, though quite a number of states (including failed states like post colonial Sri Lanka) have splashed the word for propaganda uses in passports as well.
To sum up, the thoughts of Milton Friedman, Andy Rooney and Joseph Fahey (all honest Americans) do show that MGR's Annaism concept (an amalgam of capitalism, socialism and communism) does thrive in the Land of Liberty, but under a different name.


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Insiders 028: Outdoor Voices: A Vision Statement For A Future Community
Phillip JacksonMarch 4, 2020
Note: This Friday we're releasing an episode of Future Commerce, co-hosted with Ingrid Cordy. We recorded it the same day as the Outdoor Voices announcement of the departure of founder and CEO, Tyler Haney. This essay expands on things that I think are risks to the future of Outdoor Voices.
I take issue with the phrase "create a community."
As Alicia Silverstone's character in Clueless (1995) would say: "Wow, that was way harsh, Tai."
Alicia Silverstone as Cher in Clueless (1995)
Let's talk about Ty Haney, founder and (ex-) CEO of Outdoor Voices. She founded the company on the idea that there was a segment of consumers of athletic wear that would resonate with the concept of "doing things" for the love of doing them, not for the love of sport or the pursuit of performance.
To hear her tell the story you'd hear that she was attempting to create more than a brand, more than a company, and more than just comfortable workout wear. In her words, she was attempting to create a community:
And the beauty of Outdoor Voices as a community is that I have an awesome team here, and they're all working toward a common goal. And I think that by creating an environment and a community that really believes in this Doing Things mantra, I feel supported and able to move through any moment I might be burnt out or thinking negatively about something. -Tyler Haney, Parade 12/5/19
You cannot create a community any more than you can create a tree. You can cultivate the tree. You can plant a seed; you can water it, you can put it in direct sunlight. You can provide it with nutrient-rich soil. But you can't create a tree. You can only provide the right environment in which a tree can grow. And so it is with communities. You can provide forums for discourse, you can provide space for participation, you can encourage, and even steer, conversation, and you can cheer on those who are taking initiative.
But you can't create a community any more than you can create a tree.
In this issue of Insiders, I want to make the case that Outdoor Voices's biggest failing to date isn't burning $2MM per month, it isn't dismissing their founder, and it isn't their less-than-stellar $40MM annual online sales.
Outdoor Voices's biggest failing is believing you can manufacture a community.
Community (and, by extension, culture) exists wherever people are. You can have a healthy community, you can have an unhealthy community. But wherever people are, a community exists. Outdoor Voices as an "events-driven" organization had the ability to turn out crowds at one point in time. But were they able to sustain that, grow it into new geographies? Were they able to inspire others to create their own local meetups outside of their brick-and-mortar locations?
Outdoor Voices yoga event in Austin with 500+ in attendance
The fact that Outdoor Voices intended to try to bring people together is noble. The question is how many of those who attended an OV IRL event self-identify as part of the "community" of Outdoor Voices?
Let's define some standards by which we can measure their investment into community. Josh Hotsenpillar has a fantastic blog on the topic, and I'll use that as the basis of our measurement. He outlines 5 pillars for self-sustaining community:
Apparent Progression
Rewarding Rewards
Continuous Infrastructure
Consider some of the social movements of the last decade. Communities came alive without a clear leader, decentralized, and able to self-sustain around a vision-message.
By contrast, Outdoor Voices seemed to centralize its message on hero/founder. Ty Haney is a personality - she made the media rounds and represented the brand. She was the first true believer in #DoingThings, and she proselytized others into that belief.
One area where OV has succeeded is in unifying their potential audience under a common vision. Whether that vision is able to affect a movement which self-sustains community? I believe it can, but I don't know that OV has succeeded in that mission yet.
We can't fault Ty Haney for setting a table at which no one has been seated, can we? As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. The question I keep asking is -- was the community ever led to the water in the first place, or were we all duped into believing it existed because it was so often repeated?
One has to wonder if the brand's investors were asking the same questions.
Your nav bar says it all
My own journey as a customer so far feels like the progression is to just purchase more clothing. This could be due to my living in geography outside of their brick-and-mortar stores, a fact that makes me more representative of an OV customer by virtue of their relative lack of retail frontage outside of their major metros.
My journey to first purchase from OV stems from having purchased athleisure wear from two other brands and being dissatisfied. The OV Sunday Sweatpant was modestly priced at $85 and looked like it was the style of what I was seeking - very narrow, almost legging-like, through the knee to the ankle.
I remember creating an account via Google sign-in. I then received a 20% off coupon for signing up. I purchased from them nearly immediately, using Amazon Pay to easily check out from my phone.
In the month since I've saved all of my communications from OV. Here's a screen-grab of all of my recent emails from the brand:
Emails from Outdoor Voices since my February 5th purchase
In order of receipt, they are:
Oh, and I got a text message from them allowing me to ask them for customer service, which I used because it took almost 5 days from shipment to receipt of product. Unlike most of my other Shopify store purchases, I didn't get any day-of-delivery communication - email, SMS, or otherwise.
So what is clearly missing here is the community, absent in 10 out of 10 communications. No product onboarding email series. No brand narrative. No "Doing Things" story. Just traditional eCommerce. The "continuous infrastructure" they seem to have invested in the most was their sales infrastructure.
"Show me a brand's top navigation bar and I'll show you what they value the most"
A phrase I often repeat. A brief look at their homepage shows me that OV prioritizes purchasing. A banner at the top suggests sale pricing, and they have shop categories - Women, Men, Kits.
The OutdoorVoices.com desktop top navigation
A vision statement for a future community
If they haven't built a community, what have OV created, then? A bunch of really decent products with clever marketing and size-inclusivity. Is that really so bad? I think those alone make OV an attractive brand. The three items I've purchased from them (a merino tee, the sweatpant, and a pull-over hoodie) are exceedingly comfortable, reasonably priced, and seem to be of good quality. This is enough to ask me to become a repeat customer.
For community events, I'm forced to scroll to the website footer. I find a lot of sale-centric messaging there, with "Give 20% get $20" referral program and a Student Discount link. The Recreationalist is their content portal, but that isn't apparent by name alone.
Store-centric events surely hint at their community-centricity? Again, evidently not. Filtering their events website (events.outdoorvoices.com) by location, we see that their NYC stores have a sparse weekend-only cadence, and their NYU location has no events scheduled. Extending the benefit of the doubt, winter in NYC is tough.
Austin - 3x per week.
Houston - Regularly 2x per week, with a third, one-off happy hour event happening this week only.
I don't feel like a part of the Outdoor Voices community of people "Doing Things" and that's because they haven't given me a forum to connect with other people like myself yet. They have a vision statement for a future community, but they appear to lack an actual, real, community of people. One that is self-sustaining and doesn't rely on Haney, or another brand emissary, to spread its gospel of "Doing Things."
At what point does endless vision-casting with little follow-through cross over into willfully misleading people, investors, and journalists? To this end, I believe that having no community is at least more honest than having a faux community.
As Lianne pointed out in Insiders #025 - The Invisible Social Contract:
Modern brands seem to be built on customer relationships, not the products. That relationship seems to be built on the brand's values. When brands fail to live up to those values they risk much more than losing a customer, they risk losing their way.
One could argue that Outdoor Voices isn't living up to its own ideals despite us labeling them a standout performer in this regard in that essay just 4 weeks ago. Time flies.
We have a belief at Future Commerce:
Commerce is what globally connects disparate groups of people. You have something I need, I have something you need. This connects us, regardless of race, color, or creed.
Entrepreneurship in a capitalist society is our means to creating upward mobility. Nobody can prevent you from creating and succeeding in a business of your own making - whether you sell a product or provide a service. The American Free-Enterprise System is notable for giving anyone, no matter who they are, the ability to access upward class mobility.
To us, this belief is sacred - that Commerce Entrepreneurship is the tool for global change. Future Commerce has a mission to use our platform to elevate brands that are using their most powerful tool - commerce - to bring about the change they wish to see in the world. We as a podcast and in our original research are spotlighting brands who are upholding this as their mission. In the interest of fairness, we must also take to task brands who haven't wielded that powerful tool with care.
The teased 2020 collaboration with Rapha
The public missteps of "brands with a cause" have undoubtedly cast a pall upon the growing segment of mission-driven-brands, and that pains me. I want brands to be more, to do more, and to inspire their customers to take part is something that is larger than mindless consumerism.
I still hold out hope. A brand that has fostered a real community that is centered on its brick-and-mortar presence is Rapha. The premium cycling brand has found that despite ups and downs, slow growth and wise merchandising can allow them to eventually gain broader appeal.
I once argued with @digitallynative on Twitter as to the success of the Hoka x Outdoor Voices collaboration. Their assertion was that Hoka's mainstream success was due to their collaboration with OV.
I would assert that a future path to success beyond the Outdoor Voices founder exit is that partners like Rapha can inspire them to live up to their ideals, give them a framework for connecting in real life with customers who take responsibility for organizing and supporting the mission.
If so we will begin to see some "apparent progression" from the brand and their most ardent fans. Outdoor Voices has set the table, hopefully Rapha can show them how to encourage people to sit at it. And if not, then. Well.
That's way harsh, Ty.


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Jen Shah says she won't do an interview with Andy Cohen
By Luke Funk
FOX 5 NY
Jen Shah leaves court after sentencing
Real Housewives star Jen Shah was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for running a scam.
NEW YORK - Convicted "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jen Shah has changed her mind and now says she will not be sitting down with Bravo host Andy Cohen for an interview before going to prison.
"I will not be doing the 1:1 with Andy Cohen and Bravo," Shah said in an Instagram post.
She says the two were unwilling to remove contractual provisions that would allow the network to "legally make misrepresentations of me and my story."
She admitted that many people had been hurt by her actions but stated: "I would rather remain silent and wait until I am able to accurately share my story than continue having complete lies and misrepresentations about me smeared across the headlines."
She said she would share her story "very soon."
Shah was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in connection with her fraud case in early January. She will report to prison at a later date.
Shah pleaded guilty in July to one charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing.
Federal prosecutors say she admitted she victimized 10 or more persons over the age of 55 as part of the plea.
JEN SHAH SENTENCING
Shah, 48, of Park City, Utah, had faced a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison but prosecutors asked for a 10-year sentence.
Prosecutors said Shah used profits from the scam fraud to live in a mansion dubbed "Shah Ski Chalet" in the resort ski town of Park City, Utah. The home is now listed for sale for $7.4 million, according to a presentence document.
Her lawyers had requested that she face no more than 3 years in prison.
The judge said at the hearing on Friday that he would show some leniency when he decides how much time she would spend in prison but he said he wouldn't grant her request that she only spend three years in prison.
Jen Shah is scheduled to begin her sentence at a federal prison in Texas on Feb. 17.


Amsterdam, 11 October 2016 - Around a year after the two companies formed a partnership, creating The Harbour Club Kitchen in the metropolitan Apollo Hotel, Apollo Hotels and The Harbour Group announced their joint venture.
The opening of The Harbour Club Kitchen Amsterdam in the summer of 2015 was immediately an unprecedented success. This was, in fact, so successful that this Apollo Hotel closed its own restaurant and focussed in full on the new gastronomical offshoot. The partnership with The Harbour Group has been so successful that the next step has been taken towards intensifying the relationship.
Bas Tolmeijer, Director at Apollo Hotels: "Around ten years after our company was founded, the hotel chain continues to gain momentum and we firmly believe in forging relationships with the right partners. More than ever before, it is about the experience, service and offering a unique food & beverage experience. The Harbour Group manages these aspects down to the minutest detail." Richard van Leeuwen, Director of The Harbour Group, adds: "The knowledge of Apollo Hotels & Resorts in terms of data-driven systems and processes beautifully complements our comprehensive restaurant experience. In short, a healthy win-win situation."
The name and the concept have been integrated into the joint venture and both parties continue to operate their own establishments independently. The added value is created by both parties inputting their knowledge, the goal being to raise the quality to an even higher level, refining and safeguarding the product and rolling out new restaurants under The Harbour Club name. The partners anticipate that they will soon be able to announce the opening of the first new branch.


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Bed Head Red Grabs Gold in the Snowboarding
Redmond Gerard wins the first Gold medal of the games for USA, snatching victory from the jaws of the Norwegians and Canadians.
Boy Wonder, 17-year-old Redmond Gerard stormed from 11th place out of twelve in the Men's Slopestyle Snowboarding event to storm home to a gold, at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018.
The young American's comeback was like a feel-good Hollywood film ending
The 5'5", eight-and-a-half stone snowboarder had a disappointing two initial runs, conjuring up no more than the mid-40's, after scraping the snow. In the men's finals the athletes are given three turns each, with the best score counting towards the final one. As the contestants take their turn on the next round in reverse order, with the lowest scorers in the previous round going first, young Red suddenly found himself way out in front with a massive score of 87.17, after his third and last attempt. He then had to sit back in suspense whilst the favourite top scorers took their turn.
Red Gerard sat with his hand over his ears during a tense wait
Canada's Mark McMorris chalked up a splendid run, just falling short of Gerard's score, with 85.20, for the Bronze. He had come back from some terrible injuries just eleven months before. Then came a shock, as the hitherto struggling Max Parrott, also of Canada, somewhat unexpectedly came good and soared to a wonderful performance. Everybody held their breath waiting for the score. An amazing 86.00, to snatch Silver.
A huge roar went up as the crowd realised Gerard of the USA had done it
All pandemonium broke out as Gerard's family crowd of 17-strong celebrated at the foot of the mountain slope. Favourites Norwegian Marcus Kleveland, ranked no.1 in the world beforehand, and Norway's Staale Sandbech, failed to improve on their scores, in the upper 70's.
Red Gerard could be audibly heard saying, 'What the F***?' after his run and 'Holy Sh**!' on realising he had taken gold.
The sportsworld is stunned to see Gerard's cheeky boyish looks underneath the ski-mask
It did not become apparent how young Gerard was until he removed his headgear, to reveal a smiling Bart Simpson-style 'bed head'. The BBC Sports commentator covering the event live was heard to remark, 'This makes him look incredibly young' as he was presented with a cuddly-shaped Siberian tiger, the Winter Olympics mascot for these games.
However, despite Gerard's incredulity at winning the first gold medal of the games for the USA, he told reporters, 'I am just a day-by-day kinda guy'.
And modest, too.
Snowboarding from the age of two
Originally from Ohio, the teen, who will be 18 in the summer, relocated with his family to Colorado and set up their own snow park in their back yard. The family set up a series of rails and a tow rope to move easily from one side to the other. Thus, Red was well prepared on encountering the rails at Pyeonchang.
In a video he recorded for his sponsors, Burton, who supply his snowboard, Red remarks that mastering the rail slide is worth as many marks as air flips as far as the judges are concerned. He has developed his own unique style for taking these. Expect to see others copying it in the Olympics to come.
Gerard says he restrains himself to three and a half loops with a back flip, in the aerodynamics, deeming the record four and half ones too life threatening.
Doing the thing he loves most and getting a gold medal for it.
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Men's Ice Hockey Final: Little Finland Does it Again! Canada Gold, USA Silver, Finland Bronze
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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Men's Ice Hockey Final:
Canada 3 USA 2 ("Sudden Death")
Finland 5 Slovakia 3
So Canada (Gold) has a population of 34,017,000
U.S.A. (Silver) has a population of 308,372,000
Finland (Bronze) has a population of…5,356,500
Ratios: Finland is 1.73% the size of the USA and 15.74% that of Canada.
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Centre clears justice KM Joseph's elevation to SC
New Delhi: Seven months after the Supreme Court's recommendation, the Centre approved the elevation of Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph to the Supreme Court.
Justice Joseph's name as SC judge was cleared along with Madras High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Orissa High Court Chief Justice Vineet Saran.
A five-member Supreme Court collegium comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph had recommended Jusice KM Joseph's name for the first time on January 10, 2018, along with senior counsel and now a Supreme Court judge, Indu Malhotra.
The Centre cleared Indu Malhotra's name but withheld Justice Joseph's name.
The Centre had on April 30 returned the recommendation for reconsideration by the collegium and registered its objection to Justice Joseph's stating lack of seniority.
The Centre had objected to Justice Joseph's elevation, saying his name figured in the all-India seniority list of judges and that such an elevation would supersede many and demolish legitimate expectations of high court judges for appointment to the Supreme Court.
The objection to Justice Joseph's elevation by the Centre was speculated to be because of Uttarakhand Chief Justice striking down imposition of President's rule in the state by the BJP-led NDA government in 2016 after dismissing a Congress government led by Harish Rawat. Eventually, Congress led by Harish Rawat was reinstated after the apex court intervened to hold a floor test.
However, on May 16, the collegium unanimously reiterated the decision to recommend Justice Jospeh's name but did not send it to the government. It wanted to select more candidates for appointment to the top court as there were six vacancies at that time.
Delhi police to decide on farmers' tractor march: SC


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The Lowdown On Facebook Watch & Facebook Marketplace
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Facebook Watch and Facebook Marketplace are two rather obscure concepts of using Facebook for business. Facebook Watch, from the looks of it, is the platform's attempt at taking on the likes of Amazon, YouTube and Netflix; Facebook Marketplace is its Craigslist.
In this post, we look at these two Facebook tools in more detail.
What is Facebook Watch And How To Use It For Business
Facebook Watch is a collection of videos from creators, sorted into Watch Feed, Watchlist and social enhancement features like Watch Parties, Page Parties, Premieres and Live. The point? To encourage the viewing of video content on Facebook, and for the company to get into episodic streaming.
Currently, videos on Facebook Watch range from mini documentaries to live events and talk shows, like the popular Red Table Talk with trio Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris.
Facebook Watch was launched in the U.S. in August 2017, and it's now attracting some 1.25 billion users a month. Facebook Watch is free to use within the Facebook app and website, but the tab is monetized through ads.
The value to marketers is threefold.
1. Facebook Watch Delivers Your Content To Your Fans
Because no one can post to Facebook Watch directly, the space is really a collection of videos curated for viewers based on the Pages they follow, and what Facebook thinks they might like.
In other words, it's a personalized feed of relevant videos…one that matches people's interests and with a strong focus on social viewing. Additionally, Watchlist is basically a place dedicated for viewers to keep up with the video content published by the pages they follow.
2. Facebook Watch Is A Brand-New Channel To Push Ads
Like we saw above, Facebook Watch is hyper-personalized, and by extension, any and all ads pushed to people feel like personalized recommendations. In an increasingly internet-marketing-savvy world, this is an asset.
There is a lot of noise out there, including on Facebook's News Feed as you scroll from post to post, and it's not always easy to captivate your audience long enough for them to watch your video ads to the end.
On Facebook Watch, ad breaks guarantee more eyeballs on your message.
3. Watch Parties And Premieres Are Amazing Opportunities To Connect
And finally, did you ever wonder why Google eliminated its right sidebar ads, and traditional television ads have been on a downward trend for years? The answer: People got really good at tuning out ads, and if you want to get across to your audience these days, you need to be seen as a friend and not a hard-selling corporation with just your bottom line in mind.
The social enhancement features on Facebook Watch let you do that with things like Premieres, which allows you to debut videos as live moments on your Page, and Watch Parties, which lets you and your fans watch and discuss videos together.
In a Watch Party, you can also tag a business partner and turn the video into a branded content. Afterwards, Insights can help you understand how your party performed, including Minutes Viewed and Unique 60s Viewers, which is the total number of users who were there for at least 60 seconds of your Party.
Facebook Marketplace & How To Sell On Facebook Marketplace As A Business
Now that you have the ways to use Facebook Watch to promote your video content, we move to Facebook Marketplace, where Facebook users can find, buy and sell items, and businesses can advertise an inventory of anything, from home rentals and vehicles to event tickets through a Marketplace listing partner.
Facebook Marketplace follows Facebook's Commerce Policies and Community Standards, which in turn influence what you can sell on the platform, and the sort of images and descriptions you can use.
The space also offers the option for paid ads to appear when people shop on Marketplace, and this can help you reach more people with relevant products and services. Facebook currently allows ads under objectives like:
And store traffic
Boosted listings also have insights you can analyze. The trick with selling on Marketplace is to realize you're selling to your local community, and you're reaching buyers when they are already browsing products. This makes providing useful information and fast answers with real-time messaging all the more important.
The Value Of Facebook Marketplace To Businesses
1. Awareness and discoverability
The trick here is choosing the right Marketplace category for your products. This will put you in front of the right people, seeking out your products to purchase.
2. Trust
As a peer-to-peer platform, Facebook Marketplace inspires more trust. All transactions start with Messenger, which is all about one-on-one conversations, and your Page can add to your credibility with useful catalogs and answers to frequently asked questions.
3. It's A Package Deal
Building an inventory on Facebook Marketplace means you have a catalog you can use on Instagram too. The two social media sites have significantly different audiences, with a younger demographic on Instagram and an older one on Facebook, and whatever you do on Marketplace lets you target both, and the significant overlap in the middle.
4. Facebook's Personalization
And finally, like with Facebook Watch, one of the biggest advantages of using Facebook Marketplace for your business is the personalization that Facebook makes possible. Facebook uses its data to connect people with products they are likely to buy, using their behavior on Facebook Marketplace over time as the basis for a more tailored feed experience.
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development
AI, Machine Learning and Robotics: Privacy, Security Issues
Attorney Stephen Wu Discusses the Challenges Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • December 6, 2019 13 Minutes
Attorney Stephen Wu of Silicon Valley Law Group
The use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics has enormous potential, but along with that promise come critical privacy and security challenges, says technology attorney Stephen Wu.
For example, in healthcare, "we're beginning to see surgical robots ... and robots that take supplies from one part of a hospital to another. ...You can use AI to help sequence a child's DNA ... and match and identify a condition in very short order," Wu says in an interview with Information Security Media Group.
But along with those bold technological advances come emerging privacy and security concerns.
"The HIPAA Security Rule doesn't talk about surgical robots and AI systems," he notes. Nevertheless, HIPAA's administrative, physical and technical safeguard requirements still apply, he says.
As a result, organizations must determine, for example, "what kind of security management procedures are touching these devices and systems - and do you have oversight over them?"
Also critical is ensuring that "communications are secure from one point to another," he points out. "If you have an AI system that's drawing records from an electronic health record, how is that transmission being secured? How do we know the AI systems drawing [information] from the EHR system has been properly authenticated?"
Fighting Cybercrime
Over the long haul, AI will play an important role in fighting against AI-fueled cyberattacks, Wu adds.
"You have cybercriminals who are beginning to look at AI systems to better attack different networks and different devices. We're going to need AI systems to defend ourselves in the future against those possible attacks," he says.
"It's simply not possible for a human to pay attention to all the different aspects of a network to watch all parts of it and head off attacks as they come in," he notes. "And there may be attacks that take place within such a small amount of time that it might be hard or impossible for humans to detect them without the assistance of artificial intelligence."
Wu will serve as a host of an inaugural American Bar Association National Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics conference Jan. 9-10 at the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he and other experts will discuss emerging legal issues.
In the interview (see audio link below photo), Wu also discusses:
Other promising applications of AI, machine learning and robotics in various industries;
General Data Protection Regulation and other regulatory compliance considerations;
Top cybersecurity-related predictions for 2020 involving the use of AI, machine learning and robotics.
In his role as a technology attorney at Silicon Valley Law Group in San Jose, California, Wu focuses on compliance, liability and information governance in emerging areas of technology law. Wu has written or co-written several books on information security and the law. He served as the 2010-2011 chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law. Before joining Silicon Valley Law Group, Wu was a Silicon Valley partner at Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP.
Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development
How the Adversarial Mindset Is Making Cybersecurity Better
Quantum-Proof Cryptography: What Role Will It Play?
Brand Impersonation: It's an InfoSec Problem
The Hunt for 'Shadow APIs'
How leading organisations use AI to deliver exceptional customer experiences
Essential Guide to Machine Data: Infrastructure Machine Data
The Power of a Data-To-Everything Platform
Gartner Report: Market Share Analysis: ITOM, Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2019
5 Myths of AI & Machine Learning Debunked
Darktrace Immune System: Self-Learning Detection & Response
https://www.inforisktoday.com/interviews/ai-machine-learning-robotics-privacy-security-issues-i-4533


Bundle the benefits of a soughtafter location on the Preston fringe with a great sized threebedroom house, offering the space you crave and massive outdoor backyard entertainment area.
The impressive size and scale, with timber floorboards throughout the property includes separate kitchen lounge dining areas, two separate bathrooms a laundry.
Completing the appeal, Northland Shopping Centre, bus transport, the Darebin Creek Trail and Preston North East Primary School are within walking distance, while Plenty Rd trams, La Trobe University, Preston Market and popular eateries along the famed High St strip are just moments away.


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The 'Yes You Can - Imagine It' bootcamp events are a collaborative project being delivered with the support of Councils across N. Ireland, Invest NI and Women in Business, with workshops taking place throughout May and June.
The three-year programme aims to motivate and inspire talented local women offering advice and support in terms of business start-up and growth, and the workshops are now open for booking.
Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District, Councillor John Boyle, said anyone with a business idea they want to take further should sign up. "Derry and Strabane has a wealth of skilled and creative women and these bootcamps are geared towards providing the information and inspiration to assist them in taking things to the next stage.
The programme is specifically targeted at pre-start and early stage female entrepreneurs, including those who have not yet started trading but may have an idea they want to progress. Focusing on motivation and development, women can learn from the experiences of some leading local female entrepreneurs about their business journey and the challenges they faced starting out. A range of speakers will share their learnings and there will be the opportunity to put questions about the hurdles they have faced and overcome throughout their careers.
Business Development Manager with Council, Louise Breslin, explained that the 'Yes You Can - Imagine It' workshop was just the first in a series of support events being made available. "This is a really exciting opportunity for women who are taking those first steps in setting up their own enterprise," she stressed.


In 2016 my documentary Seán Hillen, Merging Views won best short documentary at Galway Film Fleadh and screened at many other prestigious film festivals as well as on RTÉ's Shortscreen.
In 2017 my feature documentary Amanda Coogan: Long Now premiered at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival. The film profiles the renowned Irish artist, and has since had many more screenings including at the Irish Film Institute, around Ireland, and internationally.
I am a member of The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, The Irish Architectural Archive and Visual Artists Ireland.
More on my vimeo page.


Playing host to longtime San Juan Basin League foe Mancos High School on Aug. 28, Dove Creek High School's girls volleyball team continued its impressive early-season run and pinned down a 25-17, 21-25, 25-14, 25-15 victory.
Among the keys to the Bulldogs' four-game victory was a hard-hitting attack led by junior Cassie Gatlin, who hammered down a season-high 17 kills while making only eight hitting errors. Senior Breea Meyer had eight kills for Dove Creek, and sophomore Grace Hatfield had three.
On the opposite side of the court, Mancos was led offensively by junior Magdalena Hall, who had 11 kills. Senior Morgan Rose had six kills, and junior Isis Jaime had four. Twenty-eight total hitting errors haunted the Bluejays, however, as the blue-and-white-clad group was never able to mount long offensive runs.
Defensively, Dove Creek was led by Meyer, who registered 14 digs. Senior Madilyn Hankins dug 13 balls for Mancos, while junior Kiara Lingenfelter and Gatlin each registered 11 digs for the Bulldogs.
Senior Erika Peacock led Mancos defensively with 17 digs, while Jaime registered 14 digs, and Halls had 12. Halls also registered two blocks for Mancos, and Rose had one. Both teams came through with six total aces in the match, with Halls registering the most aces of any individual player with four.
Mancos dropped to 0-1 on the season with the loss, while Dove Creek improved to 3-0 overall. Both teams will return to action at the Gunnison Tournament on Sept. 1.


The White House got a heads up earlier this month on potential questions about Kushner's meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Kushner also apparently met with Sergey Gorkov, who heads up Obama-sanctioned Vnesheconombank.
WH spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed these meetings, but said Kusher "isn't trying to hide anything."
Questions for Kushner include whether he discussed personal business deals (included an over-leveraged Manhattan building), per the NYT.