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GT Challenge Series Week 10: Japan
July 15th, 2013 by JaimeB
Week 10 of the iRacing.com GT Challenge headed to Japan and the Suzuka International Grand Prix Circuit, most notably known for its hosting of the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix. The circuit consists of a flowing layout that includes a bridge where the track actually crosses over itself. And while this fast circuit is one of the most flowing of its kind, it can also bite you; from the very first corner, to Degners, to the fast 130R and heavy braking into Casio Triangle.
The Casio Triangle: one of Suzuka's many challenges.
The Corvette standings have seen drivers chasing Richard Avery most of the season, the most notable chaser being Ricardo Goncalves Silva. Suzuka saw Silva in chase mode again, however, in this case he was chasing fellow Corvette driver Giorgos Tzanetos for the entire race. Silva followed Tzanetos every single lap, with the interval never growing above a second. Silva had been within striking distance multiple times and couldn't pull it off. This became critical as Tzanetos went on to win the race and collect 181 points for the week, while Silva only managed 158. Alongside Tzanetos, driver Martin Gosbee was also able to bring home 181 points over Luiz Eduardo Ribeiro as he controlled the race, leading every lap.
Richard Avery and Silva participated head to head in the week as well, where we would find Silva leading every lap until, unfortunately, he and a McLaren driver made contact enabling Avery to lead the rest of the way to grab the win. The win gave Avery 169 points in his attempt to buffer his lead in the championship.
A trio of GT competitors negotiate Suzuka's Degner curves.
The McLaren class was extremely competitive at Suzuka, with three drivers finishing the week only two points apart from each other. Third place for the week was the championship leader, Patrick Valente Ferro. Ferro captured 184 points for the week after having complete control of his race, starting from pole, setting the fastest lap and winning after leading all laps in the McLaren class. Second place for the week came from Frenchman Laurent Beteille. Much like Ferro, Beteille was able to control his race and win, earning 185 points. However, Beteille not only won the pole and set the fastest lap in his race, but he also had pole for the week and the fastest race lap of the week overall, a very impressive showing.
Taking top honors for the week was Juan Jose Sanchez Caudrado, with 186 points. Caudrado had to fend-off Ben R Chadwick and Paolo Muià as the three ran nose to tail for nearly the entire race distance, with the only overtake being Chadwick passing Muià at the beginning of the race.
The battle for the Ford GT title heated-up in Japan.
Ford GT has had a swing of momentum this week in Japan. Nearly this entire season, drivers have been chasing Kevin Duwel in the standings with Matthias Reuner seeming to be the sim-racer most up to the challenge. A strong showing came for the Ford GT crowd at Suzuka, where Reuner was able to start on pole and get out to an early lead. This was vital as Jonathan Fuller started last on the grid and made his way to second, and then set-off in hot pursuit of Reuner. Thankfully for Reuner, time ran out for Fuller and Reuner took top honors with 239 points.
Duwel also participated in this race, but lost control and went off on Lap One. Duwel showed he is a true championship contender by not only recovering the car to finish the race, but to finish on the podium after dropping to last after his first lap bobble. However a solid third place finish gave Duwel only 159 points. Duwel will be in defense mode these final two weeks as Reuner makes a late season charge for the Ford GT Championship.
In a week of fierce competition in the McLaren class, just two points separated Caudrado, Ferro and Beteille.
Next week, the iRacing.com GT Challenge Series enters Road Atlanta, home of Petit Le Mans, for Round 11. All three class championships remain up for grabs, and all sim-racers eligible for top honors will do everything they can to take home the crown.


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ON THE CONSERVATION OF SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICAN
MIGRATORY GRASSLAND BIRD SPECIES AND THEIR HABITATS
The Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina
The Vice Ministry of Biodiversity, Natural Resources and Environment of Bolivia
The Ministry of Environment of Paraguay
The Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Agriculture and Fishing of Uruguay
Concerned that the populations of several species of migratory birds inhabiting the grasslands of Southern South America have been subject to a drastic reduction and fragmentation of their habitats and have a delicate state of conservation;
Aware that, according to IUCN, the global conservation status of Numenius borealis and Sporophila zelichi is "Critically Endangered"; that of S. palustris is "Endangered"; that of Alectrurus risora, A. tricolor, S. cinnamomea and Agelaius (Xanthopsar) flavus is "Vulnerable"; and that of Polystictus pectoralis pectoralis, S. hypochroma, S. ruficollis, and Tryngites subruficollis is "Nearly Threatened";
Noting too that N. borealis, T. subruficollis, A. risora, A. tricolor, S. cinnamomea, S. hypochroma, S. palustris, S. zelichi, and Agelaius (Xanthopsar) flavus have been included on Appendix I of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) because they are considered endangered and, as a result, CMS Contracting Parties that are Range States of these species must take steps to protect them pursuant to Article III of the Convention;
Noting further that all species mentioned in the preceding paragraph, S. ruficollis and P. pectoralis pectoralis have been included on Appendix II of CMS and, as a result, CMS Contracting Parties that are Range States are to endeavour to conclude agreements where this would benefit the species;
Acknowledging that the species referred to migrate annually between breeding and wintering areas including the grasslands of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay at least during part of the year, and that they depend on the conservation of the habitats found there;
Concerned that the fragmentation of grassland habitats, hunting and illegal capture and/or trade have been the main reasons for the drop in the populations of these species; and
Acknowledging that, although the Range States have endeavoured individually to ensure their conservation, coordinated and concerted actions across the migratory range are still required to prevent the last populations of these birds from disappearing and to improve their conservation status;
DECIDE to work together to improve the conservation status of the species throughout their breeding and wintering ranges. To this end, in a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation, they will:
Provide effective protection for the populations of grassland birds mentioned, and for the habitats upon which their survival depends;
Develop an Action Plan to protect the species and their habitats, which should guide the conservation actions of the signatories and, which should inter alia include measures to promote co-ordination of these actions, international cooperation, improving the knowledge on these species, management, research, awareness and the exchange of information among the signatories. The Action Plan will be annexed to this Memorandum of Understanding after its endorsement by the first meeting of the signatories;
Designate respectively in each country a scientific coordinator to serve as a focal point to communicate with the other signatories and to guide the implementation of activities under this Memorandum of Understanding, and communicate the full contact details of this person (and any changes thereto) to the Secretariat;
Assess the implementation of this Memorandum of Understanding and the Action Plan at regular meetings of representatives of each of the signatories, and persons or organisations technically qualified in the conservation of the species. Such meetings shall be convened by the Secretariat, and hosted by and organised in collaboration with one of the undersigned authorities or a co-operating organisation; and
Provide to the Secretariat a regular report on their implementation of this Memorandum of Understanding, the format for and the frequency of which will be determined by the first meeting of the signatories. The Secretariat will make available to the signatories the reports received, together with an overview report of progress made to implement the Memorandum of Understanding and the Action Plan. This will be compiled on the basis of all information available.
This Memorandum of Understanding is an agreement under Article IV, paragraph 4, of CMS and is not legally binding.
The Action Plan will be an integral part of this Memorandum of Understanding.
This Memorandum of Understanding is open for signature by representatives of the authorities listed above. It will take effect with three signatures. It will become effective for each subsequent signatory on the date of signature.
This Memorandum of Understanding will remain open for signature indefinitely, and will remain in effect indefinitely subject to the right of any signatory to terminate its participation by providing one year's written notice to all other signatories.
The Memorandum of Understanding, including the Action Plan, may be amended by a consensus of the signatories.
The original text of this Memorandum of Understanding, in the Spanish and English languages, shall be deposited with the CMS Secretariat, which will act as the depositary. In the event of any discrepancies, the Spanish version will be considered definitive. The working language for all matters related to this Memorandum of Understanding will be Spanish and, for purposes of paragraph 5, English, depending on the Spanish language capacity of the Secretariat.
The CMS Secretariat will act as the secretariat to this Memorandum of Understanding. It may use the services of any reliable organisation to support the Memorandum's coordination.
The implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding and the Action Plan will be subject to the availability of human and financial resources within the respective countries.
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Putnam's Pre-Reynolds Restructuring is Two-Thirds Complete
Reported by Neil Anderson, Managing Editor
More than two-thirds of Putnam's restructuring program is complete. On Thursday Putnam's parent, Great-West Lifeco, revealed that, of C$184 million (now $171.02 million in US currency) allocated in 2007 for restructuring its then-recently-acquired US asset manager, only C$60 million ($55.77 million US) remains to be spent. Meanwhile, CEO Bob Reynolds has amped up Putnam's credit line.
Spokespeople for Great-West and Putnam were not immediately able to comment on the restructuring costs or on Putnam's new credit line.
In the first half of 2009, Great-West has spent an additional C$15 million ($13.94 million US) on restructuring-related compensation costs at Putnam, under a program that apparently predates Reynolds' tenure at the firm. Of the remaining restructuring funds, C$18 million ($16.73 million US) are earmarked for further compensation costs, C$11 million ($10.22 million US) for exiting and consolidating operations and C$31 million ($28.81 million US) for eliminating duplicate systems.
Reynolds also replaced Putnam's C$200 million (then $173.21 million in US currency) revolving credit facility agreement on June 22, setting a new, C$500 million (then $433.01 US) one with an unnamed Canadian bank. Putnam's already tapped C$270 million (then $233.83 million US) of that new line.
Putnam spokeswoman Laura McNamara confirmed that Putnam worked with a total of $102.8 billion US on June 30, down slightly from $106 billion on December 31.


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Galactic visionary to bring life story to stage
Pioneer stargazer inspires scientists to shoot for stars
George Morin / The Advocate
Kelly Ground (right), director of "Silent Sky," makes final alterations to Henrietta Leavitt's (Clove Galilee) coat during a dress rehearsal in the Knox Center on Thursday.
By Nina Cestaro, Staff Writer
"Silent Sky" opens Thursday night in the Knox Center for the Performing Arts and will run through Saturday, with performances each night beginning at 8 p.m.
A preview will take place tonight at 8 p.m. for a discounted ticket price of $5, and there will be a matinee performance on Saturday at 2 p.m. For each performance taking place on or after Thursday, general admission is $15 per guest and $10 for students with a student ID.
Play director Kelly Ground based her decision to direct and produce "Silent Sky" in part because she was asking herself what would work in the constraints of the Knox Center. Her other influence is award-winning playwright and author of "Silent Sky" Lauren Gunderson, is an acquaintance of hers. Gunderson is based locally and teaches screenwriting in San Francisco, Ground said.
Vicky Kagawan-Zabarte, who plays the role of Leavitt's sister Annie, was surprised to learn that her character "named more than 350,000 stars in the universe and classified them by their colors."
In this play, we see Leavitt at her familial home with her sister near Harvard's Observatory working with her associates to make astronomical discoveries, and with her supervisor, Peter, with whom she had a romantic episode.
The cast could not be a more congenial group of people who are seriously dedicated to their craft, Ground said.
Student Clove Galilee said she was inspired to audition for the lead in "Silent Sky" because of "the groundbreaking research on astronomy made by Leavitt. I am astounded at how versatile she was as a volunteer, mathematician, scientist and intellectual and how her work contributed to understanding how the universe works."
Prior to Henrietta Leavitt's work at Harvard Observatory, there was no Hubble Space Telescope, nor much information about how to count stars. Her innovative work on measuring the darkness or brightness of stars from telescopic photos and pairing them with their negatives gave the modern world of astronomy a new method, Ground said.
Hubble uses this same method today.
Ground said that each person will like this play for their own particular experience — "some might enjoy it for the possibilities and others for the science, but it really has something for just about everybody."
Willamena is played by student Kaitlyn McCoy. McCoy has taken one astronomy class and said she loved it.
About being in "Silent Sky," she said, "It's more fun than it is time-consuming, and you learn a lot about yourself being part of a production like this."
Adam Elder takes the only male role in the play: Peter.
Shirley Wilson	• May 3, 2015 at 2:15 pm
I wanted to like this story and the show, I went with friends and they wanted to like it too, but the story was too simple and the action too drawn out. It seemed like there was a lot of humor in the play but no laughs because it dragged while people just stood in one spot and talked like they didn't know where the jokes are. I know the actor my friends know, she is very lively and funny but here they made her just stand still and talk. The guy was pretty good but he was the only one who was allowed to move and be entertaining. My friend said the problem was the director, I don't know, I just kept trying to pay attention but it was hard to follow. Reminded me of an after school special or a history channel show but not as good.
https://cccadvocate.com/2236/scene/galactic-visionary-to-bring-life-story-to-stage/#comment-10
Henrietta Levitt	• May 1, 2015 at 3:44 pm
The actors meant well, but I saw this show last night and it's been directed like a cheap musical. Actors stand in stiff groupings like statues in a Nativity scene. Speech is stilted, over-precise and artificial. Even the actors' gestures seem to have been over-controlled by the director. Despite the huge facility (which was almost completely empty) and the elaborate technical resources, there were very few instruments lighting a dim stage in which the slow pacing, artificial speech and movement, and dull costumes created the perfect atmosphere for a nap. Also the theater was at first incredibly hot and then so cold that it was literally unbearable. A sad night for theater and a sad night for our community.
https://cccadvocate.com/2236/scene/galactic-visionary-to-bring-life-story-to-stage/#comment-9


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Video Art in Latin America is the first major U.S. survey of the subject from the late 1960s until today, featuring works rarely if ever seen in the U.S. and introducing audiences to groundbreaking achievements throughout Latin America. The exhibition begins with the earliest experiments in South America, where video became an important medium for expressing dissent during an era dominated by repressive military regimes, and follows themes that emerged in multiple artistic centers throughout Latin America, from labor, ecology, and migration to borders, memory, and consumption. The exhibition also highlights the ways in which contemporary video artists in Latin America continue to pursue the sociopolitical commitment of earlier work, exploring themes related to identity and the consequences of social inequality, without shying away from humor and irony.


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Dave Borden – Selling for $19MM and the $150MM Mistake
Posted byDan Daugherty July 21, 2020 September 22, 2020 Posted inEarn-out
Dave Borden, who sold his first business for $19MM tells his story on what it takes to be a serial entrepreneur, selling too soon, and the definition of what "entrepreneur" really means.
Dan Daugherty
Welcome to this episode of The Big Exit. I'm here with Dave Borden who sold his company in 2006 for $19MM. I wanted to structure this episode a little bit differently and actually get into the psyche and the mind of serial entrepreneurs and Dave has built multiple companies throughout the last couple decades. Some have been successful and some have failed, but we will talk more about his story. Dave, thank you for joining me.
Dave Borden
Thanks for having me Dan, we'll talk more about the success hopefully, but yeah, there's probably a lot more to learn from the failures but the successes are obviously more fun. So..
Well, let's start at the beginning, even in childhood, you grew up in Colorado Springs, correct?
Yeah. I grew up mostly in Colorado, but yeah, probably from about sixth grade on I was in Colorado Springs.
And did you always want to start a company, or were you influenced by your parents? Were they entrepreneurs?
Yeah, from a very young age, I always wanted to have a business of my own and I didn't really know exactly what it was, but both my parents were, they were entrepreneurs and they still are. And so I grew up from about the age of five where my family never worked for anybody else, and they always were able to provide plenty of income and do well. So I guess I was never scared of starting a business and I've only worked for, other than my time in the army, in a very brief stint in corporate America, I've never never worked for anybody other than myself.
Did you, you know growing up, even my mom actually ran Daugherty Construction and she also built pools. But one of the things I remember is that she was always stressed out about money. Did you see that at all with your family?
Okay, a couple rare times? Yes, I will say, my dad. I love him to death. He's also one of the most frugal guys I know. So, he never had a desire for fancy stuff and he was always very good at saving. However, we did have a pretty rough time and I think it was early eighties, like eighty one, eighty two, we used to live in Steamboat actually and it was before the big ski boom. So they had, they owned a bunch of property in real estate and they've always been into real estate and investing but the market really went sour, nothing was selling and even though I know we had some good savings, I know it dried up pretty quickly and that's the point where we pretty much moved.
We were forced to move to Colorado Springs just because there wasn't any income there. I think my dad actually took a job at a hardware store for about six to twelve months just to pay some bills. We didn't really have many bills like I said, my dad was very frugal. That was a pretty rough time and I think they just decided that we needed to pick up and go somewhere with a little more opportunity.
Subconsciously, do you think that helped transform your ideas, your ideals, and your thoughts about starting a company?
Well, I think I was pretty young at that time. I'm 48 now. I think at that time, I was under ten, maybe eight or nine, maybe ten. Well. I don't know, sixth grade whatever that is, ten, eleven, twelve, something like that. I did see you can feel the struggle, even though my parents never talked about it, but we were okay and I don't remember ever a time with my parents that we, you know, had bill collectors calling or we were late on mortgages.
I'm not saying that stuff never happened, but I certainly never felt it so I don't, I don't think I ever had a fear of starting a business because my parents always seemed to make it happen, even if it wasn't, even if they weren't thriving. I don't feel like they ever had any stress. They may have just done a really good job of not portraying that to me and my brother, but I just felt like they always felt like they could make it happen. And they always did, so I think that does factor into having confidence and starting a business and being able to make it happen.
And then fast forward, you went to West Point correct?
And why did you choose West Point?
It kind of chose me. Actually, I grew up in Colorado Springs, which the Air Force Academy is right in my backyard. I used to play basketball over there and we used to spend a significant amount of time at the Air Force.
I was familiar with academies and while I did well in high school, I didn't really do well enough to get into an academy. So, I actually went to CSU for a semester and had a little bit too much fun there and dropped out and moved back in with my parents. I was, you know, delivering some pizza. I worked for my dad's friend and I didn't really know what I wanted to do with myself, but I knew it wasn't that, so I joined the Army and, while I was in the army, I had a really good ASVAB score.
When I was in basic training, the drill sergeants told me that I was eligible to go to West Point if I wanted to. Since I knew about West Point, I was like, "Hell Yeah, I'll definitely do that."
So I got in. I did a year at the prep school and went to West Point and that was very challenging, I think what that probably taught me, it's funny, because that's such a regimented lifestyle that honestly life is a lot easier than attending West Point. I don't know if that makes any sense but when we wake up at five thirty and go to bed at midnight and your every hour is pretty much accounted for, and you're always doing something physically, mentally. It's a strenuous life, but you really don't know any better while you're doing it, but once you get out, it's like, oh, this life stuffed is really not that hard. It definitely strengthens your resolve for taking on other things in normal life that most people aren't used to dealing with.
So a lot of structure, a lot of leadership. Did you know that you wanted to start a business when you were in college or do you say, "Hey I I want to spend the rest of my life in the military."
I told people in high school that I was going to be a millionaire someday.
I definitely had the business bug. I definitely wanted to start a business, like I said, I had no idea what it was going to be. When I was in the military, don't get me wrong, the military was fantastic for me as far as developing self discipline, leadership, and just having the determination to accomplish stuff. You learn several things. You learn mostly that you can do anything you really set your mind to and there's certain things that you just are forced to do that you don't want to do and you have to do it anyway.
So those are two really good lessons I think. And I carried those into my, into my entrepreneurial life and with businesses, you know, you learn that no one's going to do stuff for you and you can also do pretty much anything you set your mind to if you really try.
So, I think the structure of the military was fantastic for me. However, I am an entrepreneur and that's like the biggest corporation in the world. I didn't love the Army. I didn't hate it or love it, but the first opportunity I had to get out, I definitely took so I could get my feet wet in the entrepreneurial world. I did so by joining my mom's property management company, and that's what led me into RentClicks, you know my first business.
So, you graduated from West Point, then you started working for..
No, I started flying helicopters for five years. I flew chinooks.
I got out a little bit early because I had bad feet. I owed like another year and a half, but they told me I could get surgery or get out, so I got out. Then I joined my mom, I did a brief stint in the corporate world at a company called Rhythms, which was a DSL provider in Denver. You probably are familiar with them living up there, they're gone now. I think at the time, that was during the dotcom boom and I think the CEO, I think her name was Catherine Hapka, she was the richest woman in Colorado for a while, just because of those overinflated stock prices, but that company, I saw the writing on the wall that it was not going to make it, and I had thought about joining my mom straight out of the army, but I wanted to scratch the corporate itch. So I did that, was not excited by it, and so, worked with my mom.
Do you think if you had a really good experience working at a larger corporation, that you would not have launched?
No, I Don't think so. Unless I obviously, if maybe the Rhythm stock or if I would have been at Amazon or something like that, my stock was worth a few million bucks, I probably would have hung in there, but I just, it's going to sound super arrogant, but I just felt like a lot of the people in charge of me were not, were not only, I didn't think they were as smart as me and think they wanted to work as hard as me. I just felt like they were paycheck collectors and I didn't want to be around that, um, so I I've always wanted to do my own thing and I went and kind got my feet wet with my mom and she made me a partner in her business, which was very nice, she didn't have to do that.
I worked super hard for her and that, that led me into RentClicks because at the time it was 2002, there was no where to advertise rental properties online other than like Craig's List, which was only in like two or three markets at the time and Robert Fowler's company Home Rental Ads that had a few markets too, but we, we just saw an opportunity and went for it. I had a couple of really smart business partners, one of which was really good at IT, Jonathan Hartley, he was really really good at the IT side. Jason worked his ass off on the sales, Jason Moren, and we were a really good team. We really pushed each other hard, we got along and everyone was accountable and worked hard. It was a really good experience.
So now, now, back, back in two thousand, two thousand and one, two thousand and two, you did have multifamily sites like apartments.comcom and others, but you're right, I didn't, I don't think there was any large scale, single family home rental properties at the time, I remember, a vast majority of property managers would actually post in the local classifieds or the local of newspapers, and it was very expensive.
Yeah. It was three or four hundred dollars. We were thirty nine bucks and I think that the we came about our pricing was like the average cost of one day in the Newspaper. It was what we charged- and it was a thirty day ad that worked way better, and at the time there was really only the only national players like rent.com at the time, which was definitely in advertising, but they were more of like almost an online locator.
eBay ended up buying them for a few hundred million bucks. I remember that, but there really wasn't much and then as we were growing, Craig's list started growing a little bit more, some other people started getting into the space and that made us a little nervous. We were clearly the leaders in the single family industry. I mean a lot of those other sites attacked the apartment industry. We were clearly the leader in the single family industry. You remember 'cause,' you were in that industry as well. We were a very fast growing, very effective, very profitable company. It was a lot of fun.
So, you saw that gap because you were working with your mom at the property management company. You saw that need within the market.
Yeah, in all honesty, what happened is the market just kind of turned. The rental market was pretty good in the late nineties, early two thousands, but a lot of crazy loans started happening and everyone could get a loan and everyone was buying home.
So i think, the percentage of homes that rented dropped from like 40% down to like 31%. Vacancy rates were high, right now, they're super low at the three to five percent range. At that time, there were markets, including Denver and Colorado Springs, with fifteen or twenty percent vacancies. We were spending a fortune on our owners money on newspaper ads and never hearing the end of it from them with not much success.
So I was literally just looking for somewhere else to advertise. The Internet was emerging at the time and I was like there's got to be somewhere online to advertise this stuff. There really wasn't, so we made it.
Do you remember what your revenue was that first year?
It was funny 'cause, I turned 30 that year and I remember thinking when I turned thirty, I was just pissed. It was like right after 9/11, so I was a little depressed after that, and then I turned 30 and I was like, I just am not where I want to be in life.
I need to do something here, and then, a few months later we started just in Colorado. It was Colorado Springs and we launched it toward the end of the year, like maybe August or September, and I think we only made about $10K the first year.
I think we made about $180K the second year and then we made like $3MM the third year and then we were at about a $5MM run rate when we sold.
So you had a five million run rate and what were your profit margins?
75% easily.
Do you have any regrets about selling?
You know yes, and no. I mean it's pretty nice when you're 30. I think I was 30. You know, getting a five million dollar check was my share for the first portion, and then I got another million and a half a year later. So that's a nice chunk of change at that age. However, when we sold, we were doing about $400K a month, which is about five million a year, six or seven months later, from July of '07 to August of '07, we grew $130K a month over a month. So if we would have waited six or seven months, we would have gotten at least double what we got and probably more. So to say that there's regrets definitely because I think the company probably made $150MM in revenues since I sold it.
I would have, at a seventy five percent margins, that would have been another $30MM or $40MM dollars for me personally. So that's a regret, but at the time you just really didn't know. Like I said, Craig's List was getting a lot bigger. Google was playing around with getting into the space. Yahoo was still a big company at the time looking at getting into the space and classified ventures who owned apartments.com at the time, had entered the space.
So we didn't really know how defensible our position was and looking back on it, it was really good and we feel like we probably could have done what Zillow did with the rental market had we stuck with it. But we didn't, so there's regrets there that the company made a ton of money and I think, under our leadership it could have made two, three, four, five times that. I think we could have been more like a VRBO type company, and you know I think they ended up selling to Home Away for a hundred and some million.
So I don't, no,I don't regret getting a big fat check like that. But when you look back on it you could have done a lot better and we were young. We were worn out. Because we had gone, and you know it sounds really stupid being worn out after three years, but man we went hard. I was at every trade show. I was on the road, fifty percent of my life, you know Jonathan, was programming, 12, 15, 18 hours a day and we took it really seriously and we worked really hard.
We didn't have a ton of fun with it. Honestly, we were just really serious as three West Point guys so we were all just really working hard and busting our ass and it was great, but we probably should have hung on and rode it out for another fifteen years. That would have been really interesting to see what happened. We did what we did and we did really well at a young age, and you know it's just one of those lessons.
You learn in life, and if people are listening to this trying to get advice, Man, when you get a company like that, when you're 33 years old and you're making $70K a month, you might be onto something. I say you should probably think long and hard about selling it and there's so many other ways to exit.
You don't have to sell it to someone. For example, If you have great leadership, younger people in your company can help run it. We had a leader in our company that easily could have run that company and would not have skipped a beat. We could have just hung on to it and done some other stuff with our life and still owned it. There's so many other ways to exit.
You can sell it to your employees, there's some serious tax benefits in doing so I mean there's just so many other options that we didn't consider at the time. So regrets yes, but ultimately- and I've learned so much during that- and since that I just really can't complain.
I think so many of us would love that opportunity. It's interesting, it sounded like it was a combination of things, one fear of the unknown, even though you personally were making seventy thousand or so a month.
When you apply for a loan or something and they say, "what is your monthly income?" and $70K and they're like, "no, you're monthly income, not annual", and you're like, that is my monthly income.
The fear of you guys not knowing what other competitors would do within the space and maybe in the back of your mind, you thought, Well, maybe this opportunity won't come up again and it's almost like the risk / reward.
So definitely nothing to be sad about for sure, but it's interesting to see a lot of different companies that have been acquired. Some are acquired and you know they made way more money than they could have if they continued to be a stand alone. For example, you know when I was at Google, Google acquired Urchin, which is now Google Analytics, and you know a standalone product probably would not have been super successful and they became a lot more successful being under Google, and if it was a stock option deal, you can imagine what that ended up being so for those that are listening and are entrepreneurs, there's never a right answer.
These are very rare in this world and none of us, not me or my business partners had a mentor in our life that had been down that road before. Jonathan's parents were successful, but in a smaller way, my parents were successful, but in a smaller way and Jay's parents, they had jobs, so we didn't really have anyone in our lives. That just said, listen guys, you guys are doing exceptionally well, even our own bankers were like You should probably sell it. I wish those guys would have shaken us and said guys hang on for two or three more years. You know double triple your revenue and then sell it. It's really rare, the world's not full of people that have made the hundreds of millions, tens and millions of dollars. So if you find somebody that's willing to talk to you, listen to those people, because that's what we lacked in our life at the time. With, just someone to say, "guys this doesn't come around very often."
have another business now as you know. Our business now is doing about the same amount of revenue, but it took us ten years to get there instead of three. You know making money's hard. It really is. I mean you see all these stories of people doing it all the time. So it looks easy. But it's not. It's freaking hard.
With the new company are you looking to potentially exit, or is this going to be more of a distribution play for the rest of your life?
We get opportunities every week to exit and we are staunchly opposed. You know we're making really nice money, the business is extremely defensible and we think it's going to grow at twenty, thirty, forty percent for the next ten or fifteen years. So there's no reason to sell. That's also a high margin business- it's not quite as high, but it's very nice, forty to fifty percent. So, and not only that, but as you know, we are launching another product which I've talked to you about our accounting software. We have a built in customer base that loves and trusts and respects us that we can tap right into and in any product that we roll out.
So it's being armed with my experience. It is really incredible because I mean we could probably sell that business for more than I sold Rent Clicks for in a week. I know three or four people that are always wanting to acquire us, there's three or four venture capital companies that are always there contacting us. Like I said, pretty much every week they contact me or one of my business partners and they want to make significant investments and we're just not interested, and I think that that's extremely rare. I see all these guys go out and start companies and the first thing they do is ask, "How do we raise money," and that's smart and it can work that way, but I think the first question always needs to be, "do we have something that someone will pay us one dollar for to use?" If we do, then you have a real business. If you have a product or a software or whatever it is you're doing, and you have customers that are willing to pay you for it, then you have a business and it doesn't mean it's profitable but I mean that's really 90% of the struggle.
Do you have something where customers are willing to give you money? If that answer is yes, then, and preferably with some good margin, then you can build a business around that. There's raising money when you don't have revenue and then there's raising money when you do have revenue, and it is a significantly different conversation when you are making a lot of money and your preferably profitable. You're going to have guys begging you to give you money versus you begging them to get money at a low valuation. Some enterprises out there I mean, I'm sure Tesla doesn't start with profits. You have to have some massive capital sunk into an operation like that, but if you're growing software or a little business or something like that to start with, you don't need someone else's money, and I think that there's just this obsession with going out and raising money or getting money from people and all that does- is just lets other people mooch and leach off of your efforts, which, if you have something for real, then you wanna wait as long as you can to let other people have access to it.
What is your definition of an entrepreneur?
An entrepreneur is a sexy term that people like to say. There's a lot of entrepreneurs out there that don't do very well. As a matter of fact, most of them do not, so the term entrepreneur generally applies to a group of people that 90% of which are usually failures. So it's not as sexy as it may seem unless you have a successful company.
I think what people have to realize before any of that other stuff and the thing that I have talked to my business partners about is, if you want to be an entrepreneur there's, there's people out there that have jobs and please don't take it the wrong way, that is absolutely admirable and worthy and awesome, and some people don't want to work. They want to work as little as they can to go skiing or fishing or have fun or whatever, and you know what sometimes I think those people are way smarter than me.
But if you want to be an entrepreneur, I mean really, you have to have a cast iron stomach and what I mean by that is, you have to be able to function in life, not knowing when your next paycheck's coming or if it's coming or how you're going to get by and just have faith and confidence in yourself that it's going to happen. If you don't feel like you can do that and if you don't have the persistence to push through the periods when it looks like you're not going to make it. Those are the times when great companies are created. You ask anybody, Amazon and Microsoft and Apple and all those guys, they all had points in their experience where they were like this just isn't working and they powered through it.
They persisted and they just kept on going and I think that's the first question about an entrepreneur before you raise money, is do I have that cast irons stomach because you know what, if you go to a venture capital guy and say yeah me and my team we're going to make a hundred and fifty grand a year apiece, they're going to be like no you're not. Why? Oh 'cause I have a mortgage and three cars and some Nordstrom cards. They don't care about any of that stuff, and if you really want to be an entrepreneur, you have to have zero debt. You have to have zero debt and live on nothing and be able to sustain yourself through those periods that are just going to get brutal because it will happen and if you have ten thousand dollars a month in expenses, the second things get brutal, you're going to go look for a job.
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I went outside for a training session yesterday. It was late in the day, and dark inside, and we needed light because we were doing a live Facebook video.
I did a few practice tricks while my human set up the iPhone and made sure everything was framed right. She also had me wear a festive collar, because she thought it would make it even more fun.
The Facebook Live video is nearly 5 minutes long, so my human edited it down to a few highlights for this blog post. It's just a quick minute of me doing my best tricks.
High five to Laura! She is hoping the book will help her show her cat, Frannie, not to be scared of the carrier. I think the book will have some good suggestions for her. If you would like your own copy of The Trainable Cat, you can get it on Amazon.
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You are just the best, Summer!!
And concats to the winner of that book.
When you waved bye bye Mommy squeed. Literally.
I can't believe it. I shared the video on FB and ALL my friends hearted it and watched it. I was SO pleased!!
You have some real talents ! I kind of know a command to give hugs.
Summer, that was such a cool video! Congrats to Laura T!
Summer, you never cease to amaze us with all your many talents.
You are fabulous Summer. Just fabulous! That's a great video. You and your human have a lot of patience. M said she'll have to work with me more.
Congratulations, Laura! We loved watching your video, Summer. Winners all around!
We watched your video last night and loved it!
Whoa! I was watching the video when TW clicked on it for me. I kept saying you were selling your soul for a few treats although it was more treats than I get in a week. Great seeing you in action.
I enjoyed your video. You are very smart, Summer.
We sure enjoyed your video pretty Summer, you sure high five mighty fine!
Cute video. you are a clever kitty.
wave bye bye, that's a great one! I never thought of that! Will have to teach Yanni that too!
She does the same thing that Yanni does, sitting up when she gets enthusiastic (or maybe I should say impatient and wanting treats). That makes me feel a little better about the state of Yanni's training.
I love seeing you Summer! You are so smart!
I missed the live feed on FB – even tho a friend sent me a message – but I did get to watch the whole 5-minute video on FB – thoroughly enjoyed it!
Watched it yesterday, good job! Your are so good with the tricks. I am a tortie, so therefore, I will not do tricks! Maybe I can get my lady to start….
Summer first of all B R A V O…you are the most talented trick cat we know. OMCs and you must understand words too.
PS I don't really get bacon….it is all in my dreams.
Summer, we really liked your video.
Super cute Summer… you obviously enjoy your training sessions. I always crate train my kitties so vet visits or emergencies aren't more complicated than need be – the crates are left out and the girls use them daily as beds. I taught one of my girls to "beg", and now when she wants something, she walks over to it and begs… it's adorable that she figured that part out.
That is such a good video. You are just so smart to do those tricks. We love the 'high five' a lot.
You are so smart Summer and we think being live on Facebook means you are a Movie Star, and very brave.
Well done! Did you learn any new tips from the book?
Congratulations Laura T! Great video, Summer! You're so smart!
That's a great video. You are such a smart kitteh, and so kind to humor your hoomin. Concatulations to Laura too.
You are allus a winner Summer!


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Wednesday's reports out of Japan on TEPCO's estimates of unit #1 RPV's complete melt-through to the primary containment floor, is literally full of more holes than the RPV itself. As more detail on the data TEPCO fed into the computer simulation emerges, we find little to hang our hats on. From the information contained in Japan Times and Asahi Shimbun articles posted Thursday, TEPCO based their assumption entirely on worst-case scenarios for the accident event sequence….that never happened! For example, all cooling flow to #1 RPV was assumed to have stopped immediately at the onset of the earthquake and not re-started for "days", causing the fuel to be uncovered, begin melting down after three hours, and continue to be melted for at least 48 hours. This entirely contradicts control room operator records which show the fuel did not begin to be uncovered until after midnight, more than 8 hours after the earthquake. In addition, there were at least two cooling water injections (~80 tons each) before uncovery…one about two hours after the earthquake and another just after fuel uncovery began. Further, cooling water flow (seawater) to #1 RPV began at 7pm on March 12 and ran almost continuously thereafter, with a few several-hour interruptions through March 15 due to hose damage caused by the #3&#4 reactor building explosions. In other words, the most critical data leading to the TEPCO's melt-through conclusion are entirely fabricated! Complete fictions!
What makes it even more of a fairy-tale is TEPCO's statement that the entire core of unit #1 may have melted through the RPV and dropped to the containment floor beneath. If that happened, the hole in the bottom of the RPV would be huge and still gaping, so there would be no way for a measurable water level to exist inside, at this point. Yet, JAIF's Thursday data report, based on TEPCO data, shows a water level which is ~4.5 feet below the top of what used to be the fuel cell, which is more than 15 feet above the bottom of the RPV. A complete RPV melt-through of the core would result in zero water inside the RPV…there should be no water level to report.
There seems to be a virtual mountain of severe problems with TEPCO's melt-through announcement for all three units. The above is literally the tip of the iceberg. The entire simulation may well be not worth the paper it was printed on. To add another level of fiction to the mix, Asahi Shimbun says someone (anonymous) with the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization believes the accident was perhaps two times worse than the TEPCO simulation purports. A fiction predicated on another fiction, if you will. But, what makes matters worse are the incessant mentions in the Japanese press of the China Syndrome superstition, supported by TEPCO statements to the news media. All reports say China Syndrome was averted, but each strongly implies it to be an entirely possible reality for the world to fear. Right! So is Godzilla!
As if the above isn't disturbing enough, this morning we find another article concerning the melt-through theory (above), this time citing "experts" other than TEPCO. Some say they agree with TEPCO, while others don't. On the positive side, Hiromi Ogawa, a former engineer at Toshiba Corp., said "The simulation
referred to lots of data collected from many experiments, and thus I think the results are very precise. Still, the situation will have to be confirmed visually." On the negative side, Kenji Sumita, past deputy chief of the Nuclear Safety Commission, said, "There are many computer simulation methods. I want to see
simulations conducted by organizations other than Tepco. I don't believe the fuel got as close as 2 or 3 cm to the steel shell, but I am not sure how credible their details are." Clearly, distrust of TEPCO runs deep. (Japan Times) We feel it is important to point out something all Press reports fail to mention…the news media tells everyone the corium penetrated within 37cm of the steel shell buried in the concrete, which technically marks the limit of the primary containment floor under the RPV. All reports make appear that if the steel shell would have been penetrated, it would have been China Syndrome. What is being conveniently omitted is the ~8ft of steel reinforced concrete below the steel shell.
Now, for some real updates…
The Japan Chemical Analysis Center in Chiba has reported that the concentrations of radioactive Xenon in
the atmosphere for the first 3 months of the Fukushima accident were above normal. The peak concentration occurred soon after the unit #1 hydrogen explosion, which decimated its refueling deck, at 400,000 times normal. (normal = 3.4 millibecquerels.m3, or 3.4×10-3 becquerels/m3). From March 14-22 the average was 1,300 becquerels/m3. Keisuke Isogai from the Center commented on the potential risk, "Since the detected amount translates into a cumulative external exposure to radiation of only 1.3 microsieverts over the three-month period, it won't cause a health hazard." (Mainichi Shimbun) How can something 400,000 times "normal" be safe? That's a huge number, and huge numbers are inherently scary. First, Xenon is an inert gas that cannot chemically combine with anything. If breathed in, it immediately gets exhaled out and cannot enter the body's biology. Thus, the only exposure is external. Second, Xenon-133, the primary isotope, is a beta radiation emitter. Beta radiation is non-penetrating. It all gets absorbed by the outer layer of skin. No living tissue exposure whatsoever. Thus, the exposure is essentially innocuous. (The outer three layers of skin are dead cells) In fact, there could have been a billion-billion times normal Xenon levels and there would still be no health threat.
TEPCO has released their interim report on the Fukushima accident (in Japanese only…grrr). The report is based on over 250 interviews with plant operators who were at the accident scene from March 11 through the end of May. It begins with what sounds like an attempted shifting of blame as to why the accident was even possible, by saying the government endorsed their existing tsunami protection before March 11. The report also says the utility did everything in its power to stop the progression of the accident events, but workers could not keep up with on-site developments and the meltdowns ensued. It does not, however, contain explanations of what measures the operators at unit #1 took to try and cool their RPV, nor how a massive release of airborne material could have come from unit #2 without a hydrogen explosion. (NHK World)
The Tokyo government has announced the independent panel intended to investigate the cause(s) of the Fukushima accident has been expanded to ten people. However, it seems none of them have any nuclear engineering or operating experience. While no new names have been given, the membership is reported to include, "…doctors, a management consultant and a former public prosecutor." To make matters worse, the committee's report is not expected before June 2013, which means the start-ups of idled nukes probably won't happen until next summer…if then. (Yomiuri Shimbun) Anti-nuclear Ex-Prime Minister Kan's de-facto nuclear moratorium doth obtain.
Today marks the 69th anniversary of the world's first sustained nuclear chain reaction, also known as "The Chicago Pile". (see "Before the Beginning" page, left) Technically, it marked the beginning of the atomic age. It was not part of the Manhattan Project, and was in no way connected to nuclear weapon development, but it did begin the development of what Einstein called "the benign uses of my idea". Rod Adams of Atomic Insights has posted a fine commemorative essay…
http://atomicinsights.com/2011/12/celebrating-the-first-self-sustaining-chain-reaction-at-cp-1.html


Patrick Kwame Ampadu joins Thierry Henry's Coaching Staff at Monaco in the French First League. Ampadu until the announcement today served as the Head Coach of Arsenal's U-18 side.
Henry and Ampadu met when the former worked as Arsenal's U-18 boss with the later being the U-14 boss. Ampadu had a duo of appearances for Arsenal as a player between 1988 and 1991 amidst loan spells with Plymouth and West Bromwich.
He later became a regular at Exeter City and Swansea City.
Kwame led Arsenal's U-18's to the final of the 2017 FA Youth Cup. Interestingly enough, he lost the tie to Chelsea where his son Ethan Ampadu plies his trade.
Patrick Ampadu whose father is a Ghanaian represented his mother's country, Ireland at u- 21 level. As a coach, he saw to the development of players like Emile Smith Rowe, Reiss Nelson and Joe Willock.
Thierry Henry, a former player of Monaco and his staff are tasked to rescue the club after a rather poor start to the season. 1 win in 12 outings this season has led to the sack of Leonardo Jardim who guided the club to their 2017 league heroics.
Can Eric Eyiah, captain of Ghana's 2017 U-17 side grow up under the new technical staff?


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Germany assists Vietnamese households in developing solar power
Households in Vietnam which install rooftop solar power systems by 2021 will receive a maximum of 6 million VND (256 USD) each from the German Government through the German development bank KfW.
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A rooftop solar power system in Tay Ninh province (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Households in Vietnam which install rooftop solar power systems by 2021 will receive a maximum of 6 million VND (256 USD) each from the German Government through the German development bank KfW.
This is part of the 14.5-million-EUR renewable energy development project jointly carried out by the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the German Government during 2019-2021.
The project aims at benefiting 50,000-70,000 households across Vietnam.
In addition, Germany will help the country in training human resources and encouraging the private sector and households to participate in rooftop solar power development activities.
The MoIT has recently approved a programme on developing rooftop solar power in the 2019-2025 period, which aims to support the implementation of the national strategy on renewable energy development.
According to the Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN), more than 9,300 rooftop solar power systems, with a total capacity of 193 megawatt-peak, have been installed as of July 18. EVN has installed 204 of the systems in its branches, and the remaining 9,110 systems have been installed on the rooftops of enterprises' headquarters and households.
Under the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Decision 2023, Vietnam is targeting installation of solar power systems in 100,000 households between 2019 and 2025.-VNA
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Experts gathered at a conference in Hanoi on January 14 to seek ways to improve air quality in the capital city of Vietnam.
Investors sought for landfill improvement projects
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee is calling for investment in the form of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to improve environmental conditions at three closed landfill sites.
Saltwater encroaches deep into Mekong Delta
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has forecast saltwater intrusion for 10 of the 13 provincial-level localities in the Mekong Delta this dry season, and the phenomenon has already appeared in eight so far.
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Authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have issued an order to protect wild birds after a large amount of birds moved to settle in residential areas.
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By 2050, 60 percent of farming areas in Vietnam will be equipped with water-saving irrigation systems, according to the country's Water Management Strategy, which was recently approved by Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.


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Bulleit Begins Construction on $10M Visitor Center
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Construction will soon start on a nearly $10-million visitor center at the Bulleit Distilling Co. in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
The visitor center for the Diageo-owned brand of American whiskey is expected to open to the public in 2019.
"It's a thrill to realize that people from around the globe will soon have the opportunity to visit the distillery and learn about Bulleit's heritage," said founder Tom Bulleit. "I speak for every distillery team member when I say how exciting it will be to open our doors and allow our consumers to be part of the Bulleit Frontier Whiskey experience."
The 11,570-square-foot, state-of-the-art visitor center will include interactive educational experiences, bourbon tastings, and retail space. It will be designed to be engaging, technologically advanced and environmentally conscious, the company says. Tours of the distillery will highlight Bulleit's whiskey-making process and will include a visit to Tom Bulleit's office.
Artist renderings of the new visitor center.
"Our vision with Bulleit Distilling Company and the new Visitor Center is to hero the community, culture and partners that have brought Bulleit to boundary-pushers all over the world and established it as a pillar of American whiskey," says Ed Bello, U.S. & Global Brand Director for Bulleit Frontier Whiskey.
The visitor center anticipates employing approximately 30 full- and part-time team members within two years of its opening.
Last year the brand opened a new $115-million distillery in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
Diageo's Stitzel-Weller Distillery, located in Louisville, Kentucky, will continue to offer tours and remain a stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour. Tours will focus on other Diageo North American whiskey brands, including Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Orphan Barrel Whiskey and other innovations to come, the company says.
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Day's eyes on Pebble Beach triumph
By Tony Webeck PGA Contributor
Published on 07 February 2019
It is the ocean views that endear it to many but it's what he sees on the ground that makes Jason Day believe success at Pebble Beach Golf Links is within reach.
Day heads a contingent of eight Australians playing the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at the famed Monterey Peninsula that in June will also host the US Open.
In nine appearances in the tournament that is played across Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and Monterey Peninsula Country Club before reaching its conclusion at Pebble, Day has registered five top-six finishes including a tie for second 12 months ago.
After working off the rust at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, Day was tied for fifth in the defence of his Farmers Insurance Open title a fortnight ago and is excited at the prospect of breaking Australia's drought at Pebble Beach that stretches back more than 25 years.
"All three courses suit my eye, but I guess I just have to be patient and let things unfold," Day told AAP.
"I've had some very good finishes here and I feel like I am going to win this tournament one year.
"I've had a lot of top-fives and top-10s and played really well here, but I don't know what has stopped me from winning.
"Sometimes you just get beat on the day, even though you played well. Ted Potter played better than everyone last year."
Day will commence his tournament campaign at Monterey Peninsula Country Club alongside Canadian Mackenzie Hughes with Adam Scott, Curtis Luck and Ryan Ruffels also starting the tournament at the course that has played the easiest of the three in six of the past nine years.
Ruffels received a sponsor's invitation to play in the event where he was tied 60th in 2016, the 19th PGA TOUR tournament he has played in courtesy of an invite.
John Senden is off the 10th tee with Scott Stallings in the first group at Spyglass Hill in the opening round, fellow Aussie Rod Pampling to follow in the group directly behind.
Cameron Davis, Aaron Baddeley and Matt Jones are also playing Spyglass Hill first up.
On the Champions Tour, Victorian David McKenzie makes his first appearance of 2019 at the Oasis Championship in Boca Raton, Florida, a tournament in which he tied for 24th last year, 11 shots behind victor Mark Calcavecchia.
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Samsung seems to have been inspired by the Xiaomi formula to design its new smartphones, the Galaxy M10, and the Galaxy M20.
A few weeks before the release of the Samsung S10, Samsung unveils a new range of smartphones: the Galaxy M. And the competitor he targets with this new formula is Xiaomi. With its affordable smartphones, but with interesting data sheets, as well as almost premium designs, this Chinese manufacturer has managed to conquer the Indian market, one of the most important markets currently, in the field of mobile technologies. In 2017, Xiaomi would have exceeded Samsung, and kept this lead in 2018.
The response is Samsung Galaxy M smartphones, presented this Monday in India at a special event. The Galaxy M10 price starts at Rs.7,990 on the Amazon Indian site, while the price of the M20 starts at Rs.10,990 with an almost unbeatable value for money.
The Galaxy M20 has a 6.3-inch screen (1080 × 2340) with a ratio of 19.9: 9. Like most premium smartphones on offer today, the device has almost no fascias on the front. And the screen occupies 90% of the surface. For the front camera, the camera has a small V-shaped notch.
Under the hood, there is an Exynos 7904 processor, designed for mid-range smartphones (but not low-cost smartphones). And the user will have the choice between a model with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal memory, or 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of memory. The battery is also very interesting, with its 5,000 mAh. For photos, we have two sensors (13MP / F1.9 and 5MP / 120 °) on the back and a 13MP / F1.9 sensor that occupies the notch on the front.
The Galaxy M10 has a similar design in front, but with a smaller screen, a diagonal 6.22 inches. The processor is an Exynos 7870, offered with 3GB of RAM and 32 GB of memory, or 2GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory. The battery is 3,400 mAh. But while the M10's performance may seem inferior to that of the M20, both mobiles have similar designs and offer the same battery of photosensors on the back and front.
Samsung Galaxy M20 comes with two variations which will cost at Rs.12,990 for 4GB + 64GB variant and Rs.10,990 for 3GB + 32GB variant.
Samung Galaxy M10 also comes in two variants which will cost at Rs.8,990 for 3GB + 32GB variant and Rs.7,990 for 2GB + 16GB variant.
According to Samsung, these two target models especially the millennials in India. "Millennials represent 34% of our population. They are the alpha users of technology and mobiles. Whether for content consumption, social media or games. The new Galaxy Series series is specially designed for the young generation of India, for our millennials, "said a Samsung official in India.
For the moment, we do not know if the manufacturer plans to offer these smartphones in other countries.
HTC had things to say and show this year at CES. Although the eyes were mainly focused on the new Vive Cosmos, a second virtual headset was also unveiled during the company's press conference.
HTC has unveiled the Vive Pro Eye, a new version of its virtual reality headset that it describes as "an evolution of the virtual reality space in business". Revealed at CES 2019, the great innovation announced by HTC for the Vive Pro Eye is, as its name suggests, Eye Tracking. A feature long awaited for virtual reality, and which will allow a significant improvement in rendering in games and experiences.
According HTC's speech, Vive Pro Eye natively integrates eye tracking and gives users "greater accessibility, eye-oriented menu navigation." This, in turn, eliminates the need to use controllers to navigate the user interface, it adds.
So HTC quickly tackled the subject of Vive Pro Eye as announced and expected visitors. Taking the foundations of its predecessor, it brings however an eye tracking function usually characteristic of high-end: Eye Tracking.
This function was only present on certain models not really accessible to the general public, such as VRGineers XTAL. With this breakthrough, HTC is seeking to regain market share in the field of high-end.
It remains to be seen how this will translate into video games, but in its presentation, HTC said the new eye tracking technology would allow companies to create better training simulations, as well as improve resource utilization computer.
Since HTC is strongly targeting this new version of Vive in Business, it may take some time before the technology used in video games is used, if at all. For now, HTC has not rated the Vive Pro Eye yet. However, virtual reality enthusiasts will probably begin to tinker with it as soon as it is available and reveal some of the helmet game applications, which we are delighted.
Apart from the integration of this new feature, the features of the Vive Pro Eye remain identical to the standard Vive Pro. As a reminder, its resolution is 1440 x 1600 pixels per eye with a refresh rate of 90 Hz, and a field of view of 110 degrees.
This is the first official announcements made during HTC's presentation. The company then revealed Viveport Infinity, which focuses more directly on the gaming market. Viveport Infinity is a paid subscription service. It will offer unlimited access to a game catalog for a monthly fee to it's members. Again, pricing has not been confirmed yet, but the subscription service will be available from April 5th.
So that the Vive Pro Eye comes with a new capacity allowing a foveal rendering, a dedicated OS Vive Reality System, and a subscription Viveport Infinity (real Netflix of the virtual reality), the Vive Cosmos comes at the same time to prevail as first VR headset compatible with Vive Reality.
All the details have not yet been revealed about this newcomer, but the brand has already announced that it had traded its external sensors against a positional tracking system and accelerometers. Including a full RGB screen and totally devoid of wire, according to the trailer broadcast, it seems adaptable on both PC and smartphone.
Let's be honest, the world (and innovation) isn't exactly prepared for self-governing flying cabs yet. First we have to ace the innovation that permits independent driving, which won't occur before five or ten years.
The idea of self-ruling flying vehicles isn't just about traveler transport, yet additionally about products, for example, therapeutic supplies, bundles, sustenance and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Organizations are effectively dealing with this innovation to work it to convey bundles around the same time or to transport supplies to remote areas all the time without the requirement for a pilot. Inside ten years, the conceivable outcomes are genuine in such manner.
To begin with, there will be administrative and societal difficulties, however self-sufficient flying vehicles are one of the 17 new advancements that make up Gartner's Hype Cycle 2018 in Emerging Technologies. The Hype Cycle centers on innovations that will give a generous upper hand throughout the following decade.
Inside ten years, AI advancements will be basically all over. By empowering their initial adopters to adjust to new advancements and take care of issues at no other time experienced, they will wind up available to the overall population - will turn out to be increasingly vote based. Developments and patterns, for example, distributed computing, Maker culture and free source code will before long make AI available to all.
This year, Gartner has organized 17 innovations as per 5 noteworthy patterns that will obscure the limits that different people from machines: the democratization of man-made brainpower (AI), the digitalization of biological communities, free bioinformatics, and vivid encounters straightforward and universal foundation.
Level 4 Self-sufficient driving alludes to the capacity of vehicles to work without human collaboration in many conditions and areas, and apparently in basically divided regions. Vehicles with this dimension of driving self-governance will probably incorporate the market over a 10-year skyline. Level 5 driving self-governance alludes to the capacity of vehicles to work self-ruling in all circumstances and conditions, and in addition to control all undertakings. With no directing wheel, brakes or pedals, these vehicles could turn into another living condition for families and have a critical societal effect.
For instance, with shrewd robots that can work close by people - giving room administrations or working in stockrooms - organizations will have the capacity to help and supplant HR or redeploy them to undertakings. Progressively valuable and productive. This class additionally incorporates level 4 and level 5 self-governing driving, which supplanted the "self-ruling vehicles" this year in the Hype Cycle.
The chain squares (block chain), for instance, which offers the chance to build flexibility, dependability and straightforwardness of concentrated frameworks and the certainty they could come to change the principles for authorities information security. This pattern likewise incorporates computerized twins. These virtual portrayals of genuine articles are starting to be embraced in the field of support and Gartner gauges that inside five years, a huge number of items will have their virtual twin.
All in all, new advances require the help of new specialized bases and increasingly unique biological communities. These will require the advancement of new business methodologies and the move to stage based plans of action. The progress from specialized framework to biological community stages will result in the advancement of completely new administration models that cross over any barrier among people and innovation.
Innovation, especially in wise workspaces, is winding up progressively human-focused, obscuring the limits between individuals, organizations and items, and cultivating life and work more intelligent. In a brilliant workspace, electronic white boards are utilized to all the more effectively record meeting minutes, sensors give tweaked data dependent on representative areas, and office supplies can connect straightforwardly with workers. IT stages.
The year 2018 speaks to just the start of a "trans human" period where free bio informatics and "expanded" people will turn out to be increasingly prominent and open. This innovation will extend from straightforward diagnostics to neural inserts. It stays to be perceived how far society will go to acknowledge these sorts of uses and to look at the moral issues they offer ascent to.
There are four classifications of bioinformatics alterations: mechanical expansion, nutrigenomics, trial science, and expanding physical limits through inserts (processor bio hacking).
For instance, DNA chips can possibly recognize infections from malignancy to chickenpox before the patient has side effects. These chips are secured by a variety of atomic sensors with the capacity to investigate organic components and synthetic compounds. The Hype Cycle additionally incorporates biotech muscles developed falsely and naturally roused for the current year. This innovation, which is presently being produced in the lab, would one be able to day permit skin and tissue improvement on a robot, making the last touchy to weight.
Foundation never again blocks the accomplishment of hierarchical goals. The coming and broad notoriety of distributed computing and its varieties have encouraged unhindered and continuous access to an IT foundation.
Take, for instance, quantum figuring. On account of complex frameworks of quantum bits and calculations, it offers an exponentially quicker execution than those of traditional PCs. Later on, this innovation will be huge affect enhancement, machine learning, encryption, investigation and picture examination. There will likely never be any showcasing of universally handy quantum PCs, however the innovation has gigantic potential in some unmistakable ways.


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Spot is robot dog designed by Google originally for the purpose of serving in the military. While the US military felt that Spot and Google's Alpha dog were not ready to join the army just yet, this gave Spot the perfect opportunity to hang out and witness what civilian life feels like.
Just last week, venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson shared a video on YouTube showing Spot engaging in an interesting encounter with a civilian dog called Fido. Now you can imagine how amazed a military robot would be after seeing such an interestingly cute creature. So Spot tried to run away at first, nothing strange there.
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Fido persisted and at some point, it seemed like he was getting away with it. And then it happened, Spot immediately crouched as its military mode kicked in, that's when we knew it was just over. Even though Spot was rejected by the US military, the head of the Ground Combat Element branch for the Warfighting Lab believed Spot still had a place in the military.
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"I see Spot right now as more of a ground reconnaissance asset." he said. "The problem is, Spot in its current configuration doesn't have the autonomy to do that."
[Image Source: Boston Dynamics]
Spot was introduced by Boston Dynamics and it weighs just 72 kilograms. It efficiently uses electricity and hydraulics to operate and it has the ability to move not only on flat terrains, but even uneven terrains. It also has the impressive ability of being able to climb steps. What is even more impressive is that it can move while carrying loads as heavy as 181 kilograms!
Last year, Google celebrated Christmas in a very unusual way. They mimicked Santa Claus but instead of having a reindeer, Spot and his brothers moved Santa around the park. Now that's a pretty good use of a military robot dog, don't you think?
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Austria to deport 50,000 economic migrants by 2019
As the second of the EU's inner ring to break away from a Brussels-coordinated approach to Europe's migrant crisis, Die Krone has run a story that the government has agreed to ensure the removal of at least 12,500 economic migrants a year. Illegals from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Georgia, Mongolia and Gambia will be disposed of with a '10 day quick' method; migrants leaving voluntarily before being deported on military aircraft will get €500 handshake, and the Information ministry will reach economic migrants in their own and third countries through social media with the simple message 'Don't waste your time - we'll send you back'. The military is being mobilised to undertake forced repatriation flights.
Austria's move follows Sweden breaking ranks with the announcement that she will deport 80,000 economic migrants. Both actions make both Merkel and Juncker look ridiculous, and the decision places additional pressure on Germany's government to make a similar announcement.
Throughout the crisis Herr Juncker, Europe's most senior unelected official, has failed to demonstrate any leadership, any coherent plan or to inspire any confidence in the EU's core nations. Many now view his role as leading the EU into terminal decline - including Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
Meanwhile, three km down the road in the village, the slight thaw has brought three or four Flüchtlinge out of their disused hotel, for the first time since they arrived in December, and it's a been a bit like 'Springwatch' as the locals comment on their every move; in plastic sandals and chinese trainers they pick their way to the 'Spar' - where one is delegated to enter, watched so closely by every single member of staff and every customer that any thoughts of shoplifting are thwarted. They don't have any money that will buy anything here. Like badgers they decide the outdoors is a bit much for them, and pick their way back to their hotel, every step closely watched. I've been told the story twice so far, by two eyewitnesses. All it lacked was a commentary by Bill Oddie, and a video on Youtube. I have a feeling that the poor buggers will soon tire of Austrian community scrutiny and either head for Germany or take their €500 and go home.
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Malcolm Stevas said...
How I hope Kronen Zeitung's report is accurate! Anything resembling decisive, substantive, effectual, patriotic action on mass immigration, byt absolutely any EU country, would help to restore one's faith in reason & rationality.
"I have a feeling that the poor buggers will soon tire of Austrian community scrutiny and either head for Germany or take their €500 and go home."
500 urines is a princely sum to many of those economic migrants, refugees are in camps in Syria, so it might act as an encouragement for more to come.
All the time that the EU fails to uphold its agreement with the (almost) former nation states, the stream of hopefuls will continue.
I think that this "get tough" concept might be more of a ruse to keep the project rolling....
...A sort of drunken "double or quits" slapstick routine dreamt up by the corporate political class, led by the chief pisshead Juncker.
Austria, is making the correct move and in doing so are emitting a clear signal of intent.
David Aaronovitch, in the Times concluded in his Wednesday piece, "sink a few boats to stop them coming". Now it is open to interpretation, whether he was drawing caustic fiction or, making a literal suggestion and a course of action - however, in the end, whatever else are they going to do? Someone, somehow has to call a halt, call Turkey's bluff.
Stop sending the wrong signals would be a start...................
Mad Mutti Merkel, stands in isolation from, the Osterreich and drifts apart from the nations of MittelEuropa. Indeed not only is Europe split north to south, it is now sundered east and west, only the Kommissars of Brussels see it Merkel's "Wilkommen alle" way, oh and - the politically doomed French dough boy.
EVEN - The Scandis are not playing ball. Plus, the Dutch are having an April referendum concerning Brussels awarding Ukraine associate membership but said plebiscite will metamorphose into a pro/anti EU ballot and the Dutch are pretty well pissed off by the EU.
Schengen, is shut! and Europe is in crisis!!! As you allude to R, Britain must not be allowed to slip away. Forthcoming, it will be such a fight when the referendum is set to a date - I seriously believe that, all the corporates/big wigs/tosserati/slebs/luvvies/media/lawyers/university lecturers/German institute of bending hte rules-car manufacturers - they shall be the facilitators and architects of their own downfall by making such a bollox of browbeating the British public, that, an (BR) exit will be impossible to say no to!
All the time, behind closed doors the dipsomaniac Luxembourger surely is regularly staining himself, as are all the establishment gravy train troughers on this side of the channel.
Sovereignty, it's non negotiable - so, it's out.
OUT, OUT, OUT, OUT - imagine, in folk memory try to recall, the sounds, the glint of steel as swords are drawn, men roaring at death - of the shield wall and the hilts of axes and swords thumping in time on the shields, OUT, OUT, OUT!!!
DeeDee99 said...
So a few continental governments are belatedly waking up to the disaster they allowed to take place in their countries. But do you really think they are going to be able to deport these parasites? I doubt it: most of them simply haven't got the balls.
But let's give the Austrian Government the benefit of the doubt (they are, of course, very close to Hungary which seems to have the only sensible Leader on the continent). How will they get rid of the gimmigrants via a "10 day quick method?" And if they can implement a 10 day quick method, why can't our own pathetic Home Office?
Cuffleyburgers said...
What deedee said.
At last, a couple of leaders showing balls, showing up the pathetic Juncker and Merkel as so incompetent they couldn't tie their own shoelaces. To get the message across to the invading hordes action must be taken immediately to stop them. Boats coming across must be turned back and then destroyed. People in the sea picked up and taken to the nearest country in north Africa or Turkey and NOT brought to the EU. If we keep acting like a ferry service they won't be discouraged.
DeeDee99 said @ 08:51
'So a few continental governments are belatedly waking up to the disaster they allowed to take place in their countries. But do you really think they are going to be able to deport these parasites?'
The question is why now are they deciding to deport said parasites?
The answer is more are on their way, then more will follow those. I'd say its more to do with a short-term self-preservation reflex than worries about dooming their own populations. We're long past the time when politicians actually gave a damn about the people they were elected by - especially Europe's native peoples, whom they appear to hate anyway. Mandelson was accurate when he said we live in a post-democratic age, and Blair, when he was being mentored by the sociologist Anthony Giddens, was made fully aware of how you go about it:
If you can't get the change you want, change the people
It's really rather simple. Oh, and we're fucked, or rather we've been fucked over.
Dave_G said...
The idea that this mass immigration was a 'mistake' is a mistake in itself.
It would appear that this is a designed 'crisis', said design being the deliberate - albeit temporary - destabilisation of the countries of Europe.
With the obvious manifestation of vigilante groups (Sweden now, who knows where next, if they aren't here already but D-noticed out of existence) the various Governments have the excuse they need to implement emergency measures to combat the problem.
Emergency measures that, naturally, impact on the general publics freedoms more than anything, can postpone referendums (natch) and allow the authorities to complete their 'plan' without interference or criticism (D-notices again).
Combine the building issues the West is trying to cope with: failing economies, falling currencies, EU breakup (potentially), irreconcilable debt, energy crises, global exansionism, impending conflict, US Dollar collapse etc etc and you can't help thinking that Governments in Europe are placing themselves to restrict movement of people AND money in order to progress a campaign that they consider will re-establish control over ALL the issues they currently have LOST control of.
wiggiatlarge said...
Many now view his role as leading the EU into terminal decline , but still the whole stinking mass limps on, still they want closer union and still our "Dave" promises what he cannot ever get.
Will the referendum save us, doubtful as the huge number who have never known this country without being in the EU and have no idea how we arrived in this situation and least of all care will I fear vote for the status quo.
I look at Europe and find it incredible that the majority accept Merckel as its de facto leader, no questioning of her role as that leader of the EU and that again includes our Dave.
mikebravo said...
The Coudenhove-Kalergi European Prize is not awarded by mistake.
The scum at the heart of "The Project" know what they are doing and how they plan to achieve it.
We are all to be replaced with an easily controlable bastard race.
Coudenhove-Kalergi clearly states that the peoples of Europe should interbreed with Asians and colored races, thus creating a multinational flock with no quality and easily controlled by the ruling elite.
The scum have a plan and are working towards it.
How about by next Monday?
Poisonedchalice said...
So WTF is going on with Britain then? Core members of the EU are deporting and we are told we can't. What's going on??
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