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Q: Not able to start the Spring Boot with help of JHipster project I have created an application with help of JHipster, it was fine while initial start of the application.
After creating the custom entity I have encountered 2 issues
First Issue :: Not able to find the entity in the classpath the exception given below but this issue has been cleared by cleaning the project
c.m.s.c.liquibase.AsyncSpringLiquibase  [0;39m Liquibase could not start correctly, your database is NOT ready: liquibase.exception.SetupException: Error Reading Migration File: class path resource [config/liquibase/changelog/20160403132658_added_entity_School.xml] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist

liquibase.exception.ChangeLogParseException: liquibase.exception.SetupException: Error Reading Migration File: class path resource [config/liquibase/changelog/20160403132658_added_entity_School.xml] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist
    at liquibase.parser.core.xml.AbstractChangeLogParser.parse(AbstractChangeLogParser.java:27)
    at liquibase.Liquibase.getDatabaseChangeLog(Liquibase.java:227)
    at liquibase.Liquibase.update(Liquibase.java:202)
    at liquibase.Liquibase.update(Liquibase.java:192)
    at liquibase.integration.spring.SpringLiquibase.performUpdate(SpringLiquibase.java:434)
    at liquibase.integration.spring.SpringLiquibase.afterPropertiesSet(SpringLiquibase.java:391)
    at com.masscom.school.config.liquibase.AsyncSpringLiquibase.initDb(AsyncSpringLiquibase.java:66)
    at com.masscom.school.config.liquibase.AsyncSpringLiquibase.lambda$0(AsyncSpringLiquibase.java:49)
    at com.masscom.school.async.ExceptionHandlingAsyncTaskExecutor.lambda$1(ExceptionHandlingAsyncTaskExecutor.java:47)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: liquibase.exception.SetupException: Error Reading Migration File: class path resource [config/liquibase/changelog/20160403132658_added_entity_School.xml] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist
    at liquibase.changelog.DatabaseChangeLog.handleChildNode(DatabaseChangeLog.java:269)
    at liquibase.changelog.DatabaseChangeLog.load(DatabaseChangeLog.java:230)
    at liquibase.parser.core.xml.AbstractChangeLogParser.parse(AbstractChangeLogParser.java:25)
    ... 11 common frames omitted
Caused by: liquibase.exception.ChangeLogParseException: Error Reading Migration File: class path resource [config/liquibase/changelog/20160403132658_added_entity_School.xml] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist
    at liquibase.parser.core.xml.XMLChangeLogSAXParser.parseToNode(XMLChangeLogSAXParser.java:112)
    at liquibase.parser.core.xml.AbstractChangeLogParser.parse(AbstractChangeLogParser.java:17)
    at liquibase.changelog.DatabaseChangeLog.include(DatabaseChangeLog.java:404)
    at liquibase.changelog.DatabaseChangeLog.handleChildNode(DatabaseChangeLog.java:267)
    ... 13 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [config/liquibase/changelog/20160403132658_added_entity_School.xml] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist
    at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getURL(ClassPathResource.java:187)
    at liquibase.integration.spring.SpringLiquibase$SpringResourceOpener.getResourcesAsStream(SpringLiquibase.java:164)
    at liquibase.util.StreamUtil.singleInputStream(StreamUtil.java:182)
    at liquibase.parser.core.xml.XMLChangeLogSAXParser.parseToNode(XMLChangeLogSAXParser.java:93)
    ... 16 common frames omitted

36mcom.masscom.school.SchoolRegApp  [0;39m Running with Spring profile(s) : [dev]
[2m2016-04-03 19:46:15.678[0;39m [32mDEBUG[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[  restartedMain][0;39m [36mc.m.school.config.CacheConfiguration    [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Starting Ehcache
[2m2016-04-03 19:46:15.681[0;39m [32mDEBUG[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[  restartedMain][0;39m [36mc.m.school.config.CacheConfiguration    [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Registering Ehcache Metrics gauges
[2m2016-04-03 19:46:16.388[0;39m [32mDEBUG[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[  restartedMain][0;39m [36mc.m.s.c.apidoc.SwaggerConfiguration     [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Starting Swagger
[2m2016-04-03 19:46:16.404[0;39m [32mDEBUG[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[  restartedMain][0;39m [36mc.m.s.c.apidoc.SwaggerConfiguration     [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Started Swagger in 16 ms
[2m2016-04-03 19:46:18.139[0;39m [32m INFO[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[  restartedMain][0;39m [36mcom.masscom.school.SchoolRegApp         [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Started SchoolRegApp in 19.116 seconds (JVM running for 20.052)
[2m2016-04-03 19:46:18.146[0;39m [32m INFO[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[  restartedMain][0;39m [36mcom.masscom.school.SchoolRegApp         [0;39m [2m:[0;39m
----------------------------------------------------------
    Application 'SchoolRegApp' is running! Access URLs:
    Local:      http://127.0.0.1:8080
    External:   http://192.168.0.105:8080
----------------------------------------------------------
[2m2016-04-03 19:48:20.199[0;39m [32mDEBUG[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[nio-8080-exec-4][0;39m [36mc.m.school.aop.logging.LoggingAspect    [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Enter: org.springframework.boot.actuate.audit.AuditEventRepository.add() with argument[s] = [AuditEvent [timestamp=Sun Apr 03 19:48:20 IST 2016, principal=anonymousUser, type=AUTHORIZATION_FAILURE, data={type=org.springframework.security.access.AccessDeniedException, message=Access is denied}]]
[2m2016-04-03 19:48:20.200[0;39m [32mDEBUG[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[nio-8080-exec-4][0;39m [36mc.m.school.aop.logging.LoggingAspect    [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Exit: org.springframework.boot.actuate.audit.AuditEventRepository.add() with result = null
[2m2016-04-03 19:48:20.215[0;39m [32mDEBUG[0;39m [35m8604[0;39m [2m---[0;39m [2m[nio-8080-exec-4][0;39m [36mc.m.s.s.Http401UnauthorizedEntryPoint   [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Pre-authenticated entry point called. Rejecting access

Second Issue :: After the cleaning Now I'm unable to start the server due bean exception.
mc.m.s.c.liquibase.AsyncSpringLiquibase  [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Starting Liquibase asynchronously, your database might not be ready at startup!
mo.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat].[localhost].[/]      [0;39m [2m:[0;39m Exception starting filter springSecurityFilterChain

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfiguration': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire method: public void org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfiguration.setFilterChainProxySecurityConfigurer(org.springframework.security.config.annotation.ObjectPostProcessor,java.util.List) throws java.lang.Exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanExpressionException: Expression parsing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'securityConfiguration': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService com.masscom.school.config.SecurityConfiguration.userDetailsService; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userDetailsService': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.masscom.school.repository.UserRepository com.masscom.school.security.UserDetailsService.userRepository; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userRepository': Cannot create inner bean '(inner bean)#668eb90d' of type [org.springframework.orm.jpa.SharedEntityManagerCreator] while setting bean property 'entityManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name '(inner bean)#668eb90d': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'entityManagerFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: default] Unable to build Hibernate SessionFactory
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:334)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1214)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:543)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:368)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1123)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1018)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:510)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)

I have created three entity below I have given all the three entity
1. Parent 2. School 3. Student

.yo-rc.json

Could somebody help me on this issue.
Kindly let me know in case of more details.

A: Just mvn liquibase:dropAll,Clear all database tables、views blah blah.

A: The problem due One to One Mapping which is resolved. The earlier version of JHipster doesn't supports One to One Mapping.


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Q: How to extract only date from string in SQL Server I want to extract only date from below string and extract year alone from this date.
String:
'I was born on 1st Jan 1994'

Do we have any function to extract dates from strings other than left or right functions ?
SELECT RIGHT('I was born on 1st Jan 1994', 12)

Result: '1st Jan 1994'
But I need result in date format.

A: Please check my code and resultset for your request: I mostly used another string functions other than left() and right(): I hope It solves your problem.
DECLARE @string VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @extract VARCHAR(20)
DECLARE @onlydate VARCHAR(20)
SET @string = 'I was born on 1st Jan 1994'
SET @extract = SUBSTRING(@string, CHARINDEX('1st', @string), len(@string))
SET @onlydate = REPLACE(@extract, 'st', '')
SELECT @string as full_text, @extract as extracted_text, @onlydate as only_datetext,CONVERT(date,@onlydate,102) as string_to_date;

Result_Set

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Q: using material-ui with reactJS is causing Invalid hook call. Hooks can only be called inside of the body of a function component I am upgrading my react proj to 16.13.1
"react": "16.13.1",
"react-dom": "16.13.1",
"@material-ui/core": "^4.10.2",

And this is minimum comp:
import React, {
    Component
} from 'react';
import { Button } from '@material-ui/core';

const AntDemoComponent=()=>{
    return  <Button color="primary">Hello World</Button>;
}

export default AntDemoComponent;

And I export it into a Library in webpack:
output: {
        library: 'CL',
        libraryTarget: 'umd',
        globalObject:  'this',
        umdNamedDefine: true,
        filename: '[name].bundle.js',
        path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'public/dist'),
        //path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../ui/src/assets/comps'),
        publicPath: '/',
    },

Now, I want to load it in this html:

    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Hello React!</title>

The error happens like below:
    react.development.js:1465 Uncaught Error: Invalid hook call. Hooks can only be called inside of the body of a function component. This could happen for one of the following reasons:
    1. You might have mismatching versions of React and the renderer (such as React DOM)
    2. You might be breaking the Rules of Hooks
    3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app

The above error occurred in the <WithStyles(ForwardRef(Button))> component:
    in WithStyles(ForwardRef(Button))
    in FuncComp
    in AntDemoComponent

Consider adding an error boundary to your tree to customize error handling behavior.
Visit xxxxx to learn more about error boundaries.

The version for lib/react.js and react-dom are all 16.13.1
So, where is the issue here? Is that because material-ui library has some issue here?
Thanks and hope to hear your advice


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in: Article stubs, A to Z, Manga,
Boys Over Flowers chapters
March 5, 2001[1]
Chapter 194 Chapter 196
Chapter 195 (第195話 () , Chapter 195) of Yoko Kamio's Boys Over Flowers was included in volume thirty of the series. It was originally published in the manga magazine, Margaret, on March 5, 2001.[1] The chapter was followed by the one hundred and ninety-sixth entry later that same month.
2 Character appearances
4 Adaptations
Character appearances
Shizuka Todo (Mentioned)
Tsukasa Domyoji (Flashback only)
Original release of the chapter
A one page color illustration originally accompanied the chapter in Margaret No.7 of March 2001.[2] It was also reprinted in Hana Yori Dango FF and volume seventeen of the complete edition.
Episode 1 of Hana Yori Dango Returns
↑ 1.0 1.1 Boys Over Flowers: Jewelry Box
↑ Boys Over Flowers Complete volume 17
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A seventh-grader at Polaris Expeditionary Learning School in Fort Collins at the time, Lee participated in the first trip that teacher Matt Strand led to Key Largo, Florida, with a group of 20 Polaris students, to participate in the restoration of a coral reef threatened with extinction. In the last 30 years, 97 percent of the staghorn coral, a keystone element in maintaining the reef, has disappeared. In response, the Coral Restoration Foundation, largest offshore coral nursery in the world, is working to monitor, maintain and rejuvenate the coral by actually transplanting pieces of coral into the live rock bed where it can grow. Each newly planted piece of coral is tagged so that its progress can be monitored. Most of the groups who come to assist in the work are college students, making those from Polaris unique.
It all began when Strand received a grant from Fund for Teachers to design a learning experience. He chose to earn his scuba diving certification and participate in the Coral Restoration Foundation's project. "It was such an amazing experience for me that I decided to bring it back to the Polaris community." With the help of the Poudre School District and the Colorado Scuba Diving Academy, Strand made the first trip happen in 2015.
Now a ninth-grader, Lee is looking forward to a second trip to the site, where he will be able to revisit some of the coral he nurtured and learn whether or not it is growing and surviving. Four of his schoolmates who were on the first trip are returning as well.
Preparation for the expedition is a year-long project for the 20 students who will be going on May 20. In addition to studying for their scuba certification, they all travelled to the 65-foot-deep Homestead Crater in Utah, the closest place deep enough for their final test. And then there was the matter of fundraising for the trip. Each student was charged with raising $1,500. They did it in all sorts of ways, from raking leaves, doing chores around their homes, and making bead and wire rings to sell, to getting part-time jobs. Eighth-grader Donavan Segelhorst's family donated all proceeds from their Halloween haunted house. A fundraiser was held at Chipper's Lanes in Fort Collins, and the students also sponsored a dance. Money was raised through a crowdfunding site as well.
Grace Meyer, a seventh-grader who commutes to Polaris from Drake in Big Thompson Canyon, has earned her certification and will join the trip. She has been a Polaris student since third grade. Eleventh-grader Liviya Harmon of LaPorte has spent her entire academic life at Polaris and hopes to incorporate her interest in photography with her concern for the health of the ocean. A lover of sharks for as long as she can remember, she'd like people to know that sharks are not just killing machines, and she hopes to see at least one when she is in Florida. Segelhorst has some experience with diving in Hawaii and knows something of the wonder of an underwater experience. Lee has always been fascinated with the ocean and is happy to be returning to see the results of his work two years ago.
How are these students able to devote this much time and effort to an "out-of-school" project? How are they able to maintain a high level of academic learning at the same time?
Polaris Expeditionary Learning School was founded as a charter school in 2001—the year that Strand came to town to be part of that effort. First called Pioneer School, in 2007 the school joined Poudre School District as a 100 percent school of choice, meaning that it is not a feeder school for a specific neighborhood. Today it has about 400 students, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Strand, who earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership along the way, has had experience founding the original school and later in integrating it into the Poudre School District. Today, the school has a waiting list.
The coral reef restoration project seems a perfect fit, providing students with a real-world challenge with a clearly defined purpose.
This spring's participants will have a chance to make four dives, each lasting about 50 minutes. They will carefully transplant about 100 pieces of coral each. And they will come home with new knowledge and the understanding that, through their service, they have made a very real contribution to the welfare of the planet.
"In addition to realizing that they have learned about environmental science, specifically marine biology, my hope is that the experience will contribute to the likelihood of getting into the college of their choice, if they decide to go, and that they will have become leaders of their own learning," Strand said.


Directions-Clinton South Carolina lodging bed and breakfast, Bush River Farmhouse BB, accommodations.
Travel up I-26 West to the Clinton Exit #52. At the exit stop take a left. Approximately 1/2 mile take a left onto Springdale Drive. Proceed through 2 lights and at the third light take a left. This will be Highway 56 South. Pass Ingles Grocery. Bush River Farm will be two miles on the left.
Travel down I-26 East to the Clinton Exit #52. At the exit stop take a right. Approximately 1/2 mile take a left onto Springdale Drive. Proceed through 2 lights and at the third light take a left. This will be Highway 56 South. Pass Ingles Grocery. Bush River Farm will be two miles on the left.
Take I-85 South to I-26 East and continue with above directions.
Travel I-85 North to I-385 East to Clinton Exit #2. Turn right at the exit stop. Continue all the way through the town of Clinton and continue on Broad Street over the RR tracks, past Presbyterian College until you come to a fork in the road. Take the left fork which will be Highway 56 South, to Saluda. Pass the Bi-Lo grocery and the Ingles Grocery. Bush River Farm will be two miles past Ingles on the left.


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Includes Abstracts of obituaries from Hermiston newspapers.
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This so quick to throw together.
Sweet and crunchy, almost like caramel popcorn, but with a little zing from the ginger.
Only 5 ingredients: Puffed Brown Rice or Crispy Brown Rice cereal, toasted sesame seeds, candied ginger, butter, and brown rice syrup.
I prefer using brown rice syrup rather than corn syrup because it is less sweet, and less chemically processed. The jury is still out on whether our bodies process them differently, with one promoting more weight gain than the other. Another concern people have is that the corn used in corn syrup comes from genetically modified corn. The long term results of eating such genetically modified crops remains to be seen and determined.
Add the butter, brown rice syrup, and minced candied ginger into a small pot.
Heat on high heat and bring to a boil. Let it bubble 30 to 45 seconds.
Meanwhile, have the puffed rice and sesame seeds ready in a mixing bowl.
Pour the hot gingered syrup over the puffed rice and sesame seeds and mix well.
Pour onto a cookie sheet lined with foil that has been sprayed with non-stick spray.
Wet your clean hands with some cool water and pat the mixture down flat.
Bake at 325 degrees for 13-15 minutes until lightly browned on top. It will still be soft when you remove it from the oven, but will harden and be very crunchy after it has cooled completely.
Lift it up and peel off the foil from the bottom. Break into pieces and enjoy.
It's perfect broken or cut into small pieces and put into your Chinese Candy Box for Chinese New Year too.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a large cookie sheet with foil and spray foil with non-stick spray.
In a small pot, add butter, brown rice syrup and ginger. Bring to a boil. Let bubble 30 to 45 seconds.
Pour over cereal and sesame seeds. Mix well. Scoop mixture out onto the prepared cookie sheet. Wet hands with cool water and pat the mixture down flat.
Bake for 13-15 minutes, until the top is lightly browned. It will still be soft. Remove from oven and let cool and harden completely. Break into pieces. Store in an airtight container.


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This example demonstrates the bug report on https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=1551

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run `npm install`:
    This installs the chromedriver in version 2.24.1 and for the node.js example selenium-webdriver 3.0.0-beta-3.

2. Compile and run the java example. Maven and Java 8 are a prerequisite.

    `mvn package exec:java`

    The browser opens, loads Google, but no query is submitted.

3. Run the Javascript example

    `export PATH=node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver:$PATH`

    `node chromedrivertest.js`
    The browser opens, loads Google, but no query is submitted.

4. (Bonus) Open the pom.xml in IntelliJ, perform a right click on the class ChromedriverTest to run the class directly.
    This actually works as expected! The browser opens, loads Google and searches for ChromeDriver.

5. (Bonus) Remote Webdriver with chromedriver

    `./node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver/chromedriver --verbose`

    Run RemoteChromedriverTest from IntelliJ
    This doesn't work. The output from the logfile is included in the repository here in logfile.txt

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Supporters of a boycott for the name-change referendum celebrate in front of the Parliament in Skopje on Sunday. Photo: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images
Macedonia's citizens overwhelmingly approved a proposal that would change the country's name to the Republic of Northern Macedonia but low turnout due to a boycott by the measure's opponents could threaten its validity, reports the AP.
The details: The Macedonian Constitution requires a minimum turnout of 50% of eligible voters for the referendum be valid, but turnout hovered around 36% after more than 90% of polling stations had reported even as Prime Minister Zoran Zaev hailed the referendum's success. The deal could settle a long-standing diplomatic dispute with its neighbor Greece — potentially paving the way for Macedonia's entry to the EU and NATO.


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How your team can have your back in negotiations
The Negotiation Room September 22, 2017 September 21, 2017 negotiation, Opinions, Woke
On September 14th, ESPN tried to kick Jemele Hill off the air and replace her with another black host. Why? because Hill called President Trump a "white supremacist" in a tweet. Who is Jemele Hill? Since February 6, 2017, Hill and Michael Smith became the hosts of ESPN's flagship SportsCenter.
After the tweet, the White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Hill's tweets were a "fireable offense". Following that announcement, ESPN issued a statement reprimanding Hill for her comments. Wow, if you were in a negotiation and your direct boss and the most influential government office in the world sent you a strong signal like that, you may start to shake in your boots. Jemele Hill did not. Matter of facts, 3 hours later she was back on ESPN's SportCenter for her usual show. How did she achieve this miracle? her team had her back! Well her broader team.
Note: ESPN disputes most of the following. But based on some evidence available online, I believe this to be a plausible scenario.
The story goes as follows:
ESPN tried to replace Hill for the show
Her co-host refused to do the show without her
ESPN asked Michael Eaves and Elle Duncan, two other black anchors, to do the show
Eaves and Duncan refused to do the show
ESPN asked Hill to do the show
ESPN senior vice president for news and information at SportsCenter, told ThinkProgress. "In the end, ultimately, Michael and Jemele appearing on the show last night and doing the show the way they did is the outcome we always desired."
Believing or not that chain of event is beside the point. This is a textbook example of the power of having a strong team behind you. When you know that people in your team unconditionally support you, your power in a negotiation is multiplied by 10. Then add the surprise effect to the negotiation and now you really have the edge!
I really like this example. It shows how you can shift the odds in your favor in negotiations that seem already lost. It also explains that people who can support you during high stake negotiations may not be the people you would expect. In this case, the 3 other black hosts could have been considered competition by Hill.
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Philosophical Expertise, Deference, and Intransigence
Here's a familiar puzzle: David Lewis was a better philosopher than me, and certainly knew more and had thought more carefully about issues surrounding the metaphysics of modality. He concluded that modal realism was true: that every concrete way that a world could be is a way that some concrete universe truly is (and that these concrete universes serve to ground modal truths -- truths about what is or is not possible). But most of us don't feel the slightest inclination to defer to his judgement on this topic. (I might defer to physicists on the 'Many Worlds' Interpretation of quantum mechanics, but that's a different matter.) Are we being irrational?
A familiar response: philosophical 'experts' themselves disagree. Kripke, for example, may be weighed against Lewis on this topic. But then it might seem to follow that I should suspend judgment entirely: if even the top experts on the topic cannot agree, what hope do I have of coming to a justified conclusion here? And it would seem epistemically shady to cherry-pick the experts who agree with you, claim that you're responsibly deferring to them, and just ignore all the ones that don't.
I think a better response is available.
The puzzle presupposes that we ought to defer to experts. But that only makes sense if we've reason to expect that expertise in a domain sufficiently increases epistemic reliability, i.e. the likelihood of true beliefs. That's certainly the case for many domains -- it's why we should defer to scientific experts, for example. But it arguably isn't so for philosophy in general.
Philosophical expertise seems compatible with being completely off the rails when it comes to the substantive content of one's philosophical views. And this is to be expected once we appreciate that (i) there are many possible internally coherent worldviews, (ii) philosophical argumentation proceeds through a mixture of ironing out incoherence and making us aware of possibilities we had previously neglected, and so (iii) even the greatest expertise in these skills will only help you to reach the truth if you start off in roughly the right place. Increasing the coherence of someone who is totally wrong (i.e. closer to one of the many internally coherent worldviews that is objectively incorrect) won't necessarily bring them any closer to the truth.
To put a more subjective spin on it: One's only hope of reaching the truth via rational means is to trust that your starting points are in the right vicinity, such that an ideally coherent version of your worldview would be getting things right. So we've only got reason to defer to others if their verdicts are indicative of what our idealized selves would conclude. Often, we can reasonably judge that other philosophers have views so alien to our own that it's unlikely that procedurally ideal reflection (increasing internal coherence) would lead us to share those views. In such cases, we've no reason to defer to those philosophers, however 'expert' they may be.
(Terminological variant: If you want to build into the definition of a subject-area 'expert' that deference to expert judgement is mandatory, then you should restrict attributions of expertise to those whose starting points are sufficiently similar to your own.)
tl;dr: We should only be epistemically moved by peer disagreement (and related phenomena) when we take the other person's views to be evidence of what we ourselves would conclude upon ideal reflection. Philosophical intransigence is thus often justified, insofar as we can justifiably believe that an improved version of our view could be developed that is at least as internally coherent as the opposing views. This remains true even if we judge that the defenders of the opposing views are (in purely procedural terms) smarter / better philosophers than we are ourselves.
Labels: epistemology - metaevidence Posted by Richard Y Chappell at 4:41 pm
Angra Mainyu 11:31 pm, February 23, 2018
I don't know that Lewis was a better philosopher than you, but that aside, are you assuming or at least implying that your own starting points are the rational ones, or the most rational ones, but that Lewis (and probably many other philosophers) have irrational starting points?
If that is so (I may be misreading), it seems to me that on this view, they face a dilemma: either they stick to their starting points - which includes their irrational starting points - or they toss them, but that's irrational too: they're abandoning their only hope of reaching truth via rational means. And given the amount of disagreement, it seems that that sort of unavoidable irrationality is quite widespread.
This seems to raise serious ethical problems, such as: what are their moral obligations on the matter of defending philosophical views, and how can they find out?
Perhaps, modal realism is not much of an issue, as it does not have significant meatspace consequences (at least, not that I'm aware of, but further argumentation might change that!). But there is wide disagreement on philosophical issues whose answer has significant impact on moral questions, and defending some philosophical views involve defending or rejecting views about moral obligations, desert, etc.
That said, if I misunderstood and you're not implying that Lewis has irrational starting points, please clarify (but I'm thinking that that view would be problematic).
Richard Y Chappell 7:35 am, February 24, 2018
Hi Angra, I like to distinguish 'substantive' vs 'procedural' rationality, where only the former involves building in the right (or close enough to right) starting points, and the latter is about internal coherence etc. Lewis is then substantively irrational due to having sufficiently misguided (a priori false) starting points, though of course he might be extremely epistemically responsible in a procedural sense, and so very very far from a paradigm case of irrationality in the ordinary sense.
Given the fact of coherent philosophical diversity (i.e. that there are a plurality of internally coherent possible worldviews), and the limitations of procedural reason, it just seems a fact (rather than a 'dilemma') that someone starting in the wrong place / with the wrong priors will be unable to reason themselves to the truth. (Think of a counterinductivist, or someone who embraces incorrect laws of deductive logic, for an extreme example.) But perhaps they'll be lucky and have some non-rational process edit their priors in a way that happens to lead them to subsequently be substantively rational. That'd be an epistemically good thing to happen for them, objectively speaking, though of course there's no way that they could coherently recognize that beforehand.
I don't see any great moral objection to defending a priori false moral views, as long as they're not 'beyond the pale' or expressive of moral disrespect or viciousness.
I think that one shouldn't count as starting points the points at which people start doing philosophy in a professional/academic setting, because to get there, they've been studying, making assessments, forming beliefs, etc., for many years before that, and so it seems to me they probably have other, more basic starting points (or have no starting points at all, if it's vague at first). So, for that reason (and others), I'm not inclined to think that procedural rationality would take humans so far away from each other as the diversity of philosophy seems to indicate (aliens from another planet are a very different matter: I think they would likely end up with species-specific views that are very different from those of humans, but that would likely not be disagreement, but rather talking about different things).
However, if that is in fact so, I still see a significant problem when it comes to moral matters (and others; more below). It's not only about defending false moral claims in general, but a number of more specific issues. For example, some (many) people, reasoning in a procedurally correct manner, would end up - say - defending that people who do X ought to be punished, whereas others would advocate that people who attempt to punish people for X ought to be punished, and so on. This raises questions like:
a. What are their moral obligations? More precisely, do they have a moral obligation to defend the view that follows rationally from their irrational priors? Or is that immoral? Or neither?
b. Is it rational to attempt to persuade procedurally rational people who will keep rejecting the views one is defending, because of their irrational priors, once one reckons disagreement very probably comes from different priors? More to the point, is there a solution other than conflict?
c. Does this imply that (at least very probably), not only will aliens from other planets end up with many different moral-like analogues (or, if you want to stick to the view that there is only one morality, with many wrong moral views they can't rationally get out of), but also that humans (or post-humans) in the future will very likely end up with very different moral views on a number of issues (of course, at most one of them true), or with agreement, but probably after coming to the wrong assessment, etc.?
d. Why not "beyond the pale" views?
There is widespread disagreement also about whether certain views are beyond the pale. Moreover, often adversaries see each other as having views beyond the pale. If we go with this account, it seems to me disagreement on what's beyond the pale would have also (likely) the same characteristics, so procedurally rational people will end up defending beyond the pale views, what's beyond the pale would be subject to similar disagreement, and so on.
There are other problems, also for morality but for philosophy in general, I think. For example, suppose I have to assess the odds that a philosopher will get to the truth on issues A1, A2, ..., An. What are the odds that she will get all of them right? As long as there are several different views on each of them (all of them defended seriously in the present), it seems extremely low (this could change if I know more about her and about the Aj, of course). So, philosophy is very likely to get it wrong. This also has implications for doomsday arguments: an AI is very likely to start with wrong priors (given human programmers). There isn't even the solution to tell the AI to look for (say, moral) answers by looking at human minds and where they would end when procedurally rational. Can the evil superintelligent procedurally rational AI be stopped?
Granted, this does not imply that those problems are problems for your argument. They might indeed be problems for morality, AI, etc.
Richard Y Chappell 2:19 pm, February 24, 2018
Yes, I'm happy to accept that there are such questions! Indeed, many of these are familiar questions that ethicists discuss in relation to "subjective" oughts, normative uncertainty, whether past slave-owners were blameworthy (on the assumption that there's a sense in which the wrongness of slavery wasn't culturally accessible to them), etc. etc.
Angra Mainyu 6:29 pm, February 24, 2018
Alright, but in addition to questions, I think we can make some predictions.
For example, I would say that if your theory is correct, then it's very probable that any future superintelligent AI will go wrong on many moral issues, in a way that it will never be able to correct (and likely no one will be able to stop it). The reason is that it will begin with the wrong priors, and there is no correcting them - on the contrary, it will very probably end up coming up with more and more wrong conclusions, as it obtains more and more information and uses it to make assessments on the basis of the wrong priors, etc. Unless somehow the AI can be boxed, it seems it would be unstoppable. But if it can be put in a box, then the problem remains for the first AI that is not in a box.
Regarding your slavery example. Do you think it's possible that A engages in morally wrong behavior X, but A is not blameworthy?
Yeah, a wrong action may be excusable rather than blameworthy due to non-culpable ignorance or other extenuating circumstances.
It's not obvious to me that we should expect future AI to be horribly misguided. That would follow if we were to pick its priors randomly. Otherwise, it just depends who is programming it, right? And amongst the moral views commonly found in actual people, even the wrong ones tend not to be too drastically wrong (compared to hypothetical worldviews we can imagine). If some kind of "AI safety" process leads to an especially cautious implementation of consensus values, building in normative uncertainty that tries to avoid atrocities relative to any common human values so far as possible, then again we might find the result tolerable enough even if the AI isn't getting the objective truths exactly right.
I think on the account you propose, we can expect that AI will probably not be nearly as misguided as it would if the priors were random. The problem, I think, is of a different kind: there are some moral priors (even if a small minority of the total number) in which the AI will be horribly misguided. The rest, not so much. But the horribly misguided ones will lead to very bad mistakes that will never be corrected. No matter how good the AI is at instrumental rationality, it will never get out of it. But the problem with even some big mistakes escalates given the AI's increasing power and knowledge: a small percentage of wrong priors is likely to snowball into a lot of very wrong assessments in the end (about, say, the long term future of Earth's civilization), given it will make many more judgments. But whatever the final percentage of very bad judgments (i.e., very far from moral truth), the main problem is the for all intents and purposes near certain impossibility of future correction.
I would say that we can make that assessment if we do not know who is programming it, because whoever they are they're likely to have some (even if a small minority) of priors very wrong. I make that assessment on the basis of the disagreement we see among philosophers (or, if you prefer, philosophers specialized in ethics), and the thesis you proposed in the post in regard to the source of some of the persistent disagreements (i.e., wrong priors).
Trying to implement consensus values seems to be an improvement, but it seems to me it has significant difficulties that will make it likely to fail, like:
1. If the programmers agree with your point about the weakness of the evidence from disagreement (peer or otherwise), and in particular about trusting one's starting points as the only hope of achieving truth via rational means, it seems to me that they would be inclined to tell the AI to figure out what their own ideal selves would conclude, rather than give a significant amount of value to disagreement. On the other hand, if they don''t agree, they got that wrong! (we're assuming you're correct).
2. Aside from that, even today, there is vast disagreement about at least some moral issues, even involving fundamental matters of political organization. You mention that the moral views commonly found in actual people. Are you talking about, say, American people, or Chinese people? There are of course other countries too, but the first AI seems likely to come from one of those two. And Chinese AI sounds pretty bad to me if there is no essential human convergence under ideal conditions, especially in regards of political organization, freedom of speech, and so on. But even if it's America, there are vast disagreements about some specific issues (also, I think both sides in the culture wars are vastly mistaken about some things, though that is my assessment, and can't be made on the basis of your analysis only). While some of the problems might be resolved in the coming decades, it's very unlikely that all of them will (and if they did, they might in the wrong direction).
Sean Landis 2:53 am, February 24, 2018
Could you say more about whether you think what you've written avoids the need for philosophers to suspend judgment? I take it that we defer to experts in science only when they arrive at consensus, not just when a lone smart scientist makes any bold proclamation. We non-physicists only get to buy Special Relativity once basically all physicists buy it, not as soon as Einstein introduces it. And I think we trust expert consensus precisely because they land in the same position despite starting from a wide range of epistemic priors.
It seems, then, that the methodologies successful sciences utilize provide a much deeper ironing out process than the methodologies of philosophy. The lack of consensus among philosophers is the more salient feature, not the fact that any specific philosopher (or subset of philosophers) you deem to have more expertise than you disagrees with you.
Right, I think what's going on in the science case is that we take the community of scientists as a whole to most likely represent what our idealized selves would conclude. And in the absence of a scientific consensus (say about the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics) we might suspend judgement precisely because we have no idea what side of the debate our idealized selves would end up coming down on. (By contrast, it'd be perfectly reasonable for a quantum physicist to have a view on this matter, and not suspend judgement, no matter that many of their academic peers reached different conclusions.)
Given this account of when deference is called for, there's no general need to suspend judgement just because there are other possible views out there that could have been reached by similar methods (broadly speaking, i.e. not building one's substantive starting points into the 'method') to your own. Indeed, any such general epistemic principle would be self-undermining, given that there are coherent views (like my own) that reject it. See my discussion of Street's "moral lottery" for much more detail along these lines.
Sean Landis 10:54 pm, February 24, 2018
I think there is a general need to suspend judgment when there are other *actual* views out there that *actually have been* reached by similar methods (I've found myself [silently] disagreeing with you when you've written about actual vs. possible disagreements before).
The case for this is as follows: when expert physicists reach consensus over Special Relativity, that's defeasible evidence that their methods are reliable (or, at least, it provides no evidence that their methods are unreliable). But when, say, expert philosophers of time fail to reach consensus over A-theory and B-theory, this is evidence that their methods are unreliable (in the way that the mere possibility of physicists rejecting Special Relativity isn't).
In philosophy, actual disagreements abound, which suggests the current methods employed to answer philosophical questions are unreliable guides to the truth. This way of framing the issue doesn't seem obviously self-undermining.
Ah, well I'm glad you are breaking your silence now! :-)
I agree that actual disagreement is what's relevant regarding empirical/scientific questions -- my account predicts this.
But if what you're worried about is our reliability, why think we need actual disagreement in order to recognize the unreliability of philosophical methods (when individuated coarse-grainedly)? I would've thought this was largely a priori. As soon as we recognize that there are multiple internally coherent viewpoints, that the abstract truths of philosophy cannot exert any causal influence on us, and that all that rational argumentation can do is increase coherence, it would seem to follow already that rational argumentation is not in general reliable -- it will only work for those of us who are starting in close enough to the right place.
Actual philosophical disagreement provides no extra evidence on this front. Conversely: Widespread philosophical agreement would not show that philosophical methods were reliable, but just that actual philosophers happen to start from similar places.
Of course, none of this commits us to thinking that our own philosophizing is unreliable, because we can individuate our own method more finely, as starting from the particular starting points that we do. Disagreement from philosophers using a different fine-grained method (i.e. different starting points) obviously does nothing at all to show that my fine-grained method is unreliable.
Neil Sinhababu 9:36 am, February 24, 2018
Lewis is an unusually difficult target for these arguments. He generally cares a lot about defending widely accepted common-sense views. There's a nice strategy for preserving all the ordinary intuitions in the skepticism debate (the contextualism of Elusive Knowledge), and a general theory that tries to make lots of our intuitive judgments about counterfactuals come out true.
The trouble is that the theory of truthmakers for counterfactuals commits us to modal realism. But if that really turns out to be the consistent way to hold onto the stuff we all believe in that he tries to account for, maybe that's where we'd end up after ideal reflection?
Maybe! It's true that we can't really know in advance where ideal reflection will lead us, so we should hold our views tentatively and with a non-trivial credence that we'll end up later rejecting them for something quite different. But I certainly give much more credence to the claim that modal realism is not the only consistent way to "hold onto the stuff we all believe in" here.
Pilot Guy 12:10 pm, February 26, 2018
Nice piece! Having a Masters in Quant Modeling - I can tell you that there are many world models that rapidly go off the rails if you are nowhere near a starting point that has a path to your goal. You can also find many local model minima that mislead you that you have obtained an optimal solution. As a 'fun' undergrad Philo student I had never thought about those relations to Philo
AndrewSepielli 5:06 pm, March 06, 2018
I agree, although I think it is not at all obvious how someone who is not a meta-ethical quietist can consistently say this about ethical disagreement.
Joe_the_philosopher 12:49 pm, March 12, 2018
Another way to go, which I find tempting, is to deny that we should expect universal norms for "rational" deference to expertise. You should defer to people's expertise insofar as they can be shown access to knowledge you don't, superior arguments, etc. The reason not to defer to Lewis isn't because Kripke disagreed with him, but because the arguments Lewis offered are subject to substantive criticism. Do philosophers think we can say much more than "you should defer to the opinions of experts who have demonstrated said expertise, and only when there aren't countervailing reasons not to?" I think if you take on this context-dependent view of deference to experts, the "puzzle" vanishes.


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It was a hiatus regardless of her being gone now.
With Maho's hiatus being so long, I didn't expect Rena to leave now, eventually. I hope the girls will be able to carry on after this eventful summer.
She's legit perfect for KF. She's the last of her generation, has a report with everybody in the group, has two generation mates in it (Rei and Ayapan) has vocal power, and is starting to almost get too old for KSS and I am Afraid.
I think Kizuki deserves to debut, but only if this is what she wants to do with the rest of her life (entertainment business). But I do want H!P to leave the factories untouched.
This is supposedly her twitter, made public.


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Question: I live in Salt Lake and encounter school buses in the morning while taking my daughter and her friend to school. What are the rules for stopping when school buses are loading children? Ala Napunani Street has four lanes. Does traffic flowing in the opposite direction from where the school bus is stopped need to stop, too? One morning, I was attempting to make a left turn from Ala Ilima onto Ala Napuaa, which is only two lanes wide, but stopped on Ala Ilima because a school bus was loading children on the Ala Napuaa corner with its stop sign deployed and red lights flashing. If I made the turn, the bus would be on my left, going in the opposite direction from my vehicle. I had my left-turn signal on, but the car behind me sounded the horn, drove around me and made an obscene gesture. Was I wrong to stop?
Answer: Not if you were turning onto a two-lane street.
You asked first about a four-lane street.
If the bus were stopped on Ala Napunani and unloading students, with its lights flashing and stop sign deployed, you did not have to stop if you were driving by in the opposite direction.
Under Hawaii Revised Statutes, Sec. 219C-95, you are required to stop for a stopped school bus with flashing lights if you are in the lane occupied by the bus, or in any lanes adjacent to it, regardless of what direction you are traveling.
Since you were turning onto two-lane Ala Napuaa Street, your car would have been in the adjacent lane to the unloading school bus, so you would have been required to stop, said Capt. Frank Fujii, of the Honolulu Police Department.
He further explained that if there is a shoulder along a roadway, and a school bus stops on the shoulder, leaving the right lane open, "that open lane becomes the adjacent lane."
There is also a minimum distance that drivers are supposed to have from a stopped school bus.
Under the law, drivers "shall stop" not less than 20 feet from the school bus and not proceed until the bus begins to move and all its visual signals are turned off.
Q: Is it legal to concrete the median between a property owner's boundary and the street? Can a homeowner make changes to the location and size of a driveway without a permit?
A: No, on both counts, said Art Challacombe, manager of customer services for the city Department of Planning and Permitting.
Paving in the sidewalk area would require a sidewalk encroachment variance, and work on the driveway would require a building code variance, neither of which are guaranteed approvals, he said.


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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a not-for-profit domestic corporation in Florida, US.
The conversion of Wikipedia into a "non-profit" effectively means incorporation. This opens a number of issues about corporate structure, and the by-laws that govern how that corporation would function. What follows is a series of topics which must be considered to ensure the long term viability of the project.
2 Where do we incorporate?
A long-lived project requires finding a balance between democraticly considering the interests of current and future members, and protecting the investment and vision that have gone into bringing Wikipedia to a point where incorporation is a reasonable alternative for future structures.
The jurisdiction of incorporation is the one whose laws would apply to our corporate operations. In the United States this is a matter of state rather than federal law. Because of general conveniance the State of California appears to be the jurisdiction of choice, but that's not a done deal. If some of the things we want to do are not allowed by California law, we could look to someplace else.
These are the people responsible for the operational decisions of the corporation. Editorial decisions would not normally be part of their duties. For the maintnance of general peace I would recommend that no single country be allowed to have a majority of directors. How many should there be? How would they be put into office?
This is a small highly respected group with the responsibility of intervening when the project gets completely off track. They could override the directors or editorial decisions when circumstances warrant, but would not normally interfere.
These are the ones who make sure the business of the corporation gets done. How do we chose them?
There is a need for contingency planning in the event that at some time in the future Jimmy won't or can't give the project its needed support.
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Making Every Day Earth Day: The 411 of Sustainability at Rent the Runway
(Last Updated on May 3, 2022)
Here at Rent the Runway, we believe shared access to fashion can help solve the retail industry's excess problem, and together we can make it happen. When you rent your clothes on RTR vs. buying new, you're contributing to a more sustainable future of fashion one outfit at a time. Go you!
In honor of Earth Day, we tapped RTR's Sr. Director of Sustainability Megan Farrell to share how we're working towards our long-term commitments to Mother Nature. Read the full Q&A below to hear more about what Megan does here at RTR, gain a better understanding of our sustainability goals and practices, discover what we're doing right now(!) to take action and so much more.
(PS: if you want to learn even more, you can dive into our full Impact Strategy here!)
Megan Farrell, RTR Senior Director of Sustainability
What does your job as Senior Director of Sustainability entail? What does your day-to-day look like?
Whether I'm partnering with my colleagues and external organizations to drive progress against our goals, or testing new ideas and approaches to solve whatever sustainability related challenges or opportunities exist — no one day is alike.
Two constants though are that I am almost always working cross-functionally throughout the business and that I'm always reading the latest news and topics related to sustainability. The sustainability landscape — including new science, technology and regulations — is constantly evolving, and it's important to assess how these might impact your work, the business and broader industry.
Have you always been interested in sustainability?
I was very inspired by the then-recent election of President Obama in 2008 and his call to action to my millennial generation to think and act bigger for the benefit of your community and the greater good. I had been working a little bit post-undergrad at that point and I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do next. With that inspiration, I started to explore various topics of interest and even those that scared me, like climate change. Rather than be paralyzed by my own concern or fear of the implications of climate change to our futures, I did what was not innate to me, and challenged myself to prioritize it in my professional career. It certainly hasn't been an easy journey or linear career path, but it's been incredibly rewarding to have the opportunity to shape corporate actions that drive meaningful change for the environment and society.
What led you to this role?
As someone who worked in the fashion sustainability space for many years, joining RTR was almost a full circle, pinch me moment. I have seen the power the business has to drive much needed change in fashion first-hand as a long-time customer, fan and advocate. Since I first started renting with RTR in 2012, I have fundamentally changed my relationship with clothing and how I dress myself — buying significantly less and renting much more thanks to the variety offered from the Closet in the Cloud. I couldn't be more excited to help drive similar changes for our current and future customers.
"We may be the only company in fashion that tells customers to buy less and wear more and we are proud of that."
Megan Farrell, rtr sr. director of sustainability
What's your favorite part of your job?
Driving positive change, no matter how big or small, is an incredibly rewarding and satisfying part of my job. Whether I'm brainstorming with employees on the personal changes they can make to reduce their environmental footprint, or coalition building with influential leaders in the fashion industry, I'm humbled to have the opportunity to create change that is so needed and tangible.
Something that is also extremely gratifying about my work is that it requires you to have a deep understanding of the business and industry you are working in. You really have to have knowledge and awareness of all the functions of the organization — whether that's IT systems, finance, fashion operations or communications. The breadth and skillset this type of work requires feeds your curiosity and constantly keeps you on your toes and [feeling] challenged.
What sustainability efforts are you proudest of at RTR?
One of the things I'm most proud of, both as a customer and someone who now works here, is that this company started a cultural movement around clothing rental. Think back to a little over a decade ago and the fact that people were flatly not accepting of wearing rental or preloved clothes. But now 89% of our subscribers report buying less clothing than they did prior to joining our platform and 83% report buying less fast fashion since using RTR — acceptance of rental and preloved clothing matters. I'm also particularly proud of the findings from the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) we completed last year, which crystallized that every time a customer rents a garment from RTR (versus buying new) the result is net environmental savings across water, energy and GHG emissions.
Not sure there are many traditional retailers or fashion brands out there that are excited when they hear their customers are buying less clothes.
What kind of foundational work did RTR undertake in order to create the Impact Strategy?
Typically, my first step towards building out a sustainability strategy is building a robust factbase; fundamentally understanding where the environmental and social impacts and risks of the business [are], what data the business has to support this, and where potentially there are differentiating opportunities. As you can imagine, building a strong factbase can take many years to pull together and many companies struggle to have a basic understanding of what any of these things are.
When I walked into RTR, it was the exact opposite situation. The company had many years worth of strategic and thoughtful work related to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) — things like assessments and studies, an LCA of the business model, excellent customer and operational data related to long standing ESG programs, and a Scope 1 and Scope 2 footprint completed. These provided a strong foundation for launching our strategy and roadmap for future progress.
What did we learn about our business along the way that might be interesting or surprising?
There's a lot of misconceptions or misinformation about the environmental impacts of a rental business model; that it could potentially be worse than buying and disposing of clothes in a typical linear consumption model. Understanding our environmental impacts was a focus for RTR, even in the midst of the global pandemic, and in 2020, the business commissioned a first-of-its-kind LCA of the rental business model to better understand the environmental impact of renting. The assessment was conducted in partnership with third-party consultants specializing in apparel LCAs and used RTR's actual data. What was interesting from that study was that even when you factor in shipping product back and forth to customers and cleaning, on a per garment basis, rental has a smaller environmental footprint across water, energy and emissions compared to producing and purchasing new. I encourage everyone to read more about our LCA study here.
"The more that our garments are worn, the better our financial and environmental outcomes are."
How is ESG (and sustainability practices in general) different for RTR, compared to other companies in the fashion space?
If you were to unpack existing ESG strategies and practices of traditional fashion retailers right now, you would generally find that they are focused on improvements via their existing business model. That doesn't solve the central issue — that their business model, which relies on mass production and consumption of clothing, is fundamentally at odds with their sustainability ambitions. Their bottom line is dependent on producing and selling more items to customers, which contributes to significant negative environmental and social impacts.
RTR's business model complements versus competes with our sustainability and financial goals. In other words, the more that our garments are worn, the better our financial and environmental outcomes are. We believe that shared access to fashion can curb the negative from its excess. We may be the only company in fashion that tells customers to buy less and wear more and we are proud of that.
What sets our efforts, goals & mindset apart from that of a fast fashion fashion retailer or brand?
Specifically our goal to displace the need for production of a half million new garments, that's truly distinguishing and I don't believe you see many, if any, goals like that out there right now (although I hope that will change in the future).
Displacement in general can be kind of a hard thing for someone to grasp, so I try to illustrate it in this way — The fashion industry produces approximately 150 billion clothes globally each year, a staggering number. Conversely, RTR is able to dress hundreds of thousands of customers every year from products in just two warehouses and we estimate that our shared closet has displaced the need for new production of approximately 1.3 million new garments since 2010.
What happens to our rental inventory once it's no longer in condition to be rented via the Closet in the Cloud?
Unlike most fashion companies, we maintain our products through their use phase and believe that the lifecycle of products does not end with our operations. We recognize the importance of responsible end of life practices and as such, we resell, donate or recycle all products when they are no longer able to cycle through the Closet in the Cloud to approved third-party organizations. In total, as of June 2021, we estimate that approximately 1.1 million products weighing approximately 900,000 lbs have been either resold, donated or recycled and diverted from landfill. Responsible end of life practices for clothing is a blind spot of the fashion industry and we hope that our commitments and practices can inspire other businesses to join us.
As of February 1st 2022, 100% of carbon emissions are offset on shipments to and from customers. Can you explain what's going on here in layman's terms?
Simply put, we are purchasing certified carbon reductions to balance out the carbon emissions from shipping to and from customers. Certified carbon reductions can come from projects related to reforestation, renewable energy and much more. We also think that our offset program will serve as a helpful tool to innovate our transportation network for lower carbon solutions as we scale.
"We can't begin to inspire and drive the level of change needed unless we're first and foremost doing that work ourselves."
Eliminating single use plastic packaging is top of mind for many renters — what future changes are in the works/are you most excited to see?
We are really excited about our goal to eliminate unnecessary single use plastic packaging by fiscal year end 2023, meaning that in the future, we plan to eliminate poly garment covers in our shipments.
While poly garment covers serve an important and necessary role in protecting our garments while at our warehouses and while in transit (particularly from liquids), we innovated our garment bags and our new ones are waterproof. As we start to roll out our new garment bags more broadly, we will be able to phase out these poly covers.
Until then, it's important to note that we have and will continue to recycle 100% of all poly covers returned to our warehouse through our third party partner Trex, who in turn uses them for wood alternative decking. From 2017 through June 2021 approximately 408 tons have been recycled since through this program.
Tell us more about the *new* garment bags! What's so exciting about the switch?
I can't wait for more customers to get their hands on them, they are amazing! The team really went above and beyond in innovating something that was already iconic to something even better and more sustainable.
Specifically, these new garment bags don't need to be washed anymore in between uses as we can wipe clean, meaning that this bag will reduce our water usage by 1.25 gallons per bag as compared to the current garment bag.
What felt most important to you personally to touch upon in our broader goals?
All of them feel important to me. There's so much change that's needed in this world, both from an environmental and social perspective. We can't begin to inspire and drive the level of change needed unless we're first and foremost doing that work ourselves, which is why I'm so proud of the goals we have set across both our business ambitions to drive specific and measurable progress in many key areas over the next five years.
How will we communicate updates on our progress towards each goal going forward?
We take our Impact Strategy and driving progress against our goals seriously and because of that, we plan to communicate progress towards our goals on an annual basis in our Form 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We also plan to supplement this core reporting with stories related to our progress so stay tuned.
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