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How to maximise edible crops from the greenhouse
Early planting is a key way to make the most of edible produce from a greenhouse, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) explains.
The organisation notes that leeks and Brussels sprouts can be started off in greenhouses in February and March before being moved outside after they grow to a decent size.
Also, faster-developing crops such as celeriac and celery can be sown in March, as well as French beans, cucumbers and melons – all of which have large seeds that produce substantial, rapidly-growing seedlings.
The RHS recommends covering plants in glasshouses with fleece on frosty nights and providing additional heating as and when deemed necessary.
Moving into April, the organisation explains that larger-seeded plants such as pumpkins, squashes, runner beans and French beans can all be sown, explaining that they should not be started sooner as they could outgrow the space available in the greenhouse before they can be moved outside.
In related news, a Guardian blog recently explained that carrot seeds can be sown when soil temperature reaches seven degrees C.

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As writers, keeping our tools sharp is a necessary part of the craft. Sometimes, a scenario pops into our head and we rush to create characters to plug in to the story template we've created. However, great stories often come out of well-developed characters. One effective way to create a new story can be to construct the narrative around a fascinating character you've already shaped, as opposed to taking the opposite approach.
Characters with multiple layers and well-developed back stories often share a few common traits. One is a wound or a ghost. A wound is something that was done to the character before the story begins. It's a scar they cannot stop looking at. While taking part in the external journey they are involved in, they are secretly hoping to heal their wound – even though they might not consciously know that. In War Dogs, both main characters have their wound referenced by supporting cast, though they never directly speak to their wounds, themselves.
A ghost is a figure from the protagonist's life that still follows him or her around, metaphorically. The shadow of the ghost seems to loom large over everything they do. While this sounds like an ominous situation, it can be found in the most jovial of comedies. On The Office, Andy Bernard is constantly trying to escape the ghost of his father, who is still living, but is an omnipresent force in everything Andy says and does.
Here are six character prompts you can practice developing backstories around, complete with either the character's wound or ghost. If you're in a hurry, write 1-2 pages of backstory for one of these characters. If you have more time, try writing 4-5 pages.
Prompt: He is the son of one of the wealthiest tech billionaires in the United States.
Ghost: His mother. Even though he seems destined to follow in the ruthless footsteps of his father, friends and family keep telling him of the kindness and generosity of his deceased mother.
Prompt: She has just been elected sheriff of the town she grew up in.
Wound: Her brother was convicted of a crime when she was a child. He was killed in jail. It was later proven that he was innocent of the crime he was convicted of.
Prompt: She discovers a fellow professor at the university she teaches at is involved with an underground racist movement.
Wound/Ghost: She was the only person of color at every school she attended in England. One particular bully made her life hell throughout her formative years.
Prompt: He has a secret. He's the only gay resident of Sunnyside Nursing Home, but no one knows this.
Wound: The only time in his life he expressed his true feelings for someone, he was rejected and shamed.
Prompt: She's just married the man of her dreams. Only one challenge in her mind – she's black and he's white. That and no one in her family knows.
Ghost: On his death bed, her grandfather, who was injured in the civil rights movement, asked her to never marry outside her race.
Prompt: He's in love with the single mom next door. They seem perfect for each other, except… it's illegal, obviously.
Wound/Ghost: His mother died giving birth to him. Could this be psychologically intertwined in his feelings for his neighbor?


Fanø is world class Birdwatching spot.
Fanø is a wonderland for those who are interested in bird watching. This is foremost due to the migratory birds which can be observed during the spring and fall seasons, but the whole year through there are a broad range of shorebirds living on Fanø. Among the birds that are typically seen on the island can be mentioned dunlins, bar-tailed godwits, oystercatchers, common redshank, nightjars, black-tailed godwits and the kentish plover.
On the heath found by Albuebugt on the island, one can observe bird species such as hen harrier, rough-legged buzzard, merlin, golden plover, short-eared owl and great grey shrike.
The generous pantry of the Wadden Sea makes it one of the world's most crucial areas for birds. Every year, 10-12 million migratory birds pass through the Wadden Sea either on their way to or from their breeding grounds in northern Scandinavia, Siberia or Greenland. However, keep in mind that the large flocks of birds on the mudflats and the beach need peace and quiet to search for food and rest. Keeping a distance to the flock will give the birds the best possible conditions to get to or from their breeding grounds or overwinter habitats, which are often located thousands of kilometres away. The best place to observe the migratory birds are by Hønen just south of Sønderho. At high tide the birds gather east of Sønderho where people are not allowed to walk out; therefore it is recommended to bring binoculars.
A duck decoy is a large, devised trap which consists of a small, man-made lake with side canals covered with nets, which were previously used to capture wild ducks. Originally there were six duck decoys on Fanø, but in 1931 it was forbidden to capture wild ducks using this method. Two of the duck decoys have been renovated and are open to the public. These places are quiet, peaceful and are located in beautiful surroundings. They are great places to go and visit.
Albue Duck Decoy is a functioning workshop which can be visited at certain days from June to August.
Sønderho Old Duck Decoy is open to the public every day. Remember to close the gate after yourself and enjoy the free entrance.
The white-tailed eagle is the largest bird of prey that can be observed in Denmark. In recent years it has also been possible to spot 9 white-tailed eagles on Fanø during the winter season. At the end of the day one might be lucky to see them sitting in Fanø Klitplantage (the dune heath) as they arrive at their chosen overnight spots. Or perhaps one can catch a glimpse of them by the beach during the day as they hunt their prey or scavenge for food. It is a majestic sight to experience the large bird as it soars across the sky with a wingspan of 200-240 cm. Due to its large size and its square wings, the white-tailed eagle is sometimes referred to as "The Flying Door".
Located on the beach a little ways north of the road down to the beach from Sønderho, lies Sønderho coastal lake. This man-made coastal lake provides a chance to experience nature up close. A camouflaged observation room has been established in the dunes for the use of visitors. Cars and bikes can be parked on the beach, from which about 200 meters of marked path leads to the observation room and the coastal lake. Information about the history of the area as well as the specfic nature found in and around the lake is available through information boards in the observation room.


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1957 Ferrari 315 / 335 S – Second Most-Expensive Car Ever
5 February 2016 by Henk Bekker in $10 Million Plus, European, News, Paris, Records
© Artcurial / Christian Martin
A 1957 Ferrari 315 / 335 S sold for €32,075,200 ($35,711,359) at the Artcurial Paris Rétromobile 2016 sale – the second highest dollar price ever paid for a car at public auction. This is also the highest price ever paid for a car at an auction in Europe and for an auction in euro. Only the 1962/63 Ferrari 250 GTO has sold for more in dollar terms – its price of $38 million was only €28.5 million at the time of sale. The 1955 Mercedes Benz W196R Formula 1 is racer now relegated to third place. The Ferrari, chassis 0674, joined the very exclusive club of cars that have sold for more than $20 million at public auction.
1957 Ferrari 335 S – Most-Expensive Car Ever
© Artcurial
In euro terms, the 1957 Ferrari 335 Sport that Artcurial sold for €32,075,200 at the 2016 Paris Rétromobile sale is the most-expensive car ever sold at public auction. The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that Bonhams sold for $38 million at the 2014 Quail Lodge sale, converted to only €28.5 million at the time. In dollar terms, the $35,711,359 Artcurial achieved for the 1957 Ferrari 335 Sport is the second highest price ever paid for a car at auction.
1957 Ferrari 315 S
1957 Ferrari 315 / 335 S – © Artcurial / Christian Martin
The 1957 Ferrari 315 S, chassis 0674, sold for €32,075,200 ($35,711,359) at Artcurial's Paris 2016 Rétromobile classic car auction left the factory as a 315 S with a four-cam 3.8-liter V12 Tipo 140 engine capable of 340 bhp.
Wolfgang von Trips, Mille Miglia 1957 © Ted Walker, Ferret Fotographic
The car's first race, as an official Scuderia Ferrari factory team car, was the Sebring 12 hours where Peter Collins and Maurice Trintignant led the first 20 laps but ultimately brought the car home in sixth place overall.
At the Mille Miglia, for Ferrari a far more important race, Wolfgang von Trips brought the car home second, behind Piero Taruffi. Von Trips almost certainly could have won this last ever Mille Miglia but in traditional Ferrari team spirit did not challenge the senior works driver.
After the Mille Miglia, in preparation for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ferrari upgraded the engine of chassis 0674 to the 4100 cc V12 Tipo 141 and the 315 S became a 335 S. Output increased to 400 bhp.
Mike Hawthorn / Luigi Musso, 24 Heures du Mans 1957, Courtesy of Artcurial
On lap 30 at the 1957 Le Mans race, Mike Hawthorn drove the new Ferrari 335 S at an average speed of 203.015 km/h – the first time ever that a lap here was done faster then 200 km/h. The car retired with engine trouble after five hours.
Chassis 067 finished fourth at the 1957 Swedish Grand Prix (the Kristianstad 6 Hours) driven by Hawthorn and Musso. At the Venezuela Grand Prix, Hawthorn and Musso drove the car to second place – in a race where Ferrari took the top four places – and help seal the championship for Ferrari ahead of Maserati.
1957 Ferrari 335 S as Private Racer
Early in 1958, chassis 0674 was fitted with a second Tipo 141 engine – that it still has today – and sold to Luigi Chinetti, the famous New York-based Ferrari importer.
At the hands of Stirling Moss and Masten Gregory, while sporting the blue livery with white strip of the NART, chassis 0674 finally achieved an outright victory when winning the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix in Havana.
Chassis 0674 continued to race in North America during the 1958 season and obtained victories in the Road America and podium finishes on the circuits of Thompson and Watkins Glens. It retired during its final race, at the Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau in December 1958, never to have suffered any major accident.
1957 Ferrari 335 in the Bardinon Collection
After its retirement from active racing, the 1957 Ferrari 335 S, chassis 0674, was sold to a Pennsylvanian architect, Robert N Dusek, in 1960. In 1970, Pierre Bardinon acquired the car from Dusek to include in his world-famous collection of winning Ferraris.
In 1981, Bardinon had the Ferrari restored to its original body configuration – the ponton fender that was fitted for better cooling for the Venezuela Grand Prix is included in the sale.
Bardinon rarely showed the car in public, which will allow its new owner to participate in most prestigious concourse events around the world.
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Gender-Based Salary Differentials Report and recommendations released
July 17, 2019 —
The UM-UMFA Joint Committee to Study Gender-Based Salary Differentials has released the final independently-authored technical report, along with an overview of their findings and seven recommendations.
The Joint Committee, which included Janice Dodd, Susan Prentice, Annemieke Farenhorst, Tracey Peter, Dave Muir and Tina Chen, was formed after the conclusion of UM-UMFA negotiations in 2016. It looked at the salaries of UMFA members to determine if gender-based salary differentials exist at the U of M and if they do, to what extent.
While identifying salary differentials, the report dated Jan. 30, 2019 concluded that "there is no evidence of a systemic gender wage gap at the University of Manitoba." The author of the report, Dr. Tammy Schirle, professor of economics at Wilfred Laurier University, explains that the differentials can be accounted for by determinants including rank, seniority and discipline.
Other main findings of the Schirle report identified that there is evidence of gender differences in career progression to Professor between men and women particularly, in the health profession fields and in Science and Engineering. However, Schirle states that it is difficult to say much more on the issue without further information, and that a study of individual cases may be warranted. Regarding instructor salaries, she noted a gendered wage gap but the calculations are based on a very small number of individuals, therefore, lacking statistical significance.*
The Joint Committee reports that there are employment equity issues raised in the report which merit further study, particularly the on-average 18 month promotion lag of women to Professor and, for certain fields, the lower likelihood of being promoted to Professor.*
"I would like to acknowledge the good work of the Joint Committee and Dr. Schirle. This report will guide our continued efforts to enhance equity and inclusion and support our commitment to create an outstanding learning and working environment," says Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Janice Ristock.
Read Dr. Schirle's full report and the committee's recommendations.
*This story has been updated from the original published version, based on feedback from the Joint Committee.
The in-depth technical report was created by Dr. Tammy Schirle, an external consultant sought and hired by the Joint Committee. A professor of economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, Schirle is also an alumna of the U of M economics program [BA Hon.'99] and serves as associate editor for Canadian Public Policy, as director of the Laurier Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis and as board member for the Canadian Labour Economics Forum and is a C.D. Howe Institute Research Fellow. The University of Manitoba supplied the data, under the scope of Research Ethics Board approval, for the confidential work.
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Home Comics Mario 64 Is the Perfect Game for New Speedrunners
Mario 64 Is the Perfect Game for New Speedrunners
Players interested in speedrunning might wonder which games they should run. For prospective runners, Super Mario 64 is a great starting point.
Speedrunning is becoming an increasingly popular subset of the gaming community, due in large part to exciting speedrunning events like Games Done Quick, which show off the best parts of the hobby. Many players hoping to get into speedrunning love the idea of running a game but have no clue where to start or which game to pick.
The most common and solid advice for prospective runners is to play a game they love because they will need to spend hundreds of hours playing it without getting bored. Though that advice is solid, some great games can be obnoxious to speedrun or have small communities that are harder to get into. For anyone looking to start speedrunning, it's impossible to go wrong with Super Mario 64.
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Super Mario 64's Community Is Large and Beginner-Friendly
As one of the most popular speedrun games of all time, it's no surprise that Super Mario 64's community has produced top-of-the-line, beginner-friendly resources, with hundreds of tutorials on anything a new speedrunner could need help with, from setting up the game to performing difficult tricks.
The importance of an active community for speedrunning can't be overstated, as complicated routes and tricks are hard enough to learn without the added hurdle of not being able to find guides. Another advantage of Mario 64's large community can be seen in its many categories of speedruns, with routes where players collect 120, 70, 16 and even 0 stars before beating Bowser. This is great for beginners, as they can choose to run extremely short categories or categories that can last up to two hours. Mario 64 has a run suitable for everyone, no matter how much free time they have.
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Super Mario 64 Allows for Constant Improvement
Another reason Super Mario 64 is great for beginner runners is that the game has a nearly infinite skill ceiling. When players start running the game, there are routes with less execution-intensive tricks and stars specifically designed for beginners to acclimate themselves and get used to moving around as Mario.
As players get better at the fundamentals of the game, there are dozens of hard tricks that they can slowly incorporate into their runs, all the while constantly being rewarded with the true appeal of speedrunning games: seeing their personal best time go down. Additionally, if players get bored with the tricks in the category they're running, there is always the possibility of switching to a different run to keep things fresh.
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Mario 64 Is Just Incredibly Fun in General
Above all technical and convenience reasons, the game is simply fun enough to pour hundreds of hours into without getting bored. Somehow, despite being released over 25 years ago, Super Mario 64 holds up beautifully. The movement system alone is reason enough to play the game, as it has arguably yet to be topped in the genre. This is extraordinarily impressive considering it's essentially the first 3D platformer ever made.
The freedom of movement, the iconic hub world, impeccable level design and the ridiculous number of fun tricks and glitches to learn make Super Mario 64 infinitely replayable — the most important ingredient for any speedrun game. With a fun core gameplay loop and no barrage of long unskippable cutscenes, speedrunners can easily play Mario 64 for years without getting bored, and it's the perfect game for prospective runners to play to learn about this rewarding hobby.


Located within Çubuk and Akyurt districts of Ankara, Esenboğa Airport has both domestic and international flights. This airport in the capital city of Turkey is approximately 28 km away from city centre. There are four alternatives to reach from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to the city centre.
Aerobilet offers cheapest flight and hotel options as well as transfer services to reach anywhere at your destination. When you land on Ankara Esenboğa Airport, Aerobilet transfer vehicles can take you various locations including Çankaya, Kızılcahamam, Ostim. Also, you can request transfer services to your hotel which you booked on Aerobilet.
After buying cheapest flights on Aerobilet, you can use BelkoAir for cheap inner-city transport. You can buy Ankarakart from the bus stations at the exit of Ankara Esenboğa Airport terminal. With this card you can use BelkoAir as well as rails systems and telpher. Or you can pay your trip with BelkoAir on bus. BelkoAir will provide transfer between Esenboğa Airport and Pursaklar, Keçiören, Yenimahalle, and Çankaya.
If you don't want to wait and prefer to reach your destination directly, you can use taxis from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to city centre. If Çankaya is accepted as centre, it will approximately take 27 minutes from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to city centre.


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virtualenv_folder=$BASEDIR/../.nmis_virtualenv
if [ ! -d $virtualenv_folder ]; then
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else
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fi

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## check if nginx is available
write_nginx_config
check_available nginx

sites_available=/etc/nginx/sites-available/nmis
sites_enabled=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/nmis
sites_enabled_default=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
echo "check if nginx config is set up"
if [ -e $sites_enabled_default ]; then
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fi

if [ ! -f $sites_available ]; then
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    echo "done."
fi

if [ ! -f $sites_enabled ]; then
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    echo "done."
fi

echo "nginx is set up"

##Write or overwrite the uwsgi.ini file
write_uwsgi_ini

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check_available uwsgi

if ! check_running uwsgi; then
    echo -n "starting uwsgi..."
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fi
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The tourism sector today is one of the largest and most powerful sectors of the global economy. In many countries, this area plays a significant role in the formation of gross domestic product, job creation and more. It has an impact on the development of the state in the economic, cultural and humanitarian fields. Uzbekistan also pays great attention to the tourism industry. This is aimed at developing and improving normative legal acts regulating the sphere and aimed at its sustainable development.
Over the years of independence, our country has achieved considerable success in this direction, increasing the attention of foreign guests to the historical sites of ancient cities. However, this is already becoming insufficient to qualify for the title of a state with a developed tourism infrastructure. Thus, in order to increase the effectiveness of ongoing reforms in the field of tourism and dramatically increase the number of citizens of foreign countries entering the republic by improving the quality of services provided, as well as promoting a national tourism product on world markets, the head of state signed a decree on measures to further develop the tourism sector in the Republic Uzbekistan. " Deputy Prime Minister Aziz Abdukhakimov spoke at length about the planned activities during the implementation of the document and the road map adopted with him at a specially organized press conference on this occasion.
Our country has a number of documents aimed at the comprehensive development of tourist potential of Uzbekistan. As a result of measures taken for the first half of 2019, the republic was visited by more than three million foreign tourists, in the foreseeable future the goal is to reach the mark of ten million.
The indicator becomes achievable if immediate actions are taken to modernize the industry, develop the infrastructure of popular tourist facilities in our country, and promote the brand of Uzbekistan in the world market. So, according to the adopted Decree, the introduction of a number of innovations is planned. In particular, starting from October 1, according to international legal standards, the Open Skies mode is introduced at the airports of Karshi, Nukus and Termez using the fifth freedom of air (the right to receive and unload passengers, mail and cargo coming to or from a third state). This is a very serious decision will increase the number of flights to these cities, and at the same time the number of tourists. Bukhara airport also opens with the "Open Skies" mode for foreign citizens.
Starting January 1, 2020, a stimulating measure is introduced - subsidizing the costs of tourism entities and air carriers for organizing charter flights from other countries. In the holiday season, for each foreign guest brought, subject to the duration of his stay in Uzbekistan at least five nights, $ 20 will be paid. In the winter season - from November 20 to February 20 - the amount of compensation will be $ 50. This practice is effectively used today by a number of foreign countries. The organization of a large number of charter flights to the country will give a big breakthrough for the development of tourism. According to A. Abdukhakimov, the President of the country instructed to increase the flow of visitors to Uzbekistan to ten million people. Last year, 5.4 million tourists visited our country, more than six are expected this year.
The decree plans to carry out measures to promote the status of Uzbekistan as a tourist country. In particular, the decision is aimed at covering part of the costs of foreign companies when creating audiovisual products in our territory. Compensation will be paid at the expense of the State budget in the amount of up to 20 percent of the costs, but not more than 300 thousand dollars per unit of output.
As Aziz Abduhakimov noted, Uzbekistan has huge potential for the implementation of such projects. After all, the more films about our country will be made, the more foreign citizens will want to visit it. Negotiations with large foreign film companies have already begun. In addition, it is planned to allocate grants for filming short and full-length artistic, as well as documentary-chronicles films on historical and outstanding personalities of Uzbekistan in the amount of 30 percent of the project cost, but not more than three billion soums, using funds from the off-budget Tourism Support Fund under the State Committee for Tourism.
The decree provides for the creation of a tourist transport corridor. It is planned that the highway will stretch from the city of Khanabad (Andijan region) to Muinak (Karakalpakstan) with a branch to Termez (Surkhandarya region). The project provides for the development of European-level roadside infrastructure and the organization of tourist services along highways. For its implementation, a working group will be created that will travel to Khanabad and travel by bus to Muynak to familiarize with the current conditions and determine the areas where it will be necessary to carry out major repairs. Specialists are given the right to assist entrepreneurs in undergoing licensing procedures for organizing activities related to the development of roadside infrastructure, including the allocation of land, obtaining building permits, the construction of sanitary facilities and so on. The next two years are allotted for the implementation of the project. According to A. Abdukhakimov, the creation of infrastructure and a tourist highway contributes to the development of a culture of traveling around the country both among the local population and foreigners.
One of the most interesting ideas is the creation of the so-called tourist mahallas, villages and auls. Starting November 1, according to the Decree of the State Committee for Tourism, it will begin to compile a list of gatherings of citizens with the greatest tourist potential. In order to gain such a status as a mahalla, kishlak or aul, it is necessary to organize at least 20 guest houses on its territory, as well as to consider at least five types of tourist services for guests. After receiving the appropriate status from the state, assistance will be provided in improving the infrastructure, repairing roads and advertising. Such an initiative, as A. Abdukhakimov noted, will stimulate the population to independently create tourist centers.
The document also provides for the introduction of a visa-free regime for a period of 30 days for citizens of another 20 states, mainly from Central America. Why exactly these countries? Firstly, as the Deputy Prime Minister explained, in this region, in particular, the Mexican United States is actively developing outbound tourism, the level of GDP per capita is also high there. Thus, after the adoption of this decision, Uzbekistan becomes the second liberalized country in the visa regime in the CIS after Georgia. From now on, a visa-free regime applies to citizens of 65 countries.
In addition, from January 1, 2020, on the territory of cultural heritage sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and historical or cultural monuments protected by the state, souvenirs of exclusively domestic production will be sold. This step will support local artisans. Along with this, a roadmap has been developed, including 65 events aimed at promoting tourism in the country. As part of its implementation, an international aviation forum is scheduled for next year, to which leading foreign tour operators and airlines will be invited. Measures have been outlined for the development of youth tourism, in particular, visits to Uzbekistan by foreign boys and girls as part of various educational programs. Significantly, the level of provision of tourist infrastructure facilities with the Internet will be increased. It is planned to introduce changes in the certification requirements for hotels. For the first time in all major cities of the country, tourist streets, shops, special zones for free artists, artists, artisans will be systematically formed. According to A. Abdukhakimov, this will make the places attractive for tourists, and a separate unit will appear in the structure of the State Committee for Tourism, which will involve specialists in the development of tourist quarters.
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Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Qin Gang, then China's ambassador to the United States, in Washington, D.C. on August 12, 2021. (U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
U.S.-China Relations
US snub of Chinese envoy could boomerang now that he's a big wheel — or not
Beijing seems to be in no shape to hold grudges, so we should move on too and let more diplomatic heads prevail.
Jake Werner
Last week Qin Gang, China's ambassador to the United States, bid adieu to his appointment with a schmaltzy paean to his many delightful trips across America.
Recalling his visits to heartland farms and coastal container ports, ballparks and factories, he promised to hold these memories in his heart and make "the development of China-U.S. relations … an important mission of mine in my new position."
That new position is foreign minister of China. This marks a leap in status that had only come into view in Washington late in Qin's tenure as ambassador, after his surprise appointment to the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee last October. Prior to that, Biden administration officials largely ignored Qin, believing that he was not closely connected to Xi Jinping. That left Qin spending his time traveling the country rather than engaging with high-level foreign policymakers.
The Biden administration's snub undoubtedly rankles Qin. But for once, diplomatic niceties like those contained in Qin's farewell op-ed may be a better guide to the possibilities of great power relations than behind-the-scenes resentments. Or rather, they could be — if the deep resentments on the U.S. side that caused the missed opportunity to cultivate Qin in the first place don't get in the way.
The reason that Qin's friendly pieties are likely something more than empty words is that China is facing a very difficult internal situation as the new year opens, and the leadership is looking for ways to take some of the pressure off externally. The biggest immediate challenge is the enormous damage from a sudden dismantling of the three-year zero covid policy, executed in one fell swoop in early December without adequate preparation. Hundreds of millions were infected in the course of a few weeks, causing a wave of death and sickness in a country that had previously been almost completely protected from the pandemic, pushing the medical system to the breaking point in many localities, and raising serious questions about the competence of the government.
The covid wave is also exacerbating the Chinese leadership's other urgent problem: an economy facing very difficult short-term disruptions and long-term structural dysfunctions. Economic growth was already struggling in the face of the debilitating lockdowns of prior months and as a result of efforts to gradually deflate the real estate bubble that, for over a decade, has borne the economy along even as it threatened sudden financial disaster at any moment.
The lockdowns have been lifted and, after a sharp decrease, activity is returning to the major cities that first suffered the covid wave. Policies that were slowly deflating the property bubble have been reversed. Yet covid is likely to still roil the country for many weeks as it spreads beyond the first tier cities, toward poorer cities and rural areas where the majority of the population lives with much weaker medical capacity. And even if the recovery is quick, the country must still find new drivers of growth beyond the property bubble in order to address high levels of youth unemployment (a significant factor in the nationwide anti-lockdown protests that unsettled the leadership) and a rapidly rising imbalance between the elderly and those of prime working age. That search has been seriously complicated by the Biden administration's decision to impose a blockade on China's access to advanced technology for computing, biotech, and clean energy.
Some commentators in the United States have suggested that China's difficulties at home will lead it to lash out abroad in order to distract the population from the leadership's failings. Fortunately, there is no significant precedent for such an eventuality in the history of the People's Republic and the indications of recent weeks all point in the opposite direction.
Already in November, when Biden and Xi met for nearly three hours at the Bali G20 summit, China was trying to reassure the United States that it "does not seek to change the existing international order or interfere in the internal affairs of the United States, and has no intention to challenge or displace the United States." (Qin himself premiered this message in his inaugural speech as ambassador in 2021.) The two sides agreed at the Bali meeting to resume their bilateral climate dialogue, which had been suspended in the fallout from Nancy Pelosi's official visit to Taiwan in August, and to arrange a visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken early in 2023.
Since these early promising signs, China has continued to signal a clear desire to reduce international tensions. In addition to Qin's warm missives, multiple Chinese officials have conveyed to their European counterparts and to journalists that Russia kept China in the dark on its plan for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and they have emphasized their efforts to restrain Putin from making use of nuclear weapons in the war.
Furthermore, Beijing has ended its unofficial ban on Australian coal imports, imposed in 2020 after Australia called for an investigation into the origins of covid. And the Foreign Ministry has transferred Zhao Lijian, symbol of the vitriolic rhetoric that rose to prominence among many Chinese diplomats in recent years, from his role as Ministry spokesman to a low-visibility position in the Ocean Affairs Department.
The Biden administration seems torn on how to respond to these overtures. On the one hand, an awareness of the grave dangers emerging from a collapsing U.S.–China relationship after years of escalating hostility and coercion on both sides seems to have finally broken through last year. Biden has pressed to renew communications between the two countries and assured Xi that he sees a stable and prosperous China as good for the United States and the world. The administration's National Security Strategy averred a desire "to avoid a world in which competition escalates into a world of rigid blocs."
On the other hand, members of the administration like Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl are perfectly comfortable publicly warning other countries away from connections with China (on the grounds that China pursues its national interests in its foreign policy) and saying that our "new age of competition … is not a competition of countries, it is a competition of coalitions." Much of the administration's policy seems to assume a cold war-style conflict with China and so is hurrying into existence such a world.
To resolve this ambivalence, the Biden administration need look no further than the national interests of the United States. The American people have a profound interest in forestalling the transformation of China into a powerful and embittered adversary bent on sabotaging U.S. goals, and an equally profound interest in gaining China's collaboration on confronting existential threats like climate change and pandemic disease.
China's present internal weakness opens a brief window of opportunity in which the Chinese leadership — for purely self-interested reasons — may be willing to start rebuilding a foundation for comity and cooperation. The U.S. leadership should, for equally self-interested reasons, seize that opportunity.
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Here is where we'll discuss Elon Musk's Salary, Biography, House, and Quotes. Get the Net worth of Tesla owner Elon Musk and details on his life form here. Amount of Elon Musk's wealth, Family, Biography, House, Quotes will be discussed here. SpaceX was founded by Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk in 2012 and launched its first commercial spacecraft in 2013. Elon Musk is a multi-skilled and multi-faceted entrepreneur, investor, engineer, and businessman. Among Elon Musk's companies are SpaceX, Tesla Inc., Neuralink, OpenAI, and PayPal.
Elon Musk life introduction
Name Elon Musk
Full Name Elon Reeve Musk
Nickname Iron Man
Birthplace Pretoria, South Africa
Residence United States, California
Religion Atheist
Nationality South African, Canadian, American
Height inches- 5' 11"
Education Waterkloof House Preparatory School
Bryanston High School
Pretoria Boys High School
Title Founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX
CEO and product architect of Tesla
Famous For Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal
Eye Color Moss Green
SpaceX is a maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft built by South African-born entrepreneur Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa). Musk cofounded PayPal and founded SpaceX, maker of electronic payment and payments firms. His first significant investment in Tesla was as the chief executive of the electric car manufacturer.
Who Is Elon Musk?
➡ SpaceX and Tesla electric car maker Elon Musk are both led by the charismatic founder and CEO.
➡ Musk was born in South Africa and raised in Canada before moving to the United States.
➡ In addition to his physics education, Musk got his start with startups like Zip2 and X.com at the University of Pennsylvania.
➡ As the founder of the company that became PayPal, he played a major role in its creation.
➡ Mr. Musk, who has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, exhibits eccentric behavior occasionally.
His father, an engineer, was the parent of Elon Reeve Musk; his mother, a model and nutritionist. Elon was born in Pretoria, one of South Africa's three capital cities, in 1971. He is the oldest of three children, all high-achievers: His brother, Kimbal Musk, is a venture capitalist and environmentalist.His sister, Tosca Musk, is an award-winning producer and director.
He would later label his father a "terrible human being…he has done everything bad you can possibly imagine. I had a horrible upbringing. I saw a lot of hardship in my young life. I worry about my kids not facing enough trouble," Musk would later say.
Elon musk family
➡ Maye Musk, Musk's mother, is the oldest female model to be in a Covergirl advertisement. Her family relied on five jobs at one point while Musk was growing up.
➡ Errol Musk is Musk's father, a wealthy South African engineer.
➡ During his childhood in South Africa, Musk lived with his brothers Kimbal and Tosca. He was ten years old when his parents divorced.
Elon musk age
Elon musk is 50 years old, recently he made his 50th birthday.
Elon Musk's Children
Six of Musk's children are boys. Xavier Musk and Griffin Musk were twins born in 2004 and Kai Musk and Saxon Musk were triplets born in 2006. The pair started dating in 2018 and Musk had a son with Claire Elise Boucher in 2019.
According to Forbes, Elon Musk is the second richest person in the world with a net worth of $165.9 billion.
Elon musk degrees
The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, awarded Musk bachelor's degrees in both economics and physics in 1997 after Musk studied at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
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Elon Musk PayPal and SpaceX
Musk received a bachelor's degree in physics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1997 after attending Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In California, he enrolled in graduate school in physics at Stanford University. However, he left after just two days because he felt the Internet could change society more dramatically than physics. Zip2, an online newspaper directory with maps, was founded by him in 1995. The computer manufacturer Compaq purchased Zip2 for $307 million in 1999, and Musk then launched X.com, a company specializing in online money transfers, which later became PayPal. PayPal was purchased by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion
Musk has long believed that in order for humanity to survive, we must become a multiplanet species. It was however unsatisfactory to him that rocket launchers were so costly. He founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in 2002 to develop rockets at a lower cost. Falcon 1 and Falcon 9, the first two rockets of SpaceX, were designed to cost much less than competitors. In contrast, the Boeing Company's Delta IV Heavy rocket can carry just one-third as much weight to orbit as the third rocket, Falcon Heavy, with a payload of 117,000 pounds. nd the Falcon Heavy: the Super Heavy–Starship system.
The first stage of the Super Heavy rocket could lift 100,000 grams into low Earth orbit. In addition to providing fast transportation between Earth cities, the Starship could also establish bases on the Moon and Mars. In addition to the Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX developed a delivery vehicle for the International Space Station, called the SpaceX Falcon. As of 2020, Dragon was carrying astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station. It developed a rocket that could take off from a launchpad and land on it again once it had left. This enabled Musk to reduce the expense of space flight. To test such technology, SpaceX launched its Grasshopper rocket several times in 2012. He also designed the Falcon rockets, Dragon and Grasshopper rockets while CEO of SpaceX.
Elon Musk Tesla
Tesla Motors became the Tesla Roadster, an electric car Musk helped design, in 2004, when Musk joined engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as an executive. Musk seized management control as CEO and product architect after Eberhard was ousted from the company in 2007. Throughout his leadership, Tesla has flourished into one of the most prestigious and popular automotive brands in the world.
SolarCity, a clean energy services company Tesla acquired in 2006, provides two solar batteries for stationary energy storage purposes: the smaller Powerwall battery is designed for home backup power or off-grid applications, while the larger Powerpack battery is meant for commercial or utility grid applications.
The wealthiest person in the world is Elon Musk, whose net worth is over $185 billion.
With Tesla's share price rise on Thursday, Musk passed Jeff Bezos, worth about $184 billion and the wealthiest since 2017.
The 10-fold rise in Musk's wealth over the past year has marked a dramatic change in his fortune.
Over the past year, Musk's wealth has surged faster than any other in history, and it represents a remarkable turnaround for the outspoken entrepreneur who, just 18 months ago, was making headlines for Tesla's cash burn and his leverage against the company.
Despite his $27 billion net worth, Musk barely qualified as one of the 50 richest people in 2020.
Due to Tesla's rocketing share price, which has increased ninefold in the past year, it has added more than $150 billion to its net worth.
Amazon's share price remains low due to the possibility of increased regulation from Washington.
Musk passed Warren Buffett in July to become the seventh-richest person.
In November, Musk passed Bill Gates for second place. In the past year, Musk's net worth increased more than Gates' $132 billion.
Tesla's shares closed Thursday's trading up nearly 8%. The company has invested more than $760 billion.
Elon Musk Net Worth $190.1 Billion
Profession Businessmen
yearly Income $2800 Million Above
Monthly Income $250 Million Above
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A Business Insider report indicated that Musk owned properties worth over $70 million in the Los Angeles area at one time. In 2013, he bought a four-bedroom, three-bath home overlooking Los Angeles for his ex-wife, Talulah Riley.
According to Variety, Musk's children attend school at the home. Vogue wrote of the prairie schoolhouse in a 2015 interview: "The gates lead to a golf course."
Elon Musk Biography
Besides Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, his roots are in America, Canada, and South Africa.
Elon began teaching himself computer programming after becoming fascinated by the Commodore VIC-20 (computer) when he was 10 years old.
'PC and Office Technology' (a magazine) purchased his first video game, 'Blastar', for $500. When he was 12 years old, he was only 12 years old.
The 'Foundation series' by Isaac Asimov inspired him significantly in his childhood.
Bullying in his school had a negative effect on Elon's childhood. In fact, he even had to be hospitalized once after being beaten and thrown down a flight of stairs by a group of boys.
His father forbade Elon to move to Canada just before his 18th birthday. Elon's father wanted him to finish his graduation from Pretoria, but he fled to Canada believing it was easier to get to the United States from Canada.
A web software company, Zip2 (established in 1995), was founded by Elon Musk and his brother, Kimbal, with funds raised from angel investors. The other board members denied Elon's proposal to become ZIP2's CEO. Zip2 was acquired by Compaq in 1999, however.
This occurred in 1999. In 2000, Elon was removed from his position as CEO after some disagreement with allied parties. X.com merged with Confinity in 2001, creating Paypal, a money-transfer service owned by Elon Musk. He owned the largest share of X.com at the time of its acquisition by eBay in 2002.
The first woman he married was Justine Wilson. They successfully conceived twins and triplets with "in vitro fertilization" in the years 2004 and 2006 respectively. The couple lost their first child to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) before ten weeks of his birth.
'Mars Oasis' was written by him in 2001. In order to raise public awareness about space exploration, this project was undertaken. The company NPO Lavochkin, and Kosmotras collected refurbished 'Dnepr Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles' (ICBMs) for Elon's project from Russia. When Elon proposed his plan, one of the Russian chief designers spat on him. After returning to the US, he was left empty-handed.
Another meeting with Kosmotras took place in 2002, where the company offered Elon one rocket for $8 million, which he found too expensive. In May 2002, Elon was angry and left the meeting, so he founded 'SpaceX' to build the rockets he needed at a cost that was affordable for him.
Co-founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003, Tesla (a car manufacturer company) is an electric vehicle manufacturer. Elon joined the board of directors of the company in 2004. Elon Musk became the CEO of Tesla overthrowing Martin Eberhard in 2008 amid a financial crisis and a few conflicts.
Musk's salary at Tesla is only $1.
He made a cameo appearance as the pilot of his plane, a Dassault Falcon 900 (1994) model, in the film, Thank You for Smoking.
In 2006, he served on the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lyndon Musk and Peter Rive founded SolarCity with Musk's financial support in 2006. The initial concept of the project was also provided by him. SolarCity was acquired by Tesla in 2016 for a whopping $3.8 billion.
Despite getting separated in 2008, Elon shares custody of his five sons with Justine.
Elon and Talulah Riley were married in 2010 after dating each other for several years. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a divorce from actress Jennifer Aniston in 2012. Elon Musk announced in 2013 that he had filed for a second divorce from Talulah after remarrying her. Despite the withdrawal of the divorce, it was finally finalized in 2016.
Among the 100 people Time magazine selected in 2010 as the most influential in the world, as well as among the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine.
Forbes named Musk one of the "America's 20 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under" in February 2011.
For SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, Musk was named Fortune Businessperson of the year in 2013.
Elon played himself in an episode of "The Simpsons" in 2015. He also appeared in an episode of "The Big Bang Theory" as himself.
He was named one of the top 10 visionaries in 2016 along with Sal Khan and Mark Zuckerberg.
Forbes ranked him 21st on its list of the World's Most Powerful People in December 2016.
Stu Grossman purchased Tesla.com from Musk in 2016.
In 2016, Musk cofounded the neurotechnology firm Neurolink. It is a startup company that combines artificial intelligence with the human brain. The company creates devices that can be inserted into the human brain.
X.com was purchased by Elon Musk from PayPal in 2017 for "great sentimental value.".
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy on 6 February 2018 carrying a Tesla Roadster as a dummy payload. In 2018, Falcon Heavy became the most powerful rocket operating in the world, being the 4th highest-capacity rocket ever built.
The company was named 'The Boring Company' after he built a tunnel while stuck in a traffic jam.
During the Tham Luang cave rescue operation in 2018, Musk tried to assist rescuers after a junior football team got trapped in a cave (in Thailand). To rescue the children in Thailand, his engineers at The Boring Company and SpaceX built a submarine called Wild Boar. As eight of the twelve children had already been rescued when his submarine reached Thailand, his submarine was not used by the Thai government.
A Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa (a SpaceX passenger) was scheduled to reach the moon in 2023. Elon announced SpaceX would launch its first passenger in 2018.
Elon Musk told an interviewer Tesla would never make an electric motorcycle. He further revealed that when he was a teenager he was almost killed by a truck while driving his motorcycle.
His Philanthropy led to the founding of the Musk Foundation, a non-profit organization whose goal is to provide solar-power energy systems in disaster prone regions.
When he visited India, he stayed the night with a spiritual guru who offered him advice on serving the poor. That is how Musk became enlightened about social service.
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This is how gentrification happens: Northwest DC and the height restriction
December 16, 2010 By Stephen Smith
Lydia DePillis wrote the Washington City Paper's cover story on the case for Congress overturning DC's height limit, which should be very familiar to readers of this blog. It's got some interesting history in it (DC's height limit was apparently influenced by George Washington's personal aesthetics, despite the fact that he never governed from the city), but the part that was really interesting to me was the part where she discusses what the new limitations should be. It's not politically practical to advocate for lifting the limit without reservations, as we here would like, and there are the usual caveats and equivocations ("What if additional height were granted on a competitive basis, and awarded for the best design?"). But the part that really stood out to me was this graphic (click on the image and scroll to the bottom of the linked page to see a bigger version), outlining where Lydia thinks the height restrictions should be lifted:
Anyone familiar with DC geography will notice that the area most insulated from change – Northwest DC – is the richest part of town, full of desirable white neighborhoods. The areas where DePillis advocates lifting the height limit – neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River figure prominently in the graphic – are far blacker and poorer than the rest of DC. Sure, there are pretty buildings in NW and a lot of ugly ones in Anacostia, but there are also beautiful homes off of Benning Road and shitty ones in Burleith. (Which, I should add, could desperately use some taller buildings, given its proximity to the perpetually housing-strapped Georgetown University and its rather ugly architecture compared to Georgetown proper.)
This tactic of upzoning poor black neighborhoods while leaving white neighborhoods unchanged is very common, and I realize that Lydia is just trying to be politically palatable. Her previous (very good) reporting at the WCP indicates to me that she, personally, is probably a lot more amenable to density citywide than she lets on. She may even resent the fact that the staid, white Northwest neighborhoods, where I'm sure many of the Committee of 100 members live, are off-limits to dense development.
But still, the fact that the only incremental steps towards redensification we can take will disproportionately displace black families is something that should be recognized and discussed. If upzoning poor neighborhoods is the only way to get the city to allow dense development, then so be it, but we shouldn't pretend that these sorts of half-measures won't have consequences. Lydia DePillis in the past has taken the position that gentrification is too often used to stymie useful development, which I definitely think is true. But we should also recognize that the way we've been upzoning cities in the last few decades has definitely encouraged the sort of radical gentrification that pushes blacks out of their neighborhoods. Anti-density zoning in the long term has been shown to cause racial segregation, but there can be no doubt that allowing condo towers along a streetcar route on Benning Road will price blacks out of the neighborhood in a way that could be mitigated if Glover Park, Columbia Heights, and Dupont Circle also had to accept a few towers of their own.
Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, history, housing, planning, zoning Tagged With: dc, density, gentrification, height restriction, race issues, zoning
About Stephen Smith
I graduated Spring 2010 from Georgetown undergrad, with an entirely unrelated and highly regrettable major that might have made a little more sense if I actually wanted to become an international trade lawyer, but which alas seems good for little else.
I still do most of the tweeting for Market Urbanism
Stephen had previously written on urbanism at Forbes.com. Articles Profile; Reason Magazine, and Next City
Jason says
"neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River figure prominently in the graphic"
Only five of the 16 streets/neighborhoods in the graphic land east of the river, two of those (Pennsylvania ave SE and Benning Road) stretch across both sides. Not sure if this qualifies as "figuring prominently" but whatever, I'm a stickler for DC geography.
So then you don't think 5/16 is disproportionate for an area that looks to comprise about 20% of DC's area?
She includes Conn. Ave., Wisconsin Ave., and 16th St. NW. I realize that is only "3/16" of the locations, but those corridors encompass a huge, huge swath of "staid, white Northwest neighborhoods," and certainly include Glover Park. As far as I can tell, she wants tall new buildings pretty much everywhere (which I'm all for) but didn't want to come out and say so.
Guest says
2 of 8 wards is 25%; I'd also throw out that Foggy Bottom is on the map– so 4 of 16 are in "white" NW
Yeah, like I said in the post, you're probably right about the last point. I wasn't trying to pick on her, just show how politically palatable compromises slowly lead to basically mostly poor places being gentrified. But also, I'm pretty sure Glover Park isn't included on that map…I spent a lot of time moving back and forth between a Google Map and that one, and it looks to me like the upper Wisconsin stretch that she lays out in the map starts waaay above Glover Park.
Foggy Bottom is almost entirely commercial, institutional, and GWU dorms – as with NoMa, there aren't really residents to upset.
Flooding the market with new rentals will drive rent prices down citywide, which tempers displacement. There's a major housing shortage at the moment:
You can't stop the forces of gentrification. The city can, however, shape its progress — offer incentives for a high % of affordable units, which would decrease segregation (in my mind, a far worse detriment than displacement).
Gentrifying with "Towers"– and How They Fail in Columbia Heights | DCentric says:
[…] in DCHighland Park, Columbia HeightsThis is a few days old, but I felt compelled to post it– Stephen Smith at Market Urbanism blogged a response to Lydia DePillis' feature in the City Paper on building height […]
Only 2 Ways to Fight Gentrification (you're not going to like one of them) says:
[…] far less influential and have far fewer resources with which to fight back. The end result is that rich, entitled, white areas get down-zoned, while less-affluent, disempowered, minority areas are up…. Politicians appease politically influential neighborhoods through limited growth, and then appease […]
Só existem duas formas de combater a gentrificação (e você não vai gostar de uma delas) | Caos Planejado says:
[…] resultado final é que bairros ricos cada vez mais diminuem seus potenciais construtivos [N.T.: vide Jardim Europa, em São…. Os políticos agradam os bairros politicamente influentes limitando seu crescimento e, em seguida, […]


Foursquare is not a consumer social app business, it's a data company. And only when it admitted that to itself and revalued as such was it able to pull in more capital and keep chugging. Today at LA's Upfront Summit, Foursquare's lead investor from Union Square Ventures Fred Wilson stuck up for the startup while trying to make people understand how it's changed.
"Think of it more like comScore than Instagram" Wilson insisted.
Essentially, it's a data provider for the real world the way comScore is a data provider about web traffic. It gives businesses reliable databases of real world points of interests, foot traffic trends, location-based ad targeting and measurement, and more.
That's critical because Foursquare had lost its edge with consumers. Your location became something easily baked into Facebook posts, Instagrams, and tweets, rather than something you posted on its own.
Then in 2014, Foursquare split its app in two, dividing the local tips in Foursquare from the checkins on Swarm. Foursquare stripped out some of the best-loved features like Mayorship, only to bring them back later. And some loyal users felt slighted by being told to download a second app to do what they were already doing.
But while that might have hurt the Foursquare's consumer growth prospects, it still had enough existing data and faithful users to generate the data necessary.
Still, Foursquare had trouble adjusting perceptions, and wasn't able to raise money on the idea that its social app would become ubiquitous and monetize directly. Executives were fleeing.
Announced last month, this Series E round led by Union Square Ventures reportedly valued Foursquare at about half its previous $650 million valuation. That might sound bad, but it's better than vaporizing.
The cash breathes new life into the dilapidated company. While it might never ascend to become a cultural institution or trend with teens, Foursquare can still be a healthy business. This readjustment of ambitions and acceptance of its natural aptitude could be a good lesson for ailing unicorns to consider.


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Dave obtained his BS Marketing Management degree at Colegio de San Juan de Letran in 2013. Dave's interests include design thinking, photography, videography, tech gadgets, exotic pets, surfing and waterfalls hopping. He is also a Startup Weekend organizer and has been active in organizing startup events outside IdeaSpace.


April 13, 2018 -- Researchers from Australia and China have created a 3D-printed heart that mirrors the size and texture of real cardiac tissue, with potential clinical applications in patient and medical education, communication among clinicians, and presurgical planning, according to a recent study published in PLOS One.
The investigators used rubber-like material to 3D print a heart model based on coronary CT angiography (CCTA) of a 20-month-old patient with congenital heart disease (CHD). They found that the model not only accurately represented scans of the patient's heart but also could be beneficial for planning the necessary interventional procedure and educating the parents (PLOS One, March 21, 2018).
"The flexible 3D-printed heart model can be accurately reproduced from cardiac CT images," wrote senior author Dr. Zhonghua Sun and colleagues from Curtin University in Perth and Capital Medical University in Beijing. "It is found to facilitate preoperative planning and improve the surgical outcome; enhance patient-doctor and interprofessional communication; and improve approach in medical teaching."
Demonstration of the flexibility of a 3D-printed heart made of TangoPlus material. All images courtesy of Dr. Zhonghua Sun.
In recent years, physicians have been using 3D-printed models of the heart to facilitate diagnostic assessment and preoperative planning -- particularly for complex pediatric cases such as CHD, according to the authors. These models can provide clinicians and patients with a more complete 3D spatial visualization of the heart and surrounding structures, compared with the traditional method of examining CT scans, MR images, or echocardiograms.
Seeking to enhance the realism of such 3D-printed models, Sun and colleagues created a 3D-printed heart using flexible material that more closely resembles cardiac tissue than the typical rigid 3D printing material.
Isolate key anatomical structures and threshold with segmentation software (Mimics Innovation Suite, Materialise).
Smooth and hollow the model.
Add an arbitrary 2-mm-thick layer to the model's surface to represent the heart wall using editing software (3-matic, Materialise).
Divide the model into two compartments in 3D software (Geomagic Studio 12, 3D Systems).
Once the digital models were edited, the group chose one of the models to print with a commercial PolyJet 3D printer (Objet Eden 260VS, Stratasys) using flexible, rubber-like material (TangoPlus). Generating the digital 3D model took two hours, postprocessing it took 15 minutes, and the final 3D-printed model cost an estimated $232.
Next, Sun and colleagues used contrast-enhanced CT on the 3D-printed heart and collected the internal diameter of 10 anatomical locations on the resulting CT scans using the ruler function of a DICOM viewer (Horos, Horos Project). They compared these diameters with those of the originating CCTA scans to verify the accuracy of the 3D-printed heart.
Measurements of each of the 10 regions on the 3D-printed heart had a strong correlation (r = 0.99) with those of corresponding locations on the original scans. Overall, the 3D-printed model slightly overestimated the size of the heart by an average of 0.23 mm in each area.
Virtual heart model (left) and 3D-printed heart (right).
To assess the clinical value of the flexible 3D-printed heart, the researchers conducted interviews and surveys of two radiologists, two cardiologists, two cardiac surgeons, and three members of the medical academic staff. Six out of nine had prior experience using 3D-printed hearts, and their average satisfaction score for the model was 8.4 out of 10.
Among the six physicians, four reported that the 3D-printed model could be useful in planning procedures, and three said it could be useful in testing devices for presurgical simulation. The rest said it may be useful for these purposes, and none claimed it was not useful.
All of the cardiac surgeons and cardiologists agreed that the 3D-printed model could be useful in enhancing patient-doctor communication and would be "invaluable" for improving the efficiency of consultation in terms of knowledge gained. Only half, though, thought using the model would save time. Four out of the six health professionals indicated their preference for using a combination of medical images and 3D-printed models to communicate with patients or other clinicians.
This result suggests that 3D-printed models might serve as a complementary tool in patient-to-doctor and clinician-to-clinician communication, rather than replace existing approaches, the authors noted.
Regarding medical education, the academic staff members said using 3D-printed hearts would help the students "be able to learn the pathology quicker with better understanding," the researchers wrote.
"Overall, the cardiac surgeons and cardiologists responded positively with respect to the use of the 3D-printed heart model in communication within medical practice," they wrote. "These positive findings are significant, as this is the first report to investigate the accuracy and the multidirectional utility of the 3D-printed heart model in a holistic approach."
A major limitation of the study was that the readers measured select regions of the CT scans of the 3D-printed heart only in the axial plane, according to the authors. They acknowledged the need for measurements in the coronal and sagittal planes as well as the need to assess the dimensional accuracy of the model in continuing studies more comprehensively.
"As 3D printing in cardiovascular specialty is still in its infancy, future studies should include more cases and participants to confirm the dimensional accuracy and clinical value of the 3D-printed heart models," they wrote. "Furthermore, future investigations should also focus on analyzing the cost-benefit of 3D printing of CHD."


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