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Some Points About Global Warming Expanded On (Updated)
Published April 11, 2015 September 14, 2018 by Papa Giorgio
1) Has any climate warming beyond natural variability taken place?
2) Is a consensus among climate experts compatible with science?
3) Are humankind increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration?
7) Will warmer worldwide weather be dangerous?
2a) Hurricanes
2b) Tornadoes
I have taken a few points from a larger What's Up With That post and am inserting my own points into them. They put together a list of ten points or criteria that should be met BEFORE someone believes man-made (anthropogenic) global warming to be true… to the degree in the minds of pop-culture and media. I will add a bit to the list as well as not posting all of What's Up With That's post to encourage the reader to read it… as it is primarily a work Monckton did and they posted.
Renown physicist Freeman Dyson says CO2 does not worry him… montage
The climate models used by alarmist scientists to predict global warming are getting worse, not better; carbon dioxide does far more good than harm; and President Obama has backed the "wrong side" in the war on "climate change."
So says one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, Dr Freeman Dyson, the British-born, naturalised American citizen who worked at Princeton University as a contemporary of Einstein and has advised the US government on a wide range of scientific and technical issues.
In an interview with Andrew Orlowski of The Register, Dyson expressed his despair at the current scientific obsession with climate change which he says is "not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to the obvious facts."
This mystery, says Dyson, can only partly be explained in terms of follow the money. Also to blame, he believes, is a kind of collective yearning for apocalyptic doom.
It is true that there's a large community of people who make their money by scaring the public, so money is certainly involved to some extent, but I don't think that's the full explanation.
It's like a hundred years ago, before World War I, there was this insane craving for doom, which in a way, helped cause World War I. People like the poet Rupert Brooke were glorifying war as an escape from the dullness of modern life. [There was] the feeling we'd gone soft and degenerate, and war would be good for us all. That was in the air leading up to World War I, and in some ways it's in the air today.
Dyson, himself a longstanding Democrat voter, is especially disappointed by his chosen party's unscientific stance on the climate change issue.
It's very sad that in this country, political opinion parted [people's views on climate change]. I'm 100 per cent Democrat myself, and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on this issue, and the Republicans took the right side…..
He concludes:
"I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence."
(BREITBART)
Also read this YALE INTERVIEW of Dr. Dyson
Which brings me to a graphic that I often use to show that the correlation mentioned by alarmists between CO2 and temperature is not supported by the evidence:
This is again visualized in the below video with a h/t to 4-Times A Year:
What can I then say based on the above evidence itself based on satellite evidences?
I can confidently say that no high school aged kid has experienced global warming, and that every elementary aged kid has experienced slight cooling.
the answer is then, No
Marc Morano of Climate Depot interviewed on the Jan Mickelson show (WHO radio's ~ Feb 3rd, 2015).
One of the main topics is the 97% consensus of scientists who agree man is the main prognosticator of global warming. Below are some links to many articles refuting this unscientific [if it were true] consensus:
♛ Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring '97-Percent Consensus' Claims (Forbes);
♛ (WSJ) The Myth of the Climate Change '97%'; What is the origin of the false belief that almost all scientists agree about global warming? (Hockey Schtick);
♛ 97 Articles Refuting The "97% Consensus" (Popular Technology);
♛ 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Papers, according to the scientists that published them (Popular Technology)
♛ Cooking Climate Consensus Data: "97% of Scientists Affirm AGW" Debunked (New American);
♛ Only 65 Scientists of 12,000 Make up Alleged 97% on Climate Change and Global Warming Consensus According to Breakdown of Cook et al study, say Friends of Science (Climate Change Dispatch);
♛ Undersecretary of Energy for Science For Obama Rejects "Scientism" (RPT);
♛ 100% Consensus ~ As If More Were Needed (RPT).
♛ The myth of 'settled science' – When the left shuts down debate, it's time for skepticism (Washington Times)
♛ Peer-Reviewed Survey Finds Majority Of Scientists Skeptical Of Global Warming Crisis (Forbes)
♛ Debunking the 97% 'consensus' on global warming (American Spectator)
♛ Richard Tol's Excellent Summary of the Flaws in Cook et al. (2013) – The Infamous 97% Consensus Paper (WUWT – See Dr. Tol's blog)
♛ The 97% Cook Consensus – when will Environ Res Letters retract it? (JoNova)
♛ UN IPCC Lead Author Dr. Richard Tol Debunks '97% Consensus' Claim (Breitbart)
♛ The 97 Percent Climate Change Consensus That Wasn't (Heartland)
No matter what you think of the following long and short lists… the bottom line is this, WAY more than 75-Climatologists think that man is either not the main contributor to global warming at all, or that global warming is not a catastrophe waiting to happen:
A Short List of Scientists Who Reject AGW Narrative
A Long List of Scientists Who Reject the AGW Narrative
He mentioned most of the experts KNOW how CO2 affects climate. He says he does not and doesn't think they do either. This has nothing to do with the supposed "consensus" of experts — 97% — who "say" it is driven by mankind. This is known as anthropogenic global warming, of AGW. The myth of the 97% started with ONLY 75-out-of-77 climatologists saying they believe man is the primary cause.
Yes, you heard me correctly, seventy-five.
Another study has undergrads and non-specialists (bloggers) search through many articles in peer reviewed journals, and noting that a large majority supported the AGW position. The problem was that they were not specialized in the field of science… AND… they only read the abstracts, not the peer reviewed paper itself. Many of the scientists behind the papers "said" to support AGW rejected that idea. So the specialists THEMSELVES said their papers cannot be read to support the AGW position.
Another study (pictured in the graph to the right) tries to save an earlier one with tainted information based on abstracts — a very UNSCIENTIFIC way to get to consensus (that is, relying on abstracts). Not only was this study based on abstracts, again, non specialists categorized them. Yet another study was merely based on search parameters/results. Here is more info (mainly links) for the not-faint-of-heart.
In reality, nearly half of specialists in the fields related reject man causing climates change.
And a good portion of those that do reject the claim that it is detrimental to our planet.
Only 13% saw relatively little danger (ratings of 1 to 3 on a 10-point scale); the rest were about evenly split between the 44% who see moderate to high danger (ratings of 4 to 7) and 41% who see very high or grave danger (ratings of 8 to 10). (Forbes)
Here is a list of scientists with varying views on the cause of "Climate Change," and here is a list of 31,000 who stand against man as the primary cause.
We've all been subjected to the incessant "97% of scientists agree …global warming…blah blah" meme, which is nothing more than another statistical fabrication by John Cook and his collection of "anything for the cause" zealots. As has been previously pointed out on WUWT, when you look at the methodology used to reach that number, the veracity of the result falls apart, badly. You see, it turns out that Cook simply employed his band of "Skeptical Science" (SkS) eco-zealots to rate papers, rather than letting all authors of the papers rate their own work (Note: many authors weren't even contacted and their papers wrongly rated, see here). The result was that the "97% consensus" was a survey of the SkS raters beliefs and interpretations, rather than a survey of the authors opinions of their own science abstracts. Essentially it was pal-review by an activist group with a strong bias towards a particular outcome as demonstrated by the name "the consensus project".
Dr. Judith Curry writes:
Look at the views in column 1, then look at the % in the rightmost column: 52% state the the warming since 1850 is mostly anthropogenic. One common categorization would categorize the other 48% as 'deniers'.
So, the inconvenient truth here is that about half of the world's largest organization of meteorological and climate professionals don't think humans are "mostly" the cause of Anthropogenic Global Warming the rest will probably get smeared as "deniers"
(Read More at WUWT)
I wish to note, that, the truth was not a 97% consensus, but that about half disagreed with man causing it. Which is about the same percentage Dr. Happer says on CNBC:
Even the "Father of Climatology" (so all the programs in universities are because of him) says it's BS!
So, …NO
I will answer this one a bit differently than Monckton, while using one of his examples…
the Chevy Volt
Typical gasoline-powered auto engines are approximately 27% efficient. Typical fossil-fueled generating stations are 50% efficient, transmission to end user is 67% efficient, battery charging is 90% efficient and the auto's electric motor is 90% efficient, so that the fuel efficiency of an electric car is also 27%. However, the electric car requires 30% more power per mile traveled to move the mass of its batteries.
CO2 emissions from domestic transport account for 24% of UK CO2 emissions, and cars, vans, and taxis represent 90% of road transport (DfT, 2013). Assuming 80% of fuel use is by these autos, they account for 19.2% of UK CO2 emissions. Conversion to electric power, 61% of which is generated by fossil fuels in the UK, would abate 39% of 19.2% (i.e. 7.5%) of UK CO2 emissions.
However, the battery-weight penalty would be 30% of 19.2% of 61%: i.e. 3.5% of UK CO2 emissions. The net saving from converting all UK cars, vans, and taxis to electricity, therefore, would be 4% of UK CO2 emissions, which are 1.72% of global CO2 emissions, abating 0.07% of global CO2 emissions of 2 μatm yr–1, or 0.00138 μatm. From eqn. (2), assuming 400 μatm concentration at year end on business as usual, forcing abated by the subsidy for converting all UK cars to electricity would be 5.35 ln[400/(400-0.00138)], or 0.00002 W m–2, which, multiplied by the Planck parameter λ0, gives 0.000006 K warming abated by the subsidy.
The cost to the UK taxpayer of subsidizing the 30,000 electric cars, vans, and taxis bought in 2012 was a flat-rate subsidy of $8333 (£5000) for each vehicle and a further subsidy of about $350 (£210) per year in vehicle excise tax remitted, a total of $260.5 million. On that basis, the cost of subsidizing all 2,250,000 new autos sold each year (SMMT, 2013), would be $19.54 bn….
Here are some examples of how "clean" energies actually create MORE of a problem…
...Even GOOGLE Caves to Reality
"Even if one were to electrify all of transport, industry, heating and so on, so much renewable generation and balancing/storage equipment would be needed to power it that astronomical new requirements for steel, concrete, copper, glass, carbon fibre, neodymium, shipping and haulage etc etc would appear. All these things are made using mammoth amounts of energy: far from achieving massive energy savings, which most plans for a renewables future rely on implicitly, we would wind up needing far more energy, which would mean even more vast renewables farms – and even more materials and energy to make and maintain them and so on. The scale of the building would be like nothing ever attempted by the human race."
I must say I'm personally surprised at the conclusion of this study. I genuinely thought that we were maybe a few solar innovations and battery technology breakthroughs away from truly viable solar power. But if this study is to be believed, solar and other renewables will never in the foreseeable future deliver meaningful amounts of energy.
Wind farms will create more carbon dioxide, say scientists
Thousands of Britain's wind turbines will create more greenhouse gases than they save, according to potentially devastating scientific research to be published later this year.
The finding, which threatens the entire rationale of the onshore wind farm industry, will be made by Scottish government-funded researchers who devised the standard method used by developers to calculate "carbon payback time" for wind farms on peat soils.
Wind farms are typically built on upland sites, where peat soil is common. In Scotland alone, two thirds of all planned onshore wind development is on peatland. England and Wales also have large numbers of current or proposed peatland wind farms.
But peat is also a massive store of carbon, described as Europe's equivalent of the tropical rainforest. Peat bogs contain and absorb carbon in the same way as trees and plants — but in much higher quantities.
British peatland stores at least 3.2 billion tons of carbon, making it by far the country's most important carbon sink and among the most important in the world.
Wind farms, and the miles of new roads and tracks needed to service them, damage or destroy the peat and cause significant loss of carbon to the atmosphere, where it contributes to climate change.
"This is just another way in which wind power is a scam. It couldn't exist without subsidy. It is driving industry out of Britain and driving people into fuel poverty."…
And this on Solar power: "when you factor in all the sources of energy consumed in this country, captured solar power amounts to well less than 1 quadrillion Btu out of an annual total of 96.5 quadrillion." Forbes continues:
The biggest sources are the old standbys. Oil still reigns supreme at 36 quadrillion Btu, natural gas at 26 quads, nuclear 8. Hydropower and biomass bring up the rear at 2.6 and 2.7 quads. Wind is just 1.5 quads. And coal — the great carbon-belching demon of the global energy mix — its contribution is 19 quads. That's nearly 8 times all the nation's wind and solar generation combined.
John Stossel at FOX News reported:
On my TV show this week, statistician Bjorn Lomborg points out that "air pollution kills 4.3 million people each year … We need to get a sense of priority." That deadly air pollution happens because, to keep warm, poor people burn dung in their huts.
Yet, time and again, environmentalists oppose the energy production most likely to make the world cleaner and safer. Instead, they persuade politicians to spend billions of your dollars on symbolism like "renewable" energy.
"The amazing number that most people haven't heard is, if you take all the solar panels and all the wind turbines in the world," says Lomborg, "they have (eliminated) less CO2 than what U.S. fracking (cracking rocks below ground to extract oil and natural gas) managed to do."
That progress occurred despite opposition from environmentalists — and even bans in places like my stupid state, New York, where activists worry fracking will cause earthquakes or poison the water….
Read more: http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/biofuels-worse-for-environment/#ixzz3M4r3owAv
So… are we increasing CO2? YES! By the pipe dream of curtailing it.
First, we haven't been warming. A simple enough fact.
Secondly, weather, especially tornadoes and hurricanes have lessened over the years. In other words, if Michael Grunwald (the author of the Time article) says weird weather is a indicator, an evidence for, that warming weather is something we should be fearful of and act on, what is normalizing weather and no warming suppose to indicate… OTHER THAN the whole premise of the article in a major magazine is undermined.
This candid admissions from the New York Post:
The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don't expect anyone who pointed to last year's hurricanes as "proof" of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don't work that way.
Warmist claims of a severe increase in hurricane activity go back to 2005 and Hurricane Katrina. The cover of Al Gore's 2009 book, "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," even features a satellite image of the globe with four major hurricanes superimposed.
Yet the evidence to the contrary was there all along. Back in 2005 I and others reviewed the entire hurricane record, which goes back over a century, and found no increase of any kind. Yes, we sometimes get bad storms — but no more frequently now than in the past. The advocates simply ignored that evidence — then repeated their false claims after Hurricane Sandy last year.
And the media play along. For example, it somehow wasn't front-page news that committed believers in man-made global warming recently admitted there's been no surface global warming for well over a decade and maybe none for decades more. Nor did we see warmists conceding that their explanation is essentially a confession that the previous warming may not have been man-made at all.
That admission came in a new paper by prominent warmists in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics. They not only conceded that average global surface temperatures stopped warming a full 15 years ago, but that this "pause" could extend into the 2030s.
But keep in mind, our total Co2 (carbon) emissions is no laughing matter:
Even the IPCC and British Meteorological Office now recognize that average global temperatures haven't budged in almost 17 years. Little evidence suggests that sea level rise, storms, droughts, polar ice and temperatures or other weather and climate events and trends display any statistically significant difference from what Earth and mankind have experienced over the last 100-plus years…
~Via, John Kerry vs. the World (as in earth)
Besides the Global Warming crowd blaming everything on it (even the violence in the "arab spring"!), its failed predictions about no ice in the north-pole, no more snow in europe, islands drowning, polar bear numbers, and the like… Al Gore's claims about Hurricanes is [again], laughable, to wit: when you even lose Jeraldo Rivera, your leftist stance may be very laughable:
Via Breitbart:
Al Gore was recently taken to task for exaggerating claims involving the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. The latest weather news makes his misrepresentations look all the more ridiculous.
For the first time since 2002, this year there will be no hurricane activity before September 1.
Reports indicate this is only the 25th time in 161 years that has happened.
The first hurricane of the season has formed on or after September 1 only 25 times in the past 161 years. Since the satellite era began in the mid-1960s, there have only been five years without a hurricane by August 31. The last time a hurricane failed to form before September 1 was in 2002 when Hurricane Gustav formed on September 11.
It would be foolish to make fun of anything involving such potentially dangerous storms and it's also possible we could still see many late developing storms. However, given all the misleading information passed off on the topic by Gore, his allies and a fawning media, hopefully any lack of serious storm activity won't be buried by the media for political reasons.
UPDATE! March [2015] ties 1969 record for fewest tornadoes – With only 8:
Eight tornadoes hit the United States last month, tying the record for the fewest tornadoes in March, according to preliminary data from the Storm Prediction Center.
The last time there were so few tornadoes in March was in 1969, said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist with the prediction center in Norman, Okla. Accurate tornado records began in 1950.
A typical March sees about 80 twisters in the United States, the National Climatic Data Center said.
The only notable outbreak of tornadoes this March was last week, when several twisters formed in Oklahoma and Arkansas, killing one person in Tulsa. That's the only tornado death this year.
Overall, it's been a rather quiet year so far for tornadoes, with just 30 hitting the United States. Again, 1969 is the only year that was calmer, when 16 twisters were reported in January, February and March, Carbin said…..
To be clear, this is a 60-year low… and we have increased carbon output in the past 15-years almost as much as the previous 60-years.
Via WUWT (the below and above):
….Figure 1 [top] shows all tornadoes above EF1. (See here, why EF1's are excluded.) The 10-Year Trend is significantly below the level consistently seen up to 1991, although the high totals in 2011 have inevitably caused a small upwards blip.
We see a similar pattern with the stronger EF3+ tornadoes.
I do not claim to know what will happen to tornado numbers in coming years. And anyone who does is lying.
NOAA sums up the situation neatly in their FAQ.
Does "global warming" cause tornadoes? No. Thunderstorms do. The harder question may be, "Will climate change influence tornado occurrence?" The best answer is: We don't know….
ALL THIS WHILE WE PRODUCE THE MOST CO2 EVA! …So, NO!
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Temari (手まり?) balls are an ancient form of art that originated in China and got was introduced to Japan around the 7th century A.D., where it became very popular.
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Temari (手まり?) balls are an ancient form of art that originated in China and got was introduced to Japan around the 7th century A.D., where it became very popular. In China, temari, beautifully decorated spheres, were often used in conjunction with lions who were thought to be mythological animals having a fun-loving and friendly disposition.
The Chinese have a rich tradition associated with Temari, especially in a ceremony called "Exercising the Lions" whose purpose is to expel demons. In this case, they use one big Temari, representing the Sun. There is even a legend, where the mythological lion is regarded as a provider of milk. The people place hollow, beautifully decorated balls out in the hills of the countryside hoping that the mythological lions would find the balls and leave some milk inside.
In Japan, Temari were initially toys, as their name says it (Temari means "hand ball"), but it probably originated
from the word "kemari" which means "kick ball". You can think of the ancient game of kemari as a type of hacky sack. Its popularity spanned many centuries and the game evolved, changed and attracted more and more people.
Originally, only noble people played with the Temari, and they were made from the remains of old kimonos and a silk thread was used to stitch them together. But as time went by, the functional stitching became decorative and eventually the balls evolved into works of art with all their beautiful embroidered designs.
As the game grew popular within the masses, little songs became incorporated in the game, and the songs slowly became nursery rhymes. The patterns of the decorations also changed, from patterns from nature (flowers, pine needles, waves, water, etc.), to complex mathematical designs consisting of a wide variety of geometric shapes, (triangles, squares, pentagons, diamonds, etc.), frequently interlocking.
Nowadays, Temari patterns include complex geometrical patterns, and a thin paper strip is used to do this and the T maker indicates the desired partitions with pins. Thread is used to keep the embroidery on a spherical surface and the results are stunning, as you can see for yourself.
Becoming a Temari craftsman was a very complicated and tedious process, and it still is – you have to go through a specific training and get tested – but that doesn't mean that you can't make your own Temari at home. Furthermore, modern ones may include special materials or paints in their design.
Temari are highly valued and cherished gifts, symbolizing deep friendship and loyalty – you should only give them to someone who is truly important to you. Also, if someone gives one to you, cherish and appreciate it.


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England complete European double over France
Team England celebrate
Waters clinches women's title after Serme's shock win over Massaro
By Squash Mad Correspondent
Top seeds England completed their fourth successive European Team Championship double in Riccione, Italy, today, but both the men and women were made to battle by France for their titles.
Alison Waters sealed a 2-1 victory in the women's final after Camille Serme's win over Laura Massaro had cancelled out Sarah-Jane Perry's success in the opening rubber, before James Willstrop, Nick Matthew and Peter Barker were pushed to the limit in securing a 3-0 success in the men's competition.
Perry opened up proceedings with an 11-7, 11-7, 11-5 win over world no.74 Cyrielle Peltier, but France levelled matters when fifth-ranked Serme upset the world champion 11-6, 10-12, 11-6, 11-8.
However, Waters clinched England's 36th women's title in 37 attempts when she overpowered 59th-ranked Laura Pomportes 11-2, 11-5, 11-7.
The men, who only beat France on games countback in last year's final, knew they were going to be in a fight from the start as Willstrop needed five games to repel world no.23 Mathieu Castagnet 11-6, 7-11, 8-11, 11-4, 11-6.
Next on were old rivals Matthew and Greg Gaultier (right), respectively two and one in the world, and their match was shaping up into a typically tense affair until Gaultier suffered a knock from Matthew in the back of the calf, with the Yorkshireman leading 2/1 in games but trailing 3-5 in the fourth.
The Frenchman took a 30-minute break in an attempt to recover from the injury, but he couldn't move properly when the players returned to the court and so Matthew closed out a 9-11, 11-6, 11-7, 11-7 success.
Barker then wrapped up England's 39th title from 42 championships and 22nd in a row by outlasting world no.33 Gregoire Marche 8-11, 11-6, 6-11, 11-5, 11-6, rendering Daryl Selby's rubber against Lucas Serme unnecessary.
Matthew tweeted afterwards: "You cannot underestimate how difficult a title this is to win. Proud of the boys & girls yet again.
"France put up a great fight in both finals & players like Mathieu, Greg M & Camille are improving & making it tougher every year.
"In my personal match it was unfortunate for it to end like it did & I hope Greg recovers & is fit for the @BOSquash in a couple of weeks."
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Poetic or Introspective Registers Carom Off R-Rated Vernacular in 'The King of Good Intentions'
John L. Murphy
The King of Good Intentions depicts scenes that have not yet vanished, although most of its record stores have, on shady blocks off Melrose or Wilshire.
The King of Good Intentions
Publisher: Verse Chorus
Author: John Andrew Fredrick
Publication date: 2013-05
After 17 albums, the Black Watch's singer-songwriter-guitarist steps aside from his Los Angeles gigs and, in what must be at least semi-autobiographical, narrates the indie-rock predicaments of a certain John, who falls for musical prodigy Jenny. It's a brisk, bittersweet novel. Propelled by the wry, overly clever, self-mocking, playfully second-person address John adopts for his picaresque tale of The King of Good Intentions (also an album title by the author's band), his energetic patter revives the early '90s.
Record stores still held trash and treasure: if you, too, can account for not only the Verlaines but Look Blue Go Purple or the Able Tasmans, you're matched with this novel's milieu. College rock still beckoned literate slackers in gentrifying, faux-boho Hollywood. On trendy Melrose Avenue, "shop girls" posed, "endlessly puffing accessory cigarettes and wearing looks that dared you, just dared you to enter and browse without buying".
Meanwhile, John settles (where on his ungarnished pasta budget he stays mum that it's all but impossible to find a room) in rent-controlled Santa Monica. There -- departing Santa Barbara's lotus-land surfer environs, after stints exhaustively detailed in near-David Foster Wallace recall at a sports-mad prep school, but barely mentioned at an English university -- John settles down near the beach. Ennui appears to account for why he left his privileged upbringing, as he chooses to hunker down beside the strung-out and bong-bemused natives, even if nobody's truly from L.A., naturally.
As a native, I've heard before John's jaundiced takes on our speech, snobs, smog, sprawl. Not bad, but familiar. What's fresh: his vocabulary. A Ph.D. in English from U.C. Santa Barbara, John Andrew Fredrick combines the rhetorical reach and tragicomic smarts of Alexander Theroux with the published-but-perished plights of James Hynes' erudite if long-matriculated protagonists. In John's first two-dozen pages we find "glabrous", "hispid", "viscid", and "anosmic". He observes with a gentler tone his bedroom, with "crumpled up pages like inscribed paper flowers".
At a party full of star-struck wannabees, pursuing a comely lass, he reflects: "Tonight I am lost and have eyes like a spirograph in the hands of a child on methamphetamine and utterly out of my head on good drugs and bad alcohol". Poetic or introspective registers carom off John's R-rated vernacular, the usual Angeleno's articulation, or its lack. Infusing this spirited or spiteful melange of mundane rants and muttering satire, the novel celebrates an egghead's low-life lived at the margins of celebrity.
Fredrick sharpens as he hones his literate and pop-cultural dissections. L.A.'s full of inked and pierced, fringe, self-titled scribblers. Yet, as one signature writer betrays by John's reaction, Charles Bukowski's "precious, hipster-hallowed novels are like literature for people who don't really read".
Unsurprisingly, neither do students. John's day job as a L.A. public-school substitute rang too true. (Old Volvos trundled John and me to concrete classrooms. As I studied for a master's, I supported myself in this same occupation, and as and after I finished my doctorate in English during this same span, I dealt daily with urban "at-risk youth" in this very district. I think I know the real "William Westmoreland H.S." campus where John's violent showdown with an teenaged upstart occurs.)
When you find this indie-press title in an indie bookstore, flip to page 110 to seal the deal. Fredrick's pitch-(im)perfect rendering of an instructional note left by the regular teacher John replaces sums up this novel's sass. John offers advice if you're caught in this hapless vocation: "Usually the more violent the film, the more tractable the class."
The "faux 18th century-chocolate house way" favored twice by John, first to relate his run-in with a teacher's lounge "Beldam" rather than alas "nubile Hoydens in hot pink Hot Pants" and later to his courting of a "a quite fetching neo-goth Temptress, Wench, and Strumpet" shifts the mood and livens the prose. This sub takes his spare copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson for downtime. Not that I expected another "Oxen of the Sun" rhetorical imitation as in Joyce's Ulysses, but the antiquated stylistic homage broadened the verbal range chosen by Fredrick, as a lateral side-step from the sneers of record store clerk Scather or lecherous scientist Psycho, as two of John's oft-present and quite rambling interlocutors.
Parts of the novel, especially after John and Jenny find delight, slow down as happiness glows. "When she came out and came in to her room, all hot and red, I pulled her to me by the robe's lapels and kissed her on presented cheek, tonguing aside wet strands of resplendent hair." Fredrick conveys intimacy's warmth through the couple convincingly.
However, a long detour down memory lane to "Junior" on the mound at prep school, while it will lead in time-tested fictional coincidence to a sudden reunion later, slows the frenetic pace in the sunnier second half. This episode rises to a splendidly ribald "singular cheer" for John-as-Junior as he pitches, so a raunchy pay-off proves rewarding even if you lack patience for adolescent athletics. Tonal irregularities and digressing recollections may be true to an extremely intelligent John as told by an equally smart Fredrick. However, along with some typos for proper nouns in the copy I was provided, they needed a red pencil.
All the same, these add up as minor flaws. Each section comes titled with a well-chosen lyrical snippet from a rock song. (At least two other albums by The Black Watch nestle into the chapters as words or phrases.) The novel as a whole thrives on accurate observations from L.A.'s post-riot clouded yet college rock-cheered milieu, which Fredrick channels through John's grumpy good nature. The King of Good Intentions depicts scenes that have not yet vanished, although most of its record stores have, on shady blocks off Melrose or Wilshire. A paramour lives in a '20s-era apartment flat. "Cherry hardwood floors. A dwarf sort of balcony." See-through curtains, a cat, or a cat smell, while the fragrance of incense lingers. "Posters of Patti Smith, Robert Smith, The Smiths."
In such moments, and as the novel flows to its elegant, fittingly ambiguous conclusion, The King of Good Intentions fulfills its aims. John and Jenny's band, the Weird Sisters, cut an album. John's ambitions stay modest, but sincere. From such a plastic artifact, beauty might emerge: "Someone like me might be consoled by music and lyrics that evoked concerns that people had every day. They might be reminded for two sides of an LP that someone else thought like they did -- or differently."
The last scene's dialogue will be drowned out by music, a too-loud horn blast added to a band bashing out "Strawberry Fields Forever". Appropriately, both narrating John "as an ideal listener" and Fredrick as a singer and a lyricist know when to let the song take over. The performer steps back from center stage, while words give way to sound.
indie rock indie music Los Angeles satire teaching The Black Watch


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Privatisation: sell off or sell out? explains that privatisation, in its various forms, is leading to an erosion of public accountability and, by default, a radical change in the role of government in Australia.
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The Original Versions of Disney Fairy Tales Were Never Meant for Kids
Many of our favorite Disney classics actually hide dark, gruesome details.
Like any business out there, Disney has its fair share of secrets. Digging deeper, we learn that the family-friendly company even has weird and disturbing tidbits lurking within the stories that shaped children's happily-ever-afters for generations.
From the glittering ball gowns to fairy godmothers and awfully charming princes and princesses, there is actually a "darker" version. Beset with horrifying origins, these centuries-old Disney favorites have been getting its share of cuts and revisions since the 1920s to make them more suitable for younger audiences.
At the risk of ruining your childhood, here are some creepy facts about your Disney favorites.
The classic Disney story of Sleeping Beauty tells the story of a cursed princess awoken by a Prince who gallantly came to her rescue. She was eventually saved from eternal slumber by true love's kiss.
The 1934 version written by Italian Giambattista Basile, however, has a disturbing plot. No prince visited the sleeping princes Talia. Her visitor was a married king who "gathered the fruits of her love" and went home to his wife Maleficent. Nine months later, the princess gives birth to twins and one of them sucked on her finger, removing the poison, and waking her up.
The horrors didn't even end there. The king and the princess eventually met and fell in love, and the queen found out about the twins. She had them kidnapped, butchered, cooked, and fed to the clueless king.
Cinderella's evil stepsisters were the major villains who turned out to be not-so-evil in Disney's version. One of them, Anastasia, even found her true love.
The Brothers Grimm's version did not turn out to be so happy or forgiving. The tale detailed how the sisters chopped off parts of their feet to fit into the glass slipper. It also featured doves who helped the prince learn about what the sisters did.
As the story ends, the prince marries Cinderella, and the sisters had their eyes pecked out by the same doves who revealed their betrayal.
Talk about royal revenge!
The classic story tells the story of a girl tasked to bring her mother's baked goodies to her sick grandmother in the woods. Along the way, she met a wolf who delayed her by telling her to pick flowers. The wolf then arrives at the cottage, gobbles up the grandmother, and waits for Red to eat her up. A passing hunter sees the wolf, saves Red and her grandmother, and kills the wolf.
One of the most gruesome versions of Little Red Riding Hood was Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves. In her version, the wolf was a werewolf who disguised himself as a hunter to follow the newly menstruating Red. He still went to the cottage, ate the grandmother, and waited to eat Red. However, when Red arrived, the werewolf was seduced and ended up sleeping with her.
Pinocchio is not always as sweet as we know him to be. His journey with Jiminy Cricket, his friend and advisor, is also not as heartwarming.
Apparently, Pinocchio's story is a gruesome one. The older version by Carlo Collodi was meant to show people the effects of bad behavior. It's a story filled with constant torture as punishment for misbehaving. Collodi's version also showed Jiminy Cricket as the 'Talking Cricket'. He was crushed after giving Pinocchio some good advice.
Little Mermaid is the story of a mermaid who fell in love with a man after she savds him from drowning. Disney gave Arielle a happy ever after, but Hans Christian Andersen's tale was not as generous.
In Andersen's version, Arielle got her human feet after trading her tongue and beautiful voice.
That is not the only hardship in Arielle's life as every step with her human feet felt like walking on shattered glass. Her prince is also engaged to be married to another woman.
The old version says the man never knew Arielle so he proceeded with the wedding. Arielle was given a dagger to kill the prince, break the curse, and return to the sea.
In the end, Arielle showed true love. She refused to kill her love and dies. She turned into sea foam at dawn, ascended into the atmosphere, and was tasked with 300 good deeds to earn a soul.
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October 2021 · 10 min read
Gavin Joubert is Head of Global Emerging Markets with 23 years of investment industry experience.
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The Fund declined 1.8% in the third quarter of 2021 (Q3-21). The continued underperformance of the Fund is disappointing. Yet, we believe that the collection of assets held by the Fund still offers compelling long-term risk-adjusted returns with which to deliver on its goal of compounding capital well ahead of inflation. Over the past five years, the Fund has generated a positive return of 10.2% per annum (p.a.), over 10 years a return of 15.5% p.a. and, since inception over 20 years ago, 13.9% p.a. (All returns in in rands).
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The Fund has about 14.5% exposure to Chinese assets, with just under 50% of this exposure concentrated in two assets – JD.com and Prosus (and therefore indirect exposure to Tencent - read our in-depth article on Prosus here). JD.com is a business that should benefit from regulatory changes due to the ending of 'pick one' tactics employed by competitors, which ultimately resulted in merchants having to choose only one e-commerce platform to sell on, which negatively impacted JD's assortment and overall customer value proposition. As merchants begin to sell on multiple e-commerce platforms, JD.com should benefit as its assortment improves, driving its expectation of adding more than 100 million customers in 2021 from a starting base of 472 million.
JD.com is also well positioned due to its extensive owned fulfilment network, which spans more than 1 200 warehouses covering 23 million m2 of space and supported by 200 000 delivery personnel, allowing it to deliver 90% of its packages either on the same day or the day after a customer's order. We estimate that the retail business is currently trading on a 12 times price earnings multiple while still generating well below normal profit margins, making the valuation particularly compelling. Prosus holds a 29% stake in Tencent, which currently represents 138% of its market capitalisation but doesn't take into account the other non-Tencent assets, which in our view are underappreciated by the market and represent another 34% of Prosus' current market capitalisation based on our assessment of its value.
Then, when you consider that Tencent has an investment portfolio of $210 billion that accounts for 38% of its current market capitalisation, coupled with a diversified business spanning games, social networks, fintech and cloud, which are all at different levels of maturity, we feel that notwithstanding the regulatory headwinds facing Tencent's business, the company is still well placed to deliver both double-digit revenue and profit growth over the next few years. Our estimate of the look-through Tencent one-year forward price earnings multiple by owning the asset via Prosus is nine times, which we feel is extremely attractive.
During the quarter, the largest positive contributors were Magnit (+22%, 0.48% positive impact), Aspen (+69%, 0.44% positive impact), Alphabet (+16%, 0.41% positive impact) and Netflix (+21%, 0.32% positive impact). The biggest negative contributors were Tencent Music Entertainment (-50%, 1.09% negative impact), New Oriental Education (0.85% negative impact) and Naspers (-14%, 0.65% negative impact). Tencent Music Entertainment's performance has been disappointing, and the business will be negatively impacted by regulations, most notably the ending of exclusive music licensing. It should, however, be noted that the vast majority of listening happens via nonexclusive titles. Furthermore, a user's listening experience is more than just access to music; how this music is curated and presented to users in a personalised manner are what drives user loyalty. The other segment of Tencent's business that is currently under pressure is its live streaming and online karaoke product that has experienced some operational mishaps, combined with increased competition, which is impacting growth. As the live streaming and online karaoke segment represents c.60% of revenue and more than 100% of the combined business profits currently, this will negatively impact the business's short-term revenue and profitability outlook. It is, however, our expectation that these headwinds will abate in time, with the overall business growth supported by continued paid-music user growth, which only has c.11% paying ratio (versus Spotify's 45%), along with low monthly subscription revenue per user, at $1.4 per month (versus Spotify's at c.$5). The business has c.27% of its current market capitalisation in net cash and another c.19% in listed investments (2% ownership of Spotify, 2% ownership of UMG and a 1% ownership of Warner), and is trading on a 15% yield based on our 2023 expectation of free cash flow.
The Fund ended the quarter with 74.8% net equity exposure, roughly 4.5% lower than at the end of June 2021, as we reduced our risk appetite and sold down some US technology stocks that have performed strongly. Our negative view on global bonds remained unchanged as a large portion of developed market sovereign bonds offers negative yields to maturity. The follow-on effect is that most corporate bonds also offer yields that do not compensate for the risk undertaken. However, we continued to buy South African (SA) government bonds in the quarter, representing 4.25% of the Fund. Our view on the SA fiscal situation has improved somewhat which, coupled with the fact that we are receiving a c.10% yield on these bonds, is attractive, in our view. Furthermore, considering that local inflation remains controlled, the real yields of SA government bonds are the highest in the world.
The Fund also has c.1.14% invested in global property. Lastly, the Fund has a physical gold position of 3.4%, a 1.52% holding in AngloGold Ashanti and a 0.69% holding in Barrick Gold Corp. The gold price is down approximately 10% in US dollar year to date, but we continue to hold the position for its diversifying properties in what we characterise as a low visibility world with inflation risks. AngloGold Ashanti is down 32% in US dollar year to date due to operational challenges, but management changes have been made and thus there's a reasonable likelihood of operational improvements, which should lead to improved business performance and closing the gap between its share price performance and the underlying gold price movement. We have thus been adding to the position. The balance of the Fund is invested in cash, largely offshore.
As has been the case for many years, the bulk of the Fund (over 90%) is invested offshore. As the outlook for the future remains uncertain and hard to predict, we take comfort in the fact that the Fund holds a collection of businesses that we feel are attractively priced and can operate in what we deem a highly complex and fast-changing environment. Also, because the Fund is a multi-asset flexible fund, we have access to additional tools to take advantage of dislocations in the market and risk control measures like put options. Current index put option exposure is 8% effective and 32% nominal, as a percentage of Fund, which will shield the Fund somewhat should there be a significant drawdown in equity indices.
Notable buys/increases in position sizes during the quarter were Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway, both of which are North American rail operators. The area where these two railway operators have networks is occupied by four players, creating a stable and rational market structure. These assets cannot be replicated, form an important part of the North American supply chain backbone and have a measure of pricing power that has allowed it to price in excess of its cost inflation over time. Furthermore, over the past few years, the industry has gone through a period of increasing efficiency, which has made it more competitive, with trucking driving market share gains for rail. The trucking industry is also facing a driver and truck shortage, leading to price increases, which provides support for rail pricing due to the substitutive nature of the two modes of transport. Canadian Pacific has arguably the best management team in the North American rail industry and is merging with Kansas City Southern, the Mexican railroad. The combined railroad can offer more efficient single-line service instead of having to interchange, the reliability of which, we believe, will be highly valued by shippers. We expect Canadian Pacific to generate low double-digit free cash flow per share growth with an attractive starting valuation. Canadian National Railway benefits from many of the trends mentioned above but has historically been under-managed versus its peers, resulting in inferior operating metrics and resultant shareholder returns.
However, an activist investor has recently become involved and is pushing for a management change to address these operational deficiencies. So, while there is a turnaround element associated with this particular investment case, it appears reasonable to assume that change should take place due to shareholder pressure, with initial commitments in this regard already made, which should drive material margin improvements from a comparatively low starting base.
Vaccines have continued to roll out across the world and should continue in the months ahead, with the hope that we are close to the end of the pandemic and its devasting effects. Against this backdrop, we remain positive on the outlook for the Fund, which has been built bottom-up, with a collection of attractively priced assets to provide diversification to achieve the best risk-adjusted returns going forward. +
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What The Hell Is This Electric Jaguar?
Not seen one of those before.
If these spy shots are to be believed, Jaguar is working on an electric variant of the XE sedan. Where letters of the alphabet commonly seen on the rear end of Jags, such as S, R, and R-S, come with a red and green circular background, this particular prototype was wearing an "E" with a light blue badge. Automakers often use blue to mark out their electric or hybrid vehicles, so we have to assume that's also the case here.
However, whether Jaguar is planning on a hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or diesel hybrid drivetrain remains to be seen. Reports Jaguar was building an EV surfaced last year, after the firm trademarked the name "EV-Type" and subsequent rumors pointed to the F-Pace SUV as being the first model to receive the electric treatment.


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STARTUP DIGEST: Here're top stories of the week
By Shruti Malhotra Mar 26, 2021 11:13:33 PM IST (Published)
There were many important updates in the startup space during the week, which include SoftBank-backed WeWork signed deal with Bow Capital for SPAC listing; Think Elevation Capital, an entity launched by Elevation Capital's Ravi Adusumalli and Think Investments' Shashin Shah filed for a $225 million IPO with the SEC and market regulator SEBI eased listing rules for startups. Here's all that made news in the startup universe this week.
WeWork agrees to go public through a SPAC deal with Bow Capital
Softbank-backed co-working firm WeWork has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check firm BowX Acquisition Corp in a deal that values the office-sharing startup at $9 billion including debt, CNBC reported.
The company disclosed to prospective investors it had lost about $3.2 billion last year as part of a pitch for a stock market listing by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), sources told Reuters earlier this week.
The office-sharing startup's plans for its high-profile initial public offering imploded in October 2019 due to investor concerns over the office-sharing startup's business model and its founder Adam Neumann's management style.
The company is also raising $1.3 billion in capital, including $800 million in private investment from Insight Partners, funds managed by Starwood Capital, Fidelity Management and others.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the deal.
A SPAC is a shell firm that uses proceeds from an IPO to buy a private firm.
WeWork was valued at nearly $47 billion in 2019 but saw its valuation plummet to roughly $8 billion after SoftBank was forced to extend a life-saving financing lifeline to WeWork. BowX Acquisition raised $420 million in its IPO in August last year.
Indian tech listings-focused SPAC files for IPO in US
In what is likely to boost a flurry of Indian tech listings in the United States, two leading Indian venture capitalists have come together to launch a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
Think Elevation Capital, a newly formed entity, launched by Elevation Capital's Ravi Adusumalli and Think Investments' Shashin Shah, has filed for a $225 million IPO with the SEC, as per filings from March 19.
The SPAC also has leading members from the Indian startup ecosystem on its board, including the likes of Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma, former WhatsApp global business head Neeraj Arora, former SoftBank executive Kabir Misra, and Dream11 founder Harsh Jain.
While Adusumalli and Shah will be co-CEOs, Tom Glaser will be the Chief Financial Officer, and Vivek Mathur, the chief operating officer.
They will be supported by the Think Investments and Elevation Capital global investment teams, the filing said. "Think Elevation Capital Growth Opportunities is a newly incorporated blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to as our initial business combination," the company said in the filing.
"Our primary focus will be on the Indian technology ecosystem. The Indian technology sector is a large and growing market that we believe will provide attractive target opportunities for us. We believe our management's, board of directors' and sponsor's experience and track record of investing in Indian technology companies make us very well placed to take advantage of this opportunity," the filing says.
Think Investments and Elevation Capital have combined private investments of $1.3 billion across 104 companies as of December 31, 2020. Of these companies, nine have become unicorns. Adusumalli is one of the leading VCs of the Indian startup world, with Elevation Capital (known as Saif Partners earlier) backing the likes of Paytm, Swiggy, FirstCry, MakeMyTrip, Unacademy and several leading international companies in the country. Think Investments is based in San Francisco, USA, with local presence in Mumbai, India and Singapore. Since completing its first investment in 2013, Think Investment's portfolio in India reflects nearly $1 billion of investments as of February 28, 2021, including early-stage investments in Dream11, PharmEasy and Chaayos; growth capital investments in the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd and Experian PLC; and public investments in Bajaj Finance Ltd., Laurus Labs Limited and Radico Khaitan Ltd.
Sebi eases listing rules for startups
Markets regulator Sebi has relaxed listing rules for startups, revamped delisting rules, and eased norms for re-classification of a promoter as a public shareholder. In its meeting, Sebi's board has approved measures for reporting of sustainability issues by companies and taken steps to strengthen corporate governance practices and disclosure requirements by listed firms.
In addition, the board amended norms pertaining to alternative investment funds (AIFs) and made it mandatory for portfolio managers to obtain prior approval of the regulator for change in control, Sebi said in a statement.
To make the Innovators Growth Platform (IGP) more accessible to companies in view of the evolving start-up ecosystem, Sebi decided relax various norms, including reducing holding period for pre-issue capital and allowing discretionary allotment to eligible investors in order to boost listing of such firms.
Other proposals approved include easing delisting requirements and relaxation in guidelines for migrating to main board. Sebi has decided to reduce the period of holding of 25 per cent of pre-issue capital of the issuer company by eligible investors to one year from the current requirement of two years.
The regulator cleared proposals to provide a definition of 'start-up' as specified by the government. It also removed the list of restricted activities or sectors from the definition of venture capital undertaking to provide flexibility to venture capital funds registered under Category I Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in making investments.
IvyCap exits Purplle with 22x gains; Sequoia joins cap table
Online beauty platform – Purplle has closed a $45 million deal from Verlinvest, Blume Ventures, JSW Ventures and new investor Sequoia Capital India as early backer IvyCap Ventures made a partial exit at 22x returns. Sequoia Capital India has joined the cap table as the startup aims to deliver 8-10X growth in the next 4-5 years, a statement read. IvyCap Ventures that has been instrumental in fuelling Purplle's expansion, invested Rs 15 crore in Purplle for a 30 percent stake in 2015. It sold a part of its shares in this round for Rs 330 crore, when Sequoia and Verlinvest invested $45 million in Purplle, valuing Purplle at Rs 2,200 crore (about $300 million), it said in a statement.
Zetwerk buys back $8.3 million ESOPs
Digital B2B marketplace for large manufacturing - Zetwerk Manufacturing said that it has bought back ESOPs worth $8.3 million (Rs 60.92 crore) from employees and investors. The exercise was completed in three rounds and has helped create substantial wealth for a large part of the workforce and provided exits to early investors, the company said. Zetwerk employs about 400 people currently. The share buyback follows a $120 million in Series D funding round in February, led by Greenoaks Capital and Lightspeed with participation from Sequoia Capital India and Kae Capital. The company has so far raised about $200 million.
Moglix valuation to triple to $1 billion, Falcon Edge to invest - Report
Industrial goods marketplace Moglix is in talks to raise $70-100 million in a round of funding which will triple its valuation to a billion dollars- making it India's latest unicorn, Moneycontrol reported.
London-based hedge fund Falcon Edge Capital, an investor in multiple Indian unicorns such as Dailyhunt, Dream11 and Ola is in talks to lead the round, by investing about $40-50 million, while existing backers including Accel, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management will contribute the rest, the report said.
Ratan Tata and Jungle Ventures are also early investors in the company. A spokesperson for Moglix declined to comment while Falcon Edge did not respond to emails seeking comment.
Moglix was valued at about $250-300 million in its last round in July 2019, when it raised $60 million led by Tiger Global- at a time when Tiger had gone on a B2B and software deal-making spree, the report added.
In funding news this week
- Sports technology company Dream Sports, the owner of fantasy sports platform Dream11, has closed $400 million funding led by TCV, D1 Capital Partners and Falcon Edge. The round saw participation from existing investors - Tiger Global, ChrysCapital, TPG Growth, Steadview Capital and Footpath Ventures. This is TCV's first investment in India, an investor in Netflix, Airbnb, Sportradar and Peloton.
- Location-based social network- Public App launched by news aggregator Inshorts, has secured Rs 300 crore in funding from A91 Partners with participation from existing investors. Public had raised Rs 260 crore in funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition, along with SIG and Tanglin Venture Partners six months ago.
- Fintech lending platform, KreditBee's holding entity, Finnov has raised an additional $70 million in a follow-on Series C round from TPG-backed NewQuest Capital Partners and Motilal Oswal Private Equity. The conclusion of this round has led to an exit of most of the early-stage investors including Chinese investors, Xiaomi and Shunwei Capital. The holding entity had very recently raised $75 Million from marque investors Premji Invest, Mirae Asset Ventures, Alpine Capital and Arkam Ventures.
- Social e-commerce and online grocery platform, CityMall has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round. While Accel Partners has led the funding for this round, Elevation Capital who led the $3 Million seed round in June 2020, continues to back CityMall; WaterBridge Ventures participated in the round too.
- Fintech startup Velocity, has raised a total of $10.3M in seed funding led by Valar Ventures, a US-based VC firm backed by Peter Thiel. This marks Valar Venture's first investment in an Indian startup. Other investors who participated in Velocity's seed rounds include founding investors Mato Peric and Tom Stafford (DST Global) as well as Presight Capital, Utsav Somani's iSeed, Oliver Jung (LAO Holdings), Robert Frohwein (Kabbage), Dhruv Arora (Syfe) and Erik Podzuweit & Florian Prucker (Scalable Capital).
- SMB digitisation startup FloBiz has raised $10 Mn in a Series A round led by Elevation Capital with participation from existing investors Greenoaks Capital and Beenext.
- Biotechnology startup Zaara Biotech has bagged an investment of $10 million from UAE-based TCN International Commerce LLC, the Mint reported. Zaara, which focuses on research in energy and food crisis using micro algae, has received the funding for its project AlgaeSeaweed Technology under the brand B-lite Cookies.
- Career-focused education startup, Masai School has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Omidyar Network India joined by existing investors Unitus Ventures, India Quotient and AngelList India.
- ReshaMandi, an agritech startup digitizing India's silk supply chain has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Omnivore and Strive Ventures with participation from Axilor Ventures and Supply Chain Labs (Lumis).
- Sales and marketing automation platform for small and medium businesses - NeoDove, has raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by early-stage investor India Quotient. The round also saw participation from angel investors, including Sumit Agarwal, founder, Vyapar, and Ankit Garg, founder, WakeFit.
- Edtech platform SkilloVilla has raised $300K in a seed round of funding from Titan Capital and other investors. The funding saw participation from prominent industry leaders like Haresh Chawla, Partner at True North, Miten Sampat of CRED, Aakrit Vaish, Co-founder and CEO of Haptik and Varun Alagh, Co-founder and CE of Mamaearth.
- Farm-to-home A2 milk startup, Native Milk has raised an undisclosed amount of capital in a Pre-Series A funding round led by Rukam Capital and DSG Consumer Partners.
- Anar, a business community platform for almost 70 million businesses in India, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by Titan Capital.
Khatabook acquires Biz Analyst to strengthen tech offerings for MSMEs
Fintech start-up, Khatabook has announced the acquisition of Biz Analyst, a leading SaaS business management application, in a deal worth $10 million as a mix of cash and equity. With this acquisition, Khatabook aims to leapfrog into the next phase of growth and offer its customer base of over 10 million monthly active merchants an opportunity to scale up their businesses by utilizing premium value-added services.
Creating a closer integration with their upstream supply chains -- distributors, wholesalers, traders, and suppliers -- Khatabook users can now seamlessly avail additional features to improve their efficiency through business analytics, sales force automation and digital invoicing.
Launched in late 2016, Biz Analyst currently has over 80,000 paid users and now as a part of Khatabook, aims to double the user base in 2021 and create bigger opportunities for the network of its 1000+ channel partners.
Swiggy to cover vaccination for over 2 lakh delivery partners
Food delivery platform Swiggy said it will cover vaccination cost for its entire fleet of over 2 lakh delivery partners in over 500 cities.
The company will also cover the loss of pay for the period the delivery partner spends in getting both the doses, it said. The company said that in the first tranche of the programme, 5,500 delivery partners, aged 45 and above will be eligible.
Rapido- Zypp Electric join hands for EV Bike Taxis
Bike taxi platform Rapido has partnered with Zypp Electric for electric bike taxis for Rapido's users.
With this deal, Rapido is aiming to reduce its carbon footprint and encourage the use of environment-friendly vehicles, the company said.
Rapido will be onboarding 100 + riders and electric two-wheelers from Zypp as part of its Captain fleet. The service will be a pilot run for three months starting from March 2021 and will be tested for its demand and veracity in the Delhi-NCR area. Rapido is looking to on-board more such EV partners to further expand this business model across its Tier I market in the country, it said.
Urban Company and MyStartupEquity open source an ESOP framework
Urban Company, a tech-enabled home services marketplace has today open-sourced a specially crafted ESOP policy for the startup ecosystem in collaboration with MyStartupEquity, a cap table and ESOP management product by LetsVenture. Urban Company, in collaboration with MyStartupEquity has developed the open-source ESOP framework, which is available free of cost and can be accessed by one and all.
With ESOP implementation generally being a tedious process, Urban Company and MyStartupEquity aim to provide a proper guide through this open source framework to help startups as well as private companies better structure terms and conditions and roll out ESOPs with the ingrained intention of sharing ownership with employees that eventually leads to wealth creation.
Urban Company worked with MyStartupEquity to make the open-source ESOP framework freely available. This framework can be used and modified by companies or startups while building their ESOP policy. This framework is a legally vetted document and the cornerstone of the policy is having simple vesting terms, a reasonable exercise price on options and a generous exercise period. The framework also comes with easy to use templates for grant and exercise letters.
Abu Dhabi funds invest $150 million in messaging app Telegram
Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala Investment Co and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners, part-owned by Mubadala, said on Tuesday they had invested a combined $150 million in messaging app Telegram.
Mubadala invested $75 million in five-year, pre-initial public offering (IPO) bonds of Telegram, while Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners invested a further $75 million, Reuters reported.
"Telegram's user base has reached a critical mass that places it amongst global tech giants," Mubadala executive Faris Sohail Faris al-Mazrui said in a statement. "Telegram is well-positioned for an inflection point that will transform it into a leading global technology company", Reuters reported.
Elon Musk says Tesla vehicles can now be bought using Bitcoin
Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk said that the company's electric vehicles can now be bought using bitcoin and the option will be available outside the United States later this year.
"You can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin," he tweeted here on Wednesday, adding that bitcoin paid to Tesla will not be converted into conventional currency.
The electric-car maker had last month said it bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars, sending the price of the world's most popular cryptocurrency soaring.
Musk, who has been promoting cryptocurrencies through his Twitter account, had last month criticized conventional cash, saying when it "has negative real interest, only a fool wouldn't look elsewhere."
He had said that the difference with cash made it "adventurous enough" for the S&P 500 company to hold the cryptocurrency, Reuters reported.
Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS
Amazon.com Inc appointed Salesforce.com Inc executive Adam Selipsky to lead its high-margin cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services. The move comes as AWS' current lead Andy Jassy is vacating the role to become the chief executive officer of Amazon, after Jeff Bezos announced his exit in February.
AWS, a key part of Amazon's growth strategy, has raked in record profits for the world's largest online retailer, and counts scores of startups, big corporations and many government agencies among its clients, Reuters reported. Seattle-based Amazon said Selipsky, one of the first VPs hired in AWS in 2005 who ran the cloud computing division's sales, marketing, and support for 11 years, will return to AWS on May 17.
Selipsky became the CEO of Salesforce.com Inc's Tableau Software unit in 2016, and under his leadership the value of the division quadrupled in just a few years, Amazon said.
ByteDance acquires gaming studio Moonton at around $4 billion valuation: Report
ByteDance's video games unit Nuverse has agreed to acquire Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton Technology, as it seeks to further expand into the video games business, the company said. The deal values the gaming studio at around $4 billion, Reuters reported.
The acquisition of the video games studio come as ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and the similar Chinese short video platform Douyin, has made sizeable inroads into the video games business, putting it in direct competition with China's Tencent. "Through cross-team collaboration and drawing on lessons and insights from its own rapid growth, Moonton provides the strategic support needed to accelerate Nuverse's global gaming offerings," ByteDance said in a statement, declining to comment on the size of the acquisition.
Moonton Technology, founded by an ex-Tencent employee, is most famous in Southeast Asia for its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Mobile Legends. Tencent, China's biggest video games and social media company, made a bidding for Moonton but the offer was matched by ByteDance last week, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.
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