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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. And thank you for joining us. Last year, we marked the 20th anniversary of the Acura brand by topping 200-thousand units in sales for the second straight year. But we did so with a focus on the future. With a commitment to advanced technology our goal is to help our customers get where they're going more quickly, more efficiently, and more connected to the world.
This commitment can be summed up in just one word, "Advance." This is a statement about Acura's commitment to always be ahead with customer relevant technologies and products that add to the quality of life. As you know the Acura brand was born in the U.S. Many Acura products also are being born here in America. And these products are key to the continued growth and success of the Acura brand around the world.
The next big step for Acura and our U.S. R&D operations is the opening of another design studio this summer, the Acura Design Center. We have been designing Acura products in America for more than a dozen years. With this new design center the Acura brand will have an even sharper focus on creating products that meet the needs of a new generation of luxury consumers.
We are also following a similar strategy with R&D in Japan. Beginning last April, we separated Acura design and development activities. Now, an Acura design studio in Japan supports global Acura design efforts. We also began the global expansion of Acura with sales in China. And we are now preparing for the launch of the Acura brand in Japan.
The Acura TL, exported from America, is one of the first Acura vehicles sold in China. And this year we will begin exporting the new MDX to China as well. Because we have the capability to develop all-new vehicles from the ground up ... this all-new MDX was conceived, designed and developed in America. But the key is not where these operations are based. The key is what we create for our customers. The role of the new Acura design centers in both America and Japan is to set the tone for the Acura brand through emotional design.
I must tell you that my own passion is performance. I spent much of my career in racing, and I continue to follow it closely. We won a Formula One race last year. But the desire to win every race burns inside of me, and our engineers. This same kind of burning desire for performance can be found in Acura products. That is why the MDX that was developed in America was tested and refined on the Nurburgring in Germany.
It is why we have added Super Handling All Wheel Drive to three different models - including two sport utility vehicles. The Acura brand will always be a home for people who love to drive.
The first generation NSX is another example of this burning desire for performance. It set new standards in many areas, from its advanced technologies to its incredible performance. Today, we want to show you a new concept car that hints at the design direction of the successor to the NSX. This design was created by our Los Angeles-based team. In a few months, this team will move into the Acura Design Center. But they have already created an exciting Acura Advanced Sports Car concept.
Before I show it to you, I want to emphasize that this vehicle is about more than just great styling. As we advance toward building a car like this, I can tell you it will feature advanced technology matching our passion for performance. This will include an all-new V10 engine that is Acura's most powerful ever. This front engine vehicle will also feature a new high performance, rear wheel drive version of Acura's Super Handling All-Wheel Drive.
Our direction is clear. We plan to Advance, in technology, in design, and in overall performance. This fall, at the Tokyo Motor Show, we will showcase the next stage in our advancement. But today, we have an exciting idea for the next Acura super sports car. I hope you like this exciting new concept, and the direction for the Acura brand. Thank you.
Good afternoon, everyone. After almost 20 years of designing vehicles I can honestly say that I can't remember being as excited about a car as I am about this Advanced Sports Car Concept. When the team and I designed the latest generation TL, we had to be concerned with all the practical aspects of a production car, but with this concept we could really let our imaginations run wild. We could break free of conventional design theories and explore whole new styling concepts and design languages, and with good reason.
Over the past few years, automotive designers have faced a growing challenge. Like all of you, we want to embrace the incredible new technology that's currently being developed at an accelerated pace, especially here at Acura. But at the same time, we don't want to lose the emotional appeal we all love about the most striking and evocative automotive designs. In other words, designers must find a way to allow technology and emotion to co-exist; to creatively fuse precision engineering with passionate execution.
This is especially important for us, as technology and emotion have been the two main tenets of the Acura brand since our beginning more than 20 years ago. With all that in mind, we embarked on an aggressive new approach to design. And we developed this, the Acura "Advanced Sports Car Concept."
It's a bold and provocative design execution that attempts to define the concept of "Advance" which Mr. Fukui mentioned earlier. It's our idea of what an exotic high-performance sports car can look like in the not so distant future, while retaining some subtle design cues from our first generation NSX.
In the exterior styling, you'll see definitive design elements that communicate that fine balance of technical precision and emotion I spoke of a moment ago. For example, laser-sharp edges throughout the vehicle represent a powerful sense of engineering precision. The side of the car and the dramatic hood surfaces feature what we call sheer, machined, surfacing, again, to convey a feeling of technical exactness.
This precision is subtly balanced by more natural design elements. Free-flowing directional lines, like the one here on the car's flank, appear and then disappear into the body to mimic the random patterns found throughout nature. These taut lines and unexpected surface transitions also add an element of tension and suspense, contributing to the strong emotion of the overall design. Together, these three design elements create what we call "Keen-Edge Dynamic". They represent the Precision, Technology, and Emotion inherent in our styling.
The long, powerful hood, low slung cabin and short wide deck work together to create a powerful sense of anticipation - almost like a slingshot pulled back and straining to be released. And with a V10 engine and Super Handling All-Wheel Drive power-train it will be a very powerful and precise slingshot. We even pursued the direction of "Keen Edge" styling in the wheel design. They are 19-inches at the front, 20 at the rear and in my opinion, are the most visually striking we've ever designed at Acura.
By the way, you can see the initial production application of the "Advance" design direction in the latest generation MDX, which has sharper, more precise lines than its predecessor. And it will be even more pronounced in future Acura products like the next generation TSX and TL. We want the design statement we make to embody both the emotion of a dynamic driving experience, along with the advanced technology that is present in every Acura vehicle. We believe this aggressive and innovative approach does all that and more.
This "Advanced Sports Car Concept" was designed here in the United States, and you can anticipate more forward-looking, ground-breaking, designs from us as our new Acura Design Center in California comes online in just a few months. It will drive the development of distinctive and cutting edge designs that will further strengthen the appeal of our products both here and around the world. And will ensure that Acura continues to push the envelope in developing highly advanced automobiles that appeal both to the intellect and to the soul. On behalf of Mr. Fukui and myself, thank you for attending. Now, I'd like to invite all of you to take a closer look at our new Acura Advanced Sports Car Concept.


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We dropped by the Moussy NY pop-up shop in the meatpacking district the other day to have an up-close look at what the brand is offering up for fall and winter fashion and fierce holiday shopping. The shop is only open in its current location through Black Friday, so we wanted to make sure you, dear readers, got the inside scoop one what you need to get over there to snatch up before the doors close! They'll be announcing their permanent location in the coming weeks, but only good can come of early holiday shopping. So, we've rounded up six awesome picks from the Moussy line that you can gift to your most stylish comrades, from pop-color accessories to animal print jeans, and hints of rock'n'roll to adorn your fingers.
Check out our top picks below!
Leopard Print Pants, Blk/Brown, Available sizes: 1 & 2, $160.00
Dirty CRUSH SHORT PT, Grey, Available sizes: 0,1,&2, $89.00
"Chunky Fusion JK" sweater sleeve vest, Blue, Available sizes: O/S, $150.00
Cross Plate Ring, Gold, Available sizes: O/S, $39.00
Color Riders Denim, Red, Available sizes: 0,1, &2, $140.00
Short Fur Vest, Grey, Available sizes: O/S, $99.00
Slim Python Belt, Red, Available sizes: O/S, $49.00
You can check out MC's review of the Moussy NY Chemical Blue Wash jeans here, and see the full gallery of our favorite finds below.
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Lastly, we can't forget to give props to the adorable Moussy staff!
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72 Gansevoort St. at Washington St.
Manhattan, NY 10014; 212-206-8696
Open daily 11am–8pm through Nov 27th
—Michelle Christina Larsen
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Skip to comments.DC v. Heller - Montana prepares to secede
Posted on 02/19/2008 7:35:11 PM PST by djf
Secy of State Brad Johnson of Montana delivered a letter to the Washington Times about possible outcomes of the Heller decision.
Second Amendment an individual right
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide D.C. v. Heller, the first case in more than 60 years in which the court will confront the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although Heller is about the constitutionality of the D.C. handgun ban, the court's decision will have an impact far beyond the District ("Promises breached," Op-Ed, Thursday).
The court must decide in Heller whether the Second Amendment secures a right for individuals to keep and bear arms or merely grants states the power to arm their militias, the National Guard. This latter view is called the "collective rights" theory.
A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in 1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana Constitution, guaranteeing the right of "any person" to bear arms, clearly an individual right.
There was no assertion in 1889 that the Second Amendment was susceptible to a collective rights interpretation, and the parties to the contract understood the Second Amendment to be consistent with the declared Montana constitutional right of "any person" to bear arms.
As a bedrock principle of law, a contract must be honored so as to give effect to the intent of the contracting parties. A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract between the United States and Montana, and many other states.
Numerous Montana lawmakers have concurred in a resolution raising this contract-violation issue. It's posted at progunleaders.org. The United States would do well to keep its contractual promise to the states that the Second Amendment secures an individual right now as it did upon execution of the statehood contract.
BRAD JOHNSON Montana secretary of state Helena, Mont. Montana, the Second Amendment and D.C. v. Heller
If Obama is elected, we all should secede.
Also Hillary is enough for the country to secede!
These characters have hijacked the constitution by subduing capitalism
you folks should listen to Mark tell how they did it!
To get on the ping list
Nothing succeeds like secession....
Name three cities or towns in Montana.
Not as easy as you think.
Better yet, as your child to point out Montana on a US map.
Why are we discussing Montana at all?
BTW, I would love to go there to see the mountains, streams and some fishing.
My hubby, the former Alaskan, says that Alaska has a secession season, like Korea (or Berkeley) has riot season. LOL!
I love Inyo and Mono Counties. I worked in Independence on murder cases years ago when the defendants were found guilty and got the death sentence. Rose Bird (rip) reversed on appeal. Been to Death Valley many times and Scotty's Mansion (not really his mansion, but another story there).
I only find one thing incorrect in your profile page. Mt. Whitney was not the tallest mountain in the West. Go north about ten miles and you will find White Mountain. Some bureaucratic idiots were shoveling dirt and rocks off of White Mountain to make Mt. Whitney the taller of the two. "Why?" you might ask. Who the heck knows.
Met a nice lady a little north of Independence (County Seat in Inyo). She was there for 80 or 90 years. She wouldn't sell her water rights, along with about 20 other families, to LA in the early days of So.Cal. She still had a two-inch pipe with the most fabulous water in her home from a stream that came off a mountain. And it was all for free, except the usual maintenance of old pipes.
Do you know the story about the man who walked through Death Valley in the summer months and FROZE to death? Quite an interesting place.
IOW, make Montana into Switzerland!
Great Falls
Want more?! (Ok...I was born there.)
When I first saw this a little while ago I got distraught.
Just wondering, do you know anything about Wisdom, Mont.
The term 'National Guard' was first adopted by a New York militia unit in 1825 to honor the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution and former commander of the Guarde Nationale de Paris during the French Revolution.And although individual states' militias may have been transformed into more independent, self-perpetuating organizations receiving state funding that were later known as the "National Guard", it doesn't follow that that is what the Constitution is referring to as the "militia" because the Constitution was written before any such later developments.
Yea, I can see the Feds now, surrounding Montana and using a bullhorn telling them to "Put down your guns and come out!"
I hope the filings are ready to go when the gavel drops. If not, the libs will certainly counter attack and regain the initiative...
That won't last long. The west is drying up. A few more years of this and the population will drop in a BIG way.
WAY too cold for me!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Yep. If North Dakota would pull with Montana, together we'd be the world's third largest nuclear power.
They would, but CNN would never show it. They'd be off about what Lindsey Lohan, or Brittany, or one of those were up to. Important stuff, ya know...
If this happened, it would be an effortless Free State Project.
I think your contingency of pushing off shore is as good as anyone's. However, my point in pinging you was to alert you that the ante was being raised in this case.
Frank Zappa was clearly ahead of his time on that one.
I've got 20 acres near Bozeman, gotta go there
The Heller case hinges on whether a state or D.C. can prohibit firearm ownership. In short, regulate it. If a state can prohibit ownership, then it can also protect ownership. So instead of seceding, why not just pass laws protecting handgun ownership or amend your state constitution to protect it? Duh!
In 1860, James Petigru said that South Carolina was too small to be a country, and too large to be an insane asylum. The same can probably be said of Montana.
You crack me up. What the hell was that song really about anyway? Or was that old hippy Frank Zappa just hopped up on something? Weird guy to say the least
Thank you!
I am certain that the deliberation that takes place on this case will not center around whether or not the DC ban is Constitutional, but how they can make a decision that is as confined as possible, and maintains the status-quo.
Just keep thinking that and just stay at home.
The natural order of government is to prohibit tools of freedom. Leaving the issue of prohibition/protection up to the legislature is to subject a natural right to the whims of those who would rather you not have it. The whole point of a "bill of rights" is to pointedly tell the government "hands off - it's not yours to control in either direction".
And seceding would solve this how?
Is the population of Montana large enough, to qualify as a state?
Guessing you don't read so good.
Guessing you read no farther in the thread before that response.
I've lived in Montana for 8 years now, and though I love the beauty of the place, there are things I miss about the desert of So Cal — except for the illeals and the liberals.
Gonna be a dentist or something?
I did a real estate search there about a year or so ago. The property seemed as bit expensive.
For some reason I was thinking the lyrics was about moving to montana and becoming a dentist.
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon
My 3 favorites are Sidney, Bozeman & Missoula (in that order, and for various reasons) ... and I was NOT born there, nor have I lived there.
...next addition to my mp3 player.
thanks for reminding me of that song!
It would be even worse. Montana as a Territory would be subject to Federal govern ship and the use of Federal troops to control the territory. It could instantly be put under martial law (not likely but not out of the legal realm)All residents of the territory could claim sovereign citizenship but the corporation of the US would âownâ the land (and BTW the water under the land). It would be a real popcorn event to see that play out. However, the Supremes will not go there since it opens to many other cans of worms. There also id the "equal footing doctrine" to deal with. Texas could have similar claims.
Helena, Bozeman, Billings, Butte, Mizzoula.
I've been through Montana several times now (having moved to Seattle from the East and out to Iowa from Seattle, including a road trip.)
In a way, I was surprised by the towns there. A lot bigger than I would have guessed, though not huge and with the parks there are little way stations of civilization throughout much of Montana.
And absolutely beautiful scenery. Must be absolute hell in winter, though, if Iowa is any indication.
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CASTLE DALE-John Jensen, age 81, passed away Monday, July 28, 2008, in Ferron. John was born Jan. 16, 1927, in Castle Dale to Stanley Earl and Venice Elizabeth Jensen.
He married Beverly Gean Jensen on July 12, 1947, in Cleveland, Utah. Their marriage was later solemnized on April 25, 1970 in the Manti LDS Temple.
John served his country in the Navy during WWII where he was stationed at Okinawa. He was an avid horseman, and he loved to ride and camp in Joe's Valley. John was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held the office of High Priest.
Everyone who knew John will remember him for his sense of humor, his generosity, and his example. His wife, Beverly, and his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were the most precious things to him, and he will be greatly missed by them all.
The family would like to thank the staff at Emery County Care and Rehab for their kindness in caring for our husband and father.
John is survived by his wife, Beverly; four children: Ernest John (Ellie) Jensen of Castle Dale, Jolene (Craig) Spicer of West Valley, Gayle E. (Connie) Jensen of Castle Dale, Stanley Kay (Sandra) Jensen of Castle Dale, 16 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by his parents; son, Basil Jensen; sister, Beth Leininger; brothers, Ward and Earl; and granddaughter, Amanda Ann Jensen.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 31, 2008 at the Castle Dale Stake Center. A viewing will be held on Wednesday, July 30 from 6-8 p.m. at Fausett Mortuary in Castle Dale, and on Thursday one hour prior to the services at the Stake Center. Interment will be in the Castle Dale Cemetery.
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Dead Island Game of the Year Edition on PlayStation 3
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I know GT is not canon .. but still it was written by professional writers who wanted to keep earning a pay check lol.. My question is.
Why did Trunks/Goten never fuse? In DBZ Trunks/Goten who could only go SSJ 1 (still a huge feat for them, I think Goten was 7 and Trunks was 9 ) fused and had the power to go SSJ 3 - in terms of power SSJ3 isn't even comparable to SSJ1.
Now in GT they SHOULD be stronger then what they are - at the end of DBZ after 10 YEARS of training Goku wanted Goten to fight Majin Bu in the tournament so at age 17 he was strong as one of the strongest villains ever in DB history. Trunks also had been training with Vegeta in the gravity chamber if I remember correctly.
But say they got weak and can only go to SSJ 2 in GT (which makes no sense, if Goten could match with Bu he would need to be stronger then SSJ 2) why couldn't they fuse and be effective?


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HUNTINGTON - Madaline Grange Story, age 90, passed away Feb. 28, 2012 in Price. Madaline was born Sept. 5, 1921 in Huntington to Ernest James and Rose Ann Ramsay Grange. She married Calvin William Story Dec. 26, 1941 in Jacksonville, Fla. They were later sealed in the Manti LDS Temple.
Madaline graduated from North Emery High School. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She enjoyed knitting, needlepoint, gardening, square dancing with her husband when they were younger, cooking, and trying new recipes. However, spending time with her family was what she enjoyed the most.
Madaline is survived by her children: Dwayne (Kristine) Story of Orangeville, and Coralie (Phil) Ouzts of Castle Dale; a daughter-in-law, LaVaun Story of Spanish Fork; a sister, Aileen Olson of Lawrenceville, Ga.; 12 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Calvin; a son, Gerald Calvin Story; seven sisters and one brother.
Funeral services were held Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 1 p.m. at the Huntington Stake Center (240 North Main). There was a viewing Saturday from 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. prior to the services at the Stake Center. Interment was at 3:30 p.m. in the Price City Cemetery. Services were in the care of Fausett Mortuary. Family and friends may sign the guest book and share memories of Madaline at www.fausettmortuary.com.


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Ian Richardson, Portable Antiquities and Treasure,
British Museum
Last year, the ITV television series Britain's Secret Treasures was a welcome hit, averaging 3.5 million viewers every evening for six programmes over the course of a week. It featured stories about 50 archaeological finds made by members of the public throughout Britain.
The majority of the finds had either been recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) or reported as 'Treasure' under the Treasure Act 1996 (or both!). The series culminated with the story of the Happisburgh Handaxe, a discovery which eventually led to the understanding that humans have inhabited Britain for hundreds of thousands of years longer than previously thought.
The popularity of Britain's Secret Treasures meant that it was re-commissioned for a second series, with Michael Buerk and Bettany Hughes returning to present the show. It begins on Thursday 17 October 2013 at 20.30 on ITV1. Once again, the British Museum and the PAS were delighted to take part, and were the ideal partners to do so.
Since 1997, Finds Liaison Officers (FLOs) of the PAS, based throughout England and Wales, have recorded over 900,000 finds on a freely accessible database. Most of these have been returned to the people who found them. Additionally, over 8,000 finds from England have been reported as Treasure, and these have all been seen by specialist curators at the British Museum.
Finds of Treasure – generally speaking, gold and silver objects, groups of coins more than 300 years old, and prehistoric base-metal assemblages – must be reported to the coroner in the area where they are found, and are legally the property of the Crown. Accredited museums are able to acquire these items for the benefit of all. Most Treasure finds, if acquired, end up in local museums, and Britain's Secret Treasures visits many of these places.
The British Museum itself has also acquired finds of Treasure, including the Ringlemere Gold Cup and the Hockley Pendant, which featured in the first series of Britain's Secret Treasures. For the second series, the British Museum's Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, which coordinates the PAS and administers the Treasure Act, assisted ITV in the selection of more 'Secret Treasures' to feature on the show. Some of the items will be here in London, some with local museums, and others with the people who found them.
Through the stories it tells, Britain's Secret Treasures highlights the benefits of responsibly searching for and reporting archaeological finds. Objects can be nice to look at in isolation, and we can guess at how they might have been made or used, but it is their context (where the objects were found) which provides the most exciting information. The accumulation of this contextual information for hundreds of thousands of finds allows us to build an improved picture of the lives of people in the past. That's why it is so important that finders of archaeological material report them to a museum or their local FLO – for the record, Britain's Secret Treasures uses the terms 'treasure' to refer to all archaeological finds, both those which are legally 'Treasure' in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and those that are not.
It's always an interesting experience to work with media and this time was no exception. An institution like the British Museum tends to prefer that most of its activities are planned well in advance and that nothing is left to 'spur of the moment' or chance – a style which contrasts to the creative spontaneity of a film crew working to a tight deadline, trying to capture just the right shot. Thankfully everyone involved, from the presenters and camera crews to the experts here at the Museum who were interviewed, were all so skilled that they produced some fine footage in a minimal amount of time.
Britain's Secret Treasures was filmed in locations all over the British Museum, from public galleries to private offices and study areas, and although it involved some complicated logistics, the chance to convey this aspect of the Museum's function was worthwhile. ITV provides a fantastic platform on which to broadcast, reaching a wide and diverse audience from all over the country and we hope viewers will agree that the finished product is an informative and entertaining programme, and that it ignites an interest in archaeology among them. The PAS is a great starting point for more information about getting involved in archaeology – visit finds.org.uk for more information.
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Taste of Weld County brings food, people together
March 9, 2013
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Bob Kirkman of Greeley jokes that he and his wife Deb are probably the first people to buy tickets each year to the Taste of Weld County. They really look forward to it.
"Those who don't come are missing out," Deb said. "I'm so excited just to come and eat all this food. There is yummy food from everywhere, and it is supporting a good cause."
The Taste of Weld County brought 36 local restaurants to the Island Grove Exhibition Building, 501 N 14th Ave. in Greeley, Thursday night including, Farmers, Peace Pit, A.F. Rays, Johnson's Corner, Coyotes, Schwartz's Krautburgers. The event is an annual fundraiser for Lutheran Family Services, which helps prevent child abuse in the country through three programs.
"I am pretty impressed with the restaurants we have," said event coordinator Sarah Herber. "There are a lot of family owned restaurants here."
Herber estimated about 600 people attended the event. She did not know how much money had been raised yet, but the goal was to raise between $18,000-$20,000.
One of the few booths that wasn't a restaurant was Greeley's Warm Hugs Mixes. They dished out white bean chicken chili, pound cake and ginger cookies made from mixes they sell.
"It is and awesome thing to be a part of and do," said co-owner Jim Sereff.
Colorful table clothes with streamers draped the tables and balloons were hung around the room for this year's birthday theme. The was the 25th annual Taste of Weld County and Lutheran Family Services turns 65 this year.
"We are really thankful for the support that comes to us for this need," said the Rev. Bob Kuehner, director of major and planned gifts for the organization. "It is a wonderful event for the community. It brings people together and that is what we do."
Andy Bird went with his wife Shalene and son Tayt, 12, to the Taste for the third year in a row. They filled their plates with samples of Gyros, burritos, wings and more. They said they all enjoy trying new restaurants and the variety of foods.
"It's like Thanksgiving, you got to go back again," Andy said. "It is a lot of fun."
Santiagos in Johnstown served of small portions of smothered burritos for their fourth year at the event.
"It is awesome," said Lee Montoya, owner of Santiagos. "You get to meet a lot of people. They don't know we are this close to Greeley."
Montoya said the cause also is important to them. They also participate in Lutheran Family Services golf tournament each year.
"It is a blast to be here," he said.
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1stdibs, an online marketplace for luxury goods, has raised $42 million in its latest funding round, led by Index Ventures and Spark Capital. The company says it raised $60 million about a year ago from Benchmark Capital which also took part in the new round.
1stdibs says it will use the new capital to expand internationally, boost marketing and invest in new technology. Index Ventures general partner Danny Rimer and Spark Capital general partner Todd Dagres will join the marketplace's board of directors, which already includes Benchmark general partner Matt Cohler.
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Mark Zuckerberg streams through the crowd at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco like a politician working a pancake breakfast.
As the Facebook CEO makes the rounds at f8, the company's daylong developer conference, it is clear that he is among his people. Fifteen hundred hackers have amassed, the first time Zuck has called this flock together in two and a half years. They're here to attend engineering sessions about how to build, grow, and monetize their apps; to munch on plastic-wrapped sandwiches trucked up from Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters; and to try to catch a glimpse of Zuck casually hanging out by the Oculus Rift demo, a sight even more surreal for them than the virtual-reality experience itself. Despite the stuffy heat—the 125,000-square-foot space doesn't have air-conditioning, so Facebook had to import its own ventilation ducts, which hum along the wooden ceilings—Zuck looks cool and relaxed in his T-shirt and jeans. He walks tall, chest out firmly, and with each quick hello he leaves a trail of starstruck smiles and excited whispers in his wake, as if Harry Styles were strolling through a suburban shopping mall. As one beaming attendee says after shaking hands with the CEO, "He seems pretty fucking confident!"
Zuck, now 30 years old, has reason to be confident. His company is crushing it. Monthly active users: up to almost 1.3 billion worldwide. Engagement: up, with more than 50% of users now visiting the service six days a week and, according to a report by the app-analytics firm Flurry, spending 17% of their time on their phones in Facebook's app, far and away the most popular service on iOS and Android devices. Speaking of mobile, Facebook, which spent all of 2012 and into 2013 dogged by concerns that it would not be able to make money on people's phones, now generates 59% of its ad revenue from mobile. One particular ad unit—the one that suggests apps a Facebook user might want to download—is the envy of the entire industry and is being widely copied. Revenue for the first quarter of 2014 was $2.5 billion. The company earned profits of $642 million, almost triple its haul a year earlier.
These feats are even more impressive when you consider that Zuck is delivering these results with a core product that has been criticized for being as stagnant as it is ubiquitous, a place where parents and grandparents share photos of kids who may be less likely to embrace the service when they grow up. In a world churning out startups with one innovation after another—Snapchat, Tinder, Whisper—Facebook can seem like yesterday's news. Yet how many businesses see revenue and engagement surge just as passion for their products stalls?
Zuck went on a shopping spree last February and March that seemed, on first blush, downright desperate. On February 19, Facebook announced its acquisition of global-messaging phenomenon WhatsApp for almost $19 billion—the largest sum ever paid for a venture-backed startup. Five weeks later, Zuck shelled out $2 billion for the promising virtual-reality headset company Oculus VR. Two days after that, he spent $20 million on a drone company. Yes, drones.
Although Zuck has outlined his three-, five-, and 10-year goals for employees, he has never crisply explained publicly how all of these recent moves fit together, and that has gotten tech watchers buzzing about whether he and the company have lost their way. But after dozens of interviews with current and former employees, rivals, advertisers, developers, and users, it becomes clear that Zuckerberg has launched Facebook on an aggressive and potentially brilliant strategy—one that has very little to do with the company you think you know based on your desktop use of its social network. [Facebook granted Fast Company access to several company executives, but not to Zuckerberg or COO Sheryl Sandberg.] To make Facebook more relevant than ever, the company has targeted the very core of the app economy to fulfill its vision for the next half-decade. As the six lessons that follow illuminate, the great social network of the early 21st century is laying the groundwork for a platform that could make Facebook a part of just about every social interaction that takes place around the world.
1. The hacker way can't solve every problem
To understand where Facebook is going, you need to start by understanding where it's been. Remember Poke? How about Gifts, or Beacon? Graph Search? Camera? Facebook email? Places? Deals? If none of these ring a bell, don't worry. They're all Facebook products introduced in the past seven years—and they were all failures. Together these missteps have become symbols of a culture where innovation has seemingly evaporated. It's even infected Facebook's subsidiary Instagram, whose two big releases since being acquired—video sharing and Direct Message—flopped, according to a source familiar with the company's metrics. (Facebook rejects this characterization.)
The most prominent failure of all, perhaps, was Home. Introduced on April 4, 2013, at a splashy event replete with overwrought Jobsian flair and blockbuster expectations, Home was a novel software experience created to give users a distinctive Facebook-first way of using Android phones. "A lot of people came over from Apple to work on this stuff," says a product manager on the project. But Home bombed, receiving a tepid reception from critics and an even worse one from consumers. Just a month after launch, HTC, Facebook's hardware partner, slashed the price of its phone that came preinstalled with Home to 99 cents, and weeks later discontinued it altogether. "Everybody was disappointed," says the manager.
How did Facebook find itself in this predicament? The company's culture, forged in its earliest days, has been built around a motto— "Move fast and break things"—that has become so famous it almost stands as the preeminent cliché of Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg encouraged an environment where employees understand that it is better to build and prototype an idea rather than just talk about it. "Code wins arguments," says Will Cathcart, an engineering lead at Facebook, repeating another of the company's mantras. This philosophy, known as the hacker way, provided the fuel for Facebook's ascension.
But it has hit roadblocks along the way. For one thing, as the company has grown to include almost 7,000 employees, Facebook remained overly dependent on Zuckerberg, whose blessing has been required for projects to gain steam beyond their origins in Red Bull–fueled hackathons. "You face the reality of large organizations, where it's hard to convince anyone to give you resources [for an idea]," says one product manager who recently left to build his own app. "There's that lure of saying, 'You know what? I'm too worn out to fight [for this idea inside Facebook]; I'll just leave and try doing it on my own.' "
Projects that did fight their way through the system faced other burdens rooted in the company's history. The "truth" of data is so paramount at Facebook that products were given little time to improve after launch. "A startup would try again or change it," that recently departed manager says of Facebook's graveyard of failed products. "But that kind of culture doesn't exist at Facebook. If something doesn't work off the bat, it's like, 'Okay, the metrics aren't working, let's put the engineers over here.' " One nasty by-product of this approach: demoralized employees.
Bret Taylor, Facebook's former CTO and now the founder of a document-creation app called Quip, traces the situation back to Facebook's earliest success: the integration of photo sharing into the News Feed. Almost by accident, Facebook became the world's largest photo-sharing site, "creating a dynamic," says Taylor, "where, when you were thinking of a new product, it was always integrating with News Feed—just like the photos product did, because that's what drove all of its usage and traffic. The conventional wisdom was that if you don't do that, there's no way you're going to grow as fast." The problem with this is obvious when you compare the litany of Facebook failures (Beacon, Places, Poke, and so on) with successful social apps that have become popular over the same time. Consider Snapchat. Predicting the success of ephemeral photos would have been impossible. And that's just one of an endless stream of startups experimenting with new ways for people to communicate with one another. A social media startup can be bootstrapped very cheaply. WhatsApp, after all, grew to almost half Facebook's size with just 55 employees; Snapchat (which Facebook tried to purchase more than once) became a perceived threat with even fewer people. Which means that Facebook faces an eternal game of Whack-a-Mole as it tries to predict what's a fad and what's the future. Throw in the impediments of data and bureaucracy, and the chances of creating a breakthrough app within Facebook become slim indeed.
Zuck seemed to acknowledge this challenge when he announced a division last February called Creative Labs, which functions as a separate space outside of Facebook's traditional product teams, for "things that are nascent." At the same time, Facebook revealed what it said was the first Creative Labs product: Paper, an elegantly designed mobile app for reading and responding to your News Feed. "Creative Labs allows teams to go off with very loose time constraints and think about problems," says Scott Goodson, a leader on the Paper team and a former senior software engineer at Apple. "A lot of the core people came here because they saw that level of freedom—they wanted its small-team feel."
If you start asking questions about Creative Labs, though, it becomes less clear just what Zuck and company have learned from their product misadventures. "There's no Creative Labs building; there's no, like, Creative Labs organization," admits Cathcart, who serves as the engineering lead for several (but not all) projects that Facebook has anointed with the Creative Labs moniker. Cathcart describes Creative Labs as more of a framework. It's one with a striking familiarity. "Honestly, a lot of it is Mark," he says, meaning that the way an idea gets green-lighted as a Creative Labs project is exactly as it's always been.
One thing that does seem to be different: Facebook seems willing to be more patient and iterate on ideas rather than just scrap them. Paper, which was in development before Facebook devised Creative Labs, has grown slowly, at least in Facebook terms, and it is being downloaded less and less. But during Facebook's first-quarter earnings call, Zuck said that products like it will be given room to grow and come into their own, indicating that the company won't even worry about trying to make money from any app until it reaches more than 100 million monthly active users. Facebook has even decided to try to develop another Snapchat-like service after its first knockoff attempt, Poke, disappeared almost instantly. All this signals that Facebook can't simply follow its long-standing hacker playbook. It still wants to try to create great products, but it is also willing to buy the hottest next-wave services when it can't. And as we'll see, it's become crucial to tap into a much wider network of apps to fuel its success.
2. A single Facebook app, no matter how dominant, isn't enough
This isn't an analogy you'll hear from anyone at Facebook, in part because it sounds crazy, and in part because Zuckerberg just doesn't seem to be making his strategy clear these days. But one way to think of Facebook is as the Coca-Cola of social media.
Warren Buffett is addicted to Coca-Cola. He's never sold a share in Coke because it has always offered a flavor to please his taste buds: cherry and orange and lemon-lime sodas, energy drinks, flavored waters, organic juices, and teas. Coke serves 1.9 billion drinks per day because the 122-year-old conglomerate recognized long ago that customers will forever thirst for something new. Whenever and wherever you are thirsty, Coca-Cola will be there for you.
Zuck wants Facebook to be just like that.
When you think about it, social media at first seemed to be a kind of basic cola designed for all tastes. But, of course, it has proved to be much more than that. Especially after online interactions migrated to mobile devices, users began craving more specialized flavors, encompassing everything including communication via photos, instant messaging, group and video chats, and more. Zuck wants Facebook to be involved, in some way, in each of these exchanges. Frankly, he has no choice but to try if he's going to achieve his goal of adding 5 billion more active users—Coca-Cola–like ubiquity—and creating a business that makes today's Facebook seem tiny.
The Coca-Cola of social media won't look like today's Facebook because it will become less and less reliant on the basic cola—the desktop experience that was rather clunkily transported to that big blue app on your phone or tablet. "There was a lot of debate internally as to whether all these experiences should live in the core Facebook app or whether they should live in separate applications," says Josh Williams, the Gowalla cofounder who spent a year and a half at Facebook after it acquired (and shut down) his startup. "Should there be a Facebook Local app? A Facebook location app? A lot of people, including myself, thought that should be the case instead of shoving them in the more drawer on the core app." (The more drawer he's referring to is the button on the bottom right of the Facebook app, under which it has slotted things like Groups and Nearby Places.)
"I'm a little surprised it took so long," says one former Facebook product manager who helped build its mobile platform. "We actually had studies three years ago that clearly demonstrated this was the strategy that we needed. People didn't want one big blue app." The company considered creating a series of Facebook-branded apps (a strategy it flirted with when it launched Poke and Camera in 2012), but research made it clear that users were growing totally comfortable with—indeed, were beginning to prefer—apps that served a single function and that had no connection to a centralized behemoth. "All of them had four to five different social apps on their phones," says the source of the still-confidential studies. "The more we dug into why, the answer that came back pretty much universally across the board was, 'This is how I keep my friend groups separated.' "
Thinking of itself as a conglomerate of apps, rather than as a single one, is a mind shift for Facebook. The user numbers behind each of those smaller apps can pale compared to the almost 1.3 billion people who employ the big blue app. But it's not just Coca-Cola that has made this kind of leap. Television networks are one example of companies that have captured a wide swath of consumers and then diversified into new turf. Fox has FX, FXX, Fox Movie Channel, Fox Sports, Speed, Fox News, and Fox Business. Earlier tech giants did so as well. Yahoo grew from being a directory to providing email, news, and sports products; Google, more notably, went from search to Gmail and Android. Facebook is following an analogous path. "They have this kind of suite developing where they have Instagram and WhatsApp, and it's easier to position it like a grouping of experiences," says Williams, who left Facebook before it decided on this approach. "I have to respect Mark a lot for his aggressive execution on his strategy. Home base is covered, and we've dug a moat around our castle now, and we can be a little bit more aggressive on these fronts because the likelihood of this core toppling over is low."
3. There's a big opportunity in catalyzing everyone toward a single goal
Transforming Facebook into a multifaceted operation won't be easy. But a little-noticed change that Zuck made two years ago paved the way.
For a long time at Facebook, the advertising team was responsible for the ad products, and the product teams were charged with creating and refining the user experience. They were separated, the way that business and editorial at a newspaper are, because Zuck believed that the product team should focus only on the consumer's experience, without being distracted by financial concerns. The ad team was rewarded for increasing revenue, while the product teams were assessed based on user-engagement metrics.
A number of key players within the company began to argue that if Zuck rewarded all teams for contributing to revenue, the enterprise would get a whole lot more ideas, and they would be better, more creative, more diverse. According to a former senior employee with knowledge of the conversations, Zuck was reluctant to make the change but eventually agreed. Under a revised management structure, the News Feed product team, for instance, would now be accountable for how much money came through News Feed advertising, and the mobile product team would be charged with developing ideas to make money through mobile. "It was a very awkward thing," says the former employee.
But the impact proved to be profound. "As we went through our mobile transition, we had to figure out something different in how ads integrated with content," says Mike Vernal, Facebook's VP of engineering. "That precipitated rethinking how we think about making ads feel like a really well-integrated experience."
"The News Feed team all of a sudden was coming back with suggestions about what to do with the ads product that the ads team had proposed six months ago but were shot down because they were too consumer-aggressive," says the former employee. "But now the Feed team wanted to do those things. It was like, 'Oh? Well, twist our arm! Sure! We'll help you do that! Sounds like a good idea! Why didn't we think of that?' "
This single decision may have been the main catalyst behind Facebook's rebound after the company saw its market capitalization more than halved during the months after its May 2012 IPO. At first, investors didn't believe Facebook had a good plan for generating more revenue from its customers, especially those using Facebook on their phones. Facebook's move to integrate the teams led to it running ads within their apps' News Feed, and that led to its first breakthrough mobile-advertising product.
App Ads are units that only appear on phones and tablets in Facebook's mobile app. As the name suggests, they promote other apps, ones that Facebook thinks you might like based on your usage history. Better yet, each features a prominent install now button, allowing Facebookers to download the promoted app with a tap. "App stores are effectively popularity contests," says Vernal. "If you make the top 10, you'll get a bunch of people using your app. But if you're No. 11, you basically fall off a cliff." In return for using its massive popularity to drive users to interesting apps, Facebook, according to developers, is charging its advertisers as much as $3 to $4 for each new customer. "It's solving that problem of discovery," explains Facebook product-management director and App Ads creator Deb Liu.
The ad unit debuted in November 2012, and the results thus far have been nothing short of phenomenal. In 18 months, this one advertising product has resulted in 350 million app installations. Facebook does not break out revenue by ad product, but by our estimate that would translate to roughly $1 billion. "By the third day of testing Facebook [App Ads], it was already dominating every mobile-ad source out there," says John Earner, CEO of mobile-game startup Space Ape, one of the first developers to use the ad unit. "By April of 2013, App Ads was the worst-kept secret in the gaming industry." Space Ape's Samurai Siege game pulls in $70,000 a day by spending up to 75% of its marketing budget on App Ads. More broadly, Facebook reports that 60% of the top-grossing apps on Apple's App Store and Google Play use App Ads.
4. To win the future, you need to be as bold as Google
The resurgence of Facebook's stock has enhanced the company's ability to acquire innovation that's taking place elsewhere. Zuckerberg is aggressively using company stock to buy startups—because he knows that at least one other competitor is trying to beat him to the punch. "The biggest existential threat is not Snapchat," says one employee who has heard Zuck speak about his strategy. "Their biggest concern is Google."
As social messaging took off around the world, "Facebook was obsessed with WhatsApp," says a former Facebook product manager. In the months before the acquisition last February, one where Facebook reportedly outmaneuvered Google to close the deal, "most meetings you would go to regarding growth and competition, you'd hear about WhatsApp. Mark is a very paranoid person in the way he thinks about Facebook. He cannot stand that there are other people out there doing something better than Facebook. And WhatsApp was clearly doing that: It was faster, more reliable [messaging]." WhatsApp filled a need, at a hefty cost.
Virtual-reality firm Oculus, on the other hand, is a long-term bet at a tenth of the price. It's a roll of the dice. Why would Facebook want to be a significant player in how people interact in 3-D virtual worlds? Because if 3-D is another version of social media, then the company doesn't want to leave that territory open for someone else to develop. The same is true for the $20 million Zuck spent on a drone company, a technology that fits in with Zuckerberg's utopian vision of a world in which everyone, no matter how poor, has ready access to the Internet.
"The glass-empty view," according to one former top Facebooker who has worked closely with Zuck, "is that Facebook can't innovate internally, so it has to buy all these companies. And the glass-half-full view: Facebook is a very innovative company and, as a result, is looking for other like-minded, blue-sky thinkers to join its world." The fact that Zuckerberg can more often than not persuade startup founders to join the company and work with him is a vote for the glass-half-full perspective. "What I found compelling was Mark's commitment to spending a lot of time with us," says Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, adding that he's talked to Zuck nearly every day since the $2 billion buyout. "He spends a lot of time with Kevin [Systrom] and Instagram, and has made the same commitment with Jan [Koum] and WhatsApp. If you look at a company like Google, from what I've heard, Sergey [Brin] and Larry [Page] are too busy to work on any one project, so you don't get much of their time."
Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, who now runs Asana, a fast-growing enterprise-software company, notes that while Zuck's personal style differs from that of Google's cofounders, both companies are pursuing a similar strategy. "Rather than just refine the existing product and nail it down to harden against potential competitors," he says, "Facebook, very similar to Google, is saying, 'Okay, we've got all these resources; what bold new things can we do?' " As one employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity puts it, "I always assumed these big moves were out of desperation," he says. "But I actually think it's more like, 'Fuck it, we're going to get Google.' "
5. Empower other entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams, and benefits will accrue to your platform
Largely unnoticed among Zuckerberg's recent acquisitions was his April 2013 purchase of Parse, a well-regarded mobile-infrastructure startup. Facebook bought it for a reported $85 million. While the dollar value of the deal was modest, this acquisition may say more about where Facebook is going than all the others.
At the time of the Facebook acquisition, Parse made it easy to build apps faster by offering ready-to-use web-based services for otherwise tedious tasks such as creating notifications. Some 60,000 apps relied on Parse, including buzzworthy offerings from brands like Armani and the Food Network. Facebook execs had been talking with Parse's founders since 2011, when the company had just six employees, and Zuck reportedly won the deal over Dropbox (Google was also apparently interested). "Facebook wants to connect the world, and this is part of it," says Vernal, Facebook's engineering VP. "Parse is all about simple and delightful tools for a wide swath of international devices so developers can create great apps."
Yes, but that's only the beginning. It is easy to understand how Facebook can make money from Instagram (luxury brand advertising and shopping) and even WhatsApp (competitors such as Line are vibrant commerce platforms, and only last week, Zuck even poached PayPal president David Marcus to run the company's in-house Messenger product). Facebook now owns all the ad impressions on those services—and on News Feed, and on Paper, etc. Parse promises something else: a way to get a piece of all the other apps that make up the universe of mobile social media. As noted earlier, Facebook is already the most dominant single app in mobile, commanding 17% of users' time. Now Zuckerberg wants a slice of that other 83%, and Parse can be an essential tool in pursuing that goal.
The fundamental challenge to creating a unified mobile platform is that apps are inherently siloed experiences. You can't surf through apps like you surf the web, where you might start at the Weather Channel and follow a long trail of links—traceable links, by the way—that ends with you seriously contemplating the purchase of a model train on Amazon. "That's what made the web what it is," says Simon Khalaf, CEO of the app-analytics company Flurry. "Mobile applications are like TV channels. You make the conscious decision to go from one to another."
The world of apps is further complicated by the fact that companies like Facebook can't plant a cookie on iOS or Android to follow you around, as they do in your desktop browser. Benefits aside, we're less likely to discover new content, new apps—and new ads.
Parse is the backbone of Zuckerberg's plan to change all that. It gave Facebook an entrée into a critical emerging business: building a new generation of technical plumbing connecting the app world. "A good analogy is Amazon Web Services," says Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, which was an early backer of Parse. "If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of. AWS replaced all that. Parse and Facebook offer a similar opportunity for app development."
At f8, Zuckerberg began to reveal the ways in which Parse could lead Facebook deeper into the app economy. Parse CEO Ilya Sukhar introduced the first building block with a new protocol called App Links. App Links empowers developers to "deep link" one app to another. As a result, users regain the web-surfing experience within apps, and for Facebook, it creates bridges between its unbundled apps.
Deep linking presents a lot of interesting possibilities. If you were using Dropbox's email app, Mailbox, for example, and a friend shared a song she was listening to with Spotify, you could click the link and open Spotify directly to that song or artist's page. This creates a lucrative feature Facebook can offer advertisers: Uber, for example, might like to put a mobile ad into Facebook's News Feed that lets a user request a car without even opening the Uber app. "This is one of those products like motherhood and apple pie," says Vernal. "How could you be opposed to it?"
At f8, developers gushed over App Links, saying that it could make Facebook the fabric of the mobile world. If deployed widely, App Links would create a knitwork that would connect users to every delicious service and chunk of knowledge they desire without going through a mobile web browser. The payoff for Facebook would go well beyond whatever it charges for a more-attractive News Feed ad offering.
6. There's massive value in building the infrastructure for the mobile-social nexus
The rest of Facebook's announcements at f8 all tied into this same idea of knitting this mobile fabric. It debuted a mobile like button, which means that app creators can make it easier for users to share app content back to their Facebook pages. Zuck revealed a new login product, which lets users sign up for apps anonymously (of course, Facebook knows who the user is). And App Ads creator Deb Liu announced the Facebook Audience Network, which helps developers make money by embedding ads into their apps from Facebook's pool of 1 million advertisers. Ads are both targeted and designed to resemble their app's look and feel.
Picture how this can work for Facebook: A developer chooses to build her app using Parse. To get users to discover it, she'll buy Facebook's App Ads. When she hits a certain threshold, she'll start to pay $100 a month for Parse's services—and more as the app continues to grow. ("You don't have to pay us until your app gets huge," Parse's Sukhar told the f8 crowd.) At this point, to generate revenue, the developer joins the Audience Network, where Facebook will get an unspecified cut of the ad revenue from the spots that run within her app. And finally, in an effort to get users to use her app more often, she takes advantage of deep linking or other tools Facebook might offer down the road. That's at least four ways that Facebook could get paid off the same developer—and Facebook would garner the additional benefit of knowing which apps mobile users were excited about.
As one employee who requested anonymity puts it, "Mark does not fuck around. Parse doesn't have any direct benefit to Facebook.com and the Facebook app. But Parse makes it so much easier to build apps quickly. If you support entrepreneurs to build apps more quickly, you have a lot of data around which apps are doing well, and which aren't. Small things like that show that Mark is many steps ahead."
To understand how valuable this could be, remember that the Google ad business, which places contextual ads alongside your desktop search results and across your web surfing, brings in $50 billion annually—six times more than Facebook's sales.
There are now more than 260,000 apps built with Parse products, but Facebook doesn't have anywhere near Google's heft yet. There is a cadre of users wary of Facebook's growing appetite for personal data, and a lot of developers who built on Facebook's web platform were burned when the company kept changing its rules. A project like App Links, in particular, will require considerable work before developers fully embrace it. Although it launched with an impressive list of more than 20 partners, including Pinterest and Hulu in addition to Dropbox and Spotify, developers say that it will only become truly effective when many more apps sign up.
This challenge reveals a fascinating strategic shift for the social network: The greatest obstacle standing between Facebook and its ambitions has nothing to do with persuading any of us to log in to Facebook tomorrow or to spend more time using its features. It's entirely dependent on outside app developers' adopting these tools. Facebook has become the world's first social-media enterprise company. "The new Facebook is different from the old Facebook," says one company insider who spoke on condition of anonymity. To those who remain fixated on what the social network used to be, this source says, "They're just going to have to learn. We're in a different world."
If Zuckerberg succeeds in making Facebook, in essence, the most important mobile platform on the planet, he will create all kinds of other opportunities for the company. Expanding globally will become even easier, as the social network learns more and more about the habits of international users. New lines of business, like enabling peer-to-peer payments, are likely to open up; no other company knows as much about the many people it connects. Indeed, the more it becomes an enterprise company, the more the Facebook of five years from now will have erased all traces of the dorm-room quirkiness on which it was founded.
That may seem sad to those who once loved the service, or it might seem to be further evidence that Facebook will never again be cool. But you get the sense that Zuck couldn't care less. There was one other thing he debuted at f8: a motto to replace "Move fast and break things." The new one? "Move fast with stable infra."
That's it. Really. Perhaps never in the long history of Silicon Valley has a company rallied under a clunkier cry. But if Facebook actually executes on the phrase, it will come to have a charm all its own.
A version of this article appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of Fast Company magazine.


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Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist, Museum of London Archaeology
For me, the Shakespeare; staging the world exhibition at the British Museum creates a wonderful journey through the worlds we associate with Shakespeare; the real and the fictional, the physical and the imaginary. Most journeys taken by Shakespeare's contemporaries will have been the fictional and imaginary since few people at the time will have set foot outside England. Shakespeare – and others – certainly knew about, and exploited knowledge of, that outside world. Historical and archaeological evidence provides a wealth of such knowledge.
London was a major port with international mercantile contacts. It was one of the largest cities in the world – and growing. Immigration – albeit mostly internal – made it a cosmopolitan city. It was the seat of royal power, national parliament and the country's commercial and legal centre. The exhibition also introduces us to the great and the good, from the queen and the aristocratic patrons of the playhouses such as Leicester, Essex and Hunsdon to the playwrights and actors. By the 1570s there was a large and diverse ready-made audience with a thirst for leisure and entertainment which made London the first home of the professional theatre. Shakespeare's contemporary playwright Thomas Heywood was immensely proud of his adoptive city and very conscious of its theatrical pre-eminence. He compared it with ancient Rome, but stressed this international importance:
Playing is an ornament to the Citty, which strangers of all Nations, repairing hither, report of in their Countries, beholding them here with some admiration: for what variety of entertainment can there be in any Citty of Christendome, more then in London?
Foreign visitors indeed left accounts of the new fangled London playhouses – they were very different from those in contemporary Spain but a playhouse built in Gdansk in 1611 was itself based on the Fortune playhouse built in north London in 1600.
As an archaeologist I have specialised in the 'Shakespearean theatre' for a number of years and we, at MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), have now excavated parts of the Theatre (1576), the Curtain (1577), the Rose (1587), the Globe (1599) and the Hope of 1613. We have also excavated two of the Bankside bear gardens. The archaeological contribution to Shakespearean studies has now provided a vast and immensely useful body of information on these early theatres and thousands of artefacts that illustrate the working life of Shakespeare and his audiences. Details of all these sites, and others, have been gathered in my book Shakespeare's London Theatreland, published by MOLA this year. I was thus delighted to be asked what objects we have unearthed that might illustrate aspects of everyday life in Shakespearean London. The spirit of cooperation we, and other institutions, have had with the British Museum this year has triumphed in this exhibition.
In theatrical terms, the 'Shakespearean period' covers the years between 1567 when the first playhouse was built (when Shakespeare was 3 years old) to 1642 when parliament closed them all (26 years after Shakespeare died). It is this period that saw the flowering of English drama and the unique playing spaces built in London that Shakespeare and his contemporaries wrote for and acted in. Here, you could imagine yourself in the 'vasty fields of France', 'the greatest part of Spain', in 'fair Verona' or 'with us in Venice' and in more distant exotic worlds such as the 'the furthest inch of Asia' or even 'America, the Indies?'
The archaeological finds on display in the British Museum's exhibition are all from the Rose excavations of 1989 and represent the building itself (the baluster), what might be a prop (the fork, found in the stage area), and everyday items that might be lost by either actors or, more likely, audiences. Like the evidence for what playgoers ate and wore, many of these finds represented rich and exotic imports.
The objects from Stratford – shovel, watering can and ceramics – represent (Shakespeare's) life in the country through similar everyday items. One of the striking pieces in the exhibition is a bear skull that was found on a building site near the modern Globe where the original bear baiting rings were situated. This cruel 'sport' was just another form of 'entertainment' to people at the time.
The range of material within the exhibition is wonderfully evocative of Shakespeare's whole world(s) but a particular thrill for me was seeing, for the first time in the flesh, the Titus Andronicus drawing . Shakespeare's play was first performed at the Rose on 23 January 1594 and the line at the front must represent the stage that we excavated there 23 years ago!
Julian Bowsher will be giving a lecture at the British Museum on Thursday 25 October on 'Shakespeare and his theatres in London'.
Find out more about Shakespeare events programme
Shakespeare: staging the world is open from 19 July to 25 November 2012.
The exhibition is supported by BP.
Part of the World Shakespeare Festival and London 2012 Festival.
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does anyone have or is thinking about getting Dragon Age II? The first one was awesome, but the new one has been getting mixed reviews
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I just had a thought... i have a japanese acount on my ps3 which I used to buy Hatsune Miku's Dreamy Theatre last year. Anyone reckon I'll get another load of free stuff on that account?
I'm quite optimistic about it atm.
Edit: oh, I have a US account to for downloading dlc for my BB - Calamity Trigger limited edition import. fingers crossed.
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By Brendan Conway
The remarkable finding over at Ned Davis Research this week is that the ETF offering investors the greatest leverage to stocks doesn't have a "huge leverage on stocks" label at all.
NDR's Neil Leeson and Wenbo Zhou are writing about ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (SVXY). This complex ETF is a short-term trading tool essentially allowing its users to "sell" market volatility, through a continuously rebalancing portfolio of volatility futures. If you bet against market gyrations by "selling" them, then you also favor a rise in stocks.
But I'll guess even this fund's day-trader acolytes didn't know the math was this potent. The volatility fund has been acting as if it has more leverage to the S&P 500 than the ETFs whose names tell investors they're getting 100% or 200% leverage versus the index, like ProShares Ultra S&P 500 (SSO), or Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS).
Over the last two years, investors got about 250% leverage on each day's moves in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), NDR finds. As the attached chart shows, that's more than the leveraged ProShares Ultra S&P 500. It's also more than the double-leveraged ProShares UltraPro S&P 500 (UPRO). For every 0.7% move in the S&P 500, the ETF jumped or slumped 2.4%-2.5%.
"On an absolute basis, it is obvious that the VIX fund is a better alternative to trading the markets," the NDR duo write.
There have to be a few caveats to that statement, however.
It's certainly true that the same properties causing the most popular volatility-trading vehicle to shed its value steadily turn out to work in this ETF's favor. iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX), the "long" bet on near-term volatility futures that tracks the index SVXY is betting against, is down by about 50% this year. SVXY is ahead about 50%.


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Skip to comments.Iranian Alert -- September 18, 2003 -- IRAN LIVE THREAD PING LIST
Posted on 09/18/2003 12:07:31 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movment in Iran from being reported.
From jamming satellite broadcasts, to prohibiting news reporters from covering any demonstrations to shutting down all cell phones and even hiring foreign security to control the population, the regime is doing everything in its power to keep the popular movement from expressing its demand for an end of the regime.
These efforts by the regime, while successful in the short term, do not resolve the fundamental reasons why this regime is crumbling from within.
Iran is a country ready for a regime change. If you follow this thread you will witness, I believe, the transformation of a nation. This daily thread provides a central place where those interested in the events in Iran can find the best news and commentary.
Please continue to join us here, post your news stories and comments to this thread.
Thanks for all the help.
September 18, 2003
By Richard Balmforth
The United States is confident proof will soon emerge of a clandestine Iranian nuclear arms program that will force Russia to drop plans to help Tehran build a nuclear reactor, a top U.S. official said on Thursday.
Speaking in Moscow on condition of anonymity, the senior administration official said Russia would not ship fuel to enable the 1,000-megawatt Bushehr reactor to become active until early next year, giving Washington time to dissuade it:
"Each day that goes by that that has not happened gives more time to see if we can't bring the Russians into closer alignment with our analysis of the threat posed by the Iranian program."
Tehran denies Washington's accusation it is using Bushehr and other facilities as a front for developing an atomic bomb.
U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak on Wednesday in a new bid to get Moscow to abandon the $800-million Bushehr project, an irritant in relations that will figure prominently when presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush meet at Camp David next week.
Russian officials share concerns at stopping the spread of nuclear arms but say U.S. suspicions against Iran lack proof.
Kislyak, in an interview with the newspaper Vremya Novostei, appeared to confirm Moscow was still moving ahead on the Bushehr plans, saying work was being completed with Iran on a bilateral protocol for the return of spent reactor fuel to Moscow.
The United States is hoping confirmation of its suspicions will emerge from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
That, the U.S. official said, would let Washington raise the issue at the U.N. Security Council, sure at last of support from Russia and others that still doubt Tehran is developing weapons.
"Once it becomes clear that they (the Iranians) have a nuclear weapons program, Russia will not have civil nuclear cooperation with Iran," the official said.
The IAEA has given Iran until October 31 to enable it to check whether it has an illicit atomic arms program.
U.S. officials, keen to maintain good personal relations between Putin and Bush, are quick to say that Russian nuclear cooperation with Iran is more a matter of muddled policy than deliberate connivance with one of Washington's adversaries.
But the official said U.S. intelligence was convinced maverick Russian scientists were helping Iran develop weapons.
Iran is doing a perfectly fine job of that without U.S. assistance.
Robert Baer, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, Crown, 2002, page 79 places the blame for the kidnapping and murder of Buckley and the Beirut Embassy bombing on IJO which on page 264 he says the CIA knew "was merely a front for the Iranians."
The current nuclear weapons violation indicates the evidence of Bill Gertz re Iranian-Russian proliferation (Year of the Rat, Betrayal) was the tip of the iceberg.
Amid mounting international scrutiny of Irans nuclear ambitions, officials in Washington are expressing fresh worries about the growing missile threat from the Islamic Republic. In his June 25th testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General John Abizaid, the incoming commander of the United States Central Command, stressed that Iran has the largest ballistic missile inventory in the Central Command region -- to include long-range weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems capable of reaching deployed U.S. forces in the theater. Iran, according to Abizaid, casts a shadow on security and stability in the Gulf region and poses a potential threat to neighboring countries.
These concerns are sure to be compounded by news that Iran has successfully tested its medium-range Shahab-3 missile. Israel's Haaretz newspaper (July 4) reports that the latest flight test of the rocket, conducted in late June, is the most successful trial to date, showcasing an expanded range for the Shahab-3 above and beyond its previously-projected 1,300-kilometer range.
September 11:
MOSCOW MOVES TOWARD ACCOUNTABILITY ON IRAN. A source in Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry has told Agence France-Presse that Moscow will support a draft resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) setting an October 31st deadline for Iran to prove it is not secretly developing nuclear weapons. According to the source, the draft softens a previous version by giving the Iranians "room to maneuver, so they are not pushed into a corner like North Korea" and into withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Moscow is demanding that Tehran sign an agreement to send back spent nuclear fuel from the Bushehr nuclear facility, which Russia is help building, once the facility becomes operational.
Russia Reform Monitor No. 1076, September 12, 2003
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC
Even as plans for multilateral talks over its nuclear program move forward, North Korea is intensifying its missile and WMD cooperation with Iran. According to the Sankei Shimbun (August 6), Pyongyang is currently in talks with Tehran to export components of its long-range Taepo-Dong 2 missile to the Islamic Republic, as well as to jointly develop nuclear weapons. According to the conservative Japanese daily, the plan -- in the works for about a year -- could be finalized as early as this October. If it materializes, this export arrangement would provide North Korea with much-needed hard currency, and would dramatically expand the range of Irans ballistic missiles, making the Islamic Republic capable of striking targets in Europe.
MISSILE DEFENSE BRIEFING REPORT NO. 115, August 15, 2003
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC
The agency of certain UK journalists to apologize for jihadists has come to the fore of late with the Andrew Gilligan smear and the petition to cancel the royal charter of the BBC, altogether with Israel's breaking relations with that agency.
To suggest as the author does that Israel shapes U.S. policy toward anything let alone Iran is a default to knee-jerk anti-Zionism and ignorance of reality.
Iran is working very hard to maintain membership in the Axis of Evil, an even more exclusive club since May.
Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is a case in point.
Per The Black Book of Communism, the price of the illusion has been 100 million murdered to date.
Russian Communism was Stalinism; Chinese, Maoism; each devolving through subsequent rulers--but never to the people.
The dictatorship of the proletariat always means a tiny clique of the most murderous.
In this there seems as much affinity between Iran's leftists and Islamists, as Eric Hoffer found between Nazis and Communists.
Current developments in Iraq may help assure Sam Ghandchi that he will live to see a "Futurist, Federal, Democratic, and Secular Republic in Iran".
Blood of tyrants bump.
Not merely building chemical weapons and the missiles to deliver them, but placing missiles in Lebanon, providing sanctuary for Ba'athists and their weapons of mass destruction, allowing terrorists to enter Iraq on missions of murder, housing headquarters of terrorist organizations in Damascus--
Syria's current course of actions is unacceptable, and added that the regime of Bashir Assad needs to amend his ways.
So far, it's sticks and stones.
Assad will not "amend" anything until he feels sticks and stones. Words certainly will not hurt him.
Great post. The above should be a sobering influence on the quisling Euro-Axis of Weasles (France & Germany and lesser countries of little note).
I suspect the recent indication of help in Iraq from France and Germany may have something to do with their belated awareness of this threat from Iranian missles.
Baer's book was and is a classic.
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Storied prosecutor retiring at 85
Posted Jun 17, 2014 10:05 pm CDT
Sally Weintraub was in her fifties when she began working for then-Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno.
The 1953 University of Wisconsin law graduate was a rarity, as a female attorney, when she came to Florida with her husband, who was also a lawyer and had been offered a job there. After joining the Florida bar in 1962, she initially worked for a law firm, but found her progress stymied. She tried working as a legal aid lawyer, then opened her own law firm, but tired of handling divorce cases.
Working as a county prosecutor wasn't a bed of roses, either. Weintraub learned the basics from helpful secretaries when her colleagues, "just a bunch of out-of-school kids," proved cool to her, she tells the Miami Herald (sub. req.). Now, 35 years later, she is nearing retirement at age 85.
Weintraub never sought the limelight, but was asked to try bigger cases as she grew experienced. Eventually, she became a renowned, highly skilled trial veteran who wasn't afraid to try tough cases and did what she thought was right, the newspaper recounts.
She also served as a mentor to younger attorneys in the office, including her own son, with whom she tried a number of cases.
"She commands the jury's attention and they totally believe her," said one of her mentees, Sandra Miller-Batiste. "She exudes wisdom."
Weintraub's son, Joshua, joined the prosecutor's office in 1990. He remembers his mom as "always so calm, collected and in complete control as she stood up there questioning witnesses or cross-examining defendants."
One of her last big trials concluded in 2013, when a caretaker was convicted of kidnapping and aggravated child abuse in the death of a 4-year-old foster child, Rilya Wilson, whose disappearance in 2000 went unnoticed for over a year. The jury deadlocked 11-1 on whether to convict Geralyn Graham of first-degree murder. However, after being sentenced to 55 years, the defendant, who is 68, will likely spend the rest of her life in prison, and the state decided not to retry Graham on the murder count.
An earlier Miami Herald (sub. req.) article provides additional details about the case.
Graham insisted at trial that she had not harmed Wilson, whose body was never found. Fellow inmates testified Graham had either confessed or implied she was responsible.
In recent months, as Weintraub anticipates her retirement at the end of June, she has been focusing her efforts on investigating a backlog of cases.
"Trial work is really tough, physically and mentally," she told the Herald, explaining that it's time for her to relax and play some tennis. "I can't work at that level anymore. It's not fair to the case. It's not fair to the detectives."
Prosecutor asks circuit judge to hold district judge in contempt over secret case dismissals
Bullet went through federal judge's chambers into jury room, prompting security review
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