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Each crane has a unique combination of 3 coloured rings on their right leg. This marking code helps to identify the crane in the wild.
- Sex: Male
- Date of Hatching (birthday): 3 May, 2012
- Date of Release: 18 September, 2012
- Tracking Tag: Radio tracking
- Status: Currently un-paired 2016: No known nesting attempts. 2017: No known nesting attempts. 2018: No known nesting attempts. 2019: One nesting attempt, failed at chick stage. 2020: One nesting attempt, failed at egg stage. 2021: One successful breeding attempt with 1 chick fledged. 2022: One unsuccessful breeding attempt.
- Life Status: Alive
- Champion Status: Championed
- Paired with: Pippa
Character profile:
September 2012: Initially Wiz was a very shy bird who did not bond to the crane parents. Over time he became aggressive and seemed to enjoy picking on the other birds when they were trying to rest - not the way to become popular. He has a unique walk due to one of his toes on his left food being crooked from a young age. Once down in Somerset, however, his overall disposition seemed to mellow, and he became content to integrate and forage with the rest of the flock. January 2013: As autumn turned into winter, the cranes began to flock together to look for food, which they found in plentiful supply in the form of maize left in fields from the harvest. All 48 have been spending most of their time either feeding in the maize stubbles or on the pastures of Stanmoor, completely unperturbed by the surrounding floodwater. January 2014: 2013 was quite uneventful for Wiz. The spring and summer were spent split between Aller Moor and West Sedgemoor, and as the autumn drew on, feeding was amongst the flock along the Stoke St. Gregory Ridge, and on Stanmoor. With the deep and prolonged flooding of December and January, the group remained on Stanmoor which was relatively flood-free, feeding in waterlogged fields on worms. July 2015: In early spring 2014 it appeared that Wiz was forming a pair-bond with Elizabeth Royal - a good choice! However, the romance was short-lived and Wiz spent the summer mooching with the crowd of non-breeding birds on the Somerset Levels and Moors. The winter of 2014/15 was spent largely uneventfully in Somerset too, and with the onset of spring 2015 Wiz remained un-paired. We hope he will find a partner in 2016. February 2016: Wiz remained in Somerset all winter and by February was still not clearly paired with any particular bird. July 16: There is no evidence of either pairing or nest preparation this season. July 17: Wiz was seen with Margaret on Wetmoor in early March but no nesting attempt was evident. In April he was seen with Acorn. Back with the flock in the Autumn. Sept 18: No pairing or nesting attempts reported. Wiz observed with the flock on Aller moor on 8th August. Sept 2019: Observed on Whitmoor, Somerset Levels and Moors with Pippa and their 2018 juvenile on 16th February. By the 10th April seen in territory on Wetmoor, Somerset. Observed incubating on 17th April. Hatch took place on the 18th or 19th May. Observations through the summer indicated that chick was likely still present, but observed feeding with no sign of chicks in August so assumed failed at late stages of chick rearing. 2020: Observed acting territorially with Pippa in late March on Wetmoor - Somerset, and incubating in late April. The nest failed in May and no further attempt was observed. Wiz has been observed with the flock on West Sedgemoor during the Autumn. Sept 2021: Wiz and Pippa were observed regularly on their territory on Wetmoor, Somerset levels and Moors from January to March. Observed nest building on 25th March but still feeding together 5th April. Pippa was identified as one of a pair nesting on Whitmoor and still sitting on 25th May. Appeared to have hatched by 8th June but evidence was confusing. Eventually both adults were observed with one chick which was ringed at the end of July and fledged by mid-August. The family were observed on West Sedgemoor in September. Autumn 2022: Wiz and Pippa were seen on Wetmoor over the winter but were very difficult to find during the breeding season. A nest was discovered on Whitmoor, Somerset Levels and Moors and incubation started on 15th April but failed after 10 days and no further attempt was observed. They have been seen in September and October with the flock on West Sedgemoor without juveniles.
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Stan Van Gundy says Pistons will now talk contract extension with Andre Drummond
The Detroit Pistons had some success near the end of the season with the Reggie Jackson/Andre Drummond pick and roll. This summer they locked up half that duo, paying Jackson more money than anyone else was going to.
Now they will turn their attention to Drummond.
Drummond is eligible for a contract extension this summer (it has to be signed by Oct. 31), and he's a clear max player, he should get in the five-year, $90 million range of Damian Lillard and others. The Pistons are going to start talking to him about it, GM and coach Stan Van Gundy told Terry Foster of the Detroit News.
Here's the rub: Van Gundy and the Pistons don't want Drummond to sign that deal. At least not right now.They want him to do what Kawhi Leonard did for the Spurs — wait a year, giving the Pistons more cap flexibility next summer. He'd still get the same max money, and the Pistons aren't about to let him go, it's simply about team building.
If Drummond signs this summer, he will count about $21 million against the cap in 2016-17. If he doesn't sign then he becomes a restricted free agent and he'd count $8.1 million against the cap. That is a savings of nearly $13 million and the Pistons could use that to upgrade the talent around Drummond.
Here is the potential downside for Drummond. He will be a max player if he stays healthy. If he injures himself, the Pistons are under no obligation to give him a max deal. He could lose millions.
As we have seen this summer, NBA players like security. With good reason. This is Drummond's chance to go from wealthy to "my family is set up for generations" money and why would you risk not locking that in right now?
Only because the other things you want in your NBA career — the chance to win and compete for rings — is more likely if he waits a year.
It's not an easy choice. Drummond is a franchise cornerstone player, and if he wants a max deal right now he will get it. The Pistons will pay that man his money. They'd just like him to wait a little before signing on the dotted line.

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A robotic, bat-winged bomber designed to take off from a US aircraft carrier has passed its first test in a debut flight in California, the US Navy said.
The X-47B jet, which looks like a smaller version of the B-2 stealth bomber, stayed in the air for 29 minutes and climbed to 5,000 feet in a test flight on Friday at Edwards Air Force Base, according to the Navy and defense contractor Northrop Grumman.
Military leaders see the plane as part of a new generation of drones that would be able to evade radar and fly at much faster speeds than the current fleet of propeller-driven Predators and Reapers used in the war in Afghanistan.
"Today we got a glimpse towards the future as the Navy?s first-ever tailless, jet-powered unmanned aircraft took to the skies," Captain Jaime Engdahl, a program manager for the warplane, said in a statement.
Northrop is building the navy bomber under a $636 million contract awarded in 2007.
With no pilot on board, the experimental aircraft was operated by a joint Navy and Northrop team on the ground.
The plane "flew a racetrack pattern over the dry lakebed with standard-rate turns," the Navy said.
It will be years before the X-47B joins the naval air fleet, with the first tests on a carrier scheduled for 2013, Northrop said in a release.


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One of the reasons why I love riding here in Austin is that I've got great friends to ride with. Fixed, BMX, road, whatever your preferred terrain may be, this city delivers. On a road bike, you're missing out if you avoid the hills, just a few miles northwest of the city. Some of the my best times on my bike have been spent with Ross and Jon. This Recent Roll is dedicated, once again, to the hills!
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The Technology
The Global Re-Fuel furnace (PLF-500) by Wayne Combustion Systems was installed on two farms in 2014 as demonstration projects for the Farm Manure-to-Energy Initiative. The furnace uses poultry litter as a fuel and was designed to deliver heat via hot air to poultry housing.
The Farms
Mark Rohrer's poultry houses in Lancaster County, PA, are on land that has been farmed by his family for generations. Mr. Rohrer owns two broiler houses with a solar panel array to offset the poultry operation's electricity usage. He purchases propane independently and, except for a modest contribution from the integrator, pays for heating out-of-pocket. (See upper slideshow)
Mike Weaver grows broiler chickens in two poultry houses in Pendleton County, WV, that are retrofitted with energy efficiency improvements. His farm includes a pond, 80 acres of pastures, and upland wildlife habitat conservation. The farm produces approximately 300 tons of excess litter every year that are stored in the covered litter shed and sold off of the farm. (See lower slideshow)
Performance Evaluation
The Global Re-Fuel combustion system was evaluated for technical, environmental, and financial performance. An overview of the findings is available in the main body of the 2016 Final Report. Details are in Appendix A.
The report includes an evaluation of air emissions from three thermal manure-to-energy systems, as well as the potential for transporting and marketing the ash co-product as a crop fertilizer.
Related: Introduction to Thermal Technologies…
More Manure-Based Energy Case Studies
This case study was funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), the USDA, U.S. EPA, and Chesapeake Bay Funders Network. The views and conclusions contained in materials related to the Farm Manure-to-Energy Initiative are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of NFWF, the USDA, U.S. EPA, or Chesapeake Bay Funders Network. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement by project funders.


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Why do so many builders spend unfathomable hours and love on a steel frame, only to deface it with a generic carbon fork?
the only reality here is because they can atmo. it's 2011 not 1987. the days when a fork was considered an integral part of a frame are long gone. many FNGs who install a fork from a supplier not only can't make their own, they weren't alive when it was a normal practice. you can't expect folks to embrace this simply because it was once the status quo. that ship has sailed. the best we can do is share what resources we do have (and create some replacements along the way) so that another paradigm shift in the form of a new industry trend (read: mountainbike) doesn't forever change how everything else is made and viewed. the cliffsnotes are that once the mtb era took hold, all conventions from the preceding years were left behind. nonferrous material, different methods of joining metal, slant-y frames, you name it. ps i like it all better now and i wouldn't unring the bell if i could. take what's served up and make something better with it.
but you still build your own steel forks. it would be easier to build with carbon forks and go with the trend. let the clock tick.
have we just all been spoon fed the claimed advantages of lesser weight and modulus this and that?
i am not them atmo.


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Singer, songwriter Tess Creasy performs a dinner show tonight.
Tess Creasy is many things, a dreamer and a friend, an artist and an extreme life-enthusiast, but above all she is a songwriter, with a creative knack for turning life experiences into song lyrics. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Creasy's love of music began at a young age, when she began listening to artists like Hannah Montana and Taylor Swift. While her singing voice began to arise as a toddler, she only began to play piano and guitar at the later age of eight years old. "We never ask her to practice, she's always playing," says Janet Creasy, mother of Tess. She describes her music genre as "indie pop, singer/songwriter-y" like artists Ingrid Michaelson and Ed Sheeran. http://tess101.wix.com/tesscreasy


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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Water, Water, Everywhere
Alcatraz Island, like any National Park, is sprinkled with information panels detailing the history of the place, the local flora and fauna, and so forth. However, in this particular park, there is one panel that does not depict a historical event, but rather, makes a prediction about the future. Perhaps inspired by the new brand of post-apocalyptic science fiction that is regularly broadcast on the so-called "History Channel," the Park Service helpfully shows what the coastline of San Francisco would look like during a 100-year flood.
As you might expect, these dire predictions are accompanied by the usual environmentalist alarmism about how everyone needs to do their part. If we all work together and change a few light bulbs, we can turn back the forces of nature! Sadly, such alarmism ignores the plain facts of history. Like most cities, large parts of San Francisco's waterfront were built on landfill. For purposes of comparison, a map published in 1855 shows the original coastline and the man-made areas of the city.
The map above is a composite which shows the original shoreline in red. From it, one can see that the areas most in danger of flooding are precisely those areas that were under water before the massive building boom of the California gold rush. When faced with the threat of natural disasters, the environmentalist response is always that we should make sacrifices and change our lives in order to accommodate the vagaries of nature's wrath. A man-made problem cannot possibly have a man-made solution.
The areas presumed to be in danger of flooding were originally built with vastly inferior 19th century technology. It stands to reason that the citizens of San Francisco will figure out some way to avoid inundation in the next 90 years, but you will never hear an environmentalist admit that, in the relentless march of human progress, we will find new ways of dealing with nature. Science is only useful when it supports the environmentalist cult of sacrifice.
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Innovation comes from thinking outside the box, breaking from convention, and approaching life from new perspectives. This was the inspiration for our Deco Panel Circle products; beautiful paintings presented in the shape of a circle, a design choice which is ideal for modern interiors, and which offers a way of expressing your unique sense of style. These circular prints are dedicated to those who look for the original yet refined, the contemporary yet classic, and who are enthusiasts of all things unusual, unprecedented and decidedly unexpected.Learn more
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The Caro Wall Deco Panel Circles are printed onto wonderfully smooth, satin paper, and communicate a sense of beauty and originality at its finest. We've sought out talented artists from all over the world who - like us - are dedicated to making the world a better place via their creativity. By presenting their work in the form of a circle, we're taking the work of these creatives to new heights, and expanding the horizons of home design by creating even more eye-catching images than ever before.
As with all of our products, the Deco Panel is printed onto smooth paper of a high density - 200g / m2 - which is finished with a delightful satin texture. In order to create an eye-catching 3D effect, the printed board has been fixed to a backboard which is hidden when viewed from the front - this gives the striking impression that the print is coming out from the wall, making the image even more impactive and unmissable.
Our printing techniques ensure that our picture quality is as close to that of a traditionally painted image as possible. The result? Beautifully made, unique and eye-catching art, which is sure to brighten any space and make your wall a powerful statement of your personal sense of style. Once unpacked, the product is ready to be hung, and is sure to bring a new and wonderful dimension to your home.


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Saying GoodbyeI called my grandma on Sunday evening to wish her a Happy Easter. Unfortunately I reached my aunt instead who informed me that she had been taken to the hospital. The next morning she was gone.
My grandmother hadn't been herself for quite a while. But even though she moved a little more slowly each day, her mind was very much ahead of her feet. She loved playing word games, brain-teasers, Boggle, etc. She was a night-owl. She drank scotch and water and had a Facebook account. She was cool-headed and warm-hearted through and through.
I feel so lucky to have shared so many years and important memories with her. She spent much of her time showing her support for her grandkids - you never doubted that grandma's face would be in the crowd beaming with pride at every game, competition or ceremony. I feel blessed to have had her witness me marrying the man of my dreams and to have had her visit me at the hospital when my babies were born.
There are so many things that made my grandmother special to me - her sense of humor, her hugs, her strength. But one of the things that I hold the most dear was her way with words. Every so often I'd get an email from her in response to one of my blog posts - usually the more emotional ones - that both validated my feelings and gave me encouragement to "keep on keepin' on" as they say.
I've saved every one of those emails. I'm going to miss her heartfelt words of wisdom so very much.
Saying goodbye is never easy.
|Grandma and her 4th great-grandchild, Ethan (2007)
|With Aiden on his 1st birthday (2008)
|Christmas Eve at Grandma's condo 2010
|Christmas Eve 2010
Busy family visit!Last week my mom, sister and nieces came to visit us in Austin. Being the type-A personality that I am, I made a list of all the activities I wanted to be sure to do with my visitors. Although it was exhausting, I'm happy to say that we checked every one of them off that list!
We visited the Easter Bunny for a group shot
We rode the MetroRail downtown to go to the Children's Museum
We watched Ethan play...or, um, cover 2nd base...at his t-ball game
We swam at the pool in my neighborhood
We played at Zilker Park
We had "movie night" with a special treat of being able to have a snack in the toy-room (Ricky's choice, popcorn and gummy bears, went over really well!)
We filled our bellies at Hula Hut
(and Rudy's and Chuy's and The Spaghetti Warehouse among others...hey, it's no secret that I'm not a cook!)
(and Rudy's and Chuy's and The Spaghetti Warehouse among others...hey, it's no secret that I'm not a cook!)
We also shopped til we dropped at the Outlet Mall, saw the movie Hop (although I couldn't tell you how it was for the bazillion potty-breaks between the kiddos) and Nana bought the kids some great shoes at Sandy's Shoes and Toys (which I highly recommend for their quality kids shoes, selection and awesome discount room!)
So much to do in such little time...but we managed to do it! I so thoroughly enjoyed having their company but it really went by way too fast.
Aiden's Journey: Awarness and HopeIt is with much excitement that I am sharing this with all my blog readers. Many of you were able to see the debut of this short film documentary at the Little Fire Big Heart event back in September of 2010, but if you haven't seen it (or want to see it again), grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable. The film is about 15 minutes in length and captures our story of the beginning of Aiden's life.
Much appreciation and credit to Tommy Nolan of Creative Video Solutions for approaching me with the concept and producing the entire piece from film shoot to edit room.
We intend to use this piece to raise awareness about craniofacial conditions throughout Aiden's life and have even submitted it as part of the 2011 Genetic Alliance Gene Screen event (we are waiting to hear back).
At the very least, we will have a very special keepsake for the boys when they are older.
We hope you enjoy!
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New Courses to Debut at PTR International Symposium
Hilton Head Island, SC — Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) will debut several exciting, new professional development workshops at its International Tennis Symposium in February. They are designed to enhance the knowledge and skill levels of the tennis teachers and coaches who participate. The Symposium will be held February 13-18, 2010, at PTR Headquarters on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Nearly 1,000 tennis teachers and coaches from around the world are expected to attend the Symposium. Many of the industry's most notable speakers will be among the more than 50 presenters. Subject matter ranges from tennis business to teaching tactics to injury prevention and treatments. The Symposium includes some of the best educational and networking opportunities in the tennis teaching profession. In addition to the many on court and classroom courses that are included with the Symposium registration, PTR also offers 14 professional development workshops, five of which are new this year, including:
- Mental and Emotional Skill Development at Different Ages — Tennis is a challenging mental game for anyone, especially for young people. Young players develop a wide range of mental and emotional skills between 5-18. The coaching environment can help or hinder that development. This practical course is intended to help coaches first understand the stages and processes of mental and emotional skill development in young people, and then identify relevant coaching strategies and opportunities for the different stages. Anne Pankhurst — Saturday, 02/13
- PTR Player Development — This is the first of its kind session on the future of coaching, powered by the TennisLMS teaching platform. In this course, attendees will learn how to provide advanced coaching training, and how to use the TennisLMS platform to maximize a coach's impact on students and profits. Participants will learn how to use Video Analysis, Match Analysis, Fitness Analysis, Annual Planning, and how to assess players in all aspects of the game: Technical, Tactical, Physical, Mental and Strategy. Each participant will receive five one-year subscription licenses for TennisLMS/PTR Edition ($1,999 value). Kelly Jones & Sasha Frljanic — Monday, 02/15
- Growth and Maturation of Young Players — This course comes from a very different place than many courses for tennis coaches. It will increase the understanding of coaches of the enormous impact that a particular stage of growth and maturation has on the possibilities and abilities of a young player in both training and competition. This course will identify and clarify exactly what happens as young people mature, and provide coaching strategies for each stage of development. It will concentrate especially on players of both genders between age 10-18. Anne Pankhurst — Tuesday, 02/16
- Directors of Tennis Course — The purpose of this course is to foster the skills that will make every participant a better Director of Tennis. These skills include hiring staff, as well as launching, coaching and motivating staff pros to success. Additional topics covered are budgets, evaluating staff, increasing memberships, and conflicts and problem solving. The presenter, Doug Cash, has successfully launched the careers of more than 1,000 directors of tennis, and he will share the keys to enhance a coach's career. Doug Cash — Tuesday, 02/16
- Best Drills from Around the World — Attendees will see the best drills from around the world demonstrated and explained in detail. They will learn how to design drills and effective rotations that can turn the ordinary into fun and exciting drills that players love. The course will mainly cover drills that can be used by club players (not just high performance players). Each attendee will receive a booklet containing diagrams of all the drills covered in the course. Jorge Capestany — Wednesday, 02/17
- Also making its debut to the tennis world at this year's Symposium is Cardio Tennis for Kids, an invigorating children's tennis program with an emphasis on play, fun and fitness that will provide an option to help fight childhood obesity. Cardio Tennis for Kids complements QuickStart and PTR Kids Tennis and can be incorporated into a club's current programming. The three hour workshop will be conducted by Michele Krause, National Cardio Tennis Program Manager, and members of the National Cardio Tennis Speakers Team. Thursday, 02/18
In addition to the many courses and workshops available, the Symposium offers a tournament, tennis trade show, theme parties, and a myriad of networking opportunities. PTR teaching pros can compete for prize money in the $25,000 Championships. The Tennis Trade Show offers all attendees the opportunity to visit 45-plus companies and organizations exhibiting their new product lines, latest technologies and services. Four evening dinner parties, including Gamma's Casino Night, an adidas and Head Fashion Show, and PTR Awards Banquet provide time for everyone to relax and have fun.
For complete information and registration, visit ptrtennis.org.
PTR is the largest global organization of tennis teaching professionals with 14,000 members in 122 countries. It has the greatest percentage of multicultural and women members of any such organization. PTR is dedicated to educating, certifying and servicing tennis teachers and coaches around the world in order to grow the game.
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Bojeux Matchitecture Wood Microbeam Construction Set - Big Rig
With this Matchitecture set from Family Games, you can build an impressive model of a Big Rig. The stunning model is a project for advanced level model builders. Use one single element, the microbeam, to construct this amazing model. Just cut the microbeams apart with the included cutting tool and templates. Then follow the step-by-step instructions, and glue the pieces together to create a work of art you'll be proud to display. The kit contains 2,000 microbeams to make your model. Recommended for ages 13 and over. From Family Games, provider of fun and fascinating games and puzzles for the whole family.
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Bitcoin adoption is bigger, faster and closer than you think
08 May 2017 | 0 comments | Posted by Marcus Swanepoel in Industry Experts
Marcus Swanepoel, CEO and co-founder at Luno (formerly known as BitX), gives us some insight into the world of Bitcoin, why we should stand up and take notice and why he been so inspired to create a company that focuses on the growth and adoption of Bitcoin.
How will people use money in the next 5–10 years? At Luno, this is something we regularly ask ourselves, observe and test with our customers, and discuss with the broader finance community, which includes some of the world's leading
- Transactions will be significantly cheaper, faster and safer
Moneywill be totally interoperable through some global payment standard or currency
- Using money online will be a much better user experience
- There will be both better privacy and financial freedom in how people use
- Regulation will be more automated, less restrictive and more effective
- Products and service will be seamlessly bundled together
- Financial services and money itself will be more intelligent and programmable
- Financial institutions will play a more active role across the identity spectrum
- There is more global equality through access to the same financial system
At Luno we call this future a state of 'frictionless money'.
In our discussions with banks,
The dawn of a new financial age
Our hypothesis on how Bitcoin will bring this future to reality faster is built on a number of key observations about money and technology trends in general. We see this evolution happening over three broad and non-discrete phases:
We call the first phase 'bridging the old and the new'. This is where people access digital currencies for the first time, either by earning it through work or mining or converting their existing local currencies to new digital currencies.
Once there is a critical mass of users we will see an acceleration in 'enabling ecosystems' — more people, businesses and even devices (i.e. internet of things) willing and able to transact using digital currencies. Later in this article, we explore later the forces that are already driving adoption to this tipping point and fast. These broader ecosystems will continue to drive adoption and finally culminate into the third phase of 'making money frictionless' — this is the phase that where people are now able to do things with money they otherwise wouldn't have been able to do, and where money, as we know it today, has undergone a complete transformation.
The first phase's biggest pain point is that despite all the progress that has been made over the past few years, it is still relatively difficult to access, use or safely store digital currency. This is the problem that companies like Luno are currently solving. But make no mistake — while it might appear as if we are just a company that makes it easy to 'buy and sell Bitcoin', this is just a means to an end — what we are really doing is building this financial future and 'making money frictionless' — our long-term vision from day one.
Why Bitcoin?
While we and many other Bitcoin companies are actually fundamentally digital currency agnostic, Luno is currently very focused on Bitcoin, purely because there is no other digital currency that is as safe and widely used at this time. If you asked us two years ago which digital currency would 'win' we would have said 'something like Bitcoin, but only better'. But after witnessing Bitcoin's strong networks effects in action and seeing the data, it would be very hard to see any other digital currency replace Bitcoin in its current form anytime soon.
More on these network effects later in this article. And what about 'blockchain'? We've written extensively on why we think that most 'blockchain' initiatives are bound to fail. In short, a lack of interoperability, solving for technical issues when the problems are human ones, inadequate trust mechanisms and simply because databases tend to do the job much better; and on a weekly basis, we're seeing more and more data to back up our initial hypotheses.
For better or worse, the best use case for a 'blockchain' is still a decentralised digital currency like Bitcoin.
But isn't Bitcoin dead?
Nope, it's growing. And fast. While the market is still small, there is an undeniable strong and growing demand for digital currencies like Bitcoin. If you look across all industry metrics that are publicly available, from transactions to conversion volumes to wallets, you'll see that forward momentum. We also see the same trends (if not better) in metrics within our own business, across multiple countries and continents.When most people see this market traction there are typically two questions that jump out: firstly, who are all these people using Bitcoin (and what are they using it for)? And second, the growth appears linear, but is linear growth enough to drive large-scale adoption within a reasonable timeframe?
Who uses Bitcoin?
On the question about who uses Bitcoin — we broadly categorise users on a spectrum between two categories: need and greed.
'Need' customers are the ones that typically use Bitcoin because it allows them to do something they otherwise would not be able to do with the traditional financial system, or at least provide a compelling alternative. The uses vary widely but include things like cross-border e-commerce (no or rejected credit cards), cross-border payments (faster or cheaper in some very specific cases, especially for people in emerging markets), people who've been subjected to identity theft and want more security, a need for more privacy (not for illegal use, more an ideology), and sometimes simply because it's a better user experience, especially for mobile payments.
Our initial estimate of the proportion of these type of customers is they are roughly in the 10% region, which might sound low, but it's not, it's Disruption 101. To quote Clayton M. Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma: "…disruptive technologies typically are first commercialised in emerging or insignificant markets… leading firms' most profitable customers generally don't want, and indeed initially can't use, products based on disruptive technologies…"
'Greed' customers include active traders that speculate on price fluctuations as well as long-term speculators or novelty buyers hoping for the value of Bitcoin to increase in the long run.
Somewhere in between the need and the greed we are also starting to see the rise of more sophisticated users that are buying Bitcoin because they consider it an uncorrelated asset and want to add it to diversify their portfolio, as well as long-term investors that are buying based on better thought out fundamentals and because they see it as a real alternative asset class that can potentially provide superior long-term returns. This includes both people that consider Bitcoin as a kind of digital gold based on its limited supply, as well as people that see it as a form of investment in a payment system like Visa (and the more people use Bitcoin in transactions, the more valuable this payment system and by extension the Bitcoin they hold become).
A lot of this thinking is driven by a better understanding of how Bitcoin works as well as new data that has been published in the market that shows Bitcoin as one of the best-performing currencies in the world over the past few years, that returns are uncorrelated with many other asset classes, and that Bitcoin also has some of the best risk-adjusted returns in the financial industry.
When we started our company, we initially didn't like
We also realised that 'greed' helps to build liquidity for the system (similar to how forex markets work) and that it was needed for many other parts to function and get built on. More importantly, 'greed' also accelerates network effects in a way that is very specific to Bitcoin, but more on that later.
Is linear growth enough? Yes!
In order to truly succeed in the long run, Bitcoin needs to experience some level of hyper-growth. But don't be fooled by what seems like linear growth right now — it's not. A concept called 'the deception of linear and exponential growth' was penned by Evolution Partners and Singularity University — in short, it means that when you are standing on an exponential growth curve and look
So if we're experiencing exponential growth, linear growth is exactly what it must look like in the beginning — it's behaving just as it should. And we've seen this with many other technology explosions like smartphone and television adoption. It's the same reason why technology is almost always adopted a lot faster than what most people think — they project the future on the linear past when it's in fact exponential.
Bitcoin's network effects: more to it than meets the eye
So how do we know that we're on an exponential growth curve? Because Bitcoin has massive network effects. In very basic terms this just means the more people use it, the more useful it becomes to others, and the more likely they are to use it too. Remember when you didn't use email because no-one else had email? And then at some point, enough people had an email to make it useful, so you also got an email address. Or Facebook — with no friends on Facebook it makes no sense to join until there are a few of your friends on it and you feel compelled to do so as well. Once you hit that critical mass, growth explodes and becomes exponential.
Source: Fred Wilson / Fred Ehrsam Bitcoin has these same characteristics — it both makes intuitive sense and we've seen it in our data — the more people share Bitcoin the more others are likely to share too. But like everything else that has network effects, there is a problem: the classic 'chicken and egg' — people will join, but only if there are enough people who have already joined, but they will only join if there are already others who have joined and so on. So how have other companies overcome this obstacle? Either make products that are extremely useful and sticky, like Slack, or for products that have higher barriers to entry and that people don't use as regularly, simply pay them. Paypal did it. Why would anyone use Paypal if no-one else is using Paypal? Paypal literally started paying money into people's bank accounts to get them to use the system.
Yes, they were successful for other reasons too but this really kickstarted it all. Uber does the same thing in a way — it wants more people to join Uber so that more drivers join so that more people join, a classic two-sided marketplace. And they do it by paying you, the user. Not in cash, but by giving massive discounts. By some accounts the average Uber discounts today are close to 60%, so people are in some sense not joining Uber because it is useful, they are joining because the Uber shareholders have 'paid' them for potentially more than half the cost of the ride. So are we going to start paying our users to start using Bitcoin? No, we don't have to. That is the genius of the design of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin (and many other digital currencies for that matter) has another type of adoption curve built into it, but this one focuses on ownership potential rather than the usefulness of the system. Coinbase's Fred Ersham wrote about this in his observations around 'appcoins', but it is just as true and arguably even more powerful for Bitcoin.
Source: Fred Wilson / Fred Ehrsam In short, what this means is that the earlier a person 'gets into Bitcoin', the more economic upside (i.e. money to be made') there is for them. This can be either through Bitcoin mining or just buying Bitcoin. As more people join the Bitcoin network, the network itself becomes more valuable, and therefore the price of Bitcoin should (in theory) go up, giving those early adopters a financial return for risking their money early on to help the system get kickstarted.
This works in a similar way to equity in a company where the early investors get more upside potential than the later ones, but of course, also assume more risk. When you combine these curves you get something that is unlike any other incentive and propelling system the world has ever seen. These forces can help drive adoption forward to an inflexion point where exponential growth and extremely fast rates of adoption kicks in.
Source: Fred Wilson / Fred Ehrsam
In the end, you have people joining for both greed and need, but over time the mix changes: early adopters join mostly for the economic upside (i.e. owning Bitcoin), later ones because the system itself (i.e. using Bitcoin) is valuable. The important takeaway is that these forces work together and are both necessary and important.
Macro factors also play an important role
Other than the specifics around need or greed drivers, there are also some macro factors that have been driving the increased adoption:
- More useful and real use cases — albeit still niche at this stage
- More awareness and acceptance — more people know what Bitcoin is, more places accept it
- Better infrastructure and distribution — it's significantly easier to buy Bitcoin than it was a year or two ago
- More favourable media and regulatory views — regulators are becoming more pragmatic and the media less biased on coverage around Bitcoin
- Better data on use and performance — it's becoming clear Bitcoin is being used by a lot of people, mostly for good, and with unique and useful characteristics
- A fragile global economy — when things get tough people to seek alternatives
And if these aren't already enough, we believe that there are a number of factors that are going to accelerate adoption even more in the very near term. These include:
- The launch of Bitcoin ETFs — there are already a number of these in the pipeline, and when one observes what physical gold ETFs did for the price of gold by opening it up to new sources of liquidity, one can easily guess what might happen to the Bitcoin price when
these launch
- Increased institutional participation — there are already some hedge funds publicly taking large positions in Bitcoin, and we've also had a massive uptick in enquiries from everything from hedge funds to private wealth managers and other financial institutions. The 'serious' money hasn't even
beganto start playing in this space, and it is poised to happen. Can you imagine what would happen if just one sovereign wealth fund had to take even just a small position in Bitcoin?
- Banks getting over the blockchain — a year ago we first published our views on why most 'blockchain' applications are bound to fail, and we are now seeing more evidence of reputable institutions and advisors starting to realise the same. Once the blockchain hype is over attention will shift elsewhere, most likely back to decentralised digital currency and public blockchains, in particular, Bitcoin
- Network scaling issues addressed — while this is a long journey that will not get fixed (or at least please everyone) overnight, significant progress has been made with initiatives like Segregated Witness and Lightning Network. We believe that over time this situation will be resolved optimally
- Truly anonymous digital currencies launching — surprisingly, one of Bitcoin's main issues is still the incorrect perception that it is fully anonymous and predominantly used by criminals. With a number of new, truly anonymous digital currencies like Zcash launching, regulator and media attention will shift to these as the 'bad guys' and Bitcoin will be seen as relatively much safer
- Further softening of global financial markets — it appears that the world economy is continuing to deteriorate, with many influential people openly starting to challenge everything from traditional economics to the role of central banks and the nature of money itself. As this accelerates we will see more interest in alternatives like Bitcoin.
So maybe there is an opportunity for Bitcoin, but how big is it really? No one knows for sure, and it will depend a lot on what Bitcoin is ultimately used for. But we've seen estimates ranging from USD500 billion to USD10 trillion. Whichever way you look at it, even if Bitcoin just impacts 1% of traditional financial markets or financial systems, the opportunity is huge.
So in summary:
- There is a strong and growing demand for decentralised digital currencies like Bitcoin, and they have massive network effects
- For better or worse, Bitcoin has a significant and potentially unassailable advantage
- What people use it for today versus tomorrow will be different, but both are important
- Adoption will form the base for the future of money and financial services; one way or another the opportunity is massive
- We are closer to the tipping point than what most people think
Marcus Swanepoel Co-founder and CEO of Luna (formerly known as Bitx)
Marcus has a deep knowledge of finance and fin tech with his background private equity, consumer and investment banking working at firms like Morgan Stanley and Standard Charted Bank. His experience spans across Europe, South East Asia, US and Africa. He has now turned over new chapter start-up founder with Luno and is now helping to build the future of money with Bitcoin/blockchain.
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5. What Dreams May Come (1998)
There is an easy way and a hard way to see Heaven. The easy way is to live in Montana.
Led by legendary actor and comedian Robin Williams, this movie showed us the true meaning of the word "soulmate". In this romantic fantasy, William's character travels through Heaven and Hell to rescue the soul of the woman he loves. Along the way, he will reunite with his old dog Katie and his children who tragically died in a car accident and no I'm not crying I'm just SWEATING THROUGH MY EYES OK!!! (Seriously, it is a great movie, but have a box of tissues on hand)
Some of the most beautiful shots in the movie were filmed in Glacier National Park. While shooting, Williams decided to take a break and tour the area. (Traylor, 2014) He later said:
"If it isn't God's backyard, He certainly lives nearby."
RIP Robin. There will never be another like you
4. Forrest Gump (1994)
Movies and Montana goes together like peas and carrots…
Montana makes a brief yet beautiful cameo in this legendary picture. During the running sequence, the shot of Forrest running though a field of golden wheat was taken just outside Cut Bank, MT. The scene then cuts to him jogging across a stone bridge at the St. Mary Entrance to Glacier National Park. (Movie-Locations: Forrest Gump, 2020)
Though Big Sky Country is only onscreen for few seconds, it was almost left out of the movie entirely! The studio, worried that the project was going too far over budget, threatened to pull the plug in the middle of production. Hanks and Director Robert Zemeckis decided to cover the cost of shooting the iconic running scene and save what is now one of the most beloved movies of all time. (Ashton, 2020)
As if we needed another reason to love Tom Hanks
3. The Untouchables (1987)
That's the Montana way…
Chicago is great. But when you want your protagonists to charge the bad guys guns blazing while on horseback you pack up production and go to the Treasure State.
Based on real events, the movie follows Elliot Ness as he forms a team of special agents to take down the infamous gangster Al Capone. The movie's (arguably) best scene takes place at Hardy Bridge just outside of Great Falls. (Movie-Locations: Untouchables, 2020)
This film is criminally underrated. In fact, you should stop reading this list right now and go watch it. Go ahead, I'll wait…
2. The Revenant (2015)
The movie that FINALLY gave poor Leo his Oscar
While the movie is set in Montana and South Dakota, most of it was filmed in Canada. However, one of the film's most pulse pounding scenes was shot in the rapids of Kootenai Falls, just downstream from Libby. In this scene Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) uses the waterfall to escape from a party of pursuing Arikara hunters. (Movie-Locations: Revenant, 2020)
I just gotta say…y'all know that scene where Leo eats a raw bison liver? Yeah, that wasn't special effects. Real Liver. Real Reaction. He also actually crawled inside of a dead horse. All I'm saying is that if DiCaprio wanted to live in Montana he would fit in around here just fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Honorable Mention: Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
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This 4-part mini-series, while technically not a movie, deserves a place on this list. The sequel to the epic adventure Lonesome Dove follows Captain Woodrow F. Call's return from Texas to his ranch in Montana.
This series is the perfect binge watch for fans of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood movies. The filming locations span across the state and include Butte, Cardwell, Virginia and Nevada City, Laurel, and Billings. (Return to Lonesome Dove: Filming and Production, 2020)
Fun Fact: My Dad worked on the Set #2 of this movie while he was in college. He was paid $100 a day to pick up and hide barb wire fences so they were not caught on camera. He and his coworker would spend their free time hunting rattlesnakes to turn into boots and hatbands to sell to the California crew.
I'm sorry, but my Dad is cooler than your dad. 🙂
1. A River Runs Through It (1992)
I'll never leave Montana, Brother
There is no other way to end this list than with the most iconic Montana movie of all time. While most of these entries only take advantage of the state's amazing scenery, Montana provides the heart and soul of this beautiful story.
While the film was set in Missoula and by the Blackstone river, the scenes in town were filmed in Livingston, MT. Likewise, the fishing scenes were captured in Paradise Valley on the Yellowstone River, the Gallatin River south of Bozeman, and the Boulder River by Big Timber. (Movie-Locations: River Runs Through It, 2020)
So many elements of this movie make it special. Norman Maclean's story was adapted by Richard Friedenberg and brought to life by director Robert Redford. The entire cast is amazing, with now legendary actor Brad Pitt standing out among the crowd.
If you were born under the Big Sky…you need to watch this movie. If you have, you know why I can't put the feeling into words. This film reminds us where we come from. It reminds us of Home.
Ashton, W. (2020, January 2). Forrest Gump: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About The Classic Tom Hanks Movie. Retrieved from Cinema Blend: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2487844/forrest-gump-10-behind-the-scenes-facts-about-the-classic-tom-hanks-movie
Movie-Locations: Forrest Gump. (2020). Retrieved from Movie-Locations: https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/f/Forrest-Gump.php
Movie-Locations: Revenant. (2020). Retrieved from Movie-Locations: http://movie-locations.com/movies/r/Revenant.php
Movie-Locations: River Runs Through It. (2020). Retrieved from Movie-Locations: http://movie-locations.com/movies/r/River-Runs-Through-It.php
Movie-Locations: Untouchables. (2020). Retrieved from Movie-Locations: http://movie-locations.com/movies/u/Untouchables.php
Return to Lonesome Dove: Filming and Production. (2020). Retrieved from IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106112/locations?ref_=tt_ql_dt_5
Traylor, A. (2014, August 11). Remembering Robin Williams in Montana: His Visit to Glacier National Park. Retrieved from 107.5 Zoo FM: https://1075zoofm.com/robin-williams-montana/#:~:text=Remembering%20Robin%20Williams%20in%20Montana%3A%20His%20Visit%20to%20Glacier%20National%20Park&text=Scenes%20from%20the%20film%20'What,was%20directed%20by%20Vincent%20Ward


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SlingPlayer for Windows 2.0 Public Beta - Unwrapped and Reviewed — Believe it or not, it's been almost two years since Sling Media released SlingPlayer for PC 1.4 - their last 'significant' upgrade to the software that Slingers rely on to watch their home television on a computer screen anywhere in the world.
Discussion: Zatz Not Funny! and Engadget
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!: At Last, SlingPlayer 2.0! (neutered)
Nilay Patel / Engadget: SlingPlayer 2.0 enters public beta — without Clip+Sling
Jeff Bakalar / Crave: The gadget blog:
ASUS Eee Stick looks very familiar — ASUS has announced its first-ever motion control wireless joystick that the company is calling the Eee Stick. Now where have we seen this before? Ah that's right; it's almost an exact copy of the Remote/Nunchuk combination that you use with your Nintendo Wii.
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear: Asus makes bizarro Wiimote for PC use: the Eee Stick
Michael McWhertor / Kotaku: ASUS 'Eee Stick' Like Nothing Wii've Ever Seen Before
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ASUS Eee PC "Ultimate" S101 revealed, and it's brown
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Discussion: p2pnet, Crave, Electronista, PalmAddicts, Gizmodo, I4U News, Gadget Lab, Electricpig.co.uk and TG Daily
Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog: Ready for a 'high-end' Eee PC?
Andy J. S. / PalmAddicts: Netbooks at it again
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Asus S101 not an Eee PC and actually targets MacBook Air
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Asus Reveals Yet Another Eee PC: This Time It's Brown
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New enhancements on the Google content network — Today we're announcing some key enhancements on the Google content network (partner sites for which we provide advertising) that will offer a better experience for users and better value for advertisers and publishers.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Google fine-tunes ad controls, accountability
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy: So This Is What DoubleClick Was For: Google Introduces Standard Functionality
Trevor Claiborne / Inside AdWords: New features coming to the Google content network
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog: Google to Update Content Network as Part of DoubleClick Integration
Ernst-Jan Pfauth / The Next Web: Google introduces cookie that improves advertiser's life
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google To Add AdSense Features With DoubleClick Cookies Technology
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Memo to YouTube: Dude, WTF?
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Post DoubleClick, Google Ramps Up Ad Data Collection
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Google's Ad Network, Now With Double the Cookies
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Google Announces New Content Network Features
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
When selling up becomes selling out — What's the difference between selling up and selling out? In theory, the difference between the two is simple. Imagine a graph that pits the amount of money you get against the fulfilled potential of your idea: selling up is when you make a deal …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Should you sell out your next big open source idea?
Should you sell out your next big open source idea?
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Matthew Aslett / 451 CAOS Theory: Open source: assimilate and thrive
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Watch the Olympics Online — The 2008 Beijing Olympics will happen while most Americans are sleeping. While NBC, the games' official media outlet in the United States, will be providing thousands of hours of content on the web, the only way to truly ensure you won't miss too many record-breaking moments …
Discussion: Lifehacker, PSFK and CrunchGear
Jeff Squires / PSFK: Where to Watch the Olympics Online
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: How to watch the Olympics online
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines:
Will the Olympics melt the Internet?
Will the Olympics melt the Internet?
Discussion: Digital Rapids and Broadband Politics
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The myth of the creative class — As I near the end of writing my book, one lesson that has struck me is about the will of most people to create, and the new possibilities the Google age brings us. — One survey I quote says that 81 percent of us say we have a book in us.
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Amy Gahran / contentious.com: The myth of the creative class (Jeff Jarvis)
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
At Black Hat, Kaminsky details DNS flaw — Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has offered more details about a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System and the extent of the vulnerability. — In a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday …
Discussion: CNET News.com, VentureBeat, PC World, The Iconoclast and AppScout
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com: Kaminsky provides the why of attacking DNS
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Black Hat: An interview with Dan Kaminsky, the DNS dude who saved the Internet
Andrew Brandt / PC World: DNS Holes, Web 2.0 Flaws Draw Interest at Black Hat
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast: 'Cybersecurity commission' to proffer advice to next president
Brian Heater / AppScout: Dan Kaminsky Speaks At Vegas Black Hat Conference
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
Google Apps Hit by Prolonged Gmail Access Problem — A technical problem hit an undetermined number of Gmail users, including paying subscribers to the Google Apps hosted software suite, locking them out of their accounts for about 15 hours on Wednesday and early Thursday.
Discussion: eWeek, WebProNews and The Inquisitr
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Gmail, Google Apps Issues Resolved
JR Raphael / The Inquisitr: Gmail Suffers 15-Hour Partial Fail
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Some Mashups Harnessing The Power Of Yahoo's BOSS — Yahoo's Search Blog has posted a list of some of the most promising new web apps being built using its BOSS search platform. BOSS is a radically open API that launched last month that allows developers to utilize much of Yahoo's core search data without …
Discussion: Yahoo! Search Blog, WebProNews, Joe Duck and Laserlike
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Developers Start Cranking Out Yahoo BOSS Apps
Mike Speiser / Laserlike: Riding the news cycle.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Two weeks until iPhone 3G Launch v2.0 — The new iPhone 3G is already available in 22 countries, but the device is about to launch in 21 more in just a couple of weeks. We have been trying to keep the noise down by not posting about every single country on earth that will be getting …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, The Apple Core, AppleInsider, iPod Observer and iPhone Savior
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: iPhone to launch in 21 countries on 22 August
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Web Video Producers: We're Pretty Sure There's A Business Here, Somewhere — Can anybody make any money in Web video? This is a recurring question for us, one we've been asking in different forms for much of the last year. Today's answer, via Web analytics firm TubeMogul: Yes, maybe.
Discussion: NewTeeVee, HipMojo.com and MediaFlect
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: TubeMogul: Average Video Ad CPM Is $12.39
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: What is WatchMojo.com's eCPM?
Dorian Benkoil / MediaFlect: Money From Web Video: Costs Low, Marketing Smarts
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple poised for special event this September — Although it has not yet been announced, investment bank Piper Jaffray believes it's only a matter of time before Apple reveals plans to hold a special event next month to usher in a new array of iPods and Mac notebooks.
Discussion: Digital Daily, Infinite Loop, MacRumors, Electricpig.co.uk, O'Grady's PowerPage and CrunchGear
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Piper Jaffray Analyst Moonlighting at CrazyAppleRumors.com
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop: Analyst: Apple Event in September for iPods and Macs
James Holland / Electricpig.co.uk: Lunchtime lowdown: Surprise in store for Mac fans? iPod touch to go horizontal?
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Rumor: Predictions Emerge for Apple Special Event in September
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Parents spy on underage social networkers — Children regularly circumvent age verification systems on social networks such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, according to a new survey of young people's online activities in the UK. — It's not the first survey to come to the same conclusion …
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and Guardian
John Carvel / Guardian: Facebook: Children evade social websites' age limits
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
The Top Five Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G — I've had my new 3G iPhone for about a month now and I thought I'd take a few minutes to write some of my thoughts and reflections on the experience for people who might be considering upgrading to the new 3G iPhone. First a little background though.
Discussion: Global Neighbourhoods, Ken Yarmosh …, Switched and Lockergnome
Ken Yarmosh / Ken Yarmosh on Digital …: FIVE REASONS 1ST GEN IPHONE BEATS 3G
Terrence O'Brien / Switched: Five Reasons Not to Buy the New iPhone
Ron Schenone / Lockergnome: Five Reasons Not To Buy An IPhone 3G - Really?
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
IBM Cutting Pay for 3,500 New York Chip Workers — After last month signing a deal with New York State to preserve 1,000 semiconductor jobs, IBM (IBM) is cutting pay by up to 10% for 3,500 semiconductor assembly line workers in New York's Hudson Valley, where it employs 20,000 …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com: IBM cuts chip plant pay, following job cuts
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Mozilla's "Snowl" hunts Twitter, RSS, and (soon) e-mail — The web is an increasingly chatty place. Between following comment threads, checking in with friends on Twitter, reading a few blogs with RSS feeds, and conquering a mountain of e-mail, we have plenty of conversations to keep track of.
Discussion: WebWorkerDaily, /Message, CyberNet and Profy
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Last Spring, Maryanne Kowaleski, Joseph Fitzpatrick S.J. Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies was selected to hold a prestigious residential fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advances Studies at Harvard University to pursue her project entitled Living by the Sea: An Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England. The Radcliffe Institute fellowship competition is international in scope, and fellowships are awarded to only 3% of applicants. As Professor Kowaleski begins her fellowship year, let's find out more about her project and the Radcliffe Institute where she will be based. Continue reading
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History MA Ruth Whaley Wins Essay Prize in Medieval Studies
At the annual Spring Party hosted by the Center for Medieval Studies, prizes were announced for the best essays written by graduate students in the past year. The judges of this year's competition were visiting fellows David Wrisley, PhD of the American University in Beirut and Helen Birkett, PhD of the University of Exeter. They awarded the O'Callahan prize to Tobias Hrynick–his paper was detailed in an earlier post on this blog when it won the Loomie Prize from the History Department– and they awarded the First Year Essay Prize to Ruth Whaley. Ruth completed her MA in History at Fordham in August 2014, concentrating in Medieval History. The award winning essay "Story-Telling at Sea: Changes in the Crusade Chronicle", compared two crusade chronicles written by crusaders who traveled by sea. These sea-borne narratives are, compared with what Whaley calls "terra-narratives", little studied, and have notably evaded the attention of the recent literary-critical and narratologically-inflected studies of crusade chronicles. Whaley's paper also introduced a novel methodology for reading and comparing the two texts- one based on the unique challenges and perspectives associated with the experiences of travelling by sea. This experiential approach highlights the unfamiliarity of most medieval Europeans with the sea and the extreme and transformative effect of sea travel among those unaccustomed to it.
Whaley currently lives in New York where she enjoys being a member of NYC Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER) and meeting lots of current educators and museum professionals. Since graduating in August 2o14 she has attended numerous events and conferences hosted by various NYC institutions as she pursues museum education and informal learning in cultural institutions more broadly. Congratulations Ruth!
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Professor John Paul Rollert taps into the tricky relationship between leadership and empathy and how to apply it in the real world.
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How do you orient your empathic compass to engage people productively? That's the question John Paul Rollert, Chicago Booth's adjunct assistant professor of behavioral science, asked during the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation's On Board 2019 conference in Chicago.
The answer is far from straightforward, especially because empathy is subjective and based on personal experiences, he said. But having a better understanding of how empathy works allows leaders to tap into their own feelings to avoid pitfalls and produce better results when it comes to building relationships and leadership skills in the workplace or on a nonprofit board.
Rollert offered a few tips for building empathy during his "Booth in the Boardroom" session at the On Board nonprofit board service conference. Here are some takeaways:
Modern day workplaces make empathy difficult
The technical definition for empathy, or what Rollert describes as the "ability to step into someone else's shoes," is that it's naturally easier to identify with people whose experiences are similar to your own. However, the world we live in today is more urban and diverse than ever, he said, noting the rise of urbanization and that nearly 80 percent of the US population lives in urban areas. "Part of the problem, when it comes to empathy, is that our experiences are different and understanding the world of someone else is not an easy thing to do," he said.
Create your own community
Even if there are few commonalities from the start, organizations function best when colleagues can bond over shared experiences, he said. Working to strengthen these types of communities through professional development and other opportunities can build company culture. "Team building exercises at their best are creating a series of common experiences that build a community," he explained. Ultimately, the focus on shared community experiences will help set expectations around how colleagues can act toward one another and create a culture of empathy within the organization.
Avoid empathy traps and blind spots
Once in a while, identifying with the feelings of your colleagues or workers you manage may put you at odds with what you need to do as a leader, he said. In some instances, you may feel others' needs so deeply that pulling away and being less empathetic can be critical to succeeding in your own role. Sometimes you may need to disable your tendency to empathize. "Meaningful empathy might lead you to be pulled down by it," he said.
One way leaders can apply empathy to company culture to succeed is by "having a good sense of what they don't know," Rollert said. Understanding which situations are less likely to elicit you own empathy can be critical to forging connections with others.
Honor your differences—and listen
Empathizing with colleagues is important, but understanding and sympathizing with them can be just as essential (and difficult). Luckily, it's not always necessary to empathize in order to be a good leader. "Sometimes, understanding over empathy is the way to go," Rollert said. Often times that means showing others kindness and generosity as you take a backseat to just listen to concerns, he said.
"Honor differences—you're not attempting homogeneity," to elicit empathy, he said. Rollert encouraged using the acronym PAL when sitting back to become a "Patient Accepting Listener." Often times that means disabling your own judgment and reaction until you've heard what the other person is saying: "There should be a commitment to listening whether or not you achieve empathy," he said.
John Paul Rollert led a "Booth in the Boardroom" session at the On Board conference on nonprofit board service on March 8, 2019, in Chicago. Hosted by Chicago Booth's Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation, the sixth annual On Board conference in Chicago convened a crowd of nearly 300 Booth alumni and students and business and nonprofit leaders. Attendees learned key trends in nonprofit board service, gained insight from faculty into how research and other academic tools can be applied in the nonprofit sector, and connected with others looking to make an impact in the social sector.
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Is Alan Foley the Senior CIA Officer? And Why the Answer Matters to the Niger Forgery Case
There's still one identity in Libby's indictment that is totally obscure–the Senior CIA Officer mentioned in Paragraph 7 (PDF; see, I'm very slowly working my way through this thing today, paragraph by paragraph).
7. On or about June 11, 2003, LIBBY spoke with a senior officer of the CIA to ask about the origin and circumstances of Wilson's trip, and was advised by the CIA officer that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and was believed to be responsible for sending Wilson on the trip.
I think guesses that this is Fred Fleitz are totally wrong. With all due respect to Steve Clemons' much greater knowledge of Washington bureaucracy than me, it'd be a stretch to consider Fleitz a senior CIA officer. Consider, for example, that Alan Foley (PDF), the Director of WINPAC, didn't even know what Fleitz did at WINPAC when Bolton came asking for him.
Mr. Foley: I think he [Fleitz] worked in WINPAC. But, you remember,WINPAC was put together early in the Administration, and I think Fredwas with the Nonproliferation Center, one of the — John Lauder's oldorganization — and we were all, sort of, reorganized into one groupthen. That's what I remember. But I couldn't tell you where Fredexactly worked at the time. (7)
So he couldn't be all that senior.
There are some other possibilities: Tenet, McLaughlin, James Pavitt (head of the DO). Tenet, McLaughlin definitely testified; I believe Pavitt did so as well. But I doubt any would say precisely what this person said to Libby, that "Plame was believed to be responsible for sending Wilson." Indeed, Pavitt almost certainly wouldn't have said that, since DO seems to be sure Plame wasn't responsible for sending Wilson.
I'm going to make a suggestion I've not seen mentioned elsewhere. I think Alan Foley is this senior CIA officer mentioned in this passage. And I think it's relevant to the larger question of the Niger forgeries.


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This just amazed me. I'm doing All About Spelling with my 9 year old, who was just dx'd dyslexic. Today we were going to work on writing the letter when I say the sound. I figured we'd have fun with it, and use sidewalk chalk outside on the driveway. But after a few letters, he started to complain that he didn't have the right colors, or even enough colors. "'D' is supposed to be red, but all we have is pink-ish red." I asked him if every letter had a color, and he said yes, with a "Duh Mom, don't they all?" attitude. So I opened Photoshop and used the OpenDyslexic font. (He says it makes it a little easier to read. It's a font that is thicker on the bottom of the letters to help "weigh the letters down.") Then we colored each letter to the proper color. This was our result.
Funny thing is, some letters are the color they are for a reason. Like "S" is snake green, and "B" is hot pink because his sister's name starts with a "b" and that's her color. "I" is not really a color, but it's glazed and sparkly like a donut. "C" & "Z" are both white. He says that the colors are not there when he reads them on the page, only when he thinks of each letter, and the lowercase versions are the same colors as their uppercase counterparts.
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