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I'm usually all about the food–check out the hundreds of recipes in my Recipe Index–but I received so many requests for photos of Loki that I couldn't say no. I think a few of you are almost as obsessed with Loki as I am!
Loki is an indoor cat who is determined to be outside. And he's fast. Any time one of us has to go in or out, someone has to hold onto Loki to make sure he doesn't make a break for it. We've begun letting him have supervised time out in the fenced back yard because he obviously enjoys it to much, but we have to watch him closely because he can run straight up the fence. And this is who is the other side:
This may be a perfectly nice dog, but he sounds ferocious, growling and barking whenever he hears us outside. And Loki, who in other ways is a very intelligent cat, is curious and shows no fear of him. Twice I've had to run and grab him as he reached the top of the fence, fearing that if I didn't get him, the dog would.
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…exploring my untended vegetable garden (full of weeds, brussels sprouts, kale, oregano, and more weeds):
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…and stalking his friend Leo, who most of the time would rather not be bothered:
On this particular day, we had a surprise visit from a curious neighborhood cat, whose tag declared him to be Milo:
Meanwhile, our blind dog Jazzy enjoyed the sun:
And Loki went looking for more adventures:
If you want to see more of Loki, here's an archive of all the posts he's appeared in (including two videos).
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The White House cabal
IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security -- including vital decisions about postwar Iraq -- were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
When I first discussed this group in a speech last week at the New American Foundation in Washington, my comments caused a significant stir because I had been chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell between 2002 and 2005.
But it's absolutely true. I believe that the decisions of this cabal were sometimes made with the full and witting support of the president and sometimes with something less. More often than not, then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice was simply steamrolled by this cabal.
Its insular and secret workings were efficient and swift -- not unlike the decision-making one would associate more with a dictatorship than a democracy. This furtive process was camouflaged neatly by the dysfunction and inefficiency of the formal decision-making process, where decisions, if they were reached at all, had to wend their way through the bureaucracy, with its dissenters, obstructionists and "guardians of the turf."
But the secret process was ultimately a failure. It produced a series of disastrous decisions and virtually ensured that the agencies charged with implementing them would not or could not execute them well.
I watched these dual decision-making processes operate for four years at the State Department. As chief of staff for 27 months, I had a door adjoining the secretary of State's office. I read virtually every document he read. I read the intelligence briefings and spoke daily with people from all across government.
I knew that what I was observing was not what Congress intended when it passed the 1947 National Security Act. The law created the National Security Council -- consisting of the president, vice president and the secretaries of State and Defense -- to make sure the nation's vital national security decisions were thoroughly vetted. The NSC has often been expanded, depending on the president in office, to include the CIA director, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Treasury secretary and others, and it has accumulated a staff of sometimes more than 100 people.
But many of the most crucial decisions from 2001 to 2005 were not made within the traditional NSC process.
Scholars and knowledgeable critics of the U.S. decision-making process may rightly say, so what? Haven't all of our presidents in the last half-century failed to conform to the usual process at one time or another? Isn't it the president's prerogative to make decisions with whomever he pleases? Moreover, can he not ignore whomever he pleases? Why should we care that President Bush gave over much of the critical decision-making to his vice president and his secretary of Defense?
Both as a former academic and as a person who has been in the ring with the bull, I believe that there are two reasons we should care. First, such departures from the process have in the past led us into a host of disasters, including the last years of the Vietnam War, the national embarrassment of Watergate (and the first resignation of a president in our history), the Iran-Contra scandal and now the ruinous foreign policy of George W. Bush.
But a second and far more important reason is that the nature of both governance and crisis has changed in the modern age.
From managing the environment to securing sufficient energy resources, from dealing with trafficking in human beings to performing peacekeeping missions abroad, governing is vastly more complicated than ever before in human history.
Further, the crises the U.S. government confronts today are so multifaceted, so complex, so fast-breaking -- and almost always with such incredible potential for regional and global ripple effects -- that to depart from the systematic decision-making process laid out in the 1947 statute invites disaster.
Discounting the professional experience available within the federal bureaucracy -- and ignoring entirely the inevitable but often frustrating dissent that often arises therein -- makes for quick and painless decisions. But when government agencies are confronted with decisions in which they did not participate and with which they frequently disagree, their implementation of those decisions is fractured, uncoordinated and inefficient. This is particularly the case if the bureaucracies called upon to execute the decisions are in strong competition with one another over scarce money, talented people, "turf" or power.
It takes firm leadership to preside over the bureaucracy. But it also takes a willingness to listen to dissenting opinions. It requires leaders who can analyze, synthesize, ponder and decide.
The administration's performance during its first four years would have been even worse without Powell's damage control. At least once a week, it seemed, Powell trooped over to the Oval Office and cleaned all the dog poop off the carpet. He held a youthful, inexperienced president's hand. He told him everything would be all right because he, the secretary of State, would fix it. And he did -- everything from a serious crisis with China when a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was struck by a Chinese F-8 fighter jet in April 2001, to the secretary's constant reassurances to European leaders following the bitter breach in relations over the Iraq war. It wasn't enough, of course, but it helped.
Today, we have a president whose approval rating is 38% and a vice president who speaks only to Rush Limbaugh and assembled military forces. We have a secretary of Defense presiding over the death-by-a-thousand-cuts of our overstretched armed forces (no surprise to ignored dissenters such as former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki or former Army Secretary Thomas White).
It's a disaster. Given the choice, I'd choose a frustrating bureaucracy over an efficient cabal every time.
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A Brief History of the King James Bible
As the reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603) was coming to a close, we find a draft for an act of Parliament for a new version of the Bible: "An act for the reducing of diversities of bibles now extant in the English tongue to one settled vulgar translated from the original." The Bishop's Bible of 1568, although it may have eclipsed the Great Bible, was still rivaled by the Geneva Bible. Nothing ever became of this draft during the reign of Elizabeth, who died in 1603, and was succeeded by James 1, as the throne passed from the Tudors to the Stuarts. James was at that time James VI of Scotland, and had been for thirty-seven years. He was born during the period between the Geneva and the Bishop's Bible.
One of the first things done by the new king was the calling of the Hampton Court Conference in January of 1604 "for the hearing, and for the determining, things pretended to be amiss in the church." Here were assembled bishops, clergymen, and professors, along with four Puritan divines, to consider the complaints of the Puritans. Although Bible revision was not on the agenda, the Puritan president of Corpus Christi College, John Reynolds, "moved his Majesty, that there might be a new translation of the Bible, because those which were allowed in the reigns of Henry the eighth, and Edward the sixth, were corrupt and not answerable to the truth of the Original."
The king rejoined that he:
"Could never yet see a Bible well translated in English; but I think that, of all, that of Geneva is the worst. I wish some special pains were taken for an uniform translation, which should be done by he best learned men in both Universities, then reviewed by the Bishops, presented to the Privy Council, lastly ratified by the Royal authority, to be read in the whole Church, and none other."
Accordingly, a resolution came forth:
"That a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek; and this to be set out and printed, without any marginal notes, and only to be used in all churches of England in time of divine service."
The next step was the actual selection of the men who were to perform the work. In July of 1604, James wrote to Bishop Bancroft that he had "appointed certain learned men, to the number of four and fifty, for the translating of the Bible." These men were the best biblical scholars and linguists of their day. In the preface to their completed work it is further stated that "there were many chosen, that were greater in other men's eyes than in their own, and that sought the truth rather than their own praise. Again, they came or were thought to come to the work, learned, not to learn." Other men were sought out, according to James, "so that our said intended translation may have the help and furtherance of all our principal learned men within this our kingdom."
Although fifty-four men were nominated, only forty-seven were known to have taken part in the work of translation. The translators were organized into six groups, and met respectively at Westminster, Cambridge, and Oxford. Ten at Westminster were assigned Genesis through 2 Kings; seven had Romans through Jude. At Cambridge, eight worked on 1 Chronicles through Ecclesiastes, while seven others handled the Apocrypha. Oxford employed seven to translate Isaiah through Malachi; eight occupied themselves with the Gospels, Acts, and Revelation.
Fifteen general rules were advanced for the guidance of the translators:
1. The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly called the Bishops Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the Truth of the original will permit.
2. The names of the Prophets, and the Holy Writers, with the other Names of the Text, to be retained, as nigh as may be, accordingly as they were vulgarly used.
3. The Old Ecclesiastical Words to be kept, viz. the Word Church not to be translated Congregation &c.
4. When a Word hath divers Significations, that to be kept which hath been most commonly used by the most of the Ancient Fathers, being agreeable to the Propriety of the Place, and the Analogy of the Faith.
5. The Division of the Chapters to be altered, either not at all, or as little as may be, if Necessity so require.
6. No Marginal Notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek Words, which cannot without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the Text.
7. Such Quotations of Places to be marginally set down as shall serve for the fit Reference of one Scripture to another.
8. Every particular Man of each Company, to take the same Chapter or Chapters, and having translated or amended them severally by himself, where he thinketh good, all to meet together, confer what they have done, and agree for their Parts what shall stand.
9. As any one Company hath dispatched any one Book in this Manner they shall send it to the rest, to be considered of seriously and judiciously, for His Majesty is very careful in this Point.
10. If any Company, upon the Review of the Book so sent, doubt or differ upon any Place, to send them Word thereof; note the Place, and withal send the Reasons, to which if they consent not, the Difference to be compounded at the general Meeting, which is to be of the chief Persons of each Company, at the end of the Work.
11. When any Place of special Obscurity is doubted of, Letters to be directed by Authority, to send to any Learned Man in the Land, for his Judgment of such a Place.
12. Letters to be sent from every Bishop to the rest of his Clergy, admonishing them of this Translation in hand; and to move and charge as many skilful in the Tongues; and having taken pains in that kind, to send his particular Observations to the Company, either at Westminster, Cambridge, or Oxford.
13. The Directors in each Company, to be the Deans of Westminster, and Chester for that Place; and the King's Professors in the Hebrew or Greek in either University.
14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the Text than the Bishops Bible: Tyndale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva.
15. Besides the said Directors before mentioned, three or four of the most Ancient and Grave Divines, in either of the Universities, not employed in Translating, to be assigned by the vice-Chancellor, upon Conference with the rest of the Heads, to be Overseers of the Translations as well Hebrew as Greek, for the better observation of the 4th Rule above specified.
The work began to take shape in 1604 and progressed steadily. The translators expressed their early thoughts in their preface as:
"Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one,...but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against, that hath been our endeavor."
They had at their disposal all the previous English translations to which they did not disdain:
"We are so far off from condemning any of their labors that travailed before us in this kind, either in this land or beyond sea, either in King Henry's time, or King Edward's...or Queen Elizabeth's of ever renowned memory, that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, for the building and furnishing of his Church, and that they deserve to be had of us and of posterity in everlasting remembrance."
And, as the translators themselves also acknowledged, they had a multitude of sources from which to draw from: "Neither did we think much to consult the Translators or Commentators, Chaldee, Hebrew, Syrian, Greek, or Latin, no nor the Spanish, French, Italian, or Dutch." The Greek editions of Erasmus, Stephanus, and Beza were all accessible, as were the Complutensian and Antwerp Polyglots, and the Latin translations of Pagninus, Termellius, and Beza.
Four years were spent on the preliminary translation by the six groups. The translators were exacting and particular in their work, as related in their preface:
Neither did we disdain to revise that which we had done, and to bring back to the anvil that which we had hammered: but having and using as great helps as were needful, and fearing no reproach for slowness, nor coveting praise for expedition, we have at the length, through the good hand of the Lord upon us, brought the work to that pass that you see.
The conferences of each of the six being ended, nine months were spent at Stationers' Hall in London for review and revision of the work by two men each from the Westminster, Cambridge, and Oxford companies. The final revision was then completed by Myles Smith and Thomas Bilson, with a preface supplied by Smith.
The completed work was issued in 1611, the complete title page reading:
"THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties Special Commandment. Appointed to be read in Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie. ANNO DOM. 1611."
The New Testament had a separate title page, the whole of it reading:
"THE NEWE Testament of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST. Newly Translated out of the Originall Greeke: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall Commandment. IMPRINTED at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie. ANNO DOM. 1611. Cum Privilegio."
The King James Bible was, in its first editions, even larger than the Great Bible. It was printed in black letter with small italicized Roman type to represent those words not in the original languages.
A dedicatory epistle to King James, which also enhanced the completed work, recalled the King's desire that "there should be one more exact Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue." The translators expressed that they were "poor instruments to make GOD'S holy Truth to be yet more and more known" while at the same time recognizing that "Popish persons" sought to keep the people "in ignorance and darkness."
The Authorized Version, as it came to be called, went through several editions and revisions. Two notable editions were that of 1629, the first ever printed at Cambridge, and that of 1638, also at Cambridge, which was assisted by John Bois and Samuel Ward, two of the original translators. In 1657, the Parliament considered another revision, but it came to naught. The most important editions were those of the 1762 Cambridge revision by Thomas Paris, and the 1769 Oxford revision by Benjamin Blayney. One of the earliest concrdances was A Concordance to the Bible of the Last Translation, by John Down-ham, affixed to a printing of 1632.
The Authorized Version eclipsed all previous versions of the Bible. The Geneva Bible was last printed in 1644, but the notes continued to be published with the King James text. Subsequent versions of the Bible were likewise eclipsed, for the Authorized Version was the Bible until the advent of the Revised Version and ensuing modern translations. It is still accepted as such by its defenders, and recognized as so by its detractors. Alexander Geddes (d. 1802), a Roman Catholic priest, who in 1792 issued the first colume of his own translation of the Bible, accordingly paid tribute to the Bible of his time:
"The highest eulogiums have been made on the translation of James the First, both by our own writers and by foreigners. And, indeed, if accuracy, fidelity, and the strictest attention to the letter of the text, be supposed to constitute the qualities of an excellent version, this of all versions, must, in general, be accounted the most excellent. Every sentence, every work, every syllable, every letter and point, seem to have been weighed with the nicest exactitude; and expressed, either in the text, or margin, with the greatest precision."
As to whether the Authorized Version was ever officially "authorized," Brooke Westcott, one of the members of the committee that produced the Revised Version, and the editor, with Fenton Hort, of an edition of the Greek New Testament, stated that:
From the middle of the seventeenth century, the King's Bible has been the acknowledged Bible of the English-speaking nations throughout the world simply because it is the best. A revision which embodied the ripe fruits of nearly a century of labour, and appealed to the religious instinct of a great Christian people, gained by its own internal character a vital authority which could never have been secured by any edict of sovereign rulers.
This article was taken from the book A Brief History of English Bible Translations by Dr. Laurence M. Vance.
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Credit is not only the cornerstone of the market economy, the credit mechanism has also penetrated into every corner of society, and the credit system has also become the basic system for regulating the activities of social entities.
Credit-Individual's second ID
In social life, people need an identity certificate to reflect individual identity information, including name, gender, nationality, place of residence, family composition, and so on. These characteristic tags of the physical world define the identity of an individual. After the government or centralized agency verifies the identity information, it can fulfill the basic needs of social life, such as household registration, school registration, driver's license application, visa for going abroad, bank account opening, loan application, Inquiries on credit records, etc., are the manifestations of identity credit composed of the different needs of different centralized institutions for identity information in different application scenarios. Xuexin.com records advanced information records in China, and European and American countries will use WES for authentication; vehicle management offices or DMV records vehicle information records, including driver's license types, violation information records, etc.; visas and bank account opening require various asset certificates and bills Address, social information record, whether there has been a criminal record, bad credit record, etc.
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By analyzing a large amount of online transaction and behavior data, we can evaluate users and help companies classify users to provide better services. Users themselves also enjoy the convenience brought by electronic identity and credit, which has become the Web2.0 era. Sign.
Jassem Osseiran, the founder of MetaVisa, also as the entrepreneur and advisor in the financial services, belives that In Web3.0, Internet users need an Internet identifier, which can be linked to any software and practical scenarios. At the same time, information can be stored on the blockchain network to ensure that the information is not tampered with and proves personal achievements, Time-stamped permanent authenticity of assets, interests, activities, etc.
In the Web1.0 era, people only need to ingest information and don't need to participate. Web2.0 has become a two-way Internet. Through "temporary" personal network files, information and content can be released, which has better interactivity and requires greater audience participation. The network has become more abstract and expandable. By the time of Web3.0, decentralized identity is not short-lived. People have the right to establish and maintain permanent identities online. Content posted online will be permanently linked to themselves. These public historical records prove the existence of a certain scene and time. It is more abstract and requires higher audience participation. We need to keep our wallets, private keys, assets, and use applications in different scenarios.
Jassem indicates that Web3.0 should be granular and composable for data and content, and it requires a higher audience to participate in the abstract formation. Before this, our expressions were complete and concrete. All users, content, data, and thermal media are stored in applications. Each application is an isolated island of information, which is largely fragmented. Access procedures between applications require separate applications. It concretely defines completeness, but the audience participation is low. In Web3.0, content and data should be arranged in an open space. Applications are granular, and permissions can be combined with each other. Any application can access each other and form a cold medium. You can use your imagination at will. Everyone is right. The presentation of the same content can have different definitions. This is also the Vision of MetaVisa to achieve the accomplishment in the future.
The premise of Web3.0 is that users have a unique and permanent Internet identity. As part of a decentralized identity, everyone has a unique, open, and accessible history. The behaviors and achievements of the material world under the chain can be displayed on the chain, and people's creation, contribution, assets, and collections possessed on the Internet also reflect their preferences, experiences, and achievements. People will be closer to the operation in the material world, but they can use it at will in the network world, and they are all related to themselves, not belonging to the platform. Extending to various fields and application scenarios, decentralized identity can be used as the basis for realizing network native credit scoring, and the credit value on the chain will be more cautious and strict, because it will affect your future credit mark. It can't help carrying people's online personality and identity information, and at the same time is the credibility foundation of the online world.
Driven by the development of a decentralized identity, the construction of a credit system is also necessary. MetaVisa, as the middle layer protocol of Layer-3, founded by Jassem Osseiran and co-founded by Silent Unicorn, the technology advisory firm, helps users establish and display reliable identity and credit records on the chain by analyzing blockchain data. Based on blockchain data, the use of cloud computing, machine learning technology, and model algorithms such as decision trees and random forests, five latitudes of credit history, asset portfolio, on-chain behavior preferences, wallet address activity level, and address relevance have been established The credit rating system MetaVisa Credit Score (MCS).
As for Asset Portfolio, the higher the asset holding of an address, the higher its credit rating should be. Therefore, in the credit sub-system, asset holdings should be an important factor. An address account may have various ERC standards and different types of tokens, and the number and value of tokens in the address account will change over time.
The interaction between the account address and different types of applications on the chain can reflect the interests and preferences of the account, and can also be used as the basis for calculating the credit rating of the account address. Consider the two sub-fields of DeFi and NFT, which are currently highly engaged, and count users' on-chain interaction behaviors in these two fields respectively.
In DeFi, deposit, borrow and liquidity pool position can reflect the user's total asset value TVL (Total Value Locked) on the DeFi platform; Deposit, Borrow, Swap, and Liquidity Pool Position correspond to all four interactive behaviors. TXN (deposit and withdraw corresponding to deposit, borrow and repay corresponding to borrow, increase and decrease corresponding to swap and liquidity pool position) can reflect the user's activity level on the DeFi platform. Similar to the aforementioned "address activity level" and "holding assets", the total asset value and activity level both take the time effect into account in the exponential moving average method. The weighted addition of the two will obtain the account address's value in the DeFi field. level of participation.
In NFT field, by counting the value of all NFT assets held by the account address (based on the latest transaction price), the total value of the NFT assets of the account address can be obtained. By counting the above interactive behaviors, it can reflect the user's activity level on the NFT platform. The aforementioned "address activity level" and "holding assets" are similar. Both the total value of NFT assets and the activity level take the time effect into account in the exponential moving average method, and the two are weighted and added to obtain the account address's participation in the NFT field. .
Address Active Level is evaluated based on the number of successful TXN's. Intuitively, the higher the frequency of TXN, the closer to the calculation time point, the more active the address should be. Based on this principle, an exponential moving average method is used to evaluate the activity of an address.
Many considerations are needed to improve the credit rating system. With reference to the case of the physical world, in Sweden, if the mobile phone arrears is not paid and is dunning more than twice, in addition to being shut down, you will receive court flyers and your name will be recorded. You may not be able to apply for any mobile phone network in the future. Loans will also become difficult; in Finland, consciously buying tickets, but if someone spot checks and finds evasion, they will be blacklisted, which will have a great impact on personal life and work in the future; in the Nordic region, once a company appears Bad credit records, these untrustworthy information will be disseminated in the society, from the dishonest person's dishonesty to the transaction party to the dishonesty of the whole society; once German companies and individuals have dishonest behavior, the bank will not grant loans, and individuals are not allowed to go abroad. If the impact of these social behaviors on credit is mapped to the chain, everyone will treat their credit more cautiously, because the convenience and preferential treatment brought by good credit is incomparable.
As far as the current meta-universe or blockchain credit system technology is concerned, the more standardized data sources are the holdings of assets, asset types, active frequencies, product trends, etc. of addresses. How to map off-chain experience to on-chain data to form personal identity information and credit labels is currently the biggest challenge. This is also an important introduction of how to make decentralized identities practical, such as personal achievements, creative contributions, academic diplomas, etc. And many companies are now responding to this challenge. Violet is committed to verifying personal identity information off-chain on the chain; 0xStation allows users to record their professional achievements on the chain; Koodos allows a variety of on-chain relationships and can transform any content on the Internet into a customizable NFT . These granular data can be used as the data source of MetaVisa or any identity credit system developer. Through the classification of these data, they can be identified to create personal unique credit badges. These badges can not only be added to the data on the chain, It is also an important credit symbol that prevails in the world of the meta universe.
In addition to collecting, obtaining, and organizing metadata, a complete information system is needed to facilitate the reading and evaluation of data. The data model and standards for managing goodwill are also a great challenge to whether decentralized identities can be mainstreamed. The subjective and complex background information behind the identity, objective credit evaluation, information data security protection, access to credit information sources on the chain, and the diversified data requirements of the credit system all promote the realization of Web3.0 and the meta-universe system fundamentally.
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In its inaugural Global Cloud Index (2010 2015), Cisco estimated global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). One zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes. To put that in perspective, 1.6 zettabytes is approximately equivalent to, 22 trillion hours of streaming music, 5 trillion hours of business Web conferencing with a webcam or 1.6 trillion hours of online high-definition (HD) video streaming.
The cloud is the fastest growing component of data center traffic, which itself will grow 4-fold at a 33 percent CAGR to reach 4.8 zettabytes annually by 2015. Cloud is also estimated today to be 11 percent of data center traffic, growing to more than 33 percent of the total by 2015. Cloud is becoming a critical element for the future of information technology (IT) and delivery of video and content.
The report said the vast majority of the data center traffic is not caused by end users but by the data centers and clouds themselves undertaking activities that are largely non-transparent to end users — like backup and replication. By 2015, 76 percent of data center traffic will remain within the data center itself as workloads migrate between various virtual machines and background tasks take place, 17 percent of the total traffic leaves the data center to be delivered to the end user, while an additional 7 percent of total traffic is generated between data centers through activities such as cloud-bursting, data replication and updates.
In 2010, 21 percent of workloads were processed in a cloud-based data center with 79 percent being handled in a traditional data center. The report predicts 2014 would be the first year where the balance of workloads shifts toward the cloud for the first time — 51 percent of total workloads will be in a cloud environment versus 49 percent in the traditional IT space. Overall, the data center workload from 2010 2015 is growing 2.7-fold; however, the cloud workload from 2010 — 2015 is growing more than 7-fold over the forecast period.
"Cloud and data center traffic is exploding, driven by user demand to access volumes of content on the devices of their choice. The result: greater data center virtualization and relevance of the network for cloud applications and the need to make sense of a dynamically evolving situation," said Suraj Shetty, vice president of product and solutions marketing for Cisco. "The Cisco Global Cloud Index provides insight into this traffic growth and trends so that organizations can make strategic long-term decisions. We will continue to develop and release the Cisco Global Cloud Index on a regular and ongoing annual basis, contributing to cloud readiness' efforts worldwide."
The index is generated from a modeling and analysis of various primary and secondary sources, including more than 30 terabytes of data generated each month over the past year from a variety of data centers around the globe, measurements of more than 45 million broadband-speed tests and third-party market forecasts. The index also includes a "Cloud Readiness" analysis of major geographic regions regarding their networks' abilities to support various types of business and consumer cloud-computing services.
To read the original eWeek article, click here: Cloud Computing Traffic to Grow 12-Fold by 2015: Cisco


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John Gilmore
Giganews Usenet History > John Gilmore
John Gilmore, along with Brian Reid and Gordon Moffett, is credited with founding the Usenet alt.* hierarchy. Gilmore was among the first employees at Sun Microsystems, and was one of the founders of Cygnus Support, started in 1989. Gilmore has also contributed to various free software initiatives, including the GNU project, as well as founding the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Cypherpunks mailing list and co-authoring the 1985 Bootstrap Protocol.
Gilmore is an avid political and social activist with interests in United States security policy, freedom of information, drug policy reform, and the One Laptop Per Child project.
Interview (4/5/2007) with John Gilmore:
1. What benefits has Usenet provided your professional or academic life?
I first learned much of what I know about Unix and C from Usenet. It gave me access to a huge community of knowledgeable people. Either I could just watch, like a fly on the wall, while they discussed things interesting to them. Or I could ask my own questions or start discussions. I'd been in computers for a decade before joining Sun, but had no experience with Unix; Usenet was how I ramped up quickly, without pestering my more experienced colleagues with too many ignorant questions.
2. Why do you think the Renaming was originally met with such resistance?
I don't know. I stopped using Usenet a decade ago. The newsgroup names were fairly predictable when I left, but I haven't seen how they have evolved since then.
3. Usenet II was an attempt to provide the old structure of Usenet, including the old newsgroup naming schemes and a cabal-like steering committee. By most accounts, it was a failure. What was your opinion of the Usenet II project? Why do you think it failed?
Usenet II?
4. Are you surprised at the size of the alt.* hierarchy, even considering its very open newsgroup creation policy?
I'm not surprised. We designed "alt" as an escape hatch from the restraints imposed on the other newsgroups. I think that if the rest of the newsgroup administration had been more open and inviting, alt would have had a lot less traction. By the time alt.sex was created (and never got a home elsewhere), it was clear there were going to be scores of alt newsgroups, just under alt.sex.
5. Do you actively participate in any newsgroups? Which ones?
I'm out of Usenet now. I have enough trouble keeping up with email, paper mail, personal projects, work projects, a few IRC channels, and friendships.
See, the Usenet was a much more approachable place when fewer people used it. It was less of a firehose and more of a community. I'm really proud to have been among the people who helped it grow and evolve — both in the software and in the social aspects and connections — but it's like my old childhood home town. I don't live there any more.
6. Has your technical or social experience with Usenet been beneficial to your other endeavors (the EFF, the GNU project, etc.)?
Sure. The Usenet experience is all threaded through my other work.
For example, the quote I seem to be most famous for, "The net treats censorship as damage and routes around it", came directly out of my Usenet experience. I was actually talking about the Usenet when I first said it. And that's how the Usenet works — if you have three news feeds coming in, and one of those feeds censors the material it handles, the censored info automatically comes in from the other two.
The same thing happens if the first feed dropped some articles because it ran out of disk space, or had a power failure. Damage and censorship look just the same.
It turns out that one of the thought-experiments that eventually led to the Internet used similar strategies, to design a network that would readily survive a nuclear or conventional attack on most of its nodes or communications links. See Paul Baran's seminal 1964 work at RAND, posted here:
As another example of what I learned from Usenet, I knew on a theoretical level about the low emotional bandwidth of email and Usenet articles, but it was really brought home to me by Brian Reid and other SF Bay Area Usenet administrators. They organized regular physical meetings among people running Usenet nodes. Not only did we figure out how to more cheaply and rapidly route articles among our computers — we also met each other, shared food and drink, built friendships, collaborated on other things, vented and improved ideas.
We built a human community, not just a computer network. (The annual USENIX conferences always included an all-evening "Usenet BOF", which was a good start, but didn't offer enough time to really get to know the larger crowd of Usenet admins.)
Everyone who uses computer communications — or even phones — needs to relearn the lessons of physical human contact once in a while.
Later, when I was co-leading Cygnus Support, we hired a lot of "remote employees" who worked in their own homes from various places around the country and the world. We were able to hire some really top engineers, by giving them freedom to live anywhere they wanted, and work whatever hours they wanted. They gave us their hearts and minds, and their loyalty, and their hard work in return. But we made sure to schedule and pay for a lot of physical meetings and long visits, to build the human connections among the centralized and distributed employees.
Later, for a time, I ran "BayFF" meetings in San Francisco, to provide a physical place where EFF members could congregate, meet, learn, and become friends. Most of our interactions were in cyberspace, but our friendships and collaborations had roots in the real world.
And, of course, the Usenet *was* the support community for the GNU project, before ordinary people could get on the Internet. Before students at ordinary colleges could get on the Internet. We wouldn't be where we are today with free software, had we not collectively built a supportive community all over the world via the Usenet. Not only were questions answered and new released posted, but large numbers of bug reports, patches, and new contributions went through Usenet. I still have archives of some of them. Larry Wall wrote the "patch" program specifically to install patches that had been posted to the Usenet — and of course, he posted it to the Usenet! "Sources" groups like comp.sources.unix (mod.sources) or net.sources were where many free software programs were posted in their entirety. I strongly suspect that most of the people who did computer science in the 1980s and early 1990s were first exposed to free software and the GNU project via the Usenet.
FAQs were also invented on the Usenet. It was the Usenet that taught our community to think about what questions ordinary people might ask (over and over). Skill at predicting those questions and writing the answers to them was rewarded many times over — by not having to wade through hundreds of newbie questions in your favorite newsgroup. It's sort of like the Zen concept of cultivating "beginner mind". The knack of looking at my projects from that "outside" point of view has helped me a lot since then. Every announcement I write or edit gets a critical eye — what would the man on the street say if I read this to him or her? "What's a DRM?" Guess I'd better rewrite to make that clear…
7. How did you feel Usenet would evolve with the advent of the World Wide Web?
By the time the Web caught on, I was deep in the startup years at Cygnus Support, so I had very little time for Usenet. I wasn't giving it much thought.
8. What role do you think Usenet had in the evolution of web forums and blogs?
BBS systems existed before Usenet, but they generally had trouble attracting more than a local audience. Usenet really gave us access to some of the best-of-the-best in many topic areas. Web forums really drew their roots from BBS forums — you have to go to a particular place controlled by one guy or company, log in, and that place controls what can be said, what can be censored, what's on topic, what's not.
Blogs may have drawn a bit from moderated newsgroups, in the sense that e.g. rec.humor.funny was a reflection of the taste and humor of one person. Also, like a moderated newsgroup, many of the most popular blogs don't contain much original material — they mostly point out interesting things contributed by other writers. The chronological structure of blogs also has strong parallels in the Usenet. The old stuff just falls off the bottom, and when you pop in, you're always seeing new things.


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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Exactly 13 years after it first connected Abu Dhabi to Moscow, Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, launched its inaugural flight to the new state-of-the-art International Terminal C at Moscow Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport (SVO).
Operated by a 787 Dreamliner, Flight EY63 departed Abu Dhabi International Airport at 9.35am and landed in Moscow at 2.25pm on 2 December, where it was greeted with a welcoming ceremony including and a delegation of government ministers, the UAE Ambassador to Russia and senior SVO executives. The return flight back to Abu Dhabi, EY64, departed Moscow to similar fanfare at 3.50pm.
The delegation was led by H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al Jaber, UAE Ambassador to Russia, Tony Douglas, Group CEO, Etihad Aviation Group; Ali Al Shaiba, Executive Director of Tourism & Marketing at DCT; and Mikhail Vasilenko, General Director of SVO Airport.
Tony Douglas, Group Chief Executive Officer, Etihad Aviation Group, said: "After 13 years connecting our two capital cities, we're delighted to introduce the 787 on this route and move to Russia's newest and most sophisticated airport, providing better connectivity for guests between Abu Dhabi and Moscow in support of our objective to grow trade and tourism opportunities between our two countries."
"Supported by an increased daily flight schedule providing Russian holiday makers and business travellers with even more opportunity to visit the UAE, this is the start of a new phase in relations building on the strong economic ties between Moscow and Abu Dhabi."
To complement the move to SVO, Etihad continues to work with Aeroflot to enhance and develop its partnership, including the launch of codeshare services across the respective networks, and exploring other areas of cooperation to enhance guest benefits.
UAE citizens are able to obtain an entry visa to Russia on arrival, while Russian citizens are able to enter the UAE and obtain a visa on arrival valid for 30 days free of charge, which can be extended for a further 30 days for a fee.
Abu Dhabi – Moscow flight schedule
Effective 2 December 2021 (local timings):
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About International Women's Day (8 March)
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900's – a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. International Women's Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity. No one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women's network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women's Day. Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others.
"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights," says world-renowned feminist, journalist and social and political activist Gloria Steinem. International Women's Day is all about celebration, reflection, advocacy, and action – whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women's Day has been occurring for over a century – and is growing annually from strength to strength.
International Women's Day timeline journey
Great unrest and critical debate was occurring amongst women. Women's oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and active in campaigning for change. Then in 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights.
In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day (NWD) was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate NWD on the last Sunday of February until 1913.
In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day – a Women's Day – to press for their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties, working women's clubs – and including the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament – greeted Zetkin's suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day was the result.
Following the decision agreed at Copenhagen in 1911, International Women's Day was honoured the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on 19 March. More than one million women and men attended IWD rallies campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination. However less than a week later on 25 March, the tragic 'Triangle Fire' in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working women, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This disastrous event drew significant attention to working conditions and labour legislation in the United States that became a focus of subsequent International Women's Day events. 1911 also saw women's Bread and Roses' campaign.
On the eve of World War I campaigning for peace, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. In 1913 following discussions, International Women's Day was transferred to 8 March and this day has remained the global date for International Women's Day ever since. In 1914 further women across Europe held rallies to campaign against the war and to express women's solidarity. For example, in London in the United Kingdom there was a march from Bow to Trafalgar Square in support of women's suffrage on 8 March 1914. Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested in front of Charing Cross station on her way to speak in Trafalgar Square.
On the last Sunday of February, Russian women began a strike for "bread and peace" in response to the death of over 2 million Russian soldiers in World War 1. Opposed by political leaders, the women continued to strike until four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. The date the women's strike commenced was Sunday 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia. This day on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere was 8 March.
International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time by the United Nations in 1975. Then in December 1977, the General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming a United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace to be observed on any day of the year by Member States, in accordance with their historical and national traditions.
The UN commenced the adoption of an annual theme in 1996 – which was "Celebrating the past, Planning for the Future". This theme was followed in 1997 with "Women at the Peace table", and in 1998 with "Women and Human Rights", and in 1999 with "World Free of Violence Against Women", and so on each year until the current. More recent themes have included, for example, "Empower Rural Women, End Poverty & Hunger" and "A Promise is a Promise – Time for Action to End Violence Against Women".
By the new millennium, International Women's Day activity around the world had stalled in many countries. The world had moved on and feminism wasn't a popular topic. International Women's Day needed re-ignition. There was urgent work to do – battles had not been won and gender parity had still not been achieved.
The global internationalwomensday.com digital hub for everything IWD was launched to re-energize the day as an important platform to celebrate the successful achievements of women and to continue calls for accelerating gender parity. Each year the IWD website sees vast traffic and is used by hundreds of thousands of people and organizations all over the world to learn about and share IWD activity. The IWD website is made possible each year through support from corporations committed to driving gender parity. The website's charity of choice for many years has been the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) whereby IWD fundraising is channelled. The IWD website adopts an annual theme that is globally relevant for groups and organizations. This theme, one of many around the world, provides a framework and direction for annual IWD activity and takes into account the wider agenda of both celebration as well as a broad call to action for gender parity. Recent themes have included "Make it happen", "The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum" and "Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures". Themes for the global IWD website are collaboratively and consultatively identified each year and widely adopted.
2011 saw the 100 year centenary of International Women's Day – with the first IWD event held exactly 100 years ago in 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the United States, President Barack Obama proclaimed March 2011 to be "Women's History Month", calling Americans to mark IWD by reflecting on "the extraordinary accomplishments of women" in shaping the country's history. The then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched the "100 Women Initiative: Empowering Women and Girls through International Exchanges". In the United Kingdom, celebrity activist Annie Lennox lead a superb march across one of London's iconic bridges raising awareness in support for global charity Women for Women International. Further charities such as Oxfam have run extensive activity supporting IWD and many celebrities and business leaders also actively support the day
2016 and beyond
The world has witnessed a significant change and attitudinal shift in both women's and society's thoughts about women's equality and emancipation. Many from a younger generation may feel that 'all the battles have been won for women' while many feminists from the 1970's know only too well the longevity and ingrained complexity of patriarchy. With more women in the boardroom, greater equality in legislative rights, and an increased critical mass of women's visibility as impressive role models in every aspect of life, one could think that women have gained true equality. The unfortunate fact is that women are still not paid equally to that of their male counterparts, women still are not present in equal numbers in business or politics, and globally women's education, health and the violence against them is worse than that of men. However, great improvements have been made. We do have female astronauts and prime ministers, school girls are welcomed into university, women can work and have a family, women have real choices. And so each year the world inspires women and celebrates their achievements. IWD is an official holiday in many countries including Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal (for women only), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. The tradition sees men honouring their mothers, wives, girlfriends, colleagues, etc with flowers and small gifts. In some countries IWD has the equivalent status of Mother's Day where children give small presents to their mothers and grandmothers.
A global web of rich and diverse local activity connects women from all around the world ranging from political rallies, business conferences, government activities and networking events through to local women's craft markets, theatric performances, fashion parades and more. Many global corporations actively support IWD by running their own events and campaigns. For example, on 8 March search engine and media giant Google often changes its Google Doodle on its global search pages to honor IWD. Year on year IWD is certainly increasing in status.
So make a difference, think globally and act locally!
Make everyday International Women's Day.
Do your bit to ensure that the future for girls is bright, equal, safe and rewarding.
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to earn the Eagle Scout Rank
- Explain what citizenship in the nation means and what it takes to be a good citizen of this country. Discuss the rights, duties, and obligations of a responsible and active American citizen.
- Do TWO of the following:
- Visit a place that is listed as a National Historic Landmark or that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Tell your counselor what you learned about the landmark or site and what you found interesting about it.
- Tour your state capitol building or the U.S. Capitol. Tell your counselor what you learned about the capitol, its function, and the history.
- Tour a federal facility. Explain to your counselor what you saw there and what you learned about its function in the local community and how it serves this nation.
- Choose a national monument that interests you. Using books, brochures, the Internet (with your parent's permission), and other resources, find out more about the monument. Tell your counselor what you learned, and explain why the monument is important to this country's citizens.
- Watch the national evening news five days in a row OR read the front page of a major daily newspaper five days in a row. Discuss the national issues you learned about with your counselor. Choose one of the issues and explain how it affects you and your family.
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- Name the three branches of our federal government and explain to your counselor their functions. Explain how citizens are involved in each branch. For each branch of government, explain the importance of the system of checks and balances.
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General Discussion / Re: Assistance with cycling tourism thesis
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Every time Facebook changes it's interface it messes up everything and you can't find where they used to be. Though they claim they are doing this for better usability. I am not sure about this as after last change it took awhile to find where is hidden button for adding more photos to existing album. I decided to post step by step screenshots how to do that because I think there are more people in trouble finding it.
But I will start from the beginning and this week will show how to create new photo album on facebook and how to add your first photo.
Step 1
Locate photos folder on your facebook profile page
Step 2
Press "Add Photos" button on the upper right corner of the screen.
Step 3
Press "Select Photos to Upload" button for dialog to open.
Step 4
Select photos you want to publish from your hard drive.
Step 5
Then you can select more pictures [1] or publish your album [2] on your facebook timeline.
That's it. Next week I will post how to add more photos to already existing album on facebook.


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Sunday, July 16, 2017
Things I wish someone had told me before I started angel investing
Now that I am older and wiser (and poorer!) I can look back and see that I did some incredibly stupid things that I could easily have avoided if I'd just gotten myself some proper mentorship. But I was in LA at the time, and good con men were more plentiful than good mentors. But it's Sunday morning, I'm up (relatively) early, I don't feel like writing code or complaining about Donald Trump today, so instead I'm going to write the blog post that I wish someone had written for me back in 2005.
The first thing you need to decide is whether you are investing as a hobby or as a serious attempt to make money. If you're doing it as a hobby you don't really need to worry about much, except to prepare yourself for the likelihood that this could end up being a very expensive hobby. The absolute minimum to play the game even once is about $5-10k, and if that's all you have then you will almost certainly lose it. You're more likely to make money by going to Las Vegas and betting on roulette. If you are investing casually you should be prepared to lose every single penny you put into it without regrets.
If you are investing as a serious attempt to make money then you have a much tougher row to hoe. Basically, the process goes like this: your early deals will almost certainly not pay off. You have to approach them as if you are buying an education for yourself. You will find some awesome-looking deals, ones that you will think are absolutely 100% certain to be the Next Big Thing (NBT), and you will be tempted to buy as big a stake in them as you can afford because you don't want to miss out on the NBT, because NBTs doesn't come along very often.
Don't do it. The odds that what looks to your inexperienced eyes like an NBT is in fact an NBT are vanishingly small. There are vastly more good pitches out there than there are good companies. If it were easy to tell the difference, then Y Combinator — who by now are as good at picking winners as anyone and better than most — would not have to invest in hundreds of companies every year, they would just go straight for the winners.
Here's how it goes: you will (almost certainly) lose money on your early deals, and you will be shocked when this happens. You will be shocked even if you were intellectually prepared to see your investment fail because the way in which it will fail will almost certainly come as a surprise to you. You will be amazed at the stupid shit that founders do, the evil shit that competitors do, and the completely random fucked-up shit that markets do (like completely ignore products that are clearly superior in every conceivable way!) There are a myriad ways to make a company fail, but only two ways to make one succeed. One of those is to make a product that fills a heretofore unmet market need, and to do it better, faster, and cheaper than the competition. That is incredibly hard to do. (I'll leave figuring out the second one as an exercise.)
So your early deals will fail unless you get incredibly lucky. Your goal at this point is not to make money, but to learn from the mistakes that you and your investees will inevitably make. Starting a company is not a linear process. There is no recipe for success. It's a long hard slog of never-ending problem solving, crisis management, and plain-old shit work. Some people just have the knack for getting through this, but most don't. Your goal is to develop a sense for how to recognize the people who have the knack, and distinguish them from the ones who are good at giving the impression that they have the knack, but really don't. This is hard because being a good con man is much easier than being a good entrepreneur. And by no means are these two talents mutually exclusive.
This early stage will last several years, and if you're not prepared to act on those kinds of time scales then you'd better find yourself a different path in life. During that time you should be taking meetings constantly. Why? Because the more people you meet, the more data points you will gather about what success looks like early-on (and, more importantly, what failure looks like early on), and the more likely you are to find the needle in the haystack.
Actually, the needle-in-the-haystack is not quite the right metaphor. There is a small cadre of people who actually have what it takes to successfully build an NBT, and experienced investors are pretty good at recognizing them. Because of this, they don't have trouble raising money. As I mentioned earlier, one of the reasons people get into angel investing is because they think it's more fun to be the beggee than the beggor. But the cool kids don't beg. The cool kids — the ones who really know what they're doing and have the best chances of succeeding — decide who they allow to invest in their companies. And they want investors who have been around the block, who know what they are doing, who have a thick rolodex of potentially useful contacts, and most importantly, deep enough pockets to do follow-on investments, and thick enough hides not to complain if things go south.
If you want to make money angel investing, you really have to treat it as a full time job, not because it makes you more likely to pick the winners, but because it makes it more likely that the winners will pick you.
If you're not ready for that, you will be much better off financially buying index funds.
Good luck.
17 comments:
- Unknown said...
Thank you for your incite! Recently, I've been looking into the concept of investing; reading the Wallstreet Journal, countless YouTube videos, and online news stories, but none of them were this honest.
- Lucymarie said...
Your article is really interesting. I would appreciate knowing, in your experience, what has been the most frequent reason for startup failure?
- Ron said...
@ meitnerium:
There is no "most frequent reason." The world is incredibly creative in coming up with new ways for companies to fail. Just when I think I've seen it all, someone always comes along and surprises me.
I could (and maybe I should) write a book about all the different ways I've seen companies fail.
- vasilakisfil said...
There is one problem though. Angel investors that are "learning" the process are really bad for the companies that they are learning from. Basically these meetings that you are talking about, is wasted time for founders. Even worse, when such angel investors are influencing the development process (because hey! Cool company A does that, we should it as well) then developers have problems out of nowhere from people who control the money and influence the company yet don't have the necessary experience to influence on the right way.
- Ron said...
Green angels are only a problem if they don't recognize they are green. Experienced founders should want to cultivate new investment talent no less than experienced investors should want to cultivate new founder talent. A new investor who said, "I have no idea what I'm doing, but I want to write you a (small) check (which I'm absolutely prepared to lose) in exchange for letting me hang out and learn the ropes" should find a warm welcome.
- Dave said...
"experienced investors are pretty good at spotting them" [them = successful entrepreneurs]
no, this is demonstrably false. as you mention with YC, if investors really knew what they were doing, then their portfolio size would be n<5-10, rather than n>20-40 (or for early-stage, n>50-100).
even the best angel and VC investors get it "right" (ie, 10X or better outcomes) perhaps only 10-20% of the time. this is especially true if you are investing at early stages before the company has substantial revenue (or even tougher, pre-product). even at Series B/C or later when companies have real revenue (>$10-20M) most investments don't generate substantial returns >5X.
even experienced investors get it wrong most of the time. if they are lucky, their outliers will return a greater multiple than the small % of time they occur. that is to say, if i get a 20X return 10% of the time, or a 50X return 5% of the time, or a 100X return 2% of the time, then i win the game.
the advice i wish someone had told me when i started angel investing (~15 years ago) is simply this:
try and get great dealflow, ideally by investing alongside other experienced entrepreneurs... and, invest in a LOT of startups (at least 20, ideally more like 50-100). then wait ten years.
- Lucymarie said...
If the suggestion is to invest in ~50 companies how much is recommended per company, is ~$50,000 about right? That would come to $2.5 million for a portfolio of 50 companies. That's discouraging for first-time investors who may not have that amount of money to begin with.
- Michael Palmer said...
@meitnerium, you can sometimes invest solo with $25k but if you want to be able to negotiate you will need to get several friends together and put in $100k or sometimes double that.
If you join an angel group, that group will have more combined capital and you can probably go in with as low as $5k per investment. You will learn a lot and meet a lot of people your first few years in an organized group. In any organized group there are much-more- and much-less-active members. If you are active, you can befriend the other active angels. With a group you can find people who are expert in various useful domains - either technical domains, or finance, and you can complement each other.
I agree partly with the author that there is a "cool kid" class of entrepreneurs / investors, but the cool kid companies tend to be expensive and there are definitely lots of genius folks who aren't extroverted enough to be "cool", but they can make good strategic decisions and knock out solid work. I have had decent luck making great technical contacts and finding solid companies that aren't quite at the Ashton Kutcher level of cool, but very solid technically and business-wise.
Finally, start with smaller dollar amounts until you figure out what you are doing... especially if you are solo... In fact I wouldn't advise investing solo initially, like going to demo days and just spreading money around. I would find some experienced friends or join a group. There is a ton that you (or your group) has to understand - the technical domains you are investing in, the kinds of markets you are investing in, all the terms and conventions around financing, a lot of legal stuff, etc.
Another way to start at the very beginning is to invest through syndicates on AngelList, but you won't learn so much that way. You paying carry to have the syndicate lead understand everything, and you won't be actively involved. But you could do a couple investments that way to try it.
- Droconnel22 said...
Great article, thank you!
The last paragraph is one that hits particularly close to my own experience. Raising money isn't the issue, but raising good quality relationships with depth and how they believe in you despite the challenge.
Kissing frogs is part of the game and most times you are the frog, but if you keep at it, keep reinventing, and hold your ground you might surprise yourself.
Don't take as what i wrote as advice, merely the agreed observations of a fellow traveler. - 7/17/2017 5:00 AM
- Ron said...
>> "experienced investors are pretty good at spotting them" [them = successful entrepreneurs]
> no, this is demonstrably false.
It's not "demonstrably false" because I didn't define what I meant by "pretty good". At worst, it's a vacuous claim.
Experienced investors reject bad deals with odds better than chance, which improves their odds of finding the good deal. I put a lot of money into deals which, in retrospect, I could easily have seen ahead of time were never going to make it if I'd known what to look for.
> @meitnerium
$50k is a little on the high side, but only a little. I've done deals with as little as $5k, but only as part of a syndicate (Michael Palmer's suggestion of joining/forming an investment group is a really good idea!) Personally, I would not start investing seriously again unless I had a minimum of $1M to work with. I'd use half of it to do 10-15 deals at $10-25k and save the other half for 2-3 follow-ons in the low six figures for the ones that looked like they were going to succeed. But that's an absolute minimum. Ideally I'd like to have $5-10M to be a real player.
- Unknown said...
So what kind of things did you invest in?
- roger dust said...
Did anyone figure out the second kind of successful companies ?
- JPY said...
what are your thoughts on equity crowdfunding platforms like SeedInvest? they generally require a min. investment of $500 or $1K. Is it worth it for a small time angel to invest $1K in 10 different companies or $500 in 20 different companies?
- Reed M Benet said...
Thanks for this post, Ron. I'd be curious about your thoughts on these AIHADITF (i.e. admittedly I have a dog in this fight) musings...
I'm a second $500K of funds seeking entrepreneur out in TNRNMWNMNH (i.e. take no risk no matter what no matter no how) Detroit with HeroHomes.com, my Zillow.com for the 23.3 million of my fellow military vets, our up to $424-721K each of no-money-down VA Loans home buying power, and correcting and leveraging the fact that up to 99.85% have no clue we can use this to buy and be resident landlords in up to entire renewed or new communities anchoring duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes.
And with a $10-18 Trillion (not a typo) TAM, I fit your address a big unmet need criterion?
It looks to me, though, that angels and even VCs are lock stepping Lean Startup on small and derivative or me-too ideas...?
I only see Peter Thiel in Zero to One challenging Lean Startup (he says this is a hangover from the Web 1.0 dot-bomb era), YC type portfolio of lots of small investments (he says go few and fund big), you need to invest in big opportunities because risks are so high in all startups that the few that work out must make the portfolio, etc.
Actually one of my bucket lists was at the recent Silicon Valley Vet(eran)Con(ference) asking during Q&A Steve Blank how Lean Startup tracks against achieving Unicorn-ness and he said he didn't know. And this is The Godfather of Lean Startup and I think he only feeds into above said TNRNMWNMNH, particularly in the Midwest!
Being an ABD (is all but dissertation) PhD in Engineering, so I was once decent in statistics, and given all the variants of opportunities and outcomes that you cite, particularly that the better mousetrap often doesn't win, what about if it's all randomness and we're all kidding ourselves? And thus maybe you weren't on the mistaken path rather you just didn't do enough? That syndicates and angel groups and accelerators and incubators are "a camel is an elephant designed by committee" homogenizers into group think mediocre?
It's hard to set up a variability controlled trial, but seems to me that 400 plus samples drawn randomly always is the case.
So how about you and your angel investing compatriots fund, mentor, and demo day 400 randomly selected startups out of YC's reject pile and then let's compare?
Thanks for your thoughts!
Reed M. Benet
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- Unknown said...
Thanks Ron, brilliant post! I mostly agree, but not fully. Yes, the cool kids don't beg, they can (to some extent) pick their investors; but they will still be glad to take money from a newbie angel, what they will avoid are toxic angels, that waste your time and peace of mind.
Plus, you still won't be able to understand if those who are picking you are the winners or more con men.
If I were an angel, I think I'd spend my time in startupers newsgroups and events, putting myself in their shoes as much as I can, I'm surprised that so few angels do that. But I'm a startuper instead ... - 7/19/2017 9:16 AM
- Unknown said...
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As a follow up to the original, Mulan II doesn't measure up. However you can't really judge the Disney Sequels by the original. On the spectrum of the Disney sequels, it was fine, a bit mediocre but fine compared to the other Disney sequels you could watch.
A mere a month after the original, Shang proposes to Mulan. With their impending marriage it means Mushu will lose his cushy job. While Shang and Mulan get along, her parents fear that they could be different in their future ideas and Mushu gets into his head to break them up. In the midst of this, Shang and Mulan are summoned to Emperor for a new mission.
The Emperor fearing the Mongols, has arranged the marriage of three daughters for an alliance. Shang and Mulan enlist the help of Yao, Ling, and Chien-po. Mulan is very much against arranged marriages but goes along with it. The three princesses fall for Yao, Ling, and Chien-po and Mushu manages to drive a wedge between Shang and Mulan.
Mulan finds out about Mushu's scheme and starts to make up with Shang but the group is attacked by bandits. In the fight, Mulan thinks Shang falls to his death. Mulan wanting to be true to her heart decides to sacrifices herself to the arrange marriage which would allow the princesses to be true to their hearts. Mushu realizes he was very wrong and wishes he could undo it. Shang shows up and Mushu pretends to be the Golden Dragon of Unity and Mulan is free to be with Shang.
In the end Mushu gets to keep his job. Everyone is happy except Mulan's ancestors who have to put up with Mushu.
The story isn't as grand or as epic as the first one but the issue is that until the end there are no stakes for the characters. It's a Disney movie, you know the heart wins out in the end but Mulan going to offer herself as a replacement felt very tacked on and contrived. It does offer Mushu redemption for breaking Shang and Mulan up and makes Shang change his uptight ways but it felt really forced.
Then we have Shang's personality change or at least I think it's a change. I haven't seen Mulan in while but I don't really recall Shang being such an uptight guy.
This movie makes him pretty much a jerk till the end. I guess it worked better for the contrived narrative to give him a character arc that he never had.
Then we have a Mulan's character change. Mulan in this movie is very much anti-arranged marriages even though she was going to do it in the first movie. Maybe saving China gave her a new preceptive on women's issues.
Her being against it does add some contrived drama for the ending where she allows others to be loved when she think she lost her love but it felt forced. Perhaps if she had said something to bridged the gap between the to movies to makes this characterization makes sense it would have been more effective. Then again maybe she just forgot her stance on the issue, I mean a whole month did pass.
Then we have the three plots ladies, I mean the three princesses, Ting Ting, Mei and Su . These three have no really personalities. I guess Ting Ting is the uptight mature one with a weird laugh but they serve as love interests for Ling, Yao and Chien-po as well as a point for Mulan to act on arranged marriages, which are bad in all cases even for peace or something.
Mulan II is mediocre and contrived but considering these sequels, it could have been worse so much worse. Best that can be said it's decent effort, worse that can be said it's dull and forgettable which still high praise for the Disney sequels.
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