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Revolution in South Africa — one immediately thinks of the colonization by the Dutch, French and British, the resistance by the Zulus and other South African tribes, Apartheid, etc. The Swartland Revolution, on the other hand, is not political nor racial. It is a wine revolution in the Swartland region of the Western Cape winelands, located about 40 miles north of Cape Town (and a little northwest of the more famous wine town of Paarl).
We were extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to have a full morning private tour, interview and tasting with South Africa's "first certified celebrity winemaker", the "enfant terrible" Eden Sadie who founded The Sadie Family Wines in 1999 near Malmesbury and is one of the five leaders of the Swartland Revloution. The Wine Enthusiast magazine in Septermber 2014 documented the revolution: "It's not easy to start a revolution. When it comes to a winemaking region with hundreds of years of history—and corresponding traditions—it's especially difficult to challenge conventional wisdom.
"There always seem to be visionaries, however, who see beyond the status quo…the Swartland is home to vast wheat fields that cover most of its landscape. As the Cape's traditional breadbasket, the region's wine quality was often overshadowed by areas like Franschhoek, Paarl and Stellenbosch."
"It wasn't until 1997 that the region started to garner buzz, when Fairview's Charles Back purchased vineyards in the Swartland and opened a new project called Spice Route. Back's arrival sparked a surge of private estates investing in the region.
"It also signaled greater quality potential for the wines. Spice Route's inaugural releases from young winemaker Eben Sadie eschewed the region's then-common styles of big, high-alcohol reds and off-dry whites.
"In 2010, The Swartland Revolution—a weekend celebration of the region's wines, with ticketed tastings, seminars and meals—was born, brainchild of the new Swartland Independent Producers association.
"The mission: To improve quality standards and educate consumers about the unique "Swartlandness"—what traditionalists might call terroir—found within the region's wines.
"Now in its fifth year, the key players behind The Swartland Revolution have been integral to the region's development. They produce must-try wines that convey a sense of place, putting South Africa more firmly on the global wine map."
Bartholomew Broadbent, proprietor of Broadbent Selections, who imports The Sadie Family Wines, notes "Eben Sadie is considered one of the great preservationists and visionaries in the new generation of South African winemakers. To Eben, the vineyard and fruit are part of the story—the truest expression of his art and philosophy."
The wine writer Neal Martin recently called Sadie an "outspoken, peripatetic, terroir-obsessed winemaker who has been instrumental in putting Swartland on the map. He produces a small portfolio of comparatively expensive, but highly coveted wines based on Rhone varieties sourced from his seemingly never-ending search for pockets of old bush vines and unique terroirs. These are cerebral wines built to age."
Our ship's head sommelier, who worked in the South African wine industry for six years and organized and led our excursion, notes "The Sadie Family has enjoyed success beyond any other modern South African wine producer as Columella [their signature Rhone-style wine, a blend of Syrah and Mourvedre] is the most highly rated South African wine, and the only one to achieve a 95 point rating by U.S. wine magazine Wine Spectator." We were fortunate to hear Eben's philosophy about wine and agriculture and to taste his extraordinary wines. Unfortunately, the winery sells out every new release within days of its availability, and we were not able to purchase any wines to enjoy in the future. However, we headed off to Paarl to the exquisite Grand Roche Hotel and its restaurant where we had a fabulous luncheon and scored some 2004 Columella.
The Manor House of the Grand Roche Hotel is the original homestead of Hermanus Bosman, who was granted the farm De Nieuwe Plantatie in 1707. The Manor House, built in 1715, was home to the Bosman family for 214 years, until it was sold in 1929. After 1978 it changed hands several times, until it was bought by Hans George Allgaier and was restored to represent the period 1869 – 1876.
Our luncheon was served on the hotel's terrace, where we had magnificent views of the surrounding countryside, Paarl, and the mountains.
For the first course, we had a choice of SLOW BRAISED BABY BEETS with goat cheese parfait, pumpernickel crumble & horseradish creme,
or PAN FRIED KINGKLIP MEDALLION with truffled flavoured mushroom veloute, sauteed Asian mushrooms & cranberry gel:
For the main course we had a choice of PAN FRIED KABELJOU FILLET (drum fish) with pulpo-chorizo risotto, baby Patagonia squid & mussel cream,
or SOUS VIDE SPRINGBOK (antelope-gazelle) LOIN with broccoli puree, classic Austrian bread dumpling, marinated enoki mushrooms & juniper sauce.
And with the luncheon we had Sadie's 2004 Columella — an absolutely delicious Rhone-style red wine (80% Syrah and 20% Mourvedre). It was easy to taste the difference aging makes for this wine — at the winery we tasted the 2012 Columella — the wine gained considerable smoothness and was an outstanding accompaniment to the food.
At the end of the meal we were able to say thank you to the restaurant's executive staff and share our appreciation for an outstanding introduction to the local Winelands cuisine and wines.


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A lot has been said about the holocaust, most of it by people who were simply alive in those times or others who, fascinated by the tragedy struggled to imagine it, weave it in their thoughts and super-impose it on their lives. Most of the victims of holocaust did not survive to give us the story, those who did, had the happy end which somehow diminishes the tragedy and concocts it into, what to our minds is, a fairy tale. The treatment of holocaust essentially is either a narration of unspeakable evil, or a fleeting, vague account of the rootlessness felt by the survivors. Both treatments make us restless about the tragedy , but both of them are in a way incomplete.
Ruth Kluger's memories of a holocaust childhood, however are as close to the reality of that sunken, cold, frost-bitten life that I have ever come across. Perhaps that's because it is a very honest account; I am surprised she remembered her feelings of so long ago with such remarkable clarity and had the courage to live through them again. (Is this too, then, another super-imposed account, even though the imposition is internal and not forced? That, however, is beside the point). These feelings are not those of a tragic heroine who bore the atrocities backed by an unshakable faith, nor do they emphasize dramatically the death that hangs around her life. They are an account of a daily decay, perceived through minor changes at school, the fighting of old women, and many such small events that no one associates with the holocaust.
The author, born in Vienna is very young when Germany takes over Austria and the extrication of Jews begins. She loses her father, who escapes to France, and her brother who is sent to a camp. She and her mother are unable to escape and are eventually sent to the ghetto of Theresienstadt, then transferred to Auschwitz, then to a slave labor camp. As the war breaks out, the prisoners are taken on the death marches, where she escapes with her mother, and then eventually emigrates to America. In America, her past associations never leave her and in a way continue to shape her behavior, friendships, relationships.
In recollection of all these stages of her life, there is a remarkable perception, clarity and objectivity. In a few words, Kluger is able to capture the moment as perhaps it must have seemed to the young girl. Her relationship with both her city and her mother are captured in a line each:
"Vienna was a city that banished you and didn't allow you to leave."
"During an earthquake, more China gets broken than at other times"
In this earthquake, Ruth's already tepid relationship with her mother increasingly became difficult, suspicious and intolerant. Again, I was surprised at the anger that she still holds for that mother, even though she was not a particularly malicious person. Is their relationship with each other also another broken china? Perhaps, but as she correctly points out the error of people who judge her marginally through her one experience, one would be wrong in summarizing it thus. She resents these judgments and presumptions; abhors the indiscretion of curious intruders (I too feel like one sometimes, wanting to soak up the reality of that horrifying time) and strongly dislikes the turning of death chambers from the past into a shrine visited by enthusiastic homage-payers. I understand that resentment, even though I know that if I ever visit Austria/Germany, I will also go to these death-chambers – not to pay homage, but only to satisfy a pathetic curiosity.
I put down the books moments before I set down to write this blog, and I am still quite moved by whatever she described here. Perhaps a little bit of it is imagined, but still it is a very honest account, and definitely should be read by everyone who has any interest in the holocaust literature.


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Fireflight's New Album "Innova"
Releases to Critical Acclaim
The first new album in over three years from Fireflight, INNOVA, releases today amidst wide acclaim. Building on a storied history that includes a Grammy nomination, major festivals and nearly 400,000 albums sold, the new album is lauded as a masterful step forward.
Launched by a bevy of fans through a PledgeMusic, crowd-funding campaign that hit 125% of its goal, and crafted during a season of pain, uncertainty and frustration, INNOVA broadens Fireflight's sound to exhilarating new heights without losing the core personal connection to their past.
For band cofounders Dawn Michele (vocals), Wendy Drennen (bass, backing vocals), Glenn Drennen (guitar) and Adam McMillion (drums since 2011), INNOVA,which is Latin for "renew," marks Fireflight's fifth studio album, and is a celebration of their 15th year as a band.
Fireflight built a fiercely devoted following across four albums pushed through the major label system, including The Healing Of Harms, Unbreakable, For Those Who Wait (which cracked Billboard's Top 100) and the No. 1 Christian Rock Album, Now, which surfaced in Spring 2012. With 13 million views on VEVO and eight No. 1 radio singles so far, INNOVA utilizes the innovative tools available to established bands in 2015 for a modern take on a timeless alt-rock sound. Fans enamored by Imagine Dragons, Ellie Goulding, Katy Perry and the more adventurous post-Britpop of Coldplay, will all be invigorated by Fireflight's new album.
The album has already sparked the hit CHR single and video, "We Are Alive," and top-charting rock single, "Resuscitate," which held the No. 1 spot for 12 consecutive weeks. The third single and current RadioU Buzztrack from the album, "Safety," features ANBERLIN's Stephen Christian. After only three weeks at radio, the song reaches No. 16 as it quickly ascends Billboard's Christian Rock chart.
"So many people live in the shadows, marginalized by a modern society that is more concerned with serving its own agenda than reaching out to those who are in need," says Fireflight lead singer Dawn Michele, citing Psalm 46:1-3 as the inspiration for "Safety." "Even when people let us down, we can find our safety in God. He is our ever present help in times of trouble, and we can be His hands and feet here on earth to others who are hurting."
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Sept. 8, 2010
2010-11 Printable Schedule | 2010-11 Schedule Page
ATLANTA – Sixteen postseason teams including the reigning NCAA champions, the US Virgin Islands Paradise Jam and another tough Atlantic Coast Conference slate highlight the 2010-11 Georgia Tech women's basketball schedule, announced today by the league office.
"We are very excited about the challenging schedule we have put in place for 2010-11," head coach MaChelle Joseph said. "We return 11 letterwinners and four starters from a team that won a program-best 23 games last season."
Georgia Tech is coming off its fourth straight NCAA Tournament and it topped the 20-win mark for the fourth consecutive season. The Jackets 23 wins last season tied the program record and were the most since they joined the ACC prior to the 1979-80 season.
Tech will open the 2010-11 campaign on Friday, Nov. 12 at 5 p.m., against Georgia State as part of three straight men's and women's doubleheaders to open the home schedule (Nov. 17 vs. Kennesaw State and Nov. 19 vs. Prairie View A&M). The Jackets will make their first appearance on the road against 2010 NIT Postseason Tournament participant Old Dominion on Sunday, Nov. 14 at 2 p.m., in Norfolk, Va.
The Yellow Jackets will then kickoff a run of seven straight games against teams that participated in postseason play in 2010 when the defending national champion Connecticut Huskies come to Alexander Memorial Coliseum on Sunday, Nov. 21 at 2 p.m.
Tech will then head to the US Virgin Islands over Thanksgiving for the always competitive Paradise Jam, where they will face Georgetown, national powerhouse Tennessee and Missouri. For more information on the Paradise Jam, please click HERE.
December will kickoff with games at home against Northwestern on Dec. 1 as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, Middle Tennessee State on Dec. 3 and then a Sunday afternoon matchup against instate rival Georgia on Dec. 5 at 2 p.m.
For the second time in three seasons, the Yellow Jackets will take a trip to the Pacific Northwest with a game against Portland State on Dec. 21 in Portland, Ore., and a game against Washington of the PAC-10 in Seattle on Dec. 23.
The ACC portion of the schedule opens Jan. 6 when the Yellow Jackets host North Carolina at 7 p.m. The Jackets will make their first road appearance against an ACC opponent on Jan. 9 at Clemson in a 2 p.m., matinee.
"We are excited about the opportunities and challenges that our ACC schedule will present to us," Joseph said. "Opening up at home with North Carolina is exciting for our team and fans. We look forward to an exciting ACC race."
Tech will make their first appearance on television at Wake Forest on Jan. 17. The game will be broadcast on the ACC's Regional Sports Network (RSN), which includes FSN South, Comcast SportsNet, SunSports and the New England Sports Network.
The Yellow Jackets will have four games broadcast on RSN, all of which will be conference match-ups. The second RSN game is Jan. 21 when Tech heads to Duke, immediately followed by a Jan. 23 contest against Boston College in Atlanta and on Feb. 11 at Florida State.
Tech will make an appearance in the national spotlight when ESPN comes to campus to air its game against NC State on Feb. 13 on ESPN2 at 5 p.m. The Yellow Jackets will wear their pink uniforms as part of the annual Pink Zone event.
Besides playing their home-and-away contests against permanent ACC rivals Clemson, Miami and North Carolina, the Yellow Jackets will also host Virginia and Maryland. Tech will also travel to Blacksburg, Va., for a game at Virginia Tech.
Tech's non-conference games include meetings at home against Mercer (Dec. 28), Tennessee State (Dec. 30), and Jacksonville State (Jan. 2).
All home games are played in Alexander Memorial Coliseum. For ticket information, contact the Georgia Tech ticket office at 1-888-TECH-TIX or purchase them online at www.RamblinWreck.com/wbbtix.


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London (ISJ) – A team of scientists at University of Leeds, UK has developed a laser-based non-invasive devise to measure blood glucose levels. The new laser sensor monitors blood glucose levels without penetrating the skin.
The current practice is to prick fingers, squeeze drop of blood onto a test strip and process the result with portable glucometers. The process can be uncomfortable, messy and often has to be repeated several times every day.
The new technology, developed by Professor Gin Jose and a team in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Leeds, uses a small device with low-powered lasers to measure blood glucose levels without penetrating the skin. It could give people a simpler, pain-free alternative to finger pricking.
The technology has continuous monitoring capabilities making it ideal for development as a wearable device. This could help improve the lives of millions of people by enabling them to constantly monitor their glucose levels without the need for an implant.
It is also good news for healthcare providers as it offers a simpler and cheaper alternative the current methods – finger pricking, which uses disposable sample strips, or invasive continuous monitors, which use implanted sensors that need regular replacement.
"Unlike the traditional method, this new non-invasive technology can constantly monitor blood glucose levels," said Professor Gin Jose, an alumni of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala. "This technology opens up the potential for people with diabetes to receive continuous readings, meaning they are instantly alerted when intervention is needed."
Professor Jose said, once finally developed, this wearable device would be just one step from a product which sends alerts to smart phones or readings directly to doctors, allowing them to profile how a person is managing his/her diabetes. It will also allow people to self-regulate and minimise emergency hospital treatment.
At the heart of the new technology is a piece of nano-engineered silica glass with ions that fluoresce in infrared light when a low power laser light hits them. When the glass is in contact with the users' skin, the extent of fluorescence signal varies in relation to the concentration of glucose in their blood. The device measures the length of time the fluorescence lasts for and uses that to calculate the glucose level in a person's bloodstream without the need for a needle. This process takes less than 30 seconds.
"The glass used in our sensors is hardwearing, acting in a similar way as that used in smartphones. Because of this, our device is more affordable, with lower running costs than the existing self-monitoring systems," said Prof. Jose.
"Currently, we are piloting a bench top version in our clinical investigations but aim to develop two types of devices for the market. One will be a finger-touch device similar to a computer mouse. The other will be a wearable version for continuous monitoring."
The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of Professor Peter Grant, suggest the new monitor has the potential to perform as good as conventional technologies. More clinical trials and product optimization are required for regulatory approvals and before the technology can be put on the market.
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Litigation Lawyers in Nebraska City
Civil depositions happen during civil litigation in Nebraska City, Nebraska. They are part of the discovery procedure.
"Discovery" is a procedure that happens before a trial in Nebraska City, Nebraska. During the discovery process, both sides are obligated to make relevant information available to each other.
One of the most effective ways to obtain information relevant to a lawsuit in Nebraska City, Nebraska is to conduct a deposition of a party who you believe to be privy to that information. A deposition is a Q&A session between an attorney representing one of the parties to a lawsuit, and someone who has knowledge relevant to the lawsuit. This can be one of the parties, or a witness. The individual being deposed is sworn in, and must answer all of the questions presented to them under oath. An attorney representing the other side can object to lines of questioning, on every grounds that would be valid during in-court testimony. The purpose of this is mainly to get the objection on the record, but if it proves to be a major sticking point, a judge can rule on the objections later. If any questions are found to be invalid, the questions, and their answers, will not be shown to the jury during trial. This is much more effective than simply instructing the jury to disregard a question and answer they've already heard.
Conducting A Civil Deposition in Nebraska City, Nebraska
Depositions in Nebraska City, Nebraska are meant to get verbal testimony on the record and into evidence, when there is concern that the individual being deposed might be unable to show up and testify at trial, or their testimony will take far too long for them to testify at trial.
It should not be any shock, then, that civil depositions in Nebraska City, Nebraska can go on for a very long time. If you are contacted to appear in a deposition in Nebraska City, Nebraska, this can be a huge headache.
To help mitigate this inconvenience, Nebraska City, Nebraska permits witnesses who are appearing in depositions to be paid a set amount of money for their time, and reimbursed for travel expenses. However, if there is any evidence that this money is being used to influence a witness' testimony, there is going to be a significant problem: this would amount bribery, and it is a serious offense.
When giving a deposition in Nebraska City, Nebraska, be sure to answer all of the questions honestly, and to the absolute best of your knowledge. You will be sworn in before the deposition starts, and you will be under oath, just as if you were in open court. Thus, if you lie, you are committing perjury, which can land you in jail.
How Can A Nebraska City, Nebraska Lawyer Help?
If you are directly engaged in a lawsuit in Nebraska City, Nebraska, and have to appear at a deposition, you should already be represented by a lawyer. It goes without saying that you should do whatever they advise you to do throughout the deposition.
If you are not directly engaged in the lawsuit, you might still have to appear at a deposition, if you have information that's relevant to the case in Nebraska City, Nebraska. You likely don't need to hire a lawyer in that case, but it might be a good idea to at least get a consultation from one.


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19.12.2003: Meldung: Transmeta prices common stock offering
The registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and has been declared effective. The final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from Needham & Company, Inc., 445 Park Avenue, New York City, New York 10022.
Transmeta designs, develops and sells highly efficient x86-compatible software-based microprocessors. Transmeta believes that its microprocessors deliver a compelling balance of low power consumption, high performance, low cost and small size.
Transmeta Corporation
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This week, Vilde Frang will give her debut performance with the Münchner Philharmoniker conducted by Valery Gergiev at the Gasteig in Munich, performing Mozart's Violin Concerto No.1. The concert is part of this year's MPHIL 360° festival, which was held for the first time in November last year.
Fresh from a highly successful European duo recital tour, as well as concerts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Stockholm Philharmonic, the remainder of this season sees Vilde perform with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Järvi, concerts in Köln and a tour to Asia with the Gürzenich-Orchester and François-Xavier Roth, Dallas Symphony with Hrusa, and a return to the Orchestre de Paris.
Vilde's performance with the Münchner Philharmoniker takes place at 11.00am on Sunday 13 November. More information here.


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Watson IoT Offerings
Enterprise companies undertaking digital transformation projects require agility and are adopting cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms to make their business more software driven.
Persistent leverages its deep expertise in the IBM® Bluemix and Watson IoT platforms to help enterprises design, build and operate such systems. These enterprises are also increasingly reliant on business partnerships that involve exposure and consumption of data and services across their firewall. Hence, Persistent has specialized in building API platforms that provide a secure, performant and monetizable vehicle for partner collaboration, while enabling agility in application development for the enterprise's own customers.
While some IoT systems are being built "from scratch", a vast majority seek to implement IoT functionality to gain operational efficiency in areas such as asset management and facilities management; once again, Persistent offers relevant skills in the context of IBM Maximo and TRIRIGA software systems. Lastly, underpinning the various transformation projects is the foundation of IBM's continuous engineering tools, using which Persistent automates all aspects of a product development lifecycle.
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The Cardiovascular Clinic at EMC performs placement of different antiarrhythmic devices to treat bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias and for cardiac resynchronization therapy.
We use the latest technology implants from the world's leading manufacturers of implantable devices such as Biotronik (Germany), Boston Scientific, Medtronic, St. Jude (US) and Vitatron (Netherlands).
MRI-Compatible Systems
At the moment, there are devices that allow patients to safely undergo an MRI scan (earlier this was strictly forbidden). If the patient is planning a study or has accompanying conditions, which make the necessity of an MRI more likely (diseases of the spine, spinal cord and brain, joints etc.), it is appropriate to consider the implantation of an MRI-compatible system.
Implantable Devices with Remote Monitoring
The new devices can also be monitored remotely. This function is currently, supported in Russia by Biotronik (Home Monitoring System).
The patient has a miniature transmitter (with a GSM-module) the size of a cordless telephone, which automatically transmits (or after the patient activates transmission) all of the information about the state of the system and the ongoing changes in the patient's body. The signal is coded, sent to a mobile phone (in case of emergency alerts) or in an e-mail to the doctor.
Depending on the situation, the doctor may ask to see the patient for correction of the stimulation parameters or to give advice about changes in medication. Feedback is not provided to avoid the possibility of foreign intervention in the device's operation. These systems are particularly useful for frequent travelers or for those patients who live at a distance from major centers, when a visit to the doctor can be fraught with difficulties.
Diagnosis of Hidden Arrhythmias
At the Cardiovascular Clinic at EMC it is possible have a heart monitor implanted to detect hidden rhythm disorders.
The device looks like a USB-stick and is implanted through a small incision in the chest muscles. It records the heart rhythm for 24 hours a day for months and years. Such recordings are sometimes necessary to confirm whether a patient's loss of conscious is cardiac in nature, or for other clinical manifestations a patient may be having, provided other causes have been eliminated and traditional Holter monitoring has not provided results (short periods of monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias may not catch the problem). The device can also be equipped with a "panic button": when the patient feels unwell, he activates a button, which leaves a mark on the heart rate recording. The doctor, by comparing the marks on the rhythm recording, can determine whether the symptoms are associated with the patient's heart rhythm disturbances.
You can also check the functioning of your implanted device. We recommend you call and tell us the brand or maker of your implant. The information provided about your implanted device will greatly facilitate and accelerate the verification study.


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APPLE VALLEY — A dumpster fire belches black smoke into the sky.
A woman with thickened blood on her head and a bone sticking from her leg ambles by. Sirens and the whup-whup of helicopter blades in motion fill the air, as police officers with guns drawn approach a man wielding a large stick.
It's not a scene out of a zombie apocalypse.
It's Multi-Discipline Day at the Victor Valley College Regional Public Safety Center.
Held twice a year, Thursday's event allows students from the college's corrections, law enforcement, fire, and paramedic academies to practice their skills in live drills.
The scenarios were simulated, but the flames were real.
As instructors stoked a roaring blaze inside a white Ford Mustang, a fire engine rolled up. Firefighter trainees jumped out, donned breathing apparatus, and began to pull out hose.
"They're not getting any instruction today. They're running the calls as they would in the field," said paramedic instructor and Apple Valley Fire Protection District firefighter Corey Fratt.
As if to support this fact, one of the Mustang's tires exploded from the intense heat as the trainees knelt just feet away waiting for water to reach their nozzle.
The boom caused several nearby high school students who were recording the fire on their cellphones to jump.
About 200 students from six high schools watched the trainees in action.
Brian Gattis, an 18-year-old senior at Alta Vista Innovation High School, said he wants to pursue firefighting as a potential career.
"It was pretty cool, pretty intense to watch it. That's something that I want to do," he said of the vehicle fire.
Local departments may welcome Gattis' interest in firefighting.
National Public Radio reported that overtime in some California fire departments has increased steadily over recent years, partly due to understaffing and a longer fire season.
Last year's wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive in California's history, according to Cal Fire data.
November's Camp Fire topped Cal Fire's list, destroying 18,804 structures and killed 85 people.
The trainees in VVC's fire academy are set to graduate this Saturday.
About a block away from the burning vehicle, in an area known as Cert City, paramedic and nursing students practiced their skills on a variety of "patients."
In one room, two future paramedics delivered a baby from a lifelike mannequin laying on a couch as an instructor wrote notes on her clipboard.
In another, crews wheeled in a man laying on a gurney. They reported the patient's condition to the makeshift ER's staff.
The $28 million training center opened in April 2012, according to VVC's Director of Criminal Justice Rand Padgett, whose voice and demeanor resembles a drill sergeant's.
The facility features an apparatus building with four bays for fire engines, a five-story fire tower with burn rooms, and an indoor shooting range for both live-fire and virtual fire training.
Parts of the center were made to resemble a city with streets, sidewalks, and traffic signs.
Padgett was on hand to supervise as a riot broke out on Willow Street and law enforcement trainees worked to quash it.
A large crowd of protestors — high school students — yelled "Justice for Jim" as they stood facing a line of "officers" wielding transparent riot shields and batons.
Most of the protestors seemed to relish launching their rocks — plastic bottles — as they caromed off the armored wave pushing them back down the street.
Padgett congratulated the groups on a successful fracas, and the trainees filed two-by-two back up Willow.
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- Check out the To-Do list below to find something to help us work on, and add yourself (or ask one of us to) to that task
- Sub-Project: Under-age Soldiers in the First World War
Our Progress
Add your name below, please keep track of what you're currently working on for this project. This is both for your own reference, and to aid collaboration among the project participants. If you are going to be temporarily inactive in the project (eg. on vacation), please note that here. Thanks!
- Becky Adding profiles of my family who served in WW1
- Jacky
- Andrea Pack Researching my relatives who fought in WW1 and improving profiles.
- Gillian ( Gill) Researching my relatives who fought in WW1 and improving profiles
- Alison Andrus - Adding all World War I Veterans for the state of North Dakota. Created a free space page for the United States in The Great War and all the state pages.
- Terry Wright - Working on my Anzacs and other ancestors who fought in WW1
- Alecia Raper - Researching my relatives who fought in the First World War for Britain, mainly in the Yorkshire Regiments, and managing the Under-age soldiers page
- Ulf Nilsson - Researching the ancestors and lifes of emigrants from Sweden that took part in WW1 for their new home country.
- Paula J - Researching ancestors in the Southern States and some troops from Yorkshire, England.
- Steve Fuhro - Adding major combatants national flags and US Navy ships and crew rosters. (1917-1918).
- Mary Richardson - Adding and research The Great War country pages, as needed, searching images, helping anyone
- Star Kline - Researching ancestors in Pennsylvania, USA. Added David Bowie's paternal grandfather, Robert Haywood Jones.
- Michele Camera - Identifying ancestors of myself, my daughter and my husband who were active duty during the Great War and adding template and info to profiles. Available to help newcomers to learn how to wikicode or document along with proper source citations.
- Darlene Bissonnette - recognizing my ancestors who served to keep us a free nation beginning with my Grandfathers.
- Richard Shelley - Working on ancestors who fought and fell in combat...
- Brenda Butler - Working on my husbands Palmer line who fought, and survived, World War I, in the British Army and Royal Navy.
- Emily Kusec-Ashcroft - Working on members of the Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion, who are in the process of trying to receive Battle Honours in 2018.
- Russ Gunther - Working on moving profiles with incorrect or outdated categories to correct categories and improving profiles as I come across them.
- Valerie Kerr - Working on adding profiles from Ireland who served in WWI.
- Chad Smith - Working on ancestors who fought in The Great War. My Grandfather was a Marine Corp Captain who served in Guam.
- Dave Seccull - improving the profiles of any family members I know who served in the Great War. Also those who were prevented from serving due to their occupation, and war widows - folks who may not have served, but whose lives were still profoundly affected by the conflict.
- Mantvydas Juozapavičius - Working on ancestors who fought in The WW I (Russian Imperial army).
- Carol Furness trying to add those who served in my local area of North east England and family members
- David Burns working on my ancestors who fought to keep this my country free from foreign invaders but starting with grandfather who was in the border regiment and fought in France during the Great War who, luckily for me, survive.
- Iain Old -- Researching my relatives who participated in the Great War - eg my grandfather Allan Old.
- J Alexander working on relatives who fought and died in WW1.
- J Crook I am adding profiles from a list of veterans buried in Colorado before 1949. This includes many World War I veterans.
- Rowley Slowly adding a number of family tree members who participated in WW1
- Peg Caton adding World War I veterans from my hometown of Northbridge, Massachusetts; also researching relatives who served.
- Wendy Sullivan adding ancestors who fought in and those who died in WWI. Also adding relevant profiles whilst sourcing and connecting lost Gedcom/orphaned profiles. Profile improving wherever possible.
- Jenny Grainger Looking forward to adding this category to Graingers - whether related on not.
- Doug McCallum I will be focusing primarily on New Brunswick, Canada but will pick up any that I find when doing my personal genealogy.
- Chrissy Preston I am currently working on adding graves and have found several military graves. It seemed fitting to add this to help expand the veteran base. I will be fixing any of my own profiles already created to have the proper template as found and add them to new persons.
- Linda Barnett
- Eileen Pilon Kortright Currently working on extensive biographies of my two Grand Uncles, brothers, who fell in the Battle of Amiens, 1918.
- Tim Mackey Many of my direct ancestors served in The Great War, most of which were lucky enough to celebrate Armistice and returned home to Australia. The focus of my research is my paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Mackey. I am a father of 2, and run small self-operated business, and as such, I am absent from time to time due to personal reasons, but I endeavour to be a long-standing member of this project and the WikiTree communities.
- Kenneth Shelton Adding profiles from Gold star honor roll. Gold Stars, Wayne County, Indiana. A record of Indiana men and women who died in the service of the United States and the allied nations in the world war. 1914-1918
- Cheryl Aldrich Skordahl Adding father-in-law who was in WW1, then I will help with whatever the projects needs most.
- Jared Kurz I am primarily researching members of my family who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
- Jo Gill I'm adding my grandfather who served in WWI and WWII. Im searching my profiles for others who served in The Great War.
- Neil Perry I am identifying or creating profiles for people from County Durham who served in World War 1. I had created a FreeSpace (County Durham and The Great War) before joining the project, which I wanted to bring into line with the standards of The Great War project. I am particularly interested in people who served in the Durham Light Infantry or the 160th (Wearside) Brigade Royal Field Artillery.
- Merryl Hunkin Researching relatives who fought in the First World War for Britain (and South Africa - on the side of Great Britain)
- Lizzie Griffiths working in collaboration with Global Cemeteries and Categorisation Projects to add the Cemeteries of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and identify final resting places of the fallen commonwealth soldiers of WW1
- William Thompson working on Cumberland County, Tennessee participants in the Great War including Medal of Honor winner Milo Lemert.
- G. Cormier Adding profiles of Acadians from the Maritime Provinces, Canada who fought in WWI.
- Ken Evans working on Victoria Cross recipients (Australia), Australian Army Generals in the war, Australian Army Units of the war, and generally having fun.
- Eloise Adding WWI profiles.
- Louise Researching relatives who fought in the war.
- Find or create profiles
- All duplicates merged into lowest number
- Project Managed or PPP added if it qualifies, add the project box {{The Great War Project}} and assign the project profile as the PM
- pertaining categories added, use the sticker {{The Great War}}
- biography cleaned up and written, using the WikiTree Style Guide (can work with Profile Improvement Project for help)
- Attached family meets these goals, too
- Attached to the main WikiTree family tree (ask the GFR for help)
- Regular submissions to Profile of the Week
Those that are POW, MIA, KIA, WIA and those that died in the war can also go under the appropriateRoll of Honor. Along with others who received recognition. In this way we are not duplicating what has already been established but adding to it. An individual can be added to more than one project.
If we can find the burial information they can also be added to existing categories for the Global Cemeteries
Example profiles
- Earl E Aurand
- William Acheson
- Hector Clayton Hall
- John Edward Rooth Sutherland
- Ronald Douglas Sutherland
- Thomas (Creaven) Craven
- Ryburn Updike
- Henry Walter Deeley
Unable to find anything on the following
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Abraham-585
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Abbott-4641
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acker-429
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acone-1
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adams-19664
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adamski-18
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adzentoivich-1
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Afiliano-1
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Alasky-1
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Albert-1214
Free Space Pages
Over twenty-seven countries were mentioned as the Allied and Associated Powers in the Treaty of Versailles. World War I, however, was truly global in its outreach because colonies of European nations also went to war.
- Austria-Hungary : Austria-Hungary initiated World War I by declaring war on Serbia in July 1914.
- Belgium : Though initially neutral, Belgium joined World War I to offer stiff resistance against German invasion.
- Brazil : Brazil joined World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies, and was the only Latin American country to participate in the Great War.
- British Empire : Britain and British colonies including Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand formed part of the Allied camp. The spread of the British and German colonies across the globe brought World War I to Africa and Asia.
- Bulgaria : The Kingdom of Bulgaria joined the Central Powers in 1915 and fought until September 1918.
- China : China entered World War I in 1917 following U.S. entry into the war.
- France and Colonies : One of the major Allied nations, France declared war with the German declaration of war against France on August 3, 1914.
- German Empire : Germany was a major Central Power. Austria-Hungary's declaration of war was heavily influenced by Germany's assurance of support.
- Greece : Following the U.S. entry into World War I, Greece entered the war on the side of the Allies on June 27, 1917.
- Italy : Initially reluctant to join the war despite an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, Italy sided with the allies in 1915.
- Japan : Japan's entry into World War I in August 1914 followed Britain's request to combat raids of the Kaiserliche Marine (German Imperial Navy).
- Liberia : Liberian trade was adversely affected by World War I, and the country joined the Allied Powers in 1917.
- Montenegro : Linked closely with Serbia, Montenegro joined the Allied cause in August 1914.
- Ottoman Empire : The Ottoman Empire joined World War I in November 1914, on the side of the Central Powers, due to its close ties with Germany.
- Portugal : Despite the rivalry between Portugal and Germany, Portugal remained neutral until March 1915, when Germany declared war. Portugal then joined the Allies.
- Romania : Romania joined the Allies in August 1916.
- Russia : Russia, along with Britain and France, was one of the major Allied Powers, and first among the nations to mobilize troops against Germany.
- Serbia : The outbreak of World War I was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo, Serbia. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in July 1914.
- United States of America: The United States declared neutrality in 1914. In 1917, the United States associated with the Allied nations thereby changing the course of World War I.
- List of Campaigns- A.E.F. A list of campaigns from the U.S. Army Military History Branches that will be of assistance in beginning to understand the various battles and engagements in France
Other countries such as Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, San Marino, and Siam were also involved in the Great War.
Please use existing categories when adding World War I service/information to individual profiles. You will find them under
To-Do or Task List
- I have created a freespace page to start finding or creating profiles. Pennsylvanians of The Great War, using US Casualties of WWI, Pennsylvania-Wyoming. This resource does not give dates so it takes a little research to get the information. These are extremely large list so I add alphabetically and then find or create the profile. As the profile is created I add the link to the profile so it is not duplicated.
- I think for the United States a freespace page similar for each state will help us all. The same too as to the country, providence, etc, you want to work on. If we add about 50 to the list at a time we can complete the profiles.
- Add family members to connect to the Global Family. Flesh out the bios and then add more to the list.
Project Box
Please check with the project as to whether to use the project box or sticker shown below
Project Box Usage:
{{The Great War Project}}
Displays the following:
|... ... ... participated in the Great War.
Join: The Great War 1914-1918 Project
Discuss: Great_War
The World War I sticker will add the profile to a category by using the |unit=, |branch= and ", World War I".
{{The Great War Do not change this.
|branch= Here you add service branch or country that can be found at the bottom of the sticker page. If the service branch or country you want to use is not listed, please contact the leaders of the project so we can add it to the list.
|startdate=Service start date as dd mmm yyyy.
|units=Here you can list the main units he/she served in separated by ; (semi colons). Please do not use abbreviations.
|enddate=Service end date as dd mmm yyyy
|rank=Enter the rank (Ex. Sergeant) here. Please do not use abbreviations like Sgt.
|unit=This will add the profile to the appropriate unit category. Please do not use abbreviations and no unit smaller than Regiment/Brigade. If Regiment or Brigade is not known, use a higher unit that you do know.
|image=Here you can change the default flag image to an alternative image.
If the category the sticker creates turns out red check the spelling/punctuation and the parent category to see if it is spelled the same way. If all looks correct, you can create the new category, default text for the category should be listed in the HELP! section of the parent category.
Whenever in doubt, please contact the leaders of the project or the leaders of Military and War Project
Remember to enter the Country and Branch of Service as found at the bottom of the sticker page ie; Royal Navy, French Foreign Legion, Australian Army, United States Marine Corps etc and it will display the correct country flag and add the profile to the <category>, World War I.
Sample usage:
{{The Great War|branch=United States Army|startdate=1 Oct 1917|units=Co H, 3rd Infantry Regiment|enddate=31 Dec 1918|rank=Corporal|unit=3rd Infantry Regiment}}
Displays the following:
Service started: 1 Oct 1917
Unit(s): Co H, 3rd Infantry Regiment
Service ended: 31 Dec 1918
Project Pages
- The Great War, 1914-1918 Freespace page
- Allied Powers in the Great War
- Central Powers in the Great War
- Pennsylvanians of The Great War Freespace page
- Images in the Great War
- Soldiers and Participants of the Great War 1914-1918
- The Great War Memorials
- Gases and Weapons in the Great War
- The Great War Resource Page
- Under-age Soldiers in the First World War
- World War I on Wikipedia
- 1914 The Great War
- Combatant Nations Forces
- First World War
- Countries involved in World War I
- American Battle Graves
- US Casualties of WWI, Alabama-Maryland,
- US Casualties of WWI, Massachusetts-Ohio
- US Casualties of WWI, Pennsylvania-Wyoming
- United States of America Archives webpage for World War I resources and documents
- Pennsylvania Chester County War Aid Association (WWI), 1917-1921
- Gold star honor roll. A record of Indiana men and women who died in the service
Related Projects and Groups
Related Wikitree Space Pages
- World War I Draft Registration Cards Resource page NOTE: These are people that registered for the draft, not enlisted and fought during World War I
- World War I E-Cards
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Two Lost Hikers in Forest Rescued by Fire Personnel
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On Monday, May 27, 2019 at 7:50 p.m., the Sullivan County 911 center was made aware of two hikers that were lost in the Shawangunk Ridge State Forest in the area of Herlings Road. It is unclear where the hikers were going, but it is apparent that they lost course and ended up in a remote area off of a trail in the forest.
Summitville Fire Department and Wurtsboro Fire Department established a command center at the end of Herlings Road and began the search for the hikers using a team of ground volunteers who scoured the area. Two all-terrain vehicles were also deployed to assist in the search. The search began around 7:50 p.m. and the subjects were rescued by 10:00 p.m. They were quickly placed in a Mamakating First Aid Squad ambulance to be accessed for any injuries that could have been suffered while they were hiking.
Unconfirmed reports and radio chatter point to the two subjects being a mother and a young son. It appears that the subjects were able to call the dispatch center and request assistance. No injuries have been reported and it appears that only minor dehydration was suffered as a result of this incident.
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ReportsStats Q2 2018
"Competing without software is like competing without electricity."
-Naval Ravikant (2016)
"The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it's going to kill you." -Charlie Munger (1994)
"The smartphone is the sun and everything else orbits it." -Ben Evans (2015) follow
• 7.6b total world population. Of them:
5.7b adults=age>15yrs (74%)
• 8.5b total mobile connections, SIM cards (111%)
5.1b unique mobile phone users (67%)
3.0b smartphone users, installed base (39%)
USA passed 50% of homes being mobile-only in 2017
• 6.4b w/ electric power (84%)
• 5.5b TV users (69%)
• 3.1b w/ access to working toilets (41%)
• 3.0b iOS+Android computers (39%)
1.5b PCs (20%)
1.2b laptop PCs (16%)
1.1b tablets (14%)
1/3 of preschoolers (Australia) own smartphones/tablets
2/3 of primary school-aged children (Australia) own smartphones/tablets
• 1.4b car owners (18%)
• 20% of adults (USA) own a voice-activated smart speaker
outpacing adoption rates of smartphones (which are seeing 0% growth)
• 18% of adults (USA) own a smartwatch
THE NEW U.N. (pop≈MAU)
"No nation imagines itself coterminous with mankind." -Benedict Anderson (1983) must read
• Security Council's permanent members:
2.3b Christianity (30%) must watch: 15:15s → 21:56s
2.2b Facebook (28%)
1.8b Islam (23%)
1.5b WhatsApp (20%)
1.4b China (19%)
• Security Council's non-permanent members:
1.4b India (18%)
1.1b Hinduism (14%)
1.0b WeChat (13%)
1.0b Instagram (11%)
810m QQ (10%)
560m Qzone (7.3%)
510m European Union (6.7%)
390m Sina Weibo (5.1%)
340m Twitter (4.3%)
330m USA (4.3%)
• Not represented in the General Assembly:
1.2b non-religious (15%)
1.1b people with no legal identification (14%)
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -Peter Steiner (1993)
• 4.0b active internet users (53% of world pop)
3.7b active *mobile* internet users (93% of internet users)
770m in China > pop of Europe
vs 480m in India, 290m in USA
• 3.8b email users (95%), 3.2b active social media users (79%)
23% of 8-11s and 74% of 12-15s (UK) have a social media profile
• Wordpress powers 30% of the *entire* internet
vs 30% of all web traffic is porn (25m sites, 12% of total)
• monthly unique visitors (USA, aggregate brand sites)
250m Google, 210m+ Oath (incl Yahoo), 210m Facebook
• 21 Mbps avg d/l speed mobile internet
• 77 operators in 49 countries completed pre-commercial 5G trials in 2017
USA to pioneer in 2018: high-res video + AR/VR will drive early adoption
• proliferation of unlimited data plans, mobile data usage up 25% (YoY 2017)
• ~1% of internet data on Surface web (indexed by search engines)
vs 99% on Deep web (not indexed by search engines)
fastest growing data on the internet
• Dark Web: 100% anonymous
75% used for recreational drugs, $0.5m/day transacted
$1 for a SSN, $20k to hire a hitman, $100k if target is VIP
"This (Dropbox) is the fastest-growing SaaS company we have ever worked with." -Bryan Schreier (2017)
• 2.3b people use personal cloud storage (30% of world pop)
97% of USA internet users have used online storage
• if byte of data = 1 grain of rice, then:
kB ≈ 1 cup, MB ≈ 8 bags, GB ≈ 3 shipping container lorries
• $0.03/GB cost of digital storage (2017), vs $569/GB in 1990
• $0.05 cost of 1m transistors (2013), vs $527 in 1990
• $0.1 cost per instance on AWS (2018), vs $0.4 in 2008
• computing *Big Bang* = AWS (2006) + iPhone (2007)
iPhone 6 CPU transistors = 625x 1995 Pentium transistors
• world's most powerful supercomputer: IBM-built "Summit"
USA regains title after years of Chinese dominance
• world's highest-capacity microSD card: SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I
400GB at $250, stores ~40hrs of full HD video
• world's largest-capacity SSD: Nimbus Data 100TB ExaDrive DC100 SSD
• people/businesses continue relentless "march to the cloud"
36% of global IT infrastructure spent = private+public clouds (2016)
• Google Drive: 800m registered users, 4m enterprise customers
• Dropbox (pure-player): 500m users, 11m+ paying customers, $13b mkt cap
fastest SaaS company to $1b/yr recurring revenues (8.3 yrs)
• Box (pure-player): 58m registered users, 10m paying customers, $3.5b mkt cap
"Bitcoin is the real Occupy Wall Street." -Julian Assange (2017)
• $272b network value of all 1.6k altcoins/tokens great read
19 crypto-assets w/network value > $1b
• 1 BTC > 5x Gold oz, bitcoin overtook gold in Apr-2017
• $3.4b bitcoin mining revenues 1H 2018 > $3.3b in 2017
• Coinbase has 20m users, available in 30+ countries
#1 free app (App Store) for a week in Dec-2017
latest valuation range $5b-8b, up from $1.6b in Aug-2017
• "energy-hungry" bitcoin to use 0.5% of world's electricity by 2018E
• anonymous/decentralized trust enabled by blockchains: expensive read working paper
security of blockchain is linear to expenditure in mining power
vs door lock increases house security by more than cost of the lock
• cost for an attacker to take over 51% of mining network:
$6b+ in hardware, $4m+/day in energy consumption
• Australian Securities Exchange starts using blockchain to clear/settle trades
• London Stock Exchange + IBM to develop blockchain platform for issuing shares
• NASDAQ considers becoming a crypto exchange, once regulation "matures"
• HSBC+ING perform world's first finance transaction using blockchain
• USA adoption status quasi mainstream:
State of Nebraska: bill LB 695 → smart contracts are enforceable
State of Delaware: shareholder's list (legally mandatory) → OK on a blockchain
"Drones will be as ubiquitous as sprinklers." -Chris Anderson (2017) follow
• iPhones+Android phones sold > Japanese cameras *ever*
1.4b iPhones sold (since launched) vs 30m GoPro
Canon discontinues last film camera, Nikon still offers two
• Google searches for 'dashboard cam' = 3x 'autonomous driving'
• $4k for Puck VLP-16, Velodyne's cheapest LiDAR in stock
• Boston Dynamic's bipedal robot Atlas does backflip watch
100k+ warehouse robots "employed" by Amazon
vs 125k warehouse employees
Walmart's shelf-scanning robots rolled out in 50+ stores
• 10yrs ago drones were $m+ USA military secret tech
now Chinese drones rule the sky, DJI has ~70% mkt sh
$399 for Spark: its cheapest HD-video drone
• 1.1m hobbyist drone fleet (USA), 870k registered owner-hobbyists
110k+ commercial drone fleet (USA), 75k certified pilots
• autonomous fixed-wing style airplane Zipline reaches top speed of 128 km/h
100km/h cruising speed, 160km range, 1.75kg of carrying cargo capacity
• Australian lifeguards use drone to rescue two teenagers watch
• <20% of Earth's seafloor mapped (100% goal → 2030)
unmanned mapping barges + autonomous underwater vehicles being deployed
Saildrone startup redefining ocean data w/ unmanned sailing drones
"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion." -Richard Feynman (1988)
• computing power for AI training doubling every 3.5mo
vs 18mo for Moore's Law
22+ co designing custom chips for deep learning acceleration
• Microsoft achieves human-parity in speech recog, >95% match
NLP translates Chinese news articles to Eng = human accuracy
• Google words recog surpasses human threshold, <5% error rate
Speech-to-Text API recognizes 120 lang: $0.02/min for audio
• Reading comprehension test: human performance=82.304
🥇Yuanfandao=83.982, 🥈Google=83.877, 🥉Microsoft=82.849
• AlphaZero becomes best Chess and Go player read "Techmate"
starts from blank slate, no historical data, except game rules
24hrs to convincingly defeat world-champion programs in each case
• FBI's facial recognition database includes 50% of adult pop (USA)
CBP deploys Vehicle Face System scanning drivers' faces
ICE has access to 2b license plate recognition database
• fake celebrity-porn videos created using ML
mapping famous faces onto performers' bodies
• cpu vision identifies skin cancer as accurately as a panel of doctors
"ChestX-ray8" has 100k+ chest X-Rays annotated images to train data
Paige.ai granted access to MSKCC's database of 25m pathology slides
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." -Bob Dylan (1965)
• 0.0249$/kWh record-low solar energy contract, -100x since 1976
learning rate: cost falls 22% for every doubling in capacity
~1b people around the world w/o power, untapped market!
• new capacity globally since 2012: renewable > net fossil fuel
165GW renewable (2017) vs 70GW net fossil fuel
570m LED bulbs in 2017 = closing 160+ coal power plants
• cumulative installed solar photovoltaic capacity
🥇China (130GW), 🥈USA (50GW), 🥉Japan (50GW)
USA: #1 source of new capacity additions in Q1 2018
China: growth far outstripping other sources
Saudi Arabia (#2 oil producer) + SoftBank to build world's largest solar farm
$200b investment will add 200GW in capacity
• on Sun 6-May-2018 solar panels generated 27% of UK's electricity
vs 25% from both natural gas and nuclear
• cumulative installed wind energy capacity
🥇China (160GW), 🥈USA (90GW), 🥉Germany (60GW)
• fastest-growing occupations (USA): solar installers, wind turbine techs
• CA mandates solar panel on all new homes, starting 2020
LA to add solar panels to 220k street lighting poles, before 2028 Olympics
ELECTRIC VEHICLES special report
"Mr. Musk—who is 45 years old, the same age as Mr. Ford was in 1908 when he released the Model T." -WSJ (2017)
• 52% of new car sales in Norway (2017): electric
first time fossil-fuel mkt sh below 50%
• 3m+ EVs currently on the road
🥇EV fleet China=1.2m, 🥈USA=780k, 🥉Japan=200k
• 320k+ Nissan Leaf sold: best-selling highway-capable EV
• "ban all diesel cars" club: 7 of the top 10 economies
by 2030: Germany, India, Italy, Brazil
by 2040: China, UK, France
• California targets 5m clean cars by 2030, up from 350k
$2.5b budget: 250k charging stations, $200m/yr in subsidies ($7k/car)
LA transport auth: convert all 2.2k buses into zero-emission fleet by 2030
• EV-only lineup: Volvo (2019), M-Benz (2022), Peugeot (2025), VW (2030)
Porsche to invest $8b by 2020 to electrify entire lineup
to deploy 500 fast chargers across 190 USA Porsche dealerships
• electric cars outnumber public charging stations 6:1
UK obligates motorway service/gas stations to add charging points
• $25b in battery purchase plan by VW > Tesla's $18b plan
• car dealers, brace for a lot of pain
50% of car maintenance attributable to internal combustion engine
$200 Chevy Bolt (annual maintenance cost) vs $600 VW Golf
"An S&P 500 company is being replaced every two weeks." -Richard Foster (2012)
• 23m total businesses in USA, 6.5k publicly listed companies
top 5 by mkt cap: hq=USA, exchange=NASDAQ, comp adv=tech
21 Chinese co went public on USA exchanges in 2017
• #6 largest company in world: Tencent
hq=China, exchange=SEHK, comp adv=tech
• 52% of Fortune 500 companies in 2000 → now extinct
• 300k/yr startups/companies funded in USA (2017)
1k/yr new VC-backed companies started
• 2011-17 USA company fundraising: private mkt > public mkt
• $75b invested by USA VCs (2017), $45b in 1H 2018
10 states with VC ecosystem >$1b: #1 CA>$36b, #2 NY>$11b
• fundraising = blockchain's killer app
code/product now priced in real time
$13.6b+ via Initial Coin Offering "ICO" (1H 2018)
vs $1.6b invested by VCs (seed stage, USA, 1H 2018)
1/3 of new VC funds docs: explicitly allow purchase of crypto assets
• $36b issued in P2P loans via LendingClub, 3m borrowers
• $5b raised by social fundraising platform GoFundMe, 50m donors
• $4b pledged to Kickstarter projects globally, 140k+ funded projects
• $300m paid to 100k artists using Patreon
"The work ethic in Chinese tech companies far outpaces their US rivals." -Michael Moritz (2018) read article
• "9-9-6" standard schedule of a Chinese tech employee
9am to 9pm, 6 days/week
• much greater supply of STEM workers
China pop = 4x USA, China tech employees = 10x USA
China PhD's on AI > USA
• China baffled w/ Silicon Valley's hard time with hardware
in China: shipping atoms = shipping bits
• Peter Thiel's Zero to One, translated into Mandarin
bestselling business book in China 必读
• Silicon Valley (10x innovation) terrified of China (20x), Europe (1x)
China = 25% of global VC (up from 5% in 2008)
China R&D spending growing 18%/yr, vs USA at 4%/yr
• #1 unicorn startup: Ant Financial $150b (China) > 2x Uber $60b (USA)
$10b+ unicorns: China = 2x USA. Top 50: China = 2x USA, (EU=0)
• Top 20 internet companies by mkt value today: USA=11, China=9
5yrs ago: USA=9, China=2
4yrs ago (Sep-2014): Alibaba's $25b IPO on NYSE, biggest ever
• China cuts restrictions, allows foreign majority ownership for several businesses
Tesla could now own 100% of an electric car factory in China
• WeChat = entire China ecosystem, almost no one outside of China ever uses
"You call it monopoly, I call it enterprise." -John D. Rockefeller (1911) watch episodes
APPLE (mkt cap $0.9+ *trillion*)
"Just the way he advertised: Jesus, Gandhi, Me!" -Bill Burr (2012) watch
• $267b cash on balance sheet > Finland's GDP
• 1.3b+ active devices across: iPhone, iPad, Watch, Mac, iPod, AppleTV
60%+ of Americans own an Apple product
• iPhone: most successful product of all times, now stagnate
1.4b+ cumulative iPhones sold since launch (Q2 2007)
vs 400m Sony Walkman, 130m Nokia 3310 back in stock
$640 avg selling price, vs $200+ for rest of industry
#1 by installed base in China, 50% mkt sh in Beijing
• two tablet markets: iPads and generic cheap black plastic
iPad = 89% of tablets >$200 in USA
• biggest watchmaker in the world
overtook Rolex, 15m/yr Apple Watch vs 1m/yr Rolex
Apple Watch sales > all Swiss watchmakers (Q4 2017)
Apple Watch alone would be a Fortune 300 company
• Google is paying $3b/year to remain the default search engine on iOS devices
• $27b earned by iOS developers in 2017 > Starbucks Corp's total revenue
• 500m walk into Apple's 400+ stores, clothing/apparel to launch soon
• $12b+ spent in R&D during 2017 (vs $7m in lobbying)
500m Siri users, 160+ open positions within the division (all-time high)
Project Titan: 2nd largest EV fleet in CA with 55 SDV, behind GM
AMAZON (mkt cap $0.8+ *trillion*)
"If Amazon is in your line of business: Sell now. If Amazon is not in your line of business: Sell now; your business sucks." -@GSElevator (2017)
• #1 online retailer: 28% mkt sh, 4% of *all* USA retail
• #1 online grocery: 18% mkt sh (2x Walmart)
1/4 of USA homes buy groceries online
• #1 ebook seller: 83% mkt sh
• #1 company by R&D spending: $23b (2017), vs $13m in lobbying
1.4k quarterly earnings calls mentioned the word 'Amazon'
2x more than 'Google' or 'Apple'
• #1 cloud infrastructure provider: AWS=40% mkt sh
$20b in rev > Σ cloud(Microsoft+Google+Salesforce+Oracle+Alibaba)
• #1 voice-powered speaker: 60%+ mkt sh
30m Echo units w/ 30k skills control 4k smart devices from 1k+ unique brands
Echo Dot = best-selling amazon.com product (any manufacturer, any category) get yours
• #1 fulfillment company? #2 largest private employer in USA by FTE
32 Amazon Air planes, 6k trailers, 44% of USA pop within 20mi of fulfillment node
Amazon Go: cashier-less store. Open in Seattle, SF+Chicago next
>50% units sold on Amazon 2017, from 3rd-party sellers
• #4 in ads: surpassed Twitter+Snapchat. Going after Google+Facebook
50% online searches for products start/end on amazon.com
• 100m+ Amazon prime members: $1.3k annual spending by member
vs $1k/yr by Amazon customer, vs $1.7k/yr by Echo owner
ALPHABET (mkt cap $0.8 *trillion*)
"Google searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche." -Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (2017) must read
• 7 products with 1b+ MAU each
Search, Android, Maps, Chrome, YouTube, Google Play, Gmail
• 76% mkt sh in online search (desktop+mobile)
• Android overtakes Windows as the *internet* most used OS
40%+ mkt sh, 2.3b active Android devices
• Google Maps adds 11 Disney Parks to explore via Street View
satellite mapping outpacing Street View vehicles
• 2b Chrome installs in active use
#1 browser across all devices (60% mkt sh), vs Safari (#2, ~15%)
• 1.8b MAU on YouTube
1b videos captioned in 10 languages
• 800m/mo Google Drive users
500m users who backup 1.2b/day photos/videos
4m paying customers on G Suite
• $17b+ spent in R&D in 2017, vs $18m in lobbying (#1 in USA)
Google Assistant on 400m Android devices, available with 5k major brands
3m+ Google Home smart speakers sold in Q1 2018, first time ahead of Echo
Waymo's fleet > 5m self-driving miles on public roads
logged more miles than all other competitors
$550m bet on Chinese e-commerce JD.com
MICROSOFT (mkt cap $0.8 *trillion*)
"Here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo)." -George Harrison (1969)
• Windows + Office = the legacy business
• 88% mkt sh in desktop operating system
1.5b/day Windows devices (installed base)
• 1.2b/day Office users, largest productivity service available
135m/mo paid active users (commercial licenses)
30m Office 365 consumer subscribers (cloud version)
Office 365 = 2x G Suite's penetration in businesses
400m Outlook users, 300m Skype users
• Cloud + AI platform = new engine of innovation
• $26b+ for LinkedIn (2016): 560m profiles, 10m companies posting jobs
• $8b for GitHub (2018): outbidding Google, Amazon, Tencent, Atlassian
• 13% mkt sh in cloud computing infra w/ Azure
14 consecutive qtrs: revenue growing triple digits
Xiaomi to use Azure for data storage, bandwidth and computing
• 150m/mo Cortana users
Word's Resume Assistant feature (powered by LinkedIn) writes your resume
real-time translator: power point (60 languages), Skype (10 languages)
• $13b spent in R&D in FY2017 (vs $8m in lobbying)
samples cashier-less technology to Walmart and other retailers
• 140m+ Minecraft copies sold, 60m/mo Xbox Live users
FACEBOOK (mkt cap $0.6 *trillion*)
"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." -Sheryl Sandberg (2012)
• 60%+ mobile social traffic, 30%+ digital ad revenue
1b+/mo use Facebook, Groups, Messenger, WhatsApp
70m biz profiles, 6m/mo active advertisers
• Facebook: 2.2b MAU, 1.5b DAU
1.3b fake accounts closed (last 6 mos)
post CA-impasse: stock price & user engagement → *intact*
• Messenger: 1.3b MAU with 500 FTE, 35b/day messages
goal: never dial a 1-800 number again
56% of people rather message than call customer service
100m interacting with 'M', messenger's virtual assistant
400m/day call/video chat, 20m businesses, 300k bots
• WhatsApp: 1.5b MAU with 250 FTE, 65b/day messages
co-founders J. Koum + B. Acton quit, left $1.3b "on the table" …ads to come?
begins verifying biz accounts (green checkmark on profiles)
WhatsApp for business launched in USA, UK, Indonesia
• Instagram: 1b MAU with 700 FTE, 450m/day stories
25m biz-specific profiles, 2m/mo active advertisers
blue checkmark = seal of legitimacy, selling for $1k-7k on black mkt
• $8b R&D in 2017 (vs $12m in lobbying)
M translates live Eng-Spa messages between buyers-sellers
TESLA (mkt cap $58b)
"Musk has made every Tesla customer a venture capitalist." -Steve LeVine (2016)
• most valuable USA car maker: ahead of Ford and GM Damodaran's valuation
creating the best car ownership experience on the planet
buy online + mobile service (~30% of all service jobs)
autopilot "summons" vehicle to pull into/out parking lot
over-the-air *software-update* fixes stopping distance concern
• 100k+ vehicles delivered in 2017 (<1% of cars sold in USA)
*European* sales: Model S > Mercedes S Class > BMW Series 7
• Model S, starts at $80k, WR longest-range electric sedan
Model S P100D w/ Ludicrous+ goes 0-60mph in 2.389s
faster than any Ferrari or Lamborghini
• Model X, starts at $80k, longest-range electric SUV
NHTSA awarded a 5-star safety rating, 1st for any SUV
• Model 3 starts at ~$35k, production "finally" normalizing → 500/day
0-60mph in 5.6s, 210km/h top speed, 350km range
450k+ reservations at $1k deposit
• Roadster 2G, to be quickest production car ever: 0-60mph in 1.9s
Elon: "Like a flying metal suit, but in car form."
reservations starts at $50k, 'Founder Series' full price of $250k *upfront* place reservation
• $1.4b R&D in 2017: Tesla's FTEs = 1/5 Ford, = 1/5 GM
Energy now 12% of revenue
"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation." -Alex Rampell (2015) follow
"So, I asked him: What did you search? And he goes: Jewish and my zip code!" -Aziz Ansari (2015) watch
• #1 place (USA) where singles met their last first date: app
56% of singles have created a dating profile
45%+ of singles have dated someone they met online
• Match Group owns top 45 brands: 7m paid members total
Tinder, Match.com, OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, Hinge
• Tinder: 50m active users, 3m paid members
#2 app by consumer spend global 2017 (AppStore+GooglePlay)
vs #1 = Netflix → "Netflix and Chill?"
• Bumble: 30m active users
$b acquisition offer by Match Group, rejected
both companies copying and suing each other
• Facebook to launch dating feature, hires people from Tinder, Hinge, eHarmony
• 10m active members on 'compensated dating' app Seeking Arrangement
8m sugar babies, 2m sugar daddy/momma
#1 free social networking app in China's iOS App Store
• 1/7 of kids ages 12-17 have sent a sext (sex+text)
increases 4%/yr each additional year of age
UK's compulsory age verification check for online porn, deadline delayed
• porn is the biggest development in sexuality research ever
Pornhub: 22m registered users, 80m/day visits to pornhub.com, 100b/yr video views
"The height of civilization isn't the poor owning cars but the rich sharing bikes." -Horace Dediu (2017) follow
• NYC taxi medallion: from $1.3m in 2013 (record price)
to <$300k avg in June 2018
NYC considering cash bailout for medallion owners
• ride-hailing services overtook rental cars
• first studies out: ride-hailing increased traffic congestion read study
• Uber: moves more people than the entire airline industry
more people using Uber in NYC than yellow cabs
630+ cities, 65 countries, 15m/day rides
• Lyft: 20th qtr w/ 100%+ YoY rev growth
640 cities, 95% of USA pop, all 50 states, 10m/week rides
~35% USA mkt sh w/ 32m MAU, vs Uber ~65% w/ 42m MAU
• Dockless bike-sharing: 16m bikes in China, replacing 10% car travels
Shanghai: 1.5m bikes (1:16 residents), Beijing: 2.4m bikes (1:5 residents)
Ofo and Mobike claim 100m users in China's tier-1 cities
Hellobike claims 100m users across 180 tier-2 and 3 cities
• Uber acquires bike-share company JUMP, Lyft acquires Motivate
• sidewalk wars: Lime raises $250m @ $750m, vs Bird $150m @ $1b
• Dockless bike / e-bike / e-scooters company Limebike (USA)
operates in 70 USA cities, 5 European cities, $1 to unlock and $2/hr for riding
sidewalk wars: Lime raises $250m @ $750m, vs Bird $150m @ $1b
ASSISTANTS special report
"Alexa is a revelation for the blind." -Ian Bogost (2018)
• people speak ~150 words/min, vs type ~40 words/min
voice speech recognition tech → open source
power-users by age: 25-49s=65%, 18-24s=59%, 50+=57%
• best-selling consumer gadget 2017: smart speaker
9m units shipped in Q1 2018, +210% YoY
fastest-growing consumer tech, to surpass 50m by 2018
• #2 location of smart speaker: kitchen
most common shop-by-voice category: groceries (20%)
• 20% Americans own a smart speaker, up 128% (2016)
• Amazon's Echo: ~60% USA mkt sh, 2.5m shipped in Q1 2018
Microsoft Cortana integrated with Amazon Alexa
Sonos multi-voice smart speaker S13, supports Alexa first read $SONO S-1
Garmin's car navigation Speak, powered by Alexa
• Google Home: ~30% USA mkt sh, 3.2m shipped in Q1 2018
orders from Walmart and Carrefour enabled via Google Assistant
Bose QC35 II headphones, powered by Google Assistant
Ikea lightbulbs integrated with Alexa and Google Assistant
• Alibaba's Tmall Genie X1, powered by AliGenie, 1.1m shipped in Q1 2018
• Apple: HomePod powered by Siri, starting at $349
• Facebook: working to release "Aloha" to market
"😂 word of the year 2015" -Oxford Dictionaries (2015)
• text messaging is the most used data service in the world
3-Dec-1992: first SMS message, 20b/day today
vs 65b/day on WhatsApp, 40b/day on WeChat
400m active users on Apple's iMessage, launching for biz
• 50%+ of USA households no longer have landlines
2m+ developers on Twilio's cloud communication API
customers lines to VoIP migration, target dates:
Deutsche Telekom (2018), Orange (2020), BT (2025)
• Unicode approves 160 new emojis (2.8k total to date)
"Face with Tears of Joy" emoji = most popular emoji
most-used emoji on Twitter, 2.1x more than ❤ (#2)
• top langs for web content: 🥇English>50%, 🥈Russian=6%, 🥉German=6%
• NSA collected metadata on 530m phone calls in 2017, 3.5x 2016
• open source Signal Protocol powers the encryption of messages across:
Facebook's WhatsApp, Microsoft's Skype, Google's Allo
• Slack: 8m DAU, 3m paying users, 70k paying companies (65% Fortune 100)
used by Police Dept of Hartford, CT
• ~3t photos taken on film ever, 1t by iPhone users (2016)
most pictured: #1 scenery, #2 information I need to remember
• Apple's Podcasts app: 550k shows, 20m episodes, from 155 countries in 100+ langs
"So it learns information about me?" -Ron Swanson (2017) watch
• $210b internet ad spending > TV ad spending
2018E: *mobile* ad spending USA > TV (first time)
• duopoly: Google + Facebook > print + radio ad industry
• 700 ad networks w/ 100k+ clicks analyzed = 15% avg fraud
only 23 networks = fraud-free
8 networks = 100% fraudulent, 35 networks = 50% fraudulent
• Google removed 3.2b ads for policy violations, up from 1b in 2016
320k publishers blocked, up from 100k
fake WhatsApp on Play Store downloaded by 1m+ users
• Global ad blocking users: 380m mobile, 230m desktop
120m active devices use Adblock Plus
• 1.2m Instagram followers of CGI influencer @lilmiquela follow her
• 480 of the top 50k websites track visitors' keystrokes
2b stolen passwords/usernames on the black market
• Adobe developing image manipulation detection to spot photoshopped images read paper
'deepfake'-like videos: opportunities for new and powerful forms of manipulation read article
• 400+ websites infected with Coinhive (mines cryptocurrencies in the background)
YouTube viewers' CPUs were being used to mine cryptocurrency via ads
• FBI: 1 in 4 victims respond by wiring money to fraudsters (USA)
two types companies: been hacked, don't know they've been hacked
"This is a Trojan horse of epic proportions. And the US consumer will easily be co-opted." -Josh Wolfe (2018) follow
• credit/debit cards payments > cash payments
contactless payments: 91%=Australia, 45%=UK, 5%=USA
• 18% of adults owns a credit card
Visa + Mastercard ≈ 80% mkt sh, get paid ~3%/tx
• 1.7b people remain unbanked (22%), untapped mkt!
$1b+/day now processed by mobile money industry
• China's mobile payments market, world's largest. Users:
830m WeChat Pay, 520m Alipay, 100m Baidu Wallet
• PayPal: 240m active accounts incl 20m merchant accounts
$12b payments via Venmo in Q1 2018
more valuable than American Express, $100b vs $85b
• Square: 90m customer profiles, 30k stores, 7m active Cash App users
$2.5b in credit: 400k loans through Square Capital (since '14)
• 50% of USA shops now accept Apple Pay, 200m active users
Apple Pay Cash (P2P service) live, ask Siri and pay
Apple-branded credit card to be launched with Goldman Sachs
• Walmart Pay: #3 wallet in USA > Android pay
• Stripe: credit cards and ACH debits transactions across 25 countries
supports/partners with ApplePay, WeChat Pay, Alipay
• Adyen becomes eBay's primary payment provider read IPO prospectus
"World's largest company by sales (Walmart) is now the perceived underdog." -The Economist (2017)
• 9k retail stores closed in USA 2017 > 6.2k in 2008
growth rate for mobile tx = 4x desktop, = 10x brick & mortar
Etsy=2m sellers (99.9% USA counties), Stitch Fix=2.7m clients
• consumer goods' ARPU: global avg= $830
#1 UK=$2.1k, #2 USA=$1.8k, #14 China=$0.9k
• $1t online sales (China), 80% mobile, 21% of retail sales
• $25b Alibaba's singles day, hits $1b in 2min, $10b in 1hr 6min
90% mobile, 810m+ orders made
• $445b online retail sales (USA), 34% mobile, 13% of retail sales
• USA largest shopping events (by sales, 2017)
$6.6b Cyber Monday, $5.0b Black Friday
$110b holiday season (Nov+Dec)
holiday debit+credit card sales: Amazon > Walmart (first time)
• Walmart acquires 77% of Flipkart for $16b, outbids Amazon, buys out SoftBank
Flipkart claims 100m users, India's #1 online marketplace
Walmart.com expands online grocery delivery, to cover 40%+ of USA pop
• Shopify has 610k+ merchants. Stock up +860% since IPO
6yrs to hit first $b in GMV, latest $b in 4 days
• $110b spend in global app stores 2018E ≈ GDP of Morocco
App Store: net rev/download ≈ 5x Google Play, net rev/device ≈ 10x Google Play
"For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: hunt or be hunted." -Francis Underwood (2014)
• 2018 budget for original programming
$7b Netflix, $5b Amazon, $3b Hulu, $2b HBO, $1b Apple, $1b Facebook
• Netflix (Oscars=2): 100m+ paid subs globally
#1 non-game app by revenue (App Store + Google Play)
USA: 60m paid subs > all cable companies combined
libraries: #1 Japan 6.3k titles, #2 USA 5.6k (up 2x since 2013)
• Amazon (Oscars=3): movie library is 4x Netflix, 2x Hulu
26m USA subs, won Premier League streaming rights
• Disney: ends deal with Netflix, to launch streaming service in 2019
Sports (ESPN+ for 5/mo or $50/yr) + Family (Disney/Pixar)
90m ESPN subs, crown jewel of cable TV, in your face Netflix watch 1991 ad
• Hulu (controlled by Disney): 20m USA subscribers
1st streaming service to win an Emmy for best drama
• Time Warner: 5m HBO Now subscribers, 2m downloads for PeopleTV app
• Apple: partners with Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey
• Baidu-controlled iQiyi has 60m+ paying subscribers, to launch physical movie theatre
• YouTubeTV: live TV from 60+ networks (local sports + news). No cable box required
$40/mo, cancel anytime, available in ~100 markets, claims 300k+ subscribers
• Snapchat + NBC: "Stay Tuned" reaches 30m views, live broadcast 2018 Winter Olympics
• Twitter monetization: video=fastest growing. Closes deals w/ Disney and NBCUniversal
"We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation." -Taylor Swift (2015)
• streaming is now industry's biggest source of revenue
third successive year of revenue growth
65% of USA music revenue in 2017: streaming
songs streamed in USA > all digital downloads to date
• Spotify revenue ≈ 30% of global music industry
75m+ paid subscribers, 170m+ total active
~8% equity swap w/ Tencent Music Entertainment
TME has 15m paying subs, to IPO in Wall Street in 2018
• 48m paid subscribers on Apple Music
Apple Music to overtake Spotify: growing 2m/mo vs at 1.3m/mo (Q1 2018)
• YouTube Music available in 17 countries, free with ads, $10/mo without ads
$12/mo with YouTube Premium video
• Taylor Swift (highest paid musician globally) released all her albums on Spotify
releases *video* of "Delicate" on Spotify before YouTube
"Reputation" album released 10-Nov-17, best-selling album of 2017
• 100+ YouTube music videos with >1b views vs 11 Spotify songs have passed 1b streams
"Hello" by Adele, fastest video to hit 1b views on YouTube: 87 days
vs "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran, fastest song to hit 1b streams on Spotify: 153 days
"Despacito" by Luis Fonsi, released on Jan-2017, most viewed YouTube video: 5.3b views watch
• Amazon Music Unlimited, at $10/m or $8/mo for Prime subscribers, has 20m subscribers
"Facts don't care about your feelings." -Ben Shapiro (2016)
• Brokerage: 4m accts on $0 fee app Robinhood > E*TRADE
• Encyclopedia: blockchain-based Everipedia claims 3m/mo users
• Grammar: 10m/day checking grammar on Grammarly
• Gym: 5m Fitness Blender subscribers
• Homework: 100m 12-18 year olds asking questions on Brainly
• Karaoke: 45m+ downloads of 15s video-sharing app Tik Tok
• Locksmith: 1.5k KeyMe smart-kiosks across USA
• Lost & found: 15m Tile trackers sold, Samsonite luggage "Tile-inside"
• Meditation: 26m downloads of Calm (Apple app of the year)
• Muslims: 12m/mo pray using Muslim Pro app
• Neighborhoods: 175k neighborhoods on Nextdoor
• Period: 12m women track their period with Flo app
• Policy: 200m users petitioning governments on Change.org
• Religion: 20k religious communities on Pray.com (hackathon hosted by the Vatican)
• Rockets: launched by SpaceX (YTD 2018) > any company/country
• Spas: 170m/qtr appointments via wellness marketplace MindBody
• Textbooks: 100k students at 100 campuses using online textbooks by Packback
• Theaters: 2m subscribed to "one movie a day" service MoviePass
• Trivia: 2.4m+ concurrent players during Super Bowl on live trivia app HQ
• Virtual world: Second Life has 800k MAUs


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Recently, some big news was announced at the recent Facebook Developer Conference: You can now raise funds for your organization on Instagram Stories using the Instagram donation sticker.
Using the sticker is easy — it's located in the same place as other stickers such as "location" and "@mention." You'll need to link your Facebook and Instagram accounts and make sure your nonprofit is set up to receive donations by signing up for Charitable Giving Tools through Facebook. Once you've got that squared away, you can start using stickers immediately. We should also mention that this feature is currently only available to U.S. nonprofits.
Either you or any of your supporters can use these stickers for a fundraising campaign. That means that you can place one on an Instagram Story featuring an event at your organization, such as a car wash or a fun run (or go Live!). But you can also reach out directly to your community with a social media post or email and ask them to help promote your cause. Keep in mind that Instagram Stories are only up for 24 hours, so you'll need to create a new story for each day you plan to fundraise.
If it's on your Instagram Story, you can swipe up on the story in order to see how much money you've raised and who your donors are. However, like the fundraising tool on Facebook, you can't always get the email contact of those who have donated. They need to fill out an extra form if they wish to provide your organization with this information.
Supporters can donate anywhere from $5 to $2,500, and Facebook receives no fees through this tool, so 100 percent of the funds raised will go to your nonprofit. Once your organization reaches the $100 or equivalent payout amount, funds can be transferred via either ACH or a direct deposit. Payments take two weeks to process and occur biweekly.
And there you have it, a new way to fundraise on Instagram Stories. But this should be just part of your larger quiver of fundraising resources. In case you missed it, be sure to check out our blog posts on mobile fundraising, other great fundraising tools available through TechSoup, and tips on how to effectively fundraise from millennials.


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As inmate No. 10R0675 at the Greene Correctional Facility in upstate New York, Coss Marte invented his own HIIT body-weight routine—with moves he conceived and named himself. Here, he breaks down what he considers the perfect 15-minute routine that can be done anywhere.
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1. Up & Down
Stand. Squat down. Rest your weight on the palms of your hands without letting your butt touch the ground. Kick your legs forward. Bring them back. Explode upward. Repeat. Thirty reps will work your hamstrings, quads, and calves. "I was doing regular squats in my cell, and I realized it's harder if I sit down and stand back up," Marte says.
"You get a deeper stretch and workout like this."
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2. Back & Forth
Start in a pushup position. Bring your legs in under your torso. Rock back on your haunches and plant your arms behind you. Kick your legs forward. Bring them back. Return your hands to their original spot and stretch your legs back to the pushup position. Repeat. Thirty reps will work your abs and lower back. "It's basically going from a pushup position to a situp position," Marte explains.
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3. Hello Dolly
Balance yourself on your butt, slightly rocked back, without any of your limbs touching the ground. Bring your hands together, as if in prayer. Elevate your legs and bend your knees at a 90-degree angle. Open your legs 45 degrees and bring them back. Repeat. Thirty reps will work your abs, quads, and lower back. "You open up your legs and there's Dolly," Marte says, laughing. "And you're also kind of in a prayer position. While you're there, pray to God you don't ever get stuck in prison."
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4. T-bone
Plant your arms beneath your butt, elevate, and stretch your legs straight out. Bring your legs in and back out, and then open them up and close them again. Repeat. Thirty reps will work your triceps and core. And bend your elbows slightly to get your biceps working. Stretch your abs for 20 seconds. Interlock your fingers and bring your arms straight up and reach as high as you can. Marte explains the origins of this move: "I was doing dips off my toilet and just started kicking out my legs."
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5. Toe Touch
Set up in a crab-walk position with your hands and feet on the ground and your torso elevated, facing upward. Bring your right hand to your left foot and vice versa. Repeat. Thirty reps will work your core, triceps, and biceps. Stretch your groin for 20 seconds. Sit with the soles of your shoes or feet touching fully. Then hold your ankles and push down on your knees with your elbows.
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