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NMN is a potent NAD+ precursor.
NMN, short for nicotinamide mononucleotide, is a naturally occurring vitamin B3 derivative and a building block, known as a precursor, of NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide). NAD+ is an essential coenzyme present in all living cells that plays a role in protecting us from the effects of ageing and disease. But, unfortunately, NAD+ declines as we age.
That's where NMN comes in. By targeting the natural decline of NAD+ in our bodies, NMN replenishes NAD+ levels and helps you maintain vibrant health for longer.
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The Science Behind NMN
What is it: A naturally occurring vitamin B3 derivative and a precursor of NAD+, an essential coenzyme present in all living cells that is closely linked to metabolism and ageing.
What it does: Targets the natural decline of NAD+ in our bodies as we age. By restoring NAD+ levels, NMN helps you regain and maintain vibrant health and energy.
NMN, short for nicotinamide mononucleotide, is a naturally occurring vitamin B3 derivative. NMN is a precursor of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a coenzyme present in all human cells. NAD+ is essential for life and is linked closely to metabolism and ageing.
Where can it be found in nature?
NMN is naturally present in our food, including milk, meat, avocado, broccoli, cabbage, cucumber, and edamame. However, it would be nearly impossible to get an efficient dose from food alone. You'd need to consume almost 100kg of broccoli or 416kg of beef just to get 250mg of NMN, the dose provided in our daily supplement.
What are its primary functions?
NMN becomes NAD+ in our bodies, and NAD+ is involved in hundreds of metabolic processes throughout the body. Its most crucial roles include helping turn nutrients into energy and working as a fuel for the enzymes involved in DNA protection and repair. Accumulating evidence suggests that NAD+ systemically declines with age and contributes to the development of age-related diseases. A 50-year-old, for example, has roughly half the levels of NAD+ as a 20-year-old. Of course, you can live with low levels of NAD+, but it will accelerate the ageing process and reduce your healthspan. Fortunately, increasing NAD+ levels has many health benefits for various organs, including the brain, cardiovascular system, and skin elasticity.
What are the benefits of taking NMN?
NMN targets the natural decline of NAD+ in our bodies as we age. By restoring NAD+ levels, NMN supplements help you regain, sustain, and maintain vibrant health and energy through the years. A number of studies have shown the beneficial effects of NMN on energy levels, memory, blood vessel health, metabolism, stem cell health, epigenome maintenance, and DNA damage repair. In a clinical study in 2014, for instance, a team of researchers led by Dr. David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and expert on biological ageing, demonstrated that NMN can extend lifespan, and a later study showed that NMN increases NAD+ levels and reverses DNA damage.
Why do we use NMN in our supplements?
NMN is one of the most promising supplements for slowing ageing. Since NMN gets converted into NAD+ in our cells, it can effectively replenish NAD+, helping you regain your health and energy to youthful levels. NMN is proven to be safe, stable, and effective. Continuous clinical trials demonstrate and unveil more of its benefits.
Rajman, L., Chwalek, K., & Sinclair, D. A. (2018). Therapeutic Potential of NAD-Boosting Molecules: The In Vivo Evidence. Cell metabolism, 27(3), 529–547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2018.02.011
North, B. J., Rosenberg, M. A., Jeganathan, K. B., Hafner, A. V., Michan, S., Dai, J., Baker, D. J., Cen, Y., Wu, L. E., Sauve, A. A., van Deursen, J. M., Rosenzweig, A., & Sinclair, D. A. (2014). SIRT2 induces the checkpoint kinase BubR1 to increase lifespan. The EMBO journal, 33(13), 1438–1453. https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.201386907
Li, J., Bonkowski, M. S., Moniot, S., Zhang, D., Hubbard, B. P., Ling, A. J., Rajman, L. A., Qin, B., Lou, Z., Gorbunova, V., Aravind, L., Steegborn, C., & Sinclair, D. A. (2017). A conserved NAD+ binding pocket that regulates protein-protein interactions during aging. Science (New York, N.Y.), 355(6331), 1312–1317. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad8242
Kiss, T., Nyúl-Tóth, Á., Balasubramanian, P., Tarantini, S., Ahire, C., Yabluchanskiy, A., Csipo, T., Farkas, E., Wren, J. D., Garman, L., Csiszar, A., & Ungvari, Z. (2020). Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) supplementation promotes neurovascular rejuvenation in aged mice: transcriptional footprint of SIRT1 activation, mitochondrial protection, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic effects. GeroScience, 42(2), 527–546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-020-00165-5
Yoshino, M., Yoshino, J., Kayser, B. D., Patti, G. J., Franczyk, M. P., Mills, K. F., Sindelar, M., Pietka, T., Patterson, B. W., Imai, S. I., & Klein, S. (2021). Nicotinamide mononucleotide increases muscle insulin sensitivity in prediabetic women. Science (New York, N.Y.), 372(6547), 1224–1229. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abe9985
NMN AND NAD+ LONGEVITY
NMN replenishes NAD+ and counteracts the effects of ageing.
One example of the critical role NAD+ plays in the body is connection to sirtuins, a family of enzymes connected to healthy ageing and longevity. Sirtuins rely on NAD+ to regulate metabolism, repair damaged DNA, and maintain the epigenome.
The epigenome is a mix of chemical compounds and proteins surrounding your DNA that, together, direct actions that turn your genes on or off and control the production of proteins in particular cells. With age, the epigenome becomes more dysregulated. This dysregulation can result in the switching off of genes that are still required, such as housekeeping genes. On the other hand, it may also result in switching on genes that promote cancer or stimulate inflammation.
NAD+ is also needed to fuel PARPs, short for poly-ADP ribose polymerases. PARPs are another crucial family of enzymes that help repair DNA damage in your cells. When NAD+ levels are too low, our DNA can become damaged which can then lead to accelerated ageing and disease.
Research shows that NMN improves the functioning of our mitochondria, the power plants of our cells. Mitochondria provide almost all the energy that our cells need in order to function and survive. However, as we age, our mitochondria become less efficient or even damaged, resulting in a host of health issues.
NMN can also decrease age-related levels of inflammation in the body by inhibiting inflammatory macrophage responses (a white-blood-cell activity) and by limiting the accumulation of inflammation-associated proteins.
Finally, NMN can rejuvenate stem cell health, helping your body's stem cells not only live longer and replicate more, but counteract the decrease of stem cells that comes with ageing as well. Stems cells are important in health and longevity because they replace cells in the body that are damaged or lost.
NMN AND SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
NMN supplementation effectively targets the signs of ageing.
You can think of NAD+ as a type of fuel that helps many proteins and enzymes in your body carry out essential functions. NNM is a building block of this "fuel," meaning it is needed in order for your body to make NAD+.
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Studies have shown the benefits of NMN supplementation on energy levels, memory, blood vessel health, metabolism, stem cell health, epigenome maintenance, and DNA damage repair in animals. NMN has been shown to mitigate multiple aspects of ageing in older animals, improving their metabolism, stamina, and fertility, and increasing blood flow to the brain.
In 2014, a team of researchers led by Dr. David Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard and a world-class expert on ageing, demonstrated that NMN can extend the lifespan of mice. In 2017, Sinclair's team increased NAD+ levels in mice which reversed age-related DNA damage. Finally, in 2021, the first randomised clinical trial showed that humans who took 250mg of NMN daily increased their NAD+ levels and improved muscle insulin sensitivity. Muscle insulin sensitivity is a critical component of whole-body insulin resistance and in protection from ageing-related disease, including type type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers.
NMN is well absorbed when taken orally and is also much more stable in the digestive system and bloodstream and, therefore more bioavailable, than other NAD+ boosters. Recent studies suggest that NMN is the most potent NAD+ booster for targeting the signs of ageing. This may explain why many ageing scientists, including Sinclair, not only promote research on NMN, they take it for their own health and longevity.
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Q: How does Python babel round numbers? I'm building a financial website with the Flask framework and I'm currently writing unit tests for it. I'm using the Babel package to format money amounts and I hit upon rather strange rounding behaviour. I would expect rounding to be up in case of a 5, or to at least be consistent. But look at this:
>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> from babel.numbers import format_currency
>>> print format_currency(Decimal('.235'), 'EUR', locale='nl_NL')
€ 0,24
>>> print format_currency(Decimal('.245'), 'EUR', locale='nl_NL')
€ 0,24

Why is this so, and more importantly; how can I solve this?
ps: I would prefer .245 to be rounded up to .25
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I went looking for the source, which links to some other pieces of code. But I can't really figure out what's wrong there and why it seems to randomly round up or down. Anybody any idea?

A: If you follow the code through to apply you can see a reference to a bankersround procedure, which tells us what we need to know.  Babel is using the bankers round method of rounding, which rounds to the nearest even number on 5.  So, .245 and .235 round to .24 as .24 is the closest even value for each.  Values above and below 5 round normally.

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Naked City season 3 (1961-62)
I've posted before about Naked City, not just one of the classic American cop shows but one that can truly be described as ground-breaking. It's not just that it took advantage of the one-hour format (still fairly unusual at the beginning of the 60s) to feature complex plots, it also used the format to add considerably psychological complexity. And it was not afraid to be slightly unconventional or even just the tiniest bit experimental.
I'm going to talk about a few third season Naked City episodes that demonstrate this show's strengths.
The Hot Minerva is definitely an offbeat episode. An extremely valuable classical Greek statue has been stolen from a museum. The thieves and the museum's curator are all slightly odd, not quite the sorts of thieves that the detectives of the 65th Precinct usually deal with. This story is slightly tongue-in-cheek and slightly whimsical. It's a quirky episode but it works for me.
A Case Study of Two Savages is about a nice young couple of newlyweds from Arkansas. Ansel Boake (Rip Torn) and his teenage bride Ora Mae are very much in love. Ansel wants to give Ora Mae lots of nice things. The only way he can get these nice things for her is to steal them. And that often involves killing people. In fact Ansel has to kill people for a lot of reasons. Which is OK, because he doesn't mind killing people. And Ora Mae knows that Ansel only kills people because he loves her. A great episode with a terrific performance by Tuesday Weld as Ora Mae.
The Face of the Enemy is a spree killer story, fairly unusual subject matter for 1962. Cornelius Daggett is a war hero. He killed 126 people in 1942 and the Army gave him a medal for it. Unfortunately the only thing that Cornelius Daggett has ever been any good at is killing people. And now the Army doesn't need him to kill any more people. Nobody needs him to kill any more people. So what the hell does he do now? What he does do is drink and feel sorry for himself. His family doesn't want to know him any more. It was so much easier back on Guadalcanal. Those were good times. He killed people and everybody admired him for it. If only he were back on Guadalcanal. Pretty soon Cornelius Daggett is back on Guadalcanal, in his mind. You know this is not going to end well.
An intriguing episode because on the one hand there's the temptation to make it a Social Problem Story and make Daggett a victim (and Detective Adam Flint's social worker instincts are in full cry in this episode) but on the other hand the man is a drunken self-pitying loser and a psychotic killer. The episode veers between these two tendencies, which is sort of interesting.
Portrait of a Painter is (naturally) about a painter but it's really more about evidence, particularly psychiatric evidence, and about preconceived notions affecting an investigation. The case seems open-and-shut. Roger Barmer is an artist with a history of psychiatric problems, including hostility to women, so when his wife is found stabbed to death he's obviously the prime suspect. Barmer claims to have been out cold and to have found his wife's body after regaining consciousness. He immediately goes to see his psychiatrist and makes a confession. At least it's a sort of confession. Detective Flint is not happy about it at all - he feels that the psychiatrist bullied Barmer into the confession and given that Barmer has no memory of having committed the murder he thinks this confession is very very dubious. So he decides to press ahead with the investigation with an open mind. It's an interesting and rather thought-provoking story, plus William Shatner plays the crazy artist and you just know how much fun that performance is going to be. An extremely good episode.
Let Me Die Before I Wake is quite offbeat. Joe Calageras (Jack Klugman) runs a successful trucking business with his brother Vito (Michael Constantine). The Calageras brothers are Sicilian and they have a pretty conservative outlook on life. They're popular and well-respected. Then somebody tries to run Joe down in a truck. The truck misses Joe but hits a little girl. All the eyewitnesses are adamant that it was attempted murder but Joe insists it was an accident.
There are a lot of things that Joe doesn't want to talk about. Like the reason he can't leave the block. He gets as far as the corner and then he starts to sweat, his vision starts to blur, he gets dizzy. Joe also doesn't want to talk about his wife Rosie. Unless someone will talk about these things Detectives Adam Flint and Frank Arcaro don't see how they are going to find out the truth about that hit-run incident.
Maybe some things should get talked about. And maybe some things shouldn't. Maybe talking about things can make things worse. Maybe it's best not to know certain things. When there's a powder keg of emotion ready to blow talking about it can set off the explosion. Is anybody better off then? This is an interesting performance by Klugman - he really keeps a lid on it which is not exactly his usual style. It's another slightly unconventional but extremely interesting episode.
American television in the early 60s started to get rather keen on attempting to address social problems (much as Hollywood had had a minor obsession with Social Problem movies in the 50s). Most of these attempts were pretty cringe-inducing but Naked City was an exception. At times they did this sort of thing remarkably well. The One Marked Hot Gives Cold is an intriguing example. L. Francis Childe (the L stands for Love - yes the poor guy was named Love Childe by his parents) is thirty-one years old and he has a record of occasional outbursts of extreme violence. During his navy service he killed a fellow sailor and served a prison term. Now he's trying to find his father. He had been left in an orphanage as a boy and had been told his parents were dead but he has reason to believe that his father is alive. He breaks into the orphanage and steals his records.
Childe has befriended a 12-year-old girl named Aggie. He has (or had) a girlfriend, a married woman. Now she has accused him of molesting Aggie. In fact we know that the relationship between Childe and Aggie, although odd, is completely innocent. They're both lonely and craving someone to talk to. Detectives Flint and Arcaro, and Lieutenant Parker, suspect the the charges are malicious and that the relationship is innocent but when accusations like that are made they obviously have to investigate.
The treatment of the relationship between Childe and his father (when he finds him) is all very much what you expect at this period, rather Freudian and obsessed with the dangers of weak fathers. The Childe-Aggie relationship is quite touching - Aggie is probably the first human being that Childe has felt any liking for and Childe is probably the first person who has ever given Aggie the attention she craves. And he's probably the first person who has ever taken her problems (the perfectly normal problems of a perfectly normal 12-year-old girl) seriously. This episode carefully avoids sensationalism or crassness. A grown man and a 12-year-old girl riding a merry-go-round and visiting the Children's Zoo together could have been creepy but it isn't really - Childe is at about the same level of emotional development as the girl. He just wants a friend.
It's an example of this sort of thing done sensitively and perceptively. The ending is genuinely moving. It's a very good episode.
The Fingers of Henri Tourelle is a whodunit episode and a very good one. Fashion house owner Henri Tourelle is murdered. The murder weapon, a gun, cannot be found. Between the time Tourelle died and the time the police arrived it would have been impossible for anyone to have left the building. The murderer therefore must be one of half a dozen people, the inner circle of Tourelle's fashion empire. Each of them tells his or her story in a flashback. The solution to the puzzle is clever and the means by which Detective Adam Flint finds the solution is equally clever. Great stuff.
The central character of Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud is a house. It's a very grand old house and Ellen Annis loves it dearly. Unfortunately her mother, a rich cantankerous old lady who is slowly dying, hates the house and wants to sell it. When Mama dies it comes as no great surprise and really it's a good thing for everybody. Ellen will get to keep her house. The staff will get to keep their jobs (something both the butler and the chauffeur were rather worried about). And Ellen has told Auntie Maud she can live in the houses as long as she wants to. The police were a little concerned about an odd 'phone call at the time of Mama's death but since the autopsy showed natural causes the case is soon closed.
The second corpse is more difficult to dismiss so lightly.
There's some fine acting here from Salome Jens as Ellen, Carroll O'Connor as the butler and James Coburn as the chauffeur. Equally impressive is the subtle but oppressive atmosphere of the house. It's a lovely old house but it seems to do things to people. An excellent episode, typical of the slightly offbeat nature of this series.
Which Is Joseph Creeley? is another demonstration of the willingness of this series to take major risks. The ending was very daringly unconventional for 1961 network TV. Joseph Creeley is convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to the electric chair. Then it is discovered that he has a brain tumour. An operation is carried out, successfully, and a startling discovery is made - the post-operation Joseph Creeley is an entire different person to the pre-operation version. He has gone from being a crazed killer to being a quiet gentle man. And he has no memory of the murder. In fact he cannot remember anything of the ten years that preceded the murder.
A retrial is ordered and the jury must decide if he can be convicted of a murder that was in effect carried out by a different man. Detective Adam Flint was the arresting officer but now he's a witness for the defence.
Typically for this series the idea is a good one and it's developed intelligently and provocatively, without sentimentality and without trying to treat a complex dilemma in simplistic terms. This is an excellent episode.
Ooftus Goofus is the story of George Bick, a little man who is slowly coming to realise that his life amounts to nothing and that nobody will ever take him seriously. He decides to make people listen to him. He starts out with harmless but rather clever pranks, such as switching all the prices at the local supermarket thereby creating pandemonium. The pranks gradually become more dangerous. This is a fine example of Naked City's willingness to take risks. This story mixes whimsicality with pathos and tragedy. It has to tread a very fine line between sentimentality and black humour and between inspired whimsy and mere silliness. Somehow it succeeds and it's genuinely moving. Mickey Rooney as George and Maureen Stapleton as his wife give bravura performances that still manage to feel real. A very fine episode.
One of the great cop shows and one that took TV police drama in risky but rewarding new directions.
Very highly recommended.
Labels: 1960s, american tv, crime series
Then Came Bronson (1969 pilot)
Then Came Bronson is a 1969 TV-movie which served as the pilot for a TV series of the same name. The pilot was given a theatrical release in Europe. The series was not particularly successful, lasting just one season on NBC, but it developed quite a cult following.
For many years the series has been little seen and has never been released on DVD. As a result it has gradually subsided into almost total obscurity. The pilot was released on DVD in the Warner Archive series a few years back but apparently sales were not healthy enough to warrant the release of the series.
Then Came Bronson was basically conceived as Route 66 but with a motorcycle (a 1969 XLH Harley-Davidson Sportster) instead of a Chevy Corvette and with a single protagonist rather than the buddy formula of Route 66. Since Route 66 had been a substantial hit it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.
Michael Parks stars as reporter Jim Bronson. After his best buddy's suicide and after yet another argument with his editor Jim decides to walk out on his job, hop on his motorcycle (inherited from his dead buddy) and set off to, you know, discover stuff. To find himself. And maybe find America as well. Or something like that.
In fact, reading between the lines, Bronson is a second-rate reporter who is too undisciplined and self-indulgent to be a success but of course he doesn't see it that way. He feels oppressed by his boss. He needs freedom man.
First he decides to take a ride along a beach and he encounters a bride. She then takes her clothes off and runs away. Because it was 1969 so there has to be some gratuitous nudity. Then he encounters some girl in a convertible (she looks like the girl on the beach and maybe she really is the girl on the beach) and after a stormy beginning they hook up together. It seems that the convertible wasn't actually technically hers and the police seemed like they were going to be tiresome about that so she figures she'll tag along with Bronson.
So they ride around on Bronson's motorcycle and have adventures. Only they don't actually have any adventures. They visit one of Bronson's buddies, an old Mexican artist (at least he thinks he's an artist but his art is rubbish).
Bronson and the girl fall in love, well sort of. She falls in love. Bronson isn't ready for commitment. A committed relationship with his motorcycle is about all he's capable of. He takes the girl shopping and she displays an intense interest in baby clothes, and Bronson definitely isn't ready for that.
Then they ride around on Bronson's motorcycle some more.
This is not quite a plotless movie but it's pretty close to being one. Apart from the love story nothing very much happens. And since this is a pilot for a series about a guy riding around on a motorcycle on his own we can be forgiven for being just a tad sceptical as to how the great romance is going to pan out. And it was the 60s, freedom and finding yourself and all that, and marriage and children wasn't part of that. It does however give us the protagonist's backstory which does the necessary job of setting things up for the series.
Of course the girl (who doesn't reveal that her name is Temple Brooks until the end) is trying to find herself as well. Girls did that as well in the 60s but it didn't necessarily mean spending your whole life on the back of a motorcycle.
The performance of Michael Parks as Bronson is interesting. I guess we're supposed to see the character as a romantic rebel, but he givers the impression that he's rebelling against oppressive stuff like taking responsibility and growing up. He's thirty years old, going on sixteen. Apart from the selfishness there's a fascinating hint of darkness beneath the surface. Bronson thought he was too sensitive and caring to be a reporter but there's a fair amount of anger there as well.
Bonnie Bedelia is pretty good as Temple, and at least she doesn't look like a 60s casualty. She makes the character's transition from spoilt brat to grown-up woman fairly convincing and she makes Temple oddly likeable - in some ways we'd like to see her and Bronson get together but we suspect that he'd probably wreck her life. Maybe it would be best for her in the long run if riding around on a Harley with a brooding self-absorbed rebel without a clue turned out to be just a stage she had to work through.
Akim Tamiroff overdoes it a bit as the old Mexican artist.
Apart from its obvious affinities with Route 66 it's also worth comparing this TV pilot to series like the much more interesting Coronet Blue and also to The Fugitive. In both Coronet Blue and The Fugitive the hero is searching for something tangible (his identity and the identity of his wife's killer respectively). The pilot of Then Came Bronson gives no indication that Bronson has any idea what he is looking for.
On the plus side there's some nice location shooting and both Bronson and Temple do have some depth. And they do have character arcs of a sort - Temple wants to grow up and Bronson wants to run further and further away from adult responsibilities.
One thing that's intriguing is that the pilot seems slightly dated for its era. This is 1969 but there's no sign of the drug culture, and no hippies. Bronson might be an overgrown teenager but he's not a criminal or a drug dealer (this is a long long way from Easy Rider which came out in the same year). His bike is not a chopper. He's no outlaw biker. He's pretty law-abiding. And while the girl may have "borrowed" that convertible without letting the owner know she's not really a car thief and she's not really a good girl gone bad. She's just a bit confused because she's young (probably around 20) and she's scared of taking the step into adulthood, which is pretty scary for most of us. Then Came Bronson could be taking place in 1964. It's an America that was already vanishing by 1969.
Sadly we don't get to hear Long Lonesome Highway which Michael Parks sings at the end of each episode of the series itself. That song is my most vivid memory from seeing the series many many years ago.
The Warner Archive DVD offers a pretty good transfer which is important because it all takes place outdoors (for a 1969 TV pilot is has a very expansive look).
Is Then Came Bronson worth watching? If you love motorcycles and road movies and you have a high tolerance for the finding yourself thing then you'll probably enjoy it. If you don't have much tolerance for those things you might find it heavy going although it's an interesting social docukment.
Labels: 1960s, adventure series, american tv
A for Andromeda (novelisation of TV series)
A for Andromeda is a novelisation of one of the most famous science fiction television series of all time, screened on the BBC in 1961. Only one of the seven episodes has survived. The television series was co-written by astronomer and science fiction author Sir Fred Hoyle and John Elliot. A novelisation was commissioned in 1961.
Although a reconstruction of the television series, using the surviving audio and production stills, was attempted the novelisation (which is actually extremely good) is now really the only way for us to appreciate what a tragedy the loss of the series was.
Here's the link to my review of the novelisation.
Labels: 1960s, british tv, sci-fi, TV tie-in novels
Coronet Blue (1967)
Coronet Blue is a short-lived offbeat series that aired on CBS in 1967. It was created by Larry Cohen. Cohen also created The Invaders with which Coronet Blue has some slight affinities.
A young man is mixed up in something big. It's something dangerous and possibly illegal. Whatever it is the people behind it decide the young man has to die. Before killing him they remove all traces of identification, even the labels on his clothes. Then they dump him into the harbour. But the young man doesn't die. He is fished out of the water, but now he doesn't remember anything and he doesn't know who he is or what his name is.
He is taken to the hospital where a psychiatrist tries to put him back together again but he still can't remember anything but the words Coronet Blue. He decides he can't stay in the hospital but before he leaves he needs a name. His psychiatrists name is Michael and the hospital is Alden General Hospital so he becomes Michael Alden.
Now he has to find out who he is. He also has to bear in mind that somebody is still trying to kill him. Neither Michael nor the audience has any idea initially as to his identity or to the part he played in whatever it was that got him dropped into the harbour. He may be a criminal. He may be an undercover cop. Or a spy. Or even an innocent bystander.
Coronet Blue is a thriller but it's an attempt to add a few psychological and philosophical dimensions to the genre. The hero grapples with the problem of either rediscovering his identity or constructing a new life while the thriller plot bubbles away in the background, occasionally coming to the forefront suddenly and unexpectedly.
Coronet Blue belongs to an odd genre very characteristic of the 60s in which a man is both running from something and searching for something. What they are searching for varies. Sometimes it's a meaning to the puzzle of life but often it's the answer to a question. The Fugitive and Run for Your Life are obvious examples of this genre. The Invaders is a variation on the theme.
Coronet Blue is a series that struggles a little to find a consistent tone. It's very 1960s in being at times quite dark and disturbing and then switching suddenly to slightly zany light comedy. There was clearly an intention to aim at a hip young audience, the sorts of viewers that the networks were desperate to reach at that time. It has that 60s "young people trying to find themselves" vibe that characterised series like Route 66 and Then Came Bronson.
Frank Converse is very good in the lead rôle. He's sympathetic and his performance mercifully avoids wallowing in self-pity.
Larry Cohen lost control of the series early on and it went in a direction which was not at all what he'd intended. He saw the series as a suspense thriller story but it became a "finding yourself" series. Cohen had a very clear idea where the story was going to end up and the solution to the mystery (which I'm certainly not going to reveal) could have been very satisfying. Cohen's idea also had the virtue of explaining why Michael had so much trouble discovering his identity.
Had Cohen remained in control it would have been more like The Invaders with the protagonist gradually putting more and more of the pieces together. Neither the production company nor the network seemed to know what to do with this series with the unfortunate result that it lasted only thirteen episodes and so we never do find out the answer to the puzzle. If you buy it on DVD then make sure you watch the series before you watch the interview with Larry Cohen in which he reveals that answer.
A Time to Be Born sets things up. Michael Alden leaves the hospital intent on finding to exactly what Coronet Blue refers to. His search leads him to a party at which he meets Alix Frame (played by one of my all-time favourite actresses, Susan Hampshire). Alix's father offers him a job selling boats. Alix is searching for something as well but she doesn't know what it is. They fall in love but Michael still has somebody pursuing him trying to kill him so settling down with Alix is obviously not going to be possible. It's a fine story that sets the tone for the series.
In The Assassins Michael thinks he's found his mother but he may have found a whole lot of trouble. There's also a girl to whom he was apparently engaged. He doesn't remember anything about her. Curiously enough the girl doesn't seem to remember anything about him either. He also gets introduced to a visiting prince. Michael thinks there's something strange going on but he can't figure what it is. This seems to be a typical Coronet Blue episode - Michael finds a possible clue to his identity, he meets a girl and falls in love but sinister forces are at work against him. Another very good episode with the trademarks of this series - a vague feeling of uneasiness, of possible deception and manipulation.
The Rebels takes Michael to college, where he's employed as a campus security officer but he's actually being used as an experimental subject by a scientist who thinks he can cure his amnesia. It's a particularly dire example of American television trying to be socially relevant by confronting the problems facing college kids today. In this case they're being oppressed by having to attend lectures and do exams. The potential interesting aspects of the story (the experiments with memory) end up being ignored. An atrocious episode.
Another attempt is made on Michael's life and he ends up taking refuge in a monastery in New York City, in A Dozen Demons. The demons are in a stained glass window. It's a modern window, painted quite recently, of the Temptation of St Anthony. And the St Anthony in the picture looks exactly like Michael. Michael is convinced that it is him, that he must have been the model. This clue could give him some answers. To help him find the answer he has a crazy artist, the artist's pretty blonde daughter and a runaway monk who, like Michael, is searching for an identity and a place in the world. This is a much better episode that maintains its focus on Michael's search for the answer to the Coronet Blue riddle.
In Faces Michael finds a photograph. It was taken at a funeral and he's in it. The funeral took place in a town called Jennings Grove. A popular local girl had been murdered. Nobody can remember seeing Michael at the funeral and nobody can tell him who he is but he's sure that if he keeps pushing then somebody must remember something. Meanwhile a young man awaits execution for the murder. It's a decent mystery story with the twist that Michael can't be sure that he himself is not the murderer.
In Man Running Michael saves a man from an attempted murder. The man (played with aplomb by Denholm Elliott) is being hunted by agents of a Caribbean military dictatorship. He has come to New York to see his daughter for the first time in ten years. Michael really doesn't want to get mixed up in this situation but of course he does get involved and the situation gets more complicated. This is an odd episode since mostly the focus is not really on Michael. It's more a straight thriller story, but enjoyable enough.
Although A Charade for Murder does involve a murder this is an episode that is characterised by extreme quirkiness and a slightly farcical tone. Michael's ex-monk friend Tony (introduced in A Dozen Demons) is framed for murder but the real intention had been to frame Michael. The conspiracy is totally over-the-top with a bogus Navy intelligence officer and a ditzy actress doing a fortune-teller spiel. And it's definitely kind of fun.
Saturday tries to combine some psychological drama with the ongoing mystery plot. A guy who claims to be able to tell him the secret of his identity but on the way to meet him Michael runs into a kid whose father has just died. The kid suddenly has to deal with grown-up problems of identity which is pretty much what Michael faces. It works reasonably well.
In The Presence of Evil a stage magician believes he really has supernatural powers and that they come from Satan. The powers work through his young female assistant and allow her to see the future. What interests Michael is that blue coronet the assistant wears during the performance.
Michael is used to people bring to kill him but what he didn't expect was that someone would want to send him to Mars. Literally. But that's what happens in Six Months to Mars. It's a U.S. Government project but the guy in charge of it is definitely in the mad scientist mould. Interesting episode.
The Flip Side of Timmy Devon presents Michael with another puzzle. Pop star Timmy Devon is dead. The last song he wrote has not yet been released. No-one has heard the song. And yet Michael knows the words. But how does he know them?
Since this series was clearly aimed at a younger demographic a story with a pop music background was an obviously good idea and although the final twist probably won't come a huge surprise it's sill pretty well executed. And it has the oddball feel that characterises Coronet Blue at its best. Another good episode.
In Where You from and What You Done? Michel is in a smarten in Virginia called Coronet catching a bus when he meets ditzy blonde singer Ava Lou Springer. Or maybe she's a writer. Or maybe her identity is as uncertain as Michael's. Or maybe there's not a word of truth in anything she tells him. She is pretty though and although the last thing Michael really needs is to hook up with a crazy young woman that's what he does. Although he is worried about the guy at the bus terminal who seemed to be taking a bit too much interest in him. Another good episode.
In Tomoyo Michael sees a Japanese girl in the street and he's convinced he knew her. Trying to get to talk to her leads him to Mr Omaki's dojo and gets him beaten up. He learns something from this. He learns that he knows quite a bit about martial arts. But is this going to help him discover his identity? An interesting episode with some reasonable suspense and mystery elements.
In commercial terms Coronet Blue was perhaps a bit too quirky for its own good. I personally like its quirkinesss but structurally it's a bit too loose. It needed a tighter focus on the ongoing story arc involving Michael's past. Michael just doesn't discover enough about his past to keep the mystery and suspense thriller elements interesting. Having said that it's still an intriguing series that had potential. And the theme song will burrow itself into your brain!
The DVD release offers excellent transfers and a very revealing interview with the show's creator Larry Cohen. If you like slightly offbeat dramas Coronet Blue is worth a look. Recommended.
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The world was shocked and saddened by the news that Irish singer Dolores O'Riordan passed away in London Monday at 46.
"Irish and international singer Dolores O'Riordan has died suddenly in London today. She was 46 years old. The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries, was in London for a short recording session. No further details are available at this time. Family members are devastated to hear the breaking news and have requested privacy at this very difficult time," the statement read.
The cause of death has not yet been announced.
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The band also released a statement on social media.
Irish and international singer Dolores O'Riordan has died suddenly in London today. She was 46 years old.
Family members are devastated to hear the breaking news and have requested privacy at this very difficult time. Full Statement: https://t.co/L8K98BFpSM pic.twitter.com/ADEY51Xnwe
— The Cranberries (@The_Cranberries) January 15, 2018
O'Riordan, who was born in the Irish city of Limerick, gained worldwide fame with her band The Cranberries. The Cranberries would be one of that decades most successful groups with the multi-platinum-selling albums, Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993), No Need to Argue (1994), To the Faithful Departed (1996), as well as the acclaimed Bury the Hatchett (1999) and 2012's Roses.
The band went on hiatus in 2003, but reunited in 2009 where they continued touring and releasing new music. Their 2017 tour, which sadly would be their last, saw them performing with an orchestra in support of the reworking of their greatest hits on the compilation album, Something Else.
During the period of Cranberries hiatus, O'Riordan released two solo albums, 2007's Are You Listening? And 2009's No Baggage. In 2014, she started a side project with former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke and musician Ole Koretsky called D.A.R.K. where they released one album.
The "Linger" singer is survived by her three children, Taylor Baxter, 20, Molly Leigh, 17, and Dakota Rain, 12. She had the children with ex-husband and former Duran Duran tour manager Don Burton. The couple was together for 20 years before splitting up in 2014.
Following the shock of the news, many artists took to social media to eulogize the "Dreams" singer.
Oh lord. Not Dolores O'Riordan. Grew up singing Cranberries songs. Tragic news.
— Frank Turner (@frankturner) January 15, 2018
"The band are floored but it's of course her family we're all thinking of right now. Out of the West came this storm of a voice - she had such strength of conviction yet she could speak to the fragility in all of us. Limerick's 'Bel canto'." Bono, The Edge, Adam and Larry.
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Damn. Delores O'riordan passed of #TheCranberries. rip.
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We are crushed to hear the news about the passing of Dolores O'Riordan. Our thoughts go out to her family at this terrible time. https://t.co/6p20QD2Ii5 pic.twitter.com/vXscj0VGHS
— Duran Duran (@duranduran) January 15, 2018
So saddened to hear about the sudden death of Dolores O'Riordan. Our sincerest condolences to @The_Cranberries and all of her loved ones.
— Garbage (@garbage) January 15, 2018
WHAT. dolores o'riordan was an important & (as usual in this industry) under-appreciated poet-power-voice, influencing many...my song "half jack" from the @DresdenDolls 1st record was written directly after hearing "zombie". may her voice carry on & on... https://t.co/ZuXMPllDPh
— Amanda Palmer (@amandapalmer) January 15, 2018
Bono performs at concert for Shane MacGowan's 60th birthday https://t.co/Dt5BPu5D4s He did "Rainy Night ON Soho" and added a snippet of The Cranberries' "Linger" at the end in memory of Dolores O'Riordan.) pic.twitter.com/Y8SJDpglFA
— atu2 (@atu2) January 16, 2018
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Class LocalMemcacheService

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Java bindings for the local Memcache service. The local cache will by default
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Art Museum presents works of Hugh Hayden at Bainbridge House
Gallery 2 is entitled "America."
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February 6, 2020 | 11:32pm EST
On Jan. 18, the University Art Museum opened a new art installment, entitled "Creation Myths," at the recently renovated Bainbridge House, located on 158 Nassau Street.
The installment, composed of four pieces by contemporary artist Hugh Hayden, is set to be displayed until June 7, 2020.
Hayden, a native of Dallas, Texas, seeks to comment on the history of Bainbridge House through a narrative composed of a series of distinctive but linked pieces. This is his first solo installment in a museum.
The installment includes four unique galleries: a kitchen, a dining room, a study, and a classroom.
James Steward h70, the Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director of the Art Museum, described the curatorial approach for the installment in an email to The Daily Princetonian.
"In many respects, curatorially, the project began with considering Bainbridge House's origins as a house, with rooms that would have fulfilled now long-lost functions," he wrote.
Upon entry, Gallery 1 represents the kitchen component of the installment. It displays a series of cast iron skillets, hung on a rack. Each skillet contains an imprint of an African mask, borrowed from the University's own African art collection.
Gallery 4 (left) and Gallery 1 (right) Photo courtesy of Princeton University Art Museum
Gallery 2, the dining room, contains a single kitchen table with four chairs seated around it. The piece, entitled "America," is made up of sculpted mesquite. Hayden chose to add visible spikes protruding throughout the furniture.
"High Cotton" is housed in Gallery 3, the study component of the installment. Hayden plays on the idea of an old-fashioned claw-grabber game, but instead fills it with cotton.
For the final gallery, Hayden chose to display a classroom, composed of a group of wooden chairs tangled with plywood. He titles this piece "Brier Patch (A, B, C, D)."
According to a pamphlet provided to visitors, in designing the display, Hayden wanted to comment on the politics associated with materials and therefore paid close attention to the materials used for the gallery pieces.
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The skillets used in Gallery 1 are a mix of old and new skillets, some of which predate the Civil War. The dining set in Gallery 2 is made up of mesquite that Hayden harvested at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Gallery 3 intentionally used raw cotton to fill the crane machine, and Gallery 4 is composed of used Christmas trees from Park Avenue, an affluent part of the United States, as explained by Hayden in the exhibition pamphlet.
"High Cotton," housed in Gallery 3 of the Bainbridge House.
Photo courtesy of the Princeton University Art Museum
"Creation Myths" is the second installment to be part of Art@Bainbridge since it opened its doors last year. The first installment featured works from Jordan Nassar, a Palestinian-American artist.
The building itself dates back to 1766 and shares a closely linked history with the University.
Steward mentioned the University Art Museum's goal in highlighting this history in his email.
"We made the decision that, in the first year, we would draw on and draw out that history, including its domestic past and its relationship to slaveholding since the house was built by a family that owned slaves," he wrote. "But we may shift our focus in subsequent years."
Museum associates working at the exhibition have expressed intrigue for the installation, including Emma Coley '20, who works as a welcome desk attendant for the exhibit.
"These pieces invite an interpretation about domestic life … Things that you recognize from home — but all of them are made strange in some way, and I think that the more time you spend with [them] the more strange these objects become and the more questions they invite," Coley said.
Sakura Price '22, also a welcome desk attendant, echoed the enthusiasm on display in visitor reactions.
"Some people are interested in the craftsmanship of the work itself and Hayden's process," she said. "Others are interested in how it relates to a domestic space, which is made more evident by Bainbridge House itself."
Hayden will be delivering a talk with Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies Chika Okeke-Agulu on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50. He is set to discuss the process and installment of "Creation Myths."
Hayden was unable to respond to request for comment by the time of publication.
Princeton graduate student found deceased at off-campus residence
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This new series, which Ford promoted as its "Bonus Built Line," covered a wide range of models with different cab and chassis combinations. The line started out with light-duty 1/2-ton-rated pickup trucks and ran all the way up to the Extra Heavy-Duty, three-ton-rated F-8. These trucks used a completely redesigned cab with all-new front-end sheetmetal. And in a departure from previous practice, the same cab served both conventional and Cab-Over-Engine models.
Along with the fresh styling given 1948 Ford trucks came new model designations; this 1/2-ton was labeled the F-1. Squared-off front fenders wrapped smoothly into the front fascia, which contained a prominent horizontal-bar grille. Rear fenders were styled to match the profile of the fronts. Also new was a one-piece windshield.
To clearly identify its expanding line of trucks, Ford put the series identification on the cowl, just ahead of the door; this F-1's ID can be seen just above the trailing edge of the front fender. Less well-publicized was the engine beneath the hood, which in lighter-duty models could be either the 226-cubic-inch six-cylinder with 95 horsepower, or a 239-cid flathead V-8 with 100 hp.
A 11/2-ton-rated F-5 chassis was fitted with a special body for this Coca-Cola distributor.
Compared with today's trucks, those of the 1940s had a decidedly different seat/steering-wheel relationship, with the wheel being mounted closer to the driver in a more horizontal position. Note that dashboards on the new trucks were still rather plain.
Stake Bed trucks were available in both conventional (top) and COE designs. The conventionals are 11/2-ton F-5s, the COEs two-ton F-6s. Both could be powered by a 95-horsepower 226-cubic-inch six or a 100-hp 239-cid V-8.
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Fasten your seatbelts as we present to you the eighth generation of the Rolls-Royce Phantom which paves its way to the market after 14 years to ascertain itself as the world's best car once again. And since, Rolls-Royce's flagship arrives after such a long time; it marks the beginning of a new era, like the crowning of the new king and with it, the continuity of the royal legacy.
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The new Phantom devours the road so quietly and efficiently, that it leaves you leaving you amnesic of the surface you are travelling on. The ultra-low noise levels bring in a sense of peace and calmness and forces one to realize that Rolls-Royce wasn't kidding when it asserted it making the world's quietest car even quieter. The big V12 engine is not only difficult to hear but also makes you rigid of any road or wind noise either.
There's no second opinion that the Phantom isn't made to be rushed and offers the best-riding experience when driven in an unhurried way, even if the mighty V12 is capable of powering this 2,610kg car to 100kph in merely 5.1sec.
A difficult question to answer, especially if the price of the standard wheel base phantom is expected to cost 420,325 (on road), and might rise more for a car with a decent amount of customization. So, if you are looking for a car that is both value for your money and bang for your buck, then Rolls-Royce Phantom is the ultimate luxury car that you could proudly flaunt. The new Phantom works wonders to take customization to a brand-new level, thanks to its concept of the bespoke Gallery. This state-of-the-art production from Rolls-Royce is not just an automobile but also a wonderful work of art which, with its ridiculously high price tag, might just make sense to you, only if you count yourself one among the luxury-studded billionaires.
Sneak Peek into Nissan's Junior Crossover: 2017 Nissan Rogue Sport
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Airdrop #09: @jack turned on Bitcoin tipping! ⚡
Welcome to Arry's Airdrop #09!
Happy October - this never-ending year in this pandemic seems to be flying by so quickly, and so much has happened already this year. Almost a blur. Personally, it was great to go check out Miami for the Bitcoin conference and see a lot of familiar faces (and meet new ones too). We've continued to build strong relationships with our policy makers here in Cascadia. I've met many new folks I'd call friends as we've been coordinating state by state (from FL to NY to MI to TX to CA and Cascadia), and with federal (especially the Blockchain Association) on better ways to collaborate in the name of blockchain/cryptocurrency advocacy. I created and launched another Blockchain & Crypto Fundamentals course. On the personal front, I'm pregnant with our third boy. Our eldest son started kindergarten and we even moved. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be on this journey with you and hope that we can find ways to support and serve you.
What's my point? Let's not be strangers - please find me in our community Slack channel (it's an open Slack for anyone in the community). Shoot me a reply to this email and let's catch up. Feedback. Suggestions. Random friendly comment. Or just a simple hello. I'd love to hear from you.
Airdrop #09: @jack turned on Bitcoin tipping! ✨
A little over a week ago, in case anyone missed it, the tipping feature became enabled on Twitter ✨.
Back in 2018-2019, this was one of those features I was wishing existed (not just on Twitter, but also Uber, grocery stores, gas stations, etc) - and now it does. I even considered going out and building a dApp (decentralized application) focused on the Bitcoin tipping scenario at one point.
Twitter did it and went even further - enabling tipping to connect directly to other services like Venmo, CashApp, and more. A super positive note, Twitter does NOT take any cut of the transaction - they only connect. (Kudos to Twitter for not being yet another greedy middleman in people's transactions.)
See below for my screen (in-progress) as I went through and setup my mobile profile on Twitter. You can see that the user interface is very simple and easy to follow. Not scary at all.
BTW - If you haven't setup your Bitcoin Strike account yet (the CEO is an OG, Jack Mallers) --- Join Strike and earn $5 (yay!) when you sign up and verify your account using my referral code 0VIFRV: https://invite.strike.me/0VIFRV. Remember, Strike uses the Lightning Network - faster cheaper BTC payments. It's what you'd use to send BTC to El Salvador or any country with Strike enabled, for free. Also remember the NFL football player, Russell Okung who demanded to get his wages paid in Bitcoin? They're doing that using Strike as well. One of the best ways to learn, is to try it out. Or as folks in this space say, "do your own research".
What's Strike, according to Strike?
"Strike is the easiest way to send, spend, remit, and invest your money. Onboard in seconds and unlock the future of digital payments. Simply link a payment method, deposit funds, and let us take care of the rest. What do people use Strike for? Strike is used to buy and sell bitcoin, tip on the web, send and receive micropayments, remit money, and make payments with friends."
This interview with @jackmallers is straight □
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— Documenting Bitcoin □ (@DocumentingBTC) October 1, 2021
Why you should care. Here's a couple of reasons:
Now anyone, everyone, including the billions of unbanked people in the world, to access one of the best financial solutions of the world, Bitcoin. Did you know, that access to any kind of financial product is one of the biggest indicators of quality of life a person can have? Over 2 billion people don't have access to any of the products we in the U.S. take for granted, every day.
Jack Dorsey, CEO of both tech giants Square and Twitter, is walking the talk, publicly using the influence he has at his fingertips to do so. He also believes in global financial inclusion and accessibility, especially for underserved communities. We'll see how much of an impact Jack will have in the end. Time will tell. Extremely bullish, he believes Bitcoin will become the native currency of the internet. He is quoted to have said: "Bitcoin changes absolutely everything," Dorsey said Friday at the Bitcoin 2021 Conference. "I don't think there is anything more important in my lifetime to work on."
In fact, "if I were not at Square or Twitter, I would be working on bitcoin. If [bitcoin] needed more help than Square or Twitter, I would leave them for bitcoin," he said. "But, I believe both companies have a role to play."
"Whatever I can do, whatever my companies can do to make [bitcoin] more accessible to everyone is how I'm going to spend the rest of my life," Dorsey said.
I closed out my Blockchain & Crypto Fundamentals cohort last week - it was bittersweet. I woke up Monday (October 4th) missing the class and holding myself back from writing them today. I wanted to share a couple of key presentations that really influenced me during my journey over the past several years. Actually in fact, I saw these live at the conference Russell Okung (yes the same NFL guy) hosted for us in LA back in 2019:
The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto by Jill Carlson
Bitcoin is the Ultimate Social Justice by Jimmy Song
Definitely recommend watching those two presentations if you get a chance. Let me know what you think too after you watch them - would love to trade notes.What I've learned is that whether you're excited about the protocols and technology or the cryptocurrencies, it all starts with the fundamentals. Fundamentals are everything to do with the theory, the context, the history and the "why it matters".
The waitlist has already been filling up quickly for my next "Blockchains & Cryptos Fundamentals" course. Get on the waitlist and get in-the-know. Standby, I'll be releasing a THREE DAY workshop version of this course for those that need an even more compressed and curated course.
AMA with decentralized health insurance Decent's CEO, Nick Soman on October 8th, 12-1pm PST
AMA with Neil Bergquist, CEO of Coinme on October 15th, 12-1pm PST
AMA with Jesse Proudman of Markara on October 22nd, 12-1pm PST
More coming up --- stay tuned!
In case you didn't know, all AMAs with guests are recorded and posted on our podcast and YouTube show, Windshield Time. Here are the recent AMA videos:
Jennifer Mace on Crypto Tax
Hong Fang, CEO of Okcoin
Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius
NFTs with Maggie Xu, CEO of MetaSpace
Crypto Taxes with Patrick Larsen (ZenLedger)
Coming soon... I have to post the AMA with Jerry David Chan (OG Bitcoiner) and the TaxBit team shortly. Will share links as soon as they are ready.
Join my weekly AMA , every Friday, 12-1pm PSTBlockchain is a game changer as a powerful alternative technology to what most businesses use today. Cryptocurrencies and other kinds of digital tokens are fascinating. This meetup is all about focusing our time on global impactful topics, not just crypto-fluffery.
Join us if you want to get into real authentic discussions about what really matters in the blockchain space and have some actual FUN while we're at it, via the Blockchain Underground.
– Arry (@ArryinSeattle)
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Arry is the Chair of the Cascadia Blockchain Council, a group supported by the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), the largest US tech association representing technology companies from Oregon to British Columbia. She is also the co-organizer for the States' Assn for Blockchain and was one of the early pioneers that completed a $32m tokensale in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) back in 2017. She founded the Cascadia Blockchain Council in 2018 and has been an avid educator, advocate, investor, and innovator in the space since 2016.