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Reviews About Teachable
These days, just about anyone can make money out of anything, with little to no initial investment. The world wide web has given us access to a nearly endless amount of information, and in the same way, you may give the World Wide Web a bit of your abilities and knowledge. True to its slogan,"Everything is Teachable," you can turn your ideas and experiences into gain by organizing them into pro online courses, available to millions of students around the planet. Teachable guides its users into creating beautiful sites with just a few clicks, requiring nothing more than basic tech know-how.
Teachable isn't the first of its type. In fact, it was designed as a revolutionary alternative to some of its forerunners. In effect, its features were developed to address some of the issues people had with previous Learning Management Systems (LMS).
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For those who want to try their hand at selling online courses, but aren't ready to commit to a paid plan, Teachable has a free alternative with no strings attached. With absolutely zero overhead, this includes unlimited hosting of your classes, videos, and students. The only time you will be required to pay is when your site goes live, and you've got your first buyers, after which you will be asked to upgrade to a paid plan and be charged per transaction. That is not a bad deal considering you put up everything completely free. Once you get the hang of things, or when you've built a steady following, it could be time to consider their higher-tier programs (though the free one can be retained so long as you're still under construction or just tinkering around).
From $29-$249 per month (billed annually), you receive some of the more advanced features that give you more control over your content, and tools that can really maximize your sales and marketing. With the two top tiers, the rates are a flat rate, and the transaction fees are waived.
From creating an account, to building your website, and even up to admin tasks and payouts, Teachable has some of the best reviews on ease of use. Its class builder is flexible but impressive, with drag and drop capabilities for people who prefer click navigation and have nearly no technical skills. It also has multi-selection settings for making mass changes on uploaded courses, whether you want to edit preferences or delete several lessons at once, saving time and effort. Cloud services are also enabled on Teachable, so importing files such as texts, audios, and videos can be linked straight from Dropbox, Google Drive, and such. All of your content, from instructional to testing, can be arranged however way you want them, which is something that isn't available in other systems.
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Among the most praised qualities of Teachable is the value it puts on the creator's uniqueness and branding. Its builder is almost totally customizable. You may start by selecting from default themes, and then further tweaking details like fonts and colors for your website's look. They have a enormous variety of stunning designs and typographies, which is a plus for the ones that are more particular about aesthetics. It's no surprise that lots of creatives choose Teachable over a few of the more cookie-cutter choices on the industry. More sophisticated users are given the option to dabble in code also.
Teachable doesn't take away the control from its users, but allows them to keep an eye and follow their client's progress directly. Only creators will have their customer's data, rather than Teachable. Some other online marketplaces overdo their participation, and control the system in such a way that the users have no direct contact with their students. On Teachable, the lecturer is given liberties to followup on past students, and customize messages to include promos or bundles when they haven't bought a course in a while. Reviews About Teachable
As regards client care, Teachable has a great deal of tools to be certain their courses are taken in the specific sequence that they designed them, and that their clients get the most out of what they paid for. They could provide graded quizzes (with or without restrictions on number of attempts), lock and drip their content to prevent clients binging on modules, place checkpoints (like their video watch compliance feature which requires a certain amount of video duration finished before moving to the next step), and then grant certificates for their own graduates. Certificates don't only give students a sense of accomplishment, they are also another way to add value to clients.
It starts with an impressive course, but money is grown in its sales. Teachable provides its users the ability to attract and keep clients: like allowing landing pages to link to Facebook ads, setting strategic upselling buttons, and displaying customer testimonials, product benefits and badges. They include the capacity to set up discussion forums that build a sense of community to your followers, and support integration with other systems like MailChimp, Ontraport, Infusionsoft, Mixpanel, and other tools via the Zapier program. They have settings for putting up promotions, coupons, and email marketing, and users can experiment with advanced pricing options, bundled courses, and subscriptions. Multi-language support also caters to clients from different countries. In other words, you are set up for success, and if you're not earning, perhaps you're not maximizing the tools enough.
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Even for users outside of the US and Canada, Teachable's Gateway allows Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay to process payments. They also provide a suite of services known as BackOffice, which collects tax forms from authors and affiliates, and then makes the payouts for its users. It even auto-computes the EU VAT on top of the course cost for clients from that area, and remits the taxes to the proper authorities. Though they charge a 2% fee for the use of BackOffice, it takes away all of the hassle from doing the admin work manually.
Teachable is among the few LMS that has a dedicated application on iOS, allowing users to keep tabs on their content on the go. All the websites they build are also intuitive in the sense that they can detect the student's devices, whether smartphone, computer, or tablet, so that all content snap into position and can be viewed in their proper dimensions.
LMS stands for Learning Management System, which has also been known as an Online Course Platform or OCP. These types of companies enable people to consolidate their ideas into neat sets of lessons, and offer them to interested individuals for a price. Teachable is a brand of LMS that specializes in creating courses in their platform, and providing tools for managing its own sales and marketing.
Anyone with anything to impart to the world can benefit, and profit, from Teachable. Concerning niche markets, some platforms gravitate toward particular topics like self-improvement or web development, but Teachable has assisted lecturers on a variety of topics, from gardening to calligraphy. Essentially, if you have any sort of skill which you can share with confidence, Teachable can help you bring it to a bigger audience.
What attracts newcomers to Teachable is their free lifetime plan, allowing even the inexperienced to dabble in website and course creation. Advanced course managers make the switch to it due to its outstanding marketing and advertising tools that give them the freedom to construct their online brand identity and gain a following. It's particularly popular with bloggers and artists of various media.
Are there hidden fees with Teachable? Reviews About Teachable
Their pricing plans are all straightforward and detailed on their website. A Few of the things that new users might miss are the following:
Plans that utilize the Monthly Payment Gateway or Teachable Gateway are charged processing fees which may differ for users outside the United States and Canada.
The platform supports nearly all of the most common formats, including text, audio, image, video, and PDF. They can be uploaded from the computer, or imported from cloud providers such as Google Drive and Dropbox.
Yes, but bear in mind that the higher-priced plans get more priority service, which is only natural in the biz. Direct contact with a representative is via a live chat window on their site, but while waiting for your turn in the ticketing queue, you're redirected to have a look through some of the troubleshooting posts first. There is no phone-in support, but their website has a wealth of tips and tricks, weekly live workshops, and an online academy with movie tutorials — instructing users to teach their customers!
Conclusion Reviews About Teachable
We hope this review has helped define and present some terms associated with learning management systems. We decided to review Teachable as one of the top choices in the business of online course platforms, and a closer look at its attributes clearly shows why. This firm champions the uniqueness of the individual, and makes it simple for virtually anybody to share thoughts online, and get paid for it.


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Edwin (Boo) VanCleave, 72 Taylor County, KY
October 22, 1945 - June 07, 2018 (Age: 72)
He professed faith in Christ and was a member of Salem Baptist Church. He was a veteran of the United States Army, having served his country honorably in Germany during the Vietnam War. He was a native of Jefferson County, KY, and a resident of Taylor County, KY, at the time of his death. He was a retired employee of the Campbellsville Water Company, where he worked at the Water Treatment Plant. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather and loved to pick on people he liked. He was the son of the late William VanCleave & Zillah Antle VanCleave. His wife, Paula Newcomb VanCleave, survives. He leaves four direct living descendants.
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Edwin "Boo" VanCleave, 72, Campbellsville, KY, died Thursday June 7, 2018, at 8:40pmET.
The funeral service will be at 1pmCT/2pmET, Sunday, June 10, 2018 at Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home, 418 Lebanon Avenue, Campbellsville, KY, by Rev. Michael Goodwin. Burial will be in Campbellsville Memorial Gardens, 700 Old U.S. 68, Campbellsville, KY. Visitation will be 11am-1pmCT/12pmNoon-2pmET, Sunday, June 10, 2018 at Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home.
Edwin "Boo" VanCleave, 72 Taylor County, KY (1945-2018)
Edwin "Boo" VanCleave was the son of the late William VanCleave & Zillah Antle VanCleave. He was born October 22, 1945, in Jefferson County, KY. He died at Thursday, June 7, 2018 in Campbellsville, Taylor County, KY at the age of 72 years, seven months, and 18 days.
He professed faith in Christ and was a member of Salem Baptist Church.
He was a veteran of the United States Army, having served his country honorably in Germany during the Vietnam War.
Edwin was a retired employee of the Campbellsville Water Company, having worked at the Water Treatment Plant.
He was a loving husband, father and grandfather and loved to pick on people he liked.
He united in marriage to Paula Newcomb August 31, 1974.
Besides his wife, Paula VanCleave of Campbellsville, KY, he is survived by:
One son and one daughter: Robby VanCleave and wife, Becky of Campbellsville, KY; and Nikki Espey and husband, Curtis, of Bowling Green, KY
Two grandchildren: Skyeler Espey of Bowling Green, KY; and Lee VanCleave of Campbellsville, KY
Several nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends.
He was also preceded in death by a sister, Cary Pickett August 22, 1997.
Send condolences to the family of Edwin (Boo) VanCleave
Expressions of sympathy requested to be donations to Salem Baptist Church building fund and may be made at the funeral home
Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home, 418 Lebanon Avenue, Campbellsville, KY, is in charge of arrangements.
Freda L. Mays, Warren County resident/Green County, KY native
Barbara Kay Daniels Pitcock, 66, Burkesville, KY (1951-2018)
Davis Sexton, 75, Adair County, KY (1942-2018)
Mary Ella Jaynes, 84, former Casey County resident
Dale (Peewee) Johnson, 76, Russell Co., KY (1942-2018)
Magdalene Bryant Montgomery, Taylor County, KY (1927-2018)
Sad word of the passing of Barbara Kaye Pitcock, Burkesville, KY
Donna Maness Briscoe, 64, Green County, KY (1954-2018)
David Allan Abbott, 63, Burkesville, KY (1954-2018)
Charlie Sullivan, 81, Russell County, KY/Leslie Co., KY native (1936-2018)

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Q: Issue with pagination in Datatables implementation I am having a small issue with pagination. When implementing the "four_button" type, the table displays correctly (with correct pagination buttons) however clicking on any of the pagination buttons (Next, Previous, etc...) will throw an error of "fnCallbackDraw is not a function". Inspecting it further in Firebug, i see that fnCallbackDraw is a div (div.dataTables_paginate). Looking within the code, I do not see where this value is being assigned??!!
To make matters more interesting the other pagination implementation of "full_numbers" works correctly.
Has anyone else come across this issue? Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

A: As far as I have used the datatable plugin, there are only two options for pagination namely "full_numbers" and "two_button". I don't think "four_button" type exists even in the latest plugin as I have been using version "1.8.2". Try using either of "full_numbers" or "two_button" types.
Hope this Helps!!

A: There is no fnCallbackDraw. It is fnDrawCallback. Without seeing your DT initialization code, I'm guessing it's just a syntax error. ;-)
If I'm wrong, post back with a copy of your initialization object and we'll see if there's anything else going on there.

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A sign on 223rd Street east of Cedar Niles Road lets motorists know that a public hearing is scheduled to take place June 23 at Paola Middle School to discuss the proposed incorporation of the city of Golden.
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This map outlines the boundaries of the proposed city of Golden in northern Miami County.
Debate continues on proposed city of Golden as public hearing nears
By Brian McCauley brian.mccauley@miconews.com
Brian McCauley
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Jun 9, 2021 Updated Jun 25, 2021
For Jennifer Williams and the nearly 300 others who signed a petition to establish a new 9-square-mile third class city named Golden north of Hillsdale Lake in Miami County, the need is clear.
The neighbors are concerned because of what is happening just north of the county line, where NorthPoint Development is working with the city of Edgerton to annex land for proposed industrial warehouses. Becoming a city would give them more control over potential rezonings and help them preserve their rural lifestyle.
"We don't want to wait until they infiltrate the Miami County border and it's too late for us," Williams has said. "It's giving the residents a voice."
For Tom Bach, though, and the more than 100 others who have signed a petition against the incorporation of the city of Golden, the issue is not that simple.
Bach said the incorporation of the city could limit the county's options for future growth and development, and he said those seeking to establish Golden are only focusing on one issue and not realizing the other impacts of starting a city, such as police and fire protection and taxes.
"It's not good for the county," Bach said. "It's the wrong way to go."
Both sides have hired legal representation, and their cases will be made during a public hearing that is scheduled to take place from 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, at Paola Middle School, located at 405 N. Hospital Drive in Paola.
Miami County commissioners will listen to comments during the hearing and have been directed to consider 14 factors mapped out in state law, as well as additional factors they deem relevant, according to the hearing's public notice.
At the County Commission's May 19 study session, Chair Rob Roberts outlined the process moving forward after the public hearing is completed. He emphasized no decision will be made at the June 23 public hearing.
"That is not the day we are going to make a decision," Roberts said. "That is simply the day we are going to gather the public's information."
Roberts outlined a three-meeting process that is likely to stretch over a period of weeks. The first meeting is the public hearing.
At the second meeting, the commission will hear from expert witnesses on a variety of topics such as costs associated with providing law enforcement, road maintenance and other services to Golden in the event they are requested.
"The second meeting would be one where we bring in expert witnesses to answer questions that we have," Roberts said.
The third meeting will be the deliberation, which will culminate with the commission's decision.
Roberts said the second and third meetings will take place in the commission chambers in the county administration building and will be open to the public. Those meetings have not yet been scheduled.
Local residents don't have to wait for the June 23 public hearing to voice their opinions on the issue. Comments and other material can be submitted to the Miami County Clerk until 5 p.m. Friday, June 11. Materials can be submitted through email to countyclerk@miamicountyks.org or in person at the Miami County Administration Building in Paola. Submitted materials will be posted on the county's website at www.miamicountyks.org. Responses to posted material also will be posted if received before the deadline.
There were more than 20 public comments posted on the county's website as of Tuesday, June 8, and all but four of them are in favor of incorporating the city of Golden. Many of the submitted comments use the same letter template, which states they are a resident within the proposed city boundaries and asks the county commissioners to vote yes for the incorporation of Golden so they can protect their property and property rights.
"By forming our own city, with elected officials from our borders elected by us, we are being given the opportunity to exercise and protect those rights. Without this incorporation, you are leaving us in a vulnerable position where the future of our area and our investments are left in the hands of outsiders who do not represent us and who do not have our best interest at heart," the letters state. "As a commissioner, you are aware that there is absolutely nothing you or the county can do to stop consent annexations, leaving the citizens in this area with no protection from the outside invasion; an invasion that is inevitable if you do not allow us to protect ourselves."
Ronald Elrod submitted a letter in opposition of the incorporation. Elrod said he appreciates the fact that Miami County currently maintains the roads and provides law enforcement protection for the area, as well as paying Johnson County for fire protection. Elrod said the population of about 750 people for the proposed 9 square miles does not make it feasible to establish a city, and he also doesn't believe it could be done with taxes staying the same or only going up two mills as he has been told by supporters.
"If Golden becomes a city, it would have no finances to provide law enforcement, fire protection, road maintenance and improvement, and no plans or means of providing sewage availability," Elrod wrote in his letter. "If the city is incorporated it will destroy our friendly agricultural and residential way of life."
Williams said she and her neighbors were told by sheriff's office representatives that they would continue to be served by the sheriff's office, even if Golden becomes a city.
Sheriff Frank Kelly said the sheriff's office is already providing services to the city of Fontana, which also is a third class city without a police force, so he believes Golden would be handled the same way unless he is told otherwise.
Ethan Rice also submitted a letter in opposition to the proposed incorporation.
"I have lived in rural areas my whole life and do not like the idea of being forced into some new city," Rice wrote. "I fear all this will do is raise my taxes even more than they already get raised yearly, to pay for a new city council that will just cause more bureaucracy and act as an overzealous homeowners association."
Dennis Koch submitted a lengthy letter to the county stating why he is favor of incorporating the city of Golden. In his letter, Koch responds to the multiple concerns he has heard from some of his neighbors. Koch said homes in Golden would not be required to change from septic to sewer systems, and the taxes will not increase dramatically.
"The city may have to take responsibility for some services from the county, but that does not mean that residents will be forced to pay double tax for the same service," Koch wrote. "Plus, as a city, Golden will receive funding from other tax sources in the county and state that will offset any costs that the city incurs. The city tax will not be 52 mils, and the initial cost to operate the city will not be $750,000."
Those numbers are mentioned in a message that accompanies the petition from residents who oppose the incorporation of the city of Golden. Bach, who has served on the county's board of zoning appeals for nearly 20 years and has experience as a township trustee, said the message will be sent to county commissioners and it outlines eight reasons why they oppose the proposed incorporation.
The reasons range from the belief that the petitioner has grossly underestimated the true cost of expenditures and that the only clear goal seems to be to stop commercial development in northern Miami County.
"It is clear to us that if this city is formed, it would forever preclude the opportunity for Miami County, as a whole, to gain a tax base associated with the Logistics Park, KC Intermodal and associated commercial business development in northern Miami County," the message states. "We are concerned that if the city of Golden, Ks. Incorporation is approved, it could set a dangerous precedent that other special interest groups that have an agenda could also request special consideration to form a city to the detriment of Miami County and the overall orderly and economic development of the county."
Bach resides just outside of the proposed city limits of Golden, but he said most of the people who signed the petition opposing the incorporation live within the proposed city limits.
Williams has said that the proposal is well thought out, and she maps out the details in a 38-minute Youtube video called "Golden Kansas." She also has created a GoFundMe page to try and raise funds to pay for the attorney that has been hired to complete necessary legal filings and notifications. So far, the page has raised just over $2,000 of its $5,000 goal.
Senior Managing Editor Brian McCauley can be reached at (913) 294-2311 or brian.mccauley@miconews.com.
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Ejghais Jun 13, 2021 3:47pm
I have a vested interest in the formation of the city of Golden, Kansas. It would be interesting if you could publish the petition submitted in opposition to the formation of the city. As I understand, the author of the petition does not even live in the boundaries of the proprosed city.
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Nathan L. Manning joined the angels in heaven on Thursday. Nov. 15, 2018. He passed away at his home surrounded by his loved ones.
Nathan was born Nov. 7, 1960, in Saranac Lake to Beverly Manning.
On May 18, 1996, Nate married Sharon Aiken at St. Ann's Church in St. Regis Falls.
Nate was an avid outdoorsman enjoying fishing, hunting and camping. He especially enjoyed spending time with family and friends, listening to music and telling stories.
Nate was a past member of the Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department, retiring as first assistant chief after volunteering for more than 20 years. Nate worked as a chef at the Hilton in Lake Placid for 20 years and retired from the Olympic Training Center due to illness.
He is survived by his wife Sharon; his mother Beverly; three sisters: Charlotte and her companion Brian of Lake Placid, Lorraine of Lake Placid, and Dawn and her companion David of Evans City, Pennsylvania; and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by a brother Marvin Jr. and his beloved fur daughter Autumn Sunshine.
Calling hours were held Sunday, Nov. 18 from 5 to 8 p.m. with a Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department prayer service at 7:45 p.m. at the M.B. Clark Inc. Funeral Home in Lake Placid. A funeral service was held Monday, Nov. 19 at 11 a.m. at the Adirondack Community Church, Main Street, Lake Placid. The Rev. Derek Hansen officiated. Cremation followed.
The family suggests, in lieu of flowers, relatives and friends make donations in his memory to the Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department or High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care.
Share a memory or leave condolences at www.mbclarkfuneralhome.com.


Everything You Should Know about Data Security and Encryption !
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We've entered a time when the conveniences of widespread connectivity, including the cloud, have put us at more risk than ever of getting hacked. When data does fall into the wrong hands, the consequences can be devastating. High-profile data breaches and ransomware attacks have organizations and individuals on red alert for the best ways to safeguard their data and networks, both now and for the future.
If you've been putting off adopting encryption as a part of your security policy, delay no more. Here's a guide to the science of encryption, and how you can begin implementing an encryption strategy today.
Encryption is a process that works in a way to protect your private data from the prying eyes. Today, encryption is known to most of the users (tech-savvy) as compared to a few years earlier where nobody is able to grasp this terminology. Back in the days, encryption was compared with the likes of password protection, file locking tools etc. But soon with the passage of time, it was made clear that encryption stands tall against these mediocre safety options.
The concept was to replace the DES with Triple DES algorithm. It was considered as an option as hackers had identified how to defeat the former one. In the industry, there was a time when Triple DES was the most preferred standard and most commonly used algorithm. This type of encryption uses 3 separate keys (56 bits each). When combined, the total length of the key ranges to 168 bits however, experts claim that 112-bits is rather feasible. Regardless of being eliminated, Triple DES still works in the sectors in the financial services and other similar industries as an encryption solution.
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RSA is an asymmetric algorithm unlike Triple DES as it uses a pair of keys. You use your private key to decrypt message and the public key which you use to encrypt the information. All in all, it makes it difficult for the prying eyes to proceed any further into your stuff.
This type was created only to replace DES where blowfish divides the information into a total 64 bits and each one of them is encrypted separately. Blowfish stands out for its quick speed and as claimed, it has no competition in speed. But the vendors however took complete advantage of it being freely available in the public domain. You can find this type of encryption in e-commerce platforms for safe payments which is quite flexible and easy to use.
Twofish is an encryption algorithm that uses up to 256 bits in total length but only one key is required as a symmetric method. Known for its speed, Twofish is used for not only software environments but also for hardware related uses. Twofish similar to Blowfish is a free tool to use due to which, it is heavily bundled in programs of encryption.
Hands down on this one, no questions asked. This type of encryption uses efficiently 128-bits form, 192, 256 bits for solid encryption reasons and even more. AES stands for advanced encryption standards is by far the most reliable form of encryption algorithm that so far hasn't seen any limitation of lacking behind. The creators have made the claim of it being unbreakable.
What lies in the future of Encryption?
Since there is no stopping to the prying eyes, the time is ripe for you to surround yourself with the above mentioned security options. We do consider these types of algorithms and encryption software for windows to be safe but know that it is only a matter of time these hackers find a way out of these standards. The future however holds the concept of honey encryption that would render hackers helpless by serving false/fake data for every wrong guess or attempt of entering the key code. Such type of technology is planned to slow down the prying eyes but forcefully hides the right key in a haystack. This method would surely slow them hackers but for how long, we are not sure.


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Monthly Curations: August 2019
In Programming
Wondering whether Perk 6 should be named as a totally different language
A look at "typed Lisp"
Bob Martin on "why Clojure"
Rakuten And Egison
In defense of stable platforms
And now, a quote, something about languages both natural and artificial, spoken and digital:
It makes perfect sense to say that the target demographic of English is English speakers—or more precisely, the target demographic of Modern English is Middle English speakers who wanted a few simpler rules, some continental vocabulary, following other contemporaneous European languages in not having þ and distinguishing i and j, etc. It was a relatively small change and very intentionally served a community of people who already spoke Middle English well. It was the Python 2-to-3 of English.
The target demographic of Esperanto, meanwhile, was the whole world: people who already had a language, people who already had a workable lingua franca in international contexts (French, later English), and in particular people who weren't familiar with the European language patterns that Esperanto was largely based on. So it had limited success. A Japanese or Indonesian or Persian or Swahili diplomat not familiar with any European language would be better served learning French or English than Esperanto, because those languages are roughly equally foreign, there are many more resources for learning French or English, there is a larger community and more people to speak to, there is a larger corpus of works, etc. And an Anglophone or Francophone diplomat has very little incentive to learn Esperanto, either.
Modern Hebrew, on the other hand, had a well-identified target demographic: Jews from around the world migrating to the reestablished state of Israel who lacked a shared everyday language. Some liturgical Hebrew was already familiar to most of this population, and there was a strong cultural willingness to see a reestablished Hebrew language. So while it is in many senses a conlang, it was far more successful than Esperanto and now has a large community of native speakers.
So the question of whether a programming language—especially one that is so much like a conlang, not an incremental evolution based on use in practice (like the C standards committee accepting compiler-specific dialectal changes)—has a target demographic is a fair one.


Author J.B. MacKinnon went up to Burnaby Mountain on the weekend to protest against Kinder Morgan's plans to run a second pipeline through one of Burnaby's most cherished conservation areas.
He was arrested for crossing into the Kinder Morgan drilling site currently under injunction by the B.C. Supreme Court, becoming one of the first in a growing series of prominent public figures to take action and get vocal on Burnaby Mountain.
MacKinnon spoke to The Vancouver Observer after he had spent some time walking in the sun and "breathing the air of freedom" on the morning after his arrest, on the personal reasons for why he crossed the police line after the court granted Kinder Morgan an injunction.
MacKinnon is a Canadian journalist and literary figure and is well-known for such environmentally progressive works as his latest book The Once and Future World (a national bestseller that won the U.S. Green Prize for Sustainable Literature). He also helped spark a local eating trend with the 100-Mile Diet.
"I attended the protests in Clayoquot Sound as a journalist, I attended the big demonstrations that happened against APEC, at UBC and the Gulf War as a journalist; I was present at the Battle of Seattle in 1999 as a journalist," he said. "This was the first time that I felt that I actually needed to cross the line from observer to participant."
When asked what compelled him to make this transition from observer to participant, MacKinnon suggested that the decision was partly based on how best he could contribute to the cause at this point in time.
"[I've] had the sense for some time that it's not a lack of words on paper or a lack of ideas that's preventing us as a society from moving forwards and addressing climate change as the most urgent issue of our time," he said.
Accordingly, he concluded that "getting another article out there wasn't going to be as valuable a contribution as actually putting myself on the line with all those other people who had made the difficult decision (to get arrested)".
MacKinnon said he joined the protests for the first time on Friday (he was out of town on Thursday), and realized that protesters "were being arrested for things that I believe in. They were being arrested at a time that I think action is important and I felt that I needed to join with them."
Then, he said, "it really came down to a sleepless night."
"Quite literally, I had an almost sleepless night after Friday and then I just woke up in the morning with a clear decision in my mind that I was going to go out there and get arrested. I spent that night thinking about how the consequences could play out in my life. I came to the conclusion that I was ready to face the consequences in order to make this particular statement."


Pope Francis had strong words for couples who choose not to have children, saying Tuesday that their self-imposed infertility was at the root of the demographic winter plaguing the West.
"Think of how all of us are continually urged to live in a comfortable and greedy individualism, only concerned with our own well-being, our free time and our self-fulfillment," the pope told a group of Catholic students at Rome's Cathedral of Saint John Lateran.
While the pope has insisted that Catholic couples do not have to multiply "like rabbits," he has also urged them to have children, decrying the demographic winter that is felt so acutely in Europe, with its birthrate well below replacement levels.
The pope continued on this theme in his address Tuesday, saying that this aversion to having children was the fruit of self-centeredness.
In closing, the pope said that the only cure for the selfishness that causes barrenness is the self-giving and generosity that Jesus inspires in the gospel.
"You understand well that the gospel gives us the deepest and most radical antidotes to defend ourselves and heal from the disease of individualism," he said.


Pebble "smartwatches" could help guide the wearable-electronics market.
Dell wants a piece of the nascent wearable-electronics market.
"We're exploring ideas in that space," Dell executive Sam Burd told The Guardian. "Having a watch on your wrist—that's pretty interesting, pretty appealing." Challenges include cost, he added, and building a device that people will actually want to wear.
The wearable-electronics market has seen a surge of activity in recent months. Google is already marketing Google Glass, a portfolio of augmented-reality eyeglasses that feed data such as text messages and maps to a tiny screen embedded in the right lens. Meanwhile, Apple's engineers and designers are reportedly hard at work on an "iWatch," an iOS-supported timepiece capable of running a variety of apps; while Apple hasn't confirmed that such a device is in development, many analysts and tech journalists are reasonably expectant that one will appear within the next few quarters.
Whether or not Apple produces a tech-enhanced timepiece, it's not alone in that segment: Google, LG, and Samsung all (reportedly) have similar wrist-hardware in development. In other words, if Dell comes out with a "D-Watch" or whatever, it'll have a lot of company.
In any case, wearable electronics offer some considerable design and engineering challenges. For starters, there's the tiny issue of battery life: while people are willing to plug in their smartphone into the nearest power source at least once a day, they may rebel at the idea of having to frequently juice up a wristwatch or pair of eyeglasses. Second, watches' and eyeglasses' relatively small size means miniscule screens, which could create problems for anyone trying to create software for the devices.
Google Glass features a single-cell 2.1-Wh (570-mAh) Lithium Polymer battery tucked into the frame, capable (according to Google) of roughly a day's use on a single battery charge. The in-lens display offers a native resolution of 640×360, with pixels "roughly 1/8th the physical width of those on the iPhone 5's retina display," according to a recent teardown by Scott Torborg and Star Simpson.
The Pebble "smart watch"—arguable the most prominent such device at the moment—is a customizable timepiece designed for interoperability with iOS and Google Android. In addition to alerting the user to incoming emails and texts, it offers a variety of apps for golf, running and other activities. It also features seven days' worth of battery life, according to its creators, and supports Bluetooth.
These early devices offer the foundation on which other companies will build. But as the market gets more crowded, it'll become more difficult to develop those next-generation features that will truly stand out. Dell may be exploring wearable electronics as a way to bolster its revenues at a time when PC sales are anemic, but the company could also find itself in a real fight if it plunges into the category—and as it demonstrated with its ignoble attempts at producing a tablet to compete with Apple's iPad, sometimes its experiments in new categories don't turn out so well.
Are Wearable Electronics Killing Watches?


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The Panthers Can't Save Us Now
Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter
by Cedric Johnson
Part of the Jacobin series
208 pages / February 22, 2022 / 9781839766305
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Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality
In the wake of the mass protests following the police murder of George Floyd nearly every major consumer brand had proclaimed their commitments to antiracism, often with new ad campaigns to match their tweets. Very little in the way of police reform has been achieved. Still less was achieved around policies that might help the millions of black Americans living at or below the poverty line. Why has anti-racism been such a powerful source of mobilization but such a poor means of building political opposition capable of winning big reforms?
This volume revisits a debate that transpired during Black Live Matter's first wave.
Writing against the grain of popular left sentiments, Johnson cautions against a new ethnic politics. Instead, he calls for broad-based left politics as the only viable means for ending the twin crises of racial inequality and police violence. Redistribution, public goods, and multi-ethnic working-class solidarity are the only viable response to the horrors of police violence and mass incarceration. It just so happens that fighting the conditions that make crime and violence inevitable is also the means by which we can build a working-class majority and a more equal and peaceful nation.


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Дознаватель — должностное лицо органа дознания, правомочное либо уполномоченное начальником органа дознания осуществлять предварительное расследование в форме дознания, а также иные полномочия, предусмотренные уголовно-процессуальным законом.

Дознаватель, как и следователь, уполномочен на проведение всех следственных действий при проведении расследования по уголовному делу, однако, в отличие от предварительного следствия, при проведении расследования в форме дознания обычно не выполняется процедура привлечения подозреваемого в качестве обвиняемого, а по окончании расследования составляется не обвинительное заключение (как в предварительном следствии), а обвинительный акт (а в случае дознания в сокращенной форме — обвинительное постановление). Также дознавателю требуется согласие прокурора для совершения некоторых установленных законом юридически значимых действий, и дознаватель не вправе отказаться выполнять указания начальника органа дознания и прокурора, если он с ними не согласен.

Одноименная должность имеется в органах внутренних дел, органах пограничной службы, таможенных органах (статья 40 Уголовно-процессуального кодекса РФ, статья 354 Таможенного кодекса Евразийского экономического союза говорят, что таможенные органы являются органами дознания и (или) следствия по делам о преступлениях или уголовных правонарушениях, производство по которым отнесено к ведению таможенных органов в соответствии с законодательством государств-членов),
службе судебных приставов, органах государственной противопожарной службы.

См. также

 Детектив (профессия)
 Следователь
 Оперуполномоченный
 Охотник за головами
 Охотник на воров

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Hassenpflug är ett tyskt efternamn, som burits av bland andra:

 Amalie Hassenpflug (1800–1871), tysk författarinna
 Charlotte Hassenpflug (1793–1833), syster till bröderna Grimm
 Gustav Hassenpflug (1907–1977), tysk arkitekt
 Johannes Hassenpflug (1755–1834), hessisk ämbetsman
 Karl Hassenpflug (1824–1890), tysk skulptör
 Ludwig Hassenpflug (1794–1862), hessisk politiker

Tyska efternamn


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Frankford Candy & Chocolate Company is an American candy manufacturer, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1947 by Sam Himmelstein.  The current CEO is Stuart Selarnick. In the 2000s, Frankford Candy & Chocolate Company became a very successful manufacturer. It is one of the largest producers of chocolate rabbits in the United States, making over 100 varieties. In 2000, it started licensing popular children's TV characters, such as SpongeBob SquarePants. Frankford produces their candy in China, Pennsylvania and Italy.

Frankford purchased Cap Candy, a division of Hasbro, and the Wonder Ball from Nestlé in the 2000s. The Wonder Ball has been reintroduced to the confectionery market in recent years.

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Sources

 Frankford Candy sweet on a license to thrill – Philadelphia Business Journal
 Candy company acquires Wonderball brand – Philadelphia Business Journal
 A sweetheart chocolate deal – Philadelphia Business Journal

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Haringey: the 'Corbyn Council' will have some shaping up to do
31st January 2018 27th December 2018
Claire's Kober's decision to step down as a Haringey councillor and step away from the snake pit of Labour politics in the borough had been coming for while. Those of her opponents who've greeted it with glee should enjoy their crowing while they can. The first "Corbyn Council" will have big problems on its hands when, as is almost certain, it comes into being in May, some of them even bigger than Kober has faced. Indeed, those new problems have already begun.
London local authorities, especially many Labour ones, have grown adept at fashioning success out of adversity. Eight years of cut after cut to borough budgets has obliged council leaders to adapt or atrophy, to innovate or stagnate, to improvise or decline. For them, the fragile, the disadvantaged, and that widening range of people struggling with housing costs are not abstract problems to be solved by purifying applications of ideology but real human beings whose hopes of having better lives significantly depend on their local council not only holding things together but attracting new investment, drawing in new resources and doing things in different ways. It's either that or grumble and do little. What, then, will the Corbyn Council do?
A good first step would be for its architects and their supporters to stop kidding themselves and trying to kid everybody else. For those of us old enough to recall the 1980s, during which several boroughs were led by politicians from what we might now call the Corbyn Left, encounters with Kober's activist nemeses and the ardent saucepan-bangers of the anti-HDV campaign have been like surreal journeys back in time.
In that political niche market, whose sales personnel claim now represents the mainstream, core characteristics are unaltered: the single-issue obsessions and feuds; the rule book pedantry; the recourse when under pressure to obfuscation, moral blackmail, intellectual bullshit, condescension and denial; the absurd self-importance of calling stopping the HDV a victory for "the resistance"; the presumptuousness of proclaiming what they've achieved as representing the Will Of The People.
When even the daftest puppy dog on Turnpike Lane knew that Haringey Momentum and their non-Labour allies were lobbying, leafleting and phone banking for all they were worth to turf out sitting councillors who back the HDV, local leading lights were piously insisting to anyone outside their circle that no such thing was happening. The "quality" liberal media have been complicit in all this, some say a formative influence. One defender of Kober has described them as having been "played like a fiddle". That is exactly right.
Now that Momentum and other Kober critics have got what they want, they would be wise to lift their gaze to what is coming down the track. The next fall of the funding axe is but one of the challenges they will face. Rumours of council officers and other employees eyeing employment elsewhere and of potential private sector investors having second thoughts are only to be expected when an untested administration-in-waiting is already being written up in the Tory press as a test bed for poisonous extremism. But some of those rumours appear well-sourced. A flight of talent and capital would not make life any easier for the "grassroots" insurgents.
Neither would a fractious contest to succeed Kober as leader, which some contend has been brewing below the radar for a while. Councillors Peray Ahmet, Noah Tucker, Zena Brabazon and deputy leader Joseph Ejiofor are often mentioned. But whoever gets the job will need to be mindful that whatever virtues his or her policy programme may have, they will go unnoticed by the wider world if the administration overall is seen as self-indulgent and inept. Accusations of "gesture politics" against those Labour Left boroughs of four decades ago were harder to brush off because many of the high profile politicians in charge appeared incapable of running a bath.
Kober's case for the HDV was and remains that the social and economic transformation of stubbornly poor parts of her borough could not come about without a major physical transformation, and that the only way to achieve that was to bring council land and property together with the financial power and expertise of a big private developer. The case can be argued either way, but what is not in doubt – certainly not in the minds of other senior local government figures – is that Kober is an individual of dynamic competence who had her ideas fully worked out.
There is no inherent reason why the next, very different, Haringey Labour council cannot also pursue a clear-minded vision in effective ways. But to do that it will need to jettison or temper ideas rooted only in doctrine that would fray on contact with reality.
The in-sourcing of services, for example, so religiously espoused in the personal manifestos of Momentum-backed councillor candidates, is not outlandish in principle at all, but needs to be approached with costs and outcomes in mind, not the mere enactment of anti-privatisation dogma. The empowerment of communities is a good objective too, but that has to mean communities as a whole, not just those within them with loud voices you agree with. Gentrification, the boo-word of the, dare I say it, Zombie Protest Left is well underway in the poor parts of Haringey as property market forces in a fast-growing city have their inevitable effects. These are not all malign. The trick is to harvest them for the common good.
Weird as it may seem, there is a comparison to be made between the coming advent of the Corbyn Council and Boris Johnson's election as London Mayor in 2008. Johnson's first mayoralty was seen as a foretaste of a possible Conservative national government under David Cameron. It is important to note that nothing close to what has happened in Haringey has happened anywhere else in London but, even so, the next political bosses of the Civic Centre will be studied as minutely as the contents of a petrie dish for germs of a prospective Corbyn Labour government.
Were I the Labour leader, I would make it very plain to my disciples in Crouch End, Noel Park and so on that they need to shape up for the realities of power. Johnson's first months were chaotic, yet forgiven as integral to the charm of Brand Boris. The nation's first Corbyn Council would not be so indulged.
Tags: Boris Johnson, Claire Kober, David Cameron, Haringey, Jeremy Corbyn, Joseph Ejiofor, Momentum, Noah Tucker, Peray Ahmet, Zena Brabazon
Vic Keegan's Lost London 26: St Mary Woolnoth
Whisper it, but (some) housing in London has become a bit more affordable


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"Spring 1" oil and acrylic on canvas 24"x18"
"Spring 2" oil and acrylic on canvas 24"x18"
This is the piece staight from the factory.
This is the finished piece. There are actually two of these nightstands for a Master Bedroom.
This is a custom stencil design for this Mediterranean Powder Room.
This was a wonderful trip last fall with my Mom and Sis. These are just a few of the artistic highlights. It was such a thrill and a privilege to see these masterpieces in person.
The inspiration for these paintings is not an exact site, but done out my impression from where I live and take walks with my dog at the coastal wetlands.
Ann Dennis Designs Showroom is a unique place of antiques, eclectic pieces and specialty represented lines of fabrics and wall coverings all displayed in beautiful and inspiring vignettes. It is a wonderful place to visit and shop.
Last weekend I had spent some quality time with my honey and we went to the Caravaggio show at the LACMA.
It was crowded of course, but to see these paintings in person that were painted in the 1500's and 1600's is amazing.
The first time I saw a Caravaggio painting in person, "Supper at Emmaus" was either at the J Paul Getty museum in Malibu for a special show, or it's home at the National Gallery in London. I remember walking into a fairly dark room with the paintings lit. When I saw this painting I just stopped, I was captivated by the light and shadows, the moment of the scene, and of course the hands. It was a wonderful experience embedded in my memory.
Deck the halls with boughs of holly as we celebrate the birth of the new born King.
This is a painting of a clients limestone fireplace. I just decorated it for Christmas in a watercolor and card for the designer.
I know the post is a little late, got busy throwing a birthday bash.
Wishing my parents, Sue and Jack, a very Happy Anniversary today!
This was a favorite size tin of a client of mine. It was previously painted and was cracking and flaking off.
I first stripped it with orange stripper from Home Depot, then primed and based painted it.
She wanted each panel to be a separate scene in a classic chinoiserie style. As I drew it out, I tried to get each panel to visually flow one to the next.
After I had painted the four sides, it looked sort of bare, especially looking down into it, so I added the Asian scroll on the inside.
This tin vessel could be used in as a waste basket in a powder room, a vase for a dry arrangement, or simply an object d'art.
This is the progression of a painted ceiling.
The bottom sketch was submitted to the designer and homeowner. The sketch was drawn to scale from blueprints.
I then blew up my drawing and perforated it with a tool and used charcoal bags for a pounce pattern to transfer onto the ceiling.
Then I lightly drew with a pencil my outlines and wiped the charcoal off.
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I made a stencil for the border, and connected the lines with a small paint brush, and put in the shadow tone.
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In June 2000, Pima County acquired land parcels measuring 43.2 acres encompassing the historic locations of Old and New Pantano Townsites within the Cienega Creek Natural Preserve (CCNP). The Pantano Townsites Conservation Area was established to protect and preserve the important historic resources, as well as prehistoric Hohokam village remains underlying the historic resources.
The 2004 Bond project implemented basic management and protective actions to ensure the preservation of the Pantano Townsite. Protective actions included identifying the historic and cultural resources to be preserved under County management, detailed site mapping and development of a comprehensive geo-database for use in GIS modeling of the site locality. Limited signage at the town site interprets the resources and the history of the area.
The project was substantially complete with the development of interpretive signage in June 2014.


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Critical and Ethical Thinking in Sport Management: Philosophical Rationales and Examples of Methods
Dwight H. Zakus, David Cruise Malloy, Allan Edwards
Critical thinking is recognised as a necessary central competency of university graduates in a variety of professional fields. Many articles identify and expound on the need for critical thinking pedagogy allied with sound moral and ethical thought and behaviour. This paper seeks to identify the central aspects of critical thinking within the ethical conceptual terms of ontology, epistemology, and axiology for sport management pedagogy. Within the concept of axiology is the basis of ethical thinking and acting. We weave the discussion of critical thinking within an ethical basis toward practical pedagogical activities for developing and advancing critical thinking skills and abilities in sport management graduates.
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Behind the phones: how Kaye's bed...
Behind the phones: how Kaye's bed and breakfast supports hospital patients
Feature 1 September 2021
You may never see them, but peek inside a Suncorp contact centre and you will find some of the most caring and interesting people you will meet. We go behind the phones to find out how switching to contact centre work later in her career has allowed Customer Value Specialist Kaye Hayes to pursue a bed and breakfast side business.
Kaye remembers being the oldest person in her training group.
"Changing careers at 53 was definitely daunting – I thought 'how am I going to handle this?'"
After a career working in community pharmacies, health reasons forced Kaye to slow down and find work that didn't require her to be on her feet all day – while still making the most of the customer service skills she had honed all her life.
She joined Suncorp's contact centre team in Toowoomba, Queensland, six years ago and hasn't looked back.
"While it was daunting at first, I've found plenty of support here and it's been great working in such a diverse team of all different ages and walks of life," she said.
"I enjoy the flexibility of the work. I now largely work from home, and I work a four-day week, which allows me to spend more time with my grandchildren."
But there was another benefit too. When she isn't helping customers, Kaye runs a bed and breakfast from her Toowoomba home as a side business.
Living close to the Toowoomba Hospital, and with her grown-up sons no longer living with her, Kaye saw an opportunity to provide accommodation for patients' families so they can stay close by during treatment.
In an odd twist of fate, shortly after Kaye set up her bed and breakfast, her own son was critically injured.
When my son was critically injured, it made me realise: I'm on the right track here. I'm doing the right thing.
"My son needed to be treated in Brisbane, and all of a sudden I was the one who was needing to quickly find accommodation close to the hospital.
"It made me realise: I'm on the right track here. I'm doing the right thing.
"It's funny how life is.
"I've met some wonderful people through doing the bed and breakfast, from all over the world."
This love of connecting with and caring for people has also made contact centre work a great fit for Kaye.
"You wouldn't think it, but it's actually a wonderful place to help people," she said. "I recently spoke with a young guy with a brain injury who had never had to manage his insurance policies before, and it felt good to talk him through it and give him that confidence.
"There are also a lot of really lonely people at the moment who are stuck at home and just looking for some conversation. You need to have a lot of empathy for this job.
"And then of course you get some rude people too. But I always just take a breath and reset after those calls, and the next person is generally nicer.
"Being able to work from home, help people on the phones, run my bed and breakfast, spend time in my garden every morning – I think I'll stay here a little longer."
In the coming weeks, we'll be hearing from other members of our contact centre to find out how working in a contact centre works for them.
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Wesley Chan is a Manging Director @ Felicis Ventures where he has led investments in the likes of Canva, Flexport and Luma, just to name a few. Prior to Felicis, Wesley was a General Partner @ Google Ventures. Before Google Ventures he was an early employee at Google, where he founded and launched Google Analytics and Google Voice, resulting in his being awarded Google's Founders Award–the company's most prestigious recognition–for leading the development of Google's early client efforts, which led to the development of Google Chrome. Fun fact about Wesley he is a massive hacker and IOT enthusiast with over 100 connected devices in his home.
1.) How Wesley made the transition from Foundering Google Voice and analytics to being a VC?
2.) What were Wesley's biggest takeaways from leading investment at Google Ventures? When looking at Google's investment in Nest, what makes Nest such a truly phenomenal connected device?
3.) Wesley previously said, 'I look for patterns similar to Google Analytics in how if you build something great.' What are those patterns and what does that thought process lead to in terms of thought outcome? What is a good example of this?
4.) Where does Wesley think we are on the programmable interface element of consumer hardware? What would he like to see change or improve in the space?
5.) How has Wesley seen the investor sentiment to hardware change over the last decade? What have been the rivers in the rising positivity of investing in hardware?
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Wesley on Twitter here!
Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and Founder of X.ai, the artificial intelligence driven personal assistant that lets people schedule meetings using plain English and nothing more than a CC to amy@x.ai. Their female persona Amy is so lifelike that users have asked her on a date at a rate of one request per month! X.ai is now one of the best funded AI startups having raised over $30m from our friends at FirstMark and a big thanks to Matt Turck for making the intro and from DCM, who also helped us with some of the questions for Dennis!
1.) How Dennis came to found X.ai and what the a-ha moment was for him?
2.) What did the training look like for X.ai? How long did it take? How much data did you have to painstakingly annotate? What is more important; data or algorithms?
4.) Question from David Cheg @ DCM: How will AI startups interact with giant corporates also investing heavily in AI research?
5.) How was the fundraising journey for Dennis? How did he approach it strategically? What challenges did he face? How did he go about choosing his investors?
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Dennis on Twitter here!
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Annie Kadavy is a General Partner @ Charles River Ventures. The prestigious VC fund that is now on it's 16th fund and has backed the likes of Twitter, Yammer and Mailbox just to name a few. At CRV, Annie focuses on all things consumer and has either led or sourced their investments in ClassPass, Cratejoy, Patreon, Laurel & Wolf and DoorDash. Prior to CRV, Annie spent time with SV Angel and Warby Parker.
1.) How Annie made her way into the world of VC?
2.)Why have we seen the explosion of marketplaces in recent years? What are the inherent challenges of two sided marketplaces; typically consumers and micro-entrepreneurs? Does Annie agree with Jeff Jordan in stating that these marketplaces need to nurture and manage conditions of perfect competition?
3.) What are the core components to growing traditional producer consumer marketplaces? How do they broach the chicken and the egg problem of supply and demand?
4.) Why is Annie so excited for the potential of bots? Will the transition to bots and conversational interfaces represent a major point of disruption or more of an evolution in the interface paradigm?
1.) How Andy made his way into the world of VC and what was the origin story behind the founding of Benchmark?
2.) Andy took the opposite route to most having been a VC and then founding Wealthfront. So what does Andy make of doing VC first and then becoming an operator?
3.) Why does Andy believe Ivy League endowments are the best managed pools of capital? What do they do well and what separates the good from the great?
4.) Andy has worked with some of the world's best CEO's and board members, so what makes the best board member and what makes the best CEO?
5.) How has Andy seen the VC industry evolve and develop over the last 20 years? How has Andy seen his own investment decision making process and patter recognition alter over that time?
If you're interested in hearing more from Chris, you can also check out the incredible episode Notation Capital did with Chris here!
Chris Douvos is Managing Director @ Venture Investment Associates (VIA) where he is a member of the Firm's Investment Committee and has responsibility for the management of relationships with the funds' managers and its limited partners, as well as the identification and development of new relationships for the Firm. Prior to joining VIA, he spent time at The Investment Fund For Foundations (TIFF). where he was responsible for over $1 billion. Prior to that, Chris worked on Princeton University's endowment team. One of Chris' most notable investments is his pre-first fund investment in First Round Capital. Chris is also the author of the fantastic blog, www.SuperLP.com, definitely check that out if you have not had the chance yet.
1.) How did Chris make his way into the world of limited partners?
2.) How does Chris respond to FOMO as an LP? Does it affect his decision making process? How does he look to avoid it?
3.) What patterns and processes has Chris developed to asses the ability of potential GPs?
4.) Is Chris concerned by the increasing time it is taking for startups to exit? How does this affect his think as an LP and cash on cash relationship to this asset class?
5.) In 2013, Chris aid micro VC was the most exciting space in VC, where is he most excited for now? Where will we see innovation in the VC market?
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Chris on Twitter here!
Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO at Canva the disruptive online platform allowing anyone to create professional quality designs. They have over 10m users from 179 countries and have funding from our friends at Shasta, Felicis and upcoming guests Blackbird Ventures and Airtree in Australia. Prior to Canva, Melanie was the Fusion Yearbooks which she grew to be the largest Yearbook publisher in Australia.
1.) How did Melanie come to found Canva, what was the a-ha moment for her?
2.) How has Melanie looked to scale the team whilst maintaining the same core startup values and company ethos? What are the strategies at play here?
3.) What does it take to grow in international markets? Where were the benefits of founding Canva in the isolated tech ecosystem of Perth??
4.) What did Melanie look for in her investors? As a newbie to the VC scene how did she approach the fundraising process and what would she like to improve on?
5.) How can products that have both a free and a paid model offer enough in the free version to entice users, whilst retain enough for the paid to justify the price?
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Melanie on Twitter here!
Nabeel Hyatt is a venture partner at Spark Capital where he invests in entrepreneurs using that rare combination of design and technology to transform markets. He is currently on the board of Spark Capital's investments in Cruise (acquired by General Motors), Fig, Harmonix, Postmates, Proletariat, and Thalmic Labs. Nabeel was previously cofounder and CEO of Conduit Labs, which was sold to Zynga in 2010, where he then became General Manager up through the IPO. Prior to that he was variously cofounder, head of product, and CEO at a variety of hardware and software companies including MIT Media Lab spin-out Ambient Devices, Teamtalk (BSkyB), and Interphase.
1.) How did Nabeel make his way into the world of VC?
2.) What are the biggest lessons Nabeel can apply from his time in the trenches to being a VC at Spark? How has his investment strategy and decision making changed over time?
3.) What were the biggest takeaways for Nabeel as an observer and investor in Oculus?
4.) What is the story behind Spark's investment in Cruise (recently acquired by GM)? How did Nabeel come to meet Kyle and the team? What was the product like? How did it evolve?
5.) What does Cruise's acquisition mean for the autonomous car industry? What are the inherent challenges for the industry as a whole? How will they be overcome and what timeline are you placing on the industry to come into fruition?
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Nabeel on Twitter here!
Bijan Sabet is General Partner @ Spark Capital where he primarily invests in digital canvases and online communities for people at work and at play. Bijan led early investments for Spark in the likes of Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, OMGPOP and Runkeeper just to name a few. Before becoming an investor, Bijan led product management and business development at GameLogic (acquired by Scientific Games), Moxi Digital (acquired by Digeo) and WebTV Networks (acquired by Microsoft Corporation).
1.) How did Bijan make his way into the world of VC?
2.) How did the Twitter and Tumblr deals come about? What made you say yes?
3.) Looking at Bijan's thesis, is it true that Bijan has a preference for first time founders? What are the commonalities of all great first time founders?
4.) Often first time founders nail product market fit but struggle to scale the operations to suit the growth of the product. How does Bijan as a VC lend to this situation?
5.) Does Bijan agree with Fred Wilson's assessment of the consumer downturn? Why does Bijan think that David must beat Goliath in the end?
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Bijan on Twitter here!
Jessica Mah is Founder and CEO of inDinero, which she started back in 2010 to help entrepreneurs with all their accounting and tax needs after going through the same challenges with her own businesses. Jessica has grown inDinero from zero to multi-million dollar revenues with over 100 full-time employees and has been featured in the Forbes and Inc 30 Under 30 Lists. The company has raised over $10M to date and is growing rapidly. Her goal is grow inDinero into being the leading accounting provider for businesses.
1.) How did Jessica come to found Indinero, an SMB accounting startup when she was at University?
2.) Why did Jessica decide to raise funding from angels over VC's? What were the benefits of this?
3.) Why does Jessica believe that institutional capital is never patient capital? What additional value add do angels bring that VCs and HNW's do not bring?
4.) How does Jessica like to involve her investors in the hiring process? How can founders do this and why should they?
5.) Why does Jessica believe it is better to have a board that works for the founder and not the other way round? Does this not lead to conflict?
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Jessica on Twitter here!
Nikhil Basu Trivedi is an early stage investor with Shasta Ventures, where he focuses on consumer, mobile and SaaS. Prior to joining Shasta, Nikhil was a member of the Insight Venture Partners team in NYC. Before making the move into venture, Nikhil co-founded Artsy in his sophomore year at Princeton University, Artsy now employs over 100 people and has raised over $50m in venture financing. One of Nikhil's main passions is self driving cars and so today's show will be centred around the proliferation of autonomous vehicles and what that means for us as a society?
1.) How did Nikhil come to be a VC in SF having spent his early years in the UK?
2.) Why is Nikhil so excited about self-driving cars? What is the enabler that is allowing this mass rise of the autonomous vehicle?
3.) What happens in a world of little mechanical engineering at all, where repairs can be achieved with software updates? How does this change the complexity of production? How does this change what the supply chain might look like? How does this change the capital structure required?
4.)How does the rise of the autonomous vehicles effect the sharing economy? Is Nikhil bullish on Lyft, Uber, Didi? With on demand, when will we reach a point of equilibrium when the supply of drivers that gets drawn in and the price that attracts consumers will be equivalent?
5.) Who is the leader, is this a winner take all, will the acquisition of GM and Cruise mean a dominance? Who has Nikhil been impressed by?
As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Nikhil on Twitter here!