Lock in a great price for Inn On The Twenty – rated 9.1 by recent guests!
The location is beautiful, it's great to have a suite and the staff are very obliging.
Rooms were beautiful, Staff was fantastic, Turn down service was perfect. Price was right. I'll be back!!
Great location ... beautiful hotel ... restaurant was wonderful ... staff was amazing!
Room quite private, so no noise from other guests. Lovely king size bed. In room fireplace perfect for our cold weather. Staff very helpful and friendly.
Wonderful boutique hotel in the heart of Jordan Village. Across the street from a winery and 5star restaurant! Doesn't get much better!!
Amazing accommodations, friendly staff even before check in to meet our needs. Perfect stay for a night in such a cute little quaint town.
Our room was beautifully appointed with elegant, comfortable seating and an extremely comfortable canopy bed. The decor was warm, inviting and tastefully colourful which was a welcome change from the very dark tones that many inns and hotels now sport. Turn down service included a rose which was a lovely touch. The staff was friendly and helpful and take pride in smoothly running the inn. The Inn on the Twenty Restaurant has a diverse menu which is expertly prepared.
Breakfast was really nice... dinner was excellent... had planned to dine elsewhere for our second night but dinner was so good we cancelled our other reservations and had dinner there again!!!
Very quiet. Friendly staff. Relaxing. The yellow roses are a nice bonus!
Inn On The Twenty This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
Located in the village of Jordan, Inn On The Twenty features an on-site wine cellar and a spa and wellness center. The elegantly decorated suites boast free Wi-Fi, flat-screen cable TV and a spa bath.
Fitted with large windows, each accommodations offers a seating area, DVD player and an iPod docking station. Toiletries, hairdryer and bathrobes can be found in the bathroom.
Inn On The Twenty provides parking at no charge. The Niagara Wine Region is within 12 mi, while the popular Niagara Falls is at a distance of 14 mi. It is a 23-minute drive from the Niagara Golf Club.
This property also has one of the top-rated locations in Jordan! Guests are happier about it compared to other properties in the area.
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Elegantly furnished, this suite offers a seating area, fireplace, flat-screen cable TV, DVD player and iPod docking station. A spa bath, toiletries, a hairdryer and bathrobes stock the bathroom. A make-up mirror is also available.
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Inn On The Twenty accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Please note that the maximum number of rooms that can be booked under 1 credit card is 3 rooms.
Every room after the third will be charged room and tax for the entire stay at time of booking to the credit card provided.
For a four star hotel I would have expected a few extra bonuses in the room like a kettle with which to make tea. The water takes a long time to heat up in the bathroom too.
It could have used a spot to grab a few simple snacks, maybe even a vending machine or a couple in-room options.
Including breakfast would have been nice.
Beautiful large bathroom with no heat! Like going outside to an outhouse in -8C weather with bare feet and unheated ceramic floors...Maybe your idea of luxury, but not mine - extremely poor design and completely unacceptable given the room rates!
Beautiful room, lovely gas fireplace, large comfortable bed.
Our experience at the Inn on the Twenty restaurant was quite poor. Food quality for breakfast was below our expectations with very poor service (our server was rude, cold and we felt ignored and even bad for asking for something). Not sure if I would go back but will definitely be back for a stay at the Inn.
Our check in was not as we were expecting.We booked 2 rooms as family of grandparents ,parents and 2 small children under 3.On the special request during booking I had added note that we are attending wedding in the same location. When we arrived we were told that we are having rooms in 2 different building.The Front Desk informed us that in order to have rooms in the same building we should booked directly with hotel not with booking.com.
Poor WiFi signal. We could not get connected to WiFi at all.
I highly recommended restaurant. Service and food was excellent!
We booked a room with a king bed for our wedding anniversary and got two beds instead. The hotel was fully booked so they couldn't move us. Instead of apologizing, the hotel kept blaming booking.com for the problem. They did give us a bottle of sparkling wine to "compensate", but didn't even mention it was because of the mistake they had made. After all, despite the quality of the hotel, which is good, very disappointing customer service experience.
From the moment we entered to the moment we left, this place was awesome!!
Frontdesk staff was friendly, however, other staff we interacted were not as friendly or welcoming. Property could be updated with a more current decor/colors. For what we paid, we expected a fridge in our room. Also, there were 3 couples in our group, 2 had a rose on their bed, we didn't. I think it's important to be consistent. Little things can make a difference.


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How climate change caused the world's first ever empire to collapse
An ancient artefact from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad
Image: REUTERS/ Petr Josek Snr
This article is published in collaboration with The Conversation
Vasile Ersek Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Gol-e-Zard Cave lies in the shadow of Mount Damavand, which at more than 5,000 metres dominates the landscape of northern Iran. In this cave, stalagmites and stalactites are growing slowly over millennia and preserve in them clues about past climate events. Changes in stalagmite chemistry from this cave have now linked the collapse of the Akkadian Empire to climate changes more than 4,000 years ago.
Akkadia was the world's first empire. It was established in Mesopotamia around 4,300 years ago after its ruler, Sargon of Akkad, united a series of independent city states. Akkadian influence spanned along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from what is now southern Iraq, through to Syria and Turkey. The north-south extent of the empire meant that it covered regions with different climates, ranging from fertile lands in the north which were highly dependent on rainfall (one of Asia's "bread baskets"), to the irrigation-fed alluvial plains to the south.
The Akkad empire during the reign of Narâm-Sîn (2254-2218 BC). Mount Damavand is labelled in blue.
Image: Zunkir / Semhir / wiki, CC BY-SA
It appears that the empire became increasingly dependent on the productivity of the northern lands and used the grains sourced from this region to feed the army and redistribute the food supplies to key supporters. Then, about a century after its formation, the Akkadian Empire suddenly collapsed, followed by mass migration and conflicts. The anguish of the era is perfectly captured in the ancient Curse of Akkad text, which describes a period of turmoil with water and food shortages:
… the large arable tracts yielded no grain, the inundated fields yielded no fish, the irrigated orchards yielded no syrup or wine, the thick clouds did not rain.
Drought and dust
The reason for this collapse is still debated by historians, archaeologists and scientists. One of the most prominent views, championed by Yale archaeologist Harvey Weiss (who built on earlier ideas by Ellsworth Huntington), is that it was caused by an abrupt onset of drought conditions which severely affected the productive northern regions of the empire.
Sargon of Akkad – or maybe his son, Naram-Sin.
Image: Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities / wiki
Weiss and his colleagues discovered evidence in northern Syria that this once prosperous region was suddenly abandoned around 4,200 years ago, as indicated by a lack of pottery and other archaeological remains. Instead, the rich soils of earlier periods were replaced by large amounts of wind-blown dust and sand, suggesting the onset of drought conditions. Subsequently, marine cores from the Gulf of Oman and the Red Sea which linked the input of dust into the sea to distant sources in Mesopotamia, provided further evidence of a regional drought at the time.
Many other researchers viewed Weiss's interpretation with scepticism, however. Some argued, for example, that the archaeological and marine evidence was not accurate enough to demonstrate a robust correlation between drought and societal change in Mesopotamia.
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A new detailed climate record
Now, stalagmite data from Iran sheds new light on the controversy. In a study published in the journal PNAS, led by Oxford palaeoclimatologist Stacy Carolin, colleagues and I provide a very well dated and high resolution record of dust activity between 5,200 and 3,700 years ago. And cave dust from Iran can tell us a surprising amount about climate history elsewhere.
Gol-e-Zard Cave might be several hundred miles to the east of the former Akkadian Empire, but it is directly downwind. As a result, around 90% of the region's dust originates in the deserts of Syria and Iraq.
Mount Damavand is a 'potentially active' volcano, and the highest peak in Iran. Gol-e-Zard Cave is nearby.
Image: Vasile Ersek,Author provided
That desert dust has a higher concentration of magnesium than the local limestone which forms most of Gol-e-Zard's stalagmites (the ones which grow upwards from the cave floor). Therefore, the amount of magnesium in the Gol-e-Zard stalagmites can be used as an indicator of dustiness at the surface, with higher magnesium concentrations indicating dustier periods, and by extension drier conditions.
The stalagmites have the additional advantage that they can be dated very precisely using uranium-thorium chronology. Combining these methods, our new study provides a detailed history of dustiness in the area, and identifies two major drought periods which started 4,510 and 4,260 years ago, and lasted 110 and 290 years respectively. The latter event occurs precisely at the time of the Akkadian Empire's collapse and provides a strong argument that climate change was at least in part responsible.
The collapse was followed by mass migration from north to south which was met with resistance by the local populations. A 180km wall – the "Repeller of the Amorites" – was even built between the Tigris and Euphrates in an effort to control immigration, not unlike some strategies proposed today. The stories of abrupt climate change in the Middle East therefore echo over millennia to the present day.
Vasile Ersek, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
This article is published in collaboration with The Conversation.

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Captain Ernest Gordon
I had an interesting thing happen awhile back. Somewhat magical, but I'll back track. I'm fascinated with people who survive and endure. Have you ever met a character out of a story so compelling you almost can't believe it is real? I was fortunate to have crossed paths with a number of magical individuals, one of which was my father who was a carrier pilot in the Second World War. He flew TBF Avengers. Perhaps one of the most interesting non family member is Ernest Gordon, formerly a Captain of the Scottish Argyles.
In my continual rummage through the library many years ago, I came across a book entitled MIRACLE ON THE RIVER KWAI lying in state on the dusty bottom shelf. The story was shocking yet miraculous. Ernest fought with the British in Malaysia during WWII and was wounded in battle. Rather than surrender to the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, Ernest and some buddies sailed a JUNK about two thousand miles only to be captured and sent to build the famous railroad and bridge on the River Kwai.
The Japanese soldiers, following their bastardized concept of "Bushido", were quite cruel. Ernest survived experiences he had no business surviving. The daily grind was extraordinary. Each day Gordon joined a work detail of prisoners to build a track bed through low-lying swampland. If a prisoner appeared to lag, a Japanese guard would beat him to death or decapitate him. Many more men simply dropped dead from exhaustion, malnutrition, and disease. Medicines and most food was not allowed. Ultimately, 80,000 prisoners died.
Ernest's 6'3" frame bore a weight bearing less than 100 pounds. Malaria, Dyptheria, Typhoid, Beri Beri, Jungle Ulcer took its toll on the Scot. Placed in "the death ward" (Where all prisoners were moved who had no hope of survival.), he was nursed to health by *Dusty Miller through his use of massage, a gentle cleaning with a daily boiled rag, and an occasional stolen Banana. The treatment was unbelievable. The torture was constant. Hope was gone. BUT, Ernest, like many including Psychiatrist **Victor Frankle (See MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING. His description of "Logo therapy" as well as his experiences surviving German Concentration camps.), eventually found something that would insure survival against the odds; PURPOSE and a GOAL.
"Dusty" was an interesting fella. A simple gardener from London. His only wish was to get back there to continue working with flowers with his dad. Philosophical discourse evolved between the prisoners about the existence of God, and how, if there WAS such a thing as God, he could allow these horrific daily events to happen. Dusty was firm in his conviction, yet he apologized for not having the education and intellectual prowess to participate in the debate with skill. Perhaps he knew the answer to such a question was beyond the intellect (Even if he knew it unconsciously.).
Above is the book cover Ernest sent me. I believe this was the second printing. The publisher changed the name from THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE KWAI to MIRACLE ON THE RIVER KWAI. It was most recently released with the title TO END ALL WARS (I think the image on the right is the new cover). This second version also had Dusty's manner of death omitted. In the middle is an autograph that I can treasure. I'm not very religious. I'm keen on many of the worlds mystic traditions however. I think the "politics" of religion is difficult for me. I believe this lovely "Scot" to be a great man and mystic.
As the mighty scotsman gained strength, he started a university in the camp in order to stay active and involved. It was essential to belong and to feel like one was headed in a direction. At first, the school had to be conducted on the "QT" but was eventually allowed by the Japanese. There were also incidences of great sacrifice that unfolded. Once, after a work detail, a Japanese guard believed a shovel was missing. He told the men that unless someone stepped forward to accept responsibility, all the men would be killed. A soldier innocent of the deed stepped up and stood at attention. The guard almost beat him to death. Later it was discovered the missing shovel was the result of a mistaken inventory count by the guard. Another time Dusty fainted. The doctor believed him to be close to death. Others reported that Dusty had not been eating. All his meager rations were going to Ernest.
Ernest is in the center of the left photo. The photo in the center of the page shows the condition of the soldiers in a more dramatic fashion.
Ernest survived and moved to the USA where until his death in 2002 he was the retired Dean of the Chapel at Princeton. I tracked him down many years ago, and was bold enough to give him a call. We spoke of many things, and I felt really blessed to "bask" in the aura of a man who had come through the depths of hell and came out with a sense of strength and purpose. I admit, that in some ways I live vicariously through these "hero's." AND I like it when serendipitous events occur. It assures me that there IS order to this universe. THIS then assures me about the reality of GOD. Getting to know this man through telephone contacts, letters, and the exchange of music and books was also very serendipitous. I remember speaking to my old friend Peter in LA whom I met while he was a journalist writing about my craft of building musical instruments. During one of our"keep in touch" phone calls, I mentioned Ernest and his book. Pete said, "Yeah!! I know him. I met him when I was going to Princeton!" A few years ago I was having a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with new friends. When David Flanders wife Susan said that she was raised in Princeton, I mentioned Ernest."Wow, she responded, I know him. I went to school with his daughter! They lived right next to us!"
I always asked Ernest why his story was never made into a movie. "Well, we just never agreed on how to do it I guess," was his answer. I mailed his book to my cousin Bruce Evans in Hollywood (He wrote the screen plays for STARMAN and was nominated for an Academy Award for his script of Steven Kings short story STAND BY ME.). No interest. I sent it to Spielberg. No interest.
It had been a number of years since Ernest and I had talked. Then one day I was in Hollywood Video and rented a DVD titled TO END ALL WARS. The young man at the counter said, "hey, I just saw that, and it's very good. It's about a Scotsman who was a POW in WWII . He was forced to work on this railroad and bridge through the River Kwai." I responded that THAT was interesting to me, as I know a man who had such an experience.
When I got home - yep, you guessed it. The narration started out, "I'm Captain Ernest Gordon of the Scottish Argyles..." I was thrilled to see that his story was finally made! Mostly a British cast with Keifer Sutherland the lone "yank".
On the left is Ciarán McMenamin, who plays Ernest in the movie. The center is Mark Strong who played "Dusty". The lone "Yank - well Canadian" is Kiefer Sutherland. Robert Carlyle is on the right .
While not as complete or extensive as the book (What film is?), I highly recommend this movie. It is in the new section at HOLLYWOOD and FAMILY VIDEO. The storyline diverts from the book in some ways, but the message is one of hope, purpose, and honor. AND, there is a touching video of Ernest with one of the Japanese guards at the old camp. Still if you want to REALLY get to the depth of this story, get the book. The film only shows a small portion of Ernest's experience, AND the importance of Dusty's influence. As I said, it's being re released as TO END ALL WARS. I know Amazon.com has it.
On the left above is Ernest and the films Director. In the center and right is Ernest and the old guard/translator Takashi Nagase.Since the end of World War II, devout Buddhist Takashi Nagase's life has been devoted to making up for the Japanese army's treatment of prisoners of war. Takashi, now 83, has made more than 100 missions of atonement to the River Kwai. It is interesting to note that Takashi is also the same guard that was the subject of a movie released this year called THE RAILWAY MAN (With Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman). Very highly recommended !!
*Two weeks before the end of the war, Dusty was nailed to a tree and disemboweled by a Japanese guard that was flustered because Dusty would never break, and never anger. This made the Japanese guard "loose face". Ernest sent me a signed copy of the second edition of his book. I noticed that this incident of Dusty's death was omitted. Ernest told me that the editors felt it too difficult for readers.
**Victor Frankle was a survivor of one of Germany's extermination camps during WWII. His book describes the dynamic that "hope and purpose" plays in the human equation of survival. It also explains the authors discovery of Logo Therapy.
Paul Adams along with David Hoffman has a music label of 13 albums of various types of music (Some call it Jazz, New Age, World Beat, Fusion etc). Both have many outside interests. David plays Jazz and spent the last 13 years with Ray Charles. Here is a nice link to Dave's tribute to Ray.
Paul Composes Music . He also writes Poetry and Stories, and has crafted Musical Instruments for such people as Daryl Hall, Members of Stevie Wonders Band, and others. He works in the Mental Field for a real job, as well as artistic fuel.
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Here's a quick and easy little craft you can make for the dad in your life. Perfect for little hands, these photo cufflinks unscrew to let you insert your own personal message. It's an almost instant craft. Use some cute photos for the sentimental dad, or have your kids draw two tiny pictures. Or you can use some symbolic imagery like I did here.
I started with these photo cuff links from AnnieHowes.com, a great website where I get my resin jewelry crafting supplies. These cufflinks have a nice weight and an attractive silver finish. All you do is unscrew the top, add the photo or artwork, and screw the top back on. Practically effortless! They even come with a clear plastic protective disk to cover your photos, which can be used as a template to cut your photos to the right size.
This is what the photo cufflinks look like.
Here are my 2 images printed on photo paper.
I used the protective cover to draw a cutting line, and cut out my 2 pictures.
I placed the pictures in the top portion of the cufflink, and then screwed them back together to complete the project. That's it – practically instant personalized cufflinks. Here the "secret" message to the hubby is "You Rock." Actually, what it really says is "You Rocks, " but I think he's good with that!
Here's another example using photos that have been reduced in Photoshop.
And here's the finished project. Pretty darn cute!
And while you're here, check out our other photo jewelry crafts – a resin memory ring, glass tile photo pendants, and resin photo pendants .
This is such an adorable idea! I should have done this for my dad for fathers day…mmm next year for sure 🙂 great post!


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Q: How to match all unicode alphabetic characters and spaces in a regex? I am trying to validate place names in python 3/ django forms. I want to get matches with strings like: Los Angeles, Canada, 中国, and Россия. That is, the string contains:

*

*spaces

*alphabetic characters (from any language)

*no numbers

*no special characters (punctuation, symbols etc.)

The pattern I am currently using is r'^[^\W\d]+$' as suggested in How to match alphabetical chars without numeric chars with Python regexp?. However it only seems to match like the pattern r'^[a-zA-Z]+$. That is, Россия, Los Angeles and 中国 do not match , only Canada does.
An example of my code:
import re
re.search(r'^[^\W\d]+$', 'Россия')

Which returns nothing.

A: Your example works for me, but will find underscores and not spaces.  This works:
>>> re.search(r'^(?:[^\W\d_]| )+$', 'Los Angeles')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x0000000003C612A0>
>>> re.search(r'^(?:[^\W\d_]| )+$', 'Россия')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x0000000003A0D030>
>>> re.search(r'^(?:[^\W\d_]| )+$', 'Los_Angeles') # not found
>>> re.search(r'^(?:[^\W\d_]| )+$', '中国')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x0000000003C612A0>

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So we figured as long as we were in Indiana we might as well swing by Colorado and attend Grace's China Sisters Reunion. This is small group of families that all traveled together to bring home our daughters from China. We've met with them every year since Grace came home. Most of the families are from Texas, but a few are from other parts of the country so this year we moved the reunion out of Texas so a few other families could attend. It was a great location and the kids had a ball. There are some older sisters, some younger, a couple of older brothers and my brood of Congolese kiddos.
China Sisters and their siblings.
Our first stop in Colorado was at Walmart. I forgot to back any warm clothes so we all needed sweatshirts.
Out for a nature walk.
Manny and JoJo plotting their escape.
Sweet Sean teaching Manny to bump knuckles.
The boys spent most of the hike sword fighting.
The girls caught a snake.
I wore Kat in a sling for 2 hours. She's a lot heavier than she was in Congo!
Chillin' back at the room with Daddy.
After Colorado we started to make our way home. First we stopped at Royal Gorge near Pueblo. It was a great side trip with lots of activities for our kiddos. We almost got trapped with our big double stroller trying to get out of the tram that crosses the canyon. The world is just not designed for double strollers and big families like us! We happened to be passing very close to Brian's sister Cathy in Kansas so Grandma and Grandpa met us there too and spent a couple of days hanging out with family and doing more playing. We blew thousands of bubbles and made an attempt at some family photos. Then we headed to Texas, made one more stop in Fort Worth where we hit a great mall playground to burn off some kid energy and finally made it home. We traveled for almost 3 weeks and drove through 8 states. It was sometimes a bit chaotic and exhausting, but I'd leave again tomorrow if I could. These kiddos are some pretty good travelers! I look forward to many years of summer vacation adventures!
Royal Gorge Bridge. Did I mention I don't love bridges that sway in the wind!!!
So windy that Haven had to take off his cap.
Grace learned to pose from someone at the China reunion. She is doing this in every other picture the rest of our trip.
JoJo and Manny rode the carousel.
JoJo loved it. Manny cried.
Katriel has the sweetest eyes.
Haven teaches Manny how to blow bubbles.
Aunt Cathy and Grandma making bead necklaces with Grace and Haven.
Kat and her doggy cousins.
Our hilarious attempts at family photos.
Grace didn't want to take the pics so Aunt Cathy bribed her with jewelry. Good call, Aunt Cathy.
JoJo up on a tree limb.
Manny not enjoying it as much!
Cuddling up after a big day of play!
Let me out of the van. I need to scream!!!!!
Kat was on the move!
Grace was showing off her best Olympic gymnastics moves.
What a great vacation! Can't wait for next summer!!!


At first, he didn't want to move to Silicon Valley from Atlanta, where he had been living, but he said his fiance was able to convince him, telling him that the job presented an opportunity to make a difference on the influential social network.
But as a black employee, he became disillusioned with his time at the company. After about a year, he decided to quit. And before his last day this month, he wrote a long memo that he sent to the company's staff. The memo is in the news this week after Luckie made it public — on Facebook, where else.
Luckie argues that the company is "failing its black employees and its black users" by excluding them from events and the important work that guides Facebook's service.
Luckie, who worked as an editor at the Washington Post for about two years until 2012 and as an intern at the Los Angeles Times in 2007, notes statistics that demonstrate that black users are one of the more engaged demographics on Facebook, with more using the service to communicate with family (63%) and friends (60%) than the average population.
"Black people are driving the kind of meaningful social interactions Facebook is striving to facilitate," he wrote.
But Luckie argues the experiences of black users on Facebook are "far from positive," citing a report from the investigative outlet Reveal that documented instances where Facebook has removed posts from black people, calling them hate speech.
Luckie also spotlights the company's low number of black employees, part of a longstanding problem with the representation of minorities at tech companies. The company announced last summer that 4% of its employees were black, but only 1% and 2% of its employees in technical and leadership roles, respectively, were black.
The share of black workers in technical jobs at the eight largest tech companies has inched up, to 3.1% in 2017 from 2.5% in 2014, according to Bloomberg, and the issue remains central to discussions about the future of the industry. Black people make up just 3% of the employees at the top 75 companies in Silicon Valley, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
His experiences living in Silicon Valley were tinged with racism as well, he said. Luckie, who previously worked for Twitter and Reddit, declined to name the city he lived in on the Peninsula, but said he was randomly stopped by the police twice — once while waiting for a food delivery outside his apartment complex, and once while walking from the Facebook shuttle stop to his home.
"I nodded and didn't make any sudden movement and thankfully the encounters were brief," he said.
Luckie also alleged discrimination at the company toward black employees.
Facebook has become the focus of a large amount of criticism in the last two years, as it has been buffeted by disclosures about data breaches and the stubborn problems of misinformation on its service. Its stock is down about 25% in the last year.
In an interview, Luckie said he had decided to write the memo after reading over the notes he had written documenting his experiences at the company, as well as those of other black employees that he learned about while working there.
He said he was also prompted by the feeling that Facebook doesn't take action until it is held accountable publicly.
He said he had signed a nondisclosure agreement but had been intentional about not sharing anything confidential.
Luckie is now back in Atlanta working on a science fiction podcast and doubts he'll ever work in the tech field again. He's not worried about his career prospects.
"I've found that the times I was most brave are the times that the greatest opportunities came in," he said.