![]() People did not come down hard on Facebook until the 2016 election, when they realized the roles that Facebook and Twitter had played and the way those platforms were manipulated by Russian hackers. This was all before the backlash against big tech. Theranos at one point was worth even more and was the most valuable private startup in Silicon Valley back in 2014. This boom started with the emergence of Facebook and Twitter and then metastasized with the appearance of these other big unicorns like Uber and Airbnb. ![]() Theranos rose to prominence between 20, during the beginning of what I call the “unicorn boom” – Silicon Valley’s second enormous boom after the dotcom boom of the late 90s. What do readers need to know about the particular moment in Silicon Valley culture when Theranos rose to prominence? ![]() He spoke with the Guardian about the lies Holmes pulled off and the larger questions about Silicon Valley culture that Theranos raised. Theranos dissolved in 2018 and its star founder, Elizabeth Holmes, will face trial in a San Jose courtroom next week.Ĭarreyrou’s book about the rise and fall of Theranos, meanwhile, became a bestseller and the author is hosting a new podcast, Bad Blood: the Final Chapter, as the trial begins. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Has constantly refused "to negotiate is forced "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create "such a crisis and foster such a tension "that a community which ![]() That Martin Luther King "and his fellow protesters were creating." And so, here's just an excerpt of what Martin Luther King wrote, "You may well ask, 'Why direct action? "'Why sit ins, marches and so forth? "'Isn't negotiation a better path?' "You are quite right inĬalling for negotiation. Sympathetic to the injustices, "but they should be resolved in the courts "and not through the type of protests, "the type of tension, ![]() Now, what motivated Martin Luther King to write this letter was a statement made in the newspaper byĮight Alabama clergymen, which encouraged the protesters to wait saying, "That, yes, we are The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed by Congress asīeing heavily influenced by Martin Luther King's letter. Not only is it moving, but it really gives the philosophical underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. ![]() People say, "Hey, heĬould read the phone book, "and it would move people." But this also speaks to whatĪn incredible writer he was. And Martin Luther King often gets a lot of credit as an amazing speaker. It is one of the most powerful documents, frankly, I have ever read. Going to read together in this video is what has become known as Martin Luther King's Letterįrom a Birmingham Jail, which he wrote from a jail cell in 1963 after he and several of his associates were arrested in Birmingham, Alabama as they nonviolently ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd compare them to two blocks of wood, but at least when you rub sticks together you get a spark. Meanwhile, the acting is distractingly awful, and bless Tara Reid, but she has zero chemistry with old mate Ingo (who you might recognise from General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful). For one, it's set in Hollywood, and both the royalty and Christmassy vibes you come to these movies for are dialled way down (and super tacky when they do appear – I'm talking obviously plastic crowns, folks). But there's a very, very fine line between so-bad-it's-good and just plain bad, and unfortunately this one falls heavily on the latter side. Secret identities! Secret bastards! Tara Reid! It should be a lot of fun. ![]() My thoughts: You guys, this movie has so much. Meanwhile, Allison has secrets of her own – like the child (Haley Pullos) she conceived with Charles the night before he abandoned her 17 years ago. In his heart he still pines for his college sweetheart, Allison (Tara Reid), who didn't know he was royalty as he was studying in America under a fake identity. ![]() What it's about: King Charles (Ingo Rademacher) of Baltania's wife has died, but it's OK because he didn't love her that much anyway. ![]() ![]() ![]() Details are careful and never extraneous there’s a reason it matters, at a certain moment, that “the milk was perfectly cold and the bananas not too ripe” in a bowl of cereal. Her relationship with Miles is stolid and understatedly touching. Ben was disabled (maybe autistic), and their relationship was sometimes difficult. Leo and Cedar research-and give unauthorized tours about-a long-dead, famous actress from the town Cedar’s pulled by that research because she knows, now, that things can disappear forever. ![]() As Cedar gets a job selling concessions at the Shakespeare festival, makes a friend named Leo, and finds herself and Miles obsessed with a morbid soap-opera arc on TV, Condie touches everything lightly but deftly with the family’s grief. It’s been a year since a drunk driver killed Cedar’s father and other little brother, Ben. ![]() Mom buys a summer house for herself, 12-year-old Cedar, and 8-year-old Miles in Iron Creek, where Mom grew up. A year after losing two family members, a girl spends the summer in a small town with a Shakespeare festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where did Dylan go? What happened to him? And who was her real mother? The one her father never talked about. But how?Īnd Bliss is frightened by red eyes in her sleep giving her nightmares, and with her many different places she is going in the middle of the night in sleepwalker mode. Mimi decides early on that Schulyer needs to go away some how. Mimi is jealous of Jack paying more attention to Schuyler than to her even though they are "bonded" which means in their past lives, they were together as husband and wife, etc. Doesn't every sequel do this somehow? Anyway, we've met the characters, Bliss Llewellyn, Schuyler Van Alen, Mimi Force, Jack Force, and many others who come into more play.Īs many teenagers do, they all have social problems with themselves and with others around them. Masquerade, begins where Blue Bloods left off. Here's a quick synopsis of what the story is about and I promise to try and not give too much away. Just very mysterious with the eyes behind the beautiful mask. I think the worm is the cover of this book. I thought Blue Bloods, the first in the series, reeled me in but this book hooked me. Usually, that's the best sign a book is addicting. Every time I looked at it while reading it, I would have this problem. I would stare at it and realize that if I picked it up, I would have to sit down and finish it. ![]() Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz haunted my nightstand until I finished it. However, this book is what has taken me so long to get to. I can't believe it has been so long since I've written a review. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a meaningless phrase its lack of drama subverts our expectations for what an opening line normally looks like. The silliness of Mood Indigo is in evidence from the very first words – “Colin finished his bath”. In the end, Mood Indigo moves on from its silly initial impression to become a brilliant reflection on mental health and more. ![]() Because soon enough, a rot appears under the joyous façade, and all that was wonderfully absurd now becomes terrifyingly absurd, and the initial messages the book trumpeted now struggle to sustain themselves once things have started going wrong. His characters are indeed happy, their world is indeed absurd. And especially when that happiness is located in a world of absurdity, where nothing seems to matter or have a connection to our own world… in short, the book started to annoy me.īut Vian is playing a game in Mood Indigo. Who actually likes to read about happy people? Certainly not me. For the first third of the book I had thoughts of dropping it and getting on with something serious. The work is absurd, and at first glance meaningless – people hop on clouds, the sunlight makes pleasant sounds. Such is, in some sense, the first impression I got from the French writer Boris Vian’s novel, Mood Indigo (after one of its film adaptations), originally translated as Froth on the Daydream. ![]() Oh, how wonderful it is to be young and happy, rich and idle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nazi rhetoric that emphasized conservative values such as unity, discipline and that glorified the Arian race while demonizing other ethnicities, particularly Jewish, captured the attention of the German citizens. Moreover, the society of the Weimar Republic was highly individualistic, free, and progressive, which led to people’s nostalgia for the sense of community, discipline, and conservative values.įinally, deriving from the social and economic conditions, the political arena of Germany witnessed the rise of Nazism and the fall of the Weimar Republic and socialism. Within the social realm, the people of Germany experienced an emotional void caused by the national humiliation after the loss of the war and subsequent economic decay described above. ![]() Germany witnessed a substantial level of poverty characterized by the reparation for war costs for the Allies, hyperinflation, and unemployment in the aftermath of World War I. ![]() The context of public life in Berlin of the 1930s can largely be explored in the economic, social, and political situations. 322 specialists online The Context of the Public in 1930s Berlin ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she decides to post her latest Lavinia creation on Twitter, her photo goes viral. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s hidden her fanfiction and cosplay hobby from her “real life” for years-but not anymore. Immediately.Īpril Whittier has secrets of her own. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona, he’d be fired. Marcus is able to get out his own frustrations with his character through his stories, especially the ones that feature the internet’s favorite couple to ship, Aeneas and Lavinia. ![]() While the world knows him as Aeneas, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, he’s known to fanfiction readers as Book!AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous and popular poster. Olivia Dade bursts onto the scene in this delightfully fun romantic comedy set in the world of fanfiction, in which a devoted fan goes on an unexpected date with her celebrity crush, who’s secretly posting fanfiction of his own. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is misunderstanding and frustration. ![]() When team members come from different backgrounds, these taken-for-granted habits frequently clash even what counts as “evidence” to support an opinion varies across fields. People with similar backgrounds share norms and assumptions about how to behave, how to set priorities, and at what pace to do the work. Why? They face communication challenges that get in the way of their undeniable potential. In practice, however, diverse teams often underperform relative to homogenous teams. Their argument is familiar: The different perspectives, ideas, and opinions in diverse teams are essential to achieving breakthrough performance in competitive environments. ![]() The vast majority are convinced that more diverse teams will outperform less diverse teams - particularly when the project involves innovation. When teaching groups of executives, we often ask them how diversity affects teams’ performance. ![]() ![]() ![]() There better be something to justify that length, because although this film is plenty adventurous, it isn't exactly the most dramatically sweeping epic to take home Best Picture. Yeah, if you're going to be ambitious enough to employ Saul Bass to make some cartoon for you, even if you just use him at the end of your movie, he's going to need to have his time to shine, so maybe it's a good thing that this film is ultimately over two-and-a-half hours long. Murrow-hosted prologue that has the audacity to show footage from another movie ("A Trip to the Moon", if anyone's vaguely interested), and the animated credits sequence at the end, runs about 80 days, or at least it probably felt like it did at a time when they didn't even have ending credits sequences. No, it takes "way" more days than that, because the total time taken up by the Edward R. Before "Logan's Run", Michael Anderson presented us "Fogg's Run"! This guy might can take only 80 days to make it around the world, but it takes a couple more than that to watch him do so. ![]() |