#gv black hills

[chmerical-a]

ɴᴀᴍᴇ: kate analyn schmidt ꜰᴀᴄᴇᴄʟᴀɪᴍ: julia rehwald ᴀɢᴇ: 21 ᴘʀᴏɴᴏᴜɴꜱ: she/her ᴘᴏꜱɪᴛɪᴏɴ: tiktoker/vlogger/soon to be podcaster ʜᴀɪʀ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀ: black ᴇʏᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀ: brown ʜᴇɪɢʜᴛ: 5'1 ꜱᴇxᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ: aggressively bisexual ʀᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱʜɪᴘ ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴜꜱ: single ꜰᴇᴀʀꜱ: not meeting expectations, failure ʙʀɪᴇꜰ ʙɪᴏ:  kate analyn schmidt was the apple of her parents eye; an only child, she was given all the love, anything she ever wanted ( within her parents means ), and a mountain of expectations. but the brunette was tenacious even from a young age, always rising to meet challenges than sit by or give up. shadyside was not the best town, in fact, it was a pretty cursed place, but that didn't stop the brunette from working her hardest to get the hell out. head cheerleader, valedictorian, the co-owner of a successful & illegal pharmaceutical business, kate was making high school her bitch, on track to finish up on top, not even a string of murders her senior year could stop her-- she survived an attack by said killer at the local grocery store by the skin of her teeth. that last hurdle was all she needed to know she would never look back at her hometown, even with her closest friends staying behind. using the money from her side hustle, she left for the east coast, going to college in the tiny town of burkittsville. it was there that she'd make a stupid silly viral video that would change her path, for better or worse. it took some work after that first viral moment, but the brunette managed to gain a solid following, eventually expanding into vlogs featuring: stories from her past/the creepy town she was currently living at, more in depth rants about toxic masculinity and patriarchy rather than savage roasts, and of course dumb sponsored videos. it's lead to her to have a fairly comfortable lifestyle now, often traveling between cities for projects and collabs. ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ: assertive and bold, kate schmidt is a natural born leader, whether that's a good thing or not is another story. she's used to being on the move and not having much time for people, though she's managed to be more appreciative of others now. her wit veers into bullying territory most times, something she's yet to mature out of. her pride keeps her from backing down, often leading to her running her mouth. despite this, she's very charming when she wants to be, having made good friends with a lot of the locals. though she's seen as more self serving than most, there's a good heart beneath the surface-- there isn't much she wouldn't do for her closest circle. sure, she can be crass and kind of rude, but she ultimately means well.

[hargrove]

"𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚜, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍."

name: Billy Hargrove

faceclaim: Dacre Montgomery

age: 22

pronouns: he/him

position: camera op

hair color: blonde

eye color: blue

height: 5′11″

relationship status: single

fears: his abusive father

brief bio: Not having great grades in school, photography was the one thing that Billy was pretty good at. He eventually went to film school, mostly just as a means to get out of his house and away from his emotionally and physically abusive father. He doesn’t really have the passion for it that most of his peers do, never believing he’s really good enough. Looking at the world through a camera, however, gives him the escape from his every day life that he so craves. He doesn’t believe in witches or curses, but he jumped at the chance to travel far away from Hawkins for a job.

personality: Any insecurities he has are buried deep down under a carefully curated ego. He’s a drinker, womanizer, and partier. He doesn’t care about being nice to people, figuring it’s better if no one gets close to him. Yet despite his wild and rebellious nature, he takes his job seriously.

[queenserpent]

Name:  Antoinette "Toni" Topaz Faceclaim: Vanessa Morgan Age: 25 Pronouns: She/her Position: Leader of a Motorcycle club / Guidance Counselor Hair color: Black normally with pink highlights. relationship status: unknown. 

brief bio: Toni was born and raised in the small town of  Burkittsville, like so many of her family before her. At the age of 17 she joined in on her family’s motorcycle gang, the serpents. She moved away for university but returned after getting her diploma to make her a guidance counselor. As soon as she came back Toni reestablished the serpents, restoring them to their former glory. 

personality:  Toni is both loyal and accepting to those whom she makes a connection with, as well as compassionate,  loving, empathetic, and can see through others when they are in pain making being a guidance counselor much easier. 

[frenziedmixtape]

         [  𝑱𝑼𝑳𝑰𝑬'𝑺  𝑴𝑰𝑿𝑻𝑨𝑷𝑬  𝑺𝑰𝑫𝑬  𝑨  ]  ;  𝑾𝑨𝑹𝑫𝑹𝑶𝑩𝑬

[nrthwst]

❝      our   family   name   is   𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛   !   but   i'm   gonna   fix   it   .      ❞

name:   pacifica   elise   northwest

faceclaim:   natalie   alyn   lind

age:   23

pronouns:   she/her

position:   local/famous   actress   (   currently   on   hiatus   )

hair   color:   golden   blonde/platinum   blonde   (   it   varies   )

eye   color:   brown   ,   but   always   wearing   crystal   blue   contacts

height:   5'5''   

relationship   status:      taken   by   mason   "   dipper   "   pines

fears:      not   being   good   enough   .   being   forgotten   ,   being   deemed   a   failure   ,   becoming      

brief   bio:      a   former   child   actress   turned   hollywood   starlet   ,   turned   real   life   final   girl   after   the   murders   of   her   parents   preston   &   priscilla   northwest   ,   pacifica   was   eager   to   get   away   from   her   regular   scenary   &   the   spotlight   ;   deciding   to   go   on   hiatus   &   lay   low   for   the   next   few   years   in   burkitsville   with   her   childhood   sweetheart   ,   mason   pines   .   she   regularly   uses   her   middle   name   elise   ,   rather   than   pacifica--   most   of   the   locals   know   her   as   this   as   a   way   for   her   to   &   remain   unnoticed   by   the   locals   &   not   be   found   by   paparazzi   .   

personality:         a   bit   spoiled   ,   full   of   herself   ,   &   a   bit   rough   around   the   edges   ;   if   you   can   get   past   the   harsh   exterior   of   this   young   woman   you'll   find   a   very   caring   ,   sensitive   ,   thoughtful   ,   &   sweet   young   woman   .   her   upbringing   &   conditioning   from   a   young   age   ,   being   groomed   into   the   unobtainable   ❝   perfect   daughter   ❞   when   all   she   wanted   was   to   be   loved   &   appreciated   for   what   she   liked   &   wanted   by   her   parents   ,   is   something   that   has   conditioned   her   to   behave   certain   ways   ,   but   she   has   gotten   far   ,   far   better   as   she's   grown   to   be   more   kind   ,   considerate   ,   &   comapssionate   to   those   around   her   ,   &   wants   to   be   better   than   her   corrupt   ,   soulless   money   obsessed   parents   were   .      

[themtmiseryproject]

In order to increase town revenue locals have begun to hold an Autumnal Blair Witch Festival. It is a a new tradition, but is filled with favorites both locally and nation wide.

blair witch house replica - watch out! you might just meet the blair witch yourself! a blair witch themed haunted house, not recommended for younger audiences.

elly kedward house - sign up for a tour of the tour of the house, of the blair witch herself! groups of 5 please. must register before hand. ( only done during the day )

cornfield maze - an award winning corn field maze! featured last year in USA Today.

carnival - various rides and attractions such a; a ferris wheel, merry-go-round, hall of mirrors, funhouse, and other standard carnival fair.

local farmers market - farmers from the tri-country area come and show off their goods

arts and crafts - pumpkin carving, blair witch twig creation, and face painting.

This event will last Oct 1st 2022 to October 15th 2022.

[w1redsmile]

❝   she's   so   𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵   ,   yet   so   𝚜𝚊𝚍   [   ...   ]   silly   girl   .   they   love   you   ,   you   just   don't   love   𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣   .      ❞

name:   suzette   "   suzie   "   beaulieu

faceclaim:   brec   bassinger

age:   20

pronouns:   she/her

position:   costume   director

hair   color:   pink   (   blonde   naturally   )

eye   color:   green

height:   5'0''   

relationship   status:      single

fears:      being   completely   alone   ,   falling   in   with   the   wrong   people   again   .   

brief   bio:      manipulation   &   misguided   affections   can   be   very   ,   very   dangerous   things--   this   ,   suzie   found   out   in   the   hardest   way   possible   when   she   was   only   18   years   old   when   a   night   of   shoplifting   &   vandalism   turned   into   far   ,   far   worse   on   .   the   silver   tongued   frank   ,   her   longest   &   closest   friends   ,   joey   &   julie--   they   were   all   three   forced   to   brutally   &   fatally   stab   a   janitor   whilst   they   broke   into   the   store   joey   had   just   been   broken   into   ,   but   thankfully   (   with   the   help   of   her   uncles   lawyers   &   a   good   plea   deal)   ,   suzie   was   let   off   with   probation   time   &   an   order   to   never   interact   with   anyone   involved   in   the   crime   in   exchange   for   her   testimony   against   frank   .   she   now   works   as   a   costume   director   ,   trying   to   move   past   the   mistakes   she   made   &   the   things   she   can   never   atone   for   .   

personality:         suzie   is   a   sweet   ,   kind-hearted   ,   innocent   natured   &   caring   individual   ,   with   a   lot   of   trauma   from   her   past   that   causes   her   otherwise   shy   ,   anxious   demeanor   .   she's   very   trusting   ,   &   still   struggles   with   the   naivety   that   got   her   into   the   trouble   she   managed   to   get   herself   into   before   moving   away   from   her   old   home   &   friends   .   but   all   in   all   ,   she's   a   sweetheart   who   just   wants   to   be   loved   &   not   be   abandoned   .   

[intelwon]

     𝙷𝙴'𝚂 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙰𝙳𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙰𝙳𝙻𝙸𝙱 𝚆𝙷𝙴𝙽 𝚆𝙰𝚁𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙳, but this is too much. Grip tightens around the script in frustration. He knows it’s the director’s job and he’s just the writer, but there’s something about watching his words get twisted that boils his blood. ❝ Yeah... Why not just stick to the script for a couple takes and then if you’re not feeling it, try your own then... hm? ❞ The displeasure hangs off his features. He knows his lines are gold, knows they fit just well and it’s not the first time he thinks that maybe it’s not the words but the actress that’s the problem.

      @backbitches​ for the gv

[backbitchesa]

@stoiretale​​ gv. starter ( robin )

      Madison was actually having fun. Something which she wasn't exactly used to post-montem. What very few people on the set of The Black Hills Project knew was that Madison's Montgomery was a living dead girl. That the years the starlet was 'missing' was not time spent in a luxury resort in Dubai like many speculated. But her own personal vacation into retail hell. Something which changed the starlet indefinitely. Made her better, even if she tried her best to hide it. There was one person she couldn't hide it from, though. Robin.

      The naturally dead golden irises lit up at the Robin, won the carnival game. "Holy shit! I'll take that one!" Madison excitedly pointed to the massive stuffed incarnation of the Blair Witch. No one had ever cared enough to win her anything before. It made her heart flutter with excitement. A soft blush filled out her porcelain cheeks. "Thank you…." A rare show of appreciation from her.

[chmerical-a]

❝i'm sorry people are so jealous of me, but i can't help it that i'm popular.❞

ɴᴀᴍᴇ: gretchen carmelita wieners ꜰᴀᴄᴇᴄʟᴀɪᴍ: christina nadin ᴀɢᴇ: 21 ᴘʀᴏɴᴏᴜɴꜱ: she/her ᴘᴏꜱɪᴛɪᴏɴ: personal assistant to madison montgomery ʜᴀɪʀ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀ: dark brown ᴇʏᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀ: green ʜᴇɪɢʜᴛ: 5'7 ꜱᴇxᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ: bisexual ( closeted ) ʀᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱʜɪᴘ ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴜꜱ: single ꜰᴇᴀʀꜱ: becoming irrelevant, losing her connections & lifestyle ʙʀɪᴇꜰ ʙɪᴏ:  glitz, glamour, the limelight.. gretchen wieners loved and thrived in it all. her childhood was a happy one, she'd gone to more places than the average person would go in a lifetime by the time she was 8 years old and had all the best her parents could offer. this lead to her becoming quite the spoiled girl, but that didn't mean she lacked in friends-- she didn't care most people were friends with her for popularity's sake, the more well known she was the better after all. high school was a breeze, she and her two best friends, regina and karen, remained at the top of the food chain. she may not have been the leader, but she was often pulling the strings behind the scenes, making sure things always worked out in regina's favor; if there was something that needed to be done, gretchen would make sure it was, whether or not it was her doing the work ( which most of the time, she wasn't.. she'd often rope others into the grunt work ) but high school didn't last forever and she was forced to go out into the real world. college wasn't in the cards for her, that much she knew, she wanted to go straight into working in the industry and that's exactly what she got. it was no surprise to anyone that the job her dad got her was that of being a personal assistant to one of her favorite actresses. news of how good she was spread and before she knew it, she was booked and busy, although a little stressed, which comes with the nature of the business. when she was approached by madison montgomery's management team, she couldn't help but say yes, everyone knew how infamous the former teen star was, but if there was one thing gretchen loved, it was a big comeback. ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ: gretchen wieners knows what she wants and she's not afraid to do what it takes to get it. stuck up and more than a bit prissy, she fits perfectly into the stereotypical southern california mold, but don't let her valley girl persona fool you, she's not a total airhead-- at least not so much as an adult. when it comes to her work, she does her damn best, but outside of that, she loves to cut loose, and especially gossip. she knows everything about everyone, the proud keeper of secrets. don't worry, she'll keep her mouth shut..maybe.

[hernehillandy]

What Ottolenghi did next

IN setting the flavour of our times, this decade has been Yotam Ottolenghi’s. The Israeli-born chef and his Palestinian business partner, Sami Tamimi, first set up shop in Notting Hill in 2002. But it was the publication of Ottolenghi’s second cookbook, Plenty (2010) and the opening of Soho restaurant Nopi the following year that shot him to ubiquity. Since then he has launched a series of celebrated cookbooks and TV shows. And his fame is international: when a New Yorker friend visited me last week, the top of her to-do list was eating at Ottolenghi’s restaurants.

His significance is, however, much greater than that: Ottolenghi has quite simply changed the way we (or at least the metropolitan middle class) eat. It’s a point already made unimprovably by the Sunday Times’s brilliant Marina O’Loughlin.  Put it this way: what were until recently obscure Levantine ingredients such as za’atar, sumac and pomegranate molasses have become everyday in a way that once took, say, balsamic vinegar 20 years. There are now Waitrose own-brand versions of all three ingredients. Meanwhile Ottolenghi is surely responsible in part for the governing restaurant trend of small plates, and for the breakthrough of other Israeli-inspired eateries (The Barbary, Honey and Smoke). And I can’t think of a single book since the River Café Cook Book (1995) that has so thoroughly changed my own kitchen.

Yet Ottolenghi resisted the temptation to open more restaurants after Nopi. Then last summer he launched Rovi  in Fitzrovia; on the principle that I don’t try any fancy restaurant until it has O’Loughlin’s approval, I only made it there last week. And it is magnificent.

It’s a bigger space than Nopi, but with even greater attention to detail: airy, pale wood and comfortable, vaguely Nordic seating. We sat at the bar. But you’re here for the food: and as a succession of taste sensations, I’d put it up there with, for example, a visit to Albert Adrià’s celebrated Barcelona tapas joint, Tickets.

The dishes came as a cascade of delights, with us trying to pin down flavours and figure out just what was in front of us and in our mouths. This was a meal where most of our talk was about the food.

Thus we started with snacks of carrot jerky with gooseberry boshi, smoked labneh and chilli, and duck pastrami with a selection of pickles (cabbage, endive, purple carrot and something neither we nor the bar staff could identify; both dishes pictured above.) No, I don’t really know what gooseberry boshi is either: it’s hard to Google as there’s some Nintendo character of that name who gums up searches (this is food that demands a fair bit of at-table googling.) But in any case, the sum of these flavours almost defies description.

Indeed vegetables dominate the mostly small-plates menu. It’s another key part of Ottolenghi’s influence: he’s taken vegetarian food from Guardian self-righteousness – a column there was the genesis of Plenty – to bleeding-edge London foodie hip.

Using the kind of Levantine flavours we’re familiar with from him, Ottolenghi (or rather his chefs – he’s not in the kitchen here) delivers hugely satisfying vegetable dishes such as celeriac shawarma with bkeila, a spinach herb paste, and fermented tomato (pictured above). I yield to no-one in my love of lamb shawarma but this was just about enough to turn me veggie.

The big shift from Nopi is the Asian influences here: furikake (Japanese fish/seaweed seasoning), kosho (a seasoning paste with chilli), fermented black vinegar and (presumably) boshi. We loved the tempura stems and herbs with Szechuan, mandarin and lime-leaf vinegar, and a side dish of spring greens with dashi and sesame; and asparagus with wild garlic, burnt butter, lemon kosho and jalapeño.

But as those combinations suggest, these are dishes and flavours that are genuinely hard to describe – and the menu provides only an approximate guide. Take the delectable “beef carpaccio (grass fed), Jerusalem artichoke, Crowdie” (pictured above). Never mind the quality of ingredients – pink, melt-in-your-mouth rounds of beef – or that I’d never have identified the sweet-sour artichoke for what it was (pickled?), or the oddness of pairing it with a Scottish soft cheese: as an ensemble, it delivered flavours and textures greater and more unexpected than its parts.

The same is true of the astonishing desserts – something I am rarely tempted to order. Eventually we plumped for rhubarb and rose doughnuts with vanilla cream and pistachio, and five-spice pumpkin and apple fritters with clementine, buckwheat and coconut sorbet: both combinations of wonder. We left eager to taste the rest of the menu.

The wine list is fascinating and appropriately sparky, though for me it somehow doesn’t quite hang together. It’s fairly pricey: there isn’t much under £40. It is also heavy on natural wines: with our opening snacks I drank Nando rebula (ie ribolla gialla) Blue Label 2017. Having a fairly obscure Slovenian orange wine like this on a list carries a certain kudos amongst today’s hipper London sommeliers; I just thought it cidery. As for the Jurschitsch Belle Naturale grüner veltliner 2017, Kamptal, also orange (though not on the list as such), I sent it back: not only did it bear no resemblance to any GV I’ve ever tasted, it was just an unbalanced mess.

But tasting one’s way through such a list is an adventure – especially with bar staff as good as these. Ciù Ciù “Falerio” 2018, Oris Bianco, a trebbiano/pecorino-based white from the Marche region, also had some skin contact but was utterly charming. The La Raia Gavi 2018 (organic) was much more classic, beautifully clean.

Among the reds, there is Alfredo Maestro’s well-balanced Valdecastrillo Ribera del Duero 2016 by the glass. But the real discovery is Cremisan Baladi 2017, Palestine, made on an estate owned by a Catholic order in the West Bank by a Christian Palestinian winemaker. From the local baladi grape, it’s dark, juicy, not unlike cinsault, with a touch of oak. Elsewhere on the list is a trio of beautiful nebbiolos, at a price (including ones from the rarely seen Ghemme and Gattinara areas in Lombardy) as well as Christian Tschida’s intriguing and very individual Felsen II syrah 2016, Burgenland.

Rovi triumphantly takes Ottololenghi’s middle-eastern fusion cuisine to a new level. It will be interesting to see whether it spawns a cookbook. My instinct is that this is the kind of food that you simply cannot prepare at home; then again, maybe in three years’ time we’ll all be incorporating koshu and furikake into our dinner-party dishes? You read it here first.

Rovi, 59 Wells St, London W1A. 020 3963 8270.

6 May 2019

[toomanysinks]

The Silicon Valley exodus continues

For a long time, it was the norm for founders to haul their hardware to the 3000 block of Sand Hill Road, where the venture capitalists of “Silicon Valley” would be awaiting their pitches. Today, many of the investors that touted the exclusivity of “The Valley” have moved north to San Francisco, where they have better access to top entrepreneurs.

Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley institution and to many the lifeblood of the startups and venture capital ecosystem, is the latest to pack up shop. YC, which invests $150,000 for 7 percent equity in a few hundred startups per year, is currently searching for a space in SF to operate its accelerator program, sources close to YC confirm to TechCrunch, because the majority of YC’s employees and its portfolio founders reside in the city.

Founded in 2005, YC’s roots are in Mountain View, California. In its first four years, YC offered programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Mountain View before opting in 2009 to focus exclusively on The Valley. In late 2013, as more and more of its partners and portfolio companies were establishing themselves in SF, YC opened a satellite office in the city in what would be the beginning of its journey northbound.

The small satellite office, used to support SF-based staff and provide portfolio companies resources and workspace, is located in Union Square. The fate of YC’s Mountain View office is unclear.

YC’s move north will be the latest in a series of small changes that, together, point to a new era for the accelerator. Approaching its 15th birthday, YC announced in September it was changing up the way it invests. No longer would it seed startups with $120,000 for 7 percent equity, it would give startups an additional 30,000 to cover the expenses of getting a business off the ground and it would admit a whole lot more companies.

YC began mentoring its largest cohort of companies to date in late 2018. The astonishing 200-plus group in its winter 2019 batch is more than 50 percent larger than the 132-team cohort that graduated in spring 2018. To accommodate the truly gigantic group at YC Demo Days later this month (March 18 and 19), YC has moved to a new venue, SF’s Pier 48. Historically, YC Demo Days were hosted at the Computer History Museum near its home in Mountain View.

YC has also ditched “Investor Day,” which is typically an opportunity for investors to schedule meetings with startups that just completed the accelerator program. YC writes that the decision came “after analyzing its effectiveness.” On top of that, rumors suggest YC is planning to put an end to Demo Days. Other accelerators, AngelPad for example, put a stop to the tradition last year after realizing demo day was more of a stress to startup founders than a resource. Sources close to YC, however, tell TechCrunch these rumors are categorically false.

YC isn’t the first accelerator to ditch its Silicon Valley digs. 500 Startups, a smaller yet still prolific accelerator, opened an SF satellite office the same year as YC, and in 2018, the nine-year-old program made the decision to permanently relocate to SF. Venture capital firms, too, have realized the opportunities are larger in SF than on Sand Hill Road.

VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be

The transition from the peninsula to the city began around 2012, when VC heavyweights like Uber and Twitter-backer Benchmark opened an office in SF’s mid-market neighborhood. Months later, 47-year-old Kleiner Perkins, an investor in Stripe and DoorDash, opened the doors to its new workplace in SF’s South Park neighborhood.

Around that same time a whole bunch of firms followed suit: Shasta Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Accel, GV, General Catalyst and NEA opened SF shops, to name a few. Many of these firms, Benchmark, Kleiner and Accel, for example, held onto their Silicon Valley locations. Firms like True Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund planted stakes in SF years prior. Both firms have operated SF offices since 2005; True Ventures, for its part, has managed a Palo Alto office from the get-go, as well.

“When we first started, it was [expected] that it would be maybe 60-40 Peninsula to the city; it’s actually turned out to be 80-20 SF to The Valley,” True Ventures co-founder Phil Black told TechCrunch. “For us, it was important to be near our customer: the founder. It’s important for us to be in and around where founders are doing their things.”

The transition out of The Valley is ongoing. Other VC funds are still in the process of opening their first SF offices as more partners beg for shorter commutes. Khosla Ventures, for example, is currently searching for an SF headquarters.

Silicon Valley real estate will likely remain a hot — or warm, at least — commodity, however. Why? Because long-time investors have lives established in that part of the bay, where they’ve built homes in well-kept, affluent cities like Woodside, Atherton and Los Altos.

Still, Y Combinator’s move highlights an increasingly adopted mantra: Silicon Valley isn’t the goldmine it used to be. For the best deals and greatest access to entrepreneurs, SF takes the cake — for now, that is. But with rising rents and a changing attitude toward geographically diverse founders, how long SF will remain the destination for top talent is an entirely different question.

Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/05/the-silicon-valley-exodus-continues/

[fmservers]

The Silicon Valley exodus continues

For a long time, it was the norm for founders to haul their hardware to the 3000 block of Sand Hill Road, where the venture capitalists of “Silicon Valley” would be awaiting their pitches. Today, many of the investors that touted the exclusivity of “The Valley” have moved north to San Francisco, where they have better access to top entrepreneurs.

Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley institution and to many the lifeblood of the startups and venture capital ecosystem, is the latest to pack up shop. YC, which invests $150,000 for 7 percent equity in a few hundred startups per year, is currently searching for a space in SF to operate its accelerator program, sources close to YC confirm to TechCrunch, because the majority of YC’s employees and its portfolio founders reside in the city.

Founded in 2005, YC’s roots are in Mountain View, California. In its first four years, YC offered programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Mountain View before opting in 2009 to focus exclusively on The Valley. In late 2013, as more and more of its partners and portfolio companies were establishing themselves in SF, YC opened a satellite office in the city in what would be the beginning of its journey northbound.

The small satellite office, used to support SF-based staff and provide portfolio companies resources and workspace, is located in Union Square. The fate of YC’s Mountain View office is unclear.

YC’s move north will be the latest in a series of small changes that, together, point to a new era for the Sam Altman-run accelerator. Approaching its 15th birthday, YC announced in September it was changing up the way it invests. No longer would it seed startups with $120,000 for 7 percent equity, it would give startups an additional 30,000 to cover the expenses of getting a business off the ground and it would admit a whole lot more companies.

YC began mentoring its largest cohort of companies to date in late 2018. The astonishing 200-plus group in its winter 2019 batch is more than 50 percent larger than the 132-team cohort that graduated in spring 2018. To accommodate the truly gigantic group at YC Demo Days later this month (March 18 and 19), YC has moved to a new venue, SF’s Pier 48. Historically, YC Demo Days were hosted at the Computer History Museum near its home in Mountain View.

YC has also ditched “Investor Day,” which is typically an opportunity for investors to schedule meetings with startups that just completed the accelerator program. YC writes that the decision came “after analyzing its effectiveness.” On top of that, rumors suggest YC is planning to put an end to Demo Days. Other accelerators, AngelPad for example, put a stop to the tradition last year after realizing demo day was more of a stress to startup founders than a resource. Sources close to YC, however, tell TechCrunch these rumors are categorically false.

YC isn’t the first accelerator to ditch its Silicon Valley digs. 500 Startups, a smaller yet still prolific accelerator, opened an SF satellite office the same year as YC, and in 2018, the nine-year-old program made the decision to permanently relocate to SF. Venture capital firms, too, have realized the opportunities are larger in SF than on Sand Hill Road.

VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be

The transition from the peninsula to the city began around 2012, when VC heavyweights like Uber and Twitter-backer Benchmark opened an office in SF’s mid-market neighborhood. Months later, 47-year-old Kleiner Perkins, an investor in Stripe and DoorDash, opened the doors to its new workplace in SF’s South Park neighborhood.

Around that same time a whole bunch of firms followed suit: Shasta Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Accel, GV, General Catalyst and NEA opened SF shops, to name a few. Many of these firms, Benchmark, Kleiner and Accel, for example, held onto their Silicon Valley locations. Firms like True Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund planted stakes in SF years prior. Both firms have operated SF offices since 2005; True Ventures, for its part, has managed a Palo Alto office from the get-go, as well.

“When we first started, it was [expected] that it would be maybe 60-40 Peninsula to the city; it’s actually turned out to be 80-20 SF to The Valley,” True Ventures co-founder Phil Black told TechCrunch. “For us, it was important to be near our customer: the founder. It’s important for us to be in and around where founders are doing their things.”

The transition out of The Valley is ongoing. Other VC funds are still in the process of opening their first SF offices as more partners beg for shorter commutes. Khosla Ventures, for example, is currently searching for an SF headquarters.

Silicon Valley real estate will likely remain a hot — or warm, at least — commodity, however. Why? Because long-time investors have lives established in that part of the bay, where they’ve built homes in well-kept, affluent cities like Woodside, Atherton and Los Altos.

Still, Y Combinator’s move highlights an increasingly adopted mantra: Silicon Valley isn’t the goldmine it used to be. For the best deals and greatest access to entrepreneurs, SF takes the cake — for now, that is. But with rising rents and a changing attitude toward geographically diverse founders, how long SF will remain the destination for top talent is an entirely different question.

Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage

Via Kate Clark https://techcrunch.com

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What is intersectionality?

According to Collins and Bilge (p. 2), “Intersectionality is a way of understanding and analyzing the complexity in the world, in people, and in human experience.”  Intersectionality is the blending of different identities and how they relate to each other. These identities include race, class and gender, both as in a group and as individual race, class and gender. Intersectionality helps us compare and understand the social inequalities and divisions between each other and how we are similar as well. Intersectionality can be used as an analytics instrument to help solve problems that involve social divisions of people by class, race, ethnicity, citizenship, gender, sexuality and even educational status.  It is a tool that can group people together by multiple criteria and or sort them individual or in a combination of both to address a need.

Intersectionality is the idea that being the member of one particular group does not exclude you from belonging to other groups.  For instance, if you are a woman, you can have many other sub-categories that you fit in as well.  You could be a straight heterosexual woman, or a transgendered woman, or a lesbian.  You could also be an African American woman or an Asian woman or a Latino woman.  Intersectionality means that a black woman would be concerned with women’s rights, as well as civil rights for minorities and perhaps even rights for the LGBTQ+.  This particular person who we are discussing has concerns that intersect with all of these different groups whether they be male or female.  Therefore, such a person who belongs to a vast array of minority groups would have intersecting goals and concerns with other members of society that are not necessarily women. The term intersectionality is meant to describe this phenomena where minority groups can belong to several minorities at the same time.

What is gendered violence (according to GV)?

Laura O’Toole, states that “Gendered violence is any interpersonal, organizational, or politically oriented violence perpetrated against people due to their gender identity, sexual orientation or location in the hierarchy of male dominated social systems such as families, military organizations or the labor force,” (p. xii). Gendered violence is a method by which society frames certain people as lesser individuals or groups of people in order to more easily oppress them.  In addition, gendered violence can also be the byproduct of men in power using people to gain something, whether that be higher self-esteem or actual social status or other objectives.  It is important to recognize this because gendered violence is the result of an unspoken hierarchy that is hurting all people including straight white men.   By excusing the actions of people who inflict violence against others just due to one’s gender and/or sexuality, society is allowing toxic individuals into social structures and into one’s environment. Gendered violence can be between men, women, children who are of the same or different genders.  It includes rape, sexual harassment, and sexual assault, sex trafficking, prostitution and even stalking.  Gendered violence is most prevalent in men committing a violent act against a woman. Gender violence exists in most social arrangements in societies, including, but not limited to schools, businesses, and political structures of government, families, and even our health-care organizations.

And what is at the roots of male violence?

Male violence is often a show of dominance, power and control, usually of a man against a woman, but not only limited to this.  Male violence also includes violence of a man against another man and violence to himself. The roots of male violence takes into account the masculine characteristics, such as strength, bravery, intelligence and sexual desire. Humans are predisposed to aggression and violence, as much as humans are exposed to cooperation and peacefulness. It has been argued that male violence is instinctive and part of the anatomy of men, and women are instinctively powerless victims. Susan Brownmiller continues that men are the predator and women are the prey (O’Toole p. 53).  

Male violence stems from the societal idea of needing to be aggressive in order to be successful in the world and be considered masculine. Applying the logic of Marxian Economic Theory, men treated women as objects that could be bought and sold, not as individuals.  This societal learning taught men to treat women as objects with value and as their property (O’Toole p. 4).  This mindset made it easier to rationalize violence against women and forced women into a subservient role. This an example of how the roots of male violence stem from one’s surroundings, upbringing and learned behaviors of others. By gendered violence not being excused, men are taught that violence is the norm and it becomes more commonplace. In our earliest communities, when men were hunters and gatherers, there was little to no differences between the genders and no hierarchy or class system at all. As societal classes were formed and status created, more male violence ensued and the patriarchy was created. Most scholars feel male violence stems from societal surroundings, upbringing and violence was entrenched in cultures when patriarchy appeared in multiple configurations, and males became the controller of reproducing.  This meant they ultimately dominated over women and their bodies, and it created a separation from humans by gender and power.

O'Toole, Laura L., et al. Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York University Press, 2007. “What Is Intersectionality?” Intersectionality, by Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge, Polity, 2016, pp. 1–30.

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Messner y Welicki llevan al alpinismo a la cumbre del Princesa de Asturias

Oviedo (España), 16 may (EFE).- Dos leyendas como el italiano Reinhold Messner y el polaco Krzysztof Welicki han dado hoy al alpinismo su primer Premio Princesa de Asturias de los Deportes, un galardón que reconoce tanto sus insuperables trayectorias como su labor social, humanitaria y de divulgación de los valores de su disciplina. "Su labor social, humanitaria y de divulgación de los valores del alpinismo les ha convertido en un ejemplo para la humanidad. Sus gestas permanecerán en la memoria de futuras generaciones", señala el acta del jurado, que concedió el premio por unanimidad, y que añade que ambos "honran este deporte y son ejemplo de superación". Messner (Brixen-Bressanone, 1944) es la leyenda viva del alpinismo que en 1970 coronó su primer "ochomil", el Nanga Parbat, en una expedición en la que falleció su hermano Günter y que hace cuarenta años hizo la primera ascensión sin oxígeno al Everest antes de culminar en 1986 la conquista de las catorce cumbres del planeta. El montañero italiano -"tirolés del sur", proclama- consumó su proeza de alcanzar las catorce cumbres sin utilizar oxígeno artificial, a veces en solitario, y con la menor tecnología posible, un estilo tradicional y ético que caracteriza también a Wielicki. La trayectoria de Messner no se detuvo y su carácter aventurero le ha llevado a atravesar la Antártida, el desierto del Bhután del Takla Makán, Groenlandia y el desierto del Gobi y a embarcarse, desde su perspectiva de "verde pragmático", en la defensa del medio ambiente como eurodiputado ecologista entre 1999 y 2004. Fundador de la Messner Mountain Foundation, desde la que ayuda a los habitantes de las zonas montañosas de todo el mundo, el alpinista gestiona además en el Tirol italiano las cinco sedes del Messner Mountain Museum, un proyecto al que ha denominado su "decimoquinto ochomil", dedicado a la historia del montañismo. Si Messner fue el pionero en hacer cumbre en los catorce "ocho miles", el polaco Krzysztof Welicki (Szklarka Przygodzica, 1950) fue el quinto en sumarse a esa lista, a la que añadió además la dificultad de ser el primero en coronar tres de ellas (Everest, Kagchenjunga y Lhotse) en la época invernal. El alpinismo reconoce en Wielicki, 'el guerrero del hielo', sus valores humanos, su compañerismo y su capacidad de liderazgo para afrontar retos en la montaña, así como su labor de divulgación de los valores de su deporte en los numerosos libros que ha publicado. Este mismo año protagonizó un intento de escalada al K2, el único "ocho mil" sin conquistar en invierno, suspendido por el mal tiempo, y que acabó con una operación de rescate en el Nanga Parbat que permitió salvar a la francesa Elisabeth Revol aunque la expedición no logró su objetivo en el caso del polaco Tomek Mackiewicz. "El problema es cuándo bajar y tomar esa decisión me provoca miedo", afirmó tras su último regreso del K-2 un Wielicki que sigue en activo a sus 68 años y que advierte de que una persona puede cambiar de afición, "pero no de pasión". Messner y Wielicki, propuestos por el científico Pedro Miguel Echenique, se impusieron tras llegar a las últimas votaciones junto a la regata Oxford-Cambridge, la campeona olímpica de heptatlón en Londres 2012 Jessica Ennis Hill y el bicampeón del mundo de ralis y último vencedor del Dakar, Carlos Sainz. Al galardón, el cuarto en fallarse de los ocho que concede anualmente la Fundación Princesa de Asturias, optaban veintiuna candidaturas de doce nacionalidades y el alpinismo toma así el relevo el relevo de la selección de rugby de Nueva Zelanda, los All Blacks, del triatleta Javier Gómez Noya, y de los jugadores de baloncesto Pau y Marc Gasol, premiados en los últimos años. En esta edición de los Premios Princesa, dotados con la reproducción de una escultura diseñada por Joan Miró, 50.000 euros, un diploma y una insignia, se han concedido ya los galardones de Artes (Martin Scorsese), Comunicación y Humanidades (Alma Guillermoprieto) y Cooperación Internacional (Amref Health África) y la próxima semana se fallará el correspondiente a Letras. EFE rm/doc/mb/gv/jdm/nam (foto) (audio) (vídeo)

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Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (born February 20, 1924) is an American artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite. During the 1930s, she was the subject of a high-profile child custody trial in which her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, both sought custody of the child Gloria and control over her $5 million trust fund. Called the "trial of the century" by the press, the court proceedings were the subject of wide, sensational press coverage due to the wealth and notoriety of the involved parties and the scandalous evidence presented to support Whitney's claim that Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was an unfit parent.

As an adult in the 1970s, Gloria Laura Vanderbilt became known in connection with a line of fashions, perfumes and household goods bearing her name. She was particularly noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans.

She is a member of the Vanderbilt family of New York and the mother of CNN television anchor Anderson Cooper.

Vanderbilt was born on February 20, 1924, in Manhattan, New York City, the only child of railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880–1925)[1][2] and his second wife, Gloria Morgan (1904–1965).[3][4] When Gloria was born, her father was heard to exclaim in delight, "It is fantastic how Vanderbilt she looks! See the corners of her eyes, how they turn up?"[5] She was baptized in the Episcopal church by Bishop Herbert Shipman as Gloria Laura Vanderbilt. After her father's death, she was confirmed and raised in the Catholic Church, to which her mother belonged.[6] From her father's first marriage, to Cathleen Neilson, she had a half-sister, Cathleen Vanderbilt (1904–1944).[7]

She and her half-sister became heiresses to a half share each in a $5 million ($68.3 million today) trust fund upon her father's death from cirrhosis when she was 18 months old.[8] The rights to control this trust fund while Vanderbilt was a minor belonged to her mother, who traveled to and from Paris for years, taking her daughter with her. They were accompanied by a beloved nanny – Emma Sullivan Kieslich,[9] whom young Gloria had named "Dodo" – who would play a tumultuous part in the child's life,[10] and her mother's identical twin sister, Thelma, who was the mistress of the Prince of Wales during this time.[11] As a result of frequent spending, her mother's use of finances was scrutinized by the child Vanderbilt's paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. A sculptor and philanthropist, Whitney wanted custody of her niece, which resulted in a famous custody trial.[12][13] The trial was so scandalous that at times the judge would make everyone leave the room so as to listen to what young Vanderbilt had to say without anyone influencing her. Some people heard weeping and wailing inside the court room. Testimony was heard depicting the mother as an unfit parent; Vanderbilt's mother lost the battle and Vanderbilt became the ward of her aunt Gertrude.[11]

Gloria Vanderbilt at age eight with her mother

Litigation continued, however. Vanderbilt's mother was forced to live on a drastically reduced portion of her daughter's trust, which was worth more than $4 million at the end of 1937 (over $67 million today).[14] Visitation was also closely watched to ensure that Vanderbilt's mother did not exert any undue influence upon her daughter with her supposedly "raucous" lifestyle. Vanderbilt was raised amidst luxury at her aunt Gertrude's mansion in Old Westbury, Long Island, surrounded by cousins her age who lived in houses circling the vast estate, and in New York City.

The story of the trial was told in the 1980 Barbara Goldsmith book, and the NBC 1982 miniseries, Little Gloria... Happy at Last, which was nominated for six Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Actress Jennifer Dundas played Gloria.

Vanderbilt attended the Greenvale School on Long Island; Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut; and then the Wheeler School[15][16] in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as the Art Students League in New York City, developing the artistic talent for which she would become increasingly known in her career. When Vanderbilt came of age and took control of her trust fund, she cut her mother off entirely,[17] though she supported her in later years.[18] Her mother lived for many years with her sister, Thelma, Lady Furness, in Beverly Hills and died there in 1965.

Vanderbilt studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse with teacher Sanford Meisner and studied art at the Art Students League of New York. She became known for her artwork, giving one-woman shows of oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels. This artwork was adapted and licensed, starting about 1968, by Hallmark Cards (a manufacturer of paper products) and by Bloomcraft (a textile manufacturer), and Vanderbilt began designing specifically for linens, pottery, and glassware.

From 1954 to 1963, Vanderbilt applied herself to acting. (Her first stage vehicle, The Swan, inspired the logo she later used as a fashion designer.) During this time in her life, she appeared in a number of live and filmed television dramas including Playhouse 90, Studio One in Hollywood, and The Dick Powell Show. She also made an appearance in a two part episode of The Love Boat in 1981. Other TV programs on which she appeared include Person to Person with Edward R. Murrow, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Live! with Kelly and Michael, and CBS News Sunday Morning.

Vanderbilt was also a top international fashion model. Beginning with the custody trial during her childhood, appearing at age 17 in Harper's Bazaar, being the public face of her clothing and fragrances lines, and noted for having inspired Richard Avedon, she has been a popular subject for photographers her entire life.

During the 1970s, Vanderbilt ventured into the fashion business, first with Glentex, licensing her name for a line of scarves. In 1976, Indian designer Mohan Murjani's Murjani Corporation, proposed launching a line of designer jeans carrying Vanderbilt's signature embroidered on the back pocket, as well as her swan logo. Her jeans were more tightly fitted than other jeans of that time. The logo eventually appeared on dresses and perfumes, while Vanderbilt also launched a line of blouses, sheets, shoes, leather goods, liqueurs, and accessories. Vanderbilt was one of the first designers to make public appearances, which was a difficult thing for her because of her shyness.

In 1978, Vanderbilt sold the rights to her name to the Murjani Group.[19] She then launched her own company, "GV Ltd.," on 7th Avenue in New York. In the period from 1982 to 2002, L'Oreal launched eight fragrances under the brand name Gloria Vanderbilt.[20]Jones Apparel Group acquired the rights to Gloria Vanderbilt jeans in 2002.

In the 1980s, Vanderbilt accused her former partners in GV Ltd. and her lawyer of fraud. After a lengthy trial (during which time the lawyer died), Vanderbilt won and was awarded nearly $1.7 million, but the money was never recovered, though she was also awarded $300,000 by the New York Bar Association from its Victims of Fraud fund. Vanderbilt also owed millions in back taxes, since the lawyer had never paid the IRS, and she was forced to sell her Southampton and New York City homes.

In 2001, Vanderbilt opened her first art exhibition, "Dream Boxes," at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester; it was a critical success. She launched another exhibition of 35 paintings at the Arts Center in 2007. Two years later, she returned to the Arts Center as a panelist at its Annual Fall Show Exhibition, signing copies of her latest novel, Obsession: An Erotic Tale.

Vanderbilt had written four volumes of memoirs and three novels (including Obsession: An Erotic Tale, mentioned above) as of late May 2016, and she also regularly contributed to The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Elle.[21] In November 2010, Vanderbilt was the subject of a new book chronicling her life, titled The World of Gloria Vanderbilt,[22] written by Wendy Goodman, New York's design editor. The book, published by Abrams, featured many previously unreleased photographs. Vanderbilt also brought a net-site that featured her artwork, the Gloria Vanderbilt Fine Art net-site, on-line.

On April 5, 2016, HarperCollins Publishers released a new book, written jointly by Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper, titled The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss. The book was described thus: "A charming and intimate collection of correspondence between #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, that offers timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives."[23]

On April 9, 2016, HBO premiered Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper, a two-hour documentary, produced and directed by Liz Garbus, that featured a series of conversations between the mother and son, covering the mother's storied life and family history in the public eye.[24]

Vanderbilt was married four times, divorced three times, and gave birth to four sons in all. She also had several other significant relationships.

In 1941, aged 17, Vanderbilt went to Hollywood, where she married Pat DiCicco, an agent for actors and an alleged mobster; she was his second wife.[25] They divorced in 1945 and had no children together.[26] She later alleged that DiCicco was an abusive husband who called her 'Fatsy Roo' and beat her. "He would take my head and bang it against the wall," Vanderbilt said, "I had black eyes."[27]

In April 1945, within weeks after divorcing DiCicco, Vanderbilt married the conductor Leopold Stokowski. She was his third and last wife, and he had three daughters by his previous marriages to Olga Samaroff, an American Concert Pianist, and Evangeline Love Brewster Johnson, Johnson & Johnson heiress [28]. This marriage, which ended in divorce in October 1955, produced two sons:

Vanderbilt's third husband was the director Sidney Lumet. She was the second of his four wives. They were married on 28 August 1956 and divorced in August 1963. They had no children together.

Vanderbilt married her fourth and last husband, the author Wyatt Emory Cooper, on 24 December 1963. She was his only wife. The marriage, which lasted 15 years, ended with his death in 1978 while undergoing open-heart surgery. They had two sons:

Vanderbilt maintained a romantic relationship with photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks for many years until his death in 2006.[32] Other notable lovers have included Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Howard Hughes, and Roald Dahl.

Vanderbilt is very close friends with fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg and comedian Kathy Griffin. While appearing as a guest on her son Anderson Cooper's television talk show, Anderson on September 19, 2011, Vanderbilt referred to Griffin as her "fantasy daughter".[33]

Truman Capote was said to have modeled the character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's on Vanderbilt, but others say it was based on her friend Carol Grace.[citation needed]

When Vanderbilt celebrated her 90th birthday on February 20, 2014, her collections of many drawings, paintings and collectibles were placed on display in the 1stdibs Gallery at New York Design Center in New York City.[34]

Vanderbilt was baptized into the Episcopal Church as an infant, but was raised Roman Catholic and as a child was particularly fascinated with St. Theresa. Although religious in her youth, she no longer practices Catholicism and identifies more with a Zen Buddhism ideology.[35]

Art and home decor:

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Novels:

Jurassic Park is an American science fiction media franchise centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs who escape confinement and rampage the human characters. It began in 1990 when Universal Studios bought the rights to the novel by Michael Crichton before it was even published.

The book was successful, as was the 1993 film adaptation, which led to three sequels, although the third and fourth films were not based on novels as the first two were. The software developers Ocean Software, BlueSky Software, Sega of America, and Telltale Games have had the rights to develop video games ever since the 1993 film, and numerous games have been produced.

The Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 25, 2011, in North America. The first film was re-released in 3D on April 5, 2013.[1] Since 1996, several water rides based on the series have been opened at various Universal theme parks. On June 1, 2016, the first three films in the franchise were added to the Netflix streaming service,[2][3] but were removed on September 1, 2016.[4]

The fourth film, Jurassic World, was initially scheduled to be released in the summer of 2005, but was delayed numerous times and was ultimately released in June 2015. It has grossed more than $1.66 billion, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of all time. When adjusted for monetary inflation, however, this film is the second highest grossing in the franchise after Jurassic Park. A fifth film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, is scheduled for a June 22, 2018, release date. As of 2000, the franchise had generated $5 billion in revenue, making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.[5]

Main articles: Jurassic Park (novel) and The Lost World (Crichton novel)

Michael Crichton originally conceived a screenplay about a pterosaur being cloned from fossil DNA.[6] After wrestling with this idea for a while, he came up with the idea of Jurassic Park.[7] Crichton worked on the idea for several years; he decided his first draft would have a theme park for the setting and a young boy as the main character.[6] Response was extremely negative, so Crichton rewrote the story to make it from an adult's point of view, which resulted in more positive feedback.[6]

Steven Spielberg learned of the novel in October 1989 while he and Crichton were discussing a screenplay that would become the TV series ER. Before the book was published, Crichton put up a non-negotiable fee for $1.5 million as well as a substantial percentage of the gross. Universal further paid Crichton $500,000 to adapt his own novel.[8]Warner Bros. and Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures and Richard Donner, and 20th Century Fox and Joe Dante also bid for the rights,[9] but in May 1990, Universal eventually decided on Spielberg making the adaptation.[9] Universal desperately needed money to keep their company alive, and partially succeeded with Jurassic Park, as it became a critical[10] and commercial[11] success.

After Jurassic Park was released to home video, Crichton was pressured from many sources for a sequel novel.[12] Crichton declined all offers until Spielberg himself told him that he would be keen to direct a movie adaptation of the sequel, if one were written. Crichton began work almost immediately and in 1995 published The Lost World. Crichton confirmed that his novel had elements taken from the novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.[13] The book was also an outstanding success, both with professional and amateur critics.[12] The film adaptation, The Lost World: Jurassic Park began production in September 1996.[14]

In the novels, the fictional company InGen (International Genetic Technologies, Inc.) is based in Palo Alto, California and has one location in Europe.[nb 1] Nevertheless, most of InGen's research took place on the fictional islands of Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar.[nb 1][nb 2] While the first novel indicated InGen was just one of any number of small 1980s genetic engineering start-ups, the events of the novel and film revealed to a select group that InGen had discovered a method of cloning dinosaurs and other animals (including a quagga) using blood extracted from mosquitoes trapped in amber during various periods in time, ranging from the Mesozoic era to the 1800s.[nb 1]Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction describe InGen as comparable to another "sleazy organization".[15] Other sources reference the company's receiving the baby T. rex as an allusion to other exploitative entrepreneurs depicted in King Kong.[16] Ken Gelder describes InGen as "resolutely secretive, just like the firm in Grisham's novel."[17]

Main article: Jurassic Park (film) Theatrical poster for the 3D re-release of Jurassic Park.

Before Crichton's book was even published, studios such as Warner Bros., Columbia, TriStar, 20th Century Fox, and Universal had already begun bidding to acquire the picture rights. Spielberg, with the backing of Universal Studios, acquired the rights to the novel before its publication in 1990, and Crichton was hired by Universal Studios for an additional US $500,000 to adapt the novel into a proper screenplay. Malia Scotch Marmo, who was a writer on Spielberg's Hook, wrote the next draft of Jurassic Park but is not credited. David Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence, and made numerous changes to the characters.

When an incident results in the death of an employee, Jurassic Park owner John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) brings in three specialists to sign off on the park to calm investors. The specialists, paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and chaos theorist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are surprised to see the island park's main attraction are living, breathing dinosaurs, created with a mixture of fossilized DNA and genetic cross-breeding/cloning. However, when lead programmer Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) shuts down the park's power to sneak out with samples of the dinosaur embryos to sell to a corporate rival, the dinosaurs break free, and the survivors are forced to find a way to turn the power back on and make it out alive. The film also stars Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, B.D. Wong, Ariana Richards, Joseph Mazzello, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Jurassic Park is regarded as a landmark in the use of computer-generated imagery and received positive reviews from critics, who praised the effects, though reactions to other elements of the picture, such as character development, were mixed. During its release, the film grossed more than $914 million worldwide, becoming the most successful film released up to that time (surpassing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and surpassed 4 years later by Titanic), and it is currently the 17th highest grossing feature film (taking inflation into account, it is the 20th-highest-grossing film in North America). It is the most financially successful film for NBCUniversal and Steven Spielberg.

Jurassic Park had two re-releases: The first on September 23, 2011, in the United Kingdom and the second in which it was converted into 3D on April 5, 2013, for its 20th Anniversary, which resulted in the film passing the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office.[18][19][20]

Main article: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

As soon as the novel was published, a film was in pre-production, with a target release date of mid-1997. The film was a commercial success, breaking many box-office records when released. The film had mixed reviews, similar to its predecessor in terms of characterization. Much like the first film, The Lost World made a number of changes to the plot and characters from the book, replacing the corporate rivals with an internal power struggle and changing the roles/characterizations of several protagonists.

When a vacationing family stumbles upon the dinosaurs of Isla Sorna, a secondary island where the animals were bred en masse and allowed to grow before being transported to the park, Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) is called in by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to lead a team to document the island to turn it into a preserve, where the animals can roam free without interference from the outside world. Malcolm agrees to go when he discovers his girlfriend, paleontologist Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore) is already on the island, while at the same time Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard), has taken over his uncle's company and leads a team of hunters to capture the creatures and bring them back to a theme park in San Diego. The two groups clash and are ultimately forced to work together to evade the predatory creatures and survive the second island. The film also stars Pete Postlethwaite, Richard Schiff, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee Chester, Peter Stormare, and a young Camilla Belle.

Main article: Jurassic Park III

Joe Johnston had been interested in directing the sequel to Jurassic Park and approached his friend Steven Spielberg about the project. While Spielberg wanted to direct the first sequel, he agreed that if there was ever a third film, Johnston could direct.[21] Spielberg, nevertheless, stayed involved in this film by becoming its executive producer. Production began on August 30, 2000,[22] with filming in California, and the Hawaiian islands of Kauai, Oahu, and Molokai.[23] It is the first Jurassic Park film not to be based on a novel. The film was a financial success but received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Most were split on whether the third installment was better or worse than its predecessor. The film once again suffered reviews mentioning little to no characterization.

When their son goes missing while parasailing at Isla Sorna, the Kirbys (William H. Macy and Téa Leoni) hire Alan Grant (Sam Neill) under false pretenses to help them navigate the island. Believing it to be nothing more than sight-seeing, and that he will act as a dinosaur guide from the safety of their plane, he's startled to find them landing on the ground, where they are stalked by a super-predator, the Spinosaurus, which destroys their plane. As they search for the Kirbys' son, the situation grows dire as Velociraptors (more intelligent than ever) hunt their group and they must find a way off the island. The film also stars Alessandro Nivola, Michael Jeter, Trevor Morgan, Mark Harelik, and Laura Dern.

Main article: Jurassic World

Steven Spielberg devised a story idea for a fourth film in 2001, during production of Jurassic Park III.[24] In 2002, William Monahan was hired to write the script,[25] with the film's release scheduled for 2005.[26] Monahan finished the first draft of the script in 2003,[27] with the film's plot revolving around dinosaurs escaping to the mainland.[28][29][30] Sam Neill and Richard Attenborough were set to reprise their characters,[30][31] while Keira Knightley was in talks for two separate roles.[32] In 2004, John Sayles wrote two drafts of the script.[33][34] Sayles' first draft involved a team of Deinonychus being trained for use in rescue missions.[35][36][37] His second draft involved genetically modified dinosaur-human mercenaries.[38][39] Both drafts were scrapped. In 2006, a new script was being worked on.[40][41][42] Laura Dern was contacted to reprise her role, with the film expected for release in 2008.[43][44] The film was further delayed by the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike.[45]Mark Protosevich wrote two film treatments in 2011, which were rejected.[46]Rise of the Planet of the Apes screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver were hired in 2012 to write an early draft of the script.[47] In 2013, Colin Trevorrow was announced as a director and co-writer,[48][49] with the film scheduled for release on June 12, 2015.[50] The film was shot in 3D, and received positive reviews from critics and audience alike.[51]

The film features a new park, Jurassic World, built on the remains of the original park on Isla Nublar.[52] The film sees the park run by Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan) and Masrani Corp, and features the return of Dr. Henry Wu (B. D. Wong) from the first film, who harbors a grudge against his former employer.[53]Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Jake Johnson star, while Vincent D'Onofrio portrayed the main antagonist, Vic Hoskins. The cast also includes Lauren Lapkus,[54]Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, and Judy Greer. The primary dinosaur antagonist is Indominus rex, a genetically-modified hybrid of Tyrannosaurus rex and several other species, including Velociraptor, cuttlefish, and tree frog.[55]

Main article: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

A sequel to Jurassic World is scheduled for release in June 2018.[56][57] The film is being directed by J. A. Bayona, with a script written by Trevorrow and Connelly.[57][58] Frank Marshall, Pat Crowley, and Belén Atienza are producing the film,[59] with Trevorrow and Spielberg as executive producers.[57]Óscar Faura is the film's cinematographer.[60] The film stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard,[57] B. D. Wong,[61]Toby Jones, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith,[62]Daniella Pineda,[63]Ted Levine,[64] and James Cromwell,[65] with Jeff Goldblum reprising his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm.[66]

During early conversations on Jurassic World, Spielberg told Trevorrow that he was interested in having several more films made.[67] In April 2014, Trevorrow announced that sequels to Jurassic World had been discussed: "We wanted to create something that would be a little bit less arbitrary and episodic, and something that could potentially arc into a series that would feel like a complete story."[68] Trevorrow, who said he would direct the film if asked,[68] later told Spielberg that he would only focus on directing one film in the series.[67] In May 2015, Trevorrow announced that he would not direct another film in the series: "I would be involved in some way, but not as director." Trevorrow felt that different directors could bring different qualities to future films.[69]

In June 2015, Trevorrow stated that Jurassic World left story possibilities open for the sequel's director that could potentially allow the film to take place in a different location, rather than on an island. Trevorrow hinted that the next film could involve dinosaurs being used by other companies for non-entertainment purposes, possibly in agriculture, medicine, and war: "I really like the idea that this group of geneticists aren't the only people who can make a dinosaur [...] when you think of the differences between Apple and PC – the minute something goes open-source, there are all kinds of entities and interests that may be able to utilise that technology."[70] Trevorrow later confirmed that the film would not involve "a bunch of dinosaurs chasing people on an island. That'll get old real fast."[71] Trevorrow also spoke of the film's possible open-source storyline: "It's almost like InGen is Mac, but what if PC gets their hands on it? What if there are 15 different entities around the world who can make a dinosaur?"[71]

Bayona was announced as director in April 2016.[59] Spielberg, Marshall, and Kathleen Kennedy had been impressed by Bayona's 2012 film, The Impossible, and initially considered having him direct Jurassic World, but he declined as he felt there was not enough time for production.[72] During pre-production, Bayona said he was reading all of Michael Crichton's novels, including Jurassic Park and The Lost World, "to try to immerse myself in Crichton's mind."[73] Filming began in February 2017.[74][75] A majority of filming will take place in Hawaii,[58] and at Pinewood Studios in England.[76] Scenes will also be shot at Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales.[77]

In September 2015, Trevorrow said that Bryce Dallas Howard's character would evolve the most over the course of the Jurassic World trilogy that, in turn, is expected to conclude the storyline that began with the previous five films.[78] In October 2015, Frank Marshall confirmed plans for a sixth film in the series.[79] In November 2015, Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley said that Trevorrow and Spielberg have a story idea for the sixth film.[80] In September 2016, Bayona further confirmed that Trevorrow has plans for a Jurassic World trilogy.[81] That month, Trevorrow was asked how much planning he had put into a new trilogy while he was filming Jurassic World in 2014: "I knew the end. I knew where I wanted it to go."[58] In March 2017, Laura Dern commented, "As I said to the people who are making the new series, 'If you guys make a last one, you gotta let Ellie Sattler come back.'"[82]

Main article: List of Jurassic Park characters See also: List of cloned animals in Jurassic Park

From June 1993 to August 1997 the now-defunct Topps Comics published comic adaptions of Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, as well as several tie-in series.

Beginning in June 2010, IDW Publishing began publishing Jurassic Park comics. They also acquired the rights to reprint the issues published by Topps in the 1990s, which they began to do in trade paperback format starting in November 2010. After a four-year hiatus, IDW announced the release of a series based on Jurassic World, to be released in 2017.[99]

This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks:

In June 1993, after the theatrical release of Jurassic Park, spokesmen for Amblin and MCA confirmed that an animated series based on the film was in development and awaiting Spielberg's final approval.[100] The series, titled Escape from Jurassic Park,[101] would have consisted of 23 episodes for its first season. The series would have centered on John Hammond's attempts to finish Jurassic Park and open it to the public, while InGen's corporate rival Biosyn is simultaneously planning to open their own dinosaur theme park in Brazil, which ultimately ends with their dinosaurs escaping into the jungles.[102][103][104]

If produced, it was believed that the project would be the most expensive animated series up to that time. Jeff Segal, president of Universal Cartoon Studios, said, "We are developing a TV series that we anticipate would be computer animated and very sophisticated. However, Spielberg has not had a chance yet to look at either the material or the format for the series."[100] Segal said Universal was considering the possibility of developing the series for prime time. Segal said about the series' storyline, "It would essentially pick up from the closing moments of the movie and it would continue the story in a very dramatic way. The intention would be to continue with the primary characters and also introduce new characters." Segal also said the series would be aimed specifically at the same target audience as the film, while hoping that it would also appeal to young children.[100]

Animation veteran and comic artist Will Meugniot (then working at Universal Cartoon Studios for various projects, including Exosquad) contacted artist William Stout to ask if he would be interested in designing the animated series. According to Stout, "This was not going to be a kiddy show (although kids of all ages, including myself, could enjoy it). They wanted the show to be a mature prime time series with top writers and state-of-the-art television animation augmented with quite a bit of CG animation." Universal Animation Studios wanted the show to have the look of a graphic novel.[105]

Stout was hired to work on the series and subsequently made a trailer to demonstrate how the series would look, and how it would combine traditional animation with computer animation. The series required Spielberg's final approval before it could go into production. However, Spielberg had grown tired of the massive promotion and merchandise revolving around the film, and never watched the trailer.[105] On July 13, 1993, Margaret Loesch, president of the Fox Children's Network, confirmed that discussions had been held with Spielberg about an animated version of the film. Loesch also said, "At least for now and in the foreseeable future, there will not be an animated Jurassic Park. That's Steven Spielberg's decision, and we respect that decision."[106]

Part three of the four-part comic adaptation of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, published by Topps Comics in July 1997, confirmed to readers that a cartoon series based on the film was in development.[107][108] In November 1997, it was reported that the cartoon would be accompanied by Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect, a series of dinosaur toys produced by Kenner and based on a premise that scientists had created dinosaur hybrids consisting of DNA from different creatures.[109][110] The new toys were based on the upcoming cartoon.[109] That month, it was also reported that the cartoon could be ready by March 1998, as a mid-season replacement.[109] The Chaos Effect toyline was released in June 1998,[110] but the animated series was never produced, for unknown reasons.[111]

Main article: List of Jurassic Park video games

When the first film was released in 1993, two different video game publishers were given the rights to publish games based on it, Sega and Ocean Software. Both produced several different games based on the film for several different game systems, including the NES and Sega Genesis. In 1994, Ocean Software produced a sequel to the first game in the series for the Game Boy and SNES systems. Universal Interactive also produced an interactive game for the ill-fated 3DO system.

For the second film in the franchise, DreamWorks Interactive released five games for the most popular systems at the time. The third film had the biggest marketing push, spawning seven video games for PC and Game Boy Advance. A number of lightgun arcade games were also released for all three films.

Main article: Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a tycoon-style video game. The objective of the game is to fulfill Hammond's dream of building a five-star theme park with dinosaurs. It was released 2003 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC.

Main article: Jurassic Park: The Game

Jurassic Park: The Game is an episodic video game based on the Jurassic Park franchise, bridging the story of the first two films developed by Telltale Games in a deal with Universal.[112] It was released on November 15, 2011 to a mixed reception, with reviewers praising the story but criticizing the characters and gameplay. The game was acknowledged canon with Jurassic Park continuity by writers of the original Jurassic Park. The game takes place during and after the events of the original film, and follows a new group of survivors trying to escape Isla Nublar. The game features several dinosaurs from the film, including new additions like Troodon and a Tylosaurus, among other creatures. The game is available on PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and iPad.

Main article: Lego Jurassic World

Lego Jurassic World is a 2015 Lego action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows. It followed the plots of the series' four films, including Jurassic Park, and was released on June 12, 2015.

On June 21, 1996, Universal Studios Hollywood opened Jurassic Park: The Ride. Universal Studios Japan later opened this attraction, and Universal's Islands of Adventure opened Jurassic Park River Adventure. The rides are heavily themed on the first three films. Another ride based on the series has also been opened at Universal Studios Singapore (Jurassic Park Rapids Adventure).

^ a b c As described in the novels.

^ As described in the films, Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

According to journalist Cathy Young, the quarrel between online fans of the show about whether there should be a relationship between Xena and Gabrielle had a sociopolitical angle, in which some on the anti-relationship side were "undoubtedly driven by bona fide bigotry", while some on the pro-relationship side were lesbians who "approached the argument as a real-life gay rights struggle" in which "denying a sexual relationship between Xena and Gabrielle was tantamount to denying the reality of their own lives".[23] She added:

In 2000, during the airing of the fifth season, the intensity and sometimes nastiness of the "shipping wars" in the Xena fandom was chronicled (from a non-subtexter's point of view) by Australian artist Nancy Lorenz in an article titled "The Discrimination in the Xenaverse" in the online Xena fan magazine Whoosh!,[24] and also in numerous letters in response.[25]

The wars did not abate after the series came to an end in 2001. With no new material from the show itself, the debates were further fueled by various statements from the cast and crew. In January 2003, Lucy Lawless, the show's star, told Lesbian News magazine that after watching the series finale (in which Gabrielle revived Xena with a mouth-to-mouth water transfer filmed to look like a full kiss) she had come to believe that Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was "definitely gay."[26] However, in the interviews and commentaries on the DVD sets released in 2003–2005, the actors, writers and producers continued to stress the ambiguity of the relationship, and in several interviews both Lawless and Renee O'Connor, who played Gabrielle, spoke of Ares as a principal love interest for Xena. In the interview for the Season 6 episode "Coming Home", O'Connor commented, "If there was ever going to be one man in Xena's life, it would be Ares."

In March 2005, one-time Xena screenwriter Katherine Fugate, an outspoken supporter of the Xena/Gabrielle pairing, posted a statement on her website appealing for tolerance in the fandom:

China Shipping Development (SEHK: 1138, SSE: 600026) is a Chinese shipping company with its headquarters in Shanghai. The company is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The company produces, pursues and sells as a shipping company ships worldwide. China Shipping Group Company, founded on the 1 July 1997, is the holding company of China Shipping Development. Among the rest, the companies China Shipping Container Lines und China Shipping Haisheng also belong to the Parent company. The main business focus of the company involves coastal, ocean and Yangtze River cargo transportation, ship leasing, cargo forwarding and cargo transport agency, purchase and sale of ships, repair and development of containers, ship spare parts purchase and sale agency, consultancy and transfer of shipping technology.[1]

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