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Silicon Beach, California. Day 2 Vlog - Interview with Tim and Travis, Ikigai and Everipedia - Duration: 12:48.

We know it's early right, we know it's difficult to call we don't have a

crystal ball but we just got to stay in the game.

We are going to see Tim, the Ikigai

have you seen Charles's shirt he's wearing today look at this

hey guys how are you

Hello Tim , how are you? Nice to see you. I'm Shane

I'm you know very pro to a lot of decentralized exchanges I'll be interested to see how institutions treat

it right because institutions want to know who your kind of party is right

they want to make sure that there's no kind of party risk also they want to do

AML and kyc right they want to know who's on the other side of that trade

right it's like yeah you don't know it's gonna be difficult I mean when you look

at dark pool liquidity and how that's changed it's all come from a centralized

space there'll be a dark pool but something like a liquid net you're still

dealing with a regulated entity and in order to get signed off on from

compliance and regulatory that kind of makes them feel good but I think that

it's not that people aren't willing to do it although there's no framework they

are certainly engaging and they want to learn they want to know and I think when

you look back at the start of 2017 total market capitalization combined was

twenty billion by the end of 2017 it was eight hundred billion I caught a

lot of people off including the major institutions and the regulator well I

think now what we're starting to see certainly in London is we're starting to

see you know a very big change from the ICO now rolling over into the Sto yeah a

lot of people that are approaching us have looked at the sto model which which

needs to have more of a regulatory framework around it or needs to

certainly be approached like it's a security

I'm Shane Kehoe. Nice to meet you. How are you?

He's our CIO we lead our organization in a way to where it's not

only institutionally compliant but it's done with the ethics that we think are

required to Shepherd this technology the technology as you know it's so powerful

and the opportunities that this technology can provide me to do amazing

things for Humanity or could hinder and enslave humanity like never before so

making sure that when we operate we operate with people of ethics that have

that understanding of the technology and the power is important to us and your

relationship and Travis's relationship how far do you go go back how did you

get to know him? 6 years. In Chicago and Chicago is a fun fun city both of us before you

were coming saki-chan at that time? I was yeah you know Iwas at hedge fund

capital I know my Mike and then as you can probably tell we we take a yin and

yang approach right with building Ikigai so we've got the lifelong

technologist network systems engineer by background and a guy that's been around

this technology since before the BTC white paper was even written yeah and

that's combined with you know a guy that a career in traditional hedge fund asset

management and we think when we put those two things together it's it's it's

the right combination of skill sets and knowledge bases to go and you know make

the best investment decisions possible for the space and that strategy going

forward will be what like what will be your kind of mandate or your strategy is

it more of a trading strategies of long-only where you are being all those

Multistrats so 25% of the assets under management are dedicated into

venture investing the crypto assets okay traditional venture equity stakes

token's and equity run new newly listed tokens and

the entities that are issuing the tokens and then 75% of the assets under

management is dedicated into a long short multi-strap which is liquid hedge

fund strategies applied to the crypto asset space well like what I've been

doing over the last seven years abroad 10.72 we also have been

internal ventures business which I which Tim runs that I have jokingly call our

accidental incubator so we were just seeing some some opportunities come

across our plate and the crypto asset space that were you know too early to

just write a check into from the venture fund perspective but too compelling to

just walk away from and say it's not for us so we tend to kind of lead the

efforts on spending up of a few different things there we got Liberty

block was one of those right yeah Byzantine is one of those we got about

half a dozen irons in the fire there that we think there are some pretty

compelling opportunities and how do you find the difference when you you know

were you're looking at an you know equity long-short strategy on on

traditional markets compared to the crypto currency markets I mean what

differences do you see and how the unhand how do you how do you deal with

those challenges or opportunities may be? so that so the infrastructure is

drastically that's kind of one of the first things right it's just the types

of things that you just take for granted working in a world-class hedge funds in

terms of the trading infrastructure the portfolio management something as simple

as just having a Bloomberg terminal that's got every every piece of

data that you would ever need you've got a lot more its ecosystem of equity

sell-side research that's providing you know pointed thoughts and observations

about the asset class looking at and and then you know and

another big massive difference is that valuation frameworks and you know for

the S&P 500 we've been looking at price to earnings ratio for going on 100 years

right right and like I tell people side it my career is focused in energy

investing in equities invest yeah so if I'm gonna buy it buy a share of

ExxonMobil today am I paying a lot or a little for share price on mobile well

you can you can you can get my old line of work I got about you can follow you

have many different tools in the tool shed help me decide whether or not I'm

paying a lot or a little so then you you you and a lot of those are metrics

they're based on revenues earnings cash flows assets growth you know I can take

my oil price assumption and plug it into my Exxon Mobil model it'll spit out of

EPS I can put a p/e ratio on there's all kinds of different ways essentially all

of that goes out the windows you move into this new asset class and so you

have to you have to kind of do a lot of fundamental research around around the

the manner in which you can look at the fundamental drivers of valuation for

these asset classes and you can look at things like network activity right and

we know that there's a relationship between network value and network

activity yeah you can measure that with on chain metrics you can measure that

with various different wallet forensic you can measure that with community

vibrancy metrics like like things that are going on in github yep you can

measure that with sentiment analysis natural language processing because you

know one of the really interesting things about this space relative to

traditional hedge fund investing is that smart people talk out loud about what

they like and what they I don't like in this asset class yeah that opens up for

a whole bunch of interesting possibilities and that will develop

right oh as well all those critical points right they will develop as a

space matures right after we start to see adoption after cert do we see

revenue or we start to see some other framework that we can attach a valuation

to right yeah we'd like to think we're kind of at the bleeding edge of

understanding this highly dynamic sort of framework of how do we value these

things it's an incredibly foundational question

that has not been answered in this ecosystem I can tell you for sure that

our understanding of value accrual in crypto assets today is drastically

different than it was a year ago and a year before that it was essentially

non-existent right yeah and so you know you posit that against like the

intelligent investor of Benjamin Graham that was written in the late thirties I

think is still one of the most so relevant books down on equity investing

ever so that's exciting yeah I think it's the opportunity that

we realize right and that's what that's what excites us is that we know it's

early right we know it's difficult to call we don't have a crystal ball but we

just got to stay in the game and everything that we're looking for all

those points all those data points all those projects all those companies that

will start to use maybe even just a small set five or ten percent of their

business onto the blockchain and how that starts to roll out I mean when

you're got the opportunity to see it right from inception point right and I'm

talking about as early as you were looking at the mining side of it I'm

talking about when you look at the abduction point of institutional capital

now I'm have been looking at the space for a year but still very much not

involved it's gonna be interesting to see how that all rolls out and all the

products that come around with that in the regulatory framework and the custody

etc except Oh so as you were building out the templates for these contracts

and how were you making sure that you were

building what was required because it's still very early day so how are you

getting that feedback how did you know and I'm sure it's gonna be an ongoing

process but how did you kind of know but it was it kind of a gut feel or is it be

kind of like you we realized it wasn't about writing checks everyone's got

money it's about actually bringing something else to the table and we

realized that community was power so from that inception Charles joined us

Oliver joined us we now have a team of nine we got Mark Delasalle who's an

older guy from Accenture who's come on with a wealth of knowledge I'm from a

CRM business we've hired several other blockchain analysts we've got loads of

different advisers who have worked at a new for private banking and now

also on the tech side but that's actually resulted in an SVK Crypto

partnering up with block one we're now one of the venture capital partners we

were on the fund for 50 million dollars solely focusing on investing into very

early-stage blockchain technologies that will utilize the EOS.IO protocol

we're really happy with where we are but we realize that we're only really

getting started this is the first fund that we've done and since that inception

point we've continued to build the largest monthly meetups in London we had

five hundred people but our last meetup you were out our meetup before we run a

daily podcast which Charles does everyday but you're all going to be on later by

the way we have Marco who does all our filming creates content and more

importantly we realize that this opportunity that we're all being given

is an amazing opportunity and we want to seize it literally by by our hands each

and every day we're passionate to the core about what we do almost at the

point of and healthiness and we realize that we have a lot of fun doing it so

thank you very much for hosting us and this is why we're here today

hey Robbie. How's going? I'm Shane from SVK Crypto

How are you buddy?

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Bringing Help and Hope to Northern California - Duration: 3:19.

There was a wall of fire 10 to 15 feet tall

off on the horizon.

The driveway kind of has a crest or a knoll in it.

For years, of course, you come up over that little knoll

and you see the house.

But this time there wasn't any house.

Nothing-- nothing in front of us to obstruct our view.

Took me about three years to build the house.

I can tell you almost where every nail

is or screw that got put in it.

We've had the house for roughly 38 years,

and now it's totally destroyed by fire.

It's an absolutely empty feeling.

You just don't know whether you want to scream

or whether you want to cry.

You're just not thinking.

You're just-- just void of stuff because of recognizing

how much we had lost.

What we are doing is going in and sifting through the ash,

looking for any kind of valuables

that could be left behind, anything

that might mean something, being able to present them with that

and just seeing the joy that can return

to their life and the hope that that can bring them.

We found a couple pieces.

One was a little vase.

It frequently had a single rose sitting in it on the kitchen

counter.

If I could see a nice bud, rosebud, I

would bring it home and give it to Phyllis

and so it would sit on the kitchen

counter in that little vase, and I

know when I show her that vase she'll get teared up

but that's OK.

Part of the recovery, I believe.

We're all here for the same reason,

to be able to just help the homeowners through all this.

We just want to do the best we can to share His love

and being able to give them comfort,

knowing that there is hope.

I had some familiarity with Samaritan's Purse

from the last three or four years.

It's absolutely been terrific.

The leadership, the coordination have been terrific.

The ladies who have been on the end of a rake

handle, moving a pile of ashes.

It's very impressive.

I think that the ministry is a blessing

not only to the volunteers, but to the homeowners,

because it allows us to come together

and it's something that is life changing, I'd say.

The words thank you are probably inadequate,

but until we get into some kind of new language,

they probably have to be the words that we use.

We certainly thank Samaritan's Purse

from the bottom of our hearts for their help,

cooperation, and bringing peace and peace of mind to us.

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Is the California Republican Party content to stay dead? Or will it finally reinvent itself? Los A - Duration: 3:18.

Is the California Republican Party content to stay dead? Or will it finally reinvent itself? Los A

Can anyone still doubt that the California Republican Party must reinvent itself? That, otherwise, it hasnt any hope of winning back political influence in this state, and might as well make way for a new political party to serve the role of loyal opposition?

The 2016 election made that clear, if it wasnt before. Afterward, Californias GOP leaders changed nothing much of consequence. As a result, the 2018 election was another predictable disaster for their coalition.

Zero Republicans hold statewide office. Democrats enjoy a supermajority in the California Assembly and the state Senate. In races for the U.S. Senate, Republican candidates cant even make it to the general election, now that the top two vote getters in primary contests advance regardless of party. And when the House of Representatives reconvenes, the California delegation is most likely to be composed of 46 Democrats and just seven Republicans.

Whats required for political resurrection is straightforward enough.

Even some longtime loyalists are calling for the coroner. The Grand Old Party is dead, Kristin Olsen, former vice chair of the California GOP, declared in Cal Matters, partly because it has failed to separate itself from todays toxic, national brand of Republican politics.

Republican political consultant Mike Madrid agrees. The party has to die before it can be rebuilt, he told Politico. And by die, I mean, completely decimated. I think Tuesday night was a big step, he said, referring to the midterm elections. There is no message. There is no messenger.

The decline and fall may continue so long as President Trump is in office, especially if political rivals beyond Democrats start to exploit the GOPs weaknesses.

In 2018 alone, David Wasserman of Cook Political Report noticed, House Republicans lost six of 10 of their districts with the highest Latino population, and 17 of 25 of their districts with the highest Asian population. Golden State demographics are only getting less white.

In one fell swoop, Trump and Republicans who willingly handcuffed themselves to him have turned Orange County into a GOP wasteland, John Weaver, a strategist who has worked on the presidential campaigns of John McCain and John Kasich, told Politico. You want to see the future? Look no further than the demographic death spiral in the place once considered a cornerstone of the party.

Libertarians could conceivably do better than being shut down in Orange County.

Whats required for political resurrection is straightforward enough. To win, California Republicans must do better among some combination of their worst demographics: Latinos, blacks, Asian Americans, women, millennials and college educated voters in prosperous suburbs.

So why arent ambitious California Republican office seekers proclaiming, To hell with Trumps fear mongering about illegal immigrants; to hell with his weak response to Charlottesville; to hell with his attacks on the rights of legal immigrants, to comments he has made denigrating Mexicans and Muslims, and to his attacks on birthright citizenship?

Why arent they leading a public break from the faction of Republican Party politics preferred by Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller in favor of the model that more inclusive, anti racist Republicans have advised the GOP to adopt for almost an entire generation, given that such advice was inspired by a demographic future that has already arrived here?

The GOP base is one answer. As the number of Republicans shrink, the primary voters who remain are more likely to be extreme partisans. And because so much of our politics is now nationalized, they watch Fox News and dont feel like political losers in need of a makeover. Their guy is in the White House, ostensibly making America great again. The last person theyll support is a politician who tries to make a mark by denouncing Trumps worst flaw, even if it is the deliberate stoking and exploitation of divisive group bigotries.

Career incentives are another answer. If you are likelier than not to lose a given election regardless, why do it as an outspoken anti Trump Republican, alienating many longtime allies across the country, when you could lose without being seen as a disloyal apostate and preserve your ability to make a career in national Republican politics, or in what is still called the conservative movement, in spite of its shift toward right wing populism?

Any answer must account for why an organization ostensibly dedicated to winning elections would lose time and again without appreciably changing its strategy.

The biggest losers here arent the hardest core GOP partisans, whod rather own the libs than win state elections, or the politicians who lose elections but still make a living in politics. It is, rather, the Californians who want a viable alternative to the Democratic Party, whether due to substantive disagreements or as a check on corruption.

Instead, they get a California GOP that cant win, shows no sign of making changes that will allow it to win, yet probably retains just enough support to prevent a third party from emerging.

Conor Friedersdorf is a contributing writer to Opinion, a staff writer at the Atlantic and founding editor of the Best of Journalism, a newsletter that curates exceptional nonfiction.

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Children Return to School after Deadly Camp Fire in California

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Monday marked a return to school for thousands of children who lost their homes to a deadly wildfire in Northern California.

In Butte County, California, schools have been closed since November 8, when the wildfire now known as the Camp Fire started. It quickly moved through the towns of Paradise, Concow and Magalia.

The Camp Fire was the deadliest wildfire in the United States in a century. It killed at least 88 people. Many others are still listed as missing.

The Paradise Unified School District lost eight schools to the wildfire. District officials were not sure how many of their nearly 3,500 students will report to schools that will temporarily replace those destroyed in the fire. Some families have left California. Others are staying with nearby relatives or friends. It is too far for some of them to drive to one of the temporary schools every day.

But nearly all the teachers are returning to provide a calm, familiar face to the children who are able to make it to class.

Jodi Seaholms daughter Mallory is about to turn 9 years old. In October, Mallory had radiation treatment to remove cancer in her brain and showed no fear, Seaholm told the Associated Press. But this situation, with her house burning down, has absolutely devastated her, she added.

Its important that the kids are able to stay together and have some sort of normalcy in the crazy devastation that were having now, Seaholm said.

Two neighboring school districts have permitted children from Paradise to make use of available space in their school. Children who formerly went to Paradise Elementary School will go to school in nearby Oroville, California. Children from Ponderosa Elementary School will be at a school in Durham.

Paradise High School survived the fire. But the school building remains closed because officials have yet to let people return to the area.

The district does not yet have space for middle and high school classrooms. So for the 13 days before the start of the traditional winter break in the school year, students will learn through independent study. They will be given homework online and be able to visit a special drop in center in Chico, California. Children going there can get help from teachers or visit other classmates.

Loren Lighthall, who heads Paradise High School, said studying will likely be less important than dealing with pain and reconnecting with friends.

They dont have their school, they dont have their work, they dont have their friends, they dont have any of that stuff and were asking them to write … essays? Lighthall said. Its just unreasonable at this point. Were going to do it, but were going to be super flexible with what we require.

Search crews have stopped looking for victims in burned cars and neighborhoods. But they remain available if people believe they find human remains when they are permitted to re enter the community.

Forty seven year old Marissa Nypl is living with her family at the home of her husbands coworker in West Sacramento until they can move much closer. That is 145 kilometers from her 10 year old daughters temporary school in Durham. It is too far to drive every day. But Nypl wanted to be sure her daughter is there with the other children on the first day back. It will likely be an important part of the healing process.

Theyre going to need something that they feel like is still a normal part of life, Nypl said, noting just about everything in town is gone. The schools going to be the only thing they have … to feel like somethings still routine.

Im ­Bryan Lynn.

Jonathan J. Cooper reported this story for the Associated Press. Pete Musto adapted this story for VOA Learning English. George Grow was the editor.

We want to hear from you. How can officials help students recover from the effects of the wildfire? Write to us in the Comments Section or on our Facebook page.

district – n. an area or community; part of a territory

devastate – v. to bring to ruin; to wreck

kids – n. children

online – adj. connected to or involving a computer or telecommunications system

essay – n. a short piece of writing on a given subject

flexible – adj. easy to bend or influence