April MaClean reached out to say en route to Miami but emails got crossed potentially or everybody in the Miami area received? Did anybody else get this random email? FWIW it's worth I played along and said Can't wait to see y'all. Continue reading

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How to setup a sales team by David Sacks is worth it's weight in gold. An essential guide for any SaaS companies that are looking for guidance from one of the most respected Silicon Valley CEO's: https://sacks.substack.com/p/simple-math-to-set-up-a-sales-team Continue reading

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Readout of Secretary Mayorkas’ Meeting with New Zealand’s Minister for Justice and Minister for Immigration, Kris Faafoi On Monday, April 5, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas spoke by phone with New Zealand’s Minister for Justice and Minister for Immigration, Kris Faafoi. Secretary Mayorkas and Minister Faafoi reaffirmed the continued strength of the U.S.-New Zealand relationship and discussed opportunities to enhance the bilateral partnership through collaboration with Five Eyes partners. Secretary Mayorkas emphasized DHS’s continued commitment to work with New Zealand on countering the threat posed by domestic violent extremism. Continue reading

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Sometimes you contribute content online and forget that you were once a contributer and writer for a publication. I used to be a writer for Wired.com when they had a program letting young entrepreneurs contribute content and did a few editorials for Today.com. Recently old publications done for Engadget.com popped back up online and are now visible at: https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/richart-ruddie Not sure why they suddenly decided to index and showcase some of my older contributions but perhaps it's because of all the recent press around the work that I'm doing for countries around the world. The Irish Central website and the Times of Malta have both featured me of late and other well known global publications have approached me about covering similar stories. Continue reading

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Below is a piece from at the New York Times about how we are attracted to negative news and that the major media players in the USA overly promote negative headlines with pessimism regarding COVID-19 vs. other countries, scientific journals, and smaller media outlets that tended to cover it more on a factual basis instead of promoting their opinion. I will add my commentary and thoughts in bold below: Is bad news the only kind? Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS. It almost always seemed negative, regardless of what was he seeing in the data or hearing from scientists he knew. When Covid cases were rising in the U.S., the news coverage emphasized the increase. When cases were falling, the coverage instead focused on those places where cases were rising. And when vaccine research began showing positive results, the coverage downplayed it, as far as Sacerdote could tell. But he was not sure whether his perception was correct. To check, he began working with two other researchers, building a database of Covid coverage from every major network, CNN, Fox News, Politico, The New York Times and hundreds of other sources, in the U.S. and overseas. The researchers then analyzed it with a social-science technique that classifies language as positive, neutral or negative. The results showed that Sacerdote’s instinct had been right — and not just because the pandemic has been mostly a grim story. The U.S. media is an outlier The coverage by U.S. publications with a national audience has been much more negative than coverage by any other source that the researchers analyzed, including scientific journals, major international publications and regional U.S. media. “The most well-read U.S. media are outliers in terms of their negativity,” Molly Cook, a co-author of the study, told me. About 87 percent of Covid coverage in national U.S. media last year was negative. The share was 51 percent in international media, 53 percent in U.S. regional media and 64 percent in scientific journals. Notably, the coverage was negative in both U.S. media outlets with liberal audiences (like MSNBC) and those with conservative audiences (like Fox News). By The New York Times | Sources: Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal and Molly Cook Sacerdote is careful to emphasize that he does not think journalists usually report falsehoods. The issue is which facts they emphasize. Still, the new study — which the National Bureau of Economic Research has published as a working paper, titled, “Why is all Covid-19 news bad news?” — calls for some self-reflection from those of us in the media. If we’re constantly telling a negative story, we are not giving our audience the most accurate portrait of reality. We are shading it. We are doing a good job telling you why Covid cases are rising in some places and how the vaccines are imperfect — but not such a good job explaining why cases are... Continue reading

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Richart Ruddie helps to influence global travel. Continue reading

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Richart Ruddie was born in Baltimore, Maryland on Sunday August, 25th, 1985 at Mount Sinai hospital in Baltimore City. He is an American who's Grandmother was born in the city of Riga, Latvia and then stopped into Suvalki, Poland before arriving at Ellis Island in New York City. Her father was born in present day Belarus. Living in small towns such as Zdiecol and Dzyatlava. Ruddie is a distant relative to the Bielski brothers who spent time during WW II leading a resistant group in the forests with Rae Kushner. Richart Ruddie's father's side of his family immigrated from present day Lviv Oblast in Western Ukraine being known as a Galician. For more information about Richart Ruddie visit RichartRuddie.blogspot.com Continue reading

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Having an issue on Google with your local business listing? If so you can call their support line at 844-491-9665. If you're looking for a great book recommendation check out Zero to One by Peter Thiel. Continue reading

Excited that the recent legislative bill passed will be bringing two new great museums to the USA. They are the National Museum of the American Latino and American Women's History Museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution! Can't wait to see it in person in Washington, D.C. Continue reading

The ability to opt out of seeing Alcohol and Gambling ads on Youtube is soon to be a reality as per this recent announcement: https://blog.google/technology/ads/greater-controls-sensitive-ad-topics-your-ad-settings Continue reading

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