#Carl Casper design

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A Carl Casper design, the custom built 'Vanturian' van!

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Why Is Cannabis Still A Schedule 1 Drug?

7 Dangerous Drugs Less Restricted Than Cannabis

Have A Toke And A Smile.

Written by Casper Leitch

Reform advocates have strongly objected to the continued inclusion of cannabis in the prohibitive Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), and the stark disparity between the drug's pharmacological reality and its federal legal status has provoked a sharp debate. But far less known is the fact that many drugs commonly considered much more dangerous than pot are actually easier to get under federal law than the relatively benign herb. Here's a list of seven drugs, all of which are subject to fewer restrictions under US law than marijuana:

Cocaine

The white powdery extract of the coca bush (Schedule II) may be legally prescribed by a doctor in the United States, and is commonly used as a local anesthetic for eye surgery. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Stepan Company of Maywood, New Jersey, legally imports 175,000 kilograms of coca leaf per year, extracting pure cocaine for legal sale to hospitals and ophthalmologists across America before selling the leftover 'decocainized' leaves to the Coca-Cola company for use in their soft drink, which still includes the two primary flavor ingredients which provide its name: coca leaves and kola nuts from east Africa.

Warning: May be habit forming

Barbiturates. This class of drugs, containing specific chemicals variously scattered across Schedules II, III and IV, may be legally prescribed by US doctors for the purpose of calming anxiety and as a general anesthetic. The potential for abuse is high, however, and barbiturate overdose has claimed the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Jimi Hendrix, among other celebrities. In fact, some barbiturates are so efficient at killing their users that they have been employed in physician-assisted suicide.

Desoxyn (TM), also known as Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine. One of the US's fastest-growing drugs of abuse, known on the street as “crystal meth,” is known in the pharmacy as Desoxyn(TM). This is because methamphetamine, classified by the CSA as Schedule II, may be legally prescribed in the US for the treatment of ADHD and certain kinds of obesity. Doctors are even free to prescribe Desoxyn for off-label purposes, such as the treatment of narcolepsy. Not surprisingly, bottles of Desoxyn come with strong written warnings about the drug's abuse potential; the only surprising thing is that the same doctors who legally prescribe methamphetamine to children are not allowed to recommend cannabis to adults.

Keep out of the reach of children.

Heroin. Because the infamous morphine derivative sits beside cannabis in Schedule I, many may find it surprising that it is actually easier to get legal heroin in the US than it is to obtain legal cannabis. In fact, the CSA does allow the distribution of Schedule I substances for very limited purposes, including to administer to human subjects as part of a clinical trial. While such research is relatively rare, some scientists – notably, Dr. Carl Hart of Columbia University – have obtained permission from the US Drug Enforcement Agency to administer Schedule I substances to clinical subjects for the purpose of studying their effects.

Cannabis, too, may be distributed in a clinic for scientific purposes, but any researcher proposing to study marijuana in such a way must jump through an extra and daunting hoop not required of any other drug. This is because of all the approximately 150 substances listed in Schedule I, cannabis is the only drug subject to an additional review by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) before it may be legally studied in the laboratory. So while a researcher who obtains permission from the FDA and DEA may legally distribute heroin to human test subjects, the same researcher will be out of luck on cannabis unless she also receives permission from NIDA – which, incidentally, only approves marijuana research designed to show the plant's supposed harms and never its benefits.

A survey by the Lancet found alcohol to be the most harmful of 20 popular street drugs. Alcohol. Reform advocates involved with marijuana legalization campaigns have done a good job of explaining the many reasons why herbal cannabis is far safer than its more popular alternative, alcohol – a job made much easier by the mountain of evidence proving that alcoholic beverages contain probably the most harmful recreational drug in wide use. Ending the legal double standard between booze and bud, however, has proven far more difficult. Despite insightful commentary from respected researchers like Robin Room, who recently opined that curious teenagers should be encouraged to try cannabis instead of the far more harmful drug alcohol, the legal status of ethanol alcohol remains enshrined in the 21st amendment to the US constitution, and only another constitutional amendment can re-criminalize the popular drug, despite its many documented harms. Given how miserably alcohol prohibition failed in the US, it is highly unlikely that such an amendment will ever pass again – begging the question why federal marijuana prohibition has endured for over 75 years.

Blow some my way.

Tobacco. From lung cancer to emphysema to crippling addiction, the myriad harms of tobacco use have been documented – pardon the pun – to death. But despite a sustained program of public education of the horrors of tobacco addiction, the only significant restrictions passed in the US amount to public smoking bans in some of the country's more progressive cities. In every other regard, purveyors of the killer tobacco are free to sell to anyone 18 or over, while retail shops offering an herbal substitute which carries none of the pulmonary risks of tobacco face a constant risk of a federal raid. Perhaps it's time to ask the feds to butt out.

Pure, white and deadly.

Sugar. While federal law classifies fructose and glucose as foods, the long-term health effects of sugar abuse compares unfavorably with many substances thought of as dangerous drugs. Those who binge on sugar risk an elevated chance of developing obesity, diabetes and cancer; children who binge on the substance have been found to be more likely to turn to delinquency as adolescents. Users of sugar quickly develop a tolerance to its stimulant effects, and experiments with mice have suggested that sugar tolerance can lead to increased tolerance to other addictive drugs like alcohol and cocaine. Dr. Robert Lustig of UCSF Medical Center has gone so far as to characterize sugar as a poison, calling its pharmacological effects “alcohol without the buzz.” Despite all of these documented dangers, sugar remains classified by federal law as GRAS – Generally Recognized As Safe. Food producers are free to market sugary products to kids all they want, subject only to the restriction that their labels disclose the amount of sugar contained therein.

Below is a FREE TO DOWNLOAD marijuana music MP3 by Chief Green Bud.

It’s Only A Weed.

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Naomi Campbell - Vogue Australia March 2024 Cover

Vogue Australia March 2024 CoverSource: vogue.com.auPublished: March 2024 Naomi Campbell – Model All people in this magazine cover: Christine Centenera – Editor-in-Chief Casper Kofi – Photographer Alexandra Carl – Fashion Editor/Stylist Eugene Souleiman – Hair Stylist Angloma – Makeup Artist Rafael Medeiros – Set Designer Rikki Keene – Casting Director Edward Enninful – Interviewer Michelle…

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Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others and take care of their respective nemeses. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Rene: Shannen Doherty T.S. Quint: Jeremy London Brodie: Jason Lee Brandi: Claire Forlani Shannon: Ben Affleck Gwen: Joey Lauren Adams Tricia: Renée Humphrey Silent Bob: Kevin Smith Jay: Jason Mewes Willam: Ethan Suplee Stan Lee: Stan Lee Ivannah: Priscilla Barnes Svenning: Michael Rooker La Fours: Sven-Ole Thorsen Security Guard: Carol Banker Arresting Cop #2: Steven Blackwell Pull Toy Kid: Kyle Boe TV Executive #1: David Brinkley Fan Boy: Walt Flanagan Guy Contestant #1: Ethan Flower Girl with Easter Bunny: Chelsea Frye TV Executive #2 – Bentley Garrison: Jeff Gadbois Guy Contestant #2: Ed Hapstak Cop #1: Terry Hempleman Game Show Host: Art James Steve Dave: Bryan Johnson Child at Kiosk #2: Mikey Kovar Fan at Comic Store: David Klein Roddy: Scott Mosier Saleslady at Lingerie Store: Crystal Muirhead-Manik Kid at Poster Kiosk: Tyson Nassauer Gill: Brian O’Halloran Passerby in Parking Lot: Aaron Preusse Child at Kiosk #1: Britt Swenson Teacher: Mary Woolever Team La Fours: Brad Fox Team La Fours: Gino Gori Team La Fours: Zach Perkins Team La Fours: Brad Giddings Team La Fours: Bryce Mack Team La Fours: Christopher O’Larkin Audience Member (uncredited): Earl R. Burt Shopper (uncredited): Tammara Melloy Screaming Girl in Audience (uncredited): Rachel Oliva Shoobie Shake Girl (uncredited): Jessica Sibinski Comic Book Fan (uncredited): Joel Thingvall Film Crew: Supervising Sound Editor: Richard LeGrand Jr. Producer: Sean Daniel Producer: James Jacks Thanks: John Hughes Supervising Music Editor: J.J. George Casting: Don Phillips Writer: Kevin Smith Stunts: Phil Chong Producer: Scott Mosier Stunts: Sven-Ole Thorsen Stunt Coordinator: Robert Apisa Director of Photography: David Klein Original Music Composer: Ira Newborn Editor: Paul Dixon Production Design: Dina Lipton Executive Producer: Caldecot Chubb ADR Mixer: Alan Holly Set Decoration: Diana Stoughton Line Producer: Laura Greenlee Stunts: Chuck Zito Production Supervisor: Beth DePatie Post Production Supervisor: Terra Abroms Foley Artist: Joan Rowe Stunts: Carl Ciarfalio Sound Effects Editor: Charles Maynes ADR Editor: Bob McNabb Makeup Artist: Toni G Main Title Designer: Mike Allred Executive In Charge Of Production: Donna Smith First Assistant Director: Fernando Altschul Stunts: Eric D. Howell Casting Assistant: Ethan Flower Script Supervisor: Carol Banker Second Assistant Director: Louis Shaw Milito Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael C. Casper Set Costumer: Roseanne Fiedler Costume Supervisor: Dana Kay Hart Foley Artist: Diane Marshall Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Daniel J. Leahy Location Manager: Ralph B. Meyer Sound Designer: Harry E. Snodgrass Key Makeup Artist: Brigette A. Myre Foley Mixer: James Bolt Sound Editor: William Hooper Sound Recordist: Charlie Ajar Jr. Sound Editor: William Jacobs Costume Design: Dana Allyson Music Supervisor: Kathy Nelson Color Timer: Dennis McNeill Title Designer: Dan Perri Orchestrator: Don Nemitz Stunts: Jake Crawford Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Crist Ballas Supervising ADR Editor: Norval D. Crutcher III Assistant Sound Editor: Samuel Webb Negative Cutter: Gary Burritt Assistant Sound Editor: Michelle Pleis Boom Operator: Anton Herbert Production Coordinator: Lisa Bradley Music Supervisor: Jeff Saltzman First Assistant Editor: Richard J. Rossi Location Manager: Bob Medcraft Art Direction: Sue Savage Cableman: Matthew Magrattan Second Second Assistant Director: Shari Nicotero Assistant Editor: Paul Kieran Hairstylist: Sherry Heart Sound Mixer: Jose Araujo Casting Associate: Dee Dee Wehle Assistant Editor: Elisa Cohen Hair Assistant: Kristin Mosier Movie Reviews: JPV852: Only the second time seeing this (last was probably in the early 2000s on DVD) and thought it was okay but guess like others, this has grown on me. Laughed throughout even when the dialogue wasn’t the greatest, but I have an appreciation...

[theultimatefan]

Legends Shooter, Grummett, ‘Starman’ Artist Harris Among Top FAN EXPO Cleveland Creators March 24-26

Artist Alley at FAN EXPO Cleveland will be brimming with talent with today’s announcement of the leading creators attending the event, March 24-26 at Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Along with legends like Jim Shooter (Marvel Comics editor-in-chief, founder of Valiant, Defiant and Broadway Comics) and Tom Grummett (artist, “Superman,” “Teen Titans”) and standouts Tony Harris (“Starman,” “Star Wars) and Agnes Garbowska (“DC Super Hero Girls”, “My Little Pony”), fans can meet some of the most talented and influential comics artists and writers across a wide variety of titles and genres all weekend, as well as participate in Q&A’s, interactive demonstration sessions, autographs, commission opportunities and more, making the experience a can’t-miss for comics lovers.

Comics and pop culture fans will notice a strong selection of “Superman” creators as well as themed “Man of Steel” programming, as Cleveland is acknowledged as the “Birthplace of Superman.”

Other special guests attending include John Delaney (“Simpsons,” “Futurama”), Matthew Clark (“Superman,” “Wonder Woman”), Val Mayerik (“Howard the Duck” co-creator), Jim Calafiore (“Exiles,” “Justice League”), Matt Horak (“Spider-Man/Deadpool”), Thom Zahler (“My Little Pony,” “Love and Capes”) and Joe Wos (“WosToons”).

FAN EXPO Cleveland’s deep Artist Alley will also feature Bill Anderson, Jeff Brennan (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Heavy Metal” magazine), Ryan Drost (“Stealth Hammer”), Martin Dunn (Universal Pictures, IDW Publishing), Chris Ehnot (“Half-Elf Ranger,” “Tywin’s Fate”), Ryan Finlay (freelance hand-drawn artist), Michael Gustovich (“Justice Machine,” “Warp!”), Daimon Hampton (UX designer and illustrator), Gus Mauk (“Shi No Kage,” “GI Joe”), Mostafa Moussa (“Batman,” “The Flash”), Ian Chase Nichols (“The Tick,” “Ninja Turtles”), Martin Pierro (“Arthur: The Legend Continues,” “Deep Space Tragedy”), Uko Smith (“FX The Lost Land”), Mark Swan (“A Goofy Movie,” “Monsters on the Run”), Michael Watson (Freestyle Komics), Ken Wheaton (“Futurama,” “I Dream of Jeannie”) and more. The full list is available at https://fanexpohq.com/fanexpocleveland/comic-creators/.

The outstanding creators roster complements the standout FAN EXPO Cleveland celebrity lineup, which includes Christina Ricci (“Wednesday,” Casper), Emily Swallow (“The Mandalorian,” “Supernatural”), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, “Taxi”), Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Endgame), Carl Weathers (“The Mandalorian,” Rocky), Peter Weller (RoboCop, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension), “Star Trek” franchise stalwarts Ethan Peck and Anson Mount, “The Office” trio of Kate Flannery, Oscar Nuñez and Leslie David Baker and the stars of “Trailer Park Boys” Mike Smith, John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells.

Tickets for FAN EXPO Cleveland are on sale at http://www.fanexpocleveland.com now, including individual single day, 3-day and Ultimate Fan Packages for adults, youths and families. Advance pricing and VIP packages are also available now, with dozens of special benefits including priority entry, limited edition collectibles, exclusive items and much more.

Cleveland is the fifth event on the 2023 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

ABOUT FAN EXPO HQ FAN EXPO HQ is the largest comic con producer in the world. Collectively it hosts nearly 1 million fans annually at FAN EXPO Portland, FAN EXPO New Orleans, FAN EXPO Vancouver™, Toronto Comicon, FAN EXPO Cleveland, MEGACON Orlando, Calgary Comics & Entertainment Expo, FAN EXPO Philadelphia, FAN EXPO Dallas™, FAN EXPO Denver, FAN EXPO Boston™, FAN EXPO Chicago, FAN EXPO Canada™, Edmonton Comics & Entertainment Expo, Dallas FAN FESTIVAL, and FAN EXPO San Francisco. The latest schedule of events is available on the Website, along with up-to-date ticket information. Discover. Celebrate. Belong.

(cover image: Jim Shooter, credit: Gage Skidmore)

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Gabriele Colangelo FW2021 by Casper Sejersen with styling by Alexandra Carl and set design by Jabez Bartlett

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across the street

The Meme From The Lost Lagoon || -

Across the Street - if they have neighbors, what does your muse think of them?

"I'm telling you, Tabs... this fucker..." Does Riley look like death slightly warmed over? Yes. Puffy eyes, sallow skin, clammy. It doesn't help that he takes a bite of his burger and doesn't chew so much as he gnashes the mouthful with a vehemence usually seen on nature documentaries. He's so wound up that he pushes the bite aside and talks with his mouth full, something normally abhorrent to him, so much so that he will rant about it for days. And especially if it's Beth that's doing it. "Like yesterday, I took out the trash and remembered I left something in Sally, so I'm going down the stairs right? And there he is in the lobby, just like fuckin' slinking around looking super sketch. I say hello so he knows I've clocked him, and he turns and just dead-fish-eye stares at me. Doesn't say nuthin' back. So I'm like whatever. But when I get to the parking garage? My hand to Christ he's there too. And I know there's no way he can outrun me on his best days unless I'm down a leg." He stabs a glance up at her. "That's not normal, Tabs. Even in our realm of bullshit that's not normal. And Beth keeps telling me the guy's a shut in, probably, and we should be kinder to him but what the actual fuck. I'm telling you, Spooky Carl is an actual Casper-the-fucking-friendly fuckin' ghost." He doesn't hear the rising of his voice. He doesn't realise his vocabulary is about as clean as an open sewer, something he tries to work on when she's around. He also swallows his mouthful then instinctively pats his shirt pocket for his cigarettes. Lighting one, he stalks his way over to the designated area of the fire escape window, throws open the sash and takes a deep drag. "I think I'm gonna put in video cameras, just so I can prove he isn't real-real. Or Maybe see if Dafaux can find an old priest and they can Warren the shit out of this building."

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Annotated edition, Week in Ethereum News March 29 issue

This annotated version is brought to you by The Cure’s “The Head on the Door” album, playing over my headphones right now in a vain attempt to avoid the work-from-home-with-kids maelstrom. 

Listening to an album helps me mark the time and stay focused when I’m doing something relatively unstructured like newsletter commentary.   It’s somewhat unclear to me who I’m writing this for, but people seem to appreciate more context for the firehose of information, so I try to provide some.

I’ve occasionally read newsletters for other blockchains and I’m always impressed by how little I understand.  I have no context for what X, Y, and Z mean.  Yet there’s still usually something there that I pick up that is worthwhile enough that makes it worth the click and skim.

Here’s the most clicked for the week.  The eternal caveat exists that people click things in the newsletter that they haven’t read

The annotated roadmap was the top click by a large amount.  

Eth1

Geth v1.9.11’s eth/65 data propagation has reduced bandwidth 75%

Nethermind v1.7.12 has eth/65 support

Notes from the latest stateless call

Guillaume Ballet on why we switch from hex to binary and how the overlay tree works

Evaluating the proposals to reduce witness size

Eth on ARM updated images to run full nodes on Raspberry Pis: Geth, Nethermind, Parity, Besu.

Bitcoiners would tell you that it’s impossible to run a full Eth node, but you can actually run one on a Raspberry Pi 4.

Ethereum has always had “being honest about our problems” as a core value, so it’s amusing that Bitcoiners never do the work to figure out what the actual problems are.  Right now Geth is the vast majority of nodes, because they keep doing incredible work improving their client - or in this case, networking for all of Ethereum.

The client formerly known as Parity is being taken over, but there’s probably going to be a ramp up time.  

In the meantime, running Nethermind and Besu nodes are a concrete thing that anyone can do for the network.  I find the Nethermind client to be particularly easy to run, though the documentation is a bit lacking.  So for a Saturday project, click the link above and get a Nethermind or Besu node running on a Raspberry Pi.

The points in between Geth/Nethermind and Eth on Arm have to do with Stateless Ethereum, the goal of getting network clients to be able to run statelessly.  Those steps include getting the witness size down to be small enough and switching the tree from hex to binry.

Eth2

Latest eth2 implementer call. Ben Edgington’s notes

Least Authority’s audit report of eth2 spec

Notes from the latest networking call

Mikerah explores hybrid networking architectures for validator privacy

Latest Nimbus client update, full interop is main focus. processing validators and sigs 5x faster

RuntimeVerification: verifying ewasm code

Carl Beekhuizen’s sharded consensus explainer, and why signature aggregation is so vital

The audit of the eth2 spec is now public.  Meanwhile nailing down the final networking for phase0 to get the last multi-client testnets up before the Beacon Chain goes live.

Eth2+

Hashmap-based polynomial commitments

Multi-layer hashmaps for state storage

ZKStudyClub video on polynomial commitments with Justin, Vitalik and Dankrad

Casper CBC achieves liveness even in async networks

The debut of the Eth2x section.  That’s a joke - I dislike the 1x moniker which somehow got hung on Eth1 improvements.  

You probably won’t be clicking any of these links unless you’re into math or a protocol researcher who can fake it.

Layer2

AZTEC zk-zkrollup with PLONK proofs. Will soon ship 100 private transactions per second on mainnet

Error-correcting code to optimize ZK-rollup verifier

A revamped Nutberry optimistic rollup plan

No shocker here that Aztec is moving into rollup.  It’s an underrated fact that rollup’s massive scaling is about to ship or has already shipped (ie Loopring), though there is still work to do be do to get those rollups to their full thousnds of transactions per second capacity - like optimizing the verifier.

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.6.x features: fallback and receive

Yul+ from Fuel Labs. Features added to Yul’s low-level intermediate language: enums, constants, booleans, memory structures, safemath

Truffle v5.1.19. fully decode internal function pointers, new –bail flag in TruffleTest

MetaMask Ethereum provider survey

Catching weird bugs in Solidity with invariant checks

Slither v0.6.10 – 5 new detectors, support for Solidity v0.6

Samczsun finds a bug in Synthetix release

Build an API to interact with Compound

Using the debugger in Remix online IDE

Building frontends with React and NetworkJS

OpenZeppelin CLI v2.8, now you can opt out of upgradeability

Survey of upgradeability standards

ELI5smartcontracts: input Solidity code and the website tells you what it does

Nim libp2p tutorial of peer to peer chat

Zeropool’s Fawkes framework in Rust for building bellman circuits

Iden3’s Circom v0.5 – updated tutorial. Open sourced very fast finite field libraries, getting close to being production ready for writing snark circuits.

I’ve always felt like the dev section hopefully speaks for itself. With Yul+,  FuelLabs is supporting the idea that good projects naturally spinoff open source tools.

Ecosystem

An annotated version of Vitalik’s Eth2020 roadmap

Another tool to understand/revoke what contracts you have given authority to spend your tokens

Ceramic, a permissionless protocol on Eth & IPFS for tamper-proof documents

All three of these were quite high on the most clicked.  

Enterprise

Ericsson: designing a decentralized marketplace

Hyperledger Besu v1.4.2 – improved onchain privacy groups

I think the Ericsson piece just missed the most clicked tweet.  

Governance, DAOs, and standards

Governance in decentralized networks, a survey paper from Streamr’s Risto Karjalainen

A primer on Moloch v2, how new features improve grants and enable for-profit DAOs

The MKR token is now controlled by its governance

ERC2567: Human-Readable Parameters for Contract Function Execution

EIP2565: Repricing of the EIP-198 ModExp precompile

I haven’t read the Streamr paper, though of course governance is one of the unsolved problems in this space, since governance is an unsolved topic among humans.  

Application layer

Uniswap announces v2: token to token pairings, protocol fee, oracles, flash swaps

TheSandbox partnering with Atari to feature their titles

Mailchain’s Dapplaunch, a web3 email marketing tool

You can now play Austin Griffith’s Galleass game on xDai

Maker’s flop auctions successfully concluded for ~253 DAI average price

3 critical trading risks mitigated in Augur v2

Synthetix’s Hadar release includes Brent Crude oil, FTSE100 and S&P Global1200

UMA’s priceless synthetic token design pattern to reduce oracle dependency

Furucombo, a GUI for combining DeFi transactions into 1

TrustlessFund, a timelock for ETH and tokens

LEND721, an NFT borrowing platform, is live on mainnet

I don’t normally include release announcements before they happen, but Uniswap is obviously a special case.

Weekly metric: 5 out of 11 bullet points (counting on low side for DeFi, eg not including Augur) are DeFi.

Tokens/Business/Regulation

SDNY judge halts Telegram token distribution with preliminary injunction

If the SEC wins - which it appears they likely will now that they got the injunction - then Silicon Valley investors will have gotten bailed out of the two craziest crypto deals that they invested in at market top - Telegram and Basecoin.  Just like Basecoin, Telegram will likely be forced to return (most of) the cash it raised.

The SEC is providing regulation-as-a-service to those investors.   Interesting that the deal happened mere months after Tezos, and yet very different regulatory treatments.

General

Vitalik’s garbled circuits primer

Semaphore had to restart the random value generation process

Hive, the community-led fork of Steem, is currently trading for significantly more more than STEEM after Tron’s hijack attempt

It’s pretty great to see that the Steem community managed to fight off the hijacking that was attempted with the (unwitting?) help of Binance and Huobi. While both exchanges backed off, we’ll find out in time whether they really feel like they were misled.  

Finally, time to shill for my Gitcoin grant here.  If you give because you particularly want the annotated edition to continue, could you add .11 to whatever you give?  eg, 1.11 DAI or .11 ETH or .01011 ETH.  

I put this last week and I believe only one contributor added the 11, so maybe no one likes the annotated version.  🤔   

[etherecash-blog]

Cryptoeconomic Security Meeting Day

This week, Blockchain at Berkeley has its inaugural Cryptoeconomic Security Meeting, an occasion that has been a half year in the arranging. ETHNews sent Matthew De Silva to cover the occasion. Here he shares the best minutes from day two of CESC 2017.

In his keynote, Josh Boehm, a partner lawyer at Perkins Coie, talked about the obscured lines between tokenized merchandise and ventures and tokenized budgetary returns. Referencing the Securities and Trade Commission's DAO report, Boehm clarified the Howey Test, the organization's technique for deciding if an instrument qualifies as a security. He demonstrated that capacity ordinarily exceeds frame, and most tokens more often than not fulfill the initial two prongs of the test – that is, most tokens (I) constitute a venture of cash (ii) in a typical endeavor.

The capacity to keep away from securities assignment all the more regularly dwells in the third and fourth criteria, which are that the venture is made with (iii) a sensible desire of benefits (iv) got from the administration endeavors of others. Boehm additionally noticed the potential for capital gratefulness, which may qualify under securities law – however it stays questionable. In investigating a token, Boehm clarified, it's feasible that the legitimate framework will nearly look at the terms of offer and administrations. He firmly empowered authors and tasks undertaking token offerings to guarantee that their terms of assention and going with documentation were "vigorous."Indeed, even in the utility token setting, Boehm stated, the "finish" is vital. In other words, if a venture implies to give some great or benefit and has gained capital for that express reason, at that point it is occupant upon the colleagues to convey on their guarantee.A moment keynote was conveyed by Karl Floersch, a product build from ConsenSys who is acting as a major aspect of the Ethereum Establishment on Casper verification of-stake. In a particular introduction loaded with images and designer shoutouts, Floersch gave a diagram of slicing, the punishment component that is being considered for Casper. Keeping in mind the end goal to take an interest in piece approval in Casper, mineworkers must stake some Ether. On the off chance that a terrible performing artist tries to trade off the system, his staked Ether will be sliced, or consumed, implying that it will be disposed of from the aggregate supply. This has financial ramifications for the energy about outstanding Ether, yet it additionally implies that when the cutting happens and people lose their Ether, the cost to lead an assault is lessened generally speaking. Later in the day, Vlad Zamfir explained upon Floersch's focuses while examining the "Cryptoeconomics of Casper." Zamfir discussed how to "expand the cost" of an assault to make it monetarily baseless. For the time being, the convention stays a work in progress.In "The Meshcash Structure: Tortoise and Bunnies Accord," Tal Moran, an employee at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, proposed a two-section blockchain. This would have a slower layer (the tortoise), which step by step conceded to more seasoned pieces and a speedier layer (the bunny) to achieve agreement for later squares.

Up next was Ren Zhang, a specialist at the COSIC look into amass in Belgium. Zhang brazenly reclassified the motto for Bitcoin Boundless, calling it "Bitcoin Boundless: discharge the potential ... assaults." The fundamental issue is that the motivator structure for mining obstructs without a size impediment is monstrous. Bitcoin Boundless would enable players to quibble and mine on particular chains to pick up a lopsided offer of piece rewards in respect to their mining commitments. This is neither supportable nor consistent, so it doesn't generally bode well why "BU," as it's called, has gotten even an ounce of authenticity.

Philipp Jovanovic, a post-doctoral analyst from the Swiss Government Establishment of Innovation Lausanne (EPFL) at that point displayed on "Versatile Inclination Safe Disseminated Arbitrariness." He declared the significance of openly unquestionable irregularity, refering to disappointments like the draft lottery for the Vietnam War (in which individuals conceived in December will probably be drafted than those conceived in January). The real difficulties for openly irrefutable arbitrariness are trust and scale. He clarified that notwithstanding creating an arbitrary number through a decentralized procedure can demonstrate testing on the grounds that the last individual to contribute a number to the gathering eventually controls the general yield.

For instance, if Alice pronounced that her number is 13, Bounce proclaimed that his number is 17, and afterward Carl announced that his number is 19, at that point that implies Carl controlled the whole procedure. Carl realizes that the entirety of Alice and Weave's numbers was 30, so his commitment didn't generally make a genuinely arbitrary number (49)

Regardless of the possibility that everybody focuses on their numbers ahead of time, that doesn't take care of the issue of disclosure. For instance, if Weave and Carl uncover their numbers, however Alice doesn't generally like what she sees, at that point Alice can decide to not take an interest. You can look at Phillip's slides here (reasonable cautioning: you may require a PhD to comprehend the later proposition).

The most sagacious introduction of the day originated from the President and prime supporter of 21.co, Balaji Srinivasan. He delightfully clarified the urgent requirement for measures of decentralization, proposing that things "are just as decentralized as their minimum decentralized subset." Regardless of whether this implies taking a gander at customers, hubs, designers, trades, proprietors, or totally unique insights, the digital money group needs to consider where centralization remains. Rather than infusing governmental issues into the talk, Srinivasan stated, the group requires quantitative and freethinker approaches. Through his introduction, he effectively pushed forward exchange and urged individuals to start discuss on these sorts of estimations, so the discussion is about how to gauge. His all around contemplated rationality organized engagement and important dialog.

Blockchain Backed Lending Systems Are Here to Stay – etherecash India – Medium

Etherecash — The new type of loan – etherecash India – Medium

The Market Strategy of Etherecash

What Is Etherecash’s Main Aim?

Overview of Cryptocurrency Market

Etherecash’s Lawyer Backed Platform Upholds Industry Standards — Steemit

[dannyphantomrpg]

Visual Aid: 107 Danny Phantom Facts

So I did this again.

(It’s what keeps me occupied when my husband’s asleep and the tablet pen is charging~)

((This one was barely longer than the 10 Years Later, Part 2, but it took all day for some reason...))

Let’s get this thing started~

Hey everybody, Butch Hartman here. I am so excited today because I'm teaming up with Channel Frederator today to talk about my show, Danny Phantom. Can give you the inside scoop.

You guys remember the fandom? Are you kind of curious about the show? Well, relax, we've got something for everybody here as we talk about the 107 facts about Danny Phantom.

For example, did you know that the 2005 Michael Jackson trial was actually features on Vlad's TV on one episode? It's there.

107 Facts: Danny Phantom.

001 Danny Phantom was created by me, Butch Hartman, after I had previously worked on the Fairly Odd Parents with Nickelodeon.

002 When making the show, I drew a lot of inspiration from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ghostbusters.

003 The title Danny Phantom was inspired by the titles of 1960's cartoons like Jonny Quest. More specifically, I wanted to create a title with a real first name, followed by a last name that was also kind of an action word. Some of these alternative action words were "Danny Thunder" "Danny Lightning" and "Danny Power". "Danny Phantom" was the name I went with cause I thought it sounded the coolest.

004 Some of the alternative first names I had for our hero included "Billy Phantom", "Kenny Phantom", "Jackie Phantom", and "Davey Phantom". I think you'll agree they don't quite have the same ring as "Danny Phantom" does.

005 I came up with the concept for the show Danny Phantom while driving a moving van from Las Vegas to Los Angeles with my mother. Unfortunately, she was more fascinated by the sight of a desert tortoise, than the birth of a new, awesome Nicktoon.

006 Before settling on a superhero show, one of my first concepts for Danny Phantom was a bit more in the main Ghostbusters. It was called Danny Phantom and the Specter Detectors, and it would have focused on a powerless Danny and his friends hunting down ghosts, using an array of ghostbusters-like gadgets.

007 Danny Phantom was pitched to Nickelodeon executives over dinner. Execs treated me  after they ordered more episodes of Fairly Odd Parents, and they happened to ask me if I had any more ideas for TV shows. And, yes, being treated to nice dinners is definitely an appreciated perk.

008 There's some early concept art of Danny showing a surprising design. I originally drew him with the Superman-type body, which was basically a lot of unrealistic buff muscles. I reverted to the slimmer design when I decided it's be more interesting to portray Danny as a fourteen-year-old kid.

009 I decided Danny should be fourteen years old because that age is kind of a bridge between childhood and adulthood. It's more of a period of self-discovery which certainly fits the theme of Danny learning to live and control his ghostly abilities.

010 Danny's skinnier, final design, was the collaborative effort of character designers Steven Silver, Shannon Tyndall, and - surprise - me.

011 Unlike many other cartoon characters, Danny has five fingers. Take that Timmy Turner.

012 You may notice that when Danny goes ghost, only his hair turns white and his eyebrows stay black. They're actually meant to be white as well, but we all thought the white brows made Danny look like an old man so we, uh, kept 'em.

013 Sam and Danny were originally meant to share a psychic connection, so one would know where the other one was at all times. But I scrapped this to keep things simple. Only Danny was finally to have the superpowers.

014 Danny was originally gonna have a pet owl named Spooky that would be able to track ghosts. I scrapped the concept as Harry Potter rapidly gained popularity. I  didn't want his series to be constantly compared to the boy wizard.

015 I wanted to give Danny a really cool ghost motorcycle to use as his primary means of transportation, but then I realized that giving a motorcycle was pointless because, you know, he can fly really fast.

016 The father-son duo of Jack and Danny Fenton are a reference to Jack and Danny Torrance from The Shining, which explains why Jack Fenton constantly accuses his children of being ghosts.

017 I gave Danny an older sibling because, unlike Timmy Turner, I felt that Jazz Fenton would make Danny feel less in control at home and give him somebody to contend with. I thought this lack of control would make Danny's experience with his superpowers all the more satisfying for him.

018 Jazz Fenton was named after a character in John Byrne's 1990's comic book Next Men. I always thought the name Jazz was cool.

019 Tucker Foley's name is a combination of actor and comedian Chris Tucker and Eddie Murphy's character from Beverly Hills Cop, Axel Foley.

020 Danny's teacher, Mr. Lancer, is named after a family restaurant in Burbank called, you guessed it, Lancer's.

021 Vlad Masters was originally going to be a vampire, but Nickelodeon execs thought making him a Vampire could lead to some pretty violent territory and I thought that too. So he was changed into a ghost.

022 A remnant of this scrapped concept can be found in his villain name "Vlad Plasmius". Plasma is found in blood which, you know, vampires kind of have a thirst for.

023 I refer to Vlad Masters as Danny Phantom's Lex Luthor. Like Luthor, Vlad uses his wealth to exert his power, or at least some of it. He also has a personal connection to Danny that gives him the upper hand in most scenarios.

024 Danny's love interest, Paulina Sanchez, is a parallel to Superman's love interest, Lois Lane. Both characters have no romantic interest in the protagonist because they have a crush on the protagonist's superhero alter ego. Lois loves Superman, but not Clark Kent, and Paulina loves Danny Phantom, but not Danny Fenton. Paulina: But you still have no shot with me Oh, the cruel irony.

025 Danny's ghost sense is identical to Spiderman's spider sense. Both senses alert their respective heroes whenever danger is nearby.

026 The parallels of Spiderman don't end there. Dash Baxter is a parallel to Peter Parker's football playing bully, Flash Thompson. Not only do Flash and Dash bully the protagonists of their universes, but they idolize the protagonist's superhero alter ego without realizing the hero is actually the person they bully. Their names both words that describe their quick movement and rhyme with each other.

027 The ghosts of Danny Phantom's world aren't the spirits of the deceased as ghosts tend to be in pop culture. Instead, they're monsters from another dimension. We call them ghosts because it's easier to say and it's more appealing than saying monsters from another dimension.

028 Danny's hometown, Amity Park, is a tribute to the settings of a few famous horror stories. Amityville, Long Island is the location of the famous haunted house known as the Amityville Horror. But Amity Park is also named after Amity Island, the location of the book and Steven Spielberg film Jaws.

029 Danny's high school, Casper High, is named after Casper the Friendly Ghost. Hey, if we hadn't added all these paranormal references, you may have forgotten the show is about ghosts.

030 Quite a few key members from the Fairly Odd Parents had a hand in making Danny Phantom, including writer  Steve Marmel and art director Bob Boyle.

031 One of the major differences working on the Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom was the latter series' more serial format containing everything from character arcs to recurring story lines. Danny Phantom embraces storytelling angle by making the episodes 22 minutes long as opposed to Fairly Odd Parents whose 22 minute run time consisted of 2 eleven minute episodes.

032 One of the most challenging aspects of creating a superhero show like Danny Phantom, was giving all the superhero tropes a unique and interesting twist. We wanted to keep the series fresh an unique.

033 I originally wanted to cast a fourteen year old boy for the role of Danny, but I couldn't find anybody that sounded heroic enough. That heroic voice I searched for was ultimately provided by David Kaufman. Before playing Danny, Kaufman broke into the realm of voice acting when he played Marty McFly in Back tot he Future: The Animated Series.

034 David Kaufman kept his audition for Danny as a CD in his car that he would listen to towards the beginning of the show whenever he drove to the studio to record. He did this to remember what Danny sounded like in order to immerse himself into the character efficiently.

035 I wasn't the only one Kaufman's performance left a deep impression on. His daughter, Grace, calls him Daddy Phantom.

036 Sam Manson is played by actress Grey Griffin. I basically made an effort to include her in every show I created back then. Thus far, she's played Vicky in the Fairly Odd Parents and Kitty Katswell from T.U.F.F. Puppy.

037 Tucker isn't the first loyal friend Ricky D'Shon Collins has played. Before hunting ghosts with Danny, he helped TJ Detweiler keep balance and order on the playground as Vince LaSalle in Disney's Recess.

038 Maddie Fenton's voice actress, Kath Soucie, has essentially crafted a career out of voicing cartoon mothers. She played Dexter's mom in Dexter's Laboratory, Betty DeVille in Rugrats and Miriam Pataki in Hey Arnold.

039 Danny's father, Jack, is played by legendary voice actor Rob Paulson, who's played iconic roles like Yakko Warner, Pinky, Carl Weiser, Experiment 625, Donatello in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Raphael in the old one, and way too many more to mention here.

040 Although Mr. Lancer is far from hardcore, his voice actor, Ron Perlman, has played quite a few characters throughout his career that redefined the word, He played Hellboy in the Guillermo del Toro films of the same name and he voices Slade Wilson, also known as Deathstroke, on Teen Titans, as well as the Lich in Adventure Time.

041 Valerie Grey was originally played by Grey DeLisle for the episode My Brother's Keeper before renowned voice actress Cree Summer was chosen to take over the role. If her name doesn't sound familiar, you've probably heard her voice as Penny on Inspector Gadget or maybe even as Susie Carmicheal on Rugrats.

042 Valerie isn't the only one that's had a change in her voice. Dani, that's Dani with an I, was voiced with two different actresses through the series. She was played by AnnaSophia Robb in her debut episode Kindred Spirits. The role was then taken over by Krista Swan in the episode D-Stabilized, which was Dani's second and final speaking appearance.

043 Tara Strong plays two of the show's recurring villains: Ember McLain and Penelope Spectra. This is definitely not the first time I've worked with her. You probably know her best as Timmy Turner in the Fairly Odd Parents, which proves she can effectively play both the hero and the villain.

044 Every celebrity guest in the show was cast as a ghost, similar to how celebrity guests would play villains on the 1960's Batman series starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Some of these celebrities include Particia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond as the Lunch Lady, and Matthew St. Patrick from Six Feet Under as Skulker, and Will Arnett from Arrested Development as the Ghost Writer, and Martin Mull as Vlad Plasmius.

045 These celebrity voice actors typically played their ghosts for a limited time before different voice actors took their roles. Sometimes as soon as the ghost's second appearance. Series Kath Soucie took over the role of the Lunch Lady and Kevin Michael Richardson became Skulker.

046 Tucker's dad, Maurice Foley, is voiced by Phil Lamarr who voices Hermes Conrad on Futurama and Samruai Jack on Samurai Jack.

047 Mark Hamill plays Undergrowth. He's, of course, best known for playing Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, but also as countless voice acting credits, including the Joker and Fire Lord Ozai.

048 The ghost child Youngblood was played by actor Taylor Lautner when he was just nine years old. Lautner would later be featured in everybody's favorite love story Twilight. Wait, who wrote that? Do I have to say that?

049 Danny's ultimate enemy, Dark Danny, is played by Oscar-nominated acting legend Eric Roberts. His impressive resume includes everything from the Dark Knight to the Cable Guy.

050 The first recording session for Danny Phantom took place on November 21, 2002, about a year and a half before the show premiered. The first episode to be recorded was also the first episode to air: Mystery Meat.

051 In fact, Danny Phantom premiered on April 3, 2004, right after Nickelodeon's annual Kid's Choice Awards.

052 Unlike many other animated shows, the cast of Danny Phantom recorded their dialogue in the same room together. David Kaufman described the experience as something akin to a stage play.

053 It takes the actors around 3 hours to record dialogue for a single episode. David Kaufman knows that shouting "I'm goin' ghost!" so many times made his voice hoarse by the end of the day.

054 In the episode What You Want, I voiced a football announcer that also looks a lot like me except he's, you know, a cartoon. I mean, he looks a lot more like me than Dr. Bender does. I hope.

055 The theme song we hear today wasn't the only one recorded for the show. An alternate version got so far into production that an alternate opening sequence was storyboarded all the way around it. The alternate song sounds very similar to the final product with different lyrics that focus more on explaining Danny's abilities.

056 The theme song was changed because Nickelodeon wanted it to tell Danny's origin story. This way, new views wouldn't feel alienated when watching the show for the first time no matter what episode they started out with.

057 Luckily, changing the lyrics wasn't an overly complicated, make-10-calls, logistical nightmare since I wrote the lyrics of the theme song. Both of them actually.

058 I based the show's theme song after the song The Invisible Man by Queen, one of my favorite bands.

059 One thing I learned from working on the Danny Phantom theme song is that your first idea isn't always your best idea, and to never stop pushing yourself until you've made something truly awesome. You're welcome for that halfway through burst of inspiration.

060 I also co wrote another fan favorite song Remember, performed by Ember in the episode Fanning the Flames, which also happens to be my third favorite episode. Yes, my third favorite. I am very, very specific.

061 Danny Phantom was the first show to be produced by my very own company, Billionfold Inc. which was co-founded with my wife. Billionfold comes from a biblical term, hundredfold.

062 A single episode of Danny Phantom took approximately 10 months to produce, stretching all the way from pre-production to post.

063 While the pre-production phase took place in Burbank, California, Danny Phantom's animation was done by a Korean animation studio called Rough Draft. Rough Draft's resume includes work done on other animated classics like Futurama, The Simpsons, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

064 The individual villains found within Danny Phantom's rogues gallery was based on ideas that I had. Ember McLane stemmed from a pitch regarding an episode about music fads, and the effects they have on teenagers. The Lunch Lady was generated from my very astute knowledge that students tend to hate school prepared lunched.

065 Vlad is a Green Bay Packers fanatic because Danny Phantom's story write, Steve Marmel is a cheesehead himself. We nearly got sued for this, but luckily Marmel was smart enough to make the team colors of the Danny Phantom Packers gold and green instead of green and gold.

066 One scrapped running gag Marmel wanted to incorporate was that Vlad's home would be blown up after every encounter he had with Danny, but this recurring joke was mainly lost in editing.

067 Had the series gone on, Danielle would have been taken in by the Fentons, effectively becoming the younger sister of Danny and Jazz.

068 Technus was intended to have another upgrade, Technus 3.0, in the episode Identity Crisis. The design was scrapped after we decided the upgrade didn't really fit anywhere in the episode's story.

069 The addition of Danny Phantom's logo later in the series was the suggestion of Nickelodeon executives, who thought he needed a symbol akin to heroes like Batman, Superman, and Spiderman. But perhaps more honest reason was because the execs wanted to make the hero more marketable.

070 Danny officially became 99.99% marketable in the season 2 episode, Memory Blank, in which Sam gives him his D logo.

071 The series score was composed by Guy Moon, who is also responsible for the music heard in the Fairly Odd Parents.

072 When Guy Moon and I met to discuss a soundtrack of an episode, I would usually sing over the episode in progress to give Moon an idea of how I wanted the music to sound. Moon would bring a camera to these sessions and record my, admittedly, unskilled singing to remember my instructions.

073 Not everyone can become a half ghost, half human. If Sam or Tucker had gotten caught int the middle of the Fenton's malfunctioning Ghost Portal, it would have likely killed them.

074 Wulf is fluent in Esperanto, a language created in 1887 by Dr. Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, perhaps better known by his pseudonym of Doktoro Esperanto. Esperanto was created in the hope of replacing every language in the world as the one universal language. Judging by the fact that this video is in English, you can probably guess how that plan worked out.

075 The episode titled Shades of Grey is obviously a play on Valerie's last name, but the title could have a much deeper meaning. The term "shades of grey" refers to an unclear position on the scale of good to evil, usually somewhere in between. This certainly applies to Valerie, as she doesn't necessarily fight ghosts for good or evil. but for her own personal reasons.

076 During Shades of Grey, Danny names the ghost dog Cujo. Cujo's also the name of a horror novel by Stephen King about a dog bitten by a rabid bat, which turns the dog into a cold-blooded killer.

077 The green glowing, double bladed melee weapon Maddie uses to slay the legion of Vlad's monsters in Maternal Instincts is practically identical to Darth Maul's double bladed lightsaber in Star Wars Episode One, save for the red color.

078 Because I know everyone loves multiple Episode One references, the the title of the second season's 9th episode The Fenton Menace is obviously a play on the title of everybody's favorite Star Wars film, the Phantom Menace. Yes. Everybody's favorite Star Wars film.

079 To continue the Star Wars nods, the Danny Phantom universe has its own line of popular toys called Space Wars featuring characters that resemble Chewbacca and R2D2.

080 Some of the computers in the Danny Phantom world have pears in the back of them which you probably guess was a nod to Apple computers. Timmy's dad in Fairly Odd Parents has the same symbol on his laptop.

081 Save for the creepy pictures of Maddie, the programs and icons on both Danny and Vlad's computers are exactly the same, in the exact same order.

082 Skulker's hunt for Valerie and Danny in Life Lessons closely resembles the plot of Richard Connell's famous short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Much like the story, Skulker kidnaps two very skilled humans on his property for the sole purpose of hunting what he considers to be the most challenging prey out there, or, the most dangerous game.

083 Mr. Lancer spouts the titles of books in place of shouting swear words. Some of these exclamations include The Great Gatsby, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Moby Dick, which is about as close as we'll be getting to colorful language on a Nicktoon, except for maybe Ren and Stimpy, or Rocko, or SpongeBob. We're slick here at Nickelodeon.

084 In the episode What You Want, Paulina transforms into a popular anime cat names Sayonara Pussycat, who resembles the character Hello Kitty. But Sayonara is actually a rather dramatic and final sounding word for "goodbye" in Japanese.

085 In Teacher of the Year, all 13 levels that Tucker shows Technus are based on the eight worlds from the 1990 NES classic Super Marion Bros. 3. The level 0 glitch is a reference to the infamous Minus world from the original Super Mario Bros.

086 Before sending Danny into the Ghost Zone in the episode Prisoners of Love, Tucker can be seen playing Space Invaders on his PDA.

087 Valerie Grey lives on 461 Elm Street, an obvious reference to the classic horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street. She'd probably stand more of a chance against Freddy Krueger than the other kids in the Street as well.

088 Johnny 13 and Kitty's voice actors, William Baldwin and China Phillips, are a married couple in real life. The knot has been securely tied since 1995. Way before they were cast.

089 In Fanning the Flames, Danny quips "Do you take requests? How about Beat It." in addition to telling Ember to hit the road, Danny's referencing Michael Jackson's classic song Beat It. Good one, Danny. And good one, me.

090 Michael Jackson makes a more obvious cameo in the episode Infinite Realms where he's seen in at his 2005 trial while Vlad is flipping through channels.

091 When we see Tucker's report card in What You Want, we learn that Tucker is not only highly proficient in computers, but sewing as well. If Danny ever needs a suit redesign, he who he can call. Not the Ghostbusters, they'll likely kill him. He should call Tucker.

092 The Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat from The Million Dollar Ghost are an unsubtle jab at Mystery Inc and Scooby-Doo. An additional fact fact for you guys, I actually worked for Hanna-Barbera, the animation studio that created Scooby-Doo.

093 The secret government organization dedicated to eliminating paranormal entities known as the Guys in White are obviously a parallel to the Men in Black who essentially do the same thing but with evil extraterrestrials.

094 I've gone on record saying the reason Danny is not shirtless when he's at the water park is because he gets sunburned very easily.

095 We can all infer that Sam has good taste in films. For instance, a poster for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange can be seen in her room.

096 In Memory Blank, Sam wants to see Trinity of Doom, a movie starring Femalien, the female version of Alien that’s a Predator, not a Xenomorph, you uncultured swine!, Terminatra, the female Terminator, and Nightmerica, the female version of Freddy Krueger. I'd still go see that.

097 Danny has a birthmark that's shaped like the state of Florida.

098 Timmy Turner's favorite comic book hero, The Crimson Chin, appears at the Ember concert as one of her many adoring fans in the episode Fanning the Flames. I officially sanction your conspiratorial speculations.

099 In the episode What You Want, Danny and Tucker can be seen playing an arcade machine titles Crash Nebula. Crash Nebula is one of Timmy Turner's favorite heroes of the Fairly Odd Parents. The plot thickens!

100 The cross referencing continued over into the Fairly Odd Parents, too. In Poulter Geeks, a wanted poster for Danny Phantom can be seen in the ghost hunting basement of Timmy's parents.

101 Or you guys could be thinking about this all wrong, and Danny could just be a fictional hero. In the Fairly Odd Parents Crash Nebula special, Danny can be seen on the back cover of a comic book. The truth is out there.

102 If Vlad were real, Steve Marmel would have made him the happiest half man/half ghost on the planet. The writer purchased a brick at Lambeau Field, the home of the Packers, and engraved it with "Someday I will rule - Vlad Plasmius".

103 David Kaufman's favorite episodes tend to be the ones in which Danny spends time with one particular member of his family and the plot strengthens their bond and understanding of each other. He cites the episodes Maternal Instinct and My Brother's Keeper as prime examples.

104 Like every great superhero, Danny Phantom has transcended into the realm of video games. His first outing was a Game Boy Advance adaptation of The Ultimate Enemy, a 2D side-scrolling beat-em-up ordeal.

105 The second was called Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle, which was released for both Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS and it was a side-scrolling shooter.

106 There was once a Danny Phantom themed ride at the indoor Nickelodeon Universe theme park at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Danny Phantom: Ghost Zone's design was that of an Ali Baba. In other words, it consisted of a stationary horizontal gondola with a 360 degree swinging pendulum. Unfortunately, the rise was taken down in 2015.

107 Danny Phantom ran for three season, from 2004 to 2007. A total of 53 episodes were created for the series. The news of Danny Phantom's cancellation was not well received by the fans at all. The Danny fandom took to the streets of New York City and protested outside of Nickelodeon's building to bring the ghost boy back into production. Unfortunately, to no avail. But thank you. Seriously, thank you.

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3DEN raises $2M to create pay-as-you-go urban spaces

3DEN is building spaces for what it calls the “in-between moments” of your day.

The name (pronounced “Eden”) comes from the idea of the “third place” — a space that’s neither home nor work. Founder and CEO Ben Silver told me the idea is to create a space that people can use if, say, they’ve got 45 minutes to fill between meetings, or if they’ve just gotten off a red eye flight and need somewhere to freshen up.

Coffee shops, coworking spaces, gyms or hotels might serve some of those functions, but Silver said 3DEN is “aggregating many different services” and bringing them together into “a very reliable space.” He suggested that the closest analogue might be a members-only clubhouse — except that instead of charging a steep membership fee, 3den requires no commitment, with pricing start at $6 for each 30 minutes of your visit.

Earlier this week, I dropped by the site of the first 3den, located in the shopping area of New York City’s Hudson Yards development. The space is still being built, but I saw booths for phone calls, private showers and even swings for relaxing.

Silver said there will be a meditation space and Casper nap pods, too. He emphasized the nature-inspired design, with plenty of trees and plants, as well as the space’s “acoustic zoning,” with some areas designated for socializing and others designed to be quieter and more restful.

WeWork could challenge Starbucks in China with new on-demand service

So if you want to catch up on some work, make some calls or even host a meeting (you can invite and pay for up to two guests), you can do that. If you just want to chill out and relax, you can do that, too.

Silver said that while the space will be staffed with a few hosts, technology will be key to the experience, with most transactions being handled via smartphone app. If you’re interested in visiting an 3den space, you check-in via the app (which will tell you the current crowd level, and put you on the waiting list if the space is at capacity) and you can also reserve a shower and make purchases.

3DEN’s core services will be included in that $6-per-half-hour price, but Silver said there will be a retail element as well, with visitors able to buy products in categories like food and health/beauty. He also said he’s exploring additional pricing models (such as corporate memberships) for regular guests, but he emphasized the importance of “no commitments” pricing that makes the space accessible to a wide swath of visitors.

The seed round was led by b8ta and Graphene Ventures, with participation from Colle Capital Partners, The Stable, JTRE, InVision CEO Clark Valberg, Target’s former Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Casey Carl and Firebase founder Andrew Lee.

The first 3DEN location has a planned opening of March 15, and Silver said the company is also negotiating for four additional locations across New York City.

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In Pursuit of Socket Harmony: Optimizing the Transtibial Socket Interface

Glenn M. Street, PhD, Carl A. Caspers, Kyle B. Miller, and Benjamin C. Noonan, MD

Since the advent of the first modern below-knee prosthesis (joint and lacer) in 1696, the world has seen unprecedented advances in virtually every facet of medical science, yet limb discomfort, pain, and soft tissue breakdown remain a way of life for roughly half of today’s ambulatory, below-knee (transtibial) amputees. These largely avoidable daily struggles are traceable to poorly crafted limbs, ill-designed prostheses, and/or inadequate upkeep of them. Fortunately, the solution to the majority of these struggles is clear-cut and entirely achievable. Primarily, it requires a team effort by surgeons, prosthetists, and amputees: as each has a unique role to play.

Surgeons must employ the latest surgical principles to optimize the limb for prosthetic use (Chapter 2), prosthetists must implement the latest design principles to create a responsive, comfortable, and pain-free socket interface (Chapter 4), and amputees must follow the guidelines to maintain their optimized limb and prosthesis (Chapter 5). However, as discussed in Chapter 2, certainty of a pain-free interface will also require a commitment by researchers to find solutions to the yet unresolved surgical issues (e.g. neuromas and bone spurs). While one can never expect the socket interface to perfectly replace the responsive and pain-free connection lost during amputation, finding solutions to the unresolved surgical issues, and following the latest principles and guidelines discussed in this book unquestionably offers transtibial amputees with their best chance of achieving the active, comfortable, pain-free, and productive lifestyle they deserve.

(Imprint: Nova Medicine and Health)

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ETHEREUM, BITCOIN SCALING BY VITALIK BUTERIN

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ETHEREUM, BITCOIN SCALING BY VITALIK BUTERIN

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example you realize a Bitcoin neighborhood says good good enough we now have lightning however even though lightning didn’t work most commonly block sizes must not go up too much seeing that it can be the shop worth and the excessive value stuff that’s where that’s what issues whereas within the etherium group we are saying well if watchings can’t steal a thousand further useless and so we’re totally and certainly inclined to hazard breaking the entire factor to make it scale via a factor of a thousand even like proof of like proof of work forces proof of stake like you already know we talk a lot about how proof of work is fairly environmentally detrimental and we wish observing consensus to be more cost effective whereas like Bitcoin persons would say good the relatively excessive levels of security are abour stated and like this is that is warfare and this is what you have got to do and a proof of labor simply out of your factor of view has better properties you already know like I just do not feel that you recognize despite how priceless we think what we’re doing is that it’s valued at you already know after that sheer massive waste of resources that is being a created by way of all of these I imply SEC farms whereas for me like if I knew that there was once this you recognize at this factor I mean if I knew that there used to be a definitive proof that proof of stake could on no account probably be made to work I typically will in i might have to fairly critically believe you realize like if I desired to return to proof of labor or if I desired to only give up the blockchain house altogether i don’t believe the cut up was a disaster at all like I tends to be a variety of ideologically professional secession in that appreciate you absolutely wishes to have like smaller communities and smaller units that that can interact with each different more efficaciously and kind of be extra focused towards specific pursuits and within the etherium etherium traditional case like it used to be very clear that there were two communities that had very vastly one-of-a-kind expectations about what a blockchain is and what a blockchain is for and so I do exactly believe that it was economically most advantageous to you recognize acquire each community have the variety of staring at that it prefers i do know there are persons that try to say oh when a concept I used to be going to change the POS then there might be men and women who disagree and they will make one more fork i’m no longer certain so one motive why i’m now not sure is considering the fact that like like in contrast to in the DAO case within the case of proof of stake like we have been actively advertising actively signaling actively form of constructing clear the affect that if the areum’s destiny is to switch to proof of stake when we come up with a just right algorithm that is whatever that everybody within the etherium neighborhood is since 2014 has known all along if there is someone who rather just believes in type of diehard proof of work then as a substitute of going to all of the effort to make yet another break up chain I think quite a lot of them will simply migrate to a conception on traditional that is one motive why I actually do not assume that vary they are gonna have absolutely died off anytime soon due to the fact you realize if there are there just is an intersection of folks who find it irresistible the subject maybe folks name off proof of work and it’s i would say it’s even good that they have got a situation that they may be able to go to yeah without doubt am very heavily involved in study efforts i am Nick very heavily worried in charting in Casper FFG like plasma it can be only a few gigantic states the prolong state channels you understand various rough Forks quite a few the IPS that have been authorised up to now I used to do extra development however now I do less development generally given that focusing on study is just extra important so yes in the long run er commonly will continue to just be researched in verbal exchange I mean humans do mostly ask the query of fortunate am I going to proceed to have the same variety of very big position within the etherium neighborhood that I do correct now we’re historical I decrease over time I do anticipate that to slash over time and i feel you already know like even on the financial system you’ve visible it shrink fairly a bit of you have got to look at two or three years in the past right good two or three years in the past I used to be in lots of instances the one character doing like certain sorts of research and like writing the Python consumers and like talking about aetherium and like now you have got all those builders like Carl and like John choy Justin Drake you understand Elway and so on and plenty of these humans are folks that we have now just gotten within the last six months correct so like our research staff is quickly developing and our study neighborhood is swiftly developing i do know you think going to be inevitable that over time you realize the component to all the you understand study contributions that are my contributions goes to move down as good correct like the extent to which I do progress is already made the category time so scale down than it was once two years ago and at some point even in study like i’ll be simply one of the 20 men and women that’s you recognize doing very giant work like there are some persons locally that you understand like want myself to be very actively concerned in truly simply the main things for a hug for a particularly very long time unless the undertaking is finished there are humans that want signed of more indicators that the neighborhood can live to tell the tale by means of itself and would not depend on me and in I do think you realize like there may be a variety of opinions between those two I mean for myself I absolutely in my opinion need within the etherium neighborhood to develop to the aspects the place it doesn’t suggest sterile to love actively depend on me for survival and take a look at to get to that point that I bought as speedily as possible what i suppose i realized is a couple of things proper one is that I always felt that you just comprehend it’s even though the danger that blockchains and cryptocurrency would be successful is far not up to a hundred percent although it can be ten percent a ten percent threat of making whatever that unleashes and a huge paradigm shift on the complete world continues to be some thing that should be fully valued at dedicating your life to

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ETHEREUM, BITCOIN SCALING BY VITALIK BUTERIN

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ETHEREUM, BITCOIN SCALING BY VITALIK BUTERIN

At this factor proper if I knew that there was a definitive proof that proof of stake would never possibly be made to work i might have got to relatively severely think you understand like if I desired to return to proof of work or if I desired to only stop the blockchain area all together the concept behind etherium is that it is like a smartphone one analogy for illustration that i exploit is that Bitcoin is like a pocket calculator you are aware of it has a developed in digital circuit nevertheless it’s most effective designed to do one unique thing which is including and multiplying numbers protocols like colored cash and grasp coin are variety of like Swiss army knives so that they could have like 5 or ten one-of-a-kind aspects however they can’t do anything else a smartphone you know you could have like one hundred apps or one thousand apps on your phone and in case you wants to download every other app then you don’t ought to go to the store and improve your cellphone you do not must like go to the shop and get some style of bodily Hardware extension you simply go to the internet and down load an app what I desired to do with the speculation is truly you understand i can transfer faraway from this style of older paradigm of pocket calculators and the Swiss military knives to this more moderen technique of blockchain protocol that has a constructed-in programming language and so if you happen to needs to build any kind of software then you might take the principles of that application the industry good judgment of that utility write it as a piece of code in that programming language Tim pilot add it to the blockchain after which you have an object on the blockchain that any individual can like sends transactions to engage with and the rules of that software shall be will be processed by using the identical community that runs the blockchain and it would be processed in keeping with the principles that you’d outline within the piece of code that you simply upload just writing the whole lot on code such as you do with clever phones or computers and like however you recognize seek this paradigm shift and follow it to the blockchain as good I think the Bitcoin group believes that Bitcoin is 80% finished whereas the etherium neighborhood believes that aetherium is 30% finished you recognize the blog streams roadmap for the Bitcoin blockchain they mentioned some rather marginal upgrades like you know moral ast is the simplicity a couple of privateness elements whereas on the etherium part we’re speaking about like like 1,000 factors scaling and like putting everything around tiki snarks and i’m doing a full swap to pro steak and all these other changes one more difference that I feel is particularly related to the primary one is that I consider the Bitcoin group believes that lots of the value of walk chains comes from an extraordinarily small set of very excessive price use instances basically like censorship resistance like worth storage and worth switch and they think that that’s something that humans are inclined to pay you understand even $50 a transaction for the blockchain just manages to be as at ease as possible for that detailed use case whereas the etherium community I consider Moore believes that lots of the value of watch-chain technological know-how comes from the longtail so from all of these use cases where the worth of the use case to every man or woman user or per each and every man or woman transaction is much scale down however the number of customers that you could attain is way much wider despite the fact that it can be now not providing as much price per consumer it is relatively making up for it in volume so love it’s not some thing that wholly alterations the lives of 1 million individuals however it would largely change the lives of 100 million and enormously just a few hundred million extra from that kind of core difference in principle such as you see the entire special decisions proper so for example you realize a Bitcoin neighborhood says good good enough we now have lightning however even though lightning didn’t work most commonly block sizes must not go up too much seeing that it can be the shop worth and the excessive value stuff that’s where that’s what issues whereas within the etherium group we are saying well if watchings can’t steal a thousand further useless and so we’re totally and certainly inclined to hazard breaking the entire factor to make it scale via a factor of a thousand even like proof of like proof of work forces proof of stake like you already know we talk a lot about how proof of work is fairly environmentally detrimental and we wish observing consensus to be more cost effective whereas like Bitcoin persons would say good the relatively excessive levels of security are abour stated and like this is that is warfare and this is what you have got to do and a proof of labor simply out of your factor of view has better properties you already know like I just do not feel that you recognize despite how priceless we think what we’re doing is that it’s valued at you already know after that sheer massive waste of resources that is being a created by way of all of these I imply SEC farms whereas for me like if I knew that there was once this you recognize at this factor I mean if I knew that there used to be a definitive proof that proof of stake could on no account probably be made to work I typically will in i might have to fairly critically believe you realize like if I desired to return to proof of labor or if I desired to only give up the blockchain house altogether i don’t believe the cut up was a disaster at all like I tends to be a variety of ideologically professional secession in that appreciate you absolutely wishes to have like smaller communities and smaller units that that can interact with each different more efficaciously and kind of be extra focused towards specific pursuits and within the etherium etherium traditional case like it used to be very clear that there were two communities that had very vastly one-of-a-kind expectations about what a blockchain is and what a blockchain is for and so I do exactly believe that it was economically most advantageous to you recognize acquire each community have the variety of staring at that it prefers i do know there are persons that try to say oh when a concept I used to be going to change the POS then there might be men and women who disagree and they will make one more fork i’m no longer certain so one motive why i’m now not sure is considering the fact that like like in contrast to in the DAO case within the case of proof of stake like we have been actively advertising actively signaling actively form of constructing clear the affect that if the areum’s destiny is to switch to proof of stake when we come up with a just right algorithm that is whatever that everybody within the etherium neighborhood is since 2014 has known all along if there is someone who rather just believes in type of diehard proof of work then as a substitute of going to all of the effort to make yet another break up chain I think quite a lot of them will simply migrate to a conception on traditional that is one motive why I actually do not assume that vary they are gonna have absolutely died off anytime soon due to the fact you realize if there are there just is an intersection of folks who find it irresistible the subject maybe folks name off proof of work and it’s i would say it’s even good that they have got a situation that they may be able to go to yeah without doubt am very heavily involved in study efforts i am Nick very heavily worried in charting in Casper FFG like plasma it can be only a few gigantic states the prolong state channels you understand various rough Forks quite a few the IPS that have been authorised up to now I used to do extra development however now I do less development generally given that focusing on study is just extra important so yes in the long run er commonly will continue to just be researched in verbal exchange I mean humans do mostly ask the query of fortunate am I going to proceed to have the same variety of very big position within the etherium neighborhood that I do correct now we’re historical I decrease over time I do anticipate that to slash over time and i feel you already know like even on the financial system you’ve visible it shrink fairly a bit of you have got to look at two or three years in the past right good two or three years in the past I used to be in lots of instances the one character doing like certain sorts of research and like writing the Python consumers and like talking about aetherium and like now you have got all those builders like Carl and like John choy Justin Drake you understand Elway and so on and plenty of these humans are folks that we have now just gotten within the last six months correct so like our research staff is quickly developing and our study neighborhood is swiftly developing i do know you think going to be inevitable that over time you realize the component to all the you understand study contributions that are my contributions goes to move down as good correct like the extent to which I do progress is already made the category time so scale down than it was once two years ago and at some point even in study like i’ll be simply one of the 20 men and women that’s you recognize doing very giant work like there are some persons locally that you understand like want myself to be very actively concerned in truly simply the main things for a hug for a particularly very long time unless the undertaking is finished there are humans that want signed of more indicators that the neighborhood can live to tell the tale by means of itself and would not depend on me and in I do think you realize like there may be a variety of opinions between those two I mean for myself I absolutely in my opinion need within the etherium neighborhood to develop to the aspects the place it doesn’t suggest sterile to love actively depend on me for survival and take a look at to get to that point that I bought as speedily as possible what i suppose i realized is a couple of things proper one is that I always felt that you just comprehend it’s even though the danger that blockchains and cryptocurrency would be successful is far not up to a hundred percent although it can be ten percent a ten percent threat of making whatever that unleashes and a huge paradigm shift on the complete world continues to be some thing that should be fully valued at dedicating your life to

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3DEN raises $2M to create pay-as-you-go urban spaces

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3DEN raises $2M to create pay-as-you-go urban spaces

3DEN is building spaces for what it calls the “in-between moments” of your day.

The name (pronounced “Eden”) comes from the idea of the “third place” — a space that’s neither home nor work. Founder and CEO Ben Silver told me the goal is to create a space that people can use if, say, they’ve got 45 minutes to fill between meetings, or if they’ve just gotten off a red-eye flight and need somewhere to freshen up.

Coffee shops, co-working spaces, gyms or hotels might serve some of those functions, but Silver said 3DEN is “aggregating many different services” and bringing them together into “a very reliable space.” He suggested that the closest analogue might be a members-only clubhouse — except that instead of charging a steep membership fee, 3DEN requires no commitment, with pricing starting at $6 for each 30 minutes of your visit.

Earlier this week, I dropped by the site of the first 3DEN, located in the shopping area of New York City’s Hudson Yards development. The space is still being built, but I saw booths for phone calls, private showers and even swings for relaxing.

Silver said there will be a meditation space and Casper nap pods, too. He emphasized the nature-inspired design, with plenty of trees and plants, as well as the space’s “acoustic zoning,” with some areas designated for socializing and others designed to be quieter and more restful.

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So if you want to catch up on some work, make some calls or even host a meeting (you can invite and pay for up to two guests), you can do that. If you just want to chill out and relax, you can do that, too.

Silver said that while the space will be staffed with a few hosts, technology will be key to the experience, with most transactions being handled via smartphone app. If you’re interested in visiting an 3DEN space, you check-in via the app (which will tell you the current crowd level, and put you on the waiting list if the space is at capacity); you can also reserve a shower and make purchases.

3DEN’s core services will be included in that $6-per-half-hour price, but Silver said there will be a retail element as well, with visitors able to buy products in categories like food and health/beauty. He also said he’s exploring additional pricing models (such as corporate memberships) for regular guests, but he emphasized the importance of “no commitments” pricing that makes the space accessible to a wide swath of visitors.

The seed round was led by b8ta and Graphene Ventures, with participation from Colle Capital Partners, The Stable, JTRE, InVision CEO Clark Valberg, Target’s former Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Casey Carl and Firebase founder Andrew Lee.

The first 3DEN location has a planned opening of March 15, and Silver said the company is also negotiating for four additional locations across New York City.

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3DEN raises $2M to create pay-as-you-go urban spaces

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3DEN is building spaces for what it calls the “in-between moments” of your day.

The name (pronounced “Eden”) comes from the idea of the “third place” — a space that’s neither home nor work. Founder and CEO Ben Silver told me the goal is to create a space that people can use if, say, they’ve got 45 minutes to fill between meetings, or if they’ve just gotten off a red eye flight and need somewhere to freshen up.

Coffee shops, coworking spaces, gyms or hotels might serve some of those functions, but Silver said 3DEN is “aggregating many different services” and bringing them together into “a very reliable space.” He suggested that the closest analogue might be a members-only clubhouse — except that instead of charging a steep membership fee, 3DEN requires no commitment, with pricing starting at $6 for each 30 minutes of your visit.

Earlier this week, I dropped by the site of the first 3DEN, located in the shopping area of New York City’s Hudson Yards development. The space is still being built, but I saw booths for phone calls, private showers and even swings for relaxing.

Silver said there will be a meditation space and Casper nap pods, too. He emphasized the nature-inspired design, with plenty of trees and plants, as well as the space’s “acoustic zoning,” with some areas designated for socializing and others designed to be quieter and more restful.

WeWork could challenge Starbucks in China with new on-demand service

So if you want to catch up on some work, make some calls or even host a meeting (you can invite and pay for up to two guests), you can do that. If you just want to chill out and relax, you can do that, too.

Silver said that while the space will be staffed with a few hosts, technology will be key to the experience, with most transactions being handled via smartphone app. If you’re interested in visiting an 3DEN space, you check-in via the app (which will tell you the current crowd level, and put you on the waiting list if the space is at capacity) and you can also reserve a shower and make purchases.

3DEN’s core services will be included in that $6-per-half-hour price, but Silver said there will be a retail element as well, with visitors able to buy products in categories like food and health/beauty. He also said he’s exploring additional pricing models (such as corporate memberships) for regular guests, but he emphasized the importance of “no commitments” pricing that makes the space accessible to a wide swath of visitors.

The seed round was led by b8ta and Graphene Ventures, with participation from Colle Capital Partners, The Stable, JTRE, InVision CEO Clark Valberg, Target’s former Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Casey Carl and Firebase founder Andrew Lee.

The first 3DEN location has a planned opening of March 15, and Silver said the company is also negotiating for four additional locations across New York City.

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