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[lindszeppelin]

Austin's Dune 2 Press Planner ♥

Updating and revising will happen as needed. You can find this saved to the pinned post on my page.

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links to video interviews: [CCXP23 Q&A] [CCXP23 Q&A on the Omelete Stage] [Austin plays COD as Feyd] [Fandango Interview] [Stephen Colbert] [Warner Bros] [Jimmy Kimmel 1] [JImmy Kimmel 2] [Comicbook.com] [Jake's Takes] [blackfilmandtv] [Associated Press] [kevinmccarthytv] [tara hitchcock] [extratv] [E! News] [Collider Interviews] [access hollywood] [screenrant] [Entertainment Tonight] [BlavityTV] [Azteca Noticias] [Geeks of Color] [eTalk] [Advocate Channel] [On Demand Entertainment] [Ladbible] [Ladbible pt 2] [The Do Show] [Entertainment Weekly] [Quotidien] [Cinemablend] [Elle] [Cinemex] [The Sun Showbiz] [The Hollywood Reporter] [extratv] [Access Hollywood] [TF1 INFO] [Hits Radio] [ANC 24/7] [BackstageOL] [The Project] [imdb] [Jimmy Fallon 1] [Jimmy Fallon 2] [IGV Presents] [MTV] [Vanity Fair] [Lily Garcia] [Jeremy Lynch] [Buzzfeed UK] [TV Movie] [Seth Meyers] [NME] [Zoom] [giantpengsoo] [LadBible] [TV Movie] [Buzzfeed UK] [IHollywoodTV]

[Mexico Dune Press Conference - Feb 5] [x] [Red Carpet]

[Paris Photo Call - Feb 12] [Paris Photocall 2 - Feb 12] [Paris Press Conference] [Paris Premiere 1] [Paris Premiere 2] [Paris Premiere 3] [Paris Premiere 4] [Paris Premiere 5]

[London Photo call - Feb 14] [London Photo call 2 - Feb 14] [London Photo call 3 - Feb 14]

[Seoul Photo Call Feb 21] [Seoul Press Conference - Feb 21]

[Dune 2 Seoul Premiere - Feb 22] [Dune 2 Seoul Premiere 2 - Feb 22]

links to print interviews: [gamesradar] [screenrant] [Entertainment Weekly] [LA Times] [People Magazine]

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Planner:

Thursday, 2-1: The Jimmy Kimmel Show in LA with Austin, Timothee, Florence, and Zendaya (11:35pm EST on ABC) [complete]

Friday, 2-2: Interview with Rob Keyes of Screenrant with Austin and cast. [complete]

PRESS JUNKETS filmed. Interviews from these junkets will be linked above.

Monday, 2-5: Dune 2 press conference in Mexico City with Austin and cast [complete]

Tuesday, 2-6: Promoting Dune 2 with Austin and cast in Mexico City [complete]

Monday, 2-12: Dune 2 premiere in France with Austin and cast [complete]

Thursday, 2-15: Dune 2 premiere in London with Austin and cast [complete]

Friday, 2-16: The Graham Norton Show with Austin and Josh Brolin airs [complete]

Sunday, 2-18: Dune 2 premiere in Abu Dhabi [complete]

Wednesday/Thursday, 2-21 and 2-22: Dune 2 South Korea premiere with Austin and cast [complete]

Sunday, 2-25: Dune 2 premiere in New York with Austin and cast at 4:30pm EST [complete]

Monday, 2-26: Jimmy Fallon Show with Austin and Zendaya [complete]

Wednesday, 2-28:

- Dune 2 premiere in Montreal, Canada [complete] - The Late Show with Seth Meyers featuring Austin. Airs on NBC [complete]

Friday, 3-1: release date in theaters for Dune 2 [complete]

[water-writings]

30 Question Tag Game

I was tagged by @nightwingshero thank you!!

Tagging: @oathofoaks @loopally @swiftly-heart @biscottibitch @starsandstormyseas @kidawida @morganwriteblr @umfleur and whoever else wants to do it :)

Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better that you would love to get to know better. (Yikes on that verbiage though).

Name/Nickname: Melissa/Mel (and many others)

Gender: Female

Star sign: Aquarius

Height: 5'6 1/2″

Time: 9:26PM

Birthday: February 16th

Favorite Bands: Pentatonix, Imagine Dragons, Panic at the Disco, Fallout Boy, I love music but I don’t have a lot of favorites (or I can’t think of any).

Favorite Solo artists: Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra I love music but I don’t have a lot of favorites (or I can’t think of any).

Song stuck in my head: Nothing surprisingly. probably going to be some Christmas song down the road.

Last movie: The Prom

Last Show: Young Justice

When did I create this blog: July 11, 2019

What do I post: My trash writing, my trach children (OCs), things related to my OCs like their fandoms, Harry Potter, Young Justice, Descendants, writing, writing tips, edits here and there if i can actually learn how to make them.

Last thing googled:  How to access my archives so I can figure out what day I created this blog because there was no button and for some reason nothing worked. I think I typed archive wrong on the URL.

Other blogs: Too many. Feel free to ask me if you’re interested.

Do I get asks: Sometimes

Why I chose my url: I like the water/the beach and I like writing. It’s also a variation of my penname on FF.net and AO3 Singer of Water.

Following: 197

Followers: 220 (how and why?)

Average hours of sleep: 6 maybe. I tend to sleep less. I’m horrible to myself and need to sleep more.

Lucky number: I don’t think I have a lucky number.

Instruments: My voice

What am I wearing: Pajamas!

Dream job: A blogger. I started a blog outside of this that’s a geek/fashion lifestyle blog to show that you can like geeky things, but also like the “normal things” others deem more normal. I want to show that people can like whatever they like and be cool and confident in themselves. Give fashion advice if asked. That or maybe work on a fashion magazine. Other than that I’m not sure right now. My thoughts constantly change and I’m currently looking for a new job.

Dream trip: Hawaii, Japan, Itally, England, South Korea, France

Favorite food: Mashed potatoes, cheeseburgers, fries, chicken, steak.

Nationality: American.

Favorite song: Can’t Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley

Last book read: Catching Fire

Top three fictional universes I’d like to live in: Young Justice universe, MCU, Harry Potter.

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EXID Hani – Geek Korea Magazine March Issue ‘15

[jhopebrazil]

HISTÓRIA DO J-HOPE - CAPÍTULO 2 (O garoto da máscara pesada)

Como estão ARMYs? Chegou mais um capítulo da nossa História de J-Hope. Anteriormente foi falado sobre o pré-debut do nosso Hoseokie, como ele se apaixonou pela dança ao entrar para o grupo de street dance NEURON e sua saga até chegar na Big Hit e entrar no BTS. Bem, agora vamos ver tudo sobre a era 2cool4skool do J-Hope, vamos lá!

Capítulo 2 - O garoto da máscara pesada 

   A primeira aparição de J-Hope como membro do BTS foi em seu primeiro vlog feito em 14 de fevereiro de 2013. Infelizmente não tem traduzido em português, mas ele fala sobre ter lançado o vídeo de Graduation e como ele trazia o sentimento de algo que realmente começou, sobre seus objetivos para o debut do BTS e desejou um feliz dia dos namorados aos fãs.

Nessa época o BTS costumava postar diversos vlogs apenas falando sobre o que fizeram e como estavam se sentindo para os fãs, Jhope voltou um dia depois de seu aniversário em 19 de fevereiro de 2013 para falar sobre seu aniversário. Existem muitos outros vlogs do J-Hope, incluindo com outros membros, no blog do BTS! Ele fez também uma publicação explicando sobre o estilo de dança Popping, futuramente pretendemos traduzir publicações desse tipo aqui no Tumblr.

Como o grupo estava se preparando para sua estreia oficial, além de lançar diversas músicas, também lançaram vídeos dos ensaios para a tão sonhada performance.

Hoseok foi anunciado oficialmente ao público como membro do BTS em 4 de junho de 2013, junto com o lançamento das fotos teaser do grupo.

Depois de muito esforço, sangue, suor e lágrimas veio o debut do BTS no dia 13 de junho de 2013 em sua primeira apresentação no MCountdown que surgiu pois um outro grupo não pode se apresentar:

(Por algum motivo que não sei, J-Hope chamava a pintinha do Jung Kook de choco chip)

Um dia antes, o grupo fez um showcase no Gangnam Ilchi Art Hall, feito pelo Melon Showcase. A primeira música performada foi We Are Bulletproof pt.2, cuja primeira parte foi lançada durante o primeiro ano de trainee do grupo, apresentaram também a faixa principal do primeiro single “2cool 4skool”, No More Dream, música que tem influência do Gangsta Rap, estilo popular do hiphop nos anos 90. Outra faixa que pôde ser ouvida no showcase foi I Like It. O lançamento oficial do MV de No More Dream e do álbum single 2Cool 4Skool, com 7 faixas (mais a bônus Road/Path), foi no dia 13 de junho de 2013. O álbum pouco depois de seu lançamento foi parar entre os 10 mais vendidos dos principais rankings musicais da Coreia, como Gaon Chart e Hanteo Chart. 

Felizmente o grupo teve diversos compromissos, como fanmeetings, fansigns e programas musicais. A primeira participação do grupo em um programa de rádio foi no Shimshimtapa, apresentado pelo Shindong do Super Junior na época, em 22 de junho e o primeiro fansign foi no dia 28 de junho de 2013 o evento fansign do Seoul IFC Mall. Entre mini fanmeetings após programas e festivais musicais e fansigns foram 14 eventos.

Alguns videos de eventos: - Performance do BTS em Busan (foco no J-Hope, particularmente é minha fancan favorita de 2013): https://youtu.be/stQxAXutBLc?list=PLONFsYf63lC3hFIgWT6MouQ5Ml-DZNGxc - Fansign de Incheon (foco no J-Hope): https://youtu.be/fwKiq-Qjk7k?list=PLONFsYf63lC3hFIgWT6MouQ5Ml-DZNGxc - Mini fanmeeting do Music Bank (foco no J-Hope): https://youtu.be/bVw6TX00acM?list=PLONFsYf63lC3hFIgWT6MouQ5Ml-DZNGxc - Fansign de Incheon (foco no J-Hope): https://youtu.be/1jTdjMQopBw?list=PLONFsYf63lC3hFIgWT6MouQ5Ml-DZNGxc

BTS acabou sendo um dos rookies mais populares na época e por isso também apareceram em revistas (ensaio da BAZAAR; ARENA; STARM; Billboard Korea vol.2; Y.G. Magazine; GEEK) e eventos de lançamento de produtos da PUMA - Gangnam Lesmore Puma Launching Party - (para quem eles faziam propaganda até ano passado). O primeiro MV do BTS com duas semanas de lançamento foi considerado pela mídia o “melhor MV do ano” e segundo a SBS MTV, o MV obteve as melhores reações do publico comparado a outros artistas. Atingindo 1 milhão de visualizações em 72 horas

Por hoje é só pessoal, mas semana que vêm voltamos com a era “Oh! R U L82?” onde veio o primeiro programa de variedade com o BTS, o Bangtan Rookie King, que começou a ser exibido em 3 de setembro de 2013, logo antes do primeiro comeback do grupo. Assim eu conheci J-Hope como o garoto do elevador...

Fonte: Soompi, BANGTAN BLOG, BANGTANTV, Bangtan Tumblr, Kpop Daily News, Coisinhas Orientais Por: Jack @jhopebrazil

[autumnfallandwinterchristmas]

We’re halfway to Christmas, and closer to autumn!

I know I don't get personal often on this blog because honestly the 3K followers on here only really want to see what I want to see their blogs, which are pretty pictures of fall foliage, autumn leaves, the colors of orange and red together, pumpkins, apples and then of course Christmas wrappings and Christmas decorations! and of course, autumn weather and winter weather!

but it is halfway to Christmas. I sadly went down to Michaels to see if any small peaks of fall decorations had come out, only to sadly see they’ve just started to clear out shelves to put out fall decorations which will be out about a week after fourth of July with Halloween stuff due to come out at the end of July. So yeah, I’m basically just updating to let everyone that i’m just getting anxious for fall. Even my boyfriends football preview magazines came in, my eyes lit up knowing, ‘fall is coming’. not that I care about the sports (GO SEAHAWKS!) but they provide signs of my favorite months, the ‘ber months’ are approaching. 

We do have some trips for this fall, which make me sad I won’t get to do my yearly autumn traditions for two years in a row but we will be going to places that are renowned for their fall colors and autumn leaves in Japan/Korea. I just need to keep reminding myself to download my favorite Halloween movies onto a thumb drive so I can watch them on the plane over!

Anyways, hope I’m not the only one geeking out that the year is half over, summer is a third through and fall is just two plus months away!

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"Assault Mode" Berserk Meliodas Coming to Grand Cross

Netmarble has announced “Assault Mode” Berserk Meliodas for Seven Deadly Sins Grand Cross:

LOS ANGELES – MAR. 12, 2021 –Netmarble‘s popular cinematic adventure role-playing game (RPG) The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross announced today there will be an update on March 16, introducing a highly-requested character, which many fans have long waited, alongside several in-game events for players to complete and conquer.

As part of the newly introduced Holy War Special Pickup, the SSR “Assault Mode” Berserk Meliodas – a character with high attack power, powerful skills, and an Ultimate Move –  will be available to collect, alongside characters from The Ten Commandments. The new character is equipped with a Forgotten Past buff that decreases enemy defensive abilities by 15%, while giving stat boosts to Demon allies, and Heroes with Commandments. For this new Pickup, players who earn 300 or 600 mileage can acquire additional SSR Heroes, with the top reward being the ‘Assault Mode’ Berserk Meliodas once 900 mileages are achieved.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross will also feature many in-game events including:

Lucky Draw Event – Players can use tickets earned from completing missions to draw from the Lucky Box and will randomly receive rewards consisting of 1-1,000 diamonds, or 50,000 and 20,000 gold. The event will continue until a total of 7,000,000 diamonds is shared by all players. Diamonds are available only on a first come, first served basis, so players shouldn’t miss the chance.

Final Boss Battle Escanor: Players can obtain Escanor Limited Costume with coins gained from playing Final Boss Battle Escanor and can get various in-game rewards such as Diamonds depending on the ranking result.

Holy War Festival Special Mission – Players can get 10 Holy War Festival Pickup Tickets by completing six missions like Event Attendance, and defeating Boss Battles within the festival period.

Hawk’s Jackpot Card – By using cards collected from completing Fort Solgres, the Training Grotto, Boss Battle, Final Boss Battle and Knighthood Boss Battle, players can earn rewards like Diamonds, 3 SSR Sariel Costumes, Super Awakening Coins, and Hammers of Vaizel. With a total of ten stages, players can select from one of two stage rewards to collect alongside regular rewards.

Diamond Payback – Players will receive rewards in proportion to the amount of diamonds spent during the festival, including Full Awakening Tokens, Super Awakening Coins, and Equipment Engraving Stones.

  The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross translates the storytelling and adventures of [The Seven Deadly Sins], into a highly engaging and entertaining mobile gaming experience. The game features stunning, high-resolution 3D graphics, over 100 dramatic cut scenes, and is brought to life with the cast of the original Japanese voice actors reprising their characters. The game surpassed three million cumulative downloads one week following its March 3 2020 global launch.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play in 2021. For more information, please visit the game’s official website and Facebook.

Based on the manga “Nanatsu no Taizai” by Nakaba Suzuki originally serialized in the weekly SHONEN MAGAZINE published by Kodansha Ltd.

©Nakaba Suzuki, KODANSHA/The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments Project,MBS. All Rights Reserved. ©Nakaba Suzuki, KODANSHA/The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of the Gods Production Committee,TX ©Netmarble Corp. & Netmarble F&C Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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About Netmarble Corporation

Established in Korea in 2000, Netmarble Corporation is a top developer and publisher pushing the boundaries of the mobile gaming experience with highly innovative games including Lineage 2: Revolution, The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross, Blade & Soul Revolution and MARVEL Future Fight. As a parent company of Kabam, and a major shareholder of Jam City and Big Hit Entertainment, Netmarble strives to entertain audiences around the world with a variety of mobile games based on its powerful franchises and collaborations with IP holders worldwide. More information can be found at http://company.netmarble.com

[lgcsoyoun]

(From @lgcxking )

“our soyoun really likes fashion, right? could you tell us about the kind of styling you would most like to have when you debut in korea?”

Soyoun hums to herself as soon as she reads the question. She has so many ideas on what to say that she honestly has no clue where to begin. However, she has to gather her thoughts and answer this on the spot. 

“You’re right, I love fashion!” Soyoun says with a soft chuckle. It was evident in how she carried herself and how much she talked about trends earlier. Besides, she’s a fashion design graduate. it was obvious at this point. Anyway, she goes back to the question at hand. 

“We’ve already gone with the dark, edgy style for ‘Dun Dun’, didn’t we?” she says to the cameras. “So if I ever get to debut in a permanent group, I’d love to debut with something more colorful. Black is nice and all, but to show a different side of us, I’d love to incorporate more color in our outfits.” 

Soyoun pauses before she decides on her next point. “Other than color, I think I’d love to go with a vintage, throwback style. Since most concepts are geared toward a futuristic vibe, I feel like going retro is an interesting direction to take in terms of styling. It depends on what direction our music will take, of course.” 

“Have you guys seen the modernized hanboks going around?” she continues. “I would also love to be able to wear something like that, especially if our music will have elements of traditional folk music in them. Or for our foreign members, modernized versions of their national outfits. Although they would look stunning in hanboks, I’m sure it would be more meaningful to them to wear their national outfits, right?”  

Another idea occurs to Soyoun. “Although going full-on high fashion like what we see in magazines would also be so cool,” she continues. “A lot of the girls here have such lovely faces that can pull off different styles. It would be amazing to see us debut in something like that. Besides, I would also love an excuse to geek out over how high fashion we’d all look.”  

[madlin785gamings-blog]

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[passivestereotypesofasianwo-blog]

7 Myths and Stereotypes About Asian Americans

1. “Asian Americans are nerds, geeks”

Not so. All you have to do is recognize Jackie Chan, kung fu actor and comedian. There’s Bruce Lee, martial artist actor, Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan, gold medalist ice skaters. There is also other medal winning skaters Kim Yu-na of South Korea, and sister-brother team, Danvi and Vu Pham, Vietnamese – to name only a few. Like in any population, Asians are a broad spectrum of personalities. There are many more Asians who could not be nerds or geeks even if they wanted to be!

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2. “Asian women are sexy; Asian men are not”

Stereotypes ? What is this based on? A biased attitude, seen from a narrow point of reference, and personal preference.If one looks at characters and images in movies, magazines and on TV, what is reflected is the creation of a white male industry portraying what is to be considered ‘sexy’, and it is usually white. Asian women are chosen to fit that white stereotype with an added racist Asian-woman-seductress element. It’s all made up by a few white men and all of us, not just Asians, have been hypnotized by it. How can there be no ‘sexy’ Asian men? Statistically, this is impossible. And the same goes for Asian women. All Asian women are ‘sexy’? Please. No more than all white women are ‘sexy’!

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3. “Asians are petite and short”

Like any population, there are many sizes. Sure many Asians tend to be shorter, but not all. There are many Asians speaking beyond 6 feet tall. Anyone can gain weight! Take a look at Japanese Sumo wrestlers or for height, there’s Yow Ming, Chinese basketball player at 7’6” and his girlfriend Chinese basketball player at 6’2”. Asians are 60% of the world population and in these populations, there is a mixture of many faces and sizes just like in other groups.

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4.   “All Asian Americans are well educated”

The data tells a different story. In fact, Southeast Asians have the highest high school dropout rates in the country. 33% of Asian Americans students in public high schools drop out or do not graduate on time. 24% of Asian Americans over age 25 do not have a high school degree. The illiteracy rate of Asian Americans is 5.3 times that of non-Hispanic whites. http://www.asian–nation.org/model–minority.shtml

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5.  “Asian Americans have made it to the mainstream and have become part of the accepted  American ‘melting pot”

In fact, Asian Americans in the first hundred and more years of living on American soil (as early as 1849) were singled out and victimized by discriminating behaviors and laws by European settlers. They were lynched, murdered, rounded up and marched out of communities. They were not allowed by law to stand witness against any white man in court, could not own land, were forbidden to immigrate, imprisoned in government internment camps, forbidden to marry out of their own ethnic group and more.

All the above is even more alarming since there is evidence that the Chinese first arrived on the western shores of America as early as 2500BC and the eastern shores years before Columbus in the 1400s. Filipinos arrived in Louisiana in the 1700s.  Many Asians were earlier Americans than Europeans. But this does not count.

Today,  research shows that Asian Americans are the fastest-growing victims of hate crimes in America. 17% of Asian American boys in grades 5 through 12 reported physical abuse, as compared to 8% among white boys, and 30% of Asian American girls in  grades 5 through 12 reported depressive symptoms, as compared to white girls (22%), African American girls (17%), or Hispanic girls (27%), 46% of Asian American households do not have anyone over age 14 who can speak English well.

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6.  “Asian Americans are economically stable and successful”

In fact, 14% of Asian Americans live below the poverty line, compared to 13% of the U.S. population. In addition, while jobs pay Euro-Americans $522 per every additional year of education beyond high school, Asian Americans make $379 per every additional year of education. In California, almost 40% of all Vietnamese refugees are on public assistance and in Minnesota and Wisconsin, an equal number of  Cambodians, Hmong, and Laotians also receive public assistance. In New York City, 52% of Asian American births in 1999 were paid for by Medicaid, indicating that their mothers are poor or near poor, more than double that of 1990(22%). According to the  U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Asian-American men born in the United States are 7 percent to 11 percent less likely to hold managerial jobs than white men with the same educational and experience level.

Informative sites:

http://www.asian–nation.org/model–minority.shtml

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/model02.htm

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7.  “Asian Americans are passive, compliant and weak”

Well, there’s Mao.  There are Chinese mothers!  American film most often depicts Asians as being mysterious, passive, China Dolls and as usual casting non-white men as being unattractive for women.  Look at all the Hollywood pairing of Asian women and white men: Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh in the James bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”; or look at all the female Asian newscasters, but rarely an Asian male newscaster; or the movie ‘The World of Suzie Wong” – a prostitute  who is paired with William Holden, a white  businessman.  The women are either Dragon Lady types and the men ugly fierce gang or martial arts murderers, or they are the unattractive passive and weak.  Asians are rarely portrayed as just regular human beings.  Too often in films, the Asian passive beauty is set as the standard as to how to attract and keep a man.  And never is an Asian competition to romantically win the leading man or woman.

Source

7 Myths and Stereotypes About Asian Americans. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2017.

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The Revolutionary Coffee Shops Bringing Craft Beans Back to Brazil

It’s the end of the coffee harvest in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and a warehouse in the capital is buzzing with life. Jute sacks of green coffee beans are piled up, waiting to be put into cold storage. Buyers have come from around the world, and the roasting machine is still warm from the morning roast.

This is Isso é Café, a coffee shop in downtown São Paulo. Brazil’s long-standing concept of “export-grade coffee,” where the best stuff goes to foreigners, is starting to change in this city. Now, specialty coffee shops owned by the growers themselves, like Isso é Café, are beginning to flourish. There are currently more than 10 such places across São Paulo, in all shapes and sizes.

“You have to look hard to find good coffee in São Paulo, but it’s here and it’s unique,” says Isso é Café founder Felipe Croce, a young coffee farmer with a quiet, revolutionary air.

Croce is the fifth generation of a São Paulo coffee farming family that produced conventional “commodity coffee” for nearly 150 years. Then, in 2001, his mother took over the farm on a mission to go organic. It was right at the beginning of the so-called third-wave coffee movement, which Felipe describes as unwritten ethos in which quality, origin, traceability and fair prices all play an essential part.

Brazil is the largest producer of coffee in the world as well as the largest consumer; Brazilians brewed their way through 21 million bags (weighing 132 pounds each) of coffee in 2018. Forward-thinking farmers here started investing in single-origin and single-variety coffees some 20 years ago, but export was their only market until recently. Specialty coffee consumption in Brazil is still a tiny market – just 5 percent of total coffee consumption, according to the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association – but the potential is huge, experts agree.

“São Paulo is a very serious food city, it’s got a massive population and it’s got spending power,” Croce says. “The origin is also here, with farms close by. But the specialty coffee doesn’t speak for itself. People are creatures of habit. They choose the coffee that reminds them of their grandma’s house rather than the coffee that challenges them, unless you walk them through it.”

This is why spaces like Isso é Café focus as much on educating consumers as they do on growing and serving coffee. Restaurateurs, baristas, and coffee geeks in general are in and out of Isso é Café for cuppings as well as courses that run from latte art to brewing methods.

Croce and his team are involved in every step on the coffee production process. “We’re farmers, we’re baristas, we’re roasters and we’re also tasters. When we choose what variety to plant, we’re always discussing how it might taste. We want to push forward in terms of what’s possible with coffee,” he says.

That experimental spirit is also palpable at Um Coffee, a small chain of coffee shops with a farm 175 miles northeast of São Paulo. Stefano Um, the patriarch, came to São Paulo from Korea when he was eight years old, and fulfilled a lifelong ambition when he bought a coffee farm in 2009. He ripped out the farm’s old and unproductive coffee trees to plant 200,000 new ones, and now grows 23 different varieties. The company exports its micro-lot coffees to countries across Europe as well as Japan, Korea, and the U.S.

At the Um Coffee location in Bom Retiro, a downtown São Paulo neighborhood with a large Korean community, a barista serves me a cup of the farm’s red catauí variety, measuring out the freshly ground coffee into a Kalita Wave filter. She uses a weighing scale that doubles as a stopwatch to measure the time it takes for the water to filter through into the cup.

Precision is important at Um Coffee, from its approach to roasting (on a floor above the coffee shop) to the tests it’s been running this year at the farm, fermenting coffee cherries to develop different flavors.

“We wanted to bring some innovation to the market and try new ways to do coffee,” Stefano’s son Boram tells me. He and his brother were the driving force behind the coffee shops, having seen firsthand what their export clients were doing. They started with the coffee shop in Bom Retiro in 2016, and within two years had two other branches, a clutch of local magazine awards, and plans to open more coffee shops in the coming months.

“Brazil is unique in having so many different producing regions, and it’s easy in São Paulo to access all these different coffees,” Boram says. Um Coffee also serves varieties grown by other producers from different regions, including from Felipe Croce’s family farm, Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza. Stefano goes to meet the producers and their farms himself. “This transparency is really important to us,” he says, “knowing each grower’s ethics, and knowing how we roasted and serve it.”

As at Isso é Café, changing consumer perceptions is one of the biggest challenges that the Um family faces, and so they too offer a roster of courses as well as free cuppings each weekend. They talk about “converting” customers from standard-grade Brazilian brew, which Felipe Croce calls “bitter sugar water” (sugar being essential to cut through its burnt tang).

Coffee runs deep in the veins of São Paulo. The wealth that came from the state’s coffee boom in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries brought railways and European architecture, not to mention around 4 million immigrants who came to work on the plantations that stretch for 400 miles into the interior of the state.

The city mansions of the São Paulo coffee barons are mostly gone now, bulldozed to make way for high-rises in the latter part of the twentieth century, but a few still stand. One, a 1930s landmark in the upmarket Jardins neighborhood, was restored to become Zel Café in late 2018. The coffee shop, restaurant, and book store is owned by the charismatic José Lauro Megale and run by his daughter Caroline. The coffee – three varieties and a blend – comes from their farm in the Serra da Mantiqueira mountains, just over the state border in Minas Gerais.

José Lauro sold his family’s logistics business in 2015 for more than $250 million and is investing in transforming the cattle and stud farm he inherited from his father. “My father thought I would have sold the farm before he was cold in his grave, but I bought 300 more horses and planted 100,000 coffee trees,” he says. Last year, Zel Cafe produced 200 bags (26,455 pounds) of coffee, and the new trees he planted aren’t even producing yet.

There’s no one model for the family businesses driving this trend. Octávio Café is a pioneer of the farm-to-cup trend in São Paulo, albeit on a larger and more corporate scale. The owners, the Quércia family, of Italian origin, have coffee farms in the Alta Mogiana region of the state with 7 million coffee trees that supply their five coffee shops (two are in an airport). The personal contact with the grower is lost in their coffee shops, but the traceability and quality is.

“Each business has its own origins and approach to coffee,” Croce says. “It’s part of what makes São Paulo so rich and diverse — and all these approaches are starting to make São Paulo’s coffee scene interesting.”

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The Revolutionary Coffee Shops Bringing Craft Beans Back to Brazil

It’s the end of the coffee harvest in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and a warehouse in the capital is buzzing with life. Jute sacks of green coffee beans are piled up, waiting to be put into cold storage. Buyers have come from around the world, and the roasting machine is still warm from the morning roast.

This is Isso é Café, a coffee shop in downtown São Paulo. Brazil’s long-standing concept of “export-grade coffee,” where the best stuff goes to foreigners, is starting to change in this city. Now, specialty coffee shops owned by the growers themselves, like Isso é Café, are beginning to flourish. There are currently more than 10 such places across São Paulo, in all shapes and sizes.

“You have to look hard to find good coffee in São Paulo, but it’s here and it’s unique,” says Isso é Café founder Felipe Croce, a young coffee farmer with a quiet, revolutionary air.

Croce is the fifth generation of a São Paulo coffee farming family that produced conventional “commodity coffee” for nearly 150 years. Then, in 2001, his mother took over the farm on a mission to go organic. It was right at the beginning of the so-called third-wave coffee movement, which Felipe describes as unwritten ethos in which quality, origin, traceability and fair prices all play an essential part.

Brazil is the largest producer of coffee in the world as well as the largest consumer; Brazilians brewed their way through 21 million bags (weighing 132 pounds each) of coffee in 2018. Forward-thinking farmers here started investing in single-origin and single-variety coffees some 20 years ago, but export was their only market until recently. Specialty coffee consumption in Brazil is still a tiny market – just 5 percent of total coffee consumption, according to the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association – but the potential is huge, experts agree.

“São Paulo is a very serious food city, it’s got a massive population and it’s got spending power,” Croce says. “The origin is also here, with farms close by. But the specialty coffee doesn’t speak for itself. People are creatures of habit. They choose the coffee that reminds them of their grandma’s house rather than the coffee that challenges them, unless you walk them through it.”

This is why spaces like Isso é Café focus as much on educating consumers as they do on growing and serving coffee. Restaurateurs, baristas, and coffee geeks in general are in and out of Isso é Café for cuppings as well as courses that run from latte art to brewing methods.

Croce and his team are involved in every step on the coffee production process. “We’re farmers, we’re baristas, we’re roasters and we’re also tasters. When we choose what variety to plant, we’re always discussing how it might taste. We want to push forward in terms of what’s possible with coffee,” he says.

That experimental spirit is also palpable at Um Coffee, a small chain of coffee shops with a farm 175 miles northeast of São Paulo. Stefano Um, the patriarch, came to São Paulo from Korea when he was eight years old, and fulfilled a lifelong ambition when he bought a coffee farm in 2009. He ripped out the farm’s old and unproductive coffee trees to plant 200,000 new ones, and now grows 23 different varieties. The company exports its micro-lot coffees to countries across Europe as well as Japan, Korea, and the U.S.

At the Um Coffee location in Bom Retiro, a downtown São Paulo neighborhood with a large Korean community, a barista serves me a cup of the farm’s red catauí variety, measuring out the freshly ground coffee into a Kalita Wave filter. She uses a weighing scale that doubles as a stopwatch to measure the time it takes for the water to filter through into the cup.

Precision is important at Um Coffee, from its approach to roasting (on a floor above the coffee shop) to the tests it’s been running this year at the farm, fermenting coffee cherries to develop different flavors.

“We wanted to bring some innovation to the market and try new ways to do coffee,” Stefano’s son Boram tells me. He and his brother were the driving force behind the coffee shops, having seen firsthand what their export clients were doing. They started with the coffee shop in Bom Retiro in 2016, and within two years had two other branches, a clutch of local magazine awards, and plans to open more coffee shops in the coming months.

“Brazil is unique in having so many different producing regions, and it’s easy in São Paulo to access all these different coffees,” Boram says. Um Coffee also serves varieties grown by other producers from different regions, including from Felipe Croce’s family farm, Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza. Stefano goes to meet the producers and their farms himself. “This transparency is really important to us,” he says, “knowing each grower’s ethics, and knowing how we roasted and serve it.”

As at Isso é Café, changing consumer perceptions is one of the biggest challenges that the Um family faces, and so they too offer a roster of courses as well as free cuppings each weekend. They talk about “converting” customers from standard-grade Brazilian brew, which Felipe Croce calls “bitter sugar water” (sugar being essential to cut through its burnt tang).

Coffee runs deep in the veins of São Paulo. The wealth that came from the state’s coffee boom in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries brought railways and European architecture, not to mention around 4 million immigrants who came to work on the plantations that stretch for 400 miles into the interior of the state.

The city mansions of the São Paulo coffee barons are mostly gone now, bulldozed to make way for high-rises in the latter part of the twentieth century, but a few still stand. One, a 1930s landmark in the upmarket Jardins neighborhood, was restored to become Zel Café in late 2018. The coffee shop, restaurant, and book store is owned by the charismatic José Lauro Megale and run by his daughter Caroline. The coffee – three varieties and a blend – comes from their farm in the Serra da Mantiqueira mountains, just over the state border in Minas Gerais.

José Lauro sold his family’s logistics business in 2015 for more than $250 million and is investing in transforming the cattle and stud farm he inherited from his father. “My father thought I would have sold the farm before he was cold in his grave, but I bought 300 more horses and planted 100,000 coffee trees,” he says. Last year, Zel Cafe produced 200 bags (26,455 pounds) of coffee, and the new trees he planted aren’t even producing yet.

There’s no one model for the family businesses driving this trend. Octávio Café is a pioneer of the farm-to-cup trend in São Paulo, albeit on a larger and more corporate scale. The owners, the Quércia family, of Italian origin, have coffee farms in the Alta Mogiana region of the state with 7 million coffee trees that supply their five coffee shops (two are in an airport). The personal contact with the grower is lost in their coffee shops, but the traceability and quality is.

“Each business has its own origins and approach to coffee,” Croce says. “It’s part of what makes São Paulo so rich and diverse — and all these approaches are starting to make São Paulo’s coffee scene interesting.”

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The Revolutionary Coffee Shops Bringing Craft Beans Back to Brazil

It’s the end of the coffee harvest in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and a warehouse in the capital is buzzing with life. Jute sacks of green coffee beans are piled up, waiting to be put into cold storage. Buyers have come from around the world, and the roasting machine is still warm from the morning roast.

This is Isso é Café, a coffee shop in downtown São Paulo. Brazil’s long-standing concept of “export-grade coffee,” where the best stuff goes to foreigners, is starting to change in this city. Now, specialty coffee shops owned by the growers themselves, like Isso é Café, are beginning to flourish. There are currently more than 10 such places across São Paulo, in all shapes and sizes.

“You have to look hard to find good coffee in São Paulo, but it’s here and it’s unique,” says Isso é Café founder Felipe Croce, a young coffee farmer with a quiet, revolutionary air.

Croce is the fifth generation of a São Paulo coffee farming family that produced conventional “commodity coffee” for nearly 150 years. Then, in 2001, his mother took over the farm on a mission to go organic. It was right at the beginning of the so-called third-wave coffee movement, which Felipe describes as unwritten ethos in which quality, origin, traceability and fair prices all play an essential part.

Brazil is the largest producer of coffee in the world as well as the largest consumer; Brazilians brewed their way through 21 million bags (weighing 132 pounds each) of coffee in 2018. Forward-thinking farmers here started investing in single-origin and single-variety coffees some 20 years ago, but export was their only market until recently. Specialty coffee consumption in Brazil is still a tiny market – just 5 percent of total coffee consumption, according to the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association – but the potential is huge, experts agree.

“São Paulo is a very serious food city, it’s got a massive population and it’s got spending power,” Croce says. “The origin is also here, with farms close by. But the specialty coffee doesn’t speak for itself. People are creatures of habit. They choose the coffee that reminds them of their grandma’s house rather than the coffee that challenges them, unless you walk them through it.”

This is why spaces like Isso é Café focus as much on educating consumers as they do on growing and serving coffee. Restaurateurs, baristas, and coffee geeks in general are in and out of Isso é Café for cuppings as well as courses that run from latte art to brewing methods.

Croce and his team are involved in every step on the coffee production process. “We’re farmers, we’re baristas, we’re roasters and we’re also tasters. When we choose what variety to plant, we’re always discussing how it might taste. We want to push forward in terms of what’s possible with coffee,” he says.

That experimental spirit is also palpable at Um Coffee, a small chain of coffee shops with a farm 175 miles northeast of São Paulo. Stefano Um, the patriarch, came to São Paulo from Korea when he was eight years old, and fulfilled a lifelong ambition when he bought a coffee farm in 2009. He ripped out the farm’s old and unproductive coffee trees to plant 200,000 new ones, and now grows 23 different varieties. The company exports its micro-lot coffees to countries across Europe as well as Japan, Korea, and the U.S.

At the Um Coffee location in Bom Retiro, a downtown São Paulo neighborhood with a large Korean community, a barista serves me a cup of the farm’s red catauí variety, measuring out the freshly ground coffee into a Kalita Wave filter. She uses a weighing scale that doubles as a stopwatch to measure the time it takes for the water to filter through into the cup.

Precision is important at Um Coffee, from its approach to roasting (on a floor above the coffee shop) to the tests it’s been running this year at the farm, fermenting coffee cherries to develop different flavors.

“We wanted to bring some innovation to the market and try new ways to do coffee,” Stefano’s son Boram tells me. He and his brother were the driving force behind the coffee shops, having seen firsthand what their export clients were doing. They started with the coffee shop in Bom Retiro in 2016, and within two years had two other branches, a clutch of local magazine awards, and plans to open more coffee shops in the coming months.

“Brazil is unique in having so many different producing regions, and it’s easy in São Paulo to access all these different coffees,” Boram says. Um Coffee also serves varieties grown by other producers from different regions, including from Felipe Croce’s family farm, Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza. Stefano goes to meet the producers and their farms himself. “This transparency is really important to us,” he says, “knowing each grower’s ethics, and knowing how we roasted and serve it.”

As at Isso é Café, changing consumer perceptions is one of the biggest challenges that the Um family faces, and so they too offer a roster of courses as well as free cuppings each weekend. They talk about “converting” customers from standard-grade Brazilian brew, which Felipe Croce calls “bitter sugar water” (sugar being essential to cut through its burnt tang).

Coffee runs deep in the veins of São Paulo. The wealth that came from the state’s coffee boom in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries brought railways and European architecture, not to mention around 4 million immigrants who came to work on the plantations that stretch for 400 miles into the interior of the state.

The city mansions of the São Paulo coffee barons are mostly gone now, bulldozed to make way for high-rises in the latter part of the twentieth century, but a few still stand. One, a 1930s landmark in the upmarket Jardins neighborhood, was restored to become Zel Café in late 2018. The coffee shop, restaurant, and book store is owned by the charismatic José Lauro Megale and run by his daughter Caroline. The coffee – three varieties and a blend – comes from their farm in the Serra da Mantiqueira mountains, just over the state border in Minas Gerais.

José Lauro sold his family’s logistics business in 2015 for more than $250 million and is investing in transforming the cattle and stud farm he inherited from his father. “My father thought I would have sold the farm before he was cold in his grave, but I bought 300 more horses and planted 100,000 coffee trees,” he says. Last year, Zel Cafe produced 200 bags (26,455 pounds) of coffee, and the new trees he planted aren’t even producing yet.

There’s no one model for the family businesses driving this trend. Octávio Café is a pioneer of the farm-to-cup trend in São Paulo, albeit on a larger and more corporate scale. The owners, the Quércia family, of Italian origin, have coffee farms in the Alta Mogiana region of the state with 7 million coffee trees that supply their five coffee shops (two are in an airport). The personal contact with the grower is lost in their coffee shops, but the traceability and quality is.

“Each business has its own origins and approach to coffee,” Croce says. “It’s part of what makes São Paulo so rich and diverse — and all these approaches are starting to make São Paulo’s coffee scene interesting.”

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Nerdcast: A sigh of relief from Democrats

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Lightning and Sparks Fly

Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Lightning and Sparks Fly

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Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon Call Out Craig Wright at Deconomy 2018

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Online identity: is authenticity or anonymity more important? (2012)

Before Facebook and Google became the megaliths of the web, the most famous online adage was, "on the internet, no one knows you're a dog". It seems the days when people were allowed to be dogs is coming to a close. The old web, a place where identity could remain separate from real life, is rapidly disappearing from the computer screen. According to Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, and Richard Allan, its director of policy in Europe, a critical mass of people only want online interactions supported by "authentic" identity. And this, say critics, will have irrevocable effects on the openness of the web.

The pursuit of authenticity is creeping into the heart of most social media models and in the current internet landscape is playing an important role in how we engage with one another and with web content. For many people, Facebook and Google products are the sum total of their web interaction, and the value in creating a platform that provides confidence that a person is who they say they are, rather someone pretending to be them, is critical to a social network's success.

Within this model, authentic identity is non-anonymous. Facebook profiles and Google IDs are tied to a person's real name and real connections, and increasingly to their activities across cyberspace. Users are familiar with logging into other services using Facebook or Google IDs, forming a single public identity that's an aggregated version of their offline past, the online present and their combined future.

Facebook also believes authenticity is linked to a person's photo stream, which is why it has just paid $1bn for the photo-sharing service Instagram. "Pictures speak a thousand words," says Allan. "Immigration officials will ask to see a photo album to see if a relationship is genuine. It's a very instinctive and powerful way to confirm authentic identity."

Not everyone agrees. "I would not call what you have on Facebook 'authentic' identity," says Christopher Poole, the 24-year-old creator of 4Chan, an online community founded in 2004. 4Chan boasts two design features antithetical to Facebook: first, its 20 million users don't register an account to participate and are therefore anonymous; second, there's no archive.

Poole, who was voted Time's most influential person of 2008 – two years before Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was declared the magazine's Man of the Year – believes Facebook's commercial motivations shut down the online experience: "Mark and Sheryl have gone out and said that identity is authenticity, that you are online who you are offline, and to have multiple identities is lacking in integrity. I think that's nuts."

"We went from a web that was interest-driven, and then we transitioned into a web where the connections were in-person, real-life friendship relationships," adds Poole. "Individuals are multifaceted. Identity is prismatic, and communities like 4Chan exist as a holdover from the interest-driven web."

Allan (Facebook) believes such attitudes are naive. The millions who have gone online over the past decade want a safe place where they won't experience bad behaviour, have their identities stolen or be duped by impostors, he says: "Pretend identities don't work very well now that the web has moved from a minority sport for geeks to a mainstream occupation."

“Any profile on Facebook or Google that is not tied to an offline name is removed.”

And this attitude is baked into the main players' systems: any profile on Facebook or Google that does not appear to be tied to an offline name is removed. Nicknames and pseudonyms, regardless of their longevity – and some have been in use for decades – are considered breaches of terms of service. What people do online now, and will be doing in the foreseeable future, is inherently tied to their offline selves. And this locks down what it is considered acceptable to do and who it is acceptable to meet.

Yet a social network's success need not rely upon this direct link between online and offline identity. In Japan, the three most popular social networks operate under pseudonyms at the discretion of the account holder. "[Japanese social networks are] anonymous, but we can trace past mentions by login ID or nickname," explains Yasutaka Yuno, editor-in-chief of Japan's most popular mobile technology site, K-tai Watch. "The past mentions are useful to judge credibility. In each social community, ID acts as personal name."

“When users are aware that their activities online are traceable, identity play continues.”

An online identity can be as permanent as an offline one: pseudonymous users often identify themselves in different social networks using the same account name. But because their handles aren't based on real names, they can deliberately delineate their identity accordingly, and reassert anonymity if they wish. Psychologists argue that this is valuable for the development of a sense of who one is, who one can be, and how one fits into different contexts. This kind of activity is allowed even in countries where social network account holders are required to register for a service using a national ID, as in South Korea and China; their online public identities are still fabrications. Even with this explicit link with the state, when users are aware that their activities online are traceable, identity play continues.

Andrew Lewman, executive director of the Tor Project, hopes to re-anonymise the web. "The ability to be anonymous is increasingly important because it gives people control, it lets them be creative, it lets them figure out their identity and explore what they want to do, or to research topics that aren't necessarily 'them' and may not want tied to their real name for perpetuity," he says.

The Tor browser and software obfuscates a user's web traffic so anyone watching is unable to trace who a user is or where they are coming from, by bouncing an individual's communications through at least three different places. People can still be identifiable on a service like Facebook or Google if they choose to log in, but Tor prevents these sites knowing what users were doing before, and where they go after they log out.

This is a technological solution to what Lewman feels is an elemental problem with the de-anonymisation of the web. "The ability to forget, to start over is important," he argues. "Maybe you just got divorced, maybe you just came out of rehab and you want to start over.

"As soon as you log into a Gmail account, you start getting ads for the drug rehab you want to forget. If you're in a real-name environment, such as Facebook, unless you actually physically change your name and your friends, you're thrown right back into your old life."

Although Facebook does allow users to curate what's public and private – "recasting your public persona by selecting from the data you've put onto the service," explains Allan – Lewman believes the automated systems make a total social reinvention difficult to pull off.

"If you truly wanted to be anonymous, you'd have to use a combination of 4Chan and Tor," explains Poole. Tor provides the back-end anonymity that complements 4Chan's front-end anonymity. But this is technologically advanced: it is the major players setting the identity agenda. And so the ideological battle over online identity continues.

"Facebook is setting the expectations of what we want," says Poole. "They set the bar in terms of what kind of control their users have over their identity online. They've been moving that bar slowly but surely in a direction that they might call transparency, but what other people might call lack of choice."

Allan believes the benefits of authentic identity outweigh the costs. Facebook and other services with an assurance of security and credibility are more inclusive, and open up the web to new audiences who never would have gone online before, he says. "We're optimists. Facebook enables hundreds of millions of people to express themselves online because they didn't have or know how to use the tools they needed." Facebook, he believes, is a stepping stone to the rest of the web.

And if they are successful at promoting their particular brand of authentic identity, if you want to be a dog on the internet in the future, you'll have to have papers to prove it.

[loeildelaigle]

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