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North Texas stuns UTSA, Baylor heads to the Big 12 title game, A&M falls in Death Valley, and more

China Spring coach Brian Bell, TCU hires Sonny Dykes, SMU hires Rhett Lashlee, and a wild week in the TXHSFB Playoffs

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Coinbase acquires Breadwallet El Salvador's Bitcoin City Is El Salvador's Bitcoin Bond worth buying? New merch on the website Midwest tungsten releases a new shape Is India banning crypto again? Miners coming back online in China The OCC, FDIC, and Fed will release cryptoasset guidance in 2022 Saule Omarova's nomination to run the OCC has fallen through Jerome Powell will keep helming the Fed Elizabeth Warren blames inflation on Big Poultry ConstitutionDAO crashes and burns Insider trading doesn't just apply to securities Who we are thankful for Merch: onthebrink.shop Sponsor notes:  This show supported by Coinbase Prime, an integrated solution that provides advanced multi-venue trading, custody, and prime services for institutions. For more information see coinbase.com/prime Corporations and institutions can allocate cash into Circle Yield to gain crypto lending exposure and earn superior returns compared to traditional markets. It's secured, overcollateralized and built on the leading dollar digital currency. Visit circle.com/yield to book a meeting

Avalanche is an open, scalable, and secure smart contracts platform. It targets three broad use cases; building application-specific blockchains, building and launching highly scalable decentralized applications (dapps), and building arbitrarily complex digital assets with custom rules, covenants, and riders (smart assets). It prides itself off on being blazingly fast, low cost, and eco-friendly.Emin Gün Sirer is the Founder & CEO of the Avalanche network. He is also a long time friend of the show, and joined us again for the 4th time after a 5 year break to share his journey since then, which led him to creating Avalanche. We also dove deep into the technical aspects of the protocol and how it fits into the blockchain ecosystem as a whole.Topics covered in this episode:Gun's journey over the past 5 years which led him to creating AvalancheThe unique features and trade-offs in the protocolA deep dive into bridging within AvalancheMEV extraction within the protocolAvalanche consensus - reliance on seed anchorsEpisode links:Episode 76 - From Selfish Miners to The Miner's DilemmaEpisode 103 - Bitcoin-NG – Scientists Versus the ChurchEp 134 - On a Rocky DAOAvalancheAva LabsAvalanche on TwitterGun on TwitterSponsors:Chorus One: Chorus One runs validators on cutting edge Proof of Stake networks such as Cosmos, Solana, Celo, Polkadot and Oasis. - https://epicenter.rocks/chorusoneParaSwap: ParaSwap aggregates all major DEXs and makes sure you beat the market price at every single swap and with the lowest slippage - paraswap.io/epicenterThis episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/419

This Week in Recruiting with Greg Powers Announcing the 25 semifinalists for Mr. Texas Football The Picks — Predicting All 88 UIL TXHSFB Games College Football Burning Questions Thanksgiving Spectacular

Steve and John preview UAB football's upcoming game against UTEP and also are pleased to welcome Adrian Broaddus on the show! Make sure to follow Adrian on Twitter at twitter.com/AdrianBroaddus and follow the Blazer Victory Podcast at twitter.com/BlazerPod 

What TXHSFB games should you stream Thanskgiving weekend? Plus a college football recap and more

Dublin coach Greg Hardcastle, revealing the DCTF Rising magazine cover, overreacting to the football weekend, and more

Matt Stepp and Greg Tepper answer listener questions in Helpful Honda Mailbag Friday

US futures are indicating a flat open as of 05:00 ET. European equity markets higher Friday. Miners, energy and chemicals the best performers. Asia equities ended mixed Friday. Mainland China markets were regional outperformers with Shanghai-listed property stocks surging after several positive news points. Real estate also supportive in Hong Kong but internet and IT names struggled following yesterday's downbeat outlook statement from Alibaba. Company's mentioned: Intuit, Workday, Crown Resorts, Blackstone

Hoo boy, it's possible Season 2 of Everwood is going to destroy us. From miners' marital mayhem to minors making mistakes, there's a LOT to discuss here. Please make sure to listen to Treat Williams singing on utube :) TW: This episode contains an abundance of laughter. No regrets! Season 2, Episode 7: Three Miners from Everwood Season 2, Episode 8: Burden of Truth Season 2, Episode 9: Just Like in the Movies The Everwood Pinecast is a weekly seasonal recap podcast about the WB original TV series Everwood, that aired from 2002-2006. Everwood is available for streaming on HBO Max. Everwood was created by Greg Berlanti and starred Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Vivien Cardone, Emily VanCamp, Chris Pratt, Debra Mooney, Stephanie Niznik, John Beasley, Sarah Lancaster, Marcia Cross, and Tom Amandes. If you like our show, please rate and review! We're proud members of of the Thought Bubble Audio podcast network. Visit thoughtbubbleaudio.com to find all of their shows, including tv review shows for The CW's Supergirl and Hulu's Loud Women, pop culture weeklies like Beer With Geeks, and our podcast, Hatewatch With Us.

Poteet coach Darby House, what games to stream this weekend, TXHSFB predictions and more

En este episodio charlamos con Nora Fiorini, una colega que no trabaja en pantuflas, sino enfundada en equipos de alta protección, botas y casco. Una entrevista genial con una profesional excepcional. ¡Poné play! Nora es Traductora Pública de inglés, Profesora en Traducción Pública y hace más de 25 años que se dedica exclusivamente a la traducción en el área técnica industrial. Es especialista en traducciones e interpretaciones para minería y medioambiente, ofreciendo servicios de interpretación tanto en la mina como en forma remota. Es consultora (STC) del Banco Mundial y trabaja con clientes directos de distintas partes del mundo. Además, cursó la carrera de Especialización en Geología Minera en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, siendo la primera traductora admitida a esta formación. Dirige un equipo de traductores especializado en minería, medioambiente, responsabilidad social y energías. También dicta cursos sobre especialización e introducción a la minería para traductores en Argentina, Chile, Perú y EE.UU. ¡No te pierdas a esta colega todoterreno!

Amarillo OL Kaden Carr, This Week in Recruiting, and more

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Craig Way on the first round of the playoffs, recapping the college football weekend, and more

Dan talks with Keith Marlowe of The Miners (and formerly of Tornado 5) about their new record, 'Megunticook', alt country from the 80s to today, the Philly alt-rock scene in the 90s, becoming a frontman, and the joys of the current vinyl shortage. 'Megunticook' is available now everywhere you get digital music.

A bonkers start to the Texas high school football playoffs, plus El Paso Eastwood coach Julio Lopez

Steven's guest this week is Matt Miner, founder of Miner Wealth Management and host of the Work Pants Finance podcast. Despite being a relative newcomer to the financial world, he's got a proven philosophy for working with other COIs. Tune in as Steven and Matt discuss the pain points that advisors should resolve promptly with their clients.

For 16 years, Chen Nianxi endured working in mines across China. Writing poetry was his only solace. Read the article by Sang Qiu: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008862/a-miners-verse-through-peril-and-pain%2C-just-words-remain Narrated by Anthony Tao. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Answering your bi-district playoff questions in Helpful Honda Maibag Friday

Michigan musician, songwriter and water protector Samantha Cooper became one of over 900 defendants in the struggle to stop line 3 this past summer. She was invited to stand with Indigenous leaders, upholding their treaty rights and protecting the natural resources guaranteed to them under federal law. After spending a month in Minnesota, Sam created an interpolation of a song called "Tomorrow" by Miner. Her video single is a love note to the rights of Manoomin (wild rice). The song "Let the Wave" features Frank Bibeau - the Attorney in a historic rights of Manoomin case unfolding in Minnesota. This track also features artists Shara Nova of My Brightest Diamond, Jaike Spotted Wolf of Camp Migizi, and Holly T Bird of Title Track, as well as contributions from Seth Bernard and Dan Rickabus. Check out the song, streaming everywhere now! /// State of Water is a program of the Michigan-based non-profit organization Title Track, and is powered by the Clean Water Campaign for Michigan. The podcast is made possible through a generous contribution from the Esperance Foundation. /// EPISODE 24 / Samantha Cooper interviewed by Dan Rickabus / Produced, edited and mixed by Dan Rickabus / Narrators - Alex Smith, Ben Darcie, Dan Rickabus, Jenny Jones, Angela Gallegos, Rachel Marco-Havens / Graphic by Dani Renwick of Charmellow Design / Theme Music - Mike Savina, Seth Bernard & Dan Rickabus / Featured Music - "Let the Wave" by Samantha Cooper (feat. Shara Nova, Jaike Spotted Wolf, Holly T Bird & Frank Bibeau)

Chad Everett Harris is the CEO of Riot Whinstone US which is the largest Bitcoin Mining facility in North America. Chad discusses Whinstone's location in Rockdale Texas, mining equipment and facility, energy sources used, Riot Blockchain acquisition, mining facility security, China's bank on BTC mining, and much more.https://www.riotblockchain.com/https://twitter.com/chadeverett

New Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire talks to TFT, bi-district playoff predictions, what to stream this week, CFB Burning Questions and more

Jon talks with the leadership team at Berkadia, Ernest Katai, Keith Misner, Mike Miner and Dori Nolan, about real estate, the market, leadership and the power of teamwork! Ernest Katai Executive Vice President, Head of Production Ernest Katai is Executive Vice President, Head of Production and a member of Berkadia's Management Committee. In this role, Mr. Katai oversees approximately 240 experienced mortgage bankers and investment sales advisors. Under his leadership, the company's mortgage banking division has grown by 90 percent, while investment sales have increased by 103 percent. In 2019, Berkadia's combined production volume of loan origination, investment sales and JV equity placements exceeded $36 billion. Mr. Katai has been with Berkadia and its predecessors' companies for more than 25 years, working as a leading mortgage banker throughout his tenure. Prior to his current position, Mr. Katai led the Detroit Office to the top originating office in the State of Michigan. The office now regularly produces mortgage banking and investment sales volume of approximately $2 billion annually. Mr. Katai has an extensive background in loan origination that includes construction lending, interim loans, structured loans, tax free financing, joint ventures and equity investments. Mr. Katai has originated transactions with more than 50 capital sources including multiple life companies, credit companies, banks, conduits, and pension funds. Previously, Mr. Katai did construction lending for Comerica Bank and real estate structured credit financing for Ford Motor Credit. Keith Misner Senior Vice President, Head of Investment Sales Keith Misner is Senior Vice President, Head of Investment Sales and a member of Berkadia's Management Committee. In this role, he is responsible for accelerating the growth of the firm's national investment sales platform and coordination of all operating aspects, including recruiting. Mr. Misner has more than 30 years of national commercial real estate experience with success in investment sales, asset management and development aspects in both public and private owner/investor firms and major service providers. Prior to Berkadia, Mr. Misner served as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Abacus Capital Group LLC for the newly established Abacus Core Investment Fund I LP. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Transactions at AIMCO, the Denver-based nationally active REIT. During his career, Mr. Misner has also worked in senior leadership roles at Grubb & Ellis, CBRE, and Cushman & Wakefield where from 2003 to 2010, he was a national leader. Mike Miner Vice President – Investment Sales Operations In this role, Mr. Miner oversees a team of more than 90 support staff that focus on delivering high quality deal marketing collateral, research, and financial analysis in support of closing over 400 transactions annually. Additional Mr. Miner focuses on establishing a technology forward IS platform working closely with the Innovation team to develop Berkadia tailored deal marketing, CRM, and email marketing products. Finally, Mr. Miner also supports Investment Sales' strategic initiatives which include expanding institutional client outreach and growing Investment Sales through recruiting new brokers. In 2018, Berkadia's Investment Sales volume totaled $8.3 billion which was a record year. This year's volume YTD is up 13% compared to the same time frame last year. Previously, Mr. Miner worked in strategy consulting at McKinsey and Company where he worked with clients on strategic roadmaps and operational and organizational transformations across multiple industries. Mr. Miner has a Bachelor of Science in business management from Brigham Young University and a Masters of Business Administration in management and strategy from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Dori Nolan SVP, National Client Services Dori is key to the production leadership team as Senior Vice President of National Client Services. She has extensive multifamily transaction expertise and industry-wide relationships. Her primary focus entails coordinating Berkadia's Investment Sales, Mortgage Banking, and other Berkadia services for Berkadia's most active multi-market and/or institutional apartment capital sources. She leads a national initiative to continue to grow business relationships with current clients and new clients, helping them to better understand the full potential of Berkadia's services. She is also responsible for collaborating with Berkadia's Investment Sales and Mortgage Banking specialties to improve customer support programs and enhance customer service satisfaction. Dori was previously a partner with Capri Capital Partners where she was responsible for all investment activities including acquisitions, dispositions, and financing efforts.   Discussed during this episode: Brené Brown: The Power of Vulnerability Brené Brown: Listening to Shame Brené Brown: The Call to Courage   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with the Berkadia Team: Website: https://www.berkadia.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/berkadia LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/berkadia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/berkadia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/berkadia/

Craig Way on the TXHSFB playoffs, Greg Powers on recruiting, and more

What to expect from Joey McGuire at Texas Tech, recapping the CFB weekend, and more

On this week's LIVE recording, Lee and Eleanor dig into the predictable failure of Dems in VA, and the power of labor organizing vis a vis cabbies in New York, and coal miners. PLUS the terrorist mindset of the prison industrial complex, mutual aid for a new future and MORE!   liberapay.com/leecamp

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MEET ETHAN LOU:Ethan Lou is the author of "Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West," and writes a column in the Financial Post. His earlier book, "Field Notes from a Pandemic," has received national accolades. Lou is a former Reuters reporter and has served as a visiting journalist at the University of British Columbia. https://amzn.to/3qj9uds (Book: Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West) Once a Bitcoin Miner depicts how Ethan had gone to North Korea and met the Ethereum Foundation's Virgil Griffith — the man later arrested for allegedly trying to help the totalitarian state break sanctions through blockchain. Griffith pleaded guilty on Sept 27, and this book grants an exclusive insider's look into those seven nights in Pyongyang. In CoinDesk, there's both an https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/27/7-nights-in-pyongyang-inside-the-north-korean-trip-that-got-ethereums-virgil-griffith-arrested/ (excerpt) and Ethan's https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/29/why-did-virgil-griffith-plead-guilty/ (analysis of the case). There's https://thewalrus.ca/north-korea-cryptocurrency/ (another excerpt) published in the Canadian magazine the Walrus. Publisher's Weekly calls the book's events a "roller-coaster ride." Camila Russo, author of The Infinite Machine and founder of The Defiant, has called Once a Bitcoin Miner a "highly entertaining read." Erik Voorhees, founder of ShapeShift, has called Ethan's writing "rare quality in crypto journalism." The book will be featured in all the major publications in Canada as well as the Times and the Sun in the United Kingdom. CONTACT:https://ethanlou.com/ (https://ethanlou.com/) https://twitter.com/Ethan_Lou (https://twitter.com/Ethan_Lou) SUPPORT THE SHOW BECAUSE I LOVE PUPPIES!1)https://meetfox.com/en/ (MEETFOX) Monetize your time with an easy-to-use online platform. Use promo code “yuri” for 2 MONTHS FREE! 2) https://taliadinapoli.com/a/rewards/r/m8q3ZlTx (Talia di Napoli – PIZZA) Click on the title for $6.00 off your order of AMAZING pizza shipped fresh from Napoli https://www.gettaxhub.com/?rfsn=4356929.38ee2a (3) TAXHUB) NEED ACCOUNTING HELP? – Sign up for A Less Taxing Way To Work With A CPA. Get a free intro call with a tax professional. 4) https://www.audible.com/ep/freetrial?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R (Audible.com) This podcast is brought to you by Audible. I have used Audible for years, and I love audiobooks. Click on the link to get a 30-day free trial, complete with a credit for a free audiobook download 5) ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BITCOIN OR CRYPTOCURRENCY?BUY MY BOOK BECAUSE IT'S AMAZING!!! I'll EVEN SIGN IT FOR YOU : )https://amzn.to/3afTmOu (BE LEFT BEHIND: Discover Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Before Your Grandma Beats You to It) http://www.advanceyourart.com/captivate-podcast/eduardo-placer/yuricataldo.com (yuricataldo.com) CREDITS: Our theme music is written and mixed by Chicago-based composer, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Black of the Black's Backbone collaborative. And produced by REB Records. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news Brought to you by ungrocery.com Bitcoin is up 1% at $61,769 Ethereum is up 1% at $4,547 and Binance Coin up 6% at $658 LCX up 21% Chinese police seize $62 million in alleged Filecoin miner Ponzi scheme. Gary Gensler speaks about harsher crypto enforcement at the Securities enforcement forum. Osmosis is working to prevent front running and the extraction of MEV. Infrastructure bill passes, may require more of crypto users. Solidus Labs raises $15M in strategic funding.

Miner-poet Chen Nianxi tells the harrowing story of his years working as a blaster underground.Read the article: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2021/10/i-sacrificed-16-years-to-the-mines/Narrated by Elyse Ribbons.Translated by Nathaniel J. Gan. This story was originally told in Chinese on the Story FM podcast. It has been translated and republished by The World of Chinese with permission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In August of 1970, prolific New York stage, radio, TV, and commercial actress Jan Miner sat down with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for their WTIC Golden Age of Radio program (Full interview here - https://www.goldenage-wtic.org/gaor-05.html). During the course of their conversation about her career, Jan explained how significant the Frank and Anne Hummert production company was. In 1947 the couple produced eighteen shows and owned a 4.5 hour block of mid-day programming, coast-to-coast.

Answering listener questions in Helpful Honda Mailbag Friday

Somerville coach Cal Neatherlin, college football preview, TXHSFB predictions, what to stream this weekend, and more

La clase política colombiana, desde Gustavo Petro a Iván Duque, están mostrando una actitud crecientemente hostil hacia la minería. Sin embargo, es imposible que haya transición energética sin una intensificación de la actividad minera. Quienes defienden menos combustibles fósiles y menos minería defienden, en realidad, más pobreza.

VTOC. Know it. Use it... Love it? If you're putting data on volumes, you're using a Volume Table of Contents to keep track of what's where, and like most things in Z, knowing just how that information gets put to use can help aid in performance and reliability. Let the experts, Kevin Miner and Mike Koester take us through the importance of this oft-overlooked aspect of storage management. 

Small college talk with Cory Hogue, This Week in Recruiting with Greg Powers, and more

Beta Finance is building a permissionless protocol for people to easily short overheated tokens. Incubated by Alpha and Binance Launchpad, Beta recently garnered a lot of attention by allowing users to short NFD, a fractionalized NFT of a doge painting. I'm joined by founder Allen (@handle) to talk about The importance of shorting in DeFi How Beta works vs. Rari Fuse, Sushi's Kashi and other protocols Miner-extractable value in shorting onchain Host: mrjasonchoi. Not financial advice. Disclaimer: Spartan Capital is an investor in Beta Finance and holds Beta tokens.   ------------ Sponsors ------------- PARASWAP is the best place to trade your tokens and get the best price in DeFi today. Get started on paraswap.io/blockcrunch NOTIONAL: Borrow & lend at fixed rates for up to 1 year, or contribute liquidity to earn interest, fees, & NOTE token incentives with notional.finance HEDERA HASHGRAPH: Fund your project quickly and easily with the HBAR Foundation. Apply for a grant and be put on the fast track to success at https://www.hbarfoundation.org/apply ------------ Disclosures ------------- Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

Craig Way on Lake Travis-Westlake, Texas State hits rock bottom, and more

La Historia en la Minería en El Estor

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Week 10 TXHSFB Predictions, What Games to Stream, Who Wins SMU-Houston and more

Jay Miner was born in 1932 in Arizona. He got his Bachelor of Science at the University of California at Berkeley and helped design calculators that used the fancy new MOS chips where he cut his teeth doing microprocessor design, which put him working on the MOS 6500 series chips. Atari decided to use those in the VCS gaming console and so he ended up going to work for Atari. Things were fine under Bushnell but once he was off to do Chuck E Cheese and Time-Warner was running Atari things started to change. There he worked on chip designs that would go into the Atari 400 and 800 computers, which were finally released in 1979. But by then, Miner was gone after he couldn't get in step with the direction Atari was taking. So he floated around for a hot minute doing chip design for other companies until Larry Kaplan called. Kaplan had been at Atari and founded Activision in 1979. He had half a dozen games under his belt by then, but was ready for something different by 1982. He and Doug Neubauer saw the Nintendo NES was still using the MOS 6502 core, although now a Ricoh 2A03. They knew they could do better. Miner's company didn't want in on it, so they struck out on their own. Together they started a company called Hi-Toro, which they quickly renamed to Amiga. They originally wanted to build a new game console based on the Motorola 68000 chips, which were falling in price. They'd seen what Apple could do with the MOS 6502 chips and what Tandy did with the Z-80. These new chips were faster and had more options. Everyone knew Apple was working on the Lisa using the chips and they were slowly coming down in price. They pulled in $6 million in funding and started to build a game console, codenamed Lorraine. But to get cash flow, they worked on joysticks and various input devices for other gaming platforms. But development was expensive and they were burning through cash. So they went to Atari and signed a contract to give them exclusive access to the chips they were creating. And of course, then came the video game crash of 1983. Amazing timing. That created a shakeup around the industry. Jack Tramiel was out at Commodore, the company he founded originally to create calculators at the dawn of MOS chip technology. And Tramiel bought Atari from Time Warner. The console they were supposed to give Atari wasn't done yet. Meanwhile Tramiel had cut most of the Atari team and was bringing in his trusted people from Commodore, so seeing they'd have to contend with a titan like Tramiel, the team at Amiga went looking for investors. That's when Commodore bought Amiga to become their new technical team and next thing you know, Tramiel sues Commodore and that drags on from 1983 to 1987. Meanwhile, the nerds worked away. And by CES of 1984 they were able to show off the power of the graphics with a complex animation of a ball spinning and bouncing and shadows rendered on the ball. Even if the OS wasn't quite done yet, there was a buzz. By 1985, they announced The Amiga from Commodore - what we now know as the Amiga 1000. The computer was prone to crash, they had very little marketing behind them, but they were getting sales into the high thousands per month. Not only was Amiga competing with the rest of the computer industry, but they were competing with the PET and VIC-20, which Commodore was still selling. So they finally killed off those lines and created a strategy where they would produce a high end machine and a low end machine. These would become the Amiga 2000 and 500. Then the Amiga 3000 and 500 Plus, and finally the 4000 and 1200 lines. The original chips evolved into the ECS then AGA chipsets but after selling nearly 5,000,000 machines, they just couldn't keep up with missteps from Commodore after Irving Gould outside yet another CEO. But those Amiga machines. They were powerful and some of the first machines that could truly crunch the graphics and audio. And those higher end markets responded with tooling built specifically for the Amiga. Artists like Andy Warhol flocked to the platform. We got LightWave used on shows like Max Headroom. I can still remember that Money For Nothing video from Dire Straits. And who could forget Dev. The graphics might not have aged well but they were cutting edge at the time. When I toured colleges in that era, nearly every art department had a lab of Amigas doing amazing things. And while artists like Calvin Harris might have started out on an Amiga, many slowly moved to the Mac over the ensuing years. Commodore had emerged from a race to the bottom in price and bought themselves a few years in the wake of Jack Tramiel's exit. But the platform wars were raging with Microsoft DOS and then Windows rising out of the ashes of the IBM PC and IBM-compatible clone makers were standardizing. Yet Amiga stuck with the Motorola chips, even as Apple was first in line to buy them from the assembly line. Amiga had designed many of their own chips and couldn't compete with the clone makers at the lower end of the market or the Mac at the higher end. Nor the specialty systems running variants of Unix that were also on the rise. And while the platform had promised to sell a lot of games, the sales were a fourth or less of the other platforms and so game makers slowly stopped porting to the Amiga. They even tried to build early set-top machines, with the CDTV model, which they thought would help them merge the coming set-top television control and the game market using CD-based games. They saw MPEG coming but just couldn't cash in on the market. We were entering into an era of computing where it was becoming clear that the platform that could attract the most software titles would be the most popular, despite the great chipsets. The operating system had started slow. Amiga had a preemptive multitasking kernel and the first version looked like a DOS windowing screen when it showed up iii 1985. Unlike the Mac or Windows 1 it had a blue background with oranges interspersed. It wasn't awesome but it did the trick for a bit. But Workbench 2 was released for the Amiga 3000. They didn't have a lot of APIs so developers were often having to write their own tools where other operating systems gave them APIs. It was far more object-oriented than many of its competitors at the time though, and even gave support for multiple languages and hypertext schemes and browsers. Workbench 3 came in 1992, along with the A4000. There were some spiffy updates but by then there were less and less people working on the project. And the tech debt piled up. Like a lack of memory protection in the Exec kernel meant any old task could crash the operating system. By then, Miner was long gone. He again clashed with management at the company he founded, which had been purchased. Without the technical geniuses around, as happens with many companies when the founders move on, they seemed almost listless. They famously only built features people asked for. Unlike Apple, who guided the industry. Miner passed away in 1994. Less than two years later, Commodore went bankrupt in 1996. The Amiga brand was bought and sold to a number of organizations but nothing more ever became of them. Having defeated Amiga, the Tramiel family sold off Atari in 1996 as well. The age of game consoles by American firms would be over until Microsoft released the Xbox in 2001. IBM had pivoted out of computers and the web, which had been created in 1989 was on the way in full force by then. The era of hacking computers together was officially over.

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Susan Miner is the founder of Beauty From the Inside Out. As a supermodel, Susan graced the covers of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Self, Bazaar, and more! Some of her beauty campaigns were L'Oreal, Maybelline, Revlon, and Nivea. She followed this up by becoming a Professor of Psychology and a therapist. Her company now combines both of her careers as a model and a therapist. Collaboration with other models is a fun part of her work as she lends her face and intelligence to projects.