Foursquare Check-ins in New York City.
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Way Back in 2009, when Barack Obama was President and Little Nas X Was 10 Years Old, One of the Most Talked-About Start-Up in the Tech Industry Was an App Called Foursquare. The Digital Compass That Pointed Your Uncle Tony to the Mayorship of Your Local Boston Markets The Most Prominent App at A Moment Well in Silicon Valley Betting on Location-Based Socials Like Foursquare’s Biggest Competitor, Gowela. Foursquare was also the best-known of a generation of cutesy local start-ups-Think tumblr and gilt-poised to transform New York City Into The Next Silicon Valley.

Of Course, we all know how worked out. Location Social Networks Never Took off, and Gowalla’s Star Burned Out Fast. Gilt sold at a loss. And tumblr, recently sold by Yahoo for mess 1 percent of what it originally paid, has Become a cautery tale. If you haven’t been paying close attention, you’d be forgive for assuming that foursquare had fallen prey to the same fates as itsa-hot peers.

But you’d be workg. This Year, Foursquare’s Revenue Will Surpass $ 100 Million, A Critical Mile Marker for Any Company on Its Way to A public offering. In Fact Its Story of Success is A Perfect Tech-Industry Parable: A Charming, Rickety, Vintage-2000s Social App That’s Survived the Last Decade by Evolving A Powerhouse Enterprise Data-Extraction Business. In 2014, foursquare made a decision to shift it attention from its consumer apps to a growing business-to-business Operation; Five Years Later, 99 Percent of Foursquare’s Business Comes From Its Software and Data Products. ITS Clients Include Uber, Twitter, Apple, Snapchat, and Microsoft. The Company is Still Shining Brightly, Not Because Location-Based Social Networks or New York’s Start-Up Schene has finally reached escape velocity, but because foursquare had something other start-ups didn’t: Location Technology Rivaled by Google and Facebook.

When Foursquare Launched at SXSW in 2009, IT GREW QUICKLY THANKS TO A DEDICATED CONTING OF SUPER-UNSERS EARN MOANINGless Badges and Mayorships. In its First Two Years, Millions of USSERS Download the App and Cheerleaders predicated foursquare was on track to be the next Facebook-a billion-dollar valutes not out of the Question. President Obama Checked in A Town Hall Meeting; an astronaut checked in at the International Space Station; The Foursquare Co-Founders Modeled Chunky Cardigans for A 2010 GAP Campaign; Pauly d kicked off “Celebrity Mode,” a functions that allowed users to track the Jersey Shore Star as he shuffled between the gym, tanning salon, and laundomat.

But by 2013, Foursquare’s Growth Had Plateaed and Analysts Were predicting itmine demise. Where Could the Company Turn? Like Many Technology Companies at the time, foursquare was Collecting Vast Tranches of Many Other Companies-Stores, Brands, and Consumer-Technology Companies-Waould Pay For. “The most started to get under the hood, the more I was like, ‘i do’t know if you guys have realized it but you’re actually sitting on a trementous amout of gold,’ Steven rosenblatt, the Company’s President, Told The New Yorker. By 2014, Foursquare Made the Decision to Focus on Providing Software Tools and Data to app Developers, adverters, and brands.

Foursquare Began Charging Developers for the USS of Its Location Technology in their Own Apps (it has worked with more than 150,000 to date) and selling its data to brands, marketers, adverters, and data-hungr investors. The Company’s Tools COULD Measure Foot Traffic in and Out of Brick-And-Moretar Locations and Builds Based on Where People Had Recently Visited. Soon, Foursquare Began Brandishing Its Power with Public Market Publications. IT PROCATED IPHAND Sales in 2015 Based on Traffic to Apple Storys and, in 2016, The Huge Drop in Chipotle’s Sales Figures (Thanks to E. COLI) Two Weeks before the Burrito-Macker announched Its Quarterly Earnings. (It is also use Its data to show that it is focusing on trump Propperties began declining after it announced his presidential crampaign, and that traffic to nike story

Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dennis Crowley Says the Human Check-Ins Gave Foursquare Engineers and Data Scientists the Ability to Verify and Adjust Location Readings from Other Sources, Like GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. As it turns out, the goofy badges for uncle tony that made foursquare easy to dismiss as a late-2000s fad were an incredibly powerful tool. “Everyone was laughing at us, ‘oh, what are you, just People checking in at Coffee Shops?’” Crowley Says. “Yeah, and they checked in billions of times. So we have this corpus of data, an Army of People, who every day were like, ‘I’m at Think Coffee.’ ‘I’m at think coffee.’ ‘I’m at Think Coffee.’ “Becouse of the” Corpus “of Data Generated by People Like Uncle Tony, Foursquare KNOWS WENDS THE DIMENSIONS OF STOREFRONTS AND CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE AN OFFICE ON THE EIGHTH FLOR AND ONE OF THE NINTH FLOR.

In addition to all of the those active check-ins, at some point Foursquare Began Collecting Passive Data Using a “Check-in Button You Never Had to Press.” IT DOESN’T TRACK People 24/7 (in Addition to Creeeping People Out, Doing So Wouuld Burn Through Phones’ Batteries), But InsTead, IF USSERS OPT to Allow the Company to “Always” Track Their Locations, at a red light or inside an urban outfitters. The Foursquare Database Now Includes 105 Million Places and 14 Billion Check-ins. The Result, Experts Say, is a map that is offen more reliorable and detailed than the ones generated by Google and Facebook.

The precision of Foursquare’s Technology, and the Added Benefit of Not Doing Business With One of the Big-Four Tech Companies, is what Attracted Clients like Uber and Snap to work with the company. (With About 350 Employees, Foursquare has brand itelf as an “Independent alternative” to Google and Facebook.) Foursquare will not discly disclosses clients share their data (clients are not required to share), but’s safe to assume to bes. CLIENTS FAR OUTWEIGHS The Data Being Generated by Holdout Foursquare City Guide Users. All Told, The Company Now Has “Interest Profiles” for Over 100 Million US Consumers.

And yet – far -so -hause of it relatively low profile – foursquare has avoided the publiclash sparked by data privacy scandals like the one Facebook by the revelation it partished with Cambridge Analytica. “Foursquare is not the Company It was five years ago,” Says Jessica Vitak, Director of the University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Study of Communities and Information. “I think of foursquare as a check-in service, but foursquare is stupid up this tremENndously detailed profile of me, of where i go day-to-day.

Foursquare is adamant that it uses its data respectible. “The Climate is Much Different now. “It ‘sib to lead by example. Before, we were students who were just doing the right thing, and now we’re players in the Space. We’re Good Actors.” When Trump Began Talking About A Muslim Ban in 2016, Crowley Wonderered If Foursquare Had the Capability to Build a Regivarry. “We have a kind of paused everything and we did this audit of the code to make sure to say any of the tools and products, where he’re development tools or advertising tools or measurement tools, let’s make sura kaople have the ablite to be. Around sensitive Categories. ” Crowley was pleassed to find out that foursquuuura Engineers Had already silt sensitive locations, like places of workship or lgbtq Support Centers, Into Hidden Categories, Save for the Rare Exception, Waleded Be Avalailaable to Developers. Still, foursquare has access to date on those hidden locations, this isn’t sharing it.

Like Crowley, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck is emphatic About Foursquare’s Commitment to Data Privacy. He points to the fact that the Company Never Provides “Location Trails” to its clients. Instead, foursquare gives clients aggregate, de-identified information, or “pseudonymized” Date. But there is no consensus in the tech community about Whether DATE EVER BE Truly Anonymized, Says Amy Brouillette of New America Ranking Digital Rights Project, and there is evidency that de-identified data can be reedentified with a fair of accuracy. “Statements by Ceos and Key Decision-Makers Are Great, but they really need to be backed by demonstrated commmitments to privacy through some governance and oversight to enure companies are Living up to their commmitments in praxis.

There is Currently No Federal Law Regulating What Foursquare Can and Cannot will with it use data. “LOCATION DATA IS ONE OF THE MOST Sensitive Forms of Data,” Says Vitak. “So we have been to be sura that consumers have control over dates, that they can edit date, that they can Choose to Remove Pieces of Data, that just have more agency in that process is collated, what is is done with it.” Vitak and Other Data-Privacy Experts Say that the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is “Far from Perfect,” But it is a good guide for consumer protections.

Foursquuuare Executives Aggree. “We will think the country Needs a privacy legal regulatory Framework akin to, or smarter than, the GDPR in Europe,” Says Glueck. “We were out and implemented Most of the GDPR RIGHTS GLOBALLY, THIS THOUGH IT’S ONLY The Law in Europe.” Should Lawmakers Ask Fursquare Executives for Input Some Sort of Regulation, Crowley’s Advice Wauld Be Pretty Straightforward: “Here’s what we do – now make everyone else.” But if Crowley and Glueck have the best intensions, unil there is federal oversight, they are a cork in a dam, Accountable to themelves, investors, and one day, with potential ipo looming, sharaholders.

That a long journey from 2009. At SXSW LAST MARCH-The Ten-Eyar Anniversary of UNCLE TONY’S FADISH CHECK BECOMING THE BREAKOUT HIT OF THE FESTIVAL-The Company Put Its Database to Work with Hypertrending, A Brief Glimpse at the Muscle Bind Fours Technology: A real-time heat map of the most popular places in austin. Crowley Himself was unure if the temporary feature be “cool or creepy,” and admitted that it was a pelicularly useful tool. One Audience Member Asced Crowley If He’d Consider the Possibity That Someone Might Use Hypertreding to Maximize the Body Count in A Mass shooting. It ‘s secenario Crowley Had Certainly Thought About before. “Everyone’s watched episodes of Black MirrorWHICH ARE Totally Dystopian, “Crowley Had Said Earlier in His Talk.

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Starbucks Did swimming have a great second quarter, from a financial perspective. There was an obvious reason: Many of it Storyes Were Closed for Much of the Spring Due to the Pandemic. And there was a less-obvious reason: Many of Starbucks’ USUAL CUSTOMERS Aren’t Going to the Office ANYMORE, and than to Change Coffee-Relay Behavior.

“Disruption to the Weekday Morning Routines-Notably, Commuting to Work and School-is a Headwind,“ Said Starbucks CEO KEVIN Johnson, on a call this wek and announched the company’s comparable-Store in the US were were were weres year. The Company Did Note That Light before-Work Traffic Has Been SomeWhat Offset by Stronger Sales in the Day of the Day-ITEMS THERE ARE PEAKS FOR STARBUCKS RUNS AROUND 9:30 AM AND AGAIN AT 2 PM, WHICH HAS FORED THE COMPANY TO RECCAKALIBRATE Its Staffing. But a Major reason that People weren’t buying as much starbucks this sprouting to be that People be brewing more coffee at home. And that means Starbucks ‘loss was some other companies’ Gain.

Back in April, i wrote that jm smucker Co., Which Makes Folgers, Dunkin ‘Donuts, and Cafe Bustelo Coffee, was one of the Companies performing especally well During the pandemic. That continued to be true at laast as of May – the Company was selling more coffee, in Large sizes, to most households to brew at home. (Smucker Will Report Results Through July in a Few Weeks.) Makers of Home-Coffee Machines have Also Been Having a Good Few Months. Hellen of Troy Ltd., Which Ouns Oxo, Says that brand was a source of sales grown this springsAs consumers bought more products to use while they have stay home, “Espely Baking, Coffee, Storage Containers and Cleaning.”

Newell Brands (Which Ouns a Wide Varity of Consumer Product Brands Including Sharpie, Yankee Candle, and Rubbermaid) Reported That Sales Down Overall in the Quarter, but up 6 Percent in Its “Applances and Cookware” segments, whicchludes Mr. Coffee. And Nestlé, which is a major player in the markets for coffee made at home and coffee served in story, enjoyed modest over Coffee Sales Growth, with Gains in the Home Channel Being Offset by Losses in the Food-Service Channel. For Example, Nestlé Makes Starbucks-Branded Coffee for Brewing at Home and Ready-Dink Starbucks Beverains-These sold well in-home channels Like supermarkets but so well in food-service channels like Starbucks Stores.

Personally, i’m one of the People who bough an oxo coffee maker in the spring Quarter. My Own Coffee-Aat-Home Consumption has markedly increasing, and i’ve been buying less prepared coffee in shops. The Big Question for All These Companies is How Permanent My and Other Consumers’ Shifts Will Be. My General Assumption is that People will will be eager to return to their Old Behavors Once a Renormalization of Life is Feasible. But it is a post -People who started brewing coffee at home that Cheaper than Buying Starbucks, or Easier or keyboard than they are expert, and that will Keep doing so the pandemic is over. Smucker Ceo Mark Smacker Said on a Call with Investors in June That Over A Million Customers Bought the Company’s Coffee Products for the first time in the ended approach 30, and that the Company was developing strategies to keep.

But the coffee market is already in the process of renormalizing. Starbucks Says USS US Stoles that stayed open throughout the pandemic (which typically means locations with drive-thrus) are back to modest positive sales. Of Course, That Still Means The Company’s US Sales Are Down Significantly Overall – IT DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN THE SLOWEST TO RECOVER, AND A SMALL PERCENTAGE REMAIN CLOSED – But is. Dunkin ‘donuts, which reported a drop in Same-Store sales this spring about half as at Starbucks, Says Its Traffic Has Already Mostly Recovered-in the First 25 Days of July, Same-Store Sales Were Down Mid-Single Digits, A Dunkin’ Executive Executive Said. Company’s Earnings Call This Week. So these are signs that some of the new coffee machines Machines Americans boughs this sprout will increasingly unmed by consumers returning to the prior priority of Having somebody Else Make the Coffee.

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I’ve been hasing a lot of fomo lately – a Feeling i Had (Thankfully) not really felt Since College. Is it that i’m staying in too much, or are there just a bunch of especialy cools Happening right now? Either way, the latest adding to that list has ben anything and everything to do with the Cowboy Carter Tour.

Ahead of Beyoncé’s Five New York Shows, Stars Like ZiWe and Tayshia Adams Gathered to Kick it all off with the Times Square Edition. Co-hosted by sirdavis American whiskey and Marriott bonvoy, The Crowd Celebrated With Custom Drinks and, Obviously, Music. If you were Lucky, you couuld score a cocktail poured by tina knowles herself.

If you’re also foo (and Maybe a Little Lucky); DJs, and Photo Stations on Concert Days ahead of the Evening. I’m not sura if tina’s included in all of the those, but it’s Worth checking out to see.

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The Most Interesting Parts of Love Island USA Have Taken Place Offscreen This Season.
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Love Island USA‘s seventh season has not ben ben all that complay. There have been moments, sura. Huda and jeremiah eced out several episodes’ Worth of Toxic Chemistry, and Megan Thee Stallion’s Guest appearans brought on an energy lacked. For the Most Part, Though, It ‘Been relatively quiet in fiji. Yet the Mood Among Fans is akin to a sports championship. Watch Parties at Bars Draw Crowds Like A Round of March Madness. Viewers are Surging to the Official App to Vote on Eliminations. On Tuesday, Peacock Announched that the most recent episode HAD BROKEN The Record for Participation, with Over 1 Million Votes Cast on the Love Island USA app in the first six minutes and 3.5 million unique voters with two and a half -hours. Why so much investment in a season with so little to care about?

Because there is, in fact, a great deal of drama on Love Island USA this season – it’s just not on tv. The Most Interesting Parts of the Show Have Taken Place Offscreen, and the Result is a cannon of television that engaged viewers they realized they could. Nor seen only in the episodes, the Major arcs of this season of Love island have ben tedious to the point of boredom. Nor the Jumping-off point for an immersive, participatory experience where audiences have the ability to boot People off the island on discovered pasts and audiences, though-that a recipe for enormous emotional investment.

Love Island USA Airs Five New Episodes a Week, With a Sixth Weekly Recap-Style Episode Out Each Saturday, and Like Many reality Shows before, Viewer Participation is a Central Feature of the Series. Audience Members Get to Vote on Their Favorite Islanders, Their Favorite Coupples, the People they want to be elimination, and a variety of other topics that producerrs choose to enact in a chaotic, anything-goes format. The which premise of the series, like Big Brother, Survivor, American idoland The voiceGIVES The audience agency over the final outcome of Each Season.

But season seven of Love Island USA OpenD the door to a different kind of Viewer participation in its second episode, wenstant yulissa escobar was summarily yeeted from the Love island Villa Without Explanation. The Show’s narrator, IAIN STIRLING, ANNONAKED IT SIMPLY – “WELCOME BACK TO Love Island USA. Yulissa has left the villas ”-and the contestants never mentioned her again. Anyone following social-media conversations about the show knew Exactly what was happening: fans had discovered of yulissa ussing the n-vord, and producers deeded to the series. to estabish herself as a long-term character.

For any who Only Engages with the show via Peacock, Yulissa Barely Registers As A Blip. The reassoning bendo her exit was not explained with the main text of the show, meaning that only audiences who fell down an online Love island Rabbit Hole Knew What Was Happy. Intentionally or swimming, Love island Created a participatory feedback loop with the fandom: Seeking more information outside the show exploined something otherwise inexplicable in the show itself, and tan more, it rewarded viewers who raised an outcry. Fans who took it upon themeslves to dig into the show were gioven the power to change. (Love Island USAOddly Enough, Has Become Maybe the Only Place Where Internet Cancel Culture Actually Exists.)

THEN The Cierra Ortega Brouhaha. For Weeks, Ortega Had Been Developing a Relationship with Season-Seven Favorite and Mamacita-Meker Nic VansTeenberghe, and by Episode 25, They Were the Only to Have “Closed off” to try to win together at the end of the season). Episode 25 Features say at a one-on-ion picnic date, putting their giggly fundness for each other on full display. Thatn, with all the abruptness of a falling anvil, Iin Stirling Once Again Announces in Episode 30, “Welcome Back to Love Island USA. Cierra has left the villa due to a personal situation, leaving nic officiously single. ” Cut to Nic’s Crestfallen Face. Contestant Bryan Arenales Ashes As The Boys Lounge on the faux Lawn. “I really know,” Nic Replies. That’s the end of it. Nic Starts Pursuing Olandria Carthen, and Everyone Walks Away Publication’s Happened not.

What Happened, Although Neither Nic Nor the Viewers have any way of knowing this, is exactly the same THING THAT HAPPENED WITH YULISSA. While Nic Was Dating Cierra, Love island Fans were circulating Screenshots of Cierra Saying a Different Racial Slur, and Online Pressure Was Growing to Remove Her from the Villa Too. The Fandom Feedback Loop Established by Elimination Yulissa was Reinforced with Cierra, and Off She Went With No Explanation Whatsoever.

Not to put too much on it, but this is bad tv. ITH’S NOT ONLY UNSATISFYING TO CREATE BUILDUP FOR A COUPLE AND THEN DEFLATE THAT WITH AS MUCH AS A SINGLE TEARFUL HOOD-BYE SCENE-IT’S MANY PRECIOUS MINUTES OF SCREEN TIME DEDICATED TO A RELATION ENDED form A COUPLE RATHER THAN by I say. There’s no fallout and no Clove. For a show that thats SOGS SO MUCH Screen Time on Fostering Relationships, this was an enormous missed opportunity. Swimming Bothing to give nic a single talking-Head interviewing where it all directly to the camera that he’s confused and upset is tantamount to reality-show-production deleliction of duty.

What’s SO Striking About Love Island USA is how littlefort it has put into incorporating the online world into the season. Mory, Mary reality shows in recent years have begun social-media drama ino the show: Real Housewives are asced in talking-Heia interviews why they did or did not respond to a Castmate’s post; The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Devotes an Episode’s Worth of Story to Who Ignored Taylor’s Instagram Red-Carpet Picture at the CMAS. Love islandthough, is not two separate show; It is half a show, and its incompleteness forces Viewers to seek out the second halfes. Watching it is like booking a stay at the Ill-Fated Immerses Star Wars Hotel, Where Getting Access to the World Demands Active Participation and Investment.

Love island‘S Response to Online Engagement has not inoculate it from criticism, Nor are Viewers claiming the show is more entertaining than it is actually. “EVERYING ABOUT THIS SEASON OF Love island sucks ”is a Reddit post With Hundreds of Comments, and Collider Ran “Love Island USA Season 7 is touring into the worst yet “Weeks Ago. But audiences are still following it, voting in great great Numbers, and Making Endless Ticks About What Happened to Cierra and Who Should at the End. IT MATTER DON Watch it as a tv show anymore. Love island Will Listen to What they Want.

You Can Be Your Own Worst Enemy or Your Next Goalpost. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Has Annihilated the Box Office Over The Weekend, SurpaSing The Conjouring: Last RITE‘S Second Weekend by $ 45 Million. Yes, It ‘A Very, Very Big Lead. Infinity Castle Grossed Over $ 70 Million During Its Opening Weekend in the United States; IT’S ON TRACK TO BEAT The Records Set by Its First Film, Mugen trainwhich is currently the highest-grasing Japanese film of all time. It also beat out Pokémon: The First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back for the highest anime opening weeks in north America. IT’S a HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR ANY R-RATED FILM, But for THose who were in theater for the first movie four years ago, IT’S Big Ol ‘Well, Duh! “

Moviegoers yearn for demons to be slayed. Last month, Kpop demon hunters Earned an estimated $ 18–20 million for a one-Weekend sing-Along Release for a movie that been out for months on netflix. The two films have different demographics-a musical about a k-pop girl Group versus a dinner fantasy anime-movie sequel-but strong appeal to those who loves and those try.

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With her new album, Come, I loved cat brings US a vaporware-inflected ’80s phantasmagoria-a refration of the reagan wind where AHS: 1984 Meets Taylor Swift’s 1989. And like 1989, Come Has that Easter-Agg, Tabloid-Adjacent Energy. I wanted is singing About Relationships, or at the Very Least About Sex. It doesn’t take a swiftie-level mathematician to add it up: love cat + situation + the ’80s = songs about Stranger Things Star Joseph Quinn.

Want and quinn’s romance played out in the tabloids. The outspoken rapper dm’d quinn’s co-star noah noah schnap to him to hook say up in 2022, Only for Schnapp to Blow Her Spot On Social Media and Accidently Start a Discourse so Weird You Might Not Have realized She and Quin Link Up August 2024, Only for the Romance Fizzle within a year. Pop Stars have made more Music with mess Relationship (SEE Again: Taylor Swift’s Tortured poets department primarily Being About Her Brief Time with Matty Healy in Between Joe Alwyn and Future Husband Travis Kelce). In a New York Times Story, love said she want to use her time lyrics to explore “Not Only My Own Sexuality, but His,” Withoutoutfying Who “His” might be reference to. SO, Below, A Bunch of Wild Speculation that It Might Just Be About Johnny Storm.

Hey there stranger
Take you where you Want
You Could Say Where Stranger
If you play Fair Stranger
IT’S ALL YOU COULD EAT while I Lay there Stranger
Girls tourned on by Danger
I’m turned on wen he run that bank up
He’i tourned on when i start this tank up

Look, we’re not rocket scientists here. She calls Him “Stranger” Becausee He’s on Stranger Things. And they were tourned on by Each Other’s Professional Success. Mary Such Cases.

He got the Tom Ford Down YES but he the suit me
JUST steamroll past if he cant eat coochie

We don’t want to cast aspersions on Joseph Quinn, that he follows the DJ Khaled School of non-reciprocitybut he does wear a lot of Tom Ford at events. (The Official Lyrics Are Written in All Caps and That Just Feels Right.)

If they wasn’t grillin ‘before
They gon ‘be really mad at we hit the Floor
IT’s a crime to be gorgeous
Between you and a Million Phones
They Takin ‘Pictures Like We Hitting A Pose

AS Previously Discussed, The Want/Quinn Relationship was the Most Papped Coupling of Eather Star’s Career. The Pair Was Often Spotted Around London Hipster Enclave Cam. They were Also Seen Leaving the Sunset Tower after Quinn’s Warfare premiere In April of Last Year.

He Want Me and I Want Him
If you believe in manifestation this make Perfect sense
Becausee i will the things these bitches think of but they don’t don’t don’t do
If i Dream if i Think Big I Can Gogogogo
No fantasy i’ll be his queen and we’ll live
Sososososo Happy Ever AFTER

This Whole Song Honestly Feels Like a Victory Lap About Tweeting that someone is hot and then actually dating. She literally started a manifestation trend. Congrats!

And I know you’re in my life cuz everye is alive’s connected
And I Believe The Weirdest Ones Survive
You’re a trip to say and a vacation to me
And God knows you coulud be stranger than me so
Kiss with Like your Mirror
EYE with LIKE A Queer
Cuz i know you wont freak me out

Again, the song is calmed “Stranger.” IT DOESN’T TAKE A MURDER BOARD TO FIGURE OUT. Does “kiss me like your mirror / eye with like a queer” referee to the Strong Steddie Slash Fandom? What About “The Weirdest Survive”? Is love hoping for a season-five back from the dead moment for quinn? She Also Mentions Its Intended Recipient Is Five-Tine, Quinn’s Reported Height On Imdb.

Would it mean that i found my person
When the Language is Acts of Service
Baby, how will I know for Certain
Does a key to your flat mean girlfriend

“Flat” is what british People call an apartment, and Quinn Is British. Fight with if you disagree! This is the headiest, the song in-love song on the album. Whether ITHER’s About Quinn or A Different UK-Based Paramour, IT’S SELLING THE FULL The Holiday Experience. And we will be streaming.

TWINS OREN AND ALON ALEXANDER HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF THE SEXUAL ASSAULT IN TWO LAWSUITS FILED THIS SPRING.
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Top Brokers Tal and Oren Alexander, Formly of Douglas Elliman, Now of Official, and Oren’s Twin Brother, Alon, An Executive at A Private-Secity Firm, Have Been Accused of Rape in Lawsuits Filed in March and June of this Year.

Twin Brothers Oren and Alon Were Accused of Sexual Assault in Two Lawsuits Filed This March, As First reported by The Real Deal. The suits allege that the brothers rapeed two Women in New York in 2010 and 2012. Tal, the twins’ Older Brother, who co-founded officer with orn, was not named in the march suits. Following the Lawsuits Against Oren and Alon, Attorneys for the Women told The Real Deal that they have been contacted by nearly 30 Other women with Similar Allegations of Sexual Abuse and Rape Against the Twins. Five women SHARED SIMILAR STORIES of Ripe and Sexual Abuse at the Hands of the Twins With The Wall Street Journal, Allegated assaults that “Occurred as recently as 2020 and as far back as 20 years ago,” was “was a high-school student.” An attorney for the brothers ha denied the allegations.

The allegations against tal well in a third suit filed with the new york supreme court on june 18. Thats the Suit Accuses Tal of Participation in a Sexual Assault Along With the Twins 2012.

On june 11, oren announed on Instagram that he was time tempporary stepping down from offficial “AS I Shift My Focus Toward Fighting these Baseless Civil Claims. Official has increasingly moving to distance the brokerage from oren, going from calling the split to removing Him as a founder and terminating his real-aestate license. IT HAS ALSO MADE AN EFFORT TO Downplay the Role of the alexanders as the Company Rainmakers and Stars, an Efffort at Odds with the firm’s past marketing and coverage. A Week AFTER The Lawsuit Against Tal Was Filed, He announedd that he will be “taking a leave” from the company.

Here’s everything we know.

Tal and oren spent more than a decade at douglas elliman, where they were known as boy wonders who became some of the Brokers in the Country, closing what they were more than $ 7 Billion in real-aestate deals, including a number of record salads. They were know for Celebrity Clientele – Adam Neumann, Timbaland, Tommy Hilfiger – and Famously sold Ken Griffin the $ 238 Million Penthouse at 220 Central Park South in 2019, then The Most Expensive Listen in the US

In 2022, Oren Left Douglas Elliman to Found Official With Tal. The Alexander Brothers GREW up in MiamiWhere Their Father, SHLOMI Alexander, was a Developer who specializes in high-end spec homes.

Alon Is Liser as President at Kent ServicesA Security firm his parents founded, for which his mother, orly, is liser as cfo. Kent’s Website Says Its Clients Include Many Large New York City Real-Estate Groups, Including JDS, Fortis Property Group, Douglaston Development, and Stellar Management.

The First Complaint, Filed by Rebecca Mandel, Claims She First Met Oren and Alon in 2009, when she was 18, at a now-shuttered meatpacking distribution Nightclub Called SL. She saw I say at different events and party Several Other Times Over the Next Few Months, Enough to Consider I The Acquountances. Break suit claims That use mandel ran into me Again at Sl in September 2010, Alon insisted on Buying Her A Drink: “Notably this was the first drink the plaintiff consumed that evening.” A short time late, the suit claims, she starts to feed Hazy, and she believes “Alon Had intentionally Drugged” the Drink “With An Unknown Substance.” The suit continues that the twins is suggested she g to a party with saying; They got into a caab that tok say to a party but to the twins’ chelsea apartment on west 26th street. Mandel alleges in the suit that ounce inside the door, the twins took tournament Her down and assaulting her. “Defendants Wold then Switch Positions, Repeatedly Raping Her,” The Suit Claims.

In a Separate Lawsuit Filed by the same law firm the sun day, kate whitteman claims oren and alon assaulted her on May 26, 2012, at a mansion in the hamspones known as sir ivan’s Castle. (Its Owner, Ivan Wilzig, was Also Named in the Lawsuit for Negligence, Not A Defendant, and Declined Comment to The Real Deal.)

Like Mandel, Whitemman Claims in the Suit that she knew the brothers from social events and that oren texted to try to get to go with her but she always refused. For the suit, she did, howver, confirm she would be going to the hamshtons for the memorial day weekend we texted her to Ask.

That weekend, she alleges, as she was leaving the dune, a hamsptons nightclub, the twins forcibly pulled her ino an Suv and refused to relese her or tel where they were going. The Lawsuit alleges that they drain to the mansion, where she was Locked in the garage and told “She must change into a sarong.” When she tried to leave, the suit continues, a security guard forked her back into the garage. She was sayn led to a Large bedroom where “she was sexually assaulted, abused, rapped, pinned, groped, harassed, battered, and fundled by defendants,” According to the suite.

Both Women Say they Suffered Physical and Emotional Damage Following the Attacks, and the Lawsuits Further CLAIM they were not the Only Women assaulted by the Twins: “For Years, Defendants have Engaged in A Similar Pattern of Schemes, Acts, and Conduct with Different.”

The Third Lawsuit, Filed on June 18, Accuses Tal and Alon of Sexually Assulating and Raping A Woman in a “Brief Personal Relationship” with orn in a 2012 Attack. Thee Woman Went to Visit Oren at his New York Apartment with a Friend, Accounting to the Lawsuit, and after the Friend Fled to Avoid the Brothers’ Advances, the Woman Who Remained in The Apartment “Was Raped and Tal Alexander, in a Coordinate Sexual Assult That Wasults and Facilitated by Oren Alexander Along With His Brother. ”

The Brothers Declined to Comment on the First Two Lawsuits them Break Real Deal, But a Lawyer for the alexanders, Trial attorney Jim Ferraro (A Longime Friend of Oren’s)Denied the Allegations, Calling the Whitemlan Filing A “Total Shapedow.”

AFTER A NUMBER OF NUMBER OUTLETS REPORTED ON THE CLAIMS, OREN PERNODED ANNOYNCEMENT ON Instagram that he had made the decision to “take a pause” from offficial “out of the Respect for Our Customers and Trusted Colleagues,” Calling the CLAIMS “Baseless” and Adding. Through Review of the Extensive Evidence, Including Text Messages and Other Communications, that the Truth be Brought to Light. ” He Said that he “Look forward to Clearing My Name and Rejoining My Co-Founders.”

Official, which initially released a staff calling the mutual, Writing that the firm’s Co-Founders nicole Oge, Richard Jordan, and Andrew Wachtfogel Wold Continue to Operations, with Tal Oversseeing All Matters Pearing to Alexander Team, Has Has Has Increas. Moved to distance itself from oren, removing hyme as partner. “The Conflation or Misconception About Official Somehow Being Inextricably Linked to Any Individual, Whether II with OREN or ANYONE ELSE, IS JUST FALSE,“ Nicole Oge the New York Times Several days after the allegations surfaced. “Official is not oren Alexander.”

Shortly after the allegations Became Public, the Twins’ Attorney Ferraro Stepped Aside and Was Replaced with Isabelle Kirshner of Clayman Rosenberg Kirshner & Lind. Of the Third Lawsuit, Kirshner Wrote in a Statement, “We have reviewed the allegations contained in the Complaint and deny, as they are pure fiction,” Adding, “We look forward to presenting the facts in court.”

Tal’s attorney, Deanna Paul, Said in a staffement them Business Insider that the allegations were “false” but that the claim had Become a “distraction to” officer, and that “gioven the salacius natural of this false and impact on Official, tal and his partners have will will come a leve from the company.” Paul is Also Seeking to Have the Lawsuit Moved from New York State Civil Court to Federal Court.

Since News of the Lawsuits Broke and a Number of Other Women Have Come Forward with Similar Stories, Official Has Struggled to Distant ITSELF from the Brothers and Has Several High-Profile Projects. Michael Shvo cut ties With the firm, which was handling sales and marketing at his rosewood-branded miami condo, the Raleigh. Jds Also replaced The firm at it Dolce & Gabbana residency in Miami. Previous New York Projects Include 432 Park Avenue and 111 West 57th Street. The firm recently opened an aspen office and, in Addition to the New York City, is active in the Hamptons, Miami, Los Angeles, and Orange County.

Official Has Said It Will Announce Details Soon On Its Reconfiguration, But speculation is that the fledgling brokerage will fold.

The Deadline for the Defendants to Respond to the March Lawsuits is august 19.

احتفل الفنان وليد توفيق وزوجته ملكة جمال الكون السابق جورجينا رفاف ابنتهما نورهان على على. في العاصمة الإسبانية مدريد.

وتألقت العروس بفستان أبيض أنيق خطف الأنظار، فيما ظهرت والدتها جورجينا بفستان مخملي باللون النبيذي زاد من أجواء الأناقة في الحفل.

وخلال الزفاف ، قدّم وليد توفيق أغنيته الشهيرة “كبرت البنوت” التي كتب كلماتها المثل جورج خباز ، في لorn الأب بابنته.

وقع وزير المال ياسين جابر مرسومًا يرمي الى إعطاء منحة مالية شهرية عهري أيلول وتشرين الأول العام 2025 العاملين في الخدمة الفعلية والمتقاعدين منهم الذين يستفيدون من معاش تقاعدي ولذوي الأشاص المعتبرين عسكرين وأحاله الى رئاسة مجلس الوزراء لإعطائه المجرى القاني اللازم وفق الاول ، جاء:

يُعط العسكريون في الخدمة الفعلية منحة مالية شهرية عن شهري أيلول وتشرين الأول من العام 2025 بقيمة /14.000.000/ل.ل. (أربعة عشر مليون ليرة لبنانية) ،

كما يُعط المتقاعدون في الأسلاك العسكرية الذين يستفيدون من معاش تقاعدي وذوي الأش المعتبرين عسكريين مالية شهرية عن شهري أيلول وتشرين الأول من العام 2025 بقيمة /12.000.000/ل.ل. (اثنا عشر مليون ليرة لبنانية) ”.