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Daniel Poppers Fort Lauderdale Sculpture is called "Thrive"

As the most instagrammable pieces in Florida you will feel like you're back on the playa at Burning Man when you see Daniel Poppers 20+ foot tall sculpture named "Thrive". This beautiful piece of art work is what makes a place like Fort Lauderdale great and notable. Things like this deserve a mention on travel sites like Atlas Obscura so tourists will come, visit, and most importantly experience interactive art. Of course taking a photo and sharing with others is really important as well.

So if you were wondering who created this piece it's by South African Artist Daniel Popper and it is on permanent display next to Bodega of Fort Lauderdale, The Wharf and Society Las Olas just off of the river.

Enjoy!

Micro Improvements to become successful

Richart Ruddie's Tweet of the day: Define a process of what you're trying to achieve, determine the optimal way to hit your target, repeat the positives, drop the negatives, continuous micro-improvements, rinse and repeat.

 

https://twitter.com/RichartRuddie/status/1380210265719988229

DHS Update

Readout of Secretary Mayorkas’ Meeting with New Zealand’s Minister for Justice and Minister for Immigration, Kris Faafoi 

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

Did David Field Change Entercom to Audacy Due to a Lawsuit?

An email was received from the radio conglomerate Entercom run by CEO David Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The announcement is that Entercom is changing their name from Entercom to Audacy. One of the cases which was triggered by an  "Anti-trust/Trade Regulation" and pure negligience from the Entercom legal team especially Peter Gould who blamed his peers for his inability to make good on the signed contracts and was completely negligent in ignoring a lawsuit despite multiple notifications. On top of this a sales manager named Dana Panepinto according to a recent lawsuit that Entercom/Audacy lost for almost a million dollars stated that Boston's WEEI's lawyer and sales manager Dana Panepinto engaged in the unconscionable acts or practices, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices, in the conduct of negotiating. Which essentially means that he breached a signed contract and agreement and was one of the root causes for a lawsuit against Entercom Communications Corp. which potentially led to Entercom being renamed to Audacy.





Also in the Florida lawsuit against Audacy says that "Entercom tried to extort SIT out of greater funds by changing the previuously agreed contract and asking for egregious terms and an unfathomable higher rate knowing the importance of the time of year.."

Does this sound like an ethical and honest company that you would want to work with? CEO David Field says in his newsletter that their acquisitions of CBS Radio, Cadence13, Pineapple Street Studios, the QL Gaming Group, and Podcorn,  have led them to a greater expansion of content and offerings. In my opinion I think part of the negative connotations of Entercom and the negligence by some bad apple employees like Dana Panepinto and attorney Peter Gould are a factor.

The Florida lawsuit filed that Audacy/Entercom lost as of April 2021 concerns Audacy/Entercom:

Promissory Estoppel
Breach of Contract
Negligiently Supplied Information

Richart Ruddie Engadget Writer

Sometimes you contribute content online and forget that you were once a contributer and writer for a publication. I used to be a writer for Wired.com when they had a program letting young entrepreneurs contribute content and did a few editorials for Today.com. Recently old publications done for Engadget.com popped back up online and are now visible at: 

https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/richart-ruddie

Not sure why they suddenly decided to index and showcase some of my older contributions but perhaps it's because of all the recent press around the work that I'm doing for countries around the world. The Irish Central website and the Times of Malta have both featured me of late and other well known global publications have approached me about covering similar stories.