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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Johannes Simon / Stringer / Getty Images</div></div></div><ul><li>Playboy is adding cryptocurrency payments to its digital content, the company announced Wednesday.</li><li>The crypto wallet, set for release by the end of 2018, will let viewers use bitcoin and ethereum to buy pornography on Playboy.TV.</li><li>Playboy will also accept the Vice Industry Token, a new cryptocurrency designed specifically to monetize adult content by incentivizing high user engagement.</li><li>The idea behind the Vice Industry Token is that it could help adult-film producers bring in more <keyword id="35666" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="advertising">advertising</keyword> money to their platforms, which is a big deal in a such a saturated market. </li></ul>Playboy enthusiasts will soon have a new option when paying for pornography: cryptocurrencies. Playboy Enterprises, the company behind the experimental <keyword id="6354777" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Media">media</keyword> empire, announced Wednesday that it will launch a crypto payment wallet across its digital content and online games.The wallet will enable users to pay in bitcoin, ethereum, and alt-coins like the Vice Industry Token. Playboy expects to release it by the end of 2018.It's easy to be skeptical of Playboy's announcement. Bitcoin and blockchain pivots are having a moment with companies leaning into the craze as a means of marketing otherwise-unrelated businesses.Who could forget the company formerly known as Long Island Ice Tea, <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/long-blockchain-stock-price-will-spin-off-iced-tea-business-to-focus-on-blockchain-new-ceo-delisting-nasdaq-2018-2-1016459530">which got a second wind on the NASDAQ</a> when it rebranded as Long Blockchain, or Kodak, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kodak-launches-new-blockchain-project-for-photographers-2018-1">which similarly saw its shares surge</a> following the announcement of a Kodak coin. Playboy has also never been shy when it comes to experimenting with the latest tech - the company already has both augmented and virtual reality content. But there is a case to be made that cryptocurrencies could truly impact how the company does business.<h2>Playboy struggles to monetize content, but the brand is strong</h2>Though Playboy launched as a print magazine in 1953, today the majority of its profits come from the trademark and licensing agreements that have made Playboy Vodka and Playboy Bunny recreational wear a thing. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">PlayboyPlayboy Enterprises is considering folding its print magazine.</div></div></div>Playboy doesn't share its financial information, but in 2015, the company made $38 million from its magazine and digital publishing efforts, and $55 million from licensing, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/playboy-enterprises-explores-sale-1458845313">according to The Wall Street Journal.</a>In January, The Journal reported that Playboy <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/playboy-might-kill-magazine-to-focus-on-world-of-playboy-1514808003">is considering folding its print magazine</a>, which reportedly looses as much as $7 million annually, to focus on Playboy as a brand. One of the issues for larger companies in the adult film industry is that so-called "tube sites," like RedTube and PornHub, often host pirated content - at least until the copyright infringing videos get flagged and removed, but it's often a game of whack-a-mole as others are uploaded. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/pornography-industry-economics-tarrant/476580/">This means advertising dollars are spread thin</a>, and not always making it into the pockets of the companies creating the content. It is 2018, after all. Porn is free, and print is dead. But maybe, just maybe, crypto could help monetize the struggling industry.<h2>One idea: gamify the porn watching experience with crypto </h2>Playboy's decision to accept payments in bitcoin and ethereum doesn't do much beside put its brand in the cryptocurrency conversation, and make life a little bit easier for users that prefer to pay with digital currencies. Bitcoin itself <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-payment-mining-fees-hit-new-high-2017-12">can be remarkably expensive and inefficient for small payments</a>, and usually a credit card will do just as well.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Magicgathering1.jpg">Wikimedia</a>Duncan said he has no intention of listing VIT on a cryptocurrency exchange, but noted that the tokens could accrue value the way Magic: The Gathering cards do.</div></div></div>Alt coins, though, could provide new ways to think about monetization in an industry that relies heavily on clicks and advertisements. One of the coins Playboy plans to accept is the Vice Industry Token, or VIT, a cryptocurrency designed specifically to monetize adult content by incentivizing high user engagement.VIT was started in 2017 by Stuart Duncan, a Canadian entrepreneur and CEO of an adult cable network called Ten Broadcasting. The project has raised nearly $15 million in an initial coin offering fundraiser, which ends next week. Duncan said the blockchain network should be fully operational by summer. The idea behind VIT is that users get coins for being highly engaged content consumers across the porn industry. Users will earn these coins across various adult film producers and brands as long as those brands have the blockchain running on its website. Users can then use those coins to buy premium content from companies like Playboy. Duncan said adult film companies were already exploring cryptocurrency for anonymous payments. But he thought he could build a better model. <h2>If VIT keeps users engaged, Playboy could get more ad revenue </h2>The result, if all goes as planned, is a blockchain network that anonymously gathers data about pornography viewing habits from users around the ecosystem and encourages porn viewers to spend more time on websites. Producers like Playboy get higher engagement, which could mean more money from advertisers. It's basically just a loyalty card, Duncan said, which could make a big different in a market as saturated with free content as the porn industry.As it stands, if a company like Playboy accepts VIT from a customer, it cannot use those coins outside of the VIT eco-system. So these companies won't make money directly when they accept VIT as payment.Duncan said he has no intention of listing VIT on cryptocurrency exchanges himself, and emphasized that VIT is not a security, and not subject to regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. But he did compare VIT to another collectible in his life: Magic: The Gathering cards. "I was going to Magic card shops and trading Magic cards. I could be paying $50 bucks. But I would be able to sell those cards to other people," Duncan said. "That's the future that we're bringing. 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Playboy will soon accept cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, ethereum, and a little-known coin that could change how porn is paid for online

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Michael Cohen is on the witness stand at Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York.</li><li>He is the key witness behind prosecutors' "election conspiracy" theory.</li></ul>It may be hard to believe, but 10 years before he coined the online taunt <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-von-shitzinpantz-has-formally-been-entered-into-the-record-2024-5">"Donald 'Von ShitzInPants,"</a> Cohen saw Donald Trump as his co-conspirator bestie.That's the story Cohen told jurors at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-multitasking-defense-hush-money-trial-falls-apart-book-checks-2024-5">the GOP front-runner's ongoing hush-money trial</a> in New York on Monday — in testimony that has come the closest yet to placing Trump at the head of what prosecutors say was an illegal 2016 election conspiracy.The two men — one a billionaire businessman and TV star, the other his loyal attorney and "fixer" — spoke "multiple times a day," the key prosecution witness told jurors.And when one decided to run for president, the two men were often side-by-side, Cohen testified.Trump was laser-focused on protecting his campaign against sex scandals, Cohen said.<div type="image" title="A courtroom sketch of Michael Cohen while under questioning by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger at Donald Trump's Manhattan hush-money trial." height="2000" width="3000" msid="110093784" hostid="261" sizebytes="1109658"></div>"You know when this comes out," Cohen said, quoting Trump in the days before the 2016 presidential run was announced, "just be aware there's going to be a lot of women coming forward."And <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12">there were</a>— more than two dozen. But Trump cared most about two: former Playboy Bunny Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels, who threatened to sell their stories in the months before the election, Cohen said."Just take care of it!" Cohen said Trump told him, angrily, when he heard in October 2016 that Daniels wanted to sell her story of having a sexual encounter with him.Prosecutors say Trump falsified business records to hide $130,000 in hush money paid to Daniels just 11 days before the election."'This is a disaster. A total disaster. Women are going to hate me," Cohen said Trump erupted."This is a real disaster. Women will hate me," Trump continued, according to Cohen. "Guys, they'll think it was cool. But this is going to be a disaster for my campaign."Trump didn't want to part with his own money though. Instead, he wanted to stall Daniels and her lawyer, Cohen testified. "Just get past the election, because if I win, it has no relevance — I'm president," he said Trump told him. "And If I lose, I don't even care," Cohen said Trump added.Trump "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-feared-campaign-not-family-scandals-were-buried-pecker-2024-4">wasn't thinking about Melania</a> — this was all about the campaign," Cohen told jurors. Cohen said Trump told him he'd met Daniels in 2006, while playing golf at a celebrity golf tournament with football star Ben "Big Ben" Roethlisberger."He said she liked Mr. Trump and that women preferred Trump even over someone like Big Ben," Cohen added.Told of McDougal coming forward, Trump's first reaction was to praise her beauty, Cohen said.His second reaction? Kill the story. Prosecutors say a $150,000 cash payment to silence McDougal was also part of the election conspiracy underlying Trump's indictment.<div type="image" title="Michael Cohen, the ex-lawyer for former President Donald Trump, departs his home in Manhattan to testify in Trump's criminal hush-money trial." height="2131" width="3037" msid="110093785" hostid="261" sizebytes="150222"></div>"She's really beautiful," Cohen said Trump responded. "I said, 'OK, but there's a story being shopped.'""Make sure this story doesn't get released," Cohen said Trump told him, ordering his fixer to acquire — and suppress — the story.Trump reacted with apparent glee, telling Cohen, "It's fantastic. It's unbelievable," when told of plans for National Enquirer stories that attacked his opponents, including one mocking Hillary Clinton's thick glasses and suggesting she might have a brain injury. But he reacted with panic when the Access Hollywood story broke a month before the election, Cohen said."He told me we needed to put a spin on this," Cohen testified. "And the spin that he wanted to put on it was that this is locker-room talk, something that Melania had recommended — or at least that's what he told me that Melania had thought it was."<h2 id="2d86781c-ced8-4da1-9898-18861d170e85">Happier times</h2>When Trump asked him to work as his attorney at the Trump Organization in 2007, "I was honored," testified Cohen, who once boasted <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-cohen-timeline-from-i-would-take-a-bullet-for-trump-to-a-plea-deal-2018-8">he'd take a bullet</a> for the GOP-frontrunner."It was fantastic," Cohen testified Monday of his decade working for Trump, calling the Trump Organization "a big family.""Working for him, especially during those 10 years, was an amazing experience in many, many ways," Cohen told the jury.Prosecutors have been striving all trial to cast Cohen as the loyal top lieutenant who conspired with mastermind Trump and National Enquirer editor David Pecker to change the course of the 2016 election.The three men met at Trump Tower in August, 2015, soon after Trump announced his run for office, prosecutors say.<div type="image" title="Michael Cohen and Donald Trump" height="1800" width="2699" msid="110093786" hostid="261" sizebytes="252746"></div>With Trump at the helm, they hatched a plan. The Enquirer would smear Trump's opponents, write favorable stories about him, and "catch" negative, salacious stories that could damage the campaign.Trump is on trial for allegedly falsifying business records to hide the $130,000 hush-money payment that buried one of those salacious stories — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stormy-daniels-takes-stand-donald-trump-hush-money-trial-2024-5">porn star Stormy Daniels' tale</a> of an unpleasant, one-night fling at a Lake Tahoe celebrity golf tournament in 2006.Cohen held a unique role in Trump's life, acting as a "fixer" and following in the footsteps of the hard-charging personal attorney who worked for Trump earlier in his life, the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/roy-cohns-influence-donald-trump-king-intimidation-2016-12">political operative and mob lawyer Roy Cohn</a>.Cohen did not work in the Trump Organization's general counsel office. He reported directly to Trump, and often took care of personal matters. On Monday, Cohen testified about an incident where he got a taxi cab driver to pay for repairs after hitting Trump's limousine.Trump has tried to distance himself from his personal lawyer ever since the FBI first raided Cohen's residence in 2018.At the trial, his attorneys have also tried to downplay his central role in Trump's life. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hush-money-trial-falsified-documents-heart-case-2024-5">Jeff McConney</a>, the longtime corporate controller for the Trump Organization, appeared to give a deep sigh when he was first asked about Cohen on the witness stand."He said he was a lawyer," McConney said, to some laughter in the courtroom.<div type="image" title="Former President Donald Trump and attorney Emil Bove attend his New York criminal hush-money trial." height="3292" width="4572" msid="110093787" hostid="261" sizebytes="978000"></div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-hope-hicks-witness-stand-2024-5">Hope Hicks</a>, Trump's communications director at the Trump Organization, 2016 campaign, and White House administration, agreed with his lawyer that Cohen was "not helpful" at times and "went rogue.""I used to say that he liked to call himself a 'fixer' or 'Mr. Fix It,' and it was only because he first broke it that he was able to come and fix it," Hicks testified.One of Cohen's roles included shaping the perception of Trump in the press, trying to keep negative stories out of the papers. He said he lied and bullied people to please Trump."The only thing that was on my mind was to accomplish a task to make him happy," Cohen said.Prosecutors said Friday that Cohen is the second-to-last witness in their case, which they expect will conclude this week.Trump's lawyers have said they will call two defense witnesses. They have not said if one of those witnesses will be Trump himself, but the former president has said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-claims-he-will-testify-in-hush-money-trial-2024-4">he will take the stand</a>.Cohen and his former boss last faced each other as courtroom adversaries in October, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cohen-ny-fraud-trial-cage-match-its-on-2023-10">at the Trump civil fraud trial</a>.Cohen's time on the stand there was highly damaging.He testified that Trump would set a highly-inflated, target number for his net worth on annual financial statements that banks used to lend Trump money.Cohen said he and the Trump Organization's then-CFO would falsely "reverse engineer" the supporting data to hit that target net-worth goal.This story has been updated.

'A big family': At trial, Michael Cohen recalls when he and Trump arranged hush-money as co-conspirator besties

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Uber driver Bunny Rivera started working for the rideshare company after she became a mom.</li><li>Rivera said the job was flexible and she enjoyed the experience, so she stuck with it.</li></ul>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bunny Rivera, a 35-year-old Uber driver from Washington, DC, about her experiences working during the holiday season. It's been edited for length and clarity. I began delivering food for Uber Eats during the fall of 2019. Prior to that I was a flight attendant. When I got pregnant, I continued flying right up until the 32-week mark, when my doctor insisted I stop.When my son Kaiden was two months old, I left his father. Flying as a single mom was out of the question for me, so I began searching for another way to earn a living. I also had to find a job where I could take my newborn son with me, since I couldn't afford a babysitter. Uber Eats provided me with the flexibility I needed to do just that. I only expected to do work for Uber Eats until I got back on my feet, but I wound up enjoying the experience and the flexibility couldn't be beat. Most of the time I worked between 20 and 40 hours a week, doing a combination of Uber Eats when Kaiden was with me and Uber rideshare when he was with his dad. These days, I run an Etsy shop and I'm swamped with orders for the holidays, which doesn't leave much time for driving. But I have lots of unexpected experiences <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-lyft-rideshare-drivers-stories-working-holidays-christmas-2022-12">working with Uber during the holidays</a>.<h2>Where I drive in DC isn't always the safest, and on more than one occasion I've been assaulted</h2>One time a passenger grabbed my chest and I kicked him out of the car. Another time I arrived at my pickup only to find there were too many people in the party, including little kids without car seats. When I told the group I couldn't take them, one of the guys got mad, reached through the car window, and grabbed me by the shirt. When I tried rolling up the window, a second man reached in, trying to push the window back down. Luckily, I was able to drive off.Ever since I was first assaulted, I posted a sign in the backseat of my car with a photo of me and Kaiden. If a passenger is looking to start any trouble, my hope is that seeing I'm the mother of a small child will make them reconsider. In addition to the photo, I list my Instagram handle and Cash App information for gratuities.<h2>Despite what one might think, my tips go down during the holidays</h2>In my experience, tipping has gone down since COVID-19. Prior to the pandemic, I'd estimate half my rides tipped, even if just a dollar, but these days less than a quarter of my passengers tip. I chalk it up to people trying to save money. However, those that do tip do fairly well.During my first year driving for Uber, I drove a couple home from a holiday party and they ended up tipping me $100. They even treated me to McDonald's since they requested we make a stop at the drive-thru.Working full-time for Uber had become a good way to earn money on my own terms, so I was at a complete loss when Kaiden, at the age of 15 months, got sick and I had to stop working for nearly a month and a half to stay home with him.I'll never forget the day I picked Kaiden up from his dad's house and saw his lips turning blue. We rushed to the emergency room, where a series of X-rays revealed he'd swallowed a coin.That evening was one of the roughest of our lives. Over the next weeks, Kaiden suffered from lung infections and pneumonia, causing him to lose a dangerous amount of weight. Because he was so weak, he couldn't return to daycare and so I couldn't return to work.<h2>Christmas, as we knew it, was looking like it would be canceled in our household, until I turned on the Uber app</h2>On a trip to Walmart, Kaiden spotted a "Baby Shark" ride-on toy that cost $150 and fell in love. One evening, when Kaiden's dad took him for the night, I decided to Uber as long as I could to earn enough to buy that Baby Shark, assuming it would take five or six hours.The night started out slow, until I picked up two drunk college guys who were headed from one bar to another. When they saw my sign, the guys started asking me about my plans for Christmas. I told them we weren't doing much of anything and that I was out working to afford the Baby Shark toy for Kaiden. I didn't think much of it when they asked me how much it cost, but then they announced they were going to tip me $150 so I could buy the toy. Unfortunately, the<a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/uber-tip-limit-for-drivers-ride-hailing-lyft/"> Uber app has a $100 limit on tips</a>. My passengers didn't have Cash App and I didn't have Venmo, so they insisted I call a girlfriend of mine who used Venmo so they could send her the money. It was after midnight, but luckily she answered, I explained the situation to her, and the guys sent her the money. Then they waited in my car for her to forward the money to my Cash App. As soon as that money hit my phone I just broke down and started crying. To this day, I keep in touch with one of the guys on Instagram and we message once in a while. What he and his friend did that night meant everything to me. One day, when Kaiden is older, I'll tell him Santa exists in many forms and that he's not just a guy with a white beard and a red hat.I haven't driven for Uber since October, but after the holidays I plan to drive 20 hours a week.

I drove Uber during the holidays to get my son the gift he wanted. I didn't think I'd get enough tips, but then a Christmas miracle happened.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In 2022, Dictionary.com and the Oxford English Dictionary added 23 words to describe gender and sexuality concepts.</li><li>New gender-related words include "enby," "nounself pronoun," and "pangender."</li></ul>As people's understandings of gender and sexuality shift, whether due to cultural changes or scientific findings, so do the words we use to describe them.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/learning/when-talking-about-identity-how-much-do-words-matter.html">Language is a major factor in how to shape our identities</a> and view ourselves, and using words that people relate to can break down taboos and allow them to feel understood.This year, <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/new-dictionary-words-fall-2022/#gender-relationships">Dictionary.com</a> and <a href="https://public.oed.com/updates/">Oxford English Dictionary</a> added new gender and sexuality words and phrases to their pages, giving readers more options to describe who they are, what they desire, and how they show up in the world.Words that are already popular slang, like "simp," made the cut, as did the verb form of "sixty nine."<h2>Oxford English Dictionary additions include 'TERF,' 'stealthing,' and 'sixty nine'</h2><ul><li>Anti-gay (adjective): Opposed or hostile to homosexual people (sometimes specifically gay men) or homosexuality</li><li>Condomize (verb): To put on a condom; to use a condom during sexual intercourse, either as a contraceptive or to protect against infections</li><li>Demisexual (adjective, noun): Involving ambiguous or amorphous sexual characteristics or activity</li><li>Enby (adjective, noun): A person who has a non-binary gender identity; non-binary</li><li>Hypersexualize (verb): To make (a person or thing) pervasively, excessively, or inappropriately sexual; to imbue or permeate with intense sexual or erotic</li><li>Multisexual (adjective): Characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to, or sexual activity with, people of different sexes or gender identities</li><li>Pangender (adjective): Designating a non-binary person whose gender identity encompasses multiple genders, which may be experienced simultaneously or in a fluid way</li><li>Sixty nine (verb): To engage with a partner in simultaneous mutual oral stimulation of the genitals for sexual pleasure; to participate in a sixty-nine"</li><li>Stealthing (noun): The action or practice of removing one's condom during sex (or occasionally of intentionally damaging it prior to sex) without the knowledge and consent of a partner</li><li>TERF (noun): Transgender-exclusionary radical feminist; typically derogatory term for a feminist whose advocacy of women's rights excludes (or is thought to exclude) the rights of transgender women</li></ul><h2>Dictionary.com added 'simp,' 'aromantic,' and 'throuple'</h2><ul><li>Aromantic (adjective): Noting or relating to a person who experiences little or no romantic attraction to other people</li><li>Bachelorx party (noun): An inclusive pre-wedding party, often on the night before or in the days leading up to the wedding, and ranging from a night of drinking to a destination vacation (used in contrast to bachelor party and bachelorette party, and intended to be welcoming for wedding participants and guests of any gender)</li><li>Demisexual (adjective): Noting or relating to a person who is sexually attracted only to people with whom they already have an emotional bond</li><li>Feminine of center (adjective): Noting or relating to a person, especially an LGBTQ+ person, who is more feminine than masculine on a spectrum of gender expression</li><li>Hegemonic masculinity (noun): A socially constructed masculine ideal, defined chiefly in contrast to or as the opposite of femininity, and held up as the most prestigious form of manliness in a heteropatriarchy</li><li>Heteropatriarchy (noun): A hierarchical society or culture dominated by heterosexual males whose characteristic bias is unfavorable to gay people and females in general</li><li>Masculine of center (adjective): Noting or relating to a person, especially an LGBTQ+ person, who is more masculine than feminine on a spectrum of gender expression</li><li>Neopronoun (noun): A type of gender-neutral pronoun, coined after 1800, and used especially by nonbinary and genderqueer people, as in English ze/hir/hirs,e/em/eirs, or xe/xem/xyrs</li><li>Nounself pronoun (noun): A type of invented gender-neutral pronoun used by some nonbinary and genderqueer people in place of gendered pronouns such as he/himself or she/herself to express a spiritual or personal connection to a specific concept: the nounself pronoun is derived from a word, usually a noun, that is linked to that concept, such as the use of star/starself by people who feel a connection to celestial objects or bun/bunself, derived from bunny, by people who feel a connection to rabbits</li><li>Simp (noun, verb): A person, especially a man, who is excessively attentive or submissive to an object of sexual attraction; To be excessively attentive or submissive, especially to an object of sexual attraction</li><li>Sologamy (noun): The practice or state of marriage to one's self</li><li>Throuple (noun): Three people who are engaged or   married to one another, or involved   as romantic partners</li><li>Unlabeled (adjective): Noting or relating to a person who does not name their gender or sexuality</li></ul>

23 new gender and sexuality terms added to the dictionary in 2022

<ul><li><keyword id="12512340" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jaswantiben-Jamnadas-Popat" source="Orion">Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat</keyword> was conferred the Padma Shri award on Tuesday.</li><li>She is one of the founders of Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad.</li><li>Jaswantiben began her journey with an investment of ₹80 along with six of her friends.</li></ul>On March 15, 1959, Jaswantiben along with six of her friends met on a terrace in Girgaum, Maharashtra and started making papads, using a sum of ₹80, which were <a href="http://www.lijjat.com/Organisation/TheBeginning.aspx">borrowed</a> from Chhaganlal Karamshi Parekh, a social worker. Today, the brand is called Lijjat Papad, and it has grown to be a ₹1,600 crore business with 81 branches and employs over 45,000 women across the country, all of whom are considered co-owners in the enterprise. Recognising her journey, the Indian government gave the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award in the country, to the 91-year old entrepreneur. While most people may not recognise her by name, it is unlikely that you are unfamiliar with her product. If you are someone who watched television during the 90s, you will probably remember the popular Lijjat Papad jingle with a hand puppet bunny chomping on crispy papad. <div type="Youtube" id="lSYMX6PmT34" title="Lijjat Papad Commercial - Doordarshan Ad/ Commercial from the 80's &amp; 90's - pOphOrn" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lSYMX6PmT34/mqdefault.jpg"></div> <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="A humble beginning" comment="subhead" text="A humble beginning">A humble beginning</cmsannotation> Jaswantiben, who hails from Mumbai’s now affluent Girgaum area, began her journey as an entrepreneur to contribute towards her family’s income. While she did not have any knowledge about running a business, her hard work and courage allowed her to start this venture. She started making papads with Parvatiben Ramdas Thodani, Ujamben Narandas Kundalia, Banuben. N. Tanna, Laguben Amritlal Gokani, Jayaben V. Vithalani, and Chutadben Amish Gawadem. “Making papads does not require education, which is why we started Lijjat,” Jasnatiben says in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSz27aGjqog">interview</a>. “Everyone here is a partner and does not work for any other person, which was one of the factors that enabled women to join at the beginning,” she adds. <div type="image" title="Lijjat Papad" msid="87648084" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Lijjat Papad&amp;#39;s logo.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> “We do not require anyone to pay money, we do not check their caste or religion or do any background checks while adding a partner, where else will you find such a partnership business,” asks Jaswantiben. The group first made a batch of four packets of papads, which were sold to a businessman. Soon after that, the group increased from seven members to twenty-five and later the group registered as Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad and in 1962, it was renamed to Lijjat Papad. The papads are sold across the country and even exported to countries like the United States, Singapore, United Kingdom, Thailand and Netherlands among others. Not just papads, now Lijjat also sells masalas, atta, chapati and even detergent. The organisation has also had its share of failures, such as cottage leather, match sticks and incense sticks, which had to be shut down. “The credit of Lijjat Papad goes to every woman working here. This recognition is the fruit of their hard work,” Jaswantiben said while speaking to <a href="https://www.shethepeople.tv/top-stories/inspiration/jaswantiben-jamnadas-popat-lijjat-papad/">SheThePeople</a> after being awarded the Padma Shri. Jaswantiben-led Lijjat Papad believes in the principle of self-reliance and does not accept any donations or contributions. To ensure that the members do not lose out on employment, the company does not use machines and till date rolls the papads using hands despite making over 4.5 billion papads each year. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Equal profits" comment="subhead" text="Equal profits">Equal profits</cmsannotation> Every woman that joins Lijjat is called a Lijjat Ben (Sister) and is given equal share in the profits. Jyoti Naik, the former president of Lijjat Papad during an <a href="https://www.rediff.com/money/2005/apr/15spec.htm">interview</a> had revealed that Lijjat’s committee consisting of 21 members decides how profits are to be distributed. “Even a ben who has recently joined gets the same share as others who have been with us longer,” she said. 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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The novel coronavirus caused chaos to the <keyword id="992778" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="UFC">UFC</keyword>'s main event Saturday, as Gilbert Burns tested positive and had to withdraw from a welterweight championship match against <keyword id="8755261" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kamaru-Usman">Kamaru Usman</keyword>.</li><li><keyword id="9540084" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jorge-masvidal">Jorge Masvidal</keyword> stepped-in to replace Burns with one week's notice, which is a deserved reward for a man who has fighting in his blood, even going as far back as a pre-teen on the streets of West Miami.</li><li>From there, a teenage Masvidal had a phone call asking if he wanted to fight in Kimbo Slice's backyard. "Hell yeah," he said, accepting a fight for 7 days later.</li><li>Masvidal beat a Miami bouncer who was in his mid-20s in a bout which entertained Kimbo so much, he demanded to see a rematch, which Masvidal won again.</li><li>It begs the question of whether history can repeat itself going into UFC 251 on July 11, and Masvidal can triumph once again with only one week to prepare.</li></ul><keyword id="9060271" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fight-island">FIGHT ISLAND</keyword> — It's 2003 and backyard fights are one of the most watchable things on the internet, providing you're into barbaric, skull-cracking violence, like me.A fresh-faced Jorge Masvidal had been training at the same Florida gym as the late Kimbo Slice, a barrel-chested brawler who was as bald as he was beardy, and who had been developing a cult hero status because of his knockout prowess in underground bouts.Masvidal, an unknown entity even at a local level, received a call to see if he was interested in competing bareknuckle. He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTgO7Yr1dTw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remembers ordering a McDonald's</a> at the drive-thru when his phone rang at the time."Hell yeah," he said<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTgO7Yr1dTw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a>. "Damn right. Let's do it." Masvidal was always down to scrap.One week later the teenager was trading blows with a mid-20s Miami bouncer called Reynoldo Fuentes, who had already knocked one guy out cold in Kimbo's backyard earlier that day.Masvidal proved to be a far greater challenge, <a href="https://www.espn.co.uk/mma/story/_/id/27931280/from-miami-brawler-ufc-star-jorge-masvidal-always-bmf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESPN reported</a>, as Fuentes lost.Dressed in baggy jean shorts, Nike sneakers, and with long and thick hair tied behind his head in a ponytail, a shirtless Masvidal went to work on Fuentes.He left his exhausted opponent needing two men to help him walk after it was called off, before slumping to the floor, beaten, with a concerned Kimbo watching on.Kimbo, though, was so entertained he demanded to see a rematch a couple of months later.Fuentes, known as "Rey," received $500 for the do-over, one he wanted to win so bad he had a "structured" fight camp as if it were an organized, sanctioned event, <a href="https://www.ufc.com/news/rey-remembers-backyard-scrap-masvidal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the UFC</a>.Masvidal, in contrast, had no stable income. He lived on his own, and with ready-cash hard to come by, he was sometimes forced to sleep in his car which he parked in the lot of Kimbo's gym, ESPN said.<div type="image" title="Jorge Masvidal" height="750" width="1000" msid="76857334" hostid="261"></div>"It was a tough, soul-searching moment," Masvidal said <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92peBMdqEWI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on his YouTube channel</a>. "It wasn't easy. There were no time limits on that, so we were just going. His shots were a little heavier than mine, especially back then at that time."The structured camp Rey endured was obvious to Masvidal, who noticed he was tougher when taking shots to the body. Rey also floored Masvidal with a heavy straight right punch to the jaw. "Oh man, my head was spinning," Masvidal said. "And this f------ gorilla was still coming at me."Though Rey knocked Masvidal down in the rematch, he couldn't knock him out and failed to keep up with the pace set by Masvidal, who varied his punch selection throughout the bout. Rey lost once again, this time with his hands on his knees, unwilling — or just physically unable — to go on.Little did Rey know, but Kimbo had been interested in Masvidal for a while, identifying him from his gym as a potentially exceptional young striking talent.Almost two decades later, after far surpassing Kimbo's fame level, Masvidal has once again taken a fight on a week's notice.The stakes, this time, are much higher.If victorious, Masvidal will wrest the UFC welterweight championship belt away from current ruler Kamaru Usman's waist, adding it to the "Baddest Mother F-----" belt he won after beating Nate Diaz, last year.Masvidal enjoyed a breakout 2019 in which he was thrust from the consciousnesses of hardcore combat audiences and placed in front of the broader <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword> fan.A title triumph at UFC 251 on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi this weekend would amplify Masvidal's crossover appeal so much, he may coax Conor McGregor out of the Dubliner's abrupt retirement, <a href="https://www.insider.com/conor-mcgregor-joe-rogan-doesnt-believe-irishman-is-retiring-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a retirement few in the industry seem to believe anyway</a>.<h2>Coronavirus can lay waste to sports most ambitious plans</h2>Coronavirus-induced chaos has marooned multiple athletes from "Fight Island" this weekend, so it's a good job Masvidal, a man also known as "Street Jesus," washed ashore with much acclaim to save the show and, in <a href="https://twitter.com/gamebredfighter/status/1189307750116986881?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">words he would likely use</a>, "baptize a fool."<div type="image" title="UFC coronavirus" height="750" width="1000" msid="76857336" hostid="261"></div>COVID-19 threatened to dilute the quality of UFC's signature summer showcase to the world, a four-event residency in a 25 square kilometer region on Yas Island which is quarantined from the rest of Abu Dhabi.The greatest event is Saturday's pay-per-view, UFC 251, which features three championship fights and many other significant showdowns.Throughout the pandemic era in sports, one name — or, rather, one acronym — has stood above the rest in the wild west of combat sports landscapes.After a three-month hiatus, the UFC returned to operations mid-May in Jacksonville, Florida, a month before Top Rank boxing restarted its own gig in Las Vegas, with <a href="https://www.boxingscene.com/dana-white-slams-top-rank-ratings-good-job-arum-you-d-ckhead--149509" target="_blank" rel="noopener">around a third — and sometimes as low as a quarter — of the viewing figures</a> which MMA's market-leader has been enjoying.UFC continues to fine-tune how it navigates the prospect of live events behind-closed-doors, but no matter how much planning the company puts into health, safety, and card construction, nobody can predict who or how many athletes will test positive for the novel coronavirus.Just ask Gilbert Burns, a 33-year-old ground game expert from Brazil, who has already excelled in one pandemic show so far — one in which he tested negative for the coronavirus throughout. But he is now positive, and he is not alone.Burns out-pointed the former welterweight champ, Tyron Woodley, on May 30 and was given the nod to take on Usman at "Fight Island."But on Saturday, July 4, <a href="https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/7/4/21313109/gilbert-burns-tests-positive-for-covid-19-pulled-from-ufc-251-main-event-against-kamaru-usman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MMA Fighting reported</a> that Burns tested positive for the coronavirus. Burns would not fly to "Fight Island," and the UFC's main event was in jeopardy.Within hours, though, the UFC entered negotiations with Masvidal as decision-makers sought to save the company's marquee month of the year.One day later, a deal was struck. Shortly after that, Masvidal tested negative for the coronavirus and so his representatives, First Round Management, could make plans to get their client from Las Vegas to Abu Dhabi by private jet.Jorge Masvidal finally got a UFC title shot after 48 fights in MMA.Though it was not the UFC's first choice for a "Fight Island" main event, an Usman-Masvidal match is the most significant pairing of fighters since <a href="https://www.insider.com/justin-gaethje-tortured-tony-ferguson-5-rounds-at-ufc-249-2020-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justin Gaethje upset Tony Ferguson in a dominant lightweight thriller</a>, May 9.UFC 249's main event two months ago showcased two of the very best athletes not only in the 155-pound weight class but in all MMA.UFC 251, like the 249 event, showcases two of the very best athletes in a division, this time at welterweight. And both feature prominently in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-are-the-best-fighters-in-ufc-mma-bellator-2020-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insider's list of the 15 best MMA fighters today</a>.It rarely gets bigger, better, or badder — not when a "Bad Mother F-----" is involved.<h2>Bunny-hopping from Kimbo's backyard to Abu Dhabi</h2>Some athletes enter the UFC with collegiate-wrestling backgrounds in America, with great ground game foundations in Brazil, or with a striking pedigree from Europe.Being a bonafide badass may well be Masvidal's base style as street-fighting has been in his DNA since childhood when he roamed West Miami neighborhoods getting into rucks.<div type="image" title="Jorge Masvidal, UFC Fight Island" height="750" width="1000" msid="76857339" hostid="261"></div>"I don't know how many heads I cracked," <a href="http://fightland.vice.com/blog/jorge-masvidals-miami" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he said to Fightland</a> of his developmental years as a child from 7 to 14. Armed with a knife, one kid even tried to mug him, he said.But being known for cramming his knuckles into a random thug's mouth was not something he wanted as a reputation. He wanted to be a boxer, a wrestler. And when he found MMA, he realized he could be both.Masvidal earned an $18,000 check for knocking someone out in front of Hugh Hefner.It's 2007 and Masvidal finds himself in another man's backyard, punching another opponent in the face for the entertainment of an exclusive audience.But this fight wasn't organized by Kimbo, and this wasn't underground.This was a legitimate MMA operation called Strikeforce, promoted by eventual Bellator MMA boss Scott Coker, and this was the first cagefighting event held at the $200 million Playboy mansion in Beverly Hills.Strikeforce had only held seven events at that point, and Coker viewed the opportunity as a no-brainer as it would see his brand placed alongside Playboy's."Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could," <a href="https://uproxx.com/sports/hugh-hefner-playboy-mansion-hosted-mma-card-scott-coker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coker later told Uproxx</a>.Tickets sold for a thousand bucks a pop, and <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2007/09/29/strikeforce-at-the-playboy-mansion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one writer observed</a> plenty of scantily-clad Playboy bunnies at cageside.Masvidal walked into the cage at 10:11 p.m. armed with good-form having won five in a row.One minute and 33 seconds after the opening bell, he left that same cage with another win — this one was devastating.Matt Lee, a lightweight, barely knew what hit him as Masvidal attacked him with his knees and elbows. It was not long before Lee wilted, falling half-beaten on the canvas.Masvidal forced the referee to separate the pair after dispatching an avalanche of fists. Game over.<h2>Masvidal's 50th fight could come against Conor McGregor</h2>Who knows how inspiring it was for Masvidal to win, in style, at the Playboy mansion while Hefner sat a dozen feet away, wearing silk pajamas underneath a burgundy smoking jacket, clapping and smiling with his blonde girlfriends.<div type="image" title="Jorge Masvidal" height="1432" width="2000" msid="76857341" hostid="261"></div>But 13 years later, many months after he had knocked out Darren Till, scored a 5-second highlight-reel KO over Ben Askren, and made Nate Diaz bleed in the "BMF" bout, Masvidal, at the height of his popularity, watched Conor McGregor destroy Donald Cerrone in January sporting his own bedroom style — a black Versace robe.Earlier this week, he boarded a private jet wearing a bright, Miami pink Versace robe, and looked relaxed while heading for Abu Dhabi to take on Usman, his greatest challenge to date.While Masvidal may have been training for an opportunity like this, to step-in at late notice during a time in which the coronavirus can scupper a bout at any time, Usman will have been training only for Burns — a jiu-jitsu specialist.As Masvidal is a multi-dimensional striker with good wrestling, he is a significantly different style match-up for Usman than Burns was.Usman is unbeaten in a five-year stretch with the UFC, a time in which he has scalped some of the top names in the division including Leon Edwards, Demian Maia, Rafael dos Anjos, Tyron Woodley, and Colby Covington.Beating "The Nigerian Nightmare" would punctuate an unconventional career for Masvidal, and could well earn him a mega-money payday against Conor McGregor, should the Irishman return to the sport once again.That the welterweight title would be on the line, and McGregor would be gunning for a championship belt in a third weight class, could be enough to coax him into the cage — and it's something Masvidal told us he wants, too.Masvidal would relish defending a title against McGregor, and he even told us earlier in the year that he'd happily put his "Baddest Mother F----" belt on the line, providing McGregor put something in the pot, too — like a stake in Proper no. Twelve."If I put my [BMF] belt up, someone has to put something else up. Cash, money. Something that makes sense to me," <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jorge-masvidal-considering-a-bmf-title-fight-with-conor-mcgregor-2020-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Masvidal told Insider</a>.We piqued Masvidal's interest when we mentioned McGregor could offer shares in one of his companies, like his whiskey brand."If the company is worth any money, we can do something," he said.McGregor may well be keen, telling the Las Vegas media ahead of his sole bout this year — a UFC 246 smash-and-grab win over Donald Cerrone in January — that he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jorge-masvidal-considering-a-bmf-title-fight-with-conor-mcgregor-2020-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"would like that BMF title."</a><h2>It would be a "red panty night" like no other</h2>McGregor coined the phrase "red panty night," which is something the Dubliner says each of his opponents enjoys when they learn they've hit the jackpot — a fight with him."You ring back home, you ring your wife, 'Baby, we've done it. We're rich, baby. Conor McGregor made us rich, break out the red panties'," McGregor said to Rafael dos Anjos <a href="https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2020/01/ufc-246-conor-mc-gregor-donald-cerrone-fighter-flashback-red-panty-night" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at the "Go Big" press conference in 2015</a>.If Masvidal defeats Usman, which no man has yet done in the UFC, and you add a legacy-defining victory to the Floridian's escalating fame, a McGregor match would be a red panty night.But it would likely be a Versace robe night, too.Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/dustin-poiriers-epic-win-puts-him-in-conor-mcgregor-conversation-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dustin Poirier's blood and guts victory on Saturday puts him in the Conor McGregor conversation even though the Irishman is 'retired'</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/photo-bruised-dan-hooker-offers-no-excuses-after-brutal-loss-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A bruised, bloodied and stitched-up Dan Hooker offered 'no excuses' after his loss to Dustin Poirier in an all-time UFC slobberknocker</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/dana-white-hasnt-spoken-to-conor-mcgregor-for-weeks-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFC boss Dana White says he hasn't spoken to Conor McGregor for weeks, suggesting the Irishman's shock retirement is real</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-max-rohskopf-begged-his-coach-to-stop-a-fight-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An MMA coach is being rebuked for failing to withdraw his fighter from a bout when the fighter begged him 9 times to stop it</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-alex-perez-scores-rare-calf-kick-ko-at-ufc-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch an American UFC fighter kick his opponent so hard in the calf that he couldn't even stand, let alone walk, straight after</a>

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