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January 9, 2017, was the day when India’s largest e-commerce company and darling startup appointed a non-founder as its CEO in about 9 years of its inception, also making it the first Indian Unicorn to do so.<br />
<br /> <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword> named <keyword id="6379357" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kalyan-Krishnamurthy">Kalyan Krishnamurthy</keyword> as its CEO, who is a former top executive at it’s largest shareholder, <keyword id="526777" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tiger-Global">Tiger Global</keyword> and joined the company just eight months ago.<br />
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It seems like an earnest attempt to stabilize the business that is too big to fail, despite, mounting losses, employees being let go and it’s founder asking the government’s help to tackle global giant and its biggest rival in India, Amazon.<br />
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The last fiscal was tough for the internet giant, with Flipkart Internet, it's holding company, incurring a loss of Rs 2,306 Cr., which has more than doubled from 2015, despite revenues growing around 140% to Rs 1,952 Cr.<br />
<br /> Not just that, in November 2016, <keyword id="48670" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Morgan-Stanley">Morgan Stanley</keyword> cut down Flipkart’s valuation to $ 5.4 bn, one of the many drops in its valuation in the past year. According to reports, many investors turned away the most valuable startup, refusing to flush it with any further rounds of funding.<br />
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So why this disruptive measure, when what is required the most for its survival is stability and continuity? Well, for starters, Flipkart could be relying on the time-tested formula of getting an outsider's fresh perspective to revive what is rotting.<br />
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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/what-india-read-through-flipkart-in-2016/articleshow/56256955.cms">ALSO READ: Exclusive: What India Read Through Flipkart in 2016</a><br />
<br /><br /> Ace global investor <keyword id="522178" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ben-Horowitz">Ben Horowitz</keyword> of Andreessen Horowitz- a <keyword id="3442989" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="silicon-valley-based">Silicon Valley-based</keyword> venture capital firm with $2.7 bn under management across start-up companies such as Twitter, however, has been a propagator of Founders as CEOs. As he once said in his blog, 'Why We Prefer Founding CEOs', the 3 key ingredients great founding CEOs tend to have are:<br />
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	• Comprehensive knowledge<br />
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	In other words, Parents are always more careful with their children compared to any babysitter. Flipkart seems to be flipping to the other side in this case.<br />
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	<br /> Most international startups hire CEOs with more experience than the company’s founders when they become popular. Maybe Flipkart thinks that this is the way to grow. At least that is also what one of its former senior employee's <keyword id="278552" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Punit-Soni">Punit Soni</keyword> had also thought. That said, the success of a start-up will also very often rely on the smart business acumen of its founders, who might have the capacity to grow faster and stronger than their competitors being led by more seasoned players.<br />
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	<strong>The <keyword id="3880026" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="hierarchy">Hierarchy</keyword> as it stands today</strong><br />
	<br /> Outgoing CEO <keyword id="6364080" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Binny-Bansal">Binny Bansal</keyword> will now head a newly-formed entity called <keyword id="3515858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="flipkart-group">Flipkart Group</keyword>, which will focus on new and high-growth businesses, manage capital allocation across group companies.<br />
	<br /> <keyword id="4247" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Krishnamurthy">Krishnamurthy</keyword>, along with CEOs of fashion business Myntra (and <keyword id="6388367" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jabong">Jabong</keyword>) and payments arm PhonePe, will report to Bansal.<br />
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	The other Bansal, Sachin will continue to be Flipkart’s executive chairman, focusing on broader strategy and mentoring top leadership. He has been doing that since 2016 when he stepped down as CEO.<br />
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	The founders keep switching roles to see which one fits them best, but for now, they seemed to have abandoned the stage to manage backstage where actors are leaving, and props are finished.<br />
	 


Is Flipkart's musical chair with its CEO justified?

<ul class="summary-list"><li>When <keyword id="21474" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Italy">Italy</keyword> went into lockdown in early March to slow the spread of the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword>, residents across the country were stuck at home.</li><li>Being cooped up at home might seem like a hindrance for someone who loves long-distance running, but Alyssa Clark, an ultra marathoner and Navy spouse, didn't let it slow her down.</li></ul><p>Even before Italy locked down in response to the coronavirus, Alyssa Clark could tell something more severe was coming.</p><p>"It was probably mid-February where we started having [authorities say] if you've traveled in this region, you need to make sure that you are reporting where you've been ... and if you have any fevers or coughs, reporting it," said Alyssa, who until recently lived in Quadrelle, a town near the headquarters of US Naval Forces Europe-Naval Forces Africa in Naples, with her husband, Navy Lt. Codi Clark.</p><p>"We started to have a premonition that it was going to get a lot worse, and then Northern Italy was really slammed, and they started imposing pretty harsh restrictions on March 9," which was the "last day of freedom," Alyssa said in a May 22 interview.</p><p>Across Italy, authorities clamped down. As the country's hospitals strained with patients, <a href="https://www.insider.com/italian-mayors-yelling-swearing-at-residents-to-stay-home-2020-3">politicians confronted residents</a> who disobeyed the stay-at-home orders.</p><p>"We could not walk, run, or travel in a car except to go to and from work or to and from the grocery store, and we had to carry papers with us," Alyssa said. "We could be stopped by police at any time and be fined if we were not moving within those restrictions."</p><p><div type="image" title="Alyssa Clark marathon Amalfi Coast" height="811" width="1081" msid="76205365" hostid="261"></div></p><p>A Morale, Welfare and Recreation fitness specialist with Naval Support Activity Naples, Alyssa was the only one in her building at the military complex's Capodichino location.</p><p>Isolation may have been important for public health, but for Alyssa, an ultra-marathoner who's run everything from 32-milers to multi-day stage races of more than 150 miles, just sitting at home wasn't appealing.</p><p>"I am a competitive ultra runner, and I always have a very set racing schedule. I had some big goals for this year and then everything started getting canceled," Alyssa said. "So I was looking for the next project that I could take on."</p><p>"I was toying with a few ideas and kind of randomly thought, 'Oh, wouldn't it be interesting to try to run a <keyword id="6397749" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="marathon">marathon</keyword> every day while we're under lockdown?'"</p><h2>'Oh, this is a possibility'</h2><p>The original plan was to run a marathon every day until people could run outside again. "Then I started looking up what the world record is for consecutive days running a marathon, and I started getting closer and closer to that and thinking, 'Oh, this is a possibility.'"</p><p>For women, that record is 60 days straight. She ran the idea by Codi, who said it was "pretty feasible" for her. "And it just has continued to snowball," Alyssa said.</p><p>Insider spoke to Alyssa just hours after she finished her 53rd marathon, another four- to five-hour hour outing on a small treadmill.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-aPVu6Iy4c" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Today was day 1. I've set myself the challenge of running a marathon everyday until the world has healed enough for us to be released from isolation. This means almost every marathon will be on a treadmill, but I see this as a gift I get to run at all. I have spent significant time considering why I am doing this and in many ways I think it will become more clear as I continue to run. But one of my reasons is in hopes to bring strength to those who are in need and show my love by every step I take forward. As this continues to evolve, I hope to provide places for charitable donations for medical supplies and to help those in need. But, I ask if this inspires you, to do one act of kindness for someone today or tomorrow. Whether it is continuing to remain home, reaching out to a friend, supporting a small business, this will all help this world to come out of this stronger. One day at a time. One hour at a time. One minute at a time. One step at a time. We keep moving forward. With love to all :heart::woman-running:</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by  Alyssa Amos Clark (@theory_in_motion) on Mar 31, 2020 at 12:36pm PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-03-31T19:36:58+00:00">Mar 31, 2020 at 12:36pm PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><p>"We have an upstairs room that we don't use very often, so it just has a couch and a TV that doesn't really work," Alyssa said. An open door let in sunlight and a Velcro sticker kept her iPad fastened to the treadmill so she could watch "easily digestible" shows like "Love is Blind" and "Too Hot to Handle."</p><p>"Luckily I had an AC fan on me, and then I have my nutrition set up next to me and a water bottle," Alyssa said. "Pretty basic, but it works."</p><p>Staying energized was a challenge, especially for Clark, who has a compromised immune system. "I have ulcerative colitis," Alyssa said. "I actually had my colon removed when I was 14. That's a whole other story."</p><p>Now gluten-free, Clark eats rice cakes with peanut butter and bananas before running and has gluten-free waffles while on the treadmill.</p><p>"I often eat snickers bars — it's a very good source of energy and sugar," Alyssa said. "Ultra-marathoners love drinking Coca-Cola, so oftentimes that will be a good pick-me-up."</p><p>So is sugar-free Red Bull. "I actually did about one of those every marathon for quite a while," she added.</p><p><div type="image" title="Alyssa Clark" height="631" width="841" msid="76205368" hostid="261"></div></p><p>Running marathons is taxing — running them on a treadmill even more so.</p><p>Alyssa is very specific about her shoes, using ones she trusts and that offer a lot of cushion. "I'll rotate two pairs, and I'll probably throw in another pair by the end, and I was using a couple of pairs to start. So I probably used three to four pairs of shoes."</p><p>In addition to stretching, Alyssa said she uses lotion to help with recovery after running. "I've been starting to have a little bit of quad pain that I seem to have wrangled, but I've been icing that a bit," she added.</p><p>Mentally, the trick to running long distances is not to think about the long distances, Alyssa said.</p><p>"I'm never sitting there thinking about the whole 26 miles when I begin. I'm thinking about at mile 8, I'm going to eat something. At mile 13, I'm going to have a Red Bull or something that is enjoyable," she said. "Then, 'Hey, I'm already halfway through.' OK, I'm going to get to mile 16. Then I have 10 miles to go. That's great. I can do that."</p><p>"I also have a lot of external motivation from people reaching out to me saying that they're going on runs, that they haven't been on a run forever and I've been motivating them to get out, and also other people saying, you're inspiring me to get healthier to keep going during this lockdown that's really challenging, and so that really has helped me keep going when things get tough," Alyssa added.</p><h2>Marathon 61 and beyond</h2><p>Days after speaking, Codi and Alyssa left Italy for the US and their next duty station, but Alyssa kept after the record, setting a goal of completing a marathon each day before midnight Italian time.</p><p>"We will be flying out on Tuesday [May 26] to go to Germany. So I will do one Tuesday morning before we leave, and then in Germany before we leave the next day I will do another one on the Air Force base, and then we'll fly to Virginia," Alyssa said.</p><p>"The next day I will run one in Virginia, and then we will drive to Charleston and I will run one or two in Charleston and then eventually we'll get to Florida," Alyssa added, praising her husband for helping make sure she could continue the runs during the move.</p><p>"The hard part with this is it's not a 20-hour event or a 12-hour-a-day event. It's only a four- to five-hour a day event," Codi said in the May 22 interview. "So my job during this time has been to force her to attempt to stay in bed and put her feet up and do that kind of focus on recovery."</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_amThAwUe" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Marathon 64 and 65! Had some technical difficulties on Instagram yesterday so combining for two today I’ve never been good at change as much as I like to think of myself as being very adventurous. I am working on improving myself and being more open minded in many aspects. I want to thank Channel 2 News Charleston for an incredible story and please check it out in my bio or with this link! https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/charleston-county-news/ultra-runner-breaks-world-record-in-charleston/ One day at a time. One hour at a time. One minute at a time. One step at a time. We keep moving forward. With love to all ❤️‍♀️</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by  Alyssa Amos Clark (@theory_in_motion) on Jun 3, 2020 at 4:10pm PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-06-03T23:10:03+00:00">Jun 3, 2020 at 4:10pm PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><p>Alyssa finished her 60th marathon in Norfolk, Virginia, on the last weekend of May. Marathon 61, and with it the unofficial women's world record for consecutive days running a marathon distance, came the next day in Charleston, South Carolina. Marathon 62 followed amid protests across Charleston, Clark said in an Instagram post.</p><p>Marathon 63 came on Monday evening, after five days of travel, with the couple having finally reached their new duty station in Panama City Beach, Florida. Tuesday and Wednesday brought marathons 64 and 65.</p><p>Alyssa's most recent marathons went the same way her first did: step after step, minute after minute.</p><p>"None of these happen by trying to jump into running 10 miles right away. It's breaking it down, doing what you can, and being consistent. Consistency is the key to success," Alyssa said when asked for advice to prospective marathoners.</p><p>But passion is important, and no one should feel compelled to take up long-distance running, she said.</p><p>"Find something you enjoy, because that's way more important than forcing yourself to do something you don't love. I love running. I get to do four hours of what I love every day, and that is incredible."</p>

65 marathons, 1 treadmill, 0 days off: How a Navy fitness trainer took on a world record during lockdown in Italy

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5c479cba2bdd7f4d81167d85-2000/ap17207720674282.jpg" border="0" alt="HRC equality flag transgender troops" data-mce-source="Jacquelyn Martin/AP" data-mce-caption="People with the Human Rights Campaign hold up equality flags during an event in support of transgender military personnel in 2017. A Supreme Court decision Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to implement its transgender military ban." /><p class="source"><span>Jacquelyn Martin/AP</span></p><p class="caption">People with the Human Rights Campaign hold up equality flags during an event in support of transgender military personnel in 2017. A Supreme Court decision Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to implement its transgender military ban.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>A Supreme Court decision Tuesday let the Trump administration begin implementing its transgender military ban.</li><li>The Department of <keyword id="6354810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="defense">Defense</keyword> issued a statement reiterating its long-held stance that its new policy regarding transgender troops is "NOT a ban."</li><li>The policy does allow transgender troops to serve but only if they do so in their biological sex, do not have a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria, or can show a 36-month period of "stability" prior to military service.</li><li>Advocates maintain the administration's justifications, including potential negative impacts to unit readiness and cohesion and medical costs, have mostly been debunked.</li></ul><p>On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to go forward in implementing its transgender military ban, meaning that the ban can go into effect while it is being challenged in court.</p><p>Although the administration's policy, shaped after a report from former Defense Secretary James Mattis, is widely viewed as a bar against transgender troops, the Department of Defense has long held that its policy on military service by transgender persons is not a universal ban.</p><p>"As always, we treat all transgender persons with respect and dignity. DoD's proposed policy is NOT a ban on service by transgender persons," DoD spokeswoman Lt. Col. Carla Gleason said in a statement Tuesday. "It is critical that DoD be permitted to implement personnel policies that it determines are necessary to ensure the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world."</p><p>The policy currently in effect is based on a <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2018/Mar/23/2001894037/-1/-1/0/MILITARY-SERVICE-BY-TRANSGENDER-INDIVIDUALS.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memorandum</a> filed by former Secretary Mattis at the end of his review of the previous administration's decision to open the ranks. It does not outright ban transgender persons from service, but there are caveats that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/scotus-transgender-ban/index.html">make military service difficult for members of the transgender community</a>.</p><h2>The Defense Department maintains its policy is not a universal ban.</h2><p>The policy differentiates between transgender persons and those with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is the medical diagnosis for someone who experiences emotional distress with one's biological sex. Not all people who identify as transgender have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, <a href="https://transequality.org/issues/resources/frequently-asked-questions-about-transgender-people">The National Center for Transgender Equality explains</a>.</p><p>For those who identify as transgender, but have not been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the policy outright disqualifies any transgender person who has already transitioned - or a person living as the gender they identify as not the gender assigned at birth - or requires transition.</p><p>The policy also disqualifies those who may require a medical transition based on a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Citing "considerable scientific uncertainty" and blurred lines "that demarcate male and female standards," the defense department maintains that the requirements of transition-related treatment come at too high a cost for taxpayers and could result in impairments to unit cohesion and readiness (how soon they could deploy).</p><p>Transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria are generally disqualified, although there are some exceptions. Anyone who has previously been diagnosed with gender dysphoria must demonstrate "36 consecutive months of stability (i.e., absence of gender dysphoria)" immediately prior to military service. This would require a transgender person to prove they have not experienced discomfort with their biological sex for three years before joining. They must also agree not to transition during service and adhere to the standards of their biological sex.</p><p>Essentially, if persons identify as transgender, they can serve in the military - but only if they do so in their biological sex not as the gender they may identify with.</p><p>For those who identify as transgender who are already serving the the military, persons diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the policy's date, can still go through with transition. Those who join the military and then are diagnosed with gender dysphoria, can stay in the military if they do not transition.</p><p>According to CNN, waivers may be granted by the Department of Defense "on a case-by-case basis."</p><h2>The DoD's justifications have been debunked by its own officers</h2><p>Under former Secretary Mattis, the DoD upended a milestone policy change that allowed a path for transgender people to serve in their preferred gender versus their biological sex.  According to a report released in February 2018, a panel of military experts found that former <a href="https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/features/2016/0616_policy/Transgender-Implementation-Fact-Sheet.pdf">Secretary of Defense Ash Carter</a>'s <a href="https://dod.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/821675/secretary-of-defense-ash-carter-announces-policy-for-transgender-service-members/">2016 policy</a>, implemented towards the end of the Obama administration created a financial burden and carried potential risks to unit cohesion and readiness.</p><p>But other experts - and the service chiefs from each branch of the military - have highlighted that these claims are largely without evidence.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5b8858dd0ce5f51a3a8b533f-1024/gettyimages-912427760.jpg" border="0" alt="Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff" data-mce-source="Alex Wong/Getty" data-mce-caption="Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." /><p class="source"><span>Alex Wong/Getty</span></p><p class="caption">Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before Congress in early 2018 that there were no known issues resulting from transgender troops serving openly.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>In independent hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee in early 2018, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand asked all four service branch chiefs whether they had received any reports of lowered morale, unit cohesion, or disciplinary issues rising due to transgender troops serving openly.</p><p>All four stated that there were <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/04/24/all-4-service-chiefs-on-record-no-harm-to-unit-from-transgender-service/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no known issues</a> or reports.</p><p>The other DoD justification concerns medical costs and deployability of transitioning service members.</p><p>According to Radha Iyengar, one of the authors of a RAND Corp study that influenced the decision to allow open transgender service, those justifications are also misguided. </p><p>In an interview with the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/07/26/trump-called-transgender-troops-a-costly-disruption-an-expert-who-studied-it-says-hes-wrong/?utm_term=.fcfd897536d3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a>, Iyengar explained that the actual costs of medical care for transgender troops - which would amount to about $2.4 to $8.4 million - would comprise only one-tenth of 1% of the military's annual medical spending.</p><p>Iyengar also told the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/07/26/trump-called-transgender-troops-a-costly-disruption-an-expert-who-studied-it-says-hes-wrong/?utm_term=.fcfd897536d3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Post</a> that the 10 to 130 troops who would be unable to deploy would have negligible impact on the military.</p><p>"In 2015, about 50,000 soldiers alone were not deployable due to medical reasons in the active component. So the scale of the effects here are relatively small," she told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/07/26/trump-called-transgender-troops-a-costly-disruption-an-expert-who-studied-it-says-hes-wrong/?utm_term=.fcfd897536d3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Post</a> reporter Alex Horton. </p><p>Advocacy groups maintain that in light of these factors, the administration's policy is, in effect, a ban against transgender people serving openly. <a href="https://www.glad.org/post/supreme-court-allows-challenges-to-trumps-transgender-military-ban-to-continue-in-lower-courts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Four lawsuits</a> have been filed on behalf of transgender plaintiffs who are actively serving. Tuesday's Supreme Court decision allows the Trump administration to implement the ban temporarily while those lawsuits continue through the courts.</p><p>The fate of transgender service members, including those serving openly, remains unclear. The DoD statement did not clarify how the ban would be implemented in the immediate aftermath of the decision. </p><p>Kristin Beck, retired Navy SEAL and transgender civil rights activist, called the ban "bulls---" but said transgender troops would still find a way to serve.</p><p>"We're going to do whatever we have to to live our life. Life always finds a way, and we're going to find a way," she told Business Insider. "We're not going to be told we can't do this." </p><p><em>Alex Lockie contributed to this story.</em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-air-force-combat-jets-refuel-navy-military-aerial-fighter-2018-12">The US Air Force refuels combat jets in midair with a 'flying boom system' - watch it in action</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/8IE71wyQ-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

Here's a breakdown of the Trump administration's transgender military ban that the Supreme Court allowed to move forward

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5739e64252bcd026008c3263-1174-881/fbi-phone.jpg" alt="FBI phone" data-mce-source="Justin Sullivan / Staff / Getty Images" /><p class="source"><span>Justin Sullivan / Staff / Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Compromise isn't a win.</p></div><p></p></div></div>The win-win mindset pushed by so many negotiation experts is usually ineffective and often disastrous.</p><p>At best, it satisfies neither side. And if you employ it with a counterpart who has a win-lose approach, you're setting yourself up to be swindled.</p><p>Of course, as we've noted previously, you need to keep the cooperative, rapport-building, empathetic approach, the kind that creates a dynamic in which deals can be made. But you have to get rid of that naïveté.</p><p>Because compromise - "splitting the difference" - can lead to terrible outcomes. Compromise is often a "bad deal" and a key theme we'll hit in this chapter is that "no deal is better than a bad deal."</p><p>Even in a kidnapping?</p><p>Yes. A bad deal in a kidnapping is where someone pays and no one comes out.</p><p>To make my point on compromise, let me paint you an example: A woman wants her husband to wear black shoes with his suit. But her husband doesn't want to; he prefers brown shoes. So what do they do? They compromise, they meet halfway. And, you guessed it, he wears one black and one brown shoe. Is this the best outcome? No! In fact, that's the <em>worst </em>possible outcome. Either of the two other outcomes - black or brown - would be better than the compromise.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5739e3e552bcd01b008c3310-1300-975/chris voss headshot credit clinton brandhagen.jpg" alt="Chris Voss headshot credit Clinton Brandhagen" data-mce-source="Clinton Brandhagen" data-mce-caption="Chris Voss." /><p class="source"><span>Clinton Brandhagen</span></p><p class="caption">Chris Voss.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Next time you want to compromise, remind yourself of those mismatched shoes.</p><p>So why are we so infatuated with the notion of compromise if it often leads to poor results?</p><p>The real problem with compromise is that it has come to be known as this great concept, in relationships and politics and everything else. Compromise, we are told quite simply, is a sacred moral good.</p><p>Think back to the ransom demand: Fair is no ransom, and what the nephew wants is to pay nothing. So why is he going to offer $75,000, much less $150,000, for the ransom? There is no validity in the $150,000 request. With any compromise, the nephew ends up with a bizarrely bad result.</p><p>I'm here to call bulls--- on compromise right now. We don't compromise because it's right; we compromise because it is easy and because it saves face. We compromise in order to say that at least we got half the pie. Distilled to its essence, we compromise to be safe. Most people in a negotiation are driven by fear or by the desire to avoid pain. Too few are driven by their actual goals.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5739e3c052bcd021008c3075-1300-1963/neversplitthedifference hc c.jpg" alt="NeverSplittheDifference hc c.JPG" data-mce-source="HarperBusiness" /><p class="source"><span>HarperBusiness</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>So don't settle and - here's a simple rule - <em>never split the difference</em>. Creative solutions are almost always preceded by some degree of risk, annoyance, confusion, and conflict. Accommodation and compromise produce none of that. You've got to embrace the hard stuff. That's where the great deals are. And that's what great negotiators do.</p><p><em>Excerpted from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended-ebook/dp/B014DUR7L2">NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE</a>. Copyright © 2016 by Christopher Voss. Reprinted with permission of HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.</em></p><p><em>Chris Voss is the Founder and CEO of the <a href="http://blackswanltd.com/about/team/chris-voss/">Black Swan Group Ltd</a> and author of "<a href="http://info.blackswanltd.com/never-split-the-difference">Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It</a>." He has used his many years of experience in international crisis and high stakes negotiations to develop a unique program and team that applies these globally proven techniques to the business world.</em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/things-do-during-day-sleep-better-night-consumer-reports-2016-5">12 things to do during the day to get the best night's sleep</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="x2dDNnMzE6Y28IrDbfcx48BC68CjEWng" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'x2dDNnMzE6Y28IrDbfcx48BC68CjEWng',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56b907362e526519008b5c9e-1033-775/larry%20page%20ted%20talk.jpg" alt="larry page ted talk" data-mce-source="TED" data-mce-caption="Larry Page and Charlie Rose at TED in 2014" data-link="http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_page_where_s_google_going_next#"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_page_where_s_google_going_next#">TED</a></span></p><p class="caption">Alphabet CEO and Google cofounder Larry Page and Charlie Rose at TED in 2014</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Every year, a humble Vancouver convention center becomes one of the wealthiest places on Earth, as Silicon Valley notables arrive for the annual Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) conference.<p>At the conference, internally&#xa0;nicknamed "summer camp for adults", attendees will observe a Google co-founder walking&#xa0;between snack stations in crocs, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos chatting up a speaker, or countless sneaker-clad Internet founders standing in a taco truck line for some midnight munchies.</p><p>Given the extreme concentration of wealth and pricey ticket (&gt;$8,000), TED routinely finds itself in the crosshairs of <a href="https://hbr.org/2013/04/when-ted-lost-control-of-its-crowd/">critics</a>, who slam it as an <a href="http://gawker.com/362800/why-ted-sucks">elitist</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/the-church-of-ted.html?_r=0">cult</a> of millionaires that <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/09/listen-and-learn">uncritically</a> <a href="http://pando.com/2014/01/17/get-em-while-theyre-young-amid-criticism-for-false-talks-ted-launches-clubs-for-kids/">propagate</a> dangerously <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18511696">utopian</a> ideas. Despite its haters among the press, TED is a beloved Internet gem; an estimated 1 billion people will watch TED's videos this year.&#xa0;</p><p>In this way, the critique of TED is nearly identical to the hate that regularly gets hurled at Silicon Valley, a region of the world increasingly unaffordable to outsiders and filled with influential technologists who believe untested but popular ideas can solve the world's ills. Attending TED is a shot of Silicon Valley - a concentrated dose of both the most loved and hated parts of the tech industry.</p><p>TED's harshest critics hurl invective from afar because they <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/09/ted-now-with-more-elitism/">are rarely - if ever - invited</a>; I was invited last year, so I took the opportunity to interview attendees on how they view TED and what it represents. Specifically, I asked attendees 3 uncomfortable questions, which I think cut to the heart of disagreement between fans and critics:</p><p>&#xa0;</p><ol><li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Why give to TED, a nonprofit, when you could give to another charity, like a soup kitchen?</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Is inequality bad?</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Is utopianism counterproductive?</span></li></ol><p>&#xa0;</p><p>Their answers unveiled a fascinating look into the philosophy of the next great generation of inventors (more detail on that philosophy <a href="https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/silicon-valley-s-political-endgame-summarized-1f395785f3c1#.ked4v3rv6">here</a>).</p><h2><strong>Onfo-topian, not techno-utopian</strong></h2><p>TED's mantra "ideas worth spreading" is deceptively bland; it doesn't reveal the optimism with which the organization and its attendees hold for the power good ideas.</p><p>"Ideas alone do have force," explained Esther Wojcicki, longtime TED attendee and education technologist.</p><p>"Reason is a better angel that deserves the greatest credit for the moral progress our species has enjoyed and that holds out the greatest hope for continuing moral progress in the future," said TED speaker Steve Pinker, whose talk on "The Long Reach of Reason" was <a href="http://blog.ted.com/why-this-might-just-be-the-most-persuasive-ted-talk-ever-posted/">so central to the organization</a> that it was spruced up into a fancy animated short (below)</p><p><div><iframe src="https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_and_rebecca_newberger_goldstein_the_long_reach_of_reason.html" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></p><p>TED's inescapable optimism flows from a belief that humanity can, over the long run, learn that war, racism, and poverty are really stupid ideas.</p><p>As an example of just how pervasive this belief is at the conference, during one random encounter, I approached an investor and actress engaged in animated conversation just outside the mainstage.</p><p>The actress, Sarah Jones, had just performed an imitation-heavy science fiction skit on 21st feminism, wherein she plays a futuristic history teacher that can zap her students into the past minds of modern-day pimps, prostitutes, and college girls. The implied moral of message of her play is that imagining how silly future generations will view our culture should illuminate our own biases.</p><p>Outside the main stage, Jones and <a href="http://www.mayfield.com/team/investment-team/tim-chang">investor Tim Chang</a> were gushing over one of TED's floor demos, <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/the-day-virtual-reality-made-me-cry/">a Vice News-funded virtual-reality</a> simulator that tells life of a refugee camp through the eyes of a little Syrian girl.</p><p>Chang went on to regale me with how virtual reality could be a path to world peace and prosperity. "One way that you could potentially solve against wars and poverty and all these things is if a billionaire could live a day in a life of a homeless person," he says.</p><p>"Don't you think he or she might have more empathy for what that person's situation is like? If you know that an Israeli and someone from Palestine were to swap their day in each other's lives through this kind of technology, would it create more room for common ground discussion."</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56b908eb2e52651c008b5d1c-800-600/tim-chang.png" alt="tim chang" data-mce-source="Tim Chang, Facebook photo"><p class="source"><span>Tim Chang, Facebook photo</span></p><p class="caption">Tim Chang, a VC at Mayfield.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>It is difficult to overstate just how much TED values solving things through the spread of ideas. Last year, the coveted $1,000,000 TED prize was awarded to StoryCorps, an app that makes it easier to record and listen to people's personal stories.</p><p>The year prior, the prize was given to Sugata Mitra, a jolly Newcastle professor of educational technology <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugata_Mitra">whose groundbreaking research proved</a> that poor rural children could teach themselves science, math, and English with little more than free access to the Internet. Mitra explained to me he that believes the central problem with education is that we tell children what to learn and how to learn it.</p><p>The power of the Internet is that it helps students discover the subjects they naturally enjoy and lets them figure out how best to engage. Self-discovery should be the very foundation of a better education system.</p><p>TED is wildly optimistic that ideas are a force for good: talks, side conversations, and prizes seem like versions of this belief manifested over (and over) again.</p><h2><strong>Naive optimism by design</strong></h2><p>TED's faith that ideas can solve the world's ills naturally leads it to permit presentations that critics find optimistic to a fault. Overwhelmingly, critics loathe the way TED wraps intractable problems in eminently solvable language and cinematic flair.</p><p>"Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol - as embodied by TED talks - is a recipe for civilisational disaster" <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/30/we-need-to-talk-about-ted">wrote</a> TED critic <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/benjamin-bratton">Benjamin Bratton</a> for the BBC. TED, he argued, makes solutions to difficult problems seem all-too-easy. "Given the stakes, making our best and brightest waste their time - and the audience's time - dancing like infomercial hosts is too high a price."</p><p>Yet TED's attendees see a strategy behind engaging with ideas that seem crazy at first. "I think experimentation of radical ideas is key to social progress," argued <a href="http://iava.org/people/paul-rieckhoff/">Paul Rieckhoff</a>, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. For Rieckhoff, there already exists plenty of poorly funded ideas; at least TED seems like it has a track record: "Our whole society is spending money on a lot of bulls---. TED is better."</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56b909aa2e5265b9008b5d2d-1150-794/paul-rieckhoff.png" alt="paul rieckhoff" data-mce-source="YouTube (Big Think)" data-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpk4VxV061Y"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpk4VxV061Y">YouTube (Big Think)</a></span></p><p class="caption">Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>While TED does vet ideas for scientific rigor, the scope of their impact leans on the side of exaggeration. Brazen utopia is a feature of TED, not a bug.</p><p>Early Google employee and tech investor, Wesley Chan, explained, "I mean if one idea out of a hundred can go somewhere, then TED would have met its mission of spreading a great idea and inspiring people or changing the world."</p><p>TED is a hedge fund of radical ideas; many talks may die <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/17/the-10-ted-talks-they-should-have-censored/">a spectacularly embarrassing</a> death. But a few will be prescient enough to make the whole portfolio of optimism worthwhile.</p><h2><strong>The original ivory tower MOOC</strong></h2><p>Attendees have a knee-jerk defensiveness when asked about TED's ticket price and selective admissions. "Would you criticize Harvard?" replied one attendee. Indeed, when I asked some of the wealthier attendees why they spring for the expensive +$17,000 "donor" ticket, their answers drifted to the ivy tower.</p><p>"I am as loyal to this institution as I would be to my Alma Mater [<a href="http://stage.ferrazzigreenlight.com/content/executive-bios">Yale and Harvard</a>], which have given me the gifts to make a difference in the world," explained author and business consultant Keith Ferrazzi. "I could give to a food kitchen. That is the status quo" he continued.</p><p>While Ferrazzi does give to a number of charities, "Here at TED we could actually create disseminating technology processes or concepts that could contribute to ending hunger."</p><p>Like Harvard, or MIT, much of the philanthropy goes to supporting low-income scholarships, research, and TED's vast platform of free network. That is, TED is the original Ivory Tower Massively Open Online Course (MOOC): attendees pay big bucks to network with their peers, but the knowledge is freely open to all.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56afd56dc08a806f008be3bf-1024-684/4849232643_a3f49d26ba_b.jpg" alt="Cambridge - Harvard Square: Harvard University - John Harvard" data-mce-source="Flickr / Wally Gobetz" data-mce-caption="A statue in Harvard Square." data-link="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/4849232643/in/photolist-8ovzVn-8oyL6f-8ovA7c-838YMR-83962x-773HGg-83caBd-8qbCcx-8q7nwg-9J8eAt-83c9sE-8qeLRo-8qawuY-773NHz-83c7zj-8395DX-82t8Ku-8qbCa8-8qGvZ1-777CUh-8qjxZn-773G3H-8qGvRm-8qLz3V-8394Fi-773Eje-8391Yr-83c7Pf-8394UK-773Mg8-777Bdj-773LEv-8qtQZK-83caPu-8qeLNC-838ZbK-8qv3iK-8qv3ok-8qvhRe-8qya3d-8qtRaB-8qvbWB-8qvc9P-9J8eke-8qvc1g-8qLz6t-8qqnQS-8qeLDj-8qeLKS-6Zu7n"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/4849232643/in/photolist-8ovzVn-8oyL6f-8ovA7c-838YMR-83962x-773HGg-83caBd-8qbCcx-8q7nwg-9J8eAt-83c9sE-8qeLRo-8qawuY-773NHz-83c7zj-8395DX-82t8Ku-8qbCa8-8qGvZ1-777CUh-8qjxZn-773G3H-8qGvRm-8qLz3V-8394Fi-773Eje-8391Yr-83c7Pf-8394UK-773Mg8-777Bdj-773LEv-8qtQZK-83caPu-8qeLNC-838ZbK-8qv3iK-8qv3ok-8qvhRe-8qya3d-8qtRaB-8qvbWB-8qvc9P-9J8eke-8qvc1g-8qLz6t-8qqnQS-8qeLDj-8qeLKS-6Zu7n">Flickr / Wally Gobetz</a></span></p><p class="caption">A statue in Harvard Square.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>Even the attendees' justification of TED's free videos seems to follow the logic of MOOCs. TED attendee and MIT economist Andrew McAfee <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/05/can-facebooks-massive-courses-improve-education-for-developing-nations/">regards</a> online education as "diamond finders", platforms that give equal opportunity to geniuses anywhere in the world, rich or poor. &#xa0;</p><p>Likewise, many attendees envision the benefit of TED videos as casting a wide net of educational opportunity, inspiring viewers to solve problems in both the usual circumstances of privilege and unexpected places of poverty.</p><p>"You don't know if it is going to come from an impoverished child in Nepal or it's going to come from somebody that grew up in luxury in Manhattan. But we want to give everybody an opportunity to contribute and to make the world a better place," explained Wojcicki.</p><p>So, it's fair to call TED elitist, but not aristocratic. Like a top-tier college, they do have a discriminating eye, but it's for entrepreneurial talent and intelligence.</p><p>"It's not about the money, it's about having the ability to do things better than others" argued Ron Gutman, founder of the medical startup, Healthtap. Giving more resources and attention to smarter people, he says, is fine "as long as elitism benefits everyone."&#xa0;</p><h2><strong>Idealism, ahoy!</strong></h2><p>Even though I'd never been before, TED felt like a very familiar place. The optimism, the gadgets, the billionaires wearing sneakers - it was like I was home in San Francisco. TED is a concentrated dose of Silicon Valley. And, Silicon Valley is a concentrated dose of optimism that, over the long run, humanity wises up to better ways of living.</p><p>If you buy into the belief that ideas have force, that they can compel even very powerful people to bend to their will, then TED's moonshot approach to the world's ills is quite strategic. I suspect many critics don't hold the same assumptions.</p><p>But TED's overwhelming popularity reveals that there is a large class of people, including very powerful people, that do believe ideas can change the world.</p><p><em>*For more stories like this, subscribe to the Ferenstein Wire newsletter </em><a href="https://tinyletter.com/ferensteinwire"><em>here</em></a><em>.</em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cindy-gallop-on-the-way-porn-changes-sex-education-2013-4">TED Speaker Explains What Porn Is Getting All Wrong About Sex</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="1vOXA3YjpW4YIlx3B9e_z-de1mO9HoyP" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', '1vOXA3YjpW4YIlx3B9e_z-de1mO9HoyP',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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