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Katya Soldak. Katya is the director of the documentary, “The Long Breakup”

Austin Tang — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:57:38 +0000

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Katya Soldak is a New-York-based journalist and the editorial director of Forbes Media’s international editions. Katya is the director of the documentary The Long Breakup (https://vimeo.com/450906822) and the author of the memoir-essay This Is How Propaganda Works, (https://www.forbes.com/sites/katyasoldak/2017/12/20/this-is-how-propaganda-works-a-look-inside-a-soviet-childhood/#19f3d4f93566) about growing up in the Soviet Union. Her strongest focuses are Eastern Europe and anything related to Post-Soviet territory.

Film The Long Breakup: In The Long Breakup (2020, 85 min), New York-based Ukrainian-American filmmaker, Katya Soldak, tells the story of her family and friends as they endure the fall of the Soviet Union and Ukraine’s ongoing struggle to truly separate from Russia.
Linkto trailer:
https://vimeo.com/444910146
The movie can be seen at: https://vimeo.com/450906822.
The Long Breakupwebsite: https://www.thelongbreakupfilm.com

Synopsis:
The Long Breakup is a feature length documentary about Ukraine’s struggle to escape Russia’s embrace, leave its Soviet past behind and become a truly independent nation. Ukrainian-American journalist Katya Soldak, of Forbes Magazine, now living in New York City, tells the story of her home country as it exits the USSR, works through two revolutions, and endures a war with Russia—all through the eyes of her family and friends in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city just 18 miles from the Russian border.

The Long Breakup takes viewers on an intimate journey that illustrates how big geopolitical changes affect people on a personal level, and explores what happens when democracy slips away and a nation must fight for the right to choose its future. The film offers insight into what it’s like for an immigrant to watch her country go through crises from afar; but, most importantly, it’s a personal tale about life in the young, former Soviet country, whose struggle forms the backdrop of so many lives.

The Long Breakup was filmed over the course of a decade, and features an original soundtrack, as well as music from Ukrainian and Soviet artists. The film is intended for global audiences with general interests, as well as for those interested
The Long Breakup website:
https://www.thelongbreakupfilm.com/

Other ongoing projects posted on Forbes.com: (https://www.forbes.com/sites/katyasoldak) To commemorate 30 years since the Soviet Union ceased to exist, Katya is having a series of conversations with people who experienced life during the unique transitionfrom socialism to capitalism. These entrepreneurs, cultural figures and business people lived and worked in countries of the former Soviet bloc during those unique times when the Cold War ended and the Iron Curtain was lifted.

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Did you know a WOMAN struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig!!

Austin Tang — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:36:16 +0000

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Dan Schlossberg, who has written over 25,000 articles and 40 books about baseball while covering it for 50 years for media outlets that include the Associated Press, MLB.com, Baseball Digest, the sporting News, USA TODAY Sports Weekly and forbes.com, entertains, challenges, and informs even the most rabid baseball fan with his release of The New Baseball Bible: Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime (Skyhorse Publishing, Paper, 480 pages, $19.95, ISBN: 978-1-68358-346-2).
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First produced as The Baseball Catalog in 1980, when it was a Book of the Month Club alternate, it has had numerous updates since. The most recent was a 2002 paperback called The Baseball Almanac: Big Bodacious Book of Baseball. In the 18 years since, the baseball world has undergone cataclysmic changes. Each league now has three five-team divisions, unbalanced schedules, and daily interleague games. Ballparks have been built, records have fallen, and new stars have emerged. But the game is basically the same one outlined two centuries ago by the father of modern baseball, Alexander Cartwright.

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Jay Henderson, Strategy Director, IBM Smarter Commerce

admin — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:30:44 +0000

IBM Digital Benchmark Offers Real-Time Insight on Online Shopping Trends
Kicking off Thanksgiving Day and extending through Cyber Monday, IBM will provide the latest online, mobile and social sales trends as they happen
Guest: Jay Henderson, Strategy Director, IBM Smarter Commerce
Background:
While consumers are making their holiday gift lists for friends and family, retailers will be hustling to get in-store and online sites ready for the big holiday rush. Their challenge? It’s not a matter of when or what consumers will buy, but how they will buy. Will mobile shoppers continue to take the lead? Will they shop via web, smartphone or tablet? Will they expand their use of social channels? And is this the year that Thanksgiving overtakes Black Friday as the official kick-off to the holiday shopping season?
These are the questions IBM will help answer in real-time through the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, which analyzes online shopping data ahead of Thanksgiving Day through Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and into the holiday season. The IBM Benchmark is a cloud-based digital analytics platform that tracks millions of e-commerce transactions a day, analyzing terabytes of raw data from approximately 800 participating U.S. retail web sites. The Benchmark is the only cloud-based, real-time resource for retailers and marketers that need to uncover shopping trends across a variety of channels including social media, mobile devices, and other online sources where consumers interact with their brands.
The Benchmark analyzes the following metrics:
– Overall online sales — including overall sales for an given moment as well as average order value, items per order and the time shopping peaked
– Overall sales for vertical industries — including department stores, apparel, and home goods
– Mobile traffic — including overall mobile commerce sales, traffic by device, tablet traffic by device, and phone vs. tablet statistics
– Social traffic –including information on online sales generated by shoppers referred from Social Networks, i.e. Facebook vs. Pinterest
– Savviest Cities for Online Shoppers — including the top cities for online sales per capita
The Benchmark consists of more than 800 participating U.S. retail websites, including 50 percent of the Internet Retailer Top 100 and 20 percent of the Internet Retailer 500. All brand data is anonymous. In 2012, the Benchmark garnered more than 15,000 media hits alone, with key outlets like the Associated Press,Reuters, New York Times, CNN, Forbes, Fox Business, USA Today, and more reporting on the data.

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