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ALTEUMX — EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS. Receive immediate updates and stay…
Tags: Bitcoin, Trading, Exchange, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency

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We are pleased to announce that AlteumX has now integrated support for email notifications.

From now on, alerts can be delivered directly through email notifications. By activating this feature, you’ll be able to receive immediate updates and stay informed about your AlteumX account and trade activity.



You can manage these updates directly from the Notifications tab to determine which types of notifications you’d like to receive.

NEW TRADE — Receive an Email Notification for every trade completed.

NEW DEPOSITS — Receive an Email Notification for every deposit made into your account.

MONTHLY TRANSACTION REPORT — Receive a Transaction Report with a listing of all the transactions done during a 30-day period at the end of every month.

How to enable or disable AlteumX notifications

Here’s what you need to do to enable or disable AlteumX email notifications:



1. Open www.alteumx.com and sign in

2. Go to Account > Settings > Notifications

3. Select and click on the box to enable/disable the type of Email-Notification you desire.

As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. If you have any suggestions or ideas for improvement, let us know by leaving a message in the comment section below or by writing an email to support@alteumx.com.
VAE with Tensorflow 6 ways
By: Tds Editors
Tags: The Daily Pick

Photo by KAL VISUALS on Unsplash

Since its introduction in 2014 through this paper, variational auto-encoder (VAE) as a type of generative model has stormed the world of Bayesian deep learning with its application in a wide range of domains.

By Xizewen Han — 25 min read
The Gitcoin Torch
By: Vivek Singh
Tags: Tech, Blockchain, Open Source, Ethereum

How To Contribute To The Gitcoin Torch

The Gitcoin Torch works simply: If you would like to contribute to the next round of Gitcoin’s CLR Matching (results of Round 1 here), make a donation via Eric Conner or via the QR code here.

Each donation will be publicly displayed and will contribute towards a future round of CLR matching, a mechanism we describe in further detail here.

You can make a contribution today!

Here is the address if you prefer to QR codes: 0x620a3981f796346dF02be83FD929758a88078e3C.

Gitcoin Torch Kudos

Anyone who pledges $1,000 or more will get this limited edition Gitcoin Torch Kudos! Check it out here.

A Grateful Gitcoin Team

The Gitcoin team is grateful for a community that gathers together towards the support of our open source commons. We’re continuing to work towards solutions which systematically make it easier to fund open source (and thus, create a stronger, more functional internet).

Until then, grassroots efforts like this show the power of a strong, interested, incentivized community. Let’s grow open source, together.
The Sisterhood in Saffron
By: Audrey Randolph
Tags: Horror Fiction, LGBT, Cosmic Horror, Lovecraftian

I heard sirens in the distance. It could be nothing but it could also be everything. But what to do next? All humanity has been drained from me at that point. I deserve only pity at best. Turning myself in? I was not about to be locked away forever in the overcrowded filthy maze known as the prison system. Suicide? If the followers of Christ are correct I just doom myself to eternal damnation. I was trapped with no way out or so it seemed.

My fears were all crushed It when they summoned me for the very last time.

Millions of saffron eyes surrounded me in that maddening void. I figured this was it, that I was about to be put down like a rabid dog.

It was at that astounding moment all their forums changed, revealing to me their unnatural nature. Surrounding those freakish eyes woke a kingdom of otherworldly shapes and supernatural colors that put the most bizarre imaginations of men to shame.

The came the most deafening of bestial sounds roaring proudly at me…yet somehow and some way unmistakably feminine? Not the fake and frivolous femininity of society no, this was different, much more pure and innate.

Have I gone crazy? Is all this happening inside a padded cell on the other side of Providence. Then again if that is true I’m too far gone to be brought back to sanity or to do anything also but play along with the unreal happenings before me.

My ear drums are now at last pierced by their songs and orations, I finally understand. I finally know the unknowable. These women were here to bring twisted help and strange compassion. At the heart of all this orderly chaos I felt it. I felt them.

I felt her.

A Goddess both collective and individual. A womanhood beyond and above all human rationality. An inherent femininity that puts all attempts of it in the corporeal world to utter shame.

A Mother of the old earth and the Grand Mother of the new one. Her wicked divinity evokes the rarest most inexplicable feelings in me. Of warmth, of not being alone. Of being something greater than myself. The all, the nothing. The ugliness, the beauty.

I smirk as I feel my soul fray into oblivion. I don’t need it anymore. The Sisterhood of Saffron has taken me into their sapphic grace.

Back in the lesser reality I can hear law enforcement at the door. They are too late. I open my eyes one last time. I tearfully mouth “I’m sorry” to the rotting hands of my undead victims that are violently breaking through the walls and floorboards around me.

I close my eyes. I feel my earthly body fade into light-brown dust all so my essence can soon be with my new family. My last wish, my last unheard thought that I give to this world is this: That all whomst be maimed by the mistake of birth will not be cursed to the same bottomless agony that I fell into. That all couples understand the crippling gravity of their mating. The fates the dangerous destines your future children could meet.

As it is, as it isn’t. I was here, now I am gone.
The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever
By: Pito Salas
Tags: Computer Science, Machine Vision

In the world of machine vision, the equivalent goal is to win the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. This is a competition that has run every year since 2010 to evaluate image recognition algorithms. (It is designed to follow-on from a similar project called PASCAL VOC which ran from 2005 until 2012) Click to read the article.
3 Autonomous Vehicles ETFs to Know About
By: Tunji Onigbanjo
Tags: Finance, Money, Stock Market, Investing, Investment

3 Autonomous Vehicles ETFs to Know About

ETFs that contain companies that will change land transportation

Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash

Autonomous vehicles, also known as self-driving vehicles, are vehicles that can sense their environment and move safely with little to no human input. Experiments regarding automated driving systems date back to the 1920s. The modern era of autonomous vehicles can be said to begin in the early 2010s with major automotive and technology companies testing driverless car systems.

The automotive industry’s autonomous vehicles segment is difficult to ignore due to the multitude of benefits it can bring, such as reducing human-caused traffic deaths, emissions, and travel time. There are risks, of course, such as hacking vulnerabilities and algorithm malfunction leading to accidents.

For those that want to get an early edge in the autonomous vehicles space regarding understanding it, or investing in it, the 3 following ETFs will give you the exposure you are looking for:

1. Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF (DRIV)

2. KraneShares Electric Vehicles and Future Mobility Index ETF (KARS)

3. Ideanomics Shares NextGen Vehicle and Technology ETF (EKAR)
A Tender Movie Review
By: Nikita Haynie
Tags: LGBTQ, Black Movies, Black Filmmakers, Movie Review, Black Women Writers

Director Felicia Pride debuts the short film Tender, the first project out of her Gen-X focused production company, Felix & Annie. Tender film is starring Farelle Walker and Trishauna Clarke, after an unexpected one night stand, two women at very different stages of their lives, share an even more intimate morning after.

Felicia Pride, Director of Tender

Tender is as Soft, beautiful, bittersweet, powerful connection between two black women. Felicia Pride in her words “wanted to explore emotional intimacy, sexuality, and loss, from a Black woman lens, which we don’t see nearly enough.” At the beginning of the movie, it starts off with the nervous energy from that we get from the walk of shame. There comes a shift in the short film when both characters let down their defenses and become vulnerable with each other. The hard, Gen X, closed up character Kiana played by actress Farelle Walker bares her scars with loss and resentment.

Trishauna Clarke plays the younger vibrant character Lulu who turns up the heat with her free spirit and soft intimate approach to Kiana. The characters explore their sexuality and through the opened up portal from their wounds. I enjoyed watching them dance letting their spirits out in the living room. I got emotional toward the end when Kiana spoke about losses and the what-ifs in her life, she allowed Lulu to see her deeper than the surface level.

Tender movie promotional poster

We need to see more films like Tender, this is how real relationships and begin in the LGBT community, bonding from pain and joy. Kiana saw a reflection of herself in Lulu which in my eyes gave her another chance to renew her life and find happiness in herself. Tender is a must-watch if you want to witness a connection between two black women in an intimate space and the soundtrack is lit. Learn more about Felicia Pride on Instagram and Twitter @feliciapride and feliciapride.com.

Written By Vanessa Robinson

Instagram @authorvanessarobinson
Future Self
By: Shannon Hampton
Tags: Self, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Self Love, Happiness

Looking in the window

I see me

My future self enjoying her freedom.

Her freedom to write

to not be shaken by what others

will think of her.

Her freedom to live life on her terms.

Her vibrant confidence in herself is radiating.

I begin to feel jealous.

But from inside the window

she smiles back at me

and holds out her hand

waiting for me to

leap and join

her in our freedom.
D.C. Public Charter Schools Continue More Than a Decade of Progress for Students
By: Friends Of Choice In Urban Schools, Focus
Tags: Charter Schools, Education, District Of Columbia

PARCC Data Shows Growth for At-Risk Students, Students in Wards 7 and 8

Washington, D.C. — The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) released Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Assessment data for all D.C. public schools yesterday, which showed more than a decade of progress for public charter school students. This year, public charter school students increased proficiency in English Language Arts (ELA) by 2.7% to 34.4% and math by 0.3% to 28.9%. Today, FOCUS launched an interactive dashboard of results to accompany the data release.

Public charter schools continue to close the opportunity gap for the city’s at-risk and Black/African American students, with 20% and 26.3% proficiency respectively. This tops DCPS non-selective schools by 3.6% for at-risk students and 5.4% for Black/African American students. Public charter schools in Wards 7 and 8 continue to make great strides forward, with public charter schools outpacing proficiency in DCPS schools by 15% and 10.5% respectively. Moreover, all of the 10 highest performing public schools in Wards 7 and 8 are public charter schools.

“We applaud city-wide progress for students,” said Anne Herr, interim co-Executive Director of FOCUS. “As the city’s education system continues to work toward serving the needs of every student no matter where they live and no matter what school they choose to attend, we look forward to working with policymakers to ensure that policies and the budget align with the needs of students. For example, we must do more to support our growing at-risk student population. This starts with making sure that there is increased funding for these students so that they can get the services they need to thrive.”

This is the fourth consecutive year of growth on PARCC for public charter schools, which follows nearly a decade of progress on CAS, the precursor to PARCC.

FOCUS supports the diverse set of public charter schools in D.C. by advocating for and strengthening autonomy, equity, and quality. Follow the conversation on Twitter @FOCUSdc and learn more at focusdc.org and visit the PARCC dashboard at www.focusdc.org/overview.
Prey
Tags: Anxiety, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Depression, Written Tales

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Integration Trick: Flipping Variables’ Directions w/Examples
By: Nhw, Maths Phd
Tags: Recreation, Mathematics, Calculus, Integration, Tricks

Integration Trick: Flipping Variables’ Directions w/Examples

Exploit properties of trigonometric functions

Here is a challenge. Can you solve the following integral to obtain Wi-Fi password, without using calculator? As you are trying to get the password, you have no access to the internet, that is, no Wolfram Alpha.

If one knows the trick to solve it, then the integral is pretty straightforward (By the way, for those who have attempted the integral, the answer is 𝛑). So, it is crucial to learn as many integration tricks as possible as there is no harm to equip ourselves with more tools.

Differentiation and integration are two main branches of Calculus. Yet, integration, being the reverse process of differentiation, seems harder than differentiation. This is illustrated by the fact that we can differentiate any function by using the combination of Product Rule and Chain rule. However, it is not so straightforward in integration.

it is well-known that not all integrals can be solved by substitutions and integration by parts. In fact, most integrals do not have closed form formula. One example is the Gauss error function. Therefore, it is good to learn as many integration tricks as possible, which brings us to the main purpose of this article.

In this article, we will

introduce an integration trick, which solves integral by flipping variable’s direction, and demonstrate the trick using 4 examples.

Remark: This trick is usually applicable to trigonometric integrand.
Plutus Service & Product Update
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Announcements, Plutus, Bitcoin, Contactless

Due to a recent directive by Mastercard to close cryptocurrency-related programmes across the board, Plutus & PPRO have agreed to cease their relationship.

New Card Issuer

With this news in mind, we are glad to report that we are in the final stages of appointing a new card issuer/programme manager using a different payments network. Rest assured, the team is already working on implementing the necessary steps which will include greater coverage, higher quality cards and an improved API!

Please note that while we upgrade our service, all fiat funds that were held on your Plutus cards will now be held in an escrow account with our banking partner (see New Banking Partnership below). These funds will be automatically transferred to your new balance once we resume service. However, users who wish us to credit their bank account immediately may request to do so free of all charges.

Product Updates- Direct to Bank Payments

As a organisation that values bringing true convenience and innovation to our users, we are glad to announce that we will be releasing new functionality whereby users are able to fund their existing bank accounts from the sale Ethereum and Bitcoin (via PlutusDex) — whilst still generating Pluton’s (PLU) our reward token!

The upcoming version of our app will allow you to initiate SEPA payout from your app to your own nominated Euro bank account for instant withdrawal.

Our new feature, embraces our company vision to help worldwide usage of cryptocurrencies effortlessly and anywhere.

We plan to enable this functionality in conjunction with the release of your new Plutus Debit Cards.

Compliance Updates

Regulatory compliance has always been of key importance to our global proposition. This is why due to recent policy card issuance and global compliance changes, Plutus.it had temporarily taken down some materials from the website and blog, rest assured these will be restored in coming days.

New Banking Partnership Adds Brand New Functionality

We are also happy to announce our banking partnership with an FCA approved issuer which will enable Plutus to hold third-party funds in escrow before loading your Plutus debit cards. With this, we are also able to issue our users with unique IBAN’s.
Blockchain cruise and Futurama summit. Report.
Tags: Blockchain, Cix100, Roadshow, Team, Bitcoin

Eleven Floor Liner

Blockchain Cruise

We are glad to share with our community a post-event report on Blockchain Cruise and Futurama summit.

Cryptoindex.io has been on the CoinsBank Blockchain Cruise, which took place on the 7th of September. From Barcelona to Ibiza, and Monaco. Over one thousand people joined including John McAfee, Charli Lee, and Roger Ver.

We met a lot of investors, investment funds, exchange owners which had a huge interest in our platform.

Also, our IR advisor Slava Semenchuk met John McAfee(18+), told him about Cryptoindex.io and received his feedback on the project. John is a developer of cybersecurity, the founder of McAfee antivirus software, and one of the most famous crypto evangelist. He is a supporter of digital currencies and believes that over the next five years, half of the world’s population will use cryptocurrencies. He is also known for his ambitious forecast of the Bitcoin rate, which, in his opinion, will reach $ 1 million in 2020. John McAfee performed on the main stage of the blockchain cruise and read an inspiring lecture on the future of the cryptocurrency, which caused stormy applause from the audience.

Futurama summit

After the cruise, we have joined Futurama event in Ibiza, where we met Roger Ver.

Our IR — Advisor Slava Semenchuk with Bitcoin Cash founder — Roger Ver.

On Futurama, we met Roger Ver and were speaking with him about the future of the crypto industry, blockchain technology, and trends. We decided to stay on a working line. We spoke, that crypto market needs a real professional investment tool as Cryptoindex.io

Private meetings, meditation sessions with investors and crypto funds.

Conclusion

We made more than 100 meetings, got a lot of energy and handed out more than 500 Cryptoindex poker chips. We have got confirmation from the whole community, that believes in the rapid growth of the crypto market.

Our next targets are Singapore and Hongkong. Don`t miss our new events. Stay tuned! New updates are coming soon.

You can always check the current CIX100 composition on our MVP platform: http://cryptoindex.ai/

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Last week — Bittrex, now — UPbit and IDEX
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Charity, Nonprofit, Bitcoin

We know how much you’ve been waiting for new exchanges. And it’s funny how after a couple of months of silence we set wheels in motion and broke through with multiple exchanges at a time.

Today we have 2 amazing announcements: AID is now listed on Upbit and IDEX with trading commenced on May 18th and 21st respectively.

Upbit is a Korean exchange that offers a lot of benefits to our users:

Over 250 cryptocurrencies listed, large trading volume, and liquidity;

Competitive fees;

No fees on deposits, regardless of the methods of payment;

And last but not least, Korean Bank Transfers accepted, which adds value for our growing Korean community.

IDEX is a decentralized exchange on the DAO blockchain network that supports the Ethereum coin. At IDEX, our users will be able to get the AID tokens fast and at a good price due to the following benefits of the platform:

Over 250 cryptocurrencies listed, large trading volumes, and liquidity;

Low fees;

The trading is done in real time and is as fast as the user can trade thanks to the nature of the platform;

IDEX provides a detailed Guide and its own e-wallet, which will surely be of help for those new to crypto trading.

All of the stated above makes these two exchanges a perfect fit for us and our community. We already see how these recent listings drum up attention for the AidCoin project and bring more value to our platform, with more users and charities jumping onboard. As you can see we’re growing fast so stay tuned!
Thank you
By: Pres. Obama, Archives
Tags: Politics, President Obama, History, Presidency In Review, United States

Thank you

You made me a better President, and you made me a better man.

My fellow Americans,

It’s a long-standing tradition for the sitting president of the United States to leave a parting letter in the Oval Office for the American elected to take his or her place. It’s a letter meant to share what we know, what we’ve learned, and what small wisdom may help our successor bear the great responsibility that comes with the highest office in our land, and the leadership of the free world.

But before I leave my note for our 45th president, I wanted to say one final thank you for the honor of serving as your 44th. Because all that I’ve learned in my time in office, I’ve learned from you. You made me a better President, and you made me a better man.

Throughout these eight years, you have been the source of goodness, resilience, and hope from which I’ve pulled strength. I’ve seen neighbors and communities take care of each other during the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. I have mourned with grieving families searching for answers — and found grace in a Charleston church.

I’ve taken heart from the hope of young graduates and our newest military officers. I’ve seen our scientists help a paralyzed man regain his sense of touch, and wounded warriors once given up for dead walk again. I’ve seen Americans whose lives have been saved because they finally have access to medical care, and families whose lives have been changed because their marriages are recognized as equal to our own. I’ve seen the youngest of children remind us through their actions and through their generosity of our obligations to care for refugees, or work for peace, and, above all, to look out for each other.

I’ve seen you, the American people, in all your decency, determination, good humor, and kindness. And in your daily acts of citizenship, I’ve seen our future unfolding.

All of us, regardless of party, should throw ourselves into that work — the joyous work of citizenship. Not just when there’s an election, not just when our own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime.

I’ll be right there with you every step of the way.

And when the arc of progress seems slow, remember: America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We the People.’ ‘We shall overcome.’

Yes, we can.

And if you’d like to stay connected, you can sign up here to keeping getting updates from me.
Please help us understand a bit more about you
By: Ben Proctor
Tags: User Research, Government, Local Government, Corporate Communication, Customer Service

We want to understand something.

Here’s a bit of background

We think that working in the connected age means that public services need to develop in four key areas:

design thinking

data maturity

agile and innovation management

working with complex systems

These things often overlap and different bits of different public services are more or less advanced than others. To try and get a clearer picture of where public services (especially local public services) are we’re asking questions of teams that have an explicitly customer-focus, that’s customer services teams, digital teams, marketing and comms teams and so on.

Please help us

We’ve set up this incredibly quick to complete survey and if you complete it we’ll send you a copy of the survey results. Which should be fascinating…

We’d really appreciate it if you spent a minute or two completing the survey.

And we’d really, really appreciate it if you shared the link with other people too.

Thanks in advance…
Stoic Letter 6: On your inner strength
By: Darius Foroux
Tags: Stoic Letter, Stoicism, Philosophy, Life, Self

The other day I was thinking, “What a wasted year.” There’s so much we can’t do because of the Covid pandemic, so many plans we missed out on. Normally, around this time of the year, most of us are out a lot. I’m not a fan of cold weather, but I don’t mind going out during the holiday season. The shops all look festive, Christmas music puts people in a good mood, and coffee tastes so much better after you’ve been out in the cold for a few hours.

We can still shop and buy coffee in most cities, but it’s not the same. By now, three quarters of a year into this pandemic, most of us have enough. First, there was shock. Then, there was acceptance and making the best of it. Now, there’s dread.

During these moments of dread, we need to remind ourselves we have the inner strength to keep going. I know you don’t want to get out of bed some days, or maybe want to go back to bed at noon, but you’re strong enough to keep moving forward.

Epictetus said this beautifully: “Remember that for every challenge you face, you have the resources within you to cope with that challenge. If you are inappropriately attracted to someone, you will find you have the resource of self-restraint. When you have pain, you have the resource of endurance. When you are insulted, you have the resource of patience.”

If you think this way, you will find that you have an answer to everything that life throws at you. The problem is that we sometimes forget we’re actually strong beings. Think about the people who endured the Holocaust. Viktor Frankl wrote about it in Man’s Search For Meaning. I love that book. It reminds me that you and I have similar DNA as the people who survived that horror.

Lying in bed with our electric blankets, we think we’re becoming soft. But that’s not the case. We’re simply forgetting that we have the resources of strength within us. It’s like going through your basement and finding useful things you didn’t even know you had. The other day I went through my storage and found these great bookends I tucked away when I moved house several years ago. I’d totally forgotten about them. Turns out I can use those in my current condo.

The mental equivalent of going through your storage is reflection. I do this through journaling. It’s good to think about the things you’ve done in the past. Too often, we forget about our own accomplishments and strengths. If you’ve done something once, who says you can’t do it again? If you endured the pandemic during summer, you can endure it during winter. If you’ve switched careers once, you can do it again. If you’ve moved to a different city, you can move again.

Remember that you are stronger than you think at any given moment. We all have these inherent mechanisms that are meant to help us go through life. As Epictetus said, “When you have pain, you have the resource of endurance.” It’s all inside you. You just need to dust it off and use it again. All the best.
Christ, an Unanswered Prayer
By: Kittie Phoenix
Tags: Unity, Christianity, Poetry

I wrap myself in a sullen shroud

As one more blow bashes me face first

And lays me lower than low,

Prostrate with powerfully unpledged sorrows.

My husband’s spirit has wandered from the little country kirk where we wed,

And my children flee to the city cathedral so cold, empty, bleak, disconnected.

I stand alone, a heart and soul divided,

As no one branch can worship together alone.

Face flat on the floor

With disbelief and faith no more,

I feel no peace and joy,

And even the Lord brings no surcease.

My mind wanders as my body tires,

And I start to wonder about the Lord.

Does He feel it too?

Does He feel the brokenness of His yet unanswered prayer?

Over and over and over,

At the last Passover He shared with His friends,

He begged His Father to make them one,

To reflect the oneness He had with Abba.

Once by His Name,

Second guarding the future in and with His now,

And third by the glory He gave that He received from Abba —

He prayed a perfect, three-fold prayer for unity.

And we’ve fallen,

We’ve fallen hard and fast,

Splintered and shattered into over 40,000 fractured fragments,

And the blind lead the blind into no one right way on the highway to hell.

Should I be comforted

That even the Lord’s prayer was answered with a resounding no?

Should I be scared and confounded

That the perfect Man prayed a perfect prayer that seems to be unanswered?

I hold no answers in my finite soul.

Does He feel the brokenness even more than I do?

Is that why He tried to pray in advance?

Do anger and frustration rise in His heart at His unanswered prayer within Abba’s will?

Must He wait until after Armageddon?

Does His wait make Him weep?

Are deaf ears and stony hearts ignoring His pleas for obedient consolidation?

Is He sighing like an exhausted parent with a rebellious, petulant teen?

There are no answers.

This side of eternity is void of certainty and unity.

Blind faith isn’t tranquil,

And brokenness breeds unrest.

Author’s Note: The passages where Christ prays for unity are often on my mind these days. The verses most significant for my poem are John 17:11, John 17:21, and John 17:22. Even more significant is that in the translation, four major versions that I use for study and understanding all have the prayer as “that they may be one”: New International Version, King James Version, Tree of Life Version, International Children’s Bible. It’s quite a bit to contemplate, especially when the answer involves I don’t know yet.
Darkness
By: Heather Burton
Tags: Life Lessons, Inspiration, Christianity, Experience

Darkness

Stumbling back to light

Moon over Zion National Park — National Park Service

Zion National Park is exquisitely beautiful. Rock formations, fascinating ecosystems, and raw nature draw many.

In high school, I had an experience there that defined how I handle darkness — physical, intellectual or spiritual.

Our Botany class of 20 students were, for about a week, experiencing the vastly varying biomes of southern Utah, U.S.A. Days were spent exploring, discovering, hiking, and learning. Evenings, we camped.

At Zion’s, we set up in one of the established campgrounds: hot showers, running water, flush toilets — A+!

In the late dusk, two friends and I went to the cinderblock shower facilities to clean up from our active day. Part of my bedtime routine was taking out my contact lenses. I’m myopic. Simply, I needed the lenses to see and be safe.

My friends finished first and headed to the campsite. I followed a few minutes later.

Walking out of the building, I could see nothing…not just because I had no lenses on, but because — except for the area immediately around the tall light post — it had become dark. In the absence of city lights, it was the deepest dark I can remember. At a distance, campfires cast orange radiance against the blackness.

I walked in the direction our trio had come, through a rough, uneven, grass- tufted area enclosed by a ring road. Campers and flames chattered beyond.

Watching my footfalls was ironic because I couldn’t actually see my feet. Depth perception was also gone. Growing anxious, I walked faster…right into a ditch about 2 feet deep and 2 feet wide.

The rough landing unnerved me. For seconds, I lay crumpled staring into the ebony sky deciding if I was broken or not.

I rose slowly, stumbled up the bank on the far side, and resumed stepping gingerly toward the road.

Even gravel greeted my feet, finally. Crossing to the clearing where my classmates and teachers sat around a crackling fire, I beamed relief…until I reached my limited focus range. I recognized no one. I was in the wrong camp.

Sheepishly, I backed away with an awkward, apologetic wave.

I had no idea where my people were. I breathed a quiet prayer for help to make it through the dark to them.

Turning, I could see the light standard back across the blackness. Eyes on that bright mark, I returned to the showers, one considered step after another, put in my contact lenses, and walked, fully sighted, along the curved and narrow way to my campsite.

Lessons learned:

- My self is a measure blind. Lenses, as compensatory tools, help me see.

- When I am dimmed by this inherent weakness, I can’t recognize who or where my people are.

- Stay in the company of the sighted who know the way.

- Bright light guides. Seek it.

Time and again as I reflect on the Zion’s Park incident, I am reminded of the relief and rescue of steady light on that evening and often after.

Photo by Jake Blucker on Unsplash

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. — John 12:46
Exposing St. Louis’ Food Secrets
By: Jennifer Mittler-Lee
Tags: Pizza, Italian Food, Saint Louis, Food, Dessert

Exposing St. Louis’ Food Secrets

Please share these hidden gem recipes with the world

Ted Drewes Frozen Custard/ Philip Leara, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

They say you don’t really know a place until you leave it.

It wasn’t until I moved out of St. Louis, Missouri in my thirties that I came to realize what great food the city had to offer. Now I’m not talking about that great hamburger joint on the corner or the nostalgia of Grandma’s cooking. I’m also not talking about the mysterious St. Louis-style barbecue.

No, I’m referring to foods that I took for granted all my life only to realize later that they were only found in the St. Louis region. If I wanted them, I had to fly home.

Or get creative.

Imo’s pizza/Ch473, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

St. Louis-style pizza

The quintessential regional food, St. Louis-style pizza, is the one I miss the most. It’s also been the hardest to reproduce in my Oregon kitchen.

Picture a typical pizza and then replace all the ingredients.

Thick, chewy dough transforms into a cracker-thin crust. The tomato sauce is slightly sweet and liberally sprinkled with oregano. But the ingredient that makes St. Louis-style pizza stand out is the cheese.

Mozzarella is never used. Instead, a unique cheese called Provel makes this pizza shine.

And the presentation? St. Louis-style pizza is cut into squares.

The taste is unmistakable and completely unique. Actor Jon Hamm, also from St. Louis, describes it best. “You can taste the Gateway Arch,” Hamm says. “It tastes like 11 World Series victories.”
How to create a winning digital content strategy for global fan engagement
By: Nilesh Deshmukh
Tags: Digital Marketing, Fan Engagement

he broadcast and internet boom has changed the way sports are consumed globally. Sports entities have newfound fans outside of their cities, region and countries. Social media platforms have given sports entities and rights holders a unique opportunity to engage with fans and acknowledge them as one of the most important mix for a global fan engagement strategy.

In this series of articles focusing on ‘Six important pillars of fan engagement, we look at fans as one aspect of focus and suggest ideas that will work for fans and football clubs who are looking at India as a key market for fan engagement.

Fans are the most important pillar of digital fan engagement for sports entities. The popularity of top clubs from Premier League, Bundesliga, and La Liga attract high rates of engagement from fans in India and it’s ever so important to highlight this fact and make the fans feel special. Not all fans get an opportunity to visit their favorite team’s stadium in their lifetime, but social media can be a great option to feature fans on official social networks.

Creating a content strategy that will focus on fan networks in India creates opportunities to meet the fans and bring their experiences alive on social media. This can be achieved through the following series of videos:

Features — Individual stories of fans who are associated with the fan clubs and have experiences to share about their visits to stadiums, off-season matches, stories of meeting players and legends, stories of how they are inspired by the rich heritage of the club they like and more.

Fan Club Stories — This is the best way to get fans to tell their stories through a series of interviews with the founding members of supporter’s clubs in India. Conversations around their journey to founding the clubs and find out everything about their efforts to keep the community of fans engaged with the club they follow.

Match Screenings — Getting fan reactions after key matches at match screenings organised by the fan clubs.

Events — The supporters club’s in India organise events for fans from all over the country. Fans come together to discuss local projects, charity activities, and even play inter-club football tournaments and FIFA gaming competitions. Local and regional events like these make for great content and can be great examples of content for global communities to know what their counterparts do in India.

User-Generated Content — The power of mobile phone cameras and a strong comms strategy is potentially the best combination for fans to express themselves. Creating a strong UGC strategy with clear guidelines for content creation can serve some great fan engagement content. Giving your fans a chance to share their joy by sending celebratory match win videos or messages for players on marquee occasions can deliver great results in terms of engagement and views.
Obsequious
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Sadness, Loss, Image, Poetry

Obsequious

A Poem

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

Attentive to the worst

of the broken branches

keeping tapered limbs

out of the fire

the patterns of grazing

various heights of grass

the troubles with love

and understanding

slaving away to the tune

of the skin

beyond the crusted nose

and sun-whipped eyes

the body can collapse

even while being summoned

and even broken

even disobedient

the crossing wires of grief

listen to everyone
Breaking down the Forbes Blockchain 50
Tags: Ethereum, Blockchain, Technology, Hyperledger, Bitcoin

Playing the field

We were interested to see what the most popular development platforms are for these unicorns. Ethereum is being used for developing blockchain applications by 22 companies on the Forbes 50. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise as Ethereum was designed to accommodate decentralized applications and smart contracts. Following closely behind are the 21 companies building on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric. The appeal of this system is that it is still open source, but is designed to be natively permissioned. Large corporations find the appeal of a permissioned blockchain like Hyperledger to be quite compelling, though Ethereum also supports similar configurations despite its more utopian origins.

Corda is the next most popular platform with 14 companies. Corda is enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) from the R3 consortium, which is made up of 200 of the world’s biggest banks and multinationals. JP Morgan’s Quorum, which powers its Interbank Information Network of 75 worldwide banking partners, is being actively developed on by 11 of the Forbes Blockchain 50. Like Ethereum, Hyperledger, and Corda, Quorum is open source and is being contributed to by developers all over the world. IBM, one of Hyperledger’s primary supporters, has five of the Forbes Blockchain 50 developing on its own platform.

The most interesting trend across these 50 companies is that nearly all of them are building on more than one blockchain platform. While these firms may end up committing to developing on a singular technology (such as Ant Financial or Oracle), it is clear that for now, they are hedging by working with multiple platforms. In the diagram below, you will see these company logos appear in multiple columns.
İlk Hedef Toroslar Aladağ
By: Ömer Said Erdoğan
Tags: Kişisel, Diğer, Özgürlük İçin, Aladağ, Anadolu Parsı

in In Fitness And In Health
Words That Vacate Empty Space
By: Laura Gulbranson
Tags: Self Love, Self Improvement

Are you alright?

Really alright with your words vacating empty space?

Sometimes we write on an online platform because we feel that even if no one reads our stories, our words will still have some sort of impact on the world.

Words do matter, and stories can still change people’s lives. You owe it to yourself to give God (I won’t hold back to share my faith)— to give the universe — your story. No matter how ordinary the narrative may seem, you owe it to yourself to make your narrative come alive.

When there are moments when you feel you lose your voice and are drowning in an ocean of several stars in a nebulous cloud of distractions, that’s when you know you must pull back and retreat.

Retreat and write your story instead on your heart.

That’s the best place where your story can be written.

The more you write on your heart and from it, the easier it will become to get you through times of nebulous clouds of distractions and overload.

We’re on this earth, but granted, that does not mean we have to conform our ways to the prescribed ways of the world.

We are here to navigate the world to journey closer to the real treasure within our hearts.

Maybe you’ve found your treasure. Keep it safe if that’s the case.

The jewel of knowing your purpose without losing sight of what you are meant to do is precious. Many people lose their way because of navigating the roadmap of life without the inner compass to guide the way.

Whatever your inner compass is, follow it.

Or have you not found it yet? Are you searching for your inner compass….or have you lost it?

Whichever case, I’m excited for you — for that’s an adventure in and of itself.

If we lived life like it was a never-ending rollercoaster, perhaps we’d be scared to live the lives we’re meant to live.

However, our life should be lived like an adventure with moments where we choose to step out of our comfort zone.

How amazing it is to know that even though today might be a crappy day for you (or the best), you still have a say on how you view the day upon reflection. Can you find ways to laugh and poke fun at yourself at times when you are too hard on yourself?

Are you able to love yourself and strengthen yourself with inner encouragement when you feel you are unworthy.

Those little moments count.

The comfort zone of staying within suffering and complacency is the way of the world.

But I have faith that you will venture out of the norm and take some chances — no matter how small or big of a jump it may seem — there is one constant that you can depend on.

You have got yourself for the long run. What will you do with yourself in the mean time?

With love. ❤
‘EastEnders’: 25/12 “Christmas Day”
By: Shain E. Thomas
Tags: Christmas, Adam Woodyatt, Eastenders, BBC, Television

The Christmas Eve instalment, a lead up to Matthew Evans’ Christmas Day episode, delivers a harrowing cliffhanger.

Fearing for his life, not seeing another option, Adam Woodyatt’s Ian Beale gets family members to join him at the Queen Vic and delivers a terribly insincere range of apologies.

Promotional Image: Adam Woodyatt as Ian Beale in “EastEnders”

Baseless ‘sorries’ doesn’t have impact Ian was hoping for when he called his family together. This is especially true, respectively played by Dayle Hudson and Clay Milner Russell, for both Peter Beale and Bobby Beale.

The previous episode ended, with Albert Square residents gathered for carolling and a projected photo montage of the good old days, Ian’s death is predicted.

Woodyatt, for the past 35-years, has played a Walford resident Ian Beale. The actor, further to Gillian Taylforth and Letitia Dean, is one of the soap opera’s last remaining original cast members.

Video Credit: Doctor Who Productions

The trials and tribulations of Albert Square residents, over the past 35-years, have presented television viewers with much to talk about. Woodyatt, noting EastEnders premiered on Tuesday, 19 February 1985, was only 16-years-old when he first stepped into Ian’s shoes.

Screen Capture: Adam Woodyatt as Ian Beale in “EastEnders”

Writers, in the run-up to the Christmas episodes, remained extremely tight-lipped over what might happen to Woodyatt’s character.

EastEnders, with a horrific promise realised, delivers one of the most memorable episodes ever televised. The attacker, not content with Ian’s half-heartedly apologies, will look to finish the job in the most dramatic way possible.

Matthew Evans’ Christmas Day episode, with a story penned by Lauren Klee, addresses the central question. Who wants Ian Beale dead?

Woodyatt, taking a much needed break from the long running soap opera, will apparently be away from EastEnders for at least 10 weeks. Is this true or are we saying goodbye to Ian?

The EastEnders Christmas Day episode, with a 52-minute runtime, comes to BBC One and BBC iPlayer 21:10 (GMT).
10 Lessons That Last Year Cryptos Have Taught Us
Tags: Lessons, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Digital, Bitcoin

Here are 10 lessons learnt from the journey of Cryptos from last year:

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Equilateral Triangle Border | Star Pattern Programming
By: Kumar Anurag
Tags: Star Pattern, Interview, Programming

Today we will learn how to create a boundary of an equilateral triangle (by using only 3 variables 😎) in star pattern programming.

Equilateral Triangle Border

In C language : (wait for the code to load)

In Python Language : (wait for the code to load)

In JavaScript Language : (wait for the code to load)

In C# Language : (wait for the code to load)

In C++ Language : (wait for the code to load)

So, we enjoyed while completing this challenge. Bbye! Take care 😊
Coindelta Trade Carnival!
By: Team Coindelta
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Giveaway, Trading, Bitcoin, Competition

Coindelta Trade Carnival!

Funds worth 35,000 to give away!

Dear Community,

You must be delighted to know that we have resumed the fiat Deposits and Withdrawals again. To make your cheerful time more joyful, we are excited to announce trade carnival on Coindelta.

The Coindelta Trade Carnival will be held in 7 different markets lasting for a week and we are giving away funds equivalent to 35,000 to top traders.

Coindelta Trade Carnival

Every day, the competition will be hosted in a different market (7 days → 7 different markets) and the top 5 traders of the day will win a reward in fiat currency.

The total reward to be distributed every day is 5000/-.

Rewards Distribution

Rewards Distribution

Schedule

Carnival Week: Sep 4, 12:00 AM to Sep 10, 07:59 PM.

Starting from Tuesday, the competition will begin at 12:00 AM and end at 7:59 PM every day. The competition will be held in fiat markets.

Day 1, Sep 04: ZIL Market

Day 2, Sep 05: EOS Market

Day 3, Sep 06: BTC Market

Day 4, Sep 07: ZRX Market

Day 5, Sep 08: ETH Market

Day 6, Sep 09: TRX Market

Day 7, Sep 10: XRP Market

How to participate?

All you need to do is trade in the respective markets as shown in the schedule on the day specified during the stipulated time to be eligible for the trading carnival.

Example: Top 5 traders of ZIL Market on Sep 04 will be awarded.

Disclaimer

1. Only the trades executed between 12:00:00 AM IST to 07:59:59 PM IST on a particular day will be considered for the competition.

2. Coindelta reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition or Competition Rules at our sole discretion.

Happy Trading!

If you have any doubts or queries please do not hesitate to contact us on any of our telegram groups. You can also send us a mail at support@coindelta.com.

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Coindelta Family