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Classic Bedtime Stories for everyone
By: Gouri Deb
Tags: Childrens Stories, Bedtime Stories, Englishstories, Short Story, Stories

Stories have been an integral part of our lives. In fact, not only of our lives but also a significant part of humanity. Since forever, humans have told stories to each other. These short stories for kids have been passed from one generation to another. Children stories are filled with fun and enjoyment. Small stories for kids are a way to teach them good habits and values.

]Storytelling dates back to the times when even language had not taken birth on our planet. English Stories have even been told through pictures and expressions. The illustrations of animals and humans on the walls of caves drawn by early men are proof of such storytelling.

An exhaustible collection of pictorial moral stories for the young readers. Stories that have morals and messages behind them are always powerful. These stories will inspire them, and will build the right value system in them, so that they become righteous human beings in the future. They are fun to read, and are designed to be read in higher standards as well. Augmented with relevant pictures, they provide easy and simple understanding of human life.

Famous bedtime stories for kids are stories that you read out to your child when he/she gets into bed at night. Telling classic bedtime stories for kids is one of the best ways to de-stress and relax after you have had a long day at work and often create cherished memories for your kid. Sharing children’s bedtime stories is an ideal way to boost their imagination and take them into a wonderful land of fantasy and adventure. Children’s bedtime stories for kids offer you an opportunity to read out a story to your kid, along with reminiscing about your childhood memories. Youngsters love listening to famous bedtime stories as it is a treat for them as they dream about them while they fall asleep.

Purpose & Tradition of Children’s English Stories

Kids usually enjoy their parents reading out enchanting children’s bedtime stories about knights, princes, monsters, fairies, interesting adventures and princess bedtime stories. Famous bedtime stories for kids in English are like an age-old tradition for parents as it helps them boost their bonding and connection with their children. Parents can also find funny bedtime stories for kids which will fill them with happiness.

As a parent, while telling short bedtime stories for kids in English to your child, it draws you closer to your child and makes him/her feel more special. There are specific bedtime stories for girls as well as bedtime stories for boys which you can explore on the page. While you tell short bedtime stories for kids to your little one, you create sound bonding with him/her. Your child looks forward to listening to you patiently before drifting off to sleep. These are memories, which both you and your child will cherish for a lifetime.
Sonder: Functions and Utility
Tags: AR, Common Man Story, Sonder, Tiluf Sonder, Story

Whenever you visit an online content creation platform, you can find a place where content is being showcased for the audience. Each platform needs a place where they can tell people about the content, where they can place the content in an appropriate manner, where they can tell the story behind it, or the stories they want to tell by the content.

In the world of communication, stories have been playing the most crucial role since ancient times. By definition, Sonder is the feeling of realizing that everyone you see, everyone who passes you by, has their own complex and intricate life. Their life has the same kind of depth as yours does — with heartache and happiness, routines, family, and just about everything else that happens in life when you realize everyone has their own story to narrate. That’s what sonder stands for.

•Role in Tiluf: Sonder can be anything. A Standalone Asset, An Anthology of Assets. It can be considered as your personal channel, where you attach your videos live and you can broadcast it for All. Sonder can be your story behind your curios. Take Sonder as an open end of Tiluf Network. Sonder can be whatever you want it to be.

When it comes to value generation, The items a Sonder carries defines its value. The attached videos, the narration, attached Photos anything can generate the value of a sonder. Sonder can be passed on, traded, updated. Sonder is a way of value creation in multiple creative ways.

•Creating A Sonder: Creating a Sonder is very easy. Just go to the create screen from the bottom menu. Upload Image, narrations, choose the category as Sonder. If you want to upload multiple photos, you can choose 2d design in the toggle bar below and upload photos. Just ignore 3d files and other staff like scale, coordinate, Animation names and just make its availability status as you require. If you want to sell the sonder, choose the let it go option and give a price. Or you can choose “keep it” in case you want to keep it. Tap the create button and pay the necessary transaction fee, and Your sonder is ready to use.

•Attaching Lives to Sonder: Whenever you own a sonder, you can find LIVE on the sonder details screen. By taping it you’ll get the attached Live option. You can attach your mixed reality video to it. Note that if you pass on your sonder or anyone embraces it at a given price, you won’t be able to live in it!

As said before, Sonders is an open-end on Tiluf Network, as Tiluf kept it in that way. We at Tiluf, believe in collective knowledge from all of you. So it is highly possible that you found a completely different utility for Sonder, which can be a gamechanger for everyone.
The Swiss resigned from a prestigious job and moved to Russia. How does he speak about Russia and Russians in his interview?
By: Answer Life
Tags: Work, Countries, Travel, Life, Stories

The Swiss resigned from a prestigious job and moved to Russia. How does he speak about Russia and Russians in his interview? Answer Life Jun 17·2 min read

I recently watched an interview on YouTube with Roland, who is from Switzerland. I did not live for myself in this wonderful country, and then I decided to visit Russia. Fell in love with the country and stayed here to live.

In his interview, he says: how did this happen? His answers seemed very interesting to me, and I decided to share them with you.

“When I was young, I fell in love with Russia: there were several Russian guys at the university where I studied: I immediately felt mutual understanding between us, we were friends,” says Roland.

“In Hollywood films, the Russian is always the enemy, always gloomy and drinking. I watched a lot of these films and I wondered: are all Russians really like that? What do we know about Russia at all? ”Roland shares.

Roland admits that at first the Russians are closed, but if you get to know them better, they become real good friends for you. And Hollywood movies are just nonsense.

In 2014, he and his friends went to Russia for the first time on vacation. He immediately liked it here. In Switzerland, Roland worked as a laboratory technician for an international science firm. His responsibilities included writing reports. He liked the job and paid well.

“But I didn’t see the result of my work: it was just pieces of paper and numbers. I always wanted to do something with my own hands, ”says Roland.

Now, at 42, in the prime of his life and career, he moved to the city of Tarusa, Kaluga region, where he began to work at the Swiss cheese dairy as a cheese maker.

By the way, this eco-farm was founded by another Swiss. For the Kaluga region, this is, among other things, an important social project, because the cheese dairy, among others, hires people from vulnerable segments of the population.

“We know all our clients personally and they know us,” says Roland. The farm provides cheese to summer residents from Moscow, and cheese is also supplied to fairs and some supermarkets in the capital.

Any decision made has its own price: moving to Russia was not as easy for Roland as he would have liked. Almost all of my friends thought I was crazy. They offered me to move to warm countries, and I chose Russia, ”says Roland.

In general, he says that he has made real Russian friends, and even the language barrier does not bother him. On the farm, all workers live very close to each other, but everyone has enough personal space and freedom. Still, Russia is big.

It is customary on the farm to celebrate Russian holidays together: we grill something on the grill, set a large table and celebrate.

The only thing Roland is worried about right now is the survival and livelihood of the farm. He likes Russia, he was warmly received here, he likes his job and his new life.

How do you like Roland’s story? What impressed you the most? Share in the comments.
Story — Daughter is no less than sons
By: Vikas Yadav
Tags: Storytelling, Stories

Ram Singh and Padma used to be husband and wife in a village. After some time they were going to have a child. The Padma was admitted to the hospital. The nurse came to Ram Singh and gave the good news that you have twins.

Ram Singh said that two boys but the nurse said that one boy is one girl. Ram Singh did not want the girl. Because he was afraid of the expenses of the girl’s marriage. After 2 -4 days Ram Singh came to his house with his wife and children.

He mostly fed the boy. The Padma did not like this latter. One day Ram Singh told his wife that we cannot afford two children each. Our financial condition is not good.

Apart from this, we cannot even bear the expenses of the girl’s marriage. So we hand over the girl to my friend. who has no children? He will take care of our girl better than us because she is very rich.

The Padma refused to give it to her girl but at the behest of Ramsingh, with a sad heart, she handed over her girl to Ramsingh. Ram Singh handed over the girl to his friend’s wife. He was very happy to have a child.

After this time passed, Ram Singh was taking care of his boy well and fulfilling his every wish. When the boy turned 20, he insisted on getting a bike from Ram Singh.

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New Research — How 1 M&M Drives Better Stories
By: David Paull
Tags: Storytelling, Persuasion, Marketing, Sales, Stories

Chocolate, Choices, and Cycling. They’re all connected.

Hey storytellers.

Behavioral Economics is fascinating. It reveals our brain’s biases when making decisions. Bottom line? Our decisions are often irrational.

But if you know these biases, human behavior becomes more predictable and lets you craft more compelling stories.

Sounds like a superpower, right? It is.

Check this out…

Results from a recent study we did: We asked people to rate common foods on a “Good Choice” to “Bad choice” scale when watching what you eat.

Here’s the rub.

✺ Half of them were told the calories of the food.

✺ Half of them were told how much exercise they’d need to work it off.

You can probably see where this is going…​

​“An M&M has 3 calories.”

16% thought it was a bad choice

vs.​

“An M&M is equal to walking the length of a football field.”

35% thought it was a bad choice (that’s 2x!)​

​How about Ben & Jerry’s Frozen Yogurt?

“Frozen yogurt has 170 calories.”

8% thought it was a bad choice

​vs.

​“Frozen yogurt is equal to 24 minutes of cycling.”

45% thought it was a bad choice (that’s more than 5x!)​

Wild, right? The only difference is the frame. Same offering, different mindset. When your approach isn’t working, think about flipping the script. Just reframe it.

👉 Check out this short 6-minute presentation I gave at the STORY Conference if you want to see the other results.

🥗 Hot Tip: You won’t believe the salad results!
Channeling Bruce Willis (Yippee-Ki-Yay)
By: David Paull
Tags: Storytelling, Persuasion, Marketing, Sales, Stories

Hollywood mastered the ‘elevator pitch’ a long time ago. They call it a log line. Here’s how they do it and why you need one.

Hey storytellers.

Can you describe your product in one sentence? In Hollywood that’s called a Log Line — one sentence that summarizes the movie from the protagonist’s perspective. It’s the Producer’s North Star.

In order to craft compelling stories about your product or service, you first have to boil it down to its simplest form — one sentence.

Example:

NYC cop visits estranged wife in LA and has to save the day when would-be terrorists seize the building.

I won’t insult you by telling you what movie that is.

The beauty of a log line is that everything else is up for grabs, as long as it serves that sentence:

Timing — Christmas? Sure!

Details — A robbery? Sure!

Comedic sidekicks — A smart-mouth chauffeur and Twinike-eating beat cop? Sure!

A log line for your product or service is about the solution you provide, written from your protagonist’s (i.e., customer’s) perspective. It becomes your North Star.

Let’s write a log line for Airbnb:

Travelers seek cool and alternative lodging to replace boring, cookie-cutter hotels.

How about another one? Let’s try OXO, the brand of housewares and kitchen utensils:

Home cooks, tired of uncomfortable kitchen utensils that break all the time, go for modern, durable, and affordable utensils they’re actually excited to use.

One more? Sure. Let’s turn back the clock to 2001 and write a log line for the original iPod:

With 1,000 songs in their pockets, everyone is free to enjoy all their music, anytime, and anywhere, no longer tied to CD players and stacks of discs.

Nail down your North Star. Once you do, you’ll have plenty of wiggle room for creativity as long as it always serves the log line.

Now it’s your turn.👇

​Try your own log line and I’ll give you feedback. Can’t wait to check it out.
Stories and Some Learnings: Tell a story when in doubt, when in pain…
By: Deepika Pathak
Tags: Worrying, Hostel Life, Collège, Education, Stories

I am picking this up from an old diary, where I had decided to pen down some incidents. I had written this in 2002 and reproducing it here with some minor changes in the writing style…

I have been told that I tell stories well. My friend and roommate RV would tell me that she liked the way in which I told stories, in details and capturing the emotions. Telling and writing may not bring in the same effect though and I am not sure what RV thinks of that now.

Another friend, RD felt the same. She would often tell me to tell her something funny or interesting. Once as we traveled in a local crowded bus in Bangalore and with no hopes of finding a seat, we were tired and it was still an hour more before we would reach our destination. It was then RD asked to tell her some story and I had to search for one from my memory bank. In the midst of the pushing crowd, our storytelling continued and the distractions mattered no more!

AC thought on similar lines too. When she wasn’t feeling sleepy she would demand for a story and then sleep would follow soon.

Our story telling sessions in our Bangalore PG would go on till late in the night and we would go to bed very reluctantly.

Then there different times too, the sessions ending, friends scattered, and when we would worry about our job and future. There were many nights when SA and me would toss and turn, uneasy, quiet, anxious and sleep a distant reality…it was on many such nights that SA would tell me ‘Hey, speak something, tell a story…’
Blind Smiles
By: Cristobal Cea S.
Tags: Work, Meeting, Short, Zoom, Story

what did a long say to another lung? Alveolar Rhetorics, 2020. Acrylic on Panel.

Last week I went to a very important meeting I can´t remember.

An attendee smiled in silent complicity.

I smiled too, as if wanting to participate in a joke without understanding it: was it a meme I didn´t see? someone joking behind the webcam?

I write to marcela, her camera turned off: are you there? what is Claudio laughing about? I ask her this, while maintaining an amiable smile for whoever is looking at me. Marcela tells me to message her on WhatsApp instead of using private messages: “they check them later” she says. “It´s better to gossip through Whatsapp”.

What was the meeting about? As I said before, it was important, nevertheless I can´t recall the subject: it was probably one of those meetings that, like celebrities, are relevant due to their importance.

I do remember some of the messages we exchanged through WhatsApp that morning though: where -like teenagers exchanging notes during classes, the public situation we shared was irrelevant in relation to the hundreds of private exchanges generated by it: the memes, the gossip, the commetns and jokes sent while we all pretended to be there, to work.

And that is how blind smiles and other happy intrigues, so typical of Zoom meetings, are produced in meetings where you actually didn´t meet with anyone.
Week of April 25th, 2021: “Consistency over time is dedication.”
By: Jon Walsh
Tags: Creativity, Writing, Blog, Stories

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Freefall

Tom met Anna jumping out from a plane; by the time they landed he had fallen in love.

It wasn’t something he planned- their hormones surged alongside their adrenaline as a gush of cold air rushed across their bodies as they floated along their descent through the sky. As they fell down to earth, from the corner of his eye Tom saw the world below him turn into a swirling mass of blue and grey tinged colors- streaks of light that reflected back from the upper atmosphere and rendered the sky into an ocean of air filled with paper clouds. There, among the beauty of the silent sky, amidst the violence of the gravitational force that pulled his body back down toward the center mass of the earth, Tom saw the approaching land unfurl and watched as the world below him began to come back into shape. He paused for a moment to reflect and looked directly into Anna’s eyes. His feet were back on land, but his life was indelibly changed. That day he experienced fear, that day he learned to fly;

That day he fell in love.
A Silent Rebellion
By: Gowtam Chandrahasa
Tags: Fear, War, Fiction, Revolution, Stories

by Fabion on Unsplash

He was not a brave man. But, he was honest at heart. He had no doubt of what’s wrong and what’s right; what’s black and what’s white; what’s dark and what’s light. A silent supporter of the good, he was; but had not the guts to fight the bad, outright! A silent supporter of the good, he was; he wailed that he was not brave enough. But he couldn’t change. He was scared. He was scared for his life, for his family.

He, silently, prayed. He prayed that the violence may end. He prayed that the rapes may stop. He prayed that the good may win.

Once in a while, a few tears, he shed, empathising with the dead.

He raised his children, taught them well and instilled in them, the right spirit, and the same boneless spine, for he cared for their safety as much as he cared for the good. Now, there were four of his kind, he thought, four silent honest souls in the whole world, maybe a few more, sparsely distributed.

He lived his life with a constant struggle. He was happy to see his family growing, sad to see them growing in that society. Many years passed. The wrinkles on his face dug deeper; the whites conquered most of the territory on his head; his struggle resonated in every part of his body. Now, he was just a very old man, who had a ton of tales to tell his grandchildren, where justice prevailed, but he knew, none were true. But, he still prayed, in hope of a good future for his children.

Eventually, he was restricted to just his bed. With lots of time on his hands, he wondered if he should have done things differently. A mediocre man, living a mediocre life, that’s all he ever was, he’d think. And then he would convince himself, for a brief period, that he still took the right path, that he was able to keep his family safe, until he’d ask himself the same question, yet again.

After a few days of running in this very same loop, he got the news. They attacked his daughter. Apparently, there were a lot of people around, staring, as it was happening, with sympathetic eyes. He finally knew the answer to his question. With his realisation, also came a stroke. His face became pale, his breath, weak. But his eyes were the same as before, no life.

By the time people arrived, he was no more. There was a great agony on his face, they saw. Some said it was because of the news he had heard. Some said it was because of the pain from the stroke. No one, except I, knew that it was none of that, but his inability to shout out the answer to his own question to all those fools in the world, who had nothing but sympathy for his daughter, to all those fools who were on the exact same path as him.
Hey writers, I’m promoting your stories on Substack, okay?
By: Linda Caroll
Tags: Women, Feminism, History, Writing, Stories

Photo by Caju Gomes on Unsplash

History of Women September Update…

Maybe you noticed I haven’t been sending this newsletter every Monday? I only write a couple of times a week, and Medium publishes newsletters to the author’s profile. So… our newsletters were taking over my feed. lol. I’ve switched to a monthly update published using Medium’s newsletter system but I will be promoting our stories off Medium. Good news if you read on…

1. We continue to grow!

In the last month, we had over 36,000 hours of read time on our growing pub. Our best day had over 2400 reads and even our worst day had over 500. Plus, our readership is growing. Two months ago we had 237 readers and now we’re almost at 650. Your stories are making growth happen. Thank you!

2. History of Women is coming to Substack!

To help get more eyes on our stories, I’m creating a weekly newsletter for History of Women on Substack. That way, we’re not just tapping Medium’s audience for readers, but also reaching outside of Medium to get more eyes on your writing. I’ll be featuring stories from our publication at random. Enticing titles will be the key!

In the early days of this pub, I used to be able to feature all new stories in every newsletter. Now, there’s too many! I’m featuring 10, chosen at random in the Medium Monthly update. Once our substack goes live, there will be weekly features of our collective writing.

P.S. If, for any reason, you don’t want your writing featured in the newsletter on Substack, please highlight this line and let me know.
State Grid selects Wanchain’s blockchain technology
By: Temujin Louie
Tags: Partnerships, Press Release, Wanchain, State Grid, Enterprise Solutions

30th March, 2021, Beijing, China — Wanglu Tech Ltd. (“Wanchain”) is pleased to announce that the State Grid Corporation of China (“State Grid”) has approved the results of its contracted feasibility study.

The study systematically analyzed the impact of integrating blockchain technology into State Grid’s national data management system and concluded that Wanchain’s blockchain technology is ideal to upgrade the world’s largest utility company’s national data management system.

Study Highlights

The feasibility study results highlight the unique requirements of State Grid’s national data management system and outlines the specific consensus mechanisms and encryption algorithms best suited to integrate with existing systems.

On the basis of these results, State Grid selected Wanchain’s interoperable blockchain technology to build a company-wide, inter-departmental, cross-regional data management system. This upgraded system will leverage Wanchain’s T-Bridge framework, enabling interoperability between private and public blockchains.

Jack Lu, Founder and CEO of Wanglu Tech notes:

“We are extremely proud to be working with State Grid to modernize their data management system. Large enterprises present an important avenue for the widespread adoption of blockchain technology. Enterprise blockchain solutions highlight the need for truly interoperable solutions. This collaboration reinforces Wanchain’s interoperable blockchain technology as the best in the industry.”

Smart Contracts and 5G

State Grid will also use smart contracts to automate and streamline data management systems. Combined with other emerging technologies, such as 5G, State Grid is designing a new, integrated data management system using Wanchain’s blockchain technology.

About State Grid

State Grid is a central state-owned enterprise (“SOE”) established on December 29, 2002 under the Company Law of the People’s Republic of China. As a super large-scale SOE crucial to China’s energy security and economic lifeline, State Grid takes the investment, construction and operation of power grids as its core business, with a registered capital of RMB 829.5 billion.

State Grid supplies power to over 1.1 billion people in 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, covering 88% of the national territory. In 2020, the company ranked third on the Fortune Global 500 list.

About Wanchain

True DeFi is interoperable — Wanchain, the Wide Area Network chain, is the world’s premier decentralised blockchain interoperability solution. Our mission is to drive blockchain adoption through interoperability by building fully decentralised bridges that connect the world’s many siloed blockchain networks. This crosschain infrastructure empowers developers to build truly decentralised crosschain applications to power the future of DeFi.

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Press Release | apM Coin Listed on OKEx, Top 10 Global Exchanges
By: Apm Coin
Tags: Press Release, Apmcoin, Okex, Blockchain, APM

Preparing upcoming service launch in this first half, apM Coin project gets listed on OKEx following the first listing on Bittrex Global

(20 Feb 2020 | Seoul) — On 19 Feb 2020, apM Coin project, a blockchain-powered customer rewards management platform, has announced for listing on OKEx, a global crypto exchange, following its first exchange listing on Bittrex Global in November 2019. apM Coin tokens (token symbol: APM) will be live for trading on APM/USDT and APM/BTC trading pair on 22 February 2020.

apM Coin, in collaboration with apM Group — the owner of leading wholesale shopping malls in Dongdaemun, Seoul — , is a project that focuses on building a blockchain-powered customer rewards management platform optimised for on-/off-line business transactions. The project plans to introduce its customer reward platform for buyers and wholesalers of three shopping malls, apM, apM PLACE and apM Luxe. It is known that the malls welcome over 10,000 daily visitors on average. In accordance with its service launch this first half, apM Coin will launch its own mobile app ‘apM Members’; it secured more than 5,000 pre-registered users through ‘apM Members x Bittrex Global Sign-up Event’ held in last November.

OKEx, which will soon list apM Coin, is a global digital asset exchange that provides cryptocurrency trading services to millions of users in more than 150 countries worldwide. According to the crypto media Decrypt, OKEx leads with a 24-hour daily trading volume of more than US$1 billion and the exchange has persistently ranked among Top 10 CoinMarketCap exchanges by liquidity. OKEx has been featured in the CryptoCompare Exchange Benchmark report as the top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, by receiving a grade A verification for two consecutive years.

“We are excited about our exchange listing on OKEx, the leading global exchange from the very beginning of the crypto scene. We believe that this exchange listing allows us to get one step closer toward users from Chinese-speaking countries,” said apM Coin team. “The service launch of apM Coin is planned this first half. Through this progress, we will gear up for upgrading user-friendly services for apM mall customers whose major customers are travelling from Chinese-speaking countries.”
DA Krasner Urges Safe Storage of Firearms Following Preventable Death of Second Child in a Week
By: Philadelphia Dao
Tags: Firearms, Criminal Justice, Press Release, Philadelphia

CONTACT:

Jane Roh, 215–686–8711, Jane.Roh@phila.gov

Uncle of 10-Year-Old Fatally Shot on Thursday Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter

PHILADELPHIA (July 6, 2021) — District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday joined calls from local law enforcement and violence prevention professionals for Philadelphians to keep firearms safely stored out of reach of children.

On the evening of July 1st, a 10-year-old girl was fatally shot in her home in the Kingsessing neighborhood because of access to an unsecured firearm. On Monday night, the District Attorney’s Office (DAO) charged an uncle, Tyree Miles (DOB: 3/23/1993), for Involuntary Manslaughter (F2), VUFA 6105 (F2), and related offenses for his alleged involvement in her death.

“When children are shot because an adult did not responsibly store or lock away a firearm, that adult needs to be accountable. I am saddened that once again, a child’s life has been lost and their siblings forever traumatized because of access to a deadly weapon that should have been safely stored away,” DA Krasner said. “Writing these tragedies off as mere ‘accidents’ ignores the responsibility of individuals, and all of society for the safety and protection of our children. Greedy gun manufacturers, the NRA’s cultish following, and the craven politicians they fund and support need to be accountable as well. We need to keep pushing state and federal lawmakers for reasonable regulation of guns.”

At approximately 9:32 p.m. on Thursday night, police responding to a call found the girl unresponsive with a single gunshot wound to the head in the rear second floor bedroom of a home on the 5500 block of Whitby Avenue. Over the holiday weekend, police arrested Tyree Miles for his involvement in the girl’s death. This investigation remains active and ongoing.

The girl’s tragic death came just days after a 10-year-old boy was fatally shot in his home in the Tioga-Nicetown neighborhood, also because of access to an unsecured firearm. The Philadelphia Police investigation of that child’s death on June 26th is ongoing.

Gun locks are available free of charge with no questions asked from the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office by calling 215–686–3572. Temple Safety Net, a violence prevention program of Temple University Hospital, also distributes free gun locks and offers violence prevention education and training throughout the city.

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The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is the largest prosecutor’s office in Pennsylvania, and one of the largest in the nation. It serves the more than 1.5 million residents of the City and County of Philadelphia, employing 600 lawyers, detectives, and support staff. The District Attorney’s Office is responsible for prosecution of approximately 40,000 criminal cases annually.
The first NFT Video of a Senegalese actor is sold
Tags: Nft, Collective, Press Release, Africa, Artist

The first NFT Video of a Senegalese actor is sold Mo Jul 6·2 min read

The Senegalese actor Thimbo Samb has made his first NFT by offering the original version of his post-Covid event video entitled “When we don’t wear the mask anymore”.

All proceeds from the NFT will benefit the ongoing crowdfunding for the making of a film about migrants.

Acclaimed by millions after its broadcast on his Instagram, that of NWE, the first Afro media, I Love Senegal …, his creation had so far been at most a source of visibility and notoriety.

Because Thimbo Samb is already recognized with participations in several successful feature films broadcast in Spain and on Netflix.

But, with this sale in an NFT format, he shows the way, with other African creators, of a fair remuneration of his talent that can not be relegated to a simple role of stooge for social networking platforms.

Her 1st collector now has a unique moment recorded and authenticated in the blockchain that, in his own words, “captures too [her] experience as the pandemic wanes.”

This first sale encourages the 1mA Collective to offer the opportunity to other actors of the cultural world (musician, actor, performer …) to take the step of NFTs.

New collaborations are to come to promote the African creatives!
The Storm Over Paris Wins 2019 IndieReader Discovery Award
By: Gina Ruccione
Tags: Press Release, Client News, Book Review, Clients, Book Awards

June 15, 2019 — Two weeks ago Jennifer L. Armentrout, a New York Times and International bestselling author, announced the winners of the 2019 annual IndieReader Discovery Awards (IRDAs) at Book Expo America (BEA)/Book Con, a major trade show in New York City. The Storm Over Paris by William Grubman won best novel in the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category.

IndieReader launched the IRDAs in order to help worthy indie authors get the attention of top indie professionals, with the goal of reaching more readers. Noted Amy Edelman, founder of IR, “The books that won the IRDAs this year are not just great indie books; they are great books, period. We hope that our efforts via the IRDAs insure that they receive attention from the people who matter most. Potential readers.”

Sponsors for the awards include Amazon, IngramSpark and Kirkus. Judges included notable publishers, agents, publicists and bloggers. The Storm Over Paris received glowing praise by IndieReader’s reviewers.

ABOUT THE STORM OVER PARIS

The Storm Over Paris is a suspenseful thriller set in 1942 Paris, Mori Rothstein — an art dealer and expert in master paintings from the Renaissance to Realism — has been sought after by every major museum in the world for his knowledge. Also hunting him down is Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering. Goering intends to exploit this Jew’s knowledge in service to the Fuhrer. Reluctantly, Mori cooperates to keep his family safe and begins the task of appraising stolen French art. As his friends and fellow Jews disappear, he forges a questionable relationship with one of the most notorious Nazis in Europe — his fidelity and morals tested daily.

The Storm Over Paris was recently ranked #1 on Amazon Kindle in both War Fiction and Historical Mystery, Thriller and Suspense Fiction.

William lives in Los Angeles and has two children — a future doctor and a future lawyer, he beams proudly. Visit his website at www.williamgrubman.com.

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11 best ways to make money online
By: Moris Velmon
Tags: Press Release, Opportunity, Money, Make Money Online, Digital Marketing

Want to make money online this year? This guide will help you find the best ways to earn a little side income — and show you how to get started.

The past year encouraged all of us to embrace the great indoors. No surprise, then, that the interest in making money online from the safety of our homes is now on the rise.

What once felt like a distant daydream is now a reality for millions of people. Those of us who worked remotely from our home offices for the last few years have a lot less explaining to do at family events — the path to earning a meaningful amount of money online has become much clearer.

The magic of the internet is that it’s a sales channel, marketing network, and community hub all in one — plus so much more. There are many creative ways to make money online beyond online surveys and selling used goods on Craigslist.

That said, some businesses and side hustles are better suited to the laptop lifestyle than others. In this guide, we’ll break down the strengths and shortcomings of a few of the top money-making options.

11 best ways to make money online

To make choosing the best ways to make money online easier, we’ll look at several key factors:

Business type: whether the idea is product based, service based or driven by an audience.

whether the idea is product based, service based or driven by an audience. Effort: how much time, skill, or experience you’ll need to put into the idea.

how much time, skill, or experience you’ll need to put into the idea. Leverage: how well positioned you are to turn the idea into a money-making one that increases in value without needing your direct attention. A high-leverage idea isn’t a 1:1 trade of time for money.

how well positioned you are to turn the idea into a money-making one that increases in value without needing your direct attention. A high-leverage idea isn’t a 1:1 trade of time for money. Startup costs: the upfront budget you’ll likely need to launch the idea.

1. Dropshipping

Business type: Product based

Effort: Medium

Leverage: High

Startup costs (out of 5 💸): 💸

Last year, many worldwide trends experienced a decades’ worth of acceleration. One such trend was the rise of ecommerce. There are a number of ways to run an ecommerce business, some of which allow for minimal need to carry and hold lots of inventory.

Enter dropshipping. Dropshipping is a business model where you don’t keep the products you sell in stock. Instead, when a customer buys something from your store, a third party fulfills and ships the order for you. Because low startup costs are low, it’s an increasingly popular way to make money online for beginners and pros alike.

Dropshippers have a habit of chasing the latest trends. And while there’s nothing wrong with catching a trending product wave, know that there also are many product categories that are steady and offer similar opportunities to do well. At Shopify, we regularly see these categories in our list top performers:
Bitfinex Supports Bitcoin Ecosystem In Collaboration With Hodl Hodl
By: Ishita Bora
Tags: Bitcoin Ecosystem, Press Release, Bitfinex, Hodl Hodl, Digital Notice

Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, and Hodl Hodl have announced that iFinex Inc. has purchased shares in the peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin trading and lending platform.

As an exchange committed to supporting the bitcoin ecosystem, Bitfinex aims to further the adoption of genuine use cases for bitcoin, including exploring integrations with Hodl Hodl services. As a non-custodial platform for bitcoiners, made by bitcoiners, Hodl Hodl enables its users to undertake trading in a pure P2P fashion, without the need for a centralized third party.

Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex, said:

“When it comes to genuine support of the bitcoin ecosystem, Bitfinex is about action rather than just words. We hope our investment in Hodl Hodl will help grow its amazing community and support the wider digital token ecosystem.”

Max Kei, CEO at Hodl Hodl, said:

“We are very excited to be exploring collaboration with such an experienced and influential industry player. We can learn so much from the high-level expertise of the Bitfinex team. There are so many things to be excited about. Still, it is important to state that the Hodl Hodl team will stay independent and stick with our core values of building non-custodial, anonymous and bitcoin-only products.”

Bitfinex stands out as one of the few major cryptocurrency exchanges that have integrated the Lightning Network, underlining the exchange’s support for the technology and the wider bitcoin ecosystem.

About Hodl Hodl

Hodl Hodl is a P2P non-custodial bitcoin trading and lending platform. Built on bitcoin smart contracts, Hodl Hodl offers a unique technology for non-custodial P2P deals that allows its users to deal directly with each other on a P2P basis and eliminating the necessity of a third party. The platform ensures safety by providing a unique multisig escrow for each deal, leaving its users in control of the keys. Hodl Hodl is committed to security, privacy, and making bitcoin accessible to everyone in the world. Founded with the knowledge that using bitcoin’s blockchain is the most secure way to send, store, and receive value, Hodl Hodl offers real-life applications of bitcoin, including safely trading and lending with bitcoin peer to peer.

Media contact for Hodl Hodl

Anna Geiko

Head of Marketing

marketing@hodlhodl.com
Tangram Flex, Inc. Announces Availability of Component Software Integration Platform Tangram Pro™
By: Tangram Flex
Tags: Engineering, System Integration, Csip, Press Release, Software

Tangram Flex, Inc. Announces Availability of Component Software Integration Platform Tangram Pro™ Tangram Flex Follow Jun 8 · 2 min read

DAYTON, Ohio. Tangram Flex, Inc., a Dayton, Ohio based software company serving the defense industry, announces that its Component Software Integration Platform (CSIP) for mission-critical systems, Tangram Pro™, is now available for wider use.

Tangram Flex develops solutions for safer, faster integration of software components in embedded systems in both defense and commercial markets. It’s CSIP, Tangram Pro™, gives engineering teams visibility into requirements, models, and code and provides tools that automatically generate secure integration code to improve software delivery time and release cadence.

Capabilities within Tangram Pro™ have been demonstrated to automate manual and labor-intensive software integration processes on government programs and its features have been refined through partnerships with government prime contractors including BAE Systems and IS4S.

“We are delighted to share Tangram Pro™ with a larger audience,” says Mark Stadtmueller, Vice President of Product Management at Tangram Flex. “Extending the availability of our CSIP as we continue to broaden our market is an exciting step for our company and we look forward to engaging with new users in the months to come.”

The company is currently offering a free trial version of Tangram Pro™ and has released information about its product bundles, including PaaS, Enterprise, and custom packages. More details are available on its website: https://tangramflex.com/technology

About Tangram Flex

Tangram Flex simplifies software integration for mission-critical defense systems. The Tangram Flex team combines engineering expertise with our Component Software Integration Platform (CSIP) product, Tangram Pro™, to arm engineers with customized toolkits for meeting mission needs. Its staff has experience from DoD, Fortune 50 companies, and innovative software startups.

For additional inquiries related to this release or other Tangram Flex requests, please contact press@tangramflex.com
Diamante Blockchain enters the non-fungible token (NFT) market to mainstream the auction of the world’s finest and rarest diamonds.
Tags: Nft, Press Release, Diamonds, Blockchain, Decentralization

Diamante Blockchain enters the non-fungible token (NFT) market to mainstream the auction of the world’s finest and rarest diamonds. PayCircle_io Jun 8·2 min read

NEW YORK, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Diamante Blockchain, a global fintech company, announces the first-ever non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based rare and the most unique diamonds auction platform. The platform will be powered by the Diamante Net, the proprietary blockchain network of Diamante Blockchain.

Diamante’s auction house will consist of the rarest and unique diamonds from across the world that are validated and certified. The buyers can bid for the precious diamonds on the Diamante auction house with a non-fungible token or NFT, which has a unique digital signature linked to the physical diamonds. It acts as a digital certificate of ownership, authenticity, and provenance. The sellers have to deposit their diamonds in the safe and secure deposit vault owned by a Swiss partner. The transportation and the storage of the diamonds throughout the auction lifecycle will be traceable on the blockchain network with 100 percent insurance.

Diamante’s NFT-based online auction platform will create the first market for real and unique diamonds to go digital. Also, the platform offers buyers to gain the rights to the NFT with guaranteed control and blockchain proof of ownership over the real diamonds.

Dinesh Patel, CEO, and co-founder of the company said, “Our NFT-based diamond auction house provides instant, safe, and secure access to the world’s rarest diamonds. The buyers and sellers are all validated and authenticated. They will have to deal with a minimal operational fee associated with the bidding of the diamonds on the Diamante ecosystem.”

Chirag Jetani, COO and co-founder, added, “We are working to make the rarest diamonds more attainable. Our platform will allow users to buy NFTs and diamonds using our digital asset, DIAM. A few years from now, this could just be how people trade rare diamonds.”

The NFT diamond auction platform will be secured and traceable. The company’s progress is fascinating as there are already a few global diamond traders lined up to collaborate with the Diamante.

About Diamante Blockchain:

Diamante Blockchain is a global, decentralized finance platform successfully implementing and developing a competitive blockchain-enabled ecosystem for trade, payments, and financing.

The Diamante ecosystem consists

(i) Proprietary blockchain network — Diamante Net

(ii) Consortium of luxury goods and service industry stakeholders — Diamante Consortium

(iii) DeFi payments application — PayCircle

Related links:

Website: https://www.diamanteblockchain.com/

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Source: Yahoo Finance
Dallas wins Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for third time
By: Tristan Hallman
Tags: Dallas, Environment, Press Release

The annual competition challenges cities to conserve water and resources.

The City of Dallas has once again been named the most “water wise” large city in the United States.

Dallas won in the 600,000+ population category of the 2021 Annual Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation. In its category, Dallas bested №2 Houston, TX, №3 San Diego, №4 Los Angeles, and №5 New York. This is the third time that Dallas has won the annual month-long public awareness campaign to promote drought resiliency and water quality.

“Our city and its people have once again stepped up in a major way to commit to conserving our precious resources,” said Mayor Eric Johnson, who created the first standalone Dallas City Council committee devoted to environmental and sustainability issues. “As the father of three young children, it is critical to me that we are good stewards of our planet so that our next generations can thrive. We owe that to each other, and I am proud of the people of Dallas for taking that responsibility seriously.”

As part of the challenge, Dallas residents collectively pledged to reduce their use of 43,769 single-use plastic water bottles; to prevent 1,160 pounds of hazardous waste from entering watersheds; to divert 423,971 pounds of waste that is sent to landfills; and to save 72.6 million pounds of carbon dioxide and 1.3 million kilowatt hours of electricity, cutting $242,981 in consumer costs.

Residents from winning cities are entered into drawings for hundreds of water-saving or eco-friendly prizes, including a $3,000 prize to pay their home utility bills. In addition, a winning charity receives a Toyota Highlander Hybrid.

The challenge is presented by the Wyland Foundation and Toyota, with support from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, the National League of Cities, The Toro Company, Hobie Surf Shops, and Petal Soaps. The City of Dallas Office of Environmental Quality helped promote the 2021 challenge to Dallas residents.

The annual challenge was created by marine-life artist Wyland, who founded the Wyland Foundation in 1993. For more information, visit mywaterpledge.com.