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GEMINIO! 0xMerlin’s First Successful Summoning
Tags: Lending Platform, Defi, Magic

Merlin opened his spell book and produced some magic today with his first summoning of SPELL tokens for the ambitious young apprentice mages.

Searching through his spell book he came upon a long lost conjuring spell that allowed him to open a portal to the plane of magic and out flew the tokens.

His apprentice mages were quick to join in the ritual and supply their components in the form of SPELL-ETH SLPs.

The magic of SPELL is flowing.

New to the school of Wizardry? Let us catch you up with a spell of knowledge transfer.

SPELL is the governance token of Abracadabra Money and will grant holders voting rights on which pages are accessible in the spell book. It also grants wizards a claim on fee accrued by the protocol. First, you will need to stake them for sSPELL, but this magic is still locked in the spell book and yet to be released.

0xMerlin has also changed his SPELL wand, making it even more good-looking and powerful!

The ritual went off without any major hiccups. No demons were summoned.

Although the flow of SPELL tokens is steady and smooth they are not infinite and eventually, 0xMerlin will need to close the portal.

Here are a few stats.

This portal will only produce 26 460 000 000 SPELL tokens for the next 365 days, resulting in about 507 452 054 per week. Remember this tokens will be shared with all mages participating in the ritual proportional to their spell components (SLPs)

SPELL tokens for the next 365 days, resulting in about per week. Remember this tokens will be shared with all mages participating in the ritual proportional to their spell components (SLPs) Another 105 840 000 000 have been set aside for a future ritual spell that will require the MIM-3CRV spell component. More on this to come.

If you have had your nose stuck in a book, as a good mage should, you may have missed this important news. Where 0xMerlin announces that the balance of the plane of magic required the burning of half the supply of SPELL tokens in order to ensure the summoning ritual went off smoothly.

This is all for our first lesson on conjuration.
The Wizards Spellonomics
Tags: Lending, Defi, Magic

While the MIM spell has come to life, the next journey we are going on is the decentralization of wizards and their spell income.

In other words the Spellonomics.

In today’s lesson, we are gonna learn how the SPELL token works, how it will be distributed, and what’s in it for us, the wizards!

Simple Spellonomics

Other than our stable coin MIM, 2 other tokens exist:

SPELL : the protocol's token which is used for incentivization.

: the protocol's token which is used for incentivization. sSPELL: obtained by staking SPELL tokens and used for fee-sharing and governance!

Topic 1: The SPELL Token

Let’s start from the beginning! SPELL is an ERC-20 token. You can add it to your wallet using the address 0x090185f2135308BaD17527004364eBcC2D37e5F6.

The total token supply was initially 420B tokens, but it was later cut in half (210B SPELL) after the Magical Burn decided by 0xMerlin, you can find the details and the transaction hash here!

SPELL is distributed as follows:

45% of the total supply is distributed to the stakers of MIM-3LP3CRV, in order to keep deep liquidity in the pool and make sure that Wizards will always be able to swap their MIMs for USDT, DAI, or USDC.

A 10 Year halving model will be followed, which will cut in half the rewards distributed every year.

of the total supply is distributed to the stakers of in order to keep deep liquidity in the pool and make sure that Wizards will always be able to swap their MIMs for USDT, DAI, or USDC. A 10 Year halving model will be followed, which will cut in half the rewards distributed every year. 18% of the total supply is distributed between the stakers of ETH-SPELL Sushiswap LP tokens. 75% of this amount will be distributed in the first year, the rest in the second year.

of the total supply is distributed between the stakers of 75% of this amount will be distributed in the first year, the rest in the second year. 7% of the total supply has been distributed via an IDO, half on Uniswap v3 and half on Sushiswap.

of the total supply has been distributed via an IDO, half on Uniswap v3 and half on Sushiswap. 30% of the total supply is allocated to the team members which is vested as follows:

Topic 2: The sSPELL Token — where the real magic happens!

You can become an even more powerful Wizard by locking and staking your SPELL to get sSPELL using the Wizard Dashboard!

The token address for sSPELL is 0x26fa3fffb6efe8c1e69103acb4044c26b9a106a9.

sSPELL tokens will allow wizards to take part in governance, as well as earn 75% of all the interest fees generated by Abracadabra!

To find out more about how the fees will be split, have a read of our previous medium article here.

Your sSPELL tokens are continuously compounding! When you unstake, you will receive all the originally deposited SPELL tokens plus any additional SPELL earned from the fees. Fees are collected from MIM repayments from all wizards proportional to your share of the stake pool.

We will discuss further Spellonomics mechanisms in the future, but this is it for today’s lesson! Wizards, keep your wands ready, and enjoy your fees!
The boons of Saturn and the practice of planetary magick.
By: Allyson The Art, Sex Witch
Tags: Witch, Magick, Saturn, Magic, Witchcraft

I’ve been reading through my journal and magical diary (I’ve always got 2–3 notebooks going at any given time, it is deliciously excessive). There is a lot of “I want” in there. I want a new body of work for upcoming art exhibitions; I want a daily sketchbook practice; I want a financially-sustainable business. The list goes on. I see movement in some of these areas and stagnation in others.

Part of the struggle is that I want it all at once. It is scary for me to choose one thing to call into being, one thing to focus my attention and desires on.

When I think about my spellcraft, it is always one step at a time. I do one spell with one planet with one focus. And then I pay attention to how I do and don’t nourish that prayer, that spell. I’d like my whole life to look like that, nourished one step at a time.

The Devil + The World are Saturn cards.

One step at a time is surprisingly effective. One year ago, I invited my dear friend and collaborator, Katie Evans of Above the Horizon Astrology, to co-create a zine with me about planetary magick. I brought the witchcraft and she brought the astrology.

Our original deadline was three months before we finally published. Just writing that gives me a chuckle. Procrastination can be a powerful force in my life. I’ve probably spent more time thinking about what I need to do as opposed to actually doing it. It’s at least 50/50.

Which brings me to Saturday. Saturday is Saturn’s day. Saturn gets a bum reputation, even in my books at times.

Saturn is the boundary planet, the farthest edge of the visible. I talk a lot about boundaries in my work around creativity and sexuality. Boundaries make it safe to be vulnerable, to explore and experiment. When you know where your “no” is, it is so much easier to experiment with your “yes”.

Saturn also surfaces themes of discipline and commitment. My dance with discipline and commitment revolutionizes my life every time I step into or acknowledge it. With our current SIP realities, my daily practices have been easier to show up to, and the boons are tremendous.

A few years ago I was telling a story to a friend about how fickle I can be, how inconstant. Later, she discovered that I had been at my teaching job for 10 years. It’s 14 years now. That is constancy and commitment.

And so I am here to put down my aversion to Saturn and celebrate the liberation and rapture that comes with showing up and doing the work on the regular.
Apple Days Sale: IPhone XR available for just Rs 42,900
By: Nirvil Balan
Tags: Technology News, Iphone X, Blog, iPhone, Apple

Apple Days Sale: IPhone XR available for just Rs 42,900

During the Apple Days Sale, the iPhone device can be purchased on Amazon India with many attractive offers and low prices, this sale will last until November 17

The e-commerce website Amazon India organized Apple Days Sale on 13 November, which will run till 17 November. During this sale, users can buy iPhone devices at low prices as well as attractive offers. This cell is offering great discounts on all devices including iPhones, MacBooks, iPads and Apple watches. Apart from this, if you are HDFC Bank credit or debit card users, then you can buy them in EMI option along with a discount of up to Rs 7,000 on the purchase of iPhone.

Talking about the offers available in Apple Days Sale, the iPhone XR and iPhone Xs are becoming available at a very low price. During the sale, you can buy the iPhone XR for Rs 42,900. On this, users are being given a direct discount of Rs 7,450. At the same time, iPhone Xs are also getting a chance to buy for Rs 84,900.

Apart from this, you are also getting a great opportunity to buy iPhone 6s for Rs 23,999 in the cell. Talking about the offers on other devices, the new MacBook Air has also become available for sale and is priced at Rs 94,900. At the same time, you can take the MacBook Pro home with a 13-inch display and 8th Gen Core i5 with a starting price of Rs 1,14,990.

In Apple Days Sale, Apple Watch Series 5 is also available with an initial price of Rs 40,900. Also, discounts are being given on the charging adapter and smartphone case in the cell. At the same time, you can buy Apple AirPods with wireless charging case for Rs 16,489, while its original price is Rs 18,000. Discounts on Apple devices can be availed only till November 17.
Will Apple Be the New Netflix?
By: Pierre Roustan
Tags: Technology News, Netflix, Technology Trends, Apple, Technology

Potentially. The company, however, will definitely be playing with the big boys.

Many had to see this one coming given the technological trend we’re seeing: we’re no longer living on a device-focused basis even though many of us still to this day hold onto our smartphones like they’re antidotes. We are, instead, opting for cloud technology and subscription-based services designed to give us a wealth of offerings, literally as much as we’d like. It was clear as such blockbuster brands like, well, Blockbuster — DVDs, CDs and more — suddenly go the way of the Dodo in exchange for something more digital.

Yes, the Cloud-Based Subscription Service Leads the Way in Entertainment Tech, But Does That Mean Apple Should Go That Way, Too?

We may not have a choice as iPhone sales continue to dip, and the company looks for new ways to penetrate trending markets and grab a piece of that subscription pie. As you can see just from reading, the pie is the media market associated with entertainment — platforms like Hulu and Netflix have a stronghold.

CNBC reported recently that Apple plans on offering subscriptions of popular networks like Starz, CBS and Showtime, built in with its very own TV app that you can use on your iPhone, or iPad — and especially that Apple TV you just bought for a pretty penny. Of course, the company takes a cut, but believe it or not Apple will even dive right into the original programming route.

That’s right, you heard correctly: Apple may become the new Netflix.

Should We Be Scared, Thinking That This Will Be an All-Out Media Streaming War?

We’ve got the Disney mega-powerhouse coming out with their own streaming service, after all. But don’t fret. The ultimate beneficiary is you: the consumer. And Apple has plenty of clout to back up their backing in this goal with talent like Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey already signing on for some original programming you can, yes indeed, watch exclusively on your owned iPhone — for free, no less.

Beat that, Netflix.

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Creates Social Impacts- Biometric Technology
By: Arya College
Tags: Engineering, Technology News, Technology, Biometrics Technologies, Biometrics

Anything that affects a large population eventually affects society and the same is true about technology. Society is made by people and their persistent social interaction. This interaction forms the basis of social structure. Societies largely affect human lives and individual actions.

Main Technologies in Professional industry

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In the large modern world, technologies have become the mainstream for survival. Everything is running fast than usual. Biometric technology has become a huge part in everyone’s life especially the professional areas, as it is no longer the realm of fiction.

Anything that affects a large population eventually affects society. The same criteria work for the technologies as well. The society and the technology share an inseparable relationship of cyclical co-dependence, co-influence, and co-production. The introduction of new technologies requires the recognition of both people and society. Students must have a clear understanding of these technologies from the learning given by Arya College.

Core places for Biometrics

In recent years, Biometric technology has challenged the traditional methods of personal identification. Biometrics support personally identifiable biological patterns of human being in order to identify them uniquely. There are different forms of recognition that are used in law enforcement and forensics for more hundred years. In the past, the fingerprints and biological patterns only limited to anti-social elements and criminals. On the other hand, people are getting aware of the strengths and risk associated with the technology.

A large number of biological characteristics like finger and palm vein patterns, voice recognition, fingerprints, and iris are useful in the evolution of biometric identification capabilities are becoming standard on many devices we use each day. Despite this, the technology is treated differently in different societies..

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What is Direct selling agents (DSA) and How its work?
Tags: Fintech, Dsa

As the name suggests, direct selling agents or the DSA are experts brought direct business to institutes.With increasing competition in the banking sector, the banks and financial companies have assigned business developers as DSAs works in the field and giving clients for the financial goods provided by the banking industry, such as loans, credit cards, etc.They are paid a fixed percentage commission on the bank’s business.

In any of the finance institutes, the functions and roles of a DSA are similar to those of the bank itself, although there are also special requirements for any particular bank, so the DSA agreement should be read well before entering into the agreement to act as a DSA for a bank or finance company.The basic purpose of a DSA working in the banking sector is to locate a customer who would eventually be a potential customer for the most common retail loans to a particular banking product.

The basic work done by a DSA can therefore be defined as:

– Locate and list for the financial services of the bank, such as credit cards,personal loan,home loan,business loan, mortgages loan, deposit schemes etc.

– procure the completed loan applications forms.

– Check the applicant’s data.

– Check the records or documents that were received.

– Sumbit all checked and finalised documents to the bank for further process.

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It’s simple — I miss you…. Missing someone is probably one of the…
By: G. R.
Tags: Communication, Love, Sad, Distance, Friendship

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Missing someone is probably one of the worst feelings you can experience. It’s not something you can see, it’s extremely hard to avoid it. Even if you try to work hard so that you won’t have the time to think about that person, it still doesn’t work.

But what do we actually miss — the person itself or the memories we shared together? Personally, I miss both. While writing this, I am thinking about one particular person who came in my life out of nowhere but managed to find a place in my life. We shared a lot of good and bad moments together, I think we even built a friendship. We had different points of view on many subjects but somehow found the balance every time (even though both of us are quite stubborn).

Due to the circumstances, however, we drifted apart. We still had many calls and endless texts but, over time, that stopped as well. You’d say: ‘Well, each one of you moved on with their lives, found new friends and that’s it, there is no reason for you to continue talking.’ Well, I strongly disagree.

I am this type of person who thinks that people come into your life for a reason. I don’t think that it is so easy to just forget someone just because you moved on with your life and have new friends. So, once in a while, I really miss this person — both as the person itself as well as the memories we shared. I miss the voice and the laugh when I say something stupid (believe me, that happened a lot of times), all the serious and not so serious talks we used to have.

It is funny how you can just see something online or find a song that just reminds you of that person you miss so much. I experience this a lot, whether it’s just an article I found or a song I listened to and would have gladly shared. I won’t lie, we still keep in touch once in a while but we both just seem too distant. I don’t know if it’s my pride or stubbornness or both but I don’t think I’ll be able to admit to that person that just once in a while I really, really miss him.

I might be exaggerating with all this but that’s who I am — a bit more sensitive than I am probably supposed to be. I really hope, though, that sooner or later I will have the chance to talk with that person again because that is definitely something important that is missing in my life.

Bottom line, never lose touch with the people you care about. Even though sometimes it’s really hard, just a simple: ‘’Hey, how are you doing?’’ can make someone’s day a hundred times better. It’s the small gesture that matters.
You and Me
By: Lukas Flippo
Tags: Life, Change, Sad, Moving On

I want this to be different. No stilted language. Rip away the barely understood and haphazard metaphors. For once in my life, I want an answer at the end of one of these teary-eyed confessionals….but that would be too easy. These paragraphs, this story…this one is a punch. A stare…eye to eye. A reminder — it’s just you and me. It’s real.

I smell like smoke from head to toe. My keyboard will soon. Maybe that will be when I stop typing. Let the smell of smoke overtake my soul.

Tonight was a bonfire (socially distant of course). But was that really what it was? Sure, there was fire. There was a crooner playing Folsom Prison Blues on the guitar. But forget about those things. Don’t get lost in the aesthetic and lose the meaning.

Tonight was a resurgence. An ode to a time we were “supposed” to grow beyond. But what is the fun in that? A year ago, I graduated high school, and life seemingly changed forever. I hopped on the carousel of goodbyes for what felt like ages and then leapt on a jet plane to a new world in Connecticut.

That was supposed to be where it ended. Or really, where it began. It’s the narrative keeping us all going. As Semisonic put it in “Closing Time,” every new beginning is some other beginning’s end. We can’t be too sad about graduating high school. If we are, we risk being stuck…having to live with the possibility that we peaked in that long hallway on Sam Haskell Circle.

So I moved away. Nice school, fancy credential, new me. My high school friends..scratch that, I hate that term…my best friends were reduced to contact names in my phone and Bitmojis in Snapchat groups.

And then, by a cosmic twist of fate, we were thrown back together. Colleges shut down, we packed our bags, hopped in cars and on planes, and went full speed into our past. And in a way, smiling about being around our beginnings had a weird price attached to it….the price of contentment.

Eventually, it was normal. Old faces became present. Changed personalities suddenly seemed intimately familiar.

The bonfire tonight was a resurgence of my former life, but it was also another stop on what seems to be a never-ending goodbye tour. But it isn’t never-ending. One day, there will be a last time, and I won’t know when that will be. So I smile as I wave goodbye from Davis’s driveway. And the tears flow.

Let’s take it to the stars. Don’t worry, it’s still just me and you. These words are still very real. I’m not hiding behind a curtain. I am right here.

This life is a revolving door of hellos and goodbyes. The hellos are amazing, refreshing…the goodbyes hurt like hell. But the pain is good. It is a reminder I am alive…..that the connections, friendships, and moments are real.

So as I walked away from the bonfire tonight and Will’s guitar faded into the distance, I was grateful for the pain….proud of who I call my best friends and where I am headed.

I move to the Coast for the summer in 7 hours to take the next step in my life — in my career. And there is pain. But it’s worth it. Jami, Davis, Peyton, Will, Abigail, Micah, AG, Andin, Mace and Anna…you’re all worth it.
I want to run away
By: Unraveling Life
Tags: Goodbye, Escape, Toxic, Runaway, Sad

I want to leave. I just want to pack my bags and disappear without saying goodbye. I think it would be easier that way, not saying goodbye. No tears and no guilt trips. I don’t belong here anymore. This old town makes me suffocate and it’s so hard to get a grasp.

Yes, this city made me the person that I am today but it is also the same place where I lost myself. I live in a never ending cycle of dealing with the same people. It’s the same faces everywhere because there’s nowhere else to look. In this small town, everyone knows every single one.

I want to run away and disappear. I mean, it would be easy since my whole life I’ve been running away from everything. Maybe it’s not just the place, maybe I want to run away from myself too because I’m also the problem. I could just cut people off and not participate in the cycle, but I don’t. Maybe I’m the toxic one. I keep saying that I’m tired of it and yet I still go out every night to get drunk and sleep with random guys I meet at a club. I regret it the next day and ask myself “what’s wrong with you?” but I just brush it off then repeat. I never took the time to pause and think for a second because my main escape would be just drowning myself in alcohol. That’s how I run away from my problems.

I want to start a new life where people don’t know my name. Free to express myself and could finally breathe again in a place where I could call mine.
Orchard road bans smoking
By: Thaiger News
Tags: Smoking, Orchard Road, Singapore, Dsa

Smokers were given verbal warnings and directed to the DSAs.

Some might suggest that these open-air Designate Smoking Areas are almost useless

More than 40 DSAs are available within the Orchard Road no smoking zone. During the initial three-month advisory period, officers will engage smokers and advise them to indulge in their habit within the DSAs. From April, enforcement action will be taken against all offenders.

Signs have been placed on bins and some lamp posts within the zone. Advertisements have also been put up at selected MRT stations and bus stops.

Bins with ashtrays have been replaced with those without ashtrays, and directional signage guiding smokers to the nearest DSAs have also been put up at the hotel’s side entrances.

Similarly, Royal Plaza on Scotts has put up a sign at the hotel’s entrance to inform guests of the no smoking zone and the nearest DSAs.

Other Asian tourist spots are looking at the Orchard Road smoking ban experiment to monitor reaction.

SOURCE: The Straits Times
Home Alone
By: Bitter Pill
Tags: Life, Alone, Short Story, Sad

Pushing the door open, I step inside the room. It’s dark, so I switch the light on. Shoes at the left, couch beside with a fan and a telephone on top. Bed at the right, TV mounted on the wall. Everything’s just the way I left it. I placed my boots with the rest of my shoes, dropped my bag beside the couch and sat in bed. The room’s silent, I stare at the television. I see myself staring back. The room’s silent, I am alone. I look at the closed door; I imagine the days my partner would open the door but I won’t see it this time— he went home too. I won’t hear a friend knocking on the other side. I am alone. I’m back home but somehow, it doesn’t feel like it. I’ve been with my partner and some friends for the past 11 days and this is day zero of me returning back to my routine.

I feel sadness. Even when I was still at the airport, I already felt it. I dreaded this day as I didn’t want it to end. This is why I loathe being with people. It’s the aftermath of it that breaks me down. Alone after being with a crowd of people. The noise, the laughter, the energy… then back to silence. I am alone; I feel alone. Suicidal thoughts and anxiety slowly creeping inside me. I hope that in the coming weeks, I’ll be my normal self again.

I take a deep breath, It’ll be okay. I can go out, It’s not as if I’m locked in and can’t leave. I’m alone and I’ll be okay. I’ll see my partner soon, I’ll see friends and people. It’ll be okay. But right now, let me cry this out.
The Best Mother’s Day Present I Ever Received Was Just a Simple Card
By: Jules Greene
Tags: Mothers Day, Cheapest Present, Best Present, Mothers Day 2020, Covid 19

If it hadn’t been for COVID-19, we’d be thinking about seniors graduating and what to be getting our moms for Mother’s Day. With us perhaps still being in quarantine into May, perhaps a quick note is all we’ll be able to have for any type of celebrating.

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In my opinion, the gift of someone’s time is the best present one could ever receive. Next to that, it would be a card, with honest and heartfelt thoughts within. I want to share with you the best Mother’s Day present I ever got. It was in Mother’s Day 2019, eons before this covid crisis.

Coincidentally, it was also my son’s College Graduation. The graduation festivities were fun, with happy stress in trying to accommodate all the events and sad stress from certain drummed-up drama.

However, I want to share with you the best present I ever received, and it happened to be after my son received his diploma from his university’s Business School.

For background, my son attended my alma mater. I too had graduated from the same university, also from the Business School, some eight million years ago. At our university, our students and alumni often greet one with a unifying “ GO TRIBE.” Those words are often in lieu of “hello.” Or, sometimes, they are a period to a conversation or quick sign-off to an email.

As I said, my son had just received his diploma. Just he and I driving in a car. Ready to go to his celebratory graduation dinner with relatives.

In the privacy of the car, away from everyone else, the new college graduate handed me this Mother’s Day card:

I know this day is very special for the both of us. I wanted to thank you for always supporting and guiding me along the way. Having a special bond with you about [our university] is one of the best things that has happened to me. I love you so much and can’t thank you enough for all that you have done for me.

This is why a card can be the best gift. It’s inexpensive and really can convey such sweet sentiment. I can’t tell you how gratifying this was to read. I cried my Niagara Falls tears, and I even find the waterworks starting now, as I write this.

What a Mother’s Day present! My kid gets his diploma. My tuition obligation mercifully comes to an end. And my son’s handwritten note confirms he has turned into the young adult I always knew he would be. My heart remains full.

GO TRIBE!
Wait, What the Hell Is Capitalism?
By: Escape Pod
Tags: Economics, Politics, Capitalism, Culture, Covid 19

Wait, What the Hell Is Capitalism?

by James Kaelan

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As the rough beast of COVID-19 slouches toward Bethlehem (and Bethlehem), many of us have been trying to determine who sent him. Was it Xi Jingping, wishing everyone a happy Lunar New Year as the virus spread through Wuhan? Was it Donald Trump, disbanding the NSC pandemic unit in 2018 to cut costs? Or was it capitalism itself?

To recycle a Bill McKibben analogy from his most recent “The Climate Crisis” newsletter:

— Markets solve all problems.

— Markets aren’t solving COVID-19.

— Q.E.D.: COVID-19 is not a problem.

But COVID-19, officially now deadlier than the 9/11 terror attacks, is of course a problem. A quarter million people in America may die before a vaccine is widely available. And that number is multiplied, not divided, by our bottomless faith in markets. Governors have been reduced to bidding against each other for N-95 face masks. Hospitals are competing with a terrified public to buy latex gloves on Amazon. And instead of invoking the Defense Production Act and compelling companies to manufacture new ventilators, Trump sided with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Dictating how a corporation operates in the age of coronavirus, they argued, could be bad for business. He agreed.

At Escape Pod, where our tagline is “Eject from Capitalism >> Survive the Landing,” perhaps unsurprisingly, we say profits be damned. “This is the time to transition to selfless endeavors,” I wrote to a friend in a text-argument about whether we should nationalize Amazon. “If a bunch of trolls can only get hard by ‘winning,’ let them stay flaccid. Right now, the battle cry is, ‘Use your knowledge and resources to help people — and the planet — survive.’”

Along with the many other people who’ll be contributing their ideas to these posts over the coming months, I’ve been trying to contemplate (literally for years 😱 ) what a sustainable earth might look like. But before we can really begin to imagine what Kevin Kelly calls a “protopian future” —a future that strives for great, but believes that good is always better than awful— we actually need to define what’s rotten about the present.
The Alcubierre Drive: Why Testing Practically Is So Difficult
By: Liam Trzebunia
Tags: NASA, Relativistic Rockets, Space, Futurism, Alcubierre Drive

Once humanity builds the Alcubierre drive (see previous story), they will naturally want to use it. The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is 4.367 light years away. An Alcubierre drive could allow a spaceship to fly there in two weeks.

What happens once the craft arrives? Depending on how much energy caught in the warp field, the entire system could be destroyed upon arrival. In this scenario, it would take 4.367 years for NASA’s satellites to recognize this. They would realize they have destroyed the best hope of interstellar mining, research, and colonization they could have hoped for. Meanwhile, the craft cannot blast back to Earth to inform scientists of the event, and humanity has lost that particular Alcubierre drive for almost a century while it slowly chugs back toward Earth at sublight speeds.

The drive cannot be tested on an asteroid belt, because of the lack of distance. There would be too little energy caught in the warp field for a proper test, unless the drive is flown outside of the shelter of Earth’s shadow and absorbs all the light the Sun can give it —more a demonstration of how powerful the Sun is then a test of how destructive the energy inherent to space is when trapped.

Luhman 16 is a star system 6.517 light years away. Due to its unique dual star nature, NASA will likely find a different system to test the drive on. Humanity will perhaps wait decades for the results of the flight, but in interstellar terms, that’s a month-long experiment.

Sources:

Sharp, Tim. “Alpha Centauri: Nearest Star System to the Sun.” Space.com, Space, 19 Jan. 2018, https://www.space.com/18090-alpha-centauri-nearest-star-system.html.

“Luhman 16 (WISE 1049–5319) Ab.” Luhman 16 (WISE 1049–5319), http://www.solstation.com/stars/wise1049.htm.
Research shows that prenatal exposure to air pollution can lead to childhood high sugar levels (Diabetes)
Tags: NASA, Pollution, Diabetes, Purifier, Pregnancy

Research shows that prenatal exposure to air pollution can lead to childhood high sugar levels (Diabetes) Imaginhuman Jan 14, 2020·3 min read

Mexican research included 365 children who were exposed to average daily PM(particulate matter) 2.5 levels of 22.4 micrograms per cubic meter of air (mcg/m3).These children were exposed when they were in the womb.

These kids while they were at the age of 5 to7 showed HBA1C levels of more than 6.5.HBA1C levels of more than 6.5 are diagnostic of diabetes.

HBA1C levels reflect average blood sugar levels of 3 months (around the lifetime of a red blood cell).

But this effect was seen only in girl child.And it was associated with exposure in the second and third trimester.

The mechanism how this air pollution is affecting the unborn child’s blood sugar levels is not known but many reasons are hypothesized.

Air pollutants causes inflammation, inflammation can affect organ development and function( of organs such as the brain, pancreas, liver, muscle — all of which take part in blood sugar regulation) thus making it difficult to control the blood sugar levels.

Air pollution could affect Epigenetic Regulation. Epigenetics regulates which gene should be turned on or off.

But there is no proper solution to this problem which can be done immediately.Unless the pregnant couple is in a position to move cities and migrate to less polluted city or country.

Although to avoid this damage one small step which can be taken is :

GET AIR PURIFIERS

Air purifiers with HEPA filters

Air purifiers have HEPA filters(high efficiency particulate arrestance) and activated carbons.

These HEPA filters will filter out 99.97 percent of particles 0.3 microns or larger from your air.

These will help you reduce those all PM 2.5 impurities as mentioned above.

They will also help in:

Remove Triggers for Asthma Attacks by eliminating allergens, such as Dust,Pollen and Pet Odor

Trap Tobacco and Cigarette Smoke, Preventing Lung Disease

Extract Airborne Asbestos Particles, Reducing Chances of Mesothelioma Development

Eliminate Radon Gas

Reduce Carbon Dioxide Levels in Your Home

Eliminate Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)

Increases Air Circulation

Other most easy way to remove those toxic fumes is:

To have potted plants in your workplace or homes.

NASA conducted a study to find out which all plants will help reduce the toxic fumes in space satellites.But those plants are also found to be useful even at our household level.

The plant which are found useful are:

NASA PLANT PURIFIERS

We cannot change the whole climate but we sure can change some things around us to live a better life.
I Was a Kid in the 80s
By: Christopher Cocca
Tags: Future, 80s, NASA

Years ago, I used to read a blog called Paleofuture. It’s still out there, somewhere. One day, Paleofuture posted a picture of someone’s 70’s vision of an 80’s space station. Sure, every time I see a ’57 Chevy or googie architecture, I wonder why the future Walt Disney invented for the Boomers never, ever came. But I was a kind in the 80s. The picture of the space station was a sort-of writing prompt. This is from 2012, maybe:

I was a kid in the 80’s and got to go to EPCOT. I used to read Popular Mechanics and try to make crap out of batteries and magnets and draw fighter jets and space stations and curvy future cars and build paper ammo wristbows from rubber bands and hangers. I did The Jason Project.

I remember when the Challenger blew up because the lady teacher had a kid my age and my family had an Aerostar the first summer they came out. After it happened Ford pulled the commercials that showed how the nose of their new mini-van looked just like the Shuttle. I broke the sliding door with my first GI Joe and burned my arm on an interior light and it scabbed and cracked and leaked all summer and I’d touch the the puss with the fat tips of my fingers to see if it would hurt.

My grandmother made me watch INF when I was 7 so I could say that I’d seen history. She didn’t say it but in 1987 you had no way of being sure you’d see more big human moments. Imagine living like that for 4o, 50 years, thinking about the button, building schools with fallout bunkers, doing drills. I remember the first time I saw a plane, it was Wednesday, 9/19, 2001. I went to college near a power plant with two cement torch chimneys so these things made me nervous. I imagine living like this for 40, 50 years, collecting history for my son just in case it stops. Waiting for the break, the thaw, the Islamofascist perestroika. The Western glasnost Gorbachev and the Dubai-Vegas-Beijing Red Dawn white trash show. Waiting for the INF bombs to come in off the market. There is no end of history, Francis Fukuyama. There is history or nothing.

Obama will close Gitmo but will hold enemy combatants indefinitely without trial on the mainland. Semantics must be justice. There are pictures of Pelosi toasting Cheney and Shepard Fairey laughing, obey, obey, obey, obey the giants and their posses. I was a kid in the 80’s.

I thought we’d have more now: sustainable communities instead of social networks. Colonies in space. Personal computers and their market like I didn’t get when I was 10, personal accessories and spirit trips but lazy outward pushing. If Richard Branson brings the heavens we should fill them
NASA’s Jupiter Probe Spies Volcanic Eruption on Io
Tags: NASA, Jupiter, Science, Space, Volcano

by Ryan Whitwam

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is on a mission to study Jupiter, but that’s not the only celestial object in range of its instruments. Jupiter has plenty of moons, and Juno can take a peek at those while it loops around the gas giant. On its most recent orbit of Jupiter, Juno spied something interesting on the moon Io: volcanic activity.

Juno launched in 2011 on a mission to study Jupiter’s atmosphere and internal structure, which it began upon reaching the gas giant in 2016. Juno is currently on a 53-day orbit of Jupiter. NASA initially intended to shorten that orbit considerably, but problems with the spacecraft’s engines made that too risky. One upshot of the longer orbit is that NASA gets more opportunity to observe other elements of the Jovian system like Io.

Scientists have known that Io is geologically active since 1979 when Voyager 1 passed by on its way out of the solar system. Io is slightly larger than Earth’s moon, but its internal heating is driven by tidal forces from Jupiter’s massive gravity. Over the years, it has become apparent just how active Io is — with more than 400 volcanos, Io is considered the most geologically active object in the solar system. So, it’s not unthinkable Juno would spy an eruption if it went looking.

During its 16th orbit of Jupiter (the halfway point of the mission), scientists turned Juno’s instruments to Io just as it began passing into the shadow of Jupiter. Four of Juno’s cameras spotted a bright flash across the terminator on the dark side of Io (see above) indicating a volcanic eruption.

Juno first spotted the eruption at 12:00 UTC on December 21st. The ground is already in shadow, but the bright spot indicates the volcanic cloud is tall enough to reflect sunlight. The above image came from the JunoCam in the visible range, reconstructed from red, blue, and green images. Below, you can see the eruption via the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM). The bright spot of the eruption indicates exceptionally high temperatures. While not the intended use case for JIRAM, the team was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked for observing the plume on Io.

NASA expects to wrap up Juno’s primary science mission in July 2021 when the probe will complete its map of Jupiter. Juno has already helped scientists understand Jupiter’s atmosphere and magnetic field. The second half of the mission could shed light on the planet’s zonal winds and internal structure.

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NASA promotes Its Next Space Mission With Ariana Grande Theme — womenzilla.com
Tags: Ariana Grande, USA, NASA, Artemis Mission, Women

The clip aims to promote the Artemis mission, which will take the first woman to the natural satellite in 2024.

NASA chose one of the topics, Ariana Grande, to promote his upcoming space mission. We refer to the Artemis mission, a job that seeks to send a woman to the Moon for the first time in 2024.

For this, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, for its acronym in English) chose the theme of Ariana, which carries the same name (NASA) and is part of his album “Thank U, Next”.

Through her Twitter account, the singer was quite excited to choose her single to promote this new space mission.

oh my. this is so pure and special and insane. hi everyone over there that is doing such incredible work ! thank u for taking the time to make this ! my heart is ….. bursting. 🌑🌫🖤 https://t.co/o48OzSSTcD - Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) September 9, 2019

From NASA, an official indicated that the objective of this campaign is to encourage interest in young people on issues related to upcoming space missions.

As for the song by Ariana Grande, it was rewritten using the musical base, but that was not all, because a kind of music video was also recorded.

In this, images of some space missions appear, in addition to NASA staff on the premises singing the original lyrics.

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NASA legacy code backup case-study
By: Adepto Usa
Tags: Managed It Services, NASA, Case Study, Legacy Code, Backup

Three key outcomes we can learn from

It shouldn’t be rocket science to do a backup and protect your systems. At least what we at Adepto think when it comes to IT infrastructure protection despite some critical cases that can happen.

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

How many complicated cases you have in your life when it comes to backup SunOS code from 1992, while the operations shouldn’t be interrupted? Also, you should make sure during the process the system is secure, maintainable, scalable, and data accessible to the global community.

Now imagine you work for NASA, and there’s a case to back up a legacy code for projects like Voyager 1 and 2 with a 40 years’ project history. I had the pleasure to hear a case study from Randi Levin (CIO of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) during the CIO’s Future of Cloud and Digital Infrastructure Summit. In a fascinating talk, Ms. Levin shared the specifics for such a legacy backup and how it was back up to new systems directly.

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

Three key outcomes that impress and what we can learn from NASA legacy code backup case-study are the following:

1. The IT culture relates to the whole culture of NASA.

Do things that nobody else does philosophy, gives a progressive explanation on how proactively to approach challenges. Culture itself can be a suitable tool to bring innovations.

2. Automation and cloud go hands-in-hands.

In the age of automation where the cloud is a synonym for IT modernization, automation is the next logical step. As the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CIO declared the idea of how to automate science and apply ML & AI to the science data.

3. Establish a high-skill-set community.

As Randi Levin shares, “We are growling out multi-cloud strategy skills”. Such a mindset helps companies to evaluate continuous technology development. Also, establish the right partnerships as the cloud evolves and make sure you are not behind the competitors.

From a technical perspective, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler and Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky can give you more details on how methods like refactoring and unit testing works.

Or you can book a call with an Agent from Adepto and learn more about Adepto Cyber Protect Guard BaaS and learn how to protect your legacy systems in the cloud.
NASA is on a new adventure again !
By: Md.Wasif Bin Hafiz
Tags: NASA, Space, Satellite Technology, Voyager, Planets

Neptune is glowing like a iceberg , NASA is decided to start a new adventure again.

Neptune

Neptune is the farthest planet from the solar system. And this time, NASA, the US space research center, wants to conduct all its experiments with the

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

satellite of this planet. The space agency is looking into whether Neptune’s satellite Triton has oceans and why ice is coming out of the ground. If all goes well, NASA will send a spacecraft to Titan in 2025.Neptune is the farthest from the sun in the solar system. Triton is a satellite of this planet. NASA sent a spacecraft 30 years ago to find out about the satellite.

Voyager II

The spacecraft Voyages 2 was able to capture 40 percent of the satellite’s image. Scientists have suggested that NASA conduct the ‘Trident’ mission again to get some more information. The spacecraft Voyages 2 was able to capture 40 percent of the satellite’s image. Scientists have proposed to NASA to conduct the ‘Trident’ mission again to get some more information.

Research of NASA

They have proposed research into what is on the surface of the entire satellite, whether there is an ocean, and why ice glowing is coming out of the ground. Any 2 out of 3 subjects will be approved for research next year. Then in October 2025, NASA will send a spacecraft to Triton. However, it will not reach Triton before 2038. Neptune is 270 million miles from Earth. So it will take at least 13 years to get information from the mission. The question of why it is glowing like an iceberg and coming out of the satellite has aroused the curiosity of the researchers. Because even though it is far away from the sun, the ionosphere of the satellite is 10 times more active than any other satellite in the solar system.

Opinion of Carl Mitchell

“Triton is very strange,” said Carl Mitchell, a scientist at the Trident Project. As we know, there are some elements on its surface that have never been found before. We want to know how the satellite is still active. If this mission is not carried out by 2040, the sun will move further north. In that case you have to wait 100 years.

Written by — Md. Wasif Bin Hafiz .