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4 Creative Ways to Stand out on Social Media
By: Nicole Arnott
Tags: Social Media, Photography, Blog, Make Money Online, Blogging

Looking to stand out on social media? It can feel like an uphill battle but don’t lose hope. Just follow these tactics and get on your way to being #instafamous!

Have a Story to Tell

Great storytelling can transform a social media account. Why have accounts like Humans of New York become so successful? They tell stories that tug at our heartstrings. When we go to their profile, we know what we’re getting and what to expect.

This account is a prime example of someone using their caption space wisely.

And you should try their tactic, too.

Rather than posting the same old photo of your cocktail with “it’s 5pm somewhere”, why not use that space to tell a story?

Just be careful, though. Too many self-indulgent diary essays can be boring for your reader. Make sure you give them value, too.

Whether that be by introducing somewhere new to them or giving them a fun tip, give them a reason to love your content!

And that leads us to our next tip…

Involve your Followers

Social Media should be just that- social. To make your content stand out, think of your profile as a community. Not just a place to showcase your selfies or holiday photos.

Ask questions to your audience, create a conversation, talk about the things you all love, teach them something they don’t know.

Your followers are the people who will help you make it to the top. Make sure they’re with you on your journey and show them your appreciation every step of the way.

Stick to a Theme

If your content has a theme, people will know what to expect when they visit your profile. And, most importantly, they’ll know why they love it, too. Whether it’s because you always use bright colors or take photos of amazing destinations, make sure you’re always consistent.

Switch up your Content

Are you the type of person who loves writing long-form blog posts? Why not get personal with a live q&a video? If your content is usually visual, why not share a curated blog post by your favorite blogger?

By doing this, you’ll keep your content, fresh, fun and exciting. Social media is always evolving so make sure you don’t get left behind.

We hope that these tips will help your content truly stand out on social media. Here at Foresting, we want to do everything we can to support content creators.

That’s why our app rewards bloggers for the content they create.

Learn more about Foresting on our website and follow along on Social Media to keep up to date with the most current Foresting news!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/foresting_io

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forestingHQ

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foresting.io/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/foresting/
7 Simple Ways to Wield Internal Data to Create a Better User Experience
By: Joe Wilson
Tags: Customer Experience, Sales, User Experience, Social Media, UX

Customer Service

I start with the frontline and work my way inward. They hear it straight from the customer all day long.

When I was the marketing director for three ecommerce websites years ago, I watched our website metrics, dashboards, and LivePerson customer service software like a hawk. We’ll talk about the software features a bit later in this article, but I loved hearing from our customer service agents as they were handling the live chat function and answering customer questions in real-time.

Most of the questions were around shopping policies, refunds, or guaranteed delivery, so we tested adding this type of content throughout the checkout process, which helped increase sales.
HotBit.Io Listed XDCE.
By: Xinfin Xdc Hybrid Blockchain Network
Tags: Listings, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Hotbit, Xinfin

HotBit.Io Listed XDCE.

XinFin’s XDCE is Paired with USDT, BTC, ETH at HotBit.Io Exchange on 11 December 2019.

With reference to the Announcement on HotBit, XinFin’s ERC20 token, XDCE is paired with USDT, BTC, ETH at HotBit Exchange on 11 December 2019. Recently, XinFin’s TradeFinex featured in the white paper of WTO and ICC.

Trading Pair XDCE:BTC : https://www.hotbit.io/exchange?symbol=XDCE_BTC

Trading Pair XDCE:ETH : https://www.hotbit.io/exchange?symbol=XDCE_ETH

Trading Pair XDCE:USDT : https://www.hotbit.io/exchange?symbol=XDCE_USDT

About HotBit

HotBit was founded in January 2018 and registered in both Hong Kong and Estonia, with its core team members from China, USA, and Taiwan, Hotbit is currently based in Shanghai and Taipei. Hotbit had listed 547 trading pairs in total. Currently, the Hotbit platform supports 6 languages (Chinese, English, Russian, Korean, Thai, Turkish) and has accumulated 540,000 registered users from more than 170 countries.

About XDCE

XinFin (XDCE) an enterprise-ready hybrid Blockchain technology company optimized for international trade and finance. The Xinfin network is powered by the native coin called XDC. The XDC protocol is architected to support smart contracts, KYC to masternodes (Validators Node). The XDC Chain (XinFin Digital Contract) uses XinFin Delegated Proof of Stake (XDPoS), with the goal of creating a ‘highly-scalable, secure, permissioned, and commercial grade’ blockchain network. Tradefinex.Org is a network for trade finance originators to distribute trade assets to alternative asset investors using decentralized and p2p financing technology. Recently, the World Trade Organisation and the International Chamber of Commerce white paper Publish XinFin’s TradeFinex.org is the “Network of Network” for trade finance. More detail at XinFin.org

We invite you to join the XinFin Community at:

Telegram: https://t.me/xinfin

Twitter: https://twitter.com/XinFin_Official

Subscribe to the XinFin Community Newsletter by clicking here. You will receive our newsletter direct to your inbox every month.

XinFin Hybrid Blockchain [XDCE] www.xinfin.org
The Crazy World of my Dreams boosts my Creativity
Tags: Illumination, Fiction Writing, Fiction, Dreams, Inspiration

The Crazy World of my Dreams boosts my Creativity

Photo by Lauren Kay on Unsplash

I dream a lot. Mostly there is a story line that involves me looking for something or someone. I am often late in my dreams, unable to find the bathroom, or the right clothes to wear, or trying to hurry someone who is taking their time.

Every dream I have is in wonderful colour. I don’t think that applies to everybody; certainly my husband says he can’t recall colours at all in his dreams.

The night before last, I dreamt the story line of this story I wrote. It seemed to last a lifetime and I got to know the characters really well. There might even be another chapter for later!

The Importance of Suzy, and How I Found Out | by Thewriteyard | ILLUMINATION | Dec, 2020 | Medium

The only thing I changed was the girl’s name. In my dream she was Gigi.

Suzy sounds better I think.
栽進區塊鏈的一個菜鳥，背景篇
By: Alvin Hung
Tags: Investment, Blockchain, Self Learning, 化讚為賞, Bitcoin

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies | Coursera

About this course: To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a…
The sunset and the bar
By: Dan Mccarthy
Tags: Nature, Uncertainty, Poems, Love, Desire

My reason for laying beside you and smelling like beer

When you finish reading this

I want you to be able to paint

The sky I saw when I walked out

To the garbage bin at dusk.

Look up past the spring buds

Blurring the kinky ends of the ginko

To the ribbon of sky, upended by

Dusk starting to draw in its shadow

Like a matron makes the bed of a child

Who is off to a new foster home,

The third; You know how to mix the paint

To make the colors so let me list

The way

The sky

Looks

A band of pink, a streak really,

Soft like the worn warm-up suit

The girl in Murphy’s wore,

Ground down to little nubbins

That hinted at the blue mixing in

On the pink. I caressed her

Shoulder — just a touch, really —

When she started to cough.

The beer was an empty flat amber

And the ashtray looked grey through

Its prism. Her shoulder was meaty.

For a moment I firmed my hand

Against the fleshy nob

Of her shoulder blade.

I closed my eyes hard

And saw the blue-black with

White specks that augurs

Misplaced desire. That is the night

Crawling into the sunset. Don’t forget

The little bits of orange

Like the cracked pieces of Crayola

That I ground into the carpet

When I got to our apartment too late

And climbed into bed next to you

Trying to capture the image of the sunset

While you measured your breath

And stiffened your body away from me

Like the old slab of marble

You keep by your easel. Somehow the paint

Is always fresh and easily bruised.

April 2010
Au Revoir, See You Again…
Tags: Newsletter

Au Revoir, See You Again…

Backdates, Updates and Everything in Between

Hello Hello!

It’s nostalgic to send out another newsletter for Self-ish, after almost a year. We halted scheduling in September to do some in-house maintenance, but we are back now, with a few changes.

This November, we clocked two years of the new self-ish. It came with plenty of celebration but was bittersweet as well.

Firstly, Ameaka shall be a taking a break from the publication for an indeterminate length of time (heartbreaking, we know!) 2020 has been crazy on all counts, and everyone needs a break, even superheroes. We shall miss her, but hopefully, you won’t have to.

You can always read her amazing pieces on Self-ish or her personal blog.

Glory Mafor shall be taking over as Chief-Editor in the meantime with a whole new team as well. Don’t you worry, our awesomeness just got better, we promise.

Expect another mail with more details about some of the changes that shall be made to the publication.

New writers, new style, same Self-ish.

Writing to me is love.

It’s my love letter to myself first, and then to the world. The first and maybe the only person my writing saves is me, but one is enough.

Ameaka, ‘Why I Write’

Lots of love!
Blockchain.io MVP is Now Live
By: Dominique Rodrigues
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Trading, Bitcoin

We are pleased to announce that our MVP is currently accessible to selected early investors! In addition, we are planning both live and video demonstrations for upcoming event roadshows.

For those unaware, an MVP is a Minimum Viable Product that allows early adopters to experience the initial offerings of a service or product.

Below includes preview images of our MVP with more features currently under development including advanced trading. We’re striving hard to make Blockchain.io’s trading experience one of a kind!

Wallet page
Auburn Feathered Maidens
By: Joe Váradi
Tags: Women, Culture, Children, Translation, Poetry

Auburn Feathered Maidens

Auburn feathered maidens, taking fancy flight

Spirit themselves moon-bound, by cover of night

Scurrying ‘til sundown, branches piled high

Cauldrons feed the flames that paint the evening sky

Neatly swept the courtyard, not a spot is missed

You won’t hear their heady cackles ’til the morning mist

The elder one rides bareback, on a plume of smoke

The younger one she’s trailing, barely by a stroke

Should have been more careful, from the very start

Auburn feathered maidens are bound to break your heart
Application update: Cryptology v 1.3
Tags: Ethereum, Bitcoin, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency Investment

Hi, Сryptologists!

We’re constantly improving our mobile application and let us tell you what the new release brings.

Cryptology v 1.3:

— There are already many tokens and even more coming. So we’ve made a special interface to support lots of wallets and still stay easy to use.

— You may see address info in the deposit and withdrawal transaction history now. And there is also a Block Explorer link to check if everything goes as planned.

— There is a brand new withdrawal address validation for cryptocurrencies for you not to lose any tokens by mistake.

— You may now find a FAQ link in the Settings section. Check it please from time to time. We try our best to tell everything you need to know about the use of our app.

— And we’ve also had a bunch of Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements.

New version is already available for download in Apple Store and Google Play.
Tips for handling filters and facets in ecommerce sites
Tags: Seo Tips, SEO

E-commerce websites or very large websites are facing issues that classic blogs or websites don’t know. Actually, organizing their internal structure is more complicated than just organizing your content in categories, funnels, articles, internal linking and avoiding duplicate content issues for instance. If you own millions of pages with some of them where the only difference is the colour, you cannot indexed and ranked them all well.

It is clearly impossible to make all these pages unique to avoid duplicate content if for example your have:

http://www.mywebsite.com/trousers/brand-blue-legging

http://www.mywebsite.com/trousers/brand-black-legging

http://www.mywebsite.com/trousers/brand-white-legging

http://www.mywebsite.com/trousers/brand-red-legging

Let’s face it. You are not going to make all of these pages unique in their content and ranked well, that is insane and quite impossible. So how to get as many pages as possible index and rank well without getting penalized by Google? Facets and filters are one of the solutions.

What is the difference between facets and filters?

Facets are followable by search engines, which means they are indexed, and are sidebar links. They reach other categories that contain content in relation with specific rankable keywords. They help the visitor to narrow, sort and find products more easily. As they are indexed, you must focus on creating unique content for each page.

Filters, on the other hand, are not indexable because they use AJAX or other tricks to hide from the spiders to avoid duplicate content penalties.

For instance, on a e-commerce site, you may want to index two different kind of bags but not the different features such as brands, colours or size. That is where you can implement facets that filter the different products but do not index them.

The website JohnDoherty gives the following example to illustrate facets and filters:

Are there alternative solutions?

It exists different options to not index your filters.
The People’s Currency
Tags: Bitcoin, Thought Leadership, Cryptocurrency

Written by: Danny Stagg, Creative Director at Paxful

When I told friends that I was entering the cryptocurrency world and joining Paxful as Creative Director, their skepticism was palpable.

And I get it.

The crypto community doesn’t always advertise itself in the best light, whether it’s the way it responded to JK Rowling’s recent questions or the Gordon Gekko-esque commentary to the volatility of the currency. But things are changing, and while there will always be a niche that holds the above values dear, the true future of bitcoin lies with how it was started — by people — and that’s what we’re focusing on at Paxful.

There’s a new world of finance.

While the Western world continuously ponders how they will ever replace the expensive, slow, legacy financial/banking systems — Africa and South America are racing ahead to find the answer. Without the legacy banks and tired financial systems in place, continents such as Africa and South America are able to jump light years ahead of their “developed” counterparts. This lack of legacy means the previously unbanked and underbanked now have an easier onramp to adopt new digital financial systems that are built for the modern world — step forward, bitcoin.

The most important company you’re not paying attention to (yet).

Since joining Paxful, I’ve experienced first-hand how true innovation is happening in places that most are unaware of. For those who don’t know about Paxful (we’ve been dubbed the most important company you’re not paying attention to), we’re the people-powered marketplace for money transfers with anyone, anywhere at any time. A peer-to-peer marketplace where you can trade bitcoin using pretty much any payment method imaginable. We have over 3 million users around the world and we’re not only helping people move money for less (and more quickly), we’re putting back into our communities with initiatives like #BuiltWithBitcoin where we’re planning to build 100 schools (we’ve already built three) and support communities that need our help the most. People are at the core of everything we do.

The People’s Currency.

Our job is really simple — get the world’s attention. To do this we need to remove the niche, clique cloak off of the world of bitcoin. This is the people’s currency. It’s for everyone. While tribalism runs throughout most walks of life, the beauty of bitcoin is that it’s for us all, and that’s what we’re trying to achieve at Paxful. We want to give people access to their money like they’ve never had before, creating a financial system that doesn’t discriminate based on who you are, or where you’re from.

Once the industry understands why people make it so special, we can then truly go “to the moon”.
Let FORESTING be your place…
Tags: Blockchain, Apps, Healing, News, Forest

by Lukasz Szmigiel

Gentle breeze, creating the single sound of rustling leaves. Whistling birds, flying from trees and disappearing in bushy grass. Squirrels, snapping nuts and jumping from one tree to another. Barely noticeable sunbeams streaming through the tree branches. Wild berries, decorating the forest with a variety of juicy colors.

Let FORESTING be your place of healing… Simple, calm and truly healing… Far from urban life and daily routine.

FORESTING is a lifestyle social media platform with so many different features that make it so much unique.

by Aarón Blanco Tejedor

A faint smell of moss and perennial trees is wrapping you in its freshness and blends all the senses. The sour taste of berries makes you wander through the forest in search of new berries.

The same happens on FORESTING platform. You will be craving for new Berry more and more.

Berry is FORESTING rewarding points.

Once you post content on FORESTING, you get as much Berry as people admire your content.

The mighty forest is a warm home to many creatures. It gives protection and safety and enjoys peace and freedom.

Let FORESTING be your place of serenity… Safe and tranquil. The place you will always be willing to come back!

Pre-registration is live now!

Get your first 10 Berry on https://service.foresting.io/en.php

FORESTING platform

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That Amazing Soccer Team
By: Liza Donnelly
Tags: Women, World Cup, Soccer, Equal Pay, Feminism

That Amazing Soccer Team

The women of Team USA stand for strength, commitment and equal pay

I’m not one to swear often. When the team caption Megan Rapinoe said when asked if she was going to the White House if the team was invited. In her response, she used the f-word.

So I decided to put it in this drawing, because it is a word that adds emphasis. Here is an expanation of the breakdown of the pay inequity in soccer. We have learned that the women players do indeed earn less money than the men, and that the factors are various. But it can be agreed that one of the factors is old fashioned, the notion that people don’t watch women’s sports. They do. As we just saw with this team. It’s time to make the pay equal for men and women in sports.
B21 Monthly Update November 2020
By: Shivank Mishra
Tags: B21 Invest, Cryptocurrency News, Cryptocurrency Investment, Time For Crypto

What have we been busy with?

Things have been pretty heated up at B21. While the tech team works on product updates, the marketing engine is also in full gear! Some of the very exciting updates that happened -

Revamping our logo — To kick things up at B21, we started with revamping our logo. The new B21 logo has quickly gathered a lot of attention and love from the community! Release of B21 V2.0 — The registration flow of B21 Invest has been revamped completely to comply with global KYC standards and also keeping in mind a simplistic user experience. Announcing B21 Bishops — We are very excited to launch the B21 ambassador program — “B21 Bishops”

The primary objective of B21 Bishops will be to educate people about crypto assets as an investment option along with spreading the word about B21 Invest. More details can be found in the blog: https://medium.com/b21official/announcing-b21-bishops-program-fa13f50b8627 Invest using Credit/Debit Card — We understand that taking this feature down for some time was a problem for many of you. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it might have caused. But today, we are very excited to announce that purchase of cryptos using credit and debit cards has been enabled again on the B21 platform. This time, with improvements and even better service! B21 International card — Now withdraw and spend your assets directly using your B21 card available in 3 types. Check the B21.app for more information!

Marketing

Live AMA Sessions with Social Media Dissect — Our Founder, Nitin Agarwal attended a live AMA session hosted by Aleena Gandhi, Founder, and CEO of Social Media Dissect on October 2nd.

https://medium.com/b21official/heres-the-recap-of-the-live-session-with-the-social-media-dissect-team-on-october-2nd-e581d6f07fa8 Collaboration with Hustleshare Podcast — To spread awareness about crypto assets, we have collaborated with a leading podcast from the Philippines, Hustleshare.

Catch B21 Co-founder, Nitin Agarwal in an exclusive interview this December where he talks about how leading institutions are investing in crypto assets.

What’s next?

Never stop Building!

This month we have some very exciting announcements, so Stay Tuned!

Exchange Listing — As promised to the community, B21 Token will now be finally available to trade on a major exchange. We will announce the listing very soon, so keep an eye out on our social media channels!! Staking — B21 Users will now benefit from holding cryptos on their B21 wallet. Along with the returns on your asset price, you will also receive interest on your holdings. B21 DeFi Invest — Decentralised Finance is an area promising good returns. We are working to simplify this and present it.

We absolutely love all the feedback you have mailed us. We hope you continue to enjoy using the B21 app. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Stay Healthy, Keep investing!

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You didn’t know you need this
By: Jan Schultink
Tags: Presentation, Sales Presentation, PowerPoint, Keynote, Presentation Design

If you pitch your product as a direct alternative to something else, the purchasing manager might say that it is a nice solution, but we already spent our budget on something that is acceptable. Often, it is better to convince the buyer that this is a new market, a new product, that has no substitutes yet. An opportunity for startups that are out there to change the world.
Creating a Switch
By: Lauren Busser
Tags: Creative Coding, Arduino, Intro To Electronics, Grad School Projects

Welcome to my first foray into the world of electronics. My first, task was to make a switch.

Earlier this week, I successfully lit up an LED using one of the switches provided in the NYU IDM Arduino kit, but now the challenge is to think of alternative interfaces and conductive materials.

My mind immediately went to the idea of pressure activation. I started thinking about all the ways in which something can be stepped on or pressed to create a reaction. I drew some inspiration from things like a sewing machine pedal and a morse code interface.

My original idea was to construct a device that when pressed together would cause conductive material to meet and light up an LED. For scale purposes, I envisioned this as a coaster.
#SDGs4Universities 2019 Impact Report
By: Iccdi Africa
Tags: Women, Sdgs, Climate Change, Nigeria, University

A leading youth voice on Climate Change which seeks to build a climate-smart generation across Africa while identifying key development issues affecting population across Africa especially in Nigeria through creative dialogues and innovations.

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Algory: Cryptonews and Cryptoscanner — development stage
By: Tomasz Przybycien
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Trading, Bitcoin

We have also decided to add another developer to the team, and as a result we will increase the efficiency of work on the development of tools. At the same time, it will help us to provide additional functions.

The start of Cryptonews is planned for the end of the second quarter of 2018, and soon after it the Cryptoscanner function will also be launched.

Algory Demo

There is currently a demo version available for the “Cryptonews” news system and the cryptocurrency market scanner “Cryptoscanner”. The data that is processed in the demo version works in real time and is possible to be used in a practical way when investing in the cryptocurrency market.

Check our demo version: https://demo.algory.io

Join our community

We invite you to join our community at:

1. Twitter

2. Telegram

3. Facebook

Here, we publish alerts from our demo, which we use very effectively to support trading decisions.

Best

Algory Team

http://algory.io
ICON tools — LICX Update #8 Beta Mainnet Release
By: Jasa Srot
Tags: Defi, Licx, Icon Foundation, Block42

LICX development is finished. We are releasing a mainnet version with a cap that will be slowly increased to ensure everything is running fine. We are also in process of getting an audit and are doing extensions to make LICX useable in more ways.

!BETA VERSION IS UNAUDITED!

Summary

The first version of LICX is live on the mainnet with a cap of a maximum of 1,000 LICX to be minted. We will monitor the smart contract and increase the maximum cap accordingly. This is a preliminary security measure as the smart contract deployed is unaudited by a third party, we are in process of getting an audit for the smart contract. ICON foundation has done the audit for any critical errors of the

The current version has no governance options available if you are staking through LICX protocol all of the ICX will be delegated towards block42 P-rep.

Interacting with the smart contract

The most reliable way to interact with the smart contract is through licx.finance webpage. We have done a lot of testing on the smart contract and are sure that the contract works properly but since this is still unaudited by a third-party version of the smart contract please use it with caution and do not deploy any funds you aren’t willing to risk into it.

The smart contract

Users can deposit ICX into the smart contract and get LICX in return in a ratio of 1:1. The LICX in the first two terms (two days) is still locked, untransferable, and ineligible to receive the rewards. Wallets with under 10 LICX are also ineligible for rewards to prevent any dust attacks. The smart contract reward distribution is triggered automatically by block42 for the time being, we also cover all the transaction fees that occur.

Converting LICX to ICX requires the user to wait through the unstaking period which is determined by the ICON network based on the % of the ICX staked. After the unstaking period, the user will have to manually claim the unlocked ICX. There is no minimum amount to enter or exit the LICX pool.

If you are interested in the code here is the link to our GitHub repository: https://github.com/block42-blockchain-company/liquid-icx

!BETA VERSION IS UNAUDITED!
Highest Trader Kaun: BNB/INR
By: Wazirx Bitcoin Exchange
Tags: Blockchain, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Bnb, Cryptocurrency Investment

Namaste Tribe! BNB is now trading in our INR market. We’re giving away ₹1,00,000 worth BNB on Highest Trader Kaun starting tomorrow 9 AM IST.

Total bounty worth ₹1,00,000 worth BNB! Share this

How can I participate and win?

Winners will be decided on the basis of the volume and number of BNB traded in our INR market. Here’s how to qualify:

For volume of trades: Minimum trade volume of ₹5,000 worth of BNB

of trades: Minimum trade volume of ₹5,000 worth of BNB For number of trades: Minimum 50 trades

When is the contest?

Wednesday, 20th May: 9 AM — 9 PM IST

Click here to invite your friends to participate!

What’s the bounty 💰

For volume of trades:

For the highest volume of trades: 19.569 BNB (worth ₹25,000)

volume of trades: 19.569 BNB (worth ₹25,000) For the 2nd highest volume of trades: 12.524 BNB (worth ₹16,000)

volume of trades: 12.524 BNB (worth ₹16,000) For the 3rd highest volume of trades: 9.393 BNB (worth ₹12,000)

volume of trades: 9.393 BNB (worth ₹12,000) For each of the next top 17 highest volume of trades: 0.782 BNB (worth ₹1,000)

Total bounty for volume of trades is ₹70,000 worth BNB

For the number of trades:

For the highest number of trades: 7.044 BNB (worth ₹9,000)

number of trades: 7.044 BNB (worth ₹9,000) For the 2nd highest number of trades: 3.913 BNB (worth ₹5,000)

number of trades: 3.913 BNB (worth ₹5,000) For the 3rd highest number of trades: 1.878 BNB (worth ₹2,400)

number of trades: 1.878 BNB (worth ₹2,400) For each of the next top 17 highest number of trades: 0.626 BNB (worth ₹800)

Total bounty for number of trades is ₹30,000 worth BNB

Note: You can qualify for only one category of bounty (volume or number) whichever has a higher value. For example, if you’re the 2nd highest trader in terms of number, and 2nd highest in terms of volume, then you’ll get bounty for the “volume”. Also, self-trading is not allowed.

Take advantage of the contest leaderboard, trade smartly and win!

Calling all you BNB traders. Both volume as well as number of trades matter, so bring on your A-game! 🚀
Simplifying Factorials: The Easy Way
By: Brett Berry
Tags: Math, Statistics, Mathematics, Combinatorics, Algebra

You find factorials all over combinatorics because that’s where they originated. The factorial was created as a way to express the number of arrangements of a group of items, which of course we find by using, in its most basic form, the multiplication rule of counting.

The factorial is sort of the unofficial operation of the multiplication rule of counting.

Why Zero Factorial Equals 1

This is where it gets tricky because if we only think of factorials in the context of which they’re usually defined, i.e. the “product of all the positive integers less than or equal to the number” then figuring out 0! is like hitting a brick wall.

Most people will tell you that 0! is defined as 1, and if you ask why they just say “because it’s defined as one”.

Yeah, it’s pretty frustrating. It’s the mathematical equivalent to asking your parents why you have to follow some arbitrary rule they made up and being told, “because I said so.”

Although that might be an accepted parenting technique, it’s a lousy way to learn mathematics. So what’s the deal? How did we decide that zero factorial equals one?

Zero factorial defined

An Intuitive Understanding

Remember how we said that the factorial originated from the mathematical operation of finding the number of permutations or arrangements of a set? (Note: not the permutations of a smaller set from a larger set, but just the arrangements of a given set.)

Zero factorial can be thought of as the number of arrangements of zero elements in a set, aka the empty set {}. (If you’ve ever studied sets, perhaps in basic statistics or discrete mathematics, you’re probably familiar with the concept of empty set. It’s literally the set of nothing.)

Now if I asked you how many arrangements there are of one thing you’d answer 1 because there is only one way to arrange one thing. The same idea follows here. Our “one thing” is the empty set, and the number of arrangements of the empty set is one. That’s it. That’s why 0! equals 1.

How to Simplify Factorial Expressions

Now that we have the basics behind us it’s time for the heart of our factorial tutorial: simplifying.

The best way to see mathematics is in action. So here I am to walk you through the six problems shown in the image at the top of this post! We’ll start nice and easy, then move into the combinations formula with numbers then variables, and end with some trickier factorial expressions.

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Medford Town Council makes some alterations to the honoring of Dr. James Still
Tags: Headlines, Medford Town Council, Families

Medford Town Council makes some alterations to the honoring of Dr. James Still Admin Follow Jan 25, 2016 · 3 min read

Toward the end of 2015, the Medford Town Council was approached by the Still family and members of the Medford Historical Society with a request that they consider naming something in town after Dr. James Still to demonstrate the significance of his contributions to Medford.

It was brought up at several council meetings as a discussion item and was agreed on that they would be renaming Cranberry Hall after it was suggested by Mayor Jeffrey Beenstock.

However, weeks later, Beenstock and Deputy Mayor Charles Watson were approached by the leadership of the senior center who raised some concerns on behalf of their seniors.

Watson met with the Still family to voice those concerns and also discussed some alternatives for the renaming. According to Beenstock, the family was supportive of the renaming of Cranberry Park instead of Cranberry Hall. In fact, the family preferred the township rename the park that is located right next to the hall.

Councilman Christopher Buoni agreed to go with their preferences after he deemed the goal of this project to acknowledge and recognize one of the unique and great Medford residents any way they could.

“Dr. Still is obviously someone who stands tall in history. It’s my pleasure to honor his family and also the family today as they continue to carry on that legacy from generation to generation,” he said.

Janet Jackson Gould, the coordinator of the Dr. Still Oversight Committee and the vice president of programs for the historical society, confirmed her group was delighted to hear council was looking at renaming Cranberry Park in honor of Still. Gould also assured the seniors they did not wish to steal Cranberry Hall from them because they think it is an appropriate name for that building.

Gould found the park to be especially appropriate after the garden club planted a butterfly garden there this past summer, since Dr. Still was an herbalist.

Gould also broke some good news to council when she announced the Still Center has been declared one of the 10 most endangered historic sites in 2016 by Preservation New Jersey.

This will help the deteriorating building get more PR and technical assistance.

“It will definitely boost our fundraising,” Gould said.

Laura Klein from the senior center also thanked council for how it handled this situation by taking the seniors’ interests into consideration when making the final decision.

“With all the families that come to the park, a lot of people will hear Dr. Still’s name and learn a lot about him, and that might not have happened if Cranberry Hall’s name had changed,” Klein said.

Township manager Kathy Berger plans to coordinate with the Still family and the historical society to get the wheels rolling on the adoption of an ordinance that would indicate a day in the spring for the dedication.
Three Poems of Fertile Darkness
By: Stephen Podry
Tags: Grief Support, Grief, Love, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

Silent Knowledge

The soul, let’s say,

is that part of us who knows

we will die…

Duende!

How strange and sweet to acknowledge

such a darkness –

My ghost already here,

my heart beating just as lively

as your own.

*

The New Flesh

The soul is a stone.

When a body dies

the soul goes hurtling through space.

The eyes are stone.

When a body dies

the eyes drift down brightly,

but the lake has no bottom.

When we die

our breath turns into feathers

falling in someone’s dream.

The dream is our own

sprung loose from flesh.

The dream keeps happening

without us,

within us,

within the New Flesh.

*

The Achievement of Love

The achievement of love comes in moments.

It is not accomplished once and for all,

forever!

Has the universe reached its destination?

If one soul has grief,

then two souls also have grief.

It is never the end.

The crow flies, and flies, and flies…

*
Building a low-code platform with Neo4j (3/4) — Frames and Views
By: Stefan Dreverman
Tags: Low Code, Symfony, Neo4j, Software Development, Software Architecture

Part 3/4 of this series on how to start creating a low-code platform explains the design and the functionality to create pages. It is the UI-‘engine’ of the platform that lets (low-code) developers and end-users actually use the platform.

Requirements

Flexibility is on top of the list. Let’s make that more tangible. Two of the main aspects to achieve that are:

Display any kind of data in any way — Genericity is paramount. Any specifics should be left out here, because that would render the low-code bit useless. So, the pages should be able to display any kind of data in any way. Since we already have twig, half the work is done. The other half is to make these twig templates consume that data in a sensible way.

Inline data loading /actions— Behavior is also needed: Something needs to happen when the user clicks things. Usually more/different data is loaded or executing actions. (We’ll leave the actions for a different time :-).

Meta model for Screens

A lot of directions can be taken here. This one is far from finished, but gets the point across well. It shows what can be done with a few basic concepts:

Meta model for Screens

In Symfony, a page that is loaded via an URL can be a normal html or symfony/twig type of page. In the PoC, I’ve added the concept of Frames (the ../Frame/.. and ../FrameN/..-routes) . The following is done when using Frames:

The Frame and its startView are loaded, rendered and sent to the browser.

The browser might execute an onLoad, where it might trigger other views to be loaded (by way of ajax-call).

Once fully loaded, the user can click something that triggers another View/Frame to be loaded. (For every View the context (metaType) needs to be given, so the back-end knows what what parameters to pass to the view-queries.)

Since the PoC uses the capabilities of the Screens meta model, having twig is very useful. Its versatility helps in quickly creating Frames and Views. Using its inclusion methods, these parts can be sliced into any granularity.

Every View has a Query attached to it. This is where the data in the View comes from. And if this weren’t a PoC, it would not be the raw Neo4j query. To create a query, I imagine you clicking through your meta model and selecting Nodes, Relations and Attributes you want to display and selecting how you want to display them.

How does it look?

Everything in the PoC are Frames and Views. The the list pages from the databrowser itself (mentioned in part 2) are composed of Frames and Views. Since it’s all built on html/twig, it can look like anything you want. For those who haven’t tried, the PoC looks like this:
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The Moral Case for Beauty
By: Ryan Frawley
Tags: Aesthetics, Life Lessons, History, Art, Philosophy

I Chase Beauty

I always have. Pens work like plane tickets in a pandemic. You don’t need to go anywhere. The tumbled hills a stubborn mole raises on my lawn are temples to beauty. Every bird sings the same song.

“You always end up living in beautiful places,” a friend told me the first time he visited the mountain valley I currently call home. He’s right. It’s not an accident.

Except beauty doesn’t exist.

At least, not according to David Hume. In his 1757 work, “Of the Standard of Taste”, Hume argued:

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

In other, more cliched words, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One person’s masterpiece is another person’s overrated garbage. And this is something we’ve all experienced. Most of us agree that tropical beaches are beautiful, but we differ on the aesthetic merits of Justin Bieber’s latest work.

The subjective nature of beauty is also dealt with in the work of 20th century philosopher AJ Ayer, who wrote:

There is no sense attributing objective validity to aesthetic judgments, and no possibility of arguing about questions of value in aesthetics.

Spiders find other spiders sexy. A sunset is nothing but a trick of the light. What’s enthralling about beauty, what makes it worth devoting a lifetime to its pursuit, is our reaction to it. The wild ecstatic fever that burns out the poison. The deep chord that can never be unstruck.

Once, mountains and weather were the province of gods. The deep mysteries that made the world holy. Now, we know why snow falls. We know how mountains are born. Up on the peaks, grizzly bears dream of summer berries under roofs of snow, but we know where to find them.

Soon, we’ll track time itself back to some primordial lair, and bumblebees will fall like rain, finally convinced, along with us dreary adults, that they can’t fly.

There’s a formula for beauty. The Golden Ratio. The Fibonacci spiral. Math, not poetry, is the language the universe speaks. I could be bounded in a spreadsheet and count myself a king of infinite space were it not that I have bad dreams.

If we dreamed the same, we wouldn’t be different people. Yet it’s in our dreams, not our geometry, that we touch each other most closely. You live inside my dream of you like I live in your dream of me. Both of us living in the winter dreams of mountains and bears.
Escape doubt - start acting today
By: Leander Caspar
Tags: Philosophy, Stoicism, Awareness, Personal Development, Thoughts

Escape doubt — Start today

Doubt — A brief insight

Tomorrow

In the evening, full of mental energy, you are planning the next day.

Telling yourself: “Tomorrow I’ll finally do it.”

The following morning you know what to do, but you still avoid it.

It is always the same procedure.

Why does it seem like the right moment to act is not now, but always later?

Why is it that the chosen moment, as soon as it arrives, is again the wrong one?

Why is tomorrow always better than today?

You always make it dependent on external circumstances and conditions that will never occur as imagined. You make excuses to avoid doing the right thing.

Inside you always know what to do. But there’s something holding you back. Too often tomorrow becomes never.

Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash

Doubt

A seed of doubt is sown. It is nurtured by the attention you pay to it. It thrives and grows quickly into a small plant. And deeper and deeper this plant called doubt takes its roots. With each time of paying attention, it grows stronger and becomes more deeply rooted.

The side of you that knows that these doubts are unfounded becomes quieter. The resistance falls until the thoughts have overgrown. Then we let it be, we surrender to our worries and give up.

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

In moments of inspiration and motivation, the jungle of doubts will clear up. A path reveals itself. We fight our way through the thicket and make progress again. At least for some time.

Slowly the thicket becomes thicker again, we pay attention to the doubts and the motivation ebbs away.

We stop again.

Photo by Evie S. on Unsplash

Today

Do not even allow the seed of doubt to flourish. Ignore it.

As soon as you pay attention, doubt robs you of your energy.

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe” -Mark Twain.

The most important decision we can make to counteract doubt is to decide. Doubt is nurtured by our thoughts. If we spend a lot of time determining whether a decision should be made, then doubt has many more places to start.

Do it today and achieve more than you ever thought of being possible.
Why a Romantic Artist Turned Pessimistic and Painted Eerily Disturbing Artworks
By: Kamna Kabir
Tags: Painting, Art, Artwork, History, Culture

Why did Goya paint disturbing images?

The Black Paintings were a series of fourteen paintings painted by Goya between 1819 and 1823. These paintings were intense and glorified demonic figures.

Flashback to Goya’s childhood, who lived in the city of Zaragoza, Spain with a middle-class background. At the age of 14, he worked under the Spanish painter José Luzán in Italy. Later, he moved to Madrid and became a court painter to the Spanish Crown.

Goya earned commissions from the highest Spanish nobility and his early career was marked with portraits of his circle of patrons to tapestry cartoons. He painted a series of tapestry cartoons illustrating dramatic landscapes and bright shades of colors with music and dance for Charles III of Spain and Charles IV of Spain. Many of his grand paintings are sheltered in the Prado Museum.

Dance on the banks of the Manzanares is a tapestry painted by Goya in 1776 for the dining room of the Prince of Asturias.

Dance on the banks of the Manzanares by Goya in 1776

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In 1793, he was diagnosed with a severe illness that left him deaf and it immensely impacted his later artworks. Moreover, the political turmoil and Napolean invading Spain and leading to bloodshed aggravated his line of thoughts, and that was reflected on his canvas.

Goya witnessed first-hand the French occupation of Spain in 1808 and painted The Second of May 1808 that represented the widespread rebellion of the common people and sparked the Peninsular war.

The Second of May 1808

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From this artwork until his death, he painted a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, satanic figures, religious and political corruption.

Yard with Lunatics is one such painting where he portrayed two demented caught up in a brawl with their warden for beating them.

Yard with Lunatics in 1994

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In 1819, at the age of 72, he moved to a country house called Quinta del Sordo (Deaf Man’s Villa). Although the house was named after the previous owner, who was deaf, Goya was nearly deaf when he moved into this house.

It is believed that his solitude, physical illness, fear, and hysteria gave rise to the creation of Black Paintings. These paintings were never intended to leave his villa and get exhibited in public. But nearly 50 years after his death, the murals were taken down the walls, attached to the canvas by restorer Salvador Martínez Cubells, and displayed in the Prado Museum.