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Voice Life Charges into the Future with Verge Currency (XVG) and VergePAY
By: Swizzlesticks - Lloyd
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Vergecurrency, CES, Voice Life

The Next Generation Blockchain System and Application Platform

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., December 22, 2020 PRNewswire/ — Voice Life and Verge Currency announce a strategic alliance combining both specialized technologies to create a new all-in-one payment system based upon Voice Life’s Far Field Wireless Power Charging System (FFWCS). This strategic alliance with Verge combines Voice Life’s (FFWCS) smart phone capabilities with VergePAY to design a blockchain based system utilizing Verge Currency (XVG) for daily use activities.

Voice Life and Verge Representatives are proud to unveil their application and system on January 11, 2021 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the largest technology show in the world.

Robert Smith Founder, President/CEO Voice Life: “The holy grail of blockchain technology” is going to be a real time application that extends its utility beyond just improving financial transactions. We believe we are developing that application with Verge.

Justin Vendetta Founder, Senior Software Engineer Verge Currency: Evolving users one step closer to a key element of the Verge vision is a system based on blockchain technology that bridges the gap between cryptocurrency and local currencies enabling a revolutionary new use with an all-in-one payment system. With the partnership of Verge technology and Voice Life we have achieved our vision of creating in a single system a practical use case and payment process.

This strategic alliance with Voice Life bridges the gap between cryptocurrency and local currencies enabling a new far reaching all in one payment system. Therefore, we chose to collaborate on this unique and special opportunity.

Voice Life Inc.

Voice Life Inc. was founded on March 12, 2015 as a technology company focused on the development, integration and application of delivering a fast-wireless charging solution to mobile devices. The developer of ground-breaking leading-edge technology based upon a terahertz-based scalable network designed for far field wireless charging, is creating the next advancement in the capability to charge, maintain use and availability of smart phones and other electric-based products and devices.

Verge Currency

Verge Currency (XVG) is a decentralized digital currency pushed forward by a team of volunteers, through the use of VergePay; built from the foundation of Bitcoin, Verge promotes ease-of-use, speed and community ownership. In 5-years it has grown to be a global currency which can be used borderlessly.

Contact Voice Life:

Public Releations Mike Smith

(888) 502–2338

PR@voice-life.com

Related Links http://www.voice-life.com

Contact Verge Currency

Public Relations Mark Wittenberg

mark@vergecurrency.com

Related Link: http://www.vergecurrency.com
#BigParentingIdea — ‘I Know You Better Than You Know Yourself’ Is One Of The Dumbest Clichés Ever
By: Lukasz Laniecki
Tags: Parents, Parenting, Life, Family, Children

Last scene from the movie The Truman Show:

CHRISTOF: You can leave if you want. I won’t try to stop you. But you won’t survive out there. You don’t know what to do, where to go.

A wave of doubt washes over Truman’s face.

TRUMAN (referring to the photo of his love Silvia, the only real thing in his life whom Christof removed from the show crew): I have a map.

CHRISTOF: Truman, I’ve watched you your whole life. I saw you take your first step, your first word, your first kiss. I know you better than you know yourself. You’re not going to walk out that door.

TRUMAN: You never had a camera in my head.

By walking out that door Truman proved to Christof that he was wrong. That he only assumed (based on what he believed to be true) that he knew Truman better than Truman knew himself. In reality he didn’t know him better.

Watching someone grow up for so many years, seeing that first step, hearing that first word, is not tantamount to knowing this person better than he / she knows himself / herself.

A parent will never be able to know his / her child better than he / she is able to know himself / herself. It’s impossible.

Stop repeating those dumb clichés! You never had a camera in his / her head.
Imagine a world without Twitter.
Tags: Computers, Twitter, Friendship, Comic, Social Media

Imagine a world without Twitter.

You’d like your friends again.

This is where I “ironically” tell you to follow me on the tweet zone.

https://twitter.com/rstevens

https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/999/
Prisoners’ Letters With Hidden Messages Written in Urine
By: Jhemmylrut Teng
Tags: Culture, Feminism, History, World, Racism

Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp

Ravensbrück was the Nazis’ concentration camp exclusive for women from 1939 to 1945, and it was located near Berlin, Germany. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, most of the women internees in this camp were Polish and were jailed as political prisoners.

In 1942, the German SS (Schutzstaffel) opened brothels in some concentration camps. They exploited female prisoners from Ravensbrück camp to become sex workers for male inmates. The forced prostitution served as a reward for male prisoners whenever they finished or exceeded their production quota.

Some women were compelled to become sex slaves, while others “volunteered” after the camp authorities promised them preferential treatment or release from the concentration camp after six months. None of the women were released as promised.

Women prisoners as a specimen

In 1942, under the supervision of Karl Gebhardt, the personal doctor to SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Nazi doctors began dragging inmates into their laboratories to conduct sick medical experiments, calling their victims “rabbits.”

These tests included treating wounds with various chemical substances to prevent infections. They also tested multiple methods of setting and transplanting bones, such experiments included amputations.

There were eighty women subjected to the Nazis’ physicians’ horrific experiments, mostly Polish inmates. Many of them died in the process, but those who survived suffered permanent physical and mental damages. However, at that time, such inhumane practices were unknown and contained to the walls of Ravensbrück.

In the midst of the unethical medical examinations in Ravensbrück, four Polish women were determined to expose the camp's abusive practices to female prisoners.

Portrait of Krystyna Czyz | Image credit: HAARETZ

They were Krystyna Czyz, Wanda Wijtasik, Janina Iwaska and her sister Krystyna Iwaska.

At that time, due to the physical disabilities they suffered during the tests, escaping the camp was impossible. Therefore, they decided to report on the experiments to the Polish resistance, believing it would soon reach the Polish government in exile, the International Red Cross, and foreign governments.

However, the problem was, how to make that feasible? How could they make their reports reach the outside of the camp?

Back then, the inmates’ only communication method with the outside world was through a letter each inmate was allowed to write to her family once a month. However, everything should be written in German. Besides this, the letter’s contents should be limited to a report on their “supposedly good condition” because each letter was subjected to SS censorship.

Anyone who differed from the stringent rules risked death.
Tuna sells for $1.8 million at Tokyo auction
By: The Millennial Source
Tags: News, Japan, Tuna, Government, World

Tuna sells for $1.8 million at Tokyo auction

This appeared in The Millennial Source

A bluefin tuna has sold for $1.8 million in the first auction of the new year at Tokyo’s Toyosu Fish Market, marking the second-highest price ever to be paid in a fish auction. The tuna weighed 276 kg (608 lb) and was caught off the northern Aomori Prefecture.

According to state broadcaster, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), the successful bidder was Kiyoshi Kimura, head of Sushizanmai — a sushi restaurant chain. Kimura was dubbed “ The Tuna King” after he paid a record $3.14 million to become the successful bidder for a 278 kg (612 lb) tuna in 2018.

The Tuna King is no stranger to media attention for paying exorbitant amounts of money for fish. “Yes, this is expensive, isn’t it? I want our customers to eat very tasty ones this year too,” he told reporters at the auction.

Why bluefin tuna is so expensive

Due to a high demand in Japan, the bluefin tuna fetches the highest prices at market auctions. It is the largest and most fatty tuna fish and it is a favorite at Japanese sushi restaurants.

As of 2015, a large bluefin has been going for $50,000 to $70,000 in Japan, meaning most American markets cannot compete. As Japanese demand increases, fewer bluefin reach breeding age, significantly reducing populations through overfishing — likely skyrocketing prices again.

Extinction concerns

All three species of bluefin tuna are currently overfished and over the last few years, attempts to protect the bluefin tuna have been prevented by fishing interest groups in Japan, New Zealand the US, as well as some Mediterranean countries. The three species of bluefin are the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern, with the Atlantic being the largest and most endangered.

Most catches of Atlantic bluefin tuna are taken from the Mediterranean Sea, which is the main bluefin tuna fishery in the world.

To improve breeding stock and keep a steady supply of bluefin, aquaculturists are working to establish sea farms where schools of tuna are raised in the open ocean and then herded to market.

This practice is seen as a sustainable sushi movement. However, it is a seemingly difficult task as bluefin is a delicate species and not fit for farming. It took the research team at Japan’s Kinki (Kindai) University 32 years to successfully establish a fully-closed life-cycle farming program for bluefin tuna.
Assessing Credit Risk with Tableau
By: Jess Minton
Tags: Tableau, Financial Services, Credit Risk, Pandemic Response, Data Visualization

With everything from independent restaurants to large retailers closed, some individuals and businesses alike will not be able to pay their loans or rent in the coming months. This is just one indicator of how the U.S. economy is shifting under the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the country responds, lending providers and governments are altering policies that will impact borrowers and accommodate changes (and stalls) in cash flows.

The challenge to financial institutions is to anticipate market forces and work rapidly to limit risk exposure before it impacts the bottom line. How much exposure do I have across my portfolio? Which businesses are impacted more than others? How are closures in key locations influencing credit? What long-term lending scenarios are on the horizon? Which of my small business lendees are trending towards delinquency?

One of our Financial Services clients knows that speed of response is vital: every minute without insights to course correct translates to lost capital. Their analysts and fund managers need to identify critical trends and insights that reveal how new borrowing behavior and policies will impact their credit risks — and they do not have time to wait for another report from IT.

But the challenges are daunting. Externally, policy surrounding the pandemic has proven to be extremely dynamic and shifts dramatically by location. Internally, many existing risk models lack the flexibility or granularity to pivot as quickly as the terms of the crisis demand. When the situation began to unfold, Tableau provided a platform to help them understand their data.

Executive Overviews allow leadership across the firm to make decisions based on the same foundational information.

A suite of real-time Tableau dashboards allows risk management at the speed of sight, enabling them to shift strategy and anticipate economic impacts of the situation as it unfolds. With features like alerting and automated emails, executives can see insights directly in their inboxes. Importantly, the business is able to craft strategy using the same foundational data.

Portfolio Managers can use interactive functionality to easily see data at the level of detail they need — for example, country to state, or portfolio to assets — and focus on the details that create a clear picture of risks. The agility of this type of analysis not only enables them to make data-driven decisions, but also reduces time-intensive ad hoc research that otherwise would be submitted to a reporting backlog.

Importantly, their response allows them to communicate more effectively with concerned investors and partners. Using Tableau has already given them a clear line of sight on how the pandemic will affect their business, and enabled them to pivot their strategy accordingly.

Do you want to mitigate risks with better data insights? Let’s talk.
Mirage
By: Abhimanyu Kapoor
Tags: Happiness, Life, Race, Poetry, Mirage

Mirage

In pursuit of happiness

Photo by paolo candelo on Unsplash

Groups of people were running races;

among billions of many other faces,

who in this race were securing different places.

The ten-thousandth person from the first position;

thought that he could have worked harder if he had the vision,

to achieve his life’s ultimate mission.

The same was in the fifth thousand person’s mind;

wanting to come a few thousand ranks ahead, had made him blind,

to the happiness that he had left behind.

The second person wanted to be the best;

and the best wanted to win by a greater margin from the rest;

all wanting things that they did not get,

causing them on their deathbeds, great regret.

And when they looked as souls below,

on the race that continually seemed to grow;

they realised what they had ever got,

from gaining ranks for which they had fought;

that was ultimately left behind on Earth,

but had made them forget how to live a content life from birth.
Pomp & Circumstance
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Motherhood, Humor, Comics, Graduation, Cartoon

Lisa’s son Zane graduated high school on Friday. Despite the storm of emotions it was a beautiful day.
What to Stream This Weekend
Tags: Movies, Streaming, Netflix, Entertainment, Technology

If movies are on the agenda for Christmas weekend, fire up Wonder Woman 1984, Soul, and more.

By Chloe Albanesius

The content pile is vast and infinite, and you’ve got the whole weekend to decide how you want to slice it. We’re in the midst of the ever-intensifying streaming wars, and there are too many shows and movies to choose from, spread across too many video-streaming services. So we’re making it easier for you. Each week, the PCMag features team takes turns highlighting the streaming content they’re excited to watch or think you should binge. Fire up your media-streaming device of choice, and get watching.

The Midnight Sky (Netflix)
The Stimulus Package is a Travesty
By: Caren White
Tags: Politics, Government, Pandemic, Stimulus Package, Congress

Government

The Stimulus Package is a Travesty

Congress expects a pat on the back for a bill that is too little, too late

Photo by SofiLayla on Pixabay

The long awaited stimulus package is finally a reality. And half the size of what is needed to stave off poverty, hunger and homelessness.

Mitch McConnell proudly announced the passage of the bill, saying

“It is packed with targeted policies that help struggling Americans who have already waited entirely too long.”

This from the guy who held up negotiations on another stimulus bill since the last one was passed in June. Am I the only one who wants to slap him silly?

So let’s take a look at the bill that has taken six months to pass.

Unemployment has been extended for another 3 months

The virus is still ravaging the country. Businesses are still struggling or closed. Estimates of when enough people will be vaccinated so that the country can start to get back to normal range from Memorial Day to the end of summer.

According to my calendar, that is longer than 3 months. Good job there, Mitch.

$300 will be added to weekly unemployment checks

Seriously? That’s half of what was passed the first time. Remember that extra $600 you were receiving? Apparently Mitch thinks that you were being overpaid. The Republicans are afraid that you will get too comfortable with those enormous unemployment checks and not want to look for a job. Despite the fact that there are no jobs thanks to the pandemic.

And finally, we are going to receive . . . drumroll please . . . a check for $600

Wow, that will relieve all of my financial anxieties.

I’ll be able to pay a single month’s payment on my car and car insurance. But I won’t have any money left over to pay for gas so my car will be useless to me.

I’m sure that my bank will accept $600, less than half of my monthly mortgage payment, if I tell them that Mitch says it’s okay.

I could spend it on food, but then I wouldn’t be able to pay my utility bill so I wouldn’t be able to cook the food or store it in my refrigerator.
#CleanAirForAll: Air Pollution and Impacts on Sustainable Development Goals
By: Iccdi Africa
Tags: Air Pollution, Wash, Sdgs, Climate Change, Women

Goal 1: Reducing air pollution can helps families become healthier, save on medical expenses, and improve productivity.

Goal 2: Air pollution can cause crop damage and affect food quality and security

Goal 3: Air pollution poses a major threat to human health. It is linked to respiratory infections and cardiovascular diseases. It causes increases in population morbidity and mortality.

Goal 6: Pollutants such as sulfure dioxide (S02) and nitrogen oxdies (N02) from open sires and the combustion of fossiel fules mix with precipitation causing harmful acid rain that can compormise water quality.

Goal 7: Electricity from renewable energy rather than fossil fuels offers significant public health benefits through a reduction in air pollution.

Goal 8: Air pollution impacts on health, crop and forest yields, ecosystems, the climate and the built environment, with consequences for productivity and economic growth. Ambient and indoor air pollution also has negative effects on the working environment and its safety.

Goal 9: Power generation, industry and transportation are large conributions to air pollution. A new focus on drcresing energy consumption and on improving sustainable and public transportation could progrssively reduce pollution.

Goal 11: Urban areas significantlly contribute to air pollution. Making cities sustinable could progressively improve the air quality.

Goal 12: Chemicals released into the air increase air pollution and contrbution to harmful effect on human health. Responsible production and comsumption could help to reduce these harmful chemical.

Goal 13: Combustion of fossil fuels plays a key role in the process of climate change, which places food, air and water supplies at risk, and poses a major threat to human health.

Goal 14: Depostion of air pollutants on water way negatively affact its quality and life under water. It can lead to eutrophication of fresh water bodies, and accumulation of toxic metals and Persistant organic pollutants (POPs) in fresh and marine waters.

Goals 15: Emission from combustion of fossil fuels mixed with precipitation cause acid rains that pose a major threat to forests and ecosysyem.

Achieving sustainable global development will require strong action to reduce exposure to environmental pollution. Steady progress is being made to reduce traditional pollutants linked to poverty, such as household air pollution and unsafe water sources. For example, the use of improved cookstoves and modern fuels has reduced household air pollution, and access to improved sanitation facilities has reduced exposure to water-borne faecal pathogens. Nevertheless, there is still much work to be done on this front, as over 4 million people still die annually from traditional pollutants.

Technological innovations are needed to make inexpensive integrated sensors for the most significant pollutants, as well as a platform for data collection, validation, analysis and dissemination.
How Elixir helped to break the code challenge puzzle?
Tags: Programming, Elixir, Software Development, Puzzle, Coding

Find out

How Elixir helped to break the code challenge puzzle?

Puzzle solving using elixir.

breakthecode.tech

Elixir is fun when you find time to play with it.

I have broken into the first three room levels at breakthecode.tech challenges. So, With 6 distinct game rooms, Break The Code will put your logic, knowledge and creativity to the test. It is a set of challenging games with prizes galore, for you! [From Website]

In one of the rooms, I encountered a problem and took the elixir help to solve it. It is completely math. You can do with any programming language, but Elixir made it simple for me.

Let’s go…

Problem

A = 1 , B = 2 A A * A A = A B A

1 1 * 1 1 = 1 2 1 A A * A A = B B C C Find A=? B=? C=?

Problem Analysis

I hope you alredy figured out what the problem is, if not here you go.

We need to find the three numbers such that it matches the given pattern.

The pattern is a multiplaction of a two similar digit number by itself, here A and it’s result will be the four digit number where first two numbers are of samekind, here B and last two numbers are samekind of other, here C.

1 1 * 1 1

2 2 * 2 2

3 3 * 3 3

...

9 9 * 9 9

Therefor the possible values of A, B, and C will be in the range 1..9

Number Prepartion

First step is we need to prepare a number of kind A A

f(x) = (x*10)+x f(1) = (1*10) + 1 = (10) + 1 = 11

f(2) = (2*10) + 2 = (20) + 2 = 22

...

f(9) = (9*10) + 9 = (90) + 9 = 99

Then we need to multiply the prepare number to itself to give the result.

Parsing Results

Next thing is we need to filter the results which contains exactly 4 numbers. To do so we have to convert number to digits. In elixir we can achieve this with Integer.digits/1 where it’s default base is 10.

where it’s default base is 10. After converting to digits, we filter out whose digits count is equal to 4

Next, we filter out whose first and second digits are of same kind and third and fourth digits are of another same kind

Ok! Talk is cheap, show me the code.

#codethebreak.exs range = 1..9 prepare_num = fn x -> x * 10 + x end multiply = fn {num, pre_num} -> {num, pre_num * pre_num} end to_digits = fn {num, mul_res} -> {num, Integer.digits(mul_res)} end length_filter = fn {_num, digits} -> Enum.count(digits) == 4 end pattern_filter = fn {_num, digits} ->

[b, _, _, c] = digits

[b, b, c, c] == digits

end print = fn {a, [b, _, _, c]} ->

"""

A = #{a}, B=#{b}, C=#{c}

#{a} #{a} * #{a} #{a} = #{b} #{b} #{c} #{c}

"""

end range

|> Enum.map(&{&1, prepare_num.(&1)})

|> Enum.map(multiply)

|> Enum.map(to_digits)

|> Enum.filter(length_filter)

|> Enum.filter(pattern_filter)

|> Enum.map(print)

|> Enum.map(&IO.puts/1)

codethebreka.exs execution

The code is too explicit but self explains what it does.

Now it’s your time to play with Elixir.

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5 Tips for Holistic Remote Working
By: Jonathan Brierre
Tags: Time Management, Software Development, Remote Working, Work Life Balance, Programming

Set Boundaries for Yourself

Setting boundaries goes hand in hand with setting a schedule for yourself. Be sure to communicate with those closest to you that although you are home, you must still be committed to your work. Also, get into the habit of removing distractions from your periphery. Toss your phone, turn off notifications on your devices, and give yourself the mental space to get into the flow.

If you have distracting kids, patiently talk to them about your work while collaborating with your partner to be with them while you are working.

Being able to be a productive worker while being a compassionate person to ourselves and those around us can be challenging — especially when placed in new, foreign situations. However, I firmly believe that with the right discipline and enough patience, we can find ourselves getting back to living the happy, healthy, and balanced lives we have previously gotten used to.
The problem with Báyọ̀
By: Ibukun Sodipe
Tags: Nigeria, Fiction Letter, Love, African Stories, Nigerian Marriage

The problem with Báyọ̀

My Self-ish Story of 2020

Photo by Bashir Olawoyin from Pexels

Dear Morónfólú,

I know you say that Báyọ̀ doesn’t show love, but do you notice his deep longing gaze when you are not looking? The way his eyes linger at the back of your head after you have just accused him of not being romantic is endearing. Only a man in love will look at you that way.

Báyọ̀ may not shower you with flowers or observe valentine’s day as the other westernized Nigerians do, but he comes home to you every night and has never cheated. He allows you to manage his hard-earned money; you already made it no secret that he is the one earning more. Month after month, upon collecting his salary, you dictate where the money is spent. He does not get angry with you when you waste money on things you don’t even need.

Báyọ̀ supports your dreams. He prays for you and spends time working on your small business even on top of his own demanding job.

Báyọ̀ may not say it, but his love language is acts of service. That is why love is in the scrumptious jollof rice that he makes when you are too tired to cook. It’s also in the way he puts the warm blanket over you after you have fallen asleep on the couch. I witnessed it the last time I stayed over at your house, and it warmed my heart because even up til now, your father doesn’t do that for me.

Morónfólú, I trained you better than this. How can you open your mouth to say that Bayo doesn’t show love? Love is Báyọ̀ secretly reprimanding me after I have shouted a few choice words at you. He actually came to my house last week to explain why I was in the wrong for yelling at you. That is the only reason I apologized to you; you already know I don’t like to say “sorry”.

When you call him boring because he does not like to try new things, it hurts him, so he tries to come out of his comfort zone. You were upset because he didn’t want to take you to the new Italian restaurant that opened on your street. Then, the following month he took you there for your birthday. The man lives to please you; if that isn’t showing love, what is?

Morónfólú, do you think I would have allowed you to marry a man that doesn’t show love? Love is in the way Bayo holds your hand when you’re wobbling along in the shoes with the tiny high heels that I always persuade you against wearing because of your weight. On the night of Mama Tabitha’s fiftieth birthday party, Báyọ̀ was the one who gently guided you through the car park whilst you leaned heavily on him because you could not walk well in those fancy shoes with the tiny high heels. Have I not warned you about the extra weight you have been piling on since you got married? Anyway, I know that Báyọ̀ never complains about it but, as your mother, I will always tell you the truth.

Báyọ̀ may not surprise you with big lavish things; trust me, he is working on it. He has heard your complaints, and I am also helping him to understand you better. After all, it is the least I can do for spoiling you.

With love,

Your mother
Cryptocurrency — Bigger or Smaller Than You Think?
By: Btc Bros
Tags: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Blog, Crypto, Finance

Hey there Cryptopians,

Whilst writing a recent article focused on mass adoption, I asked myself the question…just how big is Cryptocurrency at the moment?! This seems like an almost impossible concept to work out, as there are so many people that seem to be involved, it really is quite staggering. However, on the the other hand, when speaking to most people day-to-day (who do not have any Cryptopian’s in their immediate circle), it seems as though everyone is clueless.

This gave me the notion to think, just how many people KNOW about Cryptocurrency. To be exact, I’m not just talking about people who have invested, neither people who have set up a Coinbase, or other type of wallet, only to never return to it….I’m including those that have done some research of their own, but still have not taken the dive yet. In essence, if a person knows about Cryptocurrency, but has never used a wallet, or other type of Crypto based service, then they cannot be statistically accounted for, using any web collected data. This leads me to believe that maybe a lot of people are just ignorant to the whole Crypto world. This is not to say that they are purposefully ignorant, however, it is how those persons views take shape, which will create a mass adoption at any rate.

This leads me to question, what are the top reasons why a “nay-sayer” may change their stance and views on Cryptocurrency. There are a few obvious reasons, such as, to make FIAT money, peer pressure, or because they are just “jumping on the band wagon”. The latter of which may be misconstrued, being that if a person has done and is doing all their research to follow up a genuine interest, then they are just a fellow Cryptopian. However, if they are just along for the ride, how much is that a bad thing?! I don’t think it is a negative unless they are just doing it to disrupt the world that other Cryptopians have created, or for any other malicious purpose that could damage the Crypto communities and industries. Remember, we we’re all newbies once…

With Blockchain tech becoming the new “industry standard” for ledgers, transactions and record keeping, plus Bitcoin almost being at yet again new heights, it seems more and more people are starting to at least take in some very basic information on Cryptocurrencies. Remember I said, it seems…

So, what are your view on this? How do you explain Crypto to a newbie? Is there a massive wave of adoption going on? or are we just hyped because we are always seeing new projects, but only see them by being in the Crypto space, not knowing that the people who are seeming to adopt, are already just more members of the same space? (That sentence was a mouthful!)

Just something to think about whilst waiting for confirmations…

#FutureFinance
MOMS Club Rock Painting Event
Tags: Ceramic Barn, Headlines, Colleen Mccaffrey, Families, Entertainment

The MOMS Club of Medford has worked together with the Ceramic Barn to host a rock painting event on Oct. 22 from noon to 2 p.m. to help local children and families paint rocks.

There is a local group called Shamong Medford Rocks, started by Colleen McCaffrey, and it is helping to spread the word about this great group.

The idea is to get the kids outside finding rocks and hiding rocks that they have painted. It helps foster a sense of community locally and inspire creativity in the children. The rocks will be painted with the hashtag #shamongrocks or #medfordrocks and parents can snap photos of the rocks kids have found and post them on the group’s Facebook page.
Hydrogen a Finalist For Another Blockchain Award!
Tags: Announcements, Blockchain, Awards, Cryptocurrency

This time, it’s our friends at WealthManagement.com that have included us among only three finalists in the Blockchain/Cryptocurrency category at the 2019 Industry Awards!

Our competition includes SS&C Technologies, a $15 Billion publicly traded company. We are so honored just to be included in the final list; let’s see if we can bring home another trophy for our case!

The award announcement gala will be held September 12th at the Zigfield Ballroom in New York City. It looks like Mike will have to turn his Hydrogen t-shirt into a Hydrogen tuxedo. Now that would be a fashion statement!
Including Myself
By: Ani Vidrine
Tags: Personal Growth, Spirituality, Poetry, Mindfulness, Self Help

Including Myself

Poems From The Porch

The last day of September is . . .

the only day there is for me

to let go of the need to control things

and the need to manage the emotions of others.

is . . .

the only day there is for me

to know that I am loved and valued

without seeking that validation from others

or needing them to approve of my behavior.

is . . .

the only day there is for me

to find security in the fact of my existence

and in the abundant provision that is freely given.

The last day of September is . . .

the only day there is for me

to have faith that all things are working together for good

and that there is a natural order

to the processes of implosion and evolution.

is . . .

the only day there is for me

to have hope because there is no doer but our Benevolent Universe

and everything belongs.

is . . .

the only day there is for me

to have the opportunity to love generously and unconditionally

everyone and everything,

including myself.
How to host a Cricket Tournament on the CricHeroes App?
By: Parita Pithwa
Tags: Cricket, Matches, Tournaments, Online Scoring, Register

Whether you are organising a Cricket Tournament for the first time or have done so multiple times, we all agree that it is a tedious job. Apart from deciding the format (number of overs, ball type, etc), registering teams, scouting sponsors, managing grounds, umpires, scorers, commentators, arranging drinks/food will take a toll on you at the end of the day.

We, at CricHeroes, are here to help you in at least some of the aspects of hosting and managing a cricket tournament.

Once you have decided on the format of the tournament, the next plausible steps are registering teams, booking grounds, umpires, scorers, and commentators.

We can help you get more teams with our premium offering Power Promote. Rest of the stakeholders you can search and find from the Ecosystem section of CricHeroes. But in this article, we are going to talk more about how you can score a cricket tournament successfully on the CricHeroes App and how delightful the experience is.

How to register and score a Cricket Tournament on the CricHeroes App

There is Add A Tournament option in the Side Menu of the app, from which you can start the process.

Fill all the tournament-related general details such as — Name & logo of the tournament, ground, category, ball type, etc on the first screen.

Next, you can add Teams and there are multiple ways to do that. You can add Rounds and Groups and create a schedule as a final step. All of these steps are explained in the following videos.

Optionally, you can also add the tournament officials to make your page more interesting.

But why would I do that?

You must be thinking, what’s in it for me? Why would I take so much trouble to register my cricket tournament on CricHeroes? Well, there is more than one reason.

Dedicated Tournament Page

You will get a dedicated Tournament Page (just like a Facebook Page) on the CricHeroes App and Website with your own branding (logo & banner).

Dedicated Tournament Page

Leaderboard

Get the leaderboards for Batsmen, Bowlers, Fielders, and MVPs of the tournament with advanced filters automatically. It’s like magic!

Tournament Leaderboard

Points Table

Get ICC-compliant Points Table based automatically, once again like magic!

Points Table (Standings)

Schedule

Schedule all your matches in advance and keep everyone in sync with the dates and timings.

Boundary Tracker

Get an IPL-style boundary tracker and leaderboard for your tournament.

Boundary Tracker

Advanced Scorecard

Detailed Scorecard, Commentary, Wagon Wheel, Manhattan, Worm Graph, Run Rate chart, Wickets Pie, etc. (Do we need to say automatically once again?)

Advance Cricket Scorecard

Neat and easy, Ain’t it?

CricHeroes is by far the best platform to conduct your cricket tournament, no matter at what level it is happening. With more than 27000 tournaments and 450,000 matches scored, the number speaks for themselves!

So, what do you think? Download the CricHeroes App and try hosting a Cricket Tournament today or register now.
Equilibrium 7月总结. 七月，我们带来了几个技术里程碑和新的合作伙伴关系，以及另一个全新代币的上市。…
By: Jeff Xiong
Tags: Blockchain, Eos, Eosdt, 中文, Equilibrium

The first decentralized interoperable money market that combines pooled lending with synthetic asset generation and trading. Get access to cross-chain liquidity.

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How to Expose a Local Server to the Internet Without any Additional Tools
By: Albin Issac
Tags: Software Development, Networking, Technology, Windows, Programming

How to Expose a Local Server to the Internet Without any Additional Tools

Expose a Local Server to the Internet Without any Additional Tools

Most of the time Developers will have the scenario to access the servers running on local machines externally through the internet.

In this tutorial, let us see how to expose the local server to the Internet without using any additional tools in the windows system.

I am running an Apache Server on a Local machine on port number 8085 and the machine is connected to the internet through a WIFI router(Motorola)

Configure Router

By default the routers restruconfigure the router to allow the internet traffic to the specific internal port(8085).

The Router management UI can be used to define the forwarding rules to forward the traffic from external IP’s to internal IP’s on a specific port.

Open your default router URL, I am using Motorola router access the one of the below IP

(for Motorola modems MB series): 192.168.100.1

(for Motorola modem/router combos): 192.168.0.1 The default username is: admin

The default password is: motorola

Click on Advanced

Advanced Router →Forwarding

Add new Forwarding Rule

Identify the local network IP (ipconfig)

Local

IP Address — Local IP address identified from the previous step

Start Port — 8085(Port in which the Server is running)

End port — 8085

External

IP Address — 0.0.0.0 (Allow from all external IP’s)

Start Port — 80 (the external port used to access the server, configure 443 fro HTTPS)

End Port — 80

Save the configuration

Now the router accepts the traffic from any of the external IP addresses on port 80 and routes internally to the local IP address on port 8085.

Configure Windows Defender Firewall

Windows Defender Firewall helps to secure your Windows device by filtering the network traffic permitted to enter or exit your device.

Let us now configure the Windows Defender Firewall to allow the incoming traffic on port 8085

Open Windows Defender Firewall

Advanced Settings

Define new Inbound Rule with Type Port

Specify the Protocol(TCP) and Specific Local Ports (8085)

Allow the Connection

Enter a name for the rule and save the rule.

Now the Windows Defender Firewall allows the incoming traffic on port 8085

Identify your public network IP — https://www.whatismyip-address.com/?check

The local server on port 8085 is now accessible externally over the internet through your public IP with port number 80 (http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx). Now you can even create a domain name to point to the public IP so that the servers can be accessed through domain name instead of direct IP.

The router rules and windows Defender Firewall rules can be enabled to support different internal and external ports. This approach will help you to quickly access the local servers externally without enabling any additional tools. Ensure the rules are enabled with care, disable the rules while not in use to avoid exposing the local server to the internet unnecessarily.
Lightning Network ICO Private Token Sale (with 150% bonus)
By: Junhua Chang
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, ICO, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency

We are building world’s fastest blockchain platform which natively implements Bitcoin Lightning Network Protocol & Ethereum Plasma Framework. With fast transaction speed over 1 million transactions per second, low transaction fees, and its Bolt cryptocurrency, Lightning Network is set to overtake Visa/Mastercard and become the dominant global payment network.

Qualified investors are now invited to participate in Lightning Network ICO Private Token Sale (with 150% bonus) from April 1st, 2018 to May 31st, 2018.

Please contact me at info@lightningnetwork.me for our business plan and private token sale document. Our whole team would be honored and thrilled to have you as one of our first major investors and supporters. I will be available for calls, emails, and online conference meetings to discuss and answer any of your questions regarding the project, team and token sale.

I strongly believe the project will be a huge success with our team effort and your support.

More info can be found on our web site:

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Dancing With Rain
By: Christina M. Ward
Tags: Relationships, Writing Prompts, This Happened To Me, Pomprompt, Poetry

POETRY

Dancing With Rain

a poem

Image by giselaatje from Pixabay

The dust is still here

the cobwebs, new filth

where laughter used to be

our unspoken vow

And like a seed

born for the wind

— I must leave it all

behind.

There are new stains.

Rotten potatoes, gnats.

It’s all very symbolic, really.

Things die where

lies are sown.

There, the dresser that used

to hide my intimates,

my nightgowns, the scarf

my grandmother once wore,

now topped with your jar of change

and the bottle of pills

with some other woman’s name

And I, a seed, cannot be cleansed

if I cling to places

with no hope

for rain.

Tonight, I sleep in your bed alone

one last time and before you

return home

I’ll be gone.

I’ll be on the wind.

I’ll be dancing

with rain.
Ransomware Task Force Created by 19 Companies Including Microsoft, McAfee
Tags: Cybersecurity, Ransomware, Microsoft, Technology

Expect a standardized framework for responding to ransomware attacks next year.

By Matthew Humphries

Ransomware attacks are growing in popularity and have the potential to cause major disruption, especially when they hit hospitals or schools. In response, a Ransomware Task Force (RTF) is being created by a 19 companies, including Microsoft and McAfee.

As ZDNet reports, we won’t see the RTF’s presence on the web until January, but its intention is clear. The objective of the RTF is to create “a standardized framework for dealing with ransomware attacks across verticals, one based on an industry consensus rather than individual advice received from lone contractors.” In other words, whenever a ransomware attack is discovered there should be an optimal way of dealing with it, and the RTF intends to figure out what that is.

The 19 companies and organizations signed up to the RTF so far:

Aspen Digital

Citrix

The Cyber Threat Alliance

Cybereason

The CyberPeace Institute

The Cybersecurity Coalition

The Global Cyber Alliance

The Institute for Security and Technology

McAfee

Microsoft

Rapid7

Resilience

SecurityScorecard

Shadowserver Foundation

Stratigos Security

Team Cymru

Third Way

UT Austin Stauss Center

Venable LLP

According to the Institute for Security and Technology, “This crime transcends sectors and requires bringing all affected stakeholders to the table to synthesize a clear framework of actionable solutions, which is why IST and our coalition of partners are launching this Task Force for a two-to-three month sprint.” With that in mind, we should be looking for the first standardized guidance from RTF by April.

Typically, a ransomware attack sees a company scramble to find a security expert who can help, which ultimate means the quality of advice will vary depending on where you are in the world and how much a company is willing to pay for that help. Hopefully, the RTF goes a long way towards rectifying the situation and could result in security companies around the world offering an RTF-endorsed ransomware response service to customers.
Business Reputation Checker offers Google Reputation Score
Tags: Due Diligence, Business, Public Relations, Digital Marketing, Online Reputation

These days just about everyone looks for customer reviews and consumer complaints before buying a product online or from a local business or hiring a new service provider. And for good reason: online reviews, testimonials and customer ratings offer reliable information on goods and services and offer consumers an easy way to compare products and services.

How Do You Check the Online Reputation Score of a Business or Brand?

Checking the reputation of a brand or business is typically done online using a search engine such as Google or Bing. Entering the name of a business + “reviews”, or “complaints” and carefully examine the first few pages of search engine results is the method used by most people to check out a company before buying its products or services.

Free Business Reputation Checking and Scoring Tools

Online reputation management companies and search engine optimization professionals have developed sophisticated methods to manipulate search results. As a result, searching Goole, Bing or Yahoo may not give you an accurate illustration of a businesses reputation or trustworthiness, however.

For this reason, new web tools have surfaced that offer advanced reputation search features. These new reputation search engines are referred to as Reputation Checkers. Use of Reputation Checker tools is increasing as consumers look for more accurate ways to gauge the trustworthiness of businesses, brands and products.

Top Online Reputation Checkers

RepCheckr is a free business reputation search engine and checking tool that allows visitors to effortlessly generate online reputation reports by scanning the web for negative content, consumer complaints, bad reviews, ratings, etc. and presenting relevant information in an easy to reputaiton report.

Checking the reputation of a business or brand is easy with RepCheckr. Simply go to RepCheckr.com, type the name of the business, brand, website or product that you’d like to perform a reputation check on, click submit and you’re presented with a reputation report and Google reputation score.

RepDigger

A reputation checking tool that allows visitors to conduct advanced searches for complaints, ratings, lawsuits, reviews and other negative content. RepDigger.com is similar to RepCheckr, however, in addition to business reputation scorecard reports, RepDigger.com also offers advanced search features to check people’s reputations and the reputation of phone numbers.
There Was a Chimpanzee War in the 1970s
By: Sean Kernan
Tags: Life Lessons, Animals, History, Self Improvement, Life

Jane Goodall spent years embedded with the chimp community in Gombe Stream National Park. Initially, she evangelized their beautiful qualities, their affection for each other, kindness, and maternal nature.

But then she has observed a stunning event that changed our understanding of primates.

In 1971, the Northern Kahama alpha male, Leakey, passed away. The new alpha was not accepted by two brothers, who began fighting with him. This caused the chimp community to split, with one group migrating north and the other going south. Chimps chose allegiance based on who they had the strongest social ties with.

Initially, everything was fine. The two groups even interacted occasionally.

But as they spent more time apart, tensions rose.

In January 1974, the northern tribe formed a war party. All the males came together and migrated towards the other group.

Chaos broke out in the jungle.

Source: pic by Altered Dimensions

They first killed a male chimp named Godi. The event was witnessed by Jane Goodall and other scientists, who watched in horror. It was the first time they’d seen chimps attacking another chimp.

Notably, the chimps went into a fevered celebration after the kill. They jumped up and down, tearing down branches. They flew up and down trees as their screams echoed through the jungle.

It was an undeniable celebration of bloodlust.

Over the next four years, the marauding males came back over and over again. They systematically killed each male of the southern troop. It was gang style violence, holding down each chimp, biting him, beating him, clawing him.

By the end of 1978, all the males in the southern troop had been killed, along with several females.

The males then forced the females to join them. They raped several and killed some of their young. After the group was consolidated back into one, everything slowed down and the war was over. It was called the “Great Gombe Chimpanzee War”.