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he doctor told me as I blinked my eyes open, confused and scared.
By: Saeful Anwar
Tags: Solutions, Diabetes

Please help us. There must be something you can do to save his leg.

I was in a heavily medicated daze. But I could just about make out that the doctor wanted to amputate my leg.

“We’ve done all we can to

stabilize him…”

the doctor told her,

But it looks like it’s too late.”

I couldn’t believe it. I was hours away from losing my leg to diabetes? I was 59 and had become a proud grandfather for the first time.

I had plans to enjoy my retirement. To spend time with family and travel the world with my wife, Linda. I couldn’t do any of this with one leg.

My life as I knew it would end in a blink of an eye.

I’d be in a wheelchair at my son’s wedding in a few months’ time.

I’d done everything my doctor told me to. And now because I was one of the 30 million Americans with diabetes….

This Horrific Disease Was Going To Rob Me Of My Retirement And Put Me In A Wheelchair For Life

Diabetes had devastated my body and made me a slave to my medication…

The doctor made it clear that my leg needed to be sawn off and the surgical procedure was very risky. There could be complications.

But what he said next was much worse.

You fell into a hyperosmolar nonketotic coma.

Your blood sugar level was the highest I’ve ever seen here when the paramedics brought you in.

It’s only because of their quick response that you don’t have brain damage.

What he said next hit me like a ton of bricks.

We have to be clear about one thing:

Next Time You Won’t Be So Lucky…

And unless you fix your blood sugar that time could be as soon as next week.

So why am I telling you this?

I’m telling you this because I lived to tell the tale…

I Reversed My Type 2 Diabetes

And You Can Too…

And it was all thanks to my adorable 4-year-old grandson, Lucas. He saved my life.

Back then when I was lying in the hospital, about to have my leg amputated, I knew nothing about this deadly disease except to take my medication.

Yet this brush with death was what forced me on the unlikely journey that reversed my type 2 diabetes and changed my life forever.

Since that day, I’ve discovered the scientific proof that you can reverse your type 2 diabetes.

In a moment you’ll see the evidence with your own eyes.

You can be sure it’s NOT what you think.

Forget what you’ve heard about diabetes when they told you it’s caused by:

Your genetics or your family history

Your age, your weight or even…

Eating too much sugar or carbs

The truth, according to a breakthrough American study from the University of Utah, is that the cause of diabetes type 2 is a tiny lipid molecule that makes your fat cells go haywire.
How I defeat fear everyday ?
By: Patil Edukos
Tags: Change Your Life, Motivation, Solutions, Fear, Change

Fear

What is fear ? You run from it when you hear the word “ fear ”. Fear is a mental state you get defeated by your own thoughts. Fear is when you are not sure about what your plans are for defeating it down. Fear ensures itself, no matter what you gotta keep running and fear keeps frightening you to lose the guts. How can someone be okay with fear ? What is trick to use it against itself ? How can I control it ? It’s hard. It’s very hard when fear comes in mind and it starts speaking with your mind to quit ! You have 3 seconds either you fight with it or you lose. You know what you can fight with it. Just do 1 thing. Close your eyes remember why you want to do it ? Feel the power. Keep listening to your heart. Be blind for sometime and just do it. Don’t listen to your fear.

A perfect sentence said by Les Brown — “ You gotta be hungry! When you are hungry, you do it no matter what. ”

See fear as motivation

Turn your fear in challenge. Challenge your mind and trick it. Win the challenge every-time when fear comes in mind. Learn from fear. Let fear be your motivation. Motivation ? How can fear be my motivation ? Let me tell you that fear is not a real thing. They are the things which you have never thought of. It is thought you never implemented. So if you know your fear, you know that you take it to border and throw it to opposite side. Motivation is not there when you know, what you want to do it but cannot push it. Let fear be your motivation. Turn your fear into motivation.

How do I defeat fear ?

Fear to me is like a condition. You beat it or you forget it. If you beat fear, congrats you did it and move on to next one. If you don’t beat fear congrats you still have time to think and be brave enough to defeat it. When I started running, I had this fear in my mind that how can I run alone ? What if someone comes to me and something bad happens ? What if there are dogs on the road ? What if I fall on the ground ? All those questions had one answer. One answer that turned my fear into the greatest motivation - “You gotta do it, no matter what happens to you”. Always listen to motivational podcasts or listen to videos on YouTube which promote motivational thoughts. I talked to my brain and told “you can’t beat me, no one can beat me!”. I don’t care what you think. I am the greatest person in this world. I am not a person who hides from fear. I listen to David Goggins. You can’t hurt me or my good thoughts!

Points you can remember

Fear is not real. Turn fear into motivation Have discipline. Learn to value things. Know your “Why” Just do it, don’t wait for someone to push you. You gotta be hungry!

Book of David Goggins — “Can’t hurt me”
How excessive content on social media is killing creativity
By: Kanupriya Agarwal
Tags: SEO, Solutions, Technology, Social Media, Creativity

How excessive content on social media is killing creativity

Photo by Mishal Ibrahim on Unsplash

How can you think and be creative while trying new things when someone else is thinking for you? While scrolling different social media platforms do you encounter the same content? Do you feel that you are brimming with so much information that it blocks your way into your own creative sphere?

Phewww…. I know I can relate to it.

Every time I come up with an idea and to know more about it I go to one of the search engines and then what? That idea or something similar to it already exists and it hinders my process to think differently about it.

Trust me once you start scrolling your brain just slips into some slow deactivating mode closing all the doors for creativity because it gets busy in interpreting the profuse amount of information which also leads to a drop in focus.

That moment when you decide to just have a look at your screens for a few minutes generally results in long periods of zero productivity with some extra load of trivial information which destroys the entire atmosphere to make decisions and utilise the information.

We tend to lose our actual perspective amidst all the chaos and are left completely hollow and bland. Instead of living our life in our own ways and achieving all what we ever wanted we just go off-track because of the unreasonable influence.

“I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am ” ― Cooley

This quote by Cooley correctly describes our current state. We are so lost that we actually fail to figure out our own self and are just riding in some boat with no determined goal or destination.

What’s the solution to come out of this turbulent sphere?

1.) Turn off all the notifications-

To maintain your calm and sanity this step will help you a lot and will increase your productivity and your me-time.

2.) Start writing a journal -

This keeps you on track and helps you in reminding about your goals and your passion. Helps you to decrease your dependence on mobile applications to do the same task. And trust me writing on a paper gives more satisfaction.

3.) Plan a detox from the entire Social media -

This is not an easy one but after you separate yourself from all the clutter your creativity really gets a boost. And after so much stillness you’ll find it difficult to go back and become a part of the trifling hustle again.

4.) Unfollow all the people or platforms which disturbs your state of mind-

Doing this will completely cut you off from that aura of negativity and will allow you to just focus on the good. Follow people who provide valuable content and bring positivity to your life.

Don’t let this product of mankind destroy you. Be powerful enough to switch it off whenever it starts messing up with your frame of mind. Push all the social media aside to look inside you, to listen to your own thoughts and work on your goals.
Chance
By: Sylvia Silvers, Aka Sylvia Astuti Gunawan
Tags: Guardian Angels, Solutions, Problem Solving, Opportunity, Chance

Do you believe in a guardian angel?

I was about to write my journal this morning when my sister Vonny called.

She told me a story about a kind lady who seemed to have God’s protection in her life.

I know it may sound so cliché, but I believe that every one of us has our own guardian angel.

Think about it.

How can God manage all of his creatures in this universe?

Well...in my opinion, He must have His angels to help Him.

Come to think about it; sometimes, when we were upset about something bad that happened to us, we tend to focus on the problem and it leads our mind to overthink.

Our minds will be very jammed with the unnecessary problems that we create by ourselves.

When we focus our minds on the problem only, it makes it difficult for us to find a solution.

We can’t see the opportunity in front of us.

Our mind is so blurred that we can’t even think about taking the chance.

Some people blur their minds because they wish to get the signal from God for the answer, and they don’t see the chance that God sent them through his angels in the real life.

I heard so many stories about people refusing offers from others to help and by the time they regret it, it`s too late.

‘You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink’

Nobody can help you but yourself!

To make it simple, you have got a kitchen at home, you have food in the fridge, but if you don’t want to cook, you will be hungry.

The reason why you don’t want to cook is that you don’t know how to do it.

And yet, you refuse to learn.

If you understand how simple it is to have a happy and healthy life, what will you do when you know that you have a problem and you see the opportunity?

Will you take your chance?
Uber like Taxi Hailing Driver App UI Design
By: Zikar Patel
Tags: Uber, Solutions, Taxi, Design, Software Development

Uber like Taxi Hailing Driver App UI Design

So finally you have decided to launch your taxi booking app in the ride-hailing market. Think twice, are you seriously ready? Only knowing the app development model and technology will not be enough to create an app like Uber, Lyft, Grab or Careem. Therefore, before you hire mobile app developer or getting into the development process, you need to gulp down an in-depth analysis report on the ride-sharing market.

Get instant updates with Rating & Reports

Passengers like it when drivers show utmost customer-service. Your customers can rate their riding experience on a scale of 1 to 5. Where 5 is excellent, 3 is average and 1 is terrible.

Passengers can rate drivers on a scale of 1 to 5

They can write a feedback of the ride

Drivers can rate the customers

Get to know your least rated driver

A report section where Admin can view various reports like Total Earning Report, Payment Report, User wallet Report, Referral Report, Drive Log and Payment Report etc.

Keep an eye on all the numbers

Take insight driven business decisions

Find out your earnings

Identify your weak areas

Once you looking for taxi business solution, you more likely than not confronted the problems of building up a task. Taking your business to an online stage is something very essential and this is perhaps the least demanding approaches to work your business bother free.
Kata SQL
By: Jen-Li Chen
Tags: Kata, Solutions, Sql, Codewars

Kata SQL

Oh no! Timmys been moved into the database divison of his software company but as we know Timmy loves making mistakes. Help Timmy keep his job by fixing his query…

Timmy works for a statistical analysis company and has been given a task of calculating the highest average salary for a given job, the sample is compiled of 100 applicants each with a job and a salary. Timmy must display each unique job, the total average salary, the total people and the total salary and order by highest average salary. Timmy has some bugs in his query, help Timmy fix his query so he can keep his job!

people table schema

id

name

job table schema

id

people_id

job_title

salary

resultant table schema

job_title (unique)

average_salary (float, 2 dp)

total_people (int)

total_salary (float, 2 dp)

NOTE: Your solution should use pure SQL. Ruby is used within the test cases to do the actual testing.

Solution:

SELECT

DISTINCT(j.job_title),

CAST(ROUND(SUM(j.salary)/COUNT(p), 2) AS float) as average_salary,

COUNT(p.id) as total_people,

CAST(ROUND(SUM(j.salary), 2) AS float) as total_salary

FROM people p

JOIN job j

ON p.id = j.people_id

GROUP BY j.job_title

ORDER BY average_salary desc;

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We need to learn how to use knowledge in order to solve problems
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Problems, Education, Humanity, Solutions, Ego

Question from the Internet:

“Isaac Asimov said, "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." What do you consider to be good traits of a problem solver?”

I fully agree with Asimov (the Foundation books were my favorite reading in my teenage years).

Knowledge is not the problem, how we use knowledge is the problem.

By default our consciousness, perception of reality is egocentric, subjective. We “upload” and use knowledge to serve selfish interest, to successfully compete against others, to survive at each other’s expense. This is our default program.

The good traits of a problem solver start from the recognition of how our original program works, why through history and in our individual life we keep running into the same mistakes, crimes, steps.

Only when we recognize the root cause - our own nature - can we start solving problems - by changing, correcting ourselves.

Everything depends on the “user”, based on what intentions, goals we act, develop, everything else depends on how the user is refined, upgraded.

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Problems Are Powered With Probability Of Success !!
By: Mitul Vora
Tags: Problems, Success, Solutions, Probability, Mindset

For Human Mind The Word Problem Means — Mystery, Puzzle, Quandary, Predicament, Difficulty, Obstacle, Hurdle, Challenge , Dilemma, Trouble, Entanglements, Complexity Etc Etc. In Original Context Problem Means A Difficult Task Or Question Proposed For Solution, Calling For A Brainstorming Session, To Understand Underlying Different Perspectives And Choosing The Best Path Or View Or Solution With Respect To The Situation Or Circumstances In Given Point Of Time. Everything Depends On Our Ability And Mindset. If Our Ability-Capability-Capacity Is Large Enough, So Called Problem Will Be Tiny And Will Not Be Visible To Us At All And Vice Versa Where Problem Will Be Like A Mountain Which Will Seem To Be Unbeatable. Everything Relies On How We See Problem And What Process We Choose To Solve It. Question Is Should We Really Consider Problem As A Problem ? We Must See And Break Problem As Probable-Me Meaning Probability Of Me And In Positive Context It Means Ability Of Myself To Resolve The Underlying Question. The Problem Itself Is Powered With Probable Solutions Leading To Success.
The recent threat against churches and the challenge of securing our religious sites
By: Kenneth Bombace
Tags: Global, Solutions, Threat

The recent Joint Intelligence Bulletin issued by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security has emphasized the inherent vulnerability of religious sites in America. As supporters of the Islamic State terror group call for attacks on holiday events and churches during the holiday season, once again we are reminded of the unique difficulty in protecting one of our most vulnerable entities. The warning was distributed to law enforcement agencies, security companies and churches across the nation and calls for increased vigilance during the holidays.

To be sure, threats against religious sites has a long history in our country. In more recent times, the attacks of September 11, 2001 have made increased security at our religious sites somewhat of an annual ritual. In the absence of specific threats, an increased security posture at religious sites is usually a standard procedure for most police departments around the holidays. As a law enforcement, security and intelligence professional, I have been involved in responding to the threats facing our religious sites and I have had to overcome the inherent resistance to increased security measures that exists in many of our churches.

Following the horrific shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, I was tasked with providing security training to the leadership and parishioners of many churches throughout Suffolk County. What, at first, seemed like a straightforward training initiative, became quite a bit more complex as I learned that we needed to convince many religious communities that in the modern world we must strike a balance between security and the desire to maintain an open and inviting environment in our churches. The Charleston shooting clearly demonstrated that churches pride themselves on accepting outsiders without prejudice and maintaining an open-door policy. In my experience, Jewish religious sites have been far more aggressive in obtaining additional security during religious holidays than churches. This is most likely because of a long history of being targeted by anti-Semitic and radical Islamic terror groups.

With the broadening of targets by groups like the Islamic State and the increase of active shooter incidents in the United States, churches need to understand that they too are vulnerable entities and appropriate steps need to be taken. I believe this can be done in a way that preserves the sanctity of churches and continues the culture of kindness and peace.
Love Relationship Problems Solution
By: Durga Prasad
Tags: Astrologer, Relationship, Solution, Love, Problem

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Are you looking for an astrology solution to solve your love related issues? If you want true love and lost love back in your life then love relationship problem solution is a perfect solution for you. Love describes the peace and happy life. Love is all about to express feelings in front of someone that you like. But some people are shy and they are afraid to tell their love feelings. Nowadays some people lost their lover. It is difficult to forget someone that you like most in your life. So if you are facing such types of love problems and want instant solution then you should try Vashikaran love solution.

Vashikaran is an Indian astrology solution. You can try this solution to get the right partner for your whole life. Love is the most important thing that feels happiness in life. You can also feel love with the help of Vashikaran love mantra. Vashikaran solution to love problems is used to increase love in someone’s heart that you want in your life.

Solution For Love Problems

If you want to know about how to perform solution for love problems then you can consult to our Vashikaran specialist astrologer Rakesh Shastri. Love Vashikaran Specialist will provide you the complete guidance on Vashikaran for lover. You can use these Vashikaran remedies for love problems and get the desired person in your life. When you can get your lover then your life will feel with happiness and love. Love is the special thing by which you can easily live your life without any tension. Love makes you Strong.

If you believe in yourself everything is possible. Just chant these mantras with all your heart and then you will get your love. Chanting these astrology love mantras is very effective and this solution resolves your problems as soon as possible. Just try love problem solutions and live your life with your loved ones. If you have any query about astrology love mantra then you can contact us. The contact details are as follows:

Astrologer Name: Pandit Rakesh Shastri Ji

Mobile No.: +91–6284243704

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Research and medication in Stammering
By: Anshuman Sharma
Tags: Solutions, Stammering, Treatment, Medication, Stuttering

People who stammer and the people connected to them are looking for ways to either eradicate the problem or reduce its impact. They want normal speech without impediments or stammering. Some people get frustrated after years of trying. That’s the reason many frauds try to exploit the hopes of these people. They will try to trap these people with false medicines or even operating procedures to exploit money. If the realization is late then the victims lose part-body functionality or damage health, which is much more valuable than the money which they lose. As 1–3 % of the population worldwide is affected by stuttering in some way, it is a big market for research to produce solutions. If the solution is simple enough to be self-implemented then the market and its players will not earn big.

As 1–3 % of the population worldwide is affected by stuttering in some way, it is a big market for research to produce solutions.

If we study the research papers of the academics and scientists, Stammering is categorized as a neurological disorder which means that the people who stutter or stammers have different brains than normal people. They have used MRI and other visual technology and tests to look at the brain patterns to declare that this problem is permanent and its effects can only be slightly alleviated with psychiatric medicines, strong drugs to partially numb the mind so that it is working at the lower functionality level, which could make a person speak with less Stammering due to the intoxicating effect of the drug.

Strong drugs to partially numb the mind so that it is working at the lower functionality level.

I don’t want to discard the efforts and research of all these people but I do not agree with them. They are doing their job as that is their job and that is what they do to earn a living. Most of these people have never experienced the challenges of stammering and don’t know the exact feelings and emotions involved in it. They are unaware about the level of fear and anxiety faced by the person who stammers. They cannot know about the people who have worked extraordinarily to fight with Stammering to become an amazing speaker and to develop a strong personality. The medication (in the form of strong drugs) suggested by the researchers would damage health instead of solving the problem of Stammering.

Most of these people have never experienced the challenges of stammering and don’t know the exact feelings and emotions involved in it.

Finally, it is the choice of the people. They can either practice hard to defeat stammering (stuttering) or take medicine in the hope to cure stammering. My suggestion is to avoid any medication and use hard speaking practice with regularity and discipline to solve the problem of stammering. Now, the choice is yours.
Vedic Dharma:- Answer to all the modern-day miseries
By: Shivam Rawat
Tags: Hinduism, Solutions, Culture, Suicide, Vedic

Why there is a need for the world to look towards Vedic dharma?

The four Vedas

People across the world have been taken aback by the onset of 2020. The COVID crisis which made the whole world confined into their homes was something which was not expected by anyone especially the Millennials.

Loss of life, employment, friends, economy, etc did affect a whole lot of population across the world. But how can one overcome such troubles?

Does modern civilization have answers to this?

In the fast-moving world of today we some times often miss out on some of the important valuable teachings in life. It is just like erecting a building without a concrete base.

What exactly the world needs today? Success, fame, and social acceptance? Is that only our life’s purpose has been limited to?

In our modern society, we often end up alone, as family and community are subordinated to individual achievements. This makes us more dependent upon the matter to fill the emptiness of our lives. Loneliness and depression often go together.

Loneliness
Quotes That Matter — Week 3. Paul Dunion
By: Paul Dunion Ed.D
Tags: Soul, Life, Solutions, Projects

Quotes That Matter — Week 3

Paul Dunion

This week’s quote is one of my own. You can’t get life right. But, if you allow, life may get you right.Given the guidance we receive from Rilke and Frankl, we may find enough ego adjustment to allow life to get us right. If we don’t follow their suggestions, it is likely that we will reduce life to an endless series of projects. The goal then is to summon enough ambition in order to attempt to successfully get each project right. This project orientation only guarantees to keep us busy and living with extreme pressure to deliver appropriately.

The project lifestyle has no soul. It reduces us to being a functionary. Our life can only be calibrated to some favorable project outcome. We are locked into the perfunctory ingredients of some blueprint. We can’t hear life calling us to more soul, more acceptance, more compassion, more courage, more forgiveness or more mindfulness. Projects can’t provide meaning and therefore can’t provide a genuine sense of belonging.

Rilke calls us to live large, bringing passion and purpose to places we’ve never been before, allowing for shameless defeat. Frankl calls us to pause and listen to life’s requests. Together, they allow us to live intimately. In such an intimacy, life will remind us over and over again who we are. From these reminders, there’s ample opportunity for life to get us right.
How to do CPR correctly ? A last tool in a arsenal to save a life.
By: Cool Dude
Tags: Health, Life, Solutions, Advice, Life Lessons

How to do CPR correctly ? A last tool in a arsenal to save a life.

CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is an excercise comprises of cycle of compression and rescue breath to save a life.

When to do CPR ?

When person is not exhibiting any signs of life. Person is unresponsive, unconscious , gasping for breath or not taking breath at all.

Example 👉 person suffered a heart attack or After a person was saved from drowning.

Before performing CPR make sure to call a medical professionals.

How to do CPR correctly ?

CPR consists of compression on chest followed by giving rescue breaths. Follow these simple steps.

Step 1 👉 Make sure that the person who will be administered CPR is lying straight on his back on a firm surface. Also person head should be tilted backwards slightly.

Step 2 👉 Place the heel of one hand over the center of the person’s chest, Place your other hand on top of the first hand. followed by your other hand interlocking the finger of first hand. Start pushing hard. Push by using your body weight.

Note👉 If you are a trained professionals you can go for 100 to 120 compression per minute. But if you are not then limit yourself to 30.

Step 3 👉 Check for any sign of life after compression.

Step 4👉If you are a trained professionals go ahead and perform step 5 but if you aren’t continue pushing hard till the medical professionals arrives.

Step 5 👉 Go for rescue breath in this step. Tilt person head slightly , pinch the nose shut. place your mouth over a person mouth to make a complete seal. Start delivering breaths.

Deliver two rescue breath and then continue compression until person shows sign of life or till the medical professionals arrive.

Peaceful reading.
Energy For the Day
By: Aniko River
Tags: Energy, Morning Routines, Solutions, Breathing Exercise, Easy

How to get energized, a fast and easy solution.

Photo by Cam Adams on Unsplash

Have you ever woke up in the morning feeling that you have less energy than when you went to bed the night before? While many factors determine the cause of this, there is an easy and fast solution to perk yourself up in just a few minutes, and it is not coffee!

What then, you may ask. It is the simplest thing and you do it naturally all the time. It is breathing! Yes, but not just breathing normally, but rhythmic breathing. It made wonders in my life and will do the same in yours. The first thing I do when I open my eyes, after an “inner self-love shower” is I start breathing rhythmically. There are many techniques out there, however the most important thing is actually doing it, before you get out of bed.

A few minutes, inhaling and exhaling for 4 counts and then speeding it up for 2 counts, wakes you up like nothing else I ever experienced. It is as effective as a cold shower, but this one you can do while still in bed, and this is the best part. My favorite segment of the day is those moments, when I just awoke and still half here half over there, in the other dimension. The alpha state, as they say.

How to do it? In that heavenly state, before you open your eyes, shower yourself with love and start breathing with total focus. After a few minutes I start feeling tingling in my fingers and legs and finally my whole body and feel that I am full of energy and ready to roll, exercise. Whatever is your morning routine, breath first. I normally finish with a slower breathing pattern and then I start the day.

Breathing exercises can make miracles. There are certain practices, like breath retention, that also can supercharge creativity and give an energy boost any time during the day. But conscious, rhythmic breathing in the morning is by far my favorite uplift and does not cost anything. Yes, it is true, the best things in life are free.
Qualities of a Successful Leader
By: Tanish Sharma
Tags: Leadership, Marketing, Médium, Strategy

In an organizational context, leadership is where a person (leader) tries to focus the thoughts, behavior, and attitude of other people (subordinates) towards a common goal. The sustainability of any business depends totally on the decisions made by the leader and how effectively they are been implemented. A successful leader is one who sets the organization’s vision and makes people help him in accomplishing that vision while making his subordinates excel in their respective operating areas.

In case of TATA when Ratan Tata joined the business, TATA group was not in the international market but then he decided to step up for global expansion as his strategic approach believed that a company’s business risk must not be dependent on an economy of a single country and he also had the vision to compete globally.

Similarly, in the case of APPLE co-founded by Steve Jobs who was forced to leave his own company but later called again to save it from being bank corrupt. People had many times criticized his leadership style for being harsh but his strategic approach was to accomplish the company’s vision while making his employees better than before which later on not only saved the company but also 2011 made APPLE the most valuable company of the world.

It can be said that a leader sets guidelines for people, help subordinates realize their true potential, helps to communicate the organization’s vision among people. Without leaderships chaos may arise as different people have different opinions of looking things most importantly leadership helps the organization to adopt changes thereby sustaining its competitive position.

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Liberal Underground
By: Reuben Salsa
Tags: The Bad Influence, Politics, Salsa, Dystopia, Culture

Photo: Kayla Velasquez

NEW REALITY TV SHOW!!!!

Liberal Underground — The Trump Experience.

Take one abandoned underground car park.

Put a bunch of liberals in there and start taking away their food. Divide the group into odd numbered teams so one person always has the deciding vote. See how long they stay liberal as lack of protein kicks in and rewards are offered for ratting people out.

They’ll have task to do, like ‘Make America Great — Name A Dissenter’ or ‘Gun or Mobile — Shoot To Kill’. The winning group will win the special privilege of removing the right of freedom from an opposing team member. They will also be offered a gun to use as they see fit in accordance with the first amendment.

Based off Guatanamo Bay prison, loud music is played 24/7. The more radical dissenters are taken away, head covered, off for a spot of water boarding. Ramp up the abuse calling them ‘animals’ and threaten to really divide the camp by building a wall. Finally, offer to deport their families all in the name of security and bury their protests in a tsunami of tweets each more preposterous then the last!!
The Most Grateful Hearts May Come In Rags
By: Ezer Agyin
Tags: Appreciation, The Bad Influence, Life Lessons, Giving Back, Acts Of Kindness

The Most Grateful Hearts May Come In Rags

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It was a slow day at work, I decided to dash out and make a quick enquiry. Halfway in the traffic I started experiencing lightheadedness _ I needed sugar. That’s when I realized I left my bag in my consulting room, leaving no money on me ( I stopped keeping money in my pocket; don’t ask me why).

I needed something sugary now.

I looked in a small compartment in the car where I usually keep coins for toll and yay, a dirty mishandled 2GHS squeezing in there said I got you.

I bought the first sugary thing I saw _ 'dates' and it cost me exactly 2GHS. Just when I was biting into them hungrily, a kid begging on the street approached my window asking for money. I shook my head, hoping she’ll understand I don’t have any money on me (truth). She kept begging and I was starting to feel frustrated. Why wouldn’t she believe me? I had nothing to give her.

I just used my last cedi on what I’m munching. She could just move to the next car.

Why wouldn’t the traffic move when I need it to do so now?

While drowning in that frustration, I had a faint realization _ I wouldn’t believe me either if I was her. I was driving, well dressed, eating dates in traffic... why can’t a guy like me afford a change?

That little realization coupled with a slight feeling of contempt made me hand her the dates (she obviously didn’t care about my state, she just wanted her piece of the national cake which she must have mistook for my dates, I thought).

"That’s all I have," I told her.

To my surprise, her eyes lit. I recognized that spark in her eyes immediately; I’ve seen it several times in the eyes of people I’ve helped when they least expected. She lifted her hand, but held it back. I realized her hesitation, so I nodded at her with the faintest smile I could stretch on my face. She wiped her hands in her dirty dress and with delicate movement and steady fingers (she should be a neurosurgeon) picked ONE date from the plain rubber of three_ carefully not touching the other two inside. (For my faith in the steadiness of her hands, I ate the remaining dates)

She dropped me a curtsey twice, said thank you more than twice, and walked on.

I was stunned.

She triggered something in me.

That appreciation she showed for a little act of kindness (intended to provoke her) is the reason I thoughtlessly ditched work for the second time, drove on that same road in that annoying traffic; not to make an enquiry this time around.
Matplotlib — Line Plots Explained in Detail
By: David Gladson
Tags: Data Science, Data Visualization, Matplotlib, Python, Forecasting

Quick recap:

Today's topic:

It is the most used one ‘Line plots’, widely across various industries like finance (stock forecasting), biology (decay forecasting), sports (team comparisons) and many more.

Commands for line plots

Multiline plots

Adding annotations to each point

Customizing markers, line styles & legends

we use the following command

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot(x,y)

Let’s draw a simple line plot

import numpy as np x = np.arange(1,11)

y = np.random.random(10) plt.plot(x,y)

plt.show()

Basic Line Plot

One more:

x = np.linspace(1,10,1000)

y = np.sin(x) plt.plot(x,y)

plt.show()

Customizing line plots with Markers, Linestyles, Annotations & Legends

fig, (ax1, ax2, ax3) = plt.subplots(1,3, figsize = (12,4)) x = np.arange(1,11)

y1 = np.random.random(10)

y2 = np.random.random(10)

y3 = np.random.random(10) ax1.plot(x, y1)

ax1.set_title('Plain Line plot') ax2.plot(x, y2, marker = 'o')

ax2.set_title('Line plot with markers') ax3.plot(x, y3, marker = 'o', linestyle = ':')

ax3.set_title('Line plot with markers & linestyle') plt.show()

Let’s try annotating each point with its (x,y) coordinates, this can be tricky because we need to specify the coordinates at which the annotations should appear:

Generating annotations using a simple For loop

plt.figure(figsize = (10,10)) x = np.arange(1,11)

y = np.random.random(10)

y = np.random.random(10) plt.plot(x,y, marker = '*', linestyle = '--') for i in range(len(x)):

xi = "{:.1f}".format(x[i])

yi = "{:.1f}".format(y[i])

s = str("P(" + str(xi) + ',' + str(yi) + ')' )

plt.text(x[i] + 0.03, y[i] + 0.03, s)

Multi-line plot & addition of legends:

When there are two or more lines, it’s always a good practice to use legends to specify each line.

fig, (ax1, ax2, ax3) = plt.subplots(1,3, figsize = (12,4)) x = np.arange(1,11)

y1 = np.random.random(10)

y2 = np.random.random(10)

y3 = np.random.random(10) ax1.plot(x, y1, marker = '*')

ax1.plot(x, y2, marker = '*')

ax1.set_title('Double Line plot') ax2.plot(x, y1, marker = '*', linestyle = ':')

ax2.plot(x, y2, marker = '*', linestyle = ':')

ax2.plot(x, y3, marker = '*', linestyle = ':')

ax2.set_title('2 or more Lines') ax3.plot(x, y1, marker = '*', label = 'line1')

ax3.plot(x, y2, marker = '*' , label = 'line2')

ax3.plot(x, y3, marker = '*', linestyle = ':', label = 'line3')

ax3.set_title('Multiple lines with legends')

plt.legend() plt.show()

Hope this was helpful!

See you with another story tomorrow :)

Sources:

http://python-graph-gallery.com/line-chart/
Want to Keep Your Early-stage Employees? Don’t Give Them Fancy Titles
By: Liran Belenzon
Tags: Entrepreneurship, CEO, Startup, Title

In 2017, I was about to make our first business hire. This person was to lead one of our most important functions.

I met with our investors to run it by them. “He looks good on paper, and we are supportive, but whatever you do, don’t make him a VP,” they said.

I pushed back but agreed to follow their advice. Six months later, I understood that advice and was grateful for taking it.

Let me explain why — and a better approach.

Titles aren’t free

Many first-time founders have been through this.

You need to hire someone to lead a function in which you’re not a subject matter expert (that’s why you need to hire them).

Because you’re not a subject matter expert, you can’t estimate how good other people are at the job. The benchmark is low: likely you or someone else on your team doing the job part-time without much prior experience. So you overestimate talent.

You find a person that wants to join, but only as a VP. Compared to your low bar, you think they’re the shit, and hey, since titles are free, you make them a VP.

Six to twelve months pass, your company starts to scale, and now you’ve learned what you truly need in a VP-level executive. You realize you hired someone that is a senior manager or director at best.

You raise your A round, and all your investors tell you to hire a real VP. You need the title back. So now, you must either demote and demoralize or fire your prior hire.

It’s a bad outcome for everyone.

Have an honest conversation

Here’s the truth: In the early days, before you find a strong product/market fit and business model, you probably don’t need and can’t afford a VP-level person.

What you can do instead is hire a senior manager, director, or even a “head.”

You can have an honest conversation with the person you hire, telling them that you might need to bring a VP above them at some point unless they prove they can execute and earn that position.

Then, if that person joins and can’t execute at a VP level, you bring a VP and save their job.

That’s what we were able to do, thanks to our great advice from investors.

Remember: Titles are are easy to give but almost impossible to take back. Preserve people’s jobs and morale by not giving them titles for which they’re not ready.
Why I Go To The Movies By Myself
By: Ryal Kn
Tags: Cinema, Experience, Mindfulness, Self Love, Self Improvement

Photo by Erik Witsoe (Unsplash)

Darkness. The cool, clean air. The crisp silence broken only by the blaring speakers. The familiar feeling of strangers sharing a space for a sole, simple reason. To catch a flick.

When I was younger, going to the movies was one of the many social activities we did. 4 or 5 boys accompanied by a timid group of girls who we barely talked to for the duration of the outing, would have week-long planning sessions for our weekend trip to the movies. It was alongside playing soccer and hosting parties as the number one way to celebrate a birthday. It was also a reason for us to get together and have fun as these were the pre-drinking days, depending on our varying predispositions to rule-breaking behaviour.

In the later years, we would sneak a half- jack in and enjoy a strong slush puppy along with the movie. But I digress.

Being an adult is something that is scary, worrying, draining, and beautiful at the same time. The former because of the realization that there is this beckoning inevitability called death, and a bunch of responsibilities you must handle just to delay it. The latter because of the knowledge you gain on the journey towards it.

One of the most crucial nuggets of knowledge that I have picked up in my seven-year trek towards the eternal nap is the ability to enjoy my own company doing things that comfort me. So much of my life is spent outside of my comfort zone, as they say, that is where the growth is. Understandably so. But there will always remain a desire for solace, peace, space for my mind to transcend and transform myself into an observer of my thoughts. For some, it is hiking. For others, it is reading a book. For me, it is going to the cinema alone.
Review: The Gold Coast Lounge is a Fantastic African Film Noir
By: Daniel Okechukwu
Tags: Cinema, Movies, African Cinema, Film, Film Noir

In recent years, a number of filmmakers telling stories inspired by Hollywood’s filmmaking but rooted in African culture have emerged.

Pascal Aka’s The Gold Coast Lounge — which screened at the 2019 African International Film Festival (AFRIFF) — works the trend, embedding a Ghanian crime story within the film noir style of 1940s Hollywood. It adds an authentic Africanness to the dreamy mysteriousness of classic noir. Its dialogue is in Ghanaian languages, the music combines classical African jazz with highlife, and it pursues a theme of colonialism and black power.

The story is set in the heart of Accra. A crime family has three weeks to clean up their act before the inauguration of a crime-intolerant government. The family is headed by the revered John Donkor (Adjetey Anang), a man who has just returned from prison for crimes related to drug trafficking and prostitution. He wants to end all illegal activities and reform the popular Gold Coast Lounge.

When John is mysteriously poisoned, his most trusted soldier and legal heir to his empire, Daniel (Alphonse Menyo), takes control of the business, the lounge, and John’s woman — the sultry Naa Adorley (Raquel Ammah). Adorley is an enchanting songstress and the new face of the lounge. She has a history with Daniel, they were childhood sweethearts, and although his boss now beds her, Daniel still wants her. Before his demise, John warns Daniel.

“I see the way you look at her,” he says, “don’t eat that which isn’t meant for you.”

As the new boss, Daniel brings creative, pro-black ideas but he is naïve and there is his obsession with Naa Adorley.

Gold Coast Lounge embraces the film noir aesthetics with its luscious black and white picture, created by the terrific combination of Isreal De-like’s cinematography and Prince Ibam’s lighting. The film noir stock characters are present: Daniel is the flawed protagonist; John is the suave crime boss; Naa Adorley is the femme fatale.

For a director doing a lot of his own technical work — acting, editing, music composition, and writing — Aka does a fine job getting excellent performances from his actors. Menyo owns an intense presence onscreen. Anang is impeccably charming.

Towards the end, the story descends into chaos as more of its mysteries are unraveled. But Aka manages to bring the many moving parts into an explosive but coherent conclusion. It might not as smooth as is possible, but The Gold Coast Lounge works.
Spherity joins MPC Alliance
Tags: Cybersecurity, IoT, Multiparty Computation, Press Release, Cryptography

Spherity announces that it has joined the MPC Alliance, which mission is to accelerate industry awareness and adoption of Multiparty Computation (MPC) -based technologies, products, and services to enhance security, privacy, and innovation of online services.

MPC offers tremendous advances in implementing and managing security and privacy controls, especially for distributed ledger technologies and other distributed services. Early versions of the MPC concept have existed since the 1970s, but they have been limited to academic research and proof-of-concept studies for decades. Thanks to advances in cloud computing and distributed implementations, MPC-based technologies and services are now practical, fast and efficient, leading to increasing adoption and use in various industries.

We at Spherity use MPC to enable distributed and fail-safed key management schemata, such as configurations incorporating cloud backups and key sharding. We also use it to automate the signing of verified business transactions across organizational boundaries.

Spherity co-founder Carsten Stöcker says, “Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) allows mutually distrusting parties to run joint computations without revealing any private data to one another. In a world when everything is connected with everything else, MPC enables secure transactions among any given group of actors while enabling entirely new and reliable business models.”

About MPC Alliance

The MPC Alliance was conceived and initiated by Sepior, Unbound and ZenGo. The members of the alliance share the belief that many current and emerging online markets will benefit from the MPC, and working together as an alliance will help raise awareness, break down barriers and promote acceptance for more privacy and security of online services.

Join the MPC Alliance

Companies developing or applying MPC to solve real world problems are invited to join, contribute, and participate in accelerating market awareness and adoption of MPC. Visit www.mpcalliance.org for more information. You can also follow The MPC Alliance on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Telegram.

About Spherity

Spherity was founded by Dr. Carsten Stöcker und Dr. Michael Rüther in November 2017. Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th industrial revolution, bringing secure identities (“Digital Twins”) to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities. The client focus is primarily on technical industries like mobility, supply chain, and pharmaceuticals; in particular, Spherity is supporting the introduction of identity solutions in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market, which is expected to have a value of over €400 billion by 2030 and 75 billion connected devices by 2025.

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