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Bottom-Up Navigation
By: Dan Bayn
Tags: Content Marketing, User Experience, Webdesign

Contextual Navigation & Minimal Headers

Visitors who arrive on your site via Google (or any social media site with a feed, e.g. all of them) are extremely likely to bounce. If the content they’ve found isn’t quite what they want, they’re gonna pogo stick back to their search results (or news feed) and try another one.

If you want a second chance to capture a pogo sticker, you’ve got one great tool at your disposal: they’ve already told you what they’re looking for. Something about that piece of content matched their search terms (or captured their interest) and you can reasonably assume that similar content might do the same.

So sweep out the breadcrumbs and take a tag-based approached to contextual navigation.

A website header without all the crap. Looks a lot like an app header. Weird.

The top of a content page has two jobs:

Help visitors evaluate the content as quickly and easily as possible. If it’s not what they want, help them find similar content.

Tag-based navigational links do both of those things. They provide keywords that tell visitors what the content is about, plus they can link up to browse pages that map to each of those keywords. That’s good for SEO and it’s two more things than a traditional navigation header ever did.

Nobody fires up a web browser because they want to experience some really awesome decision trees.

And speaking of useless, let’s talk more about breadcrumbs. They’re those little lists of tiny text links that tell you where you are on a site, or so the theory goes. Ask Hansel and Gretel how well that works.

Breadcrumb trails uselessly reproduce navigation options already available in the header, most commonly “Home” or, even worse, they reproduce the Back button. They force content to pretend it “lives” in one and only one place, when it should be linking up to any and all related browse pages.

So what should we do instead? I say dispense with the idea that users need to know “where” they are on your site. Design from the bottom up.
[Tutorial] How to trade DomRaider Tokens on Bancor
By: Domraider Team
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bancor, Domraider, Exchange

As announced last week, DomRaider Token is now tradable on Bancor. The Bancor network is a new way to trade DomRaider tokens and provides some interesting features. Check out our article to find out how to trade your DRTs on Bancor.
Data Visualization — Violate to rules
Tags: Data Science, Violate, Data Visualization, Rules, News Data

[Image: Flickr user Cory M. Grenier]

Q. Describe one or two instances of data visualization that violate one or more of the 3 simple rules to visualizing insights with impact.

The data visualisation needs to be simple in order to highlight a clear message that needs to be conveyed, and eliminate distractions.

Along side, presentation elements like utilising appropriate visual cues, and colour combinations with contrasts, plus size are important to present insights with right impact.

Below are 2 examples that I have read that violate one of the 3 simple rules to visualise insights with impact:

1. South Korean online news media is error(violate) of News data graph and visualizing. For example, They have made a big mistake in the news of the stock of the decline in the South Korean Motor-Car company(reference: News image URL). Was try to show increasing the width of the drop wrote the value of the left and right in a different way.

2. This was a study done in June 2008, and appeared in NY Times

(reference: NY Times — The Best and Worst of Data Visualization) in September 14, 2008.

1 2 where the different types of food in United States are imported from, and how many percent from which country were the different types of food imported from.

The data visualization was represented by the types of food (generalized version) and the size again, do not correlate to the percent, again violating the 3 simple rule, therefore making the diagram difficult to analyze and the types of food were also poorly represented.

(additional reference: Walter Hickey, The 27 Worst Charts of All Times; The most misleading charts of 2015, fixed;)
eXchangily DEX Listing Application Start
By: Fab Info
Tags: Partnerships, Blockchain, Events, Exchange Listing, Decentralized Exchange

eXchangily decentralized exchange, the first new-generation decentralized exchange that truly realizes high-speed cross-chain, now officially launched the global blockchain project at the end of July, 2019.

Five highlights of eXchangily decentralized exchange:

1) 100% truly decentralized exchanges, investors control and manage their own digital assets, safe and secure, open source and transparent.

2) High-speed trading performance and good user experience.

3) Achieving cross-chaining is a disruptive breakthrough decentralized exchanges.

4) Legal compliance, U.S. FINRA and SEC registered.

5) 100% of the daily profit of the exchange is distributed to the holders. Every 24 hours, it is better than any digital currency exchange and traditional financial institutions on the market.

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The world’s high-performance blockchain projects are the first to be considered to be the first batch of the first round eXchangily coin listing, and win millions of dividends. eXchanigly lawyers and professional evaluators will carefully review the first batch of projects one by one.

For the application of the coin listing, please send an email: info@exchangily.com

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Bitcoin Cash is fuelled by adoption, not speculation.
By: The Voltaire Team
Tags: Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Bitcoincash, Bitcoin

When Satoshi Nakamoto first released the famous whitepaper for Bitcoin over a decade ago, they called the fledgeling new idea a “peer-to-peer version of electronic cash.” The intention was for Bitcoin to be digital cash: a borderless payment system that would require no mediator and would, in effect, have no boundaries in its use.

Since Bitcoin’s inception, we have seen it give rise to a whole new horizon of possibilities in our increasingly digitized world: one where potentially many of the facets of our current internet and financial system would be made permanently altered or even defunct. It was certainly a breakthrough and, most importantly, Satoshi recognized Bitcoin’s first and foremost function as being digital cash. It was specifically made to be spent.

Since then, Bitcoin has since become a household name. However, the last exponential rise also proved to many the inherent limitations of Bitcoin: on a mass scale, it proved to be fundamentally useless as an everyday means of exchange. At the height of Bitcoin’s network activity in December of 2017, it saw transaction fees rise to extreme levels at some $50 or so dollars per transaction. Not only did this make Bitcoin unusable for 99% of its users, but it brought the entire network to a screeching halt. Many vendors as a result began to use Bitcoin less and less and many dropped out of using it entirely. Although transaction fees have fallen drastically due to the current drop in price and network usage, the ‘fee problem’ proved that Bitcoin’s 1-megabyte block size simply could not handle the surge of users that accompanied its exponential rise.

For those of us who were here during Bitcoin’s early days, this all comes off as odd and perhaps even forgoes some our most basic, original expectations about the cryptocurrency. What were once discussions on how to get people to use Bitcoin as a currency in 2014–2015 have today morphed into how to get more investors into Bitcoin as a ‘store of value.’ Or not to use Bitcoin for spending at all, according to the now infamous tweet that appeared by a core Bitcoin developer.

We at Voltaire believe that Bitcoin should exist, first and foremost, as a usable currency. Adoption is naturally then the key focus. During the last Bitcoin Cash stress test on Sept 1st, Bitcoin Cash was able to process some 2.1 million transactions in a day. The transaction fees during this time actually dropped from $0.002 to $0.0017. Therefore, the question of whether Bitcoin Cash can handle everyday usability should not be questioned — it’s more of a question of whether we can create the necessary infrastructure for adoption to happen. This is why we decided to create our own trading ecosystem, one with specifically Bitcoin Cash trading pairs.

Rather than rely purely on speculative investors, the price of any cryptocurrency that aims to be ‘digital cash’ must be directly related to its network usage and everyday usability. In other words, lest we not forget: the future of Bitcoin rests on adoption much more than investors.
Blurred haven
By: Ruth Lazkoz
Tags: Challenge, Atheism, Love, Pain, Haiku

A Cornered Gurl

Where Writers Break Out of the Box.
10 Essential Jupyter Notebook Extensions for Data Scientists
By: Matt Przybyla
Tags: Machine Learning, Technology, Education, Towards Data Science, Data Science

spellchecker

Also simple, yet useful, is the spellchecker. This extension is especially useful if you are sharing your notebook, pushing it to GitHub, or displaying it to stakeholders. You will want to make sure you have correctly spelled your words in your markdown cells. You will not see misspelled words show up in your displayed markdown, but only in your edit. This feature is beneficial so that if you do have some words that you disagree on with the spellchecker, like Jupyter Notebook (is not actually Jupiter Notebook), you can still display it without a distracting, red, highlighted text.

Spellcheck example. Screenshot by Author [9].

Code Font Size

If you want to change the code font size, this extension allows you to do that. When sharing and collaborating, especially sharing your screen, this feature can prove to be beneficial so that your code is easier to view.

datestamper

This extension allows you to paste your current date and time into your cell. I recommend saving it as a markdown so that the formatting does not run as code with hard-to-see formatting. If you want to keep track of when you started a process that involved different cells and functions, this extension can be useful (on top of the popular tqdm library).

Scratchpad

This extension is incredibly useful. You can use your scratchpad as seen below, by selection Ctrl-B on your keyboard. You can modify the current code that can work off the same kernel as well. It is also useful for viewing side-by-side code and comments if you need to compare them within your notebook.

Scratchpad example. Screenshot by Author [10].

Skip-Traceback

This unique extension allows you to ignore some of the duplicate or long error messages you see in your Jupyter Notebook cells. It works similarly to the Collapsible Headings and Codefolding. In the screenshot below, you can see how the main part of the error is still there on the right, but reduces the duplicate error information that can sometimes cause a headache and overwhelm you from fixing that same error.
MyContract.co: Smart Contracts, Tokens Issuing, Asset Tokenization, and ICOs made easy
By: Punit Agarwal
Tags: Tech, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Latest News, Xinfin

Automating creation of tokens, smart contracts and ICO’s

XinFin, the Hybrid Blockchain industry leader, is now launching MyContract.co: a WebApp that allows users to create smart contracts for issuing tokens to crowdsale or asset tokenization without a need for any programming expertise, just in a few clicks.

MyContract.co initially allows contract creation on Ethereum public blockchain with any of the ERC standards for issuing or tokenizing an array of asset classes: fungible cryptocurrencies and tradable assets (ERC 20 and ERC 223), non-fungible assets (ERC 721), or fixed income financial instruments (ERC 888).

Users can create their own token in a few minutes by just providing token basic details, such as token name, token symbol, token decimals, total supply, and token sale limit, in an easy to grasp environment.

After providing all the details of the token created, and buying the package — payable in XDCE tokens — the users can easily get the code of their brand new token.

MyContract will allow businesses of all sizes to deploy their own smart-contracts and tokens across industries, with working use cases in Supply Chain and Decentralized Credit applications.

Since MyContract keeps personal financial data — like know your customer (KYC) or Credit Score — privacy assurance features are carefully implemented. Your assets remain secure and protected by locking them all with a secure private key.

Intuitive e-wallet also lets users track their balances in XDCE, ETH, and other tokens.

MyContract implements an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) platform to be used once the token is configured for crowdsale. The ICO platform lets easy follow up for registered users, offering KYC verification, trades executed, and BTC and ETH balances.

Transactions can be tracked, whether they are deposit, sending, or updating ones.

Demo of generation of Smart Contract on MyContract Platform

In summary, MyContract offers a very practical and easy to use environment for users entering token issuing, ICOs, and token trading business, with contract ownership transfer as a remarkable feature.

MyContract is now live and already being tested by clients that are piloting XinFin. Visit web app of Mycontract at https://mycontract.co

Keep visiting XinFin’s medium platform to read further on MyContract and many other use cases XinFin has built so far. For regular updates, don’t forget to visit our Twitter handle (https://mobile.twitter.com/XinFin_Official) and Telegram Channel (https://t.me/xinfin)
Does your website comply with the new GDPR rules?
By: Pennink Productions
Tags: Gdpr, Privacy, Website, Security

The chances are that you have been seeing a lot of mentions of the General Data Protection Regulation — or GDPR — in your email inbox and on news sites in recent weeks and months. It was adopted by the European Parliament and Council in April 2016 as a means of better protecting European citizens’ data — but is your online business prepared for it?

It’ll need to be ready soon, given that the new rules come into effect for any business or blog on the web from 25th May 2018. The good news, though, is that it doesn’t necessarily need to be an onerous process to undertake the necessary updates to your own site.

What are the basic principles and requirements of GDPR?

Although there are various places online where you can read more in-depth about the GDPR rules, the important thing to remember is that it’s all about how we’re allowed to control, collect and use data, including what we can and can’t keep and share.

The new rules aim to boost transparency, for example, by requiring businesses like yours to make clear why they are collecting users’ personal information, and what they intend to do with it.

Consent is also a big principle of GDPR. You can no longer just offer a standard opt-in, but instead need to provide a checkbox that the user checks to affirm they are giving you consent to collect their information.

It’s all about how we’re allowed to control, collect and use data, including what we can and can’t keep and share. Click To Tweet

So, what practical steps can you take to ensure compliance?

The measures that you adopt to make sure you are on the right side of the GDPR rules should start with the auditing of your company’s existing personal data records. You need to find out what information you have already collected through your website’s forms, as this information will now be required to comply with the new regulations.

You are also urged to take another look at your site’s privacy policy to consider whether it needs to be refreshed in light of the rule changes, as well as add a consent checkbox to all of your site’s forms. Furthermore, some of the email contact lists that your site is using may no longer be usable after 24 May due to non-compliance with the regulations. You may therefore need to send out a new subscribe email, asking for contacts’ permission again.

The new rules begin from midnight as 24 May becomes 25 May, so you have little time to waste to ensure your own online business’s readiness!

Don’t forget, too, that we can provide the highest standards of digital marketing online here at PENNInk Productions to get your website spick and span for 2018 and beyond; just call our team now on 020 8144 7931 .
What Happens When Your Third Eye is Open?
By: Avis J. Williams
Tags: Spirituality, Consciousness, Spiritual Growth, Self, Psychic

Photo on Pxfuel

The third eye is also known as the sixth chakra, It is located just above the eyebrows in the center of the forehead. When the third eye is open you can experience clairvoyance, visions, and extrasensory perception. The third eye opens the doorway to the subconscious, to enable you to communicate and to receive messages and information from the higher consciousness and other dimensions of consciousness.

Based on my experience when my third eye chakra naturally opened. I sometimes feel a tingling or pressure on my third eye chakra or around the forehead area. In my mind’s eye, I can see colors mostly purple. When the color starts to disappear. I can see images of people, objects, sacred symbols, and I sometimes have visions.

Once your third eye is open your other physical senses is heightened as well:

Hearing — Clairaudience

Feeling — Clairsentience

Tasting — Clairgustance

Smelling — Clairalience

Touching — Clairtangency/Psychometry

Seeing — Clairvoyance

The higher consciousness or other dimensions of consciousness sends you messages through your subconscious. The subconscious processes the messages and then sends it to one or more of your physical senses. Usually, the information is sent to your strongest physical sense first, if not it will be sent to two or more together, to make sure you receive it.

You will receive information or knowledge that can help your personal and spiritual growth, or receive knowledge and information to help others.

Constant practice is needed to strengthen the physical senses and to listen and to interpret the messages that you are receiving. It can take months or even years of practice. Practicing meditation to still the mind can help you to be more aware of the messages or information coming through.

Sometimes it is possible to misunderstand the message because of a lack of trust in your ability in what you are receiving or the message does not make sense to you, but may make sense to someone else or to you in the future.

The downside to having your third eye open

The downsides that I have experienced are that I get migraines that can last for hours or days. This happens when your physical body is still getting used to receiving intuitive information or the third eye is not fully open and the chakra is over-active; too much energy is in the third eye area and needs to be released. Doing anything that is grounding, that helps to keep you centered brings the third eye chakra back into balance.

Another downside is you may see things that you may find upsetting. Especially if you have an unsettling vision of the future, that came true.

Remember spirituality is love, we need to maintain a high vibration, a vibration of love. So that you will, not attract unwanted negative energies or experiences in your space.
Three Different Things: April 3, 2020
By: Sean O'Brien
Tags: Data Science, Social Media, Data Visualization, Privacy

Three Different Things: April 3, 2020

Unmasking Twitter, Google Compliance, and Social Distancing Habits

(FTA)

It sure seems like multiple health authorities — the experts Twitter is going to rely on — have told us that masks “are known to be ineffective”: is Twitter going to delete the many, many, many tweets — some of which informed this article — arguing the opposite? The answer, obviously, is that Twitter won’t, because this is another example of where Twitter has been a welcome antidote to “experts”; what is striking, though, is how explicitly this shows that Twitter’s policy is a bad idea, not just because it allows countries like China to indirectly influence its editorial decisions, but also because it limits the search for truth.

Sometimes the value of a policy is to change the optics when you have to take action. I don’t think for Twitter it’s about treating every idea fairly.

2. Google uses location data to show which places are complying with stay-at-home orders — and which aren’t

A sample report viewed by The Verge for California, where a shelter in place order has been in effect since March 19th, showed steep declines to retail and recreation locations and transit stations, with a moderate uptick in time spent at home.

This is very cool but shows the incredible surveillance powers that exist in private companies. The data is presented at the county level currently, but I could see this becoming invasive as more people ask “who is not abiding?” Also, trend data can be misleading — for instance, residential time is only up by 16% (I’m guessing because time spent sleeping is included).

3. Social distancing isn’t available for everyone

Anonymized smartphone data in the United States shows some interesting trends. People in larger cities and urban corridors were more likely to change their travel habits, especially in early March. By the end of the month, most U.S. For many, it’s not possible to work from home or it isn’t safe to stay at home. Don’t be too quick to judge.

But who is not abiding? /s
Refactoring — an ode to code
By: Kevin Wenger
Tags: Code, Programming, Refactoring, PHP

What is it?

Refactoring refers to independent techniques and steps to improve code that has already been written.

To make it short, refactoring is the art of increasing the maintainability of a piece of code.

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

- C.A.R. Hoare

But don’t get me wrong, having to refactor your own codebase is not bad. It doesn’t make you a poor-skilled developer.

Actually, during your career you will always be refactoring code (yours or others).

The Technical debt is a complete part of the development process, as nicely stated in this article from Marc Friederich & Gilles Doge.

On a standard 101-key keyboard, there are 100 keys that increase technical debt, and only one key that reduces it.

- Josh Wulf

During a refactoring process, you might be doing a lot of changes, adding new Classes, renaming, reorganising. But remember, at the end of your journey you won’t ever be altering the observable behaviour of the code.

First, refactoring is not debugging. Your code needs to be running in the first place.

Of course, during a refactoring process you may find bugs. The moment that you start dealing with them, you’ve stopped refactoring and started bug fixing, which is another mindset.

Second, refactoring is not about performance.

I was speaking with a young developer the other day who was trying to convince me that refactoring a codebase makes it obviously faster.

It is a very common misconception that bad code automatically leads to performance leaks. The performance of your code is not the goal of a refactoring process — nor even what you should expect out of it.

Finally, refactoring is not adding features.

When you are refactoring a part of your code, you should not change its behaviour, otherwise you are no longer refactoring.
How to deploy a static Gatsby app to Heroku
By: Kristin Baumann
Tags: Github, Tech, Heroku, Deployment, Gatsbyjs

This tutorials explains how to set up the deployment of a static GatsbyJS project with Heroku and Github. You will learn how to create a staging and production environment for your application so you’re ready for safe continuous deployment.

After finishing this tutorial, …

✈️ you will be able to build and deploy a static Gatsby application .

. 🤖 you will be able to trigger automatic deploys to your staging environment by pushing to your git repo. (You can review the staging app and, if suitable, promote it to your production website.)

Requirements:

Your project will be based on GatsbyJS (a static site generator). You don’t need any knowledge in coding with Gatsby or React, but you should have Node and GatsbyJS installed.

You will need a Github and Heroku account (both available for free). Git needs to be set up on your machine.

1.) Create a new Gatsby project

First, you need a fresh Gatsby project.

You can create a new project in the folder test-project by executing the following in our console:

This creates the essential files for a static Gatsby application from a starter pack. You can start the development server locally by going into the project directory with cd test-project and then running gatsby develop . Your app is now available on localhost:8000 .

2.) Set up a git repo

With the project running locally, you can now set up a git repository for your Gatsby project.

Log into Github and create a new repo.

Initialise a git repo in your project with:

git init

Connect your local git repo to your remote repo with:

git remote add origin <remoteURL>

Make your initial commit of the Gatsby project with:

git add .

git commit -m "Initial commit"

git push origin master

The changes in your Gatsby project are now tracked with Github, which will provide the trigger to start a deployment later on.

3.) Set up Heroku apps

As a next step, you can configure the continuous deployment environments on Heroku.

Create a new pipeline called test-project in the Heroku app dashboard

in the Heroku app dashboard Within this pipeline, create a new app for the staging environment called test-project-staging and a new app for production called test-project-prod

and a new app for production called Connect the pipeline (not each app individually) with your previously created Github repo

Enable automatic deployments from the master branch for the staging app (but not for the production app!)

Set the buildpacks for both apps to:

"heroku/nodejs" "https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static"

These buildpacks are scripts that run when your app is deployed and are specific for your static Gatsby project. You can configure the static buildpack in the next step.
A Letter to My Office Plant in the Time of Coronavirus
By: R.J. Kushner
Tags: Humor, Comedy, Business, Plants, Satire

Photo by Jane Palash on Unsplash

A Letter to My Office Plant in the Time of Coronavirus

You’re probably wondering where I am right now.

My dearest Persephone,

This is my eighth attempt to write this letter. It’s hard to know just what to say.

You’re probably wondering where I am right now. Well, it’s like I’ve told you many times, Persephone: this crazy, mixed-up world has a knack for getting in the way of a man and his office plant.

You see, there’s a new virus going around that’s keeping people away from the workplace. How best to explain… Remember the mealybug infestation? It’s sort of like that. Remember how long it took before I was cured of them and could come back to work?

Well, this self-quarantine could keep me away even longer, Persephone, and Margaret will not be there to help water you in my absence, either (although on the plus side, she’s also not there to steal from my Werther’s Originals bowl and think I won’t notice).

You must be brave now, Persephone. Yes, Joel had the foresight to take his cactus home with him, but that’s only because Joel and his cactus are weak and coddled. You and I are made of tougher stuff; you know how to survive days without water because, pandemic or no pandemic, I often forget to water you.

Oh, Persephone… How I wish I could nourish you with the salty tears that roll down my cheeks as I pen this. You are the dusty jewel that keeps my desk from looking like a psychopath’s.

I swear on all the toilet paper in all the world, we will be reunited again before the end. Wait for me, Persephone. Be a light and a living reminder to any who may pass my bowl of Werther’s Originals: I will be back, and I will notice.
T-SQL için JOIN İfadeleri
By: Murat Süngü
Tags: Join

SQL Server Join Example

I am new to SQL Server and want to learn about the JOIN options. What are all of the JOIN options in SQL Server? What…
EXTINCTIONS
By: Dana Sanford
Tags: Poetry, Life Lessons, Culture, Contemplation, Life

Did a dinosaur once look at the sunrise and dream of the future? Did it feel itself a king? An emotive animal or an eating machine? A dominant species, grown from the turbulent sea and fiery earth, why should it not live forever?

……………………………..

I think (most of the time) that we have always been dominant and will always be. But, what is human in the future? Will hubris save the story-teller? Do we commit the unwilling suicide or suffer contact with a space-rock?

………………………………

Cockroach and automaton sit at sunrise contemplating the things to come and pondering the foibles of their predecessors. “Is it not obvious that we are the ultimate in creation? Together we will control the universe!”

Until Change and Chaos bring Lifes’ next iteration…

Photo by Daniel Cheung on Unsplash

Life

The greatest mystery

Would universes exist

without life to see?
Blockchain for Identity
By: Belavadi Prahalad
Tags: Tech, Bitcoin, Identity, Blockchain, Government

Advantages of putting Identity on the blockchain:

Establishment of a corruption free system.

Not restricted to governmental norms.

Can be used anywhere across the world.

Explicit Security towards one’s assets and identity.

Flexibility and prompt validation.

No Central Database.

Data being compromised is highly unlikely.(Dependant on security standards)

Time Stamping.

Usage of Misplaced or lost identities can be revoked, tracked and monitored.

Less human labor.

Standard for consistent and reliable identity theft prevention.

People can use flexible ways to prove their identities and not rely on just passports or identity cards which are of materialistic value.

Disadvantages:

The need for higher security.

By using multiple layers to allow flexibility, trust falls down to the establishment in charge.

Data stolen during verification can be misused, same as a cop running away with your ID.

Data being on public domain allows people to reverse engineer and misuse the system to provide or restrict access to unauthorized people.

Managing documents and efficiency.

Challenges of putting identity on the blockchain:

Multiple wallets must be tracked all together for illegal activity.

Making sure that Data can’t be directly retrieved and used from public domain for illegal purposes or impersonation.

Curbing misuse and identity theft.

Preventing data theft during verification.

Making the process transparent to build and back trust.

Having Governments on board to accept Blockchain based Identity solutions.

Flexibility allows loopholes which ought to be monitored and regulated.

Incorporating methods for retrieving Data when a person has lost their wallets, memory or requires validation from family or trustworthy entities.
Great CSS Resources for Building Out Your First Web App
By: Matt Ogtong
Tags: Codingbootcamp, Programming, Css Grid, CSS, Ruby on Rails

Once the project pairs were given out, the journey began. My partner and I wasted no time and began to tackle each step to forging our Web App. We began with an idea and worked from there. Sketching out our Domain Model and wireframing several pages with input controls, containers, and components of what we had envisioned.

Some wireframing done using Excalidraw; not the wisest choice

As I had already been accustomed to using Exaclidraw, we had used this whiteboard tool to map out some pages. This is before I found out about Balsamiq or Justinmind as they are by far the better choices when it comes to wireframing. Nonetheless, it was done and we moved on to our next step: The creation of the template of our app that Rails generously provides with rails new <project> .

Continuing, we build out our routes and their respective controllers, along with the class models and view pages. We finish most of the planned functionality, seeing our view pages with only HTML getting to us, and just 4 days remaining till the deadline, we decide to start on some styling. This is where my hatred and love began for CSS.
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Tags: Blockchain, News, Cryptocurrency, Sevencoin

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Taylor is now part of the BR11 investment fund
By: Fabio Seixas
Tags: ICO, Security Tokens, Br11, Blockchain, Sto

A few weeks ago, we were invited to talk about the possibility of an equity-based investment. While the discussions evolved, we understood that it could be an excellent opportunity help us recover from the stolen funds episode (details here and here) and recapitalize Taylor to fulfill its mission of bringing cryptocurrency trading to everyone. We are thrilled to announce that we closed a deal to have a traditional round of investment in our company with the BR11 fund!

BR11 is the first Latin American Security Token Offer. BR11 allows international investors of any size access to early-stage venture capital in Brazil. The fund will run an STO (Security Token Sale, an ICO of a security token) in September and October 2018 to raise funds to invest in 11 selected Brazilian startups. As Brazilians founders, I and Thiago, and all Taylor team were amazed to be chosen to be part of this initiative.

All eleven startups in the BR11 portfolio are up and running and with incredible track records. All of them have already raised investment money. They are companies in a diverse array of segments, from bus tickets and logistics to media and urban mobility. Taylor is there to complete this diverse portfolio acting in the cryptocurrency segment and also to bring in our knowledge with token sales and help BR11 achieve its fundraising goals.

Taylor participation in BR11

Depending on the cap reached in the BR11 token sale, Taylor will receive an investment ranging from 600k USD to 1.1M USD with a valuation of almost 6.6M USD. In the best case scenario, it means that Taylor will recover a big part of the stolen money.

Some STO details

Everyone that is into ICO investment should take a look at what BR11 is offering. Here at Taylor, we believe it is an incredible opportunity to invest in some more traditional business model enjoying the benefits provided by ICOs.

Soft Cap: 10M USD

10M USD Hard Cap: 30M USD

30M USD Token price: 1 BR11 token = 1 USD

Payments can be made using USD or EUR or an equivalent value in BTC or ETH.

1 BR11 token = 1 USD Payments can be made using USD or EUR or an equivalent value in BTC or ETH. Pre-sale : From September 1st, 2018 at 7:00 am UTC to September 30th, 2018 at 6:00 pm UTC.

Minimum investment: 10K USD

: From September 1st, 2018 at 7:00 am UTC to September 30th, 2018 at 6:00 pm UTC. Minimum investment: 10K USD Main sale: From October 1st, 2018 at 7:00 am UTC to October 31st at 6:00 pm UTC.

Minimum investment: 500 USD

If you are interested, follow BR11 on Telegram and Twitter. Updates are rolling out in these channels.

As always I have to thank the Taylor community for being so supportive of our journey.

Thank you very much.

Fabio Seixas

CEO

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Upon Awak
By: Alexander Nagel
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry

So reverent of the sunshine

to be addicted to the light.

Angels dance in two-step,

yet in solitude fight

to maintain the glow

of garments white and

stained with motion.

Like a balustrade bobbles -

adrift through the dark -

we yearn for safety

amid the teeming night.

Ruined and raving and

asleep to any dream -

countenance subject

to rafters and beams

of flimsy belief.
All in the Family
Tags: Humor, Life, Comics, Cartoon, Evolution

Written by

Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
The Chickenshit Club
Tags: Finance, Life

After a hiatus to study for a UK actuarial exam (for questionable career prospects) and handle some odds and ends around the house, I’m about back to my normal timeline of quarterly existential crises.

I regretted signing up for the UK exam a little too late into the studying process (sunk cost, I know, but couldn’t help myself). Regardless of whether I pass or not, I do have a few important takeaways:

I am genuinely interested in finance. Ten years of being in the financial services industry apparently wasn’t enough for me to know that. It’s amazing how self-reflection doesn’t happen even when I spent so much time looking at my navel. I enjoyed my psychology classes in college but wanted to do something in an applied context and without extensive human interaction, so that led nowhere. The finance world sort of provides a model for understanding and influencing psychology. I’m not sure why it took studying for this exam to complete my career self narrative… I learned about copulas, extreme value theory and filled in some holes in my knowledge of statistical distributions. I feel more strongly against the move to higher Bloom’s taxonomy test questions. It’s not that I don’t think evaluation and synthesis are important skills, but I think that the only way to be well prepared for a high Bloom’s question is through memorization (and having a good study guide). I had ~600 flashcards for this exam, way more than for any prior US lower-Bloom exams, plus I memorized a handful of mind maps to make sure I could cover enough points. If one of the big pros for moving to high Bloom’s is less memorization, I don’t think this is true in practice even though I can see why it could make sense in theory.

I also realized how much I didn’t know about the financial crisis. So after the exam, this led me to read Jesse Eisinger’s new book, The Chickenshit Club.

The point of this book was to explain what a sad state of affairs the current financial regulatory system is in and how it got there (you get the gist just by reading the book cover). Through the multiple narratives that I had trouble keeping track of, the thing that stuck out to me most was how many passionate people tried and failed and gave up, mostly due to unintended consequences.

I wish the author would’ve closed with a lessons learned section. After finishing the book, I felt the same as when I watched Atonement — depressed that bad stuff happened and there’s nothing to look forward to. There’s a quote in the book that was in turn a quote from another book, American Pastoral, that sums up what I gained from reading this book:
God Doesn’t “Take You Back” into His Family After You’ve Gone Astray
By: Michelle Wuesthoff
Tags: Spirituality, Christianity, Faith, Church, Religion

The reality is, it’s not always easy or pleasant for us to assimilate a new sibling into the family. My husband and I adopted 2 older children (siblings) when our first three kids were 13, 15, and 20. The kids were all on board with the adoption, but none of us really had any clue how hard the adjustment would really be for everyone. It’s actually the perfect illustration for what I’m talking about here.

The new kids had backgrounds, issues, and behaviors that were decidedly unlike those of the members of our existing family. Our first three kids shared a long history, memories, and their own family “culture.” I can assure you everyone did not mix well for a very long time — every day we fought the ‘us and them’ mentality. It was exhausting, frustrating, and often heartbreaking for us as parents, longing for us all to be one big happy family. But here’s the thing: do you know what makes us a family? It isn’t rules or culture or even love (in the warm fuzzy sense.)

What makes us family is the name we all share and the commitment we have made to be one.

We Christians are not Christ-like at all if we view people with different beliefs and behaviors as outsiders. They are our brothers and sisters who do not yet know (or have rejected) the love of our Father. True evangelism is not about “converting sinners” or “winning souls for Jesus” — it’s about showing people why and how they DO belong to God and His family! Jesus already died for their sins and won the battle, but nearly 100% of the time, He’s put the ball in our court to show people the love, belonging, and benefit that comes with having a relationship with the Father.

The elder brother appears in the parable of The Prodigal Son for a reason. He represents what so often happens in the family of God — jealousy, bitterness, judgement, and an unwelcoming heart for those who’ve fallen away or are living as orphans. And I’ll tell you what: I imagine that grieves God’s heart just as much as it does when his other children go astray.

We live in a sad dichotomy these days — the digital age has created incredible interconnectivity throughout the world, yet there are more divisions between us than ever, along with a growing sense of isolation. As Christians, we need to erase those dividing lines, not create or maintain them.

It’s not our job to determine who’s in and who’s out when the Day of the Lord comes — that is His job alone. “Let the wheat and the weeds grow together,” he said. Until harvest time, they may be indistinguishable from one another. We can’t be so worried about pulling up weeds to protect the wheat, that we lose a valuable part of the harvest.

God doesn’t need bouncers posted outside the House of the Lord. As our brothers and sisters (and Justin Bieber) return home, the Father indeed will welcome them with open arms and a heart full of joy.

The question is, will we?
Medford’s Knights of Columbus provide dinners to local families
By: Melissa Riker
Tags: New Jersey, Holidays, Donations, Food, Community

Medford’s Knights of Columbus provide dinners to local families

Shoppers at Acme, Murphy’s at the Lakes, Murphy’s Tabernacle and Zallie’s ShopRite of Medford donated enough food to fill 80 shopping carts.

Medford’s Knights of Columbus Council 6520 conducted their 26th annual Hunger Harvest to help the St. Mary of the Lakes conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul provide Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to local families in need.

Shoppers at Acme, Murphy’s at the Lakes, Murphy’s Tabernacle and Zallie’s ShopRite of Medford donated enough food to fill 80 shopping carts. The Knights, who were helped by the St. Mary of the Lakes parish youth group, also received more than $1,000 in donations for St. Vincent’s.
On Not Taking Leave
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Captivated, Love, Poetry

shortens the sky, the darking rim

dark blue swallows the edges

of the orange light

this is not an end;

we still find ourselves bound

hands in the other’s pockets

a casual handcuffing

of lives

without the will

for taking leaves

while senses do not/ do rust

(there is still the gap here between hearts

needing sutures, a healing

glance from the beloved (you)

& I realize

my complicity in not wanting

to go anywhere else.
The Top 6 UI and UX Trends for 2020
By: Allegue Wessim
Tags: Augmented Reality, Ui Ux Design, UI, Virtual Reality, UX

Three Big UI Trends for 2020

1. Mindful design

Whether you make your own pictures of your business and clients or make your own illustrations (comics, designs, and such), this next year will gravitate around authenticity. Such services as stock photos and templates will take a step back and will not help businesses convert as much.

2. Complex illustrations and motion effects

In 2019, due to responsive designs and the limitations of 4G, using complex illustrations and motion effects was an actual problem as it hurt your website rankings and didn’t load at all for some users. With the arrival of 5G, we should forget that as everyone will be free to customize their website or app without encountering any of the previous issues.

3. Dark themes on the rise

Mojave started it, and this year we saw the dark-themed Instagram taking the market by storm as many apps decided to follow that wave. In 2020, this trend will only reinforce itself as many big companies have announced the release of dark-themed updates.
Virtual Community — Revolution of Social Media
By: Francis Zhang
Tags: Assignment 6, VR, Virtual Reality

Considering that building a very big virtual world is technically impossible, many virtual communities can be built one by one. Everybody can have contacts in other community and if there are 80% people in two communities connected, those two communities will merge together, just like two bubbles.

The interface of virtual community is similar to XRSPACE as the picture shows above. It has three ways to connect with your friends who are also in virtual community. You can “call” your contacts in other community, teleport to them or just “walk” to them. The reason why don’t teleport to contacts in other community is because it will take long time to load and render for getting in when using teleport. “calling” is an easier way to talk if you have a few words. For strangers in the same community, you can just “walk” to them to start a conversation and then build connection.
Reflections I by Connie Livingston-Dunn
By: Connie Livingston-Dunn Artist Catalyst Greatgranny
Tags: Destiny, Light, Reflections, Poetry

A gathering place for stories to be told, read and appreciated.

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Phil Champagne And JSNIP4 talk about Tezos
By: Phil Champagne
Tags: Tezos, ICO, Hayek Lab, Hayek Lab Videos

Famous Youtuber jsnip4 talks with Phil Champagne about Tezos for the benefits of his 82K subscribers. Since Cliff High mentioned the “Mystery Coin” for the first time more than a year ago, Tezos has been in the spotlight with the jsnip4 crowd. Many questions remained and people are eager to learn more about Tezos.

As an early Tezos investor (in the first 48 hours of the ICO), the VP Investor Relations at Hayek Lab (a Delegated Tezos Baking Service) and the lead editor and writer for the first introductory book on Tezos (currently in progress), Phil Champagne is well positioned to elaborate on the fundamentals of Tezos. Phil addresses the predictions made by the Webbot Report. He also clarifies early concerns about the Tezos Foundation and shares his opinion about the motive behind the lawsuit against the Foundation.

Joe wants to know more about functional programing and formal verification applications. They discuss the future of Tezos in the cryptocurrency landscape. Phil compares Tezos Delegated Proof-Of-Stake to passive investing in real estate versus Bitcoin mining (Proof-Of-Work) to gold mining. As the author of “The Book Of Satoshi” and “Hammock Income” Phil brings his personal perspective from real estate, gold/silver, and cryptocurrency investing. Jsnip4 and Phil’s chat is a must watch.

Hayek Lab Communications Team

https://HayekLab.com
Love Is All I Feel
By: Ruchi Thalwal
Tags: Spiritual Secrets, Spirituality, Self, Love, Poetry

Love is all I feel

Love is you

Love is me

Love is the air

we breathe

Love is the space

in between

Love is now

Love is beyond

Love dissolves

Love completes

Love inside

Love outside

Love is all there is

Love and only love

Nothing else

Just pure bliss!