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No wasted clicks …. getting on the Calendar in 1 Click
By: Arnie Mckinnis
Tags: Email Marketing, MailChimp, Digital Marketing, Webinar Tips

Every company has goals (some are just ideas, other are pure fantasy), and 31Events is not any different. We’ve spent the last year making it easier to work with our app, slimmed down the user interface, and focused on making it as simple as possible to add a calendar invitation to your email marketing campaigns.

Driving to One Click (within your email CTA) to get an invitation for the event you’re communicating within your email message.

I’ve written before how “simple” is very, very hard to do. And it takes a significant amount of discipline to continue down that path. Mostly, because simple for the user means hiding complexity, and shielding the user from it.

We’ve done that. We have taken something very difficult, and boiled it down to one line of code to be added to your email marketing CTA.

We still have some of the other functionality (like webpage embeds), but our focus has been to simplify that single process, and give you reporting one your attendees “intent” … did they accept, decline, set it a tentative, or just do nothing with it.

No one else does that — we continue to research the market, and we are the only ones that send a calendar invite, and then track on the backside.

Our goal has been achieved — simplify the process.

Now it’s up to you. Here’s the challenge — get yourself an account, add an event, drop the code into an email marketing campaign, and see for yourself. There’s absolutely no cost to try us out and do your own test. If it works, great — if not, at least you’ve tried something new.

And let me know how we did too — love to get the feedback.
Moon Bark
By: Will Schmit
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Walking, Solitude, Poetry, Tourism

Photo by Jhonis Martins

Dogwood blooms mark

the midnight road. The moon,

full as the highway,

measures the spring

of branches south

of the state line.

Grey hooded fishermen

slip lines from a bridge,

the light lines to the water

cut the lapping waves,

the splash of a fish

would be welcome.

My back woods boots

begin again, the map

I sketched, in smoke,

points blue like the vein

of thought we couched

back home.

Close to hand, the shadow

of leaves fan, and fawn,

in blinking headlights.

The rule of thumb returns

to walking, the solitude sought

awaits an exchange

of wings, owls,

and the promise of a lit diner

and coffee.
Poesy
By: V. Plut
Tags: Poetry, Lit, The Junction

Poems should never

come a dime a dozen

but laden with rare

heavenly

light

of souls baring

cadences of sad jewels

hearts frozen in time

dueling mad visions

of nature’s sublime delights

a poem priceless

only once a year

so dear

to hear

on the ear

and near to heart

as to bring

clear enthralling nights

when sight of stars

bright with poetic light

of tall Orion calling

with clarion

all constellations

to a nation of

dharmic beauty

to the fountain of

falling waterfalls

of cathartic tears

feeding into oceans

of insatiable

suffering souls

who eat poems
It’s Not Your Fault
By: Meghann Mcniff
Tags: Pregnancy, Parenting, Inspiration, Life Lessons, Birth

We forget, I think.

We forget that the intention of Spiritual Midwifery, and the movement that followed it, and that continues today — was never, and still is not, intended to ensure that every woman has a “natural” birth.

What the hell is a “natural” birth any way?

We have, in our cultural worldview, coined this phrase and embued it with shame.

A lot of shame.

And we don’t even know what the hell we mean when we say it.

What do you mean when you say “natural” birth?

The intention, I believe, of Ina May Gaskin and those beautiful hippies who chose to give birth with her — was to give us a choice.

Choice.

Not shame.

Choice.

The point of these brave, pioneering women was to protect us from twilight sleep.

To enable us to labor with whoever the fuck we choose to have in the room.

The point was not to give us yet another reason to feel that we are not enough.

Preventing an “unnecessary intervention”, so importantly propogated by the Business of Being Born, is NOT intended to leave you feeling ashamed of a C-section that saved your baby’s life.

Preventing an unnecessary intervention is NOT intended to leave you feeling weak for choosing a God Damn epidural after you have been laboring your ass off for 40 hours, or one.

We have completely lost center here.

To offer some perspective, what would you say to a litte girl in rural Afghanistan who watched her mother die after suffering a prolonged, and obstructed labor.

Taken by the author while walking the Kabul City Wall in the Spring of 2007

Would you say, “Well, at least she didn’t have to go to the hospital.”

No, you wouldn’t.

What would you say to a laboring woman who finally made it to the hospital after being carried by her family for 12 hours over a mountain pass?

Would you say, “Are you sure you want the epidural?”

No, of course you wouldn’t.

You would offer her anything you could to comfort her, and to save her life.

You would.

So why the hell are we feeling ashamed. Feeling like failures. Feeling like our bodies have failed us.

Because labor is hard enough.

And so is life — and motherhood.

And these bodies are fallible.

Some of us get cancer.

And some of us don’t.

Some of us have blue eyes.

And some have green.

Some of us get preeclampsia.

And some of us don’t.

However your labor goes — you made a God Damn human.

And thanks to the brave women who came before us, you get to choose how, where, and with whom you bring that angel into this world.

And that is the point.

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I am a professional coach and co-founder of the Seattle Coaching Collective. If you are interested in learning more, drop us a love note here.
Jetpack Compose — Before and after
By: Chris Banes
Tags: Android App Development, Android, Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Compose — Before and after

How the build speed, APK size and source line count changed after migrating the Tivi sample app to Jetpack Compose

Since the start of this year, I’ve been slowly migrating the UI in Tivi to be written in Jetpack Compose, and this week, the first stage of that migration is now complete! 🎉

In this blog post, we’ll take a look back and compare a number of key metrics to see how well Compose compares: APK size, build speed and lines of code.

The app

Before I go any further into the Compose side of things, let me quickly describe the app.
Stank Culture
By: Obsidian Eagle
Tags: Rhymes, Poetry, Pop Culture, Linguistics, Critique

Stank Culture

An unfashionable Anti-Poem dedicated to Stan Twitter & TikTok teens

Image Courtesy of PNGWave

Stank Culture

Your cool couture is CANCELLED

Distressed worse than a damsel.

Best get out of the house

Decompress and delouse.

Casting shade but not sorry

Youth’s just part of the story.

Here today, gone tomorrow

Who’ll Stan by your late show?

Look — these locals are pissed

U & mutuals have dissed

Stressed them out with spilt tea;

Skinny legend? Guilty plea!

Trendy slang gets ‘snatched’

Here for sh-nacks, duly stashed…

:P~
Brief Introduction of DEx.top’s Blockchain Research Institute
By: Hui Zhao
Tags: Research Reports, Cryptocurrency Investment, Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency

DEx.top’s Blockchain Research Institute (DEx.top Research Institute) was founded in September 2018. It is a new initiative by the DEx.top research team with the aspiration to promulgate blockchain knowledge.

We aim to expand the research available in a comprehensive manner and create a platform for DEx.top users, enthusiasts, and other members of the blockchain world to facilitate learning, sharing, and interaction.



Our team comes with experience from the world’s top consulting, financial, and entrepreneurial firms with academic backgrounds in Computer Science, Finance, Economics, and Engineering from some of the best academic institutions around.

Our research focus is to expose our readers to important concepts and phenomenon in the industry. Readers can expect topics covering industry developments, applications, protocols, concepts, innovations, as well as technical and business models.
AXNET lists ChainLink with LINK/ETH and LINK/TUSD pairs
Tags: Bitcoin

AXNET’s Decentralized Exchange has now launched ChainLink’s LINK Token available for immediate trading, deposit & withdrawal. LINK will have the following pairs in our decentralized exchange: LINK/ETH & LINK/TUSD.

The AXNET DEX allows traders to get access to a high-speed trading engine, with a centralized user-experience, while keeping custody of their funds. Users can connect their wallet via Meta-Mask, Trust Wallet, Ledger, Creating a New ETH account, or importing their private key(Not Recommended).

About LINK

ChainLink aspires to be the bridge between the blockchain world and current business systems. This bridge is known as an oracle (not to be confused with the Oracle brand of databases). Without an oracle for smart contracts, a business would have to completely retool themselves into a blockchain-based operation in order to be compatible with blockchain. Perhaps they will ultimately end up there, but that journey is long and arduous — and possibly unnecessary.

About AXNET:

Asset Exchange Network OÜ (AXNET) is a licensed virtual currency to fiat exchange with a licensed virtual wallet platform based out of Estonia. We service our traders worldwide by giving them the first hybrid trading platform that offers both a Centralized and Decentralized exchange that allows our traders to toggle between the two. We are listing traditional BTC, ETH, and USDT pairs with also fiat pairs like USD and EUR through our license and banking networks. We are also launching TUSD pairs for our decentralized exchange to give a stable-coin trading experience.
Creative Xmas Gifts: Shops That Refused Ordinary Gift Sets
Tags: Bestgift, Christmas Gifts, Gifts, Christmas, Xmas

Christmas presents make this holiday even more lovely — your heart skips a beat when you take off a crispy present package. Storiqa team has prepared some extraordinary Christmas present sets which not only make your loved ones happy but also surprise you with its uniqueness.

Candy with a surprise

A huge candy that seems to be fell off Santa’s presents sack — this is an uncommon design of socks made by HappySocks. These socks are very Christmas and can easily be a distinct element of your holiday look.

“Grow a spruce” set

Instead of cutting trees, grow it! “Wood Pine” growing set is a small wooden cube with soil and Blue Spruce seeds. Blue Spruce is listed in the Red Book of Russia as an endangered species — it means that you won’t only grow a Christmas tree but also help the nature. A perfect chance to feel like a wizard.

Smell of Christmas

Our olfactory system is built to wake up the memories the best and make us to dive headfirst into holidays. Give your loved one the sense of Christmas hidden in three vials! Demeter company has presented such an unusual collection of flavors — it will inspire you to make a cup of hot cocoa, put on warm socks and play Frank Sinatra songs.

We wish you to find flawless gifts for your loved ones — by the way, you can go to Storiqa to find out whether we have just something you need!
Social Media consumption by Arab Youth
By: Damian Radcliffe
Tags: Middle East, Arab World, Snapchat, Online Video, YouTube

Social Media consumption by Arab Youth

Which Platforms Made it to the Top of the List?

Among Arab Youth, those aged 18–24 years old, 9 out of 10 young Arabs use at least one social media channel every day, although the popularity of individual networks varies across the region, findings from the 11th annual Arab Youth Survey demonstrated.

Daily use of major social networks, by sub-region. Via: Arab Youth survey 2019

A love of video

“Millennials in the MENA region spend over three hours per day on online video, surpassing time spent on messaging apps and games,” details StepFeed, citing research published by Think With Google MENA.

Millennials in MENA are “twice as likely as their global counterparts to post content online, and show others how to do things online,” Google finds.

“In KSA and the UAE, 68% consume more video digitally than they do on TV.”

Meanwhile, in Egypt, 77% of millennials watch YouTube every day. “That’s more than any other platform, even TV.”

Photo by YTCount on Unsplash

Snapchat

Snapchat reaches over 90% of all 13–34-year olds in Saudi Arabia, Rami Saad, head of international content partnerships at Snap, says. This cohort also spends twice as much time on Snapchat’s Discover feature as their global peers.

Data from GlobalWebIndex found that 55% of 16–24 year-olds in Saudi Arabia use Snapchat every day, compared to 4 in 10 among all age groups.

In UAE, 33% of people between 18 and 34 use Snapchat daily, Jeremi Gorman, Snap’s global chief business officer, has revealed.

Regional data from August 2018. Via Snap.

Changing news habits

Social media has grown dramatically as a source for news among Arab Youth in the past five years.

Interestingly, the Arab Youth survey shows that all news sources had seen an increase in engagement in the past half-decade. None, however, had witnessed the same growth as social.

Around a third (35%) of young Arabs — those aged 18–24 — say they update themselves daily on news and current affairs.

Changing news habits for Arab Youth, via the Arab Youth Survey (2019).

“Social media is now more popular among Arab youth than traditional media,” observes Iain Akerman, a Dubai based Journalist, Writer & Editor, in a commentary published as part of the 2019 Arab Youth Survey.
A Use Case for Crypto
By: Johann Colloredo-Mansfeld
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bgeneral, Cryptocurrency Investment, Bitcoin

Eight weeks ago, the Boltzmann team arrived at our office in Berkeley ready to put in a final push before launching our subscription retail tier, which contains filtered news, a funds database, portfolio management tools, and hour-granularity utility metrics. Everything was falling into place and it came time for us to switch out of our payment processor’s sandbox environment into production. We submitted all the relevant application information and promptly moved on to other tasks while waiting the requisite twenty-four hours for our account to clear. The only thing was, our account application was rejected. Believing there was some sort of mistake, we contacted a representative, who informed us that they were no longer supporting companies in the crypto space.

Sweet, Sweet Rejection

We applied to seven other payment processors. One-by-one they all rejected us. Having heard our case, a couple lawyers even volunteered to write on our behalf to the top processors to vouch for the legitimacy of our business. Nothing worked; we had successfully been barred from the economy. It was in that moment that we truly understood one of crypto’s most fundamental use cases: the ability to send and receive value without having to ask anyone else for permission.

While continuing to explore a number of alternative payment options, we initiated our B2B efforts and began providing raw data to some of the best quant hedge funds in the industry. With these achievements in hand we are happy to return to our retail product today with more flexibility and the resolve to enhance the risk management strategies of everyday investors.

Fortunately, it just so happens that we can use this new censorship-resistant form of payment. Our subscription retail site is now live accepting crypto as its only form of payment. We admit that not having the ability to grant free trials, assess recurring payments, or issue chargebacks makes for a less desirable user experience, which is a common refrain of the industry’s critics. But that misses the point almost entirely, because without crypto there simply would be nothing to experience.

Living in the United States, it’s easy to take our transparent and well-regulated market economy for granted. While our episode with the industry’s largest payment processors has been frustrating, it pales in comparison to what individuals living in opaque, tightly controlled systems with perverse incentives must confront on a daily basis. In a way, this experience only reaffirmed our motivations and intent to build reliable, transparent, and individually empowering products for a fundamentally transformative industry.
6 Ways Not to Lose Cryptocurrency
Tags: Storiqa, Cryptocurrency, Stq, Blockchain, Bitcoin

You open your wallet and see 0 STQ 😱 Nobody wants to be a hero of this story. Here we share some useful information about how you can hold and send your cryptocurrency in order not to become a victim of scammers or your own inattentiveness.

Don’t hold your funds on exchange wallets for a long time

In this case an exchange controls your funds and you can’t influent their security. If hackers want to attack the exchange, they will steal all money that will be there.

Here are some prominent and recent examples of centralized exchanges being hacked and the huge amounts were stolen.

Mt Gox — 750 000 BTC

Bitfinex — 119 756 BTC

Coincheck — 523 000 000 NEM

Trust only yourself.
BANKS CONSUME OVER THREE TIMES MORE ENERGY THAN BITCOIN, ACCORDING TO RESEARCHER
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Consuming, Bitcoin, Banks

HAVING THE WRONG CONVERSATION

According to Katrina Kelly-Pitou, the popular debate on whether or not Bitcoin’s $6438.93 -0.02%network electricity consumption is causing serious damage to our climate is not headed in the right direction. Kelly-Pitou is a clean energy technology researcher at the University of Pittsburg,

Citing recent studies, which suggest Bitcoin dramatically increases the consumption of electricity on a global scale, Kelly-Pitou claims that experts are failing to understand some of the basics behind renewable energy systems:

“Electricity production can increase while still maintaining a minimal impact on the environment. Rather than focusing on how much energy Bitcoin uses, the discussion should center around who indeed is producing it — and where their power comes from.”

While she doesn’t neglect the substantial amount of electricity used for Bitcoin mining, she also notes that banking alone consumes “an estimated 100 terawatts.”

This is a little bit more than three times the energy Bitcoin mining consumes. She also makes an interesting claim, assuming 100x increase in Bitcoin’s current market size. Kelly-Pitou notes:

“If Bitcoin technology were to mature by more than 100 times its current market size, it would still equal only 2 percent of all energy consumption.”

THE RIGHT DISCUSSION

According to the Kelly-Pitou, the focus shouldn’t be directed towards the energy consumption of Bitcoin’s network but rather towards the carbon production of Bitcoin and finding out how it could be reduced.

Bitcoinist recently reported on a new study that concluded Bitcoin has an energy problem that could affect global climate change due to high carbon emissions.

According to Kelly-Pitou, though, there is not enough information to support these kinds of claims. The same opinion is shared by Stanford lecturer Jonathan Koomey, who noted:

“For two decades, people have been eager to overestimate electricity use by computing. My concern is that we simply don’t have adequate data to come to the strong conclusions that he’s coming to.”

Source: bitcoinist.com

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Motivational Monday — 12/7/2020. New and Interesting Writers
By: Jennifer Marie
Tags: Community, About Me, Autobiography, Introduction

10 About Me Highlights

I want to recognize 10 AMAZING ‘About Me Stories’ that have stayed with me through out this week. Please check them out below — show your support and follow these writers, if you haven’t had the chance.

Scott Leonardi talks about his childhood and different aspects of his journey that made him who he is.

Ruchi Shah reflects on her journey and how she discovered her passion for writing about unsung heroes.

Mindy Morgan Avitia has been a storyteller for as long as she can remember and has a publication that’s accepting writers so check out her story.

Jae Nichelle is finding out who she is has many titles she can describe herself with such as poet, performer, ghostwriter, editor. Check out her story and viral video in her About Me Story.

Rusty Alderson shares many details of his story that are truly interesting and inspiring as well as some amazing quotes that you shouldn’t miss out on.

Sam Ayikeka describes himself as a tiny village boy with a dream and has an amazing story you need to read — if you haven’t had the chance.

Aaron Nichols talks about how his journey with writing began with magic and the correlation between the two is truly interesting and his journey even more inspiring.

Tricia Chadwick has a powerful story and talks about losing her grandfather at 19 and then meeting her first husband who was very controlling but taught her to notice the red flags.

Alexys Carlton truly has an inspiring story that you have to read so please check it out and follow her if you haven’t already.

Charlene Annabel talks about growing up in Singapore as well as her love for travel, books and gaming.
The Musician
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Memories, Musing, Poetry, Image

The Musician

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Bound to the town, burnt by the lights, the throat ends up inside the microphone, the telling all done for the day, the thirst that crawls up and won’t leave the table till the sun has shown up again.

Stopped in the car now, looking ahead, to the side, the road it gets tangled, the speakers the closest to you, love in the crowd, love in the road, trending towards the solitude of the busy, the mystery in tones.

Karma, again, the distance become so familiar, a reinvigorated infinity, the lines surrounding the caravan, the instruments so many examples of violent musings, trapped on a stage, invented every night.
One Punch Garlie. Let’s get on with it!
By: Adam Ellis
Tags: Comic, Humor, Cute, Food

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Coindelta lists USDT!
By: Team Coindelta
Tags: India, Cryptocurrency, Listings, Tether, Trading

Dear Coindelta Users,

We are delighted to announce the listing of USDT(Tether) on Coindelta! Deposits and Withdrawals are live now and the trading will start at 10:00 AM, 23–07–18. You can start trading in the USDT-INR Market from tomorrow.

With the introduction of USDT, we will be also announcing the USDT(Tether) Markets (XYZ-USDT i.e. BTC-USDT, XRP-USDT…) on 24th July. Coindelta users will now be able to trade all the available cryptocurrencies on Coindelta against USDT!

Users can continue trading with INR as well as USDT on the Coindelta platform. We believe this will give users more options for trading securely since USDT(Tether) is a stable coin.

Things to keep in mind:

The withdrawal fee for USDT(Tether) will be 3 Minimum deposit for USDT(Tether) is 10 Recovery fee for USDT(Tether) is 1.5 Number of blockchain confirmations required is 3

Note: Coindelta Flux is a completely separate platform. Please do not confuse the two!

Why USDT (Tether)?

USDT is a stable coin, the value of USDT is always tethered to the US Dollar price. This makes it easy for people to hold their funds! Let us look at some features of USDT :

Stable Currency:

Tether converts cash into digital currency, to anchor or tether the value to the price of national currencies like the US dollar, the Euro, and the Yen. Completely Backed:

Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency , so 1 USDT is always equivalent to 1 USD. Security:

Tether’s blockchain-enabled technology delivers world-class security while meeting international compliance standards and regulations.

You can read more about USDT(Tether) here.

That is all for now! In case of any queries, feel free to reach out to us!

Stay tuned for more announcements!

Coindelta Website

Coindelta Twitter

Coindelta Telegram Group

Coindelta Announcements

With love for the Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies,

Coindelta Family
Introducing: Dorel Burcea
By: Morpheus Labs Team
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Introducing: Dorel Burcea

CIO, Morpheus Labs

In this series of articles, we want to introduce the people behind the Morpheus Labs ecosystem. One-by-one we will discover more about the individual team members, what they are interested in and why/what they work on at Morpheus Labs.

So far, we have already introduced Chuang Pei-Han, Branson Lee and Bruce Lu. This time around we would like to present you Dorel Burcea who acts as CIO at Morpheus Labs.

Dorel Burcea (CIO, Morpheus Labs)

What is your background and field of interest?

I spent more than 17 years in the banking and financial services industry. Having extensive experience in architecture design and developing/implementing enterprise-grade IT solutions, I have mainly worked in IT/applications fields. Starting with 2009 I managed several international footprint projects in Europe, MENA and APAC, which was also the time when I initiated my research. This is where I’ve got captured by the exciting world of fintech — and later blockchain.

How and why did you end up at Morpheus Labs?

In 2017 I was already collaborating with several start-up projects in fintech and IoT. I met Pei-Han in Singapore after we got in contact via an entrepreneurship & startup network. Morpheus Labs has immediately captured my attention and I felt very strongly that this is a good opportunity for me to contribute to the vision of Morpheus Labs.

What exactly are you doing at Morpheus Labs?

I am CIO of Morpheus Labs and I set the overall strategy for the platform. As business enabler, I am defining the enterprise architecture, ensuring scalability, enforcing security and scheduling the delivery to the end user. My focus is to ensure a fast adoption of our Blockchain-Platform-as-a-Service (BPaaS) platform.

What is your biggest achievement at Morpheus Labs?

I am very proud of the successful completion of our ICO, setting up an international development team, releasing the first MVP and, most recently, being able to use our platform for blockchain projects in order to provide consultancy services.

What are you most excited about regarding the future of Morpheus Labs?

I think our platform has unparalleled potential to address many use cases in a large number of industries. Being cloud-based and microservice-architecture-oriented, we want to rapidly scale and expand geographically. I foresee how banks, energy and automotive players can rapidly transform their business by using our platform. For partners and distributors, leveraging on our token economy model, I see an opportunity that will further increase our ecosystem and make our token a valid and very valuable utility to access or sell our services.

What are your personal interests / hobbies / etc.?

I love travelling, spending time with my family, as well as visiting cities for their art and culture.
Gobierno de Dubai lanza registro de negocios Blockchain
By: Tooyoo Club
Tags: Economy, Dubai, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain, Bitcoin

in The New York Times
Expectations
By: Claire Elaine
Tags: Personal Growth, Spirituality, Spiritual Secrets, Channeling, Life Lessons

Image by Marek Studzinski from Pixabay

So often in my life I have tricked myself into believing I was close to finding the one thing that could fulfill me. Something would catch my eye, fascinate me, draw me to it like a starving pilgrim to a feast of blessed manna.

Just as often that miraculous feast would begin to seem illusion — which, of course, most times it had been all along. Yet happily enough the realizing of illusion has not become the sole expectation of my schemes. I can still start with hope every time.

We think we know so much about how we achieve, how we should go forward in our lives, that we don’t consider for a moment that any emotions other than desire and will should be needed to succeed. We’re smart, we’re able, we will do, we will get. Mm, yeah, we think we know.

I can only imagine the majority of us adhere to, at least, some ethical standards when we set out for fulfillment, but I wonder how many standards stay the course should that course prove more difficult than first determined.

Like runners pounding through the last stretch of a marathon do we begin to shed them as we race along desperately reaching for our goal?

If we do, do we arrive lighter? Do we really win? Do we gain what we expected or are we so changed our once sought goal, now gained goal, no longer seems of any worth?

It is my belief that perhaps we actually do get what we expected every time, it’s just that we become so blinded by our brilliant striving that we do not see the “I” that began to want is not the same “I” that got.

Maybe in the shedding of our personal standards we also unconsciously shed the universal spiritual standards of trust, faith and fairness.

We let them go, we forget to hold trust that we do all ultimately get what we need rather than what we want. We forget that we should always carry faith in the wisdom of divine will and we forget to retain the steadying weight of fairness for all, but most of all we forget we have already achieved our greatest goal — we are here, we breathe in, we breathe out — as expected.

Namaste

Claire
Why Blogging is Now a Necessary “Lawyerism”
By: Frank Cordeira Jr.
Tags: SEO, Content Marketing, Customer Service

Google took away the cheat codes — what that means really is, gone are the days where you can buy backlinks and spam keywords to rank for searches. Google can now tell if you are the real deal. This means we all have to start doing the work, and what is the work?

Meaningful, educational, and helpful CONTENT:

When users embark on a search, they are not looking to be bombarded with your pop-up ads, “buy-now’s,” and consumer-conveyor-belt type websites. They are looking for an answer to a question, and in this case, if they are looking for a lawyer, you should have the answer. While it is definitely helpful to let new clients know you offer free consultations and the cheapest representation in town, that’s not the answer they were looking for (most likely.) They need you because they have a problem, so they probably search something like, “DUI process in my area.” If they find your website, but you don’t have any helpful content on what the process their case might undertake, they might not find your website very helpful, and therefore might move along in their search to find a better answer to their questions.

But how do I get my writing out on the web for users to see?

Honestly, it’s fairly easy, and almost completely free. Social media is an extremely easy tool on which to publish your blog. When you do write, and you should often, publish your piece everywhere — Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter are the big and easy ones to post on. Make sure that your header has a link to the original blog post on your firm’s website, as this will drive traffic right where you want it the most: your website.

Get featured on a prominent blog!

Eventually, if your writing is helpful and users like reading it, consider trying to contribute to a blogging website. Blogs like MPDojo.com, Myshingle.com, and Lawyerist.com, which help users learn about the law, and are read by fellow attorneys, can drive even more traffic to your website, which will, in turn, help you climb the ranks in google searches. Establishing yourself as an expert in your area of practice, and offering free information that helps users better equip themselves in the legal system only makes potential customers like you more. Happy customers are paying customers.

Consult with a content-strategist!

Content strategy professionals can help you do the research to find out what user search trends are, and help you to cater your content to them, and hopefully help those users along the way!

Who knows? You might even enjoy blogging more than you would think.

Nick Werker

Nick is the Head Content Strategist, Social Media Manager, PPC Campaign Manager, and the Executive Head Writer at Ring Savvy/Answering Legal, Inc. Nick’s talent for story-telling enables him to write and recognize the type of content users want to read.
Tonight’s comic forgot how much it loves cooking.
Tags: Comics, Cheese, Food, Pandemic, Humor

Orange cheese is the healthiest cheese because it has more orange in it.

https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/1014/
数字货币指数及指数代币. 什么是指数及指数代币 ？
By: Vincent Ma
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto Index, Research Reports, 指数代币, Index

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Algorithms 101: How to Use Merge Sort and Quicksort in JavaScript
By: The Educative Team
Tags: JavaScript, Algorithms, Software Development, Computer Science, Programming

Quicksort Algorithm

Like merge sort, quicksort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm, but it works a bit differently.

Quicksort starts by selecting a pivot element from the array and partitions the other elements into two subarrays according to whether they are less than or greater than the pivot. The subarrays are then sorted recursively.

The quicksort algorithm doesn’t use any extra space, as the sorting is done in place.

There are several ways that this algorithm can choose a pivot element.

Pick the first element as pivot

Pick the last element as pivot

Pick a random element as the pivot

Pick median as the pivot

Implementation in JavaScript

The key process below is our partition function, which chooses our pivot. In this implementation, this is done using the Hoare Partition scheme, which works by initializing two indices that start at the ends of the array. The indices move toward each other until an inversion is found.

An inversion is a pair of elements — one greater than or equal to the pivot, one less than or equal — that are in the wrong order relative to each other. The inverted values are then swapped, and the process is repeated.

Picking a good pivot is the key to a fast implementation of quicksort. In practice, quicksort algorithms use a randomized pivot, which has an expected time complexity of O(n log n).

function partitionHoare(array, left, right) {

const pivot = Math.floor(Math.random() * (right - left + 1) + left);

while (left <= right) {

while (array[left] < array[pivot]) {

left++;

}

while (array[right] > array[pivot]) {

right--;

}

if (left <= right) {

[array[left], array[right]] = [array[right], array[left]];

}

}

return left;

} function quicksort(array, left, right) {

left = left || 0;

right = right || array.length - 1;

const pivot = partitionHoare(array, left, right); if (left < pivot - 1) {

quicksort(array, left, pivot - 1);

}

if (right > pivot) {

quicksort(array, pivot, right);

}

return array;

}

Time complexity

The quicksort algorithm has a time complexity of O(n log n). In the worst case, this becomes O(n2). The space used by quicksort depends on the version used.

The in-place version of quicksort has a space complexity of O(log n) even in the worst case, while the average-case space complexity is O(n)O(n).

Algorithmic Paradigm: Divide and conquer

Divide and conquer Sorting in Place: Yes

Yes Stable: Default is not stable

Comparison with other sorting algorithms

While the average and best-case run times of quicksort are equal to that of other algorithms such as merge sort, a well-implemented quicksort will have much lower constant factors than other sorting algorithms.

In practice, quicksort is often faster than merge sort.

Quicksort in its general form is an in-place sort (i.e., it doesn’t require any extra storage). Merge sort requires O(N) extra storage, where N denotes the array size, which may be quite large.
A Song To My Clouds!
By: Vaghawan Ojha
Tags: Art, Poetry, Fiction, Life, Poetry On Medium

Oh clouds of my fortune!

Deviated by your own fate,

Or distorted by your own rain,

You too seems be the victims of your fate,

Just like me,

Travelling in a wheel-less train,

Whispering a solace song of a summer bird,

In the pursuit of love, in pursuit of hate,

In the pursuit of joy, in pursuit of sorrow,

In the pursuit of March, in the pursuit of October,

Whatever works,

Whatever that you forks,

You too try to grok,

A dead earth,

In a hope,

Your rain would wake,

A lifeless meadow;

Just like me,

Afraid of your own shadow,

Hysteric of the thunder,

Breathing a dark fumes,

Veiling yourself in a colossal,

Pretending to be celestial,

You short living clouds,

Cry! cry! Cry!

For your life,

Beg! Beg! Beg!

To the oracle,

A century,

In a hope

That you may be able to love,

May be able to live;
Stoicism
By: Ashok Kumar
Tags: Love, Poetry

My Sun is shining mighty bright,

After the nastily exhausting night,

Eons since I felt so light,

Everything seems so right!

Fathomed further I perceive,

Like the many holes of a sieve,

Pitfalls that could have bereaved Me of my heart –sought dream.

Representational Image

It is by a gossamer strand,

That the chances of victory stand.

Today showed me all flowers Though tomorrow I’d have to cower,

Albeit I do everything in my power.

Failure is veritably inevitable,

The pain will hardly be bearable,

But I’m determined not to succumb,

To somehow make my senses go numb,

For as long as I fight with courage,

Unswervingly true to my conscience,

I can look Failure straight in the face And remark with nonchalance,

“Today is not my day”

Author : Subiksha Padmanabhan
Making Investment Opportunity Works For Nigerian Youth — By @OlumideIDOWU
By: Iccdi Africa
Tags: Climate Action, Climate Change, Wash, Nigeria, Investment

Virtual Inter-Sectoral Meeting: Strengthening Stakeholder Engagement & Impact of COVID-19 on the Economic Dimension of SDGs.

Engaging young people in development programs have a very interesting impact on their personal development, their empowerment, their ability to connect with more marginalized people in their community.

We really need to start thinking about how to embrace this huge youth population.

Leaving young people out of development is frankly not very sensible, probably not possible. And meaningful work of young people and youth-led groups is going to take us forward to 2030 successfully.

In the aftermath of COVID-19, there is a need to provide an opportunity for Nigeria to benefit from the inevitable decentralization of supply chains and rise in remote jobs. We must start identifying centres of excellence while providing our young people with the opportunity to get the required skills for today’s jobs. It will not be easy, but it is an absolute necessity if we are to put millions of young people in jobs.

At the end of the day, we will have to cross the river by feeling for stones, but what is most important is that we put millions of young people in jobs, and quickly too.

Young people play a significant role in the implementation, monitoring and review of the Agenda as well as in holding governments accountable. With political commitment and adequate resources, young people have the potential to make the most effective transformation of the MDAs activities into a better place for all.

Presented by Olumide Idowu Co-Founder ICCDI Africa at Virtual Inter-Sectoral Meeting: Strengthening Stakeholder Engagement & Impact of COVID-19 on the Economic Dimension of SDGs.
How to Dynamically Add Response Options to Dialog Nodes in Watson Assistant
By: Jan Vystrcil
Tags: Wa Tutorial, Options, Watson Assistant, Tutorial

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

First, you need to prepare a webhook that returns the JSON object payload that will be rendered later by Watson Assistant. For experiments, Node Red or IBM Cloud Functions can be used. On the first level of the JSON object there must be a JSON array (in the example named “arr”) that contains a JSON object in the format of the options response type.

See the example of a JSON object below:

{

"arr": [

{

"title": "What time do you want your appointment?",

"options": [

{

"label": "Monday 1:00 pm",

"value": {

"input": {

"text": "Monday 1:00 pm"

}

}

},

{

"label": "Tuesday 4:00 pm",

"value": {

"input": {

"text": "Tuesday 4:00 pm"

}

}

}

],

"description": "",

"response_type": "option"

}

]

}

Code snippet of simple IBM Web action is below:

function main(params) {

return { arr:[{“title”:”What time do you want your appointment?”,”options”:[{“label”:”Monday 1:00 pm”,”value”:{“input”:{“text”:”Monday 1:00 pm”}}},{“label”:”Tuesday 4:00 pm”,”value”:{“input”:{“text”:”Tuesday 4:00 pm”}}}],”description”:””,”response_type”:”option”}]};

}

In this example, we expect the webhook response payload (after a successful webhook call) will be stored in the $webhook_result_1 context variable.

Now you need to add a dynamically generated list of options (the result of webhook call) to the response of the dialog node. To achieve this, we will use the Multiple Conditioned Responses that are generated when we customize our dialog node to use webhooks.

On the response for $webhook_result_1, open the customize window. In the popup, you need to open the ⋮ menu and click ‘Open context editor.’ You will set an auxiliary context variable “tmp” with the following expression:

"<? output.generic.addAll($webhook_result_1.arr) ?>"

The name of the variable (i.e. “tmp” ) is not important as you won’t need to refer to it later. The key thing here is you need to execute the SpEL expression on the right-hand side. This will add the dynamically generated options to the output message response.

Now you can put this all together to generate a dynamic option for your user. When the node you have configured gets triggered, the output of your assistant will look like this:

If you can see the options as in the screenshot above, you have successfully finished the goal of this article. Now you just need to modify the code of your webhook, to send dynamic options needed in your bot. More information about response types and webhooks in Watson Assistant can be found in the documentation.
Announcing The Nimiq Network Contributions
By: Team Nimiq
Tags: Web Development, Blockchain, JavaScript, Blog

Announcing The Nimiq Network Contributions

Starts on June 28.

Within seven days of launching our Betanet and Source Code (June 6), more than 12'000 browser-nodes from all around the world participated in the Nimiq Network. We are grateful for the extraordinary response of our quickly growing community. Blockchain enthusiasts have been peer-reviewing our approach and code and meanwhile several of you have asked about a Token Sale date.

We wanted to wait until our team had addressed all open technical issues that surfaced since launching the Betanet before engaging in this next step.

Contributions are scheduled to open on June 28 at approximately 1PM UTC. We will reveal more details on Thursday and publish additional relevant documents over the next number of days. You can also take a look at Robin Linus’ Whitepaper or if you have not tried it yet run our Betanet Miner.

We want to thank the community and all our early supporters who got us to this point. More than 1'400 accounts containing freshly mined Betanet Nimiq have been created or transacted with. Our community Telegram and Slack channels have been very active resulting in helpful feedback and hands-on support such as the Chinese translation of both our website and Blog.

The frictionless payment protocol for the Web is alive.

Team Nimiq

For more information and to be up to date regarding the sale, follow us here on Medium and on Twitter!

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Kindle changes everything, no?
By: Pito Salas
Tags: Sharing, Kindle, Life

This link lets you see all the passages in Steve Jobs’ new biography that were underlined by Kindle readers. All of them. Pretty interesting don’t you think?
The Unexpected Analogy of Technical Data and Fictional Novels
By: Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Tags: Technical Publications, Technology, Serendipity, Analogy, Fiction

I had written and self-published several fictional books by the time I participated at the S1000D User Forum in Seville at the end of September 2016.

So when I got challenged to explain what a data module actually was, I suddenly had an idea. I exclaimed, “Data modules are so much like scenes in a novel!”

Right after that, I couldn’t stop the flow of realizations.

“Just as scenes,” I said, “data modules have a start (for a procedural data module, it is preliminary requirements), the middle (the procedure itself), an end (close-up requirements), and one setting (a unit or assembly, where the operational or maintenance procedure takes place). And in a way, just like the scenes in a novel, they tell a concise and self-contained story, or a future short story, that is how the given procedure is to take place.”

This epiphany might also have been facilitated by a statement I made during the presentation I made at the same User Forum in Seville before the above discussion took place. During that presentation, I claimed that technical manuals were books, whatever format they are in or however interactive they might be.

The presentation and the discussions afterward only strengthened this flow of parallels between novels, books in general, and S1000D conformant technical publications.

After the User Forum, I jotted down a list of topics I could think of when relating S1000D and its constructs to storytelling, and I came up with at least seven of them immediately. Today, I guess that you can find an equivalent in a technical manual to any tool or construct the fictional writers use in their novels so artfully.
Taking a safe bet with SPOKKZ
Tags: Entertainment, Cryptocurrency, Media, Bitcoin, Blockchain

Director’s clapboard

Traditional business to customer (B2C) content streaming for the solitary reason of content consumption is now a thing of the past. With advancements in technology and an emphasis on “getting more for less”, the video streaming industry is quickly witnessing a strong new trend — incorporation of community participation in content creation through token sales.

Spokkz is one of the best over-the-top (OTT) streaming services offering exclusive video content with viewer reward perks and community engagement. Blockchain-based content streaming platforms give a new meaning to inclusive entertainment by churning out user created and funded content. Thereby, users can chip in on creating the films and TV series they are rooting for. Furthermore, users can earn tokens and rewards from community participation after the release of the motion pictures.

While it is common for other platforms to offer platform-based content streaming services, Spokkz outdoes everyone else by offering something that most cannot — a solid business use case backed by a humongous pool of existing supporters. With 60 million users and over 4 million paid subscribers on Spuul, the original video streaming provider Spokkz is running on, Spokkz is already miles ahead on refining critical issues while its competitors attempt to garner support from scratch.

If you’re even remotely worried about the prospects in this captivating field, do not fear. Studies have shown that revenue in the subscription video on demand segment amounted to US$ 19,572m in 2018, and is set to propel at an annual growth rate of 5.1% for the next 5 years. Spokkz’s massive community combined with its efforts to instill inclusivity among content creators and their audiences makes it a cozy refuge for all film buffs to assemble and promote their favourite films!

To find out more about how Spokkz protects its content creators, follow its social media sites:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpokkzOfficial

Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/Spokkz

Medium: https://medium.com/Spokkz

Telegram: https://t.me/SpokkzOfficial

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