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MapHub performance update and new features
Tags: Mapping Tool, Maps, Mapping, Website Development, Mapbox

You might not have seen a big update to MapHub for a while, but there have been lots of improvements under the hood.

Faster server and optimised code

The most important update is invisible: to keep up with the load, MapHub has now been moved to a much higher performance server. The code has also been optimised so that groups containing 1000+ items perform operations much faster.

Disable embedding and downloading

Many of you have asked to allow disabling of embedding and downloading of maps. These are now supported, in a new Advanced Settings dialog.

By checking these, visitors of your map won’t be able to download or embed your map on other websites. As the owner of the map, of course, you can always download and embed your own map!

Advanced Settings dialog

Visual ordering of items

A common problem users encountered was that the visual order of items on the map was not following the order in the side panel. This is now fixed, meaning you can set the visual order of individual items and whole groups by dragging in the right side panel.

Links to other maps

If you use multiple maps with links between them, a common problem was that links opened in new tabs. This has been fixed now, and links to other maps will open in the current tab.

When embedding, links to other maps will preserve the embed window and open the new embed in place of the old one.

Open embed links in the same tab

Another feature request related to embeds was to open links to websites, not in a new tab, but in place of the current page. Now, this is supported as a new option in the embed wizard.

Better display of Cyrillic fonts

If a map uses Cyrillic characters, it’ll be automatically detected now and a system font will be used, for the best display of characters.

Questions, Ideas?

If you have any question or have an idea about a new feature, feel free to open a topic on the forum or email me.

You can follow MapHub updates on Twitter, Facebook or here on Medium.

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Effective ETAs 102 - Measuring Impact of Inaccurate ETAs
By: Gaurav Bubna
Tags: Food Delivery, Ride Hailing, Eta, Return On Investment, Maps

Welcome to part 2 of the Effective ETAs series! If you still want to understand why ETAs are such an integral part of an on-demand ride or delivery service, check out our previous article Effective ETAs 101:

Creating an ETA strategy can prove to be tricky, especially when you’re not well versed with the parameters one should keep an eye on while evaluating ETAs. Here’s a quick refresher from our last article on which metric we generally focus on:

When analyzing ETAs at NextBillion Maps, we focus on a key metric called ‘promise kept’ in addition to traditional statistical metrics like RMSE and MAE.

But what exactly do we mean by ‘promise kept’? Simply put, whenever the time taken to provide the service (deliver an order/ complete a trip) to a customer is met successfully, the promise made has been kept! Here’s what this metric looks like:

Delivery time = Promised ETA ± Threshold time for the territory

The threshold time is generally a function of the prevailing socio-cultural practices of the geography — we’ve noticed that the ETA accuracy of the local public transport is a good measurement of this! This helps us understand consumer expectations when it comes to an acceptable waiting time.

Based on this, we get:

Promise kept metric = (Number of accurate orders* / total orders of the day) X 100%

*where delivery time was within the threshold
[Terraform] Conditionally Add Key/Value to Map
By: Andrei Butnaru
Tags: Conditional Statements, Terraform, Kubernetes, Maps, Add

Recently, I was setting up a Kubernetes ingress using Terraform, and faced the case when based on an input variable I have to add a new annotation to the ingress configuration or not.

In my use case, I had to specify a security group to be attached to the Load Balancer created by the ingress controller. The thing was that I also wanted an easy way to remove the security group, without changing the Terraform code.

Searching the web, I came across this Reddit post, but the solution proposed by the user Bitflight was not what I really wanted, so I came with a similar approach that I will present next.

Let’s say we have the following local variable named ingress_annotations_required that contains required annotations for the Kubernetes ingress, and another optional variable named security_group_id that can be passed as input variable at apply time.

# variables.tf

variable "security_group_id" {

default = ""

definition = "ID of the Security Group that we want to attach to the Kubernetes ingress"

}



# main.tf

locals {

ingress_annotations_required = {

"kubernetes.io/ingress.class" = "alb"

"alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme" = "internet-facing"

"alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type" = "ip"

"alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports" = [{ "HTTP": 80 }, { "HTTPS": 443 }]

}

}

If the variable security_group_id is set at apply time, we want to add to the ingress annotations the key alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/security-groups with the value provided by the variable security_group_id . To do so, we can set a new local based on a conditional expression that checks if the variable security_group_id holds the default value (which is the empty string "” ) or not. If it holds the default value, we set an empty map , if not, we will create a key-value map with our desired information.

locals {

ingress_annotations_optional = {

security_group = var.security_group_id == "" ? {} : { "alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/security-groups" = var.security_group_id }

}

}

Finally, we can merge the two local variables, using the merge function from Terraform.

locals {

ingress_annotations = merge(

local.ingress_annotations_required,

local.ingress_annotations_optional["security_group"]

)

}

Then, we can use the formed merged map in the kubernetes_ingreess resource.

resource "kubernetes_ingress" "ingress" {

[...]



metadata {

[...]



annotations = local.ingress_annotations

}



[...]

}

Now, when we apply the Terraform script, if we pass the variable security_group_id the security group annotation is added to the map, and implicitly to the Kubernetes ingress. If we don’t pass the variable, the annotation is not set (or it is removed if it was previously set).

Thank you for reading this post, I hope that you found it useful. Here you can find the Gist with the full code from the example presented above.
9 Mysterious Locations On Google Maps
By: Zach Goreczny
Tags: Travel, Geography, Adventure, Maps, Mystery

Curiosity got the best of me today as I was browsing the web. I was researching another story when an article showing several places Google maps had blurred caught my eye. One thought leads to another, and I found myself creating a list of the wildest places obscured to the general public.

A House Near the Auburn Correctional Facility

This house across the street from the correctional facility’s wall was first on my list. It offers little to no clues, other than a no parking sign and garbage can in the driveway. I’m wondering if it’s a halfway house or secret hideout for the correctional officers to slip away during their breaks.

A Random Strip of White In Antarctica

A peculiar strip of white among an otherwise off-white landscape has no clues to what it might be. However, thanks to the brave work of one anonymous individual, we at least know it’s a Secret Science Lab.

A Low Res Grey Box in the Tibetan Mountains

Deep in the middle of nowhere and southeast of Mount Kailash lies a secret grey box with a slight purple outline. Did someone spill grape jelly all over the mountain, and it was never cleaned up? Who knows?

This Whole Area Just Outside of Bruges, Belgium

Under pixelated imagery seems to lie a system of buildings and barracks. Historically, this area was a military installation, yet it still seems to be of significance considering that even street view has little to no data in this area.

Most of this French Island

Levant Island is home to Heliopolis, which is “a simple rustic city where air and sunlight lovers come in the quiet of a beautiful nature.” The other 90% of the island is military-controlled and said to be home to a missile testing site.

A Greek Airport

The satellite view of Kos International Airport seems to be hiding something, yet the street view shows most of it and other locations nearby.

This Area in the Netherlands

There are a few houses on this road that refuse to be seen by the Google maps car. One is said to be owned by Dutch businessman Ben Mandemakers. Wonder what the other blurs are hiding?

This Spanish Air Base

The location around the Getafe Air Base is filled with clear and colorful imagery of the local area, yet the airbase desires to remain hidden. At least we have access to the street view of a nearby Burger King.

Parts of this American Island

Amchitka Island was used as a nuclear weapon testing site in the 1950s. A quick look at the island shows several low-resolution parts, but there seems to be a blur in the island’s southeast section. Is it a nuclear wasteland now?

These are a few of the places I found thanks to Wikipedia. Do you know anywhere else Google maps keeps secret from the public eye?
WMS Layer on Google Maps
By: Justin Poehnelt
Tags: Maps, Google, Web Development

UPDATE: The following code is now a package published to NPM at @googlemaps/ogc.

A Web Map Service(WMS) is a 20 year old standard for serving georeferenced images over HTTP. Google Maps allows developers to add custom map types. Let’s see how we combine the two!

Before jumping into JavaScript, we need to explore some XML and learn more about the WMS standard and tiled map numbering.

tl;dr: Checkout the jsfiddle at https://jsfiddle.net/jwpoehnelt/1ph0wen3.

Web Map Service

The WMS standard exposes many options such as coordinate reference systems(CRS), bounding box, and style selection. These parameters are specified in an XML document that can be queried by sending a GetCapabilities request to the WMS. Below is a extract of the response for the National Land Cover Database server.

These options become query parameters in our GetMap request to the WMS becoming the image below.

WMS GetMap Response

https://www.mrlc.gov/geoserver/NLCD_Land_Cover/wms?

&REQUEST=GetMap

&SERVICE=WMS

&VERSION=1.1.1

&LAYERS=mrlc_display:NLCD_2016_Land_Cover_L48

&FORMAT=image/png

&SRS=EPSG:3857 // Web Mercator

&BBOX=-10175297.20791413,5165920.120941021,-10018754.17394622,5322463.154908929 // Coordinates in Web Mecator

&WIDTH=1024

&HEIGHT=1024 &SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=mrlc_display:NLCD_2016_Land_Cover_L48&FORMAT=image/png&SRS=EPSG:3857 // Web Mercator&BBOX=-10175297.20791413,5165920.120941021,-10018754.17394622,5322463.154908929 // Coordinates in Web Mecator&WIDTH=1024&HEIGHT=1024

It is important to note that the coordinates for the BBOX parameter must be in the coordinate reference system specified by the spatial reference system(SRS). In the above request we are using EPSG:3857, also known as web mercator.

Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator[1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted it in 2005. — Wikipedia

Google Maps ImageMapType

Now that we have a basic understanding how the HTTP request to retrieve imagery from a WMS, we can begin exploring the interface Google Maps exposes for its map types, specifically the google.maps.ImageMapType and google.maps.ImageMapTypeOptions.

You getTileUrl is the option required to enable a WMS layer in Google Maps and how we create that tile URL must follow the WMS standard discussed above.

There are two primary steps to creating the getTileUrl function:

Convert point into web mercator coordinates. Assemble the WMS URL.

Tile(Point and Zoom) to Web Mercator Coordinates

Before diving into the simple math of calculating the web mercator coordinates, we need to understand a little more about tiled web maps and the parameters of the getTileUrl function we will write.
Introducing the Texas Quail Atlas
By: Texas A M Natural Resources Institute
Tags: Learning, Conservation, Texas, Maps, Quail

by Amanda Gobeli, Kevin Skow, Jim Cathey, and Abigail Holmes, Texas A&M NRI

Texas is home to four species of quail: northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), scaled quail (Callipepla squamata), Gambel’s quail (Callipepla gambelii), and Montezuma quail (Cyrtonix montezumae). Many Texans consider these birds to be iconic state species and fondly recall hunting them, watching them, or just listening to their songs.

Despite widespread interest in quail, their overall abundance — especially in the case of northern bobwhites — has declined significantly over the past few decades. Recent research efforts, such as those funded by the Reversing the Decline of Quail in Texas Initiative, seek to determine what factors are contributing to the decline of quail in Texas. Potential causes include drought, land use changes, land fragmentation, habitat loss, invasive species, insecticides, diseases and parasites.

The Texas Quail Atlas is the latest interactive resource on quail in Texas covering each of the four species, their history, the impacts of changes across the land and a review of quail health based on ecoregions. From dynamic mapping features to snapshots portraying a studied history of quail heritage, the ways we can use this story map for teaching landowners and the next generation of natural resource managers are limitless. Take a look, and as always, a large part of our work is reviewing your feedback on these resources. Let us know what you think and how you might be able to carry this tool with you.
Follow The Paint Chips All The Way
Tags: Maps

Krygier and Wood state that “maps are propositions, you must accept responsibility for the realities you create with maps.” Maps are simply propositions where you have the choice to decide where you want to travel based on the map and what are the best ways to get there. A map is related to the world it depicts as it is a representation of the selected features of an area. The information shown on a map is simple and shows visuals of locations; how we are taught about the world is by representing the different shapes, sizes, features, and the distance from one place to another. My understanding of maps around Chicago has changed since I have been here and with the examples that Krygier and Wood provided for maps. This has all changed due to how maps can be represented based on how we view and perceive a specific area that we have been to. There have been places that I have walked out to where I thought “oh this place looks sketchy” and “this area is so busy and has a lot of events going on,” I said this stuff in areas such as the Southside where the area has been deemed as crime-ridden and impoverished to Wrigleyville where there is always an event going on whether it’s for the cubs, parade, or places to go spend time at. I can see these areas on a map and define what I believe is the reality of the city, but it is my responsibility to understand and create a map of the actual existence of how the place represents itself.

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Tags: Maps

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It?s one of the first things we discover as children, reading and drawing: Maps have a unique power to transport us to distant lands on wondrous travels. Put a map at the start of a book, and we know an adventure is going to follow. Displaying this truth with beautiful full-color illustrations, The Writer?s Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This magnificent collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity. ? Philip Pullman recounts the experience of drawing a map as he set out on one of his early novels, The Tin Princess. Miraphora Mina recalls the creative challenge of drawing up ?The Marauder?s Map? for the Harry Potter films. David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of Cloud Atlas and his own sketch maps. Robert Macfarlane reflects on the cartophilia … (More info! -> https://dinamisebookpdf.blogspot.com/?book=022659663X)
I Can Hear Colors
By: L Ryu
Tags: Maps

2: 24 PM

Lincoln Park

Spotted someone wearing this neon green scarf that looked a bit like a boa constrictor. It was almost exactly like one. I hope it wasn’t o_o.

I felt chills run down my back at the thought of a person wearing an actual snake like a scarf. Then I remember I did the same once.

2: 49 PM

Someone has this leek 2015 Ferrari 458 Spider in, what looked like Hibiscus Flower (but slightly paler). He was clearly trying to flex though as he was revving the engine near an Athletic Club.

Somehow I could smell the exhaust from across from the street and the loud engine nearly pierced my ear drums. Pleasant sound but my rings rang with slight agony.

3: 05 PM

According to a passerby, the man was wearing this Neon Green Rolex watch, custom made. I tilted my head in slight confusion as I don’t think Rolex has done such a thing, but I left it alone and just walked past.

My head would sting in irritation.

Response to readings:

According to Krygier & Wood, a map is just a proposition. Its like looking at a certain area through a bunch of different lens. They can sometimes be whatever you want them to be, or represent one thing and not another. A map is related to its world as it allows me to paint a picture of what is where. However, (depending on the map), it sometimes gives us limited info. One map can’t really show us everything, which is why we have so many for just one location. We make maps in order to find out where something is, or where we should put something, or to just remember a location’s landscape and structure. For me though, from the maps I have seen of Chicago so far, my understanding of Chicago has not changed. Some maps should be used as more of an assist tool rather than an essential. I really only used (Google) maps when I was lost or confused. When it comes to mapping itself though, it’s not really one fixed thing. Mapping will vary depending on what you are paying attention to and who you want to view. Rather it be civilians, those in construction, or even armed forces. But regardless, mapping is nearly essential to knowing what is within an area we either live or pass through. At the end of the day, mapping is done to make the unknown, known to anyone that may need it.
How Can You Tell If A Map Is A Good Map
By: Cosmo Graphics
Tags: Maps, Cartographic Services, Personalised Maps Uk

The purpose of any map is to offer vital information for any user. The elements and symbols offer a way to understand a particular objective or goal. In making sense of a map, cartographers need to follow specific standards and objectives. The following features should help determine a good and quality map.

Provide Purpose

Any quality map should have a specific purpose. The term provides support to why a map remains necessary. The intended audience needs to understand the specific elements included and support the overall layout. Offering too much can become excessive and create clutter. In hiring cartographic Services, the person must articulate the data to help the client appreciate a particular area.

Signify Title and Scale

Using a title remains a valuable part in a good map. It becomes easier for any user to identify its intention and purpose. The standard practice involves using a larger font size for the title. Scale, on the other hand, represents the unit of measure a cartographer uses. You should see either fraction or verbal description of the scale.

Show Orientation

Orientation remains a crucial part in identifying how to assess a map. The term refers to an indication where you can find the North direction. Most cartographic services use a compass as a symbol to determine the area. The orientation improves your ability to use a map. In other types of maps, you can also see grid marks that show longitude and latitude.

Identify Legends

A quality map should offer legends to a user. The typical way to use a legend involves using colours. It is also essential for the cartographer to provide information about the symbol. Creating legends allow users to understand specific markings on the map.

Use Structure in Symbols

Cartographers who make maps also need to show familiarity on how to depict symbols. The use of structure offers an effective way to manage specific features. If you seek Personalised Maps UK, then you can define the symbology and ascertain which items remain significant and prioritised.

Offer Borders

In cartography, the design of a neatline or borders allows people to see the extent of a map. It gives an idea of the map’s coverage. A cartographer depicts the area using a thick line. Depending on the preference of a user, an additional thin line further adds to the aesthetic appeal of the piece.

Proper Graphical Design

Lastly, a quality map should follow proper graphical design techniques. Even if you request personalised maps UK, it should demonstrate qualities such as symmetry, consistent use of symbols, and unnecessary clutter. Making the effort to implement the elements allow the user to appreciate a map’s overall purpose.

The Bottom Line

Maps show man’s ability to represent information or provide direction. The points above should help you determine how to select a good map. It especially applies to someone seeking customised services. Beyond its design, the ability of a map to shape appreciation and make sense of a particular location make its use functional and worthwhile.
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It?s one of the first things we discover as children, reading and drawing: Maps have a unique power to transport us to distant lands on wondrous travels. Put a map at the start of a book, and we know an adventure is going to follow. Displaying this truth with beautiful full-color illustrations, The Writer?s Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This magnificent collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity. ? Philip Pullman recounts the experience of drawing a map as he set out on one of his early novels, The Tin Princess. Miraphora Mina recalls the creative challenge of drawing up ?The Marauder?s Map? for the Harry Potter films. David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of Cloud Atlas and his own sketch maps. Robert Macfarlane reflects on the cartophilia … (More info! -> https://dinamisebookpdf.blogspot.com/?book=022659663X)
Paper to Print to Screen
By: Rob Collins
Tags: Cartography, GIS, Maps, 3d, Arctic

Paper to Print to Screen

The other day I stumbled upon a 1956 map of the Greenland ice cap from the National Geographic. I was impressed by its simplicity. It conveys one message but does so incredibly well.

With seismic sounding they were able to measure the underlying land mass below the icecap. It highlights how the shear weight of the ice has caused the country itself to sink below that of sea level, contrasting the uplift seen my many other countries since the ice age.

Naturally, as technology has changed over the years cartography has changed with it. This map of Greenland comes at the interchange between an entirely paper map and one that went on to be printed in a magazine.

With recent developments we can view similar maps entirely within a browser in 3D. I wanted to take open data and recreate the map I’d seen on Twitter. Below is my quick attempt to bring together the successes and challenges from the map creation.

Overall, it was incredibly promising that I didn’t need to search for a long time in order to add the data directly into a 3D scene such as this and there was even a grey DEM which I could use as a basemap. However, I think most people would agree that it’s not as pleasing on the eye as the National Geographic version. I reckon it goes to show where we are in cartography and potentially the final steps needed to make 3D cartography suitable for wider consumption.

Firstly, we need a way of making 3D components less harsh through symbology. Secondly, and in addition to above, we need the ability to correctly place text and labels around the map without having to export the 3D elements and adding on the labels later. Finally, a simpler and more convenient way of sharing a static 3D scene published entirely from the web.
Web Development Boot Camp: Week 5
By: Youra Cho
Tags: Map, Reduce, JavaScript, Functional Programming, Array Methods

Dive into JavaScript: Array methods and Functional programming

This week, I learned a vast amount of Array methods. Also, I was introduced new concepts called functional programming appliable to array methods. It makes me very complicated and confusing at first, but, in the end, I got accustomed to utilizing the brand new methods for better coding.

Array methods

Array.isArray(value)

let new_array = old_array.concat([value1[,...[, valueN]]]])

arr.indexOf(searchElement[, fromIndex])

arr.includes(valueToFind[, fromIndex]) // true or false

arr.join([separator]) // returns a string

push/pop, unshift/shift

This method changes the length of the array.

arr.push(element1[, ...[, elementN]])

arr.pop()

arr.unshift(element1[, ...[, elementN]])

arr.shift()

arr.slice([begin[, end]])

let arrDeletedItems = array.splice(start[, deleteCount[, item1[, item2[, ...]]]])

var newArray = arr.flat([depth]);

Array methods for Functional programming

Good picture explaining the functions of map, filter, and reduce (Image source: Overflowjs)

let new_array = arr.map(callback( currentValue[, index[, array]]), thisArg])

let newArray = arr.filter(callback(element[, index, [array]])[, thisArg])

arr.reduce(callback( accumulator, currentValue[, index[, array]] )[, initialValue])

arr.every(callback(element[, index[, array]])[, thisArg])

arr.forEach(callback(currentValue [, index [, array]])[, thisArg])

Functional Programming vs. Imperative Programming

“The functional programming paradigm was explicitly created to support a pure functional approach to problem solving. Functional programming is a form of declarative programming. With an imperative approach, a developer writes code that describes in exacting detail the steps that the computer must take to accomplish the goal. In contrast, a functional approach involves composing the problem as a set of functions to be executed. You define carefully the input to each function, and what each function returns”.(src: https://docs.microsoft.com/)

Imperative (Procedural) Programming

// to calculate the sum of array elements

const sum = (arr) => {

let result = 0;

for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {

result += arr[i];

}

return result;

};

Functional (Declarative) programming

// calculate the sum of array elements

const sum = (arr) => arr.reduce((total, item) => total += item, 0);

This looks pretty clean, shorter, expressive, concise code, less error prone, easier to maintain, and easier to debug. We are telling the computer what we want it to do rather how to do it. (source: Overflowjs)
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Tags: Maps

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A Dying Friend’s Words That Changed My Life…
By: Ria Vanessa Caliste
Tags: Change Your Life, Death, Life Purpose, Pursuit Of Happiness, Beyourself

My final resting place would be a box without any earthly possessions.

It hit me suddenly and so I began reassessing where my focus has been.

Of course I wish to achieve certain career and personal goals, and indeed it is a good thing to do.

However, I took a good look at my goals and what is the purpose of it all.

It was a sobering thought for me, that in the pursuit of albeit good purposes, my family and close friends had gotten placed in a far secondary spot.

I determined there and then to reassess what I prioritize in life.

Please don’t misunderstand me, I am not saying that nothing should be done, except sit with family and friends. However, when time is lost and there is no opportunity to enjoy the simple things in life, as I realized about myself, it became absolutely necessary for me to relook at how I have approached life.

I grew up, I got a job, I got a home, accompanied by a mortgage, I got other personal effects that while enjoyed to a degree has me working three times as much as I would before, with sad to admit, less time for my family and close friends.

Like the average adult, I bought into the dream of what is considered living. Living that is with the hope. The hope to pay off my mortgage, hope to have good health, hope to have a good enough pension that isn’t eaten away by inflation and whatever else may come my way and then spend the time to enjoy life.

The hope that would be realized, not now, but somewhere further down in my life, after working to pay off debts!!

That’s what I realized about my life.

So while I still pursue goals, I realize that when I die nothing I own, no money I have will go with me and so I have relinquished some of my roles to enjoy the pleasure as a simple laugh with my family, having a family outing, spending time reading or whatever else it may be.

I have also deliberately made a decision to spend time with me, more often.
How Drinking 1000ml Lemon Water Every Day for a Month, Changed My Body
By: Nishi Kashyap
Tags: Self Improvement, Health, Fitness, Life, Beyourself

I’ll admit it: I haven’t been taking the best care of my body and skin lately. Well, life has sort of gotten in the way that I’ve been lazy a bit especially when it comes to my routine.

Lately, I’ve not been indulging in any sort of serious calorie burn activity like walking all because of quarantine. But even at home, my silly self is not doing any sort of exercise… Why?

Because I was too lazy to do that.

I’ve been falling asleep without washing my face, skipping a few steps (including moisturizer!), eating non-stop, avoiding exercises, and of course, the repercussions have shown.

And because of my not-so-healthy routine, where my body being body isn’t doing any good to me, but my skin is also betraying me. It recently started looking tired and blotchy and breaking out. I’ve been facing hormonal issues which had led to severe acne and bumps on my skin.

And to be proactive about reversing the damage, I went on the internet in search of a natural approach that would be helpful for my body. And I read a lot about lemon water benefits, how drinking it daily not only nourishes the skin but helps in weight loss and stomach issues.

I thought, why not try it out? So, I began drinking freshly squeezed lemon juice in 1 Litre (1000ml) of water.

Here’s what I learned after one month of putting it to the test.
What I Learned In The Pandemic
By: Mike Troiano
Tags: Pandemic, Life Lessons, Mwc Reentry, Inspiration, Beyourself

The Way Down

A few weeks into the pandemic, I was working and living alone on the third floor of my house. I set up a small desk up there to get some work done during the day. When my wife and daughter both got sick, I ended up sleeping there as well.

I was dislocated and anxious, 24 x 7. I worried if I got it, I’d end up in the hospital. I worried about my wife, my kids, and my parents. I worried about the deals I’d been chasing, and the deals I’d done — now companies and people I cared about — struggling to figure out what was happening and what to do about it. Everyone hunkered down to weather the storm.

I worried about my friends, especially those who still thought COVID-19 was some kind of liberal fairy tale to cripple the Trump administration. I worried about my country, which seemed to be descending into madness. We were a ship in a storm, captained by a man focused exclusively on his re-coronation, refusing to do what would have secured it. I watched the briefings on my kitchen TV in disgust, wiping down groceries as household supplies dwindled. I bought cases of masks, quarts of anti-bacterial cleaning supplies, checked our inventories of toilet paper, pasta, and beans, then double-checked to make sure my family would be ok.

Then George Floyd was killed, and the streets erupted in protest. I bought and read the books I was supposed to read, trying to understand as though understanding would put me back in control. I learned the lessons I could learn, including that people like me were part of the problem. I wanted to do something, but didn’t know what.

I doubled down on news, mainlining CNN, studying the New York Times like a grad student. I combed through obscure data sources for case counts, hospitalizations, and deaths at the national, state, and local level. The numbers were huge, and growing geometrically. Empowered by all the information in the world and utterly powerless to change what was happening in it, I slipped into depression.

I ate badly, and gained weight that worsened my odds of surviving both COVID and middle age. I felt awful. I lived in my head all day, then slept badly, only to rise again in Outbreak Groundhog Day as weeks turned to months, Spring into Summer.

One night, alone in the darkness in my twin bed, I found myself searching for a positive thought to calm my mind. All I could find was that — for all that was going wrong in the world —right now, we were ok. I didn’t know what was going to happen, to me, my parents, my kids, my business, my country. But right then, we were all ok.

I settled down, and slept.
7 Petitions in The Lord’s Prayer Simplified
By: Rocky Paredes
Tags: Meaning Of Life, Fathers, Fathers Day, Mindset, Beyourself

Jesus said, “When you pray to the Father, pray like this” (The Bible: Book of Mathew Chapter 6 verse 9)¹.

1. Our Father who is in Heaven hallowed is your name

2. Your Kingdom come

3. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven

4. Give us this day our daily bread

5. And forgive us our offenses as we forgive those that have offended us

6. Lead us not into temptation

7. Deliver us from evil

Jesus gave us The Lord’s Prayer — also known as the Our Father. It is composed of seven simple lines — seven petitions directed to God.

The first 3 petitions focus on aligning our lives with God. On trusting, and putting our lives in God’s hands. The next 4 petitions ask for God’s help.

The Lord’s Prayer tells us to speak to God as one would speak to a father — a dad — a perfect dad that completely understands — telling Him about our needs and suffering and asking Him for help to solve them.

I look at the Lord’s Prayer as a conversation with God. It is also an opportunity to align my goals and purpose to God’s order. It is a way to look at the world differently.

Let’s take a look at the 7 petitions of the Lord’s Prayer and how you can apply them to deepen your connection with God in prayer:

1. Our Father who is in heaven Hallow is Your name

~ Our Father ~

Saint Teresa of Avila, who gave us some of the most wonderful descriptions of mental prayer, pauses on the first word of the Lord’s prayer — “Our”: “O Son of God! and my Lord! how is it that you give us so much in the first word?”²

“Our Father”. Jesus did not say to pray to His father. Rather, Jesus said: “Our” — Our Father — Our God the Father — yours and mine — “Our”!

Further, it is not just Father but more like “Papa” or “Dad” from Aramaic: Abba

Our Dad. The Our Father is all-inclusive. The Our Father is for all of us. God’s love is for all of us!

~ Who is in Heaven ~

Saint Augustine said that the Heaven that Jesus refers to in the Lord’s Prayer is a state rather than a physical place. God cannot be controlled. God can not be manipulated yet we can not hide or run away from God.

Saint Teresa of Avila also says that the heavens of which Christ speaks in the Lord’s Prayer are to be thought of as the inner space of our soul and heart.

“However quietly we speak, He [God] is so near that He will hear us; we need no wings to go in search of Him but have only to find a place where we can be alone and look upon Him present within us” (Saint Teresa of Avila)²

~ Hallowed be thy name ~

Thomas Aquinas stands with Saint Augustine by saying “hallowed is your name” we are not asking for God’s name to be holy — God’s name is always holy. Rather, it is asking that God “might work a change in us so that we hallow God above all things”.⁴
The Day I Realized that I Should Start Wearing a Personal Uniform
By: Will Zolpe
Tags: Minimalism, Lifestyle, Inspiration, Life, Beyourself

5:00 rolled around pretty quickly last Sunday. I was at my boss’s house swapping out dirty mop heads and cloths for clean ones.

I made it to work by about 5:15 to meet my coworker, Jason, at the entrance door of the offices we clean together. I quickly grabbed all the supplies from my car and hustled to the door, pulled out my keys and unlocked the front door in a hurry because I felt bad.

“Sorry for keeping you waiting. I was at Jeni’s swapping some stuff out,” I said. “Not a problem, man. I’ve only been here a few minutes,” Jason said.

We walked in, turned all the lights on, and starting grabbing the appropriate tools for the job.

We usually start our shifts by discussing who will do what and by complaining about the emails our boss gets after every time we clean, asking if we are able to clean more and more stuff each time. Jason decided he’d be vacuuming today so we both walked over to our storage closet in the building to unlock it and grab the vacuum.

He quickly got it and headed back towards where we entered. I noticed something slightly different on him today, though.

“New shoes, Jason?” I asked him. “No, I’ve had these. I’m worse than a woman,” he said. “Haha, what do you mean?” I asked. “Well, I have like 35 pairs,” he explained. My eyes widened. He noticed. “Yeah, and I have like 30 pairs of pants and probably even more t-shirts,” he said.

I couldn’t believe it. This was the first time I had seen different shoes on him. But I had no idea he had a revolving wardrobe of seemingly the same clothes.

Jason wears the Adidas brand from head to toe. The first shift I worked with him, I thought it was funny but interesting that he was in all Adidas. His hat, jacket, shirt, pants, shoes, and probably socks too.

I honestly just thought he wore the same outfit to work on purpose but this is apparently all he wears.

The conversation ended and we began working. But I thought about that for at least a few minutes. Not the fact that he had so many garments of clothing, but that he basically had a uniform for life.

I had never noticed that some of his clothes would change, but when his shoes were a different color, it caught my attention. He wears all Adidas just because it’s what he likes.

All the clothes go together almost perfectly too because, well, they’re made to look good together!
What Tony Bennett Taught Me
By: Marlane Ainsworth
Tags: Belief, Belief Systems, Life Lessons, Decluttering, Beyourself

Do I have beliefs I don’t really need?

Labeled box by Marlane

The legendary singer and humanitarian Tony Bennett wrote in his memoir ‘Just Getting Started’:

Learn what you don’t really need and leave it out.

I recall nothing else from the book, just this bit of simple, timeless advice.

Of course Bennett was referring to elements in his career like lyrics and musical arrangements but it equally applies to jeans that no longer zip up or a belief one has outgrown.

It’s time for me to act on this advice.

What things don’t I really need?

I prowl around the house for several hours checking cupboards, shelves and drawers. What do I find?

A dental mold of my lower teeth, at least twenty years old.

A cake decorating kit still in its original packaging.

Red trousers purchased when I dressed up as Blinky Bill.

A copy of ‘Europe on $10 a Day’, published in the 1970s, which will now fit nicely in the Fantasy section of the local secondhand bookshop.

I throw out the dental mold and put the other three items in a box so they’re ready to donate on the morrow.

That was easy. Now for the hard bit.

What beliefs don’t I really need?

Labeled box by Marlane

Ahh . . .

I find that things I don’t need any more are easier to recognise and remove than beliefs.

Things have substance. To spot an unused cake decorating kit, scoop it up and put it in a box labelled ‘Things I Don’t Really Need’ takes half a minute.

But beliefs are invisible. They hide in my brain box and send out a tangled network of intangible roots and shoots that ensure they can emerge spontaneously at moments that seem to confirm their inherent truth.

Getting rid of a belief is as hard as chipping concrete with a plastic spoon!

Then again, is the belief I have about a belief being hard to get rid of merely a belief promoted by my belief system to guarantee its continued existence?

Getting back to Bennett’s quip, do I really need this belief about beliefs being hard to get rid of?

No. It’s a belief that would be good to leave out of my life.

Can I get rid of a belief as quickly as I got rid of that dental mold, cake decorating kit, red trousers and out-of-date travel book?

Well, now, let’s see.

I take a mental peek into my brain box.

Is that belief gone?

Yep. It’s gone. Every root and shoot of its insidiousness. In its place is a belief that beliefs are as easy to remove from my life as things are.

Insight: Beliefs I don’t really need are easy to leave out of my life.

(This experience of getting rid of an unnecessary belief has raised another point: Do I need beliefs at all? But I’ll leave that for another time . . . )

Marlane

Original version published at: https://www.lightofinsight.com/single-post/2019/01/19/What-Tony-Bennett-Said
Who’s Holding the Cards?
By: Mary Devries
Tags: Family, Self Improvement, Card Game, Productivity, Beyourself

In the classic card game Pit, it’s all about holding the right cards.

The goal of the game is to trade cards facedown with the other players until you finally have a full hand of all the same cards. It’s fast, hectic, crazy fun.

It was a favorite game for my family. One particular game, however, really stands out.

So there we are at the table frantically swapping cards. I’m getting excited because I only need one card to have a complete hand full of Barley for the win. I keep shouting “one, one, one, one, one” as I hold out the corn card that I need to trade away. And I keep grabbing a card from another player, glance at it eagerly only to see that it isn’t Barley but yet another Corn. So I try again, yelling just a little bit louder. I trade again, and again it is Corn. But I’m so close to winning.

Almost everyone at the table is frantic just like me. Everyone is trading one card only. And that one card is always Corn. But we are all so caught up in the fact we are about to win if we just get the one right card that none of us notice this fact.

Suddenly Dad starts laughing. We all keep trading our single Corn cards around the table sure we will win any second. Dad laughs harder. We look at him with annoyance.

“Just stop,” he says. “None of you can win.” He exposes his hand which contains precisely one of each of our longed-for cards. There is my desired Barley, along with mom’s longed for Wheat, my sister’s needed Rye, and so on.

“I wanted to see how long it would take you to realize that none of you could win. I figured eventually you would realize that you were all trading the same card. Finally, I gave up on you ever figuring it out.” He laughed some more as we all sat there chagrined.