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Stop Blaming God for Your Horniness
By: Lisa Martens
Tags: Humor, Relationships, Satire, Sexuality, Sex

Stop Blaming God for Your Horniness

Men using the divine to try to get me into bed

Photo by KEEM IBARRA on Unsplash

Here he is again.

Yet another man who thinks because we met, it was divine intervention. I can’t turn him down — God wants us to be together!

How strange. Didn’t God also put that frail old woman with the groceries in your path? And the burly man at the bank? What about the Uber driver from the ride you had last week? But you don’t seem to think God wants you to be with them. No, only me. It’s strange how that works out.

Oh, so I have to be with you, or I’m going against God’s plan. Can’t I see how perfect we are together? I’m unmarried and I have no kids. You…well, you have an ex-wife and kids, but that’s okay. I can be their stepmom! I can help you take care of them! Wouldn’t that be just perfect?

Except — I intentionally am unmarried and don’t have kids. God had nothing to do with it. Birth control and my ability to make decisions…both, presumably, given to me by God, if you want to see it that way…resulted in the life I have now.

The life I have now is not a stepping stone for you. My free time is not an opportunity for you to have a live-in babysitter. My vagina is not for you to have more babies.

I am not for you, no matter what you think God tells you.

Don’t make your horniness my problem. Just jerk off. Just watch some porn. Just admit that you’re horny. And if you think masturbation is wrong, this is also not my problem. I don’t have you relieve your pain. I don’t have to offer myself for your comfort.

“That’s crude,” you say. You have a list of excuses. Meeting online isn’t what God intends. It’s a sin to jerk off. It’s a sin to watch porn. I am the only non-sinful release.

Oh brother.

You “just know” we are meant to be together, and I “just know” that you should go on Tinder.

I am not mean for saying no.

I am not going to hell for saying no.

I am not less of a woman for saying no.

Your horniness has nothing to do with God. It is not special. It’s a feeling. It’s not something I have to act on.

God is going to have to tell me directly if he wants me to be with you, and even then, I’ll probably say no. When you’re having a chat, let him know. Because my God is a woman, and you know what she’s telling me?

“This dude is full of misogynist crap.”
The Journey so far
Tags: Announcements, Commercium, Timeline, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. -Leo Tolstoy

We’ve come a long way, and there is so much more ahead of us! Thank you for your patience, investment and following.

The Commercium Team
🎂 Cake
By: Rolli, Https, Ko-Fi.Com Rolliwrites
Tags: Humor, Busines, Life, Comics, Cartoon

CARTOON

🎂 Cake

A tasty tactic

Artist’s Note №1

Cake is my muse. Coffee, too. I especially like Death Wish Coffee. It’s the world’s strongest coffee.

Artist’s Note №2

Did you know that Medium continues to allow paying member accounts to sell cocaine and counterfeit currency on their platform with impunity?

Interesting, no? #followthemoney

Artist’s Note №3

Due both to my curation ban and the recent, devastating algorithm change, this post will earn no money. It would mean the world to me if you’d consider buying me a coffee.

Artist’s Note №4

My most recent book is The Sea-Wave. Adopt a copy here.

Artist’s Note №5

You might like this cartoon, too:
Bitgirlsの記念トークンがBook of Orbs上でコレクション可能に！
Tags: Counterparty, Blockchain, Bitcoin

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The Dog Days of Summer — Your Home Checklist
Tags: Home Improvement, Summer, Kansas City

The ancient Romans called the hottest, most humid days of summer “diēs caniculārēs” or “dog days.” The name came about because the Romans associated the hottest (and most miserable) days of summer with the star Sirius. Sirius was known as the “Dog Star” because it was the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major (large dog).

July certainly lives up to the Dog Days of summer. Hot, humid and often miserable. The last thing you want to think about are chores, but your house doesn’t take a break from needing maintenance. Thankfully, you can trust the service providers at Zaarly to cross off everything on your home to-do list, and with our accountability promise — you can sit back and relax by the pool, with nothing to worry about!

Decks

Is your deck ready for all of those summer BB Qs? If you haven’t done so already, have your deck pressure washed (it will look like a new deck!). It’s also a good time to consider having your deck re-stained. To make sure everyone is safe — have a handyman check the structural integrity of your deck, including stairs, railing posts, and spindles. Is it time to replace stairs or add something to your deck? Now is the time to do it!

Don’t have a deck yet? It’s not too late! You can have your dream deck sooner than you think!

Contact a deck-expert on Zaarly today.

Find a provider who can pressure wash your deck.

Curb Appeal

Lawns can suffer a lot during the summer. Make sure your grass stays green and healthy all summer by having regular maintenance. Now is also a good time to consider landscaping option through summer and fall. Is it time to put in a new walkway? Have you been dreaming of shade trees? From lawn mowing to major landscape design, our experts can help.

Have the best curb on the block! Book a lawn care or landscaping expert.

Summer Storms

Summer Storms are inevitable. Make sure your home is protected before they hit. Have your gutters been cleaned recently? Is your basement waterproofed? Is your landscaping sloped away from your foundation? Have your trees been trimmed? Keep your home safe and sound through everything Mother Nature throws at it this summer.

Housecleaning & Organizing

Summer vacations, camp, VBS, juggling work and life during the summer can seem impossible. Weekly or bi-weekly cleaning can bring your home from CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over) to calm in no-time.

It’s also time to start thinking about fall! Hiring an organizer before school starts can help transition from summer into autumn seamlessly.

Find a housecleaner who can help calm the chaos.

Hire a home organizer who can help prepare for fall.

HVAC

Do we need to say more? Don’t get caught on the most miserable day of the year with a broken AC! Get your AC serviced!

Zaarly is the ONLY place you can find and hire service providers who are proud to be accountable for the job they say they will do.
The First Thread.
By: Sean Moss-Pultz
Tags: Education

I honestly don’t have this planned out…I just have a simple idea to get started. Think of this place as a somewhat controlled environment. A comment starts a single thread. The topic of another thread will then be started from a comment within an existing thread. It’s the idea of collecting a group consciousness on a given topic. An attempt to create an endless well of inspiration — based on ideas, principles, philosophies, and even anomalies.

Here’s the first comment. From one of my heros, Peter Drucker:

Technology, however important and however visible, will not be the most important feature of the transformation in education. Most important will be rethinking the role and function of schooling. It’s focus, its purpose, its values. The technology will still be significant, but primarily because it should force us to do new things rather than because it will enable us to do old things better.

I’ve started a project called Openmoko. I like to describe Openmoko as a movement to create a open platform that empowers people to personalize their phone, much like a computer, in any way they see fit.

One of my long term dreams is to help provide tools that will transform the way people learn. I am a self-proclaimed technologist. Since the mobile phone is the single piece of technology that I will carry whenever I go, naturally, this seemed to be the best place for me to start.

We chose to make the entire software stack open. From a control standpoint — the things corporations love — this borders on insanity. But I think by pushing these borders, we will let loose the possibility for immense innovation.

Innovation, in my opinion, is seldom found within the endless cubicles of a large corporation. Most commonly it manifests itself within the intense focus and concentration, that all individuals seem to have access to, when they stare at a single problem long enough.

Staying with a problem long after most would quit, is a luxury few companies can afford. Instead, I want to focus on the fundamentals — the framework — to use a more specific term. The include the following parts:

UI — Common look & feel for end users

Data — Common storage model for applications

Libraries — Common platform for developers

We believe that these are some of the key areas to solidify for innovation to form. And that this will benefit not just my company (FIC), but everyone who uses a mobile phone.

So here’s my question for you all. What can do we do — as a corporation and as a community — to help build better tools for learning? Or to use Drucker’s words again, how will an open source mobile phone, “force us to do new things”?. How can it help us all rethink “the role and function of schooling”?
The Cold Truth About What Online Courses Do and Don’t Give You
By: Mo Kaiser
Tags: Course, Reading, Knowledge, Online, Education

“I’ve completed x, y, and z courses from [Coursera, edX, etc.], but I’m still not receiving interviews. And when I get called in, I don’t get called back.”

Feels like we’re hearing this time and time again. It will resonate exponentially more with you if you’re undergoing a career transition. Reading forums and posts like this inevitably yield anxiety and confusion. As if taking this risk wasn’t already ridden with anxiety, right? Your mountainous efforts to break into the tech world now seem stupid. But those efforts are not wasted, and your negative affects are most definitely valid. It is understandable to feel, and you cannot beat yourself up when you feel that way. The reason being is that the majority are not recognizing — or, at least, speaking about — the true importance of what these courses are really doing.

Ben Stiller gif by funnyjunk.com on giphy.com

Online courses provide the keys and foundational knowledge. Online courses don’t guarantee the door opening to a job or full comprehension. Might come as a shock since some people of today’s world expect things to just happen to them. As if hard work wasn’t a thing (a scoff is heard in the distance). While I’m at it, here’s some more ice with that blizzard…
BlockShow Americas Recap
By: Dr. Michael J. Garbade
Tags: Crypto, Las Vegas, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

BlockShow Americas which recently concluded on August 21st, was the first stop of the LEDU North American Roadshow. The event was held at the Venetian luxury hotel and casino resort in Las Vegas. Over 1500 guests attended the event which also included over 80 speakers. BlockShow provided an opportunity for discussions on decentralization, use cases for blockchain technology and more by some of the top blockchain and cryptocurrency experts in the field.

Education Ecosystem had a booth at the event where we provided information to interested parties about our project and LEDU coins. The conference also afforded us the opportunity to meet with some potential partners and discuss possibilities for working together. Keep up to date with the other events in our roadshow on our website, blog and social media platforms. Below are some photos from the event:
[Update] SmartDrop Campaign with QuarkChain
By: Morpheus Labs Team
Tags: Mitx, Smartdrop, Bpaas, Morpheus Labs, Quarkchain

Dear Community,

We have received overwhelming responses from our Smartdrop campaign which ran from 6th March to 6th April. We want to thank all who participated.

Here is an Update on how the Smartdrop campaign went:

Total respondents: 36,452

Total Content Submissions: 3,447

Developer Registration: 884

Out of the 884 developer registrations, we will be selecting some of these developers to be our Product Council. These developers will be given priority access to our new features and modules as we continue to enhance our PaaS. They will also be called upon to help test the new features and in some cases, we will cross-check with this group as our product council.
Huobi Pro Will Launch Point Package with Free Huobi Token (HT) on January 24th at 10:00
By: Huobi Global
Tags: Announcements, Ht, Blockchain

Huobi Pro will launch Huobi Token on January 24th (GMT+8). From Jan 24th to Feb 7th, Free HT can be received by Point Package purchase. The give-away starts at 10:00 every day.

Meantime, HT/USDT, HT/BTC and HT/ETH trading pairs will be available from 14:00, February 1st (GMT+8).

What is Huobi Token (HT)?

Huobi Token, short for “HT”, is a token system based on Blockchain launching and management. Fixed total amount is 500 million and 100% of tokens are given away for free. 60% (300 million) tokens are given as gifts (with daily limit) with Point Package purchase. 20%, 100 million tokens are used for user rewards and platform operation. 20%, 100 million tokens are used as team incentive. Tokens are locked for 4 years and 25 million tokens are distributed each year.

What is the value of Huobi Token (HT)?

Discount of fee: Buy VIP with HT and you can get up to 50% off on fees. 2. Regular buyback: Each season, 20% of Huobi Pro’s income goes to buyback on the open market. All the bought-back HT will be withdrawn to Huobi Investor Protection Fund in a certain proportion. They are used to protect investors’ benefits and compensate for the loss of Huobi users in the first place when risks occur in the platform. 3. Exclusive events for HT holders: HT holders will enjoy exclusive events. For example, holders can irregularly receive coins newly launched on Huobi. 4. Coin-coin Exchange: HT can be exchanged in USDT/HT, BTC/HT and ETH/HT pairs. 5. Vote and participate in our business: Huobi will launch voting program irregularly to HT holders and let the holders to participate in our business. For example, for those token projects that meet the requirements of Huobi Pro, you can vote for the projects you like by HT. Huobi pro will consider those projects first.

How can I get Huobi Token (HT)?

Get HT for free by Point Package purchase

Point Card is the Huobi’s pre-paid card for basic service charge. The Card is similar to the pre-paid card of telephone fee. 1 point = 1 USDT fee. During the HT event, you can get free HT by Point Card purchase.

More information will be published in the announcements. Please stay tuned.

Huobi Pro

January 22, 2018
Roy Hinkis Joins MF Chain as Head of Marketing
By: Modern Finance Chain
Tags: SEO, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

MF Chain is pleased to announce the addition of Roy Hinkis as Head of Marketing for Modern Finance Chain. Roy is an SEO and Digital Marketing expert with over 12 years of SEO and digital marketing experience. Former Head of Global SEO & Organic Growth Marketing at SimilarWeb, specializing in digital marketing and PR in all verticals including Real Estate, Transportation, Technology, and Travel. Roy has been featured in numerous online publications including Business Insider, Yahoo, MOZ, MSN, TheNextWeb, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, Contetly, and many more.

Roy has consulted and assisted Fortune 500 companies achieve tremendous online marketing success and now brings his knowledge, expertise and passion to Modern Finance Chain. Roy has been following closely the growth and expansion of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Joining the Modern Finance Chain team was natural transition for Roy. Sharing our vision of an open sourced blockchain that benefits all Roy stated “Joining a team that strives to help the world adopt cryptocurrency and assists upstart projects was an exciting opportunity for me.”

Additional announcements including event attendance and interviews will be made in the coming weeks.
Violence Against Women Should Be Treated as a Hate Crime
By: Ashleigh Hume
Tags: Violence Against Women, Hate Crimes, Women, Violence, Crime

I shouldn’t have to repeat the statistics. The World Health Organization’s 2017 report on this issue indicates that roughly 1 in 3 women have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. 38% of murders of women are committed by a male intimate partner. The latter statistic is higher in some countries than others; but even in highly-developed countries with more gender equality, this is sitting around the 24% mark.

This is a huge percentage. And yet, as a society we tend to make excuses for this behaviour: the woman must have deserved it, somehow, or the man was mentally ill/going through a rough time/shouldn’t be defined by this one action. We’ve been conditioned to see women as liars and to believe in the authority of men; that’s why many people won’t believe survivors unless they hear a confession from the man.

It makes me horribly sad to see the types of things that people say about women who have been a victim of violence. What was she wearing, why didn’t she leave him, she shouldn’t ruin his life (because her life is unimportant compared to his, right?) and the like. And there will be others, the pseudo intellectual misogynists who cry “CITATION NEEDED” every time you try and recount any instance of violence against women, because they’ve never personally witnessed it; therefore they’re convinced that it either doesn’t happen or can’t be as bad as you say. The fact that it literally happened to you/your friend/someone you know isn’t “proof” to them.

It doesn’t help that the media often skews things in favour of the men: violent men are characterized as “nice guys” who just got mad and shouldn’t be punished for this small misstep because they have such a bright future ahead of them. Women, on the other hand, are mentioned as passive participants; violence is just something that happened to them, as if violence slipped on something and bumped into them by accident.
What Would Your Ideal Life Look Like in Three years?
By: Vincent Van Patten
Tags: Personal Development, Self, Travel, Life, Inspiration

Think about a couple of areas in your life that you have an incredible vision for. What would your ideal life look like in three years?

I laid on the floor with my eyes closed, halfway through The 6 Phase Meditation Guided by Vishen Lakhiani.

Questions about my future used to intimidate me. But when I heard these words, I felt like a different person than I used to be. I thought deeply about the question — what do I genuinely believe is possible in the next three years of my life?

“As humans, we tend to overestimate what we’re able to do in a year, yet underestimate what we’re able to do in three,” said Lakhiani in an encouraging tone over the speaker in my room.

The question dug into me because for the first time, I’m ready to step into my destiny with a full heart and an open mind. I’m ready to be honest with myself instead of shying away. I’m more excited about the future than ever before.
All Consuming Fire
By: Tucker Fitzgerald
Tags: Evangelicals, Atheism, Christianity, Doubt

“For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt — something is gained but something is lost.” ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

I remember when my partner first introduced her closest friend as “Post-Christian.” While probably not the most salient identity marker for most Americans, it immediately told me much about Brenton. I hadn’t played with the term before, but after a pause I reached out to shake his hand, echoing that I was probably post-Christian as well.

Both of our partners were still Christian. Jaded, disobedient, exhausted, but capable of passing an evangelical litmus test. Trinity? Check. Atoning death? Check. Bible authority? Check. But we resided somewhere else.

Rewind five years and I had been in the beginning stages of ordination. I’m not sure what happened in the years between. None of my loved ones died. No clergy abused me. No atheist out-debated me. But something shifted in the dark.

When I first came across Peter Rollins’ “omega course,” a literal or hypothetical course that helps believers exit Christianity, I found the idea thought-provoking. But these days it feels more pressing. I find myself longing for such a shepherding community.

Exiting evangelical life isn’t straightforward.
Going Far, Together — the 2019 Necker Blockchain Summit
By: The Bitfury Group
Tags: Bitfury, Leadership, Technology, Blockchain Summit

I left Necker Island last week after the fifth annual Blockchain Summit and reminded myself of how much good we can do for the world when we bring together a smart, diverse and creative group of people to discuss bold, new ideas.

With our friends Bill Tai of ACTAI and Sandra Ro of the Global Blockchain Business Council, the Bitfury Group co-hosted this world-class group of technologists, regulators, artists, activists, lawmakers, academics, business leaders, investors and environmentalists.

On Day One, we focused on the fundamental layer of our society — our governments. We discussed how these institutions have supported innovation and analyze if (and how) they apply the same innovative spirit to themselves and their responsibilities.

During our first panel, Roger Ferguson, former vice chairman of the board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve, said blockchain technology “potentially allows a democratization of financial services in a way that has not existed before. It may allow us to bring the unbanked into financial transactions. To the extent we can develop blockchain and the right kinds of cryptocurrency, we can start to create or rebuild a degree of financial trust that’s important to financial literacy and financial security.”

On Day Two, we heard from Christina Smedley from Facebook and Dante Disparte from the Libra Association about how the new Libra cryptocurrency can do to money what the internet has done with communication and information sharing. It also creates an opportunity to build a financial network for people who are left out of existing networks, they said.

We also discussed some of the most pressing challenges with climate change. And we took a deep dive into the media industry — how emerging technologies can help repair the industry, and how the industry can help advance emerging technologies.

On Day Three, we talked about how digital currencies are increasingly going mainstream and discussed whether Libra will help accelerate that.

Five years ago, we had an idea: What if we brought a small group of game-changers to this small but beautiful island? Together, we said, we could imagine big ideas that, with some effort, could have a big and positive impact on the world. Today, I’m proud to see this idea has become reality.

As always, I leave our Blockchain Summit emboldened by the many wonderful people we assemble, and the fascinating ideas that are born there. This year’s new guests now join the larger Necker community that continues to collaborate and build upon our common goals. Now it’s up to all of us to put our ideas to work so that we can truly bring much-needed change to the world. If every one of us will do a little bit of good, all of us will do a lot of good. Bit by bit.

As the proverb states, if we want to go fast, we go alone. If we want to go far, we go together.
NEAR Community Update: April 19, 2019
By: Erik Trautman
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Community, Near Protocol

This and future NEAR community updates will now be available on our blog. You can find this update here.
A Bedding of Algae
By: Ana-Maria Schweitzer
Tags: Poetry, Self, Insomnia, Awareness, Control

A Bedding of Algae

I pray to the waves

Photo by Nsey Benajah on Unsplash

Could you show me how to fall asleep again?

Like a child in a cradle

is there any step I forgot?

How was I doing it?

I rehearse all the steps:

the eyelids get heavy,

the muscles deflate,

the darkness lures me in,

the thoughts stop their ride.

I’m right between Here and There,

naked as a greek statue,

ready to slip into the nothingness,

and allow the world to do its thing,

free of my burdens,

free of my measuring the time.

Yet as I slip, I get pushed back

by a net of emotions

entangled on the handles of mind

it turns my free jump

into a flip of a fish,

failed whale on a sandy shore

suffocated by too much oxygen.

Who will come to save me?

Who will bear my weight?

My eyes sore beneath the silky eyelids.

I pray to the waves:

come and swing me,

make my repose

into a bedding of algae.
The key to a good day outside
By: Cari Nazeer
Tags: Self, Winter, Advice

🌤️ Today’s tip: When planning an outdoor hang, the sun matters more than the temperature.

Thanks to the pandemic, the great outdoors has become everyone’s rec room — even in winter. But that’s not such a bad thing. In fact, as the writer Tim Heffernan points out, those cold and dark months are when we need to get outside the most. The trick is to plan your outdoor hangouts for sunny days, regardless of temperature.

“A calm, sunny day in the 20s is a lot more enjoyable than a gray, blustery day in the 40s,” he writes. As you suck up those vitamin D-rich rays, you might even discover a new favorite season for playing outside.
[Firebase] มารู้จักกับ App Distribution กัน เครื่องมือใหม่สำหรับนักพัฒนาแอปที่พลาดไม่ได้ [iOS]
By: Kajornsak P.
Tags: Firebase, Beta, Fastlane, App Distribution, Firebase App Distribution

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Open Source and Startups: the next step forward
By: Iván De Prado
Tags: Hadoop, Scalability, Computers, Distributed Systems, Lucene

It is clear that the open source platform LAMP was a revolution for startups. Open source projects like MySql, Apache or PHP brought “vitamine” to many startups to reach their objectives. Some of them could have not reached success if they had had to buy this kind of technology.



LAMP is currently the standard to meet with when starting new Internet business. Lamp (or some of its variations) is used in a high percentage of new websites. Nevertheless, as projects become bigger, the limits of the LAMP architecture appear. There are scalability issues. The biggest one is usually the impossibility to scale the database (usually MySql).



But, from my point of view, a new revolution is here. Two projects, Lucene and Hadoop, have come to take the next step forward. They do not come to replace LAMP software, they come to complete it.

Lucene is a search engine library. It can index a big amount of text data into an index file. Such index can answer keyword queries. The library is fast, and can index more data and perform queries faster than database-like search systems.

Hadoop is an open source implementation of the Google MapReduce distributed system. It allows the processing of big amounts of data over a cluster of commodity computers. I do think that this is one of the most important open source projects nowadays. And I think new startups will take profit of these projects in order to develop innovative services. As an example of the size of that these projects can have, Powerset, a new startup, is trying to build a natural language search engine using Hadoop.



I will write some more about this projects and some subprojects in future posts.
Broadcast Today: Friday Khutba 31st May 2013
By: Virtual Mosque
Tags: Khutba, Friday, Broadcast

We are broadcasting our Khutba today, Friday 31st May, as always.

To watch today’s Khutba by Dr Zahid Aziz please press the play button on the video above at 1pm BST (UK time)
APIS Monthly Report #25, September 2020
By: Sophie Ha
Tags: Finance, Blockchain, Notice, Eng, Cryptocurrency

APISplatform

Official publication for APIS, the world-first masternode…
Casa Product Update — June 2018 (#1)
By: Nick Neuman
Tags: Crypto, Product Updates, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

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Scalable vertical search engine with Hadoop
By: Iván De Prado
Tags: Datasalt

The following slides show how to build a scalable vertical search engine using Hadoop and Solr:

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So You Really Want to Annoy Your Cashier?
By: Rose Bak
Tags: Shopping, Humor, Work, Satire, Grocery Shopping

So You Really Want to Annoy Your Cashier?

Here are 5 creative ways you can make sure your cashier regrets coming into work today.

Photo by Artyom Kim on Unsplash

On your way to do some grocery shopping? Here are some helpful hints on how to liven up your cashier’s shift and encourage them to call in sick tomorrow.

Wait until they’re done ringing you up to look for your wallet

It really makes your cashier steamed when you waste their time and hold up the line. This is a trick that will annoy both your cashier and everyone in line behind you.

Get in line, wait for a while, watch your cashier ring up all your items and then when the cashier gives you the total, start rummaging through your purse looking for your wallet. While everyone around you fumes about why you are just getting your wallet out now, add in commentary like “Where is my wallet? I know I had it when I left home.”

For bonus points, stop your search to pop in a breath mint or reapply your lipstick.
Despite Crashes, 6 of the Top 10 Cryptocurrencies Are Still Showing Gains in the Past Month
By: Rainview News
Tags: Bitcoin

The ongoing plunge in digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple has resulted in massive losses for many investors. Yesterday alone, the collective losses of the top 10 cryptocurrencies topped $100 billion.

Bitcoin is leading the dive, down nearly 50% off of its highs. And given its prominence, it’s getting the most media attention. But a look at the performance of the top 10 cryptocurrencies shows that six are actually still higher than they were one month ago.

To be clear, all major cryptocurrencies are well off their highs. And even the six winners are trending downward at an alarming rate. But as of 9 a.m. ET Wednesday, here are the coins that are worth more than they were at the start of Dec. 17.

Ethereum — The second-largest cryptocurrency is still boasting a 22% jump in the past month, despite a very rocky few days, when the value has dropped more than $400 per coin.

Ripple — Once the high-flyer in the sector, Ripple has had its wings clipped of late, but it’s still showing a 38% improvement over where it stood a month ago. (That doesn’t overshadow yesterday’s loss of $19.1 billion, though.)

Cardano — The fifth-largest cryptocurrency is staying in positive territory by a fairly narrow margin. It’s up 23%, which sounds impressive until you look at actual trading prices and realize that’s about 9 cents per coin.

NEO — The clear winner among cryptocurrency stocks, NEO is still up 122% compared to a month ago. It’s well off its high of $191 per coin (and was down another 34% in early trading Wednesday), but has held onto gains more than any other major digital currency.

NEM — NEM is the most precarious of the cryptocurrencies that are still showing one-month gains. It’s up 17% as of Wednesday morning, but the trends aren’t looking good (with a 36% drop in early trading).

Stellar — While it’s more than 60% off of its highs, Stellar is still doing pretty…well, stellar. It has gained 56% in value over the past month, though the falls of the past two days have been especially steep.
One 4-Word Phrase That Will Change Your Perspective In Life
By: Tom Kuegler
Tags: Self, Travel, Happiness, World, Inspiration

Photo by Zeyn Afuang on Unsplash

*Heavy sigh*

I was upset. Our Filipino taxi driver had no idea where we were going. My Filipino companion didn’t tell him where to go, either. With every passing minute we got farther and farther away from our destination.

It was like something out of A Series Of Unfortunate Events.

We got dropped off miles away from our intended destination after 15 minutes of weaving through traffic. I paid the fare and practically sprinted out of the car.

I remember being so upset and angry at my companion. It had nothing to do with the driver. He was an old man and I felt bad for him. But my companion in the front seat practically did nothing to help us correct course.

As I walked in the rain feeling sorry for myself, I passed a few homeless people on the street.

Then I realized one crucial thing in my anger:

People have real problems.

My taxi driver didn’t know where to go. My companion didn’t help. I wasted like $4 on a taxi. So what?

I’m still healthy. I have money. I have a roof over my head. I have friends.

My taxi problem wasn’t a real problem.

And that’s the 4-word phrase..

People have real problems.
Before Making there comes a Mindset
By: Mark Schreiber
Tags: Growth Mindset, Makers, Education, Makerspaces, Maker Month

My kids make stuff. They’re not geeks, they’re girls. Sure they know how to make an LED light up, run a laser cutter job, yep. Yet, even with all of this, their go-to material is still paper, and tape –lots of tape.

I think we may be making making too complex.

For years I taught a middle school Technology class I had my student’s memorize my preferred definition of technology, “Technology: A man-made object that solves a problem”. Yes, a computer is technology. Yes, a 3D printer is an amazing piece of technology… however, a toothbrush is technology too. And so is tape. And paper, lots of paper. Our student’s projects don’t have to flash, or be flashy all the time. They just need to solve a problem and get our kids learning by doing, by creating.

Now don’t get me a wrong, it definitely is an exciting time if you are a self-proclaimed maker. I can now precisely laser-cut with the click of a button, I can 3D print previously impossible-to-mill parts, I can code (formerly called programming) a new app and hook it back up to the physical world in ways I could only dream of when I was a kid. But the fact is that I did dream. I did create. I did build very unsafe tree house forts out of reclaimed wood and rusty nails –even before reclaimed was a hip term.

So let’s not take the dreaming out of making. Let’s not make making feel so complicated that our students feel that they aren’t geeky enough to try it. Instead let’s create.

Here’s some of projects that my kids have made. I’ve put captions and what I think was learned in the process. So lets not be scared of complex makes, of failing… instead lets get kids making.

These are projects that my girls came up with them using only their imagination and yes, a lot of tape.

Here’s a few examples of their builds:

Paper Bridges-

Flying Critters- Used a balloon and found the proper wieght to make their critters fly.

They also started to lighten the load over the days to keep the critter flying as the helium balloon started to loose lift.

Sushi Go Round- What can I say, they love sushi.

And more precision paper-sushi crafting skills:

Pet City- Need houses for your plastic kitties? Come on over, we have a whole neighborhood!

Paper and Tape: The basement maker space needs a little bit of cleaning up. But it’s all worth it to me!
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Tags: Crypto Exchange, Blockchain, Mithril, Cryptocurrency, Mith

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Soon I Fell
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poem, Relationships, Loneliness, Heartbreak, Image

Soon I Fell

A Poem

Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

Good griefs take their turns

swirling my hair

to the front

to the pulled-away

The distance between my heart

& yours

painting inside the outside lines

Driven to the beach

again & again

the sideways sand

strikes me

alone
IntoTheBlock Signals Now Available in Vietnam via Black Mamba Ventures
By: Alfredo Terrero
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Intotheblock, Bitcoin

BMV is using IntoTheBlock analytics to power its research efforts

Black Mamba Ventures (BMV) is an up and coming venture capital fund for projects with the potential to become the next unicorns in the world of crypto and blockchain technology. In addition to their portfolio investments, BMV’s ecosystem includes the BMV Academy, BMV Community, and the BMV Research portal that together serve the growing Vietnamese crypto market.

Starting today, BMV Research will power its in-depth research articles with IntoTheBlock’s analytics. When users visit a crypto asset’s research page in BMV, they will find long form research together with a few charts that provide deep descriptions of the asset. One section of the reports is powered by IntoTheBlock’s Token Summary which displays, as the name implies, a quick view of a crypto asset showing several indicators that together provide a holistic view of the crypto asset’s behavior.

For those users interested in more detailed analysis, the “Dive Deeper” button redirects them to the IntoTheBlock Platform with access to a portfolio of over 60 intelligent signals about crypto assets.

At IntoTheBlock, we are excited to make our analytics available to the Vietnamese crypto community through this partnership with BMV. Borrowing the words of our BMV partners, we hope that this cooperation will bring a new big bang to the crypto market in Vietnam.
Couple of Out-Of-The-Blue Words
By: Suntonu Bhadra
Tags: Poetry, Poem, Words, Poems On Medium, Confusion

graffiti framed color boxes

marking the notions on different thoughts

that is not time-bound

around the nets, cached

by the thoughts

of the moments

sparkling around

with the little steps

on the zone around

in the vibe that sparked

without any particular meaning

practicing the free-thinking

frying on the mind-pan

to bar-b-q cook

on solidifying the motions that I can’t show

delivering the words on primary motives

being a chef on my own mind-game

answering the background questions

minding their thoughts

no, that’s not gonna happen

scared out, busted

on the real typo

covered on to the cowboy theme

it is real; it’s not

like a creature, drinking and fricking out

just out of budget to concentrate

on the feeling rushing around

coaching my mind

doing cuts of words

leaving, groaning

marked

to the world of my own

in gibberish feeling that

Just vented out in words.

Sometimes, you gotta fire out what’s on your drunken mind.

Words by Suntonu Bhadra
Somewhere Else
By: Michelle Muses
Tags: Travel, Inspiration, Ideas, Poetry, Art

a poem in eight haiku

We watch the first sparks

fall through the sky like the tease

of summer drizzle,

and then a fountain

of sparkling embers erupts

wildly into dusk,

making the wind worth

dancing to, on feet sticky

with the dewy grass.

The fireworks thrust their

iridescence into the

velvety night sky,

but none compares to

the galaxy behind your

eyes and its secrets,

and your hand reaching

for mine like rain sliding through

the gates of summer.

Blossoms unfurl —pink

and purple petals of light

drifting through the clouds.

The crowd fades away.

I am somewhere else, with the

stars, falling, falling.
What To Do When You Don’t Know How To Make Decision In Your Life.
Tags: Self Improvement, Decision Making, Personal Development, Life Lessons, Education

2. Always keep learning

The more you learn, the smarter ways you know how to deal with the options.

Because when you have more knowledge and experience, it’s easier for you to make the decision because you can recognize more options and know which one can be the best option for you.

It likes the story of Little Frog in the Well we read when we are kids. You will always feel that you can make the best choice from what you have in your mind.

But the world is bigger than the well for the Frog, as the better options are always available for you. The important thing is can you recognize it or not.

And keep learning is the best way to help you go out of your “little well” to discover the world and make better decisions for yourself.

How to do it

So how you should learn to make a better decision in your life.

There are 2 main ways that I’m doing right now and believe that these are the 2 best ways ever for me to do it (for you, maybe you even can figure out some other ways to do it more effectively for yourself, who know!)

Having more life experience

Traveling more, make more decisions, and work on more projects to learn from real experiences.

The lessons from real-life will teach you more valuable lessons than just from your schools.

And it is easier for you to remember these lessons because it related to your emotions and actions in life.

It’s different from the lessons in schools, where you mainly just learn-by-heart from the book without adding the emotion to these lessons.

Reading and listening to more content from successful people to see the ways how they make decisions.

Books, videos, and podcasts from successful people are great sources for any of us to learn about the way how to create success and make decisions in tough situations from the top leaders.

With just $5–$20 bucks, you can easily buy great books from famous leaders like Jack Ma, Tony Robbins, Elon Musk, Brian Tracy,…who give us their intelligence in solving the issues that take them years to learn.

It also gives you more motivation to have bigger ambitions and making your own decisions.

Recently I read the book called “What’s Your Genius” by Jay Niblick. In his book, he said

Our thinking talents and decision-making styles comprise the very core of who we are. They make us the unique individuals that we see in the mirror each morning, and they hold the greatest potential for delivering our greatest levels of performance and success.

As it teaches me a big lesson about the value of our decision when we come up with making choices.

It means that when you can make the right one, it will help you to explore the greatest potential and perform successfully at a greater level and show who you are.
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Hippopoetess
By: Brian Fehler
Tags: Poetry, Women, Amy Lowell, Poet, Culture

Hippopoetess

On words, poetic and otherwise.

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

He wrote lovely words,

beautiful ones about hyacinths

and lantanas, zinnias and spires,

Never achieving immortal fame

as perhaps he would have liked

to, as the poets often delight

to. The Santa Fe of his later

life, still so far from the broken-

bottle alcoholism of the Brooklyn

childhood home that held him but

did not hold him back.

He said, besides those lovely words

about hyacinths, he called her

The Hippopoetess.

Another he wrote other kinds of words,

more for immortality than

understanding, about granite brinks for Helicon.

Though the term in

question was not originally his,

but he repeated it, at a party,

attempting to be charming or funny

maybe:

The Hippopoetess.

She, from her Brahmin berth,

wrote of Other kinds of love,

of being drunk with the wine of

you — who? Never said a word

about the word, the term,

the name, the slur. But moved

on in that world of words

they all shared; but did she

wonder, maybe, in that wide

world of words why that one

should have emerged?
Humanity
By: Anna Rozwadowska
Tags: Poetry, Humanity, Poetry On Medium, Layers, Observation

The obituary of peace exists in modern staples, obstacles overcome

in the dew of grasses, in the midst of affliction, in the affairs of affection,

she is satiated and fed with the well trained prefrontal cortex,

coming and going with the constellations, the stars in between.

Confusion sometimes sets us apart from each other,

tearing and gnawing at the intellectual brain,

harming the oscillations between the earth and the sun,

loving fully the gaps that concentrate in between.

Each piece of bedrock holds secrets of ancient times,

geography including fossilized emotions,

layers intervene heinous acts of violence,

kept under the rock of bad times in the yonder of the best.
Let’s remember when The Jazz Singer, the first hit movie to have sound, opened in Seattle, on this day in 1927 (December 30)
By: Chris Burlingame
Tags: The Jazz Singer, On This Day, Blue Mouse Theater, Seattle

This is the kind of nerdery that I live for. The first time a lot of people in Seattle were able to witness a movie with sound was 92 years ago today. It wouldn’t be the first time a movie with sound would play in Seattle, but it would be the first commercially viable one, but it’s also bad because of its use of blackface.

According to HistoryLink:

On December 30, 1927, The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. The movie uses Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech.

This was the first showing of the film on the West Coast after it opened in New York City in October. Costing its studio, Warner Bros., the (then) enormous sum of $500,000 to make, the picture starred Al Jolson (1886–1950). Tickets at the Blue Mouse were 50 cents each, double the pre-talkie price, but far less than what audiences were paying for tickets on the Great White Way (i.e. Broadway in New York with its blazing marquees).

The Jazz Singer, based the stage play by Samson Raphaelson (itself based on Alfred Cohn’s story “The Day of Atonement”), cast Jolson as a cantor’s son who pursues a career as a vaudeville song and dance man, spurning the wishes of his Jewish parents, who would rather he sung traditional music. The picture, a highly sentimental one, was surprisingly effective and “moved crowds to tears yesterday at the Blue Mouse.”

Although the song and dialogue portions of The Jazz Singer were limited to a handful of scenes, they meshed nicely with the rest of the film, shot in silent film format. Interestingly, the Vitaphone movie — together with several Vitaphone shorts — competed on the same bill with the Movietone News, shot using a competing sound-on-film technology. Sound-on-film would eventually become the industry standard.

There was actually a minor Seattle connection with the specific movie that is credited with debuting a fully synchronized orchestral soundtrack. In August 1926 the Hollywood film Don Juan (with John Barrymore) was released with a musical score performed by the New York Philharmonic as conducted by Henry Hadley (1871–1937). And it was Hadley whose 1909–1911 stint as director with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra saw record-breaking attendance and much praise heaped upon him by fans as well as the media. Ultimately though, Don Juan failed to recoup its production costs, a disappointed Warner Brothers shifted focus to promoting The Jazz Singer, and its overwhelming success caused the former movie’s historical status to fade and the latter to often be misidentified as the world’s first “soundie.”
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By: Chokchai Phatharamalai
Tags: Scrum, Roles, Scrum Master, Agile Coach

Scrum Guide | Scrum Guides

This HTML version of the Scrum Guide is a direct port of the November 2020 version available as a PDF here. We…