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Simple calendar in angular
By: Yurii Kuznietsov
Tags: Angular, Web Development, Programming, Angular2, Front End Development

ANGULAR EXAMPLES

Simple calendar in angular

Making own calendar is easy

In this article we will make our own calendar using angular.

Our calendar will use only one model. This model contains information about year, month, weekday we will call — Day.

Model

day.model.ts

Service

Next step is create a calendar service. This service will make an array of days for a month.

calendarCreator.service.ts

Functions “getMonthName” and “getWeekDayName” are just a bunch of switch cases that returns a name of a week and month by index.

Functions ‘getMonthName’ and ‘getWeekDayName’

Main function ‘getMonth’ create an array of days. It has two cycles first one create empty days of last month if they are in a first week of a month, second cycle create days of a current month.

Function ‘getMonth’

The last function in our service is ‘createDay’. This function initialize our Day model.

Function ‘createDay’

Component

Finish step is create a component for a calendar. All properties of this component we are going to use in HTML and some functions we also going to use in html like ‘onNextMonth’ and ‘onPreviusMounth’.

calendar.component.ts

Method ‘OnInit’ initializes an array of week name for HTML and it also initializes array of month days by using other function ‘setMonthDays’.

Methods ‘onNextMonth’ and ‘onPreviousMonth’ just changing month number a year if it need and make a new array of days.

Methods of calendar.component.ts

In HTML we make a markup for two buttons ‘onNextMonth ‘and ‘onPreviousMonth’ showing a year and a name of the month and we two cycles one for days of week another for days of a month.

calendar.component html and css

In CSS we are setting for main div and each spam fixed width, because of that after seven spans next span will be showen on next line and user will see a table.

Result

Our to do calendar is ready. If you need to take a close look on project here is the link.
My First RailsConf Talk
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Railsconf

On May 2nd I started my journey to RailsConf. It was the first time for many things, but not for everything. It wasn’t my first trip to the US, but it was my first time in Kansas City. It wasn’t my first conference nor my first talk, but it was my first RailsConf as a speaker and attendee.

It took me 4 planes, 2 countries, 3 states and 27 hours, with a lot of waiting, to get there. As you can imagine I was quite tired. But it was going to be my first speaker dinner, so nothing was going to stop me from going. I got there a bit late so I didn’t get to meet a lot of people, but we had a great time with @joeddean and @misbehavens. Getting sneak peaks into our talks and trading life experience.

The next day was the day. First day of RailsConf and my talk was up in the afternoon. I had prepared a lot. Presenting to my co-workers many times. Every time I was extremely nervous, even more than I had been for talks on previous conferences. Clearly I cared about this one even more. During the day, leading up to my presentation, I cycled through moments of peace and quietness to a lot of nervousness, when even my pulse would get faster.

As usual, when it finally started, I forgot everything else and completely focused on presenting. I knew it by heart and it’s something I care a lot about, and it’s often easier to talk about these. Globalization has brought different cultures and ethnics closer than ever before. Specially in programming we see many different people interacting with each other. It happens time and again that certain ways of doing things, or certain behaviors, or certain skills, or interactions are praised over others. It often happens that clients or Product Owners get the impression that certain people “perform better” than others and start asking that everyone be the same. It has been proved time and again that homogeneity is a bad recipe for a great team. A diverse team has much more potential to outperform. Unity makes strong teams, but unity isn’t homogeneity. It’s time for us to cherish our differences and leverage them to build great teams that deliver great products and don’t self-destruct in the process.
Marketing on Quora — 0$ Guide
Tags: Quora, Digital Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, SEO

image source Quora

You want to grow your business but you don’t have any penny then you are in right place. What you have to do is spent some time to make communication to your traffic. The question is How ? follow me …

Do you know about Quora ? Quora is one of the most popular question-answering site.

Do you know how many people use Quora ?

— 190 million monthly user

Do you know the number of Quora visitors ?

— more than 200 million monthly unique visitors

Do you know the number of Quora users from USA ?

— more than 40 million

Do you know the number of topics on Quora ?

— 400,000 topics

If you want to drive them to your website or promote your product then you just need to write sweet answers to relative questions. Quora have some policy if you just spam your website link then your response might be deleted or collapsed or If your answer is not interesting, catchy enough nobody will read your answer. So you have to careful about writing answers on Quora. If you are not good at writing then you can spend few bucks and hire some writers from fiverr. Many top quora writers are available on Fiverr.com.

Thanks for reading this short post, If you like the post please wave me.

Thanks for reading this short post, If you like the post please wave me.
Was Bitfinex Maintenance Shut Down A Big Slap In The Face For Retail Trading?
By: Lucien Lecarme
Tags: Crypto, Trading, Investing, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

This afternoon Februari 11th something weird happened in the Bitcoin market that we see only a few times a year.

The Bitfinex trading platform shut down for maintenance and closed its doors for about half an hour.

In that period, the Bitcoin price surged with 4% in just a few minutes.

This probably has 2 reasons, the first more generally accepted as the second, but both unbelievable when you are an honest man wanting to make some extra buck by trading bitcoin.

Before I go further and tell you the reasons, I write this piece to show you what can happen in the crazy world that is called Bitcoin trading. I stopped trading BTC a while ago and am now converted to a happy hodler.

I am not telling you to do the same. I am just shocked at what just happened this afternoon. Especially when my second reason is actually true, which I believe it is.

The short shoot out that went down this afternoon showed once more that Bitcoin trading is a Wild West game dominated by hedge funds, aggressive wales and you can add exchanges that gone rogue to this list. Not a place for the thirsty retailer to hang out and find the Bitfinex bar closed just as you were thirsty for a very logical price correction according to technical analysis. Your analysis can go down the drain together with your money and you need to move to the next village to find some ALT booze.
GREEN MONK: BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS TEASER TRAILER REVEALED
By: Mike Gagnon
Tags: Image Comics, Comic Books, Press Release, Comics

PORTLAND, OR, 07/26/2018 — YALSA Award-winning writer/artist Brandon Dayton will release GREEN MONK: BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS this September from Image Comics.

Set in a mythical Russia, GREEN MONK: BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS follows a mysterious young boy raised by an order of peaceful monks. As he grows to manhood, bizarre dreams and the call of destiny disturb the ideals of brotherhood and peace that define his idyllic home, leading him down a path upon which he’ll discover a powerful, mystical weapon — and face a terrible, violent choice.

GREEN MONK: BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS (ISBN: 978–1–5343–0831–2, Diamond code: APR188362) hits comic book stores on Wednesday, September 26 and bookstores on Tuesday, October 2nd. It can be preordered via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, and Indigo.

Select praise for GREEN MONK:

“It’s always amazing when a comic creator comes along who can write AND draw so well that I feel the comic industry is blessed for having such a person create for us. Green Monk is amazing, so well drawn and well told; I hope for more of this, and more of any world Brandon wants to show us.”

— Ryan Ottley (Invincible, Amazing Spider-Man)

“Brandon Dayton’s Green Monk is an example of how rare it is for an artist’s work to look effortless while still mastering detail and texture, emotional grip, and most of all: compelling storytelling.”

— David Petersen (Mouse Guard)

“I was hooked on Green Monk right away. From calm, rolling vistas to sword fights with giants, Brandon brings it all to life beautifully. I was already a fan, but this the kind of work that should make him a household name.”

— Chris Samnee (Captain America, Daredevil)

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ABOUT IMAGE COMICS

Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of bestselling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has six individuals on the Board of Directors: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, and Eric Stephenson. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline Comics, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
Everyone should know how to program
By: Pito Salas
Tags: Programming, Coding

Pito’s Blog

Some stuff I just figured out
How bitcoin Mining is Profitable
Tags: Blockchain, Mining, Altcoins, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Bitcoin mining has definitely become a multi-billion dollar industry. Since 2008, miners have gained exponentially increasing features, we are talking about over $3 billion ($600 million only in the last month).

See https://blockchain.info/it/charts/miners-revenue?timespan=30days

The miner’s essential task is to confirm that each block (where bitcoin transactions are grouped) are legitimate. This happens when miner successfully solves an encrypted algorithm connected to each block, thus obtaining the payout called “block reward” which halves every 4 years.

Currently the rewards amounts is 12.5 BTC per block, or $ 15.9474.75 at today’s value.

And it’s not all… At the beginning, miners could operate individually with their home computers.

But in the last few years, however, the increase of the complexity algorithm to solve has led to the need for more computational power, so that’s the reason of data centers importance.

Today, in fact, there are thousands of data centers with custom-designed machines all over the world that compete with each other on the algorithm solution speed to gain the block reward.

For these circumstances, the business created led to the emergence of increasingly specialized equipment, as well as “cloud mining” services supply, which allows subscribers to share block rewards for a fee, without having to operate their own equipment.

Mining activity growth is generating the industrial revenue increase.

There is another factor that increases the mining industry business. It is the BTC/USD capital gain, it means that positive difference in receiving block reward in BTC currency compared to that USD or all other currencies.

Also transaction fees are bringing more money to miners.

CONCLUSION

At the beginning, it was really a small part, today, due to the continuous increase of transaction’s numbers, users are willing to pay higher fees as long as the processing of their transactions are guaranteed by miners.

So, with the massive expansion of Bitcoin plus all altcoins in general, the number of miners and/or organized groups of miners is growing, generating ever more prosperous revenues.

CREDITS

This article was originally written in Italian and translated in English by Stefania Stimolo for NovaMining.
Love Through A Snapshot
By: Laura Gulbranson
Tags: Life Lessons, Travel, Family, Beauty, Photography

I was about to take a shot of San Marco when the little boy looked straight at me, a huge grin on his face along with his mom. I refocused my camera, no longer on an immaculate building, but on them and their joyful faces.

San Marco, Venice by Laura Gulbranson

Can you see how happy this little family is in this moment?

I think of all the snapshots I’ve taken on my journey through Europe, and this photo is probably one of my favorites.

I can see the dad as he is about to turn around, smiling at his son who epitomizes The Fonz with his super rad shades and collar up. Then there’s the mom — free-spirited — not caring that the birds are on top of her head and crowding around her, nor of the passersby that stop and stare.

Before this shot, I remember trying to duck around photoshoots with ninja-like movements to avoid unintentional photobombs on my part.

Of course, that struggle was real in tourist-ridden Venice as I tried to get a good angle to snap of San Marco among swarms of people, many with selfie sticks and Insta-ready outfits for that “Instafamous” photo.

But this photo…

It’s equally precious.

I looked through the camera, scoping for the best angle, until my eyes refocused and I looked up to see this family in front of me. I could feel the itch of a smile. I saw the family welcoming the birds within the piazza. I was about to take a shot of San Marco when the little boy looked straight at me, a huge grin on his face along with his mom. I refocused my camera, no longer on an immaculate building, but on them and their joyful faces.

You’d think that real beauty, real love opposed to what’s “fake”, is hard to find.

Nah. Not really.

We just need to look around us. Beauty is something we could actually see every day if we wanted to, and yet, it becomes invisible in the oversaturated world of “what’s hot”, nouveau rich, and glamorous.

I wish I got the chance to walk up to this family to say how beautiful they were… to hope that they’d keep on smiling and laughing in the same way that they did in this photo.

How I wanted to say to the lady: “You are such a cool mom.”

And to her little boy:

“Thanks, kid, for smiling at the camera.” <3

So, I guess to give credit where it’s due for this missed opportunity, I’ll just write about it and share the beauty with you.

I’m starting a 7-day series here on natural beauty — through the lens of a snapshot.

Enjoy.

With love. <3
STK Progress Update & AMA
By: Stk Token
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin

STK Progress Update & AMA

Since our last update, we’ve announced our latest listing on KuCoin, which means you can now purchase STK tokens on Huobi Pro, Cobinhood, and KuCoin. It’s a great first step to see our tokens in the market, now we’re looking forward to using them at point of sale!

As STACK beta testing continues, in part to accommodate a change to its payment processor (confirmed and announced last week), the public launch of STACK is now scheduled for April, 2018. STK beta testing will begin later this summer, shortly after the STACK public launch to ensure fiat platform stability before cryptocurrency beta testing begins. We’ve updated our roadmap on www.stktoken.com to reflect our current progress and revised in-market estimates.

More updates will follow as we release progress reports and new technology developments over the coming months. In the meantime, if you haven’t already seen a demo of the STACK app, check out this sneak peek we shot a few months ago. Coming soon to a smartphone near you! ** In-app offers are for demo purposes only. **

Join us for our first solo AMA this Thursday, March 08 at 8 p.m. EST. We’ll release a YouTube live link on Thursday. We’ll share the latest information around our token and technology and answer live questions from our community members. See you there!

As always, stay tuned for all the latest STK news on our community channels: Telegram, Twitter, Bitcointalk, Discord and Reddit.
Wikipedia API Tutorial
By: Hannah Weber
Tags: Data Science, Info3402s19ma2, NCAA, Wikipedia, Information Exposition

STAGE 1 — Access the Wikipedia API

1. Download Python Libraries:

To start, there are a lot of Python libraries that we need to import so we can utilize them later on. Requests is a Python library that will allow us to send an HTTP request to access the API. The API request will be in JSON and so we have to import the JSON library. BeautifulSoup is a Python package to parse through HTML code to extract data and is commonly used when web scraping. Datetime is a Python module used to manipulate dates and time to a usable format for our data analysis. The other libraries we imported are all fairly common when working with Python.

2. Access the API and Extract Revision History:

To make it easier to extract data from multiple Wikipedia pages in the API, we will begin by writing two functions that will access the API and extract the revision history data. The functions will then convert the API data from JSON to an extremely user-friendly Pandas dataframe that we will use to analyze the data later on. To run the function, call get_page_revisions and input the name of the Wikipedia page you are looking to extract data from. For this tutorial we will be extracting data from three pages, “National Collegiate Athletic Association”, “College Basketball”, and “College Football”.

3. Extract Pageviews History:

Since we are already communicating with the Wikipedia API, write another function that will pull the pageviews data for all three articles we will be analyzing. We can call the function by using the variable names we assigned to the Wikipedia articles in step 2.

Great! We have now accessed the Wikipedia API, converted it to a Pandas dataframe, and extracted the revision history and pageviews data for three Wikipedia articles. Our next stage is to begin analyzing our extracted data by going through our exploratory data analysis checklist, or EDA. The five steps of EDA help us to formulate our analysis question, clarify that the data we had intended to collect was extracted, identify any apparent issues present in our data, and use a simple analysis technique to find an easy solution in our data.
September Burn Report
By: Locktrip.Com, Loc Token, Official Blog
Tags: Token, Burn, Locktrip, Cryptocurrency, Coin

In accordance to our promise that a share of 2.5% from all flight bookings will be used to buy and burn LOC, we want to inform you about the monthly burn transaction for September 2019.

So far, a total of 272 LOC have been burnt, of which 142 LOC resulted from Q2 2019 flight bookings and additional 68 LOC and 62 LOC from July and August bookings respectively. Today we are adding 67 more LOC to the balance.

You can verify the burn event from the link below.

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x7feff148ce7f83e7a1538464158db2de58b981d9c1a63705b8d830d54cfdf35d

This brings the new total to 339 LOC.

All LOC were bought over Kucoin prior to being sent to the target address 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000, which is known as a burning address across the industry. Any funds ending up there can be considered as removed from the total supply forever.

We want to note that these burn events serve as a proof of concept for the upgraded LOC economy. As a result, it should be expected that the total amount of burnt LOC will see a sharp jump from current numbers.

LockTrip is the first marketplace with 0% commission where you can save on average 20% on your hotel and rental bookings compared to anywhere else. Read how to buy LOC tokens here!
Another Day, Another Footnote in the Walk of Life
By: Matt Ray
Tags: Sailing, Poetry, Travel, Life, Photography

Another Day, Another Footnote in the Walk of Life.

What are we walking for? What are we walking towards?

Another sale, another dollar, another piece of the pie.

Where are we walking to, does any of it matter?

Another tale, another joke, another win lose or tie.

52 years old and what do I show for it?

3 kids, an ex-wife, a few bucks in the bank

52 years old and still trying to find myself

Lots of bits, lots of bytes, but most of my apps are blank
You Don’t Need to Have Too Much Protein
By: Christie D'Soza
Tags: Weight Loss, Fitness, Protein Intake

Protein may be Harmful

Protein helps your muscles being happy and growling your stomach after an hour of eating. You’ll get exposure to humming metabolism when you eat protein.

Okay, these are pretty good things, happens to you but what if you overeat protein? Admittedly, the things occur, harm more than benefit.

Before going to get through certain weird ways of its eating, let’s have a look at important evidence of consuming protein excessively.

In Australia, a well known female bodybuilder spotlighted, who has taken excessive protein supplements, evidenced death. This highlighted many questions that whether a high level of protein in one’s diet should control?

In the report of USA Today, one of the death causes of Hefford was a use of supplements for bodybuilding.

She felt fatigued and weird, reported by her mother, later. Doctors discovered the cause in two days that she was suffering from urea cycle disorder.

Urea cycle functioning undertook ammonia and its excess quantity transformed in urea and excreted from the body.

Only 1 out of 1,800 people suffer from urea cycle disorder, only when blood stream failed to clear ammonia.

This accumulation catches brain results in dizziness, confusion, slurred speech and pre-conditions of the comma.

Foundation of National Urea Cycle put forwarded that this condition is equally likely for children as well as individuals.

Risks of High Protein Diet

Above story showed a relation in protein and urea cycle disorder that caused Meegan Hefford death.

During body metabolism process, some by-products, such as ammonia formed. Over consumption may lead to a deadly situation, as in the case of Hafford.

The situation varies, according to an individual’s bodily conditions. For instance, those with fluctuating liver conditions, chronic kidney disorders and phenyl-ketonuria should take care in protein intake.

Bodybuilders, breastfeeding women and pregnant women and patients recovering from surgery must monitor their intake.

It is worth to understand, what is the upper limit, a person should intake macronutrient? Fats, proteins and carbohydrate are called macros, and you must count your macros.

Take an easy approach, 1 kg = 2.2 pounds

Take your weight in kg and multiply to 0.8, for instance, a 200 pounds person must go for 75g protein/day

It is not okay that for a healthy person, this quantity should increase since it promotes weight loss, so it must not be confused with other macronutrients. High carb diet put pressure on filtration organ and capable of growing cancer chances.

Usually, it is healthy for health and people seeking fitness prefer it in macronutrients, as it builds muscles. Eating steaks or chugging shakes is not the only healthy way to eat it rather there are many other ways.

Learn more at www.healthsabz.com
Why You Should Always Write Down Your Architecture Decision Records
By: Thomas Poignant
Tags: Architecture, Software Architecture, Software Development, Agile, Programming

What Are the Benefits?

Changes in the team

Our organization is changing and growing fast, so every new joiner has to understand the team’s current stack — including the weird parts of it.

Now that we have ADRs, we understand why a certain decision was made and what the context was at the time of the decision.

This reduces the cost of the debate, even if we reconsider a decision every time the context has changed.

Onboarding

Future team members have one place where they can read a history of decisions and quickly get up to speed on not only how and why a decision is made but also what the impact of that decision was.

Let’s take an example: We have a custom indexing service and we have seen that we can replace it with a standard open source tool.

In the ADR, we will have our decision “Keep our current custom solution” and the reason why we’ve made a POC. We’ve load-tested both solutions and see that the metrics of our current solution are better.

So now new members of the team know why we are doing custom work instead of using this other open source tool, and we will not reconsider this solution except if the context has changed (e.g. a major improvement of the tool).

Alignment

ADRs are also great for alignment between teams because they allow for sharing best practices with other teams.

You’ve decided on a particular context. If another team faces the same problem, you can share your ADR to help them to not start from zero.
Daily Bit #177: A Bootstrap State of Mind
By: Daily Bit
Tags: Fintech, Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Top Story

A Bootstrap State of Mind

It’s been less than three months since OkCoin landed on U.S. soil, though the exchange has already broadened their bandwidth to an additional 20 states beyond their California HQ.

Prior home: China. OkCoin was booted from the country alongside Huobi in October ’17 after the PBoC draped an iron curtain over domestic crypto exchanges. Huobi broke into the US through their SF-based partner, HBUS, and OkCoin tailed shortly after.

A U.S. expansion is a big deal. It signifies that platforms are willing to tack-on regulatory baggage in exchange for breaking into new markets. And new markets = faster growth = more cash to OkCoin’s war chest for future maneuvers.

Eyes on the prize(s): volume & fees

Thanks to their expansion, OkCoin’s trade volume is ready for launch. Current volume per Coinmarketcap is roughly $700k per day, but that’s only for Cali. All five currencies are paired to USD; new states must use Tether or TrueUSD until OkCoin gets a nod for fiat-to-crypto trading.

Now, remember… one does not simply onboard new users. OkCoin is barreling into a dragon den occupied by Coinbase and Gemini, whose respective ~$165M and ~$31M in daily trade volume isn’t about to get packaged into a welcome basket.

The answer? Slash fees — heavy. And OkCoin’s promotion gives them a heady edge over maker and taker rates offered on both platforms for certain price levels. Fees are based upon 30-days of trading volume.

Taker fees (market-orders):

- Coinbase, under $10m (0.30% flat vs 0.15% max)

- Gemini, under $5m (0.25% [min] vs. 0.15% max)

Maker fees (limit-orders):

- Coinbase, above $1m (both charge 0.0%)

- Gemini, under $15m (0.10% [min] vs. 0.05% max)

The bottom line: There’s no guarantee that OkCoin will keep retail & institutional investors around for a long time, but they can offer them a good one while their cheaper fees stick around… as long as their lower liquidity levels aren’t a dealbreaker.
Communication Patterns In Angular
By: Bhargav Bachina
Tags: Programming, JavaScript, Software Development, Angular, Web Development

Component basics

I want to go over the basics of components, before diving into the communications between them. If you are already familiar with these concepts you can jump to the next section.

Angular follows component design pattern, which means that in Angular everything is a component. Your entire application is divided into modules and each module can be divided into small, reusable components. If you look at the diagram below, we have defined three modules and each module has a number of components. This module system helps load the app faster as only the necessary modules are loaded in the browser.

Usually we have components inside components to form the larger component, called composition. In the following diagram we have header, footer and dashboard components inside the app component which forms the app module.

composition of components

Module

Every component should be declared in the module by importing and place that in the declarations array of the module, as shown below:

app.module.ts

Component

Every component has three important files: class file app.component.ts for the logic, html file app.component.html for the presentation, and CSS file app.component.css for the styles.

app.component.ts

Notice the selector in the above file. This value, app-root , is used to place the component in the DOM like this:

index.html

Interpolation

Interpolation is the way to inject some value into HTML. We are injecting title from the component class to the HTML.

<h1>

Welcome to {{ title }}!

</h1>

Property Binding

Property Binding is used to send the information from the component class to view with the square brackets [] . In the example below example, we are passing title property to the header component.

<app-header [title]="title"></app-header>

Event Binding

Event Binding is used to send the information from the view class to component class with the normal brackets (). In the example below we are passing an event from the header component.
Us in the Woods
By: M Sahr Nouwah- The Hunter S Grandson
Tags: Relationships, Death, Loss, Love, Fear

Us in the Woods

Death has closed the way — In Verse

photo by Jordon Wells on unplash

I came home today to my loneliness,

A home as empty as a forgotten container left in the bin

My tears dripped — wetting my face like a coward

Even though I tried to hold on like a man, I still lost myself.

Baby, I know your voice

Even in my dreams, I know your steps

How could you go unnoticed — leaving me empty for all this life?

Feeling your absence, feeling dead to the very end.

Baby, my body was synced to yours

Without you, I am dead living

Wantonly searching and wanting

Breathless, even with the green around me.

Baby, if only you can hold me once again

Hold me tight

Touching my lips as I imagine

Telling me in a whisper how you love me — just for a moment.

I am lost in the woods

I knew this place — a refuge when life was fair

It was a place to find us

How can I relate to the sudden change?

Baby, I knew your hotness — though I never said it

Yes, I knew your swag

Today, I am home lonely and wet faced

With dreams turned to nightmares.

I am going crazy — stunned to nothing more than death

I am down on the floor wishing you touch my forehead

A feel of your lips — also a whiff of your scent

moulded into the frame of love.

Death has done all of this to me

After all the promises

even when I still owe you a kiss promised on the phone

You shocked me with a sudden turbulence.

Death why?

Why prick my soul?

My tears are drumming with no musical effect

Lost in the woods.

Baby, I am going to the woods to find us

The place where we first met — where I first kissed you

deep in the mouth

remembering all that I can, tearing myself to wipe my last tears.

Baby, if only death could send you back

to light my candle in the dark — to lighten

my soul in twinkles of my innocence

Restoring me to life –helas! No.

I will accept my fate — living without you!
The Ticking Song
By: Shringi Kumari
Tags: Poetry, Afternoon, Self, Sun, Pause

The Ticking Song

Poetry

by Author

The sun has become a clock

It doesn’t drop anymore

Hangs there on the wall of the sky

Makes a ticking song, for the world to hum carelessly

The colors I left in the clouds

For the rain to bring them to the ground

Are now birds or stars

They are dense dry dots of hope

Making nests in the sky



Pause has settled in her balcony

Like stubborn honey settled

~ at the bottom of her many teacups

She stacks stones in the afternoons

When the ticking is the loudest

When the colors seem they are about to dissolve
Market Trends for Personalized Content Industry
By: Sharik Khan
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Investing, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Current Trends

From tattoo trends to personalized photo filters are indulgences for people for self expression and customization. Platforms have emerged in messaging and social media that intelligently integrates emoji, stickers, and GIFs to enrich conversations.

These content are seen as monetization models for messaging and social media platforms.

Today most popular content are emojis, stickers, avatars, filters and lenses. Users spend to buy these virtual assets for their daily digital life.

Line Apps $240M sale from stickers and SnapChat and Bitmoji acquisition for $100M established the market potential for this kind of content. Leading brands also pour in their money for Branded stickers to be used inside social media.

According to this article stickers are worth $10Billion and if we include all top messaging and social media giants, we believe this market is worth more than $10 Billion Dollars.

Market Trends by 2021

Personalized Merchandise market is undeserved with no technology innovation and this is expected to be $31 billion by 2021.

There will be 6 Billion users by 2020 using Messaging, Keyboards, Camera apps where expressiveness is a key user need and its expected to be $250 billion dollars.

With invent of Camera as a tool for expressiveness, AR will revolutionize the self expression content going beyond AR Lenses. The global AR market will be worth more than $165 billion by 2024. Roughly 15% of revenue from Social Media & In App purchases.

As chatbots are figuring out their adoption model for business and users, the problems of engagement and personality remained to unsolved Chatbot market size is estimated to grow to $3 billion by 2021.

As digital ad marketing ROI is slowing down, there is a need for new way to convey the brand value and message. Banner Ads market size is $30 billion and content based marketing has shown some promises for better conversion.
11 Things About Sex I Wish I Could Tell Every 20-Something Girl
By: Ms. Part Time Wino
Tags: Humor, Sexuality, Sex, Dating, Women

1. Stop comparing yourself to models

Or Instagram influences. Or hot girls you see in the club. It doesn’t matter how much you starve yourself or how often you go to pilates; your body probably won’t look the same as theirs. Ever.

2. Treat yourself to a vibrator

It doesn’t have to be a $150 clit sucker, or 14k gold plated dildo. One of those discount bin pocket vibrators will do the trick just fine. But use it on your body a hundred times (and then a hundred times more), so you can figure out what gets you off.

3. If you hate your birth control — change it!

How blessed are we to live in a time where women have a seemingly endless amount of choice when it comes to birth control? Condoms, pills, IUDs, Nuva Rings are just a few options we get to choose from. So if you hate the stench of condoms or go batshit insane from the pill, just know you can always try something new.

4. Love your 20-something body

This might sound cliche, but you should love the body that God gave you. Not because it’s unique and beautiful and all that nonsense, but because your body is at its prime. Stop worrying about those small wrinkles, fat patches, or stretch marks — because, girl, it’s only downhill from there.

5. Watch lots of porn

Because how else will you find out if you love orgies, rough sex, or hairy feet?

6. But know that porn doesn’t equate to reality

While it’s fun to watch, understand that porn is a form of entertainment. It’s there to get you off — not to set an example of what real-life sex is about.

7. Be picky. Or not.

Don’t let anyone judge you for having dozens of one night stands. The only person who gets to choose what to do with your body is you. And if you don’t want to have casual sex — hey, that’s totally cool too.

8. You don’t have to be in love to have sex

Sure, sex is awesome when the people involved are in love. But guess what? It’s also super fun when there aren’t any feelings of attachment either (like — really, really fun). If you fall in love with every person you bang, you’re guaranteed to end up with a broken heart. Instead, treasure the moment you have with your partner even if it doesn’t evolve into a relationship.

9. Pee after sex

Every. Single. Time.

10. Stop faking those orgasms

It’s easier to say, “Nah, not gonna happen tonight” than to stage an elaborate performance of loud moans, clenched fists, and distorted faces. Because even though masturbation feels great, orgasms from your partner feel pretty damn good as well.

11. Don’t trust a man when it comes to wearing condoms

This world has far too many horny guys will say anything just to get their dicks wet. Trust the STD report instead.
The Effectiveness of Grass
By: John Levin
Tags: Tantra, Poetry, Energy Meditation, Enlightenment, Meditation

The Effectiveness of Grass

Upon your feet

Meadow at Nine Thousand, Hopping to Space, by John Levin

I think the Earth has found me,

though I didn’t realize

I was so lost.

Green grass tickling my feet,

hard soled heavy shoes

forgot, now tossed.

I bent knees, hips, torso straight, so low,

just to jump as high as I can,

so high I needn’t land.

Hop into orbit,

zooming round and round,

look at Space around me.

No one makes a sound.

Earth below attracts me,

gravity feels like sex.

I’m nuttier than a nut-hood nut,

arms outstretched and flexed,

Breathing Space itself,

friend to satellites in orbit,

lazy, weightless, stateless.

Wow, this is the life!

Joy unbound

and gateless,

forgetting all that strife.

******************

You don’t need to go

into orbit, though.

That really is a stretch.

Just unbundle your hard hard shoes,

and let your feet be blessed.
The Owl & the Night That Would Not End
By: Yael Wolfe
Tags: Nature, Fiction, Creative Writing, Short Story, Hope

The Owl & the Night That Would Not End

A short story

Copyright Yael Wolfe

Once upon a time, in a little woodland near the stormy sea, Night descended and made herself so comfortable among the sheltering trees and moss-covered stones that she decided to extend her stay.

In the shadows of her repose, the creatures of the woods became afraid. They awaited the return of Day, the warmth of her embrace, the light of her sun. But she never came, shouldered out with every cycle by her starless sister.

As Night grew in endlessness, a great horned owl swooped into the canopy of branches, right at home in the darkness. The creatures below began chattering, crying out for help. They told the owl that Night had overcome the forest. They were cold, hungry, and afraid.

Not to fear, the owl replied, for she could see perfectly in the darkness. She promised to stay and help them until Night retreated back into her usual cycle.

She helped the deer, foxes, squirrels, and other creatures find food, gathered leaves and moss to make their beds warmer, and told them stories of the faraway lands she had visited.

With her sharp eyesight as a guide, they began venturing further into the woods, to places they had never roamed, and found others to help, bringing them food, bedding, and the comfort of stories. They made unlikely friends as they wandered and searched, each new friendship glowing like an ember in the darkened land.

The light from these friendships began to irritate Night’s eyes. She tried resting in other positions, turning her face away, but the network of glowing friendships grew and grew.

Eventually, she became so tired from this tossing and turning that when her sister emerged again, trying to reclaim her place in the cycle of time, Night didn’t have the strength to edge her out. With a sigh of submission, she rose, letting the light begin to fill the forest once again.

The little creatures surrounded the owl, thanking her for her assistance, for her kindness, for her wisdom.

But there was one frightened little squirrel that stood in their midst, wringing her hands.

What if she comes back, she asked. What if Night comes back and refuses to leave again?

It is simple, the owl said. You must learn, like I did, to find your way in the dark.

With that, she flew away, on to her next moonlit adventure.

And the creatures in the woods lived happily ever after.

© Yael Wolfe 2019
7 Tips to Be Successful in Your Career
By: Ethan O'Sullivan
Tags: Short Read, Tips, Advice, Career Development, Career Advice

1. Be Present

If you’re in a meeting, don’t multi-task unless you tell the participants beforehand. Saying something such as:

“I’m listening, but I’m just writing down some notes to take back with me and review after this meeting” — is fine.

Be sure to try to understand what’s going on. Participants in the conversation may need a second opinion on what was said and you might get lost.

2. Take Notes

But only shorthand — don’t try to copy what everyone says because then you’re not engaged in the conversation. Jot down simple phrases and keywords that will help you retain important information. This way you’re not losing concentration.

3. Follow Up, Follow Up, and Follow Up

If you know something is due but haven’t heard of an update yet, don’t hesitate to ask. Many times your colleagues are juggling multiple tasks at once. So your initial request gets pushed down to the bottom of their email.

4. Think Holistically

Think about the product you’re working on as a whole when trying to problem-solve. It’s easy to spiral into individual problems and go down a rabbit hole. This starts to create a tunnel vision and makes you lose sight of the goal.

5. Users First

Always go back to the users and think about how they will be impacted. Get their feedback and a different perspective.

6. Be Curious

Try to understand every aspect of what you’re doing, even if it isn’t your job. Always learn new things in your field. It keeps your skills refined.

7. Ask Questions

If something doesn’t make sense or add up to you, always ask. Odds are you are not the only one. It prevents someone else who comes after you with even less knowledge about the product.
I’m A White Ally Who Loves Black People
By: Reuben Salsa
Tags: Satire, Salsa, The Bad Influence, Race, Tik Tok

I’m A White Ally Who Loves Black People

Blackface is a sign of respect for the beautiful Black people

It was another day working from home. Last night was hell. A riot took place outside my house. Screaming white folks screaming at other angry white folks. Why do they always need to scream. I needed to understand.

Two hours later, tired with no sleep, I got into an argument on Twitter. The rage was real. The death threats scared me. A mob descended and claimed I was invalidating the lived experiences of Black people because they were dissimilar to my own. I was invalidating their experience.

So I took the initiative. I applied make-up and went full Black-face. Instead of gaslighting someone into believing their feelings aren’t valid, I chose to lead with empathy. What better way to get under the skin than to have the same skin?

Within hours and heavenly blackfaced, I turned on my camera and Tik-Tokked the shit out of it, launching the video to the masses.
TokenSets are Live on Totle!
Tags: Fintech, Trading, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Decentralized Exchange

TokenSets are Live on Totle!

You can now purchase Sets directly on Totle Swap with zero slippage and no fees!

The latest addition to Totle Swap is Set Protocol!

Sets are ERC-20 tokens that represent trading strategies. When you own a Set, your funds are exposed to a trading strategy’s performance.

TokenSet Strategies

For example, the BullBearEthereum Set rebalances between WETH and DAI. Whenever WETH is in a bull market, 100% of funds are rebalanced into WETH. Whenever WETH is in a bear market, 100% of funds are rebalanced into DAI.

BullBearEtherum Set token distribution

A strategy like the BullBearEthereum Set is incredibly valuable during times of unpredictable market activity. During the recent market crash, the BullBearEthereum Set was able to hedge users' funds from the decline in the Ethereum price.

BullBearEthereum Set market performance (green) versus Ethereum (blue)

To purchase TokenSets like the BullBearEthereum Set on Totle Swap, simply connect a wallet, select the token you want to swap and the TokenSet of your choice, and automatically get the best pricing available on the decentralized exchange market.

Get Started

Easily acquire TokenSets with ETH or any popular ERC-20 token: Totle Swap

Build TokenSets swaps and payments into your dApp: Totle Documentation

What Would You Like to See on Totle Next?

Send us a message in the Totle Telegram group about what Totle should integrate next.

Totle is a decentralized liquidity aggregator that automatically acquires users the best pricing available for ETH and ERC-20 swaps.

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, or Medium for the most up-to-date news on Totle.
Tradisjonell desemberfeiring rundt om i verden
By: Øivind H. Solheim
Tags: Writing Prompts, Cultural Prompt, Christmas, Blue Insights, Happiness

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By Blue Insights

Creating emotions — Spark plugs to ignite your virtual humanity! Take a look
The Teacher and The Trigger
By: Jean Carfantan
Tags: Trigger, Sacred Feminine, Prompt, Energy, Teaching

Energy: prompt

The Teacher and The Trigger

How I love to trigger you through prompts and be taught by your texts. Prodigious!

Photo by Yamaitrop Vioreenlack on Unsplash

We play roles in a collective mind.

Magenta Pixie in her video,

Triggered this poem, speaking

About the teacher and the student

Who is a trigger. I love her way

To speak about elusive realities,

Like Van Gogh uses his touches

To paint any motive and let

The energy manifest through it.
Inspect Element
By: Colm Doyle
Tags: Announcements, Slack, App Directory, Developer Tools, Developer

Inspect Element

Access documentation & view code without leaving your Slack workspace

Artwork by Casey Labatt Simon.

Today we’re launching Slack Developer Tools (SDT), a Slack app designed to make building apps simpler, more pleasant and more productive. Before now, accessing Slack’s developer tools and documentation required parsing through the Slack API site in a separate browser. With SDT, you can receive quick, instructional guidance right in your Slack workspace, making it easier and faster to learn how to build an app using Slack APIs. SDT also gives you access to view the code and structure behind any message.

SDT does not replace the tools you already know and love, but augments them to quickly pull information into Slack without breaking your flow. Read on to learn what you can do with SDT.

Pull documentation in channel

When I joined Slack’s Developer Relations team earlier this year, I immersed myself in learning and building on the platform. I was constantly switching back and forth to our documentation and found it would be much easier if I could access everything right in Slack.With SDT, you can immediately access relevant documentation without leaving your Slack workspace.

Imagine you’re building an app that requires sending a channel notification, and you’d like to understand the method. Instead of navigating to api.slack.com, you can type /sdt docs chat.postMessage into Slack to instantly receive all details needed to implement that particular API.

Inspect code, get inspired

When curious about how a page is built on the web, you can usually view HTML & CSS using the browser’s built-in Inspect Element function.

Similarly, you might see a message in Slack from an integration you use and want to know how to achieve something similar with your own app. With SDT, now you can hover over a message, and click the Inspect action (under the […] menu) to view how that particular message was built as a JSON payload from the Slack API.

Designed for collaboration

The SDT app has become essential to my daily work — whether I’m building code samples or helping a developer debug an issue.