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Want More Income Than Ever Before? First, You Need to Evolve. Here’s How.
By: Anthony Moore
Tags: Personal Development, Self Improvement, Self, Money, Success

“This is the process by which wealth is accumulated; first in small sums, then in larger ones as a man learns and becomes more capable.” -George Clason

After a year of successful self-employment, I’ve learned something:

You need to be a different kind of person to make a lot of money.

You’ll need discipline, consistency, and focus. You’ll need to work more, and harder, than almost everyone else.

Years ago, I was an aspiring (but totally unsuccessful) blogger. I dreamed of making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from my blog, but after 4.5 years, I had $40 total (!).

Why? My value on my products/services was tiny.

I tried career coaching, but I charged literally $0 because I didn’t think my advice was that good.

I self-published a few eBooks, but I charged them for 99 cents each.

Now, I charge a lot more money for my stuff.

I have several online courses that cost $1000/person.

My coaching prices are now up to $200/hour and rising.

My book (coming out in a few months!) will cost about $17 dollars. And so on.

There’s a simple truth here:

If you raise your prices, you get more money.

But before you raise your prices, you need to evolve into something more. You need to become someone who can charge those prices with confidence, and deliver a product that gives your customers even more value than the price tag.

Want more income than ever before?

Then evolve.

Here’s how.

Why $10 Million Dollars Would Destroy You

People are like containers. Sometimes, they are literally too small to absorb true success.

Even if they tried, things would spill over and create a mess.

This is why lottery ticket winners often experience terrible upheaval in their lives, blowing all their money in a few years as they watch their lives disintegrate.

This is why young athletes, music artists, and rock stars find themselves bankrupt and depressed only a few years after signing their $40 million dollar contract.

If you are not ready for the money, it can destroy you.

The weight of success is heavy. This may be surprising, but most people actually don’t have the strength to carry it.

Not winning the lottery is actually a blessing for most people. The money would destroy them.

Most of society does not have the poise, self-control, or brutal self-discipline required to remain the master of money. Most would became slaves to their own wealth — either quickly losing all of it on frivolous expenses, or hoarding it all in a dark dungeon of paranoia and Gollum-like greed.

Are you like most people?
Lovely Precious Pretty One
By: Amy Pierovich
Tags: Beauty, Sorrow, Ontology, Life, Poetry

Lovely Precious Pretty One

Sorrows

Photo by ruud slinger on Unsplash

What sorrows vex you,

pretty one,

can you share what’s deep inside,

or did someone hurt you,

and make you want to hide.

You have so much to offer

— your intelligence, bright wit, at times your laughter too;

in those rare moments,

when you forget,

that you are you.

O precious pretty one,

tell me a story,

of something true,

like how as a child your 9th birthday was forgotten,

and tears fell down like thunderous rain.

We all suffer,

no one escapes ontology;

but remember this,

your inside beauty is a gift that shines,

bright as a resplendent mid-day sun.

O lovely precious pretty one,

your days are not yet done.
How to get dozens of charities to register on AIDChain by leveraging CharityStars’ network
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Charity, Nonprofit, Cryptocurrency

How to get dozens of charities to register on AIDChain by leveraging CharityStars’ network AidCoin Follow Jul 4, 2018 · 2 min read

One of the tangible advantages and vital opportunities for AidCoin is its link with CharityStars - a well-established charitable auction platform with a network of over 500 charities and 40,000 donors. In order to make the most of this connection we came up with an idea for collaboration to motivate those 500+ charities to adopt AidCoin and join the AIDChain platform.

Since the main goal of the CharityStars’ auctions is to maximize the gains for charity, we decided to provide all registered charities with an opportunity to double their auction proceeds while incentivizing them to join AIDChain, and here is how we do it.

How it works:

The funds raised at auction are passed to the charity in the set currency; CharityStars and AidCoin offer to match and donate the same amount in AidCoins. We take these AidCoins from the AidPool, a 10M tokens pool which amounts to 10% of the overall token supply; To receive those AidCoins, the charity needs to register on AIDChain and transact with its service providers, employees and/or beneficiaries in AID through the platform, thus making the whole way of donation fully traceable.

General terms:

This matching campaign has already taken off on CharityStars and will apply to the auctions that close on or before September 30 2018;

There’s no limit to the number of auctions that can benefit from this offer but a single charity can double a maximum of €30,000 of funds raised.

Right now, there are dozens of live auctions on CharityStars and each of them can take part in this campaign, driving the registrations number on AIDChain. While we already have several commitments from charities that wish to participate, we are waiting for more to come so keep an eye on the charities page on AIDChain and welcome the newcomers with your donations!😉
Embarkation
By: Elle Rogers
Tags: Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Love, Relationships, Free Verse

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

When love writes itself

upon the empty page,

does it dart and strain

meandering slowly here

and there and taking up

the cadence of a mad god?

Footfalls close

Hands close

Hearts closer still

until

the last trail of ink

bleeds into the page below

and screams into

some lost void

the enormity of what

has only just begun.
Bitupper about the popularity of cryptocurrencies in different countries
By: Andrew Zhuk - Bitupper.Com
Tags: Bitcoin, Statistics, Bitupper, Cryptocurrency, Digital

Establishing an accurate picture of where the cryptocurrency is used, and in which countries the activity level is the highest, is a difficult task, since many companies and platforms dealing with cryptocurrency — do not share information about users for a variety of reasons, including protecting the privacy of users or by the nature of their services, which prevent the collection of data on location basis.

One of the indicators of activity can be done based on the volumes of LocalBitcoin, the P2P exchange platform, which unites users in 249 countries and allows them to meet personally or to exchange the cryptocurrency in e-form. For example, the highest growth was observed in the developing countries located in Asia (China, India, Malaysia, Thailand), Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela), Africa and the Middle East (Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Turkey) and Eastern Europe (Russia and Ukraine). In general, considering the geographical distribution of bitcoin and other ATMs with cryptocurrency, it turns out that 94% of all public ATMs are based in North America and Europe.

Running a full node is another indicator of activity by geographic location. Considering the distribution of complete bitcoin nodes with a time window into one year, it is not difficult to see that the largest number of complete nodes is located in the United States.

The share of cryptocurrency owners by region (based on data from wallets and providers of payment services)

Finally, based on the user data that was aggregated by the incorporated wallets and platforms, you can make the customers separation by shares in geographical terms. Thus, it turns out that almost 40% of users of cryptocurrencies are located in the Asia-Pacific region, while in Europe — 27%. The share of North American users is surprisingly low. However, do not forget that these figures represent only data announced by a limited number of suppliers of wallets and payment platforms and do not take into account the users of exchanges, and also mining pools.

Clearly, the implementation of cryptocurrencies has been most advanced in North America and Europe, but there is increasing activity in other regions: in the relatively fast developing countries of Asia, Latin America, and also Africa and the Middle East.

The above analysis does not take into account the number of users since this information is mostly secret and/or cannot be counted in terms of the type of services that the relevant companies provide.

Bitupper creates its unique product, relying on the above statistics and data, which is a great step towards success. Be successful, develop and go along with Bitupper!

Subscribe to the project news channel and stay tuned. In the following articles, Bitupper will tell you about the intricacies of the cryptocurrency industry and also introduce the types of crypto wallets.

Bitupper — that simple, for everyone.
A Timely Resolve
By: Lady Foxx
Tags: Self Improvement, Personal Growth, Resolutions, Rhymes, Illumination

A Timely Resolve

Say it With Me

Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash

I would bear my cross

For whatever its worth

For It did come to pass

That failure to come forth

When in that dire need

From weakness or fatigues

Are the sad reality indeed

Of friends and colleagues

I would build my faith

In the Lord and all good

For in the past only it hath;

Been the thing that stood,

Unflinching in the desert

And firmly through the famine

That almost took apart

Every and all that’s mine

And grow my inner empath

So that I may, in compassion

Look at the bygone arid path

With more hope and an intention

To seeing that no one faces

Any of the negative repercussions

That a population; almost effaces

And would cripple unborn generations

And strengthen my resolve

In my intuition and reason

That I may not randomly rove

Like quelea birds in season

Just like the me in the yesters

Is wont to continuosly oscillate

And keep complicating matters

That previously weren’t so great!

I would really bear and build

And work on growth and strength

Till I become in my fair mould

That whose length and breadth

Shall be for the future to come

An instruct and mapping guide

Throughout this tricky honeycomb

Plains and hills of the world so wide!

(C) Lady Foxx

15th December, 2020.
ICO — O que são e como tokens são gerados!
Tags: Bitcoin, ICO, Eusouelliot, Cryptocurrency, Token

in In Fitness And In Health
Data-Driven Efforts to Address Racial Inequality
By: The Govlab
Tags: Data Responsibility, Racial Equality, Data

This piece is a supplement to our previous post, How Data Can Map and Make Racial Inequality More Visible (If Done Responsibly). In that piece, we discussed various topics with data components related to racial equality. Those issues are already the focus by numerous organizations.

As we seek to advance the responsible use of data for racial injustice, we encourage individuals and organizations to support and build upon efforts already underway. We welcome additions to this listing — you can share other organizations working on these issues using this form. With an initial, primary focus on the United States, we are especially interested in organizations whose work falls into four categories:

Data-Driven Research

Data Driven Activism and Advocacy

Data-Driven Journalism

Data to Measure Racial Injustice

Examples are listed in alphabetical order.
Correlation & Causation
By: Kaustubh N
Tags: Statistics, Data, Correlation, Data Science, Causation

Correlation does not imply causation.

If you are in the data science field, you might have heard the quote quite a few times. “Correlation does not imply causation”. Lets dig it down to find the crux of the saying.

There is an interesting XKCD comic about correlation.

What is correlation?

In common statistical terms the association between any two random variables in a dataset is termed as correlation. Most of the time we measure linear dependent relationship between two variables.

E.g. A and B

What is causation?

Causality also referred as Causation, is a property that connects one process with another, where it is understood that the first is partly responsible for the second and the second is dependent on the first. Hence we can say that causation is the “slight/partial” guarantee that given an event A (cause), event B (effect) has to occur in the sequence.

E.g. A -> B ( A implies B, if A then B)

Lets get back to our original statement: “Correlation does not imply Causation”.

I feel:

Correlation is a mathematical quantity where as Causation is an physical quantity (observation).

Since there is no evident relationship between the two quantities, we can not say since two random variables are correlated that the representative quantities have a cause and effect model.
How Great is your Talent Management Tool? by Grace C. Sorongon
By: Grace Sorongon
Tags: Agility, Disruptive Innovation, Technology, Talent Management

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Talent management these days require agile and flexible solutions. We may have to break away from our past thinking and pivot quickly to embrace new thinking and new solutions. Armed with this mindset, we were in Australia recently to listen to the transformation journey of various companies in their talent management program.

John Clements Consultants, Inc. has embraced this talent management solution for the last 2 to 3 years, and we were invited by our partner to attend a user conference, happening for the first time in Sydney. My primary objective in attending was to benchmark best practices and to validate our experiences with the best-in-class companies like BHP, Deloitte, CBRE, Fletcher Builders, Siemens and Mondelez. In addition, I wanted to know the new product enhancements and developments of our talent management tools, which are calendared for launching next year.

To stay ahead of the curve, the user conference talked about how companies are transforming themselves into becoming a technology company. It also talked about how HR can become an engine for this transformation. Gamification, artificial intelligence, chatbots and predictive analytics were just a few of the subject matters which were discussed during the conference.

The automated process along these areas is designed to create a great user experience and to make the recruitment process more efficient and pain- free. All the above features can be built into the platform, and what is amazing is these features can be used by recruiters via the use of mobile apps. The gamified assessment solution of BHP and Fletcher Builders provided better engagement among their applicants, whose processes can be easily built within the platform. While these may sound simple, there are many elements which will prevent the smooth implementation and changes needed to make it happen.

The journey of the above-mentioned companies validated that our experiences are the same when it comes to implementation. Anchal Saxena, TA Systems and Reporting Manager- APAC of CBRE cited that those in talent acquisition normally have the following excuses:

• It’s easier to use excel

• This is too hard

• It doesn’t work for our country

• We’re different

• We tried it but it creates more work for us

These excuses are true to us as well. But they managed to overcome these by over-communicating and training the various stakeholders. Armed with the experience that we had in Sydney, we are challenged and excited to do better, have a quick technology implementation, discard tradition, and pursue our goal or purpose.
Infinito Bi-Monthly Report — July
Tags: Blockchain, Infinitobimonthlyreport

Infinito aims to create a perfect blockchain experience for users, applications, and developers through its product Ecosystem which includes Infinito Wallet, Infinito App Square, Infinito Blockchain Platform, and InfinitoPAY.

A professional team of 50 experts behind Infinito Wallet, App Square, Infinito Blockchain Platform, and soon, InfinitoPAY with intensive experience in blockchain technology including technical developers and researchers, business and marketing executives, designers, quality control engineers, and customer service officers. Registered in 80 Robinson Road, #08–01, Singapore 068898, registration number 201900666E.

Official website: https://www.infinito.io

Infinito Wallet website: http://infinitowallet.io/

Infinito Blockchain Platform website: http://platform.infinito.io/

Global Telegram: https://t.me/infinitowallet

Telegram announcement board: https://t.me/infinito_announcements
The Frenchman Who Saved Mona Lisa From the Nazis
By: Kamna Kirti
Tags: Painting, World War II, History, Art, Men

The art rescue operation by Jaujard and his team

From August to December 1939, trucks carried to protect the treasures of the Louvre

Source-Public Domain

Ten days before World War II, he sensed Hitler’s personal desire to build the Führermuseum confiscating and plundering art pieces from throughout Europe. And so, Jaujard took the call independently to evacuate the art pieces from Lourve Museum.

On 25 August 1939, Jaujard closed Louvre for three days, officially for repair work. For three days and nights, the curators, Louvre school students, and employees constantly carried out a herculean task. Wrapping and putting the fragile paintings, sculptures, and artifacts into wooden boxes. The vast paintings like The Raft of the Medusa had to be dragged onto an open truck with a giant blanket covering it.

Masterpieces were categorized in order of importance: a yellow circle for very valuable art pieces, green for major works, and red for world treasures. The white case containing the Mona Lisa was marked with three red circles.

A fleet of approximately two hundred vehicles transported more than 1800+ art treasures to inconspicuous castles in France where they could be laid anonymous and secure.

Soon when the Germans invaded France in 1940, Count Franz Wolff-Metternich was appointed by Hitler to administer the Lourve Museum. Jaujard had to carry a double task; resisting the Nazis to loot art pieces and fight against the collaborationist leaders of France who were eager to hand France’s treasures to German occupiers.

But as they say, “the universe conspires when you aspire.” The German man in Nazi uniform, Metternich, discarded Hitler’s autocracy and helped Jaujard to preserve art pieces from German aristocrats like Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Metternich knew the repositories where the artworks were hidden but he assured Jaujard to protect them from the German army.
Frozen Emotion
By: Tima Loku
Tags: Emotions, Poetry, Healing, Self, LGBTQ

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

There are many reasons a heart becomes frozen

too many emotions threatening to spill

obscuring boundaries and limitations

the difference between you and I perhaps

then to counter all this unraveling freedom

that lifts one and throws one into groundlessness

the threatening overspill of vulnerable being

at the mercy of an instinct for survival

hearts become frozen

to avoid all emotion

so how does one thaw a frozen ocean

without threatening a tsunami of emotion?
Iration Says Mahalo with ToneDen
By: Joanna Novak
Tags: Case Study, Playbooks, Toneden, Music Marketing

Talk to Social Sound System about their origin story and you’ll hear an epic tale of car-sleeping, camping in Angeles National Forest, cross-country friendship, and preternatural music savvy. Xavier Ramirez and Alex Zurowski have been working together for years, helming their digital branding agency. They work with festivals, mobile apps, players in the cannabis industry, but their first client is still their longest-standing: the band Iration.

Though their early work could be classified as that post-Sublime brand of Cali reggae, Iration’s sound has continued to evolve over the years. “They’re all Hawaiian kids,” Ramirez remembers fondly. “They literally had a book of Bob Marley covers and chords. Reggae’s always been their foundation, but they’ve taken the opportunity to incorporate a lot more influences in songwriting: indie, indie synth, hiphop.”

During Ramirez and Zurowski’s stop by ToneDen, they spoke of the simultaneous rise of the band and Social Sound System. “I lived with the guys in Iration,” Ramirez says. “We’d have backyard parties and throw concerts in Santa Barbara and Isla Vista, just a microcosm of 20,000 kids partying. At the time, Myspace was taking off and I started to say, ‘Hey I’ll do this Myspace thing for you guys.’ Then it was this Twitter thing. This Facebook thing. YouTube. The next thing you know, it was paying my student loans.”

Since then, Ramirez and Zurowski have branched out to ace everything from tour marketing and tour advertising to releases. The tool that’s helped them mature without growing pains? ToneDen.

Social Sound System’s relationship with ToneDen stemmed from a cold call — a cold call they were immediately grateful for.

“We run all of our own contests and sweepstakes,” Ramirez says, “and it seemed like you guys were starting to be a one-stop shop with everything. There was an email component, an advertising component, and there was a sweepstakes component, too. We were kind of doing that piecemeal.”

Broad functionality is nice, but what’s imperative is the ability to understand the numbers and pathways that underscore these various functions . “One of the first things I started using [ToneDen] for and one of the main things I still use it for to this day is the tracking links,” says Zurowski. This comes in handy “since we run all the tour marketing ourselves.”

Iration’s Press Play Fall Tour was the perfect opportunity to try out one of ToneDen’s newest features: Tour Announce Playbooks.

With ToneDen’s Tour Announce Playbook, Social Sound System launched a Facebook ad campaign to promote Iration’s upcoming tour. On the day that tickets went on sale, everyone who commented on the announcement post received a message from their Facebook page with a link to buy tickets.
8.15 Presidential Social Intelligence Battleground Tracker
By: Adam Meldrum
Tags: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Social Intelligence, 2020 Presidential Race, Social Listening

8.15 Presidential Social Intelligence Battleground Tracker

An aggregate weekly pulse of how potential voters in battleground states are discussing the Presidential candidates.

— Please check out the background post on this project if it is your first time reading.

— Our initial dataset from the week of 7.3 was detailed here.

— Data from the week of 7.11 was detailed here

— Data from the week of 7.19 was detailed here.

Battleground States in our Analysis: AZ, CO, FL, IA, ME, MI, MN, NV, NH, NC, PA, TX, WI

Date Source: All data is publicly available and anonymized for our analysis from Twitter, Facebook, Online Blogs, & Message Boards.

Technology Partners: Eyesover & Relative Insight
How to Set Up a Basic GraphQL Server
By: Brian Dixon
Tags: Nodejs, JavaScript, Apollo Server, Programming, GraphQL

Create a MongoDB Instance

Our first task is to get a connection to a MongoDB instance. If you don’t have MongoDB ready to use, you can create an instance through one of the three following methods.

Install MongoDB on your computer

Use Docker

Use Atlas

After you have this set up, make sure you record the connection string — as we’ll be using it later.
Fandom as Faith
By: Todd A
Tags: Pop Culture, Faith, Game of Thrones, Christianity, Belief

I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few weeks about fandom as a faith. A certain fanaticism that we associate with stories–comic books, movies, television shows–veers away from a rational affinity for art and into something religious. Once it gets to that point, we can’t have rational conversations about that particular work’s quality or meaning. Once it is canonized (in the religious sense), it becomes untouchable. And the great irony is that–as in a lot of faiths or cults–the more ephemeral the thing which is believed, the more strongly the believers feel about it.

It’s easy to draw the parallels: we have our holy books (the source material from which more popular media are created). We have our churches–our comic book shops and movie theaters. We have our congregations–those who dress in the symbolic robes (cosplay) versus those who do not. We even have those revivals across congregations–conventions. We have our Fundamentalists (“Michael Bay raped my childhood”) and our Pluralists (“I like the prequels just as much as the originals”), our Catholics (Tolkien’s books) and Protestants (Jackson’s movies).

We demonstrate the transformation from fandom into faith with our desire to establish the true history of the faith and its theology. Do we follow George R. R. Martin’s unfinished gospel uncompromisingly? Or do we see Benioff and Weiss as the Reformation our church needed? Is the Force a godly power controlled by an order of priests? Or is it merely explained away by the science of midichlorians?

Canon, continuity. Like the followers of other faiths, these are our biggest concerns because when events don’t fit the continuity, we realize our faith is based on unstable ground. Was the universe created in seven literal days? Was moon goddess, wife of sun? Is it known?

When fans becomes apostates, the faithful attempt to recruit them back into the flock. The faithful tease the apostates with spoilers and promises of the next cool thing (a sneak preview, a toy, their priests!) that they’ll see at a revival. Fans will cajole and mock the apostate who has missed out on the salvation the faithful have received that day.

Faith has power. But the true nature of a faith is that its power comes only from the believers. Were everyone to turn apostate at once, would this history survive? If no one went to see The Battle of the Five Armies, did it exist at all?

Faith does grant power to believers but not the way they expect. It does not free them from their worldly troubles; merely it helps them forget. And as long as they believe, they empower the priests–the Benioffs and Weisses, Lucases and Jacksons–to contravene the continuity. Where the faithful’s power truly makes a difference is when they decide not to believe. Apostasy is the most powerful weapon against religion, after all.

So it’s enough to wonder: if we stopped having the arguments about the tenets of our faith, would we have any faith at all? If we no longer cared who shot first, would we care at all?
Equilibrium的优势
By: Equilibrium Cn
Tags: Advantages, Eq, Chinese, Defi, Equilibrium

The first decentralized interoperable money market that combines pooled lending with synthetic asset generation and trading. Get access to cross-chain liquidity.

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A design leader’s guide to bringing the outside in
By: Susie Hall
Tags: Inspiration, Design Leadership, In House Design, Learning And Development, Aquentinsideout

You’ve read all the stats about Employee Engagement boosting productivity, reducing turnover and literally generating higher profits. I have, too.

So it was no surprise that after talking to 120 design leaders at high profile brands for our InsideOut community, I found the most frequently mentioned business challenge they wanted to discuss with peers was inspiring and engaging their teams. Every design team has deadlines and goals — and every good leader has a genuine desire to lead a happy, productive team to hit them.

I’ve now facilitated three roundtables on the topic of Bringing the Outside In, where groups of senior design leaders in SF, Seattle & Chicago shared their insights on ways to fuel internal design teams with external trends. In fact, I’ve hosted 16 roundtables so far, but that’s a story for another post. Talk about inspired!

Of all the amazing ideas I gathered from those amazing leaders on how to inspire teams, one bit of advice has sparked a lot of positive response and serves well as a way to package the design leader’s role in employee engagement:

Be an Internal Matchmaker, an Anti-Randomizer and Part Translator.

What a fabulous way to look at the design leader’s role in engagement!

During our roundtables, design leaders often ask how we can take this time well spent in our small group discussions to bring our InsideOUT to other leaders — and ideally, learn even more. While I’ve shared key takeaways after each event here on LinkedIn, below I’ve attempted to organize them under the leadership concepts above.

Be an Internal Matchmaker

• Start with Hiring. Prioritize CURIOSITY in your hiring profile and those thinkers you add to your team will constantly seek and bring new ideas — it’s what they do!

• Onboard with Care. Consider mapping your Employee Journey and close any gaps that shut down engagement.

• Tap into Internal Teams. Customer insights and R&D teams gather trends all the time, so bring them in to share tools and learnings with your team.

• Bring in Freelancers. These talent bring broad perspectives and fresh ideas — and often are easier to engage than hiring permanent staff. (Shameless plug, Aquent + Vitamin T have amazing freelancers. Just sayin’)

• Let Them Shine. Give your team a chance to learn by training others (designers or non-designers), practicing on “fake” projects that stretch their creativity, and presenting their ideas and learnings to leadership.
Why Hate?
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Spirituality, Positive Thinking, Haiku, Poetry, Spiritual Tree

I am a warrior of life, striving to be a better person every day. Finding my voice on writing.

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Trickles
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Visions, Pain, Image, Poem, Frustration

Trickles

A Poem

Photo by Andrej Lišakov on Unsplash

In the shade of another brick wall

dancing with the moths

while trying to figure out

how to really want you

The trickles of the night before

dished out like appetizers

not really filling this morning

but taking over this head

I’d ache if I wasn’t already

The trips all canceled

stuck inside the drum while

relentless hammering goes on where

it’s least wanted

To give something more to the beat

then the odd drunken slur

running its way up your leg

till you can’t shut up

I deem this misfortune but I don’t know

that’s really my specialty

and I act like it is

The book of the hard-done-by

castigated and still somehow forgotten

keeps rearing its ugly pages

Tomorrow then

the wounds will be smaller I think
A Hero Died in 2020 — Here Is What You Can Learn From Him
By: Daniel Hövermann
Tags: Purpose, Personal Growth, Life Lessons, Heroes, Change

Rüdiger Nehberg was a German activist who was famous in Germany and all over the world. He was born in 1935 and was known as Sir Vival.

I didn’t know him until late 2019 when I attended my last major conference for personal growth.

German celebrities and international ones were among the guests, e.g., the sister of Barack Obama, Auma, and the son of Tony Robbins, Jairek. They all did a terrific job in their speeches, even though I got the impression that most of them spoke mainly about change.

Thus, one person was different — Rüdiger Nehberg. He delivered a remarkable speech on stage, being already 84 years old at this point.

He took the audience through his life, which showed the immense impact he had on so many people worldwide. Rüdiger Nehberg made a difference. He was a vivid supporter of environmental projects but did not stop there. He not only donated money but also attracted the media’s attention through his actions.

His biggest and most remarkable achievement was focused on abolishing female genital mutilation, which we should and can learn from.
El perfil del Desarrollador Web en el Perú 2015
By: Juan Eladio Sánchez Rosas
Tags: Spanish, Web Development, Desarrollo Web

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From data to data-artwork
By: Dave Fuschi
Tags: Wild Mazzini, Complexity, Data Art, Encode19, Data Visualization

Since April 2018, Wild Mazzini has produced thirteen exhibitions, showing to about 3,000 people over 120 works of art and design, inspired or based mainly on complex data and information.

The production of these exhibitions — solo and group — almost all of them very experimental, and the dialogue with the authors allowed me to sharpen the curatorship.

So, what are I and my partners looking for in a piece that we decide to show?

Adriano Attus | Neometrie — 2018 | Ph. Andrea Macchia

From representation to transfiguration. The data and information contained within the artwork rather than being represented are transfigured.

While representation aspires to objectivity, and for this reason reduces to a minimum the elements to interfere with the direct understanding of information, the work of transfiguration tends to open the interpretative spectrum, attributing a specific weight to the different parts, in order to restore the complexity of the subject.

Valentina D’Efilippo + Miriam Quick | OddityViz — 2018 | Ph. Andrea Macchia

Give a tone of voice to the data. Several people often collaborate in the creation of an artwork: craftsmen, curators, producers of materials who work alongside the artist. The data-art is no exception: isn’t unusual that the designer deals with analysts and other designers, developers and experts on field.

However, the transition from designer to artist is recorded when the author includes himself in the work, or rather attributes what we like to call “poetics”.

This can be found in the perspective that the author takes when observing the data, from specific aesthetic solutions (shapes, colors, materials) or in some cases from the choice of theme (close to his own personal experience or interests).

These factors will tend to be recurrent in the artist’s work and to emerge over time in an increasingly clear and recognizable way.
Last Week in Crypto — 12 Nov 2018
By: Rishabh Bose
Tags: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency News, Blockmanity, Cryptocurrency, Crypto

Last Week in Crypto — 12 Nov 2018

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We are at our 4th week. A lot happened in crypto last week. Bitcoin Adopter Gavin Newsom got Elected Governor of California. Dogecoin Creator was also in the news with a Crypto Paradox. Apple Censored a Bitcoin Podcast.

Here goes…

Early Bitcoin Adopter Gavin Newsom gets Elected Governor of California — by Shrikar

Democrat Newson won against Republican John Cox by a landslide. 51-year-old Newsom had been trying his luck to become governor for a decade and has finally succeeded to become the governor of California state.

Gavin was the first governor to accept Bitcoin back in 2014 to show his support to the technology. Read More »
Horse Country
By: Victoria Ponte
Tags: Travel, Horses, Jackie Kennedy, History

Brandon Randolph for Pexels

Horse Country

It Might Not Be Where You Expect

The drive to the farm where I go for adaptive riding lessons is breathtaking. As I was driving yesterday through bucolic scenes of horse farms, rolling hills, old growth trees that looked like black spidery creatures against a gray winter sky, I imagined anyone seeing what I saw might not believe they were in the state of New Jersey.

If you’ve been to New Jersey, it’s likely you saw the view of Newark from the air or the airport in the middle of a highly industrialized area. Maybe this is how you picture New Jersey:

Chris LeBoutillier for Pexels

If you do, you are somewhat correct. New Jersey is the most densely populated state with 1210 people per square mile. This is in comparison for example to Texas with 109.9 people per square mile, or Alaska with 1 person per square mile.

While New Jersey is home to many large pharmaceutical companies, heavy manufacturing, and other industry that tends to not look so pretty, it is called the Garden State for its agriculture. The origin of the term acording to www.njmonthly.com:

In 1876 Abraham Browning, an attorney, politician, and the owner of Cherry Hill Farm, which gave its name to the town that now stands in its place, coined the term, comparing New Jersey, two-thirds of which was rolling farmland, to a big barrel, open on both ends, from which Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers gobbled up the state’s agricultural bounty.

It is perhaps a lesser known fact that the state animal is the horse.

I live near Somerset County which is where Jackie Kennedy kept a weekend place for her horses in Bedminster. She is said to have shopped at Beval’s Saddlery, a fixture in Gladstone for 63 years. I purchased the bag I use for my riding supplies at Beval’s. Their doors were closed in 2018 for nonpayment of rent.

I’ve been fortunate to have attended events at USET in Gladstone. I drive by this magnificent, historic facility on the way to the farm:

With every turn on the way to the farm, I am astounded by the beauty of the horse country here in New Jersey. Even the miles and miles of fences on the farms are surprisingly gorgeous!
Cave Of Treasures
By: Mark Starlin
Tags: Humor, Pirates, Time Travel, Comics, Funny

I discovered Roy’s comics shortly after joining Medium. They always give me a smile and make me laugh. I thought it would be fun to collaborate with Roy on a comic. So I came up with a rough idea of how we could combine Roy’s skeletons with my pirates. Each of us doing one part on our own page. I presented the idea to Roy and he agreed to do it. It has been a lot of fun. Thanks, Roy!
Attention
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Feelings, Image, Musing

Attention

A Poem

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

I know you think you’re

about to drift

land that little raft wherever

you want to

You want hand waving

signals and codes

and running into the corners

to look for reasons to avoid this

Special words and tabulations

anchors to keep the track tight

and instead you screw with the formula

tightening a noose that won’t

let you go either

Now that madness sailed in

you begin to forget

what else you were going to pick

up and what to leave

Sullen stares at the magistrates

and you’re back to staring

at the navel
Build a GOAT-Inspired Animated Dismissing TabBar: Swift 5 With UIKit
By: Diego Bustamante
Tags: Programming, iOS, Mobile, Swift, Uikit

NotificationCenter

Here is how Apple describes the NotificationCenter:

“A notification dispatch mechanism that enables the broadcast of information to registered observers.”

I decided to use NotificationCenter over the delegate protocol method since the latter requires very strict syntax. Using NotificationCenter allows for fewer lines of code and is very easy to implement. We just need to ensure we deallocate the NotificationCenter observers we will create.

We will first declare a global variable for the notification name. For this example, we can do it outside the HomeViewController class.

public let tabBarNotificationKey = Notification.Name(rawValue: "tabBarNotificationKey")

Next, let’s post the notification and pass the boolean based on the scroll direction. After reworking the scrollViewDidScroll function, we get this:

We create a variable called isHidden . If the user is scrolling up, it will be false . If they are scrolling down, it will be true . We post a notification and pass the boolean using a dictionary through userInfo .

Next, we will go to the tabBar class where we will add an observer.

We can add this observer in viewDidLoad :

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.notificationReceived(_:)), name: tabBarNotificationKey, object: nil)

Creating this will require us to create a function where we can access the boolean we passed from the posted notification:

Run the project. If you scroll, you will get the tabBar to hide, but it’s very abrupt:

Before we continue, we need to deallocate the NotificationCenter observers we created in the same class:
Rediste Basit Veri Tipleri
By: Metin Ağaoğlu
Tags: Rediste Veri Türleri, Redis, Rediste Temel Komutlar

Redis

The recommended client(s) for a language are marked with a . Clients with some activity in the official repository…
Dairy Day
By: Jon Bell
Tags: New Zealand, Expat Life

Dairy Day

Our delightful family tradition

In New Zealand, we say “dairy” instead of convenience store, bodega, or mini-mart. It’s because these were the original neighbourhood buildings to get things like milk and yogurt in the olden days. Over time they’ve turned into markets that serve their local community.

Other than the cutesty script typeface at the top, most dairies look pretty much like this. Kia ora is a Te Reo Māori greeting that roughly means “good health” but in everyday usage it is used as an everyday “hello” greeting. It’s a bit like Aloha in Hawaii.

Tip Top is a beloved ice cream brand in New Zealand, for good reason. It’s delicious and it’s everywhere. In fact, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream only recently landed in New Zealand (at $11 USD per pint) and many kiwis I know are a bit confused by it. New Zealand has some of the best dairy products in the world, so they’re not as amazed by Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough as I am.

Inside the dairy you’ll typically find the same products from store to store. Ice cream, lollies (candy), biscuits (cookies), an array of drinks, basic essentials, maybe some lonely fruit in the corner. Maybe some magazines. And don’t forget the pies. New Zealand doesn’t do fruit pies like apple or cherry. But they love meat pies, and they’re sold almost everywhere, including small petrol (gas) stations. I love getting pies at the diary. I don’t know why they taste so good, but they always do.

In our family, Friday is “dairy day,” meaning after school the kids walk down to the village with a few dollars to buy lollies. To my American brain, this whole process is a near-miracle. Sending them to town on their own? With money? With no way to reach them? Imagine!

We believe in what we jokingly call “free-range parenting,” where you’re more hands-off and less helicoptery. But in Seattle, we’d often send parents into a panic when our kids were at the park by themselves or far from where we were sitting. But in Wellington, kids are often trusted to go out and about on their own. No big deal.

We’ve done dairy day for a few years now, and it’s a great way to end off the week. I never cared much for tradition when I was a kid, but I’m seeing the benefits of it now. The kids get to look forward to their weekly candy excursion and I remember how quaint and free-spirited their childhood has managed to be.
My Grandpa, the best chef in the world
By: Adam Vrána
Tags: Thinking, Philosophy, Originality, Family, Cooking

I’ve met tons of people craving for being original.

Maybe hunderds of wannabe mentors desiring more followers.

But mostly none of them got the true essence of how to achieve originality.

Yet it’s so simple. One of the simpliest thing to do in life.

My grandpa taught me that.

He actually never did anything exactly like anybody else lectured him.

He didn’t even make the opposite.

All he did was he bent the things towards his current understanding, points of view and appetite.

Simply said: he never approached things in a dogmatic way.

Whether it was religion, philosophy or cooking recipies.

He always added a little bit of his own insight. A bit of unexpected spice.

And that’s why talking to him is always such fun.

That’s why listening and learning from him is still a pleasure.

And that’s why his meal always tastes great.

Even if he’s not the best chef in the world.
Night of the Blood Moon
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Comics, Humor, Moon, Vacation, Romance

Vacations are for catching up on romance? Or catching up on rest?
How To Edit WooCommerce Image Proportion
Tags: WordPress, Image, Size, Products, Woocommerce

You may be wondering how to edit the WooCommerce Image proportion. Because images are one of the most important parts of any online store. for this reason, we’ll explain how to change and edit the WooCmmerce WordPress plugin pictures proportions in a simple and easy way.

WooCommerce 3.3 introduced a new and easier way to resize product images. You can now change the WooCommerce Product picture size from Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product. And the great thing is you don’t have to regenerate the images after resizing them. From WooCommerce 3.3 you can now crop, resize and automatically regenerate images all from the Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Images. Product Image settings are on WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Display to Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Images.

How To Change WooCommerce Products Image Proportion?

Follow these steps to change the single product image size:

Go to Appearance > Customize

Then go to WooCommerce > Product picture

Write your desired width in the “Main image width” field.

Click on “Publish”

The height of a single or main product picture will remain uncropped and not affected by the cropping settings. One of the cool features introduced in WooCommerce 3.3 is automatic thumbnail resizing. Meaning after setting the width all of your product photos will resize automatically and regenerate the background. Previously we had to install the “Regenerate Thumbnails” plugin to regenerate the images to a new resolution.

WooCommerce Product Thumbnail Image

Follow these steps to change shop, catalog or product category photo size:

Go to Appearance > Customize

Then go to WooCommerce > Product

Write your desired width in the “Thumbnail width” field.

You can set the height of the images in “Thumbnail Cropping”

Click on “Publish”

Shop Product Image Height Settings

Setting the Height of the Shop or Catalog image in WooCommerce WordPress plugin:

Firstly, 1:1: If you select 1:1, your images will be cropped into 360px width and 360px Height (assuming you add the image width 360px in the Thumbnail Width field. Secondly, custom: In Custom you can select the aspect ratio of the image. Here is some of the popular aspect ratio (1:1, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 3:1). Finally, uncropped: The height of the image will be without change. Images will display using the aspect ratio in which they were upload.

Woocommerce Image Edition In Conclusion

Finally, I hope you now understand how to deal with these changes, and how to customize them to suit your needs. Moreover, feel free to use the comments section to share your experiences.
Create simple POST request with ktor
By: Max Großmann
Tags: Web Server, Coding, Software Development, Kotlin, Ktor

In this tutorial we will create our first POST-Route in ktor and test it.

Ktor is a framework for building asnchronous servers with the kotlin programming language.

Photo by Bundo Kim on Unsplash

Requirements

For this tutorials it is required that you have created the “Hello World” ktor application. If you don’t have so, you can watch my youtube video where i explain how to get started.

The bitrate quality of this video is quite bad, so if you prefer something to read try out the official quickstart guide by jetbrains.

Get Started

So let’s not wait any longer and get started!

Adding a new post-Route to our application is quite simple. You only need to add a new post()-method-call to your routing -block

routing {

... post("/test") {

call.respondText("This is a test POST request")

} }

Some explanations

/test is the resource url we have to call to execute the route

is the resource url we have to call to execute the route The string in call.respondText() will be returned when we call the route

Just test it out see below and then change this two paramters and try to understand what you did.

Test POST Route

Klick on the Play-Icon next to the main-Method and klick “Run ApplicationKt”

Play-Icon next to the main() method

2. In the console you should see on which port your server is running. In my case that is port 8081. That’s important for the next step

Console window after application started

3. Open terminal and execute the following command

curl -X POST http://localhost:8081/test

Commandline result

You know should see the message “This is a test POST request” which we specified above in the source code.