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Gathering Ground Ivy
By: Katie Michaelson
Tags: Mindfulness, Poetry, Relationships, Nature, Sustainability

Early in the morning while the air is crisp and the earth damp, sit with her. See how she moves across the lawn climbing, creeping, and mingling with the earth. Breathe in her sharp minty fragrance.

She’s lovely.

Grab her and she will fight you.

Fight her and she will win.

Sit with her and she will meld silently with your heart.

Sit with her and breathe deeply her fragrance.

Give her your thoughts.

Give her respect.

Appreciate her rich green beauty.

Admire the beautiful purple flowers she wears.

Treat her gently and she will be generous.

When it is time, rest your hand on the earth and slowly move your fingers along the soil. Rest your palm and feel the earth’s energy flow through your fingers to the lush damp leaves.

Old hands will no longer throb in pain. Her gift.

One of her many gifts.

Grab her and she will fight you.

Fight her and she will win.

Slowly and gently hold her and she will ease into your hand

bringing long tendrils of rooted plantlets with her.

Gather her with love and she will fill your basket without complaint.

What does she teach us?

When your gathering basket overflows, sit with her.

Early in the morning while the air is crisp and the earth damp, sit with her.
How My Career Went into A Different Direction Than I Expected
By: Sarah Seweryniak
Tags: Life Lessons, Millennials, Self, Work, Career Advice

The moment I knew this wasn’t for me

As anyone can imagine a newsroom is hectic. But to live it is a whole another experience.

The majority of my day dealt with preparing for that day’s broadcast and buttoning up the next day’s show by confirming guests. The show I worked on ran for an hour. During that time, I would either be in the studio or control room.

One day I got called into the control room. It was a muggy summer afternoon and the room was dark and crowded. When I popped my head in, my mentor called for me.

“We’re running five minutes short on the show,” stated my mentor. “We need to fill the time. You need to run to grab a pre-recorded segment. You only have the commercial break to do that. Hurry, GO!”

A commercial break usually lasts four minutes.

I had to run up to another floor where our offices were. Find a specific story. Get it to the control room and queue it up in four minutes.

I was in shape, so I ran so fast. I got to the bookshelf that houses the pre-recorded packages. My heart was pumping so hard I could feel the thumping going into my head. Adrenaline had my hands shaking to the point I couldn’t grab anything.

I used my trembling finger to scan the pre-recorded packages. I looked at my phone. I had no idea how much time had passed since I left the control room. I kept scanning. I couldn’t find it.

This was one of those moments where life felt like a movie. Time stood still. It began to feel like an eternity had passed. It was over. I knew it. “I screwed this up so bad,” I thought. “My career is over before it ever began.”

At that moment I finally found the package. I grabbed it and ran downstairs. When I entered the control room, I saw I had seconds to spare. To this day, I have no idea how I did it. As they say, “where there is a will, there is a way.”

It was at that moment I realized this wasn’t for me. I didn’t want to spend my life and career feeling like a ball of nerves. I didn’t want to develop an ulcer in my stomach. I wanted to feel fulfilled, not like I was going to have a heart attack.
Where are all my Blockchain Ladies, at?
By: Alyze Sam
Tags: Women In Tech, Hackernoon Top Story, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain

Traditional Gender Roles

Women in leadership, as it pertains to sexism, has been an uphill battle since we started branching out from a more ‘traditional’ roles i.e. housewives to working moms, to successful entrepreneurs.

We will always strive in the “Suit World” to be judged by our merit and not our gender. Sexism is generally publicly NOT tolerated but are there other issues?

@SarahScott has incredible insight on possible ageism that may exist; “Leadership amongst women is changing. As Generation X and Millennials are stepping up to set the role of new leadership that the baby boomer women defined in terms of corporate and career aspects. Formerly, I feel that many corporate female leaders had to be structured in the way they decided to pursue their career in previous times. They defied the odds, and with that, it took a toll on how they could lead. For some, the corporate female leaders of the baby boomer generation had to be more stern, less emotional, more competitive in order to get the jobs they demanded. And rightly so, hell it wasn’t even until the 70's women could open up their own credit cards, or file sexual harassment lawsuits. To the Baby Boomers, collaboration amongst other women in the workforce meant that at times (sadly) they were both vying for the same spot amongst male leadership. Thus, it instilled a less then open and collaborative work environment amongst women.”

Sarah continues, “Because of Baby Boomer women, we (Gen X, millennials, even centennials) are able to look around, evaluate our situation, and lead exactly how we want to lead, with emotion, with compassion, with collaboration and so much more. Blockchain technology is still in its infancy, so as women have taken it amongst themselves to lead, be outspoken, innovate, and become entrepreneurs. They are finding that collaborating amongst one another is the easiest way for us to bring other women into the fold. As women, we don’t think about just ourselves, we think about our community. Blockchain technology is literally redefining the world by decentralizing industries, allowing distribution of wealth, knowledge, goods, resources, to be given to the masses. Women belong in this space because we literally think on a mass level, beyond ourselves, just like the very blockchain technology that is unfolding. For decades we tried to lead like men have lead, but through blockchain technology we are now able to lead the way women have been meant to lead differently, and blockchain tech is empowering women across the world to harness all of that!”

Leadership is not structured in one way as it has been in the past. Thanks to blockchain technology women have the ability to use the business world as a means to redefine success for everyone. We are politely demanding social value systems change.
Official Statement Regarding Scam Email
By: Dana Harvey
Tags: Bitcoin

At approximately 12:48 CEST on May 30th, a fraudulent email was sent to many in our community. The subject line of the email was “RightMesh TGE is Live Now!”, and it appeared to be sent from RightMesh. The scam email included a wallet address for contributions to be sent to.

Thankfully, our community has been consistently warned of scam attempts and was well aware not to send funds to any address that was not listed within the Bitcoin Suisse portal. Unfortunately, we do know that some ETH has been sent to the fraudulent address contained within the email.

We are working hand-in-hand with Bitcoin Suisse, and at this time, we can confidently report there has been no breach of the Bitcoin Suisse systems.

TO CLARIFY, THERE HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY NO BREACH OF DATA FROM THE SIDE OF BITCOIN SUISSE OR BITCOIN SUISSE’S PLATFORM.

The wallet address for contributions has not changed, and it remains available ONLY through the Bitcoin Suisse platform to approved Whitelisted contributors.

To reiterate: RightMesh will NEVER publish a wallet address nor solicit funds via email, Twitter, Telegram, direct message, or any form of social media. Any attempt to do so will be a scam, even if it “appears” to be from RightMesh. Contributions will only be made through Bitcoin Suisse and the Bitcoin Suisse platform as previously announced.

DO NOT SEND FUNDS TO ADDRESSES WHICH YOU DID NOT RECEIVE ON THE BITCOIN SUISSE PLATFORM. THIS ADDRESS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO YOU AFTER LOGGING IN ON THE PLATFORM.

As our community’s data and privacy are of utmost importance, we are thoroughly investigating the source of the email. We will release more information and respond to questions once we have verifiable information to report.

Our Crowd Contribution is progressing well, and we are very grateful to the support of our community.

The RightMesh Team
Paul Simon at Ground Zero, “The Sound of Silence”
By: Edith Zimmerman
Tags: Paul Simon, Music

You probably caught this yesterday, but in case you missed it or would like to rewatch, here’s Paul Simon singing “The Sound of Silence” at the 9/11 Memorial.
The Giver
By: Mr.M, Muthu Raja
Tags: Short Story, Pentina, Relationships, Fiction, Microfiction

Microfiction — A 50 Word Short Story

The Giver

Why does he only take?

Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash

Missing my weekday office bus, I called for a cab. On my way, I remembered how we agreed breakfast is on him while I’d stir up elaborate dinners. He was conveniently sleeping, though.

Am I the only giver here?

My phone beeped at 8.30 AM.

It’s SUNDAY — Where are you?
The Secret
By: The Nonconformist Magazine
Tags: Poetry, Poem, Poetry On Medium, Poet

POETRY

The Secret

by Mark Niedzwiedz

Beyond the book ends of conversation

Well mannered, gentle in ebb and flow

Skeletons, holed-up in hard to reach cupboards

Laugh at their master’s voice

On the outside all seems middled

Straight lines with no kinks

Vanilla lives where only the garbage stinks

But not far from the guarded gates of insipia

Just below the waterline of words

There is ugliness, there are dirty hands

For we all bury secrets in the quiet of the night

Fearful of the day our deeds may come to light

For some, the secret is monstrous

A chamber of horrors, with no visitors bar a penitent priest

But for most of us the demon is benign

A wriggly, niggly thing without teeth or claws

Yet, we tremble, wait for the guilty finger to settle

And wide-eyed vultures to pick at our mettle

Till the unmentionable is mentioned, the hidden revealed

Then wives cry, sons disappoint, friends lower their eyes

But who is intact, who amongst can claim Lincoln’s truth

Or Jesus’ perfect divinity, not one of us

For we all bury secrets in the quiet of the night

Fearful of the day our deeds may come to light
Debugging a keystroke problem
By: Tudor Girba
Tags: Gtoolkit, Debugging, Development Process, Visualization, Development Tools

This is a typical story of moldable development. We build tools to expose problems before we tackle them. On the one hand, the tool investment pays off for each individual problem. On the other hand, these tools accumulate over time. In this case, we merely used the tool that we previously built.

The sum of all these custom tools leads to a new property in our systems: explainability.

Explainability is different than maintainability or evolvability. Explainability refers to our ability to explain a phenomenon in a way that both we and someone else can understand and relate to within minutes.

It’s hard to describe in words how working like this feels like.

We can easily talk about the measurable part of how quickly we can solve the bug. In this case, it took less than half an hour to understand the root of the problem and perhaps another half an hour to produce the fix for the problem. This is rather fast given that we are talking about the interaction of multiple low-level technologies.

But, the more interesting part comes from the less measurable part. From the way this feels. From the way it makes problems that would otherwise be out of reach become approachable. From knowing that any problem can be exposed elegantly. And from the confidence that it brings with it.
Definition of a Hack
By: Ryan J. Pelton
Tags: Creativity, Writer, Self-awareness, Writing, Writing Tips

Comedians will often call other comics: hacks. A hack comedian isn’t someone who lacks talent necessarily. Rather, a hack comic is someone who plays to the audience.

Now on the surface that doesn’t sound like a cardinal sin. Don’t writer’s play to the audience? Trying to write stories people will read and enjoy?

Yes, and no.

Finding an audience for your work doesn’t mean you have to sell out.

Hacks in the comedy world, or writing arena, are all about finding the lowest common denominator to get a laugh, or sell a book. They’re not hacky because they lack talent. Many of these men and woman are gifted.

Hacks are hacks because they don’t create work from the heart.

Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art, said Robert McKee defines a hack:

“… as someone who second-guesses his audience. When he sits down to work he doesn’t ask what’s in his heart. He asks what does the audience want?” (page 152)

That’s the key difference between the hack and non-hacks in our ranks. What do they think about when they get into their writing space?

More common features of a hack

1. Hacks write articles and books that are essentially click-bait, low hanging fruit, and not designed for gaining your 1000 True Fans.

2. Hacks research what’s hot in a market and try to emulate that authors success. Never truly writing something that moves their own soul. Something said in a style and perspective all their own.

3. Hacks love to talk about things they’ve never done, wrestled with, or experienced. Appearing to be experts while never having done the work.

4. Hacks create work that’s safe and middle of the road. Never wanting to push buttons or give a perspective that doesn’t fit into the mainstream of societal thought.

5. Hacks are scared of their audiences. They fear if they write anything controversial their audiences will leave. So instead of writing from an honest place they ask: what do you want from me? How can I meet your expectations?

6. Hacks write first for others, and secondly for themselves.

Now before this article comes off self righteous and high and mighty… I’m a hack.

We all are.

I’ve written the click-bait-thing to make a few bucks. Took the easy road. I’ve played it safe more times than I’d like to admit.

Get Off Hack-Road

Let’s not be hacks.

Can we first write for ourselves? Not for markets. Reader expectation.

Let’s write from the guts and for the fun and joy of it. The reason we write.

If we’re driving down Hack-Road, and trying to make a quick buck, let’s get off and reevaluate.

Write from the guts… you’ll be glad you did.
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By: The Emx Team
Tags: Futures Trading, Chinese, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bitcoin

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10 Best Cat Videos On Twitter This Christmas
By: Jay Krasnow
Tags: Cats, Pets, Humor, Holidays, Christmas

10 Best Cat Videos On Twitter This Christmas

Cats moonwalking, facing identity crises and weathering profanity take the holiday in purr-fect spirits.

Photo: Marko Blažević / Unsplash / Irrevocable, nonexclusive copyright to use & distribute for free

Just because you’re not a cat, doesn’t mean you can’t have a Merry Christmas. I compiled the 10 best cat videos from my Twitter feed that were posted during the Christmas holiday, and decided to share them with you.

Some of these cats are rambunctious, while others are just curious — and get themselves in trouble. All of them look like they’re enjoying the holiday season.

Which one is your favorite?

1. Cat Bath

There’s nothing like giving your cat a Christmas bath — and having him be such a good sport about it. No cat I ever had would have ever been so well-behaved!

Source: missenell Twitter page.

2. Cat Explorer

Some cats are more adventurous than others. It looks like this cat found a new part of the house that he never knew existed. I admire the cat for his, well, curiosity.

Source: BigPoppa Twitter page.

3. Meow Mix Cat

I’d be careful before offering the wrong cat Meow Mix. In this case, would have polled the cat on his interest in Meow Mix treats before offering them to him.

Source: WizardEli-Films Twitter page

4. Seal or Cat?

This cat had it sealed with the purr from the start. But is it a seal — or a cat?

Source: cats are liquid Twitter page

5. Moonwalking Cat

This cat is talented. I feel like Michael Jackson is here is spirit. That’s all I have to say.

Source: Cats Being Awkward Twitter page

6. Fish-Chasing Cat

I can tell this cat really wants the fish. I’m going to say a little holiday prayer for him, and maybe he will see a miracle.

Source: Cat Lovers Community

7. Dog Orgy

Who said that cats and dogs don’t get along?

Source: puppies Twitter page

8. Cat Beats Dog in Fight

On the other hand, this cat and dog definitely don’t get along — and the cat got the better of the dog.

Source: AmalShal27 Twitter page

9. It’s Not About The Cat

Somebody has a filthy mouth here, and it’s not the cat.

Source: Football Madness Twitter page

10. Cat Identity Crisis

Some cats get along with dogs. Other cats fight with dogs. This cat clearly as an identity crisis.
Weekly: New Blog, Product Hunt, KYC Guideline & Challenger Banks
Tags: Product Hunt, Startup, Financial Services, Weekly, Banking

Digital-only banks are taking the banking industry by storm, signing in thousands of young customers daily. We’ve looked into their services and tell you the pros and cons of the top 10 challenger banks in 2019.

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About Crypterium

Crypterium is leading fintech startup awarded by KPMG and H2Ventures. Our goal is to ensure anyone can store, send, exchange and spend digital currencies with the same ease as traditional money.

Crypterium is led by the former General Manager of Visa Central & Eastern Europe, Steven Parker, and C-level executives from global financial institutions like Renaissance Insurance, London Derivatives Exchange, American Express, etc.

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Waves to host open lecture by Vitalik Buterin in Moscow
By: Evelina Lavrova
Tags: Waves, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Vitalik Buterin, Blockchain

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum and Sasha Ivanov, Waves Platform

Waves will host an open lecture by Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, at 19:30 on 11 April 2017 at the Digital October Center in Moscow.

Vitalik Buterin is the founder of the Ethereum project, an idea for ​​which he won the World Technology Award in 2014 — bypassing Mark Zuckerberg and other contenders. “When Vitalik talks about the blockchain, Stanford professors take out their notebooks and start writing”, as Herman Gref, head of Sberbank, told the forum in Davos.

Having learned about bitcoin from his father, also a developer, Vitalik decided to create his own blockchain and cryptocurrency. In 2011, Buterin and his friends founded the Bitcoin Magazine. In 2013, the first line of Ethereum was written. Leaving the Canadian University of Waterloo in the same year, Vitalik managed to secure his first grant of $100,000 from the founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel. Ethereum later broke the world record for raising money through crowdfunding, selling 31,000 bitcoins worth of “Ether” ($18.5 million). The platform was launched in 2015 and the market capitalisation of Ethereum is now around $4 billion, while Ether’s cryptocurrency (ETH) ranks second after only bitcoin. On 17 March 2017, the price of Ethereum reached a historic new high against the dollar, hitting $50 on the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange. To date around 210 startups are already running on Ethereum.

At the beginning of the event Sasha Ivanov, founder of the Waves Platform, and Maria Popova, curator of the Digital October Center, will give a welcome speech. The meeting with Vitalik Buterin will take the form of an open question-and-answer session.

The event is hosted by the Waves Platform which, in collaboration with the Digital October Education Center, regularly holds educational courses about blockchain. The next course offered by Sasha Ivanov, founder of the Waves Platform, will be held on April 22 and 23. For more details visit http://edu.digitaloctober.ru/courses/blockchain-weekend/



Online translation will be available at http://digitaloctober.ru. To register, visit https://digitaloctober.timepad.ru/event/473323/
#48: Part 3 The Great Gestation
By: Kelly Mcquade-W.
Tags: Education, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Investing, Blockchain

Featuring Miko Matsumura

Listen Now

Show Notes

In claiming the summer of 2018 as the Great Gestation, new terms and phrases arose in these interviews and I got seriously scared of what decentralization feels like. In Part 1, Rebekah coins “access equality” and “decentralized success” in the closing episode here Miko coins “consensus currencies” and tells the story of what might the original decentralized currency in the stone age.

Transcript

Coming Soon.
|| The Backbone Of Generosity ||
By: Tālib Al Ilm, An Epistemophile
Tags: Islam, Anecdotes, Generosity, Advice, Muslim

Hazrat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (rahmatullahi ‘alaih) mentioned:

Generally, people have this concern that if they spend a great sum of money, how will they recover it? When we are contented and have placed our reliance on the King of kings, the One Who possesses the treasures to everything, (as He has mentioned): “Most certainly the treasures of everything is by Us,” this is the highest form of confidence.

The reason is that a miserly person is always plagued by irrational thoughts. “If I am to give my wealth to another person, I will have nothing left. This is my requirement. If I am in need, where will I get it? Even if I pursue a business venture, will I be able to acquire it or not? Will I be successful or not?”

All these absurd thoughts trouble the mind. However, if this person were to place his total reliance on Allah Ta‘ala, He being the One Who had initially given it to him and He will give it to him again, then to part with this wealth will not be a problem. An individual will be at great ease irrespective of whether he has the wealth or not. He will tell himself, “If it is not in my possession, it is certainly in Allah Ta‘ala’s treasure. And He has promised to give it to me. If He is the giver, why should I be overcome with anxiety?”

(Discourses of Faqeeh-ul-Ummah Hazrat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi, vol. 1, pg. 18)

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Fear of the New Year
By: Gaston King
Tags: Light, Positivity, Poetry, Scrittura, New Year

Fear of the New Year

It’s time to lead with the light of unity

Photo by Michaela on Unsplash

A dim street lamp holds the wisdom of thousands.

Those who have passed by, passed out and passed on.

Awareness becomes knowledge, and the fading light has the mental capacity of an elephant.

Never forgetting, always reminiscing.

Remembering the broken riots in the street, those filled with hate and fear for their future.

And recalling the hidden threats made from monstrous men to ladies in the night.

To the lonely barren nights of lockdown, no one to receive the light the lamp gives.

These resonate like clockwork as the many hours of the day disappear in the darkness of night.

A new page must be flipped, a new bulb installed,

In order to truly enlighten the hearts for a new year.

Responsibility must be acquired and shared as a late Christmas present.

This will birth the ability to wave our negligent past year goodbye.

Hope has begun to fade in the lamp as the blinking soon turns to black.

Waiting and hoping for a hired hand to revive the hope of illumination.

Jobs newly provided, corporate bonds broken, and those who choose to stand, begin to rise.

A latter for one stands alongside the luminescent as the glass slowly shifts.

Trades to be made, communications rewired, and newfound trust is created.

The street lamp shines as a beacon, one of hopeful stability others may grow to rely on.

The woman bares her hard hat and carefully steps down with last year’s bulb in hand.

Recalling what all transpired, a slight smirk escapes as she gazes up at the bright future.

© Gaston King, all rights reserved.
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Klaviyo Design Podcast EP 17 • Working with Engineering
By: Guilherme Schmitt
Tags: Software Development, Design Process, Podcast, Web Development, Product Engineering

What is the role of an Engineer?

In the second episode of the “Working with X” series, we interview engineers Noah Durell and Jordan Griffin on how development has evolved, the challenges of collaborating via lines of code, and the thrill of finding solutions to hard problems. We also dive into how engineering and design relations should unfold for an outcome that works for everyone.

In this episode:

📆 What does a typical day in the life of a Product Engineering look like?

🎓 How can someone find out if Engineering is the right career path for them?

🔤 Collaboration between developers and writing consistent code

✍️ Collaborating with designers

👩‍💻 Wrong misconceptions from popular culture about the role of a developer

🆕 Understanding tech trends and how to stay updated as a developer

🧰 When to adopt new tools

💼 Hiring process / how do you know that someone can code?

✨ Recommendations ✨
Algorithms are Always Working to Predict your Soulmate
By: Taylor Foreman
Tags: Creativity, Short Story, Life Lessons, Fiction, Written Tales

A story about an app that predicts your soulmate with 99.99% accuracy

Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash

“Ayahuasca is like strapping a Wile E. Coyote rocket to your back, covering your ears, and hoping for the best.”

A man lifts his head from a book, just having read this quote. He takes a deep, anxious breath. His legs ache and his skin itches from insect bites. The jungle makes a chorus of sound.

“Are you sure I’m ready for this?” He asks the native man who is meditating near him.

The man winks an eye open happily. “You’ve trekked a long way, my friend. That alone makes you ready. Nervous?”

“Yeah,” he says. He rubs the left side of his chest. “I’m feeling heart-attack-y.”

The peaceful man laughs. “That’s a good one. You are funny.”

“Honestly not trying to be,” says the aging millennial man. “I don’t know if I should do this.”

The peaceful man crawls closer to him. “Did I tell you that I was addicted to heroin before I came here?”

“You didn’t tell me, but I read about you online. That’s why I came here. Your story is an inspiration, man.”

“Everyone who comes here is looking for answers,” he says, putting a hand on his back. “What answer are you looking for?”

“Why am I so afraid? What do I keep failing at everything? Why don’t I have a soulmate?” He glances at his Apple Watch, which is endlessly updating his neurological profile via the chip in his brain. It takes that profile and searches the planet for a romantic match. 99.9999% accurate, last he checked. “Soulmate matches: 0…” it reads, just as it always reads.

“One thing at a time,” the peaceful man says, chuckling. “You don’t want to overload the spirits.”

The man groans.

“I’m just kidding!” Says the mystical man. “Tell me, which of these questions is at the root of all your other questions?”

The aging millennial rubs his face. “I don’t know. I mostly want a soulmate.”

“OK, but what is holding you back from that?”

“The fact that I don’t have a soulmate match.”

“OK, what is stopping it from finding you a match?”

The man sighs. “Because I’m afraid of everything. I wouldn’t want to be my soulmate.”

“OK! And why are you afraid of everything?”

He thinks for a while. “I don’t know.”

“Perfect,” says the mystic. “There’s your question for the medicine.”

“Why am I afraid of everything?” he phrases out loud.

The man nods profoundly. “That’s the one. Go in and humbly ask. You may not like the answer, but you will find out.”
Cold Case: Rebecca Ann Looney
By: Ashley Kay
Tags: True Crime, Politics, Crime, Feminism, Women

Cold Case: Rebecca Ann Looney

Found dead on November 29, 2009.

Rebecca Ann Looney. Image from Facebook

At around 2:20 am on November 29, 2009, police responded to an emergency call at a Dollar General parking lot in Memphis, Tennessee. When they arrived they found 27-year-old Rebecca Ann Looney lying on the ground, unresponsive from a gunshot wound. Authorities pronounced her dead at the scene.

Police say the motive behind Rebecca’s murder remains unknown, and as of now no arrests have been made.

“We know several hours before she was found, she was dropped off nearby by a friend. Investigators have talked with the friend,” said MPD Maj. Jeff Polk (Source: Janice Broach, Memphis police still searching for suspect in parking lot murder).

Rebecca Ann Looney with friends. Image from Facebook

Rebecca had a sister named Dasha Looney, and two brothers, Michael and David Looney. She and her family were members of the Barton Baptist Church. Family says that at the time of her murder, she was slowly changing her life by attending Narcotics Anonymous groups and GED classes, and had new goals of becoming a beautician. She is described by people on Facebook as sweet and having a big heart.

“I got the phone call Sunday that said someone needed to talk with me about my sister,” said Michael Looney. He says his sister had problems with drugs and had several arrests for prostitution. “My sister didn’t deserve that no matter what circumstances, no matter what lifestyle she lives. She didn’t deserve that,” he said (Source: Janice Broach, Memphis police still searching for suspect in parking lot murder).

If you have any information on the murder of Rebecca Ann Looney, please contact the Memphis Police Department at (901)545–2677.
Let them shine
By: Joseph Emmi
Tags: Life, Entrepreneurship, Music, Growth, Business

Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to see Roger Waters live in concert for the third time. It was an experience, as always.

If there’s something that characterised Pink Floyd along the years, was the spectacularity of their shows, and a lot of that has always attributed to Roger Waters, making his solo shows not an exception. Great visuals, imposing staging, and of course, a group of incredibly talented musicians; all this in conjunction to his trademarked theatricality, protest, activism and controversy. Just what you would expect from the legendary rock star that contributed to the creation of some of the most iconic albums ever produced.

However, despite all his legacy, reputation and stardom, the show is not just about him, as matter of fact, he doesn’t even sing in all the songs. Just like bak on the Pink Floyd days, David Gilmour was the responsible for a great amount of the vocals, and Waters still sticking to this, having a person to do all of David’s parts. He also has a magnificent guitar player that will make himself impossible to miss, not only due to the perpetual presence of this instrument throughout Pink Floyd’s catalogue (which Waters performances significantly) but due to his astonishing virtue.

Moreover, there’s a plethora of other instruments and sounds that are played along the show as the night progressed. Keyboards, synthesisers, drums, saxophones; each one of them having its time and space, with those performing playing different roles at different scale, but all necessary.

Even support singers, who’s important and harmonic part can go totally unnoticed in many other shows, here they were at the core. A hypnotic duo that was not there just to sing on the back of Roger, but side by side with him, and some times for him, all by themselves.
JUST IN: ZeroBank exceeded the SOFTCAP
By: Zerobank - Your Local Currency
Tags: Token Sale, Presale, Preico, Blockchain, Whitelist

We are more than happy to announce that 125,000,000 ZB tokens have been sold to our Angel Investors and through private deals! ZeroBank’s token sale officially exceeded our SOFTCAP.

Thank you for your support and belief in the work we’re passionate about.

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Ditto 2017 Cryptocurrency Public Knowledge Report
By: Steven Melfi
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Communication, Bitcoin, Fintech

Ditto 2017 Cryptocurrency Public Knowledge Report

There’s a lot of Education Needed

You can’t turn on the news without seeing a story about cryptocurrencies these days. As an office though, we’ve all found that when we try to have conversations with people who aren’t following the space it’s like we’re speaking another language or discussing quantum physics.

Since we work with a lot of crypto and blockchain companies, we wanted to better understand exactly what people know (or don’t know) about the space. With that in mind, we fielded a survey in early November of 500 Americans and the results in the interactive infographic below were quite interesting.

What we found was that there’s a lot of work still needed to educate people on this relatively young and thriving space. There is a great opportunity for companies to step up and shape how the public thinks about crypto and blockchain moving forward.

From a PR standpoint, this benchmark also allows us to better craft messaging for clients and help them explain what they do to the public (and even reporters).

So, how well do you know your crypto?
COVID Christmas
By: Brenda Mahler
Tags: Faces Of Covid, Poetry, Covid 19, Reflections, Coronavirus

With a desire to connect faces to this insidious disease, people where asked to participate in a project. Everyone who participated were asked the same questions and their responses developed into poems sharing their experiences.

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When it comes to the environment, our economic system is hindering real progress
By: Nigel Jones
Tags: Capitalism, Extinction, Sustainability, Business, Environment

In the 1970s, I began to understand the depths of the problem western societies face. Ever since, I have been trying to find the ways we must live in order to live sustainably. For quite prolonged periods of time, I have also tried to live in such ways: to honour and regenerate the living world, rather than exploit and deplete it. This has involved living in various communities, altering my diet, being cold in the winter, requiring very little space and few possessions, planting and growing, caring for wildlife and habitats, reusing and recycling, making and mending; generally making the smallest demands possible.

At other times, I have found myself very short of cash, dissatisfied with the relationships I found myself in in those situations, and feeling at a loss watching others enjoy luxuries that I was denying myself. At times like those, I have dusted off my suit and CV, got myself a job and joined the rat-race again to make up what felt like lost ground.

Activists are campaigning for a more just world, one where the climate and the living environment for billions of humans, and trillions of sentient others, is not being quietly murdered to feed our wealth, luxury and consumption. The movement, the awareness and the strength of feeling is growing by the month, by the year. Eventually the dam may burst. Those trying to make just a bit more profit while they can, turning a blind eye to the destruction, the dispossessed and the downtrodden, may be brought up short.

But, they say, we need them and their industries. Without their chemicals, the wildlife would eat all the crops. Without their walls and guns, we’d be overrun with criminals and terrorists. Without their global operations, we’d have none of the things we need every day.

It’s a whole structure. I’m not interested in making their business models sustainable, I want to see life flourishing and thriving in ways that have worked for billions of years, and which are currently being snuffed out one by one.

Mass extinction should not be a price that life has to pay to maintain stock prices and shareholder value.

But if we started to succeed, if we could find that loose brick at the bottom of the whole Jenga tower and pull it out, it is very likely that the whole thing would collapse. Could we cope with that?

This article first appeared in the Jersey Evening Post on 24 January 2018
Do I regret going into computer science?
By: J M Jackson
Tags: Life Lessons, Education, Computers, Programming, Computer Science

Do I regret going into computer science?

An answer to a question on Quora

I am stimulated by the concepts in computing and programming. That said, I do not view myself as a computer scientist, even though I attained a 1:1 Computer Science degree almost a decade ago.

While studying at university, I taught myself to program for the web using PHP & MySQL. I built (pretty awful) websites in my bedroom. Made some half-decent passive income from them.

What do I do now? I teach various computing and web subjects at university. I am involved in a web technology startup for the movie industry. I help out friends with their websites for no charge and give advice to help people avoid the pitfalls of the web.

Could I hold down a full-time job in the computing field? Nope. Could I hold down a full-time job in any field? Probably not. This was the case ten years ago and it’s still the case now.

I always enjoyed programming because it affords the opportunity to build things, to create. Code can be art.

But I also write fiction.

Turns out I’m more of an artist than I realised. Or, rather, I have felt a growing need for artistic expression, hence the fiction writing.

I also enjoy helping people, hence the teaching.

So when I think about “going into” computer science, I don’t view it as a final destination. I feel as though I have reached where I am now by travelling through computer science. And the journey will continue to places unknown, I am sure.

So, in short, no I do not regret going into computer science. It has enabled me to do many things that I enjoy today. It has not restricted me in any way, but rather has given me the freedom to explore and enjoy many different areas of my personal and professional life.
Ombudscycle World: Children's ombudsman Russia stop Covid19
By: Jiska Hachmer
Tags: Ombudscycle, Covid-19, Russia, Monastery, Religion

You can work on finding all the science from around the world during Covid19.

This example, shows what we all face, should we violate the human rights of religion? Well, we cannot violate all people's rights, thus we cannot give the wrong information. It needs to be the child's true own choices, in the extension of the home, without force, influencing, interfering. So, they need to learn at home who they are and what they want, and should get that will done.

Thus it needs a lot of studies, to interpret this correctly, and to interpret each child correctly, without downgrading, without losing the acceptance of their competence. As they are competent, by law, and at all times.
Who Has Asked About Whom, Including Greinke’s Phone Suitor
By: The Brewer Nation
Tags: Francisco Rodriguez, Players, Trades, George Kottaras, Rumors

I don’t know, nor will I come close knowing, all the teams that will inquire about players currently on the Brewers roster.

I will follow along the rumors on the internet as best I can from the people that make money to spend time chasing down leads. I will relay that information to you as quickly as I can.

But from time to time I’ll also hear stuff on my own. I’m here right now to offer some of that.

For example, the Angels have called on Greinke, but they also have talked to Milwaukee about Corey Hart and George Kottaras.

Speaking of the Greek column, Kottaras has also had interest shown in him by the Mets and Indians. Probably others have inquired that I don’t know about, but I do know about them.

Furthermore, the Orioles, Tigers, and Giants have all picked up the phone to check on the availability Hart.

As for the Giants, it was reported that they asked about Francisco Rodriguez but I have a hard time imagining they’re still interested after the Phillies series.

There were rumors that the Yankees might inquire about Aramis Ramirez but as far as as I could find out, that conversation hasn’t taken place. At least not yet.

Zack Greinke, of course, is the hottest chip on the market for Milwaukee right now. He’s been linked to numerous suitors including one who kept Doug Melvin on the phone for “over an hour” trying to come up with creative offers. Nothing pending, at least as of a couple of hours ago, with them though.

What’s that? You want to know who bent the Brewers’ ear that long? Okay fine. It was the White Sox.

Many people don’t feel that they have enough of a system to get a deal done straight up with Milwaukee but they are said to covet Greinke badly. And if there’s one thing Kenny Williams is, it’s creative.

Stay tuned!
Writing Better GET Requests With TDD in JavaScript
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Jest, Programming, Test Driven Development

Writing Basic Test and Class Object

Lets get started by writing some test. lets assume our ApiManager class needs to be instantiated with some url and out apiManagerInstance has a property named url to be instantiated with constructor.

import ApiManager from "./ApiManager"; describe('ApiManager Construction test', () => {



const mockURL = "https://mockurl.com"; //

let instance = new ApiManager(mockURL);



it("instance url property set properly",()=>{

expect(instance.url).toEqual(mockURL)

}) })

Test will obviously fails because we have nothing in ApiManager.js.

Let’s write code to pass the test in ApiManager.js.

export default class ApiManager{



constructor(url){

this.url = url

} }

Now our test is passing and its time to refactor the actual implementation. Seems everything is fine. So nothing to refactor.
Behind the Scenes for FashionOne
By: Anna Mischke
Tags: Fashion, Music, Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Personal

Equal parts magic and tragic, musings from someone who still feels like they’re 12. But definitely are not.

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Music by Month: 10 Select Albums From July 2018
By: Stefan Wenger
Tags: Album Review, Music, Review, Indie, Album

Dirty Projectors, Lamp Lit Prose

Leave it to David Longstreth and company to take their already challenging and experimental sound to new heights and still make it danceable. Seemingly unrelatable patches of guitar, brass and electronic sounds are patched together more smoothly than should really be possible and even when the music isn’t easily understood, it’s effortlessly felt. The Projectors have certainly achieved that before but never kept it up for an entire album. It’s also a huge step up from last year’s eponymous offering, which bitterly chronicled Longstreth’s breakup with bandmate Amber Coffman, without sporting the musical chops you’d expect from the Projectors. While Coffman’s voice is missed on Lamp Lit Prose, Longstreth makes up for it with some of his most vivid and consistent work on this surprisingly joyful bounceback. Highlights: “I Feel Energy,” “Zombie Conqueror,” “Break-thru”
Highest Trader Kaun Marathon for FTT/USDT
By: Wazirx Bitcoin Exchange
Tags: Trading, Cryptocurrency Investment, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Contests

Namaste Tribe! With FTX token (FTT) listing announcement, we’d promised you that contests are coming soon, so here you go! We’re running a Highest Trader Kaun Marathon tomorrow, 8th May and 9th May 2020.

We’re giving away ₹3,80,000 worth FTT in Highest Trader Kaun Marathon! Share this

How can I participate?

Winners will be decided on the basis of the volume and number of FTT traded in our USDT market. Here’s how to qualify:

For volume of trades: Minimum trade volume of ₹5,000 worth of FTT each day

For number of trades: Minimum 50 trades each day

You can participate and win on both days 🙌

When is the contest?

Friday, 8th May: 9 AM — 9 PM IST

Saturday, 9th May: 9 AM — 9 PM IST

Click here to invite your friends to participate!

What’s the bounty 💰

For volume of trades on each day:

For the highest volume of trades: 168.43 FTT (worth ₹40,000)

volume of trades: 168.43 FTT (worth ₹40,000) For the 2nd highest volume of trades: 105.27 FTT (worth ₹25,000)

volume of trades: 105.27 FTT (worth ₹25,000) For the 3rd highest volume of trades: 75.79 FTT (worth ₹18,000)

volume of trades: 75.79 FTT (worth ₹18,000) For the 4th highest volume of trades: 50.53 FTT (worth ₹12,000)

volume of trades: 50.53 FTT (worth ₹12,000) For the 5th highest volume of trades: 33.68 FTT (worth ₹8,000)

volume of trades: 33.68 FTT (worth ₹8,000) For each of the next top 10 highest volume of trades: 8.42 FTT (worth ₹2,000)

highest volume of trades: 8.42 FTT (worth ₹2,000) For each of the next top 10 highest volume of trades: 4.21 FTT (worth ₹1,000)

Total bounty for volume of trades is ₹2,66,000 worth FTT

For the number of trades on each day:

For the highest number of trades: 50.53 FTT (worth ₹12,000)

number of trades: 50.53 FTT (worth ₹12,000) For the 2nd highest number of trades: 42.10 FTT (worth ₹10,000)

number of trades: 42.10 FTT (worth ₹10,000) For the 3rd highest number of trades: 29.47 FTT (worth ₹7,000)

number of trades: 29.47 FTT (worth ₹7,000) For the 4th highest number of trades: 21.05 FTT (worth ₹5,000)

number of trades: 21.05 FTT (worth ₹5,000) For the 5th highest number of trades: 12.63 FTT (worth ₹3,000)

number of trades: 12.63 FTT (worth ₹3,000) For each of the next top 10 highest number of trades: 4.63 FTT (worth ₹1,100)

highest number of trades: 4.63 FTT (worth ₹1,100) For each of the next top 10 highest number of trades: 3.78 FTT (worth ₹900)

Total bounty for number of trades is ₹1,14,000 worth FTT

Note: Each day, you can qualify for only one category of bounty (volume or number) whichever has a higher value. For example, if you’re the 2nd highest trader in terms of number, and 2nd highest in terms of volume, then you’ll get bounty for the “volume”. Also, self-trading is not allowed.

Don’t forget to take advantage of the contest leaderboard, trade smartly and win!

Happy Trading!
All Lives Matter, as Long as They Look Like Yours
By: Chloe Cuthbert
Tags: Self Improvement, BlackLivesMatter, Society, Equality, Race

Black Lives are constantly in danger. As a white woman, I don’t have to fear for my life if I’m pulled over by the police, even if I’ve committed a traffic violation. It’s unlikely I’ll be asked to step out of my vehicle.

In general, I’ll be inconvenienced for 30 minutes or so and allowed to go on with my life until I’m required to appear in court, or pay my ticket.

Only once in my life have I even been asked where I was going or why I was in a certain area. Do you know why, besides the fact of my skin color? According to the cop, I was in a ‘dangerous’ part of town and he was concerned for my safety.

Surprise, surprise, I was driving through what’s considered the Black part of town.

The police officer was bothered more by the fact that I was there to pick up a friend than anything. He ended up citing me for multiple, petty items, simply because I didn’t play into his narrative.
But I do not have stars on my body
By: Vaishali Paliwal
Tags: Poetry, Art, Culture, Bodyshamerebellion, Body Image

But I do not have stars on my body

Naked love

Dynamism of a Human Body by Umberto Boccioni 1913. Public Domain

there are stars on her body

i say to myself

one day i will have stars on

my body.

one day i will have stars on

my body.

and my lover will find me

past the white sheet i

envelope my flesh in.

the white sheet i envelope

my flesh in

drags on the floor to my exit

away from the light

of his eyes. my shy feet are

so beautiful i think.

tender to all the nights

of electricity fleeing away,

fleeing away from the man

who knows

my skin.

my shy feet

are so beautiful i think.

my hands

so playful,

my lips

lush skies of saturated red,

my hair

so engrossed with its beauty

of rivers and rivers of

a raven feather.

but i do not have stars on

my body.

and my white sheet runs

deep.

my lover’s room is a sun

drenched territory

and i am his naked lover

looking for her stars

in the dark.

~

Vaishali Paliwal