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When Does More Become Too Much?
By: Kelley C. Long
Tags: Money, Design, Happiness

If you just picked up on the concept of hygge, you’re behind. The newer design trend is called Lagom, which is the Scandinavian concept of having just enough, as in a sufficient, perfect amount. Kind of like a Goldilocks concept — it’s juuuuust right.

Lagom isn’t quite minimalism, but it’s also not having a back-up coffee maker like many of my friends’ parents tend to have in their basement. I think it applies just as much to money as it does to designing a trendy home. As a society we have an obsession with more, but many are starting to realize that more is not always better.

More stuff does not equal more happiness

As I contemplated this trend (which would be a struggle for me to personally embrace, as I love a cozy home), I was reminded of an interview I watched several years ago with Tom Shadyac, the filmmaker behind the documentary “I AM,” but also the director of films like “Liar, Liar” and “Bruce Almighty.” He said something that really struck me about the excess he had accumulated during those successful years.

He said, “I was standing in the house that my culture had taught me was a measure of the good life, and I was struck with one very clear, very strange feeling: I was no happier.”

He went on, “I had a full-time housekeeper, I had a full-time gardener, I had a landscape architect, … I had a house manager, a business manager, a money manager, a career manager. I needed a manager for my managers.” He had tapped out on the more equals happier scale.

The trouble with always wanting more is that eventually it gets to be too much.

The Universe says that great joy leads to great abundance but that this is not true in reverse. I fully believe that — we can get so caught up in making sure we have an abundance of stuff or money, but that doesn’t lead to joy. However, when we pursue joy for the sake of pure joy, we often find that the things we really need are there in abundance anyway.

Lagom = more joy?

How much of our focus in life is about accumulating more? More money, more clothes, more toys, more square footage, more likes. But do we ever stop to consider whether the moremoremore is bringing more happiness? Often it just brings more obligations that cancel out any added enjoyment.

Breaking the cycle

The next time you find yourself caught up in the cycle of wishing for more and therefore not enjoying the current enough, stop to consider whether the added responsibility of more will be worth it. You may just find that enough is enough. And that wouldn’t be such a bad thing now, would it?
Sunshine Today…
By: Terry Trueman
Tags: Music, Contentment, Humor, Poetry, Chainsaw Killers

Sunshine Today…

A brief meditation on satisfaction, contentment, & the significance of the absence of a guy in a hockey mask chasing us with a chainsaw . . .

Image courtesy of author’s pics

Sunshine today

and just yesterday

we worked out

to The Beatles

Revolver Album,

in vinyl, of course

(because we’re just

THAT cool.)

And the first song

on Side Two,

Good Day Sunshine,

coincidence?

Image courtesy of I.J. Portwine, Unsplash

Well,

actually,

yes, probably so,

as much as any

and all things

are coincidental.

Wait!!

Suddenly a terrible BOOMING

and now a guy in a hockey mask

with a chainsaw chasing

people who are

running around screaming

across our back yard!!!

Sorry.

It just felt to me that for some of you

a simple accounting

of sunshine

and contentment,

and a soft retreat

from all the hustle and slams in life

wouldn’t be enough…

On second thought, though,

good day sunshine.

In the end,

isn’t that more than enough?

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Wikipedia & Encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Trueman

Most of my books can be found on Amazon, of course and at some other places, like LatahBooks.com

The poem Sunshine today can be found in:
Aloe Vera Ice Cubes for Soothing Sunburn Relief
Tags: Wellness, Health, Republished, Paleo, Skincare

Aloe Vera Ice Cubes for Soothing Sunburn Relief

By: Courtney Hamilton

Have you ever spent an afternoon on the beach only to be left with a searing, stinging red reminder of that day? Sunburn, a radiation burn that results from overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, makes for a brutal end to a good day.

Enter aloe vera gel — a soothing ointment that’s been used since ancient times as a treatment for everything from skin disorders to epilepsy (1). You can buy it bottled, but the bright green stuff in the drug store is a far cry from the original plant. Besides, homemade aloe vera gel is extremely easy to make at home. If you’re lucky enough to have an aloe vera plant — a type of succulent — in your yard, you can chop leaves directly from the source. If not, many ethnic markets or natural markets carry the leaves for fairly cheap.

While aloe vera can be consumed to help with a variety of ailments, our focus today is treating the skin. Aloe vera gel has been shown to soothe the effects of overexposure to sun, and aloe vera helps generate an antioxidant protein in the skin — metallothionein — which then combats the effect of hydroxl radicals (2). It’s also been shown to have anti-inflammatory, anti-acne, moisturizing and anti-aging effects.

With aloe vera’s healing properties in mind, how do we boost the relief aloe vera provides after a long day in the sun? Freeze it. When your skin is radiating heat, counteract that burn with these refreshing aloe vera cubes. Be a super mom and have these stored in the freezer ready to go after your kids are outside all day, or just prep a batch the night before your morning hike. The cute, pineapple shaped ice cube molds are optional (you can get them on Amazon), but highly recommended.

Aloe Vera Ice Cubes Recipe

Total time: 3 hrs, 20 minutes

Serves: 2 trays

Cook Time: 3 hrs

Prep Time: 20 mins

When your skin is radiating heat, counteract the burn with these refreshing aloe vera cubes.

Ingredients

Gel from 2 aloe vera leaves

½ cup water

Instructions
Freedom, Aliveness and Love in the Akashic Records
By: Aingeal Rose
Tags: Consciousness, Akashic Records, Freedom, Aliveness, Life

Revs Aingeal Rose and Ahonu are the Twin Flame authors and publishers of 100 books sharing their 60-year journey of consciousness to help you grow in awareness.

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How doing nothing is the best remedy to escape normality
By: Himalaya Goswami
Tags: Creativity, Love, Writing, Mindfulness, Mind

simple drawing with a million teachings.

Who am I? Where do I come from? Why am I here? Where do I go to?

are some of the questions I have been asking myself for quite a long time. Amidst my engineering and common Indian pressure of a secure job/life, I pursued my search for answers with complete enthusiasm.

And by that, I mean traveling alone, reading, and writing. In my four years of college in Uttarakhand (a state in India), I climbed mountains, crossed valleys by foot, consumed nothing for days except tea and one single thought: Why am I in pain?

And the pain? I was grieving the loss of myself as a result of the loss of someone I love. And trust me, surviving break-ups is tougher than breaking the mountain if you loved them strongly. Surviving break-ups needs an entirely different branch of medical science and doctors because it isn’t at all like organ damage. this pain can go on forever, even after death.

but that’s okay. as long as you have breaths in your lungs, you keep going. You keep going until you either fall off, never to get up again, or you fall down, to rise once again. And a break-up made me realize I will eventually lose everyone. So, there’s no point crying about spilled guineas.

What came to me as a realization of the vastness of this world, and how anything is that is imaginable in this world is possible. all the probabilities are probable, and all the impossibilities of the universe are crumpled every day. It made me realize how I am part of a whole cosmic system involving galaxies and moons and oceans and trees, and all the other humans.

And then, the anger was gone. And so was my personality.

yes, I lost my personality, my own sense of who I was, or who I should be. I got dis-identified with many ideas, one of them being the idea of suffering upon loss. This dissolution bought many other powers as well, such as it boosted my creativity (and I have completed an epic fantasy novel that’ll become India’s 1st fantasy sci-fiction series), i have unleashed my passion to build great stuff that other people can use, and have realized that all the time I spend talking or thinking about my work is the time I waste not doing it.

Experience is the key, folks. Electromagnetism drives the universe, and we live surrounded by an electrical field generated by our own heart. So, once I started feeling differently, my reality got instantly shifted to a new dimension that resonated with my feelings.

Outward changes require time. Inward changes require only a moment. And all of this happened because I did nothing. I literally did nothing except writing. I had no job, but I earned more than my mates working from home. I always came across good people, the world, all of a sudden, became gentler and respectful to me as if it was bowing at me.

And all of this happened because of my attention toward my own thoughts. I will end this post with a simple question: If you could send a letter to your younger self, what would you write in just 2–3 words?

I would write, Question Everything.
Written Tales Weekly, Nov. 3rd.
Tags: Wt Letters, Writing, Poetry, Fiction, Short Story

Will This Carry On..: Are you there or is it just a dream

by Sahil kumar..

Loving Yourself: Sex after trauma

by Tara writes

Built Temple to Our Better Selves: It’s the people’s place

by Aikya Param

No one: A Poem

by Utkarsh

Consolation: Now that I have closed every door of the city of fidelity with my own hands and thrown every single key in them into the cold green wavy…

by AK (Aaska Aejaz)

An Unsuccessful Writing Process: Poem

by Vinitha Dileep

Looking back (then turning to the present): ‘Flying above’ — dissociation

by Tara writes

A Timeless Virtue: “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life, is the foundation for all abundance.” — Eckhart Tolle

by Josh Balerite Acol
User Experience as a Process
By: Salman Habib
Tags: User Experience, User Research, Psychology, New York, UX

When we talk about user experience, we mostly think about mobile applications, websites and product design. Two days ago I was with my team we were discussing that how we can improve our team work and coordination within team. We discussed a lot of working process, for example six sigma, agile, waterfall and many more. But what I was thinking that most of us forget or don't know about User Experince.

I think every individual or company who providing their services or selling their products to user or even they are supervising people, everybody needs to lear and understand user experience as a process within their working capacity. “ User experience is god of all working processes”

If a marketing manger is thinking about new marketing strategies I think first of all he/her has to learn user experience then he/her can make better strategies. Even a CEO or Head needs to learn user experience because he /her supervising some people. He needs to understand problems of people who are working under him/her.

What I am trying to say that we have to understand the importance of user experience in our daily life. If I am not wrong whole world is user experience, everyone is user of everyone.
nSPV: Komodo’s Next Generation EditSimply Payment Verification (SPV) Tech
By: Komodo Platform
Tags: Blockchain

Cryptocurrencies are powered by blockchain technology which, just like any other software, boils down to data. When you send or receive coins or tokens, small amounts of data are being created that only your private key can access.

Over time, as blockchain technology becomes more popular and more people start using cryptocurrency, the amount of data in the blockchain grows. At some point, this leads to a bottleneck.

Traditionally, Simple Payment Verification (SPV), which was outlined in Section 8 of Satoshi Nakamoto’s original Bitcoin white paper, has been the solution to this inevitable data bottleneck. However, SPV itself is a limited solution, as it, too, will eventually reach a point where it requires an excessive amount of data. Current implementations of SPV are also resource intensive, prohibiting integration to small devices and preventing compatibility with the internet of things.

Komodo’s Lead Developer James ‘jl777’ Lee recently developed a new superlight client technology called nSPV. It is hundreds of times more efficient than traditional SPV methods. This new nSPV technology is more secure than ordinary SPV and so efficient that even tiny electronic devices can run blockchain clients, opening up the door for mass adoption of blockchain technology through the internet of things.

Downloading An Entire Blockchain: “Full Seed Nodes”

When Bitcoin was first created in early 2009, anyone who wanted to receive or send BTC had to download the entire blockchain to their computer. This meant that each user’s computer had to download the entire ledger, including every address, transaction, and block in the whole chain.
The Practicality Behind Accepting Things You Cannot Change
By: Anthony Boyd
Tags: Productivity, Leadership, Self, Self Improvement, Education

In the book “The Law Of Attraction” by Esther and Jerry Hicks, accepting things you cannot change is called “the art of allowing” which says that you should allow people to choose what they want while you go your own way or else you’ll make what they’re choosing your point of attraction.

Your point of attraction is what you focus on. And the more your focus on that point of attraction the more of it you get.

For example, if you focus on all the bad in the world, you’re only going to keep seeing more of the bad in the world. Instead of focusing on the bad, it’s advantageous to focus on the good.

Optimism doesn’t mean that you’re embracing naïveté. It’s acknowledging all that is right despite all that is wrong, bad or outside our preferences.
My Saviour, My Ally
By: Esther Spurrill-Jones
Tags: Friendship, Love, Jesus, Christianity, Poetry

Photo by Hanny Naibaho on Unsplash

What a friend to us is Jesus,

What an ally in our struggles,

Walking here along beside us,

Sharing all our pain and troubles.

We are not alone in hardships

For He knows what we endure:

Recall Him weeping in the garden,

Tears of blood and deep despair.

When the world is overwhelming

Fall into the Saviour’s arms;

Love unending, unrelenting

Will shield you from the angry storms.

Jesus knows our every weakness

And He loves us just the same.

We were crafted in His image;

There’s no reason for this shame.

Those despised and those forsaken:

In Jesus’ arms they will find peace.

That embrace will be a haven:

This holy shield will never cease.
4 Meta-Habits That Will Make You a Better Writer
By: Yannick Bikker
Tags: Habits, Creativity, Blogging, Writing, Writing Tips

Ritualize Your Writing With a Routine

“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.” — Attributed to about a hundred different writers, though it’s probaby by William Faulkner. Either way, good quote.

You’ve heard the same old advice about consistency and writing. What is often not said, however, is how to be consistent. The answer: you enter flow.

Flow states enable you to write a lot, and for longer periods of time. If you try to be consistent without flow, you’ll fall short and your willpower will take over.

Having a ritualized writing practice makes it a lot easier to quickly slip into that desired flow-state. Novelist Neal Stephenson, who writes spectacularly long books (e.g. Snow Crash), helpfully puts it this way:

“The productivity equation is a non-linear one… This accounts for why I am a bad correspondent and rarely accept speaking engagements. If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time chunks [i.e. flow state!], I can write novels. But as those chunks get separated and fragmented, my productivity as a novelist drops spectacularly.”

My writing routine to enter flow comprises of three main aspects:

No smartphone during the first hours of the day

When I sit down to write in the morning, my smartphone is out of sight, and any email or instant messaging tabs are closed. As Cal Newport writes in his latest book Digital Minimalism, “humans are not wired to be constantly wired.”

Water + snacks

Additionally, I fuel up before I start writing. Apart from a big glass of cold water, I like to bring some snacks. My go-to combination is fresh fruits with a handful of nuts.

I listen to movie soundtracks or classical music whenever I’m writing

​Not necessarily because it would directly influence my productivity (though music has been scientifically proven to have a powerful effect on the brain), but simply because it makes the process more fun.

Flow is great, but to make the most of it, you’ll need a system to support it. Putting up a Do Not Disturb sign is a good start. And again, don’t forget to bring proper fuel.
How to Add Custom Fee Dynamically to Products in Your E-commerce Store
By: Jaymine Shah
Tags: Woocommerce, Ecommerce Web Development, Ecommerce, Woocommerce Development, WordPress

E-Commerce Website Development or Woocommerce Website Development is quite popular nowadays. Sometimes you have some own rules for applying custom fees and you can’t use any plugin or any shipping rates because of it may be more complex. Shipping rates have their own limitations, and plugins for adding custom fees may not cover your requirements. This blog will cover how you can add your customs fee correctly and easy way. Here we will see how we will add fee dynamically based on quantity as well price. It will mainly use while you are applying custom taxes like transportation cost, handling the cost, or labor charges etc. We can simply use it with woocommerce_cart_calculate_fees WooCommerce filter, which is used to calculate your total price over shipping charges, surcharge, discount or any custom rates or fee.

Simple Usage:

Filter: woocommerce_cart_calculate_fees

function woocommerce_cart_custom_fee() {

if(WC()->cart->total < 25){ //Check for cart total is < 25

$custom_fee = WC()->cart->total + 5; // Here $5 will add as custom fee

} else {

$custom_fee = WC()->cart->total; //If cart total is > 25 it will not add custom fee

}

$handling_cost = $custom_fee / 2; //Adding Handling Cost $fee = $custom_fee + $handling_cost; // Custom Fee + Handling Cost WC()->cart->add_fee('Transport Fee:', $fee); //It will add fee

}

add_action('woocommerce_cart_calculate_fees','woocommerce_cart_custom_fee');

Here you can use your own rules to adding a fee, above example is just for explaining how custom fee works dynamically.

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Rachel Hollis Was My Hero — Until I Realized the Truth About Her Empire
By: Samantha Blake
Tags: Confidence, Personal Development, Rachel Hollis, Lessons Learned, Motivation

Issue #2: her seemingly perfect relationship

And before you say, “Um, that’s none of your business”, let me say that I wouldn’t care if she didn’t make a point to preach about how well they’ve made it work, and give advice to the rest of us how to make our own relationships work as well as hers does.

No one is perfect, but if you’re giving advice, I believe you need to practice what you preach and not only show the picture-perfect moments of your daily life.

And if it’s not working, that’s okay — just stop talking about it!

As it turned out, I hadn’t read her first book, because I got on the “Rachel Hollis train” right at the time her second one (‘Girl, Stop Apologizing’) came out, so that’s the one I went for.

In the first book I’ve since read how she goes into detail about how she and her husband got together, and… it’s not an inspiring story. Essentially, she admits to being a booty call for him for years while he won’t commit to her, and then when she finally had enough of his wishy-washiness and was going to leave, he caught on and suddenly wanted to get serious so he didn’t lose her.

This kind of behavior isn’t the sort of message I would want to send to other women.

That definitely doesn’t sound like the stand-up, picture-of-a-perfect-and-devoted-partner husband that has been plastered all over her website and social media for almost the last decade.

But hey, I suppose people can change.

However, just this week on social media they announced that they are getting a divorce. Again, this shouldn’t really be my business. And on the one hand, I feel for them and their four children. But on the other hand, I thought the message she sent out to the world was pretty high-and-mighty.

In a drawn-out post she announced they were separating and needed to be away from social media for a while (understandably) and needed a “human moment”. Reading this, I paused. Uh, as opposed to what? That’s pretty presumptuous to say, because it implies that before this moment, you’re assuming the rest of us looked at you and your family as gods.

This was especially irritating to me because she also mentioned that their family had been such an open book to the public for so many years. That may be true on some level, but certainly not in terms of their relationship. Her husband Dave has since admitted that they had actually been considering divorce for years now, but I never got a whiff of that on their public front.

Again, it’s completely understandable that she wouldn’t want to share that, but don’t claim to be an open book and then act as if we, the public, owe you compassion and privacy. The whole thing came off as condescending.

And that leads me to my final issue with her motivational platform:
All About FATCO
Tags: Beauty, Health, Skincare, Paleo

All About FATCO

Interview with Founder Cassy Burnside

This week we were stoked to interview Cassy Burnside, the Founder of Fatco. Fatco is a Paleo-certified skin care company that uses grass-fed Tallow (beef fat) to create incredible chemical-free skin care products. This company has made several best-sellers in Paleo skin care, and there’s no question why. They’re known to source responsibly to provide products that are good for you and the environment.

Read along for Cassy’s tips on how to use oil cleansing to get a clear, glowing complexion. Also, BIG NEWS: they just opened a storefront in Tahoe and they’re launching in Whole Foods!
GoFundMe A Mansion
By: Rachael Ann Sand
Tags: Gofundme, Self, Humor, Funny, Satire

Last week I posted a GoFundMe on all of my social media pages. I’ve been receiving intense criticism and I don’t understand why. My needs are as legitimate as everyone else soliciting money with fundraisers. As a self-improvement junkie, I’ve meditated on my current lifestyle and come to the conclusion it needs to improve.

A couple years ago I became inspired to embrace minimalism. It started with the usual decluttering of closets and drawers. Getting rid of holey socks and stained underwear felt cleansing. Letting go of my coin collection set me free.

Before long I was addicted to the high I felt whenever I gave away or sold something. I couldn’t get enough of having nothing. I decimated my book shelves, dropping my most cherished possessions into donation bins with glee. I was in an unfettered manic state.

Even when my house was nearly empty, it wasn’t enough nothingness. That’s when I discovered a documentary series about building or buying Tiny Homes. Minimalists shared their stories of freedom from stuffocation (being suffocated by material stuff).

I stayed awake for six days and nights, obsessed with the documentary and drawing blueprints for my own Tiny Home. When I finally passed out from exhaustion I dreamt about the possibility of liberation from my stuff-filled life. I was certain a Tiny Home was the answer to my chronic discontent.

Thanks to generous donations to my first GoFundMe, my dream of building a Tiny Home became a reality. I moved in with my bare minimum possessions. It wasn’t long before I regretted the decision and felt trapped.

Looking back I can see I was out of control, taking my minimalist actions to the extreme. But in the thick of it, I really believed it was my destiny to experience the Tiny Home life. By the time I realized I was wrong, it was too late.
Next Generation Leaders Podcast: Conversations with Young Alumni
By: Damian Radcliffe
Tags: Careers, Alumni Stories, Career Paths, Career Advice, University Of Oregon

I have been very fortunate during my time at the SOJC to work with wonderful students, and to see many of them truly prosper in their careers after graduating.

Many of these former students kindly give back by appearing as guest speakers in my classes. Due to the pandemic, these sessions are recorded, in case students can’t make class and need to catch up in their own time.

These insightful conversations deserve to be heard more widely, so we’ve converted these Zoom discussions into a podcast series.

My hope is that these conversations are valuable for current students, industry professionals and fellow alum alike. I’ll post episodes from the series below, and don’t forget you can also catch the latest episodes via SoundCloud.

Taken from the 2020 Year Book
How to Find Potentially Undervalued Coins with Solume.io
By: Adam Shahaf
Tags: Crypto, Bitcoin, Social Media, Cryptocurrency, Strategy

Whether you’re an adventurer looking to make a hit with a coin you are not familiar with, or a disciplined trader with a clear goal, here are a few steps on how to use Solume.io to identify potentially undervalued coins. We do not presume to argue that these steps by themselves form a sufficient basis to make trades, but rather they offer a supplementary routine to identify opportunities and to make better trade decisions.

We recommend to start by sorting coins according to the rate of change in social volume over the last 24 hours. Unless you have specific coin in mind, you can focus on looking at coins that have significantly grown in social volume, but have also had a negative change of price in the last 24 hours.

Another criteria is the actual social volume in the last 24 hours and market cap. The bigger the market and the community are(high social volume suggests activity of a large community), the bigger the change needs to be in order to indicate upcoming market change.

After choosing two or three potential candidates, visit each of their coin-pages. In their coin-pages you can play with the zoom. Activating the price curve will help you get a view of the relationship between coin price and coin social volume.

In the coin page below the chart are curated social media posts from Twitter and reddit. Since the list is composed of sources gathered from multiple filtered sources (and multiple sub-sources), a quick look on the list can indicate whether the rise in social volume expresses a positive or a negative sentiment [We’re working on adding the sentiment analysis feature, and it is coming soon 😁 ]

The next step would be to check the authenticity of social volume. While we do filter spam, we still recommend sifting through collection of posts. Good indicators would be the measure of up-votes/likes and language diversity. Monotonous posts/tweets may indicate potential pump and dump activity. Another possible indication of market manipulation attempts comes in the form of social media channel diversity. The more widespread the social chatter over a certain coin of an ICO, the more chances that it’s genuine.

It is worth considering the fact that even if you identify a pumping activity, it might be a good idea to get into position; however do bear in mind the risks involved and be sure to set your stop loss.

Below are a few examples from our archive that show events where rising social curves preceded rising price curves.

A 100% rise in Vertcoin’s social volume precedes a 13% in its BTC price

A 50% rise in Litecoin’s social volume precedes a 5% rise in its USD price

A 25% rise in Monero’s social volume precedes a 5% rise in its BTC price

It’s important to clarify that the hints provided above are not a conclusive strategy. It’s a way to use solume.io and we think it can help our users gain more value and identify more opportunities.

We would love to hear your feedback and ideas on how to use solume.io and make it better.

You can reach us by mail, or tweet us @solumeIO

Love you,

Adam
VJ Loop | Blue Waterfall Zooming Grid
By: Michael 'Myk Eff' Filimowicz
Tags: EDM, Creativity, Design, Flair, Art

This blog takes the broadest conception of sound design possible including visual effects because audio likes video. Over 90,000 views annually.

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Improve Sales With POWr Price Table
Tags: Design, Sales, Ecommerce, Marketing

POWr Price Table makes it easy to showcase products, services, or plans side-by-side with unlimited features. Enjoy designing a price table that fits beautifully into your site’s aesthetic, and is easily accessible for customers. In addition, price Table is highly customizable, supports text in any language, and is mobile responsive on any device.

Why should I use Price Table?

Get more sales — Help your customers decide by showcasing your best products, upgrades and offers in side-by-side comparison tables.

— Help your customers decide by showcasing your best products, upgrades and offers in side-by-side comparison tables. Capture attention — Distinguish your most popular or best product with a customizable ‘highlight’ feature to make it stand out and capture shoppers’ attention.

— Distinguish your most popular or best product with a customizable ‘highlight’ feature to make it stand out and capture shoppers’ attention. Make it yours — Make it fit perfectly with the design of your site. Choose your own colors, sizes, fonts, number of plans, number of features and more!

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Originally published at www.powr.io.
Announcing Decent Ventures
By: Parker Mccurley
Tags: Venture Capital, Technolog, Business, Investing, Startups

A note from Decent Labs CEO, Parker McCurley

Adam and I founded Decent Labs a few years ago because we had fallen in love with startups and wanted to spend all of our working hours solving problems using emerging technology. Since then, we’ve seen more than our fair share of trials and tribulations as business operators, learned more than we could have ever imagined, and persevered. Our team now consists of eight extraordinarily talented designers, engineers, and startup junkies who dedicate all of their time to helping Decent Labs companies succeed.

Last year, we became frustrated that we couldn’t work with all of the startups we were presented and truly interested in. Some of the best ideas we encountered were underfunded and hiring a development agency is expensive. Many startups had been burned by the perverse incentive structures offered by these agencies. Without a safe option, they end up choosing to work with a technical co-founder who is dedicated but lacks the diverse skill set and talent offered by a full team.

At Decent Labs, we felt this experience was a symptom of a flawed model for early stage startups. In a moment of clarity, we came up with a new model to address these issues: the venture studio. By combining the incentive structure of a co-founder, the resources of a development agency, and the network of a venture fund, we are able to work with startups who have extremely limited resources and build them world class products. Decent Ventures is a new program offered by Decent Labs to companies with high growth potential, industry expert founders, and a clear path to economic sustainability. We believe, especially during the new recession, this model will prove to be the lowest risk strategy for a startup to get to market.

In September 2019, we set out to raise the capital we needed to expand and support our new business model, and on Thanksgiving Day we closed our financing led by personal advisors with extensive experience in startups, venture capital, and private equity. Since then, we have partnered with companies in the cryptocurrency, commercial real estate, cybersecurity, esports, finance, and healthcare industries. We are building a new generation of startups led by industry experts, grounded in solid business fundamentals, and focused on a clear path to economic sustainability.

Stay tuned for more announcements in the coming weeks as we share feature articles about our portfolio companies, their founders, and their missions.

Thank you and be well,

Parker McCurley

CEO, Decent Labs
Buying Face Masks Online
By: William O. Pate Ii
Tags: Coronavirus, Shopping, Covid 19, Face Mask, Online Shopping

Buying Face Masks Online

Quick list.

Listen while you shop/work/whatever: inadequate.net/mixes.html

Should anyone else be comparison-shopping face masks for their offices, here’s what I’ve gathered in the last hour or so:

Mask Options

N95 FACE MASKS (CDC-RECOMMENDED FOR CORONAVIRUS)

Aria Lattner:

20 @ $89

100 @ $400

KN95

Gearbest: Ordinary Non-Medical Masks KN95 95 Percent Filtration Splash PM2.5 Comfortable with CE Certification — US

20 @ $52.99

50 @ $120.99

Various prices from Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=kn95

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120 @ $178.80

Walmart: Disposable- Masks- Breathable- & Comfortable- Safety- Mask-20pcs

20 @ $23.99

Walmart: 50pcs Disposable 3-Layer Protective Face Mask Anti Dust Breathable Earloop Mouth Face Mask with Free Portable Disposable Face Masks Container

50 @ $44.99

*And myriad versions for various prices from Amazon sellers, but I’ve no way of knowing the legitimacy of any one over another beyond anything but “buyer reviews.” https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=face+mask
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The Guide to an STO: Why Not an IPO?
By: Priority Token
Tags: Business Strategy, IPO, Investing, Blockchain, Fundraising

Today we will discuss an important subject, namely, the advantages of an STO (Security Token Offering) as opposed to a regular IPO (Initial Public Offering).

If you’ve been following us for a while, you already know that an STO is essentially a crypto version of a traditional IPO. The security tokens have much in common with IPO shares, since they both pass the Howey test and allow their holders to claim rights to the company’s revenue and/or vote for the crucial decisions. Be it an IPO or an STO, you as a founder have to define the type and size of assets you are about to offer your contributors. The same shares can be sold on stock exchanges for fiat money — or on crypto exchanges for bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.

So the question is — if you still have to allocate assets and do all the paperwork to comply with the financial regulators that go after money launderers and unauthorized security sellers, then why not hold a classical IPO?

This question has got some point, and sometimes, after scrutinizing Priority Token applicants, we strongly recommend some of the founders to opt in for an IPO. However, an IPO is not always the best option.

► Target Audience

An STO allows you to collect contributions from a much wider group of people. Depending on the legal details of your project, you can target not only one market but a number of countries.

► Attracting Crypto Whales

There’s a number of people out there who’ve been in blockchain and crypto since the industry’s first days. Due to this fact, they’ve accumulated quite a fortune in crypto. Given that the majority of them are wealthy people, they don’t look for converting their savings in fiat. They still want them on the crypto side of the market, but they could do with some diversifying as well.

Your STO can provide them a way to purchase some crypto securities that are backed with real-life assets at the same time. This will allow them to stay away from fiat money and to keep a part of their money in crypto, but not only in highly volatile cryptocurrencies but also in more reliable and protected security tokens.

► Speed of Fundraising

An STO as a form of fundraising is very effective and time-saving, since it eliminates a number of middlemen and a heap of paperwork, as opposed to traditional fiat-fueled technologies. With an STO, you can raise millions of dollars within a couple of weeks — that’s something you could hardly achieve with conventional fundraising methods. And we all know that in our industry time is money.

► Cutting Costs

Of course, setting up an STO is way more tricky and cumbersome than, say, holding an ICO. However, an IPO could turn out even more time-consuming and labor-intensive. And it brings us to the point of hiring talents and paying for their efforts. An STO allows raising funds at a much lower cost. For small and medium-sized companies, an STO is an advisable choice.
5 Best Scrappy Online Courses for Python Developers
Tags: Software Development, Coding, Programming, Python, Web Scraping

5 Best Scrappy Online Courses for Python Developers

Scrappy is a fast and powerful python library for web crawling and these are the best courses to learn Scrappy for beginners.

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Hello guys, web scraping is one of a useful skills and you can use it for many different projects. For example, you can use web scraping to find the cheapest flight between the two countries, find the cheapest hotels and holiday packages.

Python makes it easy to scrape data from the website and store it. There are also many tools built-in there that can do web crawling and scraping and one of the best tools called Scrapy. This tool is a free and open-source tool written in python for web scraping and crawling purposes and you can use it to extract data from any website.



You can consider this fabulous tool as a complete framework when it comes to downloading web pages extracting data storing that data into your database.



If you already know Scrapy and looking for the best online courses to learn Scrapy then you have come to the right place. In this article, I am going to share the best online courses to learn Scrapy in 2021.



Learning Scrapy or web crawling is a good skill that is required in many highest paid jobs such as data science engineering director data engineering and more jobs that required this skill and the salary ranges from $25k annually to more than $200k a year in some jobs.



So if you want to have a job in some of these industries you have to learn Scrapy then you can join these online courses from Udemy and Pluralsight to learn Web scraping using Python and Scrapy.

5 Best Scrappy Online Courses for Beginners in 2021

Without wasting any more of your time, here is a list of the best online courses you can take to learn Web Scraping and Crawling with Python, particularly with Scrapy, one of the most popular Python libraries for web scraping.



These courses will not just teach you web scraping basics with Python and SCrapy but also some advanced techniques and tools to run your spider online and host them in a safe manner, which is essential for any business or project.

This ten-hour course is probably the biggest course to learn web scraping and web crawling using Python and Scrapy framework starting from beginner to advanced level in these techniques and apply this knowledge in real-life problems.



You will learn in this course:

Build a web spider and crawler.

Using Scrapy with other frameworks.

Store the data inside your database.

You will see first how to build a web spider then add to it some advanced features. After that, you will deploy your program on a platform called ScrapingHub and run it from there.

Then you will see how to build a web crawler using Scrapy framework and other tools such as Selenium and Splash and storing it inside your database.

Here is the link to join this course — Scrapy: Powerful Web Scraping & Crawling with Python
You are the Books You Read and I Can Prove It
By: Phil Rosen
Tags: Life Lessons, Reading, Books, Psychology, Self

You are what you read

More information today is available than any other point before us, and this will continue to be the case with every single day that passes. New articles, new videos, new Tweets, new captions, even new books are created and written at an unprecedented pace. And this will only increase.

With the daunting, ever-expanding volume of potential inputs available today, curating the things we read and being intentional about our inputs is even more salient.

Reading should be an intentional action, not a passive and absent activity.

And whether you realize it or not, you are what you read.

The information you take in, whether on purpose or by accident, informs your mind to a degree that we cannot even comprehend. Informational inputs directly impact our outputs into the world.

What do those outputs look like if they are informed by accidental or non-intentional inputs?

Things such as browsing the internet, mindlessly ingesting pop culture gossip, scrolling through your social media accounts every hour on the hour — what do these in turn manifest themselves as?

Actions such as these — low-quality inputs — are not usually done with purpose. They are a way to kill time, or even done out of habit rather than desire or enjoyment.

Think of the people in your life and their reading habits and inputs — do their thoughts and behaviors align with their usual inputs?

Do you know anyone who cannot put down their smart phone? What about someone who cannot put down a book? Now compare their behaviors, their outputs. Think about it.

Reading shouldn’t be something that happens on accident. It should be guided and directed with intention.

Taking a more deliberate approach to the information you read and take in can help create a more deliberate life. The outputs and behavioral manifestations you aim for can help guide what type of inputs you want to have in your life.

Often times we just go along with whatever sits before us and that’s our input for that moment. Next time this happens, take stock and really contemplate if that’s the input you want or need in your life at that particular moment.

Naturally, I’m not suggesting that every single thing in your life must be productive or conducive to an end-goal. Nobody exists like that. But maybe you can aim to be just a bit more selective about the things you let into your mind.

Those are what makes you who you are.

Put down your favorite device for just a moment extra. Pick up some good books from some good writers. Read fiction. Find a story that grips you and challenges you. Read things from different centuries.

And remember, you are what you read.
Belajar Redux dalam 3 Menit
By: Haidar Afif Maulana
Tags: React, JavaScript, Software Development, Programming, Redux

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Hull International Photography Festival
By: Open College Of The Arts
Tags: Photography, Study Visits

Interested in attending Hull International Photography Festival this weekend 13 October?

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HIP Festival (Hull International Photography Festival) is an annual event that celebrates this physical art form and recognises the cultural importance photography holds. It is a digitally accessible, globally recognised event for professionals and amateur photographers to immerse themselves in the world of photography. Photographers involved gain support, develop their skill set and have the chance to showcase their work alongside the best in the world. You can exhibit, sell work, buy photography products, exchange ideas, and network. Emerging photographer of any age and ability can, learn, share their passion and enjoy the atmosphere. This year will include the exciting arrival of #PhotoCity at the festival in partnership with #Fujiholics.

A £5 wristband gives you access to all 10 exhibitions, the HIPfest Prize Draw, discounts on site, learning opportunities and the ability to purchase workshop & masterclass tickets. Get your wristband here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hipfest2018-hull-international-photography-festival-tickets-44944615555

Accessibility information can be found here https://hipfest.co.uk/visit-us/#disabled-visitors

If you are interested in attending please request a place by completing this form
NEM Regional Queensland Wrap Up
By: Nem Australia, New Zealand, Official Editor
Tags: Spotlight, Nem, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

It seems like years have passed since NEM was first introduced to Regional Queensland but it was just over 6 months ago. It all started with the NEM ANZ partnership with TravelbyBit and the Town of Agnes Water — 1770 to launch Australia’s first crypto town. Visits by the likes of BBC Travel, CoinSpice.io, The Crypto Lark and everyday crypto travellers has kept NEM at the forefront of global media watching the growth of cryptocurrency adoption in Australia. Today NEM is synonymous with Central Queensland culminating with the Gladstone Region ICT Network and Startup Gladstone joining the NEM ANZ Ecosystem in December 2018.

It has been a busy year for Queensland as we take a look back at some of the major events that have happened which include: