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Taylor Trading Assistant app released
Tags: Taylor App, Trading, Crypto Trading, Android

Last week we released the Taylor Trading Assistant app to the Google Play store. The release is a huge milestone for us, and we are very excited as we move forward with our plans.

Although the app is available to download and install on Android devices, we haven’t sent any user invitation to use the service yet.

We have been testing the app in a test and controlled environment for a while, and we will now test the app in a real-life situation. Considering that the app manages user funds and we don’t want to risk these funds because of an unknown bug, we will first test the app with a handful of users, most of them close friends that will not kill us if the app inadvertently loses some satoshis. :)

Due to the nature of test environments and development sandboxes, the trading strategies that fuel the service (i.e., the signals) didn’t get the level of testing we desired, mostly because we weren’t able to test it with many concurrent users, not to mention the “bear market.” We will use the beta app testing phase to also test the quality of the signals in a real-life situation and tune it as needed. Once the Android version 100% is up and running, we will work to release the iOS version.

At the time of writing, we have 4,400+ users on the waiting list, which is great since it shows the incredible appeal our service have in the community. This demand puts a lot of pressure on us to release the app to the wild, but we must have a high level of confidence that the app, the back-end infrastructure, and the trading strategies are working as expected.

If you already applied to receive access to the beta version, please don’t submit your info again; It will not help you get early access. If you didn’t, go ahead and fill the application form.

We want to thank our community for all the trust, support and love. We still have a long way to go, but it’s great to know that we can count on you. We plan to start sending out more user invitations in a couple of weeks. Please be patient and stay tuned!
Danny DeVito Explains Value Investing in 3 Minutes
By: Mike Berner
Tags: Finance, Wealth, Stock Market, Warren Buffett, Investing

Although investors generally built passive positions in companies, some decided that a more assertive approach was necessary to “unlock value.”

During their heyday, corporate raiders (now known as “activist investors”) would gain control of undervalued companies, sell off their assets, and then distribute the proceeds to shareholders (i.e. themselves).

Returning to Other People’s Money, in Garfield’s view, the ‘problem’ with New England Wire and Cable was that the core wire and cable business was losing money with little hope of revival. Logically, the best thing for everyone was to just shut down the company and sell its assets.

At the film’s climax, Garfield and Jorgenson face off at the shareholder meeting, where the kindly Jorgenson makes an impassioned plea to save the company based on its importance to the local community. Garfield argues that the company has no responsibility to anyone but shareholders (I won’t give away the ending and tell you who wins).

Although Warren Buffett has cultivated a reputation as a benevolent and largely passive investor, he somewhat resembled Garfield in his early days. One of his most successful investments was a little-known company called Dempster Mill. The stock was selling for $18 a share, but the actual value was over $72.

The issue was that Dempster was poorly run. The company manufactured windmills and irrigation systems, which was a highly competitive business. At one point Dempster verged on total implosion.

In 1961, Buffett took control of Dempster and fired its management. On Charlie Munger’s recommendation, he installed a new CEO named Harry Bottle who specialized in business turnarounds. Under Bottle’s stewardship, Dempster laid off many of its employees and sold assets. It was a huge blow to the small town of Beatrice, Nebraska, which depended on the company for employment. The local community came to hate Buffett and everything that he stood for.

Eventually the townspeople raised enough money to buy out Buffett’s stake, which he sold to them for several times his initial investment. Although he profited handsomely, the experience soured Buffett on the idea of liquidating companies at the price of his personal reputation.
GoLang MongoDB Driver: Building a Custom Query Endpoint
By: Noah Kreiger
Tags: Database, Golang, API, Mongodb, Api Development

We cannot connect to Mongo to do anything unless we have an instance of MongoDB actually running. There are multiple ways to accomplish this, but the simplest for local development is to spin up a docker container running an instance of the database. For this, we will use docker-compose to spin up the instance and a simple GUI on top of it.

docker-compose -f mongo-compose.yaml up -d

After the services are up you should be able to navigate to http://0.0.0.0:8081/ and see your Mongo Express GUI overlaying. We will use the GUI to create any databases and collections we use.

Next, let’s create a simple client from our API that we can use to perform “actions” on the database (CRUD).

We will create a simple mongo package that has a client.go which will create a connection to our MongoDB instance, ping it to verify, then return the created client.

Next, let’s create an endpoint to verify our connection, returning a 200 for a successful connection and a 400 for a bad connection.

This calls mongo.Connect which references our mongo package established above that has a client.go file (which is the function we are referencing)

We can test this with:

go run main.go GET http://localhost:8080/connection

checkpoint repo:

gomongo example connection

Great! Our API is now connected to Mongo, let’s start working on our query wrapper.
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Tags: Work, Self Improvement, Attitude

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Best thing to hit Crypto since the 2010 pizza purchase
By: Jamie Boyer
Tags: Investment App, Cryptocurrency Investment, Millennials, Finance, Cryptocurrency

Best thing to hit Crypto since the 2010 pizza purchase

Cred’s crypto investment app coming soon!

July 31st is just around the corner and we can’t wait! Why you ask? Is it because so many interesting things happened on July 31st? Like in 1928 when the first woman (Halina Konopacka of Poland) won an Olympic gold medal for track and field; the first George Washington quarter went into circulation in 1932. Or how about the fact that the cornerstone for the US Mint in Philadelphia was laid on July 31st,1792?

While these are all interesting facts, and (coincidentally?) involve money or precious metals, they’re not the reason. We’re excited because July 31st is the day the Cred mobile app will be available for download on iOS and Android!

Cred is the micro-investing platform for cryptocurrency that is revolutionizing the way people think of investing in cryptocurrency.

Like when a Florida software programmer used Bitcoin to buy a pizza, Cred is going to change the way people think about crypto.

The $30,000 pizza?

Cred is designed to help people who might be hesitant to invest in cryptocurrency learn about the space and safely get involved with crypto.

So what’s different about Cred?

Educational tools : Users can press a ‘Learn’ button, which describes each token’s purpose, as well as its history and relevance in the industry. Each coin offering includes a graph that can be expanded to show the coin’s price from the last 24 hours, month and all time.

: Users can press a ‘Learn’ button, which describes each token’s purpose, as well as its history and relevance in the industry. Each coin offering includes a graph that can be expanded to show the coin’s price from the last 24 hours, month and all time. Micro-invest by rounding up everyday purchases: Cred lets users invest effortlessly by rounding up everyday purchases or simply setting up a recurring deposit. Think of it as your spare change jar, with potential!

Cred lets users invest effortlessly by rounding up everyday purchases or simply setting up a recurring deposit. Think of it as your spare change jar, with potential! Seriously Secure: All data is protected with 256-bit encryption at rest and in transit and is never stored on any users’ personal device.

Cryptocurrency today is full of complexity, confusion and fear, making access to it intimidating for regular consumers. We believe that simplifying the complex is what makes Cred special. We think you’ll agree — be sure to check us out on July 31st!
Blacklist Keywords
By: Ppc Bee
Tags: PPC Marketing, Ecommerce, Tips, Digital Marketing, Marketing Automation

This article has been moved to the official blog of PPC Bee. You will get to the article by clicking on this link.
The BitBox Hardware Wallet Just Got a Lot More Powerful
By: Shift Crypto
Tags: Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Infosec, Product, Bitcoin

Attention BitBox owners! The new BitBox desktop app is now available for download. It brings a new set of powerful features to the BitBox hardware wallet including Segwit and native Litecoin support, and the option to display coin value in 8 major fiat currencies. The app is easy to use, while incorporating enterprise-grade security features you have come to expect from Shift Cryptosecurity. Advanced features include full node integration and coin control.

The new desktop app is available for download on our website.

What’s new?

Segwit support for Bitcoin and Litecoin

In addition to legacy address support, you can now send and receive coins with a native Segwit wallet. This features the Bech32 address format; here is a list of currently supported services.

This is the Bech32 wallet, it offers the lowest fees compared to other address formats.

Using Segwit addresses means lower transaction fees and reduced costs for the sender.

Simple, intuitive design

The new layout is simple and easy to use. All the device management and settings are in one convenient location. Learning the new interface is easy as a dynamic guide accompanies you every step of the way. Advanced features for pro users include Coin Control and Fullnode support for privacy enhancement.

For beginners, advanced features can be hidden so they don’t intrude on the interface, but we encourage you to explore and educate yourself if you are interested to learn about all the capabilities the BitBox has to offer. Watch this space, we will be posting new information on this in the coming weeks.

Litecoin native support

After Bitcoin, Litecoin is the second coin to be supported natively within the app. For other coins you can still use the BitBox with third party applications (e.g. ETH, ETC, Viacoin, ERC20 tokens). We will be adding more native support for these in upcoming releases.

Dynamic feature guide

To help you learn about the features of the BitBox, we have added a Feature Guide on the right-hand side of the interface which provides you with targeted information to save you time, as well as inform you about important cryptocurrency topics.

All new features

Native Desktop Application OSX, Windows and Linux binaries

Improved, easy-to-use interface

Segwit and Native Segwit Wallets

Native Litecoin support

Option to display coin value in 8 major fiat currencies

Dynamic guide to educate and help you discover new features

Coin control

Full node integration

We plan to do frequent releases with new features so there’s lots to look forward to. Here is a glimpse of a few new features on our roadmap:

Ethereum and ERC20 token native support

Security improvements

Multi-sig support

If you would like to become a BitBox beta tester, send an email to shiftlabs@shiftcrypto.ch with the subject line “Sign me up as a Shift Labs beta tester”.
The Gift
Tags: Poetry, Love

But an advocate of gaiety

No longer a preacher of melancholy

For he now fills it with glee

Desolation, she no longer feel

Oh, Such a heaven-sent!

How fortunate she is to be blessed

With a man who hopes and seeks

The beauty and purpose of all the things
5 Data Science Podcasts You Should be Listening To
By: Jen Hill
Tags: Machine Learning, Podcast, Data Science, Data, Data Visualization

5 Data Science Podcasts You Should be Listening To

A roundup of podcasts featuring data science, machine learning, AI, and data visualization.

I’m a huge podcast fan! So it only makes sense that as I dive into learning more about data science, I would seek out podcasts to do just that. I thought I would share a few of my favorites so far. What about you? Got any favorites you’d suggest I add to the list? If so, please share in the comments.

BANANA DATA PODCAST

This is a brand new biweekly podcast that focuses on news and trends from the data science ecosystem. So far, they’ve discussed topics including ethical AI and biased data. They also offer a weekly newsletter, where they share their favorite articles on data science, visualization, and more.

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DATA SKEPTIC

As one of the longest running data science podcasts, Data Skeptic has touched upon a little bit of everything. The weekly show features concept focused mini-episodes, as well as longer interviews with researchers and practitioners. As a delightful treat, some of the mini-episodes focus on their pet parrot, Yoshi, who is their official mascot. It makes for an entertaining lesson, that’s for sure.

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DATAFRAMED

DataFramed is a weekly podcast that features interviews with practitioners focusing on what problems data science tries to solve. I find this podcast to be really approachable for anyone outside the field who is interested in learning about what data science is and how it is applied.

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DATA STORIES

While Data Stories isn’t specifically about data science, it does focus on something important to anyone working in data: visualization. I particularly liked learning about the Data Visualization Society in their most recent episode.

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Linear Digressions

Linear Digressions is a podcast that makes complex topics about machine learning and data science accessible. I really enjoyed one of their more recent episodes talking machine learning engineers and what data science roles may look like over time. It’s interesting exploring how the field will adjust and evolve over time as the industry needs change.

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People Bugs
Tags: Software Development, Product Management, Testing

Product Craftsmanship

Everything I know, I try, and I Fail About Making A Product…
Why The Return of Conor McGregor Is Morally Wrong
By: Antony Pinol
Tags: Media, Life Lessons, Culture, Morality, Sports

When I was thirteen years old I was part of a taekwondo martial arts club. I wasn’t very good at it, but I enjoyed trying to master skills that could potentially protect me from harm - protect being the key word. I didn’t ever think about using the skills that I had learnt in the gym to inflict needless harm on another human being and, as far as I could tell, neither did any of the other people that I trained with. My taekwondo instructor would reiterate the importance of this point at the end of every session we had:

“All martial arts are to be approached with respect and used with extreme caution. The skills that you learn are intended to promote peace, not inflict violence.”

Additionally, our instructor made sure to remind us that if any of us were found to have violated this moral code, we would not have been welcome back at the gym.

Back then I was merely a skinny thirteen year old boy, with no more than one hundred pounds on my wiry frame - I wasn’t about to go Jean Claude Van Damme on the world, hitting everyone that I saw with a spinning head-kick, but that was besides the point. The instructor was trying to teach me, and the other people he trained, about the moral values that lay at the foundation of the martial arts and that mattered to me whether I was a three-hundred pound muscle mountain, or a one-hundred pound waif.
I fell in love with a white man, and I made a lot of black people mad.
By: Ama Mckinley
Tags: Short Stories, Love, Relationships

I fell in love with a white man, and I made a lot of black people mad.

We met on a January night, when I was out with three girlfriends visiting from other cities. The night called for twerking and drinking, and when all of that took its toll and led to empty stomachs at 3AM, we called ourselves an Über. The driver was so kind and the ride over was so pleasant that we asked him to dine with us. Tipsy and happy, my friends and I were excited because we’d picked up a new friend. Epic nights always begin like this.

His name was Drew.

He sat next to me at the restaurant and eventually my three friends huddled into their own conversation, leaving him and me to fend for ourselves. Stories of passport stamps, music, and philosophies became our buoys — good and easy conversation kept us afloat, freely. He dropped us off at our hotel, and smoothly asked for my number.

The girls giggled, and I blushed…and obliged.
Getting started with Tableau!
By: Sruthi Malla
Tags: Data Analysis, Tableau, Data Visualization

Well… That’s a long story on how I concluded to learn Tableau but here I am writing about it!!

The best way to learn something is to know whether that excites you. Before spending your hard earned money in buying licenses for the XYZ suggested by your peer, try how comfortable you are with the learning and the tool.

I chose Tableau because I love the arts. Weird right!!

Yes, I chose to learn tableau because the interface looks like a canvas to me where I can paint anything I could wish for. Drag and drop everything that I wanted to visualize and the final masterpiece is an abstract art that explains business excellence. I enjoy visualizing past, present, and future of a scenario and help businesses make some meaningful decisions.

Everyone may not feel the same excitement as I do, but it’s always good to know what you want!

To experience the reality of how it feels like… try Tableau public.

You can download it from Tableau official website and Learn basics from the Free Training Videos. However, we will be learning everything that is essential in the sequence of blog posts coming up.

Happy learning!!
LGO and B2C2 partner to develop Europe’s premier institutional cryptocurrency trading venue
Tags: Lgo, Blockchain, Lgogroup, Bitcoin

LGO and B2C2 partner to develop Europe’s premier institutional cryptocurrency trading venue LGO Follow Apr 15 · 3 min read

— B2C2 to acquire stake in LGO’s equity and token —

BORDEAUX, France — LGO, the leading institutional-focused Bitcoin spot exchange, and B2C2, the leading cryptocurrency liquidity provider, today announced a partnership to develop LGO into Europe’s premier institutional cryptocurrency exchange. B2C2 will also acquire a stake in LGO’s equity and token. The partnership will allow LGO’s clients to access B2C2’s deep pools of liquidity.

Launched in April 2019, LGO serves more than 50 institutions in 15 different countries and offers a market microstructure based on order batching in order to guarantee fair price discovery. This module has been developed by LGO’s engineering team and has been made open-source on https://lgono.de

B2C2 offers exposure to large-cap cryptocurrencies and gold, with flexible trade size and settlement. Trusted by brokerages, exchanges, banks and fund managers to provide 24/7 liquidity, the firm has been a major market maker on the biggest crypto exchanges since 2015. The company’s global footprint spans exchanges and OTC markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

“From the outset, our mission with LGO has been to create the go-to digital asset spot trading venue, offering the sophisticated trading experience that financial market institutions have come to expect,”

said Hugo Renaudin, CEO and Co-Founder of LGO Group.

“We have developed a proprietary technology that offers clients the ability to trade using an innovative price discovery model. Our partnership with B2C2 allows us to offer clients the liquidity they need.”

Max Boonen, Founder and CEO of B2C2, said:

“Much like the evolution of the FX markets, exchange flows will be pulled towards a handful of liquid venues and we believe that LGO’s matching technology can help it become a key contender.”

LGO and B2C2 plan to roll out new products and services during the course of 2020, to include OTC execution, digital asset financing and stablecoin trading.
This Plain December Day
By: Karen L. Jones
Tags: Nature, Poems On Medium, Poem, Gratitude, Poetry

This Plain December Day

A poem

Photo by Sarah Wayte on Unsplash

Enough wonder for a lifetime

right here,

this step of a riverbank

this plain December day

The faded greens

browns and greys,

a harmony so palpable

it tugs at my heart

just underneath it

sings, like a bright red cardinal

tastes, like a hard yellow candy

on the side of my tongue

Subtle movements unfold

alliances, qualities

swift waters peel rocks,

exposing young shoulders

dead grasses dance,

find each other again

the clouds push a masterpiece

across the sky

Whispering, beckoning me

with every hope, every inch, every question

this plain December day

to know its wonder

to know my luck
Angular — Clear all console messages in PROD mode
By: Anji
Tags: Angular, JavaScript

Have you ever come across a situation where your console messages are logging into your browser console and you thought of removing them before pushing your code to your versioning tool but, forgot to do that?

Here is a solution to avoid that in angular application.

We usually see lots of console messages are being logged into the browser console. These console messages help us greatly in the development environment but it might expose the sensitive information if we are not cautious in the PROD environment in few cases.

As a developer, we heavily depend on the console messages to troubleshoot the issues, see the results from the APIs, and how the javascript functions are executing and which methods are being called as part of the request.

As developers use these console messages very heavily, it is very difficult to navigate to each console message and remove it manually.

Here is the simple trick to remove all the console messages from the angular application in PROD mode and enable in development mode.

Please navigate to your main.ts file and paste below code
“My Education Is Worthless, Everyone Asks Whether I Am Male Or Female,” Says Kolkata Trans-Woman Teacher
By: Tli Crew
Tags: Transgender, Suchitra Dey, Kolkata, Woman Teacher

“Our life is full of challenges, people listen to us, but they do nothing for us,” says Suchitra Dey, a trans woman who hails from Kolkata.

Last year Suchita, previously named Hiranmay Dey underwent a sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) in Delhi. While speaking to The Logical Indian, she says that she was hopeful of a better future after her operation. Unfortunately, in very little time she was confronted with the ugly truth of our society.

She said, “when people look at me they don’t want to know how am I as a person, all they care to know is about my private parts.”

Suchita is a teacher and the sole breadwinner of her family. Recently, the 30-year-old applied to a couple of schools for a new job with her double M.A degree in English and geography. To her surprise, she was ridiculed in interviews by many of the school authorities.

“Rather than asking me pertinent questions about my qualification. A principal asked me if I have real breasts or if I can give birth to a baby. In some other interview, they asked the kind of clothes I will wear if given a job but never offered me a job,” said Suchita over a telephonic conservation with The Logical Indian.

“They have questioned my mannerism and even my credentials. After all this, I feel my education is worthless, all it matters to them is, whether I am a male or a female,” Dey added.

Buried under the burden of harassment, Suchita says that she is subjected to all this mockery and humiliation just because she is a trans- woman. She says most of the interviewers do not want to see a talented teacher in her, all they can see is a man who has a different sexual orientation, a sight quite disturbing for them.

Citing the 2014 Supreme Court order that officially recognised transgenders by making the ‘third gender’ category, she said, “What is the point of such order if the people are still denied job on the basis of their gender or sexuality?”

She has written a complaint to the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC), which she submitted on June 11, seeking their intervention in the matter.
I Don’t Know Whether I’m Excited Or Scared
By: Mark Starlin
Tags: Humor, Medium, This Happened To Me, Thoughts, Other Stories

In a surreal moment, I just checked my notifications and discovered that Ev Williams, CEO of Medium, clapped for one of my humor stories.

Seriously, he did:

Oddly, it was a story from August of last year. An old humor story!

Curiosity got the better of me, and I went to his profile page. I checked his Claps menu, and to my surprise, he has clapped for other humor stories in the past.

Could this possibly mean the homepage featured section embargo on “creative writing” (humor, fiction, poetry) could be eased in the future?

Or will Ev (or maybe his staff) poke around my profile page and discover the stories where I GOOD-NATUREDLY! [is that a word?] poked fun at Medium and its devotion to non-fiction, and I never get curated in the Comics section again?

Why me?
How to Buy Education Tokens (LEDU) on Mercatox
By: Dr. Michael J. Garbade
Tags: Ethereum, Token, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Education tokens (LEDU) are now trading on Mercatox. This article will explain how to purchase tokens on the Mercatox exchange. See also How to Buy Education Tokens (LEDU) on Exrates, IDEX and Livecoin.

Sign Up

1) First, if you’re not registered on mercatox.com click the “Sign up” button to view the following sign up window.

Deposit

2) The next step is to deposit ETH or BTC into your exchange account.

3) When depositing ETH you will be asked to send ETH to an address provided by the exchange. If depositing BTC you will be asked to send BTC to an address provided by the exchange.

4) Open your ETH wallet and send the amount you would like to deposit to that address. If you are using BTC, open your BTC wallet and send the amount you would like to deposit to the address provided.

5) Once you have ETH on your Mercatox.com account then you are ready to purchase LEDU tokens.

Purchase

6) LEDU tokens on Mercatox.com are available in BTC and ETH pairs, meaning you can use BTC or ETH to purchase. Locate the LEDU/ETH pair and click on trade to purchase Education coins if you want to use ETH. If you want to use BTC locate the LEDU/BTC pair.

7) You will be taken to the trading page where you can buy LEDU tokens. Simply enter the amount you wish to purchase and click the BUY ETH — -> LEDU to purchase LEDU tokens.

8) Once you’ve completed your purchase the token balance will be visible in your Mercatox exchange account.

Withdraw

10) Now that you’ve purchased LEDU tokens you can withdraw them to your ERC20 token wallet. Simply enter the withdrawal address where you wish to send the tokens and amount.

Get LEDU Coin

Get LEDU coins now on Exrates, Livecoin, Mercatox and IDEX or join the LEDU OTC Trading program for large purchases. Read more about LEDU coins on our project page and ask any questions you might have in our Telegram group chat.
BROKEN
Tags: Photography, Heartbreak, Thesceneandheard, Love, Poetry

I gave you everything of my love

but care was never shown by you

my body breaks, and lost all love

to live my life that is so blue

Your lies appeared like dark skies

to me whose love was all pure

I loved you, truly no lies

but you tore me without cure

You break me like your promises

I now lie in the bathroom floor

picking up pieces of our memories

and all the things that I adored

I wept in the river down the hill

as I saw someone in the water

a girl, full of tears, and so ill

it was me that just got slaughtered.
Merkle proofs Explained.
By: Belavadi Prahalad
Tags: Computer Science, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Crypto, Cryptocurrency

This article explains how to obtain and what merkle proofs are.

Merkle proofs are used to decide upon the following factors:

If the data belongs in the merkle tree

To concisely prove the validity of data being part of a dataset without storing the whole data set

To ensure the validity of a certain data set being inclusive in a larger data set without revealing either the complete data set or its subset.

Merkle trees make extensive use of one way hashing.

Merkle proofs are established by hashing a hash’s corresponding hash together and climbing up the tree until you obtain the root hash which is or can be publicly known.

Given that one way hashes are intended to be collision free and deterministic algorithms, no two plaintext hashes can/should be the same.

Merkle proofs are better explained with the following example.

In order to verify the inclusion of data [K], in the merkle tree root, we use a one way function to hash [K] to obtain H(K).

In order to validate the inclusivity of K, K doesn’t have to be revealed, similarly the hash of data L can be revealed without any implicit security repercussions and so on.
The Sex Context: Flame That Tune
By: Kiki Wellington
Tags: Humor, Satire, Stock Photos, Flash Fiction, Fiction

The Sex Context: Flame That Tune

Stock photo flash fiction

Photo by everett225 on DepositPhotos

By God, his voice is like nails on a chalkboard! I thought he said he was the lead in the church choir, not the led. This is enough to make Baby Jesus weep and climb back into Mary’s womb.

What is this foul dissonance flowing through her fingertips? She said she studied Chopin, not Chopsticks.

Maybe if I otherwise occupy his lips, we can end this blasphemy!

Maybe if I otherwise occupy her hands, we can end this cacophony!

And with that, music once again brings two lovers together.

More from Kiki Wellington:
Cracking Open My Heart
By: Alan Lew
Tags: Psychic, Love, Channeling, Parents, Heart

MY MOTHER passed away in 1998. Last week (on Dec 17th) she said..

You don’t have to look outside to find what’s inside.

Stop trying to find happiness by filling your mind on the outside when you are avoiding looking on the inside.

You need to accept yourself. You are perfect as you are.

You need to forgive yourself about some of the things that you did in the past. You keep over playing the scenarios. Just let it go.

There are a few things that you are not happy with how things turned out. There is a high school trauma that you haven’t forgiven yourself for. There were many times that you came home from school and you just didn’t feel like you were loved. There is a lot of anger. And you even have a lot of anger and resentment to me, as well.

I just need my son to forgive himself. And maybe partially to forgive me, as well.
[Peer Conversation] #NickDrawsNationals
By: Jaya Ramchandani
Tags: Peer Conversations, Upcoming

About the Conversation

Brighton (UK) artist Nick Sayers has set out on a Covid-19 art project, to draw live portraits of people in countries around the world, via Zoom video chat, while discussing life during the pandemic. This is a global continuation of the local project he carried out during the summer lockdown, in which he drew neighbours on his street “in real life”, sitting two metres away from them. Through this new phase of the project, he aims to examine and compare how the pandemic is affecting people around the world, and how their societies and governments are coping.

Conversation is a key aspect of the encounters. Nick draws the portraits using a ballpoint pen on art paper while he chats with his sitter. Sessions last around two hours. He then writes up a summary of their conversation, checks this with them, and posts the text together with his drawings to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. People can see images from the project and read about the conversations by following the #NickDrawsNationals hashtag.

Nick is inspired by the idea of Six Degrees Of Separation:

We live in a very interconnected world, and I’m hoping to reach more obscure places around the globe through a series of linked connections. — Nick Sayers

Three Reasons to Join this Conversation

To share stories, hear and be heard, with an artist who makes science-inspired art from recycled materials. To have a hand-drawn portrait with an accompanying ‘life story’, which could make a nice gift for family and friends separated by the pandemic, commemorating this strange time in history. To be a part of a global art project. Nick plans to compile the drawings, photos and conversations into a printed book, and hopes to have an exhibition one day, when galleries are more widely open to the public again.

Suggested Contribution

Nick is asking his sitters for a commission toward the project of £10 to £50 (based on your financial experience). This is partly to give him an income that has been decimated by the pandemic — he formerly worked in schools, art/science festivals, and abroad. 10% of all income will go to the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF).

To see drawings and photos from the project, and read the conversations Nick has had with his sitters, follow the #NickDrawsNationals hashtag on social media, or visit http://instagram.com/explore/tags/nickdrawsnationals

If you’d like to commission a portrait of yourself or friends or family, please contact Nick via our community platform or via email.
2019 in review: top 10 digital diplomacy moments
By: Andreas Sandre
Tags: Social Media, Technology, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Year In Review

9. “Tools and Weapons”

Tools and Weapons is a narrative journey from inside of the world’s largest tech companies, with a focus on how technology needs partners working tightly together to face the biggest challenges of our era and to move us forward.

Most of all, this book — released this past September — shows how digital diplomacy is not only about narratives and content, but it’s also about understanding technology and all stakeholders in the tech spectrum and beyond. Digital diplomacy is about social media, as much as it is about policy and diplomacy.

“This is a colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us,” said Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Innovators and Steve Jobs. “From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.”

Authors Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, and Carol Ann Browne, senior director of communications and external relations, understand “that technology is a double-edged sword — unleashing incredible opportunity but raising profound questions about democracy, civil liberties, the future of work and international relations,” said former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. “Tools and Weapons tackles these and other questions in a brilliant and accessible manner. It is a timely book that should be read by anyone seeking to understand how we can take advantage of technology’s promise without sacrificing our freedom, privacy or security.”

10. Influence in the Brussels-bubble

Even if you often look at the US as a barometer to understand online influence in politics and government, Brussels is another great example of how social media and digital engagement form the basis of influence on the Internet.

This past summer, POLITICO’s exclusive analysis revealed the influencers in the European Parliament’s Twitterverse. A very interesting time to observe what is happening as the EU legislative body was renewed in May after the Europe-wide elections, and with a new European Commission starting its mandate under President Ursula von der Leyen.

Notably, “the list of international politicians (excluding MEPs) followed by EU parliamentarians is heavily Brussels-dominated,” explain the authors of this report James Randerson and James O'Malley. “It includes just one European leader (Macron), one national politician (Germany’s Martin Schulz, who is a former European Parliament president) and four U.S. politicians (Trump, Obama, Hilary Clinton, and the U.S. president’s institutional account POTUS).”

In September, another interesting study came out, published by ZN Consulting and EurActiv.com. It provides a great picture not just for Brussels-based and European players, but also for Washington DC politicos interested in European affairs and the work of the European Union.
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By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Illustration, Art, Drawing, Thursday

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How to Supply Assets to the Aave Protocol Programmatically
By: Alex Roan
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Programming, Blockchain, JavaScript, Ethereum

How Does Aave Work?

Aave currently operates in seventeen markets: ETH, DAI, USDC, SUSD, TUSD, USDT, BUSD, BAT, KNC, LEND, LINK, MANA, MKR, REP, SNX, WBTC, and ZRX.

Let’s use LINK as an example. By supplying LINK to the Aave protocol, you’re agreeing that it can lend that value out, thus earning interest. You can withdraw your share out at any time. Think of it as a savings account.

Once it’s in there, you can check how much LINK there is in the pot, find out what the current interest rate is, borrow other assets, etc.

Let’s get technical

What does this process look like from a technical standpoint? In comparison to Compound Finance, the process is a little more complicated but not unmanageable.

Aave maintains contracts called LendingPool s, which act as the main entry point. From the LendingPool , assets can be supplied using the deposit function. We can also retrieve protocol data like a user’s liquidity, the current interest rate, total liquidity, and more.

In Aave’s protocol, the LendingPool contracts are ungradable. This means that their addresses may change in the future. To prevent third party DApps like ours falling behind, Aave provides a LendingPoolAddressesProvider contract that will never be upgraded. This is used to retrieve the latest LendingPool . As soon as we have the latest LendingPool , we can start depositing.

We cannot, however, redeem assets from the LendingPool . To do this, we need to be aware of another set of contracts, called aTokens . These are ERC-20 compliant contracts that are issued in exchange for the underlying asset. For example, by depositing LINK, we receive aLINK depending on the current exchange rate. The redeem function exists in aLINK , not in the LendingPool .

To sum up, this is what we need to do to deposit an asset, then redeem it:

Get the latest LendingPool from LendingPoolAddressesProvider . Deposit to LendingPool . Redeem from aToken .

Overall, this makes depositing assets to Aave more complicated than Compound Finance, since there are a few more contracts and ABIs your DApp needs to keep track of.
Marvel’s Hero Project Reality Season 1 Episode 20 2020 Full Episode On Disney+
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New to crypto? Double your investment with Get Cred’s Komodo promotion!
By: Jamie Boyer
Tags: Millennials, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Cryptocurrency Investment

New to crypto? Double your investment with Get Cred’s Komodo promotion!

Get Cred is introducing its app with “Buy $10/Get $10” offer — but only for a limited time!

Get Cred, the app which is on a mission to democratize consumer access to cryptocurrency, is changing the way people think about investing in the altcoin space.

Get Cred makes the leap into investing in cryptocurrency easy! Photo credit Joshua Earle on Unsplash

If you’ve been thinking about taking the leap into cryptocurrency, today is your day! Download the Get Cred app for IOS or Android, purchase $10 of Komodo’s KMD, and Get Cred will give you an ADDITIONAL $10 KMD! You just DOUBLED your investment portfolio!

Get Cred has teamed up with its coin partner, Komodo (KMD) to offer a limited-time “buy $10 KMD, get $10 KMD”. Starting August 28th, 2018, when investors download or log into the Get Cred app and purchase $10 worth of KMD, Get Cred will match that investment with $10 worth of the same coin. Get Cred is offering the KMD coin match until September 3rd, 2018.

Why Get Cred? Why Komodo?

“We were very selective in the coin partners we chose to work with,” said Get Cred CEO/Founder Brendon McQueen. “Staying true to our mission, we naturally gravitated toward like-minded coin partners. Komodo shares our passion for bringing crypto to the masses.”

Komodo was founded with a strong focus on the principles of independence, autonomy, and collaboration. The Komodo team is focused on creating a fully-decentralized and open-source blockchain ecosystem.

In his article, Komodo (KMD) Review: A Cryptocurrency, DEX and ICO Platform, David Amoyal states, “Komodo strongly believes, first and foremost, that people should be free. This freedom includes the ability to make one’s own decisions as well as receive both benefits and consequences of those decisions.”

Komodo builds on the technology of the Bitcoin legacy system, taking the best of the original and improving it. The Komodo platform uses a “delayed proof of work” (dPoW) for its transactions, meaning that once a transaction is verified, it is also recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain for an added layer of immutability and security.

“We launched Get Cred about a month ago, and are excited to introduce new and seasoned investors to our app. Offering free coins is a way for investors to double their investment and engage with the world of crypto in a new way. It gives people a chance to get to know what Get Cred has to offer and makes it fun to get involved,” Get Cred CEO/Founder Brendon McQueen.

Get Cred is a platform that provides not only choice, but also ease of use, education and security. So it’s not hard to see why these two have joined forces!

If you’ve been thinking about investing in cryptocurrency, or if you just want to double your investment immediately, download the Get Cred app in your favorite app store, or click here.
Not Yet Daffodils
By: Samantha Lazar
Tags: Climate Change, Sky Collection, Nature, Flowers, Poetry

Not Yet Daffodils

Sky Collection — Poem 27

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

confused, the bulbs sprout

push their greenery up to the warmth

too soon for photosynthesis

winter took a long pause

look at me, sweet crocuses

you were born of spring

but I am in my January outfit too,

confused in my sleeveless tops

what climate is this

what latitude have we become

tomorrow there will be red buds

and dogwoods’ premature

blossoms a natural

consequence to bloom

and die too soon

for frost will come if only

as a memory to spite

the beauty of narcissus
Summer Footwear, Explained
By: Shani Silver
Tags: Shoes, Satire, Humor, Fashion, Summer

Photo: Yaoqi Lai

Espadrilles: The perfect way to itch, 100% of the time.

Platform Espadrilles: Good for feeling like you’re walking around with cardboard boxes strapped to your feet.

Non-Espadrille Platforms: Zero to ankle sprain in 60 seconds.

Mules: An excellent choice for those who enjoy shoes that fly off the front of the foot with each step and send the arch of the foot crashing down upon the back of the apparatus.

Flip Flops: The absolute best way to get rubber-inflicted blisters on the TOPS of your feet.

Slides: Go fuck yourself.

Sandals (without buckles or straps): Instagram shoes for pedicure display.

Sandals (with buckles or straps): Suitable for use as footwear.

Stiletto Sandals: Hot air rises, so make yourself much taller so you can be where it is. Also pain.

Flats: The origins of stench.

Peep-Toe Flats: Weird.

Booties: Toasty foot prisons.

Sneakers: Excellent for resigning yourself to the fact that the situation calls for maximum foot protection but minimal foot contact with air.

Bare Feet: Fun in theory.

Gladiator Sandals: Tan lines you’ll need to explain later.