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How Your Voice Works
By: Andrei Schiller-Chan
Tags: Mental Health, Self Improvement, Science, Health, Psychology

Clearing Some Common Misconceptions

Before we begin, there are a few misconceptions that are worthwhile to clarify:

1. “Breathe Into Your Diaphragm”

Firstly, the above phrase is mentioned commonly but is, in fact, a biological impossibility — you can only breathe into your lungs. Secondly, Diaphragmatic Breathing is occurring all the time, it is not something you have to learn, although the process of breathing and strengthening of the diaphragm can be vastly improved! Simply, the diaphragm is a flat sheet of muscle, shaped like a dome, which sits underneath your lungs, to which it is joined. When the diaphragm flattens, it draws the lungs downwards creating thoracic capacity to accrue more air by creating negative air pressure. This incredible process and how it affects us can be discovered in greater detail here.

2. “I lost my voice because I was shouting too much!”

Losing your voice is actually not due to increasing the range of your decibels; neither is talking continuously throughout the day. The fact that “babies can cry for hours” and that children can scream and talk for days has a lot of weight behind it. Similarly, folks who have been singing, which is effectively shouting, in the local choir, tend not to walk out after mass spluttering and coughing.

So why is it common for adults to lose their voices more regularly?

Because adults have a lot more responsibility, and with that come life’s many pressures. The hidden costs of stress on the body wreak havoc on the vocal apparatus, which can cause:

Laryngeal Muscle Dysphonia (throat tension) Restricted or forced breathing Decremental vocal habits Poor posture

And the list goes on…

Other psychosomatic factors will also have repercussions on the voice as is seen with people who suffer from PTSD, chronic anxiety, and trauma, which often reveals itself in stammering or voicelessness.

Each of these points can lead to loss of voice so I direct you here to learn what you can do about it. Loss of voice is not, however, from talking too much, or shouting too loudly. If that were the case, there would be many hoarse children out there and parents would still have their sanity as their baby only cried for ten minutes before tapping out! However, what you’ll notice from this list is the severe lack of play, a key ingredient in keeping your voice alive and indefatigable.

3. “I can’t sing!”

If you’ve never practiced, then this may be true, but like all skills, it can be learned, and there is a ton of research out there that shows why you should for your mental and physical health; in fact, singing was shown to have greater positive effects on mood than exercise.

Now, let’s begin with how it all starts — breathing.
The Seventh of August
By: Elizabeth Helmich
Tags: Poetry, Vacation, Choices, Reflections, Life Lessons

The clarity of another blossom

drops off the rose of Sharon into obscurity.

Circular debates resume about prosperity and luck,

or is it fate which deciphers weather as conversation.

Vanes of distraction shift silent winds

when thicker than what we can currently slice.

Next year will be the same and never. I’ll speak less

riddles and run barefoot over concrete fire.

That and the sun may yet catch

the moon’s tail before dawn’s judgment.

Eventually, loops of life’s cord will

overlap or kismet blooms.

Perhaps they’re one and the same, depending

on how tightly a belt is cinched.

Life happens when clocks stop fighting

for minutes and let the gears decide.
Liberty’s Call
By: Kim Simmons
Tags: Poetry, Diversity, Inspirational, Culture, Resistance Poetry

Artwork by author, © 2020 Kim Simmons

Liberty’s Call

A poem about what we can be

Has anyone seen her?

She is 145 years old.

She stands 151’ 1” tall — once with strength and grace.

She strains to lift our torch up to the sky.

She cradles our declared independence.

Last seen wearing a robed dress, a seven-ray crown;

Broken chain and shackle at her feet.

Where can she be?

She’s wandering:

Glowing faint in the darkness of Mammoth Cave,

Rollin’ wearily along the Mississippi River,

Trekking across the prairies of the Great Plains,

Camping, with respect, in Monument Valley,

Showering in Yosemite Falls,

Warming her hands by the fires of Kilauea,

Praying atop Denali.

Like thunder, her voice booms.

I was a gift.

A gift — misrepresented by some.

A gift, wrapped in your battle for freedom.

Freedom from oppression, from tyranny.

An optimistic flame in tumultuous times.

Like many who have fought before, still fighting,

I am wounded, yet still here.

Like rain, her eyes mist.

I have been searching,

For our detached humanity,

For our battered soul.

Soul full of pain and fear — raging.

Once again we stand in this house, divided.

Seemingly, unable to reach, to touch, to move one another.

Like wind, her arms embrace.

I wish I could,

Swaddle away our fears,

Kiss our wounds and make the pain disappear.

But this is not child’s play.

Our differences skipping into discords jumping into fissures summersaulting into rifts

Rifting into chasms, chasming towards the abyss.

Some wounds so old, so deep — still weeping.

Like lightning, her torch strikes!

It will take courage,

Courage to stop tiptoeing around it; to go through it.

It will take compassion,

Compassion to listen, to understand, to comfort, to forgive.

It will take strength,

Strength to acknowledge the trauma that is a part of Us.

It will take hope,

Hope to see with our hearts — the possibility to truly heal.

It will take fight,

Fight to unite our imperfect union.

It will take acceptance,

Acceptance that we have more in common, than not.

It will take all of Us:

Us, who were here first,

Us, who chose to come,

Us, who were forced to come.

Get up! Now!

Tomorrow is too late. Someday is today — should have been yesterday.

Put on the shoes of a stranger and keep to their cadence, their experiences.

Walk with me through this land, our land,

Sowed with a beautiful, diverse people,

Parched and thirsting for its humanity, its soul.

Lend an ear, a hand, a cup of love as you go.

So that we may all have restored strength and grace.

United. Soulful.

US.
Queen of Waste
Tags: Startup Life, Entrepreneurship, Startup

The project sells itself

GoodHout has a technology to make the most amazing engineered wood out of coconuts. We mill the husk into very fine bits. Then we press it at very high temperatures so the natural glues in the coconut activates and permeates the whole. Nothing else.

I think this is the coolest thing in the world, that you can make an awesome product out of a waste stream. A mediocre product out of a waste stream would have been cool enough but making an exceptionally awesome product out of a waste stream, is kind of mind boggling. The project sells itself and has so much potential.

Queen of waste

Three years ago I went to Indonesia to discover my roots. I started looking for a product that had little value in Indonesia, but a lot of value overseas. You quickly come up with coconuts, and I started researching the potential of coconut water, but in fact saw that nothing was being done with the coconut husks.

Wageningen University was already exploring the possibilities of utilizing coconut husk waste. Engineering wood was one of the obvious options. Wageningen didn’t seem convinced it could be a commercial product but we continued looking at market viability and this is where we are today.

Wouldn’t it be cool to be a game changer, the first one to get a whole movement going? With GoodHout I might turn into the queen of waste.

So embarrassed

When I was as kid my dad would pick up rubbish and other people’s garbage from the ground. I would be so embarrassed that he cleaned up after them. He’d say: ‘this is what we do for the planet.’

Nowadays I catch myself doing exactly the same. I can’t comprehend why people in a beautiful place such as Indonesia litter and just throw away rubbish on the streets. I want to change this. Once GoodHout becomes successful, I would like to start a new project, a recycling project where locals can earn cash for handing in rubbish. And we earn money from recycling and separating valuable commodities. Only then can such a change in mind-set become sustainable. I might then become the queen of waste!
Christmas is for Children
By: David Rudder
Tags: Poetry, Love, Children, Blue Insights, Christmas

Christmas is for children

and family celebrations

Santa and his reindeers

music and good vibrations.

Giving and accepting

and showing open love

is a certain recipe

for freeing the peace dove.

Christ was born in Bethlehem

the holy bible says

the joy of a new baby

is really what it is.

The suspense and the excitement

remember lying in bed awake

and just before you nod off

it’s Dad for heaven’s sake!

How could that possibly be

is Dad one of Santa’s helpers

and where are all the reindeers

is it left up to the elders?

Questions of curiosity

melt in the early morn

rifling through the stocking

before the sun and dawn.

Parents aunts and uncles

grandparents and family friends

are all good for a present

chocolates and odds and ends.

Eating the heavenly food

and singing Christmas songs

all’s well with the world

rights have replaced the wrongs.

Christmas is for children

watch a child’s eyes light up

love is alive and brimming

and fills up our Christmas cup.

©

David Rudder

25th December 2020

Thanks for reading.
To Be Smart, Is Admitting That You Are Not That Smart.
By: Do Lectures
Tags: Do Breakthrough, Stock Market, Investing, Money, Finance

The stock market is a smart way to invest your money. But, picking winners is tricky. For example, 96% of actively managed mutual funds fail to beat the market. To be clear, when we say beat the market, we mean a stock index. Be it S&P 500 Index in the USA or Top 100 Index in the UK.

But if you invested in a low-cost index fund, then the odds are more in your favour. Even Warren Buffett, a star picker of undervalued stocks, said when he passes away, the money in trust for his wife should be invested only in indexes so that it minimises her costs and maximises her upside.

Brokers take fees. Mutual funds take fees. Fees matter. Be smart, and spread the risk with a low-cost index-linked fund.

What the majority of people don’t realise is that an increase in 1% in fees will cost you 10 years in retirement income! (see diagram below).

So, find a low fee disruptor. One example I have come across to is Vanguard UK. There are plenty of them. Go find the best one for you. You need to get an independent financial advisor who doesn’t make money from selling you products but by giving you advice.

Three workmates at age 35 all have £100,000 to invest. Each selects a different mutual fund, and all three are lucky enough to have equal performance in the market of 8% annually.

At age 65, this is where they land. And suddenly, those small differences in their respective fees suddenly add up.

Same investment, same returns, and Joe has nearly twice as much money as his friend David!
An Aussie in Austin: SXSW Day 2 Round Up
By: Jonathan Butler
Tags: Periscope, SXSW, Digital Marketing

Day 2 SXSW Interactive. The crowds were even bigger, lines even longer and heads a little more sore for the second day of the festival. Austin’s streets, bars and restaurants were buzzing with people enjoying the first rays of sunshine for the festival.

Skipping the 45-minute line to see the real grumpy cat, I headed straight to a four-hour interactive workshop: Service Safari: Observation for Design Insight which was a hands-on guide to ‘observing your prey in the wild’. Or, in other words, a style of ethnographic research to observe your users behaviour in the environment they actually use the product or service. After spying then pouncing on unsuspecting festival goers to ask them questions about how they got around Austin, my team mapped out their experience and opportunities for improvement.

Tools for the Service Safari

Live streaming services such as Periscope, Meerkat and newcomers Facebook Live, YouTube Live and Amazon Twitch got a lot of love (and even more anxiety) from the marketers at BMW, GE and Mashable who discussed the benefits and risks of live social content. Here’s day 2 SXSW Interactive round up:

Today’s Buzzwords: Authentic (yet again), unique, immediacy, scale, exclusive, delight, spontaneity, brand equity and natural behaviour.

Crystal Ball Premonition: Brands are going to expand their live content offering, such as Mashable who announced that they are exploring the possibility to do a regular series using live streaming Mashable.

Eye Boggling Stat: There is only 2.3 degrees of separation on Facebook and we spend 1 of every 5 minutes of a day on Facebook or Instagram.

Strategy FTW: There is no magic formula for going viral, the best you can do is identify patterns.

On the horizon: GE announced that they will be covering behind the scenes live stream footage of the Rio Olympics in June.

Industry Insider: As Obama said yesterday at his SXSW Keynote presentation, the real magic happens when NFP’s collaborate with governments and the private sector for social good.

Product of the day: Snap2Print is a cool startup that combines the photo booth with social media. Genius.

Snap2Print

Content Insight: Digital content is less about how frequently it is distributed and more about the story and the value you’re adding to your users life.

Cute Case study: ‘Zoe for President’ is a new campaign for the YMCA which taps into the election buzz and everyone’s love of babies to make ‘the Y’ relevant and inspire action.
Why You Should Write About What You Read
By: Rosie L
Tags: Self Improvement, Productivity, Books, Life Lessons, Reading

In January 2017, I started a project that, to my own surprise, is still ongoing.

I decided to start keeping track of what I read. After reading a lot, sometimes hundreds of books a year, since I was about five, I hated not having a record of what I’d got through.

Since then, I’ve written a monthly (or bi-monthly) blog post listing all the books I read during that time, accompanied by short summaries and simple reviews. I also list my absolute favourites from the last few years on a page on my website.

At first, it seemed like something other people might enjoy. Finding good books to read is always a struggle. There are so many options and behind all the self-promotional hype, it can be difficult to establish what is truly worth your time. This is especially the case considering that books are a not insignificant investment of time and, in some cases, money. Seeing as I wasted a lot of both on books that proved to be (subjectively) awful, I wanted to save others the hassle.

As hoped, many people over the years have emailed to tell me that they enjoy the lists and like not having to choose all their own books. Seeing as I read widely and make an effort to engage in serendipitous discovery, the lists involve a lot of unusual or obscure suggestions.

But I never expected just how valuable the practice of writing about what I read would prove for me. In the purely selfish sense, writing these blog posts, which I think of as reading roundups, has made a huge difference to the way I view books.

If you’re someone who wants to get more out of the books you read, you might benefit from doing something similar. Here are a few reasons why.

It doesn’t need to be in blog post format. It could be sitting down to write reviews on GoodReads, Amazon or elsewhere for the books you’ve read lately at the end of each month. It could be a Linkedin post or a Twitter thread, or posts on a related subreddit. It could be an email to a few friends who also like books. It could be something entirely personal, kept in a notebook or Word doc.

The point is making it a regular, consistent practice. Some people might prefer doing it as soon as they finish a book, while the memory is fresh, I personally prefer to let it sit until the end of the month.
Turning
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Writing, Perspective, Poetry, Life

There is the red

somehow escaping the monochromatic

world out the living room window

Snow shrouded houses

mixing up

figure & ground with a grey sky

swallowing up arguments towards

another dimension

Here we seek the refuge

away from the pills

to a determination that doesn’t

come from a bottle

Here we are turning

or trying to turn

into something different
Media Streaming libraries tested and used in Ramudroid
Tags: Media Streaming Robots, Robotics, Real Time Communication, IoT, Ramudroid

Summary of approaches to stream in realtime from Rpi based Robot

Live Streaming — Rpi Camera Access Libraries

flash

ffmpeg

WebRTC

motion

Uv4l

Janus

fswebcam

Rpi Cam

Pros and cons of different Media Capture Libraries

Motion -mjpeg

Adv:

Easy to install and run

Inbuilt monitoring

Disadv:

Delay in stream capture

Frame reload visible

Ffmpeg

Adv:

Flexibility to change parameters

Disadv:

Many dependencies

Heavier to install and make on Rpi h/w

Uv4l — WebRTC

Adv:

Fast , no delay

open codec — vp8

Disadv:

P2p only

Limited codec support

Requires https to capture from browser

WebRTC

Adv:

No plugins — No installations of flash or any other 3rd party plugins

Royalty-free codec — VP8 , VP9 , OPUS -MIT , GPL

Rapid Support — Community support and adoption by major browsers, native SDKs

Javascript — Support for js is the key to making it easily adoptable by developers

Integrable with any signalling method

SIP

MQTT

XMPP

Socketio

websocket

Live streaming on WebRTC

Presentation Ramudroid v7 for IOT PROJECT DAY

Open Source Project on Github
Disco Curtis
By: Arin Segal
Tags: Music, Curtis, Tanner, Disco

A Teen View

Formerly A Website.. Now Just Memories
Want to Become a Better Programmer? Take Advice From Writers
By: Szymon Adamiak
Tags: Coding, Learning To Code, Programming, Education, Software Development

Know Your Audience

Writing and programming are both about communication. But who are you communicating with? Many programmers, especially early in their careers, think they need to communicate only with the machine. After all, the computer needs to understand instructions to execute them. But in reality, programmers communicate mostly with other programmers.

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” — Martin Fowler

Almost every non-trivial application is created by multiple programmers. What’s more, code is read much more often than it is written. You need to communicate with other programmers efficiently, so making the code readable is crucial. It helps to work faster, simplifies maintenance, and facilitates further development.

You may think that your side project’s readability is not essential. After all, you’re the only developer and you know what you’re doing. But do you? Imagine you need to take a break from the project for half a year. Are you sure you’ll understand that code line or that magical number in six months? I don’t think so.

Think of your code as a map. A map only you can use is, well, useless. Your map is for other people. Everyone who understands the map-reading basics should get it. Strive for this level of clarity in your code.

Here are some tips to make your code more like a map and less like a personal diary.

Write to express — not to impress

You can implement a tree traversal algorithm in 80 characters. That’s impressive, but what about all the programmers who don’t have your skill?

Next month or next year, someone will bump into your code and need to add or change something. How long will it take to understand the codebase? Writing code is not a contest. You are a part of the team.

Your team doesn’t want to be impressed by you — just to understand. When we want to be astonished, we can take a look at your code katas. In our project, we’d rather appreciate your consideration.

Follow the conventions

To become a successful writer, you need to follow ground rules. It’s the same with coding. Countless problems have already been solved. You should take advantage of that.

Follow the patterns created by your predecessors, and you’ll be understood. You don’t need to be a slave to others’ opinions. Just be sure you know why you’re breaking convention and if it’s worth it.

Cut excess fat

The longer it takes to create the application, the more cluttered the code will be. Remember to get rid of unnecessary things that impede code understanding.

Remove unused variables, misleading comments, and overly complicated abstractions. Leave only the code that solves the problem you need to address.

Also, make the code more concise as long as it doesn’t impair the readability.
Seven Best Tips for Aspiring Software Engineers
By: Abishaik Mohan
Tags: Self Improvement, Creativity, Productivity, Life, Technology

Tip #1 — Focus on just one or two verticals, initially

I remember how I wasted (not exactly) my time by jumping from one domain of expertise to another in a very short span of time. I soon realized it led me to nowhere. There are a lot of booming technologies out there and it’s important to initially focus on one or two before switching to others. Try to find that niche that really excites you before you proceed to master it.

Though you could argue that exploring a lot of fields initially is what really paves us the way to research, this might not always be true.

Don’t try to learn Kubernetes, Machine Learning and React JS by scheduling time and acting smart. You’ll only end up having half-baked knowledge in the end.

You might have a sudden urge of excitement to study a topic just because it’s currently hot but it’s significant to realize that even the simplest of applications might contain intricate details under the hood. Constantly switching between areas only leads you to wander rather than focus!

Reap the rewards of learning a new skill by implementing it practically such that it solves a mundane task. After accomplishing this, you’ll be fairly confident and you can switch to new technology.
Candle of Night
Tags: Poetry, Writing, Free Verse, Yearning, Eyes

For KLT

Her eyes swoon sighs of sensual

Shimmer to match

The sequins that embellish

Her dress while she croons

As though she were the candle of night

With lips in sync

With the sweet sway of her hips.

©2014 MDSHall
Crazy Man
By: A Story Each Day
Tags: A Story Each Day, Short Story, Fiction

Crazy Man

Written on May 29th, 2014

As part of A Story Each Day

I try very hard not to be one of those crazy people on the subway — one of the ones that holds an entire conversation with them self, and misses their stop doing so.

Waiting to get off the subway, I turned to face the closing door. I locked my gaze forward, looking out the subway car into the station at all of the people funneling up stairs like a reverse waterfall. The train moved past the station, and darted into the dark tunnels that snake through the underbelly of New York City. My reflection appeared: Dark, shadowed, a dimly lit mirror that hadn’t been cleaned in far too long. I stared at my reflection, trying to recognize myself. I was so focused and so intent that I didn’t notice the young kid who was standing almost right next to me, studying my reflection almost as closely as I was. It wasn’t until he spoke up that he shattered my focus.

“What are you doing here?” He asked, as if I had no right to be riding the subway at all. I looked over — not quite sure if he was even talking to me.

“I’m… going home…”

Who is this kid?

“You live here?” his voice took on a friendlier tone. More curious, and less accusing, but still sharp and precise.

“Yeah. In Brooklyn.”

He looked at me with some skepticism, but I could tell he wanted to question further.

“Where do you live?” I asked.

“Virginia.” He claimed, proudly.

“Really?” I turned to him, or at least my reflection did. “I grew up there. What part are you from?”

“I thought so.” He said, almost letting a smile through his expression. He didn’t seem like the kind of person who was comfortable talking to a stranger — he seemed like he would be more comfortable talking to himself, and yet, his curiosity fueled our discussion and kept it going.

“What are you doing in New York City?” I asked.

“What are you doing in New York?” He countered.

“I…” I had to think about that, but I had a damn good answer: “I live here.”

“Why do you live here?”

“Because…I do. You still didn’t answered my question.”

“Which one?” He quizzed.

“Which one what?”

“Which question: The part of Virginia that I’m from, or what I’m doing in New York?”

Just then, I realized that the train had stopped, passengers had gotten off, funneled up the stairs like a reverse waterfall once again, and the doors were closing. They clamped shut in front of me before I could realize what I’d missed, and the train kept on moving.

“Damn. I- You made me miss my stop! And no, beside distracting me from my station, what are you doing in New York?”

“I’m looking for someone.”

“Who are you looking for?”

“Well. I thought I would recognize him. I’m not sure if I do, though. I definitely didn’t recognize him when I first saw him.”

The train slowed to a halt, as I cycled through his words again-

Wait –

“This is your stop, isn’t it?” He said.

“Stand clear of the closing doors, please.”

I stepped off the train, onto the platform, my mind racing.

Wait–

The doors slid shut.

Ding.
No Gender November №7: Support
Tags: Gender Roles, Transgender Rights, Gender Identity, Transgender

No Gender November №7: Support

The Air Force vet fighting to re-win equal rights for US transgender troops.

Meet my friend Nicole. She’s an Iraq war vet with a hell of a lot of fight in her. In her civilian life she’s a youth advocate, board member of Transforming Families MN and an outspoken leader in equal rights activism. She got here by challenging the identity she was assigned and fighting to find herself through introspection and exploration.

In her own words “I grew up being what everyone wanted me to be. I didn’t have my own identity. I built my identity based off of how people told me I should behave. I didn’t get it. I thought what does it mean to be a man and why don’t I get it? This whole gender thing is so simple to everybody and I just don’t get it. It’s so natural to everybody, why don’t I get it?”

Coming from a large, Evangelical family, gender and sexuality were black and white. She never had a language to understand who she was, it was just an unnamable femininity that felt completely out of place. That feeling followed and even pushed her to the Air Force where, ironically, she specialized in Arabic linguistics. As she put it “Part of my motivation to join the military was to be the strongest man I could be because I’m supposed to be a man. It would be an escape from the lingering thought of femininity. I was driven to be a man’s man. I thought I could get a hold of and embrace that masculine culture in the military.”

She did amazing work in Iraq that she’s very proud of. None of that work wound up cementing an identity as a man. She fought for our country, she fought terrorism and she continued fighting against her identity. As representation, awareness and ultimately acceptance of Transgender identity seeped deeper into US culture, she found the language she needed to name this part of herself and community that enabled her to be who she has always been. Though she’s no longer fighting herself, that fire still burns.

Nicole’s red headed fury is aimed at improving the lives of transgender youth, at raising a generation of kids who know themselves, know their friends and don’t care about established notions of gender. And, this veteran’s day she fights to uphold the support for transgender troops who give up everything to fight for this country.
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Water
By: Sean Zhai
Tags: Inspiration, Birds, Poetry, Haiku, Nature

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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Leverage the power of NEST inside AlphaWallet 3.0
By: James Sangalli
Tags: Ethereum, Token, Tokenscript, Tokenisation, Tokenization

But we noticed that to really use NEST on mobile, one must download yet another ethereum wallet just to leverage the special features offered by NEST such as deposit, withdraw and claiming your dividend.

This stirred us up, so we decided we were going to make NEST work inside our app using the power of TokenScript; a framework for smart tokens that run on iOS and Android, with the key features highlighted.

That’s exactly what we did, after a couple of hours of researching and coding, now all AlphaWallet and other TokenScript compatible wallets users will be able to leverage NEST within the app, enjoy!

Deposit, withdraw and claim your NEST dividend inside AlphaWallet
The Overrated Threat From Electromagnetic Pulses
By: War Is Boring
Tags: Wib Politics, Science, Nuclear

The Overrated Threat From Electromagnetic Pulses

EMPS are scary, but not as scary as the nukes that precede them

by MATTHEW GAULT

Few weapons are as scary as those that exist only in our minds.

The Republican Party released its platform to the public in the run-up to its national convention. On page 54, at the tail end of a section titled “America Resurgent,” GOP leaders detailed what they felt is a looming threat of America — electromagnetic pulses.

“A single nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude over this country would collapse our electrical grid and other critical infrastructures and endanger the lives of millions,” the platform stated. “With North Korea in possession of nuclear missiles and Iran close to having them, an EMP is no longer a theoretical concern — it is a real threat.”

But it’s not.

The problem with fear over electromagnetic weapons is that it forgets two simple facts. First, generating enough juice to cause a significant amount of damage is really hard. Second, a country dealing with busted electronics after an EMP assault is a country fighting a nuclear war.

“EMP is the new test case of seriousness in national security,” cyber security expert Peter W. Singer tweeted after reading the platform. “But not in the way advocates not in on the joke think.”

I reached out to Singer and, after a brief pause to make sure I was serious, he pounced. “There’s this irony of the people who think it’s serious not realizing that they’re the joke,” he explained. “When you walk through the actual scenarios of use, it doesn’t pass the logic test.”

An electromagnetic pulse following a nuclear blast is a real thing. The problem is that the process of creating an EMP big enough without the devastation of a nuclear warhead is expensive, absurd and not worth the effort. That’s if it even works.

For that, we can’t recommend enough a 2010 series of articles in The Space Review by Yousaf M. Butt, a physicist currently serving as a foreign affairs officer in the State Department’s Space and Advanced Technology office.

“For a large device (greater than 100 kilotons) …. the whole region on the Earth’s surface which is within line-of-sight to the high-altitude explosion will experience the EMP pulse,” he wrote.

Which sounds scary, but there are several important caveats. The higher you detonate a nuclear device, the greater the blast radius. However, the effect of the EMP will be less. Likewise, the smaller the explosive yield, the smaller the EMP and the closer the blast will need to be to the ground to be effective.

Finding that detonation sweet-spot in the Earth’s atmosphere will take countless tests … which no one has done.
Gold & Silver Market Report for Dec 19, 2020
By: Thomas Ott
Tags: Futures Trading, Trading, Gold, Stock Market

Photo by Hans Eiskonen on Unsplash

Gold & Silver Market Report for Dec 19, 2020

In a stunning reversal, Gold and Silver charge higher this week looking to end the year strong!

It’s Saturday, December 19, 2020 and this is your week’s Gold and Silver market report. In a stunning reversal, Gold and Silver prices closed higher this week. While this is good news, the charts are showing that Gold is making ‘lower highs, and ‘lower lows’ on the weekly charts and Silver appears to be in a range.

Still, this up movement was welcome news for the Silverbugs who are hoping for a $30/oz Christmas. Gold closed at $1,885.69, up 2.49% for the week, where Silver closed at $25.94, up 7.94%!

Gold Chart

Gold had a strong week with Bulls breaking through last week’s long legged dojo and charging higher. Last week’s model’s predicted a lower close but Gold Bulls wanted to end the year on a strong note. Our models show that this week’s action was strong enough to affect the downward price trend by creating a temporary pause.

It remains to be seen if Bulls will come charging out of the gate to higher prices in 2021. Right now, our models are predicting a lower close for Gold next week to the $1,839 level and the risk to the downside remains. It is quite possible that Gold could end the year closer to the $1,800 level than the $1,900 level.

Note: Red lines are key resistance, Green lines are key support

Silver Chart

Silver had a volatile week as Silverbugs continue to buy at these levels. The long legged dojo from the week before was broken as Bulls took control but failed to break through the $26 level. Silverbugs are eyeing the $30 level to either start selling trapped positions or confirm that their purchases at the $23 to $25 level was a wise buy. Expect more volatility this week.

Just as Gold above, this week’s price action was enough to create a temporary pause on the downward price trend and our models are pointing to a flat close for Silver next week to the $25.92 level. Our models show that the current price level for Silver is where it supposed to be, anything above it is too pricey and anything below it is at value.

Note: Red lines are key resistance, Green lines are key support

Gold to Silver Ratio Chart

The Gold to Silver Ratio closed higher to the 72.66 level, a touch higher from last week’s close. Last week’s strong Gold and Silver action kept this ratio pretty flat and our models appear to be transitioning to another state with initial results are showing the Gold to Silver ratio could move lower in the new year. However, our models forecasting a slight higher close to 76.82 for next week indicating that Silver might be heading lower. This is at odds with our Silver forecast above.

Note: Red lines are key resistance, Green lines are key support
Time Unfolds
By: Daus Gonia
Tags: Relationships, Life

I am a daydeamer. Or simply a dreamer, you may say. And most of the time, an optimist. Or more likely a sloppy one with so many dreams, and fantasies, and things I wanted to achieve.

I wanted to have a clothing brand, I wanted to make schools, I wanted to develop more games, I wanted to open a Coffee Shop, I wanted to help elevate the state of our nation’s economy by providing a proper education to Small Businesses about the use of technology and how to utilise social media, I wanted to support our country’s educational system continuously by lending my hands for the teachers and lecturers, and introduce them to future technologies.

I even wanted to create a Peci/Kopiah that would be able to automatically tweet every time I pray with it, so that I could trigger others to do the prayers as well.

Months before my wedding day, one of my close friend told me, “I actually miss the time where I were exactly like you, you know. Now all I want is anything but simple. I want to meet a woman of my life, get married, have kids, and create a happy family.”

At that time, what he said didn’t make any sense to me. At all.

Days passed and right before I was about to get married, a friend whom also a person I look up to, told me that: “I really wish that after marriage, you’ll still be the person you are now. The Daus Gonia that we all knew.”

Again, I wasn’t really grasp his meaning back then.

…And here it goes now. I am now a happily married guy, a father of a very cute little 1 year old son. And finally I have realised what were they saying back then.

Maybe if someone ask me right at this moment ‘what do you really want?’, I would simply give the same answer with what my friend said to me that day. I want no other than happiness upon my family, my wife, my son, and my friends. That is my top priority that no one else will take away from me.

But hey, I am so blessed I got the best family, and the very best wife that allows me to be whatever I want to be, creating whatever I want to create. How lucky I am, right?

So even my priority changes over time and maybe not like how it used to be, I really wish that I will forever still be able to create. Still be able to imagine.

So yeah, let’s never stop imagining. Let’s never stop dreaming and trying to make it happen. :)
Conflicted
By: Don Franke
Tags: Short Fiction, Fiction, Regret, Flash Fiction, Science Fiction

Conflicted

Some jobs aren’t all just fun and games

Image public domain, courtesy of comicbookplus.com, modified from original.

“We don’t know anything about them!” Wilma’s partner shouted as she left for work. But what did she know?

Trish was on point today. Her mech warrior, controlled remotely from the cubicle next to Wilma, was as graceful as a ballerina as it sprinted forward and flourished multi-ton arms to efficiently level buildings and indigenous species as it went. A leaderboard awarded a point for each kill and she was currently in the lead. On her way to snagging this quarter’s bonus. “Not this time,” Wilma muttered as she donned her headset.

Driving the mechs on a planet over 4 light years away required anticipation. A.I. filled in the gaps, while the driver marked “keyframes” and approved or (rarely) rejected kill recommendations. Wormhole tech provided a communications tether between the Oklahoma facility and the remote planet of orange tripeds deemed Earth’s existential threat.

Their squad of mechs formed a line, spaced about half a klick apart, paused to recon the valley before them.

“That looks like the cul-de-sac where I grew up,” Trish remarked over group chat.

They then marched forward, destroying everything in their path with minimal resistance. Wilma’s display showed an abode at 12 o’clock where a group of orange aliens had gathered on the front lawn. They were holding each other, looking up defiantly with their oversized eyes in the shadow of Wilma’s killing machine.

“Wait!” Trish yelled. Wilma eased up on her controls and peered over the cubicle half-wall.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s… that’s a family! What are you… what are we…” Suddenly Trish yanked off her headset, leapt from her seat and vomited in the nearest trash can. Then she sobbed.

This was Wilma’s opportunity. She refocused. We don’t know anything about them echoed in her head. But then she eyed Trish’s current score.

She released the shoulder brake and fourteen tons crashed down.

A klaxon sounded, and Wilma looked at the leaderboard. ‘Winner’ displayed next to her name.

“Yeah, baby!”

A wave of energy flowed over her, and she was instantly transported. No longer just vicariously observing through the mech, she was now on their distant world. Breathing their air, hearing grinding metal, smelling death. Standing before a newly formed crater smeared with remains. One of the tripeds stood nearby, holding some sort of device that Wilma felt strangely connected to.

“You here now,” it said in a way she somehow understood. “You see us. You feel us. You know us.”

“I… what?” Wilma stammered. At first she wanted to know how she was brought here. Then she felt a curiosity about these creatures and their world. They seemed… benign. But all of that was quickly replaced by a primal desire to be back home, and to collect her reward.

“Let me go!” She dropped to her knees. “Let me out of here!”

Suddenly Wilma was traveling through a tunnel of kaleidoscopic light. But not at light speed. The trip home would give her a very long time to think.
How To Increase Sex Drive And Boost Your Libido
By: Dayana Sabatin
Tags: Sex, Life, Love, Life Lessons, Relationships

There are many, many reasons as to why you’re not feeling up for Sex.

Ranging from hormones, body image issues, stress, overall mental health — unfortunately, the list of reasons is long.

Luckily, there are proven studies that have been done that show us how we can boost our libido.

Gurit Birnbaum, lead researcher, and a social psychologist at the Interdisciplinary Center said we are wired to form relationships, which is why simply the thought of Sex brings in the desire to connect emotionally. His research showed that envisioning Sex in your mind with your partner — makes it significantly easier to be intimate.

Another study that was published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, researchers found that increased levels of endurance training (cardio) on a regular basis were significantly correlated with lower libido in men.

Whereas strength training, involving resistance and weights, boosts your libido. This could be because strength training is better at relieving stress as opposed to cardio, which can burn your body out significantly more.

There’s a variety of different ways to improve your sex life and increase your drive. If you’re in a relationship and stuck in a sexual rut (aka dry spell for the last 3 weeks. or 3 months), you’re not alone, and there are things you can do to help reignite the passion between you and your significant other.
Studio Smashers Vol.3
By: Martha Bergmann
Tags: Design

PS Store by DAVID HALLUIN

To master a skill you gotta be consistent with your practice — set a goal, make a schedule, and stick to it. Just like @DavidHalluin with his weekly UI challenge.

This week he made a UI for the PS Store with @invisionapp Studio. So dope!

Thanks for sharing with us — can’t wait to see what you all keep creating!
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Tags: Justice League, 9paneles, Medium En Español, Animación, Cine

in Eudaimonia and Co
Want to Nail Being a Remote Boss? Don’t Do These Three Things.
By: Leon Purton
Tags: Success, Work, Leadership, Remote Work, Life

Photo by Chris Rhoads on Unsplash

DON’T be a Thermometer

This boss of mine, James, was good at controlling speed. What I mean is he would be able to speed up something that needed to happen quickly and slow down those things that are moving too fast.

He did this through his energy and the way he communicated.

In a situation where bosses are starting to feel like they are losing control of their team, it is a common trap to want to start paying attention and react to the ‘temperature’ of the team. Measure how they are handling stress, how their energy levels are, where they need someone to step in.

This is a trap and it is magnified by being a remote leader in ways that you may not notice.

Those bosses that are reacting to their environment are thermometer leaders. Thermometers are reactionary, they are a lag indicator. They tell you it is getting hot, or getting cold. They do nothing to regulate.

A thermometer leader senses when their team is stressed and gets stressed themselves. A thermometer leader reacts to an inter-team argument with a louder voice. You will have seen thermometer leaders in your workplace.

Thermostats, even though they sound like thermometers, are very different. They react to small changes in temperature to keep it within a band. This band is the area in which the things it is protecting work the best.

James was a thermostat, instead of reacting to the speed of the teams and projects. He would control the speed to get optimum outcomes.

When you are a remote boss, it can be difficult to ‘sense’ what needs to change. So you need to continuously try to measure performance, stress, fatigue, etc. This starts to put you in the Thermometer category. Reacting.

To be a great remote boss, don’t measure and react. Control the tempo and stress by providing insight into tasks important to the business, where things can go slower because of changes outside of the team. Let the team understand the environment and they will optimise inside of it.
The Future of Design Education Pt. 356
By: Tyler Hartrich
Tags: Design, Future, UX, Education, UX Design

The Future of Design Education Pt. 356

On Designer Recoiling

Rejuvenation

There are times in a designers life when it becomes evident that in order to continue to grow and expand the bounds of humanness requires a regenerative approach to fueling oneself. It is only human that we take the time and space necessary to find new meaning in our designer lives. Rejuvenation is a key facet of building motivation — offering a a time of reflection can be a form reminder of our long tail trajectory.

Recoiling

To progress forthward, one must often take a position of growth in realms. In the growing complexities of life we must see this as a positive pursuit. Growing in new avenues is a 21st century phenomenon and must be celebrated. Our ability to recoil after an extended amount of dedicated work is necessary! We wouldn’t be human if it weren’t the case.

Sense-making

It is how we work with our need to drive deep into our core and source our inner power — the way we transcend a time of burnout and find new life in a new form. This is growth! Our designer sense-making is boundlessly expanding and ready for ours to enter into it if we so allow it!

Call to action

Consider your current state of designer awareness. Are you in need of a shift, a major or minor adjustment in the health of your designer self? It might not be obvious at first glance, but through considered observation you will find whether it is time to recoup and take a step back from your day-to-day activities. Tap into your designer source fuel and relinquish your present form. It might just be that there is more awaiting for you behind a new door.

Go forthward and thrive!

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WePower 주요 소식: 6월 — 7월
By: Jay Lee
Tags: Wepower, Renewable Energy, Energy, Korean Wpr, Cryptocurrency

Future Energy Forum Seoul

My feedback from trip to Seoul.