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Why New Crypto Customers Should Purchase The Dacxi Bundle
Tags: Crypto, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Technology, Bitcoin

Most people have heard of Bitcoin but for people new to crypto, the challenges of figuring out how to actually buy and store it are considerable. With just 1% of the planet currently in crypto assets, there’s incredible potential in the years ahead. We want to make it as easy as possible for new people to gain exposure to crypto as an asset class — and that’s why we’ve created the Dacxi Bundle.

Here’s why you should consider purchasing in the Dacxi Bundle:

It’s a Bundle of the top Crypto Assets

The Dacxi Bundle is a diversified portfolio of the top three, most trusted crypto assets (Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin) plus Dacxi’s DAC Coin. Each asset is the leader in their category. The bundle is designed to minimise risk and maximise returns for new crypto investors looking for the simplest way to participate in the next crypto boom.

It’s Easy to Buy

Simply go to dacxi.com/bundle and follow the easy process. With a minimum purchase of $100, you’re in control. Purchase as much or as little as you like.

You’re Instantly Diversified

Many tech and financial thought leaders are now recommending that savvy investors allocate a portion of their portfolio (1% to 5%) to Bitcoin and crypto assets. Why? Because they offer a powerful combination — the ability to generate significant long-term returns and strong diversification benefits given their low correlation to traditional asset classes. As global property and share market growth stalls, it’s smart to diversify your portfolio. For customer who are new to crypto, the easiest way to achieve this is a Dacxi Bundle.

No Fees

The Dacxi Bundle contains no fees. Yes, you read that right. There are no one-off or regular fees. It’s completely free to buy. The exact amount of crypto you will get for your money is based on the current market price and will be confirmed when your order is processed.

Your Crypto Is Secure

After purchase, your Dacxi Bundle is stored in your Dacxi Exchange wallets. These are protected by our security protocols. You can either store them safely in your Dacxi wallets, or withdraw them to another wallet at any time.

You Can Sell Whenever You Want

You are free to store your crypto in your exchange wallets, remove them to a hardware wallet, or sell them individually at any time.

Past Returns Have Been Excellent

While past performance is not indicative of future returns, even during 2018’s bear market, if you’d bought a $1000 Dacxi Bundle on Jan 1 2016 your bundle would be worth approximately $55,209 today. Buy a bundle, make a bundle?

We’ve Even Got A Compelling Bonus Offer

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Hey Siri, Apple Needs To Introspect It’s App Store Policies
By: Anupam Chugh
Tags: Business, Marketing, Apple, Technology, Startup

Hey Siri, Apple Needs To Introspect It’s App Store Policies

Ahead of its annual developer conference, Apple finds itself in the heat of an antitrust investigation and a fallout against the rising email platform

Photo by Laurenz Heymann on Unsplash

When the Hey email service was launched on App Store last week, the most pressing question from Basecamp’s new email service was it’s $99 annual subscription. Notably, the premium subscription charges are even higher — $999 for two-letter email addresses.

The CTO, David Heinemeier Hansson rather jokingly replied that the subscription plans would help recover the cost of acquiring the domains. Little did he know that a storm was coming their way.

For the uninitiated, the Hey app strives to reintroduce and change the way we perceive emails — something that hasn’t been attempted outside Google’s once highly ambitious project “Inbox”. The new email service boasts of screeners to help you filter first-time senders, avoids spy pixel tracking, and revamps how we handle email threads by offering customizations.

But by the time Hey’s launch celebrations would have probably got over, they received a piece of bad news from Apple. The App Store Review Team that had passed the Hey app’s version 1.0 went ahead and rejected the next minor update comprising of bug fixes. The reasons for the rejection surprisingly belonged to the in-app purchase subscription:

Violation of Guideline 3.1.1 — If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, you must use in-app purchase. Your app requires customers to purchase content, subscriptions, or features outside of the app, but those items are not available as in-app purchases within the app as required by the App Store Review Guidelines.

Apple has effectively block updates from the Hey application and forced them to introduce in-app purchase options or risk getting thrown out of the App Store. For starters, Apple takes a big 30% cut from the in-app-subscriptions by providing a one-click payment and it’s own billing services.

While in Apple’s defense, it’s their own platform, service, and operating system and as they’ve told — the cut is a need to compensate for the costs of seamless integration, providing security and App Store services to third-party developers. But, the Apple tax cut is not only humongous but also unfair considering the uneven exceptions and inconsistent policies they’ve enforced in the recent past.
Maslo Research: Journaling
By: Ross Ingram
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Mental Health, Research, Journaling, Mood

You want to be your best self. We build technology to help you get there. Tips from friends at Maslo.

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Taraxa Consensus (1/5): Single chain’s tough trade-offs
By: Steven Pu
Tags: Blockchain, Taraxa Tech, Taraxa

A word on security

Miners decide which block to “bet” on to become the longest chain

In systems like Bitcoin or Ethereum, a single chain of blocks each contain sets of transactions. The network makes forward progress one block at a time (at a given average timeframe), which means the maximum number of transactions the network can process for that timeframe is limited to the transactions within one block.

At any given time, the network on average produces not one but many blocks (how frequently this happens depends on the specifics of a given blockchain). In single-chain systems, miners are actively selecting which block they wish to accept (bet on) and build on for the next blocks in the network. Eventually, only the longest chain on the network, where the largest number of miners have chosen to make their bets on, will win out, and the rest of the blocks on other chains are thrown away, essentially wasted work.

Blockchain isn’t a chain, more like a tree, with branches being discarded constantly

Hence, despite descriptions of a blockchain as a single chain, it in fact looks more like a tree, with many branches. All but one single branch will survive, the rest are discarded.

An attacker that tries to cheat the network will typically attempt to rewrite history by trying to beat the rest of the network in building the longest branch and inserting malicious transactions into blocks on that branch. For example, attacker A buys something from B and sends B 1 coin. B gives A the goods it purchased. A then attacks the network and creates a longer chain which has it send the coin not to B but to C. In this scenario, A now has the goods from B, but B never received payment.

One way that many classic single chain networks use to ameliorate malicious branching is to simply slow down the network progression. This reduces the likelihood that an attacker could, with much less resources, leverage temporary information asymmetry created by networking delay to mislead honest nodes into betting on its malicious branch. In BTC for example, they adjust the proof of work puzzle difficulty to set an average time between blocks, and make sure this delay is far longer than the time it would take for a block to propagate throughout the network to every node.
How to load your Kaggle datatset into Google Colab.
By: Iheagwara Ifeanyi Benny
Tags: Dataset, Machine Learning, Colab, Kaggle, Kaggle Competition

You would need a Kaggle account for this.

· Get your Kaggle API Token by heading to the “my account” on your kaggle account.

· Create a new API token. A “Kaggle.json” file will automatically download.

· Open your Google Drive and create a folder (name it “Kaggle”).

· Upload the “Kaggle.json” file download earlier into this kaggle folder. Can be done by simply rightclick and upload… Pretty easy.

· Create a new Colab notebook and open. You can name your Colab notebook. As a reference I would be using the ‘Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space Use satellite data to track the human footprint in the Amazon rainforest’ Dataset.

· Mount the drive to Colab by simply running:

from google.colab import drive drive.mount(‘/content/gdrive’)

· Click on the link and follow the necessary google vertification steps, you will be given a passcode. That is your authorization code. Then press enter right after filling it it.

· Next config your path to Kaggle.json by running:

import os os.environ[‘KAGGLE_CONFIG_DIR’] = “/content/gdrive/My Drive/Kaggle”

· Change your working directory. You can find out what yours is by running “pwd” and make the necessary adjustments if your is different.

%cd /content/gdrive/My Drive/Kaggle

Like I earlier said, I would be ‘Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space Use satellite data to track the human footprint in the Amazon rainforest’ using as a reference.

· Click on the download (highlighted it BLUE on the image below). This will take you to page where you accept the rules and regulation of the competition. You will also be asked for your phone number.

· Right after this. A “Kaggle verification number” will be sent to your device.

· Time to download the Kaggle dataset.

· Go to the Competition page and Copy the API command (highlighted it RED on the image above).

· Head over to your notebook and run the copied code using !:

· You can check the content in your directory using the !Is

· Unzip your data and remove the zip by running:

!unzip \*.zip && rm *.zip

That’s all for that. Happy learning
Deterioration
By: Lexus Ndiwe
Tags: Short Story, Murder, Writing Challenge, Betrayal, Microfiction

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Cracking the Code to Mobile Productivity
By: Jon Friedman
Tags: Design, User Experience, Mobile, Productivity, Microsoft

In Seattle, an engineer thumbs through a Mumbai-based coworker’s edits while walking between meetings. In rural China, an artisan uses their phone to sell their creations. In Johannesburg, a lawyer texts back a client before catching the bus. These real-life snapshots show the diverse and evolving workflows of today’s 5 billion mobile users worldwide.

In many ways, mobile productivity is still a code waiting to be cracked. Beyond mobile-first and mobile-only markets where necessity mandates it, we can rarely accomplish as much on a phone as we do on our PCs. However, we believe in empowering everyone to be fully productive on any device. Our teams’ focus on emerging markets, inclusive design, and accessibility has broadened our aperture as we create more tailored, intelligent experiences across Microsoft 365.

Today, we’re excited to unveil redesigns to our flagship mobile apps! We’ve redesigned Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can also expect new versions of Teams, Yammer, and Planner soon. These redesigns contribute to broader company efforts to take mobile productivity to the next level. At Microsoft Ignite, we publicly previewed our beta Office app and Fluid Framework. Office combines multiple Microsoft 365 mobile experiences in one app, and Fluid is a new technology that breaks broad experiences into dynamic, real-time components ideal for mobile scenarios.

Beyond the public eye, we’re also conducting global research, designing a mobile-born version of Fluent, exploring scenarios for dual-screen experiences, and creating mobile UI toolkits for external developers to build this mobile future alongside us.

Read on for a behind-the-scenes look at our research, design process, and future vision for Microsoft 365 mobile experiences.
Brittle
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Image, Feeling, Musing, Poetry

I don’t know

how gently I have to

be touched now

The car and sidewalk

are covered

in brittle potholes of ice

This silence

has never been the experience

I was looking for

Cracked down the center

easing into routine

hammering as I go

Information comes slowly

and usually

doesn’t spend the night

I am freezing up

and letting go, and neither

strategy is working for me
No Crying Over Spilled Milk
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Humor, Haiku, Poetry, Crying, Milk

Hi! I’m Terry Mansfield and I Specialize in Eclecticism

Here are some things about me you probably don’t know (and maybe don’t even care to know; sorry about that).
Oh Brigid!
By: Jean Carfantan
Tags: Sacred Feminine, Poetry, Brigid, Ireland, Prayer

Oh Brigid, goddess of the thresholds

Inspire me, pouring your wisdom in my soul.

Oh Brigid, goddess of poetry,

Blow your divine air to reignite my fire

Oh Brigid, goddess of the blacksmiths

Help me to shape my words as a wordsmith.

Oh Brigit, goddess of the healers

Give me your strength to heal this hurt world.

Oh Brigit, I am your crucible to receive your fire

Give me the transmission power of words through love.

Oh Brigit, give me a bucket from your holy fountain

so I can be a peace warrior with a tempered sword.

Oh Brigid, this planet is my anvil to forge my soul,

Allow me to hear what the wind and the sea shout to me,

Allow me to understand the fire dance in the hearth,

Allow me to feel the earth beats and the lightning touch.
Aaaahhhh, Reblorg
By: Choire Sicha
Tags: My Eyes They Burn, Idk, GIFs

When you are launching some weird new Tumblr about mind-melting gifs, definitely you should always hire the Taiwanese animators at Next Media to make a bizarre preview video for you. No, what is Reblorg really? It’s for fun things you’ve made: “Our submission rules are simple: you must have made it, and it must be new.”
I’m Finding It Hard to Concentrate on Anything Right Now
By: Ryan Fan
Tags: Mindfulness, Productivity, Politics, Election 2020, Self

I’m Finding It Hard to Concentrate on Anything Right Now

Regardless, this moment will also pass.

From SnapwireSnaps on Pixabay

I check my phone about every one to two minutes for updates on the election.

Sometimes there are, and sometimes there aren’t. But I feel a sense of paralyzing stress where my productivity in work, writing, graduate school, or seemingly anything right now. I tried to sleep last night too — and I slept, just not well at all.

Biden seems to be on the up and up at the moment, but it’s still not secure. I voted for Biden, but I reserved reservations for the polls, and it seems like that reservation was right. In the past election nights I have seen, they were just nights, but this is a long, slow fight that might take the whole week. And I just want it to be over.

I’m finding it hard to concentrate on anything right now. Any kind of focus I can give seems to be pretty sporadic at best. I understand that a lot of people, including my co-workers and my friends, feel the same way. I got a call from my parents to stay calm during the election, but it’s difficult.

It’s easy to say the election doesn’t affect my life and the lives of the people around me. But that’s not true, or at least it doesn’t feel true right now. I, like many, am in a state of flux, of intense communal uncertainty. I’m usually able to maintain my calm and cool in stressful situations, but I wish I just felt exhausted so I could go to sleep. Instead, I just feel impending anxiety that won’t go away.

Turning the news off would be a way for me to cope — I wrote recently that tuning off of social media was essential because not that much of the outcome is in many of our realms of control right now. All that advice is well said, but it’s hard to actually implement at the moment right now.

Regardless, this moment will also pass. That’s what I keep telling myself right now, and an important thing to do is to give myself permission: it’s okay not to be productive, and it’s okay to let go and stop trying to struggle so much, for now.

Perhaps a lot of you are finding it hard to focus on anything as well. That’s normal — and perhaps one consolation is that we’re all in this together, at least. According to the American Psychological Association, more than two-thirds (68%) of Americans, the election is a significant source of stress. Now, more than ever, it’s important to keep in mind that most of us are not alone as the polls keep updating slowly.
3 basic things you need to succeed
By: Liam Ireland
Tags: Success, Writing, Short Stories And Poems, Illumination Curated, Short Form Story

3 basic things you need to succeed

I suppose it all depends on what success means for you. Success comes in many forms. It can be lots of money, or just enough to give you financial security for the rest of your life. Or it can be social standing, the respect of the whole wide world, your peers or just your family and friends. Whatever success means to you it will only come with the following three things in place.

1.A great idea. It does not have to be the most original or newest idea that nobody has ever thought of. It does have to be an idea that is attractive and offers something to your target market.

2.An ability to execute the idea. It doesn't matter that you may not yet have the ability, that is something that you can develop with lots of practice.

3.A passion for what you do. Passion is what it will take to get you through what may turn out to be a very long arduous journey. Either you've got it or

you haven't.
Investing in Love
By: The Blessed Hub
Tags: Growth Mindset, Islam, Muslim, Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth

It’s nice when someone loves you or your project or your work. Just letting someone know this makes a huge difference.

But we don’t get to love without respect, first. Respect is insufficient by itself, though. When you are touched by something on an emotional level is when the magic happens. Yet without respect, we don’t expect love.

As a community it is time to invest in love. It is time to leap into territories where love lies. The tradition, “Exchange gifts, and mutual love arises; shake hands, and enmity will fall away,” calls to this path.

Think about those in and around your life you haven’t connected with in a while. Send them a gift. Somewhere outside, there’s someone waiting.
Virgin Birth (a Pindaric ode). At the mercy of ruthless enemies…
By: Stephen Hoffman
Tags: Regeneration, The Second Coming, Renewal, Otherdoors, Rebirth

I

At the mercy of ruthless enemies,

Armpit-deep in cunning and deceit; fools

Without pity, pride, enterprise; mirth swallowed

In cautious prudence, bloated self-regard,

The blighted markers of the COVID cult —

At the mercy of ruthless enemies

Without remorse or honest reputation,

I write this missive to posterity

And beg the gods forgiveness for my errors,

My frankness, my lucidity, my hope —

Hope fading and departing in the pale

Timorous light of this COVID fairy tale.

Let calculating reason stand at ease

And frequent shadows till volition cools

Upon a scene of savage wonder hallowed

By memory and time: a virgin birth unmarred

By seasoned prophecy or mystery cult

(Beginnings amputated at the knees,

A devil’s bargain, self-prevarication,

Self-immolation of the soul). Look back. I see

The future blazing. Truth is light. Its bearers

Blaze like lanterns in the dark. Silken rope

Binds you to who you are. Strength will not fail.

Fetch molten sunlight in a golden pail.

II

This light, so stern and violent, is yet warm

And tender as a melting butter stain

Upon a gold-embroidered table spread,

Or royal infant dribbling on its bib.

Your huddling, cringing angst before the storm —

Litany dismal as December rain —

These badges and habiliments of dread,

Are human infants murdered in their crib.
空における改善とは？を考えてみました。
Tags: Tech Debt, Product Development, Kaizen

in Both Sides of the Table
Mental Images of Impressionism.
By: Dr John Rose
Tags: Impressionism, Monet, Poetry, Philosophy, Self

Two paintings of Monet that I love,

this one, La Grenouillere and

Water Lilies painted in his later life.

Water Lilies evoked meditation and

images of a billabong

sitting with my father beside

still water,

evocative depths,

meditation and peace.

La Grenouillère was a resort on

Seine River near Paris for

boating and bathing.

Always loved this painting,

water rhythms harmonising with

childhood images

boating and exploring

Rose Bay in Sydney.

Funny how memory works

first thing I remembered were

flying boats on Rose Bay.

Rowing boat

exciting takeoff,

engine roar,

driving spray,

prop wash,

exhaust,

wake and waves,

maybe a bit close.

By Unknown author — http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=388323, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35746111

Another image flashed,

gentle summer’s day,

my home on the bay,

near the right edge

memory sees it

rowing boat and jetty

dog barking

Dad digging garden

while I watered everything

being helpful.

By Adam.J.W.C. — Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11509810

Meditation.

I have found works like

Monet’s La Grenouillere are

timeless memory palaces of

swirling cues triggering

songline recollections,

reflections and

self questioning.

For myself,

every painting teaches

another life lesson.

Blessed be

our artists.

I thank Susannah MacKinnie

her art strikes a

chord in my heart.

I remember.
자바스크립트의 데이터 저장방식과 타입
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Separate, And In No Way Equal
By: Darren Stehle
Tags: Gender Identity, Queer, Pride, Marriage Equality, LGBTQ

Th-Ink Queerly Pride 2018 Writing Prompt

Some of you may have already head about our PRIDE writing prompt/call for submissions. If you have, wonderful! This is a friendly reminder to think about what pride means to you, and if you’d like to share your story with us.

Ideas to get your creative juices flowing:

What do you love, Love, LOVE about Pride?

Have you ever felt like you didn’t belong at Pride?

Do you have questions or issues around the commodification and commercialization of Pride?

Should Pride be political or an ecstasy-popping party?

Did you meet your lover at Pride? Did you break up at Pride? Did both happen at the same Pride?

And what about “those people” who say we shouldn’t have Pride because it’s too “in your face”?

How do we remember our history at pride

What about the people and countries who risk their lives to attend a Pride celebration

Should we allow the police to attend Pride?

Body image, nakedness, gender policing, and any other “issues”.

Finally, what about a fiction submission in which Pride is the focus or setting of your story?

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How to submit a post for Pride

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If you’re not a contributor, but would like to be considered, review the Th-Ink Queerly Writing Guidelines and complete the submission form.

Be sure to include [Pride] before the article title (which we will remove upon publication), and include “Pride” as one of your 5 article tags.

Looking forward to a “proud” month of thought-provoking articles and breaking 1,000 followers in early June!

Oh, by the way, June is THIS FRIDAY! :-)
The real meaning of “intuitive” — and more UX this week
By: Fabricio Teixeira
Tags: Hot This Week, Design Thinking, Design, Product Design, Startup

The real meaning of “intuitive” — and more UX this week

A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

What “intuitive” really means →

No one writes the i-word down because they are naive or don’t mean good. But the problem with the word “intuitive” is that it means very different things for different people.
A Photo Essay for Martin Luther King
Tags: Culture

“Our power lies in our ability to say nonviolently that we aren’t gonna take it any longer.” — MLK

A photo essay of Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police brutality from LA & Manhattan.

By Daniel Sawyer Schaefer
My Courage is Reborn
By: Gregory D. Welch
Tags: Inspiration, Motivation, Advice, Self Improvement, Self

Today, take the time to slow down and acknowledge not only what you’ve been through but where you’ve wound up. It isn’t easy doing this writing thing. It isn’t easy to choose to believe in yourself, your words or your dream.

But for each time you’ve chosen to persist, celebrate your tenacity.

And for each time you’ve fallen short, fell flat, or missed the ball entirely, take a deep breath. Tomorrow, you start again. You have it within your ability to hit the reboot button and to choose momentum, progress, continued effort. You have within your reach the ability to choose to continue, to defy failure.

Courage is yours for the taking.
The Human Condition is not a Pathology
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Future, Ideas, Mental Health, Language, Philosophy

As with everything pertaining to humanness, our mental health is fallible; like our bodies, our minds malfunction. They also age, they break down, and eventually they shut down. The more we share with others how we manage our mental health, the better for everyone as many of us still reflexively fear what we do not yet fully understand.

Narrating our lives point by point without attempting to interpret what has happened to us is counterproductive. The familiar aspect of the topic might strike a chord among fellow humans and make us feel less alone for a hot minute but it won’t have been thought-provoking to write or read. Instead, it keeps us exactly where we’re at, glued to the spot by a diagnosis we have no idea how to live with so we hail it as our guru, our guide, and our shield.

Different diagnoses command a different kind of attention, elicit a different kind of voyeurism. Although we all have a dark side, most of us have found it will smother us unless we keep it in check. If only we believed in ourselves half as much as we believe in our limitations, if we expended as much energy showing we can instead of defending why we can’t…

When we cannot think, going into observation mode might lessen our anxiety and provide material for future writing. But typing those up without context or attempt to connect the dots isn’t writing, it’s data entry. Writing is data processing, it calls for intellectual and emotional labor and rigor; writing demands of us the ability to step back and gain critical distance. Wonky or not, human brains are not machines and they need time to process life; cutting out thinking is against nature. Nevertheless we do try and we end up missing nuances as our command of language becomes more or more tentative, our words vaguer and vaguer.

One day, humanness is a synonym of sickness and we begin to self-destruct in a flurry of frustration. Wasn’t the internet supposed to save us from ourselves by connecting us across all that divides us? If the words we choose to publish do not enrich our experience of being a human in the world or encourage the growth of empathy, compassion, and dignity for all, how will we ever reclaim our humanity once we’ve sold it off to the highest bidder?

And how will we ever hold on to language once words have lost most of their meaning? Language is a living organism; when one definition takes over all others, the word shrinks and so does our vision of the world until it’s so tiny it fits just the one person.
3 simple ways to make your Ad stand out on the CricHeroes Market
By: Parita Pithwa
Tags: Cricket, Cricket Equipment, Online Selling, Cricket Online Tips

Cricket is not only the second most popular sport in the world but also a lifeline for millions of small businesses and professionals, who make a living selling cricket related products and services.

For most of them, promoting their products or services on WhatsApp was the only viable option for marketing until CricHeroes Market launched a few months ago.

CricHeroes Market is the ultimate place to sell cricket products and services to the millions of cricket enthusiasts in India and all around the world.

We already talked about how CricHeroes Market can benefit the sellers to increase their sales in our previous blog. But what if we tell you that some sellers make more money on our market than others? It is true for any marketplace and it is true for CricHeroes Market as well. But why?

Well, recently we did a survey to find out why certain Ads on CricHeroes Market perform better than the others. We found out three major points.

Attractive and contextual title of the Ad

The ads with attractive and contextual titles fared much better than those who didn’t. Check below example.

Premium Quality Kashmir Willow Leather Bat is a much better title than just Cricket bat. We know it’s obvious but many of our sellers don’t pay attention to it. If you are a seller on CricHeroes Market, you should pay attention here.

Product Images

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The most important thing for any ad on the CricHeroes Market is the attractive, crisp product images.

Click photos of your products with a good quality mobile camera on a solid background. Post more than one images of your product with different angles depending on your product type.

The size and shape of images also matter. Keep minimum dimension of 1008x1008 or in simple language post square images so buyers can view the whole image in one go.

If you are promoting a tournament, mention all the key details in the image.

The first image in the following example makes sense. All the key details are mentioned in the image itself so that users don’t have to go through the description whereas the second image looks very scattered and unengaging. You would also move past that ad, right?

Detailed Description

Which one of the following ad would you prefer?

The first one with good pictures and a detailed description is a much better Ad compared to the second.

So these are the three key steps to become an effective seller on CricHeroes Market. Customers make quick decisions by looking at the ad so that they can shop faster and move on. So while posting your ad on CricHeroes Market, keep these three factors in your mind and make your ad stand out.
“July Dreams”
Tags: Thesceneandheard, Poetry, Photography, Madlib, Creative Writing

Join the Scene & Heard Online Mad Lib Poem:

Title:

“July Dreams”

Inspiration provided by Michail Shneider’s photo above.

To participate click on the heart and share your words in the response box below.

Write no more than a line or two … Everyone is invited to participate. Respond directly below and we will create a “July Dreams” Mad Lib using all your responses. The final Mad-Lib will be published the last day of July 2017.

The first line of the Mad Lib Poem is July dreams of a beautiful girl — hot as the sun and as beautiful as love…

-Michail-

Nudge nudging some of you all…

Abby O. Akoto Melissa Najera Zev Anto Rinish Dennett Tre L. Loadholt Charles Andrew Seaton Charles Harry Mackenzie Robert Kamarti Moore Matt Vercillo Joey McKeown Meg E. Scott Alighieri Vinod Shenoy
Take This Woman From Me
By: Michelle Torez
Tags: Sex Change, Mental Health, Poetry, Gender, Body Image

Take this woman from me

she is crying, waiting to go home,

cut off these breasts and give them to their owner

and tell her to leave me alone.

Cut my clitoris off, it feels good

but I know deep down, it shouldn’t be there,

I stare into the clean, clean mirror

and cry as I mutter a prayer.
Skating on Thick Ice
Tags: Beauty, Human Condition, Society

Skating on Thick Ice

One December Evening Outside a Supermarket

Among the snowflakes she was ugly, and fat. Alright, overweight, but blatantly, squinting through thick glasses in a long bulbous coat that almost swept the snowy surface, altogether looking like an extra in some Siberian opera played out in the streets of life. She shuffled towards the supermarket in old, beaten shoes. I trudged up from the dirty entrance in the dirty snow, smokers and drinkers and spitters crowding the doorway.

As I passed her she slipped on a patch of ice suddenly, very quickly, about to topple, and looked at me in alarm, arm flailing, her mouth and eyes wide.

I grabbed her forearm with my left hand, then stumbled myself, and laughed aloud, as one does when confronted with the absurd: but she’d found her footing and I still clutched her arm, steadying myself.

“Mikä hyvä hymy!” She said, and smiled herself, a big crooked smile with crooked teeth, gesticulating with a free hand as she spoke, to ensure I’d understood. I hadn’t, but could understand ‘hyvä’— ‘good,’ so understood she was talking about my smile, or laughter.

She glowed with happiness purely because she had seen someone smile. Her eyes danced and she giggled somewhat voluptiously in embarrassment, among snowflakes that drifted calmly again. What a beautiful woman.

cold winter night

sudden warmth under the blizzard

on my cheek snowflake melts
Motorious Dream Car Picks: Classic Pickups
By: Sam Maven
Tags: American, Trucks, Features

Last week, we looked through our substantial inventory to find a handful of the best classic 4x4s offered for sale here on Motorious. This week, we’re going to check out some classic work trucks.

We enjoy seeing these former beasts of burden restored to perfection. Classic pickup trucks like these built the country back up after World War II, and they’re an unmistakable part of the American landscape.

Image Via Fusion Luxury Motors

We’ll get started with perhaps the biggest icon of them all, the second generation Ford F-Series. If you were to ask someone to picture a classic pickup truck, this is what most people would see when they closed their eyes.

This 1954 Ford F-100 was completely restored in 2017. The truck looks perfectly stock, but its Y-block V8 was treated to a few era-appropriate speed parts. We definitely approve — vintage speed equipment is way cool.

Image Via Fusion Luxury Motors

We’d really like the color. Apparently, it’s a stock Ford shade called Sea Haze Green. This subdued shade of seafoam may be our favorite factory color for these trucks.

Image Via Streetside Classics

Classic Chevy pickups are equally well-known — and well-loved. This 1948 Chevrolet 3100 Thriftmaster is a prime example of (arguably) the most famous classic Chevy pickup shape.

Like the Ford above, it was recently treated to a painstaking restoration. Since the work was completed, this truck has been driven less than 3,000 miles.

Image Via Streetside Classics

It’s a safe bet to say that this truck’s working days are over. We’re sure that it earned its keep when it was new. It’s stood the test of time, and it’s earned its cushy retirement.

Image Via GAA Classic Car Auctions

Now, we’re going to look at something a little bit newer. This beautiful, two-tone 1959 Dodge D100 Sweptside is gorgeous to behold.

The unique styling of this truck is immediately eye-catching. If there ever was a time for tailfins on a truck, it was the late 1950s.

Image Via GAA Classic Car Auctions

According to the add, fewer than 100 of these trucks were built. Only around 30 or so are believed to exist today.

This mat not be the classic pickup we dreamed of owning as a kid. However, it’s certainly high up on our list now.

Image Via TNT Classic Cruiser Ranch

The last truck on our list is a classic Studebaker, specifically a 1961 Champ pickup. The brand may be long gone, but the styling of the Champ pickup has endured in the hearts of truck fans.

This truck was recently restored as well, and it certainly looks the part. In fact, it may be the best looking Champ we’ve ever laid eyes on.

Image Via TNT Classic Cruiser Ranch

We’d be proud to call this truck ours. While it’s by far the least expensive truck on our list, it’s still a great truck that we’d be proud to call our own.
Women in Data Science (WiDS)系列工作坊《第一次用TensorFlow就上手》：給初學者的 TensorFlow
By: 譚竹雯 Stephanie Tan
Tags: Deep Learning, Google, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Events

We aim to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support everyone in the field.

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Class of 2017 Releases FMOTQ Survey Results, Confirms Supermajority of Students Reject Changes
Tags: Education, College

Class of 2017 Releases FMOTQ Survey Results, Confirms Supermajority of Students Reject Changes StanfordReviewStaff Follow May 5, 2016 · 2 min read

by Harry Elliott

This evening, the Stanford Class of 2017 Presidents released the results of a comprehensive survey taken on Full Moon on the Quad. The survey followed uproar on campus and a successful Review-initiated petition last quarter to restore FMOTQ, after the Stanford administration announced its plans to suspend funding and support for the event in an ASSU Senate meeting.

1015 Stanford students responded to the survey, which was sent out to the student body last quarter. Contrary to claims by Vice Provost Greg Boardman that Stanford “students [were] questioning the past and creating new customs and practices”, and wanted FMOTQ to evolve, 69% of students said they “like FMOTQ as it is”. 93% favored keeping FMOTQ as-is with only minor changes, confirming the 89% majority that the FMOTQ petition received in elections.

Dozens of students expressed their enjoyment for the event in the survey’s comments section, and argued that FMOTQ is safer with the resources and security only Stanford can provide. Many pointed out that FMOTQ would likely occur unofficially regardless of Vice Provost Boardman’s inclinations, and that the unofficial FMOTQ would be significantly less safe. Some specific messages of support included statements that:

‘I love FMOTQ and I think it’s a highlight of the year. Please don’t get rid of it.’

‘Full Moon is a pretty gross event. But that doesn’t mean we should get rid of it. [Instead,] get rid of the grossness.’

‘This is not some kind of Cardinal Nights b******* where you can pull the wool over our eyes and pretend we like it. A tradition cannot be “new.”‘

‘I think it’s the safest party on campus and definitely the most secure.’

‘There are few more affirming spaces for queer and questioning students on college campuses in this country than Stanford’s own FMOTQ.’

Others, however, contended that FMOTQ had its flaws:

It could be replaced by ‘something that involves lots of free food and dancing.’

‘[It] is at least a public health concern to have people indiscriminately spreading their germs, and at worst an opportunity for sexual harassment (if not worse). [At] the very least FMOTQ needs to eliminate naked people from entering the event.’

This article will be updated with further information as it arrives.

Survey results can be found in full here. The original Facebook posting from the class presidents can be found here.
Resistance Poetry 2018.02
Tags: Domestic Abuse, Resistance Poetry, Poetry, Politics, Collection

The Power and Control Wheel — Remind you of anything?

Resistance Poetry 2018.02

February Made Me Shiver

Domestic violence has consumed my February. It all started with writing.

In 2016, I broke decades-long silence and began to write. I didn’t keep it in my journal. I posted it on Medium.

It was discovered by a neighbor, Patricia McLean, who had recently broken free of an abusive marriage.

Patricia is a writer and a photographer specializing in portraits. She had an idea. She could raise awareness of domestic violence by creating a book of survivors which would tell their stories. Would I be willing to participate? Of course I would.

The first stage in her project was to create an exhibit of the photos and words of local women, Finding Our Voices, to be hung in the Camden Public Library. Camden has 5,000 people. And it’s February. In Maine. None of the participants expected our effort to become a national news story.

And it wouldn’t have, if it hadn’t been for Patricia’s ex. He did what abusers always do, try to exert control through bullying and intimidation.

He has money and he has lawyers. He’s used to getting his way. But this time, instead of picking on Patricia, his target was the Free Press, a local weekly which ran a cover story on the exhibit, including a rehashing of his crimes, which, back in 2016, were their own national headlines because he’s none other than Mr. American Pie, singer/songwriter Don McLean.

The Free Press didn’t take the threats lying down. Sister newspapers published, in full, his lawyer’s letter to the paper and their lawyer’s flaming rebuttal. Within hours, the story hit the AP.

There he was, trying to use his power and celebrity to quash a story which made him look bad (because he was bad), and it spectacularly backfired.

All I could think was how it reminded me of a certain powerful someone who is engaging in his own domestic abuses.

If you are curious about the project, you can find us here.

NEW POETS

Aaska Ejaz

Sylvia Wohlfarth

RETURNING POETS

maurice blocker

Jane Vogel

Steve B Howard

China Cancio

John Gillen

Adeyele Adeniran

Dermott Hayes

Cheney Meaghan

Gypsy Marie

Joe Duncan

Kevin Rodriguez

Christine Salkin Davis

Ré Harris

Dennett

Rhonda Marrone

Anna Rozwadowska

Kevin Saitta

LB

Michael Stang

Harper Thorpe

Adam Millett

Matthew B.

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Christyl Rivers, Phd.

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I Wish I Had More Time
By: Edward Riley
Tags: Time, The Bad Influence, Call To Action, Poem, Kids

I Wish I Had More Time

A middle-aged man laments

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

Inspiration hits, I sit down to write

And immediately I am called upon

Another child crying, another fight

Just like that, inspiration gone

I am rushing to get my thoughts

Out and down on the paper

They are barely little snapshots

I know my words could cut like a rapier

If only I had the god damn time

To form more than a few syllables

To compose the next great rhyme

But complaints stack and they are not billable

I need to be a homemaker, teacher, father

Good husband, lover, and made to order cook

Every day there is crying, complaints, why bother

I haven’t even gotten to being presentable with my look

I want to take down the fucking ruling class

But as soon as the energy bubbles up inside

The littlest one shits himself, I need to wipe an ass

The rebellious nature shifted, wriggled, and died

It is so much easier to risk your own life

When others don’t depend on yours

Like family, children, a wife

When every day sees so many little wars

But I keep calling, writing to those in charge

Hoping my words, petitions, will make a difference

But the burden seems so fucking heavy, large

I feel I am drowning in the insignificance

That is not to even account for what makes

A life worth living; literature, love, leisure

But this life is short and time takes and takes and takes

I panic at the pace and freeze up like a seizure

In the time it has taken me to write this

I’ve helped with assignments and soothed tears

No time for self-reflection or to even take a piss

The minutes roll into hours, hours into years

I’m trying to do what I can

In my own time and place

But I am only one man

And this toddler keeps screaming in my face
PRICE INDEX
By: Cp Processor Team
Tags: Crypto, Price Index, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Free, Open source crypto price indexes.

A price index (plural: “price indices” or “price indexes”) is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of price relatives for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to help to compare how these price relatives, taken as a whole, differ between time periods or geographical locations.

Price indices have several potential uses. For particularly broad indices, the index can be said to measure the economy’s general price level or a cost of living. More narrow price indices can help producers with business plans and pricing. Sometimes, they can be useful in helping to guide investment.

Coin Payment Processor uses the best models and practices for measuring, and calculates the price indexes for the popular crypto coins. The goal is to make the first standardized crypto price indexes.
Waltzing with You
By: Arvindh Shyam
Tags: Dance, Poetry, Love, Couples, Poem

Photo by Alvin Mahmudov on Unsplash

You stand tall, adorned with all the lights

Brighter than the moon, you shine

Taking steps towards you, hesitantly

I hold you gently by your waist

I try to see you through the blinding light

I wonder if you could see me in the dark

But I feel you holding on to me tight

And we start dancing away to the tune

The music slowly picked up in pace

And we kept waltzing faster and faster

Rising up towards the moon and stars

Lost in each other’s arms forever
Indian Mills Boy Scouts set for Car Wash at Harriet’s Oil
By: Tom Beck
Tags: Boy Scouts Of America, Cars, Events

Indian Mills Boy Scouts set for Car Wash at Harriet’s Oil

The event will take place on June 17

Shamong’s Indian Mills Boy Scouts will hold a fundraiser for their troop at Harriet’s Oil in Medford on June 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The car wash is free, but donations are encouraged.