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Moderating a DAO
By: Jack Laing
Tags: Ethereum, Moderating Daos, Daoops, Pocket Network, Aragon Dao

DAOs as Communities in Need of Stewardship; Moderators as Community Stewards

It is naive to expect a DAO, like any community, to operate effectively without stewardship. Low voter engagement is a widespread issue for which many solutions are being developed. However, there are a number of other governance processes which also deteriorate with low engagement, either because they are manual (requiring a volunteer to drive an action forward) or because they are complex (requiring more attention than the average voter can spare).

Most communities have norms which define membership rights, expected community behaviour, proposal requirements, and the quality standards that contributions must meet. Supervising and enforcing these community norms is a process that is both manual and complex. So who will do it? If we leave this question unanswered, we risk organizational paralysis.

In our research, we have observed many DAOs resolve this problem by delegating the responsibility off-chain. DAOstack’s Genesis DAO formed a working group known as the Accountability Task-Force (ATF) (which some now wish to automate), who would be compensated for the responsibility of monitoring proposal progress, keeping contributors accountable, and defending against attacks. The first version (AGP-1) of the Aragon Governance Proposal (AGP) process delegates the role to the Aragon Association and AGP Editors, who are selected by the Association to manage the AGP workflow, enforce proposal requirements, and forward compliant proposals to the voting stage. Aragon’s Editor role is in turn borrowed from Ethereum’s EIP process, Bitcoin’s BIP process, and Python’s PEP process.

We do not want to rely on off-chain stewardship, because this will inevitably undermine any on-chain governance mechanism that falls under the stewards’ purview. However, if we do not design formal structures to support voluntary stewards, with fair rules for compensation and accountability, would-be stewards will simply fork the community into an alternative organizational structure that supports their efforts.

The obvious solution is to implement on-chain stewardship. But how?

If DAOs are community-owned organizations, perhaps we can model our on-chain stewards after the stewards of traditional online communities: moderators. According to Grimmelmann (2015), a Cornell internet law professor, moderation can be defined as “the governance mechanisms that structure participation in a community to facilitate cooperation and prevent abuse.” Echoing this, researchers from Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, who interviewed volunteer moderators of communities on Twitch, Reddit, and Facebook, found that “users can be very effective at self-governing when given the tools to do so.”

Rather than reinventing the wheel, perhaps we can consider these lessons as we attempt to bring moderators to DAOs:
8 Words: Pattern
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: Writing, 8 Words, Love, A Cornered Gurl, Micropoetry

I’m more than breath & bones, I’m nectar in waiting — Owner ACG •Editor PSILY •Writing for the cosmos. •https://acorneredgurl.com

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React toast. An implementation with the Context API and hooks
By: Gerardo Fernández
Tags: React Hook, React Js Tutorials, React, Reactjs Development, Reactjs

In this article I want to tell you how we can add to an application made with React a warning system like the one that Gmail implements to notify the different actions we do on emails:

For this we will use the React API Context and hooks, which will allow us to implement this feature in very few steps and in a simple way.

I think it is a very interesting exercise to practice with these two React features, so I hope you find it interesting. At the end of the article you can find a link to the project’s CodeSandbox in case you want to see what I tell you in this article in more detail.

Let’s go there!
Day 820
By: Cathy Brooks
Tags: Gratitude, Grammar, Short Story, Storytelling

Grammar

I am a grammar nerd. I always have been. Language has always been an important part of my life. In fact, it’s kind of a family thing.

There is an old joke that is a staple for my family. It goes like this.

A young man from an urban neighborhood get a scholarship to Harvard. He is rough around the edges but brilliant. He arrives on campus and settles in. Early in his first week, he finds himself lost.

He sees a professorial sort of man walking along, bearded and bespectacled, wearing a tweed jacket with suede patches on the elbows, briefcase and papers tucked under his arm. The very least, the guy looks like he knows his way around.

So, the young man calls out: “Hey, um excuse me mister. Can you tell me where the library’s at?”

The man stopped dead in his tracks. Staring solemnly at the young man the older gentleman speaks. “Young man, here at Harvard we do not end sentences in prepositions. Would you care to rephrase the question?“

The young man paused. Then he replied. “Sure. Can you tell me where the library is at, asshole?“

It became a running joke in the family that any time we heard somebody finish a sentence with a preposition we were just look at each other and quietly mouth “asshole”, then burst out laughing.

So the topic of this article was put aside entirely this morning when I saw this.

Today’s Gracious Gratitude. I am grateful for:
OHF Weekly: Labor Pains
By: Our Human Family
Tags: Humanity, OHF Weekly, Equality, Evangelicals, BlackLivesMatter

“To My Evangelical Family”

by stephen matlock

Photo by Judith Prins on Unsplash

To my white Evangelical family:

You birthed me and raised me and gave me principles and sent me out into the world. I owe my character development to you. But now you’ve gone insane.

I’ll just say this: a man, woman, or child does not need to be perfect in order to be treated as a human being who, according to our theology, bears the Imago Dei — the image of God. We were taught as Evangelicals to believe that all human beings are gloriously unique and valuable. This is embedded into our very theology of the Incarnation: we believe that Jesus was — and is! — not only God Eternal but Man incarnate. He didn’t take on a body like a costume. He was and is fully man as well as fully God. And as the confession says, “For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven.” Not just white Evangelicals. (continued at Medium.com)

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§44 Write drunk, edit hungover!
Tags: Metaphysics, Alcohol, Writing, Kingsley Amis, The Idler

For the most part, writing and drinking go hand in hand. There are as many aphorisms, anecdotes and quotations about and from writers and their daily boozing habits as there have been literary treatments of individuals’ relationships with the bottle. However, a particularly interesting theme that is given less attention is ‘the hangover‘…

In particular, how hangovers relate to the creative process. Perhaps the most well-known literary treatment is in Kingsley Amis’ drinking manual Everyday Drinking (1983), where he addressed this ‘strangely neglected’ subject by differentiating between the ‘physical hangover’ and the ‘metaphysical hangover’. This distinction has been widely exalted, and yet hangovers remain secondary to their cause in terms of literary treatment and exploration. That is why The Idler’s Star Letter (from the May — June 2018 issue) deserves a little attention. It will resonate with any writer that wakes a few hours prior to the impending doom of the day ahead, and provides some advice which will complement Amis’ sage recommendation when the metaphysics of the night before are fully realised:

Sir: As a recent Oldie reader turned Idler I should like to pass on a method of releasing extra hours for true idleness. This involves harnessing that most unlikely source of productivity: the dehydrated, sleepless hours before dawn that typically follow an evening of undue attention to the grape and grain. It is useless to try and resume slumber in such a situation. The wait for morning is far too long. The brain, on the other hand has undergone a clear-out of its clutter akin to the total rebooting of a PC. The said cranial organ may be throbbing faintly but it is also ripe and ready to go to work. I suggest making the most of this rare moment of mental clarity. OK, it’s 4am. Park that thought. Get out of bed, make a hot drink and hold a couple of analgesics in reserve. Then put on screen whatever report, article or briefing has been giving you writers’ block for days. With decluttered frontal lobes, no phones ringing and minimal background noise, clarity will set in. The words will flow like wine from Jean-Claude Juncker’s claret jug and the piece will be put to bed, to which destination you can eventually return, optionally after my own salvation, a fried tomato sandwich and two Nurofen. Either way, a couple of wasted and uncomfortable hours have been converted into productive output, with the bonus of more idling time ahead. John Newlands, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Is not technology that’s tearing us apart
By: Murilo Costa
Tags: Narcissism, Stupidity, Hypocrisy

The increased use of social media is being portrayed as responsible for bringing the worst humanity has to offer. Is not rare to find whole campaigns against the use of such tools because they lead to “negative behaviour” that’s responsible for pushing people further apart as days passes by.

Well, social media are not guilty, they only enhance society’s values that were stimulated previously, but not faster enough for it to backfire in our faces. How can we accuse communication tools of being responsible for turning people lonely, vain, lazy, or hypocritical, if we receive strong cultural pressure to become a “successful member of society” using exactly those same values?

“You are special”; “Nothing’s ever so bad that it can’t get worse”; “It’s not difficult if you try hard enough”; “There’s nothing impossible if you have enough willpower”. Those are lies we heard since childhood, but through life, those fantasies reveal themselves as being demonstrably false.

We are taught that only strong people are successful in life, weakness is evil, achieving happiness is the most important goal, happiness is only possible through money and power, and they can be acquired getting a good job, by doing so, society will respect you, you’ll be happy and suffering will go away.

Land of fantasy promised in our childhood.

Art by Unknown street artist in Montréal

Social media opened a whole new way to expose who we want others to think we are, it’s a smoke screen for a sad, pathetic life that we are too powerless to change or cope with. Those values praised and stimulated by culture are applied to a real time battlefield for happiness and welfare, leading people to ignore their most inner feelings of regret, sadness and loneliness, to create the image of a successful-respectable-admirable-role-model citizen.

It’s not social media’s fault that we exult values that lead people to seek an unreachable standard of life that forbid them to feel in all its fullness, creating machines that seek nothing but achieve business goals, isn't it time for people to start changing this mindset?
Laft Village, Port of Wind-catcher in Iran’s Qeshm Island
By: Maryam Khy
Tags: Tourism, Qeshm, Iran, Architecture, Qeshm Island

Laft is a small, beautiful village in Iran’s Qeshm Island. This coastal village, which is located in the northwest of Qeshm and east of Hara Forests, was registered as a national site in 2006.

Hara Forests, traditional dhow building workshops, and Tala water wells are among the attractions of Laft Village.

Green tropical trees, long palms and wind-catchers in different kinds and sizes have given special beauty to this village. Thanks to its architectural attractions, Laft is one of Iran’s top ten villages.

Click on the link below to see the photos of Laft, port of wind-catcher in Iran’s Qeshm Island:

https://ifpnews.com/laft-village-the-port-of-windcatcher
How to Install and Configure CDAP Sandbox Locally
By: Tony Hajdari
Tags: Pipeline, Etl, Cdap, Big Data, Data Science

CDAP Sandbox allows you to build pipelines locally on your computer and it provides a great learning environment if you are new to CDAP. There are three varieties of CDAP sandbox that you can use locally; a Zip file archive, a VirtualBox VM, and a Docker image. If this is the first time you are setting up CDAP it may be easier to go with the Zip option as there are less components to configure and figure out. You can find the sandbox versions here: https://cdap.io/get-started/.

The instructions included here are for the Mac, but you should be ably to adapt them to your OS as well. The Zip archive will behave the sam way regardless of the operating system you are on. You can use homebrew, a handy package manager for the Mac, to install both Java and Node. I’ll spare you the details as to how to set up homebrew since there are many resources on the internet that you can refer to. Similar tutorials are available online for installing Java and Node for both Windows and Linux, so please refer to those resources for further instructions.

Step 1 — Install OpenJDK

CDAP 6.0 requires Java 8 or higher. Once installed make sure to validate that Java 8 has been installed correctly, and that the JRE is available from your path. You might have to add the JDK path to your user profile settings depending on your OS and current setup.

brew tap AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk

brew cask install adoptopenjdk8

Step 2 — Install NodeJS

Use an LTS version 10.16 or newer so that you have the latest supported LTS release.

brew install node@10

Step 3 — Install CDAP Sandbox

Download CDAP Sandbox 6.0 archive to your computer: https://downloads.cask.co/cdap-sandbox/cdap-sandbox-6.0.0.zip

Unzip the file to the folder of your choice, and change into the bin directory.

unzip cdap-sandbox-6.0.0.zip

cd cdap-sandbox-6.0.0/bin

Start the CDAP Sandbox:

./cdap sandbox start

Once the service has started you will see the following message on the console. You can now open your browser and navigate to the local CDAP instance on your computer.

Starting CDAP Sandbox .............

Connect to the CDAP UI at CDAP Sandbox started successfully.Connect to the CDAP UI at http://localhost:11011

Your CDAP instance will have no artifacts yet, so you will see an empty console screen.

Congratulations you have now set up CDAP locally on your computer and can now start building data pipelines.
Bringing UI designs to life with animation: Adobe XD & After Effects
By: Mark Boyes-Smith
Tags: Design Process, UI, Animation, UX Design, Visual Design

Note — If you don’t fancy splashing out on an Adobe license, you can trial their products for 14 days each. That should give you more than enough time to play, check it out.

1. Download all the apps

You’ll need to download two applications from the Adobe suite to use this method; Adobe XD and Adobe After Effects.

Adobe XD — a vector-based graphics package aimed at the UI/UX crowd and very similar to the likes of Sketch and Figma

— a vector-based graphics package aimed at the UI/UX crowd and very similar to the likes of Sketch and Figma Adobe After Effects — a motion-graphics package specialising in high-fidelity animation. Not to be confused with Adobe Premiere, which is primarily for stitching together footage

2. Prepare our design

You can grab a copy of the sketch file for this tutorial, here.

Sketch layers

Take a look at the file. Pretty organised, huh? Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of exploring one of my Sketch files knows that I don’t often pay close attention to my layer hygiene, but here it’s important.

As we migrate our design across to XD and over to After Effects, it's really easy to lose track of layers and become confused by the way each application handles grouping. The easiest way to avoid all of that confusion is simply to tidy up our sketch file before we begin.

A couple of best practice guidelines to observe here;

Name all of your layers and remove any unnecessary ones. The less layers we take forward, the better

of your layers and remove any unnecessary ones. The less layers we take forward, the better Be considerate of groups. Groups are great, but beware they cannot be easily ungrouped once we move into Adobe After Effects

Take stock of any unusual layer settings (e.g. multiple drop shadows)

Center your artwork on a HD (1920x1080) or 4k canvas (3840x2160)

3. Convert our Sketch design into an XD design

In order to animate our design, we’re going to need access to the various layers, groups and masks we setup in the original sketch file.

It turns out that this is easier than it sounds. Adobe have created two fantastic integrations that make doing this pretty straightforward.

XD natively loads Sketch files, with a bloody good degree of accuracy too in my experience

XD integrates seamlessly with After effects

Simply open up the Sketch file directly from XD and make a quick pass over the design to make sure everything looks ship shape. On closer inspection of my Sketch file I noticed that XD doesn’t support multiple drop shadows. No matter, they can be re-added in After Effects later.

In XD, select the artboard, then hit File > Export > Export to After Effects

If you haven’t already kicked up a new After Effects project, XD will create you one and import the design as a composition.
Things I just learned today — Christmas addition; There’s a figurine in the nativity scene called “el caganer”. He’s a little dude who squats — bare-butt — and poops outside the manger scene! El…
By: Toni Tails
Tags: Humor, Life, History, Life Lessons, Christmas

Things I just learned today — Christmas addition; There’s a figurine in the nativity scene called “el caganer”. He’s a little dude who squats — bare-butt — and poops outside the manger scene!

El caganer (roughly translated “the crapper) is a tradition in Catalonia, Spain going back 200 years! No one knows why this magnificent pooper was created.

Goes to show that holy, magical experience or not — when ya gotta go, ya gotta go.
Wanchain Update 11th December 2017
By: Oliver Birch
Tags: Ethereum, Crypto, Social Media, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Dear Wanchain community,

We would like to give you a short update about the open beta release and Jack Lu’s (Founder & CEO of Wanchain) trip to South Korea this week.

Open Beta Release

Release date: December 18th* 2017

Release includes: Beta instructions guide, privacy and normal transfers, block explorer and wallet.

Bounties

We will be issuing bounties to community developers who report bugs, suggestions and pull requests (extra weightage).

*In our previous communication we stated the release would be on Friday the 15th of December but after careful consideration have decided to release on the 18th of December. The 18th is a Monday and will allow us to provide the community with support throughout the week.

New Book Launch and the First Financial Technology Development Forum

This was organized by Beijing Blockchain Application Association in Beijing on Dec 9th. Jack Lu attended the forum, Sun Guofeng, the deputy director of Internet Finance Research Center and Institute of Finance of People’s Bank of China also attended.

Jack Lu at the First Financial Technology Development Forum (Beijing, China)

Wanchain visits South Korea

CEO and Founder, Jack Lu, will be presenting Wanchain at a local meet up in South Korea. Please find the details below:

Jack Lu’s presentation at a meet up in Seoul, South Korea:

Date: December 13th (Wed), 2017

Topic: Wanchain links the world’s digital assets

Time: 7:00PM ~ 8:30PM

Location: 강남구 테헤란로 10길 6 녹명빌딩 7층비포럼 접수 이메일

Attendees: 50 people

Agenda:

7:00PM ~ 7:30PM Registration

7:30PM ~ 8:10PM — Wanchain’s Presentation (40 min) by CEO Jack Lu

8:10PM ~ 8:30PM — Q&A and Networking (20 min)

About Wanchain

Bitcoin was the first natively digital asset; many more are following. The trend towards ‘digitizing’ assets leads to a fundamental change in the financial services industry. However, there is a problem. Currently many of these digital assets are isolated on their respective blockchains and their true potential is not being realized. Wanchain was founded by the technical cofounder of Factom, Jack Lu, with the goal of uniting the world’s isolated digital assets and transforming the digital economy.

These are our official social platforms:

1,278 subscribers

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/wanchain

1,749 members

Discord: https://discord.gg/3DpeV6W

ANN: 8,817 members, CHAT: 4,500 members

Telegram Ann: https://t.me/WanchainANN

Telegram Chat: https://t.me/WanchainCHAT

Join our expanding Medium community!

Medium: https://medium.com/wanchain-foundation

8,757 members

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wanchainfoundation/

11,200 followers

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wanchain_org

418 followers

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wanchain_org
Curriculum App Release Notes #009
By: Louise Swift
Tags: Self Improvement, Coding, Learning, Release Notes, App Development

Curriculum App Release Notes #009

July 2019’s updates to Curriculum, an app for creating a study plan & tracking your progress through it.

Profile Pics 📸

Even a dedicated learning nerd needs the option to add an artistic visual representation of themselves to their profiles.

Profile Activity Snapshots

You’ll also spot some snapshots of your recent study activity there.

Don’t worry — only public activity shows, and your profile is only public if you want it to be. (Update that setting on the Account Settings page.)
When Have We Blessed All That We Have
By: Pierre Trudel
Tags: Haiku, LGBTQ, Love, BlackLivesMatter, Theequest

I am a writer, sharing my life with a partner and soul mate for over 52 years. We love to help others reach their Dreams. Thee Quest. Let us be your compass.

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The Idiom “Hindsight is 20/20” Has Never Been More Profound
By: Kimberly Forsythe
Tags: Self Improvement, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Life Lessons, Self

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

I have seen a lot of people on social media expressing their feelings by saying we should just “cancel 2020” and start over. But, I disagree. The hardships 2020 has presented us gives an opportunity to reflect on our collective mistakes of the past and work to improve our collective future.

We have found ourselves thrust into a significant shift in not only our daily lives but also the way we think about what drives us. We were in no way prepared for this shift. But, it’s possibly the best that could have happened to us, if we open our minds to this concept.

We now have better information, profound experiences, and time to review ourselves, our world, and our direction to plot out our next actions to build a better tomorrow. This is our newfound opportunity to create a new foundation for a more secure and sustainable future. To invest in the equity of humanity. It is now incumbent on us all to consider this event as a warning and an opportunity to co-create a better tomorrow for us all.
📸 — Ubud, Bali Indonesia
By: Our Little Detour
Tags: Travel

Man, the wifi is brutal here —I’m so far behind in uploading our photos!

But! UBud! Bali! AMAZING! We landed in Indonesia after some travel troubles but boy does this place take your breathe away.

We had some special experiences including the time we met a Netflix documentary star…. or found a super sketchy gym/building on the outside of town that had the world’s top performing Balinese dancers… or even the nights we spent enjoying the vibes of this village because everything about it is awesome. 😊

More pictures to come!
Editors
By: Degreat Yartey
Tags: Girls, Girls Can Code, Programming, Web Development, HTML

This can be seen as the utensil you cook the jollof with.

Sublime Text — credit: VisualHunt.com

Whether you use a pot or a saucepan or a frying pan to cook your jollof, we won’t care. But it has to be jollof at the end, and delicious.

Same with programming/code. You can use any editor of your choice, so far as you are comfortable and productive with it. An editor is just a program you write your poetic code into, just like the intro image (Sublime Text)

Below are common editors for HTML/CSS/JavaScript, (since those languages will be our major focus on this series):

Sublime Text: This is a lightweight editor that can be used to write code of any language. It is normally preferred for web applications and shorter programs. Download here

Brackets: This is a very lightweight editor for web apps too. Focus is just on the three musketeers. Download here

Atom: This is a bit heavy IDE. With more advanced features. Download here

You can just install one of them. However, you can try all in order to find the one that best suits you for the tutorials that follow.

Thanks for reading. Give me some claps if you liked the post. You can ask anything in the comments too. Have a nice day.
Zero/NomicsFinance
By: Zero Currency
Tags: Blockchain, Zero Knowledge Proofs, Technology, Crypto, Cryptocurrency

“Your Transactions Are Your Business.” ZERO FEES, INSTANT & PRIVATE TRANSACTIONS, OPEN SOURCE AND AVAILABLE TO ALL. https://zero.directory

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Announcement No. 26: Vietnam Launch
Tags: Vietnam, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Cryptocurrency Investment, Cryptocurrency News

Dear users,

We have always emphasised on going global with BNS. And for an icon to be recognised globally, the first step is cross-border expansion. Apart from being India’s largest crypto exchange, Bitbns facilitates crypto trading in 4 more countries — UAE, Thailand, USA and the latest one was Indonesia.

Announcement №26 adds a 5th name to the list — Vietnam! Yes, Bitbns is launching its services in Vietnam effectively from today.

In terms of ease of crypto trading and holding, Vietnam has been one of the crypto-friendly countries with no restrictions on trading or hodling of digital assets. In fact, a couple of months back, Vietnam government even established a research group to evaluate policies for these digital currencies. Since the very beginning of our crypto journey, we knew we had to be here. Just a reminder, our long-term roadmap of global expansion includes extending our services to 30+ countries, and with the insights we collect from the Indonesian and Vietnamese markets, the Asian part of the mission seems closer.

Initially, we are launching VND/USDT pair, through which our users in Vietnam can buy USDT right away using their FIAT currency VND. We decided to launch with USDT pair because a lot of users from this region already trade on Bitbns in USDT markets. Plus, USDT can readily be used for trading over 80 cryptocurrencies on Bitbns.

Over the coming months, we have a plan in place to boost the Vietnam launch, where we will collaborate with the most renowned brands for driving more users. Starting today, Vietnam folks can start depositing VND, get USDT against it, trade on USDT markets, and withdraw VND straight to their bank accounts.

Belong from Vietnam? Sign up, complete KYC, and start trading!

Join our Telegram community here: https://t.me/bitbnsidr

Onwards and upwards towards the future of finance

Team Bitbns
In Parallel with the Change that Keeps the World Running
By: Yuanlu Zhu
Tags: Digital Marketing, Creative Writing, Think Different

In Parallel with the Change that Keeps the World Running

Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash

With the advent of digital platforms, marketers have unprecedented privileges to scale the size of the target audiences and to personalize the offer of experience in time through extensive technology, such as AI, which provides an extensive way for the brands to build their identities and to deliver appropriate messages for the target audience with depth, breadth, and precision. To be more specific, With the prevailing use of the electronic devices, such as the smartphone, the laptop, and smart television, marketers have an increased rate of the opportunities to implement, reinforce and maintain different brand images to reach their consumers, efficient channels to raise the brand awareness at this digital age.

At this age, everything can be changeable and updated with rapidity by the digital experience. Taking advantage of various digital platforms, for instance, twitter, Facebook and YouTube, etc., brands are flexible to define what they look like and what they can bring to the audiences by posting contents, presenting ideas and inviting influencers who speak for them, in this case, it turns to be a learning and nurturing process by telling the audience what they know, what they don’t know and how the brand can help to let them know; significantly, it empowers audiences rights and capabilities to study a brand.

Continuing with the thought of issues I’ve mentioned above, according to this platform, I will use the way of the blog to demonstrate the understanding of each digital tool and its specific functions at its attempt to reach the target audience with precision and rapidity. Besides, I will focus on the creation of the contents. By combining what I will learn from the course through this semester, I would like to share some effective methods of how to write powerful content to make customers think and believe that is what they want and need. As Don Draper, the main character in the drama Mad Men, “advertising is based on one thing, happiness”, marketing is about happiness as well no matter what types of products are sold. Therefore, my job is here is to elaborate on how to write down the words that can resonate with the audience and entertain them with a certain purpose and how to approach the most resultful channels that could meet the real demand.

Last but not least, welcome to my page and be critical and open-minded to make comments on my points of view, since Blog is a place about sharing and exchange information that benefits viewers to learn more.
A Key to Saving Money
By: Jay Sherratt
Tags: Self Improvement, Money

Hereine, I share another installment of life lessons:

A key to saving . . . Saving early in the month . . . not leaving saving until the end of the month.

Now, the advice above on the importance of saving and investing may sound all well and good, but one may ask: “how do I save money in the first place?” The best way(s) to save money will depend on one’s particular circumstances. However, a good start in general for most people would be to make arrangements to have money saved (or invested) before the end of the month, without even thinking about it.

I can testify to these approaches from personal experience. After getting married to a wonderful woman, I traded in the pirate-like career of a contractor for the relative stability of a permanent employee at a law firm. This was not an overnight process, and it had its hiccups along the way. However, I did manage to move from a life of temporary contract gigs to what looked like more steady and stable employment. And, my expectation at the time was that I would look after my wife and self by saving money every month. It didn’t work out so well. At the time, I thought that saving was something one did at the end of the month. I thought that one paid one’s expenses, and what was left over could go into savings. You can probably guess what happened instead. All too often, expenses were too high, leaving virtually nothing left over. So, when the end of the month rolled around, I became too nervous worrying about an overdraft in our checking account to transfer anything to savings. Saving became something to do ‘next month’ — always ‘next month’ instead of this month.

In contrast, while employed at this position, I signed up for my employer’s 401k plan. Under this plan, I had a deduction taken out of my paycheck twice every month and invested, mostly in stocks. As a result, by the time I concluded this job after six years, my 401k account had grown to several thousand in investments. The contrast is clear: leaving saving till the end of the month led to no significant savings; deducting money every paycheck led to thousands of dollars.

And, one can still make arrangements to save before the end of the month without a 401k type device. For example, one could set up a saving account and set up recurring transfers from one’s checking account to one’s savings account. The easiest time to make such transfers would probably be on the same day, or shortly after, you are paid. That way, you may not notice the deduction as much, and so it will hurt less.

For a more thorough treatment of this subject, I strongly recommend “The Automatic Millionaire” by David Bach, also available on iBooks.
WRITING THROUGH
By: Dana Sanford
Tags: Depression, Poetry, Writing, Emotions, Persistence

WRITING THROUGH

When Chaos Rules

Writing can be difficult.

The brain is full of mush.

Bits and pieces of thoughts and ideas

roll out onto the page.

anger…

frustration…

?

I start with the best intention.

Ideas seem solid and real.

But they get diluted and break apart.

like a leaky water balloon, the words

run into the crevices and folds of my brain,

partially dried and moldy,

they no longer fit.

Seasonal affective disorder,

depression,

anxiety…

like the fires, floods, blizzards,

that wreak havoc across the earth.

I need to stay aware

but lose focus.

Too much!

I am the Nightly News:

chaos selling debt and psych meds.

Sometimes

a thought appears

and gets swallowed by

worries and fears

that refuse to be uttered.

This is writing through a wilderness.

Persisting through storms of emotion.

Embracing the ugliness

and awaiting a light of hope.

Dana Sanford

2019
Escaping the swamp.
Tags: Mindfulness, Comics, Technology, Books, Reading

Casey Jo Stohrer is a signmaker in Nashville, TN. Her work can be found on Instagram @misscaseyjo

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The Invitation
By: Joanne Troppello
Tags: Poetry, Bible, Poems On Medium, Poem, Poetry On Medium

The prophet Isaiah enjoins us with a call.

To the thirsty, to the penniless, to the hungry.

Come to the waters and drink.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the Lord.

Raindrops sprinkling the thirsty earth

return to the Heavens, from whence they come —

only after seeds bloom for the sower yielding sustenance.

Likened to the rain is the voice of the Lord

falling to those who thirst, hunger, and need.

As the mist on a rose in the early morning light.

“This will be for the Lord’s renown,

for an everlasting sign,

which will not be destroyed.”

As the dew drops from the rose,

wetting the grass.

© Joanne Troppello
A safe space for your story
By: Breaking Rainbow Productions
Tags: Lifestyle, Domestic Violence, Society, LGBTQ, Life Lessons

Love should’t hurt. Photo by @fairytailphotography

Have a story to tell, but afraid there is no audience to listen? “The Gaze”, produced by Breaking Rainbow Productions, could be the platform you need.

We are raising awareness on intimate partner/domestic abuse within the LGBT community by offering an anonymous platform for people to share their stories.

The intention is for people who either are or have been in an abusive relationship to finally have a safe space to heal and/or find the support that they didn’t know was out there.

LGBTQ flag. @yannispap

In doing this we are hoping to have contributing writers from the LGBT community who are or have been victims of abuse, whether that be someone who is comfortable having their name attached to the story or a completely anonymous article submitted through our google form. If you feel this could be beneficial to you or someone else in a similar situation, please submit your story below.
So You Broke Everything. Now What?
By: Steven Popovich
Tags: DevOps, Programming, Software Engineering, Software Development, Startup

Blame Should Not Exist

Well, when it is your fault, it’s okay to say “my bad.” But blame should not exist. Certainly, do not blame others.

When addressing the issue or incident at hand, say “we made this decision” as opposed to “they made this decision.” Use us and I instead of him, her, or you.

This language is very important to keep your team focused on fixing the problem at hand. Think about it — what does saying “so-and-so did xyz” do to get customers back to a usable state?

Blame doesn’t even make sense

Yeah, really. Think about that. When you assign fault to someone else, all you are doing is making yourself feel better. That’s it. I’ll explain.

You built a messaging system and now it is broken. Was this your intention? Did you do everything in your power to make sure the system would work? Did you tick all the boxes to deliver the best possible system you could?

If yes, and let’s assume everyone does that, then how can you be blamed* Sure, you built the system, and it’s broken. Shit happens! That’s how the cookie crumbles.

Cars break down. Lawnmowers stop working. Sometimes your poop doesn't flush. Should we hang the people that built and designed these systems? I think not.

So don’t blame. It only serves to create bad tensions, slow down the restoration of your system, and swell egos.

The software will always work itself out. Human relationships don’t always.

*Yes, I acknowledge that there are truly bad actors in the world. Sometimes people are lazy. Sometimes they don’t do the best job. But I refuse to operate on the premise in this sense. Trust is a two-way street.
Death In The Garden. Luis Buñuel’s Underseen Action Film.
By: Adam Bat
Tags: Movies, Hopeliesreview, Culture, Cinema, Film

Death In The Garden lies somewhat forgotten in the oeuvre of a filmmaker like Luis Buñuel. Made in 1958 in the middle of his tenure in Mexico.

A revolutionary, fighting spirit opens Death In The Garden, as a group of put-upon diamond miners make a stand against the military regime under which their vicinity stands. There are shades of the American Western in these opening beats of the film, and in many ways it acts as an unlikely prototype for the Hollywood event disaster movies of the 1970’s, in which big names find themselves in extraordinary circumstances. Amongst the character archetypes on display here are the prostitute, the priest and the outlaw, with real stars of the French cinema such as Simone Signoret and Michel Piccoli among those assembled to play them.

The picture gradually descends in to more familiar Buñuel territory as the film moves further along, with delirium setting in within his protagonists and the form of the picture reflecting this. The film is about a journey through a neverending jungle to freedom, with the setting overwhelming and informing every facet of the movie. The deeper the group find themselves in the horticultural prison, the more fractured the form of the picture becomes. The sight of a snake’s carcass being claimed by ants is as unsettling as anything in Un Chien Andalou, while a scenes of life around the Arc de Triomphe eventually reveal themselves to be nothing more than the fruit of the frenzied imagination of a man slowly going insane.

Buñuel is a filmmaker who we thing we know everything about: arch-surrealist, experimental iconoclast, but as this underseen, underrated movie proves, there is much to be celebrated on the fringes of his more notable work.
Another Way to Win A Lion: Using Creativity for Good
By: Olivia Poglianich
Tags: United Nations, Sustainable Development, Cannes Lions, Cannes Film Festival, UN

Last month marked the 72nd annual United Nations General Assembly (affectionately nicknamed UNGA by those in the know). At this year’s UNGA, much of the focus was around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And this year, the ad industry got in on the action, too.

Back up just a second. What are the SDGs?

The SDGs are 17 high level goals that the UN put together at its 2015 general assembly. They tackle our world’s biggest problems from ending poverty to fighting for gender equality and building smarter cities. The SDGs emerged as a stronger version of an old agenda established at the turn of the century, the Millennium Development Goals. The old goals were never realized for several reasons; one of the largest being just how drastically our world changed between 2000 and 2015. When they were first created, no one could’ve predicted just how drastic a role technology would play in shaping the way we achieve these goals. This time around, it’s been absolutely crucial. And so has the role of the private sector.

It’s Not Just a Conference for Diplomats Anymore

In developing the SDGs and bringing them to life, the UN has made it clear that these global goals are not just for high profile politicians. Everyone from LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner to Mars CSO Barry Parkin attended this year’s General Assembly as thought leaders in the area of sustainable development. Large traditional corporations, small tech startups and public service workers have all come together to talk about the biggest problems plaguing our planet. This year’s UNGA even included a Media Zone that broadcasted talks live around the world, so those who couldn’t be in New York could still participate and be heard in real time.

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner speaking to the General Assembly.

Cannes is getting involved, too!

To help advance these goals, Cannes chairman Terry Savage announced a brand new Lion that will be launched in 2018. Appropriately named the Sustainable Development Goals Lion, the new award will help drive global awareness of the UN’s ambitious goals.

Terry had this to say about the new Lion:

“At Cannes Lions we know that creativity can be a positive force for good, and the combined power of the communications industry is formidable. Major players have been involved with the United Nations global goals initiative for some time and we’ve been proud to be able to give their work a platform.”

Cannes will begin taking entries for the SDG lion in January 2018. Any and all advertising related to the goals will be considered for awards at next year’s festival. It’s an exciting time to be in our industry!

Want to learn more about the goals?

The official document for the Sustainable Development Goals from the original 2015 UNGA can be found here.
Clean Up Space for Moonhack
By: Code Club Australia
Tags: Space, Coding, Moonhack

Humans have been sending objects into space for more than 60 years! In this Scratch game for Moonhack you’ll create a solution that uses two typical means of cleaning up space junk: bringing it home to Earth or burning it in the atmosphere to simulate a Space Junk clean-up operation. (There’s even a flying flaming taco!)

Space junk has existed since the first human-made satellite escaped the gravitational pull of the Earth — Sputnik I in 1957. There’s so much rubbish in space that astronauts have to make sure they don’t hit anything! They do this by learning about Space Situational Awareness, meaning that astronauts need to be aware of the ‘situations’ of the items in space so they don’t collide!

Some of the junk in space includes spatulas, screwdrivers, paint chips and garbage bags! (maybe there IS a taco!!). Check out this list of weird space junk- maybe ideas for extra things to add to your game?

So, how do we get rid of it? Well, in our Moonhack game you have two options. You can either bring it back to earth or burn it up upon re-entry. There’s actually a lot of real-world solutions in the works too — like giant magnets and nets!

Getting Started

The Moonhack Space Clean Up game is an easy project to start coding! We’ve built a starter project, with all the sprites and backdrops that you need. The project instructions are available at Moonhack.com/projects

What’s next?

After you’ve finished the Space Clean Up Scratch project there are so many cool things to add to it! Our friends at Code Club in Malaysia added fuel as a limiting factor and a scoring system!

Teachers, check out our curriculum blog post for ideas on extra things to do in class (or to assign to your students at home).

Our amazing friends at Space Australia helped us with this project! Big thanks to Rami!
36. Adapt or Die
By: Del Singh
Tags: Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, 100 Naked Words, AI, Tech

I’m not a fan of Snapchat, but it’s where people are.

AI scares the shit out of me, but it’s coming whether we like it or not.

I find VR straight up bizarre, but it’s how people will be shopping, interacting with brands, and communicating with each other. When VR takes over, we’ll be praying for the Snapchat selfie days. “Remember the good ole days of the selfie?”

Wishing for the “good old days” will cause you death. Death in your career, business, health and relationships.

How will you use emerging technologies to your advantage? To scale your business. To gain advantages over your competition. To stand out and be different in a world full of noise.

Technology is meant to bring people together. In certain cases, it will displace people from certain professions. I am writing this in a coffee shop and imagine robots serving me in the distant future. I enjoy the interactions with the baristas. They’re fun, friendly, and can sometimes engage me in a good conversation.

You can allow tech to take your job. Or you can use it to help you win.

The robots are indeed coming. I just hope Will Smith will be there to save us.
10 Minutes a Month — Easy Tribal Potluck Dinners
By: Alan Tabor
Tags: Simple, Food, Community, Potluck

(Editors note: AmalgamatedAmalgamations is a family project aimed at providing hand-holding for building community. We’ll be adding information on recipes, disaster planning, etc. Some will be here but most will be on our website.)

Why potlucks?

Simply: potluck dinners scale. More people showing up = more food. And sharing food and conversation is the keystone tribal/family activity.

I started organizing potlucks my last few years in college. I’d make a huge pot of beans for veggie burritos. The only rule: no one could take leftovers home. We’d eat for the rest of the week.

Here are the results of decades of learning.

Simplest: Anarchist Potluck

Set a day, time, and location.

Invite people.

Refuse to offer suggestions or coordinate what folks bring.

If everyone brings salad, order pizza.

A bit more complex

Same as above but…

Make a big main dish (stew, pasta, chili, etc) to avoid a possible ‘order pizza’ event.

Let folks know what it will be.

If you must —

Organize the event.

Announce your main dish.

Ask for RSVPs with intended contribution.

Picking a food theme helps, eg. tacos or Mediterranean.

Things to remember