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How To Sell Out a NFT Collection in 7 Minutes With Guest Arvin Khamseh
How To Sell Out a NFT Collection in 7 Minutes
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Crypto Travels Michael, Arvin Khamseh
Arvin Khamseh is one of the foremost thought leaders in the NFT industry. He has consulted with over 300 NFT brands and partnered with Reddit, Twitter and Quora. He has some very exciting current projects generating incredible profits and garnering the attention of celebrities. This is the genius behind the sellouts for some of the top brands and collections in NFT's including Froggos which sold out in seven minutes, Women of Crypto which sold out in one hour Meta Legends which sold out in 23 hours and Sand Vegas Casino Club in 20 hours. Today Arvin is going to break down the exact process of how he has helped so many NFT projects sell out and do it in record time. This interview you do not want to miss.
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Thank you for having me, Michael. Absolutely. Hey, before we dive in, can you tell our listeners just a little bit about yourself? Yes. So back in 2016, I had a really good friend of mine, Nick. And he basically sold everything he had and bought Bitcoins. And then I got very interested in, you know, figuring out like, why he's doing that. And I didn't get into bitcoins back then. But it was just very interesting for me. And then I moved out of the city where we both lived and a few years later, I called him up and I'm like, Hey, Nick, how's everything? How's work? And he goes, what work? I'm like, What do you mean? And it goes like, well, he's completely retired. And he's just like traveling the world. So that was my intro into the crypto world. And then since then, you know, I got into actually understanding okay, what NFT's are, started trading into NFTs. And then I helped an artist in Italy, sell out his collection with just Twitter ads. And then that had that proof of concept. So I was like, Okay, this is cool. I have a lot of knowledge in this area. I want to get into this industry. And since then, you know, worked with 300 Plus NFT projects, as you mentioned earlier on also helped a ton of them sell out anywhere from like seven minutes to 2023 hours. Wow, man, talk about a resume. And let's break down what it is that you do know, who are your clients? And what do you help them with? Yeah, so typically, there are different types of people that get into the NFT industry to create their own and fts. Interestingly enough, some of these people, they've never made a dime online, sometimes even they're not even experienced in business, let alone just like online marketing, but they come in, they build a community in a month of, you know, up to like 80,000 100,000 and then they sell out there NFT's have, you know, collections of anywhere from you know, 5000 to 10,000 and FDS, literally in a month, and they make you know, somewhere around and say five mil to 10 mil so, I've been in marketing since 2012. And, you know, businesses when they will come to me, like you know, we will set expectations with a business be like Okay, so you need to work with us for at least three months, six months, and then we will show you some results. Right. And then now people come in, they've never done business and then in a month they make $5 million.
Right and it's just crazy when the beauty of crypto and NFTs. Yeah, exactly. And and just so accessible to everyone right so
Yeah, that's incredible from zero to explosion in a month, you know, what are some of the largest NFT projects that you have helped? Yeah. So with Woman of Crypto, we hit number one on trending on the open sea trending on icy tools. And actually, Paris Hilton just retweeted us a few days ago. And there's another project frog owes. It's not by any means a large project. But it's definitely one of those exciting, very, very tight communities. I mean, so tight, like my sister got one of the NFT she called me on the reveal day, she called me just to talk about the frogs that she got for like half an hour. And so it's just a very tight community, they just go everywhere they go, they just, you know, it's so it's all about frogs. And everywhere they go, they just say Ribbit, ribbit.
It's really, really funny. And it's actually by the way, that's one of the one of the coolest things you can do in marketing to just have some sort of meme or some sort of insider thing in your community, where it makes it easy for them to just distribute the information to everyone else, and just connect with everyone else. I've worked with metal legends, San Vegas casino club, and quite honestly, I have consulted so many people, like some of them, they've already sold out. And I haven't even gotten to buy the case study about them. And like, for example, generative dungeons, I found out last week that they actually hit top 40 in the world for open sea. And I didn't know so there's so many already that I don't like. I can't possibly follow like every single one to see what's happening. But also things happen so fast, right? So just in 30 days, you go from nothing, like for example, women of crypto went from zero people in their discord to about 80,000 people. And yeah, it is I just think about think about like, so when I started in marketing, I was working with small businesses or when medium size and you know, all the way to, you know, public companies, fortune 500 companies, but it was always the the concept of building a social media platform, building a following is always like, it takes time. Like that's what comes right after that. Like when you say, 'I want to build my social skills", then you are immediately followed by, it's going to take a long time, it's going to take a few years, right. But now that has changed, that you just in a month, you don't have any knowledge about social media, anything about like, do you don't know what Twitter is. And then you go in and just build a Twitter and discord following. Like, you're just like a pro. Right. And like, you don't have to actually have anything special. I mean, I'm balling means, like all the products I work with, I'm sure there are special people. And they're very cool people. But there's nothing extraordinary like anything in this project. Of course, they're like, you know, cool utilities, they really believe in their projects, but it's just things have changed so much, where you no longer have to spend so much time and so it just doesn't take that long, you know, things have changed. Okay, before we dive into the solutions, and how you're helping all of them achieve incredible results. What are some of the challenges that founders of NFT projects face? Maybe you know, when they first come to you, or in general? You know, honestly, the biggest thing I would say, I guess the two biggest problems are one is you can't really tell the difference between a legit influencer versus one that's not. So there's a lot of paid influence that you would do inside the NFT marketing.
And sometimes unless you have developed a relationship with people, it's hard to tell, and you don't have a lot of time, right? You only have like four weeks, it's hard to tell who is actually going to produce results for you. And even like, the challenge for me is I'm not going to just use one influencer, you know, for the span of four weeks. So also it's hard for me to tell which influencers are actually pulling the most weight, right. So even though I've used many of them. So I think that's like a big show challenging for people to the point where people offer me on a daily basis, they say we pay you just tell us which influences to use. Just give us a list. We just buy that list off you for 1000s of dollars. Wow. Yeah, well, definitely knowledge is power, right? Oh, yeah, of course. And then the second one is the politics of NFT. So what I mean by that is social media platforms, although NFC is going really fast, and so you have a running joke with my friends. It's like if we take a day off, we're going to be behind 10 years, right? So now social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Reddit, YouTube, these are all kind of behind on NF t's not so much of like not knowing what NFT's are more so they don't have the regulations completely figured out. So what happens is on Reddit, Quora and Twitter.
Actually Facebook used to be the same as well, if it's when Instagram used to be the same, you just could not run an FDS. And Facebook changed the policy in November 2021. They lifted the ban on crypto and NFT. And now for crypto, you still need to have a permission. But NFT you can freely talk about it online, on your ads. But then Reddit, Quora on Twitter, you still need to have approval to run NFT ads. And so sometimes, like I remember, like, there was at the beginning, when I didn't have the partnership with these companies, it was so hard because we would run ads, especially for example, San Vegas casino club. First of all, it's a casino, like marketing casinos and social media ads on social media platforms is already like a challenge, just because most of the time it's not allowed. Gambling is not allowed. But the idea of like, you know, spending hours and hours just talking to different people on Twitter, explaining to them Be like, Hey, this brand is not going to be a rock poll here. Why? Here's why, like, you should trust us why you should trust this brand, basically, pitching brands to get the approval. Like that was probably the hardest thing in the NFT marketing, not so much the marketing, the NFT itself, actually just approvals to be able to advertise. I think that was the hardest thing for me. And also harvesting for the founders as well. Because sometimes data like I would get a lot of people come to me and say, Hey, so you can't run ads on Twitter, right? I'm like, No, you can just you just need to know how, right so I think that those two are the biggest challenges. And then I guess one other thing I would add, every time Gary Vee says 99% of the NFT brands are not going to make it, a lot of actual brands' prices go down. So I think Gary Vee is also contributing to that too, as a challenge. But other than that, those two, those two are like the largest, largest challenge. Wow.
And so a lot of influence your way to be, you know, floor price. So let's move into how on earth are you able to help so many NFT projects achieve incredible results, and ultimately sell out? Meaning? How do you help them solve this? Let's break down some of the process. Yeah, so I mean, I've developed my relationship with the platforms, you know, Reddit, Quora, and Twitter. And so I can leverage those relationships where it's a process like not still like, I still have to look over the handles website, make sure everything is compliant, then vouch for them. And also don't do it for everyone. Right. But even then, I think that's probably been the hardest thing that I guess, hardest challenge that I solved, why by just having those relationships as far as the actual launch itself. So I think just by simply consulting so many different brands, I've gained a ton of knowledge into what's working, what's not working for different brands. And so, you know, people come and talk to me about, like, why certain things are not working for them, or why certain things are working for them really well. And of course, I have like my inner circle, like in discord, you're part of it, you know, so they talk about, like, what's really working for them, right. Also, like, I would say, NFT community is like really cool in that sense, because they're not really competing with each other. So they share everything so freely with each other is is the coolest community. So there's that. But also, like I came to the NFT world, I had the knowledge and experience of doing investor relationship marketing for public companies. So I would actually help them increase their stock price. And the advertising platforms that we would use was just exactly the same as NFT's. And also a lot larger volume. So you know, we will spend like, say, 500k a month, no NFT brands. So far, I've worked with fixed metal legends, they had a lot of spending, but most of them didn't have like that much spending. But the point is, I've tested out certain things that I knew that were going to work in investor relationship marketing, and FD in turns out, it was working as well as the same thing. It's just, you know, targeting investors. And then I tried it out with a bunch of brands and figured it out, it was working. And then I just started just doing the same thing. And as we do things, I also see how the community is evolving, right? So give you one specific example. I used to say you want your white listers. And for those of people who don't know what wireless routers are, if you buy NFT, you can have your crypto wallet approved to buy the NFT at an earlier date than the public. So that's called being whitelisted. So I used to tell people to be like, Hey, you want your wireless routers to buy 30 to 50% of your collection before the public sells. So that was what was working for us. Right? But lately, one of the reasons like we can sell out in seven minutes one hour is just because we make it so that people in our whitelist there's almost wiped out the entire collection. So it's more like right now it's more like 80 to 90% of the collection that they buy and then we open it to the public but there's not much left to buy. So that's why it happened so quickly. Interesting. So the process of basically, you know, beginning a project and ultimately launching it and selling it out. So you working with the brands and knowing what can be approved to run ads and ads is probably would you say?
Ads are a large part in building a community?
I would say. So I would say there are two, especially at the very end, because once you build a community, well, well, actually, let me give context to your restaurant. So on any social media platform, when you post something organically by design, social media platforms are, by their default, not going to show your message to everyone, not all your followers, right. And the reason for that is that you would pay that social media platform for advertising, right. So that's the whole point. This could n't have any ads, but like Twitter has the say, tick tock YouTube, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Quora, Reddit. Like all of these, they have ads. So now if you think about it, let's say you built 80,000 people in your community in discord, or let's say on your Twitter, over a span of one month, but then if they don't remember that your meant Day is coming up. So they mean the day that you're actually going to go by the NFT at a presale, if they don't remember that they are going to do it. And when you're going to do it, all that effort goes to waste. So that's a really important thing. So a lot of people start coasting a few days before their mandate. And that's actually the most important day for any brand. So like, all you've done, now you're going to actually retarget people actually get your message to everyone using ADS, specifically, because that's the only way you can actually reach everyone in your community, you cannot possibly organically reach everyone in your community, it's just not possible, like the ad platforms won't let you. And so with that, you'll be able to do that. And like, I'll give you a specific example. So we do this thing called teasing. So five days before the means, which are saying, hey, five days left, four days left, three days left, two days left, right. So we do just a lot of hyping up. And a lot of reminders to make sure these guys know that our mentor is coming up. And you're going to come in and just like by the end FTS find that we do with ads plus organic.
Okay, yeah, I can see how that would be really important, not only to build a community, but to remind them when you're launching. Yeah. And you mentioned building a community of 80,000. And, you know, before we start getting inbound messages from our audience, I know, they want to know what kind of, especially for some of the listeners who are creating their own in a few projects, and they want to launch them. What kind of budget are some of your clients needing in order to build 80,000? You know, person, community in such a short amount of time? For sure. Yeah, so this way, if your listeners want to get the exact numbers, I do case studies, where literally after a brand sells out, someone in my team is an amazing writer, he goes on to actually interview the founders, everyone, their team, and then ask them questions. I'll go into my ads platform, and also basically screenshot everything, and then just record everything to see how much money we spent on what platform, right. And I published that as a case study on NFT czar IO. So if anyone wants to use the exact breakdown of the spending, they can go see. And there's literally screenshots where they can see how much we spend, like what we use, so on and so forth. But other than that, typically is about $15,000 on paid ads, and about 30 to 50k on paid influencers. So a larger, larger contribution of influencers. Okay, so that's a good idea for a good ballpark for our listeners. So let's circle back to we were talking about building a community, what are some of the initial steps that need to be taken, let's say we have a listener creating a project or maybe you're not getting ready to launch? What are some of the initial steps to building that community? Yeah, so the first thing I do with any brand is I like to get that one liner, the messaging that is so special about the brand, so you can no longer just just come up with a PFP and expect everyone's just gonna, you know, rush to buy it. Like that's been done already. Right? So this is NFT's in that sense that the artwork itself is not new, even if it's a very famous artist like we have the artists like Floyd Mayweather in our in my course we have. We have lots of people like Hollywood triple A legends. Like it's actually like in my community, like literally using these strategies that I'm sharing with you guys. And so everyone
Like already doing a lot of things, so just having an artwork alone is not going to cut it. So what I like to do is just give you an example of that one liner. So for example, some Vegas casino club, it was, you can be the house, and the house always wins. Yeah, it's for gamblers, right. And it's also for people who are interested in getting a profit, essentially getting a share of the profit of the casino, right. And so just having that one line, that clearly tells people what this is about, right. In fact, in specifically, I didn't show much of the art for San Vegas casino club in the ads, most of the stuff that I did, and actually, two reasons, I would say, I didn't show the art because the utility, meaning, you know, the, I believe is 50% of the profit of the casino is going to be distributed amongst the holders so that that utility was strong. So I wanted to just really showcase that. The second thing is, if I did show the casino, we would get banned immediately. In fact, I even use SVC instead of Sand Vegas casino club everywhere. So those are the things like I would try and just get banned on every single platform. And then just come up with strategies to get around here. So first thing is just getting that one liner figuring out, like what is so special about this, like, for example woman of crypto is, you know, the cultural reference. So like the role, let's say a woman plays in the community, right in the society at large. So certain things about every brand are just so special. And that's like one of the things I do with every brand, just figure that out. The second thing is we're going to figure out, okay, what our numbers are, what numbers we need to hit to be able to sell out. So for a 10-10k collection size, your discord is supposed to be three to five times that number, meaning if you have a 10k collection size, you need to have 30 to 50,000 people in your discord to be able to sell out. So that's the minimum you want to have. Now sometimes we like people again, so that NF T's dot io, if they go and actually read the case studies, you see, like sometimes we did like 1212 times 13 times, right. But that's the minimum for Twitter. So you'll notice your like brands that sell disproportionately large on Discord versus Twitter. So Twitter is essentially like a resume. So it's just a presentation. Like you don't need to have lots of people on your Twitter, but you need to have a good size of following like, let's say if some around, let's say five to 10k for a 10k collection, the most important thing is the engagement rate needs to be at least 0.5%. Now. So this is where NFD founders make really weird decisions. So they start buying followers, they start paying promoters or like Schiller's for like $4 an hour to just get the numbers. But you have no idea how many times I mean, actually, if you literally look over my Discord, like you see how many times a day I say this, and people still do it. Now, the problem with, you know, buying, like actually having fake people in your community, well, first of all, the biggest problem is like they're not going to buy NFT's. For sure. The second problem is, then you actually need to make up like you actually need to run more ads and spend more money to make up for the engagement that they're not actually providing for you. But it's so it's just so problematic. And sometimes even like I've seen it in brands that are consulted, people forget that they bought followers, and they think they have lots of people actually supporting the community, they go into the midday and they get disappointed. Like, I would say that's like one of the worst decisions any NFT founder could make for any reason, like you don't even need to buy one with a single follower, like you do not need it. And people think that way, because they think like, you know, at the beginning, if they don't have followers, no one's gonna join them. But there's a way to fix that to like, you don't need to buy followers at all never. Right? So hitting those numbers is a second thing. So first thing is like, Okay, what's the messaging, just get that clear. Second thing is what numbers we need to hit. And then the third thing is basically your roadmap has to be fully fleshed out. So if you just copy pasted it from another brand, this is a good time to go and actually edit that and actually elaborate on that. Because a lot of people think this is also weird because sometimes people like NFT founders, they don't have a lot of business experience. So they think like people not gonna find out and, you know, so they just put like someone else's stuff in there and they say like, oh, it should be okay. And it's not obvious so if I see for example, I've I've read so many of these roadmaps, if I see something I can recognize, be like, Oh, I've seen this before. Like I know exactly where I've seen it from. And so I think that's also very important just like flesh it out actually shows people you understand what you're going to do with their money later on. Those are tough.
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Okay, thanks for breaking that down and sharing that. So having an actual genuine following, and having a fantastic project and a clearly defined roadmap and actually a good project not just a bunch of JPEGs to release to the world to make a quick sale, but actually have a great project. Yeah. And also don't be a rug pull. Yeah, absolutely. So let's go down the Froggos launcher, the frogs you mentioned no earlier what was it like in the days leading up to the launch and ultimately like the day before and on launch day, our listeners and now they're all you pique their interest. They're all excited in this, like, you know, give them a sneak peek behind the curtain perfectly. So this is a very different type of project than other ones have done. Of course, again, the case study is on my soldoutnfts.io. They can read the full details of it but then the Sun Solana blockchain first of all, so that's also something very important for people to think about which blockchain they want to be on. Right? So Aetherium is very well known. Because of options you most probably, and let's say Solano is not as well known, so you're targeting newbies for your project, then you may just have to explain an additional thing to them. So you have to explain first what the NFT is, what you're going to do and then also what Solana is, because they may not know it. Right? And still like with Aetherium and salon is still pretty good like, let's say XRP or something else that polygon. Now you have like an additional thing to explain to people to nothing like they can be successful, but you just got to be mindful. That's the thing. You added it to marketing. So anyways, this guy's on Solano. Now the cool thing about Santa Ana is it's just a very tight community still, it's not as large as Aetherium. So they are still trying to make their mark. Right. So it's really cool. Like, the communities are so helpful for each other. So when you as an NFT founder, you come into Solana, like a lot of people just gonna follow you like a lot of actual big timers in Solana blockchain, just because they want you to be successful. And so a few days leading up to this, we had a ton of obviously people joining in and just like talking about saying how excited they are. And they literally are excited like me so my sister was one of them. But they were super excited that this project was going to happen. And we would release these like previews of what the frog would look like in the metaverse, the characters, what it will look like, and people will be freaking out. It's so fun. And so, that was a big thing. As far as just like the vibe of the community. As far as the numbers are this good, we're going up fat as fastest compared to any other time. And then our wireless routers, we had a ton of wireless routers that just basically got selected about a few days before. And so those were some of the highlights of what was happening. Right before. And for me, of course, it's like the most stressful time just just figuring out like, okay, are we going to be okay, you know what I mean? So, yeah, absolutely. So you mentioned the white listers, is it? You build a community, you drive the demand, you have the ads going, and then you're marketing to the community to sign up to whitelist early? Is that accurate? Yeah. And so it's getting to the point now, where I mean, there's this Hollywood legend I just consulted the other day. And basically how his project is going to go is unless you're whitelisted you're not going to be able to buy like that's how it's gonna go. Like, I'll give you another example. Actually, I think it was a board bunny, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know about the project. I'm not associated with the project by any means. So I don't endorse them or anything but um, just want to make a point here. I think they sold out in like five minutes. But like most people who wanted to buy it, they couldn't buy it. Because of the wireless, there's just bought everything. Right. So we're getting into that, I guess time of the NFT communities wanting to have the sell out before the public sale, meaning we just want to select people to tell them, hey, you can buy and just tell us that you're going to buy. So we don't have to worry that our public sale is going to be a mess. Right? So we've gone in that direction. And so there's a huge focus right now on wireless routers, and getting wireless is now I remember with Amy, Woman of Crypto, I told her I was like, so this was right after the Sand Vegas casino club. So they gave away a lot of wireless spots to people.
And it freaked me out. Because the day before the wireless, I thought, you know, I was just like I couldn't sleep that night, I was like, I don't know if they're going to actually buy it because we gave it away, right. And so there wasn't a huge commitment from people to get the wireless spots. So then I told this to Amy. And then Amy kind of went overboard on that. So she made it so that you had to invite I think 10 people to the discord, and also be a level 10 engaging on Discord. If you guys don't know what that means, that means that you got to spend your entire life on their discord. And so literally like a part time job there. So and then, on top of that, on top of that, you have to fill out an application. And on top of that, she would just reject a lot of people as well. So that gave us a lot of certainty to know, hey, these guys are actually going to buy, right, because they've just gone through the hazing process, I would call it. And then we knew we knew these guys are very serious, very committed. So we are getting into that direction of just heavily focusing on wireless routers, pulling most of the weight for the seller. Okay, I know that there's a question on our listeners minds so you've explained how these projects launch and ultimately how they're successful when they launch? And everybody's wondering, how many NFT's do the founders keep, you know, when they launch a project? You know, there, you know, you've held 300 different projects. So, you know, I mean, is there a trend that you see in this area? Yeah, I mean, that's interesting, because I think they are obviously very interested in their own projects, like, so frog was the founder. I mean, we have marketing meetings. Every time we talk, we spend like 10 minutes at least just this guy. He's talking about his Franco's just saying how handsome they are, right? So. So this is like, the coolest thing, right? So these are all like a lot of people, artists themselves, or they have their artists, they're so excited about the project. So they do keep a lot. But then obviously, what happens is they you know, up to the project, they like assign certain number to themselves. But what happens is like, as the projects is like going well, and everything, typically people want obviously make money. So then they sell most of it, and they just keep a few. And you know, they already make a ton of money. So the the financial side of things, they already make ton of money on demand Monday, plus, they get anywhere from three to 6%, on average royalties, you can do up to 10%. But that's why I advise people to do three to 6%. And so they're going to get money from people trading these NFTs. So they don't have to like, wait until the NFT goes up, and then maybe sell it themselves. Like they make money regardless, there's no reason for them to keep it. But honestly, I could see some of them. I don't ask them ever like how many exactly they keep, but I could see some of them, they would just keep so many, because they just love it so much. And what is the average, like opening price minting price point that you see on this project? Yeah, so I just want to give context to your listeners. First of all, like people know about internet marketing. So when the price point is somewhere around 500 bucks, that's the equivalent of in ETH. So whatever blockchain you're on, then people don't have to think much to pull the trigger to buy it. So up to 500 bucks is almost the same. So 400 bucks, and 500 bucks is the same, like you may as well just do 500 bucks at that point. And it also means that, let's say, you know, they don't have to consult their wife to buy that NFT. Right. So like, it's just the low enough for them to just say I'll just do it myself. But then with women of crypto, we actually did 0.2 ETH. This was back in December time. So 0.2 is back then was almost 1200. That's definitely higher than average. And so typically, I tell people to answer your question. Typically, I tell people to start with the equivalent of 500 bucks, because that just removes a lot of barriers from people wanting to buy. But then you know, there are projects like I've consulted one project, they're NFT
Is 30 yeast? So? Yeah, I mean, there's that too. But
yeah, 33 Zero. Yeah, he Yeah, turn it in for the opening day.
And by the way, for those people who don't know what ETH is, we're talking about Ethereum sometimes because it kills. Yeah. Yeah.
So what is the average collection size? You know, your clients are? Yeah, give us a variety from what? To
what? Yes. So, again, I think I go back to give context to people, like see why the number it is, but a lot of people when they come into wanting to do their NFT collection, the knowledge they have is from social media that like the early, early on, people were doing 10,000 collections. So if everyone thinks they need to do 10,000, and everyone comes to me, and they say, 10,000, if I asked people like all the time, I'm like, why 10,000 is like, Well, what do we do? Like, they haven't thought about anything else. And so I actually advise a lot of people against 10,000. Because to have a 10,000 collection sell out, you have to have the budget for it. And you can still do 10,000, but you could just do it in drops, meaning you could do 2000 fairs, and then 8000 later, but by the time you do your 2000, you've made a bunch of money, you can inject it back into your second round of marketing, and then just sell out that complete like 10,000. So unless someone has a budget, I don't actually like it when people do 10,000. But most people do 10,000 regardless. And then I believe like women of crypto we had like 8888. For San Vegas, we had about 11,000. So 11111 But yeah, typically about 10 Somewhere around 10,000.
Okay, and of the projects that you've helped, how many of them have NF T's? How many of them are NF T's with utility or have utility behind the NFT? Great question.
If I think about it, almost all of them now have some sort of utilities. In fact, even if they're not, we pass that point where you can get away with meaning. If you don't have any utilities, people are just going to quickly sell it and your flow price drops significantly. And then well, that will be the end of that project. But funny enough, what almost everyone is doing as far as utilities this year is some sort of bow, some sort of like creating their own token. So then you can do a staking and play to earn games. And I would say those are like the biggest things like everyone's just trying to offer it right now. But I like it when people have their own story or like their own type of utility that's just creative, not just like, hey, I'm also doing staking, you know what I mean? So,
absolutely, no, I have to agree. Let me ask you, what are the keys to keeping the floor price up after the project launches?
Yeah. So first of all, I think it's very important when you do your reveal. So if you do a reveal, what I advise people is to do five days after the sell out, then you have some time, first of all, to have a bunch of things happen. Sometimes people forget that they just bought the NFT. So they forget to sell it. And then because it's just been so many days, right?
Five days is a lot of shoulder reminder.
And then the other one is I like because they start actually reading on like, why they're holding it. So we actually advertise heavily during those five days to show them all the things that they're going to get as a holder, right. And you need time for that if you just literally like to reveal the day after you don't have time to market that. So I think that's a very smart move to actually give yourself time to reveal for it's not too long, you can say like, we're going to get a next year because then everyone's gonna freak out. But we want to have enough time. So that's, that's one thing, the biggest thing you want to do, we got to have this plan out a little bit in advance, you want to have something that's so cool about being a holder and just like reveal it right there. So for example, San Vegas casino club. So initially, they said they're going to buy a three by three land on a sandbox. And then instead they bought a three, three by three. So a lot larger, right. And when they put that offer in, everyone was just like, Wait, I don't know if I want to sell this now. Like, you know what I mean, so that they change their mind. And so it's very important to have something very significant right there to say, Hey, this is what we're going to do. What I don't like people doing is just when they say like, if you hold on to this NFT we're going to give you a hoodie, like in a year. Like that makes no sense that somebody is actually doing that, some of the there's a large brand that's actually doing that. I bought their NFT myself and it was like the weirdest thing I stole from them. So
interesting. Interesting. Well, Arvind, man, it's been a pleasure. pleasure to have you here and really unpack, you know, somewhat of a, I guess you could say an invisible process to, to most of the consumers, you know, they're not aware of this entire process that you share today. Is there anything else in closing that you want to share with the listeners?
Yeah, I mean, I do a lot of case studies, I think it's good to just be up to date with what's happening. So you guys can go to sold out NF ts.io. So that's all soldoutnfts.io. soldoutnfts.io is where I publish case studies. And then my handles are Arvin K NFT. I also just published a lot of news and a lot of, I guess, content that's just about, like, what I'm finding, what's working, what's not working. So those two, I would say great resources for your people.
Awesome. All of your links are on the episode Blog Post page for today. So it's also in the description, or you can just head over directly to Arvin site. Arvind man is a pleasure to have you here and we're gonna have to bring you back on the show and do like a video for YouTube and share some more value for everyone.
Thank you for having me. Pleasure.
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Are you thinking of launching an NFT project, or maybe just curious what the process looks like? Arvin Khamseh is one of the foremost thought leaders in the NFT industry. He has consulted with over 300 NFT brands and is the genius behind the sellouts for some of the top brands and collections in NFTs. For example, Froggos, which sold out in seven minutes, Women of Crypto sold out in one-hour, Meta Legends sold out in 23 hours, and Sand Vegas Casino Club in 20 hours. In this episode, Arvin will break down the exact process of how he has helped so many NFT projects sell out and do it in record time.
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Here's What We Discussed in Detail in This Interview
[00:01 – 05:05] Opening Segment
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Arvin shares his background
Getting interested in crypto back in 2017
Arvin's venture into NFTs
Getting the proof of concept by helping sell out NFTs
The kind of people Arvin helps out
NFT project creators with little or no marketing experience
[05:06 – 26:02] How To Sell Out an NFT Collection in 7 Minutes
Arvin talks about the projects he's helped find success
Break down of Women of Crypto and Froggos
The art of building a following in the
Challenges that NFT creators face
It's hard to tell who is actually going to produce results
The politics of NFTs – some platforms are behind
How Arvin creates success for projects
Leveraging the relationship with key social media platforms
Knowing what works and what doesn't for brands
How to run ads in the community
A look at the budget people need to build a big community
The exact chart is on soldoutnfts.io
Typically $15,000 paid ads, and 30 to 50K for paid influencers
Initial steps to build a community
"Get that one-liner"
Figure out what makes you special
Get real engagement on your platform
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[17:37 – 39:58] Insights and Advice Around Starting an NFT Project
A sneak peek at what launch day looks like
Figuring out your blockchain
The excitement and positivity on the backend
The huge shift into getting Whitelisters
Giving your project extra security before going public
Arvin talks about how many NFTs founders keep
A breakdown of how much founders make in royalties
Average opening Minting and collection size
Usually, minting starts around $500
Some projects have even been 30 ETH on opening
Most do 10,000 size collections but it takes a larger budget
Utility behind NFT projects
Most projects have utilities to keep the project alive
How to keep your floor price up
The value of marketing during the holding period
Make "holding" cool
[39:59 – 42:11] Closing Segment
Arvin talks about how to stay up to date with his work
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Q: Получить максимальные значения из таблицы Есть таблица id и поля f1, f2, p1, p2, team, m_id,  в первых четырех полях значения в цифрах, а последний матч, то есть этот матч может быть у некоторых записей одинаковый.

Нужно выбрать по 2 команды одного матча, но при этом надо взять, где значение p1 и p2 или f1 и f2 больше всего, то есть нужно найти 2 самых больших значения и вывести в виде:

Team p1 m_id
  Team p2 m_id

Написал начало запроса, но он пока не дотягивает до того что надо:
SELECT id, id_m, max(f1), max(f2), max(p1), max(p2)
FROM   matchs
WHERE  id_m IS NOT NULL
GROUP  BY id_m

Поля: id, team, p1, p2, f1, f2 , m_id. Эти данные постоянно обновляются тоесть каждый матчи и его значения,
Допустим m_id = 7
Нужно: team p1 с id_m 7 и team p2 c  id_m 7, и так с каждого id_m по два матча с большими значениями
id team      p1  p2  f1  f2  m_id
1  bovaria    4   5   3   3  idm8
2  bovaria1   4   4  90   9  idm8
3  bovaria2   5   5   8  80  idm8
4  bovaria4   6   6   6   6  idm8
5  bovaria8  60  68   9   9  idm9
6  bovaria9  18  83   9   9  idm9

Выбрать:
2  bovaria1  f1=90 idm8
3  bovaria2  f2=80 idm8

И
5 bovaria8 p1=60 idm9
6 bovaria9 p2=83 idm9

A: Основная сложность данной задачи в том, что в результирующую выборку в одну колонку попадают результаты из разных колонок. Это говорит, скорее всего, о неверной структуре данных.
Решение "в лоб".
Собираем все максимальные значения(на самом деле, стираем все остальные):
SELECT id, team,
 if(p1=(SELECT MAX(p1) FROM t), p1, NULL) p1,
 if(p2=(SELECT MAX(p2) FROM t), p2, NULL) p2,
 if(f1=(SELECT MAX(f1) FROM t), f1, NULL) f1,
 if(f2=(SELECT MAX(f2) FROM t), f2, NULL) f2,
 m_id
FROM t;

И формируем выборку:
SELECT id, team,
  if(p1 is not null, 'p1',
    if(p2 is not null, 'p2',
      if(f1 is not null, 'f1', 'f2'))) field,
  COALESCE(p1, p2, f1, f2) val,
  m_id
FROM (SELECT id, team,
 if(p1=(SELECT MAX(p1) FROM t), p1, NULL) p1,
 if(p2=(SELECT MAX(p2) FROM t), p2, NULL) p2,
 if(f1=(SELECT MAX(f1) FROM t), f1, NULL) f1,
 if(f2=(SELECT MAX(f2) FROM t), f2, NULL) f2,
 m_id
FROM t) maxes
WHERE COALESCE(p1, p2, f1, f2) is not null;

Результат:
 id, team,     field, val, m_id
 2,  bovaria1, f1,    90,  idm8
 3,  bovaria2, f2,    80,  idm8
 5,  bovaria8, p1,    60,  idm9
 6,  bovaria9, p2,    83,  idm9

SQLFiddle

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Q: Why does python say there is no attribute called connect to pymysql? I am trying to connect to my database using python code but when trying to do so an error is produced.
This is the code:
import pymysql

conn = pymysql.connect(host="localhost", user="root", passwd="", db = "sampledB")

myCursor = conn.cursor()

conn.commit()
conn.close()

This is the error:
AttributeError: module 'pymysql' has no attribute 'connect'

The error is directed to line 3. I would like it to connect to my database so any help is appreciated.
I am trying to learn mySQL, HTML, and Python; therefore, I would be grateful if someone could direct me to a course or a place where I can learn.
I'm particularly interested in user input, sanitization, and validation.


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Updated: UK Video Games Retailer Game Group Goes Bankrupt, Closes 277 Stores, Lays Off 2k Workers
It's been on the rocks for months now, but now international video game retailer Game Group looks like it is finally sinking: today the company announced that it is formally entering administration — another sign of the woes hitting more traditional parts of the gaming world as people turn to new services like cloud-based gaming and mobile apps for their playing fixes.
PricewaterhouseCoopers says that it has been named the administrator for the UK and Ireland operations of a series of assets: GAME Group plc, Game Stores Group Limited, Gameplay (GB) Limited, Game (Stores) Limited, Games Station Limited, Game (retail) Limited and Gamestation Limited. They are acting fact: the main website says it is currently down for maintenance. And PwC has announced the closure of 277 of its 600+ stores just hours after the announcement.
That will also mean that 2,104 employees are getting laid off in the process. The accountants say that 333 stores, employing 2,814 people, will remain open. "A number of parties who have expressed an interest in purchasing part or all of the business and assets of the group," PwC said in an updated statement.
The bankruptcy move comes after the company suspended shares on the London Stock Exchange on March 21.
The group reported a turnover of £1.6 billion ($2.6 billion) in 2011 (ended January 31), from services that included retailing video game hardware and software. It had 609 stores in the UK and Ireland, and employs over 5,500 people in the two countries; it has further operations in Spain, Portugal, France, Czech Republic and Australia.
Mike Jervis, one of the two appointed administrators at PwC, says that the move was made in response to "serious cashflow and profit issues" in the recent past, but also the trappings that many retailers face in the onslaught of competition from business models that don't support distribution through physical stores: high fixed-costs, "fluctuating capital requirements", and a too-ambitious international roll-out strategy.
Mobile gaming — one of the newer forms of gaming that has disrupted the video gaming industry — has quickly grown in popularity and in some cases even seems to be taking the place of traditional, console-based gaming: a survey last week from MocoSpace found that 96 percent of respondents play mobile games at home.
PwC continues to look for a buyer of the assets to keep it a going concern. But if the kind of retail downfall in music, video and books is any indication of what might happen, there may be some challenges in meeting that hope.

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Teacher pay (Scotland)
Pay claims for 2021-2022 (settled) and 2022-2023 (ongoing) and updates from the Teachers' Side of the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT), which includes Community. Latest update: January 2023:
SNCT – Pay Claim 2022/2023
Updates: January 2023
Latest Community statement and update on teachers' pay negotiations (23 January 2023)
Statement from SNCT Teachers' Side (23 January 2023) (pdf)
Update from SNCT Teachers' Side (6 January 2023) (pdf)
The Teachers' Side has rejected the latest offer from the Employers' Side of between 5% and 6.85%.
Senior Professional Officer (Scotland) Dougie Atkinson said:
"Community has rejected the latest teachers' pay offer from COSLA and the Scottish Government.
"In a joint statement with the other education unions, Community today urged COSLA and the Scottish Government to make a fair and reasonable offer that better reflected the rate of inflation.
"We hope that talks can resume as soon as possible so we can reach a resolution that gives our members the proper pay and recognition they deserve."
Read the letter of rejection (30 November 2022).
Community – along with other teacher unions in Scotland – has unanimously rejected a pay offer of 5% from local authority employer body COSLA. The unions' pay claim is for 10%.
Following indicative ballots, it is clear that teachers in Scotland find such an offer insulting following their efforts throughout the pandemic and in the face of surging inflation and cost of living price rises.
We will continue to work with our sister unions in attempting to secure a fair and proper pay increase.
Letter of rejection from SNCT Teachers' Panel (21 September 2022)
Declaration of dispute letter from SNCT Teachers' Panel (21 September 2022)
Update: 18th August 2022
Community along with the other teaching unions in Scotland have today rejected an improved pay offer from COSLA of 3.5%.
We are surveying our members asking for your views on the offer and what action you want the union to take in response to this. If you have not already done so, please take a few minutes to complete the survey – it will influence how we respond if a satisfactory offer is not forthcoming.
Update: 23 June 2022
Following the AGM of the SNCT Teachers' Panel on 21 June, the Teachers' Side Joint Secretary has written to convey the Panel's anger and frustration over the failure of COSLA to make an improved pay offer, following rejection of the offer of 18 May. (pdf)
Update: 18 May 2022
The SNCT Teachers' Side has formally rejected the offer of 2% from the Employers' Side, and has asked for an improved offer to be made as soon as possible.
The original pay claim for 2022/23 from the Teachers' Side is for 10%.
Update: 7 February 2022:
The 2022/23 pay claim from the SNCT Teachers' Panel is for 10% to be applied to all grades and pay points without differentiation or discrimination. (7 February 2022) (pdf)
Negotiations are ongoing.
SNCT – Pay 2021/2022
Update, 1 April 2022
The pay claim for 2021/22 has now been settled, following the Teachers' Panel meeting of 31 March 2022.
SNCT Pay Agreement 2021 – 2022
Updated pay circular and tables:
Part 2 Appendix 2.1 Revised 0422 – SNCT Handbook
Appendix 2.5 Annex A Revised Allowances 0422
Updates, February 2022
The SNCT Teachers' Panel has rejected the revised pay offer from COSLA (13 December 2021) by unanimous decision. (pdf)
Update, December 2021
The latest pay offer has today (Friday 17 December 2021) been rejected by the Teachers' Side.
Earlier this week, the Employers' Side issued a pay offer with "the same overall cost envelope" but "reconfigured dates":
a 1 per cent increase at all SNCT pay points effective from 1 April 2021.
a further 1 per cent increase at all SNCT pay points effective from 1 January 2022
a one-off non-recurring payment of £100 (pro rata for part-time staff)
a cap of £800 for those earning £80,000 and above.
The previous offer was for a 1.22 per cent pay rise backdated to January 2021.
Update, November 2021
The SNCT Teachers' Panel has rejected the revised pay offer from COSLA. (pdf)
It is expected that an improved offer will be made after the COSLA Leaders' meeting on 26 November.
Update, September 2021
The Teachers' Side has declared a formal dispute.
Update, August 2021
The SNCT Extended Joint Chairs met on 19 August to discuss this year's pay claim. The Employers' Side reported that COSLA Leaders have now confirmed an undifferentiated offer of 1.22% across all SNCT pay grades, backdated to April 2021. Whilst the acceptance of the principle of a universal pay offer is progress the offer of 1.22% is not, it being simply a redistribution of the cost of the previous offer.
The Teachers' Side made clear that the offer of 1.22% is unreasonable, sub-inflationary and fundamentally misjudges the value of the profession.
The delay in reaching a negotiated settlement was highlighted and it was indicated that the possibility of a multi-year deal, suggested by COSLA, would only be considered if full details are provided with regard to the proposed percentage increase for each year.
The next meeting of the Extended Joint Chairs will be in the week commencing 30 August 2021 and a further update will follow that meeting.
Update, July 2021:
The Leaders' Side met at the end of June and COSLA then held further discussions with the Finance Secretary.
COSLA is sticking with its position – which, on a non-differentiated basis, which would equate to a flat 1.22% uplift across all teachers and associated professionals covered by the SNCT, or a 2% uplift to those on up to £40,000 and 1% for those on £40,000 and above with a £800 cap.
The SNCT Teachers' Side (which includes Voice Community) have made it clear during Extended Joint Chairs negotiations that this offer – which they had already rejected – is not acceptable, however it is distributed, and we have again noted our disappointment at there being no improvement to the offer.
The Teachers' Side have requested that SNCT negotiations should continue, and that a meeting of the Extended Joint Chairs should be arranged for as soon as possible in the new session.
Update, 1 April 2021:
There was a further meeting of the SNCT extended joint Chairs yesterday to discuss the unions' pay claim of 3-5% and the employer offer of a 2% uplift for those earning up £40,000; and a 1% rise for those earning over £40,000 with a cap of £800.
COSLA claimed that their offer was sufficient and equated to an overall pay rise of 1.2%. They could not confirm the offer as they still need to have a discussion with Kate Forbes, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, on local government finance. That meeting had had not gone ahead and, of course, the unions indicated that the new 4% NHS pay offer was also an additional consideration.
The unions outlined their concerns in terms of not having an improved offer and the inadequate and divisive nature of the current offer. They indicated that they would be advising members of their disappointment with the current offer.
Commenting on the outcome of that meeting, Senior Professional Officer (Scotland) Dougie Atkinson said:
"It was disappointing that there was no movement of the current position on teachers' pay from COSLA, the employer, at a meeting yesterday. We cannot accept a differentiated offer like the one made earlier this month.
"It is disgraceful that the outstanding efforts of teachers in continuing to deliver high quality education during the pandemic have not been recognised when other public sector staff are being offered pay rises four times higher than the proposed award for teaching staff.
"We will continue to press Scottish Government and the employer to properly recognise the worth of teachers' ongoing contribution."
SNCT Teachers' Pay Claim 2021 (pdf)
The 2021 SNCT pay claim reflects the on-going commitment and professionalism of teachers and associated professionals, which has been brought into sharp focus during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ongoing need to continue the restoration of the pay of teachers and associated professionals.
Therefore, a range of 3%-5% is the financial scope of the claim, depending on other measures and benefits also being considered as part of the pay and reward package, in particular those measures aimed at tackling excessive workload.
The Teachers' Panel believes that the need to provide adequate support and reward for teachers as frontline and key workers should be recognised within the 2021 pay award.
The Panel wishes to expedite negotiations, through Extended Joint Chairs, with the aim of reaching a settlement for implementation in April 2021.
The Leaders' Side will meet after 8 March 2021 to consider their offer.


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Mitsubishi plotting Lancer Evolution's return - report
Scott Collie
That's right, the brand's rally legend could be making a comeback thanks to the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance.
Reports from Europe claim the legendary Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution could return, blending Renault Sport power with an all-wheel drive chassis.
According to Autocar, sources in Japan say Mitsubishi plans to "continue a rich history of Lancer Evolution models" with "supercar-beating acceleration together with the choice of either traditional four-door saloon or five-door hatchback body styles".
The long-running Lancer Evolution badge was put on ice in 2015 locally, while the mainstream Lancer died in 2018.
A modern Evolution would reportedly be powered by the same engine as the next-generation Renault Megane RS, potentially an evolution (excuse the pun) of the current 1.8-litre four-cylinder turbo engine, mated with a dual-clutch transmission and an updated version of Mitsubishi's famous S-AWC all-wheel drive system.
The report says it'll sit on a CMF-CD F4 platform being developed within the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance. At the moment, the Megane RS engine makes 224kW and 420Nm in its most powerful Trophy-R trim. In its final form, the Evolution made 226kW and 414Nm.
Autocar says the modern Evolution is part of the Mitsubishi chairman's plan to bring excitement back to the brand.
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Weekly Roundup 12/19/16
An Immersion Vortex 250 drone collides with the end of the spray from a water cannon, part of the counter-unmanned aerial system solution developed by the team from Robins Air Force Base, Ga., during the 2016 Air Force Research Laboratory Commanders Challenge at the Nevada National Security Site, Las Vegas, NV., Dec. 13, 2016. Credit: Wesley Farnsworth/USAF
December 12, 2016 – December 18, 2016
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Field Guide to Drones in Syria and Iraq
In Syria and Iraq today, there are more drones, made in more countries and flown by more groups, than in any previous conflict. We have worked through years of records in order to identify every type of drone known to be operating in the conflict. Here is a guide to these systems, who makes them, who operates them, and how they are being used.
China seized a U.S. Navy underwater drone in the South China Sea. The Littoral Battlespace Sensing Glider, a small unmanned undersea vehicle designed for long-distance survey missions, was being operated from the USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic survey ship. Following negotiations, Beijing said it would return the drone. (Wall Street Journal) For more on unmanned undersea vehicles, click here.
Amazon conducted its first drone delivery on December 7 in Cambridgeshire, England. The drone delivered an Amazon Fire streaming device and a bag of popcorn. The two-mile delivery took thirteen minutes from order to completion. Amazon announced that it plans to carry out further drone deliveries to customers in the area around its Prime Air testing site. (New York Times)
The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons voted to begin formal discussions on lethal autonomous weapons systems in 2017. The vote will establish a group of government experts, the next step towards a potential ban on future autonomous weapons. (TechRepublic)
A Tunisian aviation engineer linked to Hamas was killed in southern Tunisia, allegedly by Israeli Mossad agents. Mohammed Al Zoari reportedly helped build unmanned aircraft for Hamas and Hezbollah. (Haaretz)
Commentary, Analysis, and Art
At the Guardian, Bradley L. Garrett and Adam Fish look at how drones are reshaping ownership of urban airspace.
At CIMSEC, Heiko Borchert reflects on some of the long-term consequences of China's seizure of the U.S. underwater drone.
At Lawfare, James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo argue that China's capture of the U.S. drone violates the law of the sea.
Also at Lawfare, Julian Ku argues that the drone incident in the South China Sea exemplifies how "China is veering further away from a putative rules-based global order."
At the Christian Science Monitor, Peter Ford writes that China's seizure of the U.S. drone will set the tone for the Trump administration's relationship with China.
At the Verge, Ben Popper looks at what the U.S. Navy might have been using the underwater drone for before it was captured by China.
At the Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg writes that defense attorneys for the victims of the USS Cole attack are seeking information from the federal government regarding an individual killed in a U.S. drone strike.
At TechRepublic, Jonathan Chadwick writes that effective human pilots are crucial when it comes to using drones for environmental management.
In a podcast at Drone Radio Show, Colin Snow discusses drone industry trends in 2016 and how videography remains a major vertical for drone businesses.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Cameron Chell argues that there will continue to be growth in 2017 in specialized drone businesses that serve particular industries.
At Wired, Eric Adams writes that the forthcoming General Atomics Protector remotely piloted aircraft will be able to fly in the same airspace as civil aviation in Europe.
At Vocativ, Campbell MacDiarmid looks at how ISIL uses drones to guide suicide bombers to their targets.
In an interview with the U.S. Air Force, Airman 1st Class Matthew recalls his first drone strike.
At Just Security, Rachel Stohl writes that Jameel Jaffer's The Drone Memos offers a "critique of the shortsighted nature of Obama administration policies" regarding targeted killing.
At Defense One, Marcus Weisgerber looks at how U.S. weapons are increasingly being built by robots.
At C4ISRNet, Mark Pomerleau looks at how the U.S. Navy is seeking to integrate the MQ-25 unmanned refueler into carrier operations.
At War on the Rocks, Benjamin Jensen argues that the new U.S. administration should take a broader view on the third offset strategy beyond adopting new technologies.
At IEEE Spectrum, Toby Walsh argues that the United Nations should ban lethal autonomous weapons systems.
At KCBY, Dan Rascon examines how one teenager's drone invention landed him a spot on one of Time magazine's lists of influential people.
The latest edition of Interface Focus journal features 18 articles on how engineers are borrowing tips from nature to design the next generation of drones. (Seeker)
At KQED Science, Craig Miller looks at how heat-seeking drones could help firefighters reduce fire deaths.
At the Motley Fool, Rich Smith writes that the future TERN tailsitter drone could outclass the F/A-18 and F-35.
Car maker Ford is developing a system to equip its self-driving cars with drones. (Phys.org)
Researchers at the University of Zurich are developing small drones that can autonomously navigate through tight openings. (Digital Trends)
Researchers at several Japanese universities are developing a construction robot for disaster relief. (Press Release)
The Ohio Controlling Board approved a project to build a ground-based sense and avoid radar to test drones beyond line of sight. (Columbus Business First)
A team from William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine are developing a medical drone designed specifically for first responders. (Fox News)
Two Afghan brothers have developed a drone that detects and detonates landmines. (Voice of America)
Researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are experimenting with underwater drones as a possible option to explore the oceans on Jupiter's Moon, Europa. (Digital Trends)
Iran's Army has reportedly unveiled two military drones: the Oghab, a strike drone, and the Shahin, a reconnaissance system. (Press TV)
Meanwhile, Iran unveiled a jammer gun designed to bring down rogue drones. (Popular Science)
U.S startup LiquidPiston is developing a small rotary engine for use on unmanned aircraft. (Aviation Week)
Israeli firm Advanced Programs Group is developing two short take-off and landing military drones. (FlightGlobal)
The U.S. Office of Naval Research released details and video of a recent test of its swarming drone boats. (Engadget)
Canadian drone maker The Sky Guys has unveiled the DX-3, a commercial fixed-wing drone with 24-hour flight endurance. (Unmanned Systems Technology)
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board found that a portion of the wing of Facebook's Aquila, a high-altitude prototype drone, detached from the aircraft during its maiden flight this summer. (The Verge)
Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a drone that can both dive into the water and then launch itself back into the air. (Press Release)
The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued a Request for Information for a small surveillance and reconnaissance drone with a long endurance capability. (IHS Jane's 360)
The U.K. and France signed an agreement for the next phase of development for the U.K.-France Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator Programme. (Press Release)
At the 2016 Air Force Research Laboratory Commanders' Challenge, six U.S. Air Force teams demonstrated their counter-drone systems. (Press Release)
The Swiss Federal Aviation Office has released an interactive map showing where drone operators can and cannot fly in the country. (The Local)
AirMap will begin issuing digital certificates to its drone users. (PC World)
UNICEF and Malawi's government are exploring the use of mapping drones to assist humanitarian relief missions. (Reuters)
A North Korean news website is claiming that a defector group is planning to use explosives-equipped drones to destroy statues of the country's former leaders. (BBC)
Atmospheric scientists are using drones to measure methane levels at the trade wind inversion over in the South Atlantic. (Spectrum IEEE)
The Somerset County Sheriff's Office in New Jersey has acquired a drone for Alzheimer's patients who go missing. (NJ 1015)
The Stafford County Sheriff's Office in Virginia is planning to acquire a drone. (Fredericksburg.com)
Officials in Bangor, Maine used a drone to assist in the search for a missing man. (Bangor Daily News)
The City of Orlando passed an ordinance restricting the use of drones. (WESH 2)
Scientists at Natural Resources Canada are using drones to map coastal erosion in the Western Arctic. (Local Express)
The Cobb County Police Department is looking to buy a drone for car accident investigations. (Marietta Daily Journal)
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department used its drone for the first time in a standoff in October, reports have revealed. (Voice of San Diego)
A team from Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology is experimenting with drones to support almond growing operations during droughts. (Mercury News)
Infosys has invested an undisclosed amount in ideaForge, an Indian startup that aims to use drones for industrial applications. (Economic Times)
The U.S. Navy awarded Metron a $29.8 million contract to advance the development of autonomy in unmanned undersea vehicles. (DoD)
The U.S. Army awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems an $80 million contract for the continuation of contractor logistics support for the Gray Eagle system.
A report by Market Forecast predicts that the global military drone market will grow to $13.9 billion by 2016. (Press Release)
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Same here R6.11 (27.1.6.11) and no fix here either!!!
Thanks all. U helped solve the problem.
The problem hasn't been solved for me with 6.11 - Did I miss something?
Terry, you did not miss anything. The Release Notes for R6.11 does not mention anything about the Bell Icon being fixed. So, hopefully, the fix will be in a future Update.
We are aware of the issue and appreciate the feedback.
We are working on a fix but currently don't have an ETA for when it will be released.
While I understand that this is frustrating, the bell notification isn't rendering the software unusable, and may not have the highest priority at the moment.
We do hear the frustration and are working on it.
Thanks for the update. Nice to hear something official. I guess when we see this issue go away, we will all know that the serious issues are fixed.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled new bill pay user for QWin 2018, cannot clear reminder for bill pay upgrade.
I upgrade from QWin 2015 to QWin 2018. I have previously never used quicken bill pay. I set up a new account, all is well now with it, except...I get this attention box that I cannot delete.
Because I did not have a Quicken Bill Pay account previously, I have nothing to deactivate. I've already activated the new QBP account and set up bills, payees, etc.
I don't want to deactivate and reactivate QBP, there is no need to do this since I have no old account.
How do I clear out this reminder?
Quicken Tyka's Post almost directly above your Post.
Version R6.12 build27.1.6.12 no fix yet. I think we are being patient but these bugs do need to be fixed.
These are both more than annoying now. It has been months with no fixes.
Have you tried clicking Skip All (shown in your first screen capture)?
I've tried it. Repeatedly. It doesn't work as of R27.1.6.12. Q staff have stated this is a low priority item.
And clicking through the pending items does not clear it?
It's a Catch-22. It will NOT let you Skip the Quicken Bill Pay Migration which is mandatory. The whole point of this: it is something that cannot be cleared. We don't use Quicken BillPay, but the system doesn't seem to recognize that and will not clear the notification.
What happen if you click the bill pay migration?
Why do that. It then asks you to sign up for BillPay, etc. Again, this shouldn't have even come up in the first place. We have never used or signed up for BillPay yet the system thinks we did and won't clear the notification because it is "mandatory".
Just click through and don't sign up for anything.
As part of the process, It also asks you to clear previous accounts etc. Can't do that because there aren't any. Again, Catch-22. Sorry, your "solution" does not work.
Re-read the official word on this bug.
I stopped Wells Fargo Bill Pay (was $6.95/mo) and set up Quicken bill pay with Q2018 Home and Business version. Now have R6.12 27.1.6.12. I've gone thru all the steps (repeatedly) as Wells Fargo and Quicken don't always "play nice" and both say it's the other one's problem. I still have "1" in the red box after going thru that. Everything seems to be working now so hope there is a fix down the road to clear up the "nuisance" alert.
about the Official word. on this Bug.
I would skip steps 1 and 2 and go directly to 3.
Ensure that any bills in your Wells Fargo cue are paid, as they will cease sending payments the minute you close your bill pay with them. I had 4 bills in the cue for a week -- none were sent and I had 4 late payment fees (which I called about and got reversed once I resent them with Quicken Bill pay and they received their payment)!
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Irritating red notification at the top of Quicken 2018.
They know of the problem, but haven't got around to fixing it yet ( although this was first reported months ago )! Luckily, all else works great and I am super satisfied with Quicken 2018.
Folks, Problem Solved in Windows Version 2018 R7.5!!!!
Thanks for the heads up, Jerry. Last bullet point in the release notes!
Fixed: An issue where alerts icon did not clear up in some cases.
When I read that last Fixed sentence, I immediately downloaded the Mondo Patch.
Finally ! Mondo Patch updated to Version R7.5 and the red bell is gone.


Hi, my high school classes have just started and I am shocked at the amount of fulcrum equation homework we get. My concepts are still not clear and a big assignment is due within few days. I am really upset and can't think of anything. Can someone guide me?
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I too have had difficulties in difference of cubes, converting decimals and solving a triangle. I was advised that there are a number of programs that I could try out. I tried out several but then the finest that I discovered was Algebrator. Just keyed in the problem and hit the 'solve'. I got the response immediately . Additionally , I was guided through to the answer by an effortlessly comprehensible step-by-step procedure. I have relied on this program for my problems with Intermediate algebra, Remedial Algebra and Algebra 2. If I were you, I would without doubt go for this Algebrator.
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Yoga twists almost immediately invoke a feeling of "ahhh", a sweet release. Twists are known for aiding digestion, relieving back pain, and increasing spinal range of motion. Moving the spine in rarely used spiraled directions is healthy when done safely.
However, it is possible to twist dangerously or too far which puts the back muscles, spine, and shoulders at risk for injury. So before you practice deepening your yoga twisting poses, it's important to warm-up the spine and back muscles.
The spine has four movements: flexion, extension, lateral flexion, and rotation. Prepare your range of motion with forward folds (flexion), backward bends (extension), side bends (lateral flexion), and gentle twists (axial rotation). Try a few rounds of Sun Salutations and get the spine ready with range of motion exercises. Here are 5 twisting tips to ensure that twists provide that positive, deeply satisfying feeling while avoiding strain and injury.
Before initiating a twist, it's important to align the spine to set up for a deeper and safer twist. We can use the breath to facilitate this process before any twisted pose (supine, seated, or standing).
Using ujjayi (yogic breath), lengthen through the torso on the inhalation. For seated and standing twisted poses that incorporate the arms, extend the arm (opposite arm of the twisting direction) upwards to the ceiling on the inhale. Elongating the torso will provide a little more space between each vertebra to allow for a fuller twist.
The slow ujjayi exhale launches the twisting movement. In the twisted yoga pose, continue breathing with a deep inhale and deep exhale through the nose. With each inhale, try to length more through the spine, extending all the way through the crown of the head. And with each exhale, twist a little bit further. Just remember: inhale lengthen, exhale twist.
Our range of motion varies down the spine—with the base having the lowest ability to rotate, and the neck possessing the greatest capacity to rotate. Because of this difference, it can be helpful introduce the twist to the lumbar region (lower back) first, and work upwards to the thoracic region (mid-upper back).
From here, ensure that the chest and ribs are broadening and also rotating towards the twist. The final piece of the twist progression should be rotation of the cervical spine, which is generally when the gaze slowly moves towards the direction of the twist. This method will ensure that each section is rotating optimally.
The core muscles protect the spine and facilitate the movement of rotation in twists. Igniting the entire core, especially the obliques, transverse abdominis, and erector spinae muscles will help stabilize and protect the spine during twisting poses.
It's also important to protect the shoulder girdle in yoga twists since we often incorporate the arms (especially in the form of anjali mudra, palms touching at heart center). Let's picture Revolved Crescent Lunge Pose. You want to avoid overusing the resistance between the "hooked" arm and leg to twist deeper. Over-twisting this way can put not only too much pressure on the spine, but also on the sensitive shoulder girdle.
The hips play a big role in yoga twists. We can see this play out in Revolved Chair Pose—the knees should stay in line with one another which ensures the hips are in proper alignment. If one knee tracks out farther than the other, you may be dropping one hip which displaces the twist.
Keeping the hips "square" can prevent lower back pain and increase the twisting potential. Sometimes it's impossible to keep the hips perfectly square in twists, but just try to keep reaching the thigh bones back and engage the quadriceps.
In standing or seated twisted poses, try using a block under the lower arm to prop the posture and take the strain off the twist. You can play around with using the vertical or horizontal side of the block depending on your personal degree of rotation.
The key to twists is finding steadiness and ease in both the dynamic rotating process and the static pose. That "feel good" feeling that twists provide is a big perk, but putting your back at risk in order to achieve a "feel greater" feeling just isn't worth it.
Over-rotation can happen, especially when we use the arms as leverage to push the twist deeper. So be mindful in your twists, progressing slowly and safely.


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Q: read Json data from a webservice using jQuery or C# I have the following API which returns json data as follows:
API : http://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker
JSON : {"result":"success","return":{"high":.......
using jquery i tried the following but it is not giving me the data.
$.getJSON('http://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker', function (data) {
                                               alert(data);
                                           });

and
$.ajax({
                      type: 'GET',
                      url: 'http://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker',
                      dataType: 'json',
                      success: function (data) {
                          alert(data);
                      },
                      error: function (error) {
                          alert(error + "error");
                      }
                  });

but in first i get no alert
and in second i get error alert.
How can I read this data using jQUERY or C#?
THanks

A: As Archer mentioned this won't work if you're not on the same domain. There is one way around this using CORS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing) but you'd need to have control over the domain to set the required header or at least get the person in charge to do so.
The other option is to use JSONP which basically wraps the result in a function call that runs immediately when it returns by injecting a script tag. Problem is you lose nice things like error handling and you can't cancel the request.

A: I tried your problem. The error showed in Google Chrome Javascript Console was Origin http://localhost:1564 is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin
Check the answer to this Question and find your way out.

A: Is live data required ? Like "I must see the data as current as from this exact second" ?
If not (probably that is the case), I suggest you make a scheduled process (let's say every 5 min) on the web server. That will get data from the source (http://data.mtgox.com) and put it into database table.
After that you make your own JSON service (an MVC action method) and publish the data from your tables.
It will also allow your customers that your site is working even if mtgox.com is down for some reason.

A: How to getting Data through web Services with jquery in asp.net c#.
for more details
http://way2finder.blogspot.in/2013/08/how-to-getting-data-through-web.html


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Reggie Evans has agreed to join Crossfire as our new Lead Singer/Frontman! We'll be spending some time in rehearsal honing our skills and harmony, and then we will be back out playing the hottest New and Classic Country dance songs (maybe a few Classic Rock songs too). Please help us by offering a warm Crossfire Welcome to Reggie Evans!
Walter Killam is a native of North Texas, who grew up on classical music and first broke into live performance playing punk rock. After cutting his chops in music of all varieties, Walter spent 20 years playing in the Honky Tonks around Dallas. When work brought him to Omaha, Walter brought his talents to local groups such as Harvey and the Wallbangers and Silver Star. Walter plays bass and mandolin for Crossfire, sings backing vocals, and writes most of the band's original music.
Lead guitar player Gary Groves hails from San Diego, California; and credits his love of the guitar to his talented uncles, Larry and Bill Stevens. Gary has played in several local and regional bands including Nothin Fancy, Silver Star, Four on the Floor, Dust, and Harvey and the Wallbangers. Gary is now a highly sought after lead guitarist for area bands needing a fill-in musician, whether blues, country, pop or rock.
J.P. "Buck" Weyerman is a member of the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame for his work with The Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band. He has lent his percussion skills and creativity to studio sessions and radio spots in Omaha, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. A veteran of the Omaha music scene, he was a regular at the Ranch Bowl with bands such as Big Thumbs and Ogden Edsl. Prior to joining the band, Buck had semi-retired from performing; but after sitting in for a few shows, he knew he wanted to be a full part of Crossfire.


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The Cast of 'Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf'
Review of 'An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf'
Focus on Dr. Ken Bryant, who plays Victor
Ken Bryant has spent a lifetime in theater, designing, acting, directing, and teaching theater in colleges across the country. He was the Artistic Director of Key West's Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, stage managed for Miami City Ballet, and staged opera in Poland. Among his directing credits are Deathtrap, Mr. Marmalade, A Christmas Carol, Amadeus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Five Kinds of Silence and The Nosemaker's Apprentice. Ken currently sits on Lab Theater's Play Selection Committee, and has adapted numerous classical plays himself over the course of his career in theater. Many are still being enjoyed and workshopped for college students throughout the United States.
Local audiences just enjoyed Ken in Lab Theater's production of Twelfth Night, where he played Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Ken holds a Master's degree in Shakespeare and a Doctoral degree in Dramatic Criticism, and has also played the Ghost of Hamlet's father in Hamlet and Brabantio in Othello, both for Lab Theater. Lab Theater audiences will also remember Ken as Stanley in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Skelly in The Rimers of Eldritch, Wulfrie in The Nosemaker's Apprentice, the infamous Ruckley in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and everyone from Scrooge to Tiny Tim in his solo performance of Dickens' A Christmas Carol two Decembers ago.
With all this as background, you are sure to enjoy Ken Bryant as Victor in Michael Hollinger's An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf.
Plot, Play Dates and Times
Meet 'Empty Plate' playwright Michael Hollinger