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WILL WORLD WAR III BE OPENED BY A "JONG" MAN DURING LENT OR BY EASTER?
Intro Update
October 2015 was the beginning of a very black period, my mother almost died, a mishap occurred in my apartment that could have been deadly for me as well as other tenants, my cat got ill in November and eventually, two weeks ago, had to be put to sleep (the vet said he had minor irritation in his mouth in November but excellent teeth for a cat his age, treated him for a urinary tract infection, yet he developed a large cancer in his mouth by February, so I had no clue whatsoever what was wrong and why he moaned and groaned when he wasn't busy purring affectionately), my financial situation got extremely difficult in December and remains a problem to this day, a catalogue of other problems I cannot even remember, an abrupt stopping of a heart medication I have been taking since I was 38 and the substitution of something entirely different (no thanks to my Medicare insurance) is causing me more problems NOW, and so on. Most of my energies have been focused in other interests or trying to get the main website up to date. Still more to do there, including a new home page. The war in Syria and Russia's involvement, along with friction between Russia and Turkey, commanded a lot of attention up until the recently agreed ceasefire went into effect. Aside from the last article posted below on October 30 of last year, I have been keeping viewers up to date on that matter directly on my main website and, for a short while anyway, during discussions some members and I had on the Prophetic Messenger Service Forum.
WILL NORTH KOREA TRIGGER WORLD WAR III BY EASTER?
Nostradamus, Quatrain 2.70:
Throughout all Asia great conscription, also in Mysia, Lycia, and Pamphilia:
Blood flows through absolution of a young black-haired man replete with evil.
From Nostradamus, Quatrain 5.19: "The agreement broken, war opened by a young man."
From Nostradamus, Quatrain 10.58: "At a time of mourning the feline monarch will declare war on the young Aemathien."
From Nostradamus, Quatrain 9.31: "Drowsy with peace, war will arise at Easter."
At the moment the big concern is Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Regarding the base 7 system, we should all be concerned. It was in January 2010 that North Korea sank The Cheonan, a South Korean naval vessel. The next base 7 anniversary for that is not far away: January-March 2017 ... and that is close enough for a similar event to occur ten to twelve months early. NOW or SOON in other words. This time around it may well be a NUCLEAR Cheonan .. and a US warship rather than a South Korean one as it would be a repeat of the USS Pueblo incident of January 1968. THEN, let us not forget that in November 2010, North Korea launched a deadly artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island forcing those inhabitants not injured or killed to flee ... the first military operation carried out against a populated region of South Korea by the North since the Korean War ended in 1953. Next window of opportunity for another North Korean attack on South Korea is therefore November 2017. Oh, how quickly it has been forgotten .. so much else going on in the world! Do not forget these two events, Cheonan and Yeonpyeong, for in them lies the seeds of what may happen this year, but certainly if not in 2016 then in the target year of 2017. If what is next is a NUCLEAR Cheonan or a NUCLEAR Yeonpyeong, it could all lead to a new NUCLEAR Korean War and then a NUCLEAR World War III .. a different kind of war from a different part of the world than what we have been preoccupied with over the last two years.
It is unclear as to whether Nostradamus foresaw such a war or not. In one quatrain he says that a "Red adversary" would put "the great Ocean to terror." Was the "great Ocean" the Atlantic or the Pacific? In terms of size, the Pacific is the largest. He mentions a great war being started by "a young man." Play on words time: Kim Jong Un is young and Jong Un may sound a bit like the word "young." The young man "opens" the war during "a time of mourning." Another potential double meaning: "time of mourning" may mean a nation's leader, political or royal, has died or been assassinated. It could also mean the season of mourning, Lent which concludes at Easter, which began on February 10 and ends at Easter on March 27 this year. If applicable, war could start anytime between now, March 10, 2016, and March 27. If applicable. There is an adversary Nostradamus names as "Aemathien." This could be a Greek or Macedonian (and thus the Balkans, where Alois Irlmaier says the spark of WW3 will be ignited). But in some mythology translations, Aemathien can be the "Child of the Dawn." The implications here is that he comes from the part of the world associated with Dawn and the Rising Sun, which includes Japan, China, and the two Koreas. The Aemathien quatrains have never been fulfilled (as far as I know).
Other prophecies by other prophets are quite direct and frightening.
Alois Irlmaier: "The "Great City" of the United States will be destroyed by rockets, and the West Coast will be invaded by Asians, but they will be beaten back..."
The Hopi Indians: "World War III will be started by those peoples who first revealed the light of divine wisdom in the other old countries (India, China, Japan, Korea, etc). The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and radioactivity."
Anton Johansson: "India will be occupied by china. Revolutionaries will instigate unrest and war in India and Egypt to facilitate the occupation of India and Europe."
Dumitru Duduman: I saw the president of RUSSIA, a short, chubby man, who said he was the president of CHINA, and two others. The last two also said where they were from, but I did not understand ... The Russian president began to speak to the Chinese one. "I will give you the land with all the people, but you must free TAIWAN of the Americans. Do not fear, we will attack them from behind. A voice said to me, "When America goes to war with China, the Russians will strike without warning." The other two presidents spoke, "We, too, will fight for you." Each had a place already planned as a point of attack. All of them shook hands and hugged. Then they all signed a contract. One of them said, "We're sure that KOREA and CUBA will be on our side, too. Without a doubt, together, we can destroy America."
Linda Newkirk: "Even as you look at North Korea's threats against the USA, Child, do not think that North Korea is threatening to blow up the USA alone. It has the backing of China, Russia and other countries; and they have been planning this trap for a long time. Step into this trap and it is curtains for the USA."
A. A. Allen: "Then suddenly I saw from the Atlantic and from the Pacific, and out of the Gulf, rocket-like objects that seemed to come up like fish leaping out of the water. High into the air they leaped, each headed in a different direction, but every one towards The U.S."
In closing, even if the latest threats from North Korea and Kim Jong Un end up as blips on the radar screen, keep this article in mind for next year when two events from 2010 could become repeated in a larger, more devastating way. If North Korea ever uses nuclear weapons against South Korea, Japan, or the US (or all three), it is a certainty that China and Russia will get involved. With the current climate with China again contentious over disputed islands in the Pacific and an uneasy and frosty relationship now in place between Moscow and Washington DC, it isn't hard to figure out which side of a new Korean War involving the United States they would take.


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D.C. Police Union Attempts to Block Body-Worn Camera Footage in Effort to Skirt Public Accountability
WASHINGTON – The public deserves to know the names of officers involved in violence against civilians and to watch camera footage from those events, argues the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in an amicus brief filed Monday in the D.C. Superior Court. The D.C. police union is suing to prevent the release of body-worn camera footage and officer names from officer-involved killings and use of force, enacted by the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2020.
The national Lawyers' Committee is joined on the brief by the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, the American Civil Liberties Union for the District of Columbia, the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and Law4BlackLives DC, in favor of the District's motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
"The Metropolitan Police Department has a long history of secrecy and misconduct that cries out for increased accountability and transparency," said John Fowler, counsel with the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. "The public has the right to know what police officers are doing, especially in a city whose Black residents and other residents of color bear a disproportionate share of encounters with police officers. This is why release of camera footage from violent police encounters, as well as the names of officers who engaged in that violence, is so critical. If the public can't see what's happening, the public can't hold MPD—a department that refuses to change unless forced to—accountable for the conduct of its officers."
In enacting the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2020, the District's elected officials embraced accountability and transparency for a city with a history of police abuses and chronic failures to hold officers responsible for their misconduct.
The council's enactment of the legislation reflects a violent reality: Interactions between the police and communities of color are more frequent, more dangerous, and more deadly for civilians than interactions between the police and white residents. For young men, police violence is a leading cause of death, and the violence is not colorblind. About one in every 1,000 Black men can expect to be killed by police—that is, nearly triple the rate for white men. Black people killed by police are more than twice as likely to be unarmed as white people killed by officers. And even when the results are not fatal, police use force with Black people nearly four times more often than with white people.
Read the amicus brief here.

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The San Francisco Children's Art Center (SFCAC) at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture offers great Spring 2019 classes. SFCAC has three Afternoon Weekly Workshops (grades kindergarten through fifth grade) inspire creating, collaborating, and sharing through visual arts. For younger children (ages 3.5 to five years), SFCAC offers two "Morning Art Studios II." For children ages 22 to 36 months, SFCAC hosts "Side By Side" sessions (with adult caregivers) and "Little Art Makers" classes, both taking place in the morning.
Each week (Tuesday-Thursday) offers wide-ranging explorations of different ideas and materials to inspire art-making. "Book & Box Making," "Printmaking, Stamps & Stencils," and "Painting & Drawing," workshops (1.5-hour classes, $216; $35/drop-in session) offer deep investigations into the challenges and choices found in two- and three-dimensional forms. "Homeschool Art Studio" for ages six to 10 years old (two-hour classes, $256; $45/drop-in session) takes place on Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Noon).
The weekly classes for younger kids (22 months to 5 years) meet on weekday and Saturday mornings and provide age-appropriate art instruction and activities through "Art Studio II" (1.5-hour classes, $256; $35/drop-in session), "Little Art Makers" (one-hour classes, $168; $30/drop-in session), and "Side By Side" (one-hour classes, $168; $30/drop-in session, for children and adult caregivers).


Groundwork USA's Neighborhood Voices Curriculum brings together interactive lessons, resources, and guidance for facilitating a youth-driven community engagement project. Designed for those involved in youth development—from program coordinators and the managers who supervise them to youth program fundraisers and youth program participants themselves—this curriculum will help you design, gather resources for, and implement an inclusive, youth-driven community engagement project. Through the Neighborhood Voices Curriculum, program leaders and teens alike will gain confidence and mastery using concepts related to brownfields, urban planning, environmental justice, and community development.
Fresno youth present their findings from a PhotoVoice exercise.
Groundwork USA's Brownfields Technical Assistance team created this curriculum to help community builders use municipal planning processes as "teachable moments." We do this by involving young people as leaders of community outreach and engagement activities to inform decision-making, budgeting, and prioritization. Pilot tests of this curriculum have been successful in improving the typical planning processes of municipal governments. Through creative strategies that "meet people where they are," young people have used this curriculum to transform how everyday citizens share ideas and expertise and to impact the ways community leaders prioritize cleanup and reuse of vacant, contaminated, or otherwise underutilized land. The tools and resources in this guide can be adapted for your community, infusing "real life" advocacy, outreach, and public speaking activities into your youth development program.
We invite you to use this curriculum in whatever ways you find most beneficial, whether focusing on individual sections and activities or following the guide week by week. Availability of time, resources, and staff capacity; existing partnerships and/or need to build new ones; the length of your program; and the current phase of your planning process may influence how you use this curriculum and which parts are best suited for your project.
Identify a focus area or planning process where input representative of all community members has yet to be gathered or heard.
Reach out to planners and decision-makers in charge of the planning process you wish to augment to collaboratively discuss the ways your community engagement work could add value. Together, identify common goals and priorities for both municipal leaders and residents, then structure your engagement project to gather more detailed information about those goals and priorities from residents.
Should you need support utilizing, adapting, or advocating for the use of this curriculum in your community, please visit the Groundwork USA website to submit a request for our team's free technical assistance.
Section 7 – Developing Key Questions: What Do We Want to Know Specifically?
Every project needs a solid foundation. Prior to working through this section, identify a focus area or planning process where robust community input has not been heard and/or would be impactful.
Have your participants get to know one another and discover the individual strengths each person brings to the team by engaging in Groundwork USA's "Getting to Know Your Strengths" activity.
Create a project overview that communicates your community engagement effort's goals and why they're important. Include facts about your own organization and your project's partners, timeline, and goals. Review this sample project overview to get started.
Use this project overview to build understanding among planners and decision-makers in charge of the planning process your team aims to augment with neighborhood voices. This is an opportunity to express your intention to gather data, analyze it, and present it as a culminating activity to the steering committee or other decision-making body involved in the planning process.
Set the stage by reviewing learning goals and ground rules with your team members. Consider facilitating a conversation around any other ground rules or goals that members of the group may want to add.
Get up to speed about brownfield sites, contamination, and the ins and outs of site testing, cleanup, and reuse, and environmental justice with Groundwork USA's information-filled Brownfields 101 slide deck.
Read The Making of Dr. Nina Scarito Park in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and dream big about what's possible on former brownfield sites.
Utilize Groundwork USA's sample "Brownfields Jeopardy!" interactive game to help members of your group become more comfortable with what can sometimes seem overly technical or jargon-filled language.
Orient your youth team to patterns of environmental racism and the disproportionate burden that low-income communities and communities of color face from brownfields and other current and historic toxic land uses with Groundwork USA's interactive Environmental Justice Literacy Curriculum and accompanying Environmental Justice Timeline Activity.
This section offers a prompt to identify a number of brownfield sites in your community or focus area and visit those sites to familiarize participants with their presence in the community landscape.
Conduct a walking tour of your project focus area that includes a visit to one or more brownfield sites.
Meet on-site with one or more local stakeholders (e.g., city councilor, community organizer, municipal planning staff member, etc.) involved in the planning or the brownfield testing/cleanup/reuse work happening currently or previously on the tour site(s).
Visit completed brownfield transformation projects in the neighborhood or in nearby communities to gain perspective on what's involved in these kinds of transformational projects and the kinds of new land uses that are possible on former brownfield sites.
At the public library or local planning department, explore your community's Sanborn maps to learn about the evolution of historical land uses in your focus area. (Check out what Sanborn maps look like here.) A planning department staffer or local planning board member might help orient your team members with Sanborn maps from your area.
This section is designed to help both team members and community members establish a baseline understanding of the real estate development process, from vision, design, and financing through permitting, construction, and ribbon cutting.
Learn how a piece of property can be developed into housing, a community center, a retail store, an institution, or something else by checking out Groundwork USA's Real Estate Development Process Map Explore the ins and outs of how real estate development happens, the steps involved in getting a project from vision to plan to reality, and what points in the process can be most effective for influencing property use and outcomes, including advocacy for specific benefits to community members, such as local hiring agreements, access to a new public amenity, and more.
Now that you are equipped with knowledge about brownfields and the planning and development process in your community, how do you make sure you understand the goals and concerns of the people who live there? This section focuses on inclusivity, why it is important, and how it relates to community development and planning. Resources and tools in this section can help you move a conversation toward ways to engage community members whose voices are frequently missing from public planning and decision-making processes.
Discover the identities, experiences, and needs of citizens in your community by exploring US Census data and the demographic trends that data can show.
Visit www.census.gov. The American Community Survey (ACS) is a particularly helpful dataset because it captures and conveys data at the community and county levels. The annual ACS is the largest household survey that the Census Bureau administers. Explore American Fact Finder to access ACS datasets.
Connect with your community's planning department. What data do they have that might be helpful to you? Where else might they recommend you look for relevant data about your community?
Work to identify who is missing from the planning process. Consider who is already involved in the local brownfield cleanup or other community projects you have identified. How do the cultural, ethnic, gender, and racial identities of those already involved compare to the demographic data you uncovered using Census.gov or other resources? What segments of your community's population are missing from the process? How might you go about engaging these "missing voices"?
Check out Groundwork USA's "Best Practices for Meaningful Community Engagement" tool for inspiration, tips, and guidance.
Brainstorm as a group to identify potential locations in your community where your team members might meet "missing voices," collaborators, and stakeholders where they are.
Timing: Be deliberate about your timing! Most people travel in their community during after-work and after-school hours (i.e., 3:30pm-6:30pm), so consider places where you might best encounter people for a quick engagement moment during that transition time.
Be visible: Set up a small folding table to display and share materials and catch people's eye.
This section prompts the project coordinator to engage team members in an exploration of community assets. This process highlights your community's existing strengths and reveals where there are gaps in the availability of or access to resources. As you identify the people and things that contribute to your community's wellbeing, consider how these assets can be harnessed or combined in new ways to address unmet community needs.
Define, explore, and experience the concept of asset mapping first-hand.
Check out Groundwork USA's "What is an Asset?" tool.
For further reading to prepare for this discussion, check out Community Toolbox: Identifying Community Assets and Resources.
Use Groundwork USA's Asset Mapping lesson to facilitate a brainstorming session with your team to identify your community's various assets.
This is a "behind the scenes" section, requiring project coordinators to spend ample planning time to ensure successful community outreach and engagement activities. All of the knowledge acquired by your group so far will inform how you move forward in this section. It is at this point that you tailor the project to your specific community by identifying high-traffic locations to set up engagement station(s) and building partnerships with local organizations. Do not delay starting the work described in this section; it can take weeks to prepare for and finalize communications and logistics!
Who do you intend to engage?
At what high-traffic locations and times will you encounter these desired stakeholders? Ideally, you will identify three to five different locations and varying times and days of the week.
Are there upcoming partner events or activities you might leverage to encounter desired stakeholders?
Consider policies that may impact how you collect data, and prepare accordingly.
In particular, if using federal funds (from the Environmental Protection Agency or other federal departments/agencies) to support your team's community outreach and engagement activities, review the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA, 44 USC §3501 et seq. (1980) and abide by these rules when designing the details of your outreach methodology.
EPA's summary of the Act states that "the Act generally provides that every federal agency must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) before using identical questions to collect information from 10 or more persons." Note: obtaining OMB approval is not easy to do, nor is it a fast process.
One way to avoid the PRA restrictions altogether is to find and use non-federal funds for the design, distribution, or collection of your survey. If you can, find other resources and partners who can pay for these costs as they relate to your project.
Take a look at this Neighborhood Voices project summary from Portland, Maine. Review the description of the randomized methodology used to capture data.
Your outreach team could develop a simple "game" method to randomly select three questions when engaging each community member. This could be as simple as numbering your questions and then rolling dice or drawing slips of numbered paper from a cup. Alternatively, have a stakeholder choose a number from 1 to 10, then select the question that corresponds to the chosen number each time an engagement moment takes place.
Confirm outreach locations and work out associated logistics.
Secure any necessary permissions from host organizations to set up an engagement station or table at a specific location.
Assign groups of two to three team members to work together at each outreach location.
Create and obtain signed permission slips and photo releases, if taking photos during the work, for any youth under age 18.
Coordinate transportation of team members and supplies to and from each outreach site.
Have water and snacks on hand for youth before and during their outreach shifts.
Create a schedule detailing outreach dates and times, locations, assigned youth, target number of interviews, etc.
Gather materials and supplies, including: smart phones, tablets (or other device if collecting data digitally); clipboards; pens; interview questions (see Section 7: Developing Key Questions); extra paper; small folding table; business cards for a point of contact at the organization, etc. Consider wearing or bringing organizational identification, such as a t-shirt with logo, pin, button, shirt, or signage.
This section prompts community planning and engagement team members to think about the information they would like to gather and how to effectively interact with community stakeholders to gather it. If you're coordinating community engagement in collaboration with a planning initiative, it may be helpful to connect with staff planners and/or project decision-makers to determine what data collection priorities or gaps might exist, if any. Next, prioritize exactly what your team would like to learn from local stakeholders and review how to develop effective interview questions. Ultimately, your team will end up with a set of questions to use in community engagement activities. This section can be time-consuming. Winnowing down to a few questions that get at exactly what you want to know can be a challenge. Consider stretching out the activities in this step across two or three different sessions.
Set a foundation for understanding what good interview questions look like.
Explore this tip sheet on question wording for guidance on how to develop good survey questions.
Check out this simple example lesson plan for an activity to get youth thinking about and developing open-ended interview questions.
Check out lesson plans and activities related to interviewing and gathering data from community members.
Brainstorm quality questions, narrowing down to a final set of questions to include in your community engagement work. Ideally, you will establish 10 to 12 questions for the youth to use. The activity described below can help facilitate your team's question selection process.
You will need numerous sticky notes in two different colors. Provide each team member with a few sticky notes of each color.
Team members post all questions on the wall, and the project coordinator (or a youth who self-selects) reads them out loud. The group identifies which questions should move to the "finalist" round, discarding the rest.
Team members should review each "need to include" question that is not yet open-ended. If they decide to advance the question to the "finalist" round, the group works collaboratively to transform it into an open-ended question.
After working through all the questions, the group determines if the "finalist" questions need to be pared down even further. If so, have the group re-examine and discard questions until an optimized list of questions remains.
Finally, the group will assess whether any questions are missing from the final list.
Choosing tools to collect and track feedback offers an opportunity to build your team's digital literacy skills. Consider involving team members in deciding on a methodology to record data in the field. Organizational policy and availability of funds are likely to influence the decision-making required in this section.
Provide basic training and practice to orient your team members to the tool(s) they will be using. For example, if using a digital online platform, let youth create "mock" surveys to test the different tools. Perhaps someone could volunteer to type in stakeholder questions, while someone else volunteers to review, edit, and finalize them.
The day you've all been preparing for has finally arrived! Equipped with a list of stakeholder types, outreach schedule, and open-ended questions, your team will begin to engage with community members.
Take a moment as the project coordinator to reflect on how prepared your team members are to carry out this section.
Have team members role-play their engagement methodology with each other at least a few times before heading into the field.
Are there any final reminders, or review of previous sections, that should occur before heading out?
After concluding engagement work each day, ensure all of the data is uploaded and saved in at least one location. Backing up your data in a second location, such as a portable thumb drive or cloud, will help prevent data loss.
After the final round of engagement, organize and consolidate data into one file. Excel spreadsheets like this may be helpful for organizing data.
These steps may be most efficiently led by the project coordinator overseeing the team.
It is now time to get organized, analyze the community data, and create a narrative to help others understand what the data means. This section engages team members in using data to support a vision, claim, or idea. You will use tools to summarize the data, illuminating the bigger picture, or cumulative voice, of the community.
Discuss trends in stakeholder feedback that each team member saw or heard while gathering data. Identify both anecdotal examples ("I remember a time when someone told a story about…") and concrete examples ("I count six people who said the phrase 'rising rents'").
Did people say similar things? Different things?
What topics, phrases, or concepts came up most often?
What did team members find particularly interesting about the engagement moments?
How does the data compare or contrast with team members' own opinions and perceptions?
Did you learn about any new community assets during your outreach activities?
Use Groundwork USA's Compelling Evidence lesson to review and master the concept of compelling evidence.
Discuss amongst your team members: Based on our analysis, do you believe we have gathered enough information to craft a narrative message and present our findings?
A word cloud generator to visually demonstrate which words appear most frequently in stakeholder responses. View this word cloud example from Portland, Maine's Neighborhood Voices project.
How many stakeholders did you hear from?
What is their affiliation or demographic?
Are there certain voices you wished to capture in your stakeholder sample but seem to have missed?
Review the target audience you identified in Section 6.
Review the questions your team generated in Section 7.
If necessary, revisit the concept and work previously featured in the lesson about Compelling Evidence.
If information or voices seem to be missing, revisit and repeat Section 9 after strategizing new and different ways your team can try to reach certain stakeholder groups. If you would like support in creating ways to reach missing populations, consider submitting a request to the Groundwork USA technical assistance team.
Review this example PowerPoint slide deck summarizing the Neighborhood Voices project coordinated by Groundwork USA in Portland, Maine, and the findings shared by the teen outreach team.
Assign team members to complete Groundwork USA's final Self-Evaluation Reflection lesson. Instruct team members to circle one sentence on their Reflection sheet that describes a difference they noticed in themselves after being part of this community engagement project.
Assign specific, themed speaking parts for each student. Coach each team member in preparing a brief presentation "script." Instruct team members to write their notes on index cards, including the Reflection sentence they chose to describe their experience.
Check out this example speaking assignments sheet from the Neighborhood Voices project in Portland, Maine for ideas.
Practice! Practice! Practice! The more your team members are familiar with the material, the more comfortable and confident they will be during their presentations.
Coordinate with the organizers of the meeting (local organization, municipal agency, etc.) to co-create an agenda. Ensure your group and its presentation is named on the agenda. Ensure meeting hosts are prepared to introduce your outreach team to the audience, and invite them to participate fully in the meeting.
Be sure to identify in advance one or more team members who would be comfortable with fielding questions from the audience at the conclusion of the presentation.
Now is the time to shine! Present your findings to planners, decision-makers, community stakeholders, and/or advisory group members. Be proud of all you've accomplished!
Congratulations to you and your team on completing your youth-driven community engagement project! The hardest work is done, but important activity still lies ahead. Reflection and celebration are as important as any other piece of your project, as they provide space for youth to consider what they have accomplished and learned and to communicate the value of their participation to themselves and others. By reflecting on and celebrating your team's accomplishments, you also provide opportunities for people across your focus area to come together, appreciate the work and success of small victories, and build community.
Use one or more of these reflection activity suggestions: group activity and individual/pair and share.
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Less than half (49 percent) of the 200 largest US institutional asset management firms are making use of the biggest and most popular social media outlets.
Less than half (49 percent) of the 200 largest US institutional asset management firms are making use of the biggest and most popular social media outlets, including LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, according to a new study conducted by financial services public relations firm BackBay Communications.
The investment management firms, with assets under management ranging from approximately $9 billion to nearly $5 trillion, vary widely in their usage of social media, although adoption and strategies around social media tends to be more common among the firms with the most assets under management.
Approximately 74 percent of the 50 largest asset management companies are active users, compared to about 56 percent of the next largest quartile. Only 44 percent of the firms in the third quartile are active on social media, and only 22 percent of the fourth quartile firms are engaged on social media.
LinkedIn and Twitter are the most widely used platforms. Approximately 38 percent of the 200 largest firms are active on LinkedIn and roughly 38 percent are active on Twitter. Less than a quarter, or 23 percent, are active on Facebook.
The preponderance of firms on LinkedIn use the platform to provide a company overview or as an alternative outlet for job announcements, although a growing minority of asset managers have begun using LinkedIn to share original content. Twitter, meanwhile, is largely being used as a distribution platform to disseminate company news.
"There is a huge opportunity for asset managers and other financial services firms to combine insightful content with distribution and engagement over social media platforms," says Bill Haynes, president and CEO of BackBay Communications. "Most of the largest asset managers have learned to harness the power of social media in support of their overall marketing objectives, while addressing compliance concerns.


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Mike Pompeo Claims Terror Threat as Cause for US Action in Venezuela
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the media following a Security Council meeting on the situation in Venezuela at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on January 26, 2019.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News reporter Trish Regan on Wednesday that Hezbollah, a Shi'a group based in Lebanon, has a presence in Venezuela.
.@SecPompeo confirms to me exclusively that #Hezbollah is active in #venezuela – WATCH: pic.twitter.com/kQm37SIhep
— Trish Regan (@trish_regan) February 7, 2019
"People don't recognize that Hezbollah has active cells. The Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America," Pompeo told Regan in a Fox News exclusive on Wednesday. "We have an obligation to take down that risk for America."
Last week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House national security advisor John Bolton announced new sanctions aimed at ousting Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro. Bolton warned that "the president has made it very clear … that all options are on the table" and vowed a "significant response" should any US citizens be harmed while holding a legal notepad that featured a scribbled note that read "5,000 troops in Colombia."
"5,000 troops to Colombia" -Bolton's yellow pad pic.twitter.com/pvxJUayvlD
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 28, 2019
"The Cubans invaded Venezuela. The Cubans have been controlling the security apparatus, protecting Maduro and destroying the way of life for the Venezuelan people for an awfully long time," Pompeo explained to Regan.
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He added, "Today we tried to deliver humanitarian assistance from … the United States and Colombia into Venezuela and the Venezuelan military under the direction of Mr. Maduro stopped that. This is horrific stuff."
Pompeo has emerged as a controversial figure among Democrats for a previous declaration he has made to a Fox News host.
Last month Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ, criticized Pompeo for telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that there is a "risk that we have terrorists comes across that border." In response, the New Jersey Democrat referred to the State Department's 2017 Country Reports on Terrorism released in September, which said that "at year's end there was no credible evidence indicating that international terrorist groups have established bases in Mexico, worked with Mexican drug cartels, or sent operatives via Mexico into the United States." He also pointed out that US Customs and Border Protection had only arrested six people who were "known or suspected terrorists" in the first half of 2018, "less than one percent of the inflated figure used by Trump Administration officials."
The crisis in Venezuela has also attracted attention from the left, particularly because of accusations that it was orchestrated by the United States.
"Well, he's using it in that particular way because obviously what was going on in Venezuela was something that began as a popular movement by [Juan] Guaidó and the man has now declared himself President," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Salon earlier this month. "But I do think, and this is a little difficult to talk about, because I do think that some of the parts in terms of supporting what has happened are absolutely appropriate. Not only by the United States but also in conjunction with some of the Latin American countries, the so-called Lima Group [Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia], who are supportive of what is going on, as well as Canada. I thought, however, that the introduction of using military force at that particular time is something that did give kind of an alibi or an excuse to Maduro to say that this is just intervention."
Matthew Rozsa is a breaking news writer for Salon. He holds a master's in history from Rutgers University-Newark and his work has appeared in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.
In Venezuela, White Supremacy Is a Key Driver of the Coup
The so-called uprising is, in part, a furious backlash against sharing power with mixed-race Venezuelans like Maduro.
Greg Palast,
Trump Says Sending US Troops to Venezuela Is "an Option"
Anti-war voices are continuing to call for a negotiated settlement.
Jon Queally,
The US Is Orchestrating a Coup in Venezuela
The US is intent on regime change in Venezuela because it has the world's largest oil reserves.


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The month of July has been very busy but productive for the Swipe team. With the recent partnerships, announcements, and launches that were revealed, Swipe has indeed trying its best to achieve its mission of mainstreaming cryptocurrencies worldwide.
Swipe & Binance Seal Partnership
Swipe and Binance users got the exciting news that they have been waiting as the two companies simultaneously announced on July 7, its partnership through an acquisition move of Binance.
Binance, one of the world's largest digital asset exchange, completed its acquisition of Swipe for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition aims to further mainstream the adoption of cryptocurrencies by bridging the gap between fiat and digital assets.
In line with this partnership, Swipe has also announced the integration of Binance Coin ($BNB) and Binance USD ($BUSD) on the Swipe Wallet application. Swipe users can now buy and sell crypto with their linked debit or credit cards, spend it to fiat via Swipe Visa Card and swap it instantly with other coins available on the app.
Also, Swipe's native token $SXP is now listed on Binance Korea and Binance, with SXP/USDT perpetual contract with up to 50x leverage for all professional traders on the Binance platform.
Swipe Wallet v 1.5 Update
Swipe's recent application update now lets users of choose from eight different languages such as English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese to use on their app. This will help users who are native speakers of these languages to transact within the app more effectively.
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Swipe Card Rewards
Swipe Visa Card users will now have the choice to get up to 4% cashback in either Bitcoin ($BTC), Swipe Token ($SXP), or Binance Coin ($BNB) on every purchase at over 60 million merchants worldwide that accepts Visa.
European and the United Kingdom users can order their Swipe Visa cards their cards here: https://www.swipe.io/cards/
Swipe Slate Card Update
Swipe users who are interested to upgrade their current Swipe Saffron Cards to Swipe Slate cards can now do so with a lowered $SXP six-month stake requirement of 30,000 SXP!
This lowers the cost of entry for our black card by 10x from the initial 300,000 $SXP staking requirement.
Swipe x FTX
Swipe's native token $SXP is now listed on FTX exchange. Users can now trade futures, spots, and leverage markets on FTX's website. As $SXP markets are now live on FTX, both companies launched two events on the FTX platform to encourage users to start trading $SXP.
The first event, Buy/Deposit SXP and Split a 40,000 USD Prize Pool, was held from July 17 to 31. $20,000 prize was divided to users who net buy more than 100 SXP, and also another $20,000 to those who net deposit more than $100 or 100 SXP of accepted collateral into the FTX during the event.
The second event, which is the SXP Tokens Trading Competition, has a total prize of 15,000 USD. Participants who will trade more than $200 worth of SXP products will split the prize pool of a maximum of 10,000 USD. The event is still ongoing and will run until August 17. More details are available on https://ftx.com/competitions/swipe
SXP is now listed on Poloniex
$SXP is now listed on cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex. SXP wallets are now open at Poloniex, and users can now begin depositing SXP and trading SXP/BTC, SXP/TRX, and SXP/USDT.
Swipe and Poloniex also both gave away 1,500 worth of $SXP to the first 100 depositors of 200 $SXP at Poloniex.com. Prizes will be deposited within two weeks of the trading competition, which ended last July 24.
Swipe and Elrond Partnership
Swipe recently integrated Elrond Network's $ERD on its platform. This will make the $ERD token directly available for onboarding to more than 500,000 new users.
$ERD will be spendable via Swipe Wallet and its Visa debit cards, at millions of locations worldwide where Visa is accepted and as well as through services such as Google Pay, Apple Pay & Samsung Pay.
In relation to this newly sealed partnership, it announced a promotional event that lets Swipe users get up to 5% $ERD cashback in ERD on net buys. The event which happened for five days, from July 27 to August 1, gave away up to $100 cashback in ERD per KYC user who help 1 to 1000 $SXP during the event period.
Swipe x Compound
Compound's governance token $COMP is now integrated on the Swipe Wallet platform. Users can now begin to now buy and sell $COMP with their linked debit or credit cards, spend it to fiat via Swipe Visa Card, and swap it instantly with other coins available on the app.
Swipe Partners with Travala.com
Travala.com, a leading blockchain-based travel booking service, has sealed a notable partnership with Swipe by adding $AVA to the Swipe platform. In addition to its integration on the platform, which will help $AVA users to convert, spend and buy it easily using the mobile application, Swipe Token ($SXP) is now added on Travala.com's list of preferred payment option at over 2 million hotels and accommodations around the world.
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Users must tag their posts with the #GotSwipe hashtag, follow @SwipeWallet on Twitter, or @Swipe on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Three lucky winners in each platform will be selected by the team!
Swipe Launches Staking and DeFi
Swipe is proud to announce that it has launched its test network for Swipe Network Staking with up to 12% APY staking rewards and its plans to launch a Decentralized Finance Lending or Earn application on Binance Smart Chain with Swipe Governance.
With the launch of the Swipe Network testnet, users can use the Swipe Faucet to grab testnet-SXP to use on the decentralized finance application. Users will be able to bond SXP to the Swipe Network smart contract as collateral to ensure the guarantee of conversions for these exchanges.
Meanwhile, Swipe plans to launch a DeFi App on Binance Chain called SwipeFi, which will enable Binance Chain tokens to be used to earn interest on their supply of collateral to the protocol and borrow against their collateral directly on the Binance blockchain. Swipe has been working with the core developers of Binance Smart Chain through the acquisition and partnerships between Swipe and Binance, to launch SwipeFi.
SwipeFi will initially support BTC, BNB, ETH, BUSD, TUSD, and SXP to supply or borrow. The protocol will be governed by a new Binance Chain BEP2 token: Swipe Governance Token (SGV).
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Forty more winners, who will simply follow Swipe and its Chief Executive Officer Joselito Lizarondo on Twitter, like the contest tweet, and retweet and tag three friends, will get a chance to win $100 BTC each. Ten winners will be announced every week on Swipe's Twitter page.
Monnos and Nano: one more place to buy and sell Nano (thanks to the efforts of the brazilian community!) :)
Hi guys, how are you doing?
First of all, I'd like to thanks Rafael Serrano, Guillermo Peccilli and all the brazilian community for supporting and inviting us to be part of the Nano network. We are really excited to be part of it.
But straight to the point: I'm one of the partners of Monnos (you can check out our website here) and recently we've opened a survey to decide which crypto we should add to our portfolio, and, as you can imagine, Nano is going to be the one !!!A little bit of context: we have just launched our beta and we don't have our own community yet, neither do we have a lot of users, so we started to ask people to contribute with the survey in many differents channels and groups. To be quite frank, we were not getting a lot of votes, and then, one day I have opened my CRM and I have seen more than 50 votes in 20 minutes, all for Nano. That's when I have realized the brazilian Nano community have voted massively for it. Here's the results:
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And for this reason, our global users are going to have one more place to buy, sell and make strategies with Nano as an option. During the next week we will be announcing Nano in our platform !
You guys are all invite to download and try our APP (beta), it will be really important for us. We are getting a lot of feedback and making improvments really fast, always alongside to the crypto community.
We already have 8 different cryptos: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Binance Coin and Tether in our portfolio! (and now, Nano!!!!)
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Here's a video explaining the product:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjoQyicmDOk
Again, thanks for all the support and feedback, you can count on us in the Nano revolution!
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Goodbye, Coinbase. Hello APPC: An alternative method to purchase cryptocurrency directly from the Android "Aptoide" app store. 200 million Android users will be holding cryptocurrency by the end of this year.
I recently stumbled upon the "APPC", or "AppCoins" token on Binance while browsing new coin listings.
Like any half-decent cryptocurrency enthusiast, I was intrigued. "Aha! A new coin!"
I took a deep breath and prepared to take a deep dive into the bowels of the internet to figure out what APPC is all about. And by deep dive I mean I googled "AppCoins" and went to their website.
"Oh, they're trying to make a new app store. Good luck competing with Google Play and the iOS App Store!"
Given Google and Apple's combined gigantic market share of the space, I was inclined to move on to the next lucky contestant on the Wheel O' Coins. But on a whim I kept scrolling.
I thought "Wait, what? 200 million users? Over 4 billion downloads? What am I missing here?"
Apparently AppCoins isn't a token from a new startup - it's the token from Aptoide, the #1 ranked alternative to the Google Play store.
From the developer's side, the token is used as an incentive for users to download their apps. The end user is rewarded with tokens based on a unique system that determines if the user is actually trying out the app. The tokens are also used for in-app purchases. They can also be sent to and from one another.
But enough about the token value proposition. You can research it in depth yourself and buy some on Binance if you're so inclined. Whether or not you buy the coin for speculation purposes is not the purpose of this post.
So...what does this have to do with Coinbase?
Well, let's first take a quick look at the AppCoins roadmap:
Q1 - Open Source Implementation: Release of the first beta version of Aptoide with AppCoins support
Q2 - Pre Load Tier 1 OEMs: Rollout of AppCoins on Aptoide App Store, as well as on other app stores that joined
Q3 - App Store Foundation: Production roll-out to all Aptoide clients (and other participant app stores)
By the end of this year over 200 million Aptoide users will have the ability to purchase, earn, and use AppCoins from right within the app.
To give some perspective, Coinbase has 13.3 million users as of October 26, 2017 according to an article from CNBC.
Aptoide has over 15 times the number of active users compared to Coinbase.
OK, you have my attention. Starting to sound like a shill post though. Get to the beef.
Buying cryptocurrency through Coinbase is expensive. Users are nickle-and-dimed at every opportunity:
Deposit fees: Free (ACH to receive funds in 3-5 days) through 3.99% for debit/credit card fees
Transaction fees: from $0.99 to $2.99. It's a $2.99 + 1.49% variable fee for purchases over $200.
Let's say you're not interested in buying Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, or Litecoin.
Instead you want to convert your hard-earned $2,000 US dollars into something else like Ripple. Here's how it plays out:
Your initial deposit: $2,000 Deposit fee: $0 (ACH to receive funds in 3-5 days) through $79.80 for debit/credit card fees
Now you have $1,920.20 - $2,000 in your Coinbase USD wallet
You decide to purchase ETH with the intention of transferring it to an exchange that sells Ripple:
ETH buy order: $1,920.20 - $2,000 Transaction fee: $29.80 for ACH. Fee included in credit/debit deposit (so $79.80).
Total purchase fees from deposit to ETH acquisition: $29.80 to 79.80
EDIT: Adjusted the fee rate schedule to make them accurate. Do these fees still seem reasonable to you, even after the decrease in fees? Search Reddit for complaints about Coinbase fees and see what you find. And if you're unconcerned about the deposit transaction price, how about the speed of transaction to fee rate ratio? If we want cryptocurrency to be widely adopted then it should be friction-less.
Come on. Everyone knows that Coinbase is expensive. That's why I deposit my fiat into GDAX to buy crypto. The fees are significantly lower. Quit wasting my time.
Well, that's partially true. Anyone worth their weight in SHA256 hashes knows that GDAX is dramatically cheaper than Coinbase for depositing and purchasing BTC, BCH, LTC, and ETH.
The part that isn't true is that everyone knows that GDAX is cheaper. A more accurate statement is "every cryptocurrency enthusiast/trader knows that GDAX is cheaper". Coinbase does not advertise that GDAX has cheaper fees. There is no GDAX app for a reason - it would heavily cut into Coinbase's bottom line.
Your average crypto newbie buys their first coins through Coinbase because, let's face it, they have an app. Buying crypto on an app is something that your average person can comprehend. Apps are easy to use, trustworthy, and nearly everyone can do it regardless of their age and technical skill level.
Right, apps are easy to use. What a novel thought. You should tour the world giving Ted Talks about how easy apps are to use. Now could you PLEASE get to the point.
OK! I apologize for droning on. I'll cut right to the chase:
Instead of jumping through all the aforementioned hoops with Coinbase, you buy AppCoins from the Aptoide app store and send them directly to your favorite exchange. Then trade the AppCoins for the cryptocurrency of your choice. In theory it should be a faster and more cost-effective way to purchase cryptocurrency.
Hmmmm. OK, I'm starting to understand where you're going with this. But I'm still going to use GDAX. I'd rather buy ETH from GDAX.
Hey, to each their own. I'd rather buy coins in 30 seconds with a couple of taps on my phone and send them right to Binance.
Oh come on. Now you're just shilling. Your whole rant was just a ploy to shill this coin. I'm going to another thread.
Honestly, no. I didn't write this to shill. I guess I'm just tired of Coinbase. And I bet there are others that are less than pleased with their business model and customer service. Remember when they didn't distribute all that Bitcoin Cash?
Ugh, yes. Don't remind me about that.
Sorry! Didn't mean to upset you. I know its a sore subject.
If you read this far then congratulations, you have more patience than your average cryptocurrency trader. May your candles always be green.
The number of Bitcoin users is forecasted to reach 200 million by 2024.
There are approximately 15 million bitcoin wallets as of September 2017.
As I mentioned before, AppCoins will be rolled out as a completed project to 200M users by the end of 2018 whether you want to believe it or not (barring a total catastrophe, of course). Aptoide store users may not even know that they're using a cryptocurrency.
AppCoins may be the first real "mainstream" cryptocurrency (by definition of the high number of users with little to no technical knowledge or grasp of blockchain).
There will be 200 million users' app transactions on the blockchain. This is a huge step in the right direction for blockchain and cryptocurrency regardless of which coin you support. Rising tides raise all ships.
Needless to say, I think that Aptoide and AppCoins is a project to be excited about regardless of whether you're a cryptocurrency trader or completely uninvolved with the cryptocurrency space. Cryptocurrency is going mainstream this year!
To avoid confusion since Coinmarketcap has APPC listed incorrectly, here is the current accurate financial information. People are going to ask anyway so I would rather supply the correct information:
Circulating supply= 98M APPC Total supply= 246M APPC Coin Price = $2.53 ICO Price = $0.10 Market Cap (CS x P) = $247,940,000 Days on Exchange (Binance) = 7
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NYC Meetup - Full Summary!
Following up on my other post which shared only a few high level points I thought people would be interested in, here's a more in-depth summary of the meetup. THIS IS VERY LONG! I don't really have a TL;DR beyond my other short highlight thread, but I think there are some other high level summaries. This is for those who want a very thorough recap of what was discussed. I'm happy to update this with anything shared in the comments which I remember and think is additive to the summary, definitely didn't catch every single thing.
I'm leaving out a few talking points/questions that either 1) I didn't totally catch, 2) provided no incremental information or 3) were just bad questions (there were some).
Sunny's Speech
Sunny began with a history of blockchain, from the bitcoin whitepaper to the first few alt coins to the advent of Ethereum. He then went on to discuss the extent to which these various stages involved meaningful/useful innovation: original alt coins did not, ethereum of course did, but is heavily flawed for enterprise use. He then went on to discuss what those primary flaws are and how VeChain is trying to solve them (scalability, governance, cost, etc.) He noted that technology is not blockchain's biggest obstacle, it's adoption. He talked about how, although some people will tell him to "get lost or something" he doesn't really believe in full decentralization. I think his point was that although it's nice in theory, it just isn't really practical, and it's a bad approach in particular for trying to get this new blockchain technology adopted in the mainstream. This goes back to something he said in another interview at some point - you can't just come in with totally new, radical technology outside the existing framework and replace everything that exists from the outside. You have to start within the existing framework, show people what's possible, and then change the system from the inside out.
He went on to discuss what he sees as problems with some of the existing projects. Talked about how projects in the top 20 have ecosystems worth 2 billion dollars, hold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of their own tokens to be used for the project's development etc., but they don't have a CFO. He thinks that should concern people.
I don't remember exactly where it fit in the narrative, but he discussed valuation/speculation. He pointed out that they have a number of their university research partners trying to work out token valuation models. He made a general point that more utility should equal more value, the implication being VeChain will have more real utility (and should therefore have more value) than any other blockchain. They had a slide showing some calculations and pointed out that if you look at the known metrics, the dividends, etc., the price of Google's stock is 85.7% speculation. Only $161 of it's $1,128 value (at the time they ran these numbers) can be tied to the current value. For Tencent, it's 93.5% speculation. He jokingly pointed out that in crypto it's about 99.99%, but I think one of the unspoken points here is that it's silly to think that on mainnet launch speculation about the future value is going to go away and you'll just have token value based on current Thor production. That isn't how markets or valuation work.
He then basically mocked people complaining about the code not yet being open source, and there being no whitepaper - the people who think these are red flags and that the project might be a 'scam'. As if PwC and DNV GL didn't do extensive diligence.
On this point, I'll quote GarzyWarzy from another thread:
"Sunny mentioned that the crypto community as a whole doesn't seem to appreciate the level of reputational risk that these multi billion dollar enterprise partners take by publicly backing a blockchain startup ("what do people think would happen if PwC backed us and we failed in 6 months?"). As an investment banker who deals extensively with corporate governance issues and every type of business risk imaginable, I will add my two cents that this risk is massive and that is it a clear sign of extensive diligence and extreme trust in the VeChain team to execute their business plan for developing their ecosystem. Always remember, "it takes many years to build a reputation, and seconds to ruin it"."
I'm a corporate lawyer and couldn't agree with this more. The people who think a whitepaper (which they likely wouldn't even understand) is more reassuring than the endorsement by DNV GL, PwC, Draper and Breyer (who would never, ever make such an investment without extensive due diligence) have no idea how things work in the corporate world. DNV GL and PwC are recommending VeChain to clients, and Draper and Breyer have made investments through their funds, where they have a fiduciary duty to the investors in those funds. The amount of diligence that occurs before taking those reputational and legal (negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, etc.) risks is truly exhaustive.
Back to adoption, Sunny went on to compare blockchain to TCP/IP, as he's done in the past. Most people use email every day, but do they care about TCP/IP? Of course not. Blockchain will be the protocol infrastructure for things people use every day, whether they know it or not.
At this point, continuing to talk about adoption and use cases, he mentioned that they signed a top 3 insurance company in China as a client, and he also mentioned a CRM use case that's in the works.
He said the whitepaper will be out in a few days, and will explain a lot of what they're doing/what they're trying to do, and what some of the use cases are. They are focused on developing as many practical use cases as possible - this is how you get adoption. Once the use cases are defined, you can start "developing killer dApps" in relation to them. I think this is, to some degree, a subtle shot at Ethereum - his point here being that developing lots of dApps on a platform doesn't really mean much unless those dApps actually relate to a practical, defined real world use cases which ensures they will be used and adopted.
The whitepaper took so long because, in Sunny's words, his "english sucks" and after he wrote it, his teams needed to double, triple, and quadruple review/edit/refine what he wrote so that it is in professional english.
Back to adoption, he stated there are around 13/14 crypto projects they are working with who intend to use VeChain (either porting over from Ethereum or launching an ICO on the platform. More on this in the Q&A section). One of them is a company that already generates $50 million/month in revenue and want to 'blockchain-ize' their business. He pointed out here this is a company that isn't just interested in padding their coffers - they have money, that isn't an issue. These are the types of projects they like to work with. They aren't interested in being a 'shitcoin generator' (this was said by Sunny in the Q&A and got a laugh and round of applause). Last point on this, he noted that BitOcean is taking so long because the "Japanese government are being assholes". That's a direct quote. Sunny is hilarious. I can't overstate how likable he is - he comes off as a down to earth, cool, funny and easy going guy.
Kevin's Speech
Next, Kevin spoke. This was a short update on authority nodes and the mainnet. He mentioned that most projects have masternodes as basically a marketing tool, they aren't that meaningful or necessary. VeChain's authority masternodes are essential to the ecosystem. You can not become an authority node if you can not meaningfully contribute to growing the ecosystem. There is no room for negotiation on this. They aren't interested in having random people running validating authority nodes for profit and nothing else. As far as the application process, they received over 100 applications and are expecting more (authority node application and monitoring process will be ongoing to make sure VeChain has the best authority nodes possible and that each node is continuing to fulfill all of its obligations). As far as the applicant pool, they were about 71% enterprise, 29% individual. About 52% China, 23% America, then a mix of HK, Singapore, Japan, and others.
He then addressed the mainnet. Internal testing is done, they are now moving on to the public alpha testing, which is by invite only and is not the open source phase. This phase starts today and includes a number of professional firms auditing the code: PwC's cybersecurity team, secureware.io, Slow Mist, and Hosho. They will also be putting a bug bounty on Hacken eventually, finding a critical vulnerability could get you up to 2000 VEN tokens. This private testing will go on for a few weeks, before the public testing begins in early June which involves the code becoming open source - as of now, they expect it to start in the first week or two of June.
Then, he announced the 1 VEN to 100 VET token split. The example he gave was talking to friends about buying Bitcoin - some responded "it's already $8000, I can't buy a bitcoin I can't afford it". Kevin would respond, well actually you can buy .001 bitcoin if you want... and then they'd lose interest. I think what he's getting at is they want to be prepared for years down the road when demand is enormous - they don't want people dealing in fractions. Yes, I'm also sure they are aware of the implications for this in terms of price and the attractiveness of a 5 cent token verses a 5 dollar token. I don't deny that. Look at fucking Tron.
The Q&A Session
Someone asked about how the authority nodes will be monitored. Kevin explained there will be a dedicated team for this. They are serious about having the highest quality authority nodes and holding them to the standards they expect. There will be a quarterly review process, and any issues will be brought to the Steering Committee, which may decide to remove/replace an authority nodeholder if they aren't contributing and fulfilling their obligations. He noted that the whitepaper will include a thorough section on their governance model.
Question about it being difficult, currently, for companies (especially in the west) to find out how to contact them and work with them. What are VeChain's plans in terms of a business development team, marketing, etc. Sunny explained that while obviously they'll have an internal BD team, and this is being built out, they also want to heavily leverage the resources of the community. In a way, the community will be a giant business development team, and they will create standard toolkits for the community to use to market/introduce VeChain to people in the first instance. The guy then asked what if I got you Pfizer - that's enormous, what's my incentive? Sunny responded there will be rewards in VET tokens for bringing them clients.
I don't remember what the exact question was, but it was noted at this point that although the private, consortium chain is an Ethereum fork, the mainnet was built from scratch and is not an Ethereum fork. They did intentionally use the Ethereum Virtual Machine, though, so that Ethereum dApps can be easily ported over to VeChain. It sounds like they expect this to happen quite a bit. They also talked about how they went through the web3 libraries and 80% will be able to work directly with VeChain. They want interoperability, compatibility, and ultimately, an easy transition for Ethereum developers and dApps.
Someone asked about them building out their own IoT business or letting others do the IoT work. Sunny talked about how he believes IoT is the way to connect blockchain to the physical world. There was a story not worth sharing about why they initially acquired an IoT team, but he gave this example: when Apple first released the app store and the ability to develop, nobody knew how or used it. So, Apple built the apps themselves and basically showed everybody what was possible and how to do it by example. So too will VeChain take this approach. They are partnering with IoT manufacturers and developing some of their own IoT solutions, and they'll continue to do this, but the point isn't to dominate IoT. They are showing the world by example what can be done in terms of IoT on the VeChain platform, and they ultimately want people/enterprises to be able to create their own value and their own IoT solutions on the VeChain blockchain. Anyone who wants to do so will be able to.
Question about enterprises buying once the enterprise pool runs out - what happens if enterprises aren't comfortable doing what all of us have done (wiring money to a fiat gateway exchange, buying bitcoin/ethereum, moving it to binance, buying in the market, transferring out of binance, etc.). Kevin isn't really worried about this. They are talking to exchanges and service providers about it, they're talking to Circle about fiat pairing, etc., but realistically Kevin can see that exchanges are becoming more advanced and that ultimately they will be institutionalized in a way that basically just mitigates this concern.
Question about storage of VET tokens after mainnet. There will be a mobile wallet launch at the exact same time. This mobile wallet will 1) facilitate the token swap from VEN to VET (most people will probably do this on exchanges, but eventually you'll be able to do it in the mobile wallet if you missed doing it on an exchange), 2) have a module that shows you what kind of node you are, 3) automatically receive your generated Thor, and 4) eventually allow you to hold other ERC-20 tokens. They also mentioned that although they're talking to ledger, etc. they are developing their own hardware wallet. Kevin explained this is essential for enterprises serving as authority nodes or holding large amounts of VET. They aren't going online and ordering a ledger and setting it up. VeChain needs to be able to provide this service and assurance for them, and they will. This is why these guys are lightyears ahead in terms of enterprise adoption. They've thought about these things.
Question about 'competitors' like Waltonchain. First, Sunny goes "who?" and Kevin goes "what's Waltonchain?" But then Sunny went on by saying the "right" thing - there are no competitors in such a fledgling industry. He would love to hold hands with the other blockchain projects trying to do good things, and walk into the future together. He thinks projects can learn from each other and help each other. They aren't trying to crush competitors or beat anyone or anything like that. However, Sunny also jokingly asked "Seriously, why do people think Waltonchain is our competitor? We are what, 15th biggest project, and they are...?" He also went on to say that he is judging some competition or tech demo later this month on the 26th-28th, and that Waltonchain is the demo product. He thinks this is sort of funny, but also said if their product is great and the demo is good, there is no reason he wouldn't support them, vote for them, etc.
Question about Breyer and Draper relationships. Draper is invested in many cryptocurrency projects and many companies, has tons of connections, and he gives VeChain a way of talking to all of those projects/companies. Breyer was the one who set them up with the research team at a Chinese university, he was the link to Circle to discuss fiat onramps, etc. The connections these guys bring are tremendous. I should note here that in a small group conversation with Kevin during the networking portion after the speeches, which was initiated by GarzyWarzy (perhaps he can elaborate further), he confirmed that Breyer and Draper are both meaningfully invested in tokens, not just equity of the technology portion of the company.
Some clown actually used up time to ask "is CCK here?" Sunny said someone asked him this at Harvard also, and he was absolutely adamant that he doesn't know who this person is or how they are getting the information they have. He did not comment on it beyond that. He clearly thought it was a dumb question and said seriously that once and for all, he really doesn't know who it is.
Question about how many projects will be running on the mainnet day 1. Sunny said it's hard to say for sure, but that there are currently between 20 and 25 use cases deployed on the consortium chain, all of which will be moved over in the first few months. He also mentioned the 15ish crypto projects that will be moving over to or launching on the platform, and the fact that their client pipeline is now over 250. He transitioned a bit from this point to discuss how they "don't want to be a shitcoin generator". If you come to them with a project that is just an ICO with a whitepaper and no product, no proof of concept, etc., they're not going to want you to launch that. They would rather invest in you if they think you're a good project, help you develop those things, prove out what you're trying to do, then help you launch a serious ICO or dApp with a real use case. Again, they are all about practical use cases, this is the path to adoption. That said, the project will be open source ("you guys asked for open source, so") there will be some shitcoins, it's unavoidable.
I think that covers most of what I remember. Hope you all enjoy!
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With his second record, "Beerbongs & Bentleys," Post Malone hopes to "push the genre" of hip-hop.
Despite only releasing his debut single "White Iverson" three summers ago, he's enjoyed a rapid ascent in the music industry ever since. Debut LP "Stoney" has been on the Billboard 200 albums chart for 71 weeks and was still in the top 10 as recently as a week ago. At this year's Coachella festival, he played just before Beyoncé.
Beerbongs is a celebration of being young, famous and fantastically wealthy, with an undercurrent of heartbreak, contradicting Post's prosperity. The song, "Rich & Sad," could very accurately title the whole album.
Although Beerbongs definitely has a few unremarkable songs, the album has very strong content as well that have proven to be loved by millions of fans. A few favorites are "Rich and Sad," the cleverly titled "Zack and Codeine" and two previously released singles entitled "rockstar" and "Psycho." Overall, the album is a very strong representation of Post and his style, while displaying his bittersweet struggles in a lighthearted and upbeat way.


I've been inspired by a recent reminder of the old story about Hemingway and how he was asked to write a complete novel in only six words. I immediately began thinking about how I could distill advice to educators down to just six words. What can you say about assessment (as opposed to grading), instructional design, program evaluation, classroom management, and so on in just six words?
My first shot: Don't solve problems students don't have.
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Did someone say bottomless Aperol Spritz, Espresso Martinis and Negronis? Fratelli Fresh is making dreams come true with its Long Table series.
The boozy lunch phenomenon has seen infinite growth in popularity across Sydney's restaurants and bars in recent times. By no means are we complaining either, with our weekend plans now filled with flowing bubbles and great food at a number of dining hotspots. Taking things up a notch though are the lords of Italian cuisine Fratelli Fresh, with the launch of their latest Long Table Series.
It sees an epic two hour, four course feast teamed with following drinks surrounding a different Italian theme each month! Hosted at one of Fratelli's striking communal tables each month, the next Long Tables series will be held at Fratelli Fresh Walsh Bay on Sunday 30th September from 12pm-2pm. The sharing menu is designed to highlight some of Tuscany's speciality dishes.
Tickets are just $79pp and includes an unlimited choice of Italian Prosecco, beer, wine, Aperol spritz, Espresso Martinis and Negronis + your four-course feast. Yes, you read correctly.
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Former Red Sox medical director Dr. Arthur M. Pappas, who served as a physician for the club's players from 1978-2002, has passed away at age 84, the team announced Wednesday.
"We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Pappas, who for a quarter-century was the man in whose capable hands the Red Sox placed the care of their players," Red Sox team president Sam Kennedy said in a release. "We salute his contributions to sports medicine, but also the impact he made far beyond the playing fields, with the care he provided children with severe orthopedic challenges and the many philanthropic efforts undertaken by Dr. Pappas and his wife, Martha."
Pappas, a native of Auburn, Mass., played football at Harvard before embarking on his career in medicine. He was the founding chair of the Department of Orthopedics & Physical Rehabilitation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and he was the president of the Association of Professional Baseball Physicians, along with other national and state organizations.
"Dr. Pappas was an excellent guy," said Hall of Fame left fielder Carl Yastrzemski. "If it wasn't for him, I would never have achieved 3,000 hits and 400 home runs."
Former Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens also released a statement Wednesday signed by the Clemens family: "Sad to hear our friend Dr. Pappas has passed. I can see his smile and hear [his] laugh/giggle as I lay these words down. And you can't leave out the man with the best eyebrows in the land! We will miss you down here in Texas, Doc!"
Pappas was honored by the Red Sox in 2003 with the naming of the Dr. Arthur M. Pappas Family Room in Fenway Park.
"His loyalty, care and concern for the organization, the team and their families inspired the Red Sox to dedicate the room in his honor," reads the plaque adorning the room.
Along with his associations with orthopedic organizations and those working with severely orthopedically challenged children, Pappas and his wife helped establish the Arthur M. and Martha R. Pappas Recreation Complex in their hometown of Auburn.
The club announced that funeral services are private, and a memorial celebration is planned for the summer. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that those wishing to honor his memory consider a donation to The Auburn Foundation at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation or to the Massachusetts Hospital School Foundation.


*This module is for students of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology only.
Bhavans, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT) has been granted academic autonomy from the academic year 2017-18. The Institute offers four undergraduate programs B.Tech Electronics, Electronics and Telecommunication, IT and Computer Engineering. The Institute also offers M.Tech and Ph.D programs.
SPIT is revamping the curriculum and organizing additional elective courses to enhance managerial and functional skills in emerging areas.
As part of this and as requested by SPIT, SPJIMR will be offering a 6 module Management Program. The number of participants for this stream will be 60.
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Tom Morris Sr., better known today as Old Tom Morris, was a 19th-century pioneer of golf and a multiple winner in the early history of the British Open. He is considered one of the most legendary figures in the history of golf.
Nickname: "Old Tom," of course. Tom Morris Sr. is called "Old Tom" to distinguish him from his son, who is most commonly referred to as Young Tom Morris.
Morris won the British Open in 1861, 1862, 1864 and 1867 - the second, third, fifth and eighth times, respectively, the Open was played.
Old Tom Morris is perhaps the most influential figure in the history of golf. He was a great player, clubmaker, greenkeeper and golf course designer.
When the gutta percha golf ball arrived on the scene, however, the two split. Robertson demanded that Morris join him in condemning the new ball, thus protecting the featherie business. Morris recognized the guttie as the future, and left Robertson's side in 1849.
Morris left St. Andrews to join Prestwick, where he served as "keeper of the greens." Prestwick hosted the first British Open in 1860, where Morris finished second to Willie Park Sr. But Morris went on to win four Open Championships during the decade.
In 1865, he returned to St. Andrews - to the links we now know as The Old Course - as greenkeeper - a position he held until 1904 - and established a clubmaking shop near the 18th green. The 18th green is today named in honor of Old Tom Morris.
Morris pioneered many of what are now considered the first modern approaches to greenkeeping. He also was one of the first great course designers, taking a role in designing or remodeling around 75 courses according to the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Among those Old Tom helped shape are Prestwick, Royal Dornoch, Muirfield, Carnoustie, Royal County Down, Nairn and Cruden Bay - still some of the most famous golf courses in the world.
Morris' son, who won four British Opens himself, was born in 1851. But Young Tom Morris died on Christmas Day, 1875, just a few months after his wife and child died during childbirth. During Young Tom's life, the Morris father-and-son frequently partnered one another in challenge matches against other teams, and particular rivals were the Parks. Like the Morrisses, Willie Park Sr. and Willie Park Jr. were both British Open champs, as was Mungo Park, the brother of Willie Sr.
Morris Sr. outlived his son by 33 years.
Old Tom Morris still holds two British Open records: oldest champion (age 46 in 1867) and largest margin of victory (13 strokes in 1862). He played in every British Open until 1896, 36 consecutive tournaments. Morris did not retire as greenkeeper of The Old Course until 1904, when he was 83 years old.
The World Golf Hall of Fame describes Morris' golf game thusly: "He had a slow, smooth swing and was fiercely competitive; his only flaw was a difficulty with short putts."
Amateur golfer and writer Horace Hutchinson about Morris: "One of the most remarkable men - best of men and best of golfers - that ever missed a short putt. ... He remains, through all the advertisement, exactly the same, simple and kindly."
Golfer Andrew Kirkaldy: "Old Tom was beloved by everybody."
In 1899, Old Tom Morris took on an apprentice greenkeeper at St. Andrews. That apprentice was Donald Ross, the future golf design genius.
In 2007, the book Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son (buy it on Amazon), by Kevin Cook, won the Herbert Warren Wind Book Award as best golf book of the year. In 2017, the book was turned into a golf movie, also titled Tommy's Honour.
The Soul of St. Andrews: The Life of Old Tom Morris, by by William Tulloch (buy on Amazon). Originally published during Morris' lifetime, so not an up-to-date look at the legend - but a glimpse into how Morris was viewed while still alive.
There's also The Scrapbook of Old Tom Morris (buy on Amazon), compiled by David Joy, which presents photos, letters, contemporary newspaper articles and more from and about Morris' life.


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Alvin Curran, born 1938 in Providence (Rhode Island), is a Rome-based American composer and improviser, educated at Brown University and Yale University. After a year spent in Berlin with his teacher Elliott Carter, he settles in December 1964 in the Eternal City where he quickly bonds with other American expats and Ivy League composers - Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum to name a few,- with whom he founds in 1966 the pioneering free improvisation collective Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), in a revolutionary context. As early as 1971, he creates a poetic series of solo works for synthesizer, voice, taped sounds and found objects, and progressively develops large-scale projects outside the concert hall, in lakes, ports, parks, quarries, etc., whilst working on a regular basis on film and theater productions. In the 1980's, various commissions from German radios allow him to further explore his idea of musical geography, through radiophonic works. Involved in numerous collaborative projects, he has been working extensively with choreographers (Trisha Brown, Simone Forti…), visual artists (Edith Schloss, Joan Jonas, Melissa Gould…), poets (Clark Coolidge), film directors (Memè Perlini, Susumi Hani, Beni Montresor, Antonioni…) avant-garde theater companies (The Living Theater, …), etc. An avid improviser, Alvin Curran continues at the same time to write pieces for acoustic instruments and electronics, radiophonic works and sound installations.
Maxime Guitton, a regular contributor of *Duuu radio, is currently a fellow at Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome, where he's leading a research on the composer. Together with Simon Ripoll-Hurier and Myriam Lefkowitz, they visited him in his studio, located a few hundred meters away from the Coliseum. They wanted to know more about his connexion with the radio, the importance of radiophonic works in his own production, how they relate with his activities of field recordist. They asked him to speak in detail about his methods through a specific piece named "Cartoline Romane", a musique concrete piece commissioned, produced and first broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne in 1987. For about 90 minutes, Alvin Curran generously shares some of his fundamental concepts about music making through precise examples and more abstract ideas, which hopefully will help anyone understanding the scope of his work and some of its prominent features.
A radio show proposed by Maxime Guitton with Simon Ripoll-Hurier and Myriam Lefkowitz.
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Q: Batch file is not executing from php Trying to run sample batch file from php to close firefox browsers. but it doesnt close the browsers. manually if execute batch file from command prompt it is working.
closebrowsers.bat
tskill firefox

close.php
<?php

exec('cmd /c C:\wamp\www\fedex\closebrowsers.bat');

print "done";
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Tried with absolute path, without absolute path, escaping back slashes.
exec('cmd /c C:\\wamp\\www\\fedex\\closebrowsers.bat');

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A: As an alternative to tskill you can use taskkill
<?php

print `C:\\Windows\\system32\\taskkill.exe /F /IM chrome.exe /T`;
// or event without the full path to the executable
// print `taskkill.exe /F /IM chrome.exe /T`;
// and even without the full executable name
// print `taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe /T`;

Will output something on the lines of
SUCCESS: The process with PID 16972 (child process of PID 17912) has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process with PID 10200 (child process of PID 17912) has been terminated.
....
SUCCESS: The process with PID 16764 (child process of PID 17912) has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process with PID 17912 (child process of PID 2760) has been terminated.

No need for a separate batch file.
/F - forcefully terminates a process
/IM - passes an image name, ex. chrome.exe
/T - kill child processes too
You can use exec instead of the backtick operators.

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In February, the California Public Utilities Commission held a workshop to assess the potential energy impacts of widespread legal pot growth.
Panelists consisting of utility representatives, cannabis growers and regulators mulled over ways to make cultivation more energy efficient, according to CPUC officials.
"The fast growth in the cannabis industry presents a challenge and an opportunity to ensure that the choices made by the cannabis industry reflect California's climate goals," said CPUC President Michael Picker.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2018, the California Department of Food and Agriculture will begin accepting applications for licenses to grow pot, but it's still unclear what the energy impacts of the industry might be.
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Q: Bind content of contrentcontrol to selectedvalue of combobox I would like to bind content of contrentcontrol to selectedvalue of combobox and set visibility according to trigger. But it is not work. What is the problem ?
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                    </Trigger>
                </DataTemplate.Triggers>
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I also tried it with SelectedIndex but also trigger is not working.
Thanks.

A: Change the Trigger to DataTrigger
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         <Setter TargetName="WarningGrid" Property="Visibility" Value="Visible" />
     </DataTrigger>
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