3 Learning strategies that will made us successful
There are 3 main techniques I have used over the years, and all of them have kept me focused on my study, while keeping the material so I can remember it at a later point when I need it.
**Learning strategy # 1. Writing things.**
Why is this important? Taking notes during the study process means you are immediately proactive about the new material you are absorbing. The way I see it is this activity that puts me in the driver’s seat of the whole situation. This means I don’t just sit and read passively, or listen to a lecture hoping naturally I will keep whatever I hear. And the benefits? Writing objects improves brain thinking skills, makes information retention easier, and strengthens memory.
**How do you do it?**
Record what is relevant. It includes basic concepts, ideas, and topics.
Make sure you do not write every single word of an interview or chapter. Instead, strengthen your critical thinking skills by recognizing what is relevant to the topic. Check out the Cornell Method for a great approach to how to remember basic material.
Use bullet lists. Saves time, allows you to skim the material if you need it, helps you find information faster, and makes the review process easier.
Make new information easy to find. When you find information you want to add to your notes later, draw an asterisk (*) next to the concept you want to expand, then add the new information in a footnote at the bottom of the page.
**Learning strategy # 2. Teaching new material to other people (even if students do not see them!).**
Why is this important? You may think this is a strange approach, but listen to me. First, it may sound counter-intuitive because how can you teach something once you know it ?! However teaching is one of the most powerful memory techniques — you remember new learned information by teaching it to others or simply speaking it out loud to yourself. For the benefit? Repeating the new material aloud will help you review, remember, and keep learning better than just quietly observing it.
**How do you do it?**
First, get an audience. It can be a close friend, study partner, or family member. I used it to torture my brother when we were young, make him sit down and listen to the whole lecture. But it works! If you think you are difficult or shy about it, just pretend you have a couple of invisible students.
Next, take a large sheet of white paper and tape it to the wall of your bedroom at eye level. This will be the surface of your work. Also, be sure to get any furniture so you can stand in front of it.
Then, work. On your new work surface, write an outline of the most important points in the chapter you just covered, then take a look at the concepts one by one.
Make it fun and dynamic. I like to draw diagrams and small sketches in margins, with a short list of examples. It is also a good idea to summarize the main parts and highlight these sections in bold color with markers and highlighter, which will help you remember the details and reinforce what you have learned. I use bright colors like orange, blue, and yellow.
**Learning strategy # 3. Making a connection between newly learned material and my life.**
Why is this important? Connecting newly learned material with the big picture of your life means you are starting to make a connection between what you are doing now with who you want to be in the future. I see it this way: who I want to be is the version of myself that will benefit from the time I am investing now to learn new things, even getting a post-graduate degree, studying a challenging skills, or gaining work experience in my field of expertise. For the benefit? I do not see the learning process as something complex, but rather something important in my life.
**How do you do it?**
Take 10 minutes each night to retrieve what you learned. Ask yourself what has been great, what problems you have with understanding and what you have done to overcome the obstacle (for example, you may have asked someone to explain a concept to you, or spend it). you have more time to re-read a chapter of a book), and how you can improve the learning process later by creating shortcuts or doing something else to get better results.
Connect your learning experience to the plans you have for yourself. Perhaps you will graduate from high school or college, get a new job, or learn a skill that will allow you to obtain certification and become an expert in something. How does what you are doing now help you? When you connect the efforts you are making now with your future actions, you are more likely to be consistent in learning new things because it will move you towards achieving your goals.
Make your learning a step by adding value to others. One thing I always try to do as I gain a lot of knowledge on a topic is not to keep it to myself. That goes for all my research and writing about: focus and focus, getting a growth mindset, achieving self-discipline, and other topics. You can brainstorm ways to share what you learned - talking through your notes with a classmate, talking to people who are interested in you, or writing about your experience on Quora. You never know how a little thing you mastered can become a life-changing piece of knowledge when you pass it on to others. Ultimately, it empowers because you add value to the knowledge and lives of others. And that is the best reason to learn and study!
I hope this 3 learning strategies will help you to be successful in all things as well as in your life. Have a great day!
10 constituent population reduction plans
The problem is one of numbers, mainly all people and their impact on the environment. Simply stopping immigration, slowing down population growth, maintaining some and reducing consumption will not solve the problem.
The solution to overpopulation is simple, but unrealistic social and political. We must plan how to completely REDUCE the human population in some way before nature does it for us with an uncontrolled population collapse. In nature it is only a number of numbers and if the crash comes all people will suffer, and being white or rich will not help.
Carrying capacity dictates that the human population is reduced. I would rather people plan this reduction than wait for the ecological collapse leading to a population collapse suitable for a science / horror story. With so much growing in almost a few decades it should be clear that the social and environmental problems we face, from local to international, will get worse. In the competition for resources personal freedom will continue to be erased. Our economy is so dependent on imports and exploitation of immutable resources that some say it will not last longer, especially oil resources.
Once we recognize that people are the environmental problem there will be difficult decisions to be made about how to reduce our population. I also realize how difficult the decisions will be and I will try to explain my unrealistic plan.
**The top 10 constituent population reduction plans are based on:**
There must be widespread recognition that there are already too many people and something must be done to reduce our numbers to a degree that will eliminate the pressures (exploitation and pollution) that we put into nature;
The continued presence of so many billions of human beings further undermines nature, reduces the ability to carry on in the future, and reduces our choices to those who are even less attractive and more draconian;
There is no socially, politically or economically acceptable method of resolving overpopulation in a timely manner therefore economic and religious worldviews need to change their outlook on the short-term, pro-natural and anti-environmental;
It is better for a smaller human population to live indefinitely with some reasonable level of technology and civilization than to allow the superpower to destroy the environment and the ability to support a complex biodiversity by continuing to consumption and this population we are already in;
The plant and animal life of this planet are very important as parts of the biodiversity complex to be considered as exploitative resources to support the overpopulation;
Competition for resources (basic water, food, and oil) will increase significantly as the population grows as well as wars and economic collapse are unlikely;
Bioregional transport capacity needs to be a determinant of local population size and better strive for an optimum (lower) population that will allow nature a chance to recover from the devastation that has already occurred;
The value of an individual human life is negligible, or even an environmental responsibility, if we already have billions;
The sooner we aggressively reduce our population the less total human suffering;
TIME is the critical factor because if we do not plan to plan and act to solve the overpopulation then we will take nature upon us in our downfall.
If and when the above requirements come then really difficult decisions about how much reduction will be needed (maybe 85%), how such a reduction will take place, and in what period it can be achieved (?? ). Remember that the problem is more than the environment and is caused by too much humanity.
Once it is recognized that a reduction must take place, it is easy to plan who will be removed first - those who are the most burdensome in society: criminals, the long-term sick, the sick, the neglected, etc. From there you will go to about an economic burden, those in areas that have been damaged by the environment, and many that will not be needed in a future “sustainable” society.
When the goal may be an 85% population reduction then be tough to identify who can be saved - what skills, language, cultural characteristics, etc. It also decides how to best preserve, benefit from, and survive in the technology and products of our consumptive economy. It becomes a re-creation of human civilization and perhaps an opportunity to prevent or eliminate the many mistakes that have developed in our cultures.
Who decides is not as close to importance as taking action. The actions taken are numerous and varied but all lead to a rapid decline in our population. Ethics and morality need to value the environment over human short-term interests to ensure a future that allows for the long-term survival of the people.
It is likely that a general acceptance of the above-mentioned areas will occur only in the collapse of civilization after the collapse begins.
Planning should also include how to maintain a desired level of technology and how the new civilization will work in a bioregional, self-supporting dimension. Kirkpatrick Sale’s book provides some guidelines on how a smaller and scattered society can function. Unfortunately, few people seem willing to discuss solving the problem of overpopulation by increasing the death rate. A planned increase in mortality seems to be a taboo that even Garrett Hardin was reluctant to deal with. But a reduction in current population levels seems to be the obvious solution when considering expected population growth trends, optimal transport capacity, resource depletion, and the rate of environmental degradation.
"If they do not understand the severity of the problem, they will not understand the severity of the solution. The overpopulation will have to deal with it."
How does teenage pregnancy affect the population of the Philippines?
"Teen pregnancy" is a very misleading term, because "teen" is overly overlapping with the age range that people can expect to marry. I read somewhere that the word "teenager" was not used until 1941. Traditionally, Age 13 is in adulthood, meaning the benefits and responsibilities of adulthood, such as marriage, children, get a job, etc.
On a website of the Filipino pro-life forum, I saw an amazing comment that promotes increasing the number of teen pregnancies. The human point is that more people can marry younger, and more people will enjoy making babies during the angry hormones of adolescence. As a pro-lifer, I certainly agree that many people should get married younger when they are ready, and really many more people will enjoy starting their family while they are young.
**It adds to the natural rate of population expansion in 3 profound ways:**
It naturally accelerates the natural expansion of humanity, by allowing the growing population to combine their growth over a short period of time. People can be grandparents literally in their 20s. In the next generations that are faster and closer together, the population grows faster.
This allows a larger portion of the general population to be sexually active, with more people having babies.
This allows for many years of reproduction, so that families can be larger and children are still born while the children themselves are growing and having their own children.
All of these effects are extremely efficient. As a pro-lifer, I have no method of imposing population control, so I am okay to allow exponential natural growth to compound faster. Although liberals insist that as the human population grows, many people should be sexually active. I have no objection to so many people pushing baby after baby after baby. And I believe people enjoy having more years of reproduction, and starting their family while still young, when they are ready.
Of course these pro-lifers have large families and are pretty okay with a denser Philippine people. I think pro-lifers tend to agree that human life is beautiful and fascinating, and thus further population expansion is probably a good thing to allow or encourage.
I am okay with many "teen pregnancies" if they are willing to get married and accept their family responsibilities. And many people can be good at getting married younger. Often if the family has money or a family business, then young spouses are guaranteed to have a job or income to support their growing family. And allowing many people to start their family while still young, allowing people to learn responsibility rather than being responsible as a rebellious society wants to pretend that adult adults are still “young” although it is clear that they have a natural ability to reproduce children, which biologically identifies them as adults and not children.
A very large Filipino family. Most of the world does not use birth control, at all. And many large families in developing countries, may have started in the so-called "teenage" years. Since I belong to a very large number of people who have resistance to birth control, I have no expectation that people should “space” their babies or limit their childbirth. I believe that humanity should grow and spread naturally, and that people should be free to enjoy having baby after baby after baby.
By the way, my family is among the many people who have practical, philosophical, cultural, and religious objections to all methods of birth control. I believe that people should prevent the natural growth of their number of children, rather than that, as the Bible says, be responsible for their families.
How can you fix a computer that says “operating system not found” when booting?
When the computer is booted, if the BIOS (primary input / out system) fails to find an operating system, error messages.
**The operating system not found error or error such as:**
Missing Operating System
The setup does not detect any hard drives installed on your computer.
The message is displayed in black windows and prevents me from accessing the desktop.
Therefore, the situation is scary and quite complicated. However, like many other Windows errors, this one can be fixed.
**Below are the main reasons why Windows operating systems are missing.**
The computer input / output system (BIOS) does not detect the hard disk drive.
The hard disk is damaged or damaged.
The Master Boot Record (MBR) on the hard drive is damaged. Note that some third-party programs or disk operations may damage an MBR.
An incompatible partition is marked Active.
A partition containing MBR is no longer active.
There are a couple of ways you can fix Operating System errors Not found Windows errors.
**Try Hard Drive Problems:**
There is a Hard Disk Self Test in the BIOS to verify the integrity of the hard drive. Users often use this test for regular system maintenance.
**To perform the test, follow the steps below:**
**Step 1**: Enter BIOS mode by following the instructions for your system specific. Go to the Diagnostics tab and select the Basic Hard Drive Self-Test option.
**Step 2**: Press the Enter key to run the test, and you can perform a quick and comprehensive inspection. The system will provide a detailed test status.
As a result, you can see if any of your hard drive components have failed and are repaired immediately.
**Reset BIOS**: If the hard drive is working properly, then the next thing to do is check the BIOS settings and make sure they are correct. Incorrect BIOS settings can result in the operating system not finding an error. Thus, we need to reset the default settings to get rid of this error.
**Step 1**: Remove all external drives connected to your system and open the BIOS setup. In the BIOS windows, you will see the Exit tab.
**Step 2**: Select the Exit tab and enable the "Load Optimal Defaults" option. The option can load optimized defaults, Load default setups, or get default values depending on the system you own.
**Step 3**: When the settings are successfully loaded, select the Save Changes and Exit option, and the BIOS will be reset to the default settings.
While using this method, make sure you follow the correct steps for your system.
**Adjust MBR with CD / DVD installation**: Incorrect operation and viruses can damage the MBR and cause the Operating System Error not found. Like not booting Windows OS, you will be stuck unless you fix the MBR. If you already have a Windows Disk Installation, then follow the steps below:
**Step 1**: Insert the disc and enter Boot mode. Go to the Windows Setup menu and start the Command Prompt Recovery process.
**Step 2**: Enter C: \> and type "bootrec / fixmbr" and press Enter. Press Y for yes and press enter again when you get the prompt to write a new MBR.
When the writing process is complete, restart your PC and see if the problem is fixed or not.
Hopefully, one of these solutions will work for you. If all else fails, try taking your computer to a dedicated computer repair shop.
What is Tezos ($XTZ)?
I am not affiliated with Tezos labs and they have not sponsored this post.
Let’s continue our journey into the “altworld” and leave the scenes of one of the most successful ICOs of all time - Tezos (or XTZ). $ 232m accumulated!
If you allow me, I will make some structural changes that you can get used to.
There will be 4 parts, which I think are the most important in understanding the basics of the project. These are Ideas, Teams, Latest Achievements, and Tokenomics.
And as always I will give my personal opinion at the end. Let's dive!
**Idea**
Tezos is a self-amending platform for creating smart contracts and d-apps. Its blockchain is based on the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) agreement. Unlike Ethereum, Tezos promotes various philosophies and does not support tokens (such as ERC-20 in ETH). In the Tezos token features can be proposed in the protocol layer itself.
Unlike Ethereum, Tezos promotes various philosophies and does not support tokens (such as ERC-20 in ETH). In the Tezos token features can be proposed in the protocol layer itself.
Example: A developer may propose an amendment and attach an invoice to the amendment to obtain a reward if the amendment is selected.
The main use case for token is tokenizing various assets (tokenized real estate, stock, digital collection) and smart contracts.
**Team**
Tezos has no leader in the common sense. The Tezos Foundation is an organization founded and controlled in Switzerland that oversees the Tezos project. The Foundation has a contract with Dynamic Ledger Solutions and its task is to develop Tezos source code. Dynamic Ledger Solutions was founded by Arthur and Kathleen Breitman (both have backgrounds in the program). Arthur is an Associate at Goldman Sachs and Vice President at Morgan Stanley.
Notable project advisor is Zooko Wilcox (founder of crypto-oriented crypto Zcash).
The project is also supported by Tim Draper.
**Latest Achievements:**
Elevated Returns (NY, USA), a financial group dedicated to digitizing traditional financial assets, set to grant Thai real estate with a target of $ 100 million (March 1, 2019)
The Bank of France tested and showed interest in the Tezos node (18 April 2019)
BTG Pactual, a Latin American investment bank, and Dalma Capital (Dubai, UAE) plan to use Tezos for $ 1 billion worth of STOs (July 8, 2019)
Bonda Vinci, a blockchain business in the culture and arts industry, has signed an agreement with Tezos Korea for a joint venture of arts and security securities token (August 8, 2019)
AR24, a leader in electronic registered mail in France, started using Tezos (October 9, 2019)
Tezos Foundation has partnered with Globacap (London, UK) to drive automation in capital markets (October 10, 2019)
Partnership with Alliance Investments to value River Plaza, a luxury real estate development worth $ 640 million in Manchester, UK (October 30, 2019)
Amun AG (Zurich, Switzerland) launches Tezos ETP (electronic traded product) on SIX, Switzerland's major stock exchange (November 14, 2019)
The French Armed Forces began using the Tezos blockchain to justify judicial costs (November 20, 2019)
A big thank you to redditor everstake for gathering this information.
**Tokenomics**
A total of 607m XTZ was created in the genesis block for fundraiser participants. The 3.1m XTZ was created for early supporters and contractors, and the 76m XTZ was created for the Tezos Foundation and Distributed Ledger Systems (4 years vesting until July 2021)
Total initial supply: 763,306,929 XTZ Circular supply (until Q1 2020): 694,191,974 XTZ Tezos uses an inflationary model of 5.5% a year as a mechanism for retaliation by stakes as well. At the time of writing, the XTZ NVT ratio (what is the NVT ratio) is 13.
**Conclusion**
As someone who believes in a future multi-blockchain, I think XTZ can see this place in top projects (like Ethereum, Cardano, QTUM, etc.). In fact, with the 1.3b market cap, 100m + volume, and 13k + daily transactions, I think I found it.
I personally like the idea of giving token blockchain assets and looking at the achievements of XTZ 2019 I see they are doing it well. Many analysts predict that the next driver for crypto adoption will be STOs (security token offerings), well that’s exclusively designed for XTZ.
Above all, I like the simplicity of tokenomics. I understand exactly how and when new tokens come out of circulation and it gives me so-called additional peace of mind. Also, NVT suggests that the asset is far from fair price. I leave it up to you to decide which direction.
What are the best use cases for blockchain-based non-fungible tokens (NFT)?
Unavailable tokens are a buzzword right now, but most don’t really get the difference between unreliable and unsatisfactory tokens. Today, we will try to capture this difference and evaluate the best NFT crypto projects.
**Handy tokens have 3 key features:**
They can be easily replaced by something identical
They are easily replaced.
They are subdivided and can be changed into smaller denominations.
For example, 1 dollar equals 1 dollar, and it equals all other dollars. You can change your dollar for another with no difference in value. Also, 1 dollar can be converted into smaller denominations and still has the same general value: you can exchange your 1 dollar for 100 cents or 2 fifty cents.
**On the other hand, unavailable tokens are**:
Completely unique
Can not be shared
Irreplaceable
This means you cannot change something that is not fungible for both because it is unique and rare. You can not divide it into smaller parts, as well as change it by the same amount.
Unused assets can be both physical and digital. An example of a physical non-fungible assets could be a plane ticket. It is unique with your name and seat number written on it. Cannot be shared, because you can not sell one part of it, as well as change for another. Exchanging yours with one or the other can have serious consequences.
**Examples of non-fungible assets may be:**
Digital works of art
Collectibles (e.g. CryptoKitties)
Play items
Virtual assets
Digitalized real-world assets or identities
Simply put, unavailable tokens are digital representations of either digital or real objects. However, they can be equivalent to real money - just like when auctioning off a unique ticket once you belong to a superstar.
**Here’s what’s trending on NFT right now:**
**Coin Artist (COIN**) - The founder of COIN Marguerite deCourcelle introduced himself as an ongoing social experiment called Coin E-Den. COIN is a token of cooperation about him and the Coin Artist ecosystem.
**Bihira (RARI) -** Rarely is an NFT marketplace providing an opportunity to create and sell digital collections secured on the blockchain. RARI is the native platform management token, designed to influence decisions and strengthen active participation.
**Little Love Potion (SLP)** - SLP can be obtained by playing Axie Infinity. Axie Infinity is a DApp game, where users can collect, upgrade, breed and virtual battle creatures called axies.
**Aavegotchi (GHST)** - Aavegotchis are crypto-collectibles that live on the Ethereum blockchain. GHST is a utility token of the Aavegotchi ecosystem and can be used to purchase portals, wearable, and flammable.
**NFT Protocol (NFT)** - The NFT Protocol is designed as a decentralized protocol to deliver a decentralized platform with tools to enable efficient markets for non-fungible tokens and their associated digital goods.
**Meme (MEME) -** Starting as a mere “flash mob” token within 30 minutes of a tweet, MEME (also known as Degenerator) evolved into a decentralized NFT farming protocol.
**Revv (REVV)** - The REVV token is the ERC-20 utility token, which will be currency in F1 Delta Time and other motorsport game titles.
**Sand (SAND)** - SAND is the utility token used in The Sandbox ecosystem as the basis of transactions and interactions.
**Whale** - Whale is a Social Currency valued by the most important NFT collection in the world, driven by the NFTland community and maximizing steady growth through DeFi Mining and Hold-to-Play (H2P) initiatives ).
**Wax (WAX)** - Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX) is a way to create, buy, sell, and trade virtual items. WAX creates blockchain-based tools that instantly and securely allow anyone to trade digital or even physical items.
NFT projects could easily become the next trend in the crypto world, changing the hype of 2020 DeFi. We will definitely see more non-blockchain brands diving into the world of NFTs - especially in gaming (hello ENJ) and art spheres.
What is LUKSO (LYXE) cryptocurrency?
As what I've said in my previous article I am not affiliated with any crypto projects as well as LUKSO labs, and they have not sponsored this post. Always do your own research and do not do this writing as investment advice.
Can you imagine Kanye West releasing branded tokens to his fans, which could be exchanged for real Adidas or their digital representation? Project LUKSO aims to digitize physical goods on the blockchain. These tokenized assets can be used to verify ownership of an item, convert to digital tokens, and exchange for real or other digitalized items.
**Lukso has 2 special features:**
The project works as a blockchain for the fashion and lifestyle industry. According to LUKSO CEO Marjorie Hernandez, its main goal is to enable fashion and design industry brands to survive in the digital world.
The other CEO of LUKSO, Fabian Vogelsteller, proposed a special type of ICO called Reversed ICO (rICO), which was later used for the sale of project tokens. The concept involves creating a special smart contract that allows investors to reverse their committed funds or continue buying tokens over time. What’s more, the rICO was approved by German regulators.
**Use Cases**
CEO Marjorie Hernandez explained that LUKSO is not an app with a token, but a layer of foundation, based on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). At the top of this foundation, many use cases can be deployed.
**Currently, the project focuses on the following:**
1) customizing items
2) validation of authenticity
3) item tokenizations
In a practical way, it works this way: after the goods have been manufactured, the brands register items on the LUKSO blockchain and create their "digital twins." Using the chips, all participants can track blockchain items to check their authenticity, origin, materials, and more. What is unique about LUKSO are the items that can be exchanged within the ecosystem. Designers can now provide incentives to consumers.
The project has 2 tokens:
LYX (native LUKSO cryptocurrency) and;
LYXe (LYX on Ethereum blockchain).
When LUKSO launches its mainnet (planned for spring 2021), there will be a LYXe to LYX transition to the LUKSO Blockchain.
**Competitors**
The idea of authentication and digitization is not new in the crypto space. For example, the most popular crypto project that proves authenticity is Vechain. On the other hand, LUKSO is tailored for fashion and digital style, while Vechain is a blockchain for tracking products.
Development According to the LUXO roadmap, they launched their test network L14 in June 2019 and will soon launch the Byzantine Fault Tolerance test network in Q3 2020. The launch of Mainnet should be in Q1 2021.
At this time, the project has a private sale and IEO; their rICO is currently running.
However, LUKSO manages to get the support of the following companies:
**The Team**
Reading Forbes articles about LUKSO, the first thing that attracts attention is LUKSO's connection to Ethereum. Yes, most people believe in LUKSO because of its well-known creator. RICO is a human invention by Fabian Vogelsteller, inspired by Vitalik Buterin. Fabian's name has always been associated with the Ethereum Foundation, as he was a developer who co-created the ERC-20 Token Standard. Fabian helped build the Ethereum ecosystem, creating the Ethereum Wallet, the first decentralized web3 Browser Mist, and tools like web3.js.
Fabian Vogelsteller is accompanied by his wife Marjorie Hernandez, who is a co-founder of LUKSO. Marjorie is a change strategist and consultant who has worked for Swiss and German brands. He also created and managed EY's Digital Innovation Lab, where he works closely with Ethereum and with the IOTA Foundation.
LUKSO's advisers include Daniel Heaf (Nike Vice President), Berndt Hauptkorn (Chanel President of Europe), Rajeev Aikkara (Burberry Digital Technology Vice President), Caroline Drucker (Instagram Head of Strategic Partnerships EMEA) and many more.
**Tokenomics**
The maximum supply of LUKSO will be 100,000,000 LYXE. With network launch, ~ 48% of all LYX should be in circulation.
**Project Income**
Since the project has not yet launched their mainnet, they will likely use the development funds raised from private token tokens, IEO and rICO. Their future revenue model is still unknown. On the other hand, since the coin’s maximum supply is 100,000,000 LYXE, the coin price is likely to grow due to scarcity and high demand.
**Bottom Line**
What I like about the project is the team and mentor. The name Fabian Vogelsteller was the first green flag, indicating that the project was worth attention. Apart from that, there are many names of the fashion industry in the advisory. If the LUKSO partner has at least one company mentioned on the list, then the reversal potential is no longer questioned.
The second green flag is the idea of rICO, which allows investors to act in real-time and withdraw their funds if the project stops meeting their expectations. As the creator of this idea, Fabian Vogelsteller advocated all crypto startups to have this type of ICO. This way, projects will clear the industry from scams and protect investors' funds, he explained.
Last but not least. Although LUKSO has some competition, it does not aim to monopolize all crypto markets and become the second "Ethereum." LUKSO chose the right place - a $ 500-billion fashion market.
What is “gas flaring” would it be great for Ethereum and Bitcoin?
This is a sensitive and timely question because gas flaring phenomena affect a major part of our existence and life on planet earth. In the simplest and shortest terms, Flaring is the disposal of unused or unwanted energy which is certainly a valid process, but like everything in life that goes on the positive sides comes a bunch of side effects. also and thanks to the term recycling which provides a solid opportunity for this disadvantage to be gold, gas flaring is a major environmental concern facing the world today as it creates a significant amount of greenhouse gases contributing to the overall burden of global warming. Therefore, I will stop this answer to a wider range rather than just narrowing it down to bitcoin only.
**WHY IS BITCOIN GAS NOT NECESSARY?**
The development of bitcoin was triggered when the same relentless questions were posed by everyone.
Is it possible to establish a type of currency that can be exchanged without any intermediary between two people?
Is it possible to build a digital currency like blockchain, work on something?
These questions were answered by Satoshi Nakamoto when he created Bitcoin. Finally, we have a decentralized banking structure that can transfer money from one person to another.
There is an issue with bitcoin, however, which is an issue with all first generation blockchains. Only currency transactions are allowed, and there is no way to apply the requirements to such transactions.
Alice could send Bob 5 BTC, but she could not impose conditions on those transactions. Hal. He could not tell Bob that he would only get the money if he performed certain tasks. These conditions will require extremely complex scripting. There is something that is needed to make the process more seamless. And “something” is a smart contract.
This will take us to the ultimate successor - Ethereum - One of the components is what we call Ethereum Gas. Which dive next.
**ETHEREUM GAS**
Typically in this context, Gas is a unit that measures the amount of computational effort it takes to perform certain operations, in essence energy is expended. Any single process involved in Ethereum involves a certain amount of gas, be it a major purchase, or a smart contract, or even an ICO. Gas is used to measure the amount of payments that must be charged to the network for an action to be taken. Anything running on a blockchain needs to be unmodified and should have the ability to run on multiple nodes without compromising its integrity.
**Ethereum Gas Price Chart:**
Each transaction requires at least 21,000 gases according to this table.
**WHY DOES THIS GAS SYSTEM HAPPEN AND HOW CAN THE GAS SYSTEM BE EXPOSED?**
The answer is simple, incentives. Like any proof-of-work peer-to-peer system, Ethereum relies heavily on the hashrate of their miners. More miners, more hashrate, more secure and faster system. In order to attract more miners to the system, they need to make the system as profitable and attractive as possible for the miners. At Ethereum, there are two ways to earn miners:
Through mining blocks and getting rewards on the block.
By being the temporary dictator of their mine blocks.
**The investigation at the second point shows that:**
Miners are responsible for placing transactions within their blocks. To do this, they must use their computational power to validate smart contracts. For doing so, the gas scheme requires them to charge a certain amount.
This fee is known as the miner fee and it serves to motivate them enough to actively participate in the ecosystem. So how much will they pay for the fees?
Let us consider how we weigh the gas before we can count it. Gas is literally calculated in gas units. Based on how many EVM orders must be followed, a transaction sent to the Ethereum network costs a certain discrete volume of gas (e.g. 100 gases).
There is no fixed conversion price. It is up to the sender of a transaction to specify any gas price they want. On the other hand, it is up to the miner to verify any transactions they want (usually those that refer to the maximum gas price). The average gas price is typically in the order of about 20 Gwei (or 0.000000002 ETH), but may rise during times of high network traffic as many transactions compete to be included in the next block.
Instead of gas flaring end up pollution it can only be recycled and used for crypto currencies that will give us and promote a world that we can use we can use crypt currencies.
The Insolar (XNS) Cryptocurrency Project
I am not a member of Insolar, and they have not sponsored this post. Always do your own research and do not do this writing as investment advice.
You probably already have an idea of what public and private blockchains are. The story begins with a decentralized open public protocol of Bitcoin. Although other projects are trying to take the concept to the next level (such as Ethereum with smart-contracts), public blockchains are still not fast and flexible.
That is why the idea of private blockchains emerged. They offer more control over network participants and higher transaction throughput. But it was not the public or private blockchain that gained widespread adoption and replaced basic business processes with large enterprises.
This is largely attributed to the problem of blockchain interoperability, disabling different blockchains to communicate with each other. To solve the problem of interoperability hybrid blockchains were born. The idea of hybrid blockchain is to allow private and public chains to communicate under an umbrella protocol. Such is the emergence of the Insolar project. Insolar is a hybrid blockchain platform, whose primary purpose is to empower businesses to use the blockchain and integrate with decentralized service providers.
**The Idea**
Insolar aims to improve the way business networks operate. They form a layer of protocol (similar to PaaS = platform-as-a-service) for developers to develop and run distributed applications. It aims to minimize the cost of interactions between businesses, reduce the complexity and variability of business relationships, and ensure decentralization in decision-making.
**Use cases**
The solution offered to businesses to promote their distributed business apps is a cloud platform called Insolar Assured Ledger. In an interview with Medium, Insolar CEO Andrey Zhulin named the industries that will benefit the most from Insolar: supply chain & logistics, energy & utilities, retail & consumer goods, automotive.
What are the benefits of using Insolar?
It's easy to use while running the Go platform with Java coming soon, so developers don't need to learn a new programming language. Insolar can also run existing hardware and is designed to be compatible with other distributed ledger technologies and enterprise legacy systems, including EPRs such as SAP and Oracle.
What’s more, participants can join networks without running a node, so a company can add clients or vendors to its network without requiring them to provide infrastructure.
The platform offers linear scalability, which means that the required resources are directly proportional to the desired network throughput. This way, it can achieve hundreds of thousands of transactions per second left economically economical.
An updated version of the Insolar Economic Paper (June 2019) states that Insolar Coin (XNS) strengthens the network.
**XNS serves 3 purposes:**
**Payments**. In this case, the coin is a medium of exchange that is transferred from one party to another. Payment types may include application fees, resource fees, and subsidies.
**Staking**. XNS staking is used to collateralize an agreement between infrastructure service providers and application service providers. XNS nodes stake to provide network infrastructure services: more expensive and profitable transactions require a larger collateral corresponding to the size of its owner's financial responsibility.
**Management**. In the future, all network decisions on the Insolar mainnet will be made by the community through a collaborative decision-making process, facilitated by XNS.
**Development**
Insolar started in 2017 as an Ethereum-based app. It is primarily aimed at D2C (Direct-to-Consumer), primarily to connect commodity manufacturers to consumers without a retail chain. As the project progressed, the team found the Ethereum scalability issue and decided not to close the project but create their own blockchain.
So, in November 2018, the project took a new look at the B2B blockchain (Business-to-Business) and rebranded it to Insolar.
After a successful testnet in 2019 where the platform demonstrated a capable throughput of> 19,500 transactions on a network of 20 nodes, the company launched the first version of its own mainnet on February 3, 2020. updated 1.8 version of MainNet was released in June 2020.
To ensure security, Insolar has undergone security analysis by leading cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, including code analysis, a network, and a web application penetration test.
Also, Insolar is working with Microsoft, Oracle, and a team of national innovation agencies, including the UK Energy Innovation Center, Innosuisse and the German Energy Agency, to strengthen Insolar's position in driving the modern blockchain and using real estate. -world in enterprise firms.
In the Medium Questions section, Insolar's team mentioned that "Insolar works with many businesses, including the Fortune Global 500." The team should begin announcing the full list of companies by Q1 2020. Insolar is listed on Kucoin, BitMax, and HitBTC.
**Their Shoot**
The largest Insolar communities are on Twitter with 33k followers and a Telegram channel with over 16K members. Like most project engineers based in Russia, Insolar also has a Russian TG channel with 1k members. On Reddit, Insolar has over 5K followers. The official Insolar website traffic (since July, 2020) has 119,760 unique visitors per month, according to Hyperstatcom, getting 405,046 global rankings on Alexa.
In addition to the official website, Insolar uses Medium to post recent updates and project news. On their Medium blog, the team has about 2k followers.
**The Team**
INS Ecosystem, and now Insolar, was co-founded by Andrey and Dmitry Zhulin (CEO and COO respectively), and Peter Fedchenkov (CRO).
Andrey Zhulin is a tech entrepreneur, who worked in venture capital and banking banking at Goldman Sachs before Insolar.
Peter Fedchenkov has a background in the Harvard Business School MBA and previously worked for Goldman as a banking analyst.
Dmitry Zhulin has served as Vice President for VTB Capital Private Equity and as an Rothschild Associate.
Prior to Insolar, Peter Fedchenkov and Dmitry Zhulin established the Russian grocery delivery service Instamart, which was later purchased by Sberbank and renamed Sbermarket. The investors of the company are leading companies in Russia: Sberbank, Mailru Group, Gazprom Media Partners, and others.
**Collaboration**
Although the project is in the early stages of development, Insolar is doing everything to ensure that the development is smooth. Prior to the launch of the mainnet, Insolar collaborated with Kaspersky Lab, partnered with Microsoft, Oracle, Innosuisse, the UK Energy Innovation Center, and the German Energy Agency.
Also, Insolar has partnered with Cointelegraph to issue a blockchain decision for the corparative ecosystem.
In April 2020, Insolar announced a sustainable energy partnership with the Toronto Conservation Authority.
**Competitors**
The main competitors in Insolar are Ethereum and Hyperledger. While other DLT networks focus on the protocol layer, Insolar builds enterprise applications on top of it.
In contrast to Ethereum and Hyperledger, nodes are assigned roles (compute, validate) to Insolar networks, with data stored separately on nodes with storage functions (hot and cold storage) . The nodes of which store can also participate in the agreement.
Additionally, Insolar provides support to modify smart embedded contracts, use low data storage, and be cheaper than other blockchain frameworks.
On the other hand, the Insolar issue is still low adoption compared to Ethereum and Hyperledger, which have a longer track record and expertise.
**Tokenomics**
Insolar launched their mainnet in February 2020, so there is a token swap of INS tokens (ERC-20) for XNS (Insolar Native Coin). Users can exchange their INS for a native XNS token at a 1:10 ratio. Thus, the public allocation of 50 million INS will be converted to 500 million XNS. This will be 50% of the total XNS supply. The Insolar Coin Swap began on February 3, 2020 and will end on August 3, 2020.
**This decision raises many questions:**
Why didn't the team choose the 1: 1 tokenomics model?
Will INS coins of early investors be frozen for 3 years?
Why did the team decide to make a larger supply?
Will those who invested in INS in the early stages have worse terms than those with XNS?
Although initially, the team planned to exchange users for their tokens on a 1: 1 basis, they changed the strategy because of the SEC: the amount of tokens should be connected to platform development. This way, as the platform grows, there will be more tokens.
ERC20 INS token holders do not have their tokens frozen but they are sold on Binance, the only XNS native token subject to 3-year lending. Moreover, coins are given for 3 years daily in small portions - so they are hardly called "frozen." The new 50% of tokens will be released within 10 years for staking and node rewards.
Moreover, those who invested in INS in the early stages and converted their INS to XNS, received x10 value. Also, in the coming staking, holders will be able to profit from securing the network.
A 3-year-decision was made due to SEC regulations as a precautionary measure from SEC decisions prohibiting crypto projects.
**Earning/Profit**
The Insolar Token Sale ended on DECEMBER 25, 2017, where the project grew to $ 13 million, with 60% of all tokens sold. Currently, Insolar’s team is likely to use only ICO funds for project development.
Bottom line:
Insolar is a very ambitious project developing what they call "blockchain 4.0," which claims to address many of the challenges facing other ecosystems. With a fixed supply and wider adoption of the Insolar network, tokens are expected to grow in value as demand increases. Insolar has the potential to transform innovation in the B2B sectors and lead the blockchain race in business with innovative benefits, but it still lacks enterprise adoption and requires additional strategic investment.
Carl Sagan "The greatest Scientific Disseminator in history"
The greatest Scientific Disseminator in history is I think it should be Carl Sagan. Why? His literary style is like elegant poetry, revealing the secrets of time and space, each syllable is a master piece; perfectly encompasses the true greatness of the Cosmos itself. Man is a genius, without exaggerated meaning of the word. It takes us to the ‘Cosmos’. The book which is the "... science course you never had ..." according to a compliment. That book was just brilliant and taught people a lot about the state of technological and scientific advancement today and taught them about the Cosmos so that they could handle it and understand some phenomena. How much can be carried very little!
The fact of the matter is that while people remembered him for the popularity of the science he was, he also made significant contributions to science, beyond the spread of scientific knowledge.
He was the main advocate of Planet Science during the heady years of the 1970s and 80s, ensuring that along with other Physical, Chemical and Biological discoveries of the day, Astronomy and Planetary Science also garnered their fair interest from general public.
He considered the conditions above Venus and Jupiter and analyzed radio waves from the planets, before the days of the Cassini Space Probe and others and considered a leading consultant on the subject of our Solar System.
He also began to think about the possible existence of extra-terrestrial life, changed Drake's equation and established the need for scientific thinking and critical thinking in the Earth.
Take a closer look at an aspect of his work.
One thing that surprised me was his demonstration of the synthesis of amino acids from their simple chemical substances by the effects of radiation exposure (this must have provided the necessary Activation Energy for the reaction to take place).
The implications of this single experiment are surprising. Giving way to a refined "Theory of How Life on Earth Started".
I failed to understand why this particular work of his did not get as much attention from the scientific community as it should. With the right thinking and giving a structure to the scientific evidence of the time, I am sure he can develop a theory of life. From this experiment alone, we can see that the source of ‘radiation’, i.e., the spark in the gases and the resulting amino acids that result from this reaction.
Today, in the early part of the Earth, such chemicals are exposed to the Ultra-Violet Rays of the Sun because the Ozone layer is absent. Thus these amino acids are produced. Over the millennia, it is possible that in the liquid form of primordial soup, the cells are the result of the mixing and interaction of these amino acids. I really found its very concept, let alone A fix this reaction, remarkable.
A theory remains a theory without its logically feasible structure; questions like "Does it make sense?" should be answered solidly. Now a theory with a demonstration - in my mind, I am quite convinced of the validity of the ideas of such a scientist, even though later found out that it was different.
Why is diabetes a risk factor for Covid -19?
Like many of us with diabetes who are well aware of it, diabetes is a disease that can easily get out of control if we neglect our guard. With this pandemic around, we can't afford to let that happen.
**Long-Term Effects and Symptoms**
The Covid-19 pandemic proves to refer to the event of 2020, affecting almost every country in the world. The pandemic has created a brutal blow to the world that cannot be underestimated: more than a million lives lost in October 2020, forced closure of businesses, and severe travel restrictions detrimental to international travel and commerce.
The Covid-19 pandemic hurt the hearts of governments and their people around the world for two main reasons: it is very contagious, and it can kill. And because it is a novel virus (i.e., a virus that the world has never encountered before), we can not only predict the long-term health effects that people who contract it and survive.
Statistics show that most people who contract Covid-19 experience no symptoms, or only mild symptoms. The most common symptoms reported are fever, dry cough, fatigue, and headache. In other words, for most people, the symptoms are no worse than the common cold. This may explain why Covid-19 is so prevalent in the community, unnoticed - many infected people are unaware that they are infected and thus are more likely to take extra precautions. However, some Covid-19 patients experience more severe symptoms, such as difficulty breathing, chest pain, or loss of speech or movement. Sometimes, these symptoms are severe enough to ensure hospital admission - even admission to the intensive care unit (ICU).
**Diabetes Management in The Times of COVID-19**
If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you know that this condition requires daily monitoring. You need to take your medication as prescribed, carefully monitor your diet, and make sure you maintain a healthy lifestyle. Making sure your diabetes is well controlled is even more important during the Covid-19 pandemic because any long-term illness you have puts you at greater risk of suffering serious symptoms if you contract the virus. Like many of us with diabetes who are well aware of it, diabetes is a disease that can easily get out of control if we neglect our guard.
With this pandemic around, we can't afford to let that happen. However, we have some good news. In an informative article on how Covid-19 affects people with diabetes, the ADA says, "your risk of getting sick from COVID-19 is likely to be lower if your diabetes is managed properly. " This means that one of the best preventative measures you can take as a diabetic patient is to do everything you can to make sure your diabetes is well controlled. It involves, as we discussed earlier, taking your medications as prescribed, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and paying more attention to your diet.
One of the best ways to stay healthy is to watch what you eat; make sure you eat a healthy diet that is nutritious and not too high in sugar. Remember - eating healthy does not mean eating foods you do not like! With some planning, you can have a healthy diet that is both delicious and spicy.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle during diabetes is entirely possible. With the Covid-19 pandemic still circulating, make sure you take all necessary precautions. Remember, simply making sure your diabetes is properly controlled goes a long way toward fighting the deadly virus.
Major symptoms of spiritual awakening
Going through a spiritual awakening is one of the most Confusing, lonely, distant, but also more than beautiful and sacred life experiences. The surprising and wonderful thing about awakening in the spirit is that they happen even at unexpected times. There is no way you can plan for them. They confuse you with your life and shake everything like tornadoes.
I explain the signs I experienced and it still happens. The signs of Awakening are gradually changing with spiritual development.
**I began to ask everyone**: - During the beginning of the Spiritual Awakening, I asked myself questions I had never thought of, questions that were more complex to all mankind. The question of my existence, my desire to be in this world, the hardships I continue to go through in the death aspect of life and more. The true seeker of spirit is filled with countless questions.
**I began to look for my purpose of existence**: - People who woke up no longer felt the need to fit in and be included. I literally sit idle with a lot of time thinking about all aspects of life and its purpose as if it were born yesterday. All things felt before me the plants, the sunshine, the cool breeze, the energy I was experiencing were phenomenally sacred.
**Moving and changing your friendship**: - One of the hardest parts of going to wake up is that many of our relationships are starting to move, change or end as well. It can lead to feelings of loss, fear and sadness. Your friends may not understand your new version and start questioning you and challenging you. From the last 4 to 5 years I only have 2 or 3 friends, I walk alone, I live alone. This sadness may seem difficult to bear but it helps you in your spiritual journey. This gives you the opportunity to spend your quality time on yourself.
**You see through the illusions of this world beyond this matrix**: - The transfer of consciousness and change you experience makes it possible to see those who are changing the world, where no such things are permanent and intended to change. . The level of awareness increases significantly and one begins to experience unimaginable things.
**You want to be alone**: - I started my life sadly wondering inside my mind all day. The desire to be alone is a very important aspect of holiness that will help you understand more about yourself and the inner strength you have.
**You see how sad most people are**: - You woke up to the sadness and suffering of others. You can start exploring activism or read more about the human condition. It makes it difficult for you to realize how much pain there is in the world.
**You become more sensitive to others**: - You become more sensitive and everything affects you more. The more you see the stronger the strength of others, the pain of others, the suffering of others more intense. I feel sensitive to the power of the spirit and its presence. I understand the feelings, desires and thoughts of people’s minds just by looking into their eyes.
**Waking up between 3 to 4 in the morning**: - I think this is one of the most common signs one can experience. Waking up suddenly at 3 am indicates that you are in line with divine energy and this is the time to show things. This is the time to meditate and learn about yourself. This time is also considered as Brahma Muhurta in Sanatan Hindu Dharma, so at this time it is the door of many things, your mind is fresh and firm to hear and feel them. I remember during my initial awakening that I used to simply wake up more like a wake me up from sleep than I used to sit in my bed and give a smile with a sense of true happiness full of love and peace.
**Your intuition increases**: - Gradually you begin to listen to the still, small voice within. It allows you to guide your decisions. Eventually, you begin to uncover your hidden spiritual abilities.
**More At the same time**: - You begin to become aware of the many signs and symptoms that life brings to you. Life will be easier to accept and interactive with you. Serendipity and Deja Vu rose. You can also undergo many mystical experiences. I personally have gone through many of them, it cannot be expressed in words that are higher and more complex than just words.
**Less interested in materialistic things**: - As you gradually increase your spiritual journey, your ego becomes less and less connected. You do not have any desire to acquire and accumulate material things. I am in that stage of holiness, where I am separated from material things, money, fame, attachment, lust is meaningless.
**You begin to love unconditionally**: - As barriers to the destruction of the ego, you begin to love other people without expectations or conditions. You lose interest in drama, conflict, and anything else that perpetuates hatred.
**You see we are all one**: - Not only do you intellectually understand that we are all interconnected, but you feel it deeply inside. You realize that our thoughts and beliefs influence the truth, and we are all fragments of a great Whole - that is, Spirit. Having the full experience we have is being this, you will finally find peace. Sometimes this stage can last for years or even a lifetime.
The road, the journey, the path of the awakening time often feel confusing and lonely, but as you continue walking and progressing you will soon discover where exactly you are going to a beautiful place full of reality of love and happiness. If we are trembling at our own unique frequencies but all are connected by a universal energy after the law itself of resonance, when one of us raises our consciousness, we are all advancing to a higher state of consciousness .
Mao Zedong - the worst leader in the last 3 decades
Mao's failures are almost unmatched. He approached his position as leader of China with a single drive to make China a modern country. His various campaigns and policies will not only fail to modernize China, it will set some records. These records include:
Deadly hunger in history
The deadliest man-made disaster in history
That is Mao's legacy - death, and death to millions. Sadly he lived until 1976. When he died, China grew stronger under the new leadership. With capable people at the top who are really committed to improving China in this fascinating political ideology, we see the Chinese miracle take place. So we dive into the failure of Mao.
**The Great Leap Forward:**
Here is the TLDR of it. Mao was a communist and he wanted the whole communist to go to the countryside. What does this mean:
End of private farming
Replaced private farming with comics.
Industrializing the agricultural sector Mao is not that bright.
Socialism is perfect, he thinks, so he expects a massive increase in rice production under the new and better socialist communist system. He sets high production quotas for these communes - higher than they can achieve realistically. The leaders of the committees are competing over who can provide the most grain. They use fear and forced labor to keep people on the farm. They were afraid of being branded "right-wing" and killed so they gave away all the grain they had made.
So the rural population is starving. Between 18–45 million people are starving, making it the greatest famine in history.
It is not like the weather or war it causes. It is 100% Mao's fault. Agriculture in China has never been perfect but millions did not starve before Mao.
This "great leap forward" has indeed seen China's economic downturn - and again remember that up to 45 million people have died for it.
**The 4 pests:**
However, there is another cause of hunger. Mao wants to eradicate 4 pests from China. They are mosquitoes, rats, sparrows, and flies. The sparrow was large and Mao ordered the Chinese people to start killing every sparrow in sight. They did a great job and 3,000,000 sparrows were killed. This is clearly caused by chronic ecological degradation. Also, it caused a famine.
You see sparrows eating bugs- the same bugs eating grains. Without sparrows, the bug population increased and the supply of rice decreased further.
**The cultural revolution:**
Mao withdrew after the Great Leap Forward failure. In 1966 he came back strong and bot all again- do you see a pattern here as well? Mao continued his position at the top of the government. Sick of a more moderate voice trying to fix his mess, he told the public that capitalists are entering Chinese leadership and trying to restore capitalism. Mao demands that the youth expel the capitalists by force (literally). Local youths created militias and began attacking and killing anyone they suspected of being dishonest.
The goal is total control and isolation under Mao. This means destroying the 4 "adults".
Old culture
Old habits
Old ideas
Old customs
This means a violent eradication of Chinese culture. Any idea from the time before Mao- or any idea that Mao did not like- was destroyed by force. Again the economy sank, marking the second time it would shrink between 1953-1975. Funny enough that the only 2 times the economy slipped was the only 2 times Mao controlled. And again many people died. Some estimates are as high as 20 million although a more reasonable estimate is 500,000 to 1,000,000.
**The damn dams**
During the great walk forward, Mao had a series of dams built. As usual he made it cheap and used inexperienced labor to build the dams. He demanded that it be made stupid quickly and for the stupid cheap- and local project leaders cut every corner to meet deadlines, fearing for their lives.
In 1975 the dams were damaged and the results were alarming:
89,000 - 250,000 dead 6 million people are homeless
10 million people are affected
He severely oversaw the agricultural system and removed deforests throughout the region to burn furnaces to make steel. It will bring some salt I can think of, but I don't think Mao is really a good leader. If we can not call Mao a complete failure then Donald Trump is the greatest President in US history. The devastation caused by Mao is astounding. It is still ignored.
He was calmly embarrassed. The fact that this Western Socialist thought that he could justify or defend Mao shows exactly how many hardcore socialists have been deceived.
Do you know why China is rich today? Because they turned their backs on Mao. People may still like him but the government has made a complete 180. They decided that extreme socialism was more of a pragmatic mix of capitalism and socialism. They strengthened trade, expanded the private sector, accepted foreign investment, and gave up Mao's foolish ideas.
China is now rich despite Mao, not because of him.
Plato’s Theory of Education
Plato saw education as the only real way to the permanent stability of the state. If people's behavior is good, laws are not necessary; if not properly, the laws are useless. With this belief, Plato began to emphasize the importance of education in his ideal state. He clearly saw that education was more than just getting the basics and ideas of childhood and adolescence, and he was the first to propose a detailed system of educational training for adults.
In his Book VII of the Republic Plato laid out the object of education, to turn the eye to the light already possessed by the soul.
To him, the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul but to bring out the best things hidden in the soul, and not to do so by directing it to the right things. This will be done by bringing the soul into the environment which, at each stage of its growth, is most suited to its development.
**No Direct Teaching**- In the Platonic system of education, the main problem of education is simply to bring the soul into a particular environment. Therefore, nothing is said about direct instruction. He does not talk about steps through a matter of knowledge that is reflected in the mind. Because the mind is active, things are not shown here, instead, it directs itself to things. It moves towards every object of its environment because there is an attraction here to every object. In Barker’s words, “A teacher’s real business, is to bring out what is best for his student: more precisely, it causes itself in response to the right things, and to put it in front of his students. learning true art teacher lies.
**Reminiscene**- In his theory of Education there is something in the theory of "reminiscence" that Plato promoted in his dialogue, the Meno. According to this theory our soul has seen in the former life all the things learned in this world, and our study is only a recollection of that life. The object gives only a clue, the soul itself responds to its suggestion.
**Instruments of Education**- Plates found in literature are the main instruments of education. Every Athenian gentleman was brought into a system of study of the standard literature of his country. Besides, there may be an elementary knowledge of some arts, and the beginnings in the sciences of numbers and numbers. The second instrument of education is gymnastics. In early life the main instruments for the release of what is best in the soul are first, literature, beginning with stories for children and continuing with poetry: second, music in our sense of the word, playing and singing; and third, the plastic arts in general. It is all under the head of art.
**Long-term Education**
Plato held in the Republic that education is a matter of life-time. As a living and thriving entity, it is affected by various agencies and the media at various stages of its growth.
**Childhood**- During childhood and adolescence, the soul is more susceptible to fancy and imagination. Therefore, the staff is trained by emotion. During this time, Education will stimulate the love of beauty in all its various forms.
**Adolescence**- At this stage, the powers of reasoning begin to develop. The soul is reached by reason. Here education means developing understanding through science and philosophy.
**Youth**- In youth, education is both physical and intellectual. It aims to have the truth.
**Education Innovations**- Plato's theory of education is truly innovative. He is improving on the current Athenian practice. He pleaded for the same kind of education to be given to both men and women. He believes there is no difference in type between the indigenous abilities of men and women.
**Plato's Scheme of Education**
Plato's education scheme represents a state-controlled system of compulsory education for both sexes. To him, every member of the state must be prepared for a particular class either ruling, fighting or making the class. The education provided at the outset is equal for all. Thus Plato maintains the principle of equality in education somehow at its inception. However, education in the Republic is exclusively intended for future leaders of the ideal state.
The President of the Philippines is a "Hope".
This is based on my view about our beloved President Rodrigo Duterte.
When he ran for President, I was happy and I hope he wins. He appeared to be so different from the typical politician that he not only promised a change of word, but he came with the intention of changing things.
As a Filipino, I have never felt more sincere and nationalist president like Mayor Duterte. He certainly cares about the poor, the environment, and the Filipino culture. Moreover, he has a strong desire to fight against crime, corruption, and illegal drugs. He is far different from other previous presidents the Philippines has. Although he has mistakes and his own weaknesses, the leadership of the presidents and strong support from the military and other countries (re-establishing friendship with China) makes him a better strategist than other previous presidents.
Other than that, as a Mindanao native, without him being president, we would not have the same attention as we do today. We are often left behind by the imperial Manila and Luzon, which share more government developments and services. He who is a president, filled us with the map of the Philippines. Masking many potential resources, tourism, industry, and placement of infrastructure projects (roads and bridges).
Most notable ongoing major projects he has completed over the past three years include Clark City (a name that Filipinos should be given), the Build, Build Program, the cleanup of Boracay and Manila Bay, and the well-known and controversial illegal drug campaign.
For the laws, he wants to enforce the organic BBL law which says to solve terrorism and major religious conflicts in the southern part of Mindanao. There is also an increase in senior and retired pension payments that will benefit many people. Controversial policies and changes in the death penalty, age imprisonment, and the legalization of medical marijuana are being discussed in the news.
There is no perfect president. I dislike her for respecting religion and women as well. He also has a very dirty and uncovered mouth full of curses that are completely inappropriate especially on formal occasions. His position in the West Philippine Sea also seems uncertain. I think the president discovered something about that issue that swayed him for bilateral relations with China.
Overall, I dislike him in some respects but I will worship him more in the way he leads the country. Although slow, but I can see the change he promised during his election campaign. I still stand by the president himself but he has earned my respect for making the most logical solution to almost any problem we have in the country.
Pros and cons of switching to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
During COVID-19, all educators sought a unique learning approach. What are your views on e-learning - Negative or Positive? Are you keen to know what kind of learning students will develop after delivering online courses? You need to know both the advantages as well as the disadvantages of online education faced during this coronavirus pandemic. After that you can decide. But for being impartial you need to read the explanation of the same factors as below.
**Advantages of e-Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic**
There are many advantages to why people prefer online learning as a mode of education today. Online education offers dynamic access to courses that are truly immense. Below are some of the strengths you will learn while doing online studies:
**Location uncertain**: - The first advantage of online learning is that it does not depend on distance and provides education anywhere and anytime. Student participation is done worldwide only in ways of laptop and internet connection. It provides an opportunity to physically challenge students to participate in full freedom within the classroom. No need for any physical presence. Instead, virtual classrooms can help with proper participation.
**No Time and Speed Boundation**: - Virtual classrooms are completely different from physical classrooms where they can access 24 * 7. So, they are better in time. Even family members can participate in class discussions with students. No one will ask about your assignment. Students can do as they please. Also, there is no problem of early rise. You can also attend evening classes as well. Additionally, if the interview is skipped you can access it at any time as they are recorded. This is mainly for those who have difficulty understanding for the first time. They can listen and understand again.
**Synergy**: - Online learning not only provides an interaction between the instructor and the students but a student can also interact with other students. A student can share his ideas with other students and in this way the communication gap between them will be reduced. Each student has the right to comment on the work of other students. This is the most unique factor in e-Learning.
**Quality Discussions**: - In an online study, one person looks at the comments of others and then moves on to the next. This contributes to better participation because some students may skip the answer spoken by other students in the traditional classroom.
**Focus Students**: - In an online discussion, students respond to course materials and lectures delivered. The answer is given for those who are of interest. This results in small conversations. While students should participate in all dialogues but they are focused on their particular dialogue interests. It helps students focus on their learning.
**Equality**: - Teachers do not discriminate against students based on caste, color, religion, age or any other factor. The focus is on the student's answer according to their knowledge and intellect.
**Access to material**: - Easily integrate some guest experts into an online class. Also, students have access to all the lectures and courses that are accessible anywhere.
**Creative Teaching Strategy**: - Talking about adult education, it focuses on self-direction. Some students want remote instruction. However, some still rely on notes. Self-study creates an innovative and creative approach. Also, those looking for a paradigm shift in technology will leave bad habits and then move on.
**Disadvantages Of Switching To Online Learning During The COVID-19 Pandemic Period**
Above, I explained the benefits of studying online. Now, I will give some points about the disadvantages that act as a threat of choosing online learning as a way of learning. Below are some of them:
**Non-Affordability To Technology**: - If you want any online course or program to succeed properly, it must have good student strength to participate. The lack of having some deserving students due to economic or logical means may exclude them.
**Computer knowledge**. It is mandatory enough for both students and educators to have proper computer knowledge to participate in an online interview or course. For example, a basic level of literacy about the ability to access email is necessary for them.
In today’s era, people are advancing in technology. Online programs are based on tech-savvy gadgets. There are some adult learners who prefer online modes of education. During COVID-19, people would choose online learning platforms to study. Thus, it must be possible to bring about change in the revolution for entrepreneurs.
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