Sometime ago I began testing Slack Chat or just Slack as it’s called, for collaboration on projects with people from different parts of the world. By far the best system for aggregating documents and media related to projects and it has a snappy messenger but I want to learn how to integrate Slack Chat into my wordpress websites, for communication with readers.
This post is dedicated to my experience with Slack Chat and also I should say that I have tried and tested most every Instant messenger and and always seeking the best tools for collaboration, most recently I’m enjoying Discord and have been learning Teelgram. In the past Skype has been my main tool but Google Hangouts and Zoom are in t here too.
On mobile phone I think that WeChat is superior but I like the ease of WhatsApp and again Skype is a main go-to, but also tried many others and even like an encrypted secure platform of Signal.
What an octopus of online services, recently I saw a site to help manage remote storage overload. This didn’t surprise me because I was wondering how much redundant useless media I have on Dropbox, One Drive and Google Drive, plus a couple others I have but those 3 are huge spaces that I need another app to manage the duplicate removal and stop waste.
My hope was that Slack Chat would become capable of solving a variety of communication, management and collaboration challenges that could always be improved to increase efficiency and save time.
UPDATE: Now that I’ve done the integration of Slack Chat into this WordPress platform and learned how it works and how easy it is to install, I realized that my purpose for Slack is collaboration, not customer support chat, which is more descriptive of how Slack Chat is connected, which is outstanding for that task.
Slack for project collaboration is excellent, just as it is. : )
Luo Brothers – Welcome to the world’s famous brands
While waiting to meet a colleague in Hong Kong, I was served an espresso, chocolate wafer and sparkling water in small conference room of UBS, on the wall was an original Luo Brothers piece from the collection called “Welcome to the world’s famous brands. The Swiss bank UBS are the owners of a collection of paintings, photographs, drawings, sculptures and video art by some of the world’s major artists from 1960 onward and are recognized as having one of the most important corporate collections of contemporary art in the world.
Luo Brothers are a Chinese artist trio best known for their Pop Art take on propaganda and kitsch items produced during the Cultural Revolution in China. They often create collaged images in rich reds replete with flowers, chubby babies, fish, and fruit, which are then screenprinted and lacquer painted. The Luo Brothers also create painted fiberglass sculptures of children which are figures from Chinese advertisements. Consisting of three brothers, Luo Wei Dong (b. 1963), Luo Wei Bing (b. 1964), and Luo Wei Guo (b. 1972) from Nanning, China, they went on to attend the Guangxi Academy of Art, the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, and the Central Academy of Applied Arts.
The artists began their collaboration during the mid-1990s, and their work is meant to serve as a barometer of the socio-economic and cultural change in China rather than a critique of either Communism or Capitalism. The visibility of art by Robert Rauschenberg and Jeff Koons in China in the late 1980s proved to be a powerful influence on the Luo Brothers’ development of yansu, or “gaudy,” art. Their works are in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan, among others. The brothers live and work in Beijing, China. Source: Artnet
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 15, 2019 / iBank Digital Asset L.P. (“iBank Digital”, “iBankEX” or the “Company”) announced the launch of the new iBankEX app now available on iOS and Android mobile devices. This new mobile app will give users access to 150+ crypto assets to trade with USDT, BTC and ETH.
The iBankEX mobile app and website are both supported by Huobi Cloud Technology, making it safe, secure and hassle free. (Download the App at https://www.ibankex.io/en-us/download/)
“Users these days are tech savvy and are constantly on their mobile devices. The launch of the iBankEX mobile app allows our sophisticated users easy access to their accounts and to trade cryptocurrencies whenever they want,” said David Yoo, Managing Director of iBank Digital. “Our continued partnership with Huobi Cloud Technology gives our users the assurance of a safe, secure and convenient platform to manage their digital assets.”
About iBankEX
iBankEX, one of Vancouver’s very first peer to peer (P2P) over the counter (OTC) crypto and bitcoin exchange that has been supported by Huobi Cloud Technology, was officially launched on February 6, 2019 . The iBankEX platform has been based in Vancouver, Canada, and it was launched to ensure it is able to facilitate the proper underwriting of crypto trading that has been supported by the Huobi Cloud. And from this, they have been able to lend through the very first global lending network within the open decentralized platforms. iBankEX have established an efficient and intuitive new trading platform that can be explored by their digital currency users spread across the globe. www.ibankex.io
About Huobi Cloud
Huobi Cloud is owned by Huobi Group, the world’s leading blockchain company and one of world’s largest digital asset trading platforms. Established in 2013, Huobi Group’s accumulative turnover exceeds US $1 trillion. It proudly provides safe, secure, and convenient cryptocurrency trading and asset management services to millions of users in 130+ countries. “Bring more efficiency to finance and more freedom to wealth” is the mission of Huobi Group. It always follows the management theory of putting the customer first.
Risk Warning: Digital assets are a higher-risk investment method. Investors should be cautious in purchasing and pay attention to investment risks.
A blueberry can be defined as a “superfood” however that’s not it alone, the idea is to extract the raw energy fluids from organically grown food and combine them into a concoction that maximizes the benefits of each and every ingredient, boost absorption by ingesting MCT oils that have been derived from natural sources, then add Ormus for superfood dessert.
Medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) are partially man-made fats. The name refers to the way the carbon atoms are arranged in their chemical structure. MCTs are generally made by processing coconut and palm kernel oils (superfood) in the laboratory. Usual dietary fats, by comparison, are long-chain triglycerides.
Along comes Ormus, a naturally occurring elemental state of matter. Ormus itself is not a material; every element and mineral has an “Ormus state” which exhibits nanoscale properties and phenomena, including: increased membrane permeability, higher melting point, altered electrical potentials, and different atomic structures.The word “Ormus” is not ours and does little to explain the true nature of these minerals. The word “Ormus” is a corruption of the acronym ORME’s, a term coined by David Radius Hudson which stands for “Orbitally Rearranged Monatomic Elements”.
Atomically Separated Inductive Natural Elements
A.S.I.N.E. Ocean Minerals are extracted from the West Coast of British Columbia through our patented Atomic Separation® process which isolates inductive material. After being extensively filtered and sterilized, our superfood products consist of naturally occurring elements that can revitalize the body and mind. See: A.S.I.N.E. Ocean Mineral Substrate
Colour adaptation of the original by Camille Flammarion (1842-1925).- L’atmosphère : météorologie populaire, Hachette, Paris, 1888
Today the magic of the Internet fed me some new food for thought, as I stumbled on a video I had been watching a video called “Enlightenment” on Youtube so several weeks ago, and just today got back to it and after only 5 minutes it expanded my mind with the terminology “Quantum Jumping”.
Random searching that keyword phrase and the word Gnosis when I noticed the thumbnail for this image from 1888 that completely captured my senses, perfect for an illustration of the impossible to explain, which when colour was added became a Quantum Jump poster (in my opinion). Hope this triggers you to jump.
The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion‘s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The caption translates to “A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet…”
What does quantum jumping mean? An abrupt transition of a system described by quantum mechanics from one of its discrete states to another, as the fall of an electron in an atom to an orbit of lower energy. any sudden and significant change, advance, or increase.
Surprising how even with the Internet a story like a the Bosnian Pyramid discovery could have skipped my attention. My entire life I’ve been fascinated with pyramids and for as long as I can remember knew instinctively that the Egyptian Pyramid history (his story) was myth but recently I first learned about this amazing 2005 discovery, that everyone on earth should be talking about, the Bosnian valley of the pyramids.
Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D. Discovered
Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D., Anthropology Professor and director of Center for Anthropology and archaeology at the American University in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Foreign Member of the distinguished Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (2010), with dozens of Nobel Prize winners in its membership.
Discoverer of the Bosnian Pyramid complex in central Bosnia (2005).
Member of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria (2006). Author of 13
books on ancient history and pyramids. Renowned pyramid researcher on
five continents. “Almost everything they teach us about the ancient
history is wrong”, has became his famous lecture-opener.
Media appearances: CNN (breaking news in 2006), 30-minute special
about his work on ABC, BBC, National Geographic, History Channel, most
of the European TV channels.
Author and narrator of 12-epizode documentary “Search for the Lost Civilizations” based on his book Civilizations before beginning of the official history
and filmed in Peru, Easter Island, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico,
Germany, France, UK, Malta, Bosnia, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan. “Ancient
megalithic sites can be understood only if viewed through the physical,
energy and spiritual realms at the same time”, claim Osmanagich.
Principal investigator of inter-disciplinary scientific project “Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids” (2005 – to Present) which has become the most active archaeological site in the World. Established non-profit “Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun” Foundation for archaeological research (2005). Hundreds of volunteers, from six continents, come every summer to help uncover the biggest pyramids on the Planet.” Project is open to everyone, no elite science”. Osmanagich lectures all over the world.
Discovery of Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids forever changes our view
of ancient history: (1) these are the first pyramids in Europe, (2) they
have the most precise orientation to the cosmic north, (3) pyramid is
covered by the most quality concrete, (4) these pyramids are the largest
on the Planet, (5) radiocarbon dating confirmed them to be the oldest.
Recent measurements on top of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun (2010-2102)
have confirmed existence of energy beam, electromagnetic and ultrasound
fields, proving the pyramid to be energy emitter and receiver.
Osmanagich has been a president of the Met Company, Inc. a
manufacturing plant in Houston with 100 employees since 1995. Osmanagich
has become a first “honorary citizen” of the Town of Visoko in 2006.
Daily newspaper „San” from Sarajevo awarded Osmanagich title „Man of the
Year 2007 in Bosnia-Herzegovina” for his research project Bosnian
Valley of the Pyramids and affirmative promotion of Bosnia-Herzegovina
in the world.
I found Angus and Julia Stone by chance when the algorithm for youtube introduced me, as soon as I heard them I wanted to hear more, now I’ve listened to their entire catalogue and enjoy every song. Sounds like I want to hear more of these great Australian artists, please,encore!
Angus & Julia Stone are an Australian folk and indie pop group, formed in 2006 by brother and sister Angus and Julia Stone. Angus & Julia Stone have released four studio albums: A Book Like This (2007), Down the Way (2010), Angus & Julia Stone (2014), and Snow (2017). At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010, they won five awards from nine nominations: Album of the Year, Best Adult Alternative Album, Best Cover Art and Producer of the Year for Down the Way, and Single of the Year for “Big Jet Plane“. The siblings have issued two solo albums each.
Sounds like, was the name of an algorithm I learned about many years ago, now that’s what causes the introduction, as I was listening to something similar in genre, perhaps Ben Harper or Michael Kiwanuka, both favourites of mine, so sounds like works great!
The brother and sister duo made an excellent video that is haunting and beautiful about the life and times of a rock star, maybe it was written as a sister to a brother or a woman to her love but whichever it’s very sweet
I was riding my bicycle across the overpass in Stanley Park and stopped in the middle to admire the perfect view of Lions Gate Bridge, when I noticed a little plaque that said the following:
The Guinness brewing family built the Lions Gate Bridge which opened in 1938 to provide access to its British Properties lands in West Vancouver. Ownership was transferred to the Province in 1955. Tolls were removed in 1963 and the bridge was restored in 1998 after a long debate about its heritage value and capacity.
The most beautiful bridge north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate, Lions
Gate Bridge brought Vancouver into the automobile age and heralded the
era of auto-dependent suburbs when it opened in 1938. The Guinness
brewing company was the primary financier, intent on providing access to
its British Properties development in West Vancouver. Bisecting Stanley
Park for the bridge’s causeway was the most controversial issue, but
the proponents’ promise of jobs was too good to turn down, as the city
was mired in the Great Depression. In 1933, the Park Board voted in
favour of it, with only one commissioner opposed.
“Lady Cecilia” under the Lions Gate Bridge 1939. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-2951, photographer Start Thomson
The idea to build a bridge across First Narrows was investigated as
early as the 1890s, but it wasn’t until the 1920s that plans began to
take shape. In December 1933, approval for the building of the bridge
was reached through a city wide vote. Construction began on March 31,
1937 by clearing ten acres of Stanley Park to create the right-of-way.
Upon completion in November 1938, the Lions Gate Bridge was recognized
as the longest suspension bridge in the British Empire and one of the
biggest construction projects undertaken in Canada during the 1930s.
Despite its great size, the open steelwork of the twin towers gives the
structure a weightless quality that blends well with its picturesque
setting.
The bridge was remarkable because of its length and the technical
innovations in cable use and construction. Alfred J.T. Taylor, a
prominent engineering contractor and industrialist who had substantial
land holdings on the North Shore and who assembled the financing for the
project has been called the visionary behind the project. The Guinness
brewing company acted as the primary financier, intent on providing
access to its British Properties development in West Vancouver.
Named in honour of a pair of pointed peaks along the North Shore
mountain range known as ‘The Lions’, the south entrance to the bridge is
graced by two monumental Art Deco lion figures which were the last
great public work of Vancouver’s foremost sculptor, Charles Marega.
The provincial government purchased it in 1955, its “Year of
Bridges”. Other projects in the region included the Second Narrows and
Oak Street bridges plus Highway 99 and the south arm crossing that
became George Massey Tunnel. A third lane was squeezed onto Lions Gate
Bridge to accommodate the increasing traffic volume. It ceased to be a
toll bridge in 1963. Overcrowded for decades, the bridge narrowly
avoided demolition in the 1990s, instead being refurbished by the
provincial government. Its retention indicated the city was beginning to
move beyond the automobile age.
1909 painting The Worship of Mammon by Evelyn De Morgan.
The word Mammon really fell from our lexicon, wonder why too, as it’s such a descriptive word and has such a long history. It’s as though the the meaning is ugly or distasteful, so it’s been cast aside.
For the longest time I read and re-read Luke Chapter 16 and especially verse 8 , where Jesus say’s in the parable of the Unjust Steward;
for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of the light.
Luke 16:8
Mammon Etymology
The word Mammon comes into English from post-classical Latinmammona ‘wealth’, used most importantly in the Vulgate Bible (along with Tertullian’smammonas and pseudo-Jerome’s mammon). This was in turn borrowed from Hellenistic Greek μαμωνᾶς, which appears in the New Testament, borrowed from Aramaic מָמוֹנָא māmōnā, an emphatic form of the word māmōn ‘wealth, profit’, perhaps specifically from the Syriac dialect. However, it is not clear what the earlier history of the Aramaic form is.
The word may have been present throughout the Canaanite languages: the word is unknown in Old Testament Hebrew, but has been found in the Qumran documents; post-biblical Hebrew attests to māmōn; and, according to St Augustine of Hippo, Punic included the word mammon ‘profit’. It has been suggested that the Aramaic word māmōn was a loanword from Mishnaic Hebrew ממון (mamôn) meaning money, wealth, or possessions; although it may also have meant “that in which one trusts”.
According to the Textus Receptus of the New Testament, the Greek word translated “Mammon” is spelled μαμμωνᾷ in the Sermon on the Mount at Matt. 6:24, and μαμωνᾶ (from μαμωνᾶς) in the parable of the Unjust Steward at Luke 16:9,11,13.
The 27th edition of the popular Critical Text of the New Testament has μαμωνᾶ in all four places with no indication of any textual variances, thereby ignoring the Textus Receptus reading at Matt. 6:24. The Liddell and Scott Lexicon has a listing for each spelling, indicating that each occurs only in the New Testament, nowhere else in ancient and Hellenistic Greek literature. The spelling μαμμωνᾷ refers to “a Syrian deity, god of riches; Hence riches, wealth”; μαμωνᾶς is transliterated from Aramaic [ממון] and also means “wealth.” The Authorised Version uses “Mammon” for both Greek spellings; John Wycliffe uses richessis.
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible explains it as “a Semitic word for money or riches”. The International Children’s Bible (ICB) uses the wording “You cannot serve God and money at the same time”.
Christians began to use mammon as a pejorative, a term that was used to describe gluttony, excessive materialism, greed, and unjust worldly gain.
I can attest to the this being a tough test, especially in an age when a billion dollars can be made in a single year, by a single soul, connected to the right people, at the right time, with the right ideas. Which is why tech incubators are located on university campuses. Silicon Valley is comprised of thousands of companies that were a bright idea just a few years ago.
Passion for web publishing and love of the Internet and this brave new information age world we live in, is what empowers me to keep chasing my own Mammon but for sure I am guilty of the sin of the worship of Mammon and recognize that my self-conditioning, cultural programming and total naivety, sadly; pursuit of Success has been the hallmark of my life.
I’m a Technocrat but at least not a snob about it. Forgive me, as I forgive myself and forgive you too but let’s try to get over it, worship of Mammon sucks, having it is sweet but what is best is a dough flow, thick and rich, started from a trickle and nurtured to a steady, consistent cash-flow.
The prayer to ask for, rather than a boatload of Mammon, is to find a useful niche that helps others benfit, from which to extract sustainable prosperity.
I had that feeling, upon entering the second hand store, that there was something in there I needed to find. It was a glorious Saturday in March and a little framed print caught my eye, on one of the lower shelves of a tightly packed array, when I went to the trouble to bend down, reach in and pull it out to look, the moment I saw eyes looking back at me I was thrilled and clutched it, then bought it, and came immediately home to hang it up.
Here’s the image from the Michelle Kuen Suet Fung website and her story of creating; Just Hanging Out…
Just Hanging Out 遊戲人間, 2008. Ink and Coloured Pencils on Paper 鋼筆、木顏色紙本 8×10″ Private Collection.
Michelle Kuen Suet Fung 馮捲雪!
“Just Hanging Out” is my most popular series to date.
Sometimes a great series was meticulously researched and carefully planned. Other times, it just happened.
This series just happened.
Late 2008, under the dark sky deep into the wee hours of the evening,
I buried myself in the studio, physically tired yet with blade-sharp
concentration. I was in that trance where I wanted to stay up all night
and create. (No, with no aid of drugs. See point 54.) I grabbed a piece of paper and started drawing.
There! it was done in one sitting.
To be honest, when I finished it, I treated it as one of my many drawings. I never paid much attention to it. I didn’t even like it that much. I didn’t do anything with it until in Jan 2009, I took this drawing (along with other works) to Doctor Vigari Gallery. The drawing was sold within a month and I had constant positive feedback from people.
The central tree is a symbolic tree of life and the various little people or animals/objects “just hanging out” with the tree parallel how we all just hanging out during the span of our lifetime. I use this context to ask some of my endless questions about life, death, love…I chose to take a playful approach rather than a didactic one. I prefer to be provided with a space to medidate rather than told how/what to think. This translate into how I want my viewers to approach my works. The light-hearted imageries reduces the emotional guard of adults. No matter how much one cannot identify with these big-eyed figures, it is rather difficult to be intimidated by them.
In this particular drawing (which was only meant to be a stand-alone
drawing in the beginning), I ask questions about life and death. A baby,
wrapped in a soft cocoon, is hung from a leaveless tree in a style not
unlike on a death rope. The tree is in its withering (or resting) stage,
whereas the baby in its cocoon suggests a glorious metamorphosis.
I love playing with contradiction within one image. My mother is in love with Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Alas I was into her sister’s Wuthering Heights more. Mom was not pleased that I was into the wild passion as a teen. See point 23) She always quoted “a bundle of contradictions” when I was a girl. I have always found the term befit me well. So there, as I say in my artist statement, none of my artworks is self portrait, but I acknowledge a lot of myself in them.
More promotion of Michelle Kuen Suet Fung, as she has an awesome exhibition to reduce plastic waste and help raise awareness of the danger to nature, with her exhibition called: Plastic, plastic, every where! 天空膠雨
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