1) Single most important principle in the field of interpersonal relations is Empathic Communication, which means "Seek first to understand, then to be understood"

#Leadership #Communication #empathy

2) There are four forms of communication: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. The ability to do it well is absolutely critical for human effectiveness

3) We spend years learning how to read, write and speak but how about listening? What education or training have we had that enables us to listen so that we can really deeply understand another human being.

4)  We typically seek first to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They are either speaking or preparing to speak.

5) We are usually listening at 4 levels:
Ignoring - not listening at all
Pretending - "Yeah. Uh-huh. Right"
Selective Listening - hearing only selective parts
Attentive listening - paying attention and focusing on words
But we should practice the 5th level : Empathic Listening

$DEBASE - A Composable/Modular Algorithmic Stable Coin Protocol

https://t.co/v3383S9VsP
https://t.co/mAul2JSyWE

A guest post, written by the Debase community.

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Algorithmic stable coin protocols & in particular elastic supply tokens (e.g. AMPL, Base) have emerged as contenders for decentralized price-stable assets. The premise of such tokens is to convert price-volatility into supply-volatility, in search of a price peg (e.g. 1 USD)

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The idea is that at sufficiently large market capitalisations supply-volatility will taper off and you are left with a price-stable asset. So far this has not been the case

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Projects like Ampleforth continue to experience sustained price and supply volatility even as market capitalisation has ballooned. Subsequent iterations have tried to improve on this model by modifying one or more of the static parameters; BASE, RMPL etc., come to mind

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While the subsequent iterations modified a fixed set of ‘flexible’ parameters, the fundamental mechanism of elastic supply tokens remains static. Debase is the first elastic supply token to introduce completely dynamic parameters (16+).

2020 marks the start of the quantum dot revolution.

Completely ignoring the fact that "photocatalytic generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) from quantum dots (QDs) has been widely reported."

Results: It was found that whereas singlet oxygen (1O2) was not produced by photoexcited QDs, superoxide anion(O2− )and hydroxyl radicals(OH) were generated by QDs, especially in the presence of a physiological concentration of electron donating agent including NADH.

Using cell metabolic activity assays and various probes of ROS generation, the formation of ROS in cellular environments was demonstrated.

Conclusion: Illumination of QD-treated cells and bacteria with light did affect viability. The above results, together with those of assays in the presence of various scavengers of specific ROS, indicate that the formation of ROS by QDs mainly proceeded via electron transfer.

If you are in the top 10% of the income distribution,

and you are a Rightwing Free Market Libertarian

(you want *zero* government enforced wealth redistribution)

the probability you are motivated by real ideological conviction is low...

...the probability you are motivated by sheer self interest is high.

People are not trustworthy witnesses as to what their own motivations are.

If you ask a rich person who wants zero government enforced wealth redistribution (Socialism) why they want this, they are likely to give you Free Market Libertarian rhetoric about some 'Non-Agression Principle'.

The truth is much simpler; they care a lot more about their ability to NOT pay taxes, than they do about poor people's ability to access free stuff in the form of government services.

1/ Delighted to announce that 1INCH Token is LIVE! 🌟

Learn more about the governance/utility token and the token architecture:

https://t.co/6POyBLHmKO

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2/ 💡Introducing a new framework where 1INCH token holders and key stakeholders (LP’s) vote DIRECTLY on protocol parameters—

Introducing Instant Governance:

3/ 📅Over 4 months, 1inch validated its AMM thesis that delayed price updates ⬇️ arbitrageurs’ profits and ⬆️ liquidity providers’ profits.
Upgraded & rebranded the v1 AMM @mooniswap
Introducing — 1inch Liquidity Protocol

4/ Introducing the Aggregation Governance Module.

🙆‍♂️Where users can vote on Spread Surplus settings (positive slippages)

🙋‍♀️And reward to stakers with a Governance Reward
Read more:

5/ We’ve introduced a Liquidity Protocol Governance Module:

👏Pools can directly govern their own parameters:

1/ Here is my present to you this Christmas Eve, I will try and make sense what QAnon is anticipating in the next two weeks based on what adherents have been talking about in case you have from interaction with family members who have been Qpilled in the next days.

2/ Monday Dec 21 was the winter solstice & the Saturn/Jupiter conjunction. For a movement that is apparently grounded in facts they really lay some mystical importance to the natural alignment of planets. The importance is that Dec 21 shifted the world into (The Great Awakening)

1) Washington is staring at the potential of a government shutdown Monday night. This is grim. Congress has approved four temporary spending bills since the end of the government’s fiscal year in September to prevent a shutdown.

2) The most recent stopgap measure was a seven day plan this week. Mbrs knew that the COVID/coronavirus bill was so large, it would take several days to send to the White House. Yes, that bill funds the government until next fall. But it isn’t law until the President signs it.

3) So, the most recent Band-Aid measure was the equivalent of fiscal grout. The House will approve another emergency measure on Monday. But there's doubt the Senate will do anything before then. And, it’s unclear if President Trump would sign anything. That means a shutdown.

4) A shutdown is always dangerous. It could be more dangerous during a pandemic. And it’s unclear if a shutdown could have devastating impacts on distributing the vaccine.

5) It takes a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate to override a presidential veto. With 359 House yeas and 92 Senate yeas on the COVID/omnibus bill, both bodies have way more than a supermajority to override a presidential veto.

💥💥Patriots💥💥

Read this entire thread! Stay with me! You'll be glad you did.

Jenna Ellis Tweeted an Article that said, "read this"

It had a promising title of being a "Bombshell Legal Memo" that would give Trump Supporters hope for Christmas.

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structure of the college, subject to a maximum of Rs.1Lakh per year.

2) Students are eligible for
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Azhwars life
Azhwar were devotee of Vishnu who had fortune of having direct darshan of bhagwan Shri Vishnu.temples which they sung song is called Divya desams.they are 108.106 in Earth and 2 outside Earth.their dongs collectively called nalayira Divya prabhandam as it is 4000

Azhwar number and time period
They were 12 in number.only one female azhwar aandal.others are males.their time period ranges from late dwaparyug to Kaliyuga till 800ad.their works and life was retrieve by Shri nathamuni who had darshan of sri nammalvar.

First 3 azhwars
Poigai azhwar bootathazhwar and peyazhwar were first 3 azhwars. They are ayonijas ie they were not born in mothers Womb. All three were Yogis.they were born out of flowers.poigai born in thiruvekka kanchi. bootathazhwar in mahabalipuram peyyalvar in mylapore

All 3 azhwars were in late dwaparyug.poigai amsa of panchajanya bhootat azhwar gaumodaki gadha and peyyalvar was amsa of khadga.all 3 sang in andhadi style .sriman Narayana decided to meet all 3 devotees.once on a rainy day all came to tirukoilur temple near Kanchi during yatra

STARTED ARRIVING TO A SMALL SHED. WHEN THEY GOT IN TO THE SHED THERE WAS JUST ENOUGH SPACE FOR THE 3 OF THEM TO STAND. BEING COMPLETELY SITUATED IN BHAGAVATH BHAVAM, THEY STARTED INQUIRING ABOUT EACH OTHER AND FOUND OUT THE DETAILS ABOUT EACH OTHER.

Thread – A Very Strange Christmas Indeed!

1. Went to a Missouri Synod Lutheran Christmas Eve service tonight, as we visited our daughter in Billings. The sermon was great; I will attempt to give the message justice.

2. This has been a strange Christmas for many people, if not most or all. No advent services, no Christmas parades, no office parties, no jumping from party to party on Christmas Eve. Fearmongering by the Democrat-media complex that minimizes attendance.

3. Social distancing and the wearing of masks in church. Human to human contact minimized. And so forth and so on. It just doesn’t feel like Christmas this year.

4. Yes, this Christmas has been strange. But then think about how strange the very first Christmas was. Here is the Christmas story from the Bible (Luke and Isaiah):

5. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Remembering those we lost in 2020

Soumitra Chatterjee (Nov 15)
SP Balasubrahmanyam (Sep 25)
Bhanu Athaiya (Oct 15)
Irrfan Khan (Apr 29)

#Thread

Rishi Kapoor (Apr 30)
Basu Chatterjee (Jun 4)
Jagdeep (Mar 29)
Saroj Khan (Jul 3)

B Kannan - Cinematographer, Tamil, Malayalam (Jun 13)

Budal Krishnamoorthy - Actor, Filmmaker, Kannada (Dec 19)

P Krishnamoorthy - Art Director, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada (13 Dec)

Zero Babu - Singer, Malayalam (Oct 21)

Theatre

Usha Ganguly (Apr 23)
Ratnakar Matkari (May 5)
Ebrahim Alkazi (Aug 11)
HG Somashekhar Rao (Nov 3)

Kishori Ballal (Feb 18)
Ranjit Chowdhury (Apr 4)
Nishikant Kamat (Aug 8)
Yogesh Gaur (May 29)

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the tweets
Not a user was stirring, not even in fleets
The drafts were all scheduled for the a.m. with care
In hopes that virality soon would be there

The children were all nestled all snug in their snaps
Their instas, their twitches, their lit tiktok apps;
And mamma in her Pinterest, and I in my LinkedIn,
Had just settled down (the edible had kicked in)

When out on the lawn there arose such a ruckus!
I cursed the doorbell stream app I'd deleted for 'Among Us'
Plus the wi-fi was down, so I leapt from my bed
Flung open the window and lifted it over my head.

I could see nothing, I was in no mood for jokes
Snowblinded by moonlight, climate change is no hoax
When what to my furious eyes did appear?
The outline of a sleigh, and eight tiny... I wanna say, deer?

With a round little driver, he was no kind of runt
It was either St. Nick or a damn YouTube stunt.
More rapid than retweets, they came on like vandals
And he whistled and shouted and called out their handles

Alright, it's time for my @threadapalooza - 100 tweets (if I can limit myself) on:

Judaism Is Not Christianity

2. When I was in Yeshiva, a certain Rabbi once explained the process of studying Chassidus as follows:

"The beginner thinks everything is different. Then he learns more, and thinks everything is the same. Then, he learns more, and finally realizes everything is different."

3. In my opinion, this process is broadly applicable. When we first enter any field, because we understand nothing, there seems to be an infinite variety of ideas. Then we learn, and each level of understanding reduces things to fewer and fewer central principles.

4. The Sophomoric student thinks not that everything is different, but that everything is the same. Only when we move on to actual understanding do we realize there is infinite or near-infinite variety and differences are real, despite or because of shared underlying principle.

The same is true when you learn about Judaism and Christianity. Judaism is not Christianity, and all semblances of similarity are mere semblances.

In fact, the illusion cannot hold under any close scrutiny at all. What follows is intended merely as close scrutiny. /5

@LambeJerry Question for you: On Monday, Congress announces it's going to vote to impeach a federal judge on Wednesday. The president of the United States decides to issue a preemptive pardon of the judge on Tuesday. According to you, there's no problem, right, as there was no impeachment?

My thinking on this is identical to that of a law professor at Northwestern University who published his opinion in the NYT. But that wasn't mentioned in your piece. It's also odd that you believe the impeachment exception has nothing *really* to do with separation of powers.

You couldn't possibly think the impeachment exception has anything to do with separation of powers, as according to you and the small number of attorneys you cited, the impeachment exception isn't *actually* about keeping the president from interfering in the impeachment process.

Per you, the impeachment exception to the Pardon Clause of the United States Constitution is just a *narrow administrative cutout* to make sure that a President doesn't cause the Congress to have...what, have wasted their time? I'd love to see an argument for that interpretation.

I've read the documents surrounding the creation of both the Pardon Clause and the impeachment exception. The framers were explicitly concerned about the sort of situation we have encountered now—which is entirely unlike the situation in Garland. Your legal analysis is facile.