#but usually they make them so engaging to make up for the sponsored aspect

[pseudophan]

I just got home and saw they posted and went oh my god did they have to do this the ONE DAY I actually went out??? And then I was like. Oh this is Nora behavior i finally get it

welcome to being abnormal about youtube videos isn't it great? if it helps you really didn't miss anything. the real highlight of the day were the set reveal photos, the video was more filler

[inchidentally]

I am so glad you always give a breakdown bc my dumbass brain needs it and I want to give my takeaways to honor this exquisite work:

the higher than average number of landoscar fic being public - to me at least - has a LOT to do with landoscar fandom getting ahead of rpf truthing and being supportive of Lily for as long as the landoscar ship has been popular. which is esp interesting bc her accs have been private for a long time and Oscar didn't start consistently posting her on his own until after the first break of the season I think? their holiday in the Algarve(?) was the first time a lot of ppl will have even known he had a gf. so not only has fandom never created an agenda to ever try and 'remove' Lily at any point, her presence has never dampened landoscar's rise in popularity even among new F1blr fans.

there's also almost always an existing friendship or a foundation of friendship to landoscar fic and not very much of the usual rinse-repeat insert-names-here type of fic for other ships. it's often extremely specific to the Lando and Oscar's personalities and foundation of getting to know each other. as in, when no one is trying to tie themselves in knots to make an rpf ship "real" it leaves them more open to actually focusing on the real people behind the ship. all of the most intense rpf truther ships end up being pretty similar bc the mental gymnastics and suspension of disbelief needed to erase existing real life partners and viewing jokey gay bromance behavior as legitimately queer is the exact same process every time.

so landoscar fic authors always approach writing Lando and Oscar from a "what if?" perspective rather than a fandom agenda has felt so much more compelling to me as a reader bc the authors don't need to abandon Lando and Oscar's real personalities to write them in different narratives.

I’m extremely intrigued by that 'generational' aspect of ships, esp ones where the teammate partnerships began when DTS started - vs landoscar having arisen and grown totally outside of DTS influence (and not even seen as worthy of a rivalry storyline). to me that's also significant when you consider that McLaren’s social media and PR dropped off sharply right after Singapore and before the double podiums and never rly picking back up to this day. the focus has been on Lando and Oscar individually but rarely together since late summer 2023. super interesting since Lando and Oscar's relationship has only grown warmer and more relaxed from then until now.

all meaning that as landoscar was growing in popularity, tptb had mostly stopped pushing it compared to other teams who’s drivers are considered at all compatible and fan friendly. both carlando and dando grew in tandem with direct pushes from official McLaren, F1, broadcasting networks and sponsors' social media as well as a concerted effort at cultivating a bromance from Lando/Carlos and Lando/Daniel themselves.

which is why the fact that landoscar has given a 5+ year ship like carlando a run for its money in under a year is wild when you remember that the PR machine for carlando has always been a work horse/cash cow and their ship name is literally corporate engagement currency. the latest F1TV challenge and cross-promotion with Lando's .mov account and his dad's scooter company proved the power of engagement it still has despite an almost total lack of interaction between Singapore '23 and Aus '24.

the fact that Lando and Oscar do absolutely zero fake gay (and barely physically touch) and have not pushed a conscious bromance at all - and that they are both openly competitive with each other without being falsely apologetic or toxic - is what makes the steep rise in ao3 content the most staggering to me tbh ?? Oscar in particular has shown no interest in forcing an inauthentic image of himself on the public and Lando has actually followed suit with a change in approach to his own social media and engagement (less clowning around and hyperactivity, more focused and creative).

they've had the least marketing investment made of any of Lando's teammates and have had a non-stop contingent who are willing them to hate each other. so all that landoscar authors and readers have had to go on is the very unedited and un-camera ready way that Lando and Oscar interact.

like, it's genuinely fascinating bc I'm someone who has always gotten into fandoms via the most popular bromance/rpf ship and I'm 100% gullible for content even when I know it's being spoon fed to me. so I'm absolutely one of the ideal test subjects for the trends in this data !! bc not only has landoscar ended up outstripping all my other F1 ships by many miles, I've actually ventured into writing for them myself despite feeling huge anxiety over trying to write fic.

and yet somehow landoscar is also the least pandered to I've ever been with rpf.

also stupid side note re the rankings of additional tags gives me a lot of validation for my terrible and cobbled together astrology post for landoscar I made last year that in cases where Lando and Oscar accept/admit attraction to each other they fuck immediately and fuck furiously. apparently we all know it's written in the stars for them.

landoscar ao3 stats — 2023 overview

notes

retrieved ~sometime in march 2024

methodology: scraped metadata for every fic in the landoscar tag and...... that's it. however one important constraint is that all temporal data is date updated (not posted), so the above timeline isn't exactly a true representation of fic growth but rather how many fics were last-updated at that time. of course this is still its own reflection of fandom health in a way since dead fandoms don't update old fic but well... it's just not quite the same!

this is just info about general trends, fic content, tags etc... so nothing about kudos/comments or any authors specifically

i decided to focus solely on fics last-updated in 2023 (unless otherwise mentioned) because i wanted a tidy set that i can maybe compare & contrast in a year's time, because i expect a lot of details to look different then (tho as stated above this set isn't exactly static... 🤷‍♀️)

ngl i had to re-scrape a bunch of times because i forgot about it for like 3 weeks and then there were 100 new fics 😭 so if there are some minor discrepancies across the post it's because of that halfskh.

also i wanted to include more global comparisons (aka how 814 stack up against the f1 rpf tag in general), but this is also considerably difficult in some contexts since i can't exactly scrape 31,000+ fics can i... or i didn't even want to entertain the thought of trying to do so!!!

why did i do this? who knows.

anyway here's some viz T__T

ship growth

as evidenced in the opening graph, landoscar have been a very fast-growing ship over the past year — although interestingly enough they didn't really start growing substantially until july / the ~better half~ of the 2023 season. here are two views showing their "growth" (by date updated) alongside two other ships on the fringes of the f1 rpf top 10 (sebchal & galex):

landoscar are very much on-track to surpass them and officially enter the top 10 soon, likely before mid-april ❗️ :o

ship characteristics

onto the ship content — another thing i was mildly curious about was how landoscar differs in certain areas from other f1 ships, or the f1 rpf "global" average you could say. for example, here's a breakdown of rating popularity in their ao3 tag:

seeing as explicit is their most common rating, and that i don't necessarily expect this to be true for all ships/fandoms, i compared these percentages with the general f1 rpf tag to see whether some ratings are more commonly represented in 814 fic than average, which produced interesting results:

do lando ships simply skew more HornyTM in general? is it oscar? a secret third thing??? who knows... actually i think it would be fun to do more analysis in this direction but that can wait for another time!!!

similarly i also wanted to see which ships are the most "public" on ao3, as in have the highest share of fic that isn't user-locked... i will refrain from peppering in my feelings about the 4th wall too heavy-handedly but i was curious to see whether some sort of perhaps... er, generational gap (?) of sorts between ships that are more public vs. not could be identified. however i don't pretend to have any takeaways from this LOL i conclude absolutely nothing. (for ref landoscar is currently 72% public, vs. a global avg of 63%)

note that this graph is current stats, not filtered for 2023

looking at relationship tags, i also wanted to know whether landoscar suffer noticeably from Second-Ship Syndrome, so i tallied the first-tagged ship of every fic to find out. i know this doesn't necessarily mean that it's always the "main" ship but it's a good enough approximation. the results were quite positive!

filtered to top ships with count of >1 only

i then also calculated the number of ships tagged for each fic to discern the profile of multi-shipping in 814 ficdom; i did have to do a little bit of string standardization (all instances of implied / background / hinted collapsed to hinted for simplicity's sake + removal of other redundancies), but otherwise i left everything mostly untouched.

as you can see, landoscar also have a fairly promising amount of OTP: TRUE fic:

by the time you get to the fics with 10+ ships tagged, landoscar are less likely to be the primary ship, which makes sense just on a basic statistical level... this is also a very small sample size though

i also lazily tallied the 10 most common ships that weren't NOR/PIA or NOR & PIA to diff their shares of the 814 tag vs. of the general f1 rpf tag, to see which other pairings are more represented in the 814 tag than on average (because lestappen are the most popular by pure count but this is also true of fandom in general, so it would be a misrepresentation to say that their popularity is out of the ordinary):

maxiel's gap isn't really that surprising since i think that, generationally, in terms of when both pairings were teammates there is quite a gap; with carlando—actually let me tally this again but including all instances of "implied" and "past" as being part of the same ship, since that's how ao3 tag-wrangles as well:

Aha ! obviously as a direct ship there is competition between 814 and other lando or oscar ships, but this difference is somewhat less pronounced once we include all formats. tbh none of this really means anything but i thought i'd add it anyway... (it's also very possible that there are several errors in this, in which case my b 😔)

before we move on to additional tags, there are a few more basic characteristics of 814 fic we can calculate. i realize i never offered an overview of Super Basic Stats, so here are a few:

plus, looking at word counts, here is a distribution of those in 2023-updated fic, which shows that a majority of 814 fics were under the 5k mark:

85% of landoscar fics were under 10k & nearly 97% under 25k

i don't really have any reason to believe that landoscar's wc stats differ significantly from average ? so this is kind of just Data To Have Data, and it most likely reflects normal ao3 trends in general... but i thought i'd include it anyway because i already made it lol. similarly, here are word count distributions but stratified by rating:

& same info but heat map view:

i feel like this is also probably something you'd find across fandom in general — that gen fic is likely to have a higher share of under 1k works, since Building Up to sexual content often takes... Literal & Metaphorical Foreplay ! and the longer a fic is the more opportunities an author has to include a sex scene or other explicit content (ofc, not necessarily just porn but also graphic violence & so on). but i thought this was fun to visualize haha

additional tags & aus?

back in my old f1 rpf stats post, i made a table comparing fluff/angst "ratios" (not exactly a direct ratio because of how tag wrangling works, but an approximation) of the most popular f1 ships, and now that landoscar are somewhat popular i thought i'd first do an update:

also current data, not 2023 to make things easier

just like before, simi are one of the most fluffy ships and brocedes are by far the most angsty, but it's interesting to see 814 also extremely high up on the charts, with far and away the lowest % of angst. will be exciting 2 see how that holds or changes as the seasons progress !

finally, i also wanted to do a bit of au/additional tag analysis because you can kind of see this when you use additional filters on ao3 but the previews are limited and get bogged down by the prevalence of *checks notes* Fluff, Angst, PWP, Anal Sex and what have you. which are nice stats to have and all but what of the rest !

disclaimer that the set for these tables is a biiiit outdated because by the time i'd wrangled everything i was like I Am Not Changing It Again. unfortunately i clean my data with shoddy queries and regex functions in googsheetz...

there were 48 tags with at least 10 instances from 2023 fics, shown below, with ones that are (some ~vaguely) nsfw in red just to kind of get a rough sense of which tags get commonly used in M/E fic:

getting a bit too much into small sample size / specific fic territory so if you're an author i sincerely apologize for that... do not mean 2 put u on blast... TT__TT but i also tried to tally the most popular aus people write for 814, which is a bit dubious because people tag in really different ways and i had to accommodate for a lot of string formats but ... it's close enough ! (?)

i feel like this is very little interesting info but idk what else to add so i will stop here for now... well!!! if you made it to the end i hope u learned something or even vaguely enjoyed reading T__T and most of all thank you :')

[marketme2012]

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[tkjiangonline]

5 Reasons to Consider Hiring a Live Band for Your Corporate Event

Business is not just limited to staying inside the office and going all your way to close sales and meet clients. A considerable aspect of running a company is celebrating the efforts of your company by hosting corporate events strategically. 

Generally, corporate events are excellent occasions to boost the morale of your employees and get in touch with your clients, investors, and prospective sponsors. In short and simple words, they offer the perfect opportunities to bring people together to strengthen and expand your business networks. That’s why it is significant to organise a successful corporate event from planning to execution. 

When hosting a corporate event in Singapore, you must be worried about booking the venue, catering, and finalizing the guest list. There are certain things that you must prioritise to make sure that your event is flowing smoothly. However, you should be considerate of the mood and tone of the event. 

Hence, hiring a professional live band in Singapore comes in handy for ensuring a successful event. Take a look at the post and know the reasons why hosting a live band at your corporate event in Singapore makes really sense. 

Complement any event theme, 

A theme of an event is not just limited to visual aesthetics like interior décor and dress code. It is about setting the mood through amazing music and a beautiful ambiance. A live band makes a perfect element to resonate with the overall vibe of your corporate event, no matter whether you are gearing up for a formal black tie or a casual jazz night. 

Add grandeur to your event. 

 The presence of musical instruments can make your event more legitimate and office. That’s why a live band is preferred for both formal and grand occasions. 

Include uniqueness in your event theme. 

More often people use DJs at events to entertain their guests. When you choose a live band to entertain your guests, you will bring uniqueness to the event. A band will be something out of the box as most events don’t have included the use of live bands in events. 

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If you want your corporate event to be lively and keep your guests in good mood, then your event must involve interaction among attendees. It will make sure that your guests don’t feel left out throughout the event. A live band will leave your guests fully entertained. The band members will involve the guests in their performance which will give a feeling of belonging to your clients so that they will be able to enjoy every aspect of the event. 

Give a memorable presentation. 

A live band will help you be noticed. The experience of guests seeing a live band will be simply remarkable as compared to the recorded music scene. Your attendees are going to remember your event as the live band will leave a lasting impression on them. 

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So, you should look for companies providing live bands in Singapore especially if you want to entertain your attendees. Find the right live band and host a highly interactive and engaging corporate event in Singapore.

[truthdogg]

Mainstream US media rarely reports on the substance of legislation or the background of political issues. Here’s what that’s doing to us.

Our mainstream media is clearly incapable of writing a news story about a bill’s positive or negative aspects while also noting who supports it. Meanwhile, they refuse to report on its supporters or opponents except when framed as a sporting match. As a result, many Americans who want to be informed turn to propaganda to make sense of what they’re hearing.

Some bills are objectively bad, and some activities are objectively corrupt. Mainstream reporting stating that fact is simply not allowed. Some bills will have a positive impact overall while some will be destructive to specific groups. That’s reported only when the issue of who supports or opposes those bills is left out of the story. Even then it’s treated as opinion, often even when the bill’s sponsors have consistently targeted those same groups. It seems our media’s position is that giving us less than half a story makes them unbiased.

This is why we rarely see mainstream reporting on the real substance of any bills. It’s simply too hard to thread that needle. If they report the real impact legislation will have on people’s lives, then they’ll be accused (almost always by the right) of taking sides. What they don’t seem to understand is that they’ll be accused of that anyway.

To navigate US news, serious consumers have to read multiple stories from multiple sources, and try to come up with a conclusion on their own about legislation’s merits or an issue’s importance, whether their representatives are on the right side of it or not, and then further research before sharing their opinion to those reps. All the while, they have to have a basic knowledge of the ideological bent of each of those sources (both outlet & writer), as well as the history of the issue, and consider that while processing the information. It’s a time-consuming job, and very few people have the hours or the interest to stick with it long enough to get to a solid conclusion. Those who do it usually do so because they enjoy it, but they’re rare.

Of course Fox, Newsmax, & OAN are not mainstream media, and they clearly don’t have this problem. They have an entirely different business model, based on the understanding that people will pay to hear propaganda. The bias itself is the appeal, and it’s why they call themselves entertainment companies and not news. But they, too, only cover half or less of an issue in order to keep spinning to the right.

As a Fox viewer, it’s much, much simpler to have the basic issues completely covered in one story, even if the story is false, complete with who to be mad at, some arguments for why, and reinforcement of that summary with every subsequent story. It’s a one-stop-shop.

The Fox viewer can even have discussion & debate on these issues with their fellow Fox viewers (usually most people, depending on where you live), which reinforces their beliefs further. People who follow other news sources have little idea what they’re talking about, only that it seems to make no sense. When outsiders try to join the discussion, they soon realize that there isn’t even a shared set of facts to base a conversation on. Only the rare dedicated news consumer can figure out where the Fox viewers’ positions or quotes come from, and even then it’s usually not worth engaging.

If any American wants to actually understand a news story on the level that a Fox viewer thinks he does, with its real history, impact, supporters & detractors, and important details, they’ll have to spend hours of time looking through article after article in source after source. In the US news ecosystem, that’s rarely ever possible for most people.

That’s the appeal of American propaganda. It is the only place where someone marginally interested in the news can tune in with minimal effort and come away feeling like an expert. They’ve been told what to think, why to think it, who the villains are, and what to do about it. On the rare occasion that the dedicated Fox viewer watches another broadcast (or God forbid, reads an article), the partial summary will either reinforce their opinion, read as irrelevant, or convince them that they’re being lied to. After all, they already have the full house constructed in their minds—a piece that doesn’t belong can only be rejected. They never see the full & entire actual house that exists in reality.

The solution to this is not to build a left wing propaganda network. That might actually help a little, short-term, by giving people an alternative fully-formed belief system to parrot, but not widely and not for long. The solution is to expand real news stories to give everyone the full picture.

The information is there, but the dots aren’t connecting for everyone. Their have been some halfhearted attempts at this with the “related stories” section in most outlets, but those stories are usually out of date and don’t fill in the blanks that news consumers need. What we need instead are stories that provide full information, built upon over time. One place with links and references designed to help people understand, not just to keep up with latest throwaway comments. Old stories need dates on them, and they need to link to newer reports with better information.

There are a few examples of this being done; a recent notable effort was undertaken by a WaPo cartoonist who summarized they key players of Jan. 6. It wasn’t enough, of course, because the reporting structure of the paper wasn’t organized around it. but it was a good effort. We should be able to visit that page and see it updated with the latest court cases and statements, all in one place, understanding the issues without needing to have a months-long immersion in the topic.

Most US mainstream media is still following an 18th-century model for delivering news. Its inability to move beyond that, especially in the face of an onslaught of consistent and effective right-wing propaganda, may just cost us our democracy.

[gracehcreates-bct]

W8 Studio - Project into the public

X-Challenge

I entered my team into X-Challenge, but unfortunately our group was too big to do the whole project so we split ourselves into two and did the app and boot cleaner as seperate ideas.

Boot Cleaner Prototype

Kent made a boot cleaner prototype over the weekend, using cardboard and pvc pipes. Not included is the spray, which would be situated underneath the boot.

Survey Results

I sent out the survey on facebook, first to the Creative Technologies Year 3 page and then my neighbourhood community’s page. So far there are 62 responses.

1. How often do you go on walking trails?

Once a week - 11 people Once fortnightly - 7 people Once a month - 23 people Once a year - 18 people Never - 3 people

2. Who would you usually take with you? (pick between 1 - 2)

Family - 46 people Friends - 19 people Dogs - 12 people No-one - 11 people

3. Have you heard of the Kauri Dieback Disease?

61/62 people have heard of Kauri Dieback.

4. If yes, how do you think preventing it is to New Zealand’s forests in the future? (on a scale of 1 - 10)

Average is 9.1, with 6 out of 60 people who answered this question ranking it below 8.

5. What would make the boot cleaner more convienent?

About 17 out of 62 thought that the boot cleaner was fine as it is. Two people answered there should be more of them.

Answers about the station itself: - Maybe if it was longer so you can keep moving as you clean. So others don’t get held up behind you. - If more people could use it at the same time. - Maybe a larger, flatter station - Proper set up like your picture - as some are only a mat and can easily be avoided - A seat to sit on when spraying shoes with the stuff. Very hard to work hose on one foot with a pack on - Regular servicing - I guess it's a bit of a bottle neck, depending on the popularity of the trial maybe it holds people up? - Have more of an obstacle that makes it so you get in slower. Therefore, making you clean your shoes more thoroughly? :D - Better maintenance sometimes they are worn out - Clearer instructions Easier to use Maybe a video

Answers about boot cleaner: - I guess if it rotated it might get more sit out from the grooves? Also, with covid I try to avoid touching anything and this this old style and the spray gun you have to touch - Have a cleaner for jandals. This one doesn’t work so well - Foot activated sprays. Physical barriers that force people to activate the spray to get thru the barrier. - Weight based means children and lighter people don't activate it so perhaps something that doesn't get activated by weight that you walk through. Shallow enough to just cover sole of shes/boots - Maybe some foot level spray system. Sometimes balancing on one foot to spray is tricky - the spray trigger should have a novel so that it covers each shoe in one spray - Fixed brushes as shown here. The hand squirter and hand brush combination is too difficult to manage. Lose balance and give up - A hand held brush to scrub the side of shoes. - No spray, just scrub and step - A device to clamp around shoes and spray all around - Rotating brushes - Making the brushes not worn down. Last bush walk I went on the brushes for your feet were too worn down and didn’t work very well - Bending down is tricky so a system that doesn’t make you bend over is good - If it always had disinfectant in it. - It having the spray stuff in it and not be empty - Not have to use the hand spray bottle that is found on some stations. - Find it ok as it is, but prefer the one that sprays your shoes when you stand on it to the hand held one - Automatic - probably some type of automated boot cleaner - I am liking the new "hop on to spray" pads

Other: - It’s fine but something to keep the spray from coming up and wetting your shoes and ankles would be good-keep it to the soles - designing something the birds might use, as it's far more likely to be transmitted by them. - An agent that actually is proven as working on phytophthora - I think the boots cleaners are possibly okay, it's the dogs i always think , might be more carriers especially as often off lead when they shouldn't be. - Nothing. I think it’s clearly marked with instructions and you can’t miss them at the beginning and end of tracks. One time there was a DOC guy there educating people how to clean boots properly which was helpful cos I had actually been doing the process the wrong way around prior to that! - RGB LEDs, to attract the kids - maybe having someone employed by like doc or something to make sure there are ppl washing their shoee

6. How effective do you think the covid tracer app was in preventing the spread of covid-19? (on a scale of 1 - 10)

Average is 7.3, with only 5 people out of 62 ranking it below a 5.

7.  We are designing an app and deciding on the content, what is most appealing to you?

Treasure Hunt - #1.82 average Augmented Reality boot cleaner - #2.06 average Running statistics tracker - #2.11 average

8.  Why did you choose the previous answer? Otherwise, give us an example of something you’d like to see on it.

About 5/46 people answered that they couldn’t see the image I had used, which is my own fault but the survey website is difficult to understand. 4/46 directly said “Treasure Hunts are fun”. Two people said it didn’t matter as long as it was simple to use.

- Statistics can drive behaviour - Treasure hunt appeals to families using tracks - There is a general lack of information about Kauri Dieback at the boot cleaning stations especially Tane Mahuta - information would result in adherence - The question wasn’t clear to me so I chose the fun option. No idea what AR boot cleaner is - maybe I didn’t click on something? - Seemed the most applicable (Augmented Reality) - Didn’t really have a view. Not sure what the point of the treasure hunt and A4 - I just think the treasure hunt idea has more appeal. Not clear how it works - A map of dieback - Information on Kauri on the area you are about to walk in, how many, if have any signs of disease - Definitely make it fun to use, stats make it interesting - learn with play: Tree/ nature trivia, e.g. like: what tree is this? (photo) - Sounds more fun (Treasure Hunt) - Fun makes things engaging. Also, running is boring. - Treasure hunt might make it more interesting for the grandchildren I take hiking. I know what AR is but I cannot imaging it being useful for book cleaning. - Links with GPS - Easy to find information for the novice /infrequent tramper - I didn't see how the answers linked to the app. What's the purpose of the app? If it's just to track like the covid app it doesn't need anything else on it. Most people who run in the bush would use another app already. - if i got it my main , objective would be to help with Die-back .Stats would be interesting so No.2,Treasure hunt No.3 , as kids grown up , but even if younger i might have put 3 , but would be good for younsters - I may take my child if there is a treasure hunt as part of the app/walk - The AR boot cleaner would encourage people to clean their shoes properly because it would make cleaning more fun and accurate. - I like stats - and I like the new aspect of the covid app where you get a little sticker icon when you get 14 days diary entry. - Got to be something interesting and fun. Maybe as an incentive add in spot prizes provided by possible sponsors.. - NZ health statistics - Interactive is fun and makes you feel involved - More visually appealing (Treasure Hunt) - More fun makes people more likely to use. - Don't understand what the boot one is - Routes recommendation, especially secret/not popular spots. Treasure hunting is a bit like that - Treasure hunt seems rewarding. AR seems interactive. Statistics sound boring - I think that if you make it a sort of game it will encourage people to get into the nitty gritty parts of shoe! - Not sure why I'd want a virtual boot cleaner tbh. Other content could be birds to look out for.. bit of history, exercise tips - Helps me know which parts of my boots are clean :)

9.  Thank you for taking the time to do this. Any other ideas/feedback for us?

- Anything to help contain the spread and educate people is good-Tane Mahuta was our first experience and there was no information and no reception to be able to Google it. - Would love people to be encouraged to use the boot wash more. - Good idea to encourage behaviours that will stop the spread. Well done - no, its communist propaganda - I develop apps myself, but I am doubtful about their applicability to Kauri Dieback reduction - An alarm when boots are not cleaned properly. - Still not sure what your app will do. - Good luck , please put a reminder if possible the importance of dogs on leads in areas where needed.PS We do own a dog! - Thank you for your work - I put 10 as meaning it is very important. You don’t say how the scale works though - Kauri Dieback poses a serious issue and I'm glad theres a project looking at this!! 🙌 - I would just try to be really focused on the problem you want to solve. Is it boot cleaning, is it awareness, is it history, is it fitness

Additionally Miles emailed Dr Gerth, so we have an interview with her on May 27th.

[mycove01]

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Grade.us gets some good press, which shouldn’t be surprising, given that they’re in the business of review management. That proves they can be effective, but it can also make it difficult for consumers to make an educated decision. This guide will cover the benefits and drawbacks of Grade.us, and introduce you to an alternative service so that you can make the most informed decision possible.

What is Grade.us?

Grade.us markets itself as “everything you need to generate, monitor, and market your customer reviews.” Regardless of whether it’s “everything you need,” it is a tool that can help business owners foster positive reviews and help them try to remove or prevent negative reviews from cropping up. That’s the aspect of Grade.us that we’ll be focusing on here.

Grade.us uses a pretty simple strategy. It gives clients a set of tools to reach out to reach out directly to their customers without much hassle, and helps to target certain kinds of customers. Clients can send emails to prompt customers to leave good reviews for their services, and they can get in contact with customers who have left negative reviews in order to try and make peace with them to mitigate the fallout.

Grade.us’ strategy isn’t flawless, though, especially in the way that it addresses negative reviews. Any small business owner will know that a dissatisfied customer can be a powerful force, and not all of them be calmed by an apologetic email, especially if that process is obviously automated. Because angry customers are much more motivated to leave a review than happy ones, businesses trying to improve their review scores are fighting an uphill battle.

Grade.us Pros and Cons

Pros

It does what it says on the tin. They provide the service they say they do, and it can be effective.

Grade.us offers a free trial.

It has multiple plans so you’re not stuck paying more than you need.

Cons

It focuses on addressing and preventing negative reviews, which isn’t effective against savvy reviewers.

The price of Grade.us has seen sudden increases in the past, with only one month’s notice beforehand, and they don’t offer refunds. There’s no guarantee it will happen again, but it’s a risk.

Since the price increase, prices have been fairly high, with their flagship package costing $400 per month, and the most expensive option costing $2500.

Why Choose a Grade.us Alternative?

Grade.us offers a way to address bad reviews, but even if it were 100% effective, that strategy would be best suited for businesses that receive a large volume of negative reviews. Grade.us could be characterized as a review vetting tool, designed to prevent negative reviews from reaching the public, or staying there for very long.

If your business does good work and mostly receives positive reviews, then by having more reviews as opposed to fewer, potential customers will be able to see natural positive trends emerging in the data. Grade.us has a complicated process, even for leaving positive reviews, which can reduce the number of total reviews that your business gets. For an honest business, more reviews are always better.

Grade.us, along with much of its competition, charges a high price for its software and services. Birdeye won’t even allow potential users to browse its pricing option until they’ve provided their phone number and email. (Its lowest priced plan is $3000 per year.) Given the services that these companies have on offer, they could probably stay afloat charging much, much less. For larger businesses and resellers, the cost might be manageable, but new startups and small businesses usually don’t have that kind of capital rattling around from the jump.

Finally, the review management business tends to have bad optics for customers. It’s not always easy for a customer or client to distinguish between black hat reputation management techniques like fake reviews or deletion of reviews and ethical methods like requesting reviews from satisfied customers.

If a business’ customers discover that it’s making use of a reputation management software, or outsourcing review management to professionals, and their methods look even a little bit shady, it could seriously hurt the same reputation that business is trying to protect. Pair that with the high price of Grade.us and the likelihood that it won’t be able to effectively prevent bad reviews, and it might be tempting to avoid review management entirely.

All the same, reputation management is a must-have for any business, especially small businesses where a single review can cause a lot of trouble. This makes it incredibly important that the methods used are transparent, and that the marketing rhetoric surrounding them doesn’t send up any red flags. Grade.us is a mixed bag in that regard. In the words of their founder emeritus, they provide “the best review management software on the planet.” He immediately follows that they’re “free of the bloat and hubris of other reputation management solutions…” The irony there would be hard not to notice.

What is the Best Grade.us Alternative?

There’s a lot of demand for review management software and services, and a lot of companies have formed to fill that void. Many of the most popular services offer solutions for very specific circumstances, from preventing bots from writing fake reviews of your business, to specializing in reputation management for healthcare services. A simple Google search for reputation management services will give you pages and pages of results to sort through, and at the time of writing, nearly all of the first page is occupied by sponsored listings.

Taking into account pricing, simplicity, ease of use, and effectiveness, we think that one of the best options for review management is SmartEngage’s Smart Review Autopilot. It’s something of a hidden gem, and it can be hard to find with a simple search, but it has a few advantages over Grade.us and its other competition. Here’s how it does things differently.

Instead of trying to control how customers review a business, Smart Review Autopilot works to get the maximum of genuine positive reviews quickly. It taps into small business owners’ own expertise and knowledge of their community customer base to figure out which customers have been most satisfied with their experience, then creates an automated pipeline that guides those customers into posting a positive review.

Smart Review Autopilot doesn’t use any strategies that could be considered immoral or dishonest, and by accessing pre-existing goodwill in customers, it can help to create positive reviews that are unique, honest, and convincing. It’s easy to assume that people reading reviews online will trust them blindly, but most folks have a sense of whether a review was written in good faith, so honesty is always the best policy.

One of Smart Review Autopilot’s biggest advantages over the competition is its ease of use. All you need to get started with it is a customer list, and with a minimal amount of setup, that list can be fed into a completely automated process which will contact customers and help them make high quality reviews. If you’re too busy to micromanage reviews, then Smart Review Autopilot can do it for you.

The SmartEngage platform markets itself as “the world’s smartest autoresponder,” and offers a slew of tools to streamline customer engagement without direct input from business owners or employees. It specializes in automation, and allows its users to build pathways for customers to follow, helping them post reviews, sign up for subscriptions, and otherwise engage positively with a website. Smart Review Autopilot is part of SmartEngage, but not the only part, and access to the whole package can help with more than just reputation management.

Finally, the pricing. It’s completely free to start with SmartEngage. The free plan has most of the same features as the higher tiers, but it will display SmartEngage branding. The basic tier costs $47 per month, which is significantly less than most of the other options, and within the realm of possibility for a small business or a startup.

Making the Switch to SmartEngage’s Smart Review Autopilot

If you’re already using Grade.us, now is the time to cancel your subscription. (You could wait until just before the next monthly payment if you wanted to get the most out of it, but you should account for the time it will take to switch.)

The first step is to cancel your Grade.us subscription. Then, all you need to do is sign up for SmartEngage and start automating customer engagement. Their website has a video that runs through the setup process for the Smart Review Autopilot from beginning to end, and you can contact their customer service if you have any trouble getting set up. After that, the only thing to do is watch positive reviews roll in.

SmartEngage Pros and Cons

Pros

Completely automated. It can work while you’re asleep.

Comes with additional SmartEngage customer experience services.

Provides ethical reputation management.

It’s a good option for small businesses.

Offers low prices, and a free option.

Cons

Can be hard to find via search, depending on the terms used.

Doesn’t directly address negative reviews.

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On the internet Gambling

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World-wide-web Casinos Inc. (ICI), the world's to start with on the web on line casino, begun running from August eighteen, 1995, with 18 different video games. Due to the fact then much more than one,four hundred web-sites, primarily domiciled in small Caribbean islands, have given rise to an business that grosses more than $3 billion a yr. Actually no business enterprise within the Net earns far more earnings than on the internet gambling. Out of the approximated 14.five million on the internet gamblers, just about 30 per cent are from Asia.

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A bet can be positioned in minutes. Anybody which has a credit card can setup an offshore forex account which has a gambling web page, leaving them no cost to place bets on sporting activities like Wimbledon, cricket, horse racing and System A single, or sign up for a virtual casino to engage in slot devices, roulette, blackjack, poker and many others. Organizations like Flutter and Betmart take bets on just about anything from that's gonna gain the Nobel Prize as to if Madonna is receiving a divorce or not. Bets can vary from a nickel to countless numbers of dollars and in line with regardless of whether you gain or reduce the quantity is quickly adjusted to your account. The final equilibrium can then both be mailed for you or remaining for long run bets.

The law referring to on-line gambling in India has to be comprehended inside the country's socio-cultural context. At the outset, gambling, while not definitely prohibited in India, would not acquire specific encouragement by coverage makers. The Indian organized gambling business is approximated for being value close to US$8 billion. When stringent rules have checked the proliferation of casinos and high avenue gaming centres as in lots of other countries, barring the state of Goa, the lottery business enterprise stays one of the most article well known sort of gambling.

Although gambling is not unlawful, it truly is a very controlled and controlled activity. Fashionable India is usually a quasi-federal Constitutional democracy plus the powers to legislate are dispersed at the federal along with the condition levels. Gambling capabilities in Listing II on the Constitution of India, this implies which the state governments contain the authority to enact legal guidelines so as to regulate gambling in the respective states. Therefore, there isn't a single regulation governing gambling in the entire nation. Distinct states have unique legislation governing gambling in combination with the legal guidelines which have an application across the nation. When some states have banned lotteries, other states permit state federal government lotteries promoted and dispersed in other lottery participating in and advertising and marketing states as a result of private entities.

Regulation of gambling

The courts have described gambling as 'the payment of the cost for your opportunity to get a prize'. The dominant aspect of talent or prospect shall determine the nature on the game. A video game may perhaps be deemed to generally be gambling in the event the element of possibility or luck predominates in deciding its final result. As a result, Indian courts have held that betting on horse racing and some card online games aren't gambling. The correct to undertake the organization of gambling and lotteries is not regarded as to be a basic appropriate guarded with the Structure of India. It could however be pointed out that the point out govt run lotteries make considerable contributions to the state exchequer of numerous condition governments along with the Union governing administration, and therefore there exists a resistance to complete prohibition.

The following legislation is pertinent to gambling:

The public Gaming Act, 1867

This Act provides punishment for public gambling and for holding of the 'common gaming house'. This Act also authorises the condition governments to enact laws to control general public gambling within their respective jurisdictions. The penal legislations in respective states have already been amended in accordance with their coverage on gambling. Nonetheless, this legislation does not have any direct impact on on the web gambling unless of course a large interpretation is supplied to the definition of prevalent gaming residence so as to incorporate digital forums also.

The Indian Deal Act, 1872 (ICA)

The ICA is actually a codified umbrella laws that governs all industrial contracts in India. Less than the ICA, a wagering contract could be the 1 which can't be enforced. The Act lays down; 'Agreements by means of wager are void, and no accommodate shall be introduced for recovering just about anything alleged to become won on any wager or entrusted to anyone to abide because of the results of any game or other uncertain function on which any wager is made'. Gambling, lottery and prize video games have held to be wagering contracts and so void and unenforceable. Even though a wagering agreement just isn't illegal, it simply cannot be enforced within a court of legislation. So, the courts is not going to entertain any cause of motion that arises out of a wagering agreement.

Lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998

This Act offers a framework for organizing lotteries in the country. Under this Act, the condition governments are licensed to market at the same time as prohibit lotteries within just their territorial jurisdiction. This Act also delivers with the fashion through which the lotteries are being carried out and prescribes punishment in the event of breach of its provision. Lotteries not authorized via the condition are produced an offence below the Indian Penal Code. Various non-lottery taking part in states, like Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, have prohibited the sale of other state-government lotteries below this Act.

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Part 294A bargains with keeping lottery office. It states that whoever retains any business office or position for the goal of drawing any lottery not becoming a Point out lottery or even a lottery authorised via the Point out Federal government, shall be punished with imprisonment of possibly description to get a expression which may prolong to six months, or with high-quality, or with equally.

And whoever publishes any proposal to pay for any sum, or to deliver any goods, or to do or forbear undertaking anything for that advantage of anyone, on any event or contingency relative or applicable towards the drawing of any ticket, ton, amount or figure in any this kind of lottery, shall be punished with great which may lengthen to one thousand rupees.

World wide web gambling

The legislation related to gambling is additionally applicable to on the internet gambling. All gambling contracts are regarded as to be wagering contracts and it is not doable to enforce these contracts beneath the ICA, thorough above.

As identified previously, the online lottery is the most common form of internet gambling in India. Most businesses promoting and distributing or conducting condition government-sponsored lotteries by the world wide web are usually not authorized to provide their expert services in the states that banned lotteries. Normally, these entrepreneurs and distributors limit their on the web services to buyers who're inhabitants on the states where a lottery is permissible. Notwithstanding the very fact there's been no claimed scenario of breach by any business endorsing on-line lotteries, nearly all of these corporations (for a safeguard) seek out an enterprise from their consumers referring to their residence.

There happen to be occasions in which a person condition has banned the lottery of other states, which includes on-line lotteries. Inside of a current case, the Karnatka Superior Court upheld the decision on the Karnataka governing administration for making by itself a 'lottery free zone' by imposing a ban on lotteries of all other states, together with on the web lotteries less than the Lotteries (Regulation) Act 1998. The point out government, in cases like this, directed the closure on the terminals and kiosks marketing the online lotteries.

Enforcement over overseas jurisdictions

In case the internet websites are hosted and operated from exterior India, it could be tough for that Indian authorities to challenge any directive to close them down or prohibit their obtain with out working with its blocking powers below the ITA. The authorities have tiny to bother with, as Indian foreign exchange rules never allow remittances outside the house India for gambling similar exercise, these as the invest in of lottery tickets, soccer pools and sweepstakes. Being a consequence, a gambling web site hosted outside the house India aiming at receiving money from in just India are not able to achieve this by means of authorized channels.

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Tron Wallet

1. WHAT IS TRON? Into their Words: �TRON is usually a blockchain-based decentralized method that aims to construct some sort of worldwide free content amusement system with the blockchain and distributed storage technological innovation. � In Our Words and phrases: TRON are aiming for you to create a great entertainment podium that enables content builders full control over their content. Think of a new decentralised combination of Netflix, YouTube and the App Shop.

2 . not HOW DOES TRON WORK? This TRON venture is an very intricate one, we will aim to highlight its key functions but encourage you to read through their whitepaper and complete further more research when you want to know the harder technical details associated with the assignment. We will first discuss the particular TRON token. The TRON Symbol There are in fact three different tokens engaged in the TRON assignment: TRONIX, TRON Electricity together with the TRON 20 Expression; we�re going to rapidly format all three and even their uses beneath. TRONIX (TRX) � This is the token available for purchase/trade upon the exchanges; it will be instructed to access the TRON system and is furthermore used to trade content upon this. TRON Strength (TP) � This can be in essence locked up TRONIX; end users volunteer to secure their very own TRX and get TP in return, as very well as voting rights and other privileges inside TRON ecosystem. TRON Energy is usually not tradable and would of course be a new long-term determination. TRON Power is similar to Steem Power used on this Steemit platform. TRON twenty Expression � TRON 30 Token allows content makers to create and issue their own bridal party, similar for you to Waves and NEM. The Platform In its most straightforward, content builders will end up being able to catalog their content on the TRON platform and make the idea available; this could get music, films, photographs etcetera. These transactions will probably be finished using the TRX token and without the assistance of any fees. The particular TRON system will furthermore offer bonuses to material creators to help inspire them all to place their very own written content on the software and help stimulate the TRON environment. Other crypto platforms may also be able to host upon the TRON platform while offering their unique tokens. People would be capable to be able to transfer these bridal party in to any other on the software using TRX as a bridge foreign money. several. ARE TRON SOLVING GREAT MARKET ISSUES? #1 Difficulty � Censorship & Centralization In many countriesm online censorship and restriction is definitely rife; government treatment methods users are on a regular basis incapable to access specific web sites. In China, for case in point, folks are unable to admittance Facebook as well as Snapchat, whilst the Iranian government include prevented access to the two Instagram and Telegram. TRON�s Option The decentralized nature with the project means the idea should be clear of censorship or interference. #2 Problem � High Channel Expenses One problem experienced simply by content creators when trying to distribute their content could be the high fees or commission rate rates recharged by multimedia platforms much like the App Store and Google Enjoy. TRON�s Option Content makers will have sole control regarding their very own product as well as direct access for their consumers and, without typically the effort of the middlemen, these fees are enormously reduced. four. WILL THE PARTICULAR TRON TOKEN EMBRACE SELLING PRICE? This is one other very important point that folks frequently overlook when committing in Cryptocurrencies � is definitely the token price really linked to the software utilization? Investing in Cryptos is not similar to standard investing � when you buy gives you in a company, youre buying ownership. As typically the firm makes increased profits, typically the share price will increase plus your investment price will rise also. With the the greater part associated with Cryptocurrencies, the tokens don�t signify shares. Thus, it is a possibility for the company to be able to be successful (i. e the CEO and staff members get rich) and yet the token rates may well actually fall if many people aren�t accurately linked for you to platform consumption. The MERELY factor determining token price is supply and demand on exchanges. Obviously, supply and demand are afflicted by quite a few factors although the price most occurs down to the combination of these. Because of this, it is important to ask yourself the following two questions: Demand ~ Will there be symbol demand within the exchanges? Supply � Will there be excessive pumping hindering selling prices? Let�s initially look at demand: What are Sources of Demand? People will probably be required to keep TRON bridal party in purchase to access the system plus, on top connected with this, all transactions is likewise completed using TRX. As more content is listed on the TRON software together with users convert to the program, the demand for the token will increase and the price should likewise. The Result? The price regarding the TRON token is usually amply linked to the demand to get the platform. TRON has passed this test. What Can be The Probably Inflation Rate? TRON made a predetermined supply of tokens (100 billion TRX) meaning a new zero pumpiing rate nonetheless that doesn�t mean of which new tokens won�t enter in the market while. A good total of 40% on the tokens were sold in the ICO, meaning 60% from the tokens will get into industry at some point so how will they end up being distributed? 35% � TRON Foundation/Ecosystem � It was just lately announced that all of these as well will turn out to be based until The month of january first 2020. 15% � Individual Offering � No more details provided 10% : Peiwo Huanle Technology Limited � No further details offered but CEO Justin Sunshine is also the originator associated with Peiwo. TronWatch Wallet could potentially end up being increased here about where these kinds of tokens have within fact gone. Coin Sector Cap currently lists TRON since having a circulating method of getting 65 billion; this will show that all of typically the tokens that could enter the market have already carried out so. Consequently, we can certainly assume that no even more bridal party will be getting into the market right until on least January first 2020 when the Foundation�s lock-in period of time expires. Sun also introduced on Twitter that TRON have a or maybe burn off planned during Q1 connected with 2018, this will of course cure the going around supply and a rise in expression price should be believed as a result. TronWatch Wallet has passed this particular check. 5. THE TRON CREW & ROADMAP Often the TRON Team TRON have what exactly looks to be a very strong and well-rounded staff. As a project overview, i will giving each of our opinions in a good number of key online players and all of us recommend that readers check out the TRON website for more information on the team. First up will be Founder in addition to CEO Mr. bieber Sun; recently involved with Ripple while chief representative with regard to their Greater China Region, Sunlight seemed to be also the founder associated with Peiwo (A Chinese web 2 . 0 platform with over 10m users). They has also double already been listed because one of Forbes 25 under 30 (2015 plus 2017), showing the particular solid reputation he has inside of the business enterprise world. Chief Technology Officer Lucien Chen possesses a new large total of experience with a amount of first-tier internet firms while Product Supervisor Deuce Yu has extensive experience in the gaming industry, something which could be extremely beneficial to often the TRON project when they accomplish the latter stages regarding their map. A closing member we would want to highlight is Procedure Manager Charles Zhang; he is definitely the former co-founder in addition to COO regarding Beauty Place and also dished up seeing that Secretary-General of their Chicago , il branch. Charles offers a good burial container of business information away from crypto and provides been increased to provide lectures more than one particular 100 times by Peking University or college, highlighting how effectively recognized he or she is inside the company world. This TRON Plan Another standout aspect of often the TRON project is his or her extensive roadmap; a new detailed six-stage, ten 12 months plan. We all will highlight each step and their focus beneath. Exodus � August 2017 to be able to 12 , 2018 � Written content distribution platform Odyssey : Jan 2019 to July 2020 � Focus on monetary incentives in addition to content personal strength to stimulate growth. Superior Voyage : July 2020 to September 2021 ~ �Personal ICO� implementation : content designers will be able in order to produce their own tokens and sponsor their a ICO to be able to allow these people to produce more articles Apollo � August 2021 to March 2023 : Building the full decentralised forex trading platform for tokens Celebrity Travel � The spring 2023 to September 2025 ~ Building a decentralised gaming software to get end users to produce their own video games Everlasting � Sept. 2010 2025 to September 2027 � Customers will be able to help build their own gaming websites 6. PROVIDING POINTS Close ties Operating in an industry that will was worth $1. eight trillion in 2016, TRON are also able to boast a number regarding amazing partnerships already. By these kind of partnerships with businesses for example Baofeng, Peiwo together with Obie, TRON are able to provide their selves together with over 200 mil probable users already. Any time this specific is combined with typically the recently introduced project having game. junto de (TRON Dogs- Similar to Crypto Kitties), then the potential customer numbers are presently amazing for the system. A new part note surrounding this TRON Dogs project is usually that 2018 is the Chinese year with the puppy; this is rather insignificant but may well help to be able to drive uptake and is an extra point to think of. Chinese Endorsement Lately, the parent company connected with Peiwo APP (The first software package to host for the TRON platform) was seen as one of Beijing�s high-tech businesses of 2017. The National High-tech Enterprise is some sort of policy set by this Far east government to encourage the quick advancement of high-tech companies. There are usually strict standards to get inclusion. �After being integrated, firms will enjoy a new series of concessions in technology researching and development, tax reduction and employees policies so as to help enterprises devote more energy and ability to be able to separate research and progress and also to enhance their primary competitiveness. � � Tron Foundation�s Medium Page. Considering TronWatch Wallet Download in direction of cryptocurrency, this particular news is certainly somewhat surprising and is usually a good sign to the long-term potential of often the project. 7. BARRIERS TO SUCCESS Overambitious? There is definitely no question that is usually the incredibly focused job; TRON themselves high light eight distinct types of risks involved in the job and while some sort of twenty yr roadmap will probably be congratulated by many, you furthermore have to question chances of which reaching that objective with no few hiccups. 8. CURRENT CONTROVERSIES Copied Whitepaper? TRON recently came below fire following analysis associated with their whitepaper identified a large portion of this to get copied, almost message for word, from the IPFS and Filecoin whitepaper. The diagram below displays just simply how much was owing to have already been duplicated and even details deficiency of references. TRON Debate Sunlight responded in order to this by saying that typically the original Chinese version in their whitepaper featured a good number of references nonetheless since this choice variants (English, Korean etc) had been translated simply by volunteers, they had skipped a number of critical details as well like the references. This TRON Foundation as well published a good statement saying: �The design of TRON is based about it�s own personal system plus the realization involving unique codes, some codes of Ethreum were being used as guide, we didn�t note associated license, from now along we shall note the copyright laws ownership and promise this wil happen again. � Even though we are regarding course not throughout a good position to say everything with outright confidence, it is something that would be anxious people. TRON have considering that taken out all variants regarding the whitepaper from their website and have assured the release of a new whitepaper some moment soon. This is something we certainly look onward to browsing. Justin Sunlight Sells six Billion TRX? TRON likewise came beneath scrutiny recently if a post on Reddit so-called of which CEO Sun possessed distributed 6 billion TRX, this particular was proven not in order to become the case but would make some fear. The particular post highlighted a pocket which they believed to find yourself to Sunshine due to the high volume involving TRX, as well like the wallet also staying linked to a CryptoKitties bank account called �justinpets�. Often the budget in question experienced sold above 6 billion TRX regarding ETH over a three few days period of time. Even Litecoin founding father Steve Lee got involved, calling out Sun above this kind of on Twitter. Direct sun light would respond to the accusations on his personal Twitting profile by stating of which the budget in thought actually belongs to a private investor and market maker who buys in addition to sells TRX tokens to present liquidity. He also declared when it comes to any form of registration, he uses his China name of Yuchen, as opposed to Justin. Upon learning the reality, Charlie Lee would apologise and delete the tweets accusing Sun. While typically the job has certainly had some flaws, this show turned out to be a poorly researched accusations as opposed in order to anything untowards with TRON�s behalf. An case in point involving what many inside of crypto refer to as FUD. 9. WHERE TO BUY as well as STORE TRON BRIDAL PARTY Where you can Buy TRON Tokens In your opinion, the ideal exchange to buy TRON tokens from can be Binance; that is also on a number of smaller exchanges but also in our opinion Binance will give you the best prices and fluid. Where To Store TRON Bridal party TRON is an Ethereum-based symbol which means it can be safely kept with any ERC-20 appropriate wallets. Our favourite selection can be the Ledger Offline Finances. Our favourite option is definitely MyEtherWallet which you may obtain with the link beneath: Download Pocket HERE (MyEtherWallet) For guidelines on exactly how to download and mount MyEtherWallet, check out often the video under (not made by us). 10. TYPICALLY THE CRYPTOGURUS FINAL RESULT While there is no doubting the particular size of the TRON job, there are a new number of red flags who have arisen during the explore. We do maintain a small amount of TRON in all of our portfolio nevertheless this had been acquired in a good attempt to access the TRON platform. We anticipated this could allow us to give an possibly more comprehensive review although i was not able to access the podium eventually; potentially one more pink flag. We have been looking forward to reading the brand new whitepaper when it is usually released in the desire that it can minimize some of the worries people have round the project. If the project hits all of its targets it could become one particular of the biggest with the market but, since it stands, there usually are currently just way too a lot of questions around the job for us to think of a critical investment. On leading of this, the task is already priced really extremely in the market place � number tough luck � so the benefit possible is relatively small whenever compared to the substantial associated risk.