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Writing to give the gift of TIME.

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When I first thought about Ndubuisi Ekekwe’s post…‘How To Outperform And Win Your FUTURE’….

I realized that it was being delivered with the usual capacity to be compelling, and with dexterity of language that we have become so accustomed to from an individual we simply call ‘Prof’.

When we look at the piece, we see that it is not an original idea. It is basically a post on time management, and many people have produced work on time management from short quirky ditties all the way back to the Time Study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Motion Study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, which together yielded the concepts of ‘Time and Motion Study’

But when I see ‘The Prof’ wading into a topic that is ‘Red Ocean’, I know this must be something that is close to home, and he thinks – regardless of who has already spoken, it needs revisiting, because not enough people are listening.

I will give you the opening salvo of his post:

‘I work hard daily to be in charge of seconds, minutes and hours of the day’ -BOOM

‘The biggest professional victory is victory over your time.’ – BOOM

‘If you master your time, you will win your future.’ – BOOM

‘A man who cannot manage his seconds will wander through the boundless of time.’ – BOOM.

Now let me leave that there for a moment, we will come back.

Have you ever visited a site and found it didn’t tell the whole story on one page? You are only barely introduced to the topic and there is a NEXT button that needs clicking…

Dragged out stories over pages and pages of nothingness that go NEXT, NEXT NEXT, are so annoying. Counterproductive too, as the reader will subliminally associate the feeling of annoyance with product advertisement in close proximity.

You click next, and does the story finish there? No! You find that the information given is actually very little and words have been deliberately without substance to create suspense. As you click NEXT, and then NEXT again, you begin to get increasingly more frustrated as the pages continue. Still, you feel you have already invested in the situation, so you continue, each time, hoping the next page will be the final one, to reveal all.

Why do they do this? Well, they get the visitor to scroll through as many pages as possible to get click-through for advertisement revenue. These days of course, I know the engagement model when I see it. I haven’t visited a site using this ploy for several years.

Why? Because they steal your time.

Inefficient display of information that fails to maximise space and serially makes paragraphs from 3 lines and less, introduces scrolling or screen view changes, steals your followers time.

Now there is a new phenomenon on LinkedIn, which is called Carousel. I don’t read a post if it uses the carousel feature. Why?

Because it is inefficient in how it presents information. It gives a very limited amount of information on one screen, and then the reader needs to click to get to a new screen within the carousel. Eyes work faster than fingers do. This is like the difference between having a solid state hard drive (SSD) in a phone, laptop, tablet or PC instead of the older mechanical drives.

Just that one change makes the performance of the device much, much faster.

The LinkedIn Carousel feature works well for displaying a product list but isn’t very time efficient with telling stories.

As content creators, we can help readers to be more efficient by understanding that eyes work faster than hands. This means eliminating as far as possible, the need for the reader to click or scroll.

Lately, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in posts in LinkedIn. Content creators are treating every line they write as if it deserves its own paragraph. Sometimes they even separate a line with two empty lines. This has the same effect of the web pages with serial need to click ‘NEXT’ and the unnecessary clicking or side swiping for the carrousel feature.

This is STEALING people’s time.

Every line in a post cannot be a BOOM line.  When the construct is that every line is a BOOM line, there is no BOOM line! This is just inefficiency introducing more scrolling… increasing the ratio of finger work to eye-work and slowing the reader down. It isn’t about the overall length of your article necessarily. Long and short articles have value in context. It is about making efficient use of space and punching the maximum amount of information into the least amount of space, to reduce clicking, scrolling, and eye travel.

A writing style which gives every line its own paragraph wastes peoples time and yours. All BOOM is NO BOOM

As we look back at Prof. Ekekwe’s piece, we see the huge humility within which four genuine BOOM lines have not even been put on a pedestal to stand alone. Meanwhile other creators are giving BOOM status to lines which are, at best, pedestrian.

I can look at a 20 line paragraph of a ‘Prof’ piece and absorb it in 2 seconds without scrolling or even moving my eye focus.

In the piece, through good use of space and condensing his presentation, he is putting readers back in charge of their time, so they can onboard more knowledge for less of life’s premium currency.

Avoid content delivery strategies which deliberately seek to slow down the pace at which the reader/visitor can absorb information. If you see yourself as someone that can create ‘great content’ then don’t forget to put your readership back in charge of their ‘seconds’

Because if you don’t, they don’t want to be that victim of time Prof Ekekwe warns of. The one who for failure to manage seconds,  ‘will wander through the boundless of time.’

Perhaps their last click will be for the unfollow button for your profile!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study

 

How To Outperform And Win Your FUTURE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study

Service of the court process

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A party in a lawsuit must be notified that he or she has been summoned to the court and the process whereby the party is made aware of the matter is known as service. 

When a party is not put on notice that he has been summoned to the court so that he can come to defend himself from accusations made against him, the party is denied his fundamental right to a fair hearing as constitutionally provided for in S. 36 of the Constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria thereby denying the party his constitutional provided fundamental human rights. 

Parties must as a matter of law and practice provided in the rules of court ensure that the opposing party does not only receive the court process but acknowledges the receipt of the service of process on him thereby satisfying that he has been properly served. 

When parties to the suit have not been properly served, it robs the court of its jurisdiction to entertain the matter.

The rules of procedures of various courts in Nigeria prescribe modes of service of court processes on a defendant/ respondent but the general rule is that parties to a suit must be served personally, ie Personal service which is to be effected by handing a copy of the summons to the defendant in person, but if personal service cannot be effected, substituted service can be effected on the defendant by pasting the process at the doorstep of the respondent or pasting it at his place of work or by pasting the summons in a conspicuous location that it will be presumed that the party will see it or by effecting the service on a third party who has a close relationship with the defendant or by electronically sending the process through the defendant’s email, WhatsApp or any other means.

Service of process of a civil suit originating from the federal high court is provided for by Order 6 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2019.

According to Order 6 rule 2 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rule, 2019, originating processes are to be personally served on the Defendants. However, Rule 5 thereof provides that where personal service cannot be effected, substituted service of such Originating Processes shall be effected on the Defendant. 

When a recipient of a process is a person who is in prison custody, the prisoner is to be served by sending the process to the superintendent or the head of the prison where the prisoner is detained.

When the person who is to be served is a person of unsound mind or mentally unstable person, the process is to be served on the superintendent or head of the asylum where the lunatic is kept.

When a person who is to be served the process is an infant or underaged, the process is served on the infant’s parents, his guardian, or the person on call for the infant. 

Service of the originating process is carried out by the court Sheriff or Bailiff of the court but in some special circumstances, the judge may appoint a person to serve the court process and such person is called a process server.

As Floods Dislocate Areas in Nigeria, We Need To Develop Programs on Climate Change Management Engineering

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FUTO is a top technical university in Nigeria

Nigerian politics does not inspire. So the nation does not have a flood management strategy? People, how have they been spending the billions of Naira mapped for ecological funds? In a country with a rainforest region with erosion problems everywhere, one would have expected that as part of spending that money, the nation would have developed a flood management strategy as a component of a comprehensive playbook on managing erosion.

When I was in FUTO, there was a Center for Erosion Studies staffed by German experts. It was located at the back of the old SEET Building, sharing a building with Works & Maintenance. After one of those major strikes, upon return, the Center had been closed: the foreign experts had gone, possibly with their intervention funds and knowledge exchanges.

The minister has 90 days to do this; I hope that ASUU can work with him: “As Nigeria grapples with devastating floods that have ravaged homes and means of livelihood across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, to develop a preventive plan within 90 days.” 

As that happens, I call  my alma mater, FUTO, to start an option under Environmental Engineering/Civil Engineering with Climate Change Management Engineering. This option will prepare young people with capabilities to design, develop and implement necessary climate change mitigation protocols in Nigeria and beyond. We’re at that moment now in the world – and FUTO can pioneer it.

And Mr Adamu can allocate funds to set up this type of program in selected schools as part of his plan. His plan must have a private sector incentivisation roadmap where building resilience to floods is designed to be good for business.

A statement issued by the presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on Monday, said Adamu has been directed to lead and coordinate with the Ministries of Environment and Transportation as well as State Governments to develop a comprehensive plan of action for preventing flood disaster in the country.

Shehu in the statement said the President’s directive was conveyed to the Minister in a letter signed by his Chief of Staff, Prof Ibrahim Gambari. The statement said that Buhari regularly received updates on the flooding situation in the country, and has restated his commitment towards addressing the challenges caused by the disaster in the country.

Buhari Gives Minister of Water Resources 90 Days to Develop Flood Preventive Plan

Buhari Gives Minister of Water Resources 90 Days to Develop Flood Preventive Plan

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As Nigeria grapples with devastating floods that have ravaged homes and means of livelihood across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, to develop a preventive plan within 90 days.

A statement issued by the presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on Monday, said Adamu has been directed to lead and coordinate with the Ministries of Environment and Transportation as well as State Governments to develop a comprehensive plan of action for preventing flood disaster in the country.

Shehu in the statement said the President’s directive was conveyed to the Minister in a letter signed by his Chief of Staff, Prof Ibrahim Gambari. The statement said that Buhari regularly received updates on the flooding situation in the country, and has restated his commitment towards addressing the challenges caused by the disaster in the country.

The flooding recorded in Nigeria in the past few weeks has been unprecedented, requiring an adequate pre-planned approach to mitigate it. So far, more than 600 people have lost their lives while about 1.4 million have been displaced across the country.

About 31 states are said to have been affected by flooding recently. The most affected states, where the deaths are recorded are: Anambra, Bayelsa, Delta, Kebbi, Kogi and Jigawa.

According to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, about 82,053 houses had been totally decimated, 2,504,095,000 persons affected, while 332,327 hectares of land were completely damaged.

Besides death and displacement, the flooding is expected to unleash severe economic hardship on Nigerians in the near future. With major farms in the country submerged, food inflation is likely going to see further uptick even as the waters recede. Last week, Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) declared force majeure due to issues emanating from the flooding that may impact its operation.

The floods have been attributed to the release of water from Lagdo dam in Cameroon. In September, Nigeria Hydrological Service Agency (NIHSA) had tasked the federal, state and local governments to step up efforts to avert the disaster that will result from the release of the dam’s water.

However, Nigeria was apparently not prepared for flood prevention despite trillions of naira the country has received in ecological funds. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the agency saddled with the responsibility of disaster management and prevention since 1999, has been insignificant in the face of the floods.

Thus, Buhari’s “90 days” directive to Adamu, who had last week said the flooding is from God, has been described as a display of the government’s unpreparedness in the face of disaster.

Why Toon Finance will surpass HT ICP XTZ APT as they skate through round one of presale

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What is an ICO Presale?

An ICO presale is a token sale that happens before a company’s ICO. Typically, a percentage of the tokens are sold to early investors at a discounted price. This offers investors the chance to buy tokens before the ICO is open to the public.

Why Have an ICO Presale?

There are a few reasons why companies choose to have an ICO presale. One reason is to create buzz and interest in the project. By offering discounts to early investors, companies can generate excitement and get people talking about their project. This can help build momentum and generate interest in the ICO when it launches.

Another reason for having an ICO presale is to raise funds for the project. By selling tokens before the ICO, companies can raise money to fund development, marketing, and other expenses. This can help ensure that the project has the resources it needs to be successful.

Finally, having an ICO presale can help ensure that the project reaches its hard cap. By selling tokens ahead of time, companies can ensure that they reach their fundraising goals and don’t have to worry about falling short. This can give investors confidence in the project and help make sure that it is successful.

An ICO presale is a token sale that happens before a company’s ICO. Typically, a percentage of the tokens are sold to early investors at a discounted price. This offers investors the chance to buy tokens before the ICO is open to the public. There are a few reasons why companies choose to have an ICO presale, including generating buzz, raising funds, and ensuring that they reach their hard cap.

Toon Finance is taking over the Meme coin community

Toon Finance is having their ICO presale and it is selling out like hotcakes. The investors amongst the meme coin community have been relentlessly purchasing TFT coins and waiting for the big launch. The Toon Finance team is also airdropping 10,000 cute and cuddly NFTs to its first 10,000 users who join the Toon Army.

Toon Finance has a total supply of 1 Billion Tokens, They will sell half and the other half will go to pairs on DEX swaps. Crypto market majors have been researching the project that is taking everyone by stage. The project is blasting past these “older” and less developed meme coin projects with no utility.

Toon Finance is already listed on major crypto websites such as Crypto.com and CoinMarketCap.

You can also find the team in their telegram chat or on Twitter where they are very active and transparent. For more information about Toon Finance and the popular presale you can visit there website at Toon.Finance

About Huobi Token

We’ll be discussing everything you need to know about Huobi Token. Huobi Token (HT) is the native token of the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi Global. It is a decentralized digital asset based on the Ethereum blockchain and is ERC-20 compliant. HT’s value is in part reliant upon the reputation of the Huobi crypto exchange, yet other factors also have an impact. Keep reading to learn more!

How Does HT Work?

Huobi Token works in a few different ways. First and foremost, it can be used to trade cryptocurrencies on the Huobi Global exchange.

HT can also be used to purchase VIP membership status on the Huobi exchange, which gives users certain benefits, such as lower trading fees. Furthermore, HT can be used to vote on major decisions made by the Huobi team, such as which new assets to list on the exchange.

The value of HT is also closely tied to the success of the Huobi Global exchange. As one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Huobi plays a major role in setting prices for digital assets across the market. When the exchange does well, so too does HT.

However, it’s important to note that other factors can affect HT’s price as well, such as news about regulation or adoption of cryptocurrency in general.

What Is the History of HT?

Huobi Token was first issued in January 2018. At that time, 500 million tokens were minted and distributed to participants in a private sale. Since then, an additional 300 million tokens have been minted and are being held in reserve by the Huobi team.

Of these 300 million tokens, 20% will be used to incentivize users who hold HT, 20% will be used to buy back and burn HT, 30% will be used for strategic partnerships and investments, and 30% will be kept in reserve as a contingency fund.

To date, Huobi Token has been extremely successful. In 2019 alone, its value increased by over 400%. This growth is likely due in part to increasing interest in cryptocurrency exchanges as well as positive news about regulation and adoption of digital assets around the world.

Huobi Token is a digital asset with a wide range of use cases. It can be used to trade cryptocurrencies, purchase VIP memberships onHuobi Global, or vote on major decisions made by the team.

The value of HT is closely linked to the success of Huobit Global; as one of world’s largest exchanges, Huobit plays a major role in setting prices for digital assets across the market.. To date ,Huobitoken has been extremely successful ,in 2019 alone its value increased by over 400%. If you’re interested in investing in digital assets ,Huobitoken should definitely be on your radar .

Toon Finance Internet Computer – A New Way to Build the Web

The Internet Computer is a new blockchain that enables developers to build decentralized applications without needing traditional IT infrastructure. Powered by innovations in cryptography, the Internet Computer provides a more scalable and efficient way to build decentralized applications. In this blog post, we’ll give an overview of the Internet Computer and its native token, ICP.

What is the Internet Computer?

The Internet Computer is a blockchain that enables developers to build decentralized applications without needing traditional IT infrastructure. Powered by innovations in cryptography, the Internet Computer provides a more scalable and efficient way to build decentralized applications.

ICP is the native token of the Internet Computer blockchain. ICP is used to pay for computational resources on the network. In addition, ICP can be used to create new tokens on the network.

How Can I Use ICP?

ICP can be used to pay for computational resources on the network. In addition, ICP can be used to create new tokens on the network.

What are the Benefits of Using ICP?

  • There are several benefits of using ICP:
  • ICPS are more energy-efficient than traditional proof-of-work cryptocurrencies.
  • ICPS can be used to create new tokens on the network. This allows developers to experiment with different economic models and create tokens that are tailored to their specific use case.
  • ICPS can be traded on exchanges for other cryptocurrencies or fiat currencies.
  • The value of ICPS is backed by the underlying computational resources of the network. As more applications are built on the network, demand for computational resources will increase, driving up the price of ICPS.

The Internet Computer is a revolutionary new blockchain that enables developers to build decentralized applications without needing traditional IT infrastructure.

Powered by innovations in cryptography, the Internet Computer provides a more scalable and efficient way to build decentralized applications. If you’re looking for a more efficient and cost-effective way to develop decentralized applications, then consider investing in ICP.

What is Tezos?

Tezos is a blockchain network that’s based on smart contracts, in a way that’s not too dissimilar to Ethereum. However, there’s a big difference: Tezos aims to offer infrastructure that is more advanced — meaning it can evolve and improve over time without there ever being a danger of a hard fork. This is something that both Bitcoin and Ethereum have suffered since they were created. People who hold XTZ can vote on proposals for protocol upgrades that have been put forward by Tezos developers.

How Tezos Works

Tezos has its own native cryptocurrency, which is called tez or XTZ. One of the main selling points of Tezos is that it’s built on an open-source protocol, which means anyone can develop apps on the network.

The Tezos Foundation, which is based in Switzerland, oversees the development of the Tezos protocol. The foundation raised $232 million during its initial coin offering (ICO) in July 2017, making it one of the biggest ICOs at the time. However, the project was beset by infighting and delays, and it wasn’t until 2018 that the Tezos mainnet finally launched.

Tezos uses a delegated proof-of-stake (dPoS) consensus algorithm, which means token holders can delegate their tokens to validators — also known as “bakers” — who can then stake them to earn rewards. Bakers must have at least 10,000 XTZ to be eligible for rewards. The number of tokens staked by a baker determines how often they can produce new blocks and earn rewards.

One notable feature of the Tezos protocol is its formal verification capability, which means developers can mathematically prove that their code meets its specifications. This helps to reduce errors and increases security. Formal verification is something that’s not possible with other smart contract platforms like Ethereum.

Tezos is a blockchain platform that offers some unique features compared to other smart contract platforms like Ethereum.

In particular, its self-amending protocol means it can evolve over time without hard forks, and its formal verification capability makes it more secure than other platforms. If you’re thinking of investing in XTZ, make sure to do your own research first to understand all the risks involved.

Aptos Live Price Data

The Aptos price today is $9.61 USD, and the Aptos live price chart shows that the value has decreased by 0.85% in the last 24 hours.

The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #42, with a live market cap of $1,248,792,756 USD. It has a circulating supply of 130,000,000 APT coins and the max. supply is not available. Get all the latest news and updates on Aptos here!

Aptos Overview

Aptos is a cryptocurrency that is identified by the symbol APT. It was created on January 1st, 2018. The total supply of Aptos that will ever be in existence is 21 million.

The circulating supply of Aptos at the time of writing is 9,610,037 APT. Of the total supply of Aptos, 10% or 2.1 million are currently held in reserve for the team and future development. This leaves 90% or 18.9 million APT as the circulating supply.

Aptos’s maximum supply is not yet known as it is not fully mined. However, it will eventually reach its maximum supply when all 21 million APT are mined which is estimated to happen sometime around 2040 given the current block reward and mining rate.

miners are currently rewarded with 1250 APT per block they mine which happens every minute resulting in a new block being added to the Aptos blockchain. This also results in an inflation rate of 5%. However, this block reward halves every 4 years until all 21 million APT have been mined which means that eventually, miners will only be rewarded with very small amounts of Aptos per block mined.”

What Is The Purpose of Aptos?

The purpose of Aptos is to provide a global payment system that is simple to use yet secure and fast. Transactions made using Aptos should settle in less than one second which makes it much faster than traditional payment methods like bank transfers and credit card payments which can often take days to settle.

Aptos also aims to be more secure than traditional payment methods as it uses cryptography to secure its transactions making it nearly impossible to counterfeit or double-spend APT like fiat currency can be.

In addition, Aptos transactions are also transparent as they are recorded on a public ledger called the blockchain which allows anyone to view them making it difficult for anyone to commit fraud without being caught.”

How Is The Value Of Aptos Determined?

The value of Aptos (APT) is determined by the market in which it trades on. When there is high demand for APT, its price will increase as people are willing to pay more for it. When there is low demand for APT, its price will decrease as people are not willing to pay as much for it.”

Where Can You Buy Aptos (APT)?

Aptos (APT) can be bought on numerous cryptocurrency exchanges including Binance and Huobi Global.”

Apto’s price today is $9.61 USD, and has decreased by 0.85% in value over the last 24 hours according to data from CoinMarketCap . It has a circulating supply of 130,000,000 APT coins and a maximum supply of 21 million.

The purpose of Apto is to provide a global payment system that is simple to use yet secure and fast with settlements happening in less than one second . You can buy Ato’s (APT) on numerous cryptocurrency exchanges including Binance and Huobi Global .

Toon Finance APT and tons of other coins are available for purchase and it is super simple to do it. We hope that you enjoyed our read and learned more about some of these moonrocket crypto coins that certainly have tons of potential.

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