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    Steemit Logo look alike

    August 03, 2017
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    When I first saw the Steemit logo, I was like I have seen it somewhere. That somewhere was Odonil Packet, as you can see down they have two openings for passing air and that was it. ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPktaQNGEaunbuMNbxMbrKB4UXLJFgrfktED8aTWLYPYk/image.png)

    Note for Newbies in Steemit

    August 03, 2017
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    I have been in Steemit for more than one month. I will share my experience what I have learned from the experienced guys out here. ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZBgWGbKTpCHZrU7KuzSrnzQABddYhpSEPRu3tHZVQh9r/image.png) 1. From @stormuk69: Don't Spam Comments. If you really want to comment write some meaningful comments. More https://steemit.com/steemit/@stormuk69/spam-comments-stop#@stormuk69/re-codingdefined-re-marcusorlyius-re-codingdefined-re-stormuk69-spam-comments-stop-20170727t155758982z 2. Write better Introduction: You can check out @oceanchild Introduction. A very well written introduction has received more than 200 upvotes. You can beat that. Be sure #introduceyourself in the post. 3. Add appropriate tag: If you want your post to be read by many, you should add an appropriate tag and not some random tags. 4. Difference between Steem, Steem Power and Steem Dollar: STEEM is the base liquid currency token in the platform, STEEM Power (abbreviated SP) is a measurement of how much influence a user has in the Steem network (more is better) and Steem Dollars are liquid stable-value currency tokens designed to be pegged to $1 USD. 5. Using RANDOWHALE: @longfield98 has written a very good post about [HOW TO MAKE FULL USE OF RANDOWHALE!](https://steemit.com/randowhale/@longfield98/how-to-make-full-use-of-randowhale) For now thats it, do not rush for more money. Keep the patience and write contents you will surely get benefit in the long run.

    Bookings open for the mesmerizing chadar trek

    August 03, 2017
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    Chadar trek is one of the hardest trek over the freezed zanskar river in jammu and kashmir. ![Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-44-1952976018.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaGX2CgAj1dxgAgcdfWKsZ3YssggL9CmtTCr2ad3CAaFU/Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-44-1952976018.png) The journey starts after you drop at leh and start feeling the chilling air in mid december. This trek is done in dec and jan when large part of the river is freezed and mostly all the roads are covered with snow. ![Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-16--302943920.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdwEjpzgeDv8fmC4AU64C3f4L3jY3ivWcTCq3BMm56bcg/Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-16--302943920.png) Many times situation comes when you have to crawl like a kid but this time you are crawling on snow, and believe me, its scary and amazing too. You have fear in your heart of loosing your life all the times but adventure overrides all. ![Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-46-50--31664761.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWARsqUpwHmbRnKxqHy7b5gHcoTsgD6A3EonuPrBYkm3W/Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-46-50--31664761.png) Experiences trekkers are accompanying you to the trek to help in each and every situation. Carrying the medical kit and the backup facility and proper fooding for all. But you have to carry your own too but the amount should not be large and you should try to reduce your load to miNimum because its only you who is gonna carry your load. ![Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-01--220466099.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRGcHrffACCugvoteZT9JgfQQqtgd7pW5YPtg6cUaSWte/Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-01--220466099.png) The water is so chilled that you can't dare to touch it, forget about bathing for the 5,6 days till you are over snow. So don't carry loads of clothes too because you are not gonna change dress in between the trek. All you need you have to wear at the start itself. ![Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-58-1837859762.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdiXmG7FnAufXqBeYw1RvUd12LCuuERBL4S84cFqdnGC7/Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-58-1837859762.png) This time, its your turn to enjoy this trip. We invite you to join with full adventurous heart and lots of happiness. We will rock and it will be amazing. ![Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-26--697382499.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmU5WFb5JgVyN7vTAjrxXjFZP2x99fYA6FPBpmFKYXm4c2/Screenshot_2017-08-03-08-47-26--697382499.png) For bookings comment below and resteem for 100% upvote and keep adventure up

    Which Dog is real?

    August 02, 2017
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    THE 5 MOST COMMON FEARS ABOUT TRAVELLING IN INDIA

    August 02, 2017
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    “Oh you’re going to India? I would love to go to India but I’m too scared because [insert all manner of fears].” If I had a burrito for every time someone said a variation of that line to me when I told them I was going to India, I estimate I would have about 50 burritos (and some serious heartburn). India seems to be one of those travel destinations that people want to go to, but don’t because they fixate on all the things that could go wrong. People, it’s time to park your excuses and clear your fears, because if you’re intrigued by India, you should most definitely experience it in real life. Here are some straight-up answers to “India fears” people confessed to me. And unlike the ‘Jerry Springer Show’, these are actual, real confessions from real people. 1. “I’m scared of getting diarrhoea” I have a friend that has an irrational fear of getting diarrhoea in public. Before you laugh, when I returned from India more people asked me about my bowel habits than what the Taj Mahal was like. So, either my friends are a bunch of weirdos obsessed with bodily functions or their curiosity reflects that of the general public. While travelling with a group on Intrepid’s Golden Triangle trip, we ate local food – from small family-run eateries to fancier hotel restaurants and street food. None of us (to my knowledge) pooped ourselves in public, and I myself didn’t even need to break open a packet of GastroStop. One person in the group actually got constipated. I don’t know how that’s possible on a trip to India, but it happened. The fact that I even know that about someone I had known for less than 48 hours shows how quickly you bond with strangers on group trips. We all exercised the normal precautions of drinking bottled water, but pretty much ate everything else that came our way, and I came home with zero catastrophic diarrhoea incidents to report. 2. “I think India is too unhygienic for me” In a country where cows, goats, camels, pigs, horses and dogs all share the road with trucks and cars and humans, it’s a good idea to leave comparisons to your home country at the door. Ok, I admit I was aghast at the sight of locals drinking holy water that thousands of pilgrims had just walked through barefoot, but mostly I stopped myself from comparing India to my own country. While my brain was calculating exactly how many fungal infections were present in that water, I was missing enjoying the sensory, spiritual spectacle of being at a Sikh temple in Delhi. So, for a good time, simply turn off the part of your brain that would be shocked that anyone would drink that water, or eat on the side of the road where pigs and street dogs mingle….because you aren’t at home. The point of travel isn’t to relentlessly compare every little detail to what people at home would do and make a value judgement based upon your own code of cleanliness. Plus, science says that living an overly-sanitised, super clean, bleach-fuelled lifestyle actually does more harm than good. 3. “I’m a female and I don’t want to get harassed or hassled” Recently, India has received a lot of media attention about violent crimes against women, and while India is definitely going through a major cultural shift in relation to the rights of females (like many other regions in the world, including my own country), I personally don’t believe that’s a reason not to visit, if you want to. No doubt, India is a challenging country to travel in as a solo female, but you’d be remiss to think that all Indian men harass women, or all Indian women are nothing more than victims. While in India I met lots of whip smart, empowered females. I also met lots of lovely, genuine men. While you definitely have to be aware of your own personal safety (as when travelling anywhere, or just living on planet earth) travelling with a group and with a local leader is a good way to put yourself at ease. Oh, and when using the train, ride with the ladies in the women’s carriage. Always. And for further reading, Intrepid have a whole page dedicated to women’s safety tips in India. 4. “I don’t think I’ll like the food” Plot twist: most Indian food isn’t that hot. Apart from crying real tears while breathing air thick with chilli dust at a wholesale spice market in Delhi, everything else I ate in India wasn’t even remotely hot. When it comes to hot food, South East Asian cuisine can deliver a knockout blow. And I’ll never forget making the rookie error of trying to be hard core by eating a whole, deep fried chilli while in Sri Lanka. But in India, it’s easy to avoid hot curries by sticking with the dhal, korma, tikka and tandoori options. Stay away from phaal and vindaloo and you should be right. If in doubt, eat all of the chapati and naan. The garlic naan, cheese naan, plain naan, stuffed naan, butter naan. All of it was made for folk afraid of spices (I don’t understand you, but I respect your life choices). 5. “I’m afraid of using squat toilets” I was on the road from Agra to Delhi. It was 45 degrees, there was a long queue to use the toilets, so I wasn’t waiting around for the western flush-style toilets to become available when I could be spending that time eating an ice cream by the side of the road. There’s no story here except that I used a squat toilet, lived, then ate an ice cream. Like with most things in life – it’s not a big deal, unless you make it a big deal. Apply that same philosophy to your whole trip, and you’ll have a good time. Think of it this way: you can waste time fussing, worrying, resisting and obsessing, or you can just go with it and use a toilet that billions of people around the world use with success every day. Source : [Intrepid Travel](http://www.intrepidtravel.com/adventures/india-fears/)

    Should you FIRE a good employee

    August 02, 2017
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    **Should you FIRE a good employee** Years ago, as a new manager in one of the companies, I had an employee with a great track record but whose performance deteriorated to the levels of unacceptability. He was not applying himself, was making mistakes left and right and stopped caring. My new boss at the time said that this employee had a burn out, and we would be better off without him - but said I should investigate first. Upon my investigation, it turned out that the employee had lost his father, and his girlfriend had left him for his best friend. He did not tell anyone at work. Once the root cause was known and with proper care, time off and empathy from the rest of the team he got back on the road to Betterville. We live for the moments to die for. When I saved that employee, it was one of those moments for me.

    Be the change you want to see in the world - my voting explained (+ free bot)

    August 01, 2017
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    A lot of new users keep thanking me for reading their post and supporting them. I feel like I have to set the record straight about that since a while now.

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    Many discussions revolve around the situation with whales and dolphins dominating the reward pool. As a steem user of the first hour and a whale myself I am of course aware of this, and since the beginning I have been thinking about ways how that could be fixed. I had my part in sometimes hefty discussions in the early days, and was proposing a change in the reward curve long before the last hard fork. But changes in the blockchain rules can only do that much. Equally, or even more important, is the behavior of the users. I hate the trending page. I can rage on for hours how there's always the same people up there, posting just for the sake of getting another couple of hundreds of dollars of rewards. Attempting to spread the reward pool further I spent months curating manually, but with the growing number of posts that became impossible to do thoroughly. For a while I stopped voting completely, because I felt that my weight was too high and I just couldn't vote "fairly". A couple of months ago I then came up with a solution. My own trail bot, following a diverse list of mostly manual curators. Over time I added features like a blacklist, avoiding self votes, avoiding votes on dual accounts, and some stats. It's running stable since weeks, and with a lot of nodes used by other bots and services going down yesterday this seems to be a good moment to release the code to the public. Here you go: https://github.com/pharesim/steem-trailbot It uses the public node at ws://steemd.pevo.science:8090 but you can of course change that. I hope it can help others to spread the love too. Steem has so much more to offer than the current trending posts - help to show that to the world!

    Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency

    August 01, 2017
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    There’s one incredible feature of cryptocurrencies that almost everyone seems to have missed, including Satoshi himself. But it’s there, hidden away, steadily gathering power like a hurricane far out to sea that’s sweeping towards the shore. It’s a stealth feature, one that hasn’t activated yet. But when it does it will ripple across the entire world, remaking every aspect of society. To understand why, you just have to understand a little about the history of money. The Ascent of Money Money is power. Nobody knew this better than the kings of the ancient world. That’s why they gave themselves an absolute monopoly on minting moolah. They turned shiny metal into coins, paid their soldiers and their soldiers bought things at local stores. The king then sent their soldiers to the merchants with a simple message: “Pay your taxes in this coin or we’ll kill you.” Source [Hackernoon](https://hackernoon.com/why-everyone-missed-the-most-mind-blowing-feature-of-cryptocurrency-860c3f25f1fb)

    Why You should Visit India in your next travel?

    August 01, 2017
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    India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. **Why You should Visit India in your next travel?** 1. India is a Huge Country to visit 2. India is a Great Value Destination and thus you need not have to spent too much 3. A great Hospitality in India, There's a saying in India, "Athithi Devo Bhava", which means "the guest is God." 4. Not All Places in India are "Unsafe" like Goa, Rajasthan, Pondichurry, Kerela 5. You will find Spirituality 6. The awesome Indian Food 7. The Taj Mahal, One of the 7 wonders in the world 8. A lot of Religious Festivals which you will not find anywhere in the world 9. History and architecture with lots of Tombs and Fo[rts [Places In India](https://placesinindia.com)