Andrew Heron has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Ripple for Beginners: An Introduction to XRP.
The Tao of Systems Thinking
Summary
There are many parallels between the ideas of Tao Te Ching, written 2,500 years ago by Lao Tzu, and those of Systems Thinking, which has come into prominence with the advent of modern personal computers, through people like Jay W. Forrester, and other thinkers such as Donella Meadows and Fritjof Capra. This book invites us to consider certain timeless wisdoms related to Systems Thinking and provides us with a few points to explore, as we face major challenges for resolving issues we confront for our future. Implicit in all of this are the roles we play in what our world has become, and how we could change or improve if we become more aware of who we are individually and collectively as a species. This book also contains a complete English version of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu that has been translated by the author. The book has also been updated to match passages and commentaries for easier listening.
©2016 Michael McCurley (P)2018 Michael McCurley
Ripple for Beginners: An Introduction to XRP
Summary
Ryan Fugger conceived Ripple in 2004 after working on a local exchange trading system in Vancouver. The intent was to create a monetary system that was decentralized and could effectively empower individuals and communities to create their own money. Fugger later built the first iteration of this system, RipplePay.com. Concurrently, in May 2011, Jed McCaleb began developing a digital currency system in which transactions were verified by consensus among members of the network, rather than by the mining process used by Bitcoin. In August 2012, Jed McCaleb hired Chris Larsen, and they approached Ryan Fugger with their digital currency idea. After discussions with McCaleb and long-standing members of the Ripple community, Fugger handed over the reins. In September 2012, Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb co-founded the corporation OpenCoin. OpenCoin began development of the ripple protocol (RTXP) and the Ripple payment and exchange network. On April 11, 2013, OpenCoin announced it had closed an angel round of funding with several venture capital firms. That same month, OpenCoin acquired SimpleHoney to help it popularize virtual currencies and make them easier for average users. On May 14, 2013, OpenCoin announced that it had closed a second round of angel funding. In July 2013, Jed McCaleb separated from active employment with Ripple. On September 26, 2013, OpenCoin officially changed its name to Ripple Labs, Inc. Their CTO, Stefan Thomas, further announced that the source code for the peer-to-peer node behind the Ripple payment network was officially open source. Parts of Ripple, particularly a JavaScript-based web client, had been open source months before, but the release of the peer-to-peer "full node" Rippled meant that the community now had the required tools needed to maintain the Ripple network on its own.
©2018 Ron Stern (P)2018 Ron Stern
Mysterious Visitors: Aliens, Apparitions and Other Strange Entities
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Are we alone in the Universe? If eyewitness accounts of encounters with a panoply of bizarre alien entities are to be believed, then answer is an emphatic, "No!" This book details some of the strange creatures which have been seen at close quarters by many people in a number of countries over many decades. What this means is not only are we not alone, but we share this Universe with some truly horrific, intelligent, and technically advanced life forms.
©2015 Chip Norton (P)2019 Chip Norton
Bodybuilding: A Beginner's Guide to Bodybuilding
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Bodybuilding - A Beginner's Guide to Bodybuilding Designed for the novice who takes big goals seriously, this book filters through many different perspectives. It turns them into an easy-to-follow guide for reaching your ultimate bodybuilding goals, based on the most commonly agreed upon principals, ideas, and knowledge that are out there right now. It begins when you write down your goal and organize your life to make the necessary room to achieve it. Organize your schedule, start a journal, choose the foods that are going to support your growth and get into a proper sleeping routine. All of this has to happen before you can start the physical process of ripping and repairing muscle tissue. You're building your support system and surrounding yourself with everything you need. These pages have a lot of information about food; what is good for you, what is bad for you and why. It goes over the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that you need, demystifies probiotics and prebiotics and explains where you can find them and how to get them in your gut. There is an entire section of recipes. They were dishes I found that lots of people really enjoyed. I then modified them to increase protein, changed flavors I think work better, and reduced saturated fats intake. Once you've got a system in place to support your goal, you need to start preparing your body for the physical journey ahead. That journey starts with a month of yoga and floor exercises. By doing that you can start getting used to your body in a new way and start getting your body used to being trained.
©2018 Ben K. Blanchard (P)2018 Ben K. Blanchard
How to Sell Indexed Universal Life Insurance
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Indexed Universal Life Insurance (IUL) is one of the fastest growing financial products on the market. There are a lot of ways to sell an IUL. As an agent, here is a simple system I used to sell Indexed Universal Life.
©2018 Michael Bonilla (P)2018 Michael Bonilla