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“It’s not for us to lead this work, it’s for the marginalized community too.”
By: Justice Hill
Tags: Racism, Reparations, Wokeness, Resources, Black Women

“It’s not for us to lead this work, it’s for the marginalized community too.” — Says a local transportation advocate in la-la land.

Statements like this are often made by white men and women, that are exploiting the term “woke”, in attempt to continue to gatekeep the resources Black and Brown people NEED to create a restored and revitalized community!

Statements like this, have a undertone of racial gaslighting, and is condescending because oftentimes we don’t have the resources to lead, even though we should be leading.

So technically, if we should be leading, shouldn’t we be the ones to get the resources first?

If this delusional white man's statement reigns true, Why are us “leaders” always in a position to have to “sell” ourselves and our ideas for a better community, to people, who have already declared they are not supposed to lead, and to a people, who don’t know the first thing about what the Black community needs, outside of their own selfish, and capitalist agendas.

It’s like a dangling carrot. Make it make sense.

Reparation's Now.
COVID-19 Relief for Families in Need
By: Our Neighborhoods Our Future
Tags: Covid 19, Covid 19 Crisis, Mutual Aid, Family, Resources

The Partnership for Working Families is deeply committed to offering support for American families across the nation dealing with the economic ramifications of COVID-19. We are filling in the gaps across our communities where the administration and corporations are silent. And this crisis has laid bare what our communities need to survive.

Several affiliates of the Partnership for Working Families’ have set up immediate relief funds that will go directly to the people most marginalized from public benefits: undocumented workers. All of the funds we describe below will go directly to laid-off workers who cannot access federal aid. If you are in a position where you are saving money or receiving stimulus checks that you do not need, we ask that you do what our federal government has failed to do and share your check with people who need support to meet their basic needs:

805 UndocuFund: Operated by our affiliate CAUSE in the Central Coast of California

OUR Fund: Operated by El Centro Legal in partnership with our affiliate EBASE in Oakland California

Artist credit: Monica Trinidad

Arizona Hospitality Relief Emergency Fund: Operated by CASE, our affiliate in Arizona to direct funds to laid-off hospitality workers who cannot access unemployment benefits.

Grassroots Collaborative: Peoria People’s Project, Grassroots Collaborative’s own direct organizing work with Black families in Peoria.

Artist credit: Grassroots Collaborative

Right now the need for immediate relief is enormous. And, we are keeping our vision set on the long term change that we need, which is why the Partnership for Working Families and our 20 affiliates across the country are also working to defend roll-backs of basic liberties, expand the opportunities for authentic democracy, and identify multiple strategies to anticipate and defend working-class communities of color against predatory corporate actions.

There is no single solution that will change this system; we need multiple changes in multiple systems at the same time. That’s why the Partnership has long focused on advocating for and highlighting the priorities and needs of the people who fuel our economy: working-class communities of color. There is no going back to the way things were, and we are keeping our eyes set on the permanent structural changes that we need in order to live in a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.
Influencer Marketing Framework [Free Resource]
Tags: Influencer Marketing, Free Resources, Marketing, Resources

While budgets for influencer marketing continue on the upwards trajectory, there is still a great deal of pussy-footing in the dark with no clear campaign structure. The core stages of a successful influencer marketing programme include a great deal of research before moving on to the next stages of planning, negotiating and finally execution. Yet the number of brands and agencies that pretty much skip straight to execution is alarming.

In response to this issues, ZINE has created the ‘Framework to A Successful Influencer Marketing Strategy’, which breaks down these stages into chunks, serving as a practical guide to help you run campaigns more profitably.

In particular the framework will help you to swerve influencer marketing pitfalls in the following areas:

Influencer Research

A lack of initial influencer research means campaigns are run with poorly targeted influencers. In ZINE’s own research earlier this year we found that just 29% of influencers are asked for the demographics of their following, and just 11% of bloggers asked for their Google analytics stats. This goes to show both brands and agencies are focusing too much on what they can directly see (number of followers and content), and not enough on audience relevance. In other areas of paid advertising such as PPC or Facebook ads, one would never dream of targeting an audience based on reach alone — why is this the case with influencer marketing?

Whether you are using going via the manual route, or using an influencer marketing platform like ZINE, in our framework we guide you though the number of influencers to to use and the questions to ask.

Planning

Getting content guidelines right from the start will have a huge effect on the success of your entire campaign — whether you are collaborating with one or 100 influencers. It will save you hours of back and forth with the influencers or agents, your reputation as you are not having to push back on content that isn’t right for you, and wasted budget as over scripted content fails to resonate with audiences and loses its authenticity. This may sound a little melodramatic but I cannot stress how crucial this element is.

Remember to include both general and legal guidelines and the date you need the posts to go live and send to all influencer you are running campaigns with prior to any official confirmations. For our campaigns we use our digital campaign set-up. This part of our influencer marketing platform takes the manual labour out of this stage as rather than copying and pasting to all influencer by email then trying to track responses, we simply upload our guidelines and dates, personalise messages, then send to our influencers in minutes!
Economics is NOT about money
By: Robert Jameson
Tags: Economics, Introduction To Economics, Money, Economy, Resources

(Introduction to Economics, Lesson 2)

Before you can learn what Economics is, it is really going to help if you can first clear your mind of some of the common, but fundamentally misleading misconceptions about what Economics is actually about.

The biggest misconception about Economics concerns money. This would come as quite a surprise to most of the population, but Economics is NOT about money. Most people seem to think it is, but it isn’t!

Think of it like this: We use money to buy food, housing, books and thousands of other goods and services. The money goes one way (to the person or business we buy those goods from) and the food, housing and books go the other way (to us, the consumers of those goods) — but it’s the food, housing and books that are the really important things. If these important resources continued to be supplied, but no money changed hands, we’d be OK — we could carry on as before. On the other hand, if money moved, but no resources were supplied, we’d all starve to death. That’s the difference in importance between money and real resources!

Money is relatively unimportant. We can survive without money. This, after all, is exactly what the human race did for many thousands of years. Instead of using money, early man simply used a system of bartering — people would simply swap things they had plenty of for other things they didn’t produce themselves. Many people didn’t even use bartering. They simply met all their needs for themselves, by harvesting the bounty of the natural world around them.

Money is very useful, of course, as it allows much more complex trading than would be possible with only a bartering system. However, this doesn’t make it more important than the actual resources we need to survive. We can survive without money, but we cannot survive without real resources.
Supernode 101 | Earn Vite Rewards Daily
Tags: Startup, Technology, Software Development, Blockchain, Resources

2) Why are supernodes in Vite called Snapshot Block Producers?

Vite uses a variant of DPOS called Hierarchical Delegated Proof of Stake (HDPOS). This is due to our Block Lattice architecture which is a novel form of Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). In HDPOS, there are three levels of consensus:

Local Consensus: Happens at the level of user accounts and smart contract accounts. Vite’s Block Lattice DAG ledger means that each user and smart contract has its own chain. Delegated Consensus Groups are hand-picked sets of full nodes who determine the state of smart contracts. Global Consensus: Global Consensus happens at the Snapshot Chain level, through the Snapshot Consensus Group. The Snapshot Chain is an overall ledger of all chains at the Local Consensus level; though it does not store the whole ledger, it stores key information such as account balances and roots of Merkle Trees of smart contract states.

The relationship between Local Consensus and Global Consensus is captured in the following analogy: a company records its financial transactions (Local Consensus) and an auditor confirms that they are correct (Global Consensus). Supernodes are members of the Snapshot Consensus Group, from which the top 100 are eligible to become SBP’s.

Snapshot Block Producers (SBP) are the top 25 voting supernodes within the Snapshot Consensus Group, who produce blocks for the Snapshot Chain. Vite invented the Snapshot Chain to mitigate security issues posed by DAG architecture, which are well known.

SwissVite is an outstanding example of an SBP. We previously highlighted them in this article. They are a team of five based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sukuk Bonds on the Blockchain
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Finance, Blockchain, Resources

Debt financing forms the pipeline through which liquidity flows into global capital markets. Throughout history, corporations and governments have issued bonds to raise funds for various endeavors, providing volatility averted investors with stable annual coupon yields. Yet until very recently, financial institutions and investors in the Islamic world did not have access to this. With the development of the Sukuk at the end of the 20th century, Islamic investors gained the ability to receive annuities derived from profits generated by an underlying asset. Since its inception in 2001, the demand for Sukuk bonds has risen significantly.

The Ingenuity of a Sukuk Bond

In a traditional Sukuk bond, the issuer raises funds from investors and uses that capital to purchase an underlying asset or invest in a venture. In exchange, investors are provided with fractional ownership and receive periodic payments proportional to the capital they invested. There are three main types of Sukuk:

Mudharabah: Investors are treated as silent partners that share in profits based on the performance of the underlying venture. With this type of Sukuk, all losses are borne exclusively by the investor. Musharakah: In addition to sharing profits, investors are seen as joint partners that participate in business decisions. Also, unlike the Mudharabah, losses are shared by the issuer and investor. Murabahah: Investors purchase an underlying asset and lease it back to the Sukuk issuer. At the end of the lease term, Sukuk holders sell the asset back to the issuer at a predetermined price.

While this asset class is treated differently than regular bonds from a compliance perspective, from a technical perspective, it is very much subject to the same inefficiencies as regular bonds. These inefficiencies are what Jibrel’s blockchain aims to solve.

Introducing the Smart Sukuk

Smart Sukuks are able to standardize and automate much of the legal, accounting and payment overhead of conventional Sukuk offerings. By utilizing smart regulation, they enable parties to share a common source of truth. The ownership status of each bond and its underlying asset are automatically updated on a single blockchain, which provides a single view of records enforced through consensus mechanisms.
Permian Basin Seen as Poised for Strategic Consolidation
By: Travis Newkumet
Tags: Oil And Gas Industry, Environment, Texas, Oil, Resources

Texas entrepreneur Travis Newkumet guides Regions Permian as cofounder and CEO, where he offers investors the advantage of years of results-driven experience in the oil and gas development sphere. Over the past six years, Travis Newkumet and his firm’s predecessors have undertaken $500 million in asset acquisitions and divestitures across Texas and Oklahoma.

A recent Forbes article drew attention to the Permian Basin oil boom as creating dynamics favorable to strategic takeovers that generate new efficiencies and economies of scale. Particularly attractive are those operators that have assembled highly-contiguous land tracts that enable underground resources to be accessed with the minimum number of drilled wells. At the same time, water can be more efficiently distributed through a network of surface pipes, rather than being brought in via tanker truck.

Speculation is increasing that the Permian-centered industry is thus poised to enter an era of rapid consolidation. This in turn is creating investment opportunities in independent producers with strategic Permian holdings that are ripe for acquisition. The next step for industry watchers will be to see how negotiation and execution details of potential transactions unfold.
Is good welfare system good?
Tags: Money, Welfare, Welfare System, Resources, Human Rights

I used to have complains about Korean and other considered-good welfare systems, because I felt like it’s to take someone’s money for someone else. Me being neither rich nor poor didn’t matter, it’s all about whether the logic makes sense to me.

But about 2 months ago, I came up with the question. ‘Who decides hard-working (or smart or whatever) people get much more money, that is access to resources?’ Well, it makes sense that people who make the world more efficient(=higher productivity) get some more cherries, but to the point where others to struggle (that’s very subjective, but bear with me still..)?

About a month ago, my acquaintance was beaten up hard by her husband, but when she was, her family was protecting her computer(=access to work) instead of her, and she still had to go to work where she needs to smile for her customers as if nothing happened, just to feed her family. So I offered little support for her. And to my surprise, she called me, and said that her family was kicked out of their rented house, so they had nowhere to go. And that she was seriously thinking of committing suicide with her kids, parents, and siblings left behind. But then I sent her money at the right time, to buy a house (still have no clue how…). She continued, ‘Your help meant our lives.’

Then I remembered, once I told my mom to stop donating for so many random people. After what she said ‘Whether knowing them personally or not doesn’t matter, it means life to them.’

The earth and resources in it must be shared with every living creature, in which context that lazy pandas and north pole bears aren’t generally denied for their portion for decent lives. Then how come so many people are denied for their portion of decent lives because of say, they are in certain regions, under bad leaders, challenged, etc.? Perhaps some food for thought.
Benefits of Training to Employees and Employers
By: Ronal Canal
Tags: Employers, Employees, Resources, Human

In spite of prevalent thinking, the advantages of staff preparation are not restricted to workers. Studies have over and again shown that organizations that put vigorously in worker preparation are fruitful and prosperous.

Quite possibly the most well-known errors made by businesses is to expect that underlying staff preparation isn’t sufficient. Whenever you have finished the main required instructional class, there is no compelling reason to put more in the human resources courses.

Additionally, the advantages of preparing and advancement in the association proceeds. As a worker, preparing and improvement offer you the chance to advance.

6 Basic training benefits for employees and employers

Seeing investing in staff training as a waste of money is by no means a waste of time. No matter the cost, invest in the long-term well-being of your entire business. Whether you have only 700 or 10 employees, the value of training and continuous development cannot be overemphasized.

1. Influence

You can’t expect to be encouraged by your employees without showing your commitment to their success. Every time you give an employee the opportunity to develop new skills and knowledge, you contribute directly to their future. It is no secret that motivated workers are also efficient, effective, and honest employees.

2. Respond to changes in the industry

It is also important to remember that no matter what department you want to be in, things can change and change at their own pace. If you want your employees and your business to stay close to the changes in the latest industries, you need to provide opportunities for continuing education and development.

3. Improved service delivery systems

Give your employees everything they need to reach their full potential and they will reward you for their honesty. Instead, reassure them that they are on the verge of extinction and will not hesitate to look for other jobs.

4. Satisfaction at work

The level of job satisfaction felt by any employee will directly affect their impact, productivity, honesty, and foresight. Also, you can’t expect full-time employees if they don’t feel happy and satisfied with their job.

5. Quality and consistency

Continuing education can also be a great way to ensure that each staff member is based on the same standards-based on experience, knowledge, and more. Consistency is important because it never encourages employees to look up and raise others to look faster than themselves.

6. Attract new talent

If you want to attract the best talent to your business, you need to make sure you offer the right marketing. Companies that invest heavily in the success of their employees never succeed in attracting new talent at the highest level.
Top Business Resources in Hudson County for Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
By: Njsbdc At Njcu
Tags: Covid 19, Diversity, Business, Hudson County, Resources

Hudson County is one of the fastest-growing counties in the state of New Jersey. As the County grows, the small business community also grows. As the community prospers, resources are needed to accommodate the new and existing small business owners.

We’ve gathered Top 5 educational and business resources for all the constituents of the County.

Business.nj.gov

NJ.gov is part of the State of New Jersey’s Business First Stop initiative. It provides you with the information you need to plan, start, operate, and grow your business. Whether you want to contract with the State or need answers on how to register your business, business owners and entrepreneurs can utilize this resource to thrive.

Website: business.nj.gov

Hudson County Chamber of Commerce

The Hudson County Chamber provides education, advocacy and access to its members within and throughout each community in Hudson County. Becoming a member of this organization can grant you access to the Chamber’s vast network, help you create a company profile for the community, offers members-only access to special events and opportunities, and lets you support the Chamber’s mission to enhance the County’s vitality.

Website: www.hudsonchamber.org

Hudson County Office of Business Opportunity

The Hudson County Office of Business Opportunity (HCOBO) is your direct conduit to local, state, and federal business opportunities. The HCOBO helps businesses get certified for MBEs, WBEs, VBEs, and SBEs and connect with resources and opportunities.

Website: hcobo.com

Hudson County Economic Development Corporation

The Hudson County Economic Development Corporation’s (HCEDC) mission is to serve Hudson County’s diverse communities by providing comprehensive financial access, information, professional training and affordable housing. This organization provides a wide variety of loans, in-depth, advanced training and workshops, different demographic reports, and affordable housing accommodations.

Website: www.hudsonedc.org

NJSBDC at NJCU Resource Hub

Our Center has curated over 120 different resources from state, federal, and local agencies that have shared their initiatives for the COVID-19 pandemic

Website: www.sbdchudsoncounty.com/resources/covid19resourcehub/
COVID-19 — Part V: Small Business Resources.
By: Christina Snuffin
Tags: Covid 19, Coronavirus, Business Strategy, Small Business, Resources

By Mallory Corlette

This is part five in our occasional series about applying for coronavirus-related loans.

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) took effect in early May. It states that companies with fewer than 500 employees have to offer paid medical leave after the employee takes 10 unpaid days.

An employee is eligible if 1) that employee has to take leave to quarantine because they have the virus; 2) that employee has to stay home to care for a child/children due to schools/daycare centers being closed. The employee would decide whether they would like to use this or not; the employer cannot mandate it.

This won’t apply to most of our clients since option 2 isn’t available if the employee is able to telework. An employee also cannot apply for FFCRA if your facility/office is closed. There are lots of nuances about how the reimbursements work, so let Office Accomplice know if one of your employees decides to request leave through FFCRA/FMLA. And, do not forget to distribute this information to your employees.
In Solidarity
By: The Yappie
Tags: BlackLivesMatter, George Floyd, Race, Asian American, Resources

Dear readers,

We live in stunningly grim times compared to when the last Yappie briefing was published in February. Disease has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 of our fellow Americans. Millions more are out of work. Unrest is spreading. Cities have been set ablaze. And there is no clear end in sight.

But amid the rage and anguish, we must not lose sight of why this is happening. The coronavirus pandemic and yet another tragic death at the hands of the police have laid bare the failures of our political leaders to address systemic racial inequities.

At a time when our own community is facing a surge in anti-Asian attacks, we cannot turn away, stay silent, or be complicit in violence inflicted upon others. The multiple tragedies rippling throughout the country are inherently linked, and the consequences of injustice, oppression, and hate impact us all — but particularly black Americans. The trauma being inflicted on their community is not new. In fact, it has always been their ‘normal.’

Our stories and struggles may be different, but we must do our part to confront white supremacy. On the last day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we’d like to amplify some resources on how Asian Americans can support and stand in solidarity with the black community.

”I can’t breathe” was George Floyd’s last cry. Our hearts have been broken, but there is still so much work left to do.

— The Yappie Team
A beginner’s guide to web accessibility
By: Samantha Lurio
Tags: Software Engineering, Coding, Web Development, Resources, Accessibility

By Cynthia Kittler

Web accessibility has been on my mind lately. After talking to an experienced software engineer and attending a React.js Girls event featuring Sophie Koonin as a speaker, both stressed the importance of web accessibility. It surprises me that many US companies do not require web accessibility features.

When web accessibility comes to mind most people think of just adding an alt text to an image, but there is much more to it! This article is a beginner's guide to web accessibility and lists some simple ways to make your website more accessible.

What Is Web Accessibility?

Technology and the web are supposed to make people’s lives easier. Accessibility means creating a website that anyone (no matter what the person’s physical, cognitive, or current ability is) can navigate, interact, and contribute to that website.

Sophie had a great quote from Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit that stresses the importance of web accessibility when creating a website.

‘’If we use our own abilities and biases as a starting point, we end up with products designed for people of a specific gender, age, language ability, tech literacy, and physical ability. Those with specific access to money, time, and a social network.”

Often developers do not put web accessibility at the forefront of their minds when developing. But one should! After all, the web was invented to be used for all, so shouldn’t we ensure all websites can be used by everyone?

Where To Even Begin?!

By Stephanie DeAngelis

There is much to consider when making your website more accessible since there are many types of disabilities to account for. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines understands this and has broken down the core concepts into 4 principles.

Perceivable: Users must be able to perceive it in some way, using one or more of their senses.

Operable: Users must be able to control UI elements (e.g. buttons must be clickable in some way — mouse, keyboard, voice command, etc.).

Understandable: The content must be understandable to its users.

Robust: The content must be developed using well-adopted web standards that will work across different browsers, now and in the future.

Ways To Make Your Website More Accessible!

Below is a brief list of what you can do to make your website more accessible. Please note there are a lot of things and disabilities to account for, this outline is the minimum of what you can do. Please read the WC3 docs for a complete guideline.

1. Color

Do not use color as the only way to tell your user some information. This helps users who are unable to tell one color from another. This is really important for error messages, especially user input. This can help people who are color blind(1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women), low vision (1 in 30 people), or the blind(1 in 188 people). Instead of relying on color, you can use text or an icon to indicate to the user a field is required or there is an error.
Sarcoma — The Forgotten Cancer. Yellow Ribbons conjure many feelings.
By: Jennifer Ryan
Tags: Sarcoma, Awareness, Health, Cancer, Resources

Yellow Ribbons conjure many feelings.

They’re used to promote awareness of suicide prevention, missing children, numerous medical conditions (including several types of cancer). They remind us to support our troops and remember those missing or killed in action.

They’re also used to represent sarcoma awareness.

And, in honor of Sarcoma Awareness Month, we share this yellow ribbon today.

What is Sarcoma?

According to The National Foundation for Cancer Research,

“Sarcoma is a rare but deadly form of cancer affecting connective tissues such as fat, muscle, blood vessels, nerve, bone, deep skin and cartilage.”

There are two main types of sarcomas — soft tissue sarcomas and bone sarcomas, but there are many subgroups. In fact, The Mayo Clinic lists over 70.

Often called, “the forgotten cancer,” sarcoma is most commonly diagnosed in children.

But while considered a “rare” cancer, making up only 1% of all cancers, survival rates for those with sarcoma are low. And diagnosis and treatment are difficult.

That makes awareness critical!

Around 12,000–15,000 people are diagnosed with sarcoma each year in the US. For those battling sarcoma and their loved-ones, the “rarity” of this disease is no comfort.

To help do our part in raising awareness, we’ve compiled a list of resources and sources of additional information for those who’d like to learn more.

Resources

American Childhood Cancer Organization

Sarcoma Alliance

Sarcoma Foundation of America

Cancer Financial Assistance Coalition (CFAC)

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Cancer Care

Johns Hopkins Sarcoma Center
Design documentation: Starting our DesignOps journey
By: Liam Charnock
Tags: Product Design, Designops, Process Improvement, Team Culture, Resources

The digital product function at The Very Group was in transition. We were transforming from a traditional delivery function to an autonomous, product led squad structure (Spotify model light) — and this meant big changes for the design team.

Along with the introduction of new designers, the team structure and ways of working needed to adapt in new ways to reflect squad and tribe culture. Amongst many other things, one of the biggest aspects we needed to nail strategically was our design documentation and handover processes.

Documentation was a theme that had long needed attention, but it had now become critical to make improvements as the team transitioned and scaled. As the Covid-19 pandemic compelled the team to adopt remote working with no DesignOps function in place, we began to explore ways to ensure that we continued serving our users and helping our stakeholders deliver best in class experiences.

The risks of a dispersed and scaled design team

It’s a given that each designer rightly has their own flair, tools and methods when it comes to how they deliver projects — and having that freedom and individuality is a fundamental aspect of creativity. The reality is that as a design team scales, so do the ways of working and this is where issues can start to occur. When we talk about design documentation, we’re not just talking about UI specs and style guides — the growing stack of designer responsibilities results in a rising complexity of design deliverables.
CSS Flex: Creating dynamic, responsive lists
By: Robin Saulet
Tags: Web Design, Flex, CSS, Resources, HTML

🏭️ The setup

For this article, we need to start with a common file.

Here’s the HTML:

<div class="container">

<div>1</div>

<div>2</div>

<div>3</div>

<div>4</div>

</div>

And the CSS:

.container{

display: flex;

margin: 0 5px;

} .container div{

background-color: white;

margin: 5px;

/*** Just to center the text ***/

display: inline-flex;

justify-content: center;

align-items: center;

}

Adjust the margin (or width) of the container as you want

So you have something like this:

💼 Wrap the container

The flex-wrap CSS property sets whether flex items are forced onto one line or can wrap onto multiple lines. If wrapping is allowed, it sets the direction that lines are stacked.

Add this to the container :

.container{

display: flex;

flex-wrap: wrap;

margin: 30px 5px;

}

That just nothing but it’s normal don’t worry

🔎 How to use Flex?

The flex property includes 3 properties to define:

<flex-grow> : Should the element fill the empty space of the parent?

: Should the element fill the empty space of the parent? <flex-shrink> : Can the element be cut in relation to the parent block?

: Can the element be cut in relation to the parent block? <flex-basis> : The size of the element (to be used as <min-width> )

flex: flex-grow flex-shrink flex-basis;

🧙 The magic touch

Now we add the CSS which will define an adjustment if the parent block has empty space + (the size of our divs - the margins) which gives, if we want 3 divs per line:

.container div{

background-color: white;

flex: 1 0 calc(33.33% - 10px);

margin: 5px;

/*** Just to center the text ***/

display: inline-flex;

justify-content: center;

align-items: center;

}

If you want 4 divs per line just do :

flex: 1 0 calc (25% -10px)

🎊 Congrats 🎊

You just created a container that allows you to add as many elements as you want without having to redo a specific CSS. This technique is very useful if you have lists, products on several lines or articles!

Enjoy 🖖
Resources I wish I had when I started learning UX Design
By: Ira Kaushik
Tags: Ui Ux Design, UI, Design, UX, Resources

When I was starting out in the field of UX design, I used to feel very lost and off- track. How should I start? Where and what should I look for? What should I read? I had to figure out everything on my own. So to not get overwhelmed with all the resources I had to learn and to provide it with a structure, I started creating my own list of resources on which I could rely or fall back to.

So here are the links that I have been collecting from over the past 2 years which I found to be quite useful. I will try to regularly update whenever I find something interesting and new. Hope you enjoy this random scattering of links and hope everyone could find at least one new helpful resource out of this article.

User Experience (UX) Design

Source: Unsplash

What is UX Design?

UX Design Process:

UX Design Resources/Blogs you should follow:

Links you should definitely bookmark if you haven’t already

Blogs/Magazines

Things you need to know before starting out:

Source: Unsplash

How to become a UX Designer at 40 with no digital or design experience, Notes I wish I’d had before becoming a Designer in Sydney: I included this article because it provides an overview of the tools used in this field for designing and prototyping, Guy Ligertwood shared his design process and contains a list of books that every designer should read.

Check out what and why of usability for understanding all the different fields of UX design by usability.gov.

Before starting a project:
When do you wish to DIE?
By: Smit Veer
Tags: Death, Sustainability, India, Family, Resources

Certainly there can be a theoretical answer to this as when you fulfill your dreams, complete your duty…. and so on..but let’s think on other lines, currently the lifespan of a human is 79 years. What If we put an upper limit on our age?

“babumoshai…. zindagi lambi nahi badi honi chahiye…” (Sir,…life need not be long it should be big)

‘Anand‘— 1971 film

Let’s say that the maximum age a person can live in the world is 70 years. Any person born will have a maximum life limit of 70 years, after that the person could be considered as a burden on the state in terms of medical and healthcare where the person would use the state resources without any giving back or productive activity towards the society. Burden on state is a reality. To execute this idea how will the demise take place is a question, it has to be something more direct and not painful.

Only persons of national and company importance such as prime ministers, scientists, journalists, CEO’s, Editors etc could be given an extra time frame up till their contribution in the field and then we can bid them a respectful bye. Of course everyone deserves a respectful bye.

Would you not like to die with your friends or your partner? that too while having a celebration? Let’s imagine you reach the age 70 and along with your friends and partner decide to die on a day while other relatives, friends come to bid you adieu(which you wouldn’t be able to meet in a normal death),completing all the legal formalities to ensure no family disputes after you go, you enjoy your best last meal, you enjoy your last day remembering the memories while you are just about to go and definitely you can see who did care about you. I would definitely prefer dying this way other than due to some disease or something more painful than it.

Therefore there are 2 main advantages to this :

Saving states resources, through reducing consumption and ensuring sustainability.

A known time frame to your life to plan things accordingly, and a happy ending in reality.

Will death be surely a fun event then?…
I wish someone had told me — earth’s resources are finite
By: Josh Nuttall
Tags: Change, 2050, Sustainability, Resources, Earth

Did you know that we add 1 million people to the global population every 5 days? Over the last two centuries we have seen the global population grow from one billion to over 7 billion people, an exponential growth curve that has put our planet under server pressure… which is just managing to hold it all together.

How is this growth sustainable you may ask? We it’s not and we are running out of time to act and course correct.

Being passionate about sustainability, I am continuously pushing myself to find different ways to share, educate and enact the change that we need to work towards so that we can play our part in fixing the world we live in.

I have gone down many rabbit holes in discussions surrounding sustainability, our environment, climate change, and our consumption habits. In the effort to keep this piece short and two the point, I encourage us to rethink two elements. Firstly, our drive to create and secondly our drive to consume. If you watch the documentary, you will see that they make reference to how we would need five planet earths should everyone on earth consume in the same way that Americans’ do…

During a conversation while down in the Eastern Cape a few weeks ago, a friend shared the below documentary with me. The Endgame 2050, it will get you to open your eyes and I hope ask you to re-think some of the choices that we make on a daily basis.

At the end of the documentary, it encourages viewers to become vegan, as they believe that this is one of the quickest methods to help address some of the issues we face as humanity.

However, I think that the action we need to take doesn’t purely lie in one specific area, because this is using siloed thinking which is one of the reasons, we are facing the challenges that we have today. I think that we need to be more conscious of our behaviour, because if we wish to establish lasting change, we need to engrain these steps in society. As individuals we have a choice — we need to use this to hold businesses and ourselves accountable — if we don’t start to change the narrative and keep thinking someone else will do it we won’t be able to create a sustainable future.

Let’s remember our actions will have an influence on people’s lives that we will never meet. So, be more conscious and recognise the true interconnectedness of the world in which we live. Don’t consume endlessly, educate yourself, question things, and remind yourself that small changes compound.
What will you do?
By: Latinx Education Collaborative
Tags: Teachers, Latinx, Educators, Equity, Resources

On Wednesday, I casually texted my mom during a break between classes around 2 PM to express my excitement about Georgia's Senate race results. “Have you seen DC?” she quickly responded.

No. No, I had not. In an instant, I opened up Twitter to see the barrage of images of insurgents storming the Capitol building. The Confederate Flag, waving in the halls. A man with his feet upon Nancy Pelosi’s desk. Video of altercations with law enforcement. SELFIES with guards. My stomach dropped; what was supposed to be a momentous occasion for Georgia’s first Black Senator had turned into a day that would forever be etched into the minds of Americans. Our very own citizens attacked us.

To call this event anything else than a lesson in white supremacy/white power is wrong. And as educators, we have a responsibility to provide factual information and a safe space to process events that change the course of our collective history.

Perusing Twitter that night, educators shared links, lessons, slide decks; to be frank, it was overwhelming, but it showed me the education world had made some progress since the summer, and I was proud of that. If you were part of the group that brought in resources Thursday, I applaud you. If you didn’t, there is no judgment. Our spaces are all different, and at this time, it may not have been something with which you are comfortable.

However, I’d ask you to reflect.

As Latinx educators, we personally had to navigate a world where a candidate for the presidency called members of our community “not our friends…rapists…some…are good people”. He disparaged immigrants by saying they come from “sh-thole countries.” Personally, I’ve had to sit through student conversations where white students called President Trump a great president and viewed his language as a minor issue and remarked, “he’s just joking.” The landscape for us changed in these last four years. Isn’t it time we find our voice?

The work of having difficult conversations is…well, difficult. It takes practice, patience. One needs to be resolute in their belief that holding this space is worthwhile and important. And you have to know your students and community intimately. I work in a predominately white institution and community, one that is very conservative. The way I structure my lesson must be rooted in facts first, dialogue second. I am careful about word choice and know that much of what my students know about current events is filtered through their guardians (or, as I’ve learned over the last 24 hours, Tik Tok). I used this slide deck with my 6th and 8th graders and created a blank template for when we will need it again.

Because no doubt there will be another “day after” with which we will need to contest. What will you do? I hope that we continue to find our voices as leaders in our buildings and guide our students in seeking truth and demanding justice.
Icons8 Photos 2.0. GitHub for Free Stock Photos
Tags: Content Marketing, Photography, Design, User Experience, Resources

All that considerably limits the potential of creators that need photo content but have no time, skills or budget to make a custom photo shooting.

Solution: Diversity of Models for Customizable Photos

When we first released Icons8 Photos, it already offered the photos that were created to harmonically work together and looked consistent. Also, we wanted to go beyond the limits increasing the number and diversity of photos with a simple idea: to make 100 images in the studio, add 100 backgrounds, and get 10,000 photos. In fact, the number strives to infinity if we combine various people, photographed and 3D-rendered props, and 3D-rendered interiors.

That’s what we did. Yet, we got a bunch of comments that our stock missed some characters and that we have more white models than any others. And it was a solid complaint. Though we were doing our best: casting different models, planing photo stories, shooting in Moscow and Buenos Aires, it wasn’t fast enough to fulfill all the requests. We were searching for a way of creating a diversity of photos faster. So, we decided to mask models and objects and combine them. It gave us more stock pictures for sure, but it was just 10 photos masked per day. Still quite slow. Then we implemented AI-based masking. Got much faster.

Next step was to build a Photo Creator that allows users to compose realistic collages from our photos.
Police Alternatives: Mental Health Resources for Multnomah and Washington County
By: Grey, They Them
Tags: Resources, Portland, Mental Health

Portland Crisis Respond

24-Hour mental health crisis hotline and mobile mental health crisis response team that provides an array of crisis, specialized, and culturally aware services.

(503) 988–4888

https://cascadiabhc.org/services/crisis-intervention/#_ProjectRespond

Portland Suicide Lifeline

24-Hour Hotline — City program operated by Lines for Life.

(503) 972–3456

https://www.linesforlife.org/

National Alliance on Mental Illness

The nation’s largest grass-roots organization dedicated to building better lives for those affected by mental illness.

(503) 356–6835

https://www.nami.org/help

PDX Care Collective

Peer support, crisis response, and mental health resources for activists and marginalized folks.

https://twitter.com/PDX_Care?s=20

PDX Med Tent Mental Health Support

Autonomous practitioners dedicated to supporting activists and prioritize the well-being of marginalized community members.

https://twitter.com/PdxMedTentMHS

pdxmedtentmhs@protonmail.com

Washington County Crisis Line

24-Hour Hotline — Help from mental health professionals available at all times. Concerned community members, friends, and family are also encouraged to call.

(503) 293–9111

Hawthorn Walk-In Center

Urgent care services for those experiencing a mental health crisis or facing addiction concerns. Assistance is available over the phone or by video 9AM PST to 8:30PM PST. Call ahead to secure in-person support.

(503) 846–4555

https://www.lifeworksnw.org/location/hawthorn-walk-in-center/

Missing a resource? Contribute to this list by e-mailing me at udaniyadv@protonmail.com.
Open Source VC: Investment Opportunities in the New Normal
By: John Henderson
Tags: Technology, VC, Resources, Investment

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” — Lenin

It’s not every day that a VC gets to quote Lenin, but it is hard to disagree with him in light of our current reality. In just five short months, Covid-19 has stimulated five years’ worth of digital adoption. Its impact on consumers and businesses will be profound and long-lasting.

My colleague Kevin Lu and I zoomed in on a few of these effects and presented our findings at AirTree’s Investor Summit in September 2020.

We thought the wider community might be interested in it too, so we’re sharing the presentation below. Topics covered include:

SaaS tools to support a remote-first world

A digital kick in the butt for healthcare and education

E-commerce was a wave, now it’s a tsunami

The blossoming of the creator economy

eSport is sport; gaming is the new social

You can reach

John Henderson on john[at]airtree[dot]vc, follow John on Twitter @johnhenderson

Kevin Lu on kevin[at]airtree[dot]vc, follow Kevin on Twitter at @kevin_jy_lu

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A full list of AirTree’s Open Source VC resources can be accessed here.