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Will Ferrell And Zooey Deschanel Recreated Their ‘Elf’ Duet And It’s The Holiday Spirit We All Need
By: Funny Or Die
Tags: Funny Holidays, Zooey Deschanel Recreated, Live Table Read, Elf, Funny Politics

We all know that Elf is the best Christmas movie, and I’m not just saying that because Will Ferrell owns this company. (I’m kind of saying that because Will Ferrell owns this company.) It’s got everything a top-shelf holiday movie needs: snow, decorations, whimsical stop motion animals, and singing.

To quote a certain giant elf, the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.

One of the movie’s most unforgettable moments is, of course, the iconic duet between Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel. Iconic because not only are the acoustics in that department store staff dressing room perfect for an unplugged jam sesh, but also because there’s literally no place better to sing the decidedly very creepy holiday classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” than to your coworker while they’re in the shower when they don’t know you’re there.

And this week Buddy the Elf and Jovie the… Department Store Elf, along with the rest of the cast, had a very special early Christmas gift for everyone.

On Sunday, the cast of Elf reunited for a virtual live table read of the entire movie in order to raise money for the Democratic Party of Georgia ahead of the January run-offs. While their 2020 rendition of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” featured 100% fewer showers and 100% more Will Ferrell beard, it brought with it all the fun and charm of the 2004 duet.

Will Ferrell And Zooey Deschanel Recreated Their ‘Elf’ Duet And It’s The Holiday Spirit We All Need
Scheduled publishing, the perfect way to manage your content during Christmas
By: Francesco Falchi
Tags: Publishing, Scheduling, Wev Development, Christmas, Deployment

Christmas is not here yet but DatoCMS has already a gift for you, Scheduled publishing.

It happens more often than not that you might want to publish one of your records but you aren’t available at the time you want to publish it. It’s probably going to happen during vacation time like Christmas.

Fear not because from now on you can set up you records publication even if you’re not there to press the “Build now” button.

How to set up a Scheduled publishing

We’re going to create two simple articles and schedule the publishing of the first one during Christmas and the second one for the new year.

To start we’ll create a “Festivity” model.

Some of the fields you might need for your related to festivities model

Remember to enable the draft/published system in the additional setting of your model.

You need the draft/published system to be active to be able to use the Scheduled publishing

Now we can move on to create our records.

Our New year festivity record

When we save it we have our New year post ready but nobody will be there to publish it at 12AM of the first of january.

We can set our scheduled publishing to be sure the post will be out.

Setting up the publication date is really easy

You’ve probably noticed that the publication time is set to GMT(London) because that’s the time set on the Global project settings of our project, but our computer is actually in a different time zone.

Keep that in mind if you’re working remotely or in a different timezone than the the one set in the project.

In our case we’re at GMT +1, we’ve set the publishing an hour earlier. If we were in London the notification about the Timezone would not show up

You can check the release time in your collection by selecting the “Scheduled publishing at” in your Tabular view.

Your environment is part of the process

If you’re using our CDA client side (with React, Vue, Angular, you name it) or your DatoCMS project is server-side (using Rails, Node.js, Elixir, PHP or any other solution of your choice) and it’s using our Content Delivery API, the records will be available at the scheduled time.

Otherwise if you have a static site project, the last step is to enable Scheduled publishing in our environments so that they can deploy properly.

Remember to select the right environment if you have more than one!

A request from the future

Many projects might need more than a single record to be released at the same time, for example if you have magazine that is going to release several article a specific day per month.

In the near future DatoCMS will expand Scheduled publishing capabilities to enable the release of several records at the same time.

Enjoy your vacations

Now you’re ready to enjoy Christmas and New year’s eve without the stress of pressing deadlines, go out there and break a leg!
How state agencies improved the digital experience to serve Washingtonians better
By: Wa Governor S Office
Tags: Digital, Mobile, Government, Customer Experience, Design

Charged with a mission to serve the public, Washington state agencies consistently strive to find new ways to deliver a more effective customer experience. Here are some highlights of how agencies recently restructured and changed the way they deliver services, offer information to taxpayers and provide a more user-friendly digital experience.

Health Care Authority

An estimated 150,000 school employees will enroll in the new School Employees Benefits Board Program this fall. To support employees in this shift to a statewide health benefits program, the Health Care Authority is offering innovative online tools.

This is a screenshot of what school employees will be able to see — the online benefits fair tool — starting Oct. 1 on the HCA website. (Image courtesy of HCA)

HCA built a “virtual benefits fair,” where employees can use their computer, tablet or smartphone to browse online booths and learn about medical plan options, among other things. The booths will offer videos, downloadable content, provider searches and other information to help employees choose the right plans for them and their dependents.

For those who want more guidance, HCA is offering an online benefits advisor tool that asks employees questions about their health care needs, then suggests which medical, dental and vision plans might make the most sense for them.

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) launched a new website in March. With nearly 70 percent of its website users visiting on mobile or tablet devices, WDFW built its new website with a user-centered design philosophy in mind, emphasizing a mobile-first approach for improved user experience and accessibility.
How to create perfect KYC photos and selfies that will never fail
By: Nauticus Blockchain
Tags: Banking, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Do it like this!

OK, so you’ve gone through the KYC process and failed for some reason.

Here are a few things you’ll need to consider for your second attempt:

For the paper with the word “NTS” and today’s DATE — use a White-Colored Paper and Dark Marker for HIGH CONTRAST. Write NTS in LARGE block letters. Only include the requested information — nothing else! (No cartoons, smiley faces, email address etc) Make sure NTS is spelled correctly. Plain background — no markings, logos, smudges, etc. Keep all text proportional — nothing much larger or smaller than anything else. Avoid a sign that is much larger than your head — keep everything in the photo proportional. Ensure you have good lighting and the photo is not blurry and of good quality. Ensure there is no flash reflection on your driver’s license. Black and white photos are NOT acceptable for KYC verification — only color photos. Only plastic IDs are acceptable, no paper IDs. No photocopies allowed. Photocopies of IDs are not a valid verification method. Make sure your ID is entirely visible and that no parts are covered or cut off in the photo. ID used must be some form of government issued photo ID — like a passport, Driver’s License or a government-issued ID card. Student IDs, Work IDs, and Library Cards are NOT valid forms of ID for KYC verification. You will not pass KYC if you are under 18. You will not pass KYC if your ID has expired.

Reach out to us at support@nauticus.exchange for any issues you have may with your KYC process and we’re happy to help.
Fauci Says COVID-19 Vaccine Was Developed by a Black Woman and I’m Still Not Taking It
By: Melissa A. Matthews
Tags: BlackLivesMatter, Covid 19, Medicine, Race, Vaccines

#1 A history of justified mistrust

For centuries — yes, hundreds of years — in Western societies, Black bodies have been used against their will and/or without consent as guinea pigs for the medical establishment to test, mutilate/ disfigure, poke, prod, and maim in the name of medicine and science. U.S. history is littered with examples. See the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment in which 399 infected and 201 uninfected Black men were deceived into thinking they were being treated for syphilis whilst the study’s intention was to follow and document the effects of untreated syphilis over time. Many Black doctors and nurses were recruited to aide in this deception over the 40 year course of the study.

See Henrietta Lacks a cancer patient whose cell culture was taken during treatment for cervical cancer and used as the genesis for what we now know to be HeLa cells. These cells are routinely used to test the effects of drugs and other substances on the human body. Lacks died unaware of the use of her genetic material in 1951 and her family was not made aware until 24 years later. Still there has been no resolve to the matter of patients rights and privacy with respect to the unwitting collection of genetic material.

Let us not delve into the savage dissection of enslaved Black women’s genitalia for advancement of gynecology by J. Marion Sims in the 19th century. He routinely operated on these captive women without anesthesia. Undoubtedly, he would have been assisted in these practices by other enslaved Black people who had no choice.

Black women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth or postpartum than their white counterparts. Studies have shown that this is largely due to disparities in how white doctors respond to Black women’s assertions of pain or discomfort. The medical system in the United States has an implicit bias against Black women that is routinely reinforced and unmitigated by socioeconomic standing, see Serena Williams birthing story and the tragic death of Kira Dixson Johnson. Both Williams and Johnson alerted medical professionals about postpartum irregularities whilst still in care and were ignored. Williams managed to convince doctors to take her seriously by demanding appropriate care, but Dixson and her husband were unsuccessful in their attempts leading to her untimely death.

What does all of this mean?

Black people have long understood that the Western medical system much like it’s judicial, economic, and sociopolitical siblings were not built for our benefit. Furthermore, this system and it’s agents have rarely, if ever, done more than tolerate our existence.
How to Animate and Plot Graphs Using Android Interpolator
Tags: Animation, Android, Programming, Mobile, Design

Let’s Check Out Each Interpolator

We now have the Interpolator Plotter, so let’s check out the behavior of each Interpolator. I use a duration of five seconds for all of them so we could clearly see their differences.

Check all the 11 Interpolators provided by Android natively and three custom made interpolators.

1. Linear interpolator

This is used to ensure a consistent animation speed throughout the duration. It’s the most basic (and perhaps boring) interpolator.

2. Linear out, slow in interpolator

If you want a quick entry and a slowdown at the end, this would be a good interpolator to consider.

3. Accelerate interpolator

If you want slow entry but fast at the end, the accelerate interpolator would do the trick for you.

4. Decelerate interpolator

This is similar to the linear out, slow in interpolator, but more linear.

5. Accelerate decelerate interpolator

A combination with a slow start and a slow end, and a fast middle. The fan animation shown above uses this interpolator.

6. Overshoot interpolator

This interpolator allows you to speed up and overshoot, then return to the value 1.0 at the end.

7. Anticipate interpolator

This interpolator is the opposite of overshoot interpolator, where it goes below 0, before heading speed up to 1.0. The effect is like pulling back and then releasing a bow and arrow.

8. Anticipate overshoot interpolator

This interpolator is a combination of the previous ones, where it goes below 0 and then overshoots above 1.0 before going back to 0. It’s a bit like like jumping up from under the water to hit above the water level and going back to below the level.

8. Anticipate Overshoot Interpolator

9. Cycle interpolator

This is just going up and down like a ball bouncing continuously.

10. Bounce interpolator

This interpolator is like a ball bouncing up and down until it stops.

11. Path interpolator

This interpolator allows you to draw any continuous path. This is a very customizable interpolator if you’re not good at math.

12. Hesitate interpolator

This is a custom interpolator I learned about on this site. It stops (hesitates) in the middle before continuing to the end.

13. Spring interpolator

This is a custom interpolator I learned about on this site. It behaves like a metal spring that overshoots then comes back with little bounce and settles to 1.0

14. Circular spring interpolator

This is a custom interpolator I made myself by multiplying two sinusoid formulas together. It forms a nice circular spring behavior, as shown below.
What Happens in Vegas…
Tags: Funny, Las Vegas, Humor, Cartoon, Comics

Written by

Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
What I Learned From a YooHoo Adventure
By: Anthony O'Dugan
Tags: Relationships, Change, Promises, Self, Adventure

Do you remember when you were a kid and you said to yourself, “I can’t wait to grow up, because when I do…” and you usually followed that statement with whatever you, as a kid, thought was important at that time? I think we’ve all had a few moments like that at one point or another in our childhoods. For me, I remember making a promise to myself that “I couldn’t wait to grow up, because when I did I could buy all the Yoohoo I wanted and no one could tell me I couldn’t.” And like all things kids say, I said it with as much truth and conviction as my then mind and heart would allow.

Fast forward many, many years. I can’t tell you how or why I remembered that promise today. I wasn’t reminiscing. I wasn’t stuck in nostalgia. It simply emerged at the front of my mind. I remembered it vividly as though I could see the kid-me standing there, arms folded, tapping his foot, scowling as if saying, “well, Mister, are you gonna keep the promise or not?”

I haven’t had a Yoohoo in years, nay decades. How long have I forgotten that promise? What other promises have I forgotten? Did I lose the magic and the conviction of youth when I stepped through the doorway of “growing up?” It occurred to me that the promises we make our children aren’t too different from the promises we made ourselves when we were young. But in the same way that on the surface I can see the difference between kid-me and now-me and how our priorities are very different, I cannot at the same time ignore the magnitude of kid-me’s conviction. To reduce his desires to mere childish flights of fancy not only minimizes his entire worldview, but I must also remember that it was a promise, and who am I to break the trust of a child, and in this instance, the trust in myself?

This very unexpected Yoohoo adventure has taught me something. The way in which I could respond to kid-me is telling of many things. First, it tells how I feel about myself. As I mentioned, if it was important to him then, then it NEEDS to be important to me now. That was the promise. Further, his life then was just as serious and complicated and important and real as my life now. I cannot reduce his life to a simpler time, for if by doing so, do I not also condemn myself at present to the same fate from a future-me looking back? Surely I do. Therefore, I promise this to myself today:

I pledge to be the man I could not wait to be for myself. In taking this pledge, I also pledge to be the father, the role model, the teacher, the husband, the ME, that realizes that all perceptions of self are equally real, valid, and important. I know this, because the kid-me, the now-me, and the future-me know this. And now, my two new me-friends, let’s have that Yoohoo.
Choose Your Dreams Over Your Fear
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Education, Self, Blog, Success, Fear

It’s a Sunday evening. I pause at the staircase, watching our two cats as they lounge in the upstairs living room, bathing in the glow of the sunset. Carrying a fresh feeling of jealousy at their free time, I walk downstairs to hear my partner, A, say something to me about the towels. I shake my head.

I’m somewhere else. Half of me is still awash with a desire to go lie down next to the cats upstairs and sunbathe alongside them. The other half is fixated on the ten remaining pages of an information-dense psychology paper on Self and Identity that I should really get through before my head hits the pillow tonight.

It has been a long time since I’ve been a student.

The last time I did this post-college, I took a full course load each semester while working full-time. Needless to say, the schedule didn’t lend itself to a healthy lifestyle. This time around, the workload is intense, yet again, but I’m a little older and a tad wiser. I know the importance of managing my time and planning ahead.

Still, what I don’t think is a broadcasted truth about pursuing your dreams is the amount of grit involved. There’s so much discipline needed. So much endurance. For me, this process feels like an act of giving myself over to my endeavor and letting it shape me into a more efficient, capable person.

And then there’s the fear, the pin-prick smack-dab in the middle of my heart, that all of this investment of time and energy and money will go to waste. That the result will be dismal- my inability to accomplish what I’ve set out to do.

But, the last time I made a huge commitment has taught me something. You can either give your time to the fear, or you can accept its existence and get to work on making your dreams come true.

I’ll have the #2, please.
Get Your Kids to Do Anything By Using a Timer
By: Kasey Q. Tross
Tags: Homeschooling, Parenting Advice, Productivity, Parenting, Children

Get Your Kids to Do Anything By Using a Timer

The simplest, most overlooked parenting hack around

Photo by Veri Ivanova on Unsplash

“Just do the work.”

“Ugggggghhhh!”

“There are seriously only five problems on that page. Just do them already!”

“I don’t waaaant tooooo!”

“In the time we’ve spent arguing about this stupid assignment you could have been DONE ALREADY!”

If this conversation sounds familiar to you, you’re not alone. I’m pretty sure that nearly every parent in America has experienced something like this over the past month. Kids will literally spend twice as much time whining about and procrastinating on an assignment as it would take them to actually do it.

And it is maddening.

But there’s a little trick that every parent needs to know about, and it’s wonderfully simple:

Use a timer.

Set a timer for five, ten, or fifteen minutes– whatever seems reasonable for the task at hand– and tell your child they only have to work for that long. When the timer is up, they’re off the hook.

Why it works

The reason that we as adults procrastinate things like cleaning the house, folding the pile of laundry, or doing our taxes, is the same reason our kids procrastinate math homework: because it feels too big. It’s overwhelming. It feels like it will take hours. Days, even. And who wants to spend hours or days doing The Awful Thing? Starting it is like slapping yourself with a prison sentence.

But if you know you don’t have to do it all– if you can get away with only doing The Awful Thing for five or ten minutes, then suddenly The Awful Thing doesn’t seem so awful anymore. After all, you can do pretty much anything for five minutes, right?

The funny thing is, most of The Awful Things we (and our kids) think will take hours and days often only take a few minutes. The biggest hurdle to their completion is their beginning. It’s like rappelling off a cliff: It’s that first step that’s a doozy. After that it’s just continuing what you’ve started.

A timer as a challenge

Setting a timer can also propel your child into action by issuing a challenge: Bet you can’t do all five math problems in ten minutes.

There’s something intrinsically motivating about a deadline. It hones your focus and gives you a clear, concrete goal. Start off your timer with the words, “On your mark, get set, GO!” and you’ll be amazed at how quickly your kid jumps into the task at hand.

Try it yourself: Set a timer for 5 minutes and see how much cleaning or writing or [fill in the blank] you can get done in that amount of time. You will probably be pleasantly surprised at how the challenge of a timer can turn drudgery into fun, and give you a great sense of victory and accomplishment when you’re through.
↗Up There↗
By: Henrique Capeleiro Maia
Tags: Poetry, Not Where I Am, Poesia

I want to be up there.

But I don’t want to be down here. I want to be up there. Up there, there where I want to be.

But I don’t want to be down, down where I am. I want to be up there. There up where I want.

But down here want I don’t—down here where I am. I want to be up there, there where up I want.

But not here where I am: down. Not here, no. I want to be up there. Up! There is where.

But not here. Not where I am. I want to be up there. To be, to be where I want.

But not here, not down, not down where I am. I want to be up there. I do, I do want to be.

But not where down I am. Not here I don’t. I do want to be up there. I do, I really do.

But not here, not down here. Here I don’t. I do want to be, and I do want up, and there.

But down I don’t. Not down. Not here. I want to be up there. I want—I know I want.

But here? No, no, no! Not here I don’t. I want to be up there. Up is where I want.

But how can I be up there, if down is not where I am?
Apostulations
By: James Khan
Tags: Christianity, Poetry, Literature, Culture, Humour

Apostulations

“Lets hear it for silent Saint Pete,

His balls were too small to compete,

When asked about Christ

He denied the name thrice

But they still strung him up by his feet.”
You know Airbnb right? There is one for 3D printers!
By: Niccolò Viviani
Tags: Technology, 3D Printing, Exosphere

No, 3D printers are not looking for apartments (we aren’t there.. yet). I mean it in the sense that there is a website allowing you to rent 3D printers around the world from owners who are not using them full-time! How cool is this idea?

I had no clue something like this existed until a couple of months ago when friend Mac from Austin, Texas, introduced me by email to Nikki, based in NYC. He wrote:

Nikki, Hydra is an 8-week entreprenership camp in Chile focused on solving

global problems by taking a hacker approach at building successful

startups. I am being brought in to teach as their 3D printing leader.

http://hydra.exosphe.re/ Niccolo, 3D Hubs is a great business that brokers people who need 3D

printing services with nearby enterprising 3D printer operators. This

allows anyone who owns a printer to find local production opportunities. Nikki Finnemore is 3D Hubs Community Manager and I think it would be cool if we can collaborate with them.

https://www.3dhubs.com/

I’ve to be honest, when I read the description of 3D Hubs as a “business that brokers people who need 3D printing services with nearby enterprising 3D printer operators” I did not jump. When I opened their website I did. And when I google it I did again. “The Airbnb for 3D Printing” definetely puts it on a better light.

That’s how 3D Hubs founders Bram de Zwart and Brian Garret defined their vision back in 2013 when they started the company in Amsterdam. One year later they wrote a Medium post about the lessons learned from building a global 3D printing network. Worth reading, I personally really loved the story behind lesson 4. Start with offline before going online. The importance of offline is something we stress a lot at Exosphere because too many aspiring entrepreneurs do not even take into consideration while building their mvp and strategy. Maybe because it looks “old-fashioned”, or maybe looks too much like real necessary hard work…?
Podcast & Newsletter
By: Laura Loguercio
Tags: Attualità, Informazione, News, Politica, Podcast

Freelance journalist studying for an MA in News & Documentary at NYU. Holds a BA in Philosophy and an MSc in Corporate Communication. Currently based in NYC.

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My Former Boss Openly Harassed the Women at the Office
By: Gigi Love
Tags: Sexual Assault, Women, Work, Feminism, Equality

It was my very first job. I remember picking out the gray blazer and the yellow dress. Slightly overdressed and determined to be professional, I was ready to see what the office life was really like.

I called my dad from the car ride to the office. I got there early to make sure I could find my way from the parking garage to the office suite. I buzzed into the office and waited for my mentor to lead me through the rows of cubicles.

Being the new girl in the office is like being in one of those shark cages. Everyone knows how vulnerable you are and they circle around you anyway, ready to pick you apart.

I didn’t expect that behavior from my boss.

Everyone in the office was friendly. My mentor guided me through the maze of new faces and new responsibilities. I was grateful for an anchor in the disorientation of my new life.

When we made our way from the printer room back to my desk, I felt a flush of red on my face. Someone had put an unopen beer on my desk. I froze.

What if they thought it was mine? What did I say? I decided to just bring it up myself.

“Um, I think someone put a beer on my desk,” I said to my mentor.

She rolled her eyes immediately. “Must have been Mark. He’s… well, you will see.”

She grabbed the beer and put it on her desk for Mark.

Then, I met Mark.

I saw him punch a female sales rep as a “joke.” I saw her bruises the next day. This woman, by the way, was a CrossFit competitor.

I saw him take a photo of a female coworker’s ass as a “joke.” I saw her take the phone from him, laughing, telling him to delete it. He didn’t. He thought that because she laughed, then it was in fact a joke.

I deflected him when he tried to punch me. I tried not to laugh at his jokes. I tried not to look him in the eye as he passed my desk. I ignored him when he would yell out names as he walked down the hall, looking for whoever would pay attention to him.

Mark was the most dangerous kind of person. He was obnoxious, but he had charisma. He was never serious, but he had a temper that could burn you alive. And he would punch women at work, and somehow convinced everyone that it was “just a joke.”

I never said anything, but I was shocked… at first.

I asked my mentor, “Why hasn’t anyone said anything yet?”

She said, “He’s the boss. For some people, any attention is positive attention. Don’t fall for it. Don’t let him hit you. Don’t laugh. He’ll go away.”
APRA MySuper Heatmap
By: Mark Monfort
Tags: Data Visualization, Power Bi, Finance, Data Analysis, Australia

Note: App originally published in work I did prior to joining Prosperity Advisers in January 2020.

Description

On December 10, 2019, APRA (Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority) released a new data source rating MySuper products. This Heatmap was made available as an Excel file for user to explore.

We have turned this dataset into a more explorable set of visualisation which can be navigated to from the main menu. The scatter charts show more information as the user hovers over each MySuper product.

Application Link:

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNGNhZWI2MTktNDgyYy00Mjc5LWJhZjEtYzk4ZDQ1ZDBkODBiIiwidCI6ImM4ODdmZGYyLWIwYTYtNDFlMy04ZmE4LTdmMjFkMDYyZGE4NSJ9
Parcel on my porch
By: Uchechi Obasi
Tags: Poetry, Illumination, Life, Love, Friendship

I tell stories entangled in the ridges of my mind. My words will nourish your soul. Passionate about women, children, tea and a little “too” many other things.

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RootProject is Hiring in Seoul!
By: Nicholas Adams Judge
Tags: Nonprofit, Korea, Social Impact, Seoul, Blockchain

Using a blockchain infrastructure, RootProject brings the power of markets to non-profit fundraising. By breaking down the barriers between donor, investor and project managers, our unique POE (Proof of Ecosystem) campaign process allows all of these stakeholders to build real solutions together, from beginning to end.

Country Director, Seoul, South Korea

The Country Director, South Korea will help RootProject build capacity for pilot city project launches and develop the RootProject ecosystem in South Korea.

RootProject operates at the nexus of the social sciences, the nonprofit world and blockchain industry. Ideal candidates will have an academic background mixed with excellent project management and communication skills, and a familiarity with Seoul’s nonprofit and governmental landscape.

He or she will,

Head an office of blockchain, crowdfunding and nonprofit-focused professionals

Launch and manage pilot city projects in accordance with our Pilot City Roadmap; establish internal roadmap for achieving this goal and managing team KPI’s

Build relationships with policy makers, industry journalists, potential nonprofit, corporate and small business partners and thought leaders in Seoul

Actively manage a portfolio of donors and partners, weighted, actively managed in CRM

Organize and execute pilot project fundraising events in Seoul on an as -needed basis

Attend industry (nonprofit, social impact, crypto) events in Seoul

Organize and execute on industry events or meetups in Seoul

Regularly input prospect/partner/contact activity in CRM

Work with Community Manager and one remote staff person, in addition to hiring and managing new staff

Assist with translating documents and web content from English to Korean

Actively contribute to social media on all Korean channels

Liaise with international staff on a daily basis

Preferred Qualifications

Extensive experience in project management or campaign management is required

A strong academic background, preferably suitable to communicate with policy makers in and out of Korea

Some experience in PR is desirable, whether agency or in-house

Strong networking and existing contacts in nonprofit, anti-poverty and policy making circles.

English and Korean language competency is a must

Can work both autonomously and with a globally, distributed team

Would you or someone you know be perfect for the role? Don’t be shy, have them send a resume and cover letter to gina@rootproject.co.
El trabajo de tu futuro
Tags: Español, Educación, Futuro

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Sharing Your Story On Thee Quest
By: Pierre Trudel
Tags: BlackLivesMatter, Theequest, Love, LGBTQ, Womens Rights

If you have felt my story and realize you want to share yours, just join below and let me know. After one year I have decided to let others help me change Humanity.

If you have any interest in LGBTQ rights and freedoms, join me.

If you believe that women need to be noticed and appreciated as whole human beings all over the world, tell me and tell others, with me.

If you are sick and tired of having scenes created because people do not know how to appreciate that Black Lives Matter, well, join me and others that feel the same.

If you are spiritual, yet not very religious, again tell others and share your views. Life matters and telling others what you think can help others.

Please read the articles below and see if you feel a need to share your thoughts. They are very important to me and my Quest. Share yours with me and the followers of Thee Quest that care.
Family movie night at ShopRite of Medford
Tags: Paddington, Family Movie Night, Headlines, Entertainment, Shoprite Of Medford

Bring your family and friends to watch “Paddington” on Sept. 18 on the big screen shown in the grass area behind the Indian Chief on Route 70 next to ShopRite.

The movie is free. Concessions and games start at 6 p.m. Movie starts at 7:30 p.m.

Bring either a blanket or a low beach chair. No stadium chairs please. All funds raised from concessions will go to Partners in Caring, a year round, community-based, hunger-fighting initiative that works with more than 50 food industry manufacturers.
Sometimes Grief Returns When I Least Expect It
By: Jacqueline Dooley
Tags: Family, Love, Mental Health, Parenting, Grief

I’m standing in Walgreens, my hands full of items meant to ease the discomfort of my daughter, Emily, who is home with a bad cold. I’m clutching a thermometer, a package of Nyquil gelcaps, two different kinds of throat lozenges, and a package of honey-flavored lip balm when the grief hits me.

It’s the lip balm that does it.

Three years ago, on an autumn day very much like today, I’d visited this same Walgreens and purchased half a dozen ointments and salves in a desperate attempt to relieve the oral mucositis that my older daughter, Ana, was experiencing as a side effect of her chemo meds. Oral mucositis causes painful inflammation of the mouth and gums as well as sores and soreness of the mouth and throat.

Ana was fifteen when the attack of mucositis struck and, like Emily, had just started 10th grade. It was a side effect so painful that she’d sobbed and declared it the worst symptom yet. She could barely speak. She couldn’t eat, drink or swallow without pain. The only thing that gave her a shred of relief was oxycontin, a potent opioid, and that’s mainly because it knocked her out. As soon as it wore off, she was in agony again.

I’d walked into Walgreens determined to find something — anything — to ease her pain.

Collection of products I bought to relieve my daughter’s mucositis

It was a good eighty dollars’ worth of over-the-counter drugstore crap. None of it worked. She’d had to stop the chemo meds for a few days and wait for the mucositis to heal. It was the beginning of the end of treatment for Ana. Six months after that day, she died.
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Tags: Trading, Cryptocurrency Exchange, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain

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How Ring Succeeded After Failing on Shark Tank
By: S Pats
Tags: Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business, Tech

Ring, the internet-enabled door camera company, came from relatively humble beginnings. The brainchild of Jamie Siminoff, it was first started in his garage under the name Doorbot. He then went to pitch the idea to several investors and ended up on the famous investor TV show Shark Tank.

While the product did impress, the judge sharks were not taking the bait. Some of them did think it was a good product, but none imagined it being worth more than $20 million.

Jamie left the studio with no more money than when he had entered….on paper. But not everything can be recorded ‘on paper’. The appearance more than made up for it with the attention.

Jamie estimated that he received around $10 million of free advertising just by appearing on shark tank, way more than what he was hoping for as an investment sum. This, combined with the fact that Ring was still a small company finding it’s feet, meant that the free advertising hyper-charged its prospects for success.

Not all attention is created equal. For small companies, it can be argued that getting attention (the good kind) is more valuable than getting investors. Investors can also bring attention to a business but that comes at the cost of handing over a part of your business to them. Pure, unadulterated attention on the other hand is like Sunlight and fresh air to a wild plant — free and essential.

The company was rebranded to Ring after the Shark Tank appearance. The rebranding was done at the right time since it right at the time when most people had just heard the company.

But there’s one other aspect that made the company succeed even after failing to secure investors on the show, and that is desperation.

Ring’s back was in a corner after having no investors on-board and spending $8000 on the elaborate set for the show. This feeling, coupled with a good amount of free publicity is what led to the company being sold to Amazon a few years later for over $1 billion.

The desperation helped the fledgling startup really focus on making a viable product and also helped get rid of the operational noise that comes with a larger company. Perhaps, if Jamie did get the money he wanted on Shark Tank, he may not have been as determined to succeed and make a better product.

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The Wisdom in Taking a Leap
By: Ashley Walker
Tags: Life Lessons, Courage, Change, Progress, Determination

The Wisdom in Taking a Leap

Running uphill, trying desperately not to slide back down

Image by Riette Salzmann from Pixabay

Does life ever slow down?

Sure, I can and have ignored it, sat back and watched it go by passively. Told myself that I’m fine to sit by and do nothing, that just existing is good enough.

And I wonder why I was so depressed.

You see, things happen in life. Things that can make or break you — or simply set you back for a time. That’s normal.

The trick is snapping out of the passive mind-set, of the belief that you don’t need to be constantly progressing.

That’s so hard to break out of because once you’re in that mind-set, you feel stuck. You don’t see what the point in doing anything is, because it’s not like you can make a difference anyway. You feel a hollowness in your chest and wonder why it’s there.

It’s so hard to live that way, because although you tell yourself otherwise, you’re not happy. For years I knew I needed to start putting myself out there and progressing again, but I was scared.

It was easier to sit and let life pass me by, telling myself I’d change someday.

What snapped me out of it was seeing what it was doing to my family. My husband was working hard to support us, my toddler and baby needed my constant attention and I was just…living.

I’m not sure how else to say it. I woke up, took care of the kids, wasted endless time on social media, and read books. That’s pretty much all I did for years, and I was so stuck.

When my daughter and I really started butting heads, her because of her growing independence and me because of my unhappiness, I realized life couldn’t go on this way.

It wasn’t fair to my family, and it wasn’t fair to myself.
It’s sex without intellect, the curse of dialect.
By: Mimi Bordeaux
Tags: Masturbation, Poetry, Sexuality, Men

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Charlie Hebdo And The End Of Reason
Tags: Charlie Hebdo, World, Art, Cartoons, Iván Solbés

We are appalled at the barbaric murder of 8 cartoonists and other staff of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. It is hard to express our outrage at such insanity. Perhaps the reason is that one cannot argue with irrationality. It is irrational to kill someone over their point of view, however offensive. It doesn’t matter what it says, whether it is racist, anti-Semitic, anti-religious, politically incorrect, insensitive, and no matter how virulent; an opinion, or in this case, a satyrical cartoon, cannot be commensurate with murder. Nothing is sacred enough, not God, not Allah, not Jesus, not Jehovah, not any dogma, faith or tenet is sacred enough to warrant murder over it. Nothing is more sacred than a human life.

We are deeply saddened by the murder of artists who made a living drawing, commenting on their society, defending freedom, through satire, from intolerance and fundamentalist thugs. There is nothing more dangerous than the absence of a sense of humor. Not that the cartoons were hilarious. They were more provocative than funny. But that was precisely their intention, to remind people that they should exercise their freedom of thought and speech without fear. But thought is what absolutists most hate and fear. Fundamentalism is simply an extreme form of human oppression. It aims to hold absolute power over people’s thoughts.

That religious fundamentalists have no sense of humor is a given. If they did, they would laugh at their own perverted, evil madness. That they completely distort and misinterpret the teachings of their own religions is also a fact. What God could possibly condone the killing of someone over a drawing?

We are moved and heartened by the pictures of many thousands congregating in Paris to mourn and protest these unspeakable acts. We are disheartened at the news media that is cowardly pixelating the Charlie Hebdo drawings as they report the incident when they should be publishing them in defiance. The best way to mourn and commemorate the deaths of these artists is by thinking and speaking our minds without fear.

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Tags: Jobs, Freelancing, Events, Event Marketing, Event Planning

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Beaxy’s 20,000 GUNTHY Giveaway
By: Steve Sofocleous
Tags: Gunbot, Ethereum, Beaxy, Bitcoin, Gunthy

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Advantage function in Deep Reinforcement learning
By: Gayatri Vadali
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science

Deep reinforcement learning involves building a deep learning model which enables function approximation between the input features and future discounted rewards values also called Q values. We have seen how we can effectively get these q values and create a map consisting of input features and corresponding set of q values in this article.

This map of input features and all possible q values at a given state enables the Reinforcement learning agent get an overall picture of environment which further helps the agent in choosing the optimal path.

Equation to calculate Q value.

From all the q values, the agent needs to choose the best one to get optimal path. This can be difficult since Q function is a value based function and has high variability. In order to reduce this variability, we can use Advantage function .

Advantage function

Advantage function is nothing but difference between Q value for a given state — action pair and value function of the state.

Equation-1

This can be intuitively taken as the difference of q value and the average of actions which it would have taken at that state. It tells about the extra reward that could be obtained by the agent by taking that particular action. But the problem with this method is that both V(S) and Q(s,a) are functions which can solved using TD Error estimation.

TD Error:

TD Error or Temporal Difference Error is the difference between consecutive temporal predictions which is given as follows

Equation-2

From Equation-1 and Equation-2 ,

Which is nothing but TD Error at the state S. Thus, TD Error can be used as a good estimator for Advantage function. This advantage function can be used in place of Q function so that variability in predictions can be reduced there by helping the Reinforcement learning agent to take up optimal path.
All Words Matter
By: Yoel Ben Yisrael
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Words, Poetry, Poem, Language

All Words Matter

A poem

Photo by Linh Pham on Unsplash

Don’t be sad

No need to get mad

I celebrate your grapheme

I treasure your phoneme

You really give life to this place

Whether you’re lower or uppercase

Noun, adjective or linking verb

The way you complement each other is superb

Do you think you have no premium

Because you’re small?

This is so far from the truth

That even a dare would say you’re aloof

You’re indispensable

You get employed the most

Polysyllabic words dare not boast

More than passengers

On this sentence train

You’re essential employees

Simple and plain

You stand the test of time

Passed down orally

I still use you as an adult

Although we met in elementary

The, a, in, it, we

I tell you this with glee

Whenever you feel overused

Or really singing the linguistic blues

In written word

Or audible chatter

Take care to forever remember

All words matter