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These Holiday Movies Must Be Made
By: Funny Or Die
Tags: Handsome Plaid Man, Funny Holidays, Man, Funny Original Videos, Holiday Movies

Handsome Plaid Man Versus Man Wear Peacoat

A Nice brown-haired girl must choose whether to marry Handsome Plaid Man or Man in Peacoat by Christmas, or else no dowery from father. Which man say shorter sentences? Which man looked better next to trees? Most important, which man has the most sexless Christlike kiss?
It’s Ok To Wait For The Kind Of Love That Sticks
By: Megan Minutillo
Tags: Relationships Love Dating, Self-awareness, Relationship Advice, Affirmations, Love

It’s Ok To Wait For The Kind Of Love That Sticks

You’re deserving of that kind of love.

Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash

It’s ok to wait for the kind of love that sticks.

The kind of love that sees you when you’re ugly crying, snot-nosed and puffy-eyed, and listens to you through your tears. There is no running away; there is just a bear hug to pull you close so that you can cry into their chest as their heartbeat soothes and slows the tears from flowing.

It’s ok to wait for the kind of love that sticks.

The kind of love that makes you coffee in the morning without ever being asked. They’ll pour it for you in your favorite mug, and they know exactly how much milk to add. They’ll bring it to you on the couch as you both sit, sleepy-eyed, waiting for the caffeine to kick in.

It’s ok to wait for the kind of love that sticks.

The kind of love that sees the beauty in you, even when you cannot see it yourself. They see the doubt on your face when you criticize your reflection, and they do what they can to take such doubts away. They remind you that the person you stare at in the mirror is magnificent, and they tell you that as often as you need to hear it.

It’s ok to wait for the kind of love that sticks.

The kind of love that asks you about your day and wants to know the details. And it’s a two-way street, cause you want to know about their day, too. It’s the kind of love that encourages you to keep going, even when the work is rough. The type of love that reminds you of how far you’ve come when you’ve lost sight of the path you want to forge. They champion you to champion for yourself, and they admire you when you do.

It’s ok to wait for the kind of love that sticks.

The kind of love where you both bring out the best in one other, and learn from one another, and listen to one another. And challenge one another, and support one another, and lift up one another. And ground one another. It’s ok to wait for the kind of love where you can call out one another without fear because the honesty that you’ve cultivated between you both has roots as thick as tree trunks.

Cause roots let you bend, and they help you grow, but they don’t break.

It’s ok to wait for the kind of love that lets you feel comfortable in the silence. Even though one billion words pass between the two of you on any given day, there’s something quite special about the comfortable silence between lovers and soul mates. In silence, there is stillness, and in stillness, there can be growth.

It’s ok to wait for the kind of love that fills your heart and your soul with laughter. The type of laughter that makes your belly hurt, and makes you feel like you could float on air, and makes your spirit soar. Love that’s tied with laughter rests in the space you claim; it’s in the walls and your bones. It carries you onward, together.

It’s ok to wait for the kind of love that sticks.

You’re worthy of that kind of love.

You’re capable of that kind of love.

You’re deserving of that kind of love.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Saturday, Psychology, Life, Humor, Comics

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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Private Beach
By: Adam Millett
Tags: Meditation, Self Love, Poetry, Self-awareness, A Cornered Gurl

Freelance writer for hire with a passion for sustainability. Check out awallofhope.com for my blog and wordchameleon.com for details about my writing services.

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Tool Talk
By: Mark Starlin
Tags: Doodle, Tools, 30 Days Of Doodling, Humor

A community of storytellers who are passionate about the creative process

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Knights of Columbus to offer lawn signs after OLGC masses
By: Kelly Flynn
Tags: Church, Signs, Sales

Knights of Columbus to offer lawn signs after OLGC masses

The magnets and signs will be available for purchase at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church located on Main Street after all masses on Nov. 17 and 18.

Again this year, the Moorestown Knights of Columbus will offer lawn signs and car magnets, both in color, with the message “Keep Christ in Christmas.”

The Knights of Columbus is an organization of Catholic laymen with more than 100 years of tradition and service, mainly charitable, in local communities. Nationally, the Knights have been promoting “Keep Christ in Christmas” for more than 50 years. The message is a basic element of Christian belief and as such the lawn signs and car magnets can be displayed by members of all Christian churches.

The magnets and signs will be available for purchase at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church located on Main Street after all masses on Nov. 17 and 18 and if necessary, after all masses on Nov. 24 and 25. Proceeds from this annual drive will once again benefit Options for Women and 1st Way of Burlington County.
On Compiling A Film Canon. February 2017 Update.
By: Adam Bat
Tags: Movies, Film, Culture, Hopeliescanon, Cinema

Welcome to this month’s canon update.

In an article for Hope Lies and across social media I declared Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday a timely tribute to the newspaperman, a creature which faces potential holocaust in the face of the Trump administration. The timing for the film’s release couldn’t have been more perfect.

Rather than simply being “timely”, Alain Resnais’ Je t’aime, je t’aime might just be the best film about time ever made. It’s certainly the most interesting time travel movie ever made. Je t’aime, je t’aime will be explored more fully in the pages of Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second in the coming weeks, alongside a number of other works from Resnais.

On a more contemporaneous note, Martin Scorsese’s Silence is one of the most exhilarating works on faith of the modern age. Had it been released in 2016 it would likely have topped my ‘best of’ list for that year. As it is, 2017 is off to a great start, but has a lot to live up to.

More information on the Hope Lies film canon can be found at our ongoing and regularly updated Letterboxd list.
Headline Contains Words
By: Choire Sicha
Tags: Lols, Idk, The Social Medias

“Facebook’s New Branch Hire Tweets About His Medium Posts” is definitely the headline of the day, if not the year. Don’t have any idea what it means? Then you will be left behind in a meaningless netherworld of oldness and sadness. Congratulations to Peter Kafka of <re/code> for this one. What’s that strange series of letters and symbols, you ask? You poor thing, we should just put you down. How are you going to survive when you have to drive your lightcycle around the grid in a deathrace for survival? (via)
Why So Many Startups Fail
By: Nicolas Cole
Tags: Failure, Startup, Business, Founders, Startup Lessons

Startups are seen as risky.

People that quit their jobs to become founders are called “dreamers” — or uncontrollable creative types. People who choose to work for startups are seen as having a higher threshold for internal chaos. Despite the fact that the dream to build a startup has never been stronger (or more socially acceptable), the truth is, most people still see the whole undertaking as a house of cards.

According to Forbes, 90% of startups fail.

But startups don’t fail because they’re startups.

They fail because of the founders.

We talk about startup issues as if it’s the company’s problem. Startups themselves are risky.

But a startup is nothing more than a small room full of people, all working on an idea. If something goes wrong, it’s not the room’s fault. Those four walls didn’t make a bad hire, or spend too much money, too quickly. The people inside them did.

Which is why, when we talk about startup failure rates, we should be talking about people more than we talk about the business nature of an idea in the making.

The worst mistake of all, however, is that most startup founders get stuck on their original idea and refuse to pivot.

I do a fair amount of consulting for entrepreneurs and brands on their messaging.

One thing I run into, over and over again, is that people tend to want me to validate the ideas they already have, rather than me tell them what I genuinely think.

This isn’t an isolated problem.

In most cases, startups fail because the founders get so stuck on their original idea, they want to do everything in their power to prove it can work. Even worse, startups that raise money tend to spend a good portion of those funds on marketing and PR — which means spreading the message of something you aren’t even sure works yet.

What happens then is the founders feel married to the original idea. If you spend $2M on a marketing campaign, only to realize half-way through your product has some major flaws and you need to pivot, you’re going to have to admit (to the world you’ve just advertised to) that you’re changing the direction of the company.

Many founders see this as a blow to their ego — and would rather try to make the original broken idea work than admit they didn’t have it all figured out and keep pivoting in a better direction.

Startups fail because founders get stuck in their egos.

That’s the truth.

Founders fail because they want to believe they have it all figured out, even when they don’t.

Founders fail because they want to be seen as the smartest person in the room — and not seen as the student.

Founders fail because they can’t admit when they’re wrong.

Founders fail themselves, long before they fail their startup. And yet, it’s “startups” that are seen as risky. It’s “startups” that are seen as having low success rates.

What’s risky is following a founder that has never led a team before, has no track record for success, and has nothing but a vague idea and a little bit of runway.

And you should be able to spot that from a mile away.
United: Captured by God’s Vision for Diversity — Trillia Newbell
By: Jason Park
Tags: Christianity, Book Review, Church, Diversity, Books

What a perfect tone Trillia Newbell finds in this book. I expect it’s her natural voice, and that makes her a natural fit to be the voice we need in the SBC for diversity and biblical love for our neighbors. This book brought me clarity in the mission of diversity for the church, that we should yearn for it not because it is the new thing or because it’s necessary for our denomination’s future, but because we can see the beauty of “every tribe and nation”, and thus the gospel, right here and right now.

If I disappointed with this book in any way, it was because I was half-expecting more specific answers on how a church like mine can find a path towards more diversity. But the answers to that question are nuanced and probably specific to the local church, so this book is a great starting point for that conversation to start in a church like mine.
Are You Being Seduced by Bigger, Better, and More?
By: Kim Duke
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Gratitude, Self, Self-awareness

Enough Is Actually A Soulful Word

There is a marvelous feeling that fills you when you realize you have enough. And more importantly — that you are enough.

My friend passed away several ago and she was a lovely, smart and funny woman who also was extremely hard on herself. No matter what she did, she would often say, “I can do better.”

She had accomplished much in her life but deep down she didn’t feel that she had. And her phrase, “I can do better” sometimes stopped her from fully experiencing satisfaction, contentment, and happiness. I always told her she didn’t have to be better — she was already beautifully, enough. But I don’t think she ever really absorbed it.

I get it — we can all do better. And feeling like you have enough doesn’t mean you can’t continue to enhance your life.

But there’s a thin line between doing better and constantly not appreciating who you are and what you already have.

What would it feel like for you to embrace the word enough on a regular basis? That you could see that how you are is enough? How you actually have done some amazing things and you’re surrounded by good people?

What would happen if you were grateful for the gift of time your family and friends give you as they make space for you in their lives? And you realized that everyone’s contribution is something they aren’t obligated to give? And that everyone gives differently and that is perfect in itself?

And that it all finally, felt deeply and beautifully — enough?
5 Life Lessons These Great Soul Singers Taught Me
By: Tony Solovjov
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Music, Personal Development, Soul

5 Life Lessons These Great Soul Singers Taught Me

Featuring pearls of wisdom from Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Ray BLK, Jamila Woods and India.Arie

Made by Sergey Volosianyi.

Do you ever feel like half of your life is being spent on reliving past experiences?

I do.

To dwell in the past is, probably, a bad habit to have, but I can’t help it: a tiny curator in my head likes to play old movies for me. Today he’s playing “Teenage Memories” — my coming of age story. The soundtrack to the film features five women. Confident, unapologetic women with a strong sense of self-worth.

These women taught me some important life lessons.

Here are five of them.
4 Things to Do When You Don‘t Feel Like Writing
By: Tim Schröder
Tags: Writer, Life, Writing, Writing Tips, Start

You have a busy life as an aspiring writer. It involves many different tasks, like creating pitches, finding new possible clients, and handling referrals. You need to create provoking headlines, network, and of course, write the best texts the world has ever seen.

No wonder, sometimes it seems like you can’t handle all of it. When you’ve finished one of the mentioned tasks, it feels like all of the remaining had grown and became so demanding and overwhelming that there’s no room or time left for the crucial part: writing.

Often, procrastination kicks in. Suddenly, you start to find the ceiling super exciting. Although you shouldn’t, which makes your want to rip your hair off in desperation. And still, you don’t feel like writing at all.

I’ve been there once too

Which is a lie, because I’ve found myself regularly in this situation. And by the way, the ripping off my hair part was the reason I cut it short. No, seriously, I feel you.

But the show must go on, which means that as a writer, you need to write. Not only to earn money, but mainly because otherwise, you would be even more desperate and dissatisfied with your life. Can you relate to that? Good.
Education Token Promo Video
By: Dr. Michael J. Garbade
Tags: Education, Exchange, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Blockchain

We finally have our new Education token (LEDU) promo video. The team at HoneyToad from Seattle have produced an excellent video which explains the key role which Education tokens (LEDU) will play in the Education Ecosystem. Check it out below:

About Education Token (LEDU)

Education Token (LEDU) is an ERC20 token that lives on the Ethereum blockchain. It is used to power the Education Ecosystem and is a key component of their plan to disrupt the $306 billion professional development industry using the blockchain. Education tokens are used as payment for all financial transactions in the internal ecosystem, as well as rewards for project creators, learners, site moderators, and API ecosystem developers. Education tokens are also used for governance, giving users the power to vote on the future of the platform — not just what projects are being created, but the features that the development team implements and what new project topics to support. Education tokens will also be used in the external ecosystem to drive transactions with businesses, schools, libraries, colleges and online education companies.

Buy education tokens (LEDU) now on Gate.io and Bibox!
5 Tips for Manipulating the DOM
By: Chris Liendo
Tags: JavaScript

2) console.dir

You’ve probably seen console.log before. It’s one of the most well known debugging tools for breaking into your code and seeing what values are through the call stack. When manipulating the DOM, however, console.log with an element that resolves to an HTML element will sometimes leave information to be desired. If instead of the HTML element, we’d like to see the DOM node, we can use, console.dir. It will return the DOM node along with all its attributes and properties which includes helpful values such as the node’s children, parent, and classList.

The result of invoking console.dir on a DOM node.

3) Traversing the DOM with parentNode and childNodes

In addition to query selectors, traversing the DOM by working your way through a node’s ancestors and children can be very useful as well. This can come in handy when working with a form with multiple inputs. For example, if you have an event listener set up on the form’s submit button, you can move up to the shared parent (the form node) using parentNode. From the form node, you can then use childNodes which will return an array of the form’s children.

Using parentNode and childNodes

In the example above, e.target is the form button with the event listener, while pictureSrcValue and descriptionValue are both input values of the button’s text field siblings. In this example, we accessed this information to update the DOM and send a POST request to the backend.

4) Dataset

Saving information into class and ID attributes of elements can be useful if you plan on using it later. This can quickly become messy, however, when adding CSS attributes for style as well. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a node attribute made especially for this?

> Enter Dataset!

To use Dataset you first need to set it in the element. This is shown below on lines 65, 66, 67 and 68.

Setting dataset values

An element can have multiple data set values. In this example, we are referencing the count value stored in the dataset on line 81 and then casting it to an integer on line 82 before working with it in later code. We used the value of this dataset to keep track of reactions on posts in our app.

Accessing dataset values

5) Delegation

Delegation is the process of adding an event listener to a “stable parent” or parent node that will always be on the page and then restricting the listener’s recognition to a specific child node of the parent. In the example below, the “click” event listener is added to the “location container” node on line 77. On line 79, however, we have a condition that restricts the event listener’s activity to an event on a specific child. Here we only want children who have a class of “reaction-button” to trigger the listener’s functionality.

Applying the principle of delegation

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Even hotter after summer APIOps meetups in Tampere
By: Jarkko Moilanen
Tags: Management, Chatbots, API, IoT, Apiops

Some of us have been enjoying summer at the cottage, barbecuing and jumping to lake after sauna. The rest of us have been busy building program for the second half of this year. In Tampere we have two meetups already booked and RSVP is open!

This is the moment our newly appointed Community Manager during summer, Nazia Hasan (follow in Twitter: @NazarahTheCat) will lead us towards interesting challenges and activities.

August Meet-up: IoT & Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence

We will start the season with IoT, Chatbots and AI related talks on Tuesday, August 8, 2017.

In the meetup, Reetu Kainulainen from ultimate.ai will talk about why chatbots are hard or are they only assumed to be. Come and tell us your opinions or step upon the stage, we have empty slots for you. After that we’ll take a look into API management dashboards that might emerge in the future. The new IoT dashboard will be presented by UX lead Nazia Hasan from APInf Oy.

As always, if you are not able to come to Tampere, you can follow the meetup presentations from APIOps Youtube. The link to live youtube broadcast and other details can be found from meetup.com. Don’t forget to watch previous presentations from APIOps Youtube Channel.

There is a great opportunity of winning one of the two MindTrek 2017 conference tickets if you participate in the August Session. More details about the competition will be announced later.

*** Check out the details — RSVP now! ***

September Meet-up: API Management & Gateway evening

September meetup is about API management. It will take place on Tuesday, September 5, 2017.

We will have APItalist talk from Marjukka Niinioja (Digia) about the state of API management. Then we’ll have a session from Mashape about Kong gateway by Aapo Talvensaari, who is one of the developers of Kong. Afterwards, we’ll hear the latest advancements of 100% open source APInf — API management platform developed by APInf Oy. The last speaker is Mika Honkanen from Population Register Centre, who will talk about the National approach to API management (Suomi SDK, development portal).

At the end of the Meet-up we will announce the winners of the MindTrek 2017 Conference contest hosted by APIOps Network

*** Be quick! RSVP now!***
Why I’m Taking a Gap Year at 60. After a lifetime of living other…
By: Kay Bolden
Tags: Travel, Self, Culture, Humor, Women

Why I’m Taking a Gap Year at 60

After a lifetime of living other people’s stories, I’m finally choosing my own

Photo: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images

I’m turning 60 soon and I’m finally taking my gap year. I meant to do it sooner, at age 22 or 25, but I was too old back then and way too sure of everything.

I knew women who gallivanted off to Europe at age 18 or right after college. “Loose girls,” my mother would sniff. They were mostly the affluent girls at my private high school, the ones who drove their mothers’ Volvos and snuck smokes in the restroom.

I had a few things in common with my classmates in those days, like speech team, yearbook, National Honor Society and being Princeton-bound. But a gap, for me, was the two-hour break between my shift at Sears and my babysitting gig.

The guidance counselor’s office was filled with seductive brochures about youth hostels and Eurail passes. I fingered the shiny pages and stroked the pictures of smirking European boys, all of whom seemed to be dying for me to grab a backpack and hop a plane.

But I couldn’t figure out how to ask my parents. They were the first in their families to even dream of college. My mother was a college professor born to sharecroppers in Mississippi. She sent me out of my segregated neighborhood every day to an all-white, private school. “You’re going to learn everything they learn,” she said. Getting my education was my secret CIA mission.

The problem with being in the wrong life is that the only way to survive is to detach yourself.

My civil rights lawyer father survived his childhood in the Chicago slums by stealing food and shining shoes for pimps. “Gaps” for him were days between meals, weeks between safe shelters, and months between court dates.

How could I bring home a gap year brochure to these people who worked so hard, who sacrificed so much to make sure I wanted for nothing? How could I ask them for sailboats on the Aegean Sea or snowy Swiss chalets?

No. Instead, I kicked ass on my college boards and saved up my babysitting money. I finished college and landed a government job. I married a Navy officer, moved to California, and had a baby nine months later.

It was 1978, and I was a very good girl.
What Happens When We Don’t Make Time For Play
By: Larry G. Maguire
Tags: Creativity, Letters, Play, Work

THE PERIODIC

What Happens When We Don’t Make Time For Play

Our culture says time and productivity are of paramount importance. Leisure time is considered superfluous. But is this idea damaging our creativity?

“Life without play is a grinding, mechanical existence organised around doing the things necessary for survival”. That’s what Dr Stuart Brown says of a life devoid of time spent playing. He goes further and suggests that play can even save your life.

Brown has spent the majority of his career studying play, speaking to lay audiences, assisting families in navigating challenging conditions and consulting with corporations to help them incorporate elements of play into their businesses. He has helped the clinically depressed on their journey to recovery through the use of play therapies.

Throughout his career, he has gathered and analysed thousands of individual case studies. These he calls play histories and has found that play is an essential ingredient in the healthy and fulfilled lives of individuals. He says that the ability to make time for play is not only crucial for happiness, but also for creating and sustaining social relationships and personal creativity.

Click to read the full article on Medium

P.S. Every Sunday, (OK most Sundays), I compile my work from the prior week into one email. It’s a private newsletter for my readers. You can get it here.
Episode 58: Saving All the Chains, with Chainsafe
Tags: Ethereum Classic, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Blockchanneltv

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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee sit down with Aidan Hyman and Gregory Markou, the CEO and VP of Engineering from Chainsafe. Chainsafe builds tooling, implementations, and infrastructure to help maintain and interoperate major public blockchains. They aim to, overtime, make it much easier to build and deploy DApps on a variety of chains and services, in order to greatly lower the barrier to entry for new developers in crypto. Chainsafe considers themselves a chain agnostic developer tooling house (that loves TypeScript and Go) that’s doing their part to ignore developer tribalism, and build robust tooling that aids in scaling the ecosystem (such as ETH 2.0). A must listen for crypto-related developers who also consider themselves chain-agnostic.

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Chainsafe Site: https://chainsafe.io

Chainsafe Github: https://github.com/ChainSafe

Intro/Outro Music “Better” by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/oddwin/as-long-as-we-are-1

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After Attending a Trump Rally I Realized that Democrats are Going To Win the Bunny Vote
By: Simon Black
Tags: Funny, Satire, Bunny Blog, Humor, Political Satire

Simon Bunny Blog

After Attending a Trump Rally I Realized that Democrats are Going To Win the Bunny Vote

Here’s why.

Photo by Waranya Mooldee on Unsplash

The Trumpers have everything we bunnies fear:

Guns. I saw people with guns everywhere outside the rally. And signs saying they loved guns. Well, trust me, lots of us rabbits have been shot by guns. Hunted by these type of rednecks. We would not vote with them in a million years. Heck, one of those rednecks skinned my Uncle Bob and boiled him in a pot.

Big smiles. Have you ever noticed, we bunnies don’t smile. And when you humans do it shows your teeth and it makes us think you are going to eat us. So yeah, I was pretty much sure I was going to get eaten. I’m glad I made it out of there alive.

These red hats. We don’t like the color red. It reminds us of blood, after we’ve been gnashed open by a wolf and are bleeding all over the wolf’s mouth. That’s what those people looked like to us, wearing those hats, they looked like their heads were bleeding. It was horrifying.

Trump was naked. Didn’t anybody else see? Maybe they did see but they were too afraid to say anything. They didn’t want to upset the great leader. But I was there. I saw it with my own eyes. Trump was standing there at the podium stark naked. I’m not afraid to say it. Emporer Trump was wearing no clothes. None at all. And his penis looked like a mushroom.

We rabbits are afraid of mushrooms. A rabbit ate a mushroom once and became a mad hatter.

Rabbits are natural socialists. We like to share everything. We rabbits are with Bernie!

Pete might look like one of us with those bunny teeth, but he’s not. He’s to the right of Nixon.

We hated Nixon. He also looked like a bunny — an evil one.

Make America Grate Carrots Again and Give us Some!
Lies I don’t understand
By: Kathy Jacobs
Tags: Life Lessons, Poetry, Lies, Resistance, Resistance Poetry

Photo by Ken Treloar on Unsplash

If you need a medicine, you are addicted

Depression only comes to those that deserve it

Your pain can’t be that bad

Getting mad doesn’t help anything

If they want to come to the US,

They should do so legally

Being poor doesn’t just happen,

You should have started saving earlier

Luck is what you make it

Take better care and it will turn

People put their attention on

What is most important to them

Everyone has an equal shot

Racism doesn’t exist anymore

I am sure that I could do better

I am sure you could too

Such easy things to say,

Such obvious solutions

None of them are true

None of it is right

Life doesn’t fit into a simple box

There are no easy answers

We work to do our best

But this keep in mind:

No one gets out of this alive.
Snowflake
By: Charlene Marron
Tags: Seasons, Poetry, Acrostic, Nature Poem, Winter

Snowflake

An acrostic poem about the winter

Photo by Richard Burlton on Unsplash

S omber winter mood

N ature in quiet slumber

O ften nothing stirs

W hite blankets the ground

F reshly covered overnight

L atent flowers dream

A nd the world slows down

K nowing this brief respite will

E nd before too long.
Creating Radial Bar Chart in Tableau
By: Apoorv Yadav
Tags: Tableau, Data Visualization, Bar Chart, Data Analysis, Radial Chart

Creating Radial Bar Chart in Tableau

A short step by step guide to how you can implement bar charts in a radial pattern in Tableau

Creating a Radial Chart | https://public.tableau.com/profile/apoorv.yadav#!/vizhome/GlobalDivideonHomosexuality_15956831599820/GDHS

When you create a viz for a community forum, You have more or less two options to do so. You either go with best visualization practices or creative charts. I am myself more of “best visualization practice” kinda guy. However, I always look out for data where I can try out out-of-the-box charts( not included in the tool). This was one of those times to try and learn and if you would like to work on the same dataset, You can visit here. You can choose you own dataset, I have kept the steps in a generic manner.

Prerequisite: How to plot points in a radial fashion?

This part is general to every type of radial chart as well as the most important as far as concepts are concerned. What we will try to achieve in this part is How can you plot points in a circle in tableau.

Since a circle is 360 degrees, and we need to keep points equidistant from each other, we can find delta angle = 360/points, where delta is the angle between two consecutive points. Do the following steps for this:

Create a calculated Field Index. This field is used for the points ordering. Each point will have value like 0,1,2,3,4… number of points-1.

2. Calculate angles for each point. To plot our points, we need x and y coordinates. For a circle, if we have a radius and angle we can calculate the same.

I have chosen 270 as I have taken only 3 quadrants of the circle. 25 is the number of points in my case. You can also use inbuilt functions to calculate number of points. Index is multiplied since 270/25 is the delta i.e. angles between two neighboring points. Lastly we use RADIANS function to convert degrees into Radians for use in Tableau

3. Now using the concept of Hypotenuse, base and perpendicular we can calculate X and Y coordinates of the point.

Here, 400 is the chosen radius. In the viz, I have actually used a calculated field for this. You can also use a parameter for this and try out various radii.

Instead of country, Select a field corresponding to points you want to plot.

4. Let’s plot the points. Move X and Y to the rows and columns. Since they are table calculation you will see only one points. Now You need to add a field to the details mark (in my case, I added country). Now right click on X and Y and go to compute using Country/<Field>.

This is how it looks in this case. You can choose radius, total angle, etc on your requirement.

Before moving, Take a moment and summarize all the steps above for any kind of the data. What we need for a radial chart is at least angle, x and y for the point.
Copio, Copy and Paste Layers in Photoshop Plugin
By: Alex Ionescu
Tags: Windows, Design Tools, Photoshop Plugin, OS X, Photoshop

Copio is a simple, yet very useful plugin that lets you copy and paste layers in Photoshop using keyboard shortcuts. It’s as easy as selecting the layer you want to copy and hitting Ctrl + Shift + C, then go in the file you want to copy the layer to and pasting it with Ctrl + Shift + V. You can define your own keyboard shortcut for either Copy or Paste.

Copio, Copy and Paste Layers in Photoshop Plugin

The plugin is free to download and use and is available both for Windows and OS X.

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Growing Older
By: Evince Uhurebor
Tags: Love Letters, Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Poetry Sunday, Love Poetry

Growing Older

A love poetry.

Photo by DESIGNECOLOGIST on Unsplash

Rough skin

Weak muscle

And failing bones

Does each passing year

Reminds us.

What is age?

But another reminder

You can’t run

You can’t jump

Or reach for the stairs.

For it is another reminder

You are not needed

For the tracks

For the Fields

And Pool of Argos.

Yet, it is another reminder

You need to cut down

The sweet

The spice

And other sugars

Of the universe.

To my lover

How is your skin?

How are your bones?

Are they strong?

Are they beautiful?

For whatever it is

Your love

Your beauty

Are all modeled

In my bones

And in my heart.

Nature can't

For no reason

Take it away

And Fade it away

Unto thin air.

For it is,

Modeled in my heart

In my bones

In my heart

And in my skin.
Sitting In The Corner Of My Memory
By: Lily Low
Tags: Storytelling, Poetry, Prose, Literature, Moonrise

from the confines of my room, to the utter peace that I felt

Nudging forward, younger me whining

My family spoke highly of you

I barely knew anything, nothing

Other than Arthur the aardvark’s fascination with you

My fingers

Ran along your surface

Gently

In the midst of my unfamiliarity

I remembered my teacher

Smacking my fingers with a ruler

Whenever I forgot to cut my nails

A sin — as though they were screeching against rails

Aside from the techniques and examinations

I grew to love

The sound of your notes

The comfort that surrounded me

The avenue I was able to express what I felt

You were able to transport me

From the confines of my room

To the utter peace that I felt

The calm

Reminded me of the pier

I used to kick my feet

Over the waters by the pier

Soaking in the sunshine

Kicking my thoughts into gear

Of everything and anything

That I held dear

As I grew older

Your keys collected dust

As my attention shifted

To excel in my education, a must

Sitting in the corner of my memory

Patiently, like a resounding melody

As I went to explore the unknown

And other first loves, sprouting from seeds I sown

As I got my heart broken

My fair share of failures

Maneuvering between words spoken

And people favoured

Years later I returned

Rosy-cheeked from abroad

Reminiscing, I turned

Playing as if I never left, awed

Hello, we meet again

As my fingers ran across your keys

Not in the eyes of men

Just me

You

And the calm of the vast seas
Doing Creative Work is an Opportunity to Become More of Yourself
By: Brandon B. Keith
Tags: Creativity, Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Art, Writing

Doing Creative Work is an Opportunity to Become More of Yourself

If you quit now, you risk becoming someone different.

Do you want to become yourself?

I know, this might be an odd question. Because you’re probably thinking, “Well, why wouldn’t I?”

But I ask this because you’d be surprised. Many people don’t think through this lens.

Especially when it comes to our creativity and the things we want to do. For many of us, the connection between what we do and who we’re becoming isn’t clear.

To illustrate, let me give you a common example. The aspiring writer toils, plots, and hesitates. Day after day, he thinks, “I can’t wait to become a full-time writer.”

He casts off his dreams into the future. Not knowing that what he’s doing now, is ultimately shaping his future — to not become a writer.

And it’s because he hasn’t connected the act of writing with the process of becoming the writer. Logically, he knows he can’t think his way to becoming a writer. But he’s too in his head to notice that he’s doing just that.

We often kid ourselves thinking that visualization is the only work that’s required for becoming better ourselves. Thus, we get caught in a never-ending cycle of talking and thinking but never actually doing.

Now, there are many reasons why people do this. It could be imposter syndrome, perfectionism, or even outright misaligned values.

Whatever the case, you need to connect the act of doing the thing with the process of becoming. Because let’s face it, there’s no other way to arrive there.
The Power of a Pause
By: Nancy Lovering
Tags: Animal Behavior, Dog Training, Dogs, Animal Cognition, Language

The Power of a Pause

The quiet space between commands that allows your dog time to think

Dogs need time to think about our words, but we interrupt this process when we continue speaking. Photo by Nancy Lovering.

Do dogs understand our words? It can certainly seem that way. Some estimates place their receptive language capacity at around 150 words or more. Whether it’s those words, or our body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, hand gestures, or varying combinations of any of these elements used in the right context, our dogs’ behaviors suggest that they’re trying to understand us.

I work as an education assistant (EA) supporting students with diverse learning needs. One of the things I’ve discovered is that I can apply classroom strategies to dog training. More specifically, some of the receptive language acquisition techniques I use as an EA also translate well to communicating with my dogs.

In “Your Dog is Listening” I list several such strategies, one of which is to allow for language processing time. It can be tempting to repeat yourself when your dog doesn’t immediately respond to your command, but when you do, you interfere with his processing of the words you’ve already spoken.

Yesterday I was reminded again of how important it is to pause verbal input to allow processing time.

My husky Zeus told me he wanted his favorite noisy ball, which we call “Squeak.” He asked by sitting down beside our upright freezer and gazing up at the top where I sometimes keep the ball. I told him the ball wasn’t there, and that it might be outside.

I called him out to the balcony where I could see the ball in the yard. It was on the other side of his designated dig zone, partially hidden by a ladder.

“Look — it’s there! Squeak is in the yard. Come on. I’ll show you” I walked down the balcony steps and he followed, apparently thinking I was going to cross the wet grass in my slippers to get the ball for him. Instead, I pointed in the direction of the ball and used my best command voice.

“Squeak is there. Zeus bring squeak!”

I said it once, and then I reminded myself to stop talking.

Zeus is not trained for fetch. He’s not trained for much, actually, given the fact that his breed is particularly difficult to order around. Siberians aren’t obedient — they’re collaborative. They don’t fetch things unless there’s something in it for them.

In this case, that something was playtime with his squeaky ball! So I told him where it was, I told him to bring it, then I stopped distracting him with my voice. Because I stopped talking, I allowed him to focus on the ball and process the words “bring squeak.” And after a moment, that’s exactly what he did: he found the ball, picked it up, and carried it back to me.

I was happy — until he brought Squeak into the house. What I haven’t mentioned until now is how much noise this ball makes…
What's New in Python 3.9
By: James Briggs
Tags: Technology, Software Development, Data Science, Programming, Python

Python’s New Path

There are two significant changes in this update, which we won’t see any immediate impact from — but we will begin to notice a slightly different evolution of Python as a language.

In short, this boils down to:

Python’s parser limitations

Smaller, but more frequent releases

LL(1) and PEG

Around 30 years ago, Guido van Rossum wrote pgen. One of the first pieces of code ever written for Python — it is still in use as Python’s parser to this day [1].

Pgen uses a variant of LL(1)-based grammar. This means our parser reads the code top-down, left-to-right, with a lookahead of just one token.

This essentially means that Python development is limited, because:

The lookahead of one token limits the expressiveness of grammar rules.

Python already contains non-LL(1) grammar, meaning the current parser uses a lot of workarounds, overcomplicating the process.

of workarounds, overcomplicating the process. Even with these workarounds, only so much is possible. The rules can be bent, but not broken.

With LL(1), particular left-recursive syntax can cause an infinite loop in the parse tree, causing stack overflow — as explained by Guido van Rossum here.

These attributes of the LL(1)-based parser limit what is possible in Python.

Python 3.9 has broken from these limitations thanks to a shiny new PEG parser, outlined in PEP 617.

Immediately, we won’t notice this. No changes taking advantage of the new parser will be made before Python 3.10. But after that, the language will have been released from it’s LL(1) shackles.

Development Cycles
Technical Analysis of Ethereum (ETH)
By: Akhil Nayak
Tags: Technical Analysis, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Vitalik Buterin

The current resistance and support levels are 479.62 USD and 421.37 USD respectively.

If ETH/USD pair is successful in moving above 479.62 then the next target is 540.41.

Also the formation of Double Bottom ‘W’ chart pattern can be viewed in daily chart , hence, if this impulsive leg according to three wave theory is achieved and the pair crosses the neckline around 820 USD than crossing 1200 USD is the goal.

Technical Indicators like Bollinger Bands and RSI signals buy for this pair.
Remodelmate, push a button, renovate a kitchen or bathroom
By: Kevin Hart
Tags: Bathroom, Marketing, Renovations, Kitchen Interior Design, Kitchen

Remodelmate has raised $525K in total. We talk with Chad Hall, its CEO.

PetaCrunch: How would you describe remodelmate in a single tweet?

Chad Hall: Push a button, renovate a kitchen or bathroom.

PC: How did it all start and why?

CH: Renovations suck. They are a suck on your time, your money, and your energy. We started remodelmate to un-suck the renovation experience. We’re doing this by injecting transparency and technology into an antiquated industry.

PC: What have you achieved so far?

CH: Well, we’ve been in business for three years, so that’s a huge achievement in its own right!

Since founding the company in 2016 we’ve grown to a team of five; won a national pitch competition; secured major partnerships with industry giants SoFi, Havenly, and ACE Hardware; redesigned our web application; grown our revenue 50% month over month; and have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Remodeling Magazine.

PC: How will you use your recent funding round?

CH: Marketing and hiring, all the way.

We have numerous advertising initiatives in the pipeline — direct mail, local blogs, search, social, and video. We’re also constantly making improvements to our web app. This requires a talented stable of front- and back-end engineers and designers.

PC: What do you plan to achieve in the next 2–3 years?

CH: According to Trulia, 90 percent of all American homeowners plan to remodel their house at some point. What’s even better is that nearly half of them want to do it in the next two years.With that in mind, we plan on becoming the go-to online service for new and experienced homeowners looking to renovate their home with ease.
Open Precinct Data: Schema 0.1 Proposal
By: Michal Migurski
Tags: Politics

Here’s a preliminary exploration of a new data format for storing U.S. electoral precincts, a follow-up to Open Precinct Data (April 2018).

Imagine if you could easily correlate detailed voting results from OpenElections.net or state boards of elections with mapped polygons and census geography over time.

Open precinct data supports a variety of needs. It provides missing geography to other data projects and makes community additions and conversation possible via a git-style mechanism. It makes precincts visible on a map and supports current and future elections by collecting forward and backward in time, all with unambiguous references to specific precincts in time using stable, internally-assigned, opaque, unique identifiers for every individual geometry.

The schema here is based on the ecosystem around GTFS, the data standard for transit schedule data successfully pioneered by Portland TriMet and Google Maps over ten years ago. Some design goals include:

Ease of use by data scientists and political scientists, whose tools include Python or R notebooks, spreadsheet applications, or GIS software.

Accessibility to parsing software similar to Partridge (by Danny Whalen and Remix).

Compatibility with parallel electoral data projects such as Open Elections.

Instead of simply documenting a tabular schema, this post shows the data in-use to answer basic questions about electoral geography. We can get to feature documentation later but first we need to validate that the format addresses basic needs. The remainder of this post is excerpted from a Python Notebook.
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