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If Love Is For Sale, How Much Would Yours Cost?
By: Esther George
Tags: Family, Love, Life, Life Lessons, Relationships

If Love Is For Sale, How Much Would Yours Cost?

Putting a price tag on love

Photo by Jasmine Carter from Pexels

For a long time, I had accepted that love is a gift.

What is a gift? It is something given as a sign of appreciation, to show others that you care, without expecting payment or anything in return. It is not an exchange, nor is it sustained by reciprocity.

As people, we’ve failed.

We believed the lie that says in order for love to work, we should expect love in return. We must give with the intention that we may take some back. We care for others so that our needs can be met should the time come. It’s a fair deal.

We believe the significant determinant of our happiness is that we should feel loved and cared for, so we fight for our rights. Sadly, we’ve forgotten the parallel need for us to love and care for others.

The old advice that says ‘if you love someone, set them free’ still rings true. Love is one of the most sought after energies. It lifts our spirits, sparks ideas, and ultimately brings people closer.

So why is it that so many are disconnected and wounded in the name of love? We can’t successfully articulate how we feel without projecting hurt. Sometimes we stay silent through the pain, and when it feels overwhelmed, we breakdown.

Is that how love looks like?
The Case of the Missing Tupperware
By: Lim Wee Ling
Tags: Humor, Comics, Writing, Life, Illustration

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A writer. A fangirl. A human being trying to stay afloat during this chaotic time.
Sketch Movie Review by Sylvianism : Who’s it for?
By: Sylvian Patrick
Tags: Sketcch, Tamil Movie Review, Vikram, Sketcch Review, Tamil Movies

Sketch Tamil Movie

How do people narrate a story to an actor or producer? I have heard stories about how some directors would narrate with meticulous detailing. After watching Sketch, I have been thinking how Vijay Chander (Vaalu) would have described the story to Vikram? What would have made the actor choose such a movie? The number of slow-mo shots or the action sequences or it could be the stereotypical dance routines, or it could have been the Geminish hand gesture style or maybe, he was impressed by the forced message at the end. It was baffling to see such a talented actor in the most obnoxious role you can ever see.

The movie is about a group of men headed by Jeeva (Vikram, nicknamed Sketch — you know why) who cease overdue cars from owners. At one point in time (read interval), they confiscate an old car of a gangster to help their employer take revenge. After the incident, Jeeva’s friends die mysteriously, and he tries to investigate. The rest of the movie is about how he finds the real murderers (read twist). In between, add some kuthu songs, a love track and a comedy track.

The problem with the movie is that it has been conceived, shot, acted and directed. The screenplay and characterisations are so predictable that you can guess who is going to die next. But the build-up that they employ for each of the characters is laughable. Everyone including the smallest of the characters gets a slow-mo shot.The makers might have probably thought that the end message and twist would help to salvage the movie, but it looks as forced as Tamanna’s chemistry with Vikram.

I seriously don’t understand why Vikram needs to do such movies. When was the last time, he had a commercial mass masala movie box office hit? His fans or the audience yearn for his acting prowess. They celebrate him when he does a Pithamagan and doesn’t even care whether he does a 10 Endrathukkulla. His Saami 2 has a better chance at the box office due to Hari and nostalgia but is it about time for him to reconsider his choices.

Sketch is a euphemism for a detailed devious plan to grab something or kill someone. Is this ‘Sketch’ made for himself or the audience? I think it’s for both because you are sure to die of boredom at the end of the movie.

I go with 1/5 for Sketch (grace mark).

P.S., Listen to the song and I am pretty sure it’s eerily similar to Afreen (Raahat Fateh Ali Khan’s version from Coke Studio)

Vaanam Thooramale

Afreen by Raahat Fateh Ali Khan (Coke Studio) adapted from his father’s original
Australia is Helping Fight California Fires and Protect Napa Wine
By: East-West Center In Washington
Tags: California, Wine, Fire, Australia, Napa Valley

For weeks, California’s renowned wine regions of Napa Valley and Sonoma have been blanketed in smoke as devastating wildfiresrage across the northern part of the state, burning more than 245,000 acres and destroying thousands of homes. To help contain the wildfires, California called in additional resources from neighboring states as well as other countries including Mexico, Canada, and Australia, and more firefighters from Australia were deployed to the state in early October. According to Cal Fire director Ken Pimlott, Australian firefighters are at the ready throughout the state to help fight additional fires that might break out due to persistent high temperatures and dry conditions.

Australia and New Zealand have been key partners in helping combat wildfires in the United States for more than 50 years, mobilizing firefighters to the States during intense fire seasons in 2008 and 2015. US firefighters have also traveled to Australia, most recently in 2010 when a dozen American fire managers and 16 additional personnel were on site after widespread Catastrophic fire danger warnings.

In California, the fires will likely have the largest impact on the wine industry, which generates more than $34 billion dollars annually, even before accounting for the enormous wine tourism business. Many of the industry’s high-value wines are produced in Napa and Sonoma. Although the region produces only 10% of the state’s wine, it accounts for 35–40% of the total revenue.

Here too, Australia is providing substantial assistance: informing solutions and preventive measures to help the industry recover. While wildfires are uncommon in California’s wine valleys, brushfires are a frequent occurrence in the South Australian wine regions like the Yarra Valley. As a result, the Australian Wine Research Institute has become a leading source of information on how wildfires can affect grapes. California vinters are particularly concerned about what the Australians call “smoke taint,” where phenols in smoke are absorbed by grapes while on the vine and released during the fermentation process, altering the flavor of the wine. One paper estimated the impact of smoke taint from the Napa and Sonoma fires at more than $220 million.

Jake Howry is a Georgetown University Graduate Student and Intern at the East-West Center

This article was originally published on October 31, 2017 on AsiaMattersforAmerica.org
Dean Eigenmann Joins AdEx in an Advisory Role
Tags: Online Marketing, Blockchain, Ethereum, Ad Network, Digital Marketing

Blockchain auditor and Solidity developer Dean Eigenmann has recently joined the AdEx team as an advisor. He will be sharing his insights on a number of topics, including code review, updating the AdEx white paper, etc.

Despite being only 20, Dean has already gathered significant professional background. He started coding when he was 9, then dropped out of high school at 15 to work as a developer. This lead him to a 4-year software development apprenticeship in Switzerland. There, he gathered a lot of experience as a back-end developer for an e-commerce project.

Today, Dean is an auditor at ZK Labs, the creator of the Harbour governance protocol, one of the main contributors/researchers at the ENS project, and something of an inappropriate-meme god.

He dedicates a good portion of his attention to blockchain governance; he sees on-chain governance as very fragile and lacking in terms of practical application, which sparks his interest in the topic.

Eigenmann has been in contact with our team for a while now; he was involved in both audits that ZK Labs performed for us. This is why we were thrilled to have him onboard as an advisor. We are convinced that his close knowledge of the AdEx ecosystem and his super-weird sense of humor will make him an invaluable asset to the project.
Waltz of the Undead
Tags: Mental Health, Poetry, Society, Life, Resistance Poetry

Waltz of the Undead

A poem.

Photo by dylan nolte on Unsplash

The undead began their waltz as they left their posts,

they didn’t need sleep, but funnily enough they need rest,

They assembled at their posts,

and waited for their lord to give them orders.

When the lord finally came,

they cowered in fear, and prayed to the lord,

“You are the greatest” they told the lord.

The lord didn’t seem to care for praise,

all the lord cared was about the work that the undead did,

“Get back to work you pigs”

The undead scurried back to their places,

removed the wrinkles from their shirts,

tightened their nooses, I mean ties,

Forced a smiling face,

And began to work on their computers.
Camping: Combine the Joy of Hiking with Sleeping Outside like a Homeless Person
By: Alex Mcivor
Tags: Humor, Satire, Travel, Camping, Comedy

Photo by Michael Guite on Unsplash

Camping is garbage.

I could stop there, but I figure I’ll drop some knowledge on ya.

Have you ever been on a long, arduous hike? A hike that you have to wake up in the ungodly hours of the morning that only annoyingly successful entrepreneurs claim to get up every day so they can “get stuff done.” You drive to the mountain battling winding roads specifically designed to give you nausea. You put on the boots that you got like 5 years ago and only bust out once every Fall, and you begin a 4 to 8-hour hike.

After making your way to the summit and back, you’re covered in dust and sweat. It wasn’t easy. You severely miscalculated your water supply and had to drink some creek water with an iodine tablet in it that makes it taste like the swamp water from the Pirates of the Carribean ride. Was that itchy scratch you got on your leg poison ivy? Who knows? Seemingly everything and nothing is poison ivy out in the wilderness.

Nevertheless, you’ve defeated the mountain. Went toe to toe and walked out the victor. Or in the immortal words of legendary mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, “You made the mountain your bitch.” I might be paraphrasing, but you get the idea. You won. Bask in the glory of knowing you communed with the outdoors and got some great exercise in the process. Now for your reward, would you like a warm shower and a nice evening on the sofa to unwind?

No! You’ve elected to sleep outside like a homeless person in a tent. You could have stayed at a lodge or an Airbnb nearby, but nooooooo, that’d be glamping and you’re too proud. Well congratulations, you’ve won sleeping on rocks while you realize you forgot to bring a pillow so try to make your stinky, filthy sweater work instead.

It’s cold out. Like really fucking cold! Good thing your sleeping bag is super warm. Oh no, it’s too warm. Turns out your sleeping bag is rated for the freezing vacuum of space, not a blustery Autumn night in Southern California. So like a reverse Hot Pocket, you take turns getting volcanically hot on the inside, unzipping, and having your sweat-drenched limbs on the outside turn to whatever phase of matter is colder than a solid.

Psssst. Pssssst. Hey, you fell asleep…. somehow. But now you need to pee in the middle of the night. Have fun getting out of your “two-person” tent that really only fits one person without waking up your camping buddy. Oh no, you have to put on your shoes in the dark while trying not to get the dirt on everything inside. Good luck. Oh also, there’s potentially bears and skunks and you’re going to freeze your junk off while you pee next to another group’s tent.

And it’s morning. Time to wake up at 5:25 am and head back to the car and back to civilization. It’s almost as if you could have skipped living outside for a day to “reconnect with nature” and just slept in a bed like a normal person, you fucking maniac.
Red Lipstick Is Not Just a Vanity : It’s My Identity
By: Shruti
Tags: Women, Fashion, Life, History, Editors Pick

Red Lipstick Is Not Just a Vanity : It’s My Identity

The surprising history and significance of red lipstick

Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash

I have had a major love and believe in the power of red lipstick for more than a decade now.

In my childhood, Whenever my mother used to apply the scarlet shade on her lips, an instant transformation in her aura always followed. Unlike the usual days, she used to pay more attention to herself during those certain special occasions. The confidence that radiates from her used to be hard to miss.

This noticeable difference in her poise had a huge effect on my perspective as a child, I formed this belief that - the red lipstick somehow makes a wearer bolder and more empowered. Hence, I wanted it to be mine.

A belief that has only gotten stronger and stronger with time.

I have loved to wear bright and crazy shades of lipsticks for as long as I can remember, even though I always had a peculiar pull towards red lipsticks, I never actually got to try them. My mother forbade me to do so. Why? Well, She didn’t want her precious little daughter to catch every other person’s attention.

I can still clearly recall the day I wore it for the first time. I was 17 years old back then.

I looked at my reflection in the mirror and was like, Who even is this girl? It gave my childhood perception a new definition. It may sound a little cliché to hear, but it turned my belief into a reality, it made me feel powerful. A feeling that I can have my shit together, I felt confident not only about my looks but about my inner self.

The lip shade which I have never stopped wearing after that day.
TensorFlow Image Classification using Transfer Learning for Beginners
By: Angga Bayu Prakhosha
Tags: Transfer Learning, Image Classification, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Deep Learning

Training a machine learning model could be quite time-consuming. Especially if you are trying to solve a complex problem. One solution to speed up the training process is to use a pre-trained model. This is called transfer learning.

Transfer learning allows us to use a pre-trained model to solve our problem. There are many pre-trained models out there like mobilenet, VGG, Resnet, etc. In this article, we will implement image classification using transfer learning in TensorFlow.

The code for this article can be found in my GitHub.

First, let us import certain libraries that we are going to need while also loading our dataset. We will use TensorFlow ‘horses_or_humans’ dataset to classify whether an image is a horse or a human. We will also visualize our data.

TensorFlow ‘horses_or_humans’ consists of 1027 images of horses and humans

Next, we need to split our dataset into training and testing data. We also need to reshape our training and testing data so it matches our model.

TensorFlow provides many pre-trained models for us to play with. In this article, The pre-trained model we are going to use is ResNet50, short for Residual Networks with 50 layers. It is based on the ResNet model that won ImageNet challenge in 2015. Do not forget to set all of the ResNet50 layers un-trainable so it will not update its weight based on our training.

Then, let’s train our model and also visualize its performances.

Our model performances

Let us use the testing data to see our model predictions.

The model successfully predict the test data

As we can see, the model successfully predicts our test data. But what about an unseen one? Can it still predict the image? Let us see.
Are You Ignoring Some of the Most Powerful Writing Lessons You Have Available?
By: Gregory D. Welch
Tags: Work, Personal Development, Writing, Creativity, Productivity

The number one skill

Let me be the first to admit it, but I don’t quite have my title game down to an art just yet. I’m a student of titles, but I’m active in my learning. My titles seem to go from too close to click-bait sounding to outright boring or too creative for my own good (I’m a poet, you write titles for poems a bit differently).

That said, being a student of the art and craft of titles, here’s what I have picked up so far.

A great title should make a promise, show its value, hook the reader and make them curious and should do it all in as few words as possible. In other words, they aren’t easy to pull off, but if you do them right, you’ve met and overcame the first big obstacle to your article getting read or not.

Screw up the title and the article won’t get read. But don’t let that scare you off, because the opposite is true too. Writing a winning title is like building a door that everyone wants to knock on. Invite them in.

But, and this is important, your job with writing a winning title is only beginning after the title is written. You still have to write a winning subtitle, and headers throughout the piece. Each one has an important role to play, and has its own unique requirements.

Subtitles should be more direct than the title. They clarify even further what exactly your article is promising to deliver on.

Subheadings in your piece help organize the information, making the whole reading experience more enjoyable for your reader and because we all skim at one time or another, it makes the quick reader’s scan easier. Remember that the goal is to benefit the reader, how you pull this off is making your article easy to access from multiple angles, for a variety of readers.
Top 10 2020 New Year’s Eve Secret Resolutions From (In)Famous People
By: Mr. Francis
Tags: Humor, Writing, New Years Resolutions, Writer, Sarcasm

A New Year’s Eve resolution is a tradition we can all relate to, regardless of whether or not we do one ourselves.

It’s like the hangover the day after Dec. 31st.

You try to avoid it, but you do it anyway.

Even the rich, the powerful and the (in)famous have their resolutions.

Usually, we, the ordinary, non-famous people, don’t have an opportunity to find out what these folks have written.

But, as the saying goes, I know a guy who knows a friend, who got her hands on a text, from someone she knows, who told someone.
[Golang] Pointer receiver and Interface
By: Visarut Junsone
Tags: Programming Languages, Golang Tutorial, Golang, Programming, Interfaces

I’m Full-Stack Developer. ReactJS Golang C# Javascript C++ PHP and learning a lot more. Not lazy as it name. “Lazy-Dev”

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Tech review: Asus ROG G750 series
By: Content For Pragyan
Tags: Tech Reviews, Asus Rog, Asus G750, Asus, G750

In general the Asus ROG G750 series laptops are packed with 24 GB of RAM ( 32 GB upgradeable ). The GTX variants include 2 GB of GTX 860M ( JM,JW) and for JZ 4GB 880M! JZ has a 4K display while the JM&JW are 1080p ones . And obviously they have Intel i7 4th Gen processor. They also have a 17”screen .

These laptops have dual fans with copper heatsinks for more efficiency and minimizing sounds and the sweetest Gaming keypad inclined comfortably. I broke the review down to just pros and con to make it easier …

Pros :

1. Monster Gaming Laptop .. Given The Specs 24 GB DDR3 RAM and expandable up to 32 GB, though 24 is more than enough . 2 GB GTX 860M DDR5 !! It’s pumped up properly .

2. Display : It supports 3D display too ,i.e. NVIDIA 3D vision , you’ll get a 3D glass from NVIDIA along with it. It just takes viewing experience and gaming to a whole new level. It has matte screens anti glare coating, 140 degree wide angle view. Which means looks great in all light conditions and lesser eye strain for hours of game play .

3. The sleek design , is beautiful and elegant .. If you’ve seen the Asus Lamborghini edition released 3 years back .. This is a bigger and badass version of that .. It’s a ROG (Republic Of Gamers) Laptop . There’s an illuminated ROG logo on the lid like the Apple’s apple symbol .. But much cooler and it’s not planar like that of Apple . It protrudes out slightly . It has a proper angle for resting your hands on it and playing for hours .

4. It has dual rear vents for cooling which ensures your laptop remains cool all the time .. ( From My experience it actually does .. Till now it never got heated up .)

5. It’s built with ASUS Sonicmaster and ROG Audiowizard .. So the sound is crystal clear , richer bass , distinct vocals .

6. You’ll also get an official ROG mouse and Headset along with it . The ROG mouse supports up to 8200 dpi(dots per inch) .. That much sensitivity for better gaming experience . The headphone is just WOW ! ..

Cons :

Though it sounds great there’s a slight downside to this :

1. It’s battery life is ok .. That’s expected considering the amount of performance it gives obviously will drain the battery a bit faster but it lasts like 3–3.5 hrs. for normal use on battery ..

2. Portability : It’s OK .. The bag you get along with it is also awesome . But some people hate carrying 17 inch laptop on their backs . Saying it’s huge . But actually it shouldn’t bother you much . The bag will take care of everything . It’ll be a bit heavy that’s it .

You shouldn’t think too much about the cons as the pros outweigh the cons like anything you’ve ever seen . It’s a stunning laptop , go for it .

This article was originally written by Jyotishman Paul for the original Pragyan blog.
Kill The Elephants In The Room Before They Kill You.
By: Scott Belsky
Tags: Management, Leadership, Productivity, Product Management, Startup

Earlier this year I wrote about the need to tackle organizational debt, which I described as “the accumulation of changes that leaders should have made but didn’t.” But why do leaders shy away from pushing for the most important changes? Why do people sitting around a table keep their doubts to themselves? Much of the hesitation boils down to conflict avoidance and always trying to keep everyone happy.

A common mistake I observe in leaders of teams big and small is to aspire for peace as a default. You should be challenging peace as a default. Create an environment where people can withstand a fight and engage in friction as it arises. Rather than passively surf the whims of peoples’ hesitations to take action, bring the conflict to the surface with questions like:

“Let’s debate this out — what is the worst thing that will happen if we launch a bit early? Is scrambling a little bit after launch really worse than punting the project for additional months?”

“Who exactly claims we’re not ready to launch this? What, specifically, needs to be done for us to be ready?”

Ultimately, you want a team that values conflict as a means to making bolder decisions and taking the required risks for a more exciting end. Disagreement is great, so long as the team shares conviction when a decision is made.

I like how former RISD president and one of my long-time mentors John Maeda once observed: “A good team does a lot of friendly front-stabbing instead of backstabbing. Issues are resolved by knowing what they are.“ Confrontation tends to be most needed when it is most uncomfortable. It’s the truly tough issues, the ones most likely to advance our potential the most, that we avoid. I am still determined to get a sign someday for my office that simply states, “No Elephants.” To eliminate all “elephants in the room” your team must commit to as much front-stabbing as possible.
You Can Design a Good Chart with R
By: Elijah Meeks
Tags: Towards Data Science, R, Design, Data Visualization, Data Science

You Can Design a Good Chart with R

But do R users invest in design?

Last week dataviz twitter was abuzz when Edward Tufte bemoaned the inability of R to create nice-looking graphs with good labels and annotations. He suggested that the only way to get to the kind of quality charts he’s promoted in his books was to take the output of R into Adobe Illustrator and invest in “reasoning about words on graphics”.

If you’re new to data visualization, you might think that such a pronouncement would lead to a reevaluation of how people are using R and whether they’re using the programming language to create quality charts. After all, it’s Edward Tufte, Patron Saint of Data Visualization.

You would be wrong.

You might not know it but there’s quite a fractious relationship between the modern data visualization community and Tufte. Some feel he interacts too imperiously, some feel his whole approach is based on a few intuitions that have not been backed up by research, and some feel that his key examples have problematic assumptions. Many prominent data visualization practitioners on Twitter hold it as a badge of honor to be blocked by Tufte.

So it should be no surprise that the response to Tufte’s tweet was mostly to say that R does provide the ability to do good dataviz design. Tufte’s claim seemed to imply that it was literally impossible and so it was easy enough for the R user community to present examples of charts made with R that were similar to, if not exact copies of, the examples Tufte has used.

But the substance of the critique was not that R was technically incapable of using design, rather that data visualization design is not associated with using R. It’s easy to see why Tufte’s tweet was interpreted this way, since he suggested R “wasn’t enough” and that you would need to pull the results into another tool, like Illustrator. Whether Tufte meant it or not, this question of whether R users think of design as worth their time and investment is too important to ignore.

To understand it better, I looked at the 2018 Data Visualization Survey. I don’t use R or Illustrator in my practice and the survey participants were skewed toward my social media reach, but I’m lucky enough to know a few people who are prominent in different data visualization communities who also shared the survey. So, while it’s no surprise that this survey overrepresents D3, it has a good representation of people who use R and even a decent number of people using Illustrator for data visualization.

Of the 627 people who filled out the survey, all but 133 indicated they used R, Illustrator or D3 in their data visualization practice with many using some combination of those tools.

A few of the questions had to do specifically with the role of design in data visualization and one in particular asked the participant to estimate the amount of time per day they spent on design.
10 Ways To Help Your Child Become a Critical Thinker
By: The Good Men Project
Tags: Critical Thinking, Family, Parenting, Thinking, Life Lessons

10 Ways To Help Your Child Become a Critical Thinker

Ten tips to motivate your children to become independent thinkers who make healthy decisions.

By Marie Roker-Jones

In a world where we live for followers, likes, tweets and more, how do we raise kids to be independent thinkers?

1. Encourage Questions

Don’t answer every question. Instead, ask your child what he or she thinks. Asking open-ended questions stimulates the conversation.

2. Don’t Criticize

Criticism invites low self-esteem. Children feel that they have failed or disappointed their parents when they are criticized. Find alternate ways of correcting the problem. A child will likely shut down communication if they feel that their parents are not supportive — and this behavior can haunt them as they grow and mature.

3. Respect Your Child’s Opinions

Your child is not your parrot or puppet. Although it is difficult to accept at times, it is normal and healthy for your child to have his own opinion. Boys and girls who are confident in expressing their opinions are less likely to succumb to peer pressure.

4. Teach Your Children To Embrace Diversity

Encourage your child to learn about different cultures and ethnicities. A well-informed child will understand and respect other people’s values.

5. Teach Your Sons and Daughters To Set Personal Boundaries

Boys need to have their personal space respected in order for them to respect other people’s personal space. The same goes for girls. Help your child establish boundaries and make sure to enforce your boundaries.

6. Establish A Nurturing Environment

Children thrive in environments in which they know they are loved and respected. Remind your children every day that you love and support them.

7. Understand Your Child’s Thought Process

In order for you to be an advocate for your child, you must know and understand how they learn. Is he or she a creative, logical, musical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, or naturalistic learner? Seek with curiosity your child’s own unique capabilities and accept his or her creativity.

8. Don’t Think For Your Child

Encourage independent thinking. Let your son or daughter decide (within reason) what is appropriate. Let them make choices. Give him or her enough room to make decisions, but also be there in case plans don’t work out.

9. Teach Your Child Stress Management Skills

Help your children to effectively deal with stress. Try not to contribute to his or her stress with demands and unrealistic expectations. Make learning fun!

10. Teach Your Child To Trust His or Her Instincts

In order for boys and girls to be successful in life, they must learn how to trust their decisions. Your child needs to be confident in trusting his or her instincts. Boys and girls who trust their own decisions — and understand how to make good ones — are less likely to participate in unhealthy behaviors.

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This story was originally published on Raising Great Men.com and republished on The Good Men Project.
The Stories of Pisces, Leo and Orion — Greek Mythology #4
By: Samrat Dutta
Tags: Leo, Greece, Pisces, Orion, Greek Mythology

The goddess Artemis was a strong female character who was unconventional in ancient Greece. Artemis, the twin sister of the Greek god Apollo, is also the goddess of hunting and the forest in Greek mythology. I will tell the story of the birth of Apollo and Artemis later. Artemis is said to have once told his father, Zeus, “The disadvantages of wearing traditional long dresses are much greater than the advantages for girls. I want to shorten my dress. It will be easier for me to walk, run and hunt”

The goddess Artemis therefore kept her virginity for life. She was never attracted to any man. Rather she has kept herself away from men as much as possible. However, it is known that Artemis, had a short-lived friendship with Orion, the son of God of the seas, Poseidon. But it is better to call it friendship than love. Yet her twin brother Apollo, the sun god, did not like their relationship. So he decided to kill Orion in the guise of a trick. To this end, he called on his sister Artemis to demonstrate her skills in archery. One day when Orion was swimming in the sea, Apollo pointed at him from a distance and told Artemis to shoot an arrow. But Orion was so far away from Artemis that she could not see Orion’s face at that moment. As a result, when Artemis shot an arrow at him, Orion died instantly. Later, the goddess Artemis felt remorse for this cruel act and placed the dead Orion in the midst of the constellations in the sky in the guise of a hunting warrior. Even today in the night sky we all identify that constellation as “Orion”. Not only that, but Artemis also placed a hound with him in the constellation, which is now known to all as “Sirius”, the companion of Orion in the night sky. This “Sirius” is the “brightest star” in our night sky.

Some more information:

Even before Artemis, Orion loved Merope, the daughter of Titan Oceanus and Tethys. I will tell you the story of Orion and Merope one day. And those who grew up watching Harry Potter series like me from a young age, now they know where JK Rowling got the name of the character in his story “Sirius Black”! The “Orion” constellation in our night sky is actually made up of a number of stars, one of which is called Bellatrix, the third brightest star in our universe. You remember Bellatrix Lestrange, right?

So one more surprise, the real name of Voldemort, Harry Potter’s worst enemy, was Tom Riddle, as everyone knows. But do you know what Rowling gave the name of Tom Riddle’s mother? You may be surprised to hear. Rowling also named Riddle’s mother after a character in Greek mythology. Her name was Merope!
Fibery.io chronicles #16. Crazy November.
By: Michael Dubakov
Tags: Productivity, Fibery, Marketing, No Code, Startup

Twitter exploded as well. Here are just some of the top:

This one is cool and explains why the fun is here:

In the end we got a lot of traffic, 2000 accounts, hundreds of Intercom communications and some valuable feedback already. Servers are doing good. However, we faced a problem. In fact we have enough accounts to check various metrics and improve getting started experience. So the question was “Should we announce Fibery 1.0 publicly, post it to PH and to other launch things?” or should we just shut up for a month, check metrics, improve getting started and get back to promotion in January?

There were various opinions inside a team, so I decided to flip a coin. This coin, on the left, actually, since I was in Switzerland at this time.

Actually, the coin showed that we should release today. But somehow coin toss influenced my opinion and I decided to postpone the public announcements till mid January 2020.

We have enough accounts to validate initial ideas (and still having 100-200 new accounts every day). It is time to learn and optimize before a full blown release campaign.

Initial Feedback

Overall it is more positive, than I expected. There are not so many obvious bugs and, in general, people like Fibery.

#1

Let's start by a big thank you, I can finally think freely with this tool. Also, for the anxiety landing page. ;Reminds me of the arrival of Discord for messaging.

#2

Product looks good, will keep looking into it! Congratulations.

#3

Really like the Fibery concept. Been looking for decent tools for a long time and a feel that Fibery will give me the flexibility to work how I want to. Started using notion recently and it's Database structures are just far too simple to manage workflows effectively. Keep up the good work!!

Some people are having troubles with Fibery, but this is totally expected. We have to learn how to show Fibery value to the people and improve onboarding experience.

It is too early to see real traction, we have to wait for 2–3 weeks and see the real interest behind the hype. But overall, the team finally got some social approval and endorphins. 🤪

Product updates

From product perspective November was quite boring. We were busy with accounts management, payments, sample apps creation, polishing and bug fixing. The only major thing is Whiteboard release. This is a View that allow you to create diagrams and link them with real entities (in future):
Daily Dose // Rx 1.18
By: Elizabeth Henderson
Tags: SoundCloud, Daily Dose, Remix, Music, New Music

If Alcoholics by Skizzy Mars wasn’t already a fabulous song, it just got a lot better. DJ Fareoh took this gem to a whole new level with his remixed version. Please enjoy this delicious track, I know I did…over and over and over again.
Article: Poker Aces Playing in the $5 Trillion ETF Market
By: Cfo Moviq
Tags: Articles, Game Theory, Etf, Poker, Moviq

Susquehanna built its empire on poker. All six co-founders met in the late 1970s at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where they gathered to play cards before advancing to Las Vegas casinos. One of the six, Jeff Yass, had the insight that card skills could transfer to Wall Street. That bloomed into Susquehanna’s philosophy that poker provides the best training for the type of probability-­based decisions in uncertain circumstances that are needed in markets.

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“My friends and I took poker very seriously,” Yass said in an interview in the book The New Market Wizards: Conversations With America’s Top Traders by Jack Schwager, published in 1992. “We knew that over the long run it wasn’t a game of luck, but rather a game of enormous skill and complexity. We took a mathematical approach.”
九五後的嘰嘰喳喳
By: Evan Chang
Tags: 大學自學, 知識經濟, 內容經濟

in Eudaimonia and Co
Below The Surface
By: George Heimel
Tags: Grief And Loss, Grief, Life Lessons

Below the surface it is a hoarder’s den of things I do not say, and things I try to keep myself from feeling. I take those things, the things that are too ugly to sit on the display shelf, and hide them away.

As a child I would lay in the bath, hold my breath and let myself slip below the surface of the water. “BLOOP” and the world was gone. It was just me and my “below-world.” I learned as a teenager that I could achieve the same effect with the real world. I just conjured up a mental image of the bath water and “BLOOP”, I folded space around me and I was gone. Invisible in my little pocket universe. People would just walk right by me as if I was no longer there.

This space used to be calm and uncluttered, but when my mother died I started taking things there. Fear, Anger, Heartache, Screams. I began to clutter my hidden world with things I did not want others to see or be bothered with. I would pull all the unwanted and painful stuff out of everyone’s sight into my world below the surface. I would go there to be in my gallery of pain out of the sight of most people. No longer a place of solace and peace. It became my private screaming hall that no one else could access.

With my father’s death, there is no more room. The space is overflowing and random things wink back into existence in the real world. Escapee’s from my personal menagerie existing between breaths. Every new scream or attempt to pull something in results in something being pushed out. I have stretched my ability to hold my pocket space together to its frayed ends. It takes so much energy to keep things there. My private pain gallery has started to phase into my “real” world. Wherever these poison things land they leave scorched earth, and I am helpless to stem the tide.
CoinBundle Conversations
By: Coinbundle Team
Tags: Coinbundleconvos, Investing, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Startup

CoinBundle is on a mission to provide support and educate new cryptocurrency investors. Our CEO, Saad Rizvi has sat down with the leading blockchain, cryptocurrency, and venture capital experts and entrepreneurs to discuss their journey into crypto and the important aspects of investing. These conversations will increase awareness, open minds, and bring clarity to this exciting new space.

In these interviews, notable leading voices in the space explain cryptocurrency and the technology behind it. In these in-depth episodes, you can expect to learn about blockchain, exchanges, decentralization, entrepreneurship, marketplaces, and much more.

Saad’s face-to-face with Atif Nazir

Before becoming the CEO of Block.io, Atif Nazir talks about building the #2 application on Facebook and his major success after the challenges of being a Bitcoin believer before the crypto craze had even set in. As well as speaking on society’s acceptance of technological advancements, Nazir shares advice on taking the complexity out of crypto and simplifying it as an entrepreneur to reach success.

There’s more!

Sign up for an account on CoinBundle and you won’t miss all past and future CoinBundle Conversations with these leading crypto investors and entrepreneurs:
Coronavirus: Teachable Moments for Schools
By: Primal Dhillon
Tags: Schools, Leadership, Education, Technology, Strategy

Issues with Shutting Down Public Schools

The University of Washington and Stanford have canceled in-person classes. Large tech companies such as Google and Facebook are encouraging employees to work from home. Many private K-12 schools and some public school districts such as Elk Grove in California have closed temporarily, and more schools may follow suit.

However, many public schools will be unable to shut down completely at this point. The New York City school district, for example, serves over one million students, of which over 72% are economically disadvantaged and over 20% are students with special needs (See: NYC DOE data).

Serving such a large, diverse student population in critical ways every day means that shutting down schools is a “last resort” (Chancellor, March 4).

Here’s why:

1. Parents need to be able to follow their work schedules.

Who watches the kids at home if schools suddenly close? Schools provide a function outside of education: they enable parents to go to work without having to worry about childcare.

Many parents have jobs that don’t allow them to watch their children and don’t have the resources to pay someone else to do so. As of today, there is no federal legal requirement that mandates paid sick leave.

This is a point that is hard to overstate:

Much of our economic, day-to-day structure depends on the assurance that parents can trust their children are safe, healthy, and learning in schools.

2. Many students depend on free or affordable school food for some of their daily meals.

During the 2017–2018 school year, almost 96,000 schools participated in the National School Lunch Program with about 22 million low-income student participants on a typical day (FRAC).

If schools close suddenly, some of these children will face food-related hardships.

3. Many students do not have access to technology at home.

This may be due to lack of internet access, or accessible PCs/laptops/tablets.

As of 2017, almost 900,000 households in NYC do not have access to broadband internet and of this only one-third have cellular data plans (NYC Comptroller Blog — July 2019).

Disparities in access make online education difficult for these students.
Coronavirus: Por qué Debemos Actuar Ya
By: Tomas Pueyo
Tags: Coronavirus, 1st, Epidemia, Salud

Coronavirus: 'We must choose who to treat,' says Italian doctor

An Italian doctor in Lombardy, a region of Italy that has been quarantined due to the new coronavirus (Covid-19)…
How to Design More Inclusive Digital Products
Tags: Product Design, Design Process, Inclusive Design, User Testing, User Research

How to Design More Inclusive Digital Products

With remote work being the new normal in COVID-19 times, there’s no excuse left for not testing digital products with a diverse user group.

COVID-19 has impacted every single aspect of our lives. The need to keep a safe distance so that infection numbers stay manageable has influenced the ways we interact with each other, structure our daily lives, and work together. And while there are endless aspects to how the pandemic has influenced us, I’d like to talk about one specific topic that has changed our work at Goodpatch and the chances I see for a more inclusive design practice: remote user testings.

Good design is inclusive

Human-centered design is at the heart of what we do. Our goal is to make our digital products accessible to a variety of users from different walks of life. But what’s easily said in theory can be difficult to turn into practice. As designers, we look at the world from our own angle. No matter how thoroughly a designer has done research on her products’ users, the design will still incorporate her view on the world and therefore the risk of being biased or exclusive to certain groups. This is why it is essential to test digital products with people having differing levels of digital experience, different ages, genders, ethnicities, physical abilities, and levels of education.

Leave your bubble and go the extra mile!

And while this might seem pretty self-explanatory, you’d be surprised about how often diversity in user testing gets neglected. The reason for this is that pushing to include underrepresented groups takes time and is too often seen as a nice to have rather than a basic necessity. Recruiting a diverse group of users means needing to leave your own bubble, investing more time, and talking to your clients about why it is worth spending that extra effort.

Do you know who you’re designing for?
[BLOG] Future Expectations
Tags: Tribe Accelerator, Blog, Startup

The companies who participated in the program.

The program had top blockchain companies, the Singapore government, and vest of globally renowned companies. The list included HSBC, Intel, Nielson, Johnson & Johnson, BMW Asia group, etc. Not only the globally renowned companies, but the blockchain heavyweights such as ICON, VeChain and more attended the event in March and plans to attend more of the Tribe Accelerators forwarding events in the planned program.

The Tribe Accelerator’s managing partner Yi Ming Ng not only showed his focused interests and hopes for startups and corporations to work together but also expressed that the efforts to support the companies will continue. Additionally, Yi mentioned that he has high hopes for the outcome of the exquisite networking between the startup and the corporations.

BMW Asia: Master Class

The goal of the program mentioned by Tribe Accelerator was that they are hoping for the creation of the hyper-connected platform through the development of a solution resulting from the networking and communication of the startups and the corporations. Not only through such efforts, but Tribe Accelerator will support the selected top 10 startups to grow through continuous work with corporations and top blockchain specialists to develop the best business models, sharing ideas for them.
Blockchain Breakdown: 6 blockchain happenings in different industries this week
Tags: Blockchain, Playboy, Voting, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Covering comedy, government, Russia, sex, social good and advertising..

By FintechMUSEings (aka Emily H)

1.Comedy: This week started with bringing blockchain to the masses as John Oliver aired a cryptocurrency episode of his popular comedy show, Last Week With John Oliver. He warns the audience:

“You’re not investing your gambling.” Watch more

2. Advertising: On Wednesday, Google, the world’s largest online advertiser, announced a ban on crypto currency-related advertising starting June 2018 (already Facebook has banned it). Bitcoin fell below $8,000 that day (please note that by the time you read this the price maybe quite different). Some supporters of digital currencies still contend such bands have no impact on price.

On the positive side, blockchain is building communities..

3. National voting: This week Sierra Leone, Africa became the first country to use blockchain for voting. The country used a blockchain solution developed by a Switzerland based voting technology company, Agora to tally and provide proof of the recently held elections in the country. Read more.

4. Neighborly voting: On March 15, Moscow, also, announced some voting news. Russia’s capital launched Digital Home which uses Active Citizen, an electronic voting platform, that runs on a private version of ethereum. It will allow neighbors in high rises to electronically vote and communicate on issues like whether to replace the building entrance door.

5. ICOs for Social Good: In the US, the City of Berkley, California is partnering with the University of California Berkley’s Blockchain Lab and a Fintech company, Neighboring, to create an initial coin offering (ICO) to raise funds for the city. Money will go towards things such as affordable housing, homeless shelter and other improvements for social good.

6. Sex: Playboy, also, announced its involvement in the cryptocurrency movement this week. On Wednesday, Playboy Enterprises announced it was developing an online payment wallet that will support several crypto payment types, including Bitcoin and Ethereum and the Vice Industry token.

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