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Britain’s most popular cheap chicken recipe, courtesy of supermarkets
By: Susan Holtham
Tags: British Farming, Agriculture, British, British Food, British Farmers

Apron at the ready? Welcome to the ultimate recipe to create a typical supermarket cheap chicken (fake farm name included).

The secret recipe to cheap chicken (supermarkets don’t want you to know about)

Name of recipe: Whole chicken, weighing a minimum of 1.35kg.

Tastes like: Not much. Little to no flavour due to fast-growth and weak bones with little flavoursome collagen and fat. Oh and watery breasts that slice like butter. You wouldn’t taste of much if you’d grown quickly in low light that left you a bit twitchy, unable to really stretch your legs or rest properly and where the constant opportunity to eat is your only solace.

Popularity: Huge, massive. Like really, really big. The biggest thing since sliced bread (don’t get us started…). Every day Britons consume 2.2 million chickens. Of the total of UK chicken production, free-range accounts for 5% and organic 1%.

When was it created? The recipe was born when rationing was lifted in 1954, prompting increased production of chickens raised for meat. The birds? They’re slaughtered at on average 31 days.

Who created it? Independent poultry trade disappeared during the Second World War. Turns out it was retailers, not the Ministry of Agriculture, who pressed British poultry farmers to follow American methods and exploit economies of scale and to drive down prices.

How much? on average, £3.15 per bird.

Serving suggestion: Add a dose of antibiotics to stave off E-coli. In 2016, 24% of UK supermarket chicken samples tested positive for the bug. Experts now estimate 50% of all antibiotics in the UK is given to farm animals.

Can ingredients be swapped? Throw me a slow-grown bone. Funny you mention… did you know slow-grown birds are reared over 81 days? That’s over double the supermarket average.

But how does it compare with free-range? Truly free-range birds walk around outside during the day, move their muscles more than those kept indoors in mega-sheds and enjoy a varied diet. Their ability to roam free, in addition to the age of slaughter, impacts the taste and texture of the meat. So with a slow-grown and free-range bird, you’re winning.

The result? Birds with thicker skin with a better fat content that’s full of flavour. Their meat is a lot firmer and has more structure because the birds actually use their legs to roam around and forage. Oh, and they have stronger bones too because they’ve developed properly — meaning it’s definitely worth whipping up a batch of stock.

Phew. I thought it was all doom and gloom for a second. Or am I missing something? There is another way. Every food purchase is a vote for the kind of food system you want. Buying sustainably produced chicken, knowing who produced it and also holding them accountable is a step in the right direction. Know your chicken farms and you won’t go far wrong.

Discover more on the real cost of cheap supermarket chicken.

Meet farmers Nick and Jacob at Fosse Meadows farm who rear slow-grown poultry in Leicestershire.
Life of a Teacher
By: Tien Skye
Tags: Burnout, Responsibility, Flash Fiction, Education, Exhaustion

Exhaustion saunters into the vaults of my mind and finds a comfortable place to rest.

Life of a teacher invites both joy and frustration; joy at students’ progress and frustration at the school administration.

The ambivalent feeling occurs when I help students to graduate from both school and immaturity into adulthood. But as the students flourish in the real world, I get upset because of the amount of responsibility dumped onto me.

“You are a good teacher. Competent teachers do more work.”

Time gets upset and moves out of the way as exhaustion takes up residency.

I am tired.
Özel VsCode Teması Nasıl Hazırlanır?
By: Mehmet Can Tas
Tags: JavaScript, Web Development, Programming, Themes, Visual Studio Code

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Creating Word Clouds From Facebook Page Comments
By: Igor Rinkovec
Tags: Social Media Infographics, Word Clouds, Web Scraping, Programming, Data Visualization

There is a lot of talk of political polarisation in the USA, the large reason for it is media splintering. Basically, different media sources are more biased to different political views (liberal vs conservative) and the public is only reading those that correspond to their own views, therefore reinforcing their views even more. This makes both sides to creep closer to the extreme left or extreme right idea.

This is also true for Croatia and probably most developed countries in the world. So it sparked an idea in my mind. How can I determine which Croatian media is leaning to which side of the political spectrum? If the above thesis is correct, I should be able to get a profile of a certain media by profiling the people that are reading (and commenting) their content.

To do this right (fast and without breaking the API limit), I had to go trough a lot of trial&error. Fetching the comments requires a bunch of individual calls because you have to fetch them post by post. This often reaches the Facebook API call limit, which stops you from doing any more requests for around 15-ish minutes. But Facebook offers a lovely feature called batch API calls. Basically, they allow you to make 50 API calls at once, by sending a single request containing 50 serialized requests and return them all at once.

All of this was used to create a small PHP CLI tool which I open-sourced here.

Building The Word Cloud

Now that I acquired all data that I need, it was time to create some awesome looking word clouds. By using a great Python library called word_cloud I managed to get pretty nice results.

Once again, this is also open-sourced here so you can check out how to build your own.

Results

I’m not completely happy with how the results came out. Since I didn’t have enough time to play with stop-words and get a larger comment sample, I could not really tell where does the specific media lean on the political spectrum. I am sure it would show a lot more if I played around with the configuration. That being said, I have to admit that the results do look pretty sexy.

Why don’t we check out the results?

The last one is Croatian satire portal (similar to The Onion), and this is my favourite one because that becomes so obvious from the cloud. :)
Introducing OKCoin USA
By: Tim Black
Tags: Blockchain, Silicon Valley, Tech, Bitcoin, Office Culture

Introducing OKCoin USA

Here is a beautiful picture from our new spacious office in San Francisco. 🚢 🌇

Hello Bay!

We’re both grateful and excited to share some updates with you in the coming weeks from OKCoin. This launchpad will allow us to meet with potential partners, host events, and facilitate our team’s growth.

Here is a pic of our bi-weekly “Protocol Presentation.”

VeChain. Sharing or shilling?

Oh, don’t think we didn’t notice the biggest news of the week. 👩‍⚖️ 📈
The Painful Process Of Becoming
By: Kim Jobs
Tags: Process, Motivation, Inspiration, Mindset

The process of becoming is forgiving

Life will test you in several forms of troubles and disappointment. It is your ability to forgive yourself no matter how many times you've tried and failed that will keep you going.

The process of becoming is outsmarting resistance

Be ready to shut down the tiny or loud voices in your head; the ones always chastising you, saying you can't do it.

Yes! Resistance doesn’t want you to embarrass yourself but you have to say no and lockout its voice.

Here’s how to use the philosophy of resistance against resistance.

Be publicly committed, be accountable to people when you set a certain goal or goals for yourself.

Be able to walk through the process: Process locks resistance at home.

Profit/ loss: There will be times you lose, but there’ll be moments of gain too. Count your loss and profit through your process of becoming.

Post-dated: Outsmarting resistance is putting a date to every of your outlined goals. Have a timeline and work towards meeting it.

The process of becoming is to quit being an asshole

Assholes do not value the process.

To become who you don’t use to be, you have to be intentional about what you do. You have to be teachable, be ready to listen, and heed to other people's opinions on how to be the better version of you.

The process of becoming is being vulnerable

"SHAME is the flip side of vulnerability. We avoid opening ourselves to the connection art brings because we fear that we will finally be seen as the fraud that we are” — Seth Godin

Vulnerability is the fear of letting people see how flawed you are. The fear of being judged. The fear of being seen as the fraud you think you are.

In the process of becoming, you have to be willing to let people in and see you for who you are. Be ready to be judged and corrected.

Growth can happen only when you are willing to let people see your vulnerability.

Final Thoughts

The process of becoming is not an easy one, neither is it for the faint minded.

To become who you intend to become in life, you need to and must have a grounded, solid mind, only then would you win the tests life would throw at out.

Some tests would shake you, some can shape you into being the better version of you. However this happens, your mindset has to be solid to the commitment you've made to the process of becoming.
Myth of a Wonderland.
By: Talula Rose
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Fairy Tale, Writing, Poetry, Poem

Image by Deanna Imfeld

I fell in love with a false idea

to become something I am not,

speaking from a book I misread,

and trying to look as if the old me was lost.

I fell to the misguided notion

that I am a new soul incarnate,

in a world filled with magic and potions,

one that was never even broken.

I fell for the irresistible myth

that I needed a missing piece,

lest I was nothing without it,

and could not live with my old vices;

as if I was anything less than an idea

to begin with.

-D.I.
[Video] Introduction to the Lahore Ahmadiyyah Movement
By: Virtual Mosque
Tags: Aziz, Ahmadiyyah, Ahmadiyya

Dr Zahid Aziz in a brief talk explains the challenges religions in general faced at the time of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s advent, especially Islam.

He further explains how Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad dealt with these challenges and that his defence not only supported Islam but religion in general as well, particularly from attacks by modern science and philosophy.
How Reading A Specific Quote Each Morning Helped Me Increase My Motivation
By: Laine Kaleja
Tags: Mindset, Self, Self Improvement, Motivation, Life

How Has This Quote Helped Me?

I have been repeating it daily in the morning in front of the mirror after I wake up.

It has increased my sense of urgency and given me excitement about how much I can do in a single day if I am focused.

For me, a sense of urgency is positive stress or eustress, motivating me to act here and now.

Of course, we cannot always act here and now — there are still regular duties we have — work, school, taking care of others, etc. As for me, I currently have a hectic schedule: working full time and University full-time.

However, in any free time — in mornings and evenings, Saturdays, and sometimes Sundays, I am trying to work on my business. I am generating ideas for articles and writing, editing, and working on my coaching business: planning, developing ideas, texts, new design for my website.

I am learning new knowledge all the time — either reading or watching webinars from famous coaches to know their thoughts, strategies, and ways to do business.

I don’t procrastinate anymore as much I used to do that, waiting to act when I feel good. I don’t want to waste time anymore doing things that don’t contribute to my vision and goals. I want to use every minute and every hour wisely.

I feel a responsibility as I am the only one who can either make or break my dreams.

There is a saying I heard somewhere that if the desire is big enough, we will find time; if not, we will find an excuse.

I think it is a combination of both: we need to have a strong enough desire to make sacrifices, not excuses.

However, we also need to work on keeping the fire of our desire burning.

For me, reading such a quote every day is a great way how to keep my desire burning.

To sum it up, this quote helps me to:

1) to have a more focused mind,

2) motivates me to take action right now instead of procrastinating,

3) reminds me that I have a plan and purpose for my life,

4) increases my self-belief.

Since I read this quote aloud, I procrastinate less and use every moment to work on my ideas and vision. I don’t need to look for motivation and enthusiasm anymore as much as I had to do it once.
The Comfort Zone Myth
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Purpose, Comfort Zone, Fear, Safe Zone, Life

The Comfort Zone Myth

Is it comfort, or is it fear?

Comfort: being in a state of physical or mental comfort; contented and undisturbed; at ease.

How many times have you been told, ‘life begins at the end of your comfort zone’?

I used to hear it and believe it, and even repeat it. I would hear it, but not really think about or analyze it. I never questioned the validity of it. I think the saying is a little bit skewed.

When you tell yourself that you’re not going after your dream job because that would mean stepping out of your comfort zone…

When you spend your entire life settling for ‘good enough’ because you’re in your comfort zone…

When you don’t speak up when you see wrong being done because that would be stepping out of your comfort zone…

Ask yourself: How comfortable are you?

Are you really comfortable in your current job, or are you merely complacent?

Are you happy with your life the way it is, or is it just what you’re used to and afraid of failing if you strive for more?

Are you comfortable seeing someone being wronged while you sit back quietly, or are you afraid of the repercussions or confrontation if you were to speak up?

You see, I really don’t think it’s ‘comfort’ that makes us stay where we are, living the life we’re living, existing in our mediocrity. I think it’s fear, complacency, and maybe a touch of laziness.
Covid-19 impact: Nephrostomy Devices Market Size To Reach $1.71 Billion By 2026
By: Rajesh Varma
Tags: Medical Devices, Nephrostomy, Covid 19, Global Health, Medical

Nephrostomy Devices Market Growth & Trends

The global nephrostomy devices market size is anticipated to reach USD 1.71 billion by 2026 registering a CAGR of 7.8%, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Increasing awareness about nephrostomy devices among physicians and rising cases of kidney stone disease are driving the market. Increasing prevalence of ovarian, bladder, and prostate cancers and improving healthcare infrastructure in the developing economies are also among the key factors fueling the market growth.

North America is expected to register the highest market share owing to increasing prevalence of kidney stone disorder and ovarian, bladder, and prostate cancers. For instance, according to the American Cancer Society, around 22,240 new cases of ovarian cancer were diagnosed in 2018 in U.S. Major companies in this market are emphasizing on new product launches and innovations in the existing products. For instance, in February 2017, Cook Medical introduced Universa along with the two sets of percutaneous urinary drainage.

Request a free sample copy or view report summary:

www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/nephrostomy-devices-market/request/rs1

Nephrostomy Devices Market Report Highlights
ABN AMRO at TNW2020: Keynotes on Open Banking, Innovation & AI
By: Abn Amro
Tags: Abn Amro, The Next Web, Events, Innovation, Future Of Finance

ABN AMRO at TNW2020: Keynotes on Open Banking, Innovation & AI

Video

Thank you for joining us at the digital conference The Next Web 2020! This year, from the comfort of your own home, we came together to predict, discuss, and invent the future of finance.

In a previous article, we described five technology trends that will transform financial services over the next five years. As a follow-up, we held key-note sessions on remote leadership, open banking, the future of artificial intelligence, and detecting financial crime. Below you will find the videos of two of the talks.

A world to gain with innovation — a tech talk by ABN AMRO’s Chief Innovation & Technology Officer

Christian Bornfeld takes you on a journey through his story about Open Banking and innovation. How does this play a role within the bank? Various pillars of the Innovation and Technology strategy are discussed, such as partnerships, artificial intelligence, and sustainability.

The Future of Data ownership and AI — a tech talk by ABN AMRO’s Chief Innovation Officer and Head of AI

Edwin van Bommel, Chief Innovation Officer, talks with Dennis de Reus, Head of AI, about the future and trends of data ownership and artificial intelligence.

Do you want to know more about the future of finance through topics such as Detecting Financial Crime and Remote Leadership? Read more articles and listen to podcasts here.

Interested in working at ABN AMRO?

Let’s stay in touch via our Talent Pool. Our experienced recruiters will get in touch with you if we have an interesting open position for you based upon your CV.

Sounds good? Sign up down below via the form. By signing up, we will only reach out to you with personal and relevant recruitment information.

To check out our vacancies right now, click here.
Million Women Mentors completes 1 million mentorings
By: Jaymie White
Tags: Education, Women, Mentor, Mentorship

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The Million Women Mentors® (MWM) program is a movement designed to engage women of all ages in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The focus of the program is to “increase the interest and confidence of girls and women to persist and succeed in STEM programs and careers by 2020.”

Originally MWM looked to create one million mentor engagements with women both young and old with industry leaders and experts to grow female STEM involvement by 2020. In 2018, the program surprised the one million mark and is looking to double that number with two million mentoring engagements. Through these engagements, MWM hopes to:

1. Increase the percentage of high school girls planning to pursue STEM careers.

2. Increase the percentage of young women pursuing undergraduate degrees in STEM fields.

3. Increase the percentage of women staying and advancing in STEM careers through supporting workforce mentoring programs.

Within the MWM movement is a business program which helps women led companies grow. The program, entitled the Million Women Mentors-Ei Mentor “is a one (1) year development program designed to strengthen and grow Women Business Enterprises (WBEs) whose organization provides a good or service related to science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM). The MWM-EI program is designed to match 5–10 WBE’s to a respective larger company to act as their mentor for a year to assist the mentee company in ways to achieve growth.”

Wells Fargo is a key sponsor of the Million Women Mentors-Ei Mentor program and with its connection to the organization, spend over $300 million with women-owned businesses in 2017. Wells Fargo invests “more than $1 million a year funding diverse business development programs like MWM-Ei,” to help build the capacity of diverse businesses.

If you’re interested in connecting with the MWM-Ei Mentor program please visit the website below:

https://www.millionwomenmentors.com/mwm-ei
Do We Really Have Time to Take Photos?
By: Danna Reich Colman
Tags: Life Lessons, Nonfiction, Present Moment, Parenting, Lost Moments

Do We Really Have Time to Take Photos?

Years ago, when my daughters were children, I loved to watch them as they’d go through their days. I’d often see opportunities to take pictures, but many of those moments were lost because I didn’t have the aforethought to bring a camera along with us. Instead, I would wait until the end of the day when we were home, where I would try to re-create that spontaneous moment even though the spark was long gone.

Looking back, I would love to have those lost photos now — from dance class, the baby gym, the park, the beach, mommy and me class, and yes, even at the doctor’s office and most of the day. The pictures would be a joy, but taking the pictures, not so much.

Here’s what I remember thinking when I did pull the camera out at home or after asking their father to take a video: Standing behind the camera or standing behind my husband making faces at the girls and hoping they’d look more animated and fully engaged, I’d be wishing I was the one who was more engaged, more present. The camera was an intruder, an uninvited guest who made us all self conscious, and the simple act of looking through a lens cheapened the moment for me and perhaps even robbed them of their innocent spontaneity.

Thankfully, in the 80s and 90s smart phones weren’t available or I might have missed even more precious moments in real time, and life would have passed me by more than it had already. Like most mothers these days, I have hundreds and hundreds of photos of my children, but I also have many sweet memories that I cherish, and the satisfaction of knowing that while my daughters were splashing in the water or dancing on the stage, I was completely present with them, not focusing a camera.
地域の文化を巡る旅で生まれる新たな価値、ローカルカルチャーツーリズムの可能性
By: 江口晋太朗, Shintaro Eguchi
Tags: うどん, 文化資源, Report, ローカルカルチャーツーリズム, 福岡

in Both Sides of the Table
Chief Diversity Officer Isn’t Enough
By: James Woods
Tags: Blm, Race, Race Relations, BlackLivesMatter, Corporate Culture

Hiring Black and Brown people for PR points and relegating them to these positions seems like a cop out and highlights the persistent issues of racial equity and equality within corporate America. In fact, there are just four Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Black and Brown people should be given the opportunity to do far more than tackle diversity within a company. To make real change, we need to be given the same opportunities and access to other high level positions within a company.

Some of the largest companies in the world like Apple, Amazon, and McDonald’s have pledged their support for Black Lives Matter and called out racial injustice with donations and statements of solidarity, but more meaningful actions need to be taken. What does it really mean when a company like Apple, which made $55 billion in net income last year, pledges to donate $100 million to racial issues? Apple is effectively donating 0.18% of their profits to fight racism.

Oftentimes, these pledges being made by corporations help to cement their own power than those of the community they are vowing to support. Donations like these serve as tax breaks and the same companies that are vowing to do better are the same ones that suffer from poor working conditions and bare minimum health insurance for their employees.
You Want It Darker?
By: Wilhelm Kühner
Tags: Music, White Supremacy, Politics, Political Satire, Covid Diaries

You Want It Darker?

Try Bad Moon Rising or just stick with the Tulsa playlist…

An old sign in Trumpistan…

“Where words leave off, music begins.” ― Heinrich Heine (as quoted in Peter’s Quotations, 1977)

Leonard Cohen’s Estate was “surprised and dismayed” that “Hallelujah” was played at the Republican National Convention in August and suggested that they might have considered approval of “You Want It Darker” instead. And now John Fogerty has joined the long list of musicians who oppose the president’s use of their music.

After “Fortunate Son” was played at a campaign rally in Michigan this week, Fogerty posted a video on Facebook and Instagram saying, “It’s a song I could have written now, and so I find it confusing, I would say, that the president has chosen to use my song for his political rallies when in fact, it seems like he is probably the fortunate son.” Unlike Cohen’s Estate however, Fogerty didn’t suggest an alternative.

While “Bad Moon Rising” seems appropriate…

It’s “Deja Vu (All Over Again)”

“Who’ll Stop the Rain”?

We all know “Mr. Greed”

Wasn’t “Born on the Bayou”

Nor “Run Through The Jungle” “Long As I Can See the Light”

Maybe “Bad Moon Rising”

Is “Down on the Corner”

or “Up Around the Bend”?

“I Saw It on TV”

We shouldn’t dismiss the Tulsa playlist…

Some hard truths in there. So line up the boats, and full-speed ahead!
[Tutorial] How To Lock & Mine EOS on Huobi Pool to get rewards?
By: Huobi Global
Tags: Rewards, Eos, Staking, Cryptocurrency, Airdropalert

First, you will need an account on Huobi to join click here.

Huobi Pool official website: https://www.hpt.com (follow step 2 to step 4)

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

Not on Huobi? Register here.

Risk Reminder:

1. Trading in digital assets comes with high risks due to huge price fluctuations. Users should be fully aware of the risks associated with digital asset trading and make prudent trading decisions.

2. Huobi Global’s announcements and information do not constitute investment advice, and Huobi will not bear responsibility or provide compensation for direct or indirect losses arising from trading decisions whilst relying on this information.
IOTA Newsletter #13 — $5 Million Coordicide Grants, STMicroelectronics Partnership & Introducing IOTA Insights
By: Casper Eicke Frederiksen
Tags: Iota, Newsletter, Semiconductors, Distributed Ledgers, IoT

A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD

As planned Sergey Ivancheglo, better known as Come-from-Beyond/CFB, submitted his resignation letter on the 26th of June and stepped down from the Board of Directors. Since then he has handed over some backlogged work in the role of an unofficial advisor to the Foundation but holds no position in the organization.

As everyone knows, CFB has been and continues to be one of the most prolific and influential people in crypto and has served an absolutely pivotal role in the IOTA project. We fully support his decision to depart and are very grateful to Sergey for all his contributions to the Foundation and look forward to a fruitful collaboration with him in his role as an independent developer.
3 Valuable Reminders From the Chaos of 2020
By: Samantha Blake
Tags: Life Lessons, Mental Health, Self, Advice, Life

1. It’s important to prioritize.

Before Covid happened, I was literally living on an island. It was beautiful, I lived a mile from the beach, had a great friend group, and a good job — a job in which I was feeling very burned out but was holding out for the time being. My partner and I were considering moving closer to family, but given the choice I honestly wasn’t ready to leave my home.

Then the pandemic started getting worse, and we quickly realized that if we didn’t pack up and leave now, we would soon be stuck there — far from family, unable to easily get out, with questionable job security.

We were fortunate enough to know we had a safe place to go where our families were if things got really bad.

So when things did start looking bleak, we sped up the moving process and left the island.

We temporarily moved in with family and stuck it out — which had its challenges, but overall we all were grateful to have the opportunity to be together and not as isolated as others were.

“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.” ― Dallin H. Oaks

I knew the most important thing was for my partner and I to be safe and secure. Even though it was incredibly painful to leave, had we stayed I would have had my hours severely cut at my job, been in lockdown paying extremely high rent, on an island with limited resources.

Looking back, it was absolutely the right decision to move. Practicality won over sentimentality.

It took months for my partner and I to both find new jobs, but if we’d stayed, we would have been broke, isolated, and much more stressed.

The events of this year have served as a reminder to take the time to prioritize what’s important to us. What I consider most important in my life (then and now):

Taking care of my health and well-being

Being there for the ones I love

Making money to be able to support myself and my family, and save for the future

Continuing to be a decent human to others when possible (don’t add to the negativity of the world if you don’t have to)

The actions you take reflect your priorities. When you remember to prioritize, everything else falls away.
A Comprehensive List of Dapps Catalogs
By: Finrazor Team
Tags: Fintech, Crypto, Dapps, Ethereum

One of the most discussed topics of today is dapps. The issue seems controversial: from evidence in their failure (researches say that ’86 percent of ETH dapps had zero users today — and 93 percent had no transactions.’; and the Ethereum ecosystem is definitely at gunpoint) to that it is too early to judge and dapps need some more time to thrive.

However, there is a wide range not only of dapps per se but different lists of them as well. We made a comprehensive catalog of dapps lists:
The Gen 3 Migration Is Here
By: Energi Cryptocurrency
Tags: Discord, Migration, Energi, Announcements, Cryptocurrency

Today, we’ve got an exciting announcement about Energi Gen 3! After months of work behind-the-scenes by the entire Energi team, the migration is scheduled to take place on March 10th — 12:00 PM UTC (Noon).

Energi Gen 3 is the next step on our journey to mass adoption and a key part of our vision for the future. By bringing greatly enhanced capabilities to the Energi blockchain, it will open up the project to more possibilities than ever before.

Moving from Gen 2 to Gen 3 means everyone holding NRG must migrate their coins. You will need to stop moving your NRG (including exchange deposits or withdrawals) before the migration date and to ensure you’re prepared for a seamless transition. We’ve created an easy-to-use guide to help you through the process. You can get ready for the upcoming launch here.

We hope you’re as excited for Gen 3 as we are, and, as always, if you have any questions or issues with the migration process, please reach out to us at our Discord #help-desk channel or by emailing support@energi.team.

The Energi Team.
What I Learned from Jen Sincero, Author of “You Are a Badass”
By: Delaney Jaye
Tags: Books, Productivity, Self, Self Improvement, Book Review

What I Learned from Jen Sincero, Author of “You Are a Badass”

Don’t take financial advice from Jen Sincero.

Photo by Christiann Koepke on Unsplash

Jen Sincero is the author of the wildly successful, #1 NYT Best Seller self-help books — You Are a Badass, and You Are a Badass at Making Money.

Her books get extremely mixed reviews — you either love her perky and sassy attitude, or you can’t stand her. I fall under the former camp, which I’ll explain as we go.

Her book, You Are a Badass, was my very first self-help book (*sheds tear*).

I listened to the audiobook version (narrated by the author) and loved it — it was like I had a no-BS bestie in my ear reminding me of all the things I can accomplish and that I was stupid for doubting myself. (That’s the kind of best friend we all hope for and aim to be, am I right?)

I have read several personal development/self-help books since, but keep coming back to this one. It’s like a cliff notes version of all the other books of this genre — it’s short, sweet, and to the point.

So without further ado, after having read two of her books — here are 10 things I learned from Jen Sincero (or Jen for short — we’re basically besties now, so I think we can be on a first-name basis, right?).
The Stigma of Starting a Business
Tags: Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Society, Life

The Stigma of Starting a Business

Why is there so much negativity around self employment?

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Why the negativity???

It seems that those starting out with a full time business or a side hustle meet lots of negativity.

It could be jealousy, or the fact that its a dream for other’s that they can’t commit to?

It could even be that others around us don’t see the value in going out on a limb.

Not when we there is a monthly pay check sitting waiting for us in the comfort of steady employment?

The feedback for anyone thinking of making a start on their own business is one of negativity?
WASTE STREAMS TO CONSUMER GOODS. Repreve is a yarn made from recycled…
By: Wake Forest Mas
Tags: Environment, Conservation, Sustainability, Zero Waste, Recycling

Thursday, March 24, 2016

‍The Sustainability Graduate Programs at Wake Forest University had the opportunity to visit Unifi’s facility in Yadkinville, NC to learn more about their Repreve product.

REPREVE IS A YARN MADE FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES, turning an environmentally harmful waste stream into a new consumer product. Repreve is used by clothing companies like Quiksilver and Patagonia and even used in seats in some Ford models. So far Unifi has reclaimed and used 630 million plastic bottles in Repreve. That’s 4 billion fewer bottles sitting in a landfill since 2007 — not to mention the resources saved by creating new products with recycled materials.

During our visit, we had the opportunity to speak with Unifi’s Channel Marketing Manager to learn about the sales and marketing process for this unique product. We had a Q&A session with the Corporate Process Improvement Manager, the Vice President of Supply Chain, and an RRC engineer. It was a great opportunity to make excellent contacts at a successful, relevant, global company.

We toured the facility and saw how recovered plastic bottles could go from waste to input to finished product. We were able to see firsthand the complexities of creating products from recycled goods. For a lot of us, this was our first time in a manufacturing plant so it was a great opportunity to learn about manufacturing in the context of sustainability.

Originally published at graduate.cees.wfu.edu on March 24, 2016.

Photos courtesy of Repreve Unifi Inc.‍
The Sprawling Wood
By: Mark A. Schrader
Tags: Self, Poetry, Self-awareness, Poem, Life

The Sprawling Wood

A poem

Photo by Axel Holen on Unsplash

The sprawling wood

I hold so dearly

Portrays my life

So very nearly

A sprawling work

So intricately woven

So that I cannot

Tell where it’s going

If a sprawling life

Could see its fashion

It would live

And know the depth of passion

…

MAS
Subliminal
By: David Rudder
Tags: Spirituality, Subliminal, Insights, Dreams, Poetry

Subliminal

In dark corners of the night

Photo by Dave Hoefler on Unsplash

In dark corners of the night

floating from the sky

subliminal dreams come alight

and descend from far up high.

Tapestries woven intricately

colours reflective of my moods

exquisite in its delicacy

the notions it includes.

Messages to the intuition

belief in what I feel

heaven sent transmission

too vibrant to conceal.

Telepathic thinking

sown on fallow ground

metaphysics linking

relayed without a sound.

Subliminal sensations

subconscious sympathies

mind moving vibrations

transcendental symphonies.

Moving in the mind

new nuances and feelings

some too hard to find

concealed beneath the peelings.

Subliminal transitions

holistic and complete

given the conditions

stay totally replete.

With a shake I awake,

to greet a brand-new day

gather my dreams together

in a subliminal way.

©

David Rudder

18th December 2020

Thanks for reading.
November 2020 Election Violence Risk Briefing
By: Matt Scott Frank
Tags: Politics, Myanmar, Machine Learning, United States, Elections

Burkina Faso and Myanmar have the highest risk of election violence, while our low estimates of election violence risk in the United States may understate the country’s true level of risk.

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The Electoral Violence Intelligence System (ELVIS) is a machine learning driven forecasting system that estimates the risk of election-related violence for every national election every month. These posts will provide updates on the outputs of our forecasting model, give an in-depth view of what to expect in the coming month and note any technical changes/updates.

Feel free to reach out to either myself (mfrank@oneearthfuture.org) or Clayton Besaw (cbesaw@oneearthfuture.org) for any questions regarding our ELVIS platform or analyses contained in the updates.

November 2020 ELVIS report

Data and algorithm updates:

Updated precipitation (SPI) estimates using NOAA’s September 2020 PREC/L release (https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.prel.html).

Added new ground-truth and projected GDP estimates using the IMF’s October 2020 World Economic Outlook projections and the World Bank’s 2019 estimates.

Added new population data based on the IMF’s October 2020 World Economic Outlook projections.

Added previously missing election events for the following countries: Algeria

Risk forecast for November 2020:

Burkina Faso has the highest risk for election violence this month, as political violence overall remains high in the country and threatens to limit the number of citizens who will be able to cast their ballots. This, in turn, is raising concerns over the popular legitimacy of the electoral outcome.

Next highest this month is Myanmar where a United Nations human rights investigator has noted that the military has been jailing journalists and students in the lead up to the election.

Moreover, in Rakhine state and other areas of the country experiencing conflict elections have been cancelled, meaning that large portions of the country will not be able to participate in the election. These undemocratic moves have led to concerns that many will not recognize the popular legitimacy of the elections, which could further inflame conflict and insurgency in the country.

The United States is also in the process of holding elections as we are preparing to publish these updates. ELVIS gives the United States a low probability of election violence based on the structural factors we use to predict violence around the polls, however, there is significant reason to be concerned about election violence in the US.

Myself and Clayton Besaw wrote about why this is the case and what the longer-term potential implications for election violence could be here on Datayo.

Turning our attention to the rest of the year, are just four more elections slated for December, although all of them have an estimated probability of election violence greater than 50%.
Introducing the USDC Engine
Tags: Lending, Fintech, Ethereum, Blockchain, Finance

The USDC Engine is here! After several months of development, testing and auditing, one of the most popular stablecoins in the DeFi ecosystem has been given a central role in the use and future development of the RCN protocol, allowing the RCN Credit Marketplace’s users to receive, repay and collect funds in a stable asset. In addition, the USDC Engine has the ability to gather fees from operations within the protocol, which can then be used for multiple purposes.

The Debt Engine is a smart-contract that sits at the heart of the RCN protocol, handling most of its transactions in its namesake token while sourcing data from the rest of its contracts. Up to now, the RCN Engine was the protocol’s only Debt Engine, and while it was perfectly able to support all of its existing features, it lacked some of the advantages offered by a stablecoin-based Engine.

Now lenders can use the new Withdrawable Balance tool to withdraw their USDC.

On the one hand, thanks to the steady nature of their price, stablecoins are better suited than non-stable assets to be the vehicle in which value travels through a protocol. When a user receives borrowed funds or collects a repaid loan, those amounts are immediately exposed to value fluctuations. However, when they are deposited in stablecoins the value of those funds remains unaltered, allowing users to receive the amount originally expected regardless of how much time it takes for them to collect it. And on the other hand, stablecoins maintain a closer resemblance with fiat currencies than the average token, which goes very much in line with RCN’s mission of bringing non-crypto-native assets to the DeFi ecosystem.

Of all stablecoins, USDC is one of the most stable, liquid and popular among DeFi users, having the lowest price standard deviation from the USD peg and the second largest market capitalization of all the stable assets in the ecosystem.
Learning To Use Rust Over a 16-Hour Hackathon
By: Sid Shankar
Tags: Hackathons, Programming, Rustlang, Rust, Software Development

Getting Started on the Back End

A Google search for “Rust web framework” yielded a top hit for Rocket. I dove into the site to find the documentation and examples seem well laid out and thorough.

One caveat with Rocket is it needs the nightly version of Rust to operate. Not a big deal in th context of a hackathon.

The GitHub repo has plenty of examples. Perfect.

I used Cargo to set up a new project, added Rocket as a dependency in the TOML file, and following the instructions in the Getting Started guide for Rocket, set up a route:

#[get("/")]

fn index() -> &'static str {

"Hello, world!"

}



fn main() {

rocket::ignite().mount("/", routes![index]).launch();

}

For anyone familiar with Django, Flask, Express etc., this should look very readable. As a Rocket user, you use macros as decorators on functions to map a route to a handler function.

At compile time, the macros are expanded. This will be completely transparent to you. If you’re curious to look at the expanded code, the cargo-expand crate can be leveraged.

Here are the interesting/challenging highlights of my app-building experience with Rust:

Specifying the route response

I wanted my contents route to list all the files in the S3 bucket by returning a JSON data structure.

Notice (in the code below) how you can look at the function handler associated with the route to immediately determine the response shape.

Crafting the response shape was extremely easy. If you think of the JSON data as a structure with fields, where each of those fields could, in turn, contain its own structure and fields, then this maps well to a Rust struct .

So all you have to do is to define the struct (s) that constitute the response data shape and tag each one with:

#[derive(Serialize)]

struct (s) tagged with #[derive(Serialize)] can be passed to the JSON function from rocket_contrib::json::Json , and away we go!

Working with multipart uploads

I was knee-deep in building the application with Rocket when I realized I’d likely have a form on the front end that’d result in a POST with multipart/form-data .

Unfortunately, Rocket (as of v0.4) doesn’t have multipart support. This seems to be scheduled for v0.5.

This meant having to work with the multipart crate and needing to figure out integration with Rocket. The resulting code worked but could’ve been a lot cleaner with in-built multipart support in Rocket.

Configuring CORS

Once the routes were in place and I’d done some testing using curl and Postman, it was time to integrate with the front end. I needed to set the response headers appropriately to avoid CORS issues.

Again, there’s no in-built support in Rocket.

Looking through the issue log on the GitHub repo, I saw some of the building blocks for a solution, which resulted in this:

Shortly afterward, I discovered rocket_cors, which significantly slimmed things down.
It’s What You Do On A ‘Bad Day’ That Matters.
By: Tim Denning
Tags: Life Lessons, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Self Improvement, Life

Last Friday was a bad day for me. I woke up late, missed the gym and didn’t meditate.

None of this was intentional.

I then turned my computer on to do what I do every day: blog. I was not prepared for the shit storm that followed.

As I opened up my social media channels, there were a lot more than usual, direct messages. I started reading each one and they were from colleagues and friends who wanted to warn me that I had a large amount of hate-fuelled comments on social media. I’m usually pretty good at dealing with hate comments. Not on that day, though — I was having a ‘bad day.’

I turned off the computer and didn’t respond to anybody. In the same week, I’d been told I was now a LinkedIn Top Voice for 2018.

I should have been celebrating and I didn’t because I didn’t feel worthy. If anything, I wanted to give up there and then. Luckily I didn’t follow through with any of these ideas. I knew it was just noise in my awful day.

I went away to sit on the couch and think about what I’d just read. Without really thinking about what I was going to do for the rest of the day, I began thinking about my team at work. There were several leadership challenges that I had to solve.

One was from a customer that was being abusive to female staff. Another was a rejection I had to deliver to someone that wanted to work with us. The hardest part about delivering the rejection was that I’d already said yes.

Despite the day being bad, I made a fundamental decision — to keep doing what I do and not stop. I said to myself “How can I inspire people while simultaneously solving both these challenges?”

I’m a big believer that it’s not what you say that matters; it’s what you do. Talk is cheap. I came up with a bold plan to address both challenges.

I was going to do something that made me see the good in the people involved.

Illustration by Grace Yagel

Even if the people in both situations had let me down, I was going to assume they were still good.

I concocted a plan to help both people and try and show them a more positive way to move forward. If I break down the plan, it was about being an inspiration in both situations.

I didn’t feel like being inspiring.

It was not the day to be inspiring.

But it was the only way I could motivate myself to finish off this bad day and wake up the next morning fresh. It’s funny how a good nights sleep takes away all the pain and negativity from the day before.

So, by the end of the day, I enabled both plans. I set out to release inspiration in both scenarios and that was my only focus. I didn’t look at anymore hate fuelled comments or go near social media.

On that bad day last Friday, my actions helped me keep moving forward and not give up.
Olympus Development Weekly Progress Report 10.12–14.12
By: Olympus Labs
Tags: Homepage

Olympus puts the power of blockchain in the palm of your hand-with a groundbreaking blockchain-based financial ecosystem and d-app marketplace for investors and developers.

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What can anybody do about it
Tags: Living, Living With Purpose, Influence, Creativity, Disease

it is very gratifying. to be able. and allowed. to do it how you do it without second guessing how you are. how you are and how you are doing it.

never think about them if they have some power over you. if you think about them and you talk about them then they are empowered by it. they get stronger when you pay attention to them. that is you giving over power to them. that is you losing power to them. do not think about them. do not pay attention to them.

they are carriers of some disease. they are not the disease. they are vectors of transmission. there is a pandemic of bad thinking and bad feeling. it is worrisome.

they are waiting for your suffering. like a sore spot you keep feeling, you keep poking at, you keep prodding. when you cannot help yourself. it is like as if you think that paying some attention to it is the cure for it, but it is not. every time you poke at it, it only hurts you more. the sore will not go away if you keep on poking at it.

what can anybody do about it. first you must be sure to think about and talk about and dream about and write about and make everything you make be in the name of something else and feeling it. something beautiful. something that is complex, dynamic, sometimes contradictory, but spirited and beautiful. which is yours and ours. and we do not want or need to take it from someone or keep it from someone or try to have it all or more than anybody else. there is lots of it. there is more than enough of it. if we let it be. let it be here. let it be there. and let it always be remembered. let us always be remembering. that is our barrier against it.
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By: Investbot App
Tags: 投資, 香港, 交易, 港股, Algorithms

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