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User Defenders: Black Lives Matter
By: Justine Marie Benoit
Tags: Humanity, UX Design, BlackLivesMatter, UX, Racism

User Defenders: Black Lives Matter

On May 25th, 2020, the world witnessed George Floyd’s desperate last breaths while a police officer pinned him to the ground, his knee on Floyd’s neck, as a handcuffed Floyd pleaded…

“I can’t breathe”.

George Floyd artwork by Nikkolas Smith

This isn’t the first time a black person’s life had been unjustly taken.

On March 13th, 2020, Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police officers in her own apartment. On February 23rd, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery went out for a run, but he never made it home.

This abuse, prejudice, injustice and senseless violence inflicted against black people stems all the way back to the early 1600’s, when the first African slaves were brought to America.

It is a centuries-old system and culture that has been designed to oppress and degrade black people. As Will Smith said, “Racism isn’t getting worse, it’s getting filmed”.

This is not the first time a black person’s life has been taken merely for the color of their skin, but it must be the last.

As a white or non-black person, it’s important to acknowledge our privilege, to reflect on our own experiences, and to listen to those whose lives are different from our own.

As an Asian woman, I have been disrespected, belittled, undervalued and sexually harassed. I was a victim of domestic violence when I was a child, and was very fortunate that my mother and stepfather saved me from that life.

I have also been very fortunate to have opportunities that many black people are commonly denied, such as a good quality education and a chance at a lucrative career. I know what it’s like to be constantly walking on eggshells, to feel like I could get punished for anything I might say or do, but I simply cannot fathom the kind of fear, injustice, prejudice, and senseless violence black people may endure on a daily basis.

I feel heartbroken, and as an Asian American, I feel ashamed and guilty.

The owner of the store, where his clerk had called the police on George Floyd, is Middle Eastern. One of the officers on the scene is an Asian American. Neither of them did anything to stop the murder of George Floyd. Racism against black people isn’t exclusive to white people. We are part of the problem too.

This is not the kind of world I want to grow old in, and certainly not the kind of world I want my child to grow up in. We need a world where all people are kind, respectful and compassionate towards each other. Where there is no bias against race, religion, class or gender identity. Where we all live in peace and harmony.

But we cannot achieve this unless we fight for change.

We User Defenders have a common goal, and that is to fight for our users, and who are our users but people? As individuals, we all have superpowers. As a united front, we have many superpowers.

Let’s use them to fight for changes in our culture, leadership and policies that would recognize and treat black people as PEOPLE.
I Don’t Own A House, Didn’t Build A Career… I Am 52 and Blissfully Happy
By: Lucien Lecarme
Tags: Success, Inspiration, Life Lessons, Money, Self Improvement

Sometimes I wake up, sweating, and I feel a dark fear around my heart. What if that money doesn’t come in to pay the next month rent? The anxiety is followed by shame.

A distant voice from the past slaps me in the face with the fact that I don’t own a house or have much savings. A man of my age must have made his wins in our Western society. He should be on the “safe” side. Own assets that work for him after working to achieve those assets.

To make things worse, I just started a new career, as an artist.

Are you kidding me?

That’s how the voice cynically pokes me. I know this reality check isn’t helping me at all, it is a very bad start of the day.

Until I open my bedroom door and walk onto the balcony on the front side of the villa, take the 180 degrees panoramic sea view in while stretching my arms towards the blue sky. I greet my 6 wild cats and walk around the house naked since there is nobody around. I live in a natural park in Ibiza and am not a millionaire.

I do have some millionaire friends. One of them told me recently that I am really a millionaire. Since I seem to have time for everything, do genuinely what I like, live a very healthy life, travel the world and am surrounded by beautiful souls.

Rewind. How did I do this?

The secret is in my life's motto.

I only do what gives me joy, follow my flow as much as possible, I do work hard and I trust life's abundance fully.

This is the part where I could ask you to subscribe to my free Ebook “The Seven Steps For Becoming A Millionaire Without Money”. But it is only half of the story.

It was pain and letting go that brought me here.

As much as my positive mindset helped me, it was how I dealt with the severe losses in my life. How transforming my pain into bringing beauty to the world saved my ass and made me see what really counts in life.

I needed to do the work, as everybody does.

Let me show you how it is possible to be a millionaire without much money. To live your dream by letting go, find your unique purpose by stepping outside the box.
When Billionaires Hold Civilization For Ransom
By: John Gorman
Tags: Health, Society, Economy, Covid 19, Coronavirus

The United States is in distress, the world order disintegrated, and — of course — people are dying. By the time this hell-storm subsides, hundreds of thousands of people will. It is cruel, unfair, and a tragic atrocity on an incalculable scale.

When I scroll through my Facebook and Instagram timelines, I see people shaming other people for ignoring social distancing protocol. While we should all practice social distancing at this time, the shaming is counterproductive. It sows division. Division is our enemy, and we shall not make enemies of those who share in our struggle for life and livelihood.

What we have, here, now, is a genuine existential crisis. A pandemic, preventable in nearly every way, is unleashing holy hell around the world — all because a virus jumped ship from a bat to a hungry fella in China. It’s damn near the actual butterfly effect, but with a bat, and an animal market.

Do you see how fragile civilization itself is? Perhaps it’s time to ask ourselves what a civilization is, and should be.
The Best Time I Ever Actually Listened To Lyrics
By: Nicole Cliffe
Tags: Music, Nancy Sinatra, Deep

You keep samein’ when you oughta be changin’.

That’s…so universal. I can’t even handle it. Wait, two versions! Both Nancy!
What Are The Love Languages Of A Narcissist?
By: Carrie Wynn
Tags: Abuse, Life Lessons, Narcissism, Self Improvement, Relationships

Romance Doesn’t Start With Abuse

As far as I’m aware, a romantic relationship doesn’t begin with abuse, the silent treatment, and neglect. Who would stay and tolerate that kind of behavior with someone that you’ve just met? If you aren’t emotionally invested it’s easy to leave without a second thought.

But what about when you’ve been with someone for a long time, and they’ve been fantastic until now? Suddenly they’ve changed and their behavior isn’t even close to what it was when you first got together. This is usually what happens after the phase of being love-bombed. You’ve been in a bubble of bliss and suddenly things are changing in front of your eyes. In order to identify them, what are some signs you can be on the lookout for that your relationship has moved into these toxic and unhealthy patterns?
Everyday Will Teach You Something
By: Randy Wolken
Tags: Inspiration, Life Lessons, Productivity, Self Improvement, Leadership

Every day is a chance to learn something new.

Are you taking advantage of this opportunity?

We all get the same number of hours in each day. How we use them and what we get out of each of those hours is up to us.

We can use these days of challenge to learn new things about ourselves and others.

We can step up and learn new things that help others.

We can make new choices that help us learn new things — if we see each day for the opportunity it is.
Невиданный — и неслыханный — Боуи
By: Orion Nebula
Tags: Music, Video, Astro

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Jeu-concours : Fais moi peur ! 🎃
By: Pinterest France
Tags: Pinterest Marketing, Halloween, Campaign, Pinterest, France

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Inclusion in Design, crafting bot conversations, interface animations and more UX this week
By: Fabricio Teixeira
Tags: Hot This Week, Chatbots, Design, User Experience, UX

Here is what’s hot in UX this week:

As designers, we spend most of our day imagining and building experiences that, when added up, take a big portion of people’s days and affect a lot the relationships they have with other people and with the world around them.

We design sign up forms for government websites that ask people to define their ethnicity. We design profile pages in social networking apps where people define how they want to be seen in the world. We also design online forums, medical forms, services for citizens, social interactions, dating apps, learning platforms — the list is huge.

Aren’t we somehow responsible for more inclusive, diverse experiences?

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This Developer “Accidentally” Deleted 1,535 Websites
By: Alan Trapulionis
Tags: Business, Marketing, Programming, Ethics, Coding

This Developer “Accidentally” Deleted 1,535 Websites

He didn’t, it was cheap guerrilla marketing

Shutterstock image

Six years and four months ago, a man named Marco Marsala posted this thread on the Server Fault forum. In the thread he called the Monday Morning Mistake, he explains how he’d just deleted all information from 1,535 client servers he was administrating using the following command:

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /mnt/hetznerbackup /

Among certain developer communities, this command is famous for its destructive capabilities. See, it also deletes the backup files. No way back.

Some forum members tried to help Marco, explaining steps he could take to restore the information. Others suggested him to get a lawyer. Most server admins simply couldn’t believe how the command no-preserve-root could have been written “accidentally.”

Nevertheless, the story soon got picked up by The Independent. When they contacted Marco Marsala, here’s what he told them:
Rethinking Christmas Traditions
By: Tree Langdon
Tags: Haiku, Poetry, Christmas, Self Improvement, Relationships

I write this haiku, thinking of the families kept apart by the virus this year. So much love to all of you, as you find your way through, making new traditions.

Inspired by Liam Ireland

I write to inspire and make connections. If you’re interested, sign up to receive a copy of the infamous Word by Word Dictionary, by Tree Langdon and The Crew.
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By: Rüstem Yurteri
Tags: Türkçe, Zaman, Şiir, Edebiyat, Yılbaşı

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Should have said snacks…
By: Andy Anderson
Tags: Humor, Cartoon, Pandora, Funny, Comics

Looking to add some funny to your feed? Follow this page for new cartoons every week.

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And Southward Dreams The Sea
By: Akron Art Museum
Tags: Modern Art, Charles H Davis, Painting, Akron Art Museum, Landscape

Davis studied this particular stretch of sky for nearly forty years, having moved to Mystic specifically because of its picturesque landscapes.

In this painting his lasting and thorough attentiveness paid off with clouds that are not simply white, but also gray, blue and violet as sunlight streams through them. Like the woman who provoked Francis Thompson’s poem, Davis’s clouds are full of gentle personality and seem to move “with the sea-breeze hand in hand.”
When Christmas is Distant
By: Bridget Webber
Tags: Short Story, Poetry, Snow, Christmas, Poem

When Christmas is Distant

Almost, but not quite

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

It’s that time between the ice-folds,

when the festive season is three steps to the left.

I watch it close in,

yet,

it’s an inch too far to make me dance.

So,

I light a candle,

hunker down,

and breathe in cinnamon and orange under a gray sky.

In the distance,

carols and bells.

In the moment,

early mince pies and mulled wine.
Cleveland wins the World Series… of mobile speed
By: Isla Mcketta
Tags: Tech, Events, World Series, Mobile, Internet

While neither ball field had amazing speeds (something that won’t surprise you if you’ve tried to connect to the internet at any crowded event), fans at games held in Cleveland were treated to an average download speed nearly twice as fast as those at Chicago’s Wrigley Field.

What’s interesting about results from World Series games is that the average upload speed at Cleveland’s Progressive Field is even faster than the average download speed — something that’s rarely true on mobile networks. Meanwhile, Wrigley Field’s average upload speed was only slightly faster than that in Yan Gomes’s native Brazil. Fans connecting on T-Mobile had a clear advantage in upload speed at both fields, while those using AT&T experienced the slowest connections overall.

For reference, average mobile download speed in the U.S. was 19.61 Mbps in Q1-Q2 2016. Average upload speed was 7.94 Mbps. Chicago’s average download speed was 18.14 Mbps and average upload was 9.56 Mbps, while Cleveland’s average speeds were 20.73 Mbps for downloads and 8.97 Mbps for uploads. That means the download speed at Wrigley Field was less than half Chicago’s average, while the download speed Progressive Field was a little slower than Cleveland’s overall. The Progressive Field upload speed was 75% higher than Cleveland’s average.

Test stats

Cleveland also triumphed in overall tests taken with 333 Speedtest results at Progressive Field and only 75 at Wrigley. You might also notice the lack of results from Sprint customers at Wrigley. Rapt attention or failure to connect, we decline to speculate. But we can only share the stats we have.

So if you want to help prove your home field, stadium, rink, or court is the faster than your rival’s, download our app for Android or iOS and take a Speedtest at the next game. Tweet your result at us with #Crowdspeed or watch Medium for our next analysis.

Victory Parade

Fear not faithful Cubs fans, your mobile speeds at Grant Park during Friday’s victory celebration, though slow, were pretty impressive for the seventh largest gathering in human history. The average upload speed was 5.88 Mbps and the average download was 3.42 Mbps.

While those speeds might frustrate a U.S. mobile user on any random day, you were probably so immersed in the glory of your historic victory that you didn’t even notice. We can tell, because only 34 tests were taken.
Doing Politics Together: The Public Sphere
By: Wabi Sabi
Tags: Ben Shapiro, Habermas, Philosophy, Public Sphere, Politics

In philosopher-speak, that means rationality isn’t objective, it’s intersubjective. Think of it like the hub of a wheel. Our various worldviews, religions, personal beliefs and lifestyles are like spokes: the wheel uses all of them, but they’re fundamentally separate to each other. The only place they all meet is in the hub. We’re never going to convince each other of our worldviews or 100% understand each other’s lived experiences. And reason isn’t a rich enough language game to express how our lives feel from the inside. But it is the only place all the spokes can meet.

Another analogy: think of rational argumentation like that smattering of English that enables you to get by in any one of dozens of countries all over the world. Could you have a more in-depth conversation with that Londoner if you learned their language inside out, or if they bothered to learn yours? Could you express more of your hopes, dreams and fantasies, more of what makes you you? Of course. But you’re only in London a couple of days, you’re just asking directions and the English you have is enough. It’s fit for purpose. Functional.

That’s what reason is for Habermas: functional. How strict your reasoning needs to be — whether you can get by with common sense or need to go full-on FACTS and LOGIC on your audience — depends on what you’re arguing for. Different discussions require different standards.

Photo by Miguel Henriques on Unsplash

Couple of examples (mine, not his). If you’re petitioning for an access ramp for your local library, it’s probably not necessary to prepare a two-hour PowerPoint presentation about the moral implications of disability and the physics of wheelchairs. A simple ‘These people need a ramp’ will do. But if you’re proposing something as technical and complex as, say, UBI, then your arguments need to be careful. And you need a lot of them. Has this been tried before, and what were the results? Do the numbers add up? How will different demographics, professions and regions be affected? Cost-benefit analysis please!

The strictest proofs of all are reserved for general truth claims (‘This isn’t my opinion, it’s just how the world is’) or issues of morality. Like a lot of philosophers Habermas distinguishes morality in the sense of “the ground rules we all follow” from ethics, meaning “taboos and aspirations that are personal to you and your group”. Morality is respecting human rights, ethics is going on a self-betterment course. Morality is ‘Thou shalt not kill’, ethics is ‘Thou shalt only eat kosher food’. Morality is a thin language, ethics is a thick one.

Habermas doesn’t say we should leave the thick language of religion, culture and ethics at the door when we enter the public sphere. He knows how much someone’s identity shapes their motivations, worldview and opinions. Instead, he’s making the subtler point that the more of reality your argument claims to describe and the more people who are affected by it, the more you should frame it in terms that everyone can agree on.
Arrested Thought
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Image, Musing, Poetry, Writing

Arrested Thought

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

It wasn’t just the insubstantial handcuffs with their lacy designs; or, it was just that, but then the next scene was empty

and I couldn’t hold on to the tied-to-the-bedframe representation with a lock; these days my targets are so uneven, unequal, and always

hiding where I suspect they have been for days; sometimes I come across broken dishes and half-full cups, some ashes for

a little burning, but then I am on the same trail, writing in shorthand gibberish to try to nail the little fucker

down and get on with the prose, or whatever; it might be time to set up a prison where I can send these thoughts, keep them around a bit longer.
PayPal, Coinbase, WebMoney and more in Spendee
Tags: PayPal, Coinbase, Spendee, Bitcoin, Product

Lately, there has been many questions from you about how to connect PayPal account that made us thinking that the option of connecting E-Wallets or crypto-wallets that are country independent was a bit hidden from you.

Therefore, we decided to change the way, those providers are shown in the app. From this week, you can easily find PayPal, Coinbase and other E-Wallets and crypto-wallets among the banks of every country. We believe that this will make it much easier for you to find and connect it.

How to connect your E-Wallet or crypto-wallet?

Go to: Menu -> Settings Scroll down to “Bank accounts” sections and select “Add a bank account” Select a country, you are currently in Select your E-Wallet or crypto-wallet and confirm by tapping on check mark Enter your E-Wallet or crypto-wallet credentials Choose to store credentials for automatic updates if you want us to store them Wait for your transactions to import, it might take a while.

When you connect your bank account or E-Wallet or crypto-wallet you have 7 days to try it. You will be charged only when you don’t cancel this subscription in Play Store or App Store.

Let us know in comment which other E-Wallets or crypto-wallets you would like to have in Spendee.
Five Cool Python Libraries for Data Science
By: Dhilip Subramanian
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Python, NLP, Data Science

Five Cool Python Libraries for Data Science

Handy Python libraries for data science

Python is a best friend for the majority of the Data Scientists. Libraries make their life simpler. I have come across five cool Python libraries while working on my NLP project. This helped me a lot and I would like to share the same in this article.

1. Numerizer

Amazing library to convert text numerics into int and float. Useful library for NLP projects. For more details, please check PyPI and this github repo.

Installation

!pip install numerizer

Example

#importing numerize library

from numerizer import numerize #examples print(numerize(‘Eight fifty million’))

print(numerize(‘one two three’))

print(numerize(‘Fifteen hundred’))

print(numerize(‘Three hundred and Forty five’))

print(numerize(‘Six and one quarter’))

print(numerize(‘Jack is having fifty million’))

print(numerize(‘Three hundred billion’))

Output
Lost. To Be Found…
Tags: Love, Wanderlust, Poetry

Dear future SO,

Thank you for existing…

for being my wander buddy

for having the same food appetite as me

for finding my quirky habits cute

for thinking that my taste of indie music is cool

for believing in my dreams

for calming my heart when fear tries to overcome it

for finding beauty in my imperfections

for challenging me to work on my flaws

for listening to my late night pensive thoughts

for making me breakfast even though I hate waking up early

for having faith in me –– that my dreams are attainable (and when they seem impossible, thank you for not discouraging me –– rather thank you for putting my feet back on the ground)

for having a warm, kind heart

for being my fortress when my knees are tired and shaky

for allowing me to always find home in your arms –– wherever life takes us

for being my confidante and most trusted [best] friend

for telling me how life is still beautiful despite all its challenges

for making challenges ‘fun’ despite the struggles that go along with it

for shielding me from the negativities of this world

and for allowing me to be there for you when you could have been with anybody.

Under the same sky, we shall soon stare at the stars above. That in God’s time, our yearning hearts will soon find their way back into the cosmos.
Aretha Franklin’s Biopic Won’t Come Out Till 2021, But We Are Showing Her Some Love Anyway
By: Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
Tags: Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin’s Biopic Won’t Come Out Till 2021, But We Are Showing Her Some Love Anyway

Yes, we put some respect on her name

American musician Aretha Franklin performs on stage at the Park West Auditorium, Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 1992. Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images

If not for Covid-19, the film about the life of Aretha Franklin would likely be the top-grossing film of the holiday season. It was supposed to have a limited release on December 25 and then move into a full release in 2021, but the pandemic altered those plans. The new release date is set for summer 2021, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t celebrate the Queen of Soul and the work put in by Jennifer Hudson and Forest Whitaker to create this film named for the singer’s 1967 hit.

Oscar-winning set designer Ina Mayhew gave us a glimpse of what to expect in an interview from earlier this year:
Building a Creative Career on Kickstarter: A Visit to Kingdom Death
Tags: Kickstarter, Success, Creator Toolkit, Crowdfunding, Games

Long before game designer Adam Poots raised a record-breaking $12.4 million on Kickstarter, he raised… much less than that.

Just weeks after Kickstarter itself launched in 2009, Adam put up a project seeking $1,500 to create a single board-game miniature. He said of his team: “We all share a burning passion for old-school board games, the kind where friends can sit down together at a table playing mighty heroes fighting scary monsters in fantastical settings that fueled our imaginations.”

At the time, just 28 backers embraced Adam’s vision. Adam didn’t know it, but he was tapping into the first stirrings of a huge boom in tabletop games, with Kickstarter as a crucial driver. In late 2012, his first full-blown tabletop project raised $2 million. That was just the warmup for Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5, which wrapped up last month with $12.4 million in pledges, more than any game project in Kickstarter history.

Adam’s story shows the value in sticking with an idea and building it out over time — with the help and support of your Kickstarter fan base. This can be life-changing: A report last year from the University of Pennsylvania found that Kickstarter projects led to an estimated 29,600 new full-time creative careers.

We visited the Kingdom Death studio in Brooklyn to hear Adam’s thoughts on success and chasing a creative dream. Watch the video above!
Author Bio: I Believe One Piece of Content Can Change Your Life
By: Sarah Seweryniak
Tags: Writing, Life Lessons, Self Improvement, Content, Self

I write to inform and inspire an audience

Sarah Seweryniak | Writer

I never set out with the intention of becoming a writer, but the vocation found me.

I majored in Communications in college and I had every intention of being behind the camera as a photojournalist. I had done an internship in the field and quickly realized working in broadcasting wasn’t for me.

When I realized broadcasting wasn’t for me, I felt lost. Luckily, I had time to complete another internship. This time I focused on writing and took a gig at a local newspaper. The rest is history.

I’m the type of person that likes to be inspired. I also hope to be someone who can inspire others. As my writing career has progressed I have developed the motto that, “one piece of content can change your life.”

I think that’s what makes Medium work! I think that’s why writers flourish in this writing space and readers enjoy the content that’s provided. It’s an honor to be accepted into the ILLUMINATION publication! I look forward to sharing various facets of my life both personally and professionally.

I’ve done more living in my three decades on this earth than most have in their entire life. And I enjoy sharing those life stories and lessons.

I love sharing stories about parenthood.
SRNT on CoinMarketCap
By: Serenity Financial
Tags: Forex, Blockchain, Ethereum, Ethereum Blockchain, Forex Trading

Dear friends!

Many of you may already be aware of this long-expected development, but now we’re pleased to officially announce that Coinmarketcap.com has added Serenity’s token SRNT to its listing.

CMC highly appreciated the Serenity project based on the following criteria: public value, innovation, experience, team, market influence, product. This means that we ended up in a category of publicly valuable and most promising projects.

We’re honored by CMC’s high praise for Serenity. Now, thanks to the listing, we’ll be able to ramp up our trading volumes and boost the token’s popularity.

Among our plans for the nearest future are listing on new exchanges and new upgrades for Escrow. Follow our news and invite everyone to join the Serenity community!
Spring Training Spotlight — Players Sent to Minors Camp
By: Durham Bulls
Tags: Articles, Milb, Tampa Bay Rays, MLB, Durham Bulls

Andrew Velazquez is tabbed for Durham’s Opening Day roster after swiping 29 bags for the Bulls in 2019

The baseball season is quickly approaching, and both the Tampa Bay Rays and Durham Bulls rosters are beginning to take shape. With just over two weeks until the Rays open their season against the Houston Astros and just over three weeks until the Bulls travel to Charlotte to face the Knights for their opener, we are getting a better picture of what their rosters will look like. The Rays recently optioned or reassigned multiple players to the minors who could end up playing at Durham Bulls Athletic Park this season.

Christian Arroyo: Arroyo, 23, could return to Durham for his second season in the Rays system, after coming over in the Evan Longoria trade to San Francisco. Arroyo hit .235 with two home runs and 20 RBI’s in 46 games in Durham last season.

Nick Ciuffo: Ciuffo, 24, spent most of last season with Durham, hitting .262 with five home runs and 28 RBI’s in 62 games. Ciuffo was able to earn a call up to Tampa Bay, but could begin 2019 back in Durham.

Jake Faria: Faria, 25, made his first appearance at the DBAP in 2016 and could return to Durham for his fourth season. Faria split 2018 between Tampa Bay and Durham, but went 2–1 with a 4.60 ERA (29.1 IP) in seven games with the Bulls.

Ian Gibaut: Gibaut, 25, was the saves leader for the Bulls bullpen in 2018 and could return for another season in Durham after being optioned by Tampa Bay. Gibaut went 4–3 with a 2.09 ERA (56.0 IP) and 14 saves in 48 games with Durham last season.

Brent Honeywell: Honeywell, 23, will continue his rehab from Tommy John Surgery which sidelined him for the 2018 season, but could make his return to Durham midseason. Honeywell went 12–8 with a 3.64 ERA (123.2 IP) in 24 games with Durham in 2017.

Joe McCarthy: McCarthy, 25, could make his return to Durham for the second straight season after being optioned by Tampa Bay. McCarthy hit .269 with eight home runs and 25 RBI’s in 47 games for Durham last season.

Andrew Moore: Moore, 24, enters his first full season in the Rays system after being acquired in a trade that sent Alex Colome to Seattle. Last season, Moore went 6–7 with a 4.34 ERA (83.0 IP) in 17 games with Durham after the trade.

Andrew Velazquez: Velazquez, 24, made his debut with the Bulls last season and appears poised to return to the DBAP after being optioned by Tampa Bay. Velazquez hit .258 with 12 home runs and 41 RBI’s, while stealing 29 bases in 117 games for Durham last season.

More moves are anticipated in the coming days as Tampa Bay prepares for its opener, but the Bulls roster will likely feature a mixture of familiar faces and rising stars for the 2019 season.
區塊鏈應用分析 - 2. 飲食篇
By: 李昱霆 Jerry Lee
Tags: Business, Blockchain, Food, Technology, Bitcoin

iOS AR / Tennis / Drone / Editing Videos / Blockchain. I just like many things, although I am not a professional, but learning many things makes me happy.

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Seven Precious Tips To Help You Get Better At Writing
By: Tamjid Hossain
Tags: Writing, Life Lessons, Motivation, Learning, Writing Tips

Seven Precious Tips To Help You Get Better At Writing

Here are 7 strong writing tips you can adopt as a new writer

Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash

There are so many writing tips and advice on the web that you are feeling overwhelmed?

The same goes for me. When I started writing blog posts, I didn’t know where to start.

Most of the tips on the web about writing say the same things.

I am not an experienced writer on medium, I only joined Medium’s Partner Program a few days ago. (Which was tough for me because stripe is not available in my country, maybe I’ll write about my joining journey later).

But, I did write blog posts here and there before.

I came across some good tips that actually helped me as a writer. Today I’m going to share some of those tips to help you as a new writer.

You can adopt these in your writing process to help yourself become a better writer.
Note to Writers from House of Haiku
By: Brett Christensen
Tags: Haiku Weekly Prompt

Dear House of Haiku Writers,

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful haiku and tanka poems.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Deborah Christensen and I are moving to outback Australia to begin a new chapter in our lives.

Preparing to move to such a remote location is a major undertaking that is keeping me really busy. Also, there may be a period during the changeover during which I do not have reliable Internet.

Therefore, I’ll need to slow down activity at House of Haiku until I’m up and running again in our new location.

All being well, we’ll be ready to crank back up to full speed by early April 2020.
Khám phá thư viện Pandas - P1
By: Lê Huỳnh Đức
Tags: Data Manipulation, Pandas, Dataframes

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2019年9月 CEO Report
By: Akihiro Yamase
Tags: Icovo, Nonfungible Tokens, Ethereum

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5 Tantra Tips To Make Masturbation Extra Yummy
Tags: Sex, Masturbation, Science, Sexuality, Tantra

Ever feel like you’re masturbating on auto-pilot?

It’s been decades since I discovered that a helping hand feels good on my southern regions. With years to perfect self-pleasure, there are times when I masturbate without much thought. This can be great (I’m never one to scoff at arousal), but sometimes it can make masturbation feel like “business as usual” rather than a lusty moment alone.

Enter tantra, a spiritual philosophy with vibrant historical lineages. According to religious scholar Christopher D. Wallis, the Western world rediscovered tantra about 100 years ago, and today, Westerners largely associate tantra with sex. Though this esoteric tradition encompasses more than sexuality (I recommend reading Tantra Illuminated for more information).

Pleasure is a dynamic element of tantra. When it comes to tantric masturbation, a whole slew of medical professionals agree that tantra has positive benefits.

“Tantra is more of an ongoing practice that can lead to greater awareness of your sexuality versus a specific masturbation strategy for achieving orgasm. The goal is to learn more about yourself and what you enjoy as you explore.” — “Tantric Masturbation” on Healthline, medically reviewed by Daniel Murrell, M.D.

In this article, I will break down simple ways to use tantric methods during masturbation — with a side of scientific data to back it up. So, let’s take solo sex for a test drive, shall we?
Be Known With Us
By: Galit Birk
Tags: Writing, Poetry, Being Known, Microfiction, Life

Be Known With Us

Open your heart and write for us

Image by BrAt82 on Shutterstock.

Who we are

Welcome to Being Known where we bring forth our courageous authentic selves and experience the range of human emotions together; sharing our experiences of being alive with one another and giving our words wings.

Writing real and raw from the heart most of the time, and sprinkling in some microfiction fun (because life is all about balance), we come together in joy and in pain and we lift each other up.

We struggle, we heal and we grow together; holding hands on our ongoing journeys of becoming perfectly imperfect.

We accept one another without judgment. We encourage self-inquiry and we come to know our deepest selves as we journey inward, holding safe space for one another.

We value vulnerability, authenticity, and transparency, recognizing their power of healing, of connection, and of making a difference in the world.

We share ourselves from the inside out because we deeply believe that sharing connects us. We write to feel alive; to get in touch with our emotions, to set ourselves free, and to tell our stories.

We write to be known as we are.

What we’re looking for

We are looking for writers and poets who are ready to open up their hearts and share with us their experiences of being human, of being alive in this perfectly imperfect world of ours.

We want your authentic-self here; your lived experiences, your real and raw stories from the heart (unless writing microfiction — 50 or 100-word stories only).

Stories must be original (your own and not previously published in other publications on Medium), well-written, well-organized and formatted, and requiring little to no editing. We expect you to proofread your own work before submitting it and to follow Medium’s Curation Guidelines.

Please allow up to 48 hours for your draft to be published, if accepted. We will of course let you know either way.

How to apply

Please leave a comment/response to this story letting us know that you’d like to be added as a writer. We will review your writing and add you if we think it’s a good fit.

Looking forward to growing together,

Your Editors.
YOUR DAILY DYSTOPIA | 2017.09.21
By: Fred Chong Rutherford
Tags: Daily, Poetry

After reading the news today, I had a primal scream, closed my laptop, had another primal scream, then walked to work.

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Have you done your part today? If not, take a moment to decide what to do, how you can help, and pitch in! Maybe pitching in for you means telling me I’m dumb, go for it! Whatever it is, make your time count!

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Standardized Tests
By: Jenny Justice
Tags: Poetry, Standardized Tests, Education, Parenting, Schools

I watch my daughter read and read

And then see one question asked

What a waste, what a rage, this

Measures nothing.
Oct.04 Bybit Analysis：The BTC triangle, where to set your price this week?
Tags: Eth, Market Analysis, Cryptocurrency, Btc

You are reading Solomon’s analysis of the first week of October. We analyze the price of BTCUSD and ETHUSD to help you make the best trading decisions.

BTCUSD

BTCUSD came into a very limited consolidation area recently, and is still under the suppression from the downtrend line. My previous trading advice of setups is still effective.

Looking at the 4H chart, we will see that the price is now in a triangle. As it went down, the price touched the uptrend line and went back up. This is probably a signal of short term recovery. Therefore, we can make a short term long position here with a SL at 6430 , and a TP at 6820.

ETHUSD

ETHUSD has been getting increasingly less volatile over the last two days, and the price on the 4H chart is testing a downtrend line resistance. If the price goes up to 240, a short position is recommended, with a SL at 260 and a TP at 186.

This was Solomon’s analysis, we hope this helps you in your daily trading, and thank you for reading.

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React Socks and Responsive Web Design With React
By: Paige Niedringhaus
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, Web Development, CSS, React

Introduction

A few months ago, I gave a talk with a coworker at the tech conference Connect.Tech about the ever-growing need for responsive web design when building websites and applications. We discussed a couple of different ways to approach it, specifically when it comes to the JavaScript framework React.

In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, let me quickly define responsive web design so we’re all starting at the same point. The best definition I’ve found comes straight from Smashing Magazine, a leading editorial voice for web developers and web designers.

“Responsive web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform, and orientation.” — Smashing Magazine

It should already make sense why it’d be evermore necessary in today’s world to start with responsive design for multiple browser/device sizes in mind as you build applications, but in case you’d like a few statistics, here are some that should help to convince you.

“57% of users say they won’t recommend a business with a poorly designed mobile site.” — socPub

In other words, a poor mobile presence (or, worse still, no mobile presence at all) can make your organization look unprofessional and out of touch with the modern consumer. Here’s another:

“83% of users say a seamless experience across all devices is very important.” — Wolfgang Jaegel

Consumers today expect a seamless experience and brand consistency regardless of what device they’re using to interact with your brand. Consider this chart from August 2018-August 2019 showing the average screen sizes of users worldwide.

Data source: GlobalStats, showing August 2018-August 2019

In 2020 and beyond, all signs point to a need for responsive design to meet users wherever they are.

While I won’t go into all the details we went into in our talk of how to approach responsive design (if you’d like, you can see the full slide deck of the talk), I’d like to share two possible approaches to responsive design for anyone else looking to get started with it.

This piece will cover the second solution for responsive web design, which is specific to the JavaScript framework React: using React Socks to conditionally render elements based on viewport size.

If you’d like to see the first solution I talked about (CSS media queries), you can see my piece here.
Let’s Talk About Trees — Part 2. Caring for Our Street trees
By: Louise Peacock
Tags: Photography, Environment, Outdoors, Trees

Street trees help to soften the street noise.

Street trees help to provide shade for the street and for neighboring properties.

Street trees provide homes for birds and squirrels.

Street trees help to filter the air and cut down on pollution.

But in spite of all of the benefits provided by them, very few people think to care for their street trees.

Often street trees are planted on boulevards and the boulevards are grassed over. Sometimes they are planted on concrete sidewalks with just a small amount of space left around their base.

Often no space is left around the base of the tree so that when you mow your boulevard grass, you crash the mower right up against the base of the tree. Or worse, you use that annoying string trimmer around the base of the tree trying to get those ratty bits of grass cut. In either case, the bark at the base of the tree gets damaged. In the example below, you can clearly see that the grass grows right up to the tree trunk, and you can also see the damage to the bark where the mower has bumped into it.

Street tree with grass around it. Photo by Louise Peacock

In this case, an area around the tree should be cleared of grass and woodchips added, as shown with the Spruce tree in the photo below.
Tennis Note #34
By: Nikita Taparia
Tags: Tennis, Sports, Roland Garros

Tennis Note #34

#RG16 Draw Doodle — Emoji Edition

Last Roland Garros was the first time the Tennis Notebook implemented Draw Doodles. During the Aussie Open, we tried to make an interactive version of the draw doodle but we decided to revert back to our traditional method for now. Before I get into it there are two things I want you to be aware of: 1) The Tennis Data Storytelling Challenge — Patterns of Play ($500 prize money) and 2) Time Violation Warning Study so either click the links in the text or the images below to learn more!
Formatting Strings With Java
By: Ben Weidig
Tags: Android, Java, Programming, Development, Software Development

Format Specifier

All format Strings start with % and consisting of multiple optional parts and the actual conversion specifier.

The general syntax can be split into three different groups:

General, character, and numeric types

%[argument_index$][flags][width][.precision]conversion

Date and times

%[argument_idnex$][flags][width][.precision]conversion

Argumentless specifiers

%[flags][width]conversion

The conversion argument can also be separated into different groups:

Most conversions support lowercase and uppercase, differentiated by using the conversion specifier in lowercase or uppercase. For simplicity, only the lowercase version will be listed in the article.

If a null argument is supplied, it’s converted to "null" .

General conversions

Examples:

Characters

Integrals

Examples:

Floating-point

Examples:

Date / time

Date and time format specifiers are prefixed with %t , followed by the specific part.

Many of the conversions are locale-specific and default to the default locale of the JVM if no alternative is provided.

Other conversions

Flags

Flags can be used to modify the conversion:

Width

The absolute width of the output can specific, except for the line separator conversion:

Precision

The behaviour is dependent on the conversion type.

For general argument types, the precision is the number of resulting formatted characters.

The floating-point conversions ( %a , %e , %f ) are restricting the number of digits after the decimal separator.

A special case is %g , which will define the number of digits in the resulting magnitude after rounding.

For the other conversions (character, integral, date/time, and the percent and line separator conversions) specifying a precision is not applicable, and will throw an exception.

Argument index

The argument index indicates the position of the argument in the argument list, e.g., 1$ for the first, 2$ for the second, and so forth.

This way, we can use different format specifiers without changing the actual argument list.
ETL Pipeline using Spark SQL
By: Achraf El Gdaouni
Tags: Spark, Postgres, Spark Sql, Big Data, Etl

In this tutorial we will create an ETL Pipeline to read data from a CSV file, transform it and then load it to a relational database (postgresql in our case) and also to JSON file format. we will show you how simple it is to read and write data from different sources using sprak DataFrameReader and DataFrameWriter.

Here are the steps that we are going to follow during this tutorial :

Load the datasets ( csv) into Apache Spark

Analyze the data with Spark SQL

Transform the data into JSON format and save it to database

Query and load the data back into Spark

Spark ETL Pipeline

Dataset description :

Since 2013, Open Payments is a federal program that collects information about the payments drug and device companies make to physicians and teaching hospitals for things like travel, research, gifts, speaking fees, and meals.

File : OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2018_P06282019.csv:

This file contains the data set of General Payments reported for the 2018 program year. General Payments are defined as payments or other transfers of value made to a covered recipient (physician or teaching hospital) that are not made in connection with a research agreement or research protocol.

File header :

$ head -1 OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2018_P06282019.csv Change_Type,Covered_Recipient_Type,Teaching_Hospital_CCN,Teaching_Hospital_ID,Teaching_Hospital_Name,Physician_Profile_ID,Physician_First_Name,Physician_Middle_Name,Physician_Last_Name,,

{..}

,Indicate_Drug_or_Biological_or_Device_or_Medical_Supply_5,Product_Category_or_Therapeutic_Area_5,Name_of_Drug_or_Biological_or_Device_or_Medical_Supply_5,Associated_Drug_or_Biological_NDC_5,Program_Year,Payment_Publication_Date

First Line :

"NEW","Covered Recipient Physician",,,,"258145","HOWARD",,"SADINSKY",,"321 BOSTON POST RD",,"MILFORD","CT","06460-2574","United States",,,"Doctor of Osteopathy","Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians|Pediatrics","CT",,,,,"Mission Pharmacal Company","100000000186","Mission Pharmacal Company","TX","United States",13.78,"04/13/2018","1","In-kind items and services","Food and Beverage",,,,"No","No Third Party Payment",,"No",,,"No","521226951","No","Yes","Covered","Drug","Adrenocorticosteroid","Prednisolone 25","0178-0582-08",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"2018","06/28/2019"

In our example we will use only the following fields :

{ "physician_id":"258145", "date_payment":"04/13/2018 ", "record_id":"521226951", "payer":"Mission Pharmacal Company", "amount":13.78, "Physician_Specialty":"Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians|Pediatrics ", "Nature_of_payment":"Food and Beverage" }

Read The data from a csv file into DataFrame :
The evolution of software architecture
By: Benoit Hediard
Tags: Developers, Microservices, Software Architecture

UPDATE 2015–09–15 — FYI, I just published an article related to this: How to build a microservice with AWS Lambda in Groovy

UPDATE 2015–12–23 — FYI, I published another article related to this: A startup journey on AWS: from bare metal monolith to serverless microservices
Hábitos que todo emprendedor debe tener
By: Gabriela Nova
Tags: Emprendedores, Eivos, Estilo De Vida, Emprendimiento, Emprender

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