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I Count These Days in Toes
By: Ryan J. Petteway
Tags: Covid 19, Police Violence, Structural Racism, Public Health, Resistance Poetry

I Count These Days in Toes

Or, Cavities

photo courtesy of author

they say covid has

killed one in one

thousand Black

Americans*

that we must practice

social distancing

and wear masks

thick enough to keep us from

seeing

the difference between

where we should stand and

where George is

lying

because covid has

killed one in one

thousand

funny

one

in one thousand

Black men bodied

by one-time

that’s now 6 feet

by 6 feet

that’s four

feet and twenty toes

presumably

two hundred

ninety thousand

four hundred

bodies planted over

two thousand twenty

opportunities to

Till differently

that’s

how many

six-feets

are in

forty acres

if you keep

their legs straight

and flex

their toes

how many Breonnas

in two thousand

twenty-one if

Daniel Cameron

still wishes he were

white like Mitch’s

pillow case or the

wrapper on Casey’s

one-foot

sandwich

that’s a six-foot cavity, right?

somebody please

tell the health department

you can’t measure

social distance

in feet

that’s it.

that’s the tweet.

—

*it is now 1 in 875.

#CaseyGoodson

#BlackLivesMatter
#diary_25_December_2020
By: Noah Coin
Tags: Blockchain, Noah City, Noah Project, Cryptocurrency, Defi

Hey friends, Anton here!👋

1. The Alpha testing stage of DeFi Yield Farming for coins “NOAH`s ARK” and “Q DeFi Rating” is booked and ongoing.🚀 Thanks to all the participants. They will earn their rewards for:

💥 CODING & FARMING: contribute to the project if you are a skilled programmer, such as creating connectors to blockchains like Polkadot \ EOS \ Tron \ Binance Smart Chain. Utilize the graph \ sub-graph for popular DeFi projects.⌨️

💥 SOCIAL FARMING: contribute to the development of the “NOAH`s DeFi ARK” protocol database \ “Q DeFi Rating” scoring algorithms.⚙️

💥 STAKING FARMING: stake NOAH \ QDAO tokens on Ethereum smart contracts for a specified time.⚖️

💥 LIQUIDITY FARMING (also known as “LIQUIDITY MINING”): provide liquidity in trading pairs — NOAH\ETH, NOAH\QDAO, NOAH\USDQ — on decentralized exchanges such as UNISWAP, SUSHISWAP, MOONISWAP, BALANCER.📈

2. 🔵 If you want to add your ETHereum address into the “approved addresses list” and participate in the next testing stage >> please submit your details in this Google Form:👇

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16f2kTCKCyzz6OnjFCloeiAPRsKnyvNODbKKSj9tyv-8/edit

Get your New Year’s gift from QDAO DeFi! 💰🎅🎁

We are raising the interest rates from November 24th 2020 to February 21st 2021. 💸 🔝

Safely store your crypto and enjoy awesome earnings with the upcoming Bull market! 💲💲💲

All the details are here: https://bit.ly/3kXx4Gr

Аll my things know that breaking down right at the end of the week is a good idea 👌😂 Now I know what I’m going to do this weekend. 🛠
The New Label in SwiftUI
By: Kelvin Tan
Tags: Programming, iOS, Xcode, Swiftui, Swift

Label

Label takes the title and name of the asset (either your own image or one from the system). Here, you will be using the system's image:

Label("Hello iPhone!", systemImage: "iphone")

However, if you want to use your own image, it’s just a small tweak:

Label("Hello iPhone!", image: "iphone")

I honestly wonder if this is a bug, as the alignment seems to be a little off. Maybe this is just how it is meant to look. If this is how it should look, you should opt for the traditional way of using HStack .

Perhaps Apple will release a bug fix. Who knows? Let’s wait and see.

While waiting for Apple to fix that, the workaround would probably be to create your own. Label does offer you the possibility to customise further. Next, you will use an image as an icon:

I personally find this looks nicer with the image correctly aligned.

You could even opt for a Shape instead of an image:

That’s it for this one. Thanks for reading!
ICCDI Africa Joins GNDR Nigeria To Build Community Resilience through Participation & Collaboration
By: Iccdi Africa
Tags: Disaster Risk Reduction, Civil Society, Gndr Nigeria, Climate Change, Women

The meeting brought together Delegates and Civil Society Leaders from the 6 geopolitical regions to look at the GNDR strategy 2020–2025 and design programs and activities and agree on concrete actions that will increase the coordination and collaboration among GNDR, its members, and relevant stakeholders in Nigeria.

The outcome of the NCM is intended to inform the way forward for GNDR at the National, state, and local levels.

The National Coordination Meeting was organized by Noble Delta Women for Peace and Development Int’l with funding from GNDR.

GNDR is the largest international network of organizations committed to working together to improve the lives of people affected by disasters worldwide
dry Monku — 2nd Precept: Thievery
By: Dry Monkey Philosophy
Tags: Poem, Morality, Haiku, Poetry, Buddhism

Do not take what is not yours

The grabbing hand fears of letting go

Losing what was never its
How to estimate data requirements
By: Ines Panker
Tags: Software Development, Software Architecture, Interview Questions, Traffic Estimation

Traffic Estimates

Hint #3: Build upon established numbers.

When thinking about expected traffic, this is how you should be thinking:

OK, we have 500m users per month — how many is this per day? Of course, it’s not 500M / 30 days. How are these users geographically spaced? Are they all over the world are they all on the same continent? When do they use the app? Are they all using it at the same time, at 5:30 PM when they come from work?

Since we already went to the trouble of figuring out the 1.5 billion image uploads per day — this is the number we should lean on.

For simplicity, let’s say these uploads will be perfectly distributed over the whole day. This gives us:

uploads = (1.5 * e9 images / day) / ( 24h ∗ 60m ∗ 60s )

≅ 17 000 images / s

17K images are uploaded every second, but each of these images is also viewed v times. This is a photo-sharing app, so for every upload, there is going to be v viewings. Let's say that on average every image gets viewed ten times. This means 170 000 requests per second:

requests = 17 000 images / s ∗ 10 req / image

= 170 K req / s

170 K req / s ∗ 1 MB / req = 170 GB / s

This means that our servers need to serve 170 GB/s.

Servers are limited by two things: the number of concurrent connections and the bandwidth.

What’s a reasonable number of concurrent connections for a server? I’ve no idea. It depends at least on the server’s spec and the kind of processing we will be doing for each request. The only way to answer this would be to look at the statistics of some actual servers, of which there seem to be very few on the internet.

How are we supposed to continue with no data from here on? I don’t know. Can one server deliver 1Gb of data per second (that is 8,000 000 Kb/s)? I don’t know. Maybe it is closer to 0.1 Gb/s, maybe it is 0.01 Gb/s.

Everything up to here was speculation, but everything from here on would be pure imagination! I presume there are some specialists somewhere, who deal with these numbers all the time. Better ask them!
Can abused women get divorces?. Wayne Grudem thinks so?
By: Jonathan Poletti
Tags: Marriage, Bible, Christianity, Divorce, Life

Can abused women get divorces?

Wayne Grudem tries to decide.

The usually dependably hard-line Evangelical cleric Wayne Grudem surprised this week with a paper that argues: Physical abuse is grounds for divorce. His long-standing view has been that, in the Bible, divorce is only “allowed” in cases of adultery or abandonment by a non-Christian spouse.

I’m reading Grudem’s paper. Age 70, he’d became aware of a few marriages that were “horrible” and thinks: “This cannot be the kind of life that God intends for his children when there is an alternative available.”

Other Evangelicals aren’t so sure.

Protestants have understood that two passages in the New Testament, Matthew 19:9 and 1 Corinthians 7:15, work together to form the teaching on divorce. Jesus allows it in cases of adultery, as Paul says:

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.(KJV)

I read this as Paul thinking, not about divorce regulations, but about the problem of a person converting to the Jesus teachings when a spouse doesn’t like it at all.

A key teaching of early Christianity, for example, is radical property sharing (cf. Acts 2:44), so such spousal disagreements are understandable.

It’s fine, Paul says. Wish the unbelieving spouse well.

But for Christian history, the “rules” and punishments are always the subject. When it came to divorce, adultery or abandonment—was it.

Spousal abuse, however, stuck out like a sore thumb, and Christians have often not known what to do—besides nothing.

In 1552, John Calvin is asked about it, in the case of a Protestant woman married to a Catholic man who is beating her for not being Catholic. Calvin creates the “imminent peril” standard.

If, after having attempted what we have advised, she should come into imminent peril, or her husband should persecute her to the point of death, then she is free to exercise that liberty which our Lord grants to all his own, i.e. to flee ravenous wolves.

Calvin’s “imminent peril” standard is reinforced in a letter in 1556:

I cannot approve of her leaving her husband unless she is driven to it by some extreme violence, or if her husband, on the pretext of religion or some other excuse, is treating her in an intolerable manner. I will not define that intolerable manner, either, since she may be treated even more harshly at home. She ought to show every degree of tolerance before resorting to that remedy.

As a legal strategy, “imminent peril” is difficult to time precisely.

We’d have to understand that some women hit the mark too late. In 2009, Chuck Colson raised the issue, relaying a story of a woman who’d come to an Evangelical pastor seeking help for an abusive husband.

The pastor told her to be “more submissive,” since her husband is her “spiritual head.” Two weeks later, the woman was dead.

Colson remarks: “Her church could not believe it. Marleen’s husband was a Sunday school teacher and a deacon. How could he have done such a thing?”
536 AD — the worst year in history
By: Saamir Ansari
Tags: Life, History, Lessons Learned, Climate Change

2020 has already been immortalised. It is a year that nobody will forget. However, when speaking of the worst year recorded in human history there are many to choose from:

The year 1349 saw the Black Death kill half the population of Europe.

In 1520 smallpox ravaged the Americas and killed between 60 and 90 per cent of the continents’ original inhabitants.

In 1918 the Spanish Flu led to the deaths of over 50 million people.

The rise of Hitler in 1933 is often claimed to be the turning point in modern history.

However, historians are unanimous in their choice. The title of the worst year in history is easily held by the year 536 AD.

Medieval historian, Michael McCormick has stated that “it was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year.” (Science Magazine, Ann Gibbons, 2018).

The year began with an inexplicable, dense fog that stretched across the world which plunged Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia into darkness 24 hours a day, for nearly 2 years.

Consequently, global temperatures plummeted which resulted in the coldest decade in over 2,000 years. Famine was rampant and crops failed all across Europe, Africa and Asia. Unfortunately, 536 AD seemed to only be a prelude to further misery. This period of extreme cold and starvation caused economic disaster in Europe and in 541 A.D. an outbreak of bubonic plague further led to the death of nearly 100 million people and almost half of the Byzantine Empire.

This part of the sixth century has a widely been referred to as the Dark Ages, but the true source of this darkness had previously been unknown to scholars. Recently, researchers led by McCormick and glaciologist Paul Mayewski, have discovered that a volcanic eruption in Iceland in early 536 led to incredibly large quantities of ash being spread across much of the globe, creating the fog that cast the world into darkness. This eruption was so immense that it altered the global climate and adversely affected weather patterns and crop cultivation for years to come (Antiquity).

Labeling each new year as ‘the worst year in history’ has become something of a fad these days. We should look back to the year 536 A.D. and cherish how fortunate we are not to have lived in a time when the world was truly in darkness.
Why Algorithm?
By: Angshuman Bhattacharjee
Tags: Research, Short Read, Alan Turing, Idea, Algorithms

Very important to know,

In 1936 mathematician Alan Turing proved in his famous research paper “On computable numbers” that, “If an algorithm can be written to solve a mathematical problem, then a Turing machine can execute that algorithm”.

This is a very fundamental and important theory in Computer Science and Engineering(CSE).

That means in a simpler word that :

Any project may be very complex or easy, can be done if first of all, we are able to design an algorithm (description + flowchart + pseudocode).

Though it is hard to convert a design to code, possible if there is a design/blueprint first means algorithm.

The algorithm should be the first thing to learn in the case of CSE.
Photojournalist: Abigail Romo-Cea
By: Teresa Wierzbianska
Tags: Poetry

What is one of your happiest memories? What made that memory so special.?

“One of my most happiest memories is remembering my mom taking care of and holding my child as a baby. Its my most happiest and most saddest memory knowing that she loved her so much and the saddest part is that my daughter didn’t get to know her grandmother as much as she should have.”
¿Que tienen en comun Echeverria, Emerson, y Dickens?
By: Roberto Baldizon
Tags: Sociedad, Literatura, Argentina, Inglaterra, Estados Unidos

Shared thoughts, ideas, opinions, research, tips, and more from innovative & passionate people trying to fix the world's problems through the use of technology!
8x Protocol Weekly Update 22/07/2018
By: Kevin Lu
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Updates

8x Protocol Rebranded

The crypto-space is known for its notoriously bad user interface and experience. At 8x Protocol we are focusing on three pain-points behind mass adoption: awareness, education, and ease-of-use.

Our rebranding to highlights our solution for decentralised recurring payments on a consumer-level and introduces a new focus — pre-authorised payments.

New Website Now Live

To push for adoption, users must first be aware and subsequently, understand. Our new website is designed to enhance consumer understanding of the core function behind 8x Protocol, decentralized repeating payments. We explain why recurring payments are a major problem and deviate from technical/crypto-specific jargon.

Learn About Our Journey

Behind every successful project is a set of real people and a compelling story.

We wanted to highlight ours.

Pre-Authorised Payments

Pre-authorised payments fuel an ongoing relationship between the merchant and consumer — an aspect integral to commerce. What produces an ongoing consumer relationship? A loyal customer base.

Pre-Authorised Payments for Starbucks

At 8x Protocol, we remove the inconvenience of repetitive, manual consumer payments with an easy-to-use and consumer-friendly design — we put the power in the consumer’s hand to authorise a business an approved amount per billing period.

With 8x’s pre-authorised payments feature, we are not only pushing for ongoing business relationships but the adoption of blockchain technology also.

Launch of Protocol Weekly

We wanted keep the wider community informed by exclusively showcasing Ethereum projects with a strong focus on product and infrastructure.

Protocol Weekly is an 8x Protocol community initiative to unite all Ethereum protocols by creating a newsletter that contain updates from participating projects and ‘one thing they need help with’. Protocol Weekly is the first ever protocol newsletter and will be covering all updates from new partnerships to developmental updates.

Currently Participating Projects:

Kyber Network, Loopring, Set Protocol, Liquidity Network, Civic Protocol, Bloom Protocol, Abacus Protocol, Dharma Protocol, Codex Protocol.

Sign up for Protocol Weekly on our website here.

First edition of Protocol Weekly drops this week!

Do you have a protocol you’d like to see?

Please email: kevinl@8xprotocol.com

Redesign of Twitter & Medium

Follow 8x Protocol on Twitter: https://twitter.com/8xProtocol

Follow 8x Protocol on Medium: https://medium.com/8xprotocol

—

8x Protocol — Recurring Stable Payments on the Blockchain

8x is a protocol for facilitating recurring crypto payments without exposing consumers or businesses to the volatility of crypto currencies.

Website/Whitepaper: https://8xprotocol.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/8x_Protocol

Telegram Community: https://t.me/eightexprotocol

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/8xProtocol/

Journey of a Token: https://goo.gl/r9aNcP

Github: https://github.com/8xprotocol/contracts
Window on the Eve
By: Joe Váradi
Tags: Poetry, Translation, Night, Hungarian, Rhymes

Window on the Eve

a translation of a poem by Sándor Weöres

Robert Berény — Eta Reading (circa 1925)

Window on the Eve

virgin eyes lay down for rest

flying past the falcon’s nest

evening swoon

clacking beaks and wings adrift

rotund space sustains a rift

razor moon

window corners frame your gaze

music shedding fragrant phrase

gently flown

into quarter corners pinned

castle turrets born of wind

blessed stone

harness it now if you will

saddle up and feel the thrill

stallion

thunder slices through the mist

virgin eyes depart aglist

carry on

quarter corner who awai-

fragrant music sets the bai-

windowsill

under-pinned and thunder-splayed

evening ruptures from its weight

if you will
Zubi partners with OpenHack to make the world more habitable
Tags: Disaster, Partnerships, Hackathons, Openhack, Zubi

Zubi partners with OpenHack as an outreach partner

Zubi has collaborated with RebuildEarth as an outreach partner for their event “OpenHack” that will be held in Kochi on 26 and 27 October 2019. The event is an immersive open hackathon where students, professionals, researchers, makers and anyone with an interest in technology gather together to build a single project, disaster management, awareness and alertness platform.

OpenHack is a great platform to be supportive of our brothers and sisters, whom we lose due to natural calamities. This is something that happens every year on a global scale. Zubi is helping OpenHack by bringing more participation and reaching a plethora of people to help and contribute towards this great social cause. So let’s all come together and do our due diligence by doing what we do- Code!

At Zubi we are trying to help reshape and create a better world. This partnership will take us a step further for our goal.

About RebuildEarth

RebuildEarth is an organization using technology to make the world more habitable by building a one-stop solution for managing an unexpected disaster. Keralarescue.in helped in building a community that laid the foundation of rebuild earth.

About Zubi

Zubi is a thriving community building a next-gen experience platform to empower millions of people to make an impact on emerging tech. It bestows one with personalised opportunities in the space. Zubi started with building a blockchain ecosystem and is working on mass adoption of the technology.
Better Color Palettes with Histogram Equalization in D3.js
By: Planet Os
Tags: JavaScript, Data Visualization, D3

Planet OS is handling a lot of climate and environmental data from sensors around the world for multiple projects. As a data visualization engineer, I’m always learning new tricks to makes sense of data. Visualizing data on maps can be challenging. Some colleagues smarter than myself asked me if we could have a color palette using histogram equalization. So I went to Wikipedia.

Histogram equalization is a method in image processing of contrast adjustment using the image’s histogram.

So with hints from this example, from this other one, and from this SO answer, I tried to understand it enough to make a version using D3 scales. It turned out to be very simple.

First, to prove that I have it right, I had as a goal to reproduce the example from the Wikipedia page.

Original image from the Wikipedia example

Image contrasted using histogram equalization from Wikipedia

This picture is not the best example, because a simple linear range already makes it better.

d3.scale.linear().domain(d3.extent(values)).range(['#000', '#fff']);

Image with values rescaled linearly

But the goal is to get more contrast using the histogram equalization method. In the way I understand it, we have to compute a histogram of the values, to put them into “buckets”, in a way that better distributes the values to get higher local contrast. My first thought was to use d3.scale.quantile() to compute the histogram and then use the quantiles as an input to a linear scale that will interpolate the colors between them.

Here’s how I compute the quantiles and how I feed it to my linear scale:

var quantiles = d3.scale.quantile().domain(values).range(d3.range(numberOfBuckets)).quantiles(); d3.scale.linear().domain(quantiles).range(grayScale);

It’s too simple, it can’t be right. Let’s try it on the test image to see if it gives the same results as the Wikipedia example.

Image equalized using a D3.js histogram equalization

Pretty close. Let’s try it on some maps then, now using a ColorBrewer palette (Spectral11). This represents the mean period of wind waves at ground or water surface level, taken from the WaveWatchIII dataset.

Wind wave map using a linear color palette

Same map using the same palette but equalized using D3.js histogram equalization

This needs more polishing, but the histogram equalization works pretty well. You can give it a try here with the picture from Wikipedia and here with the above map.

Happy D3 coding!

Chris Viau (@d3visualization)
Welcome Our Newest Mediation Partners: AdMob and Appodeal
Tags: Mediation, Programmatic, Mobile Ads, Developer, Mobile Advertising

By now, you’ve probably heard that our rewarded video ad demand is available through many of the leading mediation platforms, including MoPub, Fyber, Supersonic, Aerserv and Heyzap. But today, we are pleased to announce that we’ve added two new mediation partners: Google’s AdMob and Appodeal.

That means that you have more ways than ever to integrate our premium video ad demand — the best rewarded, opt-in video ads available anywhere — into the waterfall of your preferred mobile ad mediation platform.

Mobile ad mediation, of course, lets app developers show ads from multiple networks in order to maximize fill rates and increase revenue. Developers typically just need to integrate a single SDK and can then manage several different ad networks easily and efficiently. When adding Tapjoy’s rewarded ad demand to your mediation platform, you’ll find that we deliver some of the highest yielding returns on your video ad inventory.

AdMob by Google offers mobile app monetization boasting that you can “earn more by doing less.” Developers can manage over 40 ad networks from one interface, including rewarded video ad networks such as Tapjoy, and use the company’s Ad Network Optimization to show the highest-paying ad in their app dynamically. AdMob even offers an SDK-less option that lets you add new networks server-side without having to update your app. Click here to learn more about how to access Tapjoy’s rewarded video demand through AdMob Mediation.

Appodeal is a programmatic ad mediation solution for mobile apps that offers 35 premium ad demand sources in just one SDK. Designed for publishers by publishers, Appodeal increases revenue through an established marketplace where ad networks compete against each other in real-time for every ad impression. Click here to learn more about how to access Tapjoy’s rewarded video demand through Appodeal Mediation.
Onwards, friends.
By: James Costa
Tags: Agency, Technology, Business

Over 9 years, we fought for a lot. We fought for distributed work before it was popular, and intentionally created an environment that thrived despite having a team spanning 4+ countries and timezones. We fought to maintain a balance of diversity not because it was cool, but because that’s what happens when you remove barriers and treat people well. We fought for transparency and the opportunity to build a company that we could all be proud of. We fought alongside each other to build incredible experiences that have touched millions of people. We kept our word, and did damn good work.

I’m proud of the team we built: authentic, collaborative, and transparent people who have heart. I’ve learned something from each of the 50+ Phuse alumni; Larissa taught me to stand up for myself, Naomi taught me the importance of details, Emma taught me to understand perspective, Alex taught me to take a chance on people, Jenna taught me about the importance of personal growth, Robyn taught me to not give up on what you believe in, Leigh taught me what loving what you do looks like, Tessa taught me to never settle, and Jonathan taught me about balance.

In particular, our graduating class helped shape our legacy through their hard work, selflessness, and care. I’d like to thank Murray, Kelley, Derek, Leigh, Karmon, Shafeez, Naomi, Robyn, Larissa, Christie, and Kurtis for displaying a level of grace beyond anything I could have ever expected.

I remain an advocate for remote work and the opportunity that small agencies have to make a big impact, and am excited for the opportunity to share my experiences over time through my newsletter, speaking, and over coffee.

As we close out nearly a decade of incredible work, relationships, and learning, I’m sad to not be working alongside my friends anymore, but am honored by the legacy we leave behind. I’d do it all over again if I could.

Onwards, friends.

✌️+❤️
The Largest Early World Map is Unveiled For the First Time
By: Ahmed Kabil
Tags: Maps, Culture, History, Cartography, Technology

On July 25, 01585, near the end of a century of unprecedented change, four Japanese boys stopped in Milan on their way back home to Japan. They’d been sent as the first Japanese Embassy to Europe three years earlier by the Jesuit missionary Alesandro Valignano. Their European tour took them through Spain, where they met King Philip II, and to Rome, where they met with the Pope. Now, in Milan, they encountered Urbano Monte, a gentleman scholar from a wealthy Milanese family whose interests had lately turned to geography. Writing about meeting the Japanese boys, Monte “commented on their appearance and manners; the former he found odd but he thought their manners impressive and their eating habits fascinating.”

The encounter with the Japanese embassy inspired Monte to undertake an ambitious project that would consume his efforts for the next twenty years: the Trattato Universale, a four-volume compendium and geographical treatise that attempted to showcase the entire geographic knowledge of the world. The third volume of the Trattato contained his most impressive and innovative work: a map of the world across sixty individual sheets that, were it to be stitched together as his instructions dictated, would be the largest world map made in the sixteenth century.
What you need to know about those “selfie girls”
By: Kelly Holmes
Tags: Sexism, Feminism, Social Media

There’s this thing we do lately. Parents shame their kids on Facebook or Youtube when they step out of line, people shame moms for nursing their hungry babies in a restaurant, and on and on, and now THIS.

Maybe you watched this video when it came across your feed. And maybe you rolled your eyes or shook your head at how the girls behaved during the baseball game. Honestly? I did.

But those “selfie girls” reminded me of something important.

Here’s what you should know.

1. The audience at the baseball game was ASKED to tweet selfies as part of a contest.

2. So these girls in the audience…took selfies. In other words, they participated in the event that was designed to engage the crowd.

3. By the looks of it, the girls had fun. They were being silly. Enjoying themselves. For this, the announcers mocked them. Shamed them. Their mockery went viral, and these girls had their faces plastered all over social media.

4. To apologize for the viral shaming incident, Fox Sports and the Arizona Diamondbacks offered free tickets to the girls.

5. The girls declined the free tickets. Instead, they asked Fox and the Diamondbacks to donate the tickets to families at A New Leaf, a non-profit that supports victims of domestic violence. Plus, with October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the girls used their newfound SHAME-FAME to encourage people to donate to the cause.

That sounds like the behavior of a girl I’d be proud to call my daughter.

Well played, girls. And thank you for reminding me that I don’t always have the full story.
Global HVN Presence: From Hong Kong‘s Thriving Blockchain Communities to the Crypto Summit in Zurich!
By: Domen Ursic
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Hong Kong, Cryptocurrency, Fintech

From Hong Kong’s Thriving Blockchain Communities …

After Token2049 ended, we were invited, as the only fintech company past the ICO stage, to present our success story to Hong Kong’s flourishing blockchain community at the EuroBlockShow event. The crowd was thrilled by our long list of accomplishments — from winning at CoinAgenda Global to delivering our DEMO platform and getting such important business deals in place so early in our development.

It was a great evening all round. Ugur’s blog detailing the new letter of intent we have in place covering Latin America, as well as my presentation of Hive Project’s success story, served as the perfect introduction for all the discussions we had with potential users of the platform in Asia.

Presenting Hive Project‘s Success Story at EUROBLOCKSHOW HONG KONG

AND WITH SO MANY SMALL BUSINESSES, INVESTORS AND CRYPTO ENTHUSIASTS SHOWING SUCH GREAT INTEREST IN OUR PLATFORM, WE DECIDED TO TRANSLATE OUR BUSINESS ROADMAP SUMMARY INTO CHINESE! WE WILL POST IT TO OUR WEBSITE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO HELP OUR ASIAN COMMUNITIES SEE WHERE WE ARE HEADED.

… to the Crypto Summit 2018 in Zurich!

Now that our Hong Kong mission has concluded, we are travelling to Zurich, Switzerland, to be a part of CRYPTO SUMMIT 2018! This event brings together global influencers, policy makers, investors and entrepreneurs to engage in open dialogue and shape the future of crypto. With our advisor, Richard D. Titus, one of the Wired 100 in 2010, there as speaker, we will be bringing Hive Project to new highs in the world of fintech & blockchain!

With Jure, Ugur, Domen and Richard there to discuss our success story with industry leaders, we are proud that Hive Project is truly going global, which will be of HUGE benefit by the time our platform is officially launched. We are fully aware that high levels of trust and recognition are vital components for success in our go-to markets.

And with our business and tech development going so well, we have lots of eye-catching content to present when talking about Hive Project’s successful past and even more successful future! We will keep you posted on events in Zurich and keep the good news coming in our March of Madness!

As always, be sure to join our active, thriving and ever-growing TELEGRAM community HERE and be the first to receive the rest of the NEWS BLASTS to come in our March of Madness! Our amazing team and community are waiting for you!
Announcing The Bitkub API
Tags: Bitcoin, Articles, ICO, Binance

Announcing The Bitkub API

แถลงการณ์เปิดระบบ Bitkub API

(***เลื่อนลงเพื่ออ่านเวอร์ชั่นภาษาไทย*** )

Bitkub API is now ready to automate your trading needs. Trade smartly by directly integrating your platform to bitkub market.

Connect your API key today and access the following:

Automatic and customizable trading based on your conditions

Automatic deposit and withdraw for cryptocurrencies

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To Be An Artist
By: Jackie Ann
Tags: Inspiration, Intuition, Poetry On Medium, Creative Process, Poetry

In my hand is the power

of star dust and cosmic whispers.

I can make them

embodied: solid, strong.

This is what it means

to be an artist — to hear

with your spirit

the secrets

in the cosmic song.
Travels in hyperreality
By: Eleni Nisioti
Tags: Travel, Mountains, Italy, Hiking, Photography

Umberto Eco. Born in Allesandria, Piedmont, 1932 . Died in Milan, Lombardy, 2016.

A man that traveled in time through his obsession with history, the world as a visiting scholar and his readers to medieval monasteries, haunting museums and occult rites. But somehow refused to leave Italy.

I spent two weeks (clearly not enough) in northern Italy. I was surprised by the contradictions of Genova, inspired by Bologna La Dotta, amazed by the enchanting (yet disfunctional) Venice and overwhelmed with Italian art in Bergamo’s Accademia Carrara.

Yet the Dolomites. Hiking two days around Tre Cime di Lavaredo gave me the chills, a dozen cool pictures and a reason to return to these ancient mountains.

Although his life and literature is dominated by a love for Italy (I don’t blame him in hindsight), Eco did not write anything about the mountains of his motherland. But this Chinese poet offers a great reason for this trip:

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;

I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.

As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown,

I have a world apart that is not among men. — Li Bay

Below you can spot Tre Cime (hint: it means three peaks in Italian), the roof of the beautiful hut we spent the night and the coolness of the Dolomites.
Puppeteer is Awesome
By: Aven Desta
Tags: Notag, Samplexample

Puppeteer is Awesome

This Automatically updates every 5 minutes

Time and Date in NEW YORK CITY:

12/28/2020, 5:39:04 AM

Go here for the full story.
Dusk with Palette
By: Dionne Charlet
Tags: Painting, Free Verse, Poetry, Literary Impulse, Art

Free Verse and Imagery

Dusk with Palette

busking the hues of lily and resplendence

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash

Banished, like red in manipulation

of the color of cattail

upon the sunset palette of an impressionist

busking the hues of lily and resplendence

cropped about a surround of oak.

Howl is unseen in tangents of leaf

forayed to canopy

overstrikes of rye

buzzed in the fume of a dandelion blown

white and pastel phased to hoof print

spared the harsh or strokes of cloud

where wings are foretold

with sky flush in earth

tones to ground and shed

petal blurts of yellowed

brown-tinted dash.
On-chain-Off-grid
By: Shlomi Zeltsinger
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain

The current off-grid options:

Mesh network:

The first solution is the one that was used by coinsure. The idea behind such a network is that it allows messages to “hop” from one device to the another until the messages reach their final destination. This solution can only work if there are other supporting devices in proximity to one another. This solution also relays on having a supporting endpoint. In our case, the transaction message “01000000000101ecf3a4…” will hop on the mesh network, but in order to get to the bitcoin network, you’ll still have to have a single running node at the endpoint — this is the node that will notify the rest of the bitcoin network about your transaction. The mesh network that coinsure used was provided by gotenna.

Radio wave:

Going old school and just transmitting your transactions using the good old radio. Technically you can even read it to other listeners “Zero One Zero… E. C. F. Three…” although it will be too slow and inefficient. It’s much better to find a way to encode the message before-hence and transmit your message to anyone who’s listening. In this method, you don’t have to target a specific device or network, and you don’t have to connect to any single node. Any node that is listening to the proper radio channels will be able to pick your transaction message and process it. A few years ago there was a Finish project that actually used radio waves to transmit blockchain related information. They used a well-known encoding method that was used for television broadcasting to transmit bitcoin-related data such as transactions, blocks and even live feeds from major stocks.

Satellite — It actually works! But it’s one way only…

This cool project is maintained by the talented devs at blockstream. They’re using the same well-known methods of broadcasting to broadcast the bitcoin blockchain from space so that anyone with the right equipment can tune-in and receive the latest blocks, even if their gov’ just shut down the internet. Unfortunately, for now, it’s only useful for receiving information, and you cannot broadcast your own transactions.
Crypto Market Snapshots: News of the Week
By: Kript Team
Tags: Blockchain News, Cryptocurrency News

⏳ What happened with the market in the last 7 days?

- BTC dominance: 52,6% (↓0,1%)

- 24h Vol: $16,6 billion (↓7,3%)

- Market Cap: $118,9 billion (↓0,1%)

🔝Top 5 coins:

#1 Bitcoin: $3576,32 (↓0,4%)

#2 XRP: $0,32 (~no change)

#3 Ethereum: $116,8 (↓1,7%)

#4 Bitcoin Cash: $122,01 (↓4,2%)

#5 EOS: $2,32 (↑1,3%)

🔝Top 5 tokens:

#1 Tether: $1,01 (stable coin)

#2 Binance Coin: $6,5 (↑13%)

#3 USD Coin: $1,01 (stable coin)

#4 Maker: $433,07 (↑1,4%)

#5 TrueUSD: $1,01 (stable coin)

📈 Gainers:

#1 Apollo Currency: $0,003120 (↑294%)

#2 TenX: $0,432363 (↑170%)

#3 OAX: $0,207117 (↑150%)

📉 Losers:

#1 Ormeus Coin: $0,019519 (↓65%)

#2 Quantis Network: $0,061481 (↓53%)

#3 LRM Coin: $0,489153 (↓52%)

👆TOP News

📍 Ethereum Constantinople hard fork has been postponed to late February. Read more

📍 The Stock Exchange of Thailand is going to apply for a digital asset operating license. Read more

📍 Bittrex has announced to launch a new digital asset trading platform in Asia. Read more

📍 Huobi exchange has relaunched as a fully licensed platform in Japan. Read more

📍 New cryptocurrency governing regulations have come into effect in Malaysia. Read more
Shadows
By: Jeffrey Flesch
Tags: Written Tales, Poetry On Medium, Poem, Poems On Medium, Poetry

Photo by Brantley Neal on Unsplash

Linger in places

We dare not

Look, and

Yet they continue

To follow, like a

Mirror

Top to bottom

You move this way

It moves that

Way-

-ward toward another

Glimpse of beauty

In repose

Of

The splendor at

Your door

Afraid to answer

One and all

And, yet

The call comes again

And, again,

Without

A

Forestalled lingering

Imagination

Full

Of

Contemplation, and, yes

Even remorse

And, of

Course

Alone you are not

In your journey

Toward the

Lighted

Hall

As your shadow

Dances at the ball

Intertwined with

You,

Hand-and-hand

Just like a

Prefect

Symphony

As they play their

Last tune, and the

Music fades to black

The shadow is part

Of you, friend,

Embrace it

With a

Fervor of no

Compare

And, rest easy

In knowing this

Dance will last

As the shadow plays

With light in

A splendid

Contrast
(200728 Updated) — MITH Exchange List｜秘銀交易所一覽表
Tags: Mith, Mithril, Exchange, Cryptocurrency, Blockchian

MITH has already been listed on 27 exchanges and dedicated to building up MITH Ecosystem. More exchanges coming up in the future!

We have prepared a list of exchanges for your convenience here.👇
Read this comic before asking me if I’m mad at you.
Tags: Friendship, Humor, Comics, Life

If you need me, I’ll be in the late nineties.

https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/971/
Senior Moments
By: Captain Argentina
Tags: Short Story, Senior Moments, This Happened To Me, Aging, Memory Lapse

I know many people (old people — oops, older people) have the same affliction I have — forgetting things — because somebody came up with a name for it — senior moments.

But, rather than moments, it is senior months for me!

There is nothing safe — I can forget anything. Really, ask Dennett.

But, with my infinite wisdom, I came up with rules that are successful (?) solutions to these problems.

My most common problem is misplacing the key ring that holds the car and house keys. Can any of you identify with this?

My rule is: make absolutely sure that you enter the house with the keys. Then, when you inevitably can’t find them, sooner or later (always later), you will bump into them — because, duh, you brought them into the house — and, you will always — always — find them in the least likely place. Once, I found my key ring in the ice cube tray. Hey, no matter, problem solved, right??

Another problem, putting something to cook or heat on the stove. Can any of you identify with this?

Ya know, don’t even worry about this one because the fire alarm will remind you. Memory attached to your wall! The alarm will remind you to keep a wet towel handy because you need it to cover your face to enter the kitchen and smother the fire — or, to run out of the burning building. Shh, don’t tell Dennett about this — I do the cooking.

So, another situation . . . balancing your bank account. Another no-brainer! The bank will start bouncing your checks at a very lively rhythm. And, out of their good hearts, they will help you remember by charging you a goodly amount for your senior moment. Problem solved! Gotta love the care and concern of our financial institutions.

How about remembering to pay your utility bill? Another easy one. Don’t worry! The utility company will remind you by shutting off your utilities. Problem solved! Thank them profusely for that reminder — in the dark. Also, helping you to remember next month, they will charge you a hefty sum for their kindness. Who knew our public utilities were so helpful?!

I will stop here — solutions for other problems are forthcoming.

I am here for you and you are very welcome!
The Darkness is Coming
By: Fọlábòmí Àmọ Ó
Tags: Fear, Monsters, Dark, Poetry, Darkness

The door is open.

Monsters might be lurking.

Do you see your life as just a token?

Would you even live long enough,

For your story to be spoken?

Stop shivering, start praying.

Stop screaming, start acting.

Stop looking, start running.

For the Demons, are coming.

Your dreams, they are haunting.

Your blood, they are craving.

For Your sound, they are listening.

For them to pounce, while you are sleeping.

The Boogeyman is in town.

Pound, Pound, Pound;

The heart sounds.

Silent, goes the town.

Empty, goes the crowd.

As the Darkness, grips the clouds.

Even the King shall not be saved by his crown.

Oh, you think this is just a story.

You think this storyteller must be joking.

The signs, you keep ignoring.

The tales, you keep dismissing.

Well, then fear not.

Take your time, enjoy and keep playing.

For very soon, your tears would be streaming

Your throat would be croaking.

Your blood, gushing.

Your skin, flailing.

Some body parts might even go missing.

Because, the darkness is coming.

The Darkness, is Coming.
Full-featured Bots in Mixin Messenger
By: Mixin Evangelist
Tags: Innovation, Ecosystem, Mixinmessenger, Developer, Bots

OceanONE Bot (Mixin ID:7000101517)

OceanONE , created by Mixin Network, is a decentralized exchange built on Mixin Network that provides the transaction experience the same as centralized exchanges. All digital asset trading can be finished within OceanONE.

First of all, add OceanONE Bot as a contact. Open OceanONE and click the bot icon at the left side of the emoji icon. Here you can see all the detailed market info of all cryptocurrencies, and click the log-in icon, you can sign up to be a member of OceanONE. After logged in, you can complete the depositing & withdrawal with any token supported in Mixin Network.
UBC got listed on IDEX exchange
By: Ubcoin. Cryptocurrency Reimagined
Tags: Bitcoin, Ubcoin, Idex, Ethereum, Ubc News

🔥 UBC got listed on IDEX exchange!

https://idex.market/

IDEX is a decentralized exchange for trading Ethereum (ERC-20) tokens. IDEX combines the speed of centralization with the security of blockchain settlement.

❤️ https://idex.market/eth/ubc — the link to UBC/ETH pair.

👍 This is the THIRD exchange for UBC. Previously this week UBC started trading on COSS and LATOKEN exchanges.

💎 More exchanges and the product public release are coming!
“Bottled,” a short film about grief by Christine Sloan Stoddard.
By: Broad Street Magazine
Tags: Memoir, Death, Grief, Depression, Film

“Bottled,” a short film about grief by Christine Sloan Stoddard.

Mourning a great-uncle and a world before quarantine.

“My real-life grief hadn’t vanished, but it felt lighter, more manageable. Then the shutdown hit …”

To view the film, click here or on the link at the end of the artist’s statement.

Artist’s Statement

Sometimes art is an oracle. Two years after the death of my Uncle Bobby, the late geologist Robert Ginsburg, I wrote and directed the short film featured here.

All images are stills from the film.

But I wasn’t ready — logistically or emotionally — to release “Bottled” until March 2020, mere days before New York City’s COVID-19 shutdown. I can’t explain why exactly. I simply followed my impulse. As much as I wanted the film to resonate with others, I was mostly concerned with catharsis. At long last, I would click “export” and it would be finished. My real-life grief hadn’t vanished, but it felt lighter, more manageable. Then the shutdown hit and, much like my parafictional self, I found myself wallowing in bed again.

The film’s earliest viewers told me that the timing was perfect because of the collective grief we experienced in the first chapter of quarantine. Yes, there was our grief for lives lost, especially in my hometown of Brooklyn, the borough hardest hit in terms of confirmed COVID-related deaths. But we also collectively grieved our loss of normalcy. Would shopping at the supermarket ever be the same? Would we ever have live theater or birthday parties or weddings again? Would we ever see sick or elderly loved ones again? And what about those of us who are chronically ill or live with someone who is? Would stillness and withdrawal from public life become the new normal?

As New York City enters Phase 4 of re-opening, the dawn of a new era approaches. The George Floyd protests broke out, lasted for weeks, and have now largely faded away. During the day, summer camps meet and, at night, parties flood the streets of Astoria and the Lower East Side. Yet many of the same questions remain. Will the grief end? What will be our balm?

My film “Bottled” doesn’t directly answer any of these questions; it only lives in the same strange world that they do.

To watch “Bottled,” click here.

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Christine Sloan Stoddard is a writer, artist, filmmaker, and theater-maker based in New York City. Her books Belladonna Magic, Desert Fox by the Sea, and Water for the Cactus Woman have been recognized by editors at Ms. Magazine, Art in America, The Poetry Foundation, Bushwick Daily, and other organizations. Her newest book is Heaven is a Photograph, a meditation on a young photographer’s love affair with lenses. As the founder of Quail Bell Magazine, Christine recently co-edited the anthology Her Plumage, a collection of women’s writings, with Gretchen Gales. She is currently the artist-in-residence at HeartShare Human Services in New York, where she creates artwork for and with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Creepy Crawlers
By: Sanjit Sengupta
Tags: Humor, Haiku, Insects, Poetry, Wordsmith Library

Writing without limits is freedom of expression. From sonnets to short stories, this is your platform to show who you truly are through putting pen to to paper.

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