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Facebook is Dead, but the Toxic Damage to Our Communities Isn’t
By: Leah O'Daniel
Tags: Nonfiction, Mental Health, Prompt, Culture, This Happened To Me

Two years ago, I started deleting people from my Facebook account. At first, the desire to delete folks came from a fit of heartbroken rage. Tragedy struck and I became enraged at platitude-filled comments on the internet.

They felt meaningless to me because they were. Folks that didn’t bother to speak to me for 15 years didn’t all of a sudden care about my well-being. They were commenting because, for a split second, they felt sad. And then, after this knee-jerk reaction, they were carrying on with their own lives.

If you read that and immediately thought poorly of me, you aren’t the first. I wasn’t quiet about my feelings on this one. That garnered a lot of criticism.

It was a profound realization that social media has and continues to damage so much of our communities. An understanding that I was living with a false sense of community. An awareness that I didn’t truly care about my Facebook friends and most of them didn’t truly care about me either.

The opinions I had of some folks changed. It felt very much like the gaslighting of my childhood because it was similar.

As a Sociologist, I should’ve saw this coming. I have ranted and raved about Facebook since my college years. Eventually, I deleted Facebook altogether and I haven’t looked back since.
D.A.M. Podcast. Ep. 2
By: Diego Arellano
Tags: Kim Kardashian, Denver Airport, Conspiracy Theories, Podcast

In the newest episode of the D.A.M. podcast, my co-hosts Alex London, Maddie Rose and I share our opinions on some of the conspiracy theories that we have heard before.

We start off with one that I was not familiar with. Maddie mentioned that the Denver airport in Colorado is one of the most talked about conspiracy theory sites in the United States. Me not knowing that, I began to do my own research on the subject. It turns out that there are many different theories about the underground endoskeleton of the Denver airport. There are many people that state that there is a illuminati base there, dubbed the secret headquarters of the whole group. It is said that it is where they are planning to take over mankind. Another theory is that there is a society of lizard people living underneath the airport. I thought this was the most insane of all the conspiracies about the airport.

Lizard people did lead into our next conspiracy. Alex said that she believes the Kardashian family is actually just a bunch of lizard people. At first, I thought that was a little rude of her; not to say I am a fan of the Kardashians in any way, no one deserves to be called a Lizard person. But that got me thinking, this isn’t the first time that I’ve heard someone claim the Kardashians of being a family of mythical creatures. There was once a theory that Kim Kardashian is actually a Hobbit; why this was a theory, I am not really sure.

Make sure to turn into the next episode of the D.A.M. podcast!
TIMEBUCKS — Earn Real Money By Doing Tasks With PROOF.
Tags: Earn, Earnmoneyonline, Makemoneyonline, PayPal, Money

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The 5 Best Feelings You Get When You Finish A Book.
By: Jon Acuff
Tags: Writers On Writing, Writers Block, Writing Tips, Writing, Writers Life

Millions of people write books every year.

The problem is that only a few finish them and that’s unfortunately a critical part of the whole experience. (The half-finished manuscript on your laptop just groaned a little bit because it knows we’re talking about it.)

The real issue is that when you don’t finish, you miss out on 5 things that feel amazing. Here’s what they are:

1. You get to tell people you are an author.

Not aspiring, not someday, an actual, real deal author. People doubt you when you tell them this at dinner parties because so many people claim to be authors. Not you though, you get to say, “I’m an author. My latest book comes out in 2019.” Literary mic drop.

2. You get to see your book on a shelf.

Whether it’s in a store or on a digital shelf, there’s something amazing about seeing your book out in the wild. You won’t believe that a store carries your work. You won’t believe that your name is listed alongside some of your heroes on Amazon. It’s such a fun validation to see your work for sale.

3. You get to hear stories from people who read it.

The first person who emails you with positive feedback will knock you off your seat. As an author you feel like you’re throwing out ideas into a black hole most of the time. Are these things helping anyone? Is anyone reacting to these words or is it just for me? The first time someone emails you and says, “I know you don’t know me, but you wrote that book for me!” will absolutely make your day.

4. You get to start the next book.

Sometimes you finish a book because it’s the best way to create space for the next one. The closer you get to finishing the louder that next idea will get. Most people listen to it too soon and end up getting distracted which means they don’t finish either book. Not you. You finished the first one, so you get to finish the next one. You earned the right to knock out that second book, too!

5. You get to open a box of your very own book.

This is my favorite part. I track that box of books like it’s got a heart transplant in it. I refresh FedEx over and over again. It’s left the carrier facility! I don’t know what that means, but it’s left the carrier facility!

Seeing your book for the first time is like opening up the world’s most difficult, most rewarding Christmas present.

I love all of those feelings.

I think you will, too and I don’t want you to miss them in 2019.

That’s why I created the Finish Course.

It’s a step-by-step plan to help you finish any goal that matters to you. From the 30 different videos with me to the extensive workbook and all the exercises, every part of it is designed to help you do one thing: finish.

It’s based off of my #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, “Finish,” a book which has helped thousands of writers just like you.

Best of all, this week you can get the entire course for 40% off. It’s the lowest price we’ll do all year, and it ends at midnight on Friday, January 4th.

If you’re ready for those five feelings, check out the course. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Missing the Ability to Overhear the Conversations at Public Places
By: Ivan Bačić
Tags: Writing Advice, Writing Tips, Writing, Writing Prompts, Writers Life

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No, I haven’t gone deaf. Instead, I moved to China and my Mandarin level is still at WDYSAMM (What did you say about my mother?), so I mostly speak using my feet and legs. Unfortunately, my limbs are useless when it comes to my listening skills.

Like many other writers, I’m an introvert who enjoys listening to other people’s conversations, or at least, I remember enjoying that.

Buses, trains, and their stations are perfect locations for overhearing the conversations of strangers. I would listen and soak in every single detail of the story I was exposed to. Later on, if the conversation was moving enough, I would try to build some stories or conclusions from what I’ve heard and remembered. Some conversations had such a strong impact on me that they hugely influenced my writing and even ended up in my novel.

Listening to other people’s conversations was my drug. Now, I can’t do it anymore and I miss it badly. Even on rare occasions, when I spot a group of expats, I can’t hear them speaking because we bluntly stare at each other expecting the other person to greet us, just because we are foreigners. But, that doesn’t happen often, at least not in my case.

Many writers would suggest to go out and listen and observe. It always seemed trivial to me because that’s something I did naturally.

Now, when I’m unable to do it, I see the importance of observing. I guess that saying is true:

You’ll start to value something the moment you lose it.

My ability to read body language, facial expression, and intonation improved greatly, but they are useless without the meaning of the actual words; they’re just a piece of the puzzle.

Learning Mandarin would help me a lot, but that’s something I don’t have the time nor will for.

Cherish the ability to observe and listen. Go out, sit on a bench at the train station, or have a coffee at Starbucks and hunt for these stories just because you can.

Click on this link to join the mailing list for updates and get a free copy of my novel.
Corporate Workspaces, Interior Design Aesthetics and Social Dialectics
By: Pablo Markin
Tags: Design, Corporate Culture, Aesthetics

In his article, Stefan Werning has inquired into the interrelations between the aesthetic aspects of technology firms’ office environments and their “rhetoric of creativity, collaboration and disruption” (428). The starting point for this research in the domain of organizational aesthetics is the observation that “[w]orkspace design has become a key strategy for technology companies and start-ups alike to attract and motivate the most talented and dedicated employees” (428).

As this paper delineates theoretically, “Taylor and Hansen refer to “aesthetics as connection” (1215), arguing that if “our feeling of what it is to be part of a group is expressed through aesthetic forms, then aesthetics must be the foundational form of inquiry into social action” (1215)” (430). In conjunction with this perspective, this research also deploys the concept of social affordances that can be defined as “”socio-technical systems” (Leonardi et al. 38), i.e. as “material constraints on social action that cannot be removed through social interpretation” (222)” (431). To perform its analyses, this study has utilized “photographs (rather than, e.g. first-hand experience or video footage) as a basis for reconstructing the experience of the workspace” (432). More broadly, Werning also brings to bear on his findings the Theodor W. Adorno’s notion of “the dialectic of work and play (or: pleasure) […] pointing out how the artificial discursive separation of the two spheres mimics the societal distinction of production and consumption” (433).

In this context, this author has explored “a tenuous balance between unbridled (and sometimes subversive) playfulness-drawing on Sicart’s reflections on “playgrounds” (Sicart 49–51)-and spaces designed to evoke specific game situations that can be more deliberately curated by the respective company” (434). Among the insights of this article is that, “[a]s contemporary workspaces […] obtain more and more media-like qualities, their design increasingly exhibits aspects of worldbuilding” (437). More specifically, this paper largely concludes that, “[w]hile […] tech workspaces across the world aspire to become self-contained worlds, they simultaneously exhibit an increasingly formalised, globally homogeneous design language largely devoid of cultural idiosyncrasies” (438). Moreover, Werning adds that “tech workspaces can be regarded as a form of walk-through corporate aesthetics, a continuation of the respective company’s corporate rhetoric and neoliberal ideology” (439).

By Pablo Markin
Ropa is the Mastermind behind sought-after label Ricchezza
By: Mudasser Ali
Tags: Ricchezza, Ropa, Young Thug, Music, Designer

His Label is a Collection of Beautiful & Rare Artifacts reflecting the Designer’s Mantra

Ropa w/ recording artist Jacquees

Originally from southside Chicago, Ropa has been on the cutting edge of underground fashion since he collaborated with Chance The Rapper on his “10Day” Mixtape merch and went on to design merchandise and go on tour with Jacquees as well as Gunna for ASTROWORLD Tour & DRIP OR DROWN 2 Tour. His method of distribution has always been geared towards limited items and rare releases. It’s created a magnificent buzz for him as he continues to surge forward.

In the first weeks that he was in Atlanta (he went to Clarke) he was able to link with Jacquees.

He pulled up to my dorm and instantly put on and started wearing my clothing.

His campus technique of letting select people wear the clothing eventually branched out to Atlanta. He then decided to start selling to everyone and make a website and it sold out. He knew then that he wanted to expand his market and quality by honing his craft. He didn’t sell anything for a year and a half.

His story of how he meets the YSL squad is just as magnetic:

A friend of mine i knew was working for Young Thug and showed him my stuff. They told me to pullup to the studio the same day. When i got there Gunna was there too. So i met both Young Thug and Gunna at the same time. They instantly started to wear RICCHEZZA.

His latest drop just went down and it’s extremely well though-out as usual. Take in all the pieces below and follow him on Instagram to keep up with his latest moves.
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Tags: One Line, Helth And Fitness, Own It Page, Band, Fitness

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OnePlus Bullets Wireless Bluetooth Earphones
By: Aditya Maurya
Tags: One Line, Headphones, Wireless Headphone, Wireless, Earphones

Compatible with all smartphones. Charge for 10 minutes, enjoy for 10 hours on your OnePlus Bullets Wireless Z that comes equipped with the latest Bluetooth v5.0 QCC3024 chipset. The Bullets Wireless Z comes with Warp Charge technology. With convenient features like Quick Switch, Quick Pair, and Magnetic Control, listening to your music on your Bullets Wireless Z is a whole new acoustic experience. A massive playtime of up to 20 hours with a full charge.

Product description

Charge for 10 minutes, enjoy for 10 hours on your OnePlus Bullets Wireless Z neckband earphone that comes equipped with the latest Bluetooth v5.0 QCC3024 chipset. The Bullets Wireless Z comes with Warp Charge technology. This ensures you get 10 hours of music with just 10 minutes of charging. A massive playtime of up to 20 hours with a full charge. With convenient features like Quick Switch, Quick Pair, and Magnetic Control, listening to your music on your Bullets Wireless Z neckband earphone is a whole new acoustic experience!

Press play with Magnetic Control

Simply separate the earbuds to start listening, and when you’re ready to pause, just clip the earbuds together.
4 Books That Every High School Should Include in Its Curriculum
By: Anshu Kumari
Tags: Teens, Books, Life, Reading, Lists

4 Books That Every High School Should Include in Its Curriculum

Photo by Islander Images on Unsplash

Your school must have taught you how to write essays on social issues. But have they taught you how to take a stand for people in need?

They must have taught you how to calculate your taxes. But have they taught you how to manage your emotions or your relationships?

They must have taught you how to work in a team. But have your school taught you how to deal with a racist or homophobe in your group?

The last few years that I have lived on this earth as an adult have made one thing crystal clear. Nobody had prepared me to face this world. Many facts that my school had presented to me as a child were outright wrong. I did not have complete information about many members of this society. I was blind to the plights of communities like the Muslims, Blacks, LGBTQIA+, immigrants.

I know I am in no way alone in this ignorance. A few years ago, I realized that I need to unlearn so many things to thrive in this world. I have had to teach myself on many social and political issues I never knew existed.

The schools need to educate us for the world. That’s what we need to survive this world. Including books that are firm on important issues should be a part of our curriculums. These books will provide a fairer base for our thought processes. It will help in our mental and emotional growth.
Poll Shows Homelessness Remains Top Concern of LA Voters
By: La Homeless Services Authority
Tags: Los Angeles, Homeless, Housing Crisis, News, Homelessness

A new Los Angeles Times poll reinforces the urgency among Angelenos to reduce homelessness. It’s the no. 1 issue for LA County voters, with 95% of respondents calling homelessness a serious or very serious problem — a big increase since polling in early 2005, when homelessness lagged behind education, crime, traffic congestion, and other issues.

This urgency fueled the investments voters made in Measure H, which has more than doubled the number of people moving out of homelessness into homes through LA’s rehousing system. But the forces driving people into homelessness-primarily the lack of affordable housing-have only strengthened, and more people are becoming homeless. We must build more housing faster and cheaper to slow the inflow into homelessness. We must continue to improve the efficiency of our homeless services, protecting the health and safety of the vulnerable people living on the street while helping them move into housing even more quickly.

Click here to view the complete results of the poll (via LA Business Council).
How to Manage Screen Time and Prioritize Conversation During the Holidays
By: Jack Bandy
Tags: Holidays, Conversations, Neil Postman, Family, Phone Addiction

Photo by Eric Pickersgill https://www.removed.social/united-states

I recently got around to watching Black Mirror’s season 5 episode, Smithereens. The show has examined phone overuse for a long time, but the Smithereens episode reminded me that parts of popular culture have genuinely gained momentum in promoting more thoughtful engagement with our screens.

With seasonal journalism taking off (best recipes for friendsgiving! best gift ideas! best books to read before the end of the year!), I thought I would get on the train and offer some ideas for managing phone use during the holidays.

I based my ideas on a few principles:

Time is limited, and time with friends/family during the holidays is even more limited Investing in relationships, conversations, and social connection is one of the most important ways we spend our time (obligatory reference to that famous 75-year Harvard study linking happiness to relationships) Most people are not literally addicted to their phones, but they use their phones more than they want to due to habits and compulsions Everyone’s balance will be different when it comes to managing phone use

With these in mind, I tried to come up with ways to use holiday time for connection and conversation, breaking compulsive/habitual phone use. I also broke the ideas into three levels. Let me know if you have other ideas! I will add my own as I think of more.
Speaking, socialising good at it or bad at it.
By: Nicholas Yong
Tags: Life, People, Self Improvement, Conversations

Types of people in your circle.

Different people have different group of friends. But sometimes taking the courage and stepping out of your comfort zone could create a learning experience you never thought you would encounter.

The way you speak as in your tone etc.

The way you express yourself through words could mostly be influenced by the people around you. Your family or your friends which you probably spend the most time with. If you think that the way you express yourself now verbally affects others, having others to dislike you maybe it’s something you need to change to. take a step back and self-reflect. Maybe it’s something that could make yourself a better person or maybe just the people that you mix with are just not the right group of friends that gives the wrong sense of influence.

If you think a little further on this, it would probably affect your future. Which brings me to share this phrase with you today.

“ Hang out with people who fit your future not your history. “

Think about it. Here’s the last point don’t worry I won’t take much of your time.

Think before you speak.

I think this is just something that everyone misses out even though is the classic go to advice people always give and that is to think before you say anything, because then you could avoid a mistake made which could probably cause you to regret your entire life. Maybe. You can’t literally take back what you have already said unless this is some Rick & Morty thing going on, a press of a button that could take back what you said.

What spoken could put a huge smile not only on someone but yourself or a huge frown. So think first or just say sorry and put that ego down and be kind, sure it would go a long way like this.

Alright have a good day ahead! Wherever you are, you’re beautiful and don’t forget to feed your cat.
Trésor
By: Jehan Senai Worthy
Tags: Poem, Poetry Sunday, Relationships Love Dating, Love, Poetry

Photo by Jessica Felicio on Unsplash

Is it bad to want a love so deep

He buys a plot of land and names it after me?

Apricot blossom and roses surround the perimeter

While lilies and lilac lay the path to my tomb

Carved out of Georgia marble, gold

Limestone and crystal



Peaches, leather, and vanilla fill the air he breathes while

Looking at me. Memories of my skin soft of cocoa and oil

Torturing him like the scorching summer heat in Mississippi

Visions of long hair flowing at the sight of water running

Through the light of the fountain he built for me

A mile away from my feet

He pauses for a moment,

Droplets running down his face

As he paints on canvas

My shadow amongst the stars while he remembers my

Movements and sounds at midnight on the day that he proposed

Treasuring the moments of our last kiss before he dismissed

Our love through bouts of anger that arose

From his inability to get off the bhode

Treasuring the love that we had,

The love that was so deep

He bought a plot of land and named it after me

Carrying irises

Laying them at my feet.
Damming Love
By: Lisa Gastaldo
Tags: Relationships, Poetry Sunday, Self, Love, Poetry

Damming Love

Photo by Garon Piceli from Pexels

We shared a lifetime

a lifetime ago

Flawed, yet unbroken

Beautifully blemished

Burnished to a luster

reflecting devotion

Eager archaeologists

we examined tenderly

Ardently unearthing

our unique treasures

Intimately excavating

Discovering

Learning

until love was clairvoyant

We knew Us

by heart

Youthful — Innocent

We had commenced

only to be aged

beyond our years

Invaded — Tormented

Cancer corrupted

Our perfect union

prematurely extinct

Nearly a decade required

to cast aside mourning

Shed my shroud

Discard my armor

Unaware of my naiveté

I auctioned my affections

Inept as an ingenue

Headed for slaughter

At first, I sought

lightening in a bottle

but flashy liaisons

promptly implode

Still desperately seeking

I mistook

desire for romance

Fleeting attention

for adoration

I settled for inadequacy

Forged perfection

Alluring courtships

proved to be counterfeit

Am I greedy?

A relationship glutton

trying to echo

our marital harmony?

Or am I an addict?

Craving the fix

of holding someone dear?

Earnestly yearning

to be cherished once more

Now a wary skeptic

disquiet compels retreat

to lick my wounds

Safeguard my heart

But my soul pours out

The floodgates have opened

How does one dam (damn?)

the desire to love?
You Deserve Joy
By: Amanda Clark-Rudolph
Tags: Poetry Sunday, Joy, Love, Relationship, Poetry

You Deserve Joy

Photo by Alexandr Podvalny on Pexels

Stand up tall, expose pride

and stability.

Throw away any destructive materials

into a hollow canyon —

watch as they melt into the air.

Stand with me,

hold my hand,

smile.

See what I see inside.

Pry through the darkened tunnel

and leave those footprints behind.

Gaze forward,

and pray for showers of light to blanket us

while shedding a rainstorm of gold

on your forehead.

Don’t you understand?

We represent each other now.

We can be magnificent towers or a pile of dust.

An awakening knocks at your door.

louder and louder —

it pounds like a heavy shoe against concrete,

yet you hesitate to open the door.

Instead, you rest your ear against the marbled wood,

place your hand against the knob,

and listen to the beckoning sound.

You stay there for hours.

These are your decisions, not mine,

but I am on your mind

when you think of them,

a constant echo in the distance.

I recognize how you beat yourself up,

trip over stairs, slip on the floor,

and fall to your knees,

because you feel so unworthy of happiness.

I try to fill this unnecessary void.

I cram my feet against any edges I can find,

I cling to fragments of glass.

I reposition myself so I won’t let go.

I scream!

Then the dust settles.

I take deep breaths

and watch as you stand on a sea-saw

swaying in the wind —

like a dying dandelion

in need of a wish.

“Jump off!” I yell.

“Release the blindfold!”

Recognize the fact that

YOU DESERVE JOY.
Things To Know About CBD Isolate
By: One Stop Hemp Store
Tags: Hemp, Cbd Powder, Cbd, Cannabis, Cbd Isolate Powder

As of now, you have an idea of CBD oil, liquid, and vape. But what about CBD Isolate? The name suggests being a part of cannabidiol. CBD isolate is a pure isolated form that is primarily found in cannabis. If you have heard about hemp plants, then this is the medicinal plant that produces CBD isolate. The isolation process started when CBD isolated from hemp converted into a white crystalline powder. To know the benefits of CBD Isolate Powder and application of it, read across the blog.

Merits of CBD Isolate

There are different conventional forms of CBD Isolate. Some isolated carvings of CBD are a slab, crystals or powder, terpsolate, and isolate-based products. These products emancipate genuine merits that you should know.

1. If you look upon other products of hemp plant or marijuana, the dosage is not clear. But with CBD isolate, you can easily measure the dosage. Generally, CBD-based products are versatile. So, when it comes to consumption, it is not possible to identify the exact amount of CBD products. But you are safe with isolate powder.

2. You can consume CBD isolate powder in different methods. You can mix it with drinks and food. Consume isolate powder the way you like it.

3. CBD isolates are pure CBD. You don’t have to panic because of THC. Unlike THC, CBD does not entail harmful toxins into the human body.

Application of CBD Isolate

The isolate form of CBD is THC-free and costs less. The different applications are:

1. You can take a pinch of isolate powder under your tongue. It takes only 60–90 seconds for the desired amount of powder for ingestion.

2. If you don’t want to consume CBD isolate directly, then you can mix the required amount with cookies, candies, gummies, and brownies. You can mix with other edible foods like muffins, honey, or salad.

3. Adding some amount of isolate powder to vape juice can help smokers. This is just one straightforward solution.

4. Dabbing CBD isolate powder in the wax pen can slow down the effect remains intact.

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I didn’t realize you were going through so much chaos with your career Natalie.
By: Glenn Stok
Tags: Writers On Writing, Collaboration, Slack, Writing Life, Helping Others

I didn’t realize you were going through so much chaos with your career Natalie. Knowing of your writing on HubPages and Medium, I see you have been quite successful, as far as I could tell. You definitely have been putting enormous effort into your work.

The problem you mentioned about how staying away for a few days affects views, is true for Medium but not for HubPages. That’s why I like writing for organic search, since it’s not dependent on keeping followers engaged.

As for your plan for a collaboration community of writers, you described your idea very well. It looks promising for those who have the time for it.

Lack of time is an issue I think we all have. I always feel backlogged, especially with all the articles I am working on for HubPages — constantly adding to drafts, but not getting close to completion. That might make me hesitate to add another venture to my writing business.

Nevertheless, your plan is a good one, and it deserves attention.

I would suggest using Slack, as Elle Fredine had mentioned. I use it too, for several groups. I think it’s much better than using Facebook for communicating among members.

In addition to a few Slack writers groups that I’m in, I also have a local group for my circle of friends to share social event plans. Slack is easy to use and easy to set up your own group.
Be a Pro — Build Your Business, Communicate & Meet with Zoom
By: Ava Ferguson
Tags: Digital Life, Remote Office, Home Office, Freelancing, Remote Work

The Covid — 19 pandemic will be remembered as a world-reordering event. It has forced the world to change the way it works way before it was expected, and we now have a “New Normal.”

It is forcing us to learn new tools and new ways to meet, communicate and do business. Teleconferencing is the way many businesses are now working with their staff. With the lock down in many cities around the world and people stuck in their homes and unable to travel, this has become an ideal way to bring people together. But we are only at the beginning of conducting business with Teleconferencing. This trend will grow and evolve in the years to come.

One of the most popular of these services is Zoom. They are a leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, introducing and marketing new products, classroom teaching, webinars and more, across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Watch the video to see what they are about.

A preview of the capabilities and possibilities with Zoom

Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a publicly traded company on Nasdaq and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Now if you find yourself working remotely and having to teleconference with Zoom, then knowing all of the ins and outs will make you far more productive. Ava’s Nook is now offering a beginner and an accelerated course on using Zoom.

There are 24 instructional videos and two videos for you to share with people new to Zoom as to what they can expect on both a laptop or pc and on a mobile device as well.

The second course will accelerate your capacity and will teach you to extend your capabilities with Zoom, to accommodate personal and business growth.

Click on this link to learn more about Course number 1 & 2

If you are new to working from home, we are also offering the Work From Home Productivity Course. Combine these courses and you will have the ability to successfully conduct your business in the ‘New’ normal world.
A Day in my Digital Life
By: Zoaib Parvez
Tags: Digital Life, Sleep, Digital

A Day in my Digital Life

When my alarm goes off, I hit the snooze button and go back to sleep again. Zoaib Parvez Jan 9, 2019·2 min read

Before going to bed I put my phone on airplane mode, so that I don’t get disturbed by notification from all the social media accounts that I use. Which includes, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Flicker, Snapchat, WhatsApp and the list goes on…

So, when I finally wake up around 7:30 A.M. after hitting the snooze button multiple times. I turnoff the airplane mode and get ready to be bombarded with notifications. Notification vary from Facebook , WhatsApp , Instagram to emails from instructors. And even text messages from random numbers, saying that I overpaid my last bill from Sask-tel and asking me for my bank information.

Facebook is one of the only social media platform that covers almost all the four zones of social media that we learned in our Digital Medial class last week. Facebook is best when using it for social community. In my case I have averagely large community of 582 people. Every day as a part of my social media rituals I have to wish more than one person happy birthday. I also enjoy reading news articles and watch endless amount of videos. Facebook is also a great tool for social commerce. I posted few textbooks for sale and check everyday for any update on the books

Instagram is my favorite among all. I used Instagram as a social publishing platform to upload picture on Instagram regularly, but I can’t anymore. I’m so caught up between work and school.I work on weekends and when I’m not working I’m doing assignment for school and this blog is one of those assignment. (at-least that’s what I use for an excuse).These days I only use Instagram as a social entertainment tool.

YouTube is amazing. I follow some amazing creator and check their content daily. after school i lay on my bed and tune in to listen some amazing podcasts.

WhatsApp comes handy when communicating with family abroad. i do talk to family with video/voice calls in evening, chatting with friends.

Banking App I used my RBC banking app few times a day, I’m so obsessed with personal financing. after following Dave Ramsey on YouTube. I have to know what comes in and what goes out, trying to keep track of every penny.

Thanks for taking the time and reading my first blog.
How To Download Google Images, Using Python (2021)
By: Christopher Zita
Tags: Programming, Selenium, Python, Deep Learning, Web Scraping

How To Download Google Images, Using Python (2021)

I’ll show you how to download hundreds of Google images within seconds, using a few lines of code in Python Christopher Zita Follow Jan 21 · 6 min read

Photo from Unsplash by Philippe Oursel

You might be in the same boat as me. I needed a bunch of images from Google images but I was too lazy to manually download each one. Therefore I scoured the internet looking for an answer but came up empty.

At that point, I decided to try to do this myself and code up a program that downloads multiple images from Google images.

Surprisingly I was successful and created a code in Python that can download hundreds of images within seconds.

Now I want to teach you how to do the same, so let me show you…

How to Download Google Images, Using Python.

Step 1: Selenium

To get started the way I was able to accomplish downloading these images was by using a library called Selenium. Selenium is a library that allows you to interact with web pages such as; sending text to an inbox, clicking buttons, and self-scrolling, all by using code.

Therefore, the first step you need to do to make this code work is to install Selenium and a web driver.

No need to worry as the installation is quite easy and I even created a short 4-minute video that shows you how to do this.

After watching the video and having Selenium installed and a web driver downloaded, you’re first few lines should import Selenium and start the driver as so…

#Imports Packages

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

import time #Opens up web driver and goes to Google Images

driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:/Web Scraping course/chromedriver.exe')

driver.get('https://www.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=ri&authuser=0&ogbl')

When the lines of code above are run, a new browser should have opened up and gone to the Google Images web page.

Step 2: Interacting With Google Home Page

Like I said above the great thing about Selenium is that you’re able to interact with web pages because of the driver you downloaded. Therefore, the next piece of code you're going to write will input text into the Google Images search bar.

To do this you need to find the location of the search bar on the page. This is done by finding the search bar’s Xpath.

To find the Xpath you need to open up the HTML of the web page which is done by clicking right anywhere on the page, and then pressing inspect.

If you did this correctly your webpage should look similar to the image below.
Javascript’s __proto__ vs prototype
By: Nilanjan
Tags: Object Oriented, Tech, JavaScript, Prototype, Inheritance

What is __proto__ and what is its purpose?

To better understand this let’s continue with some examples.

person is a simple object that has three properties name , age and, gender .

Upon using console.dir on that person object we can see that it has a __proto__ property.

The __proto__ property is a default property added to every object. This property points to the prototype of the object.

The default prototype of every object is Object.prototype . Therefore, the __proto__ property of the person object points to the Object.prototype .

If whatever I said is actually true then the illustration would look something like that.

Let’s verify what I’m claiming is actually true.

As you can see that the __proto__ property of the person object is indeed equal to Object.prototype .

Now, I want to create another object teacher . That object would have the same properties and values as the person object. Only one additional property — subject — will be added.

By default, the teacher ’s __proto__ property would point to the Object.prototype object.

And the illustration would look something like this.

Can you see the problem here? teacher and person has three common properties with the same values. It would be really nice if we could somehow inherit teacher ’s properties from person .

To do that let’s first abandon the current teacher object. And create a new one with only the subject property because we will inherit other properties from the person object.

Now, the structure looks something like that.

Notice that the new teacher ’s __proto__ property still points to the Object.prototype object. To inherit, we have to make teacher ’s __proto__ property point to person .

We can do the using the Object.setPrototypeOf function.

The illustration, now, looks something like this.

teacher ’s __proto__ property points to the person object and person ’s __proto__ property points to Object.prototype object.

Let’s verify whether teacher ’s __proto__ property actually points to the person object.

We’ve successfully inherited the properties of the person object through prototype chaining.
Python Dataclasses With Properties and Pandas
By: Sebastian Ahmed
Tags: Object Oriented, Python Programming, Python Dataclass, Data Science, Pandas

Constructing a pandas DataFrame with a “classic” class

The code snippet below is an equivalent data-centric class definition with all the “interesting” features we wanted using a standard Python user-defined class structure. Now, granted there are a few ways this could have been done, but here we’ll keep things simple and make it as close to a basic user-defined class as possible.

At first glance it is clear that this took a bit more work (and it is in fact incomplete as we’ll see shortly). Note how we had to treat the list initializer and how we had to provide our own __str__() method. We didn’t however need to provide the dummy setter for attr5.

In the code-snippet above, one should see that we are using the special from_dict constructor method. This is because we are using the __dict__ built-in method for the DataClass_Classic objects to get the attributes. This looks simple enough, but what does the DataFrame actually look like using this similarly terse approach?

pandas DataFrame construction with “classic” objects

Two problems:

_attrHidden is being exported. We didn’t want that. Not surprising because __dict__ will indeed include “hidden” attributes (i.e. those starting with an underscore). In case you are wondering, a dunder (double-underscore) doesn’t help. In fact, the name-unmangled version (with full class-name prefix) is exported to the DataFrame Where is attr5 ?? Nowhere to be found it seems. This is because __dict__ is a dict of class attributes when called on an object. The attr5 attribute is in fact an illusion. It is simply a method decorated with syntactic sugar as an alias for the getter() method. Note that adding a dummy setter method does not help. Creating attributes this way is a very common pattern in Python because it can provide a data-processing layer with attribute (vs method-calling) semantics

It turns out that in order to fix the above two issues, we actually need to write a custom method to export a controlled dict instead of using the __dict__ built-in. This is not a huge deal, but now we need to customize and maintain this method which was totally unnecessary when using dataclasses. The full example showing the custom method is contained in the following project:

https://github.com/sebastian-ahmed/python-etc/blob/main/dataclasses_pandas/example.py

Having said this, in order to have very advanced control of exporting a user-defined class to a DataFrame, the classic approach is still more powerful if you want to do things like control which attributes are not included during construction at run-time or provide object handles as a pandas column (but this is beyond the scope of this article).
Do You Care About Sustainable Development Goals?
By: Oğuz Yılmazlar
Tags: World, Sdgs, Sustainable Development, Aiesec, Problem Solving

As a team, we have been writing about SDGs since January 2017. We aim to reach and tell more people about what the SDGs stand for. Why are the Goals in our life since the UN announced them anyway? We knew that we had chosen to tackle a tall order. Nevertheless, we shouldered that responsibility. We have spent hours in front of our computers to search, think, write and share. Not just that, we have spent money as well to take on this responsibility, even if we barely earn a penny. Still, we have persisted by publishing books offline and digital books online, even though we were not envisioning doing that at the beginning of this project. We are fine with our state. We will continue. We will do our best.

On the other hand, everybody wants to see the results. A few good words with discretion can motivate people to do more, especially if those words are for everyone in the world.

We have been talking about the problems of the world, humanity, women, education, wars, health, street kids, decent work, nature… but, I or perhaps all of us in the team sense that we are alone on this road. I accept that I got nice responses from readers after I published our book in Turkey. I thank them. They spent money and read our books. I am not sure how many copies we could sell, but not too many.

Also, I can give some specific examples. I am a freelance digital marketing specialist, I am sharing our articles on our Facebook page and my own Facebook and Instagram pages. I am using hashtags at the end of the posts to find more followers. These hashtags must be related to the article for sure like #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #SDGs #SDG15 #lifeonland #nature #wildlife #war #qualityeducation #genderequality etc.. Nonetheless, one or two days later, I check how many people are viewing our articles. The results are awful, to be honest: just 1–2 likes, 15–20 people see them from hashtags, no comments, either. Does no one follow SDG-hashtags? I cannot believe this!

Interestingly, our team is still eager to persevere. Still, I am guessing that if we talk about the backside of Kim Kardashian, the loves of Selena Gomez or the expensive yacht of 50 Cent, we will find more followers. Surely this is not true? Who cares about a drought in Africa!

Everybody wants to live in a better world, everybody complaints about problems, people are still waiting for someone else to handle their problems. But, one more time, we should state that if everyone acts together, we can solve them! We cannot solve them all, but future generations can mark a better world. In my country Turkey, I have observed that only a few charities, associations like AIESEC, know about the Global Goals and are working on them. I have never seen them mentioned in the news or newspapers. Is this enough? No!

Never forget that our influence is limited. So, will you support and join us, or will you still turn the other way? What Are You Still Waiting For?

– Oğuz Yılmazlar