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Have Wribbn, Will Travel
Tags: Travel, Featured, New App, Organizing, Lists

Here’s the thing:

I’m not a person who schedules every second of my trip. I really don’t spend a ton of time researching or planning. Honoring spontaneity is big for me when I travel. I find three to five key things I’ve got to see/do/eat, then plan to do A LOT of wandering from point A to point B, averaging walking 8–12 miles a day when visiting a city. It’s often wandering in the in-betweens that I find my favorite things. I love finding the yummiest, quirkiest, most colorful, and most charming parts of every city I visit…even if I’m there just for a few hours. And that’s where I have found myself opening the Wribbn app: to keep track of every hole-in-the-wall + stumbled upon gem that maybe Lonely Planet can’t exactly offer.

At this point, I’m up to nine Wribbn lists dedicated to cities I’ve explored.

Here’s the biggest benefits I’ve found in creating travel lists using the Wribbn app:

PLANNING + ORGANIZING

Before traveling to an actual place, I find myself keeping notes of the possibilities to explore whether that be in my email, the Notes feature on my phone, a google doc or post-it notes. With Wribbn, I can not only store it in one spot, but easily organize it into categories. Usually my travel lists range from categories like, “Parks & Neighborhoods,” “Coffee Shops,” “Arts & Culture,” “Eats,” “Shops & Thrifts.”

Traveling with friends or family?

Another major perk: these lists can be collaborative, so you can invite your people to co-create a list with you, or sometimes it is just nice to share with them to keep them up to date.
The Cloaked Rabbit
By: Caleb Garling
Tags: Featured, Short Story, Animals, Flash Fiction, Childhood

I once lived in house with a cloaked rabbit in the basement. The rabbit was not a superhero or cold. It was simply a cloaked rabbit. In the basement.

We would see it. You had to cross a cold tile floor from the living room. The tiles would suck the soul from the palms of your feet. We wore shoes but it still worked. When we reached the door we would knock. And then we would open the door and sit at the top of the stairs peering through the poles.

The cloaked rabbit would be down in a corner. He would always be down in a corner. We never knew if he moved when we went away. This was why we knocked.

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It’s fair to ask the color of the cloak. I don’t know. We didn’t have lights in our basement. Only the beam of a window on the upper part of the basement wall. Sometimes a pastor or a salesman would stride past the ghost window. We’d only see the bottom of his shoes. That long line. Usually they were fine shoes in peppery black and dots. Once a mechanic stopped. Right there and we knew it was a mechanic because his big toe tapped. None of his other toes tapped. Just the big one. Later the cloaked rabbit said this was impossible. Biologically. Physically. He wasn’t clear. But you could only see out the window from the top of the stairs.

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My room was at the top of the stairs above the stairs to the basement. There, I was given a case for the president.

When my father walked past the door to the basement he would shut it. He didn’t like the draft. He would sit very quietly at both tables and read each morning. Archeology magazines.

My mother didn’t enjoy archeology. She enjoyed dancing. At breakfast and dinner she would dance. We would call her to the table. And she would keep dancing like she didn’t hear us. And we would get up on the backs of our chairs, as though trapped somewhere, and we would wave furiously for her to sit down.

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One hot afternoon we locked the basement and drove to Colorado. There was a wagon ride. There was a wedding. The pastor wore boots with a tall heel.

The mountains wore snow and wind.

We wondered if the horses could smell the rabbit. Their skins touched like flat stones.

/

My brother broke his knee cap. The injury affected him his whole life. When he tells people people say, Your knee? And he says, No, my knee cap.

I only saw the second half of what happened.

He says during the first half, he slipped off the roof. Then I saw him clinging to an oak branch. Then he fell the rest of the way.

He sprang right up. Then he fell over holding his knee.

He spent a week in the hospital. I would look at my knee and wonder what could happen to my knee cap so I had to spend that long in a hospital bed. When he got home he didn’t want to see the cloaked rabbit.

Later he did.
Fabien Eecochard © is our featured Instagram artist of the day
By: Eye Photomagazine
Tags: Street Photography, Featured, Magazine, Photography, Publishing

Fabien Eecochard © is a French-based photographer and filmmaker. The latter is also reflecting in his photographic work, as we believe. We are thrilled by his vivid photos with rich contrasts and storytelling visual language.

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Reviewing DApps for “State of the Dapps” [OD Tasks]
By: Priyan Fareen
Tags: Dappreview, Steemmonsters, Featured, Blockchain, Stateofthedapp

Hey everyone..

Here is my review of @steemmonters for @Oracle-d tasks for ”State of DApps”. @SteemMonsters is a featured DApps on State Of The DApps website, you can find the details [Here](https://www.stateofthedapps.com/dapps/steem-monsters)...

Steemmonsters is a popular game on steem blockchain. Many steemians infact outside of steem blockchain play this game. It’s a digital collectible and trading card game, where you can play and earn steem/sbd. Thanks to @aggroed and @yabapmatt for this awesome game. It’s a steem blockchain based game.

Anyone can play this game by visiting https://steemmonsters.com/ website. All you need steem account and private posting key, if anyone wants to play this game outside blockchain, they can simply signup from this website. First you have to buy starter pack which costs 10$ which contains 5 summoners and 25 splinters , total 30 cards. You can decorate your own style cards and prepare yourself for battle with different leagues persons or among your friends. You can boost your cards buy using steem and you can buy cards from market. You can also trade your cards in the market. In return you will earn steem/SBD. You can also play tournaments where you can earn steem / SBD if you win…

This is really fun and interesting game for every people. If you didn’t start playing yet, start it now and earn some Steem/SBD…

Enjoy…..
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain spouse Prince Philip is Dead
By: Newsville Post
Tags: Queenelizabeth, Featured, Breaking, Princephilip

Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain spouse Prince Philip is Dead Newsville Post Apr 9·2 min read

Queen Elizabeth II’s significant other Prince Philip, who as of late went through over a month in the emergency clinic and went through a heart method, passed on Friday, Buckingham Royal residence reported. He was 99.

“It is with profound distress that Her Highness The Queen reports the demise of her adored spouse, His Illustrious Height Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,” it said in a proclamation.

“His Illustrious Height died calmly toward the beginning of today at Windsor Palace. “The Illustrious Family get together with individuals all throughout the planet in grieving his misfortune.”

The royal residence added that further declarations would be made “at the appropriate time”.

Fears over the soundness of the Duke of Edinburgh, as he was officially known, had been elevated after he as of late went through a month in the clinic for treatment.

He left the clinic on Walk 16 after what was depicted as a fruitful strategy for a previous condition and treatment for vague contamination.

He was first conceded on February 16 on the guidance of his PCP after he whined of feeling unwell.

Philip had gotten back to Windsor Palace, west of London, where he had been separating with the queen — England’s longest-serving ruler — since the beginning of the Covid pandemic a year ago.

He was because of turn 100 in June.

The information on his demise saw TV slots intrude on ordinary projects and start unique inclusion denoting his life.

The BBC reported his passing and played the public song of praise, “God Save the Queen”.

Philip had progressively battled with his wellbeing lately and had resigned from public life.

In the approach Christmas 2011, Philip was taken to the clinic by helicopter subsequent to enduring chest torments.

The Greek-conceived previous maritime officer was then treated for an obstructed coronary corridor and had a stent fitted.

The Duke of Edinburgh passed on Friday at Windsor Palace in Britain.

As per NYTimes, the Buckingham Royal residence said he died calmly.

Review that Philip had been hospitalized a few times and as of late in February.

The 99-year-old also had a fruitful medical procedure for a previous heart condition at St Bartholomew’s clinic and was released a month ago.
Prince Philip: Buhari mourns with Queen Elizabeth II, UK
By: Newsville Post
Tags: Princephilip, Featured, Queenelizabethii, Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned with Queen Elizabeth II over the passing of her significant other Prince Philip.

The Duke of Edinburgh kicked the bucket on Friday at Windsor Palace in Britain at 99 years old.

The Nigerian chief, in his message, said Philips passing was the conclusion of an important time period.

The Duke of Edinburgh passed on Friday at Windsor Palace in Britain. As per NY Times, the Buckingham Royal residence said he died calmly. Review that Philip had been hospitalized a few times and as of late in February. The 99-year-old also had a fruitful medical procedure for a previous heart condition at St Bartholomew’s clinic and was released a month ago.

He noticed that the Duke was one of the best worldwide figures whose commitments to the Province will be associated with ages to come.

Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain spouse Prince Philip is Dead

“Prince Philip was an extraordinary man by his own doing who made gigantic commitments to altruistic exercises and good cause particularly for natural life preservation and youth advancement programs in excess of 130 nations.”

Buhari said the late Duke’s long union with the Queen was “a great record for any marriage at any level.”

The President stretched out his sympathies to the Public authority of the Unified Realm and the individuals from the Province.
Pfizer looks for Coronavirus antibody approval for 12–15-year-olds in the US
By: Newsville Post
Tags: Pfizer, Us, Featured, Covid 19, Vaccine

Pfizer-BioNTech requested approval Friday to utilize their Coronavirus antibody on 12 to 15-year-olds in the US, which could stamp a vital subsequent stage toward accomplishing crowd resistance.

The mass inoculation of teens would likewise alleviate a huge strain on guardians who are shuffling the requests of self-teaching their youngsters while staying aware of occupations.

The organizations said in articulation that they intend to make comparative solicitations of other administrative specialists worldwide in the coming days.

Their solicitation to the US Food and Medication Organization comes after Stage 3 clinical preliminaries of the Pfizer antibody in 12 to 15-year-olds showed it was 100% viable in warding off the illness, as indicated by the organizations.

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In late Walk, they distributed the consequences of preliminaries completed with 2,260 teenagers in the US whom the organizations said showed “strong neutralizer reactions.”

The immunization was “all around endured with results commonly reliable with those saw in members 16 to 25 years old,” the organizations said Friday.

Until further notice, the immunization has crisis approval for use in individuals matured 16 and over.

Youngsters are more averse to create serious Coronavirus so immunizing them has been to a lesser degree a need than getting more seasoned individuals vaccinated.

However, they do make up an enormous piece of the local area that should be immunized to accomplish group invulnerability when the extent of individuals with antibodies generally forestalls the spread of the infection.

Specialists don’t know accurately which level of the populace should be inoculated to get to that point, yet one of the main US immunologists, Anthony Fauci, has put it anyplace somewhere in the range of 70 and 85 percent.

In February, he said that US kids who matured 12yrs or under could probably be immunized by the beginning of 2022.

The BioNTech/Pfizer shot depends on new mRNA innovation and was the main Coronavirus immunization to be affirmed in the West toward the end of last year.

In Spring, the US biotech organization Moderna said it had begun preliminaries on kids matured between a half year and 11 years. Johnson and Johnson, whose immunization was the third endorsed for US use, has likewise begun preliminaries on the 12 to 17 age bunch.
Sushil Kumar Modi Removes BJP From Twitter Bio
By: India Ahead News
Tags: Biharcmnitishkumar, Featured, Sushilkumarmodi

New Delhi: While speculations are still rife about the new Deputy Chief Minister in Bihar, BJP’s Sushil Kumar Modi hinted that he is unlikely to continue as Nitish’s deputy.



Today at 4:30 pm Nitish Kumar will take oath as the new Bihar Chief Minister in Patna. That said, all eyes are now fixed on the next deputy CM post.



Speculations grew after Sushil Kumar Modi dropped his designation as Deputy Chief Minister from his Twitter handle and removed BJP from his Twitter bio.



While the official list is not yet out, India Ahead has learned from reliable sources that Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi may become the state’s new deputy CMs. And, crucially, even the post of the speaker will go to their ally BJP. This reflects the change in power dynamics within the NDA-JDU alliance. With 74 seats, BJP is most likely pushing for greater representation in the Bihar government.



Today, JD(U) President Nitish Kumar will take oath as Bihar chief minister for a record fourth consecutive term.



On Sunday, Nitish Kumar met Governor Phagu Chauhan to stake claim to form NDA government in Bihar and announced that the oath-taking, as well as the swearing-in ceremony of the new cabinet, will be held at around 4.30 PM in Patna.



After a lot of speculations, Nitish was formally elected leader of the NDA at a meeting of NDA MLAs at his official residence in Patna on Sunday.
Rock or Restore: ’69 Chevy C10
By: Sam Maven
Tags: Trucks, Featured, American

Last week, we dealt with a new kind of dilemma on Rock or Restore, where we had to decide if we’d leave a restored ’57 Chevy alone, or if we’d go all the way and rebuild it into a wild restomod.

Image Via Restore a Muscle Car

This week, we’re back to normal, and we’re looking at an inexpensive project with a potentially large payoff. The “Action Line” GM pickups of 1967 to 1972 are red hot right now, and for good reason. They’re great-looking trucks.

For just $1,000, you can bring home this Chevrolet C10 roller. That’s right — no engine or transmission, but that means you aren’t paying for stuff you might want to replace anyway. Always look at the bright side.

Image Via Restore a Muscle Car

There’s not much bright on this truck. The paint and panels are original, and they show all of the wear and tear you’d expect out of a work truck that’s half a century old.

We kind of like the look, honestly. The word “patina” gets thrown around far too often these days, but in this case, we think it’s the best way to describe this truck. Every scratch and ding tells a story of a life that was hard, but not too hard — the truck is still here, after all.

Image Via Restore a Muscle Car

This longbed would have made a great work truck when it was new. Many folks prefer shortbeds when they’re building street trucks, and we usually do, too. However, we really like the look of these ‘67-’72 pickups with longbeds.

The ad describes this truck as being “fairly solid,” and it certainly looks that way. Most of the rust appears to be superficial. If we were to take on this project, we’d be inclined to leave the body as original as possible, while addressing any structural or safety issues related to rust underneath.

Image Via Restore a Muscle Car

We’d put this thing on air, retrofit an LS engine, and restore the interior. We might even keep the pitted white steel wheels. They’d look cool tucked up into the body while it was all aired out.

The more we think about it, the more we wish we had the space. Since we don’t, it’s all yours. You can find this truck right here on Motorious at Restore a Muscle Car in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Learning Outcomes of Others Life for You
By: Anam Mansoor
Tags: Learning And Development

Today I Learned how to overcome your hesitation to ask or to talk with some impressive personalities or role models of your life who inspires you all the time the thing to be learn what is the reason of their position why they are so much inspiring personalities. What have they did in their life to achieve that position you are struggling for, what are their aims in life, what is why of their lives. So first of all I overcome my hesitation and ask all these questions. The most amazing experience of my life to act as a host of morning program. I realized that I have strong communication skills and can communicate well with others. I was little confused in front of the audience (my lab fellows) but I behaved in very confidant manner just like a host. I asked number of questions to my seniors and my family members.

Never hesitate to ask anything

First of all I learned about that never hesitate to ask a question that bothers you. When you just-start a challenge then you become able to live that moment. Honestly speaking to make conversation with others gives you a thought of fulfillness and happiness. It clears your mind about the opinions that may be false or different that you already had made in your mind about that person. Might be a person visually looks more angry and when you covers with him your idea or opinion will change. I will always remember this key and will apply to cross the boundaries of success.

When you ask then you learn

While conducting this challenge I learned a lot of things as scope of my degree as where I can go in future, the process to apply for foreign scholarship, what are the demands of an organization to hire a employee, what is the reason behind doing PhD degree.

Just set a goal in your life

In conversation with my seniors (PhD scholars) I realized that they discussed about that their way to PhD was very smooth and they have never struggle for that. They were saying this because they were determined to get the PhD degree for the post of senior lecturer. I summarize their discussion points as they decided to study till PhD to get a better post, another scholar was courageous to do Post doctorate too.

Know yourself never allow others to disrespect you

Knowing yourself is very imperative in life of a living creature. If you decided to do something; Just do that instead of numberless hurdles. When you began to cross those hurdles, then you will able to see the trophy and winning post.
“Compensation: $30,000. Non-negotiable.”
By: The Curiosity Addict
Tags: Millennials, Learning And Development, Marketing, Career Development, Advocating For Yourself

Four years ago I read this on my very first full-time employment contract. Surprisingly enough it wasn’t the $30k I was shocked to see but the line stating “Non-negotiable”.

This was the first job I received out of university, and don’t get me wrong I was very grateful to have received an offer and secure a job so quickly in the field I studied. However, what a confidence stomper to see those words “Non-negotiable”. This was my first experience of a company thinking they could determine my worth.

Some background.

I started off as an intern at a Toronto based company working for a large client account. My internship was four months in length, and I was getting paid minimum wage. I worked so hard, put in extra hours and went above and beyond as much as I could to do a good job (I really wanted a full time offer). Once my internship was complete my hope for a full-time offer became reality.

My director, at the time, pulled me into a call room, presented me the offer and when we got to the compensation part she quickly breezed over it. There was no eye contact and no pause in speech to even look for my agreement. She made sure to say how it was a take it or leave it offer.

I was amazed. Not because of how low the offer was for the amount of work I knew they expected from me, but it was the fact that they didn’t present me with an opportunity to talk. My place of employment decided what my worth was and that if I wanted to continue doing a job I loved at the time I needed to be okay with that.

Fast forward to today.

The concept of worth has stuck with me since this day. I am currently working for my third company and unfortunately, before my transition to where I am now I have been put in situations where needing to advocate for myself was a complete necessity.

Advocation for ones self is a constant practice. I have invested many hours to further this skill. I have put myself in front of many mentors who have been able to provide me with knowledge and resources to be able to confidently advocate for myself in an assertive, professional and respectful manner.

When I think about myself advancing in my career the skill of advocation is one I know I need to perfect. At the end of the day one thing I have learned thus far in my journey is no one will advocate for yourself better than you.

Thank you for reading,

The Curiosity Addict

The Curiosity Addict | Join me as I blog in my condo sized office about my journey as a millennial trying to grow a career. I let curiosity take the front seat in my career; let’s see what new things we can learn together.
A Shift in Focus of Ontario Law Schools to Aboriginal Law
By: Rebecca Feldman
Tags: Law Student, Law School, Learning And Development, Beyond Law School

Another notable hurdle for the Indigenous peoples, is that even once they have proven they hold title to the land, they still may not be completely secure in excluding outsiders from their land. As established in the case of R v Sparrow, [1990] 1 SCR 1075, the government is entitled to make use of Indigenous land, even if the community holds title, as long as they can legally justify doing so. This once again poses hardships and creates insecurities for the Indigenous communities.

For hundreds of years now, Indigenous communities have been mistreated and their land rights have been greatly affected. This has caused many struggles for these communities, and this is very evident from the recent struggles of the Wet’suwet’en people in British Columbia who are fighting to prevent the Coastal GasLink project from moving forward with construction on the land they’re claiming title too.

Unfortunately for the Wet’suwet’en people, they were denied their claim of title to the lands at issue in this Coastal GasLink project in a 1997 SCC case, Delgamuukw v British Columbia, [1997] 3 SCR 1010. This means that the government is not required to receive the Wet’suwet’en peoples’ full consent in moving forward with the project, however, they do still need to participate in meaningful consultations with them, as per the decision in Haida Nation v British Columbia (Minister of Forests), 2004 SCC 73.

However, this part of the process I believe to be somewhat weak. As I mentioned, the government is required to consult the Indigenous community in regard to the proposed project, but I believe they merely strive to do the bare minimum required of them in this process. I believe that the government should consider being more sensitive to the Wet’suwet’en peoples and Indigenous groups more generally, as this minority group has already struggled considerably at the hands of the government since European sovereignty. This should reflect more so in their consultations.
Why Learnapalooza Matters for The Future of Tech
By: Sal Kimmich
Tags: Technews, Learning And Development, Technology, Future Of Work, Tech

Learnapalooza is a conference dedicated to ‘The Future of Learning’. Now in it’s fifth year, the conference is headed by two experts in adult learning, Darren Nerland and Erin Petershick, who brought both experience and energy to the space that really made this conference a game changer.

It is in all of the ways Learnapalooza goes beyond the slide decks — beyond the buzz, and straight into what it means to do meaningful work that makes it such a powerful event.

With Learnapalooza sitting firmly in the Learning and Development space I expected team building exercises, inspirational quotes and graphs on changing workplace demographics. If you’re looking for a crash course on L&D buzzwords and trends then worry not, you’ll get that here. But it is in all of the ways Learnapalooza goes beyond the slide decks — beyond the buzz, and straight into what it means to do meaningful work that makes it such a powerful event. I’m here to tell you just exactly what that means for the future of tech.

We’re firmly in the Fourth Industrial Revolution now: computing, data science and artificial intelligence are the new prime movers. To give you a sense of the pace, this means that 77% of current jobs will require new technical skills and over half of the highest demand jobs on Linkedin did not exist 10 years ago. There’s no sign of this slowing down, and no one can quite predict what the world will look like in 2030.

That’s not all that much of a scary thought, if you boil it down. It means hiring based on ability to learn, not on the skill sets brought on arrival. It means building a workplace culture of learning that allows everyone to thrive.

When new technologies come in, they are much more complex and interactive than before. No modules, courses, or certificates can do the work of showing demonstrable knowledge of these new tools, and that’s a problem. A simple solution may be bringing workplace learning back into an apprenticeship style: when learning to use new tools and tech- a user will be more likely to retain both attention and information by connecting the dots for them through the experience of it’s use. Create a culture of coaching in your workplace for your team to thrive.

We should also be building workplace cultures that thrive on self-directed learning. Carving the time and space in your culture to make that happen allows for the diffusion of new knowledge across a team, and prevents burnout for the workers who are closest to the new tech on-boarding.

When you work on learning and development in tech, you’re really getting to the heart of the issue in the field: working in tech means you never stop learning a new coding language, software system, just keeping up the pace of today’s digital innovation. We can only do it by taking the best learning and development practices out there and situating them in this new world where people move at the speed-of-tech. Learnapalooza exists to bridge that gap in a powerful way, and I can’t wait to see how it changes the tech world in the years to come.
Could you tell us about yourself and your job role? And one hobby/fun fact?
By: How Do I
Tags: Learning And Development, Disability, Accessibility, Learning, Education

Take Five With Darren Nixon — pictured is a closeup shot of Darren smiling into the camera, with the Cafe Leep counter in the background

Could you tell us about yourself and your job role? And one hobby/fun fact?

I’m Darren and I have worked at Café Leep for almost four years. Before working at the cafe, I worked with people with learning disabilities for around 20 years.



My current job roles are Assistant Manager, NVQ Tutor and Social Media guy.



At Café Leep, we have four trainees with learning disabilities per day and they are trained to Level 2 NVQ Standard via our awarding body Highfield and carry out all duties that a cafe requires.



Fun fact: I love music. I was in two bands in Leeds and Indianapolis. My current obsessions are The Charlatans and Tim Burgess.

What is a typical day like for you?

There isn’t an actual typical day as we work with a range of people who have different abilities and skills.



The day however, would include helping our trainees prep food, helping them with their food safety training, supervising all food and drinks that they make to order and also on the till with money skills and finally with cleaning up.

Could you tell us how you got into your role?

I worked as a support worker for two years visiting Leep1 — the self advocacy group for people with learning disabilities once a week. I heard they were opening a cafe with adults with learning disabilities and I was immediately up for a new challenge!

What motivates you to do a good job?

I’m motivated and inspired by all our trainees who overcome a myriad of challenges to be with us.



Once they start with us they learn new skills, knowledge and above all the confidence that they can succeed!



There isn’t a week that goes by without a ‘goosebumps’ moment for me!

How do you learn at work?

I learn by being patient, believing and listening.

What are your aims for the next year? For example, if you work in accessibility do you have any plans to help make workplaces more inclusive? If you work in Learning and Development how are you going to promote workplace learning?

We are always looking to grow. We know that things don’t happen overnight. We’ve put in four years of hard work here. We’ve had 30 people from learning disability backgrounds pass with us and 10 people placed at new positions in Leeds cafes and kitchens in the past 2 years.



We plan to carry on doing this, being patient and sending out fully trained people to future employers.



We are also hoping to expand our training with more e-learning initiatives to become 100% digital in respect of our membership with OnLine Centres Network.



We also aim to carry on with our food partnership with Fareshare helping save waste food and benefit the local community with great food specials and cooking groups.



We also have had some successful work experience placements with high school students. Two of our most recent placements have been so great showing that the skill set and passion starts early!
How to build a growth mindset for personal development and self-improvement
By: Chidinma Umahi Nwankwo
Tags: Learning And Development, Careers, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Opportunity

The first step to breaking free to achieve your personal growth lies in your mindset.

Happy Friday, dear learnwithchidinma fam!

I guess you have had a productive week. Welcome back to our weekly discussion.

Before I proceed, I would like to take a few seconds to ask — How are you?

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Two days ago, three friends (A, Z, and H) had visited their friend J to celebrate his 35th birthday anniversary. During their discussion, J shared an opportunity to speak at an event and two job openings that could benefit his friends. A turned down the job offer because he believed he is not qualified for the job; Z felt she was not good enough for the speaking opportunity while H decides to try it out.

This illustration applies to us in our daily lives. Just like A and Z, the slimline between you and your goals lie in adopting either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. Did you learn anything from H? Today, I want to remind you that your attitude is essential to your learning and growth.

By a growth mindset, I mean adopting a positive attitude to try new ideas, making efforts to seek new opportunities, developing your skills, and believing in yourself to succeed and taking the risk instead of reminiscing on past failures/challenges.

Here are a few tips to get you started based on my experience:

1. Self-reflection: Make yourself a priority. The first step starts with making a change. Before you continue, pick up your pen and paper. Write out your fears and challenges stopping you from making progress. It would help if you were honest with yourself.

2. Acknowledge your faults, failure and rejections. Seek a way out: Try to develop a mindset seeking to learn, grow, and explore. You need to see challenges as opportunities for great blessing.

3.Do it afraid: You learn by doing things repeatedly. Do not count your rejections but instead trust the lessons.

Make a commitment to yourself to take proactive steps this week that will lead you to your short-term and long-term growth.

Thank you.

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Are you Leveraging AI to Train your Workforce?
By: Eva Ai
Tags: People Management, Workforce Development, Learning And Development, Artificial Intelligence

Image from https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/05/29/artificial-intelligence-in-the-workplace-how-ai-is-transforming-your-employee-experience/

Artificial intelligence is transforming businesses and taking them to the next level. It’s no surprise then that corporate training, which has revolved around legacy learning management systems, is also on the chopping block for change.

With skills gaps widening and software eating the world, today’s companies need to find creative ways to leverage AI to train their workforce. Specifically, companies must address some of the challenges and pitfalls of corporate training, including the lack of personalization in learning; the inability to measure the ROI of training; and learning content and training modules that are not intuitive or suited for the modern, connected employee.

Going into 2020, it’s clear that the $130 billion US corporate training market is on the cusp of change. Here are 3 ways companies can leverage AI in employee training.

Identifying Employee Skill Gaps

According to a report by IBM, an estimated 120 million workers worldwide will need to be retrained as a result of AI and automation. In today’s economy, employees will need to grow and adapt their skills in areas that drive the most business value and keep pace with new developments.

With enough people data and business outcome data, companies can leverage AI to identify exactly where their employees have a skills or knowledge shortage. AI systems can then recommend specific learning modules to address the gaps and the process gets repeated as part of the continuous learning process of an organization.

Personalizing Training to Individual Needs

The biggest promise of AI in training is a personalized training or learning experience. This happens on at least two levels: first, employees no longer need to learn the same, dry content. Instead, content is custom created, perhaps even auto-generated, to suit each employee’s needs and knowledge gaps.

Second, employees no longer need to learn the same, standardized way. Instead, AI systems can tailor how content is delivered (text-based articles versus video tutorials, for example) to enhance retention and on-the-job performance. Overall, an AI powered training program could better position content and delivery that’s adaptive and responsive to each learner’s personal learning style and journey.

Tracking ROI

Finally, the key missing piece in corporate training is a lack of metrics that correlate training with business impact. To wit, companies can’t measure their ROI. With AI, managers and L&D leaders can collect data from beginning to end — from the employee’s first day of training to their subsequent customer interactions; this not only closes the feedback loop, but it helps quantify the business impact of the company’s learning and training investments.
Staying Current and Leveling Up on the Go
By: Upside Business Travel
Tags: Startup, Women In Tech, Tech, Learning And Development

At Upside Business Travel, we know how lucky we are to work with an inspiring, cutting edge CTO in Emily Dresner. Emily is passionate about cutting edge technology, passionate about staying current and most of all, passionate about her team.

Earlier this week, Women Who Code DC hosted a “Level Up Tech” event featuring panelists Jess Szmadja, CTO, Axios; Souj Narasimhacharya, Head of Data Engineering, On Deck Capital; Victoria Au, Director of Engineering, On Deck Capital; and our own, Emily Dresner, CTO Upside Business Travel. Emily and her fellow panelists spent the evening providing their tips and tricks for “leveling up,” staying current and maximizing the (too few) hours in each day.

Emily inspired us by sharing her beliefs that people build technology and teams are what take a product from good to great and Jess’ tips for what to do for when you feel “stuck” and what makes a great new hire left us in awe.

Still buzzing from a motivating event, we decided to ask Emily to share some of the ways she carves out time to stay current and keep on top of industry trends when her days are busier than busy.

First, I purposefully carve out time on Fridays. I have very little time during the week to absorb information, so I dedicate a part of my schedule to keeping up. Second, I read a ton of newsletters. I can read them on any device. They’re timely. They give me information in digestible bits. Everything I follow:

3. Third, I read all the normal RSS Feeds one would expect: Ars Technica, Engadget, Fast Company, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, and Wired.

4. Fourth, since I have a long commute, I load up on podcasts. I prefer podcasts that talk about tech and society or startups. Some I like are: Recode/Decode, Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman, Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman, Future State, Reply All, and How I Built This with Guy Rav

That is how I, who has little time, keeps current on the evermoving currents of the tech industry!

Looks like we’ve got some reading to do — but before we start scouring these awesome newsletters; what are some of your best time saving tips? How do you stay at the cutting edge of your industry?

Do you want to work with an inspiring CTO like Emily? Check out our careers page!
Cool Off Your Raspberry Pi 4 with Pimoroni’s Heatsink Case
By: Cabe Atwell
Tags: Technology, Pimoroni, Hardware, Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi 4 packs a powerful Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72 (Arm v8) 64-bit SoC, and as a result, runs hotter than previous Raspberry Pi boards, especially under load. The Foundation does offer a PoE (Power over Ethernet) HAT with built-in fan to cool things down, although it does run on the expensive side at $20. There are other options, such as iUniker’s Raspberry Pi 4 Case that is also outfitted with a fan to keep things cool, coming in at a cheaper $8.99; however using fans for cooling tend be on the noisy side.

Pimoroni’s anodized aluminum heatsink case is purported to decrease temps by 10°C to 15°C under load from passive cooling. (📷: Pimoroni)

Pimoroni has a solution to the noise problem by offering a passive solution with their aluminum heatsink case that the company states can lower temperatures by 10°C to 15°C while the Pi is operating under full load.

“This anodized aluminum heatsink case will protect your Raspberry Pi 4 and give you the best passive cooling we’ve seen in our extensive testing. It’s great for situations where you want completely silent cooling, like home media centers.”

The aluminum case comes with a top and bottom that is connected using a series of hex screws. (📷: Pimoroni)

The case features an anodized aluminum top and bottom that are connected using a set of hex screws, leaving cutouts for all the ports and I/O pins for easy access. It comes with a thermal pad as well that provides contact between the SoC and case to transfer heat loads. Pimoroni notes that you can use HATs with the case, but only if they are low profile without any bulky components underneath them. The Aluminum Heatsink Case is now available for about $15.
Block Board Manufacturer in Maharashtra
Tags: Plywood Manufacturers, Flush Door Manufacturer, Block Board In Tamil Nadu, Hardware, Block Board Manufacturer

Justy Ply is the recognized brand of Block Board Manufacturer in Maharashtra. Block Boards are made up with the finest grade of natural wood which goes through several steps and procedures to become the superior quality of block board. These Block Boards are made well engineered with the supreme standards of ply boards. To manufacture the block boards, we are joining the strips of softwood from edge to edge which gets bonded typically like a sandwiching in between the hardwood layers.

We are working with a team of trained and professional engineers who are working efficiently to come up with the best quality variant of Block Board Manufacturer in Maharashtra. We are designing them with the advance technology and well engineered efforts of our team. We are manufacturing them with the strength so that they are strong enough to resist any type of damage. These are made water resistant and termite free in their characteristics. These are supplied in the market at the best reasonable rates.

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Snapshot: How to Build Hardware in Asia
By: German Autolabs
Tags: Design Prototype, Manufacturing, Hardware

‍From Action Plan to Execution

Our Chris factory in Malaysia

There are quite a few different challenges when you manufacture a product in Asia. Logistical and organizational challenges rear their heads early on, especially the time difference between you and your factory, and also the working language. Collaborating with the other side of the world introduces time delays in execution. Typically you need to schedule calls at 9am CET, which in Asia is almost home time. This can lead to the necessity to introduce a delay in between action plan and execution.

One time, we had to make a minor modification to a mechanical component inside Chris. We scheduled a call for the following day, which then took a further 24 hours to get into the product due to the timezone delays. Over 48 hours from decision to implementation for a small and simple job. The times when we had team members on the ground in Asia helped to massively speed up our manufacturing process.

If you plan to manufacture there, I really recommend you have one of your team on site, especially at the beginning. The cost for a startup might seem high — but not as high as the host of problems that can occur with limited oversight of the manufacturing process.

We didn’t have many language issues in Malaysia since English is widely spoken, but if you decide to base your manufacturing in China then there can be some fairly serious issues that may require translators to help solve — less than ideal. Indeed, if you’re starting to manufacture your first batch of hardware in relatively low volumes, then it may well be worth investigating Eastern Europe as a base for your early-stage operations.
Keevo Connect #2 — Nov. 2019. Welcome to the second installment of…
By: Team Keevo
Tags: Security, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Hardware

Welcome to the second installment of Keevo Connect. In our last post, we promised to share more regular updates so that you can follow along with our progress. We shared a first look at Keevo’s user interface and announced our updated product roadmap and timeline for first product shipments.

Since then, the product team has continued to make great progress and we’ve achieved several key milestones. We’re especially excited to share a first look at our Keevo Model 1 pre-production prototypes — complete with all components and latest firmware — connected to our downloadable desktop application. This is really exciting and the look a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

Check out the pictures below of our latest Keevo Model 1's and the video of our first ever account registration including the creation of new private keys secured with Keevo’s Multi-Factor / Multi-Sig Authentication system.

https://youtu.be/z3600APbIMM

More to come

In addition to lots of testing and further preparation for production, we’re rapidly approaching several other important hardware and software milestones. In particular, we should be ready to share our first secure transaction signing in the coming days. We’re also fabricating new prototypes with upgrades to several components and will have an update on our desktop application and dashboard user interface, too. Finally, we have some exciting developments with an important strategic partner that we’re looking forward to sharing with you, as well.

In the meantime, Thanks again to all of our pre-order customers and to our broader community for all your early and continued support and enthusiasm. Keep your input coming and stay tuned for our next updates soon.
Medical Imaging Workstations Market Size Worth $7.1 Billion By 2026
By: Gaurav Shah
Tags: Software, Visualization, Medical Imaging, Medical, Hardware

The global medical imaging workstations market size is expected to reach USD 7.1 billion by 2026, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. It is projected to register a CAGR of 7.2% during the forecast period. Increasing burden of chronic diseases and high demand for effective diagnostic tools are the factors driving the growth. Additionally, frequent new product launches are expected to contribute to the expansion.

Introduction of advanced display modalities are expected to boost the replacement of traditional workstations. Rising number of standalone imaging facilities and ambulatory imaging centers are expected to play an important role in driving the market growth.

Introduction of predictive analytics and artificial intelligence in radiology is expected to help healthcare professional to diagnose accurately and decide effective treatment plan. Increasing awareness and introduction of favorable reimbursement policies are the factors expected to ensure swift growth of Medical Imaging Workstations Market during the forecast period.

Rise in strategic initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions by the major players to maintain the market share is propelling the introduction of advanced systems. Moreover, development of new medical facilities and evolving preference for digital platforms is anticipated to boost growth of the market in the forthcoming years.

Click the link below:

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/medical-imaging-workstations-market

Further key findings from the report suggest: