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Saturnism
By: Jessica Lee Mcmillan
Tags: Poetry, Poison, Art, Artist, Creation

POETRY

Saturnism

A free-verse poem

Pollard Willows and Setting Sun, Vincent van Gogh, 1888 on WikiArt.org, Public Domain

Creator frays at the madness of height

in full saturation of poison pigment,

coal tar hair of venom nerves

and vermillion lips of wormhole blood

burnt up in Naples yellow, a leaden sun,

sky contaminated in cobalt rapture,

Paris green fields in arsenic sleep

and uranium orange dreams

in clouds of radioactivity

delirium tremens takes pen

in frenzied pace of heroin jazz

the magic potion baseline

dimming for reach of source,

the rupture in crossing wavelengths

to heavy and soft

toxic ecstasy, burning to life

essence from detritus

all the while, coffee book patrons

— pedestrians of hue and note —

gasp in awe of Master’s spectrum

diverted by the glistening varnish

over Creator’s bleeding undercoat
Rending
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Image, Inspiration, Musing, Love, Poem

Rending

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

On climbing downhill

the shadows detach from their bushes

and trees

tracings for you to step on

You didn’t follow your heart

on your walkout

of the restaurant

and you fell on your pillow

like it was a sword

when you reached your new room

Paper separates people

the gashing of the walls

streetlights turning to each other

trying to determine what code to use

The snow peels itself

harshly off the ice

the congealing footsteps of a remembered

misery confining the lost diseases

for the moment

Pills in hand now

book resting on the laboring chest

the lights are out nowhere

and something is still pulling me away
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Enabling Design Thinking in Data Analytics with DataOps
Tags: Design Thinking, Dataops Automation, Data Science, Design Thinking Culture, Dataops

Want to boost data-analytics innovation? Try “Design Thinking.”

Design Thinking is a solution-based design methodology that organizations use to address ill-defined or tricky problems that defy conventional approaches. It uniquely marries design with customer empathy to produce solutions that address latent customer needs. The Design Thinking methodology re-frames problems in human-centric ways, creates many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and then adopts a hands-on approach to prototyping and testing.

The Design Thinking process boils down to three steps:

Empathy — Gain an understanding of the problem you are trying to solve by consulting experts, observing, and empathizing. The discovery process enables designers to think beyond their own assumptions, about the end user’s needs, and the problem space.

Ideation — Generate lots of ideas — as many as possible

Experimentation — Create prototype solutions, test, learn and repeat

Design Thinking has grown beyond its physical design roots to guide innovation in education, business and computer science. As you would expect, data professionals are now applying design thinking to data science. Design thinking can serve as a major boost to corporate innovation. Unfortunately, most data organizations are not set-up for a rapid feedback loop of Ideation and Experimentation, so creativity never shifts into high gear.

Figure 1: Design Thinking consists of three stages: Empathy, Ideation and Experimentation

Figure 1 shows the stages of Empathy, Ideation and Experimentation in series. As any experienced “Design Thinker” will tell you, the stages do not necessarily happen in sequence. Experimentation can lead to deeper Empathy, which fuels Ideation. The process could have many feedback loops. One issue that frustrates Design Thinking in data analytics is that Experimentation can take much longer than Empathy and Ideation. It can take weeks or months for the data team to implement a relatively minor change in analytics. Nothing interrupts the creative juices of innovation from flowing like waiting and waiting and waiting some more. When users can’t see immediate feedback on their ideas, they may lose interest.
Ebony and Onyx Roots: The Erasure of AntiBlack Colonialism’s Effect on the Need for Trans Rights
By: Michon Neal
Tags: Intersectionality, Transgender, LGBTQ, History, BlackLivesMatter

Ebony and Onyx Roots: The Erasure of AntiBlack Colonialism’s Effect on the Need for Trans Rights

by Mx Rhizome

Subject:

This POS article: https://www.autostraddle.com/10-lesser-known-trans-women-pioneers-from-history-316582/

Analysis:

Rather than transform white dominated trans history into a more aware entity that actively engages with colonization, whiteness, white privilege and racism, this kind of article assimilates Blackness, erases the collective misgendering of African ancestors, substitutes representation and inclusion for more a radical intersectional project and ultimately utilizes Black trans women’s resistance to erase their specific struggles.

I’m not down with this article, not even slightly. If you want to share it, please respect me and my words enough to share it from the source rather than deleting my words and sharing the link from this location.

— — — — — —

Addition:

The dominant trans historical discourse is a white one steeped in denial and forgetfulness. They will not fully link to who their people are and have been as colonizers for the last few hundred years.

The cis are scum project allows them to disassociate from their white communities, from their white families, from their white lineages and ultimately from their white privilege grounded in the oppression of IBPOCs since Contact.

The need to acknowledge that many of us have histories of resistance against the binary, which was a european import for all IBPOCs is very different than bits and pieces of who we have been being bandaided, glued onto white trans histories to form the semblance of a single historical narrative cohesion that does not exist.

There is no single linear trans history. There are white trans folx linked to european colonizers who brought the binary to the shores of so many IBPOC peoples and then there are our histories of/with gender that have been sometimes completely obliterated, language gone, names gone, values around gender gone, while for others vestiges or whole understanding remain.

It is necessary for white trans folx to not even attempt to disguise or renovate their relationship to white cis folx as the inheritors of what happened when europeans imposed the binary on folx they racialized. The history in need of articulation is a white one of colonization that includes the history of the binary.

White trans folx should not be encouraged to see their histories as linked to IBPOCs in any way except as those whose ancestors ripped many of our understandings of gender from our psyches.

This article does violence. It erases. It disguises. It is ahistorical not historical. It is a completely revisionist confabulation that, as far as I’m concerned, will further delude the vast majority of white trans folx into avoiding full understanding of who they are.
Afraid
By: Sean Zhai
Tags: Loneliness, Humanity, Emotions, Youngadult, Blue Insights

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How I Am
By: Misa Ferreira De Rezende
Tags: Autobiography, Illumination, Poetry

I walk on eggs, I step on the break and I measure the words

“Courtesy of the Author”

I’m antisocial

I love to come back home

And lock the door.

But I face anything

As long as it’s not a cockroach.

I’m shy

But I pretend not.

I like to sing and to think

I hate milk since always

But I like cheese and cream.

I’m of peace! I swear I’m of peace!

I give an ox not to get into a fight

And a cattle too.

I walk on eggs, I step on the break, I measure the words

But happennings happen

Rebelliuous words escape the rule

And hurt like a sharp sword.

I let it go almost everything

But if I say “Oh” the world ends!

I inherited the ferocity of the Ferreiras

And the sweetness of the Rezendes

I love poems

But I’m really in good Prose.

I am what I am,

I let it go.
Branding myself
By: Mick Champayne
Tags: Anxiety, Advertising

Good Scenario:

Mick’s Woooooorrrld!! [air guitar solo]

OFF SCREEN VOICE

Hey, remember that little old widow down the road with the big beautiful mansion whom you once made a passing comment on her garden when she was out watering it? She’s since died, but she thought you were so nice that she’s bequeathed her entire estate to you as she had no living relatives.

MICK

Hey, it could happen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Weekly Report #4
By: Michael Douranos
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Exchange, Poswallet, Bitcoin, Altcoins

Hello Crypto Enthusiasts! Another week, another Weekly Update for POSWallet. This week has been rather busy with lots of working hours and some really Important Βreakthroughs from POSWallet’s team. This Weekend is probably the most important weekend since the birth of the idea of POSWallet! We are expecting so much from POSWallet and you are most welcome to participate and leave your Mark on perhaps the most fully featured, well rounded and complete Crypto Platform in the History of CryptoCurrency. But enough with the big words…lets get to the News:

Exchange Release

POSWallet’s CryptoCurrency Exchange is finished! Most testing is done and this Weekend it’ ll be Live and Running for Beta Testing. In order to have the chance of becoming a Beta tester you will need to purchase a POSWallet Membership. And you will be given the Privilege of testing the POSWallet Exchange for the next 5 days!

POSWallet Memberships are cheap and they offer multiple Benefits for their owners. Hurry up and help POSWallet to fix any remaining bugs in the Exchange.

Membership Sale

In order to Promote further POSWallets Membership Benefits, we decided to Offer a 25% Discount to all Memberships, from today until Sunday the 12th of March, 10pm EST! We expect more Memberships to be Purchased and more people to understand the Importance of beeing the owner of a POSWallet Membership and the size of the mid/longterm Profit they’ ll have.

Competition

The POSWallet + ICOtimeline Competition has exceeded all Expectations and has gathered almost 15,000 Entries!!! Which is amazing, since there are only a few days since it started:

The Competition will be up until the last day of March and the prizes are overwhelming…so, take your chances and enter with as many entries as possible!

POSWallet Term Deposits

POSWallet is expanding and it’s offering a new generation of Crypto Products, especially designed for those who want to hold their assets and watch them grow over time! But what is a Term Deposit?

‘’A term deposit is a deposit held at a financial institution that has a fixed term. These are generally short-term with maturities ranging anywhere from a month to a few years. When a term deposit is purchased, the lender (the customer) understands that the money can only be withdrawn after the term has ended or by giving a predetermined number of days notice.’’

As you understand these products can really take POSWallet to the next level and make it a Crypto Financial Institution, where everyone can find what suits him and make profitable investments! More about it on the next Weekly Report…

The Mobile App is almost finished and the Exclusive POSWallet store will be up and running this Weekend!
Friday 26th November Live Prayers
By: Virtual Mosque
Tags: Khutba, Live, Prayers

Today we will be broadcasting live via livestream at 12.30pm (GMT) as usual, to watch our live prayers and speech and be a part of the virtual mosque click on the link below.

If you miss the broadcast, then we will be putting the videos up in the next few days for people to watch at their leisure.

Live Prayers
Coinme Update 1.18.18: ATM and Team Expansion
Tags: Updates, Hiring, Cryptocurrency, Expansion, Bitcoin

Expanding the ATM Network

We are proud of the growth of our ATM network. In September of 2017, we expanded our innovative and easy-to-use crypto ATM network to California, Colorado, Kansas, and Texas. There are now 39 locations across seven states, allowing thousands of people to access cryptocurrency, and we are thrilled to announce that we are growing our ATM network even more.

Production images of our Coinme kiosks

We have officially begun development of our next version of crypto ATMs, which will be deployed at the beginning of Q2 2018 across the United States. While exact locations are still to be determined, our team is working hard to fill the need of fair and equal access of cryptocurrency to all. If you have a specific location you would like to see a Coinme ATM; please comment here or reach us on Facebook or Twitter.

Expanding the Coinme Team

We have big goals for 2018, and to achieve those we need to grow our team. We are thrilled to announce that Coinme has hired its new Global Head of Talent! This role is key for helping us refine our organizational culture, and bring in the best talent the world has to offer to build what we know you deserve.

We understand that many of the best people for these roles are individuals just like you in our community. We plan on scaling quickly in many areas, including engineering, investment services, and marketing. If you think you are a great candidate to help grow Coinme, please make sure to follow our updates as we share these exciting opportunities in the coming weeks.
My Mom Doesn’t Like My Youngest Son
By: Modern Parent
Tags: Parenting, Family

Photo by Nadine Shaabana on Unsplash

I don’t see my mom often. Typically every other year, we make the trip to see her for two weeks. Always in November because my husband wants to hunt. It’s always the same. The first couple of days are fine, and then she and I both get sick of each other.

The issue for her is my parenting of my youngest son. He is almost 7 and is autistic. He’s not a bad kid. He does things most 7-year-olds don’t do and wouldn’t be allowed to do. He’s loud and rowdy. He swears and knows he shouldn’t. He generally does it because he thinks it’s funny. As for discipline, well, it’s tough because he is autistic, and discipline means something different than it would with a neurotypical kiddo. He doesn’t understand all spoken language, so scolding him doesn’t work. Spanking doesn’t work because he doesn’t understand it. Yelling obviously just upsets him more and makes him act out more. All I can do is say, “we don’t say that,” or say something that sounds like it instead of the actual curse word. Such as fudge for the f-bomb. It’s hit or miss, really, though.

He is hyper often and runs wild through the day. I get it, he’s a lot to take in, and when someone like my mom, who really doesn’t care for kids anyway, sees it, they see a child who needs their ass kicked. Well, that isn’t going to happen.

A few days ago, she commented that my middle child is her favorite grandchild. I said I don’t have to ask her who the least favorite is. It’s pretty obvious. She got mad, and I suppose it was a shitty thing to say, but it is true.

Yesterday she gave her middle grandchild a gift. Just because. It wasn’t a grand gift, and my youngest doesn’t care anyway, but since she sees the kids so little, it was rude for her to only gift one child. Later she gave my youngest this McDonald’s toy. He didn’t know what it was or get how to use it, so he doesn’t play with it. She commented that this is why she doesn’t get him things.

Today we were sitting, and my son accidentally hit her dog. It really was an accident. He was moving around, and the dog walked into his hand. He didn’t hurt her, and the dog didn’t even notice. My mom looked at me like, “well, are you going to do something about it?” Well, no. It was an accident. I reminded my son to be careful, and mom just rolled her eyes.

She makes about 20 comments every day about my parenting. Or she says, “I’m just going to keep my mouth shut.”

It’s to the point I really don’t think I’ll come back. I love my mom, but I don’t need her treating my son differently because she perceives me as a bad parent based on a two-week snapshot every two years. She doesn’t come to visit me, and that’s fine. At this point, I don’t care. Maybe I’ll visit her without the kids, but I doubt it.

I don’t want just to go and not say my peace. She has a right to know why I won’t be back. Any advice on how to approach it?
12: Fifty Shades of Yellow. It’s so difficult to choose!
By: Adam Ellis
Tags: Delicious Bradley, Food, Fiction, Comic, Humor

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NLP-Abstract Topic Modeling. Derive Topics from Long Text
By: Gaurika Tyagi
Tags: Topic Modeling, NLP, Lda, Gensim, Spacy

NLP-Abstract Topic Modeling

Derive Topics from Long Text

This is part 3 of a 4 part post. Until now we have talked about:

Pre-processing and Cleaning Text Summarization Topic Modeling using Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA)- We are here Clustering

In this article, we will be using a summary version of long text documents to find what topics makeup each document. We summarize the text before topic modeling because there could be extra details in some documents. Whereas, others might have just the gist.

Wait, but why model topics? What does that even mean?
Progressive Web Apps with PokeAPI and Deploy using Firebase
Tags: Deploy, Firebase, Web Development, JavaScript, Pwa

When we build PWA, there is some component that we’ve to use.

Service Worker

Service worker is a script that runs in the background app and separates from the web page and will allow us to use some feature that doesn’t need user interaction. Service worker will act as a proxy when a user makes a request to our web and will decide whether the request will continue to the server or will use the data that have been stored before (Read more here).

Cache

Cache is local storage used by a browser to save some resource when we visit some page. If we visit the page for the second time, the page will load the resource from the cache.

Web App Manifest

Web app manifest is a JSON that contain metadata about our application and tell the browser how the app should behave. (Read more here).

Fetch API

Fetch API is an interface that allows us to access and manipulate resource across the network. (Read more here).

Push Notification

Push notifications are a way to notify users of important events even if they are not using the application at the moment. (Read more here)

App Shell

App shell is a user interface component that will be used like header, sidebar, footer. It will cache first and display the same content every time user visit (consistency). Because we save the app shell in a cache, we don’t need to request it to the server. (Read more here).

IndexedDB

IndexedDB is a built-in database in our browser. And IndexedDB is NoSQL, which means that we cannot do a query using SQL syntax. (Read more here).
#DemDebate Viz
By: Adam Meldrum
Tags: Network Graph, 2020 Presidential Race, Data Visualization, Democratic Primary

A network graph of keywords used along with the #DemDebate hashtag on January 14th and early into January 15th.

Simple Analysis: Bernie and Warren interaction seems to be the main discussion point.

Viz Tool: https://infranodus.com; @noduslabs
Re-learning the use of credit in times of COVID-19: how can governments help?
By: Alex Kampa
Tags: Sharing Economy, Sikoba, Sikobapay

TLDNR — Reintroducing the use of peer-to-peer credit on a large scale, with governments partially guaranteeing the IOUs being issued, could help mitigate the cash crisis many companies face because of COVID-19.

In a short LinkedIn article, entitled IOUs as tools of economic autonomy, I recently noted that direct credit operations between businesses, for example via bills of exchange, have mostly disappeared in the Western world. The last country where this was done on a large scale was Germany: as late as 1986, the rediscounting of corporate bills of exchange (“Wechsel”) still represented 60% of central bank liquidity for German banks. This market disappeared almost completely in 1999, as the ECB stopped discounting bills of exchange.

Most credit operations are now naturally done via the intermediary of banks, but this does have a downside, and the article concluded:

“Should banks be forced to reduce the level of credit they are prepared to provide, as happened in 2008, businesses will find it more difficult to revert to using credit directly, as they have mostly forgotten how to do it.” I therefore believe that re-learning the use of peer-to-peer credit, even to some limited extent, can actually have a positive effect even in an advanced economy. It can foster economic autonomy in the sense of having less dependence on the banking system. sikobaPay itself is mostly targeted at developing countries, where informal and undocumented credit is widely used: it specifically aims to overcome the limitations of such informal credit by making legal recognition possible, allowing for efficient clearing of debt and providing an audit trail. But there is no reason why sikobaPay could not also be used in developed countries, by individuals and businesses alike, in order to have a back-up mechanism in place, just in case.

This was written less than two months ago, and at that time it was not yet clear (at least to me) how massive the impact of COVID-19 on many businesses will be. Today, that effect is felt everywhere. COVID-19 forces us to consider alternative and unusual solutions, and re-introducing peer-to-peer credit on a large scale is one of them. It is not a panacea, but it could help individuals and businesses to do more even when money is very scarce.

The problem is that most individuals and businesses in developed counties are not comfortable using credit, so there needs to be an incentive to jump-start this activity. One solution is the following: governments could guarantee IOUs created in a system such as sikobaPay, up to a certain amount. These guarantees could be given, in different amounts, to individuals, self-employed people and companies. This would provide everyone with an incentive to start using p2p credit, while governments would not have to make an immediate cash disbursement.
White Men Make Me Uncomfortable
By: Esther Spurrill-Jones
Tags: Prejudice, Race, Men, Essay, Uber

White Men Make Me Uncomfortable

At least, strangers do

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

I called an Uber to take me home from work today. When I was matched with a driver, I glanced at the profile photo so I would recognize him. He appeared to be a White man. I felt, not quite afraid, but slightly uncomfortable.

I’ve taken Ubers before, and every other time the drivers have been men, but not White. I never felt that odd nervous uncomfortable feeling when I looked at their photos.

When this driver who looked White in his photo showed up, however, he was not White and, oddly, that made me feel more comfortable getting into his car.

I grew up in a very White community and attended a very White church. I was home schooled until grade 9 when I entered a high school where the student body was about 60/40 White/Indigenous. My university, however, was quite ethnically diverse.

I volunteered at two summer Bible camps when I was a teenager, and as far as I can remember, everyone was White, staff and campers. I was friends with several staff there, men and women, all White. None of them ever made me feel uncomfortable.

I became close friends with two White men at a poetry group while I was in university. I ended up marrying one of them.

But when I was matched with a driver on Uber who appeared to be a White man, I had a visceral negative reaction. Why?

Before I took Uber the first time, some of my friends had concerns with the whole thing. They thought it was very unsafe to get into some stranger’s car and trust him to drive you where you ask him to. What if he’s a serial killer or a rapist? I pooh-poohed this, pointing out that the app has safeguards built in. But their words burrowed into my subconscious.

I don’t know if it’s true, but I got the idea somewhere that most violent crimes are perpetrated by White men. I’m sure most White men are great people, but this idea is stuck in my subconscious too.

So I guess my brain took all of this, mixed it up, and gave me a chill when I thought my Uber driver was a White man.

Does this make me prejudiced? Probably. I wish White male strangers didn’t make me uncomfortable, but they do. As a woman, I do have to be careful which man I trust. But their skin colour really shouldn’t effect me.
Crypto Airdrops Sep 10
By: Atnet, Airdrops, Trading
Tags: Ledger, Bitfinex, Airdrop

Crypto Airdrops Sep 10

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Until 21 September 2020 Ledger wallet released a September 2020 discount code. The promo code is good for either the Nano X or Nano S, if you want to get both check their bundle offers.

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Before You Launch
By: Gabor Cselle
Tags: Launch Your Startup, Launch, Analytics

I’ve now helped dozens of teams get ready for a first product launch in Area 120. This is the advice I usually give a bit in advance of the big day. It applies to web and mobile apps.

1. Separate your Analytics

Don’t mix development and production usage in analytics. In the early stages of your product, when you don’t have a lot of users, your team will be accessing your site or app more in aggregate than your users do. Your usage will skew the results. Set up a new property ID in Google Analytics for production usage.

2. Good URLs

Make sure your URLs are short and readable. This will help with virality and SEO. Remember that Google Analytics cuts off URLs at the # on default, so if you’re using fragments, you won’t be able to track them.

3. Test SSL

Developers usually develop on localhost or a test server that already has a properly configured SSL certificate. It’s easy to forget testing the SSL setup on the production domain.

4. Set Up and Test Funnels

Make sure you set up a Google Analytics or Firebase funnel for at least the onboarding flow of your app. Test thoroughly as funnels are easy to misconfigure: Funnels in Google Analytics require that each step is completed in order. If you add a superfluous or optional step, the funnel will be dropping users that actually converted, rendering the data useless.

5. Add Annotations in Google Analytics

Mark important events such as your launch, or new versions of the site, in Google Analytics with annotations. This will help you correlate what’s happening in your product with new changes you’ve pushed.

6. Add Open Graph tags

Your website might be shared with others on social channels like Facebook and Twitter, or messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp. Your link will format a lot better if you add Open Graph tags. People usually forget to add these before launch because it’s rare that you share links to your dev instance.

7. Allow Open-Ended Feedback

Somewhere in the app or site, there should be a box for users to type in open-ended feedback that users can type in. Don’t bother with surveys and trying to calculate NPS scores: You won’t have enough data for the results to be significant. Users who will bother actually writing you will have useful and actionable feedback.

8. Manage Expectations

It’s not going to be a hit yet. The point of launching an early version is to learn, not to gain massive user adoption. Launching will also lift team morale because for the first time, you’ve produced something together that real people can use. Expect learnings, not miracles.
Nick Poulden on Walled Gardens Versus Open Platforms
By: Coleman Maher
Tags: Open Source, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Sharing Economy, Videos

One of the key innovations of the Origin platform is that data is shared between marketplaces instead of siloed in walled gardens. In this video, part of our video testimonial series, Senior Engineer Nick Poulden talks about the big differences between how companies like Airbnb and Uber operate and how Origin is building the technology to power the open marketplaces of the future.

Nick also explains why he loves Origin’s culture of inclusivity and how his ideas were quickly accepted by the rest of the team and made a part of Origin’s core protocols.

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Covid-19 impact: Mexico Medical Cannabis Market Size To Reach $249.6 Million By 2025
By: Rajesh Varma
Tags: Cannabis Medical, Mexico, Cannabis, Covid 19, Medical

The Mexico medical cannabis market size is expected to reach USD 249.6 million by 2025, exhibiting a CAGR 27.7% over the forecast period, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Rising adoption of medicinal marijuana for the treatment of chronic conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, arthritis, anxiety, and epilepsy is one of the key factors propelling the Mexican medical cannabis market. Furthermore, approval of CBD derivatives for medicinal use is also expected to drive demand in the coming years.

The cannabis industry is booming due to its increasing adoption for medicinal application and imminent legalization for recreational use. In Mexico, marijuana is only legalized for medicinal use and is anticipated to be legalized for recreational purposes in an effort to abolish illicit drug trade and generate tax revenue.

Competition among existing players is moderately high as very few companies have the technology, financial resources, and legal clearance to venture into large-scale manufacturing of marijuana. Medical marijuana has been legalized in Mexico since June 2017. Health licenses for cultivation, harvesting, and production of marijuana in the country are exclusively limited to medicinal and research purposes. Laws pertaining to marijuana are not that well-regulated in the nation and go through a secondary regulation by Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks.

To request a sample copy or view summary of this report, click the link below:

www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/mexico-medical-cannabis-market

Further key findings from the report suggest:
Peloton Wants to Make Fitness Equipment Faster, So It’s Buying Precor
Tags: Peloton, Fitness, Exercise, Technology

For $420 million, Peloton gets 625,000 square feet of manufacturing capacity and nearly 100 dedicated R&D staff.

By Matthew Humphries

Peloton specializes in offering exercise equipment and services allowing people to work out remotely, meaning the pandemic has seen demand for products such as the Peloton Bike+ soar. Now the fitness company wants to produce new equipment faster, so it went directly to the source and decided to acquire manufacturer Precor.

As CNBC reports, the deal was announced by Peloton yesterday, offering $420 million to acquire Precor with a view to closing the deal early next year. If everything goes to plan, Precor will become a business unit within Peloton. In return, Peloton gains control of Precor’s “significant U.S. manufacturing presence,” which includes 625,000 square feet of manufacturing capacity complete with “in-house tooling and fabrication, product development, and quality assurance capabilities in Whitsett, North Carolina and Woodinville, Washington.”

“Precor embodies the Peloton mission of putting Members first. Over the last few months, we’ve gotten to know the team and saw firsthand how much they care about their products, customers and, last but not least, their employees. By combining our talented and committed R&D and Supply Chain teams with the incredibly capable Precor team and their decades of experience, we believe we will be able to lead the global connected fitness market in both innovation and scale,” said William Lynch, Peloton’s President. “We’re looking forward to integrating the Precor team into Peloton and excited about what this means for the future of our brand and our ability to continue delivering world-class Member experiences.”

As well as a big boost to production, Peloton will benefit from the nearly 100 dedicated research and development employees at Precor. They will work with Peloton’s existing R&D team and will also be beneficial in helping Peloton understand how Precor’s design-to-manufacturing process currently functions.

“Precor is driven to create personalized health and fitness experiences that help people live the lives they desire. That passion has led us to create highly customizable solutions running on the fitness industry’s largest commercial network,” said Rob Barker, Precor’s President. “The Precor team is excited to combine our manufacturing expertise and more than 40 years of equipment innovations with Peloton’s award winning workout experiences to help commercial customers succeed and keep exercisers moving.”
Conversation with My Wife (183)
By: Jack Herlocker
Tags: Fashion Trends, Relationships, Roz Warren, Comfortable Sleepwear, Raiding Boyfriends Closet

So we’re still looking through Christmas catalogs. And still finding new stuff.

New to some of us, anyway.

ME: “Boyfriend pajamas”? That’s a thing?

DEB: I guess. I’ve never understood the whole boyfriend shirts, boyfriend jeans, boyfriend jackets, whatever. I don’t get the appeal.

ME: All I remember Linda¹ borrowing was my sweatshirt, because my apartment was always “too cold.” But she wore that a LOT while we were dating.² I don’t think you ever borrowed any of my stuff?

DEB: (thinking) One time, it had been a bad day at work, and we hadn’t planned anything but I just wanted to get out of there. We went home to your place, and this must have been before you gave me a dresser drawer and a closet of my own because you loaned me corduroys, a shirt, and comfy shoes. Just stuff to hang out in so I could get out of work clothes. And this must have been a Friday because I wouldn’t have worn the same clothes to work two days in a row.³

ME: But I don’t remember loaning you any pajamas. Or whatever. Linda liked to borrow my old Academy gym shorts to sleep in, I remember that, but I don’t remember what you wore.

DEB: (looking over top of glasses at me)

ME: That’s what I thought. Okay!
เข้าใจ G-Cloud and GitHub Action
By: Watcharaphan Pongpan
Tags: Education, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Github Actions, Developer Tools

We are a full-scale digital agency based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, specializing in software development, design, and digital marketing consulting.

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Infinito Wallet launches IntoTheBlock Analytics
By: Alfredo Terrero
Tags: Infinito Wallet, Intotheblock, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

ITB indicators found in the Market Signals section of the wallet

Infinito Wallet is a secure multi-crypto wallet that helps users easily start investing and earning more with the crypto finance market. It supports over 2,000 top-ranking coins and tokens, and provides a full set of financial tools including Buy-Trade- Earn-Use cryptocurrencies. Infinito Wallet is frequently ranked amongst the best wallets for crypto communities.

Infinito Wallet and IntoTheBlock have partnered to bring Infinito’s users a new set of analytics that will help them better asses the condition and behavior of every crypto asset, whether they are currently holding it or whish to invest in it.

Starting today, Infinito users can access these indicators by clicking on the wallet’s Market Signals icon. Users will be presented with two different dashboards. The Token Summary displays, as the name implies, a quick view of a crypto asset showing several of IntoTheBlock’s indicators, which together provide a holistic view of a crypto asset’s behavior. The following indicators are displayed in this section:

· Holders Making Money at Current Price: measures the proportion of current holders would realize a profit vs. those who would realize a loss if they sold at current price.

· Concentration by Large Holders: shows the proportion of the asset’s circulating supply concentrated in addresses that each holds more than 0.1% of the total supply.

· Price Correlation with Bitcoin: displays the 30-day correlation of the asset’s daily returns to bitcoin’s daily returns.

· Holders’ Composition by Time Held: classifies addresses according to their weighted average holding period.

· Transactions Greater than $100k: shows the daily number of transactions, each with a value of $100,000 or greater.

· Transaction Demographics: Number of transactions that have occurred during Western trading times vs those that have occurred during Eastern trading times over the last 14 days.

The Signal Summary section contains momentum signals based on IntoTheBlock’s underlying indicators. The Summary Signal at the top is the average of the four underlying signals: Net Network Growth, In The Money addresses, Concentration, and Large Transactions. The “Next Support and Resistance” signal near the top of this section uses IntoTheBlock’s underlying In/Out of the Money indicator to estimate where the next levels of price support and resistance will be according to where onchain addresses originally purchased the asset in question.

For those users interested in more detailed analysis, a “Dive Deeper” button at the bottom of each section redirects them to the IntoTheBlock Platform with access to a portfolio of over 60 intelligent signals about traditional crypto assets and more than 50 DeFi signals.

At IntoTheBlock, we are excited that this partnership enables us to share some of our indicators with Infinito Wallet’s large user base. We look forward to hearing about your experience with Infinito Wallet and IntoTheBlock.
Fear
By: Thomas Plummer
Tags: Assemblage, Poetry, Life, Fear, Poetry On Medium

Fear

Fear leads me to my humanity and compassion

By Alpgiray Kelem on iStock (image licensed by author)

I am not afraid of tomorrow.

I live and love today and that is enough.

I experienced yesterday yet I am still here untouched,

not held hostage by the one I used to be,

one who wasted his years ruled by fear I never understood.

Fear is all around us now,

my defense my thinking mind,

my ability to reason my shield against ignorance.

Fear reigns when your courage is hidden,

calmness appears when you stare down what you fear the most.

I welcome the fear,

fear leads me to my humanity and compassion,

my fear forces me to stand tall and fight.

We are afraid of the unknown and the unknowable,

cringing at the breath of a stranger,

loath to touch the hand of one we love,

wondering if what we cannot see is already in our life?

Waiting for those we do not trust to lead us forward?

I refuse to be ruled by fear or led by the eternally stupid.

Fear runs from us all if we think and believe in ourselves.

You must learn to protect your life and the ones you love.

You must rage against the false cries of the prophets of anger.

Fear runs when you take control of your own life,

yet all of us now share this fear,

fear must become the tool driving you forward towards tomorrow,

fear is what makes us realize we are alive,

standing up to our fear is what makes us human.
Was Jesus ‘The Perfect Sacrifice’?
By: Susie Ambrose
Tags: Spirituality, Jesus, Theology, Sacrifice, Bible

Blood Sacrifice Is Not Required For Forgiveness

The unknown author of the book of Hebrews wrote:

“In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.” (Hebrews 9:22)

Although the sacrificial system involved blood offerings, it is simply not true to the Hebrew scriptures that there can be no forgiveness without blood. Three examples are as follows.

1. In Jewish law, flour can be used as a sin offering for poor people:

‘… he shall bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering.’ (Leviticus 5:11)

2. During the Exodus period, God forgave the Israelites:

In Numbers 14:18–23, Moses intercedes for Israel and their sins against God, which made God plan to wipe them out. He pleads that God might forgive them, as he had been doing ever since they left Egypt. God tells Moses that he forgives Israel:

‘I have forgiven them, as you asked.’ (Numbers 14:20)

No blood required. Just Moses’ intercession.

3. During Israel’s exile, Jews could not offer animal sacrifices:

Hosea writes an alternative that the Jews were able to use:

“Take words with you, and return to the Lord. Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity; receive us graciously, for we will render for bulls the offering of our lips.” (Hosea 14:2–3)

Simple prayer ‘offerings of our lips’ were enough to ‘take away all iniquity’ in the absence of the sacrificial system. No blood required. This is also what Jews do today since the diaspora, along with the mitzvah; doing right by God and their fellow man. Asking forgiveness with the offerings of their lips and demonstrating repentance by their good works.

The New World Encyclopedia states:

“The Hebrew Bible teaches that it is possible to return to God through repentance and prayer alone. For example, in Jonah and Esther, both Jews and gentiles repented, prayed to God, and were forgiven for their sins, without having offered any sacrifices.”

Blood indeed featured greatly in ancient customs. However, it is (thankfully) wrong to say that forgiveness requires slaughter. As though it’s a rule that a god itself could not change. The writers of the New Testament knew the law, history, and scriptures but evidently did not know them in detail.

Since the Hebrews verse is quite incorrect in saying blood is the only possible way to the Jewish god’s forgiveness, we might guess that this erroneous statement was used as a response to questions such as: ‘Why do I need Jesus to be forgiven? Why can’t I just ask for God’s forgiveness?’ As the good salesman declares, ‘Trust me, you need this product!’, a religion is spread in much the same way.
Tron (TRX) Remains One of Few Coins to Regain Value After Recent Market Correction
By: Justin Ruggiero
Tags: Trx, Tron, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Fintech

Tron, trading as TRX, is making strides in China as many are speculating the outright ban in the country that has seen so much cryptocurrency mined in recent years. After TRX received preferential treatment from the communist government that upheld a strategic partnership with the Chinese version of Netflix, she has sparsely been in the news avoiding controversy. Unfortunately, the lack of positive announcements have led to the coin slipping further away from her peak of around 20¢ on the 8th of January.

TRX is marketing towards content creators in hopes of bypassing large corporations who have rights to whatever the creator posts on their site.

The decentralized currency which has been seen favorably by content creators is continuing to market the coin to those who wish to bypass large corporations such as Facebook and Google to deliver their product directly to the entertainment consumers. The loyalty from consumers was especially seen this past week once the coin nearly doubled in value following the massive market correction while many cryptocurrencies have yet to recover. This strong show of support is notable as Tron has yet to make any major acquisitions in technology to increase the value and still appears to be working towards a viable product which is understandable once an investor couples this detail with the fact that she is still worth less than a dime and trending towards the worth of a nickel.
Understanding Inflation in Cryptoeconomics
By: Abhijit Roy
Tags: Eos, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Cryptoeconomics, Economics

Cryptoeconomics is a topic which deals with the economics of ryptocurrencies. Economics plays a pivotal role in creating a successful company.

Now, let’s look at the history of cryptocurrency……

Ever since Bitcoin was launched, the new token generation has been based on a hardware-based mining technique called Proof-of-Work (PoW). In this, the token generation will continue until the year 2140. After this, the only transaction fees will be used to reward Miners or Block Producers (BPs).

NOTE: Currently, the miners are getting 12.5 BTC plus total transaction fees. Total reward ~ 12.5 + 1.5 BTC = 14 BTC approx.

And then in year 2016, Steemit got launched with a focus to revolutionize the social platform by incentivizing the content creators and curators.

So, where does the money come from?

Unlike other tokens, Steemit has a unique economic model of inflation as a reward.

The money comes from this inflation i.e. new tokens getting generated every year. And this money is distributed in a descending order —

Author >> Curator >> Token holder (locked ones)>> Block Producers or Steem witnesses

In steemit, it starts with 9.5% inflation rate and decreases by 0.5% every year until it reaches 0.95%. After this i.e. 20 years, it will remain at 0.95% per year for lifetime. And this 0.95% inflation will help the BPs with the rewards in Steem token.
The Rabbi’s Prayer
By: Darryl Willis
Tags: Other Voices, Poetry On Medium, Prayer, Poetry

photo by webandi | pixabay.com

The flame burns low, wax runs down

and flows around the basin’s rim.

It leaves behind translucent pool.

My eyes are red and stung from more

than bitter smoke. Before me spreads

across the desk these angels’ prayers.

Dear Lord God, King of the Worlds!

Who am I and what can I do?

These angels who open shops,

sell their goods, and bake their bread;

who make love to their mates,

and walk with children on the way —

every single one of them

believe that I am a holy saint:

a Tzaddik, wise! But who am I?

You and I both know so well.

Do not let them fall for me!

Bathe me now even in

this pool of wax and place these tears

from my smoke-stung eyes into

your jar and let them count somehow,

not for me, but for them.
The Blind Poet: In Her Reality
By: Patsy Starke
Tags: Resistance Poetry, Poetry, Perception, Transgender, LGBTQ

She told this to her friend,

when asked about,

colors she wished to see.

My dear inquisitive one,

your reality is yours,

that you see with your eyes.

Blind since birth,

it’s not what I see,

but all that I perceive.

So, my friend,

what is it about a rainbow,

that you wish to perceive?

Patsy, 2018
Trenchant Remark
By: Joseph Lieungh
Tags: Poetry, Saturday Poetry Prompt, Ani Po, Submission, Prompt

Trenchant Remark

A tale of her sharpened tongue

Enters Goddess thunderous returns

rustled leaves blowing torrential wind

partying rockstar slamming juice of choice

bass pumping veins vigorous flow

house special meat beat manifesto.

Music stops scratching pad

records pausing wheels of steel

lost words Aphrodite sacred spell

submitting bowing taken knee

met match burning trunk wild fire ablaze.

Greeted morning sun sharpened tongue

piercing jugular bloodletting past progression

prepared coffee bean to barley included hops

fiercely bitten tigress sensing pulse

mashed soaked oak barrels appeasing farced masses.

Time passing by global spins chaotic gale

immersed collective whole shit-storm

blinding breeze of change calling Ani Po

razors edge cutting finis deaths guaranteed

recanted breath pairing Mother’s natural hertz.

Generations pass present future

gaining Akesha’s power

chichi antiquating fifty-nine chevy

chivy heart’s song lingering

cracked open acorn’s birthing sun.

Real as present day past participle

first glance heart skipping beats

strutting rooster’s arrogant remarks

burned ice cold treachery

from beginning twas trenchant remark.

Joseph Lieungh
Análisis Técnico de Bitcoin del 24 de septiembre. Volatilidad reducida.
By: Cristóbal García
Tags: Blockchain, Ethereum, Análisis, Trading, Bitcoin

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