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How to verify you didn’t get malicious Electrum software update
By: Atnet, Airdrops, Trading
Tags: Opsec, Electrum, Crypto Wallet, Ledgerwallet

How to verify you didn’t get malicious Electrum software update

Among the rampant crypto wallet scams targeting Ledger and Electrum, verifying you downloaded a genuine update is more and more important.

IMPORTANT NOTE. Always download new Electrum versions from the official downloads page, electrum.org/#download . Electrum doesn’t know your email address; if you got an update alert via email, it is a scam.

How to verify Electrum wallet via GPG on Mac/Linux

You will need to use command line for this.

All the commands are listed below, no need to be super technical.

Electrum provides installers for all common operating systems, along with their GPG signatures.

We’ll use the GPG signature to verify you downloaded a true Electrum wallet, not an imposter planted to the Electrum website by a hacker.

GPG Signature Verification Step by step

Download Electrum from the official website, electrum.org. You will need both the installer and the GPG signature file. Open your Terminal to install the package that can verify GPG signatures.

On Mac that will be brew install gnupg , on Linux apt install gnupg . This is really the fastest, easiest and safest way.

3. Look up GPG keys tied up with the domain electrum.org. This is lengthy, but you only do this once. You’ll download the true key for future verification.

First, find electrum.org keys: gpg --locate-keys electrum.org . There should only be a single answer.

Now, make sure this is a genuine key.

A. Look at the published date: The true Electrum GPG has been published in 2011, which you should see in the pub line of the output.

B. Look at the line just below: The Electrum key ID is there. It should be this string 6694D8DE7BE8EE5631BED9502BD5824B7F9470E6 as per Electrum docs.

C. Check if this key is linked to some Bitcoin developers. Make sure the key ID matches what you got from your lookup: ThomasV to schildbach to jonathancross to sipa

4. Copy the key ID you just checked and download the key to your computer.

gpg --output ~/btc.keyring --export <key_id>

You now have a new file at ~/btc.keyring.

5. Change to the folder where you have your Electrum installer.

You’ve also got its GPG signature file there. That’s the file that ends with .asc .

6. Verify that they are matching the Electrum GPG key you downloaded.

gpgv --keyring ~/btc.keyring ./<electrum-installer>.asc ./<electrum-installer>

The output should say “Good signature”.

That’s it!

This guide was published at https://www.altcointrading.net/howto/verify-signature/
How to Focus on One Thing at a Time for Best Results
By: Anangsha Alammyan
Tags: Ideas, Self Improvement, Productivity, Books, Reading

There must have been times in your life where you were so completely immersed in the task you were doing, that you lost track of time. When the past and the future ceased to exist, and only the present mattered.

For example, you might have started painting some scenery, and before you realised, the day was over, and it was already dark outside. Or maybe you settled in with a book, and by the time you were done reading, it was already 5 AM and time to start a new day.

The opposite is also true.

You must have been through times when you are doing something you don’t particularly enjoy, like attending a boring lecture or sitting in a meeting you have no interest in, and you look at your watch after what felt like hours and realise only five minutes have passed.

As Albert Einstein famously quoted:

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.”

The Hungarian-American psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, discusses the state of being completely engrossed in what you’re doing and calls this state as “flow”.

In his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csikszentmihalyi defines flow as — “The state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience in itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

When you are in “flow”, your mind is in order, and you can focus on the task at hand without any distractions.

Researcher and academic at DePaul University, Owen Schaffer, has applied Csikszentmihalyi’s concepts and developed a 3-strategy model to achieve flow and get the most out of any task you set your mind to.

In this article, I am discussing the key attributes of the Schaffer model that will help you find flow in your work and get the most out of the task at hand.
My Sweet Sixteenth Birthday
Tags: Pandemic, Growth, Celebration, Teens, Birthday

As of 15th May, I had zero expectations for my birthday — that is what my parents and my brother had fooled me into believing. I’m generally good at putting pieces together, so hiding something from me isn’t a piece of cake; it turns out, they hid an entire cake. That night, my parents, my brother, and I were watching a 1980s Rajinikanth movie — it being a reason to keep me up till 12 o’clock.

May 16, 2020- The Birthday

When the clock struck twelve, all my friends and family stood at my doorstep ready to wish me a happy birthday, and the beautiful blue dress my fairy godmother had gifted me turned into my rags, leaving me with only one glass slipper. Nah, not really.

My brother and my parents gave me the gifts they had secretly brought home, and all of them sang the happy birthday song at the top of their lungs. I was awestruck, to add to this, several of my relatives and buddies had swarmed my landline and Whatsapp with their wishes and love.

I had expected them to forget my birthday, yet they had won my heart with all their love.

I woke up to a video my friends had curated; it began with a picture of me in a ridiculous pose and sunglasses and then a series of pictures where each of them held an alphabet to spell “Happy Bday”. I was delighted and a bit surprised because, to be honest, for the last three months I hadn’t had a proper conversation with many of the girls — except maybe some Whatsapp “Gm’s” and “Bye’s.”

One of the most significant moments of the day was by one of my best friends. She had created an entire card and left me a long beautiful message which got me to smile so much that my jaw hurt. She and I were going to take completely different paths in our lives, and our personalities don’t really coincide, yet we are thick as thieves. I have always known that even if we end up in different parts of the planet we’d never lose touch. The gift of sweet words she had given me a pleasant reminder of our togetherness and friendship which will last forever.

She’d be amongst the ones I will miss the most, but never forget.

In the evening, I cut a delicious cake my parents had smuggled home. I was courted by my grandparents, cousins, and best friends singing the birthday song through video conference.

Throughout the entire day, I felt special and a little spoiled — a break from my scheduled day.

For me, my birthday was a refreshing reminder that everything will be fine soon, and until then, we are in this together.
Starting Points
Tags: Accreditation, Business, Business School

By Tricia Bisoux

February 23, 2016

How did AACSB’s founders envision their industry? What issues were the most controversial through the years? The conversations, concerns, and course corrections that contributed to the creation of AACSB’s accreditation standards.

IN 1900, TEXTBOOKS IN BUSINESS DISCIPLINES were scarce, advertising was taught in psychology departments, and the term “marketing” was not yet in common academic use. Only a few business schools existed, including the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, opened in 1881, and schools at the University of California and the University of Chicago, both opened in 1898. At the time, business schools had not yet determined a common objective or format for business education.

In the years leading up to World War I, businesses grew more complex, and their leaders began pressing academia to pay more attention to business disciplines. Public interest in business education escalated — between Wharton’s founding in 1881 and the United States’ entrance into WWI in 1917, 30 new business schools were founded. Between 1917 and 1928, 46 more opened, until the Great Depression stalled the industry’s growth.

That was the historical backdrop of the first years of AACSB International. On June 16, 1916, representatives from 17 universities came to the University of Chicago to attend an invitation-only meeting convened by E.F. Gay, Leon C. Marshall, and A.E. Swanson — deans from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University, respectively. Those attending discussed forming an association of business schools that would focus on “the improvement of collegiate education for business,” which they called the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. Fourteen schools became founding members, including Harvard, Chicago, Northwestern, Columbia, Dartmouth, New York, Ohio State, and Tulane universities, and the universities of California, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Texas, and Wisconsin. Colorado College, the University of Michigan, and the University of Cincinnati signed on later that same year. The founding deans knew that by aligning their programs, they could serve the needs of business more effectively than they could by going it alone. What follows are milestones in the evolution of AACSB, its accreditation standards, and the industry since the association’s 1916 beginnings.*

Click the image below to view the timeline of AACSB milestones over the last 100 years.
Predatory Men Routinely Sidestep Sexual Consent
By: Shannon Ashley
Tags: Sex, Life, Culture, Dating, Relationships

Obviously, it’s not just men who prey upon women but in terms of society’s treatment of men and women, this is a significant problem. And a man who cares about obtaining true consent can be honest when he only wants to fuck around. But a predator will reject the notion that he’s a fuckboi or just looking to get himself off. He’ll make excuses and explanations instead.

One of the reasons these dudes get away with denying their bad behavior is because our society expects so much more from women than men in terms of relationships. Think about it. When a woman of legal age is used by a predator, the typical response is that she should have known better. That she was stupid, naive, or simply fooling herself. Some folks will even call her a slut.

Maybe they think she “asked for it.”

It’s crazy how the accountability of men in such circumstances is little to none. They may have lied to get laid, or, they may have pretended to be something they are not, yet our society still puts the onus upon women to have better judgment. Folks, this is messed up.

When men choose to lie and chase woman after woman in a way that removes the ability to give informed consent, they should be called out for their bad behavior. But more often than not, what happens is that the women feel bad — they feel foolish or naive for “falling” for the man’s charms. They don’t speak up because they don’t want the ridicule (and who can blame them), or, they face the legitimate concern that they will not be believed.

I’ve seen this happen time and time again. A woman speaks up to say that Mr. Popularity got inappropriately fresh with her. Mr. Popularity’s friends include plenty of feminist women who all rush to his side and tell the accuser that she misread the situation, that is was all a misunderstanding, or that she’s sick and twisted — anything to shut her up and protect their friend.

The lopsided weight of responsibility is so heavy upon women that plenty of feminists fail to see it. If they think for a minute that a woman is trying to attack their supposedly woke man friend, often, the man won’t even need to defend himself. Misinformed feminists will take care of it for him.

Of course, what’s worse is that other women will see this strong response and think the dude must be on the up and up. Surely, if he was a predator, feminist women wouldn’t continue to support him… right?

Except that they do. Virtually any woman who has ever opened up about her sexual assault(s) knows that they do. We’ve seen this now within the #MeToo movement. It’s very easy to speak out against the bad behavior of men whom we feel are more or less morally repugnant anyway. It’s a helluva lot harder to hold our friends accountable. But frankly, it’s something we must do to combat sexism and misogyny at the source.
Your first Web Scraping script with Python and Beautiful Soup
Tags: Beautifulsoup, Dataset, Python, Programming, Web Scraping

Getting our first album

We have a list of 10 (or less, depending of the band) albums. Let’s get one and see how we can extract the desired data. Then, following the same process, we will get the rest of them.

Remove the previous prints and type this:

After selecting all CDs, we store the first one into ‘cd’ and we print it:

You can view the same structure on the website too:

Let’s grab the information of this CD!

Following the same technique as before, we search for an ‘img‘ tag with the class ‘ProductImage’. Now the method is ‘find’ as we want only the first instance, not every

Hm, we have the element, indeed. But we only need that image’s URL, that it is stored in the ‘src’ property. As a Python element, we can extract it as a normal property, using [‘src’]

Nice, we extracted the image. Let’s keep going:

Cool! With a few lines we have everything!

We keep extracting the values we need. If the element is a property of the tag as the ‘src’ or ‘href’, we use [‘href’] to extract it. If it is the text between the starting and ending tag, we use ‘.text’.

As not every album has the same properties, we try to fetch the value first and then, if it exists, we try to find the value. If not, we just return an empty string:

Some values have extra text we don’t need, as format_album or release_date. We remove that extra text with the ‘replace’ function, replacing that text with an empty string.

This was the most complicated thing of the code, but I’m sure you crushed it.
Netflix in Curaçao: “The Hour”, the BBC, and content licensing
By: Pito Salas
Tags: Thehour, BBC, Curacao, Netflix, Madmen

I was recently visiting Curaçao and remembered that I had read that Netflix was now available in South America so I thought I would check it out. (Curaçao is not technically in South America but close enough!) Well, it worked.

For one reason or another, I found a british program called “The Hour” which I also remembered having been positioned as the BBC’s answer to Madmen. Which it is not.

What it is, is a compelling drama about the creation of an hour long news program on the BBC in the years following WWII.

So compelling in fact, that we watched the whole mini-series (6 or 7 episodes) while we were there. Which you will see, was a good thing.

The story itself is really interesting, but it is also beautifully shot. In fact the look of it is the one thing that is reminiscent of Madmen. The acting is also great an the actors and characters are wonderful to watch. So glad we discovered “The Hour”

Being able to get to Netflix streaming in Curaçao is really cool because TV there can be uneven, depending on what cable package in available. I am in Curaçao a lot so this is a nice new option for you world travelers to be aware of.

Here’s a final twist. When I got back to the US, I went onto Netflix to find The Hour NOT available on Netflix!
New Wives’ Tales for 2020
By: Ali Kelley
Tags: Humor, Lists, New Year, Healthcare, Satire

New Wives’ Tales for 2020

Updated superstitions and justified paranoia for the new year

Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

1. Going outside with wet hair will make you catch a cold that you won’t be able to treat until your insurance premium goes down.

2. If you swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for the length of time it takes you to find an in-network gastroenterologist: 7 years.

3. It’s bad luck to open an umbrella inside the waiting room of your gastroenterologist’s office.

4. You should wait an hour after eating before opening the bill from your gastroenterologist visit.

5. The white spots on your fingernails are due to your lying about completing Whole30.

6. Eating the crust of bread will make your gluten intolerance flare up.

7. If you make a silly face in the wind your boss will still accuse you of having resting bitch face.

8. Cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis, which is a pre-existing condition you are mandated to disclose to your insurer.

9. “Swimming on a full stomach is the reason you are experiencing bad cramps,” is how your male doctor will misdiagnose you.

10. Swallowing a seed will make a watermelon grow in your stomach and your employer deny your request for maternity leave.

11. Nosebleeds are a sign of sexual arousal that a licensed therapist could help you work through sometime in 2024 when they are accepting new patients.

12. Eating ice cream before bed leads to nightmares about how your body is breaking down and you can’t afford basic medical care, but at least there’s one, free thing left that can always put you to sleep.

13. Masturbation will make you go blind if you don’t turn your screen brightness down.
Does Your Writing Tidy Up Reality?
By: Ryan J. Pelton
Tags: Writing, Truth, Creativity, Writer, Creative Writing

One of the hardest skills learned for writing anything is to be honest. Finding that thread of vulnerability, authenticity, and truth-telling. Where we say what we mean, and mean what we say.

Flannery O’Connor in her book on writing, Mystery and Manners, explains the job of a novelist:

“The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees. Now this is the first point at which the novelist who is a Catholic may feel some friction between what he is supposed to do as a novelist and what he is supposed to do as a Catholic, for what he sees at all times is fallen man perverted by false philosophies. Is he to reproduce this? Or is he to change what he sees and make it, instead of what it is, what in the light of faith he thinks it ought to be? Is he, as Baron von Hugel has said, supposed to “tidy up reality?” (177).

Whether you have faith in the Divine, or not, the work of the writer is always the same… never tidy up reality. Truth-telling is the primary vocation of the writer.

Our best writing comes with eyes wide open. Often writing with tear-filled eyes. I just wrote something about the death of my first daughter. I could sugar coat the experience and say it’s been an easy road of butterflies and candy canes.

Or, open my eyes, and tell others what I’m seeing.

Anger, doubt, fear, and pain.

Writing that moves us is not built on foundations of sand. The sands of false reality, and fake news. Writing with grit and teeth is built on what we see, what is there, with all its rough edges, ugliness, and evil.

O’Conner touches on something needed in our day. Much writing tries to paint a picture of life and the world that doesn’t exist. A world of ease, comfort, and where the good guys win (however you define the good guys).

I’m a man of faith, and I feel the tension of “tidying up reality.” Trying to write as if heaven has already come to earth.

I’ve experienced enough pain, and walked with enough people in the shadow of the valley of death, that honesty is the only path for healing and hope.

So write with honesty, truthfulness, and don’t tidy up reality, the best you understand it. But what every great story needs, and what our lives need to make it another day is hope…

Make sure a thread of hope exists in your work or we haven’t done our job as writers.

That’s at least how I see it…
コンプライアンス：ライセンス最新情報、免除について
By: Japan - Nanna
Tags: Mas, Pundixjapan, Pundix, Payment, Singapore

Pundi X is a leading developer of blockchain-powered devices, including the world’s first point-of-sale solution, the XPOS, which enables merchants and consumers to do transactions on the blockchain in physical stores.

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Christmas? 2020
By: Zay Pareltheon
Tags: Refugees, Poetry, Fairness, Poverty, Christmas

Christmas? 2020

It’s not the same, is it?

Photo by Julie Ricard on Unsplash

The starving child huddles against the wall

The tent wall, fabric that barely keeps out wind,

Or bugs who too seek a morsel to munch

Like the child who seeks a morsel to munch,

Perhaps a bug crawling in the stone and sand.

In some different place a great circle distant

She wraps an old sleeping bag around her child

Brave he is not to cry, perhaps just too weak,

The concrete holds no warmth; water starts to freeze,

The car’s been sold, money’s tight, stay warm.

“Oh, how unfair! I wanted that PS 5, not the 4

All my friends found ways, why not you?

The clothes are nice and all, but not the same,

Am I supposed to read a book for fun? Daaad?”
The Untold Story
By: Vaghawan Ojha
Tags: Poetry, Life, Grief, Thesceneandheard, Creative Writing

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In the murks of her widowed day,

She bore me inside her heart like a stone in a branch of tiny rose,

The wind coming from the treetop of Simal would almost snatch her,

She kept me inside her ocean, calm and warm, delicate and soft,

Untouched by the miasma of autumn flowers in the wilted meadow,

Unhurled by the wave and tides that kept her floating from one edge to another.

Sometimes she cried, sometimes she even smiled, often she was sad.

She spent her days looking at the clouds, and probably thinking about the day

When my father raped her.

I know she dreamt about me too-

In a white butterfly dress made of china cotton, smocking of a dragonfly,

I would learn to toddle.

She heard me saying “Momma”, she heard my breath sleeping in her lap,

She listened to my cries, became pensive for my about-to-be smile,

The fragrance of hope fell from the dusky clouds of her sky.

She drew the cartoons, she knitted the woolen gloves for my tiny hands,

She talked with me all night, like the crickets do with the night,

She watched me all night, like the moths do with the light,

She had found herself, and, I had found myself;

which would help us to live.

But, one day, the wind blew in the valley so hard, her abode was swept away.

She started crying, her womb started aching, helplessly thinking about her about to be born child.

She endured the thunder hailing from the skies,

god hated her for being raped by my father.

She had closed her eyes when it was raining, the dripping water became red as it streamed away from her.

God took her away for her sin,

she gave birth to a demon.
FT hosts Codebar
By: Ft Product
Tags: Project

by Georgina Murray

This week, on 13 September, FT Technology hosted Codebar.

codebar.io are an organisation who run coding workshops which teach and help underrepresented groups (women, BAME & LGBTQ) get into tech.

The event began with a talk on diversity in FT Product & Technology from CPIO Cait O’Riordan, then Kirsten Jones showcased Nightingale, our in house tool used by FT journalists to generate charts for news stories, followed by Chris Gathercole of FT Labs, who gave a demo of the ‘Six Degrees of Angela Merkel’ — a new FT feature based on the six degrees of separation theory, that enables readers to see which famous figures are mentioned together most often, using metadata.

The workshop participants were then paired up with codebar and FT coaches, at various levels and learned parts of HTML, Javascript, Ruby and CSS.

We’ve received lots of brilliant feedback from the participants and codebar on twitter, some of which has been retweeted by @FTTechDept.

Thank you to all who helped organise, teach the codebar participants and assisted in making the night a success.
Advisor Profile: Brigadier General (Retd.) Richard Christopher Pereira
Tags: Blockchain, Advisor, Payments, ICO, Fintech

Having been a long time supporter and informal advisor of Chynge, we are delighted to have Brigadier General (Retired) Richard Christopher Pereira formally join our roster of esteemed advisors, bringing with him a wealth of experience and knowledge.

BG (Retd) Richard Christopher Pereira

Richard had an illustrious career with the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF). He started as a fighter pilot and acquired extensive experience in strategic thinking and leadership over his career, through the numerous leadership roles he held in both staff and operations. As a Commander at the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Command and Air Combat Command, Richard was instrumental in integrating competencies and capabilities from the Army, Navy and Air Force units, to serve the wider Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) mission. Amongst his responsibilities was the numerous presentations he made on a range of issues to the Minister for Defence and his committee members.

After Richard’s retirement from the RSAF, he became a shareholder and Director with Green Ravolution and Aviation Topguns Pte Ltd companies, both of which involve his areas of his interest and expertise. Given Richard’s passion for trading the financial markets, he, along with a group of retired senior officers, mostly Air Force generals, started Above All Investments, with a view to invest in promising start-ups. In 2015, Chynge became the group’s first investment.

To Richard, Chynge represents a new breed of financial entities, using the latest technologies in a disruptive way, to bring about instant, free and safe cross-border money movements.

“I have always been passionate about trading in the financial markets so it was only natural for me to bring a few like-minded friends together to invest in Chynge back in late 2015. I have seen the team grow from strength to strength and stand poised to deliver on its ambitious value propositions, which will deliver substantial value to individuals and institutions globally. My partners and I at Above All Investments believe in what Chynge does and will continue to support Chynge, through the Initial Coin Offering (ICO).”

We look forward to having Richard strengthen Chynge’s strategy and focus on execution for growth to stay ahead of the competition.

Welcome to the team, Richard!

In the coming weeks, learn more about our other advisors. Meanwhile, please sign up to be whitelisted for our upcoming token sale.
Don’t Read Before You Write, Do The Opposite
By: Khadejah Jones
Tags: Writing, Productivity, Reading, Writing Tips, Self

Don’t Read Before You Write, Do The Opposite

Don’t ruin your writing style.

Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

Reading and writing go hand-in-hand. It’s impossible to do one while rejecting the other. It’s a force of habit for me since I like to read in the morning before I write.

But if you’re going to read before you write you have to be careful because you might lose the most essential part of your writing — your voice. When you lose that, it’s game over for your article.

Why?

The more we read someone else’s writing before we write, the more we mimic their voice within our own writing. For example, I read a boatload of Nicolas Cole to the point where sometimes I find myself mimicking his unique writing style subconsciously.

If you read one of my previous articles, you’d think it’s a cheap imitation of someone else’s writing and you’re correct. Every writer’s voice is different. You can copy “good” writing, but you can’t copy great writing that has a voice to make it spicy.

If you do want to read before you write, try to make a huge gap in your day so you forget the stylistic elements of that person’s writing. In my case, I read at 10 am and write at 8 pm. That’s more than enough time to get my mind out of reading mode and into writing mode.

So don’t read before you write. Do the opposite. Get your mind out of reading mode and forget writing like you’re someone else. Write in your own voice.

No one can copy it.
How to install Bootstrap on a Phoenix 1.4 project
By: Abdulhakim Haliru
Tags: JavaScript, Phoenix, Elixir

I wanted to use bootstrap in my phoenix 1.4 project but phoenix 1.4 ships with the milligram.io by default.

I had to do something about it 😄

This was how I fixed it.

Go into the assets directory from your `Terminal`. [I use RubyMine for my elixir/phoenix projects.]

cd assets

npm install — save bootstrap jquery popper.js font-awesome

OR

npm install — save bootstrap@3 jquery popper.js font-awesome [for bootstrap 3]

npm install file-loader — save-dev

Go to your assets/js/app.js file and add the import statement import 'bootstrap'; Go to your assets/css/app.css and the @import statements @import "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css";

@import "../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css"; add this line to the module object inside module.exports function in assets/webpack.config.js {

test: /\.(woff(2)?|ttf|eot|svg)(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/,

use: [{

loader: 'file-loader',

options: {

name: '[name].[ext]',

outputPath: '../fonts'

}

}]

}

I have added screenshots of the above steps from my project.

Phoenix 1.4 shipped with class-less generators for markup, hence this only integrates bootstrap into your project but does not automatically add bootstrap classes to the generated markup.

P.S.

I ran into a jQuery undefined error, I had to include the following line to my webpack.config.js file

const webpack = require(‘webpack’); updated my plugins block to include new webpack.ProvidePlugin({

$: "jquery",

jQuery: "jquery"

}),

I included the below into my ~app.js file

import $ from 'jquery';

window.jQuery = $;

window.$ = $;

Restart your server

run mix phx.server again

This solved the jquery error.
Sometimes I Just Want to Take off My Pants and Read
By: Jessica Lynn
Tags: Humor, Books, Life Lessons, Gratitude, Reading

Yesterday, I was craving something as funny as Hyperbole and a Half, so I went to the library and took out every book they had in stock written by Nora Ephron, another author adept at writing humor and a master of hyperbole.

Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media is a compilation of a series of essays Ephron wrote for Esquire magazine in the early 1970s, mostly focused on women’s issues during the period of time when the Women’s Liberation Movement was taking off.



Her essays are full of witty satire, and her firm grasp of hyperbole couldn’t be more astute.

The social inequalities facing women during the 60’s which brought about the Women’s Liberation Movement, in the late 1960s, is fascinating to read in the context of 2019, and the issues women continue to grabble with today.

While Ephron is charming and witty and funny with a bold intellect, her opinions hold no punches. Reading her work now, you are at once stuck by how far we’ve come and how much we remain stuck.

Her later novel, Heartburn, about her divorce from a famous journalist, remains one of my favorites still. Yeasr ago, when I was fortunate to have come across it, I read it in one sitting.



She wrote a piece that ran in Esquire nearly 50 years ago, which focused mainly on her breasts — a hysterical read.

The title of the essay is, “A Few Words About Breasts,” the article is 3,500 words(!) on breasts. A few words indeed.

It is brilliant.

If you need a good laugh or an excuse to take off your pants and crawl into bed for a few hours, pick up one of these books or search for them on-line.



Both authors, from two completely different generations, will make you laugh until your belly aches.
How to Track Down Your Lost Sock: A Step-by-Step Guide
By: Wheeler Hord
Tags: Humor, Lifestyle, Socks, Laundry, Satire

How to Track Down Your Lost Sock: A Step-by-Step Guide

A laundry list of suggestions to find your fleet of foot escapee.

Image by congerdesign from Pixabay

You’re almost done putting the laundry away after having it sit in the basket for a week. Well done! You get to the end and realize only one thing is missing: a sock. You search around for it desperately, hoping you left it in the dryer or dropped it on the long trek to your room.

If only that were true.

The reality is that your sock is gone, and you’ll be stuck with an odd number for eternity. Here’s an effective guide to track down your lost sock and restore the balance to both your sock drawer and your life.
The Prime Directive
Tags: Agile, Scrum, Agile Retrospective, Software Development, Scrum Master

The retrospectives prime directive is a statement that needs to be considered as an assumption by every participant of every sprint. The purpose of the Prime Directive is to assure that a retrospective has the right purpose and the right culture in order to keep the focus results oriented and to be a positive experience for everyone involved.

Everyone in the meeting should participate and keep in mind the goal of the meeting.

The prime directive transforms your retrospectives sessions from “a dull meeting for ‘finger-pointing’ ”, to an effective team gathering looking to learn and find solutions to improve the way of working.

This is the prime directive:

“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.”

(The prime directive is written by Norm Kerth, and featured in his book: Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Review)

When you first talk about a retrospective to people who is not familiar with #Agile methodologies, some think of it like a sort of ‘let’s find who did it’ or a ‘blaming game’, therefore people is not that enthusiastic about holding a retrospective session.

The prime directive’s purpose is to clarify that we are not looking to blame, or find out who is not doing what they’re supposed to. In fact, It assumes everyone did their best for the achieved result. So, the retrospective session becomes a safe place to voice their opinion, with having to worry about being judged or blamed.

Bottomline, retrospectives’ purpose is to find out what your team can do better. Not who did what wrong.

Retrospective: A place for discussions for team improvement.

Remember, the key to having valuable retrospectives sessions is team communication with trust. The prime directive paves the way to it.

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FileMaker 17: New File Export Features
By: The Support Group
Tags: Mobile App Development, App Development, Filemaker 16, Filemaker, Consulting

Here’s the situation: you’re showing your new custom app to a client, boss or colleague and you’re proud of the way it can send an email directly from the app. This allows users to leverage all the data stored within it — pretty powerful! But then they ask if they can email more than one attachment because the weekly sales progress report includes three PDF files. Deflated, you hang your head and explain that FileMaker Pro only supports one attachment per email. That used to take the wind right out of your sails until the new FileMaker 17 Platform came along and offered the option to attach multiple files to an email message…

You can invoke this option manually during the Send Mail process or you can program it using the calculation engine in FileMaker 17, just as you would any other file importing/exporting step.

Since we’re talking about the file exporting capabilities in FileMaker 17, we have to mention its ability to create directories during any file saving action. Let’s say you’ve just created this slick report that your team can use to guide the daily project scrum meeting. Simply by clicking a button, you can save a PDF of the report directly on your desktop. However, you don’t want to clutter your desktop with a bunch of files, so instead, you have FileMaker 17 save it in a folder aptly called “Daily Scrum.” That works well until someone else wants to run and save the report to their desktop. Because this folder does not exist on the new desktop and the computer is running an old version of FileMaker Pro, you get this kooky, undecipherable dialog:

Well with FileMaker 17, if the folder isn’t there, it will automagically create it! All you have to do is specify the “Create directories: On” option located on all the export/save file script steps.

Watch the demo.

Interested in upgrading your app? Let’s chat!

By Vince Dolan
The Future of Design Education Pt. 358
By: Tyler Hartrich
Tags: Design, Future, UX, Education, UX Design

The Future of Design Education Pt. 358

On Evolutionary Design Standards

The rewriting of our designer code

“No man may by natural law govern for greater than that of his own life. Because if he could, then the world would be ran by the dead.” Jefferson wrote such words to Maddison upon the writings of the Declaration of Independence — rightfully concerned that the laws of nature must have a bound — that each new generation ought to carry revolutionary tendencies.

A heightened designer view

It is here where the standards of design are put into question. Is it the case that the world of design is setting the standard appropriate to properly govern our modern world? Does the next generation have the full range of considerations necessary to enter into the profession with the proper moral and ethical backing?

Design as persistently evolving

The standard set in motion within design education must, at its core origin bring about a resounding care for our Mother Earth. She is without protection from the ailments of mans most destructive self. It is clear that a new form of design standards are necessary to thrive i our modern age. What will rewriting our designer manifesto lead us towards?

Call to action

Consider the standards in modern design. What still remains out of focus, yet entirely relevant as designers enter industry? It is within the new law set in this generation that holds promise for the next seven generations to come!

Go forthward and thrive!

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Migration
By: Kara B. Imle
Tags: Loss, Poetry, Change, Life Lessons, Poems On Medium

Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

There are times when it is

alright not to know.

You just keep going steadily

forward when the only

sound coming back to you

is your own heart churning

into the void: that engine

that beats warmth and strength

and pulse into your ocean blood and is

powered by a spark that comes from

you know not where.

From the void you came

and into it you’ll go. You find

the current at last and

instead of fighting it you follow it

go with it, surf it.

It’s not a path you can see;

the sky changes, the tide

goes out, the wind comes up.

Remains only the steady rumbling

in your ears, the call of your heart

to the sea.

Life is immense

and must be explored;

and then again, life

is helplessly fragile

every watery breath perhaps your last.

How absolutely transcendent!

How perfectly ordinary!

Surely the gods were drunk

on salmon and wild berries

when they made life

and everything in it.

Your heart is taking you

onward, into the night

feeling its way through cold, rain,

tidal energy, wind and legend, to the place

where you can smell black spruce

and the cold bellies of fish.

When the sun comes it will find you

drying out on a wide white beach

or drifting long and wet-haired in the tide

or sleeping cradled in driftwood branches.

Many journeys it took to get back

to the exact place where you began

but that is the way to come home:

you find you were right there all along.
Tua Nao: The Plant-based Alternative To Shrimp Paste You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
By: Alex Heery
Tags: Thailand, Vegan, Cooking, Fermentation, Food

Tua Nao: The Plant-based Alternative To Shrimp Paste You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

The centuries-old Thai condiment that will elevate your dishes

Nothing brings Southeast Asian flavors together quite as well as shrimp paste.

Okay, maybe knowledge, skill, and love for cooking, but mainly shrimp paste…

I used to be vegetarian, and of the few things that spoiled plant-based, Southeast Asian recipes — that is, those that normally aren’t — for me, omitting shrimp paste and fish sauce hit the hardest.

There’s nothing quite like taking all the flavor, fat, and umami out of a dish and half-heartedly replacing it with tofu and a squirt of soy sauce, or if you’re lucky to have some, Miso.

But, Miso can be a little sweet and doesn’t always hit the same as shrimp paste (Gapi).

So we look to Thailand…

An old episode of The Splendid Table podcast features Austin Bush — author of The Food of Northern Thailand — nostalgically recounting his travels of northern Thailand and the smell of Tua Nao.

Tua Nao, which roughly translates to “rotten beans” are fermented soybean cakes that have been used as a seasoning in the north of Thailand, and Laos, for hundreds of years.

They’re made from cooked soybeans pounded into a paste and left to ferment for several days. They have a strong flavor similar to shrimp paste and have traditionally been used to add a sense of umami to otherwise simple dishes.
Uttam Prakash
Tags: Alumni, Alumni Profiles

Uttam Prakash

Regional Commissioner, Provident Fund, EPFO (Delhi West), Uttam is an alumnus from the batch of 1994

Basicolan Uttam Prakash is the Regional Commissioner of Provident Fund, EPFO (Delhi West). His work area includes policy formulation, enforcement, service delivery, capacity building, and human resource management.

He has hands-on experience of drafting of policies, law, regulations, procedures their revision and amendment, and knowledge products in India and Afghanistan.

With the current pandemic forcing millions of people indoors, or working from home, Uttam and his team are braving it out in their offices, processing Provident Fund claims. In order to adhere to social distancing norms, the strength in his team these days is between 30 and 35% of the usual team. Even with a small team, they are working overtime, and processing claims within a shortened time-span of three days, to ensure people are receiving their claims in a timely manner.
Submission Guidelines — ‘Struggling Forward’
By: Tim Rettig
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Community, Writing, Creativity, Psychology

Photo by Naqi Shahid on Unsplash

Helping each other to go through the struggle, on the way towards our dreams.

Everybody wants to fulfill their dreams.

But few have patience and self-control needed to survive the first years of struggle. That period of time, which is needed to build up the necessary skills and lay the foundations for success.

During that time, life is defined by hardship. Financial struggle, an unclear future, and a lot of social pressure from all sides about what you are doing.

Few people survive this period of time.

They dig a hole into their hearts and bury their dreams so deep down that they can only hear it occasionally whispering: “have you forgotten me?”

If you don’t want to be one of these people. If you want to be one of the few who actually manage to achieve their dreams, then you will have to embrace those years of struggle.

As Malcolm Gladwell has said:
Doonesbury’s Charlie Hebdo Problem
By: Ruben Bolling
Tags: Garry Trudeau, Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech

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Global Women in Blockchain Announce The FAB Foundation as their Official Education Arm
By: Fab Info
Tags: Women, Partnerships, Blockchain, Events, Tech

The FAB Foundation has been appointed as the official education arm of the Global Women in Blockchain, the world’s premier network for women in the decentralized tech community. As the education arm of the Global Women in Blockchain(GWB), FAB will provide content, accreditation programs, on-boarding and more to members within the network.

Nina Nichols

GWB was founded by Nina Nichols and is the first international umbrella organization designed to activate and accelerate the powerful partnerships of women to lead in the education, development and promotion of blockchain technologies. The non-profit group empowers women through shared business connections and exchanges, meet-ups, virtual town halls, learning events and more to increase the diversity within the tech sector.

The appointment is a major step for the FAB Foundation in establishing the project on the global stage both as a premier technology, but also as a catalyst for positive progress.

Liza Horowitz, CMO/CIO Fast Access Blockchain

Liza Horowitz, a Board Member for Global Women in Blockchain and CMO/CIO for FAB will co-lead the education direction of the partnership. “Partnering with GWB strengthens our strategic initiative to create value through technology. This influential group of global women will extract the maximum value for the platform and enable new ways of learning and growing, shares Liza Horowitz, CMO/CIO of Fast Access Blockchain.

ChainXChange

The news of the partnership between the two organizations comes as the Global Women in Blockchain (GWB) are preparing for the ChainXChange conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA August 13–15, 2018 at the Mandalay Bay. FAB will ensure all blockchain content provided through sponsors GWiB is educational.

The conference aims to empower, educate and entertain as an experiential technology conference centered around Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and other transformative technologies.

Noted speakers include Steve Wozniak the Co-Founder of Apple, Paul Krugman a Nobel prize-winning economist, Molly Bloom, Common, Gary Vaynerchuk, Nina Nichols and more.

Visit https://chainxchange.io/2018/public/enter.aspx for more information and to join us at the conference.

FAB & Global Women in Blockchain

FAB’s is focused on three core growth areas, technology, education and partnerships. FAB is a Blockchain technology provider reducing the barrier to entry for developers and businesses. FAB has committed to investing over $5 million USD with blockchain projects around the world.

FAB plans to grow access to blockchain education around the world through accreditation programs through professional organizations, courses both online and in person, event presentations and more.

FAB’s partnership with the GWB will spearhead our efforts to raise awareness, provide education and give equal access to the growing tech sector for all.