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Public Beta Launch
By: Sebastiaan Lichter
Tags: Fintech, Blockchain, Trading, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Blockport is launching its first equity round STO in March 31st. Find out more here.

Lift-off! We are excited to announce that the public Beta is now live and available to everyone in Europe. You can directly sign-up for the Blockport platform and start trading cryptocurrency once your account is activated.

Everyone will be able to create an account on our website and will receive confirmation that your account has been created. Based on the performance of the system, our team will activate new batches of users everyday. The size of these batches will increase exponentially, as long as the performance of the platform can be maintained.

Our aim is to build up the user-base as quickly as possible, throttled by our product’s performance and team’s confidence. So, you can start trading quickly on Blockport.

As soon as your account is activated you will receive an email notification and you can start trading.

Thank you for your support and enjoy!

What is included in this release:

Euro gateway with three deposit options: Wire transfer (SEPA), SOFORT, iDeal.

Buying, selling and trading of five cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple.

Withdraw functionality for all five supported cryptocurrencies.

Support for all EEA countries.

Mobile and Desktop version.

The small amount of features that are still missing for the 1.0 release will be added in the coming weeks causing the Beta to gradually change into the full product. This means that you will notice more functionalities and improvements continuously being added while you use the Beta instead of having to wait for one bigger delivery package later in time.

During the open Beta we have a daily maintenance window of 09:00–11:59 PM (CEST). This time window could be used if serious maintenance is necessary.

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About Blockport

Blockport is launching its first equity-based fundraising round through a Security Token Offering (STO), launching on the 31th of March 2019.

Register to receive more information about the Blockport STO

Blockport is an Amsterdam-based, fiat-to-cryptocurrency trading platform that strongly focusses on usability and social trading features to provide a secure, efficient and enjoyable experience to its users.

In the back-end, Blockport is connected to external exchanges and aggregates liquidity through its smart-order-routing system to offer the best prices to its users. In the coming year, Blockport is building on a hybrid-decentralized architecture that allows users to trade with high performance, whilst safely storing their funds on a blockchain wallet, meaning they own their private keys.
How to Improve Your SwiftUI Map
By: Luca J.
Tags: iOS, Mapkit, Swift Programming, Swiftui, Xcode

Simplification

This method makes exactly what we want, but it’s a bit complex and takes a long time, especially when having multiple maps. So you can simply add an extension to the map structure.
Getting Rich is Easy!
By: Building Arks With Jason Clendenen
Tags: Investing, Finance, Self Improvement, Money, Life Lessons

I read articles all the time talking about how easy it is to get rich. While there is some truth to it being easier than most people believe, since most people believe it is impossible, if getting rich were easy, everyone would do it. Wouldn’t they?

The truth is that it is not very difficult to get rich. The concepts are there for everyone to use. You can start a business, you can learn to invest in the stock market, you can own and manage real estate, or any number of other proven strategies. All of these strategies, if well-applied, can lead to wealth. You can find numerous books, Youtube videos, and other sources of information that tell you many ways to make money in life. This stuff isn’t secret — it’s everywhere!

However, so many people don’t manage to improve their financial station in life. Why? Certainly, we are not all born with the same advantages, which definitely has a significant influence on our finances. Yet everyone can improve their financial wellbeing to some extent if they learn how and put their learning into action.

It made me think about my own path to success, whereby it wasn’t until I hunkered down, studied, learned, tried, failed, tried again, that I finally made some progress building wealth. The strategies are not difficult or complicated. You don’t need to have an IQ of 200 and a supercomputer to make it in this world, but you do have to have the tenacity and discipline to work hard to learn AND be willing to take action.

Some complicated strategies may work for some people, but much of what works consistently in investing is simple to understand. Buying low-cost index funds over time (dollar cost averaging), buying good rental houses or commercial property, investing in companies selling below their intrinsic value are not very difficult. But you do have to put in the time and effort to learn how it works and then practice until you get good. Anything else is just speculation.

I came across this quote by Thomas Edison the other day while researching for a different story:

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash

Many people want their lives to change by magic. They want to watch Jim Cramer or read a five-minute article and think their lives will transform. That’s not how it works. Just as you can’t lose weight without diet and exercise, you can’t build wealth without learning and trying new things.

The truth is you have to put in the effort. It doesn’t take all your free time — you can be successful in just a few hours per week as I explain here, but unless you are willing to put in the time and effort to change your life, it won’t. Period.

So as we approach the start of a new year, leaving behind one that has been very difficult for so many people, how will you commit to changing your life?
Commitment
By: Joseph Emmi
Tags: Discipline, Personal, Commitment, Journal, Life

Commitment is solely and purely about actions. No ideas, no says, no dreams or desires. Actions.

Is that final effort you do at the end of the day, when your bed is calling and your eyes closing. When leaving that one thing for tomorrow will become the difference between staying on track or just giving up.

Commitment is about putting things aside, leaving others behind and battling all the challenges, which by the way, a great tend to come from ourselves. Stay firm and focused and pass through.

The morale of the story? Just say yes. If you truly want it, if you really want to stay committed, go for it.

Actions not ideas. Thinking we are different, saying we are different makes us not, only actions can makes us different from the rest. This is something I always say, I believe and fully stand upon.
Wicked Smaaht!
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: College, Boston, Comics, Humor, Motherhood

Parents weekend is a great time to learn a little more about your kid — and the new world.
Installing Bootstrap and Phaser/HTTP-Server With NPM
By: Kainan Doneson
Tags: JavaScript, Phaserjs, Bootstrap, NPM

Setting up Bootstrap:

To get started add a html boiler plate to your directory!

index.html example:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">

<head>

<meta charset="UTF-8">

<title>Title</title>

</head>

<body>



</body>

</html>

With the project directory still as the current directory enter the command:



npm install bootstrap@4

You may notice some warnings about missing dependencies after running this command:



npm WARN bootstrap@4.5.2 requires a peer of jquery@1.9.1–3 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm WARN bootstrap@4.5.2 requires a peer of popper.js@¹.16.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

I guess we need to install them ourselves:



npm i popper.js

npm i jquery

At this point take a look at the package.json file. It should reflect the change made so far. There should be bootstrap, j query, and popper listed under the dependencies key.

example package.json

we should also have a new folder named node_modules. Inside this folder will be files pertaining to the packages we installed. Were going to need to reference a few in our html below.

In order to use Bootstrap we need to load the styles and JS in our html file. We need to reference the files in the node_modules directory. You can place the following in the <head> tag



<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css

and the following in the top of the <body> tag

<! — jQuery first, then Popper.js, then Bootstrap JS. →

<script src=”node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.slim.js”></script>

<script src=”node_modules/popper.js/dist/umd/popper.js”></script>

<script src=”node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js”></script>

to check that Bootstrap is working, below the scripts add this html(from the bootstrap docs) and load up index html!



<nav class=”navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light”>

<a class=”navbar-brand” href=”#”>Navbar</a>

<button class=”navbar-toggler” type=”button” data-toggle=”collapse” data-target=”#navbarNavDropdown” aria-controls=”navbarNavDropdown” aria-expanded=”false” aria-label=”Toggle navigation”>

<span class=”navbar-toggler-icon”></span>

</button>

<div class=”collapse navbar-collapse” id=”navbarNavDropdown”>

<ul class=”navbar-nav”>

<li class=”nav-item active”>

<a class=”nav-link” href=”#”>Home <span class=”sr-only”>(current)</span></a>

</li>

<li class=”nav-item”>

<a class=”nav-link” href=”#”>Features</a>

</li>

<li class=”nav-item”>

<a class=”nav-link” href=”#”>Pricing</a>

</li>

<li class=”nav-item dropdown”>

<a class=”nav-link dropdown-toggle” href=”#” id=”navbarDropdownMenuLink” data-toggle=”dropdown” aria-haspopup=”true” aria-expanded=”false”>

Dropdown link

</a>

<div class=”dropdown-menu” aria-labelledby=”navbarDropdownMenuLink”>

<a class=”dropdown-item” href=”#”>Action</a>

<a class=”dropdown-item” href=”#”>Another action</a>

<a class=”dropdown-item” href=”#”>Something else here</a>

</div>

</li>

</ul>

</div>

</nav>

you should have a nice Bootstrap nav-bar loaded in!
The Witcher V/s The Mandalorian | What does the Numbers & Text Mining Say
By: Nash Ali
Tags: Rstudio, TV Series, The Witcher Netflix, The Mandalorian, Python Programming

The Witcher V/s The Mandalorian | What does the Numbers & Text Mining Say Nash Ali Follow May 23 · 5 min read

Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | IMDb | Twitter

Since last Christmas, Netflix’s “The Witcher” and Disney Plus’s “The Mandalorian” have dominated the media with each becoming the biggest TV series in the world in their respective primes.

Both shows had a lot of hype before their respective releases and big financial backings. While The Mandalorian had an advantage for taking place in the highly popular Star Wars Universe, the Witcher had three big marketing advantages: the presence of popular British actor Henry Cavil (Clark Kent/Superman of DCEU Enfranchise & the main antagonist of Mission Impossible: Fallout), the series being based off the popular Polish series of novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, and The Witcher game series that made its content popular around the world.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — JULY 19: Henry Cavill attends “The Witcher”: A Netflix Original Series Panel during 2019 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 19, 2019, in San Diego, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)

Now, it’s time to see What Does the Numbers & Text Mining say about these two series.

Notes: There will be No Spoilers.

Sores on Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic

Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are two of the most popular review-aggregation websites for film and television.

Notes: For plots, Python scripts were used in Orange Sofware with graphing library Plotly.
Blog Post 5: What’s Life Without Some Experimentation?
By: Mitali Palekar
Tags: Data Science, NLP

👋🏼 you! Early on this week, we spent a ton of time evaluating and re-evaluating our ideas based on new findings and resources, especially after talks with folks from AI2. Then, once we finalized on our plan for the next few weeks, we got to work creating our dataset of NLP papers as well as building our pipeline for both the baseline approaches and beyond.

Building our Game Plan

This week, we put a good amount of work into clarifying what our plans will be going forward, including our evaluation plan that was promised last week. We go through our pipeline in order.

In addition to deciding which papers to include in our dataset as discussed in the next section, we decided to start with titles and abstracts since they are the pieces of text readily available in our corpus. Contingent on getting access to papers’ full text and/or if we can parse PDFs ourselves, we are hoping to also use parts of the papers like introductions and conclusions to get more access to the paper’s content.

We plan for experiments with different models to be the heart of our work this quarter. We want to try single-task supervised learning (as we do here), multi-task learning, and unsupervised learning taking the cosine similarity of SciBERT embeddings [Beltagy et al., 2019]. We will start with pairwise comparisons to get scores to then build the rankings, and perhaps consider nearest neighbors as needed for performance. We are planning to train on pairs (how similarly we rank them) with triplet loss as a stretch goal.

Training and evaluation can be completed on different tasks, so we plan to try different pairings. To start, we are only evaluating on citations (hoping that actually cited papers appear high in our model’s output rankings), but we can eventually evaluate on venues or entities. When we train our supervised models, we can also train on any of these tasks (citations, venues, etc.) or do multiple at once. We plan to try many of these combinations.

For our evaluation, we are planning to treat this as a ranking problem. This calls for using rankings metrics such as mean reciprocal ranking (MRR), which only considers the first answer that is a “truly” relevant paper (depending on the task). We may also try F1 for the k top rankings and normalized discounted cumulative gain (nDCG) because of recommendations from those in the field.
GentriFind
By: Hala Abukhodair
Tags: Grasshopper, Gentrification, Work, Fa19, Urban Planning

Can the process of gentrification be more transparent?

Gentrification has been the inevitable outcome of development. The Development has positive aspects such as being the engine of growth and the upkeep of the urban landscape. On the other hand, it can cause displacement.

This is our starting point.

Our tool helps make the process of gentrification more transparent to the community, developers, and policymakers, in order to increase awareness both top-down and bottom-up.

Tool Concept Diagram

Our tool can address this issue by identifying multiple parameters to make gentrification more tangible to comprehend. There are multiple factors which cause gentrification. However for this prototype we have chosen a few to set an example. Some of the parameters include rent range, income levels, and new development.

The community engagement is a key factor in order to achieve transparency. By using google’s teachable machine as a mediator, we can encourage people to explore the tool and the topic of gentrification. The user can use hand gestures and body movement to manipulate the outcome.
Unblocked is Now Shardus
Tags: Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

The Unblocked Ledger Coin Project has been developing both a distributed ledger technology and a payment network application that uses this technology. It’s similar to how blockchain is the underlying technology that makes the Bitcoin payment network possible. Combining the technology and the application under the Unblocked Ledger Coin name appears to have caused some confusion. To better differentiate the technology from the application, we will be renaming the project.

The new name for our project will be Shardus, a name that emphases the sharding aspect of our technology. The new name of the payment network built with this technology will be Liberdus. The word Liberdus is a combination of the words Libertas and Solidus, names of coins used in the Roman and Byzantine periods.

While the name is changing, our effort remains the same: Shardus is building a protocol that incorporates sharding and auto-scaling to provide high throughput, low latency, and immediate finality while maintaining the highest level of decentralization and security.

The first application of Shardus technology will be Liberdus, a coin and payment network designed to address the problems of traditional blockchains — namely scalability, decentralization, security and long-term sustainability. Thanks to Shardus technology, Liberdus will be able to accomodate billions of active users and can be applied to many future global-scale decentralized applications.

The Unblocked Ledger Token (ULT) which is distributed by the project for code development and bounties will eventually be renamed the Shardus Token (ST). However, since this requires deploying a new contract to change the token name and symbol, it will take some time to setup and execute. We will send an announcement when this is ready.

We thank everyone for their support and hope that you will continue to follow our efforts through the new Shardus channels.

Follow Shardus

Website: https://www.shardus.com

Telegram: https://t.me/shardus

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@ShardusLedger

Medium: https://medium.com/@shardus

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Shardus/

Github: https://github.com/shardus
Four Forms One Submission
By: Gordon Mcfarland
Tags: Poetry, The Human Condition, Winter, Nature, Life Lessons

Monoku

does the rabbit find meaning in providing sustenance for the fox?

Haiku

buried deep in mud

underneath a frozen pond

a frog waits for spring

Senryu

loneliness and pain

are the lot of all who breathe

for some they’re constant

Tanka

the road appears bare

but on the sun-deprived curves

black ice lies unseen

re-frozen water ready

to send the careless to God
What is HYBSE?
By: Morten Madsen
Tags: Trading, Passive Income, Stock Market, Crypto, Cryptocurrency

What is HYBSE?

HYBSE is short for Hybrid Stock Exchange and is a part of the DIM ECOSYSTEM.

HYBSE was programmed by financial and software specialists formerly employed at the well known Xetra ( Frankfurt stock market). So it can be fairly concluded that this platform is very professional programmed and designed by people with high knowledge about the trading environment.

What can you trade on HYBSE? Almost everything, here take a look:

Cryptonized shares

Cryptonized currencies

Commodities

Index

Forex

ETC (Exchange-traded commodities)

ETF (Exchange-traded fund)

ETN (exchange-traded note)

Furthermore small and medium businesses can use HYBSE to seek capital and go public through an IPO.

What are the advantages of using HYBSE?

The normal trading platform is too expensive, over-regulated and takes ages to clear simple trades. With HYBSE the whole trading environment changes! HYBSE is a low-cost operational trading platform that offers fast clearing, transparency, very user-friendly interface and most important of all, it’s highly secure.

The normal procedure when trading different financial instruments where the investor (you) must trade through your broker -> then the broker must clear the transaction with a clearing house -> then the custodian must confirm the transaction -> and finally the transaction is put in the ledger.

When trading on HYBSE is only a small tree step procedure

Companies/issuer -> HYBSE -> investor (you). Fast, cheap and very secure.

When is HYBSE ready?

HYBSE will be ready September 2018. According to this update from the DIM team, the programming is 40% done. You can see the announcement here. The best news is that HYBSE is in negotiation with over 25 companies to be listed on HYBSE!

The DIM team will release snapshots of the development of HYBSE a long the way. You can follow the development on their Telegram channel here.

Earn money with the fees on HYBSE

The trading fees on HYBSE is 0,1% of the volume on each transaction. 30% of that fee will be transferred as a dividend to the TOKENS holders with more than 50+ DIM TOKENS. You can passively earn money just by holding DIM TOKENS in your DEPOTWALLET. You can read more about DIM TOKENS here.

You can also earn a lot of money by helping companies listing on HYBSE. You will be rewarded with 0,1% of the company’s listing market value. This can turn out to be some serious money.
What To Do If Your Doctor Prescribes Opioid Painkillers?
By: Arpit Khemka
Tags: Pain Management, Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Opioids, Exercise At Home

The Miami Herald has published a helpful article on what you can do if your doctor hears about your pain and chooses to prescribe you opioid painkillers that can become addictive. There may be more treatment options than you think! For starters:

Talk to your doctor. “Learn about the drugs first, and don’t be afraid to ask a lot of questions.”

Try other options first. “Consider other ways to manage pain. Physical therapy [exercise therapy], psychological therapy, and exercise can help.”

Start low, go slow. “If you need powerful painkillers like OxyContin or Vicodin, start with the lowest effective dose for a limited period.”

We at SimpleTherapy offer a variety of head-to-toe exercise therapy programs designed to reduce pain without prescription medication.
Roundtable #23: Token Economics, NewDex EOS Pairs & Monero
By: Ico Alert
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Podcast, Token Economy

Josh Bryant (VP of Data Management) join Q and Ev for the roundtable chat this week.

Don’t miss this week’s episode of ICO Alert’s The Roundtable Podcast with co-hosts Zach Quezada and Evan Schindler holding casual crypto conversations on the latest news and the hottest topics.

Join The Roundtable Telegram group below to suggest which cryptocurrency you’d like to hear about from the token economics experts over at Alpine & ConsenSys on next week’s Roundtable.

https://t.me/theroundtable

Prefer to read along? Read the transcript here at blog.icoalert.com.
What is an “Out-of-Bag” Sample in a Random Forest Model?
By: Joseph Catanzarite
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Decision Tree Classifier, Random Forest

Suppose our data set has N examples (rows). Each tree in our random forest contains a bootstrap sample of the data set, which means a set of N samples randomly chosen (with replacement) from the data set. “With replacement” means that each random sample is chosen from the full data set (i.e. before choosing the next sample, we put back the sample we just chose).

Now the probability that a particular sample will not be chosen in a single random draw from the full data set is (N−1)/N. So the probability that a sample will not be chosen in a tree — which is a bootstrap sample consisting of N draws— is (N−1)/N)^N=(1−1/N)^N. In the limit of large N, this expression asymptotically approaches 1/e≈0.368.

So 36.8% of the samples in each tree are out-of-bag, i.e. left out, and therefore can be used for prediction.
The Unconstitutionality of Ag-Gag Laws
By: Alexandra Walker-Jones
Tags: Law, Politics, Welfare, Consumerism, Animal Rights

Ag-gag laws were first introduced in The United States as a response to whistle-blower investigations that sought to hold factory farms, puppy mills, and the like, accountable for their abusive treatment of animals, filthy conditions, as well as neglected workplace safety precautions.

It is important to note that the outbreak of Covid-19 has had a catastrophic impact on workers in slaughterhouses as all meat-producing facilities were allowed to continue operations during all stages of the pandemic. The close-quarters, and fast-pace of this particular working environment not only contributes to the increased suffering of animals, but also of humans.

“Legislation that covers up conditions that can cause zoonotic diseases, unsafe work environments, and animal cruelty will have deadly consequences for humans and animals alike.” — Camille Labchuk, lawyer and executive director of Animal Justice.

While these laws originally aimed to prevent the destruction of property, and physical harm to farmers, ag-gag legislation has morphed into a means of suppressing awareness of how modern food is produced.

Ag-gag ensures that any film or photography taken at an industrialized farming operation is therefore the property of authorities, with the implicated individuals suffering a range of further consequences under the law. A first conviction in violation of these laws is considered a serious misdemeanor, while a second or subsequent conviction is legally viewed as an aggravated misdemeanor.

But let’s face it: The undercover investigators aren’t the real trouble here. Big agribusiness knows good and well that the potential reaction of the public to the horrifying farm operations would be enough to cause a massive shift in consumption of these products.

More often than not, animal cruelty on these farms is dismissed as being the crime of a single bad worker, or as an isolated and rarely occurring event. This is not the case. In other words, farmers are well aware that what happens in their factories would be enough to turn most peoples’ stomachs, a far cry from the pictures they so artfully paint of happy animals feeding in lush, green pastures.

For obvious reasons, ag-gag laws are commonly viewed as being in direct violation of freedom of speech, with issues such as the censorship of illegal activity within the agricultural industry at its core. While a worthy concern for constitutional rights has resulted in the overturning of a number of proposed modern ag-gag laws, several states are still waiting for this to be decided.
In the End
By: Aiyanah Rose
Tags: Life Lessons, Chance Encounters, Photography, Spirituality, Inspiration

I stood in the rain pondering the fleeting questions in my mind, admiring nature’s grandeur, finally letting go to soak in the ambience as it was intended by the wise founders of the 1800s. Then I looked up and saw the view from their tired eyes. In that moment hundreds of souls whispered their wisdom, welcoming the visitor whom was open to hear. I left the cemetery after a full hour of meandering through lifetimes of strangers turned friends. I never saw the man again, and dwelled long after about why the Buckleys summoned me on that day.

In the end, when bones are settled and all is done, what mattered most?

Not this final destination, but the journey through the ethereal web of connection that weaves us together in one timeless moment.

P.S. Held in the grasp of this encounter weeks later, I decided to research the Buckleys for any hint of connection. Turns out the mausoleum belongs to the Buckley family of Edward Buckley, a prominent lumberman in the late 1800s. He opened E. Buckley & Co. hardware store, which ultimately closed, and then founded Buckley & Douglas Lumber and Salt Mill. The mill was a thriving business for the Manistee, Michigan area, and considered a staple of economic development. Edward’s younger brother Frank worked for the hardware store, and then joined the Navy and eventually became a dentist and established his practice in the Chicago area. He travelled abroad and introduced dental care to places like Constantinople and Berlin, and later returned to the Chicago area where he lived and died, 15 minutes from my home. Interestingly, 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the massive fire that burned much of the lumber and salt mill.*
#WorldMangroveDay: Importance of Protecting Our Mangroves — by @kingadindu
By: Iccdi Africa
Tags: Biodiversity, Wash, Women, Mangrove, Climate Change

According to UNESCO, Mangroves are rare, spectacular and prolific ecosystems on the boundary between land and sea. These extra ordinary ecosystems contribute to the wellbeing, food security, and protection of coastal communities worldwide. They support a rich biodiversity and provide a valuable nursery habitat for fish and crustaceans. Mangroves also act as a form of natural coastal defense against storm surges, tsunamis, rising sea levels and erosion. Their soils are highly effective carbon sinks, sequestering vast amounts of carbon.

Key points

In Nigeria mangrove is highly threatened.

Shoreline protection is very important.

We need to know the population of mangrove we have lost then we can start talking about sustainable solutions.

There should be a policy for all our mangrove activities. This should be the government work.

Vulnerable in the communities are the one suffering — we need to find a sustainable solution for them.

We cannot conserve when we are damage the ecosystem.

Opportunities in mangroves are so numerous — this is the time for us to maximize the opportunity and build resilience.

We need to start channeling our effort toward mangrove.

Let’s increase effort in educating the people in the community.

We need to start taken SDGs 13&14 very serious.

We need to start teaching our farmers sustainable fish farming so that it can help them to preserve the ecosystem.

Government should start making effort in working with key stakeholders that will support our ecosystem.

Protecting natural ecosystems like mangrove forests not only helps preserve biodiversity, it also helps preserve a vital resource for local communities.

International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem INSTAGRAM Live by Kingsley Adindu
Part 1: Bits 101
By: Cédric Bellet
Tags: Programming, Bitwise

Secondly, a few properties which I find useful to remember at all times when dealing with bits:

Bit strings is all your computer knows. All information that gets processed or stored on your device passes through a state where it is represented only as a series of 0s and 1s. A key stroke, a scroll, a connection to a website, any image or file… can be written as a series of bit strings.

Bit strings are not just the base-2 representations of numbers. In fact, I find it useful to consider bit strings through two different lenses:

Bits strings as binary numbers. In this interpretation, bit strings are simply numbers; ‘truth-y’ bits in position i are worth 2ⁱ, and bit strings are equal to the sum of their bits (more about the general concept in this Wikipedia article).

Here, the binary representation is a contingency, useful to understand and define specific functions that will run fast on computers given their binary architectures. However, because the notation does not convey meaning in itself, binary numbers and functions are as well described in any arbitrary base, for example base 10 for humans, or base 16 (hexadecimal) for conciseness.

Bits strings as language. In this view, bit words are more similar to human words: each bit, as a letter, helps form a bit word; letters do not increase the “value” of words but do change their meanings; converting words to numbers is possible but counterproductive.

As an example, think of “pear” and “peer”: the difference in meaning between these words is useful, but the fact that their number value would be different — if you were to convert — is irrelevant. Likewise, in this interpretation of bit strings, we consider that 10001 and 11001 differ in an interesting way, not because their base-10 value is different, but because their meaning, according to a defined grammar, is different. We find such grammars (though they may not be called as such) in UTF-8 encoding, in bit flags, or in padding steps for encryption and hashing algorithms.
List Your Coin on Indian Crypto Exchange BuyUcoin
By: Rinkesh Jha
Tags: List Your Coin, Cryptocurrency, Free Listing India, Token Listing, Coinlisting

List coin on Indian crypto exchange, BuyUcoin has created a golden opportunity for coin owners as well as several benefits, so now you can easily list your crypto token in India.

Why BuyUcoin is the best Cryptoexchanger in India?

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In buyucoin users will buy/sell(trade) in 45 cryptocurrencies with 10 high most Defi tokens. With over 350K client bases, BuyUcoin mission is to bring cryptocurrencies into a very million Indian pockets. It will be commencing as an international worldwide world operation of Cryptocurrency exchange within the next quarter to succeed in a lot of global user base and changing into aggressive to cater to the worldwide market.

How BuyUcoin works?

BuyUcoin is predicated on NEM blockchain technology to form mercantilism and investment sleek for each cryptocurrency enthusiasts. BuyUcoin is a web cryptocurrency platform wherever traders and customers build transactions and mercantilism with multiple digital currencies.

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Beberapa hikmah dari film Papa, Mama, dan Tukang Kebun
By: Didik Tri Susanto
Tags: Hikmah, Islam, Film

in In Fitness And In Health
Biden’s Return to Iran Deal Prelude to Talks on Other Areas: Ex-Diplomat
By: Maryam Khy
Tags: Diplomacy, World, Politics, Iran, Nuclear

An expert on Middle East affairs says Joe Biden’s return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran will be the beginning of broader negotiations between Tehran and Washington on non-nuclear issues.

Qassem Mohebali, the former director for Middle East affairs at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says Iran must welcome Biden’s coming to power because Donald Trump created four very tough years for Iran and, with his all-out and unprecedented sanctions, imposed a difficult situation on the country.

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by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Drawing, Illustration, Tuesday, Male

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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4 Steps To Undo Republican Court Packing
By: Rebekah Kuschmider
Tags: Senate Republicans, Supreme Court, News, USA, Politics

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — and the unseemly haste with which the President and Senate are replacing her — begs us to examine how we put judges on the federal courts. Or, rather, how we don’t put them on the courts if the Senate leadership doesn’t want to do so. Over the past eight years, Senate Republicans have turned the procedure for confirming judges into a tool for installing ideological bias in the courts, even going to far as to subvert the President’s Constitutional right to appoint judges.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell openly admits that he blocked President Obama’s nominees. He refused to consider appointments and left more than 100 vacancies on the courts at the end of Obama’s term.

Once McConnell had a new president who appointed judges more to his taste, he re-started the confirmation process. As a result, the federal judiciary holds more than 200 Trump appointees. That’s more than one-quarter of the judiciary. Nearly a dozen of Trump’s appointees have been rated unqualified for their jobs, according to the American Bar Association. Senate Republicans swept them into service regardless. Conservative views mattered more than competence.

No judicial manipulation was as blatant as what McConnell did with the nomination of Merrick Garland. Garland was named to replace the deceased Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. Citing the upcoming election as a barrier, the Majority Leader never even invited the nominee to meet with Senators, much less conduct the official hearing process. Instead, he waited for the inauguration of a new Republican President. Had Democrat Hillary Clinton been elected, McConnell and other Republicans had considered not filling the seat at all. They would accept a depleted judiciary before they would accept a liberal one.
Detraction
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Image, Love, Dejection, Poetry

Detraction

A Poem

Photo by KHALIL MUSA on Unsplash

I also have these

needs

I am sick of being

something with needs —

I have the love

or at least I can point

to my heart

The swirls of surreality

look just the same

as you left it

the first time

I’ve given up

being reflective

: I am not a light

The sunlight doesn’t

hurt

as much as it used to

Does that mean

I’ve finally opened up?

I can’t speak to

so many things

I just leave it all to the

gestures

Kind blue sky

for some reason

and I have so many

to just lie still

The flow of letters

in dead languages

gets me excited

but I don’t know what’s going on

Instead of listening

to the ramblings of some saint

somewhere

I am doing this
BTT Airdrop for Tron Holders!
Tags: Token, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Tron, Cryptocurrency Investment

Hey folks,

Another great opportunity to earn crypto for free is just around the corner. Time to buckle up your wallets because -

BTT — Airdrop — is — happening!

What?

BitTorrent, the world’s largest decentralised file sharing protocol, recently announced its airdrop schedule for TRX (Tron) holders, and we are happy to inform you that Bitbns fully supports it.

However, TRX holders will exclusively be the ones to benefit from this opportunity. But you need not worry; if you are a TRX holder before the airdrop is initiated, you are in.

So if you haven’t got TRX in your Bitbns wallet yet, go for it before the BTT airdrop begins.

BitTorrent will initiate its first airdrop to TRX holders on 11 February 2019, which is when the block height of TRX will reach 6.6 million. All official wallets carrying TRX before 11 February 00:00 UTC will be eligible for the airdrop.

Remember — 11 February, 2019 — that’s the date before which you will need to have TRX tokens in your wallet in order to be eligible for the airdrop.

How?

BitTorrent Foundation will take a snapshot of the TRX ledger before initiating the airdrop on 11 February 2019. Anyone holding TRX in their wallet before the aforementioned deadline is eligible to receive their free BTT tokens. If you already hold TRX in your wallet, sit back and relax!

When?

As per the official post, the airdrops will take place in phases spread through upcoming years. Here is the official timeline for the BTT airdrops:

On 11th February, 2019: 10,890,000,000 BTT

11th March, 2019–11th February, 2020: 990,000,000 BTT per month

11th March, 2020–11th February, 2021: 1,072,500,000 BTT per month

11th March, 2021–11th February, 2022: 1,155,000,000 BTT per month

11th March, 2022–11th February, 2023: 1,237,500,000 BTT per month

11th March, 2023–11th February, 2024: 1,320,000,000 BTT per month

11th March, 2024–11th February, 2025: 1,402,500,000 BTT per month

Each airdrop will be initiated on the 11th day of each month at 0:00 UTC.

Claiming your BTT on Bitbns

All you have to do is hold TRX in your Bitbns wallet before the airdrop begins. As hinted in the official Medium post, the amount of TRX to be airdropped in a TRX holder’s wallet would be determined as per a specific ratio. As per the medium post by BitTorrent “The ratio of BTT airdrop on Feb 11 is approximately 1 TRX = 0.11 BTT, due to the uncertainty of TRX block rewards and coin burn, the final ratio may be different, the following airdrop ratio will be announced later.”

Till then, stay tuned with us for more updates, and keep rocking!

With Love,

Team Bitbns
The Edit
By: Bill Adler
Tags: Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Short Story, Flash Fiction

The Edit

It’s never a good idea to mix work and home life

Photo by Bill Adler

Nausea erupted up Detective Sanchez’s esophagus as he surveyed the crime scene. Books lined the wall-to-wall, teakwood shelving opposite the living room window. On the adjacent wall was a framed page of the New York Times bestseller list from June 11, 2020 and a photograph of a couple in their thirties on a beach, their arms around each other, both with broad, relaxed smiles, their shadows long. A thick, hardcover edition of the Merriam Webster dictionary and a photography book of 19th century New York City covered about a third of the glass coffee table in front of the leather couch. Next to the dictionary was a Moleskine notebook and a Bic ballpoint pen with red ink.

Sanchez snapped on rubber gloves and stepped cautiously around the body parts that littered the room. A hand with deformed knuckles lay on the couch’s center cushion, blood coagulated around the wrist. Strewn around the room, like somebody had been playing a macabre tossing game, were a leg with a knobby knee, an arm with eczema-covered scales, an ear clogged with wax, a crooked belly button, and a blond toupee whose underside was coated in sweat. A blood-soaked saber rested handle down at the intersection of two walls.

This murder doesn’t need a homicide detective, just the coroner, Sanchez thought. I could have been watching a Friends rerun.

“What happened here?” a rookie cop asked. He dammed his lips together tightly. His face changed color from pink to pale.

Sanchez picked up a toe with a bad case of nail fungus, slipped it in a Ziplock bag, and sighed. “He was a writer. He married his editor.”
Prompt
By: Amy Jasek
Tags: Inspiration, Wordplay, Poetry, Prompt, Thepom

Poetry

Prompt

Prompted to promptly respond to a prompt (sometimes)

Central Park, 2012, Hasselblad 500cm and Kodak Tri-X (photograph by the author)

Poked by a prompt

the shrill of an alarm

a slight jab at the sleeper

maybe it will prompt me

to poke others

who were waiting to awaken

whether they knew it or not

too much hibernation should be

promptly remedied

generate a little buzz

toss it out there and watch

the ripples ruffling feathers

truncating forty winks

nudge, nudge

nap time is over
What Are the Simplest State Management Solutions in Flutter?
By: Jelena Lecic
Tags: Programming, iOS, Android, Interview, Flutter

What Are the Simplest State Management Solutions in Flutter?

Super-simple comparison for your next interview

Photo from inovex Blog.

This article will explore Flutter’s built-in solutions for state management.

In all the examples below, we’ll be changing the app background by clicking on the button:

For the purposes of this article, imagine that our backgroundColor is some complex app state.

The first solution, of course, is a simple StatefulWidget :

We introduce the currentColor variable in the State object where, on every button click, a new value gets generated. By calling setState() , the whole UI gets redrawn.

This works well, but imagine that this color is something more complex. It would be much better if we could separate the UI from the logic (so we could easily change only the UI or only the logic later). Those layers should be separated for non-simple apps.

Now, we’ll introduce the ChangeNotifier :

We have moved our logic to the Notifier class, which is extended to ChangeNotifier . ChangeNotifier has the ability to notify its listeners that some change in it has occurred. When we detect that change in our listener method (in the initState() method), we redraw the whole UI by calling the setState() .

OK, this is better, but should we redraw the whole UI every single time the color of our Container changes? Probably not.

This time, we’ll introduce a ValueNotifier :

ValueNotifier is basically a ChangeNotifier that holds only one value, and when it changes, those who listen to its changes get notified.

We could add listeners to the ValueNotifier object and redraw the whole UI, but there’s a much more convenient way of displaying changes now: ValueListenableBuilder !

ValueListenableBuilder is a Widget that gets redrawn when its ValueListenable ( notifier in our example) changes value:

ValueListenableBuilder will automatically register as a listener of notifier changes and the builder method will be executed on each change. So now, when we press the button for a background change, only the builder method part will be executed and that part of UI will be redrawn — not the whole screen.

But what happens if you need to display your value changes in multiple places in your app, in different widgets that are in different files? Surely, you would not like to pass those values within Widget constructors.

That’s why we now introduce InheritedWidget .

We will define a ValueNotifier in it and then access it from different parts of our UI:

The code for accessing InheritedWidget ’s fields looks like this:

In a nutshell, it’s saying the following: From builderContext and up in the tree, find an InheritedWidget of the type InheritedWidgetWithNotifier .

And now, UI looks like this:
Progress
By: Heath ዟ
Tags: New Day, Relationships, Poetry, Endings, Literally Literary

My heart was a wasteland.

In a miraculous moment

it bloomed for you

in all of nature’s colors.

It was like your smile held Spring.

Now, a short while later,

it’s all a tainted memory fading,

a regret,

a moment of flight before impact.

My heart is a parking lot.
So that I can love myself
By: Amy Knight
Tags: Beauty, Poetry, Imperfection, Make Love Not Porn, Self Love

Hiding in the curves and creases, like veins on a leaf, are tiny traces, here and there, of the love you made to me.

I see myself differently after seeing you.

Your big-hearted gaze seems to affix itself

to my face, like makeup

so that

in my reflection, there you are:

blushing back at me from the glass.

Your precious words get tangled up

in my hair, like blades of grass

so that

I can’t pull them out of my head.

(And I don’t want to,

though I look like I’ve been

dragged through a hedge.)

Your touch stays with me all day,

keeps getting in my way, like a

flash of sun across the screen

so that

wherever and whenever I see myself,

I catch glimpses of us and am

blinded by the memory of your kiss.

I squint, as though looking through

your eyes, at my body in the water;

and at last I like what I see.

Hiding in the curves and creases,

like veins on a leaf

are tiny traces, here and there,

of the love you made to me.

© Amy Knight 2020
Fulfilled
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Blue Insights, Haiku, Children, Motherhood, Poetry

I am a warrior of life, striving to be a better person every day. Finding my voice on writing.

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