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GreySpark Partners Certify Japanese Financial Services Agency as “Virtual Currency Supporters”
By: Crypto Network Asia
Tags: Crypto Network Asia, Rankings, Bitcoin, News, Japan

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GreySpark Partners, a British consulting firm, ranked the FSA’s approach to cryptocurrencies and ICO as a supporter, in a report entitled “Growth Chart of Cryptocurrency.”

This shows that Japan’s attitude toward cryptocurrencies has been praised from the world.

Gray Spark Partners points out that Japan is “becoming a hot spot for cryptocurrency exchanges and can comply with strict rules.”

Although reinforcement of domestic regulation can be felt as annoying by some, viewed from a different standpoint, if an exchange is approved by the Japanese FSA, it can appeal to the rest of the world.

Therefore, it can be said that exchanges that are currently registered and operating but have not received business improvement orders are secure and can be trusted to some extent.

Gray Spark Partners sees Japan’s FSA as “making sanctions while strengthening regulations to protect investors and market growth,” and for the FSA’s efforts, the friendliness towards cryptocurrency was given full marks, friendliness towards ICO was given the third highest rating among the four stages, and was evaluated as prudent but favorable, and overall accreditation was cited as one of the most highly regarded supporters.

The countries that are rated higher than Japan include Switzerland, Malta, and Ukraine. On the other hand, the overall evaluation of the United States, the UK, and Korea was at a lower level. China was rated as having a hostile attitude towards cryptocurrencies.

From now on, this material will be a reference to how the vendors involved in cryptocurrencies will make strategies for globalization. Staff of relevant ministries and agencies in the country will also raise their awareness of regulatory efforts accordingly.

Gray Spark Partners, based in the UK and having branches around the world, is engaged in finance and high-tech research and consultancy business, and is often quoted in major media such as the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Coindesk, etc. We have established its existence as a company providing valuable information.

By submitting reports on various cryptocurrencies in the future, ambiguous sections should be clarified.

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“Excuses Don’t Get Results” Memes
By: Jena Apgar
Tags: Excuses, Business Development, Results, Beekonnected, Memes

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Propriety
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Women, Feminism, Society, Poetry, Life

propriety.

the word pervades the taste buds

of my tongue-so rancid

I reach for a shot of whiskey

to flood it out

a fruitless endeavor

your family’s dignity rests in

your ability to maintain propriety

there is a little girl skipping down

the street outside of my window

wearing a scarf, her brother by her side

the cool breeze runs its fingers

through his free, meaningless hair

I take another shot.

numbness offsets

the acuteness of

the powerlessness

propriety is the profane method

that conditions me into submission

you are a grotesque version of Pavlov’s dog

slapped across the face each time you tried

to take action oppositional to your instructions

you are the patriarchy’s successful experiment

propriety is what suffocates you

it is the reason you scream,

but silently

you wouldn’t want to disturb

anyone with your pain.
Untamed
By: Jen Kleinknecht
Tags: Resistance, Resistance Poetry, Women, Feminism, Poetry

Untamed

A celebration of powerful women

Photo by Luke Jones on Unsplash

When you stop and look at me,

Tell me, please, what do you see?

A well-worn face? An aging mom?

My forty years lived and gone?

Do you see my subtle grays?

My aching heart, my hectic days?

My clever mind, my loving soul?

Someone trying to be whole?

Or do you see me as a pawn?

A thing to use and then move on?

Am I more than just the clothes I wear

Around my curves so you can stare?

My pay is less. My worth is not.

I won’t let you take away my shot.

My sisters fought so I could choose

And that’s a right I will not lose.

So make your jokes and play your games.

This power I wield can’t be contained.

A nasty woman? I’ll take the blame.

I’ll always live my life untamed.
More Questions Than Answers
Tags: Life Lessons, Inspiration, Faith, Humanity, This Happened To Me

Everyone wants to be the genius with all the answers.

Personally, I’m short on answers and seem to have endless questions.

What is the master plan and where do I fit in? Do angels dwell among us? If so, have I met any? What did they report of my doings? Can there be heroes without villains? Which details matter? Which are vanity? At what point does taking care of oneself turn to selfishness and ambition turn to greed? What is the lethal dosage of ego? What is worth giving up and quitting? What must be held onto relentlessly? Who am I now? Who should I be tomorrow? Will the fighting ever end? Can I do anything that will make a difference?

We’ve been here thousands of years. Still there’s much left to figure out. There’s still space to contribute. Change begins with a great question, because great answers require one.
Yours
By: Elai Batac
Tags: Self Love, Prose, Self Worth, Prose Poem, Moving On

Photo by Nick Shandra on Unsplash

Listen, it does not mean that you still love them

if you wake up yet again with your chest aching

after days, months and years of grieving

what is true

is that you’re still giving them pieces of you

after all this time

that you’re still clinging your worth

to a person who’s not coming back

to a love that have already served its purpose and time

I want you to know it’s time now

to collect those pieces of yourself again

to finally cut the cord

Your worth, peace and happiness

are still very much yours

You just have to let go of idea

that it didn’t
What’s New: 9 Places to Watch in 2021
Tags: Urban Planning, Culture, Cities, Design, Architecture

For years, the United Nations has taken the lead in coordinating a global response to climate change. With the UN’s own European headquarters in Geneva due for a major renovation, it was clear that the project should set an example for the 21st-century sustainable workplace. The challenges were also evident: How do you incorporate cutting-edge architecture into the context of an important heritage site?

The Strategic Heritage Plan involves the renovation of the Palais des Nations complex, initially built between 1929 and 1938, to dramatically improve its environmental performance, as well as the construction of an efficient new building that will initially be used as a swing space while the retrofit takes place.

Embedded in the landscape, the new building keeps a low profile on the site with a terraced design. It offers access to outdoor spaces and remarkable vantage points from inside, such as a new dining hall that faces the parklands and Lake Geneva. In this workplace that prioritizes well-being, people are immersed in nature. The new building is due to open in 2021, allowing the complete renovation of the Palais des Nations to proceed. Geneva’s refurbished landmark will embody the commitment to climate action that the United Nations continues to advance.

Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters

Shenzhen

Photo © Seth Powers

A striking new architectural landmark is nearly complete in Shenzhen’s Bao’an district. The 150-meter-tall Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters appears as a glass volume enveloped in a net of structural steel, pulled away from the facade. It’s the latest evolution in SOM’s decades-long development of diagrid structures — an approach that’s both efficient and sustainable because it reduces the amount of steel required for construction.

Photo © Seth Powers

The design was created with air quality and ventilation as key considerations, and it will be opening at a time when these factors are newly top-of-mind. Operable louvers give the building’s occupants control for natural ventilation, while two expansive atria contribute to better airflow. Even the diagrid structural design contributes to indoor comfort and energy performance by shading the facade and reducing cooling needs. When the building opens next year, it may well set a new benchmark for health and wellbeing.

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Tixico moves to EOS
By: Luize Jansone
Tags: Blockchain, Startup, Eos, Events

Hello everyone!

Long time no see! But don’t you worry because we haven’t been watching football or singing along our favorite bands at concerts this whole time. Nope, that’s not our case, because there is no time for us to do it when we are on a mission to fix the ticketing industry so all of you guys can purchase tickets to your favorite games and concerts on a safe, reliable and fair system.

So let’s get to the case.

Previously we mentioned that our tech team are currently making some changes in the previously presented architecture to make it faster, more dependable and overall better. Thank you for your patience and now we’re ready to announce what has been done during this time.

As you may know initially we decided to build our solution on Ethereum as at the time we found it to be the most suitable platform. However while developing Tixico our tech guys at one point realized that Ethereum doesn’t fulfill our needs and requirements anymore especially when looking forward to the future developments.

Although Ethereum is widely used and for many that is the obvious choice in the market as it has many great smart contract abilities, meanwhile the transaction speed is considerably lower than what our platform would require. This is one of the things we saw as an issue and had to do something about it.

We decided to make this step towards brighter future and switch to (epic drumroll…) EOS.

If you are interested in blockchain at all most probably you have heard about EOS before. They call themselves “The most powerful infrastructure for decentralized applications”. Does this sound convincing? Well, EOS convinced us but not because of their cool slogan but because it does indeed provide several advantages over other platform.

Here are a couple of reasons why we decided to move to EOS and how it will help us in developing our platform.

Better performance and scalability to serve high demand

The promise is to scale enough for even millions of users to use it, and this crucial if a platform is meant to serve very high number of people all at once as it is with ticket selling when tens of thousands can simultaneously log on to make a transaction;

Low latency

Another important factor for ticketing platform as sometimes the first tickets get purchased within seconds, and the most passionate fans really do crave for a system that would work instantly and smoothly;

No transaction fees

That make for faster & cheaper development and an overall better user experience for the end user.

These are just few of the advantages EOS provides and make sure to check it out if you haven’t done it already. Overall better and faster performance that is achieved by providing parallel processing is still the one of the top priorities for us and our platform, hence this choice.

Together with platform improvements there come other news as well that will be announced in a couple of days! So stay tuned and don’t hesitate to reach us via Facebook, Twitter or Telegram.
Charley Loves The Rain
By: Mark Starlin
Tags: Pets, Weather, Dogs, Stock Photos Stories, Fiction

Charley is a dog. An old dog who has put on a few too many pounds. He is also practically blind. His owner, Frank, loves him nonetheless. They go for walks every day. Charley loves to go on walks (although they are more like waddles.) Especially when it’s raining out.

Charley loves to feel the rain on his fur and splash through puddles. Frank doesn’t mind because it makes Charley happy. And Charley has brought Frank unmeasured happiness over the years.

One day Frank got a call and had to go out during their usual walk time.

“Sorry, pal. I have a work emergency I have to handle. I’ll see you when I get back.”

Charley put his head down. He was sad. A few minutes later, he wandered out into the living room, where he noticed that Frank had forgotten to close the back door before he left.

I shall go for a walk by myself, Charley thought.

He pushed on the screen door, and it popped open. Soon he was outside enjoying a leisurely stroll. Although his vision was poor, Charley knew the way to the park. He had walked there a thousand times.

Then it started to rain.

This day isn’t so bad, after all, Charley thought. As he was enjoying the feel of raindrops on his coat, he wandered onto some trolley tracks. Sadly, he couldn’t see the trolley quickly approaching behind him.

Just then, a pair of hands grabbed Charley and pulled him off the tracks.

It was Frank. The work emergency had been a false alarm and easily fixed. Frank felt guilty about not taking Charley on his walk and rushed home, only to find the back door open and Charley gone. He headed to the park and saw Charley on the tracks just in time.

“Charley, you old rascal. Don’t be in such a hurry to leave me. Come on, let’s finish our walk.”
If You Want to Be a Better Writer, Imagine Yourself as Stephen King or J.K. Rowling
By: Jon Torrey
Tags: Inspiration, Personal Development, Creativity, Writing, Writing Tips

Become a super-hero writer

Here’s the thing about writing and any other skill: confidence matters just as much as ability.

Even if you are one of the most talented writers in your topic, field, or blogging platform, it won’t mean anything if you aren’t confident about your abilities. Some may describe this as writer’s block, which can be caused by a few different things: a fear of rejection, failure or success, and a lack of motivation.

I personally notice that my writer’s block crops up when I don’t feel confident and start ruminating on my previously failed work or the fact that I wasn’t a naturally born A student in my English classes. When my keystrokes slow, it’s likely because I’m overthinking what the other side will think about the words that I am about to write.

While I’m not suggesting you write about superheroes, I do suggest you take the advice of Amy Cuddy, a psychologist who suggests that posture, the way we sit and stand, can affect our confidence. Cuddy even has a study that shows an increase in levels of testosterone and a decrease in cortisol from those who power pose.

Striking a power pose resembles that of a superhero stance or Rocky Balboa after climbing the art museum steps in Philadelphia.

This technique has helped me in the past, but I’ve extended it by imagining myself as a professional writer. Whether it is Stephen King, J.K. Rowling or any other author you admire, visualizing yourself as them while sitting and writing might just help you beat your confidence issues.

As silly as it seems, it has been incredibly effective for me as I’ve written nearly 4 times as many articles with this technique than I do without it.

In fact, there are some studies that show how visualization can impact our abilities. One study measured finger abduction strength gains differences between those who mentally worked out versus those who physically worked out. The group who mentally worked out, meaning they did no physical exercise to strengthen this particular muscle, gained a 35% increase in strength compared to the 53% strength gain in those who physically worked out.

This data suggests that simply by imagining yourself doing strength exercises, you can get physically stronger. Athletes like Tiger Woods, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jack Nicklaus all used visualization techniques throughout their careers and it can be applied to writing.

I certainly think the way they applied the technique — visualizing a golf shot or visualizing the self they wanted to become — is effective, but I also think it works if you visualize yourself as someone else who’s already successful.

It has for me with my writing and I’m not stopping any time soon.
Google Maps in Siebel CRM
By: Serhan Eroglu
Tags: Oracle, Google Maps, Iframe, Siebel Integration, Siebel

After reading several blog entries on how to show a web page inside a Siebel view, I decided to give it a try myself. But instead of just displaying a static web page such as google.com, I wanted to have a little more.

The following shows how to implement a Google Maps integration within Siebel CRM. For each selected account, a map of the accounts (primary) address should be displayed.

Please follow the follonwing steps

1. Modify the Account business component

Add a calculated field to the Account BC with a calculated value e.g. “MyURL” (MyURL will be the name for the symbolic URL.

2. Create a portal applet

Copy the SSO Analytics Profile Applet (or any other applet based on theAnalyticsSSO business component).

Change the Field property of the only list column to the field created in step 1.

property of the only to the field created in step 1. Set the Business Component property to Account(this is important as we will pass the account’s address to Google)

3. Create a new detail view

Add a parent form applet and your new applet below.

Add the view to the Accounts screen.

4. Compile all new and modified objects

5. Register the new view to your responsibility as usual

6. Reengineer the URL

Navigate to http://maps.google.com and query for a location.

Use the link option to obtain the full URL.Extract the parameters of the URL. You need them for the next step.

7. Create a new symbolic URL

Navigate to the Administration — Integration screen and open the Symbolic URL list.

Create a new record for the URL and add the base URL. Use IFrame as the disposition type.

For each parameter to pass create a new record in the Symbolic URL Arguments list. To pass the address of the current account use Field as the argument type and provide a field name (Full Address is a standard calculated field, of course you can use other standard or custom fields).

To control the size of the IFrame, use the IFrame command.

To allow for dynamic relaod of the IFrame when you select a different account, use the IsRecordSensitive command.

If you review the screenshot below you might find that “_Demo” is appended to the symbolic URL name. The reason for this is that I used the Siebel Sample Database which specifies that suffix in the .cfg file’s [Sample] section.

8. Restart your client and test

Navigate to the new view and marvel at the results.

If you use the form applet to navigate to another account, the IFrame should refresh and display a new map with that account’s address.

Implemented and tested on Siebel SIA 8.1.1
Our Ladies of the Dogwood Tree
By: Michelle Rau
Tags: Beekeeping, Mason Bees, Bees

I feel like the paparazzi of the insect world. I’ve got to be quick to photograph these ladies; they mean business.

Something black buzzes past my head. I press down on the shutter halfway.

Ready for her closeup

It buzzes by again. I click the shutter just before a round fuzzy black bee butt the size, but not the color, of a pencil eraser disappears down a cardboard tube. The underside of her belly is thickly covered with yellow pollen.

This is the third year I’ve raised mason bees, sheltered under a dogwood tree on the east end of my garden. (The birdfeeder is on the west end.) Each year I seem to have more cocoons, so I’m sharing what works — at least in my yard. This year I’m doing a few things differently.

The corrugated plastic keeps tubes off of damp wood after rain

First, I’m removing each capped off tube a day or two after completion, to thwart wasps poking their ovipositors into the wee bee larvae. This was a problem last year.

This surely confuses the bees a little, since they sight on the variations in the tubes to find their current tube-in-progress. But they seem to be doing okay with this lesser of two evils.

Second, I’m storing the filled tubes inside a venti-sized clear plastic Starbucks cup with the lid on it, inside the shed, instead of a mesh bag or paper bag. The straw puncture in the lid lets the cup breathe without letting insects in, and lets me keep an eye on things.

Spider on the left

Third, I’m keeping the house at eye level, to promptly evict spiders, ants and other visitors to the bee house. I’ve already had to eighty-six one spider from the current house.

(Last year, in a different bee house, I discovered one enterprising spider had hit the jackpot: a niche inside where it could easily pick off the mason bees in their predictable comings and goings from the tubes.)

Fourth, I’m letting the kale and turnip greens left over from last year flower and go to seed instead of composting them. Early warm weather woke bees up too soon and there weren’t enough plants pollenating yet. I had a messy green tangle in the garden longer than I wanted, but both the mason bees and honey bees appreciated it.

Fifth, I’m going to use thermometers to get the temps of different bee storage places. Last year the shed got super hot, so I moved them into the garage. Then even the garage got too warm, so I moved them from a south shelf to a north shelf. The right temperatures will help bees mature on the right timeline.

Finally, I’m putting reminders on my calendar to harvest cocoons on time and check on the bees every week beginning in March. With any luck, I’ll have enough cocoons to build a second bee condo.
Eventual Hide And Seek
By: Ankit Sharma
Tags: Relationships, Friendship, Love, Storyofmylife, Storytelling

Wherever I go, they trail behind.

Can find me from even a disguised place.

Difficulties have gone familiar from my every whereabouts.
Sending tokens by ICOVO App
By: Icovo Ag
Tags: Blockchai, English, Token, Ethereum

Sending tokens by ICOVO App

How to send toke by ICOVO App

In this article, we will introduce “How to send tokens by ICOVO App”

1, On the “WALLET” page, select the token by tapping the appropriate token.

2, Tap “SEND” to proceed

3, On the “SEND ETH” page, key in ①receiver’s address/scan QR code, ②token amount to send, and ③adjust Gas Fee (automatically adjusted). Tap “SEND”

※When sending OVO and other tokens (ERC20-compliant ), ETH is required as Gas Fee.

※If you do not have ETH, please purchase ETH at the exchange in advance.

If you have anything questions, feel free to contact us on Telegram.

We look forward to receiving your message.
5 Stanford podcasts to wake your brain
By: Stanford Alumni
Tags: Alumni, Education, Podcast, Stanford

Give your commute (or your run, or the baby’s nap time) a boost this week with five great podcast episodes from around campus. In our first roundup, you’ll find stories that just might have you seeing something in a new light—from the animated films of your childhood to Victorian sex surveys to what your Twitter language says about your health.

Podcast Mix #1, curated by Stanford Alumni

Generation Anthropocene: The Nature of Disney

You may not realize it, but Disney has influenced how you view the natural world. You’ll never see Bambi the same way again. Generation Anthropocene, a podcast about planetary change, is a collaboration of Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and Worldview Stanford.

Raw Data: So…What’s on your mind?

What can we learn about our well-being from our digital text trail? In this episode, discover how Twitter language correlates with heart disease, hear what insights can be captured in crisis counseling text conversations and get a glimpse of the future of therapy. Raw Data is a Stanford podcast about how big data and technology are transforming society, produced by Worldview Stanford and supported by the Stanford Cyber Initiative.

State of the Human: Believing

What does belief in something mean for our lives? How are we changed by it? Hear stories about belief and what it can do. “Believing” is an episode of State of the Human, the radio show of the Stanford Storytelling Project, which shares stories that deepen our understanding of single, common human experiences all drawn from research into Stanford community.

Stanford Out Loud: Sex Scholar

Stanford professor Clelia Mosher polled Victorian-era women on their bedroom behavior — something nobody had thought to do before—then kept the startling results under wraps. This episode features the voice of Herant Katchadourian, emeritus professor of psychiatry and human biology. Stanford Out Loud is produced by STANFORD magazine.

To the rise of social entrepreneurship, punk rock offers a narrative by breaking sideways in a world that tends to go straight ahead. With the immensity of today’s global challenges, Ned Breslin argues that the story arc of punk—its relentless push for change—offers important insights into how social entrepreneurs operate everywhere, whether they like punk rock or not. Produced by Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Unlimited Energy: Let’s Build a Mini Sun…
By: Eesha Ulhaq
Tags: Energy, Physics, Fusion, Renewable Energy

Unlimited Energy: Let’s Build a Mini Sun…

Intro to fusion energy

The sun powers all life on our planet. Just like all-stars, it produces unlimited energy through a process called fusion. By fusing light atoms like hydrogen together under HOT temperatures (we’re talking 15 million° hot 🥵) and high pressures like those found at the center of the sun. We get a million times more energy than we would from a regular combustion reaction.

But wait it gets better…

Replicating energy like the sun is getting people excited because Fusion is:

Fast, occurs in a matter of seconds

Clean, creates little nuclear waste and radiation compared to fission

Requires few resources, its fuel is available in saltwater.

Energy-dense, one liter of fusion fuel = 55,000 barrels of oil.

In theory, only 2 km³ of water could generate the same amount of energy as ALL of Earth’s oil reserves…🛢️😮

Nuclear power has two roads; fission and fusion. Fission is the opposite of fusion. Fusion is smashing 2 elements together to get a heavier element where fission is breaking an element down to get 2 smaller elements. Fission is what was used in bombs like Hiroshima and for our current nuclear power plants.

During fusion energy is released because the weight of the fused element is slightly less than the combined weights of the lighter elements. The difference in mass is energy being released.

So how do harness this magical energy on Earth?

When we heat up gas we get electrically-charged gas⚡, this is the 4th state of matter called Plasma. Plasma can be found in lighting and the northern lights. Despite its tiny abundance on earth, plasma makes up 99% of the universe.

Earth doesn’t have the high pressures that the Sun takes advantage of. So to compensate our plasma has to be HOT, up to 150 millionºC hot, like 10x the sun hot.

To generate this extreme heat we zap high energy particles with high-frequency waves in a reactor.

The resulting pressure eventually causes hydrogen isotope’s nuclei to collide, producing a helium nucleus. In the process, energy is released.

The best hydrogen isotopes to uses are Tritium and Deuterium.

Energy is generated as Deuterium and Tritium fuse, producing a helium nucleus and a neutron.

We can find Deuterium in ordinary saltwater while Tritium is rare. Tritium’s scarcity in nature is a result of its radioactivity, with a half-life of 12.3-year. Our main source of Tritium is from fission reactions with lithium.

Tritium decays into Helium-3. But our atmosphere causes us to lose most of our Helium-3.

Hmmm…where don’t we have a strong atmosphere? 🌚

Unlike Earth, the Moon has been collecting Helium-3 for billions of years, there’s about a million tons of it stored on its surface.

To extract the Helium-3, we’d collect moon dust and heat it up to 600 °. Countries like China and companies like Moon Express are organizing moon missions to capture helium-3.

Deuterium-Tritium reactions are 20 times stronger and only need a third of the heat than Deuterium-Deuterium reactions, making it highly sought after.
Courage in the Face of Absurdity
By: Rev Dr Sparky
Tags: Spirituality, Gratitude, Election 2020, Humor, Life

Courage in the Face of Absurdity

For you on Election Day

Yes, my friends, I know! It’s THAT day! I just had to reach out to the Congregation of the Real World and commiserate, in case it is the End Of The World As We Know It (or, as we who are always in full-on doomsayer mode know it, TEOTWAWKI).

Bless you my children — I know it’s been a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year. But I’m afraid I just have to reach right in and get confrontational and say something.

Get a grip, people. Breathe in a paper bag, or something. And read this, please, if you need perspective: Gratitude Workarounds: Because the Wheel’s Still Spinning

Look, no matter what happens in the next days or weeks, with anything short of the actual TEOTWAWKI — and I’m talking full-on God-smiting, with maybe a meteorite — we are going to have one hell of a mess to clean up.

We got our happy fannies to the polls. Yay! But the Congregation of the Real World still has a boatload of work to do.

No matter who the POTUS is— even if the Good Guys win — we still have a war machine, an ecodisaster, and a racist kakistocracy to dismantle. And that’s on us.

So stay calm, eat soup, be grateful if you are safe indoors.

Because we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

Keep the faith. And don’t let the bastards wear you down.

Love,

Rev Dr Sparky
Exchange variable between Spark and Pyspark in Apache Zeppelin
Tags: Apache Zeppelin, Notebook, Data Science, Apache Spark, Pyspark

Did you know you can exchange variable between Spark(scala) and Pyspark(python) in Apache Zeppelin?

To know more about object exchange between Scala and Python and how it works, please read https://s.apache.org/Ip4E.
How I Know Your “Relationship Style” Is Full of Shit
By: Michon Neal
Tags: Relationship Anarchy, Relationships, Nonmonogamy, Sex, Polyamory

How do I know?

I’ve written extensively on the ways abuse culture crops up even in non-mono circles, especially in amatonormative ways. I created and talk about intersectional non-monogamy but apparently alternative Black people don’t grok what that means. I’ve written about the ableism, the class privilege, the hypocrisy.

But…hell, why didn’t I just get straight to the point?

YOUR “LOVESTYLE” IS RACIST AS SHIT!

See, there’s this thing y’all social justice types like to call social capital. Y’all just fucking love y’all fancy ass names for the most basic shit. You will do absolutely everything you can to defend your “right to desire whosoever you please”.

You will ignore the ways that this colonized culture has shaped your desire.

You will not think about why you have such an easy time finding partners while queer Black femmes are left to fend for themselves.

You will demand we “not get political” when we share our experiences being fetishized, ignored, and unwelcome in your circles.

You will be fucking shocked, absolutely fucking shocked, when that nice altBlack guy (yte guy) turns out to be an abusive fucking douche.

You will preach about communism and socialism and anarchy and your beautiful fucking utopia where you get in all the fucking,

and then turn around and squint when race comes up.

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Christians Have A Money Problem
By: Eric Craft
Tags: Spirituality, Religion, Faith, Money, Christianity

My story

When I first started out in ministry my first full-time job was me making $22,000 and living in host homes provided by congregation members and I was expected to be grateful for the opportunity that they were providing for me. I remember being frustrated over the fact that I lived in someone else's basement and that I couldn’t live on my own.

I loved my host families, I was treated extremely well by all of them and I remain in some contact with all of them to this day. But, when you are expected to live as an adult and you live in someone's basement it becomes difficult to figure out how to do that.

Presently my salary is much better and is what you would expect for somebody in an entry position. However, I don’t have benefits which at times means money is tight, especially because of the cost of healthcare. I, like most people, am not in Ministry to make tons of money, however, we would like our career path to be able to support us and our families. I know several pastors who are in similar situations or are working two jobs to make ends meet for their family. The more you dig beneath the surface the more you discover that not all pastors are spending or living in an extravagant way, in fact, many sacrifices to be able to pursue the calling that God has placed on their lives.
Tricks to Turn that Pumpkin in Your Cupboard into Healthy Treats
By: Rhonda At Nestlé
Tags: Healthy, Recipe, Pumpkin, Healthy Tips, Nutrition

Tricks to Turn that Pumpkin in Your Cupboard into Healthy Treats

Just remember to Add it, Swap it, or Boost it!

Halloween and Thanksgiving seasons are here, and right now you’re probably looking ahead to big family events — and meals — to come in the holiday season. Between now and the end of the year can be a tricky time for healthy eating. The weather is getting colder and the temptation to prepare for hibernation is hitting hard! Don’t worry, I’ve got some ideas to help you out.

Even if you make way too much pie, you’re probably going to end up with some leftover cans of Libby’s Pumpkin in your kitchen cupboards. What you may not realize is that each can is packed full of nutrients — just a half cup of pumpkin contains 250% of your Daily Value of vitamin A, alongside 3g of dietary fiber and a whole host of other vitamins and minerals such as potassium, iron, and vitamin C. On top of all that, there’s no saturated fat or cholesterol, only 50 calories, and pumpkin is very low in sodium.

Short version: pumpkin is a great veggie* boost which tastes great. So that can needn’t sit in your cupboard until next year.

So if you’re not baking pumpkin into a pie, how should you use it? Help out your target 2.5 cups of vegetables per day and Add it, Swap it, or Boost it — here are some ideas for you to try:
6 Important Lessons From My First 6 Years in Business
By: Cal Axe
Tags: Work, Productivity, Leadership, Business, Marketing

When I started commercial real estate brokerage, my mentor told me I had entered the “big leagues.” At the time, I thought he was talking about the breadth of knowledge required to do the job: marketing, sales, finance, etc. Years later I discovered what he actually meant: that you better know what you’re doing or prepare to get ripped apart.

There were days when I felt ripped apart. Boneheaded mistakes and sleepless nights. Experiences that not only made me lose confidence in myself, but sometimes in the entirety of American capitalism.

But for every heartbreak, there were breakthroughs and, eventually, triumphs.

I thought I was alone in my hectic journey. But the more I talked to people, the more I realized that most young professionals go through a similar experience.

Here’s what I’ve learned in my first 6 years post-college. I wonder if you can relate?
THERE VND THEN
By: A G N U U S H
Tags: Backstage, Photojournalism, Fashion, Archive, Homepage

A fashion collective based in HCMC, Vietnam.

Had a privilege to collaborate with the dopest team in town and capture behind the scene outtakes during the fashion shoot we had in Saigon, Vietnam.

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Archive:

2018.12.12

A G N U U S H

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Earn XP from Steam’s entire library!
By: Experience Points, Xp
Tags: Bitcoin

XP Fam!

Have you been wondering what projects the XP team have been working on? Well, today is the day you get to find out just ONE of those amazing things. As you know, we have been integrating XP payouts into XP sponsored servers, for games like Rust and 7 Days to Die. We knew when we started this process last year, there was a need to implement more than just a few games. We know each one of our community members enjoy different genres of games, so we wanted to include everyone.

As of yesterday, any XP community member who completes the Ladder sign up will be paid in XP for ANY game they play in their Steam account. That means that you can earn XP for your play time in over TWENTY THOUSAND games through Steam. Much like the current games, you will receive payouts every 3 hours, so long as you are meeting the time thresholds.

Please ensure you follow the signup instructions, it is imperative you input the correct information to receive your payouts!

3 Things You MUST do to be paid

Make sure your Steam PROFILE is PUBLIC Make sure your Steam GAME LIST is PUBLIC Complete the Ladder signup — using your 17-digit STEAM ID and your XP wallet address.

Steps for ladder sign up

Click ‘Create Account’.

2. Fill in required information.

3. Once in your profile, click ‘Add GUID’.

4. Make sure ‘XP Wallet Address’ is selected.

5. Input your XP Wallet Address and click ‘Add GUID’.

6. Locate ‘Steam ID Long’ in drop-down menu.

7. Open a new tab and go to https://www.steamcommunity.com

8. Login to your Steam account.

9. Click ‘Activity’ in the drop down menu under your username. Go to the address bar and select the 17 digit number.

10. Return to the ladder site and copy/paste that number into the area in your ladder account. Click ‘Add GUID’.

11. Confirm both numbers were successfully added.

12. You’re all set to earn XP!

Please be sure to follow us on our social media pages for more updates!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBigXP

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【資料分析師職涯發展（一）】Senior Data Analyst 和 Junior Data Analyst最大的差別是什麼？
By: Manzih Hong
Tags: Sharing, Data Analyst Jobs, Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Taiwanese In Data Science

We aim to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support everyone in the field.

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Data Visual Lab
By: Andy Engel
Tags: Data Visualization

This chart shows that CD’s were trending in searches up until around 2012. Around 2012 is when Spotify became a little more popular and people started searching up and streaming on Spotify more than CD’s.

Our brain prefers the one with the greater number because we think it means we did better. But really, the scores are relatively the same. The Pie charts help show this by comparing the two different tests with each other and showing they are relatively the same.

I don’t know football well. But based off of these charts, it looks like Drew Brees seems to be doing much better than Josh Rosen.
Data science at Kaggle
By: Jeremie Harris
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Towards Data Science, Tds Podcast, Kaggle

Editor’s note: This is the 12th episode of the Towards Data Science podcast’s “Climbing the Data Science Ladder” series, hosted by Jeremie Harris, Edouard Harris and Russell Pollari. Together, they run a data science mentorship startup called SharpestMinds. You can listen to the podcast below:

One question I’ve been getting a lot lately is whether graduate degrees — especially PhDs — are necessary in order to land a job in data science. Of course, education requirements vary widely from company to company, which is why I think the most informative answers to this question tend to come not from recruiters or hiring managers, but from data scientists with those fancy degrees, who can speak to whether they were actually useful.

That’s far from the only reason I wanted to sit down with Rachael Tatman for this episode of the podcast though. In addition to holding a PhD in computational sociolinguistics, Rachael is a data scientist at Kaggle, and a popular livestreaming coder (check out her Twitch stream here). She’s has a lot of great insights about breaking into data science, how to get the most out of Kaggle, the future of NLP, and yes, the value of graduate degrees for data science roles.

Here were some of the biggest take-homes from our chat:

Graduate school isn’t for everyone, and there are many reasons why you might want to dive into the job search without one. PhDs in particular take a really long time to complete, and there’s no guarantee that the knowledge obsolete you pick up during your studies won’t be obsolete when you graduate.

One thing that not enough people leverage on Kaggle are Kaggle kernels — basically discussion forums where Kaggle users share their thoughts about competition strategy, or general data science problems. This can be a great place to go if you want to see what conversations between competent data scientists looks like!

As great as blogs and MOOCs can be for learning data science, one thing they can’t teach well is process. How exactly does a data scientist fix a bug in their code? Is it ok to copy/paste error messages into Google? The answer is yes of course, but seeing a real data scientist livestream her problem-solving process in the way that Rachael does on Twitch can give you a window into the thought processes you should be working with in your projects.

You can follow Rachael on Twitter at @rctatman or on her Twitch stream.
Putting The Citizen First: Blockpass ID Lab Awarded Two Citizen-focused Smart City Research Projects
By: Prof Bill Buchanan Obe
Tags: Blockchain, Edinburgh Napier

In the past few months, the Blockpass ID Lab at Edinburgh Napier University has been awarded research funding for two smart city projects, and most importantly they put citizen at the centre.

The work at Edinburgh Napier has a long track record of putting the citizen at the core of the design of public sector systems. This includes the creation of the Symphonic Software spin-out. The research work started over a decade ago and aimed to create systems which promoted the rights of the citizen to the ownership and control their data. In fact Symphonic have been so successful and was recently aquired by Ping Identity.

First we received funding under Horizon 2020 as part of DT-GOVERNANCE-05–2020 for:

GLASS — SinGLe sign-on eGovernAnce paradigm based on a distributed file exchange network for Security, transparency, cost effectiveness and truSt

A key focus of GLASS is on trust, security, reproducibility and value generation for all stakeholders:

The GLASS framework aims to build strong business cases and a sustainabilty order, in order to integrate into every part of e-Governance systems:

GLASS thus aims to create new models for digital governance, and which supports the integration of targeted, engaging and effective policies for the citizen. This will focus a range of key technologies including Distributed Ledgers, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AIBots and NetApps technologies, and aim for a digital-by-default design, and which support interoperable and cross-border integration:

Other partners include: UNISYSTEMS (Luxembourg); Ministry of Digital Governance of Greece; the European Association for e-Identity & Security (EEMA); the Ministry of Justice of Portugal, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality; University of Patras; the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS; Ubitech, PDMFC, SUITE5 Data Intelligence Solutions; and Tages.

For our other new project, we will annouce this soon. It also focuses on the integration of the citizen into a smart city infastructure, and includes a major patnership with BT, and looks closely into the integration of the citizen within a UK city.

Conclusions

I have been to so many conferences where the main agenda item has been the integraton of the citizen, but very little happens. Now the tools are all place … let’s make it happen! GLASS begins in January 2021, and we are so happy to work with European partners, as our lab is truly international in its scope.
Govs. Inslee and Raimondo: Congress must protect Dreamers from expulsion
By: Wa Governor S Office
Tags: Immigration, Opinion, DACA, Dreamers, Congress

Govs. Inslee and Raimondo: Congress must protect Dreamers from expulsion

Read the governors’ op-ed in Newsweek

Gov. Jay Inslee and Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island wrote the following op-ed, published today in Newsweek, in support of Dreamers:

Since President Trump announced his plan to dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Dreamers in Rhode Island, Washington, and all across America have been faced with the constant uncertainty of whether they will be able to continue their lives here in America.

Hundreds of thousands of young people have built their lives here, and now live in fear of imminent deportation. These are hardworking young people who, through grit and determination, are pursuing higher education, working, starting small businesses, and contributing to our economy.

And as state leaders, we cannot and will not sit idly by as the federal government attempts to undercut their accomplishments and stand in the way of their continued success.

That’s why we worked to support Dreamers and eliminate the financial barriers to those needing to renew their DACA status earlier this month. And it’s why we are working hand-in-hand with local and national organizations to ensure Dreamers have the legal support and tools they need.

In Washington and Rhode Island, we’re acting in the absence of strong leadership at the federal level, showing how local leaders are making sure that Dreamers can continue to live in the only country many of them have called home.

Read the full op-ed here.
Checked Out: All the Names
By: Katie Fricas
Tags: Katie Fricas, Libraries, Books, Checked Out, Comics

Checked Out: A Summer to Die

There was nothing else like the freedom of getting to choose a book
The Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tags: Syria, Democracy, ISIS, Russia

Juxtaposition. The way to analyze the situation is to look at the factions comparatively. You do not compare Assad’s regime to the Danish or Norwegian governments, but to the alternative. The question becomes if there is anything in the left column that is worse than the right column?

Comment 1. Assad father’s allies/operatives blew up my house in Amioun when my grandfather, then MP, voted for Bashir. In Skin in the Game I discuss this as “acting against one’s interest” (the opposite of conflict of interest). So as a scientist and a humanist, I have been setting my grudge aside in considering the far, far, far, greater cancer of Salafism or Islamofascism.

Also note that the collapse of the Syrian state was anticipated in The Black Swan owing to such overcentralization.

Comment 2. Recall that I am a statistician. When I took a look at the statistics of the conflicts, most appear to be fabrications inflated by Qatari-funded think tanks and their useful idiots — by a mechanism the Indians call “Salma told Sabrina”. For instance, we know that Hama’s toll was not the 30–40,000 people report but the only real evidence is closer to 2,000.

Comment 3. One may ask: are the “rebels” all theocratic Salafis? No, but the groups became progressively so by the minority rule: you put a single Salafi in a group of five, and the five behave as Salafis. This, aside from Wahabi funding.

Comment 4. Counter-insurgencies (Army vs insurgents/terrorists, etc.) command a much higher rate of civilian casualties regardless of whether the army belongs to a liberal democracy or an autocracy.

Comment 5. One may ask: are all people who are mourning the defeat of the rebels in Aleppo that stupid, so gullible to the think tank operators? My answer, alas, is yes. And it takes some financial and intellectual independence and a great deal of integrity to analyze matters outside the main narrative as think tankers jump on you like flies.

In the end I never imagined seeing the “left” siding with the AlQaeda of Sept 11, mourning the fighters of Aleppo and, aside from such independent journalists as Robert Fisk, spreading all manner of concoctions.