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Tesla: Our Next-Gen Battery Tech Will Help Create a $25,000 Electric Car
Tags: Battery, Future Technology, Tesla, Electric Car, Technology

Tesla plans on incorporating the new battery tech and manufacturing methods in 12 to 18 months with full utilization in three years.

By Michael Kan

To one day create a $25,000 electric car, Tesla says it’s come up with a way to reduce the costs to building its batteries by more than 50 percent.

At the company’s Battery Day event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk went over a whole series of changes the automaker plans on making that promise to streamline vehicle manufacturing and the battery cells themselves. The results can not only help Tesla save on costs, but also increase the range of its electric cars by as much as 54 percent.

Among the changes are a new battery, the 4680, which Tesla says can offer five times the energy capacity and six times the power over the company’s existing batteries.

Credit: Tesla

Tesla plans on incorporating the new tech and manufacturing methods in 12 to 18 months with full utilization in three years, according Musk. Once in place, the company will be able to pump out electric batteries at a higher volume and at a lower cost, enabling the automaker to bring millions of more vehicles to market-including less expensive models.

Credit: Tesla

“I think probably about three years from now we can confidently make a very compelling $25,000 electric vehicle that’s also fully autonomous,” Musk said. (For perspective, the cheapest Tesla car, the Model 3, currently goes for $37,790.)

The newly announced cost improvements come not from a single technological breakthrough, but from numerous changes made across the entire manufacturing chain and how the batteries themselves are constructed.

Credit: Tesla

For example, one change involves constructing a Tesla car from a single piece of metal so that the electric battery can be more densely packed inside. Another improvement involves the company setting up its own cathode production facility by directly extracting the lithium from a field in Nevada.

Credit: Tesla

“Tesla will absolutely be head and shoulders above anyone else in (electric car) manufacturing. That is our goal,” Musk said.

On the flip side, it’ll take some time for Tesla to iron out and build out the new manufacturing technologies. “If we could do this instantly we would,” he added. “But I think it really bodes well for the future. The long-term scaling of Tesla and the sustainable energy products we make will be massively increased.”

At the event, Musk also gave an update on Autopilot, the driver-assist feature on Tesla vehicles. The company plans on releasing a beta update to Autopilot in “a month or so” that will allow for a fully self-driving Tesla, which Musk has long promised. He was sparse on the details, but said his company overhauled the software behind the system to better identify 3D objects recorded with the car’s sensors.
Контент-маркетинг: забег на длинные дистанции в памперсах и пинетках
By: Катерина Ерошина
Tags: Content Marketing, SEO, Content Strategy

in In Fitness And In Health
Illusion
By: Deborah Barchi
Tags: Poetry, Nature, Awareness, Birds

Image by Rhys Kentish/Unsplash

The leaves on the tree burst upwards

like dark scattershot,

then compressed and wheeled

in perfect formation,

not leaves at all, but starlings

who just the moment before

had cloaked the bare branches

in faux verdancy.

An illusion to rival the chorus line girls

of Hollywood’s Golden Age

who could kick their legs and tilt their heads

to form a flower or a waving flag;

but the starlings uncoached by any impresario,

though they may have answered some inner call

to perch, to preen, to puncture the sky

with their synchronous wings , dazzle us just the same.

The whole being more than

the sum of its parts.

More than the sight of gleaming birds

cartwheeling across the sky.
St. Luke’s
By: Mark Olmsted
Tags: Sibling, Poetry, Grief

Work by Author

Epic

Scale

Pale

Alien

almost spells Episcopalian.

A word we loved

to twist off our tongues as kids.

The church of Grandma,

waspy, staid, imperious,

just like her.

We also loved to say

“West Virginia Pulp and Paper,”

the company where my Dad

worked in the 60s,

pulpandpaper,

pulpandpaper,

pulpandpaper.

We passed this church in Tacoma,

my sister and I,

walking her dog.

I photographed this steeple

before seeing

the church was called “St. Luke’s,”

the name of our no-longer-here brother.

In 6 years,

he will be gone

as long

as he was on this earth.

Episcopal he was not,

more like Buddhist-eclectic.

But he was

a little epic

a little saintly

a little alien.

He was Grandma meets grandiosity

as eccentric

as a crooked steeple

a messiah-wannabe

or at least Jonah Salk.

A poem against the sky

that was my big brother

every night

turning into a star.
2020, the year of TikTok for good, politics, digital diplomacy
By: Andreas Sandre
Tags: Tech, Technology, Government, Social Media, Digital Diplomacy

4. Fighting Covid-19 disinformation and advocating for good

Early on, at the outset of the pandemic, international organizations, global NGOs and nonprofits, and other social impact entities realized that there was a need for reaching out to a wider audience online for clear and factual information about the virus, facts vs misinformation, and awareness campaigns online.

This is where TikTok started to play a huge role. The World Health Organization (WHO) launched on the platform with a huge success: almost 3 million followers to date; close to 10 million likes; and great content to cater TikTok’s audience — young generations but certainly expanding in age.

“It was a great opportunity for us to collaborate with TikTok to provide users with health-related information, educational content on health, to communicate health risks to younger audiences,” AleksandraKuzmanovic from the WHO told me, talking about the start of the global pandemic. “It was a strategic decision for us.”

Education and misinformation also came out in my interview with Nana Crawford at the British Red Cross, which counts almost 400,000 followers on TikTok, and a total of over 6 million likes on their videos.

Describing the British Red Cross’ impact on TikTok, Nana mentions how much they have done on the platform: “a donate campaign which helped raise £90,000 towards our coronavirus response; we’ve helped spread facts and not fear about coronavirus; we’ve basically just being trying to get people to understand more about the British Red Cross and I think it’s really landing.”

“We quickly realized that educational content is very popular on TikTok,” writes Nana in Civil Society magazine. “It is all about delivering information in fun and unexpected ways.”

Not only the pandemic created new opportunities for social impact organizations and campaigns to reach new audiences, create awareness about front-line workers, and educate TikTok’s youngest generations about COVID-19, but it also posed many challenges.

First and foremost, how to respond and contrast misinformation, disinformation, and fake news.

“I think there are a lot of opportunities for social impact,” said marketing expert Lia Haberman at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in a TikTok interview with me. “You’ve got so much disinformation, so many conspiracies theories. You need official sources like the WHO, that joined in March, or Addison Rae and Charli D’Amelio, the [TikTok] influencers who helped with campaigns to educate people.”
Thanksgiving Eve
By: Victoria Ponte
Tags: Disability, Gratitude, Thanksgiving, This Happened To Me, Self

Ralph (Ravi) Kayden for Unsplash

Thanksgiving Eve

A Party Story About Gratitude

My brother advised me to not go out. It was the night before Thanksgiving, and he said there would be too many people out partying after work who might be drunk. It was freezing, and snowing lightly.

“Stay home,” he said, “be grateful you are home and warm and safe.” I considered sitting home alone, drinking wine, and watching a movie. There was a party going on at the Tavern with a band that I like. It was a tough call: out for social energy, or home, quiet and warm…

I made myself a simple dinner and decided I would have dessert at the Tavern. I bundled up and took the quick drive there. The snow had stopped, and it was still 32 degrees out.

The Tavern was warm and full of partiers and families eating dinner. The bar was packed so I sat at a table. The band was rocking songs from the ’80s and ’90s. The last time I’d seen the band I wasn’t with anyone who wanted to dance.

I sat by myself and enjoyed a piece of pumpkin cake while listening to the music. It was a true Thanksgiving Eve party. Many were dancing on the dance floor, and those who weren’t had a hard time sitting still in their chairs including me.

I finished my cake, and took my cane and walked over to a couple who were seated but dancing. I asked them to come dance. They noticed the cane and made a remark about me getting up to dance with it, but they were sitting. I joined the crowd of dancers out on the floor, rested my cane on a nearby banquette, and got moving. In short order, the seated dancers were up on their feet moving and grooving with the crowd. It felt good to be in the middle of such revelry even if I was by myself. I purposely avoided alcohol because I had to drive.

As I unlocked my car in the frigid air, I was struck by gratitude for being able to enjoy so much. I don’t take simple things like driving, dancing, walking, or thinking for granted having spent a morning in the ER on February 14, 1999, with a bleeding brain that had done so much damage that my pupils were fixed and dilated. That kind of damage means that my brain stem functions that control things like respiration and my heartbeat were starting to shut down.

I was saved by emergency brain surgery. I was 6 months pregnant. I came out of the surgery with total paralysis of the entire left side of my body. I gave birth 6 weeks later to a healthy boy.

Nearly 20 years later, I am living a full life.

Rather than staying home safe and warm on Thanksgiving Eve, I took a simple trip that reminded me to be thankful for much more than all of the everyday comforts and pleasures that most of us enjoy. I am so thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for reading.

I’m recycling this story from 2018 in the Before Times.
Blocktown Tracks Three Indexes in Crypto
By: Greymatter Capital
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, Index Funds, Investment

Currency Index

Constituents:

Bitcoin Cash

Litecoin

Monero

Dash

Zcash

Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion requires the currency to maintain its sole purpose as a medium of transaction, and not for utility on a designated platform, contract, enterprise or other ecosystem. Index excludes Bitcoin and is limited to the largest 25 currencies by market capitalization as reported by CoinMarketCap. Cumulative daily spot trading volume on “Real 10” exchanges must exceed an average daily notional trade volume of 1 million USD determined on a weekly basis. Currencies failing to meet this criteria for two consecutive months will be removed from the index at time of rebalancing. New currencies meeting above criteria are added at time of rebalancing.

Methodology and Reports: Index was launched at initial price of 100.00 and weighted by market cap according to CoinMarketCap with maximum weight limit of 50% for any single currency. When necessary, rebalancing weighted by market cap occurs on the 1st of the month at 14:00 hours UTC. Any currency greater than 50% of the index as priced in USD on the 1st of the month will be be rebalanced to 40% allocation. Reports on the performance of the index will be released on the first day of the month prior to rebalancing.
Announcement: Molix Telegram Airdrop
Tags: Bitcoin

molix airdrop event

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Join our Telegram group on https://t.me/MolixOrg Go to https://molix.org/ and register account & confirm your information. Fill out this Google Form. Earn 20 up to 100 free MLC tokens Help grow the Telegram group and earn an additional 20 tokens when we reach 25K Telegram subscribers! Airdrop event will starts on 13:00 UTC Jun 14 2018 to 12:59 UTC Jun 30 2018. Hurry up!

Please read the Airdrop conditions on the link from above for additional information. The tokens from the Airdrop will be sent to your Ethereum wallet after the Main-ICO is finished.

Molix.org is a organization want to create decentralized ecosystem. Our products are decentralized exchange, decentralized banking and cloud mining. The result, is that clients can access a place can trade, buy, sell, store crypto-assets.
Santa Claus Is Batman
By: Melody Hughes
Tags: Humor, Satire, Santa Claus, Batman, Christmas

Santa Claus Is Batman

I’ve made a list: help me check it twice.

Photo by rawkkim from Unsplash

Both Santa Claus and Batman:

Work under the cover of dark and silent nights.

Zoom around town in glitzy, gravity-defying vehicles that are simultaneously feats of technological imagination and expensive cries for help.

Obsess over other people’s moral choices, taking it upon themselves to punish those they deem “bad,” despite using opaque evaluation criteria and lacking a reliable system of checks and balances.

Use inherited wealth to fund the Rich Recluse Aesthetic — covert hideouts, bespoke transportation, custom made uniforms, niche hobbies that they tout as jobs despite not earning so much as one cent for this “work” — on which their entire personalities depend.

Build their brands on the backs of flying animals who did not ask to be dragged into the spotlight.

Experience an existential glitch when they take off their suits.

Receive unrelenting, unsolicited comments about the distinct features of their bodies and voices.

Prefer to remain undisturbed in their remote workshop-fortresses; however, they don't think twice before tumbling down a chimney or blasting through a parking garage into other people’s quiet evenings.

Feel obligated to do something miraculous on those rare occasions when they leave home, hoping to provide tangible proof to the world that good will conquer evil and justice will be served, even if it only happens about once each year.

Enter all spaces with a dramatic flourish, vigilantly balancing style, and stealth.

Pressure themselves to complete dangerous jobs. They feel the weight of the world on their shoulders, but to be clear: not one person is forcing them to put their precious lives on the line.

Reap the lion’s share of the credit, fame, and adoration even though they would fail miserably and probably be dead were it not for the blood, sweat, and tragically under-celebrated talent of their behind-the-scenes supporters (Alfred/elves).

Have made some powerful enemies over the years.

Divide the population into two distinct groups: those who believe and those who don’t. They provoke such a pure sense of wonder in the Believers that even the most jaded non-believers hesitate to say, “Get real, kid. He doesn’t exist.”

Grapple with the inevitable yet immutable ego issues that result from having their likenesses adoringly portrayed on throw pillows, sheet cakes, snow globes, table lamps, birdhouses, cutting boards, wrapping paper, shot glasses, beach towels, PEZ dispensers, and shatter-proof Christmas ornaments that are regarded as family heirlooms.

Have excellent taste in boots.
Eight Quotes on Morality to Help You Do the Right Thing
By: Daniella Mini
Tags: Personal Growth, Life Lessons, Philosophy, Ideas, Morality

“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” — Mark Twain

This was one of the many quotes chiseled on the walls of Mark Twain’s House and Museum in Hartford, CT. All great quotes, but this one I had to write down.

I’ve heard too many people who haven’t worked for a living one day in their lives judge a jobless poor person as lazy and irresponsible. It’s just so easy and, yes, fun, to judge others from the comfort of a nice house in a safe neighborhood with access to great schools, grocery stores, and recreation.

Prosperity is a good thing. It certainly minimizes the temptation to shoplift, the need to defend yourself from aggression in the neighborhood, and the necessity to miss work because you can’t afford a babysitter to take care of your child when he’s sick.

At a national level, prosperity makes it unlikely for people to cross a border, illegally, into a poor country. Isn’t it funny how the flow of undocumented immigrants is from poor to prosperous and not the other way around?

Takeaway:

The feeling of self-righteousness is intoxicating. When you’re overtaken by this feeling, ask yourself: Am I more principled, or simply more privileged?
Mengolah data excel menggunakan Pandas
By: Benedict Aryo
Tags: Data Science, Pandas, Excel, Dataframes, Pandas Dataframe

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My First Anal Sex With a Guy I Met Online.
By: K. Love
Tags: Short Story, Love, Sex, Sexuality, Romance

I met him online and we’d been chatting for a while and eventually I plucked the courage to come to his flat. He was much older than me, sexy though.

So we sat and chatted and then he was beside me and we kissed, only quickly, but he was a good kisser and all the time he was reassuring me as he could see I was a bit nervous.

But I kinda liked him and he soon was moving his hand up my top!

I remember I had just a loose silk satin cami on under my top and so it wasn’t hard for him to find my nipples and wow I’m terrible when it comes to guys playing with me.

I do get turned on very fast and I couldn’t help it and he was quiet but controlling and I was trying not to but I was soon taking my top and jeans off and we kissed and he was really turning me on and could tell I liked it when he touched my breasts and it just happened!

I wanted to please him but as I was led to the bed and he made me climb onto it. He was behind me and was still pulling at my nipples and I fell forward, bent over in front of him.

He must have taken this as a sign I wanted him because he pulled my pants and was kissing and carressing me and then fingering me. I was so so horny at that moment. I let him finger my butthole and it made me shiver, physically shiver!

I started moaning and could not stop and became really desperate and could tell he was putting a condom on. I did want him so much and wanted to be fucked. So when I felt him move and then come directly behind me and finger my butthole again, I knew what was going to happen and yet I was so scared and wanted to say no but it happened so quickly, he was in me!

At first all I could feel was pain and then slowly as he was pulling out but again pushing upwards, I felt my butthole relax as he touched my breasts again, my bottom gave way and he was in me!

He just kept himself there as he could tell it was my first time and I was really finding it hard but then as he moved in me I felt all of him, like he was a part of me, filling me totally and wow! It felt so good!

I was head down and started to feel my orgasm rise almost immediately and it just started but stayed there rising slowly as he fucked me deeper and deeper, slowly but rhythmically and my head spinning. I just got to the point where I was starting to moan really deeply and suddenly I was cumming!

I came so hard, it was the best orgasm I ever had. Soon, he started moaning too. I could tell he was about to cum too. Then I felt his warm sticky cum in my butthole as he spilled it deep inside.

Moments later, we felt so relaxed looking into each other after releasing our burning passions.
Detecting elements with Xpath in Katalon Studio
By: Katalon Studio
Tags: Continuous Integration, Software Development, Testing, Programming, Web Development

Detecting UI elements of the application under test (AUT) is crucial for automation testing since they are the main objects in test cases and test scripts. However, identifying them manually requires much time and experience in HTML. This task becomes even more challenging for objects that could not be identified by their common attributes or are located deep within another element (nested objects). This article shows you how Katalon Studio provides supports to deal with such cases.

What is XPath?

XPath expression is a mechanism for navigating through and selecting a node in the XML document. It can also be used to locate an HTML element.

For example, the Download link in the script below is an element nested in another.

<div class="container">

<div class="navbar-collapse navbar-right" aria-expanded="true">

<div class = "nav-bar-decorated"

<ul class="nav navbar-nav">

<Li>

<a class="pbtn-download" href="#katalon-download">Download</a> <!-- Deeply nested element -->

</li>

</div>

</div>

</div>

Issue in identifying nested elements

It is difficult to identify a nested element, such as the <a> element in the script above. In order to define the XPath manually, we need to have solid knowledge about DOM structure of the webpage.

How to identify nested elements?

Identifying XPath is an effective way to find nested elements which can’t be identified by common properties such as ID, Name, or Class. There are two ways to find XPath:

Detect XPath by other tools: Web browsers usually have Adds-on support users to identify XPath. However, It can be a challenge since it depends on alot of the tools.

Detect XPath by Katalon Studio: Katalon Studio can generate and optimize XPath for HTML elements, regardless of how deeply nested they are. You can use these XPaths to identify elements without having to search through the DOM tree.

The example below illustrates how Katalon Studio generates and optimizes XPath automatically when you spy on the Sign up now object (a nested object).

Deal with dynamically changing elements

One of the challenging and time-consuming tasks in test automation is to modify test scripts when the AUT is changed, especially in the early stages of software development. Developers may change identifiers and elements quite often from one build to another. In addition, during the execution, the AUT’s elements may change dynamically.

To deal with these challenges, automation testers should not set fixed XPaths for elements in test cases, but instead, scripting XPaths dynamically based on certain patterns. Katalon Studio supports all Xpath Axes, such as

following-sibling

preceding-sibling

contains

descendant

starts-with

Here are a few examples:

For more information on XPath Axes, refer to XPath Axes from www.w3schools.com.

For more useful tutorials from Katalon Studio, please visit us here.
Are We Supposed to Send a Christmas Card to Everyone?
By: Joe Wilson
Tags: Parents, Parenting, Family, Christmas Cards, Christmas

Are We Supposed to Send a Christmas Card to Everyone?

My wife and I are not those kinds of parents.

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

For the last few years, we’ve seen on the Christmas card mailing list of our millennial friends and family.

We’re not the kind of parents done shopping in September or that send Christmas cards to people we hardly speak to throughout the year.

We’ve received half a dozen cards so far this year, and it’s making us feel like we dropped the proverbial Christmas ball.

Does that mean we’re bad parents?

I don’t think so, but here’s a list of things we were able to accomplish this month to help with our feelings of inadequacy:

We got all of our shopping done before Christmas Eve

We picked our tree and decorated it Thanksgiving weekend

We wrapped all her presents

We were sure to add a little present in her advent calendar each day since November 26 (haven’t missed a day!)

I watched Mickey’s Once (and Twice) Upon a Christmas holidays specials 386 times and counting

We decorated a small Christmas tree in her bedroom

We drove around to see Christmas lights

We even met Santa at an acceptable socially distance

But this is her third Christmas, and the idea of sending Christmas cards still has not crossed our minds; and we haven’t really thought about it until now.

Maybe we don’t see the point in sending a photo around to friends and family that has already made the rounds via text group chat.

If you’re in the inner circle, then you’ve already received the photo anyway.

You’re either in the group chat, or we’re friends on Instagram.

If you’re not in the inner circle, why would I send you our family photo in the first place?

Maybe it’s the digital marketer in me, but the idea (and medium) of Christmas cards needs a revamp.

If we’re going to send something in the mail, the old-fashioned part of me wants it to be unique and personalized. Something along the lines of a handwritten card, and not just a scribbled ‘Happy Holidays!’

Something legit. If you’re going to do it, do it right. We haven’t fully committed to the process, so we’ve chosen to opt-out of it.

If you’ve received Christmas cards and haven’t sent one in return, don’t beat yourself up. Everyone’s parenting style is different, and as long as you’re doing your best to try to make the season special for your little one and fill the days with wonder and magic, then you’re doing it right.

Merry Christmas!
Fan of Angular-In-Depth and my writings? Support us on Twitter!
By: Max Koretskyi
Tags: Web Development, JavaScript, Angular

AngularInDepth is moving away from Medium. More recent articles are hosted on the new platform inDepth.dev. Thanks for being part of indepth movement!

A few weeks ago I ran a poll on Twitter to understand why Angular account has 280k followers on Twitter while Angular-In-Depth has only a fraction of that on Medium (11k). The poll showed that 50% of those who responded don’t use Medium, 17% find stories too complicated, 27% have no time to read and there are people (7%) who find stories not interesting.

A situation where a majority of Angular developers don’t use Medium is unfavorable for the community. I want Angular-In-Depth to be for Angular developers and writers what FreeCodeCamp is for React. I want it to be the place where you

as a developer can find the explanation and solution to whatever complex problem you’re facing related to Angular

as a writer can improve your writing skills and publish articles that reach a majority of Angular developers

But to get there we need your help.

You probably know that writing good content is no longer enough. Even a brilliantly written article on an important topic can pass by the community unnoticed. To be noticed, it needs promotion. Although Medium’s vision is to enable writers to focus on words and handle the distribution of content itself, I think we’re still far away from there. At least for Angular, which only has 3.7k followers on Medium (“Angular” tag). That is almost 3 times less than Angular-In-Depth and a a lot less than Angular’s Twitter account.

So until we arrive at the point where we have hundreds of thousands Angular developers using Medium and following Angular tag, we have to do the promotion ourselves. And Twitter is one of the major platforms to focus on.

So we ask you to support us on Twitter! Please give Me and Angular-In-Depth a follow and share your feedback in the comments. I very much appreciate it!
Core models: a surprisingly simple solution to content-driven design
By: Christie Nichols
Tags: Agency, Design Process, User Experience, Content Strategy, UX

Using core models as a client collaboration tool

Core models can ease nerves on both sides of the design process. Completing the exercise with clients can help agencies keep client feedback more focused (and easier to address) later in the design process, since the core content for each page has already been determined.

Clients can also rest easier, knowing that the team has an understanding of the goals and content requirements for each page. Establishing all of this upfront frees the UX, design, and content folks to focus on what they’re best at: nailing the user experience.

Core models help with internal collaboration, too

Despite being a distributed team, we manage to keep content and design in lock-step using core models. We make sure that all key players on the project have input, and make the core model worksheet readily available on Trello and Slack.

The UX team can move forward with wireframes, knowing the content requirements for each page. Core models help our designers do their jobs, serving as briefs and providing context for each page they’re tasked with creating.

Content strategists and writers are also able to start brainstorming messaging for each page, even without the wires. Sure, reconciling and tweaking will have to be done later, but the core content will be accounted for.

Core models are so effective, some of the world’s largest companies have worked them into their internal processes. Joel Solomon, a global content strategist at Amazon, says his team uses core models “to engage with leadership to determine how to best communicate our policies to difficult customer issues by aligning the context of the customer experience with business, legal, and PR considerations.”

“We have been able to improve some of our highest-used, challenging content to be more customer-friendly and actionable by customers.”

The framework has also helped Amazon refine customer-facing content. Solomon says, “We have been able to improve some of our highest-used, challenging content to be more customer-friendly and actionable by customers.”

At Phuse, core models have been such a game changer, we’ve built them into our process. It’s even helped us during internal projects, like our recent website redesign.

Tell us: what are your tips for achieving a “content first” design, and keeping teams aligned?
Sri Lanka declares State of Emergency
By: Bharat Sachdev
Tags: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka declares State of Emergency

Sri Lanka has declared a State of Emergency for the first the since their Civil War.

The violence in the city of Kandy was sparked by an isolated incident on 4 March when a taxi carrying 4 Muslims collided with a van driven by a young Buddhist. The Muslim men assaulted the Buddhist with an iron rod, the Buddhist passing away a few hours later in the hospital. The city of Kandy, which has a Buddhist dominated population, broke in violence.

Sri Lankan military outside a burnt house in the city of Kandy

At least four mosques, 37 houses, 46 shops and 35 vehicles were destroyed in the city by Buddhist radicals as they seek vengeance on the the Muslim community, especially the four who have been captured and placed under custody of the police. All schools in the city have since been closed, with both the military and the police force patrolling the streets of the city.

Looking at the effect of the State of Emergency on the tourism in Sri Lanka, most countries are reassured by the Sri Lankan government that “ An island-wide state of emergency has been declared purely as a precaution and as a way of facilitating action of the law enforcement mechanism.” and that most of Sri Lanka is safe to travel.
Bootstrap 3.3.2 ออกแล้ว! มีอะไรใหม่บ้าง?
By: Suranart Niamcome
Tags: Highlight, News, Coding, Bootstrap

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The Father Who Forgot Me
By: Christina Vaughn, Nurse, Freelance Writer
Tags: Addiction, Loss, Being, Parenting, Life

The Father Who Forgot Me

A young boy’s response to his father’s absence

Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash

I do find it hard to speak

the words I need to say

If I tell you how I really feel

I think you’ll go away

For good.

You’ve been away so much

I guess it really would not matter

But if I made you go with what I said

I couldn’t take the shattering of my heart.

Again.

I love you, but my hate for you

is only second to the sadness

You’ve just thrown your only son away

and never reasoned why

…Never told me why

It makes me feel like I am bad,

like I am nothing anyway

but, never the less,

I hide the pain that I carry every day

I try to wait and see

I hope you will one day, come back for me

If I am here

You’ve said so many things

At intervals between

the spaces

of few the times I do see you,

But I remember all your faces.

One lies,

One hides,

One looks the other way

But it’s the one that cares for me that continues to evade me.

Please tell me Daddy, that I’m wrong

And help me believe that one day you will come back for me.

Brad, my son’s father, my daughter’s father, never came back.

He died at 38 years old as the 4th generation of fathers to die of a drug addiction or drug related incidences.

He spent all his time chasing his drug of choice and none loving his children.

We alone are the ones left to regret his decisions.
The Star of Light
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Spiritual Secrets, Meditation, Awakening, Letters

SPIRITUALITY | NEWSLETTER |

The Star of Light

Spiritual Secrets’ Weekly Letter #6

Photo by Daniel Olah on Unsplash

With the eye of my intellect, I see

With the power of my wisdom, I discern

The living star of light

Invisible to the eyes of matter

Made of subtle, serene, and divine light

This being is immortal.

And eternal it stays

Indestructible it remains

Being imperishable, it sustains on its own

Timeless it is

And endless it is

This light’s powers are infinite.

But its form is definite.

The screen of my mind has overflooded

With the image of the Star of light

…………………………………………When I realized, that’s me - “The Soul.”

……………………………….The soundless sound I heard

………………………The timeless time I encountered

……………….The thoughtless thoughts I thought

……………….A surreal emotion I discovered

………………………And an eternal peace drowned me

……………………………….As the body-less body, I donned

……………………………………The puffiness, the coolness, the warmth I felt

And I remained the star of light forever.
I Must Have Forgotten How Good It Felt
By: Kimberly Fosu
Tags: Spirituality, Inspiration, Meditation, Ideas, Mindfulness

I Must Have Forgotten How Good It Felt

It’s easy to forget the important things when life gets too busy

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay

I must have forgotten how smoothly my day went on the days I meditated. I must have forgotten the little miracles I attracted into my life on days when my mind was free of the burdens from the previous day.

I must have forgotten because I stopped. Before the year went nuts, I was meditating twice a day. I stopped because it was all too much.

I didn't realize that's when I needed it the most.

I forgot that I could simply sit wherever comfortable, close my eyes, and just be. I forgot that was enough to fill me up with better thoughts and feelings.
年度婚禮指定曲：Metronomy
Tags: 婚禮, 中文, 婚禮音樂, Electro Pop, Bedroom Pop

甚少看到同溫層分享英國樂隊 Metronomy 的新專輯，這次稍稍褪去靈魂放克的一面，呈現出爽口清脆、可愛動感的 Indie 歌曲。

「我聽到婚禮鐘聲，但那不屬於你

那屬於你最好的朋友，和我最好的朋友」

音樂錄影帶裡邪惡的告訴大家，參加別人婚禮最重要的就是幫自己找到另外一半⋯⋯

「讓我們躲起來，躲起來

在那個後花園裡，暗暗的地方」

即將結婚的朋友們，這首歌，放起來！

Yeah I hear wedding bells

But they’re not for me

They’re for my best friend

And your best friend

So let’s hide out

In the darkness

Of your parents

Back garden
10 New Year’s Resolution Ideas
By: Dayana Sabatin
Tags: New Years Resolutions, Growth, Personal Development, Self Improvement, Life

1. Read more books.

Set a goal to read 1 book a week. Figure out how many pages you need to read daily in order to finish it in 7 days.

2. Start a gratitude journal and write 2–3 things you’re grateful for every morning.

The 5-minute journal is perfect for this. Or, just pick up a notebook and jot down what you’re most grateful for.

3. Pick a new language to learn and dedicate 30 minutes to it M-F.

Not only will this boost your brain power but how cool would it be to learn that language you used to dream of knowing?

4. Before getting upset or angry — take a deep breath and reassess.

Don’t let your emotions control you anymore. You’re in charge of how you react.

5. Get your documents organized in a filing folder.

Do you know where your passport is? Organize yourself this year. Start the year off clean and collected and keep it that way.

6. Create a solid morning routine that involves meditation.

A morning routine has the power to turn your entire day around. It’ll keep you grounded and efficient.

7. Learn to cook incredible and wholesome meals at home.

Bon Appetit is great for this. You don’t always have to go out to fancy restaurants, find ways to create your favorite meals at home.

8. Learn to approach things from a more positive perspective.

How often do you see the glass as half empty rather than half full? Change your mindset.

9. Identify how you can improve your personal relationships.

Have you and your partner been struggling? Maybe a few of your friendships are dwindling? It’s time to rekindle them and focus on strengthening the important relationships in your life.

10. Move your body more.

Whether that be going to the gym or going on walks, choose your poison but just move. Go on a bike ride, explore nature, do stretches every morning. Treat your body better this year.

2021 is your year to improve and get better, leave 2020 in the past and embrace the New Year with a new set of goals and a new you.
What Is The Best Way to Run Jupyter: Create a Deep Learning VM with the latest TensorFlow Instance Using the Command Line
By: Alina Zhang
Tags: Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Google Cloud Platform, Data Science, Deep Learning

What Is The Best Way to Run Jupyter: Create a Deep Learning VM with the latest TensorFlow Instance Using the Command Line Alina Zhang Follow Apr 19, 2019 · 3 min read

“Before you climb the ladder, make sure it is leaning against the right building.”

Therefore, the first question we need to ask ourselves before taking any actions is:

Why we should run Jupyter by using the Deep Learning VM Image?

There are at least four advantages of using a Deep Learning VM Image:

Pre-installed with popular Machine Learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn, etc.

Add one or more GPUs in your instance on setup

Specify CPU and memory as you need

Instantiate the image through Cloud SDK from the command line

Before you begin

Select or create a Google Cloud Platform project. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud Platform project. Download and install the Cloud SDK at the command line

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk

If you installed the Cloud SDK already, you can run the following command for an update.

$ gcloud components update

4. Authenticate your account to login

$ gcloud auth login

5. Set your project id
Machine Learning for Earth Observation Market Map
By: Radiant Earth Foundation
Tags: Geospatial Industry, Infographics, Satellite Data, Earth Observation, Training Data

Machine Learning for Earth Observation Market Map

Meet the 100+ organizations that focus on machine learning applications with satellite data

By Louisa Nakanuku-Diggs, Marketing & Communications Manager, Radiant Earth Foundation and Gracie Pearsall, former Science Communications Intern, now a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz

Building geospatial machine learning applications involve many dependable moving parts, from accessing Earth observation (EO) data, labeling imagery, and generating training data to creating and developing models and running analytics. A growing list of organizations from various sectors are providing solutions and services to advance these applications.

Who can help you build machine learning applications, identify patterns from your data, or run your crowdsourcing campaign? What organizations are providing software or a platform that you can utilize to develop your machine learning model?

To help you navigate these questions, we curated a list of organizations focusing on different aspects of machine learning with a satellite data pipeline. The list of organizations are divided into two groups — Commercial and Non-Commercial — and five categories:

Data Analysis and Services — Organizations that build machine learning models and analytical solutions for various geospatial applications using EO. Analytics Platforms — Organizations that provide software or a platform to process EO data and build customized applications. Labeling Platforms — Organizations that provide a solution for generating labels on satellite imagery and creating training data catalogs. Competition Platforms — Organizations that help you run challenges on your training dataset to outsource modeling solutions. Data Access and Storage — Organizations that provide access to satellite imagery and geospatial training data to facilitate machine learning analytics pipelines.

What organizations are we missing?

Please follow this link to submit the names of organizations we might have missed: http://bit.ly/MissingML4EOOrgs.
Gilfoyle’s full cryptocurrency Powerpoint presentation from HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’
By: Simon Manka
Tags: Presentations, Shitcoin, Silicon Valley, Crypto, HBO

FortuneInsider.com

In the seventh episode of the fifth season of HBO’s hit TV series, ‘Silicon Valley’, one of the main characters, an engineer named Gilfoyle gives his friend, roommate, and CEO Richard Hendricks a presentation on why they should have an ICO.

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” is a biting satire of the tech industry, and the show’s writers use tech trends and real-life events to inform the storylines.

Gilfoyle’s point of the presentation is that the fictional startup should raise money using an initial coin offering instead of a series B round of funding from a venture-capital firm.

HBO shared Gilfoyle’s full Powerpoint presentation, which like the show ‘Silicon Valley’ is both both painfully-true and hilarious to see.

Gilfoyle’s Cryptocurrency Presentation for PiperCoin:

A representative for HBO said the season-five writers were inspired to make the presentation after a talk they received from Henry Berg, an engineer and bitcoin guru credited at the end of Gilfoyle’s slideshow. He also happens to be the brother of the “Silicon Valley” showrunner Alec Berg.

[h/t businessinsider.com]
The Kindest Act I’ve Witnessed at School
By: Daniella Mini
Tags: Disability, Life Lessons, Schools, Kindness, Education

I’ve been an early childhood special education teacher for fifteen years. Last year, I had a student (whom I’ll call Steve) who presented some significant physical challenges. He got around the school in a wagon and often had difficulty holding down food. He was bright and communicative, but, above all, Steve had a smile that made you believe that everything in the universe was perfect and beautiful.

One day, during an occupational therapy session, Steve vomited in his wagon. Bruno (not his real name), a custodian at my school, happened to be walking by. Bruno took matters into his own hands. He first power-washed the wagon, and then went to the nurse’s office to check in on Steve.

He inquired about him, not just about the vomiting, but also about what Steve liked. Dinosaurs, Bruno learned. He also found out that the therapist had modified an old tricycle for Steve to use at school.

Well, not a week had passed when Bruno showed up in school with: a tricycle that his children had outgrown and that was in much better shape than the one we had; a dinosaur coloring book; dinosaur stickers; and a card. The card was remarkable. Bruno had made it himself, with the letters S-T-E-V-E formed in ink, in the graffiti style you might see on the back of a skateboard. The message inside read something along these lines:

Dear Steve, I hope you are feeling better. You have a wonderful smile. Your friend, Bruno.

I don’t mean to suggest with this story that a custodian is less likely to be kind than a teacher. What’s humbling to me is that Bruno’s act highlighted how wrong our expectations can be. His job description and performance have nothing to do with his interactions with students. A teacher’s job, by contrast, is -directly- all about the children.

I’ve been around long enough to know that generosity doesn’t necessarily come from those who have more or from those who are expected to do more. Still, it’s wonderful to be reminded of it.
Double Doppler 4.2.8632— Release Notes
By: Beam Privacy
Tags: Bitcoin, Privacy, Release Notes, Mimblewimble, Cryptocurrency

Come discover Beam and join our community!

Download Beam Desktop Wallet here

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Learn more about Beam on our website and blog

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Lightning in a Bottle
By: Aleksa Jovanovic
Tags: Bitcoin, Payment Channels, Lightning Network, Lightning, Research

Getting it Running Locally

Local Nodes

Getting the Bitcoin and Lightning nodes up and running wasn’t too tricky and mostly involved getting all the right dependencies installed and downloading the Bitcoin blockchain. Since we were using the testnet, it only took about 4 hours to download. Aside from that, it was also important to make sure we had the correct flags and configurations for the nodes.

Android

Getting the Lightning Network running on the Android phone took significantly more effort. First off, we had to take a look at ACINQ’s eclair wallet to understand how to use their Scala implementation of the Lightning Network. At first glance it seemed quite complicated, but piece by piece we broke it down and isolated the components we needed for basic boiler plate code.

Additional Setup

The last step necessary to facilitate communication between my local nodes and the outside world was to expose them through an SSH server for port forwarding. We used serveo for this, but ngrok works just as well too.

Initial Challenges

Testing was the most tedious aspect about getting the nodes up and running and making a payment channel. Since we were using the testnet we still had to wait for 6 confirmations from miners and they could take up to 30 minutes to complete. Whenever we would create a funding transaction for off-chain transactions, or close and settle a payment channel, we were waiting upwards of half and hour.

😞

Another inconvenience we encountered was that we couldn’t fund the payment channel after it was opened. Essentially, the funds you opened the payment channel with are all the funds you have to spend before the state has to be broadcast on the main chain. Contrary to the payment channels we implemented on the Ethereum network, the payment channels on the Lightning Network do not have addresses, or at least exposed addresses that can have funds sent to them.

General unpredictability of the network was a salient theme throughout our research of the Lightning Network. A number of times we would try to open a payment channel with a random node we’ve connected to and we would be greeted with the following error:

The error is telling us that we don’t have enough satoshis in our wallet to fund the opening transaction.¹ We tried to fund the channel with 20000 satoshis, if the fee is 485281 satoshis, like it says in the error, then that’s a total 505281 satoshis. In our wallet we have 41173093, more than enough to fund the transaction.

Lastly, when you make off-chain transactions on the Lightning Network you still pay a fee if your transaction has to travel through more than one node! The creators of the Lightning Network estimate that the fee should be 1 satoshi per node or smaller. The fee is nominal, but nonetheless you still have to pay a fee to the nodes you pass through, unlike Ethereum payment channels where there is no fee at all.
Quitting coffee isn’t really about quitting coffee.
Tags: Comics, Coffee, Self Improvement, Honestly Why Bother, Change Your Life

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