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Coinbase on Crypto Central
By: Vincent Tellier
Tags: Mobile Apps, Portfolio, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

We have integrated Coinbase in Crypto Central. Follow theses steps to get your API credentials and track your portfolio automatically.

Coinbase API credentials

Go to coinbase.com/settings/api, under “API Keys”, click on “New API Key”.

If you have 2FA activated (you should!), enter your code on the prompt modal

For your own security, you should activated 2FA on exchange, Coinbase included

Select authorization needed only (wallets:accounts:read & wallets:transactions:read)

Select accounts you want to track

wallets:accounts:read & wallets:transactions:read

Write your credentials somewhere safe. You will not be able to see this modal again.

Coinbase credentials

We are good here. Open Crypto Central app

Enter your API credentials on Crypto Central
Six Murder Plotlines That All Start With You Entering the Restaurant Ten Minutes Before Close
By: Ellyn Mendenhall
Tags: Life Lessons, Humor, Murder, Food, Satire

Six Murder Plotlines That All Start With You Entering the Restaurant Ten Minutes Before Close

You Really Think Your 15% Tip Will Save You?

A crew member cleaning up before you decided to walk in, rendering his work useless. (Photo by Zhanjiang Chen on Unsplash.)

So you’ve decided to either blatantly ignore the restaurant’s hours OR you’ve deemed the vanishing window of opportunity as an open invitation to request full-service dining. You thought you’d make it out alive?

Here are the six ways you might, although this is really inevitable, be murdered:
Squirt, the Soft Drink
By: Christine Stevens
Tags: Humor, Roz Warren, Satire, Sexuality, Sex

Squirt, the Soft Drink

It tastes great, but does it really contain female ejaculate?

Wikimedia Commons

First of all, if my female ejaculate came out green like Squirt soft drink, I would be worried.

Female ejaculate is meant to be clear, any sexy person knows that.

Of course, if you added lemon or lime flavoring to female ejaculate, I supposed it might look like Squirt soft drink.

I decided to do a little research.

Turns out Squirt was created by Herb Bishop in 1938. Bishop’s intention was to make a soft drink that required less fruit and sugar than other sodas, due to the Great Depression, so he hit on replacing the fruit and sugar with a small dose of female ejaculate.

“Herb’s wife was a squirter,” said Softdrink historian Billy Bishop. “So she provided all the female ejaculate at the beginning.”

It was a slow start for the brand, however, as people were understandably appalled and upset at the idea of a soft drink that contained female ejaculate.

“They hired a marketing company,” said Bishop. “They came up with an idea that emphasized that it’s just a small amount of female ejaculate, and nothing to get grossed out by. They created this character called Little Squirt.”

Little squirt was a hit right away with customers.

It’s just a little amount of female ejaculate!

“Once customers were able to see the female ejaculate as a wholesome blonde, male child, it became much less a disgusting female thing. Now the whole family could enjoy a soft drink with feminine sprinkle.”

However, in 1977, Squirt was bought by Brooks Products, a company in Michigan, that went on to introduce a new product logo and a reformulated Squirt.

“Brooks Products didn’t know about the female ejaculate when they bought the company,” explained Bishop. “When they found out, they tried to cancel the deal, but it was too late. See, it was in the fine print that Squirt included real squirt.”

The Michigan company replaced the natural female ejaculate with a synthetic version called Cumjuiceanol. Customers didn’t seem to notice the difference.

So there you have it. Until 1977 Squirt soft drink contained female ejaculate, but now it just contains a cancer-causing chemical.

In the 2000s the brand was purchased by British beverage company Cadbury Schweppes. When I asked that company whether the product contains any natural female ejaculate, the representative just put her finger on her lips and made the “shhhh” gesture.

So, I don’t know. Those crazy Brits, they might be squirting into their Squirt.

For my next article, “Why Do My Gums Feel Numb After Drinking Coke?”
Oh Solar Plexus Chakra
By: Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers
Tags: Chakras, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Life

Indecisive, cold, forgotten

People came, and people went.

Everyone! Look how much better I’ve gotten.

I made up for those years not well-spent

A fire burns within as I continue moving

Up the hill of thorns, out of breath

The crowd cheers me on — the one that was once disapproving.

You, Manipura, made me feel whole before my inevitable death.

My blood-soaked shoes beg for me to stop.

It shall be what I want, and this is what I’ll do.

My golden will burns bright as I anticipate the view atop

Ah, Manipura! It’s all thanks to you.
Long Term Goals
By: Tds Editors
Tags: The Daily Pick, Biology, Correlation, Time Series Analysis

Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash

During this unprecedented time with the pandemic, many are finding their careers affected. This includes some of the most talented data scientists with which I have ever worked. Having shared my personal experience with some close friends to help them find a new job after being laid off, I thought it worth sharing publicly.

By Emma Ding — 14 min read in Editors’ Picks
The ISW: Super Bowl LIV by (some of) the numbers
By: John Culver
Tags: Sports Analytics, NFL, Sports Betting, Lean Startup, Data Visualization

Over the course of 18 games, the San Francisco 49ers (SF) are the #2 ranked scoring team averaging 30.2 points per game (PPG) with a standard deviation of +/- 10.6 ppg. Through 18 games, the Kansas City Chiefs (KC) rank #3 in scoring averaging 29.8 ppg with a standard deviation of +/- 8.49.

SF’s PF, PA, and MOV for 2019–20 season

KC’s PF, PA, and MOV for 2019–20 season

Analysis

San Francisco 49ers: In addition to ranking #2 in scoring, SF ranks #5 in points allowed (PA), and #2 in margin of victory, or the difference between points for and points allowed. To wit: on average, SF defeated its opponents by an average score of 11.3 points per game with a median margin of victory between 9–10 points per game.

Kansas City Chiefs: The Chiefs rank 10th in PA averaging 20.2 points surrendered to opponents per game with a standard deviation of +/- 10.4 points per game allowed. KC is the #4 ranked team in margin of victory with a a mean average margin of +9.7 and a standard deviation of +/- 11.4.

SF vs. KC Margin of Victory (MOV/(Defeat)
Blue Apron( US based startup) Data Science Interview Question
By: Nishesh Gogia
Tags: Machine Learning, Blue Apron, Interview Questions, Word Cloud, Data Science

Data Science Interview Question At BLUE APRON(It is a meal essentials kit providing company works on subscription model)

So before jumping to the solution, lets understand how this company operates or what is the exact business model, now here is the first tip, Domain Knowledge is equally important in machine learning like algorithms, coding, mathematics. Without the exact domain knowledge it is impossible to build a model which can solve a real world problem. From domain knowledge we make features and that is called feature engineering.

So Blue Apron provides kit of raw food essentials for any meal, lets say I want to have healthy food but I don’t have time, what they will do?

They will ask me what I want to have,

They will make a kit of all the essentials food items required in that dish and

deliver just when I come from office.

So now I can make my own food just by cooking, I did not have to shop, I did not have to cut veggies etc, so I need 10 minutes to eat healthy food. And this whole model works on Monthly Subscription theme.

So if people are not returning after using it for a while this makes this model a Novelty based Business not a Sticky, lets see what could be the reason.

People just want to try for 1–2 months and then discontinued. People get bored by the same menu. It could be possible that couples might have opt it when there is a hectic schedule in office, try it for few weeks and when things get normal they returned back to normal life. Product Expectation not Matched. Bad Customer Support.

No hypothesis would be very simple, lets say people are using it just for 2 months, so to validate, see the data through out and check the lifetime of a customer in Blue Apron and find Percentiles.

Lets say we got 70% of the customers left subscription within 2 months, only 30 % use it after words, we will validate hypothesis by:

Before a Customer ends with a subscription make them fill a form which asks reason behind leaving. Apply bag of words, word cloud, tf_idf techniques and see which which are most frequent words used by the customers and plot a WORD CLOUD PLOT

Hotel Form Word Cloud

3. Give this report to senior management to work upon the factors found in above points.

Thanks for Reading, Enjoy Machine Learning…
We run Montevideo 2011–10K Nike competition
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Team, Competition, Marathon

Last Saturday a group of brave Moovetians decided to accept the challenge and run the Nike 10K competition.

Nike 10K consist in running 10 kms along the coastline through some Montevideo’s neighborhoods enjoying the beautiful landscape.

Take a look at the pictures.

The whole team

Silvana, Martin and Nicolas

Ariel before breaking the finish ribbon :-P

Bird´s eye view
Nouvelle lettre ouverte du Dr Christiane Giraud-Barra à M. Bouet, Président du CNOM.
By: Un Ordre Pour Les Médecins
Tags: Médecine, Politique, Santé, Coulange, Cnom

in In Fitness And In Health
Vite Roadmap: Review for Q2 and Adjustments for Q3/Q4
By: Vite Editor
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Roadmap, https://github.com/vitelabs/vite-wallet/releases/tag/v1.3.20, Vite

Dear Vite Community:

I am writing about two things regarding our roadmap. First, I will review the milestones we achieved in Q2 2020, which I am very proud of. Second, I will communicate to you some adjustments we are making to the Q3 and Q4 portions of the roadmap. These changes are based on both results of the community survey and a focus on strengthening our flagship product — ViteX.

Q2 Review

Let me run through each item in the Q2 list of milestones.

DeFi — Borrowing and Lending: This is discussed in detail in this article. I will only add that, while we are pivoting away from this product, we are focusing on products with much bigger bang for the buck, as you will see in the roadmap adjustments section below.

Hardware Wallet — Ledger: Enabled. Command-line installation of wallet app is now available. Ledger app store installation pending approval by Ledger.

ViteX in Mobile — Klines: Display of k-lines (aka “candlestick graphs”) has been added to our mobile version of ViteX.

One-step DEX Deployment: An initial version of open-source gateway code has been completed. Third-party gateways may now be easily deployed: https://github.com/vitelabs/open-gateway

Vite HD Wallet — BTC Support: Wallet app is currently undergoing restructuring prior to commencement of BTC support. We had sent a community survey that is related to the restructuring. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16qkyQaMq-I-x50QdkgTvvThKnkzJTRjArtIqwzE_TRQ/

Vite Web Wallet Upgrade: The main upgrade is interoperability between web wallet and the hardware wallet Ledger.

Vite Desktop Wallet: This was released: https://github.com/vitelabs/vite-wallet/releases/tag/v1.3.20

Dex Open API: This was released: https://medium.com/vitelabs/announcing-official-vitex-api-and-user-guide-e8ea2db8134e.

Q3 and Q4 Roadmaps

See below for the new Q3 roadmap, with explanation:
SAPLING #74 — Where there’s smoke
By: Kirstin Vanlierde
Tags: Sapling, Australia, Climate Change, Art, Birds

Vermin has to be smoked out, with harsh means if necessary.

You smile at the raven’s rashness, its cool calculation to spread its wings above the fumes of furnaces, the smouldering stumps of cigarettes. A smoky ally comes in handy, you tell me, to free yourself of wriggling pests between your feathers, venomous visitors that bite and sting, parasites that take up way more room than they should. Ravens are clever. They use the resources available to them. And we have provided them with plenty.

Is there something watching from afar, smiling at that elegant blue orb in the vastness of the heavens? Is there something that can appreciate the planet’s cool calculation as she spreads her wings above smouldering soil, hot winds, parched earth? One spark is all that’s needed.

Surely, a smoky ally comes in handy to free herself of wriggling pests crawling on her skin, venomous visitors that hack and dig, parasites that destroy way more than they should.

The planet is clever. She uses the resources available. And we have provided her with plenty.

Vermin has to be smoked out, with harsh means if necessary.
Muse
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Poetry, Solitude, Illumination, Muse, Love

Muse

A sonnet that only rhymes in the heart

Photo by David Mark on Pixabay

I would never give up on my freedom

for anyone unless she was special

I was thus expecting to stay alone

at least and until the end of my life

Suddenly here on Medium I “meet”

such a woman all red with hues of blue

She looks cute on her biopic, her words

flood my heart with love for their perfection

their colours too specially when blue white

and red envelop them inside and through

Only Muse can manipulate words thus

and offer me happiness for some time

If the chance to meet her ever arrives

I would gladly get it like Thor’s hammer

Patrick M. Ohana
【美國留學】求職心得：實習篇
By: I-No Liao
Tags: Learning, 留學, Interview, Internships, 中文

Google (Offer)

內部推薦 (感謝超強的交大電子系同學：Google Engineer 洪摯友)

面試語言：Python

Online Coding Assessment (演算法 / Pass)

1st Phone Interview (演算法 / 50 分鐘 / Pass) (Oct. 14, 2019)

2nd Phone Interview (演算法 / 50 分鐘 / Pass) (Oct. 14, 2019)

3rd Phone Interview (演算法 / 50 分鐘 / Pass) (Oct. 25, 2019)

Project Match — Google Cloud at Pittsburgh (Project / 30 分鐘/ Pass) (Dec. 04, 2019)

Project Match — Devices and Services at Waterloo (Project / 30 分鐘 / Pass) (Dec. 05, 2019)

Google 是我第二個拿到 Interview 機會的公司，本身完全不抱希望，當時我實在不覺得我能夠過 Google 的面試。不過我還是做足準備，請 Google 工程師洪摯友幫我 Mock Interview 兩次，過程中學到很多應試的技巧，也逼自己習慣如何用 Google Doc 做題。非常感謝這位友人，這是絕對是我最終能夠順利攻克三輪面試的關鍵。

1st & 2nd Phone Interview：第一次面試包含了兩輪 Back-to-back 的 Phone Interview，兩個不同的考官輪流打電話來進行面試。第一輪面試的考題相當簡單， Follow-up 問題我也順利地答出來。第二輪面試的考題也不難，但 Follow-up 明顯較難，最終我只寫出 Brute-Force 的解，沒有來得及把 Optimized Solution 寫下來，只有口述想法跟預期的做法。即使如此，很意外地，考官竟然覺得我表現不錯，還很口語的甩了一句 “ I think you’re pretty damn good “，讓我緊張的情緒紓緩了不少。然而，畢竟沒有把最優解寫下來，心中仍認為會被淘汰掉。

3rd Phone Interview：幾天後 Recruiter 通知需要再加面一次，當下非常開心，代表還有一次跟 Google 工程師一起解題的機會，於是約了最快的時間，開始了面試。這次面試中，我花了大半時間在釐清問題，想算法的過程中也有點卡，向考官要 Hint 時，考官明確表達不能給 Hint，因為這就是他想要考我的部分，所幸後來我跌跌撞撞地找到了解法，一旦找到解法，Coding 實現的部分很快速地就做出來了。這輪面試非常的驚險，若是後來無法想到解法，一定無法過關的。非常感謝這位考官營造一個舒服的氣氛，雖然沒有給 Hint 但一直跟我說 “ I think you’re very close “，使我不會因為卡住就過度緊張。

Hiring Committee：完成三輪面試後鬆了口氣，當時我仍然不覺得能夠過 Hiring Committee 的審核，畢竟自己是轉專業選手，履歷真的很差，本來就念 CS 的選手們即使有比我稍差的面試表現，履歷也還是碾壓我。然而，Google 讓我大吃一驚，竟然過了 Hiring Committee 的審核，順利進入 Project Match 階段！

Project Match 階段我最感謝的人是我的 Recruiter Alexa，不僅很積極的找我約面談，告訴我 Project Match 的步驟，甚至在修改 Google Project Questionnaire 上給我非常明確的方向，我相信我只等兩週就有兩個 Team 想找我面談的關鍵就在於此。

1st Project Match (Google Cloud at Pittsburgh)：這個面試我是在優美的 Rice 校園完成的，那天的天氣非常舒適，坐在圖書館旁的咖啡廳外與 Intern Manager 暢談該 Project 的內容。當下我就覺得這個 Team 應該會發給我 Offer，因為這個 Project 所需要的 Technical Stack 我正好都很擅長並且也是我的興趣所在，果不其然，當天下午直接收到 Recruiter 的通知說該 Team 錄取了我。

2nd Project Match (Device & Service at Waterloo)：由於前一天已經得知我被錄取，這次的面談我更加能放輕鬆的跟 Intern Manager 暢談我的想法，基本上這個 Team 的所需要的技能跟前一天的 Team 是相仿的。談完以後 Manager 跟我說 “ See you in a few months ” 害我尷尬了一下，因為我心中還是比較想去前一天的 Team 的。

最後通知 Recruiter 我的決定後，隔天順利地拿到 Offer，基本上確定明年暑假要前往 Pittsburgh 展開我做夢都沒想過的 Google 實習大叔之旅。整個面試的過程除了戰線較長之外，體驗極佳，遇到的三位考官均非常的專業，不論是在溝通或是時間的控管上，讓面試者能夠在最好的環境氣氛下進行作答。自己覺得我在三輪的表現最好的部分是溝通，整個解題的過程中，我的嘴巴都沒有停下來過，在此點出幾個重要的訣竅：
Team Zero Weekly Newsletter
By: Zero Currency
Tags: Technology, Internet, Computer Science, Blockchain, Bitcoin

At this point in time, although we recognise that some form of node system is highly desired by the community, we will not be including a node structure in this particular fork.

Many projects that have implemented such a node feature and system have encountered much detriment from the community and 3rd parties when the execution of said node reward systems are flawed, or perceived to be Ponzi like. This is something that we at Zero do not take lightly regarding our coin and projects reputation, and will be the subject of much further discussion and debate should such a feature be implemented.

Please be clear when reading this though, that we are not ruling out some form of node system to be implemented at some point in future. We just need to be sure that if a node system was implemented, that is contributes to the short, mid, and long term goals of the coin / project.

As always, thank you all for your continued support on Zero’s path to steady, organic growth, and we hope you enjoy the products being delivered that can attest to Zero’s current and future status in this realm.

(Note for new comers — please bear in mind that at this point in time Zero relies solely on donations from the community as there was no pre-mine or ICO with this coin originally. We are working to implement a dev fee, so please read further and watch this space. Every person involved with Zero — inclusive of the dev team — are volunteering their time and efforts to the project)

For anyone interested in investing — please do your own research prior to committing to any project, and we ask you to please not blindly commit to a project because someone else told you to.
Forex broker AMEGA partners with Serenity
By: Serenity Financial
Tags: Forex Trading, Forex, Trading, Forex Brokers, Ethereum Blockchain

We are pleased to announce that AMEGA brokerage house has joined Serenity project.

AMEGA brokerage company offers its customers a wide range of accounts for trading. AMEGA brings the best pricing and liquidity to clients. The company offers competitive spreads and one of the lowest commissions in the industry. AMEGA is well represented in Asia, CIS countries, Africa and the Middle and the Far East.

According to AMEGA “We at AMEGA believe that Serenity can become a new industry standard that will protect individual traders and investors as well as other market participants from deception. Serenity aims to make FX and CFD markets more transparent and a safer place for retail traders who are the most unprotected party in the financial markets.”

According to CBDO of Serenity Alexander Stanovoy «Serenity welcomes AMEGA as a new partner of the project. AMEGA is the reputable FX market player with great expertise. We believe that our partnership will help create more transparent and safe trading environment to traders.”
Should I Mute My Students? (Spoiler Alert: No!)
By: Laura Head
Tags: Remote Learning, Tutoring, Online Learning Tips, Mute, Online Community

It’s a common practice in remote learning to have students put themselves on mute while a teacher presents the lesson. If learners have an idea or question, they un-mute to share, and then reactivate the default setting.

Personally, I’m not a fan. In the classroom I’ve never opted for duct tape, and the mute button sort of feels like the same thing.

True to my pedagogical values, I always aim to put my students at the center of their learning. My role as their teacher is to impart onto them new ideas, and then provide them the structures to come to an understanding and make it their own. To shush everybody but me with the click of a button doesn’t really align with the idea that their learning is about them.

Not to mention, muting the class is meant to indicate to students that they need to be paying attention, but I think it can in fact send the opposite message: “You’re on mute, and so you’re not accountable for any of the disruptive noises you may be making. Blab away!” What could result is a group of 30 voices chatting into the silent void, and no one left to listen.

We practice listening as a part of citizenship and community in the classroom, so why can’t we do the same online? In person, we as teachers make a disclaimer before the lesson that now is our turn to share information, and that questions and comments can follow. Any interruptions are addressed according to classroom rules. To surrender the practice to a technological convenience seems like a missed opportunity to me. I’d rather have my students’ voices available and welcome a discussion about remote listening etiquette than to make the point moot with a mute button.
If you have read my stories, you know that I am a big fan of intuition.
By: Rasheed Hooda
Tags: Short Form Content, This Happened To Me, Sharing, Intuition, Life Lessons

If you have read my stories, you know that I am a big fan of intuition.

I have written a few stories about how my intuition has served me well when I listened to it, and recently, one about how I wish I had.

Usually, it has been unintended, meaning my intuition prompted me to do something, and I followed through. I am now learning to use it intentionally to make money. Stay tuned for more.

In the meantime, enjoy these if you haven’t already read them.

As always, thank you for reading and responding. I hope it was time well-spent.

If you are so inclined, you could buy me some chai.
One and the Same
By: Joe Váradi
Tags: Poetry, Death, Hungarian, Life, Translation

One and the Same

Am I damaged? depraved infidel,

like so much smoke, tossed far and near,

I swing listlessly through my days,

and await no one’s triumphal cheer...

All my willpower is wilting ...

if I look upon my weary hands

I judge it best to aimlessly

surrender to fate’s final demands.

I tried, I even believed …

in what? pastels and butterfly hues

adrift in the ether, somewhere

yet they hang there so tired, so loose,

so far away, I’ve forgotten

their textures, their names …

Was this my whole life, then?

Who’s left, to take my place?

Pat myself down. One and the same?

Head. Arms. Legs. What got away,

to have left a shell so hollow?

when? who made my confidence sway?

One flash, and I was never the same,

how is it, I barely noticed?

Does everyone else live like this?

Startled, cloaked deep in ignorance?

Does everyone else live like this?

Light afloat in wondering eyes,

saying over and over: I,

yet knowing not, in dark guise

of night, who lays in her bed,

next morn who wakes in her place,

whom do her buoyant feet carry forth,

whom do her songs of glory praise …

and then one day, suddenly

as if morning itself had died,

with voiceless wounds, ashen,

bleeding out, faltering midstride;

as if she grew cold on my inside,

who died, then, she? or me?

my heart swooned, with her …

when? who can say, confidently?

Who might answer? my Brethren,

are your lives more assured? how so?

do you feel rooted, at least,

on this earth, and in tomorrow?

does a strong hand assuage your fears

and light a lantern, for you all?

… someone let go of me …

and I live in eternal free-fall.
China GDP Growth Records 30 Year Low
By: Ivan Lapickii
Tags: China, Macroeconomics, Data Visualization, Economics, Infographics

In the second quarter of 2019, China’s economy grew at 6.2 percent year-on-year, a slight drop from 6.4 percent in the first quarter and, more notably, a nearly 30 year low. Not even during the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 did China’s GDP growth rate fall below 6.4 percent. Nevertheless, China remains the fastest-growing economy among the world’s largest economies.

It’s misleading to point to the trade war with the United States — which hurts Chinese exports — as the cause for the economic slowdown because the reality is more complicated and concerning. True, Chinese exports decreased significantly as a result of the trade war with the United States: in 2019, export growth halted and slipped into negative rates, whereas 2018 boasted 10 percent export growth year-over-year. But, the trade war is not one-sided.

In reply to US tariffs on Chinese exports, China stopped purchasing US farm products, a hit on US exports and a boost to the Chinese trade balance.

Exports do not enter GDP as is; exports enter GDP net of imports. And, lo and behold, China’s reduced imports more than compensated for its declining exports, increasing China’s trade balance (so far) this year compared to 2018. That is why we saw a positive contribution of net exports to the GDP growth during the first two quarters of 2019.

What does the trade war mean then if not a direct hit on China’s GDP? Even if there was no direct effect of the trade war on Chinese GDP through the trade balance, the decline in exports and expectations from the trade war chill investment, employment, and household consumption, the strength of which to date has sustained the country’s economic growth. Chinese consumers cannot trail the economy forever, and the trade war, along with other financial structural problems, such as high debt levels, decelerating real estate market, and unproductive use of capital, may contribute to a further decline of the world’s largest economy before long.
Turning a Tagline Into a Deeper Rebrand Through Blogging and Social Ads
Tags: Digital Marketing, Branding, Blogging, Healthcare, Social Media Marketing

Turning a Tagline Into a Deeper Rebrand Through Blogging and Social Ads Ideometry Follow Oct 20, 2017 · 2 min read

Charles River Labs started in 1947 as a one-man operation, but has since grown into a billion-dollar corporation with almost 9,000 employees and offices around the globe. They aim to guide pharmaceutical companies through the entire drug development cycle, from conception to FDA approval.

The Problem

For decades, Charles River Labs was known for assisting with one specific aspect of drug development, but recent acquisitions made their service offerings much more robust. Not only was awareness of this change lacking amongst the general public but among Charles River Labs employees as well.

The Solution

Knowing overall awareness was their biggest issue, Charles River Labs tried to be proactive by creating the tagline “Every Step of the Way.” However, they knew that the creation of a tagline is not the same as a true rebranding campaign. In order to turn it into one, Ideometry collaborated with Charles River Labs to attach a greater context to the new tagline by way of blog posts.

Ideometry created a series of social media ads that employed the tag “Every Step of the Way.” These ads linked to various blog posts on the Charles River Labs website, and each blog spoke to a different category of services, be it Drug Discovery or Safety Assessment.

This not only drove traffic to the website; it generated millions of meaningful brand impressions that resulted in high-quality leads that drove new business and fueled their sales teams with more deep funnel opportunities.

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The ISW: W14 NFL 2019 Odds & Data
By: John Culver
Tags: NFL, Lean Startup, Sports Betting, Sports, Investing

W14 Initial Value Plays

Each week, The ISW identifies weekly value plays. These plays should not be misconstrued as official picks, plays, or wagers as we believe long-term wagering ROI is more a function of bankroll management and allocation than of win rates.

We define value as instances where the odds of covering are at least >52.4%, and when spreads between our win and/or cover probabilities and the market are substantial — yielding positive long-term expected values (EV). The last thing we ever want to be confused with is as a tout. We’re long-term-probability-minded here — remember 52.4% is almost the same as a coin toss, but the margins is where the value lies. In the long-term, the EV will deliver alpha.

The ISW’s W2–13 Initial Value Play Performance
Mermaid — Create Charts and Diagrams With Markdown-like Syntax
By: Indrek Lasn
Tags: Programming, JavaScript, Web Development, Data Science, Data Visualization

How to Install Mermaid

NPM

yarn add mermaid

CDN

<script src=”https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mermaid/8.3.1/mermaid.min.js"></script>

Simple usage on a web page

The easiest way to integrate Mermaid on a webpage requires two elements:

Inclusion of the Mermaid framework in the HTML page using a script tag. A graph definition on the webpage.

If these things are in place, Mermaid listens to the page load event, and when fired (when the page has loaded), it will locate the graphs on the page and transform them into SVG files.

Include Mermaid on your web page:

<script src=”https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mermaid/8.3.1/mermaid.min.js"></script>

<script>mermaid.initialize({startOnLoad:true});</script>

Further down on your page, Mermaid will look for tags with class="mermaid" . From these tags, Mermaid will try to read the chart definition and replace it with the SVG chart.

Define a chart like this:

<div class="mermaid">

CHART DEFINITION GOES HERE

</div>

The chart would then end up like this:

<div class="mermaid" id="mermaidChart0">

<svg>

Chart ends up here

</svg>

</div>

An id attribute is also added to mermaid tags without one.

Simple full example:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">

<head>

<meta charset="utf-8">

</head>

<body>

<div class="mermaid">

graph LR

A --- B

B-->C[fa:fa-ban forbidden]

B-->D(fa:fa-spinner);

</div>

<script src="mermaid.min.js"></script>

<script>mermaid.initialize({startOnLoad:true});</script>

</body>

</html>

Usage with webpack

Mermaid fully supports webpack. Here is a working demo.

For contributors

Detailed information about contributing can be found in the contribution guide
5. 비트코인의 가치는 어디로부터 나오는가?
By: Hyungmok Joh
Tags: 비트코인, 암호화폐, Korean, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

At the forefront of technological innovation, the blockchain industry is constantly changing and growing in an accelerated fashion. The Ceta Network mission is to nurture this evolution by providing foundationally sound projects with visibility and community building.

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Transgender Rights As Women
By: Pierre Trudel
Tags: Womens Rights, LGBTQ, Theequest, Love, Transgender

Thee Quest-Human Rights

What are human rights equal to?

Image by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay

Thee Quest-Human Rights

All humans are equal. Why are some humans more equal than others?

Many of us feel outside the loop. We are men and women that live inside the opposite gender body. We might be confused but we are really inside the opposite body and our minds know it very well.

We are called Transgender and many of us need to be heard and understood. We are many and I tell you from experience, that our experiences can be very similar.

Thee Quest was created to share people's stories. Once in a while, I read something that I feel needs to be heard.

Being Trans myself, I love to share stories from other Trans because we are the new babies on the block. Many of us suffer from Gender Dysphoria and until we found out, we were very confused and so very alone.

I want to share a story with you that will help you further understand how we feel.

Am I Allowed To Be A Feminist-By Emma Holiday is a question I have asked myself for years? Please read her story and it will tell you what many of us feel like as Trans People.
A Normal Child
By: Alexandro Chen
Tags: Literature, Japan, Family, Fiction, Short Story

Mai had already spent several seconds trying to stick the key into her apartment’s keyhole. Had the keyhole shrunk? Or the key grown in size? After struggling some more, she finally managed to open the door. She heaved out a sigh and stepped inside. Being at home had never felt so goo —

“Mama, why did you come back so late?”

Mai stopped in the middle of the hallway. Ami was standing before her, her arms latched together like two mating snakes.

“It’s only six,” Mai said. “Besides, you’re smart enough to stay alone.”

“But Mama, you stink of alcohol.”

Mai had never drunk at home — or returned drunk — so it was impossible for Ami to know how alcohol smelled like. Anyhow, that wasn’t the main issue.

“I just drank a little… a little too much. But it’s because I’ve been too stressed lately.”

“But you work from home.”

“That’s why! Because I’m in the house all the time. And because the money is barely enough for us.”

“And you’re trying to solve that with alcohol?”

Tears flooded Mai’s eyes, but they wouldn’t grant her any mercy from Ami.

“And I can smell something else, Mama.” She toddled until her nose touched Mai’s summer dress. “A man.”

Mai gawked. “How do you — ?”

“It’s a strong smell.”

“I-I haven’t been with a man in a long time. I need love.”

“My love’s not enough?”

“It’s differen — ”

“Maybe you want to have another baby? With this man?”

“I don’t — ”

“Mothers shouldn’t — ”

When Mai came back to her senses, her palm stung, while Ami’s cheek displayed the color of cooked shrimp and her eyes showed the shock of a cornered rabbit.

No, way. Mai had never done this before — but she had now.

She carried Ami into the bedroom and onto the bed. Then she stroked her heated cheek.

“I’m sorry,” Mai muttered, pressing her head against the edge of the bed. “I’ve been trying very hard. And all I get from you are complaints and criticism. You’ve never been thankful or expressed affection to me. Not that I’m expecting that — but it’d be nice if you did it now and then.”

What the heck was Mai doing? Why was she talking to her daughter as if she were her husband? As if she were an adult?

“I’m sorry.” She rose and grabbed Ami’s arm. “I’ve been acting like a fool.”

Ami kept staring at the ceiling like a corpse on an autopsy table.

Mai should take her to the hospital.
Vintage Modası
By: Mustafa Gerdan
Tags: Vintage, Moda, Ne Giysem

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Brazil-Belgium on World Cup 2018. Match Highlights.
Tags: Betonchart, ICO, Betting, Fifa2018, Soccer

The meeting of Belgium and Brazil was one of the most anticipated! These teams on mundiale showed high level football, gradually coming to the peak of its form. It was expected that it was their personal meeting that would become that peak.

The 13th minute. Chadli from the corner hung on the near post, where Jesus prevented Fernandinho from playing at the end, and the ball from the shoulder of the midfielder “City” flew into the goal of Alison.

0:1

At the 31st minute Lukaku caught the ball in his half of the field, ran away from Fernandinho and played on De Bruyne, who broke through to the penalty area and kicked the ball into the far corner. The score is 0:2, and Brazil is on the edge of being kicked off from the Tournament.

0:2

1 minute added to the first half. The first half of the match is over.

The 76th minute. Coutinho ran to the penalty area of Belgium and take a famous long-pass to Augusto, who sent the ball with header to the very corner, Courtois did not reach!

1:2

5 minutes added to the main time, Brazil in the attack.

On the 4th added minute, Neimar take a good kick and Courtois pulled the ball from under the crossbar.

The referee gives a whistle and Belgium wins.

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Lighten Up
By: Ronald Wimberly
Tags: Racism, Eat More Comics, Comics

Sign up for Taking Stock of COVID: New comics from The Nib

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New comics from Matt Lubchansky, Keith Knight, and Niccolo Pizarro. Plus How Seniors Are Living With COVID-19. Take a look
Scoring North Carolina
By: Michal Migurski
Tags: Politics

North Carolina got new State House and State Senate district maps this week. At PlanScore, we helped a number of observers and experts watching the rapid map drawing process evaluate the maps under consideration and develop an informed opinion.

This was a very rapid redistricting process, starting with a court ruling less than three weeks ago throwing out North Carolina’s state legislative maps as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and ordering lawmakers to draw up new ones in two weeks. September 17 was the deadline to propose and accept new maps for both state legislative chambers.

North Carolina Education Lottery officials used a lotto machine with numbered balls to pick from among remedial State Senate plans, a completely normal way to conduct redistricting business (photo: WRAL)

Here’s a summary of the maps created by last week’s redistricting process, summarized by Nicholas Stephanopoulos in Election Law Blog:
We Need to Stop Kyle Duncan — Now
By: National Center For Transgender Equality
Tags: Equality, Politics, LGBTQ, Judiciary, Transgender

Duncan co-founded Schaerr Duncan after leaving the Becket Fund, which recently created a lie-filled anti-transgender website as part of its efforts to promote discrimination in health care.

At both firms, he has dedicated his career to limiting the civil rights of LGBTQ people — particularly trans people. He also has spoken multiple times before the Alliance Defending Freedom — a hate group that supports criminalization of homosexuality in the U.S. and abroad.

Schaerr Duncan has defended anti-trans parties in some of the most significant court cases involving trans rights in the last few years, including the proponents of North Carolina’s discriminatory HB 2 and the Gloucester County School District, which discriminated against student Gavin Grimm.

In the North Carolina case, Duncan filled the record with junk-science statements from quack “experts,” arguing that being transgender is a “delusion” and (contrary to the views of America’s leading pediatricians) that parents should discourage “transgender persistence.”

And for the last two years in G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, he has been fiercely arguing that transgender students like Gavin Grimm are not protected under federal law and are “threats” to other students.

Duncan has not only been a harsh critic of the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decisions in Obergefell v. Hodges and United States v. Windsor — he has again and again taken to the airwaves to scaremonger about the “harms” caused by respecting LGBTQ families and promote discrimination against them. After Obergefell, he publicly questioned the legitimacy of the federal courts he now wants to sit on and called the case “an abject failure” that “imperils civic peace.”

This is the Senate floor.
Why I Muted Religious Publications On Medium
By: Pretheesh Presannan
Tags: Religion, Fun, Humor, Creative Writing, Funny

RELIGIOUS HUMOR

Why I Muted Religious Publications On Medium

Pastor threatens: If I don’t read his story I will go to hell

Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash

Okay, this never happened. But you can still read it for the fun of it.

People share their stories on Medium Facebook groups, and it is all fine. We all do that. Adding a one-line text along with the story link is not a crime. But what if that text looks like ‘ If you saw this story-link comment and did not bother to read, you will go to hell.’ Why scare me with such comments?

Moreover, it puts me in a kind of perplexity: whether to read the boring religious bullshit or to ignore the comment and go to hell afterward. But I had already seen the comment, I cannot unsee it. The problem with my mind is that if at all I ignore reading that story, it will emotionally blackmail me by saying ‘I will go to hell if I do not read it as per what the pastor said’.

This had happened quite a number of times, and every time I ignore the story my mind would torture me. So in order to escape from mental torture, I began to read those boring stories a couple of times. But not anymore, it is full of guilt-tripping and sin warnings. Reading them makes me look like a sinner and makes my life more hellish than it already is.

I know everyone wants to make some money, at least good enough to pay the membership fees so that they can write a lot without feeling like a loser. But threatening me that I will go to hell is certainly not the way to make money.

I pondered about it and realized that it is better to mute such publications and writers and later go to hell after I die than to make my current life a hell. I hope the pastor does not see this story and further find ways to guilt-trip or bully me.

Or maybe if things get tougher, I might consider joining one such publication and could make some money out of it. If one could take advantage of unconscious guilt associated with hardcore believers, why shouldn't I do the same? After all, money does not care how I make it, right?

Thank you for reading this no self no help pure made-up shit.
How Politicians Think
By: Kevin Grant
Tags: Politicians, Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, Politics, Pat Gray

Senator Ted Cruz at the Republican National Convention, 2016

On September 27'th, on his Facebook page, Pat Gray, TV and radio personality associated with Glenn Beck, expressed his disappointment that Senator Ted Cruz hasn’t provided sufficient justification for his recent endorsement of Donald Trump for President.

Politicians don’t explain actions like this because it’s to their disadvantage to appear “calculating” to the public. But successful politicians are always calculating, or else they wouldn’t be successful. And they continually adjust their behavior accordingly. Here’s what Senator Cruz was likely thinking:

“There are three possible actions that I can take: 1. Endorse Clinton: I’m a hard-line conservative, so if I do this then it will destroy my career. 2. Endorse neither: If I do this then it will buy me nothing from Clinton if she wins, and possibly hurt me with Trump if he wins. In addition, I’ll be seen as going back on my word to support the Republican candidate, and if Trump wins in spite of my lack of support, then I’ll be seen as ineffectual. 3. Endorse Trump: If I do this and Clinton wins, then I lose nothing. Whereas if I do this and Trump wins, then I’ll probably get some nice payback from Trump while he’s in office.”

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

The amazing thing is that voters are eternally surprised that their politicians think this way. Consider that:

1. Our political system selects for politicians who think this way. Politicians who don’t think this way are unlikely to get elected or reelected.

2. People tend to disapprove of politicians who think this way. So the system also selects for politicians who consciously endeavor to appear as if they don’t think this way.

3. Candidates who can’t lie well enough to convince almost anyone of almost anything almost all of the time, are also less likely to get elected or reelected.

From this we know that:

1. Every politician is calculating.

2. Every politician works to not seem calculating.

3. Every politician is so good at lying that he’ll fool you about this.

So the moment that you find yourself beginning to “believe in” a politician, you know that you’re already delusional.

I remember that Glenn Beck use to ask candidates “How’s your soul?” It would have been far more useful if he’d asked them “Are you frequently coldly calculating about what effect your political decisions will have on the rest of your career?” Anyone who says “no” is lying. Anyone whose answer doesn’t contain an explicit “yes”, somewhere, is manipulating you for personal benefit. Only a candidate who includes an explicit “yes”, no matter what other verbiage he surrounds it with, is worth trusting.

Maybe.
How Swytch is using Proof of Production to Drive Renewable Energy Adoption
By: Dwight Sproull
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

We build tools to help the world transition to a more sustainable future

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Study Abroad Photo Contest | 2016
By: Uw-Eau Claire
Tags: Uwec, Study Abroad, Higher Ed

With one in five students studying abroad for at least a semester, UW-Eau Claire continues to be a national leader in providing students from all majors with meaningful international experiences. You can choose from over 50 exciting places in all parts of the world to study and explore as you immerse yourself in new cultures and experiences.

Through its annual Study Abroad Photo Contest, the Center for International Education and Council on Internationalization and Global Engagement are showcasing the many amazing experiences Blugolds are having as they navigate new cultures, explore new worlds and make new friends.

The following are the top 10 photos that were selected from the submissions for this year’s contest, beginning with a photo titled “Sunrise on Lake Atitlán” that was taken by the first-place winner Alison Olmstead in the Landscapes and Landmarks category. Alison took her winning photo in the winter of 2015 while studying in Guatemala.

You can view the top 10 photos — and many more — at the display on the third floor of the Davies Student Center or in this online album.
dry Monku — Dried Monkey Origins III
By: Dry Monkey Philosophy
Tags: Poetry, Haiku, Origins, Life, Sex

This is a collection of haiku-ish poetry as told by a Dry Monkey. They are loosely structured 5–7–5 — 3 lined stanzas. Each telling a story of its own, while collectively narrating a progressively realized ideal — Hope you enjoy!

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QuarkChain CEO Qi Zhou Participated in LA Blockchain Summit and Joined Unfolding China’s Decentralized Finance Landscape Panel
Tags: Blockchain Summit, Defi, Quarkchain, Blockchain Technology

QuarkChain CEO Qi Zhou Participated in LA Blockchain Summit and Joined Unfolding China’s Decentralized Finance Landscape Panel QuarkChain Follow Oct 26 · 2 min read

LA Blockchain Summit was held on Oct 06 — Oct 07, 2020. This year’s summit was an online event. The Summit is the leading conference & expo focused on blockchain investing, building and mainstream adoption. It’s an exclusive, curated, high-impact informative and thought-provoking event presented by some of the world’s foremost innovators, change makers and prominent leaders in the blockchain ecosystem. Dr. Qi Zhou, QuarkChain’s founder and CEO, was invited to participate in the summit and presented his opinions at a panel discussion, chatting with the most accomplished, powerful and astounding list of industry leaders and speakers.

The panel Dr. Qi Zhou presented was “Unfolding China’s Decentralized Finance Landscape”. The panel was started with concerns about constant rivalry primarily between the US and China, as well as the rest of the world. The participants shared their opinions about the competitions in blockchain technology and why would China want to adopt a truly decentralized technology.

In the panel discussion, Qi Zhou introduced QuarkChain’s DeFi designs and features. He pointed out that a mature DeFi platform must have the following features: high efficiency, low gas fee, secure, easy to use, and easy combination. He explained QuarkChain’s unique solution: Multi-chain Heterogeneous + DeFi + Multi-native tokens. Besides, Qi also introduced the design concept of Equalizer, an AMM DEX with equal and self-adjusting governance token distribution. It was the first Dex project that QuarkChain supported, and enriches QuarkChain’s ecosystem.

To learn more details about the panel, please watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHoqvb3H0E&list=PLFJJb69BM_KJhE-Z-1whIOASAkfTf2j_M&index=26&ab_channel=LABlockchainSummit
DreamLeague Season 11 Major Data Analysis
Tags: Dreamleague Major, Gaming, Dota 2, Dota2 Tournament Analysis

Vici Gaming is the Champion of DreamLeague Season 11

We are back again, the 7.21c patch was dropped right after the previous article unexpectedly, which makes teams figuring and refining the meta in the tournament. And the 7.21d patch has also arrived, we will also do some comparison on it too.

We have fewer picks, but it is normal for a DPC event, our numbers and the distribution of ban/picks are great.
MOLLE pouch ➡ Bike Handlebar Bag
By: Curious Inkfish
Tags: Edc, Cycling, Articles, Bikes, Gear

This mounting method is more secure and holds the bag in a much better and more stable position in front of the handlebars. I also two strips of velcro added to the front. You will notice that they are not quite lined up correctly… I will just have to deal with this until I can get a single 4"x4" piece of velcro and develop my sewing skills enough to replace it myself.