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Philadelphia Remembers the Centennial of the ‘First Korean Congress’
By: East-West Center In Washington
Tags: Asia, South Korea, Philadelphia

Recently in South Korea and other locations around the globe, the centennial anniversary of the March 1st Movement was commemorated. The movement was a series of non-violent protests against Japanese colonial rule in 1919 across the Korean Peninsula. In the United States, HR164 was introduced in Congress on February 28, 2019 to officially recognize the event.

Another lesser known, but related anniversary occurred last week: the 100th anniversary of the ‘ First Korean Congress’. The congress was held from April 14th to 16th, 1919 at the Little Theatre located on 17th and Delancey Streets in Philadelphia, where a delegation of 150 Korean representatives and Americans gathered with support from the city. This included a reading of the ‘ Korean Declaration of Independence ‘ at Independence Hall. The conference organizers sought to link the Korean peoples’ struggles for self-determination with the United States and thus chose to meet in Philadelphia, the city where independence was declared from England in 1776.

To commemorate the First Korean Congress, two Korean-Americans serving on the Philadelphia City Council: David Oh, a Republican elected in 2011 and Helen Gym, a Democrat elected in 2016, introduced a resolution on September 13, 2018. This resolution builds on deeply established links between South Korea and the greater Philadelphia region. On October 3, 1970, the Korean American Association of Greater Philadelphia opened a chapter to assist students in need. Currently, there are approximately 44,000 Koreans living in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area (out of a total population of about 1.8 million), making it the 8 thlargest of any metro region in the United States.

One of the participants in the First Korean Congress, Philip Jaisohn (Seo Jae-pil) made his home in Media, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. There he became the first naturalized Korean-American and conducted medical research at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN). He lived in the region for several decades, passing away in 1951 in Norristown. His former home has been turned into a museum called the ‘ Jaisohn Memorial House.’ A foundation was established in his name in 1975 to serve Philadelphia’s local community.

Michael Buckalew is a Pacific Forum Young Leader and a former East-West Center in Washington intern. He holds a masters’ degree in International Peace & Security from Korea University’s Graduate School of International Studies.
Clarity
By: Jun Wu
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Love, Poem

Clarity is when you broke

me open and led me out

of my abyss of winding

thoughts that seem to

go nowhere.

Clarity is when you shattered

my long-held beliefs that shook

the core of my being, an earthquake

of the heart, of the unexpected

truth revealed.

Clarity is when all my words

were about you before I even

knew you.

Clarity is when I can no longer

hold onto to my life as I always

knew it.

Clarity is when forgiveness is

an afterthought, that surrendering

is more important.

Clarity is when I knew

the reason for my being

is to know all of you.

Clarity is when I will stay.
Review of Aviya Kushner’s “The Grammar of God”
By: S. Edwin Rufener
Tags: Bible, Translation, Hebrew, Christianity, Poetry

Review of Aviya Kushner’s “The Grammar of God”

“A Hebrew Speaker’s Response to the Bible in English.” xxxii.

It is important to note that most of the reading I do is in biblical academia, so my judgment of this book is not based on the same criterion. The reason I mention it is because I read some other reviews of this book in which they were quite unfair, attempting to judge it as a work of biblical or linguistic scholarship. That is not what this book is, nor does the author claim this (see Introduction xxxii); reading the book you will find that to not be the point.

This book was recommended to me and now I am so glad it was; what a fantastic work! I appreciated her insights and background of having been raised in a Jewish home where speaking and reading Hebrew was at the center of the family life.

Again, while it is not a scholarly work, The Grammar of God does contain many trails for the chasing, if the reader possesses the notion. This book will thrill both the grammarian and lover of the Bible, as it is written beautifully and is full of heart. She investigates the histories of English translational difficulties and tells the story of her own personal journey with the realization that “some of the most politically charged issues of our time are rooted in biblical translation.” xxiii

Here is one of my favorite quotes from the book:

“It [the Bible] is a story that is part of every man and woman who has ever felt the need to claw against destiny, to insist on a different future than what God appears to be offering. And sometimes, in the Bible, what man wants so passionately is unacceptable to God. What man wants is so destructive that is is a threat to the earth, to the creatures that live on it, to other humans.” 114.

Also, the book is available in multiple formats and editions, including audio-book.
Let’s Link Back In. It’s been 3 years since I needed a job…
By: J. Criswell
Tags: Social Media, Humor, LinkedIn, Corporate Culture, Satire

It’s been 3 years since I needed a job. What’s changed?

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash

Gosh, 197 LinkedIn notifications since I last checked three years ago.

Someone with the job title “Recruiter” viewed your profile. Wow. Helpful.

Someone with the job title “Intergalactic Space Farmer/Showrunner” viewed your profile. No less or more helpful than “Recruiter.”

John Bayless viewed your profile. A-hole.

Robert Malvoy’s birthday is today. Help him celebrate! Dear Robert, Hey buddy. Happy Birthday! I hope in the coming year you grow the $%^& up.

Joe Downs liked an article. “LinkedIn is not Facebook.”

We found jobs at Costco and three other places you may be interested in. One in Duluth, MN; one in Spokane, WA; one in Bangor ME; and one somewhere in Orion’s belt? No thanks.

Michelle Byars, INFJ endorsed you for the skill “Animal Whispering.”

Congratulate John Bayless for starting a new position, Director at Solution Solutions, Inc. Backstabbing a-hole.

You are in the top 10% of candidates for the position of Gravitational Interlocutor I, based on your Skills — Relationship Building, Negotiation, Public Speaking, and Spreadsheets. For a job that would entail a 48% pay cut. At least they’re up front.

Zach d’Ambrosiono, CFA, CPA, MBA, FRCM, dRETF, SOS, WXYZ liked this article: “Three words to fast-track you to the Jet Set: Influence Without Authority.” Bet he’s working for John Bayless now.

John Bayless updated his profile to include the skill: Influence Without Authority. Loud-mouthed, buzzword-vomiting a-hole.

Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash

Robert Malvoy’s birthday is today. Help him celebrate! Dear Robert, Hey buddy. Happy Birthday! I see nothing’s changed with you.”

Joe Downs liked an article. “LinkedIn Actually is Facebook, but for Adults.”

Update your profile picture today! What are you saying?

Three people from your alma mater work at Bituminous Industries, Inc. They were all born after I graduated college, and they all make 50% more than me.

You may like this article: “Influence Without Authority: Code for ‘It’s ok for Extroverts to Continue Steamrolling Introverts in Meetings’?”

Greg Carpenter endorsed you for the skill “Standing from a Sitting Position on the Floor Without Using your Hands.”

Barry Thompson liked John Bayless’s new position: Managing Director at Solution Solutions, Inc. Barry, my brother, give it up already.

John Bayless liked Barry Thomas’s work anniversary: “Three years at Devoted Business Professional.” Patronizing, dickless a-hole.

Leigh Nelson invited you to connect. I wish I had listened to her more.

Joe Downs liked an article: “Okay, Facebook Is Also for Adults, But Old Adults, So Kinda They’re the Same Thing Again, Except LinkedIn Has More Stories Involving Confusing Graphs and Business-y Terms, While Facebook Has More Pictures of Dogs And Food — But It’s All Humblebragging Except Without the Humility.”

The world sent you a private message: “I’m passing you by.”
Running your own storytelling workshop.
By: Jay Clark
Tags: Design Fiction, Design, App Design, Storytelling, Product Design

Telling stories is one of the most powerful ways to get people thinking about any given subject. Stories are full of twists and turns which get your emotions and imagination going more than anything else. Our work as product designers requires us to constantly be able to empathise with the end user, and what better way to do so than through the use of storytelling?

In this post, I’m going to run you through my storytelling workshop which I ran for the design team very recently. The topic I set was Design Fiction, to make it a fun team exercise. But you can set the topic & scenarios to something more project-specific if you wish as I will explain at the end.

Design fiction is a design practice aiming at exploring and criticising possible futures by creating speculative, and often provocative, scenarios narrated through designed artefacts. (Think Black Mirror, but not always as dark.)

Step 1 — Choose your scenarios

Come up with some scenarios you want to explore. I came up with these prior to the session.

Examples:

Imagine the world in 50 years time, how will today’s 20 year olds be using technology when they are 70 years old?

Imagine a time when all of the world’s hospitals are staffed by robots. How would that be?

Imagine a world where everyone has their own iBot which knows you better than yourself. How might that be?

Split the group up into teams of 3–5 and have each team tackle one scenario.

Step 2 — Teams decide themes

5 mins

Have fun with this section and try to think of some interesting themes which can later be applied to your story. These allow us to get closer to all of the emotions our users are likely to be going through.

Once the 5 mins is up, the teams should spend 2 mins choosing their top 5 to focus on.

Step 3 — Characters

3 mins

Teams should spend a short amount of time coming up with some very simple characters for their story, they should have either 2 or 3 characters. We only need their names and age.

Step 3 — Plot tools

10mins

Use your themes and characters to think of some interesting scenarios. Stack the plot tools alongside all of your themes. These don’t have to match up too much just yet, just focus on variation and interesting plot tools.

Step 4 — Timeline

10mins

Spend 5 minutes attempting to put all of your plot tools in a timeline. At first your story might seem a bit crazy, but feel free to add in a couple of plot tools to pull it all together.

Step 5 — Storyboard

15mins

This is the last creation part. The teams should get sheets of A3 paper and storyboard their story using super simple triangle people. This will be presented to the other teams after the 15 mins us up.
How to enable gzip compression on your website
By: Amardeep Rai
Tags: Website Optimisation, Web Development, Software Development

Gzip is an automated server-side method of compressing files to make them smaller, which in turn will reduce the time it takes for a user’s browser to download them.

Enabling gzip compression

One of the simplest ways that you can enable gzip compression on your website is to add a file named .htaccess to the root of your web server (the place where you upload your HTML, CSS & JS files).

If you have an existing .htaccess file, find the mod_deflate module in the file and update it with the code below. If you do not have an existing .htaccess file, create a new one and copy and paste the code below into it:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

# Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml



# Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

Header append Vary User-Agent

</IfModule>

How effective is gzip compression?

One of the main reasons gzip is so effective reducing file sizes is because CSS & HTML files have a lot of repeated characters and whitespace. Because gzip compresses these common characters, you could look to save around fifty to seventy percent in file size.

Testing compression

You can check if you have gzip enabled on your website by using a tool such as these:
Sharing Books and Spreading Magic
By: Nina Sankovitch
Tags: Whatever Else, What Pleases Me

On Halloween, I saved the tricks for my kids and sent out treats of one hundred paperback and hardcover books to three different APO and FPO addresses, here and abroad. Who needs — and deserves — the comfort, escape, and pleasure of books more than our United States troops? Operation Paperback, founded in 1999, understands the solace and joys offered by the reading of a book. It facilitates the exchange of books between people just like me, looking for a good home for the overflow of books on our shelves, and the troops stationed all over the world, looking for something good to read.

Through Operation Paperback, books have been sent to just about every location where U.S. troops are found, from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan. Just imagine where those books have taken their readers, everywhere from home again to planet Mars! Even more importantly, a connection is made when books are exchanged: we at home understand just how hard it must be to be a soldier, to be stationed away from home and friends and family, and we offer what comfort we can, through the books we’ve loved.

Every month, Operation Paperback posts a list of requests that they’ve received, everything from travel books to classics to mysteries to biographies (go easy on the romances!) and volunteers sign up for what they can provide. I tend towards mysteries, having amassed a huge collection over my forty-plus years of loving the genre. Other volunteers might be ready to thin their collections of westerns while others might canvass their friends at work or in the neighborhood for secondhand volumes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, or Dickens. Volunteers sign up for what they can, pack up the books they’ve got, and march on down to their local post office to send off their boxes.

I was surprised to discover just how inexpensive it is to send books all over the world via media mail. And what a great feeling I got in return for simply culling my shelves and paying out a few dollars in postage: I had the joy and the thrill of watching my packages descend down the chute of the unknown, going off to provide the same reading pleasure, escape, joy and yes, wisdom, that I discovered when I first read the books. I am already gearing up for the November shipment, talking the project up with friends and hoping to start a Thanksgiving drive for books, a cornucopia of adventure and escape to send off to troops hungry for the written word.



Visit Operation Paperback’s Facebook page for inspiration, and its website to sign up as a volunteer.

Another great site for recycling books towards a good cause is the Bridge of Books Foundation. Bridge of Books wants your gently-used children’s books (books appropriate for readers through age 18) to distribute throughout New Jersey, thereby bringing the magic and power of reading to at-risk and under-served children throughout that state. Visit the Bridge of Books site for inspiration and sign up here for books to donate and sign up here for if books are needed in your own community.

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Bibliotecas digitales que salvarán tu día
By: Nayeli Ramos
Tags: Cultura Digital, Bibliotecas, Books, Creative Commons, Digital

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I Think About The Times And Places Where You Left Love In Me
Tags: Life Lessons, Love, Poetry, Poem, Life

Sitting in the backyard

around the old oak tree

I think about the times

and places where you

left love in me.

The smell of lilies and

the red of roses had me

fall in the arms of love

just like the drops of rain

falling right in my palm

telling me this is universe

sending signs from above.

But soon enough

the lilies were dead,

the roses turned black,

and I hit the ground

just like the rain drops

hitting the window pane.

Happily falling to

helplessly dead.

Just like our love.

And now, while sitting here

with a cold coffee in my hands

and a diary on my lap, I bleed

red of roses, as when I fall,

the kiss which you hid at the

back of my neck, the hugs

which you saved around my waist

and the words which you wrote

while reading my eyes, falls too.

And I break down, slowly,

thinking about the times

and places I spent time

sharing love with you.
Happy Holidays, Friends!
By: Zada Kent
Tags: Holidays, Transgender, LGBTQ, Equality, Christmas

Happy Holidays, Friends!

Wishing you all the best this season.

Happy Holidays created with Canva

Hello, fabulous friends!

Before we tell 2020 goodbye, I wanted to wish you and your loved ones a safe and healthy holiday season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa, or something else, I hope you are blessed with happiness and love.

I know this time of year can be tough for many and I know this pandemic has only made things tougher.

Please know that now — and all throughout the year — you are on my mind and in my heart.

Thank you for reading and sharing my work published at lgbtqueer-ies and elsewhere.

When I think back to all that has happened this year, I can’t help but feel appreciation for all those who stood up for equality and the rights of others.

Throughout all the turmoil this year brought, so many of us still showed our power at the ballot box, in peaceful protests, in courthouses, and in public opinion.

Here in the US, we’ve had pro-equality laws passed this year and pro-equality leaders elected. Everyone who spoke out and stood up to help make this possible should be proud.

There is much that needs doing in 2021, but I believe there is nothing we can’t accomplish together with love, acceptance, understanding, and support for one another.

Happy holidays to you and yours!
Limestone-Like Natural Pools And A Spectacular Cascade
By: Marcus Franke
Tags: Travel, Adventure, Nature, Forest, Laos

There are some tourist attractions throughout the world that everyone has to observe once in their lifetime.

I considered writing a travelogue regarding Luang Prabang’s attraction and to include the Kuang Si Waterfall but quickly realized this spectacular cascade earned its own spot in the World Traveler’s Blog.

The Kuang Si Waterfall (also spelled Kuang Xi) in Luang Prabang (Northern Laos) is one of the places where the hype certainly justifies the voyage and effort.

Katharina (Kat) and I haven’t seen anything like this in Laos …wait..even South East Asia in more than four months!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

Once we entered the area we already felt the magic surrounding this place.
Bitter
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Relationships, Musing, Desire, Poetry, Image

Bitter

A Poem

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

An emotional cut to teeth

Stretching along predetermined lines

a case for a watcher

a binge for the lover

Traveling over the ink

staring out and looking for islands

that aren’t there and won’t come

by will

Jagged lines devolve into smooth

territories

and definitive vultures of mood

every subject somehow horrified

beaten bruised mouth wired to the radio

the stomping up and down

Park Avenue

the trailing of vicious wounds

that seep into the mouth like anise

sting the sepia laced stones

writhing under your tongue

Brown is the highlight

the stumbling block raised in front

of your pedestal

the grave beauty surrendered to the field

and washing yourself

in the dark
CommunityBridge-Codeuino mentorship: Learning everything(Week 2)
By: Aayush Gupta
Tags: Software Development, Open Source, Codeuino, The Linux Foundation

The fall is going great. The best part about these programs/internships is that I grow, and a lot.

What did I work on this week?

This week started with writing some more APIs for the Spansberry backend. I ended up completing the APIs for Categories and Topics.

Along with improved upon the existing mongoose schemas for almost every model in the project and the modularised overall file structure. This finalized basic CRUD functionalities with some authorization in place for the backend.

Moving on I decided to dive into the existing frontend codebase and start integrating those APIs along with the User Interface revamp. The front-end codebase uses React library in conjunction with create-react-app and Sass for styles (probably we will end up with Jest for testing).

During bi-weekly meetings, mentors suggested going with Redux as the State Management library of choice to have a “single source of truth” overusing local React component states.

And there we go, that’s the very first thing I learned about this week (although there’s still a lot to understand about how it works and some good practices before I start integrating it with the existing codebase).

Later, we decided to write some backend tests before moving to the frontend because the untested code is broken code. And there’s no reason to go with that and work on the frontend first which is completely dependent on it.

That’s when I learned a second new thing; Jest — the testing framework. Moving on I read some docs, understood how it works (it’s pretty similar to rails RSpec), and written some test suites for User and Organization APIs.

What will I be working on in the coming week?

This coming week I will be completing the testing suite for the APIs and might end up writing the Message API too. Further, I still need to look and understand a lot about Redux and how it works in sync with React. With this, I hope to start working on the front-end part of things and bring this project to life.

Till then, Sayōnara!
The Way it Goes
By: Javier Gómez
Tags: Flash Fiction, Slice Of Life, Comics, Written Tales, Fiction

Rosario, Argentina, 2019

We were inseparable for a while. We found each other, and the world now made sense, even the awful bits. There were hardships that we would always overcome because nothing could stand against us. And one day, I was written out of your continuity, swept away like dust on a counter. It was the all-new you, revamped and without me, different adventures and themes. Maybe even an edgier take on it. There were some solo series attempts on my side too. But grim and gritty lacked emotional depth, tongue in cheek was a complete failure, and there was no place for me in any established group. So now, I wait for you to be reconnected back to normal. It might take years, even decades. But I’m patient, and I know it always happens. I was there in the first successful run, and those characters are always part of the classic reboot.
Capital & Lame
By: Peter C. Cook
Tags: Education Reform, Journalism, Media, Unions, Education

Although legitimate news organizations would take pains to acknowledge these potential conflicts-of-interest, you won’t find disclosures about Capital & Main’s ties to organized labor appended to their reports on education or other relevant topics. The same goes for those articles co-published by other media outlets.

Are LAANE and Capital & Main breaking the law?

When unions report their expenditures on their annual reports to the U.S. Department of Labor, they have to classify them into one of five categories: Contributions, Gifts and Grants; General Overhead; Political Activities; Representational Activities; and Union Administration.

Each of these categories are clearly defined by the Department of Labor. For example, the agency defines “Political Activities” expenditures this way:

“A political disbursement or contribution is one that is intended to influence the selection, nomination, election, or appointment of anyone to a Federal, state, or local executive, legislative or judicial public office, or office in a political organization, or the election of Presidential or Vice Presidential electors, and support for or opposition to ballot referenda. It does not matter whether the attempt succeeds.”

Why does this matter? Because many of the contributions given by the unions to LAANE and Capital & Main — such as those from the California Federation of Teachers — are reported as “Political Activities” expenditures. However, LAANE and Capital & Main are 501(c)(3) organizations and are therefore prohibited by both federal law and California law from engaging in political activities.

In fact, earlier this spring, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that he intends to crackdown on tax-exempt organizations that are engaging in politics.

“When you come up with these benevolent names for your organizations and what you’re really doing is out there doing politics and political backstabbing, I don’t think most Americans expected that that would be the use of the not-for-profit legal status,” Becerra said at a May press conference. “The last thing I think most people want to find out is that all these groups that are getting tax breaks because they are not-for-profit are actually going out there and influencing our political system.”
Lefi
By: Van Sanders
Tags: Liturgical, Nonsense, Humor, Poetry, Bizarre

You’ll cold blurtch into a gum ring for Magma Plime. Wheated in a seat spoon, my beak pooped.

Oh the messy mistress packing up the bassinets… She is weak and unimpressive, like a lame kidney. I wanted to grope the faucet but wave after wave of sorcerer bogged me down with legal questions and DNA.

As the spiggot is focus, my boy returns into deer maze, crying for silky pajim-jims and rescuing a LadyCake bathroom scissor. An easy sort of curl.

Woe be unto some guy. Passive chestnut explodes upon impact with the chest of a sturdy gymnut. Worthy spinFist. Don’t suggest things to me.

Moxy by might, and missive despite, Bland Rodeo last saturday in Cat Town. E-gentry tacks supine nurdle into Jack’s puny penis. He shouts for wide muff and a pancake.

Slurbedine meso-trampeter givewhenk omya zesookle hurbner.
Surprisingly effective remote software development tools and tips
By: Alfie Tham
Tags: Development, Software Development, Remote Working, Development Tools, Software Engineering

Getting the right tool for the job surely helps get the work done better, saves time, and reduces wasted efforts. However, I’ll only discuss the ones I find more specific to software development, and the ones that are more obscure and interesting.

In other words, these are remote collaboration tools that you might be pleasantly surprised at how effective they can actually be.

Whiteboards

We at TribalScale love our whiteboards. A lot of the walls at our offices are huge whiteboards. That’s where we share ideas, discuss solutions, and settle heated debates. In the remote world, we’ve used whiteboarding tools such as those that come with most video conferencing applications. We’ve found that the very basic ‘pen and paper in front of the camera’ method works fairly well too as it is very quick and expressive.

Team Voice Chat

How shall we keep remote teams close throughout the day? When it comes to working closely within a development team, we found an interesting solution for voice chat that works really well — Discord.

Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash

Discord has been widely used within gaming communities to discuss and collaborate on games. We found that it works pretty well for collaborating on building products too! With the Discord app, team members can quickly jump between different groups while being able to see what other conversations are going on.

Some of us opted to have everyone working on the same project in the same chat room; up to six engineers in some cases. How could that work? With Discord, you can adjust the volume of others so that you can hear your main pairing partner clearly while still being able to hear the other team members in the background.

Photo by Drew Patrick Miller on Unsplash

This way, the team can be aware of what others are doing in the background. This allows us to pick up if others are changing something related to our work, or quickly yell across the room for a quick question — just like we would in the office! I also like to check in with the teams by rapidly popping in and out of different discussions.

Remote Machines

In some cases, access to a powerful machine while being remote can be a challenge — be it a logistical or cost challenge. Perhaps there were powerful computers at the office that are shared to run renders, simulations, machine learning models, or even a hefty application being developed or debugged.

The first solution are cloud virtual machines. A common offering of cloud providers (such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services or Azure), virtual machines can be created on-demand, at the specification that suits your team’s needs. Ranging from a fraction of a processing core, to 160 cores, to over 3,800 GB of memory (yes, you’ve read that right) — you can spin one up and shut them back down as needed.

Plus, you only pay for as much time as you need, by the second. No upfront capital investment, asset management, maintenance, physical storage, nor logistics to worry about.
Un curriculum para Sofía I — INED21
Tags: Education

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Silence on the ocean
By: Magdalena Ciniewska
Tags: Gifts, Silence, Poetry, Storytelling, Life

“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.” — Anne Spollen

You already know what your calling is. You follow your heart. You hear the call. Your creativity is waking up. It was in a dream for a long time. It doesn’t matter.

You act. You write. Like you are crazy. You engage. People notice changes in your life. They recognize your talents. You create. There are people who support you. They show interest. They praise. They comment.

It is happening. Not much. But it is happening. You truly live and express yourself. You think: well, finally the world is favorable for me.

You have found a personal legend. You follow it’s track. You are afraid but it doesn’t stop you.

Now, you are expecting that everything will escalate.You will intensify the creative activity.The world will intensify it’s help to make your legend come true. You feel that the breakthrough will happen in a moment. In a moment.

And it is coming ….

S I L E N C E

Total silence on your ocean. The wind stopped blowing suddenly when you are sailing on the ocean. Wind is necessary like water. You already know what ports you want to visit. But without wind it will not work.

You are stricken by the silence of the ocean.

This is not the calm before the storm.

This is dead silence.

The waves are disappearing in a hurry.

The surface of the ocean is smoothed.

The ocean now has such a face that every woman of a certain age could envy.

But the ocean dies without a wind.

These sails that carried your boat on the ocean, these sails strained to the limit, which allowed you to achieve dizzying speeds and use all your potential, these sails have completely stopped moving.

They hung helplessly on the masts.

Your sailing boat has stopped. Without notice. It has been just frozen in motion.

As long as the wind does not start blowing again, you will not leave this place.

You check fresh water supplies. Such a paradox that you can die of thirst surrounded by the immeasurable amount of water.

What to do?- you ask.

It is hard. You feel helplessness. You can fight with the storm. Adrenaline is jumping. You can struggle with the element. But how to deal with silence? You really don’t know.

Certainly you have to learn to wait. Some consoled themselves that the lack of wind is better than the opposite wind.

Undoubtedly, you must give in to this adversity. However, this is adversity.

You want to go on but can’t. You want to reach the port, but even if the fate change you will have a delay. You want to act but have to wait.

So you have to become observer of the weather.

You must become sensitive to every slight change. You don’t know what will happen in a moment.

Maybe the seemingly clear sky foretells many days without moving.

Maybe the seemingly clear sky foretells the oncoming violent storm.

But maybe when the wind comes again, you will find ourselves in much calmer waters.

You just have to survive this damned silence.
When Is It the Right Time to Sell Bitcoin? NEVER, says Mark Yusko
Tags: Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin News, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Btc

You may have found yourself contemplating, having some doubts every now and then about Bitcoin and / or even gotten fed up with the whole cryptocurrency market ups and downs.

Don’t feel bad, you’re not alone. Even the most experienced traders may have, at one point, asked themselves, “when is it the right time to sell bitcoin?” According to the serial investment manager, Mark Yusko, that time is never. Yep, you read it right, NEVER!

Speaking to mainstream media viewers during an interview at CNBC on September 27, 2019, the Morgan Creek Capital Management founder, CEO and chief investment officer said Bitcoin is like Amazon during its 10th year anniversary.

Yusko was addressing concerns expressed by CNBC’s regular cryptocurrency host, Melissa Lee about the most recent bitcoin price crash. BTC price fell to a 3-month low; losing 25% of value in less than 2 days.

Yusko expressed the same sentiment I have been expressing for years that the instability of Bitcoin’s price, which retreated below $8,000 on Thursday is an opportunity to buy more, not sell.

Betting on a bitcoin bullish come back.

Yusko said that: “All the indicators of the network and the network value are rising; the price of any asset fluctuates.”

Those indicators he’s talking about include the bitcoin network hash rate, number of Bitcoin wallets created, and transaction volume. Statistically, all have continuing upward trajectory in 2019 and they’re only going to get better in 2020 and beyond.

Yusko’s direct conclusion is that is it would be foolish to sell Bitcoin. He compares selling BTC at this stage to selling shares in Amazon 10 years ago or even right now.

“In every year, including this year, it’s had a double-digit drawdown. The average peak-to-trough: 31%, twice 90%. When was the right time to sell? Never”

Co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, Tom Lee predicted earlier this month that Bitcoin will get back on track and start rallying once the S&P 500 start putting in new highs, which should be before the end of this year.

Again, when is the right time to sell Bitcoin? The answer is always going to be… NEVER!

Originally published at https://www.cryptozink.io on September 28, 2019.

DISCLAIMER

These are the views of Crpytozink and Mark Yusko and not financial advice, we do not condone whether you should buy or sell but wanted to raise awareness because this question is often asked about Bitcoin. It certainly drives a strong conversation on either side of this argument and we want to highlight both sides with separate articles due to the strong advocates for each. This is the first of those articles for holding BTC.
My Work & Me
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: Work, Medium, Writing

My Work & Me

All In One Place…

Autumn leaves blow in the breeze. Courtesy of Tremaine L. Loadholt

I have noticed a ton of you compiling your works into one, safe, snug-space, and well, I think it’s HIGH time I did that too. However, there’s far too much to load here, I will simply place some works going as far back as January of 2016. I hope this helps each of you navigate through my profile a bit better. It is my simple offering to a group of astoundingly amazing people.

Sky’s Falling Girls:

Sky’s Falling Girls & Aunt May:

Harmony: See Also, “Harmony, Missy, & Lacy Relive Aunt May’s Past:

The Jernee Chronicles:

Poetry & Prose:

In Publications:

All Entries to The Weekly Knob can be found there. Also, great writing prompt publication too!

Tribute Prose-Poems:

Essays:

One-Lined Poems:

Light Up Medium! Light Up The World!

The Weekly Knob: Candle Prompt (LUMLUTW)

Collaborative Works:

Simple:Soul:Sister
Cross-Site Cookies Will Now Be Rejected on localhost Because of SameSite=None; Secure in Chrome 80
By: Andrews Kangah
Tags: Programming, Software Development, Ssl, Chrome, Web Development

Cross-Site Cookies Will Now Be Rejected on localhost Because of SameSite=None; Secure in Chrome 80

If you’re looking to building a project in which you would be serving cross-site cookies, here’s what you need to know.

Photo by Rai Vidanes on Unsplash

At the time of writing, the Chrome browser stands at Version 85.0.4183.102 and the initially introduced security update in Chrome Version 80 for cross-site cookie policy is now almost available on all app distribution platforms.

The new rule demands that all cross-site cookies set in a browser have to be set with Secure attribute if they are to have None as their SameSite value. This is esoterically for cookies meant to be served in cross-site contexts only.

Third-party widgets and Oauth interfaces for authenticating with Google, Facebook and Twitter etc. fall in this category including Youtube embedded videos too.

These services use cookies set in your browser when you originally visit their site to give you less overhead when using their services on other websites.

Basically what it means is that when playing an embedded Youtube video in another site — say on a Facebook page, the facebook page is given access to cookies like your user Id which were set in your browser by the original Youtube site.

Photo by Emil Protalinski on VentureBeat

The Facebook page then uses these cookies to load your profile inside the embedded Youtube video, and when you click the Watch Later button in the Youtube embedded interface, the cookies exposed to Facebook are again used to add the particular video to your Watch Later videos on Youtube — which is originally what would happen if you were watching the video on Youtube.

Many web projects that do not have this sort of use case or requirements per se, may not be concerned about this so much. But, if you’re looking at building a project and you would be serving cross-site cookies (which is basically what the above use case does), here’s what you need to know.
Ansible Tips and Tricks ( Part 3 )
By: Davinder Pal
Tags: Hacks, Performance, Tricks, Boost, Ansible

forks = 100

In Ansible, forks is 5 by default. It allows parallel plays at a time.

Assume,

you have 100 hosts and forks = 5 and task time per host = 2 secs

As Ansible works in batch of forks.

Total Number of Batches will be = 100/5 =20

Total Number of Time Per Batch ~ task time per host ( Ansible will run in parallel on each host inside that batch )

Total Execution Time will be = 20 * 2 = 40 Seconds Approx.

Now, if we increase the Forks to 50 or 100

everything is same but total number of batches are way less than.

Total Number of Batches = 100/50 = 2

Total Execution Time will be = 2*2 = 4 Seconds

It will be 10x boost with 50 forks.

It will be 20x boost with 100 forks.

More than 100 forks will be useless because there are no more hosts.

Running 50 or 100 forks comes at a cost that is

1. High CPU Usage on Ansible.

2. High Network Bandwidth Utilization.

Ref: docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_strategies.html
Beaker & Flint Ink Partnership Deal with R&D Advance Funding Group Fundsquire
By: Reggie James
Tags: Digital Transformation, Scaling, Startup, Partnerships

Helping businesses connect the right nodes within the digital service industry is a real value-add for aspiring scale-up businesses.

As such Beaker & Flint have partnered with Fundsquire to position Founders and CEOs at the centre of a powerful ecosystem.

Head of Partnerships Brendan Bennett describes Fundsquire as a global, technology-driven company that is innovating the lending industry, enabling companies in the UK, Canada, and Australia to take control of their funding timeline through early R&D tax incentive loans.

Beaker & Flint is a digital consultancy helping scale-up businesses define their product strategy and scale-up their delivery teams. We believe our clients will benefit by entering into a network of businesses with a strong focus on getting new digital services to market through digital expertise and a range of innovative funding solutions.

Are you apart of an SME with a great digital service idea and interested in working with a group of businesses dedicated to your success through excellent delivery and value-added services?

Connect with me and let’s chat.
Being Human
By: Evince Uhurebor
Tags: Life Lessons, Poetry On Medium, Productivity, Poetry Writing, Motivation

Life is it but a battle

Some we win

Some we lose

Others we flee

But it isn’t just about fighting

It isn’t just about losing either

Neither is it just about fleeing

When the cock crows in the morning

We leave our homes and families

We leave to discover ourselves

We do things, just anything

Hoping it leads us somewhere

Somewhere we don't know

Somewhere we hope for a better life

A life that is full of happiness

A life that is full of victories

A life that is full of Hope.

This is just not a battle

This is about us

Yes! Us

Trying to discover ourselves

Hoping tomorrow will be good

This is no imaginations

This is reality

This is life

Some we win

Some we lose

Others we flee

To fight again tomorrow

The battles are not yet won

For they are here with us

And they are coming

With their wrath’s

With their grief

With their sorrows

With their hatred

With their sadness

And, with all their evils.

They are already here

We can't but see them

Fighting for a space in our hearts

Fighting for a space in our mind

And fighting for a space in our world

We can't but allow them

Take over our hearts

Take over our minds

Take over our world

So we need must fight this battle

The battles that are yet to be won

The battle before us.

Life is it but a battle

Some we win

Some we lose

Others we flee

To fight again tomorrow

That is how we became humans.
Navigational Intent
By: Allan Rae, Alto
Tags: Social Justice, Resistance Poetry, Writing, Prose Poem, Poetry

Navigational Intent

mapping of the grid

There are 2 ways of spreading light:

to be the candle or the

mirror that reflects it.

~ Edith Wharton

In a world with lines

all over and around it

where will you carve out

your place and stand?

I stand with those who by an

arbitrary decree of the day

are rendered invisible.

I stand with women

I stand with black and brown people

with gay and bi people, with transpeople

I stand with poor people, with middle class people

with underemployed and unemployed people

with disabled people, HIV infected people

and those people branded with the stigma and

assumptions of mental illness and addiction.

I stand with “the others”

With people who have known what it is

to be cast out, set apart from that place

once called your homeland.

I stand with immigrants.

I stand with those unfairly incarcerated through

the forever moving goal posts of a justice system

that is anything but fair and equal under the law.

I stand with those people who embody

a desire to make this world we share

a better place to raise our children.

I stand with those who have the

courage and intestinal fortitude to

look deep within, absent averted gaze.

And with the kind of people who admit their

humanity — the ugly, beautiful, complicated

all of it.

I stand with those who offer what

they can if and when required

and those with the humility to

accept help when in need.

I stand with those who ask why

and those not afraid to answer

that question.

Or question the answer.

I stand with those who know

they have more to learn and

those generous enough to

teach what they know.

With those willing to call

it out, even when they are

a lone voice in the dark.

I stand with those who admit

error, and mean it when

they profess regret.

And I stand with those who

know life was never meant to

be done alone.

I stand with those who know

the power of language, of

conversation, of written

words, and use those tools

responsibly, ethically, and

equitably for empowerment

and inclusion where exclusion

has been the norm.

I stand with those who are

generous of spirit, and those

who actively welcome others in.

I stand with those who believe

despite all evidence to the contrary

that living in respect and community

is something worth fighting for.

I stand with those who celebrate life

through holding to account those

subverting human rights by creating

division, enacting oppression, and

denying our collective human agency

in that ancient and primal quest

to embody and realize our own

essential human trajectory.

In a world with lines

all over and around it

where will you carve out

your place and stand?
I Let My Son Sleep On My Arm
Tags: God, Warm Hearts, Love, Gods Love, Parenting

The sun was glaring at 12 noon. I was sitting on the public bus with my 3 year old and watched him dozing off. I got up at 6 and started running errands since 7 am. I was about to wake him up, but my heart melted looking at that tired little face.

“It must have been an active day at school today…”, I told myself.

The bus stopped at approximately 400 m from my house. I decided to carry sleeping him on my arm and walked home. As I climbed up the staircases near our apartment, I started feeling my arms were trembling. The urge to wake him up was huge, but… As I turned his sleeping face towards me… Once again… My heart melted. His head was resting on my left shoulder, so peacefully. I smiled faintly, took a deep breath and kept walking.

As I was walking and bearing the pain of carrying at least 12.5kg child, my heart thought of my Father in Heaven.

Being a parent, we have the opportunity to experience a glimpse of God’s love for His children. Our love, our sacrifices and our endless mercy and grace for our children make it easy for us to understand God’s Love pouring out for us through His son, Jesus.

Sending Jesus to die for all of us, bearing the pain of watching His son being scrutinized, crushed, hurt and killed, so all of us know that we are dearly Loved and Forever Forgiven. The pain, the trembling arms and heavy legs carrying my sleeping son after a day of errand, was a glimpse of what God went through for His children’s joy and peace. I sensed strength coming into my body, as I felt the amazing love God has for me. I felt God smiled at me and said, “Because you are worth it…”

I walked home, gently put off his shoes, socks and masks, and placed him on the sofa. I watched that sleeping face of my 3 year-old and smiled, “Because you are worth it, son.”