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A Lady’s Guide to Surviving the Man-Cold
By: Kelly Fields
Tags: Comed, Humor, Fiction, Illness, Relationships

Photo by Brittany Colette on Unsplash

When man colds attack, women fight back!

Strap on your big girl panties, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride! Your man has a cold, which means the dreaded man-cold has invaded your happy home. Not to worry, there is no reason to lock yourself away in your safe room with copious amounts of wine and Netflix just yet. You can survive this! Your man may even too if you follow these simple suggestions:

When your man says he’s dying, he’s not. Just smile and nod, maybe pat his head if the mood strikes you. Do not lash out in anger and begin a diatribe on how the last time you had a cold you still had to go to work, come home and cook dinner, do the laundry, and clean the house. I repeat do not do this! Get yourself a glass of wine or a large chunk of chocolate and in your head just repeat the Bee Gees song Stayin’ Alive… because that’s the goal for both of you.

You may find your man reverts back to childhood and begins to mistake you for his mother. You are not his mother! When he asks for chicken soup with the little star-shaped noodles and crustless toast draw the line in the sand, girl. Draw it! Just smile and say, “Sure honey,” then grab whatever dusty jar of Campbell’s that’s been lying in the back of the pantry since your last stomach flu (that I’m sure you worked through) and plop that gelatinous blob of condensed salts into a bowl, nuke it, and toss it at him. If he questions its contents explain that of course, it is the soup he requested, he is clearly just seeing things incorrectly because he’s delusional with fever. Then just apologize that you are out of bread. No lady has time to cut off crusts; we have industries to conquer!

Remember that each of you will need extra liquids during the reign of the man-cold, and not just liquids to drink. Dunk your man in a hot bath. Tell him its good for his sinuses. This is just a load of crap because what it is really good for is removing him from the couch long enough for you to have some much-needed you-time in front of the television.

Eventually, he may begin moaning from beneath his nest of blankets. If this ensures reach for the Benadryl immediately. Explain how he may be suffering from allergies in addition to a cold. Then dose him. Dose him good, girl! That should buy you at least eight hours of peace and relaxation time.

If you find your man’s cold begins to stretch on for far more days that you have ever experienced your own colds lasting, do not be surprised. This is a common symptom in the man-cold. Now it is time to abandon ship. Leave your man a microwave dinner for sustenance and go out with your friends. Find a happy hour special and a good movie and treat yourself to a night out. You deserve it!

In the end, do not panic. The man-cold will end…eventually. You can get through this! Women are a tough lot. Your fore-mothers have survived millions of man-colds and you can too. If all else fails call a girlfriend and kvetch. She’s been there too. We all have.
17 Powerful Historical Photos of Men in Love
By: Jack Shepherd
Tags: Photography, Equality, LGBTQ, Life, Love

17 Powerful Historical Photos of Men in Love

From an amazing new book, “Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s”

All photos courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions

A gorgeous new book from a private collection of hundreds of photographs taken between 1850 and 1950 documents romantic love between men from all walks of life. The intimate photos are an expression not just of love but of bravery, as many were taken at a time when such relationships were illegal, which makes these striking documents of our recent past all the more moving.

The photographs range from public to private, snapshots to portraits, and their subjects are as varied: working class men, businessmen, students, and soldiers, with the common thread of men who chose to document their love for one another despite the risks. The collection itself was amassed over the course of 20 years by a married couple, Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, who brought together over 2,800 photos of men in love during this era by poring through estate sales, family archives, and flea markets around the world.

For more photos from the collection, you can order a copy of Loving: A Photographic History, or follow the collectors on Instagram.
Simple And Inexpensive Productivity System
By: Julien Samson
Tags: Productivity, Tools, Freedom, Simplicity, Responsibility

I need to precise a lack of obligation doesn’t equate to “doing nothing”. What it does mean is complete freedom, control, and responsibility for your life.

Decisions and actions always bear consequences. Sometimes with many great benefits such as learning a skill or improving yourself. Sometimes with major losses like smoking cigarettes every day. Other time with somewhat inconsequential actions such as choosing what to eat this afternoon.

A lack of obligation does not mean a lack decision — because we always make decisions even when the decision is to avoid making any decisions — but it means you should be aware and accept the consequences that come with it. You do not have any outside obligations, but you do have personal responsibility. I know obligation and responsibility are pretty much the same, but the main difference lies toward whom it is directed. Obligations are toward others while responsibilities are toward yourself.

Do this means, you should avoid altruism altogether? No, but if you value friendship or self-improvement, the mental frame should not come from “I have to do something for them” but “I want to do something for them”.

But that’s selfish!

Yes, it is. I hate to break to you, but everybody is selfish. As Scott Adams in How To Fail at Almost Everything And Still Win Big:

when it comes to the topic of generosity, there are three kinds of people in the world:

1. Selfish

2. Stupid

3. A burden on others.

Your best option is to be selfish, because being stupid or a burden on society won’t help anyone.

Image yourself in an airplane, something happens and the oxygen mask drops from the ceiling. What do you need to do? Well, you help yourself first before you can help others. Helping yourself first is selfish, but it is the kind of selfish that will make you useful for others instead of a burden for them.
I Didn’t Read A Single Book In 2019
Tags: Self Improvement, Productivity, Life, Life Lessons, Reading

I Didn’t Read A Single Book In 2019

And I got smarter about life instead

Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash

I grew up in my local library as much as my own home as a kid — but in 2019 I did not read a single book even though I tried several times. I dabbled in reading, turning a couple pages of what I assumed would be fascinating reads — but then I could never concentrate on them, become invested, finish a single book.

I read maybe a hundred, two hundred pages in the full year, of at least twenty books and they all ended up at the side of the road for free picking by anyone with an actual interest in books.

I never understood how reading could feel hard

This year saw that change a bit, during the quarantine I at least managed to finish three or four books — but for the first time in my life I found reading hard.

I just have so much other stuff to do, to learn, most of what I want to learn is current and by the time it gets put into a book it is already grossly outdated.

There is YouTube which can teach a lot of skills a lot better, a skilled mechanic with a phone camera replaces a full maintenance book.

What I did instead: Real life learning

In 2019 I did quite a few things, many of them having to do with building, crafting, using power tools to build a frame for my truck bed to pull a cover over it — real life stuff.

I also restored a 1987 Simson S51 — only to have it stolen during the quarantine and me being fined 70 bucks for “illegally operating a non-licensed vehicle in public traffic” when I clearly wasn’t even in the city for three months.

Whenever I had time and opportunity I helped friends and coworkers move, renovate, my truck getting to do some actual work and helping out quite a few people — good memories.

I also learned about coding — another thing you can’t quite learn well through books — and I researched places to live, apartments to rent to get out of the city.

I picked up a side job constructing event locations, spending late nights in the fresh air building up temporary walls, stages, holding on for dear life as we all hung on the outside of a large semi truck that transported us for three kilometers to save us the walk — good memories.

So are my reading years over? Far from it

Despite not finishing a single book I have at the same time read more words than I ever have — Medium, Reddit, a multitude of blogs, websites, code documentation.

In 2020 I have also started reading actual books again, six of them fiction and about three non-fiction books that I have finished — and I bought a picture book of all things called Tales From The Loop which I can highly recommend.

So is there a lesson, a takeaway for me here? Yes, the most important one to me is how drastically priorities can shift, I was on a schedule of several books per week as a kid and now I am proud that I finished a several in a whole year. For better or worse.
From That Tinder Guy With the Fish
By: R.J. Quirk
Tags: Sex, Humor, Fiction, Satire, Faminism

Sex & Satire: Thanks so much for speaking with Sex & Satire today. So, tell us about your Tinder profile?

Fishy Man: Happy to be here! I think I have a pretty typical profile. It’s even got words! Says: “I love my truck, bud is my best friend, and fishin’ is life!”

S&S: And what photos do you have?

FM: One’s with my truck, one’s with a beer, and one’s kissin’ a fish!

S&S: Kissing huh? That’s… extreme…

FM: Oh yeah, got to thank her for her service, you know? And gotta show the ladies I’m a thankful man. *winks*

S&S: Right. And how do you typically start a conversation with Tinderella?

FM: I like to filter my matches so I typically start with, “No feminists, fats, or women who don’t do anal.” See where we go from there…

S&S: {Coughs} and, um — how many women go from there…

FM: Only one so far. I can’t imagine why. I always send a photo of my adopted Dachshund next! I hear women like dogs.

S&S: {under breath} I don’t think the dog is your problem.

FM: What’s that now?

S&S: Never mind. So, tell us how it went with that special match?

FM: I thought we hit it off! We chatted for a while. She was real interested in my secret fishin’ spots. I even told her about my favorite, which is difficult to find. You know, the kind of place someone could hide a body. Hell, I’ve even thought of hiding a body there myself… no, no, not a human body. But you know, you accidentally hit a deer with your truck or whatever…

S&S: {silence}

FM: Anyhow we went on a date to my secret spot. Had a real nice time. But the next day, she ghosted me!

S&S: I can’t imagine…

FM: At first I thought it was because I picked my nose, ate the booger, and tried to kiss her. But here’s the real kicker, I went down to my fishin’ hole a week later, and there she was! She even had some muscular dude with her.

S&S: So what did you do?

FM: Well, I gotta protect my rights. So I went up to her and asked what the hell was goin’ on.

S&S: And how did she respond?

FM: She smiled big and said, “Thank’s for giving me direction to all your fishin’ spots. My boyfriend’s been looking for some better places.” Can you believe that? Then I went to my truck and got my shotgun.

S&S: Of course you did.

FM: Like I said, perfect place to hide a body.

S&S: Sir, are you confessing to murder?

FM: Nah, I just needed to flex a little. Show her what she was missin’. I set up some empty beer cans, stood about six inches away, and hit every last one. Yeah, I was on fire. I really showed her.

S&S: Mmhm, she didn’t dodge a bullet at all.
Maybe I’ll Find God
By: John Ross
Tags: Inspiration, Christianity, This Happened To Me, Spirituality, Short Story

I left Portland, Oregon early on a Friday morning after finding out I wouldn’t have to be back to work until the next Wednesday. I was headed to Montana and then to Yellowstone and then through the Tetons and back home.

I didn’t go with much of an agenda. I told myself maybe I’d find God or could reset some unhealthy patterns in life.

I’m not sure if either really happened.

Or maybe both really happened.

Sure, God can be found anywhere, so I need not over-spiritualize.

But I think what I was really looking for was space. Margin. Room.

And I found that.

I think God is in that.

He’s in the margins. He’s in space.

And so maybe I found God after all.
5 Chrome Extension APIs that Most of You are not Aware of
By: Pavindu Lakshan
Tags: Coding, Chrome Extension, Programming, JavaScript, HTML

1. Chrome Omnibox API

Imagine you want to build an extension that provides real-time search suggestions while the users type in the address bar. How are you going to implement that? In Chrome, you don’t need to worry. There is the Chrome Omnibox API to help.

Chrome Omnibox API lets the extension register a keyword in the browser upon being installed. When a user types our registered keyword and continues typing, those queries are sent straight to the extension in real-time. Then the extension can process what user types and send appropriate suggestions back to the address bar. Not only that, but the Omnibox API also provides methods to listen to the changes in the address bar on various events such as onInputEntered , onInputChanged , etc.

To use the Omnibox API in your extension, it should be explicitly mentioned in the manifest.json as follows. I highly recommend you to clone the demo repository and install it locally to see how this works.

"omnibox": { "keyword" : "demo" }

Then you can listen to various events that Omnibox API provides, in the background script as follows.
FutureBuilder widget in Flutter
By: Greg Perry
Tags: Ios Development, Programming, Flutter, Software Development, Android Development

I Like Screenshots. Click For Gists.

As always, I prefer using screenshots over gists to show concepts rather than just show code in my articles. I find them easier to work with frankly. However, you can click or tap on these screenshots to see the code they represent in a gist or in Github. Ironically, it’s better to read this article about mobile development on your computer than on your phone. Besides, we program on our computers — not on our phones. For now.

Let’s begin.

Learn By Example

We will use an example from the Flutter Cookbook, fetch data from the internet, to demonstrate a FutureBuilder in action. Below is a screenshot of part of that example displaying a StatelessWidget and how its parameter, post, is provided to a FutureBuilder widget as an instantiated Future object.

The FutureBuilder<T> class documentation emphasizes right away that the specified Future must be obtained earlier and already instantiated. It should not be created right with the FutureBuilder — when the FutureBuilder is called and instantiated. Otherwise, that Future object will be instantiated with the FutureBuilder over and over again with every new call to the build() function containing them, in some instances, possibly not allowing the asynchronous operation to complete.
Baby in a Box
By: Dan Mccarthy
Tags: Ideas, Childhood, Behaviorism, Baby In A Box, History

One of the more controversial physical manifestations of Skinner’s theories: a controlled environment designed to give newborns and infants more control and autonomy. People called it the “baby in the box.”. You can imagine the reaction.

Here’s a good blog post that gives a quick synopsis of the history. And here’s a post from a woman who was raised in a Skinner box.

Something I found interesting: temperature adjustment had a big impact on a child’s temperament.
I will only end this mad and singular dream on the last day of my life
By: Ayzoh
Tags: English, Art, Brazil, Photography, Architecture

Tragically, in 2013 the artist was found dead at the age of 65 in front of his house on the very steps he spent 20 years of his life working on. The artist was said to have been depressed in the final months of his life but had also been receiving death threats, possibly from someone who worked in his workshop.
CRPT listed on Liquid, one of the largest exchanges, with fiat pairs in place
Tags: Exchange, Crpt, Crypto, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

CRPT listed on Liquid, one of the largest exchanges, with fiat pairs in place Crypterium Follow Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Currently listed on Qryptos, CRPT tokens are migrating to the Liquid exchange as it is combining the Qryptos and Quoinex platform into one. What this means is that you’ll soon be able to buy and sell CRPT on one of the largest exchanges using not only cryptocurrencies but also fiat money.

What’s going on?

Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchange operator, Quoine, is launching Liquid, a trading platform designed to bring the entire global network of cryptocurrency exchanges together. The launch arises from the upcoming union of the Quoinex and Qryptos platform.

For those unfamiliar, Quoinex is Quoine’s exchange for fiat/crypto trading; Qryptos is Quoine’s exchange for crypto-only trading.

On September 4, Quoine will start merging all tokens currently listed on the Qryptos and Quoinex platform, as well as all customers and traders will be migrated to Liquid. The rollout of Liquid is expected to take up to 24 hours. Being officially approved by the Japanese government while state control over cryptocurrencies is getting more and more strict, Liquid has all chances to become one of the largest and most reputable exchanges in Asia.

What does it mean for you?

By listing on the Liquid platform, we’ll be able to give our users a low-fee option and provide them with new trading opportunities. Liquid will save the advantages of both exchanges: the higher liquidity and fiat solutions of Quoinex, as well as the minimal fees of Qryptos.

Commenting on the partnership with Liquid, Crypterium’s CEO Mark O’Brien said: “With its proven reputation and a global user base, Quoine’s Liquid has a huge potential. We at Crypterium are very excited by the fact that our customers will be able to buy and sell CRPT on one of the largest exchanges using not only cryptocurrencies but also fiat money”.

PS. If you have an account on Qryptos or Quoinex, you’ll be able to log into Liquid using the same password. As soon as Liquid goes live, you’ll be able to trade CRPT there!

About Crypterium

CCrypterium is building a mobile app that will turn cryptocurrencies into money that you can spend with the same ease as cash. Shop around the world and pay with your coins and tokens at any NFC terminal, or via scanning the QR codes. Make purchases in online stores, pay your bills, or just send money across borders in seconds, reliably and for a fraction of a penny.

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World-class learning community
Tags: Life Skills, Knowledge Sharing, Mentorship, Expertise, Africa

“the world becomes smaller, if we all share our knowledge” — Joana Casaca Lemos

At EDACY, we believe in creating a world-class learning community where experts from different places and backgrounds come together and share their knowledge to grow the new generation of innovators. We want to be the place where anyone can come to learn, create, be empowered and have a positive impact in the world. For our current cohort in Software Leadership active in Senegal now, we are still searching for more mentors that like to grow and share their skills with our talents in:

1) Life Skills: Communication skills, Leadership, Collaboration, Team work, Presentation, Selling, Personal Finances Management.

2) Technical Skills: Java, AngularJS, React, NodeJS, SQL, NoSQL, Android, (Front-end, Backend), Programming, UX design, UI Design, Web and Mobile Development.

We want to build a scalable model of knowledge sharing that allows people from all of the world to share their knowledge with anyone online. This will require 3–5 hours per week during 6-months (May — Oct. 2017). Nevertheless, there will be physical mentoring as well that would require min. 2 hours to max 4. hours a week during the weekends (May — Oct. 2017).

“I want to be a mentor because I truly believe that Africa has a big potential. People in Africa know the culture and context the best so if we only enable design thinking, they will be able to create solutions that will be relevant to their environment and improve their own quality of life. I want to help people by offering them what I know best. I have really enjoyed working with students during the bootcamp and would like to continue the cooperation.” — Monika Zych, Nordkapp

Join us if you also want to contribute to build the next future generation of African innovators. Apply here.
Switzerland and the Best Pasta I Have Ever Had
By: Felipe Xavier
Tags: The Masterpiece, Happiness, Lifestyle, Travel, Switzerland

Finding the best pasta

Remember I said we missed our breakfast at the hotel? We didn’t have lunch or anything. It was almost 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and we ate nothing for the whole day.

We got to the Hotel Ambiance Superior — a lovely place that my wife carefully chosen for our honeymoon — checked in and decided we had to go somewhere to eat.

We left our bags in our room and went to browse the city for some food. A few meters from the hotel, we found it. Pizzeria Roma, a small and cozy pizza place. We got it. We are not very fond of pizza, but we were about to faint.

A nice couple welcomed us and got us a table. The husband was an Italian cook, and his wife, who was in charge of waitering, was a very polite Portuguese woman named Fernanda.

When we said we were from Brazil, she immediately started speaking Portuguese with us. It was such a cool connection.

Brazilian Portuguese is different from Portugal’s, but we were still able to communicate with no embarrassment of misunderstanding each other.

It was a pizza place, but they also had other types of pasta. Let me tell you that meat-sauce spaghetti is my favorite food. Guess what lovely Fernanda offered us? Yes, that’s right. My favorite food in the world.

The author owns the rights to this image.

This is how happy I was. I must have drunk up this beer in a matter of seconds. We could not believe we were in a restaurant in Switzerland.

I love cooking, and as I said before, the food is not the most crucial thing in a meal. Every time someone comes to my house, I try to create the best experience with good music, lighting, smells, and of course, good food.

In Pizzeria Roma, we had it all, and we were also starving, which really helps when trying out some different food.

I still remember the taste of the tomatoes in the sauce dressing that delicious pasta in perfect combination with beer, the best company I could ever ask for in the most beautiful place in the world.

After eating, we went for a walk to get to know the city, but I will talk about it in my next piece.

Stay tuned for some more Switzerland stories.
Standard Template Library (STL) in C++
By: Tanishq Vyas
Tags: Standard Template Library, Cplusplus, Vectors, Stl, Containers

Standard Template Library (STL) in C++ | Vectors

Getting started with STL in C++

Photo by Maxwell Nelson on Unsplash

The Standard Template Library (STL) in C++ is nothing but a set of template classes which provides us with the widely used data structures such as lists, stacks, maps, etc. along with iterators, functions and algorithms in order to play around with the data elements.

A. Main Components of STL

Containers

Containers are nothing but holder objects which stores other objects i.e. it’s elements. A container does the memory management for its elements and provides us with member functions or iterators in order to interact with it’s data elements.

2. Algorithms

Algorithms, defined under the header <algorithm>, are nothing but a collection of several functions which are designed in order to used on any sequence of elements that can be accessed using iterators or pointers. One thing to note about algorithms is that they do not change the way a data structure is organised in any way. They merely deal with the elements within the structure.

3. Iterators

Iterators are something which is used to point at the memory addresses of STL containers’ elements. Thus providing a means to access the data stored within the container. They can be simply thought of as pointers. More about them can be read here.

Now with that being said we are good to go ahead and have a look at our very first container Vector.
The Hand of Fate Works at the Farmer’s Market
By: Kiki Schirr
Tags: Humor, Art, Comics, Dogs, Magic

The Hand of Fate Works at the Farmer’s Market

Click for the first comic, or for the comic before this one. White bubbles denote speech, text outside is either part of the background, sound effect, or an unspoken thought. Author notes at end.
Cairns to Cape York
By: Wild Ark
Tags: 4x4, Travel, Cape York, Australia

Day 1 — Cairns

We spent our first night in Cairns (but Port Douglas is another great option), dinning on beautiful local seafood and soaking up the balmy tropical night of Queensland’s biggest city. Depending on whether you have your own car or not, there are camper vehicle hire options to take you through to the Cape. We chose to have our own vehicle as well as to hire a rooftop camper. These are great for people who aren’t experienced at towing a trailer and are a comfortable sleeping option being up off the ground and away from snakes and spiders.

Day 2 — Daintree

We spent our second night in the Daintree which is only a couple of hours drive from Cairns and includes crossing the Daintree river on a barge.

There are a several camping and inexpensive accommodation options here, as well as more luxurious places! The highlight of our time in the rainforest was seeing both a pair of Eclectus parrots and a Cassowary with chicks, both very unique North Queensland species
Dicese Slex Dishes on Clean Code Configs | tygertec
By: Ty Walls
Tags: Code, Software Engineering, Software Development, Configuration Management, Clean Code

All but the most trivial code needs some configuration and setup to do meaningful work. From database connection strings to IoC container initialization — even the lowly idempotent Hello World app is dependent on the implicit default configuration of its environment.

In the physical world, we like instrument clusters, dashboards, things that bring together all the buttons, switches, dials, and toggles into one convenient place. Configuring our code should be no different. Wouldn’t it be nice if managing all the config things were as easy as driving your car?

Well, meet your new friend, Dicese Slex, (Dih-CHESS-ee Slex, for the uninitiated). He’s a cool don wearing silk system threads, and he’s here to spruce up your configs. At the very least, he hopes to get you thinking about the importance of code configs.
How to Use Google Place Autocomplete With React Without a Third-Party Library
By: Gapur Kassym
Tags: Google, Programming, Web Development, React, Javacript

How to Use Google Place Autocomplete With React Without a Third-Party Library

Avoid the dependency and make your requests directly

Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

I wanted to create a React web application that would look for the user’s location. I managed to do it with Google Place Autocomplete.

Autocomplete is a feature of the Places library in the Maps JavaScript API. When a user starts typing an address, autocomplete fills in the rest.

I tried to implement Google Place Autocomplete input in the search bar on React but soon realized that it was more complicated than I expected. I started looking for other ways to do it and found many methods. However, they all used libs.

I decided to write this short piece to show how I did it without using a third-party library.
Swift: Beyond Switching on a Result
By: Alberto Salas
Tags: Mobile, Programming, Swift, Software Development, iOS

Swift: Beyond Switching on a Result

Swift.Result’s potential goes beyond just getting the value/error using a switch clause. Let’s look at a few things you can do

Photo by Hitesh Choudhary on Unsplash

Get the Success Value as an Optional

In some cases, you just need the success value of a Result . With func get() throws -> Success , you don’t need to use a switch clause.
Iterative Longing
By: Bradley J Nordell
Tags: Poetry, Mathematics, Nature, Beauty, Fractals

Iterative Longing

A poem about the fractal nature of life, love, and beauty

Photo by Eric Cook on Unsplash

Was I lost when I began,

falling within those

self-similar scales of existence?

In its suffering,

do we follow Caylee’s tree

to the waning of the light?

For what truth do we wish to clasp

in the dimensionality of 2.7, its epic collapse

those renormalizable heavens doth ebb and flow

through porous coffee grounds

to show us the way forward

across history’s forgotten muse.

I wait upon a worn-out bench

Koch’s snowflakes falling upon my brow

as shadows spread about their hues

A Lichtenberg dust of love and bemuse

yet a strange attractor that train do pull

gravity’s metamorphic volcanic roar.

I cannot stop myself from tumbling

into Cantor’s complex infinity

that brings us always back to zero

a Sierpiński Pyramid of shadows

that no longer contains my ka

diffusion through a dendritic Seurat

to find you once more, o! my Julia

to abhor the Euclidean plane of being

for that is not I nor you, we are coastlines

without end, rivers eternal bend, frost crystals

upon lover’s window in tepid fall

we are heartbeats, met once more

Do you see my fault lines, cracked by life’s sorrows?

filling the fields of craters from asteroid showers

for we are mountain ranges, standing evermore

we are Saturn's rings, to say “I do” in cosmic amore

we are ocean waves and crackling skylines

love made in the dust grains of fractal time

We are loops of love and loss

Mandelbrot’s relentless Albatross.

Clustered across a river fibers

cellular automata whispers of hope!

waiting for another burificating moment

when our fingers touch,

Chaos sunsets settle upon

the graveyard of our

Brownian motion pasts.
The Birth of Science New Wave Cinema
By: Edward Shepard
Tags: Movies, Science, Cinema, Science Fiction, Filmmaking

French New Wave films smashed convention and reinvented the art of cinema. Today the Science New Wave is doing the same thing.

The term “new wave” is inspired by La Nouvelle Vague, the New Wave of films that transformed French cinema starting in the late 1950’s.

Before the New Wave, French cinema was stuffy in both approach and technique. But in the late 1950’s, films like The 400 Blows, Breathless, and Hiroshima, Mon Amour rejected convention and invented an improvisational, spontaneous, and personal cinematic approach.

They brought new life to French cinema and inspired filmmakers everywhere.

There is a similar new wave of science cinema emerging worldwide.

“Science film” evokes an educational movie you’d watch in a classroom or on public television. But while the universe of science cinema includes educational films, it’s also vastly larger, weirder, and more experimental.

Science New Wave films are often expressive, personal, and experimental.

The Science New Wave is both fiction and non-fiction. Sometimes it’s a chimera of the two. Sometimes it’s raw lab footage. Sometimes it’s avant-garde. Sometimes it’s animated, and sometimes it’s data-visualized.

It’s being invented by filmmakers, scientists, students, and curious amateur explorers around the world. Science New Wave films are often expressive, personal, and opinionated.

They’re shot on film, smartphones, field microscopes, DSLR’s, telescope mounts, action cameras, and drones. You watch them on screens of all sizes, or projected up on domes, or streamed in 360 degrees through VR goggles.

There are 38,000,000 videos tagged “science” on YouTube, 2,815,000 on Instagram, and 157,000 on Vimeo.
UPDATED: A Combination Therapy that Eliminates COVID-19 Virus
By: Nancy R. Gough
Tags: Clinical Trials, Science, Coronavirus, Health, Medicine

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin make SARS-CoV-2 undetectable in French clinical trial. [Credit: Nancy R. Gough, PhD, BioSerendipity, LLC]

UPDATED: A Combination Therapy that Eliminates COVID-19 Virus

Subsequent studies cast doubt on the results of small French Trial that showed exciting results in a treatment for COVID-19.

[UPDATED 25 March 2020 to include more details about the trial and its limitations]

[UPDATED 21 April 2020 to include results from a retrospective analysis of SARS-CoV-2 patients in the US and another from France.]

[UPDATED 9 May 2020 to include results from an observations study of COVID-19 patients in hospitalized in New York City]

9 May 2020 Update: An observational study of 1376 patients hospitalized in New York City found no significant benefit of hydroxychloroquine treatment. The patients receiving hydroxychloroquine were sicker than the other patients. The authors analyzed the data in two ways. First, they compared the 811 patients who received hydroxychloroquine with all 565 who did not. Second, they compared the 811 patients receiving hydroxychloroquine with those patients with similar characteristics (age, sex, race and ethnic group, body mass index, smoking status, various co-occurring conditions (like chronic lung disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic kidney disease, among others), medications, initial vital signs, and initial laboratory test results. This second analysis is referred to as the “propensity-score — matched” analysis, because it matches patients in each group according to how sick they were and what other conditions they had. The endpoints used were either death or intubation.

By just comparing all of the hydroxychloroquine-receiving patients with all of the other patients, the hydroxychloroquine-receiving patients fared worse (32.3% died or were intubated); whereas only 14.9% of the patients that did not received hydroxychloroquine died or were intubated. However, the propensity-score — matched analysis, which accounted for the differences among patients within the groups, found not significant difference between the two groups. Based on these results, the clinical center where this was done removed the suggestion of using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients.

J. Geleris, et al. Observational Study of Hydroxychloroquine in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19. N. Engl. J. Med. 10.1056/NEJMoa2012410 (2020). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2012410
America, Sold Out By The Con Man
By: Ep Mcknight
Tags: Poetry, Politics, Life, Life Lessons, Startup

Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash

America has been sold out by a con man

destroying everything with a deceitful hand

republican sit idle by, their heads in the sand

allowing this heinous poison to exist and stand

in 2020 election, please all vote blue and ban

banishing this evilness from politics and our land.

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In Yet Another Twist Almost Too Bizarre To Be Believed, Trump’s Nominee For Defense Secretary Leaves Before Facing Hearings
By: Eric J Scholl
Tags: Military, Domestic Violence, Politics, Donald Trump, Defense

With departing acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in happier days…

In Yet Another Twist Almost Too Bizarre To Be Believed, Trump’s Nominee For Defense Secretary Leaves Before Facing Hearings

Which begs the question: is there a ever vetting process beyond Trump just likes the guy?

Patrick Shanahan’s qualifications for the job were roundly questioned when Trump first named him acting Defense Secretary. Not so much because he didn’t have intricate knowledge of defense systems and the military, but because of his deep ties to a single contractor: Boeing, where he’d spent more than 3 decades before coming over to the Trump Administration.

Shanahan seemed to have risen above that initial doubt and proven to be a good egg. And seemed to default a lot less on the world stage toward belligerence and threats of violence than Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (And usually, it’s the other way around.)

Shanahan went so far as to put out a strongly worded admonition to the armed forces as a whole, after a Navy destroyer bearing John McCain’s name was deliberately concealed during Trump recent Japan visit. (An incident Trump says never happened.) In it, Shanahan wrote:

“Regardless of whether civilian employees may engage in political activity, they may never engage in such activity while on-duty.”

He’ll be replaced as acting Defense Secretary by Mark Esper, who is current Secretary of the Army, West Point graduate, and Army vet. He’s also worked as a defense industry lobbyist.

The Washington Post points out had he gone ahead with required hearings to be officially named Defense Secretary, he would’ve faced questioning about a serious of family violence incident, including a truly bizarre episode where Shanahan’s then 17-year old son attacked his mother with a baseball bat, leaving her skull fractured.

As you can see, Trump didn’t immediately offer any explanations other than the standard “more time with the family”, but seems to us the President has more explaining to do than that. (Though not to stalwart Trump supporters: it’s amazing to us how many are Tweeting right now things like “he just wanted a paycheck” and “Trump demands more!” No! Trump nominated him, he didn’t get nominated by the universe. The bucks gotta stop with the President sometime.)

Or maybe not.

As we’d pointed out when Trump first named Shanahan after forcing celebrated General Jim Mattis out, Shanahan had shortly before heaped praise upon Trump at a public event. He’s been particularly supportive of Trump’s “Space Force”.

Here’s the video of that:

Apparently, in the Trump Administration, that’s all the vetting that’s necessary, skeletons in the closet be damned! (And in this case they’re all a matter of public record with police reports, and very serious).
Trial and Err Or …
By: Harper Thorpe
Tags: Humor, Poetry, Haiku, Life Lessons, Poetry On Medium

Courtesy lisdemo.libguides.com

Make your own mistakes

The best way to learn some say

Lessons the hard way

Avoid some trouble

Use others’ experience

Better than sixth sense

Don’t know the answers?

Knowing the questions is smart

The best way to start

Who has the questions?

Those who’ve been theres and done thats

Mentors and house cats

But one doesn’t speak

And balks when you hold the door

Just get a mentor!

++ If you liked this one, you might like this one. ++
Bona Fide Forgetting
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Anguish, Despair, Memory, Fragments

Bona Fide Forgetting

A Poem

Photo by Steinar Engeland on Unsplash

Settle time on its drunken axis

then swing it away

from me

I do not like this

punch to my head my nose

somehow

twisted off-center now

It is the heart

that will not sell the old typewriter

so agony is not lost

Endless reams of paper tragedies

the microscope

burning a hole in the ego

but it’s always whole in the morning

Ready to hate

the denied face goes to the window

to see what else

might have changed

But the clothes are still

the same ones

I left with

Singeing eyebrows and bangs

the fringe of a fire

leaves a coat of ash to be

dealt with in your forgetting

Of course it doesn’t help

that you’ve lost your reliance

on the drugs that get you there
Mithat Bereket ile Yakın Tarihin Tanıklığı — Gez Göz Pusula Sergisi
By: Pusula Tv
Tags: Gezgözpusula, Mithatbereket, Kıbrıs, Pusula Kamerası

in Eudaimonia and Co
Create Your Own Markdown Editor With React
By: Anaïs Schlienger
Tags: Nodejs, Programming, React, JavaScript, Reactjs

Create Your Own Markdown Editor With React

A cool beginner project that helped me get better at React

Photo by Ben Robbins on Unsplash.

When I started to learn React, a JavaScript framework for web applications, creating a Markdown editor was one of the first projects I did. It helped me handle and understand some of React’s functions, such as DOM handling, communication between the DOM and our components, using the state, etc.

This is a fun and easy project to make. I like it because you can make it your own — and it can be useful too. I do not particularly like any Markdown editors that are available today. Webstorm has a good one, but this editor is not free unless you are a student.

The editor discussed in this article will run locally and update in real-time as you type. If there is nothing written in the editor, the placeholder text comes back.

In case you are wondering, this is the final output of our editor:

Screenshot by the author. The app is running locally.

Let's dive into it.
We all need a new perspective, sometimes
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Self Improvement, Poetry, Spirituality, Spiritual Secrets, Life Lessons

Arrogant I was, to believe

myself to be an expert,

that I know all things,

and I need no one.

But I thought for a while,

about the dead-end

in my progress.

And why am I stuck?

A sudden idea popped.

What if I am blinded?

By my own expertise,

that I can’t look beyond.

And so decided I,

To step out

of my comfort zone,

and seek a new perspective.

This way I shall learn

and grow older and wise.

By accepting fresh ideas,

and become more adventurous.

But I warned myself.

That I need not copy anyone.

And need not follow anyone.

But, I must humbly respect everyone.

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” — Thomas Merton

Because God helps the humble,

To achieve what they seek.

And they shall always remain,

the leaders of people’s hearts!
Visualize your data on the interactive web map using QGIS plugins
By: Zeljko Majstorovic
Tags: Data, Data Visualization, Web Mapping, Qgis

Solution

One of the possible solutions is explained in the next four steps.

1. Data preparation

The data can be saved in CSV or some other machine-readable format, but it has to be formatted properly because once it is imported to QGIS you can’t change it anymore. A good example of the data set is shown in the picture below and can be found on Kaggle or similar websites.

An example of a properly formatted data

2. qgis2web plugin installation

QGIS has a lot of different plugins made by developers voluntarily. Some plugins are working perfectly, some of them could be improved but we should appreciate the fact that someone out there tried to make some tasks easier.

Plugins can be found in the menu toolbar: Plugins>Manage and install plugins and the “qgis2web” plugin can be easily found through the search option.

3. Data import

After the plugin is installed you are a few clicks away from the final result, you have to import your data following steps as shown on the image below. Notice that in the third step you have the ability to do some adjustments to show data properly.

Importing the data in the QGIS tool

After everything is configured, you just have to click Add and data should be shown on the map. If you want to change from maker dot to location pin you can change marker appearance in the layer setting under the “Symbology” tab.

4. Export as a map

qgis2web plugin can be found in the toolbar. When you run this plugin new windows (as shown below) will pop up.

As you can see you have a map preview, you can choose between three choices at the bottom of that window. Also, at the top, you will have five tabs where you can adjust map and data appearance as well as an export tab where you can choose the export folder on your computer.

Example of the destination folder

Once the map is exported to the desired location, you can open that map just by clicking on index.html and the map will be shown in the web browser as a web map.
Exposanten op hét food event van 2012
By: Convivio - Sam
Tags: Italy Earthquake, Charity, Food Events, Italian Food, Food Marketing

Owner of Convivio. Fine food ambassador in Holland. Best selection of mediterranean products and food stops. You are what you eat.

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Auto Generate Python Code Using AI
By: Khalid Moataz
Tags: Python, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Future, Deep Learning

Imagine having a project that need to be done In a short time or It’s deadline is coming closer, that would be a nightmare for anyone but this might be a good dream with the help of artificial intelligence and NLP, Most of the work will be done using this both techniques let’s see how.

Using natural language processing and artificial intelligence, people developed a model that takes a description of your problem as an input and it generates a python code that solves these problem.

This type of technique can help save time and take shortcuts, But in my opinion I don’t really think it may take a programmer’s place as It don’t have the creative mind of a programmer.

OpenAI Model

OpenAI is one of the famous models that can do these job, It’s a language model which can make lots of other things like generate a dialogue and scripts, this model is developed by microsoft and for this coding purpose they use a technique called generative pre-trained transformer 3 GPT-3, all you have to do is type what you want your code to do and it will generate a code in a second.

You can use their API from here and try it yourself.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/

Check out this video to see this model in action.

OpenAI in action

So tell me your opinion about this technique and how it might affect the programming field.

Thank You.
Resistance in the Anthropocene
By: David Mattin
Tags: Politics, Society, Future, Climate Change, Environment

When is rebellion against your own government justified? That question haunted the thinkers at the foundation of modern political philosophy.

In the dark masterpiece that is The Leviathan, published in 1651, Thomas Hobbes infamously told readers that direct action against the state can never be right. John Locke replied with Two Treatises of Government, which argued that citizens have a right to overthrow a government that fails to protect their life and liberty. It’s from Locke that people in the west indirectly take much of their understanding of how citizens stand in relation to the state.

The shadow that haunted Locke and his contemporaries was one familiar to any reader in the 17th-century. That is, tyranny: the frightening possibility of an unjust king who abuses his subjects.

Today, we live under a different shadow. The shadow of looming and self-inflicted ecological catastrophe. We are having to adjust ourselves to the weirding of the global climate. Unseasonable or downright freakish weather — and the otherworldly feeling it creates — is a part of our lives now. And there is no serious disagreement on the causes.

And yet we can’t stop. Burning petrol in our cars. Taking flights. Eating huge quantities of meat. And all the rest of it.

In the second decade of the 21st-century, citizens of the industrialised world are trapped inside a broken logic that makes two contradictory demands of us. We know we can’t go on with the carbon-fuelled lifestyles that are destroying the environment. Meanwhile, we know we have to go on with those lifestyles. Not because we want to wreck the planet. But because we want to be able get to work in the morning. To light our homes at night. To visit our sick aunt on the other side of town. To have a social life. To just exist.

Thomas Hobbes — The Leviathan

‘I can’t go on like this; I must go on like this’. That is an impossible predicament, and increasingly there’s a kind of psychic strain associated with it. People can live a contradiction for so long. But at some point it has to break.

For the rising numbers of people — still a tiny minority overall — committing to direct action on the climate, that breaking point has surely come. They’re motivated by a sense of urgency. And also by a growing fear that our democracies are not able properly to cognize or take action on looming ecological breakdown.

Underlying that fear is another: that for most people the contradiction that is ‘I can’t go on like this; I must go on like this’ will prove tolerable for decades to come. After all, modern living has abstracted people so far from the natural world that for long swathes of day-to-day life, this contradiction can be experienced as a kind of far-distant hum. One that’s possible, with hardly any effort at all, to push to the margins of your awareness.