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How old is “too old” for powerlifting? A look through the historical data using EDA
By: Justin Klemperer
Tags: Info3402s19ma7, Fitness, Data Science

When I was young, my grandfather would always tell me stories and show pictures from his powerlifting career. To him, powerlifting was the ultimate self expression to develop mental fortitude. As the legend goes, he competed until his late 40’s until retiring, stating that “powerlifting is a young mans game” and had to leave the sport that once gave him so much joy. His words of overcoming mental barriers and pushing through adversity still resinate with me, and although I am not personally involved or interested in competing in powerlifting events, I thought it would be worth a shot to see if my grandfather was right. Is powerlifting truly a young mans game? In order to find out, I used the openpowerlifting.org dataset that has collected power lifting competitions results/records all the way since 1964 to determine how the sport changes chronologically over time.

To begin, we will start by uploading all of our imports into our python notebook:

Next, let’s take a look into what our dataset looks like in order to get an understanding of what kinds of processes we could use to help us answer our primary research question.

As we can see, we have basic demographic information such as sex, age and name as well as the type of equipment, division, with weight and body classes. Powerlifting typically use kgs instead of lbs, so we will use the appropriate classification for this EDA. Next up, we will begin our linear regression analysis by creating a plot which can show us the total kg lifted for each age group.
Let’s meet in the Netherlands
By: Yarden Hiltch
Tags: Students, Startup, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Jobs

As the bitJob community knows, in the upcoming weeks, we will be giving you all a peek into our platform that our team of developers have been working tirelessly on, so we can move forward to the next stages of our vision.

The most active and largest communities we have are in the US and Europe, with one of our biggest expected launches set to be in the Netherlands. We have presented to many different companies and organizations, including government organizations, which not only reflects our view of the Netherlands as a country with a huge potential, but also reflects the positive feedback we have from our Netherlands bitJob community.

We are currently in talks with many entities in the Netherlands, but regardless of the quantity of partnerships we have, the already independently growing visibility of bitJob in the Netherlands is what is dictating our launch there.

At bitJob, we are completely committed to our students and fulfilling our undertaking to creating more meaningful job opportunities for them, as well as providing employers with easier and greater access to quality candidates. Thus, regardless of our partnerships, we stand by our planned pilot that is to take place across the Netherlands in the upcoming weeks. We are looking forward to updating you all with the first look on the platform and then with the dates of the actual pilot itself.

We invite you to meet our CEO, Dror Medalion and our CMO, Elad Kofman in Amsterdam on Friday, April 20th and Saturday, April 21th.

Please join us on:

· Telegram

· Twitter

· Facebook

·Bitcointalk
This is Aleppo Today .. Shocking Images
By: Amr Eleraqi
Tags: Infotimes Stories, Aleppo, Syria

For the last five years, the historic Old City of Aleppo has been crumbling under conflict and intense shelling from Russian-backed government forces and rebels fighting against President Assad’s regime.

Aleppo was the country’s largest city, it’s economic hub, and a tourist attraction drawing thousands of visitors to its UNESCO World Heritage sites. But since July 2012, the city has suffered massive destruction due to indiscriminate barrel bombs and continues airstrikes.The ongoing fighting dramatically damaged Aleppo in both human and economic terms, Aleppo’s historical landmarks received their share of destruction, including the minaret of the historical Umayyad Mosque, a medieval souk (covered market) and a 21st century shopping mall.

Below is what Aleppo looked like before and after the shelling began.

Souq az-Zirb

Souq al-Dira’

Citadel of Aleppo
Django User Authentication in 5 Minutes
By: Samhita Alla
Tags: Django Framework, Python, Django, Authentication, Bootstrap

Django User Authentication in 5 Minutes

A neat UI alongside a lucid back-end to build a perfect authentication system

Let’s not make a mountain out of a molehill in understanding and coding authentication in django. Authentication, as we all know, is a basic necessity required for the users’ to pass through, before they encounter the actual treasure or the application in general. It’s a protective gear to be worn by an application to ensure secure access to it. Here, I’m going to walk you through 5 simple steps that shall help you in integrating authentication with your django application.

Background photo from Unsplash

To start a django project -

django-admin startproject auth_django . if windows,

django-admin.exe startproject auth_django .

Step 1: Handling settings in settings.py

Assuming we’ve a project set up, let’s quickly define a few authentication URLs in the settings.py file in the project (auth_django) folder (an app isn’t being considered due to the simplicity of the application).

# Login & Logout URLs

LOGIN_URL = '/login/'

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/home/'

LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = '/login/'

Also, initialize the path to templates/ folder in ‘DIRS’.

TEMPLATES = [

{

'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates/')],

...

]

Note: Create a folder named templates/ in parent auth_django/ directory.

Step 2: Defining Views in views.py

Django Views is where the logic resides. Create views.py file in auth_django/auth_django/ path. We define two views — one to help the user register, and the other, to display the home page. Login and Logout views are taken from the predefined auth_views (to be seen in Step 3).

The home view renders a success page. @login_required is to make sure that home isn’t accessible to unauthenticated users’. The register view initially displays a UserCreationForm that prompts the user for username, password and confirm password. When a user submits the form, the details are captured and validated. If validation is successful, details are saved in the default database (SQLite) and the user is taken to the home page via authentication.

Step 3: Initializing URLs in urls.py

Authentication URLs are all associated with views in urls.py. home and register URLs are mapped with the views in views.py. login and logout are mapped with the inbuilt auth_views. as_view() is a method in the class LoginView/LogoutView which returns a callable view.

Step 4: Creating Templates

Users’ understand the application through templates. login view by default uses registration/login.html in templates/ folder. Thus, we define all the templates in registration/ folder.

base.html — Encloses external libraries

2. login.html — Login Form

3. register.html — Registration Form

4. success.html — Home page

Project Directory Structure -

Project Directory Structure

Step 5: Code Harvest!

Handy commands:

To migrate the database -

python3 manage.py migrate

To run server -

python3 manage.py runserver

User Registration Window

User Login Window

Home Page

I hope this article has helped you. Thanks for reading!
Comparison of Microservice Frameworks with a Streaming Example
By: Auryn Engel
Tags: Development, Coding, Kotlin, Developer, Java

In my last post, I presented some interesting applications of reactive programming with RxJava and when/why you should use it.

These services could be ramped up or down depending on the load. If a service is heavily loaded, a load balancer could now simply start additional services, redirect the load and thus relieve one and reduce the response time again. If the services are under little load, they could be stopped, thus freeing up performance for other services or saving costs if a cloud service is used.

Services are rarely free of load peaks, here it is advantageous if the starting and stopping of further units is fast and these newly started instances react quickly to requests in order to keep the response times for all requests low.

Therefore, in this article I will look at various Microservice frameworks and compare them in terms of start time, time to first response and response time under load. In addition, I will briefly discuss the simplicity of getting started with the frameworks.

In the first step I will deal with the following frameworks/servers (Micronaut, Wildfly, Dropwizard and Spark will follow in due course):

Spring Boot

Vert.x

Helidon

Quarkus

I started with Spring Boot, because I already used it in my first article and developed it in production.

The following post is based on the previous post on Reactive Stream with Spring Boot. Here I have already created a stream REST endpoint and developed a small frontend for illustration. The code for the following backends will be available in the same GitHub-Repo.

Excitingly, Spring Boot has the default for application/stream+json . However, this is not a MIME type. For me this is unclear, because the format seems to make sense.

Since Quarkus and Helidon use JAX-RS (which uses the MIME standard), either the type itself must be defined or an application/octet-stream must be used.
SEND & Electra Coin PARTNERSHIP
By: Social Send Coin
Tags: Eca, Send Coin, Electra Coin, Bitcoin, Social Media

Social SEND team is glad to announce a successful integration of Electra (ECA) coin into SEND Platform! Starting from 28th of August, all users of https://socialsend.net will be able to use features of our Platform with ELECTRA coin.

All users who are having at least 10 SEND coins on their balance will receive a nice airdrop of ECA.

Connect with us in our social networks and expect even more exciting news in coming days!!! Stay tuned, new integrations are on their way!

Some important links:
CVE-2020–25952
By: Mayur Parmar
Tags: Cyber Defecers, Tryhackme, Cve 2020 25952, Ctf, Sql Injection

A Tale of SQL Injection Leads to admin panel bypass

Exploit: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49052

CVE:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2020-25952

# Exploit Title: User Registration & Login and User Management System 2.1

# Date: 2020–11–14

# Exploit Author: Mayur Parmar(th3cyb3rc0p)

# Vendor Homepage: https://phpgurukul.com

# Software Link: https://phpgurukul.com/user-registration-login-and-user-management-system-with-admin-panel/

# Version: 2.1

# Tested on Pop OS(Linux)

# CVE: CVE-2020–25952

SQL Injection:

SQL injection is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to alter the SQL queries made to the database. This can be used to retrieve some sensitive information, like database structure, tables, columns, and their underlying data.

Attack Vector:

An attacker can gain admin panel access using malicious SQL injection queries than they can Update & Delete Userdata.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open admin login page using the following URL:

-> http://localhost/loginsystem/admin/

2. Now put below Payload in both the fields( User ID & Password)

Payload: ‘ or ‘1’=’1

3. Server accepted our payload and we bypassed the admin panel without any credentials,

Admin Panel

Suggested Mitigation/Remediation Actions:

Parameterized queries should be used to separate the command and data portions of the intended query to the database. These queries prevent an attacker from tampering with the query logic and extending a concatenated database query string. Code reviews should be conducted to identify any additional areas where the application or other applications in the organization are vulnerable to this attack.

Additionally, input validation should be enforced on the server-side in order to ensure that only expected data is sent in queries. Where possible security-specific libraries should be used in order to provide an additional layer of protection.

Author: Mayur Parmar(th3cyb3rc0p)

https://twitter.com/th3cyb3rc0p?lang=en

https://in.linkedin.com/in/th3cyb3rc0p

https://www.instagram.com/th3cyb3rc0p/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/cyberdefecers?lang=en
Business Intelligence Visualizations with Power BI
By: Julian Herrera
Tags: Data Science, Business, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Business Intelligence

One of the most useful features of Power BI is that it enables data extraction and connections from several sources , in contrast to other Microsoft Office package tools like Excel or PowerPoint, for e.g.

Not only it has several data sources, but also it allows data coming from different sources to have interaction in the exploratory process to gain further insights.

This can be done through the menu bar index in the “Home” tab, selecting the Get data widget. Some of the most interesting sources of information are excel and .CSV files, Access, Oracle, Azure SQL and MySQL databases, Spark and Hive, Salesforce, GitHub and even Python scripts to gain interaction with your script:

Data Sources

If your interest in learning how to apply Python to a Data Exploratory analysis and configure manual visualizations to your conclusions, check the following article that I wrote:

Another interesting feature of Power BI is that it allows automatic refresh of already-stored data to facilitate routine analysis tasks such as internal business reports.

On the other hand, apart from offering a broad range of different plot types such as Line Plots, Bar Charts, Pie Charts and Stacked Bar Charts, Power BI includes a Marketplace where specific and more sophisticated plot types can be obtained. Take a look to some of the available plots:

Plot Types

3. Plot Types

A. Area Chart

The area chart, also known as layered area chart, is a plot type that represents the change in one or more quantities over time in a similar way to how line charts display data, with the addition of the visual representation of variable’s volume.

Area charts are a good choice to use when you want to show a variable’s trend over time, but aren’t as concerned with showing exact values, for e.g. company’s sales and expenses evolution throughout the year, and also employees productivity.

In order to perform this chart, we must select the Area Chart from the visualizations panel and drag the desired values and axis to the canvas:
Pique for Cats
By: Sarah Totton
Tags: Pets, Humor

Pique for Cats

Prepare for vexation

Photo by Skitterphoto at Pexels

Cats.

Cats?

Cats!

Have you been feeling relaxed lately?

Photo by Kayla Hu

Maybe a little too relaxed?

Photo by Sarah Totton

Well, knock it off.

Photo by Chuttersnap at Unsplash

I didn’t mean literally.

Listen, you’re a cat.

If your owner wanted a relaxed pet, they’d have gotten a Basset Hound.

Or a worm.

Or one of these

Photo by Hello I’m Nik at Unsplash

We can help.

We can turn you into a shot glass of pure fury.

Photo by Kote Puerto at Unsplash

Yes, even you.

If you’re one conniption short of the zoomie?

We can connipt you.

If you’re not cheesed?

We can cheese you.

Whether we’re talking small cheese.

Photo by Sarah Totton

Medium cheese:

Photo by Wojciech Kumpicki at Pexels

Or Mega-Cheese:

Photo by Marina Khrapova at Unsplash

“What do I have to do?” you ask.

It’s simple.

Choose from one of our three packages:

1) A Fit of Pique (aka “The Classic”)

2) Midi-Pique (for the fashionable cat)

3) Peak Pique (the Whac-A-Mole of Piques)

How does it work?

We have multiple strategies.

We may taunt you with a cheeky bird:

We may deploy “The Finger.”

Photo by Sarah Totton

Or, right in front of you, we will cuddle another cat.

A cat who thinks he’s better than you:

Photo by Jonathan Cooper at Unsplash

How cheesed do you feel now?

Photo by Alana Harris at Unsplash

Now that is a lot of cheese.

Very soon, your owner will be appreciating your verve.
The Story of Aries and Aquarius — Greek Mythology #3
By: Samrat Dutta
Tags: Constellation, Greece, Aries, Aquarius, Greek Mythology

The Story of Aries and Aquarius — Greek Mythology #3

The story of Phrixus, Helle and the sheep who became Aries (a constellation and a zodiac sign) and the story of Ganymede, the handsome man, the favourite man of the Gods, who became Aquarius.

In ancient Greece, King Athamas of Thessaly once had two children. One was named Phrixus and the other Helle. When their mother died prematurely, the king, who was thinking of a future for his two children, remarried. But, their stepmother began to inflict such unspeakable torture on the two siblings that it can’t be described in words. She was terrible and cruel.

Hermes, the son of the god Zeus, was deeply saddened to see his helpless siblings being persecuted on a daily basis. So one day he ordered a sheep to rescue them from the clutches of their stepmother and gave him the power to fly with wings in the sky.

When the siblings set off for an unknown country on their sheep’s backs, Helle, Phrixus’s younger sister, suddenly slipped into the middle of the ocean. And as soon as she fell into the sea, she seemed to sink deep into the ocean in an instant. Seeing that tragic scene, his elder brother Phrixus cried in nerve-numbing pain for a moment. She is his own little sister! So as he suffered in her sudden death, he began to blame his own destiny over and over again for the accident.

The elder brother Phrixus flew above the seas, rivers, and unknown lands, mourning for his younger sister Helle. It is said that the sheep finally flew him to a small island on the shores of the distant Black Sea near Colchase. Arriving there, Phrixus spent the rest of his life in peace under the hospitality of the king who ruled there. After that nothing much is known.

Only King Zeus later placed that sheep in the middle of the sky as a constellation for his great deeds. He gave her the name “Aries”. In the zodiac, we know it as “Aries”. And the place where Helle drowned in the middle of the sea is now known as “Hellespont”.
Making sense of the Gaza pullout
By: Ben Edwards
Tags: Conflict, War

The New Republic is a good magazine and I am glad to subscribe to it. Articles like Leon Wieseltier’s Dry Your Eyes, Keep Your Heads — The Fall clearly and concisely describes the predicted effects of the Israeli pullout of the Gaza settlements in a way others have failed to even try.

Even faced with the idea of Greater Palestine, it is impossible not to rejoice in the defeat of the idea of Greater Israel. It was always a foul idea, morally and strategically. It promoted the immediate ecstasy of the few above the eventual safety of the many; it introduced the toxins of messianism and mysticism into the politics of a great modern democracy; it preferred chosenness to human rights; it subordinated laws to visions, and the Jewish state to the Jewish millennium; it worshiped soil in a primitive, almost un-Jewish way. The settlers of the West Bank and Gaza are not a Jewish vanguard, they are a Jewish sect; and in their insistence that the destiny of their state and their society should be held hostage to the fulfillment of their metaphysical and historical conceptions, they have always displayed a sectarian self-love.

I too, look to those anguished settlers’ faces as they are ushered from their temporary homes, with little empathy. I understand the selfishness of their actions and how their insistence of righteousness has cost hundreds of lives and thousands more needless misunderstandings. Hopefully this is the first step towards greater understanding and ultimately peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Let’s talk about God and sex!
By: Jonathan Poletti
Tags: Spirituality, God, Religion, Christianity, Life

Hey, I’m Jonathan and I was raised Evangelical! It was a culture where ‘God’ and ‘sex’ didn’t appear in the same sentence. So I set out to catch up.

Check out my popular series of very surprising Bible facts:

• “10 Terribly Misread Bible Verses”

• “10 Things Christians Don’t Know About Jesus”

• “10 Key Bible Terms That Christianity Misunderstood”

And I ❤️ some Evangelical scandal. Here’s the lowdown on Ravi Zacharias, Charley Stanley’s divorce, and Amy Grant’s divorce.

My Elisabeth Elliot exposé, “The Purity Hoax,” kinda shook things up. Let’s learn to read the Bible—and each other!
HTML teqləri nədir?
By: Burhan Aghazada
Tags: Azərbaycan, Nədir, HTML, Dərslik, Öyrən

in Both Sides of the Table
Letters from the library
By: Melissa Riker
Tags: Libraries, Activity, Reading, Books, New Jersey

Letters from the library

See what activities the Pinelands Branch Library has to offer for fall.

By Margaret Lafferty

Medford Library Association

So many heat waves this summer! My garden is looking very unkempt despite how much I watered. The begonias have bolted and the impatiens is perpetually wilted. I can’t wait for fall.

For our adults and senior guests don’t forget to join us on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. for our inaugural “Coming Alive” adult discussion to participate in a variety of lively discussions centered on living a balanced life. The series identifies Eight Disciplines of Wellness: emotional, social, financial, spiritual, occupational, physical, intellectual and environmental. They provide a structure for learning how we can improve our daily lives. The first session, “Emotional Balance,” led by William J. Dorman, CMC-Emeritus and Founder of the Coming Alive Adult Discussion Series, will include a brief overview of “Coming Alive” and a group discussion on how we achieve emotional balance. It is not necessary to attend all sessions to participate in this program.

We have a number of exciting authors visiting the library in the near future. First on Saturday, Sept. 15 at 3 p.m., the DeFeo Brothers will visit, who wrote and illustrated “The Adventures of Nobo Bink: Welcome to Earth.” When his father gets a new job on planet Earth, young Nobo must leave his home planet behind. The story follows a nervous Nobo on a planetary journey across the universe as he experiences the wonders of space on his way to new experiences and a new home on Earth. An original coloring activity is included. (This is also the day of our “Batman Make-N-Take” activity)

Don’t forget on Monday Sept. 17 at 6 p.m., author and New Jersey native Laurie Dempsey will be at the library to discuss her new novel, “Memoirs of my Life” which tells the story of Legend, a Morgan horse “…who has a way of looking at things different from most horses and is not always eager to please but eager to do well in what he does.” The author will have copies on her book on hand for sale, and will be signing them.

We are pleased to welcome 2018 Pulitzer Prize nominee David Steinberg, who was nominated by the International Writers and Artists Association for his 2014 work “My Enemy in the Mirror.” This poem was translated into Arabic and published in the magazine “28” in Gaza, earning the distinction of being both the first Jewish American poet to be afforded that honor. Mr. Steinberg will discuss his work and how seeing within ourselves, “looking at the enemy in the mirror” can not only help bridge conflict between bitter enemies raised upon generations of hatred, but differences we have in our everyday lives and interactions.

Wine Glass Painting will return on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 6:30 p.m.

Until next time, keep turning those pages and watch out for the school bus!
The Abundance of the Truth
By: Annelise Lords
Tags: Abundance, Truth, Poetry, An Idea, Life

A poem on the Truth’s availability.

The Monarch Butterflies are disappearing thanks to humans. We need them like we need the truth. Image by Annelise Lords.

If the truth was in abundance

Would our world stand a chance?

To give love without pain

To everyone again and again

Would kindness spread like a virus?

Reaching and touching all of us

Not leaving out anyone

No matter where they belong

Would peace allow to linger?

Keeping all of us out of danger

Allowing us to live together

No matter where we gather

Would freedom be given to all?

Whether you are big or small

Rich or poor, black or white

Would we still have to fight?

Would anyone die of hunger?

As our world population grows bigger and bigger

Separating us by race, religion, or creed

No matter our need

Would poverty still exist?

In areas that it persists

Eight hundred and fifteen million under nourish

Will the truth deter this?

Would we eliminate hate

For everyone coming through the gate

From North, South, East, or West

Would the truth protest?

If the truth was in abundance

Many people would be redundant

Some wouldn’t be in attendance

Losing their independence

Because the truth might set you free

But could imprison me

The truth depends on which side you are on and how you benefit from it. Does humanity want the truth in abundance? The Truth is a beautiful thing, whether it’s in abundance or not.

Thank you for reading this piece. I hoped you enjoy it. Please enjoy more from other writers on this platform.

https://mediumauthor.com/@thisisanneliselords

https://mediumauthor.com/podcast

medium.com/illumination/interview-with-annelise-lords-421238e49b9f

https://twitter.com/ThisisAnneliseL

https://medium.com/authors-peeps/authors-peeps-interview-d43e38e53898
House Judiciary Committee Calls on Jeff Bezos to Testify After Amazon Reportedly Misled Congress
By: House Judiciary Dems
Tags: Amazon, Oversight, Antitrust

Washington, D.C. — Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David N. Cicilline (D-RI), Subcommittee Ranking Member F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Subcommittee Vice Chairman Joe Neguse (D-CO), Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Representative Ken Buck (R-CO), and Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sent a letter to Jeff Bezos, the CEO and Founder of Amazon, calling on him to appear before the Committee to testify about competition concerns relating to Amazon’s business practices.

On April 23, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon used sensitive business information from third-party sellers on its platform to develop competing products, contradicting representations that Amazon made to the House Judiciary Committee in sworn written and oral testimony at a hearing on July 16, 2019. Amazon’s associate general counsel, Nate Sutton, denied the company did this during his sworn testimony before the Antitrust Subcommittee last July.

In their letter, the Members wrote:

“If the reporting in the Wall Street Journal article is accurate, then statements Amazon made to the Committee about the company’s business practices appear to be misleading, and possibly criminally false or perjurious. “As you know, the Committee is investigating Amazon’s role in the digital marketplace. Last September we requested documents and communications related to Amazon’s relationship with sellers, including Amazon’s use of third-party sellers’ data. Notwithstanding the Committee’s regular communication with Amazon’s outside counsel on this matter, Amazon has not made an adequate production in response to this request, and — seven months after the original request — significant gaps remain. “In light of our ongoing investigation, recent public reporting, and Amazon’s prior testimony before the Committee, we expect you, as Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, to testify before the Committee. It is vital to the Committee, as part of its critical work investigating and understanding competition issues in the digital market, that Amazon respond to these and other critical questions concerning competition issues in digital markets. Although we expect that you will testify on a voluntary basis, we reserve the right to resort to compulsory process if necessary.”

The text of the letter can be found below and here.
A step by step guide to create tokens on Bitcoin Cash blockchain! — With Images..
By: Srihari Kapu
Tags: Bitcoin, Bitcoincash, Ethereum, Blockchain, Altcoins

Step 2:

Once you purchase the BCH, You can deposit the BCH into to your Electron cash wallet which you had installed. For the deployment of the token it wont cost too much in BCH. Less than 1 USD worth BCH is enough to deploy your token on BCH blockchain. Although its understandable that the price my increase in due the fluctuations in the transaction fee of the network.

Once you credit you account move to the tokens tabs and right click and navigate to create new token. In the create new token section filling the data related to your token. In our case I would like to create a sample SCREDIT token for one of the startup sustainy.org.

You can select any decimal places starting from 0 to 9.

Step 3:

Now that we were able to fill the details. I would like to let you know how you can create a document hash as well. First download the document to which you want to create the document hash and then upload it to sign it with a timestamp on the bitcoin files. Make the payment and get the document hash. But you can skip this step as well. For this example am skipping the procedure.

One you upload and timestamp the files you will be prompted to make a payment so that the generated document hash will be committed to the underlying blockchain.

You can preview your transaction data and token creation after which you can sign and commit the transaction on the simple ledger protocol layer. Which will in turn create your custom token.

Step 4:

Now you can key in your password and sign the transaction to create a new token.

Like every other blockchain, In order for us to deploy the tokens on the blockchain. We need to pay the transaction and generate a transaction hash which will then be confirmed by the miners and your tokens will be credited to your account.

For our case we got a transaction hash:

45aa8da85559032110ddf7b3e4d93d3569474cd0679491a4b8cc44f9f9f5ac3c

You can see look into the transaction on the block explorer and find out its confirmation status.
Break, Continue, and Else Clauses on Loops in Python
By: Indhumathy Chelliah
Tags: DevOps, Programming, Python3, Python, Data Science

Loops in Python

for loop

loop while loop

Let’s learn how to use control statements like break , continue , and else clauses in the for loop and the while loop.

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‘for’ Statement

The for statement is used to iterate over the elements of a sequence (such as a string, tuple, or list) or any other iterable object.

for item in iterable:

suite

The iterable is evaluated only once. An iterator is created for the result of that iterable.

The suite is then executed once for each item provided by the iterator, in the order returned by the iterator.

When the items are exhausted, the loop terminates.

Example 1. ‘for’ loop

for i in range(1,6):

print (i)

'''

Output:

1

2

3

4

5

'''

The for loop may have control statements like break and continue , or the else clause.
Doctors and hospitals need to start considering this drug for Covid-19: Ivermectin
By: Eric Martin
Tags: Coronavirus, Pandemic, Ivermectin, Covid 19, Treatment

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Accessible Interface Design
By: Adrian Rapp
Tags: Design Thinking, Design, Accessibility

The Frustrating Cycle…

Inspiration can be difficult in a pass / fail world

As a designer working on products that need to meet WCAG Accessibility standards, I’ve found myself stuck in a somewhat frustrating cycle. It goes like this…

Once I’ve gotten a clear understanding of the problem that I’m solving for, and after I’ve validated the design goals and use cases with the appropriate stakeholders, I start to turn bullet points and lists into visuals and interfaces that people can connect and interact with. In this process, I apply color and detail to my work. I’m not just aiming to simplify; I’m also trying to inject beauty into the given screens to try and bring fun and delight to the people who will use the product. In this process, I start with rough grayscale wireframes and then slowly ratchet up the fidelity of each component and screen.

In fleshing out the visuals for these components and screens, I try lots of different background colors, typefaces, font sizes, and weights and ultimately, I pick colors that look good to me.

I then socialize my higher fidelity designs with other designers, product managers, researchers, customers, etc. and something bad happens. I start to fall in love with the chosen colors. I know I’m not supposed to, but it happens. I’m human.

Then as development begins on the given product and we start to hammer out the finer details, the topic of accessibility and color contrast ratios comes up. D’oh!

If only I had checked all the colors at the beginning of my explorations, before my color crush turned to love.

So now I go to one of the many color contrast ratio calculators available and check if the colors chosen will work with the given background colors / font sizes / font weights.

Invariably something fails. And this is where the frustrating cycle begins.
Agonizing, Protesting, and Pushing Ahead
By: James Finn
Tags: LGBTQ, Creative Non Fiction, Poetry, Fiction, Storytelling

by James Finn

Politics loom heavy in Prism & Pen this week as I write about the American elections, Dennett writes about surviving them, and theoaknotes heads out to protest instead of celebrate. But Liam Heitmann-Ryce and Emma Holiday remind us that queer lives push on no matter what the state of current events.

Let’s start highlighting stories with this week’s editor’s picks.

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Editor’s Picks —

Creative Nonfiction

What My Racist Childhood Teaches about Trumpism

Shocked by my nation’s failure to roundly reject Trumpism, I spent election week agonizing, alternating between despair and thoughtfulness. My family come from Ohio, a state that embraced Trump. This story is me trying to dig lessons out of my childhood.
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Tags: Crowdfunding, Featured, Startup, Projekti

in Both Sides of the Table
Writing is a difficult and lonely life. Do it anyway.
By: Brian Rowe
Tags: Life Lessons, Productivity, Creativity, Writing, Life

Writing isn’t something you should go into lightly.

And trust me, it doesn’t get any easier. I wrote my twentieth novel this past summer, and it was just as hard as every other novel I’ve written.

Writing is often extremely lonely. You’re by yourself most of the day, and you don’t really talk to anybody. When you do leave the house and go see your friends and family, the talking part noticeably comes with a bit more difficulty.

Because you’ve been so immersed in your amazing story and your fascinating characters that real life actually feels like the fiction sometimes, not the other way around.

It’s often hard when you’re in the midst of a new writing project to give real life your all. Even though when you’re by yourself all day you feel like you should be spending more time with other people. And then of course when you’re with those people, you want to go right back into the isolation of your writing room. Oh, the irony.

Yes, writing is lonely. Writing is difficult. Writing might not be the ideal life. It might not be the healthiest life.
科学、数学、宗教、真実、中枢
By: Yusuke Kuroda 黒田 悠介
Tags: Japanese, Religion, Philosophy

in Both Sides of the Table
Become an App Designer with Sketch in just 2.5h
By: Bruno Recht
Tags: Sketch, Sketchapp, Design, Learn With Udemy Coupon, UX

Sketch Course

Do you have something in mind that could change the world? But you haven’t got the abilities to visualize it yet? Are you a developer and want to learn more about UI and UX?

Or are you tired of your current job and want to start a whole new career as an app designer?

Don’t worry! In this post I’ll provide you with a guideline of how to get started with mobile app design. In the end of this article there will be a little surprise for you. So stay tuned ;) Before we start let me introduce myself.

Who am I?

I’m Bruno I’ve designed several apps and founded the platform learnsketch.tv . I created an online course which teaches designers (and not-yet-designers) how to use Sketch and succeed with an App-Startup.

What is Sketch?

Sketch has become the best tool for designing mobile Apps. It is used by the most innovative and disrupting Silicon Valley companies like Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Paypal and many more.

Let’s start

I divided the process of learning Sketch into 9 sections. The first one is all about the Basics of Sketch and getting along with the interface. Although Sketch is very intuitive, I think it’s a good way to begin.

In the next step we’re going to design our first mini app and preview it on a mobile device. You can do this in just a few minutes. How cool is that?

After that it’s time for some design fundamentals. I will briefly explain terms like UI/UX and dos & don’ts of mobile app design. In the next chapter we’ll recreate the whole Snapchat App. By copying existing designs your learning curve will increase tremendously. You’ll get a feeling for colours, proportions and the right user flow. #copytolearn

Now you’ll create a wireframe. A wireframe is a simple layout of an app which shows only the crucial parts of an interface. You won’t go into great detail here. The image below shows an example of a wireframe.

Wireframe

After we’ve done that, we create a clickable prototype using the wireframe you’ve just drawn(1) and the Snapchat App(2) we’ve created before.

In addition to that we’ll create several App Icons. Icons are so important because your app will be judged based on the icon. It’s the first impression of your app. The user will decide instantly whether the app meets his quality standards or not. By creating a unique and recognizable symbol you can’t loose.

The next section is about earning money while learning Sketch. I’ll show you different ways how to make up to 2000$ with an App Design and how to monetize your existing apps.

Last but not least we’ll go through the complete process of designing an App from the first idea to the final launch. I will summarize the most important information within each step.

I guess all of you are here for the little surprise I promised to you.

So here it is: You can get the whole ‘App Design with Sketch Course’ for just 10$ which means you save 80%. The Coupon Code is MEDIUM. The Coupons are limited. You can find the course here. Enjoy & See you in the course.
Calling People “Snowflakes” Is Just Another Form of Gaslighting
By: Rachael Hope
Tags: Abuse, Relationships, Self, Feminism, Communication

As I approached 40, my field of fucks to give grew more and more barren. The truth is, I’m completely over being accused of being too sensitive, or seeing people accused of being wrong for pointing out rude, cruel, or uncompassionate behavior.

First off, there is no such thing as being too sensitive or not sensitive enough. People have different personalities and levels of connection with their own emotions, others’ emotions, and the energy and climate of the world at large. Being one end of the spectrum or the other does not dictate whether someone is good or bad, right or wrong.

There’s a huge difference between asking for special consideration and asking for basic decency and respect from other people.

Secondly, this accusation is most often paired with other words that have been twisted into nastiness, for example, combining an adjective like liberal or millennial with the ubiquitous snowflake accusation. You know what? I don’t buy that millennials and Gen Z-ers are more sensitive than their predecessors. I think they’re just not as willing to tolerate being treated like ass just because someone is older than them.

There’s a huge difference between asking for special consideration or to be handled with kid gloves and asking for basic decency and respect from other people. Having feelings does not make someone weak. It makes them human. Being unwilling to just lie there and take it when someone is saying something mean doesn’t make someone a sensitive wuss. In fact, I’d say that finding the balls to talk back shows a certain kind of strength.

The fact that people are more connected with things that make them feel bad, and more willing to speak up about them, is not the downfall of a generation. It’s growth. I know it can be hard and sometimes embarrassing to admit that you could be a nicer person. But when someone gives you information to help you know better, it’s your job to do better.
Fighting for Survivors of Sexual Assault: A Trans Perspective
By: National Center For Transgender Equality
Tags: Government, Sexual Assault, Transgender, LGBTQ, Education

Even with the guidance in place, many schools were still struggling to do right by survivors of sexual harassment and assault. What impact has the rescission of these guidance documents had?

As I said before, schools now feel less of an obligation to do right by their students. Title IX sitting on the books by itself, or even the guidance coming out, was never how we made material progress on the ground — progress happened because advocates made it happen, and the guidance helped students do that.

Now that the Department of Education has removed policies that help schools help survivors in favor of policies that re-traumatize survivors, it’s going to be harder than ever for students. Some schools aren’t going to backtrack — but some administrators will feel like they don’t have to take survivors seriously because of what the federal government is telling them. The law hasn’t changed, but student activists who are already tired and burned out are going to have to work even harder.

How are national advocacy organizations fighting against bad policy, and equipping the public to do the same?

I’m going to talk both about how trans students are treated and about how survivors are treated, because those populations obviously overlap in some places, and because ED is failing these populations in similar ways when it comes to enforcement of Title IX.

We’re recognizing that we’re going to have a very difficult fight at the federal level, so our strategies include going local and going to the media.

NCTE recently launched two storytelling programs — Voices for Trans Equality and Families for Trans Equality — that promote the stories of ordinary trans folks and their families around the country. We need to hear the stories of how people have been failed, and we also need to hear the stories of how things have been done right. We need to counter the lies that the general public is hearing from the federal government.

We have to fight on multiple fronts at once.

Storytelling and advocating on the local level may not change Secretary DeVos’ mind, but it will make sure that survivors and schools and school districts know what survivors’ and trans students’ rights are, so that we can mitigate the material impact on survivors and trans students as much as possible.

Obviously, we’re also going to continue doing what we can on the federal level. We’re going to make sure as many people as possible submit comments when ED opens up a public comment period about these issues, and we’re going to keep making noise where we can. We have to fight on multiple fronts at once.
On Compiling A Film Canon. January 2017 Update.
By: Adam Bat
Tags: Cinema, Culture, Film, Hopeliescanon, Movies

Welcome to the first Hope Lies film canon entry of 2017 (and indeed, the first Hope Lies article of 2017). I hope that had a pleasant festive period, and wish you all the best for the coming year.

I must have taken a year off from It’s A Wonderful Life last year, as that’s the only possible explanation I can think of for it not already being in the Hope Lies Canon. In short, it’s a perfect film, and the greatest of all Christmas movies.

Joining Frank Capra’s enduring classic is Noah Baumbach’s The Squid And The Whale, a contemporary picture that stands as something as a cinematic antipode to the Jimmy Stewart flick. As scathing and cynical as mainstream American cinema gets, from Baumbach’s movie was borne one of *the* great grumps of the modern era in Jeff Daniels’ patriarch of the most dysfunctional family this side of The Royal Tenenbaums. I wrote more of The Squid And The Whale here.

Rounding out the month is Anthony Mann’s The Man From Laramie, an excellent psychological western from 1955. Jimmy Stewart appears once again, as a good man wronged in the developing West. Mann’s film is a beautiful ode to the complex societal structures of the USA, with his villain an odious, petulant man-child, empowered by an inherited wealth. No prizes for guessing who he reminds of.

More information on the Hope Lies film canon can be found at our ongoing and regularly updated Letterboxd list.
A Complete Guide to creating Choropleth Maps in Python
By: Ai Hiang
Tags: Data Science, Choropleth Map, Data Visualization, Geopandas, Geocoding

A Complete Guide to creating Choropleth Maps in Python

How to retrieve coordinates of an address using Google Geocoding API, and plot choropleth maps with Python geopandas.

Choropleth Map of SG Resale Housing Price

In this article, I will share how we can create choropleth maps with Python and Google Geocoding API, using data from Singapore’s resale housing price.

Creating a choropleth map can be challenging at times, simply because:

Most data sets used in examples online are preprocessed with the city/state/coordinates already given. In reality, most datasets contain only the location addresses, without any city labelled. Hence, we need to find its location coordinates first and decide how to categorise it in the different cities. Shape files showing the different city/state boundaries are not easily available. The most common shape files available are the world map (demarcating the different countries), or the map of USA (demarcating the different states). Hence, we need to find a shape file of Singapore to conduct a thorough analysis.

This article seeks to address the above mentioned challenges and successfully plot out a choropleth map of Singapore’s resale housing prices.

Data Sets

Overview