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Just in Case the Productivity Gurus Are Right….
By: Louise Foerster
Tags: Productivity, Life, Fiction, Books, Life Lessons

Who sets their alarm these days? I do. It’s a leap of faith toward everyday normal.

Awake and alone in a sleeping house, I trudged down to the garage. With all the acres of time, I sorted out hundreds of books into bags.

It took more than an hour that I don’t usually have.

However, now there is time.

I did it so every day can return.

Magical thinking? Maybe it is — and magical is wrong. But it inspired action that no productivity guru could have.

Maybe it was dumb to think tackling this long-overdue task would speed this pandemic out the door into history.

Maybe it was a genius thing to do, making space for our new every day.

Stuff got done, so who cares what got me going? Hope and faith-inspired action that no righteous productivity guru could have.
Coping With an Extremely Rare Genetic Mutation
By: Caelyn Grace
Tags: Mental Health, Life, Health, Beauty, Self

Fact: I failed high school chemistry not once, but twice. Also, I dropped out of Biology 101 after killing all my termites during the first lab. The TA looked like she wanted to set me on fire.

Needless to say, I’m terrible at science.

I decided to do some research anyway. By the time got home, my self-pity had faded into determination. As I walked through the door, my dog wiggled with excitement to see me, but I nudged him away and grabbed my computer.

Here’s what I learned:

Monetherix is an extremely rare genetic disease that causes structural deformation in the hair shaft. This deformation is obvious underneath a microscope — each strand resembles a string of evenly-spaced beads.

The condition results in extreme hair fragility and patchy dystrophic alopecia (aka hair loss). It can also be progressive, even causing eyebrow and eyelash loss over time. During puberty and pregnancy, oddly enough, many people report spontaneous hair growth.

Researchers believe Monilethrix is caused by a mutation in a small subsection of chromosome 12 (specifically, gene map locus 12q13, whatever that means). This section is responsible for providing instructions to create keratin proteins, which are essential for healthy hair growth. In those of us with the mutation, the chromosomes produce the wrong directions. Our cells can’t make normal hair because they don’t know how.

Monilethrix is also an autosomal dominant trait, meaning only one parent has to pass down the gene for a child to suffer from the same condition. Each child has a 50% chance of inheriting the gene. This means that, genetically speaking, I have nearly a 100% chance of giving this to my future kids if I have two or more.

Even though my doctor said there wasn’t a treatment, I searched through every database and case study I could find, but to no avail. A few people found some success with Rogaine — which I’ve been using anyway — but otherwise, the internet was eerily silent.

I slammed my laptop shut and put my head in my hands. I will never be normal.

On the bright side, I didn’t kill anything trying to do science.
How To Survive A Drowning
By: Grace Moore
Tags: Depression, Poetry, Poems On Medium, Poem, Poetry On Medium

How To Survive A Drowning

A Poem

Ride the waves,

calculate how much water you can take on

before capsizing entirely

when it becomes too much

feel pressure of water over head

know you can handle more than you think —

you’d be amazed at how long

I can hold my head under

breathing in water and

telling my lungs it’s air

Deploy flotation device

not all are the same or created equal

some may deflate, some may not hold up

in rough waters

check manufacturer’s warnings

Or, become a fish

teach yourself to breathe water

become unsure what to do

when you find yourself

on land again
Crochet Affirmation №13
By: Leslie Stahlhut
Tags: Affirmations, Creativity, Crochet, DIY, Makers

Crochet like you mean it. — crochetbug

Stepping into the room of a sleeping toddler, your steps should be stealthy and tentative; with crochet, however, your stitches should be bold and unapologetically crocheted.

Do not defile your craft by trying to make it something it is not; instead, embrace all that it is, one glorious stitch at a time.
Man’s Mark
By: Leif Johnson
Tags: Florida, Nature Writing, Nature, Nature Photography, Environment

Car troubles and lost cell signals. Both are modern signs of a severed connection from society and both are readily available in the Picayune Strand. For the average American, a flat tire or 3G service is typically accompanied by a brief, or extended moment of panic, but put them together and you have a recipe for a “first world” nightmare. The classic “bum bum bummmmmm” sounds off in our heads and the realization that we now must depend on our own brain and two feet for survival reluctantly settles in. Wild places offer this nightmare to us not to dissuade us from entering, but as a chance to know ourselves as individuals, apart from our gadgets and separate from society.

Tieback levee in the Picayune Strand

“People cannot live apart from nature… And yet, people cannot live in nature without changing it. But this is true of all creatures; they depend upon nature, and they change it. What we call nature is, in a sense, the sum of the changes made by all the various creatures and natural forces in their intricate actions and influences upon each other and upon their places…. The making of these differences is the making of the world.” — Wendell Berry

But what happens when our changes go too far?
Sleeping Beauty’s long nap to the exoplanet ‘Odessa’
By: David Latchman
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Review, Short Film

The film opens on a restless Shannon. Unable to fall asleep, maybe because of the big day ahead, she heads out and ends up ordering hot chocolate at a bar. There is news coverage of Shannon’s trip on the TV and fellow patron, Noah (Ken Fuller), strikes up a conversation about “Sleeping Beauty” — the name Shannon has been given by the media — unaware who he is talking to.

Shannon tells Noah why the exoplanet Odessa is so important. The planet is at the habitable zone, the region around a star where the temperature is just right, neither too hot nor too cold, where liquid water can exist on the surface. Water is the universal solvent and its presence means lots of chemical reactions can take place. Because the temperature is just right, it has also been called the “Goldilocks Zone.” The presence of complex proteins also means the planet could support life.
Lessons from the Dark Side
By: Ben Fox
Tags: Microsoft, Apple, Apps, App Development, Marketing

In 2011, Steve Jobs himself launched the Mac App Store. He said that “users are going to love this innovative new way to discover and buy their favorite apps.” Mac devs warily got on board.

What followed was seven years of stagnation and frustration for developers and their users. It felt like the Mac App Store existed just to torment the Apple faithful with increasingly-draconian rules around app signing and sandboxing, all while persistent rumours that the App Store would become mandatory (like on iOS) hung over everyone’s heads like the sword of Damocles.

But since the release of Mojave, the Mac App Store has a new lease on life.

Why? Is it because of the suspiciously Fluent-esque sidebar, type, and cards? (Doesn’t hurt.) Is it that tasty new dark theme? (Maybe a little.)

No — it’s because Apple has finally delivered the “innovative new way to discover” apps that Steve Jobs promised in 2011. They’ve done this by hiring top industry journalists to editorialize the App Store and separate the wheat from the chaff, to the benefit of developers and users alike.
What does it take to be Vulnerable Again?
By: Kalpesh Mange
Tags: Hope, Love, Music, Halo, Pop

Once bitten, twice shy. Right? Well, maybe.

Have you ever have had a time in a relationship where you’ve put in everything you’ve got, only to be pushed out of it, every time you try to settle in?

Have you ever had to end a relationship with a silent fight, without tears & all the yelling; and pick up the pieces of yourself shattered down on the ground that the relationship broke you into?

And then maybe, after a million sunrises later, you find someone again who you want to see in a light like you saw someone in your life before, but not quite that sort of a light. But similar though.

And now that you’re finding someone else again, real enough to build a trust again, you’re questioning the whole thing?

Well, Ryan Tedder ( frontman of One Republic ) wrote a beautiful song called Halo, just about all of this. And this is our SongOfTheWeek..

Beyoncé included this song in her album I am.. Sasha Fierce. And helped get this song be seen in new light. But today we’re more concerned with the content of the song, than the one who sung it.
【資料科學入門】購物車裡的秘密 — 關聯分析是什麼？Apriori演算法介紹
Tags: Apriori, Association Rule Mining, Market Basket Analysis, Tools, Taiwanese In Data Science

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5 Influencer Myths Busted
By: Monisha Lewis
Tags: Agencylife, Communications Strategy, Advertising, Social Media, Influencer Marketing

Myth #1:

Influencers can be your way to achieve scale for free

The Truth: Influencers are subject to the same algorithms that brands are. In fact, many influencers are treated the same as a business, so they may be reaching the same percentage of their “follower audience” that you are as a brand. True, their follower count may be higher than your brand’s but that’s no guarantee for high reach. If you’re looking for broad reach but in the tone and editorial voice of the influencer, consider white listing the post (investing ad dollars in the influencer’s post vs. reposting on your own channel).

Myth #2:

Influencers don’t require the same rigor as briefing your agency

The Truth: In some cases, influencers need more effort in briefing — unlike your agencies, they don’t work with your brand every day so don’t know all the considerations (legal, creative, etc.) that you do. This means detailed briefs for any guidelines are a must, but you should also be cautious because in most cases you are contracting them for their editorial voice, their creative eye, etc. You don’t want to go overboard with guidelines and restrictions, which is why it’s best to work collaboratively with your agency and have a kick off meeting with agency + influencer to discuss the vision for the project together.

Myth #3:

Only PR or media agencies can work with influencers

The Truth: Depending on the output and cost of the influencers, even creative agencies can contract them. For instance, if the purpose of an individual is only to capture content for brand owned channels, the creative agency may brief them because creatives will be closer to the brand guidelines the content should adhere to. In the most ideal case, however, all agencies will work together to coordinate influencers for a particular project.

Myth #4:

Content partners (I.e. Vice and Refinery 29) aren’t the same as influencers

The Truth: We work with publishing partners for many of the same reasons we work with influencers: they have clout and are culturally relevant and therefore have the ear and trust of a particular audience that we want to get in front of. So why wouldn’t they be the same? They need the same guidance as influencers and have the same editorial integrity that influencers posting on their channels will have.

Myth #5:

There’s only one way to use influencers

The Truth: Influencers can be used to achieve scale, but can also be used to capture content solely for use on your channel. These two uses are not mutually exclusive — the same person can be contracted to capture 2 assets — one for their channel, more in their own editorial voice and one for your brand’s channel, more in line with your brand guidelines.
Nervos CKB Development Update #34
By: Ian Yang
Tags: Development Updates, Nervos, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Join our community: Discord — Github — Nervos Talk Forum — Twitter

For discussions or questions join the conversation on Discord or check out one of our community Telegram channels: English, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese
Books About Bitcoin That You Should Read In 2020
By: Sylvain Saurel
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Books, Reading, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

The year 2020 is already here. Bitcoin had an excellent 2019 being the market’s best performing asset far ahead of gold and the S&P 500. In addition, more and more people are talking about Bitcoin and are beginning to realize that the current monetary and financial system is reaching its limits. More and more people are wondering whether Bitcoin could not be a credible alternative to this flawed system.

In short, the Bitcoin revolution is underway. Block after block, the Blockchain Bitcoin continues its journey and this will still be the case in 2020. If you want to get on the Bitcoin Revolution train, it is not too late but it is better to start by following a guide in order to get the basics right.

To do this, I recommend seven essential books that you should read in 2020. These books will allow you to enter the world of Bitcoin in the best of ways and to understand all the philosophy behind this revolution that is underway.
#BigParentingIdea — Finding Our Children’s Passions Is None Of Our Business (What Is?)
By: Lukasz Laniecki
Tags: Parenting, Life, Children, Passion, Parents

The less we meddle with our children’s futures, the greater the chance that they will be able to find something they will love doing.

We as parents have our own lives, and, although it may come as a surprise to some parents, we still have our own futures. And we should be concerned with those.

The children are fine when their parents are fine.

Instead of obsessing about what our children’s future passions might be, we’d better audit our own lives and do something about those.

Children who have parents who are courageous, go after their dreams, take risks, pursue their interests and end up uncovering their passions, will get the message.

We are not Batmans. We are not on a mission to save our children. They are not Gotham Cities. They don’t desperately need our meddling with their futures.

Let’s not forget, parents! We are not dead yet!

Let’s be examples of a life well lived to our children.
Chinese Digit MNIST
Tags: Kaggle, Beginner, Cnn, TensorFlow, Tutorial

The dataset

It’s always good to understand what data we are working on. The dataset has 15000 images, but how many for each? Since we have 15 different characters, it should be 1000 each, but let’s check. Note that the notebook is run on Kaggle.

Distribution of data

Code for getting the distribution of data

The code will returns the following, which is 1000 images per characters!

value character

0 零 1000

1 一 1000

2 二 1000

3 三 1000

4 四 1000

5 五 1000

6 六 1000

7 七 1000

8 八 1000

9 九 1000

10 十 1000

100 百 1000

1000 千 1000

10000 万 1000

100000000 亿 1000

dtype: int64

2. Missing data?

Let’s check if there’s any missing data.

Code for evaluating missing data

The code returns 0, means the dataset is totally fine! It’s better to be safe than sorry!

Result of missing data

3. Missing images?

Let’s check if there’s 15000 images in the directory.

Number of image files: 15000

Yep! We are good to go!

Note that the images is inside the subdirectory of data/data .

4. Appending images properties to the dataframe

Since the input image has a name convention of “ input_[siote_id]_[sample_id]_[code].jpg ”, thus we should add one more column in our dataframe, for the future processing. Also, we should specify the width and height of the image too!

The code above adds three new columns, which are “ file ”, “ w ” and “ h ” to the dataframe. Our dataframe shall looks like this.

Note that this data have 100 suites with 10 samples each.
OG In the House
By: William, Dollar Bill
Tags: Memoir, Humor, Prison, Culture, Justice

OG In the House

My nickname in the joint!

Tayeb MEZAHDIA — Pixabay

Yo! Let me give a shout out to my peoples! Can you give an old gangster some love?

Prison is a funny place. On the outside, I was known as Billy, Bill, or even the name on my birth certificate (William). In lockup? Almost nobody is known by their first name.

Inmates are always addressed with their last names by officers. And as result, I knew very few prisoners by their first names. In fact, I mostly didn’t even know their first names — and never bothered to ask.

Real criminals (unlike me who was a white-collar offender) all had their very own street names. Some were born of a prisoner’s prominent physical characteristic. All were colorful. Thus, we had Dolo, Looch, Cash, Squirt, Nitti and…you get the idea.

Mine evolved into “OG!” If you’re not familiar with prison or street lingo, OG is an acronym for “original gangster.” This was an appellation I wore with pride. As in “fuckin’ A, my man. I’m an original gangster. You don’t want to fuck with me!” Even the guards used to call me OG. One CO in the kitchen actually called me grandpa. That one I didn’t like as much.

Anyway…it wasn’t that I was so much of a gangster…as I was old! At age 68 when I entered — and 69 when I left, I was, at times, the oldest inmate in a 90 man unit. So what else were they gonna call me? I was in prison. I’m a gangster — or I wouldn’t be there. And I was old (and still am, by the way).

So there ya go. Plus, guys gave me props for minding my own business, working hard, and appearing to be much younger than I was — especially when it came to working hard. That shit commands respect in prison. And respect means “gangsta.”

I remember Duncan watching me stoop down in the kitchen to clean out the inside of a cart.

“Yo, Merse! What do you eat? Look at you bendin’ down like a youngblood. I wanna be like you when I’m 70!”

So…I OG’d my way through a year in a federal prison. Nobody bothered me and I came out in one piece. ’Cause ya know…nobody fucks with an OG! That’s understood.

More fun prison expose:
Air pollution: looking after my hometown
By: Antonio Poggi
Tags: Taranto, Data Democratization, Air Pollution, Data Visualization, Environment

I grew up in a seaside city in the hot sun of the Mediterranean, a natural beauty called Taranto, in Puglia, Italy.

During my school days the beach and rock music offered escape from some harsh realities. In the last decades Taranto citizens have been constantly under pressure due to a struggling local economy accompanied by indecisive politics, which would put people in front of illogical and impossible choices. Such as the infamous “health vs jobs” debate, exacerbated by the proximity of the industrial hub: bigger than the city centre, located just few miles away, feeding the region with one hand while polluting with the other.

Strong wind causing dust storm near the industrial area https://www.facebook.com/588204948220930/photos/a.588244811550277/632018663839558

There’s no need to add personal opinions or point of view on the matter: the pollutants discharged by the factories in the area, most notably the ILVA steel plant, lately purchased by ArcelorMittal, have been linked to a dreadful cancer epidemic, officially reported by the Italian Department of Health.

Data speaks for itself.

Fast-forward some 20 years to last Xmas, my Spotify playlist randomly picked “Good Times Bad Times”, by Led Zeppelin, the first song of their eponymous debut album, that goes:

In the days of my youth I was told what it means to be a man

And now I’ve reached that age, I’ve tried to do all those things the best I can

Believe it or not, that song triggered good vibes and I ended up finding some time to keep on trying to do all those things, the best I can: using my knowledge, skills and, guess what, the app I have been building for years to support a noble public cause.

(Seriously I should have done this already… but building skills and tools takes time… you know.)

Monitoring the air quality

How can I exploit data, analytics and visualisation in this case?

Surely I need some data to start with, public, thank you. So I found out Arpa Puglia, the organisation monitoring and researching environmental pollution in the region, release daily validated data about air quality, measured by several control units. Bingo.

The easiest thing I can do at this point (which I did) is to create, set up and host a public monitoring dashboard, refreshing every day/week when new data is provided, a sort of sentinel, for everyone to play with to visually explore data and extract insights. Hopefully super-easy to use so data can be accessible to anyone, pure data democratization.

I am hosting the first version of the dashboard on a public demo server at https://bit.ly/TarantAir .

Feel free to embed it anywhere on your website, like I did it at http://tarantair.rf.gd/ , you just need to use the following HTML snippet:

or just embed it on your blog or service that supports Embed.ly, as I’m doing here below just by pasting the link to the dashboard.

Have fun and drop me a comment with your feedback. But now, hey, carry on reading below :)
5 Surprising Advantages Of Starting A Family Early
By: Olivia Marlene
Tags: This Happened To Me, Parenting, Children, Family, Marriage

Based on my experience, the following are the advantages of starting a family early:

Having youthful energy for childbearing and child-rearing

I can endure a lack of sleep. I can carry my babies and rock them to sleep while singing. By the time they become toddlers, I can play with them like a child without feeling awkward.

I was able to juggle being a mom, a full-time employee, and a law school student all at the same time. That’s how energetic I was.

2. Kids will grow while you are still relatively young and you will look like friends. There is also less generation gap.

My kids are now taller than me. We are like friends. If we are walking side by side then I can even be mistaken as their girlfriend. :) And yes, openly discuss with me their crushes or girlfriend (for my eldest).

I can relate more to their generation. I’m familiar with their gadgets, music, and games. I can speak their language.

3. You will enjoy traveling with them. They will be well-traveled kids as you can tow them to wherever you go.

I was 30, my eldest is 7 and my youngest is 4 when we started traveling outside the country. At their age, they are able to appreciate places. I am also at my peak energy to navigate airports, trains, and places. I still don’t have dietary restrictions to enjoy the food offered by different cultures.

We were able to go on hiking, island hopping, and experienced extreme rides in amusement parks. I wouldn’t be able to do that if I am a little older. As of now, my energy begins to dwindle and I’m more comfortable being at home. :)

4. Career-wise, it is also an advantage

I am still starting my career while they were babies. I have a few assignments and responsibilities in the office. I can leave the office exactly at 5 PM and I have my weekends free for my children.

As they grow and need lesser attention from me, I am also working my way up the career ladder. Now that they have grown I’m already at the peak of my career. I have bigger work responsibilities at work but lesser responsibilities for my children.

And the role has even reversed. The kids can now take care of me by helping me relieve work-related stress. They accompany me on walks, make me coffee, or watch Netflix with me.

5. Kids will also grow along with your finances

While you are starting to build your nest egg, your kids will have simple needs. You can manage milk, diapers, immunizations, and nannies’ salary. You can have a small house while they are young. That can accelerate your savings.

By the time they’ve grown up, you will have more expenses. You will add to your budget the cost of their education, extracurriculars (like music lessons), clothing, and gadgets. But you have already saved and you have advanced in your career. Your current salary may be enough to cover everything.
The art of Living out of a Suitcase Called Home as a Freelancer
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Mental Health, Freelancing, Work, Family, Self

The art of Living out of a Suitcase Called Home as a Freelancer

Does the reality of digital nomadism live up to the hype?

Photo by Ali Yahya on Unsplash

When did you last take time off?

I couldn’t answer this without first going back through my archive and it’s been months.

The best thing about remote work is also the worst. Because we are no longer location-dependent and can work from almost anywhere as long as there’s Wi-Fi, we tend to.

Even on an overnight flight between Seattle and Frankfurt on no sleep for days at the end of December, I found it impossible to switch off. Because flight Wi-Fi was so affordable, I also had very little incentive to.

Instead of catching up on sleep so I’d be at my best when hugging my father again for the first time in six years, I thumbed out an essay on my iPhone between bouts of stargazing. And only because I didn’t want to disturb a sleeping passenger by retrieving my laptop from the overhead compartment.

Compressed into an economy seat on a two-hour flight between Lisbon and Paris a few weeks later, I was hunched over my laptop in mild panic mode. Every time I ride the high speed train between Paris and Amsterdam, I’m working for the duration, too.
by John Carroll University Entrepreneurship Program
By: John Carroll University Entrepreneurship Program
Tags: Women, Education, College, Leadership

How are you adding value to the JCU community?

Budget Analyst

How many years have you been at JCU?

1

What is special about JCU?

My love for John Carroll University began when I was student here ten years ago. Students are incredibly engaged, and I appreciate the unique lens the Jesuit education provides students, faculty, and staff. As a student, I was part of the Arrupe Scholars Program, which helped me to further develop an appreciation for service and an attention to social justice. My John Carroll experience as a student inspired me to do a year of service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and to return a number of years later as a staff member. As a current staff member, John Carroll continues to inspire in me a desire for critical thinking and engaged dialogue with others.

What was your happiest moment at JCU?

Switching glasses with Interim President Dr. Jeanne Colleran (see picture!).

If you had a magic wand, how would you improve the JCU experience?

A focus on recruiting, retaining, and supporting international students to further diversify our student body as well as an enhanced recruitment of diverse faculty members.

Fun fact about you:

I ran the Cleveland marathon, and I have been vegan for over 5 years.
The Video Game industry has a diversity problem
By: Jaymie White
Tags: Workplace, Diversity, Videogames, Video Game News, Entertainment

In a not so surprising survey published by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), the video gaming industry was revealed to suffer from a lack of diversity. According to the survey, “when it comes to diversity, 74% of workers are cis males, 61% are white/caucasian/European, and 81% are heterosexual, despite the majority of respondents claiming diversity in game development to be “very important” or “somewhat important” to them.” The report surveyed 963 people working or looking for employment in the video game industry

While the lack of diversity is easy to see, a large majority (84%) stated that diversity is important to the future of gaming. Despite this number, just over half “(58%) felt that the industry did not grow any more diverse over the last two years.” Video games have become a multi billion dollar industry that has seen a huge investments. As a new entertainment source, there are plenty of opportunities to sell to a growing diverse audience. (A Pew Research Center study from 2015 shows that 19% of Hispanic people and 11% of black people in the U.S. would say the term “gamer” describes them well. Only 7% of white people would say the same.) Similar to Black Panther and Wonder Woman movies within the Superhero genre, video games could help their bottom line with hiring and promoting big budget releases for larger audiences.

Only time will tell exactly what happens within the industry but an expansion of opportunities for women and men like Smash Sisters, Girls Who Code, and Culture Shock Games are step in the right direction.

Of the 963 respondents:
Türk Edebiyatının Dil Ustası: Ali Şîr Nevaî (1441–1501)
By: Ahmet Çadırcı
Tags: Tarih, Bilim, Bilginler Ve Sanatçılar, Asya, Osmanlı Tarihi

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💥 We announce the referral program for inviting sellers!
By: Ubcoin. Cryptocurrency Reimagined
Tags: Ethereum, Referral, Ubcoin Promos

Sellers are small businesses (shops) who have many things to sell or private persons with a lot of items for sale.

🔥 Why is it interesting for YOU?

We will pay you commission in ETH for inviting new sellers:

- if they place 20–50 items on our marketplace, this is 0,2 ETH for you for this seller (not for each item)

- if they place 51+ items on our marketplace, this is 0,3 ETH for you for this seller (not for each item)

All countries are eligible. You earn commission within 7–14 days after the seller placed a number of items. These need to be real sellers — who respond when potential buyers send them a message and are interested in selling items. Items should be of good quality and their prices should be not higher that average market price of items like this. We will be checking every item and seller. Only if a seller has gone through our check process the commission is paid.

❤️ Why is it interesting for SELLERS?

Our special proposal for new shops/sellers who placed 20+ items: we invite them to place their items with discounts (so that people are interested in buying them) and we will compensate to the shop (after the item is sold) 20% of the item price in UBC.

💎 How does this process work?

1) You spread this info among your friends, on FB/Twitter, etc. inviting big sellers to place a lot of items on Ubcoin marketplace.

2) Every few days we check new sellers who placed 20+ items on our marketplace, check them and write them an email where we ask if there was someone who invited them. They should tell your email (that you used to register on Ubcoin Market) / or your name on Ubcoin Marketplace.

3) We write you an email, notifying that you earned a reward, and ask for your wallet to send it.

4) The seller receives 20% compensation after completed deals.

🎉 We advise you to go and invite sellers now :)
An Ex-Wife and An Ex-Girlfriend Walk into A Bar
By: Dani Alpert
Tags: Ex Wife, Ex Boyfriend, Family, Relationships, Modern Family

A helping hand…

We locked eyes like two contestants in the battle round on The Voice, singing in unison, lyric by lyric, watching for the other to crack.

Marie and I stood on a red crash pad delivering an impromptu performance of “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond. We were roped into harnesses, waiting for our turn on the indoor climbing wall in New York City.

We were there for her kids, Nicole and Tyler, who were racing each other up the sculpted rock face.

Marie and I were belting out the chorus when our instructor approached. “Hey, are you two sisters?” he asked. We stopped singing and froze. What were we indeed — besides speechless?

It had been two years since my ex-boyfriend (Marie’s ex-husband), and I split up. Marie and I could’ve gone our separate ways, but instead, we chose to stay in each other’s lives — leaving many close to us, scratching their heads. She had become my lifeline and the gateway to staying in the kids’ lives — something that I was not about to walk away from.

I was 39 years old when I met my ex, and up until then, my dating history consisted of younger men still living with their parents, older men, self-employed men with pensions, a brooding artist or two, but no divorcees with kids. And my knowledge about ex-wives came from portrayals I’d seen in Lifetime television movies like Wife, Mother, Murderer. If Marie turned out to be a psycho stalker out for revenge, I was prepared; I knew where to buy disguises and how to slide under desks to avert danger.

The first time I met Marie, we watched Tyler, who was eight, build a Lego airport in my boyfriend’s den. She had impeccable posture, and not a blond hair on her head was out of place — which made me looked like I’d just woken up from a hangover nap.

My belly fluttered with nerves while I inspected her; was that a pimple? Were those real? I was looking for any imperfection to tamp down my sudden insecurities.

Kids and motherhood were never a consideration or an aspiration, but standing in front of Marie, I questioned my life choices; did I want what she had? I braced myself for the once-over. Nothing — or maybe I was too naïve to notice.

“Tyler’s a great kid,” I said.

“Yeah,” Marie agreed. “I was going to give him away, but it’s easier just to keep him.” She wasn’t anything like the evil ex-wife — damn you, television.
Who Are the Proud Boys?
By: Dave Gershgorn
Tags: Racism, Proud Boys

Who Are the Proud Boys?

These are the white supremacists who follow Trump’s orders

The Proud Boys are a racist, white nationalist, and misogynist group that has woven violence into its identity. And last night during a national presidential debate, Trump gave them marching orders.

You can read more about the group here, in this post titled “Who Are The Proud Boys?”

It’s important to know who these people are, as they have showed up at protests with the intent to cause violence. But be careful what you share, and how you amplify the groups’ message. These extremist organizations thrive on mainstream attention and social virality, as it perversely normalizes and amplifies their racist and sexist talking points.

Jane Lytvynenko, a disinformation reporter at BuzzFeed, suggests redacting names and identifying information out of any screenshots you share of Proud Boy content, and to also avoid linking to any that content or including names of Proud Boy members.
How to code in Python: good and bad practices of coding in Python
By: Radoslaw Fabisiak
Tags: Code, Python, Programming, Good Practices, Python3

Iterating over Sequences and Mappings

You can implement iterations and for loops in Python in several ways. Python offers some built-in classes to facilitate it.

In almost all cases, you can use the range to get an iterator that yields integers:

>>> x = [1, 2, 4, 8, 16]

>>> for i in range(len(x)):

... print(x[i])

...

1

2

4

8

16

However, there’s a better way to iterate over a sequence:

>>> for item in x:

... print(item)

...

1

2

4

8

16

But what if you want to iterate in the reversed order? Of course, the range is an option again:

>>> for i in range(len(x)-1, -1, -1):

... print(x[i])

...

16

8

4

2

1

Reversing the sequence is a more elegant way:

>>> for item in x[::-1]:

... print(item)

...

16

8

4

2

1

The Pythonic way is to use reversed to get an iterator that yields the items of a sequence in the reversed order:

>>> for item in reversed(x):

... print(item)

...

16

8

4

2

1

Sometimes you need both the items from a sequence and the corresponding indices:

>>> for i in range(len(x)):

... print(i, x[i])

...

0 1

1 2

2 4

3 8

4 16

It’s better to use enumerate to get another iterator that yields the tuples with the indices and items:

>>> for i, item in enumerate(x):

... print(i, item)

...

0 1

1 2

2 4

3 8

4 16

That’s cool. But what if you want to iterate over two or more sequences? Of course, you can use the range again:

>>> y = 'abcde'

>>> for i in range(len(x)):

... print(x[i], y[i])

...

1 a

2 b

4 c

8 d

16 e

In this case, Python also offers a better solution. You can apply zip and get tuples of the corresponding items:

>>> for item in zip(x, y):

... print(item)

...

(1, 'a')

(2, 'b')

(4, 'c')

(8, 'd')

(16, 'e')

You can combine it with unpacking:

>>> for x_item, y_item in zip(x, y):

... print(x_item, y_item)

...

1 a

2 b

4 c

8 d

16 e

Please, have in mind that range can be very useful. However, there are cases (like those shown above) where there are more convenient alternatives.

Iterating over a dictionary yields its keys:

>>> z = {'a': 0, 'b': 1}

>>> for k in z:

... print(k, z[k])

...

a 0

b 1

However, you can apply the method .items() and get the tuples with the keys and the corresponding values:

>>> for k, v in z.items():

... print(k, v)

...

a 0

b 1

You can also use the methods .keys() and .values() to iterate over the keys and values, respectively.
一個托盤內的食物策展 — 在築地本願寺吃早餐. 我們去築地不吃海鮮，我們吃早餐。
By: Hazel Wei
Tags: Food, Tokyo, Foodie Eats, Travel

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
When Loss Becomes Part of Us
By: Krista Schumacher
Tags: This Happened To Me, Life, Grief, Life Lessons, Death

When Loss Becomes Part of Us

Weaving grief into my emotional tapestry

Photo by Levi XU on Unsplash

Grief visits every year during what I call “grief week,” stretching from the first to second Mondays in August. I’ve absorbed this week into my calendar of events just as I’ve absorbed grief into my emotional tapestry.

On the first Monday in August five years ago, we found our mother unresponsive and barely breathing on her bedroom floor. On the following Monday, my sister, brother, and I made the decision to remove her from life support.

Although half a decade has passed, I still grieve for my mom. I wake up from a dream, her image shimmering at the edges of my mind, and think I need to call her, how it’s been too long since we talked.

I feel her absence acutely during grief week, along with her birthday and Mother’s Day and life’s big events like my nephew’s college graduation in May. I struggled to get through it without sobbing, envisioning my mother sitting next to me, dabbing proud tears from her eyes.

Three years ago, we lost my father-in-law, and this year, grief week doubled down. On the first Monday in August, my sister’s mother-in-law, a woman I also loved, lost her battle with cancer. My tapestry grows.
The Person He Wanted to Love
By: Louise Foerster
Tags: Microfiction, Love, AI, Short Story, Pentina

The Person He Wanted to Love

Had no idea he existed

Imagined by a GAN (generative adversarial network)

If he existed, could she?

If he were the result of a long night’s ramble followed by countless tumblers of Scotch, why couldn’t he be gifted with that flawless, intelligent, soulful, and powerful woman as friend, partner, and lover?

What would it take to convince the Creators to think differently?
What’s the difference between Event Handlers & addEventListener in JS?
By: Twan Mulder
Tags: Programming, JavaScript, Software Engineering, Software Development, Technology

What’s the difference?

There’s a subtle, but important difference between these 2 methods of handling events.

If you’ll use the first method, event handlers, the difference is that if you add two event handlers for the same button click, the second event handler will overwrite the first and only that event will trigger.

Which takes us to the main learning:

For a given element, you can only have one event handler per event type, but you can have multiple event listeners.

That’s the key difference. So what does this look like?

Here, the second event handler will overwrite the first one.

const button = document.querySelector(".btn") button.onclick = () => {

console.log("Hello!");

}; button.onclick = () => {

console.log("How are you?");

}; // This wil log "How are you?" to the console.

In the example above, the “onclick” event handler is used twice.

That way, the first one will be overwritten and when a user clicks the button, it will log “How are you?” to the console.

So what happens when we use “addEventListener”?

Using event listeners, we can call multiple functions when a user clicks on the button.

const button = document.querySelector(".btn") button.addEventListener("click", event => {

console.log("Hello!");

}) button.addEventListener("click", event => {

console.log("How are you?");

}) // This wil log

// "Hello!"

// "How are you?"

// to the console

In the example above, we add multiple event listeners to the button.

This way, when a user clicks it, it will trigger both functions and log “Hello! How are you?” to the console.
Missy Elliott and Lizzo: ‘We Run It’ at the 2019 VMAs
By: Shamontiel L. Vaughn
Tags: Lizzo, Black Women, Music, Missy Elliott, Vmas 2019

Missy Elliott and Lizzo: ‘We Run It’ at the 2019 VMAs

Why these two powerhouse black women were so significant for the awards ceremony

Missy Elliott (Photo credit: Atlantic Records/Wikimedia Commons)

When Missy Elliott and Lizzo collaborated for the 2019 hit “Tempo,” it just made sense. If you were around in the late ’90s, you had a Missy Elliott CD. You understood the significance of the garbage bag. Having a Tribute to the Vanguard award for Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott seemed like it was a long time coming. But doing it on the same night that Lizzo flocked the stage with afro-wearing, cornrow-posing chocolate women and a bouncing, brown, ginormous butt made it that much better. (Sir Mix a Lot and Missy walked so Lizzo could run, you understand?)

While I’m still perplexed by the six odd times the camera person zoomed in on Gigi Hadid, Taylor Swift and Bebe Rexha — who knew none of the words to the songs — the 11 zoom-ins of the rest of the crowd were absolutely gratifying. There were two brothas with glasses on that were living their best lives, dancing and clearly familiar with the songs. Now that’s how you do it.

But what’s more important is the site of these two black female entertainers challenging the stereotypes of how black women should look in the entertainment industry. (Most recent example: If you cringed through stylists asking Tia P. to wear a bob on “The Next Big Thing” instead of her natural hair, then you already know how quickly the industry will try to make women a carbon copy of each other — unnecessary weave and questionable outfits included.)

Lizzo (Photo credit: Andy Witchger/Wikimedia Commons)

Meanwhile Lizzo and Missy are a breath of fresh air. They’re rocking their own body parts without the diaper booties. Their entire bodies are proportionate to their faces and waists. And they’re having a good time dancing, singing and beat-faced in the process. (Hell, Lizzo takes it one step further and will randomly play a flute if you give her enough time onstage.)

While the camera person may have not fully understood the weight of why a Missy Elliott moment was worth just staying on her and the flock of dancers onstage — including the adult version of Alyson Stoner — this was a pretty big deal. It gave black women the opportunity to see someone outside of the usual carbon copy succeed in an industry determined to make them look like someone else. These are women who look like us in real life — our aunts, our moms, our sisters, our cousins and the rest of the folks invited to the family reunion and cookout.

But at least viewers got to see another legend, Queen Latifah, standing and clapping to enjoy Lizzo’s performance. While Lizzo’s dancers shook a tail feather in their Prince-style, ass-out pants, the Queen showed off a two-step of her own.

Whew, child, I’ll never be tired of this queen s**t.
Unit Testing With Jest in Javascript, Part I
By: Yahjaira Vasquez
Tags: Coding, JavaScript, Test Driven Development, Jest, Unit Testing

Everyone talks about the advantages of being able to write tests and while I have learned how to read tests, I have never really taken the time to write tests for any of my projects. Tests are important for a wide number of reasons: they allow us to quickly identify issues within our code, they also ensure we are properly separating our functions to only perform one job, and they help provide a clear understanding of what the code should do, among other things. So I decided to spend today learning the ins and out of using Jest and creating test cases so that I may add unit tests to my projects.

With that being said, today I am going to take you through a little walk through of getting started with unit testing and hopefully by the end of this you will be able to go back to some of your projects and add some tests of your own.
How many people need to be interviewed to confirm the hypothesis?
By: Aleksandra Bernatskaya
Tags: Product Design, User Experience, Product Management, UX, User Interviews

I first came across the user interviews 6 months ago to validate our product idea. I wanted to talk to as many people as possible. Like, I was sure that the more people you talk to, the more valid your outcomes will be. So, excited, I texted like 50 people and appointed 20 calls for the next 5 days. That week I can associate with the total chaos. I held 4–5 interviews per day, they were all mixed up in my head. I didn’t have time for the most important part — processing results and making conclusions. I postponed the interview analysis to the next week to find myself in dozens of hypotheses and needed to discuss them again with the majority of the previous respondents.

Time passed. We came up with mockups and later on, prototypes of the product, that needed to be tested. This time I was prepared and set only 6 calls during the week. After 4th call, it was already clear that respondents have almost the same feedbacks over the interface and product flow. I highlighted the most common recommendations and implemented them into mockups. Only after finishing it I appointed the next 2 interviews. Less pressure, more effect.

So, here are my outcomes:

1You don’t need lots of interviews. You will see a correlation even on 4–5 people if they are representatives of the narrow target audience. For example, we have product and service tech companies as our clients. I considered this difference and conducted separate bunches of interviews with founders/recruiters of each company type.

2 If you already see repeatable feedback, better implement it in your mockups before the next interviews to get the complex product overview. My scenario is: interview 5 people — implement their advice — interview 5 more people.

3 The quantities of interviews depend also on the number of screens you are ready to show. In this article, I described the approach of dividing the functional into separate iterations for the test drive. In that case, you will conduct generally more interviews but it may still be 4–5 people per iteration.

4 We have both tech companies and tech candidates as our clients, so I have been paralleling interviews with them from the beginning of product development. I can sum up that all the tips listed above work equally effective to B2B and B2C clients.

Please, clap if you find this story useful and would like me to write more about product management in a startup :)
One weekend to go!
By: Kelvin Daley
Tags: Blockchain, Ethereum, Announcements, ICO, Bitcoin

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It is Friday afternoon here in Perth, Western Australia and we are just two days away from Australia’s First and Largest Crowd Funded Mining Project opening the Pre-Sale.

Everything is in place and the team will be doing final quality checks and testing over the weekend to make sure that Monday is a huge success for the company and all participants.

A big thank you to all the participants that have already registered and have engaged with our team on our various channels over the last few weeks, we look forward to welcoming you and all the other participants to the Coin Mine Australia token holder community very shortly.

Pre-Sale opens at 08:00 am (GMT+8) on Monday 19 March/

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KELVIN DALEY

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