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About BrookLinen + New Launches January 2021
Tags: Influencer Marketing, Home, Shopping, New York, Review

Brooklinen provides beautiful home essentials such as bed, bath, and lounge wear. By cutting out the middleman, they’re able to bypass costs like wholesaling, storefronts and designer licensing fees that have no bearing on quality. Therefore, buyers are able to purchase products at such an amazing deal! Brooklinen gives you the quality and comfort at an affordable price. The founded philosophy is that people deserve simple, beautiful, home essentials without the luxury mark up.

Below are images of two of their best sellers! The comforter and robe are super soft — it’s like laying on a cloud. The high quality and luxe feel of their products make it feel like it’s more expensive than what you paid for. Products are breathable and do not weigh you down.

All — Season Down Comforter ($349)

Super Plush Robe ($98)

Upcoming: Colorway Launch in January 2021

New Silk Colorway — Cerulean (Launching w/o January 17)

Yes, cerulean shot to the spotlight from that iconic scene in The Devil Wears Prada, but it remains popular for a reason! This playful shade offers much-needed brightness going into the new year, and paired with our Mulberry Silk eye-masks and pillowcases, this new colorway is perfect for taking an at-home spa day.

Winter Heathered Cashmere Colorways (Launching w/o January 24)

Brave the cold with our warmest, softest sheets, Heathered Cashmere! This bedding features a unique diagonal weave and custom napped finish for an incredibly cozy feel without being too insulating. In late January we’ll be launching a new evergreen colorway, a classic White, and a jewel-inspired limited edition colorway, Jade.

Winter Classic + Luxe Colorways (Launching w/o January 31)

Inspired by longer and warmer days, we’ll be launching bold new colorways for our Classic + Luxe Collection heading into February: Our best-selling cotton sheets will be reinvented with retro-inspired jewel tones in the Abstract Forest Purple, Abstract Forest Dark Green and Visible Spectrum patterns, balanced by neutral, soothing colorways Deep Navy and Clay.

Be sure to check their site down below and be on the look out for their new launch, Colorways!
“How I Run 9 Different Profitable YouTube Channels and Make 6 Figures From Them”
Tags: YouTuber, Newyoutuber, Lists, New York, YouTube

“How I Run 9 Different Profitable YouTube Channels and Make 6 Figures From Them” Aghvavikas ·Dec 23, 2020

Introducing Tube Mastery and Monetization

Tube Mastery and Monetization teaches how to start, grow, and monetize a hyper-profitable YouTube channel from complete scratch.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have any tech skills or any previous business experience. Everything you need to know is provided step-by-step in this training program.

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Solo To Syracuse
By: Gray Gallivant
Tags: Travel, Bars, New York, Solo Travel

Solo To Syracuse

Photo by Ken Yam on Unsplash

I arrived early, as I always do. It was early afternoon. There were people at the airport but it wasn’t too crowded.

It had been roughly two weeks since I was last on a plane to New York. This, however, would be my first ever trip to Syracuse.

I was at the airport bar in Knoxville — talking to someone about something that I don’t remember. The Knoxville airport has only one bar to date: a Ruby Tuesday, but it does the job.

I kept seeing my flight getting delayed. 30 minutes; 45 minutes; an hour. What was going on? Why was I even going to Syracuse?

Why was I going to Syracuse? Well, I was visiting my girlfriend. She and I had somehow concocted a plan that involved my going to Syracuse for a weekend, as we both had school during the week.

So it was decided. I would fly up on Friday afternoon and come back Sunday evening. Simple enough.

I didn’t leave on Friday afternoon, though. My flight — Knoxville to New York City to Syracuse — was canceled. I quickly called my girlfriend and told her that my coming to Syracuse didn’t look likely. This is the point at which she began to cry.

I did the only thing I knew how to do at that point: I lied. I walked up to the desk and informed them that I absolutely had to be on a flight to Syracuse.

“I have a wedding to attend tomorrow,” I said. “I’m the best man!”

The nice gentleman looked at his computer, clicked his mouse a few times, and then stared at me. I said nothing. Then, as if the silence was an argument of its own, the printer started rambling and out spat my new ticket.

I would now travel to Atlanta, then take a direct flight to Syracuse.

Enter Andrew.
Executing a Power of Attorney in New York
By: Daniel Gardner
Tags: New York Lawyer, Sean C Hayes, Power Of Attorney, New York, New York Law

Power of attorneys are necessary, in many cases, for individuals or businesses wishing to conduct business via a third party. Under § 5–1501 of New York General Obligations Law, a Power of Attorney is “a written document, other than a document referred to in section 5–1501C, by which a principal with capacity designates an agent to act on his or behalf.” This simple document is necessary for a variety of transactions.

For more information on Section 5–1501C (Principal-Agent Relationships please see: Power of Attorney Granting an Agent Actual Authority to Act for a Principal in an Agency Relationship.

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The best seven layer salad with delicious dressing
Tags: Food, Health Foods, New York, USA, Salad

The best seven layer salad with delicious dressing

This seven layer salad is absolutely something incredible , every time when I make it , it brings me back to my childhood , I am sure if you try it you will love it , it’s super refreshing specially in summer days .

So let’s have a look first at what ingredients we will need to get started . ridamohssine Dec 23, 2020·2 min read

ingredients :

Small head of lettuce

10 ounce package of frozen peas

some cheese

celery sliced

red onion sliced

some bacon

The dressing :

one cup of mayonnaise

one cup f sour cream

salt

pepper

one cup of parmesan chesses

2 tablespoons of sugar

2 tablespoons of vinegar

Preparation method :

Now ladies and gentlemen it’s time to prepare this magical salad , remember you need to decide on where you want put it in I use a big glass boil so people can see the layers ;

the first layer : we put a full head of lettuce

the second layer : a 10 ounce of frozen peas

the third : some chesses

the fourth ; tiny sliced of celery

the fifth : red onion sliced

the sixth : crispy bacon

Colorful easy fast , refreshing and delicious all in one , believe me if you once you won’t stop it simply it is amazing somehow , well lot of people talk about the American kitchen but I never though it will be more fantastic .

Now it’s time to add some magic to our salad , let’s prepare our dressing well ;

1- we mix cup mayonnaise and sour cream together

2 — we add one cup of parmesan chesses

3- salt and pepper

4–2 tablespoon of sugar and another 2 for vinegar

5 — last but not least we mix all and boom our dressing is ready

A very important note don’t add the dressing to the salad until it is time to serve it and enjoy the taste .

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Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in New York Courts
By: Daniel Gardner
Tags: New York Lawyer, Arbitration, New York Attorney, New York, Arbitration Lawyer

Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in New York Courts Daniel Gardner ·Dec 23, 2020

The United States is a contracting state to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention”). This New York law blog post details the steps necessary to recognize and enforce a foreign arbitral award against a New York resident individual or business in a court in New York.

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Allow me to introduce myself…
By: Tiana Rose
Tags: First Post, Poet, New York, Soulful Rose Sundays, Tiana Rose

Allow me to introduce myself…

I am Tiana Rose! A New York native and a lover of all things creative. I’m a full time Singer/Beautypreneur and love to write poetry in my spare time.

I’ll be posting here every other Sunday (or whenever I feel inspired & want to share something new I wrote with the world). I wish to inspire or even help guide you to healing with the things I write — if not, I hope you at least enjoy reading them!😊
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Tags: New York, Hype, Pharmacy

Hypeforyou

We believe that streetwear should be made affordable. No one should pay high prices for a piece of garment. Since 2016, we’ve been very present in the streetwear scene. We help make streetwear affordable and available to all.
Biden picks North Carolina environmental chief to lead EPA
By: Carrie L. Merritt
Tags: Cantonese, Leadership, Environmental Protection, New York, New York New Video

President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday offered the leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency to Michael S. Regan, a North Carolina regulator who has made a name pursuing cleanups of industrial toxins and helping low-income and minority communities hit hardest by pollution.

Biden also plans to nominate New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, making her the first Native American to head that agency.

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New York City Ranked 2nd Place on “Judicial Hellhole” List
By: Daniel Gardner
Tags: New York, Sean C Hayes, New York Law, New York Lawyers

New York, failing just behind Pennsylvania and just above California ranked 2nd Place on the Judicial Hellhole List for 2020.

The Judicial Hellhole List is a ranking by the American Tort Reform Foundation.

The full report may be found at: ATR Foundation’s Judicial Hellhole List. While not all lawyers of this firm agree with all aspects of the report, the report is still worth a read.

Read the full story at www.thenewyorklawblog.com

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Flushing’s Day and Night
By: Lily Yang
Tags: Nonfiction, Scenes, Flushing, Chinese Culture, New York

Restaurants at Flushing

It is an old neighborhood, old in the sense of the rusty storefront tablets and golden bracelets, the aged pedestrians’ Chinese dialects that your grandma used to mumble, and the scents of braised duck feet that you remembered as a child.

It was Sept. 26, five days before the Chinese Moon Festival. Outside the Taipan Bakery on Main Street, several people lined up shortly in front of the grime-thickened glass door in thin sunlight. Inside, two crammed shopping paths, one for mooncakes and another for other bakeries, intersected, then separated.

The Moon Festival on Wednesday is a time when the moon is supposed to come full, and families are supposed to come together. While the weather forecast already declared Wednesday night to be rainy and the moon to be engulfed by clouds, no one knew if the night for that petite, wrinkled women waiting in the mooncake line will be about family reunion and festive blessings.

She wore an azure shirt and black pants with hair braided into a loose bun — a quintessential image of an aged Flushing woman. She leaned forward, pressing her body against the mooncake counter. Without a second of real observation, however, she swiftly leaned back again and swayed her head slightly to peer what other customers had bought. Another typical image one would recognize from their small town relatives’ shopping habits.

It seemed that she liked talking, at least to the young Chinese couple behind her. But it was one-way outputting instead of communicating, merely an act of opening her mouth and making some sounds that never echoed back.

“The fruit flavor mooncake bundle should be nice,” the young couple discussed. “But wouldn’t eight pieces be too much?”

“There are other bundles down there,” the women pointed to the lower section of the mooncake menu, turning around to the couple but holding her head low as if she was only muttering to herself.

The couple responded with a prolonged sound of “eeemm,” but the women went on murmuring about the flavors, the prices, and her recommendations for the young’s mooncake choice.

When it was her turn, the mooncake expert only bought one — a single, large, typical mooncake. As she walked out and disappeared into the street, the shopping throng moved a step forward.

It is Flushing in Queens, a place where the young only show up as night falls, shopping or eating or drinking, while the old ones stay, under the daylight.
Creating Charitable Habits
By: Richard Abbe
Tags: Habits, New York, Charity, Richard Abbe, Philanthropy

As the holiday season kicks off many people feel an increased desire to give back and become involved in the community. However with the stress of cooking, shopping, and juggling daily tasks many aren’t sure how to manage their time and energy in an effective manner. Fortunately, there are small ways to break down the act of charity and create everyday habits that allow you to expand your philanthropic efforts.

Here are a few ways to create charitable habits.

Everyone shops online, however, many don’t consider the online retailers that they are using. For instance, Amazon has a program called Amazon Smile, which allows for any purchase a consumer makes to go towards a 0.5% donation to charitable organizations. It’s at no extra cost to the consumer, just a simple way to put a little bit of money towards something that helps others. Aside from Amazon, there are a plethora of companies and businesses that have built-in donations during purchasing. By being more mindful of where we shop we can help others without altering our routine in any major way.

Another wonderful way to give back while simultaneously becoming more active in one’s community is to cook. We all have to eat and instead of making too much and throwing away leftovers, consider purposely cooking larger portions to give to those in need. There are tons of places such as shelters, fire stations, and nonprofits that welcome food donations. This is a particularly difficult time of year for vulnerable populations and every little bit makes a difference. Before delivering any food make sure to call ahead as there may be restrictions on what organizations can accept. We all make dinner and this is a great way to tweak your routine and feel that you’re having a positive impact on the lives of others.

Lastly, instead of throwing things away when you no longer need them, donate! Clothes, books, shoes, even electronics can go to someone else who may desperately need it. Everyone goes through their closet once or twice a year to revamp their wardrobe or make space in a storage area, so why not donate as you minimize?

These small changes in one’s routine are simple and effective at helping those that wish to give back an easy way to make participating in charity incredibly easy.

Originally published on Richard Abbe’s website.
Strengthening Family Bonds During Pandemic
By: Richard Abbe
Tags: Parenting, New York, Family, Pandemic, Richard Abbe

Families have been spending more time together than ever before during the pandemic. Parents working from home and children learning from home coupled with canceled sports and hobby activities means families are together often. Though this is a scary time for many people, taking advantage of this time together can help families grow closer to one another.

Be More Present

Working and learning from home means that people are spending a large amount of their time on a technological device. Cell phones, computers and tablets are also being used to connect with friends in the outside world and as entertainment. Take time to put away devices and be present with one another. Setting aside a few hours a day as a time for no devices may help everyone be more present and in the moment.

Listen to One Another

It’s important to really listen to one another during this time. Children and teenagers need an opportunity to vent and express their struggles without fear of being judged or in getting into trouble. Likewise, adults also need to feel listened to by their spouse, partner or friends. Feeling heard can help everyone feel important and necessary.

Stay Connected to Others

Families were used to spending time with other people before stay-at-home orders began. Taking time to nurture these relationships can give families a necessary break from one another. Use social media, apps, handwritten letters or emails to check in on other family members and friends.

Find Ways to Serve One Another

Studies show that doing things for other people brings more happiness than doing things for ourselves. Looking for ways to help family members can make others feel cared for and increase happiness throughout the family. Throw in a load of laundry for a child, buy a favorite snack for a spouse or leave encouraging notes for one another.

Make Time for Fun

Many entertainment options have been cut off due to shutdowns, but it doesn’t mean that a family still can’t have fun. Make time to have fun with each other by playing games, getting active outside or having a movie night together.

Though the pandemic has been hard on everyone, it doesn’t mean that there can’t be some positive aspects of it. Growing together as a family by building relationships, listening and having fun can strengthen a family’s bonds forever.

Originally published on Richard Abbe’s website.
Hopeful for the Knicks
By: John Yuan
Tags: Immanual Quickley, Cade Cunningham, NBA, New York, Knicks

Hopeful for the Knicks

Yes, it’s Preseason. Yes, it’s the Cavs.

But for the first time since Phil Jackson was still on the Lakers payroll I’m legitimately hopeful for the Knicks future. Because for the first time since Mark Jackson was a Knick, we may finally have our long term solution at PG.

The drafting of Immanual Quickley raised a lot of eyebrows as a 6'3" shooting guard. But playing him at point has been a revelation. The ball moves in a way not seen since Linsanity was hitting MSG and the improvement in the games of Knox and Barrett over the offseason really emerges.

A legitimate Point Guard (even a league average one) would allow Knox to focus on just getting into the right spots to make good shots. The same would allow RJ to focus on getting his shot off, with an emphasis on an improved shot form. When RJ was drafted, I felt that he and Knox could become the Knicks version of Tatum/Brown and with a PG to shepherd them, this scenario becomes more realistic.

The lineup of Quickley, Barrett, Knox, Toppin, and MitchRob was dynamite, not to mention young (Toppin is the oldest). All of whom are also on their rookie contracts (something the Knicks have been known to screw up ala Porzingis). Assuming Thibs can coach the kids up, this year is going to be fun to watch and I’m actually… hopeful.

Do I think they make the playoffs? Doubtful. But a run would be great. And even if they don’t, they would be in a lottery that no longer rewards the worst team. Cade Cunningham could easily slot into this lineup, pushing either Knox or Quick to the bench. Or Mitch sits down and they go small.

Go Knicks!
When an invitation to New York lands on your desk…
By: Kim Nilsson
Tags: Startup, Entrepreneurship, Founder Stories, New York, Lunar Eclipse

So off to the airport I go, travelling with the guy and his junior team member. First he treats us both to caviar and wine at the airport, then packs us both into economy while he waves good bye and turns into business class. In New York, I discover that he has now booked me in to share a room with his (female) team member. Not quite what I expected, but it was such an expensive hotel, I could not afford to pay for an upgrade to have a room on my own. Fine, ok. Then he insists that we go out to eat at a restaurant in the evening, as this was the “best cure for jet lag”.

Here is where coincidence makes the story even more bizarre. It just so happened that that particular evening there was a full lunar eclipse, well visible on the NYC sky, and it so happens that I am an astronomer by background. A now pretty tipsy investor guy drags me out onto the street and shouts to anyone who is interested, and a few who are not, that “my friend here is an astronomer” over and over again! Cue, time for bed.

Image by adege from Pixabay.

Before the trip ended, they also managed to drag me to one of the most expensive sushi restaurants in NYC where they bought platters of very strange looking dishes — and lots of Sake (again not my thing)— and I dare not think of what the bill came out to.

How did the story end? Suffice to say that there was one more lunch meeting following that, then the guy disappeared and soon thereafter that particular business venture ended. I got a few days for free in New York, and some unforgettable memories from the whole thing, though!

Dr Kim Nilsson is Chair and Co-Founder of Pivigo, a data science marketplace and AI-as-a-Service business based in London.
NBP Jobs 2020 Govt Jobs Apply Online National Bank of Pakistan
Tags: Banking Regulation, New York, Jobs, Bank Jobs, Govt Jobs

NBP keeps its position as Pakistan’s Premier Bank with a network of over 1450+ domestic branches , 21 global branches, 2 global Subsidiaries and 3 global Representative Offices.

The Bank also has presence inside the UK through United National Bank Ltd (UNBL), a banking group included within the UK and licensed by the Prudential Regulation Authority and controlled by means of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). UNBL has six branches positioned in Central London, Alford, Bradford, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. UNBL changed into shaped in 2001 as a Joint Venture between NBP and UBL thru merger of the United Kingdom branches of United Bank Limited and National Bank of Pakistan, who were running inside the UK because the mid-1960s. The foremost activities of UNBL are to offer retail banking merchandise thru its department network and Agents in most important towns in the UK; wholesale banking, treasury and cash transmission services to Financial Institutions, and trade finance centers to companies of all sizes.

NBP presently employs more than 15,000 humans global. The numerous departments of the financial institution consist of:

Consumer Banking, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking,Agricultural Banking,Transactional Banking,Operations,Software Development and Automation,Financial Control,Treasury,Internal Audit, Risk Management & Credit,Economic & Business Research,Training & Development,Strategic Planning and Human Resources.

Apply Now for National Bank of Pakistan NBP Jobs 2020 for Universal Tellers / Cash Officers, Operation Managers / Officers, Customer Service Officers, Business Development Officers, Trainee Officers, Branch Managers, Retail Officers & Others. National Bank of Pakistan is a Government owned biggest bank in Pakistan,

These Jobs in NBP 2020 are for Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Quetta, Hyderabad, Multan, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Sukkur and different towns. You can also take a look at contemporary National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Banking Sector , Financial Institution Jobs 2020 on NBP authentic website: www.nbp.com.pk

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The New York Jets Win But Still Lose
By: Joe Scurto Sports
Tags: New York Jets, New York, Football, NFL

By: Joe Scurto

It has been clear that the New York Jets have been the talk of the 2020 NFL season, but all for the wrong reasons. On Sunday it continued but ironically because the Jets actually won their first game of the season.

The Jets stunned the football world defeating the Los Angeles Rams 23–20. Who came into the matchup as one of the hottest teams in the league featured by a top ranked defense. The meaningless win now suddenly puts New York out of contention for Trevor Lawrence for the time being. As the Jacksonville Jaguars have leaped them for the number one overall spot — due to the strength of schedule.

Jets fans seem to never get nice things, as they were clearly ready for a winless 0–16 season. For the sake of finally seeing some light on the other side of the tunnel. That light was Trevor Lawrence who is viewed as one of the most promising prospects to enter the draft in the last 20 years. Just one day before the Jets victory, Lawrence dominated Notre Dame in the ACC Championship game going for over 400 total yards and four total touchdowns.

So what now for the Jets?

Technically the dream of landing Lawrence as their franchise quarterback is not completely dead yet. Assuming the Jets lose their remaining two games against the Cleveland Browns and the New England Patriots. They could still take back the first overall pick. That is if the Jags decide to snap their 13-game losing streak versus the Chicago Bears this upcoming week. To give Jets fans some positivity that task is possible. Despite being 7–7, the Bears have lost six out of their last eight games and quarterback Mitch Trubisky is always due for a poor performance.

All of Jet Nation will have to be Gardner Minshew believers this week hoping that he can put together a memorable game. Which will once again give New York some hope for the next decade.

Even with finally getting a win versus the Rams, the Jets still somehow lose which leaves you with three words. “The Goddamn Jets”.
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By: Kranti Dewangan
Tags: Software Development, Personal Development, New York, London

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city at night (a draft)
Tags: New York, Beauty, Girls, Poetry

its a tight dress

a long coat,

some dirty sneakers,

in the city at night.

last nights wine,

a perfect red pout.

Gold glitter speckles

like freckles on her cheeks,

reflecting street lights.

chanel number 5

and cigarette smoke

follow as she runs.

Through the streets,

like she doesn’t belong

to anyone

or

anything.

She’s not alone.

If you count shopping bags,

as friends.

Otherwise,

She might as well be dead to the world.
Watch Live: Biden Introduces His Climate Team
Tags: Joe Biden, Boxing, New York, Us, Live

President-elect Joe Biden departs his plane before attending a drive-in rally for U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock.

President-elect Joe Biden will formally introduce his climate team on Saturday. The Democrat has vowed to make tackling the climate crisis a key component of his administration.

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Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland serve as secretary of the interior; former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to head the Department of Energy; Michael Regan as EPA Administrator; Brenda Mallory as chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Gina McCarthy as national climate advisor; and Ali Zaidi as deputy national climate advisor.

The event is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. ET. Watch it live here:

About these key members of his incoming climate team, Biden this week said in a statement: “This brilliant, tested, trailblazing team will be ready on day one to confront the existential threat of climate change with a unified national response rooted in science and equity. They share my belief that we have no time to waste to confront the climate crisis, protect our air and drinking water, and deliver justice to communities that have long shouldered the burdens of environmental harms.”
The Stories That Got Us Through 2020
By: Dit Raj
Tags: Sports, New York, Barack Obama, Life, Coronavirus

The Stories That Got Us Through 2020

This year is hard to explain. Writers on Medium made sense of it all.

What just happened?

It’s hard to say for sure. There are the obvious things. The ways our world, and our lives, changed — probably forever. Hundreds of moments watching our colleagues freeze up on video chat. Then, awkwardly trying to tell them, “You’re frozen.” That’s just the beginning.

People have always turned to Medium to better understand the world and each other, and this year was the ultimate testament to that. We came here to figure out exactly… what’s going on. To connect with writers who informed, enlightened, challenged, and moved us. To tell our stories. To feel less alone. Every day, people on Medium came together to make sense of this unusual time, and to learn from each other in the process.

To mark the end of a year that sometimes felt like one endless day (we’re actually writing this on Tuesday, March 263rd), we wanted to share a small portion of the Medium stories that helped us all process this moment in history. We hope you appreciate revisiting them as much as we did.
Remingtons Don’t Cry
By: Remington Write
Tags: Regret, Emotions, New York, Family, Relationships

Something that I learned early on here in New York is that you can cry in public and people just mind their business (My God, I love that!). The most overt acknowledgment that someone was crying was on the subway when I saw a young woman hand the crying woman a tissue without looking at her. I loved that gesture so much. It was a classic NYC move.

Me being such a crybaby and all, you know I’ve wept in public numerous times. I’m reasonably certain I never pulled that kind of crap back in small-town Ohio. People would have crossed the street to find out what was wrong and before supper was over everyone in town would know Andrew didn’t call me after I let him feel me up. No thanks.

Cleveland was better (in every way).

But it was still the kind of place where I got scolded by some old man in the frozen food aisle of the Stop & Shop after I’d shaved my head bald. I’d been there 24 years at that point and that was when I realized I wasn’t going to stay. I applied to transfer from Case Western Reserve University — not really known for its writing program — to Columbia University which kind of is. Did I cry when I got accepted? Probably.

Here are a few of the reasons I have cried in public in New York City. Breaking up with my first NYC boyfriend (ok, and second and third). Taking my 22-year-old cat to be euthanized when she stopped eating and using the litter box. Losing a great job. Getting a better job. After a formerly close friend lost it with me for not responding to an email I never received and refused to ever speak to me again. Other friends’ deaths (more all the time). Reading the final paragraph of Thomas Pynchon’s 1085-page masterpiece, “Against The Day”. After having a tooth pulled.
Eminem uses song to say sorry to Rihanna for backing Chris Brown
Tags: New York, News, Networking, Newsletter

Eminem has used a new song to apologise to Rihanna for “siding” with her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who assaulted her in 2009.

Eminem raps on his track Zeus: “And wholeheartedly apologies Rihanna for that song that leaked/I’m sorry, Rih, it wasn’t meant to cause you grief.”

He was referring to a decade-old song that leaked in 2019, on which he said “of course I side with Chris Brown”.

Zeus appears on Eminem’s surprise album Music to be Murdered By Side B.

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The album, which accompanies January’s Music to be Murdered By, was released on Friday.

At the time the track leaked last year, Eminem’s spokesperson said: “This is a leak of something that’s over 10 years old. After Eminem recorded it, he scrapped it, and rewrote it.”

On his new track, he admitted the original lyric “was wrong of me”.

Brown pleaded guilty to the assault in 2009, and received five years probation and a community service order.

Eminem and Rihanna have collaborated several times, including on 2010’s US number one single Love the Way You Lie, as well as Numb on her 2012 album Unapologetic and The Monster from The Marshall Mathers LP 2 in 2013.

The rapper’s new album features collaborations with Dr Dre, Ty Dolla $ign, J Premier and Skylar Gray.
Hathras gang rape: Four charged over death of 19-year-old Dalit woman
Tags: New York, News, Networking, Newsletter

Four men in India have been charged with the rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman earlier this year in a case that sparked outrage across the country and internationally.

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The woman was admitted to hospital in Delhi after an attack in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in September.

She later died of her injuries.

The handling of the investigation was widely criticised, with allegations that local police had deliberately mismanaged the case.

The case was later transferred to India’s Central Bureau of Investigation.

The four suspects, who all belonged to a higher caste, allegedly attacked and raped the victim in a field in Hathras district. She died two weeks later.

The victim’s family accused local police of cremating her body without their consent, although the authorities denied this. A senior state official also appeared to imply the woman was not raped because semen was not found.

Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, face widespread discrimination and even violence in India, despite laws to protect them.

Rape and sexual violence have been under the spotlight in India since the 2012 Delhi bus rape and murder case, which led to huge protests and changes to the country’s rape laws. But there has been little sign of crimes against women and girls abating.
Welsh bomber who attacked Prince Charles’ investiture dies at 87
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The mastermind of a Welsh nationalist bombing campaign which targeted Prince Charles’s investiture has died aged 87.

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John Jenkins organised explosions to disrupt the Prince of Wales’ ceremony in Caernarfon in 1969.

The former leader of Welsh paramilitary group Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (MAC) was jailed for 10 years in 1970.

He later became a social worker and died “peacefully” in his sleep at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, his biographer said.

Mr Jenkins, a former army officer, was radicalised by the drowning of Tryweryn and the Aberfan disaster.

He was involved in planning a bombing on the eve of Prince Charles investiture.

A device exploded unexpectedly, killing two members of the MAC in Abergele.

The following day two more bombs were planted in Caernarfon.

One exploded in a police constable’s garden as a 21-gun salute was fired.

Another was planted near the castle but did not go off.

It was found by a 10-year-old boy who was left seriously injured when it exploded.

His biographer, Dr Wyn Thomas, said he was a man of “fierce principle who suffered much for a cause he believed in, and for a country he loved dearly.”

Writing on Facebook, Dr Thomas said Mr Jenkins died “peacefully” at Wrexham Maelor Hospital on Thursday after living an “incredible life.”

His death marked “the end of an era” in Wales and the UK’s political history, he said.

image captionJohn Jenkins said he had been put under pressure to try and assassinate Prince Charles

Dr Thomas said it was likely Mr Jenkins’ death would be met with “indifference” by some.

“To others, John Jenkins is a hero,” he said.

Speaking last year Mr Jenkins, who led MAC whilst still a non-commissioned Army officer, told WalesOnline he had been put under pressure to try and assassinate Prince Charles.

“One of the hardest fights I ever had was with our own people,” he said.

“I spent a lot of time in the weeks before the investiture travelling around in an army civilian car, reining people in.

“They were becoming more, well, savage as the ceremony approached.”

He said he stressed his view that an assassination would achieve “nothing” politically, though be believed it would have been “possible”.
The Freakout Over Pornhub’s Mass Deletion
By: Sharon Alger
Tags: Editors Pick, Social Justice, Culture, Feminism, Social Media

The world’s reaction

After PornHub removed millions of unverified porn, Nicholas Kristoff posted this tweet:

Many victims thanked him for writing his article, and the resulting outcome. They counted it as a personal win for themselves. Yes, their trauma lives on and they will need more support in the future. But having their voices heard and seeing actual change meant the world to them.

Many men cursed Kristoff, some even made death threats towards him. Some claimed that if men couldn’t have this ‘release,’ then they would be ‘forced’ to go out and rape women. That they ‘can’t survive’ without daily porn. Which is a means, once again, to hold everyone but the rapist accountable for the actions of adults. They’re okay with the violation of others. As long as it doesn’t affect their masturbation habits.

Keep in mind that porn is still available on the internet, by the way. ‘But we prefer amateur porn,’ they whine. From what I can gather, unverified accounts was where they found the amateur stuff. Sorry buddy, but that sounds like a you problem.

Some people complained that they enjoyed uploading their own amateur porn. They believe their privacy would be ‘violated’ if they had to verify their accounts. These people have the option of not uploading porn if they want to maintain their privacy. It seems that’s too much to ask. They couldn’t care less about the violation of privacy the victims have suffered for so long.

Some sex workers are complaining that Mastercard’s and Visa’s decision is harming them. This has affected their opportunity to make money. They don’t seem to understand that PornHub does not care about them and their rights. If PornHub had done the right thing, then they wouldn’t have put the workers in this predicament.
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8 Practical Guidelines for Designing Databases That Don’t Land You in Hot Water
By: Skye Tran
Tags: Getting Started, Normalization, Database Design, Database Model, Editors Pick

8 Practical Guidelines for Designing Databases That Don’t Land You in Hot Water

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Designing databases presents a conundrum: How are you supposed to design a database when you’ve never designed something similar?

Like, how are you supposed to know what works and what doesn’t when all the tips and tricks you Google are slightly different or worst still, contradicting one another? Or how are you supposed to avoid costly mistakes that could impede the performance when you are building everything from scratch? Here are 8 things you can do.

Disclaimer: This article focuses on guidelines to design a relational database, which is arguably the most commonly used type. Some guidelines might be irrelevant to non-relational database design and should be taken with a pinch of salt.

1. Put some serious thought about the business problems

If you should take away one thing from this post, it should be this one. Businesses do not spend money to create a database just to get normalisation, index, query performance and optimisation right. They invest a lump sum because there exists a crucial problem, and the problem has to be solved. This means at the end of the day, none of those fancy database design techniques matters if the problem has not been solved.

So before designing anything for the database, I think it’s crucial to ask yourself 4 questions.

What problem is the business hoping to solve with the database (or the application supported by the database)?

Have I fully understood what tasks need to be carried out by ALL business users who will interact with the system?

Can I confidently list down what data is required to enable business users to carry those tasks?

How are exceptions and irregularities dealt with in real-life?

And yes, I know it’s challenging to become experts in real-life operations, especially when we all have tight deadlines to meet. But it’s not good enough to stop at a partial understanding and rush to deliver something either. For me, as a professional, this fundamental reminder means to commit the time needed to ask enough questions, gather information, and put some serious thoughts into the problem, the approach, the tasks, the desired solution and the responsibility that comes with my judgment. We all want to be proud of creating a robust and thoughtful solution instead of building a cumbersome monster, am I correct?
LIME: explain Machine Learning predictions
By: Giorgio Visani
Tags: Getting Started, Editors Pick, Explainable Ai, Interpretability, Lime

LIME weak points

The generation step is an open issue!

The current implementation generates points all over the ℝᵖ space of the X variables, then gives importance only to the close ones, using the RBF Kernel with the proper kernel width kw value.

Two questions arise naturally:

Why don’t just generate only points close to the reference?

How to choose the correct value for the kernel width?

Why don’t just generate points close to the reference?

This is a delicate subject: in principle, it would be better to consider only the points in the region of interest, although the proper size of the region is not fixed but depends on the reference point.

In fact, the neighborhood should include all the linear area of the ML curve around the reference point, therefore it depends on the local curvature of f(x).

In the Picture below you may see how different points have different proper size for the linear local region.

The best neighborhood size depends on the reference point and the curvature of the ML function around it. Picture by the author

There are some works on local generation techniques for LIME (in particular Laugel and Renard’s work [2] and Guidotti’s LORE [3] technique). Unfortunately, both of them still present issues. The first paper considers other factors in the method development, losing the important concept of the tangent. The second one, instead, does not guarantee to consider the entire linear area around the reference dot (it just finds a very small neighborhood, without checking if the ML function is linear also a little bit further). This is a big drawback because small neighborhoods cause LIME explanations to be unstable.

How to choose the correct value for the kernel width?

This is considered the biggest issue, for some time the practitioners just tried out many different values and checked whether the explanations were reasonable.

This is clearly a problem: we are not sure the trained ML model makes reasonable decisions. So, if the ML finds strange or unreasonable rules, we expect LIME to be unreasonable too (after all that is precisely why we use LIME: to understand ML behavior and potential ML issues).

But if we choose the kw value based on meaningful explanations, we won’t be able to spot any ML problem!!

Moreover, we can see how bad choices of the kernel width distort the LIME line, making it very different from the tangent (as in the Picture below).

LIME explanations using different kernel width values. Picture by the author

Recently, OptiLIME has been developed: a new framework to find the best kernel width, so that LIME explanation is ensured to represent the tangent to the ML curve. The OptiLIME paper [4] is available here, and the open-source implementation can be found on Github.
When Editors Make Changes That I Disagree With
By: Vuyo Ngcakani
Tags: Short Story, Editors Pick, My Writing, Editor, Writing

When Editors Make Changes That I Disagree With

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I’m sure most of us on this platform do our own self-editing. The thought of paying an editor for our short pieces isn’t appealing.

But for longer pieces, you might. Especially if you intend on selling it or entering a competition.

I’ve hired editors several times. One was in a writers’ group I belonged to, others were recommended, and some I found online.

Editors have their value. When I hire one I want one who can:

Find grammatical and spelling errors. Enhance my writing with better words and improved sentence structure. Ensure I keep the POV and tense. Make sure I keep appropriate diction for the character and time period. Show me how to become a better writer.

But there are times when an editor oversteps in my view. It’s not a big deal because you can ignore their recommendations. However, it can still be annoying when you see certain things done to your writing.

Spelling is changed. I’m Canadian. We use British spelling. I had an editor change ‘colour’ to ‘color’. It’s only happened once but I was shocked. Interestingly enough it was the only word in the essay that differed in spelling from American. Otherwise, I’m sure there would have been other ‘corrections’. Not cool. My Voice is changed. I heard someone say they don’t know how to describe pornography but they know it when they see it. it’s the same with someone writing voice. Think of your favourite (not favorite) author. I’ll bet if someone gave you a chapter of their writing, you would know it was them. Everyone has got a style all their own. You don’t want an editor who returns a piece to you that you don’t recognise, even if it plays well to a wider audience. You’ll feel like a fake. I know. My writing is judged. Some editors think they know you. Instead of asking questions, they make assumptions. I once gave an editor five short stories to peruse. One of the stories was entirely different from the others and the editor told me that I shouldn’t write something that isn’t me. What! Maybe the one piece was me and the other four weren’t. Either way, don’t tell me what to write. Please.

If you can find a great editor, pay them. They’re worth it. I’ve used some good ones.

Others have made my blood boil. Can anyone recommend a sedative?