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Binance System Upgrade Notice
Tags: Blockchain, Exchange, Binance, Technology, Cryptocurrency

Heads up, Binancians: the Binance cryptocurrency exchange will undergo a scheduled system upgrade on November 14, 2018, starting at 2:00 AM UTC. This upgrade is expected to go on for eight hours.

During this time, we will suspend deposits, withdrawals and trading. While we don’t want to inconvenience our users as much as possible, we constantly upgrade our platform to give you an even better trading experience, and this upgrade is part of that endeavor.

Here’s a short guide on what you can do before, during, and after the upgrade.

What to do before the Binance system upgrade

Download the Binance app on your smartphone to get push notifications on the latest updates on Binance. Get the app on iOS and Android.

Once you download the app, check your orders if they might be affected by the upgrade. Cancel orders if needed.

What to do during the upgrade

Check our website and official social media pages on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to get updates on the upgrade.

Join our official Telegram group and our local communities on Telegram (see a list here). If you have any questions during the maintenance, our team and Angels will be ready to help.

Sit back, relax, and watch a video or 10 on Binance Academy. Like this one:

Contribute to our mission to make the world a better place via blockchain. Donate to the Blockchain Charity Foundation.

Read our in-depth reports about blockchain projects on our newly launched Binance Research.

Stay updated regarding the latest movement and insights in the crypto world through Binance Info.

Do you have an awesome idea for a blockchain project? Better spend those eight hours hashing out your plan and who knows, Binance Labs might think your idea has a lot of potential.

Still itching to get in on some crypto action during the upgrade? Get the Trust Wallet and explore its many features! Download it now on iOS and Android.

What to do once the upgrade is done

Rejoice.

Log in and check the functions of Binance platform. Ask Binance support if needed.

Smile because your funds are #SAFU.

Resume trading.

We’ll keep you updated throughout the course of the system upgrade. Thank you for your support!
County Approves Contract To Upgrade Flashing School Beacons Across Gwinnett
By: Gwinnett Magazine
Tags: Driving, Education, Lifestyle

The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday awarded Temple Inc. the contract to upgrade all the flashing school beacons across Gwinnett County for less than $700,000.

School beacons are used to control traffic in school zones for the safety of drivers and students. As such, these devices are part of the Gwinnett Department of Transportation traffic network. This contract will update 270 controller units in 150 school zones.

The existing flashing beacons were installed in 1999. While using a pager for notification was creative thinking prior to Y2K, now the software is dated and incompatible with current operating systems.

The contract awarded Tuesday will operate on a cloud-based software solution that provides two-way communications between the County’s Traffic Control Center and the time clocks in the field through cellular service. The award covers the purchase of all products and services related to the school flasher control system replacement solution, including installation, communications, ongoing support and training services.

The vendor/manufacturer will host and maintain the server for the control software. The software will be accessed via an Internet browser and will eliminate the need for a server to be installed and maintained by the County Information Technology Team. The manufacturer is Applied Information (ai), a local company in Suwanee.

The $699,397.50 contract calls for installation of the new software, server space and five years of cellular service. Any malfunctions in the software are covered for five years as well.

Additional information about these and other SPLOST road improvement projects can be found on the County’s website at www.gwinnettcounty.com.
5 Fun iOS Libraries to Improve Your UI
By: Samarth Paboowal
Tags: Mobile, Programming, Swift, Software Development, iOS

5 Fun iOS Libraries to Improve Your UI

Awesome UI and animations for ‘UITableView’ and ‘UICollectionView’

FoldingCell

We start with folding-cell , a customised cell subclass for UITableViewCell . It provides an awesome folding/unfolding animation of a cell to display/hide its content.

This library is compatible with iOS 8+ and Xcode 10.2+
Blockwhat? Blockchain!
By: Till Antonio Mahler
Tags: Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, Emerging Technology, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Photo by Anthony Indraus

Hello there lovely you, awesome that you’re here. Chances are very high that you’re here because you happen to be interested in this whole blockchain thingy.

Maybe you’re still at the beginning of your journey into the fascinating and sometimes cryptic lands of blockchain and want to get a thorough and understandable introduction into what’s up with the all this fuss about blockchain.

Or you might already have a sound understanding but are hungry for more information, in order to satisfy your inner curiosity and to gain a more nuanced knowledge.

Whatever the case, this blog will not disappoint you. We will explore everything here starting from the history of blockchain (which goes back all the way to the 80s!), to discovering the technological foundations which make this magic thing work (super interesting, I promise), all the way to diving into actual use cases of this mesmerizing new technology.

Oh, and I’ll provide you with reviews of some of the best resources that helped me to gain a thorough and sound understanding of this sometimes very confusing topic.

Let’s get rolling and dive right into the mesmerizing world of blockchain. It’ll be a captivating journey. Are you ready?
At long last…
By: Team Nirvana
Tags: News, Nirvana Behind The Scenes, Nirvana App Updates, Developer

It took a lot of planning, prototyping, testing and trial runs, but we’ve finally completed our migration over to amazon/aws.

What does this mean for you? It means significantly lower chances of down-time (our systems are waaaaay more fault-tolerant now), plus tighter security (we were always secure, but now even more so).

On our end we get to breathe easier knowing that our systems are fully redundant and scalable to meet demand, and we can start deploying new updates with confidence.

Solid.

The rest of this post is a bit inside baseball, but I thought I’d share some details as we get asked about our setup quite often in support-land and at tech meetups.



About a year ago we began bumping up against walls that impeded our ability to move forward. These fell in to three broad categories: scalability, agility, and (as a result) marketing. Arguably these are good problems for a company to have (well, maybe not the marketing part), and while we had theoretical solutions for everything, the practical matter of implementation took quite a bit of time, a lot of learning and a few leaps of faith.

On the infrastructure front, our production architecture at Linode, while hyper-optimized (running arch+nginx), did not lend itself to easy scalability. Given a team of sysadmins we could have overcome this, but we’re app developers at heart. Enter aws: eb, ec2, rds, ses, s3 and route53 to save the day. While we still have a few things to tweak, we couldn’t be happier with the move. Major props to the boys at TriNimbus for giving us a hand.

On the agility front, our inability to efficiently work on isolated feature development was killing us. Branching-and-merging is not an area where svn excels. We’re now git across the board and cannot believe we waited so long to switch. We still use beanstalk for our repo origins because, well, they’re awesome. On another note, we made the mistake, in hindsight, of outsourcing some of our mobile app development. We were running low on internal man-power (as our time was getting sucked into putting out fires), but in the end having a portion of our development outsourced really killed our iterative release cycles. As we were unable to synchronously release feature updates across all platforms we got stuck in the mud. So we’re bringing development back in-house. All of it.

On the marketing front, being in a scalability bind we weren’t in a position to bring hoards of new users into the mix — though we did welcome thousands of new users through organic / word-of-mouth referrals. Now that we have the infrastructure in place to support rapid growth, we’ll be kicking things up a notch to more aggressively get the word out.

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All of which is to say that it took the better part of a year to dig ourselves out of the hole we made for ourselves. Building good software and running a solid business both involve continual improvements and course-corrections, and it’s nice to be back on a path with daylight again. We’re all pretty stoked for what comes next.
eoshub, the EOS Toolkit Service launched! (KR-EN)
Tags: Eos, Eosys, En, Eoshub, Notice

EOSYS는 일반 사용자들이 EOS를 온전히 이해하고 이용하는 것에 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다는 사실을 잘 알고 있습니다. 이에 앞으로 유저 친화적이고 매력적인 EOS 서비스를 만들어 나갈 수 있도록 더 많이 고민하고 노력하겠습니다.

조만간 EOSYS가 투자 및 육성하는 EOS 기반의 탈중앙화 거래소인 EOSDAQ과 함께 여러분들을 대상으로 무료 EOS 계정 생성 이벤트를 진행할 예정이니 많은 관심 부탁드립니다. 감사합니다.

EOSYS understands that end users are having a lot of trouble understanding and using EOS. In the future, we will make more efforts to make user-friendly and attractive EOS service possible.

Soon, we are going to hold a free EOS account creation event with EOSDAQ which is a EOS-based decentralization exchange invested and incubated by EOSYS. Stay tuned. Thank you.
We Are the Advent of Armageddon
By: Sherry Kappel
Tags: Humanity, Poetry, Hate, Armageddon, One Line

In our most glorious moments

Humans cleave together

Aligned as tight as magnets

Yet because we are human

Avarice macerates our cells

So must we repel

As if polar opposites
使用者與產品的初次約會（上篇） — 理論與心法
By: Jasmine Lin
Tags: 設計思考, 成長駭客, UX, 設計, 产品设计

Written by

UX Designer / Information Architect from Taiwan, now living in Seattle.
Planet’s International Intern Class Goes Remote in 2020
Tags: Internships, Satellite Imagery, Remote Sensing

This Planet SkySat image, taken on August 30, 2018, shows the famous Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, just one of the countries where Planet’s 2020 remote interns hail from. The park full of lush green gardens spans 250 acres near Marina Bay. © 2018, Planet Labs Inc. All Rights Reserved.

We’re excited to announce that Planet’s interns will be starting this week. Before March, Planet already supported over 20 percent of its global workforce remotely, and San Francisco employees who have recently gone remote have adapted amazingly well. We are all poised and ready to welcome the 2020 intern class.

Although we recognize it may be more desirable to have an in-person internship experience, we are confident that our company-values will guide our interns, employees and culture beyond workplace walls — and we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances. While many companies have cancelled or limited their summer intern programs, we are proud of the fact that our class of interns represents 14 schools, 17 cities and eight countries internationally.

Our interns will be working across departments, including space and software, marketing, sales and business development, and will have a multitude of opportunities to grow as a part of the team.

Planet will host regular “Launch and Learns” every other Friday for the duration of the internship, where interns will have the opportunity to learn how Planeteers got to where they are, discover where they could go and ask questions or seek advice. In addition, interns can get to know people in other departments via virtual “Cookie Chat” sessions, and ask Planeteers questions over a sweet snack. Interns will also be invited to full-time employee events like our colloquiums and launch parties.

The interns will be afforded many chances to work closely with employees to help develop a strong career path and plan ways to achieve it. Planeteers, at all levels, are well-versed in setting timely and meaningful goals. Some departments even have special pep-rally like cheers for when employees achieve specific goals. And speaking of making some noise, we give company-wide weekly shout-outs to encourage progression. Adapting to new ideas and situations will always be a part of working in aerospace and we are excited to provide our interns with the tools for success in their careers.

In addition to providing interns with just as much support as they’d receive working in-office, they’re also afforded a portion of work time to give back to the community and charitable causes. Perhaps an upside to having a remote summer class is that our interns can give directly back to their own communities in new and unique ways.

With a diverse intern class that spans more identity groups, schools and cities than ever before, we are excited to see how our interns inspire new perspectives for our teams and for each other.

To learn more about Planet’s internship program, reach out to Tori Klotz at tori@planet.com.
5 Use Cases For The DreamTeam Token
Tags: Blockchain, Esport, Token, Token Economy, Tokenization

One month ago, DreamTeam released the DreamTeam Tokenomics Paper — with in-depth information of what DreamTeam Token (DREAM) is, it’s economic model, and all existing and future use cases. Below, we will briefly talk about five use cases for the DREAM token: tournament payouts, salaries and sponsorship payouts, payment for premium and other one-time services, token usage on the backend, and how to purchase other gaming assets with the token.

Tournament Payouts

Tournament payouts include any prize compensation that is promised and paid to a player or team who plays and places in a defined position of a tournament.

Problem:

Players and teams often compete in tournaments and never receive the prize compensation they were promised.

Solution and use case:

Through the use of smart contracts and the DREAM token, players and teams can be guaranteed that they will receive the advertised prize money that they are owed. For example: when a team wins first place in a tournament, a smart contract is immediately executed and the team receives their money in the form of DREAM tokens. The tokens can then be sold for fiat or used to purchase other goods and services.

Salaries and Sponsorship Payouts

Sponsorship and salaries include any compensation that is promised and paid to a player or team who successfully complete an agreed upon action such as playing for a team or representing a brand.

Problem:

Players and teams often play for a team or represent a brand and never receive the agreed upon compensation for completed actions.

Solution and use case:

Through the use of smart contracts and the DREAM token, players and teams can be guaranteed that they will receive the agreed upon compensation for completed actions. For example: when a team makes a post for a keyboard company across their social media pages, a smart contract is immediately executed and the team receives their money in the form of DREAM tokens. The tokens can then be sold for fiat or used to purchase other goods and services.

Payment for Premium and Other One-time Services

The DreamTeam platform offers several Premium Player and Team subscription types. In addition to the premium subscriptions, DreamTeam will also offer several one-time services like Team or Player promotion, custom logo creation, etc. The DREAM token will always be used to purchase the DreamTeam Premium subscriptions and other one-time services.

Token Usage on the Backend

DreamTeam also accepts fiat currency. However, as stated above, the DREAM token will always be used to purchase the DreamTeam Premium subscriptions and other one-time services. Once a transaction has been made in a fiat currency, the DreamTeam platform automatically buys the needed amount of DREAM tokens from a crypto exchange and pays for the subscription or one-time service with those tokens. This will ensure that the DREAM token maintains a healthy volume and that the token value continues to rise. DreamTeam does incentivize users to use DREAM tokens by offering discounts for those who pay directly with DREAM tokens.
Respite
By: Anna Rozwadowska
Tags: Humanity, Loss, Poetry, Stress Management, Suffering

I heard your voice last night

I have nothing to fear oh how wrong you are

my deceased father,

afraid of shadows after your depart

popping corks of red finesse

shaking at what is a ghost inside

I would trade my life for your chance to live,

enjoy solitude of sea,

baths of salt water hitting your face

like the memories of what shadows me

it hits my face too.
Serenity office opened in China
By: Serenity Financial
Tags: Ethereum, Bitcoin, ICO, Token Sale, Startup

Serenity is expanding internationally: the company’s first Chinese office was opened in Shenzhen. The new team of developers joined us in the important work on building and supporting the project.

We have no doubt that with the help of our new Chinese colleagues, our team will make the project work even more efficiently.

Only few hours left till the end of the closed round of sales. Last chance to buy Serenity tokens with a 45% discount!
A guide to creating a React app without create-react-app
Tags: Front End Development, React, Web Development, Technology, Webpack

If you’re a newbie willing out to implement React in your future projects leaving out the unnecessary stuff that comes packed with create-react-app, then I’m sure that this article will build you a concrete understanding to get started with React & Webpack altogether!

Most of the stuff we do in a React project created with create-react-app library is managed by the library itself. So, in short, everything we’re going to implement here is actually pre-implemented in the create-react-app library.

This is to make you understand how all that stuff works when added manually. I’ll be explaining the things as we go on implementing them.

Let’s get started

1. Initialize the NPM

Run npm init -y in the project folder named as, e.g. react-webpack-starter.

C:\Users\sapin\Desktop\react-webpack-starter>npm init -y

Wrote to C:\Users\sapin\Desktop\react-webpack-starter\package.json: {

“name”: “react-webpack-starter”,

“version”: “1.0.0”,

“description”: “”,

“main”: “index.js”,

“scripts”: {

“test”: “echo \”Error: no test specified\” && exit 1"

},

“keywords”: [],

“author”: “”,

“license”: “ISC”

}

After done, open the project folder in your code editor.
Impervious
By: Jessica Lee Mcmillan
Tags: Hope, Poetry, Life, Nature, Self

May I unfold the next morning

& cast the right spell out of this mud

& bathe in tree-filtered light

& find my lonely tribe there

& meet the sun after the fire

& be impervious to divisive glare

& harness pink cloud after loss

& colour this reality out of its lines

& spill over and stem from my heart

& flit about in wild, eccentric shades
Create Your Own Mincemeat
By: The Food Channel
Tags: Meat, Recipe, DIY, Food, Homemade

For 30+ years the Food Channel has brought recipes, trends and reviews to businesses and homes around the world. Now it’s time for us to bring our expertise and resources to you.

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A More Actionable UX Research Readout — Inform Design & Build Empathy
By: Eve Weinberg
Tags: User Experience Research, User Experience Design, Empathy, UX Research, UX

What this means: This means two things — firstly, literally bring a team member to the interview to listen if you can. Alternatively, you should also check in at a regular cadence with the team to share more rough findings and snippets of raw data.

Why? If team members can join you in an interview they will be energized to make the product better just by virtue of meeting a user who is garnering value from it; and in the longterm, they now understand how your research works and why it’s a complimentary method to quantitative analysis. They will see you dig deep on the ‘why’s and get to a real user need, not just a feature request. If that can’t happen, then remember to share often. Don’t go into a cave and come out with a 100 page deck that takes a full day to read out. Instead, share your one pagers in chunks, share fun sketches of early ideas, share your curiosities. ⚠️Warning: don’t share anything too fleshed out or else people might be anchored on it and just want to start coding! It happens. But do let people in on the energy of your detective work, what you’re curious about, and your early affinity maps. This will also mitigate skepticism later, when you inevitably get asked about your personas, ‘Did you explore any other spectrums or archetypes?’

Why, also? Another reason to bring the team along is because your research guide should be iterative and agile, just like your product! Hypotheses that you thought you would need 20 minutes of questioning on could be put to rest after 5 minutes with your first 3 interviews — now you’ve opened up 15–20 minutes for fresh conversational content! Secondly, the stakeholders might be shifting focus as your interviews are being conducted, so keep those lines of communication open, build your guide with your stakeholders, and be ready to roll with changes, or explain why you can’t. Thirdly, you might realize that you need one guide for one type of person, and a second arc of questions for a different type of person. Be agile.
How to improve Emergency Departments with AI?
By: Raquel Correia
Tags: Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence, Emergency Medicine, Healthcare, Big Data

Imagine you’re an emergency physician. You’re known for your short attention span, but also your ability to put puzzle pieces together fast. You get excited about providing the best possible journey for the unexpected, urgent patients you’re going to see. But once you approach the waiting room, you are faced with reality. Crowds are shuffling in and you won’t have much time for each patient. Emergency medicine is one of the most tiring specialties in medicine. Is it time to revolutionize it?

Patients numbers in the E.R. continue to rise

Some cold, hard facts. Emergency rooms (ERs) worldwide are suffering. Crowds are seeking primary care behind emergency doors and creating obstacles for real emergencies. The trend is not new, and visits to the ER have been rising at a rate of 1.5–2% a year since at least 1966. Everyone knows the situation and is doing their best to cope.

Why would a patient without an urgent condition prefer to go to the emergency department rather than see his primary care physician? Pretty much the same reason people would rather use giants like Amazon than go to the local bookshop: convenience, working hours, the “one-stop shop” factor, the lack of limitations, and available specialists.

Let’s be honest. Primary care physicians are overwhelmed with inquiries from patients and lack the human power to respond promptly. E.R. staff is burning out because they don’t feel that they are offering a satisfactory patient journey as often as they’d like when the patient crosses those doors.

How to cut unjustified visits to the ER?

If we’re interested in reducing unjustified visits to the ER, it’s time we empowered our patients with reliable symptom checkers they can use before they come in. The are several vendors out there with Symptomate being the tool offered by Infermedica. The patient is asked several questions in a clear manner, and ultimately gets an idea of what might be going on. Once he reaches the health checkup results page, he is directed either to the ER or to a booking system with an appropriate physician (a general practitioner or a specialist).

Another way of avoiding unnecessary trips to the ER is to take emergency care to the patient’s home, and that’s Call9’s business. Call9 uses highly-skilled first-responders, known as Clinical Care Specialists (CCs) who will go to nursing homes and rehab centers, providing access to emergency care 24/7. Using the CCs and technology, a physician working remotely, can diagnose and prescribe treatment, avoiding unnecessary trips to the ER.
Conviction — VIFF 2019. Did you know that women are the fastest…
By: Jennifer Hammersmark
Tags: Mental Health, Homeless, Review, Prison Reform, Documentary

What would you have needed in life to avoid imprisonment?

Through this very thoughtful documentary, we learn through the inmates’ stories that they belong anywhere except prison. So why are they there? Let’s see…mental health issues, trauma, homelessness, addiction, victims of abuse, poverty…shall we go on?!

Shocking, simply shocking. One mother of an adult inmate talks about her daughter’s mental illness, and how jail is her safety net. Hospitals won’t take her anymore, she can’t afford her medications, and what she actually needs is an institution. However, prison is the closest thing she has.

These women are marginalized, criminalized, victimized, and institutionalized. Through the film we learn about the term de-carcerating: investing in people, not in prisons.

During the Q&A, Aleah (again, sorry if I haven’t gotten your name quite right!) we find out is a wonderful woman who was a former inmate herself. She now works with the Elizabeth Fry Society on a Regional Advocacy team. I have no doubt that her experience and fortitude will help move this cause forward.

Also seen above, Anthony Truong Swan “works with social justice and environmental documentaries to develop partnerships across all sectors of civil society, helping to put relevant issues-based films on the front lines of creating social impact.” Again, with Anthony on their team, it is very hopeful that this exposure can cause some change.

A last interesting find during the Q&A: Teresa Macinnes shares that she was on her way to becoming a Psychologist, when she discovered that documentary films can be therapeutic, if done properly. Agreed! One of the main reasons I even write reviews about documentaries is to highlight social justice causes, and mental health issues through a great medium. Bravo Teresa! Good choice of careers. You have impacted me, and I am sure thousands. Keep up the good work.

GREAT documentary. GREAT cause to be aware of. If this injustice interests you, please visit their website: www.convictiondocumentary.com.
最近の夜なべAngular活動まとめ (1)
Tags: Angularjs

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Box #4 by Bridget Evarts and Michael Krumenacker/curated by Tim
By: Timothy Braun
Tags: Play, Theatre, Storytelling

A prototype platform for a multi-experiential storytelling and theatrical affair. We created worlds inside 4 boxes, and we are asking folks to tell us what they see. Here is how it has gone so far:

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Learn How to Meditate in 2 Minutes
By: Niharika Sodhi
Tags: Mindfulness, Mental Health, Meditation, Life, Health

Meditation isn’t the new cool thing everyone’s talking about. We’re seeing this word around it these days more than ever before, but it’s not a sudden trend. It’s a centuries-old practice we all suddenly need more than ever before.

Sometimes, new-age problems have ancient solutions.

No, I’m not a veteran meditator. I’m only a little over 500 days old.

I have tried meditation from live instructors and three different apps, and one thing I can tell you is — you do not need to spend any money to learn how to meditate.

The meditation breathwork is one technique taught in different ways.
In Shocking Turn of Events, Falcons Declared Super Bowl 2017 Winners
By: Sarah Paris
Tags: Politics, Fiction, Football, Satire, Comedy

FOOTBALL SATIRE

In Shocking Turn of Events, Falcons Declared Super Bowl 2017 Winners

Overwhelming evidence of football fraud presented by drunk fans

Photo by Muyuan Ma on Unsplash

Almost three years after the New England Patriots’ blatant, painful slaughter of the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI, the NFL has overturned the results. Citing compelling evidence — from a wasted female Falcons fan and a bunch of frat boys who used their “FALCONS: SUPER BOWL LI CHAMPS” tattoos as proof of the great Patriot conspiracy — the NFL Executive Committee voted unanimously to give the Falcons a win.

Falcons QB Matty “Ice” Ryan is elated with the decision. “I’ve been shouting it from the rooftops for years,” he says. “We were up 21–3 at halftime. Clearly, we won the game.” Falcons head coach, Dan Quinn, agrees.

“Those cheating Patriot bastards had dead people scoring touchdowns! It’s true. An assistant to the Assistant Patriots' Locker Room Manager saw it with his own eyes. We won Super Bowl LI, and everyone knows it. They just don’t like us.”

When asked what proof he had for these serious allegations, the coach explained there was “so much proof it’s scary” but did not elaborate. Quinn went on to decry all starting line-up players who told him to move on and not act like a screaming dictator. “Star Wide Receiver Julio Jones is a Falcon in name only,” he said.

In the Falcons’ infamous Super Bowl loss, the team was up 21–3 at the half. “Falcons beat Tom Brady and the Unstoppable Patriots!” premature headlines read. And then Brady mounted a second half comeback. The Falcons were outplayed. Final Score: Patriots 34. Falcons 28.

“Everyone thought we were gonna win, and then that sneaky Bill Belichick sent thousands of illegal immigrants with footballs onto the field. He stole our touchdowns and claimed them as the Patriots’,” Quinn continued.

An Executive Committee member who wishes to remain anonymous explained that the entire league laughed at, and was embarrassed by, the Falcons’ outcries. “Shockingly, it turns out they actually did win,” he says. He said a 2020 press conference held by the Falcons compelled the Committee to review the 2017 results.

The conference was held at Coke headquarters in Atlanta — not the soft drink, but the largest manufacturer and distributor of cocaine in the US. The source confirms that the ballsy move lent to the credibility of the Falcons organization.

“It’s nice to see no one making a mockery of the NFL,” he said. “The appearance at the Coke drug warehouse confirms the Falcons take this seriously. This whole process speaks volumes about the character and integrity of the Falcons organization.”

‘No word on when Patriots’ players will turn over their Super Bowl ’17 rings or the Lombardi Trophy.
Start Your Path Where You’re Uncomfortable
By: Jean Carfantan
Tags: Poetry, Spirituality, Healing, Pain, Self

I do a meditation with a crystal

And there on my diaphragm

I feel a breathing discomfort

As soon as my frequency rises.

I explore it and then remember

My father was unpredictable :

When he made a decision,

We had to act immediately.

Sometimes he had violent

And unexpected reactions

for trivial matters.

This sudden violence

Used to take my breath away,

Breaking the course of my thinking.
The ROI of Focusing on Customer Satisfaction
By: Matt Solar
Tags: SaaS, B2B, Company News, Net Promoter Score, Content Marketing

nDash.co Leads Content Marketing Platforms with 90th Percentile Customer Satisfaction

Continues mission to help marketers and agencies drive more sales through content marketing

BOSTON (PRWEB) April 17, 2018

A quarterly customer feedback analysis revealed that 70% of nDash’s customers are “extremely likely” (a 9 or 10 on the scale) to recommend nDash to others. nDash, a company built with the purpose of helping companies to create amazing written content, relies on customer feedback to continuously improve the user experience and customer-focused services and is excited to see such positive results.

nDash.co’s Net Promoter Score™ of 52 puts them in the 90th percentile for the software industry, alongside top brands such as Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Google, according to Delighted.

By providing brands and agencies with the tools to manage their content creation, as well as access to an on-demand community of freelancers, nDash enables marketers to create impactful content and scale their marketing efforts. The survey’s feedback provided critical information on where nDash can continue to improve. The company found that the fragmentation of content management solutions is a pain point for marketers and digital agencies.

Based on this feedback, nDash has started identifying critical platforms to begin rolling out standard, premium, and custom integrations.

nDash aims to launch features ensuring that whether collaborating with coworkers, an existing team of freelancers, or their community of vetted professional writers, nDash has the software and services to continue to support your team’s marketing and sales growth goals.

Growth & Milestones

Achieved 40% quarter-over-quarter growth in managed services

Maintains double-digital quarterly revenue growth

Expands customer list to include Hitachi, Toyota, LinkedIn among others

Continuous product improvement with Q1 launch of Verified Writers, Content Calendar

Named a Top Marketing Agency in Boston

About nDash.co

nDash, a privately held company based in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, provides leading brands and agencies with the tools, talent, and topics they need to scale content creation. To learn more, please visit https://www.ndash.co.
How to Render Medium Blog Posts on Your Website
By: Granit Haxhaj
Tags: Ｍedium, API, Web Development, React, JavaScript

This is a tutorial on how to use Medium’s custom API to get your blog posts rendering on your website. Using this method is better than manually inputting your blog posts because the API updates as you post blogs. This will also update your website and show new blogs automatically. This tutorial will be done using React.js, but the same concepts and API request can be used on whatever platform you are coding your website on.

Step 1: Fetch the Data

As usual, your component will initiate with an “componentDidMount()” function. This will ensure that the blogs are saved to state before your component is mounted to the DOM. The request link is :

‘https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json?rss_url=https://medium.com/feed/@your-user-name'

You must input your user name exactly as you have it on your Medium account. The next part is to simply run a fetch method and save your blog posts to the component’s state:

componentDidMount(){ fetch('https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json?rss_url=https://medium.com/feed/@your-user-name') .then(resp => resp.json()) .then(blogs => this.setState({blogs})) }

Now your state has all of your blog posts in JSON format.

Step 2: Write A Function to Render Blog Posts

Using ‘console.log()’ as you code is an important debugging method. If you console.log(this.state.blogs), you will see the data in the following format:

{

feed: {Breakdown of the account the API request is coming from},

items: {All of your blog posts},

status: "ok"

}

The “items” key is where the blog posts are held. Once inside there, this is the breakdown of one of your blog posts:

0:{

author: "Your name",

categories: [An array of your category tags],

content: An HTML version of your article,

description: Typically the same as your content,

enclosure: _proto_,

guid: "Short link to your blog post",

link: "Full link to your blog post",

pubDate: "The time and date your blog was posted",

thumbnail: "Link to your thumbnail image,

title: "Title of your blog post"

}

This is important to see because you need these specific keys to be able to render your blog posts to your website. Now that you have these keys, you can render them with a function any way you’d like. Here is an example:

renderBlogs = () => { if(this.state.blogs.items){ return this.state.blogs.items.map(post => { return <div className="column"> <div className="card"> <img src = {post.thumbnail} className = "Img"/> <h1 className = "cardHeader">{post.title}</h1> <p className = "cardText">Posted on: {post.pubDate}</p> <a href = {post.link} className = "Link"> Read the Full Blog Here!</a> </div>

</div> })}}

Step 3: Call your Function

The final step is to call on your new “renderBlogs” function within your render method:

render(){ return( <div> {this.renderBlogs()} </div> )}

Now you will be able to see your blog posts rendering on your website. As you post on Medium, the API will be updated and add all new blog posts to your website. Play around with the CSS and try to render your blog posts in a way that fits your website’s overall design!
The Evolution of the Scrum Guide— ‘10 to ‘19
By: Paddy Corry
Tags: Agile, Scrumhistory, Scrum, Serious Scrum, Scrum Master

Introduction

In 2010, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland published their first version of the Scrum Guide, as an attempt to define Scrum, and help practitioners understand the rules of the game. However, as Willem-Jan Ageling has recently posted here at Serious Scrum, this was nowhere near the first attempt to articulate the Scrum framework.

The first version of the guide was written between 2008 and 2010. Scrum was being used in industry for decades before 2008, but the guide in 2010 was Schwaber and Sutherland’s first attempt to distill the framework into a short, freely available document, a definition of sorts.

The conclusion, or ‘end note’ to the guide, added in July 2011, offers a hint to what the two authors are really striving for:

“Scrum is free and offered in this guide. Scrum’s roles, artifacts, events, and rules are immutable and although implementing only parts of Scrum is possible, the result is not Scrum. Scrum exists only in its entirety and functions well as a container for other techniques, methodologies, and practices.” (Source: Scrum Guide July 2011)

Even in the foreword to the first edition, companies such as GE Medical and Fidelity Investments are acknowledged as early adopters of Scrum, and contributors such as Jeff McKenna, John Scumniotales, Mike Smith and Chris Martin, the late Mike Beedle, Martine Devos and Mike Cohn are among a long list of those making significant contributions to ‘What Scrum Is Today’.

“You call us the creators of Scrum? That’s really bold. I would call us the ‘parents’ of Scrum, because many many many people have contributed.” — Ken Schwaber (Source: Scrum Guide Update 2017)

However, the Scrum ‘Canon’ defined in the guide has changed a lot since 2010. In fact, there have been six separate iterations of Schwaber and Sutherland’s Scrum Guide. Have you kept up with all the changes since 2010? Indeed, do you know where Scrum might go next?

Don’t panic! You’re definitely not alone. This post might help. And the conversation is ongoing over at Serious Scrum. Have a read here, then come join us there for a chat if there’s anything you’d like to discuss.
Are You Spending The Right Time On The Right Things?
By: Austin Walker
Tags: Self Improvement, Work, Leadership, Productivity, Efficiency

One of the biggest challenges of leadership is evaluating the return on investment (ROI) for your efforts. I am constantly looking for a way to evaluate my leadership effectiveness. How do you put metrics to something as subjective as “developing character and core competencies in your team”? Is there a tool to evaluate our ROI and, hopefully, better use our time in ways that count?

What if you are spending 80% of your time doing something that’s only giving you a nominal-at-best ROI?

What if there is something you LOVE doing, it gives you a huge return, but you’re only spending a few hours a month in that?

I’m a big fan of leadership tools and evaluation systems. One of my earliest posts was walking through what I call the JQA Leadership Evaluation.

Over the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with what I’m calling the Task Revision Evaluation.

The benefit of this tool is that it’s quick, simple, and as helpful as you allow it to be. There are a few disclaimers I’ll go over at the end, so don’t skip those. For now, here is a blank version of the layout, an explanation, and an example.

Yes, that’s my real handwriting. Yes, I’ll let you know what it actually says below the image.

A blank template of the Task Revision Evaluation

TASK — What is it that takes your time?

TIME — How much time does it take? This can be numeric or generic.

PASSION — On a scale of 1–10, how in line with your passions is this task? If you want to up this, don’t pick 7. I wrote a blog post on that, check it out for details.

RETURN — When you look at your job, is this a high, medium, low, or negative return item?

REVISION — In light of this, what are your next steps? Do you need to give it more time? Do you need to change your approach? Do you need to delegate it? Do you need to put some false limits on how much time you spend with it? What are the revisions to your schedule, rhythm, job, or expectations that need to be made to better use your time?
No place for ethics.
By: Michal Malewicz
Tags: Design, UX, Technology, Ethics, Startup

Square 5

No place for ethics.

We can try (and fail) to change the world.

The lower the ethics the higher the profit.

Ethics are having a comeback. Many designers say, that making ethical products is going to be their goal. I know a designer who refuses to work for Big-Pharma™ companies, because of his ethics.

People quit Google (remember “Don’t be evil”?) and Facebook because of their unethical practices all the time. But there’s more designers and developers to take their place.

Movements like “Design for the good of humanity” are sprouting all around, and while they can work on a small scale, they’ll never reach any notoriety.
Designing Tech Inclusivity
By: Berkeley I School
Tags: Ischooldiversity, Conference, Diversity, Inclusive Design, Tech

Written by Michelle Chen, a current Masters of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) student, focused in UX design and research

During the final panel of the Towards Inclusive Tech conference at UC Berkeley, I asked the following question:

“Should graduate school programs provide training for their students and/or equip them with the knowledge and encouragement to advocate for diversity and inclusion, before students to go into the workforce?”

The answer was overwhelmingly yes — of course they should. However, the logistics for carrying out this education has been unclear; who should provide it and what should it involve? Should all students be required to take the training? Therefore, a few current students and I decided to do what we can to take matters into our own hands.

This is when the idea for Design Workshop: Designing for Inclusivity was born. As IMSA’s (Information Management Student Association) design chair, I was already planning to organize more opportunities for learning and engaging with design outside of the classroom. At the same time, another first-year MIMS student, Michelle Peretz, had attended a design sprint and was inspired to do something similar at the I School. We discussed the idea of hosting a design workshop of some kind, and ended up combining the two ideas of a design workshop and diversity and inclusion (D&I) in tech.
Uzhhorod: Magnificent at Night, Ordinary in the Daylight
By: Slava Shestopalov
Tags: Ukraine, Photography, Travel, Cities, Uzhhorod

We wanted “a real adventure” and didn’t plan to stay at the hotel. This was our plan: departure from Lviv at 1 a.m.; around four hours to Uzhhorod by car; walking around the city by 5 p.m.; finally, turning back to Lviv for another four hours. We only had a nap in the car, but the adventure was worth this little sacrifice.

Oksanka and I didn’t remember much about the city from our previous visit, so it felt like a totally new experience. The first thing we encountered was the neon-lit Pedestrian Bridge.
Wine Quickes: Troon Vineyards M&T Reseve
By: Thea Dwelle
Tags: Oregon, Wine Quickies, Malbec, Applegate Valley, Tannat

You might not expect a dark and delicious red wine to come from Oregon’s Applegate Valley, but Troon Vineyard’s 2013M&T Reserve is just that. This co-fermented blend of Tannat and Malbec is surprisingly low in alcohol at only 13.7%, but is rich in flavor!

Intensely floral, full of black licorice and dried lavender on the nose, the palate is full of bold espresso, dark chocolate and dark berries. This is a lush wine but also has a beautifully ripe and bright strawberry finish, and is bursting with cracked pepper.
Let William Barr Summarize These Classic Tales For You
By: Tim Sniffen
Tags: Mueller, William Barr, Literature, Trump, Satire

Frankenstein

The tale of an ambitious scientist with clear, achievable goals. When the scientist’s hard work leads to success, the surrounding village reacts in violence, likely fueled by jealousy. Eventually the scientist takes a well-deserved sabbatical in Scandinavia. Nothing else happens in this book.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas

In this story we follow the residents of “Whoville” as they prepare to celebrate the Christmas holiday. The title is misleading, as Christmas clearly occurs by the story’s conclusion, and the Grinch would be well within his rights to launch an investigation into the people of Whoville, likely culminating in a lawsuit for defamation of character, if not treason.

Bambi

A fawn and his mother teach the animals of the forest about proper firearm use. At the end of the story, the fawn’s father is alive and well, therefore I categorize Bambi as the inspiring story of a successful male adult deer.

Dracula

Mina and Jonathan Harker travel to a distant European location for a series of discreet meetings with their host, Count Dracula. What occurred during these meetings is speculation at best, and whether or not blood exchanged hands is impossible to verify. I have determined the entire “Draculagate” affair to be of no interest to the American people.

Murder On The Orient Express

The Orient Express arrives at its destination, establishing the journey as a wonderful and victorious one. No other events worth mentioning.

Macbeth

In this Shakespearean romp, the Macbeth family employs a strategy common to many successful marriages — working together towards a shared vision. Bolstered by the support of three Proto-Evangelicals, our hero seeks a position of power through unorthodox means — and achieves immortality. This story shows us that Macbeth is a huge winner, and all other conclusions are garbage. Hooray for Macbeth!

Stephen King’s It

A group of children in Maine become friends while a lonely circus performer struggles with homelessness and unhealthy eating habits. Although a child is dragged into a storm drain and never seen again, the author never explicitly states the sewer-dwelling clown committed this crime, while also declining to exonerate him. I must conclude this event warrants no further examination.

Note: If the clown were to return twenty-eight years later, or even as soon as 2020, there might be cause to reconsider.
Lost and Found
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Poetry, Writing, Creativity, Poem, Self

what each of us truly wants

is to be understood

but we repeatedly settle

for just being known.
Mình nên là một người tối giản (minimalist) có ước mơ
By: Victor Ho
Tags: Life Meaning, Minimalism, Meaning, Pandemic

Coronavirus

On 31 December 2019, WHO was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan City, Hubei…
Day 31 with Bitconnect
By: Alex Muresan
Tags: Investing, Crypto, Bitconnect, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Today I’ve earned a total of $25.14.

Day 31

With the profit of today, I’ve reached again the threshold of $100, so at the end of the 4th reinvestment of $100 in the first month.

4th reinvestment

Now I have a total active investment of $1680 and a total profit of $415.93 for the first month.

Active investment

For tomorrow, I’m expecting a pending interest of 0.81%. This interest will be applied for the initial investment and the 4 reinvestments I’ve done so far. So, for tomorrow, I’m expecting a total return of (0.81%+0.1%) * 1280 + 0.81% * 100 * 4 = 11.65 + 3.24= $14.89.

Pending interest for 05.01.2018

For those who are new to this publication, I made an initial investment of 1280$ in Bitconnect to try this system and I’ve committed to keeping you up to date every day with the evolution.

If you want to start investing, register here with me (aleximuresan) as a sponsor and I will give you a 5% bonus on the initial investment.

See you tomorrow. Ciao.