Unbound Tech unlocks liquidity and security for proven digital asset management

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There are very few scenarios where security is more important than in the world of digital assets. If the key protecting a digital asset is compromised, then it’s game over.

At the same time, trading digital assets will only enter the mainstream when it’s possible to do it quickly and easily. For financial institutions accustomed to making transactions within a fraction of a second, waiting hours or even days for different keyholders to sign off on a digital asset trade is unthinkable.

At , we saw an opportunity. By combining our unique multiparty computation (MPC) software with the built on , we’re bringing unprecedented liquidity and security to digital asset management.

Sizing up the challenge

Unbound is a pioneer in the use of MPC to secure cryptographic keys from every angle, splitting each key into multiple shares that are never united. By distributing trust, we ensure that a breach of any single machine never compromises the integrity of a key.

In the cryptographic world, there’s no such thing as “too secure.” However, we recognized that existing enterprise-class digital asset management solutions are forcing customers to choose between security and agility. What use is the most secure platform in the world if it’s unusable in real life?

We set out to build a new offering that pushes the boundaries of security without limiting liquidity of digital assets.

Creating the Unbound Crypto Asset Security Platform (CASP)

Developed with help from IBM, the Unbound Crypto Asset Security Platform (CASP) solution introduces lucrative benefits for digital assets service providers, including:

• The elimination of any single point of failure across the full digital asset lifecycle. IBM LinuxONE infrastructure offers unique resiliency features such as triple-redundant environmental sensors and Redundant Array of Independent Memory (RAIM) to keep applications running even in the unlikely event of a component failure. IBM LinuxONE , with the mean time between failures (MTBF) measured in decades(!).
• Strict policy enforcement and cryptographic signing support across nearly unlimited asset types (no need for programming multi-sig, smart contracts).
• Insider-resistant, hardened infrastructure for Unbound CASP’s critical software elements. CASP services, key management, vaults, databases, chain connectors, and server-side bots all run within , which are securely booted, protected memory enclaves. These enclaves help assure that administrators and operators do not have even technical access to the applications managing digital assets, such as policy enforcement mechanisms. For example, if an administrator initiates a memory dump, the dump is encrypted and does not include administrative access to the private key.
• Unbound CASP’s code build, signing, and deployment services run within IBM LinuxONE specialized Secure Image Build enclaves. These enclaves help rigidly enforce software review and attestation procedures, to frustrate potential malware, ransomware, and backdoor attackers. These defenses help assure that MPC is properly deployed without human interference. They also help accelerate testing and deployment of legitimate, authorized code updates if there’s ever an application security vulnerability requiring a quick fix. Secure Image Build solves two critical dilemmas: 1) proving the deployed software image is the right one and has not been modified or replaced by a privileged insider, and 2) proving the signed image is what it was supposed to be through the use of the secured source code manifest.
• Exploitation of IBM Crypto Express Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) for the CASP cold backup key and CASP disaster recovery. IBM Crypto Express is one of the only commercially available FIPS 140–2 Level 4 certified HSM, meaning it meets or exceeds the most rigorous standards for tamper protection and response. It enables exceptional business continuity, which is mandatory for enterprise-grade financial institutions.
• Only clients or their trustees control their assets — not Unbound Tech, nor IBM. Clients are issued special IBM smart card HSMs. During a trusted key ceremony, these smart cards collectively generate AES256 bit key parts that are securely transferred to the platform’s HSM and assembled into a master wrapping key inside an isolated HSM domain. Only the client retains control of their master wrapping key. HSM domains are highly isolated and protected by 360-degree envelope tamper detection and response.
• Solutions can be deployed to the , on premises, or in a hybrid deployment, giving institutions and service providers full freedom to decide how and where they’d like to manage their digital asset platforms.

Better together

In partnering with IBM, Unbound achieved a real meeting of minds. IBM demonstrated that they understood our marketplace and our vision.

We participated in a two-day strategy session that helped us home in on what prospective customers are looking for, and how to deliver it to them. The result was a platform that combines our unique software with the IBM Hyper Protect Digital Assets Platform to bring something unmatched to the market, at a surprisingly competitive price point.

By building security into every transaction on the platform, we’re unlocking new liquidity around digital assets. Users don’t have to worry about risk or meeting even the most stringent regulations, as that’s taken care of for them.

Finally, the digital asset market can start reaching its full potential. Alongside IBM, Unbound is offering a platform that means no compromises for customers.

To learn more about how Unbound and IBM are working together to transform digital asset custody, watch the webcast at .

To learn more about IBM LinuxONE technology, visit .

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NFL Punish Baker Mayfield For His New Endorsement Deal?

NFL Punish Baker Mayfield For His New Endorsement Deal? | Sports Takes & News

The NFL Players’ Association is worried about a new endorsement deal that Baker Mayfield signed this week. They are so worried that and not sign any similar deals since Mayfield’s new deal is with a company that makes CBD products. The reason being that the endorsement deal may be in violation of the current collective bargaining agreement with the league; leading many to wonder if the NFL will punish Baker Mayfield for signing the deal. The question is, should the NFL even bother?

Baker Mayfield announced last week that he was the , a company that makes cannabidiol (CBD) products. Under the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its union, players are prohibited from appearing in ads or endorsing companies that sell “alcoholic beverages, tobacco, or cannabinoid products.”

Here’s where this becomes a complex situation for the NFL and the NFLPA: CBD products are made from hemp or marijuana. Most CBD products contain THC, which is what gives its user a sense of being “high,” with marijuana-based CBD items giving a stronger high than those made from hemp, which has a lower THC content.

On Thursday, just two days after Mayfield signed his new deal with Beam public, the union sent out a email to its members that read: “player endorsements of cannabinoid products are not advised by the NFL Players Association,” citing the language in the collective bargaining agreement. Mayfield admitted that he was first concerned about the stigma attached to CBD products, but with Beam, making their CBD products THC-free, the Browns’ signal caller felt comfortable becoming both a user an ambassador for it.

By the end of the week there was no indication that the NFL was investigating Baker Mayfield or that any punishment was forthcoming; that does not mean that the league can’t or won’t render judgement at a later date. Mayfield does join a growing list of players that include DeAndre Hopkins, Ezekiel Elliott, Rob Gronkowski, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Ramsey who are all brand ambassadors for CBD-based product — so perhaps the National Football League has turned the other way to some extent by allowing players to make money and enjoy the reported (but not fully proven) medical benefits such as pain relief that CBD products offer users. And a look at the standings see Baker Mayfield and the Browns at 4–1 heading into week 6, which might be a good indication that the company that he is endorsing is also helping his play on the field.

It does look like the NFL is willing to walk the line between what its players want, and what it needs to do as a business to keep the federal government off its back and out of its business. This is why the rules about CBD products are in the collective bargaining agreement, but the NFL is able to only use it when a player needs protection from himself; otherwise, it appears that the motto “smoke’em if you got’em” might be in effect for NFL players as sports continues to mirror mainstream society, and its acceptance of CBD products.

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Noble’s eight takeaways from Manchester City vs Arsenal

Personally, when I watch football, I’m looking for structure in a game, whether a team wants to be defensive, or they want to press, keep possession, or be pragmatic.

We must all see some sort of structure in order to get results. Arsenal looks like a team that isn’t sure of who they are or who they would like to be. We have a lot of deadwood on our side and holes in the team were all not going to be fixed, but we should be playing better football. Even if Arteta wants us to be a defensive team, that’s fine but we should be creating chances and have a certain level of being lethal.

Despite giving us the best start to a Premier League campaign in seven-years (before kick-off last night), there are things the manager can be criticized for.

My eight takeaways

1. The back three which I see as a back five is limiting our attacking intent because last night I would see at least five Arsenal players in the opposition box as opposed to City’s three but just one pass would result in a dangerous shot at goal. Talk about failing to utilize your advantage.

2. The back five results in the midfield being stretched if the ball is not circulating to all parts of the pitch. And the primary role of our central midfielders is to try and win it back only to lose it easily because it’s hard to move the ball around.

3. The wide areas are not giving us much joy either whether it’s keeping and moving the ball, chances created, goals scored or quality crosses into the box.

4. We lacked a presence in the box, should a team with a good center forward struggle with this? Lacazette has struggled at times but despite this, he has scored in three consecutive games and has benched in the last two matches. Aubamayeng’s presence is not being felt at the moment and his goal tally so far is a clear indication that he isn’t being found by his teammates.

5. Ceballos is good with the ball and has an eye for a pass something he needs to be allowed to do more often, but he needs better starting positions in the middle of the park. Ceballos puts in a shift as he wants to win the ball back and start things from deep, however, his ability to do so is limited if the midfield is comprised of Xhaka and himself. We have to win the ball back to play it into dangerous areas, that said we won’t win matches this way with a two men central midfield. So I am grateful for Partey and Arteta must give us the 4–3–3 ASAP!

6. The Martinez aberration has divided opinion and I feel Leno’s efforts will not be appreciated much going forward. He will be blamed for things beyond his reach and sometimes over-glorified when things do go well. It’s going to be tough for Bernd Leno in the court of opinion presided by the Arsenal fans.

7. Most of our team played way below their usual levels and very few deserve special mention after the game, however, I will touch on Gabriel, and Thomas.

In Gabriel Magalhães we are blessed with a good player who won’t hide in games and that’s a good quality to have in a center back. I look forward to watching him progress, is safe to say when you hear opposition fans tell you that you will be lucky to hold onto him in years to come, it’s a massive endorsement of his talent.

Thomas Partey also had decent thirteen minutes, we all know he is a good signing. But his introduction gave me hope that he will adapt well to the Premier League and give us a three men midfield and give us much-needed stability. It’s the wide areas I’m concerned about the most, Nicolas Pepe and Willian must be giving the manager sleepless nights as much as they are giving the fans headaches.

8. BUKAYO SAKA IS SPECIAL. Need I say more?

Arsenal’s next four Premier League games

Leicester (Home)

Manchester United (Away)

Aston Villa (Home)

Leeds (Away)

Looking at our next four games the boys need to find their bounce as they can not afford to drop any more points.

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Thank you for claps! We are the best readers!

Thank you for claps! We are the best readers!

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Grow Forest Schools in popularity during distance learning

Stomping through puddles, scrambling over fallen logs and digging in the dirt with sticks may not sound like traditional educational activities, but they are core parts of the curriculum in “forest schools” .

Learning amid the leaves is the hallmark of a forest school, an immersive outdoor education model devoted to the exploration of nature. Forest schools, which have their roots in Scandinavian educational tradition, generally focus on preschool age children. Instead of sitting quietly at their desks, these students build forts in the forest, pick berries fresh from the bush and have story time at the shore.

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Rave Mobile Safety Launches Rave Collaborate for Tactical Incident Collaboration

Rave Mobile Safety (Rave), , announced the launch of Rave Collaborate TM, a new solution for Tactical Incident Collaboration. Rave Collaborate addresses needs unmet by traditional incident management solutions with an intuitive tool to coordinate preparedness and response for both planned activities and unplanned emergencies. In addition to task management, reminders and activity tracking, Rave Collaborate is integrated into Rave Alert TM, a proven, industry-leading mass notification system, as well as other communication and IoT technologies, to provide a central platform to manage your organization’s preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation needs.

Developed with extensive customer input, Rave Collaborate is designed to bring order and clarity to chaos and confusion in the critical early minutes and hours of an event. Rave’s solution supports the full spectrum of compliance, business continuity, health, safety and security scenarios. From regulatory compliance and 2020 years protocols to severe weather or server outages, the ability to immediately notify stakeholders, establish clear responsibilities and provide direction for tactical decisions is key to providing and restoring a safe and secure environment.

“Safety is a collaborative exercise, and responding to any situation requires immediate notification, decisive action and coordinated response,” said Todd Piett, CEO, Rave Mobile Safety. “With Rave Collaborate, responders and incident managers have a central command system integrated with critical communication technology to increase situational awareness and monitor the response timeline. Our goal is to enable response teams to do all they can to keep employees, students and communities safe.”

Unlike other critical event management solutions, Rave Collaborate provides a simple and flexible means to share key data, follow protocols and manage the evolving tactical situation across any combination of incident managers, first responders, 9–1–1, emergency management, corporate security and campus security. Rave Collaborate delivers value in seconds — regardless of whether the situation ultimately warrants activating your formal Emergency Operations Center.

Rave Collaborate provides an intuitive user interface that is easy to use and simple to deploy; greatly increasing the number of scenarios where formal guidance can be provided and vastly expanding the user base that can be engaged in response through this solution, with the ability to:

• Coordinate incident response with task management, activity status, reminders and reference resources
• Automate notification to key stakeholders with pre-built multi-modal communications templates of emerging threats and scenarios
• Support incident collaboration with real-time data sharing and communications amongst multiple responder teams
• Accelerate response and ensure compliance with checklists and protocols for specific situations
• Guide actions, support on-the-fly changes and escalate past due tasks to direct response activities
• Record all actions on the response timeline for audits and after-action reporting

“As a healthcare provider with multiple locations, it’s critical that we have consistency in the way we handle incidents across facilities and can capture the insight needed to evaluate how we respond to and recover from any incident,” said Mark Swensen, Northwell Health emergency management coordinator. “Rave Collaborate allows us to achieve those goals while ensuring everyone involved remains situationally aware throughout each step of the process to not only streamline our response, but ensure we’re following established best practices.”

Rave Collaborate is available now. To learn more, visit .

About Rave Mobile Safety

Rave Mobile Safety is the leading provider of critical communication and collaboration technology used to save lives, manage crisis incidents and increase resiliency. From major disasters and crisis events to everyday emergencies and operational incidents, the Rave platform enables critical data sharing, mass notification and emergency response coordination. Over 8,000 first responder, emergency management, 9–1–1, and federal, state and local agencies — as well as corporations, healthcare organizations, universities and schools — all rely on Rave to prepare better, respond faster, recover quicker and mitigate anticipated critical incidents. Founded in 2004, Rave’s award-winning software solutions are backed by leading growth equity firm TCV. Let Rave enable you to do all you can todayTM to keep everyone safe. For more information, visit , read our company blog, and follow us on , and .

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Conversion Linker in Google Tag Manager how to in video with Google Analytics

Conversion Linker in Google Tag Manager how to in video with Google Analytics

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Google Analytics it is the best!

Google Analytics it is the best!

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Graphic novels for kids

Graphic novels for kids and teens are exploding in popularity. Here are some likes to help you get started.

Upcoming Conferences

Jan. 16, 2021 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (presented by Indiana SCBWI) Virtual conference for writers and illustrators interested in getting into graphic novels

Articles

(Research), (Pre-Writing), (Script-writing), (Art)

Resource Websites

Graphic Novel Scripts

Storyboarding

Podcasts

Communities

- a new Facebook group for writers and illustrators interested in MG and lower graphic novels

- a community for kid comics professionals

Interviews with GN creators

Johnell Dewitt’s interviews with , (on submitting GNs), (on storyboarding)

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Surge in number of United Kingdom children applying for free school meals

Poverty campaigners estimate 1 million pupils have recently signed up for first time

There has been a surge in the number of UK children registering for free school meals, with an estimated 1 million pupils recently signing up for the first time, according to food poverty campaigners.

Analysis by the , released as part of footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign to end child food poverty, estimates that as many as 900,000 more children have sought free school meals, on top of the 1.4 million who were already claiming, as the 2020 world crisis plays havoc with family incomes.

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Best From Chicago Writers

To many ways my Wednesday was a typical “hump day.” I did my usual “rise and shine” about 6:00 a.m., got cleaned up, brewed some hot herbal tea, and mentally prepared to tackle a “to-do” list as long as a bride’s wedding gown train!

Worked on clients’ projects; prepared and published my 823rd blog post; struggled with computer glitches; and attempted to navigate my way through new content management system changes imposed by Blogger.

Hours in, I decided to take a much needed break. I kicked back, watched a little of the boob tube and then returned to my computer. At about 12:43 p.m. I received an unexpected email from the President of Chicago Writers Association that read the following:

“Dear Jennifer,

I am writing to you with the news that you have been selected as the recipient of CWA’s Spirit Award for 2020. I nominated you, and the Board unanimously endorsed your selection. We hope you will be able to join us for our virtual Book of the Year ceremony, which will be held via Zoom at 7 pm on Saturday, January 16.

I couldn’t think of a more deserving recipient.”

What? Who? I was elated… temporarily in disbelief! In fact, I had to read the email multiple times before it would fully “sink in.” This is a big deal to me, folks. And I am totally humbled and grateful for this prestigious award.

The SPIRIT AWARD honors individuals in the literary community that demonstrate:

You can read more here:

Past honorees include: a book store owner, the executive director of the Chicago Hall of Fame and a publisher. I’m geeked to be in such highly-regarded company.

This has been a tough year. For all of us. And this recognition certainly has given me reason to smile, keep going, and continue to be rooted in divine faith.

My heartfelt appreciation to Chicago Writers Association (a great group of quality people) and all of you who have supported my journey, followed my blog and cheered me on throughout the years!

… Now I just have to get busy trying to find something black and slimming to wear for that virtual ceremony. It’s rumored that the camera adds 10 lbs.! :-)

Thanks for reading.

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Contests equals Awards

Submitting your work to contests and awards is a great way to get your work noticed. Here’s a list of submission opportunities for children’s writing and illustrating. We normally only list contests that do not require an entry fee.

Also, check out these other compilations of contests:

• Sub It Club’s monthly lists of contests (see their )

Before entering a contest, pay attention to warning signs:;

Ongoing Contests & Awards

(every month, deadline 5th day of each month)

• What: Comment on the contest announcement on the 4th of each month for a chance to submit your first 400 words of an MG or YA ms
• Prize: Winner’s entry will be posted on blog & critiqued by four members of The Winged Pen
• What: monthly illustration challenge with a prompt, due 20th of each month
• Who: SCBWI members
• Prize: winning pieces featured in SCBWI’s monthly newsletter

ONGONG

• What: apply for emergency funds during the pandemic
• Who: people of color in the children’s publishing industry (agents, editors, authors, illustrators) who’ve been furloughed or lost their jobs
• Award: emergency funds

OCTOBER

Oct. 1 -3

• What: write a kid lit-aged (board book to YA) story/poem/piece up to 200 words based on a fall-themed photo prompt
• Prizes: win critiques, books, and other prizes from authors, agents and editors

Oct. 20

• What: Twitter pitch party for children & teen fiction/nonfiction
• Who: for self-identifying historically marginalized authors & illustrators
• Prize: attention from agents & editors with invitations to query

Sept. 20-Oct 20

• What: submit three sequential images illustrating the theme “silver lining” either in full color for PB audience, or B&W for MG audience
• Who: SCBWI members
• Prize: free tuition virtual SCBWI winter conference

Oct. 29

• What: Twitter pitch party for picture book creators (illustrators and authors)
• Prize: attention from agents & editors with invitations to query

Oct. 1–31

• What: apply for one of 15 mentorships with award-winning book creators (12 writers, 3 illustrators)
• Who is eligible: anyone who personally identifies with an underrepresented community or working on a book with a diverse protagonist
• When to apply: Oct 1–30, 2020

Sept. 15-Oct. 31

• What: apply to win full tuition to the 2021 SCBWI LA conference plus expert consultations
• Who: SCBWI member with a MG or YA manuscript
• Prize: tuition to 2021 SCBWI conference, 20 minute consultation with agent Tracey Adams, 20 minute consultation with a MG/YA editor

NOVEMBER

Aug 16- Nov. 1

• What: submit a short story aimed at the middle grade audience that centers joy and features and centers Black boys ❤000 words
• Who: Black male/nonbinary author over 18, un-agented, not traditionally published
• Award: inclusion in a soon-to-be-announced MG anthology that will center the joy of Black boyhood, edited by Kwame Mbalia

Nov. 1

• What: Apply for a $500 grant
• Who: mothers with at least one child
• Award: three grants given every six months

Nov. 1

• What: one of two winners to share a $3,000 grant
• Who: SCBWI members who have published two PAL books but have not sold anything in five years
• Prize: a $3000 grants shared between two winners

Sept 15- Nov 15

• What: apply to one of ten grants
• Who: unpublished writers or illustrators from underrepresented group
• Award: paid trip and tuition for LA SCBWI summer conference, manuscript consultation, and publicity

DECEMBER

Dec. 3, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. EST

• What: Pitch your manuscript on Twitter (PB, MG, YA, adult)
• Prize: attention from agents & editors with invitations to query

now-Dec. 15

• What: Nominate a 2020 trade book published in the US with environmental themes
• Award: Four awards of $1,000 to four categories (PB, MG, YA, nonfiction). Award split between author and illustrator where appropriate.

2022

Mar 12, 2022

• What: win an award for a book of poetry published in English
• Who: SCBWI member with a book of poetry published in 2019, 2020, or 2021 (Verse novels not eligible)
• Award: $1,000

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How to Set Up Google Analytics — Tutorial for Beginners 2020

How to Set Up Google Analytics — Tutorial for Beginners 2020

Set up & install Google Analytics on ALL websites (WordPress, Wix, Shopify etc.) Tutorial for Beginners.

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А що каже Біблія. Вражаюча точність рукописів Біблії. Біблійна археологія

А що каже Біблія. Тема 3: Вражаюча точність рукописів Біблії

Скільки помилок накопичив текст Біблії за тисячі років переписування? Що говорять про це літературознавці, історики, науковці та дослідники Святого Письма? Чи можна довіряти сучасному тексту Біблії та будувати на ньому свою віру?

Music: And What Says The Bible — Gromezis

Amazing Grace — KevinMacLeod

Shout To The Lord — Phillip Keveren

Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus — David Angell

А що каже Біблія. Тема 4: Біблійна археологія

“Можна із повною впевненістю стверджувати, що жодне археологічне відкриття ще ніколи не суперечило даним Біблії”. — Нельсон Глюк “Старозаповітна археологія заново відкрила цілі народи, воскресила важливі племена і найбільш вражаючим чином заповнила історичні прогалини, безмірно збагативши наші знання тла, на якому розгорталися біблійні події”. — Доктор наук Меррілл Унгер

Music:

And What Says The Bible — Yaroslav Petrenko

Forever Yours — Wayne Jones

Joy to the World — Jingle Punks

Light Thought var 3 — Kevin MacLeod

Lost In Prayer — Doug Maxwell

FB Автора.

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5 asteroids buzz by Earth TODAY, as NASA gears up for historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu

With just 73 days left in 2020, NASA has published an alert that not one, but five asteroids are passing by Earth today, as the agency’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft prepares to touch down on a space rock 200 million miles away.

The first three of the day’s five space rocks have mercifully passed the Earth by without incident, according to the Asteroid Watch Widget that tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to our planet.

2020 TJ6, measuring 10m in diameter or roughly half a bowling lane, passed the planet at a blistering speed of 40,824kph, but at a safe distance of 1.2 million km. The asteroid was followed by 2020 UX, the tiniest out of the five, which passed the Earth at 190,000km, and 2020 TD6, with a diameter of 7.4m or half the height of the Hollywood Sign.

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Still to come are the 14-meter 2020 UK, with a diameter roughly the length of a semitrailer, which is expected to fly past at 6.2 million km.

Bringing up the rear will be the fastest space rock of the day, the one-meter-wide 2020 TF6, which will shoot by at a speed of 43,200kph, just 153,000km away — well within the range of the Moon which orbits the Earth at an average of 385,000km.

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None of these compare with humanity’s own extreme close flyby expected to take place on Tuesday at the Bennu asteroid located over 200 million miles from Earth on that day.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt at collecting a sample of the space rock shortly before 2pm ET on Tuesday. The craft is expected to touch down for just a few seconds, long enough for its robotic arm to blast the surface with high pressure gas and vacuum up some of the asteroid’s space dust for analysis back here on Earth.

“We’re cautiously optimistic that this will be the only time we touch the surface,” said Richard Burns, the OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center first on.

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Ireland to put nation under ‘Europe’s strictest’ quarantine for six weeks amid record daily…

Ireland to put nation under ‘Europe’s strictest’ quarantine for six weeks amid record daily Covid-19 infections

Dublin has decided to impose a national lockdown for six weeks that has been described by the Irish government itself as the harshest in Europe — all to curb the spread of Covid-19 that has been topping record levels for days.

Under the newly announced measures that are scheduled to come into force starting midnight Wednesday, all non-essential retail stores will be shut down while restaurants and pubs will have to reduce their work to take-away services only.

The people in Ireland would also be barred from traveling more than five kilometers away from their homes. Yet, unlike many other European nations, Ireland does not plan to shut down schools. Essential services such as construction will be exempted from the lockdown as well. As will be hotels — but only if their rooms are rented by people working in any “essential” sectors.

“In the effort to suppress the virus, we’ve already introduced what is probably Europe’s strictest regime,” Prime Minister Micheal Martin said in a televised address on Monday.

The government has decided that the evidence of a potentially grave situation arising in the weeks ahead is now too strong.

The move comes just two weeks after Dublin dismissed a “surprise” call by the nation’s health authorities to introduce the highest — fifth — level of restrictions amid the growing infection numbers.

The nation has already topped its autumn record for daily new Covid-19 cases five times over the last nine days, although the numbers still remain lower that those recorded on April 10 when the infections surpassed 1,500 in a single day, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Ireland is no stranger to harsh measure when it comes to combating the epidemic. Back in spring, it also imposed one of the longest lockdowns in Europe and eased the restrictions at such a low pace that some hospitality venues have barely managed to reopen by the time the rising infection numbers forced the authorities to bring the curbs back.

To help its economy survive the epidemic, Dublin poured additional funds into coronavirus-related jobless payments and wage subsidies. A new budget approved last week involves one of the biggest financial aid packages in the nation’s history, including payments of up to € 5,000 ($5,884.50) per week for affected businesses. Still, the number of people seeking jobless payments has increased by 20 percent over just two weeks and reached 244,153 first on.

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Google Tag Manager Overview

Installing the Google Tag Manager Container Snippet

Create a Google Analytics Page View Tag with Google Tag Manager

Creating a Google Analytics Settings Variable with Google Tag Manager

Creating a Google Ads Tag & Conversion Linker in Google Tag Manager

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Analyze your Optimize reports

In this video you’ll learn where to find your Optimize reports and how to interpret the results. In a few minutes you’ll be able to make decisions quickly based on how your experience performed.

Create a personalization in Optimize

Google Optimize helped us make continuous UX improvements on our mobile site. One experiment alone drove a 2X increase in monthly plan sales.

Dive into the details.

Set up your first website test in minutes and save time with our visual editor. Explore this feature and more to better optimize your customer journey.

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Use your Analytics data to identify where to improve your site, measure experiments against business goals, and see exactly how your changes influence customer behavior.

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Create a multi page experience with Optimize

In this video you’ll learn how to create a Google Optimize experience (test or personalization) that spans multiple pages on your website.

Create a new experiment in Optimize

Learn how to create a new experiment in Google Optimize in three easy steps. In this video you’ll learn how to create a new A/B test in Optimize, including how to; create a variant, target an audience, and choose an objective.

Create a multivariate (MVT) in Optimize

Learn how to use Google Optimize to experiment with multiple elements on your web page simultaneously to understand their affect on each other. In this video you’ll create a multivariate test (MVT) and learn about the difference between a section and a combinationation.

Create a redirect test in Optimize

Learn how to create a redirect experiment in Google Optimize in three easy steps. In this video you’ll learn how to use a URL as a variant, decide who should see your test (targeting), and determine what to measure (picking an objective).

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The new fast, affordable Pixel 5G phones (Pixel 4a with 5G and Pixel 5) are here.

Super fast 5G speed* to help you download a movie / show in seconds. 👪 Google Duo to make connecting with loved ones more engaging and entertaining, 🎮 Instantaneous gaming on Stadia**, 🙌 All this at an unbeatable price. The new Google 5G Phones, starting from $499: http://goo.gle/putting-the-g-in-5g *

Requires a 5G data plan (sold separately). 5G service and roaming not available on all carrier networks or in all areas. Contact carrier for details about current 5G network performance, compatibility, and availability. Phone connects to 5G networks but, 5G service, speed and performance depend on many factors including, but not limited to, carrier network capabilities, device configuration and capabilities, network traffic, location, signal strength and signal obstruction. Actual results may vary. Some features not available in all areas. Data rates may apply. See g.co/pixel/networkinfo for info. **Enabling gameplay with cellular data may increase your mobile data usage up to 2.7GB/hr. Gameplay is service-, network-, connection-, and game-dependent, and may not be available for all games in all areas. Users may experience inconsistent gameplay. See g.co/stadia/data for more information. Stadia requires account creation.

Understanding 5G

Owning a wireless company is a bit more technical than I imagined. #MintMobile

Gaming on the go with Pixel & Stadia | Instant Game Unleasher

Triple-A title on a phone? In the LA sun? No sweat. See how well the demo for the new game Immortals Fenyx Rising plays on the new Pixel 4a with 5G.* Learn more: https://stadia.google.com/ — — — — — — — — — *Requires a 5G data plan (sold separately). 5G service is carrier dependent. Contact carrier for details. g.co/pixel/networkinfo for info.

Apple 5G Event — October 13

Watch the special Apple Event and learn about the latest updates for HomePod mini, iPhone, and more.

WWDC 2020 Special Event Keynote — Apple

Apple WWDC 2020 kicked off with big announcements, exciting reveals, inspiration, and new opportunities to create the most innovative apps in the world. Watch the Special Event Keynote for an in-depth look at the latest for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, privacy, tvOS, macOS, and Mac, directly from Apple Park.

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Functional vs Object-oriented Programming

Both functional and OOP have their own use cases and both of them seem to provide powerful solutions to complex programming problems. Of course, each in its own way! Both of these paradigms can be used to understand the differences that lie in between them and also find out where they would fit appropriately as well.

On this blog, we will taking a look at the following aspects:

Also, make sure to check out the Functional Programming vs OOP video on our YouTube channel:

Functional Programming

Functional programming is one of the famous programming paradigms that is seeing a lot of popularity among developers recently. The main intent of functional programming is to avoid changing states and working with mutable data. It is completely concerned with attaining the output of a function when passed certain inputs.

Functional programming, simply put, is concerned with the ‘what’ rather than ‘how’ part of arriving at a solution. Pure reliance on the arguments of a function to achieve results is what makes this paradigm special.

For example, consider that you have a function that multiplies two numbers. Call it returnProduct(). This calculates the product and returns the output appropriately. When you input the same values for the parameters, your output will always be the same. The output will not vary.

Now, when the talk is about how things function in the backend, in terms of logic, structure, and maintenance, functional programming is really good when there is no history of data or states to deal with. Predetermined boundaries are among the important things that guide functional programming to work effectively.

There are numerous advantages to using functional programming, and some of them are as follows:

• Highly efficient processing
• Support for lazy evaluation
• Usage of nested functions
• Provision of easy debuggability
• Powering parallel programming capabilities

All in all, functional programming is used to write the functions that have a particular task at hand to achieve and output the result. If there are multiple functions to do the same task, then each of these sub-functions will have its own small logic that when used with the other functions makes it very effective.

The most important thing is its ability to provide the code that is highly modular and clean to work with. And for this, functional programming is seeing a lot of limelight!

NExt up on this Functional Programming vs OOP blog, it is vital you understand a little bit about OOP to get a clear idea.

Object Oriented Programming

Object Oriented programming is a paradigm that has been here for a while, and there are numerous reasons for this. It is amazing to check out what it offers and how it processes everything.

Every entity in the world of OOP is considered as an object, hence the name. These objects can be data structures, variable entities, or more. An object has two main things that govern it: functions and attributes.

Attributes are things that describe an object better and give it a sense of meaning, while functions are completely concerned with attaining a goal using objects.

Consider this simple example of a car:

Attributes: Colour, the number of doors, the type, etc.

Functions: Moves fast, safety features, comfortable, etc.

Now, it is pretty clear, I suppose. Attributes give more definition to an object, and functions govern what the object does.

On the programming side of things, OOP is mainly concerned with encapsulating data from outside entities. Encapsulation is the process that is used to hide variables and entities from unwarranted access outside its scope. This, for security reasons, is amazing and works really well to avoid accidental data usage and leakage as well.

The primary reason for its popularity is because of the feel developers get when working with object oriented programming. It is a style of programming that closely models how the real world works. Everything is an object with attributes and functions. So, this allows for simpler transitions from the real world into programs when providing solutions to clients.

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Functional Programming vs OOP

Comparison Factor, Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming, Definition, Concerned with the evaluation of functions without any discrepancies, Concerned with using objects and executing programs based on the ‘objectified’ architecture, Programming Model, Follows the declarative (what) programming model that expresses logic without describing the control flow, Follows the imperative (how) programming model that uses statements to actively change the state of a program, Parallel Programming, Supports all programming paradigms involved in parallel programming, Does not support parallel programming as a whole because of its way of functioning Data Handling, Works well with immutable data, Makes use of mutable data for functioning, Order of Execution, Involves executing statements in any order of choice based on the program, Supports only the ordered execution of statements for functioning, Usage, Preferred when there is a requirement of more operations and only a few inputs, Preferred when there are many inputs to process but with fewer operations to perform, Core Components, Based on the usage of functions and variables, Breaks down into objects, attributes, and methods where each defines an aspect of functionality, Ease of Implementation, Can be difficult to implement as it takes a different approach to think from a functional standpoint, Very simple as it is based on mapping real-life functions and using them while programming, Ease of Learning, Simple to learn as it does not involve complex data handling and in-depth manipulationInvolves complexity due to the maintenance and non-modularity approach involved in programming

Conclusion

Which is better? I am sure you had this question in mind, and the above details would’ve given you some clarity on this front.

However, it is definitely hard to pick one to be a favorite as they are both amazing in their ways of providing brilliant programming capabilities in a variety of situations. Both functional programming and OOP use completely different methods for storing and working with data. In the case of functional programming, it cannot store data as objects, and the data can only be transformed and worked with by creating functions.

Functional programming, on the other hand, shines when the code requires new operations on the already existing items. Hence, when handling complexity is the primary aim, functional programming is well revered, and it works effectively.

When it comes to the object-oriented approach, it is perfect if the goal is to keep things packaged and secured from unwanted access and usage. Simply put, when a scenario calls for working on a variety of things with boundaries, OOP is amazing to keep everything secure and packaged up.

I hope that the difference between Functional Programming and Object Oriented Programming is now clear to you.

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How to Motivate Yourself to Be a Good Programmer

How to Motivate Yourself to Be a Good Programmer

Coding can be a tough nut to crack and we all struggle to find a boost of motivation when we feel overwhelmed by a challenge. Writing code is almost like a work of art and staying motivated is the key to achieving the highest possible quality of code. To find that boost of motivation, you have to know what makes you tick and keeps you going despite the challenges and hardships. After some serious introspection, I have gathered a few tips to help inspiring programmers to find the motivation that they need to excel in their fields.

Make Sure You Have a Flair for It

If you want to be a good programmer, make sure this is something you really want to do. Especially if you are just getting your feet wet in coding, remembering your purpose for learning and your passion for the field will help you stay motivated on occasions when your code is in knots and you are not getting the hang of things. Don’t worry if you don’t feel an obsession with all things or if you can’t relate to coding memes all the time; these things happen when you have spent considerable time on coding.

Choose Consistency over Speed

For developers, “slow and steady wins the race” holds true! When you are just starting out and learning new things by the hour, you want to rush into things and burn the midnight oils studying and practicing. You can’t drink in the vast ocean of coding and go from complete newbie to professional web developer in a few weeks or months, and may even end up getting exhausted and giving up altogether. It will be much easier to keep yourself motivated if you set realistic goals for yourself and stick to them. Even if you can only put aside 1 hour for practicing every day, you will have accomplished 7 hours in a week, about 28 hours in a month! Even small efforts, when consistently done, can lead to big accomplishments. Consistency is the key to avoid burnout and realize your goals.

Buddy Up With Other Developers

Meeting other developers who may be in the same boat, sharing common struggles, finding solutions, and picking the brains of professionals in the industry is great for developers. Stay on the lookout for meet-ups or other networking events in your local area or join professional societies and attend their specific topic conferences for garnering hands-on knowledge. Hanging out with other developers who have common interests with you, be it in person or in virtual settings, helps you stay motivated. Join coding forum and communities to stay abreast of new languages and platforms, pick up coding hacks, and contribute to open-source projects. Attending conferences will not only help you increase your knowledge base but also build your network.

Get a Mentor

You can’t imagine how much you can gain by getting a mentor, be it a coding guru or a senior colleague. A mentor can help you avoid the roadblocks and mistakes that you are bound to fall prey to as a newbie. A mentor who has “been there, done that”, knows what it is like to start out as a developer and offers invaluable advice based on real-world experience. Finding a suitable mentor opens up numerous doors of opportunities for you. Make the most of your mentorship by seeking help in preparing for interviews and landing jobs, through pair-programming, or by asking for help wherever you are stuck. Mentors are proven motivators that will guide you to the finish line.

Celebrate Small Wins

Coding is not everybody’s cup of tea and you should be glad of how well you are getting the grasp of it. If you are still in the learning process, be mindful of the fantastic progress you make learning a new language. Not only should you be proud of your accomplishments along your learning journey, but also share your wins with others. There’s no reason not to celebrate the efforts you have put in with your co-workers, friends, family, and fellow members of the tech community. Even as a professional developer, never cease to celebrate your happiness at completing a project, receiving positive feedback from superiors, adding a new skill set to your repertoire, solving a complex challenge, or even the progress you have made in your career. If you ever feel frustrated or can’t find the motivation to put one foot forward in front of the other, remembering these milestones will inspire you to continue excelling forward.

Bid Adieu to the Imposter Syndrome

Not only beginners, but even experienced professionals can’t always shake off the feeling of not being good enough. Perhaps coders are most vulnerable to this feeling since programming and web development are such broad fields, with new frameworks being introduced every day, different technology stacks to master, and several programming languages to get the hang of. Many aspiring developers get overwhelmed with trying to “learn it all”. If you truly want to conquer the imposter syndrome, you need to remember that no one can learn all there is to know about coding. The most you can do is to ace one or even two programming languages and perhaps acquire some level of familiarity with a few others, but that’s about it.

Instead of spreading yourself too thin trying to learn everything at once, you would do well to learn one main language and one stack and become a pro at it! The more proficient you become in your language and platform of choice, the more confident you will feel. The key is to be patient with yourself and realize that learning to code is not a sprint; it is a marathon. Don’t rush into things, it will take years for you to truly master something. If you can focus on one skill at a time, exercising patience and continuity, you will be better equipped to tackle the imposter syndrome.

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