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JavaScript.Linked Lists. Create a LinkedList Class API. Insert First
By: Yuriy Berezskyy
Tags: Software Development, Linked Lists, JavaScript, Data Structures, Algorithms

Today we continue to learn about Linked Lists and our aim to write about LinkedList class and connect with a Node class. If somebody has just started from this blog, I would recommend to read my first blog to understand where we are right now.

First blog about “JavaScript.Linked Lists. What is “Linked Lists”? Create a Node Class API”

And today we are building LinkedList class API and connect. Let’s begin

LinkedList Class

Function → Constructor

Returns → LinkedList

Directions

Create a class to represent a linked list. When created, a linked list should have *no* head node associated with it. The LinkedList instance will have one property, “head”, which is a reference to the first node of the linked list. By default ‘head’ should be ‘null’. This will know just the first node.

Example

const list = new LinkedList();

list.head // null

Let’s create it in real code:

Code:

class Node{

constructor(data, next = null){

this.data = data

this.next = next

}

} class LinkedList {

constructor(){

this.head = null;

}

} const list = new LinkedList();

list.head = new Node(10) console.log(list)

Insert First

Function → InsertFirst with argument (data)

Directions

Creates a new Node from argument ‘data’ and assigns the resulting node to the ‘head’ property. Make sure to handle the case in which the linked list already has a node assigned to the ‘head’ property.

Example

const list = new LinkedList(); list.insertFirst(‘Hello’);// List has one node

We have to insert a new First Node. For example, we had a Node before, but we want to insert a New First Node. So we change adding a new Node which become first , and second Node will be an old one. We are not overwrite over old one, just push ahead on one position.

Take your time to connect all the dots of the code. I know it’s not that easy but still it’s a good example how it works.In general, we created a new method in the class “insertFirst” with argument (data). This method created a new node, and replace a first place in the list, and moving old node ahead.

Code:

class Node{

constructor(data, next = null){

this.data = data

this.next = next

}

} class LinkedList {

constructor(){

this.head = null;

}



insertFirst(data){

const node = new Node(data, this.head);

this.head = node;

}

} const nodeOne = new Node(5);

const list = new LinkedList();

list.head = nodeOne;

list.insertFirst(10)

console.log(list)



Today we created a LinkedList class and created also insertFirst method which helps us to insert a new Node into the list. We will continue learning Linked List and I will be happy to share with you more information about it.
Losing my virginity in cryptocurrency
By: Alex Muresan
Tags: Bitconnect, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bitcoin

The story goes like this. A few weeks earlier, I didn’t know what bitcoin or cryptocurrency are. I’ve heard the term blockchain before, but didn’t know that it was associated with cryptocurrency. Since then I’ve started reading lots of articles and watching all the videos associated with cryptocurrency, blockchain and bitcoin and found it very appealing.

Probably like so many of you, I started thinking about how could I take advantage of this cryptocurrency revolution and make some money. This is the point where I wanted to start investing in cryptocurrency, but didn’t know where to start. I found out that there are many ways you can make money out of cryptocurrencies. I couldn’t decide what to do, should I buy some GPUs or should I buy a dedicated miner to start minim for cryptocurrencies, should I buy directly bitcoin and hold them or should I invest in an ICO? Being an area not very known to me, I didn’t want to invest much money in it. I wanted to test it first. I was searching also to do an investment with minimum risk. That’s when I came across a very interesting crypto coin. It was Bitconnect. It has a system through which you can earn money by multiple ways.

This is the start of my journey in cryptocurrency

I read many articles and watched as many videos telling that bitconnect is a scam and a Ponzi scheme. I didn’t find anything concrete about bitconnect being a scam, so decided to invest $1000 and try it. I ended up investing $1280.

My initial investment

Beside this, I decided to share my experience with you. I commit to keep you up to date on the progress made, every single day.
I’d be laughing if I wasn’t already crying…
By: Jonathon Howard
Tags: Id, Nut Jobs, Creationism, Religion, Religious Right

The amount of ignorance in this country is horrifying! What compounds it though is the fact that people are proud of it!
DCR is Back in Stock! Current daily ROI is about 0.55%!
By: Hash.Pro Cloud Mining
Tags: Decred, Cloud Mining, Bitcoin Mining, Bitcoin

Dear Miners!

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We are offering the best Decred contract on the market right now:

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Aug. 22th Bybit Analysis：Prepare for Both Sides
Tags: Bitcoin, Eth, Bybit, Market Analysis

ETH and BTC recovered part of their losses in last two days. The peaks of ETH, however, are still getting lower and lower on 4H chart, this may indicate it is still in a downtrend. While BTC made a series of higher highs, given it is still in a long term downtrend, I would consider it a warning signal.

ETHUSD

I gave a short setup in last analysis which is still with a little bit of profit now. Given the fact that BTC is leading ETH in most time, I’m tend to close my short position here.

If the price move up above 321,the Aug. 18th high, the It may be a chance to long it with a ST at 300 and TP 400. Alternatively, if it drops below 270, then short it, with a ST at 280 and TP 250.

BTCUSD

I gave a setup of short BTC at 6500 and SL at 6700.Now, it has stopped out with approximately 3% loss. Given the fact that it break above the resistance of 6800, there is likely some bounce incoming.

Specifically, if it retrace back to 6600, it is a good place to buy it low, ST at 6400 and TP 7200.

Where to Find Us:

Website: www.bybit.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Bybitofficial

Twitter: www.twitter.com/Bybit_Official

Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Bybit/

Medium: www.medium.com/bybit
This comic is extremely ＣＹＢＥＲ
Tags: Humor, Cyberpunk, Comics, Computers

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7 Traits of a Truly Authentic Woman
By: Samantha Blake
Tags: Authenticity, Women, Relationships, Self, Life

7 Traits of a Truly Authentic Woman

And why we all want to be around her.

Photo by Leah Kelley from Pexels

True authenticity is rare. It’s something that many — if not all — of us are working on, but in a world that so often pushes images of “perfection” on us, it can be hard to avoid self-doubt. Nowadays, especially for women, the urge to only reveal the best version of ourselves is often overpowering.

To become happy and comfortable in our own skin is a constant challenge, and true confidence is hard to find. But when you see it, it shines through and becomes irresistible.

A woman who is confident and genuine is also powerful — and it’s contagious.

We want to know her. We want to be with her. We want to be her. Charming, comfortable, confident — she knows who she is, and it shows. She feels real. Just being around her makes you feel somehow stronger, and she makes you feel better without even trying.

And you want to know how she does it.

I’ve known her, and I’ve felt her power. Like many women, I want to be her — she’s what I’m striving for, because her charm and strength are so calming, and yet so empowering. She’s everywhere, but you have to look.

So, who is she?

Here are seven traits that set her apart from all the rest.
The abuses of God
By: Ib Drew
Tags: Short Read, Mythology, Fable, Short Story, Philosophy

God the Rude — Being omnipotent and omniscient, He saw all. And like every peeping tom, people found it incredibly impolite. The women, when caught indecent, would slap God across the face. Whenever men made a fools of themselves, stumbling or spilling something, they cursed at God and demanded He turn His head. No one is more hated by a man than one who is witness to his follies. The people came to despise this voyeur and soon enough chased God from their town.

God the Nuisance — Everyone had to ask God to deliver them to safety through bumpy flights, to have their checks delivered in time for bill payments, and to cure them of aching feet and runny noses. People resent the ones they are reliant on — humanity soon came to feel suffocated by their deity. They grew tired of crawling on their hands and knees to God, just to make sure their wallets were filled, and their loved ones were protected. Last week, a mob formed in the square, rounded up God, and beat Him.

God the Imperfect — The priests and the philosophers got some notions in their heads about how God should be — infallible, pure, the embodiment of truth. These thinkers fell in love with their ideas and spread them amongst the people. And sure enough, the legislature soon made it law that God be held up to these standards. Unfortunately, not even God can be so ideal, and before long, after being caught in a lie here, and being unfair there, he was imprisoned for his imperfections.

God the Lonely — Everyone thought God was a mean and jealous being, but they got him all wrong. Thinking He wanted everyone meek and humble, they kept themselves small and weak. All God really wanted was a companion, but none dared to rise to His level. As time passed, the loneliness began to tear at His heart. God stopped believing in people and his sadness turned to despair. One day, finding the isolation and hopelessness unbearable, He hanged Himself.
Featured In The News
By: Julian Martinez
Tags: Public Relations, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

A blog post of ours was featured on the Bospar site:

Bospar is a public relations firm here in San Francisco. Cryptocurrencies have been all over the news in the past year, and we’ve been looking to stay in touch with public relations professionals and educate the community.

The press release announcing our project can be seen below:

Business Wire: CurrentCoin Announces Digital Software Deployment Solution Powered by Ethereum Smart Contracts

After this went out, our story was featured by a number of news outlets across the Bay Area:

We were proud to be featured in the spotlight and we’ll continue to work to spread our message. While this is just the beginning for us, it’s good to know that our work is being noticed and appreciated as we create it.
Free Will Astrology, Week of December 24
By: Rob Brezsny
Tags: Planet Soul, Astrology, Spirituality, Free Will, Horoscopes

November 22 — December 21

In 2021, you may be smarter than you have ever been. Not necessarily wiser, too, although I have reason to hope that you will leverage your smartness to also deepen your wisdom. But as I was saying, your intelligence could very well soar beyond its previous heights. Your ability to speak articulately, stir up original thoughts, and solve knotty riddles should be at a peak. Is there any potential downside to this outbreak of brilliance? Only one that I can imagine: It’s possible that your brain will be working with such dominant efficiency that it will drown out messages from your heart. And that would be a shame. In order to do what I referred to earlier — leverage your smartness to deepen your wisdom — you’ll need to be receptive to your heart’s messages.
Veri Bütünlüğü(Data Integrity)
By: Murat Süngü
Tags: Data Integrity, Data Integration, Veri, Veri Bilimi, Data

What is Data Integrity and How Can You Maintain it?

If your company's data is altered or deleted, and you have no way of knowing how, when and by whom, it can have a major…
Bread Lines Spotted in California
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Depression

Fox News reports that bread lines have begun popping up in California.

Many say a depression doesn’t have to be great, that the economy can sink into a milder depression. The Salvation Army says it’s happening now, and in San Diego County, people are standing in line outside a Salvation Army waiting for donated bread.

Salvation Army director of communications Suzi Woodruff Lacey said they are seeing people from all walks of life: “white collar, blue collar, people who have lost their jobs, people who are in danger of losing their homes.”

Bread lines were regularly seen in the 1930s during the Great Depression, when unemployment peaked at more than 25 percent and the stock market lost 90 percent of its value. Today, California’s unemployment rate hit 8.4 percent.
Rails Rumble Alumni Archive Project
By: Nick Plante
Tags: Hackathons, Ruby on Rails

2011 has been a busy year so far, full of interesting contract work, side projects, research for the next startup biz, upcoming travel plans, and not-so-fun family health issues. It’s also been a busy year for the other Rails Rumble organizers, and as such there’s currently no date set for the 2011 contest. Sorry about that :(.

However, I did find a few hours last weekend to design / develop a Rumble-related mini-site that’s been long, long overdue…

The new Rumble Alumni Archive is a searchable archive of websites and applications that were developed during contests past and present. It’s a great way to see what entries are still online and browse them by year (2007–2010), country of origin, and award.

Over 80 entries that were developed during Rumble events are still online, most of which have evolved pretty significantly since their initial weekend development sprint. For just a couple examples, check out Mocksup, Awesome Fontstacks, and IOU Mate (formerly “nDebted”). Go poke around the archive to see others; there’s some really great stuff in there. And please let us know (contact organizers at railsrumble dot com) if we’ve left anybody out.

I know I’ve said it before, but it’s really inspiring to me when I think about how many of these polished web apps started off as as disposable weekend experiments. Kick. Ass.
Haiku That Make You Wonder
By: Jason Mcbride
Tags: Humor, Poetry, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Fiction

Poet’s Note

Sometimes I write silly three-line poems. I’ve never grown out of my childish love of the absurd. There is a lot of weirdness in the world, but instead of appreciating the strangeness of everything so many people spend their lives pretending everything is normal.

What a boring way to live. We live on a planet where the octopus is a real creature!

Celebrate the strange. Proudly display your weirdness. It’s the only way to stay sane.
“Finding Gratitude in 2020”
By: Our Human Family
Tags: Self Care, Equality, Gratitude, History, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2020 was certainly unlike any other we’ve seen before. With the various physical, mental, emotional, financial, and spiritual challenges we’ve endured since the arrival of Covid-19, and for some even before then, it’s easy to enter the holiday season with a heightened sense of uncertainty, if not anxiety.

We hope this gathering of memories and musings will help buoy your spirits and recalibrate your perspective about the state of your immediate surroundings, your family and loved ones, and the world at large. Remember, one’s outlook on life, much like the proverbial glass of water, depends on how one chooses to look at it.

Meister Käßner, Brian Kean, Tre L. Loadholt, Leah Olson, Sylvia Wohlfarth, and I composed our works specifically for you at the moment in time. The specifics of someone’s trials, while relevant to better understanding a particular situation, are not prerequisites for empathy.

We invite you to curl up in a comfortable spot with a mug of your favorite fall beverage and dive into these soothing and enlightening reads. They’ll do you good.

Love one another.

Clay Rivers

Our Human Family, Founder and Editorial Director
103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
By: Corinne Shutack
Tags: United States, Racial Equality, Racial Justice, BlackLivesMatter, Peace

Note 1: This article was last updated on September 21, 2020.

Note 2: Our work to fix what we broke and left broken. The work isn’t done until Black folks tell us it’s done.
That Sound Your Dick Makes…
By: Amanda Dalmas
Tags: Poetry, Sex, The Rebel Poets Society, Fucking, Lust

A Poem

Photo by MacDonald Almeida on Unsplash

Gushing just to have you touch me

Sloppy wet pussy, galore

You could have them all at once

Mesmerized by your Golden Buddha Rays

They are at your command.

I can’t even stay mad at you

And all I can think of

is those slurping sounds

of two people

viciously fucking their brains out

I love the sounds your dick makes inside of me

The pounding of your balls on my thighs

Your hands grabbing my hips

and running up to my tits

The sweat pouring down the crack of my ass

As you lick it off

I am moaning like a dirty whore

Insert your thumb into my puckered starfish

like a key to a lock

Perfect fit every time

But it’s only a memory now!

Amanda Dalmas ~Dec. 26th, 2020
Bluetooth is a mess on Windows
By: Fayyaz H Zafar
Tags: Usability, Bluetooth, User Experience, User Interface, Windows 10

Sending a 20 kb file from your PC to your smartphone should be a breeze, even with this somewhat clunky technology called Bluetooth. Sending one from a smartphone to another surely is. Not so on Windows. You right-click on the word file, select send to in the context menu that appears and sure enough, a list of your paired devices appears. You select one of them, presumably your smartphone, but the Next button is greyed out and there is no way to proceed. No hints, no error message, no pop-up to tell you what’s wrong.

The first time, it took me ages to figure out that the Bluetooth was inactive on my laptop and needed to be turned on from the Action center — or whatever it is that they are calling it now. How difficult can it be to notify the user that he needs to turn on his device Bluetooth to complete the file transfer?
Love Amalgamating with the Divine
By: Ruchi Thalwal
Tags: Self, Spirituality, Prayer, Love, Poetry

Although Prem-Samarpan is two words in Hindi, I could not divide them personally as they mean the same to me.

Prem means “Love.” Love that is divine and omnipresent. Love that resides in every heart. Love that connects us with the divine. We can love anything, any person or animal, but that love that arises from the heart's deepest caverns is divine communicating with the divine.

Samarpan means “Surrender.” Only in deep love, true surrender can happen. When love is present, it happens automatically. Heart surrenders. Love is a prayer where surrender is an effortless by-product.

Like Meera, whose love for Lord Krishna was a prayer, a journey, and the destination, love in the truest sense is that only. Love where the devotee surrenders everything, merging in the beloved and only beloved remains. Lover and beloved are one, not two entities.

Prem and Samarpan - Love and Surrender is one and not two distinct realities.
Good Teens With Guns
By: Hengtee Lim, Snippets
Tags: Fiction, School Shooting, Gun Control, Fiction Friday

Blake Driver

Student

I was doing it months before the shooter came. It wasn’t like a coincidence or anything like that. I’d just lost faith in the system: in the teachers, the police, the government. And after the ginormous fuck-up that was Mr. Evans, I knew that if I wanted to defend myself and my friends, I had to be the one to do it.

So I brought a gun to school. And nobody knew, so it was pretty much the same as not even bringing one.

But it’s never been just me. It wasn’t then, and it isn’t now. It’s a network. There are others. Failsafes, we call them. I can’t tell you more than that and I won’t. We can’t let people know too much about it because it puts us at risk.

The only reason I’m telling you now is because I want people to know. You take me out, and there are others.

Creating a sense of fear is important. As students and kids, we had to live with that every day after the shooting. We had to get used to it, like it was just another kind of puberty. So the best thing we can do now is to make use of it. Share our fear with the people who want to do us harm.

Make them feel it.
Building on BitBox at LightningHackaday #3
Tags: Hackathons, Transactions, Lightning Network, Hardware Wallet, Bitcoin

Following the success of the Lisbon Chainhack Hackathon — where the team won 1st prize for the Lightning Hardware Wallet — we will be attending the Berlin LightningHackday Hackathon on 31 August to continue our journey.

This time, we will be showing off the BitBox v2 device: the new one with the screen! While hacking on Arduino is fun, we would like to build on enterprise grade hardware which cannot easily be tampered with. The BitBox has a secure microchip for storing sensitive information. The chip has hardware support for AES encryption and hashing as well as a random number generator. The BitBox is basically a hardware security module in your pocket. We will be in Berlin to help you code with the device and build a lightning hardware wallet.

BitBox Hardware Wallet V2 preview

We will provide a docker image for coding environment and publish instructions on how to use the screen, the touch buttons and sliders, the cryptographic functions and memory persistence.

We would like you to get the community one step further towards having a secure way of signing Lightning transactions. As explained in the Chainhack blog post, c-lightning is already designed in a modular way and laid-out for using hardware security modules. The signing of the Lightning transaction takes place in the hsmd sub-process daemon. Currently, the hsmd module generates a random secret and stores it in a file called hsm_secret. The 32 byte secret entropy is used to derive on-chain transaction-signing keys, node keys for communication and signing invoices, and peer seeds to generate channel secrets (see https://github.com/hkjn/lnhw/tree/master/doc/hsmd).

At Chainhack, we decided to move away from storing the secret in a file on a potentially compromised computer, and instead store and retrieve it from an external device: an Arduino Adafruit M0. The focus was, of course, to provide a proof-of-concept for separating the key storage away from c-lightning and interacting with a hardware wallet. However, we limited ourselves to storing a hard-coded secret on the Arduino’s memory, and asking a user for confirmation. Signing was still done in c-lightning, which means that the secret was passed to the potentially compromised environment. Let’s see if we can improve that in Berlin.

If this sounds interesting get in touch with us on Twitter or approach us at the event. We can help you set up the environment, provide you with hardware that can be flashed with your own firmware, and with code snippets for the HID/JSON communication to access the API of the BitBox v2. You’ll surely learn a lot about lightning and close-to-hardware engineering!
Fighting COVID-19 and promoting peace come together in Darfur
By: Un Peacekeeping
Tags: Darfur, Peacebuilding, Sudan, Peacekeeping, Covid 19

In the Darfur region of Sudan, with the myriad of internally displaced persons and nomadic communities, the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a significant threat to peace and security and further deteriorated the socio-economic situation.

The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) — the peacekeeping mission that has been deployed since 2007 to protect civilians, facilitate humanitarian aid and help the political process in Darfur — has been adapting to these new challenges while continuing to implement its mandate.

UNAMID’s Governance and Community Stabilization Section (GCSS) works to address issues such as intercommunal violence and competition over limited natural resources, rights to land and the use of land. The proliferation of small arms, weakened traditional conflict resolution mechanisms, and the absence of the rule of law and effective state institutions has made a difficult situation even more complex.

“As Darfur grappled with these challenges, COVID-19 entered the scene,” said Zurab Elzarov, Chief of GCSS. “Preventive measures to fight the pandemic, including a nightly curfew, banning gatherings, and the closure of the international airport, markets, schools, and universities — all impacted the livelihoods and income of people in Darfur.”

Adapting to the common enemy: COVID-19

This situation prompted UNAMID to explore creative and nuanced ways to ensure it could continue its work promoting peace and reconciliation between communities and, at the same time, support the government and people in Darfur address the new threats and risks to civilians posed by COVID-19.

In mid-2020, the Mission began targeting rural areas of Zalingei, in Central Darfur, with a focus on locations where diverse groups from settled and nomadic communities are living together. Their goal was to spread messages on the importance of peaceful coexistence to address issues of mutual interest, including health.

UNAMID and its partners launched COVID-19 risk communication and community awareness projects targeting hot-spot areas, which featured peace and reconciliation messages that underscored the importance of leaving behind personal disputes and coming together, irrespective of tribal and community affiliations, to fight a common enemy: COVID-19.

The two-week project, in collaboration with the Central Darfur State Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO), was implemented with support from a national NGO called the Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO).

Efforts were directed towards six villages and nomadic communities in the surrounding areas of Zalingei, namely Abata, Ourukum, Aarra, Waranga, Tamerball-Jemel and Hela Beida Gold Mine villages, targeting over 6,600 residents.
Higher-Order Function pada Kotlin
By: Mahesa Iqbal Ridwansyah
Tags: Kotlin, Functional Programming, Programming

Knowledge comes to those who crave for it.

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Life’s a Female Dog
By: Frank Parker
Tags: Word Choice, Animal References, Insults, From The Library, Offensive Language

Life’s a Female Dog

Or it can be for us writers.

The cover of my book Summer Day showing a boy and his (female) dog.

The two principal protagonists in one of my novels are a boy and his dog. Except that the dog is female so she is frequently referred to by other characters as ‘the bitch’. An American writer, in a review of the book posted recently on Goodreads and Amazon, took me to task for this because, the reviewer claimed, the word is offensive to 330 million Americans who are used to its misuse in a derogatory reference to a woman.

I carried out a straw poll among fellow authors from around the world and discovered none who agreed.

Of course, it is important to take account of readers’ sensitivities when choosing what words to use. But it would, for example, be totally inauthentic to write a historial novel set in the deep South of the USA a hundred years ago without putting the ’N’ word into the mouths of one or more of the white characters. Of course, it would be important to make clear that the use of the word is part of a cultural milieu that is no longer acceptable.

The same goes for the use of anti-Semitic rhetoric in a novel set in Nazi Germany or, indeed, anywhere in Europe or North America during the 1930s.

When it comes to the use of words describing animals as insults when applied to human beings, why stop at ‘bitch’? The word ‘cow’ is similarly used as an insult when referring to a woman. So should I get out my thesaurus and seek another word when referring to a female bovine? ‘Heifer’ has a more specific meaning and, anyway, ‘cow’ is loosely utilised for all varieties of the domestic — um — cow!

What about ‘pig’? Another word used to insult people in general whom we regard as unpleasant, and, more specifically, members of police forces the world over. Should authors avoid the word for fear of offending the law enforcement agencies of the English speaking world?

Other animal species sometimes used in an insulting way to refer to humans include snake, dragon, toad and rat. Should Cagney’s famous use of that word be censored from the 1932 movie ‘Taxi’?

So, followers of ‘From the Library’, what do you think? Are there words whose use in a proper context would, nevertheless, be considered unacceptable in your region?
5 Wealth Management Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make
By: Tony Yeung
Tags: Life Lessons, Business, Money, Wealth Management, Finance

2. Only Invest in Intangible Assets

Many people only think the investments should be stocks, securities, and bonds only. Perhaps these investments are cheaper for entry and higher liquidity, it does not mean that these types of investments are the best in the market.

Many investors understand the values of physical assets, such as properties, and they have been investing in private and commercial real estate in different places. Likewise, they have been investing in land, gold, expensive watches, artworks, and even wines.

Real estate is the most popular assets in their portfolios because it can balance out the volatility of stocks. Also, some stocks are considered as high-risk investments. Although it is important to invest physical assets, the lack of liquidity and the high investment price turn off many smaller investors.

On the other hand, the physical assets are not susceptible to market swings. They pay off over the long-term (i.e. 10 years or even longer).
How I Feel Sexy (on those days when it’s a struggle)
By: Asrai Devin
Tags: Sexy, Lingerie, Feeling Sexy, Sexuality, Sex

Photo by Rafael Saes on Unsplash

I used to think feeling sexy was something that came spontaneously. Until I read Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski. Then I learned about sexual accelerators and brakes, and I have a lot of things stepping on the brakes. Abusive history and present stress and not feeling connected to my spouse and needing five minutes alone.

Contrary to popular belief, erotic writers don’t walk around turned on all the time. Sad.

Sometimes, it’s writing time and I need to feel sexy. Sometimes I want to be intimate with my partner and I want to feel sexy in preparation. And sometimes I just want to feel sexy, because it’s fun.

Here are some ways I turn myself on.

Put on some sexy clothes

My favorite pair are red boy shorts. But I also have some fancy ones, ones with cheeky sayings like “ain’t no party like a champagne party” and blue ones with lots of holes that I also find sexy, but the mesh-like arse ripped. But my favorite are those red ones, as Third Eye Blind sang in Semi-Charmed life “Those little red panties they pass the test.”

I don’t wear a bra, but I have tank tops I feel are sexy. If I am alone, I don’t put on bottoms, just my knee-high stockings. If someone comes to the door, I keep a skirt nearby to slip into.

Sexy music.

Desire by Meg Myers.

Physical by Nine Inch Nails

Queen of Disaster by Lana Del Ray

Not a full list.

Lots of songs, anything with the right beat that makes you want to move your hips, rock, swivel. Which brings us too…

Move and breath.

After you shake off your stuck energy with some actual shaking, I move my hips and chest to the music. This helps me start moving the energy through my body, whether it’s energy moving through my body and chakras or just my mind convincing me there’s energy moving, it works. Focusing breathing, and if I need to increase my energy some breath of fire, huffing and puffing gets me going, otherwise, timing my breath to my movements works too.

Touch myself

Become my own lover, my hands running across my skin where I like to be touched. Across my belly and forearms, squeezing my breaths, nails scratch up my thighs and across my panties. Caressing, stroking, rubbing until I’m breathing heavy, until I’m moaning my own name, until I’m so close… aaaaaaaaaah ah ah. YESS!

Take pictures

Taking sexy pictures of myself (and sharing them with people who appreciate me) is amazing fun. Ev’Yan Whitney wrote about taking sexy selfies and sharing with friends.

https://evyanwhitney.com/naked-selfies/

https://evyanwhitney.com/erotic-muse/
A Serial Killer is on the Loose
Tags: Humor, Family, Fiction, Short Story, Funny Stories

Hearing the terrifying screams in the middle of the night, the son rushes to his dad’s bedroom, where he bumps into a masculine figure with a smooth face and long blonde hair.

The son pulls off the dad’s blonde wig to silence his mom’s bloodcurdling screams.

The dad feels unsafe.
Crypto: the vanity demon
By: Fritz Wagner
Tags: Halloween

“The halloween”, also known as “Witch’s Night Out”, it’s a celebration that we popularly see as a funny day, where we use scary costumes and go out to eat some candy, and play with our friends –no matter if we are kids or adults-.

But in contemporary society, few people know and understand the historical meaning of this day; this happens because there have been many cultures and religions through which this commemoration has passed, and even when many people recognize its origin in Celtic Mythology, like the Samhain, that represented “the last night of the summer”; it has gone through numerous modifications and different interpretations in the entire world.

The truth is that there is a common denominator in all the cultures that celebrate this date, and its known as the only night in the year when a portal is open between the two worlds: the living and the dead; turning this day into an opportunity to prepare ourselves to connect with our loved ones, those who cross the portal to our land, to share with us. So this night, represents the eve of November 1st, All Saints' Day.

But not every part of the story is good.

Another popular tradition, is that we use scary costumes; and even when many people think that it is with a recreational purpose, historically, the celts and the Saxons, knowing that a door opened between the spiritual and the earthly world, they dressed in different rags and made offerings of candy to scare away evil spirits, and avoid being possessed and that their souls were taken away.

One of these demons, was known as Crypto, “the vanity demon”, an evil entity, occupying an earthly body, that used to offer beauty, youth and health to people, and asking for their souls in return. The story tells that an old coven, conformed by three witches, called him in an opportunity to rescue the soul of one of the sisters, who suffered from cancer; but with the intention of cheating the demon, they flayed him alive, believing that the third sister would preserve her health, and he would not charge her soul. But Crypto returned as an immaterial entity; and with thirst of revenge, he turned the three beautiful witches into dust and fed on their souls. The story continues relating that the demon returns looking for those fatuous people, who seek beauty and eternal youth to take their souls away; and if not, he look for beautiful, healthy and young people to take their bodies and walk amoung the living ones.

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By: Ma. Alejandra Valderrama / Bitdharma
That Time a Man Wore a Skirt
By: Evan Mccoy
Tags: Fashion, Gender, Memoir, LGBTQ, Creative Non Fiction

All night, both on the way to the concert and once we were there, people complimented us. We got an immeasurable number of stares, which I was expecting — people just aren’t used to seeing a man in a skirt, no matter how open to it they may be — but most of the stares were accompanied by a supportive smile, and many of them included a quick comment about how they loved our outfits or thought we looked amazing. We even had several people ask to take photos with us.

But I am not immune to the privileges associated with this outfit.

We could talk about how it shouldn’t be this groundbreaking for a man to wear a skirt and how these actions — even though they were supportive — point to the fact that we still have a lot further to go as a society, as I was still largely “othered,” even if that othering was supportive in nature.

We could also talk about how I am a cisgender white male, so my chances of getting public support in a skirt are higher than someone trans, or someone Black, simply because of other layers of oppression and prejudice.

We could also talk about how the setting of a Taylor Swift concert is a unique, magical bubble of love and acceptance that isn’t representative of the world as a whole — so the people within this setting allowed for a man wearing a skirt to have a largely positive outcome.

I also, though, want to focus on the positives: how wearing that skirt was a small act of bravery, and how that small act of bravery was rewarded with complete support from total strangers.

It gives me hope.

It gives me hope that society is moving toward something better. It gives me hope that we are beginning to slowly break down gender norms. It gives me hope that all those people at that Taylor Swift concert who saw a man dancing in a skirt will now be one gasp less shocked when they see another man wearing one.

It’s a step. And sometimes, a step is all we need.

So as long as you feel safe, take that risk. Wear something you’ve always wanted to wear, even if society is telling you not to wear it. Express yourself in new ways — ways you’ve always been afraid of. You might be surprised at what you find when you do.

I know I was.
Odiferous
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Humor, Poetry, Poetry Writing, Haiku, Smells

Hi! I’m Terry Mansfield and I Specialize in Eclecticism

Here are some things about me you probably don’t know (and maybe don’t even care to know; sorry about that).
成長駭客 — 完美混種行銷生命體
By: Henry Hu
Tags: Digital Marketing, Growth Hacking, 成長駭客, 數位行銷, 成長駭客行銷

Co-Founder of Chigyosha Marketing Copr. based in Taipei. Addicted in data mining and content marketing. Passionated by visions and dreams.

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Little-Known Facts About Exports and module.exports in Node.js
By: Shubham Verma
Tags: Exports Vs Module Exports, Module Exports In Nodejs, JavaScript, Exports In Nodejs

Why they are confusing?

Suppose we’re exporting several things from inside a module, one of which is a function: myFunction() .

Now you can require it inside another module, like this:

require(‘./file.js’).myFunction();

If you want to export it using module.exports you can do it like this:

module.exports.myFunction=function(){

console.log(“Its myFunction()”);

}

This code works fine.

You can also do the same thing with the exports global variables:

exports.myFunction() = function(){

console.log(“its myFunction()”);

}

This it also works well. So there’s no problem with either of the above codes.

So where’s the problem? Where we are getting confused?

Say I’m trying to exports just one function out of the module which we will use inside other modules using this code:

require(‘./file.js’)();

We assign module.exports to that function like this:

module.exports=function myFunction(){

console.log(“Hello World”);

}

This works fine. But we get an error when we try to do this with the exports variable like this:

exports= function(){

console.log(“Hello World”);

}

What went wrong here?

Whenever we use any module from inside any other, we get a reference to the exports property on the module object that node made available inside that module.

By default, the only thing that any other module can access from this module is whatever module.exports is pointing to, which is an empty JavaScript object.

module={

exports:{}

}

Let’s take a look at this code:

module.exports.key1=10

Or here:

module.exports.key2 = {

key3:10

}

We’re just adding keys to the module.exports objects:

module.exports={

key1:10,

key2:{

key3:10

}

}

Those keys ( key1 , key2 , key3 ) will be exported when the module.exports object is exposed with the other file, and if we assign the reference of module.exports to a function, like this:

module.exports=function(){

console.log(“”Hello World);

}

That reference should also be exposed when node shares the module.exports with the required file.

The exports.global variable is a reference to the module.exports object, which will be exported.

So, if we add properties to the exports we’re actually adding properties to the module.exports object like this:

exports.key1=10;

exports.key2={key3:10};

Which are the same as this:

module.exports={

key1:10,

key2:{key3:10}

}

These will be exported as expected.

However, what about when we want to export a function and assign the export variable to that function, like this?:

exports= function myOtherFunction(){

console.log(“Hello , I am lost”);

}

export a function and assign export variable

In the above code, we just lost the reference to module.exports object and now our exports is pointing to a function as:

IMG: lost the reference to module.exports

lost the reference to module.exports
Losing my religion — and father. An inter-generational agnostic story
By: Marjorie Steele
Tags: Faith, Spirituality, Agnosticism, Death, Christianity

Losing my religion — and father

An inter-generational agnostic story

My dad found his faith just before I lost mine. Just before he died.

Growing up, dad would watch my mom and brother and I get ready and head in to church every Sunday, and cheerfully tell us to have a good time as he headed to his sanctuary: his workshop. He would even tag along with us on rare occasion, if the sermon’s topic piqued one of his many interests or if it were a major holiday and he wanted “to see the circus”. But most of the time he didn’t, and I never once heard my mother ask him to.

As a young couple, my mom followed a path adjacent her family’s baptist footsteps by finding a small, community-led Evangelical Free Church for herself and two young children, while my dad remained happily and unapologetically agnostic, as he had been since his youth. His grandmother Madelle, who largely raised him (and is also my daughter’s eponym), was highly spiritual, highly practical, and didn’t have much time or patience for religion. My dad was very practical and didn’t have much use for religion, but he wasn’t terribly spiritual — not until very late in his life.

On the occasion that he’d appear at a church event, pastors and leaders swarmed in attempts to crack his agnostic shell. To them, Dad represented the Moby Dick of converts. And he welcomed their attacks.

They would say things like, “Walt, when are you going to embrace the peace of having everlasting life through a relationship with our Lord and Savior?”

And dad would laugh, and probably pull my pigtail, and gesture around and say, “I don’t know, guys — I’ve got a beautiful wife and kids, a good job, land, and a good store of ammunition; life seems pretty darn good right now, and if it’s not broken, don’t fix it!”

I, on the other hand, was extremely spiritually sensitive as a child, and the church community was the one provided to me, so I bought the ideology hook line and sinker. I loved the discovery of meaning through study, and the cross-checking it against spiritual experience. I loved the comfort of knowing there was something bigger, higher, and more benevolent than myself. The security of knowing that this physical plain is not all there is, and that I have a place in the Universe.

God. Salvation. Heaven. These are how Evangelical Christianity frame our spiritual place in the Universe. They’re powerful tools. But they’re also, I’ve found, extremely limiting.
Pierced
Tags: Haiku, Poems On Medium, Poetry On Medium, House Of Haiku, Poetry Writing

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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🌎 Digital Diplomacy partners with The UN Brief
By: Andreas Sandre
Tags: Social Media, Technology, Tech, Government, UN

🌎 Digital Diplomacy partners with The UN Brief

Focus on tech for good, the United Nations, and the digital age in multilateral fora.

We’re excited to announced the launch of “The UN Brief” column here on Digital Diplomacy!

Starting today and every Monday, Digital Diplomacy will publish The UN Brief, a weekly column by The UN Brief focused on technology for good, the tech debate at the United Nations and its agencies, as well as what the digital age means for government and citizens around the world.

“At The UN Brief we believe in a world where international cooperation matters,” said Maya Plentz, founder and editor-in-chief of The UN Brief. “This partnership with Digital Diplomacy furthers our mission of shedding light in the digital transformation of multilateral organizations, the pervasiveness of new technologies that impact the negotiations of normative frameworks, peace and security, and the work of diplomats around the globe.”

The first weekly column is about the World Health Organization’s newly-launched COVID-19 platform:
Herding the sinners: Dore
By: Dan Mccarthy
Tags: Water, Canto Iii, Religion, Ideas, Art

Gustave Doré’s illustration to Dante’s Inferno. Plate X: Canto III: Charon herds the sinners onto his boat. “Charon the demon, with eyes of glede, / Beckoning to them, collects them all together, / Beats with his oar whoever lags behind.’” (Longfellow’s translation, which isn’t particularly good, it must be said.)
How news portals reach people better with Bublity
Tags: Chat, Digital Marketing, Newspapers, News, Social Media

D ear Social Media Manager / PR Manager / Marketing Manager ,

We know that you are using social media, e-mail marketing, outdoor ads, influencers, online campaigns to spread your news portal updates. But you reach only a few part of their community. And It has high costs and not effective.

Yes, It is very important to create strong connections with people and it is hard to make a live community for news portals.
Reading List — Income Tax Liabilities & Raids on Indian Exchanges
Tags: Readinglist, India, Income Tax, Bitcoin

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