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4 ways to figure out and buy your domain name
By: The House
Tags: SEO, Domains, Domain Names, Tools

Your domain name impacts everything from your online identity to your SEO and social media marketing. It adds to your credibility and builds your brand name, while also being a crucial aspect of your website traffic and conversion rate. The longer you think about it, the more you realize investing time in finding the right domain name for your business is smart thing to do. Here are some websites that will help you navigate the crazy world of domain extensions and register your perfect domain name.

Whether you need to build a site from scratch or you already have a website that needs hosting, 123 Reg is here to make it easy for you. Their products are designed to make your website reliable and findable, professional and presentable, in any format from desktop to mobile. They help with faster page loading, tighter online security, constant updating, as well as with neat and effective tools to drive traffic to your site.

Use Name Mesh’s handy search tool to check availability of the most common tlds including com, net, org an others, or mix things up with new gtlds that have been launched and have entered general availability like .email, .link, .domains and others.

You can also create short domain names by overlapping the keywords with the tlds, like del.icio.us, foc.us, citi.es, or check domain names with some other popular tlds like co, io, it, mobi, name, me, ly and many more. Name Mesh also lets you generate the common alternatives for your domain name by using the thesaurus, synonyms and antonyms, as well as real world intelligence and collocations and n-grams.

From basic email to an ecommerce store for your new business UK2 can help get your new website up and running in no time. From the staple .com’s and .co.uk’s to geographic and industry-specific options, you can show just what your business is all about with one of your very own. You can also choose to bulk register all available domain extensions with their bulk registration tool.

Hover helps you find a domain with hundreds of extensions at your disposal. With a recently updated Control Panel, it allows the automatic setup of domains with Hover Connect and more forwarding options to get your domain pointed at your social media profiles. Hover also lets you connect your domain to tons of external applications like Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub, Shopify, Tumblr, Behance and others.

For more useful information on all aspects of marketing and product development, follow us on Twitter or check out our website.
Simple Malicious Doc Analyst
By: Christ Young
Tags: Mti, Malware Analysis, Technology, Macro

Hi,

In October, we have received a strange file. This file is zipped with passwords. When we decompress file, TrendMicro engines is triggered and alerts that this is a strange file.

So I tried to inspect this file. First information:

File name: DAT 6021.doc SHA256 : FBA41FDD9A1E8B12844D2ED37A39199DBBC262040AF00488032CA8DD37D99AF8 SHA1:783A12021EB09E34B5E8C5670D9C3F475B420CA8

I tried to analyze with Virustotal and 38/64 engines detected this file as malicious.

I opened this document with OpenOffice. As show in this picture, it required users to enable macro to view the file content.

Digging deeper this file with oletool (oledump,olevba) by Mr. Didier Stevens.

So, 3 module macro were using on this malicious file

More analysis with Olevba, we got some evidence like :

This file is automatically executed when the file is opened

Showwindow is hidden,

VBA code is obfuscated.

CreateObject and Create

I tried to use option “— reveal” of olevba and exported to txt file.

The VBA string code is obfuscated. Then we more analyzed it further with Word VBA.
Latent graph learning: a new perspective on old problems
By: Tds Editors
Tags: The Daily Pick

By Michael Bronstein—12 min read

Graph neural networks exploit relational inductive biases for data that come in the form of a graph. However, in many cases we do not have the graph readily available. Can graph deep learning still be applied in this case?
Will The Real Victims, Please Stand Up?!
By: Vidya Narayanan
Tags: Sexual Assault, Democracy, Donald Trump, Politics, Women

Will The Real Victims, Please Stand Up?!

Democracy’s collapse in history will be earmarked by collective victimization. Which side of it will you be on?

91% of sexual assault victims are female, 9% are male.

One in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives in the United States.

Nearly half of multiracial women in America have had some sexual violence in their lifetime.

27% of college women experience unwanted sexual advances.

81% of women and 35% of men report some kind of PTSD.

96% of child abusers are male.

“It’s a scary time for young men in America”, said a man.
News Corp launches Amplify educational unit, with help from AT&T (video) — Engadget
By: Ipg Media Lab
Tags: Tablet, News Corp, Education, ATT

News Corp launches Amplify educational unit, with help from AT&T
9 Reasons Why Young Women Should Avoid Significantly Older Men At All Costs
By: Ellen Nguyen
Tags: Women, Feminism, Relationships, Dating, Love

If you’re a heterosexual woman in your late teens or early twenties, you have no business being with a man significantly older than you. I’m talking about 10 years and more. Though, if you’re under 20, that number should be reduced by at least half.

This issue is not just about the age gap — it’s specifically about older men seeking out much younger women and vice versa. With the help of modern technology, this is happening every day on social media, dating apps, discussion websites, and so on.

There’s a reason why the relationships between older men and much younger women are considerably more common than ones between older women and younger men, and the older men in question are often resourceful and the younger women are attractive but not the other way round.

It’s because this type of relationship is intrinsically linked to the deep-running sexist and patriarchal cultures, characterised by many superficial and harmful values such as those placed on youth, beauty, and excessive wealth. While women might benefit from such relationships, they’re not designed to serve women — especially in the long run.

Now, I could write an article addressing these older men who themselves are aware of the inappropriate age gap and their predatory position but abuse their power and target women half their age anyway, and those who — for that same reason — often feel the need to use manipulative PUA techniques and controlling tactics to simply get a date and maintain the relationship. However, I don’t have the time nor respect to make space for them here.

So, echoing my previous essay about the importance of setting boundaries to protect oneself from bad treatment, this article encourages young women to recognise the issues with dating significantly older men and draw their boundaries to avoid getting into damaging situations that might leave them with permanent consequences.

Dear young women, you’re powerful and have plenty of options to choose from. Here are 9 reasons why you, as a young woman, should avoid significantly older men at all costs.
SC Edition: Guess Who’s Back?
By: Adam Meldrum
Tags: Google Trends, Network Graph, 2020 Presidential Race, Democratic Primary, South Carolina

SC Edition: Guess Who’s Back?

Back Again. Biden’s Back.

Where to begin?

Here is Tom Steyer closing out his push in South Carolina on stage to “Back That Azz Up.”

I will admit, there are moments in my high school past that might look similar.

The difference? #1: I was in high school and #2: not running for President of the United States of America.

Besides that, he’s got me. Smooth moves, Tom. Smooth moves.

I actually like Tom, he spent a ton, ran bad ads, but garnered some support in South Carolina that could land him a top 3 finish this evening.

Good for him.

Hopefully his run will help build a bigger profile for his philanthropy.
Hostage Negotiations
By: Sunshine Zombiegirl
Tags: Short Story, Police, Dogs, Aliens, Humor

Author picture, Beagle in question.

“We’re arriving at the house now. It’s a tense situation…and oh, yes, there, you can see the hostages. It’s unusual for SWAT to be in this position. We’re going to hang back a bit and watch this play out.”

The camera pans in on an elderly beagle sitting and staring with all manner of snark and sass at the people around her. The video then goes back to a woman dressed to the nines in ultra-professional clothing, mic in hand.

“They seem to be moving closer to her. This is a no win situation — deadly force out of the question, but how are they going to get close enough to their subject without…oh no. OH NO. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have to advise that what you’re about to see might be disturbing in nature. Viewer discretion is advised!”

The camera moves shakily as if the human attached to it has been shaken to his core by seeing the unseeable. As it focuses back on the dog in question, we see one of the figures reach out slowly toward her. And then suddenly, the hand attaches to the dog, wildly petting — along with several other people who don’t seem to be able to move away from the cute floppy-eared menace.

The shaky picture zooms back to the woman, who starts speaking immediately. “To recap. Today, while walking past the house and minding their own business, several people approached this dog. Once they started petting, they couldn’t stop. Another witness just told us that if you get caught in the dog’s eyes, you seem to be trapped in her gaze. It’s almost like she has preternatural abilities to lure her prey in. Wait…oh…this isn’t good. Steve, show them what’s happening now.”

The trembling cam points back at the dog, who is now surrounded by all of SWAT snuggling and stroking her, and in the background, the voices are clear and individual.

“Aww, who’s a good puppy?”

“You like this don’t you?”

“Can I pet your belly…oh so soft!”

“You have the softest fur, ever!”

“OMG, I cannot get enough of your floppy ears!”

“Oh, yeah, you like neck scritches.”

“Look at that face. LOOK AT IT.”

“Pretty girl…such a pretty puppy!”

“I luuuuv you.”

As if fifteen pairs of hands was too much, the whole area shimmers and distorts. The beagle disappears with an audible pop.

The camera moves almost disappointedly slowly away from everyone gathered. SWAT is examining a burnt spot on the ground. The formerly trapped gawkers all move away with pouting lips and exaggerated, almost geriatric movements.

The suited woman with the microphone straightens up as the camera lands back on her. “We don’t know what happened, but it would seem that the hostages are free and seeking medical care. Tune in later tonight for more on this incident.”

Photo by Jorge Fernandez on Unsplash

Thanks to Morenin N'Tal for the inspiration!

© Sunshine Zombiegirl 2019
Max Stirner and Prescribed Freedoms
By: Sleep Escape Artist
Tags: Egoism, Politics, Anarchism, Philosophy, Max Stirner

While it would be one thing to explore more general aspects of Stirner’s work, the issue of Prescribed Freedom is especially relevant to the conversation today. His most infamous work, The Ego and His Own (alternatively translated, The Unique and His Property), serves as a guide though this issue. Unlike a certain other individualist thinker (shudder), Stirner attacks the Western conception of the free market as a competition “which the State, this ruler in the civic principle, hems in by a thousand barriers”. He goes on further to say that while competition itself may be free in a best-case scenario, it realistically takes a wealth of capital to break into an established industry, which are neither evenly distributed, nor adequately distributed to allow a “free competition” to take place.

But this doesn’t just apply to the free market, this applies to all forms of authority masquerading as parts of a social contract, of which our signature is our very existence itself. Let’s take a rather volatile principle key to the American identity and see what Stirner has to say about it: freedom of the press.

Stirner claims that rather than focusing on the maintenance of laws upholding this freedom, as if that makes the press or our speech any more free, we should be focusing on our own individual freedom to say and publish what we wish. After all, if we are prescribed freedom of the press by virtue of the State, then we are already subjected to the State’s oppression in the first place. Our speech must be seen as an extension of ourselves, property which we own. So, our property is only so free as we are ourselves. In order to liberate our speech, we first have to liberate ourselves from the mindset that freedom exists as a consequence of what the State will allow us.
컬러 플랫폼에서 매주 진행하는 “컬러 에듀케이션!”
By: Color Platform
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Blockchain, Color Platform, Bitcoin

in In Fitness And In Health
SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Error Fetching http headers
By: Samuel Roze
Tags: Erreur, Exception, Performances, PHP

in In Fitness And In Health
A Very Merry Christmas
By: Louis Dennis
Tags: Poetry, Tradition, Christmas, Limerick, Humor

A Very Merry Christmas

A flight of Christmas limericks

Photo by Miriam Espacio on Unsplash

Drinking a wine on an empty belly,

In waft the fumes of the pork belly,

I sway into the tree,

Fall into a pile of debris,

Thank God they’re all watching telly.

After a faint knock at the door,

Like soldiers marching off to war,

They make their way in,

With beer, wine and gin,

We eat until we cannot eat anymore,

Time to pass around the presents,

I shake for a clue of the contents,

Are they socks,

Or maybe some jocks,

The most important of all sacraments.

I stumble around in my new loafers,

The family passed out on both sofas,

Nibbling at the remaining ham,

It contracts my diaphragm,

I spew up all over the leftovers.

That brings an end to a merry Christmas,

Where drinking was the only thing religious,

I topple into bed,

With a heavy head,

Tomorrow I will ask forgiveness.
Bricolage
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Musing, Art, Image

Bricolage

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

You’re rendered in acrylic paint

and I am drowning

I know this

You have fully embraced

your artificiality

surrendered to the world

as permanent muse

a picture

before the approach of the knife

The stained grains in the wooden

structure of frame

begin to form their words

about you

The commentary

long ago put to bed

resting in concrete graves

while pushing in winter

for a new track to walk

I cannot understand your creation

though

I do admire your solid length of thighs

arrogant breasts

switching tongue that lashes about your mouth

Wrapped in your own

fluid tension

orchestrated by a setting up and

pulling down

the threads of sanity waver

then colour in the rest of the world
Celer Network 54th Weekly Project Progress Report (9/9–9/13)
By: Celer Network
Tags: Celerweekly, Blockchain, Celernetwork

Dear Community,

Happy Weekend! 🙌 Here is our 54th weekly project progress report on our community building and technology development! Meanwhile, you can also follow our Twitter account for more updates from Celer Network.

New Game Coming!

Yeah, you read that correctly. One more new game will be available in CelerX on Sep.16 (PST). Get ready for some serious fighting to protect your town people in CelerX.

Past Events:

1. Building with Celer Meetup

At “Building with Celer” meetup, our co-founder Mo also shared how does Celer scale with Ethereum infrastructures and reach 11K users & $1.4M transaction volume. We did a demo for how to add two-line of codes and turn your HTML5 games into a fun eSports game that global blockchain users can immediately compete and have fun with.

It was a great night to hang with all of the participants in San Francisco.

2. ETHBoston Recap

At ETHBoston, Our co-founder Mo shared with developers of how to build on top of #CelerX! New Monetization Model for your games with only two lines of code. Register today at http://developer.celerx.app

3. Partnership with MixMarvel

We’ve formed a partnership with one of the top blockchain projects Mixmarvel in the collaborative creation of popular blockchain-powered casual games.

Upcoming Events:

Come and meet us during Shanghai Blockchain Week.

9/17, 6 PM: Xiaocong Meetup

9/18, 2:30–4:30 PM: Meetup with Polkadot network

9/18, 5:30–9:30 PM: IOSG 6th Meetup

9/20–9/22, Game Oasis Hackathon with Binance and CocosBCX

Ongoing Campaign:

Gaming Oasis Hackathon is a global gaming hackathon, where game industry meets blockchain! Register now for this exciting event!

Technology:

Mobile:

Integration and testing of new CelerX gaming API layer

Developing layouts for new gaming UI

Refactoring the local database for payment history

Fixed bugs and improved stability

Backend:

Integration and testing of new CelerX backend

Finalizing the work on Celer Web client

Improvements to the new OSP protocol and multi-OSP routing

Completed SGN staking and withdraw components

Community:

Twitter: 18,332

Telegram: 26,364

Wechat: 9,958

Thank you for reading our 54th weekly report! Please join our telegram group to stay in touch and ask us questions!! We will see you next week! 🙌

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I Grew Up as A Rugby-Playing Ballerina
By: Jamie Bird
Tags: Dance, Women, Gender, Life Stories, Rugby

Blood seeped through my pale pink tights at the knee as I pulled them on in the back of the car. My arms were covered in patches of crusted mud. I was on my way to ballet practice, and rugby practice was over for the day.

I began dancing at two years old and never stopped. My mother had always wanted to pursue dance further than she was able to, but I never felt like I was thrust into any sort of Dance Moms situation. In fact, at one point in high school, I nearly quit dancing.

Dance was a “girl’s world” full of glitter, pink, lace, and lipstick. It was so overly gendered that I didn’t feel like I fit in. I wasn’t skinny, and I had muscular thighs. In private lessons, I was taught how to do jumps and turns that were normally reserved for men. Most of all, I was powerful.

Growing up with an older brother, I naturally wanted to do everything that he did — music, acting, art, summer camp, and especially sports. But in high school, when I was desperately searching for my own identity, I founded something that was all mine: a rugby club for girls.

All of a sudden, I was unique.

We didn’t have our own coach during our firs year, so we trained with a boy’s club. I was the smallest one on the pitch, and yet I was learning how to properly tackle a quasi-man three times my size. This world was full of blood, hard hits, mud, and power.

Each world seemed overly gendered. Where did I fit in each?

In the dance world, my powerful muscles launched me into the air. Thanks to my stamina, I could cope with hours of practice, rehearsals, and performances. I would never go on to be a professional ballet dancer, but I found my place dancing jazz and contemporary.

In the rugby world, there was a perfect position for me: scrum-half. I was quick to get the ball out to my team, always flitting about like a bird, avoiding tackles.

Rugby and dance helped me understand that my weaknesses were also my strengths.

Even if society shouted at me to “be a beautiful princess” as I danced or not to “let them see you cry” as I succumbed to a tackle, I left these messages behind me and formed my sense of self.

Gender is ever present in sports and dance, but I truly believe that it doesn’t have to define your ability or your art. It is possible to be a rugby playing ballerina, but only if you find your way between the lines.
Concerns Which I Contain Respecting that of Superfluous Cover Letter Writings
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Communication, Fail, Jobhunt

When you’re writing an introduction — as you would in an employment cover-letter — you want to sound professional, intelligent and able to communicate clearly and effectively. Yet, much of the writing I find, while technically accurate, comes across, well, lame. For example:

I am writing to express my sincere interest in acquiring a potential career opportunity with in your organization.

That would be awkward and unnatural enough for my taste, but they continue:

From very long time I am in search for a better prospect in my field and going strong to find my desired destiny.

You be the judge: Professional? Intelligent? Clear communicator?
Chanukah: the Origin of Cancel Culture
By: Yonason Goldson
Tags: Jewish, Religion, Theology, Wisdom, Chanukah

Defending the Soul of Humanity

Sabbath commemorates the creation of the physical universe. By testifying to the sanctity of physical space, the Sabbath inspirits human beings with the awareness of our capacity to transcend the limits imposed by the natural laws of motion and action. Everything we encounter in the physical world presents either a resource for human advancement or a challenge to be met and overcome in the quest for spiritual refinement.

Circumcision symbolizes the sanctity of life. We are only slaves to our impulses if we allow those impulses to control us. All of us have the freedom to choose which masters we serve. By harnessing the baser instincts of our nature and channeling them for good, we demonstrate that human potential is virtually limitless and accept a lifelong mission of personal improvement.

The sanctification of the New Month testifies to the transcendence of time. Every moment of life offers new opportunities and new potential to free ourselves from the shackles of the past — from bad habits, corrosive attitudes, and poisonous history. In any and every moment, we can redefine ourselves as spiritual beings unencumbered by whatever has defined us up until now.

These ideals unmasked the smug arrogance that lay beneath the superficial elegance of Greek philosophy. The spiritual algorithm of Jewish transcendence had to be subverted, shut down, and stamped out. Disrupting these three salient practices would dilute Jewish religious observance, turning it into an empty, pro forma collection of rituals as depreciated and insubstantial as Federal holidays have become to most Americans.

Such was the magnetism of Greek aestheticism that it found some adherents. The rise of Jewish Hellenism offered a compromise movement that sought to retain the outer trappings of religious rituals while compromising the soul of meaning that resides within them.

But only a minority. Most Jews risked their lives and their well-being to preserve the integrity of traditional practice in secret. Antiochus responded by unleashing a second round of edicts canceling the Jewish festivals and closing the ritual baths required for family purity. Still not satisfied, he defiled the Temple with idols and outlawed the study of the Torah itself.

If Antiochus could not seduce the Jews into supplanting their values with those of Greece, he would silence their voice of spiritual mission and crush out their spiritual aspirations.

It almost worked.
4 Obstacles To Bitcoin Mass Adoption
By: Sylvain Saurel
Tags: Finance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency Investment, Bitcoin

1. Complexity Of Bitcoin Concepts For Beginners

Entering the world of cryptocurrencies is often described as falling into a rabbit’s den because we do not know how far this can lead. Currently, too few individuals fall into this burrow for a good reason.

The learning curve in the world of cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain is far from easy and linear.

There are many abstract and technical concepts that some people have a hard time assimilating, which tends to discourage beginners. For mass adoption by the general public to occur, it will be essential to make these complex concepts and ideas more accessible.

Fortunately, the democratization movement has already been organized with many resources available in both digital and paper versions.

However, the effort to train and educate the general public is not enough. It is also necessary to make it as easy as possible to send cryptocurrencies to another person.

Carrying out a transaction in cryptocurrencies must become an easy thing.

Overall, the average user of a payment system does not want to hear about private keys or other cryptographic concepts when carrying out transactions. On the contrary, such notions will tend to frighten them and become a brake. Private key management systems therefore have an important role to play in making them as transparent and simple as possible for users.

In addition to the training effort to be carried out with private individuals, it is crucial to give particular importance to business education. The integration of the Blockchain into existing business processes will be an important way to introduce the Blockchain to the general public.

Thus, organizations such as the Chamber of Digital Commerce must be recognized so that they play an important role in promoting the potential of the Blockchain and the technologies that result from it for companies.
How to train your QGAN
Tags: Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Quantum Computing, Deep Learning, Tech

How to train your QGAN

Quantum machine learning with PennyLane

By Nathan Killoran, Josh Izaac, and Christian Gogolin

Machine learning is frequently presented as one of the ‘killer apps’ of quantum computers. Unlike conventional digital computers, which employ classical bits, quantum computers manipulate physical systems at their most fundamental level, opening up a much richer structure for computation. Quantum computers natively process quantum information, which corresponds to vectors in very high-dimensional vector spaces.

Intuitively, this makes quantum computers very well suited to machine learning tasks. Indeed, sufficiently large fault-tolerant quantum computers will eventually give computational speedups for the basic linear algebra calculations prevalent in many machine learning algorithms.

The first generation of quantum hardware is now here. It is also accessible — often for free — over the cloud. This emerging quantum hardware has inspired quantum computing experts to rethink their previous mindsets. Instead of designing algorithms for perfect large-scale devices, we have begun to explore the awesome things that can already be done with the devices we have.

This has led to a flurry of new algorithms: quantum approximate optimization algorithms (QAOA), variational quantum eigensolvers (VQE), quantum classifiers, quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs), quantum neural networks (QNN), and — more generally — the notion of hybrid quantum-classical models. These cutting-edge ideas are exciting, yet their potential is still largely unexplored. Quantum machine learning and quantum optimization have become very hot research areas lately, with a whirlwind of new work developed in the past few years.

Number of research papers released each year containing the term ‘quantum machine learning’ (source: Google Scholar)

At Xanadu, we have one of the best quantum machine learning research teams in the world, regularly contributing to the cutting edge of the field. Yet we recognized early the need to open up this hot area to a broader audience, taking it beyond the current circle of insiders and experts. We do this to accelerate the exploration of new algorithms, to expand the search for new near-term quantum machine learning algorithms, and to establish best-practices for building quantum and hybrid models.

Imagine the ideas that will emerge when anyone can train quantum computers as easily as they would train a neural network. With this in mind, we created a dedicated software library for quantum machine learning — PennyLane.
How to Create Strava #StatMaps Visualizations in R
By: Vishal Chandawarkar
Tags: R, Towards Data Science, Data Visualization, Data Science, San Francisco

Loading and Processing Garmin Data

I have a Garmin Edge 820 and it stores activity data in .fit files. I used a package called FITfileR to parse this file type. You’ll need to install this package via github using the remotes package. See package installation documentation here.

Let’s load in a trip from this weekend around Paradise Loop in Tiburon.

Sometimes activities are stored in multiple messages depending on how the ride is tracked, we’ll combine these messages into one data frame.

Garmin sends a GPS ping every second and stores location, speed, temperature, altitude, and distance. To get our visualization to work, we’ll be plotting a line between each one of those pings. The nextLat and nextLng vectors contain exactly that — the subsequent ping’s GPS coordinates. This will make our visualization work smoothly.

The table structure will look like this:
amie use-case: data-driven winemaking
By: Johannes Beil
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Research And Development, Data Analysis, Knowledge Management

Francesca is a winemaker in Red Country, Denmark wondering whether a data-driven approach can help her make the best wine possible. She manages a team consisting of an analytical chemist Fritz and a data scientist Anders. She collects a list of popular wines and asks her expert sommelier friend to rate them. She then sends samples of all the wines to Fritz for analysis. amie allows her to structure her plan and document her data to quickly share it with her team.

Fritz is a chemist that has been performing analysis on wine for ages, he’s up to speed with tech so he controls his experimental equipment with python (check out his Jupyter notebook here). amie integrates with experimental equipment capturing data and metadata automatically. Fritz shares all the data with the team: Anders can immediately start mining the data.

Fritz can easily get an overview of what the parameters were and he can identify that the temperature of the cellar had a spike! He then redoes the measurements. Anders sees the new data and can quickly re-run that analysis notebook. Francesca does not have to torment the team asking for updates as she can follow their progress.

Francesca is traveling around and can at a glance get a feeling of what’s going on in her team. She can see that a mistake was made: it happens all the times when dealing with cutting-edge research and development. Anders keeps developing his advanced models. Back in her vineyard, Francesca has a relaxed meeting with her advisory board where the overview Anders created helps them decide which wine to make based on the data collected and analysed.
You have to make a choice. Free speech or censorship.
Tags: Censorship, Short Story, Poetry, Fiction, Written Tales

Helping writers and readers connect! We promote all forms of creative writing and cherish the freedom of speech, therefore we do not censor our writers. Come join us today and prepare for entertainment. https://www.writtentales.com/subscribe/

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git — Rebase vs Merge
By: Filiz Senyuzluler
Tags: Git, Rebase

Rebasing and merging are both designed to integrate changes from one branch into another branch but in different ways.

For ex. let’s say we have commits like below, the merge will result as a combination of commits, whereas rebase will add all the changes in feature branch starting from the last commit of the master branch:

When you do rebase a feature branch onto master, you move the base of the feature branch to master branch’s ending point.

Merging takes the contents of the feature branch and integrates it with the master branch. As a result, only the master branch is changed. The feature branch history remains same.

Merging adds a new commit to your history.

Commits will look like :

When to rebase? When to Merge?

If the feature branch you are getting changes from is shared with other developers, rebasing is not recommended, because the rebasing process will create inconsistent repositories. For individuals, rebasing makes a lot of sense.

If you want to see the history completely same as it happened, you should use merge. Merge preserves history whereas rebase rewrites it.

Rebasing is better to streamline a complex history, you are able to change the commit history by interactive rebase. You can remove undesired commits, squash two or more commits into one or edit the commit message.

Rebase will present conflicts one commit at a time whereas merge will present them all at once. It is better and much easier to handle the conflicts but you shouldn’t forget that reverting a rebase is much more difficult than reverting a merge if there are many conflicts. You can find details of a basic rebase process from git — Basic Rebase .
North Korea Says It Won’t Fire Missiles At Guam After All
Tags: North Korea, Meditation, Global Social Witnessing, Personal Development

This initiative of the Academy of Inner Science (under the leadership of Thomas Hübl) decontextualizes current events for contemplative practice. Editors are @joanabp @haefliger @bmadach @rollow @ThomasHuebl_en http://www.innerscience.info/en

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The Legend and Mystique of “London After Midnight”
By: Joel Eisenberg
Tags: Entertainment, Pop Culture, Horror, Movies, History

The Legend and Mystique of “London After Midnight”

Cinema’s most notorious lost film … but why?

Introduction

Of all the “lost” films in the history of cinema that have remained “lost,” London After Midnight has passed into legend as the equivalent of the Holy Grail. In 2017, a new fervor was caused by this Facebook post, courtesy of director Robert Parigi:

“I’m noticing chatter that a 7-reel print of long-lost Tod Browning/Lon Chaney film LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT has been discovered in Spain! I had long heard rumors of a print in Cuba. Is this perhaps that print, now sent to Spain? 20 years ago, I heard rumors of a print in the U.S., and contacted the supposed owner offering to transfer it to (then state-of-the-art) D1, but when it came time to produce the print he backed out.”

Ultimately, the announcement proved the equivalent of Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s vault.

For those unsure of the reference, there was nothing to the rumor, and the vault was empty.

But what is it about this particular film that causes paroxysms of excitement among cineastes whenever a new morsel is dropped? After all, there is nothing to indicate the film, as directed by Tod Browning, was any sort of masterpiece. The reviews upon London After Midnight’s release were slight at best …

The New York Times, December 12, 1927: “It gives Lon Chaney an opportunity to manifest his powers … as Scotland Yard’s expert hypnotist. You are therefore treated to close-ups of Mr. Chaney’s rolling orbs, which fortunately do not exert their influence on the audience.” — Mordaunt Hall

The New Yorker, December 17, 1927: “Directing, acting and settings are all well up to the idea … but it strives too hard to create effect. Mr. Browning can create pictorial terrors and Lon Chaney can get himself up in a completely repulsive manner, but both their efforts are wasted when the story makes no sense.” — Oliver Claxton

Variety, December 14, 1927:

Sydney Morning Herald, April 30, 1928:

Harrison’s Reports: “Nonsensical”

Film Daily: “A story certain to disturb the nervous system of the more sensitive picture patrons. If they don’t get the creeps from flashes of grimy bats swooping around, cobweb-bedecked mystery chambers and the grotesque inhabitants of the haunted house, then they’ve passed the third degree.”

The Warren Tribune: “Lon Chaney is present in nearly every scene, in a dual role that tests his skill to no small degree … (and) not rank among his best productions.”

The preceding reviews were representative of the film’s reception.

So why the aura?

Let’s examine.
Back Up The Chimney
By: Dan Leicht
Tags: Poetry, Holidays, Haiku, Christmas, Santa

Fiction writer. Coffee enthusiast. Writer of romance, mystery, and humor. Discover more at Patreon.com/danleicht and DanLeicht.com

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Being Queer in Kansas City
By: Pixel Magazine
Tags: Queer, Transgender, LGBTQ

Being Queer in Kansas City

Artist and gay rights activist Ryan Wilks told Polarr’s Emily von Hoffmann about his newest project, which includes long form interviews with and portraits of members of Kansas City’s LGBTQIA community. The interviews focus on his subjects as people living more or less ordinary lives — rather than necessarily portraying them as victims of oppression.

Emily: Can you tell me how the idea for “Gender Treason” came about?

Ryan: When gay marriage was legalized, I saw this boom on Facebook and other social media platforms of people who were just very very happy, they were thrilled; but then I also noticed a lot of negativity from people who were angry that straight people and queer people now have equality. A lot of those people were in close proximity to my home in Kansas City, Missouri, so I realized there is still a lot of ignorance in my hometown and in the Midwest in general. I live in the Bible Belt, so it’s pretty dominated by conservative theology. I started realizing that I have a voice, I had been wanting to use my voice for so long to address this ignorance that I’ve seen my entire life, and I just realized that I have every capability in my bones and in my fingertips to make an impactful commentary on the queer population surrounding me in Kansas City, Missouri.

I recently spoke with my FTM Trans friend, who had just gotten his breasts removed a few days prior. I met him around the same time as the Supreme Court decision and started asking him questions, and I realized that if I hadn’t talked to him and if I hadn’t gotten this story, I never would have had the insight that he was able to give me. I never would have been able to get there on my own. And so then I realized that basically that’s applicable to the entire queer spectrum, even as gay man there’s so much I don’t know about my own culture. So as much as this is a learning opportunity for everyone living in Kansas City, gay or straight, it’s definitely a learning opportunity for me.
When Trans Kids and Homelessness Mean Murder
By: James Finn
Tags: Equality, LGBTQ, Homelessness, Youth, Faith

Bobby interrupts. “Is this the lady you told me about? That pastor’s wife?” His voice is cold and thin and hard. He sounds way older than 16.

“Yeah.” I stand up and drag two more chairs over behind the pool table. I motion for everybody to sit down. “Becky, this is my best friend Bobby.”

She sticks out a hand. “Nice to meet you.”

He doesn’t take it. “Luke took care of me for a long time. He’s a good guy. A really good guy. What you did to him was fucked up.”

“It’s OK, man,” I start.

He reaches out a hand and stops me. “Lady, you got any idea what he had to do to take care of himself? After y’all kicked him out of his house? Huh? Lemme tell ya. He was suckin’ old men’s dicks, that’s what. And plenty more too.”

I want to stop him, but I don’t. He’s really lit up. Just keeps going in that icy voice I barely recognize.

“This one time? Neither one of us had any money left. Didn’t have no food neither. Marissa, she gave him a Big Mac and he walked twenty blocks to find me and give me half of it.”

Marissa.

Her face flashes into my memory like she was really here. I don’t wanna think about her. It’s too hard.

Becky sends my thoughts down a different path. She stares at Bobby for a couple heartbeats and then starts to speak, quoting. “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”

I name the verse, gazing directly into her eyes, “Luke 17:2.”

She nods and dabs at her left eye.

“What are you guys talking about?” asks Bobby.
“Maskara”: A Poem Illustrating My Experience with G.A.D.
By: Melissa Rohman
Tags: Healing, Anxiety, Poetry, Overthinking, Depression

Photo courtesy of Pinterest.

Maskara

it paints my lashes

black

to showcase them into the light

it lengthens their blonde edges

so my eyes can seem

open

awake

and here again

so that you’re distracted

by these long whimsical lashes

and unable to see behind them that

my right eye is

twitching

faster than the beat of my own heart

the twitch unapologetically takes host to my left eye

but this is one war when

changing sides

doesn’t make a difference

it paints my flushed cheeks

black

streaks them

with too many Mississippi rivers to count

drops of black leading the mouth of each river

over the hills of my cheek bones

down into the valley of my lips

to reveal the strength my mind has

over my body

over me

I can’t see out of my right eye

blurry

twitching again

faster than before

my favorite beauty product

it makes me feel beautiful

it’s all I need

and yet

I question every morning

is it even worth putting on

because I don’t know

if it will last until noon

they say

makeup can highlight

your best features

they don’t say

makeup can shine a spotlight

on the features

of your face

and hide

what’s stirring inside

behind it

- G.A.D.
Generation generous — sharing through mentoring
By: On Purpose
Tags: Emily De Groot, Mentoring, Mentor, Associate

Generation Generous is a about being a bit kinder, a bit more caring and captures the growing importance of ‘generosity’ as a leading societal and business mindset. It’s why I decided to do the On Purpose leadership programme this year, to explore social enterprise.

‘Everyone has transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.’ Marsha Blackburn

One of the major benefits with On Purpose is the training we get every Friday, and a mentor and a coach. This is the most amount of personal development I’ve had my whole working career. Very generous. I’ve never had a mentor or coach, surely it’s mutually beneficial for employers (although it may cost them some money)?

The mentor I have is a good sounding board and check in. If you’re used to working in a larger team, it’s good to have this as a sanity check and to focus on the key areas and keep focused.

I’ve also wanted to mentor for a while, to help someone starting out with my ‘transferable commodity knowledge’ and hopefully contacts that I’ve built up.

I applied to a Timebank project, called Engage, providing training to young people in Tower Hamlets, one of the most deprived boroughs in London, yet across the water is Canary Wharf, one of the most affluent. The programme aims to help them develop new skills which will hopefully lead to employment something we all take for granted. The girl I’m mentoring is 19 and the primary carer for her mum, she’s setting up a community upcycling project, right up my street and wants to go to university to study communications.

Isn’t that what our experience and networks are for, to share generously?

If anyone has any tips for mentoring please do leave a comment and let me know!

To read more about what Emily’s up to, visit her blog http://thesheepandthegoats.co.uk/
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F O R G E S
By: G.R. Melvin
Tags: Forth, Beacons, Hope, Light, Free Form Poetry

thomas wolter (pixabay)

F O R G E S

.

There ought better be a beacon

on a pacific coast cliff could be

where hope’s light works with sea horn

where a night light works without warning

It forces & forges the blackest fog & forests

There can be a candle

in a window with enough heat

to fire the hearth

to light one lone solitary stone room
Kapor Center Opens Doors in West Oakland For 2020 Elections
Tags: Voting, Kapor Center, 2010 Election, Oakland, Election Day

Kapor Center Opens Doors in West Oakland For 2020 Elections doli Follow Oct 23 · 3 min read

Our work at the Kapor Center is grounded in our first value of “closing gaps, opening doors and SMASHing barriers”. In a time when there are so many variables that threaten our current elections — we want to do our part to help make civic participation as accessible as we can. This election cycle, we are excited to open our doors in West Oakland and offer an accessible and safe place for the community to cast their vote.

As we approach Election Day 2020, COVID-19 challenges and ongoing voter suppression efforts that have occurred for generations continue to prevent the communities we represent and serve from accessing the basic right to be heard and represented. The need for social distancing has led to an 87% decrease in polling location availability in Alameda county (800 in 2018 to 100 in 2020). With over 950,000 registered voters in our local community, voting will be time and space sensitive.

1901 Poplar will offer constituents the option to vote in-person or hand in completed mail-in ballots, if they choose to bypass the US Postal Service. Our annex is one of three polling places in West Oakland that will provide a secure, well-ventilated and open space where any Alameda county registered voter can participate since there are no assigned polling places this year.

As means to ensure constituents can access a polling place on their schedule, our doors will stay open during all approved days and hours of polling in Alameda County:

October 31st: 9AM — 5PM

November 1st and 2nd: 9 AM — 5PM

November 3rd (Election Day): 7 AM — 8PM

Hosting a polling location at one of our sites is just one of a series of commitments we are making during our 100 Days of Action. As of August, the Kapor family of organizations (SMASH, Kapor Capital, Kapor Center) has committed to collective action against anti-blackness and for racial justice in our political, education and economic systems.

Specific to this this upcoming election, we not only commit but urge our partners to:

Observe Election Day as a Paid Day of Action to enable civic engagement and support the community in getting out the vote. Options can range from driving voters to the poll, working at a polling location to providing refreshments to constituents as they wait on lines.

#SMASHtheVote and campaign within our immediate and neighboring community members. Our campaign provides a centralized outreach method to ensure those we are connected with are registered, informed and engaged to and through Election day.

Race to the Ballot and encourage your networks to learn about what is at stake for the communities we serve across all levels: city, state, and federal.

Support organizations who are mobilizing Black and Brown communities to vote.

We firmly believe that our positive intent and effort will lead to further positive action. If you are looking to take part in the movement, there are multiple ways to do so. Here are a few: