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Come Grow With Me — Gardening Stories
By: Aimée Gramblin
Tags: Gardening, Outdoors, Table Of Contents, Aimee Gramblin, Grow

Come Grow With Me — Gardening Stories

All my gardening stories at your fingertips — dig in

Welcome to my Gardening Table of Contents. I am a self-taught gardener roughly three years of experience working at a botanic garden. Companion planting, growing food and flowers, and communing with wildlife for hours at a time bring me joy. I hope you enjoy these gardening stories and tutorials.

Thanks for stopping by! ❤
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Tags: Data Science, Machine Learning, Editors Pick, Towards Data Science, The Daily Pick

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Lost Nursery Rhymes by Ernest Hemingway
By: Scott Stavrou
Tags: Fairy Tale, Satire, Humor, Hemingway, Nursery Rhymes

Jack and Jill

We had just returned from Pamplona. It was raining. Our hangovers had more fight in them than the bull Ortonez had faced on Saturday.

“I say, Jack. I’ve got quite a thirst, really, old chap,” Jill said.

They looked at one another.

“I’m parched, too. I could murder some water,” Jack said.

“Let’s go, Jack, let’s do.” she said.

I watched them fall down the hill, first gradually, then suddenly.

Next thing I knew they were both dead.

Thirsts die hard.
The ultimate pong AI (with computer vision!)
By: Tds Editors
Tags: The Daily Pick

By Jason O. Jensen — 6 min read

The sound of birdsong is varied, beautiful, and relaxing. In the pre-Covid times, I made a focus timer which would play some recorded bird sounds during breaks, and I always wondered whether such sounds could be generated. After some trial and error, I landed on a proof-of-concept architecture which can both successfully reproduce a single chirp and has parameters which can be adjusted to alter the generated sound.
The Duality of Disability Experience: I think I had an identity crisis.
By: Elizabeth Wright
Tags: Disability, Life Lessons, Life, Self, Identity

I was in my second year of my Fine Art Degree when I stumbled upon this thing called “Disability Politics.” It was like a slap in the face, a wakeup call, a thump in the gut; I literally gasped, eyes wide open.

Having lived with a disability my whole life I had grown up in an extreme non-disabled bubble. Other than the odd visit to my orthopaedic doctor, prosthetist and occupational therapist as a child I had had no interaction with the disabled world whatsoever. I had attended mainstream schools. Non of my school friends had disabilities. No-one else in my family at that point had a disability.

It wasn’t until I stepped into the Paralympic world that I realised there were others like me.

It was revelatory.

My life had been very “disability sterile” you might say. I hadn’t identified as disabled because I had only seen my self in the able bodied people around me. A state of being that contributed to the growing ableist narrative in my head.

Disability wasn’t me.

Disability was over there, somewhere, where it had no relevancy to my life.

My teen years were split between the so called “able-bodied” world and the disabled world. It was like I had two personas. There was “able-bodied” me, trying to get by at school, hanging with friends, having pool parties over summer and sleepovers where we used ouija boards to contact the spirits (true story that!).

In this persona I didn’t even think of myself as disabled, even though I would struggle to keep up with my friends in everything. Even though I would have to take days out from school to go to my specialist or the prosthetist or the occupational therapist.

I felt comfortable and accepted in the “able-bodied” world. And at the same time I felt misunderstood on so many levels.

Then there was disabled me, living in the surreal world of elite sport and the Paralympics. An alternative universe, so to speak, it was a world where all of my friends had a disability. We were all the same, through our collective drive to succeed, yet different in beautiful and remarkable ways. While in the disabled world I felt like I was at home. These were my people, not despite of, but because of our differences.

Life long bonds were made with these people.

And when I retired from sport it was the sudden wrench from these people that affected and upset me the most.

I never understood why I felt this duality until I discovered disability politics at uni. Disability is my identity, the able-bodied world is my reality, and there is an uncomfortable disconnect between them that has to be addressed if we are ever going to get disability fully included and accepted in this world.
A Myriad of Ways
By: Glory Mafor
Tags: Relationships, Love, Parents, Family, Poetry

Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash

A Myriad of Ways

A poem

He waited for me to get back home,

Opened the gate with a frown and pointed to his wrist.

Do you know what time it is?

Do you know how unsafe this city is?

***

She put her the back of her palm on my forehead

Clucked her tongue

Brought a glass of water and held out the pills.

She shut the door, warned everyone to shut up so I could rest.

***

He sighed and pulled out his wallet

Looked inside despairingly and his shoulders sagged.

“How much do you need?”

There was a folded piece of paper on the dining table when he left.

***

She came back sweating, panting and weak.

Plopped herself on the sofa, flung the plastic bag at me.

“This is the exact one you wanted. I had to walk round the whole market to find it…”

I smiled and ran inside to try on the shiny new shoes.

***

He made a bed out of a visitor’s chair in the private ward

And drove 3 hours to work every morning for two weeks.

She came when I cried in the middle of night

And held my hand as the anaesthesia wore off.

***

They may have never said it,

But I know I have heard it.

Because parents can tell you

“I love you” in a myriad of ways.

Glory Mafor 2020
5 SEO Trends to Look Out For in 2017
Tags: Inbound Marketing, Digital Marketing, SEO

Search engine optimization never stands still.

Just when you think you’ve mastered all the most important aspects of digital marketing strategy, new technologies and approaches change the inbound marketing landscape once again.

To ensure you and your business are ahead of the curve in 2017, here are five important trends to watch out for.

1. Accelerated Mobile Pages by Google

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) deliver mobile content to users at exceptionally fast speeds. Specialized HTML code can load mobile pages around four times faster than pages without it. While Google maintains that AMP websites aren’t given priority in search engine results pages, the faster, smoother user experience they deliver results in more clicks, impressions and conversions.

2. Penguin 4.0

Google’s new Penguin 4.0 algorithm now identifies spammy and low-quality websites in real time. This means webmasters no longer need to wait months for Google to recognize improvements made to content and usability. Penguin 4.0 examines every page on a website, which means the need for informative, well-crafted content has never been greater. Check out an example of on of our high-quality websites for reference.

3. Video is King

The influence of video in SEO will continue growing during 2017. Facebook has already stated its intention to make video the predominant content type by 2020. And the likes of Vine, Periscope, Snapchat and Instagram are all improving their video functionality this year. The use of video content in search marketing is set to grow considerably in 2017. If the rumors are to be believed, Google will be getting in on the act too. The search engine behemoth is reportedly trialing video ads in its results pages. Recently a few of our clients prioritized video story-telling s as a means to attract visitors as well as express their brand in a compelling way.

4. Voice Search

There have been some major advances in voice recognition technology in recent months, so expect to see the use of voice search gain some serious momentum this year. The ability to search for information hands-free and on the move is making life simpler for millions of consumers. Voice recognition software is becoming more intuitive all the time, so marketing professionals will be taking it very seriously in 2017.

5. Structured Data

Structured data is formatted in a way that can be universally understood by all the major search engines and Internet directories. The easier it is for the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to crawl a website, the higher up in search results that site is likely to be. Schema, for instance, was developed through a collaboration between all of the major search engines. Expect to see structured data being rolled out in a massive way by search marketers in 2017.

Staying ahead of the game in the world of SEO is crucial to the success of any inbound marketing strategy — so embrace these important marketing trends for a successful 2017.

If you feel like your site is lagging behind these trends, we can help. Get a FREE SEO report on your site today.
“O Poderoso Chefinho 2”, “Clifford”, origem de Olaf e mais novidades para os pequenos
By: Wagner Brenner
Tags: Netflix, Trailer, Disney

in In Fitness And In Health
Design Uber’s Backend: A Systems Design Walkthrough
By: The Educative Team
Tags: Programming, System Design, Uber, Coding Interviews, Software Development

Uber Backend: System Design

Below, we discuss the system design for this product. If you’re familiar with the SDI question, Designing Yelp, this may look familiar. We will modify that solution for the above use-cases. For Uber, our QuadTree must be adapted for frequent updates.

If we use a dynamic grid solution from our Yelp problem, a few issues arise:

We need to update data structures to reflect that active drivers are reporting their locations every three seconds. To update a driver to a new location, we must find the right grid based on the driver’s previous location.

If the new position does not belong to the current grid, we remove the driver from the current grid and reinsert them to the right grid. Then, if the new grid reaches a maximum limit, we have to repartition it.

We need a quick mechanism to propagate the current location of all the nearby drivers to customers in the area. Our system needs to notify both the driver and passenger on the location of the car throughout the duration of the ride.

For these cases, a QuadTree is not ideal, as a quick update in the tree cannot be guaranteed at the speeds that Uber requires. If we don’t update our QuadTree according to every driver update, it will use old data that does not reflect the current location.

We could keep the most recent driver position in a hash table and update our QuadTree less frequently. We want to guarantee that a driver’s current location is reflected in the QuadTree within 15 seconds. We maintain a hash table that will store the current driver location. We can call it DriverLocationHT .

DriverLocationHT

We need to store DriveID in the hash table, which reflects a driver’s current and previous location. This means that we will need 35 bytes to store each record:

DriverID (3 bytes — 1 million drivers)

Old latitude (8 bytes)

Old longitude (8 bytes)

New latitude (8 bytes)

New longitude (8 bytes) Total = 35 bytes

As we discussed previously, we assume one million drivers, which will require the following memory:

1 million * 35 bytes => 35 MB

Now let’s discuss bandwidth. If we get the DriverID and location, it will require (3+16=>19bytes). This information is received every three seconds from 500,000 daily active drivers, so we receive 9.5MB every three seconds.

To help with scalability, performance, and fault tolerance, we could distribute DriverLocationHT on multiple servers based on the DriverID to randomize distribution. We will refer to the machines holding this info the Driver Location server.

These servers will also do the following:
Pirate $ARRR теперь на Delta Direct!
By: Komodo Platform Rus
Tags: Trading, Pirate, International, Ecommerce, Cryptocurrency

Pirate Chain (ARRR) is an independent blockchain using the mining algorithm Equihash, dPoW. Pirate Chain (ARRR) is by general admission the most anonymous cryptocurrency with privacy by default. The Tor network is supported.

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The Ugly Truth about Pastor Appreciation Month
By: Domenic Ruso
Tags: Pastor, Spirituality, Christianity, Leadership, Abuse

In some contexts, October is designated pastor/clergy appreciation month. At some point in the 1990’s some felt that the burden associated with spiritual leadership should be recognized with intention. As a pastor, I have served in churches that have loved my family and made us feel appreciated. While grateful, I am becoming more aware of an ugly truth, that what was once appreciation is giving way to irrelevance.

What do you do?

Spiritual leadership, in particular pastoral ministry, needs rethinking in our changing culture. Having a month that tries to accentuate the importance of appreciating clergy needs to address the idea that most people don’t even know what pastors do.

In Quebec, where I now serve, the secular realities point to an ugly truth that continues to surface. Religious leadership does not seem to fit the larger narrative of our shifting society. Thus the concept of appreciation is a real stretch. To ‘appreciate’ means to give proper worth to something. The older French root of the word is linked to the English word for appraising, or ‘putting a price’ on something that matches its true value.

In this sense, I want to suggest that true appreciation requires acknowledging and or knowing what a pastor actually does. How else would you be able to put a value on it?

Over the years people have often asked me, “Pastor, what do you do in the week?” In all sincerity, they just do not know what happens between the main times they see me preaching on Sundays. After explaining the larger aspects of shepherding people, caring, teaching, praying, studying and leading they began to see the bigger picture. Conversations like this reaffirmed how often people still wonder about the role and work of spiritual leaders.

I want to suggest that two foundational shifts have made it difficult to understand the work and role of clergy. Without a grasp of these, the hope of appreciation will seem burdensome and annoying to most.
Silver Wings
By: Brett Christensen
Tags: Qantas, Flying, Haiku, Avaition, Haiku Weekly Prompt

PROMPT: Write a haiku or tanka using the prompt word “shine” (or a derivative).

Air travel is something we all tend to take for granted, nowadays. But, I still get filled with awe when I watch a huge airliner lift off into the sky. Aviation really is a modern miracle!

Right now, I’m quite aviation-focused because I just started a new full-time job at the wonderful Qantas Founders Museum, in Longreach QLD, Australia.

Qantas, one of the world’s top airlines, began life right here in outback Queensland. “Qantas” is an acronym derived from the original name, “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services”.

Via exhibits, videos, interactive displays, and guided tours, the museum tells the story of the early days of Qantas and aviation in general. It’s well worth a visit if you are ever out this way.

NOTE:

My apologies for not putting up any new prompts over the last week or so. As noted above, I’ve just started a new job, and I have not had time to write any haiku prompts until today.
4 Things to Look Out for to Protect Yourself Against Scams
By: Freddie Lacorte
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICO, Ethereum, Viola

4 Things to Look Out for to Protect Yourself Against Scams

Protect yourself from those who disguise as admins of Viola.AI

Your ultimate key to spot a scammer — know the Official Admins of Viola.AI.

(The details below are updated as of 14 October 2018.)

Here are 4 things to look out for to protect yourself against scams:

If you encounter any suspicious Telegram users or anybody online, the ‘scammers’, who pretend to be admins of Viola.AI, block them right away! Viola.AI will never ask for your password, your ETH address, or any other confidential information via chat. The official website is https://viola.ai. The Merchant Portal can be found at https://merchant.viola.ai/. Upon receiving an email from us, it should only be coming from admin@viola.ai (tech support and operations) or info@viola.ai (newsletters). Notice the spelling and the official domain name. You may also receive expedited communications and project-related emails from any of our Admins under the domain name of viola.ai. See the contact details of the Official Admins below.

OFFICIAL ADMINS OF Viola.AI

(Notice the UPPER and lower cases of their Telegram Usernames)

Violet Lim — @VioletLim

Jamie Lee — @JamieLee

Christina Thung — @ChristinaThung

Freddie Lacorte — @Lacorte16

Li Yhee — @LiYhee

Zam Ong — @ZamOng

Martti Dumangeng — @TramKeith

Jay — @KryptoJay

Moha — @Kaizen1963

Paul — @PaulBultman

Mark — @MachMark2

HOW TO REPORT A SCAMMER

To report a scammer, immediately contact us at support@viola.ai. You can send related screenshots too.

Protect yourself against scams. Stay alert. Be vigilant.



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Pushing Ledger over the edge with a wallet that’s actually secure
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Wallet, Cryptocurrency, Crypto

Hardware wallets, like Ledger and Trezor ones were a great security improvement over the first generation of crypto wallets (software wallets). Ledger is essentially a USB stick specially formatted to have a high degree of security, including a physical interface on the stick itself for manual authorization that is practically impossible to hack remotely.

Previously, most common crypto wallets were of the “software” variety — programs for computers or smartphones (aka, desktop applications of phone apps). They were a step in the right direction by taking user assets out of the exchange (where, practically speaking, the exchange held the assets, not the user) and into the user’s sole possession. However, they were vulnerable to the usual computer hacks since they were on devices connected to the Internet.

However, even Ledger needs to connect to the internet when making transactions. So the vulnerability is not completely eliminated. Even the big story about hacking into Ledger may not yet be resolved, per this CoinTelegraph article. As long as there is a private key — there is a vulnerability.

Which is exactly why the 3rd generation of crypto wallets is pushing older ones like Ledger… well, over the edge into irrelevance. Chief among them is the Spatium™ wallet — which is keyless. Yes, instead of generating and storing a private key, the Spatium™ wallet uses a different system of “secrets,” which are stored on each device participating in signing each transaction. The secret never leaves its device (so can’t be intercepted). Together, a number of secrets/devices predefined by the user signs each transaction via a specific mathematical interaction.

Possible device pairs for using Spatium

This means that each transaction is trustlessly verified without exposing any sensitive information about the users involved. It also means that hacking into any of the participating devices will not yield any useful data nor access to user funds. Only compromising every single device that participates in the transaction can put the user at risk (and even then, the Spatium™ wallet has additional security measures).

The result is an unhackable wallet — and that is a huge step up in crypto security. The best part is that the Spatium™ wallet’s software version has the security level of today’s hardware wallets (or better). It is already available in both Google Play and the iOS and Windows phone apps are currently being reviewed.

And when the hardware wallet gets released later this year, it will stun crypto asset holders with its ease of use (shaped like a credit card, biometrics as an authorization option, and more).

The hardware and software Spatium™ wallets work together — for true convenience and quick trading (no wires to connect every time you want to make a transaction).

So what if it pushes Ledgers of the world into obscurity? USB sticks had a good run.
The Lost Art Of “Being Yourself”
By: Laura Gulbranson
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Identity

It’s easy to confuse our true identity when we carry many masks. Now that we live in an ever-present branding culture, we now have a “valid” excuse to hide behind masks.

There is nothing wrong with the branding lifestyle. Some people have found ways to make an authentic mode of living through a brand.

While others… others get trapped behind another mask. Only this time, the mask is well-designed and perhaps harder to escape.

We cannot help but wear a mask when we should strive to unveil our true selves without fear of judgment.

But with the mask, we feel safe. We feel invincible to say and do anything we would never dream of saying or doing without the mask.

We give the mask more power than it should. We become the mask and what it embodies rather than let the mask be a mere accessory that can easily be set aside.

When was the last time you cast aside your mask? Really now.

You know you’ve cast aside the mask when the bold things you never dreamed of doing or saying actually becomes as easy as breathing.

You don’t need to hide behind the mask that comes in many forms.

The mask could be a computer screen.

It could also be a brand.

The mask could be the smile you wear during times of discomfort, sorrow, and heartbreak.

Sometimes people wear the mask to “save face” and avoid humiliation.

We all know that we shouldn’t wear masks, but it is the struggle that holds us back from our true potential and realization — that yes — we can be anyone and anything we want to be.

But we can do it without the need to wear a mask.

How many masks do you wear? How many layers must you peel off?

I can only imagine the relief we will feel once the weight is lifted from all of the extra layers we decided to cake on for the world.

Maybe once we truly take off all of the layers, we will realize:

Our face is a blank slate- a blank canvas.

Our identity behind the masks is still beautiful art that was lost in the layers of masks that we confused as our own.

Show me the art behind the mask and I will see your world.

Welcome back to being yourself.

With love. ❤
How Blockchain Is Driving The New Energy Economy
By: Julien Breteau
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Videos, Founders

How Blockchain Is Driving The New Energy Economy

Founders in Focus Episode #2

We’re pleased to bring you Episode #2 of our Founders in Focus series. A show that gives you unprecedented access to the most influential startup founders in the world of blockchain. We’re on a mission to educate and inform founders and investors on the current affairs of the blockchain industry, providing an accurate and up to date perspective on the competitive business environment, global investment landscape, and the leaders who are changing the game.

In this episode we sit down with Dr Jemma Green, co-founder and Chair of Power Ledger, a leading full stack energy blockchain technology company.

Tune in as we discuss:
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Setting Up a Next.js Project With TailWind CSS
By: Dev Rayray
Tags: Nextjs, Programming, Tailwind Css, CSS, JavaScript

1. Why Use Tailwind CSS?

Compare Tailwind CSS to a CSS framework like Bootstrap or Foundation, and you will find out that they’re completely different.

I can sniff a Bootstrap website or application from miles away. You won’t notice a website or application that is using Tailwind CSS (unless you check the class names in the source code).

Tailwind CSS is a utility framework like no other. There is no set of pre-built components. It’s a framework where you find classes like text-white , grid , object-fit , and a lot more.

So it doesn’t matter how your design looks. Tailwind CSS is the ideal partner for building every stunning design.

So here is the question: “Why use Tailwind CSS?” Well, why not?

Tailwind CSS will give you all the power you need to build whatever you wish. You can easily adjust the colors, sizes, and media queries.

From the outside, you will not notice that Tailwind CSS is the driving force behind it.
What It’s Like Owning a Wetsuit II
By: Sarah Miller
Tags: Wetsuit, Swimming, Cold Swimming, Outdoors, Gear

What It’s Like Owning a Wetsuit II

The neoprene doesn’t thicken but the plot does

Now that I have stopped putting the thing on backwards my wetsuit life is really taking shape. My wetsuit journey is all I imagined and more. It’s amazing that these things exist. They really work. People are like “wow you’re swimming in a cold lake in December” and I certainly don’t want to dissuade people from being impressed with me but I do have to give credit to the wetsuit. It’s pretty snug in there.

And yet although wetsuits do work it’s interesting the ways that they don’t totally work. They haven’t figured out a way to get a little zip-up crotch door so you can pee, sort of like dirty lingerie, but functional. I know, you can pee in the suit. I have peed in it. I am not against it, but I like to have the option of wearing my wetsuit home if it’s just too cold to get it off at the dock and I want to just peel the top down and hightail it home.

What else is wrong with wetsuits? They leak at the back, and the wrists can leak, especially if you have delicate dainty feminine wrists, as I do.

To this end, I have updated my gear. I got a pair of gloves that I can pull up to better seal off my arms. I got some booties that go all the way up my ankles and similarly seal up my legs. I can see why people really can get really into perfecting their wetsuits and chasing a dream of just being immune from the cold.

I have this idea that if my wetsuit was dialed in enough I could just drive up to the lake in the middle of January at midnight if I wanted. Now, please understand I am way too much of a baby to actually do something like that — a tree branch would snap and an owl would hoot and I would start crying. But that’s the fantasy.

My new gloves, in particular, really kick ass. They are from a company called Synergy and not only are my hands completely warm in them, the shape and texture of them make my stroke more powerful. I am a machine with my new gloves. That is an exaggeration. I guess I will say I feel like a machine at odd moments.

My wetsuit removal technique has improved. I never oiled myself up — seems like a lot of bother, thought if anyone does this, that’s great, I am just bad at …doing things — but now that I’ve taken the thing on and off maybe twenty times the process moves along much faster. How fond I am of my wetsuit. Now I just need a special hook for it, that I can install on the wall right over the grate heater that says “WETSUIT.” I thought such a thing might already exist, indeed, it does not. Perhaps someone should invent it. Perhaps that someone is me.
27/01/19 News Update | UK Gets Crypto Clarity & Is XRP Overvalued?
By: Joseph Harris
Tags: Bitcoin, Investing, Event, New, Cryptocurrency

Disclaimer:

Any statements I make in these videos are just my opinion, and should not be taken as investment advice.

Please do your own research in addition to watching these videos, ensure you are fully confident in any investment decisions you make, and never invest money you cannot afford to lose.
Video: Svandis DataMining App
Tags: Blockchain, Data Mining, Ethereum, Token Sale, Updates

Video: Svandis DataMining App

Learn about the Svandis DataMining App and the power of Machine Learning & Token Rewards

As a decentralized and autonomous program, with built-in Machine Learning, the Svandis DataMining App rewards users for running the application on their devices, as it crawls the internet for information and data on cryptocurrencies, token sale project, and other crypto-assets.

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The Svandis ecosystem provides an invaluable opportunity to its users through the Svandis DataMining app. By simply installing the app on your device and having it run subtly in the background, data is mined, encrypted, and sent to the Svandis platform on your behalf, earning you Svandis tokens.

Installed & Running on a Personal Device.

Once the data is sent to the Svandis platform, machine learning algorithms are used to classify and analyse the material, allocating the packets appropriately. The data is converted to valuable information and processed by each of the Svandis tools. Once this seamless process is complete, the various Svandis visualisation tools utilise the comprehensive data to provide users with fast, reliable trading and investing information.

Data from the DataMining App contributing to real-time information for crypto-traders and investors

Users are able to allocate greater portions of computing power to the DataMining app if they please, resulting in greater contribution to the platform and increased token rewards. Whatever your role is in the crypto world, Svandis has a place for you.

Svandis, all data, one place

Learn more about the DataMining App in the Introductory Article.
sabor artificial de morango
By: Vinícius Asevedo
Tags: Poesia, Poema, Literatura, Surreal, Poesia Rosa

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Kite Flying
By: Tracy Aston
Tags: Childhood, Tanka, Magic, Imagination, Poetry

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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Traverse City Vacation Haiku
By: Arthur Shi
Tags: Travel, Michigan, Vacation, Haiku, Poetry

it’s a long drive up.

thankfully, we have aux cord,

music, and bass boost.

oh my god I can’t

believe this sunset is real.

scenic drives are great.

first night in TC.

Cards Against Humanity,

and maybe some drinks.

this is a satire and not a personal attack

I wake from some strange

dreams, by now long forgotten.

What to do today?

pork belly and rice

for lunch. A rich meal. in fact,

a little too rich.

TC is like Ann

Arbor, but cooler. litter-

ally: lake effect.

Cherry Republic?

yeah, we have one in AA

but this place is huge!

chilling at state park.

the water is crystal clear,

and the breeze feels nice.

dinner at diner;

order burgers and whoa, that’s

a big fucking milkshake.

pork belly for lunch,

and now a burger too. please,

I need a salad.

time to pay the bill.

wait… I left my card at the

ATM. dammit.

next day pork belly

for brunch again, it’s too much.

at least we finished.

we head to the dunes.

long ago, a forest fire -

rest well, you poor cubs.

it’s a steep steep hill,

feet sinking deep with each step.

we’ve only started.

at last, a downhill!

then i grasp: when we return

our fortune reverses.

at the end of it,

lake michigan. brilliant,

cold, clear, fresh water

the trek back feels like

it’s far longer. did we need

to bring pretty rocks?

finally, we leave

in search of cherries. there are

roadside vendors near.

at first bite: heaven

good, that i bought a quart. we

won’t stop for dinner.

it’s relatively

a quiet ride back. less bass.

twas a fun weekend.

just me being silly and noting some of the memorable parts of a weekend getaway in the form of haiku. hope you enjoyed!
life goes on
By: Amey Palav
Tags: Withdrawal, Poetry, Life, Isolation

life goes on

at the break of dawn today,

came the news of early death,

of an old friend, forgotten,

i didn’t go pay my respects,

i walked on the beach instead,

unfazed by the warm sun rays,

the waves caressed my feet,

and sweat bruised my brow,

amidst stillness of the wind,

a lonely kite gliding in the sky,

thoughts kept clouding my mind,

felt tired, i brushed them aside,

i walked home, carefully ahead,

without a worry for the present,

unmoved as time marched on.
Functions in Power BI
By: Peter Hui
Tags: Data Science, Power Bi, Data Analysis, Programming, Data Visualization

Functions in Power BI

What is it? When do we use it? How do we make one?

Photo by Eric Krull on Unsplash

Cleaning, wrangling and summarizing. I don’t know about you but I enjoy this process of data analysis. Power Query is the main tool I use for this. I’ll be writing more about Power Query in the future.

I clean because the data is dirty. I clean because I want good data for analysis. I wrangle to get the right “shape” for joins to work. It’s dreadful if you have to clean data manually and it’s prone to cleaning errors. Imagine error on top of errors? What will you really be analyzing?

Don’t worry. Functions — much like those cute little robots on top can come to the rescue.

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What exactly is a function anyways? A quick google search gives this definition.

“A function is a block of organized, reusable code that is used to perform a single, related action. … Different programming languages name them differently, for example, functions, methods, sub-routines, procedures, etc.”

The keyword here is reusable. It has to be reusable for it to be a function. That means you can use this code and apply it to not just one file but other files as well. I think of a function as something that takes inputs, performs a custom set of procedures, and gives an output.

A lot of what you use today, for example, the sum function in Power BI to the joins are functions.

For example — take a look at this function in M (Power Query Language)

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The problem is…sometimes we don’t have functions that are available to us that quite meet our needs. We want to apply a custom set of procedures to various files. This is why and when we have to use it.
Thanks Mom for buying me that Cabbage Patch Doll, I’m a better man.
By: Ian Cahill
Tags: Life Lessons, Parenting, Dads, Learning, Essay

When I was three, the Cabbage Patch doll hit the shelves during the christmas season to what some now call a “cabbage craze”. If you recall, stores couldn’t keep these things on the shelf. Moms were punching each other out for a chance to buy one for their little girls.

At the time, my mother stayed home to take care of three and five year old boys (Me and my older brother).

And you know what we got for Christmas that year? You guessed it. We BOTH got Cabbage Patch dolls.

Now there are a couple of things you should know.

1) In 1983, eBay and Craigslist didn’t exist, so there was really only one way to get these things. Physically buy them at the store. My mom, at the time, weighed about 110 pounds sopping wet. She wasn’t in any position to be mowing down shoppers at Sears or Macy’s to buy these things out right.

2) We lives in a lower middle class household. Money was always tight and for most of my childhood my mom didn’t work. It is amazing to me that these dolls became a priority that christmas.

As I sit here and think about it, the fact that I tore open a gift that christmas and got my very own Cabbage Patch doll was remarkable. Remarkable and for the 80s highly progressive for my parents.

Boys didn’t play with dolls. We had a ton of boys in our family and I only had one girl cousin and she wasn’t even born yet. So we were already accustomed to playing with G.I. Joes and Star Wars and trucks and toy guns.

But I recall, more than anything in the world, I wanted a Cabbage Patch. And I got one! His name was Mickey and his creepy yarn hair was blonde just like mine. He wore a pale green windbreaker and had these hard plastic white shoes and I loved him.

I have a very distinct memory when I was little of having to climb under our staircase in the basement as a tornado siren went off in our town. And part of that was holding Mickey close to me as I cried for my mom.

Fast forward to today. I am 39 years old and have two young daughters at home. They love playing with dolls and wrapping up babies. They have no shortage of dolls. They are girls and it is just an expectation that these things belong in the toy box.

But you know what? In our house, we also have swords and cars and STEM kits and science experiments. And I would like to think that my mother buying me a Cabbage Patch doll when I was a kid helped contribute to our approach to our kids toys.

And it isn’t just gender neutral toys. The time I spent with Mickey showed me that men are capable of taking care of babies and we should be involved in our kids lives.

I learned to nurture and love and to be gentle. And to this day, I don’t know what my Mom had to go through to get those dolls, but I am forever grateful for the lessons I learned and continue to pass on to my daughters.

Did you have a Cabbage Patch? What was their name?
遠距離戀愛的11首情歌
Tags: 遠距離戀愛, Dj, 情歌, Love Songs, 愛情

● Death Cab for Cutie — Transatlanticism

I need you so much closer

● 松任谷由實 — Cinderella Express

シンデレラ 今 魔法が（谷歌翻譯：現在施展灰姑娘的魔法）

消えるように列車出てくけど（ 雖然列車出現是為了消失）

ガラスの靴 片方 彼が持っているの（他依舊擁有一支玻璃鞋）

● The Marvelettes — Please Mr. Postman

There must be some word today

From my boyfriend so far away

Please Mister Postman, look and see

Is there a letter, a letter for me

● Electric Light Orchestra — Telephone Line

Oh, oh, telephone line

Give me some time

I’m living in twilight

● Phoenix — Long Distance Call

I’m far gone but your long distance call

And your capital letters keep me asking for more

It’s never been like that

It’s never been like that

● WHY? — Gemini (Birthday Song)

When we’re on different sides of the globe

I thought we’d keep our veins tangled like a pair of mic cables

● Happy Birthday — Subliminal Message

Two telephones, coast to coast, USA

You say you don’t wanna be my girl

But will you just be anyway?

What do I have to do?

I don’t wanna fall apart

Close your eyes, concentrate

I’m sending you subliminal message to your heart

● 黃立行 — 你身邊

所以我才飛好遠

有一天學會了想念

而現在的我最想回妳身邊

● Elbow — Kindling (Fickle Flame) ft. John Grant

I will be far away for a while

But my heart’s staying put

Warming and guarding and guiding

The one that I love

● The National — I Need My Girl

I’ll try to call you from the party

It’s full of punks and cannonballers

I need my girl

I need my girl

● Camera Obscura — Super Trouper (ABBA Cover)

I was sick and tired of everything

When I called you last night from Glasgow

All I do is eat and sleep and sing

Wishing every show was the last show

So imagine I was glad to hear you’re coming

Suddenly I feel all right

And it’s gonna be so different

When I’m on the stage tonight
What!? Delta 1.7 is here already? Introducing Markets & Dark Mode.
By: Nicolas Van Hoorde
Tags: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blokchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypto

Last week we released our huge 1.6 update which featured Exchange Account (API) Connections, Transfers & BNB Fees. What we didn’t say is that we were secretly working on our next update already… 😏 So we’re super stoked to reveal our 1.7 update as a surprise to our users! Here are the highlights:

😎 Dark Mode

When we first launched Delta, we immediately got a lot of requests for a ‘Dark Mode’. Back in October, we felt that this was a ‘nice to have’ feature, something we would build if there was some time to spare. But as time went on, we became aware of the potential of giving Delta a completely new look. So we prioritised the feature in line with the high popularity. Instead of just adding some black backgrounds & flipping colours, we decided to restyle lots of modules, specifically for this Dark Mode, while still maintaining Delta’s look & feel. We’re very proud of how sexy this Dark Mode has come to be. 🤭

💹 Coin Markets

Style is one thing. We also wanted to add a major new tool to 1.7. And so we did. We’ve added a complete Coin Market Cap feature inside the app, tabbed together with the Watchlist. It makes so much sense that we probably should have done it even earlier! The great thing? You can actually see the total market cap, 24 volume & BTC dominance from the get-go.

We’ve also made it super easy to look up the price, market cap or volume of a specific coin. You can sort & order the list and of course tap a level deeper to check the charts of a coin. It’s bloody brilliant, if we do say so ourselves!
Oh My Multiverse!
By: James G Brennan
Tags: Poetry, Space, Humour, Poetry On Medium, James G Brennan

Stumbling between multiverses,

entertained as plausible

within the world of science

wishing the other versions of me

would stop laughing so hard

in their multiverses as I’m convinced

cause and effect through superposition

makes my experience here

just a little bit harder to deal with.

I mean who, spawned who first?

Ah, I know; I was born two months premature so

I spawned them! Therefore;

“lads! send over some of that

lucky preposition you have, come on,

share and share alike!

What on earth, this earth do you mean

I’m the lucky one living on an island during covid?!”

Bet they do not even have bloody covid in their ‘verses.
A Story of Snowflakes
By: Dan Leicht
Tags: Snowflake, Winter, Fiction, Home, Christmas

A Story of Snowflakes

40 Word Story

Photo by Marc Newberry on Unsplash

The snow knocks politely, hoping to get inside and turn into a cool puddle, only to travel about the room on the heel of a soaked sock until tossed into the laundry basket, where it will find comfort and warmth.
The 8-Days of Hanukkah
By: Carolyn Riker
Tags: Hanukkah, Jewish, Poetry On Medium, Holidays, Poetry

As the sun trickles down

and the prayers lift up

the candles of Hanukkah

are lit

one by one.

Jewish families gather

to remind us

where there’s light

there’s also shadow

inside the circle of

love and hope.
Cookies and Spreads
By: Baye Amina
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Poetry Sunday, Christmas, Food, Poems On Medium

Cookies and Spreads

Poetry prompt: taste the joy, spread the cheer

Everything, big and small

Feels different at times like this.

The air feels different,

As it caresses your face gently.

The heat warms your skin

As cool air finds its way

To your lungs.

The fragrance of food

Fills the air.

Although no new recipe,

It all feels different.

The cookies taste better,

Not sweeter, better.

Meals sampled in past months,

Hit different, sending

Your taste buds into a frenzy.

The air is still the same

Combination of gases.

The cookies are still

Made of the same ingredients.

The meals are probably

Made a different way.

But, just one thing changed,

The presence of warmth

The light and joy

The season and its reason bring.
自动翻墙路由器制作 Part. 3
By: Ken Lai
Tags: Ken Lai, Tutorial, Networking, Gfw, Tech

前面两篇(Part.1 和 Part. 2)中，我们完成了路由器的刷机和基础设置。这一篇作为收尾，我们需要完成剩下的部分 — — 脚本配置。

chnroutes

我们为了实现流量的自动分流，需要通过设置路由将访问国外的流量通过VPN，访问国内流量通过原有网关来实现。

虽然获取所有注册国家为中国的IP地址不难，但既然我们很幸运的已经有了现成脚本，也就不要再重复发明轮子了。chnroutes是一个非常不错的项目来导出所有的中国IP。

与其他路由脚本实现的思路所不同，我把原来非VPN的默认路由metric调高，同时也用明细路由的方式让中国IP都使用非VPN网关。这样的好处是，当VPN联通时，VPN回生成一条比非VPN网关metric更低的默认路由，这样就能保证在有VPN时所有流量默认使用VPN，而中国IP不使用VPN。如果VPN中断，VPN的默认路由中断，所有流量都将使用非VPN网关。所以我们可以在开机时设置一次路由，就再也不用修改这些路由，节约本身就并不宽裕的路由器资源。

VPN脚本

VPN有多种方式可以实现 — — PPTP，L2TP，OpenVPN，IPSec VPN。这里我以IPSec方式来举例（因为我就用的这个）。如果以后有机会我会写出其他的VPN脚本。

我们首先需要的是创建IPSec的参数脚本：

#### Set all Variables vpn_concentrator=“vpn_server_address” # ip or hostname of ipsec vpn concentrator

vpn_keepalive_host=”youtube.com” #测试VPN是否联通的地址，我用的youtube，你也可以使用其他默认情况下不能访问的地址

#### 以下参数请按照你的IPSec server来设置

vpn_groupname=“vpn” # group name hereconnection

vpn_grouppasswd=”vpn_groupname” # group password here

vpn_username=“vpn_username” # your username here

vpn_password=“vpn_password” # your password here

配置了参数后，我们需要创建vpnc.conf用于VPN启动的时候调用

IPSec gateway $vpn_concentrator IPSec ID $vpn_groupname IPSec secret $vpn_grouppasswd Xauth username $vpn_username Xauth password $vpn_password Script /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script # points to the local script

我们然后创建脚本

自动链接VPN NAT网络 重启DNS来清空DNS缓存，避免DNS污染 来测试我们VPN是否联通

#### Create the vpnc.sh file pingtest () {

sourceIP=$(nvram get lan_ipaddr)

ping -q -c1 $1 -I $sourceIP >> /dev/null

if [ “$?” == “0” ]; then

echo 1 #reachable else

echo 0 #not reachable

fi

} while [ true ]; do

# wait until the concentrator is reachable

while [ “`pingtest $vpn_concentrator`” != “1” ]; do

echo “Vpnc concentrator $vpn_concentrator is not reachable, sleeping 10”

sleep 10;

done if [ “`pingtest $vpn_keepalive_host`” == “1” ]; then

echo “vpn connection active: $vpn_keepalive_host is alive”

sleep 60;

else

echo “vpn connection down: $vpn_keepalive_host is unreachable”

vpnc-disconnect

echo “Attempting to start vpnc”

stopservice dnsmasq

vpnc /tmp/etc/vpnc/vpnc.conf — dpd-idle 0 — local-port 0

tundev=”`ifconfig |grep tun |cut -b 1–4|tail -n 1`”

iptables -A FORWARD -o $tundev -j ACCEPT

iptables -A FORWARD -i $tundev -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $tundev -j MASQUERADE

startservice dnsmasq

fi

sleep 1;

done return 0;

当然，为了简便我把所有内容写入一个脚本vpnc.txt。

这样我们就只有两个脚本文件需要上传：chnroutes.sh用于区分路由，vpnc.txt用于其他的一切。通过SFTP将两个文件传到/jffs目录下，我们只有最后一步设定每次开启路由器时运行脚本就可以收工了。

在路由器的Administration->Commands中，写入一下内容（这两个文件我存放在/jffs/pptp下的）

sleep 15 sh /jffs/pptp/chnroutes.sh sleep 5 cat /jffs/pptp/vpnc.txt | sh

然后我们选择Save Startup

到此位置，重启你的路由器来测试吧：）
A Quick Home Security Tip For New Homeowners
By: Trapper Sherwood
Tags: Home, Safety, Children, Security, House

One thing that’s not perfect is it is limited on how many codes can be programmed into the lock. There are higher priced locks out there that can hold up to one hundred or more codes.

From my perspective, that’s not a deal killer because those higher-priced locks that hold a hundred or more codes are designed for commercial applications. With up to six codes, this lock should take care of your security and key control needs for your home.

Image created by the Author

As a TN Professionally licensed locksmith, (TNLLP #0067)I have installed numerous Powerbolt 2 deadbolts. From homeowners to clients that rent out condos and homes. The ease of use and the reliability of the product make this a win/win situation for a homeowner or renter.

The great news is, it is very affordable. If a child or an adult were to lose a key to the house, the average cost of rekeying a whole house can be up to a couple of hundred dollars. The Powerbolt 2 removes that cost and liability.

When you compare that to other companies that are providing similar style electronic deadbolts, the Powerbolt 2 by Kwikset is right there with them. I think this is a great value for the money that is invested in this lock.

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Now is the time to take a hard look at this because with more people working or staying at home, more families are upgrading their locks and going with an electronic alternative. There is a chance that production could fall behind trying to keep up with the demand for this particular deadbolt and brand.

If you want more details please feel free to call me; Trapper Sherwood with Sherwood Locksmithing at 615.355.5886.