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In Eternal Gratitude
By: Sherry Kappel
Tags: Love, Gratitude, Poetry, One Line Poetry Prompt

My parents-in-law were old school : he the quietly self-sufficient Pennsylvania German, she the prim southern lady. Neither was given to expressing their feelings, nor displaying affection; other than that, they had little in common — yet somehow they worked together. We would have had no idea how deeply he cared for her if it weren’t for the several times she was hospitalized with life-threatening illnesses, but he still said little.

When he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and dementia, she managed his care with a perhaps unprecedented level of fierce dedication. When we saw them for Thanksgiving two years ago, it was the last time he was at all mobile or coherent; a couple months later, he was a shell of a human. When she entered the hospital that spring, he was speechless and wheelchair bound, recognizing no one for several months; his eyes were hollow but they literally turned black — on some level he knew, and perhaps more than the rest of us. And when we told him she’d passed, he simply laid down and was done.

This may seem a sad story, but it is not: rather, it’s how two ordinary, imperfect people came together to form a perfect love that lasted many decades. I am eternally grateful for them.
Only A Few Hours Left for HelloKimi Airdrop…
Tags: Bitcoin, Community, Announcements

Dear Asch and HelloKimi community members,

The deadline of locking the wallet: Complete the lock before 12:00, February 04, 2018( UTC+8) and set the height to 5150000(over 2 months).

Please check here for more airdrop details:
Woman’s Work
By: Ann Litts
Tags: Women, Mythology, Fiction, Destiny, Triple Goddess

Woman’s Work

Weaving Life

Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash

The women gathered in a small circle. It was easier that way. Easier to do their work, easier to pass Destiny from one to another.

The Maiden Clotho — youngest of the sisters — sat at her spinning wheel spinning thread after thread. This was her piece. Birthing the thread. Pulling it forth from the chaos of The Mother Thread, skillfully wielding her spindle, forming one perfect, beautiful bit of fiber.

The Mother Lachesis — the middle sister — would take the spun thread and measure it out. Some threads were measured long. Others were shorter. Much shorter. Most were rough, although every so often a thread as smooth as silk would appear. She was diligent and conscientious in her allotments.

The Crone Atropos — eldest sister of the three — would cut the threads at the lengths determined by Lachesis. She used her shears to make sure each thread was incised at precisely the correct place in precisely the correct manner. She was responsible for the unturning of the thread and for sending it back to The Mother Thread for Clotho to spin again.
Chronos — Episode 4. Dejavu
By: David J. Meyer
Tags: Short Story, Science Fiction, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Chronos — Episode 4

Dejavu

I hope you have enjoyed Chronos so far! I have decided to try and make each episode a little shorter. I know people are busy and may not have time to sit and read a long short story. I hope this helps!

If this is your first episode then welcome! Here is the previous episode so you can get caught up. Or you can read my short synopsis if you are in a hurry.

Previously on Chronos: we are introduced to Gerald, a scrawny kid living on a farm with a couple of abusive parents. Gerald is a different kid. He likes killing things. He typically sticks to killing small pests like squirrels or groundhogs. But this time he decided to go after his dad’s prize cow. However, things turned sideways when he was caught by his dad, beaten, dragged into the woods, and left for dead. Upon waking, Gerald found something interesting. A red feather. He grabbed the feather and was instantly transported. Transported not just back to the farm, but back in time too.

Episode 3 — Dejavu

Present Day

October 30th

7:00 am

Dr. Tempus was up early studying, despite being up late doing the same thing. That’s what happens when your grant money is running out, deadlines are approaching, and you have nothing to show for the millions you’ve already spent.

Dr. Tempus was born to the name, Jerry Tempus. It must have been fate that brought him that name because he would grow up to be mocked as “Dr. Time” or “the Time Wizard.” He was an aspiring quantum physicist who believed he had unlocked something great. He believed he had unlocked time.

Dr. Tempus was in his study, reaching for a cup of coffee when he felt something. “Woa…what is that?”

“Meowww.” The only other creature in the room was his solid white cat, Mr. Freckles.

“I think I’m having dejavu.”

One of Jerry’s biggest theories was on dejavu. Many pass dejavu off as just a weird thing you feel sometimes when your life is lived in a deep rut. But not Jerry. He believed it was related to time, quantum physics, and the multiverse. He believed that not only was time travel real but that we have already experienced it. Anytime you feel dejavu, that is time travel. That is someone in the future using time control to mess with your present situation. Jerry was mocked and laughed at in the physics community for this theory.

“Haha! The next thing he’ll be saying is the aliens are communicating with us via dejavu. Some kind of extraterrestrial time-traveling prophecy!” They’d all burst out laughing, meanwhile, Dr. Tempus believed that they were not that far off.

Since constructing that theory, Jerry had been waiting for years to experience it himself. He began to lose hope. He thought perhaps dejavu was a figment of people’s imaginations. But this was different. This was real, genuine dejavu. And it was happening to him!

“Mr. Freckles, this is it! This is where we prove everyone wrong! Let’s get to it! If we can figure out who nearby is messing with time, then maybe, just maybe, we can unlock the future.”
Little Wings
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Death, Miscarriage, Grief, Loss, Poetry

Little wings, my little one

Is what was given you

When God saw fit to take you

I miss you, little one.

Little kisses in the wind

Is all I can give you

How I want to hold you

I blow kisses in the wind.

Little tears in the night

When I think about you

When I long to have you

I cry tears in the night.

Little whispers in my heart

I never got to see you

I never got to hold you

But I’ll always love you

I blow kisses in the wind

I cry silent tears in the night

I feel your little angel wings

Little wings, my little one.
Unloaded
By: Sydney J. Shipp
Tags: A Cornered Gurl, Breakups, Heartwork, Relationships, Poetry

Unloaded

A poem on carrying a burden

by Inge Poelman on Unsplash

He couldn’t do it anymore:

carry this bag of bones not quite shapeless enough

to cast away as completely inhuman,

not nearly amorphous enough to lose the identity

that elicited sympathy sucked out like air

through the door that was her mouth—

a creaking jaw whose opening always

hinged on the verge of crying out

Though muted, its character still had enough structure

to jut into him as he bore it,

while its form was still feminine enough to comfort him

after a long day of carrying it over his shoulder

He appreciated the softness of flesh,

but how he wished she were a paper sack,

light to lift and carrying goods,

like the ones that carried his whiskey

But it poured no offerings

Want is all that spilled from its lip,

a burden asking him to lift it higher and higher,

one hundred pounds of need

He wished she were a paper sack:

something inconsequential

and allowed to be lost

after the drink was drank

or the fruit it contained turned to rot

Dizzy, he breathed into it and breathed out

How he wished she were a paper sack

he could ball up and crumple in his fist

He tried to compress it into something

he could fit into his palm and throw away

Then he heard the sound of crushed bones

clanking in the bag like broken China

Thoroughly contained,

it was one last mess

he wouldn’t have to clean up
Ajna: Third Eye Chakra
By: Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry On Medium, Mindfulness, Mystical Poetry, Self

Ajna: Third Eye Chakra

Intuition, higher consciousness, deciphering the truth

Photo by Mimi Garcia on Unsplash

A chuckle escapes me as I reminisce.

But it is no more than a humorless gasp.

For I was a lowly prisoner,

In the cruel and material universe’s grasp,

It was then that I felt a spark.

Illumination in its grandest state.

On a journey of wisdom and clairvoyance shall I embark.

Oh, Ajna! You gave me purpose in a world I used to abdicate.

A lowly fool indeed, I was.

Incarcerated and helpless in the physical plane.

Purple enlightenment and the soft touch of quartz.

Oh, Ajna! You rid me of my pain.
[Wallet] Multi-Wallet Ionia User’s Guide -How to make Wallet-
Tags: Bitcoin, Wallet

This is IONIA :)

Today, I’m going to talk to you about how to use the multi-walet ionia we developed.

First of all, download the wallet for the first time, install it, and explain how to make it.

First, download the Ionia Wallet from Google App Store and install it on mobile.

Google App Store Ionic installation screen

(Please understand that IONIA is not currently supported on the iPhone.)

Click and

After installation, run Ionia Wallet, which is created on mobile.
Wolf Pack
By: V. Plut
Tags: Lit, Poetry On Medium, Free Verse, Outdoors, Nature Writing

Wolf Pack, 10x14 watercolor on paper, ©V.Plut

We don’t pack ready-to-eat meals

and gaze in awe upon the landscape

No need for us to capture the moment with camera and brush —

it already belongs to us

Our pups cry near the den for meat

and play at the hunt

Comfort and beauty comes in warm blood

of elk and deer

We find the unsteady gait of the baby buffalo endearing

only to our sense of survival

The trees look with favor upon us

as those who graze her offspring are taken down in red

The green is abundant along the creek now

Thank you!

©V. Plut

All Rights Reserved
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Jazz, Kind Of Blue, Thursday, Miles Davis, Illustration

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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Running with Special Olympics Greats
By: Special Olympics
Tags: Inclusion, Running, Nonprofit

By Amy

Part of the thrill of being a part of the Special Olympics World Games is the chance to see the legends of our movement in action. At the half-marathon/10k race during the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Special Olympics running icons, including Loretta Claiborne and Karen Dickerson, Josphat Owino and Hormelys Pichardo, were there to compete.

All together, 15 Special Olympics athletes ran the 10,000M event and were followed by a crowd of Unity Sports fans who participated by running either a half marathon or a 10K. Claiborne, now a retired Special Olympics Athlete, serves on our board of directors and jumped into the Unity 10K run to show her support. All together, Claiborne has completed more than 25 marathons in her lifetime and holds a personal best time of 3:03, which translates to 6:58 miles, on average. She has also been one of the top 100 female finishers of the Boston Marathon, a feat only an elite few ever accomplish.

Karen Dickerson, a member of Team USA, was the first place finisher in the women’s F1 division, with a final time of 45 minutes and 40 seconds (roughly a 7:20 mile). Finishing in second place just three minutes behind was Costa Rica’s Grettel Hidalgo, who averaged a 7:30 mile.

Dickerson is also a veteran marathoner. At the age of 25, she already has 9 races under her belt had has the ultimate goal of completing a marathon in each of the 50 states in the US. In 2007, she finished in the top 10 percent of women in the Boston Marathon with a time of 3 hours, 24 minutes.

Dickerson also took the gold in the women’s F1 division half-marathon, finishing in 1:42.29. Finishing just a second ahead of her was Zura Mushambokazi of Rwanda, the first female runner overall to cross the finish line.

In the men’s category, the M1 gold medal went to Josphat Owino of Kenya, who finished in 32 minutes and 34 seconds at an astonishing 5:14 mile pace. In close second was his teammate, who ran it in just over 34 minutes, averaging a 5:36 mile pace. The competition was equally tight in the men’s M2 division, in which Cuba’s Hormelys Pichardo finished first with a time of 32: 16, just seconds ahead of Owino. Both received a well deserved gold, however, due to their different division categories.

In the half marathon, Pichardo finished in a time of 1:12.17, averaging 5:30 miles throughout the race. Punshisana Mutum of India took the gold in the Men’s M1 division, finishing with a time of 1:31.36. Nigel Davis of Jamaica finished second overall with a time of 1:27.28, holding a pace of 6:40 per mile.
These Stubborn Hips
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Women, Self, Body, Self Love, Poetry

upon assuming a midnight mood of

horizontal landscape, unraveled body

becomes dimensions so crude

volitional angles and decided curves

my inherited hips are a rolling hill

an obstinate stand for self to accept

how long I have tried and

hemorrhaged time to

make flat the flowing fields

yet this geometry, it

stays sacred. it

basks overstated. it

will not be concealed.
June 30 — Prize from instructables!!
By: Ruth Grace Wong
Tags: Poetry

My Grow Anything Grow Bucket for $50 won a prize in the Instructables Gardening contest!! I’m most excited about the time lapse camera. I got a 6XL T-shirt which I’m dreaming of turning into a dress someday when I have extra time. It also comes with a grow your own classroom kit including materials for making your own biodegradable pots.

I decided to store the grow your own kit in the basement, because my room is too full of grow bucket hardware. I also have a roommate moving in tomorrow… I hope she will be OK with the room as it is.

My blue dream plant is growing nicely!
Nacho Holiday
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Cinco De Mayo, Game of Thrones, Humor, Cartoon, Comics

Written by

Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy.
Build Offline Capable Apps With React Native and Redux Offline
By: Matthew Brown
Tags: Nodejs, React Native, Programming, JavaScript, Software Development

NodeJS API

We will be creating a simple NodeJS API with Express and Sequelize. Express is a framework used to create REST APIs and Sequelize is an ORM that we will use to communicate with our PostgreSQL database. In the API we will build endpoints for creating new entries for image uploads and also for fetching a list of all of the image uploads currently in the database.

To start we’ll create a new empty NodeJS project. Run the following commands in a terminal to set up an empty package.json and then add in our dependencies

mkdir offline-uploads-api

cd offline-uploads-api

npm init -y

npm install --save express sequelize pg pg-hstore cors body-parser

npm install --save-dev sequelize-cli

Next, we will initialize the Sequelize configuration by running the following command.

npx sequelize-cli init

This will create a few new folders in our project:

config/

models/

migrations/

seeders/

We will be creating new models and migrations here shortly, but first, we need to add our local PostgreSQL instance to the development configuration in config/config.json

Now Sequelize knows where to find our database so we can create a table where we will be storing all of our image uploads. We will use the following command to create a model and migration for the uploads table.

npx sequelize-cli model:generate --name uploads --attributes id:bigint,file_name:string,image:blob

This will generate a model that we will make a couple of updates to. Update the contents of models/uploads.js to the following code.

For our example, we will actually be storing the images as base64 strings in the database. This is a valid approach to storing images, there is also the option of using something like S3 to handle the file storage. If you’re interested in how to do that be sure to check out my article below.

Also, be sure to update the migration for adding the uploads table to the database to the following code.

To execute the migration and add the table to the local database instance run the following command which will run everything in the migrations folder that hasn’t yet been applied to the database.

npx sequelize-cli db:migrate

After this executes successfully we should be able to query our database and see that we have a single table now name uploads with five columns and currently has no rows of data.

Now that we have the database ready to go we are ready to add the API endpoints for creating and fetching uploads. We will create the following endpoints:

POST /uploads

GET /uploads

Let’s create those now. We will create a new file at routes/uploads.js and add the following code.

Very simple as you can see. We create two endpoints and either write or fetch records in the database. Just one more file to finish off our API. We create a new file called index.js.

And that’s all the code we need for API. We will be calling the API in the next section from our mobile app. You can run the API by running the following command.
Build a Simple DL Model Using TensorFlow
By: Chan Naseeb
Tags: Hello World, Neural Networks, Data Science, Deep Learning, TensorFlow

Now there are two points to understand:

a. How would you build a NN to do the same? (Answer is given in the next section).

b. Why would you like to build a NN for such a simple task (Answer is given above in the first paragraph of this article).

Steps to Build a Deep Learning Model

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1. Importing the required libraries

We start with the imports. We import tensorflow library and calling it tf for ease of use later on. We then import the numpy library to represent our data as list in an easy and quick way. Last but not least, we import the Keras framework for defining a neural network as a set of sequential layers.
Dynamic Promise Chaining
By: Rafayel Arakelyan
Tags: Reduce, Programming, JavaScript, Promises, Recursion

Introduction

Nowadays many developers don’t realize the whole beauty of promises and the flexibility they provide. It’s a quite common thing to encounter code snippets where the promise is used just to fetch some data from a remote source, which can be implemented with simple callback functions all the same. Whereas its purpose is much more complex and powerful.

In this guide, I would like to share my knowledge about how you can chain promises and what’s more delicious, how to do it dynamically, without knowing in advance how many chains you should perform.

We’ve all heard about so-called callback hells. It was one of the main incentives to invent the Promise API.

Promises can cope with such situations with ease.

Classic promise chain

This kind of predictable task can be solved within just seconds. But what if our task is not so predictable? What if we should perform some set of async actions one after another in promise chains without knowing in advance how many there are? In other words, how can we build a promise chain dynamically?

I would like to demonstrate two approaches to do so. But first, let’s create some base to work on.

Mock files are ready to be downloaded

And a simple function imitating a file download process.

Promise which resolves after the given file’s downloadTime

Consider this: For some reason, we want our mock files to be downloaded one after another (actually this is a common scenario). Now, we know there are exactly three files. As I said before, working with static data will be super easy.

const [file1,file2,file3] = mockFiles download(file1)

.then(_ => download(file2))

.then(_ => download(file3))

This is pretty straightforward, right? But when things get dynamic and unpredictable, you need to dig deeper. What if we have ten files, what if 1000? Let’s assume we receive instructions from an outside source and have no idea how many files there are to be downloaded. The first thing that can be tempting is to use Promise.all API.

“The Promise.all() method returns a single Promise that resolves when all of the promises passed as an iterable have resolved. ”— MDN web docs

parallel promise handling
The beginning of an adventuRe
By: Alan Marazzi
Tags: R Programming, Learning, Data Science

A few years ago I had to present a research about social media to the board of an online magazine. I almost didn’t know where to start: Twitter in Italy was pretty new, but I felt it could have been good for our zero-budget magazine. After some research I discovered this paper about Twitter mining and sentiment analysis using a consonant: R.

That was my first encounter with R project. It didn’t end up well. Back then my laptop wasn’t so good and I managed to crash it at least 5 times before I could perform some basic analysis. To be fair, I had a problem as well with coding. My only experience in coding was in Html and CSS, and I wasn’t even so good at it.

What I didn’t understand is that I fell in love. Suddenly I realized that the web wasn’t just a huge noisy mess, but it could be organized, analyzed and exploited. I fell in love with data science.

At the time data science wasn’t such a buzzword, I would say almost nobody knew it existed. So my life went on. I was living like 90% of us in an Excel world: my master’s thesis tables wheighted about 40 mb. I almost started learning Visual Basic, but luckily enough I didn’t.

“Suddenly I realized that the web wasn’t just a huge noisy mess, but it could be organized, analyzed and exploited. I fell in love with data science.”

Data always intrigued me, I steadily look for new insights, charts, visualizations, studies, etc. I even got a job that for the most part is about data retrieving and analysis from many different countries (the next time you feel the urge to mock HR people, you may want to think twice about it: the work changed a lot in the last years). But the process with Excel was tedious and annoying. What could I do?

R ! A spark.

I remembered about that tiny little mess I did a while ago. I could remember those little arrows <- assigning variables, the way I queried Twitter’s API and how many times my laptop crashed. I took a decision: learn to code in R.

Fun fact, in high school I was bad in math. Really bad. I mean it. VERY BAD. But weirdly enough I was good in physics, economics and statistics. So I decided to take the challenge and study statistics as well.

I had the luck to find a few nice books on the subject, that I suggest to everyone interested in statistics and machine learning:

“Naked Statistics” by Charles Wheelan

by Charles Wheelan “The Signal and the Noise” by Nate Silver

by Nate Silver “Data Science for Business” by Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett

by Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett “Discovering Statistics Using R” by Andy Field, Jeremy Miles and Zoe Field.

These books won’t make you a data scientist, but they are a good foundation on understanding what the job is about.
EMONT Rebate Campaign — Pay with ERC20 tokens!
Tags: Etheremon, Blockchain, Releases, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum

Etheremon has integrated with Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol to make its decentralized payment process much more seamless. Etheremon players can now enjoy the convenience of paying for monsters with the most popular ERC20 tokens.

For a period of 12 days, from September 18th to 7th October, Etheremon players will be able to earn EMONT token rebates for any amount spent in the game!

EMONT is an ERC20 token, capped at 20 million, which can be acquired through gameplay and can be used to buy monsters and play various game modes in Etheremon. Etheremon team also created EMONT Alliance of blockchain games in which EMONT is used as a common in-game currency.

How to earn EMONT rebates?

To be eligible for rebates, players simply need to pay with any supported ERC20 token via Kyber to buy Mons in Store.

Rebates will be at the rate of 300 EMONT for every 1 ETH-equivalent spent in tokens. Minimum spending amount is 0.2 ETH.

Etheremon will track all Ethereum addresses that have paid with tokens in the game and airdrop free EMONT via this Referral page on 26th Sep and 3rd Oct. Do remember to sign-in to see it.

Read this Tutorial on how to purchase Monster with ERC20 tokens in Etheremon.

About Etheremon

Combining blockchain and virtual reality technology, Etheremon sets a foundation for the Game 3.0 era where immersive gaming experience is enhanced as players have full ownership of their in-game digital assets which no one can manipulate or steal from them. All value created by players belongs to players. Etheremon has grown to be one of the most popular DApp game, with more than 38,000 Monsters caught and 300,000 battles played.

About Kyber Network

Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol powers decentralized atomic swaps and transactions between applications and ecosystems. By allowing open contribution of liquidity from token holders and simple integration by DApps and projects to access the contributed liquidity, we enable a more connected tokenized world where any token is usable anywhere.

Cheers,

Etheremon Team

*Updated 1st October: Rebate campaign will be extended until 7th October (was 30th September previously). You can purchase Kyberra Mon and get EMONT rebate here: etheremon.com/mons/159

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Standard #6: Good Working Etiquette
By: Transformed Grace
Tags: Christianity, Project Standard, Work, Trnsfrmdbygrace, Relationships

“The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.” — Proverbs 13:4 (KJV)

This is one thing greatly attracts girls to a guy — when he knows how important (and unimportant) work is.

This is not about money — you’re getting my point wrong, but how and who he is with people he work closely everyday: Is he kind to them? Is he a leader? Is he compassionate? Is he a team player? Is he diligent? How passionate is he? Does he love his job? Does he easily get stressed? Does he do what is right even if other don’t see or do it (I’m talking about integrity)? Think about this — when a guy is very passionate to the things he do at work, imagine more the passion he will give loving you? If he can extend that kind of compassion to his co-workers, especially subordinates, imagine more how compassionate and kind he will be to you? If integrity is imbued in his core values, imagine how loyal and honest he can be to you? See my point now? (just explaining this to you make me feel so much loved — I don’t know why)

Knowing how he works (and handle work) maybe able to give you a glimpse of how he will manage your home when you get married, how he tackles every problem, how he formulate solutions, how he will bring the team (family) towards one goal, how he is not bothered by stress/problem. Basically work is his battle ground, observe (or ask questions) and you’ll learn more about him — who he really is.

I really admire a man with good work etiquette, it really tells so much more about his personality and this is raw — unfiltered. Because he really is going through the real world turns and tumbles and how he gracefully (for the lack of masculine term for being graceful) handle himself as well as his team, ugh! He is potentially a keeper! (remember, we still have other items on the list, we have to tick 95% of them or all — don’t get too side tracked, lol!)

You may ask, why is this the one on the list? Why not just tell financially stable? Well for one thing you can be financially stable but not have a good set of working etiquette — but I don’t think the opposite might happen. When he became so focused on earning so much or being promoted, and he coudn’t care less of the people that might get hurt along the way (worst is he really trampled on people just to get by)— big NO for me (and I’m not sorry). But if his working etiquette is in line to that of God’s word, then surely monetary factors will follow (remember Matthew 6:33, and besides they are not ATMs — both of you should work hard to get financial stability for your family).

I am praying that our future is a man of God even at work, imbued with the values that reflect the image God and Jesus. And that, most of all, he works hard not to bring glory for himself but for the Lord.
Boot sequence on embedded devices
By: George Calin
Tags: Beaglebone Black, Embedded Linux, Yoctoproject, Embedded Devices, U Boot

What is needed to boot Linux on an embedded device such as Beaglebone Black?

ROM Boot Loader (RBL)

It is a small memory that runs on the SOC. The very first piece of code to run on the SOC when you power the Board. This is written by the vendor (hence it can not be changed) and it is stored in the ROM section of the SOC. The job the ROM Boot Loader is to load and execute the 2nd stage boot loader which is the SPL/MLO.

2. Secondary Program Loader (Memory LOader)

Its job is to load and execute the 3rd stage boot loader such as U-boot.

3. U-boot

The job of the 3rd stage boot loader is to load and execute the Linux Kernel.

4. Linux Kernel

5. Root File System

Example of booting RBL and SPL/MLO on the Beaglebone Black

Mount SD Card Reader in the Virtual Machine
Graceful
By: Dilpreet Kaur Virk
Tags: Haiku, Moms, Graceful, Contemporary Haiku, Haiku Poetry

A girl with aspirations -is what defines me the best . I was a secret writer who is now exploring the public world.

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What is the ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral Protocol in Swift?
By: Zafar Ivaev
Tags: Swift, Mobile, Programming, iOS, Xcode

What is the ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral Protocol in Swift?

Substitute your actual type with an Int

Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash

In this short article we will explore the ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral protocol in Swift based on a simple Xcode Playground example.

We generally use this protocol when we want to substitute our custom type with an Int . Using it in right situations helps you write more concise code.

Let’s Start

Say we have this simple struct called CustomNumber :

Now if we want to create an array of CustomNumber s we would write something like this:

How can we make it nicer? Let’s conform to the ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral protocol (notice that we no longer need the previous initializer):

We can now create that array in a much nicer way:

Which correctly prints out each member of our array:

We can add even more flexibility by conforming to an ExpressibleByStringLiteral , so we could also use String values:

There are lots of similar protocols available to suit your needs:
LEETSPEAK ❤ AZMDEV
By: Marcus Mazur
Tags: Stockholm, Technology News, Hololens, Software Development

We are very excited to welcome AZM Dev to Leetspeak this year as one of our fantastic partners. AZM Dev are a Stockholm based company that focus on HoloLens and Windows development.

AZM Dev will be on site to demonstrate HoloLens for our very lucky Leetspeak attendees. Not only will they be showing us the in’s-and-out’s of HoloLens, they will also be offering up the chance for us to try it out ourselves — how awesome is that?! You’ll definitely find us in that queue to try it out!

A massive THANK YOU to AZM Dev for being a part of Leetspeak, for being generally awesome and for supporting the community.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Tuesday, Humor, Comics, Art, Cartoon

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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You Save Me
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Chase, Fear, Monsters, Poetry, Safe

The road uncertain, unlit before me

I tread carefully, afraid to fall

My knees still scream from the last time I tripped

My breath comes short, from pain

From fear

I can hear it shuffling behind me

Somewhere in the dark

It slithers, it crawls, it grabs for my ankles

Somehow I stay just out of reach

I keep moving forward, hoping to see light

Wishing for someone, anyone

Come save me from myself

From the monsters chasing me

I feel the cold on my neck, on my skin

As I run now, blindly, naked

It’s gaining on me, I can hear it

Whispering my name, it’s all around me

It’s inside of me

And just when I can feel it jumping

I can feel myself falling

Forward, forward, forward

Down into a void, and I scream

But my voice doesn’t sound out

I reach out, but my hands only touch air

And then the light, so bright

Blinding, all around me, and you

Holding me, like an infant

Still naked and afraid

You hush me, soothe me, rock me

The darkness is gone, the whisperings

We sit on grass, soft and lush, so green

Greener than I’ve ever seen

And the sky so blue, impossibly so

My heartbeat starts to slow, my breath

Calming, as your hand touches my face

Pushes the hair from my eyes

Your eyes, so clear, so serene

Your finger on my lips, quieting

And then your mouth on mine, so gentle

I am safe
Implement Polling Using RxJS in Your Angular Application
By: Bharath Ravi
Tags: Rxjs, Programming, JavaScript, Angular, Reactive Programming

Implement Polling Using RxJS in Your Angular Application

Or in any RxJS application

Photo by the author.

“The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there.” — Gordon Bell

Angular is powerful because of its reactive architecture. RxJS is how Angular manages to do this. RxJS is the most used reactive JavaScript library of all time and its popularity is growing every day.

In one of my older articles, I confessed things I regret not doing as an Angular developer. Not learning in-depth RxJS was one of them and learning it now is such a pleasant experience.

In this article, we will implement polling logic using RxJS.
What Is A Spending Freeze, And Why We Should All Do It
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Saving Money, Finance, Spending, Money, Consumerism

Living Within Your Means

We’ve all heard the saying, but what does it really mean? How do we even calculate what our ‘means’ are? It’s not rocket science, really. It’s as simple as it sounds: Don’t spend more than what you make. Common sense, right?

It should be, but there’s a problem.

We’re addicted to spending. Buying things makes us feel good. Powerful. On top of the world for a brief moment. Until it doesn’t.

That morning Starbucks stop on your way to work Monday to Friday? It makes you feel great, doesn’t it? Starts your day off right, walking around with that white and green cup with the mandatory misspelled name, and your little brown bag filled with your favorite buttery indulgence. You feel like you’re part of the in-crowd. The Coffee Elite.

Until you check your bank balance on Saturday and come crashing back to reality, and hard. When you realize you’ve spent $50 on breakfast and over-priced coffee, and now you can’t afford the minimum payment on your maxed-out credit card.

Doesn’t feel so great now, does it?

Now, think how much you could have saved by making your own coffee and toast every morning for the week. I’m taking a wild guess here, but I’m thinking that the $50 would be turned into about $10 or $15.

That’s $35 to $40 dollars in your pocket. Times that by four weeks, and now you’re looking at $140 to $160. Take it another step further even — $1,820 to $2,080 in one year. Fifty-two weeks. Now granted, you’ve probably skipped a few days in there. But look at those figures. That’s astronomical!

In just one year, by brewing your own coffee and toasting your own bread, you’ve saved enough for an all-inclusive five-star tropical vacation.

Kind of makes you wonder how much more you could save if you did the same thing with lunch!

“The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.” — Will Rogers

I’ve never been very good with money. Maybe it comes from growing up without much of it; I’m not quite sure. Maybe it’s just in my blood. But whatever the reason, the older I get, the more I look back (and I have longer to look back on now) and see that I’ve done next to nothing to ensure a financially secure future. I’m the only one to blame for that.

I’ve got no substantial savings to speak of. No real assets. Nothing of any monetary value. It’s way past time — but never too late to get started.

One thing I started doing a couple of months ago is putting money away into my savings account every payday. It’s not a lot, but it’s something. And it’s done automatically, so I don’t even see it, and I can’t claim to ‘forget’ to do it. It goes in, it goes out. Out of sight, out of mind.
My Work Trip Back to My Home Town
By: Robert Carlson
Tags: Travel, Hot Dogs, White Tower, Donuts, Oakland

My Work Trip Back to My Home Town

Vignettes of Growing up in Oakland

Neighborhoods were communities once. Neighborhoods are mainly characterized as just the streets around your home. Communities were the polygonal area where everything you might need could be gotten on a short walk or a streetcar/bus ride. I don’t want to get too deep into the weeds over definitions, but the region of Oakland were I grew up was a community. Although as a family we ranged far afield of the boundary we could have not ventured beyond three-quarters of a mile for every essential need we had.

As a child, I could do things there that I have never since been able to do without a car and lots of driving. Summers were great in those halcyon days of the 60s. a favorite meal cold be had from the White Tower either with a short walk down Centre Avenue to Craig or my Grandmother, who lived with us, would stop for a bag of burgers, fries and cokes on her way up returning from her job downtown.

After leaving Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania altogether for a job in Athens, Georgia I returned on a trip with a planning committee of transit people to talk with PATransit folks about transit oriented development. We flew in and arrived late in the evening. We got a car and went looking for some place to eat. It had rained, the atmosphere was foggy and the city looked like a scene from a noir film from the 1950s.

A few blocks ahead the blue glow of florescent lights made a halo that pushed into the night sky and across the street marking proof of life up there. We pulled up to a White Tower at around 11 pm and I tried to ward off my travel partners for something more substantial, more befitting a business trip back to my hometown. Hunger and their curiosity prevailed and we went inside. The interior was brightly lit and still ready to serve our group of five. Burgers, hot dogs and greasy potatoes and sodas (as they called it) made a big hit with them. I was feeling embarrassed until my boss leaned over and said in my face, “this place is great. I’m happy we found it open so late.”

As we were paying our checks a donut vendor brought in the next day’s batch of cake and glazed donuts. We bought two dozen and he went out to get more for the store. The lights winked out as we drove away, back our hotel.
Sinner.
By: Amanda Dalmas
Tags: Poetry, The Rebel Poets Society, Religion And Spirituality, Sex, BDSM

A Poem.

Photo by Stephanie LeBlanc on Unsplash

Mother Mary,

please forgive me,

for I have heavily sinned against God.

I was on a St. Andrews Cross last night.

I was tied up and beaten.

And I enjoyed it.

Oh, Mother Mary

Please hear my prayer.

For my perversions burn deep within me.

Canes struck my backside, and whips kissed my nipples.

Wax trickled down into places it shouldn’t.

The knife tip dug it all out.

Mother Mary,

Please forgive me for my dark night of pleasure.

Forgive my desire for more pain.

Teach me to be good and normal.

Then I could be god-like …like you.
What Is the ReplaySubject in RxSwift?
By: Zafar Ivaev
Tags: Swift, Mobile, Programming, iOS, Xcode

Let’s Start

First, initialize the ReplaySubject with the specified bufferSize of 1:

Now let’s create a method that will retrieve a random image from Unsplash and send the Data onto the randomPhotoSubject :

Note that we also call it inside the viewDidLoad() method.

Now comes the most interesting part: subscribing two observers to the subject. Let’s add the first subscription immediately after firing the getRandomPhoto() method and another one ten seconds later:

The result is exactly what we want: The second observer receives the same data as the first one even though the request has already completed:
Watch Charlie’s Brown’s Holiday Specials Without an Apple TV+ Subscription (In This Limited Window)
By: Megan Morrone
Tags: Apple TV, TV, Culture, Entertainment

We can’t gather safely with all of our loved ones this year, but thanks to Apple, we can now watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving without an Apple TV+ subscription. So, I guess we have something to be sort of grateful for?

Last month Debugger reported that, for the first time ever, the classic Peanuts holiday specials would stream exclusively on Apple TV+ and would be available only to those willing to pay the $4.99 a month subscription or sign up for one of the Apple One bundles. Not exactly in the spirit of these anti-capitalistic children’s stories.

Now, according to Variety, Apple will share the Peanuts gang’s misadventures, including Charlie’s beautiful tiny tree with the rest of us. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving aired on PBS last night, but anyone can watch it for free with the Apple TV+ app (or via the web portal for those without an Apple device) from November 25–27. You can watch A Charlie Brown Christmas the same way from December 11–13.
What Happens When You Attend A Paid Instagram Growth Coaching Call
By: Thakur Rahul Singh
Tags: Instagram Marketing, Instagram, Social Media Marketing, Mentorship, Social Media

How I Booked My First Coaching Call on Instagram

It was a normal day of work — I got distracted, and somehow opened my inactive Instagram account.

I received a promotional message from this person who was managing a themed page. I found it interesting and I responded as I usually do. We had a fairly good conversation and finally, I got a chance to attend a free coaching call by him. Here’s how it went.

DM from a theme page regarding coaching call (Screenshot by author)

Free coaching call on Instagram (Screenshot by author)

Okay, now I feel guilty for saying paid Instagram growth coaching call in the title. But initially, they were charging somewhere around $20 because I was from India. Later he decided to give a free coaching session in return for a testimonial. On the other hand, I didn’t want to spend a dime and at the same time, I was eager to learn something new.

Since I was aiming for major growth on Instagram, I was desperate to learn some secret Instagram formulas to grow without spending money. The next day I hopped onto a call with him, and I was looking forward to learning something new and maybe implement strategies that actually work.

I was expecting a one-on-one video call with him. At the last moment, he asked for my number, and we did a Whatsapp audio call. That call lasted over one hour, and during that whole time, he did most of the talking, and I was told to note down some key points mentioned by him.

What happened during the coaching call?

I will be honest with you, this person never called himself an Instagram guru. However, he promised to help me grow my account on Instagram. In this one-hour session, most of the time was focused on assessing my Instagram theme page, and later he shared a few secret strategies to grow on Instagram.

I did write all the points mentioned during the call, but unfortunately, I lost that piece of paper. I can easily remember what he recommended. Here are the step-by-step points of our coaching session:
Plunge into Wilderness
By: Bridget Webber
Tags: Nature, Fiction, Poetry, Nature Writing, Life

That first snowfall,

the sky emptied fast.

The keen hare looked up,

drinking in the white,

and you raised your shy stare to see her pale paws dip and pounce atop the gleam, lingering.

One exhale,

a breath billowing steam-shod.

Clouds of heat whirled and with swift eyes her glance,

timid,

ran leaping through the stillness on quick legs of flight.

Her soul followed, wild.

Crisp snow-blankets scattered frost;

sparkling diamonds on bare feet.
Flip-flopping Around the World
By: Matt Ray
Tags: Humor, Travel, Photography, Global Hitchhiking, Sailing

Mourning the loss of my trusted travel companion

In 2016, I was left stranded as my trusted travel companion ditched me for better waters. To this day, I still mourn the loss. We’d had such a good run, and so many memories. I refer to the one trusted piece of travel gear that had comforted me for more than 20,000 miles — my flip-flops. Or specifically, the left flip-flop, who decided traveling on solo was its best option. Traitorous shoe, I still miss you. We shared so much. I thought we’d be together forever.

Our Meeting

Everybody has a love affair with their favorite shoe. Comfy, trustworthy, makes you feel great when you’re out with them. As a (mostly) native Californian, that pair of shoes is usually a pair of flip-flops.

Whether you call them flip-flops, jandals, or thongs, they’re basically the same. I like calling them flip-flops. Not only is this a fun thing to call them — the word rolls off your tongue — but it’s also an onomatopoeia, the actual sound they make as you walk along your chosen path.

With hundreds of brands and types on the market, I continuously swiped left, searching high and low for my beloved footwear, until I found the Teva Mush. They aren’t the flashiest, most sexy of the flip-flops. But they were instantly comfortable and that comfort lasted for miles. We were a perfect match. My foot wore a groove into them, wrapped in cushiony mushy material. We bonded. This relationship was meant to be.

Well-Traveled Flops

In 2015, together with my trusted flip-flops, our travels began. First east from Ventura, California to Miami, Florida with my tent trailer to celebrate Christmas with a friend. Then we brought in the new year with a trip to Grand Cayman Island. We flew back to the US, touring from Miami, to Ohio, and back again to California. With each step, and every mile, my flip-flops were my faithful travel companions.

I took them on a trip up to Portland, Oregon for a fun weekend with my cousins. We spent some time in Utah with my kids. When I got back to California, I decided to take my sailing to a new level. I wore them to Barcelona, Spain, where I started a RYA YachtMaster Offshore course, traveling with them down to Gibraltar, and then up to Palamos, Spain where I finished up with my Certificate. From there we traveled to Southampton, England, up to London, and then back to California. They never gave me any indication they were unhappy traveling with me. And they were the one constant in every place I visited.

My faithful companions. Oh, the sites we saw together.