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World leaders congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
By: Andreas Sandre
Tags: Tech, Social Media, Elections, Technology, Government

World leaders congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Presidents and Prime Ministers around the world went to Twitter to celebrate the next president of the US.

The moment all major news outlets projected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice President of the United States, world leaders around the world flooded Twitter with messages of congratulations.

Most G7 leaders sent their congratulations: French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, CanadianPM Justin Trudeau, Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and President Sergio Mattarella, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Among other world leaders, India’s Narendra Modi tweeted not only to Joe Biden, but also a separate tweet to Kamala Harris, whose mother was originally from India.

“Your success is pathbreaking, and a matter of immense pride not just for your chittis, but also for all Indian-Americans,” he tweeted. “I am confident that the vibrant India-US ties will get even stronger with your support and leadership.”

Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, also sent special congratulations mentioning Harris’ Jamaican heritage — her father is originally from Jamaica.

Among women world leaders, Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, Erna Solberg of Norway, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia, Simonetta Sommaruga of Switzerland, Zuzana Čaputová of Slovakia, Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados, Sanna Marin of Finland, Katerina Sakellaropoulou of Greece, Denmark Danish PM Mette Frederiksen, and Christine Lagarde of the European Central Bank all went to Twitter to congratulate Joe Biden and, in particular Kamala Harris, the first woman to become Vice President of the United States.

Twitter has created a list of world leaders congratulated the next US President and Vice President:

https://twitter.com/i/events/1325143166773653505

Young global leader like Malala also congratulated Kamala Harris on Twitter; while Greta Thunberg retweeted CNN about Biden’s win.
Changing the View of the Day
By: Molly K. Mitchell
Tags: Poetry, Nature, Life, Seasons

I woke up early

It’s dark at 5 am now, in the waning months of the year.

The time change next week will help,

Briefly,

One more hour of sleep in the cold to stave off the darkness.

This morning, I: fed the pets, started laundry, walked to the gym.

In the cold, the grass is outlined silver

And the chickens’ water froze over, overnight.

The sky was also frozen in garden to the parking lot:

The black-and-white stippled pattern of the clouds

Just touched

With an eastern edge of melting blue.
Are Twitter Fleets the new retweet?
By: Andreas Sandre
Tags: Technology, Twitter, Social Media, Tech, Government

Are Twitter Fleets the new retweet?

Twitter has rolled out its ‘story’ feature with mix reviews. They’re not like Instagram’s and the goal is to make Twitter “friendlier.”

Even Twitter admits it on its Twitter feed…

Fleets — Twitter response to the success of the story feature on social media platforms — has been rolled out. Created by Snap Inc.’s Snapchat and made big by Instagram, they’re now everywhere, including Facebook, LinkedIn… Am I forgetting anywhere else?

“From one perspective, this is just Twitter keeping up with the Joneses, launching a familiar feature in a characteristically belated fashion,” writes Will Oremus in OneZero. “In a call with journalists on Monday, however, Twitter executives made the case that Fleets are part of a larger push to reshape the service as something friendlier, safer, and more comfortable for novice users. Along with Fleets, the company teased an upcoming feature called Spaces, which will allow users to set up live audio chat rooms and control who can join.”

Reactions has been mix.

“Since I joined Twitter back in 2007, I’ve appreciated its simplicity,” writes Lance Ulanoff here on Medium. “I like it this way, but Twitter, which has struggled to reach Facebook-like mass, global usage numbers and has stockholders to satisfy, is always looking for the element that will propel it to Instagram-like numbers.”

“Fleets are not really Tweets at all.”

— Lance Ulanoff

I kind of agree with Lance. No, Fleets are not Tweets… But, it looks like, in the 24 hours since its global roll out, Fleets are becoming retweets. Or, at least, I’ve seen many Fleets that are all-in-all retweets.

Even Twitter extraordinaire Matthew Kobach’s first Fleet was a retweet.

Here a few more first-Fleets from author and entrepreneur Allen Gannett, Twitter’s Head of Social and Editorial Phonz, and Twitter Public Policy’s Bridget Coyne.
GrabAMeal invites you to Join our team as an Adviser or Team Member!!
Tags: Teamwork, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, ICO, Puerto Rico

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HelloGold Foundation Update #28– 29th January 2020
By: Quentin Bignon
Tags: Fintech, Blockchain, Ethereum, Gold, Malaysia

Closing 2019 and preparing 2020

The last month of the year has been the time to look back at what the team has delivered throughout the year. For all HelloGold app users, 2019 has been the year in which a lot of improvements have come to solve user experience glitches: cash to gold, improved SmartSaver cycles, touch ID, etc. The product and tech team have worked hard to respond to customer feedback and improve the product to better suit HelloGold Saver’s expectations.

The result is an app that is by far faster, more intuitive and more enjoyable than a year ago. The amount of positive reviews that have landed on HelloGold’s social media profiles and Malaysian forums over the second part of 2019 is proof that our efforts have not gone unnoticed by our customers. A big thank you to all those who share with us what they want to see improved, but also share what they like! There’s no better reward for a hard-working team than to see their work being recognised by those whom we build it for!

To conclude the year and prepare for 2020, Robin and Ridwan took the Malaysian and Thai HelloGold teams for an offsite in Penang.

It was the occasion to reaffirm the team’s ethical commitment to bringing fairer and better financial services for all, and to ensure everybody is aligned and prepared to deliver what HelloGold has in store for 2020.

And there’s a lot coming :)…
Customizing angular primeNG upload control
By: Coding In Depth
Tags: File Upload, Primeng, Angular

PrimeNG provides rich UI controls. One of the useful control is file upload control. check this link. Current primeNG upload control comes with a choose button with upload and cancel. Once user chooses the file, file will be uploaded. If you are using this control in large angular component it may happen that user selected the file and file will be uploaded on the server and user navigate away from the page without saving the form. File is uploaded but the form is not yet saved. This create problem of orphan file without any references. Similarly for delete also user can delete the file and navigate away from the page without saving the form. So there is need of customizing this p-upload control.

We are customizing p-upload in such a way that once user clicks on submit then only upload file, delete file and save form will happen. These three calls can be done parallel or sequential way. It depends on the requirements and decision. There are bunch of RxJS operators that perform these operations.

Install PrimeNG dependencies

npm install primeng --save

npm install primeicons --save

Below is upload html file. fileInput is provided and defined in the component ViewChild property. For download we are calling upload services rest api. There is no upload service call from html. Service call happens when user submits the form.

HTML render like this:

In upload.component.ts first import FileUpload and then define the ViewChild for fileInput. For multiple upload we are using forkJoin to add all the files in ObservableList.

uploadService.ts has uploadFile method. uploadFile accepts file object and creates formData object. This formData appends file blob. Delete method will delete file. Currently we are handling single delete and it can be extended to multiple delete by using forkJoin similar to upload.

Download method is reading the blob object and download the file. If file is of pdf then open in new window, for all other files download.
Creating a Garmin Connect IQ application. Part 1 — Hello Monkey C!
By: Dan Siwiec
Tags: Garmin, IoT, Connect Iq, Software Development

In this series of posts I will walk you through the development process of a Garmin Connect IQ application. The application that we will develop is a Tabata timer, that has been published on Garmin’s IQ store with over 35000 downloads.

In Part 1 we will set up the development environment and say Hello to Monkey C — the language you will use to write Connect IQ applications.

Get the SDK

First things first! Get the SDK here. This post has been written with version 2.4.4, so any 2.x.x version will do. You will also need Java Runtime Environment in version 8 or higher.

Overview of the SDK

If this is your first contact with Monkey C, I recommend skimming through the official introduction. Monkey C, despite being tiny in its API, provides direct access to all the device’s major features like Activity Tracking, sensors (location, heart rate sensor, compass), buttons, etc.

Project seed

Garmin suggests using an Eclipse plugin for your development, but in my experience it’s not a good option for a couple reasons. The Monkey C language is weakly typed, so the IDE doesn’t provide much support like code completion, as it does with Java for instance. Secondly, development life cycle operations like compilation, running, packaging are not natively supported by Eclipse. Lastly, neither the plugin, nor Eclipse itself are good quality products, with many bugs, low responsiveness and poor developer experience. I also believe, that developers should be free to pick their own IDE.

What I found much more preferable is using my favorite text editor — Visual Studio Code with make scripts to compile/run/package the application. For this purpose, I created a seed project, that can be used to kick start a Connect IQ application. You can find it here. Once you clone this repository, follow the instructions in README.md.

Hello… Monkey C

Finally, confirm your setup is working by typing make run in the project’s root folder. You should see this output:

Congratulations, that’s all for Part 1!
Fampahafantarana ny fikambanan’ny mpaneho an-tsary ny rakitra
By: Noëlle Rakotondravony
Tags: Professional Development, Data Science, Malagasy, Data Visualization, Dvsintro

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NOV 1 2020. The team has been pushing continuous…
By: Stakenet Team
Tags: Xsn Articles

The team has been pushing continuous builds to our private beta testing group, with great feedback. Thanks to all who have participated and helped thus far. We will continue to utilize private beta to rollout and test new technologies as they are prepared for public debuts

Currently, the group has been testing and assisting with our Simple Swap UI feature, ensuring the integrity of channel logic, finding optimal configurations and user flow.

DEX bot operators have commenced stress tests

Our bot operators have begun stress testing the DEX, initial tests run approx 2–3k trades/ day with volume at $10k+ which we are pleased to announce come with little to no errors. You will be able to monitor these tests in our newly launched DEX stat UI page. Also at this site you will soon be able to find…

Number of trades

# of connected nodes to the HUB

Number of channels (connected to the HUB network)

Stress testing is important as they confirm the L2 DEX architecture can handle mass traffic, high volume, and low latency trades to allow competitiveness VS traditional CEX’s

Adding ETH Support

ETH support in the light wallet is nearly ready, devs have setup the backend, prepared the API and will soon deploy to our private beta group for testing

Adding ETH to the DEX via L2

Our developers focus has been on the integration of ETH private key functionality and L2 client channel states. Our community have presented a wealth of options that our Devs have been exploring further and are finalising their conclusions of these options. As always, XSN is code agnostic as such, we have the freedom to explore the options that best suit the needs of our technology and not be tied to anyone in particular. This is to ensure specific goals and principles of speed and adaptability will work on multi operating system (os) support & integration with our light wallet.

We are now in the process of completing exchange and 3rd party state channel client testing this week. Results have been promising and will publish these & demo’s ahead.

As with the ETH support, the DEX tests will be deployed to our private beta group first for testing and review

DEX HUB ALLIANCE

We have begun reaching out and inviting other teams and projects to join our coming multi-hub network to prepare for the upcoming Prometheus stage. If you know other projects that are interested and a good fit, let us know and we may be able to reach out to add them to the official DEX HUB ALLIANCE.

Our DEX roadmap is broken up into three stages, GAIA (currently in process now) Prometheus (multi HUB architecture, proving scalability/ solving L2 liquidity) HYDRA (DEX network offloaded to XSN chain and masternodes)

Core Wallet Update V1.0.26

Also updated has been our XSN Core Wallet. Get the latest V 1.0.26, which fixes an issue with rewards for 0% TPoS here

Join us on Discord and follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date with our latest news and developments.
Link Prediction on Social Network in Field of Breast Cancer on Twitter
By: Francis Zhang
Tags: Social Network, Assignment 3, Node2vec, Link Prediction

Data Processing

The numbers of nodes and edges are 1,991 and 2,066 respectively from network in last article. We can draw a basic graph to show the original network. Blue points are nodes and black lines are edges.

Basic Network

In order to applying models on our data, we need to figure out what dependent variable we can extract from the network above. The graph below is a simple example from above network. If we only regard connection as directly connected, we can easily know that AC is connected but AB is not connected. Our objective here is to predict if there is a connection between A and B. At time t, AB, AD and CB are not connected.

Graph at time t

At time t+n (n>0), from the graph below we know that A somehow connected with B. Therefore, we can assign value 1 to AB, and assign value 0 to AD and CB.

Graph at time t+n(n>0)

What if we only have a graph at time t? How could we know which edges can be assigned value 1? The trick is that if we go back at time t-n (n>0), we could find out the links that will generate at time t. The graph below is at time t-n. Link between B and D is an edge that generated in graph at time t above. By applying this strategy, we can get rid of the edges that won’t cause radical change of a network, and assign them as value 1.

Graph at time t-n(n>0)

What is radical change of a network? Basically, after removing a link, the network has no isolated node or sub-network. For example, CD cannot be removed because that will cause two sub-networks. Similarly, AC cannot be removed as node A will be isolated.

two sub-networks

Now we know the concept to assign our target variable. We need to find out and assign those unconnected nodes to value 0. It is used to represent whether pairs of vertices are adjacent in the graph. The graph below is an example of adjacency matrix. If AB is connected, the value of AB in adjacency matrix is value 1. Otherwise the value is 0. To calculate the unconnected nodes, we can easily calculate the nodes that do not connect to node A, in other words, the value 0 in first column. Then we can remove node A (first column and row), and record value 0 in the first column of the new matrix, which are the unconnected nodes to node B.

After going through the whole matrix, we get 13,023 pairs of unconnected nodes in our network. They are the value 0 for our target variable. Next, we need to find out target value 1. As what we discussed above, the number of connected components and number of nodes must keep the same to identify if an edge is removable. Our initial number of components is 410 and number of nodes is 1,991. By applying these two conditions, we found 485 edges that can be removed, and they are all assigned to value 1. So far we have node pairs that represent edges and value 1 or 0 that present if they are removable.
BigEarthNet Benchmark Archive Now Available on Radiant MLHub, the Open Repository for Geospatial Training Data
By: Radiant Earth Foundation
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation, Training Data

BigEarthNet Benchmark Archive Now Available on Radiant MLHub, the Open Repository for Geospatial Training Data

BigEarthNet is a new large-scale benchmark geospatial training data consisting of multi-label land cover classes in ten European countries.

Radiant Earth Foundation, the leader in enabling access to geospatial training data, is pleased to announce the availability of the BigEarthNet large-scale benchmark archive through Radiant MLHub, the world’s first open library dedicated to Earth observation (EO) training data.

The BigEarthNet archive consists of 590, 326 Sentinel-2 image patches with spectral bands at 10, 20, and 60-meter resolution. The satellite images were acquired in different seasons between June 2017 and May 2018 over Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Kosovo, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Serbia, and Switzerland. Each patch is annotated with multiple land cover labels documenting the spatial distribution of every land cover class across the dataset region. The majority of image patches contain at most five labels, including continuous urban fabric, green urban areas, mixed forests, discontinuous urban fabric, non-irrigated arable land, among 43 other classes from the 2018 CORINE Land Cover (CLC) inventory.

The BigEarthNet archive is significantly larger than any existing public training dataset and opens up promising opportunities to advance research for the analysis of large-scale geospatial image archives. The Remote Sensing Image Analysis (RSiM) Group and the Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) Group at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) constructed the BigEarthNet archive. This work is supported by the European Research Council under the ERC Starting Grant BigEarth and by the German Ministry for Education and Research as Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC).

The addition of BigEarthNet to Radiant MLHub data supports the community’s vision of creating a global repository of geospatial training data that can be leveraged to solve real world problems. Radiant MLHub is a cloud-based interoperable solution for registering and accessing geospatial training data. Shared data are accessible via a standardized API, and can, therefore, move across organizations, governments, and sectors to unlock new opportunities for data-based insights. By cataloging the BigEarthNet dataset in the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification, Radiant MLHub enables the search and filtering of the training data based on geographic region, land cover labels, cloud and cloud shadow presence, as well as a variety of other properties.

For more information on how to gain access to the data, download this how-to-guide, follow this tutorial notebook, and sign up for your API access.
Newsletter 44: Where’s my screwdriver? You mean OUR screwdriver?
By: Edith Zimmerman
Tags: Mothers Day, Comics, Spiralbound

Hello, and welcome again to the Spiralbound newsletter! This is where we link to the stories we published recently. We had some good mom content this week, in case that’s what you’re hungry for, and we had some great non-mom content, too. See if anything catches your eye!

Mom Guilt, by Anna Moriarty Lev
WebGoat Admin password reset Challenge
Tags: Infosec, Challenge, Ctf Writeup, Webgoat, Solutions

WebGoat Admin password reset Challenge

This challenge is basically a “suggestion” to make use of source code, when available, to get as much information as possible

First of all send yourself a mail on WebWolf to get the reset link structure, put <username>@<anydomain> and press “Reset Password”

Reset password mail

Check the mail in WebWolf, the reset link is in the mail and it looks like this

/WebGoat/challenge/7/reset-password/<HASH_VALUE>

We have to find the correct <HASH_VALUE> to reset the admin password

You can either

search for WebGoat GitHub

use java decompiler GUI — http://java-decompiler.github.io/ — to check the souce of your webgoat.jar file in your webgoat server install

go to /WebGoat/challenge/7/.git unzip and check the objects in the downloaded git repository

Eventually you will come to check the source code of WebGoat/webgoat-lessons/challenge/src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat/challenges/SolutionConstants.java or SolutionConstants.class

https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/tree/develop/webgoat-lessons/challenge/src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat/challenges

Inside you will find the ADMIN_PASSWORD_LINK static value used in WebGoat/webgoat-lessons/challenge/src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat/challenges/challenge7/Assignment7.java or Assignment7.class

https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/tree/develop/webgoat-lessons/challenge/src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat/challenges/challenge7

That is the hash we were looking for

Then browse to /WebGoat/challenge/7/reset-password/<ADMIN_PASSWORD_LINK> and you will be given the flag

This concludes WebGoat Admin password reset Challenge

I hope you liked it.

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Delicious Bradley #24: Treasure Hunter
By: Adam Ellis
Tags: Humor, Food, Comic, Fun, Art

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Mixin Network Monthly Report — July 2020
By: Liang Jingxuan
Tags: Monthly Report, Mixinnetwork

07–01–2020 ~ 07–31–2020

Mixin Main Network

•The MainNet has been running for 519 days at the height of 29,832,483

•Three new nodes were successfully added to the MainNet this month, and now there are 34 nodes in stable operation

•Mixin’s top 100 assets, excluding BOX and XIN, are worth $97 million

•The Network has 1,346 assets in total

Current Assets Statistics

•BOX breakthrough $40 million

The above data were collected at around 15:20 p.m. on July 31, 2020（UTC/GMT+08:00）.

Mixin Dapps

Mixin Messenger

•End-to-end multiplayer voice has been developed and will be launched soon

•Optimize report reminder

•The desktop supports automatic download settings and storage space cleaning, and various details are optimized

FoxONE

•Elite wallet optimization, adding “Buy/Sell page” and “Homepage asset optimization”

•Large group service officially provides services to the outside world, and many KOLs have placed orders

•Fox.ONE App account system and membership system planning

•“氢定投，Mixin ID 7000102362” welfare activities, BOX fixed investment practice group permanent invitation code activity

ExinONE

•“Faucet” supports Vipshop shopping rebate BTC

•ExinOne current treasure adds PRS wealth management

•ExinOne launched a new asset module and supports manual import

•ExinOne upgrade multiple page design

Poolin

•Launch one-click coin selling and non-freezing card

•Wealth management products add filtering function

•Receipt support to display the number of confirmations

•Receiving address added remarks display

•Optimize the transfer process

Bigone

•The official BigONE bot （ID:7000103492 ）is officially launched. Assets can be transferred between BigONE and Mixin Messenger. The account will arrive in seconds with zero handling fees.

•Support CANDYBOX withdrawal

Others

•07–03–2020

Mr.Li(Xiao Lai Li)subscribed for a one-time purchase of 520,000 BOX, worth 5 million RMB

•07–05–2020

Support BCH, BSV, LTC deposit 0 confirm display

•07–27–2020

Complete optimization of multi-core parallel operation of MainNet nodeshttps://github.com/MixinNetwork/mixin/pull/53/commits

•07–31–2020

Support DOGE, ETH deposit 0 confirm display
Coworking Space for Orthodox Jews Opens in Bnei Brak, Israel
Tags: Ethics, Israel, Coworking, Orthodox Judaism, Jef

It’s called Ampersand the first ultra-Orthodox coworking space in Israel, which is set to open soon in Bnei Brak, the ultra-Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv.

Ampersand was established by KamaTech, a nonprofit organization with the goal to integrate Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population into its technology industry. This new coworking space is supported by Cisco and mentored by WeWork.

Also, Ampersand is backed by some private investors. Among them, Mobileye cofounder Amnon Shashua and Magma Venture Partners general partner Zvi Limon,

Ampersand founder is KamaTech CEO Moshe Friedman. Friedman said the name Ampersand was chosen to stress the desire to connect ultra-Orthodox entrepreneurs with the Israeli Tech sector, as reported by CTech.

Ampersand will be managed by an ultra-Orthodox team, it will have a strictly kosher kitchen and will be run in accordance with the Jewish calendar. The coworking place has even a synagog on site. It will be an ultra-Orthodox friendly environment but it won’t feel like a yeshiva so that non-Orthodox people will feel comfortable.

Ampersand will also offer workshops and mentorship programs.

According to a study published in August 2017 by the Israeli Ministry of Finance, ultra-Orthodox Jews make up around 10% of the population and only 0.7% of the tech sector.
Spokkz Empowers Content Creators with Blockchain Tokenised Crowdfunding
Tags: Entertainment, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Media

An engaged media watching audience

Imagine creating an entire twenty-episode TV series but having dismal viewership. Furthermore, an even worse scenario is to face your hard work getting lost in today’s saturated content shuffle and never finding its way to an audience. With other streaming platforms set to release a whopping count of 700 original shows in 2018 alone, filmmakers must now fight tooth and nail to reel in committed viewers and a stable paycheck.

Enter Spokkz, Spuul’s attempt to protect its filmmakers by securing them a committed audience and a stable profit flow. By introducing Spokkz, an ICO, to its content streaming platform, Spuul is forging a close collaboration between content creators and their audience. Content creators will be pre-funded by SPKZ tokens; they can focus on producing their best hits with a peace of mind while having a committed audience awaiting their releases.

Content creators working with Spokkz will enjoy the security of tokenised pre-funding, viewership profits and an appreciative audience to support their finished works — just about everything a creator could possibly dream of.

To find out more about how Spokkz protects its content creators, follow its social media sites:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpokkzOfficial

Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/Spokkz

Telegram: https://t.me/SpokkzOfficial

Bitcoin Talk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4480708

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtrnwbeAUwNDzTcilDWCBQ
Hinduism and Buddhism — Similarities and Differences in Belief and Practice
By: Kahli Bree Adams
Tags: Philosophy, Spirituality, Buddhism, Hinduism, Religion

Photo by Yann Lerjen on Unsplash

Soul

A major difference between Hinduism and Buddhism is the belief, or lack of belief, in a soul. Hinduism believes in the concept of a soul. Depending on the particular Hindu school investigated, this is either an individual soul or self called atman, or a universal soul or cosmic spirit known as Brahman. In Hinduism, the soul is considered permanent and it is believed that the same soul is reincarnated time and time again, but merely in a different form as a different living being. This cycle is said to continue until through the practice of Hindu yoga, the individual realises that the soul is Brahman. This realisation releases the soul from the cycle of samsara, and moksha is attained.

In Buddhism, on the other hand, there is no belief in the concept of soul. On the contrary, the Buddha rejected the concept of soul or atman. Buddhists believe that there is no self or soul that is reincarnated. Rather, the energy of impermanence and our consciousness is reborn and dies again in the cycle of samsara. In the Buddhist religion, liberation from samsara is attained through acceptance of the Four Noble Truths and by following the Eightfold Path. It is necessary to fully know and see the reality of the human condition and understand that there is no soul in order to overcome the attachment and craving arising from impermanence, and thus reach nirvana and achieve the cessation of suffering. Arising from this different understanding is also a terminological difference in both religions, namely that in Hinduism we speak of ‘reincarnation’, whereas in Buddhism we instead refer to ‘rebirth’.
Beginning and Ending
By: Kathy Jacobs
Tags: Poetry, Beginning, Advent, One Line Poetry Prompt, Ending

Beginning and Ending

Chalkboard one line poem prompt for Dec. 9 2020: Advent

Image by the author

The advent of happiness, hope

The end of sadness, despair

Creeping upon me

Two sides of a coin

Or two halves of a whole?

Your Turn —

THEME: Advent

Share your own one-line poem (16 to 30 words) or a Chalkboard Espresso (1 to 15 words) on the theme. Tag your piece in response to this post piece and tag your piece “One Line” or “Chalkboard Espresso” as appropriate. If you have a stand-alone poem, be sure to leave a link in the response section below.

Thanks to my cohost Harper Thorpe and the entire Chalkboard team for their relentless work.

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“I want you to be wet and throbbing in my mouth,” he texted.
By: Sherry Mcguinn
Tags: Relationships, Sex, Sexual Attraction, Truth, Sexting

“I want you to be wet and throbbing in my mouth,” he texted. Yowzer. I was tingling. He’d made similar professions before, but this was the hottest.

I let the thought marinate, and boy did it ever! Right where I “live,” so to speak. And not for the first time, I pondered the mystery of “mental attraction.” One that is cerebral as opposed to the kick to the groin we get when another person physically turns us on.

Has this happened to you? A sensual connection to someone because of their singular way of expressing themselves? And then, when you actually see them in the flesh, it’s more of a “What was I thinking?” scenario? Admittedly, it’s disarming, but it reminds us to look beyond the physical to the spirit within.

That one sentence was probably the sexiest utterance anyone has said to me. How about you? C’mon. Share.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Humor, Friday, Cartoon, Comics, Illustration

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

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Not Enough Time
By: Jason Mcbride
Tags: Time Travel, Fiction, Haiku, Poetry, Weird

Poet’s Note

I have written more haiku about time travel than any normal person would ever dream of. Of course, I passed that mark the moment I wrote my first-time travel haiku.

Time is an obsession of mine. It’s our true currency — and it’s the ultimate scarce resource. I believe that being on time for things is a way to show respect for other people. I don’t tolerate meetings that go over time. I get up and walk out. My time is too valuable to allow anyone to waste.

One of the best uses of time is laying out under the stars with someone you love and pondering the mysteries of the Universe. Another great way to spend time is eating ice cream outside on a sweltery summer day.
Something Fishy
By: Victor Sarkin
Tags: Haiku, Writing Challenge, Archived Prompts, Poetry, Giabprompt

‘Genius in a Bottle’ Prompted Writing Challenge

Something Fishy

GiaB writing prompt #9

Photo by solarseven on Shutterstock

“Thirsty for our blood”,

‘sadist’ sharks stalk the seas. Shame,

they’re misunderstood.

The blue world, which gave rise to the green one, is the origin of life itself. It birthed the land we have colonised. Our origins trace back to those life forms, so perfect in their design, that they have not required much in the way of evolution since our appearance. A multitude of beings, alien to us, in a flurry of chaotic life, operate the big blue yonder that is our seas and oceans.

The Challenge

We invite any writers to produce a piece of poetry, fiction or non-fiction on the topic of Marine Life.

The Guidelines

We cannot publish pieces or reward writers who self publish or publish at another publication, so those pieces have to remain external to the challenge. Only pieces submitted to Genius in a Bottle will be considered for the challenge. If inviting other writers from outside the publication, please ensure they are aware of this.

Poetry is to be limited to 30 lines but can be in any style.

Fiction and non-fiction submissions are to be capped at 750 words.

Please refer to the prompt in the subtitle. Feel free to copy this as a template: GiaB prompt # [insert prompt number and theme here].

When submitting, please ensure that one of the 5 tags is GiaBprompt.

Please ensure a second tag is Poetry, fiction, or non-fiction, as appropriate.

We would like to become exposed to writers and pieces that you have enjoyed in all of Medium. Please tag up to ten writers whose pieces you have enjoyed recently, or who you feel may enjoy participating in this challenge.

For further information pertaining to the challenge, please refer to the rules and guidelines.

And away we go. We look forward to enjoying the paradise of the written word with you all.

Victor Sarkin and Chirag
Adding Web Support for Flutter Apps
By: Yukta Gopalani
Tags: Website, Github Pages, Web App Development, Flutter

Prerequisites for the Blog

Having a basic understanding of the Workflow of making Flutter Apps & an inquisitive mind is more than enough to follow the blog 😃

Getting Started

Let us configure our system in order to create a flutter project with Web Support.

Requirements:

Flutter SDK. Check out this link for Flutter SDK: https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install Google Chrome Browser in order to test and debug the Web App. An I.D.E. that supports Flutter. Android Studio, Visual Studio Code are my recommendations. Check out this link for I.D.E.: https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/editor

I would be using Android Studio as an I.D.E.

Creating a new Flutter Project with web support:

1. Open the Android Studio and create a new Flutter project as follows:

Click on start a new Flutter project

Flutter Application

Give Project name of your choice

2. Now open up the Terminal Window on Android Studio and write the following commands one by one:

flutter channel beta

flutter upgrade

flutter config --enable-web

Terminal Window in Android Studio

Wait till the process is complete and Dart SDK is configured. At the end the Terminal window would look something like this:

To see if the Process completed successfully, type in the following command on the Terminal Window:

flutter devices

It would display Chrome as a device where you can Debug your App. Phew! You have successfully configured your SDK. Now just restart the I.D.E.(Android Studio) to work further. After restarting, just type in the following command to run you Flutter Demo App by the Flutter Team on Chrome!

flutter run -d chrome

Google Chrome is listed as a device now

After the Command Completion your first flutter Web App will open up for debugging on Chrome:

Demo Web App in debug mode

Pretty Charming right? You have just run your Flutter App on the web. You can take advantage of Hot Reload by just pressing ‘R’ on the terminal to instantly see up your changes & to make your work fast/efficient.

Now let’s build your Flutter App for build Release.

Note: Flutter’s support for web development is not stable yet and hasn’t

been thoroughly tested in production environments. Hence, you may experience some troubles when you use some external plugins in your Flutter Project.

Type in the following command to include the web files in Flutter Project:

flutter create .

flutter create . (It creates Web Files in Flutter Root Project)
Robinhood to the rescue
By: Blair Marshall
Tags: Robinhood, Mining, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Newsletter

Robinhood to the rescue

Issue: 021

News:

The battle for cryptocurrency exchanges heats up this week as Robinhood brings much needed competition to the on/off ramp market between fiat and cryptocurrencies. The company is adding a zero fee trading and tracking platform to customers as people look for alternatives. While unavoidable for an industry that has seen meteoric growth over the past 12 months, the issues plaguing the cryptocurrency exchange market have begun to mount:

Buying and selling limits Verifying yourself or a business Trouble rolling out different tokens or not having access to airdrops and hardforks Slow and unresponsive customer service requests Manipulation Wiring and exchanging money between banks and cryptocurrency exchanges

The list goes on and on. Some of these are problems with exchange infrastructure, some are problems with the banking system and some are problems that will invite further government regulation. While decentralized exchanges will make it easier to trade between cryptocurrencies, the fiat to cryptocurrency exchange market needs help. Time will tell if Robinhood’s latest product will help solve some of these low-hanging fruit issues.
The Bialystoker Synagogue
By: Haytham Ad-Din, The Photographic Muslim
Tags: Judaism, History, Religion, Photography, Poland

The Jewish experience of Diaspora necessitated the creation of homes beyond the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael), locales often linked in multiplicity via communal migrations like those of the Bialystokers. The decimation of Jewish Białystok and the Synagogue’s communal shift represent the great fragility of community formed, then altered or even lost, and perhaps found again elsewhere in the future. The conditions of temporal life often prove tumultuous and this has been especially true for the Jewish people, but what those conditions can never erode or destroy are the great spiritual legacies that remain everlasting.
After The Pandemic, Who Will You Be? What will you do?
By: Anthony Fireman
Tags: Perspective, Wisdom, Learning, Who Are You, Covid 19

When the pandemic ends? Who will you be? What will your life be like? What will you bring with you? What will you leave behind? What will change and what will remain the same?

Will you still paint everyday to relieve the stress or because you have time but never realized it?

Will you be weary of urban centers or will you embrace them? Will you show downtown some post-panny love? Will you venture into new culinary destinations, ride public transportation, and go to that museum you always meant to see?

What will you do with your mask? Will you keep it in a drawer as a momento or will it be nothing more than trash? Will you make more of them for medical professionals, perhaps donate it to a memoriam project?

Will you shoot hoops in your driveway to be alone and out of the house? Will you attends games, either your child’s little league one or those God awful Dallas Cowboys?

Will you go back to a harried life overstuffed with work and social obligations? Will your family revert back to it’s place on your list of moment-to-moment priorities.

Will you make sure your kids get exercise? Will you overload your kids with activities or will you give them more afternoons to do what they please to learn about who they are?

Will competition count more than the moment? Will it matter if, during your daughter’s volleyball game, she fails the spike or will you see it as a privilege to be there? Will you berate her on the ride home or just sit and be present while she processes the loss?
ACT Distribution, a new Token and More
By: Varunraj Keskar
Tags: Exchange, Dai, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Listings

ACT Distribution, a new Token and More

What next?

Dear Community,

Today our ACT-INR trading competition came to an end at 4:00 PM. It was our very first trading competition and we are overwhelmed with the love and support that our community has shown us.

You can check your rank on our website here.

ACT distribution

Here is the final leaderboard..

The top 500 present on the leader-board will receive their ACT reward by 30th May 12:00 AM

Here is what Prasenjeet Kashyap, Country Head of Achain, had to say about our competition!

We at Achain are really happy that we decided to associate with Coindelta. It’s really easy how comfortable and cooperative you guys are. The competition was very well carried out and fulfilled our expectations! Thanks for being awesome Coindelta team.

Moving on…

With the conclusion of the trading competition, we have something else for you to be excited about!

We are happy to announce that Coindelta is listing the decentralized stablecoin DAI !!

DAI — Price stabilized cryptocurrnecy

What is DAI?

Dai is type of a stablecoin based on the ERC20 blockchain. The concept of a stablecoin is fairly straight forward — it’s a token (like bitcoin and ether) that exists on a blockchain. But unlike bitcoin or ether, it has no volatility. The asset that Dai is trying to be stable relative to is the U.S. Dollar. So, to summarize, one Dai equals one dollar. Dai is set to be the first working consumer-grade stablecoin.

What is Maker?

Maker keeps Dai at $1 using a system of collateral and price feeds. This collateral is carefully managed by the MKR token holders.

Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain seeking to minimize the price volatility of its own stable token — the Dai — against the U.S. Dollar.

Maker​ ​is​ ​a​ ​smart​ ​contract​ ​platform​ ​on​ ​Ethereum​ ​that​ ​backs​ ​and​ ​stabilizes​ ​the​ ​value​ ​of​ ​Dai through​ ​a​ ​dynamic​ ​system​ ​of​ ​Collateralized​ ​Debt​ ​Positions​ ​(CDPs),​ ​autonomous​ ​feedback mechanisms,​ ​and​ ​appropriately​ ​incentivized​ ​external​ ​actors.

Maker​ ​enables​ ​anyone​ ​to​ ​leverage​ ​their​ ​Ethereum​ ​assets​ ​to​ ​generate​ ​DAI​ ​on​ ​the​ ​Maker Platform.​ ​Once​ ​generated,​ ​Dai​ ​can​ ​be​ ​used​ ​in​ ​the​ ​same​ ​manner​ ​as​ ​any​ ​other cryptocurrency:​ ​it​ ​can​ ​be​ ​freely​ ​sent​ ​to​ ​others,​ ​used​ ​as​ ​payments for​ ​goods​ ​and​ ​services,​ ​or held​ ​as​ ​long​ ​term​ ​savings.​ ​Importantly,​ ​the​ ​generation​ ​of​ ​Dai​ ​also​ ​creates​ ​the​ ​components needed​ ​for​ ​a​ ​robust​ ​decentralized​ ​margin​ ​trading​ ​platform.

Launch Date and Time

Deposits will go live at : 30th May 12:30 AM

Trading will begin at : 30th May 10:00 AM

That is all for now!

Stay tuned for more announcements!

Coindelta Website

Coindelta Twitter

Coindelta Telegram Group

Coindelta Announcements

With love for the Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies,

Coindelta Family
Tennis Data Storytelling Challenge
By: Nikita Taparia
Tags: Write For Us, Patterns Of Play, Data Visualization, Call For Submissions, Tennis

It is a brand new year and we are excited to present the first tennis data storytelling challenge! This was originally a competition due August 15th, and there were ~40 people signed up but no one submitted an article. Therefore, I will now open this up as a “prompt request.”

The Challenge

Click the image for the challenge.

The Data

All the data from Tennis Abstract is openly available on GitHub. As more fans contribute to the Match Charting Project, more data is available. There are currently over 1500 matches with full detail. Unfortunately, most detailed tennis data is under lock and key so if you need more data, then the best way to get it is to chart your own match and contribute.
Demo Video: impactChoice Climate Credit Issuing & Tracking Exchange
By: Allan Saunders
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Climate Change

In this video, Peter Newell, impactChoice’s Director of Finance & Operations, demonstrates a practical use case of the CITEX (Climate Credit Issuing & Tracking Exchange). CITEX operates on a private permissioned blockchain and operates in much the same manner as the soon to be launched Natural Asset Exchange (NAE) which will be part of the EARTH Token project.

Demonstration of CITEX (Climate Credit Issuing & Tracking Exchange)

The NAE will however be based on a public permissioned blockchain platform that will enable certiﬁed Natural Capital Asset project developers to list their products (e.g. carbon credits, REC’s, metered output, etc.), on a unique Blockchain & Smart Contract platform, specifically designed for the Natural Asset trading market, at no cost.

In this demonstration, Peter shows us how a demand-side client interacts with the CITEX blockchain through a client Wallet Dashboard. In particular, he walks us through a typical Climate Credit transaction made by a Hotel Verde. The transaction occurs at the point in time when a guest of the hotel pays for their room stay. The guest is issued with a Climate Credit Certificate with a transaction ID that is recorded into the CITEX blockchain. Peter then goes on to show us what the certificate looks like, and walks through some of the other functionality of the client wallet, such as checking the history of prior transactions and certificates issued.

You will see the details of the transaction including the Blockhash, the Blocktime, the validity of the transaction along with other quantitative details of the transaction that are recorded on the blockchain and distributed through all the nodes on the network. The wallet also displays the identifying information of the supplier of the carbon asset, along with the issuing authority. From within the wallet, users are also able to access social media templates to assist them in publicly sharing the details of the transaction.
I Wasn’t Born in the Wrong Body
Tags: Self, Creative Non Fiction, LGBTQ, Culture, Transgender

Transitioning is weird. As I’ve come to understand it over the last several months, transitioning, means something different to every individual.

There are four different types of gender-related transitions that I can confidently name: social transitions that may involve a name or pronoun change, physical transitions that may involve an alteration in presentation, medical transitions that may involve surgeries or hormone replacement therapy, and identity transitions that may involve a transformation in the way one views themself.

I’m likely forgetting at least one form of transition. All of this is coming out of the transitions I have personally witnessed or experienced firsthand and out of the books I’ve read (Sorted by Jackson Bird, Whipping Girl by Julia Serano, and Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov and A. Scott Duane for starters).

In the past year, I have dipped my toe into each of the four pools: I have legally changed my first and last names and my pronouns, dramatically altered my daily presentation, had top surgery, been on T for five and a half months, and have come to view myself as genderful and gender-expansive instead of nonbinary (or as cis for that matter).

With the variety of changes I have initiated and undergone, there is one piece of traditional transitional lingo that has stood out to me against the general backdrop of holding a trans identity: the thought of having been “born in the wrong body.”