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Dancing With Strangers
Tags: Chance Encounters, Birthday, Perfect Stranger, Dance, Serendipity

I wanted to start it on the dance floor. I don’t know why, I just did.

I wanted to start it twirling, and yes, tripping over my own feet trying to find the beat.

I wanted loud music and dim lights; to move in tune with something other than the racket in my mind.

I didn’t care that it fell on a Tuesday. I didn’t care that it might rain. I didn’t care that we were no longer teenagers and had to work the next day.

But the day neared and no-one signed up for it… My invitations didn’t find a single yes. Instead, I received carefully packaged excuses, long-winded reasons wrapped in blushing reds, and friendly suggestions that made more sense for semi-functional adults like ourselves.

“I can do Thursday, it’s a date!”

“I’m free Friday, let’s talk then.”

“I’d love to swing by on Saturday and celebrate.”

I contemplate the notion of going by myself. Is it sad or is it brave?

You never know until you try, I head out with a cautiously optimistic stride. It’s awkward at first, I don’t really know what to do with myself. I assume it’ll be better when the band starts to play.

I put away my phone and join the line at the bar. I’m casually looking around, when I feel a pair of arms wrap around me tight.

“Camiiii!” my hugger exclaims.

“I’m not Cami,” I start to say, but before I manage to fully form the words, she turns me so that she’s looking right at me, and I’m looking at her: this perfect stranger.

She squints her eyes, cocks her head and realizes her mistake: “Oh wait! Sorry! I thought you were someone else.”

This happens several times. I start to wonder if there’s a hidden camera.

If I’m crazy.

If they’re crazy.

If this is the year, I finally meet my doppelgänger or secret twin. So many childhood books had secret twins. But I never see her. The elusive Cami never appears.

The people who hugged me, now see me and tipsily smile, drunkenly wave and introduce me to the rest of their friends “this is not Cami!” they proclaim.

The band plays and I dance with Cami’s friends.

On this day that I expected to feel a little lonely, I didn’t feel lonely at all. The universe magnanimously gifted me hugs from random dancing strangers and not-Cami had an unexpectedly fun birthday.
Nodes In Blockchain
By: Eugene Cofie
Tags: Videos, Articles, Blockchain, Bitcoin

Here’s how nodes interact in Blockchain networks

This video is a quick beginner lesson on how nodes interact within a blockchain network. For a beginner, it is key to understand what actually happens when they join the blockchain. Watch here:
U.S. POLITICS | THE SENATE | GEORGIA SENATORIAL RUNOFFS JANUARY, 2021
By: Alex
Tags: Politics, US Politics, Biden, Elections, Election 2020

In both Congresses in his second term, Barack Obama was saddled with Republican control of at least one house of Congress.

In the Congress in his second term’s first half (Jan. 2013–Jan. 2015), the 113th Congress,

● Democrats held the Senate (Dem. 53, Ind. 2, Repub. 45), but

● Republicans controlled the House (Dem. 201, Repub. 234).

In the Congress in the second half (Jan. 2015-Jan. 2017), the 114th Congress, Republicans controlled both chambers:

● the Senate (Dem. 44, Ind. 2, Repub. 54), and

● the House (Dem. 187, Repub. 246, Vacant 2).

Throughout his second term, Republicans denied President Obama any major legislative achievement despite its merit. They saw that as their path to a post-Obama return to power. See, e.g., The Victory of No | Politico (4 Dec. 2016, accessed 2020.11.16) and McConnell’s plan to halt Obama | Politico (20 Aug. 2014, accessed 2020.11.16).

If given a Senate majority again, Mitch McConnell will do precisely the same thing.

If you are a Georgia voting-eligible person who supports Biden, go to the polls in January. Vote for Warnock. If you don’t, you risk burdening the country with precisely that against which you voted when you voted for Biden.
Democratizing Your Favourite Films with Spokkz — Spuul’s Tokenised OTT Content Streaming Platform
Tags: Entertainment, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Many media types are available on Spuul & Spokkz

Spuul is often likened to the Netflix of Bollywood — both Spuul and Netflix are over-the-top (OTT) content-streaming platforms. However, Spuul has made a bold move that is one step ahead of its kind. With its newest platform, “Spokkz”, Spuul is bringing blockchain into the content-streaming world, tokenising payment and doing away with conventional subscription plans.

Viewers no longer have to pay monthly subscription fees. With Spokkz, you can crowdfund and pay to watch content via Spokkz tokens and receive bonus rewards when your chosen content performs well. You also get rewarded SPKZ tokens for sharing your favourite content with other community members. It is comparable to “cashback” for watching and supporting videos.

Spokkz is Spuul’s endeavor to cultivate a more engaging community of creators and consumers by turning the passive, often solo, activity of watching videos into a fulfilling and collaborative partnership.

To have a stake in this close-knit community, follow Spokkz on its social media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpokkzOfficial

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

Medium: https://medium.com/spokkz

Telegram: https://t.me/SpokkzOfficial

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

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtrnwbeAUwNDzTcilDWCBQ
Part-1 Data Science Methodology- From Problem to Approach
By: Ashish Patel
Tags: Machine Learning, Datasciencemethodology, Data Science, Methodology, Data Scientist

Did that happen to you? Your boss invited you to a meeting in which you were informed about an important task that you should absolutely respect within a very short period of time. They both come and go to make sure all aspects of the task have been taken into account and that the meeting ends with both assurances that things are on the right track. Later in the afternoon, after spending some time investigating the various issues, he realizes that he needs to ask several more questions to truly accomplish his task.

Unfortunately, the boss is not available until tomorrow morning. Now, with the tight deadline in his ears, he begins to feel a sense of excitement. So what are you doing? Do you take the risk or stop to ask for clarification?
The Ocean Heals
By: Emily Smith
Tags: Inspiration, Spirituality, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets, Self Improvement

A poem

Photo by Ameen Fahmy on Unsplash

Sun, sand, serenity

The ocean is a mystery

It’s too vast to even comprehend fully

Yet there’s no denying it exists

That to me is the reason why the ocean is like spirituality

An undeniable truth; it’s here to inspire us, cleanse us,

Revive us. For eternity

A cleansing vessel, we can never wrap our minds around

A meeting of two worlds: the land and the sea

The beach is a spiritual ground

Like our physicality when it meets our spirituality

Abundant energy that we can always turn to

Whether we are in pain or joy, it supports us fully

The ocean heals
Fuse
By: Tom Thomasson
Tags: Limerick, Poetry, Humor, Inspiration

There was a young man with a short fuse

Who was constantly chasing his muse

She said it’s curious

That he grew so furious

Which just helped to blow his fuse
How to empower an e-commerce website
By: Shyamali De Silva
Tags: E Commerce Website Design, User Research, User Interface, User Experience, E Commerce Business

How to empower an e-commerce website

Key elements that are vital when it comes to designing a website.

Photo Credits Pexels

E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. E-commerce is in turn driven by the technological advances of the semiconductor industry, and is the largest sector of the electronics industry. Copied — Wikipedia

When it comes to designing a website, the number of challenges that we face are uncountable. As a designer, it’s a challenge to cherry-pick the options that come to our mind and evaluate the most suitable designing element that would look good on the website. Following a design process will help to understand the basics. At the end of the day, it’s all about the customer’s experience and the journey, that they will remember.

The two key elements that are vital when it comes to designing a website or any application design would be,

Know who will use your website.

will use your website. Know why they will use your website.

Know your target market segment

Getting to know about the audience is really important because it will make the designer understand user requirements and the best way to approach them. When your audience is specific it helps a lot in the market research to identify and determine who your audience really is. As designers, we should always design with your audience in mind.

How to do a User Research

There are an endless number of elements of design that determine our ability to sell to our audience. First from that lineup would be,

Balance

In symmetrical balance, the visual weight is distributed evenly and it’s very pleasing to the eye as well. A balanced design feels right, stable, and aesthetically pleasing. Balancing a formation comes with both positive elements and negative space usage. Handling positive and negative space equally makes the design balance perfectly.
The Jewels
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Poetry, Blue Insights, Haiku, Jewels, Children

Medical writer who prefers to read and write fiction and some nonfiction, though the latter may appear at times as the former. patrickmohana.wordpress.com

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Botox for the Heart
By: Jenine Bsharah Baines
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Empathy, Poetry On Medium, Love

Botox for the Heart

On love

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay

Let’s Botox our hearts –

allowing needles of pain

to smooth crevasses

dug by digging in,

further hollowed by misconception.

Toxins repurposed to pierce

brambles and gnarled bark

we’ve cultivated

to obscure the other’s view,

muscle resisting

the soul’s dare and dream.

Peer beyond the sting,

the lines drawn by time,

overexposure to angry elements —

essential ozone of compassion destroyed

but capable of repair.

Empathize. Receive.

©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2020

Guess where I was when this poem came to me? Hint: in my doctor’s office. Second hint: in a chair Third hint: feeling a needle plunge into my forehead

Thank you, J.D. Harms and the team at Scrittura, for offering this admittedly vain old lady a home for her thoughts. Thank you, dearest readers, for journeying with me.
Featured channel: Apex Academy
Tags: Salesforce, Developer, Software Development

With all of the excitement that surrounds TrailheaDX, it’s a great time to sharpen your Salesforce skills! David Liu, our resident Salesforce expert and author, created a Pluralsight channel that offers everything you need to learn Salesforce’s Apex programming language. His channel, Apex Academy, is perfect for beginners and also those looking to pass the Platform Developer certifications.

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Channels give Pluralsight learners a focused, organized way to grow skills. With the ability to create, follow and share channels, accomplishing goals becomes easier and more customizable.

*If you don’t have a subscription to our platform, you won’t be able to see all the courses on this channel, but here’s a taste of what you’ll get:

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“Four Children at Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY” by Dawoud Bey: November Collection Highlight
By: High Museum Of Art
Tags: Art, Artwork, Photography, Museums, Culture

Since the beginning of his career in the 1970s, Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953) has used his camera to create poignant meditations on visibility, race, place, and American history.

Dawoud Bey. Photo credit: Sean Kelly Gallery

The exhibition Dawoud Bey: An American Project, on view now at the High Museum of Art, traces these through lines across the forty-five years of Bey’s career and his profound engagement with the young Black subject and African American history.

In the short film above, Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellows, Kayla Gaskin (Emory University, Class of 2020) and Taylor Roberts (Oglethorpe University, Class of 2021) discuss Bey’s Four Children at Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY.

Their conversation also addresses the influence of photographer James Van Der Zee and his photographs of stylish, sophisticated Harlemites during the Harlem Renaissance.
Coping
By: Kern Carter
Tags: Poetry, Fear, Friendship, Pain, Anxiety

Photo by Igor Miske

It frightens me how easily I can find pain.

How easily I can suck it up through my nostrils, hold it, feel it, then slowly let it dissolve deep into my bones where I forget it exists.

That makes me strong. Strong for you. And you.

Any acknowledgment is a betrayal.

I’m built to withstand 3 am phone calls with friends crying on the other line.

They depend on this strength.

I depend on their needs.

How is it possible that nothing is ever wrong with me?

No relationship too precious.

No rejection too personal.

No vision too absurd.

I don’t even know how to feel anymore. Except guilt, beside frustration, next to fear.

When I was ten you told me it would never be enough.

Now here we are.
REMIIT Airdrop Campaign
By: Team Remiit
Tags: Bitcoin, Ethereum, ICO, Remittance, Blockchain

Welcome to the Remiit ICO, Decentralized Remittance & Payment Platform

Our Airdrop is Live!! To participate https://t.me/remiitAirdropBot

Join Telegram | Follow us on Twitter | Invite your friends

Earn up to 500 REMI

💥 1 REMI =0.01 $ 💥

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About Us

The money transfer and payment sector is not as friendly or open to the current adoption of decentralization and P2P interactions. However this area of services are the most crucial aspects that should be adopted by the blockchain. Through the blockchain and smart contract technologies, REMIIT will ensure to be the benchmark of blockchain adoption where the blockchain can be used for actual business services working with pre-existing Money Transfer and Payment Providers.

Group Rules

- Focus discussions on Remiit

- No promotional posts

- Don’t post about other ICOs

- Deliver value to the discussion

- Be respectful to others
Dear Dad, I was too naïve…
By: Robin Cru El
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Love, Self, Parenting

“child and parent hands photography” by Liane Metzler on Unsplash

The constant bickering of,

How I wished we have more to start with.

Complaining at every attempt you provided,

I never thanked you for the roof,

You helped build,

Of What kept us guarded.

I recall,

Every moment of rejection,

Looking for affirmation,

Wondering what I’d done wrong to have been so misguided.

Misunderstanding every notion of love,

For hatred and confusion.

Nagging at you,

For not providing enough,

Never showing an ounce of appreciation.

When mum was away,

You didn’t complain,

Instead made sure we weren’t disheartened.

Hiding away your pain,

To fill our stomach,

With your best effort at cooking.

Never reminding us,

Hiding from us,

That most nights you went to bed,

With yours empty.

The nights that we couldn’t keep,

The air-conditioning running,

You stayed up to make sure we slept with comfort.

As I complained of the flavour of the food,

You kept a smile on your face,

Never letting up hope,

Reminding me that this wasn’t the end.

I was too naïve to notice,

The night I slept comfortably,

You’d stayed up fighting off the cockroaches,

In the apartment.

Now that I look back,

Discovering just how much you’d given up,

Never once letting a younger version of me,

To take notice.

I still wouldn’t know,

How you put up with,

All my failures,

Never once giving up,

The hope you held.

Never once complaining,

Reminding me,

Of all that you’d given up,

To fulfil your duty as a parent.
Is Your State Ready to Accommodate Women Veterans Who Are Homeless?
By: Lily Casura
Tags: Women Veterans, Veterans, Homelessness, Housing, Homeless

A few years ago when I first started delving into this issue, I came across a list of VA’s Grant and Per Diem capacity in each state. I ended up mapping it against the number of women veterans in each state, only to realize how poorly most states seemed to have prepared to house women veterans, with or without their children.

Then as now, Texas, Florida, California, Virginia and Georgia are the top five states by population for women veterans. (Virginia and Georgia also make the top five list for women veterans as a percentage of all the veterans in their states, too.) But as you can see from the above illustration, four of the five key states seem to have very limited capacity to serve women veterans — only California seems like it’s making a solid effort. (You can see the interactive data visualization here.)

Another barrier for women veterans who are at risk for or experiencing homelessness is their truly low visibility as homeless veterans. When America thinks of its warriors, unfortunately it often defaults to thinking of Hollywood portrayals, and this lack of recognition works against women veterans across the board — not just when they become homeless.

The contrast between who America pictures a “homeless veteran” looks like, and who is the fastest-growing demographic in veteran homelessness today.

For years, when Americans are asked to picture “a homeless veteran,” virtually only one image comes to mind — a scruffy older white male, often Vietnam-era, frequently with chronic mental health or substance use issues, who sleeps outdoors and can be seen panhandling for spare change with a cardboard sign on city streets or at an intersection.

While that picture may at one point have been accurate, there are two problems with it now. One is that it continues to emphasize the most visible type of homelessness — chronic, long-term homelessness which is not the only kind of homelessness — and secondly, it excludes women veterans from the picture, including women veterans with children. To be a homeless veteran does not mean to be alone — part of the new face of veteran homelessness these days is to be a single mother with dependent children in tow.

Well-deserved kudos go to CBS television’s crime drama “NCIS,” whose episode “One Step Forward” in 2018 served as the first accurate portrayal of a woman veteran who was homeless on network television — and she was a single mother!
Dancing in the Dark
By: D Abboh
Tags: Poetry, Dance, Mindfulness, Light, Hope

There is Spring in our steps,

though life is not a choreographed dance —

it’s a dance all the same

we one two step to its rhythm

given half the chance,

outside beneath crescent moonlight —

blanketed by a starry sky

as the fear in peoples voices

echoes all around,

I unplug and retreat to the sanctuary of a memory,

returning to the Oceans waves crashing at my feet —

drowning out the noise until balance is found

who will we become — when this song fades out?

nothing is ever certain

apart from who we are right now,

so we keep stepping on beat as we twist and shout

trying to see in the dark,

navigating all the drama

like a lighthouse living — all seeing,

trying to take heed from once loose tongues —

now silenced by all the karma

we move, we dance

right through this maze,

truth is, it’s not just this one thing that has us tripping,

humans have been well versed —

and determined to misbehave

it’s all things apart from this viral craze —

criss-crossing the globe like the Mexican wave,

around the world and back again —

in less than eighty days

one hundred years from now —

what will the history books say?

The true stories — may never be told

in the meantime, we are here

like star bright lighthouses —

dancing in the dark
Life, in open plan
By: Zarina Dara
Tags: Work, One Line, Life, Time, Poetry

The clatter of the keyboards —

The chatter cooped within the kitchen nook —

The minutes unrecorded —

The hours I’ll never find —

The ticking of my worth

ㅤㅤtocked down

ㅤㅤin billable time.

© Zarina Dara 2019. All Rights Reserved
The Beginner’s Guide to Redis and Caching With Node.js
By: Juan Cruz Martinez
Tags: Programming, Web Development, API, JavaScript, Nodejs

Build the Node Application

Basic setup

Set up the initial boilerplate for the Node application like this.

Note how we use two additional packages named axios and redis . redis is the standard Redis client for Node. We use axios to retrieve data from an external API for this tutorial.

Before continuing, make sure to install those two packages using npm.

npm install axios redis --save

Retrieve data from the external API

We will be using the GitHub Jobs API to get data related to programming jobs available in different locations in the world.

You can pass a search term related to the job you are looking for to the API and retrieve an array of available jobs in JSON format. A sample request to the API looks like this.

POSTMAN — GitHub Jobs API results

In our Node application, we define a route named /jobs , which retrieves job data from the above API and send them back to the client.

Here we use axios to send a GET request to the GitHub Jobs API with the user-provided search term.

Let’s see how the route works now using Postman.

POSTMAN — Our API results

Caching the results

Now let’s see how we can improve the performance of the application by caching.

First we need to connect to the Redis server through our application. We use the installed Redis package for this task.

The Redis server listens on port 6379 by default. We pass the port number to connect to Redis and create a client.

Then implement the logic to store and retrieve data from the cache.

What’s going on here?

When we receive a client request to the /jobs route, first we get the search term sent with the request’s query parameters.

const searchTerm = req.query.search;

Then we try to retrieve the requested data from the cache by passing the search term, which we use as the key when storing data in the cache. Since the Redis package doesn’t have native support for promises, we have to pass a callback to process the retrieved data.

client.get(searchTerm, async (err, jobs) => {

if (err) throw err;

});

If the value returned from Redis is not null, it means the related data exists in the cache, so it’s easy to return that data in the response. Just make sure you cast back the string to JSON.

if (jobs) {

res.status(200).send({

jobs: JSON.parse(jobs),

message: "data retrieved from the cache"

});

}

If the returned value was null, we have to send a request to the external API to retrieve relevant data.

When we get the data from the API, before sending it back, we store it in Redis so that the next time the same request is sent to the Node server, it can respond with data stored in the cache instead of requesting them from the API.
Liar Liar
Tags: Faith, Fear, Liars, Prayer, Life Lessons

Unfortunate are those who lie to cope with the world. Cursed are those who lie without knowing.

Johny, Johny,

Yes, papa?

Eating sugar?

No papa.

Telling lies?

No papa.

Open your mouth

Hahaha!

This age-old nursery rhyme was our first reflection as children. In it, Johnny was caught eating sugar by his papa. Even after being caught, Johnny, like most of us denied his position. In the end, Johnny is laughing — but why? Is he laughing because he was not lying and proved himself right? Is he laughing because he swallowed the sugar before opening his mouth? Or is Johnny celebrating the fact that he got away with his lie even though he knew he was wrong? Each child read this rhyme differently, responding to their inner truths at that time.

Knowingly or unknowingly we all have been or are Johnny.

People who are habitual liars are manipulative, deceitful and fraudulent. They often wrongly identify themselves as tactful and sharp. Tact and sharpness are assets. They are tools that can take you very far in life — they cannot be nurtured through lies or a lying nature.

Lying is a sign of a fearful person, a faithless person. Unlike Johnny, liars do more than just eat sugar.

There are times when a white lie can do good — but those are rare instances where such a decision should be made to protect a weaker person’s integrity, dignity or safety. Even then these lies should no be told if they compromise on your values. The rules of life are simple.

There is a difference between falling in a circumstance where you have to lie and telling yourself that lying is okay. Lying is never okay, not in any circumstance whatsoever. Emergencies are exceptions, and exceptions are not the rule they prove the rule.

Photo by James Kemp on Unsplash

For those who habitually lie know the turbulence in their minds. They can’t help but twist every situation. Alternate timelines are playing in their minds the entire time and the moment they are put on the spot, they pick a timeline they like the most and turn away from reality. The swiftness of their response is what they misconstrue as sharpness. Although, every time they make this switch, they corrode their brains.

Liars lie because they are deeply unhappy with the projection of their selves. They cope and frustrate themselves in a loop. When you are constantly consuming the space in your mind to remember truths that never were, you are tiring yourself. The intent is inconsequential in this matter. Yes, they all might not lie to harm others, but they surely are lying to harm themselves. They are undoubtedly their own worst enemies. Their lack of control over the way their mind works makes them extremely unreliable.

When their mind keeps failing them even when they want to do good, they keep losing parts of themselves. The unhappiness, ungratefulness, thanklessness, and deep dissatisfaction eats them away from the inside. There is no escaping this spiral.

There is only one thing that can save such a mind, such a soul…

…Prayer.

Without it we are nothing. With it we have everything.
Introducing the Queen of the Dead Beach Town.
By: Lisa Martens
Tags: Beach, Short Story, Creative Writing, Fiction, Sex

Everyone is a slut for something. Those men would die to own the magic she had. But then, the game is over. That was why marriage was the death of a woman. Once a man has won, there’s no reason for him to try anymore. She learned that from all these married men. What she did—It wasn’t sex. It was a performance. It was all about not having her. It was about clothes, about a veil.

“When men honk at you, don’t smile and wave,” she said to her daughter when she got her first period. “They will crush you into dirt. You want a life like melted butter, and they want you stale. They want all the power. Don’t be nice to them. Being nice to people who would crush you is the first step in them crushing you.”

They always said she was seeing it all wrong. But she saw plenty of unhappy women in their marriages looking at her with envy, looking at her children with hate.

Why would anyone take advice from them? They hoped she would burn in hell so they could feel superior. They were counting on it. But they were taking a bigger risk than she was.

God wasn’t around, and men were right here where she could see them.
Pluralsight Continuous Play User Scripts
By: Jin Weijie
Tags: Pluralsight, JavaScript

By default, it will stop after each module when you studying on Pluralsight. If you want to save the mouse click to automatically view the next module. You can use the following methods.

Install Greasemonkey addon for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/ Install my user scripts: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/485571

Now when you reach each end of module, the next module will automatically play.
‘Axis’ for December 22, 2020
By: Thomas Whitfield
Tags: Axis, Women, Dating, Men, Comics

Artist, rockstar, recovering designer, and general all-around do-gooder; that’s me. Please add to this that I am intrepid, dogmatic, and fastidious.

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Horoscopes for Preschoolers
By: Elle Rogers
Tags: Self, Satire, Humor, Astrology, Parenting

Taurus

Your bullheadedness will land you in an epic number of time outs this week. Use each as an opportunity to add to the mural you’re secretly creating behind the drapes with pilfered permanent markers.

Gemini

You’ll miss out on snacktime when Teddy whacks you over the head with a toy firetruck, but don’t despair! He’ll get his comeuppance when Luci ardently declares that your rendition of “Baby Shark” is the best she’s ever heard.

Cancer

Your natural crankiness will shoot up a notch this week, little crab. Be sure to shriek your standard response of “No!” to everything, including the flavor of Teddy Grahams you wolfed down yesterday but which you find absolutely repugnant today.

Leo

You will finally be reunited with a long lost love when Daddy finds your stuffed flamingo, BooBoo while mowing the lawn. Alas, the reunion will be short and bittersweet, as Daddy will throw BooBoo in the garbage for the unforgivable crime of being covered in doggy poo.

Virgo

Your attempts to help around the house will be met with fiery anger. Next time, don’t sneak the scissors out of the no-no drawer in order to shape the throw rugs into triangles!

Libra

Your tendency toward cooperativeness will be sorely tested when Mommy tells you “All the coffee in the world isn’t going to get us to the park today.” Naturally, you’ll respond by turning yourself into an F4 tornado and destroying the living room.

Scorpio

Your adorable ability to repeat everything Mommy and Daddy say will earn you scorn when you tell your next door neighbor that his shrubberies are hideous and his dog is a pain-in-the some word you’re not supposed to say.

Sagittarius

Bedtime will be epic this week when you realize that the floor is lava and you can only get to your bed by vaulting off the dresser and into the wall. Encourage your parents to buy more bandaids today!

Capricorn

Tap into your natural goat-like essence by eating two pieces of chalk and a rock you found in the driveway. Yay! A ride in the car and stickers from the doctor’s office!

Aquarius

The decision to water Grandma’s flowers with your wee wee will land you in another long timeout. Use the time to contemplate what Daddy meant when he said that Mommy is still “smokin’ hot”. Perhaps she needs watering…

Pisces

Your neverending mantra of “why” will pay off in spades when you finally learn where babies come from and whether God can see you when you’re taking a bath.

Aries

You’ll learn never to use your outside voice at the library again when you ask Mommy why she and Daddy were making so much noise last night.
Fresh Hells
By: The Hairpin
Tags: Dante, Circles, Poetry

by Kate Angus

1. Limbo

Hello, Facebook.

Hello, Facebook Silence.

2. Lust

You do not want to go on a second date with that lawyer, just admit it; you only wonder if it’s possible to be fucked out of your loneliness.

3. Gluttony

Is there kale?

There is no kale; all the bins are empty.

You know who else doesn’t have kale?

All those people dying.

What’s wrong with you that you aren’t grateful?

Your cupboards are a cornucopia of all you have that you don’t want.

4. Greed

Sandals with gold straps of a finer plastic, blue necklace, black dress.

For your book to finally be published on some minor but still notable press.

To love someone who loves you back.

Kids, maybe, even if your fertility might be an hourglass as the sand runs out.

An apartment where the faucets do not leak.

5. Anger

The nail salon radio station plays an extended version of “You’ve Got a Friend” the week after one of your favorite friendships ends. The anxiety that comes from terrible music. How much more than stifling the slide towards crying you want to type out “James Taylor can go to hell,” but one hand is in the bowl of water, the other stilled motionless as Lucy paints meticulous red upon your nails. This is probably for the better — you’d have wanted to send the text to the one who isn’t speaking to you now anyway.

6. Heresy

“The soul dies when the body dies” — so say the Epicureans

It took so long to love the body; hating spiders, having spider veins.

Sometimes the body outlives the soul as any late night bar might show you.

I want to believe that something will outlast us, but I’m so often wrong.

There is an actual website called godhelpmeplease.com

7. Violence

Dante counts violence against the self: profligates, suicides

A pack of cigarettes at the bodega costs $14.50.

The night of drinking will run another $35.

8. Fraud

Fraud involves intentional deception: a willfully false representation

that harms the other for personal gain. In this it is different

from mistakes or false cognates/friends; for example, “fast” means “speedy”

or, in German, “almost”; as in, we were swift and almost friends.

9. Treachery

Those who betray fidelity, confidence or trust

are found star-fished and limbs pin-wheeling

beneath the frozen lake; eyes open, they can stare,

but cannot speak. So saith Dante,

who with his Virgil, climbed down Satan’s ragged fur

to escape. There are so many different paths

to what either person could call betrayal. I would trade

being right for an ice-ax or a bonfire

to loosen the ice-clogged rivers of our throats.

Kate Angus’s work has appeared in Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Subtropics, The Awl, Gulf Coast, Court Green, Third Coast, Verse Daily and Best New Poets 2010, among other places. She lives in New York where she is a founding editor of Augury Books and teaches at Gotham Writers Workshop.

Photo via Brian Auer/flickr.
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Oracle EF Core 3.1 Production Release
By: Alex Keh
Tags: Net Core 3, Oracle Database, Ef Core, Odpnet

I’m happy to announce Oracle Entity Framework Core 3.1 production release is now available. Download it for free from NuGet Gallery.

Thanks to the community for feedback during the beta phase. Your comments and bug reports were helpful to make the release high quality.

You can find the updated ODP.NET and EF Core documentation here.

The Oracle EF Core 3.1 Beta 2 was feature complete. As such, no new features were added to the production release since the second beta.

The most prominent new feature is EF Core 3.1 support, of course.

Another key new feature is view scaffolding. Developers can scaffold relational and materialized views. These views can be read-only or updatable. The Package Manager Console Scaffold-DbContext “-Tables” parameter allows developers to specify which views to scaffold. If the parameter is left blank (default), all the user tables, relational views, and materialized views are scaffolded.

You can find sample code for view migrations and scaffolding plus other Oracle EF Core scenarios on our GitHub Oracle .NET sample code site.

To identify specific tables and views in other schemas to scaffold, use the SCHEMA.TABLE/VIEW command format:

Scaffold-DbContext -Tables <Schema>.<Table/View>

To upgrade from EF Core 2.x to EF Core 3.1, no Oracle EF Core application code changes are needed. Just update the existing Oracle EF Core assembly from NuGet Gallery to the new 3.1 version, then run.

If you have feedback on the the new production release, let us know on the ODP.NET forum or on GitHub.

Enjoy!

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Satoshi’s dream .01 — What is Bitcoin?
Tags: Satoshi, Blockchain, Finance, Money, Bitcoin

According to bitcoin.org, “Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money”.

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Sounds simple, but it’s a bit more complicated than that.

To cut through some of the confusion surrounding bitcoin, we need to separate it into two components. On the one hand, you have bitcoin-the-token, a snippet of code that represents ownership of a digital concept — sort of like a virtual IOU. On the other hand, you have bitcoin-the-protocol, a distributed network that maintains a ledger of balances of bitcoin-the-token. Both are referred to as “bitcoin.”

The system enables payments to be sent between users without passing through a central authority, such as a bank or payment gateway. It is created and held electronically. Bitcoins aren’t printed, like dollars or euros — they’re produced by computers all around the world, using free software.

It was the first example of what we today call cryptocurrencies, a growing asset class that shares some characteristics of traditional currencies, with verification based on cryptography.

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Ponder Token Strategy — Part II. Following the previous medium post…
By: Manshu Agarwal
Tags: Hashgraph, Referral Marketing, Blockchain, Dapps

Following the previous medium post detailing the pivot from dating referrals to business referrals, we’ve now decided on our token strategy. Just as a reminder, here were the previous decisions we made:

It doesn’t make sense to have a native token purely for payment purposes. The velocity is too high and any token will decrease over the long term in value For distribution of payments we will use a stablecoin, since this will create a better customer experience. We’ve decided to use the Hashgraph as our DLT of choice since it is the only platform that we believe scales effectively without running into issues of transaction speed and cost We punted down the road whether we would ever have out own native token and whether we would continue and ever have a token sale.

We’ve now decided that we will eventually have own native token. However, it would be a work-based token, where good referrers — and people that add value to the community — are rewarded with our token. The token would create status on the network, enabling them to get more referral opportunities and thereby earn more money.

Given that the token structure is so different from the original token structure we had proposed, and that it won’t be launched for several months, we don’t think it’s wise to continue with the ongoing token sale. We will be unwinding that token sale over the coming weeks. While this will come as a disappointment to many, we think it is in the best interests of the long term success of the firm.

Once our new token is launched and has some traction, we may decide to do another token sale. However, we don’t want to commit to this just yet. Our central goal in all our decisions is about whether it will help our referral community or not.
美國Data方向研究所選校策略：What’s on My List?
By: Jack Chang
Tags: Information Technology, Schools, Graduate School, Data Science, Business Analytics

As a graduate student in data, I wanted to share some of my perspectives and experience in the data science world. What’s more! I wish that you come along the journey!

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Fast Access Blockchain in Montreal
By: Fab Info
Tags: Montreal, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Events, Training

FAB CEO is in Montreal for a series of events

Following on from his impressive and educational sessions at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto, FAB CEO Mohamed El Kandri will be in Montreal, Canada for a pair of events that will connect the local crypto community there with the capabilities of FAB.

FAB at Concordia University

First, on August 22 he will be hosting a seminar at Concordia University titled Blockchain Enterprise Applications: Opportunities and Challenges.

The session will allow participants to discuss the opportunities of blockchain technology, explore examples of use cases and cover the challenges that Blockchain technology is facing to demystify how enterprises can take advantage of this technology.

Blockchain : saisissez ses impacts sur l’avenir de votre organisation

On August 22nd Mohamed will be running a training session on how to capture blockchain’s impact on the future of organizations. Alongside other blockchain experts, Mohamed will show participants how their industry will be transformed by the arrival of blockchain in their processes with customers and suppliers.
While Darkness Falls
By: Terrye Turpin
Tags: Poetry, Photography, Loss, Grief, Poem

The Dead make silent company.

Our sleep eternal, undisturbed by dreams.

Broadway Cemetery Historic District, Galveston Texas — Photo by the author

We rest in rooms of marble.

The grave our blanket, tucked and weighty.

Grave at Broadway Cemetery Historic District, Galveston Texas — Photo by the author

Come lay the wreath of faded flowers,

And softly cover spirit’s bed.
Help! Is Law School Right for Me?
By: Fredrick Gold
Tags: Postgraduate, Law School, Law, Education, Careers

Question 2: Whose Dream Is This?

Many of you will feel the weighty expectations to pursue a particular professional path. You may have always dreamed about being a graphic designer, but when one friend lands a six-figure job at JP Morgan. Another is in her first year of UCLA Medical school; the pressure to keep up with the perceived “success” of your social circle may cause you to make choices that don’t align with your vision for your life.

Law is one of those funny professions that parents seem to push their children towards out of their fears. When a college graduate shows any bit of uncertainty about his/her intentions after college, you’re sure to find a parent who says: Even if you don’t become a lawyer, you’ll never go wrong going to law school (sounds familiar, right?)

Before you decide on law school, ask yourself the question: Who am I doing this for? If the answer is anyone else but yourself, law school is probably someone else’s dream — not your own.

I, for one, never loved the law, and it wasn’t my dream to go to law school. I was the textbook example of trying to please everyone except myself with my choices. I knew deep down that the law wasn’t for me, but in my weakness and uncertainty, I chose to attend law school because I felt it was the “right” thing to do. Right for who? I’m still not sure, but it took ten years of anxiety and unhappiness to admit that I’d made a mistake.

Choosing a career path that is right for you — not what everyone else thinks is right for you, requires both maturity and backbone. Before you decide on law school, ask yourself the question: Who am I doing this for? If the answer is anyone else but yourself, law school is probably someone else’s dream — not your own.
Quarantine Neighbor Crush
By: Molly Cassity
Tags: Autobiographical Comics, Tiktok, Teens, Comics, Quarantine

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Migrate Travis CI to GitHub Actions for Node.js
Tags: Continuous Integration, Github, DevOps, Github Actions, Software Development

Migrate Travis CI to GitHub Actions for Node.js remarkablemark Follow Dec 25 · 2 min read

This article will go over how to migrate from Travis CI to GitHub Actions for a Node.js project on GitHub.

Travis CI

Given .travis.yml :

GitHub Actions

First, make the directory .github/workflows :

$ mkdir -p .github/workflows

Create the workflow file .github/workflows/build.yml :

$ touch .github/workflows/build.yml

And add the Node.js workflow (inspired by the template):

Workflow

Here’s a breakdown of what each YAML field does.

name

name is the workflow name. It’s optional and you can name it whatever you like:

on

on is the event that triggers the workflow. In our example, git push triggers our workflow.

To add the pull_request event:

Which is the same thing as:

jobs

jobs are the jobs that the workflow runs. In our example, we have a single job named build :

runs-on

runs-on is the environment that the workflow runs on. To specify an OS version:

strategy.matrix

strategy.matrix is the build matrix. In our example, we’re running a job for a single node version. To run jobs for multiple node versions:

steps

steps are the tasks of a job. In our example, we’re using the GitHub Actions:

actions/checkout checks out the repository and actions/setup-node sets up the node environment:

coverallsapp/github-action sends the coverage report to Coveralls:

steps.run

steps.run runs the commands. The commands can be npm scripts from package.json or other bash commands.

npm , yarn , and npx can be used since we’re using actions/setup-node@v1 .

--if-present runs the script if it exists:

env

env sets the environment variables for the entire workflow or an individual step. See env and jobs.<job_id>.steps.env .

Although Travis CI sets default environment variables, we don’t have to set CI=true for our job since actions/checkout@v2 does it for us:

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Tomorrow’s Huobi Pro Point Package Event starts at 10:00 Jan 27th (UTC+8)
By: Huobi Global
Tags: Announcements, Huobi, Blockchain, Bitcoin

Dear Users,

Huobi Pro has launched Huobi Token (HT) on Jan 24th and has started free give-away at 10:00 (UTC+8) everyday from Jan 24th to Feb 7th.Since the market response is overwhelming, today’s Point Cards were sold out in 32 seconds. Altogether 28.56 million tokens were given for free.

Details of tomorrow’s Point Package release:

The price of 100 Point Package is 100 USDT. You can also pay the same price in BTC, LTC, BCH, ETH and ETC. 86 free HTs will be given as benefits of Point Packages.

The price of 1000 Point Package is 950 USDT. You can also pay the same price in BTC, LTC, BCH, ETH and ETC. 815 free HTs will be given as benefits of Point Packages.

The price of 10000 Point Package is 9200 USDT. You can also pay the same price in BTC, LTC, BCH, ETH and ETC. 7800 free HTs will be given as benefits of Point Packages.

The price of 100000 Point Package is 90000 USDT. You can also pay the same price in BTC, LTC, BCH, ETH and ETC. 77000 free HTs will be given as benefits of Point Packages.

During the entire activity, the proportion of free HTs will gradually decrease!

Click here to purchase the Point Package: https://www.huobipro.com/ht/points/

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January 27，2018