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This is a work of fiction. All the names, characters, places and events in this work are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Disclaimers like this at the beginning of a book or a movie reassure us that there is a sharp boundary between the fictional and the real – a distinction we first learned in early childhood. Back then, we were taught that witches fly on broomsticks and that dragons spit fire, but also that they may do so only in our imagination. In other words, if we are to get by in the real world, our fantasies must not spill over and contaminate our beliefs concerning reality. It is not only our parents who taught us these lessons. Starting in the late 1980s, many psychologists and philosophers – such as Alan Leslie, Josef Perner, and Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich – have argued that our imaginings take place in some ... Continue reading →

Although ‘worthsplaining’ might sound like a brand new term, you might be about to discover that you’ve spent a lot of time doing it. Ever spent a fair amount of money on a purchase and then found yourself over-explaining and justifying why you bought it? Or how about having a few days of quiet for your mental health, only to have to frantically share over and over again on WhatsApp chats why you’ve been silent? Left with that feeling of shame after justifying why you don’t have any weekend plans?   Yup, if you’re always feeling like you’re over-explaining your actions and decisions, you’ve been ‘worthsplaining’. ‘Worthsplaining’ is the tendency to over-explain things that are worthwhile and valuable to you because you fear being judged by others - and it could be a having serious impact on your mental health. Now, one life coach has shared what ‘worthsplaining’ is doing to your wellbeing - and ... Continue reading →

Introduction As we all know, currently JavaScript is one of the most popular and widely used programming languages with over 64% of software developers using it. Since its inception in 1995, it is gaining immense popularity in the development industry, which has changed the web application development horizon. Instead of creating JavaScript code from scratch, software engineers are now meeting today’s demanding market requirements by leveraging JS frameworks. The best JavaScript frameworks allow developers to access robust tools that help them streamline JS application development for a variety of mobile and web projects. According to the Stackoverflow Developer Survey conducted in 2021, it stated that JavaScript is the most demanded programming language with the highest vote share as compared to other similar programming languages. With the latest advancements and improvements in the technology sector, new JS frameworks are being developed more than ever before. It is said that ... Continue reading →

Whether to denounce it as a step down the path to unspeakable decadence or to exalt it as self-evidently right and just, everyone in public life today has a position on gay marriage. All the presidential candidates in the current electoral cycle have been asked about it, and all have had responses carefully packaged to ingratiate themselves with their constituencies. If the past few years may serve as a guide, it is likely that in the coming elections the subtle middle will be thoroughly excluded, as candidates and voters alike flock to one of two opposite poles: either holding that “marriage is between a man and a woman,” or, on the contrary, that everyone has an equal right to marriage. These are thought-arresting platitudes; they are not articulate positions, nor even the rudiments of arguments for such positions. The greatest problem with both is their brash confidence in the moral abhorrence or necessity of gay marriage, absent any historical or critical interest in ... Continue reading →

In Sri Lanka, rice is more than a sustaining staple. It is an undeniable main character in its history and identity. A staple Sri Lankan rice and curry meal. Pictured are bandakka (okra stir fry), bonchi (beans in coconut milk), wam batu thel dala (eggplant), kesel muwa malluma (banana flower stir fry). Fish curry (served in a clay pot), papadam, and salt-and-pepper cucumber By Zinara Rathnayake Published On 26 Sep 202226 Sep 2022   My mother is a good cook. My father is just slightly better. That’s how my younger sister would always describe my parents’ food. She’s right. My mother cooked delicious curries. But my father cooked the food we hold dear. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Battle of the teas in Qatar list 2 of 4 Yearning for Afghanistan, in one meal list 3 of 4 Baba was Ukrainian, Papa was Russian: A tale of two dumplings list 4 of 4 One of India’s last royal khansamas, and his raan kabab end of list My father grew up in ... Continue reading →

Introduction Choosing the best cloud computing is now becoming a major aspect for businesses as applications are moving out to innovate, enhance agility, and reduce expenses. The market need for cloud computing services is increasing day by day and all these three platforms are gaining immense popularity and becoming a three-way race between the top cloud providers. These three are the leading and most powerful cloud computing platforms that hold a commanding lead in the IaaS and PaaS markets. If we compare AWS with other cloud providers, it offers incredibly more services and features whether it is infrastructure technologies or other services you need. Azure allows you to add cloud capabilities to your existing network and utilize Azure functions to create HTPP_based API endpoints to make the process simple and respond to events. Whereas GCP allows quick collaboration and access to projects in the cloud instead of their computers. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft dominate the ... Continue reading →

HONIARA, Solomon Islands — Millicent Barty has spent years trying to decolonize her country, recording oral histories across the Solomon Islands and promoting Melanesian culture. Her goal: to prioritize local knowledge, not just what arrived with the British Empire. But on Friday morning, when asked about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Ms. Barty sighed and frowned. Her eyes seemed to hold a cold spring of complicated emotion as she recalled meeting the queen in 2018 with a Commonwealth young leaders’ program. “I love Her Majesty,” she said, sipping coffee on the Solomon island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific, 9,300 miles from Buckingham Palace. “It’s really sad.”     Reconciling a seemingly benevolent queen with the often-cruel legacy of the British Empire is the conundrum at the heart of Britain’s post-imperial influence. The British royal family reigned over more territories and people than any other monarchy in history, and ... Continue reading →

In August 1720, the East India Company’s Council in Bombay received a letter from their factors and merchants based in the city of Mocha. They had expected this letter for some time. It was the practice for the factory’s staff to report on their activities regularly as Mocha was the entrepôt for the coffee markets of Yemen, in which the Company had invested heavily. The letter contained the expected business news of the factory and the shifting political situation in Yemen, which had been growing more and more fraught in the preceding few years. Despite all this, the East India Company’s investment in coffee was yielding good results and the Council could feel comfortable in the knowledge that their men in Mocha were managing their affairs well.   With this letter came a list of the factory’s expenses, the salaries of guards and domestic servants, the pay given to the company’s four merchants and the costs of running the factory itself. One of ... Continue reading →

What is serverless computing? The backend services are provided to the end-users using an effective method called serverless computing. Businesses around the world shift their operational responsibilities to third-party services providers using this native cloud architecture. So that they don’t have to worry about the basic architecture as they write and deploy the code. The serverless architecture model is one of the best cloud execution models. The computer resources and the storage needed to implement a certain piece of code are often changed and allocated by the cloud services providers under the cloud execution model. Although the servers are used during the entire process, the provisioning and the maintenance of these servers are taken care of by the service providers. Users don’t have to concern themselves with these types of issues at all. Even though there are several cloud vendors who provide better products and services, the ultimate choice most of the business ... Continue reading →

The devastating intensification of extreme weather is laid bare today in a Guardian analysis that shows how people across the world are losing their lives and livelihoods due to more deadly and more frequent heatwaves, floods, wildfires and droughts brought by the climate crisis. The analysis of hundreds of scientific studies – the most comprehensive compilation to date – demonstrates beyond any doubt how humanity’s vast carbon emissions are forcing the climate to disastrous new extremes. At least a dozen of the most serious events, from killer heatwaves to broiling seas, would have been all but impossible without human-caused global heating, the analysis found. Most worryingly, all this is happening with a rise of just 1C in the planet’s average temperature. The role of global heating in supercharging extreme weather is happening at “astonishing speed”, scientists say. “The world is changing fast and it’s already hurting us ... Continue reading →

In just half a day, the Indian women's chess team went from the near-certainty of a gold medal at the Chess Olympiad to the dismay of a bronze. They still made history - as the first-ever Indian women's team to win a medal at an Olympiad. The Indians were no underdogs. Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Tania Sachdev, R Vaishali and Bhakti Kulkarni - a delightful mix of long-serving mould-breakers and young prodigies - were the top seeds in the women's section. It helped that neither Russia nor China participated in the Olympiad. The Indians were within touching distance of gold for the most part of their campaign - and in sole lead heading into the final round - before an awry 1-3 loss to USA. Tania and Bhakti bungled their lower board games while Humpy and Vaishali held on to draws. Tania, unbeaten with eight points from 10 games until the last round, struggled to come to terms with an inexplicably terrible last day. She lost to America's Carissa Yip, and was evidently ... Continue reading →

In this modern age of technology, new techniques, languages, frameworks, and tools keep on coming every year. And in this era, we can see that the world of front-end development is constantly evolving. For this, new techniques and tools are being released every day and with so many libraries in the market, choosing the right one is always difficult for businesses.   But, when front-end development is considered, Angular has always been a default choice of the business owners. Now with front-end development becoming modern, a framework called ReactJS has become the top choice of organizations. And the main reason behind it is React’s best practices for offering better security and performance level. To learn more about React JS and the benefits of React that make it every business owner’s first choice, let us go through this blog.    What is ReactJS? ReactJS is one of the best JavaScript libraries that is developed and maintained by Facebook. ... Continue reading →

A woman wearing a cerise pink dress sits at a desk. Her backdrop a crisp white wall, a generic piece of artwork peeks into shot. 'Pocket Rocket’ by Cochise plays, as the following text appears: *Aged 18-40. How to make 100K with no experience.* She’s giving off major aspirational vibes as she points to different suggestions popping up around her – in time to the music, of course. It’s a TikTok video, after all. First it’s ‘stripper’ (spelled ‘skripper’, presumably to foil TikTok’s filter). It’s a ‘no’, indicated by red cross emojis. Then ‘Only Fan$’, also ‘no’. But it’s a ‘yes’ to ‘Affiliate Marketing’ and ‘Trading and Investing’. Hashtags are things like #bossbabe, #girlswhotrade and #affiliate. And just to reiterate, you can’t be over 40. Viewers must then DM this woman (whose Insta stories are full of her with other glamorous ... Continue reading →

Last week, Huy Fong Foods announced that it was halting production of its popular hot sauce. Why? Not enough chili peppers, said the company’s executive operations officer, citing weather conditions in one Mexican region. One person with detailed knowledge of Sriracha, Huy Fong Foods and the hot sauce’s dedicated following is Griffin Hammond, a documentary filmmaker, journalist and the director of the 2013 documentary “Sriracha.” “David , back when I was filming the documentary, was proud of the fact that every bottle of Sriracha can taste a little bit different,” Hammond told Grid. “He’s proud of the fact that it’s a natural farming process, but that also brings risk with it.” Still, there’s no reason to panic just yet: “I think realistically, there’s a lot of Sriracha out in the world,” Hammond said. “They don’t sell directly to consumers, they sell to distributors, so there is a lot of ... Continue reading →

Introduction React is a library that is highly popular because of its features and functionalities provided for developing web and mobile apps. Its simplicity and flexibility allow developers to build applications quickly and it is estimated that more than 1300 developers and 90,000+ sites utilize ReactJS. You can create large web apps that can change data without reloading the page repetitively. It is used for handling the view layer and creating reusable UI components. React has evolved quite a lot in recent years, and has several modern and new features introduced. If you’re planning to build a ReactJS application, then you’re reading the perfect blog where we’re going to discuss the top React practices to adapt in 2021. So, let’s get started! React JS Best Practices to Learn and Adapt in 2021 Use Higher Order Functions In React, one of the best ways to achieve the DRY principle that is Don’t Repeat Yourself across components is to make use ... Continue reading →

As the name suggests, micro habits require minimal motivation and effort to accomplish. Eventually, this little habit will build on top of itself into something bigger and better for you and your goals. It's like when you start running. You may only be able to make it half a mile. But, eventually, you'll be cruising through marathons. Overall, micro habits have the ability to transform every aspect of your life. And that certainly applies to your productivity. Here are 21 mico habits that can be done in about a minute but will boost your productivity by 100% over time. 1. Read 3-pages of a book before bed. You don't want to hit the hay when you're in a bad mood. Or, even worse, after you've filled your brain with garbage like reality TV. Yes, it's understandable that you'd like to decompress before going to bed. However, what you do before bed can affect how well you wake up and how you feel throughout the day. The answer? Read something uplifting and ... Continue reading →

  1 of 7 British singer-songwriter Rick Astley poses for a portrait before a concert at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill., on June 17, 2022. Astley has joined New Kids on the Block, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue for the 57-date "Mixtape 2022" U.S. arena tour this summer. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) NEW YORK (AP) — How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all time? He rolls with it, obviously. “Listen, let’s face it, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ has sort of become something else,” he says. “The video and the song have drifted off into the ether and become something else, and I’m ever so grateful for it.” That song turns 35 this year and is still very much alive, buoyed by a second chapter as a gentle joke wherein someone baits you with an enticing online link, which points instead to the video for this 1987 dance-pop smash. It’s called Rickrolling. Thirty-five years ... Continue reading →

Introduction Node.js is becoming one of the most popular JavaScript platforms over the last couple of years. It is easy to get started in those Node.js projects because it is built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. A good beginning is half the battle. Laying out a project structure in a practical way is one of the complex parts of the development process and indeed, a delicate process.  By making the effort to understand the inner workings of a web development framework, we open ourselves to insights about the various ways of not only the framework itself but also about popular programming algorithms and their design decisions. An integral aspect of how Node.js works under the hood, event loop-based apparatus for accomplishing asynchronous behavior.  In this blog, we’re going to discuss the Node.js project structure and cover the best practices that help you to organize and manage your Node.js applications.  What are the best practices for Node.js ... Continue reading →

From a layman’s perspective, imparting subjective knowledge and triggering mental development are the two main objectives of education. But from a scholar’s point of view, education enables and empowers people and it provides them with diverse knowledge, expertise and skills. Education equips people with basic values and ethics to make them sharp enough to deal with the real world. Therefore, the objectives of education in today’s world are to transfer social heritage, physical, mental, social, moral, cultural, vocational and character formation, entrepreneurship development, citizenship training and so on.     As universities and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) move towards academic reforms, an ecosystem that is both flexible and innovative is being created at present. Former Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal at the inauguration of the 16th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2021 in February 2021 highlighted the significant emerging trends in the ... Continue reading →

Over the past four decades, private equity has become a powerful, and malignant, force in our daily lives. In our May+June 2022 issue, Mother Jones investigates the vulture capitalists chewing up and spitting out American businesses, the politicians enabling them, and the everyday people fighting back. Find the full package here. After 16 years at the helm of Houdaille Industries, CEO Jerry Saltarelli want­ed out. Since 1941, he’d poured his heart and soul into the company, starting out as a young lawyer and moving up the executive ranks. As CEO, he’d helped the company transform from a manufacturer of bumpers and shock absorbers into a nationwide construction and machine tools conglomerate.   With the company on solid footing, he was ready to retire, but there was a problem. Houdaille—cash-rich and with minimal debt—was the kind of company in vogue with the corporate raiders of 1970s Wall Street, and the New York Times declared that a ... Continue reading →