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Autonomy, Decision-Making Supports, and Guardianship
Autonomy, Decision-Making Supports, and Guardianship April 7, 2019 /in Related To Rights/by TheArcAdmin
All individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities1 (IDD) have the right to recognition as persons before the law and to enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with individuals who do not have disabilities in all aspects of life (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), 2006). The personal autonomy, liberty, freedom, and dignity of each individual with IDD must be respected and supported. Legally, each individual adult or emancipated minor is presumed competent to make decisions for himself or herself, and each individual with IDD should receive the preparation, opportunities, and decision-making supports to develop as a decision-maker over the course of his or her lifetime.
Current trends presume the decision-making capacity of individuals with IDD and the preservation of legal capacity as a priority for all people needing assistance with decisionmaking.
Like their peers without disabilities, individuals with IDD must be presumed competent; they must also be assisted to develop as decision-makers through education, supports, and life experience. Communication challenges should not be misinterpreted as lack of competency to make decisions.
Individuals with IDD should have access to supports and experiences to learn decisionmaking skills from an early age and throughout their lifetimes in educational and adult life service systems.
Families should have access to information about all options for assisting their family member to make decisions over the life course.
All people, with and without disabilities, have a variety of formal and informal processes available to enact their decisions and preferences, including healthcare proxies and advance directives.
Less restrictive means of decision-making supports (e.g., health-care proxies, advance directives, supported decision-making, powers of attorney, notarized statements, representation agreements, etc.) should be tried and found to be ineffective in ensuring the individual's decision-making capacity before use of guardianship2 as an option is considered.
Where judges and lawyers lack knowledge about people with IDD and their human rights, poor advocacy and tragic legal outcomes often result. Financial incentives frequently benefit professionals and guardianship corporations, often to the detriment of individuals with IDD and their families.
Serving in the dual roles of guardian and paid service provider or paid advocate creates a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest. Such conflicts must be mitigated or avoided.
Some statutory privacy measures have made it more difficult for those assisting other individuals to have access to their records, make decisions, or both. Thus, to obtain or modify needed medical care, services, and supports, an individual with IDD may be adjudicated to be incompetent and subjected to guardianship. This result conflicts with the legal presumption of competence and with principles of autonomy, decision-making supports, presumption of competence, and the use of less restrictive alternatives.
The appointment of a guardian is a serious matter for three reasons:
It limits an individual's autonomy, that is, the individual's agency over how to live and from whom to receive supports to carry out that choice;
It transfers the individual's rights of autonomy to another individual or entity, a guardian; and
Many individuals with IDD experience guardianship as stigmatizing and inconsistent with their exercise of adult roles and responsibilities.
The primary goals in assisting individuals with IDD should be to assure and provide supports for their personal autonomy and ensure equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency (Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990, section 12101 (a)(7); Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2004, section 1400 (c)(1)). Each individual adult and emancipated minor is legally presumed competent to make decisions for himself or herself and should receive the preparation, opportunities, and decision-making supports to develop as a decision-maker over the course of his or her lifetime. All people with IDD can participate in their own affairs with supports, assistance, and guidance from others, such as family and friends. People with IDD should be aware of and have access to decision-making supports for their preferred alternatives.
If legal limitations on autonomy are necessary, then National Guardianship Association or equivalent standards that are consistent with the values expressed in this position statement should be followed. If any restrictions on autonomy are legally imposed, each individual has the right to the least restrictive alternative, due process protections, periodic review, ongoing training and supports to enhance autonomy and reduce reliance on approaches that restrict individual rights, and the right to ultimately seek to restore rights and terminate the restriction when possible.
Information and training about less restrictive alternatives to guardianship should be available to people with IDD, their family members, attorneys, judges, and other professionals.
If the use of a guardianship becomes necessary, it should be limited to the fewest restrictions necessary for the shortest amount of time and tailored to the individual's specific capacities and needs.
Strict monitoring must be in place to promote and protect the autonomy, liberty, freedom, dignity, and preferences of each individual even when placed under guardianship.
Regardless of their guardianship status, all individuals with IDD should be afforded opportunities to participate to the maximum extent possible in making and executing decisions about themselves. Guardians should engage individuals in the decision-making
process, ensuring that their preferences and desires are known, considered, and achieved to the fullest extent possible.
Regardless of their guardianship status, all individuals with IDD retain their fundamental civil and human rights (such as the right to vote and the right to make decisions related to sexual activity, marriage and divorce, birth control, and sterilization) unless the specific right is explicitly limited by court order.
Systems Issues
States should provide systematic access to decision-making supports for all individuals with IDD.
An individual (other than a family member) should not serve in dual roles as guardian and as paid advocate or paid service provider for an individual.
An organization should avoid serving in dual roles as guardian and as paid advocate or paid service provider for an individual.
Organizations that serve in dual roles of guardian and paid advocate or paid service provider must have written policies and organizational separations in place to mitigate conflicts of interest. These organizations should support efforts to develop independent guardianship organizations.
Financial incentives that benefit professionals or guardianship corporations should never drive guardianship policy or result in expensive and unnecessary costs to individuals or their families.
Appointment of a guardian of the person, the person's finances, or both, should be made only to the extent necessary for the legal protection and welfare of the individual and not for the convenience or preferences of the family, the service system, or others.
Individuals with IDD must have access to all the accommodations and supports, including communication supports, they need to demonstrate their competency at initial evaluations for guardianship and at all periodic reviews of any guardianship.
State laws should be reformed to prioritize less restrictive alternatives to full and plenary guardianship, including without limitation informal supports, supported decision-making, limited (and revocable) powers of attorney, health care proxies, trusts, and limited guardianships that are specifically tailored to the individual's capacities and needs. These alternatives should always be considered first. Use of these alternatives can help an individual who may have limited capacity to consent to satisfy statutory privacy or other requirements and to have records released to a person or entity designated as the individual's agent or provider of support and services. If used at all, any restrictions on the individual's rights and decision-making powers should be confined to those areas in which the individual demonstrates a need for assistance that exceeds what can be provided through a less restrictive alternative.
Laws should be reformed to require that less restrictive options are tried and found to be ineffective to ensure the individual's autonomy before full (plenary) guardianship is even considered. Alternatives and related procedures to change overly restrictive forms of any existing guardianship, including restoration of rights and termination of any guardianship, must be available under state law.
Since guardianship represents a transfer of rights and the responsibility for exercising them, adequate safeguards must be in place to protect those rights. These safeguards include procedural due process (including without limitation the right to counsel representing the interests of the individual, impartial hearing, appeal, and burden and quantity of proof) must protect the individual's autonomy. The state must also ensure that the individual is informed and retains as much decision-making power as possible. The state should pay the costs of providing these due process protections and not impose the costs on families or on individuals with IDD.
Members of the judiciary, attorneys, and other professionals need training and education on alternatives to guardianship for individuals with IDD, and they must zealously advocate for preserving the substantive and procedural rights of all individuals with IDD.
If a guardian is to be appointed, the preferences and assent of the individual with IDD with respect to the identity and function of the proposed guardian should be considered.
The appointment of a guardian should be appropriately time-limited in order to provide regular periodic review of the individual's current capabilities and functioning and whether a less restrictive alternative is now indicated. The reviews should include an independent professional assessment by a highly qualified examiner of the individual's functioning with necessary accommodations and communication supports. All costs of the review should be paid by the state and not imposed on individuals with IDD or their families.
Guardianship should include a person-centered plan of teaching and/or supports for decision making so the individual with IDD will have opportunities to learn and practice the skills needed to be autonomous and to direct his or her own life. Understanding the nature and purpose of guardianship and understanding that most people with IDD can manage their own affairs with assistance and guidance should be part of transition planning in schools and of any curriculum or procedures that prepare the individual's person-centered plan for adulthood. Schools should not give legal advice to students and families, and should provide students and families with information about less restrictive alternatives to guardianship.
The ultimate goal of any such curriculum or procedures should be to ensure the individual's autonomy to the maximum extent possible, individualize decision-making supports for the individual, and ensure that the individual has maximum access to equal opportunity, independent living, full participation, and economic self-sufficiency, each with supports that take into account the individual's capacities and needs.
Guardian Responsibilities
Guardians should be knowledgeable about decision-making and other types of supports, services, and systems that can significantly affect the individual's autonomy, supports, and quality of life. Moreover, guardians must be committed to the individual's well-being and avoid any appearance or actual lack of commitment to the individual. They must know and understand the individual's needs and wishes and act in accordance with them whenever possible and whenever any action will not negatively affect the individual's health, safety, financial security, and other welfare. Family members are often preferable choices when a guardianship is ordered and the family members meet these standards of knowledge, they do not have conflicts of interest (other than also serving as a paid advocate or paid service provider), and the individual with IDD does not object to the family member's appointment as guardian.
Guardians shall defer to the individual's preferences when decisions do not jeopardize the individual's health, safety, financial security, and other welfare.
States should adopt a set of minimum standards for all guardians and require training and technical assistance for all guardians.
Professional guardians (those who both serve two or more people who are not related to each other and also receive fees for these services) should, at a minimum, be registered, and preferably licensed or certified by the state, either directly or through delegation to an appropriate independent professional organization. They should also have the appropriate education and skills. They should be independent from and not be receiving payment for providing other services to the individual.
Guardians shall be legally accountable for all of their decisions and other actions with respect to the individual. Their decisions and other actions must be subject to the reporting and review procedures of the appropriate state court or other agency.
Rev'd 2016
Joint statement with the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).
1Intellectual Disability (ID) is a lifelong condition where significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior emerge during the developmental period (before adulthood).
Developmental Disabilities (DD), first defined in 1975 federal legislation now known as "The DD Act", are a group of lifelong conditions that emerge during the developmental period and result in some level of functional limitation in learning, language, communication, cognition, behavior, socialization, or mobility. The most common DD conditions are intellectual disability, Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, fetal alcohol syndrome, and fragile X syndrome.
The acronym "IDD" is used to describe a group that includes either people with both ID and another DD or a group that includes people with ID or another DD. The supports that people with IDD need to meet their goals vary in intensity from intermittent to pervasive.
2Terminology for guardianship and guardians differs by state and can include tutor, conservator, curator, or other comparable terms.
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Ewan McGregor Is Back on Top—Again
Ewan McGregor covers the November 2019 issue of Men's JournalMarc Hom
SCARY GOOD
by Mickey Rapkin
IRON MAN IS EATING A HOT DOG. The Little Mermaid is charging her cell phone. And I am lost.
It's late August and I've come to Anaheim, California, for D23—a three-day event where Disney executives will announce programming for the company's new Netflix killer, Disney+, a streaming service launching in November. Some 7,000 fans (many in costume) are seated inside a convention center, waiting for their favorite stars to come out on stage and wave. It's like Comic-Con for anyone who gets a boner for Donald Duck. Or maybe it's the world's most expensive pep rally.
And everyone is playing ball. Among the boldfaced names I see: Marvel president Kevin Feige; Avengers stars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany; Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi; and funnyman Billy Eichner and Anna Kendrick, his co-star in Noelle, a new comedy about what happens to Christmas when Santa Claus has a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile, everyone's talking about Angelina Jolie and whether she'll show up to promote Marvel's The Eternals.
As for me, I'm supposed to meet Ewan McGregor somewhere in the bowels of this cavernous hall. If he's hard to find, that's by design. The dude's been instructed to make himself scarce, lest he spoil today's big surprise. The internet's been rife with speculation for weeks, but he's about to make it official: After a 15-year absence from the Star Wars universe, McGregor is set to reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a new TV series.
"It's a fucking massive relief," he tells me when I'm finally ushered into his trailer. "Because for four years, I've been having to lie to people about it."
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At 48, the boyish enthusiasm that made him a star still registers large. Behind the pale eyes and that thick mane of hair, dressed in black jeans and a black T-shirt, he still feels like the optimist from Trainspotting who—in the face of addiction—decided to "choose life." He emotes like the lovesick poet from Moulin Rouge who sang an Elton John song to a cynical Nicole Kidman. And if he's feeling particularly optimistic today, it makes sense: While Hollywood is in serious flux and white men of certain age are (finally!) being pushed aside for fresh and diverse perspectives, McGregor's weathered the tide, with a slew of potential franchises coming, including the Suicide Squad spin-off, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), plus this month's long-awaited sequel to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Doctor Sleep.
I am eager to hear about it all. But first, McGregor has a question for me: "Tea?"
Playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2005's "Revenge of the Sith" Lucasfilm/Fox/Kobal
WAY BACK IN 1997, WHEN McGREGOR was cast as Anakin Skywalker's mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, he was getting coffee with Christian Bale. They were on the set of Velvet Goldmine, the Todd Haynes cult classic about London's glam rock scene, and McGregor was maybe 26 years old. Of that moment, McGregor says: "We were just two kids on a fucking rooftop…."
It was a whirlwind time. Trainspotting had made him an international star, but he still felt like one of us. We were '90s kids and he was our poster boy, a hero plucked from the crowd to represent our excitements and fears about the coming millennium. In his early 20s, he'd shared a London flat with Jude Law and his Trainspotting co-star Jonny Lee Miller, who was dating Angelina Jolie at the time. Thankfully, smartphones hadn't been invented yet.
Pouring hot water from the kettle, McGregor recalls: "My brother was two years older than me, and he was in the Royal Air Force. But he was living with me and Jude and Jonny and occasionally Angelina. For six months, he had to work in the Intelligence Department. He'd come back in his suit from the war office to this, like, chaos. He worked for the Ministry of Defence! He shouldn't have been around some of the things…."
"Like what?" I ask with a smile. "Drugs?"
"Well, things like that, you know—It was pretty hectic in there."
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McGregor was still drinking then, still getting himself into trouble. He and his then wife famously conceived their first child while filming Trainspotting ("Made in Scotland!" McGregor once said), and the film ignited his career. He was young and hot and wildly brash, memorably talking shit about Hugh Grant's acting in the press and calling David Letterman "arrogant and uninteresting."
McGregor got sober not long after. And he's been clean for two decades. His sobriety is, in part, what drew him to this month's Doctor Sleep. The film (and the Stephen King book it's based on) picks up 30 years after the events of The Shining, or 30 years after the Overlook Hotel was destroyed. McGregor stars as the grown-up Danny Torrance—Jack Nicholson's son in the film, and the boy who cried, "Redrum." When the story opens, Danny (now Dan) is a drunk who abuses alcohol to keep the literal ghosts at bay. He gets sober only after waking up next to a woman with a beer gut and a toddler—a kid who reaches for a pile of Mommy's cocaine, calling it "canny."
McGregor as Dan Torrance in "The Shining" sequel, "Doctor Sleep" © 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
"I've been sober for years," McGregor says. "This was the first time I got to explore that in my work. What intrigued me was the fact that when we meet Dan, he's like a rock-bottom alcoholic, and then finds recovery."
McGregor won't reveal the moment in his life that caused him to get sober but will say: "The rock bottom's neither here nor there, really. It also wasn't as hectic as some other people's. But it's not a competition. I was just not able to manage all the different strands of my life—my professional life, my family life, and my drinking life. So something had to go. But it was fun to go back and play some real fucked-up drunk scenes. It was quite funny. But it was all still frighteningly alive in me, you know, even after 20 years." That pain that lurks beneath the surface is, in part, what makes him so good, says his co-star Rebecca Ferguson (incidentally badass in the recent Mission: Impossible films). "Ewan has such a kind face. But he has such power and strength when needed. That's what he does so brilliantly—the dark reality of his characters—and yet we can always fly into the psychedelic existence of his imagination."
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In Doctor Sleep, Dan finds himself haunted by ghosts from the Overlook Hotel. On a lark, I ask McGregor if he'd ever seen a ghost. And, well, I'll let him tell the story.
"I had an incident when I was at drama school…" Here he sets his saucer down and leans in. "It was maybe my 19th birthday. I was living in the top room of this house in East London. Everyone had gone home for Easter, and I was alone. I'd nicked someone's video player from their room. I watched Blue Velvet and I was running a bath and I was standing in my robe. And I had this terrible pain in my back. I ripped off my robe. And there was this burn mark; the back of my robe was scorched. I ran around thinking I caught fire or something."
McGregor couldn't find the source of the burn and was so creeped out that he slept at his uncle's apartment that night. But when he returned the next day, he told his downstairs neighbor what had happened. "And he went sort of pale," McGregor says. "I said, What the fuck? I eventually teased it out of him. An old, Jewish, reclusive guy had owned the flat before. He never really left the place, and it was full of newspapers. His brother used to come and give him a cooked meal two or three times a week. His brother got ill and hadn't been over for a few days. The guy was in the kitchen—putting the pan on—and he fainted because he was so hungry. And this pot boiled and set fire to the kitchen. The people upstairs smelled the burning and dragged him out of the kitchen. But he died of the burn marks to his back. Every night after that, my door would open, the phone would ring, things would move around."
McGregor raises an eyebrow, saying: "I did get out of there two weeks later."
It was fun to go back and play some real fucked up drunk scenes. But it was all still frighteningly alive in me, you know, even after 20 years.
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IF ANYONE SHOULD BELIEVE IN the Unknown, maybe it's McGregor. How else to explain his rise? How the son of two teachers from Crieff, Scotland, dropped out of school at 16, apprenticed at a local theater (where he was forced to put on brown makeup to play an extra in A Passage to India), and somehow conquered Hollywood, eventually buying a house in Brentwood with room for more than a dozen vintage motorcycles, including a 1971 Moto Guzzi Ambassador.
For a time, McGregor seemed to enjoy his fame—or the adventures it made possible. In 2004, he convinced a British TV network to send him and his buddy Charley Boorman on an epic, 20,000-mile motorcycle ride from London to New York (via Central and Western Europe, through Mongolia and beyond), which they chronicled in a docuseries called Long Way Round. It was a bromance writ large, with moments of comically awesome absurdity. When the two men were served a steaming-hot bowl of testicle soup in Mongolia, McGregor memorably shrugged: "It's just meat in the end." Adding with a wink: "But then you've got to watch for the burst…"
A second televised road trip followed—from Scotland to Cape Town—but then, well, it gets a bit murky. McGregor was always working, always in the public consciousness. But the work sometimes felt ponderous. There was a string of little-seen indie films and then a run on Broadway in a revival of The Real Thing, opposite Cynthia Nixon. McGregor played a troubled, philandering playwright, but his heart didn't always seem in it. According to one review, he was too pretty for the part, looking "like a scratch-resistant doll that has only just been removed from its packaging."
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An unlikely starring role in Season 3 of FX's Fargo brought that spark back. It was his first major TV role—as if the distinction between film and TV still mattered—but the appeal was obvious: McGregor played two brothers, polar opposites out to settle a childhood feud. One was happily married and wildly successful, the so-called Parking Lot King of Minnesota. The other was way more fun to root for—a balding, paunchy parole officer madly in love with a grifter.
McGregor won a Golden Globe for the double act, beating out Robert De Niro (as Bernie Madoff), Geoffrey Rush (as Picasso), and his old roommate, Jude Law (as the Pope). That trophy is now proudly displayed—well, where is it exactly? "I'm having my house redone," McGregor says, suddenly realizing he doesn't actually know. "It's probably…I've got these two big pod things. My whole life is in these pods!"
I can't help but notice a change in McGregor. We'd first met five years ago in New York when he was doing the play. It was for another magazine, and he'd seemed anxious that afternoon. Maybe even unhappy. He was doing all the things a great actor was sup- posed to do—Broadway! Low-budget risks! Pulitzer Prize winners!—but he was working so often, he started to feel a little like that guy who stays late at the office because he doesn't want to go home.
But he seems noticeably lighter today. Maybe it's the fact that we're not trudging through a foot of snow during a Manhattan winter. Maybe it's the fact that he's about to greet 7,000 screaming Star Wars fans with a major announcement. Maybe it's the fact that he's older and recognizes the vagaries of the business for what they are. (When asked if he sees a thematic through-line between the characters he's played, he shrugs: "They all look like me.")
McGregor wears sweater by Louis Vuitton, pants and shoes by Alexander McQueen Marc Hom
Or maybe it's something else. Maybe it's something as corny as new love. Shortly after filming Fargo in Calgary in 2017, he and his wife of 22 years split, and at some point he got together with his co-star, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
"Lighter?" he says. "Today? As opposed to then?"
He smiles and leans back.
"I am better," he says. "I am happier. I think that's true."
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THIS WINDING PATH HE'S ON, THIS almost 30-year-old career? It reminds me of something Winstead's character says in Fargo. She and Ray (aka Fat Ewan) have just disposed of an accomplice to a crime—by dropping a large A/C unit on his head. She wants to move on; Ray is concerned with covering their tracks. "I've never killed anyone before!" he says. She deadpans: "Me neither. Life's a journey."
Hell, yeah. McGregor's seen himself and the industry change wildly (and suddenly). He directed an adaptation of Philip Roth's American Pastoral in 2016, which, in his own words, "wasn't seen." Then he starred in a TV show that everyone saw. "I don't know about people going to the cinema anymore to see the kind of movies that I make," he says. So why not have some fun? Why not do a sequel to The Shining, one of the most celebrated, and most controversial, films of all time? "I think if it was a remake of The Shining I would probably have gone, 'No,'" he says. But a sequel? Why not?
And why not play the villain in February's Birds of Prey—Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn spin-off—where he'll appear as a murderous rich prick called the Black Mask. McGregor tore into the role with unabashed glee, describing the Black Mask as the perfect villain for "the Time of Trump." The character is "an absolute narcissist," he says, "spoiled in his upbringing to the point of having no contact with what life or people are about, who has a skin this thin and wants nothing more than to be the center of attention." According to online chatter, the Black Mask is also maybe gay, living with his right-hand man, Victor Szasz, played by Argo's Chris Messina (with awesome bleached-blond hair). Of the gay thing, Messina called to say: "I don't want to give anything away, but that's a fun theory. We definitely have a very interesting bond."
I want to get closer to how Obi-Wan felt while Alec Guinness was playing him. I feel like I'm grayer and nearer him in age, so it'll be easier to do that.
What's more important than internet rumor, he says, is that McGregor is scary as shit onscreen—precisely for the reasons we first fell in love with him. "He's an incredible villain because he's so likable and he's so seducing," Messina says. "You're like, I like him, he's cute, it's fun being in his world. And then he'll bite your leg off. He has these incredible turns of violence, this ferocious quality. There are a couple of moments in the movie where he rages that he really went there, and you could hear a pin drop. Then he would turn on a dime and then go back to the charm of the character."
With so much in the hopper, McGregor has managed to squeeze in a disappearing act. A few days after we meet, he's scheduled to leave for a third Long Way Round installment, this time for Apple's new streaming service. Over three months and 14,000 miles, he and Boorman (with whom he recently reconnected) will do the Pan-American Highway in reverse, traveling from Tierra del Fuego, in Argentina—the tip of South America—all the way back to Los Angeles.
McGregor wears vintage tank and jumpsuit Marc Hom
Of these journeys, McGregor says, it's always in some way about discovery. "It's a test of who you are," he says. But it's also about leaving something behind. "Like, I just sort of imagine dropping these emotional baggages off as I ride along," he says, "these emotional baggages that I've been carrying around for years. I'll leave a little pile of them, like breadcrumbs from South America to here."
McGregor won't shoot the Obi-Wan Kenobi series until next summer. But fans are already salivating for spoilers. Will they use de-aging technology on McGregor? Will we encounter Obi-Wan as a hermit on Tatooine? Will we see him try to dismantle the crime syndicate, Crimson Dawn (tying up loose ends from the Han Solo prequel)?
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"The storyline sits between Episode III and Episode IV," he says, dropping us a breadcrumb. The last time we saw him in the role, "the Jedi Order was falling apart. It will be interesting to take a character we know in a way and show him—Well, his arc will be quite interesting, I think, dealing with that the fact that all the Jedi were slaughtered with the end of Episode III. It's quite something to get over."
For the record, he hasn't rewatched his own Star Wars films since they were first released, but he plans to. He mostly remembers them being disliked because "they were political." (To paraphrase Jar Jar Binks, Meesa think he no remember good.) Of returning to the character after 15 years, he insists time is only an asset. "I want to get closer and closer to how Obi-Wan felt while Alec Guinness was playing him. I feel like I'm grayer and nearer him in age, so it'll be easier to do that."
He then reiterates the obvious: "I'm not allowed to tell you anything about it." Though he did let it slip that the series will be six hour-long episodes. (Feast on that chum, fanboys!)
With that, an assistant comes to get him from his trailer. He's due on stage in a few minutes, where Kathleen Kennedy—the head of Lucasfilm—will introduce him, telling the crowd: "After secrets and fibs and not being able to talk about it, I am thrilled to bring out a beloved member of the Star Wars family."
When McGregor finally appears, there's a standing ovation and the ground actually rumbles. He can't contain that smile. The moment is so unabashedly genuine, so unironic, I thought: Where have I seen this before? Oh, right. The final frame of Trainspotting, when he walked toward a new future. Choose life!
We catch up by phone a few days later—just before he leaves for South America—and I ask what the moment felt like. "I spent most of the '90s wishing I'd been a rock star," he says. "I always felt it would be nice to know what that scream felt like. This is my version of that."
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A couple of minor pieces of news today. First, MagicBands On Demand can now be ordered at Pin Traders near the Marketplace Co-Op in Disney Springs. Then when they are ready, you can go pick them up at D-Tech in Marketplace Co-Op. The likely reason they added this extra station is because D-Tech in Marketplace Co-Op can sometimes get very crowded, so an additional ordering option makes sense.
An for the second piece of minor news, many Limited Release and Limited Edition MagicBands are now on sale at Disney's Florida outlet store called Disney's Character Warehouse. It's located in the Orlando International Premium Outlets outdoor mall within 5-10 minutes of Disney Springs.
There they are selling some MagicBands at deeply discounted prices, including the Limited Release Pop Warner Super Bowl 59 (2015sb)and 2015 Cheer & Dance National Championships MagicBands for $9.99, as well as tons of the 2015 Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party Limited Edition MagicBand for $11.99. Get them while you can!
33 Responses to "Tidbits: Order MagicBands On Demand at Pin Traders; Limited bands on sale at outlet store"
I would hope they still make the special effects at the Magic Kingdom entrance and FP+ locations.
I am pretty sure they do.
I was just in Disney this past weekend! I wish I would've known. Missed out on Kylo ren and now MVMCP at a bargain! Ayy no luck what so ever.
So the Kylo Ren was discounted? I had bought an extra one to sell later when we were there back in March. But if they never sold out and were discounted, then I guess that wasn't worth it ;).
I hope not sell the extra Ren for a profit?
There are two Kylo bands. One is an open release. The other was a Limited Edition (edition size 2015) that came out in Dec of 2015.
Yes, I have both. But I bought two of the LE (limited to 2015). And yes, I was going to sell for a small profit to make up for the hundreds I've already spent on all the other Star Wars bands, because I'm usually the one having to pay the extra mark up since we don't live near Disney and only make it down a couple times a year. I haven't done that before, but is there something wrong with selling at a higher price? I just want to make sure I'm not doing anything I'm not supposed to. Although it has been a couple months now and it is still sitting on a shelf in my office and I haven't tried to sell it ;).
Do what you want Tad but I despise flippers or as I call them Posers that buy extra to make money.
Plenty of xmas magicbands left at the outlets.
FYI, they did not have them at the outlet on international drive, only at the one on Vineland.
wonder if we're gonna see drastically reduced numbers for party bands this year.
is anyone willing to purchase one plus tax and shipping for me?
I just left the Vineland Disney Store and I counted around 140 MagicBands left in the bin.
They are located at the front, right next to the registers which could effect how fast they sell.
I would LOVE these, awwww. 🙁 I don't live close to get them. Any one willing to ship to me? I would really appreciate it! I know it's a longshot!
I was just at the outlet store and to make a long rant short they did not want to sell my girlfriend the vmcp band since the wifi has been down since yesterday… We told them we'd link it later so they relentlessly sold it to us but said it probably will not link since they couldn't set it to "link it later"… We WERE able to link it when we got in the car. There were none on display and I believe this was the last one but I'm not sure as it was locked away behind the counter.
Hi All – is anyone willing to buy me two of these and ship them? I would really appreciate it. I was just down there in April and would've totally made the trek to the outlet. Good to know for next time…I guess.
Can anyone who bought this band at the outlet mall confirm if yours actually makes the special effects at Magic Kingdom?
I have used it on different days at various locations in Magic Kingdom and only get the defaul effects ?
That's too bad 🙁 Hopefully they didn't turn the effects off or you got a band that wasn't linked with them somehow.
I bought two at the outlet as well. Just went this evening and the lights and sounds didn't work at the entrance or fast pass points. So disappointed. I know when you purchase a band they usually scan them with their tablet thing, they did not do so when I bought them at the outlet. Do the parks or stores have to link the band before they can make the lights and sounds?
Honestly I really don't know. This is the first time that I know of where special bands were sold without the lights/sounds on. I will have to check mine (which I bought directly at the party) to see if it still works.
Did you try it at Magic Kingdom? That's the only place they are supposed to work at.
Yes it was at magic kingdom. You're awesome being on top of your forums!
Hopefully they start working. When I got mine at the outlets they did scan mine. I know we bought ours for much less than they were in December but it would be a letdown if only the ones sold at the outlets don't work.
BTW…I noticed they filled the basket back up with more LE christmas party bands this weekend. They must have a lot more in stock than expected. It makes sense that now they only make 2500 instead of 4000.
Not only were they less expensive, but they were supposed to be exclusive to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party guests only. Maybe that is why they aren't turning on the lights/sounds for Outlet buyers.
Yes, the change to 2500 makes a lot of sense. I hope they keep with these lower numbers as it makes them more exclusive.
I completely agree that they should be more exclusive.
I did speak with a few of the Disney Store employees at the outlets who did say that in the past they have sold some of the leftover LE bands but didn't have near as many as there currently is for the LE Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party MagicBands.
Yesterday, the MVMCP MagicBand finally worked but only at Pirates of the Caribbean.
This was after I spoke with one of the guest service agents in Magic Kingdom to make sure the MagicBand was linked properly in their system. But they aren't able to check if the special effects are turned on or off unfortunately.
The bands lights and sounds finally worked today at entrance and fast pass points. Very happy since I believed we got duds at the outlet store.


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Posted on October 24, 2019 March 13, 2020 by Lien Pham
International education (IE) is an old idea – a phenomenon that emerged in the 19th century to today. I argued in my book that the evolution of IE has shifted from government to institutions as provider of IE, but the intention for IE has always been political and political economy underpinned by sovereign or institutional interests and power.
Broadly speaking, IE can be seen in three waves.
The first wave
This wave lasts from late 19th century to last decade of the 20th century, where states plays the central role in IE. In 1851, nation states began to see the idea of education beyond sovereign boundaries, which led to the World Fairs in London, an international congress on education in Paris, and the first international school system in Europe.
Japan followed in 1868 as part of the Meiji restoration that saw education from international resources to promote the welfare of the Empire.
In 1893, the USA hosted the Columbian Exposition in Chicago that included a significant gathering of international educators from many countries in Europe, Australia, Chile and Uruguay. This was followed by an explosion of business and professional groups operating with international connections and the rise of international schools across the world.
From 1920s through the 1950s, various international organisations backed by nation states were created to research and promote the idea of education for human development, for example the World Federation of Education (WFE) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Although these movements were based on political rationale of the states, there were nationalist sentiment as well as removing national prejudices. What is common is the idea of education for a "common humanity" and the heart of training scholars for international understanding and internationally minded person with an international outlook was at the core.
In the first period after World War II, IE leaned towards education at the tertiary level and furthered the political rationale of nation states in the context of global conflicts. IE was championed by states on humanitarian aims of improving people's understanding of each other to achieve peace and for developed countries to gain solidarity with developing countries.
The Australian Colombo program is one example. Born out of the 1950 Commonwealth Meeting on Foreign Affairs, the Colombo Plan sought to train overseas students in Australia as part of Australia's Technical Co-Operation Scheme. Its deeper political ambitions were aligned with Australia's geopolitical contexts, particularly Australia's role in the US alliance whose main concerns at that time were containing the two communist powers China and the Soviet Union.
It was also a tool for other diplomatic negotiations about trade and to raise Australia's reputation in the South East Asian region, particularly to demonstrate absence of racial discrimination in Australia's foreign policies to counter regional and international reactions against policies like White Australia Policy in 1967.
Colombo scholarships were awarded based on Australia's foreign policy interest, for example, Indonesian students under the goodwill mission of Indonesia to Australia in negotiation for economic trades with Indonesia.
Another objective was to train public servants and educated electorate of countries of the new independent States in the Asian region and further African States, assuming these trained officials can enable political democracy in their countries.
The second wave
The second wave begins in the 1980s through to the early 21st century. This wave marked the shift of strategic thinking and transformation at the institutional level from the government level.
In Europe, embedded exchange and mobility programme began with the European Commission's pilot of the European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS) in 1981.
The Bologna declaration in 1999 by European Ministers of Education furthered the notion of openness across borders to allow students to access mobility. Universities became competitive in offering IE.
As with the first wave, Australia followed the world trend, and along with globalisation and pursuit of institutional competition, Australian universities became strong players in the IE industry. For Australia, IE shifted from political tools of the state to economic tools of universities partly to improve reduced public funding. Market forces in international education and ranking of universities on a global scale has seen a focus on marketisation, competition and management of student mobility and provider mobility. Many universities now have off shore campus and translation educational programs in addition to recruiting international students their campus in host countries.
IE has shifted from political rationale for the state to political economy of universities. Delivery of IE is now part of every university's strategic plan as internationalisation strategy. IE is now seen as a market-based commodity to prop up the ranking and financial position of universities – an idea that falls far from the values of IE for understanding and world citizenship in the early days of its evolution.
It should be noted that the commodification of IE is not a one way process. Treating it as a market exchange, IE is also seen in terms of supply and demand. While universities are increasing their supply of IE, the demand for IE by international students, families and their governments is also increasing, albeit each of these stakeholders have very different motivations to enter the market. What is common is the idea of "knowledge economy" that justify pursuit of IE, where the outcome of IE is about improving human capital for labour market of developing countries that are in the process of industrialisation. Interesting, none of the stakeholders including universities seem to be very interested in researching whether such outcomes actually eventuate.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, some emerging economies, for example China, Malaysia, Thailand, even Vietnam, are entering the IE market. Some of these countries pursue IE to raise the profile of their cultural heritage on the global stage as a form of 'soft power', for example, China has offered free classes in different parts of the world to teach Mandarin or Chinese languages to anyone who wants them especially planning business opportunities in the country. Confucian institutes located in many universities across the world is another example. In these cases, the assumption for IE in the Asian region is a form of cultural rationale to be gained from student exchange programmes or intra-institutional cultural activities for transcontinental influence.
Is this rationale different to the ERASMUS and Bologna movement in the first wave where one could argue that policy contexts of these large-scale policy developments reflected the Commission's mission to firmly constitute and reconstitute higher education as a European policy domain?
The reaction to this phenomenon, particularly the rise of the Chinese (both the state and the students) in IE, suggest that there is a difference.
In Australia, there is a view that the Chinese doing IE with intentions contrary to Australian universities who do IE, in that the former emphasises institutional identities with nationalist ideologies, whereas the latter respond to economic imperatives and institutional ranking.
This wave is different to the others in the media's serious role in debating about the deliberation of IE. For example, Four Corners ran a story on Australian universities viewing international students as cash cows by lowering admission and assessment standards for international students and make billions of dollars. Unsurprising, many IE providers reacted negatively against such framing. This story also led to an academic, who spoke up about admission standards of Murdoch University, being termed whistle-blower and sued by Murdoch University (MU) for their subsequent drop of international students. This then led to public campaign for MU to remove the lawsuit and uphold freedom of speech.
There's also the story reported in mainstream media including the ABC, SBS, SMH, the Australian, that drew on Salvatones Babone's (who is an academic working at Sydney University) opinion piece about the China student boom and risks it poses to Australian universities. This story also received many backlash from academics in the IE sector on issues of framing IE.
Most recently, Foreign Correspondent reported on an investigation by the government into foreign interference in Australian universities. The claims of this piece include cybersecurity referring to massive data hack at the ANU and China suspected to be behind the hack; theft of research and intellectual property referring to Australian universities receive extra support to curb foreign interference in their institutions and research projects; campus security referring to confrontations between students who clashed views on China and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong at the University of Queensland.
These stories told through the media have a common base of contention. Australian universities are too reliant on international students and are not doing enough to combat China's influence. They are at risk of being complacent about the threats that they face, suggesting that countries – China – that send students or engage in international collaboration is looking at IE as a way to acquire knowledge, skills and intellectual property and use these acquired resources for their nationalistic mission rather than for the greater global good or for the good of Australia.
So, it seems that the concern is about political rationale of IE, to be specific, China's political ambitions for sending students to Australia, or engaging with researchers in Australia.
But has political rationale, or political economy rationale, always been the intention for Australia and Australian universities, as with the Europe and North America, to engage in IE as seen in the first two waves? What is different here?
Perhaps it's because the media has caught on to the game.
Or is it that the Australian media, or we as a society, have a problem with who can have the power in enacting the political intention behind IE. Do we have a problem with our universities selling education to further Australia's means or do we have a problem with countries buying our education so that they can further their own means?
Perhaps there are simply too many people in the game now, all with different stakes in the game and different ways of maintaining their stakes by advancing some ideologies about IE.
Whatever it is, IE has indeed entered the third wave – politicisation – and everybody has something to say or something to protect.
The first two waves are extracted from chapter 2 International Education: A Potential for Ethical Development of my book on international graduates returning to Vietnam
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Ways to Get Canadian Permanent Residency in 2023
5 Ways to Get Canadian Permanent Residency in 2023
Due to labor shortages, Canada has been trying to attract more immigrants in recent years. In fact, Canada had set a target of attracting 401,000 new permanent residents in 2021 – a goal that was undoubtedly bold. Not only did the country achieve this goal though, but it also set a more audacious one for 2022 – 411,000 new permanent residents.
So if there ever was a time to move to Canada, this is it. The government is eager to recruit you and the opportunities are endless. This is particularly true for occupations like hospitality that have experienced a great exodus of workers who have either switched to other jobs or upskilled.
Most Popular Ways to Permanent Residency in Canada
If you're thinking of moving to Canada, we have some good news for you – there are several ways you can become a permanent resident. Five of them are:
The Express Entry system is one of the best ways to immigrate to Canada. This system usually accepts applications online and uses a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) to rank candidates applying for three programs:
Federal Skilled Trades Program
To apply, all you have to do is submit an online profile to the Express Entry pool – this is also known as an Expression of Interest. If you rank highly compared to other candidates, you will receive an Invitation to Apply for permanent residence. If you receive this, you will have 90 days to submit your application and pay processing fees.
Currently, almost all of Canada's provinces and territories run nominee programs that allow people to move there. For instance, provinces like British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario have programs that often fast-track the immigration process. However, to be eligible for most of these programs, you'll need to have a job offer from a Canadian employer.
This is because these programs are usually designed to attract immigrants who will boost the province's local economy. As such, it's always a good idea to apply for provinces where your skills are in high demand. While some of these programs usually nominate candidates through the Express Entry pool, others require you to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to them.
International students can also become permanent residents of Canada. To do this though, they first have to come under a study permit. Later on, they can apply for a Post-Graduation work permit before eventually applying for permanent residence through the Express Entry system.
Since this process is quite straightforward, it's not surprising that Canada gets more than 350,000 international students each year. To be eligible to be one of them though, there are some requirements you have to fulfill. These include:
Being accepted by a Canadian educational institution
Having no criminal record
Being healthy and willing to get a medical examination
Having enough funds to pay for tuition, return transportation, and living expenses
Being willing to leave Canada at the end of their authorized stay
After getting a study permit, you can work in Canada in the following places:
On-campus – no work permit is required
Off-campus – a work permit is required
At internships that count as part of the academic curriculum – a work permit is required
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This program recruits entrepreneurs from outside Canada and connects them with Canadian business incubators, angel investor groups, and venture capital funds. This is all done to facilitate the establishment and growth of start-up businesses in the country. To be eligible for this program though, an entrepreneur must have:
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If you're an international graduate working in Canada under a Post-Graduation work permit, your work experience can help you apply for permanent residence under the Express Entry system. Other factors that can earn you points under the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) include:
Your language proficiency
A Canadian job offer that is supported by a positive Labor Market Impact Assessment (LMIA)
A provincial nomination for permanent residence
The education and language proficiency of your spouse/common-law partner
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Did the Captain Fly 9 Years Past Retirement Age?
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Did airline captain Thomas Good fly right by the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots? The Federal Aviation Administration would like to know. To some of his fellow aviators at American Eagle's Executive Air Good is already a legend.
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Good failed to respond to messages sent to him through Facebook. Pilots who claim to have flown with him say the pilot, who is believed to be 69, was nabbed when authorities noticed a discrepancy on his documents that called his age into question. The mandatory retirement age for airline pilots is 65 after being raised from 60 to conform with the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
If Capt. Good's former co-workers are correct, the regional pilot would have been 4 years past the mandatory retirement age when it was raised in 2007.
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A spokeswoman for American Airlines said "Thomas Good is no longer employed by Executive Airlines" and declined further comment saying it was a personnel matter.


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Q: What methods of forecasting should I be looking at to forecast sales? I am wanting to forecast sales of different products within a business.
I have a good background in mathematics (but mainly focused on analysis, group theory, algebra etc. as opposed to statistics).
I also have some experience in Python + related libraries (pandas, numpy, tf, keras) so anything that could use that would be nice.
The information I have is like:

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*Previous sales (including when and how much)

*number of customers that  are eligible to buy the product

*how big the customer is

*etc...

I do have access to a lot of potentially related information that could be used but I don't know what to choose.
I have considered doing maybe some kind of seasonal time series (as I suspect there is some seasonality in some products) like ARIMA but I am not sure at all.
Also I want to make it quite simple to begin with I don't want to get carried away with fancy statistical methods that are maybe a) don't understand or b) are not even applicable in my scenario.
I am wanting suggestions of areas/methods/techniques that I could look into that may prove useful.
I don't have terrible amounts of data (on average I would say 3 years of data with 12 points per year [sales in month]) so presumably that would make a difference.
Any advice is appreciated and if clarification is needed let me know.
Thanks.

A: 36 months of data can often be useful in forming a model. Initially, you might want to develop arima type model that incorporates trends, level shifts, and memory while dealing with unusual values.
Secondly, you might investigate adding user-suggested causal variables to your model. These models are an extension and are often referred to as Dynamic Regression OR Transfer Functions or SARMAX models .. https://autobox.com/pdfs/SARMAX.pdf  .
Search on SE to find out more about these approaches. You might also post an actual data set and ask for some help.

A: I would start by looking through the excellent free online book Forecasting: Principles and Practice (2nd ed.) by Athanasopoulos & Hyndman. It leverages the equally excellent forecast package for R, which allows you to automatically build ARIMA or Exponential Smoothing models and forecasts very easily.
With only 36 data points, there is really not much to work with, except for very blatant influences (for which you could look to the xreg parameter for forecast::auto.arima()), so if you want to get more fancy, you would probably have to invest quite some domain knowledge.

A: Simple Models
If you are looking for simple models I would test these:

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*Linear Regression

*Exponential Smoothing with seasonality

*Seasonal ARIMA models

*Rule of thumb methods: seasonal naive method, seasonal mean, simple mean.

These models should help you in assessing a baseline for the model performance. I believe models 1-2-3 are already implemented in the statsmodels library. Depending on how granular your forecast needs to be, you might want to perform a hierarchical forecast. I've used a top-down hierarchical approach for a client (Fashion Retail) that needed forecasts for both product categories and single skus inside the category.
Moreover, these models have the advantage of being more transparent and interpretable compared to machine learning models. If your model produces crazy non-sensical predictions, it's much easier to debug them.
Machine Learning Algorithms
If you don't have constraints for model transparency/interpretability, you can employ some Machine Learning algorithms, such as:

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*Gradient Boosted Tree Methods (lightgbm, catboost, xgboost, sklearn libraries): these methods don't need a ton of data to be effective, so they should work with monthly observations. It took me a while to study the math behind them, but you don't really need to know how they work to get predictions from them. These libraries are also well documented and there are a ton of examples online.

*Neural networks: they have been employed succesfully both in literature and in online competitions. They usually need a lot of data to shine, though. If you never used them before, I'd try the other models first. However if you are not doing this stuff for work, I suggest you check them out because in my opinion they make use of very interesting concepts and ideas.

*Ensemble models: they combine the predictions of different models, for example by using the average or the median of your models' predictions. This can usually improve your forecast, especially if there is low correlation between the prediction errors of the different models. Of course, it is more time consuming to maintain more than one model in production.

Data

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*You should avoid including data features that can't be predicted with a reasonable amount of accuracy. For example, if you have information about daily temperature/weather, you can easily see its effect on past sales, but you can't really use weather forecasts for predicting far into the future, because weather forecasts become unreliable after 3 days in the future.

*Promotional activities heavily impact sales. They can also be planned in advance, so if you can get your hands on this data, try to assess if it can be beneficial to your model.

*Inventory/Stock out information: sometimes it can happen that your product is so in demand, that you run out. If you don't have any information about stock-outs, your demand data is "censored", and you have no way of knowing if you didn't sell because people didn't want to buy or because the product wasn't available. Note that there is a distinction between predicting Sales and Demand. Predicting sales is useful for forecasting financial performance, while predicting demand is useful for optimally allocating inventory.

*Holidays and special events. This information is probably not so useful if you have to generate a monthly forecast. It still might be useful if you have important festivities that sometimes fall in one month, and sometimes in the other (e.g. forecasting sales of Easter eggs and colomba cakes in Italy).

*Outlier removal techniques can be useful for improving the staibility (and sometimes error metrics) of your forecast

Additional sources that I found useful (I wrote a thesis on demand forecasting 2 years)

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*https://otexts.com/fpp2/ My favorite book on forecasting (code implementations are in R, but I found equivalent Python tutorials/examples for most models)

*kaggle.com has a lot of great notebooks written by really smart and skilled people.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ABAU_V8qI Great video that explains the tradeoffs between complexity and predictive power of a model. It also has some neat "tricks" that can be used in forecasting (although not all are applicable for monthly time series).

Tips:

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*Make sure that your model/feature engineering choices are aligned with the granularity and forecasting horizon of the problem at hand.

*if you use Python and pandas to handle your data, the resample function is a great tool. It allows you to quickly aggregate data in periods of specified length (for example, weekly, monthly, quarterly) with just one line of code.

*Transforming the target variable before fitting the model can be useful. For example, if you try to estimate the variable y = log(Sales) and then do an inverse transformation, you can ensure that your predictions are positive.

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