Bits I liked: Twilight rising into the ceiling while stressing about her check list; crash landing into the library (copy RD but with her own trademark move); Discord singing in the shower, and using Gummy as a nail file (and Discord in general); Rarity's trials as a cat owner; Pinkie sense with giant plant. There was also some very slick action scenes with Celestia fighting Nightmare Moon, and the Mane 6 battling rabid rhododendrons.
Little bit of world building. Fully evolved, fully empowered Twilight Sparkle the Alicorn fully realized (meaning sparkly mane and everything and full size like Celly and having full access to her divine knowledge and wisdom), from the Prime Pony POV Verse timeline, is the only entity in the Pony POV Verse who CAN bring back the dead, the only one who can overrule Mortis.
But even she has restrictions. And I imagine using this power recklessly WOULD earn Mortis' ire.
So I will restrict this post to commenting on just two best ponies.
As promised, the new chapters for Princess Twilight Sparkle and her curious love life are out! Go read!
WARNING: The following blog post contains spoilers. If you have not yet watched this episode, I would recommend watching it before you read this post. It spoils several plot elements, at least one of which is much more effective if you aren't already aware of it.
Everyone gone who needs to be gone? Good.
Just a fair warning, this will be a very rambly post about the history of this story, a little bit about my own personal history with the show and fandom, and a rough roadmap for the future. Maybe not necessarily in that order.
Magisight: Thaumaturgical Ocularity will have 1 new chapter posted every Thursday between the hours of 6 PM and midnight US Central time.
Chapter 1 of my story will FINALLY be uploaded on Thursday, February 28th. Since I work M-F, all fanfic updates and postings will be between 6 PM and midnight, US central time, on Thursdays, but rest assured, it IS coming!
Wew, what a week. First I'd like to apologize for the late upload on Thursday. It was a 50 hour work week (10 hour shift) so by the time I got done, I was pretty wiped out. Combined with taking time to do last minute proof reading, slight tweaks, eat dinner, and such, it was pushing close to my bed time when I uploaded it. Unfortunately, chapter 7 later this week might be the same way, but it'll still be on Thursday.
As we all know, Flurry Heart most likely will be replacing Princess Skyla seeing as how we all assumed she was going to be Cadances daughter, mainly due to her color scheme, But I just had this crazy thought, what if Skyla was never supposed to be Cadances Daughter at all.
So it's 1:30 in the morning and I decided to go ahead and start publishing some of the short stores I've written alongside my main project. First up is a story I wrote as a Christmas gift for a friend during the Manechat Discord server's Secret Santa event. Just a silly little story involving Bionicles with an MLP twist at the end, all in good fun (I also know absolutely nothing about Bionicle and had about 15 tabs open on their Wikia as a cheat sheet.).
I know not many people follow me, but I thought I'd go ahead and post this anyway since a very small number of people may be following me for my Twilight story I have in the works, so I thought I'd just give people an update and such.
WHOOPS I totally didn't make a blog post last week, and I totally meant to.
Things are starting to kick into high gear now, aren't they? I know chapter 4 was shorter than normal, and chapter 5 was a bit longer, so hopefully the length disparity wasn't too jarring for anyone. Honestly when I went back to re-read chapter 4 before publishing it, I was a little surprised at just how short it was.
Like clockwork, chapter 3 is now live! Go check it out if you haven't!
I said I'd speak about alicorns and so I shall. If there was ever an argument to be made against the rule of alicorns I think that the ponies of Equestria could make a clear and decisive case for it. It's not that they've generally meant ill will toward their subjects, it's just that they don't really do anything worthy of their lofty status as rulers.


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The Boys Who Never Grew Old
Sage Mrikandu prayed to Shiva for a son. Shiva appeared before him and asked, "Do you want an ordinary son or a perfect son who would not live more than sixteen years?"
Mrikandu thought, "If I ask for a perfect son, he would die at sixteen, but if I ask for an ordinary son, he would not be great." He chose a perfect son.
Soon his wife gave birth to a son whom they called Markendeya. He was a handsome, wise, and kind boy, perfect in every way.
A few days before his six teen birthday, Markandeya's parents told him that he would soon die. Markendeya said, "I will not die. " I will pray to Shiva." He worshipped Shiva every day. On his sixteenth birthday, Yama, the god of death, came to take him. Markandeya said, "Let me finish my prayer ." Yama got angry and threw the noose over him. Shiva appeared and ordered Yama back to his kingdom saying, "Don't return to earth."
Yama went away. Nobody died on earth after that. The earth became overcrowded Goddess Earth went to Shiva and said, "I am not able to carry this huge burden. Please send Yama to earth." When Lord Shiva refused, she went to Parvati for help. When Parvati repeated the request, Shiva said, "Yama has insulted my devotee." Parvati said, "Maybe you meant that Markandeya will always remain sixteen, but that foolish Yama misunderstood." Shiva was happy. He sent Yama to earth again. Markandeya always remained sixteen.

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Michigan Singers started in 1980. We are young people from all over Michigan who like to sing and play instruments in order to grow and witness for God. Our practices start in September and continue once a month leading up to our concert season. Then in March, we begin doing concerts on one weekend a month until we reach the pinnacle of our season - a week-long tour taking place in July. The average age of our choir members is approximately 16 years old. We travel with about 10 adult staff but varies based on how many choir members we have.
Michigan Singers have performed at Mt. Rushmore, the Grand Canyon as well as many churches and parks throughout the United States. We are a highly motivated group with a purpose. Our hope is that attending one of our worship concerts is an exciting experience that leaves you feeling hopeful, loved, and full of joy.
Our group is under the direction of Pastor Richard Forsman of Grand Junction, Michigan. He has been directing young choirs and musicals since 1961, having premiered some of the first contemporary Christian musicals.
"Working with young people who love music and most of all have a relationship with God is the most exciting thing I can think of." says Forsman, who is now 82 years old. "The young people amaze everyone with their commitment and witness. Each young person must sign a commitment form as well as provide a pastoral and music reference. They are responsible to learn their music and choreography and participate in at least one other task with the group. They pay a good share of their own expenses along with money donated from churches and individuals."
We travel with all our own sound and lighting equipment. Music is provided by a band of professional musicians that are also committed to this ministry.
Over 1,000 young people have participated in the Michigan Singers since it started over 38 years ago, and the ministry continues to this day.
Does this sound like something you'd like to be a part of? Applications are accepted for students over the age of 13. Become a part of a ministry that will change your life and change the lives of others.
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States Collaborate to Combat Health Worker Shortage
Apr. 28, 2022 |
14 states join National Governors Association (NGA) program focused on strategies to grow and retain the next generation of the health care workforce.
WASHINGTON – California, Colorado, Missouri and Wyoming are among 14 states participating in the Next Generation of the Healthcare Workforce Learning Collaborative, a new effort launched by NGA's Center for Best Practices.
During the six-month project, Governors' offices and other senior state officials across health, education and workforce development agencies will join forces to develop innovative and evidence-based policies, programs, and practices to strengthen an enduring health care workforce. An additional 10 states – Alabama, Connecticut, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Wisconsin and West Virginia – are members of a broader Next Gen Knowledge Exchange Network, which will have access to Learning Collaborative resources and discussions.
"Every state is facing health workforce challenges, and the pandemic has revealed how quickly the challenge can become a crisis when the system is strained – especially for rural communities," said Timothy Blute, director of the NGA Center. "Governors are leading on this critical issue, and we look forward to working with states to develop and share creative solutions."
Capt. Sheila Pradia-Williams, senior advisor and director of Strategy, Programs and Partnerships for the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Bureau of Health Workforce, spoke at the Learning Collaborative kick-off event April 27, providing an overview of the bureau's efforts to grow, diversify and sustain the health care workforce.
"HRSA's workforce programs help communities recruit and retain quality primary care clinicians, nurses, mental health and substance use providers, community health workers, and other critical health care providers committed to providing care where they're needed most," said Pradia-Williams. "Since we know that those who train in rural and medically underserved settings are more likely to practice in those settings, HRSA continues to work across its programs to expand community-based training."
Nearly 20% of the health care workforce have left positions since the beginning of the pandemic, with an additional 20% contemplating leaving positions as of February 2020.
Governors are advancing multiple strategies to address the compounding effects of these losses, diminished morale among health care workers, and looming generational retirements. This includes creating new career pathways and training programs for key occupations such as certified nursing assistants, raising wages for direct care workers, and establishing workgroups to devise comprehensive, statewide strategies for addressing current and future career flight.
During a series of virtual and in-person convenings in multiple states, Learning Collaborative participants will work together to assess their current operating environment; share successes and best practices; learn from national, state, and local experts; exchange ideas with other states; and develop and execute an action plan to achieve program and policy change based on state-identified goals.
The Learning Collaborative will publish findings and recommendations later this year. The NGA is grateful to the Health Resources and Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for their generous support for this project.
For additional information about this learning collaborative, please reach out to Shelby Hockenberry SHockenberry@NGA.org and Amanda Winters AWinters@NGA.org.
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I had a 105 series Alfa Romeo GTV2000 (beautiful car) it gave you @ 30 seconds to find a fuel station when the low fuel warning light came on!
I trawled through my photos and managed to find a couple of the "thing" and its positioning. One is a really old photo and not very good quality, the other shows it was still there when I primed the engine bay some years later (where it disappeared to I have no idea!). I have highlighted it in the photos. I am pretty sure this is the fuel delay unit positioned as I remember it, but who's to say if that is factory correct?
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Hi Olivier, many thanks for the info. My car is right hand drive, so the washer pump is on the passenger/left hand side (as a matter of fact it is already fitted!). So I don't think the washer pump goes in the area highlighted in my photos.
But thanks for the contribution!
Here's an update on the "location of the fuel delay relay debate". I was at Robsport today and they had a very rusty yellow FHC parked up (interestingly, with a very similar registration/licence plate number to mine, and the same year). A cursory peek under the bonnet and I found the fuel delay unit right there, in the engine bay as per my car.
So, for the benefit of future visitors seeking enlightenment on the same topic (and originality) it would appear the unit was at some stage fitted there at the factory, before being moved some time later to inside the car on the instrument pack. Mystery solved?
Sorry, I just can't get photos to upload at the moment. Will keep trying.
09/04/19 edit - still can't attach photos, no matter how much I re-size them.
11/04/19 edit - hurrah! The site now accepts photos. Many thanks to whoever fixed this glitch.


For years, American cigar enthusiasts have been familiar with cigars from the "Big 3" countries of Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. Casual cigar smokers rarely take the time to research where their cigar actually comes from, but one of the amazing things about the cigar industry is having the opportunity to try cigars that blend together tobacco from different regions and countries in perfect harmony, creating just the right flavor.
Cigar enthusiasts who delve deeper soon realize there are many other countries which produce cigar tobacco. While tobacco is grown as far north as Canada and as far south as New Zealand, the best cigar tobacco comes from the regions between the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer. Countries such as Ecuador, Cameroon, Colombia, Brazil, and the United States provide tobaccos of varying flavors, adding greatly to the composition of many premium cigars.
Among cigar- and cigar tobacco-producing nations, Mexico has suffered a less-than-stellar reputation. Until the mid-1990s, tough import restrictions and tariffs on tobacco in Mexico limited most manufacturers to producing puros, or cigars made entirely of Mexican tobacco. While it was not illegal to import tobacco to be used in cigar production, Mexican laws made it both costly and difficult to do so; applicants were required to supply exhaustive information to the Department of Agriculture on the tobacco crop, down to what types of fertilizers and pesticides were used. The process sometimes took up to six months, and many companies simply chose not to bother.
Puros Santa Clara's brands include Capa Flor, Madrigal, and Veracruz, among others.
Despite the time-consuming import process, the quality and reputation of Mexican cigars have benefited greatly. That's not to say that its tobacco isn't also world-class.
The San Andreas region of Mexico, located in the southeastern part of the country on the Gulf, boasts some of the finest soil in the world for tobacco production. Enriched by the region's volcanoes, the soil yields leaf that is tough and is used by a number of non- Mexican cigar makers as a binder for maduro cigars. The Romeo y Julieta Viejo employs a Mexican wrapper, and is one worth trying for all cigar enthusiasts. Other brands such as Montecristo, Gispert, and Saint Luis Rey use Mexican wrappers on their cigars. The La Aroma De Cuba Mi Amor, produced in Nicaragua by Don Pepin Garcia, also uses a Mexican wrapper, and has earned nearly universal praise.
While it has also long been rumored that Padrón uses a Mexican wrapper on their 1000s and Anniversary series, the company has gone on record as saying that this is categorically not true.
The history the Mexican cigar extends back to the Mayans, who used to smoke tobacco in pipes, as well as in loosely-rolled bundles resembling a primitive cigar. Today there exist dozens of cigar makers in Mexico. Some still use nothing but Mexican tobacco in their cigars; others blend tobacco from various countries together. Brands such as A. Turrent, Te Amo, Mito de San Andreas, and Julio Cesar all either produce cigars in Mexico, or use Mexican tobacco extensively in their blends.
The A. Turrent Puro Corojo is made in Nicaragua but uses Mexican cigar tobacco in the filler as well as for the binder. Contrary to the name, it is not a true puro, but it is a fantastic cigar that showcases the flavor and strength of Mexican tobacco very well.
Of the companies that actually produce their cigars in Mexico, the most well known is probably Te Amo. Known throughout 1970s New York City as the "cab driver's cigar," it is commonly overlooked due to its reputation as a cheap cigar. Te Amo Cigars are made in Mexico by the Turrent family, one of the oldest families in the cigar industry. They have consistently produced some of the best tobacco in the world, and the leaf used for the Te Amo is no exception. These are quality cigars that have a great price point and are perfect to enjoy while playing a round of golf or working in the yard.
Mexican tobacco and cigars are some of the hidden gems of the cigar industry and hopefully, before long, people will venture out of their comfort zones and try something different. That's one of the best things about being a cigar lover: trying something new, something different, something that you may have never heard of, and falling in love with it. It happens every day in the cigar world.
A number of online retailers utilize Mexican-made cigars as exclusive house-blend cigars. They are cheaper than Dominican, Honduran, or Nicaraguan cigars, but offer great consistency and flavor, appealing to a wide range of cigar enthusiasts.
We all have those friends who say, "I only smoke Cubans," or "I only smoke Dominicans". These people are missing out big time. Today, country of origin matters less than ever. What truly matters is the quality of the tobacco, the blend, and the construction. For your friends who have a strong allegiance to one country of origin or another, try a test. Get a Te Amo cigar, take off the band, and have them smoke it. If they have an open mind, they'll likely enjoy it and be amazed when they find out where it's made, as well as its price point.
Despite the constant battle with cigar taxes, smoking bans, and FDA regulation, there has never been a better time to be a cigar enthusiast. With so many great brands and blends coming out these days, it's hard to keep up. Try something new, and you just may discover a new favorite!
There are many benefits to the rectangular shape of box-pressed cigars. Learn how they're made, and try our 10 recommendations for great box-pressed cigars!


Welcome to the Deer Valley Elementary Library!
Our library features 15,000+ books, ebooks, audiobooks, and state-of-the-art technology. We serve as a resource for hundreds of students in grades K-5 along - as well as our Faculty/Staff. Our library was recently updated and is no longer just a place to check out books. Students come here for class once every week. Other times, they come to the library to work on projects, usually involving research and technology. The library offers Makerspaces for students to collaborate, create, and self-explore. Also, grandparents in the community volunteer weekly in the library to enhance learning. Our hours are Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.


Find out some common home technology myths and the actual truths behind them.
With the weather heating up, you may be strongly considering upgrading parts or all of your home for summer entertaining.
At DIgital Interiors in Alpharetta Georgia, we are the experts in home automation and making all of your systems seamlessly work together in the most convenient way for you. One thing that may be holding you back from upgrading your home are some common myths surrounding home automation, so we would like to take a moment to educate you on some home automation truths.
Myth #1: My home must be new to install smart technology: At Digital Interiors we work with all kinds of homes, from recent construction to those built fifty years ago. Our experts will sit down and discuss the process with you, to come up with the best solution for your situation.
Myth #2: I'm not "tech-savvy" enough to use home technology systems: Anyone can use our systems, regardless of "tech-savviness." One of our professionals will make sure you know how to work all of your systems and are comfortable with them before we leave. Contact Us today to learn more!
Myth #3: I only need one Wi-Fi point for my entire home: Having one Wi-Fi point may be okay if it is strong enough, but often, for large homes, it is better to have multiple points. This will help all your systems work optimally and efficiently. Ask one of our design consultants all about it when you speak with them today!
If you are interested in learning more about integrated home automation or any of our products or services, please do not hesitate to give us a call. One of our associates will be happy to assist you, and remember Digital Interiors for all of your home automation needs!
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An AI assistant that helps medical students grow communication skills based on real-life conversations in the hospital.
Today's medical students and physicians struggle to gain medical communication skills due to the suboptimal learning tools throughout their education.
Ora, a medical communication assistant that leverages AI's natural language processing capability to help medical students prepare, practice, and evaluate their communication skills based on their real conversations in the hospital.
I worked primarily on the in-hospital interactions – smart watch and voice/audio UX/UI.
The smart watch enables hands-free access to personalized learning materials and instant feedback in the hospital.
Before any conversation, the student can view a list of best practice items populated by Ora based on what the student has recently learned or felt short on.
After the conversation, Ora provides speech evaluations by topics and clarifies the specific terms and behaviors that cause conversation breakdown.
The ear bud collects the student's conversation upon the patient's approval and provides access to Ora's virtual assistant.
During the conversation, the ear bud sends out distinguishable sound notification as in-moment correction without major interruption.
Ora's voice assistant offers detailed feedback for any past conversation and creates the student's learning schedule upon request.
The tablet is the principle learning tool for any at-home learning.
At home, the student practices with the virtual avatar based on real (anonymized) conversations he/she had during the day. The student may also see his/her learning progress and review learning modules as needed.
I provided support in CX design and feature development.
How to measure success in learning?
Please see our final presentation for more feature-specific information.
Given the prompt "design a system that is a symbiosis of learning and AI", we employed different research techniques to identify and narrow down opportunity areas.
Once we defined the domain – learning for medical students, we conducted a series of exploratory research – including interviews, surveys, literature reviews, and market research in the medical education field.
The synthesis of the early exploratory research was a rigorous 6-step process that started with a wall of "insights" extracted from exploratory research, ran through two rounds of affinity mapping, one round of 2x2 matrix, and the final set of design principles.
After the synthesis we were able to further scope our project – we determined the learner, the learning type, the problem statement, and the design principles.
This stage involved four research activities to identify challenges for rotation students. With the learning, we established personas to better capture their pain points.
We started with looking into existing communication learning methods in medical schools – what worked and what didn't work? and for what type of students? We found that no one method can satisfy all success factors.
After defining our target design audience, we conducted a text-based diary study to eight 3rd and 4th year medical students to learn about the specific communication challenges in their current rotations.
We also created a summary for each participant based on their identified stress level with different hospital personnels. We later used these profiles as the foundation for persona building (see synthesis section).
Together, we identified common high- and low-stress scenarios and learned about medical students' own reflection on communication improvement.
Followed by the diary study, we launched a participatory workshop at UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) to understand how medical students may use creative tools to come up with solutions to their specific communication challenges.
We interviewed a total of 20 medical professionals – 4 medical students, 3 residents, 3 physicians, and 10 nursing students. Feedback from non-medical students were particularly insightful for us to understand their challenges from all perspectives.
Based on the previous research, we created two student personas and two corresponding AI personas. The student personas capture the unique challenges and priorities for weak-communication-skill students who have strong and weak medical knowledge. The AI personas reflected the personas' needs in the personality design and teaching styles.
Based on the persona study, we started looking further into the needs and challenges to include "existing teachers (doctors and residents)" into the communication learning framework.
We were aware of how drastically different the the user experience and flow in these two scenarios would be, and decided to focus more on the less collaboration model as we continued our design iterations.
In this stage we used storyboards to get initial green light for our concepts and iterated on the products to gradually increase fidelity.
Based on pain points and creative ideas emerged in the generative research, we went through three sets of design iterations involving six paper storyboards and one "video storyboard".
The video storyboard was most useful in helping medical students envision and critique the concept during speed-dating. The feedback became much more concrete and actionable.
In the design process thus far, we thought that this learning system had to involve the rotation students as well as the residents and doctors to be successful – but is it true? We knew that most residents already didn't have time to attend rotation students and that most rotation students felt the need to "prove" to the residents who grade them at the end of rotations.
Considering all the above, we decided that our minimal viable product would be a learning system for students only and iterated from this direction.
When we initially designed the user/AI flow, we kept our options open in terms of interfaces – including both screen and voice. Started with a very sophisticated system, we worked our way to simplify the flow, clarify evaluation criteria, and identify the most suitable interfaces at each touch point.
The final design (before Wizard-of-Oz testing) featured a pre-convo checklist, simple in-convo "ding" notification, and a post-convo scoresheet.
Toggle below to compare the final vs. initial user flow design.
The design principles here are (1) succinct (2) hands-free (3) useful content. Through our iterations, smart watches turned out to be most preferable for checklists and scoreboards – the watches are personal, convenient, widely adopted, and hands-free.
Design iterations on smartwatch UI focused primarily on legibility and content.
While our in-convo intervention in the video storyboard received lukewarm feedback, we knew from literature review that making corrections right away was a key learning opportunity.
We explored a range of interfaces – haptic feedback from watch, voice (English phrases), and audio ("ding"). We knew we found the right "ding" when the user's conversation didn't appear disrupted when the cues were sent.
For the at-home training module, we wanted to explore how emerging technology can mediate the "not realistic" pain point for existing solutions. We also developed a tablet mode as the controlled group.
Note: I had little involvement in the design iterations of VR and tablet UI.
With our prototypes, we went to the hospital (UPMC) again and tested our concept with eight 3rd- and 4th- year medical students who individually participated in a 20-minute session.
Overall, the participants were very excited about the system and were more optimistic and open about certain privacy issues than we initially expected.
One surprise takeaway was that our "student-only" MVP was much preferred by the medical students.
We also reflected the feedback we got for in-hospital notifications on smart watch and voice. Voices (in-convo "dings") stayed relatively the same, while the smart watch messages underwent minor UI changes to increase glanciblity.
We have learned to make the most of existing resources by trying our best to harness local and remote participants and gave compensation for their time out-of-pocket. The resulting personas was very helpful to keep us in check and avoid "designer biases".
We spent a lot of time researching AI's capabilities and limitations. In the medical field, there are a lot of contextual learning challenges that can be difficult to address in AI. Nonetheless, we wanted to push the boundary and leverage the existing communication framework in academia to help students follow best practices.
During our design iterations, we had a hard time getting feedback on usability because our content weren't accurate. While we eventually overcame this with generous help from medical professionals, this experience highlighted the weakness of a designer-only team.
For me, I was humbled by our research findings that continued to prove wrong our assumptions, highlighting the importance of a research-based, iterative design process.
The critical next step would be circulating the idea with a larger group of stakeholders, including patients. We didn't reach out to patients for ethical concerns in the design process. However, their feedback would be key to future concept validation and iteration.


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Q: Execute code after 2 seconds in pure Kotlin I need to execute some code after two seconds of waiting (without blocking the UI thread). The problem is that this is usually resolved with Timer or Handler but my app is using Kotlin Multiplatform, so I need it to be just pure Kotlin, not any Java library.
I would also need to be able to cancel the timer if I want to.
I have seen this answer asking more or less the same but they solve it using:
runBlocking {
    println("Wait for 5sec")
    delay(5000)
    println("Done waiting for 5sec")
}

But I don't really know how to cancel it and also if this is blocking the rest of the app.

A: You could get a Job reference when launching coroutine. You could do something like this:
    val job = coroutineScope.launch {
        delay(1000)
        doYourStuff()
    }

After thay you can use job.cancel(), or what ever you need. Also, you can define coroutine scope like this.
CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.Main)

Or any other dispatcher that suits your needs.
Good luck.

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The copyright is assigned for the year 1949 to the author.
The copyright for the translation is assigned for the year 1972 to the publisher.
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The last page of the novel is not numbered.
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Anthem still fails to convince.
Start your engines, folks. E3 is well and truly underway with the EA Play conference kicking things off on Saturday evening, and it's fair to say that the show was, well, a bit of a mixed bag.
EA's E3 conferences have been almost universally mediocre over the years so that's not terribly surprising, though considering the long-awaited titles they had the opportunity to show off, it's pretty shocking how counter-intuitive the show's structure and delivery often seemed.
There were at least some neat reveals and even an intriguing nod to what the future of the gaming industry may hold, though huge chunks of the show were basically skippable and didn't offer up too much of interest for the majority of people watching.


Sidney Strauss received his PhD from the School of Education at Berkeley in 1967 and did two years postdoctoral work in the Psychology Department, also at Berkeley. He teaches in the School of Education (SOE) at Tel Aviv University (TAU) where he is the Branco Weiss Professor of Research in Child Development and Education. In the SOE, he twice served as chair of the Department of Child Development and Education and instituted a number of teaching programs in that capacity. By appointment, he established and served as the head of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at TAU. He has been the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Education from September 2005 and, in that capacity, is responsible for the ministry's research directions as well as serving as the coordinator for the ministry's planning and policy. His scholarly publications are in the areas of child development, teacher cognition, and the developmental, primatological and anthropological aspects of teaching.


I stumbled on This Sporting Life and decided to watch it despite the reliance on rugby ostensibly mixed with a love story. I assumed there would be English rugby culture and an emphasis on things that would go right past me. Sometimes I'm an idiot. After all, I plunge into all sorts of arcane matters with a free spirit. But- wait a minture- this has rugby in it- can't manage that.
And Richard Harris, too. He starred in Camelot, didn't he? Also, that movie from which the preview alone gave me nightmares as a child (A Man Called Horse)?
That This Sporting Life was a character study was no surprise. That it was brilliant and held my interest and I wanted more- well, unexpected. So, I wondered aloud- who made this film? Lindsay Anderson? And what else did he do?
He made how many films? That's all? Did he die young? Nope? Let's see what we have here. If… about a revolution at a private school? That is something that might appeal to me.
Needless to say, I plowed through the work of Lindsay Anderson with remarkable glee. He made a trilogy of films (the Mick Travis trilogy) in collaboration with Malcolm McDowell that get progressively weirder, which is saying something since If… is the first of them.
the paucity of movies as well as their content suggest someone who took a while to get interested and then worked hard to capture his vision. The mix of humor and horror with empathy and social commentary is definitely right up my alley. So, I tried to find out what I could about this one artist who no one had seemed to mention.
I discovered that plenty of people appreciated his work. More than that, a lot of people loved the man. You can find almost more about him as a person than as an artist from the various times that he comes up in stories. For example, I could just as easily have focused in on Malcolm McDowell here. Anderson and McDowell are powerfully linked, as documented by the latter in his one man show Never Apologize.
Anderson, in his films, rather captures that philosophy. As well, I tend to think that he lived his life from one activity or event to the next, but somehow well enough to have touched many lives. I never knew the man and I realize that I am being very presumptuous here, but that may just count as a way to live a truly artistic life.
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Meet Competition Finalist Francine Hackerott
By Maureen O'Connor, Tru Vue® Marketing Manager
Francine Hackerott thinks of her fellow custom framers and others in the industry as her "extended family." And the opportunity to share a story about her local community to her custom framing community that motivated her to enter this year's Tru Vue® Framing Competition.
"My entry is something that will go back out to my community, but I like that this competition is also about technical skills and creativity," said Francine.
A long-time proponent of conservation, Francine began taking preservation certification courses early in her 30-year career when conservation grade products were new to the industry.
"I'm a stickler for conservation," she said. "Framing is an investment. My focus is on enhancing the piece and making it timeless."
Conservation materials and the emphasis on preservation figure strongly into her design philosophy. Her favorite projects are ones that give her the opportunity to preserve a memory or history and showcase it in a beautiful way. She also impresses customers with her exceptional woodworking talents.
A native of Southern California where she began custom framing after graduating with a degree in graphic design, Francine moved to Arizona nearly 20 years ago and joined Frame & I six years ago after working in shops around the state.
Maureen O'Connor — Tru Vue Global Marketing Manager
Maureen A. O'Connor is a Global Marketing Manager in the independent custom framing channel with Tru Vue®. She has an MBA in Marketing and International Business and B.A in Art History.
For the past decade, Maureen has aided multiple small business clients in various industries with their marketing and business strategies with a focus on search engine optimization, social media strategies, and promotions. Maureen brings her love of art, design, and communications to her role at Tru Vue for creative solutions for the custom framing industry.


Lazy Seamstress: Late to the Banksia party!
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I've had this pattern for such a long time, but only got around to stitching it up this weekend.
I used a fabric I've had for an equally long time. A cotton blend of not great quality, but such a pretty pattern, I thought it would make a nice practice top to check for fit.
I cut out a size Large. I've gained a lot of weight recently and a fair amount has gone straight onto my chest and tummy. Checking the size chart I should have cut out an XL for my bust, grading down to a medium for my waist and hips.
If I were less lazy I should have cut out a medium and done a full bust adjustment, but I thought with such a loose fit style I'd risk splitting the difference and cut out a Large.
The gamble paid off, I'm pretty happy with the fit. The darts are in a good position and I like the loose style. I think possibly the neck could be smaller, but again I quite like the loose fit.
I cheated on the placket, and simply stitched my buttons right through without making button holes. The blouse fits easily over my head, and well to be honest it was getting dark out in my shed, and dinner was almost ready, I simply wanted to wear my blouse today.
I will definately make this blouse again, and I'm thinking of using some vintage fabric to make a dress version.
Thank you Barnicles, I don't think these photos are terribly flattering, but the best I could get with the self timer!
I think you look beautiful Jeanette (but I also know that weight is how you feel about yourself and not always about how others see you). The blouse is really nice, even if the fabric is not great it doesn't look like it in the photo's, the floral pattern has a nice combination of colours.


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Mahjongg was a band based in Columbia, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois. Formed by multi-instrumentalist Hunter Husar and guitarist Jeff Carrillo in 2001, their sound combined guitar, synthesizer and computer manipulations with dense rhythmic textures derived from Afrobeat, funk, and post-punk.

Mahjongg released three full-length albums: Raydoncong (2005), Kontpab (2008) and The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger (2010). They performed at the Pitchfork Music Festival and the Off Festival in Mysłowice, Poland. In December 2010 they played the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival curated by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

History
Mahjongg was formed in Columbia, Missouri in 2001 by University of Missouri students Hunter Husar and Jeff Carrillo. Drummer Josh Johannpeter and violinist/multi-instrumentalist Caryl Kientz joined the band later that year, and bassist Gabe Vijles was recruited just prior to a 2002 tour.

In 2004 Mahjongg released the EP Machinegong on Cold Crush Records, a label co-run by Pretty Girls Make Graves bassist Derek Fudesco. Fudesco had been so impressed by Mahjongg's demo that he signed the band without having seen them perform. That same year Mahjongg relocated to Chicago, Illinois, becoming part of the "Columbia Diaspora" which included bands such as Cave, Warhammer 48K, Londo Mondo and Waterbabies. Their first full-length album, Raydoncong, was released on Cold Crush in 2005.

Both Machinegong and Raydoncong received positive reviews, and in 2008 Mahjongg released their second album Kontpab on K Records. The title is a portmanteau of avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Kontra-Punkte" and the breakfast cereal Pablum. Vijles and Kientz left the band upon the release of Kontpab, to be replaced by Mikale De Graff and Dan Quinlivan. Carrillo moved to Nashville in 2008 and quit the band in 2009.

In 2008 Mahjongg released the single "Free Grooverider", which the band characterized as a protest song. Grooverider is a prominent drum 'n' bass DJ and producer who in 2008 was sentenced to four years imprisonment in Dubai for possessing marijuana.

From its inception, Mahjongg sought to break from post-punk conventions, incorporating Afrobeat rhythms, samples, dissonance and glitch into its sound. Everyone in the band sang, and Husar, De Graff and Quinlivin shared duties on synthesizer, computer manipulation, guitar and ancillary percussion. With the departure of principal guitarist Carrillo, the band moved towards a more dance-oriented sound. Their 2010 album Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger featured less guitar work and was more reliant on electronics and elements of techno and house music.

Mahjongg has collaborated with recording engineer Benjamin Balcom since 2003.  Together they built a studio called Minbal  which opened in February 2009.

Mahjongg played their last show with members De Graff, Quinlivan, and former guitarist Carrillo as part of the BitchPork festival on July 16, 2011. Founding members Hunter Husar and Josh Johannpeter formed a new two piece band in 2015 called "HUJO".

Other musical contributions
Mahjongg has played and recorded as Calvin Johnson's band the Hive Dwellers. Josh Johannpeter and Mikale De Graff are members of the band Lazer Crystal.

Discography

Albums
Raydoncong (Cold Crush Records, March 2005) - CD/LP
Kontpab (K Records, January 2008) - CD/LP
The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger (K Records, July 2010) - CD/LP

EPs and singles
Machinegong (Cold Crush Records, January 2004) – EP
"Free Groove Rider" - (K Records, November 2008) – Single

References

External links
krecs.com Mahjongg Label artist profile
Mahjongg on Myspace

Musical groups established in 2001
American experimental musical groups

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Itten studied and gained his doctorate at the Department of Geography of the UZH and did his post-doc at NASA. He was one of the five Swiss selected as candidates to become ESA astronauts. But it was Claude Nicollier who went into space, and Klaus Itten habilitated and pursued an academic career. He took over the Remote Sensing Laboratories from Harald Haefner and headed it until 2009.


Byron T. Shaw II has served as a director of the Company since 2013. Dr. Shaw has been the President of Byron Shaw LLC, a consulting firm providing diligence, strategy and execution advisory services focusing on automotive technology and related services, since 2012. From 2006 to 2012, Dr. Shaw worked at General Motors in various positions, most recently as Managing Director of the Silicon Valley Office for General Motors and General Motors Ventures LLC. From 1998 to 2003, he worked at BMW in various positions, including Principal Technology Engineer and Manager of Advanced Technology. Dr. Shaw currently serves on the Board of Directors or Advisory Board of several privately-held companies, including Smalltech LLC, Project Renovo, Qualia Networks, Auto Tech Ventures, Up Shift Cars and Rotary Wing Engine. Dr. Shaw received Bachelor of Science degrees and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering/controls from University of California, Berkeley.
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A look at the immigration policies of the four main parties show that actually, Ukip's policy is the most open towards non-white migration. For despite the howls of "racist" and now "Euracist" which are frequently thrown at our supporters and activitists, we are anti-uncontrolled immigration, writes UKIP Leader Nigel Farage.
• As Ukip continues to rise up the polls, the political establishment is sinking to even greater depths to smear us. The latest attack comes in the form of Barbara Roche, the former Labour immigration minister, who is setting up a cross-party group aimed at calling Ukip's election campaign and, by implication, everyone who supports it racist. It shows an astonishing lack of awareness of what voters are concerned about, in my opinion, and yet I am not surprised.
As I've been travelling around the country on my tour ahead of the European Elections, one thing has been consistent, aside from the packed venues: the rabble of left-wing protesters outside any venue, trying to stop people from taking part in the political process.
These protests are mainly led by Unite Against Fascism and Hope Not Hate, the latter an organisation whose leader is diametrically opposed to the libertarian-leaning Ukip. Nick Lowles is associated with the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party, and like the unions who give large donations to their organisation, is mightily upset that Labour voters are coming across to Ukip.
While we don't yet know about the funding for this cross-party group, we do know about funding for Hope Not Hate. For since 2010 it has received £150,000 in funding from the Department of Communities and Local Government, ostensibly to campaign against "racism in deprived areas". In 2012 it received no less than £63,000 of taxpayers' money, which given that the group is so open in its hatred of Ukip seems to me an entirely unsuitable use of much-needed government money.
But if we have once again retreated to the times when even mentioning immigration results in accusations of extremism, then is Barbara Roche also going to condemn fellow Labour MP Frank Field? It was only just over a year ago that Mr Field, writing in The Daily Telegraph alongside Conservative MP Nicholas Soames, said that Ukip's success in the Eastleigh by-election had made the struggle to debate the subject much easier.
A look at the immigration policies of the four main parties show that actually, Ukip's policy is the most open towards non-white migration. For despite the howls of "racist" and now "Euracist" which are frequently thrown at our supporters and activitists, we are anti-uncontrolled immigration. The only way to end this is to leave the EU and introduce a points-based visa system based on merit and need.
Wanting to control immigration is something which appears in all the party manifestos. The Conservatives have been vociferous in vocalising the need to "control immigration" so that "we only welcome those who want to work hard and contribute to our society". Their cap on net immigration, however, while remaining part of the EU, means that the people they discriminate against come from the rest of the world, where people tend not to be white.
Even the pro-immigration Lib Dems have realised that uncontrolled immigration is not popular with the majority of voters and that people are feeling the impact of over-supply in the unskilled Labour market. They too call for "more controls to the system" and boast of the apparent success in helping to cut immigration while they have been in coalition.
But back to Ms Roche's own party, Labour. You would think given the establishment of this group that Labour trumpet their policies of the late 1990s. But Frank Field is not alone when it comes to championing controls and realising that the reason Labour is losing support to Ukip is because the working class have been hardest hit by Labour's disastrous policies. Only a few weeks ago the shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said that "action is needed to tackle the unfair impact of immigration" and that "stronger controls are needed".
So what is it about Ukip that makes it racist for us to talk about migration, but not the other parties? Could it be because we're not part of their club? It smacks of a cartel, trying to restrict entry into the market for new competitors. And I think it's one which will backfire on them.


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China Cables: Who Are the Uighurs and Why Mass Detention?
To better explain China's actions and the findings of the China Cables, we answer some key questions about who is involved, the crackdown's origins, and the significance of the secret documents.
By Fergus Shiel and Sasha Chavkin
Image: GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images
China Cables
China's mass detention of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities living in its western region of Xinjiang has sparked alarm and condemnation across the world. Now, for the first time, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' China Cables investigation has revealed classified Chinese government directives that provided operational plans for the internment camps and orders for carrying out mass detentions guided by sweeping data collection and artificial intelligence.
To better explain China's actions in Xinjiang and the findings of the China Cables, we answer some key questions about who is involved, the crackdown's origins, and the significance of the secret documents.
Who are the Uighurs?
The Uighurs are a Turkic ethnic group whose members are predominantly Muslim. Uighurs have a distinct culture and history, including the declaration of two short-lived independent republics, both known as East Turkestan, in the first half of the 20th century.
Xinjiang is in the far northwest of China.
Nearly 11 million Uighurs live in Xinjiang in the far northwest of China, an arid region of mountains and expansive steppes. Smaller groups are found across Central Asia. Scholars say Uighur identity developed over centuries around oasis towns.
What is happening to the Uighurs?
In recent years, the Chinese government has launched a crackdown on Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, including sweeping surveillance, mass detentions and forced assimilation. Video cameras and police checkpoints keep citizens under constant watch. The United States government has estimated that more than a million Uighurs – representing nearly 10 percent of the Uighur population in Xinjiang – have been locked up by Chinese authorities.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced China's treatment of Uighurs as the "stain of the century."
Why is the Chinese government persecuting Uighurs?
China says that the crackdown is necessary to prevent terrorism and root out Islamic extremism. The action is part of a larger campaign by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to promote Han nationalism as a unifying force – the Han are China's ethnic majority – and to suppress any ethnic, cultural or religious identities that might compete for popular loyalty with the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2009, tensions fueled by decades of institutionalized discrimination and marginalization against Uighurs in their own homeland exploded into violence in the streets of Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi. Clashes between Uighurs and Han Chinese killed some 200 people, who authorities said were mostly Han. China blamed Uighur separatists and has vowed to eliminate separatist and militant Islamic ideology among the Uighur population.
Chinese policemen clash with Uighur women in the street in July 2009 in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Image: Guang Niu/Getty Images
What are the Chinese government's re-education camps?
Starting in 2017, many Uighur detainees have been sent to camps the government calls "Vocational Education and Training Centers." There, detainees are forced to learn Mandarin, renounce "extremist" thoughts and undergo daily indoctrination in Chinese Communist Party propaganda. Some former detainees say they suffered torture and sexual abuse.
Detainees are also given vocational training, and after completing the indoctrination program, are assigned to factories to work under conditions widely considered to be forced labor.
Exposed: China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm
How China Targets Uighurs 'One by One' for Using a Mobile App
About the China Cables Investigation
How has the rest of the world responded?
The United States has provided the most forceful response, announcing sanctions in October against Chinese entities and officials linked to repression in Xinjiang. Among the 28 entities blacklisted were the giant Chinese video surveillance companies Hikvision and Dahua, as well as numerous Chinese state offices. The officials targeted with visa restrictions have not been publicly identified.
In a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in July, nearly two dozen industrialized countries called on China to end the mass detention program.
Sweden announced that it will grant refugee status to China's Uighurs in 2019.
However, a number of Western multinationals, including the German conglomerate Siemens AG, have maintained business ties with Chinese entities linked to the Xinjiang crackdown. In a statement to ICIJ's partners at the German public broadcaster NDR, Siemens said its cooperation with the state-owned military contractor China Electronics Technology Group Corporation focused on "intelligent manufacturing solutions" and that it "does not supply any products that are used in the end products of our customer."
A building thought to be a re-education center, where Uighurs are detained, in Xinjiang. Image: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images
What does China say about the camps?
In a statement to ICIJ's media partner The Guardian, China said the camps are an effective tool in its fight against terrorism and do not infringe on religious liberty.
"Since the measures have been taken, there's no single terrorist incident in the past three years. Xinjiang again turns into a prosperous, beautiful and peaceful region," according to the statement, issued by the press office of China's embassy to the United Kingdom. "The preventative measures have nothing to do with the eradication of religious groups. Religious freedom is fully respected in Xinjiang."
China also disputed the authenticity of the leaked documents, calling them "pure fabrication and fake news." It referred to an official White Paper in which the Chinese government describes the camps' purpose as providing aid and rehabilitation for those involved in terrorist or extremist activities.
What documents were obtained for the China Files investigation?
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has obtained highly confidential Chinese government documents detailing the official policies behind the Xinjiang camps.
The China Cables documents include a detailed 2017 manual setting out guidelines for personnel running the camps, including security protocols, methods of monitoring and controlling detainees, camp curriculum and criteria for release. They also include four intelligence briefings, known as "bulletins," setting out policies for identifying and rounding up Xinjiang citizens targeted for detention.
The manual was issued by Xinjiang's Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the Chinese Communist Party body in charge of the region's security apparatus, and the bulletins by the Xinjiang Communist Party's "Forward Command for the Strike Hard Assault Battle" Committee, which helped implement the security crackdown. All of the documents are signed by Zhu Hailun, who at the time was Xinjiang's top security official and deputy Communist party chief.
The documents also include the judgment from a court case in Xinjiang in which a Muslim man was sentenced to ten years in prison for advocating Islamic religious practices. Among the actions he was punished for were telling co-workers not to use profanity or watch pornography.
Linguists and experts who reviewed the documents have expressed a high degree of confidence in their authenticity. Former detainees have also corroborated their contents.
How did ICIJ obtain the China Cables?
The secret documents came to ICIJ via a chain of exiled Uighurs.
What is new in China Cables?
The China Cables investigation provides authoritative confirmation, in the Chinese government's own documents and words, of the operational plans underpinning the internment centers in Xinjiang and the mechanics of the region's Orwellian mass surveillance and "predictive policing" system.
The documents provide a wealth of detail on the comprehensive system of social control within the camps, including strict measures to prevent escape, that bely official claims that they are humane educational facilities.
The documents also reveal the workings of a Chinese program to monitor citizens and collect information in a database called the Integrated Joint Operations Platform. They show that Chinese police are making mass arrests based on orders from this massive data collection and analysis system that uses artificial intelligence to select huge swaths of the Xinjiang community as candidates for detention.
The bulletins for the first time reveal that authorities flag citizens as suspicious solely for using a popular communications app known as Zapya. The app allows users to share content offline and authorities deemed that it could be used to spread materials with "violent terroristic characteristics." According to one of the leaked bulletins, as of June 2017, more than 1.8 million Uighurs in Xinjiang were using Zapya.
News organizations have previously reported that camp inmate populations included some foreign nationals. Now the bulletins show that their presence in the camps was not accidental but rather an explicit policy objective. The bulletins also provide official confirmation that thousands of others are targeted solely for having traveled abroad. People who fall under suspicion may be detained without judicial orders or trials.
Topics: Asia-Pacific, China Cables, FAQ, Overview, Politics
Fergus Shiel
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As global pressure over human rights abuses in Xinjiang picks up, China remains defiant


I'm inviting a discussion on the risks of showing all your sketch ideas for a logo design process. Logo development and design process posts are becoming more popular and are a valuable way to show your work in context. Reading about how other designers reach their final logo designs can be very enlightening to say the least, often showing the rest of us new ways to approach our own logo development.
A recent example of a logo design process post is Plancast Penguin on Scott Hansen's website, created by Alex Cornell. This is one awesome development post, well worth reading. You can see how many ideas and sketches that Scott puts out there for all to see. On one hand very very cool, but on the other, makes me nervous seeing so many excellent ideas of Scott's not used, free for anyone to potentially copy, borrow or steal.
Also, another great example of a logo process post for Ian Matteson, is by Shelby White of Wanken. I love the end result so much, but just check out the variety of styles Shelby explored before settling on this great typographic option.
As designers, we have to be careful, eyes everywhere to protect our final logo designs. It becomes a matter of urgency when we feel one of our own logo designs may have been copied or heavily inspired from.
The logo process can be exhausting, lengthy and at times tedious and frustrating.
We work to that final goal discarding any number of solid and curious ideas during brainstorming and sketching process. Any number of these ideas could be logos in their own right. I have many ideas and unused concepts littering my paste board. The odd successful logo design has been born from previously discarded ideas on other logo projects. I even have a special Illustrator file where I paste the more interesting unused ideas for future reference.
Those of us that publish our sketches as part of a logo design process post for all to see, are baring our inner souls, showing the inner mechanisms that drive us to realise that final logo design.
Any number of our sketches could be taken and used by others as a basis for a logo design in it's own right.
If we openly publish all these ideas and sketches for the world to see, are we then leaving our selves wide open to having our work taken from us? Not just the final design, but all those valuable ideas that are formed from our experience and skill. Ideas that had we kept to ourselves, would remain ours for future development. If you do publish logo process posts do you show all the sketch ideas or do you just show a select number of sketch ideas?
Some months after you have published an in-depth logo design process post, you see a completed logo design in some inspiration gallery that clearly was taken from one of your sketches. Ironically, this logo design seems to have captured peoples imagination more than the logo you yourself created.
So how would you feel? Would you care? If you did care, did you assume your sketch work should be protected as much as your final logo design? Or is it just fair game? Have you ever seen a logo design clearly inspired or copied from one of your sketches?
Do you accept this could happen, that it's a risk worth taking for being more professionally transparent? Or have you not even really considered it?
Interested to see what think about this.
Up and till recently, I have been a little guarded about my ideas and sketches. It's painful enough to imagine a logo design being copied, let alone any number of these potentially valuable sketches. I am in two minds now, and will be posting a new logo design process post with some select sketches on newly complete logo project called 'Keyboard Kahuna', but certainly not all of them.


Tokyo Crazy Kawaii Paris, a Japanese-fun filled event will be hosting IA's (and also GUMI's) 3D live concert in France.
Tokyo Crazy Kawaii Paris, an event in France that aims to introduce Japanese culture to the natives of France, will be hosting an IA 3D live concert. The event will be held on the 20th - 22nd of September. There are several artists gracing the event such as Anna Tsuchiya, Shonen Knife, Moumoon and many more. Not to mention that kz (Livetune) is also a guest for the event.
IA's profile from the official website.
kz (Livetune) profile from the official website.
It has also been announced on Facebook that GUMI will be making an appearance during the concert too alongside with IA.
On the special VOCALOID stage of "Tokyo Crazy Kawaii Paris", 3D vocaloid performance will be held for the first time in Europe, with the brand-new 3D projection system, "SORIS VLS".
One of the most popular vocaloid artists in Nico Nico Douga, IA, who has provided various songs along with beautiful voice and unique characteristic will be the 1st performer on this 3D vocaloid stage. Another vocaloid hit-maker, GUMI will also perform in the special VOCALOID stage. GUMI is best known for her hit song that got over 1 million views in NicoNicoDouga.
The latest 3D projection system will make the virtual characters come to life and offer the one and only experience. It will be the very 1st concert introducing this futuristic 3D projection system in Europe. Don't miss their over-the-top performance!
In addition, IA's official store will be open at the event. The visitors can try Taito Corporation's latest groove game called "GROOVE COASTR", which received a number of awards as iPhone/iPad game.
Also, there will be some collaborated goods with Arisa Ueno, (model and the designer of "FIG & VIPER", stores location in Shibuya 109, La Foret Harajuku, and Kansai area), indie designers' T-shirts, original products, CDs, and some special events at the official store.
Started as VOCALOID™3 Library with the gene of crystal voice, a virtual diva, IA has been increasingly popular along with her high quality performance and unique characters. Within 6 months of her release, her songs hit the total of more than10 million views and received favorable ratings. IA started her musical career in November 2012 and released a tie-up single by naming the duo, "IA × Jin". In January 2013, as the 1st anniversary album, VOCALOID™3 Library "IA -ARIA ON THE PLANETES" went on the market. To celebrate the 1st anniversary, she has waged various campaigns. For "IA/02-COLOR-", numerous hit creators of J-pop, rock, and club music gathered and collaborated with IA."
According to Hatsune MikuMiku, the concert will be using SORIS VLS technology to run the concert.
This is definitely something to look forward to!


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Pakistan Struggles to Recruit Volunteers for Phase 3 CanSino Biologics Vaccine Trial: Military Involved
By TSN Author November 2, 2020
CanSino Biologics China COVID-19 Government Military Pakistan Phase 3 Trial
Pakistan, the fifth most populous nation in the world, recently geared up to support a Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial sponsored by a Chinese company. With the greenlight from the nation's top drug regulatory body last month to allow Phase 3 clinical trials involving CanSino Biologics' Ad5-nCoV (a COVID-19 vaccine candidate), five tertiary-care health care centers accepted the offer to conduct the pivotal, nationwide COVID-19 vaccine trials sponsored by CanSino Biologics and their local pharmaceutical company partner AJM: the nation's National Institute of Health (NIH) would also support this endeavor. Trial site organizations included Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, the University of Health Sciences (UHS) and Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC), Lahore, and the Aga Khan Hospital as well as the Indus Hospital in Karachi. Collectively the sites are targeting 10,000 volunteers. However, despite the participation of nationally prominent health institutions and increasing military command and control involvement, investigators continue to struggle to recruit sufficient levels of volunteers.
COVID-19 in Pakistan
Although the Pakistani population has experienced significant COVID-19 spikes given this nation's size in population, its total number of cases and deaths make it less impacted than say its neighbor, India and many others. The fifth most populous nation in the world–just below the United States—yet, Pakistan ranks 28th when it comes to the total number of COVID cases. The country also ranks 28th in total number of deaths associated with the novel coronavirus at 6,835. How accurate the reporting here is TrialSite cannot be certain.
Clinical Trial Launch
CanSino Biologics in collaboration with its partner Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, sponsored the first Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial launched in September reported Reuters. A global multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, adaptive designed Phase 3 clinical trial (NCT04526990) with a total of 40,000 volunteers are targeted, 10,000 of them from Pakistan. See the link for a detailed overview of the study.
The study team would evaluate the investigational vaccine product called Ad5-nCoV. For more on Ad5-nCoV, follow the link to Precision Vaccinations.
The country's lead principal investigator is Aamer Ikram SI, PhD with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre. As will be discussed later, the Pakistani military became a nexus of pandemic response command and control including this strategic nationwide clinical trial: Asad Umar serves as the overseer of the entire nation representing the military.
The study includes local pharmaceutical partner AJM, led by Hassan Abbas Zaheer as well as Pakistani National Institutes of Health.
Volunteer Recruitment Challenges
Published recently in The News International, a Pakistani English language newspaper, healthcare professionals are concerned about the lack of willingness to participate in the studies. One principal investigator was quoted about the situation, "Yes, there are roadblocks in convincing people to volunteer for the vaccine trials. There are misconceptions in the minds of the people as if they are being used as guinea pigs due to conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on the social media. But we are steadily heading towards achieving the target of 10,000 volunteers in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi."
Social & Political Tensions
A bigger challenge, frankly in Pakistan could be the social, economic and political implications as a result of this pandemic. Like many other nations, COVID-19 impacts Pakistan in deeper and more profound ways but it's mobilization of the military raised concern for democracy advocates.
The global upheaval caused by the pandemic has adversely impacted this already fragile economy, and dangerously, a risk to its fledgling democracy writes Madiha Afzal, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow with the prominent thinktank Brookings.
The country became divided as to how to respond and manage to the pandemic. The civilian leadership response was labeled weak and the military moved in to fill the power void, at least provisionally during the pandemic. However, that central command and control response has made its way into other facets of society such as the repression of dissent.
Central State beats out Laissez-faire Approach for Response
Much like accusations in the United States, Ms. Afzal educates that according to some factions in that nation, Imran Khan, President, failed to respond to COVID-19 with a sufficiently strong, nationally unified plan: rather deferring to a regional, fragmented approach, and thereby leading to reactionary, heterogenous policies and responses ultimately influencing regional spikes and a general disarray.
The military in Pakistan, known to be powerful and influential in that nation, stepped in to fill the void. And Ms. Afzal reports that the military's various efforts including the enforcement of "smart" lockdowns as well as the deployment of intelligence agencies to lead contact tracing actually resulted in a more contained situation. But will there be a long term price for a fledgling democracy?
Pakistani Principal Investigator Point of View
The News International shared quotes from two principal investigators including Dr. Salma Abbas with Shaukat Khanum Hospital and Dr. Faisal Mehmood from the Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi both shared that there is still an intense hesitance but they remained optimistic that conditions would improve. Dr. Mehmood commented, "Yes and no, every day we are getting more and more. It takes time to get the news out to people. You can help in spreading the news." He of course is referring to educating the public about the importance of clinical trials and that this particular Chinese vaccine had already undergone extensive Phase 1 and 2 testing.
Challenge to Opportunity
M Waqar Bhatti, writer for the News International shares that CanSino Biologics negotiated a deal with the nation of Pakistan where the latter would receive vaccine sufficient for 20% of its population or up to 200 million doses in exchange for participation in the pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial, according to that nation's NIH executive director Prof Dr. Aamer Ikram. Dr. Ikram articulated during an online webinar sponsored by the Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Society of Pakistan (MMIDSP) that collectively the people must seize the moment and convert what is deemed as a challenge into an opportunity.
Lead Research/Investigator
Aamer Ikram SI, PhD with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre
Salma Abbas, MPH, Shaukat Khanum Hospital
Faisal Mehmood, MBBS, Associate Professor, Aga Kahn University Hospital


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Q: Why is statsmodels "Df Model" less than the number of model parameters included? I've seen this issue arise in my coding a few times now where the "Df Model" that statsmodels calculates is smaller than the number of parameters fit by the model.
As far as I can tell it happens regardless of which model I fit and (I believe) only in cases with a not small (> ~20?) number of parameters.  Might this have something to do with high multicollinearity among the parameters?
Since this issue seems to arise with a large-ish number of parameters (with 'real' data), I'm not sure I can just recreate some dummy data to showcase the issue.  I'm simply hoping someone has seen it before and knows why it is occurring.
Regardless, a sample of my code (& output as comments) is shown below.
print type(base_features) #<type 'list'>
print len(base_features) #70

model = sm.GLM(train1['target'], train1[base_features], family=Poisson())
#^ produces the same results for other glm family models as well as standard OLS
poi_base = model.fit()

print len(poi_base.params) #70
print poi_base.df_model #63

Please note that there is a user constructed intercept/constant in 'base_features', but even if statsmodels was able to discern that, df_model should still be 69 at minimum.

A: In general the df_model depends on the rank of the design matrix and does not take a constant into account. The rank is defined by the threshold used in numpy which depends on the condition number.
The linear models take into account whether a constant was detected to be among the exog, either explicitly or implicitly. Other models like those in discrete and GLM assume that there always is a constant. (In linear models the definition of rsquared depends on the presence of a constant, in other models llnull is the loglikelihood of the model with a constant only without checking whether the original model contains a constant or not.)
In linear models, OLS, WLS and similar
self._df_model = float(self.rank - self.k_constant)

In GLM
self.df_model = np_matrix_rank(self.exog) - 1

In discrete models, Logit, Probit, Poisson and similar
self.df_model = float(np_matrix_rank(self.exog) - 1)

(There are some open issues on github about the definitions of various df_model and df_resid, mainly for the treatment of the constant. For penalized estimator the df_model and df_resid should be based on effective degrees of freedom, but that might not be consistently implemented yet.)
Aside: Estimators based on linear models including those estimated by iteratively reweighted least squares are by default based on generalized inverse which produces an estimate even if the design matrix is rank deficient. All other models will break in the optimization and raise an exception with a singular design matrix.


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William Stanley Merwin (* 30. September 1927 in New York City, New York; † 15. März 2019 auf Maui, Hawaii) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer, der zweimal den Pulitzer-Preis für Dichtung erhielt.

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Der in New York als Sohn eines presbyterianischen Pfarrers geborene Merwin studierte Schriftstellerei und Romanistik an der Princeton University. Nach dem Studium reiste er durch Frankreich, England und schließlich Spanien, wo er 1950 auf Mallorca den Sohn von Robert Graves unterrichtete. Graves' Vorliebe für Themen antiker Mythologie übertrug sich auf Merwin.

Ab 1951 arbeitete er in London als Übersetzer, bis er nach Amerika zurückkehrte, wo er sich der Lyrik widmete. Sein erster Gedichtband brachte ihm 1952 den Yale Series of Younger Poets Award ein. Weitere Gedichtbände in der stilistischen Tradition von unter anderen Wallace Stevens und Robert Graves folgten.

In den 1960ern begann Merwin mit lyrischen Formen zu experimentieren, was er in Essays wie On Open Form (1969) theoretisch untermauerte. Es kamen verstärkt Themen aus seinem eigenen Leben auf, wie etwa 1960 in The Drunk in the Furnace. 1971 erhielt er den Pulitzer-Preis für den im Vorjahr erschienenen Band The Carrier of Ladders. 1970 erschien auch seine Autobiographie The Miner's Pale Children. Seine späten Jahre verbrachte Merwin auf Hawaii, wo in seinen Gedichte der Natur besondere Aufmerksamkeit zukommt. Bekannt war er jedoch für seine Gedichte, die sich, wie auch bei Robert Bly, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg oder Yusef Komunyakaa, mit dem Vietnam-Krieg befassten. 1977 erhielt er darüber hinaus den Bollingen-Preis für Poesie. Er wurde 1972 in die American Academy of Arts and Letters und 1993 in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences aufgenommen.

Nach dem 1998 veröffentlichten Versroman Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, erschienen 2006 unter dem Titel Summer Doorways weitere Memoiren. Er wohnte auf Maui in Hawaii und erhielt 2009 für The Shadow of Sirius zum zweiten Mal den Pulitzer-Preis für Poesie.

Seit dem Herbst 2010 war er der 17. Poet Laureate der USA. Er war der Nachfolger von Kay Ryan.

Werke (Auswahl)
 A Mask for Janus (1952)
 Green with Beasts (1956)
 The Moving Target (1963)
 The Lice (1967)
 The Compass Flower (1977)
 Finding the Islands (1982)
 The Rain in the Trees (1988)
 Travels (1993)
 The Vixen (1996)
 Flower & Hand (1997)
 The River Sound (1999)
 The Pupil (2001)
 Migration: New & Selected Poems (2005)

 in deutscher Sprache
Nach den Libellen (2018)

Literatur
 Cheri Davis: W. S. Merwin. Twayne, Boston 1981, ISBN 0-8057-7301-0.
Jay Parini: Merwin, W(illiam) S(tanley). In: Ian Hamilton (Hrsg.): The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996.

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Autor
Lyrik
Essay
Literatur (Englisch)
Literatur (Vereinigte Staaten)
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
Übersetzer ins Englische
Übersetzer aus dem Spanischen
Pulitzer-Preisträger
Träger des National Book Award
Poet Laureate (Vereinigte Staaten)
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1927
Gestorben 2019
Mann