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We Lost A Lot In 2020, But We Want To Know: What Have You Gained This Year?
By Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Dec 11, 2020
2020 has been a year of immense loss. But, with hardship comes perspective and a chance for new growth. NPR's Weekend Edition wants to know what you have endured this year and what you've learned. What is a hardship you experienced in 2020? What did you gain as a result? What did you learn? Did your perspective change?
Share your story with us in the form below. A producer may contact you to follow up for an opportunity to have your voice on NPR's Weekend Edition.
Bomba Estereo's Simón Mejía Taps A Symphony Of Nature Sounds
By Scott Simon & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Sep 12, 2020
Simón Mejía and his band, Bomba Estereo, love to give their fans cause to party with their music. But after years of nonstop touring, as well as becoming a father, Mejía felt he needed a break. So he set out to reconnect with nature in his home country, Colombia.
Remembering Radio Host Patrick Ellis, Who Brought The 'Gospel Spirit' To D.C.
By Sarah McCammon & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Jul 26, 2020
For more than 40 years, 96.3 WHUR-FM broadcast Patrick Ellis's beloved and popular radio show Gospel Spirit Sunday mornings, filling the homes and cars of Washington, D.C., with the sound of church.
Each Sunday, Ellis chose music that would inspire, uplift and speak to his devoted listeners. And he filled the airwaves with their lives, too, sharing community and church announcements and marking birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions.
Patrick Ellis passed away July 16 from complications of the coronavirus. He was 77 years old.
Breaking Down The Legacy Of Race In Traditional Music In America
By Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Jul 25, 2020
The symbols of America's racist past have been under intense scrutiny since the protests against police brutality erupted nationwide. The confederate flag and other monuments from that era have been disappearing from public spaces — both by force and legislation.
HAIM's Sunny Sound Gets Somber On 'Women In Music Pt. III'
By Scott Detrow & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Jul 5, 2020
The sister band HAIM is synonymous with the sound of Los Angeles — sunny, airy and wistful. After a two-month delay due to the coronavirus, sisters Este, Danielle and Alana finally get to share their third record, Women in Music Pt. III, with their fans. NPR's Scott Detrow spoke to the Haim sisters about creating a record that's a little less sun and a little bit more shade as they explore some of the darker challenges that each sister has faced lately. Listen in the audio player above.
Chloe x Halle On Releasing Their New Album During America's 'Ungodly Hour'
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Jun 14, 2020
When Beyoncé deems your music "flawless," you know you've probably made it. That's more or less what happened to the sister R&B duo, Chloe x Halle, when they passed their latest album, Ungodly Hour, to Beyoncé for feedback.
"We love Beyoncé so much and we value her opinion so very much, so whenever we can get her feedback on something, it's very much appreciated," Halle Bailey says. "But for this album, we only heard positive things and that she loved it. So that really made us happy and feel proud."
How Nashville's HBCU-Owned Jazz Station Holds A Community Together
By Scott Simon & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Jun 6, 2020
The last week of protests and unrest has put many Americans on edge, especially those in communities of color. Some local leaders, like Sharon Kay, are using the airwaves to help organize and inform their communities.
On His Debut Album, Jonah Mutono Embraces His Identity And His Name
By Scott Simon & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • May 16, 2020
Jonah Mutono's debut album GERG is really more of a re-entry. Until late last year, Mutono released music under the name "Kidepo." But starting with the single "Shoulders," and now with GERG, he's sharing his real name and story of self-acceptance for the first time.
Buscabulla On 'Regresa,' A Debut Album About Returning To A Devastated Home
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • May 3, 2020
What happens when you go back to a place you thought was your home, only to find it profoundly different? That's the subject explored in Puerto Rican indie pop duo Buscabulla's debut album, Regresa, out on May 8.
Kandace Springs Pays Tribute To 'The Women Who Raised' Her
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Apr 5, 2020
Kandace Springs' third record is a source of familiarity in uncertain times. Titled The Women Who Raised me, it's full of beloved and recognizable songs associated with jazz artists who inspired and influenced Springs as an artist: Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Lauryn Hill and Norah Jones, among many others. But the album is not only a tribute to some of those legends, it's also a showcase of Springs' talent for reinterpreting and seamlessly blending genres.
Almeta Ingram-Miller On The Ingramettes And The Power Of Gospel During Crisis
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro & Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Mar 22, 2020
Gospel music has always been a source of refuge and hope, and no one knows that better than Almeta Ingram-Miller: Her mother, Maggie Ingram, was known as the Gospel Queen of Richmond, Va. In 1961, she founded one of America's most celebrated gospel groups, Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes, which performed together for more than five decades. The Ingramettes stopped recording after Maggie Ingram's death in 2015.
One Woman's Quest To Preserve The Radio Archives At Historically Black Colleges
By Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Feb 16, 2020
Making Super Bowl Guacamole? Be Careful To Avoid The Pits Of An Avocado Hand Injury
By Sophia Alvarez Boyd, David Folkenflik & Melissa Gray • Feb 2, 2020
Is it your turn to make the guacamole at the Super Bowl party this year?
If so, be careful. You don't want to join the thousands of people who've ended up in an emergency room for avocado-related injuries.
"These injuries are exceedingly common," says Dr. Matt Aizpuru of the Mayo Clinic.
Candy Canals: Architects Craft Gingerbread Replica Of Venice
By Sophia Alvarez Boyd • Dec 8, 2019
Imagine Venice, the city of canals, at Christmastime — twinkling with lights and dressed in garlands.
Now translate that into gingerbread and gumdrops.
That's exactly what hundreds of architects, designers and engineers came together to do — build the Italian city made up of more than 100 small islands out of Snickers, Mars bars, Jellybeans, cereal, gummy bears and more. And, of course, sheets and sheets of gingerbread.

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I followed this recipe exactly, and my husband said it was the best sauce he'd ever had. Thanks sooooooooo much! I love to see that gleam in his eye.
Great stuff. Kids loved it.
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 * and open the template in the editor.
 */
package org.orgama.server.auth;

import com.google.inject.Inject;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
import org.jukito.JukitoRunner;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.orgama.server.auth.model.AuthInitialization;
import org.orgama.server.auth.model.AuthInitializationState;
import org.orgama.server.config.OrgamaTestEnv;
import org.orgama.server.config.OrgamaTstModule;
import org.orgama.server.config.ServerSideConstants;
import org.orgama.shared.ICookieHandler;
import org.orgama.shared.auth.model.AuthState;
import org.orgama.shared.auth.model.ICompleteAuthState;
import org.orgama.shared.auth.source.AuthServiceName;

/**
 * Unit tests for AuthBootstrapper that test the behavior for users registering
 * and authenticating successfully
 * @author kguthrie
 */
@RunWith(JukitoRunner.class)
public class AuthBootstrapperFailedAuthenticationWithGoogleTest {

	public static class Module extends OrgamaTstModule {

		@Override
		protected boolean isAuthenticated() {
			return true;
		}

		@Override
		protected String getAuthServiceName() {
			return AuthServiceName.googleAccounts;
		}

	}

	@Inject AuthBootstrapper bootstrapper;
	@Inject ICookieHandler cookieHandler;
	@Inject ServerSideConstants constants;
	@Inject HttpSession httpSession;
	@Inject OrgamaTestEnv env;
	@Inject AuthUserService userService;

	public AuthBootstrapperFailedAuthenticationWithGoogleTest() {
	}

	@BeforeClass
	public static void setUpClass() {
	}

	@AfterClass
	public static void tearDownClass() {
	}

	@Before
	public void setUp() {
	}

	@After
	public void tearDown() {
	}

	@Test
	public void testDuplicateEmailAddressOnRegistration() {

		AuthInitialization authInitialization = new AuthInitialization();
		authInitialization.setAuthServiceName(AuthServiceName.googleAccounts);
		authInitialization.setEmailAddress(env.getEmailAddress());
		authInitialization.setState(AuthInitializationState.registering);
		authInitialization.setServiceSpecificUserId(env.getEmailAddress());

		//Register the user with the given auth Initialization
		userService.registerNewUser(authInitialization);

		authInitialization.setServiceSpecificUserId(
				env.getEmailAddress() + ".other");

		httpSession.setAttribute(constants.getAuthInitializationKey(),
				authInitialization);

		ICompleteAuthState completeAuthState = bootstrapper.bootstrap();

		assertNotNull(completeAuthState);
		assertEquals(AuthState.emailAddressTaken,
				completeAuthState.getAuthState());
		assertEquals(AuthServiceName.googleAccounts,
				completeAuthState.getAuthServiceName());
	}

	@Test
	public void testDuplicateExternalIdOnRegistration() {

		AuthInitialization authInitialization = new AuthInitialization();
		authInitialization.setAuthServiceName(AuthServiceName.googleAccounts);
		authInitialization.setEmailAddress(env.getEmailAddress());
		authInitialization.setState(AuthInitializationState.registering);
		authInitialization.setServiceSpecificUserId(env.getEmailAddress());

		//Register the user with the given auth Initialization
		userService.registerNewUser(authInitialization);

		authInitialization.setEmailAddress("other." +
				env.getEmailAddress());

		httpSession.setAttribute(constants.getAuthInitializationKey(),
				authInitialization);

		ICompleteAuthState completeAuthState = bootstrapper.bootstrap();

		assertNotNull(completeAuthState);
		assertEquals(AuthState.externalAccountClaimed,
				completeAuthState.getAuthState());
		assertEquals(AuthServiceName.googleAccounts,
				completeAuthState.getAuthServiceName());
	}

	@Test
	public void testExternalMismatchOnAuthentication() {

		AuthInitialization authInitialization = new AuthInitialization();
		authInitialization.setAuthServiceName(AuthServiceName.googleAccounts);
		authInitialization.setEmailAddress(env.getEmailAddress());
		authInitialization.setState(AuthInitializationState.authenticating);
		authInitialization.setServiceSpecificUserId(env.getEmailAddress());

		//Register the user with the given auth Initialization
		userService.registerNewUser(authInitialization);

		authInitialization.setServiceSpecificUserId("other." +
				env.getEmailAddress());

		httpSession.setAttribute(constants.getAuthInitializationKey(),
				authInitialization);

		ICompleteAuthState completeAuthState = bootstrapper.bootstrap();

		assertNotNull(completeAuthState);
		assertEquals(AuthState.externalUserIdMismatch,
				completeAuthState.getAuthState());
		assertEquals(AuthServiceName.googleAccounts,
				completeAuthState.getAuthServiceName());
	}
}

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With an extensive background in securities offerings and a leading career across the financial sector, Julia Lu focuses her legal practice on the distressed debt and derivatives markets.
She advises clients in transactional and regulatory aspects of their trading businesses and collaborates with them to forge strategic and pragmatic legal solutions to complex trading issues.
A Wall Street player, Lu has substantial experience in derivative transactions based on secured and unsecured loans in North America, Europe and Asia. She collaborates with major broker-dealers and investment managers to formulate policies and procedures, and to draft documentation used in distressed assets, including trading bank loans, bankruptcy claims, and reorganization equities.
Lu's career is defined by ever-increasing influence, responsibility, and leadership. Born and raised in China, she moved to the United States to attend law school. While seconded to the bank loan trading and syndication desk at Goldman Sachs, Lu served on the operating committee, and set global trading policies and processes to ensure smooth operation of the trading desk.
Her deep background in the derivatives sector is underscored by her role as a potential pool member to be called upon to conduct external reviews and determinations made by the International Swaps and Derivatives Associations (ISDA) Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee. This panel breaks the deadlock when the DC, which assesses the impact of corporate events on credit derivatives, cannot reach a majority.
Lu serves as a director for Rega Capital Dynamic Value Fund, a Hong Kong-based hedge fund. She is a sounding board for its management and investment professionals regarding investment processes, legal compliance, and risk assessment.
At the firm, Lu sits on the Investment and Attorney Development Committees. She maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes serving as counsel to the Museum of Chinese in America. She is also an active participant in the firms' partnership with the Posse Foundation, which provides full scholarships to leading universities for extraordinary public high school students.
She holds a law degree from Albany Law School, and an LL.B from China University of Political Science and Law.


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Q: When/how is an application added to the Windows 7 Volume Mixer window? I'm trying to get an application which ran okay on XP to run properly on Windows 7 (this is not something I wrote - I'm helping a friend.)
It was able to play audio on XP but cannot on Windows 7 - nothing is heard. Have exhausted a search and check of all settings in Windows 7 as regards audio (have spent many hours searching and reading.)
There is no entry in the Windows 7 Volume Mixer for the application at any time while it is running.
By playing with some other applications I've found that it seems that an application is not added to the Mixer until it actually creates a sound but I've found at least one program which is added to the Mixer right when the program starts and before it has played any sounds.
Is there an API which allows an application to "register" itself with the Windows 7 Volume Mixer so that an entry for it appears in the Mixer even though it has not yet produced any sounds?

A: According to this blog post, the audio subsystem keeps track of PIDs that play audio and the volume mixer is able to access this list. It is possible to change the name displayed in SndVol with IAudioSessionControl, so maybe that alone is enough for it to be "registered"

A: An app slider is added to the mixer when an audio session is created.  There are two things that can cause an audio session to be created:  First off, when an audio stream created by the app transitions to the "start" state.  The other case is when an application manipulates the audio volume using the IAudioSessionControl interface.

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Kendrick Lamar and Janelle Monáe to perform at White House...
News I By Laurent FintoniI 02.07.16
Kendrick Lamar and Janelle Monáe to perform at White House Fourth of July concert
Lamar and Monáe return to the White House.
The White House press secretary announced on Friday that Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar and Kansas City singer Janelle Monáe will perform at this year's Fourth of July concert on the White House's South lawn.
Alongside a concert, the event will include a barbecue and fireworks for military heroes and their families alongside White House staff.
This isn't the first time either Lamar or Monáe have visited the White House. In the fall of 2015, President Barack Obama admitted that Lamar's 'How Much A Dollar Cost' was his favourite track of the year and then invited the rapper to visit as part of the National Mentoring Partnership.
Monáe recorded a track for the first lady's Let Girls Learn initiative earlier this year (alongside Missy Elliott and more) and was at the White House in April for a meeting with other artists to discuss criminal justice reform.
Tags: Janelle MonaeKendrick Lamar
1 Andrew Broder, serpentwithfeet and Kazu Makino and Holly Blakey explore the mind of Alan Moore
2 Holodec tunes in to the sounds of the city in Dog / Just U
3 Fact Mix 890: Akua
4 Fact Mix 892: Nexcyia
5 Fact Mix 891: Richie Culver
6 180 Studios presents UK premiere of Jon Rafman's Minor Daemon
Kendrick Lamar and Janelle Monáe to perform at the White House


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You can do DFW - BWI for $134 nonstop round-trip on AA. Which works out to be cheaper per leg.
You can turn that around (BWI-DFW RT) for $135 on AA, but departures seem to be limited to the 7:10 PM (most) Wednesdays with returns on the 7:35 PM Tuesday or Wednesday. Shortest possible turnaround appears to be Dec 10 - 13.
Programs: Delta Plat, former AA EXP, AS Gold, SPG Gold, IHG Plat.
Most dates in Nov. to early Dec.
DL has BOS-DFW on sale for $232 RT. Not especially great ... unless you route through SLC. BOS-SLC-DFW is 6,188 MQM at that price, which is 3.75 cpm. ITA has this available, but not seeing that routing on delta.com, and Hipmunk hasn't worked with ITA codes for me for weeks. Any ideas on how to book?
You didn't provide dates, and I wasn't able to find any that work, but you could try searching for it segment-by-segment in Google Flights using the dates you found on ITA. That should provide a direct link to delta.com. Nice find if it's bookable.
ITA has it for most days in November. Google prices it at $436, though. So maybe phantom availability.
EDIT: Called Delta and fed the DM desk the dates and they were able to book at the $231.20 rate. Have to take the 6 AM flight there and back, which isn't much fun, but one of the few DL attack fares all year under 4 CPM.
Frontier is having a one day sale from CLE to ATL,ORD,DEN,FLL,RSW,LAS,LGA,MCO,RDU,TPA,TNN, and IAD $15 OW.
Tickets must be purchased by 11:59 pm Eastern time on Sep. 25, 2014 for domestic, nonstop travel on: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, Dec. 2, 2014 through Dec. 17, 2014. Fares are one way and do not require roundtrip purchase.
I hope this benefits someone.
TNN (Tainan) should be TTN (Trenton).
Valid for travel on the outbound from October 26th – December 11th or December 24th – March 26th for Monday, Wednesday and Friday departures. Must purchase at least 3 days in advance of departure. Availability in 2014 is extremely limited.
2014: 7,806 miles/5.8 cents per mile.
Nice price from Swiss to Indonesia with Saudia - Guest "SuperSaver" tarif (455$ - 358 EUR) can on last time earn full 14460 base miles to Delta account and 50% MQM.
I'm scheduled on this - out on the 14, back on 18. If anyone else is doing it - I'm travelling solo and would be interested in joining up to tour OSL.
Are you doing nonstop or more creative routing to maximize mileage? If latter, what routing?


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Conclusion: the "given" and "therefores" of clinical oncology and medical errors
Antonella Surbone1 and Michael Rowe2
1 Department of Medicine, New York University, New York, USA 2Department ofPsychiatry, Yale School ofMedicine, New Haven, USA In this volume, together with our contributors, we have examined medical errors in oncology from a number of perspectives that require no summing up here. Rather, we wish to briefly review the conceptual and practical implications of our authors' contributions and suggest future directions for practice and research that may contribute to reducing medical errors, enhancing patient safety, and addressing repercussions of medical errors on patients, family members, and oncology professionals.
Our contributors, implicitly or explicitly, have at times gone beyond the standard definition of medical error as patient harm caused by the "failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim." [1] Their accounts and analysis, taken collectively, have included broader aspects of patient suffering caused not only by medical errors themselves but also by the arrogance that underlies or accompanies silence as a response to errors - the failure to disclose errors empathically - and the suffering related to errors that may continue for years past the medical event. Some have specifically addressed the subjective repercussions of medical errors on oncologists, nurses, and other members of the cancer team. Some have shared or alluded to personal accounts of their own experience as cancer patients and survivors, thus shedding a different light on the discussion of even the most technical aspects of medical errors in clinical oncology.
In closing out this account we choose to look at some recurrent themes of what we are calling the "givens" and "therefores" of medical errors in oncology in the areas of the nature of oncology care and the experience of patients and oncologists; disclosure of errors; and training, education, and research. The "givens" - the context of medical errors in oncology and medicine as a whole - have been covered or implied elsewhere in this volume. The "therefores" - contributions to patient safety and reduced medical error that oncology can make in its own domain and clinical medicine writ large - require some additional considerations here. Although many aspects of patient safety are common across diseases, errors and adverse events have important specialty-specific dimensions. The special contribution of oncology to addressing medical errors both in its own house and in medicine as a whole stems directly from, and is a response to, the special challenges and difficulties it faces due to the nature of cancer itself and its treatments. [2]
The nature of oncology care and patient and oncologist experience in regard to errors The use of experimental anticancer protocols and multiple medications that often, carry a high toxicity, along with the multidisciplinary nature of most cancer treatments, can render more difficult the oncologist's assessment of whether an adverse event is a side-effect of treatment or the result of medical error. This is especially the case when early-phase experimental treatments are used. Further, in both clinical and experimental oncology, numerous checks at various levels are put in place to prevent errors, but the cancer patient's exposure to multiple interactions with different physicians and nurses on multiple specialty teams may also contribute to errors due to fragmentation and complexity of care. A high degree of medical uncertainty still surrounds cancer prognosis and treatment efficacy, and the implications of this uncertainty may, in turn, extend to whether a medical error occurred. Therefore oncology, in "pushing the envelope" of risk to patient safety and of medical error, can take a leadership role in defining high risk areas of care and identifying effective individual, team, and system responses. [3]
The process of cancer diagnosis and treatment is varied and complex. An initial diagnosis of a small cancer with good prognostic factors, accompanied by the reassurance that it will likely not recur after removal or adjuvant treatments, may be followed by the patient's effort to return to normalcy with the hope of being cured. Yet early or late relapse may occur, involving further interventions, complications, and additional interventions with short and long-term sequelae. During such a process, patients struggle to maintain hope and keep searching for the best care with the greatest chance of success. As they become increasingly alert to possible mistakes or other reasons to question the care they receive, patients must become active partners in their care to maximize their safety. At the same time, institutions and individual oncologists and nurses should meet patients' and families' educational needs regarding risks and options in clinical care and support their involvement in a collaborative spirit.
Cancer patients, whether destined to long-term survival or death, are exposed to many sources of physical, existential, and psychosocial suffering. Due to the serious and at times life-threatening nature of their illnesses and to the inherent asymmetry of the patient-doctor relationship, cancer patients may be more vulnerable and dependent on their oncologists than most other patients, and be especially hurt both physically and emotionally when errors or suspected errors occur. For oncology patients, the physical effect of error and the shock of learning about it may be compounded by grief, loss, and a sense of isolation - along with the possible long-term physical effects of error and the stigma of reduced family, social, and occupational roles often associated with the illness. [3] Oncology associations should foster advocacy for cancer patients and the development and implementation of support systems to meet the emotional and psychosocial needs of patients and their families. [4]
Oncologists, who carry emotional and psychological burdens from caring for seriously ill patients over long periods of time, can be deeply affected by their own mistakes. [5] Many have difficulty accepting medical uncertainty in prognostication and risk assessment, as well as regarding the efficacy of therapies in individual patients, and perceive poor treatment outcomes as personal failures. As a result, they may withhold information about errors or deliver it in a blunt, insensitive manner, due to the fact that they are not trained to regard caring itself, not only curing the patient, as a core value of the profession. In addition, coping with emotional distress can be especially challenging for oncologists, who experience high rates of burnout syndromes because they care for sick patients over time, with mortality always at the forefront. Such distress may lead oncologists to inadvertently minimize the impact of an error in a patient with advanced cancer or, on the other hand, experience a heightened sense of personal responsibility for increasing the suffering of their patients. The complexity of oncology care and the stress of witnessing the physical and existential suffering of cancer patients on a daily basis can make it difficult for oncologists to find a balance between an excessive sense of responsibility for the suffering and dying of their patients and an overwhelming sense of impotence that leads them to believe, or to grab at the straw of the excuse, that no medical mistake really matters in the face of advanced stages of cancer. [6]
Clearly, there is a void to fill in designing and implementing effective, safe, and structured support measures for oncology professionals who have committed, or contributed to the commission of, a medical error. Support should be aimed at shifting oncologists' responses to errors from being a source of blame, guilt, and shame to that of being an occasion for humble learning in putting their patients' safety first, without retreating behind the cover of personal failure.
Disclosure In disclosing medical errors it is essential for oncologists to attend to both medical and emotional aspects of information provided and reactions they elicit from patients and families. Most oncologists lack proper training in communication skills and believe that full disclosure may prevent them from maintaining hope with their patients. In certain cultures, oncologists still make paternalistic unilateral decisions to protect their patients from painful medical truths. [7] Even in Western contexts, oncologists' optimism may translate into excessive reliance on continuing chemotherapy or other cancer treatments even when patients would most benefit from palliative care that is attentive to the patients cultural and personal beliefs.
Disclosing and discussing medical errors in clinical oncology requires special communication and interpersonal skills that can be taught and learned, with full understanding of oncologists' difficulties in dealing with ambiguity and fallibility, their fear of blame by peers, and litigation by patients or families. Most medical error disclosure guidelines address clear-cut harmful errors. In oncology practice, multiple active and latent errors may occur at individual and system levels, making it difficult to apply existing disclosure guidelines. Oncologists thus face several decisions about which events to disclose, the goals of disclosure, or the extent of disclosure. In addition, oncologists must confront special challenges regarding errors in clinical research. Decisions about if, when, and how to disclose oncology errors are inextricably linked to the clinical context in which these errors occur. [3, 8] A clinical error is not only about simple facts, then, but also about the complex meanings that every fact acquires when it is contextually lived and interpreted by the patient or the physician. Oncology professionals, for example, may find it difficult to decide whether or not to disclose a medical error when their patient's prognosis is dismal. In such cases, they may see disclosure as 'useless' or 'cruel', or leading only to a bitter ending of the patient-doctor relationship. [3]
While oncologists may be tempted to rationalize away some errors or to question the need to disclose them to patients, they are also well positioned to instruct the field and medicine as a whole in the difficulties and the aftermath of disclosure of medical error. Even in the most difficult cases, including the need to or point of error to a patient with little time to live, and even in the absence of a permanent damage due to the error itself, oncologists should always consider the ethical value of full disclosure and avoid the temptation to justify partial or nondisclosure. [3]
Oncologists' failure to disclose medical errors to their patients betrays the fiduciary nature of the patient-doctor relationship and diminishes the integrity of the oncologist and the profession. [2] Non-disclosure represents not only a poisonous silence on the part of the oncologist, but an effective silencing of patients and family members by withholding information and dismissing their experiences, [9] while obfuscating already difficult efforts to learn more about the occurrence of medical errors in oncology and how to prevent them in future cancer patients.
In many cases, silence or inappropriate communication stem from, or amount to, arrogance on the part of the oncology professional. Whether or not such arrogance may be a reaction to guilt or a form of defensive medicine, it is a violation of the patient-doctor relationship in that the doctor must recognize the patient as an equal individual with inherent dignity and worth. [10] Arrogance can be individual or institutional, or both. In all instances, it undermines the essence of medicine. [11] On the contrary, by communicating with humility and empathy to patients the seriousness of their cancer diagnosis and formulating its prognosis, or disclosing an error, oncologists can draw on the creative power of the reciprocal trust already developed in their relationship with the patient. Patients and their family members can thus know that honest dialogue and true cooperation will take place throughout the course of the illness and feel reassured that they will not be left alone to cope with the hardest truths, including those about medical errors. Finally, at a time when clinical encounters are often framed in terms of a transaction between provider and consumer, there is a place, and a need, for medical forgiveness in a humanistic and spiritually redeeming sense for all partners involved in a medical error.
Oncologists must attend to both medical and emotional aspects of error disclosure for patients and families. The physician's response must be clear at the clinical level and also address the emotional needs of patients and family members, in order to maintain or restore their trust in their doctors and other members of the oncology team. When an error is not disclosed properly and empathically and the error subsequently comes to light, the cancer patient may further suffer from the oncologist's failure to admit the error with humility and a sincere apology.
Education, training, and research Didactic and experiential education and training of oncologists on empathic and accurate communication throughout the course of the patient's illness, including disclosure of medical errors, should be enhanced and provided throughout medical education, from medical school through internship, residency, and fellowship, and offered to senior oncologists as part of their continuous medical education. Emphasis should be placed on the importance of reporting errors immediately and openly to other team members and promptly engaging in all measures that could mitigate or prevent their harmful effects. Emphasis should also be placed on the redemptive value of apology and forgiveness for all parties, on provision of emotional support for patients and family members affected by medical and on getting support for oncologists involved in medical errors. Education and role modeling should also foster oncology professionals' sense of personal accountability in the face of the high risks inherent in caring for cancer patients.
Full disclosure of medical errors to patients, based on respect for their autonomy, may at times clash with cultural rules that favor silence over truth telling to cancer patients. [12, 13] This is a major source of clinical and ethical dilemmas for oncology professionals who care for patients of different cultures being treated at Western institutions. Family members may request that these patients be kept in the dark about their diagnosis or prognosis, or told half-truths. The proper means of handling such situations remains a matter of intense debate and a quandary for oncology professionals. Yet, even so, we must strive to foster our patients' autonomy while respecting their cultural values and norms. [12, 14] Striking a balance between these two ethical tenets of clinical medicine may be especially difficult, however, when disclosure of an error is involved. Difficult as it is to negotiate a proper balance between patient autonomy and cultural values that conflict with it, oncology professionals must remember that all such conflicts are mediated through the relationship that they establish with their cancer patients relationship. This relationship remains our best, if an imperfect, guide for steering the course of care, even as we continue to learn from practice and research about new tools and methods for addressing the clash of contradictory values and mores.
We believe that in light of their experience dealing with patient-physician communication in complex, uncertain, and life-threatening clinical situations, oncologists can contribute to developing strategies and recommendations or guidelines for response to, and disclosure of, medical errors that may also apply to other clinical specialties. [1] Oncology can also play leadership roles in research on the impact of sociocultural factors on quality of care, including medical error reduction, and disclosure. For example, cultural, racial, and gender factors may affect clinicians' attitudes and practices toward medical thus we need to determine if in caring for minority or underprivileged patients, we are less likely to disclose errors to them and their families. Conscious or unconscious biases up to discrimination have been reported with regard to the extent of information provided to cancer patients of different cultures, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status, and these need to be explored also with regard to error disclosure. [15, 16] Honesty about the incidence and the consequences of medical errors in the setting of "poverty medicine" [17] should be fostered and sustained by feasible clinical practices.
Such considerations apply, of course, in all areas of medical care. In clinical oncology, however, the combination of complexity, uncertainty, high patient suffering and mortality, and the intensity of the patient-oncologist relationship may both magnify and make more apparent these critical challenges to providing effective, equal, and respectful care to all people who are suffering. Along with proper assessment of the epidemiology and patterns of errors in clinical oncology and accurate reporting by all healthcare workers, we should continue to study the causes of medical errors in light of new therapeutic developments in clinical oncology, and safety measures to prevent errors in all clinical settings, including home care where anticancer, supportive, and palliative therapies are increasingly being delivered.
As cancer care continues to shift toward a more complex system of healthcare delivery, with growing specialization and potential fragmentation of care, sophisticated technology, and rapidly escalating costs, we need to address the impact of structural transformations and economic pressure on the incidence of medical errors and the factors affecting their recognition. Also, we should further investigate those errors that may occur in the design and conduct of clinical trials with regard to scientific value, integrity of investigators, conflicts of interest, informed consent, and non-discrimination in patients' enrolment. All these elements, while not strictly belonging to the standard definition medical error, have deep repercussions on the clinical practice of oncology. Rectifying ethical and procedural errors in regard to them can benefit oncology and medicine as a whole, and thus patients across all medical disciplines.
To properly address medical errors that may still occur despite our best individual, institutional, and systemic efforts at improving patient's safety, oncology professionals must inform and lead by moral education and example. Discussion of errors as teaching moments should be encouraged also through the use of narratives of medical error with medical students and oncologists in training. We must admit our own vulnerability and advocate for greater access to professional counseling and other sources of support for all clinicians after an error has occurred. Finally, in order to face and address medical errors we must attend to our own well-being, including our mental, psychological, and spiritual health. Keeping connected to close colleagues, family, and friends, and engaged in our communities, are powerful means for maintaining connections to others, and avoiding isolation, in the midst of difficult situations. [18] Nurturing our own well-being can help us cope with the repercussions of medical error on our sense of self and personal integrity, and sustain us in helping our patients through the course of their illness, avoiding the temptation to abandon them emotionally through our silence in the face of medical error.
In closing, we wish to thank all our colleagues who have contributed to this book. We are grateful to them, to all our patients, and to you who have read this book.
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2 Surbone A, Gallagher TH, Rich KR, Rowe M. To Err is Human 5 years later. (Letter) JAMA 2005; 294:1758.
3 Surbone A, Rowe M, Gallagher T. Confronting medical errors in oncology and disclosing them to cancer patients. JCUn Oncol 2007;25:1463-1467.
4 Sigall K, Bell SK, Delbanco T, et al. Beyond blame to advocacy: Revealing medical errors to your patients. Chest 2011;140:519-526.
5 Rowe M. Doctors' responses to medical errors. Critical Rev Oncol Hematol 2004;52:147-163.
6 Surbone A. Oncologists' difficulties in facing and disclosing medical errors: suggestions for the clinic. Am SocClin Oncol Educ Book 2012:e24-27.
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8 Gallagher TH, Bell SK, Smith KM, et al. Disclosing harmful medical errors to patients: tackling three tough cases. Chest 2009;136:897-903.
9 Rowe M. The rest is silence: hospitals and doctors should beware of what can fill the space of their silence after a loved one's death. Health Aff 2002;21:232-236.
10 Surbone A. Recognizing the patient as Other. (Editorial) Supp Care Cancer 2005;13:2-4.
11 Berger AS. Arrogance among physicians. Acad Med 2002;77:145-147.
12 Surbone A. Cultural aspects of communication in cancer care. Supp Care Cancer 2007;14:789-791.
13 Berlinger N, Wu AW. Subtracting insult from injury: addressing cultural expectations in the disclosure of medical error. J Med Ethics 2005;31:106-108.
14 Anderlik MR, Pentz RD, Hess KR. Revisiting the truth-telling debate: a study of disclosure practices at a major cancer center. J Clin Ethics 2000;11: 251-259.
15 Daniels N, Sabin J. Limits to health care: Fair procedures, democratic deliberation, and the legitimacy problem for insurers. Philos Public Aff 1997;26:303-350.
16 Sabin J, Nosek BA, GreenwaldA, Rivara FP. Physicians' implicit and explicit attitudes about race by MD race, ethnicity, and gender. J Health Care Poor Underserved 2009;20:896-913.
17 Hilfiker D. Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey with the Poor. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.
18 Kearney MK, Weininger RB, Vachon ML, et al. Self-care of physicians caring for patients at the end of life: "Being connected ... a key to mysurvival". JAMA 2009;301:1155-1164.
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More than 600,000 GM pickups and SUVs being recalled for a braking problem
By John Elkin	 November 4, 2019 2:37PM PST
General Motors has issued a recall for 638,068 Chevrolet and GMC pickup trucks from 2014-2018 and Chevrolet and GMC SUVs from 2015-2020. Also included are the 2015-17 Cadillac Escalades. The recall concerns a faulty wheel speed sensor that could, if it fails, cause the brake to engage on the opposite side of the faulty sensor. This might cause the vehicle to veer to one side unexpectedly at speeds from 41 to 60 miles per hour. So far no injuries have been reported as caused by this problem.
Only vehicles equipped with a 5.3-liter V8 engine, four-wheel drive, with a 3.08-ratio rear axle are included in the recall. GM's number for this recall is N192261050. Chevrolet and GMC dealers will reprogram the brake system software free of charge.
The recall comes after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) began investigating the problem last year after getting 111 complaints from owners who reported poor brake performance. The vehicle was tested and engineers were able to duplicate the condition by disconnecting one of the wheel speed sensors.
A failed wheel speed sensor will also activate warning lights for the electronic stability control and anti-lock braking systems and a message will display, "Service StabiliTrak." A driver can avoid the problem by driving the vehicle in two-wheel-drive until the dealership performs recall repairs. The automaker says the underlying cause of the problem relates to incorrect axle-ratio calibrations in the electronic brake control module which cause the module to incorrectly calculate the speed of a wheel with a failed speed sensor.
An auto recall occurs when a manufacturer or the NHTSA determines that a car model has a safety-related defect or does not comply with a federal safety standard. When this happens, the automaker will alert owners to the problem and usually offer a free repair. When a recall is issued, manufacturers will do their best to contact all affected owners. If you don't receive a car recall notice, however, you can search through current safety recalls on the NHTSA's site. And whether you received a letter or not, the manufacturer is still obligated to repair the defect free of charge to you.
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Synod's words on 'synodal' church puzzle some people
Pope Francis greets Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia after a session of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment, at the Vatican Oct. 26. Also pictured are employees and officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other U.S. bishops. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
By Cindy Wooden • Catholic News Service • Posted October 29, 2018
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — "Synodality," a key concept of Pope Francis' papacy, was used repeatedly in the final document of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocation discernment.
In simple terms, "synodality" means "walking together" with every member of the church, recognizing that the grace of baptism makes one part of the body of the church and, therefore, responsible for its life and mission.
"The church must really let herself be given shape by the Eucharist that she celebrates as the summit and source of her life," being like "the bread made from many stalks of wheat and broken for the life of the world," the synod document said.
"The fruit of this synod, the choice that the Spirit has inspired in us through listening and discernment, is to walk with young people going out to all to witness to the love of God," it said. "We can describe this process by speaking of synodality for mission, that is, missionary synodality."
(See Archbishop Charles Chaput's reflections on the close of the synod, including the question of synodality, in his recent column.)
Archbishop Hector Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo, president of the Peruvian bishops' conference, told reporters Oct. 25 that especially with the involvement of young people at the synod, the bishops saw how synodality could be a way of life that "promotes everyone's participation."
"When I say everyone, I don't just mean the church as in the bishops, priests. No! It is also the laity and the faithful at all levels. And all of us bishops are called — and this is part of that synodality — to make collaboration grow," Archbishop Cabrejos said.
The International Theological Commission, a group of theologians appointed by the pope and working under the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, published a lengthy document in March on "Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church."
"The concept of synodality refers to the involvement and participation of the whole people of God in the life and mission of the church," the commission said.
In its Catholic understanding and usage, the commission wrote, synodality "promotes the baptismal dignity and co-responsibility of all, makes the most of the presence in the people of God of charisms dispensed by the Holy Spirit, recognizes the specific ministry of pastors in collegial and hierarchical communion with the bishop of Rome, and guarantees that synodal processes and events unfold in conformity with the deposit of faith and involve listening to the Holy Spirit for the renewal of the church's mission."
In other words, consulting and listening to all members of the church is essential for discerning a path forward, but those decisions cannot violate the truths of the Christian faith and must be verified by a priest, bishop or the pope, depending on whether the decision is local, diocesan or has a universal impact.
As members of the Synod of Bishops reviewed a draft of their final document and prepared amendments to it, some bishops told reporters they thought the emphasis on synodality was exaggerated, since very few synod participants mentioned the term during the assembly, which began Oct. 3.
Others cautioned that for people living in countries with a large percentage of Anglicans or Protestants, the term could lead to confusion, almost as if the synod was saying it wanted a church where decisions were made prayerfully, but democratically.
The synod's final document spoke of the value of listening to, praying with and grappling with the questions brought to the gathering by the synod observers under age 30.
In that experience, the final document said, "we recognize a fruit of the Spirit who continually renews the church and calls her to practice synodality as a way of being and acting, promoting the participation of all the baptized and of people of good will, each according to his or her age, state of life and vocation. In this synod, we have experienced that the collegiality which unites the bishops 'cum Petro et sub Petro' (with and under Peter, the pope) in their concern for the people of God is called to articulate and enrich itself through the practice of synodality at all levels."
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, speaking to reporters at the Vatican Oct. 26, admitted that the term was not discussed in depth at the synod, but "it is what we have been doing for a month."
While the Second Vatican Council's call for "collegiality" refers to the College of Bishops acting with and under the pope, he said, "synodality is much wider" and refers to all the baptized taking responsibility for the church and its mission, each according to his or her talents and role within the church.
"It is to walk together, to be together on the way of faith and that concerns everybody," Cardinal Schonborn said. But "it doesn't take away the difference of function and ministry and roles."
While Pope Francis began speaking of synodality in the first months of his papacy, which began in March 2013, his most extensive treatment of the topic came in October 2015 when he led a celebration of the 50th anniversary of St. Paul VI's establishment of the Synod of Bishops.
"The journey of synodality is the journey that God wants from his church in the third millennium," the pope had said at the celebration. "A synodal church is a listening church, aware that listening is more than hearing. It is a reciprocal listening in which each one has something to learn."
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William Chyr
Re: Manifold Garden
Devlog Update #357 - 12/11/2018
Latest development update video is now up!
This one ended up longer than usual, but there was a lot of ground to cover.
The save system and level loading system had been persistent problems for a long time, and getting the two to work together was especially challenging. A large part of the issue was due to the complexity of these systems. Manifold Garden has persistent save - you can carry objects between levels, save the game at any point and restore to that exact state. On top of that, we have dynamic level loading - once the game starts, there is no load screen of any kind. Instead, levels are loaded and unloaded automatically in the background.
Behind the scenes, there's a lot going on. Scenes need to be tracked and save data needs to be updated accordingly. If a particular scenario is overlooked, it's easy to end up with duplicate data, causing the game to not load or save. This was a major problem for playtesters as it prevented them from progressing very far. After spending quite a bit of time tackling this issue, we're happy to say that these issues are fixed. At least, we haven't seen observed them in the playtests for a while.
Otherwise, for tech, it's been a lot of little bugs here and there. Object physics behaving weirdly in certain points, being able to noclip into the wall if you change gravity at just the right angle, stuff like that. We've been addressing these as they come up.
We were having a lot of issues with audio at one point. Sounds crackling, sounds getting delayed, sounds not playing at all.
In the end, a lot of it turned out to be the way we had things set up in FMOD. For the team, this was our first time using FMOD, and there's a lot of nuance to the program. The number of active voices you can have, which sounds are streamed, etc. A lot of the problems didn't come up when testing individual levels, but once you have the whole game running, and hundreds of objects loaded all emitting sound, that was when it became an issue. Fortunately, a lot of the problems have since been addressed.
We also added a custom audio occlusion system. While the basics of the system were straightforward, getting audio occlusion to work across portals proved to be much trickier.
In the video, starting a 5:55, you can check out a short preview of the audio design and an explanation of the audio occlusion system.
The art style of the game is pretty finalized. Most of the remaining tasks are polish.
There are minor things like the button here needing to be updated to match the style of the cube.
We still need to play around with color correction as well. This is especially evident in the green gravity.
All in all though, the art issues are fairly minor.
Design has undergone a massive and significant change in the last 6 months. It became clear with the most recent playtests that the layout of the world was too convoluted. Additionally, there was too much emphasis on large open areas. While these do provide stunning vistas, they were overused, which lead to a lot of pacing issues.
We've been focusing on streamlining the core experience, and adding more diversity in level size and design. There are now more mid-sized indoor levels in between the large outdoor spaces, which provide strong contrast and a better sense of progression through the game. Previously, we were seeing players getting to 90 minutes, and just stopping due to feeling overwhelmed or lost. Now, we're seeing players go for 4, 5 or more hours.
Between the design changes, development, and overseeing the project, I haven't really had much time left for anything else.
We're on track to get the game out in early 2019. I know at the beginning of this year that I said 2018 was going to be the year. We didn't quite make it, but we did make really significant progress. There are still several things that need to be sorted before we can announce a launch date, but we're getting there.
I'm excited to be in this final stretch. It's been a long journey, but there's still ways to go, but I'm so happy to have made it this far. In the coming months, we're going to be publishing a series of articles and videos explaining all the tech of the game in detail: how our graphics pipeline works, how we're optimizing levels, and so on.
If you want to stay up-to-date, there are a couple of options:
And don't forget, you can wishlist the game on Steam!
« Last Edit: December 11, 2018, 10:28:43 AM by William Chyr » Logged
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Started refining some placeholder areas in the game.
This area went from this:
Here's a timelapse video of the process:
We also added a "hint cube" to show where to place the cube to grow the tree
Got around to adding this as a few playtesters mentioned that after letting the water out the door, they had no idea how to advance, and ended up getting rather confused.
In terms of design, there are a lot of areas in the game that are placeholder. They're just boxes.
And while they're perfectly fine in terms of getting player from A to B, they're not very interesting, and they look terrible.
One of the design tasks I'm doing is replacing them with better thought out areas.
We had a certain cube that showed up just fine in the editor, but in the build, it showed up as pink - which means either missing material or something wrong in the shader).
The issue turned out to be that we were changing the shader on the material at runtime. This works fine in the editor. Even if the shader has new variables, they get initialized properly.
However, in a build, new variables don't get properly initialized. The solution was to create a new material with the new shader to include with the build.
For audio, we've continued to make refinements and track down issues.
One bug I noticed was that when I walked indoor, a certain sound became louder. I wasn't sure what the exact cause was, but it didn't feel right. The issue turned out not to be the sound event's volume increasing, but the REVERB of the event increasing in volume.
As you can see, the event is part of a bus (which is basically a group of sounds), and is getting sent to the reverb twice. One directly to it, the other, through the bus.
The cause was that we were sending the signal to the reverb before the 3D location was taken into account, which meant that we were hearing the reverb of the signal in 2D. The solution was to not send the event to reverb directly, but instead through the bus.
Here's an update video:
A Very Brief History of Development
Put together a short video summarizing the last several years of development:
If you want more details on the current state of the game, and what's still left to be done, here's a roadmap for development I put together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o4NcmTW7WuXoMasQbxSnv72rhR-GtX9xTN1EebKuERw/edit?usp=sharing
We also have a public trello board up, if you want to follow more closely the bugs we're working on: https://trello.com/b/DqStaye6/manifold-garden-community
« Last Edit: February 11, 2019, 09:49:51 AM by William Chyr » Logged
Made a video showing before vs after comparisons of various recent changes:
Development Update #16 - Graphics Fixes, New Music System, and Design Concern
The latest development update video is now up:
Visual Improvements
Last month, we updated the graphics system to address some ongoing issues with shadows. However, it was a pretty significant update and initially broke several other visual effects. It took a while to track down all the issues, but the good news is we've fixed them now and the current system is overall better than it was before.
Black Hole Particle Improvements
Besides shadows, another element we improved is the look of these black hole boxes. In the game, they represent a kind of corruption. However, they were breaking the world wrapping illusion:
To achieve the world wrapping effect in Manifold Garden, we place duplicate versions of the world around the main one.
The play area is defined as a box. When the player reaches one face of the box, we teleport them to the other side. It's simple in theory, but the key is you have to make it look seamless.
The reason for the black holes popping in visually was that they did not have fog applied, so they didn't transition smoothly like everything else. We added fog, but the problem here is that material colors fade out before the edges do. While the fog applies to the material, it does not apply to the edges.
The problem with this, however, is that having the black hole boxes fade out early looks weird. They're supposed to represent corruption. It's supposed to be the darkest material in the world, but they don't look that way.
Arthur, who's been the main architect for the graphics system, ended up applying a different fade to the black hole material. Now it actually fades out even slower then the lines. It's very subtle, but in the distance, they appear slightly darker than the edges. It's as if they're darker than black.
Edge Detection Improvements on PS4
Another major improvement is the edge detection effect for the PS4. I can't go into detail, but there were some issues that resulted in the edges on the PS4 looking bad, especially compared to the PC version. If you looked closely, you could see that the edges sort of disintegrate in the distance. This by itself wasn't so noticeable, but it created this really bad moire effect overall.
Arthur went down a rabbit hole looking into fix, and finally solved it. This is what it looks like now:
You can see the edge disintegration is all gone, and the PS4 version looks really good.
Music System
The new music system is better explained in the video, as you can hear what we're working on.
We recently redid the music system in Manifold Garden to make it more flexible and modular. The old system was very limited in functionality and the code was quite messy, which made it difficult to make changes and add new music. Customization used to take hours, whereas now it takes minutes.
The new system has each area's behaviour separated into their own managers, which makes everything a lot more organized. All of these managers extend from a single base class called "MusicTrackerGroup". This class is a group of music trackers. Each MusicTracker is responsible for managing a single FMOD sound event for the music, and how fade in and out that sound, how to manage FMOD parameters, and saving or loading data from the save file as needed.
We have a default behaviour for music that we can use if a level doesn't need any customization. If a piece of music is assigned to a level and uses the default behaviour, then when the player enters the scene, it fades out the last music and starts to fade in the new one, with a bit of overlap. It works fine, but we actually try not to use this default behaviour too much. The reason is that while the game space is broken down into scenes (for management purposes), we to want the players to experience the world as being seamless. The spaces connect to each other, so it wouldn't make sense if every time you were in another room, a different music played.
Internally, we have this idea of "music sentences", where a piece of music might begin in one scene, and then continue throughout others, creating and enforcing a sense of connection between the spaces.
Performance Improvements, Ending Redesign, and Music System
These past two months we have been busy with improving the overall performance of the game, on both PC and PS4.
For the most part, the game is running at 60FPS on both platforms. We've optimized meshes significantly (in some places reducing the size by 40%), and have smoothed out a lot of the major bumps in the game. We've also optimized the world wrapping effect by reducing the number of duplicates we create. We've always avoided rendering the LOD instances that are in the furtherest conrners, since they're never visible to the player. However, we're now doing it more efficiently, creating this sphere like structure behind the scenes:
Where we are seeing issues is in large levels with highly detailed geometry that are adjacent to other similarly sized levels. To help us, we've written several tools to track the memory usage and performance of each level in the game. We compare the values between iterations, allowing us to evaluate our effectiveness and pinpoint which areas are problematic. It's a slow and often tedious process, but we're making steady progress.
Ending Redesign
In December, the game became playable from start to finish. It was a pretty major milestone for us to hit. However, while the player was able to get from the beginning to the end, there were several areas that were still quite rough, especially from a design standpoint. The first draft of the ending didn't feel very focused. I've been redesigning the ending, using the lessons I learned from making it the first time and feedback from testers.
If you're interested in how the music system in Manifold Garden works, I did a deep dive video recently:
It's much longer than the typical development update videos, but I go into great depth explaining the architecture, showcasing the debug tools that we made, and how it's all implemented in the game.
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« Reply #1228 on: July 02, 2019, 10:03:17 AM »
this graphical style in a world that's less portaly "this is a puzzle game" looking would be pretty ill. An office space even with some neat text boxes... it's nice and sketchy.
I really like the visuals in this, definitely my kind of aesthetic.
After 7 years, I am excited to announce that Manifold Garden is launching this *Friday, October 18th*, on Apple Arcade and the Epic Games Store!
Here is the release date trailer:
Ava Skoog
Amazing!! Congratulations! Best of luck with everything! Must feel so good. It's such a cool game.
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Congrats on the release!
I hope Connor's still got his $30 ready from five years ago:
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And yes, it will be old school pay to play. No in-app-purchases.
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i have about 30$ now thanks to some money i saved doing some shopping for stuff today so i can use that.
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Congrats on the launch date!
Been lurking and following for a long time, so it's nice to see this coming out.
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>much time do you allow?
starter that will contribute to how long before it's ready to use.
yeast strain used, And if step ups are done.
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the volume for an ale? I use about a gallon or so.
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the taste of the beer may be adversely affected.
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enough for any additions to the boil.
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Subject: good HB shop in Boston/providence area.
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David Crafts talks of the "Cream IPA" he had in Canada.
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Good luck finding them near you.
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LHBS) so that I could get the upgrade.
>lower end.  Does this same advice hold for the WhiteLabs 300 / Hefe?
one last night in honor of the Super Bowl. Yum!
over 150 entries some from states as far east as PA.
The Cascade Brewers Guild announces the 7th Annual World Renowned St.
The competition will be on Saturday March 8, 2003 at Bear Creek Brewing Co.
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go dim when you plug it in?"
Well, I hope not.  That wouldn't be acceptable.  My HERMS is all electric.
valves then I care to count.
The degree of automation depends on how close you want to watch the mash.
The problem doing this manually, is you would have to watch it like a hawk.
You can't walk away from it if you have it lined up to the coil in the HLT.
the time and take a cut off into the coil to maintain temperature.
hope that helped.  I sent you a pdf drawing of my system.
and too malty for a real German Pils, but I like it a lot.
Chuck D. asks about culturing yeast from a bottled beer.
far as how to culture from a bottle, I've considerable expertise on that.
expect colony growth.  The cell concentration is often too low.
My method is to remove about 85% of the beer - leaving any sediment intact.
Sanitize the sealed bottle and all tools with a soak in iodophor sol'n.
touch a faucet or a drawer handle and contaminate the work.
sanitized) make a perfectly acceptable seal.
*very* little.  Under good circumstances you'll see activity in 3-4 days.
still smells and looks good..
For beginners you can culture from Sierra Nevada Pale Ale quite easily.
this way and I'd so don't try it unless your sanitation is impeccable.
with a pump and simple bypass to control mash temperature.
when the bypass is open.
tubing, and I arranged the bypass to be a short straight path.
similar to what you get with a whirlpool.
Please note that in my last post in this thread, "someone" was ambiguous.
can be replaced by standard o-rings found at hardware stores?"
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Don't drop the damn thing!
I have added an amazing new feature to the yeast DB on my site.
without being logged on, but must log in to add your own comment.
Play around and let me know how it goes!
You only see the comments when viewing a full-detail of the yeast.
e.g. click on the "1056" for "Wyeast 1056"
Joey Guy, talking about "Electrical activities??"
it are in excess of your theoretical amperage draw. "
continuously vary the wattage of your element.
connections for the heaters, possibly in combination with the range control.
Reno, Nevada. This is both an AHA sanctioned and BJCP certified event.
entries, so we expect this to be a 100+ entry competition this year.
between 8-22 Feb 2003 to the Reno Homebrewer.
the exam. We will need a head count for that as well.
simple setup - aside from the pump there are no electronics whatsoever.
double duty as the Heat Exchanger in the HLT.
the Mash.  Adding a stirrer to the HLT would probably help as well.
any appreciable benefits to the step mashes vs simple infusion mashing.
flow go both faster and smoother.


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Drummond, at Age 19, Already Pistons' Best Player
The Pistons' best player is 7'0″ tall, a teenaged rookie who suits up for the games these days in Armani.
He's wearing dress pants with razor sharp creases instead of warm-ups. His shoes are pointy and shiny instead of leather and high tops. His shirt is collared instead of a tank top. His role is now that of the NBA's tallest cheerleader.
Andre Drummond isn't your typical basketball Redwood. His back is screwed up, for one. And his value has shown the most when he hasn't been on the floor.
The math has been painfully simple. The Pistons are suffering from subtraction by subtraction.
This is another basketball season wasted in Detroit.
Coach Lawrence Frank is finding out, in his second year on the job, that his father's Pistons weren't these bums. The team is cruising down the home stretch, its engine turned off weeks ago. In a league where supposedly any team can beat any other on any given night, the Pistons are routed with shocking regularity.
Early last week, Frank—fresh off a brief hiatus while he tended to his ill wife back in New Jersey—played one of the cards of desperation that some coaches play in order to shake a moribund team. Call it a verbal shock to the heart.
"We have to restore the pride in being a Piston," Frank told the press Monday before the team went out and got shellacked by the Brooklyn Nets, 119-82, on the Pistons' home floor.
It's a card of desperation, right up there with "everyone has to look in the mirror." It's a plea to the base character of his players. And it's falling on deaf, uncaring ears.
When Frank took the job of coaching the Pistons in the summer of 2011, he referred to the past. He spoke of championship banners won, a mystique forged. He fancied himself as the guy that could do what Flip Saunders could not in the end, what Michael Curry could not and what John Kuester could not.
Frank thought he could restore the Pistons back to the championship status they were in 2004 and 2005. It has proven to be folly.
But Coach Frank has a few pieces to work with. Whether he will have the time to use them remains to be seen. His boss, Joe Dumars, has a fetish for firing coaches after two seasons. The Pistons have shown no real improvement from the mess they were when Frank took over from a shell-shockedKuester.
Those pieces are point guard Brandon Knight, big man Greg Monroe and Drummond—who has already achieved Best Piston status after just 50 games of his rookie season.
The Pistons drafted Monroe out of Georgetown in 2010, Knight out of Kentucky in 2011 and Drummondfrom Connecticut in 2012. You could do worse than be products of those three college programs.
Everyone else on the roster is expendable, except maybe veteran point guard Jose Calderon, who brings wisdom and experience.
Around this trio of recent first-round draft picks, Dumars—or his successor—has to construct a squad that is at least capable of not being run out of the gym on a regular basis. Whether Frank is the coach that will be around to work with Dumars' new pieces is circumspect.
But it should all be built around Drummond. Even Monroe, a great player, plays second fiddle to the rookie.
Drummond is 19, but that's irrelevant. He is the Pistons' best player because he has that delightful basketball combination of size, athleticism and nastiness that serves all the good centers well. He defends the paint like a king does his castle. He swats shots away with disdain. Rebounds find their way into his big hands. He runs up and down the court with such long, loping strides that you'd swear he can make it from foul line to foul line in no more than three of them.
Drummond doesn't, yet, score like a proper big man should in the NBA. He has no low post moves, really. But he is not like Ben Wallace, the Pistons' last dominant (defensively) big man, in thatDrummond doesn't have hands of granite. Big Ben didn't develop any offensive moves because he physically couldn't. Drummond has shown signs, even at his tender age, that he can be deft around the basket.
Frank worked Drummond into the rotation slowly early in the season, too slowly for many people's taste. The coach stubbornly refused to play his prized rookie more than 20 minutes or so per night, even when Drummond's extrapolated numbers proved him to be one of the best rookies in the NBA and probably the best rookie center.
But for all this praise, the best proof of Drummond's worth is happening right now, as the kid misses game after game—almost 20 now—with a bad back.
In Drummond's absence the Pistons have collapsed like a house of cards. They are shockingly inept with Drummond out of the lineup. They are pushovers in the paint, and lost everywhere else on the court defensively. The only rebounds they grab these days are the ones that fall directly into their hands.
The Pistons, with Drummond on the sidelines, have become a disinterested, wretched mess of a basketball team. They are unable, perhaps even unwilling, to play anyone tough right now.
Drummond's absence and the Pistons' subsequent freefall into oblivion are about as coincidental as cause and effect.
So it's not too much to say that Drummond, at 19 years old, is the Pistons' best player right now. It was not too much to say back in 1981 about Isiah Thomas, when the 20-year-old rookie from Indiana University became the Pistons' best player just a few minutes into his first game.
Thomas didn't stop there; he became the franchise's best player of all time.
He did so with no small help from Dumars, Thomas's backcourt partner starting in 1985.
Now Dumars must help the young center Drummond by building a team around him, in Dumars' role as GM.
It's a task that is best done with Dumars watching in an Italian suit instead of Drummond.
Andre DrummondDetroit Pistons
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