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A Dog's Way Home
Bobbie Pyron (J Fiction)
Eleven-year-old Abby Whistler and her Shetland sheepdog, Tam, are inseparable. Not only is Tam an agility champion, he is Abby's world…and she is his. But an unexpected detour leads to a terrible accident that tears Tam from Abby. As the days turn into weeks and fall gives way to the harshness of winter, can Tam find his way from Virginia back to North Carolina where home and his girl is?
Pyron checks all the boxes with this book. A Dog's Way Home is non-stop action and suspense with whole lot of heart. Short chapters and alternating points of views—between Abby and third-person POV for Tam—ensure that readers stay engaged and fully committed to these characters and their individual struggles as one fights to survive in the harsh wilderness while the other navigates foreign situations in a big city.
There are a couple of things that really made this an exceptional read for young readers. First is that Pyron chose NOT to write down to her audience by having Tam be the narrator of his own story. Having the scene described by an arbitrary third party lends a starkness and cold reality to Tam's situation, which only heightens the drama and urgency of his predicament. Second is the cruel reality of Tam's situation. He is an animal suddenly faced with either starvation or survival and as his natural instincts kick in, so does the necessity to eat, and in order to eat one must kill.
Anyone who has ever cared for a dog will feel their heart being twisted and squeezed within their chest as Tam battles everything from the weather to wild animals and ruthless humans. Side note: a lot of well-meaning men who are protecting their loved ones or just doing their jobs really get the short end of the stick in this book and ultimately come across as villains. I expect that by the end of this book, many young readers will despise just about every adult in this book…except Meemaw, Abby's grandmother.
Part Lassie Come-Home and part The Incredible Journey, A Dog's Way Home will engross readers from beginning to end with messages of hope, perseverance, acceptance, and love. Most of all, it will challenge readers to reassess what's truly important since material trappings never hold their shimmer for very long. As Meemaw said to Abby, "Sometimes the thing you think is the most important isn't that big a deal, once you have it."
Rating: 5/5
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Under the cash method, you generally report income in the tax year you receive it, and deduct expenses in the tax year in which you pay the expenses. Under the accrual method, you generally report income in the tax year you earn it, regardless of when payment is received. You deduct expenses in the tax year you incur them, regardless of when payment is made.
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When I left the U.S. I sent, a few weeks before my exodus, all my worldly goods packed into three-quarters of a container to Barcelona. I already owned my apartment, the renovation of which was supposed to be much further along than it was. My cat, Shimi Moto, and I slept on a futon, a rather narrow futon, on the floor of the library full of bookless shelves.
Shimi did not much approve of this situation, it was difficult for the two of us to fit on the futon, but she was an amenable cat, much traveled by rail, car and most recently plane, business class with her own seat. She only complained once on the flight. I opened her case so that she could see where she was. She stuck her head out into the cabin. The expression on her face approximated that of a respectable, Westchester matron discovering herself inexplicably transported to a male brothel in Tangier. She recoiled back into the case and did not complain again.
Shimi, I should explain, entered Spain, unintentionally on both our parts, as an illegal alien and remained so until her death some two years ago. It happened this way.
I had all our papers in hand and after I went through passport control looked about for any sign about entering animals. I saw nothing. I approached a young man in uniform, pointed at Shimi's case saying, "Tengo una gata." She was after all a female cat. The young man was a bit taken aback by the female form but adjusted himself and asked, "Tienes papeles?" I proffered her papers.
He opened the folder and went through them very thoroughly before turning to me, laying a finger across his lips and with his other hand pointing vehemently at the exit. So out the door into Spain we went and never looked back.
Somehow I had made my way with my lame Spanish through all the necessary labyrinths to get my goods passed by customs on arrival and then arranged through, I think, my superb architect, to pay for the street to be closed in front of my building for two hours so that an elevator platform could come and lift my belongings up to my window on the fifth floor where furniture, rugs and bulky things would enter the apartment over the balcon railing. Belongings in smaller boxes came up in the elevator, all the books, which the men unpacked and rammed any old way onto the shelves so they could take at least those boxes away.
But a few days ago I relived the thrill of standing in the middle of my bookless library watching sofa, after chair, after table rise solemnly up and the men reach out to pull each off the platform before it sank slowly down for the next load.
Only this time I was sitting at my desk as I-beam after I-beam went up swaying gracefully before my window. The street was blocked from all traffic for a specified amount of time, so that the compact little elevator, not in this case a platform but a series of arms and elbows which unfold, can park in the middle of the street, lean another arm against the building to steady itself and lift things up, with the help of a winch, to the roof.
Another event of this week was to see the most up-to-the-minute style in a hat shop window on the edge of Urquinoana. It was a sun-visor with an attached mask and clear plastic face shield. Absolutely au courant and chic.
But the big event, of course, was that Mendi's the café down stairs opened. You can only sit on the terrace under the trees and there are not a lot of tables but what joy to have a café con leche with a friend while the cat ladies are cleaning out the cat park. It gives me needed distance from demolition noise.
I think they must be hollowing out the old convent to the walls and totally reconstructing it within that shell. Facades are protected in Barcelona; you are not allowed to alter them so often everything but the façade is destroyed before new construction begins.
They are still sending rubble roaring down a chute many times a day; along with drilling there are various tonal levels of pounding going on. This all appears to be happening in the tall, front building.
The little building in the back, which is only two stories high with a curved outside stair up to the second floor where narrow balcons open before tall, arched windows, seems to be, so far, intact. Between these two buildings is a court, which I cannot see into well but what I can glimpse suggests lots of rubble. On my side of that court is a roof, which serves as a bridge between the two-story and the tall.
Two spirited young men leapt happily yelling at each other crossed this bridge that connects the two-story and the tall, went to the rear of the two-story roof where there is a bit of projecting wall, went round the wall and disappeared. I realized for the first time that there must be a stair there. What they ran through used to be the nun's garden. I had thought the nuns only had access to the roof from that bridge of roof. Interesting what you discover about a building you have never entered during its reconstruction.
By the way, Shimi and I slept on the floor on the futon for, I think, about two months. I remember it took me a week to shelve the books. Shimi spent her days, not unhappily, curled up in one or another of the boxes in what was to become the living room, coming to bed with me at night. After the books I shelved, so to speak, my clothes, in the walk-in closet with the help of a friend from Rome. Then the master bathroom was finished. Then the kitchen. One day Shimi heard the men, cats are acute about sound, moving the bed out of the living room. A furred flash she positioned herself in the hall to see where they were taking HER bed. That was the first time I realized it was HER bed. She watched the operation and surely less than a second after they hefted the mattress onto the bed, it's a four legged teak, Thai bed with clawed feet, she was on it, washing up with an air of delicious smugness before taking a nap on HER bed.
As anyone who has owned a cat knows, the saying "Dogs have owners but cats have staff," is one of the unalterable truths. I was most complimented by her belief through cars, trains and planes that finally her staff could be trusted to arrange events so all would be well for her on HER bed.
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I promised my reader last time that this next post would concentrate on the West Indies side and to help your understanding, dear reader, as the cricket develops.
Whilst England's record in the Caribbean of late has been poor {as we saw last time} the WIndies sides of recent years are no longer the threat of yesteryear. And I go back to the Oval in 1963 when my interest in cricket was first kindled – to tell you that it seemed that there was not a team on earth to rival the WIndies in their pomp and prime and I hope to come across some of those heroes in the coming weeks.
Ok, the opportunities provided by the Stanford organisation seemed to offer some form of revival but at the shorter form of the game – and yes, WIndies have done well in those formats, but it was too good to be true. The efforts were not pushed towards the longer game, so it is wonderful that it's still going.
So what went wrong? Unlike any other test side, the WIndies are not one country but several and I suppose whilst the team was prospering, there's no need to make any changes to structure or strategy but once things deteriorated after the stars retired, then differences started to appear and disharmony as each board, or groups of boards, went their own way. Add in the effects of globalisation and the increased exposure of other sports or opportunities and cricket failed to address this. (ECB please note!)
And great admiration and thanks to the WIndies for visiting England in 2020 during the pandemic to keep the game alive; and England found that they were no pushover. This could well be the case in the Caribbean over the next few weeks.
Who do we face? The chosen squad is a mixture of experience and up-and-coming players with some names of previous series and recent matches not chosen (so far?). A number of the squad are the wrong side of 30 (approx half) whilst of the youngsters there is a potential debutant in Anderson Philip.
Leading the side will be Brathwaite a veteran of 74 tests, over 4,000 runs but at an average of just over 32. Promise not quite fulfilled and a better bat than the average suggests. Supported by Blackwood as vice captain (43 tests, 2200 runs and an average of just over 30)
Other experienced players include ex-captain Jason Holder (2400 run and over 130 wickets) and was once the leading all rounder across all nations. Roach with some 68 tests and 230plus wickets provides the rest of the experience base.
The remaining eight squad members have a total of 81 tests between them but some promise:
Bonner – 9 tests, 500+ runs at an average of over 40 (the best in the squad)
Brooks 8 tests and Campbell 15 have similar averages in the mid-20s and are supported by da Silva (wicketkeeper) with 11 tests and an average of just under 25. Joseph with 17 tests and 40 wickets provides bowling support while Permaul, Mayers and Seales are just starting out on their test careers – the last named being the most promising I hear.
A mix of age, experience, youth and promise – in essence I suppose not too different from the new look England side. And given the chance, a bit of luck could provide good contests.
But with all this data, one aspect I've overlooked is the old adage that the game is 90% mental attitude and 10% skill. And the question to ask, is how many mental scars England have left in their baggage from the Ashes? The first and last balls of the series (Burns and Robinson) still haunt me – and I wasn't even anywhere near Australia – and showed the lack of mental application at the start and the desire to step aside at the end.
Let's hope for better memories over the next five weeks!
I started this post in a cold, grey damp England but I thought some pictures from Antigua make for a better look. So, here goes…
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It was a wild weekend. It started with a party at our house Friday for my granddaughter, who turned 26. It was a fabulous day and a blast for everyone. We went all weekend long having a great time and yet I figured out a way to take my jewelry on the road! I worked on both viking knit and chain mail necklaces, so I didn't feel too guilty!
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Today's Scripture: Hebrews 5:11-6:3 (S.O.A.P. Hebrews 6:1)
The Need to Move on to Maturity
On this topic we have much to say[a] and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish[b] in hearing. 12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time,[c] you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances.[d] You have gone back to needing[e] milk, not[f] solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
Therefore we must progress beyond[g] the elementary[h] instructions about Christ[i] and move on[j] to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works[k] and faith in God, 2 teaching about ritual washings,[l] laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And this is what we intend to do,[m] if God permits.


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Saturday 26th October 2019
I was recently investigating a suspicious GPG key for one of my domains that had shown some activity on the key servers after been dormant for nearly 10 years. The key wasn't mine, and since anybody can create a key with any name and email address, this wasn't indicative of a breach or imposter. However, it was intriguing to see what this automated system, spammer, or whoever they may be, was trying to do with the key.
PGP/GPG key server output can sometimes be quite confusing, especially if a key has multiple subkeys, user IDs and signatures. This prompted me to create a reference guide for PGP/GPG key server output, to help anyone else who may be in a similar situation.
Below is the key server entry for
Alice <firstname.lastname@example.com>, signed by
Bob <firstname.lastname@example.com>, which are sample keys that I created. You can click on any part to find out what it means:
Type bits/keyID cr. time exp time key expir pub rsa4096/a40ced0a9eaba810f55bb88ca41a7776121ce43c Hash=f24c4ff33f09e7da1b0cb2cf72cb2be3 uid Alice <firstname.lastname@example.com> sig sig a41a7776121ce43c 2019-10-19T21:43:52Z 2020-10-18T21:43:52Z ____________________ [selfsig] sig sig 24b1fb13f1b3b06c 2019-10-19T21:51:07Z ____________________ ____________________ 24b1fb13f1b3b06c uid Alice (Alt Email) <firstname.lastname@example.com> sig sig a41a7776121ce43c 2019-10-19T21:34:23Z 2020-10-18T21:34:23Z ____________________ [selfsig] sig sig 24b1fb13f1b3b06c 2019-10-19T21:51:08Z ____________________ ____________________ 24b1fb13f1b3b06c sub dsa3072/d7cff40b9c95ede5f8d10b62e91a02198a286d8f 2019-10-19T23:05:19Z sig sbind a41a7776121ce43c 2019-10-19T23:05:19Z ____________________ 2020-10-18T23:05:19Z [] sub rsa4096/b8d4d1ab55a0f662596c52ab47652ce725cb3e8f 2019-10-19T21:16:21Z sig sbind a41a7776121ce43c 2019-10-19T21:16:21Z ____________________ 2020-10-18T21:16:21Z []
The type of the following entry. Common values are:
pub (Public Key)
uid (User ID)
sig (Signature)
sub (Subkey)
You may also see the following values when using GPG locally:
sec (Secret Key / Private Key)
ssb (Secret Subkey / Private Subkey)
The type of key. Common values are:
dsa (Digital Signature Algorithm)
elg (Elgamel)
The size of the key, in bits. Usually between 1024 and 4096. 2048 is the modern bare-minimum, with 4096 recommended for futureproofing. DSA keys are limited to 3072 bits in GPG.
The ID of the key, or if shown in a signature, the ID of the key that made the signature. Key IDs can be represented in multiple different ways:
For example:
Fingerprint: a40c ed0a 9eab a810 f55b b88c a41a 7776 121c e43c Long ID: a41a 7776 121c e43c Short ID: 121c e43c
When using GPG locally, you can choose which key ID format to use when listing keys:
gpg --fingerprint
gpg --keyid-format long --list-keys
gpg --keyid-format short --list-keys
Only fingerprints should be used nowadays, as brute-force techniques can be used to create 'unofficial' keys where the long or short key IDs collide with other 'legitimate' keys. This results in ambiguous trust, as a long or short key ID may match more keys than the one you are expecting.
An MD5 digest of the key.
For some reason information about this is very sparse. From what I can gather, it seems to be something to do with SKS, rather than OpenPGP or GPG directly.
The source code for the Hockeypuck key server software provides some clues and confirms that it is definitely MD5. If anyone knows more about this, please get in touch.
The user ID of the key or subkey, consisting of a name and email address, and optionally a comment and/or photograph.
For example:
First Last (Comment) <email@example.com>
User IDs can be added, edited and removed using the
--edit-keys option, which will bring up an interactive GPG shell. Some of the most common commands are:
list: List keys and UIDs
adduid: Add a UID
uid N: Select a UID number to edit
deluid: Delete the selected UID
primary: Make the selected UID the primary UID
trust: Change the trust level of the selected key
help: Show a help dialog
The level of trust asserted by a specific signature. In the OpenPGP specification this is represented by the hex values
0x10 to
0x13, and displayed by GnuPG as
sig through
0x10 /
sig: No indication
0x11 /
sig1: Personal belief but no verification
0x12 /
sig2: Casual verification
0x13 /
sig3: Extensive verification
In addition,
sbind is used to represent the creation of the key/record, including the creation time.
When using GnuPG to create a signature, you can use the
--ask-cert-level option to set the certification level.
A time stamp, represented in ISO8601 format, with the
Z meaning 'Zulu', or UTC.
There are three columns of time stamps:
cr. time': Creation time of the key or signature
exp time': Expiry time of the signature
key expir': Expiry time of the key
Blank time stamps, represented as 20 underscores (
____________________), indicate that a key or signature is set to not expire.
Indicates that this is a self signature, whereby the users' own private key was used to sign their public key. This is done by default in most modern OpenPGP implementations.
There is very little documentation as to the actual purpose of the square brackets at the end of
sig sbind lines. They seem to just be a placeholder for notes such as
However, the source code for the Hockeypuck GPG key server software seems to indicate that
selfsig is the only possible value. If anybody has any further insight into this, please get in touch.


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Because I'm an alcoholic and always will be, I would really like to be able to drink at these holiday parties I'm going to in the coming weeks.
But what happens then? I fall into the Christmas tree. It's happened. TWICE. Two separate years yours truly fell drunkenly into the company Christmas tree. It's really kind of funny. NOW. Years later.
Now that I am a SOBER alcoholic, I still would like to have a drink. It's just the way it is. I know what happens. I won't do it. That's the difference. Just because I WANT to drink sometimes, doesn't mean I do it. I know the consequences. I know that I lose everything if I drink. But I'm an alcoholic. So yes, I still want to drink. I'm not a newly sober person either. 13 years and I still have trouble around the holidays, and let's be honest, WHO DOESN'T, drunk or sober. I don't have the compulsion, the NEED to drink anymore. It's more of a "I just don't want to be quite this sober right at this moment" kind of thing. It's a crazy time of year, with all the wonderful, there is some terrible awful feeling stuff too, amiright?
Being an active alcoholic made life's terrible events so much easier to "turn on, tune in, drop out" than this sober nonsense that I practice today. It would be so much easier to welcome back Ignore and Deny. My two old friends. Closely followed by Stuff it and Pretend and ALWAYS BLAME OTHERS.
Nowadays I hang around with Confront the truth and Deal with your shit a whole lot more than my old friends. Being a highly sensitive person is treacherous. Being highly sensitive and sober and left to deal with life on life's terms is near impossible. Throw in the pressure of Schmolidays and you've got a near Titanic level disaster on your hands. But it can be handled. And handled well. SOBER. Happy joyous and free can be yours for the low low price of change everything in your life!
Let's face it. As great as holidays with family and co-workers and friends can be, you are still left with YOU. Your brain and your emotions are the constant. Here are a few things that help me get through the holidays now that I'm sober and still feel the need to run away or resist a drink at times.
- The smoke break. Now, I know I know. I don't smoke anymore and many of you don't either. BUT in theory, it's still a great idea to have a smoke break. When I first had babies, I had the epiphany that breastfeeding was a perfect smoke break! When we stopped breastfeeding last Summer, I needed something new to walk away, take a break, get away from it all for a few minutes. NOW when I feel like I need a break, I just go for a little walk with the kids. Or by myself. So whether you have kids or not, you can always GET UP AND WALK AWAY for a bit. I find it does wonders for my attitude and spirit. Walking around the block with kids is great for all involved. A tiny bit of air and stretching the legs helps enormously. Plus, no one can hear you scream if you're far enough away.
- The sidekick/wingman excuse. This works best for work parties or even just regular parties. You know what I mean. You go TOGETHER. You leave TOGETHER. My girl Lynnie and I are going to the work party together and we will leave together. We got each other's backs. She's not one of us, but she is my girl and she gets it. So we do the deal and when we need to get the hell out, we do. Hell, I like going out these days. It used to be and often still is the case that I'd rather be horizontal on my couch with my 3 favorite people in the world, but there are many occasions I really like being social these days (WHAT IN THE WORLD). It still can strike at any moment though that I feel the need to bolt. Having a good sidekick is essential. The buddy system exists for a reason. You look out for each other.
- The meeting defense. Here's the thing about needing a meeting as an alcoholic. You will seldom encounter anybody who gives you shit about needing a meeting. It's a get out of jail free card. Get out of the jail in your head for free. GO. JUST GO. Talk to other like minded people. Call or text if you can't get to a meeting. You've got phone numbers. USE THEM. Everything will be there for you when you return, but chances are your headspace and attitude adjustment will be all the change that's required.
- Help somebody else. Just get outside of yourself for 5 seconds and think about doing something for somebody else. Volunteer. Go on a visit. Call someone. Write someone a letter. Give something to someone else. Just do something that gets you outside of yourself. I promise it will change your space.
- Gratitude Lists. They work. Don't ask me how or why, but listing off a few things I'm grateful for, ALWAYS HELPS.
- Stop everything and just be. This one works year round, every damn day. Chances are this holiday season like most others, no matter how hard you try, you will still feel some stress to get it all done, to be enough for everyone and everything. I don't feel a lot of guilt these days about anything, but I do feel guilt about time. And there is never enough. BUT, if you can really commit to just "getting down on the floor with the kids" you won't miss it. You won't have to look back and say, "I wish I had known then what I know now" because you do know now. you know how precious all of this is. RIGHT NOW. You don't let any of it go by unappreciated.
Get down on the floor with the kids. With the animals. With the people who really matter to you. With yourself! Are you laughing? Because hopefully you are laughing. Hopefully you are so in it, you can't even think about the fact that your dress may be flipped up and a bit embarrassing. When you are in it, really in it, nothing else matters. You are tackled by love and laughter and have no thoughts of drinking. At least I don't. I don't give a rip about presents or perfect presentation of food or home. What I do give a rip about are moments. These moments that as they happen you think, "This is never ever going to happen again and I am so damn happy to be here NOW. Sober. Happy joyous and free." This is all that matters. Not that we got one more thing for a stocking or that one batch of cookies was made just right. Nobody is going to care that I didn't write as many blog posts this month because they will hopefully be getting down on the floor with their people too.
We've all got to work for our happy joyous and free a little bit. It doesn't just happen. Sometimes a bit harder than others and not every holiday, hell not every day, is going to be great. But when you've been to hell and come back to tell the story, every damn day is pretty darn good. NOW. Sober. You are worthy of happiness. One day at a time.
So, come on, GET DOWN ON THE FLOOR WITH ME. Don't make it weird.
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Knewton's UX Research Practice Gears Up for Back-to-School
Karen Horowitz | July 31, 2018
As back-to-school season approaches, Knewton is diligently working on powerful new feature releases and product updates. And Knewton's User Experience Research (UXR) practice supports this work by incorporating instructor and student feedback through a host of research methods.
We vet draft experiences with users, identify issues, iterate, and validate potential solutions. And this is all often before a single line of code is written for a new feature release or product update.
Knewton UXR recently conducted efforts to inform an upcoming alta feature that allows course coordinators to create and manage multi-section courses. We wanted to first understand educators' current practice, and then swiftly iterate and validate draft designs in light of user feedback. In doing so, by the end of our process, we could come to a useful and usable solution.
We approached research through:
- Focus Group
- 1:1 Interviews
- Persona Development
- Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation
Focus Groups & 1:1 Interviews
Prior to initiating design work, we took a step back and conducted remote focus groups and 1:1 interviews to understand how coordinators across the country currently create multi-section courses. What does this process look like for them? Where do issues arise? How do Learning Management Systems come into play? This early research provided our cross-functional team with a deeper knowledge of users' needs and goals.
Persona Development
We used information gleaned from early research sessions to create a course coordinator persona. User goals were defined here, giving teams common language to talk about relevant problems — and how to best solve them.
Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation
As the design team started building out a draft experience, UXR hosted 1:1 remote usability testing sessions with course coordinators (users and potential users) across the country. We screen-shared semi-functional draft designs, turned over control of the keyboard and mouse, and asked participants task-oriented and open-ended questions. Because stakeholders (design, product, engineering) were observing each session, we quickly identified design issues, iterated in-between sessions, and validated potential solutions with subsequent users.
What We Learned
What are some things we learned in our multi-section course research? Well…A LOT! But, sometimes the most memorable findings are the ones that are those 'aha' moments — the ones where we watch users go through a potential workflow and an imaginary lightbulb goes off for us.
We immediately consider an easier way for users to accomplish a task. Designs are revised and further validated.
One example of an 'aha' moment within our research involved 'auto-save' during educators' process of building out coursework. Auto-save seems harmless enough, right? But employing auto-save within the complex task of building out coursework for a multi-section course didn't seem to give users enough confidence that their work was indeed being saved. Designs were revised and the issue was alleviated.
Another compelling finding involved course Initialization links — what instructors would need to click within a workflow to make the course section 'start.' Early draft designs did not seem to make enough distinction between this link and additional content on the same screen. Again, designs were revised to more overtly highlight where users should navigate to initialize the course.
Effectively Leveraging UXR for Educators
Using a multi-method research approach provided our cross-functional team with a solid understanding of user needs prior to any design work, and the flexibility to improve designs in-between research sessions.
Upon concluding our design research, we came away away with an experience we're confident is useful and usable, and can be put into development for our customers.
Thanks to Michael Mancuso.


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Yuma Territorial Prison
In 2010, the Heritage Area stepped forward to save and manage two state parks located in the City Yuma after state budget cuts threatened the closure of the parks. The Heritage Area continues to manage the Yuma Territorial Prison (YTP) and Colorado River State Historic Park (CRSHP) on behalf of the City of Yuma per the City's 15-year agreement with Arizona State Parks and Trails, signed in 2016. The Heritage Area continues dialogue with Arizona State Parks and Trails to discuss much needed investment in infrastructure restoration to preserve the two state parks for future generations.
Through excellent management and marketing, the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park has more than doubled its revenues since 2010 and has developed a long-term capital improvement program. This year, ongoing maintenance of the park buildings and grounds was completed including xeriscape landscape and sidewalk improvements between the museum and sally port in an effort to eliminate adobe erosion and provide wider walkways.


text: Citizen and ispace, inc. ("ispace"), a lunar exploration company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, are corporate partners for the HAKUTO-R, the world's first commercial lunar exploration program. As a key component of this partnership, Citizen will apply its Super Titanium™ material—pure titanium processed using Citizen's proprietary surface-hardening technology—to titanium components used in the HAKUTO-R lunar lander and lunar rover. Selected by ispace's engineers for its light weight and strength, titanium will be used for various mechanical parts in the HAKUTO-R lander and rover. As a lightweight, scratch- and corrosion-resistant material developed by Citizen for its watches, Citizen and ispace aim to use Super Titanium™ to improve the reliability and environmental resistance of the HAKUTO-R spacecraft's titanium parts.


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These guys from LA have been making waves in the indie scene for a while now, with achingly beautiful rock tunes, sublime three-part melodies, and hooks galore. Their debut album 'Gorilla Manor' was released in the US earlier this year, and it's an absolutely stunning album, so I definitely recommend you grab a copy if you can.
In the meantime, here's the awesome track World News, with a free download link after the video.
"Well, a bomb went off in the parking lot of a newly opened Sunni marketplace. And a cloud covers your car at just the right time for you to see the dark on your face, in the mirror."
Free download via RCRDLBL.


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I know I have heard of Spiritualized, but it was probably a later album. I missed their debut album Lazer Guided Melodies. It seems from the description that I would enjoy it. English space rock sounds trippy to me. I think it will be great.
The first song "You Know It's True" reminded me of driving at night on an open highway and nobody is around, except the stars in the sky, the howling wind and a mountainous landscape in the background.
Other songs to consider: "Step Into the Breeze", "Symphony Space", "Shine a Light", and "Angel Sigh".
Overall, this is a great album to chill to. I wish I had heard it before. I think all the songs range from better than mediocre to great. I recommend listening to the whole album and deciding yourself. 9/10.


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Charizard Brooch Parody by Daisy Jean
Laser-cut in Australia and hand made in-house at Daisy Jean HQ.
Once this item sells out of our 'in stock' pieces it will automatically default to 'preorder'. We offer preorder as we don't like people to miss out! Please note our preorder has a 4 week turn around time prior to shipping.
Daisy Jean began at the end of 2014 as a small online store on etsy with only a few select hair flowers.
The brand was started initially as a place where ladies could buy high quality floral pieces where the flowers were the focus point, lending themselves to a range of pin up and retro styles. Since then this small business has flourished into something more and now specialises in short run exclusive acrylic jewelry.
With an initial company description of "Making beautiful flowers for beautiful women", in 2018 we have decided to change our slogan slightly to state simply "Making beautiful creations for beautiful women". We are a company that is proud to support ALL women, both customer and other small business owners as well as using our pieces to encourage personal positivity and self-appreciation through creating gorgeous hand crafted pieces to help them feel and look their best.
In late 2017 our business expanded to a staff of 2, occasionally 3 to help keep up with the growing demand on our small business and we are a team proud to do our best for our customers. Daisy Jean is proud to have three amazing women as our face of the brand for 2019, which is part of our Pinup's Supporting Pinup's ideology. To learn more about our Face of Daisy Jean program,
Thank you for supporting Daisy Jean Floral Designs and other small businesses!


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The stagnant energies of this day promotes you plowing through with good energy, remember the best way to beat an obstacle is by going around it not through, although sometimes if you have no choice going through a situation will make you stronger.
If your birthday you are charmed, charismatic, creative, don't let your luck make you lazy and try to live by shortcuts, there is always more benefits to doing the work. Walk to the beat of your own drum, don't be afraid to be you.
Conjunctions are just to planets close to each other, I know this is a complicated thing, astrology i mean but if you are truly interested it would be good to learn, for your future and the future of those close to you. I practice spirituality and have many practitioners of astrology as friends, we are both surprised how many times i say something and they look up the astrological way and it fits. I always tell people the truth is the truth and there are many modalities to achieve a destination.


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NYIF Loan Disbursement – The NYIF was an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development (FMYSD) and funded by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to invest in youth ideas to build sustainable businesses that can activate enterprise and increase job opportunities in Nigeria.
The major target of the initiative is to get the youth to invest in the innovative ideas, skills & talents aimed at turning them into entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and employers of labour, contributing to national development.
Beneficiaries of the programme, are between the ages of 18-35.
Giving an update on the initiative on Thursday (today), the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development announced that the government has through designated microfinance banks commenced the second batch disbursement of funds to successful beneficiaries.
The ministry noted that emails and messages have been forwarded to beneficiaries and that they are expected to take certain steps to get the funds for their proposed projects.
The ministry in a press statement signed by the director of press and public relations, Muhammad Manga, said less than 14% of the newly shortlisted applicants from the over 25,000 successful candidates, who are expected to be part of the loan, have responded to emails confirming their approval to receive the soft loan.
READ: FG ₦1.5m SMEDAN: Have you Applied? Submit Application
How can I get my NYIF loan?
Before expressing hope to get the NYIF loan, you must have filled in your details on the application portal when it was opened a year ago.
As confirmed by the FMYS, messages have been sent across to successful applicants.
- The next thing to do is for you (as a beneficiary) to urgently respond to the email and message sent to you.
- Follow the guidelines on how to open a Microfinance account to access the funds.
Meanwhile, FMYS has lamented that the rate of response to the emails by applicants has been quite low.
It said: "Shortlisted candidates must respond to communication in order to conclude the disbursement process. Those who fail to respond risk forfeiting this opportunity."
The Nigerian Youth Investment Fund (NYIF) is being disbursed to the youth who have expressed business needs.
About 6,000 youth benefited from the first set of disbursements in 2020 and the names of the beneficiaries have since been made public.
About 4,375 applicants have so far responded to their loan offer messages and received their funds in the second batch disbursement.


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Over the past two months, mobilization against public-health measures meant to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has swelled to levels that exceed the wave of protests against business closures and stay-at-home orders around the start of the pandemic in 2020, Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) data show. And, so far, the current surge shows no signs of abating.
The figure immediately below charts daily counts of protest events in the CCC dataset that had the COVID-19 pandemic as a major theme and were labeled as right-wing. In the CCC data, events related to COVID are generally labeled "right-wing" when they oppose public-health measures such as mask or vaccination requirements, whether or not the protesters explicitly identify themselves in a partisan fashion. So, for all practical purposes, these are events at which participants were protesting against those kinds of mandates, usually on grounds that those mandates infringe upon their personal liberty, parental prerogatives, or "medical freedom." (Consistent with CCC's general practices, this set of events does not include protests voiced during comment sessions at meetings of bodies such as school boards or county councils, unless those protests deliberately and successfully disrupted or derailed the larger meeting.)
As the figure shows, the ongoing wave has already exceeded the one seen in spring 2020 in both intensity and duration, and it may not even have peaked yet. The single day with the most protest actions in the current wave happened just a few days ago, on August 28, with more than 60 events nationwide, many of them backed by the Tea Party Patriots.
The next figure plots daily sums of participants in those protest events, splitting the difference between the high and low crowd estimates recorded by CCC coders for each action. This chart suggests that the recent protests are not drawing larger crowds than the ones in 2020, even as there are more of them. (Note: estimates of crowd size are unavailable for roughly 40 percent of the events in the CCC data set, so these sums almost certainly underestimate the scale of participation in these events. That's true for 2020 and 2021, however, so it probably doesn't affect comparisons across the two waves.)
The scale of the ongoing wave has varied widely across states. As shown in the bar chart below, the state with the most of these protests in the past two months by far is California, where opposition to COVID-19 public-health measures is thematically and organizationally intertwined with the effort to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. Washington ranks second, due mostly to a statewide, single-day mobilization led by the group Unmask Our Kids Washington on Wednesday, August 18. Despite its liberal reputation, New York ranks third, and New Mexico and Florida follow close behind. Only Wyoming and Puerto Rico have yet to see any events in the current wave, or at least any that CCC was able to spot.
In per capita terms, however, California does not look so exceptional. As the next chart shows, relative to their population size, it's New Mexico, New Hampshire ("Live Free or Die"), and Hawaii that have contributed proportionately the most to the current wave. Washington state still lands in the top five, but Idaho, the Dakotas, Montana, Oregon, Maine, and Alaska now show near the top of the list as well. (James C. Scott's work on resistance to government from afar among hill peoples in Southeast Asia comes to mind…)
So, why is this happening now? As the person who's been reading the news stories and social-media posts and watching the TV-news videos to code events during this period, I'd say it's pretty clear that the current wave has two main catalysts.
- The approach of the new school year, and the imposition of mask mandates in many districts where students will at least start the year attending school in person; and
- COVID-19 vaccination requirements announced by many hospitals and other employers in the healthcare industry—and, in places like New York and Oregon, by city and state governments as well.
Mask mandates in schools were more often the focal point through much of July, but the wave really swelled in August as deadlines for vaccinations as a condition of employment at many healthcare facilities began to loom. In California, a group calling itself America's Healthcare Workers for Medical Freedom has promoted dozens of demonstrations against COVID-19 vaccination requirements for healthcare workers on social media in recent weeks, most of them outside area hospitals. But similar demonstrations have occurred across the country in places like Staten Island, New York; Miami, Florida; and Memphis, Tennessee.
A crucial question we can't answer clearly with our data is the extent to which the impetus for the current wave is coming from national conservative groups with broader goals, as opposed to local activists motivated specifically by frustrations over these public-health measures. The frequent appearance of groups like the Tea Party, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, and the Proud Boys in the lists of organizations involved with these events suggests that right-wing movements are looking to use frustrations over COVID public-health measures to boost recruitment and mobilize voters for upcoming elections to everything from local school boards to federal office. So, too, does the appearance of GOP office-holders and candidates at some of these events, including one this past Sunday on the steps of the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and one earlier in the month in Lansing, Michigan. Long-time observers of the anti-vaccine movement have also described how its leaders are exploiting public frustration over COVID mandates to push the Republican Party toward a broader anti-vaccination agenda. For now, though, we'll have to leave more confident answers to the "grassroots vs. astroturf" question to the investigative reporters, who, as far as I can tell, are still digging.


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The mayor also seeks to bump up the Overture Center's subsidy to $2 million. (Photo by Jordan Richmond on Flickr.)
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin last week unveiled his proposed 2019 city budget—the last one he'll oversee before he leaves office—which means it's time for yet another look at where city leaders are planning to spend public funds on arts- and music-related programs.
As usual, arts funding makes up a very tiny portion of Soglin's $332 million proposal, and it's rare to hear the mayor and Common Council argue much about these funding items during the annual city budget process, with the occasional exception of disagreements over subsidies for the Overture Center for the Arts. But even a few thousand dollars of city funding can go a long way for an event or program, helping organizers raise more funds from private sources and, ideally, saying something about what Madisonians value.
Much of the city's funding for arts programs comes from taxes on hotel rooms. As we reported in 2017, city officials have been debating just where the boundaries are for spending that money. State law requires local governments to spend most of their room tax money on "tourism promotion and tourism development," and there's a legitimate argument to be had over whether funding an art installation or a music program actually counts as tourism development. For City of Madison Arts Administration Karin Wolf, the answer is yes, because a richer investment in arts and music can make Madison a more attractive place to visit. Other officials, like the members of Madison's Room Tax Commission, want to see more of a direct correlation between city-funded culture programs and, as Wolf summed it up last year, "butts in beds."
In the proposed Room Tax Fund budget for 2019, which supports a lot of the city's arts and music programs, there's a new $20,000 funding item for temporary art installations in downtown Madison. It's a bit like the Madison Arts Commission's BLINK project, which gives artists small grants to create temporary installations all over the city. But whereas BLINK (which will receive funding this year from the city's arts grants fund and its Planning Division) is spread out around town, this new initiative will be concentrated downtown, with the idea of making a splash by having a bunch of installations in a small area.
Part of the inspiration for the downtown installation project, Wolf says, came from the Bucky on Parade program that ran from May to September. Most of the 85 Bucky Badger sculptures created for that program were placed downtown or on the UW-Madison campus, and that geographic concentration was a big part of why the Buckys prompted such strong reactions, both positive and negative.
"We thought, how can we capitalize on people's enthusiasm with these concentrated art projects but actually have it be artist-driven?" Wolf said. "The artists get the same amount, ironically that they get for the Buckys—$1,500 if they ask for that much—but they get to determine the scope of the project." Wolf also points to the installation-centered Makeshift Festival, which took place in 2017 in Olbrich Park and in 2018 in Tenney Park, as another possible example to follow.
In large part, though, this city budget very much stays the course when it comes to arts and music, and even bumps up funding for some of the usual arts-funding suspects. Soglin's proposal would give the Overture Center $2 million in subsidies, up from $1.9 million in 2018. The Between The Waves music conference and festival stands to receive $25,000 in 2019, just as it did in both 2017 and 2018 for its first two iterations. Make Music Madison, a Summer Solstice event that brings free live music to dozens of locations around the city over the course of one day, launched in 2013 and has received city funding since its inception, largely for administrative and promotional costs. This year, the mayor's budget proposes giving it $30,000, up from $25,000 last year. Wolf says she sees events like Between The Waves, which have a targeted focus, eventually weaning themselves off city funds, but argues that the city should keep supporting Make Music Madison because of its broader focus.
Back this year is a $15,000 funding item for fairs and festivals, which first appeared in the city budget for 2018. People organizing events that they believe will draw in attendees from out of town can apply for these funds through the Arts Commission, and Wolf says that in its first year the initiative helped fund events including the annual Disability Pride Festival and the Central Park Sessions. This will be an interesting aspect of the budget to watch in the future, because it could potentially support a whole variety of things during Madison's ever-busy outdoor music season.
We'll be checking in on public arts funding a bit more this fall. If you've got any questions you'd like us to try and answer with this reporting, or any comments on how the city distributes arts funding, please email me or come say hi in the Tone Madison's Surly Notebook Facebook group.


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Residents and staff packed last week's Sitka Community Hospital board meeting (2-23-17), to express support for Dr. Richard Wein. A long-time surgeon at the hospital, Wein's contract was not renewed after an undisclosed personnel dispute.
Note: KCAW News has reached out to Dr. Wein for comment on this story. Wein was placed on administrative leave about two weeks ago, before the hospital decided not to renew his contract. Hospital CEO Rob Allen says a temporary surgeon, Dr. Thomas Bolling, will be in Sitka this Wednesday (3-1-17) to cover for Wein. The hospital expects to recruit a new surgeon sometime over the summer.
Wein was the staff surgeon at the hospital. He had a good reputation with his patients.
Former assembly member Tom Pratt told the board that they should protect hospital staff, and urged them to retain Wein.
"It's a special thing when you're dealing with people. You've got to have someone who can talk to people and identify with them, and Dr. Wein was one of those."
Resident Karen Lucas encouraged the board to renegotiate a new package with Wein. She said that he had a 17-year commitment to Sitka that was important to residents who were wary of imported talent from out-of-state.
She thought he was an exceptionally talented surgeon, and…
"Above and beyond his skill, the man is personable, he's soft-spoken, he's humble, he's charitable. He's a man who can reach anybody, no matter what tier they belong to economically."
Hospital CEO Rob Allen could offer no details on Wein's dismissal since it was a personnel issue. But, Allen added, it was also a very personal issue.
"Personnel issues are always difficult. This one particularly so because he saved my dad's life in the fall time, and I agree with many of the sentiments that I've heard not only tonight but in the paper, and on Problem Corner, and from the phone calls that I've received."
Allen said that it was his decision — a CEO decision — to terminate Wein's contract, and not a board-level decision. And it was a decision he was not pleased to make.
"It ended in a way that I was not happy with nor expecting."
Allen said that he could not explain the reasons behind the decision, publicly defend it, or confirm or deny any of the rumors that had been circulating regarding Wein's departure.
"I recognize that he made a difference in many lives," Allen said. "I know that."


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Galjoen just got an update compiled by Jim Ablett for Android. I remember that the previous one had issues with Fischer clock and it could not play fixed time per move either, using too much time beyond toleration. Therefore, it wasn't certified for Rapidroid.
Now it seems things changed. The updated version, after the first two games where it faced the native engine of Chess for Android is confirmed OK for Fischer clock.
Fixed time per move on the other hand is still open to speculation. It started by using 16 seconds vs 15 selected but with every further move the usage increased constantly up to 20 seconds. I didn't yet decide whether i should certify it for that time setting or not.
Probably it's wise to avoid tolerating excess time usage beyond 10%. We'll see.
Probably it's wise to avoid tolerating excess time usage beyond 10%. We'll see.
The engine doesn't look strong yet, It won above mentioned match by 1.5 to 0.5, meaning that it plays way below 2000 ELO, maybe around 1600.
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Updated: Feb 24, 2020
Another productive day in 8 bit camp AND I've seen Prague briefly in daylight (The hours we work mean starting as it's getting light and finishing in the dark)
Today has been filled with lots of laughter which means lots off funny photos- I can't wait to start editing them.
Currently coming to the end of day 2 and then a half day tomorrow before heading back to Manchester.
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E3: The Devolver Digital press conference was amazing
Devolver Digital is known for their previous negative comments about E3 and this year, the publisher took it to the next level. They bought a slot at E3 to parody the event which has resulted in one of the most memorable press conferences ever created. Here's everything you need to know about this magical experience of a press conference.
For those who missed it, Devolver Digital held a press conference after the Bethesda one yesterday. However, it's not the type of press conference that anyone expected. The publisher ran a parody show which pokes fun at the biggest trade show in gaming. And it was glorious.
Anyone who missed this amazing stream can find it on the Twitch VODs once the post-show ends.
As promised, the publisher had no new games or gameplay to show. Games weren't even the main focus of the show. It was a pure comedic sketch filled with hilarious and ridiculous things that was enough to make fun of almost every press conference at E3. The 'conference' is the complete opposite of what E3 is but it seems to be exactly what E3 desperately needs to keep it fresh and ensure that viewers are rolling on the floor laughing.
Two game trailers were shown during the event but they aren't new ones. Both of these trailers have been around for several months now.
The conference was filled with comedic sketches which poked fun at different features which developers are pushing right now. Such as "Comment Created Content" as a mock replacement of modding.
Devolver Digital didn't have a long press conference but it certainly ended explosively! The 'conference' has been followed by a post-show called the "Pre-Pre-Show" which is yet another parody show. This time, the publisher is showing a range of games which are all actually 'fake' or aren't being published by them.
The conference was a great addition to E3 this year. Hopefully the publisher will consider coming back for a another show.
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The Causey brothers were formerly buffalo hunters. The big lumbering buffalo were hunted in the southwest to the point where they declined from a peak of over 100 million animals to near extinction in only a few decades during the late 1800s.
Likely the best known Causey brother went by George Causey, though his given name was Thomas Leander Causey. He was born in 1849 in Madison County, Illinois and died in Roosevelt County, New Mexico in 1903. How he came by the nickname of George is unknown. He was a single man most of his life. He married in 1903 but died by his own hand only a few weeks after he married.
George was the first born of ten children to George Washington Causey and Mary Adeline Crowder Causey. The others were Mark, John Van Cleave, Eliza Jane, Mary Adeline, Charles Grant and Nellie Grant (twins), Robert Lincoln, George Washington, Jr. and Rose Evelyn. All but one or maybe two of the children were born in Illinois. George W. (the father) had been born in Tennessee and in the 1870 census, his occupation was listed as farmer and was still shown as being a farmer in the 1900 census before his death in 1907 at around 80 years of age. He died in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma. Mary Adeline had predeceased him, also in Oklahoma, in 1895.
Thomas Leander "George" Causey does not appear have served in the Civil War, although he may indeed have done so. Near the end of the war, however, he is said to have worked as a freighter hauling supplies to Army forts and trading posts in Kansas. This profession became less profitable as the railroad system expanded and goods could be transported reliably via rail.
At some point, George began to hunt and trade in animal hides, following the buffalo herds south and west from Kansas to Oklahoma and later to Texas and New Mexico. George is reputed to be a prolific buffalo hunter, and by esimates of others is said to have killed over 40,000 of these animals, living off money he earned from selling both hides and meat.
By around 1877, George and at least two brothers, Robert and John, had come to Yellow House Canyon, apparently near the current town of Littlefield, Texas. The brothers, George, John and Bob, came to the area in the late 1870s. They are first believed to have settled with a couple of other partners on the western side of Yellow House Draw.
Yellow House Draw was a natural old watercourse, or stream bed, in the Llano Estacado that ran for about 150 miles originating around 20 miles south of Melrose, Roosevelt County, New Mexico all the way to near the current town of Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas. There it ties into a fork of the Brazos River. There, still hunting for the remnants of the buffalo herds, the Causeys built an adobe house at a water hole there before exploring a bit further south into the Four Lakes area, in the northern part of what is now Lea County. They eventually settled on the southern end of the county near Monument Spring, still hunting the last of the buffalo which had been hunted until around 1880 in this area.
By the early 1880s, the brothers had tried to make the transition to capturing and selling wild mustangs. They began by capturing 100 mustangs along with about 50 stray beef cattle after the brothers moved to what became Lea County. An early task was to look for water, which they found in the northern part of the current county. George bought an Eclipse direct stroke windmill. Their ranch is referred to as being the first ranch in Lea County. After operating there for some time, that ranch was sold and George relocated some five miles south of Lovington. He had to supply water from Monument Spring and built a rock house. Causey ran his horse and cattle operation for a number of years from that location. He also contracted to drill water wells and set windmills for other settlers.
Around 1900, the exact date is unknown, Causey was riding a horse in a mustang roundup. The mount got spooked and fell after possibly stepping into a badger hole and breaking its leg, after which it rolled over Causey. Ranch hands came upon him two days later, sent for a wagon and brought him back to the headquarters at Four Lakes and then taking Causey on to Roswell for further medical treatment. Causey was then transported to Missouri for further treatment but never regained full health, reportedly suffering from a continuing spinal injury causing him extended pain and discomfort. Causey sold his ranch to the owners of the Hat Ranch. He and his brothers continued to operate a mustang operation on the open range in Chaves County. His employees also continued the water well drilling operation.
Causey was married to a nurse of German ancestry named Johanna Fewson on April 8, 1903 and established a ranch between Kenna and Roswell. About six weeks later on May 18, 1903, Causey is believed to have taken his own life. Witnesses heard a gun shot, ran to the room and found Causey fatally wounded. When he died, Causey was 54 years old. Funeral services were held in Roswell at the First Christian Church after which Causey was buried in Southside (now called South Park) Cemetery there. His brothers Bob and John moved away and lived until the mid 1930s. Bob is buried in Arizona and John is buried in California.
Sources: Elvis E. Fleming's articles in the Roswell Daily Record on George Causey. Fleming gives much credit to Gil Hinshaw's book "Lea: New Mexico's Last Frontier" and to Vivian H. Whitlock's book "Cowboy Life on the Llano Estacado." Sources also include genealogy records on the Causey family and various other newspaper articles.


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In this How to I assume you to have some prior knowledge and experience with Azure and Azure Machine Learning. If the latter is completely new you, I whole-heartedly recommend the quite excellent and free "Create no-code predictive models with Azure Machine Learning" learning path by Microsoft to get started!
Azure Machine Learning is a great service for anyone looking forward to performing, well, machine learning in a cloud environment. This is particularly true if you are already using Azure services, since Azure Machine Learning comes with lots of useful integrations to other Azure products. One set of these integrations is the ability to deploy your machine learning models straight from Azure Machine Learning to various Azure services to be available as an API. Certainly you could also use Azure Machine Learning's own "Publish to endpoint" feature for deployment as well, but these endpoints deploy on very powerful, and thus very expensive, Azure Kubernetes clusters. Thus if you are looking for a more affordable deployment target, these alternative options become very tempting. A while back I wrote a post about deploying Azure Machine Learning models to Azure Functions, and now it's time to show to do the same thing with App Services. If you have already read the previous blog on Azure Functions you'll see that the first three steps described here are mostly identical, and it's only the last part that is significantly different for App Services.
In this blog post I'll show you how to get an AutoML model up and running on an Azure App Service API, which can be triggered by easy HTTP requests. Microsoft has provided their own documentation on the topic as well, but it omits details on quite a few crucial steps and prefers using Azure CLI for performing Azure operations. Personally, I like to do things in the Azure portal, so that's the approach I've taken here.
The feature of deploying Azure ML models to Azure App Service is still in preview as of the time of writing, and as such it's possible that a few months from now on some steps in the process work slightly differently. Let me know if you notice any changes!
Preparing your AutoML model for deployment
For this How-to article I'll assume that you have already created an AutoML run and trained the model you wish to deploy to Azure App Service. Before the deployment can take place, there are several things you need to do:
- Register the model's .pkl file to Azure Machine Learning
- Prepare a scoring script
- Create an inference config
- Create a Docker image containing your machine learning App Service
Fortunately for us AutoML provides us with a ready scoring script that you can use as-is, and it also generates a YAML file containing all of the information needed for creating an inference config. So, let's get started!
1. Register the model's .pkl file to Azure Machine Learning
The very first thing you need to do is to download the model from Azure Machine Learning. The trained machine learning model takes form as a .pkl file – a file format used by Python to serialize objects – and it is this file that you need to register into Azure ML so that it can be used when you are eventually creating then Azure App Service deployment image. Open your AutoML experiment, and from the Models-tab select the model you wish to use and click "Download." You'll get a zip file which contains three files: The model .pkl file, a sample scoring script and a YAML file containing Python conda and pip dependencies needed for running the scoring script. Extract these files to your hard drive since you'll be needing all of them.
Next, in Azure Machine Learning open the Models-page and click to register a new model. Provide your model with a name, select AutoML as the model framework and choose to upload a file. Select the .pkl file which you extracted from the previously downloaded zip file and click Register.
2. Prepare a scoring script
In order to use the model you trained a scoring script is needed. To put it simply, a scoring script is a Python script that will be run in the Azure App Service and it does two things: It loads and de-serializes the model from its .pkl file in the init-method and it receives parameters sent to the Azure App Service, passes them into the machine learning model for scoring and then returns the resulting values in the run-method.
So, next, you need to jump into a Python environment of choice. Personally, I prefer doing everything Azure Machine Learning related in, well, Azure Machine Learning, so my environment of choice is an Azure ML compute instance. If you haven't used one before, jump into the Compute-page in Azure ML and click New. Choose your desired virtual machine size for the compute instance (I recommend something small, like DS2), click Next, give your compute instance a name and click Create. It will take a few minutes for your compute instance to get provisioned, so feel free to grab a cup of coffee while waiting.
And, once you're done with using the compute instance, don't forget to shut it down as simply having a running virtual machine costs money!
Once your compute instance is provisioned, click the Jupyter-link under Application URI to launch the Jupyter environment which you'll use for the next few steps. Once you've got Jupyter open, create a new folder for the deployment files, give it a descriptive name and open it. Once you have the folder open, create a new text file and name it "score.py".
Once you have the empty scoring script open, open the sample scoring script you extracted from the AutoML model zip package and copy its contents into the empty file in Jupyter. If you feel like it, you can modify the scoring script to your own needs, but for the purposes of this How to…that's it!
3. Create an inference config
Next you need to create an inference config for your scoring script. An inference config is an object in the Azure Machine Learning Python libraries that does two things: It tells where the scoring script your solution uses resides, and what the Python execution environment will be like: What package dependencies does it have and is it going to be run on Docker, for example. Go back to your working folder in Jupyter and create a new Python 3.6 – Azure ML notebook. Give your notebook a descriptive name and then copy the following script into it:
import azureml.core
from azureml.core import Workspace
from azureml.core import Model
from azureml.core.environment import Environment
from azureml.core.model import InferenceConfig
from azureml.core.conda_dependencies import CondaDependencies
ws = Workspace.from_config()
# Create an environment and add conda dependencies to it
myenv = Environment(name="myenv")
# Enable Docker based environment
myenv.docker.enabled = True
# Build conda dependencies
myenv.python.conda_dependencies = CondaDependencies.create(conda_packages=[],
inference_config = InferenceConfig(entry_script="score.py", environment=myenv)
Note! If you are NOT using a compute instance associated with your Azure Machine Learning workspace the above script will not work as-is. At the very least you will have to install all required Azure ML Python packages and then connect to your Azure ML workspace using a subscription ID, a resource group ID and a workspace name.
Then go back to your downloaded AutoML model files and open the YAML file in a text editor. See the package dependencies defined in there? Copy all of those into the inference config: Conda dependencies into the conda_packages array on line 14 and pip dependencies into the pip_packages array on line 15. For my model the YAML file looked like this:
And after adding those dependencies to the inference config, my notebook looked like this:
That's it for the inference config! Next, you'll keep working on this same notebook to…
4. Create a Docker image containing your machine learning App Service
In the three previous parts you prepared all the components required to have your model running and giving predictions: You registered the model itself, created a scoring script that uses model and created an inference config that describes all dependencies that your scoring script and model have. The next step is to bundle all of those (and some other things that Azure ML handles for you behind the scenes) into a Docker image that can be deployed into Azure App Service. First thing you need to do is to retrieve your registered machine learning model from the workspace:
model = ws.models['coffeemodel']
Finally, at the end of the script, add the following lines for creating a Docker container image for your model and registering it in a container registry in your Azure subscription. If you don't have one yet, executing the notebook will create one. The method Model.package has more optional arguments as well, for example to create Docker images for local deployment. You can see the documentation for all of the possible arguments and other packaging options. The Model.package -function takes two additional parameters image_name and image_label which describe the image in the container registry. You can think of image_name as the name of this particular model, and image_label as the version number. So for label you can, for example, use a timestamp string, a version number or go for something simple like the word "latest." Note that if you deploy an other version of the model with the same name and label the old one gets overwritten!
docker_image_name = 'auto-coffee-model'
docker_image_label = 'latest'
docker_image = Model.package(ws, [model], inference_config,
The final notebook should look like this:
import azureml.core
from azureml.core import Workspace
from azureml.core import Model
from azureml.core.environment import Environment
from azureml.core.model import InferenceConfig
from azureml.core.conda_dependencies import CondaDependencies
ws = Workspace.from_config()
model = ws.models['coffeemodel']
# Create an environment and add conda dependencies to it
myenv = Environment(name="myenv")
# Enable Docker based environment
myenv.docker.enabled = True
# Build conda dependencies
myenv.python.conda_dependencies = CondaDependencies.create(conda_packages=['scikit-learn==0.22.1','numpy>=1.16.0,<1.19.0','pandas==0.25.1','py-xgboost<=0.90','fbprophet==0.5','holidays==0.9.11','psutil>=5.2.2,<6.0.0'],
inference_config = InferenceConfig(entry_script="score.py", environment=myenv)
docker_image_name = 'auto-coffee-model'
docker_image_label = 'latest'
docker_image = Model.package(ws, [model], inference_config,
Then, simply run the cells in order and wait. Creating the Docker container image will take a while, so this is also a great chance for a coffee break. We'll continue after everything is done.
Oh, and once the scripts have completed is a good time to remember to shut down your compute instance!
Deploying the AutoML model to Azure App Service
Before you can actually deploy your model to Azure App Service you first need to create the App Service resource itself. Go to Azure Portal and create a new App Service as usual. The options of note here are setting Publish to Docker Container and creating a Linux app service plan with a Basic B1 SKU. Once your App Service has been provisioned, open it and move to the Container Settings page. There, after selecting Azure Container Registry as your image source, you should be able to select the Docker image you just created in Azure ML: Unless you have named the registry yourself, the name of the registry is a unique string of alphanumeric characters. The name of the image should be the value you used for the parameter image_name in the deployment script, and the tag is the value you assigned to image_label. Then, finally, click Save and wait for the Docker image to be installed. This, too, can take a while so go ahead and grab your fourth cup of coffee for this How to! To keep an eye on the progress of the installation, you can check the logs with the Refresh-button.
Once the Docker image has been installed that should be it! But before we call it a day let's make sure that everything went according to plan and test the deployment. When deployed to an App Service, Azure Machine Learning models can be called by performing an HTTP POST request to the /score endpoint, for example https://yourmodel.azurewebsites.net/score. You can test your model deployment by creating a new POST request in Postman or your other HTTP testing tool of choice. For the body of the request include a JSON object with one property – "data" – which is an array of other JSON objects, each object containing a set of parameters for one request into your ML model. Go ahead and send the request, and if everything has gone right, you'll receive results to your requests as response.
Note! When you perform HTTP requests against your model, you must include the parameters in the JSON body in the exact same order they were listed in the scoring script's input_sample variable! At least at the time being the scoring script that AutoML generates automatically does not actually map the parameters by name, but by order, which can be quite confusing!
In closing…
So that's the bare minimum needed to deploy an AutoML model into Azure App Services! There's still a lot more to cover, such as adding authentication, capturing request data for logging purposes, custom scoring scripts and so on, but this should get your started! I hope you've found this How to helpful, and let me know if you've done any cool machine learning solutions with Azure ML!


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I am really glad I went with interpreter — it allows me to check ideas much faster than before, when I was playing with PHP transpiler.
I added support for prototypes (as in Go) and an option for regular interfaces to turn them into prototypes as well — so you can type substitution matching or structural matching:
prototype PHost { string say(); } interface IHost { string say(); } struct Host : IHost { public override string say() => "hello"; } let h1 *IHost = new Host(); h1.say(); let h2 *PHost = new Host(); h2.say();
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