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Real Red/Blue Map Of Votes By County Shows Reality – IMRAN™
… counties' voting map (from the Washington Post) shows voters' choices by county. America is not as crazy as Trump's Red/Blue map would make the world think!
I do not belong to any political party and was not a fan of Hillary Clinton. But I knew, and publicly stated, why Donald Trump would be the worst thing to happen to the USA.
The non-stop crisis, chaos, collusion and scandals are bearing it out. Every day he says something that makes things worse.
Almost every day something new and more shocking is revealed. His actions literally are the opposite of everything he claimed in his election campaign.
By now even people on Mars (the red planet) and endangered penguins in Antarctica have seen Trump's Red/Blue map which he whips out all the time — even when he is asked about something else!
Yes, this Russia-funded Putin puppet won Electoral College with his message (of hate & lies plus Russia's help).
But for the sake of understanding the real state of the union, take a look at this real counties' voting map (from the Washington Post) shows voters' choices by county. America is not as crazy as Trump's Red/Blue map would make the world think!
The intense red spots are the areas where the fringe/lunatic/rabid people who love the man who lied to them are based in highest concentrations. I wish someone would overlay this map on a map of percentage of people with a college degree. Or a map of people and iQ scores, or SAT scores for that matter!
Not all of the people in these red spots are terrible. Many are simple minded, mostly undereducated folks, who are gullible to any snake oil seller's claims.
Thankfully,, these people are not the sharpest tools in the shed. They are by no means the majority of the country. They, and their limited ability to admit to their mistake.
Their delusional, often moronic, statements that Trump is right next to Jesus in being a gift of God, show that Trump can fool some of the people all of the time. Don't believe me? See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC6wc03OjhY . Also, https://goo.gl/images/LFvsCN shows how correct the late George Carlin was!
And that's how Trump, and his supporters, like it. They embrace living in a world of delusion, hatred, bigotry, illiteracy and falsehoods that sound good. Some openly admit to not wanting to know real facts!
They are the ones demanding and expecting great things in life, like well paying jobs, without even being able to speak, read or write proper English. Many of these areas are the biggest users of ObamaCare, but yelled asking for the failed Repeal & Replace effort.
God save their children from growing up with such ignorance and stupidity. God save our country, and our planet, from the damage Trump and his cronies are doing to it.
Author imrananwarPosted on August 9, 2017 Categories collusion, Commentary, Democrats, Donald Trump, Elections, facts, God, Hillary Clinton, ignorance, IMHO, Imran, Imran Anwar, Intelligence, Jesus, Opinion, Politics, President, Putin, reality, Republicans, Russia, Scandal, Security, stupidity, Trump, votingTags analytics, commenrary, Democracy, Democrats, Donald Trump, Elections, Fraud, Hillary Clinton, Imran, Imran Anwar, mapping, Opinion, Politics, Putin, Republicans, Scandal, Treason, Trump, voters, votingLeave a comment on Real Red/Blue Map Of Votes By County Shows Reality – IMRAN™
You Know What Rises To The Top, In USA Elections & Pakistan Politics – IMRAN™
What!? HOW DARE THEY DO THAT?! A shameful image to see on Pakistan's Independence Day, August 14! People of Pakistan …
Why are pictures of the founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and respected Miss. Fatima Jinnah, up SO HIGH?
They are almost too close to the greatest leaders on the Planet (Lollywood) that no one will remember in 50 years.
//end sarcasm
Send 1000 Jootian (rotting shoes) to the ass licking chamchas (sycophants) who put up the posters this way. Thanks to Shams Bin Niaz for the photo.
For my non-Pakistani friends, this is like political parties here putting up posters of Donald Trump/Mike Pence or Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine ABOVE posters of George Washington/Abraham Lincoln along city streets on the 4th of July.
Sadly, we are not far from that situation here in USA either. A few years ago Fox News had actually done a segment on George W. Bush (Yes, the moron retard Iraq War one) being THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER…
Seriously. It seems Pakistan has also reached that level of sickening political shamelessness. Or, wait…. is it the other way around?
Author imrananwarPosted on August 15, 2016 Categories Criminals, Democracy, Dictators, Dictatorship, Editorial, Elections, Freedom, George Bush, Hilary Clinton, History, Imran, Imran Anwar, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics, PresidentTags Commentary, Donald Trump, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Imran, Jinnah, NawazSharif, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics, Shame, USALeave a comment on You Know What Rises To The Top, In USA Elections & Pakistan Politics – IMRAN™
Hoping For Good Luck, On Friday The 13th
This has been quite an eventful week in New York. The previous few weeks of economic decline, bad financial news, increasing unemployment numbers and other news of global distress had been pushing the New York Stock Exchange consistently and constantly lower and lower.
Things were so bad that people would have preferred a return of the stress-filled yo-yo stock market days, where one at least had a 50-50 chance of making or losing money!
From a high of almost 13,000 the NYSE reached 6500 and there was talk of it even heading lower. There were fears that it might even fall below 6000 before all is said and done.
This decline continued while the flood of bad news also continued unabated. The only silver lining one could see around these ominous dark clouds was that most companies were choosing to do greater layoffs than they need and reducing costs as much as they can.
Even though each job lost is something that can mean the destruction of dreams of a family, sadly, for big businesses it is all a numbers game. Companies generally prefer to dish out all their bad news in one lump rather than dish it out piecemeal. It is generally easier to recover from a massive jolt and negative dip in stock prices over a few weeks or months. It is harder to get over the malaise that can cripple a company's stock price if the bad news, no matter how small, just keeps coming every few weeks.
What's that suggests to me, and keep in mind that I'm no financial adviser, is that most companies may be gearing up to have better than expected results at the end of the March quarter. Or, at least results that are less terrible than the market anticipates. Either one of these could potentially mean a rise in stock prices in April.
Even before the end of the quarter, a few pieces of good news have come out. One of them was that Citibank has been profitable for the last two months. This is the giant global behemoth that is one of those banks considered too large to be allowed to fail. This news came shortly after the bank's stock was trading at as low as one Dollar per share, a far cry from nearly $60 per share it used to be.
Anybody who bought those shares at the ridiculously low price of one Dollar literally made a profit of 35% in one day, as investors suddenly found their greed outweighing their fear.
Financial company stocks in general benefited from this uptick in the stock market. Most major stocks have been rising consistently for the last few days, though I expect some drops as profit-taking starts again.
Even though it is far too early to claim that the market will not plumb new lows, but more than likely, one year from now economists and other so-called experts will analyse and say that the recovery had begun at an anaemic but measurable rate in these weeks.
President Barack Obama and his team have had most of their focus on the American economy – as well as the global recession that still imperils the world. But in the meantime other serious matters of the world continue to demand attention.
As is consistent with Pakistan and its self-destructive ways, once again American media and Pakistan bashers have gotten ample opportunity to raise the specter of Pakistani nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists – should the country spill further into anarchy.
The recent blatant and brazen terrorist attacks in the metropolitan city of Lahore, the despicable attempts to kill the Sri Lankan Cricket team and the evil murder of police officers and innocent bystanders there showed how almost no part of Pakistan is safe. This was an attack obviously not carried out by Taleban type thugs but by some well-organised but equally evil professionally trained gang of killers.
The Taleban continue to remain in the news, especially Pakistan ceding control of Swat and other regions to what are perceived as extremist groups. American drone and missile strikes continue to kill Pakistanis, innocent or otherwise, with disturbing regularity. India continues to rattle its sabers in the guise of demanding justice for the Mumbai attacks. In other words, there is no possible threat, internal or external, military, economic, political or social that Pakistan does not face.
Yet our shameless, spineless, gutless, clueless and witless politicians continue to fight over who sits at the head of the table – while this ship of state is rapidly sinking. Unlike even the Titanic, Pakistan is like a ship whose captain has been aiming it at every single iceberg he can see. On top of that, the ship has been torpedoed from behind. Its own crew is setting fire to cabins and furniture while others are busy looting what they can.
It is no wonder therefore that foreign powers, including America, find that the only way to control Pakistan, even to keep it from self-destructing, is to manage it not as friends but as masters. And, Pakistani politicians are quite OK with that.
From politicians, I want to shift to lawyers. Every country in the world has its share of lawyer jokes. For the last one year, and once again this month, it happens to be Pakistan's lawyers and barristers, who have taken up the challenge to restore democracy and justice.
A profession that relies not on regular salaries but on almost daily work in the courthouse has once again stepped up, at great cost to its self, economically, professionally, personally. Today I must salute the lawyers and other professionals of Pakistan, not just for bringing down one dictator, but for ensuring that Pakistanis as a nation see that they can choose and control what the government can or cannot do when an elected person tries to act as a dictator.
Will democracy rule or will Pakistan sink into the abyss of chaos and anarchy?
The fact that things have come to this stage in itself is a tragedy. For the first time in more than 60 years we had an opportunity to establish state institutions. This was a historic opportunity because so many forces lined up in a once in a century series of events. The sacrifice of Benazir Bhutto, the professionalism of General Kayani, the sensibility of some political leaders and the great courage of Chief Justice Iftikhar Choudhry and fellow judges. Rarely had so many forces lined up to restore true democracy to Pakistan. And, sadly, rarely have historic opportunities of such greatness been grasped in Pakistan.
As I am writing these lines in New York – on this 13th of March – I am hoping for some good luck for Pakistan. The only positive news is that some sort of compromise may be in the works in Islamabad. I, like millions of Pakistanis, can only hope and pray for that miracle and some Good Luck, today, on Friday The 13th.
This article was in client publications on Friday the 13th, 2009.
Imran Anwar is a New York based Pakistani-American entrepreneur, Internet pioneer, inventor, writer and TV personality. He can be reached through his web site http://imran.com and imran@imran.com . You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/imrananwar
Author imrananwarPosted on March 23, 2009 March 23, 2009 Categories 2009, America, Americans, Army, Asif Zardari, Assassination, Bailout, Bank, Banking, Barack Obama, Benazir, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto, Constitution, Democracy, Dictatorship, Economic Recovery, Economy, Elections, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, General, Hypocrisy, Imran, Imran Anwar, IMRAN.TV, ImranAnwar, In My Humble Opinion, Justice, Musharaff, Nawaz Sharif, New York, News, Newspapers, Pakistan, President, Stocks, Supreme Court, Terrorism, WashingtonTags America, Anarchy, Barack Obama, Benazir Bhutto, Democracy, Economy, Elections, Imran, Imran Anwar, Islamabad, Justice, Martial Law, New York, Pakistan, Stocks, Titanic, USA, ZardariLeave a comment on Hoping For Good Luck, On Friday The 13th
India's Triumphant Cultural & Political March
India's Triumphant Cultural & Political March:
From The Slums Of Bollywood To The Red Carpet Of Hollywood
By Imran Anwar
(New York) It was nearly 30 years ago that my first writings were published in a major Pakistani newspaper, the once defunct and then reborn Pakistan Times. The writings continued during my time with the Jang group, in particular MAG Weekly, in the late 1980s, until I left for the United States.
All during that time, despite all my criticisms of whoever was in power at that time in Pakistan, my writings were always full of hope, desire and confidence of a great future that Pakistan had ahead of it. I also often wondered about why people older than me, some who had also travelled abroad, were far more cynical and much less hopeful.
All through that time I had always been the staunchest supporter and the defender of the name of Pakistan, whether it be in writing letters to the editors of foreign journals and newspapers critical of Pakistan or trying to convince foreign diplomats and journalists, as well as Western citizens, about how great Pakistan was going to be.
One of the important yardsticks, which would perhaps now be called a Meter stick under the metric system, was how we were doing in comparison to India. I distinctly recall how Pakistan had always been a pro-western, America-allied, fairly liberal, capitalism driven society.
India, on the other hand, was a country we competed with on the field of sports, the battlefield, as well as for international influence. We used to laugh at the ugly, dinky little cars that the Indians made, instead of importing the fancy ones we were driving in Pakistan.
Yet in the last 20 years that I have lived in America, India has made amazing, impressive and steady marching progress towards becoming a major global player – in almost every industry in the world. Pakistan during that same time seems to have sprinted downhill – faster than any Olympic athlete could.
It should have been a matter of concern for us when India, the long staunch Soviet and Communist ally, became a major trading partner of the United States, a country on which we had long relied, and whose foreign policies we had often followed. India developed a pool of engineering and other professionals, providing services, engineering, talent and operational capabilities to the world's largest companies.
In doing so they earned billions and billions of dollars for their country. During this time, we in Pakistan saw the decline of the educational system, the breakdown of institutions, if any existed, and simply the beginning of the end of what might have been a great future.
It was a matter of personal disappointment, almost shame, for me that the day that India launched its first astronaut into space was also the same day that Pakistan went to the International Monetary Fund to beg for survival money. Shame.
During the same time that we were making a name for ourselves, for kidnapping and beheading visitors to our country, India launched, and continues to run, one of the most impressive media campaigns to promote tourism in its country.
Titled "Incredible India!" this campaign appears in major newspapers, magazines and many other places. It simply takes almost exactly the same kind of tourism places and situations that Pakistan could offer visitors but turns it into a must-visit, mystique-filled, once-in-a-lifetime, cultural experience image.
During this time despite the proliferation of private TV channels in Pakistan, another field where the Indians have done an amazing job has been their film industry. They have leveraged it not just in making a name for themselves, but marketing their country and becoming a source of talent abroad. In addition, in exchange, they are bringing even more visitors and foreign exchange to their country,
First their hottest movie stars started appearing in Hollywood films. Then, despite many Indian movies being barely concealed copies of Hollywood scripts, India was able to convince Hollywood to make many Indian-themed movies.
Then they tied their greater and greater visibility in Hollywood, ever improving quality of Bollywood films – which were getting screened in America. They then mixed in marketing of India and its culture and cemented it with the welcoming of American tourists and filmmakers. This was an amazing recipe to lead India to one of its greatest global public relations successes just a few minutes ago.
The Academy Awards ceremony has just concluded in Hollywood, California. As this publication is going to press, the whole world (including a television audience of probably 1 billion people, along with the many millions more who will read newspapers and see photographs online) has seen India emerging as a triumphant victor on yet another field. This time it' the red carpet of Hollywood and the Oscars ceremony.
Even a movie called Slumdog Millionaire, set against the backdrop of the intense poverty that can be found in India, has turned into a global publicity and financial victory for India, its culture, its movie industry, its tourism and its economy.
And this is not just about showbiz or something that has no global or historic significance. India's clout, its visibility, its popularity and its new-found confidence – even from something as simple as a movie award – is manifesting itself in its ability to dictate to the world.
India can now even dictate what President Barack Hussein Obama's team can or will discuss with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan – who are now in Washington DC.
India not only did not attend the meeting, it made clear to the American government that Kashmir is not to be discussed. The American administration agreed to that. In the meantime the same American Administration has expanded the missile strikes it will carry out within Pakistan – while Pakistan's shameless politicians are merely fighting over dissolving assemblies and not even worried about justice, the one promise that people had asked to be fulfilled, from Karachi to Swat.
The early copies of tomorrow's New York Times show the exactly opposite paths that two countries born on the same day in history have taken.
The Indian movie industry's massive triumph on the Hollywood red carpet is one headline related to India. On the same page, the news item related to Pakistan is about a secret United States unit now in Pakistan to train its commandos to battle AlQaeda and the Taliban.
While American companies, and even individual creative types, are literally discussing over cocktails this very minute the next project they want to do in India, the few people discussing Pakistan are wondering if Pakistan will even survive as a nation.
I wonder if I will be around in 20 years to write a similar analysis. And I wonder where in history, geography and world affairs Pakistan will stand on that day. What do you think?
Author imrananwarPosted on February 23, 2009 February 23, 2009 Categories 2009, Afghanistan, AlQaeda, America, Barack Obama, Hollywood, Imran, Imran Anwar, India, Justice, Kashmir, Marketing, Media, Missile, Obama, Pakistan, Politics, President, WashingtonTags Afghanistan, AlQaeda, America, Bollywood, Entertainment, Hollywood, Imran, Imran Anwar, India, Kashmir, Media, Movies, Oscars, Pakistan, Slumdog Millionaire, Terrorism1 Comment on India's Triumphant Cultural & Political March
The Three Trillion Dollar Question & The Answer Is….
The fact is that the American and the global economy are in a severe recession. The biggest problem is a crisis of confidence. Uncertainty is always known to be the enemy of confidence. I am reminded of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that we were taught in our electrical engineering studies, at the University of Engineering and Technology at Lahore 25 years ago.
The problem with the uncertainty today is that no one seems to know what they are uncertain about. Almost everyone agrees that the economy will eventually recover. Most people can also see the signs, not just here in America, but also abroad. These show some economic activity has begun to take place.
Some of the positive news that has come out in the American media recently has been a decline in the number of homes going into foreclosure. This has come at the same time as higher retail sales figures for the month of January. Of course these numbers may look higher compared to the very dismal sales figures of December 2008. Regardless, it is a positive sign.
However, it seems that at every stage, and at every piece of news, the stock market reacts adversely. My personal suspicion is that most large investors, including players in the stock market, and other influential figures may also be playing an active but insidious role in ensuring volatility in the stock market.
Mind you, I have no actual proof of this. It is merely a hunch. My suspicion is that these people play the stock market not just for regular profit but for nefarious purposes.
The volatility is actually not random but manipulated by certain key investor groups. It is their way of ensuring that people in government, the media as well as the public at large remain uncertain, as well as demanding of a bigger and bigger stimulus package, that is likely to benefit fewer and fewer people.
In other words, the more volatility they show in the market, the more they can get people to panic. The more that happens, or the more things appear uncertain, the greater the likelihood of being able to force the government to spend billions of dollars more, mostly on pork barrel spending or bailouts of crooked bankers.
There are several other positive signs. The price of oil continues to remain low. President Baraka Hussein Obama, with the support of his Democratic majority in Congress, has succeeded in passing a massive stimulus package. This stimulus package as it is called is nearly $800 billion worth of mostly government spending.
This package has come on top of nearly $2 trillion being pumped into American banks. In other words almost $3 trillion is getting spent on restarting the American economy. But is it going to be enough? That is the massive historical question.
My personal feeling is still ambivalence towards these amounts being spent.
I am highly opposed to the massive money poured into banks that did not lend money to consumers. Some of these shameless perpetrators of corporate malfeasance, and gross negligence and incompetence, went on to give themselves billions of dollars in bonuses. One yearns for the days of public hanging of vile characters like that.
Similarly, the money being spent on big government projects are not the answer for short-term solutions that we need to jumpstart the economy really quickly. For example, many projects will take months, if not years, to actually get rolling. Many approval processes and similar formalities will insure other delays. That means any hiring or new jobs that come from these projects may take years to come into the economy.
As a matter of fact, if the economy recovers on its own, especially with the private sector leading the way, it is even possible that by the time these government projects come online most of the capable talent will already be in private service. That means either less experienced or less capable people will end up running those projects. That increases the likelihood of failure and wasted money.
For months I have been proposing an alternate economic recovery plan. My proposal was based not on spending $3 trillion but one trillion.
My proposal is very simple. I suggest that the government set aside $1 trillion and create a state run bank. This bank would issue a short-term limited use credit card. On average the $1 trillion would be given out as a $10,000 credit card to 100 million American households. The range of credit available on these cards would be $5000-$25,000 (hence the average of about $10,000 per household).
The credit cards would be issued with a very simple set of rules. They would only be given to people who are legal residents, or citizens, and who had paid taxes in the last three years. They would not have filed bankruptcy during that period. People would have between 30 and 90 days to use up the entire limit on their credit card. That means "use it or lose it" would be the rule.
This would ensure that one trillion American dollars would jump right back into the economy within 30-90 days. People would be allowed to buy anything legal at any American merchant who accepts these credit cards. These credit cards could even be used to buy an American automobile, if people wanted to. That way American consumers money would be going to American automakers to help them recover – but without it being a no strings attached bailout, as was previously being asked for.
This credit card would not be a giveaway. The entire money borrowed by the consumers would have to be repaid in full, with interest, to the government. However, instead of 15-25% interest rates that most banks charge on credit cards, if they were even issuing new credit, people would be able to pay in this credit card loan back to the government at a nominal interest rate of about 5%.
Even at this 5% rate consumers would be saving a ton of money in interest payments. At the same time even the government would be making a lot more money in interest income than it has been getting from literally giving away taxpayer money to banks at nearly 0%.
Instead of the government trying to set up the infrastructure for doing this, I would have MasterCard, Visa and American Express compete for the business of merchant processing. The condition would be that they would not charge the typical 3-5% transaction fee to merchants but 0.5%
In exchange merchants would have to pass that in savings to consumers. It would still be a win-win-win for everybody.
The credit card companies would still get to process hundreds of millions of new transactions – without having to do any marketing. Merchants would be ensured of immediate new cash coming in through these transactions – without additional cost. Consumers would benefit from the lower costs being passed on to them – without having to wait for expensive credit lines from sleazy banks.
People would have the choice of paying this credit card in monthly statement payments, just like any other credit card. In addition they could also make payments to this credit card loan by adding some of the amount due to the annual taxes that they pay.
Within five years most of the money will be recovered in full, with interest. $1 trillion will immediately go into the US economy to jumpstart it. Many consumers will be able to buy things that they are unable to afford for lack of credit right now. Thousands of merchants will be able to stay in business with the influx of cash. States will benefit from sales tax revenues starting up again. Manufacturers will be able to keep factories running and people employed. Above all, the solution benefits every American, at every level of education and economic strata, not just a few.
I believe my $1 trillion answer is the solution to the $3 trillion question. What do you think?
Author imrananwarPosted on February 16, 2009 February 16, 2009 Categories 2009, America, Automakers, Banking, Barack Obama, Consumers, Credit Cards, Democrats, Economic Recovery, Economy, Future, Imran Anwar, Investment, Money, Obama, Politics, PresidentTags American Express, Automakers, Bailout, banks, Barack Obama, Credit Cards, Democrats, Economic Recovery, Economy, Imran Anwar, interest rates, MasterCard, Merchants, stock market, Visa


Julia Heyward, sometimes known by the moniker Duka Delight, is an artist who has consistently strived towards an emotive, textured, and unapologetically demonstrative approach to her preferred medias of video, performance, and photography. She graduated with a BFA from Washington University, St. Louis, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1973. She received an MFA from the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003. In 1984, Heyward was one of the first artists to win the inaugural New York Dance and Performance Award known as the Bessie. She was nominated for a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in the field of music composition in 1995, and in 2004–05 for film/video production. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Multimedia in 1999 as well as awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Her video work, performances, installations, and interactive projects have been exhibited internationally at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center, and Anthology Film Archives in New York City; The Daejeon Municipal Museum in Korea; Art Interactive, Boston; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; and the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Her first monographic study, Consciousness Knocks Unconscious, was curated by Jamie Stevens for The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, in 2014.


Part 6 of the Design a Legendary community project is available, and provides a behind the scenes look at the cosmetic details of the one-handed, Mephisto-themed sword.
As we've published our different Design a Legendary articles, one request we've seen over and over again is to share more behind-the-scenes information about the visual design process in Diablo III. What's involved in creating an item's appearance? How long does it normally take? Who works on item art: is it one person, or many? Why is Aaron Gaines so amazing? And so forth.
Well, we're happy to oblige! Read on below for a step-by-step process on how our community Legendary sword was brought to life, as well as a Q&A with Aaron himself.
This whole process started with an initial piece concept art. Knowing that the community had selected a one-handed, Mephisto-themed sword for the Design a Legendary project, Aaron began sketching a first draft in Photoshop.
Next step: Iteration! After the intial concept was complete, Aaron created a second piece of concept art, also in Photoshop. This illustration would serve as the final concept piece and ultimately provide a visual basis for the in-game model. Before sketching this piece, Aaron made sure to pour over feedback from the community, making adjustments to the concept's design per player suggestions.
Once Aaron finished the final concept piece, he used the 2D illustration as a basis to begin sculpting a high-poly 3D model. This work was done in zBrush.
After completing the high poly sculpt in zBrush, Aaron created a low poly model of the sword in Maya. He then baked (or applied) the high poly sword texture onto the low poly model in order to create a detailed, but low poly version of the item that would be fit for use in the game. In the image on the right, you can see both the original low poly model (left) and low poly model with the applied high poly texture (right).
From there, Aaron "unwrapped" the 3D model to ready it for painting in Photoshop.
For those who aren't familiar with 3D graphics, the way a particular texture is wrapped around a model is determined by mapping coordinates (often called UVW coordinates). Unwrapping is the process of laying out those coordinates flat so that texture painting can be done. To provide a very simple analogy, think of unwrapping a 3D model like breaking down a packing box to its original folding pattern or taking a globe of the Earth and rolling it out into a two-dimensional map.
Unwrapping is an important step, as during this process the artist can adjust the UWV coordinates to minimize stretching and identify seams (or visible "folds"). Usually, the less stretching there is, the more seams there are, and vice-versa. It's all about balance! Thankfully, a clever artist can hide seams with a 3D paint -- which is exactly what Aaron did once the unwrapping process was complete.
Once the texture paint was done, Aaron passed the torch to Jill Harrington, a senior technical arist on the Diablo III development team. Jill is responsible for the adding the awesome smoke-and-lightning effect (and making sure it animates properly as your heroes rofflestomp everything in sight) seen in the screenshot below.
And there you go! The visual life cycle of Legendary, from concept (art) to animation. Pretty neat, huh?
If you're hankerin' for even more information about how items in Diablo III are created, you're in luck! It just so happens we had an opportunity to sit down with Aaron and ask him a few questions (i.e. we emailed him the questions because we're gamers and it's more efficient that way) about his role in the Design a Legendary project. Check it out!
Q. Tell us a bit about yourself and your position. What exactly does a 3D character artist do in Diablo III?
A character artist on Diablo III is a chimera of focused energies. Heroes, monsters, bosses, NPC's, items, weapons, and armor are our bread and butter. Some of us do our own concepts, and some of us even have rigging, sfx, and scripting skills. My specialization is weapon design and creation.
Q. How many character artists are there are currently on the Diablo III development team who focus on item design? And how do you all decide who gets to work on which weapon?
Currently, there are six character artists, and each one of us has a unique style and personality. It's a great environment to work in. We all learn from each other and help each other to become better at our craft. If a needed asset is tasked to the character department, we will see if anyone wants it specifically. It could also get added to a list and then divvied out to everyone, or to whoever has the time. But for the most part, if you really want to make something you get to make it.
Q. When approaching the visual design of an item in a game like Diablo III, where do you begin?
I could talk all day about what makes a Diablo III weapon a Diablo III weapon. I love making weapons. A while back, we came up with a rough style guide with that exact goal in mind; to give anyone working on an item some clear direction and understanding for their task. The main thing for me is to keep it in the realm of realistic, but still fantastical. We like to think of it as "low fantasy," whereas something like WoW is more high fantasy. Identifiable materials, themes, and strong, iconic silhouettes are a must for our camera angle. WoW has a very big, bulky, chunky design language that fits incredibly well in their world. For us, we need to be a bit more toned back, while keeping that epic Blizzard feel. It's a bit of a challenge, and I love doing it.
Q. Can you tell us a bit more about the whole visual design process? For example, for those of us who have never designed an item for a game, what are all the different stages involved in bringing something that to life?
Well, as in practically all game design, it never really goes exactly according to plan. Hah. Someone in design might have an idea first and write up some flavor text, for instance. Or someone will say "we need six new swords right now," and we have to scramble to get someone on concepts first then design where they go later.
In an ideal scenario, the design team will need some art for an item they need. The concept team or the character team will do some rough sketches first and then a more finished piece based on what we all decided was the best one. From there, it is tasked to a character artist and we model it, then paint it, then export it into our game using our tools, and then everyone says AWW YISS THAT'S AWSEOME. And we eat cake and celebrate.
Q. How long on average does it take to go from concept to creation for an in-game item (particularly a Legendary item) -- at least from the visual side of things?
Legendary items more often than not take a bit longer than standard items due to their super sweet nature. Usually anywhere from 1-2 days for a concept, and then 1-3 days for the creation. Helms and shoulder pads take longer because we have to manually fit them to all the classes, male and female. I'd say a week to be safe, but they're often part of a group of items which has a longer deadline so it's tough to really say exactly.
Q. So, for our Design a Legendary project, the community decided that we should make a Mephisto-themed one-handed sword. That's pretty exciting to me! Can you walk us through how you approached translating that information into the design of this particular weapon?
I started by being excited because I love Mephisto, and apparently, so does everyone else… which is awesome. After that it was a mix of successfully translating the idea of the item visually and then taking into consideration some of the awesome suggestions from the forum posts. I'm really happy how it turned out.
Q. What's your favorite part about this weapon?
My favorite part is the wickedness of the blade I think. It looks like the mouth of a tiger shark badly in need orthodontics… and I wouldn't want to get hit by it.
Q. What part of its design was the most challenging?
Making sure it was iconic enough and didn't get too busy. There is a lot of stuff going on in this sword. Picking the right things to be focal points and keeping other things as supporting visuals was the key to keep it in check so it doesn't look ridiculous.
Q. Any recommendations for aspiring artists out there?
The best advice I can give is to never stop believing in yourself, never stop absorbing inspirational material, and never stop doing art. Unless you're some sort of alien savant, you aren't going to become a master overnight, so the old saying " practice makes perfect" very much applies.
Also know when to be finished. You can noodle away at tiny details of something forever, but you have to move on to the next piece to learn from the last piece.


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Celina Lacaze
Work Selection
Cohabitation by Design
Giving a Face to Air Pollution
Asociación PIEL
Urban Periscopes in Harlem
What Constitutes Human Intelligence?
Sowing Environmental Awareness
Engaging Neighbors in Crime Prevention
Partnering with the Private Sector to Reach Smallholder Farmers
A Roadmap to Scale Accelerator Programmes in Africa
New York Institute for the Humanities Studios
Communicating Patagonia Parks Impact
A look in the future Speculation of a world where the 5 path of A.I. development* (according to Nick Bostrom) have been realized, and the potential unitended effects that the paths could have on both nature, and our own 'human intelligence' and psychological health.
When examining the ideologies and narratives driving the A.I. industry, with my team we chose to focus in particular on ideas of what constitutes human intelligence. What we found was an over emphasis on left brain thinking, and a disregard for our own embodied, emotional intelligence. Through speculative design, we asked: What kind of a world might this thinking and technological development create, and what might be ways to explore counter narratives?
*The 5 paths: iteratively self-enhacining, whole brain emulation, enhacemnet of our biological brain (genetic modification), human machine interface (e.g. implants: for perfect recall, etc..), networkd and organizations.
Role: researcher, filmmaker, and animator.
Team: Dani V. Sanchez, Johanna Tysk, Mikei Huang, and Carolina Corseuil.
Advisors: Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby.
Face it!' is a problem management A.I tool that models actors across various scales, representing the inner lives and perspectives of individuals, society, and the non-human.
We created a speculative world where these 5 paths had been realized as the mean with which we would test and speculate. We therefore developed the worlds of extreme doing (left brain, pro-tech) and extreme being (right brain, anti-tech). To further explore these worlds, we so delved deeper into character development and fictional writing, where we each developed one character (two from each world).
To create this world we used polarity mapping to understand the multiple perspectives in thinking. Opening up the conversation around the importance of on the one hand balance between the two types of intelligence, emotional and reational, but also helping create a scenario that allows us to question what we want to see in the future with A.I. in realtion to ourselves.
Polarity Map A polarity map is used to map "unsolvable dilemmas", such as the one we are dealing with, where we strive to find a healthy dynamic between left and right brain thinking rather than choosing one over the other. This to get a holistic view of the polarities we are dealing with, and open up for constructive and creative ways of working with a both-and rather than an either-or approach.
A third space between
Extreme doing
mind over body, left brain over right brain
Extreme being
body over mind, right brain over left brain
In our continuous efforts to open up a third space where the best of both worlds can work together, not against each other, we brainstormed a variety of products and games from both worlds. Since the theme of how to handle our emotions had come up as a red thread throughout our respective stories, we focused these ideas around this theme. We then looked closer at the processes involved in the products and games we came up with.
In the world of extreme doing, emotions were viewed as an individual problem to be "fixed", or avoided, something to quickly suppress or try to get rid of, involving a disconnect from our own body, other people and nature.
In the world of extreme being on the other hand, emotions were embraced in a never-ending spiral of continuous reinforcement, leading to problem avoidance and an "over-connect" to our own bodies, other people and nature, resulting in a lack of boundaries and progress.
What we wanted to create on the other hand, was more of a spiral process of embracing emotions, and allowing them to inform a process that moves towards greater understanding of oneself and others, in a continuous exchange between thought and feeling, as well as oneself and the world around. In the process re-negotiating our relationship to technology, the non-human and to our own humanity at the same time. Emotions, according to this more balanced way of thinking, are barometers that connect us to ourselves, but also our connectedness to or lack thereof to our surroundings (human and non-human). They are to be valued and cherished, sometimes allowed to "just be", but sometimes used to understand more about our relationship to our surroundings, suggesting action steps that might affect how we relate to the world around. In this approach, we attempt to integrate "the best of both worlds". The connectedness to nature and other people of EB, and the analytical progress and sense of self of ED.
The project leaves the audience with the question: What role might A.I. and technology play, or not play, in the development of our own human intelligence?

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WALLINGFORD — Town officials took the first step toward an overhaul of the aging Community Pool complex Tuesday night with the Town Council voting 7-1 to appropriate $625,000 for design work on the project.
Republican Councilman John Letourneau cast the only dissenting vote and Democrat Jason Zandri did not attend the meeting. The vote came after a public hearing that lasted nearly two hours.
Town officials spent much of last year discussing the future of the pool, which was last renovated about 20 years ago. The pool has seen dwindling attendance in recent years and supporters of the overhaul plan contend a newer facility might result in more pool usage.
Parks and Recreation officials have talked about demolishing the existing pool and replacing it with two pools.
An ad-hoc committee created to assess the future of the pool interviewed four possible candidates to do the design work. A Chester-based firm, TLB Architecture, had the highest score from the criteria set forth by the committee, even though its proposal came with the highest price tag, according to John Gawlak, the town's Parks and Recreation director said.
Republican Councilman Chris Shortell said he is supportive of the proposed pool overhaul, particularly if it could be done in the $4.5 million to $6 million price range.
Gawlak said it would be helpful if council members could provide pool committee members "with some sort of ceiling" on what they would be comfortable spending on the project.
"Without some sort of figure, we'd just be spinning our wheels," he said.
But Councilman Craig Fishbein cautioned his colleagues and pool committee members against discussing cost parameters in public. Doing so, Fishbein said, will increase the likelihood that whatever firm builds the pool will target its bids toward the price range discussed in public.
Shortell wondered whether any kind of multi-million dollar expenditure was feasible, given the state's current economic climate.
"Is there a Plan B for this property?" Shortell said, referring to what would happen to the pool if the North Main Street Extension facility were to close permanently.
Mayor William Dickinson Jr. said he was not aware of any discussion about what might happen to the pool if it were to close.
Gawlak said the current time line for the design work calls for pool committee officials to make another appearance before the council in mid-summer to show some of the design work. Under that scenario, the earliest the council could vote to move ahead with pool renovations is sometime this fall, he said.


Explore the world's most diverse collection of rattlesnakes at this unique animal conservation museum.
A unique animal conservation museum, the American International Rattlesnake Museum, features live displays of 34 different species of rattlesnakes as well as rare albino snakes, a Gila Monster, a beautiful assortment of snake skeletons, snake art, and artifacts from snake appearances in pop culture.
This Obscura Day the museum will be hosting a special educational program which will include a tour of the museum as well as an opportunity to touch and hold non-venomous snakes!


In 2015 I suffered a health scare, which combined with my recent diagnosis of anxiety and depression, drove me to really look at what I was putting into my body and on my skin.
As a qualified aromatherapist, I already knew the amazing benefits which essential oils can bring and started to teach myself how to make my own cosmetics incorporating my essential oils.
This is where my home healing began, my room quickly took the shape of an apothecary pharmacy with my vast selection of oils, jars, dried flowers & herbs!
Throughout the Bella Rock journey, our family rescue dog Bella has been by my side and the inspiration behind the name.
My passion to use natural and environmentally friendly ingredients has led to the products I have created today which I hope you will love as much as I have loved making them!


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In 1912, Laurelhurst neighbors formed a neighborhood "club" for the benefit of the fledging Laurelhurst community. Meeting in members' houses, the new group notched significant accomplishments from its start. It persuaded the Portland School Board to begin building Laurelhurst School, installed streetlights through Laurelhurst, and worked with the city to preserve the natural features of Laurelhurst Park.
Oregonian, January 11, 1914
With active neighborhood involvement, the club was able to raise funds to build a community center for the neighborhood, and the Laurelhurst Club building was erected in 1914. The architects, Whitehouse and Fouilhoux, were also responsible for the much larger Multnomah Athletic Club and other club buildings in Portland, as well as school buildings including Jefferson High School and the original Lincoln High School.
The building was originally conceived as a large, multi-wing building to rival the MAC and to be located near the intersection of Burnside St and Laurelhurst Pl, as seen in the floorplan below.
Original plans for Laurelhurst Club building. Oregonian, February 9, 1913
Ultimately, the Laurelhurst Club building was built as a single-wing, Craftsman-styled building on Ankeny shown in the 1916 photo below (PGE image collection, via Oregon Historical Society). The rising cost estimates, from $14,000 to $25,000, may have contributed to this adjustment in the neighborhood's plans.
Laurelhurst Club building as constructed on Ankeny, 1916
Within a few years, the club became a lively and popular center for neighborhood and city-wide events, from tennis to fly casting, rose competitions to lectures and presentations, weddings and social events.
Oregonian, August 9 and November 23, 1916
Some 350 Laurelhurst households supported the club with dues, representing about half of the houses then extant in our neighborhood, with numerous neighborhood-wide events throughout the year.
Flush with ambition, the club prepared to build a larger building by the original clubhouse, at a planned cost of $40,000, with fundraising to begin in 1916. By 1917 the price of the new building had risen to $60,000. Exactly when plans for the new building were shelved is uncertain, but by 1924, the club had instead extended the ballroom on the west end of the original club building, creating the "L" shaped building we know today.
Laurelhurst Club building today, with 1924 addition
In the early 1920s, it seems, the community's usage of their building began to decline. Perhaps this was due to the Great Depression or to the widespread adoption of automobiles. The loss of the club's tennis courts and most of the grounds to development would have been a grievous blow. Mentions of the club in the newspapers of the day, once so frequent, become rare after 1920.
The Laurelhurst Club evolved into a social dance club, which used the building primarily for dancing and dance instruction. Portlanders still enjoyed attending weddings and other events in the large ballroom with exposed beams and tall windows, but the club's early ambitions to rival the Multnomah Athletic Club were long over.
The dance club took faithful care of the building for the next century, and the original 1914 structure and 1924 addition have survived to this day in nearly their original form. With work, the Laurelhurst Club could potentially be eligible for listing as a historic structure.
The effect of listing would be to protect this historic community building from demolition. As a "non-contributing" building in the Laurelhurst Historic District, this 1914 building and all its history currently have no formal protection from ending up in a landfill.
For now, however, the Laurelhurst Club is in no danger, thanks to the farsighted decision of the dance club to donate the building to the Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association. Since late last year, the LNA has been renovating and updating the building's interior, repairing its landscaping, and preparing the club to re-open.
Re-open. Like so many venues in Portland, the building was closed down by the pandemic. Mothballed in early 2020, the building has been slumbering for over a year. It will re-awaken in a different Portland from that in which it went to sleep, with its new owner and perhaps even a new mission.
. . . to be continued . . .
You can read more about the club building's history at the Building On History blog.


I know that taking the MCAT early is best, but I'm scared that as is, I'll end up hardly studying at all and fail the thing. How bad is it to take the MCAT in late July or early/mid August? Does it put you at a serious disadvantage in your applications to take the test later? I COULD potentially drop biochem, but I'm assuming that would be a terrible terrible idea.
Also, should point I'm already taking a year off... taking 2 just wouldn't be an option.
Are you applying this summer? If so, it will put you at a huge disadvantage testing that late. I'd take it in June, at the latest.
taking in July is OK also... early July.
It's OK but not ideal by any means. But I was that kid that submitted my AMCAS on the first day, so I obviously think it's really important to apply early. I just don't think anyone should let their MCAT date push them into the "late" territory. To me, if you test in July, you get your scores in August. If you haven't submitted your AMCAS before then, you're gonna be late. However, if you have your AMCAS all verified and ready to go, it'll be OK. That's just my take.
Latest would be beginning May. Scores come back June 1st-ish and have a 1 day turn-around for AMCAS submission and then assuming your app is complete you're done.
If you are willing to submit your AMCAS before you have your MCAT scores, you could take the MCAT in mid/late-May and still have your AMCAS application complete at your schools as soon as possible. This is because AMCAS doesn't release the completed AMCAS applications to the schools until late June, even though you can start submitting in early June.
Other people who complete in July will have a huge leg up over people completing in August? I would estimate over 50% of medical schools don't do too much with apps until August when school starts.
Of course if you are looking at a top 10 school this probably doesn't apply, you would probably want to be exemplary in every area. But MOST of the schools don't care if you are done in July or August.
SDN has a unique crowd that over emphasizes some things. Being complete 30 days apart isn't a huge deal.
Exactly why do you need to take biochem immediately after spring finals if you won't be attending medical school until a year and a half from now? While biochem is a great class for seeing the big picture, it is not essential for the MCAT. Granted, the MCAT varies from sitting to sitting, so you could get a biochem passage on yours, but it is likely something you could pick up during your prep. Taking the MCAT in late May or mid June at the latest is paramount to increasing your chances of being accepted. I'm in 100% agreement with Ksmi here.
As far as the timeline goes, AMCAS will send unverified applications out early (as in the first few days that AMCAS is open), so that any schools who send automatic secondaries can distribute those early. Many schools wait until the applications are verified before sending secondaries, but nevertheless, there are some schools that have secondaries out in early June based on unverified applications. AMCAS verification fluctuates depending on when you submit (the line gets longer, the longer you wait), so it definitely pays to submit early. No matter what, you should submit as soon as you can.
What is often suggested for people taking a late May MCAT is that they submit their application with a limited number of schools as early as possible (before they have their scores back), so that they can get it verified and on to the schools (albeit incomplete). They get their automatic secondaries despite not having any MCAT scores, so they are not really behind at those schools. Once they get their scores, then they can add some more schools based on how they did. It's playing the timeline as best you can.
I completely agree with your answer, but want to add one caveat. Your timeline might need a little more flexibility to account for the different ways things are done at different schools. For many schools that send thousands of secondaries, they don't wait for verification or completion to send the secondaries, figuring they'll worry about it when it comes time to review the primary and secondary together. No matter what though, earlier is better when it comes to submitting your primary.
I would beg to differ a bit. While you are correct that many schools sit on applications for the first couple of months, they still field them in a first come, first served basis. In a process where over 50% of all primaries are submitted in the first month, submitting in July and August are about the same as each other and both worse than June. June submissions get earloer secondaries, which lead to earlier interviews, which lead to decisions being made when the class has spaces. As the number of spaces reduces, the selectivity increases and the likelihood of getting shut out, despite a strong application, increases.
The bottom line is that earlier is better, be it by a small margin at some schools or a huge margin at others. If you are sitting around awaiting MCAT scores while another applicant has a completed application, they are going to prefer the other person if for no other reason than to be done with the arduous process of selecting an entering class.
Late July MCAT, August MCAT, or September MCAT = "hello waitlist!" at many schools. Sure, you might get in, but only after a ton of stress and having to watch people with lower numbers getting accepted before you.
drop Biochem...study for MCAT...apply early!!
As far as biochem goes... I did poorly in both semesters of orgo (think C+'s), but have done really well in my other courses. My advisors said that a.) med schools REALLY wanna see biochem now and b.) doing well in biochem would alleviate their fears about my poor orgo performance.
1. Drop biochem and do the MCAT in late May/early June with plenty of time to study?
3. Do biochem and them study for MCAT afterwards with plenty of time to study, but I'll end up taking the MCAT late (in the mid-July zone).
Basically, how screwed will I be with those grades if I don't take biochem?
I don't think a school rejects an applicant based upon 2 weeks difference in completion time. Maybe a month or more, but July vs June or May is no difference.
Completing August 7th vs July 7th doesn't put you in any advantage.
I'd rather rather +3-5 points on the MCAT than 30 days earlier application. Ask all the people who rushed their MCAT by taking around finals and scored sub 30 if they would have rather preped better.
I think I'm talking about applicants who are chosing b/t taking MCAT prematurely in May to be early, vs giving ample prep time to put a better overall application in. Of course ideally you submit day 1... but most of the people considering a May vs June/July MCAT are those that don't feel they will be prepared in May.
A lot of this is heresay. The admissions people I've spoken to say it is BS (at least for their school) to say that your app must be complete in June or July.
I don't understand. Are you guys saying completing the 1st week of August vs completing in mid to late July will make a major difference in the outcome of your application?
1 - You don't take biochem now and study for the MCAT and give yourself the best chance for your best MCAT score and apply with so so O. Chem grades and update schools when you take Biochem in the fall. You also get App in early.
From those situations, I would pick the first one then the third one. The second choice isn't even an option. If your other grades are good then those O. Chem grades shouldn't keep you from an interview. I'm not sure how much they will affect if you're overall gpa is great. Either way, it would be your best option to take Biochem later so you can update the school later or on a secondary.
Honestly though, I think a great app is a great app no matter when they apply. However, only superstars like Ksmi have great apps and for people like her it wouldn't matter when she applied but for the other 98% of us, applying early does help and by early I mean no later than first week of July. The problem with mid-later July or August is that there are a lot of applications that come in at that time and verification takes well over 4 weeks and so many people are submitting their apps at that time that each day means that there is huge stack of apps piling up quick at the school you want to get into. The lower you are on this stack the more superstar you have to be for an interview or acceptance.
Honestly though, I think a great app is a great app no matter when they apply. However, only superstars like Ksmi have great apps and for people like her it wouldn't matter when she applied but for the other 98% of us, applying early does help and by early I mean no later than first week of July. The problem with mid-later July or August is that there are a lot of applications that come in at that time and verification takes well over 4 weeks and so many people are submitting their apps at that time that each day means that there is huge stack of apps piling up quick at the school you want to get into. The lower you are on this stack the more superstar you have to be.
That is why I was saying submit in June, get verified, take MCAT in July, complete secondaries in the interim, complete in August.
You will be ahead of those applying in July and not understanding how to verify faster.


Twelve Years A Slave star Chiwetel Ejiofor is reportedly being lined up to voice the sly and villainous Scar in Disney's live-action remake of The Lion King. The Oscar-nominated actor is in talks to voice the character, joining the likes of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen and John Oliver in director Jon Favreau's big-screen effort, according to US website The Hollywood Reporter.
In the 1994 original, Scar was voiced by British actor Jeremy Irons. Rogen will play Pumba, while British comedian Oliver will take on the role of highly-strung bird Zazu. James Earl Jones is lined up to voice Mufasa, reprising his role from the original film, while musician and Spider-Man: Homecoming actor Glover will voice Simba.
It was confirmed by Disney in September last year that the Favreau-directed project would be going ahead, following the success of his live-action remake of The Jungle Book.Similar remakes in recent years include Cinderella, Beauty And The Beast and Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent.
Disney have been contacted for comment.


Going on a bike ride around Windach is truly one of the best ways to experience more of this area, although it's often tough to know where to go. To solve that problem, we bring you the top 19 bike rides around Windach — all you've got to do is pick the one that's right for you.
If you are interested in routes for other sport types around Windach, check out our guides on Hiking around Windach, MTB Trails around Windach, or Road Cycling Routes around Windach.


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Q: Количество чисел что имеют цифру "d" в своей записи Кратко об условии и ограничениях,меня не интересует простейшая реализация,но если изменить решения с сайта https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/count-numbers-having-0-as-a-digit/ то буду благодарен)

Дано число n,надо найти все такие числа от 1 до n что имеют цифру d(1..9) в своей записи.

Тест:
100 1

Числа что имеють единицу - (1,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,21,31,41,51,61,71,81,91,100)
Вывод
20

Ограничения:
1<=n<=10^18
1<=d<=9

Час: 1 секунда

A: Верная идея у Eugene Dennis, но не нужно никаких фильтров. простой list comprehension:
rng, num=100, 1
len([x for x in range(1, rng + 1) if (str(x)).count(str(num))>0 ])

Output:
20

A: Всё просто) на самом деле нужно считать число тех чисел которые не содержат данной.
Так как d всегда не 0, для простоты добавим ведущие 0.
Пусть мы ищем ответ для числа a.
Перебираем первую цифру.
Для всех цифр меньше (строго!) a[0] (старшей цифры) и если она не равна d добавим к ответу 9^(X-1).
Теперь фиксируем первую цифру в a[0] (если не равно d), убираем первую фиру из числа и спускаемся на уровень ниже.
Осталось только вычесть.
Пример
12345 3.
Пошаговое.
1. 9^4 = 6561
2. 2*9^3 = 1458
3. 3*9^2 = 243
Дальше не надо, т.к. d = 3.

Итого ответ 12345 - (6561+1458+243-1) = 4084.
-1 надо т.к. способ считает 0 числом. Нужно его вычесть отдельно.
Лобовые циклы слишком медленные.
P.S. при d = 0 формулы меняются.

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NYE Re:Wired - New Year's Eve 2011 at The O2 with Kasabian, Chase and Status and more
Posted: 8th November 2011
New Year's Eve can be a rum affair. Whether you're attempting to squeeze through the ring of steel that surrounds Trafalgar Square every 31st December or wondering exactly why you paid £25 to go to your local on the busiest night of the year, the celebrations rarely turn out as expected.
In truth, it is more often than not a crushing disappointment of a night. A racing, slurry blur of an evening, sobered only by the sub-zero wait for a cab and finally knocked unconscious by the subsequent astronomical taxi fare. Yes, New Year, same old crap.
But not if you know where to look. What you really need is an invite to a party; an exclusive, ticket-only affair with guaranteed entertainment. And we don't mean the Blues Brothers band Dave's got booked for the Bull's Head. No, we're talking headbands, guitars, stomping indie anthems and crashing, live drum and bass.
This year, the shed in London's back garden, The O2, will be hosting 'NYE Re:Wired' an enormous party where the entertainment comes from Kasabian and a live show from Chase and Status, all held together by Radio 1's Mr New Music, the ambiguously accented Zane Lowe. And if you can get around 20,000 mates together, you'll have the place to yourself.
O2 Presents NYE Re:Wired with Kasabian, Chase and Status & Zane Lowe, to give the full title, takes place, unsurprisingly, on 31st December 2011 at The O2 Arena in Greenwich.
We will have tickets available when they go on sale at 9AM on Friday 11th November, priced £32.50.
And remember the brilliant tube service will be free on New Year's Eve. And then it'll just stop, like a massive city-wide game of musical chairs. But it won't matter where you end up walking home from, because you'll have been one of the few to have had a truly memorable 31st December.


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using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using Xunit;

namespace System.Threading.Tasks.Tests
{
    public class ValueTaskTests
    {
        [Fact]
        public void DefaultValueTask_ValueType_DefaultValue()
        {
            Assert.True(default(ValueTask<int>).IsCompleted);
            Assert.True(default(ValueTask<int>).IsCompletedSuccessfully);
            Assert.False(default(ValueTask<int>).IsFaulted);
            Assert.False(default(ValueTask<int>).IsCanceled);
            Assert.Equal(0, default(ValueTask<int>).Result);

            Assert.True(default(ValueTask<string>).IsCompleted);
            Assert.True(default(ValueTask<string>).IsCompletedSuccessfully);
            Assert.False(default(ValueTask<string>).IsFaulted);
            Assert.False(default(ValueTask<string>).IsCanceled);
            Assert.Equal(null, default(ValueTask<string>).Result);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateFromValue_IsRanToCompletion()
        {
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(42);
            Assert.True(t.IsCompleted);
            Assert.True(t.IsCompletedSuccessfully);
            Assert.False(t.IsFaulted);
            Assert.False(t.IsCanceled);
            Assert.Equal(42, t.Result);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateFromCompletedTask_IsRanToCompletion()
        {
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42));
            Assert.True(t.IsCompleted);
            Assert.True(t.IsCompletedSuccessfully);
            Assert.False(t.IsFaulted);
            Assert.False(t.IsCanceled);
            Assert.Equal(42, t.Result);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateFromNotCompletedTask_IsNotRanToCompletion()
        {
            var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<int>();
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(tcs.Task);

            Assert.False(t.IsCompleted);
            Assert.False(t.IsCompletedSuccessfully);
            Assert.False(t.IsFaulted);
            Assert.False(t.IsCanceled);

            tcs.SetResult(42);

            Assert.Equal(42, t.Result);
            Assert.True(t.IsCompleted);
            Assert.True(t.IsCompletedSuccessfully);
            Assert.False(t.IsFaulted);
            Assert.False(t.IsCanceled);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateFromNullTask_Throws()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentNullException>(() => new ValueTask<int>((Task<int>)null));
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentNullException>(() => new ValueTask<string>((Task<string>)null));
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateFromTask_AsTaskIdempotent()
        {
            Task<int> source = Task.FromResult(42);
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(source);
            Assert.Same(source, t.AsTask());
            Assert.Same(t.AsTask(), t.AsTask());
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CreateFromValue_AsTaskNotIdempotent()
        {
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(42);
            Assert.NotSame(Task.FromResult(42), t.AsTask());
            Assert.NotSame(t.AsTask(), t.AsTask());
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task CreateFromValue_Await()
        {
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(42);
            Assert.Equal(42, await t);
            Assert.Equal(42, await t.ConfigureAwait(false));
            Assert.Equal(42, await t.ConfigureAwait(true));
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task CreateFromTask_Await_Normal()
        {
            Task<int> source = Task.Delay(1).ContinueWith(_ => 42);
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(source);
            Assert.Equal(42, await t);
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task CreateFromTask_Await_ConfigureAwaitFalse()
        {
            Task<int> source = Task.Delay(1).ContinueWith(_ => 42);
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(source);
            Assert.Equal(42, await t.ConfigureAwait(false));
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task CreateFromTask_Await_ConfigureAwaitTrue()
        {
            Task<int> source = Task.Delay(1).ContinueWith(_ => 42);
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(source);
            Assert.Equal(42, await t.ConfigureAwait(true));
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Awaiter_OnCompleted()
        {
            // Since ValueTask implements both OnCompleted and UnsafeOnCompleted,
            // OnCompleted typically won't be used by await, so we add an explicit test
            // for it here.

            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(42);
            var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
            t.GetAwaiter().OnCompleted(() => tcs.SetResult(true));
            await tcs.Task;
        }

        [Theory]
        [InlineData(true)]
        [InlineData(false)]
        public async Task ConfiguredAwaiter_OnCompleted(bool continueOnCapturedContext)
        {
            // Since ValueTask implements both OnCompleted and UnsafeOnCompleted,
            // OnCompleted typically won't be used by await, so we add an explicit test
            // for it here.

            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(42);
            var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
            t.ConfigureAwait(continueOnCapturedContext).GetAwaiter().OnCompleted(() => tcs.SetResult(true));
            await tcs.Task;
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Awaiter_ContinuesOnCapturedContext()
        {
            await Task.Run(() =>
            {
                var tsc = new TrackingSynchronizationContext();
                SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(tsc);
                try
                {
                    ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(42);
                    var mres = new ManualResetEventSlim();
                    t.GetAwaiter().OnCompleted(() => mres.Set());
                    Assert.True(mres.Wait(10000));
                    Assert.Equal(1, tsc.Posts);
                }
                finally
                {
                    SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(null);
                }
            });
        }

        [Theory]
        [InlineData(true)]
        [InlineData(false)]
        public async Task ConfiguredAwaiter_ContinuesOnCapturedContext(bool continueOnCapturedContext)
        {
            await Task.Run(() =>
            {
                var tsc = new TrackingSynchronizationContext();
                SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(tsc);
                try
                {
                    ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(42);
                    var mres = new ManualResetEventSlim();
                    t.ConfigureAwait(continueOnCapturedContext).GetAwaiter().OnCompleted(() => mres.Set());
                    Assert.True(mres.Wait(10000));
                    Assert.Equal(continueOnCapturedContext ? 1 : 0, tsc.Posts);
                }
                finally
                {
                    SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(null);
                }
            });
        }

        [Fact]
        public void GetHashCode_ContainsResult()
        {
            ValueTask<int> t = new ValueTask<int>(42);
            Assert.Equal(t.Result.GetHashCode(), t.GetHashCode());
        }

        [Fact]
        public void GetHashCode_ContainsTask()
        {
            ValueTask<string> t = new ValueTask<string>(Task.FromResult("42"));
            Assert.Equal(t.AsTask().GetHashCode(), t.GetHashCode());
        }

        [Fact]
        public void GetHashCode_ContainsNull()
        {
            ValueTask<string> t = new ValueTask<string>((string)null);
            Assert.Equal(0, t.GetHashCode());
        }

        [Fact]
        public void OperatorEquals()
        {
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<int>(42) == new ValueTask<int>(42));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42) == new ValueTask<int>(43));

            Assert.True(new ValueTask<string>("42") == new ValueTask<string>("42"));
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<string>((string)null) == new ValueTask<string>((string)null));

            Assert.False(new ValueTask<string>("42") == new ValueTask<string>((string)null));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<string>((string)null) == new ValueTask<string>("42"));

            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42) == new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42)));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42)) == new ValueTask<int>(42));
        }

        [Fact]
        public void OperatorNotEquals()
        {
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42) != new ValueTask<int>(42));
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<int>(42) != new ValueTask<int>(43));

            Assert.False(new ValueTask<string>("42") != new ValueTask<string>("42"));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<string>((string)null) != new ValueTask<string>((string)null));

            Assert.True(new ValueTask<string>("42") != new ValueTask<string>((string)null));
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<string>((string)null) != new ValueTask<string>("42"));

            Assert.True(new ValueTask<int>(42) != new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42)));
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42)) != new ValueTask<int>(42));
        }

        [Fact]
        public void Equals_ValueTask()
        {
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals(new ValueTask<int>(42)));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals(new ValueTask<int>(43)));

            Assert.True(new ValueTask<string>("42").Equals(new ValueTask<string>("42")));
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<string>((string)null).Equals(new ValueTask<string>((string)null)));

            Assert.False(new ValueTask<string>("42").Equals(new ValueTask<string>((string)null)));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<string>((string)null).Equals(new ValueTask<string>("42")));

            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals(new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42))));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42)).Equals(new ValueTask<int>(42)));
        }

        [Fact]
        public void Equals_Object()
        {
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals((object)new ValueTask<int>(42)));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals((object)new ValueTask<int>(43)));

            Assert.True(new ValueTask<string>("42").Equals((object)new ValueTask<string>("42")));
            Assert.True(new ValueTask<string>((string)null).Equals((object)new ValueTask<string>((string)null)));

            Assert.False(new ValueTask<string>("42").Equals((object)new ValueTask<string>((string)null)));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<string>((string)null).Equals((object)new ValueTask<string>("42")));

            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals((object)new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42))));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42)).Equals((object)new ValueTask<int>(42)));

            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals((object)null));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals(new object()));
            Assert.False(new ValueTask<int>(42).Equals((object)42));
        }

        [Fact]
        public void ToString_Success()
        {
            Assert.Equal("Hello", new ValueTask<string>("Hello").ToString());
            Assert.Equal("Hello", new ValueTask<string>(Task.FromResult("Hello")).ToString());

            Assert.Equal("42", new ValueTask<int>(42).ToString());
            Assert.Equal("42", new ValueTask<int>(Task.FromResult(42)).ToString());

            Assert.Same(string.Empty, new ValueTask<string>(string.Empty).ToString());
            Assert.Same(string.Empty, new ValueTask<string>(Task.FromResult(string.Empty)).ToString());

            Assert.Same(string.Empty, new ValueTask<string>(Task.FromException<string>(new InvalidOperationException())).ToString());
            Assert.Same(string.Empty, new ValueTask<string>(Task.FromException<string>(new OperationCanceledException())).ToString());

            Assert.Same(string.Empty, new ValueTask<string>(Task.FromCanceled<string>(new CancellationToken(true))).ToString());

            Assert.Equal("0", default(ValueTask<int>).ToString());
            Assert.Same(string.Empty, default(ValueTask<string>).ToString());
            Assert.Same(string.Empty, new ValueTask<string>((string)null).ToString());
            Assert.Same(string.Empty, new ValueTask<string>(Task.FromResult<string>(null)).ToString());

            Assert.Same(string.Empty, new ValueTask<DateTime>(new TaskCompletionSource<DateTime>().Task).ToString());
        }

        [Theory]
        [InlineData(typeof(ValueTask<>))]
        [InlineData(typeof(ValueTask<int>))]
        [InlineData(typeof(ValueTask<string>))]
        public void AsyncMethodBuilderAttribute_ValueTaskAttributed(Type valueTaskType)
        {
            CustomAttributeData cad = valueTaskType.GetTypeInfo().CustomAttributes.Single(attr => attr.AttributeType == typeof(AsyncMethodBuilderAttribute));
            Type builderTypeCtorArg = (Type)cad.ConstructorArguments[0].Value;
            Assert.Equal(typeof(AsyncValueTaskMethodBuilder<>), builderTypeCtorArg);

            AsyncMethodBuilderAttribute amba = valueTaskType.GetTypeInfo().GetCustomAttribute<AsyncMethodBuilderAttribute>();
            Assert.Equal(builderTypeCtorArg, amba.BuilderType);
        }

        private sealed class TrackingSynchronizationContext : SynchronizationContext
        {
            internal int Posts { get; set; }

            public override void Post(SendOrPostCallback d, object state)
            {
                Posts++;
                base.Post(d, state);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Nick Howson
Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur
Jurgen Klopp's side can ill-afford any more slips up as Mauricio Pochettino's men head to Anfield looking to hold-off pressure on third place
Liverpool face one of the biggest obstacles between themselves and a first league title for 29 years when Tottenham travel to Anfield on Sunday.
Victory will ensure the Reds finish the weekend top of the table again but they have been unconvincing for large swathes of 2019.
Spurs have also suffered this year and have taken one point from the last 12 available, allowing Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea to make up ground in the top four race.
Game Liverpool vs Tottenham Hotspur
Date Sunday, March 31
Time 4:30pm BST / 11:30am ET
Stream (US) fubo TV (7-day free trial)
TV Channel, Live Stream & How To Watch
In the United States (US), the game can be watched live and on-demand with fuboTV (7-day free trial).
New users can sign up for a free seven-day trial of the live sports streaming service, which can be accessed via iOS, Android, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and Apple TV as well as on a web browser.
US TV channel
NBC Sports Live fubo TV (7-day free trial)
In the United Kingdom (UK), the game will be broadcast on Sky Sports and online and on mobile via Sky Go.
UK TV channel
Sky Sports Main Event/Sky Sports Premier League Sky Go
Squads & Team News
Liverpool squad
Goalkeepers Alisson, Mignolet, Kelleher
Defenders Van Dijk, Lovren, Gomez, Moreno, Robertson, Matip, Alexander-Arnold, Hoever
Midfielders Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Milner, Keita, Henderson, Lallana, Jones, Camacho, Christie-Davies, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Woodburn
Forwards Firmino, Mane, Salah, Sturridge, Shaqiri, Origi
Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson; Henderson, Wijnaldum, Milner; Salah, Firmino, Mane.
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Despite having seen their handsome lead at the Premier League summit eroded away by defending champions Manchester City, it is easy to forget Liverpool have only suffered one Premier League defeat all season.
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