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Hybrid Vigor in Goldendoodles
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Goldendoodles are designer dogs — an intentional cross between two breeds of dogs. Does that mean they're less valuable than purebreds dogs? Not at all! Especially when you take hybrid vigor into account. Read on for more about this important Goldendoodle attribute.
The joy Goldendoodles bring their human companions has been over eight millennia in the making. According to the article "Dog domestication and the dual dispersion of people and dogs into the Americas" that appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the first domesticated dog appeared in Siberia around 23,000 years ago.
It seems that ancient peoples domesticated dogs before cattle or horses—or even goats and sheep. Archaeologists discovered carvings in the Arabian Desert that are likely the oldest images of humans working with dogs. A hunter is depicted stalking his prey surrounded by a pack of dogs, with two of them on leashes attached to him.
Though they are not the beloved Goldendoodles, these 8,000-year-old images reveal that humans have had a rather long and beneficial relationship with dogs. In fact, some 349 images of dogs were counted across these rock-art panels in the desert.
The history of Goldendoodles
Goldendoodles themselves cannot be traced back to pre-historic tribes of humans wandering the earth in hunter-gatherer societies. Instead, they have their origin as a breed sometime in the 1990s when several breeders started intentionally crossing Golden Retrievers with Poodles.
There is, however, a documented deliberate breeding of a Golden Retriever with a Poodle over 50 years ago in 1969 by the great-granddaughter of the author Charles Dickens. But apparently, she did not continue crossing these two breeds.
In the latter part of the twentieth century, the intentional breeding of two different purebred dogs to create hybrid—or designer—breeds emerged because of the desire to combine the positive characteristics of the two distinctly-different parent breeds. Goldendoodles, originally bred to provide a non-allergenic guide dog, offer the best of two worlds.
Smart and friendly
Everyone loves the Golden Retrievers for their boundless energy when at play, and they adore their calm demeanor, making them excellent family dogs. The Poodle is one of the most intelligent dog breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club. Depending on which information you research, the Poodle is smartest breed. Plus, they have next to no shedding.
This means that the Goldendoodle is smart, playful, loyal, and easily trained. As a bonus, Goldendoodles are excellent for the millions of people that suffer from dog allergies because they have little to no shedding. Not to mention their overall health and longevity. Resulting from crossing two purebred parents, the Goldendoodle gains what is called hybrid vigor.
What do we mean by hybrid vigor?
There is a scientific term for hybrid vigor: heterosis. The offspring of two different parent breeds has its traits enhanced to the point that they are improved over those of the parents. Those are all just fancy words for something that is plain to see for all proud families that have a Goldendoodle in their midst.
What this means to us is that our Goldendoodle is not likely to suffer from the infirmities that can afflict either parent breed. They have the best of the breeds. And that vigor means they stand a strong chance of outliving most purebred dogs, giving us more years of enjoyment and love.


The Championship came back with a bang last night. Derby travelled to the Madejski Stadium to take on Reading.
This would be Frank Lampard's first professional game in charge as a manager, and it did not disappoint.
Tom Lawrence scored a last minute header to send the Rams back to Pride Park with all 3 points.
The game didn't get off to the best start for Derby as withing the first 30 seconds a mistake from skipper Curtis Davies almost gifted Reading with a chance. Looking at Derby's pre season Lampard wants them to play from the back and keep the ball, so these mistakes will need to be cut out.
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Derby played too much football in their own half, and their was no penetration from midfield. Joe Ledley pushed forward meaning Bryson and Mount had to come back and collect the ball from their own half. It was all a bit disorganised. Could Derby change things in the second half?
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Reading's lead only lasted 7 minutes; Keogh charged forward, his loose pass was picked up by Craig Bryson, he fed it to debutant Mason Mount, who unleashed a left foot rocket from 25 yards out. Mannone got hands on it but the ball found its way in to the bottom corner.
This lifted the away fans, the terrace was bouncing. Harry Wilson had a great chance to put Derby ahead moments later. Wisdom's intricate ball over the top found Mount in the box, he crossed to the far post, Wilson was their, but Mannone came up with a wonderful save to deny him a debut goal.
The game started to peter out. It seemed as if both teams were going to settle for a draw. Rams substitute Mason Bennett had other ideas though. Bennett received the ball from a throw, he used his pace and power to hold off Omar Richards and delivered a pin point cross to Lawrence, who rose like a salmon and headed in to the far corner. Lampard and his coaching staff went berzerk on the touchline as did the players.
The full time whistle blew. The score board showed Reading 1-2 Derby.
Derby showed something they had lacked in previous seasons. The ability to not let their heads drop when they go behind. The ability to keep on going even when it gets tough. They showed a never say die attitude. It wasn't the most pleasing on the eye match, but this will come in time.
The first half Derby looked nervous and they lacked tempo. Passes were going astray and they caused their own problems. However in the second half they were better, far from the end product though. They were a lot quicker, passes were more accurate and they looked to get in behind the defence more.
Lampard and his team will have learnt a lot from last nights game. They'll have a better knowledge of what they need to work on for the Leeds game next Saturday. A win is a win though and it does make it feel that much sweeter when it happens in the last minute.


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require 'slugforge/models/tag_manager'

module Slugforge
  module Commands
    class Project < Slugforge::SubCommand
      desc 'list', 'list available projects'
      def list
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          out = [set_color(project, :green)]
          pc = tag_manager.slug_for_tag(project, 'production-current')
          out << "(production-current: #{set_color(pc, :yellow)})" unless pc.nil?
          out
        end.sort.each do |o|
          logger.say "  #{o * ' '}"
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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we ate Chines food for dinner...hence Audrey's greasy face!
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Looks like a really fun night! Can't wait until you are down here! Love you!
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Q: Как правильно настроить в JACKSON DeserializationConfig для работы с Date Как настроить Jackson DeserializationConfig так, что бы он не проставлял в поля объекта даты? Сейчас ситуация такая. Мне приходят Date через GET, и если какой–то из параметров пустой, то Jackson дисиреализует его в дату, которая сейчас.
Мне нужно, чтоб если  параметр с датой не заполнен, то он был NULL.

A: У вас, наверное, где-то в самом бине поле инициализируется. Или версия Jackson старая.
public class Bean {

    public String name;
    public Date date;

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Bean [name=" + name + ", date=" + date + "]";
    }
}

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String json2 = "{ \"name\": \"test\", \"date\": \"null\" }";
String json3 = "{ \"name\": \"test\", \"date\": \"2016-06-11\" }";

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

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Home› Food, Water & Waste› Prize Ideas
Predicting the Structure of Scientific and Technological Revolutions
supratik12 FacultyPosts: 9 ✭✭
August 2020 in Prize Ideas
Is it possible to algorithmically predict the timeline, structure, and impact of S&T revolutions?
Scientific progress is epsodic with periods of incremental progress interleaved with paradigm shifts that disrupt very fabric of our society (Kuhn). Such disruption affects every field of human endeavor with impacts that are tantamount to irreversible societal transformations and complete changes in the way people live their lives, see the world, and view their position in it. Historically, we have seen the Copernican revolution that changed our position in the universe, the industrial revolution involving the invention of the powerloom and other gadgets that transformed us from an agrarian society to an industrialized one, the quantum revolution that changed our world view, the computer revolution that gave rise to the information world we live in today, the web and the social network revolution that throughly changed the ways in which we live our lives, and the mobile revolution changing the way we communicate (of course there have been others in the middle including the automobile revolution, air transportation revolution, the space exploration revolution, etc.). Right now we are going through the AI revolution that has just started impacting our society.
Each of these revolutions have resulted in upheavals and dismantling of our society. For example, the current AI revolution is making us rethink the future of work as did the industrial revolution in the ninteenth century. It is also making us think about the impact of autonomous machine intelligence in different areas of our life such as transportation and military ushering transformations and raising questions that were unimaginable even recently. In many of these cases of scientific and technological revolutions, the society was not prepared for the resulting upheavals. While the result of these revolutions have largely been positive with the end product being a more advanced human society, in most of these cases the societal fabric went through severe pains and turmoil due to these sudden transformations hitting it like thunderbolts.
Given that we have accumulated so much historical data on these scientific and technological revolutions, is it possible to scientifcally predict the timeline, structure, and impact of the future scientific and technological revolutions so that we can prepare the society for them in advance in a gradual shock-free way? This will give us sufficient time to put in place normative/regulatory/adminstrative frameworks that can help absorb the shock when the real disruption comes. Educational frameworks can be instituted to help prepare the population for the upcoming upheavals much the same way fire drills prepare for disastrous eventualities.
While scientists have developed theories to predict the end of the world that will take place in billions of years in the future, there was nothing in place to predict the impacts of a world revolutionized by the web and the social networks. The results were disastrous with the disruptions precipitated by the web and social networks revolution threatening the very foundations of our democratic society. Had this revolution and its consequences been explored years earlier, regulatory, administrative, and technological frameworks would have been in place to prevent the disastrous side effects. Predicting the scientific and technological future of the world has remained an ad-hoc art form practiced by futurists and scifi movies who have been noted more for their failures than their success.
An endeavor answering these questions would require collaborations between scientists specializing in AI, Statistics, Augmented Reality, Philosophy, Economics, Social Sciences, as well as virtually members of any STEM discipline.
Why does it matter? What scientific discoveries, innovations, and desired societal outcomes might result from investment/Prize in this area?
Every scientific and technological (S&T) revolution has shaken the very fabric of our society displacing people, worldviews, professions, and public and private structures. In most cases, the society was not adequately prepared for such changes and as such societal transformations induced by S&T revolutions arrived like bolts from the blue. It took decades of struggle before society finally adapted to these irreversible transformations with generations getting lost in the intervening years.
With the advent of the 21st century, fueled by the web, we have accumulated a trasure trove of data. The science of data-driven prediction has made giant leaps in the past decade. Can data-driven science predict the timeline, structure, and impacts of the future S&T revolutions and suggest interventions designed to prepare the society for the resulting disrptive changes?
Answering this question would require fundamental interdisciplinary research involving virtually every discipline in social sciences and STEM. While existing data-driven machine learning techniques have been able to show superhuman performance in many domains, they rely on the assumption that the test conditions/data follows the same probability distribution as the one in which they were trained on: an assumption that is violated in the realm of futurism where the future can be different from anything that experienced in the past. Recent advances based on density ratio estimation and kernelized techniques (Sugiyama) address problems of divergence of test data from the training distribution. More fundamental research is needed especially to deal with cases where environments that influence S&T revolutions of the future may not exist today. Fundamental research is needed to understand how humans interact with pervasive changes in society. This requires significant advances in behavioral sciences and game theory, cognitive sciences, and psychology. New techniques for data collection based on augmented reality ought to be devised. Suggesting interventions with the aim of preparing the society for pervasive changes induced by S&T revolutions require fundamental advances in causal reasoning. Advances in nonlinear dynamical systems and chaos theory are needed to study/predict the nonlinear nature of S&T progress. New educational paradigms need to be devised for educating the populace on the impact of disruptive S&T revolutions.
The results of such an endeavor can enable paradigm shifts in virtually every discipline. Data-driven understanding of the dynamics of S&T revolutions can help better engineer them. We envision the creation of a decision support system that can aid global and local governments in policy-making and help industry/financial leaders make futuristic investments. Scientifically, we foresee the emergence of a new discipline of algorithmic meta science/technology that can significantly impact the evolution of the human civilization shedding light on its future and helping regulate its path.
Investment in the proposed area would lead to the development of a data-driven scientific framework that can predict the timeline, structure, and impacts of future scientific and technological (S&T) revolutions well ahead of time helping prepare the society for the induced disruptive eventualities by instituting social, administrative, regulatory, technological, and normative structures. Data-driven understanding of the dynamics of S&T revolutions can help better engineer them. Properly engineered S&T revolutions can protect the human society from existential/foundational threats resulting from their unintended negative consequences. Scientifically, it would lead emergence of a new discipline of algorithmic meta science/technology that can significantly accelerate the evolution of the human civilization shedding light on its future and helping regulate its path.
Why is this the right time to invest or sponsor a prize in this area?
In the last 30 years, human civilization has experienced an exponential scientific and technological (S&T) growth rate never seen before in its history. This has been fueled by S&T breakthroughs (discovery of gravitational waves, earth-like exoplanets, Higg's Boson, CRISPR, advances in aging science, artificial intelligence, social networks, etc.). These breakthroughs are transforming the human society altering its fabric, its view of the world, and its position under the sun . We conjecture that the exponential growth is going to continue leading to further S&T revolutions in the future that will shake the foundations of our society. It is important that we understand and predict these S&T revolutions and brace ourselves to face their positive and unintended consequences. Fortunately, algorithmic and hardware advances in the past decade have created opportunities for data-driven prediction of S&T revolutions to prepare us for the future. The moment to exploit this opportunity is now.

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La Tête de face, en hiéroglyphes égyptien, est classifié dans la section D « Parties du corps humain » de la liste de Gardiner ; il y est noté D2.

Il représente le visage de face d'un homme barbu. Il est translitéré ḥr.

C'est un idéogramme du terme ḥr « visage; figure; face, vue; regard ».

D'où dérive le phonogramme bilitère de valeur ḥr.

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Hiéroglyphe égyptien
Grammaire de l'égyptien hiéroglyphique
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What's more amusing than watching Jaxon eat chocolate cake?
At the beginning of October, I was set two little cupcakes from Caketoppers. I've come across printed pictures on cakes before but have always been put off by the cost and often ended up making my own cake at home or buying a supermarket own cake.
When Sam said that the cakes were coming via Royal Mail I was a bit nervous – what if the postman squashed them or something?
Fortunately enough they are well packed in a sturdy plastic holder then surrounded with bubble wrap. They arrived on the exact day that Sam quoted too which was good. For the two little cakes this was fine but just be aware it is coming up to Christmas and there could be delays with the postage. With larger orders you can pay for courier service which might be a good move as it would be more definite when delivery would be.
In our pack of two, we had two different flavours. One was a classic sponge with white icing and the other was chocolate sponge with chocolate icing. They both come in different colour foil cases so without having to pick at them you can figure out which flavour you're on.
With Chris being Gluten Free, one of the questions that I asked was, did they do Gluten Free cake? at the moment they don't unfortunately – which meant he did miss out on the cakey fun.
I was pleasantly surprised by how clear the image is as you can see round the edges there are few flecks where it hasn't printed entirely right but the it certainly didn't affect the taste of the cake. and you wouldn't have noticed them really.
Would I personally place an order? I'm not sure as they are quite pricey, however with my three closest friends being at least 30 miles away from me, sending them a cake in the mail for their birthday would be a really cool idea especially now that I know that the cakes travel really well in the post. A single printed cupcake is currently around £6 including postage – I guess it's a bit pricey if I was buying a cake from the coffee shop to have with my hot chocolate but as part of a birthday present for someone who doesn't live close to me it would be great idea.
The lovely Sam at Caketoppers has organised a little something for you my readers, if you want to try out Caketoppers for yourself you can use the discount code HAN10 to receive 10% off your order – just type it in at checkout.
In exchange for this review, I received two cakes with a picture printed on them as shown in the images from Caketoppers.


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It just dawned on me recently… this whole 'creative' way of doing da'wah (or really, spreading any kind of information or good thing)… It really does matter how attractive you make the product, because it directly affects how effective it is.
When you really think about it, there is no problem in giving da'wah by speech, written articles, two-hour lectures, etc. except for the fact that it probably won't reach all of your target audience. So some different ways have been taken – fictional stories, songs/nasheed, poetry, infographics, comics, etc.
The ummah is blessed to have members with talent in such fields. The product is a means to attract people to at least receive the message. May Allah guide us to be sincere in any kind of effort we put forth, and may He grant us success in this life and the next. Ameen.
In other words, because I now 'doodle' (or draw or design) for da'wah, I have … a very, very strong motivation to increase the quality of my work, partly by improving my skills and abilities inshaAllah. Previously, when these 'creative' things were just a leisurely endeavour / phase in my teenage years, I didn't really care about being consistent or taking quality to the next level. But volunteering for ProductiveMuslim and Islamographic, as well as producing notes from seminars / speeches has given the 'hobby' a new purpose, alhamdulillah.
And also — I'd like to think that I won't be just a designer if/when I make my work recognisable through its style. Does that make sense? I guess I still want to become an artist; one who makes art, in one way or another. Pray for me please.
And one 'poster' done for Islamographic. You know I used to do this kinda stuff in Photoshop for website layouts? So it's old skills, really, just renewed after a few years.
Most of the rectangles became sketchpads, ie. books with no front or back cover, and the binding is the sort that allows you to pluck the pages off individually. To make them, you hold the pages together as tightly as possible (binder clips help), then spread glue (I used PVA glue) all over one side which becomes the spine. The paper spine cover is optional. When the whole thing dries (keeping the clips on them), the papers should be stuck together!
Note: Green Chair Press seems to have an awesome tutorial for a similar type of binding but with a cover.
And the largest set of papers became a proper sketchbook. I followed the stitching part from this tutorial by Curiously Crafty, although Tortagialla's tutorial looks suitable as well.
I actually had to purchase that huge clipboard-like clip. Luckily it was very effective.
I totally love those hole punches that require the use of a hammer. SO THERAPEUTIC.
Oh, the hole was a way to attach an elastic hairband to the back of the sketchbook. That metal bit there: part of a paperclip.
I just taped the mess to cover it.
The thick cardboard covers were actually an A4 sketchbook cover. I bought the sketchbook (for an architecture project, not for personal sketches because I did not really do personal sketches in uni ) from Paperchase. Paperchase is awesome.
The back. Oh, this sketchbook is small, by the way. Like A5 or B5 size thereabouts.
This book can open more than 180 degrees. Yes!
Below is the family of sketchpads. Three of them actually contain watercolour paper. Watercolour paper is good. And expensive. But very good because it never buckles.
While I'm at it, I have two more book-binding tutorials to share, because I am a link hoarder who never really manages to apply the link contents in real life. This makes nice chunky-looking journals, and this one uses cereal box cardboard and a sewing machine. And question_f8's Flickr is total eye-candy for me.
So far my sketching-time seems to be allocated whenever I'm waiting. Waiting for the car after work, waiting inside the car while my mum's off to grab a few things in the supermarket, etc. Waiting is less of a patience-tester now that it is also sketchtime. I post some of the sketches in an album on Facebook. But some previous ones aren't in my new sketchbook so I'll post those here too.
The habit of sketching also makes for a brilliant excuse reason for stationery-shopping. My office is very near an art shop, so I popped in after work the other day and bought a few shiny new pens. OMG they make so many kinds now. In so many colours. And so many thicknesses and tip types. Many of the sketches above were done in Faber-Castell Pitt Pens which I bought online (in the UK) when they were on sale. But here, they seem kinda pricey — the small-tipped one I bought was RM9.50!
Please note that how good your sketches turn out likely depends very little on the kind of tool you use. Some artists do amazing work in ballpoint pens. I just believe that quality tools are more comfortable, and lends that artsy 'flair' to the sketches. A little bit.
Stop-motion by Meditating Bunny Studios. Please check out the tutorial video too!
Sunni Brown's talk about how doodling is good for you.
Lynne Chapman is a new discovery of mine, her website is awesome mashaAllah. I have great respect and admiration for people who share so much of their knowledge, experience, and themselves, out there. For free.
This is an even more recent discovery (ie. I am editing this post to add this video :P). Brilliant tutorials and guides by an artist whom I have followed on Flickr. Do visit her website too!
And plugging Zen Pencils because Gavin is awesome (he quit his job to do quote comics full-time!) and his post led me to Neil Gaiman's speech above.
ooo book-binding is one thing I should try whenever sempat! And my last sketchbook was masa darjah 6 or form 1, I think (I sketched family members, potted plants, dead objects, my feet), but I don't know if I'll sketch anymore (seriously) now. Doodling I shall always do lah kan.
Mashallah – what a talented Muslimah! May ALLAH reward you always.


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Fine, handsome and unusual convertible hunting case and open face 18K gold antique lever and fusee antique pocket watch by Beesley, Liverpool, circa 1840. Heavy engine turned double case which converst from open face to closed face. White enamel dial (clean hairline) with blued steel hands. Gilt 3/4 plate 16 jewel lever and fusee movement with screwed jewel settings. A particularly fine example.


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Stay at The Paramount: NYC's Landmark Hotel
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If you ever wondered what's one of the best hotels in New York, The Paramount Hotel is definitely the answer. The hotel is no regular hotel, it is one of only handful of hotels designed by the renowned theater architect Thomas W. Lamb. This historical landmark, newly renovated, offers not only a hotel but Paramount News- a general store, Paramount Fit- 24 hour gym & Paramount Bar & Grill.
The hotel is situated in the heart of the Theater District and Times Sq, 46th street between Broadway and 8th avenue, so guests are sure to gain a full NYC experience. The hotel offers it's own NYC experience by incorporating it's history into its new design. For reservations and additional information, visit their website.
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It's been pretty darn cold here. I have had the fireplace going all day, everyday. Gotta love, or not so much, gas. I keep thinking I am going to have it adapted into a real fireplace. Nothing beats the crackle and smell of real wood burning. Anyway, I just want warm comfort food when it is this cold. Thankfully I just picked up my 1/2 hog not too long ago and this precious shoulder was just calling out my name. And the balsamic gravy? Killer.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Generously salt and pepper pork roast. Heat large dutch oven over high with 2 tbsp. olive oil. Add roast, searing each side. Put lid on and place in the oven. Cook for 2 - 2 1/2 hours or until meat is tender and falls off the bone.
Heat 1 tbsp. oil in large saute pan over medium heat. Add garlic and cook until golden brown.
Add 1/2 c. stock and potatoes, cooking until potatoes are done, about 25 minutes.
When the roast is done, remove it from the pan and cover with foil while you work on the sauce. Change to oven temperature to 425 degrees and place the asparagus and 1 tbsp. oil on a sheet pan. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook for about 10-15 minutes depending on thickness of stalk.
Add 1 c. vegetable stock to the drippings from the pork in the dutch oven and cook over medium high heat until it starts to reduce.
Smash potatoes with a flat bottom cup and then mix slightly.
When stock has reduced by half, add balsamic, cooking for another five minutes.
Serve pork and potatoes with gravy and the asparagus on the side.


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Star Trek Voyager: Mirrors & Smoke–The starship Voyager crew spins into the alternate universe
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While most of the comic book industry is on hold resulting from the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, we're looking back to some recent books you may want to give a try while you're sheltering at home or recuperating from work and in need of some good distractions. One of those books continues a series bellwethered by one of our favorite artists, J.K. Woodward, known for his beautiful illustrations in the Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover miniseries Assimilation², the IDW adaptation of Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever, the covers of the Star Trek/Green Lantern crossover miniseries, the jaw-dropping, photo-real paintings bringing the crew of the USS Enterprise-D into the mirror universe in Mirror Broken, and Star Trek 20/20, a tale of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in his USS Stargazer years. Continuing his expanded universe of Star Trek's mirror realms is the winter release Star Trek Voyager: Mirrors and Smoke, where Woodward partnered with writer Paul Allor (Clue, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe) to at last bring the characters of Star Trek Voyager (my own favorite Star Trek television series) into Trek's infamous mirror universe.
Tags: Assimilation², coronavirus, coronavirus delays, COVID-19, George Caltsoudas, IDW Publishing, JK Woodward, Neil Uyetake, Paul Allor, shelter at home 2020, Star Trek 20/20, Star Trek Mirror Universe, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Voyager Mirrors & Smoke, Star Trek Voyager Mirrors & Smoke review, Star Trek/Green Lantern crossover miniseries, Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever, Star Trek: The Next Generation Mirror Broken!
Preview–Captain Pike bridges season gap in new Star Trek Discovery series
Fans of CBS All Access's Star Trek Discovery have a new series interlude to check out, and it follows the continuing exploits of a fan-favorite character. IDW Publishing launches the new comic book mini-series Star Trek Discovery: Aftermath this Wednesday. The series follows the ongoing exploits of Captain Christopher Pike. The "aftermath" of the title? The story looks into the crew of the Enterprise in the aftermath of the season two finale, featuring other series regulars including young Spock and Number One.
The three-part story is written by Star Trek Voyager novelist Kirsten Beyer and IDW's longest-running Star Trek writer, Mike Johnson, with artwork by one of IDW's top Star Trek artists, Tony Shasteen (his likenesses of Rebecca Romijn as Number One in particular are excellent) and colors by JD Mettler. Old Federation rivals the Klingons take center stage in a bit of an homage and callback (call forward?) to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "A Matter of Honor." The art of Angel Hernandez is featured on the standard covers for the series, with an alternate cover for the first issue by George Caltsoudas, plus a photo cover.
Here is a preview of Star Trek Discovery: Aftermath, courtesy of IDW Publishing:
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Previews–New issues of Mirror Broken, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina arrive at comic book stores today
Captain Jellico and an over-the-top Wesley Crusher join the crew of the Enterprise-D and get to play in the world of daggers, sashes, and deception with today's release of the third issue of IDW Publishing's limited comic book series Star Trek: The Next Generation–Mirror Broken. Plus, for the second consecutive month of a series usually only issued sporadically, Archie Comics' Archie Horror imprint is releasing the eighth issue of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. We have previews of both issues below for borg.com readers, courtesy of their publishers.
The creative brother team of David Tipton and Scott Tipton continue the Mirror Universe adventures of the Star Trek: The Next Generation era with another round of beautiful pages by J.K. Woodward in Mirror Broken's next installment. Look for the standard cover by Woodward and great variant covers by Tony Shasteen and George Caltsoudas. This time Woodward has created a look for Wesley Crusher that will appeal to both lovers and haters of the classic sci-fi series' obligatory child character. Get prepared to see who wins and who loses in the ultimate strategy battle between Picard and Jellico. And Trek fans should always check every corner of each panel for hidden throwback gems from the TV series.
In Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, comic book writer and show runner of the CW's Riverdale, and artist Robert Hack continue to take Sabrina down a darker path than the character has ever experienced. Sabrina has returned Harvey from the dead, but at what price, and will anyone be able to stop what has been unleashed before it's too late? The creative team continues to flesh out the personality of Riverdale's timeless teenage witch, blending a young heroine's tale with equal parts Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. Plus Hack's classic pulp horror comic imagery gets better with each new issue.
Check out these previews for Star Trek: The Next Generation–Mirror Broken, Issue #3, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Issue #8: Continue reading →
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IDW's Star Trek: Boldly Go tells the stories beyond Star Trek Beyond
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IDW Publishing writer Mike Johnson continues to take Star Trek where no one has taken Star Trek before. As he did successfully in Star Trek Countdown and Star Trek: Nero, Johnson continues the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew in the Star Trek "Kelvin" timeline–the new timeline begun by J.J. Abrams beginning in 2009. Johnson is breaking new grounds along with artist Tony Shasteen in Star Trek: Boldly Go, a monthly comic book series featuring a standalone story issue hitting comic book stores tomorrow.
In the first four issues of Star Trek: Boldly Go, Johnson and Shasteen take readers beyond last summer's hit movie Star Trek Beyond. Kirk and his crew are divided now, serving aboard separate vessels. Kirk leads the USS Endeavour, with Bones as second rank under another medical chief. Chekov serves with them. Spock and Uhura are on sabbatical on New Vulcan with Sarek. Scotty is teaching at the Academy back on Earth. Commander Sulu is serving under Captain Terrell (played by Paul Winfield in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) aboard the USS Concord. And then a nemesis encountered much later in the Prime Universe pursues the Concord. Why? Is resistance truly futile? Find out when The Borg seize Spock.
Fortunately instead of being merely a gimmick to bring the key villains from Star Trek: The Next Generation into the realm of the original series, the change-up in the timeline is nicely tied to a logical occurrence in Kirk and Spock's past, while further binding the ex-Enterprise crew together.
Tomorrow with Issue #5 Johnson and Shasteen set their focus on Jaylah, the heroine from Star Trek Beyond, and our nominee for the most kickass heroine of all the Star Trek films. It's a great, personal story, providing backstory showing how Jaylah ended up where she encountered the Enterprise crew at the beginning of Star Trek Beyond, and where the character is now. Here is a preview of Star Trek: Boldly Go, Issue #5, courtesy of IDW Publishing:
Tags: George Caltsoudas, IDW Publishing, Jaylah, Marc Laming, Mike Johnson, Star Trek, Star Trek Beyond, Star Trek Boldly Go, Star Trek Countdown, Star Trek: Nero, The Borg, Tony Shasteen


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Interview with Tina Rowland, Contact Centre Manager at Massey University
Throughout its 85-year history, first as a college and then as a university, Massey has played a defining role in the development of New Zealand through its contribution to land-based industries, distinctive mix of internal, distance and international teaching, commitment to innovation, and close links with business and the community.
Around 3000 staff service Massey University's 36,000 students, half of whom study by distance the remainder are based at Albany, Manawatu and Wellington.
Tina Rowland talks about how Massey University went from a horse and cart to a Ferrari with the installation of Customer Interaction Centre® (CIC). An IP-based contact centre automation software solution from Interactive Intelligence which provides multi-channel contact centre automation and enterprise IP telephony functionality for customer-focused and interaction-intense organisations. CIC was installed by Amtel Communications, who provide the on-going support.
Describe your pains prior to CICWe had very old siloed technologies and needed to automate what we were doing in our contact centre in order to provide a platform for sustainable growth. Our systems were very manual and were unable to handle more than 600 emails a day along with web chats and text messages which we were receiving, let alone the large volume of phone calls and faxed communications.
Describe why you chose Interactive Intelligence and Amtel:When I went in I was looking for a WFM (Workforce Management) suite, universal queuing so email, webchat, calls, etc to queue everything along with future proofing channels such as social and video, all with full capability of reporting cradle to grave, 100 per cent call and data recording. I used the approach of a Greenfield site, that is if we were to start again what would an innovative and creative Contact Centre automation technology look like. The basic requirements typically come from different applications where as the Interactive suite met our needs, it was very simple to install, and we didn't have to have a server farm with multiple vendor support.
Unlike CIC, which runs on a single platform, many of the proposals we reviewed were significantly more complex, carried a strong probability of high on-going costs, and involved a significant amount of custom application development. These hybrid solutions offered less interoperability and more effort in terms of management.
What are some tangible differencesEasy intra-day management of schedules, automation of blended agent queuing, real time data for agents through to executives, and seamless on-the-fly changes such as response management and we experience some tangible differences within the IVR. Back in the old days the agents were getting through on average 150 customers a day with 'home phone' capability, now with the use of the dialer and automatic scripting, we can script and capture any data we like, we can get up to 600 customers a day per agent so huge efficiencies there for us.
The call backs are absolutely easy to administer, workflow for our IVRs for example, the profiles that we set up for our customers to come through are very easy to manipulate on the fly as well, particularly when you have those days where you're hammered quite hard and unpredictably we can easily change the workflows to what we require to play messages, accept call-backs, accept voicemail, etc.
Before CIC we might have 500-800 emails a day so the team would have to go through with a check sheet and mark out what the topic of the particular email was. At the end of the day we paid someone 15 minutes per day to gather all of the stats, so we understood the types of enquiries and trends and what it was like this year versus last year. Now with Interactive coming along we automated all of that and with every interaction inbound or outbound, wrapping data is available instantly and is what you would expect of a very modern contact centre.
Plans for future use of Interactive Intelligence and Amtel:The future for the University Contact Centre is really exciting with Interactive Intelligence. When I was first introduced to CIC I was impressed that not only they met all our current requirements, but I would have them 5-10 years ahead of their competitors at the time with future proofing channel management. Having gone through a major technology upgrade, I really didn't want to be a Contact Centre Manager writing more business cases for more applications in the future, for example, video calling or some of the social media channels that have come on board as well. So it was really exciting to have Interactive do all that thinking for us …. we don't have to do any of the in-house developments, we don't spec products or do testing, Interactive does all of that for us and dishes it up with the updates and version upgrades as well. I am really looking forward our our next updates for example real time speech Analytics which we have a very real need for, its very easy to use in our current supervisor applications to 'listen' and allow us to respond in real time to market and customer demands.
Quite simply we have gone from a horse and cart to a Ferrari.
Amtel's case study can be found here.
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