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Like many older STEVEN UNIVERSE fans, I over-analyze everything about this Cartoon Network gem (hah!). When it was released around August 2015, I listened to the extended intro roughly two thousand times. I cheered for Garnet’s proclamation of love, I clutched my heart at Pearl’s declaration for Rose, and I smiled for Amethyst, happy for any sense of security she’s able to find. I was so excited to hear what Steven had to say, and when he sang, “I will fight to be everything that everybody wants me to be when I’m grown”—well, to be honest, I didn’t notice much more than the song at first. I was too caught up in the general excitement of hearing and watching this new song unfold to really consider what was being said.

As Steven sings his portion, he is holding Rose’s shield against a backdrop of her image. Now, we’ve been introduced to the Steven-is-Rose dilemma a few times before, especially concerning Pearl (remember in “Sworn to the Sword”, when Pearl accidentally calls Steven, Rose?). It brought up the unique and somewhat discomforting fact that while Steven is Steven, he is also… his mother. This has been seriously and humorously brought up before in discussions among fans. I feel that most of us have come to terms with the oddness of the situation, but, coupled with the somewhat heartbreaking statement sung by Steven in the extended intro, I began to contemplate—

Who is Steven Universe?

Son of Rose Quartz and Greg Universe, sure. An empathetic, musical savant—of course. A refugee of an interstellar war? If you think the Cookie Cat song is about Steven, absolutely. Suddenly, I had all these other questions like: what does Steven want to be when he grows up? How does adopting his mother’s powers and Gem affect how he views and understands his own personhood? Does he just want to grow in that sense that he just wants to survive?

While not malicious or intentional in nature, I don’t think Steven Universe has much of a choice in who he is growing up to be. This has seriously affected his identity. More specifically, it has affected his ability to make choices regarding his own agency—how to differentiate what he wants for himself versus what his family and friends want for him.

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Choice has been a theme in Steven Universe for what seems like always, and it is always done beautifully. From the choice of fusion and love by Garnet, the choice of bodily sacrifice by Rose, the choice to be Crystal Gems rather than Homeworld Gems, and in the latest episode, to Lapis’s choice to start anew despite being stuck.  While Steven has choice on a day-to-day basis (who he hangs out with, what food he eats), he lacks the ability to have a long-term choices like the aforementioned characters do. He isn’t a prisoner held against his will—but in the face of the multitude of life or death choices (not just of him personally, but of the entire population of Earth and of gem shards alike), how much of Steven’s life is lived by what he wants versus what is needed of him?

Has he ever even thought of life outside of the heroic and dangerous quests of the Crystal Gems? Aside from eating fry-bits and going on road trips with various characters, much of this Alternative Earth has yet to be explored. Life outside these quests, even for the audience, is a bit of a mystery. While the latest episode gave us a small clue, there is still much to explored. This is great for future plot-use and to drive characters forward, but hurts in that a genuine analysis of their educational system can’t be done. Without knowing what lies beyond Beach City and the tristate area, beyond being a teenager, beyond Jersey, one can only speculate.

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We know that a school exists somewhere—Connie attends to it, although she lives a bit outside of Beach City. So, somewhere, there is a school. We know that Steven does not attend it. It’s possible that attendance is not mandatory in this Alt. Earth. It’s also possible that because of the world’s need for the Crystal Gems, school is just not an option for Steven. If this is the case, is it fair? Often in the scenario of the child warrior/savior (Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Ender’s Game), there is the sacrifice of the one for the many. Some part of childhood and adolescenthood is sacrificed (in this case, choice and autonomy) for the betterment of many—often the population of Earth or any variant of it.

There is a possibility that Steven’s lack of choice keeps the billions of lives that exist on his planet in existence. Harry Potter’s horrific childhood and teenage years saved the Wizarding World. The manipulation of Ender and essential loss of innocence saved the Earth from an alien invasion. After all, is there anything that’s’ worth more than peace and love on the planet Earth?

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Even his Gem powers are not his own—they are a direct inheritance of his mother’s abilities. His shield, his empathy, his healing—these represent the pillars of his character, though none are exclusive to him. Of course, it is important to note what is unique about his powers: that they act as a rejection of the stereotypical male warrior narrative. One of the best parts of Steven’s abilities is how nontraditional they are, focusing on protection rather fighting, something that is almost always fitted to a feminine character. Protecting is what Steven does and as beautiful as it is, it is still a full-time job. Steven doesn’t hurt others, no matter where they come from, but protection is as stressful a role as fighting and can often be more emotionally draining.

Perhaps the uncertainty of Steven Universe is the beauty of it. Maybe he is as conflicted as I think he is; maybe he has no idea where he is going or where he wants to go, if anywhere. Maybe I’m knee-deep in some serious wishful thinking and projection—who knows? Choice has always been an important and constant theme in Steven Universe, but looking at Steven’s life, how much of it has been a choice? Has he ever had the autonomy to choose his path, or has it already been chosen for him? Is he even aware? It’s questions like these that plague us, the fans.

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David Sedgwick believes that the Canadian Prime Minister’s recent claim that Canada’s strength lies in its diversity, like many slogans, the more it’s repeated, the less sense it makes and the hollower it rings.

“Diversity is our strength,” tweeted Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently, and so say all of us: the politicians, the celebrities, the teachers, the campaigners, the media and even government. Who amongst us then could argue with such an overwhelming body of opinion?

After all, Mr Trudeau and friends are unshakeable in their conviction: Diversity is our strength. Case closed. Or is it?

Slogans are powerful things, short, snappy, persuasive and seemingly incontrovertible in their wisdom. When the novelist George Orwell created 1984, his vision of a dystopian, totalitarian society of the future, slogans of the ruling party were very much in evidence: “Ignorance is strength!” “War is Peace!” “Freedom is slavery!” Wherever they turned, citizens were met with slogans. Bombardment. It worked, too.

Disturbingly, in Orwell’s Oceania, nobody batted an eyelid, not a single individual dared to question the orthodoxy of such outrageous falsehoods. Scepticism – as the novel’s hero Winston Smith found out to his cost – was not to be tolerated. Either you were with the party, or you were against it.

Similarly, either you are with politicians like Trudeau or you are against them; either you are pro-diversity or you are anti-diversity. As Marxist agitator Saul Alinsky noted in his Rules for Radicals, the handbook of Leftist revolutionaries the world over, there never can be any middle ground, only polarisation.

To suggest, for example, that there are both pros and cons with ‘diversity’ is simply not acceptable. Slogans don’t do nuance, nor do they do scrutiny.

Thankfully, we don’t live in Oceania, at least not yet, but Trudeau’s ‘Liberal’ Canada is real enough.

All of which brings us back to diversity and that statement: Diversity is our strength. Diversity is our strength, Diversity is our strength. Like many slogans, the more it is repeated, the less sense it makes, the hollower it rings.

Indeed, even cursory scrutiny reveals some profound problems with the ‘logic’ underpinning this favourite meme of Liberals the world over, well western Liberals…. Significantly, for such an incontrovertible panacea, take up of ‘diversity’ among non-western European nations ranges from lukewarm to non-existent.

Why should this be? Are the good folk of places such as Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Japan merely xenophobic? Does that explain their steadfast refusal to go down the multicultural road? Diversity, presumably, is our (not their) strength.

Is diversity therefore merely a sign of the inherently superior nature of Western society, a signifier of our more advanced socio-cultural sensibilities? Awkward.

The question then arises: What exactly is diversity? Difference. But what kind of difference? Intellectual, cognitive or behavioural differences? Surely not. For do we not, under the skin, share the same biological and psychological characteristics? Do we not all broadly share the same experiences, have the same fears, hopes and ambitions?

If you cut us, do we not all bleed the same colour?

Yet for Trudeau’s version of diversity to have any validity we must accept an extremely invidious view of humanity: cultural homogeneity. Put simply, we must buy into generalisations, that Caucasians are fundamentally different to Asians, Europeans different to Africans, the French fundamentally different to Egyptians, and so on and so forth.

In other words, Trudeau’s diversity rests entirely on the assumption that cultures (and nations) are indeed homogenous, that an ‘African’ acts, thinks and behaves first and foremost as a typical ‘African,’ a view of humanity that is not only ignorant, but stupendously patronising. If you are unable to see how utterly reprehensible such a view of humanity is, allow me to explain.

In my working life as a university lecturer in Linguistics I have found much more common ground with colleagues from countries such as Turkey, Congo and Iran than with my own brother whose similarity to myself begins and ends with our shared genetic pool.

But according to Mr Trudeau’s theory, my brother and I – spawned in the same hospital in the same town to the same parents, and consequently sharing the same physical attributes and exposure to a shared cultural/social background – my brother and I should have much more in common than I actually have with my colleagues Hakan, Teddy and Mahmood.

Sorry to disappoint you, Mr Trudeau.

As surprising as it may seem, people who happen to share the same skin colour and the same cultural heritage can be, and often are, wildly ‘diverse.’ My brother has absolutely no interest in my love of Shakespeare or linguistics; by the same token I have no desire to emulate his own conversion to the catholic faith nor do I ever envisage voting Labour if I live to be a 100. Similarly, his delight in all things carnivorous is anathema to my own vegetarianism. The list goes on. And on.

By now, you’ve probably guessed we don’t see eye to eye, my brother and I. Indeed, we have a very different outlook on life, vastly different politics and entirely different hopes and ambitions. But I must confess, we do look similar. We do have the same colour skin.

If an individual can indeed have more in common with someone of a different skin colour than their own flesh and blood, how on earth does Trudeau justify his version of diversity, if not on wholly superficial grounds i.e. the way we look? Answer: He can’t.

For in the eyes of Trudeau, my brother and I are one and the same thing: white, male, middle-class, heterosexual, British, Anglicans. Ergo, there is no possibility we could be ‘diverse.’ For Trudeau’s diversity to hold any water at all, the same must hold true of virtually every ethnic group on the planet.

Suffice to say that when Justin Trudeau proclaims that “Diversity is our strength” he is not thinking in terms of ideas, attitudes or beliefs nor is he thinking of character or personality.

The Canadian politician’s vision of diversity is based, above all else, not on the psychological, the behavioural, the cognitive or the intellectual, but wholly upon the least significant aspect of a human being possible. For him and people like him, skin colour is the ultimate determiner of ‘diversity.’ It must be. How else to justify the Liberal multi-cultural fantasy?

If you happen to be an African-American, Donald Trump-supporting conservative who supports private gun ownership, then you might just send Justin’s head a-spinning. Liberals prefer their ethnicities to act to type. It’s easier that way.

Of course, this prevailing Liberal view merely reduces diversity to a set of simplistic cultural signifiers or ‘types.’ Throwing a few hijabs and niqabs into the school playground, adding a few turbans to the local council office, dining at the local curry house – such gestures seem more than enough to satisfy the Liberal conscience.

Strength can indeed come from diversity, but only in the realm of debate and discussion, only where opinions and ideas can be exchanged, challenged, modified and developed from multiple inputs irrespective of the colour of one’s skin.

As strange as it sounds true diversity runs much deeper than headwear or the contents of a lunchbox. But just try telling that to Justin Trudeau. He won’t believe you. Tell him that diversity can exist within a race or a country, within a city or a street, even within a family and he’ll shake his head.

For Mr Trudeau diversity is solely a matter of black and white. For humanists like myself it runs just a little deeper than colour.

If Trudeau wanted to be a little more truthful with himself and his fellow Liberals, he could always modify his favourite slogan so that it represents his true sentiments:

“Diversity, it’s only skin deep.”

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Those you wish to do business with can begin to form their impression for your business and it’s facilities before they even enter your business or office. The right exterior can convey the desired vision of professionalism for your company.  On the other hand, If your facilities looks dull and dated, potential clients may just equate that shabbiness to in their mind how you treat the rest of your enterprise.

When it’s time to consider a new exterior commercial painting contractor project for your buildings exteriors, call the team at Southeast. Our Johns Creek commercial painting contractors know how to facilitate the well-managed image you have in mind for your company and it’s facility.

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Stucco – Many clients choose stucco for their commercial properties. While a common building type, it can be difficult to paint if done incorrectly. The experts at Southeast will make sure to deliver a superior result every time.

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Building a developmentally appropriate justice system

It’s time for innovation in addressing needs of young adults

YOUNG PEOPLE between the ages of 18 and 24 fill up America’s prisons and return behind bars faster than anyone else. This troubling reality is not taken lightly in Massachusetts, one of the first states to implement policy innovations for this age group. The Commonwealth’s promising steps are well grounded in science regarding young adult brain development – and this science suggests that even bolder approaches should be taken.

A report from the Harvard Kennedy School issued last fall offered compelling evidence that a focus on this population is warranted. Studies in psychology and neurobiology from the past decade revealed that young adults are a distinct group. Although they are intellectually mature, their impulse regulation is still developing. They tend to take more risks, pay less attention to the consequences of their actions, and are more susceptible to peer pressure. Combined with the fact that starting a family, finishing school, and holding a steady job – all bridges to maturing out of delinquent behavior – are now happening later in life, our youth are at higher risk for engaging in crime. Without age-responsive policies and programs across all parts of the justice system, more of these young people are likely to reoffend and hinder public safety.

Society has recognized and responded to these realities in other areas of law and practice outside of criminal justice.  Young people can’t legally consume alcohol, buy a handgun in a gun store, or, increasingly, purchase tobacco until they’re age 21. You need to be 25 years old to serve in Congress and can stay on your parents’ health insurance under the Affordable Care Act until age 26.  Even businesses have caught on – it is very difficult to rent a car until age 25 and auto insurance for those under 25 is prohibitively expensive.

Massachusetts is starting to recognize the need for innovation around justice-involved youth. Through the Juvenile Justice Pay For Success project, the state and private funders partnered with the nonprofit organization Roca, to deliver Roca’s data-driven intervention model to hundreds of high-risk young men. The Commonwealth’s Safe and Successful Youth Initiative also serves justice-involved young adults, in partnership between nonprofits and local police departments across 12 urban communities. To fully address the needs of young adults in the justice system, more can be done.

A new report released by Roca explores what a developmentally-appropriate justice system could look like. The report explores 10 promising initiatives across the country and beyond that specifically target justice-involved 18-24 year olds. Specialized courts focused on the developmental needs of young adults have been established in California, Nebraska, and Texas. These courts offer intensive supervision programs instead of incarceration, which help young people who committed crimes to gain education, employment, and life skills that will keep them out of harm’s way. Such programs often allow young people who redirected their lives to have their records sealed or expunged, and to get a second chance.

Young adult policies cover multiple aspects of the justice system. Some European countries allow judges or prosecutors to decide whether adult or juvenile law should apply in a young person’s case, based on the offender’s maturity level. In Maine and Pennsylvania, separate young adult correctional facilities were established, and New York and San Francisco have started specialized young adult caseloads in their probation departments. Policymakers in Connecticut and Illinois have recently proposed raising the age of juvenile court jurisdiction to 21, something unprecedented in the history of the US Juvenile Court.

The options are abundant, but the direction is clear. It is time for policy innovation, which will build on the Commonwealth’s experience in tackling hard problems in a courageous way. Responsible and effective policies must take into account offenders’ age and maturity level, and pay special attention to the early years of adulthood. Raising the age of the juvenile court, starting young adult courts, and establishing special programs for this age group should all be considered. A safe path for young people out of the justice system is a safe path towards a healthy and thriving society.

Meet the Author
Meet the Author

Vincent Schiraldi

Senior research fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice
Molly Baldwin is founder and CEO of Roca Inc. Vincent Schiraldi is a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program in Criminal Justice and former commissioner of probation in New York City.


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Using Interactive Timelines in E-Learning #246

Interactive Timelines in E-Learning #246: Challenge | Recap

Timelines are a great way to present sequenced information in a single interaction. You can provide historical info to learners and walk them through processes, one step at a time. They display how events took place over time in a digestible way.

Timelines are super easy to build and can be customized to align with any design theme. And that's what this week's challenge is all about!

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share an example that demonstrates how interactive timelines can be used in e-learning.

NOTE: Your entry can be anything from a rough concept to a polished example. The challenges are open to everyone, regardless of experience or skill level. If you need technical or creative help with your project, please ask in our forums and reference the challenge number you’re working on.

New Entries Only!

We hosted the first timeline challenge exactly 100 entries ago. To keep things fresh, we’re asking that you share only new examples this week. You’re more than welcome to re-work a previous example.

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you jump into this week’s challenge, check out the custom quiz results slides your fellow challengers shared over the past week:

Quiz Feedback and Results Slide Designs #245

Quiz Feedback and Results Slide Designs #245: Challenge | Recap

Wishing you a great week, E-Learning Heroes!

New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Debbi Spranza, CPLP

I’ve been really trying to focus on mobile friendly designs for my clients so with that in mind here is my contribution this week. Example: I tried keeping everything square for a phone. I wanted to keep minimum instruction onscreen and make the interaction obvious. (I find always hard to do when working on something yourself,it's obvious to me; I made it. :) I welcome your feedback!) I’ve also been working with my community garden donating marketing and instructional design skills and wanted to try out this interaction for something fun. I used states to hide and reveal the photo and text boxes. Photos have zoom capability on. I also wanted to use engaging large photos for a small screen s... Expand

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Jodi Sansone
Jackie Van Nice
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Daniel Sweigert
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Tom Kuhlmann
Nicki Berry
Jackie Van Nice

Great way to get a lot of useful info in a compact space, Nicki! I'd think it would be a perfect reference piece for onboarding. I like that it's colorful while still being clean and clear, too. It took me a few attempts to figure out why I wasn't able to see the "A" information, until I realized I was supposed to ignore the slider and just click on "A" to begin - so that sort of defied slider intuition and was not a DMMT (Don't Make Me Think) moment. In the end I found that having two forms of navigation (click-through plus slider) that were not connected was disorienting. If the slider were set up to move to the selected position in sync with whichever letter was clicked on, however, that would solve it and make a lot more visual sense for your user. But all in all I think your new staff... Expand

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ASX overbought; but clear-air ahead: The ASX200 ought to add another 22 points this morning, according to SPI futures. There is a lot of enthusiasm about Aussie stocks presently – something surely attractive for the contrarians who like to run counter to prevailing market sentiment. It’s been said so much that it’s become facile: a pull-back must come soon to test the strength of the market’s recovery. Of course, it is a matter of when this eventuates – timing is always the toughest thing to predict in financial markets. The ASX200 has become technically overbought on the daily-RSI; however, by that measure, momentum is still intact and pointing to an uptrend. Clear air exists for the market now too, with the next resistance level sitting slightly above 6100.

ASX has the wind to its back: It’s often said that compared to other major indices, the ASX200 is a trifle boring to trade. It’s a simple formula, well known to most: get a view on the banks, and get a view on the miners, and you’re almost the whole way to knowing where the index will go. The bulls were thrown a bone on both fronts this week. The soft-touch (“pragmatic” is the word being used) recommendations contained within the Hayne Report has set a fire under bank stocks; and the parabolic rally in iron ore prices has the big-miners looking like an attractive long-proposition. It must be stated the market’s rally is broad-based, with volume and breadth in the market solid. But that had already been so, so-far in 2019: it meant little without the bank-bulls charging.

Banks rally, but fundamentals questionable: The rally in the banks this week is arguably in large part a “catch-up” rally – the financials sector had been the only sector in the red for 2019. Bank stocks weren’t being touched, despite the bullish macro-drivers in global equity markets. But with this week’s rally, financials are up 4.50 per cent, against an overall index return of 6.7 per cent; perhaps the banks have rebalanced now with where the ‘big-picture” suggests they ought to be. The next question is however, what upside exists for the banks based on their fundamentals? This will take time to flesh-out, as each of the Big-4 progressively update the markets on their performance – and especially as the political cycle turns the findings of the Hayne Royal Commission into an election issue.

CBA the first to show cards: Markets did receive their first insight into the financial state of the nation’s banks; and fittingly it was the CBA yesterday morning that provided their half-year results. The figures released spoke of a bank de-risking in the face of regulatory pressure, being stifled by higher global funding costs, and struggling with the Australian property market’s downturn. The ratio of Tier-1 capital the bank is holding climbed to 10.8 per cent, and its net-interest-margin shrunk by 4 basis points. Not a disastrous result by any means, however given that credit growth in Australia is still slowing, and the domestic property market seemingly has further to fall, suggesting a turn in the multi-year downtrend in the CBA’s share price will reverse because of diminished of regulatory-risk seems fanciful.

The RBA becomes “balanced”: The concerns confronting the banks and the Australian economy (as a whole) were addressed in a speech delivered by RBA Governor Philip Lowe yesterday. His view on the economy was decidedly more “balanced” – as the Governor himself explicitly described – than what it had been at any stage in 2018. It was a refreshing take, however one that got market participants moving. What’s been inferred from the speech, is that given the slowdown in the global economy, weakening domestic demand, and issues in consumer credit and the property market, the chances for a rate hike are now even with that of a rate-cut. Gone is the rhetoric that “the next move in interest rates is likely to be higher”: the RBA, for all its optimism, is on standby with policy support if economic conditions deteriorate.

Australian bonds and the AUD: As one can imagine, the Australian Dollar hated the change in the RBA’s outlook. It was the worst performer of all G10 currencies yesterday, diving to an overnight low of 0.7110 against the greenback. The probability of an interest rate cut at some point in 2019 has spiked, to effectively a 60 per cent implied probability. Australian Commonwealth Government Bond yields tanked consequently, with the 2 Year ACGB tumbling 10 basis points, and the 10 Year ACGB shedding 8 points. The fall in yields, though being brought-about by a less-rosy outlook for the economy, is probably supportive of the ASX for now. The drop-in discount rates have made valuations marginally more attractive, while more significantly, the lower Australian Dollar has visibly provided a boost to the market in the short-term.

Powell and the BOE the highlights today: With less than an hour to trade, Wall Street looks as though it will finish in the red today, following a weak day in European equities, and a solid day across Asia. Overnight news-flow was bereft of market moving headlines, so traders look to the next 24 hours for inspiration. US Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks today (11.00AM AEDT), but the big focus may well be on the Bank of England tonight. The GBP has lost its lustre this week, as markets come to the realization that a no-deal Brexit is a higher likelihood than what was being priced-in. The BOE are hamstrung at-the-moment, unable to shift policy stance until a Brexit outcome is known. An optimistic but idle central bank is to be expected until it is.

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== Purpose ==
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''Radio buttons'' offer the user a choice of two or more mutually exclusive options. Try to limit the number of radio buttons and radio button groups in a dialog.  Offering a high number of radio buttons consumes screen space and adds to visual clutter. At the same time, showing all available options at once is an advantage if users are likely not to know possible alternatives.
== Examples ==
== Guidelines ==
* Use radio buttons for a few mutually exclusive options. If there are more than five options (or if there is not enough space to arrange four or five options), use a [[KDE_Visual_Design_Group/HIG/Combo_Box| combo box]] or list instead.
* If there are only two options where one is the negation of the other (e.g. "apply" vs. "do not apply"), consider replacing the radio buttons by one [[KDE_Visual_Design_Group/HIG/Check_Box| check box]].
* Use radio buttons if the user should see the choices without further interaction.
* Provide a descriptive label above or left to a group of radio buttons in [[KDE_Visual_Design_Group/HIG/Capitalization|sentence style capitalization]].
* Use [[KDE_Visual_Design_Group/HIG/Capitalization|title style capitalization]] the radio button options.
* Align groups of radio buttons vertically rather than horizontally, as this makes them easier to scan visually. Use horizontal or rectangular alignments only if they greatly improve the layout of the window.
* Radio buttons are not dynamic; their content or labels should not change depending on the context.
* If toggling a radio button affects the enabled state of other controls, place the controls that it affects next to the radio button or below and indented.
* Do not initiate an action when the user clicks a radio button.
* When using a radio button and none of the options is a valid choice, add another option to reflect this choice, such as None or Does not apply.
* Always have one radio button selected; make the first item the default option.
== Implementation ==
* [http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qradiobutton.html QRadioButton]
* [http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qbuttongroup.html QButtonGroup]

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The year is 1995 and you’re exploring a teenager’s bedroom—riot girrrl music playing from a cassette in the tape deck, textbooks scattered, a bright Lisa Frank binder full of notes. The house is empty, almost eerily so. You have to find out why.

This is the premise of Gone Home, a narrative video game in which the player must figure out where the family who lived in this house have disappeared to. Unlike the video games I grew up playing with my brother on our Nintendo (Super Mario, Metroid, Rad Racer) in the early 1990s, this new brand of video game presents the player with “normal people’s stories”—stories they are invited to excavate for meaning, peopled by characters who are oddly familiar.

In a recent article in the Guardian, Naomi Alderman writes that proponents of “digital literature” are missing a crucial point—video games are the most sophisticated, popular, and profitable form of digital literature we have, and “we’re doing ourselves and the next generation a disservice if we don’t take that seriously.”

The reason for this disconnect, Alderman argues, is the sharp divide in education between “people who like science and technology” and “people who like storytelling and the arts,” as though those skill sets and interests are mutually exclusive. By keeping these students apart, potential for new and vibrant explorations of the narrative form are limited.

Though video games have long been seen as the domain of pimply-faced teenaged boys looking to shoot virtual guns with wild abandon, this new narrative genre of video games can teach students how to tell stories in ways that books and movies cannot—by inviting them to participate actively in the story. Games like Her Story and Gone Home challenge the player to take notes and make observations in order to solve a particular problem or unlock a mystery—allowing students to practice critical thinking and active reading skills.

In recent years, there’s been much talk about game-based learning and how it’s going to revolutionize our education system. Essentially, this trend advocates making learning a game—engaging students by having them “advance” by levels, working toward a goal or a specific finish line. Teaching narrative and storytelling using video games is different, though—rather than being based on levels or point values, these games are driven by characters and details and plot—all core elements of the narrative writing process that aren’t easy to teach.

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How do I block a range of spam email addresses?

Long story short. I walked in the door having returned from work and the wife said order me this halloween dress on the computer. Turns out it was a Chinese web site. The dress turned up two months after halloween. (slow boat from China!)

Now I'm constantly being bombarded with emails for dresses most of which wont fit me. (lol)

Unsubscribing has had no effect (surprise!)

Doing a email trace, suggests they are all coming throught a company in texas, but the last three didgets keep changing.

From what I gather through testing when I log into my account plusnet account and go to the email spam section, it doesn't like ip adresses ie I even did a whois lookup and entered the DNS server name, but that doesn't block the spam.

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The sure way to fix this is to change your email address. I know it’s a pain if it’s registered with multiple organisations but now and again it’s the only sure fix.

Also put your email address into here. to see if your current address is also  known to the bad guys. I regularly check mine and have had to change it twice over the last 15 years or so because it had been pwned and I was getting spam and phishing emails.

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On the impact of marijuana on human health, many studies have has been published about both the positive effects of the drug and the negative consequences of its use.

However, the results of these studies do not always give us a complete picture of how regular use of marijuana affects people in the long term.

Therefore, we decided to put together the results of recent scientific work in this area and explain how weed affects the functionality of specific organs and what the health risks are for those who smoke it regularly.

Smoking weed both benefits and harms the lungs

Research data on the effects of cannabis smoking on the respiratory system may puzzle you with its inconsistency.

While some studies suggest that THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the active substance of a drug) has anti-inflammatory properties, and deep puffs can increase the volume of your lungs, other scientific studies emphasize that smoking innovative weed pen has similar adverse effects on the respiratory system as tobacco smoke.

Scientists from Canada found out that there is 20 times more ammonia in the smoke of marijuana than in tobacco smoke.

A study in 2012 found a link between regular and long-term weed smoking and the development of a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The catch is that although THC has the properties that inhibit the growth of tumors, the smoke that we breathe when we smoke marijuana has an opposite effect and is carcinogenic.

It is possible that alternative methods of consumption help to neutralize the negative consequences for the organism, but more studies on this topic are needed to confirm this hypothesis.

How smoking weed affects the heart

Smoking weed quickens the heartbeat, which for some people can be a cause of discomfort or even frightening experience. And yet, some athletes use cannabis before training, thus increasing their effectiveness.

The fact is that cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive component of cannabis, prevents the development of myositis or inflammatory damage to skeletal muscles. This condition is expressed in muscle pain and often occurs in athletes who regularly experience intense physical exertion.

Cannabidiol allows you to restore muscles after training quickly, as well as after injuries, according to the 1998 Olympic gold medalist in the Ross Rebagliati snowboarding competition.

Another athlete, 39-year-old Seibo Shen also talks about the benefits of marijuana and weed vape pen in sports. He smoked weed via a vaporizer before his jiu-jitsu matches because cannabis allowed him to achieve the desired mental state for the fight.

“When you can get your brain out of the way and let the body do its job based on muscle memory and repetition of learned movements, the results exceed all expectations,” Shen shares his experience.

But there are risks associated with heart palpitations and shortness of breath due to smoking. Therefore, before the marathon, you definitely should not score a joint if you do not want to fall dead from a heart attack during the race.

How smoking weed affects the brain

Cannabis has an anti-inflammatory effect on brain cells, making it a valuable substance in the fight against Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

A recent study by scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Research has shown that THC and other compounds contained in a marijuana plant can help eliminate excess toxic protein beta-amyloid, which leads to inflammation that destroys nerve cells in the brain.

The result of this work was the discovery that cannabinoids have the same effects as endocannabinoids – compounds that our bodies make on their own to transmit signals in the brain.

Recent studies have found that endocannabinoids, as well as cannabinoids, also protect nerve cells from the formation of an excess of beta-amyloid.

These findings of scientists can be a breakthrough in the development of a drug for Alzheimer's disease, which could stop or at least slow its progress, and not just alleviate the symptoms, as current medications do.

How smoking weed affects sexuality

Having smoked weed with the help of weed pens, you will increase your libido and can improve the quality of orgasm due to more relaxed and emotionally-involved contact with a partner, according to sex therapist Ian Kerner.

The drug allows the consumer not only to feel more comfortable in his body but also stimulates the release of oxytocin, a hormone responsible for creating a feeling of affection, which strengthens the connection with the partner.

How smoking weed affects sleep

Weed will help you fall asleep if you smoke the Indica strain, and not the Sativa strain. This is important because the first type of marijuana is relaxing, and the second is stimulating.

But cannabis affects not only how quickly you fall asleep, but also the quality of your sleep. And regarding the benefits or harms of this influence, the opinions of scientists differ.

Vape pen for weed increases the duration of the third stage of slow delta sleep, during which our body completely relaxes, and the body rests, but at the same time shortens the fourth stage of the deepest delta sleep, when we have dreams, and the brain is renewed.

Constant violation of the natural optimal sleep architecture, in which the third stage lasts 5-8% of the total sleep time, and the fourth – 10-15%, as a result, may even lead to insomnia.

So, having a nightclub before going to bed will help you rest physically better, but it will not allow you to restore your mental strength and, perhaps, even deprive you of dreams.

How smoking weed affects mental health

The human endocannabinoid system is responsible for regulating stress levels and anxiety. And since cannabinoids have similar effects with endocannabinoids, marijuana also has relaxing properties.

THC, as the most psychoactive component of the plant, is similar in structure and action to the chemical substance anandamide contained in the human brain, which reduces the level of anxiety.

But also in the matter of the influence of best vape pen for weed on the mental health of women is not all clear.

Previous studies have indicated that weed can cause short-term paranoia, and can also cause psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia.

Still, more recent work by scientists suggests that cannabis still does not increase the risk of developing mental disorders of the anxiety spectrum, nor affective disorders such as depression.

However, the constant smoking of cannabis can increase your chances of developing alcohol, drug and nicotine addiction, according to another study in 2016.

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Army YogaIt’s no secret that yoga can aid mental well-being. What is more, it can help soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to new research.

Some of the most damaging consequences of seeing combat can happen in the mind. Of the 2.3m American veterans who returned from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, up to 20% go on to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point. In a report published by the US Department of Veterans Affairs at least 22 American veterans take their lives every day.

The effects of PTSD can include intrusive memories, heightened anxiety and personality changes. Individuals can also experience hyper-arousal, where they are easily startled, feel “jumpy” and constantly on guard. Standard current treatment for PTSD generally involves prescriptions for antidepressants and psychotherapy, with mixed results.

In a new study published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, researchers say that yoga can be used to bring better mental balance.

Yoga has previously been shown as valuable in reducing the stress of university students, and depressionanxietyalcoholism and PTSD in tsunami survivors, as well as helping cancer patients. The charity Yoga for America runs programmes for serving soldiers and war veterans.

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, senior lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, said the benefits of yoga included moving people away from negative thoughts.

The beneficial effects are due to the increased ability to focus on breathing that, firstly, focuses a person on a present moment and breaks rumination on negative traumatic thoughts, and secondly, increases ability of ‘intraception’ – observing and understanding internal states and the ability to control them, or understanding them as temporal and passing.

But the new study is the first of its kind to provide scientific support for the benefits of yoga’s breathing techniques for PTSD patients in a randomised and controlled (though small) long-term study which monitored effects of yoga over the course of the year.

The study focused on the effects of sudarshan kriya yoga, a practice of breathing-based meditation which has a balancing effect on the autonomic nervous system.

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Best Humidifier For Allergies Reviews For Consumers

Although there are lots of humidifiers on the market but not all kind of humidifier is best for allergies. That is why we have selected our list of best humidifier for allergies with reviews to guide you.

Best Humidifier For Allergies Reviews

Sneezing, coughing, watery eyes and other forms of related allergies symptoms can be caused by dry indoor air. These problems are threats if you are among those suffering such symptoms in homes where there is low humidity level.

Humidity is defined as the amount of vapor presents in the air at a relative time. According to findings, too low or high humidity affect us negatively as such it should be maintained moderately.

The bottom line, humidifiers helps to release moist air in to the atmosphere of homes, offices and other indoor environment. So in doing this we should ensure the right range of humidity level 35% – 60% should be put into consideration to avoid the negative side of reduced or excess humidity in the house.

For those looking for a humidifier suitable for allergies situation, need to  understand that there are two kinds of humidifiers. It exists in either cool mist or warm mist humidifier. Cool mist humidifiers releases cool moisture which helps to ease some form of allergy condition. On the other hand, warm mist type are seen more beneficial for allergies problems. This is because it releases warm mist that can ease  sinuses, free nasal congestion, alleviate sneezing etc.

Although not all allergies conditions are caused by dry atmosphere but if you notice your owe symptoms is as a results of having dry indoor air especially during the winter months, purchasing and running a humidifier at home can help gets a relief. This we can help you by showing you our best humidifier for allergies reviews for you to read through for an appropriate choice.

Best Humdifier For Allergies Comparison Chart 2017

Product Name Coverage Area More Product Info
Honeywell HCM350W Germ FreeFor rooms up to 275 sq. ftMore Info Honeywell HCM350W Germ Free
HoMedics Warm and Cool Mist Ultrasonic HumidifierFor rooms up to 250 sq. ftMore Info HoMedics Warm and Cool Mist Ultrasonic Humidifier
Vicks Germ-Free Warm Mist HumidifierFor rooms up to 350 sq. ftMore Info Vicks Germ-Free Warm Mist Humidifier

Honeywell HCM-6009 QuietCareFor rooms up to 800 sq. ftMore Info Honeywell HCM-6009 QuietCare
BONECO Steam Humidifier S450For rooms up to 860 sq. ftMore Info BONECO Steam Humidifier S450

PureGuardian Ultrasonic Warm and Cool MistFor rooms up to 1000 sq. ftMore Info PureGuardian Ultrasonic Warm and Cool Mist

Reviews of Top 6 Best Humidifier For Allergies and Asthma Cases

1. Honeywell HCM350W Germ Free Cool Mist Humidifier

The germ free humidifier is one popular product among consumers from the Honeywell brand. This humidifier is scientifically designed to use a patent ultraviolet technology in rendering up to 99.9% of mold, fungus, bacteria and virus inactive that maybe presents in the water. This process ensures the output to be release into the air is free from germs thereby helping to prevents allergy situation that may results from polluted air.

Most note worthy, honeywell hcm350w germ free cool mist humidifier is equipped with multiple output speed which lets you adjust the output rate and also sound level. In addition, works quietly while in operation compare to majority of humidifiers. The working hour of this humidifier depends on the speed level. However, it can run for up to 24 hours per filling while on low speed settings.

To maintain allergy free air at home, work places etc. purchasing this cool mist humidifier will greatly benefits you as it is equipped with germs killing technology. Nevertheless, the wick filters should be replaced according to usage for effective performance.

Our plus for this

  • This humidifier kills bacteria, mold, fungus and viruses up to 99.9 percent.
  • Variable speeds settings for moisture output level and also sound control.
  • Almost quiet operation on high speed but low speed is runs quieter.
  • It features Protec antimicrobial treated filter.
  • Works perfectly for medium-room sized.
  • Back up with 3 year warranty.

2. HoMedics Warm and Cool Mist Ultrasonic Humidifier

HoMedics is another unit in this review of humidifier allergy which also releases air free from airborne agents responsible for allergy trigger.  The tabletop unit is equipped with two mist option to choose from such as warm or cool mist to meet your home condition at a time.

Like we say at the beginning, warm mist humidifiers are just the perfect choice that can help allergy related and asthma individuals. This is why we bring this homedics products for allergy sufferers to consider. However, you can choose either of this mist type by selecting the appropriate settings.

In conclusion, those looking for a humidifier without filter, HoMedics warm/cool mist humidifier does not use filter. Rather, it comes with a de-mineralized cartridge that easy to clean and replaced while saving you cost of replacing filters.

Our plus for this

  • Clean-mist technology prevents growing of mold and mildew on the humidifier tank surface.
  • Up to 80 hours run time from its dual tank with 1.7 gallon water capacity each.
  • Automatic shut-off protects unit when tank is empty.
  • It features a built-in ON/OFF night light.
  • No filter to wash or change.
  • The tanks are removable.

3. Vicks Germ-Free Warm Mist Humidifier

For better breathing process and comfortable sleep every night, vicks germ free warm mist humidifier is up to the task. This vicks warm mist features a medicine cup which can be use with kaz inhalant or with vicks vapor steam to create treated air in your home to alleviate every allergy battle in the home. In addition, the germ killing UV chambers ensures up to 99.9% spore, molds, bacteria etc. prevention.

Also, its small size makes it ideal for medium bedrooms or offices while occupying a little space. This unit also features a dual tank just like the hoMedics model and also installed with handles that lets you lift it easily for refill.

This warm mist humidifier will not disappoint you as many users have great likes for it. You can look up more details below why you should consider the vicks product as the best kind of humidifier for your allergies and related symptoms.

Our plus for this

  • Ultraviolet chamber kills water-base germs and bacteria.
  • Medicine cup compatible with vicks vapor steam or Kaz inhalant.
  • Feature adjustable humidity level control.
  • Two tank with soft grip handles.
  • 2 gallon capacity tank for up to 24 hour run time in single refill.
  • Medicated vapor that sooths and also relieves cough symptoms.
  • 3 year back up warranty.

4. Honeywell HCM-6009 QuietCare 9-Gallon Console Air Washer Humidifier

This Honeywell HCM-6009 humidifier is a unit that meets a whole house or extra large room’s humidification needs. Although, we aforementioned that a cool mist humidifiers may not be effective for people experiencing some symptoms of allergies but this humidifier can be use for allergy purpose. The reason, it features an antimicrobial treated wicking filter that inhibits factors known to cause allergenic problems such as molds and its counterpart. The wick filter also helps eliminate water base impurities thereby reducing the white-dust while providing clean moisture air safe for inhaling.

The most relevant aspects why we recommends the Honeywell HCM-6009 QuietCare 9-Gallon Console Humidifier for allergic situation has been discussed. However, you can check more of its constituent below for more knowledge.

Our plus for this

  • Adjustable humidistat helps to turn on/off of the humidifier to maintain programmed humidity levels.
  • It comes with wick Protec® treated filter.
  • Air washer technology helps to capture dust, dirt and pollen.
  • Also features protect ® cartridge.
  • 2 water tanks featuring large openings that are easy cleaning and refilling.
  • Three speed settings to regulate moisture output rate and noise level.
  • Run up to 24 hours of providing mist.
  • Multi-room used.
  • One Amazon user reviews claims this unit is not quiet which  you can find more details from amazon!

5. BONECO Steam Humidifier S450

Some individual’s allergies require steam inhalation to enable them feel better and be comfortable. This boneco steam humidifier is here for people that fall into such categories needing a steam humidifier for their allergies reliever.

The Boneco works by heating water to boiling state while the resultant vapors escaped into the air humidifying your room. This steam device is one hygienic way to maintain safe air if you want to get fast reliever form allergenic condition, as it heats the water up to 250o provides bacteria and mineral free humidification.

Our plus for this

  • The boneco S450 unit is ideal for home or room of up to 860 sq feet.
  • It comes with up to 3.5 gallon capacity.
  • You will have warm and airborne-free steam in your room.
  • No mineral output will be released into your air.
  • It is equipped with auto-cleaning mode.
  • It is Friendly to children environment.

6. PureGuardian 12.5L Output per Day Ultrasonic Warm and Cool Mist Humidifier

The Pureguardian product is the last unit on our humidifiers for allergy reviews. That doesn’t mean it is the least performing unit.  It come this position since we are reviewing one after the other. However, the pureguardian is manufacture to deliver warm and cool mist depending on individual settings. Warm mist option ensures your home air is filled with warmness which is good for people having serious congestion. The cool mist is also available to soothing dry skin, eyes etc. Choosing from both mists depends on personal needs at a particular time. Appropriate mist choice ensures you get the right results at a specific time.

Furthermore, the tank feature silver clean protection that fights growth of mold and mildew on the surface tank. This make humidifier an ideal choice for allergy and asthma patients.  In addition,  as an ultrasonic humidifier, it requires no filter use and this saves you time of cleaning filters or replacement. This makes this unit cost saving humidifier to use if you are looking for a unit that is associated with low cost of maintenance.

Our plus for this

  • Two large tank gallons provides up to 120 hours of warm/cool mist.
  • Silver clean protection prevents agents that do grow on tanks that cause allergies.
  • It does not use filters.
  • Energy efficient.
  • Smart mist sensors detects and auto adjust moisture level to desire level.
  • Digital display with electronic touch control.
  • Other features include 12 hour timer, night light and 3 speeds settings.

Finally, by following our best humidifier for allergies reviews today. You able to choose the right unit humidifier that can improve your allergy situation.


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NICE Market Share Leader for Contact Centre WFO

DMG Report Confirms: NICE is the Market Share Leader for Contact Centre WFO

NICE.eshot.NICE.1.march.2017NICE announced that it is the market share leader in contact centre WFO (Workforce Optimization), as reinforced by top industry analyst DMG Consulting LLC.

NICE offers advanced analytics-based solutions, which include Adaptive WFO, an end-to-end persona based WFO solution, as well as EVOLVE WFO, a fully integrated cloud-based WFO suite.

According to DMG’s 2017 Contact Centre WFO Market Share Report, NICE moved into the top spot for Total Company GAAP Revenue and Market Share among all WFO-related vendors, with a 35.4* percent market share, which aggregates the numbers for NICE and inContact on a pro forma basis.

NICE also leads in revenue and market share in several additional WFO categories:

– 41.9* percent – Contact Centre WFO

– 40.7* percent – Total WFO and Recording, Excluding Security and Video

– 30.7* percent – Total Workforce Management

– 39.2* percent – Cloud/Hosted/Software-as-a-Service Migdal, President of the NICE Enterprise Product Group commented,

“Last year, NICE made a strategic decision to integrate its analytics-driven WFO applications with the inContact Customer Interaction Cloud in order to deliver a complete contact centre platform.

Today, we can proudly say that we have hit significant milestones in the integration process, already displacing over 100 legacy WFO solutions from a competitor,”

dmg.fluss.image.nov.2015Donna Fluss, President of DMG Consulting, said:

“The opportunities for [WFO] vendors who are agile and respond to the changing times are great, but it can’t be business as usual. The addressable market for WFO capabilities is very large and expanding, but to capture new business, WFO vendors will need to transform their companies, strategies, products and resources.”

“Following the NICE-inContact integration, NICE is the only vendor in the market to deliver a true end-to-end cloud contact centre offering, complete with advanced analytics and the leading WFO suite,” said Miki Migdal, president of the NICE Enterprise Product Group.

“We will continue to innovate and lead in the area of cloud-based workforce optimization as we recognize the untapped opportunities in today’s WFO market, and are committed to providing our customers and prospective customers with dynamic solutions to help them reinvent customer service.”

NICE WFO is comprised of tightly integrated solutions, enabling organizations to improve agent productivity, identify performance gaps, deliver targeted coaching, effectively forecast workloads, and schedule staff. NICE’s unique Adaptive WFO approach uses analytics-based modeling to dynamically personalize contact centre processes, such as scheduling, coaching, training, evaluations and motivational incentives, based on the individual agent persona level.

Additional Information

dmg.logo.july.2017The DMG report analyzed revenue and market share for the approximately 41 WFO vendors worldwide who offered a suite of contact centre WFO solutions during fiscal 2016 including recording, quality assurance (QA)/quality management (QM), workforce management, contact centre performance management, speech analytics, text analytics, desktop analytics, enterprise feedback management/surveying, eLearning, coaching, gamification and customer journey analytics. To be considered a WFO suite provider, a vendor must offer four or more of the 12 applications. NICE’s WFO contact centre suite offers all 12 of these modules as well as a WFO back-office suite to help organizations assess and enhance all aspects of the customer service experience.

* Market share data is an aggregate of NICE and inContact on a pro forma basis for fiscal 2016.

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Pivotal For Good With Crisis Text Line: Using Text Analytics To Better Serve At-Risk Teens

May 8, 2015 Noelle Sio Saldana

Earlisfeatured-P4A-CrisisLineer this year, I worked as part of the Pivotal for Good (P4G) program, which enables Pivotal data scientists to donate three months of time to collaborate with nonprofits that lack the skills or resources to perform data science functions. Since August 2013, Crisis Text Line’s trained crisis counselors have assisted hundreds of at-risk teens every day. During our initial analysis, we measured the value of conversations with Crisis Text Line’s crisis counselors for individual texters by detecting signs of gratitude. Since then, we have been diving further into the data to uncover characteristics that could be used in subsequent analysis and predictive models that determine positive engagements

A challenge with Crisis Text Line’s texting-only method of crisis counseling is the difficulty of detecting emotions and nuances that would be evident in spoken conversations. Texting conversations carry their own linguistic subtleties, meaning that while we may lack the emotional cues of spoken conversations, the language used in crisis-based text conversations is filled with meaning, complexity, and emotional expression.

Such sentiment analysis is a uniquely data science-relevant problem. My colleagues on the Pivotal Data Science team recently posted about typical natural language processing (NLP) tasks, which include various techniques, from sentence segmentation (identifying where one sentence ends and another begins) to named entity recognition (identifying entities such as persons, locations, and times within documents.) In practical NLP applications, out-of-the-box analysis tools often have to be modified to accommodate nuances in a particular domain. In this post, I’ll share some of the methods Crisis Text Line and I used, and modifications we made for their unique datasets.

In some of Crisis Text Line’s previous analyses, punctuations marks were not considered as features in and of themselves. However, we discovered that there was analytical value in retaining them as part of the corpus.

  1. Question-to-statement ratio: Crisis Text Line teaches crisis counselors several active listening methods, including asking the texter questions during the conversation, rather than making statements. Measuring the usage of questions versus statements aid in further analyzing the effectiveness of these interactions.
  2. Emoticons: People frequently express themselves over text messaging with the use of emoticons, which are almost entirely constructed with punctuation characters. Thus, we included emoticons in the Crisis Text Line dictionary. As expected, the most common emoticons used are :) and :(.
  3. Pauses: While a pregnant pause is easy for humans to detect in vocal conversations, it can be difficult to identify over text messaging. Many people make liberal use of ellipses in texts to express a pause, a choice that can reflect hesitation, nervousness, or simple stylistic preference. (An ellipsis in a text message appears most frequently as three consecutive periods ‘…’. We also see variations such as ‘..’, ‘….’, and ‘. . .’.) We decided to consider ellipses as individual words with their own meaning.

For Crisis Text Line, tokenization of the data includes the identification of individual words, emoticons and specific punctuation marks in each message. Typical tokenization rules could identify word boundaries in messages with punctuation as follows:

“I guess so…:(“ → [I] [guess] [so] [.] [.] [.] [:] [(]

White space tokenization can do well in identifying delimiting individual words in a text message.

“I guess so” → [I] [guess] [so]

However, this method would fail for separating groups of punctuation and emoticons as separate words:

“I guess so…:(“ → [I] [guess] [so…:(]

It would also fail for texters who stylistically choose not to use spaces in their messages:

“Iguessso:(” → [Iguessso:(]

Given all of these cases, we built a custom rule based model for tokenization. Using our model, the first example would be tokenized as:

“I guess so…:(“ → [I] [guess] [so] […] [:(]

Stop Word Removal

Stop words are common words that are often filtered as part of the text cleaning process. One could consider words like “is” or “it” as filler words in a sentence, whereas words used less frequently are more interesting to study.

There are several lists of stop words readily available for use in text analysis. Here’s a snippet of one available through NLTK:

['i', 'me', 'my', 'myself', 'we', 'our', 'ours', 'ourselves', 'you', 'your', 'yours','yourself', 'yourselves', 'he', 'him', 'his', 'himself', 'she', 'her', 'hers','herself', 'it', 'its', 'itself', 'they', 'them', 'their', 'theirs', 'themselves',...]

Consider the following sample fabricated text messages:

“Do you want to hurt yourself?”

“I want to hurt myself”

“He said he wants to hurt me”

“I said to her that I want to hurt myself”

Without stop words or punctuation, this would turn into

“Do you want to hurt yourself?” → “want hurt”

“I want to hurt myself” → “want hurt”

“They said they want to hurt me” → “said want hurt”

“I said to her that I want to hurt myself” → “said want hurt”

For Crisis Text Line, understanding the subjects (i.e. ‘I’, ‘they’, ‘you’) is critical in discerning these messages. Stripping out all the typical stop words here also strips away much of the intent of the sentences. It is important to understand if a texter’s crisis is related to other people’s actions. With that in mind, we opted to keep the following words when they appeared in the corpus:

Personal pronouns:

  • First person: 'i', 'me', 'we', 'us'
  • Second person: 'you'
  • Third person: 'he', 'she', 'him','her', 'they', 'them'

Reflexive pronouns:

  • First person: 'myself', 'ourselves'
  • Second person: 'yourself', 'yourselves'
  • Third person: 'himself', 'herself','themselves'

Possessive pronouns

  • 'my', 'your', 'his', 'hers', 'our','their', 'ours', 'yours', 'theirs'

With these various techniques in place, we were then able to construct a dictionary that included a wide range of emoticons, punctuation and words specifically relevant to our analysis.

What’s Next?

After properly cleansing and preparing the text data, we were able to create topic models and word-based features. This fits into a wider analytical framework that we built at Crisis Text Line to support their growing data science practice. Ultimately, this work and the final output can be reused for additional text analytics tasks that feed into both counselor training and product direction.

In our next post, I’ll discuss how our collaboration with Crisis Text Line has changed their data science practice and how they are continuing to improve the care for their texters. Data science models and analyses have led to changes to their platform and their crisis counselor training program. In the past few months alone, they have seen higher satisfaction ratings. Stay tuned!

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Tamagoyaki bento

Tamagoyaki is a great and easy to make bento ingredient. It's savory taste goes well with vegetables and diary ingredients, it packs a reasonable amount of protein and will satisfy your hunger for a long time. It's good served warm, as well as cold.

Marinated beef and pasta bento

Bento is not only rice, but also other ingredients, like... pasta. This recipe came to life when I had some uncooked beef left-overs and just wondered what to do with them. Cooking them as a part of bento was a great idea!

Tamagoyaki, or Japanese omelette

Japanese word tamago means an egg and word yaki usually indicates that it is fried in some kind of way — with this recipe you can make a wonderful Japanese delicacy that not only tastes great, but also is a great way to make a great-looking little dish for your breakfast or bento!

Tamagoyaki has really interesting taste and springy, delicious texture.

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