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Thousands of new cosmic explosions discovered by Young … – Pennsylvania State University

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It is the largest multi-band data release of nearby supernovae ever slightly fewer than 2,000 objects and is the first to use photometric classification and photometric redshifts the increase in wavelength that astronomers observe when objects in space are moving away from us extensively. This is critical for the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a planned 10-year survey of the southern sky, for where there are too many objects to get spectra, said the researchers.

Much of the time-domain universe is uncharted, said Gautham Narayan, deputy director of CAPS and assistant professor at UIUC. We still do not know the progenitor systems of many of the most common classes of transients, such as type Ia supernovae, while still using these sources to try and understand the expansion history of our universe. Weve also seen one electromagnetic counterpart to a binary neutron star merger. There are many kinds of transients that are theoretically predicted, but have never been seen at all.

Narayan stated that With high-redshift experiments such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope about to begin operations, we saw an opportunity to establish our Young Supernova Experiment to be a low-redshift anchor. We can probe time-scales that these newer experiments cannot and find lots of transients in the nearby universe to compare to their samples in the distant universe. In particular, with this data release, we made extensive use of AI and machine learning techniques to classify the data release sample techniques that will be crucial for Rubin and Roman.

This groundbreaking effort could not have succeeded without the collective partnership between the University of Hawaii, UCSC, DARK, NCSA, UIUC, and Penn State. Using Hawaiis Pan-STARRS1 telescope to collect the images, DARKs enhanced processing of the data on its computing cluster, UCSCs organization of the survey and data hosting, and NCSA and UIUCs analysis it is an outstanding achievement for multi-institution research.

This survey is a discovery portal, said Ryan Foley, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC, who led the organization of the YSE survey project. We are finding thousands of interesting objects, which we can then follow and study with additional observations to understand what were seeing.

Mark Huber, a senior researcher at University of Hawaiis Institute for Astronomy, and deeply involved in the YSE project said, "Pan-STARRS produces a steady stream of transient discoveries, observing large areas of the sky every clear night with two telescopes. With over a decade of observations, Pan-STARRS operates one of the best calibrated systems in astronomy with a detailed reference image of the static sky visible from Haleakal. This enables rapid discovery and follow up of supernovae and other transient events well suited for programs like YSE to build up the sample required for analysis and this significant data release."

Director of Pan-STARRS Observatories Ken Chambers added this collaboration with the Young Supernova Experiment makes exceptional use of Pan-STARRS ability to routinely survey the sky for transient phenomena and moving objects. We have provided an unprecedented sample of young supernovae discovered before their peak luminosity that will be an important resource for supernova researchers and cosmologists for many years. Looking ahead, Pan-STARRS will remain a crucial resource in the Northern Hemisphere to complement the Rubin Observatory in the Southern Hemisphere.

In addition to Villar, the research team at Penn State includes postdoctoral scholar Conor Ransome and graduate students Kaylee De Soto and S. Karthik Yadavalli.

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MEAS Department Seminar | Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences – Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

March 16, 2023 | Author: admin

Speaker Erica Thompson, Senior Policy Fellow, Ethics of Modelling and Simulation at the LSE Data Science Institute, UK (London School of Economics),Website (hosted by W. Robinson),Zoom only.

Seminar Title Escaping from Model Land

Abstract We seek to understand the future of the climate system by making models, but it is not easy to assess the degree of confidence we should have in different kinds of models. With reference to models of weather, climate, and climate policy, I will explain how and why we need to get out of Model Land and make statements that apply to the real world, and what the consequences are for those engaged in modelling and policy-relevant science. In particular I consider the ways that value judgements can become embedded in models, how to work with ensembles or groups of models, and why model diversity is important.

Where the sidewalk ends – EurekAlert

March 16, 2023 | Author: admin

Its easier than ever to view maps of any place youd like to go by car, that is. By foot is another matter. Most cities and towns in the U.S. do not have sidewalk maps, and pedestrians are usually left to fend for themselves: Can you walk from your hotel to the restaurants on the other side of the highway? Is there a shortcut from downtown to the sports arena? And how do you get to that bus stop, anyway?

Now MIT researchers, along with colleagues from multiple other universities, have developed an open-source tool that uses aerial imagery and image-recognition to create complete maps of sidewalks and crosswalks. The tool can help planners, policymakers, and urbanists who want to expand pedestrian infrastructure.

In the urban planning and urban policy fields, this is a huge gap, says Andres Sevtsuk, an associate professor at MIT and a co-author of a new paper detailing the tools capabilities. Most U.S. city governments know very little about their sidewalk networks. There is no data on it. The private sector hasnt taken on the task of mapping it. It seemed like a really important technology to develop, especially in an open-source way that can be used by other places.

The tool, called TILE2NET, has been developed using a few U.S. areas as initial sources of data, but it can be refined and adapted for use anywhere.

We thought we needed a method that can be scalable and used in different cities, says Maryam Hosseini, a postdoc in MITs City Form Lab in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), whose research has focused extensively on the development of the tool.

The paper, Mapping the Walk: A Scalable Computer Vision Approach for Generating Sidewalk Network Datasets from Aerial Imagery, appears online in the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. The authors are Hosseini; Sevtsuk, who is the Charles and Ann Spaulding Career Development Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in DUSP and head of MITs City Form Lab; Fabio Miranda, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Roberto M. Cesar, a professor of computer science at the University of Sao Paulo; and Claudio T. Silva, Institute Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering, and professor of data science at the NYU Center for Data Science.

Significant research for the project was conducted at NYU when Hosseini was a student there, working with Silva as a co-advisor.

There are multiple ways to attempt to map sidewalks and other pedestrian pathways in cities and towns. Planners could make maps manually, which is accurate but time-consuming; or they could use roads and make assumptions about the extent of sidewalks, which would reduce accuracy; or they could try tracking pedestrians, which probably would be limited in showing the full reach of walking networks.

Instead, the research team used computerized image-recognition techniques to build a tool that will visually recognize sidewalks, crosswalks, and footpaths. To do that, the researchers first used 20,000 aerial images from Boston, Cambridge, New York City, and Washington places where comprehensive pedestrian maps already existed. By training the image-recognition model on such clearly defined objects and using portions of those cities as a starting point, they were able to see how well TILE2NET would work elsewhere in those cities.

Ultimately the tool worked well, recognizing 90 percent or more of all sidewalks and crosswalks in Boston and Cambridge, for instance. Having been trained visually on those cities, the tool can be applied to other metro areas; people elsewhere can now plug their aerial imagery into TILE2NET as well.

We wanted to make it easier for cities in different parts of the world to do such a thing without needing to do the heavy lifting of training [the tool], says Hosseini. Collaboratively we will make it better and better, hopefully, as we go along.

The need for such a tool is vast, emphasizes Sevtsuk, whose research centers on pedestrian and nonmotorized movement in cities, and who has developed multiple kinds of pedestrian-mapping tools in his career. Most cities have wildly incomplete networks of sidewalks and paths for pedestrians, he notes. And yet it is hard to expand those networks efficiently without mapping them.

Imagine that we had the same gaps in car networks that pedestrians have in their networks, Sevtsuk says. You would drive to an intersection and then the road just ends. Or you cant take a right turn since there is no road. Thats what [pedestrians] are constantly up against, and we dont realize how important continuity is for [pedestrian] networks.

In the still larger picture, Sevtsuk observes, the continuation of climate change means that cities will have to expand their infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists, among other measures; transportation remains a huge source of carbon dioxide emissions.

When cities talk about cutting carbon emissions, theres no other way to make a big dent than to address transportation, Sevtsuk says. The whole world of urban data for public transit and pedestrians and bicycles is really far behind [vehicle data] in quality. Analyzing how cities can be operational without a car requires this kind of data.

On the bright side, Sevtsuk suggests, adding pedestrian and bike infrastructure is being done more aggressively than in many decades in the past. In the 20th century, it was the other way around, we would take away sidewalks to make space for vehicular roads. Were now seeing the opposite trend. To make best use of pedestrian infrastructure, its important that cities have the network data about it. Now you can truly tell how somebody can get to a bus stop.

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Written by Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office

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Paper: Mapping the Walk: A Scalable Computer Vision Approach for Generating Sidewalk Network Datasets from Aerial Imagery

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971523000133

Computers Environment and Urban Systems

Mapping the walk: A scalable computer vision approach for generating sidewalk network datasets from aerial imagery

22-Feb-2023

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The Japanese venture capital star bagging 35% returns mining … – The Japan Times

March 16, 2023 | Author: admin

Japan isnt known for its startup culture. Tomotaka Goji, a bureaucrat-turned-technology guru, is working hard to change that.

The 50-year-old runs a low-profile venture fund in Tokyo that has quietly built a track record that would make Silicon Valleys finest envious. Hes done it by blending his experiences at Stanford University and his connection to the prestigious University of Tokyo.

His firm, University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners, concentrates on turning academic research into commercial businesses. With a doctorate in data science, Goji uses big data and artificial intelligence to uncover promising research results in fields like material sciences and chemistry. The result is 35% yearly returns at one of his funds since its founding in 2018, the best in Japan for any fund of more than 10 billion ($75 million) according to one survey.

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Utica University Data-Based Research Uncovers New … – PR Newswire

March 16, 2023 | Author: admin

FinThrive Provides Novel Data for Study Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

ALPHARETTA, Ga., March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Utica University research examining communities in New York state has uncovered new socioeconomic insights that can be correlated to clinical outcomes. The findings can be leveraged by providers across healthcare to make formal recommendations to economic and data science teams, in an effort to create a more equitable healthcare experience.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action (HD4A) program funded the research, with spatial analysis provided by FinThrive, Inc., a healthcare revenue management software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider. The study used FinThrive data to evaluate the demographics and family structures of New York households and identify specific neighborhoods that could benefit from more informed healthcare interventions. The insights enable researchers to observe specific factors including household arrangements that would impact a patient's ability to prioritize their health.

The findings demonstrate that demographics such as race and ethnicity, specifically Black and Hispanic/Latino Americans, as well as single-parent households have a direct relation to generational poverty. Generational poverty occurs when two or more generations living in a home or community have not advanced socioeconomic status, which affects all areas of life: financial, social, physical and emotional. Unlike traditional research using census or claims data, this project uses FinThrive socioeconomic data that provides a three-dimensional view, at both the individual and household level, helping to inform intervention programs to positively impact outcomes and reduce unnecessary healthcare spending. The study also found that government stimulus alone will not be enough to aid individuals who suffer from generational poverty to eventually achieve upward economic mobility.

Potential recommendations include stratifying the health and social services needs of their population with considerations for race, ethnicity and family structure. In addition, community programs should target "cold spots," defined as difficult-to-reach areas that treat populations generationally, within a given geography.

Other valuable use cases for these findings include:

Upstate Family Health Center in Utica, NY is an example of a provider that is benefiting from such data and research. "During the pandemic, we evolved as a community health center," said John Milligan, Chief Executive Officer of UFHC. "We saw a lot of behavioral and substance abuse issues, and it became clear that we needed specialized teams to address those areas." Using data and screenings as a guide, Milligan and his staff were able to implement patient-centric programs such as food drives to ensure that socioeconomic factors correlated to care delivery were addressed. "You can do all you want on the clinical side, but until you find the root of the problem you aren't going to get anywhere."

"Spearheading this research was a true honor," said Michael McCarthy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Data Science at Utica University. "I am so proud of the amazing team whose dedication, focus and unwavering humanistic approach allowed us to gain insight into the significant role generational poverty plays in health equity and the need to prioritize a patient's economic status in a meaningful way within healthcare."

"Census and claims data can be helpful in certain instances, butthe value is undermined by out-of-date, incomplete or biased perspectives of a person's life," said John Yount, Chief Innovation Officer at FinThrive. "The FinThrive data shows all the activity happening outside of the healthcare setting. Layer that into a clinical workflow or apply to a housing/food distribution program for a diabetic Medicaid population, for example, and you can create opportunities to improve overall experience and reduce total medical costs. Our goal is to uncover insights that have a positive impact on US Healthcare, helping to support and drive health equity."

Continuing to utilize this data, the Utica University research team is expanding their analysis to include North Carolina, Arizona, California, Virginia and Texas. Results from these studies are forthcoming in 2023. FinThrive and Utica University will continue to publish findings as they become available.

About FinThriveFinThrive provides one of healthcare's most comprehensive revenue cycle management SaaS platforms, offering patient access, charge integrity, claims management, contract management, machine learning & robotic process automation, data & analytics, and education software solutions to 3,200+ healthcare providers. FinThrive's end-to-end software platform helps healthcare organizations increase revenue, reduce costs, expand cash collections, and ensure regulatory compliance across the entire revenue cycle continuum. For more information on the FinThrive story, visit http://www.FinThrive.com

About Upstate Family Health CenterUpstate Family Health Center, Inc. is a 501(c)(3), not for profit, federally qualified health center, offering family health care services to individuals of all ages at various locations including Utica and Rome throughout the Mohawk Valley. The experienced and dedicated staff provide the highest level of care, while ensuring that the patient's needs come first. Upstate Family Health Center is building bridges to better healthcare.

About the Robert Wood Johnson FoundationThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation's largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health. Since their founding in 1972, RWJF has worked to improve health and healthcare in the United States. RWJF supports efforts to build a national Culture of Health rooted in equity that provides every individual with a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they have. They do this by supporting research, programs, policies and practices aimed at bringing about meaningful change and improving the lives of everyone in our nation now and for generations to come. To learn more about the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation visit https://www.rwjf.org.

About Utica UniversityUtica University is a private university in Utica, New York founded in 1946. They offer numerous accredited and recognized programs including their Master of Social Work program, and their master's degree program in nursing(Family Nurse Practitioner [FNP], Leadership and Education), and post-graduate APRN FNP certificate programsare accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing. To learn more about Utica University, visit https://www.utica.edu.

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The business value of curated model collections – MIT Sloan News

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Its common practice for museums and galleries to have curators who are responsible for acquiring, caring for, and developing collections so they remain key assets. Engineering organizations can take a page from the art world and embrace curation concepts to better manage their own models.

Companies building complex systems such as naval battleships, jetliners, and cars are switching from traditional, paper-based processes to digital and model-centric engineering workflows as part of digital transformation. Product-related models, simulations, and data are used to digitally represent design concepts, mimic system behavior, and test and optimize product performance under varying conditions.

While model-based practices are now a staple in product design and engineering workflows, models are seldom managed as an enterprise collection, limiting their value, according to Donna Rhodes, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center. By establishing new curator roles and curation workflows, companies can maximize the utility of models as a true enterprise asset, enabling greater reuse, improving design efficiencies, and seeding more innovation.

Were talking about management control and preservation as you would in an art museum, but also about the active enhancement of models in the collection, Rhodes said during a recent MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series event. Models are becoming so valuable to enterprises that ultimately they may have greater value than the physical assets themselves that is, if they can be repurposed.

Not every model belongs in a curated collection. For example, the myriad models used in early-stage product development arent necessarily applicable elsewhere. However, mature models that function as a digital twin a digital representation of a physical asset or system are valuable additions to any curated repository, Rhodes said. In addition, models that can be easily repurposed for functions beyond their initial intended use have a place in a collection.

A curated model collection requires some foundational building blocks. Governance is key and should include policies that specify access controls and permissions, and a board or committee that makes key decisions. A governance board specifies what models are allowed to come into a collection (a process known as accession), what models need to be removed (known as deaccession), the valuation of key assets, and the strategic road map for evolving the curated model collection. Establishing the proper cybersecurity controls is another requisite, as is adopting technologies that enhance usability in areas like search and model discovery.

While curated-model use cases are still evolving, one example with broad applicability is what Rhodes referred to as a digital demonstrator a capability that could allow a company to demonstrate an offering to potential customers as part of a competitive bid process. Imagine reaching into a model collection, pulling out some models, and putting them together in such a way that you could actually demonstrate what a solution looked like, Rhodes said.

As organizations advance on this journey, several factors are central to establishing a collection of curated models and ensuring that it delivers desired benefits, Rhodes said.

Issues to consider include the following:

Establishing trust in the models. For models to be useful, potential consumers must trust that they are credible, especially when theyve been developed by someone else. Model verification and validation practices can help build that trust. Its also important to create mechanisms that provide visibility into model origins, establish transparency into how a model was created and how it might have been repurposed, and context for related decisions.

Consumers that have more experience and expertise working with models are more likely to view them as credible, as are those who have a higher propensity for trust in general, Rhodes said. Model credibility is also influenced by an individuals trust in the model developer and how easily models can be discovered and retrieved from a repository. Well increasingly find ways that we can curate models for specific consumer needs, and the ability to do so will be very important in whether this idea of a shared model repository would be useful to an enterprise, she said.

Addressing governance challenges. Creating strong governance standards is one way to help establish trust in curated model collections. Organizations should establish a board of standing members, domain experts among them, that is tasked with making decisions about what models come into a collection as well as what models are removed. Rhodes cited work supported by the U.S. Department of Defense Systems Engineering Research Center to help establish criteria to determine whether a model is a candidate for curation. Pertinent attributes include relevance to the enterprise, completeness of the metadata and documentation accompanying a model, completeness of the model pedigree, the potential for reusability, the uniqueness of the model, and the economic business case.

Governance efforts also need to recognize that people wont want to give up their own models and often prefer to use them on an individual or localized program level. As a result, companies may want to consider a federated approach, which keeps some models local as opposed to centralizing them in one enterprise repository. Think of it as a system of systems of models in repositories, Rhodes said. There are many things we are thinking about in terms of the composition of governance.

Considering technology as an enabler. The entire concept of a curated collection hinges on users ability to discover and access models. Emerging technologies in areas like data science, visual analytics, and machine learning can help consumers discover pertinent models and aid in the curation and reuse processes, Rhodes said. For example, augmented intelligence could provide context for how a model could be repurposed for an entirely different context, facilitating human decision-making, she explained.

We know if were going to achieve this idea of enterprise model collections, the value of these collections needs to outweigh the investment it takes to create and maintain them, Rhodes said. But I think they can be very powerful, especially when we get into this world where every system has a digital twin.

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Katee Sackhoff Delves Deep Into Bo-Katan’s Mind and Her Role in … – Star Wars News Net

March 16, 2023 | Author: admin

After her starring role in the second episode of The Mandalorian season 3 as Bo-Katan, Katee Sackhoff is naturally doing a few interviews to promote the season. Along with her recent interview with Deadline, she also spoke to the excellent House of R podcast on the Ringer-Verse podcast network.

In the interview, Sackhoff speaks about where Bo-Katan is at right now, how her complex backstory informs her own performance, what it means for Bo to be a Mandalorian, her relationship with her sister Satine Kryze and the reason behind her minor change in wardrobe this season.

When we meet Bo-Katan in The Mandalorian season 3, she is very casually sitting on her throne. Katee Sackhoff spoke about the decision to have her pose in such a way when Din arrives. It was very much informed by the losses that Bo has experienced since the season 2 finale and that she hasnt adjusted to them well.

We worked on it for quite a while, and our goal was for her to look very dismissive of it, very disrespectful of it, and very disrespectful of him [Din] and his presence. I think she is in a really bad state.

I think for Bo, shes lost everything. Everything that she thought was important, everything that she thought she knew, everything that she wanted. Her family, her planet, her Darksaber, her respect. Shes lost everything. I think that shes at a point where she may or may not be trying to figure out if everything shes done in her life is misguided. For fans of Clone Wars and Rebels, this is a woman who has a lot of guilt, you know? And I think its playing itself out now.

As Katee says, Bo-Katans backstory is rather complex. Some fans have noted that Bo is conveniently neglecting to mention her own role in the rise of Deathwatch in The Clone Wars, which spawned Dins own covert Children of The Watch. Sackhoff elaborated a bit on why Bo omits details about her past when speaking to Din.

Well I think the easiest way to explain some of the stuff that shes talking about with Din, its one of those things like if someones cheating on you, they accuse you of cheating on them all of the time. So I think that a lot of the things she says to him, she hates in herself.

Lets be honest, [she is] misguided in who she puts her faith in [referring to Pre Vizsla in The Clone Wars]. I think that its been a long time. Weve been with Bo for a long time, for over 25 years of her life. Shes changed and shes grown and shes learned and shes made a lot of mistakes and I think shes got quite a bit to atone for, so we may see a little bit of that.

One of themes of The Mandalorian asks what it means to be a Mandalorian. Din grew up being taught by the Armorer that there was only one true way to be a Mandalorian, only to encounter Bo-Katan and her Night Owls, and then Boba Fett who also wear the armor without adhering to his perceptions of what a Mandalorian should be. Katee took the time to explain what Bo thinks it means to be a Mandalorian.

I know what it means for Bo, for sure. One of the interesting things about the show and The Way, to use the shows words, is that I think its one of those things where everyone can read the same text and just interpret it differently, and it leads to disagreements and arguments and wars and all of these things, because we took the exact same words and it meant something to different people based on life experience and their own standings and the things theyve been through in their life. And so I think that it means very very different things to a lot of different people. And youll see that play out this season.

We definitely hear Bos disdain for it, for the spectacle of it all. She believes that what others view as a religious ceremony was a spectacle, because she felt like a prop piece and so she [was] this child, this sister that was thrust into this life that never wanted any of it. Shes a warrior, thats who she is, thats who she was raised to be and Satine was raised to be in government, not Bo.

Bo-Katans story in The Mandalorian revolves around the Darksaber and House of R put it to Sackhoff that the character might be standing in her own way, considering Din offered it to her in the season 2 finale. They asked whether or not Bo and Din could break free of the rules and myth surrounding the Darksaber for the good of them both. Interestingly, Katee believes that Bo uses the rules around the Darksaber to mask her own lack of confidence.

I think that the power and the belief that is put into the Darksaber is probably more than the Darksaber. At the same time, thats the way that that works, you know?

I think that the sword into and of itself is incredibly powerful, with the way that Din is overpowered by the saber. Its very clear when watching him fight with it that it weighs a ton. You see [her] pick it up and its like shes fencing.

I think there is a little bit of potentially her standing in her own way, but she firmly believes that she needs that Darksaber to rule, because I dont believe that even though Bo has one of the biggest egos of anyone, I do not believe that she thinks shes capable, and that the only way to [lead her people] is with the Darksaber. Its her mask, if you will. She has the Darksaber, she doesnt have to be a good leader, she just has to lead.

Bearing in mind that Bo has created an amicable rivalry with Din over the Darksaber, it surprised some fans that she risked her life to save him. Katee explained what it was that made her jump at the chance to rescue him without a second thought and Grogus role in that decision.

At her core, shes a warrior. I think when the going gets tough, shes going to be in the front. Thats who she is. But I also believe that at her core, who she is, how she was raised, everything shes ever done, from the very beginning of the very moment we meet her, shes always done what she felt was right for the Mandalorian people, as misguided as she may have been. And so, I think that she values life. And I also think that she values Dins life.

I think that she sees him as a warrior, I think she respects the warrior in him, and I think theres another part of her that you gotta love the kid. He pulls at your heartstrings. He literally shows up and you see Bos face go from hardened, angry, get the heck out of here face to, Oh no! [The] child is alone. Why is this kid by himself, what happened to him? and then she almost feels guilty because she set [Din] off on this path that she knew was dangerous, and was like Have fun!

We also have to acknowledge where Bo has come from. Bo says as much in episode 2 where she talks about how shes known many Jedi. We saw her with Obi-Wan, we know that she knows Jedi. We know that she knows Grogu is a Jedi. I think that she understands the importance of him.

The Mines of Mandalore revealed new pieces of lore on House Kryze, with Bo-Katan mentioning her sister Satine (pictured above) and her father, the latter of whom wed known nothing about beforehand. Sackhoff talked about how it felt learning these new bits of backstory and how she incorporated them into her performance. Apparently, shed known these things for quite a while through long discussions with Dave Filoni.

I love it. I think that every time a new piece comes out, it is imprinted on my mind as a piece of her. But at the same time, Dave Filoni is like, my encyclopedia, and I spend every second that I am with Dave listening and talking to him about Bo.

We will spend days just texting back and forth backstory about Bo, things that people may never see about her childhood, and how she felt about her father, and what Satine represented to her. All of things that I already know it all went into this season, everything that wed been talking about for years. Its a really interesting season.

Based on what we see in episode 2, you can tell that she is pained and that there is something more going on inside of her. I think she likes not being alone, she likes when shes with Din and Grogu, because everyone else has left her. And so, this is a character that is very broken, and if you know the Clone Wars and Rebels story, it makes even more sense why shes broken.

Finally, Bo-Katans hair and make-up looks a little different in The Mandalorian season 3, compared to her debut in season 2. Sackhoff revealed that the reason for this was down to how important it was for her to accurately portray her look from The Clone Wars last season. This time around, she decided to take a bit more ownership over her characters live action appearance, including changing her wig and adding more detailed facial features.

Well, she obviously has a hairdresser somewhere! Ive said this before, season 2 was really I dont think that they anticipated her being such a big part of this show. I think that the fan reaction to having Bo in this world was universally really interesting. Im not going to say loved, but she fit in the world for whatever reason. In season 2, we really wanted to just pay homage to the character in Clone Wars, and that was my goal.

My goal was to have her be instantaneously recognizable to people who knew her, but also not jarring and not take people out of the story. And I thought that we accomplished that in season 2. I know a lot of people had a problem with the wig. I personally didnt, I actually liked the wig. You know, it was like a helmet, thats what it looks like when you take your Mandalorian helmet off.

This season I wanted to take more ownership, and I wanted to acknowledge that she existed in animation before live action, but to fully take ownership of the character and make her my own. And that meant and Jon [Favreau] was the one that spearheaded this as well but we wanted her to look different this season.

Her wig is different, the scar is potentially a little bit more prominent this season, as are the freckles, because I wanted her to look the way I wanted her to look in live action, whereas last season I wanted her to look the way people that people expected her to look.

For the full interview, check out the deep dive by House of R into The Mines of Mandalore, where the interview with Katee Sackhoff is included after their own analysis.

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The Mind and Heart of Harriet Tubman: A Hearing Heart and An … – Lasentinel

March 16, 2023 | Author: admin

An ethical philosopher, author, holder of two PhDs, and professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach, Maulana Karenga (File Photo)

Nana Harriet Tubman possessed not only a hearing heart developed and defined by rightful attentiveness, emphatic understating and appropriate action as requested and required. She also, possessed an amazing mind, a deep thinking, strategic planning mind.

She is brilliant and audacious in her mastering the lay of the land and memorizing the maps and signs of the heavens, calculating the ways of the weather, the advantage and disadvantages of the changing seasons, and the accessibility, character and contours of the terrain.

She studied, developed and stayed abreast with current and changing knowledge of how to cross and conceal in fields and forest, and to move silently and successfully through the waterways and pathways central to her successful liberation project. And she determined and marked off places of concealment and camouflage for her people and possible sites of ambush by the enemy. She brought to bear her extensive study and experience to determine safe, unsafe and preferable routes to travel, places to rest and recover, and then move on before being detected.

For she knew she had to know the enemy as well as the terrain, his capacities and vulnerabilities. Thus, she measured and placed in her strategy of liberation the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy, using his arrogance and illusions of invincibility against him, compelling him to go home emptyhanded and defeated on every attempt to thwart her efforts, capture her and those she led to a retrieved selfhood and regained freedom, willed and won with their own hands, hearts and minds.

Nana Harriet has a reasoning mind that focuses on freedom, what its like, how to achieve it and how to maintain it in the midst of a predatory society that outlawed freedom and made laws against it for her and her people. She thinks deep about freedom, life, death and human rights and their interrelatedness in the liberation struggle. This is where she makes her classic declaration of reasoning about and commitment to waging a life-and-death struggle for freedom, indeed, to go free or die.

Thus, she defiantly and with audacious determination declared that I had reasoned it out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for no one should take me alive. I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted.

Thus, she had thought out, calculated the cost and consequences and was ready to pay the ultimate price for freedom, a collective freedom for herself and her people. And it is with this indestructible spirit that she affirms that she would fight for freedom as long as (her) strength lasts. And that she prayed to God to make (her) strong and able to fight . . . to the end.

And she did, not only to the end of the Holocaust of enslavement, but also to the end of her life in the interest of real freedom for her people. It was, as we would define it later, both a fight for freedom against domination, deprivation and degradation and a fight for freedom to be ourselves, develop in our own ways, flourish and come into the fullness of ourselves as persons and a people.

Clearly in her understanding of and approach to struggle, she was uncompromisingly committed to her our people. And she studied and learned the ways and wisdom of her people, felt and shared their suffering, their yearning for freedom and offered her life and death to end their suffering and aid them in achieving their freedom. For she is a woman of hearing and loving heart and thus puts her mind in motion to imagine strategies for struggle and the way and means to liberate her people. And her people felt and fostered her love for them.

Indeed, they reciprocated, shielding and sheltering her, and sharing with her their knowledge and concerns. Thus, they reaffirmed her faith in them and expanded the arc of concern and commitment of her hearing and loving heart. And she relied on them to be ready and resourceful in resistance and in the pursuit and practice of freedom. Indeed, without such reciprocal support and cooperative struggle, freedom and victory were and are not possible or even imaginable.

A constant soldier, herself, she recognized and treated the Black soldiers as fellow freedom fighters, but also with a hearing heart. She is advisor, nurse and healer for them, an advocate and organizer for them during and after the Civil War. She seeks justice for them at the federal and local levels. Her work is reparations in the expansive sense healing and repairing and remaking ourselves in the process and practice of repairing and remaking the society that wounds and savages us.

She cared for these fellow soldiers and freedom fighters in the field and later in the hospitals, washing their wounds, cooking their food, developing medicines, making the wounded as comfortable as one could, given the circumstances and total inadequacy and relative absence of resources and supplies. All bore witness to her kind and considerate attentiveness to all the soldiers, but especially to the sick and suffering.

And with her hearing heart and amazing mind, she found ways to the end of her life to take care of the poor and vulnerable among us, giving them her heart and mind, her time and effort, her material goods, and ultimately the wholeness of herself. May the joy she brought and the good she left last forever and may we honor her legacy by striving diligently to embody and live it.

Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition, http://www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org; http://www.MaulanaKarenga.org.

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To the average person, celebrities may appear as if they lead perfect, glamorous lives free from struggle. But this sense of otherness may wash away when a celebrity announces that theylike millions of other peopleare battling cancer.

For some people, a celebritys disclosure of a cancer diagnosis may be a reminder that celebrities are people too, with problems and struggles like everyone else. For people currently battling cancer or in remission, such an announcement can dredge up painful memories of their own experience with cancer or stoke fears of recurrence.

In recent months, many public figures have shared their cancer diagnoses. Tennis star Martina Navratilovarevealed earlier this year that she has throat and breast cancer. U.S. Representative Jaimie Raskin (DMd.) announced in December that he had been diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Cheers star Kirstie Alley died of colon cancer in December. And both President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden recently had basal cell carcinomas removed.

In some cases, celebrities can make a positive impact just by sharing details of a cancer screening. For example, actor Ryan Reynolds shared his colonoscopy on YouTube to encourage cancer screening and raise colon cancer awareness. Paris Hilton, whose grandmother died of breast cancer, shared that she had a full-body MRI scan in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and urged her 20.5 million Instagram followers to do the same.

Sharing cancer screening experiences not only normalizes the process but also has the potential to alleviate fears some people may have regarding such screenings.

But if you feel triggered or anxious reading headlines about celebrity cancer cases, youre not alone. Stacy Wentworth, MD, offers tips on navigating the terrain. Writing in Psychology Today, she advises, First, take a deep breath. Celebrities are humans just like the rest of us and live in broken bodies that can get cancer. Second, understand that just like any other person on social media or otherwise, they are likely not sharing the whole story.

Remember that celebrities have publicists to help curate their messages. Celebrities typically dont share the nitty-gritty details of their experiences, so their narratives often seem tidier and happier.

Wentworth also says taking the time to reflect on your own survivorshipreminding yourself of the time you spent in the hospital and the treatments you underwentcan help give you a sense of accomplishment. Finally, checking in with your oncology team for updates in the field or answers to questions you may have can be helpful.

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