#Io Zhuang

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Hi, would you tell me about your oc's?

SLAMS FIST ON TABLE

Absolutely.

Now, I have a lot and they’re all fairly…in depth so I’ll keep it short and simple, as well as only describe the three I’ve used recently *whisper coughs* however if there’s any more questions and inquiries please by all means ask!

Io Zhuang- A gumiho from a small sea side town and cleric to the Goddess Amaterasu, hard to tell by looking at her and her sunny self, but is also a Veteran of the Seventh Crusade War where the World fought back against the Seven Hells. Io is almost tooth achingly sweet and adores lending a helping hand (its how she got swept up in the whole War business anyways). Per most of her species, she has an insatiable wanderlust and loves to travel. Her desire to do good and her kindness has landed her in some not so savory positions, especially during war time because while being a good person she is extremely naive and believes that there is no true evil in the world and everyone can become a better person (which is a great mentality, just not against Demon Lords) She was the backbone and healer for a small elite team in the Crusade (She was my favorite Pathfinder character and kind’ve just evolved and became one of my most beloved OCs!)

Some songs that fit her well are: Gee- Girls Generation and I Burn by Casey Lee and Jeff Williams!

Aria Abel Rossi- My Overwatch OC! haling from Italy, a former Broadway actress and Burlesque dancer turned Bounty Hunter and Private Investigator after the Murder of one of her coworkers. One thing lead to another and she was eventually recruited into the Overwatch- and then Blackwatch team.  Rossi can tend to seem a bit self absorbed and over the top dramatic (Yes Rossi, there IS no I in team), but once that is looked past there is an empathetic, doting, family oriented woman. Since she pretty much grew up without heavy involvement of her family she sees the members of Overwatch as her family and is extremely loyal to them. (Betrayal is a big thing with her, so you bet once and if she figured out who Reaper was she would become obsessed with hunting him down)

Songs I associate with her are Wonderland by Caravan Palace, Million Dollar Man by Lana Del Rey and Tape Five- Bad boy, Good man

Ky Clayborne- Oh boy, she was one of my first OCs and equal parts my most developed and most under developed. She’s the run of the mill former Gang Leader turned Chaotic Good Vigilante/ Revolutionist. (Think Deadpool-esque. Also this is the part where I mention she’s a Werewolf, it sounds super lame but Im pretty damn proud how I developed them). She started turning her life around (sorta) after meeting one of the first loves of her life Christianna “Charms” Babineux, a peculiar creature known as an Akasha who are beings of pure life energy whom she helped discover her past in exchange for her freedom (At this point in her story she was in prison, her crimes eventually catching up to her). For awhile Ky and Charms were a package deal and when I roleplayed as them back in the day, I had to use both of them or I used only Charms and when I did use Ky she was just an accessory which is so tragic because now I like her a lot more than I do Charms. Ky never wanted to be a hero, she’s kinda the poster child for “Reluctant hero” due to getting swept into Charms’s hectic life, but ends up a better person because of it. Ky is abrasive, an adrenaline junkie, loud-mouthed and aggressive. Extremely passionate, confident and an iron willed. She’s quick to throw punches and smash glasses and has little time for sentiment. (But when she does oml watch out, she will fight tooth and nail for the things/people she cares about) Ky is prideful and very driven, but holds a lot of guilt for the crimes she’s committed. It takes her awhile to learn to stop running from her past and learn from it. She hates both the feeling of being tied down, and letting go. (When I was younger she was such an icon for me, I adored her confidence)

Songs I associate with her!

Adrenline- Shinedown, Written By Wolves- Not Afraid to Die, Brand New- Handcuffs and Five Finger Death Punch- Wrong Side of Heaven 

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Nhà cái uy tín MC876 hàng đầu để cá cược hiện nay

công nghệ thông tin đang ngày càng phát triển mạnh mẽ. Vì vậy Như vậy nên các trò chơi cá độ bóng đá uy tín, đổi thưởng trực tuyến cũng được ưa thích. MC876 là một trong những cái tên mới đang làm dậy sóng cộng đồng game Việt. Cùng theo dõi bài viết dưới đây để Nhận định chi tiết về siêu phẩm này nhé.

Tổng quan về nhà cái MC876

Nhà cái MC876 xuất hiện trên thị trường vào năm 2020. Đây là một nhà cái mới được có mặt trên thị trường bởi một doanh nghiệp giải trí trực tuyến uy tín hàng đầu tại châu Á. Đây là một sân chơi độc đáo với phổ quát Ưu điểm quyến rũ. Mặc dù ra mắt chưa lâu nhưng MC876 đã chóng vánh thu hút rộng rãi người chơi. Giao diện website được biểu lộ tiên tiến, phong cách. Các nôi dụng được hiển thị thông minh, tối ưu trải nghiệm các bạn. Cả website và app đều hoạt động rất lâu bền, sắp như chơi có hiện tượng giật lag.

Đây là một cổng game đổi thưởng chuyên nghiệp với giấy phép hoạt động hợp pháp tới trong khoảng Ủy ban cá độ Philippines. Cổng game luôn hoạt động với phương châm “khách hàng là thượng đế”. Và mỗi một quý khách đều được săn sóc với tiêu chuẩn cao nhất. Đặc thù dù các bạn đang dùng dòng máy gì cũng có thể trải nghiệm. Hiện nay, anh em có thể đăng ký và trải nghiệm nhà cái này trên website hoặc chuyên chở ứng dụng trên các hệ quản lý Android, IOS.

MC876 đang cộng tác với các đối tác phân phối game bậc nhất toàn cầu cộng với đấy là thế giới trò chơi phổ thông. Bạn có thể tham gia chơi game vào bất cứ khi nào đều được. Người chơi gặp khó khăn hay có vấn đề thắc mắc cũng sẽ được hỗ trợ 24/7.

toàn cầu trò chơi siêu quyến rũ của MC876

Trang cá cược MC876 trang bị cho mình một kho game đồ sộ với phần nhiều các thể loại cá cược, đổi thưởng siêu quyến rũ. Cụ thể như sau:

Xổ số

Xổ số hay chính là lô đề online có một sức lôi cuốn đặc biệt đối với những tay chơi cá cược. Hình thức này hiện đang thu hút hàng triệu lượt người tham dự. MC876 cũng sản xuất hình thức này với cực nhiều loại xổ số đặc trưng. Tại đây đang có 3 cổng đặt cược xổ số là:

Gameplay: Đây là loại xổ số đặc trưng. Người chơi có thể đặt cược rộng rãi loại hình xổ số khác nhau tại đây với tỷ lệ ăn cao nhất thị phần.

AE: các bạn có thể tậu xổ số của Trung Quốc hoặc Thái Lan với nhiều cổng đặt tương ứng với các kênh xổ số khác nhau. Đối với thị phần Trung Quốc có thể chọn xổ số trực tuyến, PK10 hoặc là xổ số Fast. Thị phần Thái thì sắm xổ số của chính phủ.

GW: Người chơi có thể chọn lọc đánh xổ số hot, số đề Việt Nam, số đề Thái hoặc xổ số chứng khoán tại cửa này.

Game bài 3D

toàn cầu game bài siêu quyến rũ với phổ thông các trò chơi tới trong khoảng phổ quát nhà phát hành không giống nhau. Chúng được phân chia như sau:

CQ9 Game bài 3D: Texas Cowboy, Black Jack, Five – Card Poker, Rob Banker Of Bull, Sic Bo, Two People Mahjong, Tongbi Cattle, Happy MahJong, Baccarat, Fun Poker, Only One,….

JDB game bài 3D gồm có các sản phẩm Tong bi Liu Niu, Qiang Zhuang Liu Niu, QZ Niu Niu.

AE Gaming: Thai Fish Prawn Crab, Max Keno, Sic Bo, Thai Hi Lo, Triple Chance, Fan Tan Classic, Tài Xỉu, Vietnam Fish Prawn Crab – Bầu Cua, Card Matka, Jhandi Munda, Roulette châu Âu,…

ADEBA: Tài Xỉu Thái 2, Belangkai 2, Long Hổ hai, Roulette Trái Cây, Keno, Bầu Cua, Tài Xỉu King Master, Triple Chance Roulette, Tôm Cua Cá 2,…

Micro Gaming: Hi Lo Xúc Xắc, Hi Li Năm số, BlackJack kiểu Âu, Baccarat Deluxe, Hi Lo Thẻ

Casino Online

Casino online hiệp tác với phổ biến sảnh chơi là AE Sexy Casino, SA Casino, DG Casino, AG Casino, All Bet Casino, BBin Casino, MG Casino. Live Casino của MC876 có đến hàng trăng dealer chuyên nghiệp đã được đào tạo bài bản tại các sòng bài thực tiễn. Cùng với đấy là thiết bị tân tiến và hiện đại, hỗ trợ phương pháp chuyên nghiệp. Người chơi sẽ có những trải nghiệm rất tuyệt vời tại đây.

Các trò chơi khác

Game Slot nổ hũ siêu quyến rũ với kho trò chơi khổng lồ. Người chơi sẽ ko bao giờ nhận thấy nhàm chán. Các bạn có thể lựa chọn bất kỳ tựa game nào mà mình ưa chuộng nhất. Một số sảnh game tiêu biểu như:

King Maker

V8 Poker

Thêm vào đó, còn có các sảnh bắn cá, đá gà, đua ngựa… Sự phổ thông này là một điểm dị biệt giữa MC876 so với các nhà cái khác. Điều này giúp anh em có rộng rãi sự tuyển lựa và trải nghiệm thú vị lúc cá cược tại nhà cái này.

Cá cược thể thao

Hiện tại thì MC876 đang phân phối cá cược thể thao với tỷ giá cao nhất hiện nay trên thị trường. Nhiều các giải đấu, kèo chấp châu Á, kèo Tài Xỉu,….Ngoài ra bạn còn được trải nghiệm các chương trình livestream ảo dễ dàng tham dự cá cược thú vị. Nhà cái mới nhất 2020 đang cung cấp 4 sảnh cá cược thể thao đấy là BBin, Saba, SBOBET và UG.

Lời kết

Trên đây là một vài thông tin giới thiệu về MC876 và kho trò chơi độc đáo, thú vị của nhà cái. Mong rằng san sớt của trangcacuoctop sẽ giúp bạn hiểu rõ hơn về nhà cái này. Còn lừng khừng gì nữa mà không nhanh tay đăng ký ngay cho mình một account tại MC876 để hưởng thụ toàn cầu game khổng lồ.

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UN NUOVA APP SALVA I DIALETTI IN VIA D’ESTINZIONE

Uno strumento digitale per preservare le lingue indigene che rischiano di scomparire. Si chiama Woolaroo ed è una piattaforma open source raggiungibile sia dall’app Arts & Culture di Google (per iOS e Android), sia direttamente sul web.

È sufficiente inquadrare con la fotocamera un oggetto per avere la traduzione e la pronuncia corretta in una delle lingue o dei dialetti supportati. Attualmente le lingue a rischio estinzione che Woolaroo si propone di preservare dall’oblio sono 10: yugambeh, idioma aborigeno degli Stati australiani del Queensland e del Nuovo Galles del Sud; berbero, parlato nell’Africa mediterranea, principalmente in Marocco e in Algeria; maori, lingua dell’omonimo gruppo indigeno polinesiano, nawat, derivante dall’azteco e oggi diffuso principalmente a El Salvador; yang zhuang della regione cinese del Guangxi; creolo francese della Louisiana; rapanui dell’Isola di Pasqua; yiddish, utilizzato dagli ebrei aschenaziti dell’Europa Centrale e Orientale. Infine, due lingue parlate nella nostra penisola: il dialetto siciliano e il greco-calabro, ancora diffuso in alcuni paesi della Calabria meridionale. Per inserirle nel database Google ha collaborato con la Cademia Siciliana e con l’Associazione Ellenofona Jalò tu Vua.

In attesa di inserire altri idiomi nella piattaforma, è possibile per chi conosce le lingue supportate implementare il vocabolario esistente, aggiungendo o modificando parole e pronunce.

Secondo l’Atlante delle lingue del mondo in pericolo a cura dell’Unesco, il 43% delle oltre 6 mila lingue parlate nel mondo sarebbe a rischio di sparire per sempre. Wolaroo va controcorrente: attraverso uno strumento di apprendimento automatico interattivo punta a salvaguardare la lingua, l’identità e il patrimonio culturale di un popolo.

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Se il 2020 vi è sembrato un anno troppo assurdo, sappiate che secondo uno studio scientifico c'è il 50% di possibilità che si sia trattato semplicemente di un bug di Matrix.

Nel leggendario film con Keanu Reeves l'umanità è inconsapevolmente intrappolata all'interno di una realtà digitale creata da macchine intelligenti affinché queste possano utilizzare i corpi umani come fonte di energia: anche se questa premessa suona decisamente come quella di un'opera di finzione, alcuni pensano che stiamo davvero vivendo in una simulazione e secondo alcuni scienziati da oggi c'è una probabilità del 50% che sia vero.

In un nuovo rapporto di Scientific American, viene dichiarato che le probabilità di vivere o meno in una simulazione della realtà anziché in nella realtà stessa potrebbero ridursi a quelle del lancio di una moneta. Le probabilità effettive, secondo il rapporto, scendono da 50.222222 a 49.777778. I calcoli sono basati sul documento del filosofo Nick Bostrom pubblicato nel 2003 "Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?", che offre tre possibilità.

"Io sostengo che almeno una delle seguenti affermazioni sia vera", dice Bostrom nel suo articolo. "(1): è molto probabile che la specie umana si estingua prima di raggiungere lo stadio 'postumano'; (2): è estremamente improbabile che qualsiasi civiltà postumana esegua un numero significativo di simulazioni della sua storia evolutiva (o delle sue variazioni); (3 ): quasi certamente stiamo vivendo nella simulazione di un computer. Ne consegue che la convinzione che ci sia una possibilità significativa che un giorno diventeremo postumani che eseguono simulazioni di antenati è falsa, a meno che non stiamo attualmente vivendo in una simulazione".

L'idea di realtà simulata non è nuova come si potrebbe pensare, con le sue radici che risalgono all'allegoria della caverna di Platone e al sogno della farfalla di Zhuang Zhou. La cosa interessante del concetto di realtà simulata nella teoria di Bostrom è che si concentra sulla potenza di calcolo e l'idea che esista un computer abbastanza potente da creare la nostra intera esistenza, così come l'idea che se questo computer esistesse e noi stessimo vivendo in una simulazione, non saremmo mai in grado di rendercene conto.

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How Microsoft rethought its approach to email

Two years ago, Microsoft made a massive shift in the way it approached the email market. In January 2015, the company launched Outlook for iOS and Android, free professional-grade email apps for two platforms that Microsoft previously underserved in that regard.

Outlook for iOS and its Android sibling were special, because they supported Gmail, Yahoo and iCloud email, in addition to Microsoft’s Outlook.com, Office 365 and Exchange email offerings. While connecting to third party email providers isn't new for Outlook, offering one-click support for different email providers at launch sent a message that this wouldn't be locked to the Microsoft ecosystem.

The apps sported trendy features like the ability to archive messages or schedule them to reappear in a user’s inbox with the swipe of a finger. Outlook’s marquee functionality on mobile was a Focused Inbox that divided a user’s incoming messages by whether or not the app thought they were important — and it worked shockingly well.

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This was a massive divergence from Microsoft’s past approach to offering email apps on platforms that competed with Windows. On iOS and Android, the only apps that bore the Outlook name prior to that launch were bare-bones Outlook Web Access clients. What wasn’t clear at the time was that the launch of Outlook mobile presaged massive changes for Microsoft’s whole email group.

Over the past few years, the Outlook team has focused on a new strategy that revolves around creating a cohesive experience that spans a user’s devices. Staying competitive in the email market is important for Microsoft because it’s facing competition from the likes of G Suite, with its machine-learning enhanced Inbox offering.

“Email has continued to be an integral part of business communications even in the day of messaging and social media,” Patrick Moorhead, a principal analyst with Moor Insights and Strategy, said in an email. “Many companies, including Google, are busy making improvements to email with projects like 'Inbox' and it’s important Microsoft stay near the cutting edge of it. They don’t have to lead in it, they just can’t be too far behind.”

Here’s how they got there.

Enter Acompli

Microsoft wasn’t starting from scratch with the new Outlook mobile apps. At launch, they were re-skinned versions and slightly modified versions of Acompli, a mobile email app that Microsoft acquired in late 2014. The acquisition was spearheaded by Executive Vice President Qi Lu, who was in charge of Microsoft’s Applications and Services Group.

Bringing Acompli in to launch a version of Outlook that would run on iOS and Android was in line with Microsoft’s overall strategy under CEO Satya Nadella, who rose to the top job slightly less than a year before the deal was done. Rather than abandon mobile operating systems that competed with Windows Phone, he pushed the company to embrace other computing platforms.

In addition to the Acompli app, Microsoft also got the team behind it. Javier Soltero, who was the startup’s CEO, was put in charge of Outlook's mobile apps following the acquisition. His co-founders, JJ Zhuang and Kevin Henrikson, both veterans of email service Zimbra, took up software architect roles inside Microsoft. Two years on, the three of them are all still at Microsoft, which is a rarity for acquisitions in the tech industry.

Acquiring Acompli gave Microsoft access to new real estate on users’ phones that the company didn’t have a play for previously, as well as a team that could help further its ambitions, according to Satish Dharmaraj, a managing director at Redpoint Ventures. Dharmaraj was instrumental in putting the Acompli team together. He introduced the three men who would go on to be co-founders, and led the only round of fundraising that the company took on.

“This is a team that knows how to disrupt and innovate and be more entrepreneurial, which I think is what Microsoft wanted, as they were looking to turn the corner and find their way back to the top of the innovation chain,” Dharmaraj said. “They did a lot of different moves, and this is just one small aspect of that.”

Scott Stiles, a 26-year Microsoft veteran who has been on the Outlook team for the past five years, said that he didn’t quite understand the importance of acquiring Acompli at first, but said that it has been a boon to the tech titan.

“From my perspective at least, it accelerated us by a year or two in terms of really having a competitive Outlook on those other platforms,” he said.

In addition to Acompli, Microsoft went on a spree of acquisitions focused on personal mobile productivity. The company picked up the makers of popular calendar app Sunrise in February 2015, and the company behind task manager Wunderlist in June 2015. Both groups have since been brought into the Outlook organization.

The Acompli team also brought a competitive perspective born from its heritage in the mobile app market. Soltero pointed out that getting users to install a new mobile email app is a high-friction problem, since Apple and Google both ship good clients of their own built into Android and iOS.

He’s working to imbue that same ethos across Outlook and the rest of Microsoft Office, as part of the strategy role he was promoted to in November of last year. Although IT departments, rather than individual users, often make the decision whether or not to adopt Outlook and other apps, Soltero said that “you can’t use that as an excuse to get lazy.”

Focusing on user experience seems to be working so far. The Outlook mobile app is consistently within the top 100 most downloaded productivity apps in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store worldwide. It often ranks among the top 10 most downloaded productivity apps in markets like the U.S., U.K. and France. Microsoft says that the app has over 40 million active users across iOS and Android.

Simplification and unification

One of the biggest projects over the past two years has been the unification of five different Outlook teams into a single group with a unified perspective. Stiles said that looking back, it’s possible to think of Microsoft bringing together the Outlook apps as a series of acquisitions, since they were often coming from different teams with different design languages.

“You have this team [in San Francisco] and elsewhere, the mobile team, that is able to move very quickly and has a very clear sense of direction and not as many expectations, frankly,” Soltero said. “And then you have these other teams that have been servicing hundreds of millions of users already, and have different versions and so forth.”

The teams have united under a banner of what they call “all-day use,” the idea that users should have an Outlook app available to them, no matter what device they use. The teams have also been working on building features that unify functionality across platforms, while making sure that each app best serves the platform that it’s built for.

“We’ve really shifted our focus to delivering experiences that sing across all the apps at once,” Stiles said. “We’ve delivered half a dozen features across all the apps in the span of a couple years, where if you were to rewind a decade before that, you’d see significant inconsistency across the platforms in terms of feature set.”

One of the things Outlook mobile has taught Microsoft is the importance of simplicity and approachability. Stiles said that mobile design sensibilities have been important in helping the company try to rework some of its desktop apps. That work has largely been subtle for the time being, with small additions like the addition of an Archive button that matches the functionality on the Outlook mobile app.

“I think we’ve really benefited from bringing some design talent on board from the mobile space,” Stiles said. “And it’s not just Acompli, we’ve got folks from around the company, and from outside the company, who have come in with deep mobile design sensibilities, and we’ve seen those be pretty powerful change agents as we look to modernize and simplify our PC apps.”

Soltero is so committed to ensuring the simplicity of the Outlook experience, he has even excluded one of his beloved features from the app. Acompli had a setting that let users perform different actions on an email address in their mailbox based on how far they swiped it over from one side or another in an inbox.

For example, swiping a message slightly right would archive it, while swiping further would delete it. While Outlook supports swipe-based filing, users can only assign one function to a swipe to the left or the right. While Soltero misses the two-stage swipe, he doesn’t see it returning to Outlook anytime soon.

He said it would be inconsistent of him to argue for the two-stage swipe, a complicated optional behavior, while at the same time pushing for increased simplicity.

The emphasis on user experience extends to the Outlook team’s work with other groups inside Microsoft. For example, the team behind the company’s Enterprise Management Suite and Intune mobile application management software wanted to display a “managed by Intune” label inside Outlook. Soltero argued that's not something users want to or need to know about, even if a company is paying to use mobile app management. The two teams sat down, and the Outlook team talked the Intune team into leaving it out.

Soltero said that while he wants Outlook to fit in well with business IT administrators, he doesn’t want that to hurt users.

“Too often, the desire for control and manageability and IT is done at the expense of the user and at the expense of the experience,” he said. “And it wasn’t an easy thing — we had to push back internally as we were evolving the products, both the [Enterprise Management Suite] stuff as well as the Outlook client and even the other Office 365 apps that use EMS — to make it known that it is important that the user isn’t punished for working at a company that wants security and wants manageability on their phones.” 

As part of the unification project, Stiles said that the Outlook team is working on getting all of its apps running on the same core code, to help accelerate future feature development.

“That’s going to allow us to innovate faster, to share a ton of technology and a ton of learning in the service,” he said. “Architecturally, that’s actually a learning that we brought from the mobile application space, and we’re mapping to the desktop applications.”

Future features

The team’s focus on building Outlook for all-day use will carry into future feature development for its many apps. Stiles said that users shouldn’t think of one Outlook app as the canonical home of new functionality that other apps will follow.

For example, Microsoft recently announced that Outlook for Mac is getting native support for Office 365 Groups, something that the Windows app had for quite some time. Meanwhile, the desktop apps recently received the mobile apps’ Focused inbox feature.

Stiles said that users should expect the Outlook desktop apps to change over the next 12-18 months as the team works to tweak their designs toward greater simplicity.

“You’re going to see them be more approachable,” Stiles said. “You’re going to see them visually be a bit simpler without losing any of the power, but really start taking the approach of honing the application for the core scenarios of that app.”

On the mobile side, Microsoft recently launched support for add-ins, which allow third-party developers to integrate their applications with Outlook, so users can connect content from other systems to their mobile email.

Source: pcworld

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