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Sun Dawei - Harmony

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Monkey Magic: Adventure in Journey to the West (2018) 大闹西游

Director: Ma Xihai Screenwriter: Zhang Chen Starring : Sun Ye / Shen Dawei / Tao Dian / Liu Beichen Genre: Comedy / Animation / Adventure Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2018-09-22 (Mainland China) Duration: 92 minutes Also known as: Monkey Magic / Adventure in Journey to the West IMDb: tt10443316 Type: Crossover

Summary:

The toy Sun Wuyuan thinks he is the Monkey King, but he is ridiculed in the toy world because he cannot hold out the golden hoop. By chance, Sun Wuyuan entered the world of Journey to the West alone, and met Sun Wukong who was driven back to Flower Fruit Mountain. Sun Wuyuan, who wanted the golden hoop, stalked him, and Sun Wukong reluctantly put forward a condition: Sun Wuyuan would become his teacher, and after he completed his studies, he would give him the golden hoop. Unexpectedly, the Bull Demon King secretly instigated Wuyuan to steal the golden hoop and snatched it away. Wuyuan, who hurriedly fled back to the toy world, discovered that the world has been ruled by cows...

Source: https://mov-10.chinesemov.com/2018/Adventure-in-Journey-to-the-West

Link: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/adventures-in-journey-to-the-west/umc.cmc.31ikcyt6iolms0bcwnpri588g

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Author(s): Shiv Ram Dubey, Satish Kumar Singh

Pages: 4851 - 4867

2) Data-Driven Technology Applications in Planning, Demand-Side Management, and Cybersecurity for Smart Household Community

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3) A Human-in-the-Middle Attack Against Object Detection Systems

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4) Test-Time Adaptation for Nighttime Color-Thermal Semantic Segmentation

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5) Adaptive Decentralized Policies With Attention for Large-Scale Multiagent Environments

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6) CS-Mixer: A Cross-Scale Vision Multilayer Perceptron With Spatial–Channel Mixing

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7) Hedge-Embedded Linguistic Fuzzy Neural Networks for Systems Identification and Control

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8) A Robust Deep-Learning Model to Detect Major Depressive Disorder Utilizing EEG Signals

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Pages: 4938 - 4947

9) Adaptive Prescribed-Time Neural Control of Nonlinear Systems via Dynamic Surface Technique

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10) GOAL: Generalized Jointly Sparse Linear Discriminant Regression for Feature Extraction

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11) Redefining Real-Time Road Quality Analysis With Vision Transformers on Edge Devices

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12) Bidirectional Influence and Interaction for Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

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13) Scalable Learning for Multiagent Route Planning: Adapting to Diverse Task Scales

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14) Nonlinear Regression With Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks Under Missing Data

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15) Adjusting Logit in Gaussian Form for Long-Tailed Visual Recognition

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16) CNN-Based Metrics for Performance Evaluation of Generative Adversarial Networks

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Pages: 5050 - 5063

18) Selective Depth Attention Networks for Adaptive Multiscale Feature Representation

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Pages: 5064 - 5074

19) ConvBLS: An Effective and Efficient Incremental Convolutional Broad Learning System Combining Deep and Broad Representations

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Pages: 5075 - 5089

20) Observer-Based Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Singular Systems with Nonlinear Perturbation and Actuator Saturation

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Pages: 5090 - 5099

21) Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning With Augmentation Graph

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22) Enclose and Track a Target of Mobile Robot With Motion and Field of View Constraints Based on Relative Position Measurement

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23) Interacting Multiple Model Framework for Incipient Diagnosis of Interturn Faults in Induction Motors

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Sun Shucai’s death in Red Cliff

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The Throne of Girl: Special countdown photo for Chinese server

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Elle Weibo update 211203

On his 30th birthday, @X玖少年团肖战DAYTOY posted a Weibo with a picture of him climbing in profile.

It was August, and he filmed "Yu Gu Yao" in Alxa League. When he climbed up, the sun just fell to the edge of the horizon, and the clouds were still visible. He climbed up, thinking that he would stand on the top of a narrow mountain, but he was greeted by a plain with horses running. "At that time, I felt that the whole world was open." "What about standing at thirty, I am only thirty." He said it again in the interview. He has no age anxiety. @Nicole在ELLE

Photography: @Pillfanfan

Styling: @CloeDong

Editor: JY, Jiawei

Makeup/Hairstyle: Zhang Qingjun

Interview/Writer: Wu Qiu

Fine Arts: Lily & 李苑 (so far so good studio)

Producer: Nina Chen

Photography Assistant: Dawei

Fashion Assistant: Fenella, Zhou Yanyan

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False Information

They had anticipated the attack for themselves, they did not think Declan Rasmussen, their enemy, would attack the Kingdom of Fife. One of their own, Riker “Snow” Winters had been on the commandeered Submarine and decided to adjust his part of the plan - with no help from the rest of his friends.

also on Ao3!

Basis: Something I wrote based on a dream I had, decided to place it in Gloryhammer because it was easy enough to slot in Fandom: Gloryhammer Characters: OCs of my own (Riker “Snow” Winters, Declan Rasmussen) and mentioned ones from @thedarkmetallady (Dawei). Grand Master Proletius, Angus McFife the XIII, Ralathor, The Hootsman Words: 3280

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“We were fed false information, I can’t let him destroy Fife and kill so many innocents. I have to adjust the plan and stop the ship before it crashes into the citadel, you guys won't be able to make it in time. I’ll try to get out alive, but if I don’t, see you guys on the other side. Dawei, I love you.”

                                                ��     ***

The cloaked figure rushed through the dark metal corridors of the space Submarine as he made his way to engineering to force the ship out of warp. It was supposed to go to the Keep, at least, that was the information they got and he found out that it was false. This ship is going to warp into the Citadel of Dundee located in Fife with millions of civilians; they would be wiped out. He had no connection with Fife, but he would not sit back and be teleported out as millions die when he could have prevented it or at least try. If it had been going to the Keep, it would have been easier to force it to crash, no one lived there except for himself and his group, but they had also been ready for it.

He had made a few more turns which left some people in the hallways confused, yet he did not care as he had been perfectly concealed. He needed to be hidden until he had gotten to the warp room, he had to drop the ship out of warp now, he refused to let people die because Declan had chosen to attack a place he had no prior plans to attack before. He had gotten to the door he needed and it had slid open to allow him entrance.

One of the workers had approached him with concern, “Excuse me si-!” They were silenced with a single knife to the throat and the others that had also come up to stop him had also been dealt with in the same way.

The mysterious cloaked figure had gone straight to the big reactor in the middle of the room, had reached out and pulled the emergency lever to drop them out of warp. He had snatched his hand back suddenly as a laser blast hit the consol where his hand would have been; he dodged another shot, but it had grazed his upper arm and brought out a hiss in pain. The figure then took off his cloak and had thrown it at the shooter to distract them as he drew out metal claws and had killed them. After the shooter had gone down, the figure that was previously cloaked had resumed his original task and had pulled the lever which caused the ship to lurch as it dropped from the warp.

The figure that everyone on board now knew as Riker Winters of the Warriors sprinted through the corridors as he made his way to the bridge, to change the direction of the ship away from Fife. Anyone that had stood in his way was taken out by metal claws. Riker then barged into the chaotic bridge, voices clamoured in a cacophony as they tried to work out why they had dropped out of warp prematurely as the Citadel of Dundee got closer. Everyone on the bridge had been too occupied to notice Riker had retired their helmsman and steered the ship up and away from Dundee.

Riker had to duck a spell thrown from Declan who was in the head chair near the doors of the bridge, he had then vaulted over the driver panels to take cover as Declan fired more spells to get rid of the white-haired Warrior.

“Get out of here, I’ll join you as soon as I rid ourselves of this white rat and finish the plan!” Declan ordered his underlings. He then dived for the panels to change them but had been stopped by Riker tackling him.

Declan and Riker fought each other as the ship groaned and tipped underneath them, as mages teleported away with prepared teleports, as the computer said something about the bridge doors being locked down. One fought to get to the panels to change the ship’s direction again while the other fought to buy time for Fife and himself. They paid no mind to anything else as they traded blows with each other. The ship groaned beneath and around them as it struggled to fight the planet’s gravity, cleary strained from its sudden entrance into said gravity as it lumbered across the sky. One of the other consoles in the bridge had burst into flames near the pair, and Riker took the chance and tackled Declan into it back first.

Declan screamed out in pain as he was slammed into the console and the flames began to burn past his clothes as his nemesis kept him against the burning console. “Get off me, Winters!” he screamed as he tried to push Riker off.

Riker kept his grip on Declan, his arm had been in the path of the flames and he bit back the pain from it. “No, I will not, we will both stay on this ship until it goes down or one of us falls,” he threatened his estranged cousin.

A voice sounded through the computer’s communication that was familiar to Riker but not to Declan. “ -static- Sno- Snow- static- they -bzzzt- won- can’t get you - bbZzZTT- too much -zzZZZZttt- interference -static-.” The voice then stopped as it if it had been cut off.

A sizeable explosion rocked the ship suddenly just after the voice had finished and thrown the pair away from the console on fire, across the polished floor littered with rubble. They both stood up with effort just as more explosions rumbled through and tossed them around some more.

“Fuck you, Riker!” Declan screamed and launched himself at Riker and slammed him into the front consoles hard.

The pair fought themselves as much as they did their balance on the failing ship when they both noticed that the mountainside had gotten closer and much quicker than it had been. Both abandoned their fight and immediately scrambled for any sort of cover on the wrecked bridge except for Declan, who tried to cast his prepared teleport to save himself and leave Riker on the ship.

The white-haired warrior had tackled his estranged cousin just as the bow of the ship made hard contact with the mountainside and collapsed in on itself onto the pair in it. After its descent was stopped, it had begun to roll down the mountainside, falling apart before it rested at the foot of the mountain.

A small flock of Crail’s giant eagles landed near the wreckage.

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Grand Master Proletius, lead commander of the Space Knights of Crail had been enjoying that day, it was rather nice. The sun had been shining bright overhead and he was no longer swamped with paperwork from his help with the newly crowned king: Angus McFife the thirteenth. Yep, everything had gone smoothly and now he simply enjoyed the nice day in the courtyard of the large Citadel.

The Mysterious Hermit of Cowdenbeath, Ralathor had also chilled with him to simply enjoy the day since he too had nothing on that day.

“Odd to have a nice day, isn’t it?” Proletius said to his mysterious friend as they sat around on the benches.

The hooded hermit simply gave a small nod. “It is a nice change,” he agreed, he had spoken quietly, but the Grand Master could still hear him.

They spoke too soon, for far above the Citadel of Dundee a submarine had appeared right out of warp. Proletius and Ralathor already left the courtyard when the sub had appeared, they had sprinted through the halls just when the shock of the submarine came with a loud CRASH and shattered some windows. The Citadel had been thrown into chaos at this sudden attack.

Proletius had issued orders to the Space Knights to check on the eagles, evacuate the civilians to another location as well as themselves. Ralathor remained by the Grand Master’s side as they rushed through the Citadel as the older knight issued the orders in an attempt to get a handle on the chaos that they were thrown in.

“It was prematurely dropped out of warp,” Ralathor had said next to Proletius as they made their way to the Giant Eagles aviary.

Proletius looked at his friend. “What?” he asked, not because he did not hear him but because he did not consider that the ship had been dropped out of warp.

“Someone sabotaged the ship to drop out of warp prematurely. Whoever aimed to attack us, I know the tactic they aimed for and someone had stopped them,” he expanded.

The shadow of the submarine had passed over the city after it seemed to get forced up and to the right. Whoever had commandeered the ship from the attackers prevented it from crashing as well by steering it away from the city. It had rumbled harmlessly overhead and over the fields at a rather brisk pace but began to slow down as it fought the gravity.

Proletius and Ralathor both quickened their pace. “Ralathor, what’s the chance our mysterious saviour lives?” Proletius asked as they weaved through the streets crowded with panicked citizens as King Angus and the Hootsman organised the evacuation.

“Depending on if they’re engaging with our equally mysterious attackers, about half -” A loud pop sounded above them as one of the thrusters couldn’t keep up with the strain of the atmosphere. “-but dropping significantly,” he finished calmly.

They managed to get to the aviary with the giant eagles who were stunned from the shock and after they had helped them recover, the Space Knights of Crail and the Grand Master hopped on their large feathery companions and left in pursuit of the large Submarine. Ralathor had buddied up with Proletius on Farcry.

The Space Knights began to gain on the rather slow-moving ship as it strained against the gravity of the planet. Proletius then turned to Ralathor, “Can you try to slow the submarine down?” he asked with a raised voice over the wind.

The hermit nodded and began to cast a spell then stopped. “Oh dear…” he muttered and stopped his cast.

“What-,” A massive series of explosions rippled across the ship’s hull and propelled the bow of the ship forward, towards the mountainside it had been slowly rumbling towards beforehand. The rest of the Space Knights stalled on their eagles as they watched the front of ship ram into the mountain and began to roll down it, pieces then began to fall off and onto the mountain.

Proletius and Farcry did not stall and still flew towards the bow that was now descending the mountain. “Chances now?” he asked the Hermit but he knew that they would be low if not non-existent.

“If they were pinned at the moment of contact against the mountain, low, but if they were not…” the hermit trailed off since he did not need to tell the Grand Master what would happen if he was not pinned.

Proletius knew; if their saviour had been pinned under rubble before the ship tumbled, they would have had some chance at survival, but if they were not pinned, then the Grand Master would be retrieving a corpse.

The ship stopped at the base of the mountain, now a crumpled shell as the Grand Master and medical eagles approached and landed. With Ralathor’s help, they managed to get into the bridge and searched for survivors or bodies.

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They had found one survivor in the wreckage, he was in critical condition so they had to get him to Dundee’s infirmary as soon as possible to try and save him. They had no idea if he was the attacker or the saviour of Fife, but Ralathor managed to salvage the submarine’s security tapes and had looked at them in private. The Grand Master had been pacing outside the infirmary for news on the white-haired man they had found, for news from Ralathor, or news from Angus and Hootsman. The latter two had already started to bring the citizens they had evacuated back into the city.

The attack had come from thin air and the Space Knights had found no follow up attack, so went to help their King and the Hootsman bring the civilians back into the city.

King Angus and the Hootsman had been the first to return and found Proletius outside the infirmary. “Proletius, old friend, the citizens are back into their homes and the Space Knights and the Questlords had taken it upon themselves to start clearing out the wreckage of both halves of the fallen submarine. Any word on our mysterious man’s status or his involvement?” the Hootsman asked.

Proletius shook his head. “No, Ralathor is still looking at the tapes and our mystery man is still with the healers; are you sure that every citizen is back home safe?” he asked.

Angus nodded. “Yeah, though the mood is tense now and I’m not sure what to say. They’ll want answers, this was sudden,” he had said to his friends.

“Think of a speech after we get answers ourselves,” Proletius advised.

“Speaking of answers, I have some,” Ralathor said as he appeared near the group and spooked the Hootsman.

“Well?” Proletius prompted, eager to hear.

“Long watch through security footage short, our mysterious survivor is our saviour and his name is Riker Winters. Our attacker was Declan and either died in the bridge where we dug up Riker, or he had managed to cast his prepared teleport and got away. Hard to tell,” Ralathor answered a bit vaguely.

“Anything else?” the Grand Master asked. There was always more with the Hermit involved since he had been quite thorough.

“He's a part of a group that Declan referred to simply as the 'Warriors' and from what I could glean was that the Warriors got information that Declan was going to attack their base, they sent an inside man to drop the ship out of warp the same way we witnessed and that inside man found out that they were fed false information.”

“And he simply adjusted the previous plan with no help from his group but it was clear from his actions that he didn't simply want this to happen,” Angus theorised based on the evidence that had been given to him.

The Hootsman wondered something. “Why would Declan attack Fife? I have no idea who that is, name rings no bells.”

“I do not recognise the name either, neither of them in fact,” Proletius agreed.

“Declan wished to remove us from the possibility of being allies with the Warriors and those he called the Griffins. No doubt he recognised that if they were to befriend the kingdom that took down Zargothrax many times, he would have a hard time destroying the Warriors.”

Angus shrugged. “Well, let's go find them and ally with them,” he said since that made sense, the sudden yet failed attack had pushed their hand.

Proletius turned to the young king. “You will stay here and settle the nerves of the people, I will go on Farcry and look for the Warriors, I was one of the ones to pull their friend out of the smouldering wreckage,” he ordered.

The boy-king pouted. “I suppose that you and Farcry would be quicker, I did say that I need answers to tell the people, so okay. But if you're a week late, I am coming after you,” he threatened with a grin.

The older knight gave a small chuckle, “That’s fair. But I also don’t know how long it’d take to find them. Give me at least a week minimum and two weeks maximum.”

“Alright, a day more and I’m coming after you. With my hammer. Hoots, Ralathor, what are you two going to do?” Angus had asked his friends.

“I’m going to head back to the wreckage of the bridge and try to find any trace of Declan,” the Hootsman answered with a casual shrug.

“I will go back to the tapes and organise them into a video for our hopefully new friends, since they’d probably have an interest in seeing what happened,” the Hermit answered softly.

“What about Riker?” Angus asked.

“No point chilling, it’s already been three hours, the healers will be done if he’s stable or if he dies, but I’ll let them know to report to you about his status,” Proletius answered.

That settled the king’s nerves and he nodded. “Alright, I’m going to make a speech to settle everyone’s nerves, see you all later,” he said and walked off down the corridor. The others too parted ways, Hootsman to the wreckage of the bridge, Ralathor back to his hermit hole in Cowdenbeath and Proletius went to prepare for his trip after he had told the healers to inform the King of Riker’s status.

It had taken Proletius several hours to get himself and Farcry ready for their long trip, it was late at night when the Grand Master was ready. He gazed at the large eagle and had been making a mental checklist to make sure that he had everything.

“There’s more information that you should know that would make your search faster. Hopefully,” a small voice said behind him.

Proletius turned to face Ralathor, not phased at his sudden appearance. “And what information is that?”

“The Winters and Declan are familiar to me. Declan’s full name is Declan Rasmussen, a mage that I had been… Watching. The Winters are an ancient family that I thought was extinct, the Rasmussens being traitors of the Winters and sought to wipe them out and establish themselves as the true family. I know nothing of the Warriors, but one of the Winters are apart of them, so here’s a map of locations that the Rasmussens hit but were mysteriously pushed back,” Ralathor shoved a map into Proletius’s hands before he had continued, “ask around there for the Warriors, maybe someone around there knows their whereabouts, allude to who you are, pique their interest.” He finished and gazed at Proletius.

“Pique their interest enough to come searching for me since they know their guy was at Fife, got it. And I’ll be careful about alluding to whether or not we have Riker, don’t want the Rasmussens sneaking in and killing our saviour,” the Grand Master nodded. “Anything else?”

Ralathor held up his hand, palm up. “The assembled recordings. I figured that our hopefully new friends would appreciate a copy, so I made one.” A small drive sat in the Hermit’s hand.

Proletius took the drive and pocketed it along with the map. “Don’t want to come help?”

“I would only slow you and Farcry down,” the hermit answered.

Proletius knew that Ralathor was hiding something since in the rush of battle the lanky hermit did no such thing, and knew how to ride a giant eagle. The Grand Master had lifted a brow to let the Hermit know about his scepticism and turned back to Farcry and began to climb her. “While I think that’s false, I also know why you don’t wish to tell me: it’d take too long.”

“Exactly. Farewell, Proletius and if you’re a day late, the king won’t be the only one coming to search for you.” He had a small smile underneath his hood.

Proletius chuckled as Farcry shook herself a bit to settle the bags and prepared to take off. “Farewell, Ralathor, be back in a week or two,” he said as he adjusted himself and then Farcry took off with a leap.

[myhouseidea]

This is an architectural renovation project designed by atelier-architecture for working requirements and living conditions of an artist. We named the project Apartment 55 (A55) because the number 55 has a special meaning to the owner. Photography by Haiting Sun

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The apartment is located on the top floor of a five-story building. The owner wants to keep the existing courtyard and ensure the functions of work, reception, exhibition and daily life at the same time. His studios require an absolute sense of privacy, thus it takes a great amount of consideration about the position of the painting, the angle of the light and the vision of the artist himself. The biggest challenge of this project is how to renovate and make rooms for all functions within the limits of the carrying capacity of the original structure. After reorganizing the spatial arrangement, we redefined the building and courtyard, and rearranged the horizontal and vertical circulation. The added load is controlled within 9 tons after the latest calculation of the whole structure. The brand-new steel structure is “tied” to the original concrete frame so that it can not only avoid negative impact on the original structure but also play a certain role of enclosure.

As for the circulation and spatial planning, it starts at the main entrance and goes inward to the public areas (reception room, exhibition room), and transitioning towards the semi-public areas and private areas (living room, studio). In order to provide visibility and accessibility for the visitors, they can experience the transformation of spatial properties through the opening and closing of the sliding doors, the position and transparency of the window, and combining the transitional spaces between the stairs and corridors. We designed three studios for the artist in the working area, and it constructs different creative spaces with various atmosphere by controlling the height through the new steel structure, the position of the window and the size of the room, the effect on the light environment through the reflection between the natural light and wall.

In order to increase the sense of privacy of the space, the new curtain wall starts at 5.6meters at the elevation of inner courtyard, which means that there are no windows at eye level of the reception area on the first floor, making the whole courtyard a homogeneous open-air exhibition space. A staircase leading to the large studio on the second floor is hidden behind the facade as a transitional space. The glass facade combines the courtyard and daylight into a glass box full of natural light, therefore filter the direct sunlight that comes into the large studio, and making the light softer in the meantime. Skylight renders the emotional changes and ritual sense of transition from the public/semi public space on the first floor to studio/private space. The mixture of color, material and light, constitutes the second transformation of atmosphere and emotion. A large area of nano-concrete is used on the floor and wall of reception area on the first floor; granular sensation of hand polished surface with texture and gloss of the wood, which is darkening the whole hue of reception area and in contrast to the courtyard with glaucous real stone paint. It emphasizes the spiritual experience brought by the natural light projected from outside. The hue of the space starts to fade once turning from the corridor on the first floor to a stairway leading up to the second. The wall and wooden floor are both light gray, it strengthen emotions with daylight together right before entering the private working zone. Light gray nano-concrete floor and white wall is used for the whole second floor. Daylight comes though the curtain wall and brings serenity and purity to the working area. The large studio and courtyard can be overlooked on the third-floor terrace, with lighting diffusing from the glass facade at night exaggerating the architecture as an urban landscape. A55 takes up to three years from design to completion. Limited to the extremely harsh constraints of the project, we try to maximize the change and rhythm of the building in accordance with the function, along with perception and form, lightness and heaviness, light and color. Hopefully, these integrated experiences will slowly coming together with the art created by the owner.

Project location: Beijing, China Functions: Residence/studio Area: 300 m2 Completion time: 2019 Architectural transformation/interior design: Atelier About Architecture (www.aboutarch.com) Chief designers: Ni Wang, Dawei Zhang Interior design team: Shujun Yang, Daguang Shou, Yiren Fan Structural design: Su Liu Construction firm: Da You He Cheng Construction & Decoration Co., Ltd. Main materials: Nano-concrete (Soluzioni Microverlay), Furniture (CASSINA)

Apartment 55 by atelier-architecture This is an architectural renovation project designed by atelier-architecture for working requirements and living conditions of an artist.

[indefinite-pitch]

V/A - Ambient Matter. Series 2

We’ve issued Ambient Matter. Series 1 back in October ‘23 as a Limited Edition CD as well as in digital format. The project instantly grew very close to our heart and with the first release in the series out we were already eager enough to explore more of the intricate and subtle music this concept is featuring. And today we would like to introduce to you the next entry in the series - Ambient Matter. Series 2. We’ve carefully selected five artists from across the globe and we’re thankful to each and everyone for following our invitation and to share their vision with us!

Giaçinté (Malta) Christian Scalas (Italy) Halos (Spain) Sun Dawei (Japan) Saša Delimar (Germany)

A preview of the compilation is available on SoundCloud and pre-order/pre-save is available starting today.

Ambient Matter. Series 2 will be released March 28, 2025.

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[the-monkey-ruler]

Monkey Baby (1993) 猴娃

Director: Wang Junzheng / Li Xiaowan Starring: Liu Xiaolingtong / Li Hailong / Zhang Jie / Xu Yuanjie / Yang Mi / Chen Jianyue / Qiao Qi / Shi Dawei / Qixiaolingtong / Niu Ben / Cai Baoguo / Yang Donghu / Wang Yuejie / Zhang Lixin / Lian Qi / Sun Zhaonan Genre: Drama / Biography / Drama Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 1993 (Mainland China) Number of episodes: 8 IMDb: tt32582032 Type: Crossover

Summary:

In the early 1960s, Shaoxing opera master Liu Lingtong won the love of audiences at home and abroad with his wonderful performance and solid stage skills. As the saying goes, a tiger father will have a dog son. Liu Lingtong's son Tianxing also lived up to his father's expectations and became an outstanding actor. He saved the stage at the age of three and went to Beijing at the age of eight. The little monkey he played was so lifelike that he was praised by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou. It was also during this period that the name of Xiao Liu Lingtong spread like wildfire and became widely known. However, there are unexpected events, and such a genius in the opera world suffered the biggest blow in his life. At the golden age of 16, leukemia mercilessly attacked Xiao Liu Lingtong. He could only pin his hope of revitalizing drama on his younger brother Tianlai (Liu Xiaolingtong)... This film won the 14th "Flying Apsaras Award" and the 12th "Golden Eagle Award" for the best children's series.

Source: https://movie.douban.com/subject/2252765/

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-jyZ_TQhA

[drmikewatts]

IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2024

1) Energy Scheduling Optimization for Microgrids Based on Partially Observable Markov Game

Author(s): Jiakai Gong, Nuo Yu, Fen Han, Bin Tang, Haolong Wu, Yuan Ge

Pages: 5371 - 5380

2) Intelligent Multigrade Brain Tumor Identification in MRI: A Metaheuristic-Based Uncertain Set Framework

Author(s): Saravanan Alagarsamy, Vishnuvarthanan Govindaraj, A. Shahina, D. Nagarajan

Pages: 5381 - 5391

3) 360° High-Resolution Depth Estimation via Uncertainty-Aware Structural Knowledge Transfer

Author(s): Zidong Cao, Hao Ai, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Lin Wang

Pages: 5392 - 5402

4) SSpose: Self-Supervised Spatial-Aware Model for Human Pose Estimation

Author(s): Linfang Yu, Zhen Qin, Liqun Xu, Zhiguang Qin, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Pages: 5403 - 5417

5) CrackLens: Automated Sidewalk Crack Detection and Segmentation

Author(s): Chan Young Koh, Mohamed Ali, Abdeltawab Hendawi

Pages: 5418 - 5430

6) Alternating Excitation–Inhibition Dendritic Computing for Classification

Author(s): Jiayi Li, Zhenyu Lei, Zhiming Zhang, Haotian Li, Yuki Todo, Shangce Gao

Pages: 5431 - 5441

7) Differentiation of Benign and Malignant Masses in Mammogram Using 2D-Fourier–Bessel Intrinsic Band Functions and Improved Feature Space

Author(s): Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary, Ram Bilas Pachori

Pages: 5442 - 5451

8) Optimal Trajectory-Based Control of 3-D Dual Rotary Cranes for Payload Dynamic Regulation in Complex Environments

Author(s): Zhuoqing Liu, Tong Yang, Yongchun Fang, Ning Sun

Pages: 5452 - 5464

9) Heterogeneous Hypergraph Embedding for Node Classification in Dynamic Networks

Author(s): Malik Khizar Hayat, Shan Xue, Jia Wu, Jian Yang

Pages: 5465 - 5477

10) Communication-Efficient Federated Learning for Decision Trees

Author(s): Shuo Zhao, Zikun Zhu, Xin Li, Ying-Chi Chen

Pages: 5478 - 5492

11) Solving Orienteering Problems by Hybridizing Evolutionary Algorithm and Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Rui Wang, Wei Liu, Kaiwen Li, Tao Zhang, Ling Wang, Xin Xu

Pages: 5493 - 5508

12) Tailor-Made Reinforcement Learning Approach With Advanced Noise Optimization for Soft Continuum Robots

Author(s): Jino Jayan, Lal Priya P.S., Hari Kumar R.

Pages: 5509 - 5518

13) Exploring Weight Distributions and Dependence in Neural Networks With α-Stable Distributions

Author(s): Jipeng Li, Xueqiong Yuan, Ercan Engin Kuruoglu

Pages: 5519 - 5529

14) Self-Supervised Exploration via Temporal Inconsistency in Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Zijian Gao, Kele Xu, Yuanzhao Zhai, Bo Ding, Dawei Feng, Xinjun Mao, Huaimin Wang

Pages: 5530 - 5539

15) Cross-View Masked Model for Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning

Author(s): Haoran Duan, Beibei Yu, Cheng Xie

Pages: 5540 - 5552

16) Epileptic Seizure Prediction Using Stacked CNN-BiLSTM: A Novel Approach

Author(s): Zeenat Firdosh Quadri, M. Saqib Akhoon, Sajad A. Loan

Pages: 5553 - 5560

17) A Novel Incentive Mechanism for Federated Learning Over Wireless Communications

Author(s): Yong Wang, Yu Zhou, Pei-Qiu Huang

Pages: 5561 - 5574

18) Social NSTransformers: Low-Quality Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

Author(s): Zihan Jiang, Yiqun Ma, Bingyu Shi, Xin Lu, Jian Xing, Nuno Gonçalves, Bo Jin

Pages: 5575 - 5588

19) A Study of Enhancing Federated Learning on Non-IID Data With Server Learning

Author(s): Van Sy Mai, Richard J. La, Tao Zhang

Pages: 5589 - 5604

20) A Reliable Clinical Decision Support System for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data

Author(s): J. Bhattacharya, A. Gupta, M. N. Dretsch, T. S. Denney, G. Deshpande

Pages: 5605 - 5615

21) CycleGAN*: Collaborative AI Learning With Improved Adversarial Neural Networks for Multimodalities Data

Author(s): Yibo He, Kah Phooi Seng, Li Minn Ang

Pages: 5616 - 5629

22) Evaluating Negative Sampling Approaches for Neural Topic Models

Author(s): Suman Adhya, Avishek Lahiri, Debarshi Kumar Sanyal, Partha Pratim Das

Pages: 5630 - 5642

23) Automated Bundle Branch Block Detection Using Multivariate Fourier–Bessel Series Expansion-Based Empirical Wavelet Transform

Author(s): Sibghatullah Inayatullah Khan, Ram Bilas Pachori

Pages: 5643 - 5654

24) Deep Learning Security Breach by Evolutionary Universal Perturbation Attack (EUPA)

Author(s): Neeraj Gupta, Mahdi Khosravy, Antoine Pasquali, Olaf Witkowski

Pages: 5655 - 5665

25) StackAMP: Stacking-Based Ensemble Classifier for Antimicrobial Peptide Identification

Author(s): Tasmin Karim, Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon, Md. Mamun Ali, Kawsar Ahmed, Francis M. Bui, Li Chen

Pages: 5666 - 5675

26) Lightweight Parallel Convolutional Neural Network With SVM Classifier for Satellite Imagery Classification

Author(s): Priyanti Paul Tumpa, Md. Saiful Islam

Pages: 5676 - 5688

27) Collision-Free Grasp Detection From Color and Depth Images

Author(s): Dinh-Cuong Hoang, Anh-Nhat Nguyen, Chi-Minh Nguyen, An-Binh Phi, Quang-Tri Duong, Khanh-Duong Tran, Viet-Anh Trinh, Van-Duc Tran, Hai-Nam Pham, Phuc-Quan Ngo, Duy-Quang Vu, Thu-Uyen Nguyen, Van-Duc Vu, Duc-Thanh Tran, Van-Thiep Nguyen

Pages: 5689 - 5698

28) Weighted Concept Factorization Based Incomplete Multi-view Clustering

Author(s): Ghufran Ahmad Khan, Jalaluddin Khan, Taushif Anwar, Zubair Ashraf, Mohammad Hafeez Javed, Bassoma Diallo

Pages: 5699 - 5708

29) Artificial Intelligence Driven Predictive Analysis of Acoustic and Linguistic Behaviors for ASD Identification

Author(s): Ashwini B., Deeptanshu, Sheffali Gulati, Jainendra Shukla

Pages: 5709 - 5719

30) Learning Robust Global-Local Representation From EEG for Neural Epilepsy Detection

Author(s): Xinliang Zhou, Chenyu Liu, Ruizhi Yang, Liangwei Zhang, Liming Zhai, Ziyu Jia, Yang Liu

Pages: 5720 - 5732

31) A Deep Learning-Based Method for Crowd Counting Using Shunting Inhibition Mechanism

Author(s): Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Son Lam Phung, Hoang Thanh Le, Hamza Baali

Pages: 5733 - 5745

32) Online Continual Learning Benefits From Large Number of Task Splits

Author(s): Shilin Zhang, Chenlin Yi

Pages: 5746 - 5759

33) Brain-Inspired Evolutionary Architectures for Spiking Neural Networks

Author(s): Wenxuan Pan, Feifei Zhao, Zhuoya Zhao, Yi Zeng

Pages: 5760 - 5770

34) An Integrated Fusion Framework for Ensemble Learning Leveraging Gradient-Boosting and Fuzzy Rule-Based Models

Author(s): Jinbo Li, Peng Liu, Long Chen, Witold Pedrycz, Weiping Ding

Pages: 5771 - 5785

35) Broad Siamese Network for Facial Beauty Prediction

Author(s): Yikai Li, Tong Zhang, C. L. Philip Chen

Pages: 5786 - 5800

36) Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal Masked Contrast for Skeleton Action Recognition

Author(s): Wenming Cao, Aoyu Zhang, Zhihai He, Yicha Zhang, Xinpeng Yin

Pages: 5801 - 5814

37) An Improved Continuous-Encoding-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Community Detection in Complex Networks

Author(s): Jun Fu, Yan Wang

Pages: 5815 - 5827

38) Multiscale Bilateral Attention Fusion Network for Pansharpening

Author(s): Zhongyuan Guo, Jiawei Li, Jia Lei, Jinyuan Liu, Shihua Zhou, Bin Wang, Nikola K. Kasabov

Pages: 5828 - 5843

39) A Hybrid Relational Approach Toward Stock Price Prediction and Profitability

Author(s): Manali Patel, Krupa Jariwala, Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay

Pages: 5844 - 5854

[samthemantours]

How The Day Gone In Dawei 💯🇲🇲👁️‍🗨️🌅👁️‍🗨️🏊‍♀️ It was taking my last trip at the Tizit beach. In photo I just show you the minutes of our trip. There were many activities we participated in CBT village with locals who running community based tourism. Getting local experience. Their way of life,history, culture and their foods. At the end of program, we were treated Sunset Dinner on the beach. Fresh sea foods, fresh air, Beautiful environment. Drinking beer. Swimming. Taking photos. Until the sun diving into the sea. We had got great day. I hope you would like to! . . #SamthemanDawei #TravelTanintharyi #MyanmarBeEnchanted #tizitcommunitybasedtourism #BeachDinner (at Tizit, Tanintharyi, Burma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBIdy6hjCtp/?igshid=8fjpatfb85kl

[guzhuangheaven]

Sun Shucai’s death in Red Cliff

[nuadox]

Heat stress could affect more than 1.2 billion people per year by 2100

- By Nuadox Crew -

Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity could affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people per year by 2100, assuming current greenhouse gas emissions, as per a recent Rutgers University study.

That's more than four times the number of people affected today, and more than 12 times the number who would have been affected without industrial era global warming.

The research is published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

Rising global temperatures are increasing exposure to heat stress, which harms human health, agriculture, the economy and the environment. Most climate studies on projected heat stress have focused on heat extremes but not considered the role of humidity, another key driver.

"When we look at the risks of a warmer planet, we need to pay particular attention to combined extremes of heat and humidity, which are especially dangerous to human health," said senior author Robert E. Kopp, director of the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

"Every bit of global warming makes hot, humid days more frequent and intense. In New York City, for example, the hottest, most humid day in a typical year already occurs about 11 times more frequently than it would have in the 19th century," said lead author Dawei Li, a former Rutgers post-doctoral associate now at the University of Massachusetts.

Heat stress is caused by the body's inability to cool down properly through sweating. Body temperature can rise rapidly, and high temperatures may damage the brain and other vital organs. Heat stress ranges from milder conditions like heat rash and heat cramps to heat exhaustion, the most common type. Heat stroke, the most serious heat-related illness, can kill or cause permanent disability without emergency treatment, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The study looked at how combined extremes of heat and humidity increase on a warming Earth, using 40 climate simulations to get statistics on rare events. The study focused on a measure of heat stress that accounts for temperature, humidity and other environmental factors, including wind speed, sun angle and solar and infrared radiation.

Annual exposure to extreme heat and humidity in excess of safety guidelines is projected to affect areas currently home to about 500 million people if the planet warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) and nearly 800 million at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). The planet has already warmed by about 1.2 degrees (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above late 19th century levels.

An estimated 1.2 billion people would be affected with 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, as expected by the end of this century under current global policies.

In New York City, extreme heat and humidity, comparable to the worst day in a typical year today, is projected to occur on four days in a typical year with global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) and about eight days per year with warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). With 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, extreme heat and humidity are projected to occur for about 24 days in a typical year.

Source: Rutgers University

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[afarawayhome]

Myanmar, previously Burma, was my favourite country to travel around in South East Asia. I met some of the kindest, most generous people I’ve ever met – which was made even more special since many less people speak English than in countries like Thailand and Vietnam. Everyone was really excited to see me (by and large, of course) and that makes all the difference when you are travelling alone.

Everyone has their own suggestions and ideas for a good 28-day itinerary or route around Myanmar; this is the route I took, with a few changes with the benefit of hindsight. I entered Myanmar overland from Thailand and used every day of my visa. I travelled pretty quickly, and at the height of the dry season: this had advantages and disadvantages, and not every person travels in the same way. The best advice I could possibly give would be to travel in your own way, and not get too bothered about what you think you should be doing.

Another really key bit of advice for travelling in Myanmar (and South East Asia generally) is not to get stuck down in plans. Things here can change at the drop of a hat, so don’t be like the Germans and book your hotels a week in advance, and then get grumpy when your boat is delayed or the bus takes 5 hours longer than expected.

Day 1: cross from Mae Sot to Myawaddy. Depending on how early you cross, you could get the taxi straight to Hpa An. I spent the night, which was pretty expensive since there is only one hotel in town. There are some nice temples though, which I checked out the next morning.

Day 2: taxi to Hpa An. I paid 8,000 KYT; I know someone who paid 6,000 KYT but there were two of them so 12,000 KYT total. I’d probably pay less now, I’m much better at haggling… This taxi took nearly all day, but it passes through some good scenery and you should expect to stop for new passengers regularly – sit back and enjoy your first taste of Myanmar. I left Myawaddy at 12pm and got into Hpa An in time for sunset. The taxi driver dropped me right outside Soe Brothers, which is where everyone stays.

Day 3 – 4: Hpa An. Things to do include ‘the tour‘ and climbing Mount Zwegabin (horrific but awesome, do not do with a hangover).

Day 5: Hpa An to Yangon. Another full day of travel, basically. There are lots of good night markets in Yangon for when you get in, including the Chinese market on 19th and the many fried fish restaurants along The Strand.

Day 6 – 9: Yangon. I arguably spent too many days here, but I really liked the city and had an awesome time. Make sure to check out the Shwedagon Pagoda, and take a turn around the Circular Railway. I got got halfway before I ran out of time, but it was still really fun.

Day 9 – 10: Yangon to Kalaw. This involved a night train, the army, and 3am samosas with a new friend who wanted to show me his music. Did I sleep? No. Did I nap relentlessly and buy lots of train noodles from women with half as many teeth as you’d probably expect? Yes, yes I did.

Day 11 – 13: Kalaw to Inle Lake (Nyaung Shwe). This is a famous trek, everyone does it. Do it. It’s awesome. I loved seeing the change from arid mountain to lush lakeside farms. I stayed at Golden Lily in Kalaw and bought the trek from them and I have no complaints. It cost 40,000 KYT, which included three full days of meals and two nights rest. It did not include the beer – bring extra for the beer.

Day 13 – 15: Inle Lake (Nyaung Shwe). It’s beautiful, obviously. I cycled around instead of doing tours, because I am cheap and hate organised tourism. The tours look pretty fun though.

Day 15 – 16: Inle to Mandalay. Another night bus, another 3am arrival. I did not enjoy Mandalay the first time round, although I had a super time when I came back here a few days later. I also didn’t realise you could get a bus direct from Nyaung Shwe to Hsipaw, which would have been much more sensible.

Day 17: Mandalay to Hsipaw. A 3am start this time, in order to take the train over the amazing, awe inspiring and justifiably famous Goteik Viaduct. Definitely worth it, 10/10, would recommend.

Day 18: Hsipaw. Another place where people do treks. I did not, because I hate people. Instead, I made friends with a dog and went to some hot springs by myself, where I saw in my clothes and read an awesome book called “Ark” by Stephen Baxter.

Day 19: Hsipaw to Pyin Oo Lwin. Very early bus, so I basically got the full day here. The best attraction is the Dattawgyaik waterfall (also called Anisakan Falls), which is the finest waterfall I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s a sensation. Please go. The national botanical gardens are also very nice, with a cool aviary and a surprising amount of education. I went the following morning.

Day 20: Pyin Oo Lwin to Mandalay. I left Pyin Oo Lwin in the early afternoon and got a taxi/bus/truck thing (you know it when you see it) for like 1,500 KYT which is MUCH cheaper and MUCH MUCH more fun than the tourist bus.

Day 21: Mandalay. Actually, I went to Inwa which is a town south of Mandalay, but you get the idea. Tourisms.

Day 22 – 23: Mandalay to Bagan. This was not meant to be a two-day voyage but the boat got stuck on a sandbank. What can I say, it happens. It was awesome.

Day 23 – 24: Bagan. I have to say, I wasn’t the hugest fan of Bagan. Most people love it, but I guess I found it was far too touristy and expensive. I prefer towns like Hpa An where there is only one hostel and there’s a really cool vibe of exploration and excitement. Bagan felt a little too… middle aged.

Day 24 – 25: Bagan to Yangon to Mawlamyine. Phew-ee, this was a slog. 7pm bus, changing in Yangon at 5am, and then getting into Mawlamyine around 2pm. Just in time for a nap, and then up to the ridge for sunset. Truly spectacular, by the way.

Day 25: Mawlamyine. Ok, so Breeze Hostel runs a tour. It’s in Lonely Planet, it’s on travel fish. It’s quite shit, definitely overpriced.

Day 25 – 26: Mawlamyine to Maungmagan (via Dawei). Another night bus, another early morning change – this time onto a motobike taxi (sorry mum) that took me through the mountains to the sea under the stars (sorry not sorry).

Day 26: Maungmagan. Ok, so on this day my phone got stolen, but IF IT HADN’T it would have been an awesome day. Beautiful deserted beach (apart from that shitty child who stole my phone), thousands of crabs, bright bright sun…

Day 27: Maungmagan to Dawei. So I spent most of this day in the police station, which in retrospect was still quite an experience. But yeah. Woo.

Day 28: Dawei to Kanchanaburi (Thailand). I made it! I was home. Well, back to the land of 7-Elevens, fruit shakes and Chang.

So what do you think? Where did your travels in Myanmar take you?

28 days in Myanmar: route and advice Myanmar, previously Burma, was my favourite country to travel around in South East Asia. I met some of the kindest, most generous people I've ever met - which was made even more special since many less people speak English than in countries like Thailand and Vietnam.