#worthwhile bg study :')

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It's still Mermay right? We're still posting mers right??

#this took me the whole month and i'm exhausted </3 #but i'm glad i finally got it done #worthwhile bg study :') #my art #lusopp #usolu #luffy #monkey d. luffy #usopp #one piece #one piece fanart

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H E L L O !

quite frankly forgot how to do intros because i’ve been on such a long break from rp, but i’m ellis ( she/her ) & i’ll be writing sally chun.

T W : cancer, death

⧼  PARK SOOYOUNG, CIS WOMAN, SHE/HER.  ⧽   ❝  wait  a  minute  …  aren’t  you  SUYEON (SALLY) CHUN ?  welcome  to  hotel  del  luna,  dear  guest!  it  says  here  that  you  were  TWENTY FOUR years  old.  oh   …  you  didn’t  know,  did  you?  you’ve  passed   on.  i’m  so  sorry.  it  appears  that  you’re  now  lingering  behind in  this  world  as  a  GHOST . which  makes  sense  because  a  lot  of  people  associated  you  with  SHINY MOON PENDANTS, DARK SHADES OF LIPSTICK, & LILY OF THE VALLEY. to  be  fair, you  were  really  ABSENT-MINDED  &  ECCENTRIC,  but  sometimes  being  KINDHEARTED  &  THOUGHTFUL  can  make  up  for  that  …  although  very  rarely.  it  says  here  that  you  died  7 DAYS  ago  due  to  BRAIN CANCER. we  are  lucky  the  moon  helped  you  find  your  way.  if  you’d   follow  me,  i’ll  lead  you  to  your  room.  i’m  not  supposed  to   tell  you  this  but  …  mago  has  created  an  atmosphere  catered   to  you  and  you  alone.  here’s  a  small  hint  on  what  you’ll   find  in  there:  A GLASS GREENHOUSE, A CHESS SET, & A SOFT WHITE RUG.  but  you  didn’t  hear  that  from  me!  ❞ 

The entirety of her biography/background can be found here ! but as it is quite long, I have condensed it in the following bullets. However, I really recommend reading the full background to best understand her ! 

born in new york city, usa; moved to seoul, south korea almost immediately afterwards. 

was identified early on to be unusually antisocial; while not drawn away by social interaction, she demonstrated a seeming disinterest in it. it contrasted her personality, which was consistently bright, enthusiastic, and smiley. many commented that she “lived in her own world”.

parents didn’t get along, so she went to live with her aunt in nyc, usa for a few years. living there was the reason she began to prefer being called ‘sally’.

when she came back to seoul, she began dating a young artist who would eventually debut as an idol ( view full bg for thorough details ) and was accepted into a prominent south korean university to study mathematics.

decided to pursue graduate studies in mathematics only to fall ill with terminal brain cancer and pass away.

I imagine that despite her eccentricities, she’s quite amiable and easy to get along with ( although becoming ‘friends’ will take a while ). She does not talk much and can seem disinterested when a conversation is struck; nonetheless, she is a very considerate and perceptive individual who prefers listening to others than talking about herself. Sally often wanders alone ( but usually not into trouble ), and her hobbies include gardening and playing chess. She will always accept a game of chess. While seemingly calm and unaffected by the reality of her death, Sally has one ( unspoken ) wish to tell her grieving parents and boyfriend that they made every moment of her life worthwhile.

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If you’d like to plot/brainstorm/talk, please feel free to message me here and/or ask for my discord, which I’ll give in IMs. ♡

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Saiyuki Reload Blast Anthology: Sound of Rain's Idle Chat

@seiten-taisei is the awesome person who shared this anthology.  Check out her post here to see other stuff she's shared, including this book.  Links to my translations of the other stories in this collection are here; scroll to the table of contents.

Hakkai and Sanzo have a chat on a rainy morning.

P90 sfx: pouring rain sfx: door opening Hakkai: Oh my.  It’s been raining since last night.  The roads are horribly muddy, and driving will be difficult. Sound of Rain’s Idle Chat AU Hakkai: It’s rare we have such a relaxed morning. Sanzo: If you guys would quit complaining I’d rather deal with the bad roads. Hakkai: ......Oh?

P91 Hakkai: ...... Oh, no, I was talking to myself. sfx: anger Sanzo: You spoke to me on purpose. Hakkai: Sorry, I’m a little bored...  The other two show no signs of waking, so I went out first.  I was restless.  Anyway, we can’t set out until the rain lets up.

P92 Hakkai: That aside, would you like some coffee? Sanzo: ... Hmph. sfx: pouring rain sfx: flip

P93 Hakkai: Is that interesting? Sanzo: It’s not even good for killing time.  Pass me my lighter.  ... The owner must have been really enthusiastic about learning. Hakkai: Ahh, the girl at the inn said something about that.  The owner was a famous researcher, and the villagers relied on him a lot before he went missing.  By the way, you’re intelligent so shouldn’t this be more worthwhile than reading the newspaper? BG: 0 bad intentions Sanzo: ...You’re a really sarcastic idiot...  Well, it’s fine. sfx: close Sanzo: Research, studies, it’s all pointless.  There aren’t many roads left open to a person who’s made a name for himself.  It’s not something particularly deserving of attention.

P94 Hakkai: I suppose...  The average person covets the honor of acquiring fame, status, and wealth... ...Ahh, I see.  Once you’ve shouldered the trust of the people, you lose your freedom. Sanzo: It’s not like people won’t cling to the next thing as soon as you run away.  The road hasn’t been taken away; those guys just lose sight of their alternatives. Hakkai: ...... sfx: sip Hakkai: That reminds me, what about Goku? Sanzo: Huh? Hakkai: I mean, Goku’s been with you ever since you saved him.

P95 Hakkai: I’m just wondering what, if any, alternatives are available to him. Sanzo: You trying to trick me?  That’s idiotic.  I told him from the very beginning to do what he wanted.  In the first place there’s no reason for me to teach you guys about your purpose in life.  Time’s too precious for that. Hakkai: ...... Of course.  I’m here because I want to be, after all. sfx: pssssh Hakkai: All of us are. Sanzo: ...Living up to expectations?  You’re the one who likes such clearly visible trust. sfx: BAM Gojyo: Daaaaaah!!!!!!

P96 Gojyo: You kicked me in the face, you crappy sleeping monkey!! Goku: Shut up.  You’re the one who put his feet in my bed.  Weren’t you ever trained to sleep in your own hut!?  Get in your crate! sfx: bam Gojyo: Sorry my legs’re long! Goku: That again, shitty kappa! sfx: boom Gojyo: Ow!  Don’t pull!  What’re you gonna do if it stretches!? sfx: slap Goku: You’re growin’ your hair out, what’s the problem if your clothes grow too!? sfx: toss sfx: slap Gojyo/Goku: Ah? Sanzo: ...... You bastards.

P97 Sanzo: Do you want to be bludgeoned to death? Gojyo: He wants to club us to death. Goku: Let’s get food. Sanzo: Get back here!! Hakkai: Oh, it’s cleared up.  Please be ready in 10 minutes.  You two overslept, so no breakfast for you. Goku: No way! Narration (Hakkai?): You looked up to your master and succeeded him, and now you live for yourself.  For you, it may be wholly unrelated to having alternatives. Hakkai: At the very least, I’ve come to think it’s nice spending time like this with everyone, Sanzo. END

#saiyuki #translation #saiyuki reload blast #anthology

[webart-studio]

What's New for Designers, February 2019

Get able to create a brand new listing of bookmarks! The brand new instruments featured this month are good for saving; a few of them you’ll need to come again to time and again, equivalent to a safety guidelines, cool background maker and a season-specific typeface.

If we’ve missed one thing that you just assume ought to have been on the listing, tell us within the feedback. And if you already know of a brand new app or useful resource that needs to be featured subsequent month, tweet it to @carriecousins to be thought of!

  DiceBear Avatars

DiceBear Avatars means that you can create placeholder avatars in cool block fashion. You may create characters or identicons utilizing the free HTTP API.

  React Insta Tales

React Insta Tales is a namesake part that means that you can create Instagram or Snapchat tales on the net. Set up it with npm and use an array of picture URLS. It takes care of length and the loading indicator.

  Sheety

Sheety enables you to flip any Google sheet into an API. It’s free and you should use it to energy web sites, apps or no matter. Plus, something you modify within the originating spreadsheet, updates to the API in real-time.

  Minisearch

Minisearch is a tiny however highly effective in-memory fulltext search engine for JavaScript. It’s respectful of sources, and it could comfortably run each in Node and within the browser. The demo search (under) is enjoyable. I used to be capable of search my title because it pertained to all the Billboard Scorching 100 from 1965 to 2015.

  Lobe

Lobe will let your internet app be taught by way of a visible interface. It might probably learn handwriting, see emotion and listen to music. Be a part of the beta to seek out out what this deep studying app can do on your initiatives.

  Bubble Toggle

Bubble Toggle is a enjoyable pen by Chris Gannon that encompasses a toggle button with a classy bubble change.

  Textblock

Textblock is a JavaScript software that helps you alter main and dimension to create extra lovely responsive typography. It really works by calculating a setting primarily based on minimal and most values for font dimension, line top, variable grades and container width.

  SocialSizes

SocialSizes solves a standard downside: Discovering the suitable template and sizing for social media photographs. The software consists of templates for Sketch, Adobe XD and Photoshop for widespread social media channels: Fb, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, Pinterest and Twitch. It’s a kind of instruments that simply makes life that a lot simpler.

  Superior Podcast

Superior Podcast would possibly enable you discover your new favourite present to take heed to whereas working. The listing is a compilation of podcasts for software program engineers. (And it’s grouped in such an effective way to yow will discover one thing to take heed to about JavaScript or PHP or Ruby or internet improvement or any variety of different matters.)

  Palette App

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  Photograph Creator

Photograph Creator is a software that permits you to create your individual inventory images. (Critically!) Combine and match fashions backgrounds and objects to get simply the image you want for initiatives. Export photographs (free and paid choices) to be used on-line and in print.

  Snippet Generator

Snippet Generator enables you to create code snippets and replica for fast use. The software toggles between VSCode, Chic Textual content and Atom. It’s a tiny React app.

  SVRF Builders

SVRF Builders lets customers search face filters, 360 movies and 360 images and is free to make use of on all varieties of apps from cameras, to messaging to speak or group. What’s cool concerning the software is that it helps your customers discover extra AR and VR internet experiences.

  Can’t Unsee

Can’t Unsee is a design expertise recreation. Are you courageous sufficient to choose the suitable iteration designs on the display screen?

  JournalBook

JournalBook is a non-public – and offline – private journal. Whereas the software is crammed with prompts that will help you get began, your notes and ideas are saved in your system. It’s a cool idea if you wish to apply just a little journaling.

  Animated Mesh Strains

Animated Mesh Strains is a cool set of 5 WebGL demos over on the Codrops Playground. The library helps you perceive the right way to create buyer geometry to create an attention-grabbing graphic fashion.

  Childhood Flat Icons

Childhood Flat Icons is a enjoyable set of parts that can make you’re feeling like a child once more. The gathering consists of 100 icons that present the event of a kid with representations plus loads of toys and child-like parts. It is available in AI, SVG and PNG codecs.

  Safety Guidelines

Safety Guidelines is a must have software. It’s an open supply listing with every little thing it’s worthwhile to learn about preserving your self and your identification protected on the web. What number of of this stuff are you already doing?

  BG-Painter

BG-Painter is a enjoyable software to create animated (or nonetheless background photographs). Simply begin with one of many preset “paint” choices and alter colours to suit your challenge. And every little thing you create is free to make use of as you want because of creator Frank Hsu.

  Static Website Boilerplate

Static Website Boilerplate is a place to begin for constructing trendy static web sites. It consists of all of the tech you want, then add your code and deploy your web site. It’s that simple (form of).

  UXWing

UXWing may need each icon you’ll ever want. It’s a large assortment of scalable icons for internet design and front-end improvement. Simply seek for what you want and obtain.

  Startup Illustration Equipment

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  Lindas

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  Lorden Holen

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  Reno Mono

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Meet Dr. Whitehouse: Historical Endo Extraordinaire

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Meet Dr. Whitehouse: Historical Endo Extraordinaire

It's not often you get to meet someone who actually worked directly with Dr. Elliott Joslin, "the father of diabetes care," back in the day. But lucky for us, fellow D-blogger and journalist Mike Hoskins lives in Indiana, very near the Eli Lilly HQ and a gentleman who's made an incredible impact on treating diabetes over the past 74 years. Don't miss his (somewhat lengthy) historical perspective today:

Special to the 'Mine by Michael Hoskins

You might call him an Endo for the Ages, someone who connects the past to the present and moves us toward the future in the world of diabetes.

For Dr. Fred W. Whitehouse, his first encounter with diabetes came at the age of 12, when his 8-year-broth

er was diagnosed during a family car trip from Arizona and California. This was long before the idea of adding "Dr." to the front of his name was even on the mind -- before a career in diabetes, and before he'd find a place in the diabetes history books as an endocrinologist who's been at the forefront of D-care for more than a half-century.

Now 85, Dr. Whitehouse practices three days a week at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

He took some time recently for a chat with us at the 'Mine, and our 90-minute discussion hit on just about every topic in the diabetes world, from his own family connections, to his humble medical career beginnings at the Joslin Clinic — working directly with the legendary Dr. Joslin himself! — to the evolution in care and research he's observed and helped shepherd in through the decades, his American Diabetes Association presidency, and even D-Camp, the Diabetes Online Community and his thoughts on how close we are to a cure. I'll do my best to summarize his exceptional journey here for you:

In fact, his journey unofficially began in August 1938 on that summer drive with his family, when his younger brother Johnny suddenly needed frequent stops to use the bathroom. Mom knew it was diabetes because one of her cousins had been diagnosed young and died in 1919 after slipping into a coma in Connecticut while on the way to see a "famous doctor" in Boston. Thankfully, Whitehouse's own brother's diagnosis came more than a decade after insulin's discovery, and a young Fred was determined to help take care of him.

"I was the resident chemist in our family because I had an amateur chemistry set and would boil the urine, trying to get the color blue because that meant no more sugar in the urine," he said. "That was my initiation into diabetes."

But then, years went by and he didn't think about diabetes as a career-influencer. Instead, he wanted to go into obstetrics. "There's nothing more delightful than delivering babies," he says. But Whitehouse soon found himself at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, where Dr. Rollin Woodyatt was the leading physician for patients with diabetes, who most docs of those days weren't comfortable caring for. His own days caring for his brother Johnny came back, and his destiny seemed to fall into place.

After a stint as a Navy flight surgeon in the Korean War following his residency in Detroit, Whitehouse took a fellowship in Boston, MA, at the New England Deaconess Hospital — which shared space at 84 Bay Street with the Joslin Clinic at the time, about three miles from the site Joslin would later make its home. It was there that Whitehouse spent 15 months, working not only with a lineup of trailblazers from diabetes history but Dr. Eliott P. Joslin himself.

At the time because of his age (mid-80s), Dr. Joslin and spent most of his time in his office, but Whitehouse and the others would accompany him on the rounds when Joslin did see patients. Whitehouse recalls talking with Dr. Joslin about his entry into the D-field in the late 1800s, how his aunt had diabetes and motivated him to focus his medical career on the condition. And thank goodness he did!

"The old gentleman was still hale and hearty, and worked every day at the hospital doing his rounds every Saturday morning starting at 8 a.m. He really was a remarkable man," Whitehouse says of the legendary Joslin.

Whitehouse actually practiced with the "Big Four" of the time — Drs. Joslin and Howard F. Root who administered the first insulin delivery in the '20s, Priscilla White who revolutionized pregnancy and diabetes care, and Dr. Alexander Marble who focused on DKA and research. Later, Drs. Robert F. Bradley and Leo P.Krall and Joslin's son Allen joined the historical group that Whitehouse witnessed firsthand.

"Really, the strength of Joslin was the distinguished group he accrued who were high-quality, experienced, and specialized people in diabetes, not just some physicians who saw it on the side," Whitehouse says. "That team approach, the idea of focusing on high control of treatment, was what Joslin became known for. There were no clinical trials then and the thought was that complications may be hereditary, but that it could be controlled by intense care. But that wasn't proven by data for almost 40 years."

Back then, about three decades before home blood meters came onto the scene, it typically took about an hour to take a BG test in a clinic. At Joslin, Whitehouse said one could get that done in as quickly as 30 minutes. In those days, the color blue (dark blue, to be exact) was the goal because it suggested "normal blood sugar" and no glucose in the urine. He laughs now how many in the diabetes community advocate for the color blue and the International Diabetes Federation's Blue Circle, since it has a significant part in the pages of diabetes history!

Whitehouse left Joslin in September 1955 and went to work at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he remains today. He served more than 30 years as chief of the Endocrinology Diabetes Bone Mineral Disorders Division from 1962 to 1995, and has long been regarded as one of the nation's leaders in the field of diabetes. He served as ADA president in 1978-79, and during his presidency the concept of ADA professional section councils — subgroups of members focusing on such specialties such as foot care, youth, pregnancy or complications. His honors include: the Banting Medal, Outstanding Clinician Award and Outstanding Physician Educator Award from the American Diabetes Association, and the Master Physician distinction from the American College of Physicians. The Henry Ford endocrinology division website says this about him: "Over the course of 60 years, Dr. Whitehouse has helped change the face of diabetes management and treatment." The Detroit hospital has even named a distinguished service award after Dr. Whitehouse!

He was involved in testing human insulin in the late 1970s, and along with one of his colleagues in Detroit, treated the patient who was the second-ever person to take human insulin (the first was in Kansas). He also treated some of the earliest patients ever treated with insulin who would utilize new tools such as the first-ever blood meters and insulin pumps, as well as those who had transplants of various natures. The first patient with diabetes to receive a transplanted kidney at Henry Ford Hospital did so on Oct. 31, 1974, and he says it was a great success — that woman lived a full life for 14 years before succumbing to a massive heart attack.

One of his other D-patients was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, diagnosed at age 11 in 1919 and one of the first to ever receive insulin from Dr. Fredrick Banting in 1922. She married William T. Gossett, who was general counsel for Ford Motor Company and lived in southeast Michigan. Before her death from pneumonia in 1981 at the age of 73 (totaling an estimated 42,000 insulin shots before her death), she saw Dr. Whitehouse but actually kept her health and diabetes a secret from the world. She was a "closet diabetic," Whitehouse says.

That was perhaps the way then, but now with the advent of the Internet and the diabetes online community, PWDs tend to be more enthusiastic about sharing their stories and are looking to connect. Whitehouse thinks support and mental health is important, and though he's not sure if there's enough follow-up data to judge the clinical significance of something like the diabetes online community, he does think it sounds like a positive influence — much like diabetes camps.

"There are far less closet diabetics than there used to be, and people are more open. That's a good thing because you can learn from others who are going through similar experiences."

(DBMine: EXACTLY!)

Whitehouse was also one of the initial endos participating in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trials (DCCT) in the 1980s — government-funded clinical trials that led to the proof that better managed diabetes could delay or even eliminate complications. Whitehouse says not everyone in the medical field supported that theory or thought the study was worthwhile. Those naysayers got a big "I told you so" years later when the A1c became the standard to gauge a person's management.

"They thought the question had been answered in their own mind and they didn't want to be bothered," he said. "But we had to be able to prove this with science and data for everyone, rather than it being one doctor from one or two places saying this was their opinion. The time for scientific proof had come."

Looking back, Whitehouse describes the DCCT as the most remarkable study ever supported by the NIH, which is ongoing and now in its 30th year. (See the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study that has continued following most of the original DCCT participants).

Whitehouse says he's amazed to have witnessed all the technological and daily care changes that have happened since he began in 1955, and that patients and physicians have much more basic knowledge about management. He believes the next leap forward will be just as amazing — prevention of type 1 and helping type 2s avoid complications with better management.

As far as moving toward a cure, Whitehouse has some thoughts on that, too.

"I think prevention of type 1 diabetes will come first," he said. "Then, better control of daily swings in blood glucose and better control over low blood sugar spells. Perhaps third will be better control of overweight and obesity. Last in my view will come the 'cure of the insulin-dependent diabetic person.' This will require stem cells from the diabetic's own tissues developing into beta cells, then preventing these 'personal' beta cells from being killed off as they initially were. This will be the crowning achievement. That's all coming, but I think diabetes will be around for a spell."

Unfortunately, that seems pretty clear. But we hope there'll be new Dr. Whitehouses in each generation, to help us take leaps forward in research and improving D-care.

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