Baby Blue is a comic book about friendship and romantic love that is told by two characters. I want to explore more on understanding a complicated feeling between romantic love and friendship love. Since relationships are very complicated and difficult to understand, I think it’s a good way to go through a journey with the main character and see how she’s dealing with her own feelings. In this report, I explained more about my process and everything you need to know about Baby Blue.

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The purpose of this project was to create a personality quiz based on the scientifical method and machine learning that determine which character in the TV-series Friends that the person taking the quiz is the most similar to. The manuscripts from all the episodes were used to extract features and create a split training/test dataset. Different models from the python modules SKLearn and Pytorch, such as neural networks, quadratic discriminant analysis and decision trees, were then trained and evaluated based on their accuracy on the test data and performance metrics such as Akaike information criterion, k- Fold cross-validation and principal component analysis Although gradient boosting provided the highest accuracy with 78%, logistic regression (with an accuracy of 59% after k-fold cross validation) was chosen as the method to base the quiz on since it provided an easier way to distinguish what features were important to which character by analyzing the coefficients of the model. Amongst the features in the training dataset were the 100 most common words for each character and how many times they were spoken. Some of these words were common for all the characters and selected to form a foundation for 10 yes or no questions. The coefficients of the corresponding words for each character were extracted from the logistic regression model and used as weights for the quiz. A normalization was made so that the weights so that each character’s score had a maximum of 100, the quiz was then uploaded and hosted on the website quiz-maker.com. To conclude that only selecting some of the original features did not impair the model's accuracy, a final model was trained with just the words used in the quiz as features. This model had an accuracy of 55%.

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Autobiographical accounts of interracial friendships tend to take on unrealistic Huck-andJim-type dimensions, particularly in southern musicians’ autobiographies, where musical compatibility is often mistaken for a larger sense of harmony. A select few memoirs, however, have dispensed with this master narrative to illustrate instances of overcoming segregation through interpersonal means. In the vein of fellow Alabamian W.C. Handy’s The Father of the Blues, (1941), jazz composer/performer Willie Ruff’s A Call to Assembly (1991) uses the tools of African American respectability politics (ideals of democracy, Christianity and common humanity) to build more balanced relationships with young white contemporaries also enraptured by jazz, in the process shaming segregationists. In this case, music paves the way for whites’ understanding of larger social equality. In Bakhtinian terms, this authorial positioning is “centripetal” (literally meaning “rotation toward the center”), affirming unity and common core values to the reader. By contrast, bebop musician Dizzy Gillespie in his To Be or Not to Bop (1979) takes on more centrifugal proportions, “clowning” his way around segregation like the time-honored trickster figure, finding allies in the jazz counterculture in the west, the north and abroad, beyond the reach of Jim Crow. Like Ruff, though, Gillespie takes advantage of jazz’s strategies to escape the trap of asymmetrical “friendships.” By eschewing the platitudes of the interracialbrotherhood tale, Ruff and Gillespie reveal the reciprocity and sacrifice necessary for white ally ship and establish jazz as a medium for political expression and true collaboration.

With the ever increasing rates of sexual violence and sexually transmitted diseases, many people wishing to continue an active and healthy sexual lifestyle are forced to avoid bars, clubs, and other places that "pick-ups" or casual sex might occur. It has been noted that an alternative to this has arisen among college age students in Orlando, Florida. As yet with no official term it is colloquially know as "Friends With Benefits." Research through professional and scholarly journals makes no mention of this phenomenon. The bulk of this study attempts to document the prevalence of this phenomenon in college age student in Orlando, Florida. Through the development of surveys accurate statistics can be obtained and possible contributing factors regarding its instigation can be found. Further discussion should predict what overall and long-term affects "Friends With Benefits'' will have on society and its views on acceptable dating practices.

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Denna studie undersöker begreppet platsidentitet och dess relevans samt aktualitet inom planeringsprocessen av Sveriges nya nationalarena Friends arena. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur det har arbetats med platsidentitet i planeringsprocessen, när frågor om platsidentitet diskuteras och vilka hinder som kan uppstå med arbetet om platsidentitet i planeringsprocessen. Målet med studien är att få ökad kunskap kring begreppet platsidentitet och förstå dess relevans, roll, betydelse samt aktualitet. Platsidentitet blir allt viktigare i dagens globaliserade samhälle där platser behöver vara unika för att locka besökare och/eller investerare. Studien går igenom ett antal olika tolkningar och definitioner av begreppet platsidentitet. En bredare definition av platsidentitet används för att underlätta den empiriska undersökningen. Begreppet platsidentitet ses som de specifika egenskaperna som gör en plats unik, vilket påverkas av platsens fysiska karaktär, mänskliga aktivitet och sociala relationer. Studien baseras på en dokumentstudie där en fördjupad översiktsplan och detaljplan undersöks. Undersökningen baseras även på två kvalitativa intervjustudier med personer som varit aktiva under planeringsprocessen.  Studiens slutsatser är att platsidentitet som det är definierat inom studien, är ett relevant och aktuellt ämne inom svensk samhällsplanering i planeringsprocessen av en plats. Studien kom fram till att frågor som berör platsidentitet diskuteras i främst tidiga skeden och studien diskuterar även de hinder som uppstår vid planeringsprocessen av en nationalarena.

Förekomsten av friends-and-neighbours-effekten, det vill säga när röstningsmönster är påverkade av geografisk samhörighet mellan politiker och väljare, är ännu outforskad i en svensk kontext. Denna kandidatuppsats undersöker därav förekomsten av friends-and-neighbours-effekten utifrån partiledarens geografiska uppväxtkommun. De sex kommunerna Vingåker, Nacka, Sollefteå, Kristianstad, Täby och Eskilstuna, de tre valåren 2002, 2010 och 2018, samt de två partierna Socialdemokraterna och Moderaterna utgör uppsatsens utgångspunkt. Datamaterial från Svensk valundersökning (SNES) används i logistiska regressionsanalyser för att besvara frågeställningarna om huruvida friends-and-neighbours-effekten finns närvarande i svenska väljares röstningsmönster samt om effekten skiljer sig mellan höger- och vänsterväljare. Resultatet av analyserna redovisas i form av genomsnittliga marginaleffekter (Average Marginal Effects) och tyder framför allt på förekomsten av friends-and-neighbourseffekten i Sollefteå när Stefan Löfvén var partiledare under valåret 2018. I resterande kommuner är effekten inte möjlig att urskilja eller bekräfta. Friends-and-neighbours-effekten är således mer framträdande bland socialdemokratiska än moderata väljare utifrån operationaliseringen av de aktuella variablerna.

Four friends get together for one last night of partying before one of them moves away, however things don't go according to plan.