Dallas Fan Con, is sort of like Dallas Comic Con, except I went as a member of the press, and then I felt ridiculous that I did not know who some of the artists were, so I brushed up on a few of them after the show. 

It was sort of like a live Anime convention, and people lined up and spent good money to meet their favorite artists, some of which they dressed as the characters they had created, to gather autographs, mingle, and so on.

I ran into a guy whose daughter seemed to have wanted us to talk, he was Air Force, and then she flirted with her dad a sec and walked away, saying ok Dad I am going to leave you here with her, and he drilled me somewhat on my flight training experience, we talked about SpaceX, the NASA Astronaut program, and Tesla, UTDallas, where I got the dipndots ice cream which have been my fave since I was a teenager.

All in all I think I spent about 2 days and 4-6 hours at the convention center, I signed up to do speed dating and ended up working so did not have a chance to meet anyone.

Squire Maguire had a fabulous time, and I met with some people from the Dallas Public Library and talked with them about reading "Contact" as in the movie, but "Contacto" which is the book previous to the movie being released and in Spanish.

There were some Hero Inner City Kids that did comics and bonding that I enjoyed meeting as well, a few who had professionally worked with the Art Institute of Dallas, that had done a few Disney films, and I mentioned that Congresswomen Eddie Bernice Johnson had a Women of the World for Peace forum where I got to meet Abigail Disney.

I would say the hardest thing about going as a member of the press in costume is having to do my own filming, video editing, and photography while holding an astronaut poodle.

I definitely need my own crew next time when I travel.

I am a fan of the idea of OCW or online courses for the busy practitioner. I have not had the time to actually obtain any certificates from Coursera.org, but browsing through and doing part of the assignments has been fun in between course load, outreach, teaching, being a mother, and so forth.

I am not finished with the measurements of how to incorporate learning to play chess blindly, I have looked into some software, subliminal programming from NLP, and brain data and studies over experts, more specifically, I started an outline of a study to support a friend who passed away who was encouraging of me doing a particular task.

Most of this I had worked on while she was alive, and her funeral abruptly left me with a decision to make, over whether or not to give up and let go of her encouragement since she was gone, or to carry on and finish something that was already started.

For me, it was an odds without an end, because I replayed losing my voice lesson teacher, who was the first African-American to be named Mr. UTSA where I swore off music professionally and stayed angry for a decade at anyone associated with sororities or fraternities, because he died in a drinking accident- he was not drinking, all of his friends were drunk and pushed him in a pool and watched him drowned because they did not know he could not swim, but I did and he confided it in me, because I wanted to teach him how to swim. Regardless of this, I have sometimes wrote music when I get past that loss, perhaps not as eloquently as he taught me in Italian, Spanish, and German at Zachery Middle School, but non the less, I think before I engage in music because he shaped me as an adolescent. I named my son after him in my own way.

Now that I am older, and of course I was not in love with my colleague female friend in a sexual sense where I wanted to bear her children, non-the-less, I could see myself taking a break but not swearing off my involvement in finishing my chess assignment that I had given to myself while I had worked with her when she was still alive. I could be angry at strokes because she died at 39 from a stroke, or the doctors for not saving her life- I once as a kid threatened to sue the hospital my grandmother Flora Haas died in because they let her go and to me they killed her and my father tried to explain to me that she had become at the end of her life and that there was nothing the doctors could do, where as I am probably very lucky that I was not at the hospital with other friends who knew Misty Hawley because I would have tried to convince her family that even if the doctors had determined she would not make it off the machine, she could be preserved that way until we found a cure against all odds simply because I would not have been able to let her go.

So back to the topic at hand without all of the emotional unprofessionalism ranting over loss, here is what I have partially outlined.

(Untitled Blind Chess Suggested Study: Blind Chess meaning Blindfold Chess)

ABSTRACT
Testing the brain functioning origin of blind chess in chess experts to chess novice.
Elo Rating versus (Non-elo rating?) 
Participants play blind chess, their brain patterns are recorded, results are analyzed in comparisons amoung groups
1. group comparison of ratings
2. suggested further research on area of brain that predominantly responds (fMRI or equivalent/better)
3. Teach novice chess players blind chess to record results
Primarily for number three, showing the development of lobes or places that alter heavily in response to learning, I would imagine you would be able to slightly see some sort of significance somewhere in the brain of the development reflex or connectivity or whatever someone who is trained to identify the changes of the brain in a period of learning/memory or what have not, would be able to determine based on the results or their interests in argument for what is and is not a significant result

Experimental Task 
Chess Novices
Chess Experts
Blind Chess
Brain Movement

Region of Interest Results
Anticipated
Actual

Methods
Test Group composed of both Male and Female (compare male to female in each group and then collectively male versus males in sub groups and females versus females in sub groups)
Elite Players (Rating determined upon an agreed upon expertise section)
Unrated Players (general pop without rating, having basic knowledge, or novice)
Intermediate Rated Players (in between Novice and Expert)

I would want at least 300 participants for my study off the top who were unrated and willing to be trained up to an intermediate rated player.

Considering that there is such a smaller portion of elite players, I would want a number of players relative to the population of total participants to have at least a 1% representation of the population, but not gender within, so at least 3 experts male and 3 experts female, and then I would want 20% of the population of the study to include already intermediate rated players with any results recorded of difference between their expertise level of obtaining a higher rating to show correlation between the intermediate and expert level. & I don't have any data for populations of expert women or girls, the study I got was conducted all male, so I would keep male and female in independent studies and then comparison studies if there are any differences of strengthening locations in the brain for the training outcomes to raise their ratings to show the changes.

Group Results
Group Selection
Anticipation- Theory, age, rating, part of brain
Group Results

Overview of Study
First and foremost an overview of the study would answer the question as to what part of the brain is most active or shows significance in being utilized or responding to training.
Which parts of the brain show type of activity when doing blind chess
& increased participating in blind chess does what to the brain?

Conclusion
Anticipated
Actual Results

I have not done a study research selection on anything that was done previously besides reading a poster that was caught in between construction in Green Hall.

So this is just a thought of a study outline, it is not organized enough to be a proposal, but now that I am mentioning proposals, I will include a few documents I happened to dabble with during the formation of this idea for a study.


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I worked on 9 fields of study titled: American and Related History to Chess, Chess in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Chess with Creative Arts, Communication with Chess Education, Government-Political Science Chess Course, Individual-Component-Area-Option, Language-Philosophy-Culture Chess Education, LAPS all sections as related to Chess Pieces, and Mathematics Course Content Creator. Most of them I am leaving fill in the blanks for anyone who wants to use it for a certificate to take with them to classes they are already in, are already teaching, or anticipate observing. I am finalizing them after I take a test & bring a CLEP Certificate for a course.

So Learning to speak "Russian" is a requirement to speak in order to leave from StarCity, Russian with out partnership in  leaving from Kazakhstan​ on a Soyuz or another rocket. I took a course in Russian, and then wrote a media speech to inquire to invite a Russian girls rock group to come see the SMU Embrey Human-Rights program, UTDallas, and just Texas in general.

​I was told that I could speak in English to them because they went around with translators, but I also felt that it was part of my showing respect to learn to speak in their native tongue, and having a need to learn a certain amount of fluency, even if I do advocate for Texas to be it's own private space launch capabilities through SpaceX, and NASA Johnson at Houston Space Center and ClearLake being a portal to Human Spaceflight, until we get there, we have a saying that our astronauts and cosmonauts get along even if the people in our government do not all the time.

​I learned how to read certain schematics of flight in Russian at Fondren Library, I have some other books about how Russians play chess for example, and I have taken formal college course in Russian, as well as Japanese, Arabic, following up on Spanish which I started in a High School environment during summer courses at age 11 going on 12, in Round Rock, Texas, a fairly small town when I started growing up there before moving to San Antonio and then around Texas.

​We have a CISCO system that allows us to do conference calls securely where I first inquired about speaking to a reporter who sent me one of her novels of how she became the first woman to take the astronaut tests as a reporter.

​Japanese was my original broadcast language through YouTube and at the State Capital, when I was enrolled in the course, because I had also written all 2,000 kanji characters and was interested in Anime, and traveling to Japan someday, I grew up on Hello Kitty, a Sanrio, a Japanese company. I will be passing down my Hello Kitty collection to my daughter who I named when I was 8 years old, even though I did not know when I was going to have her, I just knew what I was going to name her.

So if you do not understand Russian and are not familiar with the Cryllic language, I would not be too concerned about my broadcast. I am merely inviting them to come, and have no way of knowing when they will receive the transmission when I am done recording because someone has to contact their representative to see how to do a formal invite.

​I am just sharing with you my audience as an example, and while this may seem like it is only 6 or 7 paragraphs, if you study Russian, or have studied other languages before, doing a translation for something that could end up being viewed publically actually takes more than one opinion.

​I hope everyone is well, I also worked on a PowerPoint presentation earlier today over my human-trafficking report for inviting a few politicians from each party to give an update and talk about what is working and what is not with survivors, the law, and law enforcement. I started working at 5:30AM so I am posting this to sign off and sleep in a little later perhaps, I have a new class tomorrow!

Уважаемый Pussy Riot, меня зовут Андреа Хаас. Я хотела бы пригласить Вас приехать выступить в СМЮ  в университете на нашей программе по правам человека Эмбри. Наш университетский диплом в области прав человека является одним из шести в США. Я слежу за Вашей историей с момента когда вы попали в полицию. Мы хотим предложить Вам помощь в разговоре о тюремных системах, правах человека, прав женщин, торговле людьми, а также о добросердечном сотрудничестве в дальнейшем понимании вопросов об освобождений участников от “Путним” и обеспечении системы поддержки для тех, кто остается в рабстве или в неправомерно состоявшемся тюремном заключении, а также проданы в качестве сексуальной рабыни в 5-звездочных отелях. Я только учу русский язык, поэтому простите меня, если мои слова недостаточно четко высказаны. Для меня было бы честью встретиться с Вами и поговорить при университете СМЮ. Я прекланяюсь перед Вами за Ваши планы номинироваться на государственную должность и укрепить женское лидерство в России и в мире. Я хотела бы лично сопровождать Вас и приветствовать вас в Техасе. Можете ли вы посетить нас?

I am in the process of uploading audio for some of these articles and editing in between work, studying, and so forth.

​I have about 159 items digitally with 10-15% audio that goes up to an hour per memo, so I have to find out what I am allowed to disclose for public use and what fellow profs would consider to have a time-limit that has not exceeded it's use and would not be permitted commercially.

​​​Joseth Parker coming up next week & new classes for the summer.

I also went through 1,000 questions as an outline for a certificate to complete something through the college board.

I outlined in an approximation based on grouping the chapters & a given number of sections.

I should probably reedit something on one of my websites that states that increase of 365 to 714 as stipulated in a two year period of observation, influenced by one of my favorite television series that I own on DVD, primarily because the rate of increase was deduced with motion vectors relative to the intersection of mathematics and physics originally acquired from a Japanese journal. Not exactly Anime, but I am more concerned that it reads as if I took a calendar for people as variables in a graphic genre supporting sexuality and neuroscience of the mathematical primer where my notes originally were contained with in the booklet as factors from the positions of the drawings.

For the past two days of primarily focused on my outlines to finish work, and wrapping up independent studies that I released to the independent review board as closing out from some of my projects. One of the stipulations of the certificate that I am writing for an honor of another person has to deal with the difference between the sensing Motion that occurs from behind you which primarily is not as relative as the memorization of strategic analytical thinking to gaming theory paired with styles of movement in regards to solving problems either with your eyes closed or with assistance of using predictive blank spaces of canvases you can create with your mind in anticipating and executing a solution.