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Well, for starters, it has to find some folks to replace the recently departed trio — a task that may be easier said than done, given the show's rather rocky first season.\n\n\"There's rumors that [Cowell] wants to bring Mariah Carey on. ... Simon's always had this idea that 'X Factor' was going to be like 'American Idol' on steroids, so getting someone like Mariah would be huge,\" said Lyndsey Parker, managing editor of Yahoo! Music. \"But I don't know if she would do it, because is the show now considered a sinking ship? I think the image of 'X Factor' is a little tarnished; the ratings weren't what Simon said they were going to be. 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The Chinese government also encourages the development and application of blockchain technology, but has made it clear that blockchain technology must service the real economy.\n\nOn 4 September 2017, seven government agencies of China, i.e. the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the Central Cybersecurity and Information Technology Lead Group of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Security Regulatory Commission and China Insurance Regulatory Commission, jointly issued the Notice regarding Prevention of Risks of Token Offering and Financing. The notice banned all ICOs in China and ordered that any organizations or individuals who had previously completed an ICO to make arrangements including the return of token assets to investors to protect investor rights.\n\nTo understand this harsh attitude, we have to look at the big picture of China’s economy and financial market. In the past 20-plus years, China has enjoyed rapid economic development which, many believe, came at the cost of high leverage in the financial system and accumulation of financial risks. In the past two years, control of financial risks and stabilization of the financial system has become the top priority of the PBOC. Before ICOs, internet platforms providing P2P loans and micro lending had been targeted by the PBOC and other financial regulators, and are still in the process of cleansing and rectification. 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If the ICO involved financial crimes based on Chinese criminal law standards, the promoters or organizers of those ICOs may potentially be subject to Chinese criminal liabilities if they are Chinese citizens. Even if they are not Chinese citizens, if overseas ICOs attracted Chinese investors, they may still potentially be subject to Chinese criminal liabilities.\n\nThe notice also targeted cryptocurrency exchanges and ordered that any so-called fundraising and trading platforms must not:\n\nFurther, many exchanges launched peer-to-peer trading platforms that support direct transactions between investors without the exchange acting as a CCP. On those platforms, one investor can buy cryptocurrencies from another investor and pay the seller via bank transfers, Alipay or Wechat pay.\n\nThese modified business models are not entirely safe from Chinese criminal law perspective. Although major exchanges have been relocated overseas, they may still be subject to Chinese criminal liabilities. If the founders or managers of an exchange are Chinese nationals, or they make decisions in China to operate the overseas exchange, or the investors are in China, or if the exchange performs prohibited functions, Chinese justice authorities will still have jurisdiction over those persons.\n\nTo further prevent Chinese investors from purchasing and trading cryptocurrencies on overseas exchanges, China has blocked internet access to the websites of some overseas exchanges. According to Chinese law, no person should use the internet to view information that violates Chinese laws and regulations.\n\nThose who access overseas exchanges via virtual private networks (VPNs) may potentially face risks if the exchanges contain prohibited information. In January 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ruled that only authorized VPNs could be used in China. The sale or provision of VPN services by companies or individuals without telecom licences issued by Chinese telecom authorities became illegal.\n\nIn view of China’s harsh attitude towards ICOs and cryptocurrency exchanges, some may assume that it would be illegal for Chinese to hold or trade Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies.\n\nThis seems consistent with an early notice jointly issued by five Chinese government agencies, led by the PBOC, in 2013, which defined Bitcoin as a special virtual commodity, but not a currency. That notice also explicitly provides that Bitcoin does not have legal status as a currency and should not be circulated and used in the market as a currency. This should still be the position taken by the PBOC today.\n\nArticle 127 of the General Rules of the Civil Law of China, which took effect on 1 October 2017, provides that: “In case laws have provisions on the protection of data and internet virtual properties, such laws should be complied with.”\n\nSome experts believe that this means that one of the basic laws in China recognizes the legal status of cryptocurrencies as virtual property.\n\nSenior officials of the PBOC have publicly encouraged the use of blockchain technology to improve the convenience, promptness and low cost of retail payments. In fact, the PBOC established its own Digital Currency Research Institute for the goal of issuing digital money. 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Since 2011, the University of Derby has extended that support through becoming major funders, partners and co-producers of the Festival through the University’s Digital and Material Arts Research Centre (DMARC).\n\nOver a fifteen-year period, FORMAT has now established itself as the UK’s leading international festival of contemporary photography and related media. It has grown to be an engaging and challenging, but accessible, celebration of the photographic image in all its forms. Its dynamic blend and range of activities with innovative approaches to audience engagement and participation are combined with, of course, just being the best place in the UK to see work by established practitioners alongside the latest in emerging talent.\n\nEach edition of the FORMAT Festival is curated and programmed in response to a theme, reflecting current debates and issues. The next Festival will take place from March 15 to April 14 2019, under the theme of ‘Forever//Now’. It will explore our association with the past and memory and our attachment to the veracity of the photograph as a reliable representation of what has existed in a previous time and space. It also suggests a preservation of that record through the archive into the present and the future, where it can be questioned, re-evaluated and re-presented. Previous themes have also examined other global issues including, notions of mass production ‘Factory’ (2013) the photograph as reflection of reality ‘Evidence’ (2015) and ecological impact and legacies ‘Habitat’ (2017).\n\nIn addition to the subject matter, the sheer range of work on offer has always been FORMAT’s major asset – from exhibitions to publications, immersive multidisciplinary installations, through to web-based and performance-based works, all shown in unique and often re-purposed landmark and architectural locations in and around the city.\n\nFORMAT has certainly put Derby on the world cultural map in a major way and is a key critical platform for attracting both cultural tourists along with significant press and media attention. Its growing importance and international stature is reflected in showing, to date, the work of over 1,000 photographers from 112 countries and featuring the biggest UK portfolio review, with 50 reviewers from around the globe. 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"Today, we are so happy that we have been joined by the multi-talented writer David Pepose. David is the writer of numerous comics including Spencer & Locke and Scout’s Honor.\n\nI’m David Pepose, and I’ve written comics like the Ringo Award-nominated Spencer & Locke and Going to the Chapel at Action Lab Entertainment, The O.Z. on Kickstarter, Scout’s Honor at AfterShock Comics, and more. I’ve worked as a crime reporter, a comics journalist, and even in TV publicity, but thankfully I’ve landed exactly where I was meant to be.\n\nHow did you get into the comics industry?\n\nI’ve been a comics reader my entire life, dating back to my copy of Amazing Spider-Man #346 when I was a kid. I got my first break in the comics industry as an editorial intern at DC Comics, where I worked on books like Final Crisis, Batman RIP, and Green Lantern: Secret Origin. After that, I landed at Newsarama, where I wound up serving as their reviews editor for over a decade. Somewhere in the middle of all that, I found myself really restless creatively — and so I started writing scripts to pass the time. The first full-length script I wrote wound up becoming my breakout series Spencer & Locke — once I sold that series, I’ve been writing ever since.\n\nBoy, how long do you have for me to answer that? (Laughs) Frank Miller and Devin Grayson are two creators that have always really informed my work, just in terms of experimenting with style and emotion. I’ve also drawn inspiration from Dan Slott, Geoff Johns, Rick Remender… as I’m thinking about it, Jonathan Hickman and Al Ewing might be my two favorite writers today — they’re insanely talented and brilliant, and their work has consistently inspired me to keep upping my game.",
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"Could you tell us about the origin of Spencer & Locke?\n\nWhen I first decided to try writing a longer-form series, I thought about how people say “write about what you know.” That’s a piece of advice that I think is often misinterpreted, but at the time, all I could think was, what do I know about anything? I knew about comics. My first instinct was that might be pretty limiting, but then I realized I could lean into it, by mashing up the iconic creative voices of my youth. The idea of remixing old-school Frank Miller crime fiction with something as wild and imaginative as Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes felt like I was putting myself up for a dare — there’s a surprising amount of overlap in terms of their sensibilities, and that overlap allowed turned our psychological crime thriller into a really compelling exploration into trauma and mental illness.\n\nHow did you find the rest of the team for Spencer & Locke?\n\nThrough a lot of trial and error on the Internet. (Laughs) I connected with artist Jorge Santiago, Jr. by looking for recent graduates from comic book art schools — SCAD, RISD, the Kubert School, SVA, just to name a few. I was really impressed with Jorge’s portfolio, and as it turned out, he had been really interested in tackling a crime series, so the timing was perfect for us to develop Spencer & Locke. Meanwhile, I knew letterer Colin Bell from my reviewer days at Newsarama, where I had been Colin’s editor — he was really the first pro letterer I ever met, so I pretty much deputized him immediately. Colorist Jasen Smith was the trickiest person to find — we had looked at samples from a few other colorists, but it wasn’t until my friend Taylor Esposito recommended Jasen that we found the right fit for Jorge’s lineart. The rest is history!\n\nWhat can you tell us about Spencer & Locke 3?\n\nI have to keep things a little close to the vest on this one, since it’s still pretty far out — Spencer & Locke 3 is going to be the exclamation point at the end of the sentence that is our series. We’ve got a Garfield-themed serial killer picking off our homage to the Peanuts gang, all while Spencer and Locke find themselves navigating a critical crossroads in their unlikely friendship. Combine that with a brand-new partner for them, and there’s a lot of balls we have to juggle in this series!\n\nWhat can readers expect from The O.Z. #2?\n\nNow that Dorothy Gale has found herself stranded in the war-torn land of Oz, she’s going to have to make some tough decisions as the Resistance goes on the hunt for the Silver Slippers. Without spoiling too much, we had a reveal at the end of our first issue of another character who will be joining Dorothy’s squadron — a warrior-king with plenty of experience with courage on the battlefield…",
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"Working with AfterShock has been a long time coming — I worked under editor Mike Marts when I was an intern at DC, and when I saw him step away from the Big Two to head up AfterShock’s publishing line, I knew it was a company I wanted to work with. It took a little while to find the right pitch for AfterShock’s publishing slate, but I just kept in touch with Mike and president Lee Kramer with each new book I produced. Eventually, the stars aligned and we found something that clicked.\n\nHow would you describe Scout’s Honor?\n\nScout’s Honor follows a post-apocalyptic cult that has risen from the ashes of a nuclear war… and their bible is an old Boy Scout manual. Hundreds of years later, the Ranger Scouts of America are the leading force for law and order amidst the irradiated Colorado Badlands — and their most promising recruit is a young initiate named Kit. But Kit is harboring a secret — in this patriarchal survivalist hierarchy that only allows men to serve, Kit’s had to conceal her identity as a woman in order to pursue her calling as a Ranger Scout. Unfortunately, Kit makes a chilling discovery that is going to shake her entire faith in the Ranger Scout doctrine, as she struggles with losing her religion on a dangerous quest for the truth. It’s like a post-apocalyptic Joan of Arc, tailor-made for fans of Mad Max: Fury Road, The Hunger Games, and The Handmaid’s Tale.\n\nWhat has it been like working with Luca, Matt, Carlos, Andy and Jose on Scout’s Honor?\n\nIt’s been really terrific — Luca Casalanguida has such a sense of drama to his work, but he’s also got that rawness that permeates all the action sequences. Pairing him with colorist Matt Milla has been a real dream team, as we’re able to bounce between the harsh earth tones of a post-apocalyptic world, while throwing in neon accents that remind us of the radioactive energy of this world. Letterer Carlos Mangual also threads the needle nicely, not just making my dialogue flow on the page, but adding his own degree of grit to the Ranger Scouts’ world. And I can’t say enough good things about our cover art team of Andy Clarke and Jose Villarrubia — these are some of the most beautiful covers I’ve ever had on my books, and they’ve really leaned into the high concepts of each issue nicely.",
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"On November 7th, SLASH and MYLES KENNEDY were guests on the Norwegian / Swedish television talk show, Skavlan, reports Bravewords.com. The pair played an acoustic version of the song “Bent To Fly”, from their new album World On Fire. See the performance video, as well an an interview clip with Slash below.\n\nRemaining 2014 tour dates for Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators are as listed:\n\nThe upcoming issue of Sweden Rock Magazine, in stores on October 21, includes a seven-page long article about W.A.S.P. guitarist Doug Blair‘s Carreer. W.A.S.P.-fans who are not subscribers should immediately obtain a subscription via this link. Even fans of Slash should turn to when a Slash t-shirt is included as an extra bonus!”",
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"From 2003 to 2006 the festival lasted three days and had by then featured some of the biggest acts in metal and rock. From 2007 the festival has been expanded to four days and will feature approximately 120 different bands/artists.\n\nPosted by tarjavirmakari on September 17, 2014\nPosted in: Int. News. Tagged: Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators, Slash, World on Fire. Leave a comment",
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"SLASH Featuring MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS unleashed their new album “World On Fire” on September 16th, via Slash’s own label Dik Hayd International, reports Bravewords, distributed through Caroline. Listen to the new album streaming in full below.\n\nOn Friday, September 19, the Grammy winner and Rock N’ Roll Hall of Famer Slash will be on hand at Universal Studios Hollywood to unveil the new maze Clowns 3D Music By Slash at Halloween Horror Nights. This collaboration with prolific guitarist Slash marks the first time a musician has created an original maze score for the popular event. Later that night, Slash will receive an Eyegore Award which honors influential entertainment professionals for bringing the horror genre to life within the movie, television and music industries. Slash will join a roster of today’s leading Hollywood horror icons at the show including Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn, Grindhouse) and John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, The Blues Brothers) and many more. Following the annual Eyegore Awards, Slash and his bandmate Myles Kennedy will perform “Nothing Left To Fear”, the title song for his first-ever motion picture (2013) he co-produced through his film/TV production company Slasher Films.",
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"On Saturday, September 20th, Slash will do a complete takeover of AXS TV with the Slash Bash 2014 kicking off at 10 AM, ET/7 AM, PT. The day-long event is loaded with the best that hard rock and heavy metal has to offer. Packed with exclusive interstitial content, the spectacular features interviews with Slash, as well as music videos; live performances by Slash with Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, KISS, and AC/DC; and is headlined by the television premiere of the all-new documentary Ernie Ball Presents: Real To Reel With Slash airing at 8 PM, ET/5 PM, PT. Watch the sizzle reel for AXS TV’s Slash Bash 2014:\n\nBeginning Tuesday, September 23rd, Slash will celebrate the release of World On Fire by returning to the iconic guitarist’s stomping grounds with a series of three very special sold-out club shows: September 23rd (The Troubadour) and then, moving up the hill to the world-famous Sunset Strip, September 25th (The Roxy) and September 26th (The Whisky A Go Go).\n\nThese shows are presented by and honor the 50-year anniversary of the beloved musician retailer Guitar Center. For more information, go to SlashOnline.com. Fans can be a part of history as Guitar Center will present Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Live From the Roxy, to be broadcast on national television on DIRECTV’s Audience Network (Ch 239) November 9th at 8 PM. The 90-minute full rock concert will be filmed in stunning 4k and 5.1 surround sound. Fans can enter to win a VIP trip for two to see The Roxy show and take home an Epiphone Les Paul signed by the legendary guitarist, visit Guitarcenter.com/Slash to win.\n\nThe World On Fire disc marks Slash’s third solo offering and second album with his official band The Conspirators which features Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums) and Todd Kerns (bass). For World On Fire, Slash and the band worked with producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette (Alter Bridge, Falling In Reverse, Incubus) to create a powerful new turn for the band in 17 songs. World On Fire is the follow-up to 2012’s Apocalyptic Love which debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and earned Slash two No. 1 US rock radio hits – his first-ever solo – with “You’re A Lie” and “Standing In The Sun”. Slash officially began recording as a solo artist with his self-titled 2010 debut album which employed a different vocalist on each track of his first album including Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie and Myles Kennedy among others.\n\nCatch Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators on the road through the fall. Expect more dates to be announced for early 2015.\n\nSLASH: Why PAUL STANLEY Told Me To Go F**k Myself\n\nSlash has commented on a story in Paul Stanley‘s autobiography in which the KISS frontman claimed that he had to teach the former GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist a pretty harsh lesson in rock and roll diplomacy more than 25 years ago, according to Blabbermouth.net.\n\nIn “Face The Music: A Life Exposed”, Stanley recalled the time he was asked to meet with the members of GUNS N’ ROSES, who were about to start work on their now-classic debut album, “Appetite For Destruction” album. Although Stanley claims he wasn’t all that impressed at first, describing guitarist Izzy Stradlin as “unconscious, with drool coming out of the side of his mouth,” and Slash as “half-comatose,” the KISS guitarist-vocalist was nice enough to show Slash how to tune his guitar in the five-string open-G method preferred by Keith Richards, and offered to put the GN’R axeman in touch with people who could get him free guitars. Paul then went to go see GUNS N’ ROSES play two small Los Angeles-area club shows, which he described as “stupendous.” According to Ultimate Classic Rock, it was an incident at the second of those concerts that created the initial rift between Slash and Stanley. “They weren’t happy with the guy mixing their sound,” Stanley wrote in his book. “And Slash asked me out of the blue to help out. Decades later, Slash’s recollections of the night would be faulty at best. He liked to pretend I had dared to meddle with their sound.”\n\nStanley continued: “Immediately after my interactions with the band, I started to hear lots of stories Slash was saying behind my back — he called me gay, made fun of my clothes, all sorts of things designed to give him some sort of rock credibility at my expense. This was years before his top hat, sunglasses and dangling cigarette became a cartoon costume that he would continue to milk with the best of us for decades.”\n\nAccording to Stanley, he next spoke to Slash a few months later when the GN’R guitarist called up to see if Stanley could still set him up with those free guitars. “You want me to help you get guitars after you went around saying all that shit about me behind my back?” Stanley said he told Slash. “You know, one thing you’re going to have to learn is not to air your dirty laundry in public. Nice knowing you. Go fuck yourself.”\n\nIn a recent interview with Germany’s Rock Hard magazine, Slash revealed that he hadn’t yet read Stanley’s book, but more or less confirmed the KISS frontman’s version of events. He said (see video below): “What happened was… I don’t wanna bring it all up again… But he had come around to produce GUNS N’ ROSES way back in the day, before we actually made the first record [1987’s ‘Appetite For Destruction’]. And at some point, we decided we didn’t… We never, actually, were interested in working with him. But we sort of had him around because he was Steve Adler’s [original GUNS N’ ROSES drummer] hero. Anyway, and so, at that time, I’d done an interview for the ‘Calendar’ [section] in the [Los Angeles] Times, and I’d said something derogatory about him. And then, months later, [I] realized that he had an arrangement with B.C. Rich, and I was looking to try and get a guitar to record the ‘Appetite’ record, and asked him if he would hook me up with some B.C. Riches. And he said something along the lines of, ‘You shouldn’t air your dirty laundry in public,’ having to do with him. ‘So, no, I won’t help you.’ And I was, like, ‘OK.’ And we didn’t speak for years after that. It was only until roughly 2006 that we got reacquainted when I was doing the KISS ‘Rock Honors’ for VH1 and we sort of let bygones be bygones. And so we’re more or less cool now.”",
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"Posted by aliblackdiamond on May 4, 2014\nPosted in: Int. News. Tagged: Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators, Slash. Leave a comment\n\nGuitarist SLASH has announced via his official Facebook page that his new album, featuring MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS is almost complete:\n\n“Mix is finished on the new record! Mastering next weekend. Artwork is set. Will announce the title soon. Can’t wait to unleash it!”\n\nTo hear more about what Slash and co. have to say about the upcoming album, check the recent Reel To Reel video clip below:\n\nFor more information on Slash, check this location.",
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"KAMLOOPS, BC (PGA of British Columbia) – Chilliwack Golf Club’s Jake Scarrow staked out an early lead with a phenomenal front nine and held on for a one-stroke victory in the TaylorMade Golf & adidas Golf PGA of BC Championship presented by Axis Insurance Group on Tuesday at Rivershore Golf Links.\n\nScarrow’s 30 strokes on the outward nine gave him an edge on the field that he would never relinquish, as the 24-year-old’s tournament-low 65 in the final round left him at 8-under-par for the 36-hole championship, one shot better than Nate Ollis (Cordova Bay Golf Course).\n\n“It’s definitely up there,” Scarrow said of where a PGA of BC Championship victory ranked among his accomplishments in golf. “It’s really nice to have a good ball-striking day and be able to take advantage of it, and this was one of those days for sure.”\n\nEntering the day two strokes off the lead shared by Ollis, Parry and Cody Stewart (Chilliwack Golf Club), Scarrow took command of the tournament by playing the final six holes of the front-nine in 6-under-par, notching four birdies and an eagle on the par-5 eighth hole over that stretch.\n\n“The putter got hot and I just hit it in some really good spots,” he said.\n\n“I knew when I turned I had a three-shot lead … but I thought I did really well just hitting it to the middle of greens and made pars coming in. When you have the lead, that’s what you need to do.”\n\nScarrow earned $6,250 for the win, a championship ring courtesy of title sponsors TaylorMade Golf and adidas Golf, and will have his name etched on the William Thompson Trophy. It’s his second PGA of BC title, having won the Tournament of Champions as an amateur alongside Matt Palsenbarg (Point Grey Golf & Country Club) in 2018 when both represented The Tour LAB at Northview.\n\nScarrow led by as many as four strokes on the back nine Tuesday but Ollis kept things interesting right to the end while playing in the final group. After making a 40-foot putt for birdie on the par-3 17th to close the gap to two shots, Ollis had another lengthy bid for eagle on the par-5 18th that was on the perfect line but came up short by a matter of inches.\n\n“When putts like that one on 17 go in, it’s a bit of a bonus. You’re just trying to get the speed right,” said Ollis, 28. “(On 18) I thought, ‘Just get the speed right one more time and see what happens.’ There was a split-second where I thought I’d made it, but obviously it just ran out of gas at the end.”\n\nOllis pocketed $4,150 for his best result in a PGA of BC individual stroke-play championship.\n\nOlson collected yet another solid result to continue his excellent 2021 season, which included a runner-up finish at last month’s PGA of BC Assistants’ Championship. The third-place finish Tuesday was worth $3,200 for the 25-year-old.\n\n“I just couldn’t really make enough putts out there today, I thought I had a pretty solid round but that’s how it goes,” said Olson. “Jake had a great front nine and a great round overall and that was going to be pretty tough to beat.”\n\nCLICK HERE to view final results and earnings for the 82-player field.\n\nA past winner of the BC Junior Boys Championship, Scarrow said Tuesday’s win was especially satisfying given the talent level of the field he beat out for the title.\n\n“Nate was playing unbelievable … and the track record for Bryn is basically second to none in BC,” he said. “It felt good to get a handshake from Bryn and the rest of the guys after the round, for sure.”\n\nWith Stewart also placing among the top eight alongside Scarrow and Olson, Chilliwack Golf Club was well represented at Rivershore Golf Links this week. Scarrow said the skilled group of PGA of BC Professionals at the facility have managed to push each other to great results over the past couple of seasons.\n\n“We’ve all been feeding off each other and it’s kind of a friendly rivalry,” he said. “We hate losing to each other, which I think is a good motivator, but we love winning. I can’t say enough good things about Chilliwack and with the guys we have there, I think we have a recipe for success.”\n\nRivershore Golf Links was hosting its fourth PGA of BC Championship and once again served up an exciting finish along the banks of the South Thompson River. The PGA of BC thanks Executive Professional Kevin Oates, Head Professional Kate Weir and the entire team of staff and volunteers from the club’s membership for their outstanding hospitality in hosting the event.\n\nThe Association also thanks longtime title sponsors TaylorMade Golf and adidas Golf for their support and on-site presence at the tournament, and presenting sponsors at the Axis Insurance Group for their continued patronage of the championship.\n\nFor more than 80 years, adidas has been part of the world of sports on every level, delivering state of-the-art sports footwear, apparel and accessories. Today, adidas is a global leader in the sporting goods industry and offers a broad portfolio of products.\n\nadidas Golf boasts one of the strongest rosters of tour athletes, including No. 1 world-ranked player Dustin Johnson. Xander Schauffele, Danielle Kang, Tyrell Hatton, Jessica Korda and Collin Morikawa are just a few other top talents partnered with adidas Golf. The company’s products resonate with golfers worldwide thanks to unparalleled performance in its ZG21 footwear and Go-To apparel, as well as the wear-anywhere versatility of the adicross apparel line. Click here to visit adidas Golf online.\n\nThe Axis Insurance Group was formed in 2017 through a brand amalgamation of several BC-based insurance brokerages with roots tracing to 1928. The experience of its combined 150 team members is uniquely positioned to serve Canada with risk-management and insurance services.\n\nWhether it's mitigating liability risk, protecting your commercial property, insuring a tournament's hole-in-one contest or anything else in between, contact Axis to find out what coverage options are available to be customized for your facility. By partnering with the largest insurance companies in Canada, Axis Insurance Group has access to the best coverage solutions on the market. 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"Posted by saintnexan on May 26, 2020\nPosted in: Review. Leave a comment\n\nSo the other day it was pretty nice out, so I had the window in my office open. I shoulda known I’d end up lettin’ bugs in that way, but I didn’t expect a 24″ winged bug-man thingy in a black business suit and shades carryin’ an RPG rulebook. (That was pretty impressive, since it was a full-size rulebook that coulda smashed the bug good and flat.)\n\nThe little critter flies over to my desk, drops off the book, then flits over to the chair.\n\n“Hello!” he says. “I’ve been sent on a dangerous mission to deliver you this review copy of Agents of Concordia!”\n\n“Uh-huh,” I says. “Is this a game about playin’ sharp-dressed bugs?”\n\n“I am a Phyllia, not a ‘bug’,” the uppity bug says. “And no, the game is not just about playing my species. It is about playing secret agents of many different species, including your own, defending a magical multiverse from terrible danger in an alternate 1960s.”\n\n“Fantasy spies, eh?” I says. “I can get behind that. Okay, yer on. Now you’d better hurry up and fly back out the window before anyone sees you.”",
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"It’s 1964 on Earth, and on the surface, everything is perfectly normal.\n\nIt turns out, however, that the dimension we know is just one of many, and many of these worlds are members of a commonwealth known as Concordia. For its part, Earth sits at one end of the multiverse, one step away from the Singularity, the source of Aether, the stuff of magic. At the other end of the multiverse sits Artifex, the gateway to the Primal Dimensions, home to horrible monsters of all descriptions known as Vagrants — creatures that would like nothing more than to ravage their way to Earth and the Singularity.\n\nThe players are agents of Concordia Central Intelligence (CCI), a sort of magical Men in Black organization who deal with threats to the multiverse.\n\nThe book describes 15 different worlds in loving detail. The only real problem I have with the descriptions is that they don’t really convey the tech levels of these worlds aside from that of Helix, home to advanced computers, holograms, and automatons.\n\nMagic generally takes the form of rituals and enchanted items. The book offers a number of the latter — including the Necronomicon! — that agents can check out from the agency’s armory, but I was disappointed to find rituals completely absent except for the Rituals skill itself. That strikes me as a fairly major omission, given how magic-rich the book tells us that the worlds of Concordia are.\n\nThe book features a respectable collection of 22 creatures, from the lowly Average Joe to the apocalyptic Herald of Devastation. In addition, two entries are actually templates — one for large beasts, one for small beasts. Many of the creatures display the author’s great creativity, such as the Noise, a living audible signal that spreads like a literal earworm. Unfortunately, some of the entries lack sufficient description — the Whaleruss, which lacks any physical description aside from its great size, is a prime example.\n\nCharacters have six attributes (“Basic Abilities” in AoC parlance) rated from -6 to +6: Constitution, Dexterity, Focus, Wisdom, Wits, and Charisma. The 30 skills, rated from 1-3, are quite broad, as befits a cinematic game — Melee Weapons, for example, covers all hand-to-hand weapons.\n\nCharacters also have Perks — aspects of the characters that provide Support (see below) in certain circumstances (e.g., when you’re an Animal Lover interacting with animals) as well as some special abilities (e.g., Amphibian lets the character breathe underwater).\n\nInterestingly, character creation in this game doesn’t involve point-based selections. Instead, base scores in attributes come from the character’s species, as do some initial Perks. Then, the selection of the character’s background, basic training, and career with the CCI provide modifiers to attributes and skills as well as additional Perks. With 15 backgrounds, 20 species, and 10 careers, there’s plenty of room for players to create the characters they want without the need to juggle points.\n\nThe species themselves are just as exotic as the worlds in which they live and are described just as well. I can’t really do the species descriptions justice, except to say that all of them are unique to this setting (with the possible exception of Automatons and, of course, Humans).\n\nPlayers roll a number of d12s equal to their characters’ skill, take the highest, and add the attribute score, attempting to beat a target number. Easy enough.\n\nThe skills aren’t hard-linked to a specific attribute, allowing for some creativity on the part of the players when it comes to resolving problems. The text helpfully offers a number of attribute/skill combinations that might prove useful in a variety of situations.\n\nDifficulty level is reflected in Supports and Cripples, which add a flat +3 or -3 to the attempt, respectively. The text warns GMs to beware of going overboard on Supports and Cripples, since a single Support or Cripple can make or break a roll. Accordingly, these modifiers are only applied when the circumstances significantly affect the attempt. I like the simplicity here, but I think it may be a little on the coarse side. For example, climbing equipment might add a +3 to a climbing effort, but +6 would probably be too much to reflect particularly good climbing equipment.\n\nFor each factor of the target number the roll beats, the attempt earns a Success Level. Success Levels, in turn, may be spent on four different effects:\n\nI always like for success levels to matter, so this is a major plus for me.\n\nOn the other hand, I find the Grit attribute, derived from Constitution, to be problematic. Grit affects the character’s wound threshold and hand-to-hand combat damage. The problem is that it ranges from -1 to +1. That’s it. In my opinion, that’s not enough to reflect the might of really big, strong characters. (Or really tiny, weak characters, for that matter.)\n\nCombat uses the same basic rules as does normal task resolution. The GM doesn’t normally roll, as the NPC stats are expressed as target numbers. All PCs have a health score (hit points) of 6. Once those are gone, the players have to roll Constitution and the Endurance skill to stay conscious. In addition, PCs have a wound threshold of Grit + 3. If an attack exceeds that threshold in damage, the character receives a Wound Level for each time the damage exceeds the threshold. The player and GM get to decide the specific nature of the wounds. Apparently, the only way for a PC to die is to receive a Wound Level while unconscious, which, I suppose, goes along with the cinematic nature of the game.\n\nThe only problem is that what they’re used for isn’t at all clear. The rules state that they may be spent to interrupt an action in combat and to make a Dexterity + Dodge roll an automatic 6, but the text also says that they may be spent to succeed at rolls that would otherwise fail. Does that mean a Veterancy point expenditure results in an automatic success? Do they instead grant a bonus to the roll? If so, how large? I’m really not sure.\n\nAs previously mentioned, the GM doesn’t normally roll for NPCs because their stats are presented as target numbers. To be specific, NPCs have pre-rolled scores for combat and non-combat actions. I see the value of streamlining in this manner, and certainly, it makes improvising NPC stats a breeze, but I think there may be a bit too much streamlining here. There’s not an obvious way to know how strong, agile, or smart a creature is supposed to be — it’s all lumped into those two stats.\n\nThe book includes a simple introductory adventure involving the agents making sure a seemingly idyllic island village is safe and stress-free for a very important person going into hiding there under the CCI’s protection. The text describes the villagers in great detail, and it turns out the situation on the island isn’t all that idyllic after all. The adventure includes a timeline of what will happen while the agents are there but otherwise leaves them to their own devices.\n\nPlayers who aren’t proactive may find this adventure frustrating, or even boring. The adventure assumes that the agents will do a great deal of interacting with the villagers, intervening when they discover trouble. And even the most proactive players may still feel let down by the relative lack of action — with a few exceptions, violence will only occur if the agents screw something up.\n\nPersonally, I’d prefer a more high-octane introductory adventure, but players who thrive on roleplaying should be happy.\n\nThe full-color art is top-notch throughout the book, ranging from good to outstanding. The otherworldly cityscape on the cover is simply stunning.\n\nThe writing is both accessible and evocative, and the layout is attractive and fairly easy on the eyes. I didn’t notice any major typos. The book includes a thorough index.\n\nThe premise of Agents of Concordia is remarkably creative and loaded with potential. The core mechanic is simple and transparent. However, I think the core book strongly needs a supplement to fill in some of the setting gaps, particularly in the areas of technology and magic. Don’t get me wrong: It’s fully playable as-is with a bit of creativity on the part of the GM, but I can’t help but feeling that such creativity will paint GMs into a corner when they try to fill in the gaps themselves and later discover that the setting has been developed in a different direction.\n\nSo, should you get this game? If the premise I’ve described appeals to you, absolutely. It may take a wee bit of creative elbow grease, but the end result — the adventures of magical dimension-hopping secret agents — looks to be a whole lot of fun."
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"What should be clear to the whole world watching the debt-ceiling battle is that the Republicans are far more intent on taking the president’s scalp than balancing the nation’s books. They had ample opportunities to do the latter during the eight years of George W. Bush.\n\nHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., has been especially relentless in the debt-ceiling fight. He attacked this first African-American president with a palpable disrespect not only for Obama personally, but also for his esteemed office.\n\nFollowing what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called Cantor’s “childish” display during a meeting with Obama, the House majority leader complained that the president had cut short the meeting and stormed out of the room. “He shoved back and said, ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ and walked out,” Cantor snidely told reporters— as though the president needs his permission to end a White House gathering.\n\nThat encounter might have reminded Obama of the open letter Frederick Douglass, a runaway slave and abolitionist who became one of this nation’s first black diplomats, wrote to his slave master.\n\nIt would be “a privilege” to show you “how mankind ought to treat each other,” Douglass told the man who had badly mistreated him. “I am your fellow man, but not your slave.”\n\nDouglass’ words might have prompted another reflection when, during a critical point in the debt negotiations, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, contemptuously waited more than half a day to return a call from the president.\n\nOr, Obama might have heard Douglass’ words ringing in his ears after acting House Speaker Steve LaTourette of Ohio had to warn his GOP colleagues during a heated debt-reduction debate on the House floor to stop making disparaging remarks about Obama.\n\nThis total lack of respect is downright contemptible — if not unpatriotic. Such contempt, I’m convinced, is rooted in something other than political differences. Today, you might not see the overt actions of racist southern governors like Ross Barnett or George Wallace in the 1960s. But the presence of Jim Crow, Jr. — a more subtle form of racism — is there.\n\nIt’s possible to blame the raw rhetoric and tension between the president and the Republicans on the summer heat, the unflinching media scrutiny on the debt ceiling negotiations or next year’s elections and the gamesmanship that Washington thrives on in these sort of dust-ups.\n\nOn the other hand, maybe Wickham is right. Maybe the Republicans have a deeper seeded issue with Obama. Like a racial one.\n\nThe latest example comes from Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado:\n\n“Even if some people say, well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that, they will hold the president responsible,” said Lamborn said Friday during an interview on a Denver radio station. “Now I don’t want to even have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar baby and you get, you get it, you know… you are stuck and you are part of the problem now and you can’t get away.“\n\nThe sooap that makes you dirtier, not cleaner.\n\nLamborn may just be a lamebrain who had no idea of the racial (and racist) implications of such a loaded phrase.\n\nBut how many “accidents” does it take before it stops being accidental and starts being deliberate? How many times can the nation’s first Black president be taunted, mocked and insulted based upon his race before it becomes clear it is based on racism?\n\nHow far does it have to go? Does someone have to stand in the well of the House or Senate and drop a “N-bomb” on Obama before there’s no denying it anymore?\n\nApologists for Lamborn have said he meant no offense by the reference and people who are offended now were probably the same ones who were offended when the word “niggardly” was used by another politician years ago.\n\n“Niggardly” isn’t an insult. Niggardly means cheap, not a dark-skinned person of African heritage. “Tar baby” is an insult and if you doubt me, try calling any sentient Black man by that name and see how they react (but you might want to take a step or two back first).\n\nSince we’re mucking around deep in the Cliche mine, let’s excavate another one while we’re in here. It’s called “playing the race card” and you don’t have to be Black to pull it and throw in on table as a device to shame guilty conscience liberals into spasms of White guilt.\n\nLamborn the Lamebrain and his victim.\n\nWhite folks can pull it too–and they do. They do it when they want to dog whistle to the real hardcore racists, that they got their back. “Pssst…I can’t say it out loud, but I can’t stand ‘those people’ either.”\n\nDid anyone’s ears just perk up?\n\nLamborn apologized to the president and says he “regrets any misunderstanding” over his comments. What’s to misunderstand? How many times do most people say “tar baby” in a year?\n\nAn apology is meaningless when it’s issued only because you got caught in the act of being stupid, insensitive, crude, but mostly racist.\n\nAn apology is worthless when it’s issued after the dog whistle to the really hardcore racist that you’re sorry you said it (but really you’re not sorry at all).\n\nAn apology is garbage when you know what you said is what you meant and the “apology” is just to cover your ass.\n\nApologies are meaningless when they come from Republicans after they have made racist remarks because as sure as God made little green apples, there’s going to be another Republican coming down the chute to say something even more racist.\n\nKill that noise. Apology not accepted.\nForward these bullshit lies to someone who will happily swallow them. Try Herman Cain. He specializes in absolving White Republicans of racism. He’d probably love the gig.",
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"Potential for the expansion of geothermal energy in Bavaria: Expert opinion on the Geothermal Energy Master Plan is published\n\nAbout one third of Bavaria’s CO2 emissions is emitted by the building sector, with most emissions caused by the production of heat. Therefore, renewable heat supply, e.g. through deep geothermal energy, plays a major role on the way towards climate neutrality. In order to advance the expansion of deep geothermal energy in Bavaria, the Geothermal Alliance Bavaria was commissioned by the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy to prepare an expert report on the Geothermal Master Plan Bavaria, which was published on Friday. The report contains an analysis of how to optimize geothermal potential through heat networks and examines the extent to which deep geothermal energy can contribute to the transformation in the heating sector in Bavaria.\n\nIn the course of its work, the Geothermal Alliance Bavaria was commissioned by the StMWi to prepare an expert opinion on a geothermal master plan. This expert opinion has now been published and shows how the geothermal potential can be exploited in a techno-economically optimal way with the help of heat interconnections, even though the regions with the greatest geothermal potential are often spatially separated from the largest heat sinks, the urban centers.\n\nIn the south of Bavaria (Bavarian Molasse Basin), the subsurface conditions for deep geothermal energy are exceptionally good. In the last 20 years, 25 geothermal projects have been successfully implemented here, most of which feed heat into district heating networks. The technical potential for deep geothermal energy calculated in this study corresponds to 40% (7,655 MWth) of Bavaria’s heat demand in the Bavarian Molasse Basin alone (see Figure 1). However, some of the areas with high heat demand (heat clusters outlined in black in Figure 1) lie well outside the area that is particularly well suited for geothermal energy. This can be remedied by interconnecting heat pipelines.\n\nAdded value of interconnectors between geothermal projects in southern Bavaria\n\nInterconnectors allow an optimal use of deep geothermal energy. Areas inside as well as outside the potential area can be supplied with optimal heat exploitation. By interconnecting individual geothermal plants and district heating networks, it is also possible to increase full load hours, simultaneously reduce peak load generation at all plants, and also create redundancy. Thus, interconnections have attractive advantages even outside of large heat clusters. Both the efficiency of the district heating supply and of each individual geothermal plant can be optimized through interconnection: This increases the ratio of geothermal energy yield to heat production costs. With a targeted base load coverage of the heat demand via deep geothermal energy, almost two million tons of CO2 equivalent can be saved per year. With higher coverage of heat demand, the savings potentials are correspondingly higher. Cascade utilization in industry and agriculture, the use of industrial heat pumps, and geothermal cooling are other useful technical solutions to increase utilization and contribute to the economic viability of geothermal projects.\n\nNorth of the Danube, geothermal energy cannot rely on the excellent conditions of the Malm aquifer as in the Bavarian Molasse Basin. Scientific research, also in the form of a pilot project, is still necessary for a well-founded assessment of the deep geothermal potential in northern Bavaria and also in low-permeability rocks in southern Bavaria. If it is possible to prove a usable geothermal deposit in northern Bavaria, Bavaria would have another “world-class” resource besides the Molasse Basin.\n\nDeep geothermal energy has – especially in the south of Bavaria – an extraordinary potential. Because of this potential, deep geothermal energy can make a major contribution to decarbonization in district heating networks and thus to the heat transition. For optimal exploitation of the potential in southern Bavaria, interconnectors can be used to transport heat from suitable locations for deep geothermal energy to the urban centers with the corresponding heat demand. Here, strategic funding could significantly accelerate the expansion of interconnectors. The optimal expansion scenario can be determined in a detailed elaboration of a geothermal master plan and implemented with scientific support. EGS technology can be used for the north of Bavaria, but its use first requires the implementation of a scientifically accompanied pilot project.\n\nThe complete expert opinion (in german) can be found here.\n\nA scientific paper based on the study can be found here.",
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Think of job interviews where you need to sound your best; or if you embark on a career where you need to stand out in front of three and more people and speak in a way that you are understood. I can also give you examples of people who clearly aren’t meant for dubbing, even if they are great actors. You can of course learn the technique; however you need to be able to act with your voice. Biggest difficulty being that obviously you are not the one playing the part: You just need to provide a voice for the actor who has already played that role. But in this industry you need to trust the directors. If they know you, they work with you – it takes a long time to get to the good roles. It is a really, really, really slow procedure.\nR: What was the latest work you’ve done?\nKN: The latest? Erm… oh yes, it was a voice over for a dating reality show.\nR: Can you mention any roles that you are particularly proud of? For example on the big screen?\nKN: Yes, in Avatar I was the voice of an Asian technician in the beginning of the movie. It wasn’t a big part, but still, I am quite proud of that. I also voiced some of the characters in the movie Valentine’sDay (Valentin Nap). Another favorite would be the typical blonde: in this case Sherry, in the movie Must Love Dogs (Kutyátlanok Kíméljenek). That scene was even uploaded to YouTube with the Hungarian dubbing (laughs), people seemed to like it. (You can see the scene below!) I mostly enjoy roles that have something special about them, this last character was such a stereotypical character that I enjoyed it far more then I would’ve with others. I don’t particularly enjoy those Spanish and Venezuelan women who don’t really say nor do anything that needs any kind of emotional involvement. Although we do like these soap operas that go on forever – they pay the bills.\n\nR: Can you tell us something about the procedure that goes on behind the cameras and the microphones?\nKN: Of course. Many people, for example, assume that we get a chance to see what we are going to dub over beforehand. That is not the case at all! We have our headphones on and we hear the original. The very first time we see our scene is after the minute we get our scripts, so we see the lips movement, the length and the mood of the characters. And then action! A couple more takes and moving on to the next scene. We don’t necessarily do the scenes in order. It also depends on whether or not we are sharing a scene with someone else. Of course the situation is different when we are re-dubbing. Last time we were working on Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood, which naturally we all knew by heart, so we had an easier time.\nR: Are there any other actors with whom you just love to work with?\nKN: Yes, Gábor Forgács. I simply fall off my chair laughing when I’m working with him. He is a real blast! We did Miami Vice together and it was really a great experience.\nR: I have heard that you were responsible for the initiation of the cast of Vampires adopting a “flying dog”, as in a big bat in the city zoo. Do you still do charity work for animals?\nKN: Yes, I try to be involved as much as I can. Unfortunately after you come to the realization that you cannot save every single animal, not matter how hard you try, it gets a bit harder. But if I get any requests to appear or judge, for example at contests, then I say yes immediately. I love these kinds of things.\nR: Let’s say that you get a call from one of the big theatres tomorrow, offering you a lead role in the coming up musical. Would you accept it?\nKN: Hypothetically, I would think about it … and where I am at right now, I would probably say no. It would be very tempting indeed! But … (She sat in silence, thought about my question for a minute or two.) Well, let’s admit that it is very unlikely.\nR: Hypothetically, let us assume just the same.\nKN: I would think about it because it depends also on the musical and the part I’m offered. Surprisingly, I do not miss it as much as I used to. I get my same kick of adrenaline from dubbing. Not to mention less stress! Also, the theatre pretty much destroys one’s social life. I and my fiancée are planning a family, and that would have to be put on hold for such a project. Maybe the only reason that would tempt me is to let my fiancée see me on stage, seeing that he never had the chance. I would probably be in a bit of a quarrel if it were one of my dream roles.\nR: So there is such a role that could tempt you into saying yes?\nKN: There is. I have always wanted to play Éponine in Les Miserables (Nyomorultak). But I never got the chance to. In these cases type casting comes in. We are pretty much told to stay in our own areas of expertise. But think of The Lion King: That musical won’t be available in Hungary for a very long time, as the contract stipulates that only African-Americans can be in the cast. It would be quite hard to find the two leads, not to mention a whole cast! … Now thinking about it, another role would be Éva from Valahol Európában. And although I missed out on these, my heart is at peace now.\nR: Plenty of musicals have movie adaptations. Do you have a favorite?\nKN: Well, I’m guessing the new Les Miserables will be it (coming out this December!). Look, come on! What do you want me to say? That I like all the classics? Hello, Dolly!, Funny Girl … I think that Hello, Dolly! is still one of the best ones. I know that it worked the other way around, but Mary Poppins is a favorite as well. What can I say? I’m still a child at heart. Rent would be another good example – it was done pretty well. 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"It’s a fact there’re many dog breeds in the World and each of them is unique in its own way. However, when we talk about brachycephalic dog breeds, people often can’t make a difference between a French bulldog VS Boston terrier. Therefore, we want to help our readers to find out why are they actually so different.\n\nFrench Bulldog VS Boston Terrier- what do they have in common?\n\nBy discovering the history of these two wonderful dog breeds, we can see they have a common ancestor- the English bulldog. The Boston Terrier is a result of crossbreeding between the English bulldog and the now-extinct White English terrier dog breed. People believe that the Hooper’s Judge is the first ancestor of all Boston Terriers in the World. As you can guess, the Boston terrier was named after the Boston, Massachusetts. Over the years, crossbreeding with the English bull terrier, Boxer, Pit Bull terrier, and the French bulldog, resulted in what is now the modern Boston terrier.\n\nOn the other hand, French bulldog breed dates from the same period as Boston terrier. The Frenchie, as they’re affectingly known by fans, actually started life in England. During the industrial revolution, English lacemakers took their small English bulldogs to work as ratters in Normandy.\n\nThe ancestor of French bulldogs, the English bulldog, has been crossed with Pugs and Terrier Boule and that’s how today’s Frenchie was made.\n\nIf we take a look at French bulldog VS Boston terrier appearances, they’re both brachycephalic, expressive, intelligent, and compactly built. They’re medium in size and short-tailed with a smooth and silky coat. However, the French bulldog breed has a more massive body structure.\n\nBoston terriers and French bulldogs are both similar in size with one main distinction. Bostons have a bit longer legs and elegant looking appearance. The French bulldog, on the other hand, has a heavier bone structure and a more square-looking head.\n\nLet’s continue with their other trademarks. We all know that Frenchies have bat-looking ears. On the other hand, a Boston Terrier has pointed ears and their heads are round, not square. The top skull of both breeds is flat between the ears. If we take a look at Bostie’s muzzle, we’ll notice it’s short, wide, square and free from wrinkles. Frenchie’s muzzle looks slightly shorter, well laid back, deep and broad. They also have visible cheek muscles in comparison with Bosties.\n\nThey’re maybe small in size, but both French bulldog VS Boston Terrier are far from small in personality. Both breeds are very friendly loving breeds and make excellent family companions.\n\nThe Bostons can be lively, alert and intelligent. They can go from having a burst of energy wanting to curl up and chill. The Frenchie also nicknamed ‘the Clown in the cloak of a philosopher‘, has an equally friendly personality.\n\nBosties learn quickly and are great dogs for the first time owners looking for an obedient dog who’ll listen most of the time. French bulldogs like most bully breeds can be a bit on a stubborn side. They require constant training to get the behavior you’re looking for.\n\nIn comparison with French bulldogs, Bosties’ energy lever is important to consider. They tend to be more active from Frenchies and seems to be a perfect fit for the active type of owners. Looking generally, both breeds require moderate levels of exercise. On one hand, Bostons love jumping, running, playing fetch, while Frenchies are a bit more agile and lazy. In other words, Frenchies rather enjoy sitting on the couch and cuddling than chasing after a ball. However, it doesn’t mean Frenchies are not playful. They do love playing with owners and especially with children. They simply enjoy entertaining kids for hours.\n\nPlayful Bosties are good running partners but can easily overheat because of their short noses. In fact, both breeds are prone to overheating. Therefore, their owners must pay attention to their hydration level.",
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"A tripartite agreement spare headed by the Dangote Rice Limited to create jobs for 16,000 outgrower rice farmers in Sokoto was yesterday signed amid excitement and a pledge by all parties to ensure the success of the scheme to make Nigeria self sufficient in rice cultivation.\nThe agreement was signed during the launch of the Dangote rice outgrower scheme in Goronyo, Goronyo Local government, Sokoto, which was witnessed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar. Farmers were presented with rice seeds, fertilizers, nets, agro-chemicals.\nChairman of Dangote Rice Limited, Aliko Dangote said he was mover to go into rice cultivation because of the genuine interest of the Federal government to revive agriculture as the mainstay of the economy, and reduce importation of foods that could be produced locally.\nHe lamented that Nigeria consumes 6.5 Mtn of rice which costs the nation over 2 billion dollars annually, pointing out that it is heartening that the government now has policy direction that encourages private sector’s active participation in agriculture.\n“Buoyed by the policy direction of the federal government, we at Dangote decided to key into this by establishing Dan gone Rice Limited to partner with states to redress the present situation where a huge sumo forex is spent on importation of rice.\n“In the next three years we want to produce one million tons of quality rice and make it available and affordable to the people. We hope to do 150, 000 ha and when we are done, Nigeria will not have anything to do with importation of rice.\n“Dangote Rice outgrowers scheme is committed to creating significant number of jobs, increasing the incomes of smallholders farmers and ensuring food security in the country by providing high quality seeds, fertilizers and agro-chemicals as well as technical assistance on best agricultural practice to farmers.\n“This Scheme will help to diversify the economy, alleviate poverty and reduce the nation’s import bill. The scheme has been designed as a one stop solution for the rice value chain,” he stated.\nThe Dangote Rice Project Director, Robert Coleman, said the Sokoto operation was a demonstration phase to familiarize the farming community with the programme, train extension workers and lead farmers as well as test modern technologies.\nHe noted that they would have 25,000 ha cultivated by nearly 50,000 outgrowers in 2017 in addition to hundreds of jobs expected to be created by the end of that year.\nIn his remarks, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal expressed delight at the event, saying the coming of Dangote to invest in the state was as a result of his sustained effort towards inviting prospective investors to the state.\nHe said the state under the scheme, just as it had done with the federal government, would distribute nets, water pumping machines and fertiliser T subsidised prices to help the farmers have good yield.\nThe National President of Rice Farmers Association, Alhaji Aminu Goronyo described the scheme as one of the potential means of making rice available and at low cost to the people because the farmers are encouraged to put all their best into it.\nHe said he has no doubt the scheme would success because it a private sector driven and that given the pedigree of Dangote in business, he was sure there the scheme would be sustainable and sooner than later other states will key into it."
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"And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. —1 Corinthians 13:13\n\nOne million. That’s the number of species at risk of extinction, according to a recent United Nations-sponsored assessment. How do we, as Quakers, find hope when 75 percent of the planet’s land area has been significantly altered by human activity? Where do we find hope when half a million species lack enough habitat for long-term survival? Where is hope when one in eight species are threatened with extinction?\n\nCan an endangered species recover, with human help? And how can we, as Quakers, participate in such an endeavor?\n\n“Rescuing a rhino species from extinction is unprecedented, and we are here to reflect hopefully on that possibility,” said Oliver Ryder, director of conservation genetics at the San Diego Zoo Global’s Institute for Conservation Research. A seasoned member of La Jolla (Calif.) Meeting, Oliver invited me to attend a unique workshop and conference at the zoo’s Safari Park in October 2019. My role was to be a worshipful presence and to hold contemplative stillness as notable thinkers discussed the social and ethical issues involved in rescuing the northern white rhinoceros from imminent extinction. Oliver guided proceedings using gentle, clear Quaker processes.\n\nIt was my rare privilege, as an elder, to sit quietly in the Light as the scholars and scientists deliberated, to, in the words of George Fox, “be still and cool . . . from [my] own thoughts . . . and be stayed in the principle of God” on behalf of everyone present. Thomas R. Kellyʼs phrase “continuously renewed immediacy” kept me centered throughout the proceedings in a state of attentiveness, “where the breath and stillness of Eternity are heavy upon us and we are wholly yielded to [the Divine Presence].”\n\nI understood more bioscience than I had expected, and was emotionally moved by each speaker’s heartfelt dedication. Most significantly, I became animated by hope as I held participants in Light and love as they raised questions, explored risks and benefits, and expressed emerging views and values.\n\n“We are hopeful,” said Oliver, “because two northern white rhinos are still alive, and we are caring for a sizable herd of southern white rhinos here at Safari Park. We have a healthy baby on the ground; he weighs 510 pounds at ten weeks of age, born to a surrogate mother through assisted reproductive technology. We also have the Frozen Zoo, in which we have been banking living cells for 40 years. We were able to return the Pacific pocket mouse to its native habitat, and to hear the whoosh of California condors flying free at last, so yes, we are hopeful about protecting the northern white rhinoceros.”\n\nIt was awesome to meet these charismatic creatures up close, introduced by lead keeper Jonnie Caprio and the zoo crew. Four-thousand-pound Victoria came when called, baby Edward gamboling close behind. Victoria nibbled apple chunks from Jonnie’s hand and gazed at us contentedly, while Edward romped nearby. He thrives on mother’s milk and tries to eat hay as she does, but his teeth have not yet come in. Conceived through assisted reproduction by artificial insemination using frozen semen from another southern white rhinoceros, he was born—after a 16-month pregnancy—on July 29, 2019. Named for a major donor, Edward weighed 148 pounds at birth and is well on his way to reaching the two-ton-plus size of his elders.\n\nWhen humans see wild megafauna (large or giant animals) as dots in the distance, we can form only remote relationships with them, but rhinos are very relational up close. They thrive on affection and attention, just as we do. Jonnie trains them to step on the scale when asked, defecate before rectal exams, stand still during medical procedures, and keep their mouths open during dental exams. Two of the female rhinos at San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park are not interested in becoming surrogate mothers, so they roam free of invasive procedures. The others willingly take part in the Northern White Rhino Genetic Rescue Initiative, which involves new reproductive methodologies for rhinoceros species. Everyone working on the project is very careful. Above all: they care. And all are part of a growing body of hope.\n\nAncient rhinos roamed free for eons, until they were murdered by humans for their horns. Sudan, the last male of his kind, died in 2018. The October 2019 National Geographic featured Ami Vitale’s photo of Sudan on the cover. His daughter and granddaughter survive, but with no hope of reproducing. They are closely related to southern white rhinos, some of whom also live at the zoo’s Safari Park.\n\nAfter admiring Victoria and Edward, I found myself contemplating Amani, munching hay in her enclosure. She is a healthy 5,000-pound rhino, and was pregnant at the time, nearing her due date (she delivered a healthy female calf named Future on November 21, 2019). Contemplation is a kind of seeing that is more than mere looking, because it includes recognizing—and thus appreciating—what we gaze upon. The contemplative mind does not tell us what to see—it teaches us how to see, and I was close enough to behold the hopeful look in Amani’s eye as she awaited motherhood.\n\nGazing contemplatively at humans dedicated to the mission of San Diego Zoo Global, I saw their hopefulness as more than subjective optimism. Among committed cellular and molecular researchers, ethicists, lawyers, synthetic biologists, sociologists, veterinarians, animal caregivers, donors, and journalists, hope is first and foremost a life-giving energy. Together, I see these visionaries comprising a “body of hope.” Some Quakers would call it “the body of Christ.” Whether we use sacred or secular language to describe it, embodied hope became a visceral truth for me during the two-day symposium hosted by the Institute for Conservation Research. I glimpsed hope in every face and heard it in every voice, magnified by widespread compassion and commitment to bring a beguiling beast back from the abyss of extinction. The body of hope does far more than preserve a lovable endangered species: it also provides a forceful energy to direct the course of spiritual evolution among humankind. The body of Christ shapes the course of things to come.\n\nAs a Quaker elder, I was privileged to be included in this ground-breaking conference. I loved being able to sit silently in Christ Light and hold all beings in contemplative prayer. It gave me a wondrous taste of hope, and I want more. Being part of the vibrant body of Christ is not only inspirational, it is aspirational.\n\nQuiet worship among Friends opens our eyes to glimpse the truth of life in its wholeness. Gazing upon humans and animals with loving eyes equips us to venture out into broader, open-ended horizons where we find ourselves led to contribute even more wholeheartedly to an emerging body of hope in an era of great planetary losses.",
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"An acronym is an abbreviation made from the initial letters of a term or phrase. Acronyms are intended to facilitate communication and quick understanding. They are too important to ignore in this modern world.\n\nA word to the efficient is sufficient. But are we efficient enough to interpret the true meaning of all the acronyms that are in circulation? Furthermore, how do we unravel the mysteries of new acronyms, which are proliferating like mushrooms every day? Acronyms are convenient for communications to be sharp and swift. However, it’s time we had a reliable source, (perhaps, a pocket size computer), containing an accurate description of all the acronyms, which are in day-to-day use.\n\nAcronyms never fail to fascinate me. It seems that the most creative people are those who are engaged in the field of coining new acronyms. Let’s consider the following, where their imaginations have indeed run riot!\n\nCOBRA\nClear Over Base Rapid Application (An automobile paint)\n\nFOREST\nFreedom Organization for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (Should the chain-smokers, who ignore the health of others, be exiled to the forest ? No, on second thoughts, let the plants and trees live – they need to be preserved for future generations!)\n\nNEAR\nNear Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (First spacecraft to orbit an asteroid)\n\nSITA\nSuppression of Immoral Traffic Act (A crazy acronym, only Indians are capable of inventing!)\n\nSTYLE\nSuccess Through Your Life Enrichment\n\nWATCH\nWomen and Their Children’s Health\n\nA Monday edition of The Jakarta Post carried the following acronyms: MGA, VRAM, MPEG, EDO RAM, AMD, WRAM, NASCAR, SoftPeg. In case readers are confused, let me hasten to say that these are computer-related acronyms.\n\nMany people must have heard the name “ADIDAS”. But how many would know that this term might represent “All Day I Dream About Sports”. Likewise, the word ‘SCUBA” originates from “Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus”.\n\nSome of you may be wondering what “ERASMUS”, located on Jalan H.R. Rasuna Said in Kuningan, Jakarta, stands for. It’s the “European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students”.\n\nWhat should be your objective? To be “SMART”, right? “SMART” signifies “Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic & with a Timeframe”!\n\nA good friend of mine once explained to me that “BIBLE” means “Behold I Being Life Eternal”.\n\n“Together Everyone Achieves More”. That’s what a TEAM is all about – indeed a beautiful definition for a team.\n\nHow did the word “TIP” originate? It is “To Insure Promptness”.\n\nMost of us in modern organizations must sweat it out to know the “SWOTS” – “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats & Strategies”.\n\nWithout going to a university, one can easily obtain a B.A. degree: just visit the U.S. and add a suffix “B.A.” to your name (“Been in America”). I have an uncle by name Budalur Ayyaswamy Ramanathan and he would always like to be referred to as “Ramanathan, B.A.”! Conveniently, he didn’t have to venture beyond the Matriculation examination.\n\nA zealot Hindu explained that the word “GOD” is composed of three letters – G for Generator (Brahma), O for Operator (Vishnu) and D for Destroyer (Shiva) – the Trinity embodied in Hinduism.\n\nWhen the GATT negotiations were taking place under the aegis of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a delegate from a developing country expressed his genuine fears and wondered “Are we GATTing into hot water”? 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It referred to the crisis in U.S., arising out of the “Clinton-Monica” affair.\n\nTowards the end of the Year 2000, bankers all over the world were going through nightmares on account of Y2K – the millennium bug. What is Y126 then? It’s nothing to do with any year. It is 126 Yen to a U.S. dollar. Unless you followed the context, it would be next to impossible to decipher what such acronyms meant.\n\nThe World Health Organization, a wing of the UN, is intended to promote the health of the world’s citizens. But, with an acronym like WHO, unfortunately it lacked identity itself!\n\nA Government cell in India is named “C-DOT” (Center for Development of Telecommunications). In the ever-expanding bureaucracy, one might suggest yet another acronym “C-DASH” – what could be created to fit this nice-sounding acronym may be left to the vivid imagination of the government officials!\n\nA few acronyms are indeed humorous. Forum Indonesia Nederland’s is FINED. COW and CAMEL are not necessarily animals. They could be Contract of Work, and Capital, Assets, Management, Earnings and Liquidity respectively.\n\nMedical science has contributed to the arts too. The acronym for Assisted Reproduction Technology is ART.\n\nWhen the Indian cricket teams frequently lost their tests, the selectors – BCCI (Board of Cricket Control India) was re-christened by an enterprising columnist as Bored of Choosing Cricketers for India.\n\nI guess the first acronym must have been coined by a VIP (Very Important Person), of course, immediately followed by SOS (Save Our Souls).\n\nLight Amplification by Simulated Emission of Radiation – say this to a layperson and he will surely blink. Tell him it’s nothing but LASER and he’ll instantly beam.\n\nWe know DONUTS. For Bridgestone, Indonesia, it is an acronym for its Driver Oriented New Ultimate Tire Science.\n\nDo you know what is an IDEA? It is Imagination, Data, Evaluation and Action. Isn’t it a unique idea? The meaning is similar to PDCA cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Action), often taught in workers’ training courses in Indonesia.\n\nNothing is worse for morale than a lack of information down in the ranks. The author of the book The Art of Japanese Management defined this problem in organizations as “NETMA”: Nobody Ever Tells Me Anything”.\n\nWhen Rajiv Gandhi was Prime Minister of India, he was considered so indispensable to the nation that the media described that he truly enjoyed a “TINA” factor, meaning “There Is No Alternative”.\n\nA female executive at a company sent an important and lengthy report to her boss, a middle-aged gentleman. This man, certainly not so gentle and acting too smart, returned the report to the lady with a small note saying, “You’ll have to KISS”.\n\nThe woman justifiably got very angry and went straight to the managing director’s (MD) office, strongly complaining to the MD. She demanded that if no action was taken against her boss, she’d have no alternative but to quit. The MD promptly called the male officer into his office and asked for an explanation.\n\nMeanwhile, the news spread like wildfire within the office and people started commenting that “men become naughty after 40”! However, after a little while, both the male boss and the lady emerged from the MD’s office, the former smiling and the latter looking visibly shy. What was the secret of their rapprochement? All the boss meant in his note was “You’ll have to Keep It Short & Sweet” (KISS)!\n\nAn acronym may also be derived from its “parent” acronym, such as “ARF” (ASEAN Regional Forum), ‘ABAC” (APEC Business Advisory Council), “AFTA” (ASEAN Free Trade Agreement), and the like.\n\n“O.K.” is an abbreviation for “all right”. For some people, this can even take the form of a verb, as in “I OK’d your proposal”.\n\nGeorge Orwell once compared using jargon to the process of picking up ready-made and worn-out strips of words and gluing them together as an easy way to avoid the thoughts required for original writing. Similarly, I think the present-day acronyms often reflect a desire to avoid the responsibility of engaging in direct, clear and effective communication. Simple, direct and forceful words are abbreviated into unintelligible acronyms, which pose a great threat to understanding and knowledge.\n\nJust as a tailpiece, is the word “acronym” itself an acronym? While writing on the subject of Acronyms, I raised this question in the “Your Letters” column of The Jakarta Post a few years ago. An ingenious correspondent replied that it stood for “Association for Citizens’ Rights for Oppressed New York Minorities”!\n\nAnother writer, Haluk Yuksel of Jakarta, commented that I missed one of the best acronyms ever created by the San Francisco Transport Authority: Fresno Area Rapid Transport, affectionately known as FART!"
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"In this Monday image from cellphone video provided by Rani Ghanem, bottles tumble as an animal control officer attempts to net a peahen that wound up inside the Royal Oaks Liquor Store in Arcadia.(Photo: RANI GHANEM VIA AP)\n\nARCADIA - A female peacock has ruffled more than just feathers at a Los Angeles-area liquor store.\n\nWithout a peep, the peahen strutted into the open door of the Royal Oaks Liquor Store in Arcadia on Monday. Store manager and college senior Rani Ghanem said he didn't even know it was there until a customer walked in and asked him about \"el pollo,\" Spanish for \"the chicken.\"\n\nGhanem, a 21-year-old San Bernardino resident whose family owns the store, said he then tried to guide the sharp-clawed bird outside but that she got scared, at one point flying directly toward him and then up onto a top shelf of the store. And that scared Ghanem.\n\nAn animal-control officer responded after Ghanem called 911, approaching the peahen with gloves and a fishing net. That's when the hilarity ensued, Ghanem said.\n\n\"He was trying to get it with the fishing net, and (the bird) jumped on the first wine bottle. When that happened, I was like, 'Aw, this is about to be a big mess,' \" Ghanem said. \"He tried to get it again with the net ... It just went straight diving into all the bottles. The more he kept on trying to use the net, the more it kept on flapping its wings and knocking everything over.\"\n\nAt one point, cellphone video taken by Ghanem shows the officer catching a wine bottle in the net as the bird crashes through a shelf and a dozen bottles shatter to the ground.\n\nUnable to watch more destruction, Ghanem puts on a sweatshirt to protect himself from the bird's claws and helps the officer ensnare it.\n\nHe said they took the bird outside and that it was unharmed.\n\nIn all, Ghanem said the peahen was in the store for 90 minutes and broke $500 worth of the family store's best bottles, including champagne.\n\n\"Yeah, he's got expensive taste,\" Ghanem joked in the store on Tuesday. \"I'm like, 'You break, you buy, dude.' But clearly he didn't. He got away with it.\"\n\nPeacocks are common to Arcadia, about 13 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. They were introduced after the city's founder imported them from India in the early 1900s. Though some residents view colorful birds as a nuisance, they are a protected animal in the area and harming them can carry fines and jail time."
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"Fig. 1 – Employee classification on the basis of mechanical and verbal aptitude scores\n\nThe centroids of the three groups indicate the average value of each independent variable (the two test scores) for that group. The aim of DA is to find a classification rule that maximizes the separation between the group means, while making as few “mistakes” as possible. There are multiple discrimination rules available; in this post I will be demonstrating the maximum likelihood rule, as achieved though the application of the Mahalanobis Distance. The idea is the following: an observation i from a multivariate normal distribution should be assigned to group G_j that minimizes the Mahalanobis distance between i and group centroid C_j.",
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"The reason to use Mahalanobis (as opposed to say, Euclidean) is twofold: if the independent variables have unequal variances or if they are correlated, a distance metric that does not account for that could potentially misallocate an observation to the wrong group. In Fig. 2, the independent variables are not correlated, but X2 appears to have much larger variance than X1, so the effects of small but important differences in X1 could be masked by large but unimportant differences in X2. The ellipses in the figure represent regions containing 99% of the values belonging to each group. By Euclidean distance, P1 would be assigned to group 2,",
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"however it is unlikely to be in group 2 because its location with respect to the X1 axis exceeds the typical values for group 2. If the two attributes where additionally correlated (Fig. 3), we shall also adjust for this correlation in our distance metric. The Mahalanobis distance therefore uses the covariance matrix for the independent variables in its calculation of the distance of an observation to group means.\n\nIt is given by:\n\nis the vector of attributes for observation\n\nis the vector of means for group\n\nis the covariance matrix for the variables. When using the Mahalanobis Distance, points that are equidistant from a group mean are on tilted eclipses:\n\nFig. 4 – Using the Mahalanobis Distance, points equidistant from a group mean are on tilted eclipses\n\nFor further discussion on the two distance metrics and their application, there’s also this blogpost. Applying the formula to the dataset, we can calculate distances between each observation and each group, and use the distances to classify each observation to each of the groups:",
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"Table 1 – Distance of each observation to each group, using Mahalanobis distance. Classification is estimated using the minimum between the three distances. Values in red indicate misclassifications.\n\nIf we tally up the correct vs. incorrect (in red) classifications, our classification model is right 83.33% of the time. Assuming that this classification accuracy is sufficient, we can then apply this simple model to classify new employees based on their scores on the verbal and mechanical aptitude tests.\n\nSome supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, such as k-nearest neighbors and k-means clustering, depend on distance calculations. In this post, I will discuss why the Mahalanobis distance is almost always better to use than the Euclidean distance for the multivariate case. There is overlap between the ideas here and David’s post on multicollinearity, so give that one a read too!\n\nWhy you should care about multivariate distance\n\nSynthetic time series generation methods are of interest to many of us in systems optimization and the topic been covered extensively on this blog. For an overview on that subject, check out Jon’s blog post on synthetic streamflow. It’s a great read and will give you many more resources to explore.\n\nAmong synthetic time series generation methods the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) bootstrap resampling algorithm, developed by Lall and Sharma (1996), is a popular method for generating synthetic time series data of streamflow and weather variables. The k-NN algorithm resamples the observed data in a way that attempts to preserve the statistics of that data (e.g., mean and standard deviation at each timestep, lag-1 autocorrelation, etc.) but creates new and interesting synthetic records for the user to explore. As the name implies, this algorithm relies on finding k (generally set to be ⌊√(N)⌉, where N is the number of years of observed data) “nearest neighbors” to do its magic.\n\nFinding those neighbors is straightforward in the univariate case (when there is only a single variable you want to simulate)—you just calculate the Euclidean distance. The shorter the distance, the “nearer” the neighbor. Well, it gets a bit more complicated in the multivariate case. There, you’ve got different units involved and correlation among variables which throws a wrench in the whole Euclidean distance thing. So, in most cases the Mahalanobis distance is preferred. Let me explain…\n\nExample: how multivariate distance can help buy a car\n\nSay we want to buy a four-wheel drive (4wd) car that will get us up into the mountains. We’ve got our eye set on a dream car, a 4wd Jeep, but we know we should shop around. So, let’s look at other 4wd cars on the market and compare their highway gas mileage and displacement (the total volume of all the cylinders in your engine) to find other cars we might be interested in. In other words, we are looking for the dream car’s nearest neighbors, with respect to those two measures.",
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"Figure 1. Comparing highway gas mileage with displacement for our dream car and the others available.\n\nBy glancing at the plot above, the distance calculation might appear trivial. In fact, you can probably roughly rank which points lie closest to the dream car just by eyeballing it. But when you try to do the calculation for Euclidean distance (equation 1), it will be skewed based on the units for gas mileage and displacement.\n\nrepresents the attributes of our car and\n\nrepresents the attributes of another car.\n\nFor example, what if instead of miles per gallon, gas mileage was reported in feet per gallon? By changing those units, gas mileage would have multiple orders of magnitude more weight in the distance calculation than displacement. In that case, gas mileage would basically be the only thing that matters, which isn’t fair to poor old displacement. Therefore, when using the Euclidean distance to compare multiple variables we need to standardize the data which eliminates units and weights both measures equally. To do so, we can calculate the z-score (equation 2) for each observation:\n\nWhere: z is the z-score (standardized variable), x is an observation,\n\nare the mean and standard deviation of the observation variable, respectively.\n\nVisually, this is just like looking at our plot from before with no units at all.",
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"Figure 2. Scale removed from Figure 1 to show that we need to remove the influence of units on the Euclidean distance calculation.\n\nNow we can calculate the Euclidean distance and find the nearest neighbors!",
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"Figure 3. The Euclidean distance and rank assigned to each car, where rank 0 is our “dream car”. If we were interested in a k-nearest neighbor algorithm with k=4, the points in the orange box would be selected as the neighbors.\n\nTake note of the k-nearest neighbors in the orange box. Let’s see whether or not we get the same neighbors with the Mahalanobis distance.\n\nrepresents the attributes of our car,\n\nrepresents the attributes of another car, and\n\nis the covariance matrix of\n\nUnlike the Euclidean distance though, the Mahalanobis distance accounts for how correlated the variables are to one another. For example, you might have noticed that gas mileage and displacement are highly correlated. Because of this, there is a lot of redundant information in that Euclidean distance calculation. By considering the covariance between the points in the distance calculation, we remove that redundancy.",
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"Figure 4. The Mahalanobis distance and rank assigned to each car, where rank 0 is our “dream car”.\n\nAnd look! By comparing the ranks in the orange boxes in Figures 3 and 4, we can see that although the ranks are similar between the two distance metrics, they do in fact yield different nearest neighbors. So which points get more weight when using the Mahalnobis distance vs. using the Euclidean distance?",
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"Figure 6. The gas mileage vs. displacement of the cars as color-coded by the Mahalanobis to Euclidean ratio from Figure 5.\n\nNotice that many of the points at the top left and bottom right part of the screen are orange, meaning that the Euclidean distance calculation would give them more weight. And then there’s that point at the bottom center of plot. That one gets far more weight when using Mahalanobis distance. To understand this let’s look at the axes of greatest variability in the data, these are also known as principle components. For a primer on that subject, check out David’s post and Ronhini’s post on principle component analysis!",
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Depending upon the circumstances, dark money can refer to funds spent by a political nonprofit or a super PAC.”\n\nDark money, so says an increasingly loud chorus of hypocrites on the Left, poses a dire threat to the existence of the republic and is routinely denounced by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), as well as by a constellation of left-wing politicians, pundits, academics, journalists, and activists. But despite the drumbeat against it, dark money isn’t actually as big a factor in elections as one might think.\n\nSo dark money isn’t quite the threat it has been made out to be. Indeed, there is an upside to dark money: it can protect unpopular speech and hold government accountable for its policies and actions.\n\nBeing compelled to identify donors leaves those donors open to intimidation—or to what the Left calls “accountability” actions, in various forms, including naming and shaming, mob actions, and getting people fired from their jobs.\n\nOne doesn’t have to go far back in the nation’s history to see how state governments have tried to trample on civil rights by demanding the identities of activist group donors. In NAACP v. Alabama (1958), the Left rightly cheered when the U.S. Supreme Court found that Alabama’s demand for the NAACP’s membership lists was in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process guarantees. But left-wingers long ago lost interest in protecting free speech and due process rights. The ends justify the means in the minds of those schooled in the tactics of Saul Alinsky. Now they view money from anonymous donors as a threat. Such brazen hypocrisy regarding dark money, situational as it may be, is deeply galling to conservatives and libertarians, especially because left-wing philanthropies are much wealthier than their right-leaning counterparts.\n\nAtlantic Philanthropies embraces the dark-money approach to fundamentally transforming America. It wants foundations, whose giving in this country dramatically skews to the Left, not to be afraid to give their tax-privileged money to 501(c)(4) organizations in order to pursue left-wing political objectives.\n\nAtlantic Philanthropies created a template when it dropped $27 million on advocacy groups, primarily Health Care for America Now (HCAN), to help force-feed the public the sclerotic bureaucratic monstrosity known as Obamacare. HCAN, a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization that worked with MoveOn, AFL-CIO, Organizing for Action, and the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), put together a pressure strategy that was instrumental in passage of the legislation in President Obama’s first term. (HCAN was profiled in “How Liberal Activists Passed Obamacare,” by Philip Klein, Foundation Watch, August 2010.) Enactment of the inappropriately named Affordable Care Act was “the culmination of a campaign” by Atlantic Philanthropies and its allies, crowed Atlantic’s then-president, Gara LaMarche, long a George Soros operative and left-wing thought leader. LaMarche, now president of the Democracy Alliance, a left-wing billionaires’ donor consortium, also previously bragged (with some justification) that President Obama’s 2008 election represented the “coming to fruition” of investments “in building a progressive infrastructure.”\n\nAtlantic Philanthropies, an ordinary nonprofit corporation headquartered offshore in Bermuda, was able to money-bomb the health care issue because this foreign location neutralized rules governing U.S.-based foundations. In other words, American non-profit law privileges offshore foundations. Because Atlantic Philanthropies is based outside the United States, it is allowed to fund 501(c)(4) advocacy activities, a practice not allowed for American-based foundations. (American foundations may fund (c)(4) organizations, but the grants must be limited to educational activities, appropriately performed by the same type of charitable organization that is prohibited from influencing the outcome of an election.)\n\nAtlantic specifically credits its 501(c)(4) donations, which were handed out from 2004 to 2014, with helping to turn the tide in the public debate over immigration reform. In the media, “messaging was able to move from primarily defensive to offensive—a first for the field since pre-9/11” (“Advocacy, Politics & Philanthropy: A Reflection on a Decade of Immigration Reform Advocacy,” available on Atlantic Philanthropies’ website).\n\n“This move from defense to offense signaled the beginning of an era in which pro-immigrant messaging was able to beat back anti-immigrant messaging, becoming more mainstream,” states the Atlantic-commissioned report from 2016. Note how this rhetoric deliberately and dishonestly conflates (A) the public’s entirely justified anger over illegal immigration and the government’s refusal to combat it, with (B) opposition to immigration in general.\n\nThe report gloats that in 2009, “after much pressure from pro-immigration advocates and others, Lou Dobbs stepped down from his show and was released from his CNN contract, bringing an end to three years of nightly haranguing of immigrants.”\n\nIn the next installment of Dark Money Ascendant, learn how Atlantic Philanthropies changed the tenor of the immigration debate."
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He didn't actually share, but gave me the entire box, and I took one as a reward for the bet that I won, challenging a whole group of guys in a car about a movie where my favorite actor had a part to play, who was coincidentally his favorite one too - Johnny Depp. I sat beside him in a car to go to a place for some workplace orientation session and we got to be in the same group to perform. Who knew that penchant for common things and odd tv series would initiate a bond and with time, we would find kin in each other?\n\nSoulmates, that's what could be said in the closest sense of the word for nothing fitted the category. Back then I was the one who dwelled in shadows all alone and was heading into oblivion. Now I am not alone anymore, nor in shadows for he is there too, to hold my hand and guide me to light.\n\nI still remember the first meeting, as he kept asking me to meet him for quite some time and each time I somehow found a reason and politely ignored him. Why wouldn’t I? I had this insecurity about him being a stranger and believed that if someone asked you to meet them persistently, you just should avoid them.\n\nBut then I gave in and met him and it was on the first meeting that I realized why I could not and should not meet him anymore, for he possessed the same darkness that I controlled within myself. He had this look of being lost and was constantly on edge and I could hear his chaos; it was like the static sound of an old TV set, when we had few channels and at nights when the channels got shut off or the weather got bad, there was this static sound that kept coming and it hit the inside of your head acutely, making everything intolerable.\n\nI was so scared that I never wanted to meet him anymore and I did not knock him for the coming many days. He did not either as he became sick after that. But I had this urge to knock him and I kept a watch on the message box every day.\n\nThen after about two weeks he knocked, and seeing his message leaped my heart rate to an erratic beat. We talked and this time when he asked to meet up, I agreed instantly.\n\nThen one meet-up demanded the next and then it was every weekend and we craved each other’s time. During this one meet-up, we ended up hugging each other and there was a sudden pull within, some unknown and insane urge to protect each other from every peril and danger, yet my mind screamed two words – ruination and damnation. It’s true and pure of the words, for without each other, I wouldn’t have been able to understand how it felt to feel these shattering emotions, and in my case, I would have been damned without finding my ability to feel if not him.\n\nSometime it was only a day and at times, it was on both weekends that we got to meet. We almost left the hope when we were summoned to the city back again for a fifteen-day training. The schedule was super busy, but we somehow managed time for each other. Those fifteen days had taught us one thing – we should be together and that was the end to everything.\n\nBut I believe I fell for him on the first day when I met him – lost, insane and on the very edge, fighting a battle that I knew too well; not go of the demon but control it.\n\nOur daily life was now an endless parabola where there is a maximum point and then the descent happened, leading to a minimum level. We realized that it was because of this – even if we were very common in many ways, but it does not mean that our thoughts would be likewise. Where I was the one who was conservative, but he was what could be said Freedom himself. He was strong and wise, and also with a little mix of eccentricity in his very own way. I was not the deviation to the rule.\n\nFrom trying to explain the times we spent on these lands, and to the time when we felt the pull within ourselves, we learned this – our lives would be only described as a unified word: chaos, for nothing would fall into place if not the other one.\n\nWe were trainees in progress and our days were hectic, but we had found each other and our little glimpses during the work helps us a lot. It helped me find a heart that beats and it helped him see through my eyes and find things that my voice wasn’t enough to make him understand.\n\nFrom every simple thing had he kept on saving himself from (be it work place or himself) he went through and some more and continues because it’s US.\n\nStill we kept the contact, through letters that weren’t ever missed, messages that never went out of hand. There were ups and downs and differences, that we sorted through and as a result we became more connected.\n\nWe tried to find happiness in the little time we got while coming home and tried to understand each other’s’ perception about anything that conspired.\n\nWe hurt for each other, we craved and yearned for ‘Someday’ that would eventually come, but for now, we kept ‘hush hush’ about our problems. When anyone of us were hurt, we felt the pain. When one smiled, the other missed some heartbeats. And I intend to try to make it work for all my life. We crack insider jokes and talked about anything new and what came to our minds. Thus, we beat as one, remembering that nothing was ever enough for us.\n\nAnd that was how we were and are in an atypical love story. We try to understand each other and it got us closer mentally. We could connect and understand in a way that led us to connect in quite a strong way.\n\nThus this love continues and our eccentricities and differences are becoming normal for us.\n\nOur lives were mundane and busy, but we somehow made time and tried spending it together, be it a few minutes or an hour. For each other, we were breathing. But for me, he was The Freedom."
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When Armenia was annexed by the Soviet Union, Hovaness stayed in the United States and became a part of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s “government in exile,” which entailed frequent traveling. While speaking at an Armenian community picnic in Worcester, Hovaness, described by Diana as handsome and charismatic, met Marian Israelyan, whom he later married.\n\nMarian Israelyan’s parents, Hagop and Helen, were also natives of Tadem and knew the Der Hovanessians from there. Hagop Israelyan immigrated to the United States as a young boy, a trajectory recreated in the poem “charm against inertia”. After graduating from Lowell High School he worked in a Worcester wire mill by day and studied immigration law at night. On one of his trips home to Tadem, his parents persuaded him to marry a local orphan girl, their goal being to prevent him from marrying a non-Armenian as many young Armenian men in America were doing.\n\nFor the first four years of her life Diana lived in Worcester with her maternal grandparents in an apartment too small to house the whole family. Her parents and sister were in an apartment a few streets away. Diana describes her grandfather Hagop as “my favorite person in the world” who recounted the plays of Shakespeare on their afternoon walks and says that her grandmother Helen “told me Armenian folk tales.”\n\nEventually Diana’s parents bought a house and settled with their children in the suburbs of first Auburn and later Marlborough, Massachusetts. There were no other Armenians in either of these communities. To support his family, her father founded a dairy, the first in the state to homogenize milk. Diana says:\n\n“It was a great childhood for a while: wandering in the woods, picking blackberries, blueberries, and climbing trees. But our house was on a highway, a busy highway. And one day in March when I was five, my sister and I were crossing the road we were hit by a car and she died. That changed everything. I kept waiting and waiting for her to come back.”\n\nThis traumatic experience is memorialized in the poem “white lamb, blue mulberry” as the poet stands before her sister’s grave in the Armenian section of the Hope Cemetery. Diana muses, “Perhaps writing poems was a way of talking to my sister. Writing poems was something we did at home anyway. My father wrote poems for us to recite in public when we were very little. Both parents went around reciting poems all the time. My father in Armenian and mother in English. And we were expected to give each other poems for our birthdays.”\n\nAs an undergraduate at Boston University, Diana majored in English. When her grandfather asked her what career her degree would prepare her for she told him she wanted to be a poet. He replied that the Armenians already had enough poets, but what they truly needed were journalists to tell their story.\n\nDiana followed his advice. She worked at the student paper and after graduating took at job at the Medford Mercury, a local daily in a Boston suburb. She soon moved to New York where she started at the Associated Press as a messenger, eventually working her way up to Near East Editor at Young America.\n\nIn the meantime, she was writing poems and submitting them to magazines for publication. She married, moved back to the Boston area and was selected to participate in the last poetry class taught by Robert Lowell at Harvard.\n\nWhen her father needed English versions of some poems by Daniel Varoujan for a lecture he was preparing, Diana provided them—and thus began her career as a translator.\n\nEven though she was raised in a family that was steeped in Armenian culture, Diana says, “I didn’t become Armenian until I went to New York and sang in a chorus, and joined a dance group.”\n\nAs an adult—living away from her kin—Diana gravitated towards a group of young, politicized Armenians and began to feel consciously Armenian, an identity that increasingly informed her poetry.\n\nDiana’s poems are filled with family stories, as well as references to Armenian history, proverbs and folk tales. Her poetry is also inhabited by the ghosts of the dead: her sister Sona, her grandparents, the poets Varoujan and Siamanto, and the countless Armenians who died during the mass deportations and executions of 1915-1922. The grandchild and child of survivors, Diana—who says there was very little talk of the Genocide in her household while she was growing up—has devoted much of her writing life to telling the story of her people.\n\nDiana’s unique contribution to American and Armenian-American poetry comes not simply from her engagement with the large forces of history, but in the domestic detail and precise, empathetic observation that give her poetry its sense of intimacy and warmth – an intimacy that paradoxically amplifies the scope and scale of her voice. In poems such as “teaching a child to dance” and “at twilight” she writes from the point of view of a mother with tenderness and melancholy, balancing a specific and unique maternal regard with an underlying expanse of public, shared remembrance. In the poem about her sister, “white lamb, blue mulberry” she says, “This poem is my child,” and, in a sense, all her poems exist both as tightly held progeny and as wandering, independent expressions. In “angel in somerville” a bag lady is transformed into the poet and the poet herself is “a mother/feeding her children, dispensing grace” – a perfect example of how Diana transforms the impersonal public space of contemporary America and revisions it, through intensely personal imagining, into an almost Whitmanesque emotional vista.\n\nDiana is an award-winning poet and translator, has been the President of the New England Poetry Club for more than twenty years, and is a revered lecturer and teacher. 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Size aside, parts of Pedro’s skull did appear to be missing, leaving the brain exposed- compelling evidence in support of Shapiro’s theory.\n\nIn the 1950s, Goodman lost Pedro, probably to a New York con man and the mummy has never been recovered. Modern anthropologist George Gill continues to make a case for anencephaly, using the old evidence- and recent comparative material. Gill, who works for the University of Wyoming first became involved with the case of the San Pedro mummy in 1971. In the 1990s, after a TV appearance, he was approached by a Native American family who presented him with the preserved remains of a baby remarkably similar to Pedro.\n\nThe little girl, nicknamed Chiquita, was mummified just like Pedro. Measuring only inches in height, her arms and legs were also in the same position as the San Pedro mummy’s. “Nowhere else in Wyoming do we have burial sitting up like that. Never sitting up with legs crossed and arms folded across their chest,” said Gill. “There’s a clear connection between the two of them, besides being in the same region.” While Chiquita had not been set to rest in a cave (The family who protected her had kept her in their attic), the remains had never the less been precious enough to guard for 500 years.\n\nFor although Gill was only allowed to analyze Chiquita on three separate occasions, he was able to establish her date of birth as being sometime in the 1500s. Despite her blond hair, her DNA also revealed the little mummy to be of Native American origin. But most compelling of all, the anthropologist was able to establish that she died from anencephaly. The similarities to Pedro lend credibility to the anencephaly theory. However, without Pedro’s body, it cannot be proven he suffered from the same condition- especially as there is evidence that suggests Pedro was not a child at all.\n\nPedro’s full height has been estimated to be 14 inches in total- certainly the right size for a baby. However, he also exhibited features associated with a fully-grown adult. The mummy had a full set of teeth and x rays also revealed what appeared to be the remains of solid food in his stomach. Furthermore, there were signs on his body that he did not die a natural death. The mummy’s spine appeared to be damaged, his collarbone broken and his skull been smashed by a blow that could have resulted in the exposed brain tissue.\n\nSome experts reconciled this discrepancy between Pedro’s size and development by declaring that Pedro was, in fact, an adult dwarf. Local Native American tales tell of a mythical race of little people– the Nimerigar who lived in the area of Wind River and the Pedro ranges of Wyoming. The legends say that the Nimerigar ranged between 20 inches and three feet in height. They were gifted with magical powers and the healing arts- yet were also extremely vicious, hence their name which means, “People Eaters.” As with European fairies, it was unwise to cross the Nimerigar who would attack those who displease them with poisoned darts.\n\nThe Nimerigar also reputedly killed off those in their community suffering from debilitating age or infirmity with a blow to the head-, which could account for Pedro’s head injury. This injury, taken in conjunction with Pedro’s size and unusual appearance has led to speculation that the mummy was a representative of a now lost race that inspired the Nimerigar legends.\n\nPhysical evidence for a race of small people exists in the US. In 1876, The Anthropological Journal and New York Times both reported on a six-acre graveyard of between 75,000-100,00 ‘pygmy’s’ in Coffee County, Tennessee. The deceased were found to be “buried in a sitting or standing position.” Although they were first thought to be children, the skulls were found to have wisdom teeth, leading investigators to deduce they, in fact, belonged to “a dwarf tribe of people, about three feet high.” A similar find had also been reported forty years earlier from a site near Cochocton in Ohio.\n\nHowever, none of these ‘little people” have been found mummified or buried in quite the same circumstances as Pedro. The fact remains, no matter what the similarities are between the lost mummy, Chiquita, mythical or actual pygmy races, without the actual body of the San Pedro Mummy, the best anyone can do is speculate."
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"One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it \"Socks\" after the paws which looked like they had white socks on. Akari was together with Socks day and night. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend.One day Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made with Socks and her deceased mother...\n\nfilmbeats Aug 03 2015 2:00 pm One of my favorite films and definitely a tearjerker for dog lovers.\n\nRyaven Sep 09 2010 11:36 pm This movie is amazing and I couldn't stop crying through it. Heartbreak after heartbreak! (I think it was a Korean melo-drama disguised as a Japanese film, lol.) at least it ended bittersweet :)\n\nKi Dec 01 2008 11:06 am If there is another country that loves dogs more than Japan I certainly haven’t come across it. The amount of love Japanese dog owners have for their furry canine friends surpasses anything I have seen stateside . As an example, the next time you are in Tokyo, head on over to the artificial island named Odaiba and check out the Aqua City shopping center. You’ll find there an exact replica of the Statue of Liberty standing behind the shopping center. But, what’s even more surreal than finding a miniature Statue of Liberty placed in the back of a modern Japanese shopping mall (just a stone’s throw away from the equally insane Fuji TV building) and situated on a man made island, is none other than the dog park behind Aqua City. You’ll find couples, single individuals, old & young people, all walking their dogs in this area, with over half of them pushing their dogs around in baby carriages!\n\nAnd with this type of love for dogs, we get the next major Japanese motion picture about a dog, \"10 Promises to My Dog\" (just in the last couple of years alone Japan has produced such canine centric films as \"All About My Dog\" \"Berna,\" \"Quill,\" \"Inogue,\" and \"A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies\"). Before you dismiss this movie as a small niche film, just remember that the movie was produced by Shochiku, directed by Katsuhide Motoki (Gegege no Kitaro films, Free and & Easy, Drugstore Girl) and such recognizable A-list Japanese actors as Rena Tanaka, Mayuko Fukada, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryo Kase, and Chizuru Ikewaki. The movie itself is based on a novel by Hare Kawaguchi, which covers approximately 10 years in the life of Akari Saito, her father Yuichi Saito, and their faithful dog Socks.\n\nYoung 12-year old Akari (Mayuko Fukuda) finds a dog in her backyard one afternoon. She’s thrilled to have the dog and rushes to the hospital to tell her sick mother the good news. In actuality, Akari’s mother placed the dog there so Akari would have someone else in their home. Akari’s mother then brings about 10 promises Akari should make to her new found pet.\n\nA few months later, Akari’s mom passes away and her father Dr. Yuichi Saito (Etsushi Toyokawa) gets transferred to another hospital in another city. Unfortunately, Socks isn’t allowed to move with them (they will stay in a hospital dormitory). Akari leaves her dog with best friend Susumu Hoshi (Shota Sato). A short while later, Susumu finds out that he has been accepted to a musical school overseas and must leave Socks behind.\n\n7 years later, Akari (Rena Tanaka) is now on the doorsteps of womanhood. She has Socks as her faithful companion and soon finds herself with another longtime friend. Susumu (Ryo Kase) has returned to Japan as a successful musician. But, as Akari tries to venture out into the adult world, she finds Socks to be more of a hindrance.\n\n“10 Promises to My Dog” is an awfully sweet movie that will appeal to animal lovers who drive their cars happily with a Hello Kitty steering wheel cover and replaces their cellphone charms bi-weekly. The film is set in a near fantasy world of nice people and nice things (something like “Always - Sunset on Third Street” set in the present day), will make you one happy camper if that kind of thing fits your temperament. Problems arise if you don’t fall within these narrow categories.\n\nRena Tanaka, who stars as the adult Akari, is a popular actress that has never been able to transfer her natural charisma into the characters she has played. Her performance in “10 Promises to My Dog” didn’t change this impression and, in fact, solidified my lukewarm impressions of her as an actress. As an example, when Socks lays on his death bed, Rena Tanaka unleashes this combination of whiny high pitched squeals, potty expressions, dry tears, and a “I think I got a summer cold” type of sniffing that made me want to hurl vomit at the screen. It was an incredibly painful moment to endure. Meanwhile, her younger counterpart, Mayuko Fukudo, was more like a human Prozac pill. The amount of joy that this girl unleashed on screen was something to be seen. Always so cute, with her eyes nearly shut closed from smiling so hard, she made the puppy seem rather downright pedestrian.\n\nMeanwhile the 7 year gap between the first half’s young Akari and the second half’s adult Akari didn’t work as well as expected. Surprisingly, a lot of the blame can be place upon Ryo Kase (Huh? your asking yourself “did I read that right?”). Yup, this is a rare case where Ryo Kase was miscast for a film and actually hinders the film. The main problem being that Ryo Kase is 34 years old, but he’s asked to play a 19 year old. Maybe some won’t notice this age disparity, but for me, it was an obvious distraction. Storywise, the movie sputters forward with episodic moments that are predictable to say the least. Often, the bright retro looking cinematography made the flat story feel livelier than what it actually was, but whenever the film hit a melodramatic peak the nice visuals couldn’t hide the lack of originality found in the script.\n\n5 Promises to my Dog:\n\n1.) I won't ever make you watch another Rene Tanaka film again.\n\n4.) I won't make you watch another film with Etsushi Toyokawa wearing so much tanning cream again.\n\n5.) I will let you watch as many Mayuko Fukudo films as possible.\n\nBesides, they didn't copy your commandments word-per-word. The sense of the promises changed in the movie.\n\nSo I guess, the film makers thought they weren't stealing anything.\n\nIf you do plan to contact them, please don't \"attack\" them with a lawsuit. Ask them nicely at first, to clear the misunderstanding.\n\nPheenyphret Nov 13 2008 11:21 am Well Stan, if you really are the Stan who wrote these commandments and not some guy pretending to be him, the film did mention that it was inspired by the Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership. Look for it in the ending credits.\n\nAmitava Oct 24 2008 4:55 am Really Really shocked, how come this producer could neglect the actual life line of his picture, I would strongly focus this in my pet blog, and good wishes for Stan for his \"10 commandments\" it is highly appreciated.\n\nStan Rawlinson Oct 02 2008 4:41 am I wrote the ten comandments in the first place and this film has stolen them and not even given me credit for it."
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"Having not seceded (and having only a small portion of its territory occupied by Confederate troops), Kentucky did not need to be “redeemed” from Republican rule like other southern states. Nevertheless, in their vigorous opposition to Republican Reconstruction, white evangelicals found a greater degree of unity after the war. “Racist religion,” Harlow explains, “…created cultural and political solidarity with the white South,” a solidarity undergirded by a theological consensus once partly obscured by pre-war political disagreements. “The [postwar] result,” Harlow concludes, “racist unity legitimated by postbellum clergy and laity who rejected civil rights for African Americans, embraced a Confederate memory of the war, and paved the way for the emergence of a dominant white Democratic political bloc in the state.” White Kentuckians embraced a cause lost by others and made it their own.\n\nWhite evangelicals dominated Kentucky religion, as much as anywhere in the nation. By the end of the war, nearly all agreed that churches and ministers should eschew the political and focus on the spiritual. The spirituality of the church, however, meant the practical sanctification of white supremacy. “Conservative religion,” Harlow concludes pointedly, “made Confederate Kentucky.”\n\nHarlow reaches those sober conclusions through careful research and portraits of white Kentucky evangelicals. His is a fascinating cast of characters. Baptists and Methodists were numerically dominant in Kentucky, but Presbyterians exercised tremendous public influence. And Robert J. Breckinridge (whose nephew John C. Breckinridge gained the support of southern Democrats in the 1860 presidential election) towered over most of his fellow Presbyterians. Breckinridge, politician-turned-minister and college president, was an antislavery slave owner. As that latter fact suggests, his antislavery was more theoretical than actual. During the Civil War, he tried — apparently without success to retrieve his slaves from a Union camp. Breckinridge favored gradual emancipation and the colonization of African Americans to Liberia. Like many technically antislavery whites, Breckinridge feared the presence of free black people far more than he disliked slavery. Thus, like a good number of other Americans, Breckinridge was an emancipationist who never emancipated.\n\nMoreover, while Breckinridge disagreed with proslavery Kentuckians on the morality and wisdom of American slavery, he thoroughly agree with them on the dangers of abolitionism. Anti-abolitionism united nearly all white Kentuckians. It is important here to understand Harlow’s distinction between emancipationists and abolitionists. Some Kentuckians, like Breckinridge, supported the former. Nearly all vigorously opposed the latter. They considered abolitionists heretics because of their approach to the Bible and dangerous because they threatened white supremacy. Emancipationists and proslavery evangelicals were united theologically even if at political odds prior to the war.\n\nKentucky did have a few bold “heretics.” John G. Fee, the radically abolitionist Presbyterian founder of Berea College, did indeed read the Bible very differently. Like other Christian abolitionists, Fee favored scripture’s “spiritual intent over against its literal word.” Just because the Bible seemed to take the existence of slavery for granted did not mean that it could square with Jesus’s clear command to love one’s neighbor. “We need … a different kind of teaching,” insisted Fee. Berea’s founder’s racial egalitarianism was matched by very few white Americans. Whereas most whites fretted about the social implications of black freedom, Fee openly embraced “amalgamation”: “Better that we have black faces than bad hearts, and reap eventually the torments of hell. We may have pure hearts if our faces should, after the lapse of a century or two, be a little tawny.” Not surprisingly, his conservative opponents in Kentucky exiled him to Ohio. Gradual emancipationists like Breckinridge and openly proslavery evangelicals could fellowship with each other. Neither could stand the presence of abolitionists in their midst.\n\nHarlow seems to agree with Mark Noll that most evangelicals could not break free of a biblical hermeneutic that led them to support slavery, at least in the abstract. Kentucky’s evangelicals believed that “a commonsensical, plain reading of the Bible revealed the Christian God’s sanction for slavery.” Some conservative white evangelicals believed that the Bible endorsed some systems of slavery but not that found in America. Most, however, felt that any sort of vigorous opposition to slavery struck at the biblical bedrock of their faith. And therefore they could not embrace true antislavery positions. Moderation, as preached by the gradual emancipationists, “was not benign, nor was it morally or politically neutral. Moderation was an ethical stance that sought every possible avenue to avoid confronting directly the most pressing dilemma of the nineteenth century.”\n\nHarlow might have more clearly positioned himself vis-à-vis recent scholarship on evangelicalism, the Bible and slavery (he discusses books by Mark Noll, Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Molly Oshatz, and Charles Irons). As Harlow notes, one could ask whether it was exactly a “faulty hermeneutic” that explains the failure of most white evangelicals to actively oppose slavery. Racism clearly “pervaded proslavery [and anti-abolitionism] Christianity.” One needed more than a “Reformed, literal hermeneutic” (Noll’s phrase) to presume that Genesis 9 sanctioned black slavery, for instance. Harlow also seems to think Noll too “sanguine about the possibilities of alternative hermeneutics to solve the Bible-and-slavery dilemma.” Of course, in Kentucky most white evangelicals simply saw no dilemma about slavery or white supremacy. One must at least conclude that the way that most white American evangelicals read the Bible did not lead them to oppose glaring social injustices. Instead, they tended to sanctify those injustices.\n\nDuring the Civil War, a majority of white Kentuckians opposed secession. They were ultra-conservative Unionists, however, because they wanted the Union as it was, not as it became during the war. Thus, by the end of the war, Kentuckians opposed Republicanism (which they often labeled “Black Republicanism”) almost as vigorously as they opposed abolition. Robert Breckinridge, indeed, was somewhat unusual in that his Unionism was so fervent as to lead him to finally accept abolition. He had denounced the Emancipation Proclamation when promulgated, but Breckinridge remained a Lincoln supporter. That made the aging Presbyterian lion unusual. Nearly 70 percent of Kentucky voters cast their ballots for George McClellan in 1864. Once resolutely anti-abolitionists, white evangelicals in Kentucky now become fervently anti-Republican.\n\nDespite Harlow’s careful focus on intra-Kentucky developments, he correctly asserts that his is an American story. For most of the early-to-mid nineteenth century, a majority of white Americans northerners considered abolitionism far more threatening than the slaveholding South to both Christianity and the Union. The Fugitive Slave Act, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott decision, and other developments of the 1850s eventually changed the minds of a good number of northern white evangelicals. But not all, and not for long. Within a few short years of the war’s conclusion, many northern white evangelicals joined their southern counterparts in opposition to Republican radicals.\n\nHarlow’s book adds to a wealth of careful studies of the relationship between nineteenth-century evangelicalism and slavery. It is a significant virtue of Race, Religion, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky that he persists with his narrative beyond the war’s end into the Reconstruction years. 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One of them, retired Army Major General Paul Vallely has charged that Obama is “intentionally weakening and gutting our military and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.” Retired Army Major General Patrick Brady agrees saying, “There is no doubt he is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him.”\n\n\nThe world, over the course of human civilization, has always been a dangerous place. Much of the history of mankind is a history of wars, large and small. In the last century the U.S. military was involved in two world wars, a Korean conflict, a war in Vietnam, and the Gulf War to drive out Hussein’s Iraqi forces after he invaded Kuwait.\n\n\nThe Russian seizure of Crimea in the wake of the protests that has left Ukraine in disarray has put all of Europe on edge and raised questions about the readiness of NATO. A look around the world sees China increasing its military strength, particularly at sea.\n\n\nThe Middle East to include much of northern Africa is a hotbed of turmoil. And, of course, Iran continues to contribute to it, aiding Syria’s regime along with the Russians, supporting Palestinian terror organizations that threaten Israel, while pursuing its own nuclear weapon capabilities.\n\n\nThis would hardly seem a good time to undermine U.S. military capabilities, but that is exactly what is occurring thanks to President Obama.\n\n\nThe Washington Times reported that “President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several decades.” The Tomahawk missile program, under Obama’s 2015 budget proposal, would be completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016. Seth Cropsey, the director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, said “This really moves the U.S. away from a position of influence and military dominance.”\n\nWriting in The New York Times, Steve Cohen, a former director of the U.S. Naval Institute, noted that “The Navy is supposed to be ‘forward deployed’ to provide the president with tools powerful enough to deal with potential threats and trouble spots.” For decades since the end of World War Two the U.S Navy has patrolled the world’s sea lanes to protect trade between nations, but Cohen said, “The rest of the world isn’t unpatrolled, but it is under-patrolled” noting that “Some 90% of the world’s trade moves by sea. Much of that can be disrupted by attacks on a handful of choke points readily apparent to pirates, terrorists, and rogue nations.”\n\n\n“With the U.S Navy arguably at its smallest since 1917, we don’t have many ships that are actually at sea. Only 35% of the Navy’s entire fleet is deployed, fewer than 100 ships.”\n\n\nU.S. air power has been under assault as well by the Obama regime. In June of last year, David A. Deptula, a retired Air Force three-star general and senior military scholar at the Air Force Academy, warned that “In the Air Force alone, more than 30 squadrons are now grounded, along with aircrews, and maintenance and training personnel.” Less than a year ago “The graduate schools for Air Force, Navy and Marine combat aviators” had been cancelled. “Equipment testing and upgrades to F-22s, F-15s, F-16s, and other aircraft have been delayed.”\n\n\nIn September 2013, the commandant of the Marine Corps, James F. Amos, warned that cuts to the nation’s defense and security spending that occurred from 1990 to 2001, reduced its total active-duty strength by 32%. In 2001 the Corps totaled approximately 172,000 Marines, down from 197,000 in the 1990 Gulf War. When 9/11 occurred, the Marines “found themselves short of critical capabilities in intelligence collection and analysis, in communication and in mobility on land, sea and in the air.” These days the Marines are facing further reductions.\n\n\nIt will be up to Congress to eliminate the sequestration cuts and the Obama regime proposals to ensure that the U.S. military is restored to a state of readiness. If it rubber stamps the reductions that have been occurring for more than a decade, the ability of the nation to respond to an attack on our homeland or any of our allies will be highly limited.\n\n\nYou can be sure that those nations unfriendly to our future are fully aware of this and the defeat of our armed forces could occur on the battlefield because it has already occurred here.\n\nIt's the 1930s redux - soon the military will be training with cardboard tanks and wooden rifles.\n\nThat is what Obama and his ilk want. They want us knocked down a few pegs so we will be equal with other nations. They have been targeting the military for several reasons, one it is still a masculine entity which the feminist don't like. It is a meritocracy which flies in the teeth of the belief system of the average liberal and the military tends to vote republican. They believe that the money could be better spent toward global warming, benefits to the poor and disadvantaged and other core democrat voter blocks to guarantee their support in future elections thereby keeping the democratic party in power. And if we get defeated in a war, it will strike at the heart of our \"American exceptionalism\""
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"Primitive equipment, nicknames, and injuries prevail in this version of the sport.\n\nIf you happen by the baseball diamond at Mosswood Park on a random summer Sunday, you might have the pleasure to behold the Oakland Colonels in action. Initially, you’ll think you’re witnessing an ordinary game of baseball, but look closely, and you’ll discover that you’ve actually wandered into a time warp.\n\nYour first clue will be the umpire—he’s the one decked out in formal wear, complete with top hat, bow tie, and coattails. Once his stately garb tips you off that something anachronistic is going on, you’ll notice odd details about the players’ appearance as well. The Colonels’ long-sleeve jersey tops feature button cuffs, dress shirt collars, and an Old English capital “O” emblazoned on a shield across the chest. Players patrol the field with gloves that look more suitable for manual labor than for snagging grounders or pop-ups, and when they step up to bat, they do so without the protection of a helmet.",
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