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Many Vagenda posts are line-by-line takedowns of specific articles, but have you ever felt that some annoying article themes are so common that it’s unfair to pick on just one of them? Every time I want to read or write something fulfilling or useful (or read ‘Dreamers of a New Day’, Christmas present from 2010…)., someone links to one of these types of article on Twitter, and I waste five minutes of my life getting annoyed. Here are ten articles that journalists should really, really stop writing (and that I should stop reading):
1.) Snarky articles telling me what I ought to have done, or stopped doing, by the age of 25/30/35
I don’t mean the bulleted lists, but the judgmental prose type. “Over 30? Still doing X? KILL YOURSELF NOW.” Being a bit exasperated by people who devote their entire lives to strenuously denying they’re no longer teenagers is one thing (most of those, incidentally, work in the media – yes, hello, middle-aged mag-hags drooling over teen pop stars, this is you…!). Of course there’s nothing wrong with having ambitions or goals, and recognising you’ve reached a certain level of emotional maturity is generally a good thing. But running down other people in the course of aspiration, and classifying yourself as ‘grown up’ according to some superficial lifestyle milestone is daft (what is it with the middle classes and equating cooking with maturity, by the way? As though baking your own soda bread is the gateway to adulthood, and eating packet-sauce makes you an emotional cataclysm….). These smug, snide articles which read as though they’re the mid-90s are just yuck. Bonus yuck-points if the article has some lazy throwaway humour invoking disability “Collecting keyrings if you’re over 21 is a sign you have Aspergers/OCD/are mental…”. (Hey, lazy columnist, how about you go and work with or even meet people with Aspergers/OCD/mental health difficulties, then tell me if you think they’re still great bantz for your filler-piece…)
2.) Humour pieces by recent graduates about how waitressing/temping, and living back at home/flatsharing really sucks
When I was an undergraduate at Durham, back in the carefree early 00s, the student media ran endless articles poking fun at rahs (university slang for loud, moneyed, arrogant twits). The first few times you read or wrote one, you thought: “Wow, so hilarious! And so true! I bet they wrote that after they met X and Y from my seminar group…” But after three years of them, each one seeming to think it was the first, they got boring. Light-hearted ‘graduate-blues’ articles are the post-uni equivalent. Yes, I know they’re meant to be funny. The problem is they all say the same thing, there’s a limit to the number of times you can find a mildly funny thing funny, and the graduates who really need media exposure are the ones in situations which aren’t very funny at all: the long-term unemployed, university dropouts, serial interns, and the made-redundant. If you’re in those categories, you have my very deepest sympathies. But I really don’t really need to read another piece by someone wryly noting that their dream job hasn’t materialised three days after graduating (Guess what? I’m 28 and mine still hasn’t. So I made my own – see later).
3.) Any article on gender with the phrase ‘hard-wired’ or ‘genetically programmed’ in it Because the headline “The expectation that women do X and men do Y has a small basis in genes/biology but is mostly cultural” isn’t very catchy, sub-editors invented the terms ‘hard-wired’ and ‘genetically programmed’. They are now used matter-of-factly by people whose scientific knowledge extends to a CGSE grade C who want to sound knowledgeable about Biology. If I see another article on gender claiming ‘studies have found’ people of a particular gender are ‘hard-wired’ to enjoy something (usually a current trend in porn, fashion, career choices or interior decor) I will take a thick book on the social construction of identity and hurl it through the nearest window.
4.) Revolting comments below political articles
There are well-known web browser plugins that will automatically block articles from certain newspapers (cough the Mail cough) famous for their provocative content, and replace them with soothing images of things like kittens. I’m eternally grateful to whoever invented them – without them, I’d have no unburst blood vessels left. But someone needs to create one which lets you read sensible articles but blocks the comments underneath. Whether you agree with Louise Mensch’s politics or not (whisper it, I’m of the ‘not’ persuasion…) her dedication to calling out misogynist online trolls is entirely right. And it’s not just women daring to have opinions who come in for this kind of carry-on. I don’t care what your views on the economy are – showing disrespect to people whose disabled loved ones have taken their own lives makes you a total shit. Don’t be that.
5.) Music reviews comparing artists to Kate Bush and Tori Amos on the basis they’re a) white and b) not Madonna I don’t like to be all prescriptive about musical taste, but if you think Flo Welch sounds like Tori Amos, you’re not listening to one or the other very carefully. If you were, you’d notice a vocal difference of about 3 octaves, and that one plays the piano quite a lot more often than the other. I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe you think they’re similar because they have red hair and vaginas. Which puts you on about the same musical footing as my uncles.
6.) Articles about online dating experiences
Can we just agree that we’ve all signed up for OKCupid because doing the quizzes was better than writing a Dissertation, that we’ve all given in and gone on a date because someone was cute/shared a hobby/didn’t communicate in text speak/our friends nagged us, and that most of us have had experiences ranging from nice-but-unremarkable to dreadful.
7.) Articles about how, despite the fact that a quarter of them now do, any adult who lives with their parents or relatives is a freak of nature who should wear a paper bag over their head in public (cough Barbara Ellen cough)
8.) Articles about sex by people who think it’s as trivial as a bus journey
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10.) Articles about articles you should stop reading
Not really; just thought I’d pre-empt the trolls there…
Are there any more articles that you really, really need to stop reading? Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter

11 thoughts on “Ten Articles I Really Need To Stop Reading

  1. Sometimes I forget how raging DM Femail articles make me and follow a link someone’s put on Twitter: the articles themselves are depressing enough, but the comments underneath them are even worse.

  2. the main thrust of my blog is my frustrations of how it sucks to be a graduate in rubbish work, boo.

    to be honest i haven’t really seen many articles about this topic and i’d like to see more (so feel free to link), most of the articles written by people my age i see just make me feel shitty for not having a “proper job”.

  3. I love this, and not just because I was also an undergrad at Durham in the early 00s and I know exactly the articles you mean (Breaking news, every week: Rahs wear pashminas and Jack Wills to Klute).

  4. Any article that contains ridiculously shortened words such as “fash pack” or “obvs”. It just makes me cringe! It sounds like older women trying to be cool, I don’t know ANYONE who seriously uses the word “fash” on a day to day basis. I must say I am also a Durham grad and I know exactly what you mean about those articles. Annoying.

  5. Hysteria raising articles along the lines of:

    “What? You are over 15 years old?! YOU ARE INFERTILE! Don’t even bother having sex. Shut up shop you hag”
    “Carrots cause CANCER!” – actual article I read in the daily mail about 7 years ago.

  6. Really I’m sorry but really? Suppose everyone to their own despite the lack of genuine thought behind this or with no bias behind it…. You should have been a bit more impartial…. Xx

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Samantha Brick, Fat Is Not Failure

I am currently caught in a shame spiral. Why? Because I’m contributing to the hit count of the Mail Online. They’re devious bastards whose website is designed to pull in both the Muslim-haters who agree with everything Peter Hitchens says and the earnest, possibly masochistic liberals who can’t quite believe what they’re reading. I know that this is what they do and yet I’ve still fallen into their trap. Bugger.
This time, I’ve been ensnared by the section dedicated especially for people like me (aka women): Femail. Femail, I am certain, is an anti-feminist plot designed to show the world that if you give women a voice they will only use it to bitch about each other and talk about shoes. Once the UK has been convinced that women are all either conniving bitches or vacuous airheads with little more capacity for intellectual thought than one of those life-size sex dolls, they will take away our right to vote. No columnist has been more successful in promoting this view than Samantha Brick, whose column “There are downsides to looking this pretty: Why women hate me for being beautiful” from last April had a similar effect on the British public to a drop of blood in a tank of sharks. It’s been a year since Ms Brick was publicly ridiculed for this vain and horrendously anti-feminist piece of writing and apparently the Mail feels that the woman has escaped being bad-mouthed so much that she trends on Twitter for long enough. Her most recent piece for the insidious tabloid is certainly aiming for the same amount of controversy, as it is titled: “Joan Collins is right. Any woman who wants to stay beautiful (like me!) needs to diet every day of her life”. Christ.
It begins like this: “When my husband and I invited friends to dinner, I knew they’d want to bring something along as a contribution to the evening and made a point of saying that wasn’t necessary. So when one friend arrived and thrust a hefty box of chocolates into my hands, I rewarded her with ice-cold contempt rather than the grateful smile she was clearly expecting.” What a shame that your manners aren’t as beautiful as your face, Samantha. She then goes on to describe the way that she threw the “very expensive box of hand-made French chocolates” into the bin, having covered them in coffee dregs, and proudly proclaims that she has been on a diet since she was 12 years old. Why? Because men like thin women, therefore being fat is a mark of failure. Plus-size singer-songwriter Adele has probably tricked you into believing she was a talented and successful artist with her highest-selling album of the 21st century and 9 Grammy awards, so thank God Samantha Brick is here to remind us that this is all irrelevant due to her weight.
While the article was clearly trying to praise the merits of being slim, it read more like the horror stories about eating disorders I used to read in teen magazines like Bliss or Sugar. Brick describes being so desperate to fit into a size 8 that she lived off of Marmite toast for a year and went through a phase of eating packets of Polo mints instead of meals. She cites Wallis Simpson’s demonstrably untrue cliché that “you can never be too rich or too thin”, something that I would like to see her say to the parent of a child with anorexia. Fainting from hunger and dieting so hard she doesn’t have the energy to work are worth it, apparently, because she looked good and was asked out on lots of dates. For the majority of people, being a functioning human being is a priority over increasing the number of men who come onto you in bars. Far from making me determined to maintain a thin figure, Brick’s documentation of her horrifying eating habits made me want to go out and eat a few dozen cream cakes. See! Femail just encourages unhealthy eating habits in young, impressionable women.
The icing on the (soon to be thrown away, untouched) cake was the disparaging attitude Brick displays towards overweight woman. “As I see it,” she proclaims, “there is nothing in life that signifies failure better than fat.” Forget misery, loneliness or poverty; what you really need to be avoiding, ladies, is a muffin top. You could be a racist crack addict who likes to spend their spare time stamping on newborn puppies and you’d still be more worthy of Samantha Brick’s respect than someone who wears a size 20.
I’m not going to delve too far into the subject of whether it’s possible to be overweight and healthy because it’s been covered before and I’m not a nutritionist. What I do firmly believe, however, is that a person’s health is their business and nobody else’s, except perhaps their doctor. It’s certainly not the business of judgemental people on the street whose self-esteem is so fragile that they spend their time seeking out people that they can deem inferior just for a quick flash of ego. I’d rather not be deemed a failure in life because of that time I scarfed down an entire large Domino’s pizza and couldn’t fit into my jeans for three days.
While taking care of one’s body and making healthy lifestyle choices is something I think we all agree should be encouraged, making yourself miserable in order to cling on to a socially constructed ideal of beauty is far from healthy. It also feels like an exercise in futility. Samantha is right when she says that we live in a society where thin is attractive but she forgets to mention the importance that society also puts on youth. For every Helen Mirren and Susan Sarandon in the world, there are thousands of beautiful women who are deemed “past it” now that they’ve dared to succumb to age and develop a few wrinkles. The ageing process is unavoidable and irreversible which means that, chances are, we’ll all eventually stop being considered attractive. Life is finite. We all die of something. Isn’t it a bit pointless to spend a large portion of that limited time making yourself ill and unhappy just to maintain beauty that you’re going to lose anyway? Wouldn’t our energy be put to better use cultivating something that will last us until we finally shuffle off this mortal coil, like knowledge, skills or even, God forbid, a pleasing personality? Joan Collins may be “still attractive and in demand” in the eyes of some but Judi Dench has 11 BAFTAs, 2 Golden Globes, an Oscar and 7 Laurence Olivier Awards and is still starring in box office smashes and selling out West End theatres at the age of 78. Her success is down to hard work and talent, not obsessing over her appearance.
Is it anti-feminist to take pride in your appearance? Of course not. Most of us feel good when we look good. As much as I’d like to claim that I’m above vanity, I just feel that little bit happier about myself after I’ve spent 2 hours getting ready for a night out than when I crawl into a 9am seminar with still-wet hair and eyes so small I resemble a shrew. However, Brick isn’t just confessing to a little vanity; she’s deeming fat women useless and invaluable. We should be looking good for ourselves, not because a paper with a history of supporting Nazis has told us that this is the only way we can bring anything of value to the world. Samantha Brick is not vile because she thinks she is beautiful, or even because she goes to such unhealthy measures to stay thin, but because she is determined to write off women (just women; men are allowed to be fat and successful, obviously) as complete failures for no reason other than the fact that they’ve done something with their bodies that she disapproves of.
And yet, despite everything this woman having said being at best laughable and at worst dangerous, I can’t help but feel sorry for Samantha Brick. For starters, she seems to have married a complete and total arsehole. After Samantha went up to a size 14 (the horror!) while suffering from depression, the reader is informed that her delightful husband was able to motivate her to losing weight again by promising to dump her if she got fat. (As a side note, a photo of her husband is included in the article and he is far from slim himself.) Someone who has consistently gone out with men who have encouraged her unhealthy obsession with being thin and even shamed her for “slipping up” is not going to be in the best position to change her views on the matter.
We all knew a kid at school who constantly made fun of the people who got high grades because they were struggling to pass, or who called people ugly because they were insecure about their own looks. Samantha Brick is this child grown up, sniping at the overweight because picking on what she perceives as a flaw validates the self-denial on which she’s based her adult life. She sees women who have successful careers, stable families and buzzing social lives and feels inferior, so she searches for a bulge over the waistband or a bingo wing in order to find some reason, any reason, that she call these happy people who have achieved their aims in life failures. Yes, she is awful, but she’s also pitiable. I can probably list a hundred reasons to despise the Daily Mail and the fact that they’ve actually got me feeling sorry for Samantha Brick is near the top.
Is what Samantha Brick is saying odious? Absolutely, but the woman is clearly in need of help and giving her distorted worldview a platform is just the kind of irresponsible journalism that the Mail relies on to keep people flocking to its website. We should all be condemning this article and the appalling message it’s sending out, but attacking the author’s looks in an attempt to bring her down a peg feel rather futile and unnecessary. I can’t help but feel that if my self-esteem and marriage were reliant on how thin I was, I’d look at all the happy people who can eat a bit of chocolate now and then without caring if they gain a pound or two, and feel bitterly envious as well.

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  1. I don’t believe this article (not actually this one^^^, but the original DM one), because she says that someone went to her house for dinner. Having read about how this woman apparently treats her ‘friends’ in her last steaming pile of Mail-spawned vomit (oh, sorry, I meant to say ‘article’ there of course, silly me), I refuse to believe anyone would willingly go to this woman’s house!

  2. The Daily Mail is doing so much against female equality at the moment (although they always do really)
    In responding to the article by tweeting @everydaysexism, the journalist started a twitter war with me!
    I understand freedom of speech, but REALLY Daily Mail. You are gross.

  3. I don’t believe these articles actually have too much of a negative impact – it’s a actually a wonderful affirmation of people’s good sense that her articles are almost unanimously trashed. So I’m not too flustered – if anything I am vaguely amused. However, I worry that the specific dysfunctional eating habits she detailed in the article will give certain impressionable people ideas…..

  4. Although Brick’s article really does have to be seen to be believed, I’m so reluctant to encourage people to read it because its message is so odious. Most heinous is her glorification of dysfunctional eating behaviours (I checked that the date of the article wasn’t April 1 AT LEAST TWICE). They wouldn’t seem out of place on one of those pro-anorexia websites. Second of all is her arrogant damning of women who eat what they want. What about exercise, Brick? Cultivating a personality with more depth than the wafers you allow yourself to eat once in a while?

    There is absolutely no reason why anyone should spend their lives oscillating between coffee jitters and fainting. Least of all because your ‘fantastic’ husband serves as a permanent reminder that your value as a person lies solely in your waistband measurement.

    I’m so angry that this article has been published. Everything is already so skewed in her favour that the last thing we need is mainstream glorification. More people will pay attention to this than you’d care to believe.

  5. Too bad that men like only thin woman because i’m fat and my boyfriend LOVES me. I’m pretty sure men like thin women too, and ones in between, with any colour hair, any skin.

    Never mind, ‘a racist crack addict who likes to spend their spare time stamping on newborn puppies’, you could be samantha brick!

    Also, why throw the french hand made chocs away, we could have shared them between ourselves, right ladies? Our self worth isn’t based on a number (be it age, size, weight, or number of make up products worn etc) so we’d be off guilt-free.

    What value does she put on her idiot husband, who is clearly over weight, but someone for whome she decides to lose weight

  6. Throwing away food, unless it has green stuff growing on it, is a disgusting thing to do. She could have accepted the chocolates with good grace and given them to another friend or her chauvinist pig of a husband pour manger. She could have even, shockingly, done something charitable donated them as a raffle prize ( i’m sure these still exist)…

    I’ll let Sam into another shocking secret too – food is fuel for your body and mind. Regular excercise + eating whatever you like as long as it’s in relatively standard proportions = maintaining your weight

    I don’t think anyone who ran the marathon yesterday could have done it on a pack of polo mints alone…

  7. The Mail’s article made me so sad. Mainly because it sounds like Brick is in an emoptionally abusive relationship with herself, her husband, and every other man she has dated. And also because she only eats cheese occasionally.

    Cheese is awesome.

  8. You mean the original article isn’t a parody? If someone were trying to write a parody showing just how awful, unfair and sexist the world can be, they couldn’t have written a better piece.

    Are we SURE Samantha Brick isn’t just trying to make fun of some stereotypes here?

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Justus was the final dog in the "Fruity" Litter to finish, doing so in grand style, taking Best of Breed over Specials, and going on to make the cut in the Group Ring.

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Both Justus and Holly entered the world of agility, and haven't looked back. Every once in a while, they will grace the show ring as a brace, but they enjoy the "Retired" life a lot more. These two bring the words "Active Retirees" a new meaning, taking on the agility world at top speed.

The two of them also preside over Pace Setter Travel and Tours in Okotoks, Alberta, where Mom and Dad Arlene and Dave bring them to the office to greet the customers.

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Theatre review of Theatre Calgary's The Crucible; October 13 - November 8, 2015 at Max Bell Theatre, Arts Commons in Calgary, AB.

Theatre Calgary’s The Crucible is disturbingly compelling

Local actor Karl H. Sine delivers the performance of a lifetime in a bone-chilling theatrical masterpiece that hits uncomfortably close to home.

If you are someone who has fought for equality at some point in your life, or if you have empathized with someone who has, then you will be able to identify with Theatre Calgary’s stunning production of The Crucible.

Written by acclaimed playwright, Arthur Miller, The Crucible originally opened on Broadway in 1952 and won the Tony Award for Best Play. The story is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 and follows a community that self-destructs following a sudden outbreak of witchcraft accusations made by a group of teenage girls. What’s deeply disturbing is how large an impact the actions of a handful of kids can have on the lives of so many individuals, and how dead set the town’s authority figures are in adhering to their traditional beliefs, no matter how tragic the consequences may be.

During the actual events of the Salem witch trials, of the 2,000 individuals accused, many were those who lived on the margins of society, whether due to their status, age, mental health or ethnicity. How ironic then, that in The Crucible, one of the first people accused is a black woman, as she is considered an easy target. The group of teenage accusers then go on to add anyone they dislike to their list of “witches”, trusting that their one-sided legal system will snuff out the accused. It also comes as no surprise that the majority of the witch trials victims are women, as the female sex was considered inferior by the Puritan community, and a woman accused had meager chances of defending herself.

The remarkably talented cast offers brilliant performances and is led by three outstanding actors: Karl H. Sine, Vanessa Sabouring and Claire Armstrong. Calgary actor Sine delivers the performance of a lifetime in his role as John Proctor, a hardworking farmer, who along with his wife Elizabeth, fall victim to the town’s witch hunt. Sine brilliantly master’s Miller’s challenging text with heart and conviction and his performance serves as the backbone of this strong production.

Karl H. Sine (left) delivers the performance of a lifetime in the role of John Proctor. Photo courtesy of Trudie Lee.

As John Proctor’s dutiful wife, Elizabeth, Sabourin delivers an equally stunning performance. Her character’s calm collectiveness and unwavering faithfulness to her integrity is very moving. Sine and Sabourin bring their characters to life superbly, and the result is truly poignant and inspiring.

Sine (centre) and Vanessa Sabourin (second from right), are extremely moving as a farm couple torn apart by salem's witch trials. Photo courtesy of Trudie Lee.

Sine and Sabourin are joined by Dora Award winner Armstrong, who plays the town’s resident mean girl, Abigail Williams. Armstrong’s character is literally pure evil and serves as the fuel that ignites the town’s eruption into madness. Armstrong does not disappoint. Her cold-hearted, manipulative portrayal of Abigail is so disturbing, it gave me chills.

Terence Kelly also shines as Giles Corey, an elderly farm assistant who, along with his wife, get hit hard during the witch trials, but refuses to go down without a fight. Kelly’s portrayal of Giles is loveable and a delight to watch when he delivers the play’s rare moments of comic relief. Graham Mothersill also delivers a noteworthy performance as Salem’s young reverend, who must wrestle with his duty to the town’s religious beliefs and what he sees firsthand.

R.H. Thomson has done an exceptional job directing The Crucible. One of the ways Thomson creatively builds tension in the play is through his idea of having the cast collectively build a large barn-like set throughout the show, symbolizing the increasing mounting of fear within the town. The true magnitude of the set isn’t complete until the end of the play, when the show’s intensity climaxes. The outstanding onstage performances of all 19 cast members, along with Thomson’s direction and the other strong production values of the show (led by Cameron Porteous, set design; Deitra Kalyn, costume design; and Kevin Lamotte, lighting design) is first-rate theatre indeed.

The barn-like set continues to build throughout the show, matching the rising intensity and fear within the town. Photo courtesy of Trude Lee.

One of the things I found ironic in the show is the use of logic by the town’s authority figures when passing judgment. The characters go to extraordinary lengths to twist their logic to suit their needs. This manipulation of sound reasoning has been seen throughout history and The Crucible brings to light how frighteningly effective fearmongering can be in shaping public perception.

People of colour, the LGBTQ community, and those who have been persecuted for their religious beliefs are just a few examples of people who historically had to fight uphill battles for basic rights. Twisting of reason and logic were prime weapons used against them, and it goes without saying that there have been some very sad moments in history when innocent lives were destroyed.

At the end of the play, a chorus of creepy girlish giggles echo in the dimming light, emphasizing the horrors we have just witnessed onstage and serving as a haunting warning. The Crucible reminds us of times when select groups of individuals were able to unleash great evil in society, with society’s permission, as a result of striking fear and propaganda into the hearts of people. The Crucible is powerfully compelling and will stay in your thoughts long after you leave the theatre.

The Crucible, presented by Theatre Calgary, runs until November 8.


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Vancouver Giants Well Represented at 2018 Winter Olympics

Five former Vancouver Giants will be vying for Gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Former forwards Gilbert Brule (Canada), Michal Repik (Czech Republic), and Andrej Kudrna (Slovakia) along with defencemen Jonathon Blum (USA) and Juraj Valach (Slovakia) will take the ice for their respective nations beginning on February 14th.

Gilbert Brule (1987 – North Vancouver, B.C.) – Originally selected first overall by the Giants in the 2002 WHL Bantam Draft, Brule made an incredible impact on the Giants over the course of his tenure between 2003-2006. Over the course of his 165-game WHL career, Brule finished with 87 goals and 98 points for 185 points. He added 22 goals and 22 assists in 39 career playoff games. He was the 2003-04 WHL Rookie of the Year, the 2004-05 CHL Scholastic Player of the Year and was the 2005-06 WHL Playoff MVP when the Giants earned their league championship victory over the Moose Jaw Warriors. In 2005 he was selected sixth overall by the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets and spent parts of eight seasons in the NHL with Columbus, Edmonton and Phoenix. In 299 career NHL games, Brule posted 43 goals, 52 assists and 156 penalty minutes. Brule has spent each of the past four seasons in the KHL and currently plays for the Kunlun Red Star where he leads the team in scoring with 17 goals and 18 assists through 47 games.

Michal Repik (1988 – Vlasim, Czech Republic) – In 2005, the Vancouver Giants selected Michal Repik 21st overall in the CHL Import Draft. He’d spend all three of his WHL seasons with Vancouver and compiled 75 goals and 93 assists for 168 points in 176 career games. In 46 additional playoff games, Repik tallied 18 goals and 25 assists for 43 points. Repik helped guide the Giants to a league championship in 2005-06 and a Memorial Cup championship in 2006-07. During the Memorial Cup tournament Repik finished as the tournament’s top scorer and was a tournament all-star. He also led the WHL in playoff scoring that season. In 2007 Repik was selected in the second round (40th overall) by the Florida Panthers. Over the course of four seasons, Repik suited up in 72 games with the Panthers and had nine goals and 11 assists for 20 points. Repik currently plays for HC Sparta Praha in the Czech Republic.

Andrej Kudrna (1991 – Nove Zamky, Slovakia) – In 2008 the Vancouver Giants selected Andrej Kudrna in the first round (58th overall) in the CHL Import Draft. He played parts of two seasons with the Vancouver Giants (2008-2010) where he registered 18 goals and 20 assists for 38 points in 72 games. He added a goal in 14 additional playoff games. Following his WHL career, Kudrna has played each of the past seven seasons professionally and currently plays alongside Michal Repik for HC Sparta Praha.

Jonathon Blum (1989 – Long Beach, CA) – In Round 7 of the 2004 WHL Bantam Draft, the Giants selected defenceman Jonathon Blum. His four seasons (2005-2009) with the Vancouver Giants were filled with team and individual accolades. He played a big part in the Giants league championship victory in 2005-06 and finished with the WHL’s top plus-minus rating during the Giants 2006-07 Memorial Cup Championship season. The following season he was named a second-team WHL all-star and in 2008-09 he was named both WHL and CHL Defenceman of the Year. In 2007 he was selected 23rd overall by the Nashville Predators in the NHL Draft and has since suited up for 110 NHL games with Nashville/Minnesota. Blum has spent the past three season in the KHL most recently with Sochi HC.

Juraj Valach (1989 – Zvolen, SVK) – Valach’s stint with the Giants was a short one during the 2007-08 season. He played three games for the Giants and snagged a goal and three assists before he was dealt to the Regina Pats. His WHL career spanned three seasons and 129 games and featured stops in Tri-City, Vancouver, Regina and Red Deer. He’s spent the last 10 seasons playing professionally, most recently with Pirati Chomutov in the Czech Republic.

The Vancouver Giants would like to congratulate all five of their alumni, and wish them the very best in their quest for an OIympic Gold Medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang!

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The next wave of foreign investors? They could be American

Wealthy Californians have long viewed Vancouver as an attractive travel destination. But as the effects of climate change continue to intensify, we might have a hard time getting them to leave

August 11, 2016

By Markham Hislop / Photo: Dave Murray

If you think the recent wave of offshore investors has hollowed out Vancouver and turned it into a grossly unaffordable wasteland for a global moneyed diaspora, wait until you see what climate change might do. Because in addition to swamping island nations, killing off coral reefs, and melting Santa’s workshop, it also means that wealthy American climate migrants could start arriving at the Peace Arch border, clamouring to share our unspoiled water and clean air—and buy our real estate. And if you believe Giles Slade, there could be an awful lot of them headed our way.

The Richmond author’s 2014 book, American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival, describes a dystopian North America not far in the future. It’s one in which the American southwest is ravaged by a drought far worse than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and a tidal wave of “climate refugees” heads north to knock on Canada’s door. But this time it won’t be Okies in clapped-out Model Ts with mattresses strapped to the roof. “I think it’s a bit like the late 1920s or very early 1930s under fascism in Germany,” Slade says in an interview. “The smart, the bold, and the rich move first because they see the trend or they can see that conditions are much more attractive elsewhere.” And there won’t be many places with conditions more attractive than B.C.

Why will climate migrants forsake the sunny states of California, Arizona, or Nevada—places that until recently were a mecca for sun-starved retirees? In a word: water. In Slade’s view, civilization is like a giant game of Jenga, interrelated systems all stacked upon each other so that if you pull out a strategic block—in this case, water—the rest come tumbling down. If the California economy and environment collapse, and the wealthy light out for literally greener pastures, one of those pastures could easily be B.C., according to Slade.

No, B.C. won’t be immune to the effects of climate change, such as more frequent seasonal droughts, rising sea levels, and longer (and more intense) fire seasons. But Vancouver has a big advantage over Californian cities: namely, the wet winters that generally keep the three regional water reservoirs full. Combined with Metro Vancouver and B.C. government strategies to mitigate climate impact, which include water conservation measures, the chances are pretty good that the West Coast of Canada won’t be nearly as hard hit as its southern neighbours.

As such, Slade’s doomsday hypothesis for the States isn’t entirely without merit. The most obvious piece of supporting evidence, according to SFU geography professor Simon Donner, is the fact that the American southwest, and California in particular, is already in the grip of a crushing drought. “The key concern is declining water levels in the rivers and the groundwater, due to extreme heat, changes in rainfall, and declining snowpack in the mountains,” he says. The Colorado River Basin, which supplies 16 percent of California’s surface water via two huge aqueducts that cut through mountains, is entering its 16th consecutive year of drought. Over two-thirds of water from the river is used by farmers, who have thus far resisted Governor Jerry Brown’s attempts to reform the water allocation system.

What happens if Brown and his successors continue to fail? Consider Steve Yuhas, a resident of affluent Rancho Santa Fe who was made (in)famous by the Washington Post after he complained on social media that he and his neighbours paid a lot of property tax and “should not be forced to golf on brown lawns.” There are plenty of Steve Yuhas in California. The state is home to 131 billionaires, and it created 23 of them in 2014 alone, according to Forbes. A third of those entrepreneurs made their fortunes in the tech industry—which also has a thriving pod in Vancouver—while many others made theirs in film, media, and culture. California also has the largest population of millionaires in the U.S., with more than 13,000 of them as of 2015. In other words, there are going to be plenty of folks peeking over the fence at Vancouver when things get too hot in their own backyard.

This is important, given that the capital currently driving Vancouver’s real estate market to new (and increasingly ludicrous) heights also comes largely from the super rich. They’re people who UBC sociologist Rima Wilkes calls “cosmopolitans” because they can afford to live in global cities like New York and London (and Los Angeles and San Francisco, too). The first wave of wealthy Chinese immigrants may have come to take advantage of Canada’s generous immigrant investor program, which was suspended in 2012 and cancelled two years later (except in Quebec, where it still operates), but the last few years have seen a full-on capital flight from that region. Investors and companies took $676 billion out of China in 2015, according to the Institute of International Finance, and plowed much of it into foreign real estate—including, it stands to reason, in Vancouver.

California isn’t as big as China, of course, and so the impact of its residents moving into the Vancouver real estate market won’t be nearly as profound. But it still has nearly 39 million people, and all those millionaires (and billionaires) and their potential migration could apply pressure to a housing market that’s already being hit from all sides. And that, Wilkes says, is the danger. Right behind one wave of immigrant investors could come another, not just from the southwestern U.S. but also from other regions around the world ravaged by climate change. That would almost certainly exacerbate all the negative side effects that have already been created—and continue to be created—by record-high real estate prices. “I think the issue is that, globally, it’s this elite that can just keep buying stuff, second homes and all that, when [middle-class] people in Vancouver can’t get anything, can hardly rent an apartment,” Wilkes says.

That said, American immigration from southwestern states like California could have a more positive economic impact than the current wave of investors, which some worry is more interested in parking capital rather than building successful businesses in B.C. “I think the kind of businesses that are trying to relocate out of California, out of San Francisco and Los Angeles, now will start to consider B.C.,” Slade says, referring to the migration of more than 9,000 businesses from the Golden State over the past seven years. Some of those firms pulled up stakes for neighbouring Oregon and Washington, and the combination of the climate crisis in California and Vancouver’s drive to become the world’s greenest city might be enough to lure some environmentally conscious entrepreneurs north of the border.

For his part, Slade thinks the American exodus has already begun, albeit in a minor way. But he believes it has the potential to become much bigger if the southwestern U.S. doesn’t resolve its water and drought issues—and he’s not optimistic that it will. “I think as the economy collapses, and there’s not much room for amelioration, then people will start considering moving to other places,” he says. If they do, we might have to add another casualty to the growing list associated with climate change: the last shreds of aspiration of young Vancouver homeowners.

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63. Same Word, Different World. The Roman Catholic Doctrine of Regeneration

(this article appears on Credo Magazine, July 2013, pp. 63-71 and is used here with permission: www.credomag.com)

August 2nd, 2013

The doctrine of regeneration belongs to the core of the biblical view of salvation and is a term that is shared by all Christian traditions in their respective accounts on what it means to be saved. To be regenerated by God is the act by which God himself re-creates life in a otherwise dead person. Regeneration is, therefore, the entry point of a saved life. Surveying the Biblical evidence, Packer summarizes it in this way: Regeneration “means rebirth (palingenesia): it speaks of a creative renovation wrought by the power of God”.[1] On the surface, the theological meaning of the word is pretty clear and all Christian traditions acknowledge it. The difference between them is not so much on the word itself but the theological “worlds” in which they implant the word in order to make sense of it.

A theological word is not a self-contained unit. Though it carries its own semantic weight, it is also defined by when and where it is found, the web of references which are associated with it, who is involved in enacting it as well as the practices that precede, accompany and follow it. In other words, regeneration as a word can have one meaning which is common to all, but regeneration as a doctrine may point to different theological directions depending on the way it is construed.

In what follows we will explore how Roman Catholicism understands the doctrine of regeneration especially as articulated by the 1994 Catechism of the Catholic Church.[2] This magisterial authoritative source is a thoughtful and comprehensive explanation of the Catholic faith and is the best place to come to terms with what the Roman Catholic Church believes about regeneration.

The Vocabulary of Regeneration

One way of pursuing our goal is to examine the vocabulary used by the Catechism as far as regeneration is concerned. There does not seem to be a specific and technical definition of the term, but the Catechism uses the word by associating it with other Biblical and liturgical words and expressions that contribute towards its definition. In doing so it approximately indicates the meaning of regeneration by way of connecting it to similar words.

As a life-giving event, regeneration is related to “new birth” or “re-birth” (e.g. 1213; 1270). Therefore the Catechism translates the Greek-derived word (re-generation) into the birth-related words. In another metaphorical area, regeneration is linked to the transition from darkness to light (e.g. 1250) and to the inner renewal of one’s own self and purification from sin (e.g. 1262). Moreover, regeneration is further associated with entering the kingdom of God (1263). There are Biblical references here and there to support each meaning.

What is most striking however is the relationship that the Catechism envisages between regeneration and the sacrament of baptism. More than its Biblical nuances and theological significance, it is this inherent association that ultimately defines the Roman Catholic understanding of the core of regeneration.

Sacramental Regeneration

As it is well known the Catechism is structured according to the order of the Apostles’ Creed (the profession of faith), followed by the presentation of the sacraments (the celebration of the Christian mystery), the Christian life including the ten commandments (life in Christ), and the life of prayer which is centered on the Lord’s prayer. In this overall framework, it is interesting to notice where regeneration is theologically placed and treated. It is not found in the section on the work of Christ nor in the section on the ministry of the Holy Spirit, but instead comes to the fore in the second part which deals with the sacraments of the Church. Doctrinally, then, regeneration, though organically related to the work of the Triune God, is specifically attached to the sacramental ministry of the Church. From a systematic point of view, the Roman Catholic theological map places regeneration under the rubric of the liturgy of the Church rather than in the chapter on God’s salvation.

More specifically, it is the sacrament of baptism that plays a fundamental role in bringing regeneration about. It is in the context of baptism that the Catholic doctrine of regeneration is spelt out.

Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua),and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: “Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word” (1213).

The final quote comes from the 1566 Roman Catechism (II, 2, 5) which was published as a result of the Council of Trent. Notice however that no Scriptural reference is given to support the doctrine, but rather it appears as the combination of different Biblical words which are give a sacramental bent. Such an absence of Biblical support is telling. Indeed, there is no Biblical evidence to support such a weighty doctrinal statement. In the Catechism, baptism is seen as the sacrament which accords freedom from sin and re-birth as children of God. As regeneration is the result of baptism and baptism is administered by the Church, it is syllogistically evident that regeneration does not happen as an act of God’s grace alone, to be received by faith alone, but as an act mediated by the sacrament of the Church who enacts its intended result.

Expanding its teaching on baptism as that which effects regeneration, the Catechism goes on to say that

This sacrament is also called “the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,” for it signifies and actually brings about the birth of water and the Spirit (1215).

This time the language comes directly from Titus 3:5, but fails to indicate that the Biblical passage puts the “washing of regeneration” in the context of God’s goodness and loving kindness, stressing that we are not saved because of “works done by us” but out of “His own mercy”. The focus of the whole passage is God alone working out His loving plan of salvation without any contribution on man’s part nor on the church’s part – any work of any kind. In the Catechism, however, it is the sacrament that “signifies and actually brings about” regeneration. It is the act of baptism that causes the new birth to occur ex opere operato (from the work done). The emphasis has shifted from the merciful God who regenerates out of His sovereign grace to the baptizing Church who performs the sacrament of regeneration. In other words, a major shift has taken place: from the graceful act of divine salvation to the participation of the Church in the saving act, and from the free gift of God to the ecclesiastical sacrament ministered by the priest.

According to the Catechism, the time of regeneration is when baptism is administered. It is the baptized person that is regenerated and therefore enters the sacramental life of the Church in whose sacraments he/she will receive the fullness of salvation.[3] It is through baptism that the person is forgiven  from all sins (1263), made a new creature, adopted as a son of God, becomes a member of Christ, a co-heir with him, and a temple of the Holy Spirit (1265). It is in baptism that the person receives “sanctifying grace, the grace of justification” (1266)[4] and is incorporated into the Church (1267-1270). It is baptism that is the sacramental bond of the unity of Christians (1271), therefore warranting the Roman Catholic view that Christian unity is based on baptism (even though the majority of the baptized ones do not show any sign of regeneration).

The “Sacramental Economy” and Evangelical Confusion

This view of baptismal regeneration is part of the Roman Catholic view of the sacraments. The Catechism defines this theological framework as the “sacramental economy” of the Christian faith (1076). If one reads what the Catechism says about regeneration without grasping what the “sacramental economy” means, one will completely misread it. To put it succinctly, the “sacramental economy” is a view that binds God to act through the sacraments and therefore through the Church.[5] Everything that God does, He does through the sacraments. His grace comes to us through the sacraments. His salvation reaches us through the sacraments. His work impacts us through the sacraments. The problem is not the recognition of the Biblical importance of the sacraments, but their exclusivity in terms of what God can do. In the background of the sacraments, there is always the Church that administers them, having therefore a fundamental role in mediating God’s actions. The word regeneration means new birth received from God, but the world of the “sacramental economy” makes it a Church affair because God is believed to bind Himself to work only through the sacraments of the Church. His grace is always a mediated grace through the Church.

This point is crucial even beyond the specific topic under consideration. When Evangelicals deals with Roman Catholic theology, they tend to overlook the “sacramental dimension” of the Roman Church. They analyze common words, common concerns, and common language in an atomistic way and may come to the conclusion that the old divisions are over because the language is similar.

For example, this is the case in the book Is the Reformation Over? by Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom.[6] In a useful chapter which highlights the contents of the  Catechism of the Catholic Church, the authors argue that “evangelicals can embrace at least two-thirds” of it (119), and that it stems from “common orthodoxy” based on the ancient Trinitarian and Christological creeds. Later, they admit that when the Catechism speaks of Christ, it interweaves Him to the Church to the point of making them one (147; 149), which is unacceptable for Evangelicals who consider the exaltation of a created reality an instance of idolatry.

So, on the one hand, there is an apparent “common orthodoxy” and on the other, there is a profound difference on the doctrines of Christ, the Church, salvation, etc. Therefore, here is the key question: how can Evangelicals accept “two-thirds” of the Catechism if this document speaks of the (Roman Catholic) Church whenever it speaks of Christ, the Spirit, the Trinity, and regeneration? Evangelicals find it difficult to discern the “sacramental economy” in the Roman Catholic teachings and the result is that they easily misinterpret them, limiting their analysis to surface matters, failing to grasp the whole. Yet, the sacramental economy keeps the system together and makes it coherent. If one fails to appreciate it, he misses the whole point of it.

In dealing with Roman Catholicism, especially in times of mounting ecumenical pressure, Evangelical theology should attempt to go beyond the single, detached statements and seek to get a grip on the internal framework of reference Roman Catholic theology uses. Roman Catholic theology is more than the sum of its words. It is rather a complex, yet coherent system based on the “sacramental economy” whereby God is bound to act through the sacraments of the Church.

The Dividing Line

Surveying the tenets of the Evangelical Faith, J.I. Packer and Tom Oden remind us that “Evangelicalism characteristically emphasizes the penal-substitutionary view of the cross and the radical reality of the Bible-taught, Spirit-wrought inward change, relational and directional, that makes a person a Christian (new birth, regeneration, conversion, faith, repentance, forgiveness, new creation, all in and through Jesus Christ)”.[7] Regeneration is this inward change wrought by the Spirit that brings life to those who were dead in their sins. For the Catechism, this is a defective definition in that it lacks the reference to the “sacramental economy” whereby the Church that administers the sacrament of baptism that brings about regeneration. The Roman Catholics in defining regeneration use the same words but put them in a different world, that of a “sacramental economy”, one that has precluded Sola gratia. So the difference between the Evangelical and the Roman Catholic understanding of regeneration does not lie in some exegetical detail or theological minutia. Instead, it centers on nothing less than how God works out his work of salvation.

[1] J.I. Packer, God’s Words. Studies in Key Biblical Themes (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House Co., 1988) p. 149.

[2] Quotations will be taken by Catechism of the Catholic Church (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1994). The electronic text can be found at http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM.

[3] This whole section of the Catechism echoes or quotes the Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, 11.

[4] These terms here are confusing for a Protestant reader: “sanctifying grace” is defined as “the grace of justification”, therefore significantly blurring sanctification and justification. Ecumenical advocates tell us that the 1997 unofficial document “The Gift of Salvation” and the 1999 official Roman Catholic-Lutheran “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” reached a substantial agreement on sola fide. The reality is that the Catechism (which is far more authoritative than the just mentioned texts) keeps on confusing sanctification and justification, as the Council of Trent had done in the XVI century.

[5] In a more technical way, the Catechism speaks of the “sacramental economy” as “the communication of the fruits of Christ’s Paschal mystery in the celebration of the Church’s sacramental liturgy” (1076). One would need another article to begin to unpack this dense sentence.

[6] M.A. Noll and C. Nystrom, Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005).

[7] James I. Packer – Thomas C. Oden, One Faith. The Evangelical Consensus (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2004) p. 160.

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A Selection of Delicious and Easy to Make Recipes

Here we love devising recipes that are often vegan, often contain forage foods and herbs and are sometimes just gloriously yummy. They are all really easy to make and show that healthy food can be tasty, look good and can be very easy to put together. The skincare recipes and salves are also easy, free of additives and preservatives and feed you from the outside; we feel that if you would not eat it then why rub it on your skin (with the exception of the essential oils included, we do not recommend eating those). Some recipes such as the face pack mousse are equally good to eat or use for the skin, which might seem strange at first but makes sense when you think about it.


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Miss Bleaus has collaborated with visual and performance artists across the United States and abroad—some of them even forgave her for ruining their work.

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At present, Veronica is working with film/video artist Scott Andrew to develop a full-length stage show. You can find Scott's work, and his previous collaborations with Miss Bleaus on his website listed above.
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Veronica embarrasses herself publicly with drag-sister Dani Lamorte as a co-creator of Drive By Drag, a series of public performances where she and Dani prance around in ugly onesies to make children grow up gay.
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Veronica has been a long-time friend of performer Mikey McParlane since their days in Catholic High School. To repay her for this kindness, Mikey has provided Miss Bleaus with tasty worlds of Wieners and Wallpaper in his film/video work. Additional information available at: michaelmcparlane.net
Veronica performed in Norwegian artist Ane-Lan’s performance piece, Persona.
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The fiasco that started it all. Both Veronica Bleaus and Dani Lamorte were so bad they had to start booking themselves on the streets.
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Veronica is featured in an upcoming episode of Trans-Q Television, an online video variety series exploring gender expression, sexuality, desire, and ecstatic acts of being.
Drive by Drag queens Veronica Bleaus and Dani Lamorte set out to sea on The Drift, an aquatic stage for buoyant interventions. The aquatic beauties crashed the Kenny Chesney concert during the Pittsburgh Regatta, lip-syncing and gyrating to the rhythms of pop water music.
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Detailed Notes on Tinder Premium

Scroll as a result of your account information and facts until eventually you get to the Subscriptions checklist and select “Take care of.” From the listing of actively-subscribed apps, tap on Tinder with the record and choose “Unsubscribe,” or established the slider in iOS for “Auto-Renewal” towards the off placement.

You could be pondering regardless of whether a still left swipe is actually the final term, or if Tinder provides folks a second probability by smuggling within their profiles over again. Probably the most plausible explanations:

Or, how much time soon after I like any individual will they have time to love me again prior to the like “expires”?

I tried it out on my outdated Nexus 5 and It appears to operate all right. The initial loading with the playing cards took around a moment, but in addition to that, and some ads at the top of the screen, worked fine.

This was the situation, but since a number of updates ago, you are able to add pics straight from your phone. This carries the many benefits of both not needing to upload your courting profile photos to Facebook, and the impression only obtaining compressed when rather than twice.

There's no fuss with OkCupid; it receives The work carried out. You register, you look through for opportunity connections and find out Should the app can make magic take place. It really is among the a lot more well-liked applications about, way too, so there's a whole lots of those with whom you could probably create a relationship.

Tinder was then seeded at a lot of college or university campuses after which expanded to other college campuses. The app won TechCrunch's Crunchie Award for "Most effective New Startup of 2013".[eight] In March 2013, in the event the app was even now applied only in certain localities, social websites director Alexa Mateen, who spearheaded Tinder's growth on to university campuses, said which the application was intended to be a "chance to meet up with individuals You would not Commonly meet up with".

I’m just a lady, standing in front of a boy, asking him if he’s about to consume the remainder of that pizza.

Create a new Facebook account and use that a single to log in (stick to good reset treatment, Although you don’t technically have a working Tinder account still).

Even then, they could just see you whilst swiping, when you’re in their target demographic. To stay away from this example as well, you’d need to get Tinder Plus or Gold, as There's a compensated option to disguise you from any individual you didn’t swipe correct on. For an entire overview of every one of the attributes, see this extra in-depth information.

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Based on the times that I get, there is apparently a lot ladies on here who know almost everything about really like and relationships… Still they’re even now on Tinder

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If you set The 2 components of your Tinder profile collectively, your “About” portion is done. Here are some samples of terrific accomplished “About” sections. You should definitely preserve the punctuation and spacing the exact same, minus the quotations:

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Using Pseudo Feedback to Improve Cross-Lingual Ontology Mapping

introducer: Jens Wissmann, School of Informatics, City University London
author: Bo Fu, Trinity College Dublin
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While ontologies are widely accepted internationally as knowledge management mechanism across disciplines, the ability to reason over knowledge bases regardless of the natural languages used in them has become a pressing issue in digital content management. To enable knowledge sharing and reuse, ontology mapping techniques must be able to work with otherwise isolated ontologies that are labelled in diverse natural languages. Machine translation techniques are often employed by cross-lingual ontology mapping approaches to turn a cross-lingual mapping problem into a monolingual mapping problem which can then be solved by state of the art monolingual ontology matching tools. However in the process of doing so, complications introduced by machine translation tools can compromise the performance of the subsequent monolingual matching techniques. In this paper, a novel approach to improve the quality of cross-lingual ontology mapping is presented and evaluated. The proposed approach adopts the pseudo feedback technique that is similar to the well understood relevance feedback mechanism used in the field of information retrieval. It is shown through the evaluation that the pseudo feedback feature can enhance the effectiveness of machine translation and monolingual matching techniques in a cross-lingual ontology mapping scenario.

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RL Glue and Codecs Glue

author: Brian Tanner, University of Alberta
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RL-Glue is a protocol and software implementation for evaluating reinforcement learning algorithms. Our system facilitates the comparison of alternative algorithms and can greatly accelerate research progress as the UCI database has accelerated progress in supervised machine learning. Creating a comparable bench- marking resource for reinforcement learning is challenging because of the temporal nature of reinforcement learning. Reinforcement learning agents interact with a dynamic process (the environment) which gener- ates observations and rewards. The observations and rewards received by the learning agent depend on the actions; training data cannot simply be stored in a ﬁle as they are in supervised learning. Instead, the rein- forcement learning agent and environment must be interacting programs. RL-Glue agents and environments can be written in Java, C/C++, Matlab, Python, and Lisp and can all run on one machine, or can connect across the Internet. In this seminar, we will introduce the design principles that helped shape RL-Glue and demonstrate some of the interesting extensions that have been created by the reinforcement learning community.

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