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Ambient Lenses for Autism and Other Types of PDD
November 27, 2010 /in Autism, Autism Prevention & Treatment, Autism Resources & Research, Vision Therapy, Z-Evergreen, Z-Evergreen Articles/by ACN Report
A study supports the use of ambient lenses to improve posture, head-tilt, and coordination is autistic youngsters. The lenses have also been reported beneficial for children with other types of Pervasive Development Disorders (PPD).
Therit Robertson was diagnosed with PDD at age 2 years 10 months. Language, as well as gross and fine motor skills, were significantly delayed. He had poor balance, dragged a foot when walking, and often fell for no apparent reason. Therit did not make eye contact with others and lacked normal social skills. Shortly after the diagnosis, he began speech/language and occupational therapy.
Therit's occupational therapist suggested there could be a vision problem. "After trial and error in searching for the right person, we ended up in the office of Dr. Mel Kaplan," explained his mother, Ann. "During the initial evaluation session, different lenses were placed on Therit as he did various activities, such as standing on a balance beam, looking at TV, and trying to catch a ball swinging on the end of a string. We knew which glasses were right, because when they were on, he straightened his body. And his head — which was usually tilted to one side — was straight. Also, without the lenses, when the ball was swung he would bat his hand in the air as if trying to catch bubbles. With the proper glasses, he could reach out and actually grab the ball. It was amazing."
Therit soon grew accustomed to wearing his lenses, and still wears them at age five. Ann explained that Dr. Kaplan also prescribed vision exercises, but they did not seriously pursue them. After several months the family noticed that Therit had plateaued in his progress, so they began taking him to Dr. Kaplan s office once a week for vision training, and they followed up with consistent daily practice at home. "We then saw tremendous changes," Ann said. "We realized Therit really had no map of his body. If he lay on the floor and I touched his right arm and left leg, and asked him to lift them up, he couldn't. He also was not able to imitate or mimic others, and he didn't participate in games. But with these exercises and the glasses, he became much more social, developed eye contact, and improved even more in motor activities. His awareness of space was much better. He made progress in all areas once the vision problem was thoroughly addressed."
Therit no longer requires occupational therapy but continues to need language development therapy. A weakness in auditory discrimination has been observed. He is mainstreamed in his pre-kindergarten program with an assistant.
Dr. Melvin Kaplan on visual distortions
Melvin Kaplan, OD, of the Center for Visual Management, explains that children with autism or PDD frequently display abnormalities due to visual distortions in the way they perceive their environment. The aspect of vision involved in spatial organization — related to body posture, locomotion, and the perception of self-motion — is referred to as ambient vision. The public is more familiar with a separate visual system, known as focal or acuity vision. Ambient lenses, often referred to in the literature as conjugate prisms, yoked prisms, or performance or transitional lenses, can be used to help modify ambient vision. They are distinct from "prism glasses," which are also recommended for autistic children by some professionals.
In the study, a group of 14 children in a program for the developmentally delayed in Montreal, all independently diagnosed as autistic, were observed and videotaped for head position, body posture, facial expression, and ball catching prior to and during ambient vision correction. Head tilt, body posture, and ball catching improved significantly.
"It is beneficial to augment ambient lenses with visual training. In Therit's case," said Dr. Kaplan, "the lenses helped change his orientation in space. But he could not sustain the attention required for full visual-motor adaptation. The use of visual-motor exercises along with ambient lenses leads to a higher level of functioning."
M. Kaplan, D. Carmody, and A. Gaydos, "Postural Orientation Modification in Autism in Response to Ambient Lenses," Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 27 (2):81-91 [Winter 1996].
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ALL TOO FAMILIAR ENDING FOR THENEAR-MISS KIDS
DAYTON, Ohio — The heads were shaved and the color of the socks matched the color of the shoes, a serious shade of black. Nostalgia? Of course. But for longtime fans of the Michigan era once known as Fabulous, the best news was this: When the game started, the seniors were playing like freshmen.
So no legends would die tonight, right? No way. This was the good old stuff, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson, who may not have been everything people hoped for during the season, but were a human scrapbook on Thursday in the raucous Dayton Arena. Midway through the first half, they began to run the court like two greyhounds just let off the leash. Slam. Jam. Steal. Convert.
No way they lose, right?
No way. . . .
They lose?
They lose. In the bittersweet tradition of the Fab Five era, the Wolverines exited the tournament badly, weirdly, and in a way that will give their fans something to talk about for weeks. How did they blow this one? How did they go from a crushing 14-point lead to a tie game at the buzzer, to a nearly scoreless overtime and an 82-76 defeat? How did the best night of Jimmy King and Ray Jackson's senior year turn into the worst? Good God. Who's writing this script? Hannibal Lechter?
Must be someone with a sicko sense of tragedy. And someone with no heart for Texans.
"It just hasn't hit me yet, that I'll never be playing for Michigan again," Jackson said after Western Kentucky sent the Wolverines home after the opening round of the tournament. "I never thought about losing."
Who had time? Here were King and Jackson, who dedicated themselves to one last push, the two oldest Michigan players, grabbing rebounds, motoring downcourt, behind-the-back passes, slam! Stealing the ball, motoring downcourt, hanging until the defender falls, slam! The Fab old days? There was so much nostalgia in the middle 30 minutes of this contest, you almost expected to hear a disc jockey saying, "And now, let's go back to the year 1992. Remember this one. . . ."
Remember this one? King's grabbing the ball off the glass and putting it back, as he once did to win a tournament game against UCLA? Jackson's sneaking behind a back screen for an alley-oop jam, as he once did against Texas in the Big Dance.
At one point, Michigan went on a 19-3 run — and every point was scored by the seniors.
But the Fab group was always better at middles than endings. Their legacy includes a second half in the championship game against Duke, Chris Webber's time-out against North Carolina, and now this Thursday night against Western Kentucky: With 9.1 seconds left in the game, a blond-haired kid named Michael Fraliex launched a three-point shot that seemed to take all his strength just to reach the rim.
Unfortunately, it was also straight as a tightrope.
Tie game. An the good-bye song began.
"This is not how we scripted it," coach Steve Fisher said after the first first-round tournament loss of his career. "Things don't always go the way you want them to."
You can say that again.
End of an era.
Of course, most people came to Dayton ready to say good-bye to the Fab Five story. It began with such a thunderous introduction, it could never go out quietly. Greatest class ever recruited, five freshman starters, first to ever reach an NCAA championship final, only to lose, come back, reach the final as five sophomore starters, only to lose it again, on Webber's time-out that wasn't. To some, they will always be the near-miss kids, too brash, too loose, too distracted to get over the final hurdle. For others they were bigger even than their record, a symbol of brash and brilliant. There is no right or wrong on this. There are simply a lot of other teams wearing long shorts these days.
"I'll be able to tell my kids one day that I was part of the Fab Five," King said. "That will always mean something."
Even the harshest critics have to see a little sad irony in Thursday night's collapse. Jackson had 28 points. King had 23 and career highs in rebounds (17) and assists (eight). The Texas connection that came here four years ago and waited all this time to lead the team, finally had the joint performance of their careers.
And they lost.
"Maybe the best thing you can say about tonight is that Ray and Jimmy went down firing," Fisher said. "They may have gone down, but there weren't any bullets left in their guns. . . ."
True enough.
But they still lost.
When you look at this game you will see much of Michigan's season inside it. Spurts of brilliance, keeping it close, but as Fisher put it, "Lacking a sense of closure."
What you didn't see all year, but saw Thursday night, was the unified excellence of King and Jackson. They played as if the last lights of their lives were hanging on the scoreboard.
What a particularly sad ending for King, who had been fighting the demons of expectations his entire career. As Chris Webber, then Jalen Rose, then Juwan Howard all took their turns in leading this team, King lay back, languid in that Texas sprawl-on-the-couch way he has, waiting his turn, figuring it would come. "We'll be great one day," he would say. "My time is coming. . . . "
But when it showed up, King didn't. His stats this year were pretty good, but pretty good was never what he was after. He averaged more points than ever, 14.5 per game, but he shot worse than ever, and his three-point range was nearly nonexistent.
But Thursday night, in the regulation, he turned back the clock and was simply brilliant. There was nothing he couldn't do, no part of the game he didn't own. Rebounds. Steals. Assists. Three-pointers. He had it all.
Except the finish. The Wolverines went nearly eight minutes without scoring a point. The defense collapsed, they made mistakes. And all the nostalgia in the world won't make up for that.
"How do you feel about the whole Fab Five era at this moment?" someone asked King.
He thought for a moment. "It didn't end on and up-tick, did it?"
The press conference ended and King and Jackson walked off the stage for the last time in their yellow uniforms. There was no applause. There were no tears. Just the words "it didn't end on an up-tick" hanging in the midnight air.

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The Oratory of St. John the Baptist ("Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista") is located in Cascine Olona, ??a quarter of Settimo Milanese, in the past a separated fraction. It is therefore in the immediate vicinity of Milan.
In the late nineteenth century it was almost torn down to make room for the "Gamba de Legn", the little train that linked Milan with Magenta. Fortunately a vist by a group of experts allowed to rediscover the frescoes, long forgotten, and insert the small church among the national monuments.
The date of construction of the oratory is known exactly because on a tombstone right of the entrance, where it is possible to read exacly "This church was built and consecrated by the work of Sir Paolo Mantegazza in honor of St. John the Baptist in the year 1468".
The small church is built in late Lombard Gothic style, and therefore, as typical, completely in bricks, with already some elements of at that time new Renaissance trends visible at the level of the frescoes inside.
It comprises a single nave, with a gabled roof. The presbytery, rectangular and with a cross vault, is proportionately quite large and divided from the nave by a large arch.
On the right front corner of the building there is a small bell tower harmoniously integrated with the rest of the church. Curious is its tip, a cone formed by round bricks.
According to some experts, the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista in Cascine Olona could even be attributed to a member of the Solari family, the famous dynasty of architects active in the Milan of the Sforza.
It is worth noting its strong similarity in particular with the right part of the Church of San Cristoforo on the Naviglio in Milan, just few decades older.
The thing that makes the oratory special are the frescos in its interior, which constitute one of the most beautiful and best preserved examples of "minor" painting in Lombardy; the author remains unknown, though the experts have advanced various hypotheses. The paintings depict stories of St. John the Baptist, the Four Doctors of the Church, the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi, the Crucifixion, the Story of the San Giuliano Hospital (completely lost), the Last Judgement. The state of preservation of the frescoes is generally good, although further consolidation measures of the paintings would be welcome.
The frescoes dedicated to St. John the Baptist are largely divided into panels, almost like in a comic book, with each panel representing a specific episode in the life of the saint. This organization of the frescoes was frequent at that time (see for example also the Oratory of Santo Stefano in Lentate sul Seveso) and was functional to the transmission of the sacred stories to a largely illiterate audience.
Although much less refined than many of the frescoes in the larger and more famous churches in Milan of the same period, the frescoes in the Oratory of St. John the Baptist in Cascine Olona are nevertheless of great impact and emotional involvement. Technically better and better finished are perhaps the frescoes of the Doctors of the Church on the presbytery. The most vivid figures, however, are those found on the walls. Truly noteworthy the fighting angel on the right side of the interior of the facade, that even somehow remembers some characters from Japanese cartoons of the '80s.
Finally we also like to mention the terracotta statuette of the saint in the lunette above the entrance door.
For a more detailed description of the frescoes, please refer to the page The Oratorio San Giovanni Battista in Cascine Olona of the website of proloco of Settimo Milanese.
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New retirement flats approved
Sean Keywood
Published: 1:29 PM May 11, 2011 Updated: 9:31 AM November 7, 2020
Town planners have recommended approval of the building of 51 retirement flats in Douglas Avenue.
They had previously rejected the development after an officer's report said that Seacroft Hall, the main building at 8 Douglas Avenue, should not be removed.
However, after developers McCarthy and Stone submitted amended plans, the town council has now approved the building's demolition.
Seacroft Hall is a Victorian villa situated among a number of smaller buildings, which were previously residential halls at Rolle College.
Planners had already approved the demolition of the other buildings on the site, and this week deputy mayor Sandy Sutton said it did not make sense to keep Seacroft Hall on its own.
Cllr Sutton said: "I really think that it's a bit like Custer's Last Stand, where everything else has gone and this should remain - and I don't think it's going to work.
"That house needs to be removed for this development to take place."
McCarthy and Stone had addressed previous concerns about drainage by offering to contribute to the cost of sewer improvements.
Although the plans were supported, councillors expressed concerns that the proposed 24 parking spaces would not be enough for staff and visitors to the new flats.
The council also requested that the names of the current Fulford and Courtney buildings should be preserved in the new development as they had local significance.
The plans will now be decided by East Devon District Council.


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Cyril Wong (; born 27 June 1977) is a poet, fiction author and literary critic.

Biography
Born in 1977, Cyril Wong attended Saint Patrick's School, Singapore, and Temasek Junior College, before completing a doctoral degree in English literature at the National University of Singapore. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies around the world, including the Atlanta Review, Fulcrum, Poetry International, Cimarron Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry New Zealand, Mānoa, Ambit, Dimsum, Asia Literary Review, The Bungeishichoo (Japanese translation), the Norton Anthology Language for a New Century, and Chinese Erotic Poems by Everyman's Library. He has been a featured poet at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Sydney Writers' Festival, and the Singapore Writers Festival. Time magazine has written that "his work expands beyond simple sexuality ... to embrace themes of love, alienation and human relationships of all kinds." The Straits Times has described the poet like this: "Cyril Wong is a graceful slip of a man, with a quiet air about him. He reads his poetry without drama, like he's just talking to you. But when he reads, the words sent tingles down my spine. His performance made one participant confess he 'peed in his pants'."

Poetry

According to the International Examiner, "Cyril Wong mines the contradictions and frustrations of a broader existence with poems that shimmer with language, art, religion, disaster, death, murder, adultery and, of course, love." He has been recognised as Singapore's first truly confessional poet, mainly "on the basis of the brutally candid sexuality in his poetry, along with a barely submerged anxiety over the fragility of human connection and a relentless self-querying; but the label understates Wong's constant evolution". By turns "acerbic and tender, ironic and meditative", the poet "has many styles, all of them limber, which combine the anecdotal and the confessional with the intuitive and the empathetic." His poems are known for their "lyrical intensity" and for "training an almost anthropologically curious eye on the laws and customs of his own family: their strange taciturn ways, their gnomic references to disappointment and guilt, and their penchant for self-delusion." In a way that makes him distinctive within the Singaporean poetry scene, his work possesses "a heightened awareness of the physical body, and a desire to probe its visceral materiality for emotional truths." Ng Yi-Sheng describes that throughout the poet's career, "he has unashamedly presented himself in public as a gay man, winning himself a large LGBT fan base that identifies intimately with his writings on love, depression and antipathy towards his family." Edwin Thumboo has praised Wong's poems for their "remarkable inwardness" and how, "without exception, they leave us with the feeling of subjects – occasion, non-happening, an especially poignant experience – explored to unusual limits." His third collection, Below: Absence, and its play of presence and absence in the context of Singapore's urbanity and cultural memory, has been described by John Phillips as offering "an affirmation of emptiness in a time and place where this is barely possible."

Although Wong has also been popularly known as a gay poet, Singaporean critic Gwee Li Sui has stressed that readers need not perceive the poet's persona in terms of gay exceptionality: "his qualities of spaciousness and morphing images also manifesting an interest in a kind of New-Age irreligious spirituality." This interest is fully expressed in Wong's book, Satori Blues, in which the author "teases us out of our complacencies and directs/guides our thinking along the long, hard route to self-awareness ... Hence 'blues'. Hence the extraordinary attempt to seduce the reader into somnambulance-via-rhythmic, rhymic language, the language of meditative poetry." In closer connection to the poet's Confessionalism, Andrew Howdle writes of the poems in The Lover's Inventory as having "a sense of musical persona, a manner of singing, of intonation and expression, and are fully aware of how they confess through masks and make others reveal the masks that they wear." In a review by the Southeast Asian Review of English, Wong's work has been described as "an art that works simply from a personal plane, and from within such a plane we have some of the most sensitive, articulate probings into the nature of one's self that have never been seen before in all of contemporary Singaporean verse."

Gwee Li Sui has suggested that political and non-political verse are "paradoxically saying the same thing in Singapore", their forms "too often conflated in poetic argument with their creator's bodiliness"; and as regards the supposedly "non-political" and inward nature of Wong's verse, the poet has "landscapes that replicate so tightly his corporeal condition that his own poems become not just the means but also the ends of his self-transference. Wong regularly brings into his writing the empty space on each page in some performance of being more than words, embracing the word-space dichotomy as a version of a mind-body one ... His poetry ends up filling books in a way that destroys their form to give shape to heightened interiority." Tijan Sallah also writes: "Cyril Wong takes the ordinary and carries one on a meditative trance. There is a Buddhist mystique in his poetry, of the questioning self, trying to understand itself to free itself of desire, of the self in a Cartesian battle, which eventually ends in a state of awakened enlightenment, the state of rest."

Other poets who have responded to his work include Timothy Liu, who has called Wong's "transpacific sensibility a fine refreshment"; Lewis Warsh, with his description of Wong's poems as "evocative and sensual" and "untainted by bitterness"; Margot Schilpp, who has remarked that his work shows "how great the divide between expectations and outcomes can be";  and Robert Yeo, who has commented on the framing devices in his work that "deliberately blur distinctions between the real (Cyril Wong) and the persona (the poet who 'wonders at his own existence'). The result is a distancing that layers the poems and renders them more fraught and complex and encourages, indeed demands, repeated reading."

Selected bibliography

Poetry collections
 The End of His Orbit (Firstfruits, 2001 | Math Paper Press, 2017)
 Below: Absence (Firstfruits, 2002 | Math Paper Press, 2017)
 Unmarked Treasure (Firstfruits, 2004 | Math Paper Press, 2012)
 Like a Seed With Its Singular Purpose (Firstfruits, 2006 | Math Paper Press, 2018)
 Excess Baggage and Claim, co-authored with Terry Jaensch (Transit Lounge, 2007)
 Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light (Firstfruits, 2007 | Math Paper Press, 2012)
 Fires (Book Merah, 2009)
 Oneiros (Firstfruits, 2010 | Math Paper Press, 2018)
 Straw, Sticks, Brick (Math Paper Press, 2012)
 The Dictator's Eyebrow (Ethos Books, 2013)
 After You (Math Paper Press, 2013/2020)
 The Lover's Inventory (Math Paper Press, 2015/2018)
 Infinity Diary (Seagull Books, 2020)

Short story collections
 Let Me Tell You Something About That Night (Transit Lounge, 2009 | Ethos Books, 2012)
 Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories (Epigram Books, 2014)

Novels
 The Last Lesson of Mrs De Souza (Epigram Books, 2013) | (Turkish translation: Alabanda Yayinlari, 2017)
 This Side of Heaven (Epigram Books, 2020)

Chapbooks
 The Boy With The Flower That Grew Out Of His Ass (Math Paper Press, 2007 and 2015)
 You Cannot Count Smoke (Math Paper Press, 2011)
 Satori Blues (Softblow Press, 2011 | Math Paper Press, 2020)
 Animal Season (Math Paper Press, 2020)

Anthologies (as editor)
 Here and Beyond: 12 Stories (Ethos Books, 2014)
 Rainbow Voices: An Anthology of Creative Writings (The Arts House/Singapore Association for Mental Health, 2014)
 We Contain Multitudes: Twelve Years of SOFTBLOW (Epigram Books, 2016)
 The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three (Epigram Books, 2017)

Transcreations
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 Braving Life (Poems by Md Mukul Hossine, tr. from Bengali, HealthServe, 2017)

Awards
 Best Literary Work finalist of Singapore Book Publishers Association's Singapore Book Awards for This Side of Heaven (2021)
 Like a Seed With Its Singular Purpose listed by The Straits Times as among the 50 greatest works of SingLit (2021)
 Best Valentine Poetry Film, Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival (2017)
 Singapore Literature Prize for The Lover's Inventory (2016)
 Finalist of Singapore Book Publishers Association's Singapore Book Awards for The Dictator's Eyebrow (2016)
 Let Me Tell You Something About That Night listed by The Straits Times as among the best 5 books of the year (2009)
 Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light listed by The Straits Times as among the best 5 books of the year (2007)
 Singapore Literature Prize for Unmarked Treasure (2006)

References

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Living people
1977 births
Singaporean poets
Singaporean LGBT writers
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
Gay poets
Temasek Junior College alumni
Singapore Literature Prize winners
Male poets
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We've talked about this in a bunch of other threads by now, but I'd like to focus the discussion to, well, stop doing that. The reveal and the trailer posted to YouTube use slightly different shots, but I think I've gathered all of the information so far. Quickly;
MHW's open world is a newly continent and features a rotating day/night cycle.
Confirmed weapon types include great sword, hammer, bow, and bowgun.
Confirmed monsters are Anjanath, Rathalos, and a new, unnamed Aptonoth-swallower toad.
Drop-in online multiplayer across all IRL regions.
New tracking, gathering, and bomb systems, maybe inventory changes?
AI and ecosystems are a focus, with new ways to misdirect and mess with monsters.
Platforms: PS4, XB1, and PC.
Unfortunately Nintendo systems seem to be prohibited by Capcom's rumored deal with Sony.
Here's an image someone put together with all the new info, and here's the cover art featuring Rathalos. Besides what we know now, more will be shown on Sony's E3 stream 6/13 at 5:45 pm PST, 6/15 at 12:30pm on twitch.tv/capcomunity, and later in a livestream on Capcom's Japanese YouTube on 6/20 at 7:30pm JST.
Edited on Tue 13th June, 2017 @ 09:00 by Haru17
Don't hate me because I'm bnahabulous.
Oh baby, Capcom is a leaky sieve! A UK community manager is confirming all sorts of things on Twitter (where I got the new gif).
Namely that ALL 14 weapons, potions, stamina, sharpness, and the roasting music will be returning. So... you can stop rioting now, lol. It's Monster Hunter.
Well MHXX's thread is constantly talking about this game, so World having it's own thread will stop that...I'll tell them about this thread.
Anyways I'm kinda "meh" on this at the moment. Maybe I'll look into it at some point (if my PC can handle it, lol) but for now, I'm sticking with the main games. xD
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Not convinced that I'll like it more than the main games, but we'll see. I'll keep an eye on it.
Here's some more art showing the lance.
roy130390
I'm more interested in this than XX... but I'm even more interested in Stories! Still, maybe I'll get all of them. The trailer is amazing and while some of you may feel doubts about the changes, I'm sure they will feel as improvements and probably be keepers for the new games, even if it isn't a main series entry.
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Finally a Monster Hunter on consoles that isn't a port of a portable installment. Really hyped about this!
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Here's a crucially extended cut of the trailer. Just environmental noise, no music. This game definitely looks a little early, but I think that's just Capcom being honest more than anything. They still have to play with some of the animations and sound effects.
The underwater clip they showed is only an area transition, hopefully there are true underwater areas besides. But that flood of water is this sick area transition and — you just need to see it.
At 1:17 you can see some sort of town way off in the distance. Perhaps that's the Guild's foothold in this new land? There are sharper, craggy mountains inland from the forest region shown — perhaps that's a mountain area? I think the forest is like one 'area' in a traditional Monster Hunter game, and they'll expand out from their with a few more larger biomes based around a certain theme; plains, volcano, tundra, ocean, etc.
I don't know what is going with Capcom.
It's looks like a betrayal.
Capcom want to "Shutdown" Switch by releasing newest Monster Hunter on ps4/xbox1/pc without ANY Nintendo release. Now, I feel a Parasite here...
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I'm glad they decided to do this instead of a main line monster hunter game for the powerful consoles. I think this a better use of the power than a port (for those who are out of the loop monster hunter is massively more popular in Japan and they prefer mobile versions and thus mainline games are made for mobile consoles). Also did anyone else get the impression that this is going to have fast gameplay with less emphasis on preparation (which would make sense for a game aimed at the western market).
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Sony can keep this spinoff for itself. True MH is going to stay where it belongs
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PC it is then
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@SkyLordGuy I don't know what you're talking about, there was a ton of preparation in the tactics of tracking a monster through an area, luring a monster with sonic bombs, hiding to avoid notice, and gathering new bomb items from the environment to use in hunts.
Monster Hunter trailers never show crafting, menus, or the forge.
CanisWolfred
Actually, they seemed to have turned the HUD off completely, and I kept wondering if it was for trailer footage, or if they're planning to revamp the HUD so it looks better on a TV...
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@CanisWolfred Both, I imagine. I found the extended trailer footage again, and you can see the screen coloring red around the edges when the hunter is damaged. Also you can see this SICK standing water clip so please please please watch it. It's so good! My GOD, this game!
Edit: the Chrome translation of a Japanese webpage reads "Forest of Ancient Tree." No idea if that's correct, but I like that name for this zone.
Edited on Sun 23rd July, 2017 @ 18:41 by Haru17
@Anti-Matter Betrayal, huh?
Did you know that the Monster Hunter series was born and raised on both the PlayStation 2 and PSP?
Once upon a time, Nintendo approached Capcom back in 2008/2009 and said that they would like to see the Monster Hunter series on the Wii and 3DS (Monster Hunter 3 and 3G respectively) and thus, given their popularity, especially in Japan, the Monster Hunter series has been on various Nintendo systems ever since.
These companies are not our friends! They want to make money and release their game(s) on a platform with a big audience, hence the reason why Monster Hunter: World is coming out on the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The 3DS and Switch isn't being left out by the way; you have got Generations/XX and Stories to look forward to.
Anyways, as much as I admire Haru's enthusiasm, I personally don't feel excited about this.
Edited on Tue 13th June, 2017 @ 10:00 by Peek-a-boo
BornInNorway81
I've never played any Monster Hunter games, so I ask: is MH for PC and the other consoles bad for Nintendo? I just imagine fewer people will buy Switch now because they can get MH elsewhere.
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Ah... I see...
PotatoTheG
Expected to see damage control and unneeded negativity on this thread. Sadly not disappointed.
Game looks okay from what I've seen, but has it been confirmed that Sony paid Capcom to keep it off Nintendo? Why not just make it exclusive if that were the case? Oh well...
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By Radford Neal.
Conventional training methods for multilayer perceptrons ("backprop" nets)
can be interpreted in statistical terms as variations on maximum likelihood
estimation. The idea is to find a single set of weights for the network that
maximize the fit to the training data, perhaps modified by some sort of
weight penalty to prevent overfitting.
The Bayesian school of statistics is based on a different view of what it
means to learn from data, in which probability is used to represent
uncertainty about the relationship being learned (a use that is shunned in
conventional--i.e., frequentist--statistics). Before we have seen any data,
our prior opinions about what the true relationship might be can be
expresssed in a probability distribution over the network weights that
define this relationship. After we look at the data (or after our program
looks at the data), our revised opinions are captured by a posterior
distribution over network weights. Network weights that seemed plausible
before, but which don't match the data very well, will now be seen as being
much less likely, while the probability for values of the weights that do
fit the data well will have increased.
Typically, the purpose of training is to make predictions for future cases
in which only the inputs to the network are known. The result of
conventional network training is a single set of weights that can be used to
make such predictions. In contrast, the result of Bayesian training is a
posterior distribution over network weights. If the inputs of the network
are set to the values for some new case, the posterior distribution over
network weights will give rise to a distribution over the outputs of the
network, which is known as the predictive distribution for this new case. If
a single-valued prediction is needed, one might use the mean of the
predictive distribution, but the full predictive distribution also tells you
how uncertain this prediction is.
Why bother with all this? The hope is that Bayesian methods will provide
solutions to such fundamental problems as:
o How to judge the uncertainty of predictions. This can be solved by
looking at the predictive distribution, as described above.
o How to choose an appropriate network architecture (eg, the number hidden
layers, the number of hidden units in each layer).
o How to adapt to the characteristics of the data (eg, the smoothness of
the function, the degree to which different inputs are relevant).
Good solutions to these problems, especially the last two, depend on using
the right prior distribution, one that properly represents the uncertainty
that you probably have about which inputs are relevant, how smooth the
function is, how much noise there is in the observations, etc. Such
carefully vague prior distributions are usually defined in a hierarchical
fashion, using hyperparameters, some of which are analogous to the weight
decay constants of more conventional training procedures. The use of
hyperparameters is discussed by Mackay (1992a, 1992b, 1995) and Neal (1993a,
1996), who in particular use an "Automatic Relevance Determination" scheme
that aims to allow many possibly-relevant inputs to be included without
damaging effects.
Selection of an appropriate network architecture is another place where
prior knowledge plays a role. One approach is to use a very general
architecture, with lots of hidden units, maybe in several layers or groups,
controlled using hyperparameters. This approach is emphasized by Neal
(1996), who argues that there is no statistical need to limit the complexity
of the network architecture when using well-designed Bayesian methods. It is
also possible to choose between architectures in a Bayesian fashion, using
the "evidence" for an architecture, as discussed by Mackay (1992a, 1992b).
Implementing all this is one of the biggest problems with Bayesian methods.
Dealing with a distribution over weights (and perhaps hyperparameters) is
not as simple as finding a single "best" value for the weights. Exact
analytical methods for models as complex as neural networks are out of the
question. Two approaches have been tried:
1. Find the weights/hyperparameters that are most probable, using methods
similar to conventional training (with regularization), and then
approximate the distribution over weights using information available at
this maximum.
2. Use a Monte Carlo method to sample from the distribution over weights.
The most efficient implementations of this use dynamical Monte Carlo
methods whose operation resembles that of backprop with momentum.
The first method comes in two flavours. Buntine and Weigend (1991) describe
a procedure in which the hyperparameters are first integrated out
analytically, and numerical methods are then used to find the most probable
weights. MacKay (1992a, 1992b) instead finds the values for the
hyperparameters that are most likely, integrating over the weights (using an
approximation around the most probable weights, conditional on the
hyperparameter values). There has been some controversy regarding the merits
of these two procedures, with Wolpert (1993) claiming that analytically
integrating over the hyperparameters is preferable because it is "exact".
This criticism has been rebutted by Mackay (1993). It would be inappropriate
to get into the details of this controversy here, but it is important to
realize that the procedures based on analytical integration over the
hyperparameters do not provide exact solutions to any of the problems of
practical interest. The discussion of an analogous situation in a different
statistical context by O'Hagan (1985) may be illuminating.
Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian neural networks have been developed by Neal
(1993a, 1996). In this approach, the posterior distribution is represented
by a sample of perhaps a few dozen sets of network weights. The sample is
obtained by simulating a Markov chain whose equilibrium distribution is the
posterior distribution for weights and hyperparameters. This technique is
known as "Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)"; see Neal (1993b) for a review.
The method is exact in the limit as the size of the sample and the length of
time for which the Markov chain is run increase, but convergence can
sometimes be slow in practice, as for any network training method.
Work on Bayesian neural network learning has so far concentrated on
multilayer perceptron networks, but Bayesian methods can in principal be
applied to other network models, as long as they can be interpreted in
statistical terms. For some models (eg, RBF networks), this should be a
fairly simple matter; for others (eg, Boltzmann Machines), substantial
computational problems would need to be solved.
Software implementing Bayesian neural network models (intended for research
use) is available from the home pages of David MacKay and Radford Neal.
There are many books that discuss the general concepts of Bayesian
inference, though they mostly deal with models that are simpler than neural
networks. Here are some recent ones:
Bernardo, J. M. and Smith, A. F. M. (1994) Bayesian Theory, New York:
John Wiley.
Gelman, A., Carlin, J.B., Stern, H.S., and Rubin, D.B. (1995) Bayesian
Data Analysis, London: Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0-412-03991-5.
O'Hagan, A. (1994) Bayesian Inference (Volume 2B in Kendall's Advanced
Theory of Statistics), ISBN 0-340-52922-9.
Robert, C. P. (1995) The Bayesian Choice, New York: Springer-Verlag.
The following books and papers have tutorial material on Bayesian learning
as applied to neural network models:
Bishop, C. M. (1995) Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Lee, H.K.H (1999), Model Selection and Model Averaging for Neural
Networks, Doctoral dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, USA, http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/~herbie/thesis.html
MacKay, D. J. C. (1995) "Probable networks and plausible predictions - a
review of practical Bayesian methods for supervised neural networks",
available at ftp://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/pub/www/mackay/network.ps.gz.
Mueller, P. and Insua, D.R. (1995) "Issues in Bayesian Analysis of Neural
Network Models," Neural Computation, 10, 571-592, (also Institute of
Statistics and Decision Sciences Working Paper 95-31),
ftp://ftp.isds.duke.edu/pub/WorkingPapers/95-31.ps
Neal, R. M. (1996) Bayesian Learning for Neural Networks, New York:
Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-94724-8.
Ripley, B. D. (1996) Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thodberg, H. H. (1996) "A review of Bayesian neural networks with an
application to near infrared spectroscopy", IEEE Transactions on Neural
Networks, 7, 56-72.
Some other references:
Bernardo, J.M., DeGroot, M.H., Lindley, D.V. and Smith, A.F.M., eds.,
(1985), Bayesian Statistics 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
(North-Holland).
Buntine, W. L. and Weigend, A. S. (1991) "Bayesian back-propagation",
Complex Systems, 5, 603-643.
MacKay, D. J. C. (1992a) "Bayesian interpolation", Neural Computation,
4, 415-447.
MacKay, D. J. C. (1992b) "A practical Bayesian framework for
backpropagation networks," Neural Computation, 4, 448-472.
MacKay, D. J. C. (1993) "Hyperparameters: Optimize or Integrate Out?",
available at ftp://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/pub/www/mackay/alpha.ps.gz.
Neal, R. M. (1993a) "Bayesian learning via stochastic dynamics", in C. L.
Giles, S. J. Hanson, and J. D. Cowan (editors), Advances in Neural
Information Processing Systems 5, San Mateo, California: Morgan
Kaufmann, 475-482.
Neal, R. M. (1993b) Probabilistic Inference Using Markov Chain Monte
Carlo Methods, available at
ftp://ftp.cs.utoronto.ca/pub/radford/review.ps.Z.
O'Hagan, A. (1985) "Shoulders in hierarchical models", in J. M. Bernardo,
M. H. DeGroot, D. V. Lindley, and A. F. M. Smith (editors), Bayesian
Statistics 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland),
Sarle, W. S. (1995) "Stopped Training and Other Remedies for
Overfitting," Proceedings of the 27th Symposium on the Interface of
Computing Science and Statistics, 352-360,
ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/inter95.ps.Z (this is a very large
compressed postscript file, 747K, 10 pages)
Wolpert, D. H. (1993) "On the use of evidence in neural networks", in C.
L. Giles, S. J. Hanson, and J. D. Cowan (editors), Advances in Neural
Finally, David MacKay maintains a FAQ about Bayesian methods for neural
networks, at http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/Bayes_FAQ.html .
Comments on Bayesian learning
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By Warren Sarle.
Bayesian purists may argue over the proper way to do a Bayesian analysis,
but even the crudest Bayesian computation (maximizing over both parameters
and hyperparameters) is shown by Sarle (1995) to generalize better than
early stopping when learning nonlinear functions. This approach requires the
use of slightly informative hyperpriors and at least twice as many training
cases as weights in the network. A full Bayesian analysis by MCMC can be
expected to work even better under even broader conditions. Bayesian
learning works well by frequentist standards--what MacKay calls the
"evidence framework" is used by frequentist statisticians under the name
"empirical Bayes." Although considerable research remains to be done,
Bayesian learning seems to be the most promising approach to training neural
networks.
Bayesian learning should not be confused with the "Bayes classifier." In the
latter, the distribution of the inputs given the target class is assumed to
be known exactly, and the prior probabilities of the classes are assumed
known, so that the posterior probabilities can be computed by a
(theoretically) simple application of Bayes' theorem. The Bayes classifier
involves no learning--you must already know everything that needs to be
known! The Bayes classifier is a gold standard that can almost never be used
in real life but is useful in theoretical work and in simulation studies
that compare classification methods. The term "Bayes rule" is also used to
mean any classification rule that gives results identical to those of a
Bayes classifier.
Bayesian learning also should not be confused with the "naive" or "idiot's"
Bayes classifier (Warner et al. 1961; Ripley, 1996), which assumes that the
inputs are conditionally independent given the target class. The naive Bayes
classifier is usually applied with categorical inputs, and the distribution
of each input is estimated by the proportions in the training set; hence the
naive Bayes classifier is a frequentist method.
The term "Bayesian network" often refers not to a neural network but to a
belief network (also called a causal net, influence diagram, constraint
network, qualitative Markov network, or gallery). Belief networks are more
closely related to expert systems than to neural networks, and do not
necessarily involve learning (Pearl, 1988; Ripley, 1996). Here are some URLs
on Bayesian belief networks:
o http://bayes.stat.washington.edu/almond/belief.html
o http://www.cs.orst.edu/~dambrosi/bayesian/frame.html
o http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~genie
o http://www.research.microsoft.com/dtg/msbn
References for comments:
Pearl, J. (1988) Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks
of Plausible Inference, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Warner, H.R., Toronto, A.F., Veasy, L.R., and Stephenson, R. (1961), "A
mathematical model for medical diagnosis--application to congenital heart
disease," J. of the American Medical Association, 177, 177-184.
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Michael Miller is the Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, a University Gilman Scholar and is the Herschel and Ruth Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Miller directs the Center for Imaging Science and is the Co-Director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute. He received his PhD in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
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During these years, Miller and Csernansky  had developed a long-term research effort on neuroanatomical phenotyping of Alzheimer's disease, Schizophrenia and mood disorder. In 2005, they published with John Morris an early work on predicting conversion to Alzheimer's disease based on clinically available MRI measurements using the diffeomorphometry technologies. In 2009, the Johns Hopkins University BIOCARD project was initiated, led by Marilyn Albert, to study preclinical Alzheimer's disease. In 2014, the BIOCARD team with Younes demonstrated that the original Braak staging of earliest change associated to the entorhinal cortex in the medial temporal lobe could be demonstrated via diffeomorphometry methods in the population of clinical MRI's, and subsequently that this could be measured via MRI in clinical populations upwards of 10 years before clinical symptom. This has the potential to impact clinical treatment of the disease.


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Published January 4th, 2010 by Peter Elliott
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Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren made a New Year's plea to cover a $900,000 budget shortfall. Congregants of the Southern California megachurch responded with $2.4 million in last-minute contribution.
Brit Hume turned evangelist on Fox News Sunday, in a segment with panelists predicting the future for Tiger Woods. The retired news anchor relayed his own story of faith and its impact on his own life after his son's suicide.
James Dobson is leaving as head of Focus on the Family but is starting a new non-profit with similar goals and will be hosting a radio show with his son Ryan. He is leaving Focus in February after founding the ministry 33 years ago.
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The NFL playoffs are set. The New York Jets' Sunday night rout of Cincinnati earned them the last wild-card playoff spot and earned them a rematch with Bengals in Cincy next Saturday, one of four playoff games scheduled for next weekend.
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The composition of the icon has been particularly well studied, even to the smallest details. Everything, from the shape of the rocks to the proportion of the colors, contains a deeper meaning and obeys the strict rules of the Byzantine iconography.
On the basis of the icon that depicts the Resurrection of Christ, between the steep cliffs, a dark abyss opens. Above the cave and at the center of the image, the winner of death, Jesus Christ arises.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Giants believed their secondary was a strength coming into the season.
Headed into Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-0), they're not so sure anymore.
Dallas quarterback Tony Romo shredded the secondary for 307 yards and three touchdowns in a 24-17 win to open the season. He completed 22 of 29 passes, and finished with a quarterback rating of 129.5.
There's no doubt, the secondary was short-handed with cornerbacks Terrell Thomas (knee) out for the season and Prince Amukamara out with a high ankle sprain. It only became worse in the second half when Michael Coe tweaked a hamstring and had to sit, forcing Justin Tryon to play cornerback.
Still, some things were unacceptable.
Cornerback Corey Webster, the supposed star of the back four, was beaten for a 40-yard score on a double move by Kevin Ogletree, resulting in the Cowboys' second touchdown. Safety Antrel Rolle and Tryon seemed to bump into each other instead of hitting Miles Austin on a 34-yard lollipop scoring pass by Romo on a first-and-30, fourth-quarter play.
And if that wasn't bad enough, the secondary played the Cowboys' little slant patterns like they had never seen the play before.
Safety Kenny Phillips, though, didn't seem concerned on Friday about the secondary.
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Raperswilen es una comuna suiza del cantón de Turgovia, situada en el distrito de Kreuzlingen. Limita al norte con las comunas de Steckborn, Berlingen y Salenstein, al este con Ermatingen y Wäldi, al sur con Wigoltingen, y al oeste con Homburg.

Hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2010 ubicada en el distrito de Steckborn.

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There are 75 three-year seats on the NRA Board of Directors and 1 one-year seat. Each year 25 seats, one third of the Board, come up for election. There are often one or two unfinished terms thrown into the mix as well. The incumbent Directors almost always run for reelection and win reelection better than 90% of the time. There are typically no more than 2 or 3 Directors who choose not to run for reelection. This year the Nominating Committee nominated 30 candidates to fill 26 seats. There is also one candidate who was nominated by petition of members, but was passed over by the Nominating Committee so there are 31 candidates to fill 26 seats on the Board. Twenty four of those candidates are current members of the Board running for reelection leaving only 3 seats as "open." Among the 7 non-incumbents nominated by the Nominating Committee are 2 who are recent past Directors, 4 who enjoy some "celebrity" status, and one very active activist.
Among the candidates up for reelection are the current Board President as well as both the First and Second Vice-Presidents along with many long-time members whom we expect to win easy reelection. Several of the "new" Nominating Committee candidates are pretty sure bets too. I expect Ronnie Barrett to be among the top 5 vote getters with Richard Childress of NASCAR fame and George Kollitides, who seems to be featured in half of the gun magazines, to come in high on the list as well. For activists to cast votes for any of these "sure thing" candidates is just a waste because these folks are going to be elected regardless. The votes that are really going to matter are those cast for the candidates who are not "sure things," the folks who might come in somewhere below 20th place.
Scott Bach, John Burtt, and Don Saba did pretty well in the voting when they were elected 3 years ago, but they all had some extra exposure at the time that helped to boost their vote counts. We don't think these three are in serious danger, but they are among the dozen or so candidates who we think could be nudged out and we think they are good, hard-working Directors who deserve another term. Bob Viden has come in low in the voting in his past several races and might be shaky again this year. Bob was the victim of a pretty vicious attack campaign a few years ago which has hurt his standing, but he has been a good Director and is needed on the Board. Joe DeBergalis and Owen Mills are both appearing on the ballot for the first time. Owen Mills is the head honcho at Gun Site Academy and as such should skate to a pretty easy victory, but he doesn't have the name recognition of Ronnie Barrett or the PR machine of George Kollitides. Mills has been active in the NRA, serving on several Board committees over the years, and brings an important personal protection perspective to the mix. Joe DeBergalis is an activist/enthusiast out of New York who has a proven record of working hard for the cause. DeBergalis has been campaigning hard for a seat on the NRA Board and we think he deserves a shot.
These 6 are by no means the only candidates on the ballot we think are good Directors or will serve the members well, but they are the 6 we support who we think are most likely to need the extra boost our readers can provide.
Ballots for NRA Directors were included in the March issue of NRA magazines and must be received back by April 29 so get yours in the mail today.
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The NRA is only as strong and principled as its Board of Directors decides it should be and the Board of Directors is only as strong and principled as you make it. Let your voice be heard, vote for only these 6 candidates or for candidates you know personally and with whom you believe you wield some direct influence.
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Something in the Rain , también conocida en español como Bajo la lluvia, es una serie de televisión surcoreana transmitida por JTBC desde el 30 de marzo hasta el 19 de mayo de 2018. Fue dirigida por Ahn Pan-suk y protagonizada por Son Ye-jin, Jung Hae-in y Jang So-yeon.

Argumento
Yoon Jin-Ah (Son Ye-jin) es una mujer soltera en sus treinta años, que trabaja como supervisora en una cafetería. Pese a ser una persona de trato fácil, vive una vida bastante vacía hasta que comienza a desarrollar sentimientos románticos hacia Seo Joon-Hee (Jung Hae-in), el hermano menor de su mejor amiga, Seo Kyun Sun (Jang So-yeon). Por su parte, Joon-Hee es un diseñador de personajes en una empresa de videojuegos y ha regresado al país después de trabajar en el extranjero durante tres años.

Reparto

Personajes principales
 Son Ye-jin como Yoon Jin-Ah.
 Jung Hae-in como Seo Joon-Hee.
 Jang So-yeon como Seo Kyung-Sun.

Personajes secundarios
 Jung Yoo-jin como Kang Se-Young.
 Joo Min-kyung como Geum Bo-Ra.
 Lee Joo-young como Lee Ye-eun.
 Jang Won-hyung como Kim Dong-woo.
 Lee Hwa-ryong como Gong Cheol-Goo.
 Seo Jung-Yeon como  Jung Young-In.
 Lee Chang-hoon como Choi Joong-Mo.
 Park Hyuk-kwon como Nam Ho-Kyoon.
 Kim Jong-tae como Jo Kyung-shik.
 Oh Man-suk como Yoon Sang Ki.
 Gil Hae-yeon como Kim Mi Yeon.
 Wi Ha-joon como Yoon Seung-Ho.
 Oh-roong como Lee Kyoo-Min.
Kim Chang-wan como el padre de Joon-hee.
 Yun Jong-seok como Kim Seung-cheol.
 Jang Yool.

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Audiencia
En azul la audiencia más baja y en rojo la más alta, correspondientes a las empresas medidoras TNms y AGB Nielsen a nivel nacional durante los 16 episodios emitidos desde el 30 de marzo hasta el 19 de mayo de 2018. Esta serie fue emitida por JTBC, que es un canal de televisión por suscripción, por ello el público es relativamente menor en comparación con las emisoras de televisión terrestres.

Premios y nominaciones

Emisión internacional
 Taiwán: EBC (2018).

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