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Don’t walk a mile

November 24, 2020   Humor

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I’m a mom, that has worn many different hats in this life; from scout leader, camp craft teacher, parents group president, colorguard coach, member of the community band, stay-at-home-mom to full time worker, I’ve done it all– almost! I still love learning new things, especially creating and cooking. Most of all I love to laugh! Thanks for visiting – come back soon icon smile Don’t walk a mile


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AI classifies people’s emotions from the way they walk

July 1, 2019   Big Data

The way you walk says a lot about how you’re feeling at any given moment. When you’re downtrodden or depressed, for example, you’re more likely to slump your shoulders than when you’re contented or upset. Leveraging this somatic lexicon, researchers at the University of Chapel Hill and the University of Maryland recently investigated a machine learning method that can identify a person’s perceived emotion, valence (e.g., negative or positive), and arousal (calm or energetic) from their gait alone. The researchers claim this approach — which they believe is the first of its kind — achieved 80.07% percent accuracy in preliminary experiments.

“Emotions play a large role in our lives, defining our experiences and shaping how we view the world and interact with other humans,” wrote the coauthors. “Because of the importance of perceived emotion in everyday life, automatic emotion recognition is a critical problem in many fields, such as games and entertainment, security and law enforcement, shopping, human-computer interaction, and human-robot interaction.”

The researchers selected four emotions — happy, sad, angry, and neutral — for their tendency to “last an extended period” and their “abundance” in walking activity. Then they extracted gaits from multiple walking video corpora to identify affective features and extracted poses using a 3D pose estimation technique. Finally, they tapped a long short-term memory (LSTM) model — capable of learning long-term dependencies — to obtain features from pose sequences, which they combined with a random forest classifier (which outputs the mean prediction of several individual decision trees) to classify examples into the aforementioned four emotion categories.

 AI classifies people’s emotions from the way they walk

Above: This AI system classifies people’s emotions from the way they walk.

The features included things like shoulder posture, the distance between consecutive steps, and the area between the hands and neck. Head tilt angle was used to distinguish between happy and sad emotions, while more compact postures and “body expansion” identified positive and negative emotions, respectively. As for arousal, which the scientists note tends to correspond to increased movements, the model considered the magnitude of velocity, acceleration, and “movement jerks” of hands, feet, and head joints.

The AI system processed samples from Emotion Walk, or EWalk, a novel data set containing 1,384 gaits extracted from videos of 24 subjects walking around a university campus, both indoors and outdoors. Roughly 700 participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk labeled emotions, and the researchers used these labels to determine valence and arousal level.

In tests, the team reports that their emotion detection approach offered a 13.85% improvement over state-of-the-art algorithms and a 24.60% improvement over “vanilla” LSTMs that don’t consider affective features. That isn’t to say it’s foolproof — its accuracy is largely dependent on the precision of the 3D human pose estimation and gait extraction. But despite these limitations, the team believes their method will provide a strong foundation for studies involving additional activities and other emotion identification algorithms.

“Our approach is also the first approach to provide a real-time pipeline for emotion identification from walking videos by leveraging state-of-the-art 3D human pose estimation,” wrote the coauthors. “As part of future work, we would like to collect more data sets and address [limitations].”

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Omaha Beach Bunker And Trench Walk Through

January 31, 2019   Humor
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This AI teaches robots how to walk

January 1, 2019   Big Data

Artificially intelligent (AI) systems have imbued robots with the ability to grasp and manipulate objects with humanlike dexterity, and now, researchers say they’ve developed an algorithm through which machines might learn to walk on their own. In a preprint paper published on Arxiv.org (“Learning to Walk via Deep Reinforcement Learning“), scientists from the University of California, Berkeley and Google Brain, one of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) research divisions, describe an AI system that “taught” a quadrupedal robot to traverse terrain both familiar and unfamiliar.

“Deep reinforcement learning can be used to automate the acquisition of controllers for a range of robotic tasks, enabling end-to-end learning of policies that map sensory inputs to low-level actions,” the paper’s authors explain. “If we can learn locomotion gaits from scratch directly in the real world, we can in principle acquire controllers that are ideally adapted to each robot and even to individual terrains, potentially achieving better agility, energy efficiency, and robustness.”

The design challenge was twofold. Reinforcement learning — an AI training technique that uses rewards or punishments to drive agents toward goals — requires lots of data, in some cases tens of thousands of samples, to achieve good results. And fine-tuning a robotic system’s hyperparameters — i.e., the parameters that determine its structure — usually necessitates multiple training runs, which can damage legged robots over time.

“Deep reinforcement learning has been used extensively to learn locomotion policies in simulation, and even transfer them to real-world robots, but this inevitably incurs some loss of performance due to discrepancies in the simulation, and requires extensive manual modeling,” the paper’s authors point out. “Using such algorithms … in the real world has proven challenging.”

 This AI teaches robots how to walk

Above: The Minitaur robot taught to traverse unfamiliar terrain with the researchers’ AI system.

In pursuit of a method that would, in the researchers’ words, “[make it] feasible for a system to learn locomotion skills” without simulated training, they tapped a framework of reinforcement learning (RL) known as “maximum entropy RL.” Maximum entropy RL optimizes learning policies to maximize both the expected return and expected entropy, or the measure of randomness in the data being processed. In RL, AI agents continuously search for an optimal path of actions — that is to say, a trajectory of states and actions — by sampling actions from policies and receiving rewards. Maximum entropy RL incentivizes policies to explore more widely; a parameter — say, temperature — determines the relative importance of entropy against the reward, and therefore its randomness.

It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows — at least not at first. Because the trade-off between entropy and the reward is directly affected by the scale of the reward function, which in turn affects the learning rate, the scaling factor normally has to be tuned per environment. The researchers’ solution was to automate the temperature and reward scale adjustment, in part by alternating between two phases: a data collection phase and an optimization phase.

The results spoke for themselves. In experiments in OpenAI’s Gym, an open source simulated environment for training and testing AI agents, the authors’ model achieved “practically identical” or better performance compared to the baseline across four continuous locomotion tasks (HalfCheetah, Ant, Walker, and Minitaur).

And in a second, real-world test, the researchers applied their model to a four-legged Minitaur, a robot with eight actuators, motor encoders that measure motor angles, and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that measures orientation and angular velocity.

They developed a pipeline consisting of (1) a computer workstation that updated the neural networks, downloaded data from the Minitaur, and uploaded the latest policy; and (2) an Nvidia Jetson TX2 onboard the robot that executed said policy, collected data, and uploaded the data to the workstation via Ethernet. After 160,000 steps over two hours with an algorithm that rewarded forward velocity and penalized “large angular accelerations” and pitch angles, they successfully trained the Minitaur to walk on flat terrain, over obstacles like wooden blocks, and up slopes and steps — none of which were present at training time.

“To our knowledge, this experiment is the first example of a deep reinforcement learning algorithm learning underactuated quadrupedal locomotion directly in the real world without any simulation or pretraining,” the researchers wrote.

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WATCH: Snoop Doggy Dogg Gets His Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

November 26, 2018   Humor
Snoop WATCH: Snoop Doggy Dogg Gets His Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Snoop Dogg has been immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after what is certainly a long overdue coronation. The hip-hop legend has found ways to stay relevant throughout the decades and remains a highly respected figure. Snoop made sure to share his moment with some of his best friends and collaborators in Dr. Dre and Warren G as well as his mentor Quincy Jones.

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Impressions on SAP CX Live, SAP during a walk on Calle de Vendedor

October 19, 2018   CRM News and Info
summitbanner1440x580 Impressions on SAP CX Live, SAP during a walk on Calle de Vendedor

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My tastes in painting and artists are eclectic. They range from some of the obvious classical artists like Rembrandt to Dutch masters of various periods, including Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Johannes Vermeer, and Hieronymus Bosch, to impressionists like Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, to surrealists who include one of my all-time favorites, Rene Magritte. (There is something of a pattern in who I just named. I wonder if you can figure it out. Hint: The pattern rests within several of the painters but not all the painters).

I’ll be talking about these things much more directly within the next couple of months when I launch my second blog called, The Science of Business, the Art of Life and Live from NY, which will be about everything not covered on ZDNet (and I do mean, everything). But, for now, just know that the impressions I’m going to give you are something about things that I am thinking about, feeling about, multiple subjects in the industry including some preliminary stuff on the vendors out there, and few other things, too. It will come in three parts. So, pardon the imprecision on some of this. They are impressions — and this is the first set of them — and it is on one subject: SAP.

Also: Personalization and Humanization: Serious about customer engagement? Then you need them both

I’m writing this right after SAP’s CX Live in Barcelona, where I had the distinct pleasure of speaking three times in one day on customer service, customer experience, and how sales is changing. Genuine fun all the way around. And seeing lots of old friends. Because that’s fresh, I’m going to start with short observations on SAP.

A morning walk along the Calle de Vendedor

SAP

SAP CX Live 2018 was the first major conference since SAP made its biggest pivot as a company in May at SAPPHIRE 2018. At SAPPHIRE, they announced they are now a CRM company (in effect) — customer-facing, focused on customer experience, going after the CRM market. This led to a very different global message (a brilliant one for them): “Intelligent Enterprise.” Through the pivot, and due to the strengthening of their customer facing portfolio by the superb acquisitions of Gigya and Callidus Cloud, they — via CEO Bill McDermott, — said:

“We’ve moved from a world where nothing happens when you add a record to CRM, to a world where everything happens. When the entire supply chain is connected to the customer experience, we’ve moved from the first-generation consumer-grade experience to the best consumer-grade experience in the CRM industry. When it comes to CRM, SAP was the last to accept the status quo, and SAP will be the first to change it.”

Now, as I pointed out in a much larger post on this pivot, SAP wasn’t the last to accept the status quo; they were the last to have a decent traditional CRM suite, and they aren’t the first to try to change it. In fact, they are somewhat late to the game, though there really isn’t a “late” in this particular game. Regardless, all in all, at the time they announced, I was cautiously optimistic about their changes to make a real impact in the market with this pivot, and I was excited for their future. Following what I heard at SAP CX Live, I have zero reason to change my optimism, but it remains cautious.

I’m not changing my optimism because for the first time in a long time they are diving into the market that they want to participate in with the right pieces in place:

A solid array of customer-facing products in their portfolio with five core pieces: Sales Cloud( with a great GM in Giles House), Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, and Customer Data Cloud, Commerce Cloud. The only one that arguably isn’t just a cloud is the Customer Data Cloud, because it actually is as much a platform layer that runs cross-cloud as it is a series of products. That said, it is also a suite of Gigya-driven products, so SAP can get away with calling it a solution or a cloud — probably unlike any other of the vendors. However, their name for the overarching solution, C/4HANA Suite, still needs to be changed. It is way too limiting. It makes it seem that you need HANA to be able to run the products — and you don’t. It is also both colorless and not aligned with anything but SAP internal conversations. To the rest of the world, C/4 is a plastic explosive. But that doesn’t, by any means, undercut the intelligent suite they are building and the smart change in the naming of the core products to align with the market names. While not terribly creative, it doesn’t need to be. It needs to, in effect, come up as an option when some potential buyer Google-searches “sales cloud” or “marketing cloud,” rather than having to learn about it via some circuitous route.

The messaging works: Their messaging during the keynote was built around customer experience, but more of the consumable experiences kind. It was also strongly customer facing, and while it had a few problems that are easily correctable (I’m saving that discussion for the larger post), it was the right message for the audience. It was a generally warm customer-focused message that emphasized not just customer experience and personalized actions and response, but social responsibility done the right way. In the past, even though sustainability was not only a message but posited as a mission by SAP, it was focused around business profitability. The good they actually were doing became cold and relatively heartless. This time, the good they were doing was in the context of the good — you do it because it benefits humanity, not just business. Nailed it. This is perhaps more important for SAP than even the product portfolio’s improvement, because their historic failure, since the departure of Jonathan Becher, who was one of the best CMOs in the industry, has been their marketing. To be blunt, until SAPPHIRE, and thankfully continuing, it had been just plain terrible, unintelligible unimaginative, and wrong. Now, it’s done a 130 — well on the way to a 180. But it still needs something (see below about that).

Also: Why sport is one of the most disrupted industries

Alex Atzberger is the right guy to both lead Customer Experience practice and to be a public face of the company. The supporting leadership people — like Giles House, Volker Hildebrand, and Thomas Hertz, among others — are the right people with the right experience to make the leap. They have a lot of work to do yet, and they need to be even more “present” in the public marketplace, where they can position themselves as not just goodwill ambassadors, but as thought leaders. I’ve seen some of this from most of them but it, like all things related to their pivot has to be scaled and amped.

What I mean by the last statement: The energy generated by the SAPPHIRE announcement has not been followed up with a sufficient expansion of its scope in both breadth of content or the literal energy level.

Before I briefly delve into what I mean, let me be clear about something: SAP is a company that is made up of a lot of very nice people in my experience. They are a diverse (at least when it comes to the range of ages that are employed there and their joie de vivre — I’m not getting into the politics here, so don’t bait me) group of global citizens who live their lives the same way that everyone else in the world does: Their own particular ways. Those I know have been friends in many cases 10 to 12 or more years. Their public image is very little like the actual nature of the company. It is arguably the most innovative company in the industry, though I’m sure that all of us can point to other companies that are equally as innovative. Including me. But that doesn’t undercut the creativity of some of things that are coming out of their co-creation projects with their customers.

Also: Sports, engagement, and tech company lack thereof

Over the years, the company, while Jim Goldfinger was still there, had what was by far and remains by far the best organized customer network I have ever seen. SAP JAM is the best collaboration solution in the business that, at the enterprise level, eats Slack for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which may be an unfair comparison, but at least makes the metaphorical point. I can keep going, but I won’t. Plus, to their credit, as painful as it was — and it was agonizing for them — they made the transition to the cloud and have done a good job of it. Is it perfect? No. But I’m not nitpicking here. That’s for other more cynical analysts to do. Plus, this is an impression, remember?

That said, quickly, given what I saw and watched online from SAP CX Live this year, there are several things they still have to do:

  1. Increase the breadth of their content pertaining to the pivot to customer-facing.
  2. Be more theatrical, which will also generate more energy. That doesn’t mean change the essence of the company — but what I said about the way they “pivoted” their view of social good from “profitability” to “doing good.” It’s both a welcome change and reflects the company’s culture. So, more theatrical in that vein (though not around social good — that was just an example). Take it on the road. More on this when it comes to the larger post.
  3. Do something about C/4HANA. Change the name. I know they won’t, but I figured I’d be on the record.
  4. Do not under any circumstances focus on Salesforce as an adversary. It’s a losing battle and a stupid battle. Stand on the merits of what SAP offers. It can compete. Also, I was told that they (Salesforce) would be invited into the Open Data Initiative. Please do. That is a more judicious way to do things.

Again, as I said, more is coming in a larger piece (if I can find the time between white papers to do it). Just know that I am excited for SAP and want them to succeed here but still remain a bit concerned about the need to broaden and amp up. That has to happen for their success.

Also: Personalization at scale: What’s the tech again?

Enough of that for now. Hat tip to Monet.

Previous and related coverage:

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Chris Fletcher, founder of the Aegean Group, former senior analyst at Gartner Group, and now an independent, opines on Adobe’s Marketo acquisition. You’d do well to read and listen. Chris has the chops. And the knowledge. And the experience.

Evolution of data platforms: Using the right data for the right outcomes

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9/6 Webinar: New Power BI tools and new templates including a walk through of Cool Blue and the layout Purple Haze

September 5, 2018   Self-Service BI

In this week’s webinar the owners of PowerBI.Tips and Power BI MVPs, Seth Bauer and Mike Carlo join me again share with you their ever increasing grab bag of Power Tricks, Tips and Tools they have published to http://PowerBI.Tips over the last 18 months. Demo’s to include their theme generator their latest Power BI layouts (and a tour of their latest layout “Purple Haze”).

Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT13zTpjJMU 

When:  9/6/2018 10AM

Seth Bauer (@Seth_C_Bauer)

Seth is a Technical Architect with Concurrency Inc. and is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP (Power BI).  He is a leader of the Milwaukee “Brew City” Power BI User Group in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, and he is also a member of the PUG Board of Advisors.  He has partnered with Mike Carlo and produces tools and Power BI related content on Power BI tips, and he is a major contributor in the Microsoft Power BI Community Forum.  He loves Power BI and enjoys sharing what he’s learned with the user Community through blogging and answering questions in the Forums and was recently anointed as a Power BI Super User with 3,096 answers and 1343 Kudos

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AiServe is developing assistive AI that ‘learns to walk like a human’

September 1, 2018   Big Data

Visual impairment is one of the world’s most common ailments. An estimated 253 million people live with vision problems, 36 million of which are blind. Canes, guide animals, and specially adapted crosswalks make navigating busy sidewalks and city streets a little easier, but they’re not always practical.

The folks behind AiServe, a Berlin, Germany-based startup, believe that artificial intelligence — specifically natural language processing and computer vision — might be able to lend an unobtrusive helping hand.

Gustavo Madico founded AiServe in 2017 after leaving a post at Peel Technologies’ China division. He and a small team of engineers aim to build a machine learning system that “learns how to walk like a human.”

 AiServe is developing assistive AI that ‘learns to walk like a human’

Here’s the gist: said system will run on a wearable with a camera, microphone, and a battery that lasts a few hours on a charge. As it ingests new visual data, it’ll start to recognize sidewalks, corners, and pathways with greater confidence, and in time map out entire city blocks and neighborhoods.

The computer vision algorithm’s data will inform a navigational component that, through voice commands and other cues, will help wearers get from one place to another. Its instructions will be much more precise than most mapping apps, Madico said — rather than naming particular streets or thoroughfares, it’ll say something like “Make a left turn at this corner” or “Walk straight ahead for 100 feet.”

AiServe plans to release a production model in the U.K. and Germany within a year. It’ll be priced at about $ 2,905, although most users will pay much less — Madico said it’ll partner with healthcare and insurance providers in each country.

In recent years, there’s been a blossoming of technologies for the visually impaired. Microsoft this year released Soundscape, an iOS app that uses GPS, compass, and mapping data to generate spatial audio cues. London’s Wayfindr app taps Apple’s Bluetooth iBeacon technology to triangulate a user’s position and transmit audible instructions. And startup Sunu’s eponymous Sunu Band emits a high-frequency that bounces off of objects and vibrates to indicate their distance apart.

AiServe estimates that 69 percent of the $ 40 billion assistive technology market in the U.S. goes to visual impairment aids.

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a strip-searched Russian lawyer and a former GRU officer walk into a Tower … #TrumpRussia

July 13, 2017   Humor
 a strip searched Russian lawyer and a former GRU officer walk into a Tower ... #TrumpRussia

As part of the GOP active measures, Chuck Grassley tries to attack the PBO administration via some Democratic party association with Fusion GPS ignoring the original GOP connection to the project’s funding, because why?

It couldn’t be trying to discredit the Steele Dossier, heavens to Betsy, no.

Because Don Jr. wasn’t responsible for his email-related meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, claiming it somehow allowed the Russian lawyer to stay beyond her visa.

What such a snipe hunt may actually reveal is the broader network of #TrumpRussia.

Was the so-far unidentified second person accompanying her to the 6 June 2016 Don Jr. meeting, Rinat Akhmetshin? And if not, who was this “translator”.

In the 21st Century’s strategy of tension, partisanship is still just starting its scorched earth policies, where lobbying for orphans was a pretext for lobbying against sanctions placed on a foreign power because … decades of money laundering using real estate… and someone was willing to solicit political opposition election research in the name of orphan lobbying, whose declarations were first signed off on by POTUS45* in the name of transparency.  

Four days after she visited Trump Tower in New York, Veselnitskaya traveled to Washington, D.C. for a screening of an anti-Magnitsky Act film at the Newseum.

The next day, June 14, Veselnitskaya was photographed sitting behind former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing about “U.S. Policy Towards Putin’s Russia.”

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Veselnitskaya’s client was the owner of a Russian firm called Prevezon Holdings. Prevezon was accused by U.S. prosecutors of purchasing New York real estate in order to launder money stolen from Russia.

Prosecutors settled with Prevezon in May, days before the case was set to go to trial.

Prevezon was accused as part of a $ 230 million fraud scheme uncovered by lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian prison in 2009. The U.S. passed the Magnitsky Act in 2012, which sanctioned several dozen Russian officials over Magnitsky’s death and other alleged corruption.

Attending the same hearing was a lobbyist for Veselnitskaya’s group, Rinat Akhmetshin, photos given to The Daily Beast by Hermitage Capital show. (Hermitage is an investment company owned by Magnitsky’s former employer.)…

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Apr 5, 2017 – Grassley requested all immigration information available on Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian citizen who became an American citizen in 2009,
“I call him skilled because — though I am certain that they exist — I know of no Russian gun-for-hire who managed to run his campaigns so successfully, running circles around purportedly much more seasoned Washington hands,” says Steve LeVine, a veteran Washington reporter who explored some of Akhmetshin’s past work in his 2007 book The Oil And The Glory. 
More recently, Akhmetshin was caught up in a particularly nasty $ 1 billion legal fight concerning a potash-mining operation in central Russia. While a Dutch court was the main venue, the dispute spilled into U.S. courts when lawyers for one of the companies accused their counterparts of organizing a scheme to hack their computers and other communications.
The man who masterminded the scheme was Akhmetshin, according to a suit filed in November in New York state court that also accused him of being a former Soviet military intelligence officer who “developed a special expertise in running negative public-relations campaigns.”
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Akhmetshin was paid $ 10,000 by Veselnitskaya’s group, according to his registered-lobbyist disclosure form. Akhmetshin was described by Radio Free Europe as a hired gun for various characters from the former USSR.

Charles Grassley claims Akhmetshin is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acts as an “unregistered agent for Russian interests and apparently has ties to Russian intelligence.”

In April 2017, Akhmetshin met Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in Berlin and reportedly approached him about the Prevezon case.

Rohrabacher, a pro-Putin Republican, told CNN he is “skeptical” about the case and echoed Moscow talking points that it may be intended to “create hostility and belligerence toward Russia.”

Rohrabacher is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee whose hearing Akhmetshin and Veselnitskaya attended.

 a strip searched Russian lawyer and a former GRU officer walk into a Tower ... #TrumpRussia
 a strip searched Russian lawyer and a former GRU officer walk into a Tower ... #TrumpRussia

(June 2017)

When former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort belatedly filed as a foreign agent on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party this week, he listed a meeting with just one U.S. politician — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Huntington Beach.

Manafort’s years-late filing with the Justice Department details $ 17 million in political consulting work he did between 2012 and 2014 for the Party of Regions, a Ukrainian party considered friendly with the Kremlin.

Rohrabacher told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that the March 2013 meeting happened over dinner at the Capitol Hill Club, a popular Washington Republican social club. He said Manafort billed it as a chance to get reacquainted decades after they worked together in the 1970s on President Reagan’s campaign. Still, he assumed Manafort had an agenda.

“I assume when old friends call me up and are wanting to get reacquainted and stuff I always assume they are in some way under contract with somebody,” Rohrabacher said.

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Kevin Hart And Tracy Morgan To Get Stars On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame!

June 22, 2015   Humor

According to a press release we just discovered the news that Kevin Hart and Tracy Morgan are going to have their stars placed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame!

They both will be accompanied by LL Cool J and will be among the next round of inductees that will receive their stars next year. Chances are Hart’s star will be revealed around the time of his next films; Ride Along 2 (Jan 15, 2016) or his other film Central Intelligence (June 17, 2016).

The Class of 2016 also includes Bradley Cooper, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Keaton Steve Carell and Kurt Russell in the motion pictures category, while Kathy Bates and Rob Lowe will be honored for their accomplishments in TV. In the recording category, it will be Adam Levine, Cyndi Lauper and Bruno Mars.

Musician and Walk of Famer Dave Koz announced the new honorees alongside Leron Gubler, president and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, and Maureen Schultz, chair of the Walk of Fame selection committee for 2014-2015, at a press conference on Monday.

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