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Jean Luc Ponty - An interview with the jazz/fusion violinist. "I just like exploring different ways to compose and also try new techniques on my instrument just to break the routine."
Jean Luc Ponty Interview
Jean Luc Ponty is a Jazz Fusion violinist. He recognized that the violin could be used in the jazz genre and therefore became a pioneering a trend setter with the instrument. Jean Luc caught the attention of Frank Zappa which lead to touring and recording with the Mothers of Invention in the early 70's. Throughout Jean Luc's amazing career he has composed classic and innovative jazz fusion music featuring the electric violin. Jean Luc has performed with the likes of "The Mahavishnu Orchestra, George Duke, Stephane Grappelli and many more. His current project is with Jon Anderson... the former lead singer of "Yes". Here's what Jean Luc had to say.
R.V.B. - As a child, What kind of music were you exposed to at an early age? What did you do for fun as a kid other then music?
JLP: Classical music. I kept playing like other kids my age, roller skating, lots of bicycle riding.
R.V.B. - Having learned many instruments in your studies, did you believe that the violin would be the one that would make your career? What instrument did you like to play the most?
JLP: After teaching me violin, piano and clarinet, my parents asked me to choose one of them when I was 11 years-old, so I would become good on one instrument instead of average on several. I chose violin because it was my favorite instrument, I did not even think about a career yet, it was just for pleasure.
R.V.B. - Being classically trained, what was the turning point that sparked your interest in jazz?
JLP: A jazzband from a university in Paris made up of students, non-professional musicians, was looking for a clarinet player. I knew nothing about jazz but thought it would be a great way to meet girls because we were playing for dance parties in that university. I did meet girls indeed....laughs....but also discovered jazz and started developing a passion for it as I was discovering post bop of the late 50s early 60s.
R.V.B. - In the 60's, things really started taking off for you. How did you transition from smaller venues to major festivals?
JLP: After my first solo album was released in 1964, I was hired to perform for the first time in one of the major jazz festivals in Europe, not because I had become famous, but because most jazz festivals always hired established names to sell tickets, and new talent for the fun of exposing young upcoming musicians to their audiences. I started to be hired in jazz clubs all over Europe, and once in a while in a jazz festival but not yet as a headliner. In fact I could hardly make a living with jazz and was considering going back to classical music or starting a career as a pop arranger.
5. In the late 60's you started an association with Frank Zappa. How did this happen and it must have been a big move to America. Were you a little apprehensive to make such a big move?
JLP: John Lewis, the co-founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet, discovered my playing in the late 60s while on tour in Europe, he was also musical director for the Monterey Jazz Festival in California and invited me to perform there in 1967. Richard Bock, founder of the Pacific Jazz and World Pacific record labels in Los Angeles, was in the audience and offered me a contract with World Pacific. After I recorded a couple of jazz albums with George Duke in Los Angeles between 67 and 69, Richard Bock suggested that my next album be produced by Frank Zappa, he called Frank who accepted after hearing my playing, this turned out to be "King Kong", one among the very first 'jazz-rock' productions. Frank then asked me to join his band in early 1973. This implied that I move to L.A. with my young wife and our 2 babies. I saw no future as a jazz or modern violinist in Europe and was ready for a new life, I had made several trips to the U.S. already and knew this was the place where new music styles were being created and was very excited, practically no apprehension.
R.V.B. - Did you enjoy the music of Frank Zappa? Did you have a lot of freedom and input in the creation of the material?
JLP: I loved his instrumental pieces and we played many of them when we started touring, I had a lot of room to solo, but after a while it became obvious that his fans came for the satire and funny lyrics and he started cutting down on instrumental pieces to a point where I had only one solo during the show. I never lost respect for his creativity as a composer but I had moved to America with my family with other goals in mind than just playing background parts in a rock band, as great as it was, so I left.
R.V.B. - Your career brought you on a lot of famous recording sessions with major players in the industry such as Elton John, John McLaughlin, Al De Meola, Stanley Clarke. How did you enjoy expanding your career with greats like them?
JLP: McLaughlin and Zappa hired me because they liked to add my sound to their band, in exchange I learned from them how to be a strong bandleader and achieve what you want with your own musical concept. After I started my own band in 1975 and my albums quickly reached the top of the charts, I started receiving more and more invitations from great musicians to collaborate with them. I refused most of them and only accepted to collaborate with musicians with whom I felt a strong musical affinity. There is less artistic freedom when collaborating with artists who have musical personalities as strong as yours, compared to leading your own band, but we all discover new ways to conceive playing as a group.
R.V.B. - What are some of the most memorable live performances that you have played?
JLP: With a 50-year career can you imagine the number of performances I have behind me, I wish I'll find time to write my memoirs and list some of the most memorable, for now it's always the most recent and the unusual, like performing with symphony orchestras for the past 2 years.
R.V.B. - Do you try to invent different styles in your solo career?
JLP: Trying to invent is not something I ever had in mind when composing or practicing violin. I just like exploring different ways to compose and also try new techniques on my instrument just to break the routine, it does not always work but sometimes you come up with an idea that nobody else had thought of before, and so you invent a bit by chance, just because you are not afraid to be different.
R.V.B. - What are you doing today? Writing? Recording? Touring?
JLP: All of the above, writing for a new album which we are going to record for Impulse/Universal together with Stanley Clarke on double bass and French Gypsy guitarist Bireli Lagrene, with whom we are forming a new acoustic trio, we will tour with that format in 2015 and in the meantime I keep touring in different formats, with my group, symphony orchestras, and as a new quartet my daughter Clara, who is pianist-composer-singer.
R.V.B. - What do you like to do other then music?
JLP: Read books so I am less ignorant, practice yoga, take walks in nature and spending time with my wife, children and grand children.
R.V.B. - What is in your IPOD or CD player right now?
JLP: American classical violinist Joshua Bell playing sonatas by Debussy and other composers, we met, great violinist and very nice person.
Interview by Robert von Bernewitz
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On Oct. 22, as the sun went down on Long Beach skyline, a small storm was brewing on the deck of The Queen Mary, now permanently anchored at the harbor as a 340-room hotel.
Aside from being a time capsule of the age of ocean liners, the hotel also happened to be hosting Siemens CAE & Test Symposium (October 22-23). On Wednesday, after the relative calm of customer presentations, the evening reached its peak in one of the staterooms during the Meet and Greet that brought together users and analysts.
The conversation topic was Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) in the cloud. The inevitable question came up: Do current software licensing methods impede cloud-driven CAE? Roughly 30 minutes before cocktail reception, the exchanges showed no sign of dissipation. Those assembled were still busy trading arguments and counterarguments. Comments flew from Port to Starboard. The crowd was a microcosm of the CAE industry, and the debate seems long overdue.
Keith Meintjes, industry watcher CIMdata's practice manager for simulation and analysis, sums up the evolution of simulation licensing: "In the old days, they were licensed per mainframe computer, with unlimited simultaneous users. Then, along came Unix workstations and PCs. Software was licensed by end user machine or, for server-based software, by named user. Then, along came serious workstations that were 100x more powerful than normal desktops. Licensing was by CPU power. Then, along came multi-processor Crays. Licensing started to be per CPU or parallel thread."
The pay-per-core licensing model has its critics too. However, many enterprise users have learned to get their money's worth from this model by investing in enough hardware (computing cores) to get justifiable speedup from the software.
But the prohibitive cost discourages those who want to pursue optimization or Design of Experiment (DOE) studies, which involve simulating multiple variations of a design on high-performance computing (HPC) hardware with hundreds of cores. For example, should a user be expected to purchase 25 licenses of a simulation software to simulate the crash worthiness of a new vehicle with 25 airbag deployment variations? A typical CAE license would let such a user run the simulation one variation at a time, but not all 25 in parallel—not unless the user pays for 24 more licenses.
Monica Schnitger, founder and president of analyst firm Schnitger Corporation, points out, "Buyers feel gouged when they want to run a complex simulation on multiple CPUs (theirs or someone else's) but need to have that many licenses in their agreements."
Meintjes says, "I counsel our solution-provider clients that pricing based on perceived customer value is toxic in terms of developing a long-term relationship. Some of them listen, many don't."
If existing CAE software vendors cannot accommodate DOE studies at a reasonable cost, users may migrate to start-ups that operate with a business model to cater to DOE champions. One such vendor is San Francisco-headquartered Rescale, which offers its computing infrastructure and job-management software as an on-demand bundle. Rescale has also struck up partnerships with existing CAE vendors—including Siemens PLM Software, ANSYS, Autodesk, Dassault Systemes SIMULIA, and CD-adapco—to negotiate and acquire additional licenses where needed.
Jim Rusk, a senior VP from Siemens' digital factory division, says, "Our partnership with Rescale lets people use NX Nastran in a HPC environment to facilitate DOE-type work, so you can vary a set of parameters over a design to see what the design should look like. If the customer let us know they're trying to do DOE, we have some approaches that let them accomplish that without paying for hundreds of licenses."
Rusk refers to the two licensing modes available as DMP (distributed memory parallel, for HPC users) and SMP (shared memory parallel, for processing a single job on many computing cores). "In the DMP licensing, we have special configurations that let you run DOE," he says.
Schnitger ponders on a few CAE providers' policies. "Autodesk and CD-adapco—which price by the job—may be on to something," she says.
Meintjes points to Altair's HPC business model as another DOE-friendly example. He notes, "Altair has a nice 'any of the above' attitude. You can get set up to run in their data center so it looks exactly like an internal HPC system, using your licenses or theirs. They will also host your licenses in the cloud so you can run anywhere. Finally, they will sell you an HPC server that has everything included. There are only two connections: Power and network. You can run whatever you want, as much as you want, in the pre-installed Hyperworks suite. No licensing. You are, of course, limited by the capacity of the box. Altair has their software 'phone home' to report license usage, so they get valuable information on what their customers are doing. Their token-based system also has a 'leveling' feature so customers are not penalized for running multiple applications together." (For more on this, read "From Perpetual Ownership to On-Demand, On Lease, Augmented with Off-Premise Power," Oct. 2013.)
Most CAE vendors may have licensing options to accommodate DOE at affordable cost, even if they don't publicize the fact. The most advanced CAE users—aerospace and automotive manufacturers that make up a large portion of the CAE revenue streams—are using DEO studies for optimization and lightweighting. To have a licensing policy that hampers DOE would be a detriment to a CAE software vendor.
Meintjes says, "Most solution providers are pursuing added features for leading-edge users rather than a broader customer base. This runs counter to the desire of most end users to have simulation be democratized and pervasive."
Schnitger points out, "No one really has it figured out." That leaves the window of opportunity open for newcomers and adaptive old-timers who can come up with an attractive proposition for users with DOE problems.
Kenneth Wong
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Overconfidence is a weakness …Especially when you have no immunity necklace around your neck.
THE BAD: There were no major shake ups for this episode. Like last week, Corinne and Phillip continued their war of nerves. Bikal lost back-to-back challenges and a fan was eliminated as expected. What's also quite interesting about the Julia's elimination was the vote reading. Corinne voted with the fans before the re-vote. Does this mean Corinne was ready to flip once the merge comes just to oust Phillip?
THE GOOD: Malcolm began to realize he'll be a threat in the merge. From the way he talks in his confessionals, he's kinda visualizing the series of events that may happen should he remains passive. So to end his problems – he quickly made an alliance with the three alpha males (Reynold, Eddie and Erik) before others start destroying them.
Was this a good move? Yes. Malcolm made sure he's two-steps ahead of the game. What this for long-term? No sure yet. Considering the two tribes will merge next week, Malcolm still needs to recruit two members to have the majority. Corinne perhaps? How about Cochran?
THE STANDOUT: I expected Gota to win the reward challenge right before it started. Yet, the way it's edited, things became three-times fun. Brenda was in seventh heaven cheering for her tribe – she knew her tribe is invincible.
In the Immunity Challenge, I adored how Gota planned for the whole challenge. The tribe sent their best swimmers (Brenda, Erik and Eddie) in the water, which was three best decision. These three didn't disappoint and exceeded expectations.
I wondered why Malcolm didn't have a standout role in the challenge and it was Reynold who did the grappling hook. Malcolm could have aced this part, I guess.
Dawn was also a standout in Bikal. She played Julia straight in her face. Julia bought the lie while Dawn was on her way, stabbing Julia's back by sharing everything to Phillip. Good drama.
EPISODE RATING: 7 of 10 stars. Twelve remaining, it's merge and I still have four pre-show bets (3 favorites and 1 fan). Also, I'm all pump up for the return of food challenge.


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Porsche Boxster And Cayman To Go Fully Electric by 2022?
By Ted Fullerton, April 24, 2019
Porsche is currently testing prototype mules to assess the viability and feasibility of an electric 718 Cayman and by proxy, Boxster. The current generation Cayman and Boxster are currently being tested with a modified electric drivetrain. However, engineering an electric drivetrain into the Caymans engine bay will require extensive changes to the mid-engine architecture.
Simply put, Porsche cannot cram enough lithium-ion batteries into the Cayman's chassis to return a long enough range. Engineering studies have shown the maximum achieved range is 300km (186miles).
Porsche is mulling over whether to add hybrid or plug-in hybrid derivatives when the Porsche 718 is superseded in 2022. No firm decision has been made just yet.
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Mild hybrids, also known as battery-assisted hybrid vehicles, are used to improve efficiencies of the internal combustion engine.
For example, such engines use electric compressors, effectively electric turbochargers, to assist in engine performance. Which sounds fine by our reckoning.
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Reading FC v Cardiff City FC - The three key battles
Charles Watts takes a look at where Saturday's FA Cup clash could be won and lost
Alex Pearce will be up against Kenwyne Jones.
Reading make the journey down the M4 on Saturday looking to book their spot in the FA Cup fifth round.
Standing in their way is a Cardiff City team who beat them 2-1 in the Championship in November.
With just five points separating the sides in the Championship, the tie looks too close to call.
So Charles Watts has taken a look at three key battles which will go a long way to determining who goes into the hat for Monday night's fifth round draw.
Alex Pearce v Kenwyne Jones
Alex Pearce has been back to his best in recent weeks.
It was a night to forget for Alex Pearce last time he stepped out onto the pitch at Cardiff.
When the two sides met in the Championship in November, Pearce scored an own goal, gave away a penalty and was sent off - all before half-time.
On that occasion he was up against Adam Le Fondre, but the former Reading striker will not be in action tomorrow as he is about to join Bolton Wanderers on loan.
Kenwyne Jones is expected to lead the line for the Bluebirds and his battle with Pearce will go a long way to determining the outcome of the contest.
It will be a hugely physical battle, with both players excellent in the air.
Cardiff will look to swing the ball in from the wide positions as much as the can in the hope of finding Jones, so Pearce will have to be at his best to keep them out.
Reading's centre-back has a point to prove in south Wales, but he'll certainly have his hands full once again.
Garath McCleary v Declan John
Cardiff City's Declan John.
Garath McCleary was at his very best last weekend at Craven Cottage, terrifying the Fulham defence with his pace and trickery.
He was by far and away the game's stand out player and Reading will be hoping he can repeat that performance at Cardiff.
He is more than likely going to be up against 19-year-old Declan John in south Wales.
The young defender has had a good start to his career but he will have his hands full against McCleary.
John likes to get forward, but he will have to be wary of allowing McCleary space to attack down his flank.
If he allows McCleary to come out on top in this particular battle, Royals should find themselves in a very good position to progress.
Jordan Obita v Craig Noone
Jordan Obita in action against Cardiff in November.
It's been a tough season so far for Jordan Obita, last season's player of the year.
He's struggled to find the form he showed during the last campaign, but there have been signs he's been getting back to his best since the arrival of Steve Clarke.
And he'll have to be in top form on Saturday against the impressive Craig Noone.
The attacking midfielder will start on the right but will more than likely drift across the pitch throughout the game, as he did in the league meetings between the sides in November.
When Noone plays well, Cardiff tend to play well so if Obita can keep him quiet Reading will be happy.
It will be an intriguing battle, one that will be a big factor in terms of who makes it through to the fifth round.
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Updated: 3:50 PM EST Dec 3, 2021
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POTENTIAL SURGE OF THE VIRUS. NEW CONCERNS TONIGHT ORVE A RAPID REIS OF CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS IN THE BLUEGRASS WHAT WE'RE SEEING FMRO THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS ACKNOWLEDGING WHAT THANKSGIVING WEEK IS IS AN INCREASEN I OUR CASES IS A SIGNIFICANT INCREEAS IN POSITIVITY AND IS AN INCREASE IN HOSPITALIZATIONS. IT APPEARS IN THE ICU. OFFICIALS WEDNESDAY RECORDED OVER 3,000 CASES FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE OOBERCT 1ST HOSPITALIZATIONS ROSE 11% OVER THE LAST WEEK AND THE STATE'S POSITIVITY RATE IS NOW NEARING ETH DOUBLE DIGITST A 8.5% WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WOULD LAST. WE DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BEHAVIOR DRIVEN, IT COULD BE DRIVEN BY THE HOLIDAYS OR THE WINTER, BUT WE ARE OVERALL WE BELIEVE SEEING MORE OF AND THIS IS THE DELTA VARIANT. MORE CASES OF IT AS THE NUMBERS GO UP THE WARNINGS GET LOUDER ABOUT THE POTENTIAL EFFTEC OF THE NEWLY DISCOVERED OMICRON VARIANT RESEARCHERS. YSAHE T VARIANT HAS SEVERAL MUTATIONS. WE SHOULD BE CAREFUL AND CONCERNED BECSEAU OUR FUTURE IS NOT OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL AND THE WAYE W CHOOSE TO ACT AND BEHAVE AND RESPONSE TO THIS CURRENT PROBLEM. I WILL HELP TO DETERMINE VYER CLEARLY WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE. %13 OF KENTUCKY'S POPULATION HAS RECEIVED THEIR BOOSTER OF THE VACCINE, BUT DR. STACK SAYS HE WISHES THOUGH STILL UNWILLING KNEW OF THE POSSIBILITIES AND LESS WORRY OF A WLDOR WHERE EVERYONE IS IMMUNE. WE COULD JUST WAVED A MAGIC WAND IN 100% OF THE HUMAN POPULATION WAS ALL FULLY VACCINATED IN MARCHF O THIS PAST YEAR OMICRON PROBABLY WOULD HAVE NEVER DEVELOPED. DELTA PROBABLY WOULD HAVE NEVER BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SPREADING TO HUNDREDS OF MILLION HERE TSEN OR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLEND A HAVING ALL THOSE CHANCESO T MULTIPLY WITH 60% OF KENTUCKYANS NOW VACCINATED GOVERNOR BESHEAR REMAINS HOPEFUL IN WHAT IS STILL IN UPHILL BATTLE NOW IN THE FACE OF A NEW ENEMY, WE J
Gov. Andy Beshear sounded the alarm Thursday on the dramatic increase in COVID-19 numbers during his latest Team Kentucky update."What we're seeing from the past several weeks — acknowledging what Thanksgiving week is — is an increase in our cases, is a significant increase in our positivity and is an increase in hospitalizations, it appears in the ICU," Beshear said. Officials said on Wednesday the state recorded over 3,000 cases for the first time since Oct. 1, hospitalizations rose over 11% over the last week, and the state's positivity rate is at 8.5%."We don't know how long it will last, we don't know if it's behavior-driven. It could be driven by the holidays or the winter, but we are overall — we believe seeing overall — and this is the delta variant — more cases of it," Beshear said.Dr. Steven Stack joined in on the update. As the numbers go up, the warnings about the potential effect of the newly discovered omicron variant get louder as researchers say it has several mutations."We should be careful and concerned because our future is not outside our control and the way we choose to act and behave in response to this current problem will help to determine very clearly what our future looks like," Stack said.Thirteen percent of Kentucky's population has received their booster shot but Dr. Stack said he wished more people knew of the possibilities in a world where everyone is immune."If we could've waved a magic wand and 100-percent of the human population was fully vaccinated in March of this past year, omicron probably would've never developed, delta probably would've never developed because it wouldn't have spread to tens of hundreds of millions of people and having all those chances to multiply," Stack said.With 60% of Kentuckians fully vaccinated, Beshear remains hopeful in what is still an uphill battle against a new enemy."We've just got to keep pushing," Beshear said.The governor also announced an extra $18 million in federal dollars to help Kentuckians struggling with their water payments because of the pandemic including those who may have already had their service disconnected.
Gov. Andy Beshear sounded the alarm Thursday on the dramatic increase in COVID-19 numbers during his latest Team Kentucky update.
"What we're seeing from the past several weeks — acknowledging what Thanksgiving week is — is an increase in our cases, is a significant increase in our positivity and is an increase in hospitalizations, it appears in the ICU," Beshear said.
Officials said on Wednesday the state recorded over 3,000 cases for the first time since Oct. 1, hospitalizations rose over 11% over the last week, and the state's positivity rate is at 8.5%.
"We don't know how long it will last, we don't know if it's behavior-driven. It could be driven by the holidays or the winter, but we are overall — we believe seeing overall — and this is the delta variant — more cases of it," Beshear said.
Dr. Steven Stack joined in on the update. As the numbers go up, the warnings about the potential effect of the newly discovered omicron variant get louder as researchers say it has several mutations.
"We should be careful and concerned because our future is not outside our control and the way we choose to act and behave in response to this current problem will help to determine very clearly what our future looks like," Stack said.
Thirteen percent of Kentucky's population has received their booster shot but Dr. Stack said he wished more people knew of the possibilities in a world where everyone is immune.
"If we could've waved a magic wand and 100-percent of the human population was fully vaccinated in March of this past year, omicron probably would've never developed, delta probably would've never developed because it wouldn't have spread to tens of hundreds of millions of people and having all those chances to multiply," Stack said.
With 60% of Kentuckians fully vaccinated, Beshear remains hopeful in what is still an uphill battle against a new enemy.
"We've just got to keep pushing," Beshear said.
The governor also announced an extra $18 million in federal dollars to help Kentuckians struggling with their water payments because of the pandemic including those who may have already had their service disconnected.


Nashville, TN – Nashville Film Festival announces the 33 additional feature films accompanied by several people were new categories for the Special Presentations, Spectrum and the inaugural Animated Feature Competitions. Spotlight selections include MAY IT LAST: A PORTRAIT OF THE AVETT BROTHERS, MANIFESTO starringCate Blanchett, the Sundance sensation PATTI CAKE$, and THE HERO starring Sam Elliot.
New categories include the inaugural Animated Feature Competition, with films representing four nations – USA, Turkey, South Korea and Canada. Spectrum Q highlights daring cinema surrounding the lives of the LGBTQ community.
This announcement grows the total number of features films to 96 showing over the ten days of the festival running from April 20 to 29.
Brave New Jersey / USA (Director: Jody Lambert) — A comedy about a small, New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles's legendary, 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast — the hoax that terrified millions into believing Martians were invading America. As the citizens of Lullaby are faced with what they think is their last night on Earth, their lives will change forever. Cast: Tony Hale | Heather Burns | Anna Camp | Dan Bakkedahl | Sam Jaeger | Raymond J. Barry.
Dog Years / USA (Director: Adam Rifkin) — An aging, former movie star is forced to face the reality that his glory days are behind him. On its surface DOG YEARS is a tale about faded fame, but at its core, it's a universal story about growing old.Cast: Ariel Winter| Burt Reynolds | Chevy Chase | Clark Duke | Ellar Coltrane | Juston Street.
The Exception / United Kingdom (Director: David Leveaux) — A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation. Cast: Christopher Plummer | Jai Courtney | Lily James | Janet McTeer | Eddie Marsan | Ben Daniels.
Folk Hero & Funny Guy / USA (Director: Jeff Grace) — A successful singer-songwriter hatches a plan to help his friend's struggling comedy career and broken love life by hiring him as his opening act on his solo tour. Cast: Alex Karpovsky | Wyatt Russell | Meredith Hagner | Melanie Lynskey | Hannah Simone | Michael Ian Black.
The Hero / USA (Director: Brett Haley) — Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, an aging actor tries to reconcile with his estranged daughter while striking up a new relationship with a wild woman. Cast: Laura Prepon | Krysten Ritter | Nick Offerman | Sam Elliot | Katharine Ross. OPENING NIGHT SPOTLIGHT.
Patti Cake$ / USA (Director: Geremy Jasper) — Aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$ fights an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in New Jersey. Cast: Danielle MacDonald | Bridget Everett | Siddharth Dhananjay | Mamoudou Athie | Cathy Moriarty. CLOSING NIGHT SPOTLIGHT.
The Wedding Plan / Israel (Director: Rama Burshtein) — When her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. Cast: Dafi Alferon | Noa Kooler.
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail / USA (Director: Steve James) — Abacus Federal Savings in New York's Chinatown was the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the immigrant Sung family to defend themselves – and their bank's legacy in the community – over the course of a five-year legal battle. Cast: Cyrus Vance Jr. | Thomas Sung | Jill Sung.
Dolores / USA (Director: Peter Bratt) — Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave. Cast: Dolores Huerta | Cesar Chavez.
May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers / USA (Director: Judd Apatow | Michael Bonfiglio) — A portrait of the acclaimed band, the Avett Brothers, as they create their hit album 'True Sadness.' Cast: Scott Avett | Seth Avett | Bob Crawford | Joe Kwon | Paul DeFiglia | Mike Marsh. CENTERPIECE SPOTLIGHT.
Step / USA (Director: Amanda Lipitz) — STEP documents the senior year of a girls' high-school step dance team against the background of inner-city Baltimore.
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities / USA (Director: Stanley Nelson) — A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries – and path of promise toward the American dream – Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. For the first time ever, their story is told.
Where Have You Gone, Lou Dimaggio? / USA (Director: Brad Kuhlman) — From 1985 tob1989 Lou DiMaggio, no relation to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, was a regular at the iconic "Catch a Rising Star" comedy club in New York City. For four years Lou worked along side of and made lasting friendships with a small group of comedians who are today some of the very best in the business. Cast: Larry David | Lou DiMaggio | Jeff Garlin.
The Commune / Denmark | Sweden | Netherlands (Director: Thomas Vinterberg) — A story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 70's. Cast: Ulrich Thomsen | Fares Fares | Trine Dyrholm | Lars Ranthe.
Do Donkeys Act? / USA (Director: David Redmon | Ashley Sabin) — Filmed over 5 years – DO DONKEYS ACT? subtly subverts the notion of the "dumb beast" as it captures donkeys in the midst of healing from human cruelty and neglect. Narrated by Willem Dafoe. Cast: Willem Dafoe (Narrator).
Last Men in Aleppo / Syria |Denmark (Director: Feras Fayyad) — After five years of war in Syria, Aleppo's remaining residents prepare themselves for a siege. Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud, founding members of The White Helmets, have remained in a city under fire to help their fellow citizens and witness life, death, struggle and triumph.
Manifesto / Austrailia | Germany (Director: Julian Rosefeldt) – Cate Blanchett portrays 13 different characters, each of which are a physical representation of a single 20th-century art or political movement. Cast: Cate Blanchett. SPECTRUM SPOTLIGHT.
The Memory of Fish / USA (Director: Jennifer Galvin | Sachi Cunningham) – THE MEMORY OF FISH is a documentary portrait of one man, the wild salmon he loves, and his fight to free a river. Cast: Lili Taylor (Narrator). EARTH DAY SPOTLIGHT.
Menashe / USA (Director: Joshua Weinstein) — Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood. Cast: Menashe Lustig.
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves / Canada (Director: Mathieu Denis | Simon Lavoie) — A group of young people in Québec resolve to form a revolutionary cell together in the aftermath of the collapse of student protests for independence. Cast: Charlotte Aubin | Laurent Bélanger | Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez | Gabrielle Tremblay | Léa Aubin.
Vamizi – Cradle of Coral / Mozambique | Sweden (Director: Mattias Klum) — Vamizi is the largest island in the Quirimbas Archipelago. Its relative isolation from mainland Mozambique has preserved its natural beauty and wildlife. This fragile realm is however under threat. Accompanied by renowned National Geographic photographer Mattias Klum, we follow a team of scientists who fight to stop the damage before it starts, Cast: William Winram. EARTH DAY SPOTLIGHT.
The Ornithologist / Portugal | France | Brazil (Director: João Pedro Rodrigues) — Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track. Cast: Paul Hamy | Xelo Cagiao | João Pedro Rodrigues | Han Wen | Chan Suan.
Staying Vertical / France (Director: Alain Guiraudie) — A filmmaker has to raise a child by himself while looking for inspiration for his new film. Cast: India Hair | Damien Bonnard | Raphael Thiery | Laure Calamy.
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin / USA (Director: Jennifer M. Kroot) — THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN celebrates one of the world's most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to re-claim their lives. Cast: Armistead Maupin | Laura Linney | Olympia Dukakis | Ian McKellen | Amy Tan.
Who's Gonna Love Me Now? / Israel (Director: Barak Heymann | Tomer Heymann) — Saar, a 39-year-old ex-Israeli army paratrooper, living in London, finds out that he is HIV positive, and embarks on a journey of reconciliation with his religious family in Israel. Cast: Saar Maoz.
Good Samaritan / China (Director: Fang Gangliang) — In Tang Dynasty China, a princess must sacrifice her personal desire in order to bring peace to her kingdom. Cast: Xu Qinglei | Zhao Jianbao.
The Love of Drum / China (Director: Ning Jingwu) — Thousands of years of Yao tradition and culture are challenged by a brash young man who returns from the US with modern ideas of dance. Cast: Gu Cheng | Huang Meimei | Guo Yunqi | Tang Ping.
Silk Road Hero: Khan's Arrow / China (Director: Yang Xiaopu | Fang Jun | Liu Quanwei | Zheng Xiaojia) — A high-maintenance young woman in the early stages of pregnancy has her life turned upside down by a traffic accident. Cast: Lenox | Sookie | Zhao Yuying | Feng Bing | Zhang Hong | Zhang Lifu.
Meth Storm: Arkansas USA / USA (Craig Renaud | Brent Renaud) — With unparalleled access on both sides of the law, METH STORM: Arkansas USA is a thrilling non-fiction cops and robbers drama told from inside the American drug war. Southeast US Premiere.


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Updated! How I left MuckRock out is beyond me. There may be more updates as appropriate.
If you're new to programming, looking at what others have done is probably the best way to get your bearings. DocumentCloud is no exception. You asked for more, better API examples. We're long overdue for a roundup of some of the great tools DocumentCloud users have built on our API or otherwise poked their heads under the hood.
Mitch Kotler, one of the folks making MuckRock happen, wrote up his experiences integrating DocumentCloud into their Django site. His post on how their integration works is an excellent detailed walk through.
Chicago Tribune's Chris Groskopf published a tidy little command line tool for managing bulk uploads. Jacob Fenton, who has done some great work integrating DocumentCloud projects into Investigative Reporting Workshop pieces, published doc-wrangler, which will let you wrangle DocumentCloud projects from your own machine.
Ben Welsh and his colleagues at The Los Angeles Times Data Desk maintain a public copy of the python wrapper they use to work with our API, and the folks at Bay Citizen used that python wrapper to integrate DocumentCloud and Django, so they could manage documents right in their CMS instead of logging in to DocumentCloud's web interface.
WNYC's John Keefe took Chicago Tribune's document viewer, reworked it to meet his needs and published his customized viewer along with great documentation on integrating it into your website. NPR's Chris Amico wrote a viewer in Flask while he was still at PBS NewsHour — his is another great starting point if you want to do more to customize document displays.
As a bonus, if you're on the lookout for great ways to incorporate documents into your reporting, definitely take a look at the San Antonio Reporter's reporting on deed restrictions. They've assembled dozens of deeds and mapped them out for readers. From each map point, San Antonio Reporter readers can jump straight to the terms of the deed that has left a landlord with unrentable retail space.
The New York Times uses our API to offer readers a customized search of their Guantanamo docket that looks and feels very much a part of the Times' website.
Likewise, The Telegraph built a custom search of the articles they've dug out of the News of the World archive where hacked voicemail or email may have contributed to reporting.
Did you publish some code of your own that builds on DocumentCloud's API or the Times' document viewer? We'd love to know about it!


lima greenhouses, formerly "Gotheman Greenhouses", was established in 1930 by Henry Gothman.
Sons Joe and Nick with heirloom tomatoes.
The four generations of the Lima family.
Cecil and Kathleen Jared at the original garden center.
Over the last several years, the Lima's began working on a new project.
Now their children have joined them in running the business.
Henry Gothman retired in 1953 and passed on the business to his employee and "son he never had" Cecil Jared.
Lima Greenhouses, formerly "Gothman Greenhouses", was established in 1930 by Henry Gothman. Gothman was a real entrepreneur in the truest sense of the word.
That hard work paid off. In the 25 years they were in the business, they expanded the operation to 4 greenhouses and a fifth in the works. When they retired in 2012 they passed on the business to their son Eddie and daughter-in-law, Vicki.
The Jared family mainly grew bedding plants and shrubs in the spring and hothouse tomatoes in the winter. During their careers they became well known for their quality plants and warm, friendly personalities. Recently, we asked Ed what was most memorable about his career and he joked "Long hours and low pay".
The eldest son, Joe, is the head grower and their younger daughter, Nichole, splits her time between being a shipping manager and working in the office. In all, the company employs about 100 people from Washington to Idaho with their two growing facilities and Vicki's Garden Center.
Lima Greenhouses was originally only a wholesale provider but Vicki knew there was a need for affordable, quality product that was grown and tended by people who knew what they were doing. Vicki's Garden Center opened in 2012 and carried only annuals and perennials. In just one year the center expanded to carry shrubs, herbs, fruit and vegetable plants, and a whole line of gardening supplies and decor.
Their son, Joe Lima, always had a passion for sustainable living and wanted to help make that lifestyle a reality for Spokane residents. So, in 2012 Lima Greenhouses became a Certified USDA Organic grower. Now they are proud to offer a full line of organically grown vegetable and herb starts.
Current owners Eddie and Vicki Lima have spent most of their lives in the greenhouse business. Eddie Lima began working in the greenhouses when he started high school. The current Lima Greenhouse office was originally the house he grew up in. Vicki met Eddie in high school and began working with his family and learning how to propagate and maintain the plants.
In his lifetime he started and operated no less than five businesses. The most successful of his endeavors began when be built his first greenhouse in 1930. This 700 ft greenhouse is the foundation for the current Vicki's Garden Center. In it Henry raised cabbage and celery starts to support his truck farming operation. Back then, buyers would bring their own trucks to a farm, load up the produce and take it straight to market. As the market expanded, Henry began to grow other vegetable starts and eventually moved into growing a small supply of bedding plants.
Cecil and his family owned and operated the business until 1970 when it was again passed on to their daughter and son-in-law, Marian and Ed Lima. During their ownership, the business expanded to approximately 25,000 square feet of greenhouse in order to meet the growing demand for bedding plants.


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Democratic Donor Ed Buck Gave to Newsom and Brown
As third potential victim surfaces, Cal pols under pressure to return contributions
By Ken Kurson, January 10, 2019 5:52 pm
10 Jan 2019 5:52 pm
Ed Buck and Jerry Brown at a grip and grin circa 2010. (Facebook)
When a second younger black man turned up dead in the apartment of Los Angeles Democratic donor Ed Buck, questions are being raised about whether investigators were too hasty to dismiss the first instance 18 months ago. Now, the Daily Mail has located a third male prostitute, 28-year-old Jermaine Gagnon, who says he was plied with drugs and paid to engage in sex acts with the prolific donor.
The political angle here is compelling as well.
Records show a donation to Jerry Brown in 2010. (California Secretary of State)
According to the LA Times, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-33) is planning to donate all of Buck's previous contributions — over $18,000 —to civil rights groups, including Lambda Legal, the NAACP and GLAAD;
No word has yet been released regarding donations to President Obama or former state Sen. Kevin de León, but the Daily Mail specifically referred to Hillary Clinton having declined to comment.
That leaves many other recipients with a decision to make, including our current governor and his predecessor, both of whom benefited from Buck's largesse. According to state records, Buck gave Gavin Newsom $2000 during his 2014 campaign for Lieutenant Governor and he also gave Jerry Brown $2000 during the 2010 campaign for Governor.
The political strategist Jasmyne Cannick is an experienced politico, having worked on several campaigns and serving in the press shop in the California State Assembly. She is also currently running to be a delegate in the 53rd Assembly District to the California Democratic Party. According to the LA Times, Cannick "believes Buck has gotten special treatment because of his activism and fundraising for Democratic candidates." Officials have denied that charge but Los Angeles lawyer Nana Gyamfi claims to represent three other black men who have raised concerns about Buck. She is declining to present them because of fears that her clients will incriminate themselves with tales of abusing drugs either with Buck or supplied by the tech millionaire.
Cannick has singled out de Leon's connection to Buck as a disqualifier from de Leon serving any official role in the state party. Emails to press representatives for Newsom and Brown sent hours ago have not been returned; this story will be updated if either responds to questions from California Globe.
Records reveal that Ed Buck gave Gavin Newsom $2000 in 2014. (California Secretary of State)
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A mechanism for basement shortening underneath allochthonous foreland fold and thrust belts is reverse faulting along inherited normal faults. Normal faulting of basement rocks beneath much of southernmost South America indicates that up to 30–40% extension occurred before sedimentation in a subsiding foredeep. The basement is divided into blocks of similar dimensions to those in the Basin and range of Nevada, U.S.A. Post-depositional reverse motion along some of these high-angle block boundaries under the foreland can account for the 20–40 km of shortening observed in the cover rocks, without showing upthrust wedges of basement rocks.
The folds in the cover rocks of the foreland fold-belt are asymmetric, open to closed with over-steepened to overturned limbs which are frequently truncated by high-angle reverse faults. These faults attain a shallower dip with depth toward a décollement plane above a basal volcanic section. Basement involvement in thrusts (0.5–1.5 km vertical displacement) is suggested where basal volcanics are involved in thrust wedges, as revealed by drilling and seismic reflection data. Block faults have been observed beneath many forelands and have always been assumed to be pre-orogenic and passive with respect to deformation of the cover. The block dimensions, fault angles, vertical displacements and other parameters from the southern Andes are inserted to calculate pre-depositional extension and syn-orogenic shortening that can occur without producing obvious basement upthrusting. The results are compared with data from the Appalachians and Canadian Rockies.


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awards Jan. 15, 2012
Vulture Live-Blogs the Golden Globes
By Margaret Lyons
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS – 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Pictured: Host, Ricky Gervais . Photo: Todd Antony/NBC
Welcome, friends! Let's kick off awards season in the tradition of our ancestors: With a live blog of the Golden Globes. We've got your red-carpet looks, a red-carpet live-blog, and now, onto the ceremony. Follow us on Twitter, too, to stay up on all the fun.
7:58 Who's ready? What is your Golden Globe drink of choice?
8:00 Ricky's wearing a wine-colored suit reminiscent of Ellen Degeneres's suit from the Oscars a few years ago. First NBC joke of the night! And here comes the first really good line of the night: The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. "A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought." Oh, snap!
8:04 How many Kim Kardasian jokes are we gonna get tonight? Elton John looks grumpy.
8:06 Aaaand our second NBC joke of the night.
8:07 How many pieces of flare is Johnny Depp wearing? Is that a diamond-encrusted wallet-chain?
8:08 Gerard Butler and Mila Kunis, struggling through some weak banter. It's hard to be funny and beautiful. Here comes best supporting actor in a drama. And the GG goes to…Christopher Plummer for Beginners. No big shock there! This is what a ceremony looked like, this is what a class act looked like, etc.
8:11 Ewan "that wily Scot" McGregor looks very handsome, but…Plummer's nose looks weirdly purple to me? Just me? I hope so. The fact that his wife's "bravery and beauty haunts [him] still" just elicited a very cute "awwww" from everyone in the audience. Awwww indeed.
8:13 And best actress in a TV comedy goes to…Laura Dern for Enlightened! Dozens of fans are rejoicing right now.
8:16 That was a straight-forward but heartfelt speech from Laura Dern. A+ acceptance, would award again.
8:19 Too tan, Rob Lowe! Too tan. Someone on the teleprompter just fell asleep.
8:21 Best miniseries: Downton Abbey! Yep, yep, yep, yep. Did Cora from Downton just wipeout on her way up the stairs? Yikes. I wish all the sisters were up on stage, too.
8:23 Best actress in a miniseries goes to….Kate Winslet. The weird thing about the Globes is that they come so far after the Emmys, so I feel like Mildred Pierce happened 150 years ago.
8:32 Jeremy Irons just surprised the HFPA lady with a sneaky shoulder massage. Heh. I can't wait to have that "bravo" as a ringtone.
8:35 Athiest joke! Everybody drink.
8:35 Oh, Paula Patton, it's Bryan Cranston. Either way, best actor in a TV drama goes to…Kelsey Grammer. Classic Golden Globes! Boss is good and all, but come on.
8:38 And the best TV drama goes to…Homeland! Ben Kingsley's date seems very surprised.
8:39 Someone mention Mandy Patinkin! Come on, Homeland guys. (I really want to know what Amy Poehler was laughing at. That looks like a fun, fun table.)
8:43 What causes you to tear up more: That Google commercial? Or thinking about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close?
8:44 Adam Levine and Jimmy Fallon, George Clooney is skeptical of your bit. Where do you guys come down in giganto bowtie vs. traditional small bowtie? Best score goes to…The Artist. No one seems to appreciate Ludovic Bource's joke, but at least the kissy-sounds elicited a polite chuckle?
8:50 And best original song goes to…Madonna for "Masterpiece." It's hard to believe that Madonna is that flustered by winning an award. And…maybe don't plug your movie quite so much?
8:57 And best actor in a miniseries of made-for-TV movie goes to…Idris Elba for Luther. He hugged McNulty! Cute! Dustin Hoffman looks pretty bored, but that's on him: Luther's great (even if the first season is way better than the second).
9:00 "I'm Seth Rogan, and I'm currently trying to conceal a massive erection." Look at those cuties with Jodie Foster! And best actress in a musical or comedy goes to…Michelle Williams. 9:02 Michelle Williams thanks her daughter and her BFF Busy Phillips. So cute, you guys. Winner in the clubhouse for best speech maybe? (Sorry, Laura Dern.)
9:07 That's a lot of dress on Piper Pirabo and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Best supporting actor, TV goes to…Peter Dinklage for Game of Thrones! Seems like the GoT table was really far away from the stage.
9:09 Mama Dinklage thought Guy Pearce would win, and in her defense, this is a very strange category. Again, Dustin Hoffman, looking very bored. Cheer up, Dustin!
9:11 The Cloonmesiter General, with a cane joke at Brad Pitt's expense. Ha! Oh, those two.
9:13 Did Octavia Spencer just say "he's cute" re: Channing Tatum? Agreed.
9:15 And best animated feature goes to…The Adventures of Tin Tin. My sister, who is watching this ceremony with me, would like me to point out that a million Doctor Who fans are sad that Spielberg didn't thank Steven Moffat.
9:22 And best screenplay goes to…Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris. He's not there, so Nicole Kidman makes a joke on his behalf.
9:23 AH! Felliam H. Muffman just did the best song/bit! They are the best, and now I want them to perform at every single awards show from here on out. And best supporting actress, TV goes to…Jessica Lange. Maggie Smith got robbed!
9:27 Also, yes, I hear you: I have no idea why there's such a lag in publishing time. We're trying to fix it!
9:31"I haven't kissed a girl in a few years. On TV." Who said Madonna was humorless? (Me?)
9:32 And best foreign film goes to…A Separation, from Iran.
9:34 Hey, Dustin Hoffman, still looking a little grumpy, frankly. Though now I'm rooting for a Tootsie reunion with him and Jessica Lange. Right? Riiiight?
9:35 And best actress in a drama, TV goes to…Claire Danes. I'm not sure why they gave out best drama before best actress in a drama, but either way: Hurray for Claire Danes. The shout-out to her parents is sweet I think I'm going to die.
9:42 Are we only ever going to talk about how Bridesmaids has poop jokes? There are lots of other jokes in that movie, too.
9:43 Penis joke high-five! Thomas Janes' terrifyingly ugly hat almost derailed all of this, but: best actor in a comedy, TV goes to…Matt LeBlanc. Okie doke?
9:47 Best supporting actress goes to…Octavia Spencer for The Help.
9:57 Sidney Poitier's… speech is…very…intense…
9:58 Helen Mirren got stuck with one lousy bit. Couldn't Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy done another song?
10:02 This montage has become worth it for that shot from The Electric Company. Here's more, should you so desire.
10:10 Home stretch now. Rare is the guy who can pull of tails and not seem like a chump, but Robert Downey Jr. is just such a guy. Charlize Theron looks almost as bored as Dustin Hoffman.
10:12 I think it's just the angle, but holy moly, Angelina Jolie's arm looks atrophied. And best director goes to…Martin Scorcese for Hugo.
10:14 Martin Scorcese thanks his wife for asking him, "Why don't you make a film that our daughter can see for once?" Ricky Gervais is still drinking beer, though now it's out of a wine glass.
10:16 Aaaand we get a bleep for Gervais dropping an F-bomb. Seems like it could have been put to better use than making fun of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek's accents, but okay.
10:17 Best comedy goes to…Modern Family. Steven Levitan should teach some kind of workshop on how to give fun acceptance speeches. (That said…basta on Sofia Vergara's over-present Pepsi commercial. ¡No me gusta!)
10:23 If you're playing celebrity any time in the near future, I enthusiastically recommend putting in "war horse, from War Horse."
10:24 Jessica Biel's dress is covered in lacy goiters. Best actor in a comedy or musical goes to…Jean Dujardin for The Artist. Good thing his wife has this all captured on her phone!
10:26 "It's not my fault my eyebrows are independent," Dujardin says.
10:33 "But what you don't know about him is that he's very racist," Ricky Gervais says, introducing the "evil" Colin Firth. Also, cutting to the table for The Help when Ricky Gervais used the word "racist" just seems like a bit much. 10:34 Tilda Swinton, best hairdo of the night. Best actress in a drama goes to…Meryl Streep who gives her husband a good and proper smooch. Also, our second bad word of the night, with Streep saying "shit," thus bleeping out a huge chunk of her speech. David Fincher refusing to pass her glasses up to the stage is almost as funny as Streep's perfectly executed joke to Harvey Weinstein.
10:40 Best picture, musical or comedy is…The Artist! UGGIE IS HERE. I hope Uggie presents at the Oscars.
10:47 Best actor in a drama goes to…George Clooney for The Descendants. Another penis joke, but no high five this time.


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A Platform for Intelligent Environments
This dive into GE Predix and Current shows how the company approaches the Industrial Internet and connected smart environments.
Maulin Patel
In this post, I'll explain the architecture of Current by GE's intelligent environment platform. The key differentiator is that it's open at the top and at the bottom so we can integrate with best-of-breed hardware and software to provide the most innovative solutions to our customers.
The bottom layer of the architecture consists of three types of data sources:
Intelligent lights
Other building subsystems
External data.
The intelligent lighting network underpins this platform strategy. It comprises scalable and cost-effective ZigBee-based sensors, actuators and controls to collect temperature, humidity, occupancy, ambient light, CO2, and many other types of data. These devices communicate wirelessly with a gateway that streams data into the Predix cloud.
Lighting is the largest network in a commercial or industrial building and offers the following benefits:
Provides power to sensors so there's no need for separate cabling or batteries
Sits at a vantage point providing a line of sight
Negligible labor costs to install sensors when combined with LEDs
Future proof and vendor neutral thanks to the open ZigBee standard
The lighting network doesn't just provide illumination, sensing, and control. Current embeds codes in the light emitted by LED fixtures to support indoor positioning. An app running on a smart phone receives these codes using the phone's camera to determine its position with 10 cm accuracy. We also embed BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacons in lights to support proximity-based indoor positioning. The positioning data is delivered to the platform for further analysis like the number of visitors in a retail store, frequency of visits, etc.
Subsystem Integration and Data Gathering
A building has many subsystems like HVAC, solar, refrigeration, access control etc. Typically, these are siloed. Current unlocks these silos to provide one view of the data and access to boilers, chillers, pumps, refrigerators, thermostats, and many other data control elements using the Niagara framework gateway (aka JACE box).
A plethora of useful data is accessible over the Internet such as weather, smart meter, utility tariff, billing, etc. We gather them using the provider's APIs. This makes our platform "open at the bottom" meaning that it leverages data from any system.
Predix, the Operating System for the Industrial IoT
Current's intelligent environment platform is built on Predix, a cloud-based operating system for developing and deploying industrial Internet applications designed for the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of people, machines, Big Data, and analytics. Predix provides state-of-the-art hosting, connectivity, data aggregation, analytics, security, and visualization capabilities. We leverage these capabilities to store, process, analyze, benchmark and visualize datasets from a portfolio of assets to support data-driven decisions at extraordinary speed and scale.
Data Normalization
The data normalization layer of the architecture frees applications from hardware and regional dependencies. For example, a European thermostat provides temperature data in Celsius and a U.S. thermostat provides it in Fahrenheit. The application that consumes temperature data should work seamlessly wherever it is deployed, which necessitates data normalization (e.g. normalizing temperature data in Kelvin). We normalize all the data and expose it in the form of standardized, well-documented APIs. You can review the APIs here. Each API includes documentation for integration and access as well as sample data sets to assist with development.
Project Haystack Support
The platform supports Project Haystack, the data tagging methodology adopted by the building automation industry. It's an open-source initiative to standardize semantic data models and web services.
The top layer comprises apps that consume data to drive outcomes. Current has developed apps such as an energy management app that lets facility managers monitor, analyze and optimize every aspect of their building's energy consumption and generation.
Beyond energy, many other apps can benefit from the data our platform provides. To explore possible next generation apps, we crowd-sourced ideas and received 300+ ideas in a week! No single company has the time and resources to develop all the ideas. Our strategy is to partner with companies that leverage our open platform to develop and offer differentiated value propositions in the market. Since the normalized data is available in a standardized format, the incremental efforts in developing and deploying new applications is minimal— saving time and money. No wonder we already have 60+ ecosystem partners!
In summary, the building automation industry is undergoing a massive transformation and Current has built a platform to help it leapfrog forward. I am excited to be a part of this technology movement and look forward to continuing to share our process.
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Published at DZone with permission of Maulin Patel, DZone MVB. See the original article here.
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United States antitrust law is a collection of federal and state government laws, which regulates the conduct and organization of business corporations, generally to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers.
The main statutes are the Sherman Act 1890, the Clayton Act 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act 1914. These Acts, first, restrict the formation of cartels and prohibit other collusive practices regarded as being in restraint of trade. Second, they restrict the mergers and acquisitions of organizations which could substantially lessen competition. Third, they prohibit the creation of a monopoly and the abuse of monopoly power.
The Federal Trade Commission, the US Department of Justice, state governments and private parties who are sufficiently affected may all bring actions in the courts to enforce the antitrust laws. The scope of antitrust laws, and the degree they should interfere in business freedom, or protect smaller businesses, communities and consumers, are strongly debated. One view, mostly closely associated with the "Chicago School of economics" suggests that antitrust laws should focus solely on the benefits to consumers and overall efficiency, while a broad range of legal and economic theory sees the role of antitrust laws as also controlling economic power in the public interest.
As American citizens, we are protected by law, against monopolies and price gouging. Springfield City Utilities has enjoyed a number of years, without competition, and has raised our necessary-to-life utility costs at an outstanding rate. They have engaged in unreasonable price-gouging; enjoying the fact that they have no other energy suppliers to compete with. Who loses? We do. The poor people suffer and pay a huge percentage of their income (mostly fixed income) to this heartless organization. City Utilities of Springfield has millions of dollars on reserve and enjoys raising prices for utilities at an unfair rate because no one is speaking out against them.
It is time for us to unite and make our voices heard that we will not be taken advantage of. We work hard for our money and corporate greed is disgusting.
We, the undersigned, call on the government of the state of Missouri to file an action and investigate the City of Springfield Utilities Company for operating a monopoly and for price gouging consumers.
City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri has taken advantage of its consumers and has unreasonably raised utility rates during the last four years.
This has caused underpriviledged citizens an undue hardship.
The Fight Against Springfield City Utilities Price Gouging petition to City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri was written by Shannon Adam and is in the category Consumer Affairs at GoPetition.


Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Euproops, two odonate nymphs, and a baby blanket with a copepod and daphnia on it. In progress are two tardigrades, and I have a long list of custom order requests still to confront. And I managed to do some schoolwork and illustration practice, ran a 5K for crossfit, shopping (I needed some knee high socks for weight lifting), cooking, cleaning, feeding and playing with the animals – it's amazing what I can accomplish when my boyfriend goes away for the weekend.
I really love the stories behind the orders I receive (the baby blanket was a hoot!). It is gratifying to know I am able to bring such joy to others, and to know that there are lots of other biology geeks out there. Especially since I can balance my business with the rest of my life. I will have to slow down the sewing once my teaching responsibilities and research become more demanding, but for now – any spare moment is spent with my drawing pens or my sewing machine.
Once I catch up on custom orders, I really want to make more caterpillars. I'll start taking suggestions on species!


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Religions in Sri Lanka
Four Main Religions in Sri Lanka
Religion plays a very important role in the day-to-day life of Sri Lankan's. Although the island is predominantly Buddhist, other religions such as Hinduism, Islam and Christianity also have a marked presence here. The country is an important pilgrimage destination for Buddhists from around the world, as it is said that the Buddha visited the island three times between 528 and 520 BC. Animism, albeit with a Buddhist or Hindu influence, is still practiced among the Veddahs, the original inhabitants of the island. Sri Lanka has many sacred sites of significance to the island's various religious groups, including Kataragama, which is a holy site for Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims.
heravada Buddhism is the most widely practiced from of the religion on the island. The sect is older than the Mahayana School of Buddhism and preserves the orthodox teachings of the Buddha. It is based on the Pail Canon, which is believed to be the oldest record of the Buddha's teachings. All Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka comprise an image house, where the images and statues of the Buddha as well as of other gods are kept, a dagoba (a dome-shaped memorial) and a bo tree. Symbolic of alignment, lotus flowers are often used in the decoration of these temples.
The offering of coconut oil lamps is an important Buddhist ritual. It is followed by a wish or prayer to the Buddha, who is regarded as the "light of the three worlds" and the dispeller of darkness and ignorance. Besides oil lamps, worshippers also offer incense, flowers and food.
Mihintale is where the Buddhist monk Mahinda, son of the Indian King Asoka, is said to have converted King Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura to Buddhism. This event marked the introduction of the religion to Sri Lanka. Buddhist monks can be easily recognized by their yellow or orange robes. Admitted to the Buddhist Order as novices, they go through intensive religious training before becoming a member of the Sangha (a monastic community of ordained Buddhist monks or nuns).
Stalls selling religious offerings are often found near the temples. The wide variety of offerings at these kiosks ranges from lotus flowers and images of the Buddha to food and drink and even plastic toys.
Hindu communities are concentrated in the northern and eastern provinces of the country. The Hindu belief system is based on the tenets of samsara (successive cycles of birth, death and rebirth), Karma (the law of cause and effect) and dharma (righteousness). The three most important figures of the Hindu pantheon are Brahma, the creator of the world; Vishnu, who protects the world and preserves order; and Shiva, the god of destruction and regeneration.
Gopurams, or ceremonial gateways, mark the entrance to Hindu temples in Sri Lanka. These structures are often covered with brightly painted sculptures of Hindu deities. The inner sanctum of the temples is only opened during puja ceremonies so that worshipers can make their offerings.
Temple pujas are religious ceremonies performed as a tribute to the deities. They are usually atmospheric incense burning, drums beating and recitations from the Vedas (the oldest scriptures of Hinduism).
Fruits and flowers offered to a deity during puja ceremonies are termed as prasada. It is believed that the deity partakes of the offering and then returns it. The consecrated offering is then distributed and eaten by the devotees.
Islam was brought to Sri Lanka by Arab traders in the 7th century. Most concentrated along the coast, the Muslim community comprises less than 10 percent of the population. All Muslims adhere to the Five Pillars of Islam: shahadah (professing faith), salat (praying five times a day), zakat (giving to charity), sawm (fasting during Ramadan) and undertaking the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
The rounded white cap worn by Muslim men and boys is known as a taqiyah or topi.
The thobe, a loose ankle-length white robe, is the uniform for boys attending madrasas (Koranic schools).
Christians are known to have settled on the Sri Lankan coast in the early centuries AD. However, the religion, specifically Roman Catholicism, gained prominence only with the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century. Protestantism and other Christian denominators were introduced during the Dutch and the British eras. Since the end of Colonial rule, the number of Sri Lankan Christians has declined to about 7 per cent of the population.
The Catholic St. Mary's Church in Negombo is one of the many reminders Portuguese missionary activity in Sri Lanka.
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Surprise? More like, I dare you not to show up. In other news, if these men were white, we would be yapping about white men running the world by now. Where are the women in our politics who are not wives?
Is that not rose Champagne? Buhari dey drink champagne? Hypocrites in a country where civil servants have not been paid for months. Thunder fire all corrupt politicians starting with Buhari.
This picture is a reminder of the disproportionate number of man vs women in both political offices and leadership positions!. We need more women in politics. Come 2019 it should be non-negotiable!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet they could only come up with a miserly looking cake on Nigeria's birthday.
I suppose they unwittingly decided to remind us of the unimportance of Nigeria as a whole, compared to the extravagance reserved for its "leaders".
I spot a big somewhere far right.
WALE TINUBU!!!! nemesis will soon catch up with you…. defrauding shareholders because you have access abi!!… Nothing lasts forever… your day of reckoning is coming soon… Nonsense!!
Aliko my guy, your networking skills are on another level. Friend of every government in power, I hail thee!
So they couldn't get any of these bakers to make the independence day cake. It shows how much we value or respect our country….


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Management declares regional site strategy on track
CSIRO management are confident they are on track with the implementation of the regional sites review, claiming that draft site plans have been submitted to relevant executives for review.
The Regional Sites Working Group report was developed in response to a Staff Association campaign focusing on the importance of CSIRO's regional footprint and the uncertainty faced by many sites in a tough resource environment.
Staff Association Organiser Jeff Carig welcomed management's report but stressed the importance of verifying actual progress with regional site workers themselves.
"The question remains, has there been the sort of progress on the ground in regional sites that reflects what management are saying," Mr Carig said.
"We'll be seeking more detail on the practical implementation of regional site plans at the next Consultative Council meeting," he said.
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Mr Carig said that the Staff Association was also seeking the views of regional employees directly on their opinion of the implementation of the Regional Sites Working Group's recommendations.
"Included in the recommendations is the provision of an annual progress review – the first which is scheduled to occur in February 2013.
"The Staff Association will be visiting regional sites in December and early next year to test these management claims first-hand," he said.
In the meantime, the union would continue to raise awareness of the importance of regional science by showcasing the contributions of individual regional sites, Mr Carig said.
"The purpose of our campaign is to maintain the vibrancy of our regional sites and secure their future – not only for the staff but the communities they serve.
"There are some important stories to tell about CSIRO's regional contribution and the Staff Association is determined to tell them," he said.
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