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Vol.1: The Coventry We Have Lost
Vol.3: Godiva's Heritage, Coventry's Industry
Vol.4: Earlsdon & Chapelfields Explored
Vol.5: Forgotten Foleshill
coventry suburbs
Alderman's Green
Baginton
Holbrooks
Stoney Stanton Road
Wyken & Caludon
Mystery Views of Coventry
Archibald Mills
Edgar Thomas Waterman
Express Photo Co.
H H Thompson & Son
Joseph Wingrave
Sidwell of Meriden
Munitions / Armaments
Although some aircraft had been built in Coventry before the First World War, it was the fact that so many major engineering and car firms were well established at the start of hostilities that government contracts were placed for building both aircraft and engines. Daimler, Humber, Siddeley Deasey and Standard were the main recipients of these contracts. The Daimler Company in particular were quick to respond to the war needs, signing an agreement with the French Gnome engine company in the first week of the war to produce their 80 HP seven cylinder rotary engine. They promised to have an engine running within eight weeks of receiving a sample engine. When it was received it was stripped down, drawings made, materials acquired, the parts manufactured and assembled. A special test rig was also manufactured and the engine was started up with one hour to spare. Later a 250 HP nine-cylinder BR2 rotary engine designed by W O Bentley was produced, three hundred and thirty nine of these engines being delivered in one month alone at the latter stage of the war. In addition an airfield needed to be built at the rear of the Radford works to enable the large number of aircraft produced to be test flown. The Standard Company also had to build a special works at Canley in 1916 to enable aircraft to be manufactured. By the armistice no fewer than 1,600 RE8 and BE12 together with Sopwith Pup and Camel machines had been produced. With the ending of the war, production of aircraft and engines ceased with the exception of one company, Siddeley Deasey who had produced the 6-cylinder BHP water-cooled engine during the war had redesigned it to become the Puma. This, together with the Siskin aircraft brought out later with the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar engine, laid the foundations of this very successful company, who after acquiring the old RAF flying field at Whitley in 1920 went on to design many wonderful aircraft. These included the bomber named after the airfield that did such noble service during the Second World War. (See page 72) Although now merged with Rolls Royce the expertise built up since the First World War still lives on at Ansty.
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Coronavirus edition, XLI: Films to shelter with say that 'I'm Your Woman,' but it's 'His House'
by Tom Meek | Dec 13, 2020 | Film Ahead | 0 comments
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Last revised on: Thursday, December 17, 2020
Film Ahead is a weekly column designed to highlight special events and repertory programming for the discerning Camberville filmgoer.
With the Covid-19 outbreak and social distancing restrictions still in place, some movie theaters have reopened. As a result, "Film Ahead" will shift focus to films new to streaming platforms and virtual screening rooms of local theaters, as well as virtual local film festivals.
'Wild Mountain Thyme' (2020)
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A promising idea from writer/director John Patrick Shanley, whose credits include the script for "Moonstruck" (1987) and bringing his stage play "Doubt" (2008) to screen with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis in the cast. Here adapting another one of his plays, Shanley's lightning doesn't strike twice, not even in the same valley, for this Irish-set rom-com with Emily Blunt ("Edge of Tomorrow," "Mary Poppins Returns" and "A Quiet Place") and Jamie Dornan (the hunk in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series) as would-be lovers continually thwarted by every nonsense under the sun. The muddled mess features idyllic scenery, cozy pubs and the woozy wooing of an ass (donkey), and wastes Christopher Walken and John Hamm in small supporting roles.
'Crip Camp' (2020)
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A frank and uplifting documentary about a 1960s camp down the road from Yasgur's farm (where Woodstock was held) run by hippies for youth with disabilities. The great time capsule footage, shot long before the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, renders emotionally charged narratives ("You know what it's like to have to have your balls washed for you"; memories of being relegated to a separate classroom at school, vast ostracism, abuse and worse; and horrifying bits from Geraldo Rivera's Willowbrook exposé) and stark social commentary (a black counselor from the South talks about the fear of looking a white man in the eye). The upstate camp provides a safe haven for all to be themselves and find empowerment through community and each other. There's some wonderful impromptu jam sessions and, true to the film's free love timeframe, an outbreak of crabs.
'His House' (2020)
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A refugee couple escaping war-torn South Sudan find asylum in a London housing project where something sinister within the walls torments them each night. The mystery of what is orchestrated beautifully by first-time filmmaker Remi Weekes, with reality-bending jaunts back to Africa, where the emotional and physical toll of the couple's actions comes to light.Telling too are the white tenant managers who train a watchful eye on the immigrants (after they rip apart the walls due to said supernatural affliction) and seemingly hold the power to return them to the hell they came from. It doesn't quite stick it in the end, but it is a worthy, eerie sojourn.
'Cold Meridian' (2020)
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This erotic tease from "In Fabric" director Peter Strickland is a new auteur short available on the Mubi platform ("Lobster" director Yorgos Lanthimos' "Nimic" is another entry). The dreamy black and white imagery details a performer getting her hair washed in long Lynchian takes and later, her interaction with 14,000-plus fans online. There's an interweaving thread about two naked ballet dancers captured in sometimes violent, sometimes sexual postures. Haunting and gorgeous to take in, if far too obscure when it comes to answering what it all means.
'I Am Your Woman' (2020)
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In this cool, retro crime thriller, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" star Rachel Brosnahan plays a 1970s housewife whose hubby disappears – just before the mob starts showing up. There's a bag of money and more, but that doesn't matter as much as Brosnahan's transition from imperiled homemaker to resolved maker of her own fate. Director Julia Hart keeps things clicking and has a great eye for the era.
'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' (2011)
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Composer Atticus Ross and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor won Oscar gold for their musical collaboration on "The Social Network" (2010) and recently re-teamed with director David Fincher for a vastly different, period appropriate (1930s Hollywood) score on the director's latest, "Mank." They'll likely get nominated again, but folks forget their accomplished and essential collaboration with Fincher on this U.S. adaptation of Stieg Larsson's bestselling crime novel. Rooney Mara (who has a super small part in "Social Network") gives a compelling breakout performance as Lisbeth Salander, the goth punk cyber sleuth uncovering a web of abuse by the privileged while being abused herself. The incredible cast includes Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård and Robin Wright.
'The Midnight Sky' (2020)
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"Gravity" (2013) this is not, though it does have George Clooney as star and director. For his adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton's bestselling post-apocalyptic novel, Clooney plays a scientist at an Arctic Circle weather station, ostensibly the last person on earth after the climate catastrophe has made our planet environmentally uninhabitable. He's not so much the Omega Man as he is the only communication beacon to warn returning astronauts of the recent decimation. Clooney's game as a performer, but the plot's execution is as uninviting and stale as Earth's toxic atmosphere, and the special effects are 1970s cheesy with no retro charm. At Kendall Square, streaming Dec. 23 on Netflix.
Tom Meek is a writer living in Cambridge. His reviews, essays, short stories and articles have appein the WBUR ARTery, The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, The Charleston City Paper and SLAB literary journal. Tom is also a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and rides his bike everyw
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International student spotlight: Sabrina Chou
By Raelynn Sheridan
Sabrina Chou sits in Trove Coffee on a Thursday afternoon, grasping a glass of wine. She explains how much she's enjoying her online storytelling class, but how difficult it is to read her story in front of an audience and a camera each week, using different intonation and hand gestures.
Chou is from Taipei, Taiwan and arrived in the U.S. when she was 17 years old to attend boarding school in New York. She also attended boarding school in Taiwan, so being away from family was nothing new to her. Her parents had raised her to be independent from a young age, she said.
"I came for the American dream, for a better education, a better life," Chou said as she smiled.
She came to the U.S. on an F-1 visa, which is a visa for long-term international students. She was scared to make the move to the U.S. but said she came for the American dream, a better education and more diversity. Other Taiwanese students made the transition with her, all coming through different agencies, but arriving in the U.S. as a group to attend school here.
Sabrina Chou and her mother in Taiwan in 2017. // Photo courtesy of Sabrina Chou
She remained in New York for one year and then moved to Orlando, Florida to attend another high school, where she graduated in 2012.
Chou said back then she really liked moving around and trying new things, but now at age 25, she's getting homesick and would like to spend more time with her mom in Taiwan.
After high school, she attended Green River College in Auburn, Washington where she earned her associate's degree. She made friends with several international students at Green River, due to the large population there.
"It was really fun. I met many different students," Chou said.
At Western, the international student population is smaller, so adjusting to Western the first year was not easy, she said
Her first quarter she had to take a W in all her classes, a withdraw, not because of a language barrier but because the transition was too hard, she said.
"I had no problem communicating with people, it was just the vibe," Chou said. "I couldn't fit in, when I walked into a class I was the only Asian."
Life in Taiwan
Chou goes back to visit her family in Taiwan once a year.
Sitting back in her chair, she reminisces about celebrating Chinese New Year as a child.
The whole family would go to her paternal grandparent's house. It was their yearly family reunion and the only time Chou was allowed to stay up past midnight.
Her grandmother would make her favorite food and serve an entire plate just for her.
"I loved seafood, especially shrimp, so my grandma always, always went to the market in the morning on New Year's Eve and she would get fresh shrimp – just for me!" Chou said.
Chou and her cousins would play all night and receive red envelopes full of money, which are customary during Chinese New Year.
They would go to the river to shoot off fireworks, then come home to finish New Year's ceremonies. On the fourth floor of her grandparent's home the family would sit around a shrine honoring their ancestors.
The memories stick out to her as a remembrance of her childhood in Taiwan..
Chou spent her middle school years at Huideng High School in Yilan County, Taiwan, a boarding school in Taiwan. She said she learned discipline there and independence. It helped when she moved to the U.S.
After a hard first year at Western she is now months away from graduation. She will graduate in the fall with a degree in multidisciplinary studies and a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages certificate.
She plans to try and work in the U.S. for a while but hopes to go back to Taiwan to spend more time with family and help her country progress.
Before going back, her dream would be to work at Western in the International Student Office.
This past school year, Chou and other international student friends started a program called the International Student Mentorship Program. The program's aim is to have international students who have been at Western for a few quarters, mentor incoming students. Their goal is to build a community and give international students more peer support. Chou wants to stay and help the program get going so future international students do not have the same transition experience as she did.
Sabrina Chou outside Trove Coffee after studying on July 19. // Photo by Raelynn Sheridan
She wants to create more jobs for international students through the program. In addition to this, she hopes to be an international student advisor.
Get to know Taiwan
(All information comes from the CIA World Factbook)
Taiwan is an island country in Eastern Asia, slightly smaller than Maryland and Delaware combined. It was originally inhabited by Austronesian people and today still has an indigenous population of 2.3 percent, spit into 16 recognized groups. In the 17th century Han immigrants from China began to inhabit Taiwan and now make up 95 percent of the population. After World War II, Taiwan came under Chinese control and in 1949, with communist victory in the Chinese civil war, two million Chinese nationalists fled to Taiwan. China still lays claim to Taiwan, although Taiwan governs itself.
The climate is tropical, with monsoon season June to August and clouds most of the year. The eastern two-thirds of the country is rugged and mountainous but in the west both flat and rolling plains lay waiting.
Most of the population resides on the coast, with the largest populations on the north and west coasts.
Most of the country is either Buddhist or Taoist and the majority of people are between the ages of 25 and 54 years old. Seventy-eight percent of the population live in urban areas and the life expectancy is 80 years. The fertility rate is one of the lowest in the world, at just over one child per woman..
Taiwan is a capitalist economy. Because of the aging population, low birth rate, reliance on exports, difficult political situation and competition from other Asian countries, Taiwan faces a challenging future, according to the CIA World Factbook.
Chou said she hopes to move back to Taiwan someday. She wants to help make the education system better. With graduation looming around the corner, Chou walks out of the parking lot of Trove Coffee, passion beneath each step she takes.
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Latest Defeat Marks New Franchise Record For Most Consecutive Postseason Losses In Steelers History At Four
Posted on January 16, 2022 at 11:39 pm
The Pittsburgh Steelers are among the most successful organizations in NFL history. But they are at their worst in terms of postseason accolades since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger. Tonight's predictable defeat at the hands of the Kansas City Chiefs in quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's final game cemented that, as it marked a new franchise record for the most consecutive postseason losses.
The Steelers have now lost each of their last four postseason games, the first time that they have done so since the organization's founding, through 63 postseason games played. The streak began with their defeat at the hands of the New England Patriots in the 2016 AFC Championship Game. They lost the following year in the Divisional Round after a bye week to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Last season, they lost in the Wildcard Round to the Cleveland Browns.
In case you're wondering, however, Pittsburgh's current postseason losing streak is nowhere near a record. 14 teams have combined to have 16 streaks of five or more losses in the postseason, with the Detroit Lions on an active NFL-record nine-game postseason losing streak dating back to 1991.
The Cincinnati Bengals just avoided tying that record. They had lost eight consecutive postseason games going back to 1990 before defeating the Las Vegas Raiders yesterday, with their most recent appearance being in 2015, a loss to the Steelers.
Pittsburgh had had two separate losing streaks of three games or more prior to this most recent run. The first began toward the tail end of the Chuck Noll era, with the Steelers losing in the 1989, '92, and '93 postseasons. Current head coach Mike Tomlin's 2010s teams owned the other one already.
That losing streak began with the 2010 Super Bowl XLV loss, followed by a loss in the Wildcard Round a year later. They did not make it back to the postseason until 2014, but they lost in the Wildcard Round yet again.
The following year, they beat the Bengals in the Wildcard Round, but lost to the Denver Broncos in the Divisional Round. In 2016, they beat the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs in the first two rounds before being dominated by the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game.
Their most recent postseason victory, then, is five years ago, and five games ago, against the team that just beat them, 42-21, in a game that wasn't as close as the final score indicated. This is a new level of futility in the modern era of one of the most successful franchises in the NFL.
That is where the Steelers leave off as they embark on their quest to find another franchise quarterback as Roethlisberger departs after 18 seasons under center. Tomlin is now 8-9 in the postseason, and 3-7 going back to the team's last Super Bowl appearance.
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It's hard to imagine how British Prime Minister Theresa May's eagerly anticipated speech to the Conservative Party's annual convention in Manchester could have gone worse. Not only did she cough her way through it, with a lozenge from her chancellor bringing only temporary relief, but a noted prankster handed her the British equivalent of a "pink slip," claiming he was ordered to do so by her Cabinet nemesis Boris Johnson. May's big problem, however, is the fact that she has the impossible task of making Brexit — which economists, political scientists and others nearly all think was a bad idea — a success.
All of which raises an important question. How do bad ideas, like Brexit, gain legitimacy, and why do people stick with them despite buckets of evidence to the contrary?
For us, bad ideas are policy ideas that have been proven wrong empirically and fail to deliver the promised results even when actors have persisted with them. Our research shows that there are two ways in which bad ideas can take hold. Here, we think of ideas as being like financial markets, where the owner of the stock can have a "put" option — an option, but not an obligation, to sell a stock at a certain point in time.
In democracies, citizens, by collectively voting for a given party with given policy ideas, are exercising something like a put option. They are giving the ideas a chance, but retaining the option to 'sell' the ideas by voting for someone else if the ideas don't work out. Voters can always throw the bums out, if the bums' ideas are rotten.
In a technocracy, citizens don't really have a put option — they are stuck with bad policy ideas, like it or not, since those in charge are not elected. Technocrats therefore have a strong incentive to keep on implementing policy ideas, even if they are bad policy ideas since their authority and legitimacy depends on them being viewed as the experts, and the rules allow them to ignore popular pressure to deliver better outcomes. In this case, the put option cannot be exercised and the bad ideas persist.
Democracies like the United Kingdom can abandon bad ideas. Eventually.
Many people see the Brexit vote as emblematic of "post truth" politics. The "leave" camp won because it promised that voters could "take back control" and generally "stick it" to the entire British establishment. Now, however, May's government has to disentangle the United Kingdom from the European Union after 44 years of membership. Even the preliminary talks — over the exit bill, citizens' rights and the land border with Northern Ireland — have proven to be a lot harder than Brexiteers promised, and worse is yet to come. It is simply impossible for the United Kingdom to get a better deal outside of the European Union than the deal it already had, which was fantastic. It kept its own currency, stayed out of the borderless E.U. Schengen zone, was able to veto anything it didn't like and could still make big profits by clearing billions of euro transactions through the City of London.
The fights within the Tory Party mean that May — a reluctant "remainer" — is stuck with Brexit. However, others can mobilize opposition to bad ideas like Brexit through the traditional democratic means of organizing opposition to them, and waiting for them to fail. As May's fall from grace makes clear, once voters figure out that ideas don't do what they are supposed to, other politicians on the make can capitalize upon this and change the policies. This can be hard — especially when the press demonizes the opposition's leader, as it does in the United Kingdom. But even so, the public has bought a put option on those policies, and parties have to pay up whenever the public eventually cashes it in.
Technocratic systems tend to keep on making the same mistake.
In contrast, technocratic political systems allow unelected experts and bureaucrats to make the call rather than elected politicians. Such systems pretty much guarantee a continuation of bad policy when it comes to correcting bad ideas. The European Union is a technocracy, run by bureaucrats who see rule-breaking as a challenge to their own authority. In particular, the "euro zone" — the countries of Europe that share a single currency — is subjected to technocratic rule. This is why euro zone technocrats were outraged when France and Germany broke the euro's rules in 2003, and why they viewed the brief episode of European fiscal activism in 2009 as an error, even though it saved Europe from a massive depression. Indeed, technocrats made a bad idea worse by tightening monetary policy at the same time as fiscal policy between 2009 and 2011, discounting mounting evidence that the policies being followed were part of the problem rather than the solution.
These technocrats had incentives to learn the wrong lesson, because they had enormous political authority without real democratic responsibility to a public. Their response to policy failure was to double down on the policy. The European Union only started growing again in 2014, because member states made them turn a blind eye to the rules on fiscal deficits. After the most recent elections in Germany, the new government in Berlin will likely shift to the right. This may mean that fiscal tightening will return in 2018.
This illustrates the differences between democratic and technocratic politics. In the United Kingdom, "Leave" advocates' inability to live up to their promises will eventually lead to their ideas being discredited, as May's approval ratings suggest. But it may well be too late to stop or reverse Britain's exit from the European Union, which is scheduled for March 2019. However, the bad ideas that prevail in the technocratic euro zone have had more sticking power. Democratic put options should eventually clear the marketplace of bad ideas, even if "eventually" can take a fair amount of time. In contrast, technocratic systems, where puts cannot be written, may never self-correct, and as a result they can experience long periods of policy dysfunction even when the policies obviously are not working.
Mark Blyth is the Eastman Professor of Political Economy at Brown University.


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July / Aug 2019 \ TAC Employee Spotlight - Dirk Ruedas
TAC Employee Spotlight -Dirk Ruedas
By County magazine
If you have ever attended a TAC-produced event (like the upcoming TAC Legislative Conference), then you have seen products that have passed through the hands and under the scrutiny of Print Services Production Supervisor Dirk Ruedas, who works in TAC's Print and Mail Services Division.
The team, working in the Association's basement print shop, produces everything from conference programs and signage, to TAC's legislative reports and legal handbooks, to promotional materials such as flyers, mugs and T-shirts.
Ruedas came to TAC 6 1/2 years ago with more than 30 years of printing experience. He is one of four team members who spend up to 14-hour days printing, proofing, trimming, binding and distributing TAC products. He also helps prepare files for print, calculates costs and tracks each project through a web-based project management system. The group completes between 50 and 100 projects each month. Additionally, the team is responsible for operating 15 machines.
With that volume of work, it would be easy to fall behind or miss something, but not for Ruedas. He is organized and eagle-eyed. "My typical day starts by setting up the daily production schedule. I prioritize what projects get printed when," he said. "I do a lot of paperwork, like logging jobs with their costs."
Ruedas also knows that his teammates enable his success. "I might be biased, but I think we have one of the best teams in TAC," he said.
And time matters. Deadlines are set in stone for the Print Shop — you can't change the date of a conference because the signs haven't been printed yet — but there are times they don't get the print-ready files when promised due to unforeseen circumstances.
The process from start to finish for all print projects involves many people, from many departments. Think of it like a train where at each stop you pick up a necessary passenger without whom you aren't allowed to reach your final destination. So, at each stop, you collect one more person, but at stop four, the person is late. So you have to wait because you can't go on without them. But, and here's the hitch, you must arrive at the final stop by midnight or the whole train is derailed. If you have one — or many — late pick-ups along the way, then you better crank up the speed during that last leg and fly to the finish before the clock strikes 12.
That final leg is Print and Mail Services. They never leave a passenger behind or let the train go off the rails. And a large part of that is due to the efficiencies and focus Ruedes brings to the team.
"He is a team player and always has what it takes to make the work process complete," said Print Services Operations Manager Raul Martinez. "He is an example to those around him. He shows leadership and skill in what he does."
When he's not in the basement of teh TAC building making sure every printed project is completed beautifully, Ruedas is with his family. "I'm following my 15-year-old all over the state and country, watching him play baseball. We as a family have more time to bond," he said. His family also includes his wife of 29 years, TAC Legislative Department Operations Manager Amy Ruedas. They also have a 25-year-old son. "He's getting married in 2020," Ruedas said enthusiastically. "So we have that to plan for, which is exciting."
It's evident to anyone who meets Ruedas that he finds joy in making others smile. "Dirk makes the atmosphere around him shine," said Martinez. "He is a true friend and a great coworker."
Ruedas added, I am very grateful to be working here at TAC and I am blessed to work with Raul Martinez, Noe Rodriguez and Brian Saucedo — the Print Shop Boys!"
So, while wandering the halls of the Fairmont Hotel in September — looking through all the printed materials — remember that each one of those projects went through the fingers of Ruedas. Without his attention to detail and focus that helped keep the train on the track, there might not be quite as much magic at the event.
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15/04/2014: Chris Johnson is opening the workshop with a keynote talk on Big Data Visualization
26/11/2013: Submission site is up!
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23/10/2013: DanaC will be held in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2014.
DanaC: Workshop on Data analytics in the Cloud
Data nowadays comes from various sources including log files, transactional applications, the Web, social media and many others. A large part of this data is generated and transmitted in real time and in a large scale. To create value out of these data sets, business analysts and scientists employ advanced data analytics techniques combining, among others, traditional BI, text analytics, machine learning, data mining, and natural language processing. Tackling the complexity of both the data itself and its analysis remains an open challenge.
Cloud computing has emerged as a cost-effective and elastic computing paradigm that facilitates large scale data storage and analysis. Cloud infrastructures can provide adaptive resource provisioning with very little initial investment while scaling to massive amounts of commodity computing nodes. Data analytics, being very resource intensive, has the potential to be a significant cloud application, and to constitute a large fraction of the workload of modern data centers. Designing the infrastructures, systems and data analytics techniques in the new cloud computing environments remains an open challenge.
DanaC 2014 at a Glance
The workshop will take place in Snowbird, Utah, USA on Sunday 22nd June 2014 and is colocated with SIGMOD/PODS 2014.
The workshop is going to feature:
A Keynote speech by Chris Johnson titled "Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis"
Presentations of 6 accepted papers
Demonstration of 6 major data analysis systems
Check the workshop's program for details.
"Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis"
Chris Johnson Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah.
Modern high performance computers have speeds measured in petaflops and handle data set sizes measured in terabytes and petabytes. Although these machines offer enormous potential for solving very large-scale realistic computational problems, their effectiveness will hinge upon the ability of human experts to interact with their simulation results and extract useful information. One of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century is to effectively understand and make use of the vast amount of information being produced. Visual data analysis will be among our most most important tools in helping to understand such large-scale information.
Our research at the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah has focused on innovative, scalable techniques for large-scale visual data analysis. In this talk, I will present state- of-the-art visualization techniques, including scalable visualization algorithms and software, data management, cluster/cloud-based visualization methods and innovate visualization techniques applied to problems in computational science, engineering, and medicine.
Short Biography:
Chris Johnson is the founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah where he is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Physics and Bioengineering. His research interests are in the areas of scientific computing and scientific visualization. Dr. Johnson founded the SCI research group in 1992, which has since grown to become the SCI Institute employing over 200 faculty, staff and students. Professor Johnson serves on several international journal editorial boards, as well as on advisory boards to several national and international research centers. Professor Johnson was awarded a Young Investigator's (FIRST) Award from the NIH in 1992, the NSF National Young Investigator (NYI) Award in 1994, and the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) award from President Clinton in 1995. In 1996 he received a DOE Computational Science Award and in 1997 recevied the Par Excellence Award from the University of Utah Alumni Association and the Presidential Teaching Scholar Award. In 1999, Professor Johnson was Awardedthe Governor's Medal for Science and Technology from Governor Michael Leavitt. In 2003 he received the Distinguished Professor Award from the University of Utah. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and received the Utah Cyber Pioneer Award. In 2010 Professor Johnson received the Rosenblatt Award from the University of Utah and the IEEE Visualization Career Award. In 2012 Professor Johnson received the IEEE IPDPS Charles Babbage Award and in 2013 Professor Johnson received the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award . In 2014, Professor Johnson was elected an IEEE Fellow.
Parasol: An Architecture for Cross-Cloud Federated Graph Querying
Michael D. Lieberman†-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Sutanay Choudhury-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Marisa Hughes-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Dennis Patrone-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Robert T. Hider-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Jr.-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Christine D. Piatko-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Matthew Chapman-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; J. P. Marple-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; David Silberberg-The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory;
PAXQuery: A Massively Parallel XQuery Processor
Jesus Camacho-Rodriguez-Universite Paris-Sud and Inria; Dario Colazzo-Universite Paris-Dauphine; Ioana Manolescu-Inria & Universite Paris-Sud, France
Introducing Data Connectivity in a Big Data Web
Damianos Chatziantoniou - Athens University of Economics; Florents Tselai, Intelen, Inc.
Big-Data Management Use-Case: A Cloud Service for Creating and Analyzing Galactic Merger Trees
Sarah Loebman-University of Michigan; Jennifer Ortiz-University of Washington; Lee Lee Choo-University of Washington; Laurel Orr-University of Washington; Lauren Anderson-University of Washington; Dan Halperin-University of Washington; Magdalena Balazinska-University of Washington; Thomas Quinn-University of Washington; Fabio Governato-University of Washington
Exploring Cloud Opportunities from an Array Database Perspective
Alex Dumitru-Jacobs University Bremen; Vlad Merticariu-Jacobs University Bremen; Peter Baumann-Jacobs University Bremen
"Big Metadata": The Need for Principled Metadata Management in Big Data Ecosystems
Ken Smith-MITRE; Len Seligman-MITRE; Arnon Rosenthal-MITRE; Chris Kurcz-MITRE; Mary Greer-MITRE; Catherine Macheret-MITRE; Michael Sexton-MITRE; Adric Eckstein-MITRE
Data Analysis Systems Demonstrations
In addition, the workshop will feature presentations and demos of six leading systems for large-scale data analysis developed by members of the database community:
Myria - Big Data as a Service
University of Washington, USA
Hyper - A Hybrid OLTP & OLAP High Performance DBMS
TU Munich, Germany
Stratosphere - Next generation Big Data Analytics Platform
TU Berlin, Germany
Spark/BDAS - The Berkeley Data Analytics Stack
University of California, Berkeley, USA
AsterixDB - Big Data Management System
UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego - USA
REEF - The Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework
08:30 - 10:00 Session 1: Keynote Speech & "Gong show"
08:30 - 10:00 Keynote Talk: Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis, Speaker: Chris Johnson, Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and Distinguished Professor at School of Computing, University of Utah (www.sci.utah.edu)
10:00 - 10:30 "Gong show:" 5-minute teaser of all papers accepted at the workshop (at the same order as they appear in the program)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 2: Research Paper presentations
Research Paper: "Parasol: An Architecture for Cross-Cloud Federated Graph Querying", Michael D. Lieberman, Sutanay Choudhury, Marisa Hughes, Dennis Patrone, Robert T. Hider, Jr., Christine D. Piatko, Matthew Chapman, J. P. Marple, David Silberberg
Research Paper: "Introducing Data Connectivity in a Big Data Web", Damianos Chatziantoniou, Florents Tselai
Research Paper: "Big Metadata: The Need for Principled Metadata Management in Big Data Ecosystems", Ken Smith, Len Seligman, Arnon Rosenthal, Chris Kurcz, Mary Greer, Catherine Macheret, Michael Sexton, Adric Eckstein
Research Paper: "Exploring Cloud Opportunities from an Array Database Perspective", Alex Dumitru, Vlad Merticariu, Peter Baumann
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00 Session 3: Research Paper & Systems Presentations
Research Paper: "PAXQuery: A Massively Parallel XQuery Processor", Jesus Camacho-Rodriguez, Dario Colazzo, Ioana Manolescu
Research Paper: "Big-Data Management Use-Case: A Cloud Service for Creating and Analyzing Galactic Merger Trees", Sarah Loebman, Jennifer Ortiz, Lee Lee Choo, Laurel Orr, Lauren Anderson, Daniel Halperin, Magdalena Balazinska, Thomas Quinn, Fabio Governato
System Presentation: Myria (http://myria.cs.washington.edu/), presented by Daniel Halperin (University of Washington, USA)
System Presentation: Hyper (http://hyper-db.de/) presented by Tobias Muehlbauer (TU Munich, Germany)
15:30 - 17:00 Session 4: Systems Presentations
System Presentation: Stratosphere (http://stratosphere.eu/), presented by Sebastian Schelter (TU Berlin, Germany)
System Presentation: Spark/BDAS (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/software/), presented by Evan Sparks (AMPLab, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
System Presentation: Asterix (http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/), presented by Till Westmann (Oracle Labs, USA)
System Presentation: Reef (http://www.reef-project.org/), presented by Konstantinos Karanasos (Microsoft Research - CISL)
Areas of particular interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to):
Parallel execution and optimization
Scalable storage and indexing
Infrastructures for cloud computing
Scalable machine learning
Frameworks for parallel computing
Industrial experiences and use cases
Benchmarking, tuning, and testing
Privacy and security in the cloud
Economic models for data
Data management and analytics as a service
All papers should be submitted in pdf and formatted using the double-column ACM format (templates are available here).
The workshop solicits:
vision papers
industrial experience
All papers should clearly mark their type (research/vision/industrial, etc.) in the paper title and should not exceed 4 pages.
Papers should be submitted using the conference management system: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DANAC2014
Submission deadline: April 7 April 11, 2014, 19:00 (PST)
Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2014
Final papers due: May 27, 2014
Workshop: June 22, 2014
PC chairs:
Shivnath Babu
Asterios Katsifodimos
Kostas Tzoumas
Till Westmann (Oracle Labs, USA)
Jens Dittrich (Saarland University, Germany)
Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz (QCRI, Qatar)
Eric Sedlar (Oracle Labs, USA)
Russell Sears (Microsoft Research, USA)
Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Frank McSherry (Microsoft Research, USA)
Alkis Polyzotis (University of California - Santa Cruz, USA)
Hakan Hacigumus (NEC Labs, USA)
Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS, France)
Chris Re (Stanford University, USA)
Ant Rowstron (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
Konstantinos Karanasos (IBM Almaden, USA)
Stratos Idreos (Harvard University, USA)
Ioana Manolescu (INRIA Saclay & Université Paris-Sud, France)
Spyros Blanas (Ohio State University, USA)
The proceedings of DanaC 2014 can be found in the ACM Digital Library.
DanaC 2013: www.danac.org/2013/ , DanaC 2012: www.danac.org/2012/


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I'm straight and/or cisgender. Is it really ok to speak up for a group that I am not a part of?
Not only is it ok, but your support is welcome and very much needed. The unique "outsider" voice of allies is powerful and carries credibility. It can help draw attention to and raise awareness about the issues that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people face each day. Speaking up and acknowledging, through words and actions, that all individuals deserve to be respected and treated fairly makes other people take notice and gives them the confidence to follow your lead.
Why should people be interested in issues facing lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, and queer people?
To achieve equality, LGBTQ+ people need the help of allies. When we work together, we can affect great change. We've heard all kinds of reasons about why people are allies. Some people have LGBTQ+ friends and want to make things better for them. Others have realized that discrimination against any group is wrong and needs to be stopped. Some believe that, in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" and believe their voices count. Still others want the opportunity to change history.
What are the issues LGBTQ+ people face anyway?
Many of us know about hot-button issues such as marriage equality, bathroom bans, and anti-LGBTQ+ bullying. But LGBTQ+ people often face a number of obstacles simply because of who they are. Many are concerned about being rejected by their families and friends, are worried about their physical and emotional safety, and are afraid of being rejected from their places of worship. LGBTQ+ people can still legally be denied employment, housing, and other rights in many states which can cause stress as well as unnecessary financial burdens. If you want to keep up to date on some of these issues Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.
If I get involved in Straight for Equality, will people think I'm LGBTQ+?
Maybe – and we know that this can be an uncomfortable reality at first. In response, you can clarify that you are straight and/or cisgender, leave the question unanswered, or lead with why it is important to you to identify and take action, as an ally. This experience can offer a valuable perspective into the challenges LGBTQ+ people deal with all the time. Working through any anxiety you may have, and being able to have a good laugh about it, will give you the confidence and the tools to have a deeper discussion with others about the issue. Check out the guide to being a straight ally (fourth edition) for some suggestions on how to overcome this discomfort and anxiety.
What if I encounter a negative reaction to "coming out" as an ally?
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How do I become more comfortable talking about people who are LGBTQ+ and issues regarding sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression – particularly with my children?
The more you know, the more comfortable you will be if you ever need to speak up after hearing an anti-LGBTQ+ joke or comment. Education also helps you provide constructive and factual criticism of common arguments against equality that you may hear. Use some of our resources, such as our Glossary of Terms, the guide to being a straight ally (fourth edition), or the Straight for Equality in Healthcare Guide to learn more. Mental Health America also has a great publication called What Does Gay Mean? available for purchase that helps you find the language to discuss these topics with kids, with specific guidance based on a child's age. You might also consider the American Library Association's Rainbow Book List and Family Equality Council's Book Nook to find age appropriate resources that will help create conversations with your children about diversity, inclusion, and families.
How can Straight for Equality have an impact in my workplace?
Based on the belief that real diversity and inclusion cannot happen without the support and commitment of allies at every level within corporations, Straight for Equality in the Workplace is a series of interactive learning sessions aimed at helping individuals become allies to the LGBTQ+ community. By creating allies, a company takes important steps towards creating a comfortable and inclusive work environment for all. This leads to increased productivity, developing a more inclusive workplace, attracting new talent, and building a dedicated customer base. Check out our available learning options or contact us to find out more and talk about how we can bring this program to where you work.
Do I have to be interested in advocacy or activism to be involved in Straight for Equality?
Straight for Equality is not about advocacy, and the word "ally" doesn't necessarily mean "activist". This program is about empowering allies to support LGBTQ+ people in small and simple ways that can be integrated in their day to day lives. There are simple, everyday things that you can do to help move equality forward. While advocacy work and/or activism are great Straight for Equality focuses on straightforward, non-political actions that you can take to create more welcoming communities for LGBTQ+ people.
If I am interested in advocacy, what should I do?
Please remember that effective advocacy starts at home. So while political engagement is critical, having conversations about why this matters to you is a powerful tool that will help create new advocates.. Also, PFLAG National offers a number of online resources useful for advocates of any level and can connect you with a chapter in your area if you're interested in bringing the message of Straight for Equality to your community. You can also visit PFLAG's Online Advocacy Center. In just a few minutes, you can sign up to get Action Alerts, learn more about key legislation, and even contact your elected officials.
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If you still haven't found what you're looking for, please contact the Straight for Equality team or send an email to [email protected] today. We're always happy to hear from you!
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Today's got me thinking about beginnings.
We're still in the beginning of the Liturgical Calendar. We've started a brand new year. It opens with Advent – a time of preparation. What a great way to start the year! By preparing to receive Jesus into our lives anew.
And speaking of beginnings, we're preparing to receive Jesus – not as the Crucified or Resurrected Savior, but as a little Baby. So we're spending a lot of time thinking about the beginning of His life on earth.
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Now, to today's solemnity: The Immaculate Conception. Mary's beginning.
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She was conceived completely without stain of sin. And she remained that way her entire life!
I can imagine just what a special child she must have been. A true and constant joy to her parents.
One more beginning. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. We heard about them in the first reading. Eve, too, like Mary, was created without stain of sin.
But Eve didn't remain that way. No, she chose to turn her back to God.
Whereas Mary spent her entire life saying "Yes" to God, Eve didn't seem to waste much time in entering into disobedience. She totally blew it for the rest of us, right?
Thanks be to God for bringing good out of evil. For raising up a new Eve. An Eve who would cling to her innocence, her purity, her obedience and love for God. An Eve who would bear His very Son into the world, to right the wrong of the original Eve. To kick-off our salvation.
All these pure beginnings are very contrasted to my own beginning. Conceived with the stain of original sin. Born that way.
But where Eve slid from purity to evil, God has granted me the grace, through Baptism, to move in the reverse direction. I was brought into this broken earth with a stained soul. But through Baptism, I was restored to God's grace. Welcomed into His family.
Unfortunately, I've continued to be more like Eve than like Mary. I've relapsed into disobedience. I've turned my back on God and said "No" to His plan.
But God's always willing to give me the opportunity for a new beginning. Every time I go to confession, He lifts my out of my deprivation. He carries me back to the top of the mountain. He restores me with His grace.
And now, in this beginning of the Liturgical Year, as I prepare to celebrate the feast of Christmas – the beginning of Jesus' life on this earth, I have another opportunity for a new beginning.
I have the opportunity to receive Jesus into my life all over again. To welcome Him into my heart. To turn my life around. To say more "Yes"es, like Mary, and less "No"s.
Dear Jesus, create in me a new beginning. Restore me once again to You. Help me to live a pure life, filled with love and obedience to You.
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Whitefish is among the many Montana ski towns with more to offer than just their snowy slopes.
The perfect ski vacation is not just about the number of trails a resort has, but also the environment and charm of the destination. Montana ski towns are known for their friendly and laid-back lifestyles, each with its own unique personality to discover between runs. From fun-for-the-whole-family excursions to a night out on the town, these Montana mountain towns offer winter travelers everything they could want for their next ski getaway.
Located just a short drive from Glacier National Park in northwest Montana, Whitefish perfectly combines its reputation as a world-class ski destination and charming small town. Consistently named a top ski town (USA Today and Ski magazine to name a few) Whitefish Mountain Resort has been around since 1947 and has gained notoriety for its world-class skiing and laid-back vibe as well as its deep powder and lack of lift lines. Once you are done carving the powder on the mountain, head into town to experience a cozy meal at Wasabi or share a piece of pie at legendary Loula's café. Then take a stroll through shops on your way to The Great Northern Brewery Company and swap your day's adventures with the locals.
The town of Big Sky is the perfect place for travelers looking for an outdoor adventure. Known as "The little town that's next to everything," Big Sky is just a quick drive from both Yellowstone National Park and Big Sky Resort, one of the top ski destinations in the country. Residents are notably outdoorsy and love to share their passion with visitors, from cross-country skiing through the sprawling backcountry, to tackling the mountain's most challenging slopes. It wouldn't be uncommon to have a moose or another wildlife sighting as you are traversing through the powder. Once off the mountain, make sure to get a taste of the state at Beehive Basin Brewery, which opened in 2015 and has quickly become a fan favorite. Or for a romantic evening out, Everett's 8800 is an elegant, rustic restaurant located at the top of Andesite Mountain where visitors can toast to their good fortune in view of the sweeping mountain landscape and passing chairlifts. This mountain village is only a short drive from Big Sky Resort and is the perfect blend of luxury and country.
Red Lodge is a classic Montana ski experience and quite possibly the coolest ski town you've never heard of. Located on the eastern front of the Beartooth Mountain Range, you won't find many non-skiers in this quintessential town. Many come to Red Lodge for its classic ski experience, but stay to explore the towns charm and Western hospitality. This is a can't-miss destination for travelers who want a backcountry. Red Lodge is the only town that you can ski the in the summer on the Beartooth Pass and once you pack up your gear you can follow the pass to the Top of the World while experience epic views any time of the year.
The best ski destinations are lively towns, and there are few spots that are livelier than Missoula. Montana's third largest city has a great mixture of vibes that lends itself to dive bars and local hangouts to an upper scale night on the town. Just a short drive into the mountains is Montana Snowbowl, a steep and quick-paced ski area that rewards seasoned skiers with several of old-fashioned and challenging runs. For visitors looking to experience the town atmosphere after their last run of the day, Charlie's Bar is the spot to go for a drink, offering a traditional western style and a rich history. In the morning, stop at The Shack for a stack of huckleberry pancakes drizzled in sweet maple syrup then head off to explore iconic places such as The Roxy and Wilma or a nice river stroll through downtown.
Bozeman is the right choice for skiers looking for a laid-back vacation. Located just 30-minutes from downtown is Bridger Bowl Ski Area and a little over an hour is Big Sky Resort. Off the slopes, Bozeman is a relaxed and walkable town offering a variety of local breweries including Montana Ale Works, a popular after-hours entertainment destination. An iconic symbol in the town is the Hotel Baxter and the infamous blue light that blinks on top to alert locals of new snow falling on the mountain. The light has been guiding skiers for 20 years.


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TV Bits: Showtime Offers 'Homeland' Teaser And 'Dexter' Photo, Plus: 'American Horror Story', 'Sons Of Anarchy', Lizzy Caplan, Yvonne Strahovski, And More
By Angie Han/June 12, 2012 1:30 pm EST
Showtime is generating much of the exciting news this time around. We have glimpses of Homeland Season 2 and Dexter Season 7, a bit of Dexter guest casting that may intrigue Chuck fans, and word on new Showtime dramas featuring Lizzy Caplan, Martin Sheen, and Liev Schreiber.
Meanwhile, over at FX, Ashley Tisdale boards Sons of Anarchy, while Joseph Fiennes circles an American Horror Story role. Hit the jump for more of everything.
The Homeland teaser is short and foreboding, but sadly lacking in any new footage:
[via Screen Crush]
Homeland returns for its second season on Sunday, September 30.
The new Dexter photo is a little more revealing and spoiler-y if you're not caught up on Season 6. It confirms what we already suspected about Season 7 picking up exactly where the last finale left off.
Yeah, shockingly, Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) doesn't look so thrilled that her brother-turned-crush (Michael C. Hall) has turned out to be a murderer. Exec producer Scott Buck promises that the series won't tread lightly when it comes to the serious drama that that plot twist raises.
"Viewers might think we shy away from that moment of Debra walking in and seeing Dexter stabbing into Travis' chest, but it's just the opposite," he told TV Guide. "She now has to deal with what she's seen and what she knows. And it forces him to defend and define himself." He then added, "We're not shying away from those feelings of hers, either."
And as always, the new season will see Miami's most lovable serial killer dealing with a few new faces. Among them will be Chuck actress Yvonne Strahovski, who's just signed on for a multi-episode arc as "Hannah McKay, a strong, independent woman with a past that she's struggled to put behind her. As a turn of events leads Miami Metro Homicide to ask for her help in solving some old cases, Dexter works with her and begins to wonder if there's more to this woman than she's professed."
Strahovski joins fellow newcomers Jason Gedrick, Ray Stevenson, and Katia Winter. Dexter's seventh season kicks off September 30. [TV Line]
Dexter's likely to bow out after his eighth season in 2013, but with any luck, by that point we'll have some fresh titles to replace the gap in our Showtime viewing schedules. The network has just picked up two promising high-end dramas, both of which are slated to debut in 2013.
The first is Masters of Sex, which stars Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen as real-life sex research pioneers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. The couple began working together in 1956, when she was hired as his assistant, and eventually got married in 1971 before divorcing in 1993, so there's already plenty of tension and drama built right into the premise. I'll be watching this one, if only because I absolutely adore Sheen and Caplan.
The other is Ray Donovan, about a Hollywood fixer who — get this — can't fix himself. Specifically, Liev Schreiber plays a man who struggles with his own family troubles while cleaning up the lives of others. The series comes from Ann Biderman, who previously created the acclaimed Southland.
Between Scary Movie 5 and that (failed) Louis C.K.-produced CBS pilot, Ashley Tisdale's been working hard lately to move beyond her Disney image. And her latest gig may be about as far from her High School Musical days as she can possibly get. Tisdale has just landed a multi-episode guest role on Season 5 of FX's Sons of Anarchy, in which she'll play a high-end escort named Emma Jean who "complicates the club's life."
Kurt Sutter's biker drama has been picking up some noteworthy guest stars for its upcoming fifth season, including Jimmy Smits and Harold Perrineau. Sons of Anarchy will return this fall.
And speaking of intriguing FX casting: EW reports that Joseph Fiennes is in talks to join American Horror Story as a series regular, playing the "tortured" head of the institution where the second season takes place. His character will be Jessica Lange's boss and lover, as the pair strike up a May-December romance that I'm sure will definitely have a happy, healthy ending.
The report calls Fiennes "the final major piece of casting," so we expect this'll be the last high-profile name to board the project. The Season 2 cast already includes returning actors Lange, Zachary Quinto, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters, and Sarah Paulson, as well as newcomers James Cromwell, Adam Levine, and Chloë Sevigny. American Horror Story will mark a reunion for Fiennes and series creator Ryan Murphy; Fiennes has previously starred in Murphy's (shelved) 2007 pilot Pretty Handsome and his feature directorial effort Running With Scissors.


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Suicidal Tendencies Album with Bassist Ra Diaz Released
by News Team Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
California hardcore punk band Suicidal Tendencies has released its first studio album in three years, World Gone Mad.
The album, the band's twelfth studio album, includes Ra Diaz (Drogatones, Tiro de Gracia and Ritmo Machine) on bass. Diaz talked about his career and joining Suicidal Tendencies on No Treble in July.
The lineup also includes frontman Mike 'Cyco Miko' Muir, and Slayer co-founder Dave Lombardo on drums. Guitarist Jeff Pogan is also a new member.
Almost 35 years on as a band, Suicidal Tendencies still plays hard. Check out the "Get Your Fight On!" teaser:
World Gone Mad is available on CD, vinyl and as a digital download (iTunes and Amazon MP3).
World Gone Mad Track List:
Clap Like Ozzy
The New Degeneration
Living for Life
Get Your Fight On!
World Gone Mad!
Happy Never After
One Finger Salute
Still Dying to Live
This World
Related Topics: Ra Diaz, Suicidal Tendencies
Korn Announces Touring Bassist
Charlie Benante, Alex Skolnick, Brandon Yeagley, and Ra Diaz: Red Barchetta
Rancid Announces Fall Tour Dates
Great album. Easily the best crossover I've heard in years and Dave + Ra make for a killer rhythm section. The highlight track for me is The New Degeneration.


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ATLAS is a new high-energy physics (HEP) detector built by an international community of researchers and located at CERN just outside Geneva. ATLAS is big, global, and exciting. Together with three other detectors, it forms an integral part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a project that, because of the much higher particle-collision energies and production rates it achieves compared to existing accelerators, opens up challenging new frontiers in particle physics. This chapter presents background material on the ATLAS Collaboration that will help to clarify the chapters that follow. It briefly describes the ATLAS detector and the role it will play in the LHC experiments. It also offers a jargon-free outline of some of the physics that underpins the experiments and the technical challenges that had to be overcome. The history and the organization of the ATLAS Collaboration are also presented, as are its relationships with the host laboratory, CERN, and with the many firms and institutions that helped to build the detector.
Drawing on four short case studies of how the ATLAS collaboration selects and works with its suppliers, this chapter highlights some of the issues involved. First it briefly outlines and discusses ATLAS's supplier selection process. It then presents a conceptual framework that helps categorize ATLAS suppliers. Finally, it presents the four cases and interprets them using both the framework and the I-Space. The chapter concludes by asking to what extent ATLAS's experience with its suppliers can be of use to other organizations.
This chapter draws on the results of a survey to look at what external suppliers get out of their interactions with the ATLAS Collaboration. The detector is a source of 'stretch goals' for the firms that supply its components, allowing the collaboration to present itself as a 'lead user' of innovative goods and services provided by these firms. In short, ATLAS acts as a stimulus to organization learning by its suppliers and helps them to build up the social capital necessary to profit from it.
With the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-energy physics (HEP) community appears to be putting all its eggs in one basket. The choice is framed by opponents as being between a single uncertain and risky Big Science project and several smaller, less risky, and more immediately useful ones. Many physicists assume that their discipline is in some sense foundational and generative of other kinds of knowledge. In the philosophy of science, this assumption has a name: reductionism. It is by no means universally shared. The stakes are high and getting higher as the scale of physics experiments increases and the competition for scarce research resources intensifies. There is a need for a more nuanced understanding of what the pay-offs of this kind of research might be and for whom. This book offers different perspectives on how these issues play out; not at the broad level of HEP, but at the more concrete level of one of the four major experiments that will use the LHC: the ATLAS Collaboration. A number of management scholars as well as participants in the ATLAS Collaboration came together to explore the different organizational, institutional, and cultural issues confronting an experiment like ATLAS. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Given its institutional setting and its history, the ATLAS Collaboration is inevitably a multidimensional project. In addition to fulfilling clearly defined scientific goals, one of its other related aims is to preserve and promote the open and international character of its scientific ethos. This could be described as a political aim. The birth in the 17th century of scientific institutions such as the Royal Society in England and the Académie des Sciences in France was also in part motivated by a need to allow Europe's emerging scientific culture to cross national, religious, and political boundaries. CERN, and with it ATLAS, are thus defending well-established and core scientific values. How might living up to these values show up in the way that the work of building the detector is allocated to the 174 institutes drawn from different countries participating in the collaboration? This chapter explores the issue by focusing on the participation of one country: Russia.
This chapter describes the contribution that the ATLAS Collaboration is making to the emerging cultures and practices of e-science. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have played a crucial enabling role in the development and operation of the ATLAS detector. Beyond making possible the simulation of progressively elaborate models of the detector itself and providing data-processing resources for the detection, recording, and analysis of particle-collision data, the new ICTs have provided the infrastructure needed for the coordination of a complex scientific ecosystem spread around the globe. The chapter looks at how ATLAS and the other Large Hadron Collider experiments, through their roles as lead users of these new ICTs, are changing the way that science is done.
This chapter attempts to place ATLAS in its wider societal setting. Knowledge-for-its-own-sake may be what scientists aspire to maximize, yet knowledge-for-benefits is the constraint that they are required to work under if they are to continue to get funding. Given the rapid growth of investments in science, and the scale of individual projects such as the Large Hadron Collider, it is not enough to show that they satisfy the constraint. They now also have to show that they satisfy it better than competing alternatives. At the energies that the collider will generate, most physicists are expecting to see new particles appear, and these should give theorists enough to chew on for some years to come. But the non-physicist will ask, what are the options created by ATLAS and its associated experiments at the LHC actually worth? What new territory do they open up for the rest of us?
This chapter focuses on the constraints affecting the ATLAS Collaboration's procurement processes. The construction of ATLAS is an industrial-scale undertaking, and the collaboration therefore has to turn to industry for help. In so far as it avails itself of CERN's procurement services to help manage its interactions with external players, it is constrained to follow its procedures, which, unsurprisingly, given that the laboratory is a public entity, are fairly detailed and bureaucratic. The competitive processes presupposed by CERN's procurement procedures, however, do not always square with the more open and cooperative relationships that the ATLAS Collaboration seeks to establish with its suppliers in order to confront the technical uncertainties that it encounters. Through three mini case studies, the chapter explores the issue and puts forward a way of addressing it.
The ATLAS experiment at CERN, having entered the operational phase in September 2008, is designed to run for fifteen to twenty years. In terms of its aims, its sheer size, its complexity, and the number of scientists involved, it is one of the most challenging scientific enterprises ever undertaken. What is the nature of this enterprise? The ATLAS detector itself can be thought of as a giant measuring instrument that interposes itself between the experimenter and the phenomenal world. Much of an experimenter's time is devoted to tending the instrument in collaboration with others. This tending process has been described as care of the self. Such care, when undertaken collectively, is dependent upon the effective flow of information and knowledge between the different groups inside the collaboration that are responsible for the 'caring'. Since information and knowledge flows constitute the lifeblood of all organizational processes — the focus in this book — this chapter presents a conceptual framework, the Information-Space or I-Space, that helps with the exploration the nature of these knowledge and information flows in the chapters that follow.


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BMW's Concept Active Tourer proves that MPVs can be sexy
One of the highlights of this year's Paris Motor Show will be this, BMW's first foray into the MPV sector – the Concept Active Tourer. It's a front-wheel drive plug-in hybrid, shorter in length than an X1, but around as wide as a 5 Series.
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I love this image. It's from last weekend's Intercontinental Le Mans Challenge (ILMC) 6-hour race at Silverstone and depicts a meeting of two generations of Le Mans Audis – the current R18 TDI and R8C from 1999.
Audi celebrates Le Mans victory with Limited Edition R8 V8 Coupe
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Chromed R8 Spyder to be auctioned for Elton John AIDS Foundation
If you thought the standard Audi R8 Spyder wasn't showy enough, then this could be the car for you. Created by Audi UK and donated for auction at the White Tie and Tiara Ball, this Gumbal-ready R8 Spyder is bound to create something of a stir out on the roads.
Audi raises the roof with its R8 GT Spyder
The most extreme version of Audi's R8 has gained (or lost, depending on your perspective) further appeal with a new soft-top Spyder variant of the R8 GT. Using the same 552 bhp V10 FSI powerplant as its hard-top sibling, the GT Spyder will be delivered to just 66 lucky customers in the UK out of a worldwide production of 333 units.
Audi reveals the A1 Quattro
Audi is currently testing a development installation of its quattro drivetrain in the sub-compact A1, bringing all-wheel-drive to this segment for the first time. As it gets to grip with the freezing Canadian conditions, Audi choose the opportunity to reveal its plans for its newest model in the range.
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Audi launches a new online 'heritage showroom'
Audi fans can now take a trip down memory lane through the brand's 100-year history with the new heritage section on its audi.co.uk website. Visitors to the site can take in the sights of iconic Audi cars, observe Vorsprung durch Technik in action, re-live the thrills and spills of the brand's motorsport record, and explore how four companies became one.