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Q: Data from POST is being ignored by Django I'm having trouble with a form related issue where the data from a POST is clearly being sent back, but Django is stripping it out so that it won't go into my form class.
Here are some code snippets from my class's post() that show the data is being returned from the template and then how the data is not making it through the form class filtering.
Why is this happening?
What is the harm with me taking the data directly from the POST and not using the built-in form class filtering?
print(request.POST)

Yields this:
<QueryDict: {'book': ['Zippity do dah,'], 'weather': ["It's raining!"], 'dividend': ['Zippity aye!'], 'earnings': ['Yo man, one step at a time.'], 'csrfmiddlewaretoken': ['3MWFOwebVeYfCum8JaGvITRB542b3jbp']}>

and
main_form = self.main_form_class(request.POST)
print('\n','main_form: ',main_form)

Yields this:
main_form:
weather:	<input id="id_weather" maxlength="256" name="weather" size="36" type="text" />

book:	<input id="id_book" maxlength="256" name="book" size="36" type="text" />

dividend:	<input id="id_dividend" maxlength="256" name="dividend" size="36" type="text" />

earnings:	<input id="id_earnings" maxlength="256" name="earnings" size="36" type="text" />

csrfmiddlewaretoken:	<input id="id_csrfmiddlewaretoken" maxlength="256" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken" size="36" type="text" />

You can see that no 'values' are being included in main_form.
main_form.is_valid() is never True

main_form.cleaned_data throws an error - if I pull it out in front of main_form.is_valid()

Help!
OK - here is some more of the code:
I have a sub-class that has a form that is not returning data from a POST request. The super-class also has a form and this IS returning data from the same POST request. That is to say that the super-class is requesting user input and there are several sub-classes that extend the super-class and request other data. The super-class always returns the data from it's part of the form, but the subclasses do not.
The subclasses return data in the POST, but the data doesn't make it back to the Django view. This seems like a bug, (but perhaps it's a feature) or another likely scenario is that I'm missing something. However, I cannot find it.
A solution might be to have no super-class and just have a very non-DRY program. Yuck.
I've put in a few print() to terminal commands to look at what is coming back (or not coming back) to verify this.
I have also used my browser's Developer Tools to see that the POST does, in fact, have the necessary data in it that should be returned to the view for processing. However, this data does not make it back to the view.
The sub-class view code looks like this:
class MainView(SidebarBaseView):
  main_form_class = MainViewForm
  template_name = 'myapp/my_view.html'

  def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    context = super(MainView, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)
    context.update(self.get_context_data(*args, **kwargs))
    main_form_initial = {}
    for detail in context['my_data']: # my_data comes from get_context_data()
      field_name = detail.datatype.name
      main_form_initial[field_name] = detail.note

    main_form = self.main_form_class(initial=main_form_initial)
    context['main_form'] = main_form
    return render(request, self.template_name, context)

  def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    context = super(MainView, self).post(request, *args, **kwargs)
    context.update(self.get_context_data(*args, **kwargs))
    main_form = self.main_form_class(request.POST)

    print('\n','main_form',main_form,'\n') #to terminal

    if main_form.is_valid():
      main_form_data = main_form.cleaned_data

      print('\n', 'cleaned data', main_form_data, '\n') #to terminal

      for detail in context['my_data']:
        field_name = detail.datatype.name
        detail.note = main_form_data[field_name]
        detail.save()

    main_form_initial = {}
    for detail in context['my_data']:
      field_name = detail.datatype.name
      main_form_initial[field_name] = detail.note

    main_form = self.main_form_class(initial=main_form_initial)
    context['main_form'] = main_form

    return render(request, self.template_name, context)

  def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
    context = super(CompanyStatsView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
    ...
    return context

My form make dynamic fields since I need to send it a variable number of fields eventually:
class MyMainViewForm(forms.Form):
  fields = {}
  field_names = ['weather','book','dividend','earnings']
  def __init__(self, field_names, *args, **kwargs):
    super(MyMainViewForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    for name in field_names:
      self.fields[name] = forms.CharField(label=name, max_length=256, required=False, widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size':'36'}))

My template looks like this:
{% extends 'my_sidebar.html' %}
{% block content_right %}

Table

        {% for detail in my_data %}

            {{ detail.datatype.full_name }}:
            {{ detail }}

        {% endfor %}

        <form action="." method="post"> {% csrf_token %}
          {% for note in main_form %}

            {{ note }}

          {% endfor %}

<input type="submit" value="Save">

        </form>

{% endblock %}

Any ideas?
The pertinent part of urls.py is:
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views

app_name = 'my_app'
urlpatterns = [
  url(r'^(?P<slug>[A-Z]+)/data/$', views.MainView.as_view(), name='main-view',),
...
]

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When we ask God to provide for us 'our daily bread' what are we really asking for? The story from Exodus illustrates one aspect of the concept for our daily bread. God's people were upset with Moses and his brother Aaron. They were in the middle of the desert and there wasn't any food around. God heard their cries and he said to Moses that he would provide quail in the evening and manna in the morning. By providing for the Israelites they would know that God was with them.
"Give us this day our daily bread," we pray in the Lord's Prayer. It sounds simple enough and on one level it is quite simple. On another it is not. However, we look at it praying this prayer takes real faith.
Daily bread is a common phrase in Scripture, whether in the story of the Exodus or as we find in Proverbs 30:8– "Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread." The spirit of daily bread has been used by twelve-step groups of our era, with the admirable philosophy of life that says, "one day at a time". In the prayer, we are asking God to provide for our needs as he sees them, a day at a time.
However, does this prayer stop at the physical need for bread? Or is there something more. Bread was and still is a staple food. It represents the basic need for food that we all have. It could also refer to our necessities in general. We have been praying about the kingdom of God and the glory of God; yet here we are focusing on humanity. Is it just our food for which we are asking, or are we asking for more?
Clearly, whether Jesus' words here mean food specifically or other things in addition, his words imply our needs and not our wants. One way of looking at it is that Jesus is talking about bread, not peanut butter and jam!
The question I would put to you, is should we be relying on God for our needs, as the ancient Israelites did? 'Daily' bread used to be a given, before the invention of refrigerators and freezers. Going to the market for food was a daily event. You could only keep food for a day or two before it would go bad. However, with modern technology that doesn't happen much anymore. We have tended to lose the 'dailyness' of our reliance on God.
Let's examine these words a little closer; "Give us this day our daily bread." It's a collective request, one which regards the needs of not only the self but also of the community. But the real focus here is on the word 'day' as in today. We aren't asking for tomorrow's food, we are asking for today. But we've already acknowledged that there is more than just a request for food here. When we pray this prayer, we may consider that Jesus was encouraging us to ask for ordinary bread and for the bread of life, the bread of salvation.
It boils down to this, when we pray "Give us this day our daily bread" we are acknowledging our complete and utter dependence on God. Well as the saying goes that's easier said than done. Why? Well we tend to be fiercely independent people. We don't care to admit that we are reliant on someone or something else. A large part of the population won't even admit they were created by a Holy God. Which reminds me of a church sign, it read "God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore atheists don't exist." Friends we tend to think of ourselves as self-made people, who have pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps and that our successes are the result of our own hard work.
Giving is God's delight. All he wants is for us to ask him! The Lord will provide for us. Do you believe in a God like that this morning? Do you believe that God will provide for every need you have, just as he did for the hungry, wandering Israelites?
It takes real faith! I once heard a definition of faith that went, "Faith is taking a big frying pan and a camera with you when you go fishing." During a drought, a country pastor called the congregation together to pray for rain. As he stood at the door greeting people he remarked with disappointment how little faith people had. Not one of them had brought an umbrella along.
As a society we tend to walk more by sight than by faith. Our temptation is to do as the Israelites did and horde all the food. We don't trust that God will provide our daily needs. We pray 'give us this day our daily bread' and then store a weeks worth. Now I'm not saying don't save, and I'm not saying don't prepare for the future. And I'm not talking about the amount of bread you have in the freezer. When we pray 'Give us today our daily bread' we are acknowledging that everything we have has been provided by God.
If we take a different look at the prayer, suggesting that it deals with eternity. Then we could ask, "Do I believe that God has made eternal provision for me because I have prayed this prayer." When we pray the Lord's Prayer it is assumed that we are praying it with the knowledge of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. "Give us this day our daily bread," God desires to answer that prayer for each of us, for today, tomorrow and eternity. And answer it He will, when we trust his Son as Saviour and Lord. After all, not all our daily bread is food. Jesus said that we shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. God knows that our daily bread involves feeding on his word, the bread of life. God honours our prayer by giving us the daily bread of faith. When we pray these words we are submitting ourselves in total reliance to God and that friends is difficult. It's difficult to give up total control in our lives.
If you are starting to think that the Lord's Prayer is a little more involved than you first realized, hold onto your pew. Let's take a look at "And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." The passage we read from Matthew this morning illustrates the point rather well. This part of the Lord's Prayer is perhaps the most difficult for us to accomplish for several reasons.
The word 'debts' can have several other words substituted for it. The most common are trespasses and sins. Let's talk about sin. We've all done it, we've all sinned. I don't pretend to be without sin, and I don't imagine any of us should. That is why we need to pray these words in the Lord's Prayer. "And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debts." None of us are immune to doing wrong in the sight of a holy God.
For most people this is the hardest part of the Lord's Prayer to pray. What it really says is this: 'God deal with me as I deal with others.' Our sins are those things we do wrong or fail to get right against God and others. Most items that we consider sins are covered by the Ten Commandments. Now, most of us do pretty well in that category. Our sins are those things we do that are outside God's will. The Anglican Church's general confession in The Book of Common Prayer puts it like this, "We have offended against thy holy laws, We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, And we have done those things which we ought not to have done, And there is no health in us." That final phrase 'and there is no health in us' says how broken we are before God until we come clean and confess our sin before him. So it is when we pray the Lord's Prayer that we ask God to forgive us in the same way that we forgive others.
In our reading from Matthew Jesus ends by saying, "So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart." Those are some tough words considering what was said a verse earlier, where the master has the servant put in jail and tortured for not forgiving another servant as he had been forgiven.
Receiving forgiveness is important. Without it, we can feel tortured or haunted by memories. Worse still, we can be separated from the fullest, deepest fellowship with God – that is, we can't experience complete forgiveness until we repent. Repentance is what is required of us, whether asking the forgiveness of God or asking the forgiveness of another.
Think about it this way. If I stepped on your toe and said 'Sorry!' and then I stepped on your toe again and said 'Sorry!', and then I stepped on your toe a third time and said 'Sorry!', how repentant am I? And how willing to forgive will you be? Real forgiveness comes about as the result of true repentance.
Repentance literally means to turn around and walk the other way. It's a 180-degree change. That's what turning away from sin is all about. Until we are ready to repent, we keep God from working in our lives as deeply as he could.
But the prayer says that we will be forgiven 'as we forgive our debtors." Literally, that asks God to forgive us as we have forgiven people who have messed up with us. In other words, we are asking God to forgive us in the same way, after the same manner, as we have already forgiven others. This is where it really gets hard!
Each of us probably knows the phrase, "I don't get made, I get even." How does that look in light of the Lord's Prayer? Yet, the effort at forgiving is energy well spent. As we forgive, we open the door to allow others to come to us for reconciliation. That is not always easy.
To forgive is to cease to feel resentment against an offender. If you don't forgive, you give your enemy power over you. We don't like to believe that anyone except God has real power over us. But if we hold a grudge against someone, whether we realize it or not, that person really does hold power over us. We don't want to be in contact with that person. We don't want a confrontation, so we stay away from otherwise fun and interesting events because we want to avoid that person. Forgiveness does not concede defeat – the offender can still be wrong, and we can still forgive. Forgiving makes us more spiritually mature.
Now the Lord's Prayer doesn't say anything about the atonement for our sins, because at that point the death of Christ had not yet occurred. Only then would the disciples realize that forgiveness from God was a free gift offered because Jesus dies on the cross and rose again to give us new life.
All of this forgiveness is available to the children of God, disciples of Christ who will likewise forgive others who wrong them. It can be difficult, but if we are willing to forgive then in turn we will be forgiven by God. And the debt we owe God is far greater than any debt someone else might owe us. We owe God our lives, because for our sakes he gave the life of his own Son.
One more thing, and it is a little thing: did you notice that this part of the Lord's Prayer starts with the little word 'And'? That links it to the previous statement, in which we ask God for our daily bread. When we think of our need for food, we should also think of our need to forgive and to be forgiven.
We've tackled two of the toughest parts of the Lord's Prayer, asking for our daily bread, recognizing our dependence upon God, and asking for forgiveness, as we would forgive. Two tough petitions found within the Lord's Prayer. It's a hard prayer when you break it down and consider what you are really asking for. And it should make us think twice before praying it. As you pray the Lord's Prayer, make sure you're ready to carry out the actions those words imply. It's a tough prayer, but with God's grace, it can come from our broken hearts and lips and impact us daily as we walk with God and other people. Amen.


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Напад — царь Персиды во второй половине I века.

Напад был  во второй половине I века. Его отец и предшественник на троне — Намбед, а дедом был Артаксеркс II. По одной из версий, имя «Напад» означает «внук». На реверсе монет Напада также присутствуют звезда и полумесяц, однако появляется и бюст священника или правителя (возможно, Намбеда).

Преемником Напада стал Безымянный царь Персиды II.

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Kagoya Ruth, 54 years old and living in Bukonte, is a mother of eight. She has been married for more than 30 years and in that time she has seen her sons and daughters grow up to be teachers, nurses, caterers and diligent students. "Education is important," Ruth says. "Women can be leaders, if they keep going to school." Women in rural Uganda are routinely denied secondary education. They drop out of school to focus on working on the land and being homemakers, in many cases even before marriage. Ruth is participating in our Adult Literacy programme, but that's not all. In November 2016, WIL Uganda reached out to the women in Bukonte with our Rights & Advocacy programme. "There are many challenges for women in Uganda still. Women don't know about their rights and they are still controlled by men," says Ruth. This programme increases their knowledge.
Rehmar, 15, studies at Townside High School. She is a passionate advocate for education and a current member of the Teen Voices programme. "School helps me to know and understand more about the world," says Rehmar. She wants to be a doctor, and aims to achieve this by reading sciences and concentrating on her studies. School is very important to her as she believes that, were she not studying, there would be no good future for her and she would end up getting married at a young age. The Teen Voices programme encourages female students to become leaders in their community, by teaching about gender equality and sharing their voices through articles distributed around the world. "There is nothing a man has that a women does not have," emphasizes Rehmar.


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Foale became an astronaut in 1987. He has spent over 634 hours in space on three spaceflights.
Foale made his first spaceflight in 1992 aboard STS-45. The crew studied the Earth and the Sun during this mission. In 1995, he flew aboard STS-63. Foale made a 4-hour spacewalk during this mission.
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ST. LOUIS (September 23, 2016) – Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT) ("Perficient"), the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000® and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced it will present on deploying and managing Office 365 technologies, as well as demonstrate the company's Rise Intranet-as-a-Service product, at Microsoft Ignite, Sept. 26-30 in Atlanta.
Ignite is Microsoft's largest and most comprehensive technology event, with more than 20,000 technology leaders, IT professionals, and enterprise developers expected. Ignite brings together experts in Azure, Office 365, SharePoint, Skype for Business, and much more.
Perficient's Jason Bell, senior solutions architect, and Ethan Jamrose, technical consultant, will join Julie Seifkas-Marin from global cruise company Royal Caribbean to present Manage and Deploy Office Add-ins and Office 365 Apps on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time in Room A302 of the Georgia World Congress Center. The discussion will help Ignite attendees understand the power of Office 365's centralized deployment features and how Office 365 can be a platform for immersive customer experiences across the full Office suite of applications.
Throughout Ignite, Perficient experts will be on hand at booth No. 2132 to demonstrate Rise, a Perficient product and Intranet-as-a-Service that provides a fully responsive, mobile-ready intranet with industry-proven features that blend effective communications with Office 365 or on-premises SharePoint.
Perficient, a Skype for Business Launch partner, will also have experts discussing the company's approach and experience transitioning global enterprises to Skype for Business through the use of Perficient's project delivery and Microsoft's Skype Operations Framework.
Perficient is one of Microsoft's premier national solution providers and received East Region National Solution Provider (NSP) Partner of the Year and Cloud Partner of the Year, Central Region NSP Partner of the Year, and West Region NSP Partner of the Year honors in 2016 and 2015. With nationally known experts on Office 365, Azure, and Yammer platforms, as well as a deep and rich history in SharePoint, Skype for Business, and Exchange, Perficient enables enterprises to use Microsoft platforms, products, and best practices to connect employees to key communications, to data, and to one another.
For more information on Perficient's expertise in Microsoft technologies across all industries, visit www.perficient.com/Partners/Microsoft. For live updates throughout Ignite, follow Perficient experts at the Perficient Microsoft blog, blogs.perficient.com/Microsoft, and on Twitter @Perficient_MSFT.
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Love at First Slight is lively and entertaining―much fun to read. Thank you, Ms. Croft for this clever re-telling. I highly recommend!
Ms. Croft meticulously gives our beloved characters new life while adding her own unique spin. I loved it.
This is one of those books that is just plain fun.
The author's sharp wit could rival that of Jane Austen, which made the book a pure delight to read.


My friend Ron Kane, who is a fan of my old band MAM has send me his review of yesterday's Scritti gig at The Roxy. Although it was a Dutch band (and singing in Dutch) MAM had a couple of fans in America, LA for example.
Last night, Scritti Politti played The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood.
It was their American debut show, and they said so. I had waited 25+ years to see them.
and "Brushed With Oil Dusted With Powder". The surprises were to hear "The Sweetest Girl" and "Skank Bloc Bologna".
Green's voice was very good, but he said he had a bad cold.
The band was good, the playing very tight – but there was an instance of "Laptop failure" before "Wood Beez" – Green was very funny and chatty – before they played even one note of music he greeted his Los Angeles fans by saying, "We don't play 'perfect Way'" – OK, Green!
There were two opening acts – I do not know what they were called, and it's not my style of music, anyway. They wouldn't let us sit down, "All of the tables are reserved!" – even though nobody was sitting at any of them when I asked (I looked later, maybe 3 of 24 tables had someone sitting at them). At least the ticket was inexpensive!
Scritti Politti play two more shows in the L.A. area – but I probably can't get to either of them. They were also selling T-shirts and buttons, the CD and a poster (Only 210 made!). The T-shirt had the tour dates, I already ordered the CD from Japan (bonus tracks and a DVD!), so I bought the buttons (for the new album) and the poster (autographed).
Ron is huge music fan and a huge music collector. Check him out at Flickr.


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New campaign bringing Aberdeen Together at Christmas launched
3rd Dec '19 · Written by Aberdeen Inspired
A new digital campaign has been launched (Friday November 29) to showcase the magic of 'Aberdeen Together at Christmas'.
Delivered by Business Improvement District Aberdeen Inspired and created by creative production agency Snap Digital, the campaign shines a spotlight on the city centre during the festive period and aims to encourage residents and visitors alike to support local.
Bringing to life the range of activities that can be enjoyed at Christmas , the campaign has been created through collaboration with a number of local businesses and organisations including Melt, John Lewis & Partners Aberdeen, Marischal Square, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Performing Arts, DC Thomson Media , Aberdeen Journals, Original 106, First Bus Aberdeen, Friends of Anchor, Aberdeen City Council and Codona's.
Told through the eyes of a granddaughter being reunited with her grandfather at Christmas, the short film aims to encourage the public to enjoy everything on offer in the city centre during the festive period.
Adrian Watson, Aberdeen Inspired chief executive said: "From our festive Aberdeen Christmas Village to the fantastic Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Performing Arts venues and the many wonderful local businesses and national retailers we have in the city centre, now is the time to support local and enjoy everything on offer on your doorstep.
"There is a need for us to work together to support local and deliver on our aspirations to bring about change and through this 'Aberdeen Together at Christmas' campaign we want to invite people to get behind their city centre and discover it for themselves. We all understand the current challenges to city centres in Aberdeen, which is being felt in towns and cities across Scotland and further afield."
Kelsey Barbour, Aberdeen Inspired digital communications and marketing manager said: "Through this campaign we wanted to capture the hearts and minds of locals and visitors, creating an emotive connection reaffirming their love for Aberdeen. By showcasing the Granite City in a positive light during the festive period, we want people to take pride in their city and get behind the many fantastic local businesses and organisations we are lucky to have in the city centre.
"We were delighted with the number of positive collaborations we made during this campaign, which really shows the impact of working together, truly instilling the message of 'Aberdeen Together at Christmas'. We really hope the public get behind this and make their own memories together right here in the heart of the city centre at Christmas."
John Lewis and Partners Aberdeen Head of Branch Jamie Wishart said: "We are delighted to be part of the 'Aberdeen Together at Christmas' advert. We are a store with local values at our heart, and it is a privilege to be part of a project that supports the city, and sees it come alive for the festive season".


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    private BodyType(String code) {
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she sent me about three emails!. then all of a sudden i got her translator send me a email saying she can not afford to pay for my emails. yet she is still on this site .yet when i ask her to explain she pretended not to know me and gave me her email to write to her twiceshe done this! guys becareful of her!


Cloud Computing is a fundamental shift where an organization's entire technology stack is located in the cloud. This shift affects the company IT architecture, development and deployment, IT management and security. DeveloperWeek Seattle: Cloud Summit focuses 100% on how a the enterprise manages its Company Cloud. The move to cloud computing is a move from on-premise servers and networks towards microservices, serverless architecture, on-demand big data and artificial intelligence tools, and overall cloud portability / interoperability. This move is called Digital Transformation.


Upgrading your stock 15T sprocket to a 16T sprocket will reduce your RPM's by just over 400 making it much better for street use.
Note: We have received a report that this sprocket will fit the 90-95 models if you use the TPI Locking Nut #M4000. TPI has not verified this and makes no claims that sprocket will work on 90-95 models.
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Meanwhile, at the United States Capitol, our notion of acceptable violence raged out of control. In what sounded exactly like a pistol-packing summer-movie scene, a man found his way to the Rotunda, pulled out a concealed weapon and opened fire, mowing down two guards as screaming tourists fled.
This horrific event conformed so well to movie-style terrorism that it became all the more shocking for its sense of deja vu. Real life has hard acts to follow these days: what's one more shaky skyscraper in midtown Manhattan after ''Godzilla''? What's a gunfight at the Capitol when the White House has been incinerated by spaceships and the Chrysler Building is Hollywood's favorite punching bag?
In a week that brought ''The Negotiator,'' another hostage-crisis drama in which the apparent terrorist becomes an instant celebrity and finds himself suddenly able to wield enormous power, why should it be ''Saving Private Ryan'' that gives anyone pause? Because Mr. Spielberg's war games are not played by the usual rules, which means they don't offer the reassurance of playing games at all. Ordinarily, the movie that thrills audiences with over-the-top violence also creates its own buffer zone, protecting us from uncertainty as it indicates when to be frightened, when to breathe easy, where to find an above-the-title hero who can save the day. Many of these films can match ''Saving Private Ryan'' for graphic bloodshed, but it's more pernicious in a context of pure fantasy. They kill off armies without eliciting a twitch.
For instance, ''Starship Troopers,'' last year's super-violent film in which cute earthling military units fought huge extraterrestrial bugs, was a much more gruesome battle film than Mr. Spielberg's. But it passed for light entertainment thanks to its slavish pandering to teen-age boys. Like ''Saving Private Ryan,'' ''Starship Troopers'' included early in its story the casual sight of a military officer who is missing a limb. In each case this served as a harbinger of the toll taken by warfare, but for ''Starship Troopers'' that just meant a hint at ugly, formulaic combat sequences featuring abundant mutilation. Without itself exploiting such misery, ''Saving Private Ryan'' is frank about what war does to the body and even more so about what it does to the soul.
Mr. Spielberg's film has been widely admired for its breathtaking D-Day sequence, which surpasses any known special effects in immersing audiences into the fierce chaos of the battlefield. No less astounding is its final showdown in a bombed-out French town, as all of the film's dramatic and historic events fuse into a crescendo of visceral terror.
But within that second long section of the film, one episode stands out as unforgettably as the shower scene from ''Psycho,'' a brilliantly edited model of furious clarity and shattered audience expectations. The incident has to do with a failure of nerve at a crucial dramatic juncture, and it defines this film's way of breaking through conventional storytelling into terra incognita. It goes beyond the spectacle of killing, and even the immediate experience of violence, to contemplate a fate worse than death.
There's more to be gained from the core of bitter honesty in this one episode than there is in watching the whole planet get rescued to a rock-video beat, ''Armageddon''-style.
And between those two films, incidentally, it's ''Saving Private Ryan'' that has by far the greater entertainment value. While everything about ''Armageddon,'' including its prettified violence, hurtles forward on automatic pilot, and while its characters' asteroid-sized triumphs are so inflated that they bear no relationship to life on earth, ''Saving Private Ryan'' opens a window onto real men in real turmoil and leaves us sharing every nuance of their experience.
Anyone can bombard viewers with gaudy, unrelated images and a lot of noise, but it takes a storyteller of Mr. Spielberg's stature to draw an audience so deeply, and so movingly, into the unknown.
It's that quality of the unfamiliar, and not the actual ravages of war, that makes ''Saving Private Ryan'' so disturbing -- and also so vital. Here's a film with no interest in reinforcing what we already know. Nor does it care to keep us within the collective Truman Show of toothless violence that constitutes most Hollywood action fare. When real life imitates, or is shaped by, such Hollywood ideas of bloodshed, the trigger-happy action genre leaves us all the more stymied and bereft. The same films that feed fantasies of vicious omnipotence -- of the gun in the Rotunda -- haven't a clue about the nature of real strength.


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Antwerp, Belgium–Hennig Tenders is hosting two tenders this month that include rough diamonds of yellow color from both South Africa and Australia.
First, Hennig will tender a selection of single rough stones from Batla Minerals SA's Superkolong diamond tailings plant in Kimberley, South Africa.
The viewings for the Superkolong stones will begin Tuesday (May 10) in New York. The sale will include a 112.22-carat rough diamond of yellow color, as well as other yellow diamonds ranging in size from 3 to 50 carats.
The Superkolong rough will be available for viewing in New York until Thursday (May 12), before moving on to Ramat Gan, Israel (May 15 to 19) and Antwerp, Belgium (May 23 to 26.)
Originally mined by De Beers, Kimberley is an area of the world known for producing yellow diamonds.
Hennig also will be hosting a tender of more than 17,000 carats of rough diamonds sourced from the now-closed Ellendale diamond mine in northwest Australia.
Ellendale was operated by Kimberley Diamonds Ltd. and was one of the world's leading sources of yellow diamonds, even once signing a now-defunct deal to supply Tiffany & Co. with its stones.
The mine shut down abruptly last year, leaving more than a hundred people out of work and owed back pay and a line of creditors who were owed millions.
Kimberley Diamonds placed the subsidiary company that operated the mine into voluntary administration, and Sydney-based insolvency firm Jirsch Sutherland was brought in to liquidate the mine.
Since then, the future fate of the site, which once produced almost half of the world's yellow diamonds, has remained tied up in court. And, according to news reports, the former head of Kimberley Diamonds, Russian mining magnate Alex Alexander, was arrested in September 2015 for allegedly misleading the stock market about the price Tiffany would pay for his mine's yellow diamonds.
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June is the most popular month to tie the knot, and those looking to plan their fairy-tale wedding next year need to start with the right ring—right now. Of course, not every girl is the same, so we gathered a selection of the best pieces to suit the style of every soon-to-be-bride. Fans of Downton...
Rio Tinto Unveils 'Impossibly Rare' Diamond
Melbourne, Australia–Last year, Rio Tinto made an astounding discovery at its Argyle mine in Western Australia and never said a word about it. The diamond mining company unearthed a 9.17-carat piece of rough that yielded a stone Rio Tinto Diamonds' Patrick Coppens describes as "impossibly rare"–a 2.83-carat fancy deep grayish blue violet diamond that it...
Melbourne, Australia–Last year, Rio Tinto made an astounding discovery at its Argyle mine in Western Australia and never said a word about it. The diamond mining company unearthed a 9.17-carat piece of rough that yielded a stone Rio Tinto Diamonds' Patrick Coppens describes as "impossibly rare"–a 2.83-carat fancy deep grayish...
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Wednesday March 25 2020, 7:30 PM
Gloria! Vivaldi and his Angels
Wednesday 25 March – 7:30 PM
$35 ($30 advance). Students $10 at the door.. Available at Lunenburg's Shop on the Corner, online and at the door.
Matthias Maute
Due to new recommendations from Nova Scotia's public health authorities regarding COVID-19, Gloria! Vivaldi & his angels has been postponed with a new date to be announced soon. Ticket holders will be contacted shortly.
Hear sacred music and concerti by the Red Priest performed by Ensemble Caprice. Known in his native Venice as the "red priest", from the inherited colour of his hair, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) won a reputation for himself as a violinist of phenomenal ability. During almost forty years he served at the orphanage Ospedale della Pietà, to which boys were not admitted, teaching numerous young female students both as a violin and a vocal teacher. Ensemble Caprice will perform two of Vivaldi's most famous works, the Magnificat and Gloria, which were composed for these young girls who could "sing like angels", along with more sacred music and concerti. These exceptionally talented young women became a sensation in Italy.
It seemed almost inconceivable that such young girls could master the excessively difficult concertos that their teacher Vivaldi had composed for them. The effect was intensified because the young women were hidden behind a barrier so that no one could see them. The most famous musicians of the orphanage were completely anonymous! Also, not difficult to appreciate the highly instrumental quality of his vocal music. Arias like Laudamus te (Gloria RV 589) and Esurientes (Magnificat RV 610) have vocal lines that reflect his virtuosic violin abilities. Vivaldi's scores are a reflection of their amazing playing and singing, which inspired his numerous musical flights of fancy. Ensemble Caprice is touring this program with soloists, choir and orchestra across Eastern Canada, and one of the featured soloists is up-and-coming Nova Scotian tenor, Nick Veltmeyer.
About Ensemble Caprice
In its 30 years of existence, Ensemble Caprice has gained international acclaim as an ensemble whose mission is to inject new life into baroque music. Besides its Montreal concert series, the orchestra tours extensively, and has gained wide recognition throughout Quebec, as well as in the rest of Canada, the USA, Central and South America, Europe and Asia.
The musicians of Ensemble Caprice have travelled to the four corners of the globe, giving performances in dozens of countries on four continents. The Ensemble's tours have taken its members to Asia, China, Taiwan, Africa, Morocco, Tunisia and South Africa as well as several European Countries and the Americas. It has been the featured guest ensemble in many prestigious festivals, including the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music in London, festivals in Bruges (Belgium) and Utrecht (the Netherlands), the Felicia Blumental International Music Festival in Tel Aviv, and, in Germany, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, the Early Music Days in Regensburg, the Händel-Festspiele in Halle, and the Stockstadt Festival. In the USA, the group has performed at New York City's Miller Theater and Frick Collection, the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. In Canada, the Ensemble has been heard in Ottawa at the Music and Beyond Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival; it has performed at Early Music Vancouver, Early Music Voices in Calgary, the Edmonton Chamber Music Society, the Elora Festival and the International Festival Domaine Forget. This impressive roadmap bears witness to the fact that Caprice is recognised as being one of today's leading baroque ensembles. In 2009, the New York Times devoted a full article to the Ensemble, praising it as a progressive force on the contemporary musical scene.
Besides its international tours, the group performs a regular Montreal concert series in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Bourgie Hall.
Ensemble Caprice also has a flourishing recording career, with some twenty recordings on the Analecta, ATMA Classique and Antes labels, sold in nearly 50 countries. These recordings have received numerous critical distinctions, including the Canadian Recording Industry's Prix Juno for Gloria! Vivaldi and his Angels, and four Prix Opus awards from the Music Council of Quebec including a 'Performer of the Year' award and a 'Concert of the Year' award for the Ensemble's performances of Antonio Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans, Bach's B Minor Mass (performed as part of the Montreal Bach Festival), and Le Faste de la France, given in collaboration with the Studio de Musique ancienne de Montreal. Caprice's unique artistic approach has also been recognised by the Montreal Arts Council, which honoured it with the 'Public's Choice' award, and it was among the music finalists for the Grand Prix de Montreal. The ensemble has also received other important nominations from Germany's Prix Echo Klassik, the Prix Opus committee, and the Association québécoise de l'Industrie du Disque. The prestigious magazine Gramophone included the Ensemble's recording Telemann and the Baroque Gypsies on its list of recommended CDs.


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Dominique Reid battles an ASA defender. Reid finished with 20 points in an 84-76 win. (Photo by Tom Hagerty, Polk State.)
Polk State picked up its second straight win today, beating ASA College (Miami) 84-76 in Winter Haven.
The Eagles won for the fifth time in their last six games.
Polk State jumped out to a 12-2 lead and ended the first half up 48-41.
The Silver Storm cut the deficit to 70-66 at the five-minute mark in the second half but failed to get any closer.
Head Coach Matt Furjanic thought the Eagles could have performed with more intensity.
"We did what we had to do, but we didn't have the energy we had Saturday against Broward," he said.
"We're getting so close to conference play that we can't take any steps back now. We have to keep taking steps forward. I still don't think we're in game shape like we should be, and I think it showed tonight.
Furjanic said the team missed the intensity of Reger Baker, who did not play due to an illness in the family.
"But that means the next man has to step up, and it seems like we didn't get that tonight," he said.
"But we persevered and got a win, and that's the important thing. I think the players realized after the game that we have to be a little more intense all the time to be a consistent team every night.
"This will be a good game to review on film and show the players where we need to do more work."
Elijah Cottrill and Dominique Reid led the Eagles' attack with 20 points each.
Troy Simons scored 12, while Dayjar Dickson had 11, Darelle Porter recorded 9 points, and Karim Mouliom added seven.
The Eagles (13-5, No. 9 FCSAA) play IMG on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Winter Haven.
They start Suncoast Conference play Jan. 20 at State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota.
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LMFF officially kicked off last night with Fashion Full Stop. Held at the futuristic Melbourne Convention Centre and open to the public for the first time, the launch was more commercial than in previous years. Touted as both fashion show and rock concert in the program, with performances by Guy Sebastian and Marcia Hines the launch was set to cement the festival's position as a consumer and retail event with new festival Creative Director Grant Pearce's vision coming to life.
Fashion Full Stop showcased the history of Australian fashion, with iconic Australian designer's Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson, Prue Acton and Sally Browne's bold designs from the 1980's opening the show.
The 1980's theme continued, but the fashion had to compete with a series of distracting dancers who, whilst adding some energy to the night, really made photographing the clothes difficult.
The dancers really getting into it.
My gals NoDiscount had a few pieces in the denim section of the show. The studded denim jacket is perfection.
as are the studded denim shorts.
Trimapee's work was featured in the conceptual section of the evening.
As was Romance Was Born's AW11 collection.
The iconic Jenny Kee, who has just made her first foray into the world of selling online with www.jennykee.com where pieces from her vintage archive and new limited edition releases of signature printed silk scarves will be available to buy.
I have to say my favourite outfit would have to be from Jenny Kee herself, loving the prints and dog tooth combo. Trimapee also a standout. Looked like a lot of fun.
it was an amazing opening.


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D-backs Steal Last Home Series, Beat Dodgers 5-4
By Justin Burning Sep 26, 2010, 4:33pm MST
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Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) - Tony Abreu and Chris Young each hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning to lead Arizona to a comeback 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Miguel Montero had a career-high two triples and scored once for the Diamondbacks, who recorded their first series win over Los Angeles since August 14-16, 2009. Sam Demel (2-1) received the win despite giving up two runs in one inning of relief.
Juan Gutierrez earned his 14th save of the season.
Chad Billingsley was in line for the win after tying a career-high with 13 strikeouts in seven strong innings for the Dodgers, who have lost eight of 11. Billingsley, who had lost his last three starts, allowed just one run on four hits and a walk.
Rod Barajas hit a two-run homer, and James Loney added a two-run double in defeat.
After Billingsley departed, the Dodgers bullpen ran into some trouble in the eighth.
With one out, George Sherrill walked Stephen Drew before surrendering Abreu's home run, cutting Arizona's deficit to 4-3. After Sherrill yielded a single to Kelly Johnson, Jonathan Broxton (5-6) came in and served up Young's go-ahead two-run blast to left.
Gutierrez came in and pitched around a two-out single in the ninth to seal the win for Arizona.
Both teams lit the scoreboard in the fifth, when the Dodgers scored twice and the Diamondbacks answered with one run.
The first two Los Angeles batters were retired in the fifth, but Ryan Theriot and Matt Kemp both singled to keep the inning alive. Loney followed with a double to center that brought in both runners.
Montero led off the home half with a triple and was able to score two batters later on Cole Gillespie's sacrifice fly.
The Dodgers looked to increase their lead in the sixth with runners on the corners and one out, but Rafael Furcal grounded into a double play.
Montero began the seventh with another triple, but was thrown out at home trying to score on a Gillespie ground ball. Gerardo Parra struck out to end the threat.
Barajas added a two-run homer for Los Angeles in the eighth.
The Diamondbacks have won five of six overall...Barajas hit his 17th homer of the season...Montero hit his first two triples of the season...The Dodgers still lead the season series, 11-4...Abreu hit his third career homer and first since 2007 while with the Dodgers...Joe Saunders started for Arizona and gave up two runs in five innings...Broxton recorded his seventh blown save of the season.
Diamondbacks Display Power And Strikeouts In 5-4 Win Over Dodgers
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Jméno Karel Ludvík Rakouský v historii mělo několik nositelů:

 Karel Ludvík Rakousko-Uherský (1833–1896)
 Karel Ludvík Rakousko-Těšínský (1771–1847)
 Karel Ludvík Habsbursko-Lotrinský (1918–2007)


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Италијански покушај окупације Црне Горе догодио се крајем новембра 1918. године, када су италијанске трупе под командом адмирала Виторија Моле покушале да запоседну Цетиње у циљу стварања основе за даљу окупацију Црне Горе. Покушај је био предузет у време припрема за одржавање Подгоричке скупштине, а италијанска намера је била да се запоседањем Цетиња и других места створе предуслови за организовање паралелних органа власти, састављених од присталица краља Николе. Ради спровођења свог плана, италијанске трупе су покушале искористе и присуство савезничких америчких јединица, које су одустале од учешћа у овом подухвату након одлучног протеста са српске стране, након чега су италијанске трупе одустале од читавог подухвата. Одлука америчких заповедника да одустану од учешћа у овом италијанском подухвату била је од пресудног значаја за избегавање италијанско-српског сукоба, који је могао избити у случају наставка италијанске акције према Цетињу.

Присуство америчких трупа у региону
САД су 1917. године ушле у рат на страни Антанте, првенствено се ангажујући на Западном фронту. Делић америчких трупа тј. 332. пешадијски пук послат је у јуну 1918. године краљевини Италији, више као нека врста моралне подршке, јер тај један пук није могао донети превагу у борбама на том делу фронта. Након потписивања примирја и почетка распада Аустроугарске тај (332.) пук је подељен у три батаљона који је требало да отпрате италијанско искрцавање и привремено преузимање контроле над Ријеком и Котором (тј. Боком которском) које су пре рата биле у саставу Аустроугарске. Присуство америчких трупа, макар и симболично, било је неопходно јер су Српска врховна команда и Југословенски одбор дозволили италијанско искрцавање, на територије које су сматрале да ће постати део будуће краљевине СХС, само у присуству савезничких трупа. Тако су према договору 20. новембра 1918. године контролу над Котором и Боком преузели један италијански пук и један батаљон Армије САД под командом мајора Френка Скенленда. По преузимању контроле америчке трупе су се сместиле у Котор, Бијелу и Зеленику.

Покушај уласка на Цетиње
Италијански адмирал Мола наредио је 22. новембра Скенленду да се продужи напредовање ка Цетињу. Мајор се консултовао око те акције са капетаном корвете (која је била усидрена у Котору) Френком Лофтином који му је саветовао да покуша да одгоди одлазак, док се не успостави веза са Паризом и америчком главном командом око инструкција, јер је оправдано сматрао да ће италијански улазак на простор краљевине Црне Горе, поготово пред саму Подгоричку скупштину, врло вероватно изазвати почетак сукоба будуће краљевине СХС и краљевине Италије, који се већ назирао у ваздуху због већег броја територијалних несугласица које је изазвао Лондонски споразум.

У доба Скенлендовог одсуства, две чете Армије САД су искрцане и придружене италијанским трупама спремним за марш ка Цетињу. Пошто Скенленд није успео да успостави везу са врховном командом у Паризу, марш је и поред његових протеста отпочео. Група официра војски краљевина Црне Горе и Србије ступила је у контакт са Скенлендом тражећи објашњење за присуство америчко-италијанских снага на територији краљевине Црне Горе неколико дана пред Подгоричку скупштину. Када су од Скенленда сазнали да се трупе крећу под италијанском командом, без дозволе званичног Вашингтона, српски официри су појаснили Скенленду ситуацију и чињеницу да краљевина Италија жели да окупира краљевину Црну Гору ради сопствених интереса и у циљу подршке краљу Николи који жели да спречи сједињење две српске краљевине у једну. Скенленд се након овога одлучује да заустави америчке трупе и врати их у Котор. Након што су се Американци окренули назад за њима су се вратили и Италијани, јер је било извесно да се српске трупе неће устручавати да борбом спрече њихов улазак у Цетиње и остале градове Црне Горе, сада када са њима више нема Американаца који би им пружили легитимитет.

На овај начин осујећен је план краљевине Италије да изврши окупацију краљевине Црне Горе и изврши притисак на посланике Подгоричке скупштине и спречи спајање краљевина Црне Горе и Србије.

По избијању Божићне побуне главнокомандујући савезничких снага у Црној Гори генерал Шарл Венел наредио је мајору Скенленду да са америчким трупама пробије опсаду Цетиња и угуши побуну. Међутим америчке трупе су стигле до Његуша, када је до њих стигла вест да је опсада Цетиња пробијена и да су устаници разбијени, након чега су се вратили у Котор.

Види још
 Подгоричка скупштина (1918)
 Божићна побуна
 Зеленаши

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Technologies Driving Electric Innovation
By	Dr. David Bodde
David Bodde, Clemson University professor emeritus, joins Robert Gee, Gee Strategies Group president and Anthony Compofelice, Utegration solution executive, for a free one-hour webcast, Technology Jumpstarting Utility Financial Transformation, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 12 – 1 pm ET
Dr. David Bodde
Emerging technologies and market imperatives converge to bring an era of revolutionary change to electric energy. Such change can lead either to the disruption of the incumbent utility industry or to an historic service opportunity.
Which occurs will depend upon the strategic response of the industry and its regulators.
The case in point is the microgrid, a platform that combines technologies originating outside the electric sector to offer improved services to customers as well as benefits for the larger grid. These microgrids could disrupt the industry by allowing the best customers to reduce their grid service sharply.
On the other hand, microgrids could enable open-architecture, innovation ecosystems that bring to all participants improved service at lower cost. Such ecosystems could evolve from the venture capital investments currently supported by many utility companies.
Over the next decade, disruptive innovation—chiefly in the digital technologies—will change the way the world works and the way that the electric industry fits within that world. The disruptions caused by a new technology rarely come from that technology alone. Rather they spring from a combination of technologies packaged in a business model that empowers customers to do things that were impossible before. The new market entries rarely defeat the incumbents at their own game, but rather they change the rules of the game. The business model of the incumbents simply becomes irrelevant to providing customer value.
Three disruptive forces have arisen to confront the electric industry and its regulators with a dynamic and risk-filled business environment:
• Motivation for change. Consumer preference for "clean" energy and public concerns for the global climate will persist, albeit with varying degrees of urgency. At the same time, concern with the disruption of electric service, whether from natural events such as hurricanes or from the predations of hackers, will grow in urgency. These concerns motivate fundamental change to the electric system.
• Exponential technologies. The capabilities of the digital technologies grow exponentially to upset the familiar paradigms for the production and use of electricity. The most relevant—artificial intelligence algorithms, advanced GPU and TPU computer chips, advanced sensors, and large data sets—will reshape the world of the regulated utility.
• Alternative business models. The disruptive power of technology resides in alternative business models that customers could find more valuable than those of the incumbent companies. Experimental prototypes of such business models abound in many states: New York and Illinois for example.
Innovation ecosystems could offer a platform through which the incumbent industry can lead the change rather than become its victim.
Such platforms have shown value in other industries that also face disruptive, technology-driven change: automotive, for example. These ecosystems combine the customer access and financial power of the incumbent companies with the innovations of entrepreneurs.
They allow rapid and low-cost learning through the combined experience of the network participants. We suggest that utility-managed microgrids could evolve into open-architecture innovation ecosystems to become an industry-led model for constructive change.
A microgrid is a semi-autonomous, local energy system that connects to the larger utility grid—somewhat analogous to a miniature electric utility. A central controller serves as the brain of the system, dispatching the energy and controlling the diverse components.
A microgrid can include: generation, commonly solar photovoltaic, coupled with a combustion turbine or even fuel cell; energy storage, usually in the form of lithium-ion batteries; a controllable load, sometimes with additional services like combined heat and power; and a capability to connect with the larger grid as backup, or to disconnect in a grid emergency. Analogous to the smartphone, the microgrid platform combines exponential technologies to bring new services to electric energy customers and benefit to the grid.
The majority of microgrid projects reside "behind the meter". These are usually owned by a single large customer—an industrial complex, a university, or a military base, for example—motivated chiefly by concerns for grid resilience, but also by cost savings and the direct use of renewable energy. The microgrid at Princeton University, for example, proved highly effective during Hurricane Sandy, serving as a staging area for police, firefighters, paramedics and emergency-services workers and a charging station for their phones and equipment.
Other microgrids are owned and operated by an electric utility. In part, this serves the operating needs of the regulated system in several ways:
• Reduced peak demand at substations.
• Relief of congestion, which can defer grid upgrades.
• Ancillary services through energy storage technologies, for which some markets (PJM, for example) allow compensation.
A utility-owned microgrid could also provide additional services that are attractive to customers:
• Storm resilience through hardened underground wires and isolation.
• Cost-effective procurement of distributed energy resources.
• Tailored, low-cost billing and financial services.
The ComEd facility at Bronzeville, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, will test the practical operation of such a microgrid.
To be sure, significant issues remain. How greatly will customers value the enhanced resilience…and will they be willing to pay for it? Since the microgrid will require external partners to provide the services, how can the ownership and governance of these assets be structured to be fair to all parties? And most importantly for the regulated utility, how will the state commissions treat the value that a microgrid brings to the regulated system and the utility's investment in and contribution to the microgrid?
As these issues are being resolved, utility companies should not lose sight of the larger value of the microgrid as a platform for cost-effective innovation. Just as the mobile phone became a platform to integrate diverse technologies and business models, so too might the microgrid serve the utility industry as a platform for building innovation ecosystems. The alternative is to watch load aggregators draw customers away from the grid as now occurs in California.
An open-architecture innovation ecosystem is a network through which diverse organizations co-evolve their capabilities within their distinct roles to create products and services that would not otherwise be possible. Innovation ecosystems resolve the practical impossibility of a single firm including within its corporate boundaries all the pathways needed for innovation in complex social-technical systems like the electric grid. When operated as open-architecture platforms, the ecosystem allows some participants to opt in or out as the competitive situation dictates—but all must observe the system rules.
The mobility ecosystem of General Motors, for example, illustrates the general untidiness that typically attends an open-architecture model. First, note the variety of arrangements: partnerships or alliances; investment; and outright acquisition. Second, note that some of these arrangements are made by the parent company and some by its venture capital arm, GM Ventures. Third, note that multiple aspects of the road mobility transition are addressed: autonomous driving; energy; vehicle sharing; and new materials.
All this leads to an important characteristic to innovation ecosystems: the unpredictability of the combined effects of the participants on the output of the system. Systems that perform this way are called emergent because their unforeseeable properties arise from the interactions among their components. The most productive among these interactions are termed generative because the interactions among the parties to the ecosystem produce new and valuable capabilities not found in any of the parties acting alone.
And so, the strength of open architecture innovation rests in its ability to continually evolve in response to external forces: especially technology opportunities and changing customer demand.
The ecosystem can absorb and benefit from unpredictable events better than any of its members acting either singly or through contractual arrangements in a tightly structured innovation system. The chief questions reside in the policy framework that will enable these to serve well: it must govern tightly enough to ensure continuity of service, but loosely enough to enable innovation in providing that service. Striking that balance will be the challenge to the utility companies and the regulatory commissions.
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Dr. David Bodde is emeritus professor of engineering and business at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research. Currently a senior scholar at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Professional experience includes: Vice President of MRI Global, a Midwest research laboratory; Assistant Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office; and Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy. Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard University; Master of Science degrees in nuclear engineering and in management from MIT; and Bachelor of Science from West Point. Served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam 1968-69: Airborne and Ranger. Dr. Bodde is a retired member of the board of directors of Great Plains Energy, now a part of Evergy.
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