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Yennai Arindhaal
Posted on September 20, 2016 by Heather Wilson
Gautham Menon's third and final instalment in his 'police trilogy' has a more complex and interesting storyline than the previous two films, although there is still plenty of action and more than a few thrills. This time Menon focuses more on relationships, using these to define top cop Sathyadev (Ajith) and his reactions to various events throughout his life. One of the most important is Sathyadev's relationship with Victor (Arun Vijay), a thug who ends up running an illegal organ trade, and who has a significant history with Sathyadev. Gautham Menon plays with the similarities between the two men who seem polar opposites but in reality have much in common despite sitting on opposing sides of a thin line. There is also his relationship with his step-daughter Eesha (Anikha Surendran), Eesha's mother Hemanika (Trisha Krishnan) and right at the start, his relationship with his father (Nasser) whose murder is the starting point for that thin line.
The film starts by introducing Thenmozhi (Anushka Shetty), a smart modern woman who works as a software engineer. On a flight back from Boston to visit her sister, Thenmozhi ends up sitting beside a man she describes as the most gorgeous she has ever seen, but since she spends most of the flight vomiting into a sick bag it isn't the most auspicious of meetings. Her flight companion is Sathyadev, who is there to protect Thenmozhi from a kidnap attempt from the gang of organ thieves, although she doesn't discover this until later. Somehow Thenmozhi's heart has been identified as a perfect match for one of the gang's clientele and a team of dodgy doctors are ready and waiting to perform the surgery just as soon as they can get their hands on her. Sathyadev's old rival Victor is leading the gang and the film moves into flashback mode to explain the enmity between the two men and Sathyadev's involvement in the current case.
The flashback goes right back to the murder of Sathyadev's father, a moment where he had to decide which path to follow and on which side of the line to fall. The possibilities were there – to become a gangster and seek revenge, or to become a police officer and seek justice. No prizes for guessing which way Sathyadev decided to go, or that the very next scene sees him in jail. Of course all is not as it seems. While inside, Sathyadev becomes friends with Victor and the two escape together allowing Victor to marry the love of his life Lisa (Parvathy Nair) and have a jolly good knees up at the wedding.
After Sathyadev reveals himself as a police officer who has only befriended Victor as a way to get to his boss Matthew (Stunt Selva), Victor is devastated at the double whammy of the betrayal and his bad judgement in trusting Sathyadev. Unfortunately Menon doesn't spend much time establishing the character of Lisa, but from snippets later on, it's clear that she is instrumental in much of Victor's later actions and she has a passionate vendetta against Sathyadev. I really wanted to know more about Lisa and why she was so deeply involved in Victor's wicked schemes, but she glossed over quickly and her motivation is sadly never explored. Victor too doesn't get as much character development as I would have liked but since he is basically completely evil maybe there isn't much else we needed to know. As the tension mounts and his schemes are thwarted by Sathyadev, Victor has a couple of excellent hissy fits that perfectly convey his frustration and anger. Although he doesn't have much scope, Arun Vijay does a good job with the character of Victor and his screaming, spitting frustration boils off the screen in the final scenes.
Lisa is the love of Victor's life, and as such is his greatest weakness. For Sathyadev, it's Hemanika, a Bharatanatyam dancer he meets while working undercover as an auto driver. The romance between the two is sweet and develops slowly, allowing Sathyadev to show a more introspective and human side. Hemanika has a daughter, Eesha, and for all her modern outlook (divorced single mum) she's strangely reluctant to believe that Sathyadev can really love another man's daughter as his own. This part of the film is beautifully done and Trisha is superb as she expresses all of Hemanika's hopes and fears for the relationship. Her characterisation is subtle but effective and fits perfectly into this more emotive storyline.
Of course we know it's not going to end well, and as events unfold Sathyadev is left to look after Eesha on his own. Rather than brushing this off as an inevitable consequence of the relationship and using Eesha purely as a bargaining tool against Sathyadev in the later scenes, Gautham Menon instead uses the developing relationship to give deeper insight into Sathyadev's character. The way Sathya breaks the news of her mother's death to Eesha is poignant and natural while the road trip the two take to allow Eesha to grieve for her mother is an excellent depiction of Sathyadev's developing fatherhood, particularly when set against his memories of his own father. These two parts of the film, Sathyadev's romance with Hemanika and the development of his relationship with Eesha are sweet and gentle and really should be out of place in a rough and tough cop drama, but their inclusion is perfectly done, and adds so much to Sathyadev's characterisation that instead they feel essential to the story development. These are my favourite scenes in the film and Ajith is perhaps surprisingly good at showing this more tender side. I'm more used to his manic killer persona in films like Vedalam but he does an excellent job with a more introspective character here and is good at displaying compassion in his developing relationship with Eesha. Just as good is his frustration and helplessness as he tries to change to a desk job for her sake and realises he just can't continue as a police officer if he wants to keep Eesha safe.
Perhaps the only misstep in the film is the character of Thenmozhi . Although she starts off as a strong and independent character, once she meets Sathyadev she seems to lose all reason and self-respect, propositioning him despite overhearing what appeared to be an intimate conversation he had with someone else. As the film progresses she becomes more and more of a doormat and seems to lose all of her gumption as the threat to her life increases. Anushka does the best she can but her character is too much a victim to allow much sympathy for her plight.
Along with the mostly excellent characterisations, the more mass elements of the film are also well done. The fight choreography works well and there is a good mix of different styles – knife fights, good old fisticuffs and a number of gun battles. Stunt Selva has cameo as the gangster Matthew and Gautham Menon himself pops up as a police intelligence officer. The film looks stunning too, and the cinematography by Dan Macarthur (an Aussie – yay!) is excellent, particularly during the scenes with Eesha and Sathyadev travelling around India. Harris Jayaraj's music works well too and is a perfect soundtrack for some of the most poignant moments in the film, such as Eesha showing Thenmozhi her mother's picture and Sathyadev braiding Eesha's hair before she goes to school. A word too about Anikha Surendran who is very good as Eesha and conveys many emotions throughout the film simply and easily and perfectly suits the role of Sathyadev's adopted daughter.
Yennai Arindhaal shows just how good an action thriller can be when there is more to the story than just the action. The characterisations are excellent and provide motive and the reason for Sathyadev and Victor to act the way they do. There is so much happening in this film and yet it is still the story of a cop and a villain and a plan to illegally harvest organs. Well written, well acted and beautifully put together this is definitely one to savour. 4½ stars.
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| 2015 || {{dts|February 25}} || Background || {{w|Sam Altman}}, president of [[w:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] who would later become a co-chair of OpenAI, publishes a blog post in which he writes that the development of superhuman AI is "probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1 |title=Machine intelligence, part 1 |publisher=Sam Altman |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref>
| 2015 || {{dts|May 6}} || Background || Greg Brockman, who would become CTO of OpenAI, announces in a blog post that he is leaving his role as CTO of [[wikipedia:Stripe (company)|Stripe]]. In the post, he writes "I haven't decided exactly what I'll be building (feel free to ping if you want to chat)".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.gregbrockman.com/leaving-stripe |title=Leaving Stripe |first=Greg |last=Brockman |publisher=Greg Brockman on Svbtle |date=May 6, 2015 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/stripes-cto-greg-brockman-is-leaving-the-company-2015-5 |date=May 6, 2015 |first=Biz |last=Carson |title=One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form his own company |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 2015 || {{dts|May 6}} || Background || Greg Brockman, who would become CTO of OpenAI, announces in a blog post that he is leaving his role as CTO of [[wikipedia:Stripe (company)|Stripe]]. In the post, in the section "What comes next" he writes "I haven't decided exactly what I'll be building (feel free to ping if you want to chat)".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.gregbrockman.com/leaving-stripe |title=Leaving Stripe |first=Greg |last=Brockman |publisher=Greg Brockman on Svbtle |date=May 6, 2015 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/stripes-cto-greg-brockman-is-leaving-the-company-2015-5 |date=May 6, 2015 |first=Biz |last=Carson |title=One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form his own company |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 2015 || {{dts|June 4}} || Background || At {{w|Airbnb}}'s Open Air 2015 conference, {{w|Sam Altman}}, president of [[w:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] who would later become a co-chair of OpenAI, states his concern for advanced artificial intelligence and shares that he recently invested in a company doing AI safety research.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-y-combinator-talks-mega-bubble-nuclear-power-and-more-2015-6 |author=Matt Weinberger |date=June 4, 2015 |title=Head of Silicon Valley's most important startup farm says we're in a 'mega bubble' that won't last |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref>
| 2015 || {{dts|December 11}} || || {{w|OpenAI}} is announced to the public. (The news articles from this period make it sound like OpenAI launched sometime after this date.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/science/artificial-intelligence-research-center-is-founded-by-silicon-valley-investors.html |date=December 11, 2015 |publisher=[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded by Silicon Valley Investors |author=John Markoff |accessdate=July 26, 2017 |quote=The organization, to be named OpenAI, will be established as a nonprofit, and will be based in San Francisco.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/introducing-openai/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Introducing OpenAI |date=December 11, 2015 |accessdate=July 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/11/non-profit-openai-launches-with-backing-from-elon-musk-and-sam-altman/ |date=December 11, 2015 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=Artificial Intelligence Nonprofit OpenAI Launches With Backing From Elon Musk And Sam Altman |author=Drew Olanoff |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
| 2016 || {{dts|January}} || || {{W|Ilya Sutskever}} joins OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aiwatch.issarice.com/?person=Ilya+Sutskever |date=April 8, 2018 |title=Ilya Sutskever |publisher=AI Watch |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 2016 || {{dts|January 9}} || || The OpenAI research team does an AMA ("ask me anything") on r/MachineLearning, the subreddit dedicated to machine learning.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/404r9m/ama_the_openai_research_team/ |publisher=reddit |title=AMA: the OpenAI Research Team • r/MachineLearning |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
| 2016 || {{dts|March 31}} || || A blog post from this day announces that {{W|Ian Goodfellow}} has joined OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/team-plus-plus/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Team++ |date=March 22, 2017 |first=Greg |last=Brockman |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 2016 || {{Dts|April 26}} || || A blog post from this day announces that {{W|Pieter Abbeel}} has joined OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/welcome-pieter-and-shivon/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Welcome, Pieter and Shivon! |date=March 20, 2017 |first=Ilya |last=Sutskever |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 2016 || {{dts|April 27}} || Software || The public beta of OpenAI Gym, an open source toolkit that provides environments to test AI bots, is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/openai-gym-beta/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=OpenAI Gym Beta |date=March 20, 2017 |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/04/openai-elon-musk-sam-altman-plan-to-set-artificial-intelligence-free/ |title=Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free |date=April 27, 2016 |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |accessdate=March 2, 2018 |quote=This morning, OpenAI will release its first batch of AI software, a toolkit for building artificially intelligent systems by way of a technology called "reinforcement learning"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/openai-has-launched-a-gym-where-developers-can-train-their-computers-2016-4?op=1 |first=Sam |last=Shead |date=April 28, 2016 |title=Elon Musk's $1 billion AI company launches a 'gym' where developers train their computers |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
| 2017 || {{dts|January}} || || Paul Christiano joins OpenAI to work on AI alignment.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://paulfchristiano.com/ai/ |title=AI Alignment |date=May 13, 2017 |publisher=Paul Christiano |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref> He was previously an intern at OpenAI in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/team-update/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Team Update |date=March 22, 2017 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 2017 || {{dts|March}} || Financial || The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30 million to {{w|OpenAI}} for general support.<ref name="donations-portal-open-phil-ai-risk">{{cite web |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donor.php?donor=Open+Philanthropy+Project&cause_area_filter=AI+risk |title=Open Philanthropy Project donations made (filtered to cause areas matching AI risk) |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref>
| 2017 || {{dts|March}} || Financial || The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30 million to {{w|OpenAI}} for general support.<ref name="donations-portal-open-phil-ai-risk">{{cite web |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donor.php?donor=Open+Philanthropy+Project&cause_area_filter=AI+safety |title=Open Philanthropy Project donations made (filtered to cause areas matching AI safety) |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref> The grant initiates a partnership between Open Philanthropy Project and OpenAI, in which Holden Karnofsky (executive director of Open Philanthropy Project) joins OpenAI's board of directors to oversee OpenAI's safety and governance work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/openai-general-support |publisher=Open Philanthropy Project |title=OpenAI — General Support |date=December 15, 2017 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 2017 || {{dts|April}} || || An article entitled "The People Behind OpenAI" is published on {{W|Red Hat}}'s ''Open Source Stories'' website, covering work at OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source-stories/ai-revolutionaries/people-behind-openai |title=Open Source Stories: The People Behind OpenAI |accessdate=May 5, 2018 |first1=Brent |last1=Simoneaux |first2=Casey |last2=Stegman}} In the HTML source, last-publish-date is shown as Tue, 25 Apr 2017 04:00:00 GMT as of 2018-05-05.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/63xr4p/profile_of_the_people_behind_openai/ |publisher=reddit |title=Profile of the people behind OpenAI • r/OpenAI |date=April 7, 2017 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14832524 |title=The People Behind OpenAI |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 5, 2018 |date=July 23, 2017}}</ref>
This is a timeline of OpenAI. OpenAI is a non-profit safety-conscious artificial intelligence capabilities company.
2014–2015 Background Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, about the dangers of superhuman machine intelligence, is published. Soon after the book's publication, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, the two people who would become co-chairs and initial donors of OpenAI, publicly state their concern of superhuman machine intelligence.
2015–present Establishment OpenAI is founded and begins producing research.
2014 000000002020-10-22-0000October 22–24 Background During an interview at the AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, Elon Musk, who would later become co-chair of OpenAI, calls artificial intelligence humanity's "biggest existential threat".[1][2]
2015 000000002020-02-25-0000February 25 Background Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator who would later become a co-chair of OpenAI, publishes a blog post in which he writes that the development of superhuman AI is "probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity".[3]
2015 000000002020-05-06-0000May 6 Background Greg Brockman, who would become CTO of OpenAI, announces in a blog post that he is leaving his role as CTO of Stripe. In the post, in the section "What comes next" he writes "I haven't decided exactly what I'll be building (feel free to ping if you want to chat)".[4][5]
2015 000000002020-06-04-0000June 4 Background At Airbnb's Open Air 2015 conference, Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator who would later become a co-chair of OpenAI, states his concern for advanced artificial intelligence and shares that he recently invested in a company doing AI safety research.[6]
2015 000000002020-12-11-0000December 11 OpenAI is announced to the public. (The news articles from this period make it sound like OpenAI launched sometime after this date.)[7][8][9]
2016 000000002020-01-01-0000January Ilya Sutskever joins OpenAI.[10]
2016 000000002020-01-09-0000January 9 The OpenAI research team does an AMA ("ask me anything") on r/MachineLearning, the subreddit dedicated to machine learning.[11]
2016 000000002020-03-31-0000March 31 A blog post from this day announces that Ian Goodfellow has joined OpenAI.[12]
2016 000000002020-04-26-0000April 26 A blog post from this day announces that Pieter Abbeel has joined OpenAI.[13]
2016 000000002020-04-27-0000April 27 Software The public beta of OpenAI Gym, an open source toolkit that provides environments to test AI bots, is released.[14][15][16]
2016 000000002020-06-21-0000June 21 Publication "Concrete Problems in AI Safety" is submitted to the arXiv.[17]
2016 000000002020-07-01-0000July Dario Amodei joins OpenAI.[18]
2016 000000002020-07-08-0000July 8 Publication "Adversarial Examples in the Physical World" is published. One of the authors is Ian Goodfellow, who is at OpenAI at the time.[19]
2016 000000002020-08-15-0000August 15 The technology company Nvidia announces that it has donated the first Nvidia DGX-1 (a supercomputer) to OpenAI. OpenAI plans to use the supercomputer to train its AI on a corpus of conversations from Reddit.[20][21][22]
2016 000000002020-11-15-0000November 15 A partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft's artificial intelligence division is announced. As part of the partnership, Microsoft provides a price reduction on computing resources to OpenAI through Microsoft Azure.[23][24]
2016 000000002020-12-05-0000December 5 Software OpenAI's Universe, "a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites and other applications", is released.[25][26][27][28]
2017 000000002020-01-01-0000January Paul Christiano joins OpenAI to work on AI alignment.[29] He was previously an intern at OpenAI in 2016.[30]
2017 000000002020-03-01-0000March Financial The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30 million to OpenAI for general support.[31] The grant initiates a partnership between Open Philanthropy Project and OpenAI, in which Holden Karnofsky (executive director of Open Philanthropy Project) joins OpenAI's board of directors to oversee OpenAI's safety and governance work.[32]
2017 000000002020-04-01-0000April An article entitled "The People Behind OpenAI" is published on Red Hat's Open Source Stories website, covering work at OpenAI.[33][34][35]
2017 000000002020-04-03-0000April 3 Benjamin Hoffman publishes "OpenAI makes humanity less safe".[36][37][38]
2017 000000002020-04-06-0000April 6 Publication "Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment" is published.[39]
2017 000000002020-05-24-0000May 24 Software OpenAI releases Baselines, a set of implementations of reinforcement learning algorithms.[40][41]
2017 000000002020-06-12-0000June 12 Publication "Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences" is first uploaded to the arXiv. The paper is a collaboration between researchers at OpenAI and Google DeepMind.[42][43][44]
2017 000000002020-08-12-0000August 12 OpenAI's Dota 2 bot beats Danil "Dendi" Ishutin, a professional human player, (and possibly others?) in one-on-one battles.[45][46][47]
2017 000000002020-08-13-0000August 13 The New York Times publishes a story covering the AI safety work (by Dario Amodei, Geoffrey Irving, and Paul Christiano) at OpenAI.[48]
2017 000000002020-09-13-0000September 13 Publication "Learning with Opponent-Learning Awareness" is first uploaded to the arXiv.[49][50]
2017 000000002020-10-11-0000October 11 Software RoboSumo, a game that simulates sumo wrestling for AI to learn to play, is released.[51][52]
2017 000000002020-11-06-0000November 6 The New York Times reports that Pieter Abbeel (a researcher at OpenAI) and three other researchers from Berkeley and OpenAI have left to start their own company called Embodied Intelligence.[53]
2017 000000002020-12-01-0000December Publication The 2017 AI Index is published. OpenAI contributed to the report.[54]
2018 000000002020-02-20-0000February 20 Publication The report "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation" is published. The report forecasts malicious use of artificial intelligence in the short term and makes recommendations on how to mitigate these risks from AI. The report is authored by individuals at Future of Humanity Institute, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, OpenAI, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for a New American Security, and other institutions.[55][56][57][58][59]
2018 000000002020-02-20-0000February 20 OpenAI announces changes in donors and advisors. New donors are: Jed McCaleb, Gabe Newell, Michael Seibel, Jaan Tallinn, and Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton. Reid Hoffman is "significantly increasing his contribution". Pieter Abbeel (previously at OpenAI), Julia Galef, and Maran Nelson become advisors. Elon Musk departs the board but remains as a donor and advisor.[60][58]
2018 000000002020-03-03-0000March 3 OpenAI hosts its first hackathon.[61][62]
2018 000000002020-04-05-0000April 5 – June 5 The OpenAI Retro Contest takes place.[63][64] As a result of the release of the Gym Retro library, OpenAI's Universe become deprecated.[65]
2018 000000002020-04-09-0000April 9 OpenAI releases a charter. The charter says in part that OpenAI commits to stop competing with a value-aligned and safety-conscious project that comes close to building artificial general intelligence, and also that OpenAI expects to reduce its traditional publishing in the future due to safety concerns.[66][67][68][69][70]
2018 000000002020-04-19-0000April 19 Financial The New York Times publishes a story detailing the salaries of researchers at OpenAI, using information from OpenAI's 2016 Form 990. The salaries include $1.9 million paid to Ilya Sutskever and $800,000 paid to Ian Goodfellow (hired in March of that year).[71][72][73]
2018 000000002020-05-02-0000May 2 Publication The paper "AI safety via debate" by Geoffrey Irving, Paul Christiano, and Dario Amodei is uploaded to the arXiv.[74][75]
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↑ Samuel Gibbs (October 27, 2014). "Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat". The Guardian. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
↑ "AeroAstro Centennial Webcast". Retrieved July 25, 2017. The high point of the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's 2014 Centennial celebration is the October 22-24 Centennial Symposium
↑ "Machine intelligence, part 1". Sam Altman. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
↑ Brockman, Greg (May 6, 2015). "Leaving Stripe". Greg Brockman on Svbtle. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
↑ Carson, Biz (May 6, 2015). "One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form his own company". Business Insider. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
↑ Matt Weinberger (June 4, 2015). "Head of Silicon Valley's most important startup farm says we're in a 'mega bubble' that won't last". Business Insider. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
↑ John Markoff (December 11, 2015). "Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded by Silicon Valley Investors". The New York Times. Retrieved July 26, 2017. The organization, to be named OpenAI, will be established as a nonprofit, and will be based in San Francisco.
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Welcome to our range of shirts & tees from the Women's Fashion Store on Amazon.com.au.
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Friv Games September 10, 2015 Fun game friv BFF Studio Caribbean Cruise, this game is in the category Ninja Friv These three best friends are going on holiday on a caribbean cruise. But before they go they need you to choose some matching outfits for them. Can you do that? Choose from various types of items: tops, bottoms, dresses, hairstyles, jewelry and shoes. You can even change the location too. Have fun putting together the 3 best outfits for the vacation of these BFF's!
Piece together three great pictures of the 400 trail in Wisconsin.


Even more funny are the guys from the generations behind me who purport to have "grown up playing this game.� They seem to have some strange interpretations of the rules. One guy swore that the opening break could be a regular safe shot; 1 ball to the rail. I had to show him the BCA rules that 2 object balls plus the cue ball had to hit a rail.
Invariably, the "old timers� want to spot balls on a scratch when nothing but the cue goes in. They argue that each rack has to add up to 14, so if you scratch and deduct a point from your score, you should pull a ball up and spot it. If you have yet to make a ball, you "owe one� and at the end of your inning when you do pocket one or more balls. If you scratch and make a ball, the ball comes up and your score the balls you made before the scratch. So if you scratch on your first shot and make a ball, you don't loose a point.
Am I crazy or are they completely wrong? If you scratch and make a ball, the ball is spotted and you loose a point. If you scratch (or foul) and don't make a ball, you loose a point, but all balls stay down. Not all racks will add to 14 and the running total doesn't divide by 14 if there are fouls.
Is this like 8 ball where there are real rules and bar rules?
Sounds like you've got the rules right.
I'm still of the opinion that racks always total 14 (or 15 if you count the one on the table). Probably because I played the game on Brunswicks with the scoring wheels. Two for each player -- one for the rack score and one for the running total. We always took fouls off of the running total score only. That way, you could at any time add up the rack score number of each player and the balls remaining on the table, subtract it from 15, and know how many balls you just made (after you missed or finished the rack).
All racks will add up to 14 everytime. You take the point off of the running total on a scratch. If you make a ball it spots.
Its done the same way with beads. You keep the running total seperate on the beads from the current rack. If there is a scratch you take it from the running score. For example if you have a total of 45 points and 8 in the current rack when you scratch, you take one from the 45 leaving 44, slide it to the current rack giving you 9, and of course then sliding that off the current rack making it 8 again. This way each rack can stay seperate for accuracy while keeping score.
What about on the first rack where there is no running score. If there is a foul on the first rack, the rack will end with 13 points, right? Same thing in subsequent racks when one player has zero or negative points as a running score. In these cases I imagine you just have to remember the foul.
On the first rack where there is no running score when you use beads, you would keep the initial rack score in tact and .... from the number 50 marker at the other end, you slightly seperate it from the mass on that far end.
If there is a foul on the first rack, I will usually adjust the score so that it looks the same as if it were 99 (or 49 with a string of 50 beads). Other people do this differently, and will mark scratches with the 50 and 49 beads and put up the score as if there were no fouls in the rack. Then at the end, they will reconcile the minus points.
With score wheels, the "total score" wheel becomes 99 if you scratch in the first rack, and the "this rack" wheels will add to 14 at the end of the rack.
There are racks where 15 balls are scored if two balls are sunk on the last shot of the rack.
Thanks so much for the clarifications. Now I just need to stop fouling so much!
No, you need to learn WHEN to foul :) . It's all part of straight pool strategy.
Yes, good point. I should re-state my earlier post to say I should learn to stop fouling on accident.
I'm still curious about the origin of the idea of spotting balls after a foul. Several "old timers" around here play that way. Is it a New England thing? Is it a bar rules thing?
The "old timers" are obviously confused. That's what happens when you get old. :) There was a time when balls in 8-ball and 9-ball came back up. They probably are thinking of that.
I can't imagine spotting balls in a bar, since the tables are normally coin-op. The only games I can think of that you spot a ball on a foul are banks and 1hole. Maybe they're just very confused, but in 14.1 you only spot on a foul is if a ball was made during the foul. Then you spot the made ball and -1 from your score.


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Flights from the city of Ponta Delgada, Portugal to the city of Reykjavik, Iceland
The cheapest one-way flights departing from the city of Ponta Delgada and landing in the city of Reykjavik cost 208.00 EUR in September
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← Ian Stirling's latest howler: "the polar bear who died of climate change"
Polar bears have not been harmed by sea ice declines in summer – the evidence →
Ian Stirling's howler update: contradicted by scientific data
Posted on August 11, 2013 | Comments Off on Ian Stirling's howler update: contradicted by scientific data
Following up on my last post (Ian Stirling's latest howler: "the polar bear who died of climate change"), I tracked down some details contained in the original Norwegian news report but which were left out of the articles that spread the story around the world. I also found some pertinent research posted online that appears to be the work of the researchers who captured this bear in April.
Figure 1. The Norwegian newspaper, The Local (Aug. 7, 2013), says the bear was found on "a small island near Texas Bar" (marked by the square on the above map) in the very north of Spitsbergen, and states it was found on July 7 – details other reports did not bother to include. ["Texas Bar" is a hut built by a Norwegian hunter in 1927]. To have been 250km south of that position in April (when he was tagged), he must have left the ice near the southern tip of Spitsbergen when there was still lots of ice further north.
Further details on the dead bear
The Norwegian newspaper, The Local (Aug. 7, 2013), included the following (which, among other things, explains why necropsy results were not given):
"[Ashley] Cooper, who runs the agency Global Warming Images, said that the eco-tourism expedition he was with, accompanied by renowned polar bear expert Dr Ian Stirling, had travelled [sic] deep into the Arctic before it found ice.
"We had to push up until 550 miles from the North Pole before we found any sea ice, which was kind of rotten. It was very patchy and broken up and thin, only just about holding the weight of a polar bear."
The bear, a 16-year-old male, was found on a small island near Texas Bar. When it was tagged in April in southern Svalbard, some 250 kilometres from where it was found, it had been in a healthy condition.
Dr Ian Stirling, who works as an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta, told The Local that this spring's record low levels of sea ice were the most likely reason for the bear's death.
"The bear was extremely thin, no apparent fat at all, and based on all these pieces of information, I thought the most likely cause of death was starvation."
Stirling stressed however that as he was not able to handle the carcass or take samples, this could not be known with certainty. He confirmed that Svalbard had seen unusually low levels of sea ice last winter, making it difficult for polar bears to find food. [my bold]
The cruise that Cooper and Stirling took appears to have been this one, operated by OneOcean Expeditions (pdf here). The only July trip on offer this year that spans the date the dead bear was found (July 7) is the one running 05 – 15 July. It seems then that both Cooper and Stirling were together, apparently fortuitously, when the bear was found and no pre-arrangement was necessary as I thought might have been the case. There is no indication, however, of who called the press.
Research on body condition of male Svalbard polar bears in 2013
I found research results posted at the website of the project for Environmental Monitoring of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (MOSJ) that appears to be the work of the Norwegian biologists who captured the now-famous dead bear when it was alive and healthy in April.
Polar bear researchers Jon Aars and Magnus Andersen (both at the Norwegian Polar Institute) discuss several aspects of their on-going research on this website, apparently adding results as they became available (Aars and Andersen 2013, here, pdf here). One of the topics discussed is "body condition of adult males," which must have been added very recently, as the data include bears captured up to May 2013 — in other words, work completed this spring.
Figure 2. Body condition of adult males in Svalbard (the Barents Sea subpopulation). Original caption: "Body condition index of adult male polar bears caught in spring (Mar-May) in the period 1993-2013" (details below). There is no significant trend over time, according to the authors. Note that the data presented for 2013 contains no outliers (the black dots) and several years (e.g. 1998, 2000) had more bears that were in poorer condition than 2013. The "body condition index" values (not defined) appear to be anomalies (i.e. "0" is "normal") – I'll correct this if I find out otherwise.
This is how they describe the results:
"The lines in the middle of each box show the median value, and the box segments and lines above and below the median each cover ca 25% of the data points. Outliers are represented by small circles. There is no significant trend over time. [my bold]
However, a major part of the interannual variation can be explained by variation in the Arctic Oscillation (AO). High values of AO (milder weather) at the time of capture correlate with a lower body condition index (leaner animals)."
Significantly, 2013 contained no "outliers" (the black dots, indicating bears in much poorer condition than others that year) and several years (e.g. 1998, 2000) had more bears that were in poor condition than were found in 2013.
These results indicate that winter/spring ice conditions in 2013 did not result in an unusual number of bears in poor body condition compared to previous years (back to 1993), and adds further support to my conclusion that the sad fate of the bear featured by the media last week was unrelated to "low levels of sea ice," as Ian Stirling proclaimed. Starvation is unfortunately the most common cause of death for old adult polar bears, which Stirling well knows.
This entry was posted in Advocacy, Life History, Sea ice habitat and tagged Ashley Cooper, body condition, climate change, Environmental Monitoring of Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Jon Aars, Magnus Andersen, male polar bears, norwegian news, pertinent research, Spitsbergen, spring ice conditions, starvation, Stirling, Svalbard, Texas Bar, victim of climate change. Bookmark the permalink.


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Q: Fatal error in MPI_Send, invalid tag I am fairly new to writing/running parallel code. Currently I am experimenting with basic tutorials in writing parallel code to obtain a feel for the process. My computer is using ubuntu with Mpich.
I am attempting to run the code entitled "The complete parallel program to sum a vector" on this page :http://condor.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/docs/intro-MPI.shtml
and am encountering the following error upon execution after being prompted for/entering a number:
Fatal error in MPI_Send: Invalid tag, error stack:
MPI_Send(174): MPI_Send(buf=0x7ffeab0f2d3c, count=1, MPI_INT, dest=1, tag=1157242880, MPI_COMM_WORLD) failed
MPI_Send(101): Invalid tag, value is 1157242880

I also receive the warning while compiling:
sumvecp.f90:41:23:

   call mpi_send(vector(start_row),num_rows_to_send, mpi_real, an_id, send_data_tag, mpi_comm_world,ierr)
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Warning: Legacy Extension: REAL array index at (1)

This is my code
program sumvecp

include '/usr/include/mpi/mpif.h'

parameter (max_rows = 10000000)
parameter (send_data_tag = 2001, return_data_tag = 2002)

integer my_id, root_proces, ierr, status(mpi_status_size)
integer num_procs, an_id, num_rows_to_receive
integer avg_rows_per_process, num_rows,num_rows_to_send

real vector(max_rows), vector2(max_rows), partial_sum, sum

root_process = 0

call mpi_init(ierr)

call mpi_comm_rank(mpi_comm_world,my_id,ierr)
call mpi_comm_size(mpi_comm_world,num_procs,ierr)

if (my_id .eq. root_process) then
    print *, "please enter the number of numbers to sum: "
    read *, num_rows
    if (num_rows .gt. max_rows) stop "Too many numbers."

    avg_rows_per_process = num_rows / num_procs

    do ii = 1,num_rows
        vector(ii) = float(ii)
    end do

    do an_id = 1, num_procs -1
        start_row = (an_id*avg_rows_per_process) +1
        end_row = start_row + avg_rows_per_process -1
        if (an_id .eq. (num_procs - 1)) end_row = num_rows
        num_rows_to_send = end_row - start_row + 1

        call mpi_send(num_rows_to_send, 1, mpi_int, an_id, send_data_tag, mpi_comm_world,ierr)

        call mpi_send(vector(start_row),num_rows_to_send, mpi_real, an_id, send_data_tag, mpi_comm_world,ierr)
    end do

    summ = 0.0
    do ii = 1, avg_rows_per_process
        summ = summ + vector(ii)
    end do

    print *,"sum", summ, "calculated by the root process."

    do an_id =1, num_procs -1
        call mpi_recv(partial_sum, 1, mpi_real, mpi_any_source, mpi_any_tag, mpi_comm_world, status, ierr)

        sender = status(mpi_source)
        print *, "partial sum", partial_sum, "returned from process", sender
        summ = summ + partial_sum
    end do

    print *, "The grand total is: ", sum

else
    call mpi_recv(num_rows_to_receive, 1, mpi_int, root_process, mpi_any_tag, mpi_comm_world,status,ierr)

    call mpi_recv(vector2,num_rows_to_received, mpi_real,root_process,mpi_any_tag,mpi_comm_world,status,ierr)

    num_rows_received = num_rows_to_receive

    partial_sum = 0.0
    do ii=1,num_rows_received
        partial_sum = partial_sum + vector2(ii)
    end do

    call mpi_send(partial_sum,1,mpi_real,root_process,return_data_tag,mpi_comm_world,ierr)
endif

call mpi_finalize(ierr)
stop
end

A: You are missing IMPLICIT NONE and you have a large number of undeclared variables.
The reported error is because
 send_data_tag = 2001, return_data_tag = 2002

are implicitly real variables and not integers. But you probably have many more problems.
First add IMPLICIT NONE and declare or variables. Also I highly recommend to put use mpi instead of the include '/usr/include/mpi/mpif.h' it is likely to help you to find more problems.

Now I see the code is copied from some website. I wouldn't trust this website, because the codes are clearly wrong.

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08:47 GT13 synchronized by GCB, load set-point 160 MW (fast gradient).
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Heat soaking & determination of Pmax > prep for primary frequency response tests.
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Los girasoles ciegos (littéralement : Les Tournesols aveugles) est un film espagnol réalisé par José Luis Cuerda, sorti en 2008.

Synopsis
À Orense en 1940, Elena vie avec Ricardo et ses enfants. Ricardo vit reclus dans la maison pour éviter les persécutions politiques. Dans le même temps, Salvador, un prêtre, revient du front.

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 Titre : Los girasoles ciegos
 Réalisation : José Luis Cuerda
 Scénario : Rafael Azcona, José Luis Cuerda d'après le roman Les Tournesols aveugles d'Alberto Méndez
 Musique : Lucio Godoy
 Photographie : Hans Burmann
 Montage : Nacho Ruiz Capillas
 Production : Fernando Bovaira, José Luis Cuerda et Emiliano Otegui
 Société de production : Estudios Organizativos y Proyectos Cinematográficos, Producciones A Modiño, Producciones Labarouta et Sogecine
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 Javier Cámara : Ricardo
 Raúl Arévalo : Salvador
 Roger Príncep : Lorenzo
 José Ángel Egido : Rector
 Martiño Rivas : Lalo
 Irene Escolar : Elenita
 Ricardo de Barreiro : Fernández

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Film historique espagnol
Adaptation d'un roman espagnol au cinéma
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Q: Is it effective to use one hot encoding of categorical data as input to PCA for anomaly detection? I have a mixture of numeric and categorical inputs, the categorical inputs are relatively low cardinality (perhaps 10-15).
I want to use PCA for anomaly detection, but am not sure how best to encode the categorical attributes.
Will one hot encoding work, and if not, what should I try?

A: I would not try pca, but rather correspondence analysis (or some its generalization to mixed categorical/continuous data.)  See Can principal component analysis be applied to datasets containing a mix of continuous and categorical variables?  for ideas and linkt to generalizations such as homogeneity analysis.


Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor who is al-Qaeda's number 2, has released a tape where he blasts President-elect Barack Obama as a "house slave" whose policies will be no different than George W.Bush's. This may signal either an al-Qaeda call rallying dormant troops or real worry that Obama's appeal may dry up al-Qaeda's source of recruitment among young, disenfranchised Muslims. Pepe Escobar argues that Obama has a unique opportunity - in ideological terms - to render al-Qaeda totally irrelevant.


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Gold Was The Most Popular Asset Of 2022
Any way you slice it, 2022 was a turbulent year, from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to historic inflation and jumbo rate hikes to multiple failures in the digital asset space. These have had wide-ranging implications for the world of finance that are sure to carry over into next year.
Through it all, gold managed to help investors limit their losses. The yellow metal was one of the very best assets of 2022, down just 1.5%, compared to a loss of more than 19% for the S&P 500 and around a 10% loss for U.S. government bonds.
Not uncoincidentally, the most popular stories of 2022 that were published on usfunds.com all had to do in some way with gold, gold mining stocks or other hard assets. Below are recaps of the five most popular stories in descending order by pageviews.
5. For The First Time In 20 Years, 1 Dollar = 1 Euro. What This Means For Gold (July 2022)
For frugal travelers, there was no better time to visit Europe than in September of this year. That's when the euro/dollar exchange rate hit its most favorable level in 20 years, fueled by the Federal Reserve's aggressive tightening cycle.
But a strong dollar, as you know, can also be kryptonite to gold. The yellow metal declined more than 20% from its 2022 peak in March to the trough in late September, when the exchange rate also found a bottom.
Since then, gold has climbed around 10%, making it one of the most resilient assets of the year. Meanwhile, gold miners, as measured by the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index, have jumped more than 32% since the late-September bottom.
4. $2.8 Billion Lithium Investment Expected To Jumpstart The "White Gold" Rush (October 2022)
Lithium stocks continue to look interesting as demand for energy storage technology increases. Asia, and specifically China, has long had an advantage over the rest of the world in producing "white gold" products, but that may be set to change.
In October, the Biden Administration announced it would be awarding nearly $3 billion in grants to some 20 U.S. companies to "expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles and the electrical grid." The lion's share of the investment went to three companies—Talon Metals, Piedmont Lithium and Albemarle—all of which are in the process of building new lithium projects here in the U.S.
3. Gold Has The Potential To Hit $3,000 Or $4,000 An Ounce In 2023 (December 2022)
In his outlook for 2023, respected commodities strategist Ole Hansen said he believes gold could hit $3,000 an ounce once the market realizes that inflation will remain high despite historically aggressive monetary tightening.
I believe it's entirely possible that the metal could hit $4,000, a price I've been forecasting since 2020.
Technically, gold is setting up for a monster rally. Its 50-day moving average has crossed above the 100-day, while gold itself is trading above its 200-day average.
The fundamentals look strong too. Inflation remains stubbornly high, and the U.S. dollar is on the decline. A recession looks all but guaranteed with the yield curve at its most inverted in over 40 years.
Most importantly, central banks can't get enough of the metal. In the third quarter, official net gold purchases were approximately 400 tonnes, around $20 billion, the most in over a half-century.
2. Worried About Inflation? Here's What Investments Worked In The 1970s(May 2022)
Scorching inflation this year recalled similarly high consumer prices in the 1970s. So what investments worked during that decade?
You might not be surprised to learn that gold was the best asset to own in the 70s. The metal went from $35 an ounce at the beginning of the decade to as high as $850 by 1980. Investors sought a hard asset that could go toe-to-toe with inflation and hold its value over time, and gold fit the bill.
But does the thesis still hold up?
So far this century, gold has outperformed the S&P 500 by a factor of three. Not bad for a "barbarous relic" that generates no income.
This brings us to the most popular story of 2022…
1. Unloved And Overlooked, Gold Mining Stocks Could Be The Ultimate Contrarian Play (August 2022)
On August 10, I made the case that gold miners, among the most heavily battered stocks of 2022, were starting to look interesting. Since then, the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index has increased around 7%, beating the S&P 500, which was down around 9% over the same period.
It isn't just gold miners' performance that makes them attractive. As I pointed out to you, dividend yields were the highest I'd seen in nearly a decade.
Add to that the fact that many producers are starting to generate impressive free cash flow, and this often maligned and ignored industry may be worth your consideration. That's especially true if you believe a Fed pivot could be in the cards in 2023.
On Behalf Of Our Team At U.S. Global Investors, I Wish Everyone A Happy New Year!
Originally published by U.S. Global Investors on 27 December 2022.
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The S&P 500 Stock Index is a widely recognized capitalization-weighted index of 500 common stock prices in U.S. companies. The NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index is a modified market capitalization weighted index comprised of publicly traded companies involved primarily in the mining for gold and silver. The dividend yield is a financial ratio that tells you the percentage of a company's share price that it pays out in dividends each year. Free Cash Flow (FCF) is the cash flow to the firm or equity after all the debt and other obligations are paid off.
Holdings may change daily. Holdings are reported as of the most recent quarter-end. The following securities mentioned in the article were held by one or more accounts managed by U.S. Global Investors as of (09/30/22): Talon Metals Corp., Piedmont Lithium Inc.
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The moment Leonardo DiCaprio thanked his 'genius' Welsh make-up artist at the Golden Globes
Sian Grigg went to a Welsh school in Cardiff and ended up working with Leonardo DiCaprio on many of his movies including Titanic, J Edgar and The Revenant
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You know in awards ceremonies when the winner thanks everyone for being totally amazing and not being able to do it without them?
It's just happened to former Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf student Sian Grigg.
When Hollywood icon Leonardo DiCaprio picked up his Golden Globe for his performance in The Revenant, he name-checked his Welsh make-up artist.
He gushed: "My makeup artist, Sian Grigg — you are an unbelievable talent. Thank you for all the genius you brought to this movie."
Here's the moment:
According to MTV, Sian has been working with the Titanic star since - wait for it - Titanic.
Sian spent multiple hours every day making over the actor's face for this role, including putting the 'ice' in his beard.
"That was actually wax," Leo revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show .
"I had a fantastic makeup artist in this movie. She did all the stuff from the bear mauling, and it was wax that she dribbled all over my face every day. It was about a four to five hour makeup job every day with all the scars."
Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass in The Revenant (Image: Twentieth Century Fox)
She also worked on his transformations into Howard Hughes in 2005's The Aviator and Jordan Belfort in 2014's The Wolf of Wall Street.
Then there was doing his mascara in The Beach, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Body of Lies, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, Inception, Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby and J Edgar.
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Clive Owen in "Old Times"
Clive Owen makes his Broadway début.
By Hilton Als
Kelly Reilly, Clive Owen, and Eve Best star in Harold Pinter's "Old Times."Illustration by Tomer Hanuka
I first became aware of Clive Owen in 1998, when he starred in Mike Hodges's film "Croupier." The thin actor, who bore a certain resemblance to a young Lucian Freud, played a writer who could not get on with his work; one area in which he could exercise some control, though, was in the gambling hall, where he had a job as a card dealer. Whenever his hand grazed the table to deal cards or to gather up someone else's losings, Owen looked as if he were handling a piece of exquisite art—something he was mesmerized by—but then quickly ashamed, too, as if he didn't measure up to the moment. His intense gaze made everything seem erotic, or maybe on the verge of being defeated. Striding past all those losers who didn't know when to stop, Owen's character could not stop, either—he was compelled by some unidentifiable force to live in a kind of spiritual purgatory, not unlike a character in a Robert Bresson film.
Owen, who is now fifty, grew up in Coventry, in a family of men—he has four brothers—and is brilliant at playing characters who say nothing while others, generally women, get excited about accompanying him to unnamed dark places from which he may or may not bring them back. He's also blessed with one of the screen's more attractive voices, which is deep and slow, like Robert Mitchum's. It feels slightly weird when his sonorous tone turns to a laugh; for the most part, Owen's best characters wouldn't put themselves out to chuckle. On the exciting and complex Steven Soderbergh-helmed series "The Knick," Owen is believable and magnetic as a surgeon who seems to be addicted to everything but love.
This September marks Owen's Broadway début, in Harold Pinter's 1971 drama, "Old Times" (beginning previews on Sept. 17, at the American Airlines Theatre). The play is about social talk as a kind of poison—the cordials that couples and old friends offer one another in the hope that they'll get drunk on a shared memory, or social vision. Remember when we had fun? Of course, no memory can be truly shared—the past, to say nothing of the present, makes each of us different. Owen knows that, and makes us feel it, too. You can see his isolation when he stares us down from the distance of his character's internal reality. You can hear it when he doesn't say what his characters won't say, for fear that the words won't matter at all. ♦
Published in the print edition of the September 21, 2015, issue, with the headline "Social Studies."
Hilton Als, a staff writer at The New Yorker, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He is the author of "White Girls" and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University.


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'Lost' with Carlton Cuse
Lasting power
Carlton Cuse '81: "Storytelling, in whatever artistic form, is really the most powerful way we have of communicating our experiences with each other."
Surviving on the island, and life lessons from Hunter S. Thompson
Date April 18, 2011 July 24, 2019
Some people would be surprised by comparisons between the work of Charles Dickens and the time-bending, smoke monster-raging, castaway-warring, megahit TV series "Lost." But Carlton Cuse '81 doesn't think it's a stretch at all.
For the show's co-executive producer, the two share a fundamental ability to engage their audience with a key ingredient: a compelling story. In Dickens' case it was through his weekly newspaper serials; Cuse used his weekly multimillion-dollar production.
"With serialized storytelling you achieve a richness and depth," said Cuse, adding "Storytelling, in whatever artistic form, is really the most powerful way we have of communicating our experiences with each other."
Cuse offered his perspective at a talk sponsored by Harvard's Office for the Arts' (OFA) Learning from Performers program on Friday (April 15) at the New College Theatre.
His first foray into film came via the 1980 movie "Airplane!" When Hollywood executives arrived at Harvard to solicit feedback for the film, Cuse helped arrange a screening at the Science Center. The experience piqued his interest and on the advice from one of the Paramount executives who suggested he try to make a film as a way to get started, Cuse created a documentary about Harvard's crew team with help from an OFA grant. The network TBS picked up the film and Cuse was on his way.
But the love of writing and reading was always key for Cuse, who also served as one of the head writers of "Lost" through its six seasons. Works like "The Chronicles of Narnia," and books by John Steinbeck, J. D. Salinger, and Kurt Vonnegut, were his constant companions growing up.
"Writers," he said, "became my heroes."
Hunter S. Thompson became one of Cuse's early heroes after he read Thompson's seminal "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Later, when the two were collaborating on the TV show "Nash Bridges," the famous author inadvertently taught Cuse an important lesson.
Cuse recalled sitting in the back seat of a Jeep Cherokee while an inebriated Thompson sped toward a bridge and certain disaster only to swerve to safety at the last minute. Seeing Cuse's pale face Thompson said, "Bubba, you've got to learn to shed your fear."
"He was absolutely right," said Cuse, "because to succeed as an artist or in any creative endeavor you must shed your fear … if you are not prepared to fail you will not create anything of lasting artistic value."
The mantra applied to his experience with "Lost," said Cuse, who got out of a deal with another studio and took a cut in pay to follow his passion and help develop the show's pilot.
"I just couldn't get it out of my head."
He called the leap of faith required to work on a show everyone else was convinced would flop "liberating."
Cuse said he and his collaborator, Damon Lindelof, started breaking TV rules, introducing a complex narrative and large and ethnically diverse cast that included characters with dark pasts. They also purposely left story lines ambiguous to allow the audience to discuss the meaning of the plot with each other.
"Every time we were supposed to go right, we asked ourselves, 'Well what happens if we go left instead?'"
Offering a list of writing tips, Cuse urged the crowd to foster collaborations, write a little every day in order to "find a path into your subconscious," write with conviction, and to reveal the deepest nature of a story's characters.
It was ultimately a strong focus on character, he said, that made "Lost" so appealing to such a broad audience.
Above all, Cuse encouraged the audience to simply be creative.
"In whatever it is you do, do take the risk to express yourselves. Allow the beauty and singularity that defines you to be revealed to the world."
"There's no visual art in the Jewish tradition that actually focuses on God," said Harvard Hillel chaplain Rabbi Norman Janis, who called the assignment a challenge.
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CURE Media Group announces winners of the 2022 MPN Heroes Recognition Program
CURE Media Group
December 9, 2022, 11:00 a.m. ·4 min read
Annual event recognizes patients, healthcare professionals and caregivers for their outstanding efforts in bringing understanding, compassion, and strength to the myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) community
Eight patients, healthcare professionals and caregivers will be honored at the Dec. 9 MPN Heroes recognition ceremony for their outstanding contributions to the myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) community. The winners are: Mayra D. Andújar Delgado, Justine Hallahan, Dr. Naveen Pemmaraju, Dr. Raajit Rampal, Jessica Kuhns, Natasha Johnson, Dr. Steven Applebaum and Dr. Ghaith Abu-Zeinah.
CRANBURY, N.J., Dec. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CURE Media Group, the industry-leading multimedia platform devoted to providing cancer updates and research to the more than one million patients, survivors, and caregivers, today announced the recipients of the 2022 MPN Heroes® Recognition Program. Now in its 10th year, the program has recognized the individuals and organizations that have dedicated themselves to improving the lives of people with myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs.
"These incredible heroes have truly dedicated themselves to improving the lives of people with MPNs," said Mike Hennessy Jr., president and CEO of MJH Life Sciences®, the parent company of CURE Media Group. "This year marks the tenth anniversary of the MPN Heroes® Recognition Program, and we are honored to recognize these individuals who have made a difference in MPN care."
The recipients of the 2022 MPN Heroes® Recognition Program are:
Mayra D. Andújar Delgado, who is a fierce advocate for patients in the MPN community. Her strong voice for raising MPN awareness can be heard on the radio and social media, in support groups, and at local 5K runs in which she participates.
Justine Hallahan, who knows the importance of normalcy and selfless support when caring for someone with polycythemia vera (PV). As Justine continued to take care of her mother's life partner, Matt, she and her mother learned more about PV from his healthcare professionals and the resources available on Voices of MPN.
Dr. Naveen Pemmaraju, who is a true leader in the research and treatment of MPNs at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He strives to improve awareness and knowledge of MPNs through social media, and to elevate the quality of care for his patients and their family members through his advocacy, education, and support activities.
Dr. Raajit Rampal, who is a hematologist-oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he specializes in the treatment of MPNs and leukemia. He is committed to improving the outcomes of people affected by these blood cancers, giving hope to patients in the MPN community by explaining that there is highly collaborative work underway to advance the science of MPN understanding, care, and treatment.
Jessica Kuhns, who is an active, vocal, and incredibly supportive member of the MPN community. After her diagnosis with an unspecified MPN, Jessica has become a foundational member of several support groups and has raised awareness and money for MPN research.
Natasha Johnson, who is an Advanced Oncology Nurse Practitioner at Moffitt Cancer Center, where she cares for people living with MPNs with kindness, patience, and humanity. Natasha also speaks at conferences to educate other healthcare professionals about MPN care, research, and treatment.
Dr. Steven Applebaum, who is a dedicated MPN Specialist who helps his patients develop an investment in their own treatment journey. He often reminds his patients that living with an MPN does not have to come at the expense of living a full life.
Dr. Ghaith Abu-Zeinah, who is a passionate and tireless champion for MPN research and dedicated to helping people living with MPNs. Dr. Abu-Zeinah has also worked with the Cancer Research & Treatment Fund Medical Advisory Board to evolve the Richard T. Silver, MD Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, grown referrals of MPN patients, and developed annual patient symposiums for people with MPNs.
Ten years ago, the MPN Heroes® Recognition Program was created in the spirit of fostering community and recognizing patients, healthcare professionals, caregivers, advocates, and organizations that bring understanding, compassion, and strength to the MPN community. The recognition ceremony is an event of gratitude and celebration for the heroes who have made a significant impact in the lives of patients with MPNs.
For more information on the 2022 MPN Heroes® Recognition Program, click here.
Incyte Corporation partners with CURE Media Group to support the program, with CURE® hosting the annual MPN Heroes recognition ceremony. Supporting the MPN community is an ongoing priority for Incyte, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on finding solutions for serious unmet medical needs through the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel medicines.
About Incyte
Incyte is a Wilmington, Delaware-based, global biopharmaceutical company focused on finding solutions for serious unmet medical needs through the discovery, development and commercialization of proprietary therapeutics. For additional information on Incyte, please visit Incyte.com and follow @Incyte.
About CURE Media Group
CURE Media Group is the leading resource for cancer updates, research, and education. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, CURE® has become the most widely distributed and read consumer publication in the United States for patients with cancer, survivors, and their caregivers. The platform includes its industry-leading website curetoday.com; innovative video programs; a series of educational and inspirational events; and CURE® magazine, which reaches more than 1 million readers. CURE Media Group is a brand of MJH Life Sciences®, the largest privately held, independent, full-service medical media company in North America, dedicated to delivering trusted health care news across multiple channels.
Lauren Garafola
MJH Life Sciences®
lgarafola@mjhlifesciences.com
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The "F.P Response" designed and built in 1993/94 has been in continuous operation for the Fremantle Port Authority in Western Australia. At 21 knots sprint, it was the first medium speed response vessel designed to run from Fremantle Port down Cockburn Sound to Kwinana in the event of fire at the Kwinana port.
Until its delivery, Fremantle port had to rely on it tug fleet for such 'emergency resposnes' at the displacement speeds of 11 knots.
The main fire monitor delivers 10,000 litres per minute.
This vessel is available fully F.I.F.I. compliant to clients specification and with a range of improved power options since its design and build, so that it can be reconfigured to be a very capable 25 knot vessel.


As one of Britain's leading TV gaming operators, SuperCasino is something of a national institution. Initially known for running live roulette on Channel 5 and ITV, the brand now operates via a multimedia network including television, web and mobile.
From a technical and aesthetic point of view, SuperCasino is very impressive. Its live games are highly entertaining and can be accessed in unadulterated form via a multitude of platforms. Meanwhile, a decent range of virtual games supplement the core live products.
However, the terms and conditions attached to SuperCasino's bonuses can cost you your first deposit, so if you find yourself tempted by a promotional offer at this website, be sure to pay close attention to the fine-print.
Note: SuperCasino only accepts players from the United Kingdom.
What's the look and feel of SuperCasino?
SuperCasino's website is visually appealing, user-friendly and is optimised for a number of mobile platforms.
What games are available at SuperCasino?
Thousands of Brits tune into SuperCasino's live TV games every week and it's easy to see why. Glamorous presenters carry off a highly-polished casino show that's fun to watch even if you're not playing.
Aside from the live games, a range of virtual products provide plenty of alternatives for solitary gamblers.
The awesome live games at SuperCasino are powered by propriety software, NetPlayTV. Virtual games run on Playtech and are as solid as you'd expect.
What promotions are available at SuperCasino?
At first glance a 25x play-through (deposit + bonus) within a 30 day time limit seems reasonable. However, if you don't meet the requirements within the time limit, the casino withholds the right to empty your account – including any your deposit and winnings.
So, assume you opted for the maximum starting bonus (200% match up to £200); your starting bankroll would stand at £400. You would then have to wager this amount 25 times in 30 days or risk losing all of the cash in your balance.
While most cash transfers are handled promptly at SuperCasino, its admins are liable to take players to task should they complain about losing their balances. As you can imagine, this has generated a fair few complaints from disgruntled gamblers. Payments should take no longer than five days.
SuperCasino's glossy website, showbiz credentials and commitment to player accessibility are all fantastic and the quality of its products is undeniable. However, we would recommend steering clear of the welcome bonus. If you're shrewd, you ought to have a blast with SuperCasino's live casino games.