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Slovak Bass-House Guru Jimmy Pé Goes Grunge in Latest Music Video (Watch)
by Maximilian Vanegas
One of the best parts about artistic expression is that the only rules you have to follow are your own. And even those are fun to break every now and then. A great example of this lawless practice, where artists are free to express their creativity in any way they choose, is Jimmy Pé's latest music video featuring his 2022 debut "Pé Is Not Dead."
The recently released bass-house track is a gyrating single filled with womps and wobbles that give a shout back to the early 2000s era of bloghaus. For those unfamiliar with this fascinating trend that rose and fell in the first decade of the century, it was a genre that came from the electroclash scene which combined disco and 80's classics with noisy electro house.
Today, Jimmy Pé has resurrected this fascinating artifact in high fashion with this recent release of his and the music video that comes with it. In the music video, we follow the paths of two reckless, unhinged killers, who get their fix through taking the lives of victims via their lethally produced music. A hair-raising plot executed with humor and all of our favorite parts about explicit behavior.
As a self-proclaimed "broken beat explorer," Jimmy Pé's cut-up electronica appears to be seeping into the speaker systems of fans everywhere. With his unique style and approach to production, which has caught the attention of names like Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer, TOKiMONSTA, and several more, expect Pé to continue his climb to the top.
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Scherzer pitches 6 shutout innings, Valverde holds on in 9th as Tigers beat Yankees 3-1
NEW YORK – Max Scherzer pitched two-hit ball for six shutout innings and shaky closer Jose Valverde got Derek Jeter to ground into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded Monday night, giving the Detroit Tigers a 3-1 win over the New York Yankees.
The Tigers took a 3-0 lead into the ninth — the Yankees were close to being shut out in consecutive games for the first time since 1999.
Valverde, who escaped an eighth-inning jam, quickly saw the Yankees load the bases with one out on two walks and a single. A walk to Brett Gardner forced home a run, and brought up Jeter.
Jeter hit a bouncer to shortstop and the speedy Gardner barreled into second baseman Carlos Guillen, trying to break up the relay. Guillen's throw barely nipped Jeter, and Valverde held on for his 23rd save in a row.
The highest-scoring team in the majors managed only six hits overall against Scherzer (8-9) and a trio of relievers.
Not since May 1999, when the Anaheim Angels stopped them, have the Yankees been blanked in back-to-back games. The AL East leaders managed to score a lone run, a day after being limited to two singles Sunday in a 1-0 loss at Kansas City.
Ryan Raburn hit a two-run homer in the second off Javier Vazquez (9-9). Miguel Cabrera hit his 28th home run in the ninth off Joba Chamberlain.
Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swisher left the Yankees' lineup early with ailments. Rodriguez came out after four innings because of tightness in his left calf and Swisher exited with tightness in his right forearm. Both players were day to day.
Detroit's Johnny Damon drew a standing ovation in his return to Yankee Stadium. He took off his batting helmet, revealing a neatly trimmed Mohawk haircut, waved to the crowd and turned to the New York dugout before batting in the first.
The Yankees applauded their former teammate, who helped them win the World Series last year. Damon went 0 for 3 with two walks.
Facing the Yankees for the first time in his career, Scherzer held them to a pair of puny singles. He struck out Jeter and Swisher to begin his outing, and fanned six overall with two walks.
Scherzer got Jeter to ground into a double play with two on to end the third. In the fourth, after shortstop Jhonny Peralta bumped into Guillen on Mark Teixeira's easy popup and dropped the ball for a two-base error, Scherzer retired Rodriguez and Robinson Cano.
Relievers Phil Coke, Ryan Perry and Valverde closed out the Yankees.
Raburn hit his fifth home run in 11 games, launching a drive over the left-field wall in the second inning.
Jeter's career-best streak of 52 games without an error ended. The Yankees shortstop made a wide throw on Cabrera's routine grounder in the fifth.
NOTES: The Tigers won their third straight road game. Before that, they had lost 13 of their previous 14 away from Comerica Park. ... Yankees DH Lance Berkman is day to day after spraining his right ankle Sunday. Manager Joe Girardi doesn't expect Berkman to be out a long time, but it could be a couple of days. ... Yankees DH Nick Johnson, out since May after surgery on his right wrist, had another setback. No telling if he'll play again this season. ... The Yankees started off their Hope Week, with every player taking part in events that highlight family and community outreach. Mariano Rivera, Teixeira and Swisher were among the Yankees who enjoyed a pool party at the New Jersey home of 13-year-old Jorge Grajales, who was born in Panama and had all four limbs amputated because of a childhood illness. Grajales watching batting practice behind the cage, stretched on the field with Rivera and then threw out the first ball.


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" Evaluation of salicylic acid effects on growth, yield and some biochemical characteristics of cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) under three irrigation regimes "
Evaluation of salicylic acid effects on growth, yield and some biochemical characteristics of cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) under three irrigation regimes
Evaluation of salicylic acid effects on growth, yield and some biochemical characteristics of cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) under three irrigation regimes [2017]
Sartip, Hosein Sirousmehr, Ali Reza
Sartip, Hosein; Sirousmehr, Ali Reza
http://escs.birjand.ac.ir/article_647.html
Introduction Cumin of the apiaceae family is a annual plant with thin and aromatic branches that height is variable between 15 -50 cm that depending on the environmental conditions (Kaffi et al., 2002). Drought stress as a factor in reducing plant growth in many regions of the world is that seriously limit crop production and climate changes in the world, the situation is more serious (Anjum et al., 2011). Salicylic acid as a phenolic hormone, within a plant setting performs and its role in the immune system against abiotic (pathogens) and abiotic (drought, salinity, heavy metals and ozone) is well known (Klessig and Malamy, 1994). It has been reported that application of salicylic acid in the tomatoes has helped to improve the growth in drought stress (Senaratna et al., 2000).Materials and methods This research during the crop year 2014 was conducted at the research farm of Zabol university Institute. The experiment was done as a split plot in a randomized complete block with three replications. water availability in three level: 50 mm (control), 100 mm and 150 mm evaporation (high stress) from evaporation pan class A as the main factor and different levels of foliar application of salicylic acid ] 0 (no spraying), 1 and 3 mM) were considered as subplots. Measuring photosynthetic pigments by lichtenthaler (1994), proline by Bates et al (1973) and soluble carbohydrate by Keles and Oncel method (2004) were measured. Harvest, in order to calculate yield cumin seed, was done in ripening stages. Statistical analysis was performed using SAS version 1.9 and averages were compared with Duncan's multiple range test at the 5% level.Results and discussion The results of data analysis showed that the interaction of water availability in salicylic acid on proline of leaf was significant at 1 percent probability level. The highest leaf proline (7.78 micromoles per gram) was obtained by 150 mm evaporation of pan and foliar application 3 mM salicylic acid that compared to control treatment (50 mm evaporation of pan and foliar application 0 mM of salicylic acid) increase 96.96 percent indicated. Drought stress caused a significant increase in carbohydrate of cumin leaves at 1 percent probability level. Results showed that the interaction of water availability in salicylic acid on chlorophyll b at 5% and carotenoids leaves was significant at 1% probability level. Results showed that interaction water availability in salicylic acid on grain yield were significant at the 5% level and the highest grain yield (98.9 grams per square meter) in 50 mm evaporation from pan irrigation and foliar application of 1 mM salicylic acid was obtained.Reduce the rate of growth under drought stress, the compatibilizer state of to survive the adaptation under stress condition, because plant instead of used nutrients and energy for shoot grow, used for the storage molecule leads against stress (Khalid, 2006). In fennel suitable irrigation leads to better growth, more leaf area, followed by the growth gets better (Buchanan-Wollaston et al., 2003). Salicylic acid by increasing the activity of Rubisco enzyme and chlorophyll increases the photosynthetic rate (Sing and Ushs, 2003). Foliar application of salicylic acid was significant effects on yield and yield components of cumin (Asfini Farahani et al., 2013). The salicylic acid by inducing Protection interactions through the hormone abscisic acid leads to the accumulation, osmolytes especially proline in the plant (Yoshiba et al., 2005). Accumulation of organic compounds such as carbohydrates and amino acids in the cytoplasm plays an important role in the regulation of osmotic pressure plant (Flagella et al., 1995). Increase the amount of carbohydrates and proline under drought stress has been reported in in chamomile (Arazmju et al., 2010). Lowering the activity of photosystem ІІ, reduced RuBisCO enzyme activity and inhibits the synthesis of ATP, causes the formation of free oxygen species in chloroplasts increase. In drought stress, lack of water causes decomposition of chlorophyll and glutamate that is chlorophyll and proline precursor the effect of drought has become as a proline and thus reduced chlorophyll content (Lawlor and Cornic, 2002). A significant increase in chlorophyll and carotenoid in the foliar application of salicylic acid has been reported and The results of this affair have considered increasing the photosynthesis rate (El-Tayeb, 2005).Conclusion The results showed that cumin to when faced with drought stress, the osmotic regulation mechanism used by the accumulation of proline and soluble carbohydrates and in this way to tolerate the water shortage conditions.
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Introduction Cumin of the apiaceae family is a annual plant with thin and aromatic branches that height is variable between 15 -50 cm that depending on the environmental conditions (Kaffi et al., 2002). Drought stress as a factor in reducing plant growth in many regions of the world is that seriously limit crop production and climate changes in the world, the situation is more serious (Anjum et al., 2011). Salicylic acid as a phenolic hormone, within a plant setting performs and its role in the immune system against abiotic (pathogens) and abiotic (drought, salinity, heavy metals and ozone) is well known (Klessig and Malamy, 1994). It has been reported that application of salicylic acid in the tomatoes has helped to improve the growth in drought stress (Senaratna et al., 2000).Materials and methods This research during the crop year 2014 was conducted at the research farm of Zabol university Institute. The experiment was done as a split plot in a randomized complete block with three replications. water availability in three level: 50 mm (control), 100 mm and 150 mm evaporation (high stress) from evaporation pan class A as the main factor and different levels of foliar application of salicylic acid ] 0 (no spraying), 1 and 3 mM) were considered as subplots. Measuring photosynthetic pigments by lichtenthaler (1994), proline by Bates et al (1973) and soluble carbohydrate by Keles and Oncel method (2004) were measured. Harvest, in order to calculate yield cumi
n seed, was done in ripening stages. Statistical analysis was performed using SAS version 1.9 and averages were compared with Duncan's multiple range test at the 5% level.Results and discussion The results of data analysis showed that the interaction of water availability in salicylic acid on proline of leaf was significant at 1 percent probability level. The highest leaf proline (7.78 micromoles per gram) was obtained by 150 mm evaporation of pan and foliar application 3 mM salicylic acid that compared to control treatment (50 mm evaporation of pan and foliar application 0 mM of salicylic acid) increase 96.96 percent indicated. Drought stress caused a significant increase in carbohydrate of cumin leaves at 1 percent probability level. Results showed that the interaction of water availability in salicylic acid on chlorophyll b at 5% and carotenoids leaves was significant at 1% probability level. Results showed that interaction water availability in salicylic acid on grain yield were significant at the 5% level and the highest grain yield (98.9 grams per square meter) in 50 mm evaporation from pan irrigation and foliar application of 1 mM salicylic acid was obtained.Reduce the rate of growth under drought stress, the compatibilizer state of to survive the adaptation under stress condition, because plant instead of used nutrients and energy for shoot grow, used for the storage molecule leads against stress (Khalid, 2006). In fennel suitable irrigation leads to better growth, more leaf area, followed by the growth gets better (Buchanan-Wollaston et al., 2003). Salicylic acid by increasing the activity of Rubisco enzyme and chlorophyll increases the photosynthetic rate (Sing and Ushs, 2003). Foliar application of salicylic acid was significant effects on yield and yield components of cumin (Asfini Farahani et al., 2013). The salicylic acid by inducing Protection interactions through the hormone abscisic acid leads to the accumulation, osmolytes especially proline in the plant (Yoshiba et al., 2005). Accumulation of organic compounds such as carbohydrates and amino acids in the cytoplasm plays an important role in the regulation of osmotic pressure plant (Flagella et al., 1995). Increase the amount of carbohydrates and proline under drought stress has been reported in in chamomile (Arazmju et al., 2010). Lowering the activity of photosystem ІІ, reduced RuBisCO enzyme activity and inhibits the synthesis of ATP, causes the formation of free oxygen species in chloroplasts increase. In drought stress, lack of water causes decomposition of chlorophyll and glutamate that is chlorophyll and proline precursor the effect of drought has become as a proline and thus reduced chlorophyll content (Lawlor and Cornic, 2002). A significant increase in chlorophyll and carotenoid in the foliar application of salicylic acid has been reported and The results of this affair have considered increasing the photosynthesis rate (El-Tayeb, 2005).Conclusion The results showed that cumin to when faced with drought stress, the osmotic regulation mechanism used by the accumulation of proline and soluble carbohydrates and in this way to tolerate the water shortage conditions.
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As daylight begins to shine on the fiscal cliff deal just passed by Congress, it's clear the expected bipartisan betrayal has occurred. And even worse, it lays the groundwork for much more to come.
In brief, the deal protects wealthy households earning up to $450,000 annually from tax increases, as it makes Bush tax cuts permanent for 98.5% of Americans. With this provision, Obama broke his promise to raise taxes on those earning over $250,000 per year.
The deal also ended the payroll tax holiday, hitting vulnerable working and middle class families with significant tax increases likely to take further steam out of the economy. This increased tax burden – of about $1000 for a family earning $50,000 per year – should have been replaced by another tax break for working families to prevent a reduction in demand that's likely to further stall the ailing economy.
The deal also ushered in an additional $205 billion in wasteful corporate tax favors. New racetracks will get tens of millions, Goldman Sachs gets $1.6 billion in tax-free financing for its new massive headquarters, banks get a $9 billion dollar loophole for offshore financing, and U.S. multinationals are allowed to dodge taxes on income earned by foreign subsidiaries – giving them all the more reason to move jobs offshore.
The deal included an urgent renewal of unemployment insurance, though many observers considered this virtually a given. It also deferred the self-inflicted devastation of the 'sequester', which would impose $110 billion in across the board domestic and military cuts, but only for two months.
In supporting the bill, President Obama gave away the one bargaining chip – the expiring Bush tax cuts – that he could have used in the upcoming negotiations on spending cuts and the debt ceiling. Not only did Obama get little of substance in return for his only bargaining chip. He actually ceded nearly half the $1 trillion in new revenue that John Boehner agreed to, (getting only $600 billion in tax increases on the wealthy over the next decade).
This lays groundwork for a disaster. Obama has already agreed to 4 trillion in deficit reduction. The revenue side of the deal he just signed generates little more than $600 billion. That means we can expect bipartisan collaboration on more than $3 trillion in cuts going in to the next round of brinksmanship over the debt ceiling. Obama has already indicated his willingness to cut Social Security, Medicare and other health programs. Now, thanks to his early capitulation, the Republicans have all the cards in their hands.
Stay tuned. Our voices are needed more than ever to continue the fight for strong Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid – and for an economy that works for all of us. Once again we're seeing that real solutions will not be coming from the corporate sponsored political establishment. You can be prouder than ever of your vote against the continued bipartisan sell out. More than ever, we – the people – are the ones we've been waiting for.


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It's well established that young voters are "feeling the Bern"—in fact, 51 Million contributors S.E. Cupp and Krystal Ball discussed this just last month. Now a new survey of 18- to 26-year-olds, from pollster Frank Luntz, shows why he's the millennial guy—his big issues map almost perfectly onto theirs. One thousand first- and second-time voters (a group Luntz calls the "Snapchat Generation"—the social media platform sponsored the study) were asked about their political leanings and their outlook on America's future. The answers revealed why Sanders is resonating with young voters: A majority of participants named as their most important issues the same topics that are cornerstones of the Sanders campaign. Just take a look at some of the results: 28 percent believed income inequality is the most pressing issue facing America today. Survey participants were "worried [most] about the widening gap between the rich and poor. The rich aren't paying their fair share and the poor are suffering." 24 percent are worried about the cost of education. They also expressed concern that future Americans won't be able to afford the education they need for success. 38 percent said "corruption" is America's greatest problem. "Greed" came in second at 29 percent.
It's well established that young voters are "feeling the Bern"—in fact, 51 Million contributors S.E. Cupp and Krystal Ball discussed this just last month. Now a new survey of 18- to 26-year-olds, from pollster Frank Luntz, shows why he's the millennial guy—his big issues map almost perfectly onto theirs.
28 percent believed income inequality is the most pressing issue facing America today. Survey participants were "worried [most] about the widening gap between the rich and poor. The rich aren't paying their fair share and the poor are suffering." 24 percent are worried about the cost of education. They also expressed concern that future Americans won't be able to afford the education they need for success. 38 percent said "corruption" is America's greatest problem. "Greed" came in second at 29 percent. 66 percent believe corporate America "embodies everything wrong with [the country]." 58 percent prefer socialism to capitalism. (Nine percent even expressed support for communism.) 31 percent chose Bernie Sanders as the political figure they liked and respected most. A full 45 percent said, if the election were held today, they would vote for Sanders.
However, youth support is notoriously difficult to count on in politics. It's not that young voters are fickle—it's that they often fail to vote, even after being wildly enthusiastic throughout the lead-up to the big day. Voter turnout is a huge issue for Sanders, because of his dependence on younger voters. He himself blamed low voter turnout for his loss in Nevada.
"I've said over and over again, we will do well when young people, when working-class people come out," Sanders said on Sunday during an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. "We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large."
Things might work out for Sanders: 87 percent of the study's participants said they are likely to vote in this year's presidential election. Let's hope they do, no matter who they support—for the Snapchat Generation to have their voices heard, they'll have to add voting to their stories.


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Computational Physics Workshop
Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop
Sponsored by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Program
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Lectures, Teamwork, and Mentoring: Integrated to help you learn, enhance your career, and build connections for the future
2022 Computational Physics Summer Workshop
Applications are now open for the the Summer 2022 workshop and will be accepted on a rolling basis until January 21, 2022
Los Alamos National Laboratory's X Computational Physics Division, in cooperation with other related divisions including Theoretical Design and Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences is pleased to sponsor the 2022 Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop. The workshop seeks to bring to the Laboratory a diverse group of exceptional undergraduate and graduate students from within the United States for informative, enriching lectures and to work with its staff for 10 weeks on interesting and relevant projects that may culminate in articles or conference presentations.
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Students are organized into teams of 2 working under the guidance of one or more mentors. Each participant is awarded a fellowship that typically ranges from $8,000 to $13,000 based on academic rank (junior, senior, 1st year graduate student, etc.). Lectures, Teamwork, and Mentoring are integrated to help you learn about computational physics and enhance your career. Shared technical goals help you build connections for the future. Generous Fellowships are awarded to support your educational and research efforts while in the summer workshop. Social Events and Tours enhance the team-building experience, creating lasting memories and professional relationships.
Note: The Summer 2022 internship is tentatively scheduled to take place in person. If the current health pandemic causes the workshop to be held remotely, student projects will still be offered along with a series of career-enrichment talks and virtual social hours.
The workshop is open to U.S. Citizens who have completed at least one year of college or university. Applications must be submitted online. As part of the application process, you will need to provide a cover letter and resume (your school may have a career office that can help with these), and transcripts (unofficial transcripts are fine), as well as the name and contact information for one person who will submit a letter of recommendation on your behalf. If you are accepted, you will be required to submit official transcripts. An additional part of the application is to select your top three choices for your research project this summer. A description of the topics are listed below.
Applications are now open for the Summer 2022 workshop and will be accepted on a rolling basis until January 21, 2022.
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Fellowship Stipend
Participants will receive a fellowship stipend, the amount to be determined based on your current academic rank. The stipend will be paid in three installments over the course of the summer. You will be responsible to cover your own travel, food, and housing. Housing is in short supply in Los Alamos during the summer, but we will do our best to provide resources to find housing.
For the 2022 workshop, there will be 12 different projects for students to choose from. Students will work in pairs and will be assigned various mentors that will oversee their project. The mentors are all established scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. For more detailed project information, please click on the topic names below.
A New Way to Measure Black Hole Spin Orientations
Mentor: Greg Salvesen (XCP-8)
Description:The anatomy of a black hole X-ray binary system consists of a black hole in a binary orbit with an inflated star, which feeds a disk of gas that emits X-ray light on its journey to the black hole. The system is said to have a spin-orbit misalignment if the black hole spin axis is not aligned with the binary orbital axis. Spin-orbit misalignments have major astrophysical implications, but are difficult to measure because the black hole spin axis is not directly accessible. Fortunately, theory predicts that the rotational axis of the disk aligns with the spin axis of the black hole. Encouragingly, our preliminary analysis of X-ray data from the Swift Observatory suggests that the disk orientation can be measured; thus, probing the black hole spin orientation. This is exciting, but our concern is that different data reduction and modeling choices might affect the results. The two-student team will refine this new technique to make a robust measurement of the disk orientation for a specific system called GRO J1655–40. This will require designing a computational pipeline to perform a systematic Bayesian analysis of X-ray spectra (written in Python and interfacing with XSPEC). If successful, the students will demonstrate an impactful new way to measure black hole spin orientations.
Uncertainty Quantification in High Explosive Products Equations of State Inferred from Experiments
Mentors: Jeff Leiding (T-1), Stephen Andrews (XCP-8), Chris Ticknor (T-1)
Description: Understanding how matter behaves in extreme conditions is of importance to many areas of study, such as earth science, astrophysics, and weapons physics. The behavior of energetic materials is particularly intriguing. In this project, students will learn how to perform research quality hydrodynamics simulations of High Explosives. We have developed UQ tools to infer equations of state from experimental data by performing iterative hydrodynamic simulations. The students will compare equations of state (and their uncertainties) derived from different types of experiments. Opportunities exist in this project to learn about high explosives, molecular physics, Bayesian techniques, uncertainty quantification, and hydrodynamic simulation of high explosives.
Understanding Warm Dense Matter beyond Density Functional Theory
Mentors: Charlie Starrett (XCP-5), Chris Fontes (XCP-5), Jerome Daligault (XCP-5)
Description: Warm dense matter refers to near-solid density plasmas at temperatures that occur in stars, the cores of giant planets, and in inertial fusion plasmas (tens of thousands to millions of Kelvin). Understanding its physical parameters, like equation of state and optical properties, is key to accurate simulation of these physical systems. In this project you will implement in computer-code, and apply, advanced models for predicting these properties. In the past, our student's work has led to publications in peer-reviewed journals, and we hope the same for this summer.
Modeling Aquarium Experiments: High Explosives Underwater
Mentors: Jessica Thrussell (XTD-PRI), Von Whitley (XTD-SS)
Description: The LANL "aquarium experiments" consisted of a cylinder of high explosive immersed in water or alcohol that was detonated from above. These experiments were diagnosed by an image intensifier camera, in order to measure detonation velocity, confinement effects, and other properties. Students will model PBX 9501 tests using the ALE code FLAG and develop simple analysis tools using PYTHON to compare results to data.
Taking Large-scale Nuclear Data Validation to the Next Level via Machine Learning Methods
Mentors: Denise Neudecker (XCP-5), Jesson Hutchinson (NEN-2), Mike Grosskopf (CCS-6)
Description: Nuclear data are the input for neutron-transport simulations of applications in the areas of, e.g., nuclear energy, criticality safety or astrophysics. Before a nuclear data library is released, these data are validated with respect to integral experiments that resemble, on a small scale, these application spaces to ensure that the library performs well for associated simulations. However, this validation is non-trivial as one integral experiment value is often simulated with 100 to 1000s of nuclear data. Compounding this issue, one validates a whole nuclear data library with more than a thousand integral experiments. Hence, one can be easily faced with the challenge of identifying those nuclear data, out of >10,000, which lead to biases in simulating >1000 integral experiments. The LDRD-DR project EUCLID tackled this high-dimensional problem by applying machine learning techniques. These efforts have uncovered so far clear, but previously unknown, issues in nuclear data, but also processes were developed for the first time to highlight unconstrained physics space in our nuclear data.
The project here will further explore these processes by studying the validation of nuclear data dependent on our choices of input data as well as the algorithm. Out of this study, we will generate a stable toolset that makes this scientific process available to wider use within the nuclear-data community at LANL and internationally. But also, additional open science questions will be explored. For instance, how to correctly include correlated data or how to bring in additional sets of heterogeneous data that are more uncertain. The students would learn about nuclear-data validation, validation experiments, python coding and machine learning algorithms. They would also be part of a larger team environment.
Improving DFEM Transport Performance on Cell Based AMR Meshes
Mentors: Pete Maginot (XCP-2), Andrew Till (CCS-2)
Description: Solving the thermal radiative transfer (TRT) equations spatially discretized with discontinuous finite elements (DFEM) on 2D, cell-wise, adaptively refined meshes is an expensive component of many LANL multiphysics simulations. The most computationally intense component of solving DFEM TRT is referred to as a transport sweep, a direct solve for the full (angle, space, and energy dependent) photon intensity. We wish to develop a set of tools that will allow for rapid analysis and optimization of this transport sweep. To do this, we propose developing 1) a cell-based AMR hydrodynamics mesh emulator and 2) a transport proxy-app that solves the multi-group discrete ordinates equations using the piecewise-linear DFEM spatial discretization. Work will be tailored to students' interest, background, and abilities; examples of relevant topics include introductory C/C++ programming, on-node performance abstraction, numerical integration, and deterministic thermal radiation transport.
Center-of-Mass Multigroup Scattering in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Codes
Mentors: Timothy Burke (XCP-3), Nathan Gibson (XCP-5)
Description: This project will investigate more accurate Multi Group (MG) scattering distributions for use in Monte Carlo (MC) codes that better preserve the physics of scattering off of light nuclei. This involves generating MG scatter data in the Center-Of-Mass (COM) frame for use in MC codes rather than the lab frame and comparing to deterministic and MC simulations that use equivalent MG data in the lab frame. Deterministic codes use MG scattering data generated in the lab frame but MC codes can perform scattering kinematics in the COM frame. Data generated in the COM frame may be better represented via Legendre polynomial series expansions and may better represent the physics of neutrons scattering off of light elements like hydrogen. Students will implement methods in a MG MC code that runs on GPUs and compare results with MCNP and Partisn. If students finish this task early they will then investigate a maximum-entropy approach to generating moment-preserving methods for representing MG scatter distributions in MC codes that better represents the physics of neutrons scattering off of light nuclei.
Fully Kinetic Modeling of Plasma Flux Tube Transport
Mentors: Ari Le (XCP-6), Adam Stanier (T-5)
Description: In a curved magnetic geometry, a flux tube with high plasma pressure will rapidly drift. This process is related to edge transport in tokamak fusion devices, high-altitude nuclear explosion phenomena, and plasma transport after Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. Mass-loaded flux tube transport will be studied with the cylindrical coordinate version of LANL's fully kinetic particle-in-cell code VPIC.
High-order matrix-free three-dimensional Lagrangian hydrodynamics method
Mentors: Nathaniel Morgan (XCP-4), Svetlana Tokareva (T-5)
Description: For multiphysics problems involving large deformations, strong shocks and interactions of multiple materials, solving PDEs in a moving reference frame is one of the common approaches. In Lagrangian methods, the mesh moves with the fluid velocity which leads to accurate resolution of material interfaces. However, the Lagrangian mesh tends to tangle for strong deformations and vortical flows. High-order methods offer additional degrees of freedom per mesh element and allow us to achieve the required level of accuracy using much coarser meshes than low-order methods. A big drawback of the existing high-order finite element methods is the necessity to solve a linear system with a large sparse mass matrix at each time step. The goal of this project is to develop a novel matrix-free and high-order 3D Lagrangian Residual Distribution hydrodynamic (RDH) method that (1) can be used to simulate engineering problems, hydrodynamic experiments, and multi-physics problems with mesoscale material models and curvilinear meshes; and (2) scales well on modern parallel machines including Crossroads that uses CPUs and Sierra that relies on CPUs with GPUs. We will develop the high-order RDH method using curvilinear hexahedral cells and data structures in the ELEMENTS library that was created in the next generation code project (Ristra). Hexahedral cells readily support high-order Bernstein polynomials, which are positivity preserving and a key ingredient in the RDH framework. The work will leverage the matrix and array (MATAR) library within ELEMENTS for performance portability across all computer architectures (e.g., CPUs and GPUs). MATAR extends the Kokkos library to support the foundational data structures used in many multi-material multi-physics codes. Using ELEMENTS will accelerate the development timeline for the project.
Computing detonation waves in the blink of an eye
Mentors: Tariq Aslam (T-1), David Culp (XCP-2), Eduardo Lozano (T-1)
Description: The engineering design of high-explosive components requires fast and efficient computational methods. A new modeling framework is being developed to simulate the propagation of detonation waves in complex 3D geometries but only single-core calculations are currently possible. Working closely with the modeling team, the selected candidates will (1) develop the necessary tools to parallelize the numerical algorithms using LANL's HPC machines, and (2) conduct the code verification and model validation against high-explosive test cases. The outcome of this project will be a fast wave propagation code capable of simulating 3D detonation waves on the fly.
Modeling and Simulation of Oceanic Turbulence
Mentors: Luke van Roekel (T-3), Filipe Pereira (T-3), Daniel Israel (XCP-4)
Description: The numerical simulation of oceanic turbulence is crucial for numerous engineering applications, such as global warming studies, coastal erosion, or national security problems. However, predicting these complex flows is challenging, and most available turbulence models are either excessively expensive or inaccurate. These limitations motivated our team to derive a novel scale-aware formulation to efficiently (cost vs. accuracy) predict turbulent oceanic flows. The model is currently being validated against reference results. We are interested in evaluating the impact of several parameters of the governing equations of the closure on the accuracy and robustness of the model. Opportunities exist in this project to learn about turbulence modeling, oceans, numerical simulation, verification, validation, and numerical uncertainty.
Uncertainty quantification of high explosives for binder and formulation differences
Mentors: Beth Lindquist (T-1), Ryan Jadrich (T-1)
Description: When using experimental and/or simulation data to develop a computational model, it is often the case that many models exist that are reasonably consistent with a given dataset. Furthermore, some parameters of the model might be tightly constrained by the data, while the data might not inform other parameters at all. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) provides an avenue to interrogate these issues and allows for the creation of an ensemble of models that are consistent with a given dataset. The goal of this project is to perform a UQ analysis for several high-explosives (HEs): PBX 9501, PBX 9404 and X-0298. PBX 9501 and PBX 9404 are well-established HEs with different behaviors (with the latter being much more sensitive) and the behavior of the newer X-0298 is intermediate between the two. We will seek to quantify the differences in the equation of state (EOS) ensembles in a statistically rigorous fashion. While there could be several avenues for the students to contribute to the project, one possibility would be to assist in performing the UQ for the relevant burn models for the EOSs. The exact project will be tailored to the students' background and interests; in general, students can expect to develop skills in performing simulations, machine learning, statistical inference, and Python coding.
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Nuncio to Irish Catholics: Pope knows abuse scandals made lives tough
DUBLIN - Pope Benedict XVI is acutely aware that recent years have been tough for Irish Catholics as a result of the clerical sex abuse scandals, said the new apostolic nuncio to Ireland.
Speaking during a Mass to mark his formal welcome as Pope Benedict's representative in Dublin Feb. 19, U.S. Archbishop Charles Brown said the pontiff understands "that these recent years have been difficult for Catholic believers in Ireland."
Archbishop Brown said the Pope was "scandalized and dismayed as he learned about the tragedy of abuse perpetrated by some members of the clergy and of religious congregations. He felt deeply the wounds of those who had been harmed and who so often had not been listened to."
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New papal representative to Ireland promises to strengthen relations
DUBLIN - Pope Benedict XVI's new representative to Ireland has promised to strengthen relations between the country and the Holy See.
Archbishop Charles Brown, a native of New York, spoke while presenting his credentials as apostolic nuncio to Ireland and dean of the country's diplomatic corps to President Michael Higgins.
Forgiveness sought for those who protected abusers
ROME - Cardinal Marc Ouellet led a penitential vigil to show contrition for the sexual abuse of children by priests and for the actions of Catholic officials who shielded the perpetrators from justice Feb. 7.
Ouellet, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, presided over the vigil during a week-long symposium attended by representatives of 110 bishops' conferences and 30 religious orders. The Feb. 6-9 conference, "Toward Healing and Renewal," launched a global initiative aimed at improving efforts to stop clerical sexual abuse and better protect children and vulnerable adults. It was held at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University and is supported by the Vatican Secretariat of State and several other Vatican offices.
100,000 welcomes from Ireland's All Hallows
A hundred-thousand welcomes is perhaps more students than little All Hallows College could actually accommodate, but that's the welcome the Irish seminary extends to mature international students.
One-hundred-thousand welcomes in the Irish tongue is céad mile fåilte. And the first person to extend that Irish greeting to international students in the Renewal for Life Sabbatical program is a Canadian, Sr. Mary Ann Maxwell.
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Documents show how pope tried to end Irish inmates' 1981 hunger strike
DUBLIN - Declassified British documents reveal the extent to which Pope John Paul II tried unsuccessfully to intervene to end a 1981 hunger strike by Catholic prisoners in a British jail in Northern Ireland.
The documents claim that, after the pope sent a special envoy, the leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners, Bobby Sands, was willing to suspend the fast just days before he died.
First phase of Irish Church visitation concluded
ROME - Vatican representatives have completed the first phase of an investigation of major Catholic institutions in Ireland, ordered by Pope Benedict XVI to examine the response of Irish Church authorities to the clerical sex abuse scandal.
A statement from the Vatican press office June 6 said that apostolic visitators to four metropolitan dioceses, as well as seminaries and religious institutes, had turned over their reports to the competent Vatican agencies. Among the visitators were Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins and Ottawa's Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J.
In the coming months, the statement said, bishops and leaders of religious orders will receive notices on what they should be doing "for the spiritual renewal" of the Irish Church.
The visitation was announced by Pope Benedict in March 2010 in a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics after an independent report showed widespread and historic abuse of minors on the part of Church figures in the overwhelmingly Catholic country. The report accused authorities of covering up and enabling a "culture of secrecy" regarding the problem.
Visitator to report Irish Church near collapse
DUBLIN - Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley reportedly will tell Pope Benedict XVI that the Catholic Church in Ireland is "on the edge" of collapse due to the fallout from clerical abuse scandals.
O'Malley is one of several senior prelates — including Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins and Ottawa's Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J. — charged by Pope Benedict with carrying out an apostolic visitation of the Irish Catholic Church following a series of highly critical judicial reports that revealed abuse by priests and a widespread culture of cover-up for decades among Church leaders.


Indians President Chris Antonetti: "We Feel We're in a Better Position Today Then at the Start of the Offseason"
If you ask most Indians fans, they will tell you that in their opinion the team has not progressed thus far this offseason, and have taken a step the other way with spring training less than 60 days away.
One who doesn't share that feeling is Indians President Chris Antonetti, who on Wednesday spoke to Fox Sports Indians field reporter Andre Knott and company on News Radio WTAM 1100.
Antonetti, who always is looking on the bright side, says that the team has already met some goals, and likes what they have done in terms of moving forward and adding some players for 2019.
"What we are trying to do heading into the off-season is two things – and that is first and foremost feel like we have a team that is capable of wining the AL Central for a 4th year in a row in 2019 and advancing beyond that, but also we're trying to position our organization for sustained success beyond that," Antonetti said.
The biggest move by the team was to bring back first basemen/DH Carlos Santana, in the process losing the power in the lineup of Edwin Encarnacion.
Antonetti thinks that adding both CSan and Tampa Bay Rays prospect Jake Bauers will make the Indians a better team in 2019.
"We feel in getting back Carlos Santana and Jake Bauers specifically and the trade addition of Jordan Luplow in the outfield will very much impact our Major League team, fit very well with the balance of our roster," Antonetti told WTAM 1100.
Fans will point to the extreme number of players that have left the team via free agency or trade this offseason so far and argue that the team can't possibly be in a better spot than when they left the field in game three of the ALDS loss to the Houston Astros.
While that may be true as it stands on December 20th, Antonetti says that this team is not done with adding and making moves to make sure they have a roster ready to go and compete come the end of the March when the season starts.
"I think where we are there's going to be some turnover on our roster, that's just the realities and the way baseball works," Antonetti said.


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Chichester's parking charges could go up next year
Parking charges across Chichester could go up next year
Joshua Powling
Charges in Chichester's car parks could rise next year as part of proposals due to be considered by councillors.
Chichester District Council implemented a two-year freeze on pay and display charges back in 2018.
But after a review it is proposing a number of changes at its car parks for two years starting in April 2020.
All charges would be increased by the council's proposed budget rate of inflation, i.e. three per cent.
It is estimated these increase would bring in an extra £320,000 into the council's coffers over the two-year period.
There would also be further small increases at Little London and Baffins Lane car parks to 'assist with turnover and reducing congestion caused in this area'.
Season tickets in the city car parks would stay the same, but the price of rural car park season tickets would rise from £15 to £17.50 a month, and from £17.50 to £20 a month at Bosham.
An officers report, due to be discussed by cabinet members in early November, said: "The charges proposed are considered modest and competitive when compared with other neighbouring authorities."
A series of other options were considered by the Chichester District Parking Forum.
These included removing the free of charge parking period in all rural areas, introducing charges into the currently free car parks and extending evening charges to other locations.
If approved by cabinet members the changes would be consulted on.
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Kung Fu kicks into high gear with action and fun in first episode
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Put away what you remember (if anything) about the 1970s Kung Fu television series. You didn't really watch the series for David Carradine, did you? If you were like most of the viewers, you probably showed up for the martial arts. CW Network's new reboot of Kung Fu is for that same audience, but it also casts a wider net. Wednesday night Olivia Liang showed up to take the new series, CW's Kung Fu, by storm. You can compare it to the similar-vibed, live-action Mulan, some of your favorite recent martial arts series that have the same dramatic beats like Wu Assassins, or you can compare it to series like Charmed, Smallville, Stargirl, or Riverdale. Fans of all these shows will get a kick out of the ease at which the CW has brought a young Chinese-American hero into our must-watch DVR queue with college student-turned-Shaolin warrior Nicky Shen. She's a completely modern, updated Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and she brings with her an interesting supporting cast while pulling some intrigue into the story via elements of classic Chinese mythology and history. It's fantasy, and its supernatural, and there's swinging kicks and swordplay you're not going to want to miss.
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CW reboots 1970s Kung Fu, with a new warrior battling crime on the streets of San Francisco
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Not everything gets done right the first time. Take the 1970s television series Kung Fu. Based at least in part on an idea from martial arts legend Bruce Lee, the series was the #1 show in the U.S. in 1973. But casting David Carradine over Lee seems nothing short of lunacy in hindsight. While Lee's heirs later continued his vision in Cinemax's The Warrior, the series that became Kung Fu is getting a reboot, a re-imagining, or a redo next month as Olivia Liang takes the lead role as Nicky Shen in CW's Kung Fu. Well-timed to follow the success of the similar-vibed live-action Mulan and some of our favorite recent martial arts series like Wu Assassins, the series follows a Chinese American college student who travels to China and is taken under the wing of a Shaolin master. She returns to San Francisco with a new purpose. Nicky looks like a superheroine in the first trailers for the series, which makes the CW network of Arrowverse fame a good place to air the series. The new series also seems to have the slow-motion martial arts effects the original Kung Fu was known for (the same later used in the Six Million Dollar Man).
Check out some great first trailers for the series below. Continue reading →
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We were so good at the beginning–so good. Our first weekend was at the plant market. I visited the local museum the second week. We were going out and saying Yes to things.
Included in this was our field trip on our second weekend in town. We live in an almost ridiculously modern part of Guangzhou–so much that it's even in the name: Pearl River New Town. As impressive and clean as it, it can feel a bit sterile.
But not all of Guangzhou is like that. This part of China was formerly known as Canton, important for its international port since the Tang Dynasty and community that grew around that. And that history is honored. We took the metro to a neighborhood with a particularly high-density of these historic buildings, Yuexiu.
The buildings here were not nearly so modern nor the streets quite as spotlessly clean; there was charm in the feeling of this being a place where people might live their whole lives. Our first stop was one of the first Buddhist temples in Guangzhou, Guangxiao Temple. It claims over a 1,000 years of history, and was no less active on this particular Sunday. People burned incense and bowed their heads in prayer in front of the various Buddhas. Multitudes more bought lunch from the women manning card tables in the adjacent courtyard: rice, soup, meat, vegetables.
We stopped instead at a street-side snack shop for a scallion pancake hot from the griddle, a favorite treat from our days in Taipei.
Next stop was the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. We sat in the shade while Colin read aloud the Wikipedia page on the revolutionary hero-scholar-leader who manages the tricky feat of being revered in both Taiwan and China. Inside the building was an impressive theater and old photos of both the man and the hall.
Our last destination was the Yuexiu Park, a sprawling, manicured park with hills, lakes, a handful of historic buildings, and a statue honoring the legend of the Five Rams. These rams came bearing rice for the residents of the city during a particularly dreadful famine 2,000 years ago, saving everyone, and now they're an emblem of the city.
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Friday Estimates by Old Klady Bear
By David Poland - Saturday, June 30th, 2012
As I noted a while back on Twitter, Ted will be the Bridesmaids of 2012… only bigger. There is a good chance that this film will become the #2 opener of the summer-to-date, as I think we'll see a significant Saturday bump as the film is the must-see comedy that audience over 13 have been waiting for all summer. It's a better comedy than Bridesmaids, in my opinion. My only reservation about the film is that there is so much topical comedy, it may keep the film from truly being a "forever" title.
Another strong movie, Magic Mike, opened very well for WB, even though the movie has a brain in its head. Brilliant marketing. Truly. There is some bait & switch, which Soderbergh approves of (hear: DP/30), but this is a box office column and the trick isn't offensive when the movie is really good. (Maybe it should be. But I'm in Scotland, where the bus ads feature C-Tatum with a giant grin and no shirt. Bet it works here too. Also, there is plenty of beefcake, so it's not an overt lie.)
And Tyler Perry opens to Madea form, if not her top form.
And now, I'm heading back into the film festival…. more later…
DP/30: Brave
By DP30 - Friday, June 29th, 2012
Brave, producer Katherine Sarafian
Brave, composer Patrick Doyle
Brave, director Mark Andrews
Review-ish: People Like Us
By David Poland - Friday, June 29th, 2012
People Like Us is the best screenplay with which Alex Kurtzman has ever been associated. It's not perfect. It's not even Cholodenko-level, much less the Mazurzkian comedy/drama at which he seems to have been aiming. But it's pretty damned good. Interesting idea, reasonably solid story structure (too much repetition, not enough of the mother, not enough response to events)… you could do a lot worse than to see this film coming out of the studio system.
The performances are excellent. Chris Pine finally delivers another gear and he makes it look like he's been navigating this range of skills and emotion forever. Pfeiffer is great… albeit a little underused. Elizabeth Banks is solid, though is forced to spend a lot of time reacting or being pensive. The kid is quite good too.
The biggest problem with this film is a first-time director who is trying SO HARD that it actually distracts from the script. It's like Kurtan has seen so much Bay and Tony Scott that he thought he could make a movie that topped theirs by having all the visual and real emotion on top of it. He was wrong.
This is the kind of script that a good indie director could have made a grand meal of. It doesn't call, in any way, for the attempted visual fireworks. The editing – and it's a very good editor – made me insane. Stop already!
I truly wish Kurtzman had the $3 million that this film is normally made for and not whatever Disney gave him to keep him happy blowing stuff up elsewhere. His vision would have been better served.
The movie is still serviceable. Quite good at times. This is a career changer for Pine, who will be seen differently by quality filmmakers after they see his work here. And I, for one, will look forward to Kurtzman's next effort behind the camera… so long as it's as light in CG and heavy on humanity as this film.
DP/30: Magic Mike, dir/prod/dp Steven Soderbergh (spoken word)
By DP30 - Thursday, June 28th, 2012
DP/30: Louie, guest star Dane Cook
BYOB: Glasgow
By David Poland - Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
DP/30: Safety Not Guaranteed, director Colin Trevorrow, actor Aubrey Plaza
By DP30 - Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Nora Ephron Passes… And A Generation Loses One Of Its Defining Voices
By David Poland - Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
Nora Ephron was not Woody Allen. But she was every bit as much a living definition of a time and place in New York… a woman of an era… a liberal of a time… A Westsider… satisfied with her place in life yet never quite satisfied. She was a successful Boomer, and all that goes with that… the almost smug self-assurance and the endless self-examination.
During the last presidential election, she was passionate about a Democrat winning the White House, but she came to define the fear on the Left that Democrats can't win. That fear continues into this election season, making the greatest vulnerability of the incumbent the fear of his primary constituency that "right" is not might. Can a progressive centrist win the case for hope against cynicism and extremism when his base is terrified to lose what it has gained? My generation, the one just behind Ms. Ephron's, must become radical centrists. True believers that we can share a diverse vision of our daily lives and still come together as a nation over something besides war.
As a writer and sometimes director, Ephron's defined a decade of rom-coms (ironically, the weakest period of Woody Allen's career, both financially and artistically) and wrote relationships that women used to define their own status. If Mazursky was her precursor, Sex & The City was her aftermath, a generation unlikely to read Ephron's recipes as they were to line up at a bakery for $4 cupcakes.
By every appearance, she was a good person. She didn't have a rep as a diva, except amongst those who see all strong women as divas.
Even though I don't count her work amongst my personal favorites, I always got what she was doing and why audiences most often responded with great pleasure.
I will still think of her every time I walk NY's upper west side. She will be missed… and in her perspective, an entire generation.
DP/30 Emmywatch '12: Parks & Recreation, actor Nick Offerman
By DP30 - Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
BYOB: Off To Scotland
By David Poland - Monday, June 25th, 2012
The bags are packed and we're ready to go…
I am told they now have the internet in other countries (HA!), so I will not be completely gone. I'll even stop off at the Edinburgh Film Festival during the journey. (I"m sure I'll even see The Amazing Spider-Man just as soon as I get off the ferry when we return from the Isle of Lewis.) But the plan is to breathe deeply.
Be nice to each other while I am gone.
DP/30 Emmywatch '12: New Girl, actor Hannah Simone
By DP30 - Monday, June 25th, 2012
Weekend Estimates by Len Who's Been Doing This For More Than 20 Years Klady
By David Poland - Sunday, June 24th, 2012
SLUMP! This is your weekly reminder, so that when someone does throw out some stupidity about an alleged slump on a whim, just how stupid stats can be, This is the fifth of the last six domestic weekends to be DOWN against the year before… off an estimated 5%! Previous negatives were estimated at 24%, 7%, 11%, (+32%), and 18%. On the other hand, this is the highest grossing Start Of Summer until June 24 in history, with an estimated $1.82 billion, up 6.5% from last summer. About $495m of this summer's domestic total so far has come from movies with 3D compared to about $550m from movies with 3D last summer to this point. The domestic year, btw, is up an estimated 10.5% from last year.
So if you were to believe the logic/lie that argued that there was slump in The Paper of Record starting in 2005 (and to which the paper has continued to commit, when convenient, infecting other media), you would have to be raging about the horrible box office summer we are having. And the cost of some of these movies is a different issue that's reasonable to discuss in context. But slump hyping is not about that context. It is about the notion that "people aren't going to the movies anymore," which is just a straight lie, up and down.
And now back to this weekend…
Brave is Pixar's 10th release since 2001 and all but two of those releases opened to between $60.1m and $70.5m (Toy Story 3 above and Ratatouille below). That's led to domestic grosses between $191m and $293m. Worldwide, it's between $462m and $848m. The opening grosses and the totals do not really coordinate in any clear way.
So the answer on Brave is, "who knows?." 200/500 is a fair bet. 250/650 is a fair bet. There is just no way of knowing until the film has played longer in the US and then, around the world.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter just never got sticky, beyond the core audience. Personally, I think that there is a problem for marketing with a premise that clear and that wacky that takes itself so seriously. The publicity for the film was often fun. But the marketing felt a bit like Wanted, which was way over the top, but predicated on that self-seriousness to be campy fun. Jolie is, in a way, a signal that it will be over the top, as she is visually over the top. "Someone you've never seen before in your life is Lincoln… and he's going to kill vampires in slow motion" is a tough f-ing sell to all but the ComicCon Core…or as it has evolved, The Geek 15 (formerly the Geek 8 and the Geek 12).
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a bad title for a studio under new ownership.
Moonrise Kingdom expanded to 394 screens (+217) and added about 52% to its gross. It also passed Marigold Hotel, now descending, on a weekend for the first time. The film isn't going to catch up to what will be Marigold's $40m+ domestic haul. However, it's within a few days of being in the upper half of Wes Anderson grossers and with these solid numbers, has a good shot at Anderson's $20m – $30m domestic club, which is the top for all of his movies except for The Royal Tenenbaums.
To Rome With Love has a nice, but not thrilling 5 screen opening with a $75k per-screen. It's pretty much impossible to know whether Sony Classics will find a significant audience outside of the big cities, as they did for MiP last summer. My sense is that SPC will be doing well to get more than a third of the audience from last summer for this one.
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Friday Estimates by Kilted Klady
By David Poland - Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
Keep your overwriting pencils handy, because we still don't know exactly where Brave is going. We do know that it's not Toy Story 3 and not going to become Toy Story 3. Aside from that, this is the 2nd best non-TS3 opening day in the animation giant's history and it could easy be their 2nd best opening weekend ever (a slot currently held by The Incredibles' $70.5m launch). It certainly will be the 2n best opening of the summer so far and given Pixar's history, is a near-lock for $200m domestic. But the top group of Pixar movies start at 4250m domestic… which is also quite possible. Based on the last 3 years, the weekend number could range from 2.6x Friday ($67m) to 3.2x Friday ($77m). We'll see.
(corrected, 12:22p Saturday, for a missed Cars 2 opening day number.)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has got a well-known title character, but no star power. As a result, we have yet another movie this summer that found its core audience, but little else.
Focus kinda ole'd Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, which seems like sad lost lamb out there.
The new Woody launched on 5 screens to $24k per for Friday, a bit behind the launch of Midnight in Paris, which did $28k per on 6. I don't think word of mouth is Sony Classics' friend this time around. So while Midnight did $100k per in their 6-screen opening, Rome should be more like $80k for a $480k start. It's a good number, but SPC is going to have to count on the starvation diet for movie loving adults over 50 to get them through this one. Low to mid teens would be a happy result for this film at this point.
It's not much of a box office story, but go see The Invisible War, a powerful reminder that we haven't come that long a way, baby. Also out there with the potential to surprise grown up audiences with its intimate charms is Safety Not Guaranteed.
Is This The Most Stupid Of The Stupid White Papers On Film This Summer?
By David Poland - Friday, June 22nd, 2012
It's early… and no doubt, Deadline and The Wrap will publish stories all August long giving credence to a parade of moronic insights from the industry analysts working for the money movers. But this could be the early winner, with such a lead on stupidity that it can't be caught from behind.
The Hollywood Reporter published this doozy on Monday without a hint of disbelief and it escaped my notice until AV Club decided to mock it, but not clearly debunk it. Japanese Scientists Produce Mathematical Model to Predict Box Office From Social Media Activity
Every year, someone comes along to claim to be able to predict box office based on pulling a feather out of their ass in some way. But this one is misses on its fundamental conceit… the idea that heightened awareness, whether an increase in ads (which 98% of wide releases choose in the week of release) or Social Media buzz, can be used to predict box office results in anything but the broadest ways. (And there is plenty of proof that even broad assumptions based on Social Media are inaccurate most of the time.)
Should we be taking an analysis on Social Media and box office popularity that is using movies from 2006, pre-Twitter and very early in the history of Facebook, seriously? (Were they studying AOL chat rooms?) And then they leap to Asian openings from this year, where the marketing and publicity strategies can be quite different.
It's really simple. Garbage in, garbage out. Lack of insight into the market they claim they have a new tool to analyze combined with limited, mismatched info = stupid.
I know the news cycle is relentless. These white papers can be news since they are being offered by brokerage houses and might influence how people invest. But why any journalist or journalistic outlet would take the provocative finding from these papers and turn them into headlines without analyzing what's been said is just beyond me. Shocking.
Does the Hollywood Reporter or any reporter there really believe for a second that advertising only matters the week before opening and that Social Media buzz would – with very few exceptions – exist to be measured without the studio marketing departments… must less the silly suggestions in this paper? Show of hands!
It's a rhetorical question. Everyone at THR is smarter than that.
And yet, they printed it.
Oy to the 8th power.
DP/30 @ LAFF 2012: Gayby, writer/director Jonathan Lisecki
By DP30 - Friday, June 22nd, 2012


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Anika – the project of Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson who is also a founding member of Exploded View – announces Change, her first new album in over a decade, and shares the "Change" video directed by Sven Gutjahr who also directed the video for recent single "Finger Pies." The follow-up to cult favorite Anika (2010), Change is beautifully fraught. The intimacy of its creation and a palpable sense of global anxiety are seemingly baked into the album's DNA. Spread across nine tracks, the central feeling of the record is one of heightened frustration buoyed by guarded optimism. The songs offer skittering, austere electronic backdrops reminiscent of classic Broadcast records or Hi Scores-era Boards of Canada, playing them against Anika's remarkable voice—Nico-esque, beautifully plaintive, and—in regards to the record's subject matter—totally resolute.
And Exploded View, Change was ultimately the product of necessity. After recording the initial ideas by herself at Berlin's Klangbild Studios, Anika was joined by Exploded View's Martin Thulin, who co-produced the album and played some live drums and bass. "This album had been planned for a little while and the circumstances of its inception were quite different to what had been expected," says Anika. "This colored the album quite significantly. The lyrics were all written there on the spot. It's a vomit of emotions, anxieties, empowerment, and of thoughts like—How can this go on? How can we go on?" Recorded at a time when literally everyone in the world was being forced to take stock, rethink, and reimagine their own place in the cosmos of things, Anika provides the wizened perspective of an outsider. It's a perspective that is not lost on the British ex- pat and former political journalist, and despite the subject matter and the circumstances around its creation, Change itself is ultimately a treatise on optimism. The title track presents the album's message writ large: "I think we can change, we all have things to learn, about ourselves and about each other." To end the record on such a sanguine note might be one of Change's most revolutionary gestures.
"There's a lot of stuff I want to change," says Anika. "Some things I sat down and decided last year, I had to change about myself and my life. Sometimes it feels helpless because the things we want to change are so huge and out of our control. Starting with yourself is always a good place. I think we can change."
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