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- "Forgive me. I feel it again...the call from the light. Supreme Leader senses it. Show me again, the power of the darkness, and I'll let nothing stand in our way. Show me, grandfather, and I will finish what you started."
- ―Kylo Ren to Darth Vader's melted mask[src]
Kylo Ren (real name Ben Solo) is a leading member of the First Order and the Knights of Ren and the main antagonist of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
He is the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, the nephew of Luke Skywalker, the grandson of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and Padmé Amidala, the apprentice of Supreme Leader Snoke and rival to General Hux. He wields a unique crossguard lightsaber that he constructed himself.
Born as Ben Solo, the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, Ben was sent to study alongside other Jedi students at a young age, being instructed and led by his maternal uncle, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Like his maternal grandfather Anakin Skywalker, he struggled with his inner darkness. He revered his maternal grandfather and feared he would never be as powerful as the Chosen One.
An enigmatic individual named Snoke, the Supreme Leader of the First Order, preyed on Ben's internal conflict, and he ultimately fell to the dark side. He took on the name Kylo Ren, and aided by the Knights of Ren, he killed Luke's apprentices. This act greatly delayed his uncle's plan to restore the Jedi Order to its former glory and left his uncle despondent while Ren went on to terrorize the galaxy as a leader of the First Order.
Ben's uncle Luke was one of the few who managed to survive and escape the Jedi massacre.
In his youth, as Ben Solo, Ben was unaware of his true heritage, but suffered from issues of abandonment due to the struggles his parents had with their lives. He admired the power of his maternal grandfather Anakin Skywalker, but particularly in his Darth Vader incarnation. Because of this, Ben struggled with his inner darkness due to this obsession.
As Kylo Ren, he is ruthless, brutal and confident, but appears to carry at least some guilt and remorse for his actions. Like Anakin, he is short-tempered, hot-headed, and is torn by internal conflict. However, unlike his maternal grandfather, Ren is far less able to control his temper and emotions, as well as the fact that he is far less level-headed and far more prone to bouts of rage. To establish his rejection of his past life, Ren serves the First Order with great passion towards its leader and his master Snoke. He carries on his attachment to Vader into adulthood, where he will stop at nothing to uphold the Sith Lord's legacy by destroying all the Jedi. He is also quite sadistic and barbarous, willing to attack and threaten his officers if angered, leading to them and any nearby troops avoiding him when they saw him enraged, and keeping a table of ashes made from the remains of his enemies, upon which he would often place the burned helmet of his grandfather.
Ren is not without fear; he is afraid that he will never become as powerful as his maternal grandfather, and fears what the Light side's hold has on him. Unlike Vader, Ren finds conflict with these traits, especially towards the idea of family. Being seen as a focal point between the heritage of both the light and the dark also furthered his inner conflict. Despite this, Ren chooses to believe that Vader's sentimentality was the weakness that led to the fall of the Empire. Feeling this care is what holds him back, Ren believes that to be greater than Vader - to embrace the dark side - is to finally abandon the light side.
Powers and Abilities
- The Force: As the grandson of the Chosen One, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Ren is very powerful and has a very strong connection to the Force. Although Ren is not quite as powerful as his maternal grandfather or his maternal uncle, Luke Skywalker at the two latters' peaks, he is still an exceptionally powerful light and dark side Force-user. Ren's Force potential is rivaled only by Rey at the latter's peak.
- Telekinesis: Ren is extremely proficient in telekinesis, capable of freezing and influencing the movement of a person or even stop a blaster bolt and keep it suspended until he leaves. His power is shown to be weaker than Rey's, as he could not pry Luke's lightsaber out of his own telekinetic grip when he tried to summon it to his hand, causing it to fly past Ren and into Rey's hand instead.
- Force push: Ren utilizes Force push to send his opponents flying through the air, causing them serious injury or temporarily incapacitating them/knocked them unconscious.
- Force pull: Ren utilizes Force pull to pull his opponents or objects towards him, enough that he can hold people up with one hand while still pulling them with the Force.
- Mind probe: Ren utilizes mind probe to sift through the thoughts of a sentient being, for the purpose of interrogation or torture.
- Force sense: Ren utilizes Force sense to sense another sentient being's emotions, the future, ripples in the Force caused by momentous or traumatic events, impending danger and the presence of the Light side.
- Telekinesis: Ren is extremely proficient in telekinesis, capable of freezing and influencing the movement of a person or even stop a blaster bolt and keep it suspended until he leaves. His power is shown to be weaker than Rey's, as he could not pry Luke's lightsaber out of his own telekinetic grip when he tried to summon it to his hand, causing it to fly past Ren and into Rey's hand instead.
- Lightsaber Skills: Ren is highly skilled in lightsaber combat and a highly gifted duelist. He is one of the greatest lightsaber duelists currently alive; it was his exceptional skill with a lightsaber that ultimately greatly delayed the art of lightsaber combat from rising back to prominence with his massacre of most of the new, fledgling Jedi Order. His destruction of this new generation of Jedi Knights also earned him the nickname of "Jedi Killer" among the members of the First Order. Despite this, however, he was defeated by Rey in a duel, despite being far more skilled and experienced in lightsaber combat then the latter. Although, it should be noted that Kylo had already been wounded by Chewbacca and Finn respectively, thus was not at the peak of his strength. In addition, Rey's new-found abilities allowed her to meditate on the Force to gain enough strength to physically overpower him.
- Form V: Ren is highly skilled in Shien/Djem So.
- High-Level Intellect/Expert Tactician/Leader: Ren is amazingly intelligent and wise. As a Field Commander of the First Order, Ren is a highly skilled tactician and a very capable leader.
- Indomitable Will/High Tolerance For Pain/Expert Survivalist: Ren has an indomitable will and a high tolerance for pain; as he was able to continue fighting despite being shot in the side by Chewbacca, and slashed on the shoulder by Finn. In his battle with Finn, he was also seen beating the wound inflicted by Chewbacca, using his pain and anguish to fuel his connection to the dark side of the Force. Furthermore, while armored Stormtroopers were violently blasted through the air and killed instantly by the bowcaster's explosive blast, Ren has no armor, but only doubled over in pain when shot.
Weapons and Equipment
Ren's valued weapon and possession is his red-bladed crossguard lightsaber.
- Crossguard lightsaber: Kylo had built a red-bladed crossguard lightsaber. Ren's lightsaber was crudely built off an ancient design dating back to an event known as the Great Scourge of Malachor and operated using a cracked Kyber crystal. It thus had an unstable blade, necessitating the use of exhaust ports and focusing crystal activators to channel and vent the weapon's excess energy so that it would not overload. The excess energy served as the lightsaber's quillons (crossguards). The weapon's blades also crackled and arced like electricity and funneled like fire, giving the weapon a ragged, menacing appearance and a deep, growling hum. It is unknown if this is the same lightsaber he possessed when he was still a member of the New Jedi Order.
The Force Awakens
Kylo Ren first appears on Jakku searching for a map leading to the missing legendary Jedi, Luke Skywalker. After failing to recover anything from the planet, Kylo and his forces slaughter Lor San Tekka and capture the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, where Kylo interrogates Poe by mentally torturing him with the Force. Poe escapes with the aid of AWOL storm trooper FN-2187, nicknamed Finn, and Kylo is outraged. He implores on his maternal grandfather, Darth Vader, to help him.
Eventually, the First Order figures out that Poe's droid, BB-8, is on Takodana, and with it a map to the location of Luke Skywalker. On Takodana, Kylo leads the ransack for the droid. Encountering the Force-sensitive Rey, he takes her to Starkiller Base to discover the Resistance Base. To gain her trust, he tries to read her thoughts, discovering that she has seen his father, Han Solo. Intent on gaining information from Rey, Kylo is ordered by Snoke to bring her to him for interrogation. However, Rey manages to tap into the Force and escape her bindings by using Jedi mind-control on a guard, leading Ren to chase her with stormtroopers.
In the reactor shaft of the base, Ren is discovered by his father, Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey. When Han confronts his son and offers to help him with his emotional pain, Ren briefly thinks of his father's words before giving in fully to the dark side and stabbing him through the chest with his lightsaber; Han then falls into the shaft below them. An enraged Chewbacca shoots Ren in his side, leaving him severely weakened. Finn and Rey flee. Before he can react, the wounded Ren is briefly caught in the explosion caused by the detonations that his father and Chewbacca had planted around the area prior.
He finds Finn and Rey in the woods of the base and engages in battle with Finn, who is using Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber against him, much to Ren's anger. Due to Finn's lack of Force-sensitivity, Ren defeats and grievously injures him, but not without receiving a minor wound to the shoulder.
Afterwards, he tries to claim his grandfather's lightsaber, but Rey uses the Force to claim it as her own and fights him. Ren tempts Rey to join him, but she refuses and, giving herself over to the full power of the Force, overpowers Ren, knocking away his lightsaber and slashing him across face. With the planet collapsing with the destruction of the weapon, Rey abandons Ren and escapes with Finn. Before the planet implodes, Snoke instructs General Hux to retrieve Ren before departing to complete his apprentice's training.
Disney Parks
Kylo Ren will be a live character at Disneyland in California, as well as Walt Disney World in Florida, starting in February, 2016. The Disney Parks blog has stated that he will temporarily replace the Darth Vader meet-and-greet.
Han Solo
Ren apparently had a poor relationship with his father, calling him a disappointment. He rejected Han and brutally murdered him, though he deeply regretted this almost immediately after it occurred, showing that he did at least had some love for him prior to turning to the dark side.
Leia Organa
Not much is known about his relationship with his mother; however, Ben likely had a loving relationship with Leia. Prior to his fall to the dark side - when he started to struggle with his inner darkness - Leia was terrified that he might end up like his maternal grandfather Anakin Skywalker and so - sent him to study under the tutelage of her brother, Luke.
Unfortunately, Luke was not able to prevent Ben from falling to the dark side, as Snoke preyed on Ben's internal conflict. Ben, upon conversion to the dark side, became known as Kylo Ren. Leia was heartbroken that her son had become evil and mourned his fate bitterly. Yet, despite all the atrocities that Ren had committed over the years, Leia still believed that Ben could come back to the light and be redeemed.
Luke Skywalker
When Ben started to struggled with his inner darkness, he was to sent to study under Luke's tutelage at the request of his mother, Leia, in the hope of preventing him from ending up like his maternal grandfather, Anakin Skywalker. Luke taught Ben of the ways of the Light side of the Force and lightsaber combat.
Unfortunately, he was not able to prevent Ben from falling to dark side, as Snoke preyed on Ben's internal conflict. Ben then became known as Kylo Ren, and aided by the Knights of Ren, he killed most of Luke's apprentices, this act greatly delayed his uncle's plan to restore the Jedi Order to it's former glory and left his uncle despondent, while Ren went on to terrorize the galaxy as a leader of the First Order.
Luke was one of the few who managed to survive and escape the Jedi massacre. In the aftermath of the Jedi massacre, Luke was deeply grieved and racked with guilt, blaming himself for his students' deaths and Ben's turn to the dark side.
Luke then mysteriously disappeared; as he embarked on a quest to seek out the First Jedi Temple. Kylo, under the orders of Snoke, is instructed to find and kill Luke. Snoke knows that as long as Luke is alive, a new generation of Jedi Knights can rise once again. Ben probably had a good relationship with his maternal uncle; prior to his fall to the dark side.
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader
Anakin died before Ben was born. However, Ben come to greatly admire and revere his maternal grandfather's power, but, also came to fear that he may never be as powerful as the Chosen One. This fear and his desire to live up to his grandfather's legacy was why he, like his maternal grandfather before him, turned to the dark side, becoming known as Kylo Ren. Over time, Kylo Ren admired his grandfather's dark aspects then his light aspects and came to regard Vader as his true self. Ren has seemingly become far worse then his grandfather; although Vader was brutal and ruthless, he did genuinely care about his family, as he never killed a member of his own family in cold blood, not even for power, ultimately leading to his redemption. Ren on the other hand was willing to kill his father to keep from feeling such feelings as love and compassion from making him feel weak and pull him back to the Light side.
Ren became enraged when Finn and Rey respectively used his grandfather's lightsaber against him, as he believes that the weapon rightfully belongs to him.
Friends and Allies
Supreme Leader Snoke
Snoke met Ben by unknown means, and was deeply interested in him due to his embodiment as a focal point of both light and darkness (which was unusual for a Knight of Ren or any practitioner of the dark side of the Force to be attracted to). He eventually turned him to the dark side, and anointed him with the name of Kylo Ren. Ren still serves him loyally, believing that the Supreme Leader was wise and right to overthrow the New Republic.
Ren is currently unaware that Snoke does not truly care about him, as he is only using Ren for his power.
General Hux
Although they both serve the First Order to destroy the Resistance and conquer the New Republic, Ren does not get along with Hux at all, partly due to them both trying to win the approval of Snoke and mainly because Hux's arrogant, rude, short-sighted and delusional traits, Ren once threatened Hux, stating that if he ever pushes him too far he will kill the latter without hesitation, Hux on the other hand, dislikes Ren for no apparent reason, simply because of his uncontrollable temper.
Ren and Rey have been enemies ever since Rey located and purchased BB-8. Ren is very convinced of her power, believing even she does not know it. He very much longs to turn her to the dark side and train her, but this ultimately backfires for the time being. Rey's hatred of him increases after he kills Han Solo, and she tries to kill him with Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber, unaware that Ren is in fact Anakin's grandson, and that he feels the weapon rightfully belongs to him. Rey left him for dead but it is extremely likely that the two will meet again.
Ren and Finn have been enemies ever since he captured Rey and killed Han Solo; Ren becomes enraged when Finn uses Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber. When he states that weapon belongs to him, Finn (unaware that Ren is in fact Anakin's grandson, and Ren feels that that lightsaber rightfully belongs to him) tells him to come and get it, and the two engage (as Finn was trying to avenge Han's death) in a lightsaber duel, although he is able to hold his own reasonably well for a relatively short period of time and even manages to lightly wound Ren's right shoulder. Ultimately, however, Finn is defeated by Ren, partly due to his lack of Force-sensitivity, and mainly because of the latter's superior experience and skills in lightsaber combat, as Ren disarms him of Anakin's lightsaber and deals him a severe wound to his back.
- Prior to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, many fans questioned if Kylo Ren and Darth Vader were related due to their similarities, which turned out to be true.
- In the movie novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren is revealed to believe that the reason the Galactic Empire lost to the Rebellion was because of sentiment, and that Darth Vader's feeling for Luke were what caused the Empire to collapse.
- Alos in the novelization, Snoke is also revealed to have chosen Kylo Ren as his apprentice because the former believes the latter to be a focal point in the Force; a perfect blending blending of light and dark due to his heritage as Darth Vader's grandson.
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SPRINGFIELD, MA – It has been a topsy-turvy offseason for hockey fans in Springfield, MA, the home of the American Hockey League headquarters. The Falcons were sold to the Arizona Coyotes and moved to Tucson, then, a group of local investors purchased the Portland Pirates franchise and moved it to town for the coming season.
The group of investors is led by businessman Paul Picknelly, who has been on record by saying business leaders have been frustrated by with business leaving the city. In Picknelly's opinion, losing hockey in the City Of Springfield would of been devastating. So, he got involved and tried to see what could be done about it and by saving hockey in the market, it will become an important cog in the city's $2.5 billion dollars in economic development with the MGM Casino in Springfield, MA being part of the big economic plan.
The good news for the fans in Springfield and in the Western Massachusetts, the tradition of AHL hockey will continue in Springfield.
Since the move and purchase were announced, the team has been very busy. They held a "name the team" contest, unveiled a logo, uniforms and a mascot. It has been a very tight process for the team as they were under deadlines from the American Hockey League to come up with a name and a logo and uniforms.
Thunderbirds Executive Vice President Nate Costa's vision of the franchise is to recognize the past of Springfield and recognizing the rich hockey history. In addition with two Air Forces Bases with Barnes 104th Fighter Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard in Westfield, MA and Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, MA. With a big military population in Western Massachusetts and to have a combination of all three of how they could come up with a name to really identify some of the main pillars here in Springfield.
Springfield has always had a rich hockey history that dates back for many decades. The Springfield Indians started playing in the AHL back in 1936. The Indians would win three AHL Calder Cup Championships from 1959-1962. The Springfield Indians would become the Springfield Kings back in 1967. The Kings would win the Calder Cup in the 1970-1971 season. The Kings would go back to being the Springfield Indians in 1975 and win the Calder Cup that same year. The Indians would win back to back Calder Cups in 1989-1990 and 1990-1991. The Indians were sold and relocated to Worcester. MA to become the Worcester Icecats. The Falcons would play which was then the Springfield Civic Center for their first season back in 1994-1995.
The Springfield Thunderbirds will be affiliated with the Florida Panthers and led by Geordie Kinnear, who is the franchise's first head coach. Kinnear has been an assistant coach in the AHL off and on since 2001 and will bring plenty of experience to the bench this season. Joining Kinnear on the bench this season will be assistant coaches Doug Janik and Mike Ryan. Janik is from Agawam, MA a town that is part of the Springfield area. Janik played in the play in the NHL and AHL after being drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in 1999. He also won a national championship that year with the University of Maine Blackbears. Mike Ryan played in the NHL for the Buffalo Sabres and Carolina Hurricanes after being drafted by the Dallas Stars. This is his first professional coaching job.
The Thunderbirds will play two pre-season games at the Massmutual Center on Friday and Saturday night October 7th and 8th. The Providence Bruins will come to town on Friday and their I-91 rival, the Hartford Wolf Pack, will play on Saturday night. Both games will begin at 7:05 pm.
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FogHorn CTO, Sastry Malladi, spoke with George Gilbert and Lisa Martin, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's mobile livestreaming studio, at the BigData SV event in San Jose, California. They discussed how FogHorn's edge computing technology is being used by customers to predict conditions in real time, do condition monitoring or predictive maintenance.
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Lisa Martin: [00:14] Welcome back to theCUBE. I'm Lisa Martin with George Gilbert. We are
[00:24] We're joined by a new guest to theCUBE Sastry Malladi, the CTO Of FogHorn. Sastry, welcome to theCUBE.
Sastry Malladi: [00:30] Thank you. Thank you, Lisa.
Lisa: [00:31] FogHorn, cool name. what do you guys do? Who are you? Tell us all that good stuff.
Sastry: [00:36] Sure. We are a startup based in Silicon Valley right here in Mountain View. We started about three years ago, three‑plus years ago. We provide edge computing intelligence software for edge computing or fog computing. That's how our company name got started as FogHorn.
[00:49] Particularly, for IoT industrial sector, all of the industrial guys, whether it's transportation, manufacturing, oil and gas, smart cities, smart buildings, any of those different sectors, they use our software to predict failure conditions in real time, or do condition monitoring, or predictive maintenance, any of those use cases and successfully save a lot of money.
[01:10] Obviously in the process, we get paid for what we do.
George Gilbert: [01:14] Sastry, GE
Sastry: [01:29] That's right.
George: [01:30] Wikibon and David Floyer did some pioneering research on how we're going to have to do a lot of the analytics on the edge for latency and bandwidth. What's the FogHorn's secret sauce that others would have difficulty with on the edge analytics?
Sastry: [01:54] That's a great question. Before I directly answer the question, if you don't mind, I'll actually even describe why that's even important to do that. A lot of these industrial customers, if you look at, because we work with a lot of them, the amount of data that's produced from all of these different machines is terabytes to petabytes of data, it's real.
[02:12] It's not just the traditional digital sensors but there are video, audio, acoustic sensors out there. The amount of data is humongous. It's not even practical to send all of that to a cloud environment and do data processing, for many reasons.
[02:25] One is obviously the connectivity, bandwidth issues, and all of that. The two most important things are
[02:37] The second is the lack of real‑time decision making. What they want to know, when there is a problem, they want to know before it's too late. We want to notify them here is a problem that is occurring so they have a chance to go fix it and optimize their asset that is in question.
[02:54] Now, existing solutions do not work in this constrained environment. That's why FogHorn had to invent that solution.
George: [03:01] Tell us, actually, just to be specific, how constrained an environment you can operate in.
Sastry: [03:06] We could run in about less than 100 to 150 megabytes of memory, single‑core to dual‑core of CPU, whether it's an ARM processor, an x86 Intel‑based processor, almost literally no storage because we're a real‑time processing engine.
[03:20] Optionally, you could have some storage if you wanted to store some of the results locally there. That's the kind of environment we're talking about.
[03:27] Now, when I say 100 megabytes of memory, [inaudible] it's like a quarter of Raspberry Pi. Even in that environment, we have customers that run dozens of machine learning models. We're not talking about...
George: [03:39] Like an ensemble?
Sastry: [03:39] Like an anomaly detection, a regression, a random forest, a clustering, or a kmit, some of those. Now, if we get into more deep learning models, like image processing and neural nets and all of that, we obviously need a little bit more memory.
[03:54] What we have shown, we could still run...One of our largest smart city buildings customer,
George: [04:11] Let me just follow up with one question on the other thing you said, besides we have to do the low‑latency locally. You said a lot of customers don't want to connect these
Sastry: [04:32] That's right.
George: [04:33] It's like security, Bill Joy used to say, "Security by obscurity." Here it's security by...
Sastry: [04:38] Physical separation, absolutely.
George: [04:40] Yeah, physical separation.
Sastry: [04:41] Tell me about it. I was actually coming
[04:59] We installed, in their existing small box, our software connected to their live video cameras that are actually measuring the stuff, doing the processing and detecting the specific conditions that we're looking for.
George: [05:11] That's my question, which was if they want to be monitoring...There's like one low level, really low hardware, low level, the sensor feeds. You could actually have a richer feed, which is video and audio, but how much of that, then, are you doing the inferencing locally, or even retraining?
[05:32] I assume that since it's not the OT device, and it's something that's looking at it, you might be more able to send it back up the cloud if you needed to do retraining.
Sastry: [05:43] That's exactly right. The way the model works is particularly for image processing because you need...It's a more complex process to train than create a model. You could create a model offline, like in a GPU box, an FPGA box, and whatnot.
[05:57] Import and bring the model back into this small little device that's running in the plant, and now the live video data is coming in, the model is inferencing the specific thing. Now there are two ways to update and revise the model ‑‑ incremental revision of the model, you could do that if you want, or you can send the results to a central location.
[06:15] Not Internet, they do have a local, in this example, for
George: [06:32] The one part that I didn't follow completely is if the model is running ultimately on the device, again and perhaps not even on a CPU, but a programmable logic controller...
Sastry: [06:46] It could, even though a programmable logic controller also typically have some notion of a CPU there as well. These days, most of the PLCs, programmable controllers, have either an ARM‑based processor or an x86‑based processor. We can run in either one of those two.
George: [07:01] Assume you've got the model deployed down there, for the local inferencing. Now, some retraining is going to go on in the cloud where you have...you're pulling in a richer perspective from many different devices.
Sastry: [07:15] That's correct.
George: [07:16] How does that model get back out to the device if it doesn't have the connectivity between the device and the cloud?
Sastry: [07:23] If there's strictly no connectivity, what happens is once the model is regenerated or retrained, they put a model in a USB stick ‑‑ it's a low tech, USB stick ‑‑ bring it to the PLC device and upload the model.
George: [07:35] This is how we destroyed the Iranian centrifuges.
Sastry: [07:38] [laughs] That's exactly right, exactly right. Some other environments, even though it's not connectivity to the cloud environment, per se, but the devices have the ability to connect to the cloud. Optionally, they say, "Look, I'm the device that's coming up, do you have an upgraded model for me?" then it can pull the model.
[07:57] In some of the environments, it's super strict where
[08:04] Other environments,
George: [08:20] Sort of like a jet engine, you don't want the cloud to reach the jet engine.
Sastry: [08:22] That's exactly right. The jet engine can reach the cloud if it wants
Lisa: [08:29] Sastry, as a CTO, you meet with customers often. You mentioned you were in Saudi Arabia last week. I'd love to understand how your leveraging, engaging with customers to really help drive the development of Foghorn in terms of being differentiated in the market. What are those bidirectional symbiotic customer relationships? How are they helping Foghorn?
Sastry: [08:53] That's a good question. We learn a lot from customers because we started a long time ago. We did an initial version of the product as we begin to talk to the customers, particularly that's part of my job. I go and talk to many of these
[09:07] My problem is really that I can't even give you connectivity to the cloud to update the model. I can't even give you a sample data. How do you do that modeling? Sometimes I say, "You know what? We're not technical people. Help us express the problem, the outcome. Give us tools that help me express that outcome."
[09:25] We created a bunch of what we call OT tools, operational technology tools. How we distinguish ourselves in this process from the traditional cloud‑based vendors, the traditional data science and data and tech companies is that they think in terms of computer scientists, computer programmers in expressions.
[09:42] We think in terms of industrial operators. What can they express? What do they know? They don't necessarily care when you tell them I've got an anomaly detection data science machine algorithm, they're going to look at you like, "What are you talking about? I don't understand what you're talking about."
[09:57] You need to tell them, look, this machine is failing. What are the conditions in which the machine is failing? How do you express that? Then we translate that requirement into the underlying models, the underlying Vel expressions, VEL is our CEP expression language.
[10:12] We learned a ton from using the interface capabilities, latency issues, connectivity issues, different protocols, a number of things that we learned from customers.
George: [10:22] I'm curious with more of the big data vendors are recognizing data in motion and data coming from devices. The Horton Works data flow Nifi has a minified component written in C++, really low resource footprint. I assume that that's really just a transport. It's almost like a collector. It doesn't have the analytics built in.
Sastry: [10:51] That's exactly right. Nifi has the transport. It has the
[11:07] Whether it's coming from a device or whether it's coming from another static source out there. How do you express a recognition pattern definition across these
[11:18] A lot of these seemingly similar software capabilities that people talk about don't quite exactly have either the streaming capability or the CEP capability or the
George: [11:31] You talked about everything is time serious to you. Is there a need to have an equivalent time series database in some central location so that when you determine what relevant subset of data to move up to the cloud or
Sastry: [11:56] No, it doesn't need to be the same database. It's optional. In fact, we do ship a local time serious database at the age itself. If you have a little bit of a local storage you can
[12:09] Some others, because they have an existing involvement, they have some cloud storage whether it's AWS, Microsoft, it doesn't what they use. We have connectors from our software to send these results into those existing environments.
George: [12:22] You had also said something interesting about your
[12:42] Tell us more about how selling to operations is not just selling but supporting operations technology is different from IT sort of technology. Where does that boundary live?
Sastry: [12:54] Typical IT environment, you start with the boss who is a decision maker. You work with them and they approve the project and you will execute that. In an industrial and OT environment it doesn't quite work like that.
[13:08] Even if the boss says go ahead and do this project, if the operator on the floor doesn't understand what you're talking about because that person is in charge of operating that machine. It doesn't quite work like that. You need to work bottom up as well to convincing them that you are indeed actually solving the pain point.
[13:25] The way we start with, rather than trying to tell them what capabilities we have as a product or what we're trying to do, the first thing we ask is, "What is their pain point? What's your problem? What's the problem you're trying to solve?" Some customers say, "Well, I've got yield, a lot of scrap. Help me to do my scrap. Help me to operate my equipment better. Help me predict these failure conditions before it's too late."
[13:49] That's how the problem starts. Then we start inquiring. "OK, what kind of data do you have? What kind of senses do you have?" Typically, they do have information about under what circumstances you have seen failures versus not seen failures out there.
[14:02] In the process of interrogation, we begin to understand how they might actually use our software and then we tell them please use our software to predict that. Just 30 more seconds on that. The other thing is that typically in an IT environment because I came from that.
[14:18] I've been in this business for 30 plus years, IT, OT, and all of that. Where we don't right away talk about CEP or expressions or analytics and machine learning. We don't talk about that. We talk about, look, you have these bunch of sensors. We have OT tools here, drag and drop your sensors. Express the outcome you're trying to look for. What is the outcome you're trying to look for?
[14:38] Then we drive behind the scenes what it means. Is it analytics, is it machine learning? Is it something else and what is that? That's how we approach the problem. Of course, sometimes you do surprisingly occasionally run into very technical people.
[14:52] For those people we can right away talk about here's analytics, here's machine learning, using an expression, all of that. That's kind of how we operate.
George: [14:59] One thing that's becoming clearer is I think there's widespread recognition that
Sastry: [15:42] That's actually a good experience. From my own
[15:56] There's one customer in a manufacturing domain where they've been seeing a lot of finished goods failures. There's a lot of
[16:06] Because they've been seeing a lot of failures every single day, we did not need a lot of data to train and create a model to do that. In fact, we just needed one hour's worth of data. We created a model. We had completely eliminated their scrap.
[16:20] There are other kinds of models. Other kinds of model of the video where we can't do that on the edge. For example, we acquired some video files. Our simulated audio files. Take you to an offline model, created the model, and see whether it's accurately predicting based on the
Lisa: [16:42] Sastry, thank you so much for stopping by the cube and sharing what it is that you guys at Foghorn are doing, what you're hearing from customers, how you're working together with them to solve some of these pretty significant challenges.
Sastry: [16:55] It's been a pleasure.
Lisa: [16:57] Definitely. Very educational. We want to thank you for watching the cube. I'm Lisa Martin with George Gilbert. We are
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It's not uncommon for a director to find an actor they truly adore and then look for every which way to get them into their next film. An actor/actress will pair with a filmmaker in such a way that it makes everything from their time on set easier to the chemistry on film unmistakable. Today, we'll be looking at the Top Ten Actor and Director Pairings.
Our criteria is pretty simple, but does nix a few great choices. The actor has to be in a minimum of three films directed by the filmmaker, excluding sequels; the performer would have had to have played at least three separate roles in three separate films. We based the list off of significance of role, number of movies together, quality of performance, and excellence of film. Cameos are allowed (ala Bill Murray in Wes Anderson films), but appear mostly in our Honorable Mentions, which we urge you to read, located after the Top Ten. Any you agree with undeniably or can't believe we left off? Let us know in the comments!
10. Michael Shannon – Jeff Nichols
Films Together: Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special, Loving
All five of Jeff Nichols feature films have Michael Shannon in them at one point or another, with him holding the leading role in three. Take Shelter rose Nichols to fame and gave Shannon the chance to prove himself as more than just a character actor. The film was nominated for Best Feature at the Spirit awards in 2011 and even garnered Shannon a Best Actor and Nichols a Best Director nod. They've worked together for just over a decade and continue to make magic every try. Unfortunately, Nichols has nothing down the road, as of now.
9. Michael B. Jordan – Ryan Coogler
Films Together: Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther
Ryan Coogler has three films to his name; the first an indie sensation, the second one of the greatest modern sports films, and the third is nearly the most successful Marvel film of all time. His style is impossible to miss, and so is his collaborator, Michael B. Jordan. Jordan and Coogler have done three films together, with Black Panther the only not to have him as the lead (though has him as one of the greatest Marvel villains of all time). Jordan has tried other outings, but none seem as good as when he's with Coogler. Coogler's next film, Wrong Answer, was just announced and reportedly stars Jordan, but till then Jordan will be seen with our #10 pick, Michael Shannon, in Fahrenheit 451 (watch our trailer announcement).
8. Kurt Russel – John Carpenter
Films Together: Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from LA
Sci-Fi/Action, Horror/Sci-Fi, and Action/Comedy. Kurt Russel and John Carpenter had a pretty successful relationship between 1982-1986 (and then a forgettable stint in 1996) where they made three masterpieces, highlighted by The Thing, which holds up as one of the greatest sci-fi/horror classics of all time. Russel seems to be having a bit of a rugged old-timer resurgence but nothing can top his bad-boy, handsome, perfect flowing locks shtick that propelled him into America's heart back in the eighties.
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Films Together: Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave
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6. Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Paul Thomas Anderson
Films Together: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master
Phillip Seymour Hoffman's passing in 2014 was tragic, and only lets us imagine the incredible work the thespian could have continued to give had his addiction not gotten the best of him. Never having top bill in any of PTA's film, the actor was always the best part of each one he was attached too. Hoffman's last film with the director, The Master, earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Vanity Fair reported on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast, the director said of the late actor, "When I saw him for the first time in Scent of a Woman, I just knew what true love was…I knew what love at first sight was. It was the strangest feeling sitting in a movie theater and thinking, 'He's for me and I'm for him.' And that was it."
5. Michael Caine – Christopher Nolan
Films Together: The Dark Knight (Trilogy), The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar,
Michael Caine may not be winning awards for his roles in Christopher Nolan films, but to say he's an integral part of the filmmaker's career would be an understatement. Caine was 72 in his first Nolan film, and 81 in his last. The decorated British actor has 167 acting credits on IMDb, six of wish were under the Batman Begins filmmaker. Earlier when I talked about how Fassbender was in Shame, which is one of my favourite films; well Caine is in The Dark Knight, my actual favourite film. For those who want to argue that he rarely has meaty roles in those films, I ask you to watch him crying at Bruce Wayne's funeral telling Bruce how he failed him, and try to keep arguing your point.
4. Johnny Depp – Tim Burton
Films Together: Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alive in Wonderland, Dark Shadows,
Not only do they have one of the most fruitful professional relationships in the history of cinema, but Johnny Depp is actually Godfather to the child of the director and his wife, Helena Bonham Carter. Depp's peculiar charisma and Tim Burton's larger than life aesthetic couple together sensationally, allowing both to highlight the others charm. Maybe not always the most prestigious in terms of awards and critical reception, but it's hard to name a more loyal friendship that even audiences love to see.
3. Tom Hanks – Steven Spielberg
Films Together: Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me if You Can, The Terminal, Bridge of Spies, The Post
Many don't think of these two as too big of a team when looking at the behemoth that is both of their filmography, but since '98 three of their five collaborations have resulted in a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. They started out strong with Saving Private Ryan showing the darker side of Steven Spielberg that those who know him from his family friendly flicks don't love to remember. Tom Hanks performance of WWII Captain Miller earned him respect as a more mature actor, moving away from films like Big, Sleepless in Seattle, and Forrest Gump. Fun fact: Hanks starring films only made up 20% of my Top Ten Steven Spielberg Directed Films list; more a testament to the filmmakers incredible scope than a knock at the two's relationship.
2. Leonardo DiCaprio – Martin Scorsese
Films Together: Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street
When the Los Angeles Lakers retired Kobe Bryant's #8 and #24, they said it was because the player who played in each number deserved their's retired. I'm here to say that if we even just looked at the Leonardo DiCaprio starring Martin Scorsese films, he'd still be one of the greatest directors of all time. Four of their five films have gotten a Best Picture nomination, with The Departed winning the prize in 2006. Foul-mouthed, violent, and all around bad-ass in every role, the relationship between the veterans has become a legacy, something directors from Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino have tried to replicate.
1. Robert De Niro – Martin Scorsese
Films Together: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, New York, New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino
Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Richard Dreyfus, and Robert De Niro may have run the 70's, but none had a relationship with a director quite like Bobby D and Marty Scorsese. Taxi Driver solidified both their careers, with De Niro coming off of his Oscar win with The Godfather: Part II and Martin Scorsese just having finished his directorial debut, Mean Streets. Whether Bobby's executing pimps or crying with his brother after a loss at a boxing match, his performances are never dull. The two went on to have an incredible career between the two of them, and not ending anytime soon. The Irishman is set to premiere on Netflix in 2019 and will have the two re-team for the first time since Casino in 1995.
Honorable Mentions:
- Molly Ringwald – John Hughes
- Bill Paxton – James Cameron
- Brad Pitt – David Fincher
- Denzel Washington- Spike Lee
- Russel Crowe – Ridley Scott
- Matt Damon – Steven Soderbergh
- James Stewart – Alfred Hitchcock
- Simon Pegg/Nick Frost – Edgar Wright
- Bill Murray – Wes Anderson
- Frances McDormand – The Coen Brothers
- Quentin Tarantino – Samuel L. Jackson
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Though the songs themselves are sonically worlds apart, the recently released videos for indie rockers the Mountain Goats' "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero" and Canada's DJ crew A Tribe Called Red's "Suplex" both showcase the bruising moves and oversized personalities of pro wrestlers. Like the Beat the Champ album it's pulled from, director Scott Jacobson's video for "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero" pays homage to the territorial wrestling days of the 1970s and '80s using regulars from the current Los Angeles-based independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, plus Guerrero himself. The clip for "Suplex" features members of Toronto's Smash Wrestling roster, partially because pro wrestling was one of the few places where the members of A Tribe Called Red say they could see depictions of actual indigenous people in mass media when they were growing up.
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As Lauper's dalliance with wrestling continued, Wolff became more involved with the WWF, serving as a producer on their Saturday morning cartoon show "Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling" and working on a totally nuts music video featuring dozens of wrestling personalities performing "Land of 1000 Dances" and appearances by Lauper, Meatloaf and Rick Derringer.
Here, David Wolff explains how the connection between Lauper and pro wrestling and music videos came to be, and how it got so big.
Pitchfork: When you were growing up were you into wrestling?
David Wolff: I was always a wrestling fan, from when I was a little kid. My dad got me into it. I grew up in Stamford, Conn. The WWE wasn't there yet, they were in Greenwich, Conn., then they moved to Stamford. I was a fan of Captain Lou Albano and Bruno Sammartino and guys like Karl Von Hess and Haystacks Calhoun. And I understood the psychology of wrestling—I saw the theater, I saw the soap opera aspects of it. As I would watch it, it was kind of like I knew what the general public didn't know. I just related to it, I don't know why or how.
Pitchfork: When did the idea of bringing the wrestling world into Cyndi Lauper's career come about?
DW: Cyndi had actually met Captain Lou Albano on a plane coming back from Puerto Rico before I even knew her. She told me about that later. That subliminal connection to wrestling started in my mind. When we were talking about the "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" video, we decided that we would use Cyndi's mom, and that felt perfect to me, and we were talking about who the father should be, and I said it should be Captain Lou Albano, if we could get him to do it. It would be an amazing thing—it would be funny, it would be camp, it would totally fit into the comedy of the video. The producer of the video was a guy named Ken Walz, he had a relationship with Vince McMahon. At this point I didn't know anybody in wrestling. When I learned that Ken knew Vince McMahon, I said to do whatever you've got to do to give us Captain Lou for this video. He called me back about an hour and said that Vince said it was fine. So I was in seventh heaven.
Pitchfork: What was it like working with Lou?
DW: We're on the set of the video and Lou didn't hear song, didn't hear anything, he just showed up. And when he walked in, I walked up and introduced myself. From the minute we said hello to each other, we bonded, we were buddies. From that minute forward, we spoke every day for years. He taught me a whole lot about the [wrestling] business, because I would ask him all the questions. The relationship with Lou and Cyndi was so natural and so loving that I knew we had a winner with this combination of wrestling and rock music. I could see it from the video.
I approached Lou with this idea where he would say he was really Cyndi's manager. We created our own soap opera where it wasn't just in the wrestling community, but we would take the soap opera into the real world and the real media. Then we would create events in the wrestling community to settle these disputes. He loved the idea. I called Ken Walz and told him he had to get me to meet Vince McMahon, because I thought that I could do something with wrestling and rock music that no one ever did before. I went out to dinner with Vince and his wife and we got along great. He invited me to the offices and we started having meetings about what we could do with Cyndi and Lou and wrestling. I told Vince that if we created a storyline and involved rock musicians and MTV, we could create a storyline that was much bigger than any of his other storylines that were confined to just the wrestling community. I could bring it to the major media outlets. He loved the idea. He said, "If you can get my guys [meaning the wrestlers] to support this, go do it."
Pitchfork: How did MTV get involved?
DW: I went to them and I had a meeting with Les Garland, who was the head of programming back in the early days. I told him my idea and he said he wanted me to come back tomorrow and explain this to his staff. The next day, every head of every department was in this meeting. I outlined what it was and how I wanted to use MTV with this whole storyline. I had the 100% percent support of MTV and Vince McMahon with this crazy idea had to get "the rock 'n' wrestling connection," which is what I was calling it.
Pitchfork: Why did MTV want to do it so badly? At this point their status was still rising and they were becoming a sensation, so why did they think that wrestling was something they wanted to get involved in?
DW: They wanted to get in on the ground floor of something that was getting big. Les Garland saw what I saw. And their ratings for their wrestling show, I think, were the highest on MTV. It was big, it was fun, it was entertaining.
Pitchfork: So how did the storyline unfold?
The basic idea was we would Cyndi go on the Piper's Pit with Rowdy Roddy Piper and Lou Albano, and Lou and Cyndi would get into a tiff where he would say he was the one who really made her. They had this fight where Lou said that without him she'd be nothing and that all women deserve to pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen. When he said that, Cyndi grabbed him by the shirt and hit him over the head with her purse and hit Roddy.
Then the real media picked up on this, because people thought this really happened. Overnight, we were getting calls from around the world. It was amazing, because it's exactly what I thought would happen if you took a person who had nothing to do with wrestling and have her get in a fist fight with wrestlers. That was the start of everything. All of the Piper's Pits and all that stuff was shown on MTV to lead to a fight where Cyndi was going to prove to Lou that she could beat him at his own game in wrestling. The way we were going to do this was that Cyndi found Wendi Richter, a woman wrestler, who was going to go up against the Fabulous Moolah, who was going to be managed by Lou. That battle was televised on both MTV and Vince's program.
Then it went into another battle with Hulk Hogan after Roddy Piper body slammed me after Lou and Cyndi made up and got an award for all this money they had made for fighting multiple sclerosis. We had this big event at Madison Square Garden where Dick Clark was the MC. Roddy came in and busted it up and kicked Cyndi and body slammed me. When he body slammed me he had to slam me on my side because a cop came into the ring, because nobody knew we had planned this. He almost broke my back and I had to go to a chiropractor for three weeks to straighten my back out. Before we did this, Hulk Hogan came up to me and goes, "You better not fuck this up, this is our business." I said to him, "I'm not going to fuck this up, it's my business too." From there it went on to Mr. T and all that craziness, all of those things were born from the stuff we were doing with Cyndi.
Pitchfork: When Captain Lou showed up in the "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" video, did most people know who Captain Lou was or was he just a weird looking guy with rubber bands in his face?
DW: The masses did not know who he was, but wrestling fans knew who he was. What made it mean something was that people began writing about him all the time. It drew more attention to wrestling from media that never even followed wrestling or gave it any credibility. It was regarded as a subculture. With Lou being in the video and us promoting this whole wrestling connection, it took wrestling out of the dark ages and into the mainstream. It was helping us make Cyndi famous and we were helping make wrestling famous.
Pitchfork: How long was Cyndi involved in this world?
DW: A couple of years, off and on. Eventually wrestling went on and we went on. Cyndi's personality and sense of humor is so good and she has such an incredible delivery of a joke—she was the perfect person to bridge the gap. She was able to do those wrestling interviews, she was able to do all the stuff in the ring. It just worked.
Pitchfork: Did she like wrestling?
DW: Not to any extent to the way I did. I told her, "If we do this, watch what happens. It's going to be insane. I can feel this, it's a natural." She said, "Okay, I'll follow your lead on this one."
Pitchfork: In the midst of this, you guys did the video for "Goonies are Good Enough" from The Goonies soundtrack.
DW: I called Vince and I said, "Hey man, we're going to do this thing for the movie, it's going to be big, I'm going to need seven or eight of the wrestlers, can I pick the ones I want?" He said yes, so I picked Andre the Giant, obviously Roddy, Lou and the rest of those guys and we created this ridiculous story. We got Steven Spielberg involved, because it was his movie [Spielberg is credited as an executive producer and coming up with the story], and Dick Donner, who was a major director, directed it. And we just laughed for three days.
Pitchfork: When did you decide that you'd taken it as far as you could?
DW: It kind of dissolved with Cyndi naturally. Cyndi was a recording artist at the end of the day, and when the novelty of this started to wane, wrestling went on and they kept growing and growing, and we went back to our normal way of doing stuff. Otherwise, what would we have done? Cyndi was not going to become a wrestling star, she's a singer and she still has a career.


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Dear Mark,
Indeed, the parallels between us are striking. A youth gifted with familial love, education and talent; a midlife filled with promise and success, then a vertiginous fall from grace at the cusp of middle age – both of us 44. Neither of us could escape the impact of wider circumstances beyond our control – in my case, society's hostility toward love between men; in your case, the woeful ruination of AIDS and addiction upon a generation. But we are both responsible for the hubris with which we tempted fate – inviting consequences we could have easily avoided. And prison was the ultimate consequence for us both.
As you know, my two years at hard labor broke my health, but I could never quite regret the experience. Like you, I have always felt art redeems everything, and it is unimaginable to me now that I would look back on my life's work without De Profundis or The Ballad of Reading Gaol. I daresay you feel the same about Ink from the Pen – as you say, the only thing harder to imagine than going to prison in the first place is now not having written this book. The one story I was most drawn to was Friendless Stranger, because I remember so well my worst week in prison: the overwhelming fear and cacophony, the uncertainty whether my cellmate was friend or foe. And then the poem you shared within that chapter itself – Strange Friend– is quite haunting, no wonder "Drifter" stole it for Talent Night.
I actually read "Because the Stars Incline Us" aloud at our last salon and the Bronte sisters thought it was marvelous. (Norman Mailer scowled, but he scowls at everything.) Your Uncle was right, by the way, spirits stay in this "waiting room" until that have been sufficiently forgotten to move on – so that leaves quite a group of glittering artists here. We don't mind. It means we are remembered, and what could a writer want more?
Don't hurry to join us, young man, you have many more years of creativity ahead. But when you do get here it will be a great pleasure to throw you a grand dinner party, and you can regale us all with the tale of how you almost got away with faking your own death.
P.S. Oh I wouldn't worry about claiming we have the same birthday. What's one day and 104 years apart in the grand scheme of things?


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Plymouth, United Kingdom A man has died after falling about 200ft (61m) from a crane in Plymouth. Emergency services were called to a building site on Sutton Road, in the Coxside area of the Devon city, at 1837 GMT on Thursday. Police said the man fell from the crane at Read More
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Manslaughter Indictment Stands in 2008 Crane Accident Case
Manhattan, New York A Manhattan judge this morning upheld the manslaughter indictment against crane company owner James Frank Lomma, meaning charges that he recklessly caused a fatal 2008 collapse by putting a cheaply-refurbed crane in service on East 91st Street can now proceed to trial later this year. Lomma, 65, Read More
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Lake Mary, Florida Some Seminole County business owners can't go to work Tuesday after a crane fell into their building Monday night. The business owners are upset and anxious, and wondering when they will be able to reopen. Inspectors were on the scene Tuesday trying to determine if the building Read More
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Jaipur, India A prominent businessman of the city was killed when a piling machine at a Jaipur Metro project site collapsed and fell on his car near Sushilpura on Thursday afternoon. The victim, Vikram Maheshwari (35), was the franchise owner of Talwalkars Gym in Jaipur. Maheshwari was on way to Read More
Man Dies After Crane Hits Power Lines
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Manila, Phillipines An arson investigator of the Bureau of Fire in Makati City said on Friday overloading caused the construction accident at the Eton Residences where 10 workers died. Senior Fire Officer 1 Jerson Montada said the gondola lift, without equipment, only has a capacity of 4 to 5 people. Read More
Road Closed After Crane Overturns
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Worker Dies at Henley Bridge
Knoxville, Tennessee Tosha levied $16,750 in various penalties against Britton Bridge LLC following the work-site death of a project foreman on Jan. 25. John Womac, 33, of Charleston, Tenn., died after being struck in the head by the bucket and arm of a track hoe on the south side of Read More
Worker Killed in Jacksonville Crane Accident
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Wine Salon offers a wide range of exclusive wines from the best vineyards of the Znojmo sub region. Selected samples of wines will be introduced to you during our organized wine tastings. You will always remember the moments when you enjoyed your favorite wine or a cup of herbal tea, seated in a historical, romantic furniture. We never forget to bring local delicacies for you to snack on throughout the day.
All premises of the Wine Salon with the overall capacity of up to 30 people are available for rent for corporate parties, seminars, meetings, class reunions, small weddings and family celebrations. The capacity is now up to 30 people. Accommodation will be taken care of on site and we will also provide catering and arrange banquets for you.
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Znovín Znojmo, a.s.
Vinařství Lahofer, a.s.
Vinařství Waldberg Vrbovec, s.r.o.
Vinařství Hanzel, s.r.o.
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Vinařství rodiny Špalkovy, s.r.o.
Vinařství Kořínek, s.r.o.
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This beautiful property is located in the heart of South West France on a quiet country lane, surrounded by Bordeaux vineyards and is accessed by its own long private gravelled driveway. The Dordogne river is 1km away, local village shop about 2km, market town & supermarkets around 8km via quiet country roads.
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India's second largest software service provider Infosys posted a 3% year on year increase in net profit to Rs 3,726 crore, compared to Rs 3,606 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.
India's second largest software service provider Infosys posted a 3% year on year increase in net profit to Rs 3,726 crore, compared to Rs 3,606 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. A CNBC TV18 analyst poll predicted earnings at Rs 3,496 crore. Notably, these quarterly results are the first after veteran Nandan Nilekani began his second innings in the company, after Vishal Sikka's controversial exit in August this year. Notably the company cut its revenue guidance to 5.5%-6.5% from 6.5%-8.5%. Operating margin came in at 24.2% as against CNBC TV18 poll of 23.6%. Consolidated EBIT was Rs 2,728 crore. In dollar terms, revenue for the IT bellwether rose 2.9 per cent sequential, while the revenue growth was 5.4 per cent QoQ on constant currency terms.
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Vishal Sikka resigned on August 18 following series of allegations by co-founder Narayana Murthy, mainly over Rs 1,250 crore acquisition of Israel based IT firm Panaya after an anonymous whistleblower alleged wrong-doings in the deal. Most board members including the co-chairman R Seshasayee resigned soon after, and co-chairman Ravi Venkatesan stepped down to continue as an independent director.
Within a week, Nandan Nilekani returned to the board of the company after a gap of about seven years as non-executive chairman, while Chief Operation Officer UB Pravin Rao was given interim charge of Managing Director and CEO on August 24.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Another terrorist attack
I was greatly relieved to hear a friend of mine who is serving there was not among those hurt, and that apparently none of the folks from our embassy were killed (of course, the media never says if locally-hired embassy workers were killed because Americans don't count them as "our people." But all of us in the foreign service do.)
My heart goes out to the Czech mission. Their Ambassador, Ivo Zdarek, who had just arrived in country a month ago, was staying at the hotel and was killed in blast.
You can read more about the attack here.
UPDATE: Reports are now that two American military personel working at the Embassy are among those killed. Our hearts go out to their families.
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- Terrie Modesto, PhD said...
Today many will experience grief and sorrow for those who have died in the truck bomb in Islamabad, Pakistan at the Marriott Hotel. Disaster grief rings out from the parliament building and the prime minister's home to the smallest village far out in the distant lands of this proud country. Disaster grief and recovery starts today for them and for others around the world.
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Bomb victims are not only those who die directly from a truck bomb explosion. It also includes all those that now sit at funeral rites, listening to a funeral prayer or grief poems. After the funeral speeches are over, all those who are bomb victims will say good bye to a much too short a time together.
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This lecture will explore university students' (n = 693 students) perspectives in two new country contexts – England and India to address two key research questions – (1) What is the nature and extent of RMA in progressive university settings in England and India in modern times? (2) How can the study of RMA help us to understand sexual violence against women in contemporary society? By drawing on a mixed methods study that utilised the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, together with focus group discussions with both male and female students in a number of universities in London and Delhi; Professor Barn will share findings in the context of understanding new rape cultures in contemporary times. She will interrogate quantitative and qualitative insights to address paucity of knowledge, and seek to promote understandings of gendered violence, toxic masculinity, and the persistent and detrimental impact of patriarchy in the lives of women. In particular, the lecture aims to contribute novel comparative findings on rape myth acceptance in new country contexts to help advance academic thinking in this area of work.
Ravinder Barn is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Law. She is the author or editor of eight books and over 100 journal papers or book chapters. Ravinder writes on gender, ethnicity, child and youth welfare, and criminal justice. In August 2015, her work on sexual violence and criminal justice in India was among the top 10 'most read' in the British Journal of Criminology. Her research on child welfare and migrant groups is highly regarded nationally and internationally. Her recent book, published by Oxford University Press, analyses child welfare systems in 11 countries to promote theoretical and empirical understandings of contemporary concerns surrounding globalisation, migration, and child rights.
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