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Automated Energy Distribution In Smart Grids John Yu∗ Michael Chun† Stanford University Stanford University Abstract We design and implement a software controller that can distribute energy in a power grid. First, locally-weighted regression is per- formed on past data to learn and predict the energy demand. Then, reinforcement learning is applied to determine how to distribute power given some state. We demonstrate that our software, in con- junction with smart grids and network communication systems, can automatically and efficiently manage the power grid. 1 Introduction Figure 1: A simple energy distribution model. The goal of a resource distribution system that connects producers and consumers is to ensure that the resource generated by the pro- ducer is optimally delivered to the consumer. By optimal, we mean that the resource is delivered only to the consumers that need it in are some number of rooms that have devices that need to be pow- a timely fashion. In this respect, today's electric power distribution ered (laptops, printers, servers, etc.). Each room has a single power systems perform relatively well: blackouts are rare and electricity substation that powers them. The power substations store energy; in bills are generally manageable[1]. However, there is plenty of room fact, we essentially treat them as large batteries that can be charged for improvement. For one, it is good that electricity prices are low, and discharged. The substations can be charged by drawing power but it would be even better if it was cheaper. One reason the prices from the power source in the center. By placing a power meter on are not lower is due to the distribution cost. Specifically, electric every device in the room and summing them up, we can determine power distribution very much remains a manual process, requiring the amount of energy drawn from the substation that powers the the work of many well-qualified operators and analysists 24 hours room. Alternatively, we can place a meter on the substation itself, a day, 7 days a week. This is a good reason to ponder whether we if feasible. might be be bettered served if there was a computer program that can decide how the power should be distributed and act accordingly, It is easy to see how this model can be cascaded and abstracted to decresing or eliminating the need for human intervention. represent much larger networks. For example, the power substa- tions can be treated as leaf nodes (rather than laptops and printers), A related area of improvement is energy demand prediction. Over the central power station can be treated as a substation that needs to the past couple of years, smart meters and smart power grids imple- be charged by a larger parent station. So this model is simple but mentations have lead to an exponential increase in the amount of scales well. We also assume that power flows one way: if station information that is available to the power operator. This data allows A provides power to station B, then station B never sends power the operator to develop more efficient, fine-grained power distribu- to station A. Although residential solar panels and other sources of tion methods. However, there is so much information available that alternative energy are becoming more commonplace, the one-way the operator cannot hope to process all the data without computer power model is still by far how things work, so for demonstration automation.1 purposes we believe this is acceptable. As hinted above, at a high level, an energy distribution system needs to two things: Now, we place a stronger, more limiting constraint, which is that the power source can only charge one power substation at a time at 1. Predict the energy demand. a predefined rate. This simplifies our controller's behavior into the 2. Based on the prediction, make decisions following loop: on where to guide energy. while system is running: Clearly, if an automated system is to replace operators, it must be observe state able to carry out these tasks as well as humans can. Before we go decide which station to charge next into how the two tasks were tackled, we first present our model of charge the station by some amount the energy distribution network. Allowing the power source to charge multiple stations simultane- 1.1 Energy Model ously is probably a more realistic representation, but it was avoided because it greatly increases the number of possible actions the con- Figure 1 illustrates the model of the network that our control system troller can take. This increases the processing time and complicates will operate under as well as our assumptions. In our model there the learning model, but it does not necessarily offer greater insight into the energy distribution process. In other words, removing this ∗ e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com constraint will complicate but not change our learning model, so we † e-mail:firstname.lastname@example.com can still validate our proposal with the simpler model. 1 Operators already do make heavy use of computer processing power to do their work, but this same processing is a large component for our machine Next we describe the data set that we used to train our controller controller as well. system. 1.2 Training Data We used the dataset from the Stanford PowerNet project [2][3]. The PowerNet data was gathered by placing a power meter into 138 de- vices (laptops, printers, and workstations) that are actively used in the Stanford University Gates computer science building and col- lecting instantaneous power usage data every second. We restricted our dataset to a 30 day period from September 1 to October 1, 2010. We then divided the data into 6 local rooms, approximately one room per physical floor of the building. 2 Controller Implmentation As previously stated, our controller needed the ability to learn en- ergy demand and also make decisions based on this learned data and the current state. One way for a reinforcement algorithm to learn the model of the energy demand is to simply let the controller oper- ate for a while and learn what the resultant state is given state and action (rewards can be learned the same way). However, we chose to use locally-weighted linear regression. To understand why, first Figure 2: Training data distribution for group 3 in weekdays and let us define what the state is for our learning model. the regression estimates We are interested in keeping the power substations charged at all times. We want to keep the substations from reaching the empty energy level, since this would lead to blackout. Thus, our state is the collective energy levels of all our substations. We also predefine the rewards. When a substation's energy level is more than half, no rewards are given (reward is 0). Otherwise, we give a negative reward. In addition, we gave larger negative rewards as the energy levels got closer to empty. To simulate this reward curve, a square root function was used. i.e: reward = sqrt(energy level) The rewards for the substations were calculated individually and summed to get the total reward of a particular state. We previously defined the action of the controller as "charging sub- station X." This is a deterministic action: commanding the con- troller to charge station A has a 100 percent probability of charging station A by a predefined amount. So does this mean we know the state transition probabilities? No, since the room is full of electronic devices that are drawing power at various rates from the substations.2 Figure 3: Training data distribution for group 3 in weekdays and the regression estimates Thus we must be able to somehow predict the energy demand. As we noted, we use locally-weighted regression to predict the energy demand rather than allowing the reinforcement learning algorithm the time of day to the aggregate power consumption at the substa- to learn by trial-and-record. There are two (related) reasons for tion. One drawback of regression is that it operates on data from the this. First, the energy consumption rates are not fixed; they vary past. While the past is generally a good indicator of the future, this from morning to afternoon and from weekday to weekend. Thus, does mean the prediction is susceptible to unexpected events (such the trial-and-record method, which really only works well in a static as the school declaring a snow day, for example). However, trial- environment, is impractical. Second, there are an infinite number and-record also operates based on past data, so neither is favored of states, both in terms of the energy level of the substations and the here. power consumption rates of the devices. Trial-and-record is more suited to a finite number of discrete states, which can be learned with a finite number of trials. 2.1 Energy Demand Prediction Note that locally-weighted regression performs better under both Locally-weighted regression algorithm was used to learn the en- circumstances. Using locally-weighted regression, the controller ergy demand of the four rooms in Gates building. This algorithm can predict the power consumption rate at any time during a given is parameterized by a bandwidth parameter "τ " which controls the day. Thus, varying consumption rates are not an issue. Also, by per- algorithm from being high-bias or high-variance. forming one regression per substation, a continuous curve can relate To find the optimal τ value, regression was performed over τ values 2 Sincewe do not know the rate at which power is being drawn, even if at 10, 30, 90, 270, 910 minutes and compared the training success we know the current state and how much the next action will charge which rate. In our model, success rate is not straightforward because at station, we do not know the next state (the energy levels of the substations). any given time of a day, energy usage could range from minimal Table 1: Statistical measures for regression on group 3 in weekdays Table 3: Discretization with n = 5 Taus Std Dev Train Success Rate CV Success Rate Actual amount Discretized amount 10 55.42 0.8717 0.8794 0 - 20 KWH 10 30 55.28 0.8725 0.8865 20 - 40 KWH 30 90 55.38 0.8717 0.8794 40-60 KWH 50 270 57.05 0.8513 0.8582 60-80 KWH 70 910 56.78 0.8545 0.8652 80-100 KWH 90 Table 2: Statistical measures for regression on group 3 in weekends Taus Std Dev Train Success Rate CV Success Rate 10 69.89 0.9720 0.9681 30 61.27 0.9474 0.9681 90 56.38 0.8808 0.9149 270 57.15 0.7792 0.8085 910 61.05 0.7535 0.7872 (all devices being idle) to maximum (all devices under full load). Since we cannot pinpoint the exact usage, we defined a success- full prediction as the testdata lying within certain range from the prediction. This range is one standard deviation from the predicted regression value. In Figure 2, we can see that the regression tightly follows the dynamics in the dataset when τ is low. Similarly, regres- sion loosely averages values when τ is high. Each data group has a different distribution thus the optimal τ cannot be shared among different groups or different days. In Figure 3, the energy usage dis- tribution for group 3 in weekends is very different from the usage Figure 4: Result of the simulation. The Y-axis indicates energy from weekdays. Therefore, the optimal τ is different as shown in levels of a station, and the X-axis indicates time. Table 1 and Table 2. Finally, we verified that our τ is neither high-bias nor high-variance by performing 10 percent crossout validation where validation is After discretization, we ran value iteration over all 625 different successful if a data is within one standard deviation away from the states to calculate the value function for every state. regression value. The success rate algorithm turned out to be an effective measure to identify optimal τ because it resulted in the highest crossout validation success rate. 3 Results 3.0.2 Simulation 2.2 Making Decisions Before using the regression data from the Gates building, we ran Now that we have the ability to predict power demand, our transi- a simulation to test for correctness and see how our algorithm per- tion function (simulator) is ready, and we can use the Markov De- forms. Our simulated network consisted of a single power source cision Process to learn the behavior of the controller. The simulator and 4 substations. Each substation consumed power at rates 100 is capable of answering the following question: KWH, 50 KWH, 20 KWH, and 80 KWH, respectively. The source Given that the current energy levels at substation A, B, and C, are is capable of providing 250 KWH of energy to a single station at x, y, and z, respectively, what will happen if substation B is charged a time. Note that the input of energy is exactly equal to output, so by some amount w? we are providing just enough energy to meet energy demand. The results are shown in Figure 4. Armed with the simulator, the controller can calculate the value at every state using value iteration[4]. Since the state space is contin- Figure 4 shows how the energy levels fluctuated over a 24 hour uous, we needed to decide whether to use value function approx- time period. We can note a couple of facts from the graph. One, the mation or discretization of the states to calculate the value function. energy levels of the stations frequently intersect with each other, We first tried to use value function approximation but found that which means the decision making process is not biased toward a it is difficult to approximate parameters θ and some function φ of single station. Two, none of the energy levels reach 0, which means state S. Thus we resorted to discretization. the substations always had energy to provide when needed. Once we determined that the simulation is running as expected, we 2.2.1 Discretization proceeded to use the Stanford PowerNet data. We discretized the energy levels that the power substations contain. 3.0.3 Real Data For example, if the substation is capable of storing 100 KWH of energy, and we want to discretize this into n = 5 levels, then we treated the energy levels as shown in Table 3. We used a slight variation of cross validation to test our algorithm on PowerNet. The power usage data was split into two sets, A and Now suppose we have 4 substations. Then one possible state might B. Set A contained 90 percent of the data and set B contained the be [10, 30, 90, 50]. There are 54 = 625 different states. other 10 percent. Set A was used to run locally-weighted regression Figure 5: Testing with PowerNet. Energy levels of the substaions Figure 6: Value Iteration Performance. As the number of energy are on the y-axis, and the time passed is on the x-axis. levels increase, the running time increases polynomially. Station 0 Station 1 Station 2 Station 3 Next action 1500 1500 1500 1500 0 which we need to calculate values for. But exactly how slow is our 2116 1415 1441 1141 1 algorithm, and when does it become impractical to use? 1233 2915 1382 783 0 We measured the time it takes to perform one cycle of value itera- 2116 2830 1323 425 3 tion. We also capped the number of iterations to 100. The results 1233 2745 1264 1940 0 are shown in Figure 6. 2022 2660 1205 1582 2 1139 2575 2941 1224 0 For our simulation, we used n = 4, so it took about 20 seconds per 2015 2490 2882 866 3 iteration. This calculation was done once every hour. Once the 1132 2406 2823 2310 0 values have been updated, it takes far less time to make decisions 2094 2321 2764 1952 - based on incoming state (in the order of milliseconds), so our con- troller can behave in real-time. However, one can easily see from Table 4: State transition table. The left 4 columns form a state, and the graph that performance will quickly grow unacceptable, even the right column shows the next substation to charge. with only 4 stations. 4 Conclusion and generate the parameters. Based on this data, the simulator was generated. Essentially, the simulator was a table that listed what the We were able to develop a functional controller for an energy dis- power consumption rates of each of the substations were at a given tribution system. Note the level of granularity that our system can time. The reinforcement algorithm them used this to learn the value operate under depends purely on the granularity of the power us- of taking a paticular action given some state, at every state. age data available, and thus smart grid technology is a necessary component to acheive fine-grained power distribution. Then the controller algorithm was validated on set B. The controller was fed with the current state of the substations and the power con- Locally-weighted regression was performed mostly in Matlab. sumption rates on a specified day and time (retrieved from set B). However, for the implementation of the simulator and reinforce- Using this data, the controller made a decision that maximizes the ment learning, we wanted to be able to describe a model of the value (learned from set A). The controller was allowed to run for power distribution network. We chose to use Python with the SciPy 24 hours. library, which provided flexibility and capabilities of a real object oriented language while also providing the large mathematical tool Figure 5 shows the energy availability graph again, this time for library that Matlib provides. PowerNet data. Compared to the simulation data, it appears that there may be slightly higher bias, as rooms 1 and 3 generally tend to stay above the starting amount (1500 KWH). However, the energy 5 Future work levels all stay well above 0. The power consumption rates ranged from 1100 KWH to 0, so we believe providing each substation with We primarily concerned ourselves with energy distribution of an a capacity of 3000 KWH is reasonable. electric power network, but as our algorithms deal generally with a resource distribution network linking producers and consumers, this work is widely applicable to other scenarios. For example, our 3.1 Performance algorithm would apply equally well to the city water distribution system.3 . The problem of delivering gasoline to the appropriate Because we discretize the states, it is reasonable to assert that our station can also be solved by our approach. implementation does not scale to larger environments. For example, if there are 10 substations that need to be managed, and we provide 3 this might be an even better application than electric grid, since here 10 energy levels per substation, there are 10 billion states, each of the resource (water) really does flow in only one direction One limitation that we noted is that our network model is greatly simplified. In reality, the power source can distribute power to mul- tiple stations at the same time, and in differing amounts, and power flow can be bi-directional. And as analyzed above, we discretize the states. Also, our system does not account for unexpected events, or forth- comiong events in the future. In particular, our system notes that there are differences in power consumptions between weekdays and weekends, but we do not account for special occasions such as hol- idays4 . Our system then has quite a bit of work to do before it can be used in real settings. However, in our view, none of the limitations are insurmountable; it is simply a matter of doing the necessary work. 5.1 Acknowledgments We thank Maria Kazandjieva for providing us with invaluable power usage data of the Gates building. We also thank Quoc Le and Andrew Ng for giving us advice on choosing our final project topic. 6 References [1] Dhaliwal, H. & Abraham, S. (2004) Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations, U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force. U.S Department of Energy. [2] Kazandjieva, M., Heller, B., Levis, P. & Kozyrakis, C. (2009) Energy Dumpster Diving. Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems. [3] Kazandjieva, M., Gnawali, O., Heller, B., Levis, P. & Kozyrakis, C. (2010) Identify- ing Energy Waste through Dense Power Sensing and Utilization Monitoring. Stanford PowerNet technical report. [4] Bellman, R. A. (1957) Markovian Decision Process. 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In Luke 18, Jesus' message is that men ought always to pray and not to faint. The greater context here is the end times, because Jesus has been talking about the last days in chapter 17. But we also want to apply it to our lives generally: "Men ought always to pray and not lose heart."
You know, in times of difficulty, you do one of two things: you faint and lose heart, or you commit it to God. In times of great stress it seems there's no middle ground. But the Bible says you are to cast all your cares upon Him because He cares for you (1 Peter 5:7). Your prayer ought not to be reserved for once a night or once a week. That is, you shouldn't store up all the anxieties, and then have an "unloading" time. Instead, deal with them as you get them. Treat them like hot potatoes. Instead of grabbing them and getting burned, you say, "Whoops, too hot! I'll toss it up to Him!"
If you were wearing a backpack and every time somebody hassled you they threw a stone in the pack, you might not be too weighed down at 10 a.m. But by the end of the day you'd be so burdened that your back would ache. Now, you could dump all the stones at the end of the day or once a week—or as you get them. You should cast all your cares upon Him. We would faint less if we prayed more!
But going back to the larger context of the end times, Paul says that in the last days, "men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God" (2 Timothy 3:1-4). Sounds like today, doesn't it? And Paul's warning is this: "And from such people turn away!" (v. 5)
Jesus said that when He returns, it will be as it was in the days of Noah and the days of Sodom (Luke 17:26-30). How was it in the days of Noah? As I read it, only eight people turned to God. And only a small group of four people fled from Sodom. And so Jesus asks the question at the end of the parable in Luke 18: "When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" (v. 8).
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Georgetown got off to a strong start, putting up five runs on six hits in the bottom of the first inning. Megan Hyson (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) and Madeleine Giaquinto (Falls Church, Va./Bishop O'Connell) hit back-to-back 2-RBI singles, and freshman Taylor Henry (Front Royal, Va./Skyline) drove in a run in her third consecutive game to give the Hoyas the early advantage.
Syracuse started their comeback in the fourth inning with a solo homerun by Corinne Ozanne, who had a successful day at the plate, totaling three homeruns and seven RBI. Ozanne homered down the leftfield line in the fifth inning to cut the deficit to two runs, and Syracuse used an RBI single in the sixith inning and a sacrifice fly in the seventh to send the game into extra innings.
Sophomore Lauren O'Leary (La Canada, Calif./La Canada) pitched the first five innings before reaching a pitch count of over 100 pitches, being replaced on the mound by Hyson to start the sixth inning. O'Leary allowed three runs on five hits while striking out seven.
The Hoyas had an opportunity to end the game in the bottom of the eighth inning. Alexandria Anttila (Antioch, Ill./Antioch Community) led off the inning with a double to left center field and advanced to third on a passed ball with zero outs recorded. Hyson singled to the third baseman in the next at bat, holding Anttila on third for the play.
Hannah Slovacek (Austin, Texas/Westlake) then flied out to left field for out number one, and the left fielder doubled-up Hyson at first base with a strong throw for the second out of the inning. Giaquinto ground out to the shortstop to send the game into the 9th inning in the next at-bat, stranding Anttila at third base.
The Orange scored four runs in the ninth on back-to-back homeruns off of Hyson including Ozanne's third of the game. Georgetown was unable to return from the deficit, grounding into a double play to end the game. Hyson pitched the final four innings of the ballgame, allowing six runs in the loss.
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In response to this first quote, I said: Let me just stop you right there. Where is your evidence of this? You seem to be making a whole lot of generalized statements about the brony fandom. You are stereotyping us and bashing us. I'd like to say, first of all, that there is absolutely nothing wrong with liking a "child's cartoon." I don't even consider cartoons to be FOR children. I consider them to be for whoever wants to watch them. They're cartoons... Let people like what they do. I'm respecting your right to like whatever you want, so instead of bashing my fandom, maybe you should allow it to do the same.
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7 Nov 2012 - 1:59pmA betting scandal overshadowed the build-up to the Melbourne Cup after top jockey Damien Oliver reportedly admitted putting money on a rival horse in 2010.
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Several long distance trains passing through Chennai Central are being diverted via link line without touching Shoranur station till October 16 in connection with doubling work between Shoranur and Karakkad stations, Southern Railway said.
Train No. 16859 Chennai Egmore — Mangalore Central Express will be cancelled between Palakkad Jn. and Mangalore Central from October 2 to 15. Train No. 16860 Mangalore Central — Chennai Egmore Express will be cancelled between Mangalore Central and Palakkad Jn. from October 3 to 16. These trains will run between Palakkad Jn. and Chennai Egmore only during the above period.
The diverted trains include the Korba — Thiruvananthapuram bi-weekly Express, Indore-Thiruvananthapuram Ahalyanagari weekly Express and the Barauni — Eranakulam Jn. Raptisagar weekly Express. These trains would be provided extra stoppage at Wadakkancherry and Ottapalam.
The Railways has arranged connection bus service for reserved passengers of Train No. 16605/16606 Mangalore Central — Nagarcoil Jn. Ernad Express between Kuttipuram and Thrissur.
Similar arrangement will also be made available for the reserved passengers of Train No. 13351 Dhanbad /Tata Nagar — Alapuzha Express, 17230 Hyderabad — Kochuveli Sabari Express, Train No. 12511 Gorakhpur — Thiruvananthapuram Central Raptisagar Express, 16327 Korba-Thiruvananthapuram Central Express, 12521 Barouni — Ernakulam Jn Express and Train No. 16325 Indore — Thiruvananthapuram Central Express between Ottappalam/Wadakkanchery and Shoranur.
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By Julia Michalska. Web onlyPublished online: 02 October 2013
Over the past decade, Polish artists have done exceptionally well on the international art scene. At home, however, they have had a harder time making a market for themselves. Warsaw-based galleries such as Foskal and Raster helped to propel Polish artists including Miroslaw Balka, Wilhelm Sasnal and Pawel Althamer to great heights abroad, but the lack of local collectors led many to leave the country. Warsaw Gallery Weekend, in its third edition this year, aims to change that.
The traditional arts hub in Warsaw is the city centre on the left side of the Vistula river. But in 2011, three commercial galleries—Galeria BWA Warszawa, Galeria Leto and Piktogram—opened on the less-developed right bank of the river. The galleries teamed together that year, coordinating their openings, in an event called "Bliski Wschod" (near East). A few months later, the left-bank galleries joined the event and Warsaw Gallery Weekend was born. It has grown to include 21 galleries, up from 17 last year, thanks to new spaces opening in the capital and others moving there from the city of Poznan. The event follows the format of Berlin Gallery Weekend: gallery openings are paired with panel discussions, film screenings, curator-led walks, parallel museum shows, performances and parties. On the left bank, many galleries are located in apartment blocks. For example, the Foksal Gallery Foundation, a regular on the international fair circuit, has taken over an entire residential building overlooking the Soviet-era Palace of Culture, where it is showing "subtle and ephemeral interventions" by the artist Cezary Bodzianowski (until 31 October). Raster Gallery is one of the few exceptions, having moved to a ground-level storefront two years ago. This weekend, it opened a striking photographic series by Oskar Dawicki (until 9 November), depicting twisted bodies against a white background (edition of three plus two artist's proofs, €4,000). One benefit of the lack of an art market under the Communist regime (1948-89) is a treasure trove of previously unseen older art in the country. Lokal_30 is showing newly unearthed, sexually explicit photographs by the Polish avant-garde artist Natalia LL, priced between 8,000 and 150,000 złoty ($2,500-$48,000, until 9 November). Post-war artists have also been brought to the fore, including Zbigniew Dlubak at Fundacja Archaeologia Fotografii, Alina Szapocznikow at Galeria Aleksander Bruno and Jan Swidzinski at Fundacja ARTon. On the right bank, in the working-class Praga neighbourhood in a redeveloped industrial complex, Galeria Leto is showing geometric, Op Art-inspired pieces by Maurycy Gomulicki (€3,000-€25,000, until 31 October). Nearby, a house built by the Modernist architect Czeslaw Przybylski has been taken over by two galleries, Galeria BWA Warszawa and Galeria Asymetria, and a restaurant. BWA is showing recent wood and paper hanging works by the young artist Agnieszka Kalinowska that harken back to the Soviet era (€600-€10,000, until 16 November). Upstairs, Asymetria is showing photographs by the Krakow-based Wojciech Plewinski alongside those by the Tel Aviv-based artist Ronit Porat (until 26 October).The lack of Polish collectors is a common complaint among Warsaw gallery owners, so this year, the organisers have focused their energies on bringing curators, museum directors and collectors to the event. While Grazyna Kulczyk, a property developer and the founder of the Poznan-based Art Stations Foundation, is generally seen as the only major Polish contemporary art collector, others are slowly coming out of the woodwork. For example, spotted in the galleries this weekend were the collectors Tomasz and Anna Lubinski from Zielona Gora in western Poland. The couple have recently been lending major works by Mirslaw Balka from their collection to museum exhibitions. Though growing, the contemporary art market in Warsaw still needs support: almost all the participating galleries are foundations, meaning they can apply for government funding for individual projects. One gallery owner, who prefers not to be named, calls it "Socialist commercialism". Less constrained by commercial demands, these galleries are perhaps more daring in their exhibitions—a unique situation that may soon come to an end as the market develops.
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Criminal Minds Season 9 Episode 20
Blood Relations
The BAU was called to investigate two murders committed against members of feuding families
The first murder was done through the use of a bear trap lined with barbed wire. The second was done when the victim was strung up in his doorway by a barbed wire noose, after which his head was twisted completely around.
Since the families' feud first started decades ago because of competing interests in the production and sale of moonshine, the BAU suspected that in present time their conflict had graduated to the production of meth.
A third family member was killed when the Unsub put a barbed wire noose around the victim's neck, and attached it via chain to a piece of garage furniture. The Unsub then attached the other end of the chain to a car bumper, which he used to drive away fast, thereby decapitating the victim.
The families both thought that someone from each side was targeting them.
The BAU figured out that the family businesses had nothing to do with meth, but involved the production and sale of biofuel. In fact, the feuding interests dynamic was misdirection, as the Unsub had no interest in any of it.
The Unsub kidnapped the matriarch of one family - Cissy Howard - and forced her to confess to her past. At the same time, Hotch interviewed the patriarch of the other family - Malachi Lee - and heard him relate the same story as the Unsub was hearing.
It turns out that Cissy wasn't her real name. In fact, she had changed it years ago, after giving birth, so as to escape her family. In fact, she and Malachi Lee were actually sister and brother, who had committed incest all those years ago. The product of their union was a deformed baby - who turned out to be the Unsub.
After Cissy's confession, the Unsub decided to kill her. Knowing that the FBI would come looking, he set her up by a tree.
Blake found her there, but before her backup team could arrive, the Unub attacked Blake, causing them both to go into a nearby lake. She managed to get off a few shots from her gun, alerting her team that she was in trouble.
When the team got to the lake, they couldn't find her. Blake finally emerged from the water, screaming at her team to shoot into the water. They unloaded about thirty bullets and were sure they had got him. Rossi called for the lake to be dragged.
Cissy and Malachi left the police station, only to be confronted by their families, who were now suspicious about their secret.
The episode closed with a scene involving a young couple coming to a cabin in Kentucky. They were confronted by the Unsub who demanded their car keys.
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Number of items: 1. Phillips, Wendy (2005) Television sitcom production at the BBC 1973-1984: an integrated approach. PhD thesis, University of Westminster, School of Media, Arts and Design. |