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Axion Power Concentrator 262: August 22: 10Q Filing For Q2; Two Axion Forbes Articles; John Petersen On PIPE Mechanics & Incentives 221 comments
Aug 22, 2013 8:06 AM | about stocks: AXPWLatest News, Articles and Presentations...
Q2 2013 10Q Results Filing by Axion
Axion Power International's CEO Discusses Q2 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Axion Power Investor Relations Access to Conference Call Replay and Downloadable MP3 (click the microphone icon labeled "2nd Quarter 2013 Earnings Webcast" for "Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. ET. Registration required
Understanding The Mechanics And Incentives In Axion Power's PIPE
Axion Power's Potential For Explosive Growth
CORRECTED: Axion Power: Is There Light At The End Of The PIPE?
The purchase order is an extension of the existing agreement between Axion and ePower and further validates the performance of the PbC batteries in this hybrid application. At ePower's current specifications, each conversion kit System would require 56 PbC batteries and the PbC battery management system (NYSE:BMS). Axion values each truck conversion battery order at in excess of $20,000.00.
FocalPoint Analytics' important comment on Axion Power's recent Financing Transaction
Axion Power Receives Order To Supply Class 8 Truck Battery Strings For ePower
Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013-Press Release
Excerpts from the First Quarter 10-Q --
Axion Power on Panel at Energy Storage Economics 2.0 for New YOrk City and Beyond --
Axion Power's CEO Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Axion Power Reports Results for 2012 --
Axion Power Completes New Continuous Roll Carbon Sheeting Process
Dr. Ed Buiel, Axion's CTO until the end of 2010 -- A link to an archive of his comments on yadoodle about the PbC battery and much more. Invaluable commentary! Thanks to 481086 for putting the list together.
Axion Power PbC Batteries Continue To Demonstrate Effectiveness For Railroad Applications -- Axion completed shipping its high-performance PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NSC), one of North America's leading transportation providers, for use in Norfolk Southern's first all electric locomotive - the NS-999.
"ePower's Series Hybrid Electric Drive - Unmatched Fuel Economy for Heavy Trucks" -- by John Petersen. Discusses the potential fuel savings for ePower's Hybrid electric drive for class 8 trucks using Axion's PbC batteries.
"Axion Power - A Battery Manufacturer Charging Forward" -- by John Petersen. This is an excellent summation on Axion Power's history. It is a good starting point for introducing Axion Power to friends and family.
Axion Power Weighted Moving Average Prices and Volume:(updated through 08/17/2013)
Axion Power Market Cap, Share Count and 200-day Volume:
Link to JP's write-up on this graph in the header of APC #248 --
(as of 08/03/2013)
Monthly Volume and FINRA Short Percentage
The FINRA short tracking graph is beginning to look like it may be a reasonable proxy for selling by the PIPErs. It was an extremely useful tool for tracking the big uglies a couple years ago and so far it seems to be providing the same type of information. If the data does in fact track the PIPErs activity, the lines would suggest that they pounded hard in May to set up a fear dynamic, eased up a bit in June once the angst was established and eased up again in July as the angst gained momentum and the stock price stabilized. With three days left to go in the month, July is already the all-time volume leader by about 400,000 shares. Unless volume plummets over the next three days, I'm expecting a total volume of more than 15 million shares for the month. It's a lot of selling, but its also a lot of buying and I don't think the buyers are timid or weak.
(updated through 08/17/2013)
Axion Power Concentrator Comments Statistics:(updated through 08/17/2013)
Links to important Axion Power research and websites:
The Axion Power Concentrator Web Sites, created by APC commentator Bangwhiz. It is a complete easy-to-use online archive of all the information contained in the entire Axion Power Concentrator series from day one, including reports, articles, comments and posted links.
Axion Power Wikispaces Web Site, created by APC commentator WDD. It is an excellent ongoing notebook aggregation of Axion Power facts.
Axion Power Website. The first place any prospective investor should go and thoroughly explore with all SEC filings and investor presentations as well as past and present Press Releases.
Axion Power Intra day Statistics Tracking: (new edition 8/1/2013) HTL tracks and charts AXPW's intra-day statistics.
PbC Cost Estimating Spreadsheet and Instablog: Apmarshall62 put together an instablog for estimating costs of the PbC. It includes a downloadable spreadsheet that you can use to plug in your own cost estimations.
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It's lonely here at the top.
Last time was September ...
http://bit.ly/17MNYvZ# -
The high profile launch of the NS 999 was followed in very short order by catastrophic battery failures. When public companies make a media event of innovation and a technology failure turns the event into a circus within a matter of weeks, the embarrassment is overwhelming. I believe their hard experience from speaking too quickly about the NS 999 is the biggest reason for NS' secretive nature on the second-generation.
>JP ... Once upon a time (2011, I believe) there was a press article in the New Castle paper stating that the BP4 was going to be tested in a small yard NE of there. There is a small shop & engine house there ... so, who knows. I don't know any "Train Spotters" in that region. Anything is possible.
JP, I have to suspect you may be right here. The cost to make another pretty 999 is considerable but the stripping of an old yard engine for installation of the electronic system necessary for TEMLO would be much more manageable. Also easier to test the system out of the public spotlight.
I think NS tendency for secrecy and avoiding any public discussion may have ended when their own high-profile sustainability report touted the NS999, specifically called out Axion, and suggested that the roll-out is imminent. That also argues against NS999 being some sort of ploy while work continues on another platform.
Its ALL speculation.
>Valleywood ... Just to add a little color to my nearest previous post. Earlier I wasn't on my computer, so no links.
Well I have one of the few NS veterans I still visit with showing up in a few hours. Well drink, dine, and cavort with our wives so I won't be able to post tomorrow, so I'll put this up now.
http://amzn.to/18MpQKS -
The readers who suggested the end of August was a better end date for the price pressure than the end of July were paying special attention to the impact of historic trading periods on the monthly "true-up installments" that begin September 1st. As I read the contracts the true-up calculations might reduce the PIPErs total return if they let up pressure before the end of August. While I haven't fully modeled the impacts, the theory has solid appeal. Once we get past August, I see no reason the PIPErs would prefer low prices to high prices.
TG's wrist watch. So far it's been pretty accurate. :-(
This is simply too rich to pass up, company or no.
VW . . OK, I'll bite. All we need is 196 of us and for the Guinness people to approve the category and we could set our own record and get some free PR for our beloved company.
1. Record charge acceptance rate for a Lead Acid Battery.
2. Record number full discharges for a LAB. (Real discharges, not this 5% excrement)
3. Highest number of comments for a nano-cap stock.
4. Proof that a watched pot never boils. (Everyone: look away from the ticker) -
I am trying to get-my-head-around the potential revenue to Axion for each PbC sold. I have heard on this site the figure $400 per battery, but realize, Axion will not be selling the battery, only the carbon electrode. Does anyone have a ROUGH estimate of how much $ Axion can realize to their top line for each carbon electrode sold to a licensing partner?
The retail price of a Group 30H AGM battery on Amazon ranges from $170 to $240 depending on the vendor. Since middle-men need to make a buck even if they sell on Amazon, you can figure a loading dock price in the neighborhood of $160 for the battery manufacturer.
Interesting. Thanks for the info, JP. I'm thinking you inferred Axion pricing to ePower of "about $360" per PbC based on an earlier TG reference to "more than $20K" per truck. We also have a statement citing $25K for batteries plus pack management system. So, $360 per PbC appears a pretty good low ball number for the battery.
The BMS is an Axion intellectual property, but it doesn't have much value if you're trying to manage something other than a string of PbCs. Under the circumstances, I'm not sure whether the BMS is a separate value added item or included in the price of the batteries.
Thanks John.
Thanks, Was hoping to get a perspective on the complexity/cost difference between the two systems but it's really not that important. It would be nice to know their perspective on where they hope to progress to with PbC. Will they still monitor individual batteries for health as one point.
I think Axion wants to monitor the individual batteries closely because they've been coming up with lots of real-time data gathering and transmission gizmos so they can monitor an ePower tractor in real time the same way they monitor the PowerCube.
John, Thanks. I'd expect no less at this stage of the game. Data is everything.
JP typed:
" I think Axion wants to monitor the individual batteries closely because they've been coming up with lots of real-time data gathering and transmission gizmos" -
>gezeke ... Estimate is something around $100 to $125USD per battery for electrodes. If anyone knows how much a Pb electrode + paste (carbon additive ... or not) + labor/shop time costs then we'd know the premium paid for an Axion electrode. I'm sure we've been through this exercise before but I can't remember it.
Spent some time on a couple of Tesla forums yesterday.
It seems they are very fast off a light. Even when they are second in line. :) -
Curious. Is someone here tracking what proportion of total shares acquired to date by the PIPING collective have now been off loaded (as measured by the metrics deemed most appropriate by the cognoscenti). Are they dumping all or substantively all? Is it possible to infer from market data with appropriate assumptions?
Anthj: IMHO we can never *know*. Market-makers are also on both sides of many trades buying and selling for their customers, that may include more than PIPers, and for their own profit, which includes daily short sales and, I believe, short-term long positions (mostly via order flowing in for sell orders which they shorted and subsequently already covered at lower than sell price).
For May, June, July and August cumulative FINRA shorts have totaled just a hair under 12 million shares which would generate about $2 million at the VWAP and more for a smart seller. Going by the difference in the number of outstanding shares reported in the Q1 and Q2 Form 10-Qs it looks like the PIPErs received at total of 18 million shares through August 7th. My bet is that they're not holders and wouldn't buy green bananas at Costco.
Nissan first OEM production for steer by wire in passenger car.
Appreciate the feedback.
So if PIPERS have sold, best guess, 12 of 18 million, then another 6 million remain to be dumped, unless they hold onto a portion to see if something good happens in the medium term. Perhaps one of the parties is holding? -
08/22/2013: EOD stuff partially copied from instablog (up in the A.M?).
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# Sells, Shares: 129 1378649, VW Avg Sell Pr: 0.1330
# Unkn, Shares: 3 30000, VW Avg Unk. Pr: 0.1385
Buy:Sell 1:2.22 (30.6% "buys"), DlyShts 180939 (8.92%), Dly Sht % of 'sells' 13.12%
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07/12: 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs in 40 days avg, $0.1657, x 85%: $0.1408 Wk cls VWAP $0.1403
07/19: 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs in 40 days avg, $0.1539, x 85%: $0.1309 Wk cls VWAP $0.1543
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Vol, in K, for above days: 1507.31, 1775.55, 928.88, 2029.33. -
Something to take our minds off the pain
Does a dump truck use the standard "Day Cab" configuration? If so, what does the market look like for that type of truck?
- Real-World Class 8 Fuel Economy Ranges from 7.9 to 9.5 mpg
- Idling a Truck-Tractor's Engine Can Use a Gallon of Fuel per Hour
http://1.usa.gov/14dXla6 -
Greentongue, In the case of GM their commercial vehicles in this range are the GMT530/560.
Dump trucks and cement mixers are in Class 8 because of their weight. Most are not tractor trailer combinations and they're not a current focus for ePower.
Class 8B – http://1.usa.gov/16mWi2L
Fleet Averages – http://1.usa.gov/16mWi2P -
:-) Purely anecdotal but also indicative of actual mpg vs "theoretical"
I find it interesting that (based on eyeballing the graphs) that the difference in the median fuel economy between class 8a and 8b is maybe .5mpg if that. I would have expected it to be more, but maybe it's a confirming data point for the point that trucks rarely operate anywhere near their maximum weight capability.
Not yet. It selected Class 8 trucking because the average annual mileage is 60,000 for the Class 8A fleet and 80,000 for the Class 8B fleet.
I agree with the trash truck idea.
We keep hearing it is the fast recharge that recovers regenerative energy that makes the PbC valuable. Not the long steady driving between uses.
So, you save fuel by using the smallest motor possible or you save fuel by frequent reusing of energy. Both seem to be useful target markets/products. -
The school bus idea may be OK but as a guess they generally only drive about 2 hours in the morning and two in the afternoon, five days a week and only operate 9 months a year.
Say 1/4-1/3 of full time OTR truck.
The case for fuel savings to offset the additional upfront cost is much less.
While a robust stop start system and electrical drive hybrid makes sense. Probably adoption rates would be no better than replacement rate at best. -
"The school bus idea may be OK but as a guess they generally only drive about 2 hours in the morning and two in the afternoon, five days a week and only operate 9 months a year. Say 1/4-1/3 of full time OTR truck. "
approximately half hour for high, Jr, middle, and elementary schools.
Most of the rest is the odd field trip or an after school trip for sports etc.
At least in my area they are.
Yes I do presently know a school bus driver.
Perhaps; it is not true everywhere but it is in the areas I've known. -
back in my day, I started at 5am (at the latest) and didn't get back to the 'barn' until 10am. had to be back at 2pm and usually didn't get back to the barn until 6pm unless there were extra athletic runs. I was always being pressured to skip classes (mine, at university) to drive charters during the day. -
Three Things That Could Slow Down Tesla
"Tesla is working with battery cell suppliers such as Panasonic and LG Chem to make sure there's greater supply"
I would think the problem is also going to be the fact that Tesla doesn't buy batteries, they buy cells and built their own battery packs. So they have to have enough production of the cells they use in their packs, which may not be the same design that other battery manufacturers put into their battery packs. -
Washington—Volkswagen AG wants federal and state regulators to do more to encourage fuel-efficient diesel vehicles.
Disagree LabTech,
>D Lane ... The purchase of diesel exhaust fluid is one added expense.
>iindelco ... Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) consumption is measured as a ratio of diesel fuel use, normally termed the "dosing rate" or "treat rate". Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles have a dosing rate of 2-3%. This means that if your truck has a fuel efficiency of six miles per gallon and a dosing rate of 3% it will use approximately 1 gallon of DEF every 200 miles.
DR and ii,
I thought you guys were kidding about diesel fluid, like when you run out of blinker fluid when the turn signals don;t work any more ( or you forget to use them). ;-)
When I stopped driving there was a scrubber on the trucks and the computer was set to produce high heat on grades to cleanse the scrubber or to run a clean routine at idle for a period up to 30 minutes. Are there different systems now, or has there been a consolidation to this one system? -
>Stilldazed ... I know there are still scrubber systems out there. I don't know if they meet the next set of emissions standards. The selective catalytic system is the new and seeming standard for new diesel engines that need it. Simply put ... I don't know how many different systems there are or what is passable.
Stilldazed, This technology was developed to meet new Federal air quality standards as they are phased in.
My DEF tank holds 22 gallons, which lasts about 4,000 miles. DEF fluid is nowadays readily available in bulk (at the fuel island, just like diesel) @ $2.79/gal, or in 2.5 gal containers inside the convenience store 2 approx. $15.00. Seems to use more DEF under a heavy load/mountanous terrain, but just a non-scientific observation...
Once ePower becomes a stable customer with set configurations, would Axion build specialized battery packs for them?
Could there be significant cost reductions by going to "packs" instead of bundling standard batteries together?
Would "packs" make sense or would the easy swapping of individual batteries be worth the extra materials needed? -
>greentongue ... To build packs, as you suggest, would require a really big effort. To change the formfactor would require a new case size ... leading to new electrode fabrication lines, new assembly lines and this is after the R&D required to find out if it worked as expected and had any drawbacks or management problems. It would be a unique manufacturing undertaking that could/would not be able to be farmed out to existing battery OEMs making Axion its own sole source. There are no other LAB "pack" manufactures I know of.
News and events surrounding the latest conference call and related financials have given me added comfort that all will be well with AXPW with patience
Re: The Ugly
John: "... so what hurts the street stockholders a little is agony for the old guard"
HardToLove -
Tom Conrad has updated his AXPW article - part 2
He is saying in the short term - assuming there is no big announcement - AXPW will trade down until November to $0.05- $0.06.
If the stock goes to $0.06 you can buy 1,000,000 shares – better than 400K. -
My personal strategy is simply to buy more when I think it's a short term low. I was wrong before when the upturn will be, but it's very close now that TG gave us a timeline. I moved more cash into my account today. I think next quarter combined with January will give this stock the greatest boost we've seen since Jan 2012.
I've known Tom Konrad for a long time and generally respect his work. Like many financial writers, however, Tom's experience with PIPEs has been limited to companies that were already overloaded with debt and didn't have sufficient market depth to sustain the increased selling from their PIPE investors.
Ranma, your thoughts are very similar to mine. I picked up a few more shares yesterday, believing we're scraping along at the pps bottom, and would likely bounce off the .125 mark again. TG's cc revenue/sales timeline and comments have me feeling a lot more relaxed these days [especially since TK's .05 comments].
On a stock investment blog where every bull has been wrong, usually terribly and consistently so, the truth is Tom Konrad's prognostication so far stands alone.
Credible points Mr. I. --- I would point out however, that the pps was at .165 just two days ago, so it might be a bit premature to say TK has been directionally correct [although that could very well prove to be the case]. --- You mentioned "every bull"... It seems you've made some pretty bullish comments recently, so I'm curious if you include yourself in this category. Perhaps bullish on Axion and its prospects, but not so much on its pps?
I believe Granville used the wording he did because it is not up to him when a customer decides to sign the contract.
I also believe he would not have used those words if he didn't think it could be at any time (but no later than). -
Wayne, yes, as often for a data-rich filed like investing, ur conclusions often depend on exactly which data you pick. Big-picture is AXPW has spent the vast majority of its time below 17 cents since Konrad's article.
greent---SInce I don't think huge sticky news comes out before the PIPErs get their next big chunk of shares soon, I would rather wait and see what happens after they do.
Mr Investor> According to my calculations the investors got their first block of ~6 million shares on June 7th, another block of ~4 million shares on July 8th and yet another block of ~8 million shares on August 2nd. Without 18 million shares of issuances to the PIPErs the share count couldn't have reached 131 million by August 7th, the number reported on the first page of Axion's recent 10-Q.
JP, yes the process is not new but the 8.3 million+ additional shares will be. And the big chunk after that, and so on into March.
Just a reminder that Vani will be presenting next week at Agrion. maybe we get a bone thrown to us before his presentation?
It's good to see that there are going to be representatives from both the city and state of NY there, along with capital investment companies, FERC and several power companies. Hopefully, Vani and Axion can stand out a little, when he's not surrounded by a bunch of Li-ion company reps, and remind these different groups that there "is" another solution for storage that works. -
I need a break! I thought I had put this in an old APC!
13:51-13:57. -
A pictorial of the correct application of the term.
I've been watching for an update on this program. Nothing yet so it appears late. A situation I can relate to.
>iindelco ... The last thing I remember seeing about the Corvus Energy battery Hybrid "Leaf" was October of 2012. There are 32 Cummins powered RailServe "Leaf"'s out there but nothing about the AMPS version.
DRich and John, Thanks for the info.
>iindelco ... I suspect that Corvus has trouble that the Axion PbC excels with. That of rapid, deep discharge and over current recharging. If the string can't be balanced quickly between these events then there is a problem with "hot spots" that will lead to cell failure and then battery failure. Too much concentrated heat.
>froggey77 ... I'm not at all sure but I think that would start to infringe on RJ Corman's "Green Goat" patent territory. Depends on how it is configured as either engine or battery centric. I'd be happy if RailServe was interested because Corman most definitely IS NOT.
DRich, Could be Corvus had a balancing issue.
"hybrid rubber tired gantry crane lowers emissions by 80 percent and reduces fuel usage by 70 percent"
I wonder how long the batteries last?
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Both documents are incredibly vague about the type of batteries that are being tested in the McCalla RTGs. According to Wikipedia, the maximum gross weight of an intermodal shipping container is 66,139 pounds. Lifting that much weight 50 feet in the air would require about 1.25 kWh of energy.
NS generally speaks of banks of batteries for the crane solution. As discussed, Axion does not build packs, only provides batteries in banks run together.
In its 2012 sustainability report NS said:
>JP ... Good observations. I've thought for a long time that Axion's PbC would become successful in mixed battery installations. Not exactly the norm when engineers design battery systems now but I'm hoping that changes. Axion should be able to compete with Maxwell in many applications.
It seems that one of the first things a user wants to do when he gets a new device like the PbC is try mixing it with similar batteries. If you recall the Fleets and Fuels article a month or two back, you'll remember that it included a photo that drew a lot of discussion in the Concentrators because it showed a battery array that was half PbC and half AGM. On my last trip to Florence I learned that the battery box was just one of Jay's experiments. He had some spare AGMs lying around and some spare first generation PbCs, so he combined the two in series to see what the combination did to the performance parameters that interest him most. While Jay hasn't had the time he'd like to fool with his little experiment, the battery box is still sitting there with PbCs and AGMs cohabiting peacefully and holding a steady charge without the voltage drop he gets from a pure PbC array.
" A consideration is that the hybrids are about 45 percent more expensive than standard diesel cranes."
Could the additional expense be due to Li-ion batteries? Would a PbC and AGM combo banks be more cost effective?
2 gallons an hour has to add up over time if the batteries have a long useful life. Plus, better energy recovery may drop the fuel usage even lower. -
IMO, it may be a bit early for the first cranes, but the combo of PbC & AGM makes sense and could speed adoption of AXPW. I think if TG would commit to it, these apps are much faster to gain sales in than auto and a big recurring order from NSC or PC's.
RTGs may be a good application for the PbC but they're not a big market for the PbC. Norfolk Southern buys RTGs six or seven at a time while it buys locomotives at 100 to 200 unit per year clip. It all goes back to carefully targeting your market for suitability and size.
At this time in the company's life I would think "small potatoes" would be better than going hungry.
If an interested company could buy what they needed, even in small quantities", and use them "as is", why would you not sell them?
Now, certainly, if they need engineering assistance to make them work, that would be a different matter.
In fact, with the stripping out of the Research & Development budget, having serious customers doing their own experiments makes sense.
It would seriously concern me if every company that wanted to use the PbC, had to have hand holding by Axion to get them to work. -
This is a bit of a followup to an exchange I had yesterday with Mr I, and some of his perspectives [which I always appreciate reading]. Here's one of his comments: "Big-picture is AXPW has spent the vast majority of its time below 17 cents since Konrad's article." — I'm going to share my own "Big-picture" scenario, not to rebut Mr. I's [or anybody else's], but to explain some of my own data points that are relevant for me at this time, and that are influencing my own decision to hold my AXPW position.
169.5M shares x .18 = $30.51M Market Cap. — post-PIPE -
The only thing I'd add to the analysis is that a company's market cap after a financing round should always increase by the amount of new money shoved into the till. If Axion was worth $30 million with very little cash in the till, it should be worth at least $40 million with another $10 million of cash on hand.
JP, good point that the market cap should actually be 10K higher. Skews the current one even further. --- Tim, thanks for pointing out the typo [wouldn't Bob love it to be $750M however]. Hard to believe I used to do a fair amount of proof reading and copy editing.
WiO, one reason the price is lower than it should be is not only the 50-60 million shares issued on this pipe,, it is the increase of xxx million shares to be voted in at the next share holders meeting and the 10Q saying they will need capital in 2014.
So the mkt is factoring this in and the pipers and others want no part of another issue like this one. Same way with last years buyers of the financing.
These pipers are in a no lose situation short of bankruptcy ... so as long as axionistas buy, they gonna sell shares to you.
Recurring sales is the only thing to stop the bleeding. A one timer won't do it. -
WiO once it is clear that another PIPE like financing is needed, which also means that the announcement of significant orders in the next 3 months turned out to be not that great as insinuated, the price will be so low that you can also keep the shares (unless you need the tax loss). I might also increase my position but definitely not because of lower prices but O N L Y because of real orders showing up.
08/23/2013: EOD stuff partially copied from instablog (up already).
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A quote from the May 16 call.
" I accompanied Vani on a sales call. To further discuss the amount of storage that will go into a 2013 project being developed by our strategic partner. The amount of storage will probably be several megawatts"
say 5.
(I'm guessing in that he thought this was a big one which is why he mentioned it's size.)
Each rack has 40 batteries.
7 x 40 = 280
Assuming the PCube at Axion can deliver 1/2 megawatt for half an hour you would need 2 for one mWh.
(The specific PCube at Axion could be smaller but no larger than that)
10 x 280 batteries 2,800
2,800 x $360 (IIRC about what we think NSC paid) = $1,008,000
Call it a SWAG
This ignores everything else such as the BMS and electronics services consulting and other stuff which might or might not be involved.
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Greentongue: extrapolating what I recall about the higher energy available, from a broader SOC range with lower internal resistance(?), I think it would only allow a longer discharge or higher discharge to a lower SOC before it had to recharge.
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Greentongue, I don't know how the power cube at Axion is being utilized. Initially, if I recall correctly, only 20 % of what would be defined as a full power cube was being utilized to respond for testing purposes in the Viridity/PJM system. I don't know that we ever received any information that indicated that more of the potential capacity of this unit was integrated for this particular testing.
I had forgotten this about the PC:
I'm sure I'm missing a lot here. The quick answer is, it all depends on what you are trying to do. It's too early in the market development to have off-the-shelf shrink-wrapped solutions.
1. Temporary power surges. This reduces the need to keep generation capacity up and running, or provide time to get generators turned on. Perhaps with enough storage, the capacity can be left off. EG diesels on islands.
2. Maintain power form intermittent sources. EG wind/solar.
3. Provide power when demanded from the utility.
4. Power buffer. A e-car charging station may not have the grid power available (without running more power lines). PBC can be used to charge more cars at once, and recover quickly when capacity is available.
-Instantaneous maximum power. Do you want to deliver 1000 or 1,000,000 watts.
-Total energy to be stored. 1 Mega Watt Hour is 1 MW for 1 hour. Do you need more or less.
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Ce commentaire est de: Conquest and Defeat: An Alternative History of World War II (Paperback)
Knowing the author personally I decided to make a few comments. The Author wrote the book for like minded historical buffs and apologizes for not making the characters stronger and more detailed. He has changed that in subsequent novels. A critical minded person who looks for mistakes could go to any public library and find mistakes in most of the books there. Any grade schooler knows that you double space between sentences. The novel was finalized by a professional secretary using a word processor and was put in book form by the publisher on a word processor.
All geographical names and locations were taken from National Geographics Concise Atlas of the World old and new versions and Funk and Wagnalls. It is common practice in many fiction books to change scenes without preamble and the author does this to show that many different actions are happening at the same time. The history research was well done and if you follow the story it is an interesting alternative. This is the only WWII alternative history that I have read that the Nazi's paid no part. The author admits that he should have made the book longer and used more detail, the reason he did not was that he was trying to keep the book price down. The amount of pages in the book determines the price.
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My first review of this book has been tanked by Amazon for extreme language and what they deemed to be "personal attacks on the author." Having had time to calm down after wasting money and time on this book, I'm ready for a more measured response.
This book reminds me of something that may have been written by a 6th grader with a fairly good understanding of history and rich imagination. The premise of the book is badly under-researched, and the names of geographical locations are horribly mangled. The plot has no continuity, jumping from one scene to another without any bridges; it is a common occurence for the book to have actions that should have been different chapters separated by no more than a period. Grammar and spelling are atrocious, making a reader stumble through sentences and turning the process of reading into slow torture. From now on, I will stay away from self-publishing titles until I had a chance to page through them in a library.
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Maybe I've read too many alternative histories in the last 40+ years, but this one is too screwy, poorly written and atrociously edited. A second world war within these covers? While the story tries to be a world war, to associate it by name with our own history (and weaponry) does us (and the Japanese) a disservice. I will admit, however, that the death of the Russian revolution and the nazi's as posited is plausible in "real" history, let alone this alternative. But the portrayal of people and place names, people especially... It is obvious who is being portrayed and the silly variations on names showcase apparently, third grade minds. And the alternate America??? It is a caricature of the worst of all the FBI and mobster stories and movies of the last century... I'm sorry I bought this one, even used. BUT, I will not forget this author's name... Possibly one to avoid!!
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Dana, they look amazing! The dough looks so rich and buttery, like a brioche - which I kind of guess it is, looking at the recipe. And I love the twisted shaping - do you roll the filled dough, or braid it?
The fig filling is very nice, but as you say, heavy. I wonder if there is some way you could lighten it for next time - maybe cook it down less the night before?
The Hungarians do something reminiscent called a beigli, filled with a cooked crushed poppy seed filling.miha, imi face mare bucurie sa te vad aici, multumesc! sper c-ai avut paste linistit si fericit!
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hi celia, thanks! it is a lot like brioche, or maybe even closer to challah. i fill two sheets, roll them up into logs and then just twist them around each other. a braid would be more work... i do it sometimes for plain dough, but when it's filled it's somewhat harder to work with.
i'm sorry to say, there's no way this filling would work to my satisfaction. i only cooked it long enough for the sugar to melt, then let it cool. used it within the hour.
i make beigli at least four times a year. i use the same filling for this dough, without a glitch. the authentic beigli is not a yeasted dough, i've recently learned - my mother makes a yeast one that always cracks on top, apparently that's unavoidable if yeast is used. cracked or not, it was one of my favourite things growing up. i always think of christmas at home whenever i smell it baking.


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OPRAH: Everybody is very excited Brad cause, cause they just saw the movie.
BRAD: Excellant!
OPRAH: They just saw the movie, great movie, so let's talk about the movie first, we will ofcourse move on to other things. Let's talk about the movie. The premise of the movie, that you are some other world character.
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OPRAH: That's better than mediocre. Okay in Meet Joe Black, which opens friday the 13th, Brad plays death, it's a very good-looking death, uh if death has to come for ya, you'd like him to be in that package. Uh anyway. In this scene- which takes place early in the movie- Brad's kinda boyish charm melts the heart of co-star. Is she fabulous or what?
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OPRAH: Claire Forlani, wasn't she wonderful? She is. Take a look, this terrific… Don't you love this scene, when they first meet in the coffee shop? I know it's kinda thing in your lifetime, you wish somebody had some lines that were as good as these! Take a look, take a look.
[Shows clip from Meet Joe Black]
OPRAH: Well… you never know. Okay. All right. So of all, would this be up there with your favorite movies?
BRAD: It is for what it says, yes it is. For the experience and as far a full story and a fulfilling story, I would say, which you walk out with. Yea, I love what it says.
OPRAH: Yeah, fills your heart, one of my favorite movies, however, is Legends Of The Fall honey. And Brad you were sensational in that. Take a look of few of his memorable scenes from Legends Of The Fall. It is a good thing to rent really!
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OPRAH: Legends Of The Fall! Meet Joe Black… Now you seem pretty shy about all this Brad. Does it make you, does this, how does this whole fame train feel to you?
BRAD: Oh it's a mystery to me. Just a mystery.
OPRAH: Is it?
BRAD: I … on one hand I like it very much, on the other hand… you know, when it goes to the negative it gets in the way.
OPRAH: Yeah, you know a person who's known also, isn't it the weirdest thing when you pick up the first magazine and there's nothing but lies written about you?
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OPRAH: It is, isn't it? And nobody ever gets it until it's their name. Cause I have a best friend who's always like "Oh but that, girl just let that roll off your back".
BRAD: Yeah right "What do you care?"
OPRAH: Yeah "What do you care?" Until it's your name!
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OPRAH: Never!
BRAD: I always wonder, who would want to write gossip as a living? When they go: "When I grow up, I would, I would love to write insipid silly little things about people, and print them!"
BRAD: I don't understand that, the things are made very petty and very trivial and it's not that way, it's usually decent people who are not so, not as great as we are made out to be but, not as bad as we are made out to be. Just decent people who are trying to do the best they can, and find some out about lives. So…
OPRAH: Yeah, the interesting thing too is, when do you decide, cause I know you sued -was it Playgirl you sued-…
BRAD: Yeah… [Sticks out tongue, shows fists, makes funny face]
OPRAH: …to sue or not to sue?
BRAD: Well there have been an onside and it's accumulate of a fact was trying to get to me and then when they actually got on private property, and took a moment, that I felt was very private… It's a creepy, creepy feeling! It really is. I can't explain it, it's just a creepy feeling. And I decided that was crossing a line, it wasn't right and, I'm going after them!
OPRAH: So they took private photos of you…
BRAD: Right.
OPRAH: In a private moment…
OPRAH: And like, where were they? In the bushes?
BRAD: Yeah…
OPRAH: Literally in the bushes?
BRAD: In the bushes yeah, with a lens like this. [Spreading arms wide]. They could see right up your crack!
[Brad and the audience laugh]
OPRAH: And I know everybody is like: "Oh well, if it's Brad Pitt's crack, okay".
BRAD: Oh no! [waving finger and nodding head]
OPRAH: You should think about it for a moment, and gosh everybody who knows that if you're a public figure then you know, certainly you're exposed publically. But would you, each one of you right now, in your most private moment… I know those of you who have primped your way in here today. Would you have wanted, in your most private moment, naked this morning, if there was a hidden camera, and then suddenly open up a newspaper and there is your naked behind! How would you feel about…
BRAD: It ain't pretty!
BRAD: I wanna teach them something. But you have to repeat after me all right? Gossip shows...
Audience: [reciting like a first grade class] Gossip shows...
BRAD: ...and gossip columns…
Audience: ...and gossip columns…
BRAD: ...and gossip by mere definition...
Audience: ..and gossip by mere definition...
BRAD: ...is crap!
Audience: ...is crap!
OPRAH: A lesson from Brad!
BRAD: I'm gonna get slaughtered for the next few weeks. So be it, these guys are losers!
OPRAH: The only good thing about Monica Lewinsky is that you think: "I'm not on there this week!" Oh she got a couple more weeks to go, that's good.
OPRAH: Next: What would Brad Pitt be doing if he wasn't an actor, we find that out when we come back.
[Commerical break]
OPRAH: That is sweet. Meet Joe Black! Meet Joe Black, wonderful new movie with Brad Pitt, that opens this Friday. And Brad Pitt is here doing a rare interview, his first in front of an audience. Not only is Brad the number one most requested guest, his name seems to come up in various was on our show, when you least expect it, like this.
Clip from previous show featuring Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn:
BETTE : .....the woman was talking about Brad Pitt's butt. Now what do I got to say about Brad Pitt's butt? I never saw it. I wouldn't wanna invade Brad Pitt's privacy. What's it to me? He's got a beautiful face, and he's a really good actor. He was fantastic in Thelma & Louise. I thought 'this boy has it. He's going to be a star.
GOLDIE: He could be our child...
OPRAH: Who's child?
DIANE: Oh my God! I hadn't thought of that.
BETTE : What a thing to say!
GOLDIE: We're talking about a young man who could be our child. How old is Brad Pitt?
OPRAH: I don't know. I think 29 or 30
GOLDIE: Oh, he's that old? Oh well...[Smiling in that goofy Goldie way]
DIANE or BETTE: He couldn't possibly be our child.
GOLDIE: I feel better now.
OPRAH: Okay, that ofcourse was Bette, Goldie and Diane Keaton talking about Brad Pitt…
BRAD: …and his butt. [Looking embarrassed]
OPRAH: And his butt. Does that embarrass you? I mean…
BRAD: Yeah
OPRAH: That does?
BRAD: No it's all right. Have at it.
OPRAH: Cause I'm wondering, when you have a real fine butt, why not just talk about it?
[audience howls, and claps hands]
BRAD: "Hi, I'm Brad, I have a really nice ass". [Shaking Oprah's hand]
OPRAH: I know, but I can understand why if it it detracts from the work, than maybe it would be a problem. But it's also part of the allure you know Brad.
BRAD: Oh okay. [Laughs, looks embarrassed]
OPRAH: I'm just telling the truth, cause you know, there are scenes that, in Meet Joe Black for example, when you guys are saying absolutely nothing. When -I don't know where they have that camera, is it like on your forehead or, cause it's some of the closest close-ups, I've ever seen. Where you are just really nice to look at and to look into your eyes. And what you both do with your eyes and those close-ups, by the time ya'll finally hit that bed in the pool, I'm like: "Come one already!"
[Audience and Brad laughs]
OPRAH: How long did that take?
BRAD: What shooting? Or…or…
BRAD: Well I think Marty was more nervous than we were, cause he never shot a sexscene. SO it actually took us 4 days just to get to the bed.
OPRAH: Really. Like the taking of the clothes?
BRAD: Yeah, that little portion yeah.
OPRAH: Took 4 days?
[audience is silent, then laughs]
BRAD: [Looking at audience] What???
OPRAH: 4 Days okay. Why? Cause he was trying to get you all to like…what?
BRAD: Oh it was just a lot of coverage I think. It was just a little apprehension to actually have to get there and do "The deed".
OPRAH: Okay, now once you guys were right there on the bed… We have a clip of that scene…
BRAD: Oh good… [Looking embarrassed again]
OPRAH: …one you're really there, really, curiously, I was like: "Where is the camera?" because, I mean, when that shot- where the faces are unbelievable- during that love scene, weren't they…
BRAD: The camera is right here. [Pointing to his forehead]
OPRAH: The camera is right there
BRAD: Right there.
OPRAH: Right there, in your face, okay, good. I won't ask you what you're thinking about, that's okay. We'll just show you the clip and you can think whatever you want, there we go.
[Shows clip of love scene]
OPRAH: You can see the rest Friday, in a theatre near you. [Looking into camera]
BRAD: The movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes, and they had to take that clip.
OPRAH: Yeah, that's a very sensual clip actually.
BRAD: I was happy with that scene actually, in context with the story.
OPRAH: Yeah, with what actually happens?
BRAD: Yeah, it's nice.
OPRAH: Yes, and were you happy with, uh now you say it took 4 days to get, actually get to the bed…
OPRAH: …And all the coverage. How long were you all actually there?
BRAD: Oh we lost count after.
OPRAH: You did?
BRAD: I just remember coming in, in the morning, Claire and I would look at each other and: [making a face] "Oh God", it's like eating steak in the morning. Having to kiss over and over…
OPRAH: Oh really? I wouldn't talk about steak if I were you…
[Brad and the audience laughs]
OPRAH: You might end up in Texas on trial, you never know. No, no, no. I'd say: "It's like eating tuna fish" or whatever.
BRAD: I wouldn't say that either.
OPRAH: Okay, you wouldn't say that either. Okay we said, when we went to break: what if you weren't doing this? We were talking about your work and our craft. But if you weren't doing this, what do you think it would be? What do you think…
BRAD: As a profession?
OPRAH: Yes.
BRAD: Oh I'd do something in the design world, meaning architecture or landscaping, something along that line.
OPRAH: Would you?
BRAD: Yeah. I like it!
OPRAH: Speaking of, cause I hear you love gardening…
BRAD: Yeah, landscaping
OPRAH: Landscaping. So you would be a landscape artist.
BRAD: Yeah, actually...
OPRAH: Architecture?
BRAD: Yeah, I like it so much. I don't know why.
OPRAH: Okay, when you're around your own house, do you do some of your own work or do you, you know, consult with other people, and tell them what to do?
BRAD: Some of both yeah, just play around with it. I like it!
OPRAH: You do!
BRAD: I like it! You guys want a good tip for making your yard look bigger? Yea? I'll give you one. Okay. What you gotta do is first you block off, block off the view of the houses, telephone palls, things you don't wanna see. And then look out for all the large trees that are of on other people's yards, and plant smaller ones in your yard. And you get this feeling of perspective, it takes you out and it really makes your yard feel bigger. That's my tip.
[Audience applauds]
BRAD: …On the Home Show…
OPRAH: We will be right back, but first, here is a scene from Meet Joe Black, where his fabulous co-star -you can't say enough about Anthony Hopkins- tells Brad, to stay away from his daughter!
[Shows a clip from Meet Joe Black]
OPRAH: We'd talked to Brad's Meet Joe Black co-stars uh Claire Forlani, who is amazing, is she not amazing? I'd never heard of her before this, okay Claire, and Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins, have a little something to say on what it was like, working with Brad, here they are.
Clip of Anthony Hopkins talking about Brad, then one of Claire Forlani
Anthony Hopkins: Hello Oprah! Hello Brad! I just want to say a few things about Brad Pitt. I wrote you a fan letter after Legends Of The Fall, and I wrote you another one for your performance in Seven and 12 Monkeys. I'm just here to say I admire you. Your a wonderful actor, and one of the most pleasant guys I've worked with. Very quiet-like me. We have a few jokes. You make me laugh. We had a good time. It was a great priveledge for me to work with you. Congratulations on your wonderful performance in this movie. See ya. [Winks and gives a thumbs up]
Claire Forlani: Hi Brad. Your support and your kindness and your talent was an absolute gift to me. And it's something I still hold very very dear and very close to my heart. Your an example with everything you've got and where you are and who you are. Your a real example, and I'm really glad I got to see it up close. [Waves and throws a kiss]
OPRAH: Yeah, the audience is saying: "So are we too Claire!"
OPRAH: Yeah, because everybody -you know, I know Kevin Uvane, we share the same agent- is saying that you are so normal for a Hollywood guy. You know that you just really, very, everybody says this about you, you are just really nice, normal guy.
BRAD: I'm all right.
OPRAH: That you are all right. Would you say that about yourself?
BRAD: Yeah, I'm all right, sure, I'm not..., don't want to…nice…but yeah... make mistakes, sometimes not so nice but yeah normal.
OPRAH: Real human.
BRAD: The other day I got in this thing. I was being followed by paparazzi. And not the paparazzi you see, but these stalkers that come up now. And I was trying to get rid of them. I whipped into this ally. I mean whipped into this uh, what I thought was an entrance, turned out to be an exit. And there was a woman coming out, and uh uh I was like: "Move, move, move!" and she sat for a second and then backed up, and I went around and I was looking out and I was trying to get away and then this woman pulls… I hear this: (With a loud voice) "Hello, excuse me! Excuse me!" and this woman just wailed on me, wailed on me! She tore me up. Because I was rude, I was rude, I was absolutely rude, and she was right. Someone's mom beat me up…
OPRAH: Really…
BRAD: Yeah, but I deserved, you know I had it coming… So, I mean, nice guy, not so nice guy, normal guy yeah…
OPRAH: Uh huh normal guy. Are you anywhere near, halfway, let's say on a scale of 1 to 10 on a range, uhm of uh Joe Black, are you nearly that romantic?
BRAD: [pauses, smiles, looks embarrassed, then looks into camera, gives two thumbs up and says..] Romance is cool!
BRAD: I like romance.
OPRAH: Brad, we want more information. No really, are you: flowers. Are you: little notes in the morning? Are you phone calls late at night? Any information you can give.
BRAD: Oh I … [pauses] I think love should be kept creative and constantly finding things and doing things for each other yeah. I like that. I like it. I like it back too.
OPRAH: You like it back.
OPRAH: Do you ever see yourself like being married and father?
BRAD: Sure I do.
OPRAH: You do.
BRAD: I look forward to that.
OPRAH: Is it hard when you go out? Cause uhm you didn't see the tape before the show, but if you happen to see the show when you get home, you know, all the people, some people were primping. I won't say everybody, before they got here. Cause they were thinking, maybe you will just look across the audience and say: "Damnit, the hell with this show and meeting Joe Black. I want that woman!" you know…
OPRAH: But you know, is it difficult to meet people who just, who see your heart? Who see your heart. Or do you have to only meet people who are in your own kinda circle, your own kinda life?
BRAD: Well we hang out with people in our own circle and certainly uhm cause we understand what we're going through maybe, in a sense… Argh that sounds so silly. We got a good life [Laughs] Alright? We gotta good life. But uh they're there, I couldn't limit it to that.
OPRAH: You couldn't?
BRAD: No, I couldn't limit it to that.
OPRAH: So you might be like at a TWA counter one day and there's a woman there and you could like, be interested?
BRAD: [Mutters in a low voice] uh, uh, not now
OPRAH: But yeah, I'm just saying…
BRAD: Open, yeah.
OPRAH: Open to the possibility. Cause, but I'm just thinking do you have some kind of radar that lets you know when people are after you for you, you know, whatever, fame…your house…
BRAD: I'm getting very good at that. Yeah, sure there are people who are after, who have alternate motives and then there are people who are just very, very cool. It's a great business. It draws so many interesting people from all these different walks of life, that wanna be in this little arena. I mean, it's, fantastic people.
OPRAH: Uh hmm
BRAD: Yeah, truely.
OPRAH: Well next…
BRAD: You're not so bad either.
OPRAH: Well thanks. Thanks Brad! Next Brad's mom talks about her famous son. We'll be right back.
OPRAH: Brad's mom once visited us at The Oprah Show and we asked her about uhm about her son.
Clip of Brad's mom, sister, and sister in-law:
OPRAH: Now, when he was coming up, did anyone have any idea it would turn into this?
JANE: We always knew he'd succeed at whatever he did.
OPRAH: Are you a proud mom?
JULIE: We are his biggest fans.
JANE: Of course....I've been proud ever since he was little, not because of what he does for a living.
OPRAH: When you see him on the cover of Peopel magazine as the "Sexiest Man Alive"....This is a child who came through your womb. You know him as noone does. And you see him as the sexiest man alive. What do you think? jane....
JANE: [pauses, smiles, shakes her head] No way!
BRAD: She's good. That's my mom.
OPRAH: Yeah
BRAD: They looked like the "Sgt. Pepper's lonely Hearts Club" [All three women were wearing similar outfits with large shoulders, similar to the style of the uniforms in The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]
OPRAH: They all decided: "We're all gonna dress alike for the Oprah Show."
BRAD: [Looking right in the camera] I had to take that shot mom.
OPRAH: When we were doing our research on Brad for this show, we came across a few of his acting from the early days, and couldn't resist showing you a few of them.
[Shows pictures of Brad in his Dallas days]
OPRAH: Some of you may remember, Brad had a thing on Dallas 10 years ago. Ya'll remember? But also had a role on the daytime soap Another World. Take a look.
[Shows a clip of Another World]
BRAD: [Laughs] That is good. This just goes to show: you can learn anything. Anything you set your mind to. All right?
OPRAH: Okay, now if that wasn't enough, we also dug up a potato-chip-loving Brad Pitt.
BRAD: What was that?
OPRAH: It's a commercial you did in 1988 for "Pringles"
OPRAH: That's right, here you go.
[Shows Pringles commerical]
[Everyone hysterical laughing]
OPRAH: You can learn anything!
BRAD: That was… I never saw that!
OPRAH: Never saw that.
BRAD: Yeah, you can learn anything…
OPRAH: Yeah, what has this whole thing… You know I love getting older actually, you know, especially this time in your life, when you have all these wonderful, great opportunities. But also the opportunity to do, what a lot of people don't have, and that's to kinda think about what your life really means. And why you're really here and what, you know, that kinda stuff. So what has this whole fame train trip done for that part of yourself?
BRAD: Oh, you know what my main theme is? "Work in progress."
OPRAH: Work in progress?
BRAD: Yeah, work in progress, and we're not finished till the day we die so, you know, live your life and figure it out and let other people do the same.
OPRAH: Right.
OPRAH: Since there-this is Brad's first show in front of an audience-we wanted to give you all-and he did too-a chance to ask questions and we'll do that when we come back.
OPRAH: Brad's here. [Talking to audience] I gotta hand it to you; there was no primping during the commercial break, that's very good. Cause I think you're feeling more comfortable with Brad, and he with you. Okay, since this is Brad's first interview in front of an audience, he wanted to give everybody a chance. He actually asked us you know: "Will the audience get a chance to ask questions?" and we went: "Okay, if you want them to."
BRAD: We're gonna dispel the myths…
OPRAH: That's right. We're gonna dispel the myths here.
BRAD: That's right, have at it.
OPRAH: Okay, Linda Mack, Montgomery, Illinois, where are you? [Oprah looks for her] Okay, what's your question?
Linda Mack: Well, I'm asking the question, but I'm doing it as a favor to Oprah. Now that she is an experienced actress, would you consider doing a love-scene with her?
[Everyone laughs, Oprah is very embarrassed]
BRAD: Bring it on baby!
OPRAH: I'm sorry, now Ellen......Ellen is the producer-and Candy, is this the reason why you didn't let me screen the questions ahead of time?
[Brad laughs]
OPRAH: I said: "Could I have the questions?" they go: "Oh no, don't worry about it, we screened them." Thank you so much Linda Mack. Embarrassing me up here. Uhm… Ray Jean Neece, Chicago. Where are you? There she is.
Ray Jean Neece: What is the most inaccurate thing that anyone has ever said or written about you?
OPRAH: Oh good, that's good.
BRAD: Ah! That I was stupid, I was gay, I was…. Na, na, na… How about that?
OPRAH: Stupid and gay. [Looking at audience]
OPRAH: Both in inaccurate! What did you think recently of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, suing the tabloids?
BRAD: I say have at it!
OPRAH: Have at it.
BRAD: No I think, again the accumulative affect and the just got fed up and right… Very cool people those two.
OPRAH: Very cool…
BRAD: Very funny people him and Nicole yeah.
OPRAH: Really? They're funny.
BRAD: Yeah, very funny.
OPRAH: I wouldn't have thought they were funny! Would you? They're funny...
BRAD: Well, they laugh a lot. How is that?
OPRAH: Okay. Stacey Kramer, Royal Oak, Michigan! You're up!
Stacey Kramer: Have you ever had your heart broken?
BRAD: Oh sure, everyone gets…
Stacey Kramer: Tell us about it.
BRAD: Oh no, that's all you get. [Pointing his finger at her is a cute, almost flirty way]
OPRAH: Oh she thought she was Jerry Springer for a moment.
OPRAH: Oh no, I'm only kidding! "We've the heart-break of your life on here Brad, to surprise you."
OPRAH: St. Paul, Minnesota, Melissa?
Melissa: Hi Brad
BRAD: Hi.
Melissa: I just wondered, how did you and Jennifer Aniston meet?
BRAD: Uhm… we met uhm moonlight you know… We met through friends actually yes.
OPRAH: They met through 'Friends', get it? "Oh Brad, such a witty guy." Here we go, Mia Pilkington, Aurora, Illinois!
Mia: I was just wondering, what your favorite TV-show was?
BRAD: Friends
OPRAH: Do you watch together?
BRAD: ............Friends!
OPRAH: Okay Becky.
Becky: How do you know when a woman likes you for your true self, and not for your image? Or your fame?
BRAD: Oh how do I know… uhm [laughs] Well, I've been wrong in the past, let me say that, right? I feel that I got it down. It's just a feeling, it's just, it's little things, the looks, it's the… love is a mystery, okay? I can't do much better one that one.
OPRAH: It's a feeling, okay? It's the same thing you feel. Right. Okay.
BRAD: It's intuition, it's an instinct and I got it pretty fine-tuned.
OPRAH: Thank you. Carla Livney.
Carla: Hi Brad. First I wanted to say that you're my Anthony Hopkins and I would've been perfectly happy to watch you for one hour, while you read the paper… But my question is uhm, like Joe Black, would you be willing to change your life style for the woman that you love, you know with all the fame and everything?
BRAD: Oh no. Actually I disagree with that.
Carla: Okay...
BRAD: I actually disagree. I think uhm in a relationship you need to find someone where you can truly be yourself with and don't have to…
BRAD: That goes both ways. You have to allow them the same freedom and, and, love them for that.
[More applause]
BRAD: "What a great guy" [Laughing]
OPRAH: Rebecca? Rebecca Boyington? Rebecca, where are you honey?
Rebecca What's the one thing in life that you don't have, that you want?
OPRAH: Good question.
BRAD: Oh… heavy question. I thought we was gonna rumors and… this is like philosophical and uhm, the one thing that I have…uhm hmmm…
[Someone in the audience yells out "kids" ]
BRAD: Thank you! [Pointing to the person who yelled out kids]
Rebecca: [annoyed, almost like she was ready to pounce him] No, it's gotta be your answer!
BRAD: No I wasn't, she…
OPRAH: No, don't make him say he wants children, otherwise the next tabloid will be: "Brad…"
BRAD: Oh yea, I can see them all. "…begs Jennifer; 'Have my baby!'"
BRAD: That's exactly right!
OPRAH: You needn't say that's the one thing he wanted. You all did. And you know, everybody who says it who has children they go: "C'mon, say you want them!"
BRAD: [Laughs] "Brad raided the Friends set!"
[Commercial break]
OPRAH: What are the rumors Brad, you would like most to clear up?
BRAD: Oh I just couldn't… I didn't… You never know how far they go and how deep they sink in someone's conscience. So uh, I was gonna see what was coming up.
OPRAH: Oh! Okay! Cause people just adore you.
BRAD: Oh no! [Very modestly]
OPRAH: Yeah, they do.
OPRAH: Just take it. Take it.
BRAD: Oh okay, all right, and I thank you for that but I also, but that also goes both ways, that's a thing of putting yourself out there… Uhm, that it goes both ways.
OPRAH: That's true
BRAD: And uh if you reply on one too much you have to take the other as well so.
OPRAH: Well Brad's new movie, do I have to tell you it's Meet Joe Black? It's Meet Joe Black, and it really is delightful, it is about family relationships and connections, it's about falling in love. And it's a wonderful movie to take your parents to see. I know a lot of you said you wanna go back and take your fathers and boo hoo. And didn't you want to call your dad, when you came out of this movie? Yeah, you did.
BRAD: Excellent.
OPRAH: It opens this Friday the 13th. Uhm Brad's gonna go off to shave his head now. Is that true?
BRAD: [Laughs]
OPRAH: Is it true?
BRAD: It's required in the script. Yes…
OPRAH: So there are time that you…
BRAD: …it grows back.
OPRAH: It grows back. Did you, cause what are you working on now?
BRAD: A thing called Fight Club with David Fincher, who directed Seven and uh it's also with Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.
OPRAH: Wow! Thank you, for doing your first hour-long interview
BRAD: Thanks! It was good fun!
[Audience applauding and screaming]
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Copyright 2008 Rebecca Bryson. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited. My work does NOT belong to the public domain. It may not be used in any way, shape or form without my prior written permission
A budding photographer and artist living in Massachusetts attempting to live life to the fullest. I love to help others and do all I can within my power to do so!
View Full ProfileVery unique shot. Great use of Thirds and a great colour combinations. Wonderful detail. Are you going to knit me a scarf? LOL
What color would you like?? and you would have to BM your address so I can mail it ;)
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Cool shot! I wish I could knit…there are so many things I see knitted and I want them!!hehe..:Dxx
Thank you Julie and a Polish lady in Germany taught me how to knit when I was out there in 1985
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OMG I only got 3 hours of sleep and the phone rang at 7:14 ackkk got up at 9 it took a half hour to get the ice and snow off my jeep, and then the ladies at the office at the school were looking at me cross eyed. Like..dude why are you late…I am thinking, geee I don't know, do you live in the same town I do?? Not to mention a school bus was just leaving the school which means they were late too duh!
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I really like this one, Rebecca!!!
Thank you Mary-Ann, this is the one that I will enter into the challenge :)
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All is not well in Krishna district unit of YSR Congress Party that was launched about four years ago and yet to face a full scale Assembly or general election.
While the centre of all political activity of the party takes place in Vijayawada city, one striking thing that has come to the fore is lack of unity among its top leaders, which has percolated down to the grassroots level . Every leader in the party is busy showcasing his or her political mettle through visible one-upmanship.
This fact is evident from the absence of any joint or combined effort when it comes to the Samaikyandhra agitation.
A senior party worker pointed out that personal differences must be resolved and all leaders come together to defeat Congress and TDP designs. "We should pick up a few threads from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in this regard. There were about 150 programmes during the three months from August to October and only 10 were jointly organised", he pointed out Another noticeable undercurrent is the frustration among the workers, especially among the mid-level cadres. There is a feeling that when the party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy spent 15 months behind bars, after the formation of the party, it was this mid-level cadre, who had actually done all the groundwork to keep the party's flag fluttering, but they had been forgotten.
They now believe that they are being sidelined by new people who were flocking to the party and were around Mr. Jagan after his release from the jail. "We hope that Mr. Jagan will differentiate between the loyalists and opportunists," said a party worker.
Keywords: YSR Congress Party, Krishna district unit, Samaikyandhra agitation, Aam Aadmi Party, Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy


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To: | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
Subject: | Re: [GIT PULL] XFS update for 2.6.25 |
From: | Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@xxxxxxx> |
Date: | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:57:25 +1100 |
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Eric, The other makefile changes caused a merge failure because of changes we keep in our development tree that are not in mainline. I didn't have time to fix them for rc1 so I'll get them out in rc2. I know the changes are good and very useful so sorry for the delay. Lachlan Eric Sandeen wrote: Lachlan McIlroy wrote:Please pull from the for-linus branch: git pull git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git for-linus This will update the following files: fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-2.6 | 1 -Is there a reason the other various makefile updates still haven't been pushed? They're a lot tidier now, and they facilitate out-of-tree building... Thanks, -Eric Remove Makefile wrappers in XFS Makefile (and Kbuild) would include Makefile-linux-26 I doubt XFS will really still compile on 2.4; so drop that. This moves Makefile-linux-26 into Makefile and drops Kbuild. Also having wrappers as both Kbuild and Makefile seemed redundant anyways. The patch is relatively large because it renames a file, but no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Merge of xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29781a by kenmcd. Remove Makefile wrappers in XFS. Fix up xfs out-of-tree builds. (a.k.a. external modules) Change -I include directives to find headers in the out-of-tree spot. This allows a directory containing only xfs files to be built as: # make -C /path/to/kernel M=`pwd` Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Merge of xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29878a by kenmcd. fix up out-of-tree xfs builds. |
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SINGAPORE - DBS launched a new mobile payment solution on Thursday that allows users to transfer up to $999 a day to fellow DBS account users, by just keying in their phone numbers.
Called DBS PayLah!, the mobile app requires every user to register an account with a user name and password. The user also needs to provide his account details for the PayLah! account to be linked to his phone number. During the registration process, users will be asked to key in a one-time password sent to their phones or a number code on their banking token to ensure security.
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'Heroes' star Milo Ventimiglia signs on to Frank Darabont pilot
Published Feb 22 2012, 03:23 GMT | By Tara Fowler
The Heroes veteran is thought to be joining the cast of the TNT crime drama created by former Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont, according to Deadline.
Ventimiglia will play a marine named Ned Stax who becomes a "fixer" for the mob.
The series is based on the John Buntin book L.A. Noir: The Struggle For The Soul Of America's Most Seductive City. Set in the 1940s and 1950s, it centers on the fight between the LAPD, led by Police Chief William Parker, and the crime organisation championed by the infamous mobster Mickey Cohen.
The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal is reportedly in negotiations to play Los Angeles police officer Joe Teague.
Ventimiglia has started developing a new comedy pilot for FX focusing on a group of drone pilots in Nevada.
Darabont left The Walking Dead in July last year.


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Heroes of Might & Magic VI - Release Dates Revealed
by Dhruin, 2011-03-20 09:00:40
Ubisoft has unveiled the release date for Might & Magic Heroes VI on their forums:
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I'm pleased to confirm the releases date for Might & Magic Heroes VI for you all as follows….US - 21st June
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Love, responsible for the creative look and feel of NFL
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VP, Coordinating Director
Sports TV production and directing can be a man's world, but Love doesn't see it that way. "The majority of people are men, and I can be in a meeting with 20 men and I am the only woman," Love said, "but I don't think about it.
"The people I know don't temper their language," she added, laughing.
Before the NFL, Love worked at Fox Sports on football, hockey and baseball, working with industry titans David Hill and Ed Goren. But it took the jump to the NFL to get her career fully launched. "I've never looked back," she said of her time at the league's network.
- Crowning professional achievement: Being a key participant in the launching of two sports networks: Fox Sports and NFL Network.
- What is the best advice you've ever received?: "Don't make career decisions based on the paycheck." Bob Levy (of Fox Sports), May 2003.
- What advice would you give to yourself 10 years ago?: Never lose sight of being a role model to the young women with whom I work — and always wear sunscreen.
- How would you describe effective business leadership?: Taking ownership of the success or failure of a project, but also understanding that the ultimate success is a result of teamwork.
- Person who had the biggest influence on your career in sports: Two people. First, David Hill in 1994, because he took a chance in hiring a young woman with a background in entertainment to help launch Fox Sports. And second, Steve Bornstein in 2003, because he took a chance hiring a former associate director to help launch NFL Network as their first and only director.
- Woman in sports business you'd most like to meet: Pat Summitt. Although she had an amazing and successful career coaching women's college basketball, it's her current battle with Alzheimer's that will define her legacy and touches me in a very personal way.
"Jen was one of our earliest and best hires. … She has had a profound effect on the look, feel, and ultimately the growth and success of the NFL Network. Jen is a worthy role model for all women and men looking to make an impact in the sports media world."
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