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An invocation of selection as an explanation requires evidence population continuity, otherwise changes in allele frequency may involve migration of a new frequency-differentiated new population; for example, the massive change in pigmentation in North America over the last 500 years is not due to selection but to migration of Europeans. The authors cannot reject population continuity on the basis of mtDNA haplogroup frequencies, although autosomal data may be more informative for that purpose.
In any case, the fact that the limited sample from western Europe and the much more extensive sample from eastern Europe both show a darker pigmentation than modern Europeans does suggest that interesting changes happened in Europe over the last few thousand years and samples from more recent time periods may better determine the pace of this change.
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In sum, a combination of selective pressures associated with living in northern latitudes, the adoption of an agriculturalist diet, and assortative mating may sufficiently explain the observed change from a darker phenotype during the Eneolithic/Early Bronze age to a generally lighter one in modern Eastern Europeans, although other selective factors cannot be discounted. The selection coefficients inferred directly from serially sampled data at these pigmentation loci range from 2 to 10% and are among the strongest signals of recent selection in humans.UPDATE:
The classical Greeks did of course notice that the inhabitants of the north Pontic hinterland, collectively known as Scythians, were extraordinarily light-pigmented. This would imply that major pigmentation change occurred in the steppe over a time span of Bronze Age-Classical Antiquity rather than Bronze Age-present; this would imply even higher selection coefficients (if selection over a population exhibiting continuity is at play).
The Scythians were also thought to be recent arrivals from the east so it is not clear if they were descended from the Bronze Age population of eastern Europe; the crazy selection coefficients that would need to be assumed if there was indeed population continuity might imply that Herodotus got it right again, and the Scythians did in fact arrive from elsewhere. That would of course also imply that people from Central Asia and Siberia (where the Scythians may have come from) were originally lighter than Europeans which does find support from an older study on southern Siberian remains. Ironically, if that is the case, it would mean that the famous light-pigmented mummies of different parts of Inner Asia may not be long-lost European descendants -- as it has sometimes been presumed on the basis of modern-day clines of pigmentation. As usual, ancient DNA continues to surprise.
PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1316513111
Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y
Sandra Wilde et al.
Eye, hair, and skin pigmentation are highly variable in humans, particularly in western Eurasian populations. This diversity may be explained by population history, the relaxation of selection pressures, or positive selection. To investigate whether positive natural selection is responsible for depigmentation within Europe, we estimated the strength of selection acting on three genes known to have significant effects on human pigmentation. In a direct approach, these estimates were made using ancient DNA from prehistoric Europeans and computer simulations. This allowed us to determine selection coefficients for a precisely bounded period in the deep past. Our results indicate that strong selection has been operating on pigmentation-related genes within western Eurasia for the past 5,000 y.


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Chad Billingsley (9-8, 3.92) vs. Micah Owings (4-0, 2.36).
Billingsley has not pushed his win-loss record over a net positive two-game difference all season long. But don't call Bills indecisive; in fact, he's reached a decision in each of his last 14 games. And this is the first game he's ever pitched as a 27-year-old (his birthday was yesterday). So I'm betting the new-found sage perspectives of older age will help Chad get over this mindblock and rise above win-loss mediocrity. The thighs have it.

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Harper and I have been two busy bees the last two days but we have been having so much fun.
Yesterday morning we went to play group at Laurie's house. I think there were 11 moms and babies there. This is Mary Avery holding our newest baby - Ben. Mary Avery will be having the next baby in November! I can't wait to find out if it's a boy or a girl!!!!
We ate at my VERY favorite lunch place - Crumpet Tea room. This is my favorite lunch of all times - chicken salad, orange roll (to DIE for) and fruit with poppyseed dressing. I craved this SO much when I was pregnant and haven't had it since I had Harper.
Last night my friend Ginger hosted Girl's Night Out at her house. I left Harper sleeping and Scott watching Ole Miss get beat and had SO much fun. Scott asked me what we did and I told him we ate and talked - mostly about our deliveries. Probably because there were 15 girls there and 6 are pregnant and a lot of the rest of us have babies. We laughed and laughed and I ate and ate. ha! I can't say enough how important girlfriends are in your life.
This group played scrabble. I'm not smart enough to be in that group - I stuck with the talkers. ha! I hope we can do this again OFTEN!
This morning we had a play date with Laurie and a girl from our MOPS group. She has 2 boys so our 3 girls weren't used to all the cars and dinosaurs. ha! Once again - Harper latched on and held the boy's hand. I'm very concerned that she instantly holds hands with every boy she meets. Scott is really going to have to talk to her soon.
We left there and went to meet our friend Rebekah for lunch who is in town briefly from Texas. We were excited to meet each other's daughters for the first time. This is her sweet girl Cilla.
We had a great time at lunch with these 2 girls! Cilla and Harper are 2 months apart and they both weighed almost 10 pounds at birth! We had a lot in common to talk about!


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More of summers bounty is starting to show up at the farmers market and this weekend I came across some fresh peas in their pods. Although it takes a bit of work to get the peas from their protective pods, I always enjoy fresh, sweet and crispy peas. I most often just add them to salads but their sweetness works so well in cheesy risotto that it is hard to resist making a least one batch every summer. Risotto also takes some effort to make but this one with is nice and creamy and with the sweet peas, a splash of lemon, and a hit of mint is just bursting with summery freshness is so worth it.
I wanted to turn this risotto into more of a light meal and one great way to do so is to simply add some shrimp. I could easily have just added the shrimp directly to the risotto along with the peas at the end but I was thinking that I could kick things up a notch by hitting the shrimp with the Creole spice blend that I use on shrimp in shrimp po' boys . I was also thinking that shrimp tossed in a simple mint pesto would also be really nice on this fresh pea risotto.
Fresh Pea Risotto with Spicy Grilled Shrimp
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 tablespoon creole spice blend
- 1/2 pound shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 onion (diced)
- 1 clove garlic (chopped)
- 1 cup arborio rice (or other medium or short grained rice)
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 2 cups chicken broth (or vegetable broth)
- 1 cup fresh peas
- 1/2 cup parmigiano reggiano (grated)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- salt & pepper to taste
- 1 splash lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon mint (chopped)
- Mix the oil and creole spice blend and marinate the shrimp in it.
- Melt the butter in large sauce pan.
- Add the onion and saute until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add the garlic and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Add the rice and stir to coat with the butter.
- Add the wine, deglaze the pan and stir while simmering until it is gone.
- Add 1/2 cup of the stock at a time and stir while simmering until it is gone. Continue until the rice is cooked al dente.
- Mix in the peas, parmigiano reggiano and butter and stir until the cheese and butter has melted.
- Remove from heat and mix in the lemon and mint and serve.
- Grill the shrimp until cooked, about 2-3 minutes per side.


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Hello Mark, I just saw the message you wrote me on the 21 of this month. As you no doubt saw from the following posts, I ended up redoing the miller-Q file on my own. I took a little work, but nothing extraordinary. Thanks, just the same, for offering to send that along! Blessings, Don Cobb Aix-en-Provence, France
Mark, I saw your post at http://bibleandtech.blogspot.com/200...-seminary.html . I use Google Wave (email@example.com) and would like to be involved. I am about 3 lessons away from finishing Dr. Black's introductory text "Learn to Read NT Greek". Note that I am not a seminary student. Dr. Black is teaching Greek at his local church, and I have been a student there since he began the class back in January. Anyway, if you get this going, I'd love to be a part. My regular email is firstname.lastname@example.com and my google wave email is email@example.com
If you'll allow me to ask, which Lutheran synod is the seminary in Gettysburg affiliated with?
Yea, I just realized that myself. Thank you for your help though, Mark.
Thank you for letting me know about that extra copy. I will probably discuss it with some of the others in the group to get their thoughts on me doing that. I'm sure that it is time-sensitive offer too, so I will be prompt. Thanks again, Mark! -Cheyne K.


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Turkey Pasties (recipe coming up soon)
Stuffing Meatballs - for this appetizer I used the leftover sausage stuffing. I used 2 cups of stuffing, one egg and mix everything together. Shape it into small balls and fried until golden brown. Voila!! Served with some leftover cranberry sauce.
Turkey Rice Porridge - I cook this porridge using the turkey drumstick. I used 1/2 cup of rice, 1/2 cup of glutinous rice, 2 carrots, 1/2 cup of peanuts, one small onions. Put it in the slower cooker with few cups of water (depend on how thick you want the porridge to be) and let it cook for a few hours. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle some sesame oil before serving.


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Kristen Stewart showed up at the On The Road screening in New York last night in a lot of leather and black eyeliner. Once again, an intentionally "unpretty" look. It's their sartorial thesis for her, I guess: Kristen Stewart style, punk as f-ck. Some people could never manage - ahem, Ashley Greene - and some have the potential. I prefer seeing Stewart in experimental makeup than in a ball gown. And I prefer hearing about her talk about her dogs than trying to articulate her thoughts on, oh you know, a fragrance she's being paid to promote. So, like, her job.
Stewart was on Live! With Kelly & Michael yesterday and was asked about puppy Bernie, recently adopted:
"(Bernie) was very emotionally manipulative. She really milked it. Then I got her home, and she was like, 'I have arrived.' She was very comfortable instantly taking (our other dog) Bear's stuff. I was like, 'You need to slow your roll, girl. You need to watch it!'"
Yes. That's how they f-ck you, see?
That's how my Barney f-cked us. We'd go visit him at the breeder's and he'd be all docile and clumsy and sweet. And then suddenly at 8 weeks he's allowed to come home with us and within 2 days we've renamed him Satan. What happened to that gentle, sweet baby? If this gives you any idea, here is in the schoolyard today double-teaming another dog.
Stewart's boyfriend Robert Pattinson was also in New York yesterday. These shots were taken outside The Today Show. He's wearing a beautiful quilted jumper underneath his suit jacket. It's a great look on him. And certainly an improvement on this.
By the way, Pattinson is old friends with Eddie Redmayne and Redmayne worked with Stewart on a movie called The Yellow Handkerchief.
Redmayne's next film?
Oh My God.
It's my favourite movie of year, Les Miserables.
"And yet with you my world has started!"


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"I'm definitely faster than the heavyweights and I think I'm still faster than the 205ers, so speed is definitely gonna be a killer. I think I can hit him two punches for every one haymaker he throws, so he'll definitely have to worry about my speed and agility."
The medical report for Ricardo Romero following his UFC 116 bout with Seth Petruzelli wasn't pretty: broken jaw, sprained knee, torn pectoral muscle. On the other side of the Octagon, Petruzelli's outlook was a lot brighter – at least physically, as he just sported a little swelling on his head courtesy of one of his opponent's elbows.
Emotionally though, it was another story for Florida's 'Silverback'.
"I was ready to fight again," said Petruzelli. "I didn't have a scratch on me. The side of my head was swelled a little bit from one of the elbows I took, but bodywise I felt great. Mentally, I was pissed off and defeated. He walked away battered, but he got the W and I got the L."
If you watched all but the finish to the fast-paced bout in Las Vegas this past July, a loss for Petruzelli would have been the last conclusion you arrived at. Sharp with his striking from the opening bell, Petruzelli rattled and rocked Romero repeatedly, with the end almost coming on a number of occasions.
"I swear he had a rubber head," laughed Petruzelli. "It was just ridiculous. I hit him a couple times and I thought he was out, but then he'd kinda wake up after the next punch. I was definitely surprised, and I think that's what killed me is trying to go in for the kill so many times and it just tired me out."
Almost midway through the second round, the resilient Romero put everything together, shook off his earlier troubles, and submitted Petruzelli with an armbar. It was a fight to remember for all the fans watching it, but just a loss to the returning vet, who was making his first UFC appearance in over three years.
"What it comes down to is the W; that's what matters the most, which is really unfortunate," said Petruzelli, 14-6 as a pro. "I wish I could just go out there and win a popularity contest based on how exciting the fight would be, because then I could do some crazy ass kicks and put on a really good show and hurt somebody, but who knows if you'll win every time. I was happy because at least I performed up to my ability as far as my striking. But I was just really disappointed in how tired I got from throwing so many punches and trying to knock him out."
It was his first loss since 2007, when he was submitted in the second round by Wilson Gouveia. That defeat capped off an initial 0-2 UFC stint for Petruzelli following his stay on season two of The Ultimate Fighter, but after being released, he ripped off four first round finishes, the biggest being his 14 second TKO of the then-unbeaten Kimbo Slice. Nearly two years later, Petruzelli was back in the UFC, but he doesn't want the Romero fight, or the Kimbo fight for that matter, be what defines him moving forward.
"I just want people to recognize me not as "The Kimbo Killer" like everyone says," he said. "I want people to know me as a great mixed martial artist. If something God forsaken happens and I get beat right away and I never fight again, I want people to know that I've been doing this for a long, long time, and it's still my passion. I've been in martial arts since I was six and I want to be known as a great martial artist, someone who made it his career, did big things with it, and helped other people by teaching them and giving them advice."
But Petruzelli still has plenty of fight left in him before he makes his walk into the sunset, and given his gutsy effort against Romero, he assumed he would be getting another UFC fight, despite the defeat.
"It was my first time back and my first loss, so I thought I had maybe one 'get out of jail free' card, but now it's down to the wire," he said. "It's make it or break it for this one for sure. With the way I performed I wasn't too afraid of getting cut, but it's always in the back of your head. You never know."
His next shot at getting his first UFC win comes on Saturday, November 13th, when he travels to Germany to take on a new addition to the light heavyweight class, Karlos Vemola, who got a rude welcome to the Octagon from Jon Madsen on the same UFC 116 card.
"He just got outwrestled his last fight," said Petruzelli of Vemola. "It was really, really boring, but that's what happens when you get outwrestled by a wrestler who just lays on you the whole time. In his fights prior to that, he comes out swinging and then goes for the takedown and just tries to finish, which is great because I'm gonna be trying to do the same thing – I'm gonna come out swinging too. I see him trying to throw one of his crazy haymakers and just going in for the shot, and I'm gonna try to avoid that takedown hard and just work my counterpunching and pick and choose my shots."
For Petruzelli, a technical striker, Vemola presents an interesting style matchup, simply because the Czech Republic native will throw bombs from all angles to either take you out standing or set up his takedowns. And while you would think that potshotting such a wild puncher is an optimal scenario, Petruzelli disagrees.
"I'd way rather have a technical fighter," he said. "You shouldn't be getting hit with wild shots like that, and the only time you do get hit with something like that is if you're tired. You're the second or third round in, and you're just getting lazy or tired, and maybe you see it coming, but then your mind and your body doesn't make that connection as fast as it would, and you end up getting hit by something you shouldn't. That's what I don't want to happen in this fight. I'm gonna be on my toes, circling the entire fight and looking for that haymaker because in every single one of his fights, he throws it."
Against Madsen, Vemola came up empty, but in his previous eight pro fights (all first round wins), he connected more often than not. But as Petruzelli points out, with Vemola's move south to light heavyweight, a whole new array of potential problems can crop up.
"Obviously the speed is something you have to deal with," he said. "I'm definitely faster than the heavyweights and I think I'm still faster than the 205ers, so speed is definitely gonna be a killer. I think I can hit him two punches for every one haymaker he throws, so he'll definitely have to worry about my speed and agility. A lot of the guys he's fought prior to the UFC kinda just stood in front of him with this freight train coming and got mauled over, and I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna be circling with my speed and my footwork and hopefully that's gonna give him trouble."
And give Seth Petruzelli a Sunday morning where he's not only unmarked, but victorious.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Small wonder Congress has kept federal highway and transit programs teetering on the edge of insolvency for years, unable to find a politically acceptable long-term source of funds. The public can't make up its mind on how to pay for them either.
Six in 10 Americans think the economic benefits of good highways, railroads and airports outweigh the cost to taxpayers. Yet there is scant support for some of the most frequently discussed options for paying for construction of new roads or the upkeep of existing ones, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
Among those who drive places multiple times per week, 62 percent say the benefits outweigh the costs. Among those who drive less than once a week or not at all, 55 percent say the costs of road improvement are worthwhile.
Yet a majority of all Americans — 58 percent — oppose raising federal gasoline taxes to fund transportation projects such as the repair, replacement or expansion of roads and bridges. Only 14 percent support an increase. And by a better than 2-to-1 margin, Americans oppose having private companies pay for construction of new roads and bridges in exchange for the right to charge tolls. Moving to a usage tax based on how many miles a vehicle drives also draws more opposition than support — 40 percent oppose it, while 20 percent support it.
Support for shifting more responsibility for paying for such projects to state and local government is a tepid 30 percent.
"Congress is actually reflecting what people want," said Joshua Schank, president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a transportation think tank. "People want to have a federal (transportation) program and they don't want to pay for it."
Last week, Congress cobbled together $10.8 billion to keep transportation aid flowing to states by changing how employers fund worker pension programs, extending customs user fees and transferring money from a fund to repair leaking underground fuel storage tanks. The money was needed to make up a shortfall between aid promised to states and revenue raised by the federal 18.4 cents-per-gallon gas tax and the 24.4 cents-per-gallon diesel tax, which haven't been increased in more than 20 years.
It's the fifth time in the last six years that Congress has patched a hole in the federal Highway Trust Fund that pays for highway and transit aid. Each time it gets more difficult for lawmakers to find the money without increasing the federal budget deficit. Critics described the pension funding changes used this time as budget gimmicks that would cost the government more in the long run and undermine employee pension programs.
The latest patch cleared Congress about three hours before midnight last Thursday, the day before the Transportation Department said it would begin cutting back aid payments to states. The current fix is only expected to cover the revenue gap through next May, when Congress will be back where it started unless lawmakers act sooner.
The most direct solution would be to raise fuel taxes. That's what three blue-ribbon federal commissions have recommended. But opposition to a gas tax increase cuts across party lines, although Republicans are more apt to oppose an increase, 70 percent, than Democrats, 52 percent.
"Every time we turn around there's another tax, and our gas taxes are so high now," said James Lane, 52, of Henry County in rural south-central Virginia, who described himself as leaning toward the GOP.
Lane favors allowing companies to pay for the construction of new or expanded roads and bridges in exchange for the right impose tolls on motorists, often for many decades. There have been projects like that in Virginia, but since those roads are in more populated areas of the state where he doesn't drive it makes sense to have the people who use them pay for them, he said.
But Michael Murphy, 63, a data services contractor who lives near San Antonio, Texas, where a high-speed public-private toll road is scheduled to open this fall, said he'd rather see gas taxes increased than tolls imposed on drivers. Roads benefit everyone, even if indirectly, so it's only fair that everyone who drives pays something toward their cost, he said.
A majority of those surveyed, 56 percent, say traffic in the area where they live has gotten worse in the last five years. Only 6 percent say traffic has improved in their area, and 33 percent that it's stayed about the same.
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Watch These Models Falling Down on the Runway — Daily Distraction
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Modeling is tougher than it looks. Do you see the shoes these women have to walk around in?
In most cases, when a model takes a tumble on the catwalk, the culprit is the footwear. Perhaps she had one glass too many of champagne backstage, but we'll never know for sure. It's gotta be quite the embarrassing moment, what with everyone in the room staring at you as your clumsy gene decides to kick in. To their credit, though, they get right back up like nothing happened. Unless they're trapped in a hole, of course.
The Daily Distraction is your Internet break from reality. Whether you're eating lunch at your desk or avoiding high school exes on Facebook, you might just laugh, say "aaahhh" or not believe what you just watched.


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This weekend LACMA added eight new works to its collection through its annual Collectors Committee events. All week on Unframed our curators will be highlighting the objects just acquired.
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, From Spaniard and Morisca, Albino (De español y morisca, albino), c. 1760, gift of the 2011 Collectors Committee
Casta ("caste") painting is one of the most compelling forms of artistic expression from colonial Mexico. These three works belong to a set of castas by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz that originally had sixteen scenes (over time many sets have been disassembled), and it is one of the finest of the genre. Morlete Ruiz was an influential member of a painting academy established in Mexico in the mid-eighteenth century, who was deeply attuned to ideas of pictorial innovation.
What makes the paintings so exceptional is what they illustrate three centuries before multiculturalism became fashionable: the intermingling of races in colonial society. Each scene depicts a family group with parents of different races and one of their children. During the colonial period Indians, Spaniards born in Spain as well as the New World (the latter known as Creoles), and Africans brought over as slaves all populated Mexico. The result was that a large percentage of the population became mixed, known collectively as castas (or "castes" in English)—from where the genre derives its name.
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, From Spaniard and Albino, Return Backwards (De español y albino, torna atrás), c. 1760, gift of the 2011 Collectors Committee
Casta paintings were largely produced for a European audience to classify and create order of an increasingly mixed society. This is especially important because in Europe there existed the widespread idea that all the inhabitants of the Americas (regardless of race) were degraded hybrids, which called into question the purity of blood of Spaniards and their ability to rule the colony's subjects. Casta painting responds to this anxiety by constructing a view of an orderly society bound by love (hence the use of the familial metaphor), but one that was hierarchically arranged and that featured Spaniards at the top.
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, From Spaniard and Return Backwards, Hold Yourself Suspended in Mid Air (De español y torna astrás, tente en el aire), c. 1760, gift of the 2011 Collectors Committee
In his works, Morlete Ruiz situates the mixed couples in elaborate landscape settings and pays careful attention to the figures' clothing and attributes. For example, some Spanish men hold a sword—a privilege that in colonial legislation was only reserved to this group—while some women sport a manga, a cape that resembles an inverted skirt fit from the head, worn exclusively by women of African descent ( it was adapted from a similar garment worn by Moorish women in Spain).
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, From Spaniard and Albino, Return Backwards (De español y albino, torna atrás), c. 1760, gift of the 2011 Collectors Committee (detail)
In addition to presenting a typology of human races, occupations, and dress, casta paintings picture the New World as a land of boundless natural wonder through precise renderings of native products, flora, and fauna. Morlete Ruiz's works include an assortment of local fruits such as avocados. Products like these underscored the colonists' pride in the diversity and prosperity of the colony, and at the same time they fulfilled Europe's curiosity about the "exoticism" of the New World. In addition, they reflect the popularity of classificatory theories introduced by the Enlightenment and the interest in natural history.
Native American and Watermelons, from Charles de Rochefort, Histoire naturalle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique (Roterdam, 1658).
This print, for instance, was included in a seventeenth-century book about the natural history of the New World. The artist resorts to the same formula of juxtaposing human types with local flora, except that here he includes a group of giant melons. This is in keeping with the general idea that Europe had of the Americas as an unusually hot place due to its geographic location, one where nature and people (regardless of their racial makeup) ripened and spoiled quickly. The overgrown fruit points to the unruly superabundance of the land and to its quick degradation.
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, From Spaniard and Return Backwards, Hold Yourself Suspended in Mid Air (De español y torna astrás, tente en el aire), c. 1760, gift of the 2011 Collectors Committee (detail)
Casta paintings respond to this idea by emphasizing the natural bounty of the Americas, and by emphasizing the superiority of Spaniards. If people degenerated, it was not due to the heat of the region (hence Spaniards where not affected), but to where they fell in the racial scaffolding—that is, to their type of mixture.
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, From Spaniard and Albino, Return Backwards (De español y albino, torna atrás), c. 1760, gift of the 2011 Collectors Committee (detail)
Indeed, the basic premise of the castas genre as articulated through its inscriptions, is that the successive combination of Spaniards and Indians resulted in a vigorous race of unadulterated white Spaniards after three generations. The combination of Spaniards or Indians with blacks, however, led to racial degeneration and the impossibility of returning to a whiter racial pole. This inscription, for example, refers to the mixture of a Spanish male and an Albino woman (Albinos were misguidedly believed to descend from blacks), which beget a torna atrás, literally a return-backwards, an expression by which was meant that their offspring receded in the racial hierarchy by moving away from the "whiteness" of pure Spaniards.
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, From Spaniard and Albino, Return Backwards (De español y albino, torna atrás), c. 1760, gift of the 2011 Collectors Committee (detail)
What makes casta paintings so compelling is the tension between the story they tell and how they tell it. On the one hand the works rank each racial group and articulate its place within an "invented" racial order. At the same time these are highly estheticized paintings that function as proud renditions of the local: their exquisite assortment of fruits and textiles alone make them fascinating images of the material culture of the period. And one cannot fail either to notice the great tenderness among the figures which serves to mask any sense of racial tension.
In 2004 I organized an exhibition of these fascinating works at LACMA titled Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth-Century Mexico. Since then, we are constantly asked by the public about the works and whether we have any in the collection. Now we do! These paintings by one of Mexico's most notable eighteenth-century masters will provide an important anchor to discuss the origin of racial perceptions and their ongoing effects in today's society—a subject that is especially poignant in a city like LA. We will feature the paintings soon, in an upcoming reinstallation of our Spanish colonial galleries among many of our recent acquisitions. Stay tuned.
Ilona Katzew, Curator and Co-Department Head, Latin American Art


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Trying to Run on Empty
4:38 PMHey everyone. I hope everyone already knows the reason I've been out for a while. I haven't made in any secret that I've been sick and after those really bad 103 degree fevers last week I told myself I can't handle it anymore and I really am going to see a real doctor. The antibiotics the Minute Clinic nurse gave me weren't doing anything and the cough suppressants barely were making a dent in my bronchitis at all. The fevers didn't start until after going there too, so along with my very generous father to help pay for my doctor's visit, I finally went.
X-rays were taken, and thankfully there's no serious pneumonia. There was a small amount of fluid but no pooling of liquid at the bottom of my lungs or anything. He kept asking me about my asthma this or had I had bad asthma as a child, which I had never been diagnosed of in my life. Apparently my body reacts like an asthmatic? I'll definitely have to look more into that when I get better.
The treatment he put me on is a medicine called Prednisone, which is a pretty evil little steroid that suppresses your immune system so that it stops attacking itself. I'd been on it once before when I had a bad food allergy that put me in the hospital, and I still have haunting memories of all the bad side effects. Last time, the worst was INTENSE food cravings like I've never had in my life. I had gained about 5lbs in 1 week. I know that doesn't sound like a lot to some of you, but that was literally 1/15th of my entire body weight. This combined with body aches, water retention causing a puffy face and bloated stomach, depression, and important design projects I had to work on... Obviously I had reasons to be disappointed I had to get back on it.
My reaction this time around hasn't been pleasant but it's been different. I haven't had any of the food cravings, partially since I haven't been very hungry since being sick in the first place. My fevers have actually grown less frequent day to day and my coughing has gone down significantly. The bad part is that I still do have the body aches and pains and a really profound dizziness and nausea that has basically kept me in bed with nothing to do but sleep. Can you say boring and depressing? Yup, that's a summary of how I've been feeling.
So yeah. Sorry if I've been slow to writing back e-mails or sending out packages. I have literally not left my home in over a week. This is the longest time I've spent online in the last week, which is probably more than the other times combined. I'm still shocked I haven't gotten too dizzy and quit.
Oooh, spoke too soon. Gonna go lay down again. <3 you girls. Thank you Eki and Lisa for the amazing V-day love packages you sent, it means more to me now that you could ever, ever know. And thank you everyone else for your support and understanding. I hope you are all able to stay healthy and happy and safe.
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Jen! Thank you so much for telling us about your conditions because I was really starting to worry after your long absence and how you said you had a fever and etc etc for so long. D:
I wish you all the best and I hope you can recover very soon! I can't say I know what you're going through but I actually had pneumonia before that wasn't diagnosed until two weeks later and that was just utterly horrible since I had ongoing fever for more than a week.
I wish there's something I can do to help...>___< But the problem with illness is that it's something that's occurring in our own bodies and aside from the medicine that you already have, I think all I can give and would like to send you is my love~
I can't wait to see you tell us you've recovered! Take care <333.Jen, your illness sounds awful!! I'm sorry to hear it has gotten so bad! I had suspected it was walking pneumonia, but I'm glad it isn't. Whatever it is, you're closer to figuring out what it is and how to treat it. So that discovery, and the Prednisone, which has been working with little to no side effects, is really good news.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop! I hope you feel much better VERY soon!!Hi Jen!
January-february IS the moment where people get the most respiratory problems. Get well soon and you probably know it but don't forget to cover your mouth & nose if ever you go out. Get a lot of rest and I wish you to be in top shape very soon! :)- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2010 at 5:13 PM
get better soon jen <3 all my love from your anonymous reader ^o^V
ReplyDelete hope you feel better jen..get well soon hun! =) were always here for you! =) i hope you'll have a fast recovery! && eat veggies! :D
ReplyDelete- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM
Gosh Jen. I seriously hope that you start to feel better soon and that medicine your taking sounds downright naaaasty evil.
Try to stay as strong as possible and even though you already have food cravings, still try to eat healthy. Haha. Gets lots of sleep.
Keep in touch, okay? Can't wait to see you post 'I'M ALL BETTER NOW AND AT 100%!'. (: - AnonymousFebruary 19, 2010 at 7:26 PM
you don't have to feel sorry for lack of updates..just take a good rest and i hope you'll feel better real soon jen..
ReplyDelete I am so happy that you finally were able to go to the doctor about your illness. It seems that everyone has something lately. I remember u tweeted that your chest felt heavy. =X
I hope you recover soon! Being sick sucks, no matter or light it is, you never feel like yourself!
Hope you get well soon <3OOH, get better. I'd hate to be sick that long.
My doctor insists I have asthma but I keep telling him when I was younger I'd get asthmatic symptoms because of the climate and where I lived. It was junk though, I'd get sick for a super long time and have to use nebulizers even though I didn't have asthma.
Get better Jen!!Hi Jen! I've never left you a comment but I've been following your blog for quite some time now. I always appreciate the pretty tutorials and makeup ideas you post, and I'm really sorry to hear about your ongoing sickness.
The good thing is that it sounds like you're trying to take good care of yourself and as you've mentioned in other posts, it seems like you have such a strong support system from your family and friends. What more can you ask for when you're sick, right? Ask your umma to make you some jook! :p
Anyways, I hope you recover soon and I'll look forward to seeing your beautiful posts. Take care!
<3, EmilyI can totally sympathize with you with regrds to being on prednisone!
I've had to use prednisone MANY times in the past due to an eye condition I have. Because of the eye condtion, I would have to be on it for almost a year so yeah, I gained over 40lbs. One of the side effects to prednisone is that it suppresses the sensation of feeling full in your stomach so you will always feel hungry all the time. Because of the high dosage I was on, my immune system was basically shot and I would develop ear/sinus/upper respiratory infections easily.
Just take it easy as you don't want to relapse again and get put back on the meds.Hope you get well soon!!!!!! don't work too hard and have plenty of rest! Take care!!!! =D
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you finally got a serious check up...we dispense prednisone left and right and I have had many people tell me about how it makes them so incredibly hungry. Hopefully it won't effect you as dramatically as before...just take it in the morning and with food :) It'll hopefully quell the cravings a little bit and not keep you up at night.
Take care of yourself, rest up & feel better soon!i hope you get better soon Jen!! take care of yourself and dont forget to update us on your situation from time to time =]
xoxHey Jen, hope u feel better reaall soon. If 'love' can cure, you'll definately be up and running in no time cause right now, thats all that your readers are trying to mentally pass on to u.
Take care!- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2010 at 3:52 AM
are you sure 5 lbs is 15% of your body weight? you must weigh around 30 lbs then...
i hope you have a quick recovery! Ohhh nooo >_< that's really long to have a fever. I really hope you'll get better soon! Try some lemon tea, I mean I know it may not be the best curing option, but whenever I drink it, it makes me really happy so I just wanted to share it with you ^_^
xxx- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2010 at 9:30 AM
I hope you get better jen! It really sounds serious. I have been on prednisone for skin allergies before, and I hated it. It totally ruined my body's defense and immune system and I came off more sick. Please be careful.
ReplyDelete I hope you feel better soon! Don't worry about posting until you get back on your feet.
By the way I got your package today, thank you for sending it out so quick! Take care and gets lots of rest :)I hope you feel better soon. Just get A LOT of REST, relax and just don't worry about anything. Hope to see you healthy and well again soon!
ReplyDelete- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2010 at 12:43 PM
oooh, that sounds tough! i'm so sorry you're ill right now. don't post again until you're all better! :)
ReplyDelete Oh no! So sorry to hear about your never ending illness. Take care of yourself and I hope you feel better soon!
ReplyDeletesucks that you've yet to recover & instead gotten worse. hope that whatever the doctor prescribed, plus lots of rest will help you get well very soon! take care! you'll be missed while you recover! keke ^^
ReplyDeletehey Jen! I just hope you feel better soon because I know how it sucks to be sick...
Best wishes!!Girl, awe.. you don't sound good. I really hope you make a full recovery SOON. VERY SOON. The fluid in the lungs does not sound good! I hope you're not in too much pain. Get well soon. I heart you! Let me know if I could do anything. I can always drop off soup! :)
ReplyDelete- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2010 at 2:00 PM
U get better now, Jen! So glad you finally consulted a doctor for your condition. u get lots of rest and fluids. :) :)
ReplyDelete - AnonymousFebruary 21, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Hi Jen! I took prednisone for a whole year last year due to an autoimmune illness. I hated it.. I gained 10 lbs and definitely had moon face! It works so well, but the side effects are just awful. I hope you feel better soon and figure out what exactly it is you have! I feel ya girl!
ReplyDelete It's a good thing you finally decided to go get a real check-up! I haven't been able to visit your blog lately, but the last two times I stopped by, I read that you were sick, so this illness has been settling in your system for a while! =( I hope that you'll feel better soon, now that you're taking Prednisone!
That's really strange that you experienced so many side effects from taking it! I've taken it a few times before when I've gotten really sick, but I guess I'm lucky not to have any adverse reactions to it. It just leaves a nasty, bitter aftertaste in the mouth.
I know you must've been feeling terrible because I've had pneumonia before (freshman year in college...FAIL!), so I had no one to take care of me but myself. It was the worst experience ever, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone! And to make it worse, I got misdiagnosed the first time! It wasn't until I finished a whole bottle of prescribed cough syrup, that the "doctor" at the student health center decided I needed x-rays and told me I had pneumonia...sheesh!
Here's to a speedy recovery! Can't wait to hear when you get better! Love you! xoxo
<3 Carolinewatch out for steroid face too!! You get like lower chipmunk cheek/jowls!! i was put on the evil P-steroid before for a week and IT WAS INSANE. Good luck and feel better. =)
xoxo chanello
http://chanello.tumblr.comYou poor thing! I've had to take steroids for a hormonal condition and they are evil...they make you pile on weight, and in fact, I got Cushings Syndrome from taking them.
You won't be on them very long, and the effects will reverse quickly.
Get well soon!!- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2010 at 12:27 AM
I hope you get better and I hope it isn't the developing signs of asthma.
Usually people who can't control their asthma are on Prednisone.
Anyhow, I'm sure with a lot of rest you'll be back on your toes:)
Stay healthy and get better soon!
Miss. P - AnonymousFebruary 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM
We all hope you get better soon! You're in my prayers! Get lots of rest, and don't feel bad or feel the need to apologize for dealing with life. <3
Best wishes,
A faithful and concerned reader


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By ANNE FLAHERTY
FILE – In this Oct. 8, 2012 file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., left, and and the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger, D-Md., take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pro-business legislation aimed at helping companies fend off sophisticated foreign hackers sailed through the House on Thursday despite a White House veto threat and an outcry from privacy advocates and civil liberties groups that say it leaves Americans vulnerable to spying by the military. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pro-business legislation aimed at helping companies fend off sophisticated foreign hackers sailed through the House on Thursday despite a White House veto threat and an outcry from privacy advocates and civil liberties groups that say it leaves Americans vulnerable to spying by the military.
The House vote, 288-127, puts the spotlight on the Senate, which hasn't taken up the issue and is consumed with other high-profile issues such as gun control and immigration. The lack of enthusiasm in the Senate and objections by the White House mean that the legislation is in limbo despite an aggressive push by lobbyists representing nearly every corner of industry.
But supporters said they were gaining momentum: Despite the White House veto threat 92 Democrats voted for the measure, compared to only 42 for a similar bill last year.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, is widely backed by industry groups that say businesses are struggling to defend themselves against aggressive and sophisticated attacks from hackers in China, Russia and Eastern Europe.
Hackers haven't been able to deliver crippling blows to the U.S. economy or infrastructure, but they have been able to wreak havoc on some key commercial systems. Most recently several news outlets including the New York Times acknowledged that their systems had been penetrated, while banks are said to be quietly fighting daily intrusions. North Korea was recently held responsible for a cyberattack that shut down tens of thousands of computers and servers at South Korean broadcasters and banks.
The bill, said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., strikes "that right balance between our privacy, civil liberties and stopping bad guys in their tracks from ruining what is one-sixth of the U.S. economy."
Under the legislation, businesses and the federal government would be able to share technical data without worrying about anti-trust or classification laws. The bill also would grant businesses legal immunity if hacked so long as they acted in good faith to protect their networks. The bill is sponsored by Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., the panel's top Democrat.
But privacy advocates and civil liberties groups say the bill would open up Americans' most private online records to the federal government. The bill doesn't include a requirement that companies scrub data of sensitive information like health or credit records before sharing it with the government.
In its veto threat issued Tuesday, the White House echoed that concern.
"Citizens have a right to know that corporations will be held accountable — and not granted immunity — for failing to safeguard personal information adequately," the White House stated.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had tried to amend the bill to require companies to strip any data of personally identifiable information before sharing it with the government. But Republicans blocked his proposal from being debated on the floor because they said tough mandates might deter companies from participating.
Business groups say the privacy concern is overblown.
"When it comes to sharing, there are practical, business reasons why companies carefully protect" sensitive information, Tim Molino with the Business Software Alliance recently wrote in an online post urging lawmakers to pass the bill.
"At the end of the day, personal information is customer information, and maintaining trust with customers is a core business imperative," Molino added.
Privacy groups also objected to the bill because they said it would give the National Security Agency a front-row seat in analyzing data from private computer networks. The bill doesn't address the NSA's role specifically, but it's presumed that the military intelligence agency would have a central role in the data-sharing program because of its technical expertise in tracking foreign-based hackers.
Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois had tried to amend the bill to prohibit the military from collecting threat data directly from industry. But that proposal also was blocked from floor debate amid GOP objections. Still facing a veto threat, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, worked with Democrats on a measure that would ensure that companies go first through the Department of Homeland Security. While that proposal was adopted, the American Civil Liberties Group and others still were not satisfied.
"Cybersecurity can be done without sacrificing Americans' privacy online," Michelle Richardson, an ACLU legislative counsel, said after the vote.
A similar version of the bill passed the House a year ago by a 248-168 vote. But that bill also had prompted a veto threat and never gained traction in the Senate.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., voted against the bill last year but supported it this year, saying the latest version "represents a significant improvement." The second-ranking House Democrat said more work needed to be done to ensure that personally identifiable information is removed during cyberintelligence sharing, but praised the move to put the Department of Homeland Security, rather than military agencies, in charge of receiving the information.
In February, Obama signed an executive order that would help develop voluntary industry standards for protecting networks. But the White House and Congress agreed that legislation was still needed to address the legal liability companies face if they share threat information. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., promised at the time to advance a bipartisan proposal "as soon as possible," although one hasn't emerged.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, is expected to take the lead on cybersecurity proposals that would likely address the issue of information sharing but also take up other issues including ways to improve research and development.
In a statement after the vote, Rockefeller said the House action was important, "even if CISPA's privacy protections are insufficient." He said he would work with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., on bills covering various aspects of cybersecurity. "There is too much at stake," he said, "for Congress to fail to act."
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Chad Billingsley (8-8, 4.07) vs. Jason Marquis (8-4, 3.92).
Last night, the Dodgers depended on a .169 hitter to win the game. Today in the rubber match, can we expect heroics from another unlikely source? And given how that characterization would capture basically everyone in the lineup (including both Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier, both of whom are struggling), who if anyone will heed the call and step up?
Oh yeah, I will be at the game today, baking on the field level like a potato. Holler if you want to say hi.
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Caring for Siblings of Seriously Ill Children
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Caring for a seriously ill child takes a tremendous toll on the whole family, and healthy siblings are no exception.
As parents, our exhaustion, stress, and uncertainty about how to respond to the needs of other kids can leave us feeling guilty and drain our reserves — and might tempt us to downplay or ignore the impact a child's illness may have on his or her brothers and sisters.
Knowing what healthy siblings are going through and taking steps to make things a little easier can let you deal with many issues before they unfold.
How Kids Might Feel
Family routines and dynamics naturally change when a child is ill, which can confuse and distress healthy siblings. Besides fear and anxiety over the illness, they often have the feeling of loss of a "normal" family life, and loss of their identity within the family.
It's normal for healthy siblings to:
- worry that the sister/brother will die
- fear that they or other loved ones will catch the sibling's disease
- feel guilty because they're healthy and can enjoy activities that the sibling cannot
- worry that something they did caused the disease
- be angry because parents are devoting most of their time and energy to the sick sibling
- feel neglected and worried that that no one in the family cares
- resent the sibling who never has to do chores
- resent that the family has less money to spend now because the sibling is sick
- be nostalgic for the past (wishing things could be like they were before the illness)
- feel residual guilt for being "mean" to the sibling in the past
- experience generalized worry or anxiety about an uncertain future
The way siblings express their needs can vary greatly — some may act out, some may try be the perfect child, and many will do both.
What to Look For
Pay attention to any changes in kids' behavior, and talk to them often about how they're doing and what they're feeling. The more room kids have to express their emotions, the less emotional upset and fewer behavioral problems they're likely to have.
Signs of stress in kids can include any changes in sleep patterns, appetite, mood, behavior, and school functioning. Younger children may pick up on parental stress and show regressed behaviors (doing things they did when they were younger and had already outgrown).
Even if you don't see any signs in your kids, you can be pretty sure that changes to their routine and seeing their parents and other family members upset is likely to be causing them stress.
Ways to Help
While you may not be able to take away the source of your kids' emotional pain, you can help ease their stress and make them feel secure, cared for, and supported.
These suggestions might help, but it's also a good idea to find support (through counseling, a hospital support group, etc.) to help you take better care of all your children.
First, look forward. If you find yourself feeling guilty for not being a perfect parent to your healthy children, don't beat yourself up — dwelling on the past is not productive. Instead, try to make a point of recognizing your kids' feelings and needs now, and move on from there.
Keep the lines of communication open. Pay attention to siblings' needs and emotions. Encourage them to talk about their feelings — the good, the bad, and the guilt-inducing — and try to read between the lines of their actions. This can be difficult when you're exhausted, stressed, and away at the hospital or clinic for long periods of time, but a little attention and conversation can let your healthy kids know that they're important and their needs matter.
Keep it "normal" as much as possible. Try to maintain continuity and treat your kids equally. Stick to existing rules and enforce them; besides minimizing jealousy and guilt, this also sends a strong optimistic message about your sick child's recovery. And try not to fall into the trap of relying on healthy kids as caregivers before they're ready. Accept help so that your healthy kids can stick to their typical routines as much as possible.
Say yes to help. Accepting help with transportation, meals, childcare, and other daily activities can take some pressure off of you so that you have the emotional reserves to be there for your family. You'll also be teaching your kids a valuable lesson about accepting generosity from others.
It's OK to have fun. Enjoying yourself and having fun (for a change) can go a long way toward relieving stress and recharging your battery. In addition to trying to keep a normal schedule of activities, whenever possible set aside some time for your kids to spend with friends and family without focusing on the illness. You also can set aside one-on-one time with your healthy kids where the focus is on them and everything that's going on in their lives other than their sibling's sickness.
Be patient with regressive behavior, especially on the part of younger kids, who may have trouble making sense of emotions. At a time when parents' nerves are frazzled, it can be hard to stay patient and attentive, but it's essential for siblings. However, it's not a good idea to let kids — healthy or sick — behave inappropriately or get away with behaviors that you would not have allowed before the illness. Rather than make a child feel relaxed, this can increase anxiety, jealousy, or feelings of abandonment.
Include siblings in the treatment and care. Including healthy kids in some of the doctor visits and hospital sessions can help demystify the illness. They also can benefit from connections to other patients' siblings. And giving healthy kids specific, non-threatening "jobs" can help them feel like an important part of the treatment process. Encourage their involvement and let them lead the way — maybe they want to help with physical therapy, for example, or make cards, books, or videos to keep a hospitalized child connected to life at home and school. Many hospitals offer sibling counseling groups, workshops, and other programs that can help your healthy kids feel less alone.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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Cirque Dark Horse. This is a clear base packed with microglitter. The main color is black- yes, black!- microglitter, but it's accented with a rainbow of other colors. I don't think it's actually holographic like it appears, I think there's actually rainbow glitter in here. It reminds me of Tahitian moon sand, or crushed coal and diamonds.
The formula on it was good. It's not too thick, not too thin and rather smooth in application for a glitter. It's opaque, too- I'm wearing three coats here and I have no visible nail line. Dry time is fast. The only flaw in the formula is that it absolutely devours topcoat as it dries. I'm wearing two coats of Gelous here, but I find that Redi topcoat over a coat or two of Gelous does a better job of smoothing the glitter than Gelous alone. I'd even go so far as to say that this needs a minimum of three coats of topcoat. It simply won't reach its full sparkle potential (and you won't notice the rainbow glitter) until the surface is totally smooth.
Forget about that $250,000 black diamond polish. Who would need that when you can have this for $12? It's like a rainbow in the dark...
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NEW YORK — Caroline Wozniacki trusts her stamina so much that she plans to return to New York in two months to run a marathon.
Maria Sharapova, usually the one wearing down opponents in the third set, sure couldn't keep up on a steamy Sunday at the U.S. Open. Wozniacki won 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 in 2 hours, 37 minutes to get back to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal in more than two years — and get back in the headlines for reasons other than her personal life.
"The season for me has been a little bit up and down," she said in quite an understatement, "and it's so nice to kind of start feeling like I'm playing the way I want to."
Because of the heat, the players received a 10-minute break before the final set; Sharapova returned to the court late, arguing with the chair umpire after receiving a time violation warning. Perhaps sensing that she was fresher than the five-time major champion, Wozniacki later complained that Sharapova was dawdling between points.
Her tardiness seemed to swing the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd's support squarely in Wozniacki's favor. When the 10th-seeded Dane broke Sharapova at love to go up 3-1 in the final set, she got a standing ovation from the fans and waved her arms to egg them on. Sharapova had appeared to hit a winner three times on that game's final point only for Wozniacki to somehow chase down the ball. Finally, Sharapova put a volley into the net.
Wozniacki mixed in just enough aggression with her signature defense to keep the pressure on Sharapova in the final set.
"She's very good at getting a lot of balls back and making you hit another one," Sharapova said. "In the end, I went for a little too much."
She insisted the conditions didn't bother her. Sharapova had been 17-6 in three-set matches this year, including her come-from-behind second-round victory here.
The fifth-seeded Sharapova's loss leaves No. 1 Serena Williams as the only woman remaining of the top six. Ninth-seeded Jelena Jankovic was also upset, losing 7-6 (6), 6-3 to 17-year-old Swiss Belinda Bencic.
With mentor Martina Hingis cheering from the stands, Bencic became the youngest U.S. Open quarterfinalist since Hingis herself in 1997.
After a sloppy first set, Sharapova was painting the lines in the second. Wozniacki seemed to spend most of it watching in dismay as one of Sharapova's 22 winners whizzed by.
Wozniacki said she told herself before the third set to go for her shots.
"If I'm going to lose," she recalled thinking, "at least I'm going to do it with dignity."
She closed out the match by breaking Sharapova's serve again with a backhand winner. About a half-hour later, thunderstorms halted play with second-seeded Roger Federer down a break in the first set to Marcel Granollers.
Federer acknowledged the two-hour delay helped him regroup. While Granollers won the first set, Federer dominated the rest of the way, winning 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.
Unlike the women's draw, the men's side didn't lose a top-10 player until Sunday, when fourth-seeded David Ferrer was upset by Gilles Simon in the third round 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. Sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych and No. 7 Grigor Dimitrov also advanced.
Dominic Thiem, 20, made his first Grand Slam round of 16 with a straight-set win over 19th-seeded Feliciano Lopez. Another first was achieved in the women's draw by Peng Shuai, who had never been to a major quarterfinal before beating 14th-seeded Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-4.
Wozniacki will next face 13th-seeded Sara Errani, who ended the run of qualifier Mirjana Lucic-Baroni with a three-set victory.
As a 19-year-old, Wozniacki made the 2009 U.S. Open final, losing to Kim Clijsters, and reached No. 1 in the world the next year. But she hadn't been back to a Grand Slam quarterfinal since the 2012 Australian Open.
In the meantime, she was best known for getting engaged to star golfer Rory McIlroy — then getting dumped in late May after wedding invitations had gone out.
Wozniacki lost in the first round at the French Open soon thereafter and was upset in the fourth round at Wimbledon. She had been playing much better since, though, winning her first title in nine months at Istanbul then dropping a pair of three-set matches to Williams.
Wozniacki also announced a month ago that she planned to run the New York City Marathon on Nov. 2 for charity, somehow squeezing in training during a busy fall season. Seems to be working out well mentally and physically on the tennis court.
"Kind of clears my head," she said of the extra running. "I feel more free when I go on court."
Wozniacki plans to stick around New York after the U.S. Open to attend Fashion Week — including her pal Williams' show — and get in some running in Central Park. The marathon prep has gone on hiatus the last few days, though.
As Wozniacki deadpanned, "I have a pretty big tournament here that I kind of want to try and win."
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A case of unshuffled card decks has riled up casino owners and players in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Fourteen gamblers at the Golden Nugget there raked in more than $1.5 million playing a game called mini-baccarat in April. But they didn't have Lady Luck to thank so much as a technical malfunction. The players realized after a few hands that they were being dealt cards in the exact same sequence.
Now, the players and the casino are caught in a legal feud over the winnings and a judge has permitted some of the players to cash in their winnings. Reporter Hoa Nguyen has been following the story for The Press of Atlantic City newspaper. She joins us now from Pleasantville, New Jersey.
Thanks for being with us.
HOA NGUYEN: Thanks for having me.
SIMON: Don't you have to reshuffle the cards before every hand? That's what they do in the movies.
NGUYEN: Yes. In general, in a lot of casinos, they do that by hand. But in some casinos in recent years they've purchased pre-shuffled cards from a manufacturer, where the shuffling is done in a factory and then it's sealed and certified by that company and then taken to the casino floor.
SIMON: I don't know this game called mini-baccarat. So how important is card order?
NGUYEN: Card order is extremely important. It's two hands. There's a player hand and there's a bank hand. And as a player, you just have to determine which hand you're going to bet on and how much you're going to bet. The goal of the game is whichever hand gets to a sum of nine. And so if the cards are going through the same order each time, then it becomes pretty easy.
SIMON: At the heart of this story is something I don't understand. We're talking in a big time casino, which the Golden Nugget certainly is, about an environment where there is 24-hour video surveillance, where you have security people who are cruising the aisles looking for anything remotely suspicious. This was happening for hours. How did it go undetected?
NGUYEN: The thought that the cards weren't shuffled probably didn't even enter their minds. They're thinking there's some cheating involved. Because the assumption is the cards are shuffled. I mean, most people would assume that that's a very basic element of casino gambling.
SIMON: You cover Atlantic City, so I guess you cover gambling, right?
NGUYEN: Yes.
SIMON: You going to hope for another technical malfunction at the Golden Nugget this weekend?
NGUYEN: No. You know, I think the casinos have probably learned their lesson.
SIMON: Hoa Nguyen, reporter for The Press of Atlantic City newspaper. Thanks very much for being with us.
NGUYEN: Thank you.
SIMON: This is NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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We set out with a singular goal: bring the Steam experience, in its entirety, into the living-room. We knew how to build the user interface, we knew how to build a machine, and even an operating system. But that still left input – our biggest missing link. We realized early on that our goals required a new kind of input technology – one that could bridge the gap from the desk to the living room without compromises. So we spent a year experimenting with new approaches to input and we now believe we've arrived at something worth sharing and testing with you.
Where Microsoft and Sony show zero innovation with the Xbox One and the PS4, Valve is the one pushing limits. Their controller is quite, quite unique, and has a whole different approach than what we've seen before – instead of two inaccurate joysticks, it has two super-precise touchpads with advanced haptic feedback and the ability for both absolute and relative positioning. Go read the description – a summary won't do it justice. And, as always: hackable. Yes, even the controller is open and hackable. Wow.
They're on the right track here. If I were Microsoft or Sony, I'd start getting worried.


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This interview was originally broadcast on Aug. 1, 2011.The Interrupters will be broadcast on Frontline on Feb. 14, 2012.
For 11 years, former gang members in Chicago have entered dangerous neighborhoods in the city and staged group interventions for at-risk youth, in an effort to try to stop the cycle of retaliatory gang violence that plagues the city's western and southern neighborhoods.
The men and women, known as "violence interrupters," work with an organization called CeaseFire, which operates under the assumption that violence moves through a city in the same way that an infectious disease moves through the body. To fix crime, says the organization, violence needs to be stopped at the source.
But there's a problem: "Not just anybody can come in and tell a guy to put his gun down," says CeaseFire's director Tio Hardiman, in a scene from The Interrupters, a new documentary about the group. "Most of the violence interrupters come from the hierarchy in some of these gangs. [And they] have one goal in mind: to stop killings. They're not trying to dismantle gangs. What they're trying to do is save a life."
The film is a collaboration between Hoop Dreams director Steve James and journalist Alex Kotlowitz, who profiled their organization in 2008 for The New York Times Magazine. The topic of violence in Chicago hit particularly close to home for both men, James tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
"Alex saw three people in the course of writing [his book There Are No Children Here] perish on the streets," he says. "And for me, two people [related to the cast] from Hoop Dreams ... were murdered. ... What we wanted to do, in some ways, was to refocus some attention on this issue because it feels like we've gotten to a point where murders are down, but they're still way too high. And I think there's this feeling that we've kind of done what we can do — and it's just the way those neighborhoods are at this point."
Members of CeaseFire establish relationships with people affected by violence and then work to get them to channel their anger in non-violent ways. The film profiles three of the interrupters, including a man whose father was murdered and another who committed a murder when he was 17.
The third subject of the film is Ameena Matthews, one of only two female members of Chicago's interrupters team. Matthews is the daughter of a famous gang member and had been in a gang herself — which, she says, gives her credibility when navigating potentially volatile situations among teens on the streets.
"The first thing they'll say [to you] if you come on the block and you haven't lived or walked the walk, [is] 'How can you tell me anything? You don't know how I live. You don't know how I breathe. You don't know nothing,'" Matthew says. "And nine times out of ten, these little young guys and girls that I encounter, they know my father."
I'm looking at 13, 14, 15, 18, 19-year-old men and women dying on the streets of Chicago. That's what's so profound to me about the violence.
Gang members who aren't familiar with Matthews or her father will often do research on her before she comes back to talk to them again, she says.
"And when I come back around, the way they look is 'Oh my goodness, what did I do to have this person come and speak to me?'" she says. "It's a door opener."
When Matthews was heavily involved in gang activities, it was her Muslim faith, her children and grandmother who served as her own violence interrupters, she says.
"[My grandmother] would step in the middle of raids, asking, 'Where's Ameena?'" she says. "Guns were drawn and she's not even looking at the guns or the gas that was thrown in the building to smoke us out, she's yelling my name and telling me to get my behind out. ... She was there."
Interview Highlights
On having a camera crew follow her while talking to former gang members
Matthews: "When Steve and Alex were on location, [there was] still business that needed to be tended to. And that was something that I needed not to worry about, these cameras. I needed to make sure the business at hand was taken care of ... I didn't feel from my heart that Steve and Alex were there for any type of ill."
On making sure Matthews was comfortable with filming
James: "It took us a long time to get Ameena to a place where she was fully open with us. She gave us access to her mediations and she gave us an initial terrific interview, but when we talk about this, there was a point earlier in the process where I think she did see us as maybe like the other media and she was really wondering, 'What is it that these guys really want?' And I think it took a while to get to that place."
Matthews: "The issue is that I fought so hard to get to where I am today. And what I do in the streets, it's personable and it's personal but they wanted the storytelling about who Ameena is inside and out of being a violence interrupter ... I have children and some people don't look at my life — as far as my dad being who he is and as far as my journey and where I've come — [as a] nice thing. And it was hard for me to let that guard down and let them in."
On fighting back
Matthews: "When you're looking at these guys and these girls and they're on defense, they don't want to fight, they don't want to kill. That's the given of what happens and then when I come in, someone after knowing where I've been, will use that as an out. 'Well, you better be glad that Ameena told me to fall back because if it wasn't for her that came in and stopped that, then I would have done what I needed to do to take care of my business.'"
On funerals
Matthews: "Chicago has always been notoriously known for street organization, crimes and murders and all that but what's so profound for me is to see that, as I'm growing up, that death is inevitable and we're not afraid of it ... In that casket, I'm looking at 13, 14, 15, 18, 19-year-old men and women dying on the streets of Chicago. That's what's so profound to me about the violence.
"People look at it and they say, 'Oh, well, Chicago has always been violent.' But Chicago has not always had the youth violence and the youth death as high as it has been for the last several years. [That] has struck my nerve and my heart and my soul."
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Instructor Bio
Alex has been dancing Argentine Tango since 1997 and teaching worldwide since 1998, including performances in Buenos Aires. He has run his all-Argentine tango studio, Tango Berretin, in Portland, Oregon since 2001 and has also studied the bandoneon since 2001 currently directing his sextet.
He is completely fanatic about the dance, and shares his passion with his students. He teaches for the social dance floor, emphasizing the improvisatory side of the dance through a strong communication between the lead and follow and on musicality. Alex tries to give his students the vocabulary necessary so that each person can find their own unique way of dancing -- dancing the tango of their own body.
Videos of Alex:
- Alex and Luciana Valle
- Alex and Evan Griffiths.
- Alex and Jennifer Olson.
- Alex and Jenna Rohrbacher
- OPB video of Alex and the bandoneon
Places Alex has travelled to teach tango:
Boston, Providence (RI), Montreal, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Dallas, Washington D.C., Phoenix, Bellingham, Vancouver (B.C.), Nijmegen (www.elcorte.com), Toronto, Ann Arbor, MI, Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Eugene (OR), Berlin, Nijmegen (www.elcorte.com), La Fraysinette (France)(www.tangovalley.com), Anchorage, Klamath Falls (OR), Mt. Shasta City (CA), Minneapolis (co-teaching with Florencia Taccetti of Buenos Aires), Munich and Augsburg (Germany), Bologna and Modigliana (Italy), Lund (Sweden), Amsterdam, London, Leeds (UK), Totnes (UK), Cambridge (UK), Bristol (UK), Bylaugh (UK), Edinburgh (UK), Yale (New Haven, CT), Urbana (IL), Sun Valley (ID), Maui, Chicago, Newport, Victoria (B.C), Atlanta, Oxford (UK), Raleigh (NC), Bend (OR), Bellingham (WA), Atlanta, and St. Louis
Alex has been nfluenced by many people and styles, but influenced early on by Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli(musicality), Fabian Salas (structure of the dance), and Damian Esell and Nancy Louzan (posture, walk, elegance). Studied and danced in Buenos Aires for over six months between seven visits. Co-taught and performed with Luciana Valle (BsAs) in Denver, Austin, San Francisco, Boulder, North Carolina, Aspen, London (UK), Bylaugh (UK), Bristol (UK) and has performed with Luciana in Buenos Aires (Torquato Tasso and Centro Cultural Mora), San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle (at the Benaroya Theater with the New York Tango Trio). Alex has co-taught with Florencia Taccetti (BsAs) in Minneapolis, San Francisco, Albuquerque and Pittsburgh and has performed with her in Minneapolis, Portland, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and San Francisco and performed in London (with Biljana Lipic), Amsterdam (with Yvonne Meissner), Antwerpen (with Esther Heitzer), Florence (w/Yvonne Meissner), Munich and Augsburg (Germany, with Heidrun Fluk).
Has been invited to teach in Beijing, Moscow, Cape Town, Frankfurt, Aachen, Cleveland, New Zealand, and Antwerpen (Belgium).
Has DJ'ed milongas in Portland, Anchorage, Dallas, Ann Arbor, Augsburg (Germany), Cambridge (UK), Seatle, Victoria (B.C.), Salt Lake City, Boulder, Denver, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and the all-night milongas in San Francisco, Washington DC and New York City.
- At Oregon Ballet Theater's "Viva La Danza" Gala. April, 2012
- Performed in the tango show "Tango Nights," at the Aladdin Theater
- "Danza Tropica" as part of PCC's ArtBeat
- Wrote and directed the tango show "Tango al Tiempo" at the Miracle Theater April 16th-18th, 2003
- Directed/performed in Teatro Milagro's "Viva Baile" program (May 2007)
- Produced/Directed tango shows at Miracle Theater's 2010 and 2012 Luna Nueva festival.
- Discography:
- Has been studying the bandoneon since May 2001, directed the tango band "Conjunto Berretin." (with 2 CD's recorded) from 2003-2008, and currently is arranging/directing a tango sextet and arranging/directing an Orquesta Tipica for the Portland Tango Festivals in Feb. and Oct.
- Alex has released four albums under the Berretin Records label:
- "Tango for Lovers and Fools" (Conjunto Berretin)
- "Tangamente" (Conjunto Berretin)
- "Electro-Tangos Vol. 1" (Orquesta Electronica Berretin)
- "Berretineando" (The New York Tango Jam Session)
- Alex has finished production on a new cd, "Stumptandas" (the Alex Krebs Tango Sextet), which was released in July of 2011.


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Between holding my breath during Florida's win over Oregon and hyperventilating at the insanely awesome Georgetown win over UNC, I'm finally recovered this morning...
Ranking the Top Four Storylines of the Final Four:
2. Duke '91-92
5a. Michigan St '99-01
5b. Kentucky '96-97
PS: Not a bad victory for the "National Bracket" that the team picked by the most fans to win the title makes the Final Four. (But not nearly as impressive as the fact that nearly half of all fans projected Georgetown beating UNC.)
PS: When was the last time the trendiest pick before the Tournament actually comes through and makes the Final Four? The Fab Five in '92?
(4) UCLA returns to the Final Four. In any other year, the idea of a team repeating as a Final Four team would make them a strong contender for "Best Storyline." In this field, the Bruins are an oversight.
The idea of a re-match of the 2006 title game scares the hell out of me. Won't UCLA find extra motivation in trying to avenge last year's ass-kicking? Or will
What are your favorite storylines of the Final Four?
Recapping the Weekend:
UNC: Totally choked. Totally.
Tournament Challenge: Despite picking 3 of 4 Final Four teams, I'm only in the 63rd percentile in the "Daily Quickie Readers" pool. (For comparison, my 10-month-old son's bracket picks are in the 88th percentile.) If I had used the National Bracket to make my picks, I would have been in the 74th percentile.
Tomorrow, I'll be back to being able to focus on other sports. For now, just a few notes:
I'm in the bag for Arenas, but I love the fact he makes little $10 side bets with fans sitting courtside. (And of course the NBA doesn't.)
Theismann booted from "Monday Night Football": Unknown who his replacement will be, but I'd vote for Ron Jaworski, who could provide an expert's eye to balance out Tony Kornheiser. (via ProFootballTalk)
Tiger is awesome. Yawn.


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Today is the Wednesday before the last full weekend in June, which means it would usually be the day when we opens the gates for another Glastonbury Festival. Of course, this being our fallow year, there is no Glastonbury in 2012. But now does seem like a good time to let you know that tickets for Glastonbury 2013 will go on sale at 9am Sunday, October 7th.
As part of our continued commitment to cut out ticket touting, anyone who would like to attend next year's Festival must have registered in advance of tickets going on sale.
Registration remains free of charge. If you're not already registered, then head over to www.glastonburyregistration.
If you have registered to buy tickets to the Festival before, you may well still be registered (you now only need to do it once). But we very much advise that you check your registration now by clicking here. If you can't find it, the best bet is to re-register – much better to get it all sorted not now than to discover your registration has expired on the day of the ticket sale.
You can also now edit the details of your existing registration (for example if you need to change your address) by clicking here.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILED 2013 TICKET INFORMATION (further information – including ticket prices – will be added in the coming months).
Thanks – and we'll hopefully see you down here on Worthy Farm when the gates open on the morning of Wednesday, June 26th 2013!
Photograph: The Pyramid Stage, 19 June 2012 by Jason Bryant


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At Princeton University's annual King Day celebration Jan. 21, Professor of English and African American studies Anne Cheng honored the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech from 1963. Cheng, a native of Taiwan, shared her own personal view of "living with difference."
"When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was giving his 'I Have A Dream' speech, I was an infant halfway across the world," Cheng said. "If someone had told me or my parents that this speech would have a powerful impact on our lives we probably would have been skeptical. Yet Dr. King's life work has become a guidepost behind much of why I do what I do today and how I think of myself as a social being," Cheng told an audience of more than 200 schoolchildren, University community members and the public in Richardson Auditorium.
Some of the children had participated in this year's annual literary, video and visual arts contest, which challenged them to propose ways to overcome assumptions about identity and to foster inclusion. Winners were announced during the event. Three are participants in the Princeton University Preparatory Program, which supports high-achieving, low-income students from local districts.
Cheng's keynote speech focused on racial indifference. She encouraged the audience to "celebrate Dr. King not only for his inspiring vision but also for the challenges that vision continues to pose for America. I am here to suggest that … we should not be timid about confronting the gifts and failures of American diversity."
Cheng said her first encounters with diversity began as a child, when she arrived in America as a 12-year-old immigrant in Savannah, Ga.
"The day after I arrived, I was sent immediately to an American school that had never had an Asian American student, much less an Asian one," she said. "Believe me, there were plenty of reasons why I did not fit in. Nobody talked about racial or gender difference. But, even in that small slice of the world, the people and books that I was drawn to clearly showed that … I was already trying to work through what American diversity means."
Cheng specializes in race studies and psychoanalytic theory and works in 20th-century American literature, with special focus on Asian American and African American literature. A 1985 Princeton graduate who earned her master's in English and creative writing from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California-Berkeley, Cheng is also affiliated with the Program in American Studies and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Quoting Dr. King's famous observation that "all life is interrelated" and "whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly," Cheng challenged the audience "to pause, reflect and give yourselves the permission — and the patience — to entertain ambivalences and contradictions rather than moving quickly to easy identities and solutions."
"The real test of democracy is not how to find yourself in another person, but how to acknowledge the other even when, or especially when, that other's interest does not reflect your own."
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman noted in introductory remarks that the celebration coincided with President Barack Obama's inauguration for his second term as president of the United States, eliciting applause from the audience. "His re-election confirms that we as a people can transcend the legacy of racial prejudice that denied to black Americans what Dr. King described as 'the riches of freedom and the security of justice.' National leadership has ceased to be the preserve of one race," Tilghman said.
"As the theme of this year's contest reminds us, we continue to assign to others and to ourselves identities that mask our common humanity," said Tilghman. Using a scientific reference, she added, "Now, as a molecular biologist, I might frame the issue, we can either chose to focus on the 99.9 percent of the DNA in our genomes that is identical between individuals, or we can choose to focus on the 0.1 percent that is different."
This year's event also featured the presentation of the MLK Day Journey Award for Special Achievement, which recognizes efforts to continue the journey to achieve Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision. Karen Jackson-Weaver, associate dean for academics and diversity, Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, and lecturer in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, received the award for her role in improving the recruitment, retention and completion rates for underrepresented graduate students.
In presenting the award to Jackson-Weaver, a 1994 Princeton alumna, Tilghman said: "For Karen, diversity is not primarily measured in statistics but in the well-being of individuals. In working with our graduate students before, during and after their time at Princeton, her chief concern is to bring out the best in them while demanding the best of us as a University."
The gospel choir from Arts High School in Newark, N.J., also performed at the ceremony.
A webcast of the event will be archived on the WebMedia site.


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AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer On Ubuntu Linux: Two weeks ago AMD introduced the Bulldozer FX-Series CPUs to much excitement, although many were letdown by the initial results, and it was months after showing the first Linux benchmarks of an AMD Dual-Interlagos pre-production system. In the days that followed I delivered some initial AMD FX-4100 Linux benchmarks when securing remote access to a low-end Bulldozer system running Ubuntu 11.04 (and there were also some Linux benchmarks from independent Phoronix readers), but then last week a Bulldozer kit arrived from AMD. The centerpiece of this kit is an eight-core AMD FX-8150 CPU, which is now being used to conduct a plethora of AMD Bulldozer benchmarks on Linux.
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Sustainable Store Design in Action
by Anthony P. - Global Store Design senior manager, Starbucks--I recently had the pleasure of
cracking open my first built project for Starbucks: Reclamation Drive-Thru in
Tukwila, Washington.
This small
project came at a perfect time here at Starbucks as we challenge ourselves to
deliver LEED-certified stores across the US. Pending LEED certification, this
project is just one step toward our goal of universally building all new
company-owned stores to be LEED-certified Starbucks Stores. I wanted it to be
green, thought provoking and sustainable – the sort of project that stirs
chatter. I think we got it.
So, what is
Reclamation Drive-Thru? The store was inspired by the view (captured in the
image above) outside the window of our headquarters on first avenue in Seattle,
as the Seattle Times rightly reported
last week. Shipping containers source our coffees and teas from around the
world. But many end up in scrap yards once they reach their average 20 year
lifespan. Reclamation Drive-Thru was inspired by a desire to help keep items
used throughout our supply chain, like old shipping containers, out of the
waste stream.
The result:
a 450 square foot drive-thru and walk-up store made from four end-of-life-cycle
shipping containers. One small 20-foot container holds garbage, recycling and
storage, but other than that, the whole store is contained within the shells of
four containers that have been reclaimed, refurnished, renewed and revived. And
it works!
Savings go
beyond storage containers, as well. The store reduces material use with
simplified, environmental signage. The building itself serves as a sign post,
while form painting on the asphalt intuitively guides customers into the
drive-thru. Rainwater collected from the roof of the drive-thru is used to
nourish surrounding landscaping. Xeriscaping (selecting plants that naturally
require less water) helps reduce water consumption. And in the event that the
store needs a new location, the entire structure can be disassembled and moved.
We are now
talking about ways to extend the thinking and learning from this project into
other areas, perhaps in prefabrication projects or in exterior furniture and
accessories. I'm not sure where this all will land, but the launch pad has now
been successfully cleared and the resulting conversation has been positive. Our
global footprint presents powerful possibilities to replicate and scale our
green building efforts.
So where
from do we go from here? A decidedly new way of thinking about how large our
stand alone buildings could or should be, how they could look and function and
about the possibility of off-site fabrication and more. These questions are
exciting design challenges to bring to light, and we're looking for creative,
brand appropriate and business-savvy ways to solve them, while honoring our
commitment to reducing our environmental footprint. Could sustainable design
continue to influence our brand, our mission and our size? We think so.
Happy to
chat anytime. Stay tuned for our 2011 Global Responsibility Report, publishing
this Spring, which provides an update on our progress in sustainable
construction. In the meanwhile, share your thoughts with me in the comments


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