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This Wednesday, The Journal Gallery in Brooklyn opens a solo exhibition from German photographer Juergen Teller. The series on display, Irene im Wald (Irene in the Forest), focuses on the forest near Teller's childhood home in Nuremberg and includes meditative exterior and interior shots that often feature his mother (Irene). Quiet and peaceful, the photos are a perfect introduction to autumn.
A monograph of the series is being released concurrently with the exhibition as a supplement to the journal 32, which is definitely worth picking up.
All images courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, and The Journal Gallery.


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LONDON — We've seen its flashes, those breathtaking bursts of fury the U.S. Men's Senior National Team can unleash on the opposition.
Sometimes it comes in the form of the 3-point storm Carmelo Anthony helped unleash on Nigeria in pool play. Or sometimes, it is the one Kobe Bryant put on Australia in the quarterfinals or a LeBron James/Kevin Durant-induced knockout blow on either end of the floor, an occurrence in more than a couple of games here so far.
Yet, as good as they have been on their grind towards the medal round of this Olympic tournament, the scary part for Argentina, Spain and Russia is that the U.S. team hasn't played their best. To a man, the U.S. Team is convinced that they haven't come close to playing up to their immense potential.
"That's the crazy part, man," Durant said. "We have another level we can go to on both ends of the floor. We've shown it here and there. For us to sustain it throughout a whole game, though, we still haven't seen that. The challenge is us trying to do it. We'll get another crack at it against Argentina and we'll see if we can do it."
Doing it against their biggest rival of the past decade on the world's biggest stage with a gold-medal game berth going to the winner makes chasing the "perfect" game even more intriguing for a U.S. Team that never needs extra motivation, especially with so many watching just to see if someone will upset them.
And make no mistake, for all the fans who love to watch the U.S. Team work, there are plenty of folks in London and beyond who want to see this team pushed to its limits. (As you might suspect, beating teams by an average of 38.7 points is not in the recipe for intrigue.)
That's exactly what the U.S. players want to see as well.
"Definitely, definitely," Deron Williams said. "We haven't played well in the first halves of late. And then we've always given up a run of some sort, things that we need to stop and can stop from happening. So there is definitely another gear we can get up to, especially defensively."
Whether they admit it or not, it has to be hard to push against the likes of Tunisia and Nigeria — teams incapable of mounting a significant challenge to a team filled with elite NBA talent. But for any of the three other remaining teams in the competition, they pose a legitimate threat to the U.S. Team's gold medal plans.
"Everybody is focused, that's not really a problem with us." Williams said. "We just need to put a full 40 minutes of basketball together. We've got to put 40 minutes of pressure, focus and intensity. We've done it against some teams. But we need to do it against these better teams."
Argentina would certainly qualify. But they've also experienced first hand the U.S. on a tear. They were within a point at halftime Monday night, only to have James and Durant combine to obliterate them in the third quarter.
"Sometimes it's about us pushing ourselves and sometimes it's about other teams waking us up," Durant said. "We find ourselves down two or three points in the third or tied at the half or something and we have to tell ourselves that it's time to turn it up. But if we start games off that way … we're a problem."
Those are the sort of problems Williams was talking about, the sort the U.S. needs to fuel their fire and the kind that will be needed this weekend to finish this job.
"We have to play just 40 minutes of the defense we know we;re capable of playing," Kevin Love said. "And when that happens, that creates transition dunks, transition threes, layups, and all of the above. I think if that's the case, and we're all willing to do the dirty work on the defensive end, we're only going to get better in these next two games."


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I think, I have a problem with "false sharing". I solve a large, sparse, banded Matrix with a Cholesky-factorysation. It works with OpenMP, but it scales not very good. Using 8 cores instead of 4 has no(!) speedup.
In "Using OpenMP" I read, what false sharing is and under what circumstances it probably occours: using shared data, writing these data in array-locations located near by each other, doing this very often.
I have exact these conditions. The book recommends using private data instead of shared data. Of course I could copy the lokal parts of the matrix in threadprivate arrays and do the computation there, but the private data of the threads will be lost after the parallel region ist finished.
I dont find a solution to copy back the private data, to gather the data back in one arry or so still existing after the end of the parallel region. Is there a possibility? I dont find one.
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Location: Insect Behavior and Biocontrol ResearchTitle: Closely related Wolbachia recovered from different genera of Mexican Thelytokous figitidae (Hymenoptera) Author
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Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/15/2013
Publication Date: 6/1/2013
Citation: Davies, A., Sivinski, J.M., Aluja, M. 2013. Closely related Wolbachia recovered from different genera of Mexican Thelytokous figitidae (Hymenoptera). Florida Entomologist. 96(2):649-643.
Interpretive Summary: Fruit flies attack hundreds of vegetables and cause trade restrictions wherever they occur. Biological control has promise as an effective means of management and could be even more valuable if bacteria that live in insect cells could be manipulated to turn all parasitoid offspring into females. Scientists at the USDA-Agriculture Research Service, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, Gainesville, Florida, in collaboration with Mexican colleagues investigated the genetics of two such bacteria. This information will help identify which genes should be considered for transfer to other natural enemies.
Technical Abstract: Closely related novel Wolbachia strains were recovered from the thelytokous figitids Odontosema anastrephae Borgmeier and Aganaspis alujai Ovruski et al. No Wolbachia were detected in a bi-sexual strain of O. anastrephae. While the presence or absence of Wolbachia does not demonstrate that Wolbachia is responsible for the lack of males produced by infected females, multilocus sequence typing failed to identify other endosymbionts that might have caused sex-ratio distortions. The phylogenies of insects and their Wolbachia are often not parallel and closely related bacteria infecting apparently more distantly related hosts suggests a horizontal transfer occurred after the divergence of the wasps. Given the figitids present ecology there are few obvious opportunities for transfer through host or habitat-sharing.


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A class action lawsuit against Facebook could land you with some extra cash in your pocket. If you received an email in the last few days from "email@example.com," you could make a claim against the social media giant for using your information and tying it with advertisements.
The lawsuit claims Facebook takes users' personal information, such as your name or profile picture, and uses it in "Sponsored Stories." For example, if you "like" a businesses' page on Facebook, your name or picture could end up in a Facebook ad for that business.
Facebook agreed to pay $20 million into a settlement fund, much of which will go to claimants. The most you could pocket from the suit would be $10, but there's a chance you may not get anything if a substantial amount of people make claims. In that case, the funds would go to internet privacy advocacy groups in the US.
For Grand Junction resident Josh Anderson who received the email about filing a claim, the possible $10 isn't worth the work of filing a claim. However, even though Facebook has settled in the case, the ever evolving privacy issues on Facebook make him unsettled.
"I used to not be so worried because who am I? Who cares what I put on there?" Anderson said. "But actually, as time goes by, its unnerving to know what's out there and what people could know about you."
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Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with one challenging space, Maxwell Ryan, co-founder of the most popular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help you transform tiny into totally fabulous.
According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock your design creativity and allow you to focus on what's essential. In this vibrant book, he shares forty small, cool spaces that will change your thinking forever.
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Part interior designer, part life coach, Maxwell Ryan is the founder of Apartment Therapy, originally an interior design service and now a network of blogs with over 4 million visitors per month.
In April 2004, Maxwell, with his brother Oliver Ryan, launched apartmenttherapy.com, one of the most popular and influential design blogs in the country. Today, Apartment Therapy Media is a premier network of blogs dedicated to the home. The network consists of five blogs - apartmenttherapy, thekitchn, ohdeedoh, unplggd, re-nest - each covering a major area of the home.
Maxwell was a regular commentator on the House & Garden Television show, Small Space, Big Style. He also appeared on HGTV's Mission Organization and has been interviewed in various publications including The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Observer, and The Wall Street Journal.
Maxwell is the author of Apartment Therapy: The Eight Step Home Cure (Bantam, 2006), and Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions (Chronicle, 2008).
From 2001 to 2008, Maxwell worked with clients in the New York metropolitan area, out of which grew his unique approach to interior design.
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Outdoors & Recreation Survey for Interior Residents
Hey wheelers,
My name is Bryant Wright- I am a grad student in the UAF School of Natural Resources and Extension. I am doing thesis research for the BLM and other agencies about recreation needs in the Interior/Fairbanks area. Please take a look and fill out this survey about your offroading experiences and needs, or tell us about anything else you would like to do. This survey is actually fun to fill out and will have a pretty big audience, so it's a great place to share your aspirations. Also, there's a good chance of winning some gift certificates.
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Interior Alaska Community Recreation Study:
In order to help provide the best opportunities for the recreation we desire, local land and recreation managers need to hear and understand our preferences. The University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Natural Resources and Extension has partnered with the Bureau of Land Management, Eastern Interior Field Office to examine how Fairbanks area residents as a whole hope to benefit from recreation in Interior Alaska. This research differs from previous studies in the following ways:
1. We are interested in recreation on ALL land in and near the Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB), not just one site.
2. You can describe what you WANT to do for recreation, not just what you usually do based on existing opportunities.
3. We have coordinated with many agencies (e.g., FNSB Parks and Recreation Department, Alaska DNR State Parks, US Army Fort Wainwright) to ensure we address a breadth of relevant issues and have a wide distribution of results.
We will administer a comprehensive online survey from May 1 -June 30, 2014 to gather information about local demand for recreation. Hopefully this community-based approach can facilitate more cooperative and effective planning in order to better provide the benefits we desire from our public places.
The survey is a fun way to describe your outdoor recreation trips, routines and goals. Its success relies on lots of honest information that accurately represents our community.
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- By Organ System. Looking at things by organ system is the first way to conquer disease evaluation and management. Is the disease in the brain? The heart? They thyroid? The lungs? The gallbladder? The bladder? The blood vessels? The blood? The bone marrow? The skin? The neurons? The spinal chord? The colon? The eyes? The hair? The nails? The liver? Disease can affect any organ and an internist's job is to figure out which one.
- By Category of Disease Process. Looking at things by category of disease process is another way an internist must classify the illness. Is it infectious? Is it autoimmune? Is it hormonal? Is it traumatic? Is it genetic? Is it environmental? Is it medication induced? Is it a toxin? Is it allergic? Is it iatrogenic? Is it cancerous? And within each of these categories of disease processes, the internist must ask himself which organ system the disease process is affecting. Is it allergy induced asthma or is it genetic alpha-one antitrypsin induced emphysema. Is it alcohol related cirrhosis or Wilson's disease. Is it myelodysplastic syndrome, a disease of the bone marrow, or is it medication induced pancytopenia. What is the process of the disease?
- Is It Systemic Or Localized? Once you understand the disease process and which organ it affects, you must also know whether the problem is a localized process or a systemic process, and if it is systemic, how else does it present. So much in medicine is lost when you aren't keeping your eyes open. When you focus so strongly on one part of the body and fail to understand the rest. Some infections can be localized in an organ, like an abscess in the liver. Some infections can be systemic and involve multiple organs. Like mononucleosis. Some autoimmune diseases can affect just one organ, like multiple sclerosis and its effect on the neurons of the brain and spinal chord. Other autoimmune diseases, like lupus can span multiple organs, from kidneys and brain to heart and lungs. Lets go back to the cirrhosis example. So it wasn't alcohol related after all. It was hemochromatosis, a genetic disease of iron metabolism that can also affect your skin, joints, pancreas and brain. Is your disease process systemic or localized? Sometimes you find liver disease when your looking for arthritis. It's amazing disease doesn't operate in a cubby hole. And if your disease is a systemic process, you must always be on the look out for its systemic complications.
- Is It Acute Or Chronic? As an internist you want to know if the problem is new or old. Has the patient had heart disease for 25 years, or was it diagnosed last week? Has the patient had diabetes before or is that blood sugar of 350 a new finding? Is that Hgb of 8.9 new or was it there three years ago? Knowing whether something is new or old means all the difference in the world in how you approach it diagnostically. What are you going to do with the information you have in front of you?
- What Does The Patient Tell You? Are they pointing to one specific point in their belly and saying it hurts right here in my right lower quadrant? Or do they wave their hand over their belly and say it hurts all over? Are they even able to talk? Do they have one complaint? Or a hundred? Do their complaints make sense anatomically? Do they make sense physiologically? Is that pain that jumps from the right leg and makes a right angle turn across the abdomen into the left pinky finger real? Are their complaints believable? Are there too many complaints to believe any of them, the pan positive review of systems? Does mental illness cloud their reality? What the patient tells you can either be diagnostic of a very specific condition or more likely, a generalized constellation of complaints that could be a multitude of disease processes as described above. Great historians are wonderful. Bad historians are painful to work with.
- I'm coughing, short of breath and have fever and an infiltrate on chest xray which turns out to be a simple pneumonia.
- I'm coughing, short of breath and have fever and an infiltrate on chest xray may in fact be Wegener's granulomatosis, an autoimmune process associated with acute renal failure. It may in fact be a post obstructive infiltrate caused by large lung mass and complicated by an empyema. It may in fact be acute lung injury caused by amiodarone toxicity. It may in fact be tuberculosis. It may in fact be an infarct from a pulmonary embolism. It may be a lot of things.


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A second violation of the league's performance-enhancing drugs policy earned Baltimore Ravens cornerback Asa Jackson an eight-game suspension.
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As I visit the twitter verse, Facebook pages, fan sites and just a simple conversation with a good number of Canucks fans, I at times want to ram my head through a wall. Why? To simplify it for some, no matter what happens with the team, some of them are just not satisfied…with anything.
I decided to put together a short list about what I hate about Canucks fans, from a Canucks fan.
1. Over-analyzing trades: There isn't a fan base in the whole league who would break apart a trade and find as many ways as to why it was such a terrible trade for the Vancouver Canucks. It's been nearly two years, and the Cody Hodgson/Zack Kassian trade is ripped apart on a daily, no make that hourly basis here in Vancouver. Hell, some are still talking about the Cam Neely trade from the 1980's! Give it up already! Deal with it, and carry on. For my two cents on the Hodgson/Kassian trade. The immediacy of a competent 3rd line centre is making this trade look more like a 'mistake'. The Canucks don't really *need* a power forward type of player currently. It will also take Kassian to develop to see if he will make the grade. Don't believe me? Two words: Todd Bertuzzi.
2. Blame Luongo: No matter if this man has a good game or a great game, there are many out there that would rather rip into him rather than give him any credit. He is the first to get blamed, and the last to get praise. When the Canucks lose 4-1 to any team, immediately, some fans cry, "Luongo let in four goals!" It is hardly ever, "Wow, the team only has one goal to support an effort by Bobby Lu." I know he has to be the money guy, and at times he has been, but when there is no goal scoring, a goalie can only keep out so many on his own. Remember that "own goal", Vancouver so graciously gave Montreal? There was a tweeter that RT'ed someone bringing up that Luongo should have had his skate right at the post so that would not have gone in. Well, smarty pants, Luongo wasn't exactly expecting an error of communication in front of him between two defensemen that he should be guarding his post oh so dearly. If that was Schneider or even Lack in net, no one would blame them whatsoever. So, has Schneider got his first win yet on a winless NJ team? I'm sure Jersey fans are blaming their guys between the pipes for that too.
3. National Lampoon's Anthem: I'm not sure what is wrong with some that come to the arena and hoot and holler all throughout the anthem(s), but it seems to happen way too often. How about we show the singer, the countries and yourselves a little respect and either just sing, or just shut the f*** up, please! There is no worse arena in the league that does that. Have some national pride.
4. Bronx Cheering Inappropriately: You realize how this all started right? It was the Yankees fans razzing the opposing team's pitchers that just gave up a crap ton of runs to their team. Translate that into hockey and it's when your team has a good lead, and the opposing team's goalie lets in so many goals, he is either pulled or continues the frustration on the blue ice. So when Carey Price has a 1-1 tie, you can't start rousing the "CAARRRRRREEEEEEEEE" chant. Tactless, unacceptable, and just down right makes not only you, but the rest of us look stupid.
5. Diminishing The "W":Winning pretty or winning ugly have a common denominator, can you guess? I will give you a hint, it starts with a Wih– and ends with a "ning". Now, I'm not sure, but I believe the objective of the game is to score more goals than the opponent. Whether is 12-1 or 2-1, both types of game equate to the same thing at the end of 60 minutes or 60 to 65 minutes or through to the shoot out, two points. Now, although I would love to see the Canucks win with pretty goals, keeping their opponents on their heels, an ugly win still counts. If the team is struggling but still winning, it does make it easier for them to get a groove and feel less pressure to live up to the expectations. Take the two points, know it can get better, but two points now is just as important as two points in March.
6. The Game Starts at…:So get your asses in your seats and get ready for game time! So many times, I am in my seat, and I see between 1/4 to 1/3 of Rogers Arena and it takes well into the first period before the seats looks more full than not. Is it the beer lines? Is it the entrance door staff? Whatever it is, when the puck is dropped, a good number of the Rogers Arena Contingent can't seem to be on time for the start of the game.
7. "The Sellout" Crowd: Yes, technically if all tickets are sold, but not all seats are filled, it's a sellout. And I don't really blame the Canucks for this one. You can have people buy the tickets, but you can't head to their houses and places of employment or hire a F/T person to individually call the season ticket holders who leave their seats empty for games they aren't attending to show up come game time. If you have tickets, but cannot attend the game, instead of wasting them and not having success re-selling them, how about donating them to a local charity? I'm sure a worker, or a prize winner would love to have that as a bonus.
8. Gossip Girls/Guys: Whether a rumour be true or not, I find it extremely laughable how much some out in Canuckland, eat the gossip cookies like it was their last meal. People get fed a rumour about the team, and next thing you know, a player was traded as a result of that rumour. Who really knows but those with the inside track. If someone brings up points to oppose the popular beliefs, they are tagged as "ignorant" or aren't "in the know" of the inner dealings, feelings and wheelings of the Vancouver Canucks. Ask yourself, unless you were a fly in that jock strap, are you an insider?
9. Rogers Library errr Arena: I am not quite sure what has happened over the last few years, but the once electric atmosphere of Rogers Arena/GM Place, is more these days seemingly a part of the Vancouver Public Library branches. You don't have to have permission or repeatedly be told to "MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" by DJ Dave. Make some on your own accord. Have some fun, cheer on the boys when they are down, make those around see how much you enjoy the game and your team. Having to be prompted to cheer on your team is right up there with Inappropriate Bronx Cheering. The only time that place gets loud is when there is a big round of boo's or when a Canucks goal is scored.
10. "Gotta Catch the Skytrain Before The Rush": Really? You're going to get out of the seat that you paid a good amount of $$$ for because you want to be the first to get on the Skytrain home? I don't care if the Canucks look like paint gun victims and the goal light is permanently red at the Canucks end, I don't *get it*. . It could be an amazing victory by the home team, but between 3-7 minutes to go in the third period, a mass exodus of Canucks "fans", make their way for the exits and are homeward bound. Why can't you just sit another few minutes and finish the game? It's only a few more minutes? If you're not standing in a line up to get out of the arena, you're standing at the Skytrain to get a fare ticket for your ride home or elbowing your way to a cab. I have been to 27 arenas in the NHL, and the Canucks fans are by far the worst at leaving the arena early and so many other fan bases comment on it after seeing it on TV and shake their heads like you caused them to have Parkinson's disease. So do yourselves and your fellow Canucks fans a favour, sit the f*** down and finish the game. It's embarrassing.
First blog of the year and I have made sure I endeared myself to the general fan base. Virtual high-fives all around!
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Dragons have begun to appear on our dashboards and sea serpents on our mobile devices. The screens of our navigation units have very quietly, almost without our noticing, begun to acquire decorations like those of ancient maps: fictional elements, like the monsters than once warned sailors against traveling too far, the full-cheeked mythological figures of winds, the elaborate florid geometry of the compass rose.
Most GPS (global positioning system) manufacturers such as Garmin, TomTom and their digital media ilk have made maps abstract again. The perfectly highlighted green and red pushpins that mark the beginning and end of my usual journey suggest huge water tanks along the New Jersey turnpike. Even the most barebones functional maps are decorated with notional, stylized green hills and puffy clouds that garnish the roads on our navigation screens.
Choices among parallel lanes and schematics of freeway exits ahead are often represented by bold rods or ribbons. The design is in the tradition of John Ogilby's coaching maps of Britain, circa 1675, in which each road is depicted independently, like a literal scroll that is being unfurled. These are charming effects. But a new generation of units have brought glitzier effects and something like luxury to the dashboard.
"Luxury vehicles promise to deliver 'the best,' whatever that may mean," says Virginia Postrel, author of The Substance of Style, who is working on a book about glamour. "That means giving drivers not just the most up-to-date technology—something that they can also get in much cheaper cars—but the most beautiful. Elegant displays, which extend sensory perception, contribute to the feeling of mastery."
I have played with some of the latest of them and agree. I can report that the Rolls Royce navigation screen looks the way I imagine the world would look to someone who could afford a Rolls Royce: it is softly tinted, fine grained and looks good from above. Rolls is the only maker I know to have established a consistent typeface throughout: everything from safety labels and the owner's manual to gauges and onscreen maps are rendered in an elegant, and aptly British, Gill Sans typeface.
BMW has outdone itself in providing attractive colors—including a powdery chocolate brown and faded indigo blue—for its screen. The landscapes on its navigation screens can make my state look like Tuscany. The way to Cheesquake and Bogota, New Jersey, appears edged with blue hills out of a Leonardo and wispy clouds from Piero della Francesca.
The push buttons rendered with almost trompe l'oeil literalism on the touch screen are even more painterly. Look closely and you can see the subtle reflection of an artist's face and a room behind him, like an effect in a Flemish master oil painting—Vermeer on the dashboard.
Buick's optional display offers carefully crafted miniatures of notable buildings and sites such as Comerica Park in Detroit; way out-of-scale but as neatly rendered as if it were inked on a papyrus map.
We also now have more choices in the voices that guide us. TomTom got attention when it offered Burt Reynolds and Homer Simpson. You can now get Darth Vader or Bob Dylan or 50 more voices.
Maps now render traffic information with red or orange warnings. Soon it will pulse, with jammed freeways glowing like suffering nerves. In the near future, parking zones will glow yellow for metered limits, blink green for open spots.
But the advances are not just technical, they are aesthetic. There is a whole field of interface design here and a lot of art to these technical displays.
I love the pixel-perfect gleaming blue bubble on Google maps, with its radiating rings like radio waves, but I also enjoy seeing my spot on the planet marked, as it was in one luxury auto's system, with a lovely translucent disc, almost like a halo.
Such choices are highly subjective. I am a particular fan of the bird's-eye view over the flat map. I'm not sure why. Does it make me feel as though I can fly above traffic? Does it imply the view of God?
Bird's-eye-view illustrations were popular in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s, thanks to that novelty, the balloon. Images from on high were often used as promotional images for new towns in the west that were sure to be the next Chicago or next Kansas City. Some of the best examples are included in a classic book by historian John Reps called Bird's Eye Views: Historic Lithographs of North American Cities.
Example of a GPS screen with a halo-like "you are here" spot and painterly clouds in a blue sky.
No map is "realistic." Maps reflect the way we see the world and the parts we consider most important. Take Saul Steinberg's View of the World from 9th Avenue, his famous perspective of the way New Yorkers see the rest of the world.
According to Colin Ellard, a behavioral neuroscientist and author of the book You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall, good navigation is all about storytelling—and in some cases fiction-making.
(Appropriately, for a study of our sense of place, the title of Ellard's book varies with geography: it is called Where Am I? in Canada and You Are Here in the United States. Perhaps the tentative, questioning tone of the former and the assertive one of the latter are implicit comments on national cultures.)
While humans don't have the innate navigation ability of, say, a sea turtle, Ellard reasons, what we do have is the ability to imagine places where we are not—even places that never were. But when we try to decide where we really are right now, that strength can be a weakness.
Ellard's emphasis on imagination reminds us that all maps are, in some sense, useful fictions, and some of the best ones are wholly fictional, such as Faulkner's map of Yoknapatawpha County, drawn at the request of one of his editors, Malcolm Cowley, or Robert Louis Stevenson's map of Treasure Island.
Peter Turchi in his book Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer explains that Stevenson's map preceded his novel. Stevenson was drawing rather aimlessly one rainy afternoon when he came up with the idea of the map. Stevenson wrote: "I made the map of an island that was elaborately and (I thought) beautifully colored… the shape of it took my fancy beyond expression; it contained harbors that pleased me like sonnets; and with the unconsciousness of the predestined I ticketed it 'Treasure Island'… the future characters began to appear there visibly among the imaginary woods…."
Maps can exist beyond paper or stone. Directions can be stories, even epics, as in the famous case of the song lines of Australia, Ellard writes. They work by virtue of a spiritual attachment to the landscape. Our spiritual attachment may be to technology instead. The cultures that are good at wayfinding are ones that have an eye for detail, Usually, this grows out of life on the land. But today even a basic sense of the cardinal directions is increasingly rare in a world that is more cut off from the farm and field. "We have lost a lot of the skills our forebears had," says Ellard.
Navigation, according to Ellard, is ultimately about trust. Do you believe the story? Trust has always been critical: how much stock can we put in the directions given by the old farmer leaning on a fence with a blade of straw in his mouth?
It took many years to get drivers to trust electronic equipment to give them directions. Today we can have too much trust. Tales of drivers who blindly follow electronic instructions into disaster pop up in news reports with increasing frequency—the extreme being the case of the driver who continues on the road even though the bridge has been washed out. People drive onto train tracks or up one-way streets. In suburban New York, several trucks struck bridges too low for them to pass while following navigation units. The roads in question forbade trucks, but the nav units didn't know what type of vehicle they were installed in.
There are dangers inherent in simple software bugs, obsolete maps and systems that update too slowly for the conditions. Sometimes repair work or changes in the highway make the instructions obsolete. I saw this on the very first nav unit I tested, perhaps a dozen years ago. I recall the phrase the screen displayed when we arrived at a dead end not shown on the map: "infrastructure interference." Which I would translate as, the real world got in the way of the map world.
That danger created by the conflicting worlds of map and reality has increased, thanks to the very attractiveness and style of the improved screens. The problem lies in the possibility that, as Tom Vanderbilt put it in a recent piece in Slate, "drivers, lulled by the richness of the visuals, might begin to focus excessively on this detailed, unscrolling world to the exclusion of other events."
The world seen on the screen risks becoming more attractive than the one seen out the windshield, but then that is the threat posed by all media if abused. "You can make the same argument about any technology," says Ellard. "Television can be educational but it's not good to watch it 16 hours a day." TV brings us more sports to watch than ever—and reduces the time we put into real sports. Audio guides in museums can distract from seeing the art before us. Our lives are full of technology like this. Navigational guides may be the same way. We build clever model worlds to help us figure our way in the real world, then we forget the difference between the two.
Not long ago I was playing with the navigation software on my iPhone. I wanted to show my wife how familiar neighborhoods looked in satellite view. I kept my head down, looking at the device. She kept moving.
"Don't you want to see where we are?" I asked.
"I know where we are," she said.
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The Used Gets Set to Release New Album, 'Vulnerable,' On Its Own Label
Parting ways with a major record label can devastate or invigorate a band.
For the Used, it seems to be the latter. Singer Bert McCracken says his Utah-bred group will release its near-finished fifth studio album, 'Vulnerable,' in early 2012 on its own Dental Records.
"We love to make music; we love to play music live, so it's perfect," McCracken told PunkVideosRock. "We never want to quit doing what we love to do, you know?"
Now free from Warner Bros./Reprise, the Used's longtime label home, McCracken says the future "is all about the love of music — really, you know, no one's standing in our way to love music."
Producing 'Vulnerable' is Goldfinger's John Feldmann, whose studio credits include albums by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. As for the status and style of 'Vulnerable,' McCracken said, "It's almost done; it's being mixed up right now. It's beautiful. It's really, really gross pop music, and that's what it's all about."
Look for the band to hit the road around the time of the album's February release, McCracken added.


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Washington (Agenzia Fides) - 62 percent of adult U.S. Catholics, representing an estimated 36.2 million people, have a profile on Facebook; 58 percent of Catholics age of 30 and under share content such as pictures, articles and comments at least once a week, and nearly a third of all surveyed said they would like their pastors and bishops to blogs: these are some results of a study released by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, CARA at Georgetown University.
"Catholic New Media Use in the United States, 2012," surveyed 1,047 self-identified Catholics. The study was released on November 11, at an Encounter With Social Media, sponsored by the Department of Communications of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in conjunction with the U.S. bishops annual Fall General Assembly in Baltimore.
The report, sent to Fides Agency by the USCCB, "suggests many opportunities for the Church to engage with those who live on the Digital continent, as Pope Benedict XVI describes this new culture of communication," said the Bishop of Salt Lake City, His Excellency Mons. John Wester, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Communications. "We can approach this as missionaries, eager to find God already present among the inhabitants of this world and to engage them, especially young people, in meaningful dialogue about morals and values in this new public square."
The adult Catholic population is nearly evenly divided by those aware of the Church's presence online and those who are not aware of this. About a quarter (24 percent) indicated said that the Church is "somewhat" or "very" visible, while another quarter said it is "only a little '" or "not very" visible (23 percent) . More than half (53 per cent) were unaware of any significant presence. The Catholic website most often visited regularly by self-identified adults Catholics is their parish website: about one in 10 say they visit once a month or more often. This is equivalent to 5.3 million individuals. About 80 percent of respondents took the survey in English; 16 percent took it Spanish. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 13/11/2012)


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Author Notes: When I started thinking about making a fruity ice cream with a touch of tartness to it, I immediately thought of a pomegranate molasses and date combination. While the pomegranate molasses can be a little too tart by itself, it pairs really well with the sweet dates.
If you don't have the molasses at hand, don't worry! You can always reduce pomegranate juice on the stove until it gets to a syrupy consistency and you'll have fabulous pomegranate molasses!
The ice cream base is Jeni's recipe and this has become my go to recipe for all ice creams I make at home! —Madhuja
Makes: 1 pint
Ice cream base
cup whole milk
teaspoons corn starch
ounce cream cheese, at room temperature
pinch fine sea salt
cup heavy cream (1/2 cup + 2 tbsp)
cup white sugar
tablespoon light corn syrup
Pomegranate molasses date sauce
large mejdool dates, pitted
cup hot water
tablespoons pomegranate molasses
cup honey
pinch fine sea salt
tablespoons corn starch
tablespoons water
Ice cream base
- In a small bowl, mix the corn starch with 1 tbsp of whole milk. Set aside. In another medium sized glass bowl, whisk the salt and cream cheese together. Set aside. In a big bowl, make an ice bath with lots of ice. Set aside.
- In a heavy bottomed pan, heat the rest of the milk, heavy cream, white sugar and light corn syrup. Bring to a boil and remember to stir constantly! Let it boil for 4 minutes and then switch off the heat and add the corn starch slurry, whisking constantly.
- Transfer the hot milk and cream mixture to the cream cheese mixture, adding a little at a time and whisking thoroughly to get rid of any lumps. Once the mixture is completely smooth, nestle the glass bowl in the ice-bath and let it get cold.
- Pour the cold mixture into the ice cream machine and let it run for 25 minutes.
Pomegranate molasses date sauce
- Place the pitted dates and the hot water in a food processor and blend until very, very smooth. Pass the mixture through a fine mesh sieve lined with cheesecloth to get rid of as much of the grit as possible.
- On medium heat, in a heavy bottomed deep sauce pan, add the date mixture, pomegranate molasses, honey and salt. Stir the mixture continuously for a couple of minutes, as the minute you stop stirring it is going to hiss and splutter!
- Add the corn starch and 2 tbsp of water together to form a smooth slurry. Add the slurry to the date mixture and continue to keep stirring constantly for a couple more minutes.
- Once most of the moisture has evaporated and it has thickened nicely, take it off the heat and chill in the fridge until it has cooled completely.
- Once the ice cream base has churned for 25 minutes, add the 1 cup of the cooled date mixture and let it churn for another 5 minutes. Reserve the rest of the sauce for garnish. Make sure that the sauce gets evenly distributed throughout the ice cream. Store in an airtight container and cover the surface with cling wrap. Let the ice cream ripen in the freezer over night.
- To serve, let the ice cream sit on the counter for about 5 minutes before doling it out in big scoops. Enjoy!
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"Walking through the front door transports you back in time 60 years. Remove all the technological trappings and you are left with peace and solitude that is rarely experienced this close to the nation's capital."
— John and Matt, Canal Quarters guests
Welcome and thanks for your interest in the Canal Quarters program! Each of our six historic lockhouses have been preserved and are available for you and your family and friends to enjoy a night or three! Step back in time and experience what life was like 60, 90, or 150 years ago!
Each Canal Quarter lockhouse has been furnished with furniture and accessories from a different time period, and each tells a different story about the development of the C&O Canal. We encourage you to spend the night at all 6 – each provides a unique experience!
All six Canal Quarters lockhouses can sleep up 8 people. They have been used for romantic couples getaways (including some engagements and weddings!), family getaways and reunions, girls' weekends, scout troop lodging, and a special place for parties, holidays, and celebrations. They book up fast, so be sure to reserve your date soon!
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Waaahhhh!!! Waaahhhh!!!!
Who would've thought one of the most effective ways to stop a car thief is having an 8-month old toddler in the backseat.
The imbecile who tried to take off in the vehicle apparently had no clue that there was an infant back there.
When he discovered he had not only stolen the ride but inadvertently kidnapped the child as well, he abandoned it and the baby, and called the police to let them know where they were.
Of course if the parents hadn't left them unattended with the engine running this never would've happened!
Read more about the baby on board escapade from Yahoo here.


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DRM delayed Nokia's 'iPod' phone
It's coming. Honest
Nokia's music N91 smartphone - it's first phone with a hard disk - has been held up because of DRM issues, the company confirmed.
Nokia's Pekka Pohjakallio told us last week in Barcelona that adding Windows DRM was the primary cause of the slip. That confirms what Nokia executives said when the delay was acknowledged last Fall.
Nokia had originally hoped to ship the N91, which was announced back in April, by Christmas. Instead, it promoted the N70, an incremental improvement over the 6680 series, as its Xmas bait.
The N91 is due by the end of Q1. It can't have escaped your notice that we're already more than halfway through Q1.
Nokia has been bundling Symtella - a Symbian port of the Gnutella P2P client - with media units Stateside, and last year made much of this Wi-Fi phone's sharing capabilities. It seems to have lost its fervour, with Pohjakallio talking guardedly about sharing N91 playlists by Bluetooth or MMS.
Nokia says it shipped 46.5m music phones last year, and expects to ship $80m in 2006. But only the hefty N91, with its dedicated music controls, 4GB hard drive, and a real headphone jack, and the slimmer, mid-market 3250, look like they're able to give the ever-shrinking iPod a run for its money.
Sony Ericsson unveiled its best Walkman phone yet at 3GSM last week, and you can read our first impressions here. The W950 isn't out until Q3, however. ®


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This is a page to document and track progress on an Open-HVAC-Control system (thermostat). To-date there is no relatively cheap networked thermostat in existence, the price-point of commercial units is $200-$300 for this type of functionality. And while a few people on the net have posted their plans for building a network-enabled thermostat, none of the designs are "production ready" in any sense, nor do they present a friendly interface for non-technical family members to use.
Project mission and scope
The goal of this project is to create an open source programmable and networked thermostat controller. Its primary function is to facilitate reliable and stable HVAC control of commercial quality. The design should support as many HVAC configurations as is reasonably possible. The design may not support every possible configuration simultaneously. It should facilitate experimentation and further expansion of the system if desired. Lastly it should have a friendly look and user interface so the rest of the family is not afraid to touch it :-).
Base capabilities
The intent is to produce a PCB which can facilitate a reliable basic configuration and can also have parts added to support add-on features.
- control a basic 3/4-wire heating and cooling HVAC home with an easy-to-use control panel
- support a standard base of programmability support (5/2days, 7days, multiple stage systems, ect)
- configuration stored in non-volitile memory
- header for USB connectivity (FTDI cable sold separately)
- expandable to meet the users needs
Add-on capabilities
- support network connectivity of some type for a secondary level of control and remote data-logging
- ethernet shield
- wifi shield
- interfacing with X-10 RCS thermostat control systems
- RF relay control?
- ability to support Z-wave in the future
- support of heat-pump systems (5 relays, multi-stage heating and cooling)
- support of additional network options for the DIY-er
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Turkish GP 2008
Saturday Team Quotes
Felipe Massa (1st, 1:27.617): "I am very happy to have taken a third consecutive pole at this circuit: it is really motivating and it would be fantastic to do the same again tomorrow in the race. Driving this track is nice and fun, with Turn 8 being exceptional, although there are others that are also very tough. Today, the car was great and I got the most out of it. Tomorrow I will have to watch out for all those who are around me on the grid. It will be important to work out the best way to manage the tyres in the light of how the track will evolve and how the temperature changes. In Q2, I had a bit of traffic, but in Q3 I was able to do two completely trouble free laps."
Kimi Raikkonen (4th, 1:27.936): "Obviously, I would have preferred to have been further up the grid, but this position is definitely not the end of the world. What matters is the race when the points are given out. We are up against very strong opposition, which is no surprise to us. Of course, there's a question mark over fuel loads and we won't get an answer to that until the first pit stops tomorrow afternoon. I am a bit disappointed but I made mistakes on my second lap in Q3 and I have to accept that: I didn't go into the final corner before the pit straight quite right and lost a lot of speed. We can count on a car that is good over a distance and we will try and make the most of it, trying to get as many points as possible. Winning is never easy, but I'll give it a go!"
Stefano Domenicali, Team Principal: "A very nice pole from Felipe and a shame for Kimi who could have been a bit further up the grid tomorrow. In general terms we can be happy with the overall result, even if this is only the smallest step on the road to the targets we set ourselves for this weekend. Of course the biggest one is the race which we can tackle fully confident of our potential, while being aware of the great strengths of our rivals, who will make our life difficult."
Luca Baldisserri, Head of Trackside Operations: "As expected, this was a very close qualifying. Felipe did a nice lap to take pole, while it was a shame that Kimi missed out on a better position by a whisker. We have a car that works well over a long run, especially on the softer Bridgestone tyres and we will do our utmost to bring home as many points as possible. The start will be important, as will strategy, while as ever the crucial element is reliability."
BMW Sauber
Robert Kubica (5th, 1:28.390): "I am quite happy with my qualifying result and hope for a good race. We were expecting a little bit more after finishing P2 in the second qualifying session, but after refuelling the balance of the car was not good in a few corners and it became difficult to drive. With the high fuel load we picked up a lot of understeer. We shall now analyse the data and try to understand why."
Nick Heidfeld (9th, 1:28.882): "Of course I'm not happy with P9, but I can also see something positive in today's qualifying -it went much better than practice did. The sun came out and this helped me to heat up the tyres. My very last lap was actually really good until the final sector when I made a mistake which cost me about three tenths of a second. I think I can move up the field in the race."
Dr. Mario Theissen, BMW Motorsport Director: "We are not satisfied with the qualifying result. While Robert was pretty quick in Q2 with low fuel, the third and crucial qualifying session did not go perfectly for him. Nick was on his last quick lap, and just as fast as Robert in the first and second sector, but then lost time in the final sector. I think the tyres have been the deciding factor today. During qualifying, depending on the fuel loads, we saw very different tyre performances."
Willy Rampf, Technical Director: "Let's start with the positive things: on this demanding track we were able to get both our drivers in the top ten of qualifying. But we really expected more after the good performance in the second part of qualifying. Robert did not get a perfect lap, and Nick lost about half a second in the final sector of his fast lap. We expect a difficult race tomorrow."
Fernando Alonso (7th, 1:28.422): "Today we made it easily into Q3 and so I will start the race in seventh place, which is more or less where we expected to be, although I think that we could have done a little better. For tomorrow, the start of the race will be vital, but I think that we should be able to fight for some points. It's important not to forget where we were just two races ago. We are moving forward, that is for certain."
Nelson Piquet (17th, 1:27.568): "I am extremely disappointed today after my performance in qualifying. I finished in 17th while my teammate progressed comfortably into Q3. So it's not going to be an easy race tomorrow, but I will give my maximum to try and recover. I will work hard with my engineers this evening so that we can try and improve for tomorrow and for the races to come. After that it will be down to me to do what I can on the track during the race."
Pat Symonds, Executive Director of Engineering: "It was unfortunate for Nelson to drop out of qualifying so early, especially as he had shown very equal pace to Fernando all morning. But that is what qualifying is all about; it's very competitive and it's necessary to produce the goods at the right time. However, I'm sure he can still have a strong race tomorrow. Fernando is quite nicely positioned given our current performance - let's see if we can use the strategy tomorrow to improve upon that starting position."
Denis Chevrier, Engine Operations Manager: "We probably did not have the best qualifying session today, but Fernando finished more or less where we expected. The competition was once again very tight, especially in the top ten, but I hope that we are able to fight with them tomorrow. The weekend is therefore a continuation of the progress we saw in Barcelona, which is encouraging. For Nelson, today is a bit disappointing because it will be difficult to adopt a strategy that will allow him to fully recover. So he needs to prepare himself for a difficult race, but we will do our best to support him."
Nico Rosberg (11th, 1:27.012): "It didn't go the way we expected it to today. I thought we could get into the top ten but it wasn't possible as there were a couple of things on the car I was not completely happy with. However, 11th is a good starting position and we are normally good off the line, which gives me confidence going into the first corner. On top of that, I can now choose what strategy I want to run, which gives us the opportunity to pull it back in the race and do well."
Kazuki Nakajima (16th, 1:27.547): "It was a tough qualifying session for me, and a shame to miss Q2 by just one position. The balance on the car was ok, but we couldn't quite pull everything together this afternoon. I also struggled getting enough grip out there. We'll now work hard to try to find some improvements before tomorrow's race."
Sam Michael, Technical Director: "That wasn't really what we expected from qualifying today. We thought Nico would get into Q3 based on all of the practice running and fuel loads that we did yesterday, but we struggled getting the balance right on his car in the middle sector. From a strategy perspective, however, 11th isn't a bad place to start the race from. Kazuki missed out on a place in Q2 by just a tenth. We expected him to be slightly behind as we didn't have some recent aero updates available for him. For the race, we'll be looking for both drivers to have good starts and push to get into the points with a good strategy."
Red Bull-Renault
Mark Webber (6th, 1:28.417): "It's good to get P6 today, after letting the team down yesterday with a bit of a shunt. The only downside of today's result is that we're on the left-hand side of the grid, but, apart from that, it went very well. We're in reasonable shape to get some good points tomorrow, we'll just have to keep our nose clean and have good clean pit stops. It's going to be an interesting race, the team has done a great job today - to get both cars into Q3 was a good effort."
David Coulthard (10th, 1:29.959): "I'm happy to be through to the top ten after problems at the last two grand prix. We used all our option tyres to get there though, two sets in Q1 and two sets in Q2, as I didn't want to take any risks. As a result, we only had primes left at the end. We only did one run in Q3 as we wanted to save fuel, so the car was very heavy."
Christian Horner, Sporting Director: "A strong team performance in this morning's practice was converted into solid grid positions this afternoon for tomorrow's race. Mark used his head in the final session (Q3) and aborted a lap he wasn't entirely happy with, which meant he saved a lap of fuel. He then did an excellent lap and extracted everything from the car on option tyres to get P6. David did an excellent job to get comfortably through to Q3. As he had no soft tyres left for his final run, we were always adopting a strategic game with him. It was a strong team performance."
Fabrice Lom, Renault: "We are very pleased with today's result. To have both cars in the top ten is what we have been aiming for and now we have it. The Q2 times of both drivers were very good. Sixth and tenth is a good result for us, now let's see what we can do with that tomorrow."
Jarno Trulli (8th, 1:28.836): "It was good to make it into the top ten again and to be on the fourth row is better than I expected. But I am not really satisfied. I just couldn't get the set-up right so I had some trouble with understeer and oversteer. That meant the car was difficult to drive and I could not repeat the same lap times that I did at the beginning of the session. Maybe there was something strange happening with the wind on the track but that's the same for everyone. We're in a very tight group of teams so we will have to push hard for a result in the race."
Timo Glock (15th, 1:27.806): "That's a disappointing result because I have been happy with the handling of the car this weekend and I was able to push this afternoon. In Q2 we had a good qualifying lap until turn nine. I braked in and suddenly I felt a problem with the front right wheel. I couldn't finish the lap and I had to give up and bring the car back. It's a shame because it was a good lap and I think it would easily have been good enough to make the top ten. Instead this result clearly means we have a difficult race ahead."
Pascal Vasselon, Senior General Manager Chassis: "That was a very shaky qualifying session after a weekend that had been going smoothly so far. Timo in particular had been having a good weekend, consistently running well with no set-up problems. He was fast and heading for a top ten position. Unfortunately in the second run of Q2 we had a problem with the front right wheel drive pegs that still has to be fully analysed. He could make it back to the pits but he was definitely unable to finish a quick lap. So we will have to investigate exactly what has happened with him. Jarno did his usual great job - even if he only just made the top ten after his second outing in Q2 did not go as expected. Still, I remain confident that we are in a good position for the race. This is probably the first time this season that the tyre choice is not straightforward so we will see a mix of tyre strategies tomorrow."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Sebastian Vettel (14th, 1:27.412): "The track was changing a lot, the earlier rain did not help, but I am happy because at the last two races I struggled a lot to find the balance and now we are slowly getting there and I feel we have made a step forward. It's nice to give our old car a good grid position for its final appearance. In Q2, it was very close with the Hondas and unfortunately we did not progress as the track conditions improved. Overall, we can be happy with today and now I'm looking forward to getting through 58 laps tomorrow."
Sebastien Bourdais (18th, 1:27.621): "Bad traffic, basically the Force India guys, ruined my afternoon: on my first run I was held up by Sutil as early as Turn 3 and on the second, I came up behind Fisichella in Turn 8. That meant we weren't too sure about the handling of the car and I asked for an adjustment to be made for the last run which turned out not the right thing to do. It's annoying because I came within two tenths of Q2. Everyone seems to behave quite well in qualifying, but I don't know what those guys were doing on their "out" laps. It was a bit surprising. Starting eighteenth, our expectations are limited, but I will give it my best shot as usual and try and make the most of any unusual circumstances that might occur."
Giorgio Ascanelli, Technical Director: "I think engineers, drivers and mechanics have got the best out of our package so far this weekend. That's ironic given that with the delay on our new car, we were not so well prepared for this race back at the factory. All in all, I am very happy that we put together a good short-notice plan to run here. It has taught us a valuable lesson about planning for future races. Bourdais lost his first two runs because of the Force India cars and then it is very difficult to commit yourself fully on the third run. I guess he won't be going to India for a holiday any time soon! Vettel might have found another tenth, but not another position and he was brave enough to go over the limit at Turn 8, giving it more than the car could deal with."
Rubens Barrichello (12th, 1:27.219): "It was a good effort from everyone today however unfortunately we are not as fast as we thought we might be here in Turkey. It is a balance problem, rather than the tyres or grip levels, and I believe we achieved the best that we could today. I could not get the car to perform well over the whole lap. The first and second sector were good, but the third sector was not working for us. Realistically this is where the car is at the moment. We need another step to make us a regular qualifier into Q3."
Jenson Button (13th, 1:27.298): I have to be reasonably pleased with 13th as we were struggling to get the tyres working in qualifying today. Q1 was not too bad and we completed both runs on the prime tyre. We switched to the option for my first run in Q2 as everyone seemed to be going quicker on that tyre but for some reason the option didn't work for me and I had no grip. So we went back to the prime which should be about three-tenths slower around here so 13th is not too bad. It's annoying that we can't get the option to work but our prime tyre pace is very good, particularly over longer runs. It's a long way forward to get points from here but this is a tough circuit on engines so we'll see what happens. I've always had fun racing here as it's a great place to overtake so I'm looking forward to the race."
Steve Clark, Head of Race & Test Engineering: "The issues we had were with the tyres and trying to get grip from the prime or a balance on the option tyre. We saw this morning that the two tyres behaved differently and the two drivers split their strategy in Q1 because of this. In the second session neither car had the pace to get into the top ten. We had no problems aside from being able to get the most out of the tyres, so obviously this is a disappointment as we felt that we had made a little more progress here. The race may be very interesting tomorrow. This is a very difficult track and many drivers have been running off the circuit so far in the event. With heavy fuel loads and worn tyres I expect to see quite a few mistakes and incidents. Both Jenson and Rubens are happier with their cars in race trim, and neither has had an off-track excursion so far. If we can have a tidy race with a consistent pace then we may still make it into the points. That is certainly the outcome we will be striving for."
Force India-Ferrari
Giancarlo Fisichella (19th, 1:27.807): "I did a clean lap and the team did a good job with the car. The balance is not bad, but we just need more grip and more downforce to move forward with the grid position. I am looking forward to a better race tomorrow."
Adrian Sutil (20th, 1:28.325): "Actually I had quite a good qualifying and we made a big improvement from practice. My car in the free practice had a few problems with the balance so we did a few changes between the sessions and it was better for the afternoon. On the last set of tyres I couldn't improve my time and didn't get the grip I expected and locked up into turn 12, but it was not so bad overall. From a performance perspective, to better to the practice pace and to get close to the rest of the field is positive."
Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "I think in Giancarlo's case he got the most out of the car today considering his penalty. Adrian had a small lock up on his last run which cost him some time, but overall that is where the car is on this type of track. We've shown that our race pace can be more competitive than the one lap pace, so we can certainly look to race the cars in front of us tomorrow."
Heikki Kovalainen (2nd, 1:27.808): "The two weeks following my accident in Spain have been a little bit like a rollercoaster ride and I am really happy to start from the front row here in Istanbul. I have felt comfortable in the car since my first lap yesterday, and everything has been running smoothly. In my second run in the third part of qualifying I attacked as much as possible, and the lap was absolutely clean which was great. The tyre choice this weekend has been extremely tricky. I am starting from the dirty side of the circuit but don't think this will be a problem, and we have a good basis for tomorrow's race."
Lewis Hamilton (3rd, 1:27.923): "I am not completely satisfied with third place today, as I think I could have gone a bit faster and also didn't make the right tyre choice as I was on the harder Bridgestone tyre for my final run. I did a great lap in Q1 and felt the car worked better there than in Q2 which was why I made the tyre decision I did. My final lap wasn't that great either, so all in all I am a bit disappointed. However looking forward we have a very good technical package and will push hard tomorrow to fight for a good result. I think we are close to Ferrari, but it will be a tough race. As this circuit provides some overtaking opportunities it should be a good one for the spectators and the fans as well."
Ron Dennis, Team Principal: "A competitive qualifying session from the team, and it looks like we have closed some of the gap to our main competition, but we have to see how the race unfolds. Obviously we would have liked to be on pole, but at the end of the day both drivers did a great job. Heikki has been consistent and quick since his very first lap on Friday. Lewis made the decision to use the prime tyre for his final run as he felt the option was going off a little bit at the end of the lap. With two cars in the top three we look forward to a competitive race tomorrow."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director: "Second place on the grid is a great re-start for Heikki following his accident in Spain, whilst Lewis is one place behind his team mate. Positions two and three are a good basis for tomorrow's race, but of course ideally our aim was to start from the pole."


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally simple and toothed (to pinnately compound); stipules 0 or generally deciduous
Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary in axils; bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial, opening at dawn or dusk; hypanthium sometimes prolonged beyond ovary (measured from ovary tip to sepal base); sepals generally 4(27); petals generally 4 (or as many as sepals, rarely 0), often "fading" darker; stamens generally 4 or 8(2), anthers 2-chambered, opening lengthwise, pollen generally interconnected by threads; ovary inferior, chambers generally 4 (sometimes becoming 1), placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1many per chamber, style 1, stigma 4-lobed (or lobes as many as sepals), club-shaped, or hemispheric
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal (sometimes berry or indehiscent and nut-like)
Seeds sometimes winged or hair-tufted
Genera in family: 15 genera, ± 650 species: worldwide, especially w North America; many cultivated (Clarkia, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Gaura, Oenothera )
Reference: [Munz 1965 North America Fl II 5:1278]
Annual, perennial herb, from taproot or lateral roots
Leaves basal, cauline, or both, alternate, simple to 2-pinnate
Inflorescence bracted; spike, raceme, or flowers solitary in axils
Flower radial, generally opening at dawn (rarely at dusk); sepals 4, reflexed (sometimes 23 remaining adherent); petals 4, yellow, white, lavender, often with darker basal spots, generally fading purplish or reddish; stamens (4)8, longer ones opposite sepals, anthers generally attached at middle (or base), pollen grains 3-angled except in polyploid taxa (visible with hand lens); ovary chambers 4, stigma ± head-like or hemispheric, generally > anthers and cross-pollinated (or ± = anthers and self-pollinated)
Fruit straight to coiled, generally sessile
Seeds in 12 rows per chamber
Species in genus: 62 species: w North America (especially CA-FP), 1 South America
Etymology: (L.A. von Chamisso, French-born German botanist, 17811838)
Reference: [Raven 1969 Contr US Natl Herb 37:161396]
Polyploidy and self-pollination have predominated in evolution of genus. Previously included in Oenothera (" O." in synonyms).
Perennial; taproot woody, new shoots from lateral roots; hairs generally ± dense (sparse), short, spreading or appressed
Stem 0
Leaf 65320 mm, narrowly elliptic, deeply and irregularly pinnately lobed; petiole 1080 mm
Inflorescence erect
Flower: hypanthium 46.5(8.5) mm, closed by fleshy disk; sepals 5.513 mm; petals 823 mm, yellow; anthers attached at base; sterile tip of ovary 1455 mm
Fruit 725 mm, long-tapered, swollen by seeds, leathery, ± straight or slightly curved, disintegrating irregularly
Seeds in 2 rows per chamber, 1.52 mm, pitted in rows, pale brown
Ecology: Open fields, moist slopes, clay soils
Elevation: 7002500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Great Basin Floristic Province
Distribution outside California: to Washington, Idaho, Nevada
Synonyms: O. t. Torr. & A. Gray


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