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American drivers are now footing the big fuel bills that have come due after years of super-sizing finally collided with the geopolitics of oil. Car companies are responding to this change in priorities with new models that include more efficient gasoline designs as well as more pricey alternative fuel vehicles such as electric cars. For a lot of consumers, however, the most affordable answer comes down to abandoning super-sizing in favor of right-sizing.
Smaller sizes have long been the norm across the pond due to Europe's historically higher fuel prices, motivating carmakers to come up with stylish solutions even at the pint-size end of the right-size spectrum. With the oil market as skittish as ever, the timing is certainly right for Fiat to return to America with its new 500 model, or "cinquecento" as it known in its homeland.
Born into — and a big part of — Italy's post-war economic reconstruction, the Fiat 500 was to a whole generation of paesani what bread-and-butter Fords and Chevys were to many American wage earners. The first 500 was truly tiny by today's standards, as seen in yours truly's pose next to one (courtesy of the Fiat stand at this year's Detroit auto show). The original car took its name from its rear-mounted 500 cc (i.e., half Liter) engine and measured just under ten feet long bumper-to-bumper.
After a three-decade hiatus, Fiat introduced a 21st century 500 in 2007 and an Americanized version of that model has just landed on our shores. Now over 11.5 feet long (every foot makes a difference in this size range) and propelled by a sophisticated 1.4 Liter, 101 horsepower engine, the Fiat 500 starts at around $16,000. The car is available in a wide range of colorful and stylish trims — the 500 won the European Car of the Year award in 2008 — including the cushier Lounge model that we rate here. Although loadable with further options, a Fiat 500 Lounge with an automatic transmission lists for $20,000 (counting destination fee) and sports an EPA sticker of 27 city, 34 highway mpg. That earns it an eRating of 125.
How does it compare to some other Euro-styled small cars? The new Mini Cooper Hardtop earns an eRating of 127. Priced at $21,350, it noses out the Fiat as a result of the efficiency boost that BMW's engineers gave the Mini for model year 2011. (The 2010 Mini Cooper was eRated at 120, as seen in the earlier post comparing it to the Mini E electric; Fiat promises an electric 500 within two years).
Among the most diminutive cars available in the states is the Smart fortwo. Seriously city-centric, with a speed topping out just over 60 mph, the fortwo sips so little gas that it easily earns an eRating of 147. The price, too, is hard to beat, with a basic Smart fortwo listing for only $12,635.
The Fiat 500, however, is built for autostrada speeds, and I've already been dusted by one while cruising the local freeways in my daily driver. With an eRating that implies 25% less pollution per mile than average, the 500 clearly qualifies as a quick and stylish way to drive green.


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The Future of Computation is Sharing
When Uber enters a new market, it doesn't go out and invest in taxis. Instead, it turns every car on the road into a potential taxi. So why is it that the tech industry, one of the most progressive sectors in the economy, is responding to the inability of fixed data centers to supply the accelerating compute requirements of the AI industry by investing in more fixed data centers?
The single largest barrier that AI developers have in bringing products to market is the cost and availability of the compute required for machine learning. The $186 billion cloud computing industry provides computational capacity through massive centralized data centers operated by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM. If you're an AI developer then it's likely you're renting GPU capacity from one of these providers. However, with compute requirements from AI companies doubling every 3.5 months — that's five times greater than Moore's Law — the big four can't build fast enough. The result is the costs of compute to develop AI are rising every quarter driving ever-increasing pressure on innovation.
The kicker is, a massive amount of latent compute capacity already exists. Even the most optimistic estimates predict that the major cloud providers represent under half of the total global compute capacity. Before the rising costs squeeze the life out of AI innovation, someone had to find a way to harness, aggregate and redistribute all that latent capacity and make it available to AI innovators. So we did.
Tatau is the Sharing Economy Solution for Compute
Significant capital has been deployed over the last few years to build GPU-based data centers for activities such as crypto-mining and gaming. That capacity is often underutilized or unprofitable from a commercial perspective. To harness that capacity, Tatau has built a global supercomputer which sources compute from this existing GPU hardware and in doing so can provide compute at a fraction of the cost of incumbent cloud-based providers.
Unlike centralized data centers which require a return on investment to justify the cost of investment in purchasing new hardware, Tatau's distributed platform utilizes hardware that Tatau suppliers already own, offering an alternative revenue stream and hedging against market fluctuations, while often outperforming returns from other sources.
With AI predicted to add as much as $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, it's time to take a new look at how we supply the AI industry's critical inputs. We can't solve tomorrow's problems using yesterday's solutions and I genuinely believe it just makes sense to use latent resources that already exist rather than burning more capital and resources, not to mention thousands of gigawatts of additional electricity, to build and operate new ones. Centralized data centers aren't going to keep up with demand on their own. But redeploying and aggregating the global supply of GPUs to provide cost-effective, reliable and, most importantly, scalable compute will go a long way to meeting the increasing requirements of the AI industry, unlocking innovation and allowing us all to benefit from the health, lifestyle and business benefits that AI will undoubtedly provide.
For more information, visit tatau.io


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June 18, 2008
On June 18, 2008, Stephen L. Ferszt moderated the SECTION 409A COMPLIANCE AND DEFERRED COMPENSATION - A Guide for Tax, Benefit and Corporate Attorneys held at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The IRS has extended the compliance period for Section 409A until the end of this year. As Tax, Benefit and Corporate Attorneys know, IRS Code Section 409A imposes restrictions on the timing of payments from certain deferred compensation agreements, such as stock options, deferred compensation plans, bonus arrangements and employment and severance agreements. With the deadline looming, attorneys must carefully review their client's formal and informal compensation agreements, and if need be, bring them into compliance with the regulations. Failure to do so can result in a great deal of financial pain for employees, as they will be required to include the noncompliant deferred amounts in income on their tax returns and pay additional tax - specifically a whopping 20 percent excise tax and interest.
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- @MadMen_AMC now you guys need to start a campaign for DirecTV to carry AMC in HD! in reply to MadMen_AMC #
- Big things afoot at SDCC for my #ff buddies. @Ssnyder1835 @JeffLemire @swierczy @REkedal @KodyChamberlain #
- An if you're at the show next week you can find me at #ff buddies @ArchaiaComics and @TopCow! #
- Today is a good day. Day trip to Santa Barbara with the fam that included finding a copy of @DavidALapham SB HC 2! Huzzah! #
- @DavidALapham Now you tell me! 1st you let your hardcovers go out of print, then you give me after the fact dinner tips. Damn you, Lapham. in reply to DavidALapham #
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Many scientists have proposed that Earth's oceans and forests might be able to take the edge off global warming by absorbing some of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A computer experiment described in today's Nature has now confirmed part of the theory, but also warns that changes in ocean circulation could pump even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
In 1995, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued several possible scenarios for global warming; these provided a scientific basis--albeit a disputed one--for last year's Kyoto agreement on greenhouse gas emissions. But none of the IPCC scenarios took into account the way that global warming might change the ocean's "carbon cycle." This cycle is partially driven by upwellings and downwellings that transport carbon-rich water. On the biological side, tiny marine organisms (mostly plants) called phytoplankton absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and are consumed by fish. Eventually the fish die and sink, transporting carbon toward the bottom of the ocean.
Jorge Sarmiento, a biogeochemist at Princeton University, and three colleagues coupled a sophisticated computer model of ocean currents to two simple biological models of proxies of phytoplankton and fish abundance. As the temperature rose in the simulation, more ocean water evaporated and more rain fell on the Southern Ocean. This put a freshwater "lid" on the ocean, decreasing the circulation between the surface and the depths. As a result, the deep ocean received less carbon dioxide. "If the ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide is, in fact, being compromised, then the future growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be higher than the [IPCC] projections," says Sarmiento. But the computer also showed that if the plankton got enough nutrients--which is still an open question--their growth could compensate completely for the weakening of the physical carbon cycle.
Skeptics of human-induced global warming point out that the ocean circulation results could take some of the blame for high atmospheric carbon dioxide off of human activities. "We had a substantial warming of the oceans from 1880 to 1940," says S. Fred Singer, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Virginia. "If [Sarmiento] is correct, it means that the warming reduced the ability of the ocean to act as a carbon sink." This would have led to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, regardless of human activities. If so, the "anthropogenic" increase may not be as large as scientists have assumed.


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The college's beautiful and spacious on-site library features a computer lab with iMac computers, comfortable reading lounge, individual study carrels, and a group study area. The entire facility, including the library, is equipped with WiFi access for students with laptop computers.
Library holdings consist of virtually all major texts on acupuncture and Oriental medicine that have been written in or translated into the English language, including texts on herbology, Asian bodywork and Qi Gong. Additional significant holdings include materials on allied health sciences (e.g. psychology, Western herbology), biomedical sciences, and medical anthropology. The circulating collection also includes current subscriptions to major acupuncture and Oriental medicine, as well as biomedical and complementary and alternative medicine journals.
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To provide access to an even greater variety of research material in related subject areas, students are eligible to use the library of the New York Academy of Medicine, which houses the second largest medical collection in the United States. The main collection consists of over 800,000 volumes, more than 1,000 current journal subscriptions, and a variety of electronic resources. www.nyam.org
In addition, all students are required to become members of the New York Public Library (membership is free to NYS residents and students enrolled in ny-based schools). NYPL is one of the largest library systems in the world with locations throughout the city. NYPL members may utilize significant healthcare related web-based databases that may be accessed from any computer. www.nypl.org


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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) took the bold step of calling for inclusive innovation as a solution to tackling the problem of inequality in development. Innovation is one of the emergent buzz words thrown at development challenges over the past year or so. The word often is often used to talk about technical advancements that support development gains such as a re-designed toilet or treatment as prevention from the spread of HIV.
The argument that innovation will address the problem of inequality falls a bit short. The United States is bustling with innovation and entrepreneurship while income inequality steadily widens. Research from Acemoglu, Robinson and Verdie finds a link between inequality and entrepreneurial effort. "[S]ome countries will opt for a type of "cutthroat" capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others will free-ride on the cutthroat incentives of the leaders," they write.
The findings by the authors show that innovation is not necessarily the problem. It is not hard to find examples of innovations that come out of low-income countries. Mobile phone take-up continues to rise across sub-Saharan Africa and the private sector is offering new products that make clean water possible in a slum.
A conversation about innovation is important when focused on what encourages and prohibits innovations. If a farmer in Malawi develops a new irrigation method, but is unable to connect to markets or is restricted by banking services his idea may never see the light of the day. "[H]ow is innovation going to solve the problems of developing countries when global governance has no political will to solve them," asked Alexis Habiyaremye, assistant professor of economics at Antalya International University in Turkey, in his remarks to SciDev.Net.
Tackling the barriers to innovation is where development should be focused. A girl who dies young due to disease cannot even begin to think about innovation. Nor will a boy who faces layers of corruption find a path to success. Innovation despite these challenges shows that it is happening, but is not properly supported.


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Norfolk has had another stellar summer, with all the attractions packed out with visitors in the glorious British sun, and the period has seen the value of the local tourism soar, increasing an amazing £100m in 12 months.
During 2015, the millions of people visiting Norfolk made £3.06bn according to figures from the tourist board Visit Norfolk. After a strong summer in 2016, and the mini heatwave we are enjoying at the moment, the value has already increased from the previous year.
Norfolk's biggest industry is tourism and is vastly important for the local economy. Pete Waters, director of Visit East Anglia which also encompasses Visit Norfolk said it was easy to see why Norfolk was so popular with families and sun-seekers of all ages.
Norfolk has a great mixture of things that attract people to the county year after year, such as the Broads, coastal villages, beaches and seasonal attractions. Our holiday park in North Norfolk is an ideal place for a holiday where you can soak up all the fun things there are to do here.
It is not just the attractions, but also the food and drink in Norfolk that are making it an increasingly popular destination for a staycation and for visitors overseas. There are lots of great pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants across the county that provide some delicious food, much of it locally sourced and seasonal.
There have also been campaigns from Visit Norfolk and neighbouring Visit Suffolk which highlight the accessibility of the county. Visitors from the north, south, and west, whether they are travelling by car or train have found that Norfolk is becoming a much more accessible place to visit for long holidays, or even a short weekend away.
Check out our holiday parks along the Norfolk and Suffolk coast that are the perfect place for a holiday by the sea, whatever the season.
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Gms: Khartoum, 6 January 2016 (SUNA) The First Vice-President of the Sudan Republic, Lt. Gen. Bakri Hassan Salih has reiterated Sudan's full support to the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) …
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Sudan and Qatar on Monday signed a $4-billion agreement to develop the former Ottoman port city of Sawakin in northeastern Sudan.
"The agreement was signed in line with instructions of the leadership in both countries on the necessity to boost joint cooperation in the fields
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The lot for the (32) round of the African championship was drawn in Cairo last Wednesday. The Sudanese Hilal is to meet the Nigerian team (Akwa United), while the other Sudanese team competing in the championship Hilal Al-Obeid will meet Yunayyu Sunga team from Mozambique.
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Scientists looking at over a decade of data from NASA satellites have found a startling pattern: All over the world, wet regions are becoming wetter, while dry regions grow drier. Water is just another resource, like money. And just as the rich get richer while the poor grow poorer, water inequality can exacerbate problems that resource-scarce communities are already dealing with.
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By Kamal Hamid
Whenever I felt depressed I resort to a vacation away from the daily routine where I find rest. I always go to the beloved mother, the mother of the cities (Atbara). Right now I am writing to you while I am onboard the Nile Train coming from Atbara to Khartoum. I lost everything I used to have there.
The high education minister Sumaya Abu Kashawa said that they will sponsor the scientific inventions of the talented students of the universities and high institutes. The minister opened the exhibition of the scientific inventions of the students organized within the cultural and sports university round.


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To avoid accidentally transporting invasive species to other waters, before launching a boat and after leaving the boat launch at the end of the day, boaters should: Inspect and remove aquatic plants, animals, and mud from boat and equipment before leaving the water access; Drain water from boat and equipment (motor, bilge, live wells, and bait containers) before leaving the water access; Dispose of unwanted bait in the trash; Spray/rinse boats and recreational equipment with high pressure and/or hot tap water; Dry boats and equipment thoroughly for at least five days before launching into a different water body.


text: A high-five might be a less confronting option for a child. December 20, 2018 Why you shouldn't force the kids to hug Granny at Christmas Therese O'Sullivan, Edith Cowan University In many households, Christmas means visits from relatives eager to smother kids with kisses. But respectful parenting means giving the kids fair warning so they can decide whether that's ok.


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The Celtics already had Game 1 on lock down. All Quentin Richardson was doing was running his mouth a little during trash time. And yet enraged, silly man-child Kevin Garnett couldn't keep it together.
You've probably watched this highlight 15 times since Saturday (especially because it's a lot more entertaining than highlights of Cool Beaz's narcolepsy on the hardwood.)
But Garnett's flying suplex to Richardson's jaw line is infinitely more entertaining now that the NBA has made it official: Garnett is suspended for Game 2.
So watch it again in slow mo: Bam! The Heat actually have a chance to win! Smack! Garnett is a world-class moron! Pow! And he let his team down!
In Boston, they're already making excuses for Big G, the league's dirtiest player. (Cue whiny Boston accent): "He plays with passion. He was protecting his teammates. That's why they love him."
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Nope. Not buying it. If the guy cared about his team, he'd keep his elbows and emotions in check just enough to, you know, actually play in a critical Game 2.
His Celtics already kicked the Heat in the balls by erasing a 14-point, third-quarter deficit in Game 1. Garnett scored 15 and completely dominated Beasely, who might or might not have had a Roofie-colada before game time.
The Bulls' Joakim Noah probably summed it up best yesterday: Garnett is a dirty player. Always has been. Take it away, Joakim:
"I'm going to say it: He's a dirty player," Noah told the Boston Globe. "He's always swinging elbows, man. I'm hurting right now because of an elbow he threw. It's unbelievable. He's a dirty player. It's one thing to be competitive and compete and all that. But don't be a dirty player, man. He's a dirty player."


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Arne Norrell
Arne Norell is a legendary Swedish designer known for his iconic and visionary furniture. Many of his timeless designs are still in production today.
Norell began making furniture out of a small workshop in 1954. He discovered that he had a natural flair for design, and in 1958 moved to Smaland where he founded Mobel AB Arne Norell. This furniture company still supplies the market with Norell classics.
Norell was a true artist who spent his lifetime experimenting with new materials; testing their potential and creating innovative combinations. Turned wood, leather upholstery and stainless steel were his materials of choice.
Norell excelled in the mid 20th century with designs that were bold and unique. In 1973 he won 'Show Piece of the Year' Britain's most prestigious prize. This award firmly cemented Norell as one of Europe's leading mid century designers.


text: Hollie's passion for injured worker medication safety has been her driving force to provide innovative solutions to clients and injured workers at Express Scripts. Throughout her 15 years of experience in the workers' compensation business, she has held responsibilities within operation management, strategic planning, and is currently responsible for the oversight of product management and new product development. Posts by Hollie Lamboy: Workers' Compensation | Express Scripts 23 Feb 2017 Delivering Safety and Convenience to Injured Workers


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Brussels Sprout Slaw with Grainy Mustard Vinaigrette & Maple Pecans
AKA my new favourite way to eat Brussels sprouts (yes Brussels – as in the city in Belgium. Not brussel sprouts. Also not expresso. Espresso! ESPRESSO!!) These were the last remaining veg in the fridge that held their own during our week away. A few wrinkly peppers destined for roasting, and it's time to hit the market.
Brussels sprouts are after all teeny heads of cabbage, so why not shred them into slaw? My Mom, a devout BS hater, who can sniff one out on a Thanksgiving table loaded with food, said she could be persuaded to try this. I'm doing it quick, before she changes her mind. I'll let you know if she survives.
I was busy patting myself on the back for eating a bowl of Brussels sprouts for lunch – nary a pastry in sight, and I haven't had hot chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate shavings for a good 3 DAYS – when our neighbours popped over and gave me an excuse to break into some cheese. So technically I ate triple crème, Oka and crackers for dinner. This is not helping my pants fit.


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Luis Sabor Debut Album!
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/luissabor2 Two years in the making! Musicians from Tucson AZ as well as Austin TX. 12 great trax! Available now on CDBaby and many other sites. Advertisements
Help Finish My New CD, PLEASE!
I have almost finished my debut album, but I need just a little help…. Continue reading
Allegro Bay Restaurant, Rockport Texas
Every Thursday at Allegro Bay Restaurant & Bar , Rockport Texas
Delectables in Tucson Arizona
Music from USA- I Can See Clearly Now Cover
Luis Sabor's rendition of the classic pop song by Johnny Nash.
Beatles Cover: Blackbird
Surreal Fast-motion Music Video in Downtown Tucson, Arizona
Music for Mexican Food
Luis Sabor playing at Rigos Restaurant, 5851 N Oracle Rd., Tucson, AZ every Friday night from 6 to 8PM. Music from the 60s,7os, and all over Latin America. Luis is available for private as well as public events in Southern … Continue reading
Music in Monteverde, Costa Rica
Here is a photo from a show I played at Dikary Restaurant in Monteverde (Santa Elena) Costa Rica back in December. It was a lot of fun and the locals of Monteverde are very warm and welcoming folks.
My Fan Base
This is from my show at Cherrywood Coffeehouse , Austin Texas last fall before leaving on my big trip. Well, as long as you can get the audience dancing….


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Certified Personal Trainer®
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Building 351, a three story structure with a flat roof and a five-story elevator tower. The overhang created an interesting shadow effect on the left edge of the building near the base. Above that, a late-night flight departs SFO airport.
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Slideshow with audio and narration delving into the attraction of Urban Exploration. This piece accompanied a San Francisco Chronicle article on the subject.
To commemorate the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, I re-shot George Lawrence's landmark photograph, "San Francisco in Ruins."


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How long can a movie stick with you? Some popcorn flicks are so forgettable; they fade before the credits end. Such temporary respites barely hold boredom at bay. The best films may carry over to Monday morning and become worthy of a water cooler conversation. In the month since I saw 12 Years a Slave, I have thought about it every single day. No particular social cues resurrected the torture, terror, and exploitation of others found in 12 Years. But the extended scenes of suffering are burned into my brain. It is so powerful it almost defies discussion (or at least, a casual conversation). The movie pinned me to my theater seat. I couldn't move. I could barely breathe. And even thirty days on, words seem insufficient to try and describe the totality of this cinematic achievement.
I recognize that such unqualified praise for a project primes it for a backlash. Reviews laden with words like "harsh," "brutal," and "uncompromising" allow viewers to brace themselves for an onslaught. Yet, an unguarded attitude seems essential for getting inside Solomon Northup's experience. This movie (and the Oscar for Best Actor) belongs to Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon, a musician prospering as a free man in New York State prior to his kidnapping. He carries the film on his back, moving from incredulity to confusion to terror to despair with equal grace and dignity. Ejiofor will be accompanied on the Academy's red carpet by Michael Fassbender and newcomer Lupita Nyong'ofor their riveting portrayal of a slave master and victim locked in a decidedly downward spiral. We come to understand how smart people can get subjugated, how compassionate people can feel helpless, how educated people can lose their conscience.
Kudos to Brad Pitt for producing this instant classic and hiring rigorous director Steve McQueen. Pitt's portrayal of a progressive Amish foreman is one of the only missteps in an otherwise all encompassing film. He seems too saintly and sane amidst so many contemptible Caucasians in the Old South. Maybe we're supposed to believe in his abolitionist stances because his character's from Canada. At a time when we are in deep national crisis over who we are becoming as a nation, 12 Years a Slave reminds us how egregious and barbaric our decision-making has been. We've justified far more than a government shut down. We've leaned upon the Bible to uphold exploitation, cruelty, and abuse.
As plantation owner Edwin Epps, Michael Fassbender demonstrates how seemingly God-fearing men wrapped their heads around their roles as torturers. We see his wife (Sarah Paulsen) sink to equal levels of mania and evil. Yes, they are tortured by their roles as slave owners. And we come to understand the complex emotions of pride and self-contempt that still haunt many white Southerners. History clings to us even when we want to escape or deny it.
Perhaps even tougher to process is the decent slave-owner "Ford" played by Benedict Cumberbatch. He has bought into the slave system, but must admit that his newly purchased property has a remarkable ability to plan and lead. Ford struggles to reconcile his faith and his practices. I've seen a similar disconnect in Christian leaders who continue to uphold policies and vote against the humanity of their gay sons and daughters. Dogma may persist despite evidence to the contrary. Ford ultimately acts in his own economic self-interest. He may be a nice owner, but he has bills to pay.
While Solomon endures countless indignities, so many other characters are subject to even greater abuse. The heartache that flows from a mother (permanently) separated from her children feels boundless. The physical and psychological torment hoisted upon a talented slave like Patsey explains why suicide seems so attractive. In her first feature, Kenyan actor Lupita Nyong'o holds the screen alongside Alfre Woodard with remarkable aplomb. How might an African woman make peace with her American oppressor? Patsey's brains and beauty make her a target of jealous wrath. In an unbroken ten-minute take, we see how rage strips everyone of their humanity.
Director Steve McQueen's previous features were also torturous. He chronicled Irish Republican Army bomber Bobby Sand's hunger strike unto death in Hunger. McQueen made sex addiction look as deadly and joyless as possible in Shame. He is fascinated by how much our bodies can endure. His work is precise, bordering on the cold and clinical. Scenes are long, arduous, unadorned. McQueen dissects his subjects, wearing down his characters (and audiences) with relentless precision. So I expected 12 Years a Slave to be rigorous and demanding.
What I didn't expect was the poetry, the brilliant mix of restraint and minimalism that produces such maximalist results. By allowing the camera to linger, painfully, upon his seemingly helpless characters, we grasp the desperation and despair that kept slavery so ensconced. By keeping the scenes quiet, the suffering almost silent, we so desperately long for relief. The music that provides Solomon's source of support becomes an afflicter of ironic pain when slaves are made to dance and celebrate after a day's hard labor. We come to understand how much passion animates the spirituals that accompany a funeral. The ecstatic sounds of gospel and soul music were forged via a high, human price.
The horrors in 12 Years a Slave creep up on us. We feel as lost and disoriented as Solomon. We also can't believe such atrocities are occurring before us. Such banal indifference and inhumanity in the face of such obvious suffering is almost inconceivable to modern eyes. And yet, what kinds of contemporary atrocities do we tolerate and turn a blind eye towards? Human trafficking? Gun violence? 12 Years a Slave moves us from disbelief to introspection. We are used to seeing heroic gestures bring cinematic relief. But what if the situation just gets progressively worse? What if the suffering doesn't get redeemed? What if cruelty, inhumanity, and perversion become a way of being? We understand how a person of such intelligence and resolve as Solomon Northup can gradually lose hope and take on the slave name and mentality of "Platt". The sword and the whip seem mightier than the pen.
Following in the wake of a revenge fantasy like Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave arrives as a sobering wake up call. Are we ready to revisit the harsh realities awakened by a television event like Roots? That was over thirty-five years ago—a generation (or two) removed from our current students. Steven Spielberg attempted to tap into the historic record found in connection with the Amistad. Lee Daniels revisited the Civil Rights era via The Butler. Jordan Black responded to her job portraying Martha Washington's attendant at Mount Vernon with the painfully comedic web series, Ask a Slave. Even the museum at Monticello has staged a traveling exhibition on slavery at Thomas Jefferson's plantation. Are we poised to discuss our national sin in a new way? These earlier efforts seem meek and mild compared to the searing intensity of 12 Years a Slave. Did we need an outsider to pull no punches in depicting our sordid history? Or did we need an insider, a Caribbean born descendent of slaves, to spell out just how bleak and devastating this scar upon human history remains? Steve McQueen combines an artisan's craft with the passion of a survivor to forge the most harrowing film of the year. We could never call 12 Years a Slave entertaining, but it is absolutely essential.


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gift guides // the bar cart enthusiast mint love social club
Hi I'm Natalie from Mint Love Social Club and I am so happy to be here today to share with you some of my favorite gifts for the bar cart enthusiast!
1. Mrs Lillien's Cocktail swatch book- colorful and fun; full of straight forward recipes
for those just starting to try their hand at mixing cocktails
2. Drink More Gin print $85- ever since I started drinking gin cocktail there was no going
back to vodka! This print would be a perfect gift to hang above a bar and add a pop of color!
3. PDT cocktail book- From the infamous Please Dont Tell bar in NYC. Cocktail recipes
for those who want to take their cocktail mixing to the next level
4. Z Gallerie's Oxford Serving Bowl - At $80 this is a beautiful gift that your friends
can use for more than just a handful of a champagne bottles as it is also food safe!
Would make a fun punch bowl!
5. Custom Drink Stirrers from ForYourParty.com - Personalized gifts always show that you put a lot of thought into the gift and honestly- what bar cart would be complete without these perfect little stirrers!
6. Fox Decanter set from Furbish $68- What a fabulous little set to display a top a bar cart?!?!
7. A selection of specialized spirits- When in doubt a nice bottle of liqueur or specialized
spirit is a foolproof gift for the bar enthusiast! These three are a few of my staples.
8. Set of cocktail coupes $89 for 6- The perfect vessel for a variety of cocktails!
These by Schott Zweisel are beautiful and delicate.
9. City Coasters $15 for 10 - This cute Etsy shop carries many different city coaster sets.
Perfect add on to a bottle of wine!
10. Glossed & Found BarKeep Recipe box $22 - a selection of recipe from
Glossed & Found's most notable guests.
11. Travel Bar Set $129- for the bar cart enthusiast on the go!


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Sharp Rise in Violent Crimes Cited Among Returning Iraq Veterans in Colo. Unit
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Soldiers returning from Iraq after serving with a Fort Carson, Colo., combat brigade have exhibited an exceptionally high rate of criminal behavior in their home towns, carrying out a string of killings and other offenses that the ex-soldiers attribute to lax discipline and episodes of indiscriminate killing during their grueling deployment, according to a six-month investigation by the Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper.
Members of the 3,500-soldier Fourth Infantry Division's Fourth Brigade told the publication that the brutal conditions in Iraq from 2004 to 2007 and the Army's failure to provide proper treatment for stress were in part to blame for the incidents of rape, domestic abuse, shootings, stabbings, kidnappings and suicides, the paper said.
Ten of the brigade's members committed or attempted to commit homicides after their return from Iraq, a rate said to be 114 times the murder rate in Colorado Springs, adjacent to the unit's base.
During their deployment, some soldiers killed civilians at random -- in some cases at point-blank range -- used banned stun guns on captives, pushed people off bridges, loaded weapons with illegal hollow-point bullets, abused drugs and occasionally mutilated the bodies of Iraqis, according to accounts the Gazette attributed to soldiers who said they witnessed the events. The unit's casualty rate was double the average for Army combat teams deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, the paper said.
In December 2007, a member of the brigade wrote senior Army officials about what he described as "war crimes" committed by the unit, including the shootings and dismemberment of a 16-year-old boy and several civilians.
The Army told the newspaper its investigators found no evidence to sustain some of these allegations. Several soldiers involved in improper conduct were dishonorably discharged.
The Army has taken a special interest in the unit's troublesome track record, commissioning a task force that examined eight of the homicides committed after soldiers returned home. It affirmed in a 126-page report this month that "combat exposure/intensity, leadership, and barriers to seeking care" may have increased the risks of "negative outcomes" for ex-soldiers.
Maj. Steve Wollman, who was recently appointed as a spokesman for Fort Carson, said Monday he couldn't "speak to the past, but in the present and future, we are working very hard to provide the best behavioral health for our soldiers and their families." He said efforts were being made to overcome the stigma attached to applying for mental health treatment, a key problem cited in the Army's task force report.


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What a short attention span we have in this world today.
Less than a month ago, we wrote about the Hoegh Osaka. Remember that? If you're anything like me, you'll read that name and it'll sound vaguely familiar, but you won't remember why. Let me remind you:
The ship was carrying around 1,200 Jaguars and Land Rovers before tilting dangerously and running aground near England.
It was speculated that the load of expensive cars would be scrapped, depending on the damage done.
Well, 20-some days later, the cars are being driven off the boat under their own power. Watch the video then ask yourself: Would you buy one?
When vehicles are shipped they are securely strapped down to avoid any unnecessary movement. Even a ship tilting at nearly 50 degrees will not do any visible damage to the cargo, though unseen damage can include suspension failures and engine problems from uneven fluid distribution. Other unsecured cargo on the ship can obviously cause visual damage to the cars, and it appears that's what happened to some of the cars on the Hoegh Osaka.
Most of the cars captured on video as they were being driven off the boat look ready for the showroom floor, but at least one has obvious damage to the sheet metal, which was probably caused by unsecured cargo.
Each vehicle will be inspected, but it's possible, even probable, that all of them will be scrapped to avoid any potential liability in the future.
That would be unfortunate, as I'm sure plenty of folks would be happy to sign whatever waiver Jaguar Land Rover wanted for the opportunity to buy one of these cars at a discount.
The likelihood of buying a Hoegh Osaka car is essentially zero, but it brings up an interesting topic of conversation:
Even if a car looks brand new, it could be hiding serious damage. You probably won't find a Hoegh Osaka car on the used listings anytime soon, but you might run across some cars that have been flood damaged or had collision damage repaired.
Damage like that might not be visible at first glance, so remember to have any used car thoroughly inspected before purchasing it.
Have you ever purchased a car with hidden damage?


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When taking portraits...
Work out what is important to have in the frame. Frame appropriately. Then pose.
Turn the camera around. Many people forget to fill the frame and turn the camera vertical for a single portrait. Not that you have to do this every time.
Don't pose someone full frontal unless you want to make them look broad. Turn them so they are facing 3/4 on to the camera.
Shoot from above to slim.
Get the lens above the nose - looking up the nose is yuck. Stand up taller, stand on a step, get them to put their chin down.
Make sure there is light on the eyes, so you aren't giving them black holes. Turn them towards the light, lift their chin, lower the light.
Put weight on the back leg. Looks more inviting.
Give them something to do with their hands so they are more relaxed.
Watch out for the ears. Turn the head slightly side on to the camera so they don't look like elephant ears.
Get in close and personal.
Try different perspectives. Walk around your subject and look.
Don't crop at a joint (elbow, wrist, knee, ankle) - it will give the impression that the body doesn't continue outside of the frame.
Don't always make them look at the camera - they can look just past you, down their shoulder, at what they are doing.
Classic style is to place the eyes on one of the 'rule of thirds' lines.
'Do the duck.' Get them to stick their chin slightly out and down towards the camera to tighten the skin under their chin. Make sure they are 100% facing the camera, though. Otherwise, it will look odd. Don't let them overdo it either.
Holding the tongue on the roof of the mouth can also tighten the chin skin.
Taking photos at eye level is the most pleasing angle. Generally.
You don't always have to include the face. Focussing on a body part will still tell a story. Dancing hips, hands covering eyes, knobbly knees together, stressed hand.
Look at the background. Do you want context and story or just a pretty picture of the person?
Pull the person away from the wall, especially if using flash. If they stand near a wall, an ugly shadow will be cast behind them.
If you are taking a portrait (rather than telling a story), keep the background plain.
If you are trying to tell a story - move back, zoom out. Get the environmental area in. Anything that adds to the story.
Show their office, their craft, their home. Let the viewer see what they are doing. But try not to include anything that doesn't add to the story. Ie. Loads of road in front, lots of blank walls, lots of empty skies.
Focus on the eyes.
Take more photos than necessary. People blink, pull faces, look away.
Longer length lenses are most effective for portraits. Wide angle lenses (i.e., 24mm) tend to distort. If you do use a wide angle lens, keep people away from the edges of the frame and don't put them too close to the camera (unless creativity is what you are going for).
If people start squinting or get sore eyes, get them to look at something green (that isn't too bright) for a moment before taking the photo. Green soothes.
Talk lots. It will relax people.
Make fun of yourself.
Tell stories. Get people thinking about things they enjoy.
Demonstrate how you would like them to pose instead of talking them through it.
Scan their body and the background before taking the photo.
Give them a rest - faces will tighten up and look stiff.
Instead of saying 'smile' ask them to think about something that makes them happy.
Same goes with different emotions. Most people aren't actors, and emotions will show better when they are real rather than 'put on'.
Make sure exposure is for the face. Sometimes you may need to move the person away from dark or light situations to get the right exposure.
The most simple and beautiful light...
Pose your subject side on and close to a window. The window light will fall 3/4 on the face. Have a plain wall or background behind them.
If someone is in the shade with a bright background behind them, the camera will try and expose for the background also.
This can happen when there is a window behind someone, they are standing under a tree or are on the footpath in the shade of a building, and you are photographing out onto the street.
If you only have Auto on your camera/iPhone, move the person, so the background isn't so bright. Remember; you can adjust your exposure on your iPhone by tapping the screen (a sun will appear near the focus square) and swiping up or down.
Silhouettes are made when the light is measured off the backlight. Remember that you will not see much detail at all in the foreground so the shape should be interesting. A colourful sunset with no interesting shape doesn't make a beautiful photograph.
Midday sun
Avoid photographing people when the sun is overhead. It will give them dark eyes similar to shark eyes. Black and deep.
Move your subject to some shade. If there is no shade, either face them away from the sun (and expose for their face) or have them looking into the sun (ouch) making sure no horrible shadows are on their face.
One other alternative is to get them doing something and move out, so you have a more contexual 'story' photograph rather than portrait.
Individual portrait
'If it bends, bend it' otherwise, people will look like soldiers. Bend elbows, put weight on one leg, tilt head, relax fingers.
Your subject doesn't always have to be centred - leave some negative space.
If you are leaving negative space, normally you would face the person into the photograph, so the eyes are drawn through the photo rather than off the side of the photo.
The triangle rule - try and compose, so the heads are in triangles. Not all in one even line or straight up and down.
Get them involved in their environment. Leaning on a desk, scattered over stairs, etc.Don't be scared of leaving a little bit of space around people.
Unless it's a 'social picture' avoid posing the group all in one line. Scatter them, seat some, lean some, group them in mini groups, turn some to face the other way...
Get down to their level. Shoot lots. Don't expect them to sit still and look at a camera. Get emotion.
Action shots will be much more entertaining and engaging than smiling at the camera photographs.
Use a high shutter speed. I try for at least 1/125 but prefer 1/250.
Take a series of photos showing their movement and expression.
Details - decoration, signage, facilities
Overview of location from different angles and viewpoints
Portraits/social photos - get names for use when you supply to magazines/newspapers etc
VIPs/speakers - take lots as sometimes it's hard to time when they will look good. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror while talking? Try doing it slowly and see what your face does.
Candid - take lots. Again, so people are looking good. A long lens is perfect for these images as people won't be conscious of you. Get people interacting with the environment, laughing, talking, with food, etc.
Action photos
The flash will freeze the action, allowing you to be flexible with your shutter speed.
If you want everything sharp use the following shutter speeds as a guide. These are assuming your subject is close to the camera, around 3m. The further your subject is away from the camera, the slower the shutter speed you can have.
Person walking 1/125
Person jogging 1/250
Cyclist/running/fast sport 1/500
Car 1/1000
If you want to have movement and blur in the photo, and maintain just the flash sharpness, start with a shutter of 1/30 or slower.
People at night
Use a slow shutter to allow the natural light to filter into the photograph. This allows more ambient light to be captured. If your camera is set for flash only, the background will be black. Having said this though, I wouldn't set my shutter slower than 1/60 - if someone moves, or if you move, the photo will be blurry.
Try a shutter speed of 1/15 or lower (with flash) for blurring people while dancing. The flash will freeze them enough to see the person, but the slow shutter will blur outlines, background and add movement.
Photographing people in their environment - unposed
Don't be shy. If you approach people the right way, they will usually be happy to have their photo taken.
If you see an opportunity, take the photo, then ask. That way you won't get a 'posey' photo. You can always get more if they are happy to have their photo taken. And you can always delete if they are not happy to be photographed.
Talk to people. Make friends. Your photos will have more meaning when there is a story behind it.
Use foreground and frames to lead the eye in.
Keep your shutter speed above 1/60 to prevent blur. Even at 1/60, if your subject moves their head, you may get blur.
Take lots of photos when people are moving about, or getting crowd shots. You can't see what everyone is doing, and there is nothing worse than getting back to the computer and seeing someone 'ruining' your only photo.
Different flash light
Fill flash
You expose for the ambient light but add flash to give a little sparkle in the eyes. Just enough to add highlights in the eyes and lightly soften shadows and lines.
As people age, unless you are going for dramatic, soft and even lighting is best.
3/4 light
Light is off to the side of your subject, causing a shadow on 1/4 of the face.
This type of light is beautiful, adding dimension and texture. Be careful of the nose shadow.
Move the light to either lengthen or shorten the shadow.
The more frontal the light, the shorter the nose shadow.
I like to join the nose shadow with the shadow on the side of the face, creating a triangular light under the eye or keep the shadow in close to the nose.
Creates a halo around the head.
Separates the subject from the background.
A backlight can be from directly behind the subject or off to one side.
Nine times out of ten I put the light 3/4 off to one side, the opposite side of the front light.
A backlight is normally mimicking the sun behind a person, so put it up high.
Be careful not to cast shadows on the face or have it too bright.
Frontal light
Frontal light creates minimal shadows.
Soft frontal light is one of the nicest lights for filling in shadows, wrinkles and imperfections. It replicates tone in a natural way (i.e.,. showing graduation between eye shadow colour or blush).
You and Your Rights:
For full details, contact www.artlaw.com.au or Australian Copyright Council.
If you want to use your image for a commercial purpose, you will need a Talent or Property Release.
If you are using the image for Editorial use only, you don't.
If you are on public property, you can photograph anyone you want, whether they are on public property or not.
However, some landmarks, buildings, and monuments are restricted. Especially when the photograph is for a commercial purpose.
Locations include
Sydney Opera House precinct
Kakadu National Park
Commonwealth Reserves
Australian National Botanic Gardens
plus much more.
Also, remember that artwork, sculptures and monuments may be protected by Copyright. Public artworks have some exceptions.
There is a lot of if's and but's with Copyright and Photographers Rights - check out the authorities websites for up to date information.
Take three different portraits utilising different techniques/light/situations and upload (at least one) to Facebook. Explain what you did and what you wanted to achieve.
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Today marks the end of our Truths We Love series. We have had SO much fun reading all the posts and hope you have learnt lots too. This is a gorgeous post from Lydia to finish on – one which I hope will be really inspiring as a new term arrives… enjoy! x
"Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength."
(Isaiah 40:30-31)
Although old-school, I love Chris Tomlin's song 'Everlasting God', based on the verses above.
Many of us are familiar with this passage, but the verse I love comes just before. It reminds me that God's kingdom and promises are as much for me as for my parents, as they are for children and the elderly.
As a 'youth' I sometimes feel I need to wait till I'm past my teens to have a full and rich relationship with God. A bit like when I thought I needed to have my ears pierced in order to look ready for secondary school, I make a division between me and the adult congregation at church because I feel my walk with Jesus can't be as deep, intimate and transformative.
But this verse shows us that as youth, just like everyone else, we can grow tired. But more importantly, that God can 'renew MY strength' something I'd associated with a 'rich and full' relationship with Him.
We are just as important.
This verse also reminds me that as much as my grandma and grandpa say "oh, you're young and fit you shouldn't be tired" or my friends expected to survive on 3 hours of sleep after a party and be fine, even the young aren't as powerful or strong as God.
In the verse before: "He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom", the contrast between us as tired youth and God who never grows tired helps me to know it's okay to be struggling because we are not expected to be like God.
I also love and find great joy in this verse because it evokes hope from such a great truth- If we hope in the Lord then our strength will be renewed (Cue Chris Tomlin!) What an amazing statement that is. This is something I had to consciously keep reminding myself of before and then I experienced it first hand.
A few months ago something happened that left me feeling lonely, tired and in a mess. I came back to this verse, briefly prayed that God would strengthen me and got on with the situation. A week later the problem had been resolved and to my surprise, although I was hurt, tired and weary, I wasn't a complete wreck, I had been strengthened from the inside by God to cope.
So I encourage you to think about an area of your life where you need strength and to be reminded of this verse knowing that 1) even us, youth grow weary and that's okay but that 2) our strength comes from a Father who made us and loves us.
Because where better to get strength from than someone who made the universe!? Now that's pretty powerful.
Lydia has just finished school in Cambridge and is excited to be going to college in September where she will be taking full advantage of being an arts kid. Lydia enjoys making and eating brunch, doing pottery, writing poetry, anything metallic and crazy dancing in public places. She's excited to see how God will use her in the college environment as well as the excuse to buy a new set of stationery…


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I've resisted writing about Hwang Woo Suk's fraudulent paper in Science about producing patient specific stem cells. It just isn't really that big a deal. A guy who claimed proficiency with chopsticks was directly correlated with producing cutting edge science -- surprise! -- turned out to be not so credible. He was found out. Science wins. Science will always win, eventually.
Yet the affair provides an interesting context for thinking about the tenuous standing of cutting edge science. Uncovering the fraud is frustrating to those waiting for cures for disease or injury, annoying to those waiting for life extension technologies, and disappointing to almost everyone for whom scientific inquiry is the closest approximation to a pursuit of truth; all true. But guess what? Science is a human institution, practiced by humans with all of their faults. It is simply inevitable that those faults affect scientific results and publications.
But what distinguishes science from other human institutions, notably politics, religion, and business, which have all experienced extraordinary fraud and malfeasance recently in the U.S., is that fundamentally science finds its foundations in the physical world. The progress of science, and its authority, are tied to what is measurable. Moreover, those measurements must be repeatable. That is, a result must be testable and verifiable by others to become accepted. True, uncovering the Hwang fraud took almost two years, but Hwang's fall was inevitable because the requirement for repeatability means that science is self-correcting. It happens that the holes in the original Science paper appeared not because of questions emerging from labs trying to repeat the work, but rather from suspicious aspects of the paper itself, such different figures of supposedly different cell lines containing similar images.
The scrutiny of these images and other details of the paper applied by scientists within South Korea, fed by suspicion of the great height to which Hwang aspired, only strengthens the process of science. We didn't actually have to wait for the results of long and laborious experiments, nor did we have to spend money to repeat Hwang's work. The fraud fell apart under its own weight. This is a success.
I, like every other practicing scientist, have to wonder how this episode will affect the public perception of science. I come to the conclusion that the airing of dirty laundry will only improve the position of science in the long run. There is no other human institution so ruthless in chopping out the dead wood. After all, if you are lying or pulling a fast one, the very last thing you want to do is get a bunch of really smart people trying to catch you out, all of whose professional standing improves if they do.
The public perception of all this is complicated slightly by the fact that there is a difference between the science you read in textbooks, and the science reported in journals or on the front page of newspapers and news magazines. In today's New York Times, Nicholas Wade has a very nice article exploring this issue, prompted by the stem cell fraud:
The contrast between the fallibility of Dr. Hwang's claims and the general solidity of scientific knowledge arises from the existence of two kinds of science - a distinction that is often blurred when new advances are reported first by scientific journals and then by the news media. There is textbook science and frontier science, and the two types carry quite different expiration dates.
Textbook science is material that has stood the test of time and can be largely relied upon. It may include findings made just a few years ago, but which have been reasonably well confirmed by other laboratories.
Science from the frontiers of knowledge, on the other hand, is wild, untamed and often either wrong or irrelevant to future research. A few years after they are published, most scientific papers are never cited again.
I find this latter point the most problematic of the scientific enterprise. Of the papers with short lifetimes, some are not read or cited because they aren't very good or very interesting, some are only minor improvements on previous work, and some fall by the wayside because they describe dead ends. In all cases, very little science that gets done, and even less that is finally reported in journals, actually affects the world in a meaningful way. How can you not feel a bit ambivalent about this? Isn't this emblematic of some sort of waste, inefficiency, or a Proxmire-attracting, willful misappropriation of funds? Emphatically not! This is a cost we must bear as part of the never-ending effort to banish our ignorance and improve the human condition. At both the institutional and the personal level this cost is intrinsic to science. Every scientist, and every technologist and inventor, for that matter, has plentiful experience with choosing the wrong path. Alas, the dominant social structures governing funding decisions and career advancement are based predominantly on the number of papers published, rather than upon their content, which means that often the wrong path, the marginal improvement, and the simply boring result in the lab are gussied up for publication to look far more significant that they really are.
The only real defense against this profusion of craptastic papers is the choice of individuals not to write and publish them. So I have little hope of progress there. Enough said about that.
A weaker, but necessary, defense lies in peer review. In lieu of the sudden popularity of all scientists becoming harsh and discerning critics of our own efforts, we must all keep watch on science as a whole, trying to catch mistakes and fraud before publication. Yet this process, too, is far from perfect. Too many anonymous reviewers have political reasons for rejecting papers, and many more just don't do a good job of reading the paper they are judging. I don't really have a solution to this problem, but I have to wonder if removing anonymity from the review process would clean things up. Yes, you would have the problem that younger scientists reviewing the work of their elders would be exposed to wrath from above. But what we have now definitely needs improvement. Witness the Hwang paper.
Mr. Wade explores the notion of improving the quality of papers through requiring authors to state their contributions to a paper, and by requiring all authors to state their explicit agreement with all conclusions in a paper. I don't have any problems with the latter, but I can say from personal experience that writing an author contribution statement can be extraordinarily painful, a struggle to carve out sufficient acknowledgments of your own efforts and give perspective on another's efforts, particularly when control of the text lies with someone else. Still, it's worth a try. And I support the inclusion of author's contributions for the time being.
Alas, this doesn't help with the review process itself, because it doesn't do anything about biases or laziness of reviewers. Mr. Wade thus incorrectly suggests that clarifying the author's roles in research has anything to do with the decision-making process during review at a journal. Nonetheless, save conflation of the review process with writing and attribution, his conclusion is right on the money:
Tightening up the reviewing system may remove some faults but will not erase the inescapable gap between textbook science and frontier science. A more effective protection against being surprised by the likes of Dr. Hwang might be for journalists to recognize that journals like Science and Nature do not, and cannot, publish scientific truths. They publish roughly screened scientific claims, which may or may not turn out to be true.
And thus we must labor on, and through those labors attempt to keep science honest and thereby produce a better world. Science will always win, eventually.


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Returning to Chamonix is like visiting an old friend who you know so well, you can finish their sentence. In French. It's a busy, touristy, Brit-filled place and must have more cheese per square metre than anywhere else on earth.
This time of year, the streets vibrate under the impact of ski boots and the sound of clattering skis is only just audible above the clink of beer glasses hitting the bars, waiting for refills.
For skiers and boarders, Chamonix is a Mecca of gnarliness. The easiest pistes in the resort would be intermediate anywhere else and the hardest, well, they're off the scale, certainly off my scale anyway. For the brave and well-equipped, the mountains offer a massive playground, for the foolhardy and ill-equipped, they can be an icy tomb.
After a very stressful year, we were mentally exhausted. Even booking a ski trip was too difficult, so we opted to return to the town dubbed the home of alpinism and our honeymoon destination 18 years ago. Where else do you go when you need comfort than to see an old friend?
Everything was wonderfully familiar, so much so that we felt like locals, speaking French to everyone, whether they were French or not, then shrugging in that Gallic way when they replied in loud English that they didn't understand. How we laughed! We had some fabulous conversations in French with people from all over the world. The solo skier, born in Brazil, but living in Geneva, over for the weekend, the two Spaniards who asked us which bus to catch, then got on the wrong one, and the two French lads, off to do something brave, we agreed they had 'les couilles d'acier' (balls of steel). I even got to practice my French vernacular after a rather spectacular face plant 'putain de merde!' (f#cking sh!t). I don't think anyone heard…
But the best exchange of all was with the waiter at our regular patisserie. I'd taken my sketch book to try and draw the impressive mountains dominating the Chamonix skyline. It was just a sketch, with my left (non-dominant) hand, an inspiration from the 64 Million Artists January Challenge I took part in, but the waiter was so complimentary, and our conversation so animated, I felt like I was a local, at home with my friends.
The snow will be gone from the lower levels soon, but we'll be back in the summer to see our old friend, run the rocky trails, climb the crags, walk around the town, eat our own body weight in cheese, drink beer at the micro brasserie, sketch a bit and speak more French, though not swear as much.


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Binh Danh's 19th-Century Photographs of Contemporary San Francisco
November 13, 2014
The history of San Francisco is intimately linked with the daguerreotype and other early photographic methods. Daguerreotypes, one-of-a-kind photographs on silver-coated copper plates, were developed in the late 1830s and gained popularity in the 1840s. During that time, the small California town of Yerba Buena transferred from Mexican to U.S. hands, welcomed Mormon emigrants, and briefly boasted a Hudson's Bay Company trading post. But when gold was found in the Sierra Nevada foothills to the east, the recently renamed San Francisco exploded with speculation fever.
The oldest known photograph of San Francisco is from 1850, the same year the city was incorporated and California joined the Union. The remarkable boom that occurred over the next several decades was captured on high-tech media like the daguerreotype and its successors, such as the albumen print. Though there are famous daguerreotypes from Paris, London, and New York, none of them so fortuitously captured the birth of great city, forever linking San Francisco with the history of photography.
In this context, Binh Danh's daguerreotypes of contemporary San Francisco, on view in This, Then, is San Francisco at Haines Gallery, are inseparable from the city's history. Photographs like City Lights Booksellers and Publishers (2014) at times appear both modern and historic. The twenty-first century sedan zipping by, the bike rack, and the still-active bookstore all note the city we are familiar with. Yet, the building depicted was constructed in 1907, long after the gold mines dried up, but older than most buildings in the city and still reminiscent of a nebulous "old" San Francisco. The Chinatown buildings in the background and the street car wires conjure images of the city's past, even more so because of the daguerreotype's antique coloring and mirror image.
B and C Laundromat Barbary Coast Trail, Chinatown (2014) looks north on Waverly Place in Chinatown, showing a laundromat housed in a building from 1906 and a row of signs for other businesses. At the end of the street is the historic Goong Quon Cheong building, now home to Kam Lok Restaurant and the Gee How Oak Tin Benevolent Association. Chinatown's distinctive and tourist-friendly architecture only arose from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake. Prior to the tremor, Chinatown, within the bounds of the raucous Barbary Coast, was a dense collection of uninspiring wooden tenements. The Chinatown recalled in this image is historic, but it is nothing like the Chinatown that stood on the same spot in the daguerreotype's heyday. Danh's photograph is a historical pastiche, but is there a more appropriate way to depict San Francisco?
This, Then, is San Francisco is not just of interest to lay historians; it is of equal value to aesthetes. Cliff House and Seal Rocks from Sutro Heights Park (2014) is among the most stunning works in the exhibition. Shot on the western edge of the city, San Francisco's trademark fog hugs the reflective copper plate like greasy fingerprint smudges. The sun beams on Seal Rocks, radiating like the nuclear waste on the bottom of the ocean near the Farallon Islands. The Pacific Ocean, often tempestuous, is pacified by the camera's long exposure, looking more like a sedate pool of mercury than a wrecker of ships. The Cliff House, one of three to adorn the site and the best so far at avoiding fire, is partly obscured by a monolith of trees and shrubbery in the foreground.
When I was a child I thought my grandparents lived in a world of black and white; still a bit naive, I can picture Adolph Sutro, real estate magnate and twenty-fourth mayor of San Francisco, standing on the same cliff as Danh, looking out at this eerie and phosphorescent scene as he surveyed the land he would soon transform.
San Francisco City Hall (Mother's Day 2014) Rally for Black Youths Whose Killers Have Never Been Found by the San Francisco Police Department (2014) showcases the formal power of daguerreotypes. In the photograph, a dozen or so individuals sit in folding chairs at the steps of City Hall. Five women stand to give what one imagines is a moving speech, given the work's somber title. The photographic process captured ghostly figures that are largely eclipsed by those subjects who remained still during Dahn's long exposure. Though they are clearly audience members and passersby, they evoke the specters of the murdered youths. It appears as if one apparition in the center of the photograph has returned to hear his mother's voice one last time.
The exhibition's title is a play on the opening lines of poet William Vaughn Moody's "The Daguerreotype": "This, then, is she, / My mother as she looked at seventeen, / When she first met my father. Young incredibly…" Unlike Moody's daguerreotype, Danh's photographs present San Francisco as it is now, not its distant past, but memories of that past haunt almost any scene in the city. The rocks out past Ocean Beach are primordial, or at least date from the beginning of the Holocene period. Houses and office buildings throughout the city are historic, or at least as historic as the fault lines will permit. But by the standards of almost anywhere else on earth, San Francisco is still incredibly young. For Moody, the memory preserved by the daguerreotype is of a vanished moment, but for Danh the memories revealed are living and inhabit the photographs and the city's streets.


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Today I'm interviewing Johanne Helger Lund, creator and designer of Denmark-based sustainable clothing label, Ecouture. It's the first post in a three part series on the brand, so stay tuned for a personal style post and a giveaway early next week! Ecouture is looking to make a name for itself internationally and they offer reasonable shipping options to the States. Read on for more information on the brand and its mission.
Tell me a bit about yourself.
I am born and raised in Copenhagen, the capital of the Denmark. My mother is a famous Danish actress and political activist (http://helger.dk/) and my father is a musician. I worked in the Danish theatres and television shows as costume designer for many years of my youth. I then decided to get my degree as a designer which I partly got in Copenhagen and Barcelona. When [I] decided to start my own brand I had no doubt that I wanted to do it with respect for the environment and the people who make the clothes.
When did you first become interested in ethical fashion? Was there a particular moment or did it happen over time?
I have always been concerned with the environment. When I started my brand most ethical clothes out on [the] market was very boring and grey, so I wanted to contribute to the ethical fashion area with clothes that were more spectacular and colorful. There are so many fashion brands in the world and they all look the same. I would not make clothes if it wasn't for the ethical element, because the world has enough "normal" brands.
Your clothes have a great theatrical, feminine quality. What draws you to this aesthetic?
First of all my background as [a] costume designer. Secondly I think that there is a sad tendency in the fashion world to make clothes that are more and more androgynous. I make clothes for women, and I think it is possible to be feminine AND a powerful woman at the same time!
How do you source fabrics for your clothes? How are they manufactured?
Most of my clothes are GOTS certified. We use natural textile fibres like cotton, flax, hemp, silk and wool fibres, which can be grown eco-friendly and according to the rules of organic farming. These are textiles marked endorsed by organizations such as the Dutch Control Union (formerly BE), Swedish KRAV, and Swiss IMO. Our clothes are sewn in Poland in workshops that do not use child labour, and where workers have decent conditions and a good working environment in keeping with the local laws. Design, finishing, and selling takes place in Denmark.
What is your favorite item from the current collection?
All of them :)
Where do you see Ecouture headed in the next few years?
We are very popular in Scandinavia, but I would like to expand to the rest of Europe and USA. My big dream is to be able to start my own production projects in India, and create a great and healthy environment for the people who grow cotton for example, and for mother earth.


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Fantasy worlds in video games are getting pretty intricate. Consider the upcoming game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, which is being developed by 38 Studios and will be sold by Electronic Arts. In this game, you can pick the pocket of a citizen in the world. Once you do that, you have to slink away because the character will start feeling his or her clothing for a wallet. When they don't find it, they'll whirl and look for a thief.
Reckoning features a world created by fantasy novelist R.A. Salvatore. Ken Rolston, one of the designers of the game, says that the title will focus on action, with a heavy emphasis on making combat more fun. That isn't the usual emphasis in a fantasy role-playing game, so Rolston and 38 Studios hope their first game will stand out in a crowded field.
This game is going to get a lot of scrutiny because it is being built by a team assembled by Curt Schilling, the former star pitcher of the Boston Red Sox who is now making big-budget video games. Schilling's company acquired the Reckoning team, formerly part of Big Huge Games' Baltimore office, from THQ. The Reckoning team adapted their design so that they can tap into the fiction created by Salvatore and the art style developed by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane. Schilling has assembled an all-star cast, including Rolston, to crank out high-quality fantasy games.
Rolston said in an interview that his goal early on was to create a game with fast-action combat and much better movement. You can layer on top of that all of the complexity associated with a role-playing game, where you can earn new abilities and get better and better weapons. As you get these better weapons, you see the effect in the world and the changes that make an impact on the combat, Rolston said. You can also craft new weapons from various parts and see how that affects your performance in combat.
When you click the mouse or push a button on a controller, you want something to happen. A demo of one level of the game showed that the game plays fast. The demo focused on Rathir, a capital city for the Dark Elves in the universe of Amalur. The city has lots of detail that makes the world feel alive. I got to play a little of the game, hacking and slashing with different kinds of weapons in order to take out various beasts attacking me. The world looks pretty, although I didn't see much of it. And the fighting is fast and furious.
If this game is a success, it bodes well for 38 Studios' more ambitious project, a massively multiplayer online game — or a persistent online world — that is set in the same fantasy universe as Reckoning and is expected to launch next year. That project, code-named Copernicus, is still under wraps and has no launch date.