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High-Contrast Scenes at Ormiston Gorge, Central Australia
Ormiston Gorge isn't as big as the Grand Canyon, nor as deep or as wide, but it does have a spiritual presence. The age of the rocks, the ruggedness of the terrain, the light spinifex grasses and the white trunked gum trees create an enchanting landscape. Around two hours west of Alice Springs, it's not far from Glen Helen Gorge where we were staying for the night and we planned to be there for the morning shoot.
We awoke at a reasonable time, 5.00 a.m. which was an hour or so before sunrise. A short trip in our vehicle and we found ourselves at the mouth of the Gorge. From the car park, you can take a level stroll around a dry river bed and into the gorge itself. There are several deep pools locked by towering rock walls, but to walk further requires a more agile state of mind and some rock hopping. We went this way on a PODAS a couple of years ago with Kevin Raber, Ken Duncan and Jeff Schewe.
The other option is to climb up a path. There's a great gum tree up the top of the rise and it can be photographed from a point half way up, or up at the tree itself. I went all the way to the top and spent a magical hour watching the light intensify, the sun rise and the light snake its way from the top of the gum tree down to the bottom of its trunk.
Just being up and out at this time of the day is wonderful enough, taking a few great landscape shots even better!
Across from the tree, a finger of land pushes into the Gorge, requiring it to dog-leg around. As the sun rises, its rays skim across the top of this land, lighting up the trees and grasses, but I'm also seeing the strong reds come through in the rock faces below and behind. To my eye, it's a strong composition, but it requires a telephoto to make it happen. Although many people think landscape photography is best approached with a wide-angle or a panorama camera, I find a lot of my shots work better by simplifying the scene with a telephoto.
The accompanying image is photographed with a 110mm Schneider Kreuznach, so it's only a mid-telephoto, but long enough to crop the scene and eliminate the sky behind. By removing the sky, the image has the feeling that the rock face behind goes upwards forever, plus it reduces the number of compositional elements to deal with.
And while I might be teaching most readers to suck eggs, when shooting into the light, it's important to not only use a lens hood, but perhaps shade the lens hood with a cutter or your hand as well. It's essential to keep any unwanted flare under control.
Post Production
In Capture One, the processing was relatively simple, especially with the new High Dynamic Range algorithms running around inside.
However, to start I struggled with the colour balance a little. The natural or 'correct' colour was a little yellow to my eye and I wanted there to be more contrast between the colour in the sunlight and the colour in the shade. The camera had set the Kelvin at around daylight, which was very sensible, but I found by dragging the Kelvin slider down to 4600-4700 that I was able to produce a little coolness in the shadows, and this contrasted well with the warmth of the sunlight on the yellow grasses.
The exposure was pretty right, so next step was to increase the contrast and give the image some guts. This worked well, except in two places. The highlights on the grasses lost detail and appeared too light, while the shadow areas in the bottom left became a little muddy. No trouble, the High Dynamic Range tool is the answer.
Using the Shadow slider, I lightened up the shadows without going overboard. I still want this to be a dark part of the image, but I want you to be able to see what's in it. Similarly, the Highlight slider allowed me to return detail and colour in the grasses up the top.
I find when using the High Dynamic Range tool that I have to return to the Contrast slider in the Exposure tool and, usually, add in a little more contrast. Not always, of course, but if you've been using the High Dynamic Range tool and struggling a bit, try using it in combination with the Contrast slider and between the three controls, Capture One Pro 7 is remarkably powerful.
Sitting back and looking at the image, I then increased the colour saturation (I like colour), cropped the top of the sky out of the image completely, added in a vignette to darken the edges and, finally, added a Local Adjustment to darken down the rock wall in the distance. This helps to emphasise the separation between it and the finger of land in sunlight.
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By Peter EastwayCategory: Guest Photographers Tags: Capture One Pro 7 Exposure Tool High Dynamic Range tool Local Adjustment Tool Peter Eastway Photography Travelogues
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Peter Eastway's passion is undoubtedly for landscape photography, but he is equally comfortable with portraiture, advertising and travel. He is currently an AIPP Grand Master of Photography, one of only a dozen in Australia and earned from a career spanning over 30 years.
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To be totally honest I'm not at all impressed with either pre or post, post is far to over saturated it must be very disappointing to most people who go to these places after seeing over saturated photos of the place. Or a big relief it's not like that at all. Sorry but fed up with seeing these Van Gough type images.
The image in this post is surely used to illustrate the capabilities of the software to compensate for the restrictions of camera dynamic range in comparison to the eye. Saturation is subjective, as are the other 'variables' in processing – I can only identify what looks good to me, through my eyes, if it relates to the original view, and if the image is pleasing to 'my' eye. I have no problems with the final image, but would also comment that the original, if RAW, would be pretty flat also, and wouldn't represent the original view.
I enjoy reading your posts Peter – please keep it up.
I have to say the post processing simply takes the scene way to far – you're handing ownership of the image to the computer. The web sharpening is also very poor. This article isnt a great advert for the photographer or the remarkable equipment it is shot with.
Is the world really so dull and ugly that we have to do this to out photographs?
Is pleasing or Puritan landscape images the issue here? Luckily, we are different persons and although I too do find Peater Eastways Ormiston Gorge landscape image slightly over the edge of colourfulness to my likings, I appreciate the issues in the motive, which Peter adresses. Hence, the PhaseOne processing in Peters example becomes a very sensible exercise at least, takng us through the potentials of PhaseOne. Thanks for that.
PS my best shots from Ormiston Gorge on the morning of the 18. of December 2012 were 2 10 shots stitched images executed in the French panorama software Autopano Giga – 10 shots of 36 MP each easily outranges any Hasselblad shot by more than 5 times! The detailing in such landscape pictures are simply stunning!
PPS Hopefully, PhaseOne intends to include an anti haze buttom for landscape image in their future upgrade 8, as is the case in Photoshop – an upgrade feature presented by Kolor / Autopano Giga.
I totally agree. Back when people were developing B&W negatives in the darkroom (which I did for 20 out of the 24 years I've been doing photo), they used different developing times or different developers to bring out detail, or they used a mask, a piece of cardboard moved over the wanted area of the paper during exposure to lighten some areas. Using a computer to reach the same image quality is no different. The photographer either tries to make up for what the camera cannot record but what his/her eyes could see, or he tries to give the photograph a pleasant look that catches and retains the attention of the viewer, something the original picture doesn't do very well. Mind, the saturation might be too high for some, but in the world of travel photography, where travel agencies and magazines will buy your pictures for advertising purposes, this is usually that saturation they want.
To those who are so critical of the post production on these images, I must ask this: Was the world presented by Ansel Adams similar to his prints? Was the sky really that dark in Hernandez, New Mexico that evening? Were the blacks that black, and the whites that white in Yosemite the day the storm was clearing? Image manipulation has been used by fine art photographers since the days of the Camera Obscura. Photography, as with any art form, is inherently subjective. Personally, I too find the image a bit too saturated, and the shadows too cool. But, it is pleasing to the eye, and a well done photo. Some of my images I'm sure are just as saturated, and some are even more so. Many are quite a bit less. I've even been known to add some blue to the shadow areas myself. It's a great way to increase contrast without losing details, and a trick painters have been using for centuries.
This article is about the capabilities of CaptureOne. Mr. Eastway was fortunate enough to be chosen to be the featured shooter. For that he should be congratulated. I've been a C1 Pro user since 2005, and have anxiously waited to see "what's next" with each update. Some have been more successful than others (current buggy version for example), but for the most part, each update and upgrade has increased the number of tools in our arsenal. These, if used correctly, give us even more ability to provide the perfect image to our clients or viewers.
As with Adams' work, some will like images one way, and some another. Though we should express our opinions of other's work (you know what they say about opinions…), maybe we should keep those snarky and ill-spritied ones to ourselves.
I'm sorry but Ansel Adams prints are art. These are cartoons. Very poorly done.
Vic Moss. I am sorry that you are getting bad talking here.
I do not think that liking or not liking contrast and saturation is the issue. The issue is to achieve the tonality that you desire.
Actually I have myself found that I am using the the sliders almost the same way that you does. It works. And it is absolutely no problem to obtain different tonality and saturation.
Best wishes from Erlend Sæteren
Opinions are often mistaken for fact. Something I believe is happening here.
I am not equating Mr. Eastway's work with Mr. Adams'. I am simply using Mr. Adams' work as an example of image manipulation.
As I mentioned I'm not a fan of some of the post production done here. However, his use of a short telephoto compresses the scene very nicely. His understanding of the light fall also makes this a very nice photo. There is also some very nice vignetting added, another tool Mr. Adams used extensively in his darkroom.
His use of the sliders in CaptureOne can certainly be left to interpretation and personal judgement. But that was not the intent of the article. Photographers, by default, live by their egos, myself included. However, we shouldn't build our egos by denouncing the work of others. Something I also believe is happening here.
Mr. Adams used to say the the negative was like the score of symphony, and the print was like the performance. Just because a clarinet is slightly off key, or maybe a violin string has loosened during a performance, it doesn't mean the entire performance is ruined. You ignore the bad, and concentrate on the good.
How about some comments on how well the sliders of CaptureOne were used on a technical level.
As an architectural photographer myself, there are MANY times when I am unable to completely control the light in my photograph. Using the sliders in the HDR tab, along with the contrast and others, is indispensable in my work flow. As with everything else, there are times for moderation, and times for wild abandonment when sliding those little suckers back and forth. In my opinion, Mr. Eastway's use of the sliders is probably a bit on the wild abandonment side, but not terrible far. They were appreciated enough by the staff at Phase One to pick him as the photographer to use to illustrate the capabilities of this feature in CaptureOne.
Agreed, let's not confuse opinions and facts. And let's keep this debate a constructive one. I've seen too many forums in which people end up saying other posters' were "biased" just because they didn't agree with their "findings".
Comparing the work of Hansel Adams to what Peter Eastway as done with Capture One's HDR tools serves a purpose, which is to prove that photo editing did exist back then and that Hansel Adams wasn't only an excellent photographer, but also an image editing expert.
It's a fact that Adams did edit his photos (to produce much darker skies, for instance), and that in many cases, produced pictures that were going beyond the original nature of the landscape he photographed. The point is not about the truthfulness of the picture. It's only about how a software can help you improve contrast and color in certain circumstances.
So let's focus on what M. Eastway's is trying to show us all here, which is how you can use Capture One to produce photos which are more to your liking. If you think it's too saturated, just use the same tools to produce a picture with less saturation.
For those who want to debate about photo aesthetics, find a forum about photo aesthetics. For those who want to exchange about how the similar results could be achieved using other Capture One tools (like levels, exposure, local adjustments, etc.), this is the place.
All of these comments are valid in my humble opinion.
I fear the only error in judgement to be (not to take anything away from Peter who's work I often admire) to try and justify image manipulation by citing the efforts of Ansel Adams. He hiked into remote inhospitable locations weeks at a time carting heavy, large format equipment shooting sheet film and devised and applied his zone system for capturing HDR.
Attempting to compare the two in order to validate modern image manipulation technique, like reaching into Capture 1 and sliding some high dynamic range sliders, is something of a slap in the face to his memory.
The danger with such power at our fingertips is that we can get so carried away with what we can do it's easy to lose sight of whether or not we should.
Ultimately the image is everything and given that it's appeal is so subjective who is to say what's right and what's wrong.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Bump: "The danger with such power at our fingertips is that we can get so carried away with what we can do it's easy to lose sight of whether or not we should."
The shadow slider in C1pro 7 is great. A big improvement over C1pro 6. Often find the highlight slider works a little too globally though, when trying to pull in just the very top end of highlights. Anyone else find this?
I agree with Jason. The advantage of version 7 on version 6 is that the highlights slider does not reach into the shadows nor the shadow slider into the highlights. I am very happy with that. We would still have better control upon highlights and shadows recovery if we could specify the end of the tail of the correction curve.
Until now I did not compensate with the contrast slider the loss of overall contrast due to the use of the HDR sliders – another good idea. Thanks for the hint. I actually tend to enhance local contrast rather than looking for dramatic overall contast – just a matter of personal taste.
In version 6 I often made use of LCC profiles as described by Peter two years ago in this post: https://captone.wpengine.com/theblog/2011/01/13/the-secret-hdr-tool/. It was a good tip, even if you had to take care of some visible artefacts at the transition towards homogeneous surfaces like sky blue.
Peter's pictures have often been way too saturated to my personal taste. But on the other hand, I don't know how many of you would like my pictures, nor do I know if I would like the pictures of the despising contributors above. Actually the pictures in this blog are not the point and nowbody is obliged to like Ernst Haas… nor Ansel Adams.
Actually I struggle with halos a lot since I use CO7 – a problem I did not have in CO6. For me it would make sense to chose between both ways of image manipulation, maybe an idea for an update?
I think there may be few additional challenges for many of us with this image.
As Peter says – he likes colour. And colour is an interesting thing in Australia – or can be.
Quite by chance I have been rambling around in a web site dedicated to living and travelling in the Australian Outback for the past hour or so and on eof the things that struck me was how similar the colours in Peter's image is to the colours in the low resolution photos on the site. Less intense in the site's jpgs, not the same balance of contrast and so on, but generally very similar and quite different to what we expect to see coming from other parts of the world.
I have only been to Australia twice. Once to Melbourne and the surrounding area but with little time to spend outside the city. However out amongst the trees the films I was using at the time showed very deep greens in the leaves and generally very rich colours.
A little over a year ago I returned and we did some wider travelling and I was armed with 3 digital cameras so I have a lot of images.
There are some that almost defy processing.
In the Blue Mountains near Sydney in late morning things looked promising though the sun was a little high perhaps bit on the day I had not been able to pick my schedule to suit photography. But the greens of the Eucalyptus forest are Blue at that time of day and to produce the colours that one sees and get a balance across the image proved to be a real challenge.
Before that we had been at Uluru and I managed to get 2 dawn sunrise shoots and almost 2 sunset shoots. The colours constantly change (more obvious when you look at the shots afterwards) and are not always anything like you expect to see.
But the images taken around Uluru are likely to be primarily red (or rather purple shadows through red to orange and yellow) with Blue sky and some areas of yellow/green foliage. The same sort of colours as in Peter's image but not all at once in a single shot. The balance of the mix of colours is different with, usually, one of two relatively complementary colours at ground level and a blue sky. No real sudden and dramatic colour and contrast boundaries between large areas of the image.
But in the places like Ormiston Gorge it seems that all of the elements of contrast and colour blocks and the temperature of the light illuminating them – the same things that one might see around Uluru to different degrees at different times – come together in one place and in a short period. It's an unusual experience for our eyes. The colour seems a little wrong perhaps – but is likely to be quite a reasonable rendition. (Despite Peter's prediliction for strong colours. ;) ) I can't be sure – I have not been there. But it seems quite a reasonable assumption based on my own experiences.
I liked what C1 V6 allowed me to do with the Uluru shots and I'm looking forward to re-visiting them with V7.
My Blue Mountain shots were more of a challenge in some ways and I'm hoping that I will find a way to get to at least my V6 results (hopefully better) but taking far less time using the enhanced tools.
Thanks for the insights.
Lot of strange or should I say extraneous comments regarding Peter's article. To me his articles have been about the ways & possibilities of using a utilitarian tool in post processing & are very instructive. The great thing about printed magazines was the EDITOR who would filter out the riffraff so as not to waste valuable time & space. I imagine if one were to see Peter's personal portfolio of images that small, petty minded people might be somewhat humbled.
It was Man Ray who once observed " I paint what I cannot photograph and I photograph what I cannot paint" Painting with light, yes. Perhaps the filters in Capture One could best be renamed "Chocolate Box" and go up to "eleven" like the Marshall amp in Spinal Tap, that gave them "one more loud" In commercial photography, the client gets what he wants.
I think every one is right. The pros and the contras. In the end, what counts is what and why you're doing. To me, nature is nature. The world does not need to be made up like a pinup! A great way to get better pictures is to hunt for the right trio: right time + right light + right composition. Sure, a cute child wearing some crazy colours is appealing but must not wear make up to catch one's eye.
I use Capture One too. The tool is good. But to me, it seems like Peter did not use all his wisdom to make the decision as to when or where to stop.
What is the purpose to get around with high-end equipment hoping to perfectly shoot a world that one does not intend to render truthfully? One of the trio's member was not at the shoot? Live with it, but don't lie!
PS. Keep VanGogh out of this. Bad taste to put him there.
PPS. But I like the insertion of Adams in the discussion. Very clever and interesting.
Daniel hits the nail on the head!
After all it is everybody's own taste and target group. Peter Eastway choosed the more "American" Style. And Natur purists prefer may be mor natural coulours.
As a European photographer, I tend to the second. But as we say: "jedem Tierchen sein Plaisierchen" ( to each his own). And Ansel Adams is a Master mainly in B&W. His Darkroom work was and is reference for all of us. Photoshop still hangs on his uterus!
Articolo interessante e colgo l'occasione per complimentarmi per questo sito! veramente ben fatto e con tanti articoli utili!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If we all liked the same "thing" life would be pretty boring eh!.
If you like it – fine, if not – then also fine.


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My understanding of genetic engineering is taking DNA from another living organ and inserting it into another living organ. My gut reaction to genetic engineering was kinda disgusted by the way how many engineers use bacteria but it was reasonable considering it helps multiply the final product the person want's. I wondered while watching both videos if we (the humane race) will take advantage of being able to genetically engineer and start creating monsters and new species that are unnatural this was one of my most strongest gut reaction.Tags: #Geneticengineering #Gutreaction Fremont High School
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Victoria is a Property Manager who has been with Curchod & Co LLP for nearly 10 years. She is responsible for a number of portfolios in the South East including commercial, mixed use and residential investment blocks let on Assured Shorthold Tenancies. Victoria has been involved throughout the continued expansion of our property management activities.
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Any time we start something new it is exciting and we are very motivated and committed. As time goes by, however, the burst of enthusiasm can wane as the reality of how much work is going to be involved kicks in. When you find yourself slacking a little and not being as enthused about the new change or goal you are working towards, that isn't a sign to quit. It is a sign that it is time to re-commit.Meet the team


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The Nike Kobe AD has already been released in many colorways, but now there will finally be a colorway referencing Kobe Bryant's time with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The "Baseline" colorway features a white upper with Lakers-purple accents and speckled midsoles. Finishing off the design are Triple Swoosh embroidering on the sides and unique molded graphics on the heels.
Lakers fans can pick up their pair as of October 1st for $150.


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Zazai again bowls Afghanistan to win over Singapore
Zazai again bowls Afghanistan to win over Singapore
KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan defeated Singapore in their second match in the ICC Asia Under-19 World Cup Qualifier in Singapore on Tuesday.
The 50-overs event between Afghanistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Singapore got under way on Monday.
Singapore, who won the toss and chose to bat first, could not stay at the crease for long due to fierce bowling from the Afghans and were bundled out for just 92 in 26 overs.
For Afghanistan, Yousaf Zazai clinched five wickets, Naveen-ul-Haq three and Zahir Khan two wickets.
The Afghans chased the target in the 17th over and won the match by seven wickets, with 198 balls remaining. Naveed Obaid scored 30, Imran Mohammadi 27 and Tariq hit 25 runs.
Yousaf Zazai was declared the man of the match for taking five wickets. Afghanistan will take on the Nepalese in the third match on Jul 20.
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for Visual Music Artists, Writers, and Venues
Präludium from Jean Detheux on Vimeo.
When I saw the video of the concert Marco Ambrosini (nyckelharpa) presented with Caterina Other (nyckelharpa) and Frieder Zimmermann (guitar), I immediately knew I wanted to listen to its music with my eyes.
The beautiful energy of that performance reached out to me, it seems to me a live concert often offers that kind of energy while the more "perfect" studio recording can at times lack it.
I contacted Marco, Caterina and Frieder, and was not only given the recording of the "Canon Inverso" (that original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLyorbzPnZAeTJb07djsr1i1WDXrzS5VDa&v=8FBLVWky8So, my rendition of it is here: https://vimeo.com/208551395), I was also kindly offered the "Präludium" (that original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBEIXhMbMcY&index=3&list=PLyorbzPnZAeTJb07djsr1i1WDXrzS5VDa)
This is yet one more example of musicians who take historically significant music and perform it with a "modern" twist, yet do so with total respect for the original.
With Marco and SUPERSONUS, The European Resonance Ensemble, we already had explored that a while ago (a gorgeous Biber): https://vimeo.com/107930894
Once again, I am not at all trying to illustrate the music, I bring the music and many sequences into my editing application (Final Cut Pro X) and start "playing" with them until "something" feels right.
I have long ago given up on working with/from an idea or concept, I'd rather enter a dialogue with music which is like a child discovering a new territory rather than that of a mason building a brick-wall following a architect's blueprint.
I spent 2 years working with/on the full "Musical Offering," the first instalment is here and provides links to all of them: https://vimeo.com/album/3357963/video/125240593
Please consider supporting my work (VERY MUCH in need of support these days). You can make donations via PayPal, starting from here : http://www.vudici.net/movies/morphing.html#new123108 (this type of work receives very little help, if any, from the usual channels).
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MP3: Atlas Genius - "Trojans"
It seems a lot of good music is coming out of Australia these days. We've just received the first official single from Adelaide based Atlas Genius in this pure, unadulterated indie pop gem, "Trojans." It's difficult to find much information on the band, but from what we've heard, we can determine that they are a foursome who compare their style to Phoenix and The Kooks, which — judging from "Trojans" — is not far off.
The song houses an upbeat, guitar pop complexion that remains dominant over the faint use of keyboards, synths and light hearted drumming. One thing's for sure, it's catchy as hell. Download your copy below.
Atlas Genius - "Trojans" (MP3)


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A Peek into the Future of our Science: We are all in this Together
by Pam Davis-Kean, Luke Hyde, John Schulenberg
In attending various SRCD sessions, we were struck by the number of advertised and especially unadvertised interdisciplinary sessions that included scholars examining phenomena and mechanisms at multiple levels. In some ways, the unadvertised interdisciplinary sessions were the most compelling, those that were problem focused and included without fanfare, for example, neuroscientists and epidemiologists together. This suggests that the sometimes loud and sometimes quiet interdisciplinary evolution that our science has been experiencing for years is gaining some real traction.
The promise and challenge of interdisciplinary research for the future of our science is that we need to work outside our normal way of thinking – or better yet, that we need to find a "new normal" way of thinking. Imagine if it was normal to actively seek how other disciplines approach the understanding of adolescence, to start conversations with those whose research seeks to understand adolescence at different levels of analysis and/or with different methods than our own research. It is in these conversations that we can deal with our own disciplinary strengths, weaknesses, and biases and explore new thoughts and ideas of how the multiple proximal and distal mechanisms work together to shape development and behavior across adolescence. No one discipline can write the full story of how youth develop across time. By adding the richness of ideas, methods, and findings from other disciplines, our science benefits and the community benefits when our interventions can be more targeted and successful by being problem-focused rather than disciplinary-focused.
There are many signs that the future of our science will involve integrating mechanisms from multiple levels. Many of us are moving our own research programs in this direction, and more of our new scholars are being trained from the beginning in multiple disciplines.
- Research consortiums abound as we learn about the drawbacks of individual small-scale, convenience-based studies limited to a single level of explanation (Falk et al., 2013; Simmons, Nelson & Simonsohn, 2011).
- James Coyne has a recent fascinating blog on this general topic, about how single studies of convenience samples that consider only one level of explanation can lead us astray and hurt our scientific credibility (http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2015/01/21/nimh-biomarker-porn-depression-daughters-telomeres-part-1/).
- Our science is moving toward seeking how, for example, biological (e.g., neural, genetic) mechanisms work together with social mechanisms to shape development. As we begin to understand more nuanced interactions and effects across levels of analysis, such efforts require larger studies with multiple perspectives to find these effects and to link them across domains of study.
- We are learning that in order to have an impact on social policy, our research needs to consider multiple perspectives and disciplines with converging evidence. Moreover, we are finding that the public and social policy makers are often more convinced when research shows the biological embedding of experience and behavior. Thus, to significantly impact social policy in today's real world, interdisciplinary approaches may be the most convincing.
- More and more funders are impressed with and are actively seeking truly interdisciplinary collaborations. For example:
- NIH has been giving more attention to innovation in its funding priorities, and many of us have learned that being actively interdisciplinary is a smart way to be innovative in our grant applications. With collaboration across disciplines, we can find new approaches that innovate beyond only one discipline, which raises the overall "innovation" and impact on science.
- NIMH emphasis on the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approach has changed the way in which NIMH science is funded and the way in which many studying psychopathology are thinking about understanding behavior. This approach pushes us to understand mechanisms across multiple levels of analysis from cells to symptoms to behaviors. Ultimately, it pushes for collaborations with experts across these levels of analysis for competitive grant applications.
- The new request for applications from the Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH (CRAN) for the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, which will be a large scale longitudinal study of 10,000 youth to examine the multi-level mechanisms and consequences (from neural to contextual) of teen substance use, requires neuroimagers and epidemiologists, among others, to work together.
- NSF for years has been advocating interdisciplinary approaches, as illustrated by Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS), and Research Coordination Networks (RCN).
- The Institute of Medicine/National Research Council, whose consensus studies typically pave the way for increased funding priorities for government and private funders, recently put forth a consensus study on health and well-being during the transition to adulthood (http://iom.edu/Reports/2014/Investing-in-the-Health-and-Well-Being-of-Young-Adults.aspx). Among the major recommendations regarding needed research and social policies is more interdisciplinary research and collaboration on the topic.
- Professional research societies, including SRA and SRCD, are giving more serious attention to breaking down barriers/silos between disciplines. Indeed, in SRA's mission statement is this: "We value diversity in scholarship, including the study of diverse populations; disciplinary perspectives; and methodological approaches." This helps define the new normal that is interdisciplinary scholarship.
So there is a need for interdisciplinary research, and clearly many of us are already conducting such research. But need and opportunity are not enough. We also need to get great scientists who want to collaborate with others working at different levels of explanation. But this can be exceedingly difficult.
- Scholars from different disciplines may have trouble valuing the approaches of another discipline or may simply not realize the strengths of another discipline. For example, as we have written previously about (Falk et al., 2013), neuroscientists may think more about "recruitment" of people for their studies and less about "sampling", that is: who do these research participants represent more broadly?
- Similarly, some social scientists may worry about reductionism in the brain or about the need to examine questions using neuroscience as a potential passing "fad" and may focus more on the weaknesses of current approaches, rather than the strengths of these approaches when applied to their discipline.
- Moreover, many scientists across disciplines have seen this type of collaboration as not feasible based on time or resources.
To get past these and other barriers, the following guideposts are offered to help encourage our interdisciplinary future.
- Working together. If we want to be a part of interdisciplinary research, regardless of what level of explanation we emphasize, we are all "social" scientists. That is, to work together scientifically, we have to be social and relate with one another.
- The last thing we want to hear when working with someone from a different discipline/level of explanation is that they are right and we are wrong. We can all appreciate the scientific ideal that we have to be open to be proven wrong and also that there are often multiple "right" answers to the same question. And at the same time, we can all appreciate that social intelligence, in terms of seeing things from another's perspective, is essential to social integration and influence.
- We are better able to influence others from different disciplines if we can see things from their given perspective. By understanding their expertise, advances, concerns, and tools, we set the stage for better seeing their blind spots and helping them see the blind spots, and vice-versa. This open approach takes individuals willing to come to a table to leverage each other's strengths to purpose a common scientific goal.
- Training. Training can take many forms.
- For more senior scholars, training could mean being open to new collaborators or it could mean gaining enough training in another discipline to appreciate the discipline and distinguish "good" science and collaborators versus those doing less stringent research. This type of training can be a big challenge for senior researchers – with whom to collaborate and how to know that the added methods are well respected in the other discipline.
- For more junior scholars, training may mean a post-doc, a longer period in graduate school with multiple mentors, or a later career development award. This type of training can make junior scholars more attractive to job searches and help give more options (i.e., multiple disciplines) when looking for a job/career.
- Communicating. Beyond gaining training, these types of collaborations often need one or more "bridge" people and those that can help to translate across disciplines and know enough to value core strengths of each discipline.
- This can be a colleague with cross-disciplinary training and/or one that has had enough experience in the other discipline to understand the different language.
- Ultimately, many potentially successful collaborations across disciplines likely fail because collaborators don't speak each other's language or are unable to articulate how their approach can be commensurable with the other approach.
- Structure. To really change to more interdisciplinary science, we need larger projects with more collaborating investigators.
- But that change can be risky early in a career (i.e., resulting in real or perceived tenure difficulties) or later in a career (e.g., not wanting to give up credit or resources). Thus, to nurture this direction, we will need a change in publication, promotion, and grant processes to give "credit" to larger teams (i.e., as done in Physics and other "big data" sciences).
- More open science (e.g., data sharing) can give many more researchers access to data to analyze in new and exciting ways. Again, though open access data is likely best for science broadly, this can undermine the work that original investigators have done, and thus we need to find ways to give credit for making data open and potentially losing some of the leverage that data may have given investigators were they private (Gorgolewski, Margulies, & Milham, 2013).
- Funding. The above guideposts are predicated on appropriate funding opportunities.
- Without sustainable science funding, it is difficult to really see disciplines as complimentary and not "us versus them". When funding is very tight, it makes researchers more likely to become entrenched and over-advocate for their approach to the exclusion of other approaches.
- Lean budget times are not likely to be interdisciplinary-friendly. Yet even during such times, when funders encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, we will see increased interdisciplinary emphasis in our science.
There is no doubt in our minds that interdisciplinary research is the future of our science, and we would like to get there sooner rather than later.
- We need more shining examples of convincing interdisciplinary research regarding adolescence. When these collaborations work, they can be models for others.
- We need to see the clear advantages for our science and for social policy, the larger gains we can make by working together.
- As more early career scholars become trained from the beginning in interdisciplinary research, then it becomes the new normal and can help to change the overall ethos of our field.
Your turn: What other disciplines/levels of explanation do you include in your research? What have been the costs and benefits of your own interdisciplinary experiences?
Falk, E. B., Hyde, L. W., Mitchell, C., Faul, J., Gonzalez, R., Heitzeg, M., Keating, D., Langa, K., Martz, M., Maslowsky, J., Morrison, F.J., Noll, D.C., Patrick, M., Pfeffer, F.T., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Thomason, M., Davis-Kean, P., Monk, C.S., and Schulenberg, J. E. (2013). Neuroscience meets population science: What is a representative brain? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 110 (44), 17615-17622.
Gorgolewski, K. J., Margulies, D. S., & Milham, M. P. (2013). Making data sharing count: a publication-based solution. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7, 9.
Simmons, J.P., Nelson, L.D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science, 22, 1359-1366.


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Thursday, January 12, 2012
5 comments:
- Cat Nap Inn Primitives said...
oh I am glad your kittys are with you now..are they all there now? love the boxes too..killer deals,:)
- January 13, 2012 at 2:02 AM
- Merilyn said...
So nice to see the cats settled in so well, they look very comfortable and I'm sure appreciate seeing you more often!
The purchase of the boxes was certainly a bargain and I'm sure will look great in your sewing room, I hope you will let us all have a peek when you have it set up!!!!
- January 13, 2012 at 4:12 AM
- nancy huggins said...
It would have been very hard for me to wait that long but it looks like your kitties are very happy in their forever home. I had a little bed just like yours with the leopard print mattress. My cats never liked it so I gave it to my Daughter and her 1 kitty took it over in less than 5 minutes. They are funny little creatures aren't they. I would enjoy living in your barn too :)
- January 13, 2012 at 11:29 AM
- Linda ★ Parker's Paradise said...
I know Momma is happier now!
Kitties look comfortable!
- January 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM
- QUILTING IS BLISSFUL, DI said...
Oh Kady--I am so happy to hear some happy sunshine in your 'voice' now--know how hard this move has been but am soooo very happy for you and all those fur balls in your new home==best to you all!!
Hugs.Di and miss gracie
- January 13, 2012 at 7:00 PM


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Although I often dress like someone's grandmother, with my love of midi skirts and blouses, I have another secret (well not so secret if you're following on pinterest here) love. It's underwear. I have an entire double drawer full of the frilliest knickers and stringiest bra's ever. Said drawer get's no love because sadly i'm a) single and b) prone to sticking to my Bridget Jones pants for everyday use, i'm not a fan of the all day wedgies and ridiculous chaffing that most cute pants bring. Today I bring you *drum roll please* Underwear as Outerwear, or at least showing you how to wear that beautiful basque that's sitting in your drawer feeding moths and reminding you of your impending cat-lady-status.
Marks & Spencer sent me this beautiful lace bodysuit and asked for my take on the Underwear to Outerwear trend, they also have tonnes of other lacy bit's and pieces here too. So onto Look 1! Now, I'm pretty modest in terms of dressing so those of you who are a little shy to flash a bit of flesh like myself, might like this. I think the way to go about the trend is that less is most definitely more. I'm all about that subtle sexiness, an exposed collarbone, wispy hair framing your face, and of course the weeniest sliver of cleavage. So i thought of wearing a light silk unbuttoned blouse, with a midi skirt and some comfy desert boots was the way to go with making this look understated and a little undone.
Body* - Marks & Spencer | Blouse - ZARA | Skirt - Vintage | Boots - Primark | Fedora - New Look | Lip Laquer* - Marks & Spencer


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- "My Master taught me that to fight like a warrior -- to think like a conqueror -- was the only way I'd survive."
- ―Cal
Cal was a male Human Jedi Padawan who served in the Clone Wars, a galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Commissioned as a commander in the Grand Army of the Republic, Cal served alongside his Jedi Master Tyffix and commanded the newly-created clone troopers on the frontlines of the war. Cal's last mission was on the planet Thustra where the local Sephi were preparing to rebel against the Republic. The events that followed led to the deaths of both Cal and his Master, as well as Thustra's secession from the Galactic Republic.
- "Cal, remember when a child you were, before taken under Master Tyffix's care? When you were a learner under my charge?"
- ―Yoda to Cal
Cal was brought into the Jedi Order at a young age to be trained in the ways of the Force. During his time as a youngling, other students in his Clan became antagonistic against a young female in their group. They resented her for slowing down the Clan's progress. On the day of her testing, the younglings hid her lightsaber, hoping she would fail and be removed from the group. The girl ultimately passed the test after Cal gave her his own lightsaber, thus earning him the enmity of his fellow Clan members. He was later selected to become a Padawan learner by Jedi Master Tyffix.[3]
Clone WarsEdit
- "They'll send somebody with some rank, someone who knows how to fight a -- M-Master Yoda?'"
- ―Cal to Pix, just as Yoda arrives on Thustra
When the Clone Wars erupted between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Cal became a Jedi Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic. Approximately in 22 BBY after the first battle of the war, Cal and his Master were dispatched to the planet Thustra with an army of clone troopers. Their orders were to prevent the Sephi from joining the Separatists' rebellion.[3]
Shortly after their arrival, however, King Alaric of Thustra sent his soldiers to attack the Jedi and their clone forces. Using themselves as suicide bombers, the Sephi crashed their fighters into Republic tanks and troops. The damage that they inflicted on the Republic force was heavy; the entire southern perimeter had been obliterated. When Cal returned from the frontlines to report the losses to his Master, a Sephi pilot flew his fighter into the command tent, thus destroying the command center. Tyffix was killed in the explosion along with Jedi Master Tyr. With both senior Jedi officers dead, command defaulted to Cal and Pix, Master Tyr's apprentice.[3]
The setbacks on Thustra, as well as the planet's significance to the Republic, convinced Yoda, the Grand Master of the Jedi Order, to intervene on the Republic's behalf. Cal was greatly surprised at seeing his former instructor. Although Cal expected the arrival of an experienced and high ranking member of the Jedi High Council, he assumed that it would be either Mace Windu or Oppo Rancisis—not Yoda. Cal, having grown accustomed to battle and warfare, did not favor Yoda's negotiation tactics. He was further displeased when Yoda stated that Cal would be accompanying him to visit with King Alaric at the Sephi capital city. Cal insisted on remaining with the troops in case of another attack, but the Grand Master's decision was final. It was Yoda's hope that the experience would cause Cal to prefer diplomacy over aggression.[3]
Their initial meeting with the King bore no results; Alaric still intended to lead his homeworld's movement toward secession and Yoda remained committed to his duties to the Republic. Rather than allowing the two Jedi to return to their forces, however, Alaric ordered his guards to take their lightsabers place them under house arrest in the palace. Cal was outraged and refused, but ultimately complied at Yoda's insistence. Trapped in one of the palace's rooms, Cal argued with Yoda about war and Jedi philosophy. He asserted that the traditional ways of the Order were obsolete and that the Jedi had to adapt to new circumstances in order to win the Clone Wars. Yoda reminded the Padawan that the Jedi had long since stood for peaceful ideals. He tried to convince Cal that the situation on Thustra could be resolved through a non-aggressive approach. Ultimately, the Grand Master's arguments did not change Cal's opinions.[3]
Cal was left behind when Yoda was granted another private audience with King Alaric. He became increasingly agitated and restless while waiting for Yoda to return. He was then visited by Moje, an aide to Loyalist Senator Navi of Thustra. Moje told Cal of an escape plan in which a shuttle would be waiting to return the Jedi back to their clone army. Overeager and ready for a fight as opposed to diplomacy, Cal trusted Moje, and thus failed to even consider the possibility of being deceived. In truth, Moje and Navi wanted Thustra to remain with the Republic, and so they plotted to force the Jedi and their clone troopers to suppress the rebellion by force. In order to do so, they intended to have Yoda and Cal killed, knowing that the Republic would retaliate against the Sephi.[3]
Once Yoda returned, Cal informed him of the plan. But when Yoda told Cal how he was too quick to trust a politician's word, Cal lost his temper and retreated to the shuttle's rendezvous point, denouncing Yoda and the Jedi Order's "old ways" on his way out of the room. Though disappointed in his former pupil, Yoda chose to follow Cal in order to protect him. When Cal found that there was no shuttle waiting for him, a large force of armed guards approached the two Jedi. Tricked by Moje into believing that the King had been assassinated by the Jedi, the guards intended to kill Cal and Yoda. Cal activated his lightsaber and immediately engaged the guards while imploring Yoda to do the same. However, the Grand Master opted to use non-lethal methods by telekinetically separating the guards from their blaster rifles.[3]
Around the same time, Pix ordered her clone troopers to launch a preemptive attack on the Sephi capital. Senator Navi deceived her into believing that Cal and Yoda were murdered by King Alaric. While she and Commander Clutch oversaw the assault on the capital, the palace guards began to overwhelm Cal. Yoda tried to warn Cal, but was too late to prevent a guard from shooting the Padawan in the back. With a single Force push, Yoda defeated the remaining guards. As Cal lay dying from his fatal wound, Yoda used the Force to ease his suffering. Cal used his final moments to blame Yoda for his death and the loss of Thustra.[3]
The Battle of Thustra ultimately resulted in a defeat for the Galactic Republic. Although the Sephi sustained heavy casualties during the fighting, including the death of King Alaric by Yoda's hand, other neighboring systems in the Sumitra Sector sent their armies to the aid of Thustra. The clone army's aggressiveness had an obstinate effect. Rather than cowing Thustra into submission, the Sephi gained even greater sympathy and support for their cause. Senator Navi was arrested on Coruscant after Yoda, Pix and Clutch brought his duplicity to light. Yoda's experience on Thustra and Cal's disillusionment with the Jedi traditions caused the Grand Master to worry even more about how the Clone Wars was changing the Jedi into an aggressive and militaristic organization.[3]
Personality and traitsEdit
- "Hard on you the others were, yet you chose kindness over coldness. Look at you now, and barely do I see that boy."
- ―Yoda to Cal
As a child, Cal was remembered by Yoda for his act of kindness toward a female youngling in his Clan. Rather than joining with the others in a plot to have her expelled from the group, Cal chose to help her during a lightsaber testing session. As he grew older under Master Tyffix's care, Cal's personality was altered into a more aggressive and cynical point of view. Tyffix taught him that understanding warriors and conquerors was essential to survival; Cal believed that he actually had to be a warrior in order to be strong. Hence, he grew ever more detached from the Jedi Order's pacifist ideals.[3]
By the time of the Clone Wars, Cal reveled in warfare and was eager to fight on the frontlines. He came to believe that aggressive approaches were the only way to resolve conflicts on worlds that betrayed the Republic. The death of his Master saddened Cal, but he remained committed to defeating the Sephi. His new attitude was met with Yoda's disapproval. In the Grand Master's eyes, Cal embodied a growing trend that was spreading through the ranks of the Jedi Order; its members were becoming too accustomed to war, thus distancing the Jedi from their own beliefs and traditions. In their time together, Yoda found Cal to be headstrong and impatient; reckless, ill-tempered and prone to irrational behavior while under duress.[3]
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- "And for one who thinks himself a warrior, too easily do you give up your life."
"I'm not giving up…though getting out of here would be a lot easier if I had my lightsaber."
- ―Yoda and Cal
A Force-sensitive trained in the Jedi arts, Cal possessed skills in Force powers and lightsaber combat. He demonstrated the ability to deflect blaster shots with his lightsaber and also managed to defend himself against dozens of guards for a short while. However, his incomplete training ultimately failed to prevent his death at the hands of the Sephi.[3]
- Jedi: Yoda (First appearance)
- King Alaric in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 104 ("Cal (1)")


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With addiction and alcoholism reaching pandemic levels world-wide and epidemic levels in the United States the Delray Beach Drug Taskforce and FAU's Phyllis and Harvey Sandler's School of Social Work are partnering for a cutting edge symposium and "National Call to Action on Substance Use Disorder."
The two organizations are bringing together a panel of nationally renowned thought leaders, entertainers, and policy makers for the third annual SUDTALKS, taking place on Saturday, April 7 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Barry Kaye Auditorium at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
"Substance abuse is ravaging our nation and our local community. The battle against the ever-rising tide of addiction is on-going and new tools are needed to crush the epidemic by changing the way we think, feel, believe and treat Substance Use Disorder," said Gary Kimble, Executive Producer of SUDTALKS. "The 2018 SUDTALKS will provide inspiration, hope, education and solutions to combat addiction".
Proceeds from the 2018 SUDTALKS will support essential life saving initiatives through the continued development and expansion of the Delray Beach Drug Task Force First Responders Training Program and to support a Delray Beach Drug Task Force Community Advocate.
The speakers represent 12 disciplines, essential components in the battle again the epidemic of addiction. SUDTALKS will also feature personal recovery testimonies of iconic celebrities who are in recovery. Featured speakers include:
- Pat O'Brien: former CBS Sportscaster and "Access Hollywood" host, and bestselling author
- Royce DA 5 9: rapper, songwriter and Eminem collaborator
- Darryl Strawberry: Major League Baseball great
- Brandon Nova: former "Jackass" cast member, skateboard star and New York Times best-selling author "Dreamseller."
- Heather Hayes: renowned interventionist and cast member of Dr. Drew's "Intervention."
- Jeff Mangum: national acclaimed recovery playwright and spoke word artist
- Joseph Green: internally recognized award-winning poet
- John McAndrew: singer, composer and story teller
- John Hulick: former New Jersey Drug Czar
- Justin Chapman: Assistant Florida State Attorney
- Carol McDaid: principal at Capital Decisions and expert in treatment and mental health policy
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Green Alchemist's Residential Compound - The McKinley Residence is David Hertz's live in laboratory for modern - environmentally friendly - residential design. Converting common elements into green design, it's feature packed. The house is a true testament to David's commitment to the cause and to top it off forms a homely modern residence, showcasing practical design elements, fine tailored for a young family.
Aimed at "spreading the word", the Studio of Environmental Architecture is David Hertz's latest venture, leading the way in Eco friendly design and sharing what he's learnt both through his residential work and his own house. Many thanks to the team at Studio EA for the details on this house.
Designed as a new house when Venice was till a rough neighbourhood the house presents a relatively strong/protective façade at street level and uses enclosed balconies to extend the upper levels and take full advantage of sea breezes.
The house consisted of two pavilions connected by a bridge, and was already cutting edge (environmentally) through its use of Syndecrete®, which contains about 41% percent recycled content and is twice as light, with twice the compressive strength, of normal concrete. Syndecrete® is David's own development and one of many featured in the residence.
It is now a compound made up of four discrete two-story buildings linked by three enclosed bridges that all face onto the courtyard.
Style "Balinese Modern"
Working it through
There was only one snag in the whole process. David is staunchly in favour of green design, the mere fact of adding that much space nagged at him. "There's no getting around the fact," he says, "that on a purely ecological level, 4,400 square feet is a lot of house by most of the world's standards."
His solution was to make the house the greenest house of its size he'd ever seen. Hertz used this house as a case study for green building techniques. An array of 20 solar collector panels on the roof help generate about 70 percent of the home's electricity needs, and other sections of the roof are given over to flat-plate collectors that provide hot water to the water heater, which then sends it into a radiant heating system in the concrete floors.
I've no beef with the results, David's family expanded and so has his residence, the house is all used and as much as we battle with the urges, who wouldn't want their own compound like this. David's innovative materials and willingness to push for a more environmentally sound house is exemplary.
The materials used were chosen carefully to support environmental sustainability and the design intent. Recycled and FSC certified sustainable woods such as Ipe, Mahogany, and Fir, are used throughout the house to complement the Syndecrete®.
The Syndecrete® acts inside the house as a kind of "solar sink" for passive solar energy transfer, storing up the sun's warmth during the day, and thus keeping it from overheating the interior, and then slowly releasing that heat during the night. Syndecrete® flooring was chosen for several reasons; it eliminates mold and dust caused by carpet, requires less maintenance, and is more environmentally sensitive than carpet, wood, or other floor finishes.
In order to maintain excellent indoor air quality, David used zero VOC paint, and eliminated a forced air system and carpeted floors, and with them mould and dust.
Another bonus of these materials is the resultant durability and functionality of the house. Its for living in. Rather than begin a minimalist box (don't get me wrong they have their place) the house portrays both David's design innovations, but also the family's efforts, endeavours, favourite drawings, posters, toys, etc. And it's a tough house.
You can see here one of my favourite shots showing the utilitarian nature of the house, and how its designed for a family.
Yup, David's hosing it down, an ability that's now on the list for my house. You can also see that playful design feature to let the kids feel its their house too, a pint size door for them.
Green Credentials
Hopefully in the images, you'll spot some of these fantastic features.
- Passive Ventilation – eliminating the need for a forced air system the shaded front living area naturally ducts cool air up thought the house and stairwell, then out the temperature sensitive skylights.
- Solar Energy – an array of 20 solar panels on the roof supply around 70% of the home's energy needs
- Photovoltaic Panels and Flat Plate Collectors – providing hot water to the water heater and subsequently the radiant heating system in the concrete floors. David says to heat the place, with these panels installed takes about as much energy as a 60w light bulb, all taken from his solar array.
- Vacuum tubing on the roof, which uses a parabolic collector to focus the sun's rays, provides additional hot water
- Recycled FSC certified sustainable woods such as Ipe, Mahogany and Fir
- That Syndecrete®, a light-weight concrete that uses 41% recycled content - it also holds various pigments and textures to form furniture throughout the house, like the kitchen bench, table and bathroom sinks.
- Zero VOC paints
- High performance heat-mirror glazing
- The pool system uses an ionization and silver filter, eliminating the need for chlorine
I've wanted to write about David's work for some time now as his preferred layout for houses draws from tropical bungalows and linked pavilions.
You'll note that he has separated the functional areas of the original house at the bottom, both vertically and horizontally into 4 boxes. The living and dining come entertaining areas at the front are split from the garage at the rear to form an external lounge/fire pit, one that tops my list for "ideal after work summer beer spot".
Above, the bedrooms retreats, with the master bedroom above the lounge, and the children's bedrooms, back away over the garage.
Second only to the fire pit, is the outdoor sleeping area off the master bedroom. In summer time, the enclosed balcony becomes a comfy, cool sleeping area.
This renders the children's original bedrooms as guest areas that convert into a large rumpus room for rainy days. To accommodate the three children as they grow older, David's given them more space (between them and their wing of the house) and space for their guests. They have a bedroom and studio area in the upstairs of the new wing, and mum and dad gain an open plan kitchen/dining area with a wall that opens up completely to the pool and inner courtyard formed between the two wings.
This building is a successful study in architecture that is both aesthetically pleasing and environmentally responsible, whilst functioning as a pair of Levi 501s, hard wearing, sexy and a design classic.
via: Many thanks to Christina at Studio EA


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Square is revolutionizing the mobile payments business. The company lets business and store owners accept payments through their iPhone, iPad or Android device through an add-on accessory. Initially launched in the U.S., Square is gradually opening to an international market, with Canada as its first step.
"We are focused on making commerce easy for everyone. Square builds free tools for local businesses of all sizes and types to thrive," says Alyssa Cutright, vice president of international at Square.
Square offers its card reader for free, and charges a 2.75% fee per transaction. The accessory plugs into an iOS or Android device's audio jack, and accepts payments from swiped credit cards. Square promises next-day deposits so store-owners don't have to wait long to get their funds. The company also offers the use of its Square Register app, which is a point-of-sale service that businesses can use to track inventory. Square also features a Square Directory, where business owners can promote their establishment.
One concern that TechCrunch notes, though, is that Canadian credit and debit cards mostly prefer to initiate payment through smart card rather than magnetic strip. But going beyond swiping credit cards, Square has actually partnered with establishments for card-less payments with its Pay With Square feature. As such, the company is not limited to credit cards, but may actually open to additional payment protocols in future.
Expanding to Canada makes sense, given its proximity and language. But apart from North America, Square is rumored to have plans to expand to other regions, including Asia.


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The District's Floodprone Land Acquisition Program began in 1984, in response to the October, 1983 flood event. Initially, the program focused on purchasing properties damaged in the 1983 event and providing relocation assistance to flooded property owners. Later, the program was expanded to include the acquisition of undeveloped properties and upper watershed areas. As mentioned, these purchases help preserve overbank storage characteristics in up stream areas, and prevent development from occurring in vulnerable locations. One of the District's major purchases has involved nearly 4,000 acres of land located along Cienega Creek. The purchase of Cienega Creek Preserve provides significant flood control benefits, but also accomplishes important riparian habitat preservation and open space objectives.
Purchasing flood and erosion prone land is a cost-effective strategy for minimizing flood damages. By acquiring floodprone land, the District can eliminate future losses on the acquired parcels. Through its award-winning Floodprone Land Acquisition Program (FLAP) the District has purchased over 7,000 acres of floodprone land throughout Pima County. Check out our FLAP photo gallery in Flickr for "before and after" photographs of floodprone properties purchased by the District.
The Floodprone Land Acquisition Program is a "willing seller, willing buyer" program. The District does not use eminent domain to force Individuals to sell their property to the District through the FLAP program. Property owners must request that the District purchase the property. The District then determines whether or not it wants to purchase the property, based on such factors as the severity of the flood hazards on the property, the property location in relation to other public lands, and available funding in the program.
Besides minimizing flood damages to specific parcels, floodprone land acquisition yields a number of other important benefits. One immediate advantage is that purchasing undeveloped floodprone property eliminates the need for structural flood control improvements (such as bank stabilization, levees, etc.) that would otherwise be needed to protect these parcels. Another benefit is that the parcel's natural floodplain characteristics are preserved, which in turn helps reduce downstream flooding peaks. Floodprone land acquisition also helps create recreational opportunities, maintain urban open space, preserve riparian habitat and enhance ground water quality. To request an assessment of your property for eligibility in FLAP, please submit a FLAP Application Form to the District.
Since Fiscal Year 2014/2015, the District has purchased 1,598.01 acres of land for a total cost of $2,684,878.
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Western Name: Everard
Eastern Name: --
Kana Pronunciation: エヴェラード
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown (Appearance around 16-20)
Release Date: June 8th, 2016
Group/Team: UTAU 2015
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- Has vocal fry for beginning vowels only
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Height: 5 ft 11in
Weight: ~130lbs
Species: Vampire-Elf
Birthday: June 8th
Sexuality: Straight
Character Item: Two-liter soda bottle (specifically, Mountain Dew, but he likes most soda)
Likes: Video games (it was like love at 1st sight), drawing (well, he tries. Good at backgrounds but not creatures), photography, and nature
Dislikes: Annoying people, woman's tears
General Personality/Description:
He spent years finding his way and even losing parts of his arm (even though it's been long healed, it's just kept as a reminder. Plus it makes him look cooler, or so he says) due to the fights he goes in. He's quick to start one and ask questions later. Especially when he comes at a disagreement with another. He thinks he is a ladies man, but, to be honest, he can get pretty clumsy. He heard girls like vocally talented men so…..here he is. Enjoy. He is not all at a player (He likes to believe he is though. Without playing with the girl's emotions of course), he's just looking for the right lady.
Hair color: Dirt Brown
Hairstyle: Medium length messy hair. Bangs that are barely bangs anymore swept to his right side & has a cow lick in the back that goes a bit to his left
Eye color: Forest Green (turns maroon when angry)
Headset: Turtle Beach - EAR FORCE Recon 30X Over-the-Ear Gaming Headset - Black/Green
Outfit: Darkish green shirt (long sleeved but ripped on his left side), brownish ripped up/worn out trench coat that reaches down to about the bottom of his pants, maroon sash belt thingie, bandages on his left arm, pants, checkered "vans" shoes (Black/Grey)
Extras: Has a sword on his back. He also has a pendent on a long thin rope-like string that is almost 4 pointed star-shaped green on top, red on bottom, & an indent of some sort in the middle.


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Case in point, Pepsi NEX has a dozen new Pansonworks characters for sale. I am an R2D2 shy of a second set, but here they are in all their glory. Ya know, even the JarJar is pretty adorable. (Check out the link: I gotta figure out how to get those "Big Size" characters!)
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The Two Ronnies do Star Wars:
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I don't ever recall hearing these lines on Star Trek and I've seen every episode at least a dozen times.
Now, for some things you might not hear in an SF film.
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