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I am pretty sure that I am the first photo-blogger ever to come up with the idea to post a series of the most interesting/meaningful photos taken during the passing year (if not the first, then certainly the second, or third, at the most.) It has been a busy and significant year, photographically, scientifically, and emotionally. Since I have a camera grafted to my right hand (well, almost), I was able to capture many of the creatures whom I met during the last twelve months, and here are a few highlights:
January. I begin to work in earnest on my next book, which, among other things, will explore the complex ecosystem of modern caves – our homes. Once I really start paying attention, I am astounded by the number of species that share the living spaces of our house with us, and the diversity of ecological niches they occupy: I find detrivores, herbivores, parasites, grazers, browsers, necrovores, sit-and-wait predators, and social animals. Some are well-established, others were just visiting; many are here all year round, a few are seasonal; and some are native, and others are aliens from other parts of the world.
Camel crickets (Diestrammena asynamora) are cave-dwelling animals that came from Asia via Europe to North America. Rob Dunn's lab is now conducting a continent-wide census of these insects.
February. With nasty winter outside the window, I find refuge from the deadly season in trying to document the entire life cycle of a pet praying mantis, African Sphodromantis lineola. Here a female is undergoing her final molt.
March. I spend the entire month of March in a tent: I am part of a team of biologists conducting a biodiversity survey of the spectacular lowland rainforest of southern Suriname. Highlights of the survey included finding a number of new to science species of katydids, and almost tripping over the largest spider in the world, Theraphosa blondi.
April. Back home, Massachusetts spring is in full bloom and young katydids are everywhere. Alas, the Roeseli's katydid (Metrioptera roeselii) is an invasive species, which probably contributes to the decline of native katydids.
May. Because of my life-long interest in Africa and a decent publishing record on southern African orthopterans, I am invited to join a team from Harvard University to explore the insect diversity of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. Gorongosa turns out to be one of the most amazing, biologically-richest places I have had the privilege to visit. Situated at the southernmost tip of the African Great Rift Valley, it encompasses an astounding variety of terrain, including afromontane rainforest and deep, unexplored limestone gorges. Orthopteran and dictyopteran diversity is through the roof, and I am thrilled to find the giant grasshoppers Lobosceliana cinerascens.
June. Still in Mozambique, documenting insect life. Sitting there, on the edge of a deep limestone gorge in the middle of the night, I feel very insignificant. And happy.
Stay tuned for photos from the second half of the year but, in the meantime, head on to Facebook and click "Like" on the Gorongosa National Park's page.
Update: See the second half of the photographic review of 2012.


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Layton Kor honored by AAC
If you've climbed, you've likely done a Layton Kor route. There's the Kor/Ingalls on Castleton Tower, the Finger of Fate on the Titan, and innumerable routes throughout Colorado, Yosemite and the West.
If you've climbed, you've likely done a Layton Kor route. There's the Kor/Ingalls on Castleton Tower, the Finger of Fate on the Titan, and innumerable routes throughout Colorado, Yosemite and the West. In 1966 Kor helped forge the Harlin Direct on the Eiger Nordwand, and was instrumental in leading that route's crux rock pitches. When his partner John Harlin was killed while jugging a fixed line, a devastated Kor abandoned the route and virtually vanished from climbing. Despite that early exit from the sport, Kor, now 71, remains, along with Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Fred Beckey and all of the Lowes, one of the few climbers who needs no introduction.
In January, the American Alpine Club (AAC) announced it would honor Kor with its prestigious Robert and Miriam Underhill Award at its annual award dinner ceremony in Golden, Colorado. Robert L. M. and Miriam O'Brien Underhill are recognized as two of the great pioneers in American mountaineering. Past recipients have included Henry Barber, George Lowe, Lynn Hill and Yvon Chouinard.
Also honored that evening were Lonnie and Ellen Thompson for their pioneering work in paleoclimatology, a science that involves drilling ice cores from often remote and inhospitable glaciers and ice caps to determine climatic change over time. They received the David Brower Conservation Award for leadership and commitment to preserving mountain regions worldwide. Brower, an active alpinist with over 70 first ascents from Shiprock to the Sierra Nevada, and member of the famed 10th Mountain Division, was a pioneer in the environmental movement in this country and abroad. He was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in conservation.
The AAC's Literary Award recognizes excellence in alpine literature by American writers who have contributed extensively and over many years to mountain literature. Maria Coffey, originally of England and now living in British Columbia, received the award for her scope of works including the acclaimed books Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow, Fragile Edge: Loss on Everest and A Boat in Our Baggage.
The David A. Sowles Memorial Award honors a young mountaineer by that name who was killed in a lightning storm in the Alps in 1963, and acknowledges mountaineers who, at personal risk or sacrifice of a major objective, go to the assistance of fellow climbers imperiled in the mountains. Pemba Gyalje Sherpa received the award for his rescue efforts on K2 in August 2008. Pemba, who has climbed Everest seven times, twice climbed high on K2 to rescue two climbers who had been stranded when serac fall destroyed fixed ropes in the crux section known as the Bottleneck.
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The cognitive revolution of psychology in the 1970s began to give way to the early findings of automaticity in the 1980s, which were spearheaded by Situationist contributor John Bargh, whose dissertation on automatic social perception won the Dissertation Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in 1982. Since that time, the field of automaticity has grown from a few studies on social perception and judgment to encompass research across the social psychology spectrum, including research on emotions, attitudes, goal pursuit, relationships, and evaluations.
In Bargh's latest book, Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Processes, he collects chapters from researchers working on automaticity within these varied contexts. Bargh makes clear in his introduction that the original assumption of a dichotomy between automatic and controlled mental processes is overly simple and reductive, and many of the essays deal with the interaction of these processes.
The first chapter gives an excellent introduction to the field of automaticity, covering many of the leading theories and models of automaticity, and setting up the interplay between automaticity and control that is woven throughout the book. Other chapters focus on the state of the art of automaticity in each of the subfields of social psychology in which the authors research.
Since each chapter focuses on a different subfield, the book is most valuable as a resource in its gestalt. However, for researchers interested in psychology and law, a few points stand out. First, the chapter assessing the current status and validity of the IAT will be useful, especially given the criticism it has received in the legal literature. Second, the chapter on automaticity of emotion sheds some light on crimes of passion. Finally, the last chapter, which focuses on Process Dissociation Procedure, uses the Amadou Diallo case as a jumping-off point for research on reactions to ambiguous objects (is it a gun or a tool?) in the presence of black faces and white faces. The article explains the theory's attempts to separate intentional and unintentional contributions to the same behavior.
David Hamilton, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at University of California, Santa Barbara says, and we at The Situationist agree, that this "highly readable . . . book will be invaluable for researchers, teachers, and scholars throughout social psychology."
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For a sample of previous, related Situationist posts, see "Unconscious Situation of Choice," "The Situation of Hair Color," "The Situation of Reason," "The Situation of "Winners" and "Losers," and Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV of "The Unconscious Situation of our Consciousness.


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I've mentioned before that JWZ was one of my blogging heroes; but one of the most dramatic influences he had on me was introducing me to Richard Gabriel's essay, The Rise of "Worse is Better". Even though it's about Lisp and Scheme versus Unix and C++, it's an excellent, thought-provoking read which looks at why certain computer languages work and thrive, and why others fail. You should read it.
How many of you still use Scheme after college? I know I haven't touched it or MATLAB since COMP 101, but I've sure used Python, Java, and C/C++ in my career as a professional programmer. Is Scheme still useful? Yes. It is widespread? Not outside of academia.
The core idea of the Worse-is-Better philosophy is that simple implementations which achieve most of the desired functionality are superior to complex implementations which achieve the whole thing. UNIX is really a collection of small programs which do certain things adequately, assembled and refined over the years until it's a rock-solid operating system. But it's not the stability which makes it so ubiquitous – it's how it can run on almost anything. Microsoft figured this out with the NT to XP transition, and the success of XP – and relative failure of Vista – should be object lessons
Warcraft, in many ways, is an adherent to the Worse-Is-Better philosophy. The cartoonish graphics and relatively low pixel counts have allowed Warcraft to spread, like a virus, on computers which would not normally be considered gaming machines. The graphics degrade well because the style is simple and doesn't require high resolution to convey the desired image. More processing power adds better effects but isn't a requirement to play.
Simplicity is good for adoption. At any time, half of the computers out there are below the median, and if you are spending marketing dollars to get people to try your game you don't want their machine to be an impediment. Games that don't support certain operating systems or have high graphics requirements automatically start off at a disadvantage because they limit their customer base. This is a tradeoff from a development standpoint – you can't port your game to every operating system, you can't support everything, but you have to support enough to be profitable. I probably would have tried SW:TOR if it had a Mac client, but it didn't, and I didn't feel like buying a Windows 7 license and running Boot Camp to try it out. Bioware made a conscious decision to not support Macs to keep their development costs low, which eliminated me as a potential customer. That's an acceptable tradeoff! It happens all the time. You have to focus your efforts to ship a product.
But that development decision had implications down the road.
Yesterday's WoW patch (5.0.4) brought with it the new graphical requirements for Mists of Pandaria. It was a bit of a surprise to me, since my laptop – which had run the Beta fine – was suddenly unable to run Warcraft. I wrote about how it affects me personally on tumblr, but I don't want to dwell on it. It's done, I can't use the laptop, my playtime is reduced until I upgrade it (which isn't happening soon). Other people have it worse than I do – their only computer can't play their favorite game, and I feel really bad for them.
I think it's more interesting to consider the bind Warcraft's longevity has put Blizzard's developers into. Every year that WoW continues is another year where technology gets better. If we follow Moore's Law, computers today are 16 times more powerful than when WoW launched, and the game competition being developed now can take advantage of that increase. Warcraft is competing against games that can count on a computer having an order of magnitude more resources than when it was first designed.
In many ways, that's Warcraft's strength, because it's a social game, and mass adoption is key to continued success. I've said before that Warcraft is really a video game bolted on top of a social network. But that strength is also a weakness as the game ages, because WoW competes in the market with those other games. It has to adapt, which means that events like yesterday happen. Customers log in and discover that they're suddenly unable to play because their computer is no longer good enough. All the marketing costs to acquire that customer, all the support and development costs to keep that customer, are lost if they choose not to upgrade their computer.
Consider that cost for a minute. Blizzard incurs a cost to acquire a customer (marketing dollars, core game development, retail packaging and distribution) and an operational cost (customer support, continued development, server hosting and operational upgrades, corporate expenses). The customer has an initial startup cost (buying the game) and an operational cost (subscription fees). This is all pretty straightforward in the short term.
In the long term, however, both sides incur costs to support the game. Blizzard has to spend development resources to maintain old operating system versions, old hardware models. Customers have to invest in hardware to be able to continue playing the game. (The initial investment in buying a computer which can play the game is often overlooked, because it's the very first part of market selection – "does this person have a computer?" – and is a fundamental assumption.) Increasing the minimum requirement for the game brings this specific assumption into question – does the player still have a computer which can play the game – and also increases the cost for the player. Instead of $15 a month, now the player needs to look at it and say, should I spend $1-2k on a new computer so I can continue to play WoW?
If we assume a 36 month lifetime of a given computer upgrade, it's $27.78-$55.56 additional a month for the customer. So at a minimum, purchasing a $1k computer to continue playing Warcraft is effectively the same as spending $45 a month on on sub.
Warcraft (or any software package which forces one) gets an unfair part of the blame in this decision to upgrade. There are usually other reasons to upgrade a computer which factor in to the decision (faster CPUs, more hard drive space, more memory) – but psychologically, the triggering event is the one which we focus upon. If I want to play Warcraft on a laptop, I need to get a new laptop. That's the decision some people are faced with today. They aren't saying, my web browsing is kinda slow or running a lot of applications (they probably are). They're looking at Blizzard and Warcraft and going, is this worth an additional $30-60 a month? Do I have the cash to do this? Oh god Christmas is coming up and I was going to get Mists and now I can't play Warcraft holy fuck what am I going to do I wanted PANDAS.
But computers are sixteen times more powerful than they were when Warcraft launched. That's amazing!
This is a really interesting aspect of the game industry, and the MMO industry, which I don't think gets enough attention. How do you have a subscription model where, over the long term, your customers will churn due to equipment requirements? What happens when your product is still going strong almost a decade later? How do you get the broadest adoption?
Worse-is-better is the answer.
Warcraft has taken a lot of heat for its cartoonish graphics, its low-polygon models, its antiquated engine. But that art style, that engine, has had good survival characteristics in the marketplace. I think other game developers and game enthusiasts alike should take note of it – long term success requires broad adoption over a variety of platforms. Your product needs to be easy to port, easy to adapt. Making a hugely complex jewel of a game which can only run on 5% of the computers out there is not going to be as profitable as making a Facebook game.
There's a somewhat unique balancing act here that Blizzard has to walk. They are tied to old technology that has good survival characteristics, yet have to compete against new tech that can be shinier, faster, fancier. Much like UNIX, I don't think that a competitor who follows Blizzard's model is going to usurp them. MMO game clients which overly rely upon the customer's hardware will keep running into adoption problems. Thin clients with broad platform support are much more of a threat than a traditional MMO because they can be adopted quickly. Put most of the graphical processing up in the cloud and watch the same game get ported to consoles, PCs, smart TVs, smartphones, microwaves, in-car entertainment centers – who knows where they will end up next?
I know I don't. Not really, not yet.
But I do know that the game industry needs to start thinking more about the lessons Common Lisp taught more than 30 years ago, because asking your customers to purchase new hardware to continue your revenue stream is a tough sell.


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Indoor Environmental Quality Daydreams and Nightmares
Building performance renovation contractors and Weatherization Assistance program workers daydream of making homes healthy, comfortable, energy efficient, and durable. But sometimes when they are in the middle of a project, they find their dreams have become indoor environmental quality (IEQ) nightmares.
Most contractors are well prepared to deal with some potential IEQ nightmares, such as CO poisoning and building materials that have lead-based coatings. However, there are numerous other sources of IEQ nightmares. These include asbestos; radon; volatile organic compounds; sulfur-containing drywall—typically from China—and even everyday construction dust, which many building performance contractors take no notice of.
The first potential IEQ nightmare is one of the most overlooked, as well as one of the most regulated, indoor environmental hazards: asbestos. Asbestos is regulated at the local, state, and federal levels. All of these laws are intended to protect the public and the construction worker from being harmed by asbestos exposure.
How Is Asbestos Harmful? Asbestos exposure has been known to be harmful for as long as people have used asbestos. The ancient Egyptian nobility knew that the slaves who made the asbestos-fiber shrouds in which the royal mummies were wrapped often died from respiratory ailments.
Asbestos is most harmful when the tiny fibers are inhaled. The fibers are too small to be seen with the naked eye and can be inhaled deep into the lungs, where they remain. The fibers damage lung tissue, causing scar tissue to form; the result is a disease called asbestosis. When the lung surfaces are covered with scar tissue, they cannot function properly, causing problems ranging from shortness of breath to death. Inhaling asbestos fibers can also cause lung cancer.
Workers can be exposed to asbestos when they are working in an area where there are airborne asbestos fibers. Fibers can become airborne when the material containing the asbestos is drilled, cut, abraded, sanded, chipped, or sawed during a home performance renovation. This often happens, for example, when a worker is cutting holes through an asbestos-containing "popcorn ceiling." The family living in a home that is being renovated can also inhale asbestos fibers. So can the family of the renovation worker who has brought the asbestos fibers home on his or her clothing and equipment.
Why Is Asbestos in Building Materials? Although people have long known that using asbestos can be dangerous, it is so adaptable that they have developed thousands of uses for the fibrous rock that the early Greeks called the miracle mineral.
Asbestos is flame retardant, resistant to chemicals, and insoluble, and the fibers do not break down over time. Because asbestos has these properties, it was used—and is still used—in numerous building materials. Historically, asbestos was added to concrete, roofing, cement pipes, cement boards, sheet flooring, floor tiles, blocks, bricks, drywall, plaster, wall textures, spray-applied acoustic (popcorn) ceilings, ceiling panels, joint compound, fireproofing, stucco, pipe insulation, adhesives, mastics, duct tape, and several other spray-applied or troweled-on building materials. Asbestos also occurs naturally in vermiculite insulation.
In 1978, Congress banned the use of asbestos in some building materials. It did so because more and more workers were being diagnosed with serious diseases attributed to asbestos exposure. Many workers and their families were exposed to asbestos during and after World War II, when hundreds of industrial applications were developed.
It took several years for the damage to the asbestos-exposed workers to become well known. The symptoms of asbestos-related disease usually do not appear until years—even decades—after exposure. Once there was an established history of workers developing asbestos-related disease—and several major corporations were sued and found liable—Congress reacted by banning the use of asbestos in any spray-applied or troweled-on building material, as well as in some industrial applications. But Congress did not ban asbestos in all building materials. Buildings and homes are being constructed today with materials that contain asbestos. In fact, today you can go to your local hardware store and buy roofing mastics and other sealants that contain asbestos.
Public awareness and lawmakers' attentiveness to the hazards of asbestos exposure led to the mass removal of asbestos-containing building materials in many public structures and institutional buildings. Not all building materials containing asbestos have been banned, but there are many laws and regulations that control asbestos application and disposal.
Asbestos Laws and Regulations. Federal entities that regulate asbestos include EPA and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). EPA administers the National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs). One goal of NESHAPs is to protect the public from exposure to asbestos when it is released into the air during renovations, including the transport and disposal of construction waste. It applies to any renovation or repair being performed in a building to which the public has access, including schools, hospitals, offices, and retail stores. However, this law exempts work done in single-family properties or multifamily homes with four or fewer units, so it does not affect most residential energy efficiency renovations. Multifamily homes with more than four units do fall under the law.
Nevertheless, all work performed by someone who has been hired to do that work is regulated by OSHA—even work in private homes. OSHA has standards to protect workers from exposure to asbestos in the workplace. Any home in which a weatherization worker or energy efficiency renovation contractor is working is "the workplace." OSHA enforces the Code of Federal Regulations 29 CFR 1926.1101, which addresses construction work, including the alteration, repair, renovation, and demolition of structures containing asbestos.
The bottom line for OSHA is that any worker's exposure to asbestos must be at or below established personal exposure limits, or PELs. In order to meet that goal, a contractor must know whether the project will expose the workers to asbestos-containing building materials.
What Homes Must Be Inspected for Asbestos Before Renovations? OSHA requires asbestos testing to be performed by a certified asbestos inspector on any building constructed prior to 1980, regardless of the kind of building or quantity of material disturbed. Alternatively, the contractor or homeowner can assume that all building materials disturbed during the renovations contain asbestos, and can treat them accordingly. But that assumption can be expensive—perhaps unnecessarily so. It makes sense to test for asbestos in the following situations:
- The work will involve a material that is, or was, commonly manufactured with asbestos.
- The residential property was built prior to 1980.
- Anyone doing the renovations was hired to do the work.
Where Do I Start? Most cities, counties, and states have laws that are based on the federal laws. Some local laws are more stringent than the federal laws. So first learn your local laws regarding asbestos, or hire a consultant. The EPA web site has basic information about asbestos. The OSHA web site has an overwhelming amount of information about regulations for contractors. You can get useful asbestos information and find a qualified consultant at the web sites for the Indoor Air Quality Association and the Environmental Information Association.
Another naturally occurring element can wreak havoc on the health of a tightly built home. Radon, like asbestos, occurs naturally; however, unlike asbestos, radon has never intentionally been added to a building. It becomes an IEQ nightmare when a builder or renovator fails to consider that radon can accumulate in a tightly constructed or tightly air-sealed home. Radon is an odorless gas that comes from the natural breakdown of uranium in soil, rock, and water. Radon gas decays into radioactive particles that can get trapped in your lungs when you breathe. As they break down further, these particles release small bursts of energy. This can damage lung tissue and lead to lung cancer. In fact, radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer, after smoking cigarettes.
Where Is Radon Found? Radon is found in nearly all soils across North America. In fact, EPA reports that 1 out of every 15 homes in the United States is estimated to have elevated radon levels. EPA has a Map of Radon Zones showing radon levels in various geographic regions. Homes with elevated levels of radon have been found in all zones on the map.
How Does Radon Get In? Radon typically moves up through the ground to the air and into a home through cracks, gaps, and penetrations in the foundation. It can be trapped inside the home, so that a concentration of radon builds up. A few building materials made of stone, such as granite countertops, have been found to emit radon, too. However, building materials alone rarely cause radon problems. It is the gas from the soil coming in through the foundation or basement that poses a threat. Radon becomes dangerous when it accumulates to unsafe concentrations.
An Efficient Home May Have More Radon. Any home built on soils with radon can become unsafe—even a drafty home. But if a home is tightly built or air sealed, there are more opportunities for the radon to become concentrated. Because there is a higher risk for elevated radon in an energy-efficient home, EPA and DOE are including testing for radon as part of the new "Workforce Guidelines for Home Energy Upgrades." These guidelines are still being developed. EPA also has a draft version of the protocols for addressing radon. "Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy Upgrades" was issued in November 2010.
Although new guidelines and protocols are being developed, the health problems caused by elevated levels of radon in homes are not new. In 1984, an engineer at the Limerick, Pennsylvania, nuclear power plant walked into work and triggered a radiation detector. His exposure to radiation had not occurred at work, since the plant was still under construction and there were no radioactive materials at the site. It turned out that radon concentrations in his home were more than 650 times higher than the PELs for workers in uranium mines. That discovery triggered massive testing of homes in his community, and then the nation.
How Do I Test for Radon?There are short-term and long-term radon tests. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages. The type of test performed will be determined by the needs of the homeowner or the contractor, or both. Both types of test use a radon-detecting device or small canister that is exposed to the ambient air in the home for a specific amount of time. A short-term cassette test is placed in the home for two to three days. However, radon levels will vary based on the season, and on the nature and level of activity taking place in the home. Therefore, a long-term test is more useful for determining a family's exposure to radon in the home. Long-term tests remain in the home for more than 90 days. These tests give a more reliable measurement of the actual concentrations of radon over time.
If There Is Radon, Then What? EPA recommends radon mitigation in all homes with test results of 4 picocuries per liter (pCi/L) or greater. Radon levels less than 4 pCi/L can still pose a health risk, and in many cases should be reduced.
The type of radon mitigation system installed depends on the radon level and on the characteristics of the house. The most common radon mitigation system is active soil depressurization (ASD). There are different ASD techniques, but they all reduce radon concentrations inside the home by drawing radon-containing soil gas away from the foundation and exhausting it outdoors. There are also passive soil depressurization systems, crawl space depressurization systems, and crawl space ventilation systems. In some cases, positive-pressure ventilation in the home is adequate. There are two American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) standards that address radon mitigation and control. They are:
- ASTM E1465-08a "Standard Practice for Radon Control Options for the Design and Construction of New Low-Rise Residential Buildings," and
- ASTM E2121-09 "Standard Practice for Installing Radon Mitigation Systems in Existing Low-Rise Residential Buildings."
Some house characteristic evaluations are performed with a blower door to determine effective leakage area or the equivalent leakage area. The leakage data are used with other testing results to determine the most cost-effective radon mitigation system. Radon mitigation often includes air sealing areas where radon can infiltrate into the home.
After a home is renovated, postimprovement testing should be performed to determine whether radon concentrations are too high or to evaluate the effectiveness of any radon mitigation.
Kirsten Shaw is the vice president of field operations for Advanced Energy Efficiency & Environmental Quality (AE3Q) in Mesa, Arizona. She is a BPI Certified Building Analyst and Envelope Professional and a HERS Rater and Quality Assurance Designee.
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For information about asbestos from the U.S. EPA, go to www.epa.gov/asbestos.
For information about asbestos from OSHA, go to www.osha.gov/SLTC/asbestos.
The web site of the Indoor Air Quality Association is www.iaqa.org.
The web site of the Environmental Information Association is www.eai-use.org.
To learn more about radon and home energy retrofits, go to www.epa.gov/iaq/homes/retrofits.html.
To find information about the development of the "Workforce Guidelines for Home Energy Upgrades," or obtain a copy of "Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy Upgrades," go to www1.eere.energy.gov/wip/retrofit_guidelines.html.
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Japanese Auto Parts Companies To Pay $548M In Fines For Price-Fixing
One of the biggest antitrust investigations in the nation's history has led to fines of $470 million against one Japanese auto parts manufacturer and $78 million against another, the U.S. Justice Department announced today.
"Yazaki Corp. has agreed to pay a $470 million criminal fine — the second-largest criminal fine obtained for a Sherman Act antitrust violation — and Denso has agreed to pay a $78 million criminal fine," as the Detroit News says.
Also, "four executives from Yazaki — Tsuneaki Hanamura, Ryoji Kawai, Shigeru Ogawa and Hisamitsu Takada — will serve prison time ranging from 15 months to two years," theDetroit Free Press writes. It adds that:
"The companies and its executives sold automotive electrical components to automobile manufacturers at inflated prices by holding meetings and conversations to agree on the prices and how to sell the part, the Justice department said."
Investigators say the companies had been colluding since the 1990s. Last fall, the Free Presssays, Furukawa Electric Co. paid a related fine of $200 million. And the newspaper says that:
"The largest antitrust fine levied against a single company occurred in 1999 when Swiss pharmaceutical giant F. Hoffmann-La Roche agreed to pay $500 million for fixing prices on vitamins."
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Bernard Schoenburg: Rep's brother loses state job
State Rep. Gary Hannig, D-Litchfield, the chief budget negotiator for Illinois House Democrats, hosted a Father's Day get-together at his home. Among the family members who attended was his brother, Louis J. Hannig, who became a new dad through adoption in February.
Two days later, Louis Hannig called his brother to report that Louis had just been dismissed from his $53,940-a-year job at the Illinois Department of National Resources.
Louis Hannig, 45, of Springfield, got a four-year term appointment in DNR in 2003. When such an appointment expires, the administration can renew the appointment for another four years or not. Officials don't need to give any reason if an employee is let go at that point.
"Tuesday (June 19) about 4 o'clock, our director of human resources, Michele Cusumano, came down to my office and informed me my term was not going to be renewed," Louis Hannig said last week. "Her explanation was that the governor's office, their policy was to eliminate the term positions. They don't look favorably on term positions. … In cases where the position wasn't a technical position, such as a lawyer or engineer … they weren't going to renew."
Hannig, who has a political science degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign, said he assumed the unsettled state budget and tight money at DNR also had something to do with the decision. But as for a policy of eliminating such jobs, he said, "My impression was other people had been renewed within the past year."
Hannig had been told by the head of DNR's office of administration, for which he oversaw the motor pool, a copy center that ships publications, and the mail room, that there would be no problem with his renewal.
"I got good performance reviews all the way through," he said. "I didn't see it coming."
Hannig also said the acting director of DNR said the agency didn't make the call.
"Director (Sam) Flood told me that it …wasn't their decision not to renew. It was the governor's office."
Asked if he thought his situation was the result of anything personal from the governor's office regarding him or his brother, Louis Hannig said, "They told me it was policy, so I've got to believe it's policy."
That's also the word from Rebecca Rausch, spokeswoman for Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
"This is certainly not specific to the person who held the appointment," Rausch said. "We are evaluating term appointments. … Dozens of them across the board have not been renewed."
She said she believes Louis Hannig's position will not be filled.
Gary Hannig is one of the relatively few non-governor's office people who actually get to see the governor regularly in Springfield because he participates in budget negotiations. I asked Rep. Hannig if he thought he should have been given the courtesy of notification of the personnel move from the governor's office.
"They have the ability to run state government as they wish," Hannig said. "I understand that they make calls every day that are going to upset legislators. And we probably do things that irritate the governor. … We try to work through those and recognize that probably in the long run, we're all better served if we try to work together."
When he did ask about the dismissal, Rep. Hannig said, "they told me that … they are upgrading the term appointments and limiting them to people with professional-type qualifications."
Rep. Hannig did confirm that he sought a state job for his brother back in 2003. Louis Hannig formerly worked for State Farm and earlier for a family insurance and real estate business.
Louis Hannig said he heard Friday that he's been approved to receive unemployment insurance - "a first for me." He also said his wife, Julie Armitage, who is taking family leave because of the arrival of 3-year-old Nicholas from Ukraine in February, had her four-year term renewed a few months back and will return to work soon.
Armitage, 44, began working for the state out of law school in 1988. She is managing attorney of a unit in the legal office of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her salary is $83,592 annually.
Gary Hannig has other relatives who work for the state. His wife, Betsy, makes $58,557 annually at the Teachers' Retirement System, where she began in late 1996. Brother Terry Hannig, 52, of Springfield, makes $52,068 annually with the secretary of state. He has been with the state since 1989. And Terry's wife, Kathi, 50, makes $58,152 annually with the Illinois Department of Employment Security. She's worked for the state since 1978.
Gary Hannig is paid $74,429 annually, including his base salary of $57,619 and a leadership stipend of $16,810.
Hannig doesn't think he's strayed from the governor's agenda. He said his voting record mirrors that of state Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Collinsville, who is considered the governor's spokesman on the floor.
Hannig did criticize the Blagojevich team last summer. He said he had been assured no money for stem-cell research was in the budget, only to find out later that Blagojevich decided to direct $5 million to that purpose from a generic administrative line.
But Rausch said the dismissal of Louis Hannig was "absolutely not" linked in any way to his brother.
"He's a valuable member of the General Assembly," Rausch said of Rep. Hannig. "He's been there for a long time. He's very knowledgeable."
U.S. Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, has once again proved that he's a good GOP team player in Congress - especially on the baseball diamond.
Shimkus was the starting pitcher for Republicans Monday night in the 46th annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball game at RFK Stadium. He pitched a complete seven-inning game, allowing five hits and two walks. He struck out four. Democrats helped by making nine errors, the Roll Call story noted.
The GOP won 5-2. Shimkus was named co-MVP, along with Rep. Charles "Chip" Pickering Jr., R-Miss. It was his third MVP award.
Shimkus wore a Shawnee Community College jersey this year. The college is near Ullin.
Proceeds from the game -- estimated at between $75,000 and $100,000 in a local publication -- went to the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington and the Washington Literacy Council.


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We've argued before on these pages that Microsoft should build its own smartphones. The real money in the smartphone market doesn't come from licensing an operating system, as Microsoft does with Windows Phone, or apps, as Google does on Android. It comes from building smartphones for $300 and selling them to carriers and consumers for $600.
Microsoft, however, went for the traditional licensing route with Windows Phone 7, and until recently, it looked like the company was sticking to the same formula for Windows Phone 8, with Samsung, HTC, and Nokia all unveiling forthcoming Windows Phone 8 devices.
But a number of rumors suggest that this may be changing. China Times, Boy Genius Report, and WPCentral are all claiming that Microsoft is working on its own high-end smartphone, to be sold with the same Surface branding as the company will use on its forthcoming tablets.
Taken together, the rumors say that the Microsoft smartphone will come out some time in 2013, and that the change in strategy is due to Windows Phone's failure to acquire market share, or perhaps discontent with the way Nokia's "Lumia" brand appears to have gained better traction than the "Windows Phone" brand. The final decision to go ahead with the Surface phone will supposedly rest on the success (or otherwise) of the Windows Phone 8 handsets that will be released later this year (though exactly when they'll come out remains a mystery, due to Microsoft's continuing secrecy about the new operating system).
We can't speak to whether these rumors are true or not, but it's worth considering the implications they have if there is indeed a kernel of truth behind them. As supportive as we are of Microsoft building its own phones in general, this seems like a bad way of doing it. We don't doubt that Redmond could produce a desirable piece of hardware—for example, something bringing the VaporMg finish to a smartphone. We're just struggling to see how it would improve Windows Phone's position in the market.
The Surface tablet makes sense for two reasons. First, because the PC market is awash with mediocre, poorly designed machines, and Microsoft needed to ensure that there was at least one system that looked good and showed off Windows 8 at its best. The Surface tablets are flagship devices, something that Microsoft simply couldn't trust the OEMs to produce.
With the many weird Windows 8 devices shown at IFA in August, it looks like Redmond's decision was probably a wise one, too; while there will certainly be some interesting designs hitting the market later this month, none of them really stood out as flagships.
Second, the PC OEMs have their backs against the wall. If they don't preinstall Windows on their systems, they're going to struggle to sell any PCs. Microsoft knows this, and it gives the company the ability to compete with the OEMs head-to-head without worrying too much that they'll drop out of the market altogether. That's just as well, too, because Microsoft needs those OEMs to provide volume shipments.
Smartphones: they're not PCs
The smartphone market is in a different position.
Windows Phone has certainly struggled. The first iteration of the software, released almost two years ago, held promise, but lacked important features. The early hardware was nothing special, either, with nondescript phones that did little to stand out.
But things have, slowly, been heading in the right direction. Windows Phone 7.5 fixed most of the functional omissions of the operating system, and Nokia's devices have a certain visual flair, setting themselves apart from the plethora of black slabs that permeate the smartphone market. Market share is still lower than Microsoft and its partners would like, but it seems to be heading in the right direction: market research firm Kantar Worldpanel says that in the 12 weeks ending September 2nd, 2012, Windows Phone was taking 5 percent of sales in the EU's top five markets (Germany, UK, France, Italy, and Spain), up from 3.8 percent in the same period in 2011. This growth seems to be stimulated by Nokia's range of devices.
Windows Phone 8 is still something of an unknown quantity, but the fault here is all Microsoft's. What we do know is that, while Samsung's design, the ATIV S, doesn't buck any smartphone trends, the new Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 and HTC 8X and 8S are all strikingly different and good-looking handsets that will stand out in retail. Although Nokia's handling of the matter has been nothing if not cack-handed (though Microsoft's software situation may have been a contributing factor here), the Lumia 920 also boasts a standout camera that will give it unique appeal.
So as best we can tell, the OEMs are doing their part, and doing it well. This isn't to say that the various handsets will fly off the shelves when they go on sale, necessarily, but they are at least very credible offerings. The Lumia 920, in particular, can stand as a genuine flagship device, and the HTC 8X shapes up pretty well, too. If they don't sell, it won't be because they're under-specified, under-powered, or unattractive.
In other words, there's no need for Microsoft to come in with a "Surface Phone" to shake up the OEMs and force them to up their game. They've upped it themselves.
Second, the smartphone OEMs are not captive in the way PC OEMs are. Samsung could drop Windows Phone and it's unlikely that the dent it made on the company's sales figures would even be detectable. Android is the Korean firm's bread and butter. HTC's position isn't as strong as Samsung's, but it's still the case that its Windows Phone business is small beer. If Microsoft pushes these companies in a way they don't like, they can easily respond by dropping Windows Phone entirely, and in so doing, reducing its carrier and retail availability.
Nokia's situation is of course different. Publicly, at least, it has no plan B, no alternative should it wish to abandon Windows Phone. If Redmond decided to squeeze the Finnish company out of the market, it'd probably be the final nail in its coffin. While Microsoft would no doubt love to pick up Navteq on the cheap, it's hard to see just how such a move would improve Windows Phone's market position—it'd just put an end to the interest and recognition that is slowly growing.
Microsoft may be aggrieved that it's "Lumia" that people want, not "Windows Phone" but it's hardly surprising that Nokia has focused on its own branding, given the way "Windows Phone" is still routinely linked to "Windows Mobile" by retail personnel. Why would Nokia want to deliberately weigh down its own products by hanging that boat anchor on them? The brand name hardly matters to Redmond's revenue, anyway; Android is on plenty of smartphones, even if the brands that users care about are (Verizon's) Droid and (Samsung's) Galaxy. And it's not like hurting "Lumia" will mean that consumers ask for "Windows Phone" instead. It will mean they just ask for "iPhone" or "Droid" or "Galaxy" in even larger numbers than they already do.
Unlike the Surface tablet, a Surface phone is unlikely to improve the quality of devices available on the market, and it's going to drive other OEMs away from Microsoft's operating system. In turn, this will further diminish Windows Phone's retail visibility and carrier connections. None of these things could possibly help Windows Phone.
Similarly, the things that do hurt Windows Phone—a persistent lack of both "big-name" applications (Where is Instagram? Where is Angry Bird Space?) and "real world" applications (you can be sure that if a bank, retail store, or sports team has a smartphone application at all, then it will have an iOS version; it almost certainly won't have a Windows Phone one), weak advertising, limited in-store promotion, and, for Windows Phone 7.5, hardware that fares poorly in bullet-point spec comparisons—aren't in any way improved by the shipment of a Surface Phone.
A Surface Phone fixes nothing. On the contrary; the disruption a Surface Phone would cause to Nokia's name and carrier connections (outside the US) would tend to further diminish promotion and marketing of the platform, and make developers even more reluctant to gamble on it.
One possibility that might avoid these OEM and carrier difficulties would be a limited-availability Surface Phone, similar to Google's various Nexus phones. That is, Surface Phone wouldn't be a mainstream, mass-market device, but a limited, unsubsidized option targeted especially at developers and enthusiasts.
But that doesn't make much sense for Microsoft. Google's situation with Android was different. First, Google needed to raise the Android hardware bar, which the Nexus 1 arguably did. Second, Google needed a range of handsets that it could guarantee had access to the latest version of unadulterated Android, to give developers something to target. The Windows Phone OEMs have done the former all on their own, and the OEMs and carriers simply can't alter the Windows Phone operating system the way Google OEMs and carriers can. While there have been delays and limitations in the availability of software upgrades, these limitations have been entirely under Microsoft's control, and in any case, the company promises that it will be different (and better) with Windows Phone 8 anyway.
Windows Phone simply doesn't need a Nexus device.
When it comes to revenue, building its own hardware is still Microsoft's best long-term option. If the OEMs were being useless, if there were no name recognition or relationships around Windows Phone at all, then building its own phones would clearly be Microsoft's best short-term option, too. Similarly, if Windows Phone were so successful that entering the market wouldn't scare off Samsung, HTC, and Nokia, then building its own phones would be a good option for Redmond. And if it were still 2010, building its own phones would have let Redmond veto cheap materials and flimsy construction, and also ensure that Windows Phones weren't merely minor variants of existing Android models: it would have been an appealing option back then, too.
If, however, things remain on the trajectory they're currently on, with Windows Phone as a small but growing player, a Surface Phone would be a spectacularly bad idea. It would address none of the problems faced by Microsoft's operating system, and would nip the limited successes in the bud.


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Modi was fukked by a lizard. It crawled up his azz fukked him hard and then died due to evil smell.
Modi is pregnant.
It is interesting to see Pataki enter the presidential race.
Thank you Modi. You are a special loving Hindu. You lead by example and have made India a wonderful country.
Yes. Modi is great. I see India and it is fabulous now..thanks to Modi and Hinduism.
Bless Shiva.
My goodness.
@Amarnath. ..looks to me like you just NAILED IT! LOL
He sure did chrissy my dear. He sure did. .
This person is obsessed with India and Modi. Why?
If they were so great why have 2000 people died of heat in India? And more continue dying.
This is an American forum. We are not interested in 3rd world. Please go away.
30% or 400 million people in India are starving. Praise be to Modi.
Modi was arrested last night climbing a ladder to raype a holy cow in Benares. His lulli peenis was too small however. So he was released after the police fukked Modi in jail cell.
India is beautiful and best country in world. Praise Modi.
Lord Shiva is great.
Hinduism is best religion. I love and respect Narendra Modi..great fella
@7:52. Wow gold.
You JUST NAILED IT!
I live in Bombay. .i am a Hindu boy. .
Narendra Modi is great man. India is beautiful country
Modi was rayping a goat when his wife beat him up with a broom.
Modi prefers goats and camels to women.
Indian culture.
I am Gandoo Modi. I eat my own moist salty gooey boogers. .really delicious and nutricious. Love it!
Modi is a wonderful man. We all love him
@9:53. Dude...
U Nailed it man. U JUST NAILED IT!
A water buffalo has just straddled Modi and rear ending him. Modi is enjoying it. The buffalo is unhappy due to huge size of Modi's azzhole.
The Buffalo nailed Modi !!!
Praise Narendra Modi the Great of India!
He is best leader of free world.
I am Hindu now. Very nice to see India.
I love India. Very beautiful. Long live Modi! Praise Hinduism
Hmmmm. Excellent post. Looks to me like you just NAILED IT! LMFAO
Modi was fukked by a Chinese cow. Ah So!
Praise be to the cow. A hero. The best cow in the world. Leader of cows for steak herd.
I nailed it!!
I pick my nose and eat my moist salty gooey green boogers...
Whoops! I had lots of beans..so I just farted AGAIN
Wet gas erupting. LMFAO
Praise be to the black water buffalo that rear ended Modi.
I love Narendra Modi. I pick his nose and eat his moist salty gooey boogers. ..mmmm great source of protein. .yummy!
I just farted AGAIN. .guess that means breakfast is ready..LMFAO!
Praise the baboon who gave birth to Modi.
The water buffalo just did Modi in.
Om Om Om
Hare Buffalo Hare Baboon
That makes the buffalo Modi fukker.
We cannot and will not accept Modi as a leader till the cloud of genocide hovering over his head is lifted.
Modi will always be a persona non grata till he faces trial in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.


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Thanksgiving, that magical day, a time of gathering, fellowship, and unrestrained serial eating. Like all holidays, Thanksgiving unfolds in the present, tethered in complicated ways to the past. "Tradition" probably best describes these personal, historical, links. Consider turkey. We eat turkey in our house because we like it, it keeps well, and can be transmuted into any number of post-Thanksgiving dishes: turkey soup, turkey sandwiches, turkey fricasse. But turkey remains on the menu every year not only because of its tastiness and longevity, but because it's always been on the menu, seared as it is into the mystic chords of turkey memory. I cannot think of a time when we considered having something else for Thanksgiving. Such is the power of tradition.
Exploration has its own traditions, ways that link current endeavors to historical precedents. Some of these traditions are obvious enough, such as the naming of vessels, probes, etc. in honor of previous people or ventures: Galileo, Cassini, Enterprise, and Challenger. But others are more difficult to detect without hindsight. Many explorers prided themselves on being careful empiricists, objective observers of the regions they described. Reading these works now, however, its hard to miss the imprint of culture on their narratives, the martial descriptions of exploration as a "war on nature" and the kindly, patronizing descriptions of native peoples as "children of nature." These tropes were also traditions of a sort.
Yet some things are still hard to see with the benefit of hindsight, even when they are staring at you in the face. Consider Dan Lester and Giulio Varsi's article at the Space Review on the current Vision of Space Exploration. Lester and Varsi observe that NASA's tradition, implicit (perhaps unconscious?) has been to associate exploration with solid places, rocky grounds suitable for "footprints and flags." There are good reasons for going to the Moon and Mars, particularly for astrogeologists who want to know more about, well, the Moon and Mars.
But what about those scientists who seek to uncover more about the broader galaxy? This is a form of exploration best conducted remotely, with telescopes, rather than suited-up astronauts. For these purposes, the Moon and Mars are not ideal locations. To get the most bang for the buck, telescopically speaking, NASA would send its space telescopes to one of a number of "Lagrange points," regions of space where telescopes could remain stationary relative to larger objects such as the Earth and Moon. Freed from planetary surfaces, these telescopes could observe broad reaches of the sky, unencumbered by planetary atmosphere or blind spots.
Costs and operational simplicity seem to favor by a large margin locations in free space such as the Earth-Sun Lagrange points over the lunar surface. While lunar soil may offer a record of solar activity that is valuable to heliophysicists, realtime monitoring of the Sun and the solar wind does not need to be anchored on regolith. Overall, the lunar surface presents a challenging environment, with dust and power generation problems as well as the difficulty of precision soft landing.
Relative to the push for human exploration of the Moon and Mars, "Lagrangian exploration" is a low priority for NASA. Why? Perhaps, as Lester and Varsi observe, it's because of the historical importance of discovering land, of sinking one's feet into the soil and then planting a flag in it.
As I read this article, it suddenly made other pieces of historical data fall into place. When Robert Peary and Frederick Cook brought back their photographs of the North Pole, why did both men choose to plant their flags in the highest hummock of pack-ice they could find? No such location would have been identifiable so precisely from astronomical calculations (if indeed either of them reached the North Pole, which I doubt). Clearly then these men had other reasons to plant the Stars and Stripes on a high hummock, rather than, say on a flat stretch of pack ice or floating on the water of a "lead."
Clearly "earthiness" remains a tradition in exploration, an element that remains in the western imagination of discovery. When the nuclear ice-breaker Yamal steamed north in 2000 with its burden of high-paying tourists bound for the North Pole, it found open water there. What to do? The party could have celebrated the watery top of the world from the deck. Paddled around it in inflatable boats! Instead the Yamal steamed south far enough to reach solid pack ice. There the crew planted the "North Pole" flag around which the passengers danced, celebrating their attainment (kind of) of the top of the world.
Maybe its time to break tradition.
(This is a repost of 9 August 2008's "A Place to Plant the Flag")


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Rust And Bone
Oscar-winning French star Marion Cotillard sure is something, isn't she? "Rust and Bone", which features her latest performance in her native tongue, pretty much qualifies her as one of the finest actresses working today. As a trainer/performer at a SeaLand type attraction, she starts off as a beautiful independent-in-a-show-offish-way woman, going out to clubs and flirting with men to assert her will over her boyfriend. Twenty minutes into the film (spoiler, sort-of), she's had her legs ripped off by a killer whale and is going it alone. An hour in, she's having a passionate sexual affair. By the finale, she's gleefully grinning at scenes of bloody carnage. And she pulls off every moment.
Sound like a ridiculous yarn? It is. Cotillard stars as Stephanie, who prances along to pop music while feeding fish to whales for 'MarineLand' audiences by day, and goes partying (with sometimes violent results) by night. She also meets Alain (Matthias Schoenaerts), a good-looking thug that brutally beats his son, works mindlessly as a bouncer, and generally seems like he walked out of the wrong end of a Dardenne Brothers movie. Yes, this is another entry into the European Cinema of Sadness (see: Haneke, Michael, or Innaritu, Alejandro,) so don't expect things to go too well for our star couple. It's as if they're in two different movies, which at first, seems an interesting idea. Unfortunately, only one of their stories is believable.
You see, director Jacques Audiard is hardly as convincing as his ing�nue. His treatment is all over the place; he never even tries to mold the sequences together. Marion seamlessly glides through her myriad set-ups; but Audiard tackles each of his with a detached grandiosity. He starts out looking at fractured father-son relationships with a faux-Malick abstraction, then eventually moves onto Hitchcockian suspense-style sequences (the whale-bite,) and hits every different approach in between. It's all very stimulating, but it never once feels like anything resembling cohesion.
He has something to say here about "domesticating brutes" - about how Marion fails with her whales, and is perhaps failing again with Alain, who mindlessly beds other women in front of her and quickly turns to underground street fighting as a profession - but it's lost in a muddle of sentimentality and show-off aesthetics. He's always doing something with his camera (slow-motion, split focus, cutting in music of Katy Perry, he does it all) but it never feels earned. He fetishizes flabs of sweat, gushing wounds, and blood particles parsing through water. But his film isn't as much about the perils of flesh as it is the emotions connected to them, and he doesn't capture the latter aspect nearly as well as the former.
Luckily, he has Marion to save him from his all-over-the-place construction and occasionally-exploitive stylings (one late-in-the-game sequence, which leaves a child in serious danger in the background while an adult meddles carelessly in front of the frame, can be seen coming from a mile away and had me writing "cheap, cheap, cheap" in my notebook.) "Rust and Bone" wallows in darkness for two hours, and much of it feels artificial, self-conscious, and perhaps even (dare-I-use-that-dreaded-word). pretentious. The Alain sequences feel like a bad parody of the 'worst life ever' cinema that's spun off the graceful works of Bresson or the Dardennes into a full-fledged genre all its own. He isn't even a person; he's a construct of every terrible human trait.
This is why it's nothing short of astounding that I believe it when Marion looks at him with not just lust, but love, in her eyes. She takes her character not just to the expected emotional heights, but also to intriguing, almost-creepy proportions seemingly left out of the script. Overseeing the street fights, she cringes, but then a horrible grin emerges. She's a damaged woman, and maybe a little more damage is what she needs. It's a flourish and an idea much more provocative than anything in Audiard's narrative. It's the kind of out-of-nowhere look that twists your interpretation of an entire movie in a different direction. It's the work of a great actress.
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