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This story popped up in today's Western Australian newspaper. Also some coverage in The Age.
RegardsA Perth cyclist trapped for three days in a hotel during a military uprising in Tajikistan has described his fear as bullets ricocheted past on the street outside.
Brian Thompson was two months and 6500km into a cycling tour along the ancient Silk Road when he and his fellow travellers found themselves in Khorog, not far from the Afghanistan border, as government troops tried last week to seize control of the town.
Mr Thompson, 56, of Cottesloe, told The West Australian how he and his touring companions found themselves holed up in a hotel as fighting broke out on the street below.
"We were about 200m from a bridge where the fighting was fiercest … they were fighting for the bridge and it sounded like they were shooting over the top of us," he said.
"A couple of times we heard ricochets (of bullets) outside on the street."
Mr Thompson said the group's local contact had appeared at the hotel during the three-day ordeal with "his eyes as wide as saucers" saying there were dead people outside on the street.
Mr Thompson, a retired small-business owner, and his touring companions desperately tried to make contact with their embassies in the intermittent times when communications were working.
He feared at one point he would not see his wife and two sons again.
"I'm disappointed to be coming home in some respects," he said. "But I live in the best city in the world, I have a great family and here I am riding my bike in this s… place and you think, what am I doing."
Mr Thompson and three other Australians were evacuated on Friday by a Tajik Government helicopter, organised by the Australian Embassy in Moscow, and were taken to the relative safety of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
He said the other Australians were safe and planned to continue their tour, which was originally intended to finish in Istanbul.


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Street Food Profiles: Cap'n Mike's Holy Smoke in San Francisco
It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to Cap'n Mike's Holy Smokes for some smoked fish at the Ferry Plaza market.
Name: Cap'n Mike's Holy Smoke
Vendors: Mike and Sally Hiebert
Location and hours: Thursday (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and Saturday (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Markets in San Francisco. You'll also find the fish at several other Bay Area markets and online.
How many years have you been street fooding? Since August of 2007 (but we've been in the smoked fish business since 1987).
You on Twitter or Facebook? So far we've just been piggy-backing on Ferry Plaza's Twitter and Facebook thing. We are getting ours together, and I know it will rock our business even more.
What's on the menu? Sandwiches, soups, salads and a very special tea from the Hopi Indians. We make our own cream cheese, use Acme organic sourdough, and almost all the produce comes from market farmers. We also have five winter-version lox sandwiches: San Francisco style red lox with roasted red peppers, shaved fennel and pickled onions; Sockeye salmon lox with Bears limes, capers and pickled onions; white salmon lox with shaved fennel, pickled onions and capers; albacore tuna "lox" with roasted golden beets, pickled onions and toasted walnuts; and cold smoked sliced sturgeon with meyer lemon, capers and pickled onions.
Why smoked fish? That's the business we've been in for 26 years. Mike was "called" by the salmon in 1986-87 and has been in the business ever since.
Why a mobile business? We have been a farmers' market business for 26 years. We love our market customers, and it was very natural to expand into a farmers' market takeaway food menu with our smoked fish.
Who are your typical customers? Foodies from all over. We have a huge loyal local farmers' market customer base in SF and our surrounding area markets.
Describe a typical day. Our staff gets to the market at 6:45 a.m., sets up the booth, makes the model sandwiches and warms up the soup. Customers usually start coming before we are set up and don't stop until half an hour after the market is officially closed. We pack it all up, get an espresso milkshake, and hit the road back north to the shop.
What were you doing before this? Mike ("The Cap'n") was a Methodist minister and I was an actor in my first professional life, then a Gestalt therapist.
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The Fauzi Azar Inn is a lovely Arab mansion located in the heart of Nazareths old city. Winner of the 2011 Responsible Tourism Award, as well as Hostel Worlds best hostel in Israel, 2009 & 2010, the Fauzi Azar prides itself on promoting tourism to the Galilee area by offering guests a home-like atmosphere combined with local community interaction. The Inn is conveniently situated one minute from the market and just five minutes walk from all of Nazareths main attractions and its famous restaurants.
Both dorm and private rooms are available at the spacious Fauzi Azar, so options are provided for everyones budget and group size. Each private room is equipped with its own bathroom and air conditioning, and two shower and washrooms are available for the dorm rooms. The property includes free wifi, modern laundry facilities, a computer/library room, and many picturesque common areas to have a coffee and relax after a day of site-seeing.
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Nazareth is rich in culture, and the Fauzi Azar Inn welcomes the chance to introduce guests to the community by offering a daily, guided tour of the Old City. Many of Nazareths historical religious sites are within easy walking distance, including the Basilica of Annunciation, the White Mosque, Marys Well, and the Church of Saint Gabriel. Twenty minutes away is historical Nazareth Village, which gives visitors a glimpse of what Nazareth was like during Jesus time. The Fauzi Azar is also the starting point of the Jesus Trail, which attracts hikers and Christian pilgrims from all over the world.
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I'm not a big fan of subtlety, so when I saw Monday's noose lamp, I set out in search of something even more morbid. Lo and behold, the Colgao table lamp from enPieza! Studio in Spain, which really leaves nothing to the imagination. While the noose lamp could have been taken as an invitation to hang out, Colgao's message is much more "I'm at the end of my rope." These are dark times, my son, and if I'm going to be all gloom and doom, I want to be it all the way. [enPieza via crib candy]
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Even if you're not a truck fan, the prospect of a battery electric Ford F-150 is appealing. The F-150 is the nation's best-selling light vehicle with more than 1.1 million sold in 2018, so it would be a good thing if some of those future sales were variants that didn't need to pump out buckets of CO2 every day. To do that, Ford not only needs a competent electric powertrain, it also has to convince some of its customers that dropping the internal combustion engine isn't a downgrade.
Which is probably why the company just released video of a prototype BEV F-150 towing more than a million pounds (453,592kg). Linda Zhang, chief engineer for the electric F-150, used one of the prototypes to pull 10 double-decker train cars carrying 42 2019 F-150s over a distance of more than 1,000 feet (300m). Until now, the heaviest thing pulled by a BEV for a publicity stunt was probably a Qantas Boeing 787 weighing 286,600lbs (130,000kg), which was pulled by a Tesla Model X in 2018.
In less welcome F-150 news, on Monday a class action lawsuit was filed against Ford for overstating the fuel efficiency of the 2018 and 2019 F-150 as well as the 2019 Ford Ranger trucks. The suit alleges that Ford "deliberately miscalculated and misrepresented factors used in vehicle certification testing in order to report that its vehicles used less fuel and emitted less pollution than they actually did. The certification test related cheating centers on the "Coast Down" testing and "Road Load" calculations."
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Yeah, but after 13 years, Hasbro still has us wanting certain figures. I'm sure that was their plan, and it's working.
This is directed to people at another site who don't believe the Death Squad Commander exists...you can argue that the greyness/greenishness of the tunic is from the panel he is working on but its pretty much the only photographic evidence there is...and if they made a Blue Snag, the can make a Death Squad Commander. I'd want one (and I made my own using the 30AC DST and a Moff Jerjerrod)
Someone with a widescreen DVD should take a capture as that's the only way you see this guy (from a distance, in the DS Laser Control room where Leia's made watch Alderaan's destruction). He's grey in that even if you look close and it's lit differently.
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Away We Go
Seldom has a filmmaker done so complete a 180-turn, in terms of subject matter and tone, as quickly as Sam Mendes has with Away We Go, which hit theaters about six months after his previous film, the studied, difficult suburban drama Revolutionary Road. That was no doubt a tough picture to make; some would argue it is an equally tough picture to watch. I admired the film without buying all the way into it--it is, for the most part, immaculately done (the cinematography and production design are stunning), with moments of great power. But there's something overwrought about the entire endeavor, as if everything onscreen has been so carefully prepared and composed that the genuine passion and life has been sucked out of the frame.
There's none of that in Away We Go, a loose, free-wheeling, intimate seriocomic drama penned by novelist Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and his wife Vendela Vida. It is probably not an inconsiderable leap to assume that Dave and Vendela put at least some of themselves into protagonists Burt and Verona, and I'm not just talking about the similarity of their Christian names. Their dialogue is full of the shorthand and easy interactions of a long-time couple; this is the kind of relationship where a meandering "Still..." is a perfectly acceptable end of a conversation.
Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are a cohabitating but unmarried couple who are forced to reevaluate their lives when Verona gets pregnant (the opening scene, in which they discover this bit of information, has one of the great hard-cuts to title that I've ever seen). They live comfortably enough in Colorado to be close to Burt's parents, but when that pair announces they're moving to Belgium for two years (a month before their granddaughter's birth, no less), Burt and Verona suddenly find themselves untethered. They decide to search for a new place to plant their flag, and work up a quick list of places where they might find solace with friends and relatives.
The resulting five-stop journey is episodic in nature, which is both the film's blessing and its curse. It works because it gives the admittedly muted narrative a bit of momentum; the trouble is that a couple of the vignettes don't quite work, or at least don't work on the same level as the rest of the film. In Arizona, they visit Verona's former colleague, a trashy mom of two played by Allison Janney; I'm normally a fan of her work, but Mendes needed to pull her way back. Her portrait of a cheerful vulgarian is too broad a caricature to fit in with the low-key realism of the film--it throws the tone all out of whack. Same goes for Maggie Gyllenhaal's ultra-bohemian "alternative parenting" guru; it's tough to resist any scene that includes the phrase "in the sea horse community," and there are certainly laughs to be had in her sequence. But they're easy, cheap jokes, and these writers are better than that.
Those bits don't derail the picture, however; even when things get too cartoony, we're anchored by the spot-on reactions of Krasinski and Rudolph. They're quite good together, sharing nearly every scene and effortlessly projecting a laid-back, lived-in, agreeable charm. As exhibited weekly on The Office, Krasinski's comic timing is near-flawless; he's amiably funny throughout the film, but particularly in the early scene with his parents (of her new hairstyle, he deadpans, "I don't think it makes you look crazy at all..."). Rudolph is a calm, soft, natural presence, grounded and immediately likable. Together, they have a disarming casualness and a marvelously recognizable "you and me against the world" strength.
As their journey continues (aided greatly by the music of Alexi Murdoch, whose songs give the movie the same kind of extra weight that Elliot Smith's did in Good Will Hunting), the stakes are quietly raised. There is a strange but beautifully emotional scene, quite unexpected, with their college friends (admirably underplayed by Chris Messina and Melanie Lynskey), while an unforeseen emergency with Burt's brother (a terrific Paul Schneider) pulls the film to an unhurried conclusion.
Away We Go arrives on Blu-ray with a first-rate 1080p transfer. The 2.39:1 image beautifully reproduces the wide vistas of Burt and Verona's journey (there are some knockout shots here, particularly in the Arizona scenes), while close-ups are immaculately detailed. Skin tones are warm and natural, and color saturation is vivid throughout.
The English 5.1 DTS-HD MA track is mostly heavy on dialogue, which is crystal clear in the center channel, with Murdoch's music well-modulated on the sides. The rear channels don't get much use, though there is some fine environmental sound in the Janney scene and during the Montreal sequence (there's a sequence of the pair on the town with their friends--hitting bars and diners--that utilizes the entire soundstage to great effect). It's not a dazzling audio presentation, but entirely appropriate to the material.
Spanish and French 5.1 DTS tracks are also available, as are English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles.
The Audio Commentary with director Mendes and writers Eggers and Vida is, first of all, very funny (during introductions, Eggers notes of British Mendes: "To differentiate between the two male voices, we've asked Sam to speak in this ludicrous accent, so that's how you'll know..."); all three are witty, engaging speakers, and the track has a loose, chatty vibe, while remaining informative and enlightening. One of the better commentaries in recent memory.
Next up is "The Making of Away We Go" (16:13), a fairly conventional EPK-style collection of clips, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. That said, these are all pretty interesting people, so the piece is more compelling than usual. The "Green Filmmaking" featurette (6:38) spotlights the producers' efforts to make the film into a "green production," with the help of a group called Earthmark.
The disc is also BD-Live enabled, though the selection of Universal trailers and NBC promos does not include (as of this writing) any content specific to Away We Go.
Mendes' touch is nimble here, less stylized than in any of his previous work--though that's not to say that it isn't beautifully shot by the skilled cinematographer Ellen Kuras (a frequent collaborator of Michel Gondry and Spike Lee). But it doesn't feel as artfully pre-arranged as Revolutionary Road or (for all of my admiration of it) American Beauty. It kind of shambles along agreeably until it arrives at its closing scenes, which are, in their own tranquil way, sheer perfection. Away We Go is an uneven film, but a lovely one nonetheless.
Jason lives in New York. He holds an MA in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU.
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Meet New York Times bestselling author and mother Susan and her writer daughter Elizabeth. They co-wrote How I Planned Your Wedding, The All-True Story of a Mother and Daughter Surviving the Happiest Day of Their Lives. Your show host Holli Ehrlich LOVED this heart warming book and hopes that every mother daughter (and son) tunes in to today's episode of Here Come the Moms to hear their valuable wisdom and voice of reason.
Elizabeth starts the book with, "I was born to be a bride." Susan says, "Does anybody actually dream about being the MOTHER of the bride?" They are extraordinarily close and relive fond memories about their journey including how they handle their differences with mutual respect and love. They talk about Dave, Elizabeth's husband, and the importance of working on your wedding as a couple. A big white dress is a big white dress, bridesmaids and friendship, investing in a wedding planner, photographer and videographer, how to treat each other and being grateful is all part of this podcast.
Susan and Elizabeth share their feelings, values, apprehension and excitement. They share their reality and common sense of wedding planning. Most of the experience is universal. Ultimately you want to feel respected, listened to and accepting of your plans and this mother daughter duo deliver great ideas, decisions and lessons learned.
How I Planned Your Wedding website
Susan's website
Elizabeth's blog
Resources mentioned in the show:
Event Planner: Good Taste Events website
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Videographer: Cabfare Productions website
Dress: I DO Bridal website
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Moon Goose Colony – episode 4: HATCHING from Agnes Meyer-Brandis on Vimeo.
Yesterday I posted something in Art21's "Centerfield" column about some of Katie Paterson's work. One of the works discussed centers on a Morse code broadcast transmitted to the moon's surface. Paterson then captured and re-transcribed the same message it's reflected, return journey. In a similar spirit, I read about Agnese Meyer-Brandis' "Moon Goose Analogue" on We Make Money Not Art  and thought I could post it here. Brandis is in the midst of a very long project to breed Moon Geese — geese who are slated to travel with her to the moon in 2027.You can read more about this project by going here, and in the meantime check out this amazing, sometimes Wes-Anderson-feel trailer!
THE MOON GOOSE ANALOGUE – documentation from Agnes Meyer-Brandis on Vimeo.
Agnes Meyer-Brandis: The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility is part of the AV Festival. And for any and all of you who happen to be in the UK, the film and installation in on view through the 31st of March, 2012, at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle. This project was commissioned and curated by  The Arts Catalyst as part of the ACE funded Republic of the Moon exhibition held with FACT, Liverpool over the last few months. For more information about this and upcoming work, please visit: http://www.artscatalyst.org/
- Corresponding Between Found and Made: An Interview with Jessica Stockholder - October 5, 2016
- Plant Humans of the Future: An Interview with Saya Woolfalk - August 30, 2016
- Reading with My Whole Body: An Interview with Essi Kausalainen - August 29, 2016


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Hard to believe that we were here about a week ago! It seems like long ago in a galaxy far, far, away.
The snowline of the day was only about 150 feet above the bottom of Yosemite Valley. Below that, rain.
John Muir meadow. Lovely spot from which to view the heights from a flat place well-suited to a prairie dweller.
This is not a small volume of water thundering down the side of this massive cliff. I wish I had the rumbling sound to go with the picture.


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By Ezra Klein
Books in review:
Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption from America's Most Notorious Lobbyist
WND, 303 pp., $25.95
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig
Twelve, 317 pp., $26.99
In 1982, Mississippi senator John Stennis was chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Stennis was a senator of the old school—literally. When he retired in 1989, after forty-one years, he was the chamber's most senior member, and the second-longest-serving member in the Senate's history. And so he did things a little differently than we're used to today. Asked by a colleague to hold a fund-raiser with defense contractors, Stennis recoiled. "Would that be proper?" he asked. "I hold life and death over those companies. I don't think it would be proper for me to take money from them."
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig recounts Stennis's story in Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It (as does Robert G. Kaiser in the excellent So Damn Much Money*). It is a story, Lessig writes, that
reflects a change in norms. Stennis was no choirboy. But his hesitation reflected an understanding that I doubt a majority of Congress today would recognize. There were limits—even just thirty years ago—that seem as antiquated today as the wigs our Framers wore while drafting the Constitution.
Crucially, those limits were not always legal. Stennis wasn't concerned that holding the fund-raiser would break the law. He was worried it wasn't "proper." He wasn't worried about breaking the law. He was worried about breaking with the prevailing norms on Capitol Hill. This, Lessig says, is what has changed.
"Would that be proper?" is not, it seems,
a question that ever occurred to disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. His lawbreaking landed him in jail. His norm-breaking created a national scandal, and arguably lost Republicans control of Congress in 2006. But consider who it is that Abramoff mainly lobbied for, and what it is they actually wanted.
Abramoff lobbied for the Northern Mariana Islands, which sought exemption from certain labor rules for a variety of Native American tribes, which sought to continue a low-regulation, low-tax environment for their casinos, and for defense contractor Tyco, which wanted a tax cut. He was, in these efforts, successful. Arguably too successful. But these are hardly the life-and-death issues of American politics. In a sense, his tactics could only be so extreme, and his wins so decisive, because his issues were so small. What politicians do about the Northern Marianas moves few voters and receives few headlines. Had he been waging more high-profile wars, his hardball tactics would have come to light much sooner, and his career would likely have collapsed far earlier. As every child knows, it's easier to break the rules when no one is watching.
Abramoff might be the most prominent example of the corruption that has infected our political system, but he is not the best example of it. He is not even a very good example of it. If anything, he's a throwback to the lobbyists who led Washington more than a century ago. Until 1853, bribing members of Congress was legal, and lobbyists did so with impunity. After bribes were outlawed, lobbyists realized that the law permitted them to pay congressmen "consulting fees," which they did until well into the twentieth century. Worse, the politicians took bribes with impunity. Early in the nineteenth century, while still a congressman with direct power over its continued survival, Daniel Webster wrote to the Bank of the United States with a blunt message: "If it be wished that my relation to the Bank be continued, it may be well to send me the usual retainers." Abramoff would have had the check in the mail later that morning.
"The ordinary lobbyist today is a Boy Scout compared with the criminal of the nineteenth century," Lessig writes.
The lobbyist today is ethical, and well educated. He or she works extremely hard to live within the letter of the law. More than ever before, most lobbyists are just well-paid policy wonks, expert in a field and able to advise and guide Congress well. Regulation is complex; regulators understand very little; the lobbyist is the essential link between what the regulator wants to do and how it can get done…. Most of it is decent, aboveboard, the sort of stuff we would hope happens inside the Beltway.
Abramoff's memoir is, ultimately, a tale of small-time Washington corruption. It's the story of how one lobbyist, working on behalf of the Choctaw Indians' parochial interests, managed to offend a nation's conscience. Lessig's story, which focuses on lobbyists whose everyday practices are far less offensive and whose clients are, in the aggregate, far more important, is the story of how lobbying has managed to undermine a nation.
As Lessig writes, the typical lobbyist today
plays an important, even crucial, part in the political system. In addition to providing campaign contributions and employment prospects to outgoing elected officials and their staffs, he or she provides legislative expertise. Political scientists call this "the legislative subsidy" model of lobbying, and it poses a serious challenge to the view that lobbyists are little more than parasites.
The theory was first proposed by Richard Hall and Alan Deardorff in a 2006 paper entitled "Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy." The paper was an attempt to solve a problem that, at first glance, should not have needed to be solved, because it should not have existed in the first place: Why is the behavior of lobbyists so hard to predict?
For instance: you would think that lobbyists would concentrate their financial power and well-honed connections on the politicians they need to persuade. But they don't. They concentrate it on the politicians who are already most convinced of their positions. Abramoff was an example of this: he spent most of his time among conservative legislators who were already committed to fighting tax increases and new regulations.
Another puzzle: lobbying, at least in its bluntest form, doesn't seem to work. For many Americans, lobbying is a form of bribery. A rich lobbyist goes to a corrupt congressman, money changes hands, and the lobbyist gets his vote while the congressman gets money for his campaign. Many researchers have tried to find systematic evidence of vote buying. Very few have succeeded. Lessig quotes research by Dan Clawson, Mark Weller, and Alan Neustadtl, which concluded, "Many critics of big money campaign finance seem to assume that a corporate donor summons a senator and says, 'Senator, I want you to vote against raising the minimum wage. Here's $5,000 to do so.' This view, in its crude form, is simply wrong." Lessig concurs:
If the only way that government power could be converted into campaign cash were by crossing the boundaries of criminal law, then there would be no book to write here. If the only possible "corruption" were the corruption regulated by bribery statutes, then I'd be the first to insist that ours is not a corrupt Congress.
Hall and Deardorf proposed an alternative: lobbying, they argue, is
a matching grant of costly policy information, political intelligence, and labor to the enterprises of strategically selected legislators. The proximate objective of this strategy is not to change legislators' minds but to assist natural allies in achieving their own, coincident objectives. Their budget constraint thus relaxed by lobbyists' assistance, already likeminded legislators act as if they were working on behalf of the group when in fact they are working on behalf of themselves.
In other words, lobbyists act like a volunteer, and highly skilled, army for politicians who already agree with them.
To read the rest of this article, click here.


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OK, I can read a bit. What do you mean by "modern"?
Backwards compatibility is fine and all, but sometimes we can do better
by observing that the world has moved on. In particular:
* It's 2014, so people want to edit HD video.
* It's 2014, so everybody has a GPU.
* It's 2014, so everybody has a working C++ compiler.
(Even Microsoft fixed theirs around 2003!)
While from a programming standpoint I'd love to say that it's 2014
and interlacing does no longer exist, but that's not true (and interlacing,
hated as it might be, is actually a useful and underrated technique for
bandwidth reduction in broadcast video). Movit will eventually provide
limited support for working with interlaced video, but currently does not.
What do you mean by "high-performance"?
Today, you can hardly get a _cellphone_ without a multi-core, SIMD-capable
CPU, and a GPU. Yet, almost all open-source pixel processing I've seen
is written using straight-up single-threaded, scalar C! Clearly there is
room for improvement here, and that improvement is sorely needed.
We want to edit 1080p video, not watch slideshows.
Movit has chosen to run all pixel processing on the GPU, using GLSL—OpenCL is
way too young, and CUDA is single-vendor (and also surprisingly hard to
get good performance from for anything nontrivial). While "run on the GPU"
does not equal "infinite speed" (I am fairly certain that for many common
filters, I can beat the Intel-based GPU in my laptop with multithreaded SSE
code on the CPU—especially as moving the data to and from the GPU has a cost that is not
to be taken lightly), GPU programming is probably the _simplest_ way of writing
highly parallel code, and it also frees the CPU to do other things like video
Exactly what speeds you can expect is of course highly dependent on
your GPU and the exact filter chain you are running. As a rule of thumb,
you can run a reasonable filter chain (a lift/gamma/gain operation,
a bit of diffusion, maybe a vignette) at 720p in around 30 fps on a two-year-old
Intel laptop. If you have a somewhat newer Intel card, you can do 1080p
video without much problems. And on a mid-range nVidia card of today
(GTX 550 Ti), you can probably process 4K movies directly.
What do you mean by "high-quality"?
Movit aims to be high-quality in two important aspects, namely _code quality_
and _output quality_. (Unfortunately, documentation quality is not on the
list yet. Sorry.)
High-quality output?
Movit works internally in linear floating-point all the way, strongly
reducing interim round-off and clipping errors. Furthermore, Movit is
(weakly) colorspace-aware. Why do colorspaces matter? Well, here's a video frame from a typical
camera, which records in Rec. 709 (the typical HDTV color space), and here's the
same frame misinterpreted as Rec. 601 (the typical SDTV color space):
[insert picture here]
The difference might be subtle, but would you like that color cast?
Maybe you could correct for it manually, but what if it happened on output
instead of on input? And I can promise you that once we move to more
wide-gamut color spaces, like the one in Rec. 2020 (used for UHDTV), the
difference will be anything but subtle. As of [why working in linear
light matters](http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html),
others have explained it better than I can; note also that this makes Movit
future-proof when the world moves towards 10- and 12-bit color precision
(although the latter requires Movit to change from 16-bit to 32-bit floating
point, it is a simple switch). The extra power from the GPU makes all of this
simple, so do we not need to make too many concessions for the sake of speed.
Movit does not currently do ICC profiles or advanced gamut mapping;
if you have out-of-gamut colors, they will clip. Sorry.
OK, and high-quality code?
Image processing code can be surprisingly subtle; it's easy to write
code that looks right, but that makes subtle artifacts that explode
when processed further in a later step. (Or code that simply never
worked, just that nobody cared to look at the output when a given
parameter was set. I've seen that, too.)
Movit tries to counteract this by three different strategies:
* First, _look at the output_. Does it look good? Really?
Even if you zoom in on the results? Don't settle for "meh, I'm
sure that's the best it can get".
* Second, _keep things simple_. Movit does not aim for including
every possible video effect under the sun (there are [others out there]
that want that); the [YAGNI] principle is applied quite strongly throughout
the code. It's much better to write less code but actually
understand what it does; whenever I can replace some magic matrix
or obscure formula from the web with a clean calculation and a descriptive
comment on top, it makes me a bit happier. (Most of the time,
it turns out that I had used the matrix or formula in a wrong
way anyway. My degree is in multimedia signal processing, but it
does not mean I have a deep understanding of everything people do
in graphics.)
* Third, _have unit tests_. Tests are boring, but they are unforgiving
(much more unforgiving than your eye), and they keep stuff from breaking
afterwards. Almost every single test I wrote has uncovered bugs in Movit,
so they have already paid for themselves.
There is, of course, always room for improvement. I'm sure you can find
things that are stupid, little-thought-out, or buggy. If so, please let me
What do you mean by "open-source"?
Movit is licensed under the [GNU GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html),
either version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
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What Teens Can Teach Us About Marketing
As marketers, we often think of business as business, meaning the decisions that go with it are not personal. It's that kind of thinking that hurts marketers and brands. When we take "personal" out of the equation, we always lose. If you find that this is how your marketing firm thinks, there is a way to turn that around, and it starts with closely observing teens in action.
When our kids are young we can talk to them, share with them, and really relate on their level. But when they're teenagers, they're not as open to what we tell them, and pushing things on them just builds more resistance. If they think you're going to give them a speech, they shut you down in a hurry. If you want to get through to teens, you have to look for moments when they're receptive, tamp down the desire to push your opinions on them, and just listen.
Like parents with teens, marketers also have to watch for those moments with consumers. If you pay attention, you'll learn to recognize when those moments occur. Only then can you build a real connection.
Another important and key quality we can learn from kids is being genuine. Kids are raw. They say what they think, and they're spontaneous in reaching out to help others when they see a need. This behavior is generally from the heart and not based on some possible perceived return.
This giving, empathetic nature is really at the core of who we are as humans. As marketers, we need to reach back to that level of personal caring and make seeking moments of connection our prime directive. Not products. Not services. Not nailing down the ROI on every single thing we do. Put those on the back burner, and practice looking for opportunities to connect, listen, help, and serve. And just like building a strong relationship with your kids, the benefits of building relationships with customers will have a far-reaching and long-lasting impact. Humanity is contagious, so put yours on display.
How do you look for moments of connection with your audience? Tell us in the comments below.
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I announced a few weeks ago I wasn't going to talk baseball on Twitter anymore, which, by the way, has been very tough to stick to. Many of you recognized what that meant, but let me confirm that I have been hired by a major league front office.
I can't tell you exactly what I'll be doing, or who I'll be joining (but I will say I am not following in the footsteps of my former BP brethren), but I think it's fair to call this my dream job.
I got into sabermetrics by reading Rob Neyer almost 15 years ago while in college, and started doing my own analysis in earnest about 5 years ago. R.J. Anderson gave me my first break at Beyond the Box Score, and I couldn't believe that someone wanted me to write about baseball. And then Dave Studemund asked me to write for the Hardball Times, and I couldn't believe someone would pay me to write about baseball. I took a break for a while after my twins were born, but the team from Baseball Prospectus asked me to come help them out with some coding and analysis, and I couldn't believe someone would pay me regularly to work on baseball. Never did I expect that I'd be able to turn my passion into my career, and I thank everyone whose helped make this possible. There are far too many to list, but I've learned something from just about everyone I've interacted with – whether it be in the comments on pre-registration Baseball Primer, or recently on Twitter, and I think the sabermetric community is a wonderful, supportive entity (as long as you don't think Jack Morris is a Hall of Famer).
But in order to experience this dream, I regretfully have to give up another one. This Friday will be my last day at Apprenda after 3+ phenomenal years here. I can honestly say I've learned more at Apprenda than I have anywhere else. And not just about cloud and PaaS. We have a tremendous team full of whip-smart people who teach me something new everyday.
And I feel like I'm leaving a company poised on the brink of something great. I think PaaS in general, and private PaaS in particular, is reaching a tipping point in adoption. We're going to start seeing more case studies like Diebold, where enterprises are making platforms strategic components of their infrastructure. And I think as people better understand the possibilities inherent in PaaS, they're going to look beyond the simple operational value props and seek out the transformational value. All of which leads me to be extremely bullish on Apprenda's chances.
Despite leaving Apprenda, after spending three years pontificating about cloud, platform as a service, complexity and all those other things we like to debate on Twitter, I just can't give that up. So expect to see me still contributing to those discussions, and other technology conversations, both on Twitter, and through this blog. This will be a location for me to talk about the tech-related things that bounce around in my head. It'll range from commentary on cloud and PaaS markets, to my thoughts on various programming topics, to outlandish futuristic thought experiments. My output will be light at the beginning as I get used to my new role, but I hope to be able to write on a fairly regular basis once I get situated.
Thanks again to everyone whose helped me get to this point – both on the tech side, and the baseball side. I'm going to miss Apprenda horribly (although Sinclair has already told me I can come back for lunches and foosball), but I know the team can and will achieve great things. And I'll be here to write about it.
Image courtesy of Sven-Kåre Evenseth on Flickr.


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Former Attorney General that helped pass 1964 Civil rights Act and integrate schools dies
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, center
May 10, 3:04 AM EDT
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Nicholas Katzenbach, whose eight years in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations helped shape some of the most important events of the 1960s, has died. He was 90.
Katzenbach died Tuesday night at his home in Skillman, N.J. His career was praised by Princeton University scholar Sean Wilentz as "long and singular" and defined by a "bedrock devotion to principle."
Katzenbach's son, John, said his father "passed away with the same quiet dignity that he displayed throughout his life." He noted that although his father had accomplished much in his career as a lawyer, statesman and as a father and grandfather, "he never thought any battle was fully won until hearts and attitudes followed the law."
Katzenbach's time in government was like a history of government in the 1960s: The Bay of Pigs. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Integration of schools. The Warren Report. The Civil Rights Act. Vietnam.
"He was a key figure in so many of the most crucial moments in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations," said author Robert Caro, whose fourth volume in his series on Lyndon Johnson, "The Passage of Power," was recently released.
Caro said while researching his books, he found himself again and again calling upon Katzenbach for information.
Katzenbach was in his early 40s when he joined the Justice Department in 1961 under Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The graduate of Princeton and Yale and former prisoner of war had the intellect and resolve that the Kennedys valued. He soon joined Burke Marshall, future Supreme Court justice Byron White and future Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox among others during what is regarded as a brief, golden era for the department.
Katzenbach wrote a legal brief in support of President John F. Kennedy's decision to blockade Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis and helped secure the release of prisoners captured during the disastrous Bay of Pigs raid on Cuba in 1961. He became a deputy attorney general in 1963 and, after Kennedy's assassination, served as attorney general and an undersecretary of state under President Lyndon Johnson.
Katzenbach, who helped Johnson pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act, had been the Kennedy administration's point man when James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962. The following year, he was the federal official on hand when segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace made his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" – symbolically attempting to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from entering the University of Alabama.
Looking businesslike in a suit and tie, his bald head sweating under the Alabama sun, Katzenbach walked up to the entrance of a university building and handed Wallace, who stood in the shade, a presidential proclamation saying he must obey the law. The nation watched on television, including a nervous Robert Kennedy at his office in Washington.
It was a historic confrontation, but resolved in advance. President Kennedy had federalized the Alabama National Guard and ordered some of its units to the university campus. An agreement was then reached between the White House and Wallace's aides, and Malone and Hood enrolled at the school after Wallace read a proclamation to Katzenbach and left.
Katzenbach's efforts in Alabama were praised Wednesday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who noted that Malone later became his sister-in-law.
"Throughout one of the most challenging and consequential eras in American history, his extraordinary talents – and dedicated leadership of the Department of Justice – helped to guide our Nation forward from the dark days of segregation and to secure the successful passage of the landmark Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts," Holder said.
A few months after the face-off in Alabama, Katzenbach again stepped up, in the days following Kennedy's 1963 assassination. On Nov. 25, three days after the slaying, Katzenbach sent a memo to Johnson aide Bill Moyers urging that results of the FBI's investigation be made public to combat any notion that Lee Harvey Oswald had not acted alone.
"The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large," Katzenbach wrote.
Four days after the memo, Johnson appointed some of the nation's most prominent figures to the Warren Commission, which ultimately concluded that Oswald acted alone, a theory still disputed. Skeptics and conspiracy theorists have often cited Katzenbach's memo as a sign of a government cover-up.
In February 1965, Johnson picked Katzenbach as his attorney general, but he held the post for less than two years, feuding with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and others before stepping down in October 1966. A short time later, he was named an undersecretary of state, a post he held for the remainder of the Johnson administration and which led to an unhappy entanglement with the Vietnam War.
In testimony before the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee in 1967, Katzenbach made a controversial defense of the war's legality, citing the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which allowed the U.S. to repel attacks and prevent further aggression. The committee's chairman, Sen. J. William Fulbright, had disputed that the Tonkin resolution – passed before the U.S. had sent ground troops to Vietnam – was a formal declaration of war.
"What could a declaration of war have done that would have given the president clearer authority?" Katzenbach responded. "It would not, I think, reflect correctly the very limited objectives of the United States with respect to Vietnam to use an outmoded phraseology, to declare war."
Katzenbach believed his testimony was accurate, but acknowledged its unpopularity. Philip Roth and Jules Feiffer were among the artists who took out a full-page newspaper ad condemning his remarks. Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota would cite Katzenbach as a reason for running for president in 1968 as an anti-war candidate, a decision that helped convince Johnson not to seek a second term.
In 1969, after the Johnson administration ended, Katzenbach was appointed IBM's general counsel and helped represent the computer giant in its long fight against an anti-trust lawsuit filed by the government and eventually dismissed. He also served on prison reform panels and remained active in national Democratic politics and constitutional issues. In December 1998, he took part in a protest in Princeton against Republican efforts to impeach President Clinton and also spoke as a witness for the president.
Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach was born in Philadelphia in 1922 to a family of politicians. His middle name, with the unusual abbreviation deB., came from a forebear who had served as physician to Napoleon's brother before emigrating to the U.S.
Katzenbach served in the Army Air Force during World War II and spent two years as a prisoner of war in Italy. He later graduated from Princeton and the Yale Law School and studied at Oxford University for two years as a Rhodes Scholar.
For much of the 1950s, Katzenbach was a professor of law, first at Yale, then at the University of Chicago. He was on a leave of absence, in Switzerland, when John F. Kennedy received the Democrats' nomination for president, in 1960.
His eight-year career in presidential administrations started the following year.
It was an exciting time," Katzenbach told the AP. "There were lots of young people who got themselves involved in civil rights, and later in protesting the Vietnam War, feeling involved in the government and what's going on in their own future. To my mind that's what makes this a great country."


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Most Americans, including half of all gun owners, say it is possible to enact new laws without infringing on gun rights, and overwhelming majorities support expanded background checks at gun shows and for online gun sales, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The findings come as the Senate prepares for its first votes on new gun legislation this week, in what will provide an early test of strength between the influence of the gun lobby vs. the power of public opinion, at least when it comes to background checks.
The proposal for broader background checks is the only one of the three major provisions tested in the survey to draw broad bipartisan public support. Two other restrictions up for consideration this week — nationwide bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips — get majority support from Democrats and independents but are opposed by majorities of rank-and-file Republicans.
Similarly, there are deep partisan differences on the other marquee issue slated to soon start moving in the Senate: comprehensive immigration reform. Overall, support for legislation that includes a way for undocumented immigrants to live legally in the U.S. is higher than ever, with nearly two-thirds of Americans backing a pathway to legal status.
However, while three-quarters of Democrats and at least six in 10 independents support such a move on immigration reform, support drops sharply among Republicans. As with gun legislation, the results are yet another reminder that Republican lawmakers face a fractured base on these two volatile issues.
The poll also found continued pessimism about the job market and spreading frustration with the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester. Fully two-thirds say jobs are difficult to find in their communities — down from its heights during the recession, but unmoved over the past year. Disapproval of the sequester cuts has ticked up four percentage points during the past month, and the percentage saying the cuts have affected them personally is up eight points.
Negativity about the economy — barely more than three in 10 even see progress on the jobs front — continues to damp Americans' enthusiasm for their political leaders.
President Obama's overall approval rating is stuck at 50 percent among all Americans, and has slipped below 50 percent among registered voters for the first time since he won reelection five months ago — 47 percent of registered voters now approve, and 49 percent disapprove. As has been the case for the bulk of the past three years, most — 53 percent — disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
Barely more than half — 51 percent — say Obama is "in touch" with the concerns of most people in the country; 46 percent say he is not. Still, Republicans are seen as significantly more out of touch: 70 percent of Americans — including nearly half of all self-identified Republicans — say the party is disconnected from the mainstream. The Democratic Party fares somewhat better, but 51 percent still say it too is out of touch.
This week will offer the first clear indication of the strength of the gun lobby vs. the power of public opinion. The Senate will vote on a proposal calling for new background checks for gun purchases that is authored by Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), two politicians with positive ratings from the National Rifle Association.
In the new Post-ABC poll, 90 percent of Democrats and 84 percent each of Republicans and independents say they support such checks. Moreover, majorities in each group say they "strongly support" such a measure. With the NRA opposed to the measure — and broad opposition among the GOP to some provisions — Manchin and Toomey are still trying to round up the 60 votes needed to pass it in the Senate.
Overall, 56 percent of Americans favor a ban on assault weapons, which was dropped from the Senate bill when it was first introduced but will receive a vote on the floor. An identical number supports a ban on ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets. But 61 percent of Republicans oppose an assault weapons ban and 54 percent are against a blanket restriction on high-capacity clips, likely dimming the prospects for passage of either measure.
More broadly, most Republicans in the poll say the priority right now should be on protecting gun rights, not on passing new laws aimed at curbing gun violence. Still, nearly half of all Republicans say gun laws do not necessarily interfere with gun rights. Among all Americans who themselves own guns — 30 percent of the adult population — 50 percent say it is possible to enact new limits without slashing rights.
Advocates for new gun laws may have majority support overall, but it is the opponents of such restrictions who have the advantage when it comes to political activism. Among gun owners, 20 percent say they have at some point contacted a public official to express their views on gun control. The number doing so in non-gun households is half as big. Fully 19 percent of gun owners say they have given money to an organization involved with the issue; just 4 percent of those in non-gun households say the same.
Prospects for passage of comprehensive immigration reform appear brighter, in large part because many Republican leaders are looking for ways to reduce the party's deficit among Hispanic voters. More than seven in 10 Hispanics approve of the president's handling of immigration, with at least as many saying he is in touch with the concerns of most people. In contrast, two-thirds of Hispanics say Republicans are out of touch.
The bipartisan Senate plan requires tougher border security before the path to legal status can take place. In the poll, half of those who support a path to citizenship say it should be contingent on improvements in border security, but nearly as many — 44 percent — say there should be no such linkage.
There is also a widespread perception among supporters of a new route to legal status for undocumented immigrants that the 13-year path to citizenship outlined in the Senate plan is too long.
Majorities of Americans support other immigration-related measures, from a guest worker program for low-skilled workers to an increased number of visas for highly skilled workers. The highest support — 83 percent — is for a requirement that all businesses check the immigration status of potential employees. One of the more controversial proposals — a reduction in the number of available visas for family members of legal immigrants — draws more opposition than support (41 percent support; 53 percent oppose).
The telephone poll was conducted April 11 to April 14 among a random national sample of 1,003 adults. Results from the full poll have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Cohen is director of polling for Capital Insight, the independent polling group of Washington Post Media. Capital Insight pollsters Peyton M. Craighill and Scott Clement contributed to this report.
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Assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti Condemned by ICNA
JAMAICA, New York (March 3, 2011) – The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) issued a press release today condemning the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities and the only Christian member of the Pakistani cabinet.
"ICNA is appalled by the assassination of Pakistani cabinet member Shahbaz Bhatti," said Dr. Zahid Bukhari, President of ICNA. "We urge the Pakistani government to bring the perpetrators to justice. We also extend our condolences to Mr. Bhatti's family; our thoughts and prayers are with them in this difficult time."
"We remind those who cite the word of God to justify the murder of innocents that they have misjudged the true meaning of our faith. God states in the Quran, 'Whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved the lives of all mankind' (5:32). We are further reminded that 'there is no compulsion in religion' (2:256). We must remember that our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, also granted protection to all who lived under the Islamic state, regardless of race or religion. We are deeply alarmed by this rise in misguided vigilantism including the murder of Punjab governor Salman Taseer."
"The tragic killing of Mr. Bhatti is a setback in Pakistan's struggle for an equal and inclusive society. We call on the Pakistani government and the people of Pakistan to protect the rights of religious minorities in the country, including the right to live and worship in safety."
The Islamic Circle of North America is a leading American Muslim organization dedicated to the betterment of society through the application of Islamic values. Since 1968, ICNA has worked to build relations between communities by devoting itself to education, outreach, social services and relief efforts.
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A hearty grain main dish that's mix-and-match
When the final days of winter flirt with sunny warmth, only to shrink back into a chill from that wicked wind, I gravitate toward hearty salads for dinner: combinations of roasted vegetables, grains and greens dressed in a pungent, sometimes spicy vinaigrette. But they're not always the quickest to come by: Some of my favorite grains take the longest to cook. Those tough greens may need help becoming soft. And the vegetables require some oven time.
If I'm organized, my refrigerator plays the part of a pre-prepped salad bar. Ingredients that took their turns in the oven, pot or mixing bowl on more leisurely days now sit in containers, awaiting my decisions about how to combine them. But when I'm not so organized, I look for quick ways to get the job done without sacrificing flavor.
In the grain category, farro comes to the rescue because in its semi-pearled variety (the default if it's imported from Italy) it needs just a 20-minute simmer, making it a viable alternative, timewise, to simple white rice but with so much more character. It's also one of the most forgiving grains I've encountered; the window of doneness allows you to cook it for even twice as long and it stays slightly chewy and nutty.
In the meantime, Brussels sprouts and carrots can go in a hot oven together, with the sprouts getting brown-edged and tender in just about as long as it takes for the carrots to slightly soften, keeping a little of their crunch. Kale just needs a massage -- you have been massaging your kale, haven't you? -- for it to become silky-smooth, much more pleasant to eat than when it is tough and fibrous.
To pull it all together, I splash on a vaguely Middle Eastern vinaigrette made from the spice blend za'atar, feta, olive oil and a heavy dose of red wine vinegar. To keep in the same flavor profile and add even more textures, I chop up dried figs and scatter in slivered almonds.
This is a mix-and-match approach: Keep roughly to the same proportions, and sub in and out other grains, leafy greens, nuts, fruit and dressing. As the days and nights get warmer, the elements can get lighter, right along with your spirit in spring.
Roasted Vegetable and Farro Salad
4 to 6 servings
MAKE AHEAD: The farro can be cooked in advance and refrigerated for up to 1 week or frozen for up to 6 months. The vegetables can be roasted and refrigerated up to 1 week in advance. The vinaigrette can be refrigerated for up to 1 week.
From Washington Post Food editor Joe Yonan, author of the upcoming "Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook" (Ten Speed Press, August 2013).
1 cup semi-pearled farro
1 1/2 cups water
4 medium carrots (about 12 ounces total), scrubbed and cut into 1/2-inch slices
8 ounces Brussels sprouts, trimmed and quartered
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
4 ounces (2 cups lightly packed) kale leaves, thinly sliced
4 large dried Mission figs, stemmed and chopped
1/2 cup slivered almonds
1 tablespoon za'atar (spice blend)
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon honey
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
Combine the farro and water in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring the water to a boil, then reduce the heat so the liquid is barely bubbling; cover and cook for 20 minutes. Remove from the heat; drain off any excess water, cover and let stand for at least 10 minutes or until the farro cools to room temperature.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 500 degrees.
Toss the carrots and Brussels sprouts on a rimmed baking sheet with 1 tablespoon of the oil and the salt. Roast until the Brussels sprouts are caramelized around the edges and the carrots are barely tender (but not soft) when pierced with a fork, 10 to 15 minutes. Let cool to room temperature.
Place the kale in a serving bowl and massage the leaves by picking them up by the handful and squeezing them. Repeat for a few minutes, until the kale turns silky and darkens in color. Add the figs, almonds, cooked farro and roasted carrots and Brussels sprouts; toss to combine.
Whisk together the remaining 1/4 cup of oil, the za'atar, vinegar and honey in a medium bowl to form an emulsified vinaigrette, then stir in the feta. Pour over the salad and toss to incorporate.
NUTRITION: Per serving (based on 6): 350 calories, 10 g protein, 41 g carbohydrates, 18 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 310 mg sodium, 8 g dietary fiber, 8 g sugar


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At a press event in NYC for Aquage, Creative Director Luis Alvarez showed the assembled editors what look each could get in about 15 minutes in a salon from a professional hairdresser. The editors were mesmerized as he quickly created a row of rosettes along the hairline of his model. "What I love about this look is that is really must be done by a professional," he says. "I am frequently asked for 'do it yourself' styles. Whenever a beauty editor asks that, I always say that Aquage is all about directing clients to the salon. The look I've created here doesn't require a big time commitment from either the client or the stylist."
Modern asked Alvarez to recreate the look for the Modern professional:
1. Pull a section from the hair with slight elevation.Spray the top and bottom with a shine spray (Alvarez uses Beyond Shine). The spray adds shine and grip. Separate into two subsections.
2. Twist the two subsections in a rope technique working to the end.
3. Grab a small collection of strands at the end (up to ten strands) and hold.
4. With the opposite hand, push the rest of the section up to the scalp.
5. Secure with pins. Repeat all along the hairline until you run out of hair.
Note: "It's okay if it is imperfect," says Alvarez. "You don't want it to look too 'done'."
In this video Alvarez shows HOW TO create the look and adds tips for photoshoots along the way.
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