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Anchor Distillery for Whiskey Advocate

I love the process of things in the making, whether through photography, food, surfing, winemaking or, at Anchor Distillery, whiskey distilling. Catch a great story on the craft in the Fall issue of Whiskey Advocate.

Craft whiskey distilling got off to an uneven start in America. There were a couple of early pioneers 20 years back and more, like Anchor, Clear Creek, and St. George, that we were quite excited about at the time. Microbrewing was taking off, now it was going to be microdistilling, and every town would soon have a brewery and a distillery—at least one—making wonderful stuff that every right-thinking person would drink all the time." - Lew Bryson, writer

Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak for Die Zeit

She's the head of a plant genetics lab at UC Davis; he teaches organic farming there. They're married (with kids), and they coauthored, Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food.

Robert Proctor and the Golden Holocaust for Vrij Nederland

You can read about the big tabacco book and the man behind the smoke in Mother Jones:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/tobacco-book-golden-holocaust-robert-proctor

Moving to the Rhythms of Rio for the New York Times

Fun story on music in Rio de Janeiro - 

Rio's forced evictions for Japan Newsweek

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Residents of Largo do Tanque were forced from their homes in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone, to make room for the Transcarioca Highway, that will eventually be built to accommodate the 2016 Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013.

In less than 2 weeks, 54 houses were demolished. The City advisor responsible for payment compensation, told residents not to speak with one another or seek legal advice otherwise he would reduce settlement offers. Many residents agreed to compensations, around R$7000 (US$3500), not nearly enough to afford to buy a plot of land.

According to the Brazilian Constitution, residents have legal rights to their homes, while compensation should allow them to attain an equal situation elsewhere.

The West Zone, located west of downtown and beach neighborhoods is often overlooked and is widely known to be run by militia groups, who are former and current police and firefighter personnel that run extortion rings to monopolies.

This photo essay documents one day in the life of an eviction to show how fleeting a home can be.

Rio's forced evictions for New Internationalist

Aug 2013 for New Internationalist story on forced evictions in Rio for 2016 Olympics.