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Mark Gold, chairman of ACCA's Global Forum for SMEs, said: 'All too often, small business is overlooked when it comes to environmental and sustainability issues. But in terms of economic activity, employment and waste, small businesses make a huge impact and it is critical that they and those who advise and regulate them, recognise this and begin to take steps to tackle waste, promote efficiency and ensure that sustainability is at the forefront of their thinking.'
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It may or may not require schmuckers to do this, but you certainly require schmuckers to sustain your new side.
I've wondered about that, but since Heir status is the payment used to safeguard and continue an existing side, it might not be that complicated to start an entirely new side. After all, I doubt the barbarian units that randomly pop have heir status, and Erfworld needs to have some mechanism to create entirely new sides.
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I finally forced myself to finish The 7th Victim. The ending was even worse than the rest of the book; a third-rate soap opera writer would be embarrassed to pen that mess. But seeing the four-star rating there on Amazon has depressed me so much that I haven't been able to finish my scathing review.
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The new member should at least watch some of her programs before posting.
The new member should at least watch some of her programs before posting.
I have often thought that Mao should try Lori for her choreographer. She may bring out Mao's emotions the way she did in Michelle's case. When Michelle was just 15, Lori was able to create the Salome program for her, and at that young age Michelle was able to interpret that music because (from what I read) that was the music she liked. Michelle was truly a master of musical interpretation, but without a choreographer like Lori it is hard to say how far she would have progressed at a young age. After turning pro many of the technical skaters developed their artistry but you watch programs like Salome, Taj Mahal, Song of the black swan, and Lyra Angelica, and you see how unique Michelle's artistry was. It's a shame that she did not get the OGM in her illustrious career.
I feel that Mao has a lot to give to the sport that has not been discovered. However, I agree that the COP may make it harder to do. Michelle had total freedom to interpret the music because of the 6.0 system. I do believe she lost some of the uniqueness after she left Lori and skated to more traditional skating music. I still loved her programs and the interpretation but the programs were not as intricate as Lori's.
i think part of the reason lori and michelle parted ways is because lori's choreography for michelle had become stale, had lost a lot of its old magic. lori's inspiration went _elsewhere_. which came first, the egg or the chicken--michelle's leaving, or lori's sending the message, i'm burning the midnight oil for somebody else?
long before michelle started skating to war horses, some of michelle's programs by philip mills and sara kawahara moved me far more than some of lori's lesser creations. not all lori's creations were uniformly great. of course dante's prayers and the red violin (exhibition version) and the programs you mentioned were among lori's most successful--i would say that lori is the choreographer with whom michelle achieved the greatest heights.
lori did indeed create nocturne for mao, and lori created liebestraum last season. forgive me, perhaps i misconstrued your words, but were you in fact hypothesizing that if mao had lori in the 'formative' years, mao would have been... more michelle-ish, more masterful in interpreting choreography and music at an early age?
i also see great untapped potential in mao's skating. i wonder if you, perhaps, think that it is already 'too late' for mao--because lori wasn't able to contribute as much to mao's training when mao was younger? i would like to think that it is not too late, because i like mao's skating very much, and this season we've had reason to celebrate several late bloomers, including the current ladies world champion and US champion. also, lori is not the only choreographer capable of bringing out great interpretation--i was deeply impressed with dickson's work for yukina ota--especially picasso dance (03-04 season, IIRC). did dickson contribute as much to yukina's awesome skill in musical interpretation? i don't know--i'm asking you and the other learned people--IMO you could as easily say that it was yukina who had the unique spunk and sass, an ear for how to synchronize her movements with the musical highlights, and with any other skilled choreographer she would have flourished.
anyway, back to lori and michelle. i'm thankful for those really good years--i now have a lot of skating i can watch and re-watch
P.S. intricacy isn't essential to my enjoyment of a program--what's critical is the choreography's suitability for the music--i love dante's prayer, rachmaninov 98, red violin, but i also love programs like dorothy hamill's pia jesu and paquita, programs which emphasize flow and grandeur rather than complicated fuss, because there is not much in the music to be accented with intricate choreography. grand and epic war horses, i enjoy also
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Lori has been one of Mao's main choreograhers over the years and generally their programs have been enjoyable. Mao's Nocturne SP has been of the rare gems in Lori's catalogue in recent years.
Is it okay to ask if there ever was a reason given as to the split between Michelle and Frank? They were together for such a long time?
Was it Michelle or Lori?
But I think Michelle was greatly lucky to meet Lori while Lori was at her peak.
Michell is of course the supreme skater!
But Lori makes her skaters look like having more artistry than the artistry 'they each have inside'. (Look at the past season's Caro's beautiful LP.)
Lori is really great.
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Why does Lori make a hack of herself so often by doing programs for musical pieces she has already done? She has not done anyone, except perhaps Rachael, any favors with these rehashings of old Kwan programs. Do the skaters come to her with these famous Kwan selections and ask for a program? Or does Lori pick them?
To name just a few:
Kostner- SOTBS
Yoshie Onda - Red Violin
Rachael Flatt- East of Eden
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Wait...Yoshie Onda skated to the Red Violin?
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Most of these attempts have suffered by comparison.
Even the best choreography needs the right interpreter to "bring it to life" and show its' ultimate potential.
Mao's Nocturne SP is one of my all times faves. I don't think it's too late for Mao to try Lori or any other choreographer that brings out the artistry in her. Mao was very young (16?) when she skated to Nocturne and it was magical, but no, I did not mean she needed Lori in her formative years; they just happened to be there. I don't think Yukina Ota can be compared here because I always saw her a natural artist (like Oksana Baiul), and she could get into any music she skated to, at a young age.
About Michelle & Lori I do agree with you somewhat that the combination had become somewhat stale (though I would have happily watched it). It was also understandable that Michelle wanted to try something different at that point in her career. I was not particularly impressed with Sara Kawahara's approach to Scheherzade. Like you said, the intricacy is not as important as the musical interpretation itself, and Michelle did well even without intricate choreography because she could bring out the soul of the music through her skating.
"Once you've skated together long enough, and you're really good friends, you can close your eyes, put your hand out and she's right there." Joe Dolkiewicz, 2011 US Novice Pairs Bronze Medalist
I've been thinking of starting a "New CDs for Lori Nichol" charity event. Any interest in participating?
I think Yukina Ota, as talented as she was, benefitted greatly from Dickson's choreography. In my opinion, he is one of the best yet underrated choreographers. He really knows how to highlight the particular strengths of a skater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzYhGRjWXPM is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion.
i agree with you that choreographers can truly help a skater, but dickson's more recent program did nothing for caroline zhang (although his earlier program for her--spanish gypsy (06-07?) was widely praised.
in the mao forum there's been discussion about how much credit or blame a choreographer should receive. some say if only mao landed her jumps, you'd see how great the choreography she received from tat was.
i don't think it's that simple--though the people who pan morozov's choreography for miki might say something like, look what consistently landing jumps can do for a program with basically sucky COP smart choreography--look at that PCS!
i happen to think it was both dickson and yukina--i've seen his geisha program for liza t (future russian super star) --along with his work for zhang--and i was underwhelmed. i believe a choreographer can do a lot, but the skater must have something special to contribute too--both must contribute enough to achieve something like, oh, critical mass someone said dickson did masterful programs for matt savoie--i need to really look at those programs, increase the number of dickson programs i get to watch. sad to say i was not impressed with dickson's tango de roxanne program for yeonah kim that everybody else in the world loves, even though i also like YNK.
anyway, just as it was both yukina and dickson, it was both michelle and lori--but more michelle than lori. with other choreographers--even bezic--michelle could have blossomed--it may not have taken place in the 95-96 season necessarily, but i saw a real gift for musical interpretation even in song of india and other very early MK programs (yeah, yeah, lori had her hand in those too, but i don't recall anybody hailing MK's artistry back in those pony-tailed days
anyway, i don't think michelle needed lori to 'bring out' her artistry--she needed the schtick--the thick make-up and the biblical theme--something dramatic, like a knock on the judges' heads so that they wouldn't see her as mere child anymore. however, i am NOT--repeat--NOT--a fan of the accelerated path michelle, frank, and lori embarked upon. i am an MK fan through and through, but i wanted lu chen to win in 1996 and i still prefer that program to MK's salome to this day, extra triple jump though MK threw in.
i rambled again *slaps head* as for lori's greatness today, i'll consider her 'great' again when she creates something on the order of sale and pelletier's 'la vie en rose.' i adore mao's liebestraum program, but it too, has a slight musty odor, reminiscent of caroline zhang's nutcracker atrocity.
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If an idiot chases a butterfly into a busy street, and just so happens to avoid every single car in the process, does that make him any less of an idiot?
ftl wrote:If Banhammer's just an idiot, how come his side's stayed alive for so long?
GJC wrote:Two guys with basically the same name in a discussion about a character getting cloned.
There's gotta be a good joke in here somewhere.
Kreistor wrote:Salem wrote:Kreistor wrote:Anyway, this Speculation about Tools having Primary associations to schools is clearly and obviously false without a lot more supportable statements in the comic.
I just find this statement off. I mean how can something be obviously false if it's possible that more evidence might support it. The two clauses are kind of a contradiction.
Two ways...
lacks the same punch, but so it goes."Anyway, this Speculation about Tools having Primary associations to schools is clearly and obviously speculative without a lot more supportable statements in the comic."
Cubbins wrote:Just how full of herself -is- Olive, anyway?
You forget that Stanley isn't especially bright or studious, and hasn't spent much time trying to figure out more powers of the 'hammer.Kreistor wrote:Sorry, no. That was an old argument, but ended when the Tool listed the properties and their schools. The only property which is Carnymancy is the flash with the lightning. The lightning is shockamancy. Walnuts to birds is Changamancy. And so on. It has never been stated to provide unmatched "carnymancy", esopecially since we now have a definition for Carnymancy. Carnymancy is the magic of fooling people, and Stanley fooled no one.
Supported, even if not concrete. Charlie may have been an Efbaum caster unit.Kreistor wrote:There is unsupported speculation that Charlie is a Thinkamancer, now that we know Casters can Rule.
There's been reasonable Chekhov's gun placement to suggest that there will be four arkentools, which will be used by their four attuned wielders to form the first quad-caster link.bladestorm wrote:"Four known Arkentools" doesn't mean that there would only ever be four, or that the four would always be the same. I still like the theory tat there are more than four, and the others just haven't been discovered yet.
Zeroberon wrote:So we know with 100% certainty that THIS IS HOW TRI-LINKS WORK, PERIOD END OF STORY.
Cubbins wrote:Actually I just noticed that Olive specifically called Judy "Judy," very snappishly, and not "my lady" or "overlord." Even as the heir, that's extremely disrespectful.
I mean, do you imagine Stanley ever having called King Saline IV 'Saline' to his face, even when upset and after being named heir? I'm betting he said 'Yer Majesty' or 'King'; there seems to be some text evidence of him still referring to King Saline as 'the King' and 'King Saline', not just 'Saline', well after he was an Overlord himself (Book 2-027). Note that this is -Stanley- we're talking about, the one with a social IQ deep in the negatives and an Ego Waffle the size of a megalogwiff.
Just how full of herself -is- Olive, anyway?
To be fair, she's making a bid for being the second most remarkable individual in Erfworld after Parson. The Arkentool wielders will probably win out when all of the fate points are added up at the end, but achieving level 12 and approximating world domination without attunement is pretty, well... epic.Cubbins wrote:Just how full of herself -is- Olive, anyway?
drachefly wrote:Nice little essay. Just one thing about it - those times when we were wrong... we were wrong.
If you see enough wiggle room that something might be true, then don't say it's obviously not so. If you do, you're already wrong, regardless whether it turns out to be true or not.
effataigus wrote:Come to think of it, I'd be curious to find out how she got to level 12 in a system so focused on gaining experience through warfare that it doesn't credit letting your enemies choke on Pyrrhic "victories." Mebbe all that casting in a linkup... which makes me wonder about Maxwell
Whispri wrote:One thing to bear in mind, is that the Prediction relating to the death of Haffaton's Ruler is almost certainly the only reason Judy is still alive.
joosy wrote:Vanvidum wrote:Anyone else notice Judy's use of the word 'kill' rather than 'croak'? She sounded sober and aware here, so I wonder if the shoes have any impact on the effects of the flowers.
It is the second time she has used it. The first time it was used, Jillian noted how odd the word was.
joosy wrote:I believe Olive is both Chief Warlord and Chief Caster as well as Heir.
drachefly wrote:joosy wrote:I believe Olive is both Chief Warlord and Chief Caster as well as Heir.
Yeah, I was wondering about that assertion people have been making around here - a CWL who, though a commander, isn't actually a warlord? Seems odd.
mortissimus wrote:effataigus wrote:Come to think of it, I'd be curious to find out how she got to level 12 in a system so focused on gaining experience through warfare that it doesn't credit letting your enemies choke on Pyrrhic "victories." Mebbe all that casting in a linkup... which makes me wonder about Maxwell
According to the Ossomer execution scene you do get XP for executing prisoners. So one pretty safe way to level casters would be to bring them out for execution duty.
joosy wrote:So far my assumption has been that all heirs are Chief Warlords but.. could you pop more than one heir? That seemed to be the case with Jetstone. I could be wrong, but I believe they had both Ossomer and Ansom as heirs but only Ansom was Chief Warlord. When Ansom was croaked, Ossomer replaced him as heir and Chief Warlord. Perhaps there is an order for heirs? (Primary, secondary, etc.) but without being Chief Warlord the secondary and tertiary ones would be free to work against them to try to advance. Of course, I could be overthinking things.
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April 23, 2013 | WMFE - Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said Tuesday afternoon that four suspicious devices found near the Waterford Lakes Shopping Center have been ruled harmless. The area on Alafaya Trail near State Road 408 returned to business as usual after a morning of evacuations, road closures and a massive law enforcement response.
[Image: Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings speaks to the media at Waterford Lakes Shopping Center during the investigation into four reported suspicious devices]
Demings described two of the devices as a backpack full of tools and a cylinder-shape piece of metal with wires. He said none of the four were any threat to the public, and they were not connected in any way.
Earlier Tuesday, the Orange County Sheriff's Office Mobile Investigation Unit was on the scene, surrounded by patrol cars and deputies during the four-hour investigation. Orange County's bomb squad was sweeping the area with a robot and bomb-sniffing dogs. Orange County Fire Rescue responders were also assisting.
About twenty stores were evacuated in and around the Waterford Lakes Shopping Center during the investigation, as well as a nearby daycare center. The center's sixty children were shepherded into the Waterford Lakes Regal Cinema to wait for their parents.
The first suspicious device was reported just after 8:00 Tuesday morning at Victoria Place Apartments, a community close to Waterford Lakes. Subsequent calls to Orange County Sheriff's Office reported additional devices behind the Best Buy in Waterford Lakes, beneath a car in the shopping center's parking lot, and near the daycare center.
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Thief River Falls - Ernest Gilbertson, 85, died on Wednesday, January 26, at Northwest Medical Center, CNC Unit, Thief River Falls.
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Ernest James Gilbertson was born May 19, 1919 in Flandreau, S.D., the son of Hjalmer and Bertha (Ellingson) Gilbertson. He attended school in Flandreau.
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Le BONHEUR comme indice d'épanouissement social et économique.
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Design participatif : méthodes, théories, approches multimédia.
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Depuis plus de cent ans, le logement Hlm à Paris contribue à la fabrique de la ville dans ses dimensions urbaines et sociales. La capitale compte aujourd'hui près de 187 000 logements sociaux, dont la moitié environ est gérée par Paris Habitat-OPH.
Depuis le logement de masse de la ceinture rouge, jusqu'aux opérations d'insertion urbaine fi ne pratiquées aujourd'hui, les réalisations de Paris Habitat-OPH témoignent de l'histoire du logement social, et des innovations sociales et architecturales dont celui-ci est porteur. Elles participent aussi de l'histoire du développement de la capitale et de ses mutations.
Aujourd'hui, un quart de la population parisienne vit dans le logement social, qui répond à une mission d'intérêt général et s'inscrit dans une volonté de maintien de la mixité sociale dans la capitale.
Architects: Richard Meier and Partners, New York, USA
Steven Holl discusses reid building at Glasgow school of art - designboom | architecture & design magazine
in collaboration with creative agency spirit of space, steven holl architects has created two short films which document the practice's work at the glasgow school of art, which opened in april 2014.
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The Twilt Tower – twisted and tilted, is a design proposal by Paolo Venturella. The site for the tower is "E.U.R." (Esposizione Universale Roma, in 1942) and is provoked by the "Eurosky tower" by Franco Purini, in author's opinion a strange, box-like residential tower with photovoltaic panels on top, not integrated in overall design at all. That creates a design where the shape does not come out from its function, they state at Paolo Venturella Architects, and this further generates deep idiosyncrasy against this architecture. What they propose is to make it fall down and replace with a similar in the function but radically different in the shape tower.
"GOOD NEWS! We've reached the sixth floor!" Apart from our motley crew of lamps that included an old Nokia cellphone screen, it was absolute darkness. It wasn't really a staircase. That's far too generous a term. More a collection of rusty steel ladders. Later, on our way back down, we timed the descent to the basement. It took 20 minutes, and it probably takes about double that to reach the roof of the tower component of perhaps the world's most spectacular abandoned building: the former Bulgarian Communist Party Headquarters known as Buzludzha.
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For small firms, design competitions can often feel like a Catch22 - enter and lose precious time and resources (usually for nothing) or avoid them – at the risk of losing out on the "big break." Now a new class at Harvard's Graduate School of Design takes on just this quandary, as well as the many other practical, theoretical, and moral implications of architectural competitions for the profession. Learn more at this article at the Harvard Gazette.
ScanLAB Projects: large scale 3D SCANNING services, capturing precisely measured, beautifully coloured digital replicas of buildings, landscapes, objects and events.
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Les meilleurs projets seront élus par un jury qui va analyser les moindres détails pendant trois jours en Octobre. Les 20 projets ont été choisis...
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Comme dirait ... Rem Koolhaas: 'Architecture has become a TOTAL FICTION'
ArchDaily has been asking architects "What is Architecture?" for over 6 years. It's a question that few interviewees answer without hesitation or bristling. But after asking over 200 architects, we've noticed a pattern: even though many people start very similarly, the answers soon diverge in a way that demonstrates the promise of the profession. And no matter how architecture is defined, the strong majority of architects hold an underlying belief in its ability to influence.
When the ArchDaily team visited the Venice Biennale and entered the Central Pavilion of the Giardini, home to the Elements exhibition, we saw it as a dynamic, immersive, exhaustive response to the question "What is Architecture?" Visitors to the Biennale are introduced to architecture through its elements–the pieces, parts and fundamentals that comprise built structures around the globe.
When Koolhaas chose to focus on Elements, he produced a text (in both book and exhibition format) that gives us the tools to understand what architecture is and how is it has evolved (or stagnated). Even though he didn't invite people to show projects in the traditional sense, the AD editors saw a hopeful undertone to Elements — it is a resource that can be revisited over and over again, one that will arm the current and future designers of our built world with the knowledge they'll need to address the issues they have yet to even confront.
1week1project proposes ALTERNATIVE use for Brazil's world cup stadiums - designboom | architecture & design magazine
'casa futebol' by 1week1project proposes the reappropriation of the stadiums renovated or built for the 2014 world cup in brazil.
Rob|Arch 2014 Wrap-Up
by Robots in Architecture|on July 14, 2014
Rob|Arch 2014 was a GREAT success, we want to thank the conference chairs Wes McGee and Monica Ponce de Leon from the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, as well as their entire team, especially Deniz McGee and Aaron Willette for hosting such a perfect conference. We also want to thank our more than 200 (!!!) attendees from all around the world, especially those who actively contributed workshops and papers to the Rob|Arch community. Finally our thanks go out to our industry partners – main conference sponsor KUKA, main workshop sponsors ABB, as well as Stäubli and Schunk.
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robarch 2014 wrapup. with videos of workshops. real research of what robots can do for art and architecture now
A. Perry Homes's curator insight, July 15, 11:50 AM
We are moving faster than ever to create technology, robots, that are architectually gifted.
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La noticia surgió la semana pasada cuando se publicó que el gobierno de Venezuela estaba en conversaciones con inversionistas chinos interesados en comprar el edificio de 45 plantas, que fue diseñado originalmente para una organización financiera en la década de 1990, pero que quedó sin terminar después de la muerte del creador.
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FIGMENT has teamed with the ENYA of AIANY and SEAoNY to host a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion on Governors Island, the City of Dreams Pavilion
Le député PS, rapporteur aujourd'hui à l'Assemblée d'une mission consacrée à l'architecture contemporaine, détaille leurs propositions.
About Death By Architecture
Death By Architecture (DBA) began in 1995 as the personal web page of Mario Cipresso, an undergraduate architecture student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. By 1997 Death By Architecture had become the preeminent site for architecture competition information on the internet. Joining with several other like-minded sites in Europe, DBA was a founding partner of the International Competition Network in 1998.
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Patrick McLoughlin is one of the two founders of Build Abroad, a volunteer organization that offers architectural and construction services to developing nations. In this article, originally published on Archi-Ninja, McLoughlin shares five reasons why architects should get involved with organizations like his own.
Many architecture firms collaborate with non-government organisations to help in developing nations. A.gor.a Architects for example, are currently designing and building a new health clinic to provide free healthcare to Burmese refugees and migrants. Auburn University Rural Studio works with architects and students to build homes in rural communities while instigating community-action, collaboration, and sustainability.
A number of organisations also facilitate construction volunteering. Architecture for Humanity provides architecture, planning and project management services for disaster reconstruction. Architects without Borders is a global operation to provide ecologically sensitive and culturally appropriate design assistance to communities in need.
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It's hard to know what's real and what's fake inside the worlds Justin Plunkett creates. That rusted merry-go-round-like structure in the above photo? That's a real-life playground in the Cape Town neighborhood of Lavender Hill. The monolithic roller coaster behind it? A product of Plunkett's 3-D animation skills.
In his recent Con/struct series, Plunkett, a Cape Town designer and creative director, has created a Mad Max fantasy world, filled with tottering skyscrapers made of refuse from a bygone era. Each of his images is the result of multiple photographs layered together with computer-generated illustrations. Plunkett had been amassing a collection of photographs taken in some of the most down-and-out neighborhoods of Cape Town. "I had been photographing places and environments for a while with no particular agenda or plan for them," he says. He'll take a tire from one, a metal container from another, the sky from a different photograph and then construct an illustrated architectural structure in the middle of it.
Architectural fantasy stimulates the architect's activity, it arouses creative thought not only for the artist but it also educates and arouses all those who come in contact with him; it produces new directions, new quests, and opens new horizons
— Iakov Chernikhov, 192
Chernikhov is a pioneer, a trail-blazer of new themes in graphic art, and also, in part, of new modes of graphic design
— Erikh Gollerbakh, 1930
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Guernica - Hiroshima. 1937-1945. Deux villes martyres, deux bombardements. Le premier annonce les ravages de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le second marque sa fin. Ainsi s'ouvre l'exposition "L'architecture en uniforme", réalisée par l'historien Jean-Louis Cohen, auteur en 2011 d'un ouvrage éponyme. Dessins, plans, affiches et films de propagande à l'appui, elle dépeint les avancées et les ambigüités du premier des arts en pleine guerre, qui, comme d'autres disciplines, eut ses dévoyés et ses justes. Elle rappelle, aussi, l'impact de la guerre sur les techniques et l'esthétique.
Du Bauhaus au nazisme
Le Bauhaus, écrin moderniste jusqu'à sa liquidation par les nazis, résume ces extrêmes. Exilé aux Etats-Unis, dans la School of Design qu'il a fondée à Chicago, László Moholy-Nagy enseigne l'art du camouflage. Otto Brandenberger conçoit les baraques métalliques en demi-tonneaux Quonset, qui hébergeront les GI's, puis deviendront les premiers "bidonvilles" pour sans-abri dans les ruines de l'après-guerre. Erich Mendelsohn dessine et meuble un "village allemand" pour permettre à l'US Air Force de tester les effets du napalm…
Although construction was never completed, "The Helix" in Caracas is one of the most important relics of the Modern movement in Venezuela. The 73,000 square meter project – designed in 1955 by Jorge Romero Gutiérrez, Peter Neuberger and Dirk Bornhorst – takes the form of a double spiral topped by a large geodesic dome designed byBuckminster Fuller. It was characterized by a series of ascending and descending ramps meant to carry visitors to its variety of programmatic spaces - including 320 shops, a 5 star hotel, offices, a playground, a television studio and a space for events and conventions.
Today, Project Helix seeks to rescue the urban history and memory of the building through a series of exhibitions, publications and educational activities
[Londres, Reino Unido] Rascacielo orgánico crece a medida que sus residentes reciclan - Plataforma Arquitectura
Rascacielo orgánico crece a medida que sus residentes reciclan
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Inspirado en el crecimiento vegetativo y el andamiaje de bambú de Asia, Thomas Corbasson y VS-A han propuesto un proyecto conceptual de un rascacielos orgánico paraLondres, que incorporará los residuos producidos por sus ocupantes. El edificio se elevará verticalmente a medida que el vidrio y el papel necesario para la construcción sea desechado por los residentes del edificio. Se estima que el material reciclado sea suficiente para que la fachada del edificio se pueda producir en un año. El proyecto obtuvo una mención especial en una reciente Competencia de Rascacielos y Super rascacielos.
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Design collective Penda has developed a concept for a flexible, portable hotel made from rods of bamboo, designed to bring guests closer to nature.
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Here's the interview witn Nathalie and Fabian after SD at Nationals http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg6...ce-tours_sport
Could I ask anybody to translate? Thanks.
Here's the interview witn Nathalie and Fabian after SD at Nationals http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg6...ce-tours_sport
Could I ask anybody to translate? Thanks.
As far as I know from FFSG documentation, one of the technical specialists were the very good hungarian specialist, Ms. Zsófia Kulcsár (attended at men SP, LP, ladies SP, LP).
But do you have any idea why they invited an outsider specialist to the French Nationals? I didn't hear any kind of scandal or sg what should have justified this action. (I mean the Hungarian Skating Federation - MOKSZ - invites an outsider specialist or controller if there is any kind of suspection about favouring someone or not favouring someone).
Any news?
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I fricken HOPE this is true.It would mean Ponsero is planning on a 2012 comeback
Nathalie : We skated without apprehension. We were maybe not as sharp technically as we were for the Grand Prix or the GP Finale. Our goal today wasn't to present something hyper-clean, but just to meet again with the French public, that was the most important thing. I think that this SD wasn't techincally perfect but it was skated relatively well, [well] danced and moving.
- You look a bit tired now that we've reached the end of the mid-season...
Fabian : True, these championships are our 7th competition this season, it's starting to be a bit wearing but we are delighted to be back on a 56 x 26 [meters] rink, which means Olympic size. All in all, I think that lately we proved we could perform in all the competitions we did so we are going to do it again, right ?
Nathalie : Of course. We are tired because we're just back from Beijing, we have had no time to rest, we have to cope with let lag again. Honestly, the legs are OK and the most positive thing these days is we have a very strong mind. So, although we are physically tired, we live through this [competition] without stress nor pressure.
- Do you think/feel that this first half of season is heavier, regarding competitions but also your performances and results ? Do you thinkl you've reached a new milestone ?
Fabian : I think that both [the competitions and performances + results]helped us but the most important thing is that the two programs we built this season are made to our measure and above all, that we really want to skate them every time [at every competition]. We have no apprehension while skating and I think that, for our mental [comfort], it's also a good thing to be able to say : we love our programs, we are going to give our all to it.
Nathalie : We added two international competitions [to our schedule] at the beginning of the season to validate our SD, it was essential.
Fabian : And it was not...
- You changed it.
Nathalie : Yes, we did, but see, it was a good thing, it means we had enough time to do it. True, our objectives were mainly Bompard Trophy and the GP Finale and now, we're a bit in the 'trough of the wave', but the performance is still there.
- Is the French title important to you ?
Nathalie : Yes, yes it's important because even if the [main] goal is to win the European title, we couldn't compete [at Nationals] last year due to an injury and it was impossible to give up on this title for two years [in a row].
Fabian : It's important because we are abroad all the time, we train in Moscow, most of our competitions are abroad except for Bompard Trophy. So it's important to say we think of you [the public], here we are and we are going to do good to please you.
Nathalie : There is the audience, the federation and also the judges. At Bompart Trophy, there was only one French judge. Here the best French judges are present.
"I missed the view and viewed the mist..." ©
A big, well, HUGE thank you to all the people who read my interview of Péchalat/Bourzat @ Annecy-Infosports last spring. It is, to this day, the page that has been visited the most during the entire year 2010 ! Figure skating fans are really THE BEST. Thank you again !! . The site is about many other sports and I would never have thought that an ITW of Fskaters would generate the 2010 greatest number of hits ! Thanks to Nathalie and Fabian too
"I missed the view and viewed the mist..." ©
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cholla, I've just noticed your translation, sorry! And thank you so much for that!
And for the interview too, I love it.
Very interesting ! Thanks Cholla !
I'm not sure if this was already posted in another thread, but TF1 has a short video of Nathalie and Fabian after they won Euros.
The floppy ear hats around :47 and Oleg Volkov yelling "Sabotage!" during a training session in Moscow at 1:03 are brilliant.
cholla, the Annecy website is 'undergoing maintenance.' Hopefully it gets back online soon. I'd love to read the interviews.
Hopefully the re-pruned and re-edited news after Berne will show up soon, as well .
Has the FFSG named its team for Worlds yet?
Candice Didier just won the Ladies' competition at the Winter Universiade with a Total Score of 144.08. (Her ISU Total Personal Best Score is 135.25.) That's significantly higher than the best scores Silete and Méité have earned.
Wow. Congratulations, Candice!
My job requires me to be a juggler, but that does not mean that I enjoy working with clowns.
Candice had an ugly fall on her 3toe in the program and landed in the splits. She finished the rest of the program (only about 1 minute left), but she was reclining/almost laying down in the KnC, looking much like she did at World a couple of years ago. They had to get about 3 coaches and someone who I assume was the team doctor in the KnC to help move her.
I would think she won't get named to any World teams or the like until it turns out she's ok first. Fingers crossed she is. Girl seems to have the worst possible timing when it comes to injuries.
^ Damn. That poor girl sure has had more than her share of ugly falls. (((Candice)))
My job requires me to be a juggler, but that does not mean that I enjoy working with clowns.
Candice actually rotated the jump to land on one foot, but from what I could see her free leg was low to the ice and she was late getting it out on the landing. And then her right edge caved in. So her right leg was going in one direction once she lost the edge and the left was still swinging out going in a different direction. I think she was pretty lucky to fall straight down because that's how you could do serious knee damage.
You're right about freak falls like hers not happening very often, though. Thankfully!


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A couple years ago I made a fundamental change in my computer and gaming setup, and I've decided that I want to go back to a computer for my gaming needs. A bit of background and then my planned setup.
So up until a couple years ago I'd always been an avid PC gamer, used the console for racing games and the like but all my 'real' gaming was done on a PC, I always preferred the more precise controls and superior graphics a PC offered.. I spent years and lots of money constantly tweaking and upgrading...and troubleshooting, lots and lots of troubleshooting. I hit a point a couple years ago where I decided I'd had enough and wanted to simplify things, so I decided to buy products better suited for my individual needs of gaming and computing.
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Case - Bitfenix Prodigy
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Motherboard - Asus P8Z77-i Deluxe
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CPU - Intel i5 3570K
I was debating between the i5 and i7 and every bit of evidence I could find says that for strictly gaming, the i7 doesn't really improve on the i5. The i7 is better for media editing and such, but for gaming the i5 is on par with the i7. I'm going with the 3570K because they're readily available and unlocked for overclocking.
Cooling - Corsair H100i in push-pull configuration
I'll use the fans that come in the case for overall system cooling, but am going with a liquid cooling system in the H100i for the CPU. There's room in the case for the 240" radiator, so the H100i is the perfect fit. Since the case is small cooling is going to be a key factor, and seems like the H100i is good. It's a fully self contained cooling system which is a must for me, if there are better options than the H100i let me know.
RAM - Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3
This is one area I could use some advice, don't really know much about memory these days.
Graphics Card - eVGA GTX 670 Signature 2
This is the part of the system where there's probably the most debate and discussion. The prevailing opinion seems to be that the 670 is a better value than the 680 since it can usually be clocked to near 680 speeds. The bigger argument seems to be on these cards vs the AMD 7970. It's a tough decision, but since it's so close the tie breaker for me is eVGA, I've had excellent service with them and all other things being near equal I'll go with them over another company. If anyone has a compelling argument against the 670 I'm all ears.
This is the area where things have changed the most in the last couple years I've been out of the computer game, and where I could use some help. I need to hit up Anandtech and get my read on, but I'm probably going to start with a single 256GB drive and then when that drive reaches 70% capacity or so I'll add in a second drive. There are tons of options out there, but there seem to be a handful of chipsets, some of which are better than others and some seem to be better suited for certain things. So I've got some research to do here...
With those parts I should be able to reach a 4.5Ghz overclock fairly easily, so that's my goal. I think that covers it. If all goes well I should end up with a very capable gaming computer that's also fairly small and portable.
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Thief River Falls - Phyllis M. Peterson, 83, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, July 14, 2012.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, July 20 at the United Methodist Church in Thief River Falls.
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