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As a bit of a self-indulgent TV journalist, I have to admit, I have become a sucker for feedback. In fact, one of the first things I do after a show is over and even before our team does an editorial post-mortem of the day's work, is to scan my Twitter timeline. And even though it usually has random things like someone hating my hair or the colour of my kurta, I just like the fact that someone watched our work and felt provoked to write about it. It's much nicer to hear that your story touched a chord, but in the absence of that, any engagement feels welcome. Maybe, it's because I started working at a time when the only way of getting feedback was letters to the editor and those were usually about loftier issues that affected the country, rather than response to reporters' stories.
But, much as I love the write back, this past week, I seem to have unwittingly entered into a debate by saying that I won't let it affect my work. And while some perceive it as arrogance, and others may think it's like burying my head in the sand, here's why I believe we shouldn't let feedback dictate our journalism.
First of all, when you are talking about doing journalism based on feedback, how do you determine which feedback to take? Do you go by the day's top trending stories — which on a day like today would mean that I focus only on Karva Chauth or Hurricane Sandy? No, that would be really silly. Karva Chauth, most would agree, is a puff piece and is only a story about those in north India. But then, if so many people are talking about it, maybe I should explore the sociology of the opposing traditional-feminist narratives of this ritual. That would ensure that I've produced well-researched, cerebral work which also has much resonance, right? Don't be silly, the ethical-moral brigade will admonish me. Report the real issues that affect the country— issues like violence against women, education, health, issues that affect the grassroots and those who have illiteracy as a problem and so cannot even write to me as feedback.
What I'm trying to say is that deciding the news agenda is a complex call that's taken by experienced editors. Even in the same newsroom, news judgements vary deeply from one editor to the next and often lead to intense debates on the focus of a news story. But, it's a call that the editor concerned takes and if asked, can explain and can stand by his or her decision. So, for instance, one news organisation decides to lead with the news of Hurricane Sandy because they feel it is the biggest story of the day and it affects a large number of Indians who live in America or have family there. Isn't it as legitimate as the other news organisation's viewpoint which decided to lead with Arvind Kejriwal's allegations about Reliance and as legitimate as that of the one who decided to lead with the impact of Cyclone Nilam? For all of us in the news business, it's always a tricky balance between what we think you want to know and what we think you should know.
For instance, are you interested in the internal dynamics of the social justice and empowerment ministry? If I do a poll, most will say no, but then isn't it my job as a reporter to figure out how those boring, bureaucratic tussles are affecting crucial schemes like the anganwadi scheme?
And you don't have to be a reporter to figure out that the piece of news will affect a significant number of people. And it's much more of a slog to dig out things that aren't in the public domain or part of the discourse.
The biggest whine about mainstream media seems to be questioning why certain stories are covered and certain stories aren't. While all scrutiny and criticism is welcome, it cannot be setting editorial priorities. The reporter on the BJP beat will have to continue to look critically and objectively at the opposition party however unpopular that makes him with supporters of that party.
And the reporter on the Congress beat, like I am, has to do the same. Unfortunately, of course, people choose what they want to see. So when I interviewed Sunanda Tharoor this week because she was the newsmaker of the day, her target, Narendra Modi's supporters, chose to overlook how I asked her about the sexist comments of senior Congress leaders like Sushilkumar Shinde and Sriprakash Jaiswal.
But that's fine, I guess I am in the business of mass media, and not amassing support.
Sunetra Choudhury is an anchor/reporter for NDTV and is the author of the election travelogue Braking NewsOn Twitter: @sunetrac


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"I want to thank the President for nominating me to serve in his Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce. This was a great honor, and I had felt that I could bring some views and ideas that would assist him in governing during this difficult time. I especially admire his willingness to reach across the aisle."
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How do I repair a large hole in a sweater? It's a square hole.When I try to sew it together the sides of the square become unraveled. The top and bottom are ok. If someone can help, Iwould greatly appreciate it. Tanks so much. Nanoo25
hi nan,
where is the hole located? Is it in an obvious noticeable place on the sweater? You could use some water solulable facing until you finish stitching and then when you dip it into water the facing will dissolve and your repaired stitching will remain. This may help you to hold the edges in place while repairing with stitching.
If the hole is in a less noticeable place, you could use permanents facing and if you have some of the same yarn from the sweater, use it to weave over the facing. Hope something works for you.
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Thank you for the information. Here are a couple of pictures so you can see what a mess it is. Thanks again. Nancy
Hi Nancy,
It seems to be a little larger than I imagined, but now that I see it, I am wondering if it woudn't be better to just pick up those stitches on the botton and see how far up you can knit them back and upward into the sides as you go up. Or you could could get some fabric with a design of similar color or a large print and just sew it on. At least the hole will be covered up and keep from unraveling any further. I guess it depends on what type or wear you be wearing this sweater. If it's to work or out as a nice outfit, you may not want to do that. But if you just wear around home or errands, it may not matter that much. So I am curious to hear what you will try and how it works out for you? Is this one front side of the sweater, under the sleeve? I can't tell too well.
It is a pretty color and nice looking yarn.
It's closer to the sleeve on the frontside. I will try to stablize and try to pick up the stitches on the side. The sweater was for my mother and it was my very first try at a sweater.I love the color too and it is Red Heart Super Saver. N
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2004 American Quarter Horse Stakes Schedule Set At Sam Houston Race Park
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March 23, 2004 - An extended season of live American Quarter Horse racing gets underway Friday, April 23, 2004 at Sam Houston Race Park. The 95-day meet will feature live racing Friday - Sunday in April, May and June and shifts to Thursday - Sunday on July 29. Post time is 7 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and 5 p.m. post time for Sunday. Live racing will conclude on Saturday, November 6, 2004 with the running of the prestigious MBNA America® Challenge Championships.
Racing secretary Eric Johnston announced that Sam Houston Race Park will offer 45 stakes races with purses in excess of $1,000,000 in addition to the 13 MBNA Challenge Championship stakes races worth an additional $1 million.
With the extended meet, several of the key stakes races have been moved from their traditional dates. The $75,000 MBNA Texas Challenge Championship (G1), which is usually run in July, will be moved to Saturday, May 29 to coincide with Memorial Day weekend.
"Our goal in writing the 2004 stakes schedule was to create a number of weekends with big events," said Johnston. "Horsemen are thrilled that Sam Houston Race Park will offer its longest American Quarter Horse meet and we look forward to hosting the nationally prominent MBNA Challenge Championships in November."
One of the biggest nights of the American Quarter Horse meet is the Texas Summer Showdown, which will take place on Friday, July 30, 2004. This event, which has grown in prominence each year, will once again be paired with the TQHA Yearling Sale in the Pavilion Centre on Saturday, July 31 and trials for the TQHA Sires' Cup Futurity are set for Saturday evening.
"We are pleased with the 2004 live racing schedule and the opportunity to showcase American Quarter Horse racing for a six-month period," said Robert L. Bork, president and general manager of Sam Houston Race Park. "This schedule reflects the cooperation of the Texas Racing Commission and the other racetracks in Texas. We were happy to accommodate Lone Star Park so that they could continue in their preparation for the Breeders' Cup. Our local fans will enjoy the combination of live racing on each of the Triple Crown dates; a first in our ten-year history."
Stall applications are currently being accepted and horsemen who are interested in running horses at Sam Houston Race Park this summer may contact the Racing Office at 1-800-807-RACE. Stall applications, stakes schedules and condition books will be available on the Sam Houston Race Park Web site at www.shrp.com.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Raising global awareness for shark conservation, Aquarium of the Bay collected and is sending more than 3,600 individualized letters to the National Marine Fisheries Service, urging international bans on shark finning, which kills an estimated 100 million sharks each year. The letters, many embellished with hand-drawn artwork, were gathered in the Aquarium's special Sherman's Lagoon: Finning Isn't Funny exhibit.
"We're pleased that so many guests were affected by our exhibit, and felt strongly enough about shark finning to sign an individual letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service," says Christina Slager, director of husbandry for Aquarium of the Bay. "We appreciate Jim Toomey's generous contribution to the Aquarium's efforts to educate the public about the brutality of shark finning."
Sherman's Lagoon cartoonist and shark conservationist Jim Toomey worked with the Aquarium to develop the exhibit, which opened from June through August of 2010. Toomey uses his nationally syndicated Sherman's Lagoon comic strip to entertain as well as educate by addressing issues including shark finning.
"The volume and variety of these petitions is proof that there is broad support for better shark management," said Jim Toomey.
Shark finning is a widespread and largely unmanaged fishing practice that has spurred a multi-billion dollar industry. After having their fins cut off, the sharks are often tossed back into the sea still alive, where they die a slow death. Scientists estimate that many shark populations are declining dramatically, some by as much as 95%.
Of the 3,605 letters, 2,676 came from visitors across the United States, and 929 from international guests, with Canada, England and France leading the global charge. The campaign is one of several programs led by the Aquarium to protect, care for and study sharks. Learn more at http://www.aquariumofthebay.org/conservation.aspx?q=10083&c=1.
About Aquarium of the Bay
Aquarium of the Bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit marine nature center affiliated with The Bay Institute. The Aquarium is dedicated to creating experiences that inspire conservation of San Francisco Bay and its watershed. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), and certified as Green Business by the city of San Francisco. Additional information on Aquarium of the Bay is available at www.aquariumofthebay.org, and on The Bay Institute at www.bay.org.
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Etsy Take Five Tuesdays
No you are not seeing things! It really is Wednesday but I missed posting this yesterday – better late than never I guess! How are you today? I hope that you are well. I've been quite busy as I'm on deadline with my book and I leave again on Monday, this time for Belgium and the Netherlands AND London, so I feel a bit hurried to get everything done before I go. But enough talk about work, let's focus on some Etsy shops that I want to share with you for this week.
Lauren Brady of Two Shoes Studio sells original paintings and prints and I'm loving her paintings of shoes. I'd love to see her list more originals, I love the brushstrokes and colors, but most of all, shoes make me happy and I love seeing them painted in this way. P.S. Her new website is finished, and it's lovely!
Valero Doval is a talented mixed media artist from Valencia who recently had his work in the Pool Gallery in Berlin! His work is attracting attention and for good reason… he is brilliant. His "Aerofauna" series, or birds and planes, would be great in a boy's room.
L'Daim Fille is artist Jennifer Parks who lives Portland, Oregon with her son and creates art, "for arts sake". I think her hand drawings are interesting and would love to see some of them in vintage oval black frames arranged on a wall.
Bink & Boo live in coastal southern California and they love to scour thrift shops and estate sales for vintage fabrics to incorporate into their designs, from these fab pocketbooks shown above to bibs and baby shoes. I think all of these patterns could easily inspire a retro kitchen decor, don't you? I love the thought of having a little country cottage with plaid cafe curtains, chairs that don't match painted in bright colors like chartreuse and coral around a vintage modern white tulip table, and some fun tea towels with trims resembling some of the floral patterns above.
Hillary Bird in San Francisco has a very strong brand, the moment you see her work you know its a Hillary Bird creation! If you happen to be in her city this weekend, you can catch her work live at the Renegade Craft Fair at booth 171 from July 31 + August 1 from 11-7 p.m.
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Tina commented
July 28th, 2010 at 3:44am
LOVE the "Aerofauna" – how creative! I may have to get one for one of my sons rooms…
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Will commented
July 28th, 2010 at 5:51am
That 'I Freaking Love You' print is such a wonder! Lovely!
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lene commented
July 28th, 2010 at 6:27am
Incredible artists!
I didn't know them but I love the illustrators that you have blogged!!! :)
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Make, Do & Send commented
July 28th, 2010 at 6:46am
Hillary's work is amazing, i dont think ive come across her before so im sooo happy to find her here :) The colours, textures, shapes and patterns are perfect…everything i love in illustration and art all put together in such a lovely fun way.
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brandeye commented
July 28th, 2010 at 7:04am
what a great collection of shops! i really love the paintings by two shoes studio.
Sharon commented
July 28th, 2010 at 7:40am
These are great picks this week. Thank you for introducing them!
cathie commented
July 28th, 2010 at 7:55am
wonderful selection of art – the shoe series is delightful and would look amazing paired with the "hey man" tie print. best of luck on your trip and with your new book!!!
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Linda commented
July 28th, 2010 at 8:04am
Terrific work! Love the range of styles.
So talented!!
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Stephanie Ryan commented
July 28th, 2010 at 8:41am
Loving Hillary Bird's work! I freaking Love Her!
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Kristan commented
July 28th, 2010 at 8:58am
THANK YOU for introducing me to Hillary Bird! I just found a new favorite illustrator. I adooooore the girl + bear series.
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Kate commented
July 28th, 2010 at 10:14am
Those paintings are so pretty, great finds this week!
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lauren commented
July 28th, 2010 at 11:38am
Hi Holly-
Thank you so much for featuring my paintings! So thrilled you like them and being on your blog is a huge *jump up and down* moment for me!
Erin @ SYL: Slipcover Your Life commented
July 28th, 2010 at 12:40pm
you always find the best stuff! love the Valero Doval prints!
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vanessa@cardstyle commented
July 28th, 2010 at 1:18pm
Love the Bink and Boo bags… so clever that they reuse the fabric to create such adorable clutches! and Hillary Bird… WOW! So fun and whimsical and colorful! I think adore is the right word for how I feel about her pieces
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bink & boo commented
July 28th, 2010 at 2:23pm
Oh my gosh (!!!), thank you for featuring our pocketbooks! We are flattered to be amongst such good company. The artists featured are so talented.
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July 28th, 2010 at 4:15pm
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The Hillary Bird works are incredible! I love the vintage feel to all of these pieces. I could easily see the bird piece at the very bottom as a great defining accent to a room- maybe over a mantel. It would look great with the room you described or with just a plain, simple, understated room as well.


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SS Kenny Phillips was not on the practice field Thursday morning, and an internet report says he may be lost for the season.
ProFootballTalk, citing a league source, says the Giants are contemplating playing the rest of the season without Phillips if he needs surgery to repair cartilage damage in his left knee.
The Giants are taking that "We'll see" attitude but a tryout player who looks very much like a safety got out of a limo in front of the Timex Performance Center a little while ago.
Among the safeties recently cut is Aaron Rouse, a surprising release by the Green Bay Packers earlier this week. Steve Cargile, who was with the Giants during the off-season but released just prior to training camp, also was cut this week by Sunday's opponent, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Phillips did not practice Wednesday after picking off a pair of passes in Sunday night's win over Dallas. He has been bothered by the knee problem since training camp and the Giants said it would be a "managing thing" all season with him.
If the "managing" part continues, Phillips probably will stay on the roster for awhile. Surgery, however, probably would doom him to IR.
The Giants have two rookie free agent safeties, Sha'reff Rashad and Vince Anderson, on their practice squad.


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Critical Essay by Bernard A. Hirsch
SOURCE: "Self-Hatred and Spiritual Corruption in House Made of Dawn," in Western American Literature, Vol. XVII, No. 4, Winter, 1983, pp. 307-20.
In the following essay, Hirsch analyzes the characters of Martinez, Tosamaah, and Benally and their relationships with the protagonist, noting that for these characters Abel is a symbol of contempt and a reminder of their Native selves.
N. Scott Momaday, referring to his protagonist Abel, has said, "None but an Indian, I think, knows so much what it is like to have existence in two worlds and security in neither." True as this is of Abel in House Made of Dawn, it is truer still of Martinez, Tosamah, and Benally because they, unlike Abel, try earnestly to conform to Euro-American social values. Indeed, the strong responses Abel generates in each of these characters indicate their perception of something unyielding and incorruptible in him, something which throws into stark relief the humiliating spiritual compromises they have felt compelled to make. In his suffering Abel is both a sorry example and stinging rebuke to them, a warning and a goad, someone both to fear and reverence, for he reminds them of who and what they are—of what they find most contemptible in themselves and most holy. Martinez, Tosamah, and Benally have been spiritually corrupted to varying degrees by the white world, and to the extent that they have, they make Abel their scapegoat and regard him as an evil to be exorcised.
This scapegoating is most apparent in the case of Martinez who, Ben tells us, is "a cop and a bad one." [The critic adds in a footnote: "Most readers assume that Martinez is white, but given his name and the fact that a number of the novel's Indian characters have Spanish names and/or surnames, it seems more likely that he is at least part Indian or Chicano—if the latter, his situation would nonetheless parallel to a significant extent that of the urban Indians. Moreover, to regard Martinez as white is to reduce him to an overworked stereotype—the sadistic white cop—of the sort that Momaday, in his portrayal of every other white character in the novel, has scrupulously avoided."] He derives his sense of self from the power and authority vested in him by white society. That power, in his eyes, makes him superior to his "brothers" in the street by enabling him to identify with the oppressor and victimize them at will. He acts out his own version of the American Dream with every Indian he extorts, yet his violent response to Abel's slight resistance suggests that he has paid a price for the power he enjoys.
Martinez emerges, appropriately enough, from a dark alley as Ben and Abel are returning home from Henry's bar. Ben meekly complies with Martinez' order to hold out his hands, and he recalls that his hands "were shaking bad and I couldn't hold them still." He had just been paid and he gives Martinez "all I had left." Martinez then notices Abel:
Martinez told him to hold out his hands, and he did, slowly, like maybe he wasn't going to at first, with the palms up. I could see his hands in the light and they were open and almost steady. "Turn them over," Martinez said, and he was looking at them and they were almost steady.
Enraged, Martinez smashes Abel's hands with his nightstick, but Abel "didn't cry out or make a sound." From Benally's description, we can see that it is Abel's attitude rather than his actions that engenders Martinez' wrath. Martinez could not help but notice the contrast between Ben's involuntary shaking and Abel's relative steadiness, and this implied slight to his authority threatens him. His response to it indicates just how precarious his sense of self is, and the extreme viciousness of his later beating of Abel further reveals the self-hatred that is the price of the Anglo authority he covets.
By his mere presence Abel threatens the protective illusions so necessary to Martinez' emotional and psychological survival, and he poses the same threat to Tosamah and Benally. Martha Scott Trimble maintains [in her 1973 N. Scott Momaday] that "the suffering of the urban Indians is … rendered painful to watch because of their reluctance to admit to themselves that they suffer." They are so reluctant because they have been conditioned by the dominant white culture to regard their very suffering as evidence of their own inferiority. Their suffering is at least as productive of guilt as of rage and therefore they have devised what Trimble calls "strategies" to avoid acknowledging that suffering to themselves. By means of these strategies, they seek not only to adapt to white society but to retain while doing so a sense of themselves as free agents making intelligent decisions. They have chosen, in Ben's words, to "go along with it" not out of fear or because they have been seduced by the false promise of the white world, but because, they would believe, it makes sense. And as regards Tosamah and Benally, it is indeed painful to watch them disparage that which they most love and most need—their Indianness.
Tosamah, for instance, tries to better his situation by assuming a superior posture toward it—as is apparent in his use of language. In his first sermon, "The Gospel According to John," Tosamah tries to convince both himself and his congregation that he understands the white man by telling them how the white man conceives of and manipulates language. He says that "the white man deals in words, and he deals easily, with grace and sleight of hand. And in his presence, here on his own ground, you are as children…." Tosamah knows what he is talking about; his assertions are verified by Abel's experience in Los Angeles and Benally's explanation of Abel's language problems. But ironically, Tosamah uses language much as the white man does, and to much the same purpose. In fact, he uses it as Martinez uses fear and violence. Like Martinez, he has carved out a little fiefdom of sorts in the Los Angeles ghetto, and language is his means of controlling it.
By manipulating a variety of verbal styles in "The Gospel According to John," Tosamah keeps his parishioners off balance, dazzling as much as enlightening them. Through an ever-shifting combination of biblical oratory, street talk, exposition, and the simple, direct narrative style of the storyteller, Tosamah tries to relate to his audience on several levels simultaneously, to establish at once his oneness with and superiority to them. He wants to be perceived as a follow Indian sharing a similar culture and values, as a ghetto brother sharing the hardship of the streets, and as a teacher in both the shamanistic and professorial senses. The sermon is full of insight, but it is a masterpiece of verbal gymnastics as well.
Tosamah is perceptive enough to know that the agonizing conflict within himself also exists to varying degrees in the other urban Indians, and he exploits their insecurity and self-doubt to shore up his own tenuous conception of self. Indeed, his need continually to assert himself over the others is one indication of his sense of inadequacy. Like them, he both loves and fears his Indianness, and this entails a roughly similar ambivalence toward the white man. Tosamah sees through the white man to a significant extent and pointedly ridicules his blindness, but like Martinez he also feels a troubling yet insistent need to identify with his oppressor. This need underlies his use of language to intimidate and manipulate the other urban Indians. But he also feels the same need with regard to his heritage and his people. When Tosamah speaks so lovingly, so evocatively in his second sermon, "The Way to Rainy Mountain," of his journey to rediscover his Indian self, we cannot doubt his sincerity. This sermon is longer than his first, and it is free of the verbal gamesmanship that characterizes much of "The Gospel." Still, he needs to be a winner. He sees in his parishioners, and even more clearly in Abel, the fate of Indians in a white world, and he cannot accept such a density. If white society has consigned him, despite his education, intelligence, and talent, to a small, severely limited space, it has at least taught him how to control that space. Like Martinez, he has learned to exalt himself by undermining others. Oppressed, he becomes an oppressor victimizing, as Martinez does, the only people he can—his own.
As Martinez batters Abel's body, so Tosamah batters his spirit, and Momaday, through his use of narrative structure, stresses the parallel between them. The novel's second chapter, "The Priest of the Sun," in effect begins and ends with a sermon by Tosamah. These sermons frame a badly beaten, semiconscious Abel whose murder trial and life in Los Angeles pass in fragments before him. Ironically, Tosamah's second sermon, which recounts his journey to the land of his people, the Kiowa, to visit his grandmother's grave, reveals the path to salvation for Abel, tells how he might be made whole again. But Abel is not there to hear the sermon. Indeed, as we later learn from Benally, it was after Tosamah had earlier humiliated Abel that, in Ben's words, "He went downhill pretty fast …," decided "to get even with" Martinez, and was beaten half to death by him. Tosamah calls himself "Priest of the Sun," and he is sufficiently imaginative, sensitive, understanding, and articulate to be that. But he lives his day-to-day life as Coyote, the trickster who is both culture hero and buffoon. Like Coyote, Tosamah has the capacity to bring spiritual gifts to his people, to be a savior of sorts, but his actions are generally self-centered and done in ignorance—in Tosamah's case, a self-imposed ignorance—of their consequences for the world, his people, and himself. Tosamah is quick to take advantage of others to satisfy his own needs, but because he is himself a slave to those needs (emotional and psychological needs as opposed to Coyote's purely physical ones), he is at times the victim of his own tricks. Coyote is a master of self-deception and, as his own ambivalence toward and treatment of Abel indicates, so is John Big Bluff Tosamah.
Despite his awareness of the beauty and value of his native culture, despite his profound understanding of the nearly overwhelming spiritual problems modern America has created for his people, Tosamah is himself tormented by his Indianness. Abel, in his view, is the incarnation of that Indianness, and as such he fills Tosamah with shame and guilt and reverence. Tosamah, for all his insight into its workings, has been conditioned by the white world and by himself in response to that world to see with two pairs of eyes and the result, at least as regards Abel, is a mélange of contradictory impressions and impulses. For example, Ben remembers Tosamah's warning him about Abel: "He was going to get us all in trouble, Tosamah said. Tosamah sized him up right away…." Perceptive as he is, Tosamah can sense in Abel the unyielding integrity that will make him especially vulnerable in urban Los Angeles, that will keep him from "fitting in"; and that integrity implicitly confronts Tosamah with his own compromising and compromised self.
When Tosamah speaks of Abel's trial, he is both ironic and envious. True, the white society that is puzzled by Abel is the target of his irony, and he ostensibly mocks its view of Abel as "a real primitive sonuvabitch" and a "poor degenerate Indian"; but his own view of Abel, as his warning to Benally and his later psychological attack on Abel make clear, parallels to some extent that of the society he ridicules. Consider in this regard his impression of how Abel's testimony must have sounded to the court:
"'Well, you honors, it was this way, see? I cut me up a little snake meat out there in the sand.' Christ, man, that must have been our finest hour, better than Little Bighorn. That little nocount cat must have had the whole Jesus scheme right in the palm of his hand."
Tosamah's tone conveys both embarrassment and admiration here, but alone with Ben in the privacy of Ben's apartment he lets his admiration show. Of the court's verdict, he says:
"They put that cat away, man. They had to. It's part of the Jesus scheme. They, man. They put all of us renegades, us diehards, away sooner or later…. Listen here, Benally, one of these nights there's going to be a full red moon, a hunter's moon, and we're going to find us a wagon train full of women and children. Now you won't believe this, but I drink to that now and then."
If Ben "won't believe this" it is because the sentiments Tosamah here expresses hardly parallel his actions, and Tosamah knows it. He seeks to identify with Abel, referring to "us renegades, us diehards," and to the white man as "they," but merely to wish now and again for vengeance is an empty gesture. No doubt Tosamah's desire to avenge himself on those who have poisoned his spirit is sincere, but the courage, the spirit of defiance he recognizes in Abel, lies dormant within his own heart. Ben, as he does throughout the novel, undercuts Tosamah's pretentiousness, telling us that "He's always going on like that, Tosamah, talking crazy and showing off…."
Seeing Abel through white eyes, Tosamah finds him embarrassing. Though Tosamah ridicules Anglo cultural arrogance and the stereotypes that feed it, Abel—alcoholic, at times violent, and inarticulate—seems to him to lend credence to the stereotypes; thus Tosamah, educated and articulate as he is, feels misrepresented, degraded by association. This is the "trouble" of which he warns Benally. Seeing Abel through Indian eyes, Tosamah cannot help but admire him as a kind of modern-day warrior who refuses to give in meekly to the torment and tribulations of urban Indian life. But if Tosamah as an Indian is vicariously elevated by Abel's integrity, he is at the same time humbled by the lack of his own. Viewed from either perspective, then, white or Indian, Abel engenders in Tosamah self-contempt so strong that it is beyond enduring; he is anathema to the illusory conception of his own superiority that is Tosamah's primary means of emotional and psychological survival. Therefore, because of the guilt he feels, a guilt stemming from a profound sense of his own inadequacy, he projects upon Abel his own diminished sense of self.
Tosamah needs to tear Abel down and one evening, during a poker game at his place, the opportunity presents itself. In a seemingly expansive mood Tosamah, Ben tells us, was "going on about everything … and talking big." Ben, seeing that this talk bothers Abel, wants to leave, but Abel, already drunk and becoming more so, ignores him. Ben recalls,
I guess Tosamah knew what he was thinking too, because pretty soon he started in on him, not directly, you know, but he started talking about longhairs and the reservation and all. I kept wishing he would shut up, and I guess the others did, too … because right away they got quiet and just started looking down at their hands, you know—like they were trying to decide what to do. I knew that something bad was going to happen.
Abel, too drunk to seriously threaten Tosamah, lunges impotently toward him, and the others, to relieve their own discomfort, laugh at his futility.
Ben tells us that the laughter "seemed to take all the fight out of him. It was like he had to give up when they laughed; it was like all of a sudden he didn't care about anything anymore." Abel's response to the laughter indicates that, though perhaps not consciously aware of it, he attacked Tosamah not merely to avenge a personal insult but to avenge all the Indians at the table and back home, to avenge the honor of his people. Tosamah, who "doesn't come from the reservation" himself, has made the others ashamed of what they are, and when they try to dispel their shame by projecting it onto Abel, Abel's rage loses its foundation and he feels empty and alone. Ben remembers "that he was hurt by what had happened; he was hurt inside somehow, and pretty bad." Tosamah, the Priest of the Sun of the Holiness Pan-Indian Rescue Mission, has lost sight of the needs of his people in pursuit of his own isolated ends and in so doing, as his attack on Abel symbolically suggests, he has violated the very essence of his own Indianness. By shaming his people he has done the white man's work.
Unlike Tosamah, Benally is compassionate towards Abel; he is, from the time of their first meeting, instinctively protective of him. He trains Abel for his new job, introduces him around, and though he has very little himself, readily shares his home, his food, and his clothing. Most important of all, he shares with Abel, and Abel alone, his dearest possession—his native religion. It is Ben's honest, profound spirituality that sets him apart from the other urban Indians. As has often been noted, Ben is the one who has the vision during the peyote ceremony, and whereas Tosamah's understanding of his native culture seems at times largely intellectual, Ben "lives his religion on a level deeper than the intellect, the level of spirit and emotion" [Carole Oleson, "The Remembered Earth: Momaday's House Made of Dawn," South Dakota Review II, No. 1 (Spring 1973)]. Yet there are definite similarities between Ben and Tosamah as well, and to ignore them is to obscure considerably the scope and horror of the spiritual compromises white society, for its own material and psychological convenience, requires of Indians.
Sincere as his religious beliefs are and sensitive as he is, Benally has compromised himself almost as severely as Tosamah has, and this is most apparent from the contradictions in his narrative. Ben is trying earnestly to sell himself on the American Dream in a vain effort to convince himself that the life he feels compelled to live is in fact better and ultimately more fulfilling that the life he knew on the reservation. His pathetic monologue on the wonders of Los Angeles is a case in point:
It's good place to live…. Once you find your way around and get used to everything, you wonder how you ever got along out there where you came from. There's nothing there, you know, but the land, and the land is empty and dead. Everything is here, everything you could ever want. You never have to be alone.
But for all practical purposes Ben, until Abel comes, is alone. He has drinking buddies, true, but no one with whom he can share what is most important to him. Moreover, the "radios and cars and clothes and big houses" which, Ben says, "you'd be crazy not to want" and which are "so easy to have" have managed to elude him. He lives in a leaky, dilapidated slum tenement, gets his clothes second-hand, and is a cipher in the plant where he works. He willfully mistakes the racist ridicule of his co-workers for good-natured kidding and the pseudo-amiable hustle of the salespeople in the stores for friendliness. The extent and cost of his self-deception, however, are most painfully revealed in his comments about the land.
Ben's narrative is punctuated at several points by contrapuntal remembrances which rise unbidden in his mind, memories of growing up on the reservation, on "the land south of Wide Ruins where I come from," on the land he still loves. These recollections are full of precise, beautiful, and evocative details which belie his remark that "the land is empty and dead." The land he recalls is rich with vitality and meaning; it is the sacred center of all life and being. He remembers childhood on the land:
And you were little and right there in the center of everything, the sacred mountains, the snow-covered mountains and the hills, the gullies and the flats, the sundown and the night, everything—where you were little, where you were and had to be.
The vision of the land inherent in his memories is that which contemporary America requires him to abandon, and he tries to do just that. After all, "That's the only way you can live in a place like this [Los Angeles]. You have to forget about the way it was, how you grew up and all." The need to "go along with it" is a recurrent motif in Ben's narrative, and all that gives his life meaning must be subordinated to it:
If you come from the reservation, you don't talk about it much; I don't know why. I guess you figure that it won't do you much good, so you just forget about it. You think about it sometimes, you can't help it, but then you just try to put it out of your mind … it mixes you up sometimes….
But Abel does not let Ben "forget about it." He is to Ben what he is to Tosamah, the incarnation of all that is Indian within him, and Ben intuitively apprehends this. He remarks,
We were kind of alike, though, him and me. After a while he told me where he was from, and right away I knew we were going to be friends. We're related somehow, I think.
Abel's mere presence evokes his memories of home, and the first of Ben's "flashbacks" occurs as he recalls their first real conversation. Ben's history resembles Abel's in certain respects, and his memories [according to Lawrence J. Evers in his "Words and Place: A Reading of House Made of Dawn," Western American Literature XI, No. 4 (February 1977)] "reveal a sense of place very like that Abel groped for on his return to Walatowa." What is especially sad about these memories is that they convey a sense of wholeness and security that contrasts sharply with the fragmented, fear-ridden, tenuous existence Ben now endures. He appears to regain a modicum of that sense with Abel, however; Ben knows that his most precious treasures are safe with him:
"House made of dawn." I used to tell him about those old ways, the stories and the signs, Beauty-way and Night Chant. I sang some of those things and told him what they meant, what I thought they were about.
Abel is wonderfully receptive, as Ben knew he would be, and "would want me to sing like that."
And Abel, Ben fears, is the only one who would. Just as Tosamah finds "longhairs" like Abel an embarrassment to him in the white world, so is Benally, within the context of that world, embarrassed by his own best impulses—and that world includes the other urban Indians. He tells of a night when he and Abel, along with the others, are drinking and having fun on a hill overlooking the city:
… I started to sing all by myself. The others were singing, too, but it was the wrong kind of thing, and I wanted to pray. I didn't want them to hear me, because they were having a good time, and I was ashamed, I guess. I kept down because I didn't want anybody but him to hear.
Only with Abel does Benally feel good about being an Indian; only with Abel can he free his spirit in song and prayer, and see past and future merge into an all-inclusive present. When Abel is in the hospital recovering from his beating, Ben, to comfort him, makes up a plan about going home, about "going out into the hills on horses and alone. It was going to be early in the morning, and we were going to see the sun coming up." There, they would "sing the old songs," sing "about the way it used to be, how there was nothing all around but the hills and the sunrise and the clouds." Ben at first did not take his plan seriously, but Abel "believed in it" and "I guess I started to believe in it, too." Dream and waking reality come together for Ben in Abel's presence, albeit briefly, and the deepest impulses of his spirit are vindicated in Abel's existence. In that respect Abel is truly a blessing for Benally. But they live in a world uncongenial to these impulses, a world contemptuous of vision and song, and in that world Abel also becomes an agonizing problem for Ben.
Ben's Indianness can find expression only through his religion and his friendship with Abel, and in a world hostile to Indians both, Ben feels, must be sheltered and protected. This is one reason why he tries to shepherd Abel as he does at the factory and why he takes him into his home. That Ben truly believes he is acting in Abel's best interest is undeniable, and in a very real sense he is. Abel sorely needs the kind of support Ben provides, and if Tosamah's attempt to isolate Abel is a denial of his own Indianness, Ben's generous inclusion of Abel in his own life is a wonderfully rich expression of his. Moreover, by telling Abel of the old traditions and teaching him the old songs, Ben not only provides him with necessary spiritual sustenance in a world unresponsive to spiritual need, but prepares him for his return to Walatowa to try again, this time more successfully, to find himself in the life of his people. But Ben's concern for Abel is motivated by fear as well as by compassion. Tosamah feared that Abel "was going to get us all in trouble," and so does Ben. He speaks to Abel of things Indian, for, as we have seen, his own spirit requires as much, but throughout his narrative he emphasizes repeatedly Abel's inability to "get along." He understands why Abel has difficulty adjusting and implies that he himself has faced similar obstacles, but he never questions the need to accommodate oneself to the white man's world, and that is why he eventually loses patience with Abel. Abel's problems, in Ben's view, go beyond those which confront every relocated Indian, severe as these problems may be. What Tosamah recognizes as Abel's unyielding integrity Benally sees as sheer obstinacy; or rather, the sustaining illusion he has constructed about the "good life" in Los Angeles demands that he see it as such. After all, Abel has a steady job, a place to live, drinking buddies—everything he needs, Ben would believe, to make it in urban America. Yet despite these advantages, he persists in being a trial to those who care for him.
Abel scares Ben. He scares him when he subtly defies Martinez in the alley and he scares him during Tosamah's harangue about "longhairs and the reservation." In both instances his actions threaten to undermine Ben's illusions by confronting him with the truth that life in urban America is incompatible with his identity as an Indian. Benally, as Carole Oleson has said, has whitened himself considerably by removing his religion from his daily life. He retains the songs and traditions within himself, and that is good, but he also compromises the old religion by confining it like a retarded child whom the family loves but of whom they are ashamed. Like Angela St. John, whose affair with Abel in Walatowa puts her in touch, if only temporarily, with her body's potential for joy and wonder, he turns off his own light, as it were, denies his own intuitive wisdom in a futile attempt to avoid emotional and psychological conflicts which might prove irreconcilable. And like Father Olguin, Benally also preaches the white man's religion—not in the form of Christianity, as Olguin does, but in its true aspects of materialism and conformity; like both Olguin and his predecessor, Fray Nicolás, he would convert the Indian to a new and alien faith for, like them, he needs converts to vindicate his own. Thus it is that when Abel ultimately proves "unregenerate," the usually mild Benally, possessed by anger but more by fear, loses patience:
He wouldn't let anybody help him, and I guess I got mad, too, and one day we had a fight … he was just sitting there and saying the worst thing he could think of, over and over. I didn't like to hear that kind of talk, you know; it made me kind of scared, and I told him to cut it out. I guess I was more scared than mad; anyway I had had about all I could take.
As with Martinez and Tosamah earlier, Ben knew "something bad was going to happen and … didn't want any part of it." At this point Abel goes to look for Martinez, but even after he is gone and Ben cools off, Ben nonetheless maintains that "It had to stop, you know; something had to happen."
Benally, then, like Tosamah, is a priest whose saving message, because he has divorced his religion from his everyday life, has an ironic as well as a revelatory dimension. It is especially ironic that despite his deeper, more sincere spirituality, Ben lacks Tosamah's awareness of the redemptive potential of the old ways of seeing and knowing. As the "Night Chanter," Ben, as we have seen, is essential to any hope Abel has for recovery, but Ben himself does not see the sharing of himself and his religion in this way. The road to recovery he consciously charts, as we have also seen, involves passively assimilating the values and accommodating oneself to the demands of white America, even at the cost of one's heritage and identity. Thus the role of "Night Chanter" assumes a second, and contrary, meaning. Though with the best intentions, Benally also, and quite unknowingly, chants the dark night of the soul, the tortured, fragmented, solipsistic state of being that Los Angeles comes to symbolize in the novel. Through the distorting lens of his own desperate need for some sense of meaning to his life, Ben sees an urban paradise, and it is this vision that he consciously advances as salvation.
Though it exists to differing degrees in each of them and, given their enormously diverse natures, manifests itself in various ways, Martinez, Tosamah, and Benally all share a single quality: self-contempt. Each is ashamed of being what he is, of being an Indian, and that is why Abel, when he is relocated in Los Angeles, becomes a kind of sacrifice to their fear and desperation. A "longhair" from the reservation, he is, among other things, a constant reminder to them of how they are perceived by the dominant culture and of that which has made them wretched. They have been made to feel, against all logic and common sense, that their suffering is somehow deserved because of what they are; thus each of them projects his own diminished sense of self upon Abel and responds to that self in his own way. Martinez tries to obliterate it through violence, Tosamah tries to disassociate himself from it, and Benally tries to remake it to fit the white world he inhabits. The issue is agonizingly complicated, however, because the very Indianness within them which they have been taught to hate is that which they intuitively love. Tosamah and Benally especially know in their very depths that fulfillment and wholeness lie in the realization and free expression of their Indian selves. Tosamah has made a long journey to the land of his people to rediscover his Indianness, and Ben hoards the old songs like treasure within his heart. Therefore, their self-contempt is further intensified by a profound sense of guilt stemming from their perceived inability to live their Indianness, by what they themselves see as a personal betrayal of their heritage and of themselves. However, though it saddens him, Momaday does not condemn the urban Indians for feeling as they do. Their self-hatred is in fact his most telling indictment of a modern America which relentlessly tries to compel its native peoples to barter dignity and self-respect for material, emotional, and psychological survival.
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Any manager of a nonprofit health facility involved in a sale, merger or other affiliation knows that undergoing such complicated transactions can become a major distraction from the day-to-day task of running the facility. A particularly unfamiliar and time-consuming part of the transaction is gaining approval by the California Attorney General's Office ("AG"). Prepared buyers and sellers who know what to expect from the process will be better equipped for success and avoid a potential roadblock to closing.
As brief background, California Corporations Code §§5914-5925 gives the AG the authority to approve, deny or condition any sale or change of control of a nonprofit general acute care hospital, or other "health facility" (as the term is defined in California Health & Safety Code § 1250) with a fair market value in excess of $3 million. Corresponding regulations in Title 11 California Code of Regulations § 999.5 list all information the seller must include in the notice of the transaction submitted to the AG for approval ("Notice"). (While the legislature currently is considering amendments to §§ 5914-5925, we do not expect any changes to impact the suggestions presented in this advisory.)
The AG's directive when reviewing a Notice is to protect the interest of all public beneficiaries of a charitable organization. This requires, among other things, examination of any factors indicating self-dealing, improper use or diversion of charitable funds, and protection of the public interest. For this reason, preparation of the Notice is a significant undertaking that must include extensive data on factors ranging from the health facility's fair market value and charity care spending to the search for a buyer and compliance with law.
This list of general tips, although by no means exhaustive, can serve as a helpful starting point for any health facility considering the need to navigate the AG notice and approval process:
1. Set realistic time expectations. Upon receipt of the Notice, the AG has 60 days to respond to the applicant, but may extend this period to 105 days. As part of the Notice, you must submit the final transaction agreement signed by all parties ("Definitive Agreement"), so this document must be completed first.
2. Dedicate sufficient resources to preparing the Notice. The Notice generally contains a large volume of materials that will fill at least several large three-ring binders, and must also be provided in a digital format, such as PDFs copied on a CD. The Notice will not be deemed received until substantially all required information is submitted.
3. Don't be ensnared by Health & Safety Code sections 1260 and 1260.1. These complicated prohibitions caution the board of directors of the health facility to exclude directors and management from the negotiating team if they will receive compensation of any kind from the buyer in the future.
4. Focus on a clear "sales" process. Fairness is the key to any bidding process. The AG will want to ensure that all interested buyers have been treated alike and received equal access to information. This ensures the parties to a transaction did not manipulate the market value and that maximum value was obtained from the competing offers.
5. Know what to expect for AG conditions. The AG's web site posts its most recent decisions granting conditional consent to nonprofit hospital transactions. Although the AG develops additional unique conditions to address its specific concerns arising from a transaction, past decisions show the conditions most buyers can expect the AG to enforce for five to 10 years after the transaction:
6. Communicate with the AG's office. The AG not only enforces the laws applicable to charitable organizations, but also makes itself available as a helpful and solution-oriented resource to assist charitable organizations with fulfillment of their legal obligations. Health facilities should utilize the AG's office as a valuable resource to facilitate information exchange and understanding. In an ideal transaction where both buyer and seller commit to open communication with the AG, the parties are much more likely to reach a solution all parties can agree on and close without delay.
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State Fire Brigade School Winning Proposal / gmp Architekten
Upon winning the contract to design the new State Fire Brigade School in Wurzburg, gmp Architekten recently presented their design which involves a new practice hall on the site of the Fire Brigade School in order to meet the changed requirements of the training program. The site is in a very exposed location so that the new practice hall building will be visible from afar, and will clearly mark the position of the State Fire Brigade School within the Zellerau neighborhood. More images and architects' description after the break.
Kunsthalle Mannheim Winning Proposal / gmp Architekten
Just this past Monday, gmp Architekten was awarded the contract to design the new Kunsthalle Mannheim, a decision made by the Kunsthalle's jury. Their winning design portrays a symbolic identity, both on the outside and on the inside. The idea was to create a place that is easily remembered, and which appeals with its functional and urban quality. Analogous to the chess board type layout of Mannheim's inner city, the design is a composition of several cubes, the regularity of which is however broken by an offset arrangement in terms of height and width, and also by the arrangement of squares within the development. More images and architects' description after the break.
Tianjin Grand Theater / gmp Architekten
Architects: gmp Architekten
Location: Tianjin, China
Project Leaders: David Schenke, Xu Shan
Design Team: Tobias Keyl, Matthias Grünewald, Martin Gänsicke, Susan Schwarz, Verena Fischbach, Bin Zhou, Jan Demel, Thilo Zehme, Duc Nguyen, Di Wu, Fang Xie
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Christian Gahl
Extension of Gate A at Frankfurt Airport / gmp Architekten
Architects: gmp Architekten
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Jürgen Hillmer
Design Team: Klaus Lenz, Sebastian Flatau, Ingo Beckmann, Kai Beckmann, Markus Carlsen, Christian Dahle, Henning Fritsch, Ben Joscha Grope, Markus Helmin, Matthias Holtschmidt, Silke Jessen, Eduard Kaiser, Raimund Kinski, Prisca Marschner, Rouven Oberdieck
Project Leaders Susanne: Winter, Reiner Schröder
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Marcus Bredt
Hamburg-Harburg Technical University Extension / gmp Architekten
Architects: gmp Architekten
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Architect In Charge: Jan Stolte, Tilmann Jarmer
Design Team: Martina Klostermann, Inga Kläschen, Michèle Watenphul, Bastian Scholz, Jared Steinmann, Mark Botko, Alisa von Gerkan, Knut Maass
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Heiner Leiska
'Designing in Dialogue – Architectural Answers' Exhibition / gmp Architekten
Since Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg founded their architectural practice von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) in Hamburg in 1965, they have carried out projects in almost all large cities in Germany and on four continents. The Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói (MAC) presents an overview of gmp's work with the international touring exhibition "Designing in Dialogue – Architectural Answers", which is on now until to August 5. Sketches and drawings provide an idea of the initial conceptual thoughts, models present designs in their three dimensions and photos by well known architectural photographers document the completed buildings. More architects' description after the break.
Headquarters of Zhejiang Wuchan Group / gmp architekten
Architects: gmp architekten
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Architect in Charge: Meinhard von Gerkan
Project Manager: Volkmar Sievers
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 12,700 sqm
Photographs: Hans-Georg Esch
Hanoi Museum / gmp Architekten
Architects: gmp Architekten
Location: Phạm Hùng street, Cầu giấy District, Hà Nội City, Vietnam
Design Team: Meinhard von Gerkan, Nikolaus Goetze, Klaus Lenz
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 30,000 sqm
Photographs: Marcus Bredt
Technology Center / gmp Architekten
The first prize winning design for the Technology Center in Bologna by gmp Architekten converts a former industrial heritage building into a modern technology park. With an area of about 110,000 square meters, the center includes an exhibition hall, laboratories, offices, a seedbed center for research affiliated with the university, and teaching facilities such as lecture halls and university institutes. In addition, there will be conference facilities, including hotel and service areas such as shops, a day nursery, restaurants and refectories to be established in the former power station. More images and architects' description after the break.
Culture and Congress Center / gmp architekten
Architects: gmp architekten
Location: Worms, Germany
Design Team: Volkwin Marg, Hubert Nienhoff, Kristian Uthe-Spencker
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Marcus Bredt
Grand Theater Qingdao / gmp architekten
Architects: gmp architekten
Location: Qingdao, Shandong, China
Design Team: Meinhard von Gerkan, Stephan Schütz, Nicolas Pomränke
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 60,000 sqm
Photographs: Christian Gahl
Warsaw's National Stadium Selected for World Stadium Award 2012 / gmp Architekten
Designed by gmp Architekten, Warsaw's National Stadium prevailed against international competition and won the World Stadium Award in the best multifunctional stadium design and most innovative use of technology categories in stadium design. On the occasion of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, the stadium was reconstructed on top of the existing – but since 1988 no longer used and dilapidated – earth wall stadium (Stadion Dziesieciolecia), and re-opened in January of this year. More images and architects' description after the break.
Kiev Olympic Stadium / gmp Architekten
Architects: gmp Architekten
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Design: Volkwin Marg with Christian Hoffmann and Marek Nowak
Project Leader: Martin Bleckmann
Cooperation With: Personal Creative Architectural Bureau Y. Serjogin
Client: National Sport Complex "Olympiysky"
Seats: 68,000
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Marcus Bredt
Warsaw National Stadium / gmp Architekten
Architects: gmp Architekten
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Design: Volkwin Marg and Hubert Nienhoff with Markus Pfisterer
Project leaders: Markus Pfisterer, Martin Hakiel
Project leader, roof: Martin Glass
Cooperation: J.S.K. Architekci Sp. z o.o. and schlaich bergermann und partner
Client: Narodowe Centrum Sportu Sp. z o.o.
Seats: 55,000
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Marcus Bredt
Trianel GmbH Corporate Centre / gmp Architekten
gmp Architekten shared with us their first prize winning proposal for the Trianel GmgH Corporate Centre in Aachen, Germany. The new building is located along a major road next to the Tivoli stadium. From 2013 on it is to be built in two phases, the first of which comprises 9,600 square metres of gross floor area and will accommodate 400 members of staff. In the second, optional phase the building can be extended by 4,800 square metres to accommodate a further 200 employees. The building's sustainability concept merits a silver DGNB certificate. More images and architects' description after the break.
Changzhou Culture Center / gmp Architekten
gmp Architekten was recently awarded the first prize in the international competition to build the Culture Center in the newly created Changzhou city center. With a total floor area of 365,000 square meters, the building in this city of three million, between Wuxi and Nanjing, is six times the size of the Louvre in Paris. Reflecting elements of Changzhou's southern Chinese culture and the city's prominent water features, their design includes a number of museums such as an arts museum, a science and technology museum and a library, together with service facilities supporting the center for culture in the Xinbei district of the city. More images and architects' description after the break.
New Buildings of the "Klinikum 2015" Plan for Karlsruhe Medical Centre / gmp Architekten
gmp Architekten just won the first prize with their design for the new buildings of the Karlsruhe Medical Centre. The competition focused on the 2015 master plan and was open to 15 selected practices. The briefing called for the construction of a new central building in order to give more structure to the hospital precinct – which consists of older buildings from the nineteenth century as well as later additions – and to improve the logistics of the centre by constructing a new central catering facility and new institute buildings. More images and architects' description after the break.
Hangzhou South Railway Station / gmp Architekten
Following their success in winning first prize in an international competition, gmp Architekten hs been commissioned to design the new southern railway station in Hangzhou, China. The project involves the conversion and extension of the station in the Xiao Shan district to the south of the Qiantang river; after the eastern and main railway stations it will be the third largest railway station of this metropolis. More images and architects' description after the break.


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