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Famed landscape architect Lawrence Halprin died this week at the age of 93. Halprin is highly regarded in his field, but in terms of urban planning many of his designs have not stood up to the test of time. Managing Editor Tim Halbur explores his legacy.
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Lawrence Halprin, a formidable force in American urban design and landscape architecture for more than half a century, passed away this week at the age of 93.
The notion that Halprin was "modernism's Olmsted" has spread among the obituaries, and as a pithy soundbite it is well chosen. Olmsted and Halprin have many similarities: both are highly regarded in the field of landscape architecture, both have made a significant impact on the built environment, and I would argue that both have mixed success when it comes to creating urban public spaces.
Olmsted introduced wilderness into the modern city, resulting in a handful of wonderful parks, most notably Central Park in New York. As Jim Kunstler has noted, he was influenced by the artists of his day including the Hudson River School, painters of dramatic, romantic landscapes of the unspoiled American countryside. The legacy of Olmsted was a persistent idea that parks should mimic the appearance of the natural world, with rolling hills and a sense of nature unconstrained by man.
Halprin too was drawn to the grandeur of nature, particularly the dramatic landscapes of the West where he lived and worked. In Portland's Ira Keller Fountain, tremendous waterfalls mimic the glacial scouring of the High Sierras. In his fountain for United Nations Plaza in San Francisco, water was originally set on a timer to recreate the tidal rhythms of the Pacific coast. At Sea Ranch, an enclave of houses on the Pacific Coast and probably his most successful project, Halprin held community workshops on the beach using driftwood to model the way the houses would relate to one another.
Olmsted is sometimes credited with coining the term "the lungs of the city" when referring to urban parks. Whether he wrote it or not, the idea was in the air: cities were viewed as congested places that needed room to breathe. Coming to prominence in the 1960s in San Francisco, Halprin's writings and work show a similar sense that cities are pent-up places and their residents need respite from urban life. He saw public spaces as a means of expression, a canvas upon which the city's residents were free to tell their own story. He was adamant that fountains be open for people to get in the water and play, with no barriers between them and nature.
The public spaces that Halprin designed express the idealism of the 1960s and the struggle characteristic of that era between social control and unfettered individualism. His wife was a dancer, and under her influence he developed a method of graphically 'scoring' the choreography of how people would move through an environment, which he called 'motation'. He was an early proponent of bringing the community into the design and planning process, running creative workshops that today would be called 'charrettes'.
Fred Kent of Project for Public Spaces has been called in to update a couple of Halprin's designs, like Freeway Park in Seattle. A bold statement at the time, Halprin took an unattractive plot alongside an interstate and created a multilevel park. Kent says the design holds up today. "Freeway Park has the formula that we always look for. It has a lot of potential and activities at every level. It needed programming and strong management, but the bones were very good on it. So we were actually delighted with his work."
In other places, Halprin's work has been more problematic. Perhaps society failed to live up to the idealism expressed in some of his designs, or perhaps the designs themselves fell short. Regardless, many of his public plazas, like Heritage Plaza in Ft. Worth, have fallen into disrepair and have been abandoned by the cities they were supposed to engage. Why?
As a graduate student, I conducted a number of post-occupancy observations of Halprin-designed spaces. What I concluded is this: Halprin's spaces often deliberately deemphasize social control, and as a result, they sometimes leave the visitor with a sense of unease, unsure of the rules of engagement.
Halprin's parks and plazas work best in areas where the setting itself compensates for the control and environmental cues missing from the design. Levi's Plaza in San Francisco is tucked away on a corporate campus, and is patrolled by security. The same goes for Halprin's new Lucasfilm campus in the Presidio. To users of these spaces, the plaza is either their place of work or their destination. The majority of Halprin's designs, however, were built in the very heart of the city, and were expected to accommodate all the needs of such a space – gathering place, thoroughfare, lunchtime retreat, concert venue, marketplace, and many more. Many of them failed to meet those needs, and are now closed or being replaced or remodeled just a couple of decades later. "The problem with United Nations Plaza and many of his other designs is that they are for the moment and didn't have a long shelf life," says Kent. "It was more of a design statement, not unlike the iconic architecture we're dealing with today."
Halprin's lasting legacy suggests that he succeeded in changing the way people thought about the aesthetics of the city and what a park, plaza or fountain could be. In this way, he deserves to be an icon of landscape architecture, just as Olmsted is. And yet those same designs in many cases failed to achieve longevity – both because the materials themselves didn't last, and because the design wasn't well-suited to the way people actually use cities today.
As the population of our cities grows and demands more of the urban infrastructure, perhaps we can draw on the spirit of Halprin's creativity and imagination while recognizing that city centers require a level of functionality, longevity and usability that those designs didn't always achieve.
Tim Halbur is managing editor of Planetizen.
This seems to be more about Fred Kent on Halprin than about Halprin.
Fred Kent is not a designer.
I do agree that there is a lack of visual cues for social control. Another way of looking at that is to see more freedom and responsibility given to the user, such as the public access to the top of Ira Keller Fountain in Portland. In this day and age of litigation, liability and corresponding reduction in personal responsibility, the trust in the public to be responsible and implement some self-control is a refreshing change.
I have been studying public spaces since 1970 when I started working with William Holly Whyte. I also studied anthropology with Margaret Mead and was part of a group that was strongly influenced by Jane Jacobs, a fellow writer of Holly Whyte's. I also studied some architecture at Columbia University' graduate school of architecture and planning. I have always prided myself in not being an architect. That allows me/us to assess the results of design on human activity and sense of place. Having worked in over 2500 communities in over 40 countries, we do have a pretty good sense of what works and what doesn't. When we criticize anyone in the design discipline some people circle the wagons around their discipline and tell us that because we are not a designer, we have no authority to make judgements on a designers work. Amazing! Normal people comment on designers work by using or not using the public space. Halprin had a lot of failures that people are trying to fix. I was in San Diego earlier this week and his Children's park has been and is a disaster by all accounts, and yet people are afraid to take it out. So it will be left as it is for another "x" number of years dragging down an area within the city that could be thriving. Branded designers don't create good public spaces.
"When we criticize anyone in the design discipline some people circle the wagons around their discipline and tell us that because we are not a designer, we have no authority to make judgements on a designers work. Amazing! Normal people comment on designers work by using or not using the public space."
I agree completely. This is the usual relation between professional and client: for example, if my teeth are still painful after going to my dentist, I have the right to choose another dentist. No one would say that only dentists are competent to judge dentistry, and the pain I feel is not important.
The same was true of design until the twentieth century. Architects designed buildings that worked for their clients. If they didn't, they weren't successful architects.
It is only with modernism that the relation was reversed: architects and urban planners claimed to be the experts whose professional training gave them the competence to tell their clients how to live. You may not like living in a tower in a park or in a tilting Frank Gehry building that gives you vertigo, but we planners and architects know more than you do about design, so we should tell you how to live.
Designers create places that are used by everyone, and they should not have a monopoly on deciding what sort of places we all live in.
Charles Siegel
I hope to clarify that;
1. I believe that designers and planners ultimately need to help generate solutions that work for those who have to live with the results on a daily basis. This means that is must be a collaborative process that engages the users of a place, their histories, hopes and dreams for the future.
2. Much of the work coming out as "iconic" does fall way short when it comes to meeting the above criteria.
3. There needs to be a balance between the functional success that #1 above would in theory address and inspiring design that is hopefully a positive reflection on the shared cultural values in a society that needs to be part of any civic space. Strictly evaluating the success of spaces based on either the "inspirational concept" or "functional pragmatism" results in failure.
4. In light of this balance, my gut reaction to this article was that it took Halprin, who tends to be seen as a "Designer" and critiqued his legacy almost solely from the "Functionist" perspective.
Mr. Siegel, please allow me the license to tweak your very appropriate closing statement thusly;
"Designers help create places that are used by everyone, and no one should have a monopoly on deciding what sort of places we all live in."
Ints Luters
no worries mr. kent. the landscape architecture profession has serious issues because they have been living in the shadow of Frederick Law Olmsted for 100+ years and havent been able to come anywhere close to rivaling his accomplishments. i mean you cant even talk about any landscape architect or landscape architecture work without mentioning or comparing to FLO, take this article as just one example. they also have issues because you and PPS are much more accomplished and successful in landscape and park design than any "landscape architect" today (even more so now that Lawrence Halprin has passed, plus he had a pretty low profile for the last few decades after his acclaim in the 60s and 70s). even all the famous avant garde park/memorial/LA design is by or at least heavily credited to architects not landscape architects (high line, la villette, vietnam mem, louis kahn's roosevelt mem, etc.). all the favorite and loved parks and squares are basic designs built prior to 1920. if you asked someone on the street to name any landscape architect other than an Olmsted they would have no response or would name the landscapers they hired to plant some trees in their yard. if they could name one it would then definitely be Lawrence Halprin. So 2 distinguished landscape architects in 150 years... FLO & LH (fine, 3 if you consider FLO Jr on his own).
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yeah, or its like saying only professional chefs can critic and comment on how food tastes... pure BS.
Tim, very interesting look at Halprin's legacy. I was surprised you didn't mention Skyline Park in Denver, which had so many problems with security that it was eventually demolished. Both it and Freeway Park in Seattle left me with the impression that Halprin was trying to create places for people to go for a nature walk in the middle of a city, ignoring all the surveillance, loitering and crime problems of unregulated public space.
This hasn't made any of the obituaries, but Halprin was decidedly on the wrong side of San Francisco's Freeway Revolt in the 1960's. Caltrans brought him in to "beautify" their designs for such ill-conceived atrocities as the Panhandle, Golden Gate and Presidio Freeways, and he took to it with relish. I did some research on this while in planning school and would be happy to share the paper if I can find it in my garage!
I was sorry to read of Mr. Halprin's passing. While many of his designs have not held up well over time (as is so true of so many cutting edge, high profile designers), he still deserves much credit for what he contributed to the field of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Probably more on the design theory end of things, but still important.
I would however stop short of any comparisions to FL Olmsted. With no disrespect to Mr. Halprin, Olmsted, the father of Landscape Architecture, was a pioneer and a visionary in making cities healthier, safer and more liveable at a time when cities were anything but that. In my opinion Olmsted's projects have stood up well to the test of time. Yes, renovations have been necessary in many cases, but that is often because of the popularity of the spaces he designed (i.e. overuse), or can attributed to the fact that he designed in an era time when the modes of transportion were very different and recreational needs of the populace were very different than they are today.
I'd appreciate some examples from the author of FL Olmsted's "mixed success when it comes to creating urban public spaces". I'm aware of many his successes and have experienced many of these spaces personally in the 21st Century. I'm just not aware of any of Olmsted's failed projects. And please do not include examples of his son's work, as so many people seem to lump all of the "Olmsted's" work together when discussing the heritage of many parks and projects.


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Comparison of codon usage measures and their applicability in prediction of microbial gene expressivity
1 Department of Molecular Biology, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, Zagreb University, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
2 Protein Structure and Bioinformatics, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:182 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-182Published: 19 July 2005
There are a number of methods (also called: measures) currently in use that quantify codon usage in genes. These measures are often influenced by other sequence properties, such as length. This can introduce strong methodological bias into measurements; therefore we attempted to develop a method free from such dependencies. One of the common applications of codon usage analyses is to quantitatively predict gene expressivity.
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I bought this for my Nikon D7000 for its read write speeds. But during my sons baseball game it would keep giving error messages. The camera has never had this problem before, I requested a replacement card, I hope that I had a rare bad card and I will repost if the new card is better.2 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
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Milton's Emerging View of Fame and the Heroic Life
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SubjectMilton, John, 1608-1674--Paradise lost--Criticism and interpretation; Milton, John, 1608-1674--Paradisa regained--Criticism and interpretation; Milton, John, 1608-1675--Samson Agonistes--Criticism and interpretation; Epic poetry--Criticism and interpretation; English drama (Tragedy)--Poetry--Criticism and interpretation
By the writing of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, Milton clearly defines fame in Christian terms. His method is generally parodic; he throws into relief true fame by parodying its false varieties. Thus he makes a clear distinction between earthly fame and heavenly fame. Chapter 1 traces Milton's struggle to define fame in his early poetry. His major works are treated independently in subsequent chapters; each chapter discusses his view of fame from negative and positive aspects through concrete representations. The last chapter gives a summary of the thesis. Milton, in his early poetry, realizes and expresses the transient qualities of earthly fame. He clearly distinguishes, however, true Christian fame from the traditional concept of earthly fame in his major poetry by illustrating (1) the exemplary pattern of achieving true fame in the Son's act of faith, his ministry of redemption and (2) the parodic pattern of true fame in Satan's act of disobedience and self-glorification, his pretense as an exemplar of the worldly heroes. In the pattern of Samson's regenerative experience, Milton shows how the Son's type of act of faith resulted in ultimate fame.
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Token - Halfpenny, Kirkcaldie & Stains, Wellington, New Zealand, circa 1875 Reg. No: NU 11351
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- Bronze Halfpenny Token, minted by an unknown British mint. Issued by Kirkcaldie & Stains, Wellington, New Zealand, circa 1875. Today Kirkcaldie and Stains is a prestigious retail business. The business was founded by Englishman John Kirkaldie, who had been apprenticed as a draper; and Scot Robert Stains, who had a retail trade background. The met in Sydney and decided to pool their capital to establish a business in New Zealand. They settled on Wellington as the place, and their first store was the hulk of a wrecked ship, at Lambton Quay. In 1886 Robert Stains returns to England and the partnership was dissolved. The business remained in the hands of the Kirkcaldie family until the 1930s. In 1931 the business was sold to British Overseas Stores, who sold it to the Renouf Corporation (later Hellaby Holdings) in 1985.
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- A round bronze token (26 mm diameter). The piece features the name, address and business of the issuer: Kirkcaldie & Stains, general drapers and outfitters, Wellington. The reverse features a coat of arms with a bearded bust as crest (John Kirkcaldie?). Holed through top of crest head.
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|Legend in six lines, the first and last curved: KIRKCALDIE & STAINS / GENERAL / DRAPERS / AND / OUTFITTERS / . WELLINGTON .
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|Coat of arms with a bearded bust as crest, around, KIRKCALDIE WELLINGTON motto on ribbon, FORTISSIMA VERITAS
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|Obverse: KIRKCALDIE & STAINS GENERAL DRAPERS AND OUTFITTERS WELLINGTON
Reverse: KIRKCALDIE WELLINGTON FORTISSIMA VERITAS
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Last pitch 5.7 of V de Vinganca
This mountain have many sport and trad routes. Short aproach and routes easy to find with the Guia de Escaladas da Pedra do Bau, that you can buy in Montanhismus a climbing school on Sao Bento do Sapucai city
Submitted by: frechou on 2004-12-06 | Last Modified: 2007-01-14
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Beto on "Asteroid", Igatu - Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
Beautifull route on the Chapada Diamantina (Bahia State), on Brazil. Bahia concentrate the finest brazilian quartzite walls.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-01-06
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Eliseu Frechou on the route "Honras da Casa"
Quartzite climb on Chapada Diamantina (Bahia State), Brazil.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-01-06
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Eric Doniva on Emerald
Conglomerate climb on Chapada Diamantina (Bahia State), Brazil.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-01-06
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Eliseu Frechou on "Chove e não molha" crack
Beautifull crack on Bauzinho south face cliff. 5.12a trad. Bad bolts, use a full rack of cams, including a # 4 and 5 camalots. First pitch always dry in rainny days!
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-01-16
Views: 4129 | Comments: 11
Eliseu Frechou climbing "Vanilla sky"
Sport climbing in a multicolor steep wall of south Minas Gerais State.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-01-16
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Eliseu Frechou on "Tocaia" 5.12a
Sport climbing in a red quartzite on the Lencois city, at the center of magical Chapada Diamantina.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-01-16 | Last Modified: 2007-01-20
Views: 2033 | Comment: 1
Pai Inacio mountain
One of the hundreds of beautifull rock formatins in Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-01-16 | Last Modified: 2007-02-10
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Wagner Pahl climbing in Conceição dos Gatos, Palmeiras
Nice climb. Use friends.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-01-20
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2th pitch of Domingos Giobbi
Almost there...after this hook sequence I had few free climbing movement to reach the base.
Submitted by: bortoletto on 2007-01-24 | Last Modified: 2007-11-12
Views: 1899 | Comments: 5
Tudo Bem Route
It was a calm day. The route has three pitch. The first requires balance, second is a crack and the last is a mix between crack and front climbing.
Submitted by: bortoletto on 2007-03-11
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face climbing
Miguel leading an unknown route in Visual das Águas - Brazil
Submitted by: bortoletto on 2007-03-13
Views: 4117 | Comments: 7
Terrific Landscape
Miguel climbing with amazing background.
Submitted by: bortoletto on 2007-03-13
Views: 4295 | Comments: 9
Dodo - Copyright Bruno Bernardes - flickr.com/photos/fotografiaespecializada
Submitted by: Cacau on 2007-04-21
Views: 1598 | Comment: 1
trindade, brazil
boulders scattered on a beach in Trindade, Brazil
Submitted by: escalabrasil on 2007-04-24
Views: 3025 | Comments: 2
Denis on Hell Raiser
Easy 5.10+ sport climb on the Tetos area, on Pedra da Divisa. Use only 6 quickdraws.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-05-07
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Rogerio Santos climb Morcheeba
Moderate 5.12a sport climb on the Tetos area, on Pedra da Divisa. Use only 10 quickdraws.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-05-07
Views: 3930 | Comments: 9
Boulder in Trindade, Brazil
This place is great. Lots of boulders spread around a beautiful beach, which is lined with cheap bars and restaurants.
Submitted by: escalabrasil on 2007-05-07 | Last Modified: 2007-11-10
Views: 3355 | Comments: 5
Climbing in my Wall
Climbing in my wall.
Submitted by: Actionbrasil on 2007-05-14
Views: 1848 | Comments: 0
Impossible Dyno
Highball - Impossible Dyno (10 a BRA) (5.13c EUA)
Submitted by: Actionbrasil on 2007-05-14
Views: 2634 | Comment: 1
Tetos Section
1. Chao de Giz 2.Psicose 3.Panico 4.Hell Raiser 5. Gripe Espanhola 6.A ocasiao faz o ladrao 7.It's only rock'n'roll but I like it 8.Morcheeba
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-07-03
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Falesia Ze Vermelho
all grades updates.
Submitted by: frechou on 2007-07-03
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Agulhinha da Gávea
The top of Agulhinha da Gávea. (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16 | Last Modified: 2009-05-11
Views: 1896 | Comments: 0
Capacete Mountain - Salinas
The top of Capacete (Helmet Mountain) in Salinas. This is a climb area out side of city, where there are some mountains and a lot of multi-pitch routes. (Rio de Janeiro Brazil)
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
Views: 2183 | Comments: 2
Cavalo Louco
The route is a classic in West Face of Sugar Loaf. At the first pitch is necessary to use small and medium stoppers. It is possible to go to the top using the Secundo route.
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
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Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
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Lagartão Route - Sugar Loaf
At the first and second pitch are necessary medium, big friends and stoppers.
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
Views: 1918 | Comments: 0
Lagartão Route - Sugar Loaf
South Face of Sugar Loaf. A classical and legendary route with crack, jamming, off-width and technical hold. (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
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Marizel Route - Little Brother Mountain
Beautiful view of Leblon Beach. (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
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Passagem dos Olho Route
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
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Secundo Route - Sugar Loaf
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
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My Secret Spot in Brazil
I took this picture in the end of Caverna de Cristal Route. At this moment it seems not a city. (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-03-16
Views: 2246 | Comments: 0
Passagem dos Olhos
The classical route in Pedra da Gávea with a big horizontal.
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-04-20
Views: 3302 | Comment: 1
Finalzinho da Spartacus
Via incrível :)
Submitted by: pensatrix on 2009-05-08
Views: 1526 | Comments: 0
Leandro escalando a Namastê
Leandro no final da via Namastê.
Submitted by: pensatrix on 2009-05-08
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Sugar Loaf - Rio de Janeiro
Starting climbing the Sugar Loaf in Rio
Submitted by: felipebj182 on 2009-05-13
Views: 1909 | Comments: 0
Three Peaks and Helmet Mountain
The paraise in Brazil, two hours by car from Rio.
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-06-17
Views: 1740 | Comments: 2
Aid Climbing
Climbing in Rio de Janeiro
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-08-03
Views: 3083 | Comment: 1
Black Needles
The brazilian high lands
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2009-12-18
Views: 1889 | Comments: 0
Devil's Needle
The beautiful needle in Brazil
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2010-04-23
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Alfredo Maciel Route
Climbing 5.11d in Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2010-06-08
Views: 2362 | Comments: 2
Cotonho (Marco Canelas) na 'Monstro do Pantano'
Marco Canelas on the 1st pitch of 'Monstro do Pantano', Pantano Rock, Andradas, Minas Gerais
Submitted by: MarcoCanelas on 2010-08-10
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Devil`s Needle
Climbing in Serra dos Órgãos National Park. (Teresópolis - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
Submitted by: maurochiara on 2010-08-23
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Mariana- MG. Route: Exilados de Capela
Fabio Pavesi winning on cliffs
Submitted by: fabiomiguel on 2012-10-22
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Mariana-MG. Route: Exilados de Capela
Gustavo Piancastelli in the work of conquest
Submitted by: fabiomiguel on 2012-10-22
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Araxá - Via Efeito Colateral
Fabio Pavesi nos trabalhos de conquista da via "Efeito Colateral". fev-2012
Submitted by: fabiomiguel on 2012-10-22
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Via "Efeito Colateral" - Araxá-MG
A via "Efeito Colateral"é representada pela linha azul.
Submitted by: fabiomiguel on 2012-10-22
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Leonardo Fernandes no paredão de agarras.
Leonardo tunderbird esticando a corda para o início da chaminé.
Submitted by: fabiomiguel on 2012-10-23
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After NYC subway deaths, barriers get new eye
NEW YORK Every day, throngs of riders stand on the edge of danger in the nation's busiest subway system, waiting on platforms with nothing between them and the tracks.
Dozens of subway and light rail systems around the world have safety barriers with sliding doors on their platforms, but the idea hasn't gotten traction in New York. Yet transit officials are giving it a new look after two people were pushed and a third fell to their deaths on the tracks since early December.
Safety doors would be expensive and difficult additions to the sprawling, 108-year-old subway system, but some people are urging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to try it. A company has proposed to install the barriers for free in exchange for advertising revenue.
Being shoved or bumped onto the tracks is "my biggest worry about New York," said Ed David, a cinematographer who last spring launched an online petition to install the devices after reading about a college student who was hurled onto the tracks and killed by a train amid a fight at a Brooklyn subway station.
"I know that people like the roughness" of New York subways, said David, "but it's a horrible way to die, and it can be prevented."
About 140 people are hit by New York City subways per year, in situations such as accidental knocks and willful leaps. Fifty-five people died last year and 47 in 2011, according to the MTA.
The numbers are small compared to the 1.6 billion subway rides taken each year, and officials say a substantial proportion is suicides.
But two men were killed last month in a scenario out of an urban nightmare - each propelled into the path of an onrushing train by a mumbling stranger, in separate incidents. Then a stumbling woman fell onto the tracks and died when a train hit her early on New Year's Day.
Subway systems from Shanghai to Dubai to Paris have installed safety doors over the last three decades.
Sometimes called platform screen doors or edge doors, the devices are generally transparent walls or barriers that run the length of a train platform, with doors or gates that align with the train's doors.
They've been installed in more than 270 Tokyo stations and 530 throughout Japan since the early 1990s, according to the national Transport Ministry. Work continues on a 55-billion-yen, or $640 million, effort to install the doors throughout 29 stations that circle the city center.
Still, many stations don't have them, and more than 600 people a year fling themselves to their deaths on the tracks.
A 1990s London subway line extension included safety doors at eight new stations, for climate-control and safety reasons. London's transit authority says the cost of engineering the barriers into the rest of its 260 subway stations "would be quite prohibitive."
In some places, the safety doors have presented some safety problems of their own. A man trying to get on a packed Shanghai train fell to the tracks and was killed when he became trapped between the subway and platform doors in 2007.


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'Real Housewives': The Guiltiest Pleasure on Television
An inside look at Bravo's juggernaut franchise, a big business built on catfights, controversy and the reliably bad behavior of an economic class that rhymes with "bitch."
The franchise did begin with one producer, however: Scott Dunlap.
It was 1997, and Dunlap was bored. The former bit-part actor turned branding consultant and entrepreneur was with friends at a private dinner party in Orange County's exclusive Coto de Caza gated neighborhood, listening to them drone on. "You know the drill," recalls the bulky, self-confident 59-year-old, leaning back in a booth at Houston's restaurant in Irvine, Calif. "Everyone was sitting around the table, the ladies blinged-out, talking about family vacations to Tuscany and all bloviating the same thing: 'Our life is perfect.' "
He'd had enough, and blurted out: "You're all going to be dead!"
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But when he thought about these friends more, he realized they might be worth studying. His off-color remark segued into his initial Housewives pitch: He wanted to create a short, tongue-in-cheek film reflecting what life was like in the kind of affluent, gated community they all knew so well -- with a twist: "I want it to cover you," he told them.
The short film never got made. But it was the genesis of an idea that, a decade later, would become a pop-culture phenomenon, following an eight-year battle and countless rejections that ultimately, in 2005, led Dunlap to Frances Berwick, president of Bravo (and now Style Media as well), who gambled heavily on The Real Housewives of Orange County.
The executive was on an upswing thanks to a major rebranding of her network. Having succeeded with its makeover series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Bravo now had set its programming sights on five branches inspired by that show: food, fashion, design, lifestyle and pop culture. After some back and forth, Berwick gave Dunlap license to go into production on an entire series, naming him executive producer. "It was a risky thing to do," he admits with a grin. "Would I have gambled on me as a television producer if I were the network? Probably not."
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But the show he proceeded to make was very different from the one Berwick had imagined. With 90 percent of Orange County shot before Bravo saw it, the executive's heart sank when she saw a rough cut, almost causing her to kill the project altogether.
"We wanted something very authentic and they started to film something Curb Your Enthusiasm-esque," she recalls. "It required a whole revision, so we came to a point where we had to decide whether to sink more money into it or just pull the plug."
She chose the former. After reshooting the first few episodes and an "incredibly, incredibly long edit," she says, the series finally made it to air with very low expectations.
"It was an experiment," notes one network insider. "They weren't envisioning this huge franchise; the network was just trying to depict a lifestyle. They didn't put a lot of advertising or money into it at first."
Then something unexpected happened: The series struck a chord. And not just with any viewers -- with that prized 30-something audience the network was anxious to cultivate. While Orange County's 2006 freshman season averaged roughly 646,000 viewers, the network saw a 47 percent overall increase in adults 18 to 49, with a 34.4 median age -- making Orange, at the time, its youngest-skewing show.
Bravo quickly upped the series for a second season, but decided to bring in veteran reality producer Doug Ross (Fear Factor, Big Brother), a move that marginalized Dunlap's role, leaving him rich, with a "creator" credit on each episode, but a virtual outsider to the franchise (though he retains an executive producer credit on Orange County).
Dunlap -- not entirely convincingly -- says he has no ill will toward the network that effectively ousted him from the franchise. "My contract's good," he says, glancing down at his soup, his confidence momentarily broken. "I'm happy."
"Scott did a great job at identifying killer cast members," Ross says, "but the network thought with the help of some 'grown-ups' this thing could really blossom."
As the second season began filming, Bravo decided to label Manhattan Moms -- another series it was shooting, about wealthy New York City women trying to get their children into the ultra-competitive private school world -- with the Housewives moniker. "Lauren Zalaznick called and said, 'I'm really thinking about turning this into a franchise,' " says Jennifer O'Connell, executive vp of Shed Media. "[She] asked how I would feel about the show being labeled The Real Housewives of New York City."
Much of Moms already had been filmed when that decision took place, and the cast didn't discover the name change until the first press photos were being shot. "We went to check out the artwork on the computer and it said Real Housewives of New York City," remembers Zarin. "At first we were a little disappointed, to be honest."
Soon after, production house True Media came to Bravo with a similar, Atlanta-based show, while Bravo shrewdly hired Sirens Media to produce a New Jersey version -- and, just like that, a franchise was born. New York premiered in March 2008 and Atlanta in October.
As daytime drama transitioned out of the marketplace and the 90210 generation matured into husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, Bravo unwittingly had stumbled upon television's next guilty pleasure: a vehicle that showcased the lives of a handful of spoiled, consistently imperfect women whose only real distinction was the city in which they reside -- and their unerring ability to behave badly.
With New Jersey's 2009 launch, the franchise reached beyond Bravo's core audience of 30-something women, bringing men and older viewers into the fold. Its success peaked when it drew an astonishing 3.8 million viewers for its second-season reunion show in 2010.
There've been glitches, inevitably -- not least the bikinis that had to be digitally altered when NBC-Universal chose to run four of its series in daytime syndication. "They had to paint larger bikini bottoms on some of the women!" Berwick admits, noting: "Syndication is an interesting beast. It's an older, more conservative audience. Our viewers just aren't at home during the day."
The younger, more advertiser-friendly audience has stayed true, however, even in the face of copycats including VH1's Basketball Wives and Logo's The A-List. That's partly thanks to Bravo's exhaustive casting process and partly thanks to the considerable money it invests. "Bravo has been very supportive of the productions financially," Ross says. "Everyone wants to copy the magic, but so many imitators look gritty and feel scripted."
But isn't Housewives just a little bit scripted, too? Orange County's Peggy Tanous certainly believes so: "We started meeting with producers to discuss storylines," she confesses, maintaining this was behind her decision to leave the series. "I started getting anxiety thinking about all the forced drama that does happen on occasion." Ross concedes that the Housewives are often asked to plan events (read: group seances or $50,000 children's birthday parties), but vehemently denies any staging: "The audience could sniff that a mile away, so why even bother?"
"Honestly, sometimes I wish they would do what I tell them," adds Shed Media's O'Connell. "I wish I had that kind of puppeteering power. But it's the women who ultimately drive the train."
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Shack Stanwick had four goals and three assists and Logan Wisnauskas had a goal and four assists to lead visiting Boys' Latin (2-0) to a 16-6 win over St. Andrew's (Fla.) on Tuesday. Boys' Latin took a 10-1 lead at the half. ... Andrew Fanshaw had four goals and two assists, and Timmy Kelly had two goals and two assists to lead host Calvert Hall (5-0) to a 9-4 victory over the Benjamin School (Fla.). ... Cole Robertson had five goals, but host St. Mary's (2-1) fell, 12-9, to Malvern Prep (Pa.) (2-0).


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Two 10-year-old girls growing up in a tough town in the 1970s think their dreams are about to come true when a popular television star shoots a movie nearby, but instead face awful consequences when they become victims of playground bullying. 20,000 first printing.
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Spoiled but emotionally neglected Gemma, who seems to have everything, and semi-feral Pauline, who has less than nothing, are two very different ten-year-old girls growing up in a tough Yorkshire town in the 1970s. Pauline longs for the simple luxuries of Gemma's life: her neatly folded socks and her clean hair. Gemma, upset by her parent's breakup, loses herself in fantasies of meeting the child television star Lallie. When Lallie shoots a movie in their hometown, Gemma and Pauline grab the chance for their wildest dreams to come true. But the film becomes a terrible catalyst for the larger forces acting on the two girls, a dysfunctional adult world that trickles down to the children; and playground bullying escalates, with dreadful consequences.
It is the summer of 1975, and 11-year-old British sitcom star Lallie Paluza is at the height of her popularity. When it is announced that she will be filming her big-screen debut in a Yorkshire town, two young local fans, Gemma and Pauline, become determined to win bit parts in the production. The adult characters in WHAT THEY DO IN THE DARK include Lallie's exploitive stage mother, a predatory American producer, a jealous aging actress, Gemma's divorced parents, and Pauline's family of petty criminals. The dysfunction of the adults surrounding them has disastrous effects on the three girls, and the novel builds to a dark and shocking conclusion.
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