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Marc Newson. Works
An up-to-date monograph of the adventurous designer
Tracking Marc Newson's rise from student to superstar, Taschen's new monograph simply titled "Marc Newson. Works" promises to be the most complete catalogue of the designer's significant oeuvre. With text in English, French and German, the book chronologically traces his design language across categories from furniture to transportation. Newson, it turns out, is one hell of an experimenter. He touches on virtually every conceivable aspect of the built environment, with materials ranging from riveted aluminum and fiberglass to Carrara marble and thermo-polyurethane. Newson's work bridges fine art and industrial production—just as fit for the Gagosian Gallery as it is for a Nike collaboration.
Totaling 609 full-color pages, it is clear from the outset that the book is a comprehensive collection. Newson's first work—a series of impractical aluminum bracelets—is a far cry from his later efforts in futuristic transportation. His "Kelvin 40" (2004) is a recreational aircraft inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's film Solaris. Complete with stealth looks and a gaping void on the nose, it fits the bill of an alien machine. Another ambitious project is "Bodyjet" (2010), a jetpack complete with retractable landing gear and propulsion arms that emerge in massive tubes from the engine. While neither creation has entered production, Newson is almost uncannily adept at translating his sense of space from furniture to theoretical mechanics.
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More recently, Newson worked with Pentax to create the K-01 digital camera that rocked the tech and design worlds. Reflecting on the K-01's boxy design, Newson says, "When form becomes arbitrary, surfaces become nebulous and lose their logic. I think they become gratuitous."
In the world of fine art, Newson is probably best remembered for the Gagosian Exhibitions (2007-2008). The massive collection exemplifies the common thread of space and void as well as the designer's preoccupation with exposing the interior of forms. The "Voronoi Shelf" was part of this exhibition, created from a five metric-ton block of Carrara marble and cut with computer-generated Voronoi cells. The degree of complexity, the proportions and delicacy of the piece all serve to showcase Newson's unique design aesthetic.
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N is 25 weeks now Pet
So glad DS is better, Scarlet.
Have been reading the Discussion of the Day thread about expressing - think I'm going to have to express at work to stop my boobs exploding, and to have EBM to give to the nursery for M. Anyone got a recommendation for a decent pump? I'd quite like an electric one [lazy] - my Tommee Tippee one is a bit shit and makes my hands ache, but it depends on price, really. I'm probably going to be expressing for a maximum of 2 months, just until M can have cow's milk during the day, but I suppose it would be an investment for future babies too.
Future babies, Too? How many are you thinking of having? I have a Medela single mini, which I really like. I actually bought it from Ebay and super-sterilised it. Didn't cost much at all. When I had my KIT day I had to express - I did so once properly during the day, once into tissues (just a bit, to try and ease the super-saturatednes!)... got home and was in pretty immense pain, and was massaging blocked ducts for ages. One of the thoughts about me not going back to work straight away was because it'll be nigh on impossible to find time to express during at least one day of the week..
Stacks, don't worry, it'll be fine! Odd as it sounds, you get used to the sleeplessness. Then again, I had pregnancy insomnia for most of my pregnancy, so sleepless nights felt pretty normal. It's just now that Iz has slept through and has now stopped that I'm feeling worse :P
Pomme, glad things are feeling better for you now - sorry you feel a bit unhappy over it all.
So glad DS is better Scarlet!
I think I'm going to have to do a teeth dance. Like rain, but for teeth. Because this lack of teeth is getting a bit ridiculous now. Teething for almost four months. She may be doing the same as Dream's DD of course... I'm sure it's teething waking her up at night though, as I often go in to her shouting, but thrashing from side to side, trying to get back to sleep but failing... I think it wakes her up and stops her from self settling? It doesn't do it every time, as sshe was good as gold at my parents' last night (when finally asleep), but every time they checked on her she'd moved slightly, or grabbed the comforter toy we're using (YAY, must be working!).
On the napping front, it appears I still have a little girl who doesn't like napping in her cot - but will nap on the sofa if I put her down beside me. Most bizarre. Even if I try to get her to sleep in her cot, she then won't necessarily stay asleep there. Wonder if that links to the night sleeping at all.. hmm.
Urgh. S up lots, then was feeding him at 5:30 and he vomited profusely in my bed. Changed him, me, the bed and that was it for sleep. He'll be so cranky imminently.
I confess I'd like one more baby. Dh is still saying he'd like a vasectomy but then twice recently he's said 'if we have another in a few years' . So maybe?!
too I've got a medela electric pump too. Also second hand. But mine is hospital grade so i paid £125 second hand, but tis £250 new!
Mine's a double pump top though.
Too, not top. Doh. I'm expressing each evening for milk for b's porridge, I get 5 oz in 10 min when my boobs feel pretty empty to me, it is great.
I've got an Avent electric single pump which was ok ish but I never really had much success with it. But then I don't know whether I just wasn't cut out for pumping or if it was because the pump wasn't very good iyswim?
I am just about to get rid of my pump - it's only been used a handful of times - you'd be welcome to it if you wanted to try it? (Apologies if that's a rank sort of thing to offer away? I'm not sure )
I had the little medala one (until I dropped it...). I liked it. It works on batteries too and being little i found with dd2 I could express on the go which would be useful for when you have your second too?
I bet jaggy and hawthers know a thing about pumps too as hey have both done quite a lot haven't they?
Should I think about expressing? I'm unemployed so don't have a job to go back to although my MA runs out in a couple of weeks so will then only have my CB as income. If I go back on the dole then I would need to take any job offered so may need to find childcare quickly. The only time I have expressed is ages ago when my boobs were rock solid and N was too small to be able to feed from them so I just expressed off a little to soften them up for her.
Oooh, Biscuits, that would be great! How much do you want for it? Have had a look on Amazon and the reviews seem pretty positive, and I just don't have the cash to spend £100 on a Medela right now.
Musical, at least one more, and then we'll see! But neither of us want M to be an only child, and DH keeps saying he wants about 7... So the current plan is to have another and see how stressful the pregnancy is. I keep worrying about M's Down's syndrome score (which was 1:10 and I had an amnio at 16 weeks and luckily everything was fine) and whether that's just a quirk of my babies and I'd have to go through the whole worry about whether the next one had Down's and whether to have the amnio again and what if this time I miscarried...Maybe it was just M, but the nuchal test hadn't come to my trust when I was pg with DD1, so I don't know if she would have had a similar result or not. Plus there was the whole SPD thing, although it wasn't as bad as Scream's.
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Sending big hugs to Dream and anyone else up all night with a LO. Little A and I did battle all last night, and as with most battles there were no real winners.
Every night I try to get her to sleep in her cot, and every night I give up (due to exhaustion) around 2 or 3ish, at which point she comes into my bed to sleep on me. This means I have to sleep on my back which completely aggravates my sciatica. Finally yesterday evening I was just in sooooo much pain from the sciatica, even after taking nurofen, that I had to face the fact I CANNOT physically let her sleep on me anymore. Cue the epic battle last night, where she screamed from 3 til 4, then from 5 to 5.30 and again from 6 to 6.30 when I finally brought her into my bed to sleep next to me rather than on me.
I'm a terrible mother for letting her sleep next to me though, because I have a memory foam mattress and I know babies shouldn't sleep on those. Argh it's such a nightmare! Dreading tonight already... Last night was basically the "camping out" version of cry-it-out. It was awful. She's never cried so hard for so long in her whole life She didn't go to sleep until midnight anyway, despite an 8pm bedtime, and she was up twice between midnight and The Screaming at 3. Sob sob.
Apologies for the selfish whinge. Back onto the topic of the day - next DC! How ridiculous is it that I STILL really want another baby asap?!?! Too I share all your concerns! I think the next time round I'll be even more worried about scan results etc, because I have
too much so much more info now. Plus I'm terrified of the SPD & toddler combo. Still whenever I see a tiny baby less than a month old I get super broody!
Anyways, it's a pipe dream for me. It'll take months for DH and I to get back on track, and then it still wouldn't be sensible to jump immediately into another stressful pg followed by sleepless newborn stage. So I think I'll end up with at least a 2.5 year age gap, if not more.
Unless I just jump in again anyway and we'd just have to figure it out as we go along but of course I wouldn't do that because I'm not a crazy woman oh no I'm perfectly sane me
As for the expressing talk, I loved my medela swing - single electric pump. I used it everyday for months and it was fantastic.
Good luck to all those going back to work in the next few weeks! Esp Pomme off to Italy! When do you leave exactly? How long will it take you to get internet access at the other end?!?!
How are all the previously poorly mini No Brookers? I don't think much has been mentioned recently so I hope everyone is better?
scream - your post brings back some bad memories! God, poor you, horibble night. Have you tried a different cot? Do you have a travel one? A was much better in her travel cot (maybe could see out) which we discovered by 'accident' on holiday. She's still in one now. She'll be sleeping in one in Italy too! She likes a nightlight too.
We're off to Italy for good on the 28th but on Thursday we're going for 4 days to try and sort things out. i am excited and nervous! We dont have enough suitcases!
Oh and I was so so so sure 2 was my lot but I saw dd1's nativity at school today (the two preschool class plus reception) and it was very hard not to cry
and now I want a whole football team.
What is it about little ones singing away in a manger?! God thats a tearjerker.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Biscuits! I have PMed you. You are a star. I can do some expressing practice now and try freezing some and so on. Thank you so much!
at Pomme wanting a football team! Yy to Away In A Manger being a tearjerker. Gosh, Pomme, it's all getting close now - have a lovely time this weekend and I hope everything looks much more sorted by this time next week.
Scream, your comment about battles having no real winners made me smile because it sounded so philosophical, but then I read on and it sounds like the night from hell, poor you. Btw, I have a memory foam mattress too and I let M into my bed at 6ish this morning and she basically slept on her side facing me, with my arm under her head
and my nipple in her mouth which is Very Bad according to the No Cry Sleep Solution. I started off on my side facing her and then rolled slightly onto my back which was comfier for me, although you might be better staying on your side. I think now they're older than 6 months their risk of SIDS is much reduced anyway, but having my arm underneath her meant that M couldn't roll face-first into the mattress without me noticing. Not that that helps with getting little A to sleep in the cot, which is the ultimate aim. The No Cry Sleep Solution suggests letting them play in their cots during the day, so they associate it with calm fun.
Jen, not sure about expressing - I suppose if you were offered a job quickly then you would have to sort out so many things in a very short space of time, so it might make sense to have tried expressing in advance? Do you need to go on the dole/get a job immediately, or can you stay off it for a bit longer?
at Pomme wanting a football team! Good luck for this weekend! Are you taking the girls or will they be staying with family?
Thanks for the travel cot suggestion. Unfortunately now that little A can cruise around her proper cot she gets very frustrated at the stretchy material sides of the travel cot, which mean she can't pull herself up. So she'll sleep in the travel cot fine if you transfer her when already fully under, but she won't fall asleep in the travel cot.
Too thanks for the arm suggestion! I always worry that little A's neck is at an uncomfortable angle when I start off with my arm underneath her head, but you're right it's a safe way of making sure she doesn't roll face down on the memory foam. She normally sleeps face down in her cot now, so I know she'll roll over on the bed as well.
I shouldn't complain so much about A though. In the last couple of weeks she's learnt to wave bye-bye and to give me a kiss if I ask for one! Such a sweetie! She's also still almost crawling. She can now move forwards on hands and knees, but she's only willing to move a few inches forward before she goes back to trying to stand. So I can't really call it proper crawling yet.
I wonder who will be the first No Brooker to rejoin the Rat Smackers?!?! Any predictions? Self-nominations?!?!
Well, AF still hasn't returned, so I'm out until that happens. DH wants to try again in the New Year, but I want to wait a bit longer and try to get fit first in the hopes of staving off the SPD. But no later than October. So who knows?
I want another but DH says no due to money. Yes I'm unemployed but if we have another then childcare fees will make working pretty much a waste of time anyway, right?
If AAT wasn't so expensive then I would put myself through that but we just can't justify it at the moment with so few jobs out there. It's frustrating that so many places want AAT and don't acknowledge my IAB Diploma. Ideally I want to be self employed and do the books for local small businesses but not sure how to get started with that.
I can tell you who'll be last to rejoin scream <self nominates for that position>
I can wait to watch a nativity . But I know I'll be weeping all the way through it. The Christmas concert in Love Actually always makes me cry . Just the idea of children being able to do anything like that brings a tear to my eye .
can't wait I mean!
Girls coming as well, we're visiting nursery for A and pre school for dd1 on Friday. Fingers crossed the house is ok (vetted only by dh and my dad but rented via a friend of a friend). I meant we move officially 28th Dec earlier which dh has pointed out means major decoration down carnage on the 27th!!
scream - sounds like Autumn is learning tons and tons of new things very quickly and even one new thing tends to mess up sleep ime.
I reckon 2 will still be my lot. DH is VERY emphatic on two only. No more rat smacking for me I fear.
God scream your night sounds worse than mine and I feel rough. S still coughing and so mucousy, refusing any and all solids, vomiting a lot. B almost as bad but more stoical and less vomity! So after s started the wake ups at 9:30 pm, we finished with me trying to feed him to sleep st 5:30am, him turning his head from the boob to do a massive puked, all over me, him, the bed, then s trail to the bathroom as i legged it there with him.... Nice. So bed changing, new pajamas all round and a generally fun start to the day.
I'm being really horrible and moody and emotional atm. Hoping its the sleep deprivation as I've just started the progesterone only pill, knowing the combined one makes me a complete loon. I'm worried its the pill.... (Making me crackers now I mean) . Any.thoughts/ experience Brookers?
Scream, mine sleep on my memory foam mattress, I'm not worried now they're older <lax emoticon>
Oh, and pomme, I still think breast is best but always thought the 'formula induces sleep' saying must have had a grain of truth, but you've given her lifetime health benefits by bf!
I was on the progesterone one pre dd1. It was fine, although I was a bit worried when we started tic as I'd heard so many people have issues when they come off it. wasn't a problem though.
When I tried to go back on it post dd1 it didnt agree with me at all - spots, moody, constant bleeding. I've now been told no hormonal contraception at all for me - just condoms or copper coil.
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Brave Heart is widely recognized for changing the paradigm for Indian businesses; focusing on empowering Tribes with improved business knowledge, rather than simply obtaining long-term contracts for his own company. He is a first generation Indian entrepreneur, and is a nationally recognized speaker on empowering young native entrepreneurs.
Brave Heart was raised in the small rural village of Porcupine on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Born to a 14-year old Lakota girl, too young to raise a child herself, Brave Heart was adopted and raised by his maternal aunt. His adopted parents provided young Brave Heart with travel opportunities that opened his eyes to possibilities beyond the poverty within the reservation borders.


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Montgomery Gentry oppose the fighting
By MIKE ROSS -- Edmonton Sun
Just as you shouldn't accuse antiwar protesters of being unpatriotic, support for the troops does not necessarily mean support for the war.
This is what Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry has to say about that: "Eddie (Montgomery) and I oppose the war. We wish that we could have all of our soldiers back home right now, but while U.S. President Bush is asking them to do a job, Eddie and I are going to support the decisions of the president and our military that are over there doing the job they're asked to do."
Backing up the talk was a trip to Iraq in March for a series of USO shows. The band returns to friendly territory this weekend for the Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose. They play tonight.
Gentry recalls getting the jitters about going into a war zone, "I was a little paranoid. I've got a three-year-old at the house and I had concerns about leaving my family in case something was to happen. I even went as far as getting a doctor's note to try to get me out of going, but I sat and talked to a bunch of people, Toby Keith, Gary (LeVox) from Rascal Flatts, who had been over there already.
They made me feel comfortable about going over there and giving the troops a little bit of what they've been missing. I was very glad I did it. I was asked if I'd ever go back. I'd do it at the drop of a hat."
You could argue that supporting the decisions of the president is tantamount to supporting the war, but we're not going to do that. After the interview last week, management for the country duo complained we didn't talk enough about music.
So let's talk about music. While not overtly political on a grand scale, a good deal of Montgomery Gentry's songs have an agenda, usually seen through the eyes of individuals - honest, hard-working folk the songs are aimed at. Whether the singers wrote them or not is irrelevant. Songs chosen from among thousands speak to a country artist's feelings and opinions as much as an original tune.
The band's hit My Town, from the 2000 album of the same name, is typical. It's a love letter to small-town life, replete with rusty tractor, beloved water tower and a packed church every Sunday.
The song recently appeared on a CMT Top-10 list of country songs George W. Bush should listen to because, among other things, he seems to be out of it when it comes to country music. Then there's this line loaded with Michael Moore-ian import, "There ain't much going on here since they closed the mill." And what caused the mill to close? Maybe that's a topic for a Bruce Springsteen song.
You Do Your Thing came out two years ago, the title track expressing an almost libertarian/separatist ideal inside what appears to be a song about tolerance - you do your thing, I'll do mine. Lines like "I ain't gonna spare the rod, 'cause that ain't what my daddy did" caused a bit of a stir. A critic for the Internet review site Pitchfork Media called the song "both a s---- stomping power ballad and a force of oppression."
Gentry stresses the core message of the song, "America is built on the idea of being able to have the right to choose the things you say and do without being judged. Don't judge me because of something you believe in that I may not."
In stores Oct. 17 is Montgomery Gentry's new studio album, Some People Change. You can hear the single - again, the title track - on the radio now.
It's a ballad, this one definitely kinder and gentler than You Do Your Thing or any of the duo's raucous numbers like I Got Drunk and the self-explanatory Hell Yeah. These Kentucky boys are in their 40s now - or close enough - and family responsibilities have taken priority over the incessant hell-raising that marked Montgomery Gentry's earlier days. Sooner or later, hell-raising turns into heck-raising.
As for new material, "I think this album is based more on family issues, the love of the family, the love of neighbours, relationships," Gentry says. "The new single out now is about being able to challenge your inner demons and the things that can bring people down, alcoholism, or hatred or racism, Just because it's been in the family, you can dig yourself out of the barrel and be a better person. People can do that.
"Like ADD and all these other diseases that doctors claim that we have so they can sell some drugs, I think your own inner strength can get you through a whole lot more than what people give themselves credit for."


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Archinect - News 2017-07-24T12:41:20-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/149972027/al_a-designed-museum-of-art-architecture-and-technology-maat-opens-in-lisbon AL_A-designed Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) opens in Lisbon Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-10-04T19:49:00-04:00 >2016-10-10T00:25:33-04:00
Lisbon's new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology officially opens October 5, spread across two structures: the renovated interior of a former power station, and a new kunsthalle designed by AL_A.

The MAAT was founded by the EDP Foundation, a private Portuguese organization primarily focused on energy and environmental concerns, and their extension into society and culture. MATT's construction extends EDP's preexisting art campus on the banks of Lisbon's Tagus River, and is part of an ongoing urban revitalization project along the historic waterfront, which includes Vittorio Gregotti's Cultural Centre of Belém and Paolo Mendez de Rocha's Coach Museum. Materially, the building is also meant to directly reference its site's craft tradition, made of 15,000 three-dimensional ceramic tiles.

AL_A's design for the MAAT includes a massive, low-slung roof that extends into the public space—allowing visitors to walk over and under it—intending to bridge the waterfront and the city. The m...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/131272625/pedro-gadanho-leaves-moma-to-become-first-artistic-director-of-museum-of-art-architecture-and-technology-in-lisbon Pedro Gadanho leaves MoMA to become first artistic director of Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-07-06T19:08:00-04:00 >2015-07-11T21:09:59-04:00
The new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon recently selected architect and writer Pedro Gadanho as its first Artistic Director. Gadanho is leaving his post as a curator in MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design, which he's held since 2012 – a relatively quick departure for such a high-status role. He will start at MAAT in October of this year, working to define the museum's cultural program, which aims to be "an exciting contemporary programme at the intersection of art, architecture and technology."

At MoMA, Gadanho worked alongside Senior Curators Martino Stierli (current) and Barry Bergdoll (former) as MoMA put out exhibitions like Tactical Urbanisms. He is already a respected entity in Portugal, having curated the Portugal Pavilion for the 2004 Venice Biennale, as well as numerous other local exhibitions. He holds an architecture degree and a PhD in Architecture and Mass Media from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), as we...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/129867356/an-angry-passion-round-up-of-global-tributes-to-charles-correa "An Angry Passion": Round-Up of Global Tributes to Charles Correa Julia Ingalls 2015-06-18T13:31:00-04:00 >2015-06-23T00:51:08-04:00
Although memorial tributes are rarely upbeat, an unusual tenor of melancholy pervades the world's reaction to Charles Correa's death late Tuesday at age 84. The architect named "India's Greatest" by RIBA in 2013 has, in his passing, seemingly become an emblem of an entire subcontinent's struggles as much as the "open-to-sky" spaces which he leaves behind. In a tribute titled "Charles Correa wanted to design a better Mumbai – but the city let him down" in The Guardian, Bachi Karkaria portrays Correa as a visionary who was forever denied the recognition he deserved by Mumbai. "Correa's real passion was the designing of cities that are easy to live, work, play – and commute – in. But his karma was Mumbai, which can check none of these boxes with a straight face," Karkaria writes. "The man who described cities as "places of hope" was fated to live in a city of disappointments. It's not just because its skyline resembles an alarming ECG. More specifically, Mumbai mindlessly sabotaged two...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/111300176/artist-vhils-dissects-the-city-by-by-taking-apart-and-reassembling-found-objects Artist VHILS dissects the city by by taking apart and reassembling found objects Metropolitan Monk 2014-10-15T11:37:00-04:00 >2014-10-30T12:38:16-04:00
Throughout the past decade, Portuguese artist VHILS – born Alexandre Farto [Lisbon, 1987] – has been making a name for himself by taking apart and reassembling found objects. He uses a multitude of materials and formats to voice his stance on the city, which he bases on his experience of living and working in Shanghai 上海, Moscow, New York, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Paris. VHILS now condenses his findings in his home town Lisbon - in an exhibition at Lisbon's Electricity Museum – curated by João Pinharanda and aptly named 'Dissection' – drawing from his work to produce a collective memory of the city. It is the artist's first big solo show. MovingCities published, in the October-November 2014 issue of Mark magazine #52, an interview with Portuguese street artist: read VHILS | Dissecting the City.

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'Debris is a prime material for me,' he says. 'I like to use material that has been expelled from the city. I think this comes from my background in ...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/104955739/lvaro-siza-donates-his-architectural-archives-to-institutions-in-portugal-and-canada Álvaro Siza donates his architectural archives to institutions in Portugal and Canada Alexander Walter 2014-07-24T18:53:00-04:00 >2014-07-28T22:16:08-04:00
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza this week announced to donate his architectural archive to public architectural institutions in Portugal and Canada. The decision was motivated by Siza's desire of fostering discussion and dialogue in a research-oriented context.

One part of the archive will be donated to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, and the other part will be given to two Portuguese institutions, the Fundação Gulbenkian in Lisbon and the Fundação de Serralves in Porto.

"The CCA is thrilled to accept this generous donation," remarked CCA Director Mirko Zardini. "I have known Álvaro Siza and followed his work closely for several decades. His architecture escapes easy classification, but always offers a lesson – a new way of seeing the world around us. His buildings have a distinct character and particular relationship to their urban or natural settings, always born from the desire to participate in the world. Siza's drawings and sketches reflect his ability to...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/89154717/kenneth-frampton-to-receive-lisbon-triennale-lifetime-achievement-award-2013 Kenneth Frampton to receive Lisbon Triennale Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 Justine Testado 2013-12-18T18:43:00-05:00 >2013-12-23T19:08:45-05:00
 Architecture critic, historian, and professor Kenneth Frampton was named as the 2013 laureate for the Lisbon Triennale Lifetime Achievement Award on Dec. 15.

 The award recognizes a person or practice whose work and ideas have had a lasting influence on architectural theory and practice today. This year, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale commissioned Portuguese artist Fernanda Fragateiro to design the prize.

 Frampton will accept the award at a ceremony taking place at Lisbon's Centro Cultural de Belém in early January 2014. He will also give a featured lecture at the event.

 "The jury composed by Beatrice Galilee, Gonçalo Byrne, Guilherme Wisnik, Juhani Pallasmaa, Mónica Gili, Taro Igarashi and William Menking chose Kenneth Frampton for his outstanding contribution to architectural theorization and critical reflection, both as as lecturer and author of countless articles, essays and monographs.

 A graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, Ke...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/85539619/dispatches-from-5468796-architecture-s-table-for-twelve-lisbon Dispatches from 5468796 Architecture's Table for Twelve | Lisbon Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2013-11-04T11:04:00-05:00 >2013-12-09T23:33:22-05:00
 Archinect is delighted to present 5468796 Architecture's travelogue for their award-winning research project, Table for Twelve. The Winnipeg-based firm received the 2013 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts, awarded to emerging Canadian architects with outstanding artistic potential. The $50,000 prize will support the firm's worldwide travels to both strengthen their skills and expand their presence within the international architectural community.

 5468796's Table for Twelve will hold dinner parties at architectural epicenters around the world, in the hopes that picking the brains of local talent will help them identify the drivers behind a strong design culture. Archinect plays host to their global dispatches through this travel blog, updated upon each city's dinner.

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 The first installment of the "Table" in our year-long research project was held in Portugal during the opening week of the Lisbon Architecture Tr...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/81754889/jimenez-lai-wins-the-inaugural-lisbon-triennale-millennium-bcp-d-but-award Jimenez Lai wins the inaugural Lisbon Triennale Millennium BCP Début Award Alexander Walter 2013-09-13T14:56:00-04:00 >2013-09-16T23:00:34-04:00
Jimenez Lai continues to take the world by storm: the founder of Chicago-based Bureau Spectacular was announced last night as the winner of the first Lisbon Triennale Millennium BCP Début Award for architects under 35. The announcement took place at Lisbon's Electricity Museum marking the first day of the opening week of Close, Closer, the third Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

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In 2012, filmmaker Leon Gerskovic chronicled the journey of 16 design/buildLAB students as they conceived and realized the Masonic Amphitheatre. The project consisted of the complete redevelopment of a post-industrial brownfield into a public park and performance space. Reality Check is their inspirational story.

 "Reality Check" by Leon Gerskovic and including time-lapse photography from Jeff Goldberg has been selected for inclusion in the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa and will make its European Premiere on Friday September 27th at 6PM in the Cinema City Alvalade. The screening will be followed by a talk about "designing for the 99%" with Tiago Mota Saraiva of Ateliermob and a moderated discussion including Marie and Keith Zawistowski of design/buildLAB.

 More about the film, including a trailer, clips, stills, and reviews by: Scott Poole, Dean at UTK; Jeff Day, Partner at Min Day and Director at UNL; and John Cary, Founder at Public Interest Design can be found at www.realitycheckfilm.com

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Three winning projects were announced in the Future Cities, Planning for the 90 per cent competition: ateliermob (Portugal), Municipal Housing Secretariat of São Paulo (Brazil), and Interazioni Urbane (Italy). The projects are part of the exhibition Future Cities: Planning for the 90 per cent in Venice during the 13th Architecture Biennale. Ten projects were selected for the exhibition from more than 100 participants from several countries.

 Portuguese practice ateliermob presents one of the three winning projects, "Working with the 99%," a case study of the progress and community work of Lisbon's self-built PRODAC neighborhood.

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UGC NET December 2014 Notification by UGC, New Delhi. UGC NET/ JRF (II) exam dates and official news and updates are available on this article. University Grants Commission, New Delhi (UGC) NET December 2014 online application form, scheme of test, last date to apply, application fees is given below. UGC NET Dec 2014 subjects are : More details are below:
UGC NET December 2014 Notification.
Name of Organization: University Grants Commission (UGC, New Delhi).
Details Available: UGC NET Dec 2014 Notification & Online Forms www.ugcnetonline.in.
Expected Date of Examination: Last week of December 2014.
Application Form Available: 3rd Week of October 2014.
The University Grants Commission will be holding of the National Eligibility Test (NET) in December 2014. The exam dates will be announced in the official notification in late September 2014 or October first week 2014. UGC NET December 2014 is conducted for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for the Eligibility for Assistant Professor only or Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for Assistant Professor both in Indian universities and colleges. UGC will conduct NET in 79 subjects including Santali new subject (listed under item no. 9) at 84 (Eighty Four, including five new centres) selected NET Coordinating Institutions (listed under Item no. 10) spread across the country. websites: www.ugc.ac.in and www.ugcnetonline.in as and when it is declared. The candidates will not be individually intimated about their result.
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Candidates qualifying for the award of Junior Research Fellowship will be eligible to receive fellowship of UGC under various schemes, subject to their finding placement in universities/IITs/institutions. The validity period of the offer is two years w.e.f. the date of issue of JRF Award Letter. However, in case the candidates who have already joined M.Phil/Ph.D., the date of commencement of fellowship shall be from the date of declaration of NET result or date of their joining, whichever is later.
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- The Ph.D. degree holders whose Master's level examination had been completed by 19th September, 1991 (irrespective of date of declaration of result) shall be eligible for a relaxation of 5% in aggregate marks (i.e., from 55% to 50%) for appearing in NET.
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The same sort of modern stateliness we saw on the Lincoln MKS last year finds its way into the 2010 MKZ, along with an impressive technology array. Lincoln's new winged-grille design covers the front of this smallest Lincoln, giving it stronger presence than its platform mates, the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan. And while the rear of the car includes the big Lincoln badge and wraparound taillights that comprise the new Lincoln design language, the side profile is as bland as any modern midsize sedan.
Living up to a luxury brand image seems like an impossible task for an American car company these days, but the MKZ takes a step in the right direction. When we got into our test car, we were immediately impressed with the nicely trimmed leather seats. Soft materials along the dashboard also worked toward the luxury theme. The cabin tech controls, a set of plastic buttons running up the center stack, are the major letdown when it comes to quality. These look like they come from the same parts bin that supplies Ford and Mercury vehicles. Lincoln should distinguish itself more, although to be fair, Audis use pretty ugly plastic switchgear, as well.
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Still going strong for Lincoln is its cabin tech, of which the MKZ takes full advantage. Ours came equipped with the hard-drive-based navigation system, which includes Sirius TravelLink. This system shows traffic data overlaid on the map, and offers the option to avoid bad congestion on a programmed route. During our testing, the system occasionally couldn't find a detour around a traffic jam, as its routing algorithm won't let it go too far off course.
Beyond traffic, Sirius TravelLink also provides weather, gas prices, movie schedules, and sports scores, the first two of those being the most useful. The gas price feature is particularly good, as just a touch on any station in the listing can set it as a destination in the navigation system.
Where this system falls behind is the look of the maps. It does offer three map views, including perspective, but the map graphics are very simple, and don't offer the visual beauty of new offerings from BMW and Audi. But they are functional, and route guidance is good. The system includes text-to-speech, so it will read out street names.
Sync, standard in the MKZ, is another cabin tech cornerstone for Ford company vehicles. It provides connectivity and voice command for Bluetooth cell phones and MP3 players, with a level of integration not currently matched by any other car maker. We test many cars throughout the year here at Car Tech, but are always pleased to get into one with Sync, as we can plug in an iPod, Zune, or other MP3 player and ask it to play music by naming the genre, artist, or album. And it never ceases to amaze us how well the system recognizes even the most obscure and complex artist names. When plugging in a new MP3 player, the system does take a little while to index the music, but that should only be a one-time issue.
Other than MP3 player support, the system's audio sources include the onboard hard drive, satellite radio, Bluetooth streaming audio, and a USB port for flash drives. Impressively, the interface for the hard drive and flash drives mimics that for MP3 players, allowing browsing by artist, album, and genre. Bluetooth streaming audio merely allows play-and-pause control, but that's due to the limited nature of the Bluetooth streaming stereo specification.
During a road trip of about 1,000 miles, we became intimately acquainted with the MKZ's optional THX audio system. With 14 speakers and a 600-watt amp, it should be phenomenal, but it doesn't quite live up to the experience we had last year with the system in the Lincoln MKS, which gets a couple of extra speakers. The audio system in the MKZ is certainly top-notch, rivaling anything from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, or Lexus. But this implementation of the THX system seemed just a little muddy in the middle frequencies. Where we heard angels singing in the MKS, we merely heard a choir in the MKZ.


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A heavy duty 6G vinyl is worth a few more dollars because it is thicker, less apt to tear and will last longer. The disadvantage of using a rubber or vinyl cover is that it doesn't allow the body heat to dissipate so some users report that they sweat more in the nighttime unless another absorbent mattress pad is used on top.
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Hi Joyce,
it says just before dawn and includes Mervcury and Venus so they would all be in the east.
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Re following message from Bill - Each time I tell someone about his
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direction does one look? Can anyone let us know? When was the last time
they were all together. I remember as a child seeing at least 3 of them
together and it was great with a telescope. Venus was like a soap bubble,
Saturn I think like a ball of knitting wool with a needle stuck thru it and
Mars was quite red. Thats my memories and I might have mixed them up in my
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CV of Patrick Jouin
It's no fluke that Patrick Jouin was born on June 5, 1967 in Nantes, a city with the motto, "May Neptune favour those who sail." After graduating from the École Nationale de la Création Industrielle (ENSCI) in 1992, the designer founded his own agency in 1998 in the 11th arrondissement in Paris. Since then it has grown into a reference on the international stage. Patrick Jouin stands out through his refined and sometimes bold designs, mentally joining the mortises and tenons of his productions as elegantly and skilfully as he organises their material layout.Patrick Jouin's designs have never been about making a statement: they are not allegorical and do not herald a new era embodied in objects or a space. Yet he is not an artist in a position of withdrawal or humility that would put his production at a distance. He conveys an aesthetic, a story, in a process that refuses to cast into oblivion the forms which the 20th century invented.It might seem unusual to claim that at the height of modernity—the nerve centre of consumer society that is design—lies a melancholic sensitivity. Yet we must accept that modernity generates its own tales and myths. The more it progresses and develops its implacable logic, the more it provokes an inward-looking vision of a bygone industrial world, one that bore the utopia of mechanical mastery, a happy and vitalist world. Patrick Jouin does not try to create manifest forms—massive yet seemingly invisible, because decontextualised then reinterpreted—for a very different world: the luxury sector. This is an aesthetic that brings back incongruous forms to create a play on discord, thereby moving away from the flat, prosaic reality of the contemporary world where everything merges in immediate non-differentiation.Patrick Jouin deploys an industrial formal sensitivity that intervenes in other fields in small doses. He is a designer who selects mass-industrial machinery forms—blast furnaces, turbines, chimney stacks, modules, moulds, series, forges—to integrate them into the world of chic luxury in sometimes monstrous, sometimes discreet, sometimes ghostly fragments. His trademark style aims to spread beyond this world to become a separate institutionalised or decorative activity. It allows the mass-industrial space to be contemplated as a source of strange beauty. The meaning and beauty of this work must thus be sought at the point of tension between two worlds—factories and luxury—in the dynamic of mirror images reflected between them. These spaces must be read as a close combat between two worlds. Times and worlds seem contracted, an overlap between work and leisure time, factory forms and luxury aesthetic. The myth of a golden industrial age thus becomes a contemplative system. This work exploits the imagination of the 20th century via the fragment, as a form serving the nostalgia of a lost unity.


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BOSTON - The NBA's trade deadline is at noon Feb. 24.
That much is certain.
Anything else is just speculation, rumor or good old-fashioned wishful thinking, including possibly an ESPN report Tuesday that said the Lakers and the Denver Nuggets engaged in preliminary talks about an Andrew Bynum-for-Carmelo Anthony swap.
"There have been discussions between the two teams," an unnamed source told ESPN for a story posted on its website. "The Lakers are definitely an option."
Lakers spokesman John Black declined to comment.
It's important to note general managers talk all the time about possible trades, particularly in the days and hours before the deadline. They make calls, receive calls and swap e-mails to discuss scenarios - most of which never come to pass.
That could be the case this time, with the Lakers unwilling to part with Bynum in order to acquire Anthony.
Such a deal might create more problems than it would solve for the Lakers and also might not work so well for the Nuggets.
Bynum is a center, and when paired with fellow 7-footer Pau Gasol he provides the Lakers with their greatest strength: size. The 23-year-old, who skipped college, has suffered a string of knee injuries, which has slowed his progress.
Anthony is a small forward, and when given an inch he'll take two or three miles in a role as one of the league's best offensive players. He plays the same position as Ron Artest, Matt Barnes and Luke Walton, so someone else would have to be dealt.
It's also likely the Nuggets would insist on a third team entering the picture in order to sweeten the pot. When you add the needs of one team to acquire draft picks, lesser players and/or cash, it often makes trades nearly impossible to complete.
For example, a potential three-team deal that would have sent Anthony to the New Jersey Nets collapsed in a heap when the Nets grew tired of the process and declared the negotiations dead only days after ESPN said the deal was on its last lap.
The network also reported over the weekend another three-team swap was in the works, with the New York Knicks and the Minnesota Timberwolves joining with the Nuggets. Anthony would end up with the Knicks.
Neither the Nuggets-Nets-Detroit Pistons scenario nor the Nuggets-Knicks-Timberwolves deal could match a Lakers-Nuggets deal for star power, however. Anthony is a superstar and the Lakers believe Bynum could be one sooner rather than later.
The Lakers would insist Anthony sign a three-season contract extension worth $65million, according to the ESPN story. He is making $17.1 million this season. Bynum, who is signed through the 2012-13 season, is making $13.8 million.
There is no doubt Bynum remains a work in progress, but trading him would mean admitting failure for Jim Buss, a team executive and the son of owner Jerry Buss. It was Jim Buss who pushed for the Lakers to draft the then 17-year-old Bynum 10th in 2005.
The Lakers also have won consecutive NBA championships with Bynum in their starting lineup. They lost in the 2008 Finals after Bynum had suffered a season-ending knee injury and could not play against the Boston Celtics.
Bynum is averaging 11.3 points and 7.4rebounds this season.
Rest and preparation
The Lakers did not practice Tuesday after flying to Boston but are scheduled to hold a workout today in preparation for Thursday's rematch with the Celtics. Boston defeated the punchless Lakers 109-96on Jan. 30 at Staples Center.
"We have two days now to watch film and understand what happened in that game and how they beat us," Gasol said. "It was a game that we could have played better, for sure. But they played well. They got everybody going pretty much on their team.
"So, we're going to have to be really physical, really solid, really aggressive to be successful in Boston. You have to be physical. You have to be active. You have to be communicative out there in order to succeed against a good offensive team."
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Who knows the odds of it happening again, but this college basketball season, both Duke and North Carolina will suit up matching sets of 6-10 siblings.
Call it the Brothers Rim.
The Tar Heels will feature freshman twins David and Travis Wear, from Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif., the same Catholic school that produced USC quarterback Matt Barkley.
They are forwards whose games are nearly as identical as they are, though David may Wear you out faster than Travis. They look so ridiculously the same that often even teammates can only tell them apart by their jersey number. Makes you wonder if they ever switch jerseys at halftime. (If you're guarding them, check for moles. You don't want to think you're guarding Travis when you're actually guarding David.)
The Blue Devils, meanwhile, counter with brothers Miles and Mason Plumlee of Warsaw (Ind.) High School, with a stop at Christ School in Arden, N.C. Miles is a sophomore already at Duke, but freshman Mason, who is 10 pounds lighter and quicker, could really give the heels a flat tire.
So here's what we're going to do. We're going to set up a charity tournament. We'll call it Twenty-Eight Feet Meet. The Plumlees vs. the Wears. Two-on-two at the Durham County/Orange County line, halfway between the two schools. We'll have a set of brother refs, sister cheerleaders and twin coaches.
Winning brothers get to give the losing brothers the usual brother business: one noogie, one wedgie and one loogie on the shoe.
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J&J's Profit Slips on Charges, Currency Impacts (WSJ): Second-quarter earnings fell 49% amid acquisition-related expenses and other items, as the health-care conglomerate's revenue was hurt by negative currency impacts. The company has been trying to recover from a string of recalls of some consumer products and to settle a protracted investigation into the marketing of its antipsychotic Risperdal.
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Given the massive use of electricity by the aluminium sector, government ministers were quick to mention the carbon tax when Alcoa Australia announced it was shutting its Point Henry smelter.
But the reality is a lot different. Not only did the company say explicitly on Tuesday that the carbon tax "played no role'' in the decision, an analysis by The Australian Financial Review indicates Alcoa made money from the tax.
Figures released by the federal government at the weekend detailing the carbon tax liability of Australia's top 20 emitters show Alcoa Australia incurred a liability for 2012-13 of $137 million.
Being a heavy emitter, Alcoa was entitled to the top-shelf compensation of 94.5 per cent free permits. This meant it only had to pay for 5.5 per cent of its liability, or about $7.5 million.
But it may not have even had to pay this.
Five days ago, in a statement tendered to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and also lodged with the ASX,
Alcoa quiet on the details
This $53 million windfall from the carbon tax was for calendar year 2013, but it is plausible that Alcoa Australia was some $46 million ahead.
An Alcoa spokeswoman said the company could not comment because "the details of Alcoa's financial position in relation to the carbon price are commercial in confidence and not released to the public''.
"In the case of today's Point Henry announcement, the carbon price has not played a role in that decision.''
When former Labor minister
The 94.5 per cent compensation rate for heavy emitters was based on an industry average, not the actual emission pattern of each particular company. Therefore, if Alcoa was able to keep its emissions under the average, it would have been able to sell the excess credits, which it appears it did.
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The carbon tax did not come into effect until July 1, 2012, meaning anything said in 2011 was speculative rather than based on actual experience.
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Beijing (AFP) July 20, 2013
A man in a wheelchair ignited a home-made explosive device at Beijing's international airport Saturday, state media reported, injuring himself but no others.
The man, identified as Ji Zhongxing from Shandong province, aged 34, was being treated for injuries, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing police.
The explosion, which occurred in the airport's Terminal 3, caused momentary panic and confusion at one of the world's busiest airports, although no one else was hurt, Xinhua said.
Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, a Chinese foreign policy specialist at the International Crisis Group think-tank who was inside the arrivals hall at the time, described on Twitter seeing a "huge explosion followed by panic, smoke and dust".
Pictures she posted online showed a female Chinese police officer waving crowds back as dense white smoke drifted across the terminal.
In a separate tweet she said the blast had created "lots of excitement" and that police had become angry and "shouted crowds back and told everyone to leave".
A Chinese microblogger, under the username Ruhuaerdaye who had come to the airport to pick up his wife, posted: "Right now this place is full of armed police and firefighters", adding he could see "one person lying on the floor covered in white cloth, nearby is a wheelchair toppled over and a suitcase".
Another microblogger at the airport, Chihewanlezaibeijin, posted that someone holding a bomb "shouted for a while but nobody paid attention, until he opened up a white plastic cover over the bomb. Only after the people around him realised something was wrong did the security guards rush over. The security guards only said two words before the bomb went off".
On social media and Chinese websites a photo -- purportedly taken just before the explosion occurred -- showed a man in a peach coloured shirt sitting in a wheelchair with his hands in the air holding a white package.
Some Chinese news and social media sites showed what they said was a blog written by the man police identified as Ji.
In it, Ji says he formerly worked as a motorcycle driver ferrying passengers in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan and was severely beaten by police staff in 2005. The veracity of the purported blog could not immediately be verified.
Xinhua said the blast came at about 6:24 pm (1024 GMT), adding that police were investigating.
According to the preliminary investigation, police said that the Ji set off the device immediately after being obstructed from releasing leaflets, Xinhua said.
There were no immediate details on the content of the leaflets or what, if any, complaints the man may have.
Police and the airport's information office could not immediately be reached for comment while Xinhua reported that Ji's injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.
China Central Television's Twitter-like microblog said no flights were affected by the incident and that the situation had returned to normal.
An AFP photographer at the airport said there was no sign of increased police presence and travellers were arriving normally.
Photos carried on Xinhua's website showed what appeared to be medical and other workers attending to someone on the floor and people running through the terminal amid white-coloured smoke.
Security at Beijing's airport, the sixth busiest in the world with 557,000 take-offs and landings each year, is tight as are many public locations and transport hubs in the country.
The airport, with three terminals, underwent a massive expansion ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Violent crime is rare in China had a murder rate of 1.0 per 100,000 people in 2010, according to the United Nations, among the lowest in the world.
Corruption and police harassment, however, are frequent complaints, which have caused some citizens to seek redress through the courts and petitions to government agencies though they are often blocked from doing so.
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ABC Logo treatment in After Effects
ABC's logo treatment over the last couple of years have been all about some strokes zippin' around the ABC corporate logo. I've got to say that I really like it and certainly hope that it was done with After Effects. They've recently moved away from Quantel Paint Box to a Photoshop/After Effects workflow, so it's certainly possible.
More to the point, the strokes themselves reminded me of an AE stroke tip that Dean Velez taught me when he was with the Anvel. With Dean's permission, I've included his PDF lesson on creating a dynamic stroke within AE using TEXT. Wrap it up with a imitation RBC logo and an After Effects Project.
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Now that same-sex marriage has been legalized in New York, at least a few large companies are requiring their employees to tie the knot if they want their partners to qualify for health insurance.
Corning, I.B.M. and Raytheon all provide domestic partner benefits to employees with same-sex partners in states where they cannot marry. But now that they can legally wed in New York, five other states and the District of Columbia, they will be required to do so if they want their partner to be covered for a routine checkup or a root canal.
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