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January 23rd, 2009, 10:55 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Assemble before finishing?
Hi, I just got a body that I ordered. It is all routed except holes for the control switches (it has rear routed control cavity) and it has no finish yet. Should I put everything on, bridge + controls, before I go about applying a finish? This is logical to me since I'd damage the lacquer of the clear coat I will be applying if I were to wait until after finishing to put on the screws...
Also, I took it to a luthier to get some advice and what I got from that was that the top is made of lace wood so that a regular drill will damage the top. Can anyone confirm this? Also, if this is the case, won't any screws that will be applied to kee the bridge, controls, and maybe a pickguard in place also damage the wood? How should I go about approaching this thing? |
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I always drill all holes and dry fit all parts before I do my final sanding and finishing.
As to your question about the lacewood... I can't help you with that. I've never used it and don't know anything about it. But I find it hard to believe that a regular drill will damage it in any way. If the drill is sharp and you work carefully you shouldn't have a problem.
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January 23rd, 2009, 11:31 AM | #3 (permalink) |
I have no experience with lacewood either but I can't see how a drilling it would damage it. If you have any doubts try starting the bits in reverse. Turn them slowly until you have a decent start, then change to forward and drill the hole. This will avoid tearout when starting the hole. Sharp bits avoid creating a lot of problems too
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I think you're asking if you should put the guitar together and then finish it with all the parts on it? If you are then no. If you are just asking aobut screw holes you can do it either way, before or after. Am I reading this wrong?
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January 23rd, 2009, 12:24 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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I always test fit the whole thing. Then I remove all the parts before finishing.
I also counter-sink all the holes a little before finishing. This helps prevent the finish from cracking when the screws are inserted. There are no drills that will damage lacewood, or any other wood for that matter as long as they're not mis-used. Then any drill is capable of damaging and wood!
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A mock up to make sure everything fits and aligns properly etc etc BEFORE finishing is always a good idea....
i'm always careful to wear gloves to keep body/finger oils off of the wood when i do so however.... |
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You should have all your holes drilled and tapped before finishing. That is, dry-fit everything and screw a screw into each hole that requires it. Then take everything off and finish the instrument. I suppose that if you didn't do this then after the surface finish dries you could potentially break the finish when you started screwing things together. I guess you could clean out the tops of the screw holes with a sharp knife after the finish has cured and before attaching the parts. Always approach Teles with caution - music can come out of them. |
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Hi, yeah I meant putting in all holes (screws etc) then finishing. All components are taken out before it though.
As to the lacewood comment, thank you very much! I feel a bit more confident approaching this project. And this will also save me quite a bit of money. My final question is how should I go about screwing in the screws? I'm nervous about any cracks that might occur. Drills dig out the wood, screws push it aside (right?). Or are my fears unreasonable? **also, can anyone give me some advice for how large the holes for the controls should be? Would 1/2' holes be enough room for the knobs and switch? |
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Drill the holes for controls slightly large than the threaded shaft. As easy way to size them is to use the washer for the pot. Use a drill bit that is the same size as the hole in the washer or just a hair bigger. |
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This is "silky oak", a member of the lacewood family.
It is quartersawn, and holes need to be drilled with care, to the correct size, but remember any wood that was worked into a guitar body with tools can be taken through to fruition with good tools, also. Yes, dry fit everything before assembly. Multiple assemblies and reassemblies is worth the pain, given the better result you can achieve. |
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I've used quite abit of Lacewood. It feels and works a lot like Mahogany. Its a wonderful wood.
It is very porous, so grain filling technique is a high priority. Also, the medulary rays which give it that great look, are of a different hardness to the rest of the wood, so proceed with caution when sanding it to keep it flat. As for drilling and setting screws, just use standard methods as described above. If in doubt, always test your technique/tooling on scrap. It will be worth the effort, the result will be spectacular! It looks like this. |
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer.
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Sheila Williams ~ Singing Cloud
Mad laughter ringing,
all four winds are screaming,
the sound causes skin to crawl,
hair to lift on head and arms,
coyote sing and wolf to call,
bear is hidden in the wall,
eagle silent on the wing,
hawk stares into your eyes,
they are waiting for the fall,
can you blame them if they hate us all?
The finned float upon their backs,
no air is left in the sludge they drink,
slime on the waters grow,
humankind claimed to know,
as we watch the greens to die,
the deserts grow and never flower,
sands creep into home and bed,
where did the flooding go,
the way of prayers?
No snow falls this year,
empty hearts still know no fear,
silly mankind thinks it is good,
saving on his heating wood,
bustle, hurry, killing fields,
fighting for one bite of food,
where is the selu,
where is the wheat,
not even roots survive the heat,
and they dance on in ignorance,
are they insane?
Hurricanes have all died out,
no tornado or water spouts,
the ocean waves refuse to flow,
the river keeps its secrets close,
rocks piled to point the way,
all the trees have been cut down,
no digging now for gold and oil,
only begging the beans to grow,
precious moisture there is none,
not even dew for the bugs?
They used it up and wasted most,
threw away enough to feed the world,
playing games the greedy fools,
hoarding all and called it wealth,
killed their neighbor for the lands,
left their babies crying in the dark,
forced the world to walk the line,
then turned within, what was their plan?
Death stalking in the night,
whistling missile burning bright,
stop and smile thinking of yourself,
leading the way to kill yourselves,
purple shadows growing wide,
sit and watch the ices melt,
take and take,
do not give back,
let tomorrow fend for itself,
so tell me what you saved it for?
Little feathered bring the message,
circle high, sing and whistle,
curious about your words,
hoping somebody heard,
turtles buried in the mud,
it is they who will be here when you are gone,
tell me why the frogs all died,
tell me about the bees and butterflies,
they too were in your way,
now what do you say?
Poisons to you are progress,
just more of your madness,
atoms split mean destruction,
the only power you understand is killing,
so where now is earths magic,
no fairy dust can save you,
and what was it you did to the dreamers,
laughed at them in your scheming,
so my friends who will save you?
Listen to the night sounds grow,
as they wait like buzzards do,
panther, puma, bobcat too,
deer and spider, mouse in the field,
so few beaver now are left,
how long since the otters played,
elk, moose, polar bear, seal, and dolphin,
big blue whale,
how many thoughts did you give them?
Children gang up in the streets,
making families to watch their backs,
who is it that they fear, their own old ones
who are enemies and not protectors,
no one cares about the lessons from the ancients,
they will not learn from their lessons,
sweet memories are not of peace,
but bloody madness?
Chills run from head to feet,
bumpy skin like tiny feet,
walking through this misty graveyard,
once called the home of humankind,
finally we got our wishes,
we control the whole world,
who cares it is empty of all that is growing,
no bugs or weeds now to bother,
concrete covers all the water,
are you happy?
No more laughter in the sunshine,
no more children growing strong and healthy,
streaming bombs bursting in air,
ragged flags waving there,
no more pride in what we are,
no need now for hopeful prayers,
mankind came with screaming madness
wrote his name, and left his mark in blood!
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A very long email about the Bauhaus in Tel Aviv
Posted by: Ruth in Ashdod Marina, IsraelShalom,
Our marina internet comes and goes, though thankfully, with our big booster antenna, we have it most of the time. Today we found out that only Israeli citizens can buy dongels to use with their computer. Eve asked as a kiosk in the mall. We'll double check at a bigger phone store. We've had to register our passports in other countries for local SIM cards but we've always been able to get one. Not good. No library card, no SIM card: what's the deal? No English information in the big, fancy new Ashdod Art Museum. Just because it seems the French XPats paid a big bunch so it's called Monarts…they still could provide some English along with the French and Russian. Not much to not complain about today!
This is a really long email about our walking tour in Tel Aviv. I put most of the text at the end for anyone who wants to read it.
Saturday, June 16th , Randal and I took the motorbike to Tel Aviv. On Shabbat, public transportation stops so there's less roadway traffic. It wasn't as bad as a week day, but I can't imagine traveling on other days with double the traffic. We just can't go fast enough on our little bike. Our friend Eve said she'd teach us some of the back roads so that will help. In Tel Aviv a free walking tour of the Bauhaus area of Rothschild Blvd. is offered every Saturday. It was well done. The guide had a mini-megaphone so you could hear and she knew quite a bit. The "White City" of Tel Aviv was declared a UNESCO Heritage Site in 2004 because of its 4,000 or so white box shaped Bauhaus structures. Some are lovely well maintained buildings, some are being renovated, and some are just beyond repair.
Our tour guide Yona Wiseman (in the center) had moved to Israel from South Africa in 1961.
www.yonawise.net ……..
"The most important thing that you should know about Yona is that she loves Israel : the history, the countryside, the cities and especially the people. She is passionate about Tel Aviv, a unique city that in April 2009 celebrated its 100th year.
Yona has taken courses, listened to lectures and learned about Israel and Jewish history from the time that she first made aliyah in 1961 and culminating in her studies at the Archeological Seminars in Jerusalem, where she qualified as a licensed tourist guide. The learning process has always been backed up by tireless trips to sites around the country. Yona (and her camera) always comes home renewed with excitement for where she has been and what she has seen.
And where is home? Home is in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel-Aviv, where Yona is the expert English-speaking guide concerning her own neighborhood, the recently renewed area of Neve Zedek, International / Bauhaus Architecture in The White City of Tel-Aviv (recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site), Jaffa and the landmarks of the establishment of the modern Jewish state. She is well-versed about the colorful Carmel produce market, the exotic Flea Market and all sorts of wonderful restaurants be they by the sea or in the passageways of Old Jaffa.
Yona has made a wonderful niche for herself as a Tour Guide in Tel Aviv, and you can see by the list of her tours that she knows all the nooks and crannies of her city. You are welcome to join her group tours – some of them Free which is sponsored by the Association of Ministry of Tourism Tel Aviv. You are of course invited to form your own tour at your convenience, and Yona will gladly assist you to put together a tour for special celebrations - Wedding Guests – Bar/Bat Mitzvahs – Birthdays parties, etc."
The tour begins at 11 am. The meeting place is 46 Rothschild Blvd. at the corner of Shadal Street. Randal and I arrived with about 2 minutes to spare. We'd left Ashdod by 9:30 but had to stop for gas in Jaffa as our gage read E! Luckily Randal can guess exactly where to find fuel so filled up ( it takes one gallon) and raced off to Tel Aviv only getting a bit lost. The walking tour started across the street from several busy restaurants and no one noticed when I walked into one just to use the Ladies. I was just rejoining the tour group of about 30 people when Yona began the tour. She first told how Tel Aviv came to be settled and why the Bauhaus style was so prevalent. I have copied info from some websites that pretty much tell the same story. First, here are some photos. She did mention that horrible cholera epidemics ravaged Jaffa prompting people to want to move away from the crowded commercial city.
Levine House
"The home of the Levine family was built in 1924 and designed by Yehuda Magidovich. This magnificent urban villa, known as The Castle, is one of Tel Aviv's "Dream Houses," as features a turret with a mechanically opening roof (that could be used as a Sukkoh) Upon the founding of the State of Israel, the building housed the USSR Embassy. In February 1953 a bomb was thrown at the embassy to protest the persecution of Soviet Jewry. In the 1190s it was reconstructed and refurbished, restoring the building to its original grandeur." http://visit-tlv/?CategoryID=271&ArticleID=215
Yona told us that the building is now owned by the Canadian government which uses it to provide rooms to Israeli soldiers in transit.
Interior and exterior of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv also designed by Yehuda Magidovich
Many building just look utilitarian.
Some are wrecks as was the one that had previously stood in this parking lot.
Yona told the story about coming here one day and the building was "gone!" Another guide told her that you have to check the day before a tour to see if the buildings on your route are still there. Obviously the UNESCO Heritage designation doesn't protect every "White City" building.
Balconies were and are still part of most structures.
The wood balcony is an addition painted gray to show it's not part of the historic architecture of the building. Balconies were included to be an outdoor rooms useful in hot climates as they were shaded by the balcony above. Yona said that didn't always work so well as the higher balcony forced the hot air back down onto the people sitting below. We did see some balconies that seemed much closer together than these. I like balconies. Yona kept comparing the architecture to boats…staterooms have balconies. She also said that in earlier days people could call to each other across the streets from one balcony to another. And at one point laundry was banned from hanging on the front balconies, but the ban must have been lifted because we saw lots of it. Some buildings had million dollar condos and some, with laundry on the balcony, cost less. Some even had squatters.
These are slightly more art deco with the air spaces cut in the balcony walls.
Yona called these "thermometer windows."
They do look like a thermometer, at least the old fashioned, pre-digital kind.
Some corners became rounded.
Bait HaYam. I think it means House of the People. Eve says it was a entertainment center where movies might be shown or other entertainment offered.
Yona showed a photo of the water tower, the largest structure in Tel Aviv at one time when Tel Aviv was largely sand dunes. Tel Aviv was all sand dunes once upon a time. Yona said the Ottoman owners only sold the land to the Jews because it seemed worthless sand dunes.
Men walking home from the Saturday services.
Engle House 84 Rothschild
"This is one of the best known residential houses in the area known as the White City which has become the symbol of the international style of architecture in Tel Aviv. Built in 1933 by architect Zev Rechter, it was the first building built on pillars in Tel Aviv. The elongated balconies and the horizontal ribbon windows that traverse the building create a play of light and shadow against the background of the white plaster. During WWII the open lobby was enclosed with cement blocks and served as a shelter. The building is designated for renovation and preservation."
Yona said Israel had no "Israeli architectural style," but rather reflects the many styles immigrants brought with them from Europe. It also is designed for hot Mediterranean weather. She pointed to some wood shutters on the window of one lovely building. European immigrants brought building supplies with them. I can't remember if it was because they wouldn't find those materials in Israel or because it was what they were allowed to bring with them leaving Europe so spent their money on supplies. In either case, Yona said wood shutters weren't a good idea in Israel because the climate causes them to need lots of upkeep. Plaster and tile are probably much better materials.
A poster explaining about the building was posted near the front door.
"The first building in the city to rest on an open storey of supporting columns was inspired by La Corbusier. The partial storey of columns in one of the corners allows the sea breeze from the west to waft through the street floor level and forms a harmonious link between the avenue and the building's courtyard and private garden."
These three parts are really now one building.
The basic box style with balconies seems always to be there no matter what else changes.
At one time the roof was for everyone. Yona says that now, if you buy the top floor, the roof is yours.
I could live here…
At # 96 Rothschild, on a balcony of the Friedman House, "The Choir" sculpture by Ofra Simbalista permanently serenade passers-bye.
Yona said this home was a very early Tel Aviv farm house just off on a side neighborhood.
Green spaces were included in neighborhood design to provide open space.
Yona pointed out that some of the trees provide fruit for bats. The bats eat the mosquitoes. But the bats poop out fruit mess that sticks to the plaster finishes on the buildings and is impossible to remove requiring frequent painting to cover up the purple blotches. The choice being mosquitoes or bat mess, the choice was to keep the bat mess so you can see the purple blotches on the buildings.
Shaded streets in the neighborhoods adjoining Rothschild.
Young girl with long hair and camera.
This is a sculpture of a coffee cup and into the arch are carved the Hebrew letters for the word spring which happen to be Aviv as in Tel Aviv.
Hebrew Book Week celebrated on Rothschild Street.
The Hebrew Book week will open June 6, 2012, and despite its name, will last 10 days, until June 16.
The first Hebrew Book Week took place in 1926. It was a one day event on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv organized by Bracha Peli- The founder of Masada Press. The purpose of the event was to promote book sales. Since 1926, the Hebrew Book Week has grown to enormous dimensions and every municipality and book store in Israel finds a way to celebrate the event.
I think for Book Week they should invest enough money in the one library Ashdod has to make it into a library worthy of a city of this size. Eve and I made a second visit today and it was even more disappointing. It wasn't worth paying the 60 shekels for a 6 month library card. As an Israeli citizen Eve could get one though she would have to pay because her mailing address is at her brother's in another town. But between us we didn't see any reason to pay even that amount. Eve isn't sure she will remain in Ashdod depending on the job she might find and I can get books from my library on my Kindle. The Art reference books are only available in the afternoon and most wouldn't be in English. So that was that. I'm really so glad that I got my Kindle!
An old friend to sit on the bench and talk with: priceless!
Tel Aviv History
Tel Aviv was founded on April 11, 1909. On that day, several dozen families gathered on the sand dunes on the beach outside Yafo (Jaffa) to allocate plots of land for a new neighborhood they called Ahuzat Bayit, later known as Tel Aviv. As the families could not decide how to allocate the land, they held a lottery to ensure a fair division. Akiva Arieh Weiss, chairman of the lottery committee and one of the prominent figures in the city's founding, gathered 60 grey seashells and 60 white seashells. Weiss wrote the names of the participants on the white shells and the plot numbers on the grey shells. He paired a white and grey shell, assigning each family a plot, and thus Tel Aviv's founding families began building the first modern, Hebrew city.
The time was at a peak wave of Jewish immigration – the Second Alyia. Neighborhoods in the ancient port city of Yafo were becoming overpopulated and crowded. Many of the newcomers were Europeans of middle-class origin who sought to build surroundings that would give them a sense of what they had left behind. They wanted to build a modern suburb of Yafo.
The true development of Tel Aviv took off with the arrival of Scottish urban planner, Sir Patrick Geddes. In response to the unplanned expansion of the city, Geddes was invited by the municipality in 1925 to present a comprehensive master plan for Tel Aviv. In his vision, Tel Aviv was to be a garden city, as foreseen by its founders. His plan called for a clear separation between main streets, residential streets and vegetation filled pedestrian boulevards. An important element of his plan, reflecting the social climate of the time, was the creation of shared public spaces – in the form of parks and squares, as well as within residential blocks.
The city was again transformed starting in 1932 by a massive wave of immigration of Jews fleeing persecution in Europe whose arrival rapidly expanded a small town of 42,000 people into a flourishing city of 130,000 by 1936. In 1934, in the midst of this wave (the Fifth Aliya), Tel Aviv was declared a city, and Meir Dizengoff, the president of its council, as its first mayor.
The housing needs of this wave of immigration brought the rise of the Bauhaus, or Modern Movement, style of architecture. Many architects trained in the Modern style were among the refugees from Europe who began rapidly building to accommodate the population growth, resulting in what today is known as the White City. Influenced by the clean, functional lines of the Bauhaus School of Art and Design in Germany, they adapted the Modern style to suit Tel Aviv's culture and climate, giving the city its special look. The White City of Tel Aviv, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, includes over 4,000 buildings in the Modern style.
In the 1930's, Tel Aviv became the country's largest economic center and had the highest concentration of social and cultural institutions. Tel Aviv was the center of the emergence of Hebrew culture and culture in Hebrew – and remains so to this very day. Tel Aviv became known for its modern cafes, hotels, concert halls and nightclubs. The city enjoyed a sense of international chic, which was rare for the region, especially at the time……….. (history of Tel Aviv continues on the website below)
The Bauhaus was a school which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933 and was devoted to art, architecture and design. It had remarkable influences on all these disciplines. Although throughout its years it carried varied approaches, some ideas were maintained. One main principle is the reunion of the arts and the crafts in order to achieve total works of art. According to this principle, all arts, as well as new technologies, should be combined in the art of building. A significant approach in the school was the search for the basic ingredients of art and design. Thus evolved the "Bauhaus Style" in architecture and design—in which primary forms and colors are given great importance. The Bauhaus had a great impact on the Modern Movement in architecture, embracing functionalism and rationality and condemning ornament. The architectural style of the modern movement is called "The International Style" or "Bauhaus Style". This style is characterized by asymmetry, compositions of primary volumes—cubic and rounded, ribbon windows, pilots, thermometer windows, balconies, roof terraces and plays of shadow and light.
Bauhaus In Israel
Modern white building rises from the sand in Tel AvivFour Israeli architects studied in the Bauhaus school: Arieh Sharon, Shmuel Mestechkin, Munio Gitai-Weinraub and Shlomo Bernstein. However, the influence of the Bauhaus on the architecture built in Israel in the 20's, 30's and 40's was by far wider than being expressed by those architects only. The legacy of the Bauhaus was absorbed by other architects, studying in Brussels, Ghent and Italy, such as: Dov Carmi, Genia Averbuch, Ben-Ami Shulman, Ze'ev Rechter and Joseph Neufeld. And of course—all of those prominent figures presented the new ideas to just everyone who was around. In Tel Aviv only, more than 4,000 "Bauhaus Style" buildings were built. Thousands more were built in Haifa, Jerusalem, the Kibbutzim and elsewhere in Israel. The main question is, therfore—how, in an era when this new style was still unpopular, did it reach such magnitude in the built work in Israel? The main answer is that the social-cultural ideology behind the "Bauhaus Style" fit like a glove to the socialist-Zionist movement and to the striving of this movement to create a new world. White houses, in every sense—form, style, material, functionality, color—grew from the sands without a past, towards a future.
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"Though being over 5,000 years old and considered the source of western history, Israel lacks the architectural grandeur of a place whose significance would presumeably justify such structures. What she has instead - particularly from the modern era - is a trove of architectural designs ranging from the Ottoman to the Levantine, Bauhaus and our own domestic specialty of "box" buildings on columns.
She hasn't often had the luxury of looking back and appreciating the greatness of her architecture, though its presence has been celebrated in song and in the popular culture - the piece "White City" ("Ir Levena" in Hebrew) celebrates the beauty of (old) Tel Aviv when its bauhaus structures were still white from newness; Chava Alberstein remensices about the centrality of the Israeli balcony in peoples' lives in her song "Playing Cards on the Balcony". The balcony in our popular culture is the little citizen's plot of the congested land on which he can survey the landscape, spy on - or, in days past, shout across the street to - his neighbor, hang out his laundry or beat his carpets, entertain his guests - or do a barbeque. The balcony is also a key hallmark of the various architectural styles in our country and a centerpiece of attention when observing the buildings."
Bauhaus in Tel Aviv
Central Tel Aviv has the world's largest collection of Bauhaus style buildings. The International Modern Style of architecture appeared in Europe in the years immediately following World War One. Its greatest exponent was the Bauhaus School of Arts, Design and Architecture, founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar Germany in 1919. The Bauhaus School later moved to Berlin and was closed by the Nazis in 1933. Over the years many have come to regard the terms Bauhaus and International Modern Style as synonymous.
The rise of Nazism and successive waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine brought many new immigrants from Germany, including several prominent Bauhaus architects, to Tel Aviv in the 1930's. In Israel these architects had to adapt their style to different environmental, especially climatic, conditions. Tel Aviv's tremendous urban growth at this time provided them with ample work. The results can be seen through the approximately 4,000 Bauhaus style buildings that were built in Tel Aviv in the 1930's and 40's.
So what is Bauhaus Architecture?
Bauhaus style architecture favored functionality for the benefit of the residents over decoration. In building design, the organization of space took prominence over mass. Architects strove to optimize light and ventilation, an especially important challenge as they moved from central Europe to Middle East. Bauhaus buildings standout for neat flowing lines, both vertically and horizontally. Decorative elements were avoided. Construction favored the use of modern materials and relied on an internal shell rather than being supported by external walls. In Tel Aviv many Bauhaus buildings were built standing on pillars with dangling corners to provide for greater ventilation and shady areas outdoors.
The White City (Hebrew: העיר הלבנה, Ha-Ir HaLevana) refers to a collection of over 4,000 Bauhaus or International style buildings built in Tel Aviv from the 1930s by German Jewish architects who immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine after the rise of the Nazis. Tel Aviv has the largest number of buildings in this style of any city in the world. Preservation, documentation, and exhibitions have brought attention to Tel Aviv's collection of 1930s architecture. In 2003, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed Tel Aviv's White City a World Cultural Heritage site, as "an outstanding example of new town planning and architecture in the early 20th century."[1] The citation recognized the unique adaptation of modern international architectural trends to the cultural, climatic, and local traditions of the city. The Bauhaus Center in Tel Aviv organises regular architectural tours of the city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City_(Tel_Aviv)


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Nearly 20 such attacks this year have raised the level of mistrust between the U.S.-led coalition and their Afghan partners as NATO gears up to hand over security to local forces ahead of a 2014 deadline for the withdrawal of combat troops.
In another sign of deteriorating security, the United States is considering abandoning plans for a consulate in the country's north because the building chosen was deemed too dangerous to occupy. The U.S. spent $80 million on the project despite glaring security deficiencies in the former hotel, according to a copy of a document drafted by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
Those problems -- including shoddy construction that would lead to a "catastrophic failure" of the building in a car bomb attack -- were overlooked and waivers to strict State Department building rules were granted as officials rushed to open the consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif as a sign of America's long-term commitment to Afghanistan, the diplomatic memo shows.
While Mazar-i-Sharif was considered relatively safe when the project was approved in 2009, the memo said, a number of incidents in the city indicate that is no longer the case, including an attack last April on a nearby United Nations compound in which a mob stormed the facility and killed seven foreigners -- three workers and their guards.
Winning over the ethnic Tajik and Uzbek minorities who dominate the north, was one of the reasons the U.S. wanted a consulate there. But the site picked was doomed from the start, the embassy documents show.
The compound shared a perimeter wall with local shopkeepers and was surrounded by tall buildings that could be used for an attack, the memo said. The distance between the compound's buildings and the outer wall also was not up to U.S. standards, it added.
In the event of an emergency, there wasn't even enough space to land a single helicopter, so one would have to land on a nearby street, the memo said.
Neighborhood security also was in question. The compound was near a large mosque that is often the center of large protests in the city, and a nearby truck stop and pickup spot for day laborers provided easy cover for surveillance or attack, it said.
The memo, which was first reported in the Washington Post, said the "security vulnerabilities" at the site and increased threats in Mazar-i-Sharif were overwhelming.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall declined to comment on the report, saying only that "the security situation has evolved in Afghanistan and any decisions we make are driven by our responsibility to ensure the safety of our personnel."


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Estwald is always making updates to his popular backup manager known as Iris Manager. This latest release that just came out the other day includes USB and Fan Control which are very nice additions to an already very nice backup manager. If you are looking for an alternative to multiMAN be sure to check out Iris Manager. Here is the changelog and you can grab the download here.
SourceUpdated Italian language (thanks AcidBuRn1)
Fixed error in the definition of a variable in the FTP which made the console will turn off when not using the remote, but was transferring files
Further improvement for PSX emulator that eliminates the need to modify usleep () changing it to a method that allows syscalls redial as often as desired [chulito] (So we can make calls step that conflicted loop by entering the syscall to change the turning point)
Added in the menu "Tools" tool "Fan & USB Wakeup Control".
Allows control of satellite payload temperatures, System Manager (sm.self) in Miralatijera 4.40 CFW + Core 3.3.0, by the SYSCON or speed set by the user (option "By User and speed in" User / Shutdown Speed " .
Displays real time information of the temperatures, fan speed mode and current.
Allows you to set the behavior of the Payload / S. Manager adjusting speed / temperature to suit the user and reset defaults and remember the values set ("Set Settings" and record the values fixed)
From System Manager (sm.self) to set a time (or disable) in steps of 10 seconds for the utility writes a file on the USB device in use and avoid "sleep" for lack of activity


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Katy Perry Surprises Fans In London
Fans who came out to a special screening of Katy Perry's new film "Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D" in London received an unexpected treat…an appearance by Katy Perry herself! Not only did Katy Perry say hello to the crowd, she also took a seat amongst everyone and served popcorn.
One fan asked "Can I have a hug?" Her reply, "You wanna hug? Come down here." Another fan said "I actually feel like I know Katy Perry now like personally…she could be your best friend and she would be the most awesome friend ever!" One fan summed up the whole experience by stating "I got goosebumps the whole way through. She's so inspirational."
These lucky fans had a great time meeting Katy Perry and I think it's safe to say that she made her fans feel like they were "living a teenage dream"!
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"DC Comics and 'The Normal Course of Business'"
At Comics Alliance, Andrew Wheeler writes about DC Comics and its many crises: "With almost all…
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I love how Wonder Woman's all "Guys check this statue. Totes goin' in my den."
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In a post yesterday about Grant Morrison's comments on his Wonder Woman Earth One project, I noted he seemed to have stopped discussing her sex life.
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Since alex, Chris and I decided to write about masculinity this month, I've been thinking about Superman. Actually, I've been thinking and rethinking Superman almost as long as I've been writing for The Cultural Gutter. I began really thinking about him while watching Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. I've spent most of my life—and certainly my childhood and teen years—ambivalent about him. I grew up with the stodgy, daddish Superman of SuperFriends. Superman represented truth, justice and the American Way, a way that seemed all about straight white masculinity of the most rigid, hegemonic sort—a way that didn't seem to include me. Whether as aspirational hero or adolescent power fantasy, it's easy to see Superman as The Man.
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In Missouri In Missouri's photographs range from details of art deco buildings to coyotes strung up in trees, so it's a testament to Don McKenna's artistic vision that the show manages to achieve a strong sense of cohesion. We gave a lot of thought to what ties this show together, and we finally realized that all of McKenna's photographs are remains of things that people have created and then abandoned. Buildings once painstakingly detailed are now neglected, as evidenced by peeling paint; boarded-up white barns practically glow, reflecting a lovely evening sun; a playground sits surrounded by Army tanks; and, yes, animal carcasses have been left in positions that can be explained only by human cruelty. Incredibly, no people can be seen in these images that so forcefully suggest human behavior. The other thing that ties them together, of course, can be found in the show's title: All of the images come from Missouri. Through Oct. 29 in the Back Room Gallery of the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore, 816-474-1919. (G.K.)
Newrotic: Experiments in Eroticism With new gallery director Luis Garcia in place, the Vault has gathered paintings of women resembling Tank Girl, airbrushed hip-hop portraits and girls who look straight out of manga. But one person's Playboy centerfold is another's unsexy nightmare. Accordingly, the works in this group show are a bit of a sensual smorgasbord what one viewer finds titillating, another might find mundane. Adrian Halpern's delicate, disjointed figures (a screaming girl wields a sword in one hand; her other arm is a fish, her legs a mass of snakes) are set next to a series of photographs called "Mine Is Bigger Than Yours" in which Beanie Babies are placed in provocative positions with ... mushrooms. The piece that provoked the most laughter on opening night involves Ronald McDonald proclaiming "I'm loving it" as a woman, naked but for thigh-high stockings and a corset around her midsection, goes down on his Big Mac. We'll skip the joke about supersizing it. Through Nov. 24 at the Vault Gallery at Leedy-Voulkos, 2012 Baltimore, 816-405-3562. (R.B.)
Larry Schwarm: Rites of Renewal Larry Schwarm obsessively photographs immense prairie fires. His horizons glow, and flames appear to leap off the prints. Either nature has a keen eye for composition and graciously sets up all kinds of beautiful shots, or Schwarm an artist and not, say, a firefighter knows instinctively how to position himself relative to a fast-moving fire so that he catches mind-blowing moments where everything's lined up just so. All this, and he still makes it out safely with his rolls of film. Some of the photographs are blurry from the smoke and look unreal, like watercolors. Others, taken from a greater distance, look almost too real to believe a tree glows a strange golden brownish orange from the light of an off-camera flame that also renders the grass a hazy shade of purple because they're the kinds of things that most of us expect not to see without being in extreme danger. To stand back in awe without having to be afraid is a privilege. Through Oct. 22 at the Sherry Leedy Gallery, 2004 Baltimore, 816-221-2626. (G.K.)
The Secret Drawer Society We can't think of a more fitting place for Jen Fridy's enchanting but macabre work than the Mercy Seat a piercing and tattoo parlor with a pressed-tin ceiling and walls, vintage light fixtures and outside lettering that reminds us of vaudeville posters or a more fitting month than October for her show, which fans of Tim Burton, Dame Darcy, the Addams Family and Edward Gorey will probably admire. Fridy is inspired by Victoriana and spooky stories, and The Secret Drawer Society invites viewers to make up eerie tales of their own for pieces such as "It's a Start," in which a cherubic young woman in a sheer nightie holds a blindfolded man by a necktie on a bed and looks at him beguilingly. Or "When the Body Is Willing, the Spirit Escapes the Soul," which finds a woman decked out in burlesque attire, holding a fan (perhaps a prop for her act) on a rich, red background while a shimmering spirit comes out of her mouth. Scary and pretty intersect here and it works. Through Oct. 31 at the Mercy Seat, 210 E. 16th St., 816-421-4833. (R.B.)
The Sesquicentennial Whitmaniacs Congress Ryan Kelly gets a little obsessive sometimes. After hearing that the poet Walt Whitman had made a list of the 21 famous people he'd met, Kelly decided to bring them back to life as oversized, papier-mâché heads. The heads hang from the ceiling on hooks, and Kelly encourages viewers to try them on and wander around for a bit as, say, Edgar Allan Poe or Andrew Jackson. Whitman himself doesn't hang from the ceiling, but he turns on a barbecue spit, surveying his noteworthy friends. Kelly, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute's ceramics department, hasn't abandoned his regular medium; there's a clay portrait of Whitman hanging on one wall and a delicately painted bowl on a table near a Whitman portrait station. Yes, portrait station: Sit down, fasten a beard to your face with ear hooks, put on a hat and a woolly cardigan and get a Polaroid snapped. There's a copy of the Whitman photograph you'll be aping, but First Friday gallerygoers found it more fun to pose as Whitman doing things he probably wouldn't want caught on film. Through Jan. 6, 2006, at the Belger Arts Center, 2100 Walnut, 816-474-3250. (R.B.)
Simulacrum: Portraiture in the New Millennium The first thing technically on display right now at the Society for Contemporary Photography is the gallery itself; its new location looks better than ever. The actual exhibit, however, explores how portraiture has adapted to a time when the goal of capturing an objective reality has given way to a desire to change reality (or create a false or enhanced reality). Most exciting are Zoe Sheehan Sladana's photographic-needlepoint portraits. The dotted effect created by needlepoint looks like a pixilated, over-enlarged digital photograph. Get up close to these needlepoint images, and you will see how very few marks it actually takes to create a photorealistic likeness of a human face, however blurry. Other highlights include Peter Sarkisian's projection of a bathing woman into a bowl on a pedestal. The bowl appears to contain milk, and the naked woman appears to be wading in that milk, but on closer inspection, the entire image is projected onto a flat, two-dimensional screen. Another artist shows what the human face would look like if it were perfectly symmetrical, as is supposedly ideal. By mirroring one side of the face, the artist shows that a perfect face is actually a very scary face. Through Dec. 17 at the Society for Contemporary Photography, 520 Avenida Cesar E. Chavez, 816-471-2115. (G.K.)
The Snug Sensation Martin Morehouse's sculptures nine white, upholstered forms of various shapes and sizes, simultaneously suspended from the ceiling and stuck to the floor look like punching bags. But aggression is the last thing they're intended to incite; in fact, Morehouse wants you to hug them. Using a tactile transducer (a variation on a speaker that vibrates solids instead of air), he makes his figures pulse like muscle contractions, heartbeats, refrigerators and idle motors. The objective is to energize the senses of sight, sound and touch in a nonthreatening way. The gallery was deserted when we stopped in on a Saturday afternoon, and we felt damned silly embracing these sculptures while alone. But we found evidence of a more populated opening: the comment sheet. And we were fascinated by how the remarks differed by what appeared to be the writers' genders. Whereas large, loopy letters often accented with exclamation points declared the show "very intimate" and confided "I enjoyed hugging your art," a minimalist, masculine scrawl announced: "I kinda think this is bullshit." Through Nov. 26 in the Front Room Gallery of the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore, 816-474-1919. (A.F.)


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A new rumor is floating around that the next generation iPhone will use liquid metal. The liquid metal is said to be able to bounce and could lead to more robust phones.
Rumors flew earlier in the week that Apple and Valve had met to talk about gaming. If you were hoping that meant Mac and iOS would be getting more video games from Valve, apparently that meeting never took place.
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Exclusive: Interview with Yashar Moazez
Naveed Moula is once again brining you an exclusive interview with a young talented Iranian footballer. This time the fascinating story of Yashar Moazez, the kid who went back to Iran to follow his football dream. Yashar has now moved back to Canada after three adventures years in Iran. Below is the interview with Yashar Moazez:
NM: For those who don't know you from before, tell them about yourself.
Yashar Moazez: I'm born November 19, 1985 in
NM: Tell us about your football carrier before you moved to
Yashar Moazez: One of my first teams in
NM: Tell us about your first season in
Yashar Moazez: I made my player profile and sent it to a contact I had within the Perspolis organisation. He gave this to the Pasargad staff, and set up a 3 month trial for me. I went on the trial; the team was near the end of their season, so the players were very fit and on form. But I had been training very hard prior to joining the team so I kept up with them very well. They showed interest in me from the beginning, the coach at that time was Mehdi Dinvarzadeh. The season ended and the team moved to the first division in
I signed a 3 year contract with them, and my first season was underway. The team I signed with, was the U21 team. What they are trying to do in Iran right now is to encourage teams to sign younger players, by giving them 20 slots for senior players, five for U23 and they can have ten U21 players that can join the men's squad and play for the U21 as well. So I was with both the U21 team and the men's team. This was great because practicing and playing with the men's and playing with the U21 gave me more experience and a lot more training.
In the middle of the season though, I was only with the men's squad untill the end of the season. The reason for that was that, the men's teams training was very intense and the practices had very high intensity that I needed all of my energy for the men's team. The team didn't really have much of a facility; we practiced at Shahid Keshvari and our games were all over the place, talking about organization!
I was new to this and it was odd for me that a professional team didn't have a home stadium. Me and the other foreign players like Dani Olerum were always joking around about the lack of organization of the teams in
NM: Tell us about your second season in
Yashar Moazez: My second season almost didn't start; Pasargad was sold and I didn't have a team. But I was very very fit and on form. Unfortunately I also got injured right when teams were starting their trials and tryouts so I wasn't 100 percent fit. Even though I wasn't 100 percent, the U-21 team of Bargh FC of
Unfortunately with around 4 games left I tore my meniscus and my ACL, I learned later that this knee was injured since the beginning of the season, and I was playing on it for around 7 months. This was a huge blow to me, because I never got to be part of the team in the most exciting part of the season , which was the end of the season period. When this happened, my spirit was really down, so I went on vacation back to
When I arrived in
NM: Tell us about your third season in
Yashar Moazez: My third season was a very tough season on me mentally. It was just an injury after injury type of season and all of it on the knee I just had a surgery on. Another reason why it was very tough on me, was because I am used to a very high level of fitness intensity and due to injuries I was not there yet. I was relatively very fit, but not at the highest level, I've been used to over the previous 2 seasons. When I came back from
This season I was meant to make my knee stronger, but I kept getting injured on the same knee. Half way through the season I went through another injury, where I had to rehab my knee and go through physiotherapy for a month. My meniscus had shifted and there was 65cc's of blood in my knee that needed to be removed. I was walking on crutches for a good 2-3 weeks, and I was afraid I needed another surgery.
During this time my friends who play football outside of
NM: If you would be the head of IFF, what things would be the first you changes/improvements that you would aim for in Iranian football?
Yashar Moazez: The first thing I would do is to regulate the ownership of the teams and I would make it difficult for teams to be bought and sold frequently. Right now it has became a business for people to buy a team for 100 million toman and then sell it next year for 200 million toman. Some people can't run their own personal lives let alone a football club and in
I would set up a system that only highly qualified people will have a say in important matters. Not just anyone. Unfortunately I don't know how much the head of the IFF can do when the whole system is broken and needs to be replaced, not even fixed. Teams are being bought and sold like commodities, players need to be on one team for a long period of time to grow. For instance; Lionel Messi has been with
NM: Your best and worst memories from Iran
Yashar Moazez: I have some really good experiences and funny moments in
The bad experience I had was frequently getting injured and the teams I played for being sold one by one. Also it was very hard for me to adapt to living in
I'm really happy and glad to be back in
NM: Your favourite team and coach
Yashar Moazez: My dad played for Javanan'e Taj back in the day, but I was always fascinated by perspolis, and when perspolis came to
By far my favourite coach is Mr. Mehdi Dinvarzadeh, he helped my footballing a great deal and in life and maybe if I start football again and go back to
One last thing, Ever since I left
Many thanks to Yashar for taking the time and more best wishes for the future, with football and life!


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Occupy Wall Street is the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. This date may be disputed with a likely trigger event as early as August 1, 2011, as a nude artist performance "Ocularpation: Wall Street" followed by arrests on Wall Street occurred while protesting American financial institutions.
The Canadian, anti-consumerist, pro-environment group/magazine, Adbusters initiated the call for a protest. The ensuing series of events helped lead to media awareness that inspired Occupy protests and movements around the world. In awarding Workhouse its Platinum Award, industry publication PRNews noted "The results, obviously, have been spectacular. There's hardly a newspaper, Internet or broadcast media outlet that hasn't covered OWS."
The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, We are the 99%, refers to income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. To achieve their goals, protesters acted on consensus-based decisions made in general assemblies which emphasized direct action over petitioning authorities for redress.
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