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7 Towering Designs By César Pelli, Who Died Friday At 92
July 27, 2019 Interior DesignAlemparte Barreda & Asociados, Bison National, Brookfield Place, Canary Wharf, Center Blue, Cesar Pelli, Durable Stainless Steel, Eero Saarinen, Floor plates, Frederick Gibberd Coombes, Gruen Associates, High-Performance Controlled Double Decker Elebators, Interior Design, Interlocking, Jump-Start, Kuala Lumpur, Michigan, Milan, National Events, Pacific Design Center, Pelli Clarke, Petronas, Piazza Gae Aulenti, SalesForce, Towering, Twin Towers, World Financial Center, Yale School Of Architecturedelaramartdesign
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Escaping Reality Through the TWA Hotel
July 2, 2019 Interior Design1955, Airport Design, Alterations, Architectural Forum, Branding-Savvy, Bygone Era, Cattle-Like, CityLab, Corporation, Critic Douglas HJaskell, Curated Visitor, Deregulation, Eero Saarinen, Escaping Reality, Expansions, Fairy Tales, Fantasy-Steeped Hotel, Finnish-American, Flight Tubes, Fountain, General Motors, Heating and Cooling, Hotel, IBM, Idlewild, Interior Design, JFK Airport, Kornel Ringli's History, Mark Byrnes, Material Efficinecy, Mid-20th Century, Minimizing Costs, Modern Architecture, owings and Merrill, Queens, Reflective Pool, Renovations, RUMP, St. Louis's Gateway Arch, Sunken Lounge, Symbolism, Symbolize, Trump, TWA, Vest Plaza, World's Fairsdelaramartdesign
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It's now a fantasy-steeped hotel honoring the airport design of a bygone era, but the TWA Flight Center at New York's JFK Airport was never quite real.
It's hard to imagine, but Idlewild—now John F. Kennedy—Airport in New York was briefly, in the mid-20th century, a rather pleasant place to visit. Not unlike the corporations that set up pavilions at World's Fairs on the other side of Queens, private airlines were encouraged to design their own terminals here around a central public space, each airline declaring its brand through modern architecture. A 1955 plan for the budding airport led to the creation, initially, of seven terminal buildings surrounding a vast plaza with chapels, a see-through heating and cooling center, a reflective pool, and a fountain.
But passenger numbers soon exploded, thanks to the emergence of the wide-body jet. JFK's annual passenger totals went from 3.5 million in 1956 to 11.5 million in 1962. By the end of the 1960s, it was the second-busiest airport in the country. Expansions, renovations, and alterations struggled to handle dramatic shifts in the industry (in particular, airline deregulation starting in the late '70s and tightened security after 9/11). Most of its facilities survived the century, but rarely with grace.
JFK carried 61.9 million passengers last year, and almost nothing remains of its midcentury origins. But the TWA Flight Center, the architectural star of 20th-century air travel, has survived and may finally thrive.
Between TWA's commission for a terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) in 1956 and its opening in 1962, the airport's traffic exploded. TWA's expansions and alterations in ensuing decades could never quite keep up with new passenger demands. (AP)
The new TWA Hotel opened late last month in the former terminal, its branding relying heavily on the glory years of the defunct airline, and by extension, its architecture. A faithful restoration of the building to its original 1962 appearance is anchored by two new, curved hotel towers behind it and a new conference center underneath. Its amenities and intensely curated visitor experience should give it a prosperous second life as an indulgence and curiosity for non-flying locals, and for travelers, as a less cattle-like option for killing time between flights. This new chapter for the building may now seem inevitable, but it was far from certain two decades ago.
Designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, who also designed St. Louis's Gateway Arch and Washington's Dulles Airport, the Flight Center's concrete curves and swanky lounges still symbolize the glamour of flying in the 1960s, despite their almost immediate obsolescence. Other airlines at Idlewild had handsome, practical buildings, but TWA had an experience to sell.
It's no coincidence that the most branding-savvy airline of the 1950s found its man in Saarinen. As explained in Kornel Ringli's history, Designing TWA, the company wanted a building it could present as a consumer product in a competitive postwar market. The man who had already designed distinctive buildings for General Motors and IBM would make something that TWA could flaunt.
"Instead of minimizing costs through constructional or material efficiency," writes Ringli, "… another kind of economy has taken place, which aims to garner an increasingly scarce resource for the benefit of TWA: the public's attention." Saarinen's design was immediately compared to a bird in flight by many observers. Critic Douglas Haskell of Architectural Forum compared the design in 1958 to the recently completed Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, with both demonstrating a "popular need … for more drama: a 'good show,' symbolism, even fairy tales."
A diagram by Eero Saarinen & Associates of the Flight Center and the Flight Wings (gate areas) connected by two Flight Tubes (passageways). The tubes now connect to a JetBlue terminal and the new TWA Hotel. (Eero Saarinen/Library of Congress)
The terminal provided a workout, by the standard of today's airports. There were an inconvenient amount of stairs between check-in, the lounges, and the "Flight Tubes," which led to the gates. And once you were in those tubes, perhaps making a connection from another terminal in pre-AirTrain JFK, there were no moving walkways (planned but never installed).
TWA expected 7 million passengers to travel through its Idlewild terminal in its first five years, but ended up with 11 million. Even its signature Sunken Lounge was sacrificed in the airline's later years for a generic customer-service area as it struggled to adjust. The terminal closed to passengers in 2001.
While the Flight Center had been landmarked by New York City in 1994—much to the chagrin of its struggling tenant—other terminals from the same era were demolished and replaced in the years that followed. The International Arrivals Building by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill was demolished in 2000; National Airlines's Sundrome, by I. M. Pei, was torn down in 2011; PanAm's WorldPort was gone by 2014.
The renovated Flight Center today. When the Port Authority issued its RFP, a submission from the Trump Group proposed swapping the "WA" of the building's "TWA" signs with "RUMP." (Mark Byrnes)
A new terminal for JetBlue, designed around TWA's footprint, opened in 2008 and connected to Saarinen's tubes. The airport's only hotel, a nondescript Ramada Plaza, closed the following year. After a request for proposals in 2007 failed to attract investors, the Port Authority undertook a $20 million landmark restoration before putting the Flight Center up for another RFP in 2012.
The original winner, hotelier Andre Balazs, did not proceed, so in 2014, the Port Authority selected MCR/Morse Development and brought in the firm Beyer Blinder Belle as the architect. (A rejected submission by the Trump Group proposed swapping the "WA" of the building's "TWA" signs with "RUMP.")
Multiple design firms took on elements of the renovation and expansion. The hotel, designed by Lubrano Ciavarra Architects, stages the Flight Center as the main attraction through black-tinted glass curtain walls that are just tall enough to block the view of the JetBlue terminal behind it. The hotel interiors, done by Stonehill Taylor, use hardwoods and brass details that reflect the vision of industrial-design icon Raymond Loewy, who shaped TWA's corporate identity in the 1960s. The conference center, designed by INC, takes the same approach and includes historical TWA exhibits throughout the common spaces, which lead up to gigantic, hangar-like sliding doors. Outside, a midcentury-inspired landscape design is being installed by landscape architects Mathews Nielsen.
Nostalgia and fantasy permeate the restored Flight Center. (Mark Byrnes)
But the Flight Center is still the main attraction, and it functions more naturally as a hotel lobby than it ever did as an airport terminal. Hit songs from the '60s play gently through the speakers as employees—dressed in era-appropriate uniforms—accommodate guests and patrons. Filling the interior, an old newsstand now displays early '60s publications; a boutique sells stylish TWA swag for an audience that'll also appreciate the Shinola, Warby Parker, and Phaidon commercial spaces nearby. Walls display David Klein's colorful and expressive TWA travel posters.
What was the international check-in counter now registers hotel guests, while the old domestic check-in serves as a food hall. The original Sunken Lounge looks out onto a TWA-branded Lockheed Constellation plane, restored as a cocktail bar styled on the airline's old lounges, where you'll keep hearing those '60s hits.
Saarinen, who died one year before the building first opened, designed a fantasy of air travel that only grew further from reality over time. In 1990, Paul Goldberger wrote in the New York Times of Saarinen's JFK contribution: "The kindest thing that could be done to this building, given how unfunctional it is today, would be to strip off all the additions and restore it as a museum of airport architecture." That has basically come to pass. Nostalgia is the unapologetic theme at the TWA Hotel, and while it may be an insistent branding experience at times, it is also sure to provide delight to anyone passing through for an hour or a weekend.
Today, flights are cheaper, planes are safer, and most airports have crowd-pleasing places to eat and shop, yet we are more miserable than ever along almost every step of the trip. The Flight Center's new role at the bigger, better, but uninspiring JFK isn't just for business and consumption—it's to provide an escape from the rest of the airport into something that was never quite real.
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Mark Byrnes is a senior associate editor at CityLab who writes about design and architecture.
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Rooftop Bars: Lounge Poolside at the Just-Opened TWA Hotel's Observation Deck
May 15, 2019 Interior DesignBeyer Blinder Belle, Brisk New York City Winters, Club Soda, Eero Saarinen, Gerber Group, Guest rooms, Interior Design, Jenna Adrian-Diaz, John F. Kennedy, Lounge Poolside, MCR Development, Mid-Centre Modern, Newly Constructed Wings, Observation Deck, Open Year-Round, Rooftop Bars, St. Germain Elderflower, Stonehill Taylor, Terminal 5, TWA Hoteldelaramartdesign
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The rooftop pool, bar, and observation deck at the TWA hotel at John F. Kennedy airport. Photography courtesy of TWA hotel.
Eero Saarinen's Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport reopened today, this time as the lobby of the TWA Hotel. Beyer Blinder Belle was tasked with preservation and kept the restored terminal true to its retro-futuristic roots. Stonehill Taylor created luxurious midcentury-modern guest rooms in the two newly-constructed wings that flank the terminal. But Lubrano Ciavarra, the design consultant and the design architect on record, was tasked with one of the best amenities timed to the hotel's springtime opening: the rooftop pool, bar, and observation deck.
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The observation deck sits atop one of the newly-constructed guest room wings. It boasts 10,000 square-feet of space and features an infinity pool along with a bar operated by Gerber Group. The 63-foot by 20-foot infinity-edge pool overlooks one of JFK's largest runways, providing an endlessly-fascinating backdrop to the rooftop experience. The deck will be open year-round, with the pool's ability to reach temperatures of 100 degrees serving as a pleasant complement to brisk New York City winters.
Exterior of TWA Hotel, John F. Kennedy International Airport. Photography courtesy of MCR Development.
The pool is an amenity open to guests of the hotel, but anyone is free to make a reservation at the observation deck bar. Gerber Group, which operates icons of New York city nightlife and hospitality such as The Campbell at Grand Central Terminal, has opened with a summer-ready menu. Guests can try the Mile High Spritz (vodka, St. Germain elderflower liqueur, fresh lime juice and prosecco) or the Watermelon Collins (Aviation gin, watermelon and lemon juices, agave and club soda, and more options from the menu. The observation deck also operates a full rooftop kitchen.
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Parrish Art Museum Explores Architecture's Relationship With Photography
May 23, 2018 Interior DesignArchitecture's Relationship With Photography, Arlene and John Dayton, Balthazar Korab, Dallas Museum Of Art, Eero Saarinen, Erosion-Testing, Fred A. Bernstein, Garry Winogrand, Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Interior Design, JFK, Julius Shulman, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Metropolitan Architecture, Parrish Art Museum, Rockefeller Center, Rossi Milo Gallery, Therese Lichtenstein, TWA Terminaldelaramartdesign
By Fred A. Bernstein
TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, NY, a 1962 chromogenic print by Ezra Stoller. Photography courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, and the Estate of Ezra Stoller/Esto.
Garry Winogrand, the renowned photographer of American life, once observed: "Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed." Winogrand was expressing a view that could be ascribed to many architectural photographers, who are, at least in some cases, less interested in recording how buildings look than in producing images of how they could, or should, look. In so doing, they sometimes join forces with architects, who wish to disseminate idealized images of their work, and with publications that waver between wanting to present reality and wanting to offer visual delight.
Hiroshi Sugimoto's 2001 gelatin silver print Rockefeller Center. Photography courtesy of Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
The gap between documentation and manipulation is a central theme of "Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture," an exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum—itself, the occupant of a much-photographed Herzog & de Meuron structure—in Southampton, New York, through June 17. It includes images that make no claims at realism—some by current art world darlings such as Thomas Ruff, who has said that other photographers "believe to have captured reality and I believe to have created a picture." Therese Lichtenstein, the show's curator, notes in her catalog essay that Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron once commissioned Ruff to photograph their buildings to see, she says, "what they would look like as art."
Iwan Baan's 2011 chromogenic print, Torre David #1. Photography courtesy of Iwan Baan and Moskowitz Bayse, L.A.
Prominent among the photographs that make no attempt at "accurate" representation are works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, who renders famous buildings in blurry black and white. In a 2001 image, for example, he strives to see how far he can distort 30 Rockefeller Plaza without sacrificing its recognizability, a process he describes as "erosion-testing architecture for durability."
Thomas Ruff's w.h.s. 10, a 2001 chromogenic print. Photography courtesy of Thomas Ruff, the Collection of George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, and David Zwirner Gallery, New York/London/Hong Kong.
For Sugimoto's images to work, the subject buildings must already be iconic—a status they acquired largely through the efforts of his camera-wielding predecessors. The narrow-shouldered 30 Rock, for instance, was made instantly recognizable in the 1930's by Samuel H. Gottscho. But even Gottscho, it turned out, was a manipulator who shot 30 Rock first with enough light to get the skyscraper's outlines sharp, and again by night, to capture the glow from its windows, then combined the results in the darkroom.
The 1956 gelatin silver print Chuey House (Los Angeles, Calif.) by Julius Shulman. Photography courtesy of the Julius Shulman Photography Archive, the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2004.R.10, and the J. Paul Getty Trust.
"Documentary" photographers who didn't resort to such extreme efforts still took pains to shoot modernist buildings in ways that made them look glamorous. As Interior Design Hall of Fame member Julius Shulman once stated: "Every architect I've ever worked for has become world-famous, because of the publicity they get." Shulman himself is famous for shooting the Case Study Houses, the mid-century Southern California experiments in residential design, sponsored, tellingly, by a magazine.
New York City views, RCA Building floodlighted, 1933, a gelatin silver print of Rockefeller Center by Samuel H. Gottscho. Photography courtesy of the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, the Estate of Samuel H. Gottscho, and the Museum of the City of New York/Gift of Samuel H. Gottscho/Gottscho-Schleisner, 88.1.2.2267.
Shulman's postwar contemporary Balthazar Korab photographed tightly cropped sections of buildings, creating abstractions from the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and other masters. Today, Korab's closest counterpart may be Hélène Binet, whose work zeroes in on forms and textures, sometimes making it a challenge to determine what exactly is being depicted. (Luisa Lambri and Judith Turner, neither of whom is in the Parrish show, explore similar effects.)
Baan's Torre David #2 chromogenic print. Photography courtesy of Iwan Baan and Moskowitz Bayse, L.A.
One divergent strain in American architectural photography has been the dystopian vision. A case in point: Lewis Baltz's 1970's images of the tract houses in the West, which make the buildings seem, in Lichtenstein's words, "outmoded even before their completion." While photographs like these populate art journals, they are less likely to turn up on the pages of architecture or design magazines, where they may be seen as downers.
Tract House #6, a 1971 gelatin silver print by Lewis Baltz. Photography courtesy of George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, the Estate of Lewis Baltz and Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica.
Architectural photographers must decide whether to include people in their images. Contemporary German conceptualist Candida Höfer believes photographing buildings with no one in them reveals a lot about human nature, just as an absent guest is often the subject of conversation at a party. The young Dutch photographer Iwan Baan tends to include people in his shots, but not always the people the architect or the client would have chosen. He gained prominence last decade documenting the construction of the CCTV headquarters in Beijing by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with his images that placed migrant workers and their makeshift living quarters in the foreground.
Thomas Struth's chromogenic print Pergamon Museum I, Berlin, 2001. Photography courtesy of Thomas Struth Studio, and the Dallas Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Fund: Gift of Arlene and John Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon E. Faulconer, Mr. and Mrs. Bryant M. Hanley, Jr., Marguerite and Robert K. Hoffman, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, Deedie and Rusty Rose, Gayle and Paul Stoffel, and Three Anonymous Donors, 2002.46.
For a century, photographers of architecture and interiors have been a mainstay of print media, including general interest publications. Gottscho's work appeared regularly in Town & Country as well as the more specialized House & Garden, while Ezra Stoller published in Look, Harper's Bazaar, and Playboy, along with the expected architecture journals. Design magazines play a hybrid role, not only entertaining but also educating readers, and thus tend to stay on the "representational" end of the spectrum (with "misrepresentation," for art or profit, at the other end).
TWA Flight Center in JFK International Airport (Queens, New York), Balthazar Korab's 1964 gelatin silver print. Photography courtesy of Korab Image and Christian Korab, Minnesota.
But, as a show like "Image Building" makes clear, there is no such thing as pure representation of buildings in photographs. The qualities of great interiors, especially, must be experienced first-hand. As Baltz said in a 1993 interview, "Architecture, real architecture, always defies reduction into two-dimensional representation. If not, it's hardly architecture at all."
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The Most Beautiful Place of Worship in Every State
January 17, 2018 Interior DesignAlabama, Architectural style, Arkansas, Church of Holy Ascension, Eero Saarinen, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Eureka Springs, Fairhope, First Christian Church of Phoenix, frank lloyd wright, futuristic church, Hartford Connecticut LDS Temple, Interior Design, Jewish Temples, Mormon Temples, Moshe Safdie, Most Beautiful Place of Worship In Every State, Rural Indiana, St. Bernard de Clairvaux, St. Lawrence Catholic Parish, Stained-glass windowsdelaramartdesign
Not only are these structures spectacular, but they're designed by such high profile architects as Eero Saarinen, Moshe Safdie, and Frank Lloyd Wright
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From coast to coast, places of worship span nearly every architectural style, whether it's a futuristic church in rural Indiana designed by one of Finland's greatest architects (Eero Saarinen) or the recently restored Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Unity Temple in suburban Chicago. Mormon temples' spires soar into the skyline and some Jewish temples are shapely in style, whether it's a modern box or in perfect pitch with Feng Shui's curvy chi. And no matter how many decades it's been since their construction, a tiny steeple in the woods will never slip out of vogue.
St. Lawrence Catholic Parish (Fairhope, Alabama)
With its all-wood interior, and pendant lighting, plus the octagon-shaped elevated skylight, morning sun pours into St. Lawrence Catholic Parish's interior, reflecting off the stained-glass windows.
Church of the Holy Ascension (Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska)
Photographed as often as the state's moose population, this church's Russian icons date back to the 16th century (including a mural gifted by Russia's last czar) and services are in Slavonic. Built in 1896, the church received a full restoration 100 years later.
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First Christian Church of Phoenix (Arizona)
Based on Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings—commissioned by Southwest Christian Seminary in 1949 but never built—First Christian Church of Phoenix's triangle-shaped building with a 77-foot-tall spire has been a must-see for design fans since its 1973 completion. There's also a free-standing 120-foot bell tower.
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas (Thorncrown Chapel)
Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Prairie style, this 37-year-old Thorncrown Chapel crafted from mostly Southern pine wood and featuring a staggering 425 windows is on the National Register of Historic Places (a rare feat considering its age).
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Temple Judea (Tarzana, California)
Earning the Herman Coliver Locus Architecture award from the AIA in 2012, the year it was completed, Temple Judea's striking exterior includes mosaic steps and a laser-cut metal veil of Hebrew letters.
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Mile Hi Church Sanctuary (Lakewood, Colorado)
The spaceship-like design of Mile Hi Church Sanctuary, completed in 2008, features a dome with exterior arches—just like another dome structure constructed on the property during the 1970s. Sanctuary seating is angled on a half-moon curve. Pictures is the Community Center which stands adjacent to the Sanctuary.
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Hartford Connecticut LDS Temple (Connecticut)
With formal gardens in front, the Hartford Connecticut LDS Temple boasts an elegant entry. Once inside, this new temple (open since 2016) features gold Art Deco-like railings around the bapistry area and soaring ceilings with crown molding in the Celestial Room.
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Historic St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Lewes, Delaware)
Dating back to 1708, the churchyard (resting places for many notables in Lewes) in front of Historic St. Peter's Episcopal Church is framed by a wrought-iron archway and then, beyond, is the brick chapel (built a century later). The original communion table is still in use for Sunday service.
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St. Bernard de Clairvaux (North Miami Beach, Florida)
St. Bernard de Clairvaux is more widely known to tourists than parishioners (for Sunday-morning mass). During the 1920s, William Randolph Hearst bought the stone monastery cloister (dating back to 1133 AD in Spain) and shuttled it to New York City in parts. Not until the middle of last century, however, was it reinstalled in Florida.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Athens, Georgia)
Crisscrossed wood beams and pendant lighting brighten up the interior of this Episcopal church's new chapel in a recent renovation, recognized by AIA for the Faith & Forum National Design Award for Religious Architecture. (The church dates back to the 1890s.)
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St. Benedict's (Captain Cook, Big Island, Hawaii)
Past its traditional Spanish Gothic exterior, St. Benedict's—framed by lush tropical landscaping—is a tapestry of murals, frescos and folk art on the inside. Built by a priest in 1899 who also wanted to add colorful accents, he used the art to teach spiritual lessons to illiterate Hawaiians.
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First Indian Presbyterian (Kamiah, Idaho)
With its cornflower-blue exterior and charming Gothic Revival design, First Indian Presbyterian's prairie perch is fitting. It was built in 1871 by the chief of an Indian tribe and still meets today, singing hymns in the Nez Perce language.
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Unity Temple (Oak Park, Illinois)
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's commissioned designs, and in the same Chicago 'burb where he raised his family, Unity Temple is fresh off an extensive facelift to the tune of $25 million that replaced every pane of glass and honored Wright's original color palate.
North Christian Church (Columbus, Indiana)
Finnish architect Eero Saarinen is more widely known for his industrial designs, including the Womb chair, than places of worship but that's what makes North Christian Church so intriguing. It was completed in 1964.
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St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church (Ankeny, Iowa)
With one section of the limestone and weathering steel building jutting out into the prairie, this church is some serious eye candy. The sanctuary's cathedral ceiling is stunning with honey-hued wood panels supported by steel beams, with pews positioned at a subtle V.
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Basilica of St. Fidelis (Victoria, Kansas)
Also called Cathedral of the Plains, this basilica—completed in 1911—is on the National Register of Historic Places and flaunts 48 stained-glass windows reportedly now worth a million dollars.
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Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption (Covington, Kentucky)
Since 1901, services have been held in this basilica, crafted from Bedford stone and red-ludovici roof tile and inspired by St. Denis in France. Three pipe organs prove the acoustics in here are amazing.
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St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Holding reign as the oldest continual operating Catholic cathedral in the country, St. Louis Cathedral's triple steeples have welcomed parishioners since 1727, and rebuilt in 1794 after a fire. It's located on Jackson Square.
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Wilde Memorial Chapel (Portland, Maine)
Now a site for weddings and funerals, this gorgeous Gothic-style chapel was built in 1902, using cypress for the interior, hiring a Boston firm to craft stained-glass windows and carving oak pews by hand.
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Baltimore Basilica (Maryland)
Carrying the distinction of being America's first cathedral, Baltimore Basilica was constructed in the early 1800s and received an extensive restoration over an 18-month period between 2004 and 2006. Also worth seeing: the Pope John Paul Garden next door.
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Harvard Business School (Boston)
A gift from the Harvard Business School's class of 1959, this cylinder-shaped chapel designed by Moshe Safdie and built in 1992 received LEED Gold Certification, in 2011.
Islamic Center of America (Dearborn, Michigan)
Since 1963, much of the Detroit area's Muslim population has met in this mosque, constructed in 2005 and North America's largest mosque. Spanning 92,000 square feet, it cost $14 million to build and can hold 1,000 people for prayer services.
Saint John's Abbey (Collegeville, Minnesota)
This Benedictine monastery was established in the 1850s by five monks from Pennsylvania and is now home to one of the country's largest Benedictine abbeys. In 1961 Marcel Breuer constructed the church's contemporary concrete structure, which includes the largest wall of stained glass in the world.
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Fulton Chapel at University of Mississippi (Oxford)
While not used exclusively for religious services, this historic building—a landmark on campus since its 1927 debut—can accommodate up to 650 people for performances of many kinds, including theatrical events.
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Community Christian Church (Kansas City, Missouri)
Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture shines in the Community Christian Church design, a project he was commissioned for in 1940. But it wasn't until 1994 that the designs for his Steeple of Light—lit every weekend—came to fruition.
Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church (Helena, Montana)
Resembling a modern farmhouse, Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church worked with an architect to create a cozy—but contemporary—vibe for Sunday services. Lots of right angles and clean lines gave the this Lutheran church a fresh look.
St. John's Catholic Church at Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska)
This grand chapel on Creighton University's campus featured arched stained-glass windows, soaring ceilings and columns everywhere.
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Ravella at Lake Las Vegas (Nevada)
Sin City is filled with wedding chapels but this one is less kitsch and more elegance, featuring columns and hand-carved pews (and no Elvis). While scriptures are being read, take a peek outside and you just might think you're in Tuscany…not Las Vegas.
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Stark Union Church (Stark, New Hampshire)
Particularly when fall foliage is in full swing, Stark Union Church's open bell tower, plus the adjacent covered bridge, frames the landscape beautifully and its emerald-green shutters evoke a storybook setting.
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Princeton University Chapel (New Jersey)
Marked by the "Song of Vowels" sculpture (Jacques Lipchitz) out front, and next to the Firestone Library, this soaring cathedral hosts worship services every Sunday as well as concerts.
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Loretto Chapel (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Modeled after Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, this intimate Gothic-style chapel in downtown Santa Fe features the often-photographed, free-standing circular Miraculous Staircase.
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Saint Patrick's Cathedral (New York, New York)
Sunlight glinting through the stained-glass windows and the vaulted ceilings create a calm setting in the midst of bustling Manhattan at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, built in 1878 and in a Neo-Gothic style. A $177 million restoration wrapped up in 2015.
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First Baptist Church (Asheville, North Carolina)
Built in the 1920s based on architect Douglas Ellington's designs, this dome-shaped church is packed with Art Deco detailing, such as diamond-shaped panels and floral motifs in the sanctuary, and has a brick-and-marble exterior.
Gol Stave Church (Minot, North Dakota)
Located in Scandinavian Heritage Park, which was established in the late '80s, structures reminiscent of what you'd find in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark are here. Gol Stave Church is one of those, a true replica of the church in Gol, Hallingdal, Norway.
The Old Stone Church (Cleveland, Ohio)
Dating back to 1855, a medieval exterior gives way to Tiffany stained-glass windows inside Old Stone Church where not only are Presbyterian services held on Sunday, so is weekday afternoon yoga.
Boston Avenue United Methodist Church (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Towering above downtown Tulsa, Boston Avenue United Methodist Church's Art Deco design debuted in 1929. It's on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon (Bend)
Modern in design, the Unitarian church in Bend—completed in 2016—was also designed to be sustainable and eco-friendly. It spans 19,000 square feet and has breathed new life into the church, including a boost in membership.
Beth Sholom Synagogue (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania)
Frank Lloyd Wright's lone synagogue design lies in this Philly suburb riffs on Mayan Revival architecture and its interior lighting casts a soft glow at night, as seen from outside, and thanks to translucent fiberglass walls.
Church of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
On the Portsmouth Abbey campus, Church of St. Gregory the Great's design—at the hands of architect Pietro Belluschi, featuring a redwood interior and fieldstone walls (sourced from nearby land)—was inspired by a 16th Century church in Ravenna, Italy.
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Unitarian Church in Charleston (South Carolina)
A popular tourist attraction is the Unitarian Church in Charleston's Gothic-style graveyard with its drooping Spanish moss. Tours of the church's interior—completed just after the Revolutionary War in 1776, making it Charleston's second-oldest church, and inspired by Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey—are led by docents each September through June.
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Chapel in the Hills (Rapid City, South Dakota)
This eye-catching design recalls Norway, not South Dakota, but that's because Chapel in the Hills (http://www.chapel-in-the-hills.org) hearkens back to South Dakotans' Norwegian heritage. Built in the 1960s, it's a replica of the Borgund stavkirke, which dates back to 1150 AD and is in Laerdal, Norway.
Photo: Courtesy of Brian and Joyce Kringen
Fisk Memorial Chapel at Fisk University (Nashville, Tennessee)
Located on the Fisk University campus, the chapel has welcomed guest preachers like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson since its 1892 construction. Among the unique attributes are the church's three-sided balcony, and one of the country's finest pipe organs.
Chapel of Thanksgiving (Dallas, Texas)
Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas is marked by this Phillip Johnson-designed chapel the resembles a wedding cake. It debuted along with the square in 1976. The stunning stained-glass window (Glory Window by Gabriel Loire) on a spiral ceiling is a must-see.
Salt Lake Temple (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Since its construction in 1893, this temple has served as an inspiring design for other LDS Church temples around the United States. It's also the largest of all temples, clocking in at 253,015 square feet and took 40 years to complete.
Photo: Getty Images/Bloomberg
Union Christian Church (Plymouth, Vermont)
The craftsmanship inside Union Christian Church, which was built during the 1840s, truly shines, including the wooden walls and ceiling. Fun historical fact: President Calvin Coolidge used to be a member of this church and he lived across the street.
Chapel by Arlington National Cemetery (Fort Myer, Virginia)
In addition to regular services, the chapel—next to Arlington National Cemetery—is used for military funeral services led by a chaplain and is an excellent example of timeless design with its spire and shapely roof.
Photo: Getty Images/Nicholas Kamm
Washington National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.)
As grand as Europe's ancient churches, Washington National Cathedral was constructed in the nation's capital in 1907 and has received many refurbishments since, honoring the merging of Neo-Gothic and English Gothic styles. It's also the country's second-largest church and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: Getty Images/Salwan Georges/The Washington Post
Seattle University's Chapel of St. Ignatius (Washington)
At first glance, one might mistake Chapel of St. Ignatius for a contemporary-art museum, but no, it's a place of worship, designed by Steven Holl in 1997. Interior pendant lighting (with exposed bulbs) and white concaved ceilings create an intimate, softer feeling than the modernized exterior.
Photo: Getty Images/Dennis Gilbert
Palace of Gold (Moundsville, West Virginia)
Rural Appalachia skewed artsy in 1979 with the construction of Palace of Gold, an ornate palace with blooming rose gardens and a staggering 100 water fountains outside. Marble imported from various spots around the world clocks in at 52 different varieties, and 1,500 pieces of stained-glass are within four windows, proof no luxury was spared in its construction.
Photo: Getty Images/Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin)
Resembling a spaceship, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in suburban Milwaukee is eye-catching, with its floating bowl shape. While based on Frank Lloyd Wright's designs, it was one of his final commission and not unveiled until two years after he died, in 1961.
Saint John's Episcopal Church Chapel of the Transfiguration (Moose, Wyoming)
Is there anything more charming than a steeple tucked into nature? Chapel of the Transfiguration is within Grand Teton National Park and constructed from logs, built in 1925. Holy Communion is on Sundays but only during the summer and seats just 65 people.
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Luanne Hunt: 'Texas Tears' respects the great tradition of country music!
Throughout her illustrious career, Luanne Hunt, the award-winning singer-songwriter has built an impressive list of accomplishments, including scoring numerous No. 1 hits on Independent country music charts around the world. She is best known for her chart-topping single, 'Christmas Without You', which was named by Sweden's largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, one of the top 25 Christmas songs of all-time. Hunt, who was also inducted into the Independent Superstars Country Music Hall of Fame, has been working hard at making quality music for twenty years.
Over the years, Hunt's songs, including 'Bluer Than the Bluegrass' and 'I Don't Bother Counting', have been played on AM, FM, satellite and Internet stations around the world, often landing her on the charts. "Solace in The Wind", reached U.S. and European Charts as well as landing on the 2009 Grammy ballot in two categories: Best Country Song and Best Female Country Performance.
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Now once again Luanne Hunt is back with another hit song that has reached number No.1 on the European charts – the post-modern country tune, 'Texas Tears'.
One listen to Luanne Hunt and you will not be able to take Carrie Underwood or Taylor Swift seriously anymore. The 'country music' that they make is fake at best, but granted they know how to churn out good tunes. Luanne targets a different audience – one that knows it's music, and one that respects the great tradition of country music. It's an art that few have appreciated, and a genre that very few have been able to truly embrace.
I can safely say that Luanne shows on tracks like 'Texas Tears' that she knows what country is all about, as she is a great storyteller – which is at the very base of country music, even before the music starts. She reminds me of a female Hank Williams Sr. mixed with some Loretta Lynn. Her voice has a feel of "old country," rather than the typical over-produced and mixed recordings of most of the female country artists today.
Introduce yourself to Luanne Hunt's music, and you might just learn to appreciate what real country music is all about. In fact, if you listen to this album and then listen to Country on mainstream radio, you'll realize the vast difference. Luanne is bringing country back, and is single-handedly giving back respect and dignity to a genre that has been overtaken by corporate mongers.
She is a special talent, gutsy, real, and somehow introspective too, so she is able to separate herself from the rest of the country female pack. She's exactly what country radio needs to not only continuously appeal to their current audience, but to break the stereotypes and appeal to new audiences in order to push involvement.
Compared to her previous releases, 'Texas Tears' offers the same, if not better, maturity of writing, authenticity, excellence and independence in style and total performance. If you like real country music and if you liked any of Luanne Hunt's previous works, you will really love this single!
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Ava DuVernay working on Prince documentary for Netflix
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Ava DuVernay is reportedly working on a Prince documentary for Netflix.
The late, great musician was a musical legend, with a career that spanned from Purple Rain to Batman and won awards that included an Oscar, Golden Globe and multiple Grammys. Now, his life is being portrayed on the big screen for Netflix, with Ava DuVernay at the helm. DuVernay is no stranger to Netflix, with prison documentary The 13th debuting on the streaming service. She has since retrained with the company to make The Central Park Five, a series based on the landmark case of legal injustice. She's no stranger to music either, though, with her 2008 debut This Is the Life charring LA's alternative hip-hop scene in the 90s.
The project has been in the work for several months, two sources have confirmed to Variety, and has the full cooperation of Prince's estate, which will provide interviews, footage, photos and archival access. The documentary will consist of several parts, covering the artist's whole life.
"Prince was a genius and a joy and a jolt to the senses," Ava told Deadline in an interview. "The only way I know how to make this film is with love. And with great care. I'm honored to do so and grateful for the opportunity entrusted to me by the estate."
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Q: Lua & OO, how to access method from another method? So if I have an Object and needs to call one method from another within that Object, how do I construct that call?
TestObject = {}
TestObject.__index = TestObject

function TestObject.new()
    local self = setmetatable({}, TestObject)
    self.value = init
    -- a count [integer] of something. Not important what
    self.counter = 99
    return self
end

function TestObject:getCount()
    return self.counter
end

function TestObject:getCountPlus(add_value)
    -- HERE HOW SHOULD THIS BE FORMATED??
    return self.getCount() + add_value
end

And using this Object would be something like this:
local testObject = TestObject.new()
testObject:getCountPlus(1)

which should result in 100.

A: The getCount() needs to know what instance it is in. When you write
function TestObject:getCount()

it is same as writing
function TestObject.getCount(self)

(note the colon changed to dot). So calling self.getCount() is like calling getCount with self=nil. Do self:getCount(), which is same as self.getCount(self). This may seem odd: why does interpreter not provide self automatically? It's just the way the language was designed: it only provides self automatically with the : notation.

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A rare 1909 baseball card, known as the "Holy Grail" of baseball cards, has sold for a record $2.1 million, the auction house that conducted the sale said Saturday.
The 1909 card of Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Honus Wagner was auctioned by Goldin Auctions in West Berlin, New Jersey for $2,105,770.50 to an unnamed buyer. Bidding started at $500,000 on Feb. 25.
There are only about 50 Honus Wagner T206 cards in existence. The card is in such short supply because Wagner made the American Tobacco Company recall it when he discovered it had made the card without his permission. He didn't want kids to buy cigarettes, the auction house said.
The card was released as Wagner was on his way to winning his seventh batting title and about to lead the Pirates to their first World Series win. It's garnered such a place in baseball history that it has its own plaque at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
"To have surpassed the highest price ever paid for a baseball card at auction by nearly $500,000 is a spectacular outcome," said Goldin Auctions owner, Ken Goldin in a press release following the auction.
The card went for $1.62 million the last time it was up for public sale, which was in the midst of the financial crisis in 2008. Goldin had estimated that this time the card could go for well over $2.6 million.
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Under-use of consultants
An acquaintance of mine, undergoing a divorce, returned from a meeting with his Korean counsel looking frustrated. Apparently, he had been advised by a third party of a critical fact, which his lawyer had not mentioned. When my friend asked why not, the lawyer replied: ``Oh! You did not ask me about that specific point."
Some years back, I interviewed Wilfred Horie, the first foreign CEO of a local bank here. Horie had served in the U.S. Army's Special Forces, and brought up their approach to management: He parachuted into Seoul with a small team of elite executives, but for backup, hired a battery of external consultants the same way Green Berets utilize artillery and air support. The consultants' recommendations were duly implemented. Horie mentioned this to the head of another local bank. The man was startled. ``We hired the same consultants and got the same advice," he told Horie. ``But we never executed!"
One of my best pals runs a PR firm. His clients are local and foreign. To foreign clients, he consults strategically, direct to CEO-level. (One of his clients, incidentally, is one of the biggest foreign investors ever to park money in Korea.) But his Korean clients, who include companies and government agencies, rarely seek his counsel beyond the working level.
I once accompanied him to present to a local Seoul government office on upgrading the district's tourism infrastructure. His presentation was packed with practical ideas, benchmarked from Europe; several could have been implemented with minimal planning or expense. I was gob-smacked by the nit-picking approach district bureaucrats took to his pitch: Their concept was, ``Let's marshal any argument to shoot down these ideas rather than seek ways to execute."
Last year, I accompanied a panel of experts traveling to a city to advise local officials there about an upcoming international event. These experts included a central government official, a foreign diplomat, a high-profile foreign resident and a foreign academic. The first to present was the central government official. After his presentation, it was the diplomat's turn. By the time he started, the front two rows of senior local officials had conspicuously exited: They had disappeared to have coffee with the central government official rather than listen to subsequent presentations which had been specifically prepared for them.
Several years ago, the Asia-Pacific CEO of one of the world's top international PR agencies – one which had re-branded Hong Kong, and which was advising the president of another Asian nation on communications ― was invited to Seoul to brief a senior official on destination branding. The chief executive prepared a presentation and flew in to the city for a day to deliver it to officials who nodded off and snored conspicuously throughout.
My wife spent two years in London studying international cuisine and wine. Back in Korea, she consulted for food and beverage companies, advising them on everything from wine lists and menu planning to food trends and marketing. As these issues were central to their business, I was dismayed at her small fees: Sometimes she was not even paid, but was, instead, given a free meal or a bottle of wine.
Expert, external advice here is very often not trusted, respected or valued.
Korea's economy has customarily been a nexus between manufacturing and government. With Korea being a ``low trust" society, the key glue was relationships ― hence the local bureaucrats who ignored a series of presentations as, to them, content was less important than networking with a senior official.
Government bodies have little respect for consultants ― as the snoring Seoul officials proved ― and big business tends to trust only their in-house departments. As outside service providers are utilized at the tactical, not the strategic level, consultants – like my friend's lawyer ― don't pro-actively consult, they simply react. Or, like my friend in PR, they function as low-value arms and legs, not high-value brains.
Given the accepted fact of ``core competencies" ― the theory that an organization operates optimally only when it focuses on its core skill-sets ― this attitude is likely causing Korean bodies significant problems: A district government is not going to have great expertise in international marketing, any more than a chipmaker is home to the world's finest accounting brains.
These skills can be imported from outside, but are not going to be effectively applied if the consultants who deliver these competencies are un-trusted, undervalued or, indeed, undermined.
More broadly, the fact that certain service sectors have been under-used, disrespected or lacked leeway to operate freely in Korea has caused tremendous issues across society, from rule of law to accounting failure.
If accountants' skills were respected and fully leveraged by corporate management, various economic crises over the years could have been avoided or ameliorated. If attorneys were widely used and if law had force, society would have a fair, predictable and self-correcting mechanism based on rules and regulations, unrelated to politics or relationships. And if banking had been something more than a cash conduit for big manufacturers, the finance sector would be more competitive and funding for SMEs would be more equitable.
Meanwhile, Korea's competitors do not necessarily distrust external advice.
A colleague told me of a financial/managerial consultancy which works region-wide. Their Chinese clients adopted many of the consultancy's suggestions, which were based on international best practice. Their Korea clients had not. Their reason? ``Well, this idea looks good," the consultants were told. ``But it couldn't work here. It's not the 'Korean Way.'"
Clearly, government and manufacturing jointly rule Korea's roost; service remains a distant third. But with China climbing the value ladder, is Korea, Inc. mentally positioned to move beyond a smokestack economy?
Andrew Salmon is a Seoul-based reporter and author. His latest work, ``Scorched Earth, Black Snow," was published in London in June. Reach him at andrewcsalmon@yahoo.co.uk.


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USAID Egypt's Health and Population Legacy Review
May 26, 2011 By Laura Rostad
On May 23 the Middle East Program, ECSP, and the Global Health Initiative of the Woodrow Wilson Center, along with the Global Health Technical Assistance Project, hosted a panel of speakers discussing the past 30 years of the U.S. Agency for International Development's health and population initiatives in Egypt, as outlined in the new Egypt Health and Population Legacy Review. Geoffrey Dabelko, director of ECSP and coordinator of the Global Health Initiative at the Wilson Center, moderated the event. [Video Below]
Peter McPherson, former administrator of USAID during the Reagan administration, and George Laudato, the administrator's special assistant for the Middle East, presented on the historical context behind USAID in Egypt and the results of their efforts. McPherson pointed to three lessons that can be drawn from the recent report:
"Big payoffs" require long-term efforts; and
Economic support for a country can have a dramatic impact; but
The host country's commitments and investments are still important.
McPherson also stressed that programs targeted to address specific issues are more effective than undirected cash grants. Laudato said USAID's achievements were aided by the Egyptian government making health development a priority and increasing domestic monetary investment in the sector.
Motaz Zahran, political counselor for the Embassy of Egypt, noted that USAID efforts were "just one sector of a fruitful partnership" between the United States and Egypt that he hoped would continue. He said the success story outlined by the report was reflective of improvements in coordination and addressing specific goals.
Other panelists outlined the successes of USAID in Egypt as related to their own areas of expertise. Leslie B. Curtin, co-author of the review and an expert in demographics and health outcomes, noted the dramatic improvements in a range of health sectors, in particular the rise in contraceptive prevalence and immunization rates and decrease in both maternal and infant mortality rates.
Nahed Matta, MD, senior maternal and newborn health officer at USAID, focused on improvements to the quality of maternal health, which she said were made possibly through better technology and increased fact-gathering to identify the key factors regarding maternal health trends. Sameh El-Saharty, MD, senior health policy specialist at the World Bank and Health Legacy Review Committee member, credited the increased number of health professionals in Egypt, better information gathering on health systems, and restructured models of health insurance, as successful strategies.
Concluding the session, Amie Batson, deputy assistant administrator for Global Health at USAID, discussed the lessons that other development initiatives can draw from the legacy of USAID efforts in Egypt. She highlighted the importance of country ownership, in which the developing country engages with other institutions and religious and political leaders at both national and local levels, and of policies that fund routine monitoring and evaluation. She also outlined the possibilities of innovation and south-to-south sharing on the local and international scale, referencing inroads made by two recent initiatives: the "MAMA" mobile device program, launched by Secretary Clinton in May 2011 to assist with disseminating maternal health information, and the Saving Lives at Birth initiative, launched by USAID in partnership with several other organizations in March 2011.
Laura Rostad is an intern for the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Image Credit: Adapted from cover of the Egypt Health and Population Legacy Review, courtesy of USAID; cover photo courtesy of Leslie Curtin.
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Protest in Putin's Russia
Paperback By Mischa Gabowitsch
The Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular opposition. In this sweeping new account of the protests, Mischa Gabowitsch challenges these journalistic clichés, showing that they stem from wishful thinking and media bias rather than from accurate empirical analysis. Drawing on a rich body of material, he analyses the biggest wave of demonstrations since the end of the Soviet Union, situating them in the context of protest and social movements across Russia as a whole. He also explores the legacy of the protests in the new era after UkraineÂs much larger Maidan protests, the crises in Crimea and the Donbass, and PutinÂs ultra-conservative turn. As the first full-length study of the Russian protests, this book will be of great value to students and scholars of Russia and to anyone interested in contemporary social movements and political protest.
Format: Paperback, 300 pages Language: English
Mischa Gabowitsch is a sociologist and historian who works at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany.
"Benefiting from his exceptional cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary background, Gabowitsch looks at the Russian polity from below. Highly informed by personal observations, interviews and a systematic database of protest events, the book offers a completely new view of the promise and challenges of protest in the context of the authoritarian temptation that has come back to haunt the entire European continent." Laurent Thévenot, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris "This book sheds new light on the forces and conditions that have shaped the anti-Putin protests in Moscow and elsewhere, examining in unprecedented detail the events, personalities and ideas that have changed Russian and global politics in recent years. There is little doubt that mass protests will occur in Russia again, though in new and unpredictable forms. This book helps us understand their fateful crescendos." Alexander Etkind, European University Institute, Florence, author of Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience "Gabowitsch's seminal study is of interest to the specialist as well as the general reader. It is a meticulously researched volume that throws light on the diverse protests that swept Russia in the wake of the 2011 Duma election. While they failed to prevent Putin's return to the presidency, the protests may well have heralded potentially momentous social change." Josephine von Zitzewitz, University of Cambridge"Protest in Putin's Russia combines stirring reportage with conceptual sophistication, taking readers into sites of protest not only in Moscow but in cities across Russia."The New York Review of Books".
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Q: Call fragment method from another Fragment There are a few threads on this topic already, but unfortunately I couldn't solve my problem.
I have 2 tabs. When one tab is finished I want to update another one.
I tried the following in the first FragmentTab:
@UiThread
void updateGallery() {
    FragmentTransaction ft = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
    ft.replace(R.layout.gallery_layout, new GalleryFragment());
    ft.commit();
}

I get the following exception:
01-04 02:27:51.805: E/AndroidRuntime(28235): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No view found for id 0x7f030002 for fragment GalleryFragment{41d7dcf0 #4 id=0x7f030002}

and
@UiThread
void updateGallery() {
    // returns null (ById does also return null)
    GalleryFragment frg = (GalleryFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("Gallery");
    frg.init();
}

and I also tried to update the necessary data directly:
GalleryFragment gf = new GalleryFragment();
gf.setImageUrls(findDocumentListAll());
gf.getDocumentAdapter().notifyDataSetChanged(); // returns nullpointerexception

From what I read so far the problem may be that I never add a <fragment> in my main.xml(MainActivity.java) but add them in my MainActivitylike this:
MainActivity.AddTab(this, this.mTabHost, this.mTabHost.newTabSpec("Gallery").setIndicator("", getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.gallery)));
MainActivity.AddTab(this, this.mTabHost, this.mTabHost.newTabSpec("Camera").setIndicator("", getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.camera)));
mTabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(this);
mAdapter = new TabsPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
mViewPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);
mViewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(MainActivity.this);

with the Tab Definition in my Adapter like:
@Override
public Fragment getItem(int index) {

    switch (index) {
        case 0:
            return new GalleryFragment_();
        case 1:
            return new CameraFragment_();
// ...
}

I'm not sure if that matters, but I always use the android.support.v4.app.Fragment; and not the android.app.Fragment;

A: You must add a method in your activity with this:
void updateGallery() {
    FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
    fragmentManager.beginTransaction().replace(R.layout.gallery_layout, fragment).commit();
}

And in your fragment, you can call a method from your activity this way:
((ActivityMain) getActivity()).updateGallery();


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"The Cold Blue" to feature on HBO
I'm happy to announce that "The Cold Blue" having premiered at AFI Docs and screened at the New York Film Festival, will feature on HBO this June. I served as a sound effects recordist for this stunning example of restoration and storytelling…
"Triple Frontier" now on Netflix
You can now catch "Triple Frontier" on Netflix. I served as the Foley supervisor for this tense and thrilling action film. A big thank you to supervising sound editor Steve Boeddeker for having me on board…
"Juanita" now on Netflix
You can now find "Juanita" on Netflix. I served as the supervising assistant and sound recordist for this original and quirky feature film…
"IO" now on Netflix
"IO" is now available to watch on Netflix. I served as the supervising assistant and foley editor on this poignant and timely sci-fi film…
"Rewind" Tribeca Premier
I'm happy to announce that "Rewind" will be premiering at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. I served as the sound editor for this powerful and heartfelt documentary…
"Colewell" SFFILM Premier and Sound Panel
I'm thrilled to announce that "Colewell" is going to be premiering at the San Francisco International Film Festival. I served as the supervising sound editor / sound designer on the film alongside a wonderful crew. There are going to be two screenings at the festival…
"Next Gen" Wins MPSE Golden Reel Award
I'm very happy to announce that "Next Gen" was honored with a MPSE Golden Reel win at the awards ceremony last week. I was fortunate enough to be a Foley editor on the crew alongside my colleagues at Skywalker Sound…
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May 5, 2019 "Triple Frontier" now on Netflix
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Front Range Community College will soon offer 4-year nursing degree
Colorado is expected to have a cumulative shortage of 4,500 nurses with four-year degrees by 2024.
Front Range Community College will soon offer 4-year nursing degree Colorado is expected to have a cumulative shortage of 4,500 nurses with four-year degrees by 2024. Check out this story on coloradoan.com: https://noconow.co/2LbB1JQ
Kelly Ragan, Fort Collins Coloradoan Published 3:19 p.m. MT July 13, 2018 | Updated 3:53 p.m. MT July 13, 2018
Front Range Community College(Photo: Courtesy of Front Range)
Front Range Community College will soon offer a bachelor's degree in nursing, according to a news release.
The program is intended to help meet a growing need for skilled health care providers in Colorado, while offering students an affordable route to a job in their home state.
At a meeting July 12, the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education approved FRCC's program to offer the new four-year degree at the college's Fort Collins and Westminster campuses, according to the release.
Colorado has an annual shortage of at least 500 nurses with four-year degrees. This figure is expected to grow to a cumulative shortage of 4,500 nurses by 2024, according to the release.
"For too many years, prospective nurses have only had one option for a (Bachelor of Science in Nursing): an expensive education at a university," said Mark Longshore, chair of the nursing department at FRCC's Larimer Campus, in the release. "By offering a (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) through Front Range Community College, our graduates — already respected for their patient care skills — will now be considered on equal footing with the university graduates for employment. That's cost-effective quality."
Earlier this year, the state Legislature passed a law allowing community colleges in Colorado to offer the four-year degree. The Colorado Community College System developed this legislation in response to requests from health care providers who expressed growing concern about the state's looming shortage of skilled nurses, according to the release.
FRCC expects to begin offering the four-year nursing program by 2020 at the latest, according to the release. The next step will be for the proposal to go forward to the Higher Learning Commission for accreditation. The final step will be approval from the Colorado Board of Nursing and a national nursing accreditation agency.
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Andreas Gursky's first-ever exhibition in Asia is to take place at the Gagosian Gallery. The exhibition combines his most recent work with earlier works to provide the context for a broader and deeper appreciation of his oeuvre by new audiences. Contemporary Asia has provided extraordinarily rich and surprising subject matter for Gursky and, over the last twenty years, he has photographed in Japan, Thailand, China, and North Korea. Some of the first pictures he made were in Hong Kong in 1994–among them Sha Tin racetrack, Hong Kong airport, and Shanghai Bank, the last of which appears in this exhibition. The Bangkok series of 2011, shot on the Chao Praya river in central Bangkok, represents a bold new direction in his work.
By pure circumstance, Gursky found himself fascinated by the phenomenon of the river flowing beneath a city overpass, the intense light effects, and the flotsam and jetsam carried by in the dark water. A major arterial waterway that is as compromised by manmade pollution as by disequilibrium in the natural hydrological regime, Chao Phraya is revealed by Gursky to be at once a dumping ground for all manner of manmade detritus (used condoms, a child's bed mattress, a car tire); a crucible for ecological disorder (as evidenced by a dead fish, and the pretty but devastating weed known as water hyacinth); and a reflecting, refracting surface for the modern city itself. But it was only during the post-production process that a clear relationship emerged with abstract painting, as well as the broader implications of depicting an ecologically threatened waterway in seductive visual terms. Gursky captures the toxic reality of the urban water mass, and spins it through the lens of the abstract sublime to dramatic and resonant effect.
For the Hong Kong exhibition, Gursky continues the approach he took for his most recent exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, combining the large-scale, painterly and almost abstract Bangkok series with other works–in both large and small formats–that deal primarily with social and cultural production, from the bamboo-weavers of Nha Trang (2004) to the clubbers of Cocoon II (2008). The selection includes some of his best-known works, such as the iconic 99 Cent II (2001), in which the banality of an American supermarket becomes a complex abstract aggregation of saturated color, compulsive arrangement, and dizzying selection.
It was for the travelling exhibition"80-08″ that Gursky began combining scales, partly as a practical measure to be able to show a more comprehensive range of subjects in relatively small spaces. Since then, he has continued to experiment with this idea of the monumental and the miniature, finding that representing a large photograph in a very small format completely changes its reception: in some instances, such as Shanghai Bank (1994) and Pyong Yang IV (2007), the small scale emphasizes the strong abstract compositions that underpin the representational content. But with images such as the mysterious, gleaming Kamiokande (2007) and Kathedrale (2007) with its ethereal stained glass windows drained of color, the large format is instrumental to the presence of the work. In this way, surprising juxtapositions are created within which pictorial structures and patterns can be more closely compared and examined.
Just as history painters of previous centuries found their subjects in the realities of everyday life, Gursky finds inspiration in his own spontaneous visual experience and via reports of global phenomena in the daily media. The resulting pictures have a formal congruence deriving from a bold and edgy dialogue between photography and painting, empirical observation and artfulness, conceptual rigor and spontaneity, representation and abstraction. Grappling with the abstract aesthetic structures that underlie manmade or natural environments, and reconstructing real subjects according to his inner eye, Gursky presents a world view that fuses the flux of life and nature with the stillness of metaphysical reflection.
Andreas Gursky was born in 1955 in Leipzig, former East Germany. He attended Folkwangschule, Essen (1978-81) and Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (1981-87). A selected survey exhibition is currently on view at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, and a major retrospective will open at Museum Kunstpalast Duesseldorf this fall. Other recent museum exhibitions include "Werke-Works 80-08", Kunstmuseen Krefeld (2008, toured to Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Vancouver Art Gallery in 2009); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2007); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2007, toured to Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Sharjah Art Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow in 2007-08); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2001, toured to Reina Sofia, Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2001-02). His work is included in important public and private collections throughout the world.
Gursky lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.


Question: How does mileage affect depreciation?
Hi Shane, I wonder if you could offer advice or point me in the way of relevant data in relation to the degree to which mileage feeds into the depreciation in a car's value. Obviously there are a few variables such as the car make and model and its age. I'm interested to find out if a car driven say 20,000kms in a year has a value "X" euros at the end then by what additional amount would it's value depreciate if instead it was driven 40,000kms in the same year? Is there a rule of thumb that can be applied? Thanks.
The short answer is; no.
The long answer is, it's complicated. How much time have you got? You see, the general rule of thumb that we always give to buyers is to buy on condition and history, not age and mileage. Mileage is, in many ways, something of a fallacy. After all, there are Volkswagens and Volvos out there that have done better than one milion miles, thanks to care and regular maintenance. Equally, there are all makes of car with mileages in the low five figures that are beaten, battered and half way to the scrapyard.
Even so, the trade doesn't see it in quite the same way and, yes, mileage does add another variable to the valuation. The problem for us is that SIMI and the rest of the Irish car trade has never produced, as is done in the UK and other markets, a proper 'Black Book' system for estimating future vehicle values.
So, do your calculations. Divide the car's mileage by its age and see what the average is. If it's over the average (and by a significant amount, not just a few thousand kilometres) then you should offer or ask for less. Much under (and again, a significant amount) then you might want to pay or ask a bit more. But again, please remember, that it's only really about finding the final nth degree value of the car. If a higher mileage car has a full and spotless service history and its metalwork shines like the early light of dawn, then it's still a much better buy than a low-miler that's not been looked after.


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