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The family Heitostiidae consists of one genus and species. It is a huge rodent that lives in the water, taking the place of modern hippos, only found in the Amazon River system. They are rather long in body, short legs, large head, and a mouth that can open a full 90 degrees. The ears are small and round, and the eyes are medium-sized. The males also have a fleshy horn structure on the end of the nose. The males use this horn for sparring. The females completely lack this structure.
Like modern hippos, these large rodents stay submerged in the water, only coming on shore occasionally to feed on plants and flowers. The nostrils are placed on top of the muzzle, as are the eyes and ears. This way, these animals can hide under the water with nothing more than their eyes, ears and nostrils above the surface. They are rather large rodents, about 10 feet long, and have no tail. The feet are fully webbed. These animals are strict vegetarians, feeding on any green vegetation they can find under the water or on land. They sometimes travel in small herds when retreating to land to feed. Or live in small family groups when submerging in the river.
Due to their size and aggressive nature, most predators leave these animals alone. They are generally left alone by crocodilians or large predatory fish. The only animals they may encounter problems with are the large deinognathids. These are very slow, deliberate swimmers, sometimes they creep and crawl along the river floor, sometimes they stroke through the upper levels of the water. They are capable of staying under water for a period of about 30 minutes without the need to breathe again. When diving, these animals close their ears tight, and the eyes are covered with a very thin nictitating membrane. Thus their eyes stay protected from sand and other debris, while they are still able to see underwater.
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The Trump presidency could be in danger, according to a legal expert, former Justice Department lawyer Gene Rossi.
The reason? A report that claimed that Trump asked White House counsel Don McGahn to investigate the prosecution of Hillary Clinton and James Comey.
According to Rossi, the President's request was an obstruction of justice. But prosecuting a corrupt public official like Hillary, who endangered U.S. security and perjured herself repeatedly trying to cover it up, isn't an obstruction of justice. It is justice.
Rossi's charges are wrongheaded and dangerous. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that Democrats won't try to bring similar ones.


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In Louisiana, RGA Stuck With Two C-List Candidates Who Idolize Jindal
After talking a big game, the biggest loser as qualifying ends for governor in Louisiana this week: The GOP. They failed to put up any big names against Gov. Edwards' in this race.
First, they tried Rep. Steve Scalise. He passed. Then, Attorney General Jeff Landry passed. Then Sen. John Kennedy passed.
Kennedy said he even polled the race and said only he and Scalise could win. And they both said no.
Then Rep. Ralph Abraham and Eddie Rispone entered the race. And no one was happy about that, especially the RGA. When asked about the Republicans in the primary, the RGA's Executive Director said, "We'll see who else gets in."
Trump wasn't satisfied either and tried to convince Scalise to enter the race. A LAGOP official said there was "movement" to get another candidate into the race.
So now the field is set for Republicans with their second-tier choices Abraham and Rispone.
Both C-List candidates have stumbled on the trail. Abraham put his personal ambition ahead of doing his job, missing more votes than any other member of Congress, including votes crucial to Louisianans, like extending the National Flood Insurance Program. And Louisianans are wondering, "Where is Rispone?", who is almost always absent on the campaign trail.
Now that the qualifying deadline has come and gone it's clear: the RGA is stuck with Abraham and Rispone.
"The RGA waited to see who entered the race, and now they are stuck with what they've got," said DGA Communications Director David Turner. "It's easy to see why. Gov. Edwards' has a bipartisan record of success and is turning the page from Jindal's reckless tenure. He invested in public education, stopped devastating cuts to higher education, gave the state's teachers their first pay raise in a decade, and expanded Medicaid to give more than 450,000 working Louisianans access to health care. Louisianans don't want what the Republicans are selling—they want to keep moving forward."
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Good Morning AD, I didn't want to post this but I talked to little Johnnie super fan last night and is he pissed. he actually confronted the manager of Meridian centre and told him he is ruining the hockey experience in Niagara. He had a lot more to say but I won't bore you with the details. Suffice it to say that if a fan like Johnnie is upset something is wrong.


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Flooring makes a big impact on the look and feel of a home and is not an easy thing to change. Whether it's floorboards, carpet or tiles, choose the best quality option your budget will allow, stay away from trends and choose flooring that won't date. This will act as an anchor to your spaces.
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Natalie Wood Blogathon: Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis
Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis are considered two of classic Hollywood's shining stars. These two would star in three movies together between the years 1958 and 1965. In an interview that was conducted by The Guardian a couple years before Tony passed away he mentions Natalie and says she "a very moving and giving woman." He also stated that he "liked her very much"and that "they had become great friends." Tony would also say she was the co-star he had the best chemistry with. Which, in my own personal opinion, is true. There was a fourth movie they could have worked in together but it never happened. Tony would live another twenty-eight years after Natalie's passing. But even now they have both passed away we still have these three movies and other countless ones that will help their stars shine on.
The first movie Natalie and Tony were in together was 1958's Kings Go Forth. Natalie stars as Monique Blair and Tony stars as Britt Harris. The star of the movie is Frank Sinatra but the trademark Curtis and Wood chemistry can be seen in this film. The three main characters end up in a love triangle and eventually Britt proposes marriage to Monique. However, in the end Britt ends up breaking her heart. Of course Frank's character steps in and the movie ends with him going back to Monique (with one arm.) Britt is dead.
This is the only one of the three films where Natalie and Tony's characters don't end up together. I wasn't surprised by that going into this movie. I wanted to like this movie, but I hate to admit I don't. All three actors were amazing in it, but I just though it was kind of boring. But if your cup of tea is a World War 2 drama set in France then do I have a movie for you.
1964 was the year Sex and the Single Girl came out. Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer, and Fran Jefferies all co-star in this delightful comedy. Natalie is Dr. Helen Brown, a psychologist and the author of the popular book Sex and the single girl. Tony plays Bob Weston, who is the managing editor of STOP magazine. The magazine which had an article saying that Helen was a "23 year old virgin." Bob decides he wants to get a better story on Helen and chaos only ensues from there. Of course the movie has a happy ending and everyone is with who they should be with. Natalie's natural flair for comedy shines through in this film.
The trademark Wood and Curtis chemistry shines through the most in this film. Gavin Lambert says in his book about Natalie there a total absence of romantic feelings in this movie because Natalie didn't like Tony Curtis at all. I disagree with him and so does Tony it seems because in Suzanne Finstad's book about Natalie he says this about the scenes in her office. "About the funniest things I've ever seen. It was a wonderful dance. You can't get better We never stepped on each other. She always gave me my moments and vice-versa." And that shows in the film. I don't know what film Mr. Lambert was watching but it wasn't this film. This is my favorite movie featuring these two, it is a good pick me up film and it serves it's purpose as a great comedy about love and sex.
The Great Race came out in 1965 and was made right after Sex and the Single Girl. Natalie didn't want to do this film, but Jack Warner said she had to in order to do Inside Daisy Clover. Natalie was not the first or even second choice to play Maggie DuBois and Tony was also the third choice to play The Great Leslie. Jack Warner asked Tony to give Natalie a percentage of his film royalties for the movie, which Curtis replied with "I couldn't give her anything to make her want to do the movie."
Between the ending of filming on Sex and the Single Girl and the beginning of filming on the this film, Natalie and Tony had become estranged. Tony's first wife Janet Leigh says it was because Tony didn't want to work with her. Even if he didn't want to, he still had too. This film shoot was Natalie's least favorite. According to her biographer, Suzanne Finstad, director Blake Edwards ignored her in favor of Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Peter Falk. And at one point Natalie and Tony stopped speaking to each other on set. The movie went way over schedule and over budget to the point Tony says "that everybody gave up on it." After the film wrapped Natalie tried to kill herself by overdosing on sleeping pills, she was not successful.
Even though Natalie hated making this film, I love watching it. I enjoy this screwball comedy with it's slapstick and crazy characters. Out of the three films Curtis and Wood made together, it is considered the best one. It's not my personal favorite, but I can see why other people would put it in the top spot.
After The Great Race, Natalie and Tony would move on with their lives and careers. Natalie would take time off from her career to become a wife and mother. And Tony saw his career take a nose dive in the late 1960's. Natalie Wood would die under mysterious circumstances at the age of 43 when she drowned off the coast of Catalina Island in November of 1981. Tony died of a heart attack in September of 2010 at the age of 85, nearly thirty years after Natalie passed away.
This blog post was written for The Natalie Wood Blogathon. Go here to view the other posts featured in this blogathon.
Labels: 1958, 1964, 1965, Kings Go Forth, Natalie Wood, Natalie Wood Blogathon, Sex and the Single Girl, The Great Race, Tony Curtis
Flapper Dame 16 July 19, 2018 at 2:52 PM
The people Natalie got to work with was so incredible- and I never really gave a second thought to her friendship with Tony Curtis but find it noteworthy- its weird that Natalie became estranged with some co stars and friends she was once close to- something similar happened to her and Robert Redford- close then somehow became estranged
Overture Books and Film July 20, 2018 at 6:45 PM
I know right? I am very jealous of her co-star list! She and Tony had an interesting relationship. Have you ever read Suzanne Finstad's book about Natalie? There are a lot of good Tony quotes in there. He talks about their dynamic a lot. And people just grow apart, it's sad but it happens.
Brittaney July 20, 2018 at 12:10 PM
I agree with you about Kings Go Forth...boring. But I do love Sex and the Single Girl. Natalie does coy so well. When thinking about Natalie's co-stars, I never really remember Curtis even though they made these three films together. Isn't that strange. I always remember her with Robert Redford.
I feel bad about saying it was boring and I really wanted to like it, but that just didn't happen. That is a great movie. I love that movie. And I think I think about Tony the most because of their chemistry. They had amazing chemistry. I kind of forget about Redford because I am not a big fan of the two movies he co-starred in with her.
Lê July 23, 2018 at 11:38 AM
THe Great Race is my favorite movie with Tony and Natalie, and I didn't know the shoot was so unpleasant for her. Sex and the Single Girl is also nice, and we can see they were having fun shooting it.
Thanks for the kind comment!
Thank you! I didn't know about it either until I read Suzanne Finstad's book about Natalie. Sex and the Single Girl is such a great movie! I love it and you can tell they all had a bunch of fun on the film, well except Henry Fonda. And thank you for the sweet comment on my post.
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F1: Ferrari does not regret not signing Sir Lewis Hamilton
With the new line-up, Leclerc and Sainz enjoy equal status with Binotto.
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Binotto does not regret not signing Hamilton
Ferrari is the most iconic and successful team in the history of F1, but at the same time, currently, Sir Lewis Hamilton is not only the most successful driver in the history of the sport. At first glance, the two are a match made in heaven, but after some preliminary talks at the end of 2019, Ferrari and Hamilton went their separate ways. But now Ferrari F1 team manager and general manager Mattia Binotto has reiterated that there is "no regrets" not to have signed Lewis Hamilton who at the end of the 2020 season has become a seven-time champion. world and the most successful driver of all time. It also got her named on the list of the Queen of Known People.
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"I don't think there will be any regrets because at the end when we made decisions we made them thinking they were the right decisions and today we have a fantastic driver like Charles where we have invested a lot as a Ferrari, "Binotto said. Sky Sports.
Hamilton is the highest paid driver in the sport while Vettel was the second highest paid driver
"I think he's got a lot of talent. If he's got the right car I'm pretty sure he can challenge Lewis Hamilton. We made our choices, and I think with Carlos we're very strong. do not do it. think that there will be no regrets, "he added, reiterating his confidence in his rookie Carlos Sainz.
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Hamilton and Ferrari reportedly flirted with the idea of joining forces at the end of 2019, when it became apparent that Vettel was outclassed by talented Uber Charles Leclerc. But it didn't work. Apparently, Hamilton's personality was also an issue that would not have integrated the Ferrari brand and the corporate image.
Charles Leclerc is under contract with Ferrari until the end of the 2024 season
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Hamilton's outspoken nature and influence could have had an overwhelming influence on Ferrari who always viewed her above their drivers. With the new line-up, Leclerc and Sainz enjoy equal status with Binotto. For Binotto, in a season that has been ravaged by COVID-19 and Ferrari lagging behind the championship in 6th place, Sainz and Leclerc also represent a more pocket-friendly front for someone like Hamilton or even Vettel who was the second driver. highest paid in sport. Hamilton is currently the most expensive driver on the grid, but his demands for a hefty salary check also baffle Daimler management who have yet to secure a new contract with him for the 2021 season and beyond.
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Labeled as strategy in Domain Buying and Domain Purchases started by ThatNameGuy, Sep 14, 2018.
I've been hand registering domains for about a year now, and like anything else in life, practice makes for improvement. Recently I've been accumulating domains for the pot industry to include names that represent marijuana, cannabis, hemp, weed, etc. While most of the real good names are gone, one of my strategies is to add high value word to a domain you might like to own. For example, the names Cannabiz.com and HempOil.com were sold, but I was able to add the high value word "express" to each of these names in order to purchase them. So I'm the new prowd owner of CannabizExpress.com and HempOilExpress.com.
This is an example of just one of my strategies, and I'm willing to share more if there's interest. Anyone else have a strategy?
How are you identifying/researching your high value keywords?
I like "Express" very much as a brand-worthy keyword in general, but I worry that using it as a third word in a domain name dilutes the value quite a bit. Definitely solid if it can be paired with another strong keyword to form a good two-word brand, though.
To start with just because something is registered doesn't mean it is worth adding more terms just to register a worse version.
The more words you add to a domain the more diluted the value becomes, especially when it is more than one concept. You can have multi word domains are still one concept for instance LasVegasRealEstate.com. That is a 4 word domain but it is as short as that concept can be.
When you take a domain like HempOil.com. It clearly has good value, but as soon as you add an extra word the value loss is exponential.
These type of domains might be fine to use as an end user, but there are so many beginning and ending words you can use with it that it is hard to see many buyers paying a premium. There are far too many alternatives.
Thanks Joe....in the case of "Express" GD identifies it as a popular key word, and it's actually a nTLD extension that's recognized as a high value word. I own weightloss.express for example, and like you I like it very much. As for these domains being three words vs. two, trust me, if I could own CannaExpess or HempExpress for $8 a piece I would😁. Also, "Express" denotes "delivery" like Federal Express and who wouldn't want their cannabis or hemp oil delivered via Express? Oh, just one more thing, the second words in both my domains, "biz and oil" are also key valuable words. Just key my domains into GD's valuation tool to see what I mean . Thanks again Joe!
But what about your hang reg strategies?
So....do you have any strategies you would like to share? Inquiring minds would like to know.
You can have multi word domains are still one concept for instance LasVegasRealEstate.com. That is a 4 word domain but it is as short as that concept can be.
Love the notion of considering the "concept" of the domain rather than looking strictly at the domain length. I think I've understood that general logic for a while, but perhaps not in the conscious and succinct way you described.
Cool. I am glad I am helping you.
Generally, my strategy is to not hand reg because they are drawn from a cesspool.
I think some here on NP have Compulsive Hand Reg Disorder (CHRD). They could use support and help to break the habit.
It's no different to hoarding something of no value to anyone else, for example Pringle cans.
I reckon slogans and expressions might be a decent area in the cesspool with slightly cleaner water.
Anyone else have a strategy?
These peers of ours here are here to help you out. Please listen to them all. They have better things to do with their time, then to help someone who refuses to listen.
Adding more words to multiple word hand reg domains is throwing money away. It's just ridiculous..
Adding a 3rd word to a 2-worder already...Express, World, Kingdom, Network, Online. May as well throw an e on the front of your keywords, throw an i in front. Add an e with a hyphen, an i with a hyphen. It is just never ending. Save your $$$.
Seriously, Try real hard to sell any of the hand reg's you have regged already.
This will be your BEST lesson!
Until you finally prove to yourself that they are worthless, thats when you will finally save yourself some money.
Until then, listen to these fine peers of ours who have proven they know what they are doing in domaining already. If you're too hard headed to listen to anyone here then please stop asking for help you refuse to listen to.
Obviously this is just opinion and conjecture. With very few exceptions, most ALL domains were and still are hand registered.
You'll need some Diana ones.
Seriously, Try real hard to sell any of the hand reg's you have regged already. This will be your best lesson. Until you finally prove to yourself that they are worthless, thats when you will finally save yourself some money.
This will be your best lesson.
Maybe peers of yours, but not peers of mine. This was just one of my strategies. Want to hear more?
I want to hear how people make money in domaining. Thats all domainers want to hear.
I hope you can make money in domaining and share that story with us one day.
At this point, I am a firm believer you just need lots of attention and don't care about domaining at all.
Sorry...I don't hand Reg others throwaways.
I'm already making money and intend to make whole lot more. I've offered to you and your peers to reach out to me personally to learn how, but none have. It speaks volumes!
Since you brought that up.
You've posted you've sold 0 domains. 0.
Then posted you sold 4 and posted the names. Based on your posts, that was 4 domains at the beginning for $2,500 each to investors/friends. I'm guessing they gave you 10K to invest in new gtlds/other stuff in exchange. So you've been doing this for about a year, with no sales to your name. You posted about some booth/golf tournament, what happened with that? This was going to be you showing everybody some of your strategy, I was interested in it to see how it would work. But as the date got closer, all of a sudden you had a wedding to go to. The booth was for 4 days. So how many golf domains did you sell?
I'm further guessing your investors actually want to see a return, that's why you push it with this spamming and other things that have resulted in 3 temp bans so far.
Btw, ever seen the symbol "Rx" Brad? Do you know what it stands for? While I already owned about a dozen healthcare domains using the symbol Rx, when I realized the growing medical use for marijuana/cannabis/hemp etc., I was able to hand Reg several short domains using Rx for this fast budding industry. As an FYI, each of the domains I was able to hand Reg for $8 appraises for $1,100 to $1,700. I have other strategies that have proven to discover/uncover good domains, but they're not in your wheelhouse.
In the fantastic world of domaining, you find sellable (this is the key) names at a fraction of the possible asking price and you spend loads of time doing that. Then you sell a fraction of them at a crazy multiple of what you acquired them for, and purchase more of the same potential, then repeat the very same cycle.
It takes loads of (mostly expensively acquired) skill and loads of time.
Adding a premium modifier keyword to 2 keyword names in dotcom existance is not a strategy for me.


Despite the minor deviations from the original, the salad was still delicious, and surprisingly filling: neither of us managed to finish our plates. The combination of flavours - from the slight bitterness of the chicory to the sweetness of the figs and pomegranate seeds, the tangy creaminess of the buffalo mozzarella, and the peppery kick of the rocket leaves - was fantastic. Topped with a drizzle of good quality olive oil, and some seasoning to taste, and it was done: an impressive looking starter or main in under 5 minutes.
Peel the leaves from the heads of chicory and lay them onto the plates. Sprinkle the rocket leaves on top, followed by the pomegranate seeds.
Quarter the figs, slice the baby buffalo mozzarella balls (or, if you're using 'adult-sized' balls, chop into rough cubes), and place both on the salad - artistically if you can!
Drizzle with olive oil, season with sea salt and black pepper...and voila! You're good to go.


The purpose of performance measurement is to identify effective corrective actions to improve products, services and business outcomes.
Before you can measure performance people need to know what outcome is expected, where their work contributes to the overall goal, how well things are progressing, and what to do if results are not occurring as they should.
For performance measures to be effective agents for change they must be integrated with activities and outcomes. Any monitoring or measurement must be firmly connected to results from a defined process, in order to know what corrective actions to take and to predict with confidence what effects those changes will have.
1. Decide the outcomes wanted.
It is important to be focussed on what matters to your business - If you try to be the best at everything, you'll be the best at nothing.
Answer the questions - Why are we here? Why are we doing this work?
You need to set the direction for all the processes in your business. Outcomes should be statements of the wants, needs, and expectations of customers and other stakeholders. The desired outcome sets the strategic direction of your business.
2. Describe the major work processes involved.
Answer the questions - What are we doing? How are we (or should we be) doing it?
When identifying the processes in your system, start and end with your customer. In between the the start and end point are processes that achieve products or results. Talk with the people doing the work - People often achieve desired results in spite of, not because of, the process that exists.
3. Identify the key results needed.
The "products" are the outputs or results of each process in the system. Identify what is produced by each process identified in step 2 - If you can't identify a product or result, then it is probably an activity NOT a process. That is, the purpose of the activities in each process is to produce some result (a product or service) that is needed by other processes. Products of any given process are inputs to other connected processes in the system.
Ultimately, the final products of the system are those that meet the strategic results - the objective - desired by the company.
4. Establish performance goals for the results.
One of the best methods of establishing performance goals is to ask the customer.
Each process has a product, the "customer" is the group or individual receiving the product. talk with the customer to determine the Customer's Satisfaction Factors (or Critical Success Factors, CSFs) that relate to each product. CSFs are the few key things that must be right for the process to be successful in the customer's view.
The goals should be stated in simple terms using numbers and realistic.
5. Define measures for the goals.
It is important to measure the outcome or result - not the activity and DON'T measure more than you have time to evaluate.
Answer the question - What can you use to track progress? e.g. revenue, proportion of error free products etc.


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Bette Midler Eviscerates Donald Trump With a Brutal Tweet
"Sometimes I think Whats-his-name is a kind of vampire and someone needs to drive a stake through his heart, so we can #breatheagain. Of course, he's driven a lot of steak through his own heart tho, so…fingers crossed!"
Bette Midler regularly takes to Twitter to express her disdain and contempt for the racist-in-chief, excoriating and eviscerating him in a manner that would make even Jack the Ripper squeamish.
The Divine Miss M can't even bear to utter his name, referring to the unspeakable evil as "What's his name." I can understand her reluctance to say his name, summoning a demon by uttering his name may open the portal to hell.
The short-fingered vulgarian is a psychic vampire, an evil entity who sucks the life force out of everyone in his orbit. Nobody leaves his administration with his reputation and dignity intact. The White House is littered with the dried-out husks of men and women who were once politicians with at least a modicum of integrity.
But most of the lifeless husks are in churches where white evangelicals who have been fed a diet of inflammatory sermons that defame and demonize gays, immigrants and people of color, rendered them predisposed to fall under the spell of a racist demagogue.
The billionaire buffoon is bloated with the toxic life force of racist white evangelicals and gutless Republican leaders, and someone needs to drive a stake through his shriveled heart.
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Newest Gay Icon: 4-Year-Old Prince George
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"A conservative British politician has lashed out at an LGBT news site for declaring their country`s future king a `gay icon.`
PinkNews used a photo of Prince George clutching his face while visiting a German helicopter compound with his father alongside an article headlined `People think Prince George looks fabulous in this new photo.`
`Prince George has become a gay icon overnight – at least, that`s what some people – sorry, his subjects – are saying on Twitter` the article began before quoting a series of social media posts about his supposedly feminine gesture."
Some conservatives reacted in shock to the gay publication`s characterization of 4-year-old Prince George as a gay icon, they claim that the young royal is being sexualized.
Bullocks! Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Cher, Madonna and Lady Gaga are all prominent gay icons, and there isn`t a gay man alive who fantasizes about these women as sexual objects.
To brand Prince George as a gay icon isn`t sexualizing him, it simply means that he embodies the gay aesthetic.
I have a finely tuned gaydar, in fact I have never been wrong when I guessed a celeb`s sexual orientation (male and female) sometimes decades before they came out of the closet.
The photograph of Prince George clutching his slightly tilted to the side face while wearing blue shorts is the gayest thing I have seen in my lifetime. Take is from someone who is infallible when it comes to guessing people`s sexual orientation, there is a 99.99 percent chance that little George will grow up to be gayer than Liberace.
The PinkNews article was tongue-in-cheek, conservative bitches need to get a clue.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/gay-icon-picture-prince-george-sparks-conservative-outrage-article-1.3404035
Link to pic of Gay Icon Prince George:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/840218/prince-george-gay-icon-outrage-kate-middleton-news
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This is the story of Hermine, one of many Haitians working hard to recover after 2010's devastating earthquake. Hermine works at a clothing factory. When Hermine's company receives a grant from USAID to help expand operations, she is promoted. Today, she's making progress in her dreams of building a house and helping her son pursue his education. This USAID video was produced, directed, shot, written, edited (and aerial cinematography) by Steve Dorst.


ED. NOTE: Through the end of the year, Comic Riffs will take a closer look at our favorite comic/graphic-novel reads of 2013. Today we talk with the writer and artist behind a newly illustrated deluxe edition of a story collection that's already garnered shortlisting for the National Book Award.
This is how you woo him.
What if the bestseller were reissued with full-page illustrations by one of Diaz's favorite cartoonists — a man whose comics had downright influenced the 45-year-old author decades earlier?
What if the editors put in the call to Jaime Hernandez?
Helen Yentus, art director at Riverhead Books, approached Hernandez with her brainchild; then Diaz's editor, Rebecca Saletan, approached her writer with the idea.
Turns out, the executives birthed not only a fertile creative collaboration. They also fostered a mutual humility society, because each man is a fan of the other.
"Honestly, I am over-the-moon giddy," Diaz tells Comic Riffs this week, ahead of the Oct. 31 release of the deluxe edition. "I've got to tell you, I have never been the kind of person who [marvels] at his own work. I'm never over-the-top happy [about it]. I don't even have parties ... or go out for drinks with friends [when a new book of mine comes out].
And what was the artist's reaction?
Diaz also approached the project with a deep well of appreciation for Hernandez's accomplishments.
The pairing, of course, seems a natural: Both men — born about a decade apart — are highly gifted at creating powerful female characters. They deftly draw from their surroundings and have precise ears for the dialogue of conflict. And, so often, they revel in the sensual.
That's not to say Hernandez didn't face some interpretive challenges.
"How You Lose Her" depicts Diaz's quasi-autobiographical character, Yunior — called upon for a third time in Diaz's books — going through a series of romantic relationships in the succession of stories. Magdalena, Nilda, Alma, Flaca ... each woman has a very distinct personality, and each displays different relationship peccadilloes. But Hernandez had to interpret them visually.
"Mostly, the visuals start to creep into my head," Hernandez says. "I start to get [a sense of] their body language." He worked to beautifully capture Nilda's luxuriant curves, and Alma's cool, tense stare.
As Hernandez sent along sketches, he heard back from Diaz, via the publisher.
And does one of the deluxe illustrations make Diaz more happy than the rest?
So, would Diaz want that original illustration as a literal gift?
Let's take this rewarding collaboration one step further, then. Would Diaz — whose comic tastes range from indie books to Marvel titles like X-Men and Fantastic Four — ever want to work with Hernandez on a graphic novel?


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UCC celebrates 175th anniversary
University College Cork celebrates its 175th anniversary today, December 30; on that date in 1845 the university formally came into being as Queen's College Cork (QCC).
QCC was founded as one of three Queen's Colleges located in Belfast, Cork, and Galway, under an Act "to enable her Majesty" – Queen Victoria – "to endow Colleges for the Advancement of Learning in Ireland".
George Boole and the first female professor in Ireland
From 115 students in 1849 UCC has grown to over 21,000 students today, UCC has had many firsts in its long history, including Mary Ryan who in 1910 was appointed the first female professor in Ireland. Pioneering female academics in UCC's history include Dr Dora Allman and Dr Lucy E Smith who both graduated from the University in 1898.
Dr Dora Allman was the first female medical graduate of UCC and was the first women to be appointed as Chief Medical Officer in a Mental Hospital in Ireland and Great Britain. Dr Lucy Smith became Cork's first female obstetrician as well as visiting physician to Cork Women's Prison.
UCC's first Professor of Mathematics was George Boole, the founder of Boolean algebra who was appointed in 1849 and is recognised as one of the fathers of computer science.
UCC's Contribution
Throughout its history, UCC and its students have been a force for positive change. The scientific research of Edwin J Butler (Medicine, 1898) helped improve farming and alleviate famine in India. After World War Two, UCC welcomed Polish refugees exiled by war as its first international students, and greatly expanded access to higher education to adults, people with disabilities, and those from under-represented backgrounds.
Removing barriers and extending opportunities through education have always been core objectives for UCC. President Windle's landmark University extension lectures commenced in 1911 and were succeeded by President O'Rahilly's inspired diploma courses for workers in 1946. These set the foundation for our thriving Adult and Continuing Education Department which continues to successfully provide effective adult education for up to 3,000 learners annually.
Today, its Quercus Talented Students Programme recognises and rewards student excellence across academic, social, and sporting fields. The Access programe supports the transition of school leaving students from DEIS schools into Further Education.
Over the last 175 years, with the support of governments and philanthropists, UCC has developed a strong and distinct cultural identity, including the historic Quadrangle, Aula Maxima, and Honan Chapel, to more recent architectural gems such as the Glucksman Gallery.
From its establishment, UCC has been recognised as producing research at the highest international levels. The work of original thinkers like George Boole, Mary Ryan, Daniel Corkery and Seán Ó Riada continues to resonate into modern times when UCC's research in food and health, photonics, sustainability, and perinatal medicine is recognised as world-leading.
UCC has a proud tradition in pushing the boundaries of research and innovation, creating significant impact in the community beyond the institution – from the very early days when George Boole created his famous Laws of Thought to the present day when, annually, over €100m is invested in ground-breaking research across multiple disciplines, over 2,000 research articles are published, and where are our research community collaborates with over 4,000 institutions from across the world.
Our foresight saw UCC establish the ninth website in the world in 1991 - the first in Ireland.
UCC is proud to have been the first university in the world to be awarded a Green Flag by the Foundation for Scientific Education in 2010, for environmental sustainability. This year, its wonderful collection of over 2,500 trees across its 42 acre campus has been awarded global accreditation by the prestigious ArbNet body.
Our recently opened Student Hub, built upon the historic Windle Building. (Photograph taken December 2019, pre-Covid-19 and before the introduction of social distancing guidelines).
The lifeblood of our University, our students continue to inspire with their energy, creativity, commitment, and compassion. UCC students participate in over 100 societies, covering interests such as politics, society, charity, the arts, science, gaming and more.
Beginning with 115 students when it opened as Queen's College Cork, UCC now has a student population of over 21,000 drawn from around the world who make a direct contribution to the vitality of their community.
Where we sported and played
Sport has played a central role in life at UCC throughout the past 175 years, and the university has a proud history of excellence on track, field and beyond. The world's first national inter-varsity athletics meeting was held at the Mardyke Cricket Grounds on 19 May 1873.
Countless intercounty players of all codes have played Gaelic games at UCC.
Among the highlights, our 40 Fitzgibbon Cup wins makes UCC by far the most successful third level institution for hurling, while our Camogie club has 32 Ashbourne Cup titles to its name.
UCC's men Gaelic footballers won the first Sigerson Cup in 1911, and have won the title 23 times, their female counterparts contested the first Michael O'Connor Cup in 1987 and have claimed the trophy three times.
In soccer our Collingwood Cup side has won 13 titles, with a number of players and coaches going on to participate at League of Ireland level with Cork City FC, with whom UCC has forged a valued partnership.
UCC Reconnects with its 175-Year History
In Spring 2021, Interim President John O'Halloran will host an event on the Quad to mark UCC 175, with involvement of both Quercus and Access student representatives from each of the four Colleges of the University, celebrating our history, our diversity, and our shared ambition.
Commenting on the events for next year, Prof O'Halloran said:
"It is most appropriate that we mark UCC 175 with our Quercus and Access students on the Quad. Our limestone Quad, designed by Deane and Woodward, is modelled on Christ Church of University of Oxford, and the Quad itself continues to represent the heart of our University, while the reach of our engagement and impact is now global. Our Quercus and Access students represent the essence of how our students and staff at UCC continue to challenge the norms and push boundaries in addressing societal grand challenges."
This event will be organised in strict compliance with public health rules and guidance. Other UCC 175 events and activities will be announced later in the current academic year, via our website and social media channels.


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Dellow: The Golden Knights look reasonably real
By Tyler Dellow
The stuff you're wrong about is always more interesting than the stuff that you're right about.
Entering this season, I didn't think the Vegas Golden Knights would be particularly good. I sort of assumed they'd put together a respectable 75 point season and we'd all be done thinking about them by January 1. With 46 points in their first 33, games, it does not seem that that will be the case.
My thinking on the Golden Knights basically boiled down to this: I didn't think that they were going to have the high-end players to compete. I figured they'd basically be a team of excellent depth players along with the odd complementary top six forward. When excellent depth players get pushed out of their depth, they tend to get cratered. Complementary top six forwards tend to have a tough time in the absence of a real driver. Really, what I was envisioning was a team that had better than average depth but lost more often than not because the top of the roster wasn't good enough.
For those unfamiliar with the Vegas roster, my system of classifying ice time identifies the key players on the various lines and pairs as follows:
Line 1: James Neal, David Perron, Erik Haula, Cody Eakin
Line 2: Reilly Smith, Jonathan Marchessault, William Karlsson, Oscar Lindberg
Line 3: Alex Tuch, Cody Eakin, Brendan Leipsic, Oscar Lindberg, Erik Haula
Line 4: Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Tomas Nosek, William Carrier, Oscar Lindberg
Pair 1: Nate Schmidt, Luca Sbisa, Brayden McNabb
Pair 2: Deryk Engelland, Brayden McNabb, Shea Theodore, Colin Miller
Pair 3: Colin Miller, Brad Hunt, Shea Theodore, Deryk Engelland
Let's start by looking at how the various mixes of Vegas lines and pairs have done at 5-on-5 relative to league average through a couple of different lenses.
A look at the Corsi% doesn't seem wildly inconsistent with what I expected entering the season. The first line is well into the red by possession metrics. The second line has incredibly good numbers with the first pair but otherwise has pretty lousy possession numbers. The third and fourth lines have put up poor numbers with the first pair but have excellent numbers with the second and third pair.
Outside of that second line/first pair number, this seems roughly in line with what I would have expected. Vegas looks better in terms of possession relative to the league as you go deeper into their roster. Considering that Vegas is a collection of fifth/eighth forwards and fourth/fifth defencemen, that seems roughly about right. George McPhee should have struggled to find guys who could accomplish what the tops of other teams rosters could accomplish while finding it easier to build depth.
If you look at what teams have done with their second or third pair on the ice with their third or fourth line, Vegas has been one of the best teams in the NHL, with a 53.3 per cent Corsi% (third) and a +3 goal difference (tied for third). We'll call those depth minutes. With the first pair on the ice or the top two lines with the second/third pair, Vegas has a 49.0 per cent Corsi% (23rd) and a +3 goal difference (14th). We'll call those top minutes.
The difference in Corsi% between top minutes and depth minutes is quite unusual. On most teams, the top minutes generate better possession numbers. Not in Vegas.
The teams that are close to them usually have some sort of a wrinkle. San Jose's first pair is the Marc-Edouard Vlasic pair, with possession numbers undermined by Pete DeBoer's extremely unusual usage. Vancouver's depth minutes include a lot of Sedin time, with a bucketload of offensive zone starts while the Brandon Sutter line gets destroyed playing top minutes. Vegas' results are weird relative to the rest of the league. This, I would think, is a result of Vegas having been built by way of an expansion draft that gave them access to basically all of the NHL's fourth defencemen as well as most of the bottom six forwards.
One other thing jumps out at me. The second line has absolutely crushed it when on the ice with the first pair. This is counterbalanced by the third line getting destroyed when they're on the ice with the first pair. As we work through this, we'll look for reasons why that might be.
The next step in this analysis for me is looking at GF%. As we know, GF% is much noisier than Corsi%. Lines that are getting badly outshot can survive off S% or SV% for a while, although the hockey gods inevitably punish teams that are getting routinely outshot. It may not happen in a given season but eventually, the hockey gods come for everyone.
The GF% results are, broadly speaking, consistent with the Corsi%. The first line is slightly below average relative to other first lines. The second line is running unreasonably well in terms of GF% with the first pair, give some of it back with the second pair and get a smaller piece than that back from the third pair. The third line has been kissed by the percentage gods with the first and second pairs — their GF% is better than their Corsi%. They give a ton of that back with the third pair. The fourth line has been snakebitten percentage-wise with the first and third pairs, although they're getting a lot from their time with the second pair.
If you look at it as goal difference for a particular line and contrast that with the respective league average, it becomes a little simpler to wrap your head around what's going on. The league average first line is +4.4 goal difference. Vegas is at +2. The average second line is -0.6 goal difference. Vegas is +4. The average third line is -2.1 goal difference. Vegas is -1. The average fourth line is -1.7 goal difference. Vegas is +1. If you look at PDO, the third and fourth lines seem to me like they've probably been a little bit fortunate, which has goosed the goal difference numbers a bit.
Finally, let's look at the zone starts.
This is pretty straightforward. The first line and first pair generally have worse zone starts than league average; everyone else generally has better. This will be a mix of coaching and ability — you create your own zone starts to an extent.
Let's circle back to that strangeness with the second line and first pair. They've put up a 57.6 per cent Corsi% (great!), a 76.9 per cent GF% (insanely great!) on a 40.5 per cent zone start (incredibly tough!). Reilly Smith and Jonathan Marchessault are constants of the second line. I don't expect that this is going to continue. I've looked at the numbers a few different ways and it looks to me like it's probably just a sample size thing. So I'd expect the possession numbers of the second line/first pair to slide as the season goes along. The GF% is inflated even allowing for that; it will likely slide as well.
There's one other thing about the Golden Knights at 5-on-5 worth highlighting. Entering Tuesday night's game with Tampa, Nate Schmidt had been the mainstay of their first pair. His most common partner on the first pair was Luca Sbisa. This will undoubtedly come as something of a surprise to fans of the Vancouver Canucks, whose experience with Sbisa, first pair defenceman, was not a positive one. Sbisa has missed some games with injury though, which obviously causes some re-jigging of the lineup.
In games that Sbisa has dressed, the Golden Knights are +4 at 5-on-5 with a 48.9 per cent Corsi%. In games that Sbisa hasn't dressed, the Golden Knights are +2 at 5-0n-5 with a 53.7 per cent Corsi%. Sbisa's played many more games than he's missed and if you look only at things on a per/60 basis, Vegas is +0.23 GF/60 at 5-on-5 when he's dressed and +.29 GF/60 when he's not dressed. This, despite a 101.2 PDO when he's healthy and a 98.9 PDO when he's missed games.
The first pairing is particularly impacted by Sbisa's presence or absence. In the games that Sbisa's been absent, Schmidt has a 54.5 per cent Corsi% and Vegas has a 5-on-5 goal difference of +1.18 GD/60 with him on the ice. When Sbisa's dressed (and generally attached to Schmidt), Schmidt has a 45.5 per cent Corsi% and a +.3 GD/60. This is interesting to me because even if you want to make the argument that Vegas' goal difference hasn't really moved in Sbisa's absence, the guy who spends most of his time playing with him sure sees his numbers pop.
This creates an interesting little sub-plot of its own. Sbisa is currently on IR. The first pair has been much better in his absence. When he returns, does he return to the first pair? What happens there if he does?
Overall, you've probably got a group that's a bit below average at 5-on-5 but has been able to survive because of their depth. They probably benefitted a bit from some critical things that broke their way as they were assembling their team: Schmidt being unprotected, Florida's effort to wipe the Computer Boys from the history books and St. Louis having too many good forwards with Perron being a bit pricey particularly stand out here.
If you look at 5-on-4, the Golden Knights are one of the league's more efficient teams at generating goal difference.
Vegas is running a touch hot in terms of shooting percentage but there's a healthy shot volume coming from the power play, so this looks fairly real to me. Looking at their main groups is pretty interesting because there are two distinct approaches. One is a unit built in a traditional 3F2D style around point shots and rebounds. Colin Miller likes to shoot the puck.
The other is a new age 4F1D that rarely generates rebounds.
I've always kind of vaguely liked the idea of having two units with different schemes to make it more difficult for the opposition to game plan. The more information the penalty killers have to be loaded up with before going out on the ice and the more different looks that they're seeing, the more likely it seems to me that you'll be able to force a breakdown.
To me, this is the biggest surprise about Vegas' season. There's nothing in Gerrard Gallant's history to suggest that he's particularly good at coaching an NHL power play. Power plays are driven by your best players and that's where Vegas was limited by the expansion draft. It wouldn't have surprised me in the least if Vegas was seven goal difference worse than they are at 5-on-4 to this point in the season, bumping along towards the bottom of the league.
Vegas doesn't come off great here but NHL special teams stats are kind of funny. The extremes tend to be truly awful or great. The differences in the middle tend to be awfully small though. Vegas avoids being in the disaster group with Edmonton, Philadelphia, Carolina and the Islanders, sitting 24th in the NHL. The difference between Vegas (24th) and Edmonton (28th) is 1.5 GD/60; the difference between Vegas and Nashville is about 1.5 GD/60. Nashville is 12th in the NHL. So while 24th doesn't sound great, the Golden Knights are about as close to the middle of the league as they are to being truly bad.
It does, of course, bear mentioning that the Golden Knights have probably had a little bit of good fortune in some areas.
Tuesday's winning goal against Tampa Bay is a perfect example of this. Tied with three seconds left, you're probably going to overtime to play for the extra point. Vegas scored. I have a quick and dirty rule of thumb that looks at whether a team is getting more than it deserves at regulation based on goal difference. By that test, Vegas is about 2.3 points ahead of where their goal difference suggests it should be. The Golden Knight have gotten a few more OT/SO points than ought to be reasonably expected as well- – knock another two or three points off their record for that.
Even allowing for that, you end up with the Golden Knights as having a goal difference that supports a 41-42 point team through 33 games. For the reasons set out above, I think they've been a bit fortunate in terms of how productive their bottom six have been but that's maybe another point or two in the standings. The power play has been, to me, unforeseeably good but even if it was sort of run-of-the mill bad, Vegas is sitting at maybe 37-38 points through 33 games, a 92-94 point pace.
So on the basis of their 33 games together, the Golden Knights look reasonably real to me. They might be more an 85 point true talent team than a 114 point true talent team, which is their current pace, but if they put up points at an 85 point pace over their final 49 games, they end up with 97 points and, almost certainly, a playoff berth.
This success actually presents the Golden Knights with a Very Vegas Problem. What do you do when you've been beating the house but you can't win in the long run? In the long run, Vegas seems to me to be limited by a couple of things. First, James Neal, David Perron and Jonathan Marchessault are unrestricted free agents next season. Marchessault, in particular, is about to get much more expensive. Neal recently turned 30 and will presumably want to hit one last home run on his contract during a stage in his career when he can be expected to decline.
Perron actually signed a very reasonable two-year contract with the Blues in 2016. The fact that he signed that contract, wasn't traded during the run-up to the expansion draft and was left unprotected probably says a little bit about how the league values him. (Which isn't necessarily right- – I quite like Perron as a player but the market is what it is). So Perron might be available at a reasonable price; Marchessault and Neal won't be, I suspect.
Second, a big part of what Vegas got in the expansion draft and what's making a difference for them now is good, cheap depth. The problem with that is that a) it gets more expensive and b) it's a bit more of a volatile asset than high-end stars. The turnover at the bottom of the NHL is pretty extreme because the line between NHLer and non-NHLer isn't a particularly thick one. Vegas got a lot of players who could make the Golden Knights more competitive now than they might otherwise have been but the attrition rate for that class of players is high and it's quite likely that a lot of them won't be good, cheap depth in a few years.
So, I say that the Golden Knights can't win in the long run because they don't have the high-end talent to do it despite having admirable depth. They need to find a way to get that high-end talent but the usual route of new entrants to the NHL — being awful and drafting high while the fanbase simply enjoys the team's existence — is much more difficult for them to accomplish because their team is inconveniently good.
As I see it, this leaves two options for the Golden Knights. First, they could just let it ride, chase a playoff berth this year and then see about adding some star talent in the summer. The Golden Knights have an enviable salary cap position for next year because the expansion draft rules kind of let them build the fabled cheap and good enough team to which a superstar or two could be grafted at a much higher price if they wanted to really push on right out of the gate.
The problem with that is that those players are hard to acquire, even through free agency. Owner Bill Foley may not be wild about the idea of going out to re-set the league's salary market either. Pursuit of this option runs the risk of dissipating one of the advantages that the Golden Knights were blessed with upon entry to the NHL: cheap, good depth. If Vegas isn't able to add high-end talent through trade or free agency and some of their players move on while others get more expensive…well, it's not hard to see the Golden Knights taking a step backward next year.
The second option would be to be a seller at the trade deadline despite the position that the Golden Knights are in. They've got three big unrestricted free agents and a pile of cheap depth. With a number of Western teams trying to win the Stanley Cup being a little thin further down the roster — Calgary, Nashville, St. Louis and Chicago jump out at me — Vegas might well be in a position to really alter the balance of power in the West, which you'd expect to be worth a pretty hefty price.
Of course, that comes with its own set of problems: namely, dumping on one of the best stories in the NHL this year. It presumably wouldn't be particularly popular in a Vegas market that seems to have fallen in love with the team either. So if I was a betting man, I'd bet on the Golden Knights pursuing the first option.
Between the playoff race, decisions about trading players and then seeing how Vegas tries to get the really hard to acquire pieces next summer, it's going to be fascinating to follow Vegas from now through July 15 or so. If they actually do manage to acquire some difference makers for the top of their roster, they might be more than just a threat to make the playoffs in 2018-19.
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Edinburgh News February 2013: Buildings in the Lothians
Edinburgh News – February 2013 : Buildings in Scotland
Edinburgh News : February 2013
Lothian Building Developments, Eastern Scotland
Edinburgh Architecture News – February 2013
Edinburgh Academicals Development
Michael Laird Architects has submitted a revised detailed planning application to redevelop Edinburgh Academicals' Raeburn Place sports ground, Edinburgh.
The oldest rugby club in Scotland plans to create a 2,500 seat stadium, clubhouse and museum, plus a number of retail units fronting Comely Bank Road and Stockbridge. 25 Feb
Selfridges Glasgow Development
Selfridges Glasgow department store proposal – with initial designs by world-famous Japanese architect Toyo Ito – ended with news that the retailer is in discussion with property firm Frogmore to sell off its land holding. Frogmore are considering a mixed-use scheme. 25 Feb
Housing Development in St Andrews
picture from Sutherland Hussey architects
Sutherland Hussey Architects have recently won an architectural competition to design a new housing development in St Andrews for Eastacre Investments.
By inviting several firms to develop proposals, Eastacre's ambition was to select a design that can provide high quality contemporary houses and apartments in the rich and complex conservation area. The West Burn Lane site, located in the heart of the university town adjacent to the School of Psychology and Bute Medical Building, is an important part of the Rigg structure of the medieval plan. 21 Feb
Tog 2013 Live-Build Summer School
photo © Tog Studio
Tog 2013 – second Scottish live-build summer school, on the Isle of Tiree.
"Following the success of our award-winning lighthouse project last year we're gearing up to do a bigger and better project – a boathouse on the Isle of Tiree. We're looking for participants who don't mind getting their hands dirty as part of a multi-disciplinary team working on an exciting project in a remote location. This is a particularly good opportunity for architects, engineers and students to learn practical construction skills and gain unique on-site experience".
The application process is open until 4th March – see events for details. 21 Feb
Baxter's Place Hotel
image from the developer
Baxters Place
The Chris Stewart Group, a property development and investment business, was today granted planning by City of Edinburgh Council for the redevelopment of Baxter's Place to turn it into a hotel. No's 1-5 Baxter's Place is a row of former townhouses dating back to 1798. The proposed redevelopment will create a 239-bed four star hotel with restaurant and bar open to the public. 20 Feb
HYBRID IDENTITIES | UK / Cuba 2013
International Art Festival of Photography, Video Art, Computer Graphics, Architecture and Performing Art, at Old Ambulance Depot in Edinburgh and FIVAC Festival, in Camaguey (Cuba).
This event is organized by International ArtExpo (Italy) who e-architect have helped promote many times over the years around the world.
Opening: 29 Mar at Old Ambulance Depot in Edinburgh
Dates: 29 – 31 Mar
The deadline for applications is 25 Feb – see events for contact details
Selected artworks will be presented at the Old Ambulance Depot.
The Edinburgh event is open to photography, video art, computer graphics, architecture and performing art; the Cuba event is open only to video art.
Kengo Kuma Lecture
Kengo Kuma, architect of the new V&A at Dundee, will discuss his approach to architecture and how a new relationship is being formed between people and place at a public lecture in Dundee. The `Power of Place' lecture will take place at the Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, at 6pm on Monday February 18th – see Edinburgh events for details.
RSA New Exhibition: Sculptors' Prints
an investigation into printmaking by sculptor members of the RSA
23 Feb – 31 Mar
RSA Projects and Finlay Room, RSA Building, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
The RSA is pleased to announce a brand new, specially-curated exhibition for spring 2013: Sculptor's Prints. Featuring work by eighteen Academician sculptors and two internationally significant invited artists, the exhibition will take a close look at the printmaking output of artists best known for their three-dimensional sculptural work.
David Skinner Lecture 2013
image from organisers
20 Mar at 7pm – revised date
João Nunes is one of the leading Landscape Architects in Portugal. He gained a Degree in Landscape Architecture from the Institute Superior de Agronomia da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 1985 and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Escuela Tècnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcellona, Universitá Politecnica di Catalunya in 1996. He founded the office PROAP in 1989.
Main Lecture Theatre Edinburgh College of Art – see Edinburgh events for details.
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences in Glasgow
Sheppard Robson completes £14m remodelling of the University of Strathclyde's Lord Hope and Curran buildings in Glasgow for the newly formed Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences. 15 Feb
Historic Scottish Architecture
Historic Scottish Buildings
Scotland's oldest work theatre, a suspension bridge and two mills are among the recipients in the latest round of Historic Scotland's Building Repair Grants worth almost £600,000.
In total six historic sites across Scotland will receive funding totalling £587,049 through this grants scheme. 15 Feb
Perth City Hall Development
Groups bidding to save Perth City Hall are to have a full nine months to get funding into place for their visions for the future use of the Edwardian-listed building and how it would be financed. Jones Lang LaSalle are marketing the empty civic building on behalf of Perth and Kinross Council. The closing date for the submission of detailed proposals for city hall is 31 Oct 2013. 15 Feb
George Street Underground Car Park
Essential Edinburgh looking to fund an updated feasibility study into a fully automated subterranean car park. Previously Edinburgh City Council had a 1000-space car park proposal. 14 Feb
Speirs Locks Masterplan
Speirs Locks Masterplan – design by Stallan-Brand, revising the scheme by Edinburgh architects 7N (which in turn took over from a plan by make architects) to incorporate a 400 bed student housing scheme. 14 Feb
RSNO Glasgow News
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Work has started on the construction of a £17.6m rehearsal and recording facility for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) and a new 600 seat music venue for Glasgow. 14 Feb
St Andrews International Golf Club Development
£20m golf course and clubhouse at Feddinch near St Andrews wins conditional approval from the Scottish Government. St Andrews International Golf Club plan a clubhouse with a restaurant plus 41 accommodation rooms for 160 people and a shop. 14 Feb
Abbotsford, the Sir Walter Scott home near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, is to reopen on July 4 after a major refurbishment. 14 Feb
RMJM
Some anonymous comments on Archleaks re RMJM, the Edinburgh-headquartered architecture practice, that weathered the Scottish Parliament job but now seems to have lost its way, like RBS, BoS and so on a sign that the Scottish capital is on the wane, those in charge need to gather themselves for a more positive future not just for us but for the next generation:
"If you like living on the edge, could be made redundant at any time, with no pay, no prospects, working for incompetent, dishonest bosses who have no real interest in architecture, then this is definitely the practice for you".
"It gets worse and worse, anyone with any architectural talent has left this organisation. So there may be opportunities for talented architects … but on the downside you probably won't get paid regularly, if at all, and the main men, (there are no women), who pay themselves salaries you can only dream of, have never been involved in architecture … at least not until daddy bought the business and friends and relations jumped in to help spend the profits. They won't know if your talented or not, so won't appreciate you until you leave. It's a lose, lose situation for any employee".
"RMJM was once one of the great post-war British architectural practices. Its decline arguably started when Brian Stewart was ousted in 2002 – forced out, some say, by the well known investor he had introduced to the practice. Post 2002, the architects who filled the vacuum left by Stewart and others were nowhere near the calibre of previous RMJM Directors – here began the architectural decline of RMJM. The work produced during this period was banal and lacked the intrinsic intelligence and civic undertanding of the founders – many of the post 2002 RMJM Directors have now left to start practices doing equally banal work. It goes to show great architectural practices are about talented people, not past reputations". 13 Feb.
More at http://www.honestr.com/Archleaks_UK/RMJM
Deaconess House Redevelopment
£14.5 m redevelopment of historic Deaconess House on Edinburgh's Pleasance, design by The Kalyvides Partnership. Over 300 new student apartments are planned on the site of the former hospital, developed by Mace Real Estate. Main contractor Graham Construction has just started work with completion due in summer 2014. 12 Feb
Edinburgh BioQuarter Development News
Edinburgh Bioquarter
Three new life sciences companies move into leading research centre.
Cutting-edge life sciences research is being expanded in Edinburgh, at the city's dedicated facility for academic research, clinical professionals and industry expertise.
Three new specialist research companies – Science Squared, R-Biomedical and Marks and Clerks – opened on 5 Feb at the city's BioQuarter research campus, bringing the total from seven to ten.
The expansion means the life sciences provision at the BioQuarter – based at Nine, a flagship multi-occupancy building for early stage and established life sciences companies – has grown by more than a third in the last month alone. 6 Feb
Maxim Office Park Development
photograph © Neale Smith Photography
Maxim Office Park, Motherwell – contractors have now started work on the fit-out for SEPA at Maxim Office Park. 5 Feb
Dundee City Square
Construction has started on Dundee City Square improvements – over £2m project of soft landscaping, new lighting and drainage, due to be complete in mid June 2013, designed by Dundee City Council's City Development Department. 5 Feb
Ardrossan Health Centre News
image from architects
Ardrossan Health Centre by Reiach and Hall Architects – a total of £5.2 m has been granted to Irvine Bay Regeneration Company which will see an area of derelict land in Ardrossan transformed into a new medical centre, and the development of quality industrial and office space in Irvine. 5 Feb
New Glasgow City College Building
Design: Reiach and Hall Architects + Michael Laird Architects
New Glasgow City College Building, Scotland
Winner selected from shortlist of two for new £228m campus development project. This project has seen an open collaboration with Reiach and Hall Architects and Michael Laird Architects, both from Edinburgh. 4 Feb
A-listed status for Burrell Museum Building
Burrell Collection
The internationally-renowned Burrell Collection in Glasgow has been awarded A-listed status by Historic Scotland. 1 Feb
Walking Tour News
e-architect have expanded our architecture tours out of Edinburgh and Glasgow in the last few years. In August we have now added tours in Liverpool, Dublin and Cambridge alongside London which is now well established. Links here for Edinburgh Walking Toursand Glasgow Walking Tours
Quartermile Edinburgh
Scottish Architecture News
Edinburgh Building News Summary
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Isabelle Lomholt 2017-04-20T18:41:37+01:00
About the Author: Isabelle Lomholt
e-architect Limited, Director & Company Secretary. Isabelle trained to be an architect, is Danish and lives in the UK.