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Reprint: Edificio España / The Building (Víctor Moreno, 2013)
On 18/08/2017 24/10/2017 By RebeccaIn Documentary
This piece was originally posted on the old blog in October 2014 (how the film came to my attention is explained within the piece) – I have only edited it for clarity (some of my sentences are too long in the original version) and so that any dates referred to make sense. All of the images included below are from the film's Facebook page, rather than my normal habit of creating screenshots (the DVD hadn't been released at this point – when I contacted him to ask about possible ways of seeing the film, Víctor Moreno kindly gave me access to an online screener). The film pays attention to two themes that I find myself drawn to: processes of work; and marked absences in architectural spaces.
'[I]f the myth states that Madrid has the highest "national" significance, then a critique of the "nation" as the myth conceives it becomes possible through a critical reading of Madrid.' (Resina 2001: 69)
Inaugurated in 1953 (works began in 1947), Edificio España is a colossus occupying an entire block in the heart of Madrid, where the Gran Vía meets Plaza de España. Designed by architect Julián Otamendi (also responsible for the neighbouring Torre de Madrid, which took over the title of the capital's tallest building in 1957), Edificio España – as its name suggests – was part of Franco's project to change Spain's image in the world, to build a symbol of prosperity to dispel the lingering image of an impoverished and extended postwar period. Deliberately American in style, this immense structure effectively contained a small city within it. The opening credits of Víctor Moreno's documentary outline its vast capacity: 28 floors, 200 dwellings, 400 offices, shopping arcades, various restaurants, and a luxury hotel. At its peak, 3,500 people passed through its main foyer on a daily basis.
Although it remains imposing, its grandeur and status as the centre of city life started to fade in the 1970s as other buildings came to prominence (given the political transition underway in that era, I wonder whether there was a question of it being tainted by association – the building allowed to remain a monument to the past while the country and its citizens strove to move on). No attempt was made to bring the structure up to date with the times (no doubt in part because of the scale of such an endeavour and the problems associated with listed buildings), although it retained an emblematic status through its sheer visibility. However in 2005, when the Spanish housing bubble was still expanding, the building was bought by Banco Santander with the intention of completely renovating it – only the listed elements (the façade, the shopping arcades, the main foyer, and the staircases) would remain the same. When works began in 2007, filmmaker Víctor Moreno quickly applied for permission to film the transformation of this architectural landmark.
I mentioned the film in a footnote to my piece on documentary and censorship in relation to Rocío (Fernando Ruiz Vergara, 1980). Edificio España came to my attention at the start of 2014 when Moreno and the team behind the film went to the press to reveal that for the previous fifteen months Banco Santander had been suppressing the documentary – and through threat of legal action had forbidden them from talking about it – by invoking a clause in the contract Moreno signed when he was given permission to film inside the building. The clause said that they had the right to block the film if it conflicted with the commercial interests of the property / company – they did not explain to the director what damage they believed the film could do to their investment (it had already screened at two festivals before they invoked the veto). In fact the bank is never mentioned within the film (the opening credits state that an 'investment fund' bought the building for renovation, but at no point is it identified by name), which in any case is more interested in the process / work of transformation than any possible end result. It was not Moreno's intention to make an allegory for the current state of Spain – it was supposed to be (and is) grounded in a specific physical location and set of spaces, and records the disappearance of those spaces – but he also inadvertently captured the bursting of the housing bubble, and humanises the economic situation via the hundreds of workers of various nationalities who were part of the initial stage of the renovation. Edificio España once again stands for the nation, but now as a monumental metaphor for Spain's present economic crisis.
Once the story broke about the bank's suppression of the film, the resulting outcry – the Spanish are unsurprisingly vigilant about the infringement of their freedom of expression (what was hard won, will be defended) – led to the bank lifting its injunction in early February and the film is now allowed to be screened in its original form. The film had its UK premiere in October 2014 at the Barbican as part of Spain (NOW)! 2014.
As stated above, the opening credits detail the scale of the structure that we can see before us in the vertiginous opening shot (which I'm guessing was filmed from the Torre de Madrid given the angle), but the filmmaking itself was almost as mammoth a task. Filming over the course of a year – with a coda filmed two years later in 2009 – Moreno collected 200 hours of footage (he explains how the project evolved in this interview), with the style of the film (handheld and observational, without voiceover or score) dictated by what was going on and the need to be able to move around quickly and freely. Although Moreno doesn't impose a narrative on the film – we see and hear various people working on the building, but there is no voiceover and the protagonist is Edificio España itself – there was arguably a shift in his focus as shooting progressed.
He starts out interested in the empty and abandoned spaces – you can hear the work underway but we don't initially see many people – but although Moreno remains an unobtrusive presence, as the film progresses he gets closer to people and they get to know each other, before the workers disappear when the renovation stalls. This is mirrored in the order in which we encounter the three security guards and their respective relationships with the building: first is Franco, an exiled Armenian, who seems relatively new to the building at least in so far as he asks questions about what it was like in its heyday; next is Herminio, who has worked there for two years and almost acts as a tour guide to the building and its legends; and finally José, whose life has been touched by the building – he spent his wedding night in the hotel thirty years ago – but he sees this as immaterial (he's surprised when Moreno asks if he went to look at the room he stayed in before it was gutted – "No. What for?"). It's the progression of an outsider coming in, becoming immersed in the place, but ultimately only being left with memories and recollections as the physical spaces disappear around them.
The film starts in a series of abandoned spaces, with captions detailing the floor and zone (apartments, offices) of the building they are located in. 'Abandoned' is the best way to describe them because they resemble the aftermath of an apocalyptic event: people appear to have left in a hurry. You might expect to see traces of the lives lived within these walls, but parts of their lives have been left behind: clothes litter the floor, children's drawings are still stuck on walls, family photographs are scattered around, and kitchenware is stacked on worktops. A sporting trophy – or is it an urn? – is later discovered behind a radiator cover as one of the apartments is stripped, the labourer who discovers it stopping momentarily to read the inscription before balancing it haphazardly on the removed cover and it falls to the floor, another addition to the detritus. In the office spaces, the desks overflow with paperwork, and the stubbed-out ends of two cigarettes sit in an ashtray as if the smoker(s) left mid smoke. The lack of voiceover gives us no context for these images and an air of unreality develops: the building is stuck in a timeless limbo. As workers clear cupboards, lockers, and filing cabinets out of the building, the walls are patterned by absences…a faded patchwork of spaces no longer occupied.
Edificio España resembles a comb: the front façade is the straight edge with the 'teeth' tucked behind, a series of light wells that jut out the length of the building and contribute to its labyrinthine nature. Getting lost is a recurring theme – an increasingly irate José, muttering curses under his breath, gets lost going to the canteen (camera in tow), frustratingly finding himself the wrong side of a wall and doorway that are no longer passable – and even the planners are unable to work out where they are on their architectural plans (they have to open a window to orient themselves). Corridors, stairwells, and lifts are interchangeable from the outset – an Escher-like loop of narrow, confined spaces – but the sense of déjà vu increases as the building is gutted and the spaces are anonymised, homogenised, and stripped of what personality they had (although that personality is represented via the objects left behind – including a number of framed photographs of the building and its staff).
It is this stripping and gutting – actions that require effort, and that sound slightly violent – that Moreno is drawn to ('work' is a common theme in those of his films I have seen so far, and this one stands as a valorisation of work(ers)), both in terms of the transformation of a defined space (captions usually tell us where we are – although not when people get lost) but also the physical work that that transformation entails. This is manual labour in its truest sense, a physically exhausting itinerary of backbreaking toil done with very little mechanical aid. We see diggers and large pneumatic drills in the underground levels but there's no way to get them higher up the building; the temperamental lifts (which frequently take people to somewhere other than they have requested) are tiny, only holding a few workers at a time. And so this building is stripped by hand, sledgehammer, and pickaxe. Parquet flooring is dug up, carpets ripped up, and walls knocked down in cramped, dark spaces made even smaller by what is being removed quickly piling up in the vicinity. The sound of the physical thuds of sledgehammers along with the recurring scrape of shovels against concrete as rubble is chucked into wheelbarrows develops into a percussive rhythm as the workers fall into unified motions that are occasionally interrupted by hi-jinx (certain people play to the camera) or a collective winding-up of the overseeing foreman (who implores them to work "con alegría").
Moreno is a largely unobtrusive presence, sometimes simply observing from the sidelines in the larger spaces (as on the floors that have already been knocked through into one open plan space) or navigating the narrow confines of apartments in the process of being deconstructed – trying to keep out of the way of those who make up a human conveyor belt removing extraneous materials. The various 'segments' or strands of the film – the abandoned spaces, the workers, process of transformation, the security guards, the foremen, the planners / real estate people – are interwoven / edited in what seems to be a loosely chronological order. Just as the conversations with security guards mirror Moreno's progress into Edificio España, his relationship with the labourers also develops over the year. Initially they look indirectly at the camera in sideways glances (perhaps wondering why he isn't helping them – "The man only films, eh?" asks one Russian [this questioning look (for assistance) reappears in Moreno's La piedra / The Stone (2013) where he silently observes someone trying to get a massive boulder into the back of their truck]), but as time passes they get used to his presence and openly engage with him (explaining what they're doing or just continuing their conversations regardless of the camera).
The building becomes a modern Tower of Babel, Spanish labourers working alongside immigrant workers from a multitude of countries. Although Spanish predominates as the lingua franca of the building, not everyone speaks it and not all cultural references are shared (one Spaniard is incredulous that an Ecuadorian and a Russian don't know of Mickey Mouse or Heidi respectively). The clash of cultures is perhaps most apparent at mealtimes. A crowded and noisy break room incorporates cuisines and conversations of distinct cultural origins: for example, there is a priceless exchange of glances between two Spaniards while they listen to an explanation as to why having two or three wives at the same time is considered advantageous in other cultures.
Aside from two instances where the audio from news broadcasts plays on the soundtrack – the first is a positive economic forecast delivered by then-Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (on 4th October 2007 if the audio matches the date we see concurrently on the security camera footage), the second is a report indicating that the economic storm has come into view – it is only in the interactions between workers in the in-between times and spaces that the economic crisis that Spain is hurtling towards is hinted at. The planners spinning their spiel about how many units they will fit into the building are almost in a bubble of their own (they reminded me of Mercedes Álvarez's Mercado de futuros / Futures Market (2011) – real estate fantasies removed from reality), with their plans being adjusted due to planning requirements rather than belt-tightening. In contrast, the cost of living is a recurring theme to the conversations between workers ("We're going up like prices…Then we'll go down like salaries" observes one man sardonically to another in a lift) and the imminent bursting of the housing bubble can be found in one man saying that he has to find another apartment because his landlord's daughter needs to move into his current one as she can't afford the house she lives in ("Why move to a house if you know you can't pay for it?" – need vs. want).
The human impact can also be seen in the only long-time occupant of Edificio España encountered by Moreno: Germán, who has held out against leaving the building for as long as possible. In the second half of the film we briefly see a front door with a paper sign taped to the wall saying 'occupied', on a floor that is otherwise already gutted (we see the shared internal wall with a spraypainted 'No' on it – one of many markers for the demolition workers, but also a sign of resistance in this instance). But it isn't until near the end of the film that we meet the occupier as he leaves his home of thirty years for the last time. In contrast to the abandoned spaces, Germán's apartment is light, clean and completely empty, all of his possessions removed. He opens each door in turn for Moreno to capture every room, shyly presenting his home ("Today I have many memories of my wife [who died in 2004] […] because this is like destroying her work"). The camera doesn't follow him out of the building – he has fretted on the way down in the lift about being untidy without his tie or glasses – but watches him leave through the glass doors of the main foyer. He doesn't look back.
The camera travels back up in the lift to witness the 'occupied' sign being removed and the subsequent destruction of the apartment. A sledgehammer smashes through the 'No' from within the last domesticated space in the building. Following the progress of Germán's front door and the resulting rubble, the camera moves outside of the building for the first time, going to the landfill site to watch the remains of a family home pounded to dust. The film then cuts back to the interior hallway, the space of the front door now bricked up and plastered over, with a close up showing the corners of the 'occupied' sign still sellotaped to the wall – more traces of absences, of unoccupied spaces. The camera cuts to the other side of the 180 degree line to show the reverse of that doorway – the internal walls are gone and all that remains is a nondescript concrete space. A caption appears: '23rd Floor. Germán's Home'.
When Moreno briefly returned two years later, very few people were left; many had to return to their home countries due to lack of work, and one of the site managers tells him that most of the Spanish labourers are now on the dole. As he walks around the building, we see that it has been divested of its personality. Everything has been stripped back to rough concrete, a series of identikit spaces that lack the magic over which Herminio enthused when he spoke of the legends and stories that develop around buildings when they endure for a certain amount of time. The renovations came to a complete halt in 2010, the building's still-impressive façade covering a bare structure within. This highly visible shell of a dictator's conscious image-making can be read in a number of ways. It remains a Francoist symbol of power, and an unmissable one due to its size and position. Does Moreno capture the demolition of this symbol (predominantly by immigrants), or its endurance (the film ends underground in the building's foundations – it is still standing, after all)? By extension the structure also represents another side of Franco's endeavour – as Herminio explains in relation to the artistic friezes in the foyer, "To put it plainly, it's in praise of capitalism" – and from that perspective the gutted Edificio España symbolises the failure of that system, of the banks, and the property market, on an immense scale that is impossible to ignore or obscure.
Edificio España is available to buy on DVD with optional English subtitles.
This is the last of the pieces that I am reprinting from the old blog. There will be one more piece in the Reprint series (next week), but it's an article that was first published elsewhere.
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Your Data can be Corrupted by High-Energy Particles from Outer Space
Semiconductor electronics have always been prone to "soft errors" — instances where specific data bit or signal is incorrect, but the problem doesn't seem to arise from an inherent defect with the system itself. After eliminating many possible causes, researchers finally determined that some of these errors are the result of cosmic rays, high-energy particles that strike Earth from outer space and, occasionally, switch bits in the chips in your computer. Possible solutions include keeping all your high-tech equipment in an underground cave, or rebooting.
Amazon's Name was Chosen to Come Early in Alphabetical Order
Amazon is a rarity — a modern-day Web giant whose origins lie in the earliest days of the commercial Internet, a history that still marks it. Take its name, for instance. Jeff Bezos originally wanted to call it Cabrera, short for Abracadabra, to express how magical the experience of buying books from them would be. But when the lawyers he was working with to incorporate the company kept mishearing the name as "cadaver," he realized he needed to change it. It was 1995, and the number one way most people navigated around the web was with Yahoo's directory, which (prepare to have your mind blown, youths,) listed names in alphabetical order. Amazon's "A" gave it a leg up.
Pal Spilling Unplugged the Entire Norwegian Internet in Order to Save it
Pal Spilling is a Norwegian computer pioneer whose early interest in computer networking resulted in Norway getting the first ARPANET node outside of the United States, in 1973. Fifteen years later, the nascent Internet saw its first widespread infection by self-replicating code: Morris, a worm that could install multiple copies of itself on the same computer, causing infected systems to grind to a halt. As the Morris worm began to spread in the United States, Spilling's American colleagues called to warn him; faced with a threat to his nation's entire network of computers, he acted quickly and disconnected Norway from the rest of the Internet, which at the time could be done by unplugging a single cable.
For 20 Years, the Passwords for U.S. Nuclear Missiles was 00000000
In 1962, President Kennedy was fearful that individual military commanders had too much leeway to launch nuclear attacks on their own initiative, and instituted a new policy that an eight-digit password would be neccessary to launch missiles. Air Force officers, more fearful of delayed nuclear response than a rogue commander, followed the letter if not the spirit of the rule and used 00000000 in every missile silo – – and, just like half the people in your office do with your passwords, they then wrote the eight-digit sequence on a piece of paper to make sure nobody forgot. The Air Force disputes this story, but it comes from Bruce Blair, who was an Air Force launch office in the 1970's.
One of the First Computer Science Ph.D's was Earned by a Nun
Mary Kenneth Keller earned her place in computer science history: she helped develop BASIC as a grad student, and received a Ph.D from the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin in June of 1965. Irving C. Tang received his D.Sc at Washington University in St. Louis the same month, which means that, briefly, half of all holders of doctorates in science were female.
And, Yes, to add to the oddball twist of this story: Keller was a nun, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and order dedicated to education. Keller went on to chair the Clarke College CS Department for twenty years.

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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (Paperback)
By Bill McKibben
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - January 21st, 2020
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Paperback)
By David Wallace-Wells
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Published: Tim Duggan Books - March 17th, 2020
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
With a new afterword
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Paperback)
By Hope Jahren
Published: Vintage - March 3rd, 2020
"Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." —Nature
"A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style." —E. O. Wilson
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island (Paperback)
By Earl Swift
Published: Dey Street Books - February 18th, 2020
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
By Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
Published: Knopf - February 25th, 2020
In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity.
Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal (Paperback)
By Ronnie Cummins
Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - February 11th, 2020
Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive--and thrive--in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse.
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
Published: Penguin Books - November 12th, 2019
The #1 New York Times bestseller by Time's 2019 Person of the Year
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Hardcover)
By Michael T. Klare
Published: Metropolitan Books - November 12th, 2019
All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.
Live Sustainably Now: A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life (Hardcover)
By Karl Coplan
Published: Columbia University Press - December 31st, 2019
Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a sustainable carbon footprint in modern American society--much less to live well?
Solar Electricity Basics - Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: Powering Your Home or Office with Solar Energy (Paperback)
By Dan Chiras
Published: New Society Publishers - November 12th, 2019
The indispensable guide to solar electricity systems for homeowners, business owners, builders, and students
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
By Douglas W. Tallamy
Published: Timber Press - February 4th, 2020
"Doug Tallamy is a quiet revolutionary and a hero of our time, taking back the future one yard at a time.
Losing Earth: A Recent History (Paperback)
Published: Picador - March 3rd, 2020
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours.


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Bustle's 'Rough Night' Screenings Convinced The Masses To Go Hard On A School Night
By Arielle Dachille
In the interest of avoiding a hump day hangover, I generally try not to go out on Tuesdays. I'm also the kind of person who has little self-control and is extremely prone to breaking her own rules. The other evening I did just that, and I have no regrets. I attended Bustle's exclusive screening of Rough Night in New York, and now I have a brand-new mid-year resolution: Go out on more school nights.
This scrappy, female-driven comedy from some of the minds that brought you Broad City hits theaters everywhere on June 16th. Earlier this week, on May 23 and 24, we teamed up with Sony Pictures to show an advance screening of the movie in 20 cities across the U.S. and Canada. NYC, Denver, LA, Chicago, and Miami were just some of the places that hosted packed houses of comedy fans.
In Rough Night, five lifelong friends reunite for a bachelorette party in Miami and take female bonding to a whole new level. Thanks to a spontaneous decision to order of a stripper and a very flimsy chair, their weekend of fun becomes the weekend from hell. But the stories will pay off in bragging rights for years.
Before the screenings, guests mingled, indulged in cocktails, drank, and snapped photos at bachelorette-party-themed happy hours. The San Francisco party had an male exotic dancer! Chicago fans got to rub elbows with Lucia Aniello (the director and co-writer of the film) and Paul W. Downs (co-writer and cast member)! The New York party took place at Lower East Side bar Fool's Gold and boasted gobs of "Team Bride" paraphernalia.
Lauren Perlstein
Not to mention signature drinks that were essentially grown-up versions of the Shirley Temple.
Bustlers, old-school besties, and other movie lovers assembled for a night of fun. Special guests Ryan Cooper from the cast and Claudia Oshry of Girl With No Job were in attendance!
And of course, as any self-respecting bachelorette party would have, there were mountains of penis-phenalia in all cities. After all, what is a bachelorette party if not an excuse to eat peen-shaped candies in public?
David Kepner
The LA pre-party, pictured below, took place at Mixology, near LA's famous Grove.
As we heard from our boots on the ground, the weather was perfect for rooftop drinks, and the line to get in was out the door. Women of all ages showed up to sip cucumber mint cocktails make new friends. There was also a hilarious mugshot-themed photo booth, where a couple of our favorite Bustlers snapped a hilarious photo:
Our friend Violet Benson of the popular @Daddyissues instagram stopped by to pose with the "human friend-tipede."
The happy hour was just the beginning. Cast members Jillian Bell and Colton Haynes were in attendance. Our West Coast entertainment editor got to chat with them about making the film in a brief Q&A. They answered questions about their characters, what it was like working with filmmaker and Broad City alum Lucia Aniello, and the importance of female voices in comedy. Considering that Rough Night is the first big-studio R-rated comedy directed by a woman in 20 years, her words held special significance. It's a film directed by badass women, written by badass women, and about badass women.
Then, showtime! So began an hour and a half during which the room was laughing, cringing, and gasping along with our five heroines in this at-times shocking, never boring, all-around raw and scrappy comedy.
And while the stress of their outlandish situation is far beyond anything you and your girls have experienced, things feels oddly relatable. We see old friends growing up, becoming adults, and negotiating weird grown-up pressures with their college friendships and identities. We see friends reconciling with the new life chapters of the people they feel close to. Most profoundly, we're reminded of the fact that when you get together with your partners in crime, the worse the decision, the better the story.
After all, there really is just no better therapy than getting together with your platonic life partners and raising a little Hell. Pretending to be an adult isn't easy. Every now and then, you gotta Carpe that Diem and go hard on a Tuesday.
This article is sponsored by Sony Pictures' Rough Night, in theaters everywhere June 16.
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Ryerson University's athletes may outdo themselves in the coming season thanks to a new fitness initiative that was launched this month.
The Nutrition and Exercise Testing (NExT) Lab, a high-tech fitness testing lab, can accurately determine resting metabolic rate, body composition, and fitness levels. The services are free for Ryerson's athletes. Other students and faculty get a 50 per cent discount to get tested in the lab, which usually costs a total of $300.
The lab, run by Ryerson nutrition professor Nick Bellissimo, offers three fitness tests: The Bod Pod measures body fat percentage, the calorimeter calculates how many calories are burned daily while the body is at rest and a treadmill calculates the body's maximum oxygen consumption, called VO2 max, to determine overall aerobic physical fitness.
He added that Ryerson was one of the first universities that integrates this type of high-quality testing to support the athletes and help them track their progress and improve their performance.
The men's soccer and women's basketball teams were a part of NExT lab's pilot testing in 2014. After receiving their results, they were given advice on how to increase their VO2s.
Lee also said that seeing his results and learning where he ranked in relation to other athletes was very motivating for him.
"I'm very competitive, so when I see my results I always try to get better and improve those results," Lee said.
Testing athlete's fitness levels is not the only service that the NExT lab hopes to offer. Bellissimo says that the goal is to incorporate the lab into all of Ryerson's athlete's training regimens in the 2015-2016 year. While the tests are free for the Rams, it is up to individual athletes to undergo testing. Bellissimo says this will be a comprehensive way to track athletes' progress during the season.
"The tests are highly accurate and therefore result in better progress for people who are trying to lose weight or change their exercise routine," says Bellissimo.
Lee says that he would like to do the test again and see how he has improved.
"Testing after the season ends would be ideal for me, just to see if it actually paid off, if I actually did get better. It's definitely very motivating," Lee said, adding that he would recommend the test to anyone who is interested in improving their fitness performance and likes working out.
The discount for Ryerson students and faculty offers a competitive price compared to other institutions in the Greater Toronto Area that offer similar services.
Vincent Wong, NExT Lab's senior technician, said the tests give users affirmation that their workouts are effective.
"Something like a Bod Pod is telling you – you are losing fat. Something like a resting metabolic test is telling you you are becoming more metabolic, that you are burning calories just at rest because you've gained muscle," he said. "I am a believer that the number on the (weighing) scale means nothing," says Wong.


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Walid Rezk  (وليد رزق, born 19 July 1974) is an Egyptian male water polo player. He was a member of the Egypt men's national water polo team, playing as a centre forward. He was a part of the  team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. On club level he played for Al Ahly in Egypt.

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Helen & Jack are getting married this year at Hadley Park House Telford in Shropshire and have chosen me to be their wedding photographer.
As a Staffordshire based photographer it is always nice to get to go to other venues outside of Staffordshire, I have photographed weddings at Hadley park House in the past and I'm very much looking forward to re visiting this venue in September.
As it was the school holidays and a really hot sunny day ( for a change !) the castle grounds were pretty busy…we did however manage to find a couple of nice areas for the pre wedding shoot.
Really looking forward to photographing Jack and Helens wedding at Hadley Park House in September and images will follow from their wedding day on my blog, but for now here are a few images from the pre wedding shoot in Stafford.
Triumph !! I managed to get a couple of photos with the dog on.


Three options are on the table for 2018 Property Tax Millage Rate. Will our city council elect to raise taxes, keep taxes level for existing properties, or keep overall tax receipts static including growth. Given Fulton County's excessive grab for tax dollars and Johns Creek's problems with spending, residents need to pay close attention to where our elected officials stand on this decision.


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2019's 20 Under 40: Judson Ball, Logboat Brewing Co.
by Beth Bramstedt
Beth Bramstedt
Tom Bradley, The Tom Bradley Show, Jack-FM
Judson Ball
Co-founder and Director of Marketing, Logboat Brewing Co.
Judson Ball took a bit of a tour around Missouri while earning his bachelor's degree and finding his niche in the business world.
His journey took him to Drury College, in Springfield, and then Meramec Community College, in St. Louis, to play soccer. While at Meramec, he got excited about a career that centered around music and marketing. So he finished his associate degree and accepted a full-ride scholarship to study marketing and play soccer for Columbia College.
Ball connected with his marketing classes immediately. "I loved brainstorming creative ways to connect people with goods or services," he says. Ball's favorite projects included taking products with poor sales numbers and developing new marketing and branding strategies for them. This skill set has been a key part of Logboat's success in a highly competitive industry.
Before opening Logboat, Ball got his wish to combine a career in music and marketing. He worked as the assistant manager at The Blue Note and Mojo's for almost nine years. While there, Ball discovered the need for a local craft brewery. "Customers from all over the state would come into Columbia for shows and always wanted local beer," he says. "At that time, there were zero breweries here that sold packaged beer."
The demand became so high that Ball worked on a business plan with two close friends, Tyson Hunt and Andrew Sharp, and they opened Logboat in the spring of 2014.
"It was clear to me from the beginning that Judson brought a great deal of talent to the Logboat ownership team," says Todd Hoien of Hawthorn Bank, one of Logboat's business partners. "His understanding of marketing, social media, social etiquette, and expertise in cold calling have all proven invaluable to Logboat, helping to transform the brewery into an impressively successful enterprise."
According to Ball, 2019 is going to be a big year for Logboat. "My personal goals are to focus on diversifying our portfolio of beer as well as strategizing to expand our distribution footprint," he says. "We haven't taken on new territory in more than two years, and we're anxious to begin distribution in the Kansas City and Springfield markets."
Fun Fact: Two years after opening Logboat, Judson found out he was allergic to beer!
20 Under 40 2019 Logboat Brewing Co.
Beth Bramstedt December 28, 2018


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ONGC inks MoU with SECI to develop renewable, ESG projects
By OdAdmin On Dec 2, 2021
New Delhi: To realize its green energy objectives, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). The MoU was signed by ONGC CMD Subhash Kumar and SECI MD Suman Sharma on behalf of the two national energy companies today, 2 December 2021, in New Delhi.
The MoU provides a broad, overarching framework for ONGC and SECI to collaborate and cooperate for undertaking renewable energy projects including solar, wind, solar parks, EV value chain, green hydrogen, storage, etc.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Subhash Kumar said: "While we appreciate the magnitude and urgency of the climate change challenge, we also understand our commitment towards energy security of the country and are committed to carrying out our business in a sustainable manner. ONGC has a multipronged strategy to make its green energy portfolio richer and has plans to progressively move towards carbon neutrality by effective carbon management and adding Renewable Energy Capacity".
Ms Suman Sharma said: "SECI is happy to associate with ONGC in this path-breaking initiative that will open new avenues of sustainable development and promises to take India to new frontiers of technology and scale. We are dedicated towards fulfilling India's climate commitments and look forward to a continuing partnership."
ONGC, India's leading oil & gas company, has been pursuing green energy agenda through various alternatives and renewable sources of energy. It has set a target of producing a minimum of 10 GW of renewable power by 2040 while continuing its focus on the core E&P business.
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a PSU under Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), is engaged in promotion and development of various renewable energy resources, especially solar/wind energy, RE-based storage systems, trading of power, R&D as well as RE-based products like green hydrogen, green ammonia, RE-powered EV, etc. SECI is also the designated implementing agency for many RE schemes of the Government like VGF schemes, solar park schemes, ISTS projects for solar and wind, CPSU schemes, etc.
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Home Business Aviation Metrojet's Clark base inducts Global 7500
Metrojet's Clark base inducts Global 7500
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Metrojet Engineering Clark (MEC), the Philippines based Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) station of Hong Kong-based Metrojet has inducted its first Bombardier Global 7500 to the new MRO facility in Clark for hangar parking service. "The travel and quarantine restrictions continue to impact the flying activities in the APAC region to a certain degree. Many aircraft have been idle, waiting for the quarantine curbs to be relaxed. With the business jet maintenance bubble in place, MEC is here to serve and provide these grounded aircraft with a high quality and competitive alternative to Hong Kong and North Asia's limitations with hangar parking space," said Sarith Vaikuntan, general manager of Metrojet Engineering Clark.
The new hangar with over 7,100 m2 of floor space, has the capacity to accommodate up to 10 long-range business jets including Boeing Business and Airbus Corporate jets. Workshops, stores, staff and customer offices and lounges with available space for a dedicated Fixed-Base Operator (FBO) encompassing a 2500 m2 two-storey annex building on the rear of the hangar. Coupled with 11,000 m2 of apron area in front of the hangar with an exclusive private taxiway, the world-class facility has been designed to the highest international standards including typhoon and seismic resistant features meeting current Philippine codes.
Established in 1997, Metrojet as part of the Kadoorie Group, pioneered business aviation services in Hong Kong and remains one of the foremost safe and customer-focussed business jet operators and maintenance providers in the Asia Pacific region. The company provides all-inclusive aircraft management, charter, maintenance, and aviation consultancy services to our growing business aviation customer base.
Metrojet Engineering Clark currently operates a 7,100 m2 hangar providing both hangar and ramp parking and a fully authorised repair station with approvals from the Civil Aviation Authority of The Philippines (CAAP) and The United States Federal Aviation Administration (The U.S. FAA). Metrojet Engineering Clark is a well-developed MRO facility designed to augment both heavy and line maintenance capabilities in the Asia Pacific region.
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use donatj\MockWebServer\MockWebServer;
use donatj\MockWebServer\RequestInfo;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class InternalServerTest extends TestCase {

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	/**
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	public function beforeEachTest() : void {
		$this->testTmpDir = sys_get_temp_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'testTemp';
		mkdir($this->testTmpDir);

		$counterFileName = $this->testTmpDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . MockWebServer::REQUEST_COUNT_FILE;
		file_put_contents($counterFileName, '0');
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	public function afterEachTest() : void {
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		$it    = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($this->testTmpDir, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
		$files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it,
			RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST);

		foreach( $files as $file ) {
			if( $file->isDir() ) {
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		file_put_contents($counterFileName, '0');

		InternalServer::incrementRequestCounter($this->testTmpDir, $inputCount);
		$this->assertStringEqualsFile($counterFileName, $expectedCount);
	}

	public function countProvider() : array {
		return [
			'null count' => [
				'inputCount'    => null,
				'expectedCount' => 1,
			],
			'int count'  => [
				'inputCount'    => 25,
				'expectedCount' => 25,
			],
		];
	}

	public function testShouldLogRequestsOnInstanceCreate() : void {
		$fakeReq = new RequestInfo([
			'REQUEST_URI' => '',
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		new InternalServer($this->testTmpDir, $fakeReq);

		$lastRequestFile = $this->testTmpDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . MockWebServer::LAST_REQUEST_FILE;
		$requestFile     = $this->testTmpDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'request.1';

		$lastRequestContent = file_get_contents($lastRequestFile);
		$requestContent     = file_get_contents($requestFile);

		$this->assertSame($lastRequestContent, $requestContent);
		$this->assertSame(serialize($fakeReq), $requestContent);
	}

}


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 * @author TLe, Tarmo Leppänen <tarmo.leppanen@pinja.com>
 */

namespace App\Tests\Integration\Resource;

use App\Entity\Interfaces\EntityInterface;
use App\Entity\LogRequest;
use App\Repository\BaseRepository;
use App\Repository\LogRequestRepository;
use App\Resource\LogRequestResource;
use App\Rest\RestResource;

/**
 * Class LogRequestResourceTest
 *
 * @package App\Tests\Integration\Resource
 * @author TLe, Tarmo Leppänen <tarmo.leppanen@pinja.com>
 */
class LogRequestResourceTest extends ResourceTestCase
{
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     * @var class-string<EntityInterface>
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    protected string $entityClass = LogRequest::class;

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    protected string $repositoryClass = LogRequestRepository::class;

    /**
     * @var class-string<RestResource>
     */
    protected string $resourceClass = LogRequestResource::class;
}


text:
Q: How do I get the object with the second latest date from a collection of objects I have a list of objects and each object has an AcceptanceDate property which is of type DateTime.
I want to retrieve the Object with the second latest date in the list.
Is there any way of doing that?
[
   {
        "number": "X76-M1-20/2",
        "AcceptanceDate": "2020-07-30T00:00:00Z",
        "type": "Done",

    },

    {
        "number": "X75-M1-18/2",
        "AcceptanceDate": "2018-03-04T00:00:00Z",
        "type": "Done",

    },
    {
        "number": "X66-M1-20/1",
        "AcceptanceDate": "2020-02-12T00:00:00Z",
        "type": "Done",

    },
    {
        "number": "X77-M1-17/1",
        "AcceptanceDate": "2017-02-14T00:00:00Z",
        "type": "Done",

    }
]

In This example I want to return the object with number : X66-M1-20/1
I Tried to follow this Linq: How to get second last
But it's not working in my case because it a list of objects.

A: try this
var jd = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Data>>(json);
var item =jd.OrderBy(j =>j.AcceptanceDate ).TakeLast(2).FirstOrDefault();

output
Number  X66-M1-20/1
AcceptanceDate  2020-02-12
Type    Done

class
public class Data
{
    public string Number { get; set; }
    public DateTime AcceptanceDate { get; set; }
    public string Type { get; set; }
}

UPDATE
Since PO wants 2 last objects I can recommend this code
var jd = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Data>>(json);
var items =jd.Where(i=> i.Type=="Done").OrderBy(j =>j.AcceptanceDate).TakeLast(2).ToList();

if (items!= null && items.Count >=2)
{
var secondLastItem=items[0];
var lastItem=items[1];
}

output
    X66-M1-20/1 2020-02-12  Done  //secondLastItem
    X76-M1-20/2 2020-07-30  Done  //lastItem

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"Bad Energy" is a completely forgettable track from Golden Feelings. Well, not completely, as Beck re-used the title like 10 years later on this song.
Here, Beck is just speaking in a slow, mumbly voice, and unlike some of the other similar "spoken-word" type things he's done, there's next to no musical accompaniment to make it more enjoyable. (There is a barely distinguishable guitar in the back.) Surely it was included on Golden Feelings as filler, as one of those little interludes between songs. He's just having fun. The best moment comes when he says "bad energy," which is immediately preceded by the sound of, well, bad energy.
I can't imagine this has ever been played live.


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Taco Brandsen is Professor of Comparative Public Administration at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is board member of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and the EMES Research Network, Secretary-General of the European Association of Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA) and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Voluntas.
As an academic, his research has focused on issues of co-production, innovation, governance and service delivery.


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Home Local News Edinburgh town council fires Nunez after criminal allegations of child molesting
Edinburgh town council fires Nunez after criminal allegations of child molesting
Nunez Submitted photo
By Andy Bell-Baltaci | Daily Journal
For The Republic
EDINBURGH — The Edinburgh Town Council on Friday fired a former police officer who is facing child molestation charges.
The town council unanimously decided to terminate Michael Nunez's contract on Friday during a special meeting that was scheduled in the wake of the allegations against him.
Johnson County prosecutors charged Nunez, 33, of Edinburgh, with two high-level felony counts of child molestation. He faces a maximum of 100 years in prison for the sexual abuse that occurred on a minor under the age of 14 over the course of six years, from 2014 to 2020, according to court documents and a joint news release from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office and Johnson County Prosecutor's Office.
Sheriff's deputies arrested Nunez Tuesday. Police first found him at 2:59 a.m. Dec. 30 in the area of River Road and Triangle Road at Camp Atterbury, where he was sitting in his vehicle. He was taken to a nearby hospital for immediate detention. Later that day, the prosecutor's office filed charges, and he was arrested upon his release from the hospital and taken to the Johnson County jail, the news release said.
He has since been moved to another county's jail due to his previous role as a law enforcement officer in the county, Sheriff Duane Burgess said. His bond remains $160,000 cash, he said.
The court will work on remote hearing access, prosecutor Joe Villanueva said.
Nunez's termination will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. He was suspended Dec. 30, and has not been paid since, said Dustin Huddleston, town attorney.
For more on this story, see Saturday's Republic.
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Which of you put a rotary engine in an MG Midget? The perfect storm of quirkiness and maintenance. I used to have a 1965 piston-engine Midget, and this rotary one is stirring up all kinds of want.
The 12A rotary engine. It's all there and ready to go.
This goes against ALL rational advice about project cars ever. Rotary engine? Yes. Old and British? Yes again. Someone else's project? That too.
What do all y'all think of this thing that exists?