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Canary Wharf supplement 2005
A word with our friends
Maths class
On the up
Space station hero
Taking it from the top
What's the big idea?
The newest building on the estate is a 33-storey tower built at high speed by Canary Wharf Contractors. It was responsible for the whole thing from concrete cores to office chairs
As soon as the steelwork started to go up at One Churchill Place, the fit-out teams were in right behind.
The building was handed over last December and Barclays staff are now moving in
One Churchill Place might be Canary Wharf Contractors' last project in Docklands for a while – Riverside South (page 30) won't be built until it has a tenant. If so, it's fitting that CWC has saved the best till last.
The 33-storey building for Barclays is the slickest display of high-rise construction ever witnessed in the UK. As well as constructing the shell and core of the 92,900 m2 tower, CWC was responsible for the fit-out. This led to a healthy – and highly efficient – game of tag as the fit-out and shell-and-core teams chased each other up and around the building.
Eugenio Caruso, CWC's director of tenant fit-out, explains: "In a lot of instances, we were there before the shell-and-core guys. Normally, you get bits of ductwork, pipework and sprinklers sticking out of the core waiting to be connected up by the fit-out guys. Quite often on Barclays, we had our services fitted before the shell-and-core teams arrived and this made any co-ordination issues go away."
Such joined-up working meant the project took just two-and-a-half years from the start of the tendering process to practical completion of the building. In addition, even though the contractors doing the Category A fit-out (including ceiling, raised floors, lighting, air-conditioning, underfloor power, carpets and sprinklers) couldn't begin work until the shell-and-core team had started reaching for the sky, both sets of contractors achieved practical completion at the same time: October 2004. The scheduled handover date was 31 December 2004, the furniture fit-out was completed earlier this year and Barclays staff are now relocating.
Caruso was involved in the first phase of the estate's development in the late 1980s, but went to work on projects in the City of London in 1992. He returned to the wharf nine years ago to launch CWC's fit-out division, armed with the knowledge of how other developers tackled the task. "Quite often, shell-and-core connections were either not there, the wrong size or in the wrong place. The way we did it here got away from all those problems. And you can commission the systems as a whole."
On One Churchill Place, Caruso headed a team managing the entire fit-out. This included 60,400 m2 of Category A fit-out, 18,600 m2 of Category B (special areas such as staff restaurant, coffee bar, break-out areas, executive rooms, client meeting rooms and auditoria) and the tenant's furniture fit-out, which includes some 5500 workstations. Caruso says: "Usually, we get involved with the furniture but not actually with procuring it. This is pretty much the only one we've done from shell and core to bums on seats."
Fit for anything
Since starting its first tenant fit-out about six years ago, CWC has completed almost 600,000 m2 – more than many contractors would tackle in a lifetime. And it shows in the seamless way all the trades interact.
This is pretty much the only building we've done from shell and core to bums on seats
Caruso says: "As soon as the steel was up, the fire-spray was on and the floor cast, we were putting in services. After the cladding was up, we'd be putting in ductwork for the VAV [variable air volume] air-conditioning, sprinklers, traywork – anything we could where there was no risk of water damage.
"The biggest pinch point we have is with the cladding contractors because they have to load out the floors with their panels. They can install faster than we can, so we will drop down below or go up above."
Senior project manager Alec Vallintine adds: "On the HSBC building, we always knew they would catch up. So when they did, we shot up 10 floors and then shot back down nine floors once they were clear."
To assess how fast the fit-out could progress before letting contracts, the team spent a lot of time figuring out the best way to do the job, and how many workers would be needed. Vallintine explains: "When we tender the work, we ask the contractor to supply its own labour plan so we can compare it with ours and even out the resources – you don't want 10 men one week and 50 the next. Success is all about pre-planning."
Caruso says: "The key was maintaining momentum.
If anyone lagged behind, it would all fall apart."
To stop this happening, a sound logistics package feeding into the programme was developed. Vallintine says: "Access to floor space was dictated by a programme dovetailed into the shell-and-core programme. It was give and take on both sides.
"In terms of logistics, contractors had to book in, giving 48 hours' notice of where they wanted to work. We held weekly logistics meetings with all contractors and allocated very tightly controlled times and areas in which they could work."
We ask the contractor to supply its own labour plan so we can compare it with ours and even out the resources – you don't want 10 men one week and 50 the next. Success is all about pre-planning
This process was co-ordinated by a five-strong logistics team using the software program Team Plan. All design and workshop drawings were logged by the Humming Bird computer system, which also handled communications with consultants, approvals and comments.
As a result, says Vallintine, "most of the logistics time during the day was taken up by crane pick-ups for the shell and core, so we did all of our deliveries out-of-hours. We were working 24 hours a day."
Caruso adds: "The trades liked it, because it was quieter, they got their slots, and it was a lot easier for them to maintain progress."
Coping with the unexpected
A just-in-time delivery schedule was adopted and materials were stockpiled off-site so there was always sufficient for at least one floor. The latter policy meant unforeseen problems such as ferries not running, truck drivers' strikes or manufacturing hiccups didn't stop the metronomic progress of the fit-out.
To minimise snagging, one of the lower floors was chosen as a benchmark that met all of CWC's and Barclays' quality and performance standards.
"We got everyone, including the architect and all the engineers, to agree it was the benchmark. We then drove that benchmark up the building," says Caruso.
He and Vallintine reckon running the fit-out in parallel with the shell and core saved about one year on the programme. However, neither thinks the speedy construction is particularly impressive. Vallintine says: "Barclays is just a culmination of the process we have been going through for the past five years. It seemed like second nature."
WHARFpeople - Dean Ricci
There can't have been many people better qualified to oversee construction of One Churchill Place than Dean Ricci. He trained as a mechanical engineer and worked for the power and refinery industries before coming to Canary Wharf in 1988 to spend three years "working horizontally" on the infrastructure for the first phase.
In 1991, he left to work on a variety of projects including the Disneyland Paris theme park; environmental clean-ups and office fit-outs in New York; infrastructure works and a residential building for entrepreneur Donald Trump; and the Venetian casino/hotel in Las Vegas.
In 1999, Ricci rejoined CWC as construction director. "Now I work vertical," he says of his involvement on One Churchill Place, the 44-storey tower at 25-30 Canada Square and 20 Canada Square.
Ricci has a phrase he likes to use when describing what CWC expects from its trade contractors. It is: "We challenge everyone to do better with us than they have ever done before."
Despite the fantastic speed at which One Churchill Place was built, Ricci observes: "Things can always be done better, but almost every initiative we tried there worked to at least a 80% to 90% satisfaction level. Perhaps we could have made an earlier start on the lifts despite the fact the lifts were completed quicker than anyone has ever done before.
"There are still opportunities to improve. We have to challenge ourselves."
One of the keys to success on the project was empowering trade contractors to take responsibility for some of the "grey areas" where their work interfaces with other trades. One such example was making lift contractor Schindler responsible for all work inside the lift motor rooms. Ricci explains: "This was consciously done to make contractors responsible not only for meeting their contractual obligations and dates, but also for co-ordinating with others. That way you eliminate excuses and people saying: 'Can I do this, can I do that?' The contractor is totally responsible and you get quicker performance because the contractor takes ownership."
Another example was giving free rein to concrete core contractor PC Harrington over the use of the cranes, but with the stipulation that it co-ordinated with other trades and allocated certain times for their use. "With Harrington, we didn't try to control the cranes. We said: 'They are your cranes, but you have to provide us with this number of hours for others' – so that they could drop in stairs, risers and so on."
A quick start was also made on the toilet blocks by adopting a novel approach towards building a mock-up of the finishes. With the agreement of all the relevant trades, a mock-up of a toilet block was built on the first floor of One Churchill Place – with the understanding that it would remain as the finished article if quality standards were met.
"We thought let's get in and actually do the real work and only rip it out if it wasn't good enough," says Ricci.
The standards were met, giving contractor Sherlock a good head start on its programme for the rest of the toilet blocks.
Ricci is equally proud of meeting the 250-plus critical dates set for the project. "These were mostly design-related such as approval of finishes – the stuff that controls your ability to complete the job. All the dates were met."
He adds: "I suppose the crucial thing on the project was we had the right people at the right time and we picked the right trade contractors."
First time for everything
While the fit-out workers were racing up the building, the shell-and-core team was involved in a race of its own. To speed up construction, CWC incorporated techniques that had never been used in the UK.
Take the construction of the building's three cores. The central core housing the lifts, risers for the services and emergency staircases was the biggest built using slip-form concrete construction.
Originally, CWC and concrete contractor PC Harrington envisaged slip-forming only three walls for the lift shafts in the central core with the fourth, which houses the doorways, constructed from plasterboard. Instead, the wall was cast in concrete, thereby eliminating the need for an extra trade contractor to install the dry-wall.
Much time was also saved on lift installation by directing Harrington to implement ideas such as constructing the internal lift lobby floor slabs while the cores were being raised ("On the up and up", page 36).
Another innovative twist was designing the slip-form rig with hatches through which the steel staircases could be craned into position, easing access between the floors and lessening the dependency on passenger hoists. Hatches were also used to lower 12 m lengths of steel pipe for the services risers.
When it came to erecting the steelwork, CWC decided to delay the start until after PC Harrington had completed the three cores and the cranes feeding the slip-form rig had been removed and replaced by others anchored to the top of the cores.
Getting rid of the slip-form cranes gave steelwork contractor Victor Buyck-Hollandia a clear run to fix the 10,000 tonnes of steelwork and floor decking.
It meant the erectors didn't have to work around ties securing the cranes to the cores or were not able to complete the decking in areas where the masts of the cranes passed through the floors.
It was also safer because no concrete operations were going on above the steel erectors.
Picking up speed
CWC construction director Dean Ricci says the fast construction of the shell and core at One Churchill Place was helped along by a number of lessons the contractor has learned over the years at the wharf. These include:
Early and simultaneous procurement of the concrete, lifts, stairs, steelwork and crane packages so that all the installation works can be co-ordinated and crane times agreed
Concrete cores designed to suit slip-form construction with great care given to detailing openings for services
Steelwork designed and detailed to allow for tolerances in the verticality of the concrete cores
Slip-form rigs incorporated a double-height trailing platform to make welding of steelwork connections easier
Access around the cores improved by providing additional temporary openings, which were subsequently blocked up
Phased release of lift shafts to allow early start on fitting guide rails and door mechanisms for lifts.
WHARFpeople - Terry Stewart
Every now and again, Terry Stewart's soft Northern Ireland accent gives way to a slight American twang. It's hardly surprising since he has spent 20 years, on and off, working in the USA and Canada.
The experience has given him good insight into the way construction is tackled on both sides of the Atlantic. Of One Churchill Place, Stewart says: "The speed of construction and quality were incredible.
It only took two-and-a-half years from the start of the tender process to practical completion and that was for a 92,900 m2 building."
Stewart has been at CWC for the past seven years, honing the design and installation of mechanical services. "We try to get involved in the design stage as early as possible where we're primarily looking at buildability – tweaking the design, such as deciding where the risers should go and when they should be installed."
Much effort also goes into deciding on the level of prefabrication to use. "Prefabrication is nothing new. The mechanical services industry has been using it for 50 years. It is how you use prefabrication to your best advantage that counts," he says.
On Barclays, CWC worked closely with concrete core contractor PC Harrington to streamline the installation of the condenser and chilled water risers. Sleeves were cast into the concrete floor slabs so that the risers – 12 m lengths of steel tube – could be lowered through them to join up with previously installed risers. This cut down on the number of field welds required to join the three-storey high risers together. Oversized sleeves were used so that the tolerance in aligning the risers wasn't an issue. Stewart says: "It was a case of drop and weld, drop and weld and it worked fantastically well."
It also meant trade contractors could make an early start on installing the mechanical services within the building.
Much of the equipment for the plant rooms was also prefabricated so that most of the joints were bolt, not weld, connections. "You are always going to have some field welds, but if you can lessen the number, then you will gain improvements in programme and cost."
With ever more services being squeezed into the buildings, CWC took the step of integrating all the mechanical and services contractors by setting up a combined CAD office on site. In it, the contractors prepared their workshop drawings under the gaze of senior CWC staff.
Integrating the teams led to quick resolution of any design issues with the services engineers, as well as identifying problems where the positions of different services might clash.
Having all the M&E contractors' design staff under one roof also helped to prevent any slippage in the workshop drawing programme.
Stewart explains: "I've found that most contractors underestimate the time required to prepare workshop drawings. If they miss the dates on the programme, it affects the other trades. The combined CAD office was invaluable – it was a great tool."
WHARFpeople - Trevor McAlea
Trevor McAlea plied his trade with electrical contractors T Clarke and Phoenix for 17 years, rising to work as Phoenix's senior contracts manager on 25 The North Colonnade, the Financial Services Authority building, and One Cabot Square, for Credit Suisse, at Canary Wharf.
"I needed to be quite forceful during the meetings on the FSA contract and I was always pushing the consultant for details because we would fall behind programme if we didn't get them," he recalls. McAlea thinks it was this trait that led Canary Wharf Contractors to ask him if he wanted to switch sides.
That was five-and-a-half years ago. "I enjoy wearing two hats. Good project managers can see both sides of an argument and can recognise all the potential pitfalls. Trade contractors can sometimes get too entrenched with what they do only and don't look at the bigger picture. You need someone with a trade contractor background to challenge this culture and say: 'Why don't we do it this way?'. "
McAlea sees his role as taking an overview and "making electrical contractors aware of the other trades and how they need co-ordinate their work to suit". He must also review the design constantly.McAlea knows how electricians work, what is achievable and how long it should take. With his CWC hat on, he can tailor the electrical contractors' requirements around those of the other trades.
"You need to get the trades up to speed in the first six to eight weeks of a contract," he says. "That is when time is won or lost."
Equally important, he says, is ensuring the works programme, planning, logistics and the drawings schedule are spot on. The key is "preparing good, detailed tender documents with no hidden agendas" so contractors know what to expect. "We also advise contractors during the tender process how long they should allow for things like integrated system testing, so they can price accordingly."
McAlea has boosted productivity by giving trade contractors early access to the electrical risers and switchrooms. It started on 8 Canada Square and continued at One Churchill Place, where temporary waterproof and crash decking was installed every sixth floor. This meant the electrical risers were watertight and could be fitted out safely as the building rose. When the 44-storey tower was topped out, work on the risers had reached the 39th floor. As McAlea says: "It worked very well."
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Expectations are personal beliefs about something that may happen in the future and they can shape our opinions, behaviors, choices, and actions. My work explores this area of psychology as well as human systems of communication via the semiotics of symbolism, signs, metaphor, and storytelling. The art challenges perceptions and manipulates expected imagery and anticipated content by juxtaposing them amongst fantastical scenes and nonsensical compositions. By maneuvering between the real and the unreal, they exist as a refusal to accept the predictable manifestations that an expectation may cause. Despite their theatrical and metaphorical nature, the works expose personal, societal, and cultural truths. They confront expectations and perceived reality as it relates to gender roles, relationships and sexuality, politics and religion, and social constructs.
The multi-media and imaginative forms collaborate to address these systems in weird and wonderful ways as the subject matter coexists amongst the cheeky humor, satire, and/or layered symbolism. Layering media that are not commonly mixed, such as watercolor and silkscreen with transparent papers and found objects, sets the stage for spontaneous forms and symbolic connections to occur. Blending hand-crafted and highly-rendered naturalistic elements with mass-produced ones, a strategy that can be found in Placebo Platter, also exaggerates this oscillation between the real and unreal. The work embodies a style that both physically and conceptually fuses elements of early renaissance and surrealism with dada and abstraction. In these pieces, the metaphorical characteristics and duality of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel's work are combined with the social commentary and narrative qualities of Barbara Kruger and Kara Walker.
Collage is a tactile and tangible way of creating visual art that is reminiscent of a director's role during a performance rehearsal. I direct the physical pieces in their interaction with each other which creates intentional clues for where the story could lead. While these "actors" are told which set to be on and in what order to appear, any improvisation on their part is embraced and sometimes used in place of the intended script. Through the mischievous infusion of misdirection and an embracing of the bizarre, an environment that promotes curiosity and investigation amongst the viewer is perpetuated. The works are directional and stage setting, but not conclusive so that the viewer is invited to bring their context and adaptation to the narrative. While some pieces present their layered symbolism amongst abundance and excess, others require a physical investigation of the eye to read between the subtle semi-transparent layers.

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AUSTIN, TX (SEPTEMBER 18, 2014): David Weekley Homes announced today that the award-winning new home builder will appear on NewHomeSource TV. The show will air on Austin's KTBC Fox 7 at 9 a.m. CST, Sunday, September 21, 2014.
NewHomeSource TV will air the segment on Sunday, September 21, at 9 a.m. CST on KTBC Fox 7 in Austin.


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Мариан де Свардт (; родилась 18 марта 1971 года в Йоханнесбурге, ЮАР) — южноафриканская теннисистка, тренер и телекомментатор.
 2-кратная победительница турниров Большого шлема в миксте (Australian Open-1999, Roland Garros-2000).
 Финалистка 1 турнира Большого шлема в женском парном разряде (Уимблдон-1999).
 Победительница 5 турниров WTA (1 — в одиночном разряде).

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После завершения игровой карьеры Мариан работала на теннисных трансляциях южноафриканского телевидения и канала Eurosport. Также южноафриканка работает в River Oaks Country Club в Хьюстоне, США, где тренирует различного рода игроков — от любителей до профессионалов.

В 2004 году де Свардт основала собственный благотворительный фонд для помощи брошенным и диким животным.

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1/15•Annual Roswell Wedding Showcase, 2 PM - 4:30 PM. DoubleTree by Hilton, visitroswellga.com.
1/21•S.T.E.A.M., 11am, by Topher Payne, Georgia Ensemble Theatre, get.org.
1/24•Dinner in Warsaw Cooking Class with Chef Wendy Gay, 6:30 PM - 9 PM, visitroswellga.com.
Outstanding Local Art Show, Runs through April 1. Roswell Fine Arts Alliance, rfaa.org.
2/4•Live! In Roswell - A Temptations Revue, 8 PM - 9:30 PM. Roswell Cultural Arts Center, roswellCAC.com.
2/18•And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, 6:30pm Georgia Ensemble Theatre, get.org.
The Untold Story of Roswell, Roswell Roots Festival, 3 PM - 4:30 PM, Roswell Visitors Center, visitroswellga.com.
2/25 - 27•Wiphan Warthog Waddle, fellowshipchristianschool.org.


3D Space Harrier (3D スペースハリアー), not to be confused with Space Harrier 3D for the Sega Master System, is a downloadable conversion of Space Harrier for the Nintendo 3DS.
3D Space Harrier is mostly identical to the arcade version of Space Harrier, though has been altered to make use of the system's 3D capabilities, similar to Nintendo's 3D Classics range, also available for the platform. The visuals have also been adjusted for the console's 16:9 widescreen display. This version also uses the 3DS gyroscope to simulate the original arcade machine's hydraulic arcade cabinet movement, replicated for the first time on a home system.
With the exception of a handful of Sega Game Gear Virtual Console titles, 3D Space Harrier stands as the first downloadable game for the 3DS to be provided by Sega.
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The aim of this project is to identify and organize practical strategies for anxiety management and, by using design methodologies make them accessible and sharable. The project focuses on the positive routines that people can apply in order to improve their self-lerning skills on how to handle pre-performance anxiety. By 'anxiety', we mean a multidimensional somatic, behavioural, cognitive and emotional state found particularly in the artistic sector, and which is also a model for many other social and professional contexts.
In the performing arts, in the medical, sports and academic sectors, anxiety management is an essential factor for health development and enhancement, and also especially for the quality of a professional performance, at any level. The problem is not new, and is associated with the challenges generated by a society that is becoming more and more demanding. The pressure exerted by social expectations and by self-judgement impact increasingly on the performers' emotional, sychological and physiological balance. According to the 'World Happiness report 2017', even in Switzerland, one of the happiest countries in the world, one fifth of health problems are related to malfunctions caused by overload, depression or anxiety. The project therefore arose from the idea that some people naturally develop their own strategies for dealing positively with anxiety situations, and that these behaviours, structured and illustrated by means of design, may be useful in many educational and professional contexts. By combining design with the world of performing arts and behavioural studies, the project aims to reach two main objectives: Design for Wellbeing. An Open Access Toolkit for managing stress and anxiety in performance context Interview with Vanessa De Luca, joint project director Axis 7 – The role of arts in life and well-being of citizens and their communities firstly, design a tool to make accessible and usable an exceptionally rich set of strategies and techniques for managing stress, anxiety and positive emotions can be made accessible and usable. This digital toolkit will be created by a partecipatory design approach. A second objective consists of identifying future design scenarios that integrate technologies for behavioural health. We view this project as an opening contribution to the design for wellbeing interdisciplinary research area, aimed at stimulating users experiences and interactions that can improve the quality of life.


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Hopkins County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Sulphur Springs. The county was created in 1866 and originated from Lamar County and Nacogdoches County. The name of the county comes from the family of David Hopkins, an early settler in the future county. The links directory provides suggestions for a variety of websites to assist in your family history and genealogy research.


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Hale är en del av en befolkad plats i Storbritannien.   Den ligger i grevskapet Surrey och riksdelen England, i den södra delen av landet,  km sydväst om huvudstaden London. Hale ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Hale är platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km nordväst om Hale. Runt Hale är det tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Aldershot,  km nordost om Hale. I omgivningarna runt Hale växer i huvudsak blandskog.

Kustklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C.

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Porto Jofre è una città del Brasile, situata nello Stato del Mato Grosso. La città è circondata dal Pantanal, ed è collegata a Cuiabá tramite la strada conosciuta con il nome Transpantaneira.

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Si laureò in architettura a Venezia nel 1956. Sin dalla fine degli anni '50 svolse opera di progettazione e partecipò a concorsi nazionali ed internazionali.

Assistente di Ignazio Gardella e di Giuseppe Samonà dal 1956 al 1964, fu professore incaricato di Applicazioni di Geometria Descrittiva dal 1964 al 1971 e di Composizione Architettonica II dal 1971 presso lo IUAV di Venezia. Dal 1977 fu professore ordinario di Composizione Architettonica V e dal 1986 di Progettazione Architettonica II. Polesello diresse l'istituto di Composizione Architettonica dello IUAV (poi denominato dipartimento di Teoria e Tecnica della Progettazione Architettonica) dal 1974 al 1979, e il dipartimento di Progettazione Urbana dal 1979 al 1982. Dal 1984 fu Accademico di San Luca.

Ricoprì l'incarico di deputato al Parlamento italiano nella IX Legislatura, durante la quale fu membro della IX Commissione (Lavori Pubblici).

Polesello fu inoltre visiting professor presso la facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Cracovia (Polonia) e la Scuola di Architettura – USC di Los Angeles nel 1983, e tenne conferenze e seminari in Spagna (presso i collegi degli Architetti di Siviglia, Barcellona, Palma di Maiorca e il Politecnico di Las Palmas), e nella Repubblica Democratica Tedesca (presso la Deutsche Bauakademie di Berlino e la facoltà di Architettura di Weimar).

Dal 1992 al 2000 fu coordinatore del Dottorato in Composizione Architettonica dello IUAV.

Morì a Udine il 18 settembre 2007.

I progetti e gli scritti di Gianugo Polesello, apparsi in riviste italiane e straniere, sono stati raccolti nei due volumi a lui dedicati:
Gianugo Polesello – Progetti di architettura (Roma, 1983)
Gianugo Polesello – Architetture 1960-1992 (Milano, 1992).

Geometria e progetti
I progetti di Polesello  dimostrano, in modo emblematico, che non esiste costruzione della forma architettonica che non faccia riferimento a una specifica geometria progettuale.
Si usa il termine geometria progettuale per distinguerla da una qualsiasi geometria, e in modo specifico dalla geometria della rappresentazione del progetto architettonico. La geometria del progetto non esiste al di fuori di esso, è connaturata al progetto stesso, alla sua essenza architettonica.
Si esprime attraverso la configurazione dell'impianto di base e delle sue regole di partizione, attraverso la messa a punto degli elementi costitutivi il progetto (elementi architettonici formalmente definiti e geometricamente costruibili), attraverso la costruzione di sistemi di rapporti di corrispondenza e di dipendenza tra questi elementi ( e quindi attraverso l'applicazione del modulo, dei tracciati, di geometrie di controllo, ecc.).

Le regole di costruzione della forma architettonica passano attraverso la geometria del progetto. La pianta è lo strumento di controllo di questa geometria.
Questa procedura compositiva consente configurazioni architettoniche complesse, a partire dall'utilizzazione di elementi semplici.
È poi ancora la geometria, attraverso la tecnica del montaggio, a controllare la combinazione di questi elementi compositivi rispetto all'unità del progetto.
La tecnica del montaggio, come operazione progettuale attraverso cui elementi architettonici dati diventano parti costitutive la macchina del progetto, si basa essenzialmente su scelte di natura geometrica. Anche se a definire questa geometria possono contribuire motivazioni legate al sito, alla sua forma e alla sua storia.

Opere
1958
Concorso nazionale per il piano regolatore di Augusta, terzo premio
1959
Concorso nazionale per il Cep alle Barene di S.Giuliano, Venezia
1960
Progetto per la periferia nord di Milano per la XII Triennale di Milano
1961
Ambulatori comunali a Castions di Strada (Udine)
Progetto di concorso interprovinciale per un complesso a mare a Lignano (Udine), primo premio, progetto esecutivo 1963.
Progetto di concorso interprovinciale per la nuova sede della Banca cattolica del Veneto a Udine, terzo premio
1962
Progetto di concorso internazionale per il grattacielo Peugeot a Buenos Aires
Progetto di concorso nazionale per il monumento alla Resistenza di Cuneo
Progetto di concorso nazionale per centro direzionale di Torino
Piano di attrezzature turistico-sportive a Fagagna (Udine)
Progetto per il Country Club a Fagagna (Udine)
1963
Progetto di concorso nazionale per il padiglione d'ingresso all'Ospedale Civile di Udine, Villa a Tarcento (Udine)
1964
Progetto di concorso internazionale per il piano urbanistico palnivolumetrico per la Nuova   Sacca del Tronchetto, Venezia, secondo premio
Progetto per un albergo a Lignano Sabbiadoro (Udine)
Progetto per una villa a Lignano Pineta (Udine)
Progetto per un complesso parrocchiale nell'area milanese, progetto sistema Feal
Piano particolareggiato di esecuzione del piano regolatore generale di Longarone a Castellavazzo (Belluno)
Piano Urbanistico comprensoriale del Vajont
1965
Progetto per una casa ad appartamenti, S. Vito (Udine)
Progetto per una casa ad appartamenti, Casarsa (Udine)
1966
Piano particolareggiato del nuovo insediamento abitativo di Erto Casso, comune di Maniago (Pordenone)
Progetto di concorso nazionale per i nuovi uffici della Camera dei deputati a Roma
Progetto per un complesso di case per vacanze a Caorle (Caorle)
1967
Piano territoriale di coordinamento della regione Veneto, ministero dei Lavori pubblici (terza e quarta fase)
1968
Progetto di concorso nazionale per il museo della Resistenza nella risiera di S.Sabba a Trieste, primo e secondo grado
Progetto di concorso regionale per il Piano di  edilizia economica popolare Udine ovest, primo premio
Progetto di concorso regionale per il Piano di  edilizia economica popolare Udine est, rimborso spese
Autofficina Lancia, Udine
Piano turistico della Carnia centrale e piano operativo per il centro turistico invernale dello Zoncolan (Udine).
1969
Concorso nazionale di idee per il piano particolareggiato del centro storico di Trieste, progetto segnalato
Area geografica di Venezia e sue prospettive urbanistiche
1970
Progetto di concorso internazionale per il teatro dell'opera di Belgrado
Piano regolatore generale di Ravascletto (Udine)
Progetto per il Peep Udine est
Progetto per il Peep Udine ovest (nord e sud)
Progetto per lo stadio comunale polisportivo a Udine, secondo premio
1972
Piano particolareggiato per il centro storico di Pesaro (1972-1975)
Villa a Rive d'Arcano (Udine), progetto architettonico
Funivia Ravascletto- Monte Zoncolan(Udine), progetto architettonico; progetto esecutivo 1972-1975.
1973
Piano Zoncolan, progetti architettonici per un rifugio a quota 1720m  e per un rifugio a quota 1311m.
Progetto di concorso internazionale per la nuova Università degli studi della Calabria a Cosenza
Progetto per un centro civico culturale a Paluzza
Peep a S.Vito al Tagliamento
Progetto Venezia Città-Porto, presentato alla XV Triennale di Milano
Progetto di concorso urbanistico per l'area udinese
1974
Piano Zoncolan, progetto esecutivo per un rifugio a quota 1311m
1975
Piano regolatore generale di Cervignano (Udine)
Mercato a Bibione-S. Michele al Tagliamento (Venezia),1975-1981
Piano particolareggiato Arenile, S.Michele al Tagliamento(Venezia)
1977
Piano regolatore generale di Maniaco (Pordenone)
Progetto di concorso nazionale per la sistemazione planivolumetrica di un'area direzionale situata nel territorio fiorentino all'interno dell'area centrale metropolitana, progetto segnalato
1978
Progetto di concorso nazionale per la nuova sede degli uffici giudiziari a Udine
Piano particolareggiato per l'area centrale di Bibione-S.Michele al Tagliamento (Venezia)
1979
Piano di sviluppo della comunità pedemontana del Livenza
Progetto "Area 7" del piano per il centro storico di Pesaro
Progetto per l'area di S. Giobbe a Cannaregio ovest, Venezia, per il seminario internazionale Iuav
Piano regolatore generale di Porcia (Pordenone)
Piano regolatore generale di Cordenons (Pordenone)
Piano particolareggiato per l'Arenile di Bibione-S.Michele al Tagliamento (Venezia)
1980
Progetto di concorso nazionale per l'area Lanerossi a Schio (Vicenza), progetto segnalato
Piano particolareggiato per il centro storico di Maniago (Pordenone)
1981
Progetto per attrezzature turistico-nautiche a Bibione (Venezia)
Progetto di concorso regionale per la valorizzazione di Piazza 1º Maggio a      Udine, secondo premio
Progetto per un'area direzionale a Pesaro (area Montedison)
Progetto di lottizzazione convenzionata per il Cavallino, Venezia
1982
Progetto di concorso regionale per l'area centrale di Trigesimo
Progetto architettonico-urbanistico per l'area Efa a Lignano Sabbiadoro, Udine
Progetto di concorso nazionale per la nuova Università di Udine, facoltà di Agraria, Ingegneria e Scienze
1983
Progetto per la piazza S. Cristoforo a Udine
Progetto per un mercato in via Dluga a Cracovia
Progetto di concorso a inviti per l'area di piazza Antonimi a Udine, primo premio
Progetto di concorso internazionale per la ristrutturazione del nodo ferroviario bolognese e per la costruzione della nuova stazione Centrale di Bologna, primo premio
Progetto di concorso nazionale per un sistema di attrezzature sportive, nell'ambito del restauro della zona Standiana entro il parco sud di Ravenna, primo premio
Progetto per un terminal lagunare a S. Giuliano, Venezia
Progetto per l'area mestrina Cledca-Altobello
Edificio Iacp nell'area 167 a Udine (1983-1987)
1984
Progetto per l'area Termini-piazza dei Cinquecento-Esquilino a Roma
Progetto per l'area centrale di Spinea (Venezia)
Facciata degli uffici giudiziari di Tolmezzo
1985
Progetto di concorso nazionale per il teatro Amintore Galli e piazza Malatesta a Rimini, secondo premio
Concorso nazionale per la progettazione e l'inserimento urbanistico della nuova sede Cis a Cagliari
Progetto per un terminal auto-ferroviario-marittimo a Venezia ovest
Progetto di concorso per il ponte dell'Accademia a Venezia, in occasione della Biennale di Venezia
Progetto di concorso per il mercato di Rialto a Venezia, in occasione della Biennale di Venezia
1986
Progetto per Venezia ovest, seminario di progettazione Iuav
Progetto per la città universitaria di Roma, seminario internazionale di progettazione
Progetto di concorso a inviti per l'area centrale di Tarcento (Udine), primo premio
Studio per la sistemazione dell'area archeologica di Concordia Sagittaria, Venezia
1987
Progetto per un concorso internazionale di idee per il recupero ed ipotesi funzionali dell'ex complesso carcerario delle Murate a Firenze.
Piano particolareggiato per il parco sud, area Standiana a Ravenna
Campus universitario a Las Palmas (1987-91)
1988
Studio di pianificazione territoriale per l'interporto di Cervignano del Friuli (Udine)
Progetto di concorso a inviti per il padiglione Italia alla Biennale di Venezia
Progetto di concorso nazionale per il sistema urbano a Milano: piazza Duca d'Aosta, via Vittor Pisani, piazza della Repubblica
1989
Variante generale al piano regolatore generale di Cervignano del Friuli (Udine)
Piano della viabilità per la provincia di Udine
Progetto per l'isola dei Granai a Danzica, seminario internazionale dell'ordine degli architetti della Polonia
Progetto di concorso internazionale per i nuovi ingressi sud dell'Alhambra a Granata
Parco attrezzato e attrezzature pubbliche nel Peep ovest-nord a Udine
Progetto di concorso per la nuova biblioteca di Alessandria (Egitto)
1990
Riconfigurazione di piazza Municipio e nuova stazione marittima a Napoli, seminario Iuav
Progetto per gli uffici giudiziari di Tarcento (Udine)
1991
Progetto di concorso nazionale per l'area Garibaldi-Repubblica a Milano
Progetto di casa unifamiliare per il villaggio dei bambini J. Korczac a Rajsko, Oswiecim
Piano particolareggiato per l'Arenile di Bibione-S.Michele al Tagliamento (Venezia), secondo progetto
Progetto di concorso internazionale "Il mosaico come linguaggio di architettura", progetto menzionato
1992
Progetto di concorso internazionale per la ristrutturazione del centro di Varsavia

Bibliografia
P. Grandinetti, Gianugo Polesello. Progetti di architettura, Edizioni Kappa, Roma, 1983.
M. Zardini (a cura di), Gianugo Polesello. Architetture 1960-1992. Electa, Milano, 1992.
G. Rakowitz, Gianugo Polesello. Dai quaderni, Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2015.

Voci correlate
 Architettura
 Architetto
 Urbanistica
 Piano regolatore
 Razionalismo italiano
 Movimento Moderno
 Neorealismo architettonico
 Congresso internazionale di architettura moderna
 INA-Casa
 Aldo Rossi
 BBPR
 Adalberto Libera
 Saverio Muratori
 Giovanni Muzio
 Mario Ridolfi
 Ignazio Gardella
 Giuseppe Samonà
 Giuseppe Terragni
 Ludovico Quaroni
 Giovanni Michelucci

Collegamenti esterni
 Archivio Gianugo Polesello, fondo conservato presso l'Università Iuav di Venezia, SBD-Archivio Progetti.

Portale di architettura su Wikipedia

Professori dell'Università IUAV di Venezia
Deputati della IX legislatura della Repubblica Italiana
Studenti dell'Università IUAV di Venezia
Politici del Partito Comunista Italiano


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81-year-old man chases down alleged thief after being robbed of casino winnings at ATM
An 81-year-old man chased down a man who allegedly robbed him of his casino winnings, as police reports that the man is facing charges for robbing the elderly couple—though losing the steal in the struggle that ensued.
According to investigators, the couple went to an ATM at an undisclosed Ottawa bank on Sunday afternoon to deposit their casino winning when the incident occurred.
The suspect was stood at an adjacent ATM when he asked the couple for assistance, before proceeding to hijack their money envelope while they were distracted and fled with it.
Police reported that, "the 81-year-old man chased the suspect in his car and cornered him in a nearby alley, where he recovered the money after a brief struggle."
A witness then took a description of the suspect and a cellphone photograph which aided the officers in capturing the suspect.
The 44-year-old Ottawa man now faces multiple charges including robbery with violence and possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.
One of the major disadvantages of land-based casinos is evidently the lack of convenience, and gamblers are exposed to numerous threats such as getting robbed after claiming a winning. Just like the case of the elderly man, there have also been more cases of land-based casino players getting robbed of their winnings.
In April, Prince Albert police were notified of a robbery that occurred at a bar, where a woman who had won a large amount of cash at a Video Lottery Terminal (VLT) was robbed. 81-year-old man chases down alleged thief after being robbed of casino winnings at ATM
According to police reports, the woman kept the winnings in her purse and was trailed while she was leaving the bar by a man who threatened her with a knife, and physically snatched her purse before fleeing.
Officers located the suspect later that night at a bar in the 600-block of Marquis Road East. The suspect fled the building but was later discovered hiding in some bushes on 6th Avenue East.
The 29-year-old Regina man was arrested by officers and the knife used in the attack was found in the bushes. However, the purse containing the winnings was not recovered.
The suspect is facing multiple charges for stealing personal property while armed with an offensive weapon, possession of a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the public peace and refusing to provide his identity.
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"I woke my partner up and said, 'Hey, I think I've won £2.8 million (UK pound sterling equivalent),'" said the winner, from Sweden. "She had a bit of a shock there, in the middle of the night."
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Soul Dust: the Science and Art of Consciousness
Talk given by Nicholas Humphrey (LSE) for our first Creativity Lectures Series.
Nicholas Humphrey, a theoretical psychologist based in Cambridge, presents his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. Part of the ASC Creativity Lecture Series.
Nicholas Humphrey studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of "blindsight" after brain damage in monkeys, he proposed the celebrated theory of the "social function of intellect". His books include Consciousness Regained, The Inner Eye, A History of the Mind, Leaps of Faith, The Mind Made Flesh, Seeing Red and most recently Soul Dust: the Magic of Consciousness (Princeton University Press). He has been Professor at the London School of Economics.
Url: http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/kebl/creativity/2011-04-29_thompson.mp4


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Midnight Bite(7)
By: Cynthia Eden
Patience was a virtue, right? One of the very few that he possessed. So Devereaux locked his jaw and lowered her to the floor. "You aren't wearing shoes."
"Because you can't run fast in high heels," she mumbled back, never taking her amazing gaze off his.
His lips quirked. He couldn't help it. She made him…happy?
No, be careful. Don't let her get her claws too deeply into you.
"You said you'd help me." Her breath sighed out. "Okay, fine, let's see if you were lying or telling the truth. I want out of this bar. I want to go home. And I don't feel like tangling with another vamp or any wolves."
No worries on that score. "You only have to tangle with me."
Her head cocked as she studied him. Her hair trailed over her shoulder.
Do this right. Devereaux straightened and offered his arm to her. He could be gallant. After all, he was royalty. "Shall we?"
Hesitantly, her fingers rose and curled around his arm. "I don't understand what's happening tonight. My mother told me to never trust vampires."
He sent out his power, making sure the humans around them stepped back as he escorted Lark to the door. "Did she have any rules about kissing vampires?"
A quick burst of laughter came from her. A sound like sweet music. Then… "You're the first vampire I've ever kissed. She didn't specifically mention a rule, but I'm sure she would have been against it."
The first vampire. "First and only." The rough growl slipped from him before he could think better of it. But he didn't want another vamp touching her. Not kissing her. Not taking her blood—
His gaze fell to her throat. Charles was going to get staked before dawn. Bastard.
"What did you say?" She'd stilled near the door.
"I said…Don't be so sure. Your mother might've just had a soft spot for vampires." Or, at least, for one. Once. But they'd cover that bit of news later. Once he had Lark exactly where he wanted her.
Bonded and bedded.
If he revealed too much, too soon, she'd run. He couldn't have that. There were too many dangers that she faced. Too many who wanted to take her away from him.
A howl sounded in the distance. Ah, a pack was closing in. Too late. "When we go outside, I won't let anyone else touch you." A solemn promise.
She stared at him, as if trying to decide whether or not he was telling the truth. He was. Absolutely.
"You're not a hunter," Devereaux told her as he leaned in close. No humans were close. His power kept them away. "You turned away from that life, so you're not prepared to handle the beasts coming for you. Trust me. I'll take care of them."
"I still don't get why you're helping me, or how you seem to know so much about me."
He knew everything. He'd made a point of learning every secret. "I'll tell you, soon enough." First, it was time to get her outside.
Time to get her to his home.
He shoved open the club's door. The cold air came at him, and he thought of her shoeless, cute little feet. He didn't want her walking on the cold pavement. Devereaux scooped her into his arms and hurried away from the club and the loud humans.
"Fucking bastard!" A tall, broad-shouldered asshole with too-long blond hair strode from the darkness. Four men were at his back. All built along the same long and rough lines. Powerful. Dangerous. Beasts usually were. "You think you got to her first?"
Devereaux lowered Lark until her feet touched the concrete and gently pushed her behind his back. "As usual, Martin, you're too late. Must suck always coming in second place."
The men behind the alpha growled.
Devereaux just laughed. "Are you missing a pack member?" Innocently, he posed the question. "I do believe I saw him a few moments ago. The fellow was crawling away to lick his wounds." He let his laughter and smile fade as his stare sharpened on the pack. "Take a step toward my Lark, and you'll all be doing the same."
Martin fisted his hands. "The deal is over. The new year has dawned. I want my vengeance. I'm due."
Screw this. The werewolf with the too-loud mouth was going to ruin everything. Devereaux surged forward. He locked his fingers around the alpha's throat and lifted the werewolf two feet off the ground. An alpha was strong, but no match for a vampire with royal blood. "I got her first," he rasped, keeping his voice low so that Lark would not overhear. "That means I'm due. All vengeance is mine. She is mine. You try to take her, and I'll destroy every member of your pack. Are we clear?"
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The big news this month is the release of Android Q Beta. As usual, the updated OS means more work for Android devs, but also more opportunities. There are a number of interesting new features and options for us to play around with, and you'll find more information on all of them below. We're putting together a guide to Android Q from a developer perspective as I write this, so keep your eyes peeled to the site for more on that.
March sees a smattering of other news from across all corners of Android development too, including some things that developers need to be aware of. Creators will now have to meet new app and game icon specifications, game makers will be able to benefit from a couple of interesting new tools, and the AOSP is seeing some updates to its core apps.
You'll find everything you need to know right here, along with a helping of useful and interesting tutorials and opinion pieces to get stuck into. There's a guide to C#, a tour of Facebook's mobile development process, and lots more.
Everything new in the first Android Q developer preview – An excellent breakdown from Jimmy and Lanh of everything new coming to Android Q that we know about so far.
An inside look at Facebook's mobile app development process – Adam Sinicki (that's me) takes a guided tour of Facebook's Release Engineering Team in London to discover the workflow, tools, and strategies they use to keep their Android apps up-to-date and add new features. It was a fascinating look at development on the largest scale.
An introduction to C# for Android for beginners – This post does what it says on the tin: it's an introduction to the C# language for those unfamiliar. When you think of Android development, you typically think of either Java or Kotlin. In fact, there are many scenarios where knowing C# is beneficial (Unity, Xamarin), so use this post to brush up.
An introduction to XML for new Android developers – the powerful markup language – Another crucial component in your Android development: XML is a markup language used to define layouts and store data. Learn what it is and how to use it here.
How to make an Android game – for complete beginners – Want to make a game but don't know where to start? This post is for you – and will outline the tools, the methodology, and some common mistakes to avoid.
The best Android app makers for creating apps and building them with zero code (updated) – If you want to avoid learning to code altogether, then an app-builder might just hold the answer. This post lists a large number of different options and compares them in terms of features, pricing, and quality.
Get Android Q Beta – Want to have a stab at developing for the future of Android? Get instructions from Google here on how to get started.
Introducing Android Q Beta – On March 13, Beta 1 of Android Q was released for early adopters along with a preview SDK for devs. This post outlines the changes that Google has announced so far, including some future-proofing support for foldable devices, as well as more immediately useful features such as a quicker sharing shortcut, quick settings, wider support for Vulkan, and the ability to grab dynamic depth images. And of course, there are the usual improvements to security and privacy to consider. More soon.
Android Q Beta 2 – Google announced the second Android Q developer preview on the Android Developers Blog. Key features include a new foldables emulator, a new MicrophoneDirection APIR, Google's own take on floating chat heads – called Bubbles – and more.
Introducing a new Google Play app and game icon specification – As of May 1, all new apps uploaded to the Play Store will need to conform to new icon standards. By June 24, developers will need to update their existing apps as well. Changes are minor – essentially corners are going to be more rounded – but you can get the lowdown at the link.
Giving users more control over their location data – Every time Google makes a change to streamline and improve the experience for users, it equates to a headache for us devs! In Android Q, users will have more control over location permissions, which means they'll be able to opt for apps to only access location data while "in use". Devs will need to add a new permission to the manifest and manage the new setting. The new feature is available to test in Q Beta, and you can find more info in the post.
Google Mobile Developer Day at Game Developers Conference – Stadia may be the big gaming announcement from Google, but the company hasn't left us traditional mobile devs completely in the lurch. At Game Developers Conference 2019, Google hosted Google Mobile Developer Day, and shared some useful new features including pre-registration moving to general availability, which should help creators to market and build hype, and store listing experiments allowing you to A/B test changes to your app.
AOSP Application Updates – This post from Google looks at some recent changes made to the Android Open Source Project. Specifically, with regards to the Music, Calendar, and Calculator apps.
Changes to the Google Play Developer API – Google announces some updates to the Google Play Developer API. Developers will need to switch to version 3 starting from December 1, 2019. This post explains the migration process.
The latest Android App Bundle updates including the additional languages API – App Bundles now make it possible for the Play Store to push only the correct language resources for the user during install time.
Design and Git: Guidelines for effective design version control – This is a post that provides some useful best practices for version control when using Git.
Best strategy to load images using Glide – Image loading library for Android – Some helpful advice for getting more from the popular image loader library.
Building a Fibonacci Watch Face for Wear OS – A cool – if admittedly nerdy – little project for Wear OS.
How did I "crack" the coding interview – Whether you're looking for tips, or just some schadenfreude (it's always great when you're not the one doing being interviewed!), this is an interesting post about the interview process for Google's Android Partnerships Team.
Android: Using Physics-Based Animations in Custom Views (SpringAnimation) – An introduction to the SpringAnimation class, which can provide some crisp and polished-looking animations.
How I fought modders and crackers (Android-Tamper-Detector) – A personal account from a dev who managed to protect his app using Android-Tamper-Detector – a lightweight library written in Kotlin. This account has personal resonance for yours truly and hopefully can help others protect their IP!


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Q: odata.maxpagesize header not working in Microsoft Graph API? I'm using the Graph Explorer to try out some requests (https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/events), but my data was too big to easily parse. So I tried to use the Prefer: odata.maxpagesize=3 header as documented, but the response still returned the full list of events. I tried both with v1.0 and beta.
Checking the Network console in Chrome, the Prefer: odata.maxpagesize=3 is included in the request headers, but Preference-Applied is missing from the response headers.

A: Try something like this, it definitely works:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/events?$top=3&$skip=3

Paging is achieved by using the $top parameter to specify a page size
  and the $skip parameter as a multiple of the page size. By
  incrementing the $skip parameter value by the page size you can
  request the next page in the set of results.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/office/office365/api/complex-types-for-mail-contacts-calendar#page-results

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WV Higher Ed. Policy Commission
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"The Board of Governors of Fairmont State University is extremely pleased to welcome Dr. Martin to campus and eager to begin working with her on January 1, 2018," said BOG Chair Dixie Yann. "She comes with a variety of financial and educational experiences, but is extremely student-focused and will continue to build Fairmont State University's reputation for student success."
Dr. Martin has more than 30 years of experience in higher education, banking, advisory and consulting. Dr. Martin's career involves work in both the public and private sectors as well as work with public-private partnerships. Her higher education experience is diverse – she has served in various faculty, administrative, executive and trustee positions. She has earned respect as a strong advocate and a transformative leader for education.
"I am grateful to the board, the search committee, faculty, staff, our wonderful students and to the community at large for affording me the privilege to lead this incredible institution," Dr. Martin said. "There are boundless opportunities here -- opportunities we can maximize by engaging alumni and friends and by working together with other senior institutions, community colleges, and with industry. I am here because I believe in you, in this institution and in its enormous potential.
"I know that together, we will establish and achieve bold, inspirational goals. We will dream big and deliver transformational programs that will make a positive impact in our community, in our state, and in the world," Martin said.
Dr. Martin holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and political science from Duke University; a master of business administration from the University of Richmond; and a doctorate with an emphasis in strategic management and leadership from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her full CV can be found at https://www.fairmontstate.edu/files/u1/martin-mirta-m-cv.pdf
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Washington, D.C. – In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) a senior member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence declared his intention to object to any attempt to pass the recently reported FY2011 Intelligence Authorization bill by unanimous consent.
Wyden has been raising concerns about the inclusion of a controversial pension forfeiture provision, which would give the heads of intelligence agencies the authority to take away the pension benefits of any intelligence agency employee – or former employee – based on an administrative determination that the employee was responsible for an unauthorized disclosure of classified information. While Wyden, who authored the recent law increasing the criminal penalties for exposing covert agents, indicated his support for efforts to deter leaks of classified information, he said he could not support steps that would deny intelligence personnel the same due process rights available to other government employees.
Wyden raised additional concerns about the bill's potential impact on existing protections for national security whistleblowers and went on to note that this authority has not been requested by the head of any intelligence agency.
"I know that none of my colleagues would deliberately do anything to undermine protections for legitimate whistleblowers, but I think it was a mistake for the Intelligence Committee to report this bill without hearing the intelligence agencies' views on whether or not they believe that section 403 would impact existing whistleblower protections," said Wyden. "It is entirely unclear to me what standard agency heads would use to "determine" that a particular employee was guilty of disclosing information…And as I pointed out to my colleagues during the committee markup of this bill, neither the Director of National Intelligence nor any of the intelligence agency heads have asked Congress for this authority."
M. President, I would like to briefly address the intelligence authorization bill for fiscal year 2011, which has now been reported by the Intelligence Committee. I filed additional views to the committee report accompanying the bill, and my remarks today will include a brief summary of those views.
I have now been a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee for over a decade – Senator Feinstein, Senator Rockefeller and I all began serving on the committee at the beginning of 2001, which I believe makes us the committee's longest-serving current members. In my time on the committee, I have become quite familiar with the intelligence authorization process.
It has now been almost seven years since an intelligence authorization bill was signed into law during the fiscal year it was intended to cover, and although the 2011 fiscal year is now over halfway over, Congress still has an opportunity to provide useful guidance and direction regarding intelligence spending for this fiscal year. The FY11 intelligence authorization bill is the product of substantial labor by both Chairman Feinstein and Vice Chairman Chambliss, as well as their respective staff, and I commend them both for their efforts and for the bipartisan manner in which they have worked to put it together.
Unfortunately, I have very serious concerns about one provision of this bill, and that is why I voted against it during the committee markup last month.
Section 403 of this bill would authorize the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to establish an administrative process under which the DNI and the heads of the various intelligence agencies would have the authority to take away the pension benefits of an intelligence agency employee, or a former employee, if they "determine" that the employee has knowingly violated his or her nondisclosure agreement and disclosed classified information.
I share my colleagues' frustration regarding unauthorized disclosures, or "leaks," of classified information. Leaks are a problem that has plagued intelligence agencies throughout modern history – they can undermine intelligence operations, jeopardize intelligence sources and methods, and have a terrible impact on the lives of covert agents who are publicly exposed.
Every member of Congress, myself included, wants to find new ways to identify and appropriately punish individuals who illegally disclose classified information. I personally spent four years working on legislation to increase the criminal penalty for people who are convicted of deliberately exposing covert agents. And I am proud to say that with help from a number of my Republican and Democratic colleagues, this legislation was finally signed into law last year. So I don't take a backseat to anybody when it comes to getting tough on leaks.
I agree that increasing penalties for particular offenses can sometimes have a deterrent effect on those who might otherwise be tempted to leak, so I support the creation of new consequences for individuals who have been convicted of illegally divulging classified information. But when it comes to leakers, the biggest challenge is not determining how to punish them as much as it is identifying who they are.
Given these challenges, my concern is that giving intelligence agency heads the authority to take away the pensions of individuals who haven't been formally convicted of any wrongdoing could pose serious problems for the due process rights of intelligence professionals, and particularly the rights of whistleblowers who report waste, fraud and abuse to Congress or Inspectors General.
Section 403 - as approved by the Select Committee on Intelligence - gives intelligence agency heads the power to take pension benefits away from any employee that an agency head "determines" has knowingly violated their nondisclosure agreement. But as I pointed out to my colleagues during the committee markup of this bill, neither the DNI nor any of the intelligence agency heads have asked Congress for this authority. Moreover, as of today none of the intelligence agencies have officially told Congress how they would interpret this language.
It is entirely unclear to me what standard agency heads would use to "determine" that a particular employee was guilty of disclosing information. It seems clear that section 403 gives agency heads the power to make this determination themselves, without going to a court of law, but the language of the provision provides virtually no guidance about what standard should be used, or even whether this standard could vary from one agency to the next. And no agency heads have yet told Congress what standard they believe they would be inclined or required to use. This means that if an agency head "determines" that a particular individual is responsible for a particular anonymous publication, he or she could conceivably take action to revoke that individual's pension benefits even if the agency does not have enough proof to convict the employee in court.
Section 403 states that agency heads must act "in a manner consistent with the due process and appeal rights otherwise available to an individual who is subject to the same or similar disciplinary action under other law." But federal agencies do not normally take away the pension benefits of former employees unless they are convicted of a crime or begin openly working for a foreign government. I do not believe that this "otherwise available" language is intended to require the government to get a criminal conviction, but beyond that I am not at all sure what impact this language is supposed to have and I am not sure that the various intelligence agency heads will know what it means either. This only increases my concern that this provision could be used to undermine or violate the due process rights of intelligence agency employees, with a corresponding impact on their family members and dependents.
I am also especially troubled that section 403 is silent regarding disclosures to Congress and Inspectors General. Everyone hopes that intelligence agency managers and supervisors will act honorably and protect whistleblowers who come forward and go through proper channels to report waste, fraud and abuse in national security agencies, but this is unfortunately not always the reality. There are existing laws in place that are intended to protect whistleblowers who provide information to Congress and Inspectors General – and I believe that these laws should be strengthened – but section 403 does not specify whether it would supersede these existing statutes or not. I know that none of my colleagues would deliberately do anything to undermine protections for legitimate whistleblowers, but I think it was a mistake for the Intelligence Committee to report this bill without hearing the intelligence agencies' views on whether or not they believe that section 403 would impact existing whistleblower protections.
It is unfortunately entirely plausible to me that a given intelligence agency could conclude that a written submission to the congressional intelligence committees or an agency Inspector General is an "unauthorized publication," and that the whistleblower who submitted it is thereby subject to punishment under section 403, especially since there is no explicit language in the bill that contradicts this conclusion. Withholding pension benefits from a legitimate whistleblower would be highly inappropriate, but overzealous and even unscrupulous individuals have served in senior government positions in the past, and will undoubtedly do so again in the future. This is why it is essential to have strong protections for whistleblowers enshrined in law, and this is particularly true for intelligence whistleblowers, since, given the covert nature of intelligence operations and activities, there are limited opportunities for public oversight. But reporting fraud and abuse by one's own colleagues takes courage, and no whistleblowers will come forward if they do not believe that they will be protected from retaliation.
Finally, I am somewhat perplexed by the fact that section 403 creates a special avenue of punishment that only applies to accused leakers who have worked directly for an intelligence agency at some point in their careers. There are literally thousands of employees at the Departments of Defense, State and Justice, as well as the White House, who have access to sensitive information. Some of the most serious leaks of the past few decades have undoubtedly been made by individuals working for these organizations. I do not see an obvious justification for singling out intelligence community employees, particularly in the absence of evidence that these employees are responsible for a disproportionate number of leaks. And I am concerned that it will be harder to attract qualified individuals to work for intelligence agencies if Congress creates the perception that intelligence officers have fewer due process rights than other government employees.
Withholding pension benefits from individuals who are convicted of disclosing classified information will often be an appropriate punishment. This punishment is already established in existing laws, and I would be inclined to support efforts to clarify or strengthen these laws. But I am not inclined to give agency heads broad authority to take away the pensions of individuals who have not been convicted of wrongdoing, particularly when the agency heads themselves have not even told Congress how they would interpret and implement this authority. This is why I voted against this authorization bill. All of my colleagues and I agree that illegal leaks are a serious problem, but this does not mean that anything at all that is done in the name of stopping leaks is necessarily wise policy.
I look forward to working with my colleagues to amend this bill, and I am hopeful that they will be willing to modify or remove section 403 to address the concerns I have raised. In the meantime, I should be clear that it is my intention to object to any request to pass the current version of the bill by unanimous consent.


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Q: Get the n last entries from each category I have a system that has Blog, BlogEntry and Category. Category has many blogs and BlogEntry belongs to a blog.
I have a front page which displayes the latest blog entries. I would like to get the latest (say 5 latest) blog entries for each category so there is a equal share of categories on the front page at any given time (fashion and "pink blogers" are posting a lot. Two times a day at minimum!)
It is a Rails app and uses kaminari for pagination so I obviously would prefer a solution that supports kaminari (a activerecord::relation being returned).
I'm looking for something like this: Retrieve 2 last posts for each category. But rails/ActiveRecord spesific.
I could possibly take the sql from that answer and make it fit my database scheme but I think that would only return an array and not an ActiveRecord::Relation.
Is what I'm looking for even possible?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated. :)

A: You could use named scopes to filter blogs based on when they're published.
scope :recent, lambda { where('created_at >= ?', Time.current) }
scope :recent, lambda { order("created_at DESC") }
scope :recent, conditions: ["category = "blog" and created_at < ?", Time.now]


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Cycling Home
Simon Yates: Who is the Briton on course to make history at the Giro d'Italia?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44225624
Simon Yates in the Giro d'Italia leader's pink jersey
Every four years, Britain's cyclists demonstrate at the Olympics that they are among the very best in the world.
Bradley Wiggins, Laura and Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy are among those who have become household names by their success in the sport.
Next to that sort of star quality, Simon Yates is a relative unknown. But it is he who stands on the brink of history - becoming the first Briton to win the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours.
The 25-year-old goes into the final five days of the Giro as clear favourite after surviving Tuesday's time trial - a relative weak spot for him - with a 56-second lead, and with stages that suit him better still to come.
But who exactly is Simon Yates?
1. He is a twin - younger brother Adam is also a professional cyclist and was part of Britain's men's road race team at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Adam finished fourth at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification.
The Yates brothers grew up in Bury, in Greater Manchester, and say black puddings are one of the town's best exports.
Despite Simon and Adam Yates looking very alike, they are not biologically identical
2. Simon says his greatest achievement so far on the bike is his unexpected 2013 points race gold medal at the World Championships in Minsk at the age of 20.
3. He has served a ban for 'non-intentional' doping.
During the 2016 Paris-Nice race, he was taking the banned substance terbutaline to treat his asthma, but his team's doctor had failed to apply for a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) which would have meant he could take it and stay within the rules. The team took responsibility for the administrative error but Simon was still given a four-month ban.
4. Simon and Adam got into cycling after their father John collided with a car while out riding.
During his recovery, he took his boys along with him to the Manchester velodrome, and from there they were hooked.
Both brothers showed obvious talent and soon joined their father's cycling club, where they were spotted by pro teams and British Cycling.
How has he got to this point?
Yates finished seventh overall in the 2017 Tour de France and won the young rider classification, matching the feat achieved by twin brother Adam a year earlier.
In 2018 he won stage seven of the Paris-Nice to take the overall race lead going into the final stage only to be pipped by Movistar's Marc Soler, who beat him by four seconds.
How you've reacted
How have the Italian media reacted?
Elia Viviani who won stage 17 says he sees Yates as the "absolute favourite" (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
'It's in the bag for Simon Yates. He's the strongest uphill and hasn't got any weaknesses' (OA Sport)
Yates creates a masterpiece, Aru crumbles (Premium Sport)
Just how big an achievement will it be if he wins?
BBC Sport chief sports writer Tom Fordyce
No British rider has ever won the Giro. Several have been fancied to, not least Sir Bradley Wiggins, the year after he had become the first Briton to win the Tour de France.
But just as Wiggins was defeated by a combination of injury and a loss of nerve on the race's treacherous descents, so Team Sky's other attempts were also derailed; Geraint Thomas was in fabulous form in 2017 but then collided with a badly parked police motorbike and was forced to abandon with injury a few days later.
Chris Froome had been the Briton most expected to succeed this year, but he crashed before the race even began, on his reconnaissance lap of the time-trial course for the opening stage in Jerusalem.
But while Sky's attempts to control this wild race have repeatedly failed, Yates has ridden into pink in a very different way - with constant attacks, with unpredictable moves. If he gets his reward in Rome on Sunday it will be entirely deserved.
British Cycling
Read more on British Cycling
International Cycling Union
Read more on International Cycling Union
How to get into cycling
Road, track, BMX, mountain and many more - there are so many ways and reasons to start cycling.
How to improve your cycling warm up
Got a big cycling race coming up? Make sure you make the most of your warm up with this 20-minute guide.
What's on BBC Sport this week
This week's sport on the BBC includes football from the Women's World Cup, the Cricket World Cup, golf from the US Open and much more.


In 2008 I ran a global survey on knowledge manager professional development and experience. It found that only 29% of knowledge managers had been in their role for more than 4 years, and only 25% were confident of moving on to another KM role. The average "lifespan" among respondents was something like 2.5 years.
Nick Milton recently surveyed his KM contacts on LinkedIn and found that knowledge managers average lifespan seems to last about 6 years – which shows progress! About 60% will survive beyond 4 years, double my figure a decade ago. However, only about 25% of his subjects are likely to have had a longish (8+ years) career in KM. Progress, but slow progress!
So you have built and implemented a taxonomy but search is still not returning the desired results. What do you do?
Taxonomy alone is limited in what it can do. Search alone is also limited. Together, they become much smarter. If taxonomy and search are integrated, they can be very powerful and vastly improve the user experience.
In this article, inspired by the work of Callender, Morville and Nichani (see references in the paper) Patrick outlines 10 search patterns that taxonomy and metadata can support. He lists their benefits, dependencies, potential applications, and illustrates them with real life examples.
Late last year we released our 1-day Rapid KM Assessment workshop, for organisations who want to figure out quickly where they stand in KM and in which direction they could proceed. The videos below give an overview of the workshop.
We'll be happy to hear what you think.
Today seems like the umpteenth time this year that I've seen a spec for a taxonomy/metadata project that assumes you can just hire a consultant to look at your existing taxonomy/metadata model and critique and refine it, without any provision for analysis of business and user needs. It's been getting so bad, that we at ISKO Singapore even ran a special workshop on that problem among others.
Then the nice people at Taxonomy Bootcamp wrote me an email suggesting I answer one of three questions to help promote my session there this November. Question 3 was: What's the secret to getting buy-in and funding for taxonomy projects or to expand their use in the organization?
There is no secret, it should be blindingly obvious, but it is often ignored. Buy-in and funding (and subsequent support and use) flow directly from the taxonomy and metadata work being USEFUL. (1) It needs to be useful to the people who are supposed to be using the taxonomy either directly within a browsing/tagging interface, or indirectly through such tools as search and auto-classification. It needs to help them do their work. (2) It needs to be useful to the host organisation in supporting and furthering its mission and goals.
There is a widespread misconception that taxonomy design is a task for a technical expert who can look at a body of content and design a perfect taxonomy for it, or can critique an existing taxonomy without reference to business and user needs. If you can't get your feet dirty in the guts of the organisation, you can't design or refine a taxonomy that will be useful. If you can, then you'll find you have all the buy-in and adoption you need. If you are scoping a taxonomy project, PLEASE don't forget to scope in the work required for analysing business and user needs!
Here's the link to our August issue of the Straits Knowledge Bulletin. Lots of good stuff on upcoming events, knowledge audits, KM Assessments, and a book review!
What is becoming clearer and clearer is that the larger classical developed western organisational world of working (with my sincere apologies to those immediately feeling excluded when they may not be working in this arena – but hopefully you will still learn something from reading on) is going through a massive transformation which they have very little control over (or sometimes proper understanding of): this transformation, triggered by huge advances in technology is having large ripple-effects on how we work, literally and figuratively speaking. This covers everything from our physical working environment (transitioning from permanent office fixtures to more hot-spotting / remote-working) to team members (from fixed functional organisational set-ups to more dynamic and agile mixed project-based specialist teaming) to technologies (multiple applications providing similar solutions which are constantly evolving while personal interactions with devices is rapidly-evolving whereby daily use of augmented reality (AR) and voice activation (VA), amongst other disruptors, is not so far-fetched anymore)… Taking all this change into account and how it impacts on anyone who still needs to deliver on daily work is a difficult – and usually negative conversation.
Gallup tracks this fascinating employee engagement perspective which opens up some frankly scary reading (scary for employers, that is; their findings make ready sense for those who have experienced classical western organisational environments); they suggest around 85% of the global workforce is not engaged in their work! Obviously the reasons amongst these are very widespread – and while some of these cannot be 'fixed' per se by the employer, there are certainly ways and means which can help enhance and reduce these at a team and individual level (organisationally, this is a different beast). But it doesn't have to be this way!
My belief is that we need to (re-)focus on the human intellectual component when it comes to daily work: this means looking at how we as individuals work. The emotional and conscientious connection which a worker makes with his or her work can only really be enabled when that person is properly intellectually engaged (which then enables mental, emotional, sensory and physical engagement) – something which takes a combination of interventions. Funny enough, most of these interventions borrow from the suite of Knowledge Management practices!
I'm talking about looking at how one works by adopting the four key pillars as with KM: we look at people, content, processes (and equipment), and technologies as key influencers – and disruptors. This means then putting on an 'intellectual' lens when examining how these four key factors impact on how one carries out his or her work: examining these through this lens will not only immediately understand how the individual is approaching and executing his or her task, but also helps raise awareness at the supervisor / manager level around what facilitates this exercise, what current distractions are apparent, and what can potentially help overcome or avoid these disruptions. Adopting this mindset not only shines light on more effective ways of working (= innovation?), but then opens up the up-/down-/sideways-reporting components which enables greater flow of understanding and communication – effectively allowing for better knowledge-sharing. I will go into more detail around each of these four components and interventions in my next postings – but I have seen this approach work (without having recognised it for what it was at the time). And this was accomplished while not having waving the 'KM' hat, but rather in adopting an operational improvement approach with a focus on the worker's individual needs and challenges! Simplistic? Perhaps. Call me naïve and a throw-back, but at the end of the day, I still do believe in that old mantra: a happy worker is a productive worker… and which worker is not more happy than when intellectually engaged?


The mountain chain known as the Blue Ridge traces a 550-mile arc through Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia. Along the way, it encompasses Shenandoah National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, seven national forests, numerous federal wilderness areas and state parks, and parts of the Appalachian Trail. It is the largest concentration of public lands east of the Mississippi and home to an astonishing diversity of plant and animal life. But as the most extensive natural area in the increasingly populous Southeast, the Blue Ridge ecosystem faces unique challenges in the next decades.
Drawing on scientific research in a variety of disciplines, journalist Steve Nash provides a clear and evenhanded introduction to some of the most hotly disputed environmental issues facing the Blue Ridge, including the invasion of exotic plants and insects, the explosive growth of suburban-style communities in natural areas, worsening air and water pollution, and the erratic management of national forests. Informative and highly readable, Blue Ridge 2020 takes a hard look at what is at risk in these mountains and what we?as the "owners" of the public lands?must do if we intend to preserve their future.


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The Angry Golfer: Golf on a Cactus Farm?
Tiger Woods and the fellas would have volunteered to squeegee La Costa's greens if they knew where this event was headed
Illustrations by
Leigh Haeger
Before we paint a bull's-eye on this week's subject, the Angry Golfer would like to present a Lifetime Annoyance award to the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, otherwise known as Insufferable Saturday. Washed-up celebrities trying way too hard to be Bill Murray during a shameless, three-hour CBS promo -- I would rather sit on an airplane next to a crying baby.
What worked in 1994 can seem utterly ridiculous now, which takes us to next week's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, which was moved last year to a course in a residential area on a mountain north of Tucson. Bothered by the puny crowds, lousy conditions and dismal atmosphere that characterized the Match Play at La Costa, the PGA Tour found it a new home in a minor-league town on what might be the worst spectator venue ever built.
You've gotta love it when Camp Ponte Vedra pledges to do what's best for the players, then drops its crown jewel of the West Coast swing in the middle of a cactus farm. My guess -- dare I call it an educated one -- is that Tiger Woods and the fellas would have volunteered to squeegee La Costa's greens themselves if they knew where this event was headed.
Forgive me for trying to make sense, but why not move the Match Play north to the TPC Scottsdale? Pro golf's largest galleries would totally invigorate this feeble gathering -- it's hard to imagine those crowds getting any smaller if they were given a field full of top-50s. Because of the format, which comes with a higher risk in terms of holding TV viewers, no week on the schedule relies more on peripheral factors to make it a success.
On-site buzz ranks first, second and third on the periphery. Of course, it's easy for me to say. I wasn't in the board room when the tour agreed to transfer the elephants to a petting zoo.
Golf News & Tours
Inbee Park, seeking first win since 2018, leads Sei Young Kim by two - Golf Digest
TrackMan sales rep keeps lead at Latin America Amateur heading to Sunday with Masters and British Open invites on the line - Golf Digest
Tom Crow, who founded Cobra Golf and its renowned Baffler utility club, has died - Golf Digest
Here's the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2020 American Express - Golf Digest
PGA Tour backstopping controversy returns as Kevin Na yells, "Hit my ball!" to playing partner - Golf Digest


Enjoy the warmth of the sun on your shoulders this season while wearing this stylish halter top. Knit with 3 (3, 4, 4, 5, 5) skeins #3 yarn using U.S. sizes 4/3.5mm and 6/4mm straight needles.
Chest: 30 (34, 28, 42, 46, 50)"
Length: 25 1/2 (26, 26 1/4, 26 1/2, 26 3/4, 27)"


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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review
A Glorious Return
by Javy Gwaltney on Nov 16, 2017 at 05:00 AM
Reviewed on Switch
Also on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC
Publisher Bethesda Softworks
Developer Bethesda Softworks
Release November 11, 2011
Rating Mature
For more than six years, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has captured the imaginations of countless gamers, with its beautiful and snowy fantastical trappings, seemingly endless side quests, and massive modding community. The Switch port of Skyrim is an exciting prospect because it makes an enticing promise that the other console versions don't: being able to play on the go. I was impressed with how the Switch handles this massive (and infamously glitchy) RPG, resulting in a competent port that transitions wonderfully to portable play.
For those who haven't played Skyrim yet, the game takes place on the fantastical continent of Tamriel, where humans walk alongside talking lizards and feline merchants. The world is filled with various factions, guilds, and kingdoms vying for control. On paper, that sounds generic, but Skyrim's open-ended design is anything but commonplace. Players explore the world at their own pace, uncovering secret treasures in tombs hidden in mountains or plotting with children to kill an evil orphanage owner. Even a walk through a forest might suddenly be interrupted by a giant spider fighting a dragon. You're given the freedom to do what you want and develop a play style that interests you. If you'd rather focus on guild quests instead of the main storyline, that's a valid choice. This flexibility results in a world that you can actively inhabit, not just wait to be shuttled to the next big story beat. Bethesda has done a stellar job packing the lion's share of the experience onto Switch.
The biggest question on many fans' minds is whether or not the Switch can handle Skyrim's massive size and propensity for loading those spaces with numerous foes. During my 35-plus hours with the game, my framerate was constantly above 30 FPS and I never encountered a single dip or stutter. Load times were also surprisingly brief in comparison to the original PS3/360 versions, with a one-minute initial load time from main menu to game world, and then brief transitions taking from 4 to 10 seconds. Everything ran smoothly no matter what area I was in, how populated it is, or what activity I was doing. Control functionality is also satisfying, with a pleasant rumble in the Joy-Cons helping capture the pleasurable thunk of combat when you drive an axe into a foe's head or whip them off a mountainside with a brush of your sword.
Bethesda didn't have to make any huge sacrifices to achieve this performance, either. Outside of textures and rough character models (we're talking about a game from 2011), the world of Skyrim looks as stunning as ever. I noticed no fuzziness in either portable mode or on three different HD televisions of various sizes during my playtime. The draw distance is equally impressive; I could make out distant mountains, cities, and landmasses without any fog enshrouding them. A slight motion blur occurs when you're turning, but I hardly noticed it all except in dark spaces like caverns. It might not look quite as pretty as the PC version running at ultra-high settings, but it doesn't settle for adequacy either, resulting in a world that's constantly nice to look at as long as you don't examine textures too closely.
While the lack of mod support for this version is disappointing (its PS4/Xbox One siblings have barebones mod support), the amount of worthwhile content in the core Skyrim experience more than makes up for it. This version also packages all the expansions for the game, including two separate and lengthy quests involving vampires and a rival Dragonborn, as well as the addition that lets you build houses and adopt children. The variety of potential activities in Skyrim is maddening and delightful; this game easily has at least a hundred hours of content, plus countless more if you want to do and see everything. And the novelty of doing all of this while sitting in a coffee shop or riding to work still hasn't worn off.
My only substantial criticism about this version is the optional console-specific functions feel like gimmicks. You can use motion controls for combat and lockpicking, but both are too unwieldy to be enjoyable. Amiibo functionality rewards you with treasure chests filled with weapons and ingredients for cooking, but you can also get the best Amiibo gear without using the functionality, so it also feels superficial. Ultimately these are optional niggles you don't have to bother with, so feel free to turn them off and forget about them. The problems inherent in the original version of Skyrim are still here, too, including wonky enemy AI, stiff animations, and bad voice-acting. Some of these issues are part of the game's charm at this point, so being able to play it on the go essentially made those non-issues for me. This is especially true since so many of the bigger problems that plagued earlier releases, like uneven framerate and glitches, are not present in this version.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the best games ever made. Years later, that continues to be the case. This adventure offers a rich world, densely packed with exciting things to do, as well as many occasions for creating lasting memories. I jotted down exciting things that happened during this particular playthrough so many times I lost count. I imagine that Skyrim will become a mainstay on my Switch, with multiple playthroughs and characters filling up the save slots before I'm done with it. If you haven't played Skyrim, or you're just looking to return and don't mind exchanging the mods for convenient portability, the Switch version offers up everything that makes this game a stone-cold classic.
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Return to the snowy, dragon-ridden mountains of Skyrim and save the world – but this time on Nintendo's portable console
The Switch version of Skyrim is surprisingly beautiful as long as you don't look too closely at poorly aged textures
The sounds of your arrows turning a dragon into a pincushion and the stirring orchestral score are fantastic
Skyrim's interface remains unchanged from the main game, with easy to understand controls and accessibility options that let you tail the game to your preferences
The Switch version of Skyrim is a well-executed version of a modern classic that you can play on the go, offering the same delights (and minor frustrations) of the original
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