I post every Wednesday and my sole purpose is to nourish your soul along the way. Each month I give away a $10.00 Starbucks gift card to someone who posts on my blog. So share an insight, bless lots of people, and just maybe you'll win a jolt of java for you and a friend.
Many of you know that my dad passed away last week. We're still reeling from the suddenness of it all, but we know he's with Jesus and for that, we're eternally grateful. My dad dealt with numerous health issues and rarely felt well, but that's not what all of his grandkids will remember about him. When they think of their grandpa they'll remember how funny and snarky he was, how much he loved them, and how important they were to him. When the grandkids were around, my dad focused on them, not on his suffering, which to me, was incredibly heroic of him.
When Jesus suffered on the cross, His thoughts were on those He came to save. Because of the joy set before Him (you and me), He endured the cross and scorned it's shame (see Hebrews 12). He could have complained about His immense, unfathomable pain, He could have shouted, "To hell with you all! You're not worth it!" But He did the exact opposite. He embraced our worth. He cherished the thought of us in Heaven with Him. The whole idea of eternity with us kept Him going. Thank you, Jesus.
Jesus came to save us, and in the process, He redefined the cross. Crucifixion was a horrific, public, painful humilation. It was the worst way to die, in pain, shame, and dishonor.
Jesus, our perfect, sinless, spotless Lamb, brought honor and dignity to the cross. He offered salvation to a lost and dying world, through the worst it had to offer, death on the cross. He triumphed over death on the cross that we might live free and powerful lives.
Even the way He lived redefined "religion" and challenged the religious legalist. They didn't know what to make of Him. Jesus just would not be bound by traditions and laws that boxed in His love and concern for those who needed Him.
If you have surrendered your life to Christ and have accepted His sacrifice on the cross for your sins, you now live with the power and influence of Almighty God at work in and through you! You can bring dignity and honor to every situation. No person, no circumstance, so accusation can diminish your worth. No loss, no rejection, no misstep can separate you from God's love.
If you're walking through an especially difficult time right now, look up. Your circumstances do not define you. God does and has and you're worth everything to Him. Bring dignity and honor to your struggle with finances; bring holiness and humble confidence to your battle with health issues; bring power and influence to the pain of your broken relationships. Redefine your circumstances. You can because Jesus turned the tables on the enemy and won. The same power alive in Him is now alive in you. Overwhelming victory is yours! Walk forward with holy confidence.
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The father tucked I went wallSide, a kite turning it over the wall, will be furious mother and a lot of bothering children all leftBehind.
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Muy contento de ver tu blog, gracias compartir tantas cosas interesantes. Espero que en el futuro se puede ver el día de publicación más interesante!
Ich kämpfte, um meinen Platz in meiner Familie und meinen Wert des als Mutter, Ehefrau, Schwester und Freundin zu finden, weil ich nach meinen Eltern, scheiterte wie eine Tochter.
What a story, and what a testimony! I'm so sorry for your painful past and the memories associated with those years. May God lift you up and heal and restore you fully. May you see glimpses of His glory every where you turn. May He show you wonders of His love that overwhelm you and make your knees weak. May He put a new song in your heart and a new dream in your spirit. May you walk forward unafraid and full of faith that your future will be far greater than your past. Blessings to you, dear one.
I LOVE that you commented on Tina's comment. That's one of my favorite things to see on this blog...community. I love it. Bless you.
"Lord, love through us that it would not just be us loving out of our own strength but you loving through us in YOUR strength. All for your glory. Amen."
You said it beautifully. Thank you, dear!
God's best to you and yours!
God's great blessings to you!
You said it better than I did! Very cool. Thanks so much for your post. You are a ray of sunshine in my life! Blessings to you, dear one!
Bless you for your wonderful post! I don't know if you're a writer, speaker, or a teacher of some sorts, but you ought to be. There's power in your words and conviction in the way you convey yourself. May God surprise you with new open doors of opportunity to share His love and grace. Blessings to you, dear sister!
So nice to hear from you! And I'm so sorry to hear about your mother in law's cancer. May God comfort and bless you all during this time. One thing I will say, God is especially close to the brokenhearted and grieving soul. That is for sure. Oh, how I love Him. Bless you, dear sister!
Thanks so much for your sweet words. And what an awesome dream, to adopt a Downs Syndrome child! That's an angelic call and such a beautiful one. May the Lord fulfill the desires of your heart in ways beyond your hopes and expectations. Blessings to you, dear sister!
Your last two posts have been such an encouragement to me. God has burdened my heart to adopt a child with Down syndrome from eastern Europe. It's a God sized dream that will require God sized provision and Holy Spirit eyes. Thank you for always encouraging, even in the midst of your own sorrow.
I pray in your grief that our Father draws you close to his heart, infusing you with his own powerful love.
Greetings sweet Friend! Offering you a heartfelt hug from Bloomington, Indiana and the loss of your precious Dad. Thank you for sharing a bit about him....and your heart! We are focusing on worshipping our Lord this month and I have personally gotten Romans 8 SIX times in the last week. How fun that it has came from you once. God is good. I offer you Habakkuk 3:19. We also found out my MIL has invasive breast cancer the week before Christmas, and God has given us each other to walk these "heights" at this time. Just know, I will be praying for your beautiful heart sister! XOXO Sending Love!
I love how Jesus turns things upside down!!! CROSSed out sin. CROSSed out wrath. CROSSed over death. CROSSed the line into Samaria and CROSSed culutural prejudices to make a woman the first evangelist in Samaria...LOVE HIM! I love how your dad reminded you of Him in his focus. What a treasure!
Thank you, Susie! I especially liked this thought: "your circumstances do not define you. God does." AMEN!
Amen to our identity being found, and secure, in our loving creator/Father/God...:) Good reminders, thanks!!
YES! Incredible! As always. Thank you Susie! There is just no better example than Jesus for how to lay down a life, humbly and gracefully and with a pure heart and right motives. When we are operating out of the Spirit we are moved by the Spirit.
Lord, love through us that it would not just be us loving out of our own strength but you loving through us in YOUR strength. All for your glory. Amen.


After thirteen years of dedicated leadership, our longtime friend and Executive Director, Tricia Lazzar, will be leaving Pushing Boundaries on April 12th.
Since joining us in 2006, Tricia has accomplished much and touched so many people's lives. We are all grateful for her unwavering support and guidance through the years.
"On February 22nd, I notified the board that I will be resigning my position as Executive Director of Pushing Boundaries on April 12th. This decision has not come lightly, but I know that with the incredible staff and clients, the reach of Pushing Boundaries will continue. My time with you has truly changed my life; you are my family. I revel in your accomplishments, celebrating and cheering every step of the way, and have laid awake as I struggle with you through your challenges. We've shared belly laughs and we've shared tears, and I wouldn't change any second of it. I am humbled.
Delivering over 65,000 hours of exercise therapy, people come from from different countries and across the nation to participate in our program. We have the support of the rehab and medical community who have seen their patients recover function, independence and a renewed lease on the future. Universities in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Alabama have sent their Exercise Science students to intern with us. We hosted a conference in 2014 that brought international researchers together to speak with the paralysis community about the advances they are working on to cure paralysis. Our social media presence reaches over 100,000 people a week, bringing inspiration and excitement to so many. Our own community has come together, and we have raised almost 2.5 million dollars in donations during my tenure to ensure Pushing Boundaries remains available to everyone.
Our support services reach over 100 countries and we get calls and emails from all over the world seeking assistance with services in their own communities… and we have responded to every single one. Because of the impact Pushing Boundaries has in our own community, I was asked by the US State Department to travel to Egypt to discuss best practices in disability rights, services, and access. I met with the Egyptian parliament, the US Embassy, and non-profit leaders to teach them how to incorporate our best practices into their services to the community.
Countless numbers of people, organizations, and communities have been impacted by the strong leadership and passion Tricia has unselfishly given to Pushing Boundaries over the years, and for this we say "Thank you!" The world is a better place because of you, Tricia, and your impact will always be felt in our hearts.
Moving forward, we are in the process of searching for our new Execute Director. We're dedicated to hiring someone who will continue the passion and drive that Tricia has lead the organization with for so many years. We have hired an interim Executive Director and the leadership transition company Valtas Group to help us in this search. We will keep everyone informed as we migrate through the process.
I'd like to extend my personal thanks to each one of you for supporting Pushing Boundaries in our important mission to change people's lives through rehabilitative exercise therapy. Because of you, we continue to make a huge difference for many.


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Iraq Is On The Brink Of An Energy Crisis
By Simon Watkins - Feb 05, 2020, 5:00 PM CST
As the deadline for the U.S. to renew its waiver on Iraq importing gas and electricity from Iran approaches later this month, the three key players in this ongoing geopolitical saga have been preparing for all possible outcomes. As always in the global hydrocarbons markets, particularly in the Middle East, nothing is what it seems on first sight, with each of the main countries involved looking at outcomes that go way beyond mere gas sales.
The positioning began in earnest last week with a virtue-signalling comment from the Trade Bank of Iraq's chairman, Faisal al-Haimus, that the bank – the main vehicle through which Iraq pays for these Iranian imports - would stop processing payments is the U.S. does not renew the relevant waiver at this end of this month. This would affect the payments for the entire 1,400 megawatts (MW) of electricity and 28 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas from Iran that Iraq requires to keep its key infrastructure in power, for some of the time at least.
In this context, peak summer power demand in Iraq perennially exceeds domestic generation capabilities, made worse by its capacity to cause major civilian unrest in the country. The relatively recent widespread protests across Iraq – including in the major oil hub of Basra - were widely seen as being prompted in part by chronic electricity outages. The situation also promises to become much worse as, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Iraq's population is growing at a rate of over one million per year, with electricity demand set to double by 2030, reaching about 17.5 gigawatts (GW) average throughout the year.
Ahead of the waiver renewal point this month, then, Iraq has been playing both the U.S. and Iran, as part of the ongoing tightrope act in which it has been engaged since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. On the one hand, a senior oil and gas industry figure who works closely with Iran's Petroleum Ministry exclusively told OilPrice.com last week, Iraq has repeatedly stressed to the U.S. that it cannot effectively function – including at its oil fields – without Iranian gas and electricity supplies until a realistic alternative is up and running. Related: Coronavirus Pushes China Jet Fuel Sales Down 25%
This is aimed, said the source, at extracting more investment from the U.S. both directly and indirectly, including expediting deals tentatively and firmly agreed with the U.S. before the attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq occurred. The key deal remains an integral part of Iraq's longstanding rhetoric about reducing the epic squandering of its enormous gas natural resources through flaring. This deal, involving the signing of a memorandum of understanding with a U.S. consortium led by Honeywell, would reduce Iraq's current level of gas flaring by nearly 20%.
Specifically, Honeywell, partnering with another U.S. heavyweight, Bechtel, and Iraq's state-owned South Gas, would build the Ratawi gas hub. This, in its first stage would process up to 300 million standard cubic feet per day (scf/d) of 'associated gas' (generated as a by-product of crude oil production) at five southern Iraqi oil fields: Majnoon, Gharib al-Qurna, al-lhiss, al-Tubba, and al-Siba. "Moqtada al-Sadr [the effective leader of Iraq] knows that every time there is a hint that Iraq will continue with its historically close relationship with Iran, the U.S. comes in to offer the services of its companies at beneficial terms to Iraq," the Iran source said.
In addition to this, Iraq has two natural hedge positions against the U.S. not extending its next waiver, and leaving Iraq supposedly without Iranian gas and electricity in the very short-term before U.S. investment and deals can actually put power on the ground in Iraq. The first of these hedges is that Iraq will just keep the money that it already owes Iran for previous supplies. According to a comment last week from Hamid Hosseini, a spokesman for the Iranian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters' Association, up to US$5 billion in payments from Iraq to Iran for past gas and electricity supplies is sitting in an escrow account at the Central Bank of Iraq, but Iran cannot touch it because of the U.S. sanctions. In fact, according to the Iran source spoken to by OilPrice.com last week, the figure is US$6.1 billion, which, if the U.S. does not extend the waiver later this month, Iraq will just keep.
The second of Iraq's hedges against the U.S. not extending the waiver on these imports from Iran at the end of this month is just to keep importing them anyway. Iraq has a very long porous border with Iran and an even longer history of using it – and shared facilities – to circumvent oil and gas sanctions, and there is no reason to assume that this will suddenly cease. Related: SUV Sales Are Soaring As Climate Crisis Escalates
The question then naturally arises as to why Iran would agree to continue to supply Iraq with gas and other commodities if it cannot draw out money owed to it from the Iraq escrow account. The answer is twofold: first, Iran is working in a number of areas on essentially a barter-based business methodology, according to the Iran source. "It offers oil and gas resources to China and Russia and others which, in turn, offer Iran items it needs, such as technology items, chemicals, agricultural sector goods, and finance facilities, for example, so there are ways in which Iraq could pay Iran in currency of one sort or another," he said.
The second option for Iran, and an idea of the assassinated Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Major General Qassem Soleimani, is that Iraq assigns leases and ownership to Iran through a wide range of IRGC-related entities to commercial real estate and businesses in the Shia-dominated areas of Iraq. This transfer of ownership on a limited scale has been taking place on an intermittent basis for a number of years, especially around Karbala, Najaf, and Nasiriyah, according to the source.
"It suits the Iranians well enough, as it is a way of cementing Iranian control across the Shia population of Iran, and it suits Iraq as well as it means it doesn't have to part with any money, which is always a strain on the already strained budget, and it means that it can leave it to Iran to control the radical Shia elements in and around those regions," he added.
Finally, the U.S. cannot lose either way. If it extends the waiver, it keeps the door open to Iran coming back to the table to renegotiate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal whilst also keeping Iraq on side for future U.S. energy projects and keeping it from fully defecting to the Iran-Russia-China sphere of influence. If it does not extend the waiver then a relatively large non-Shia section of Iraq will keep the government in the state of flux that it has been since the fall of Hussein, which also benefits the U.S.
This strategy was previously known as the 'Kissinger Doctrine' of foreign policy – analysed in depth in my new book on the global oil market - in which the U.S. attempts to keep power in balance across a broad region through individual states fighting amongst each other, usually based on exploiting factional and or tribal and/or religious differences between groups.
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Who doesn't love all the girls who aren't afraid to dream a little bigger? The girls who go out and experience the world to its fullest. The second part of my series Women Collecting Memories is out. This time with Sarah, 24, who is doing an Exchange in Victoria, Canada.


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Meet the Dad Behind CPR Legislation That Will Keep Our Kids Safer!
Jun 2, 2021 | Around Town, Blog, Meet A Mom
June 1-7 is CPR and AED Awareness Week, and it's the perfect time to share some good news regarding heart health and our kids. At the end of April, Florida lawmakers passed a bill that requires all high school grads to have CPR training. The man behind the bill? Shawn Sima, dad to Lexi Sima, who thankfully survived sudden cardiac arrest at just 16 years old.
"In February 2016 my 'healthy' 16-year-old life-long athletic daughter went for a run that changed the trajectory of my life forever. My Lexi was an Air Force brat, a life-long cheerleader, and a great softball player from the time she was 4 years old. On the fateful night of Feb 2, 2016, we got the worst call for any parent…Our daughter had a "heart attack" (it was Sudden Cardiac Arrest which is different) while running on the treadmill at a gym and was not responsive—she was dead. We made it to the gym to see the paramedic team going in. What we didn't know was that non-medical gym bystanders had already done CPR and used an AED to bring her back—10 minutes before the Paramedics came)," recalls Shawn in an interview with The Local Moms Network.
Their family's near tragedy wasn't uncommon, unfortunately—cardiac arrest is the leading cause of on campus deaths in the United States. After Lexi recovered, Shawn joined the Board of Who We Play for, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating preventable SCA through EKG screening, and has been advocating ever since.
Thirty-eight states already require CPR training for its students. If Governor Ron Desantis signs the bill, Florida will become the next, and requirements will be put into place by Fall 2021.


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Park Free of Bird Flu but Fears Remain
27 March 2008, at 12:25pm
VIETNAM – After reports of dead civets in Vietnam's National Park, local authorities have been under continuous commercial pressure to eliminate any threat of bird flu, whilst anxiously awaiting diagnostic results.
New information reveals that none of the samples of soil, water and blood of civets taken from Cuc Phuong National Park contain H5N1 but experts still consider the fight against bird flu at the park to have just begun.
Information about civets dying of bird flu in Cuc Phuong has worried locals and tourists. Will the park be a safe tourist site? Journalists surveyed the park to seek an answer.
The curfew
Though all samples of soil, water and civet blood were clear of the H5N1 virus, the park's animal preservation zone is under a curfew. Anybody who wants to get in or get out of this zone must obey strict rules.
Nguyen Dang Phuong, coordinator of the Owston's palm civet preservation programme, opened the door for journalists and immediately closed it. The newcomers had to step into a basin containing a transparent liquid and then into another basin containing a dark pink liquid. Phuong said the pink liquid is an expensive decontaminant medicine.
Deputy Director of the Wildlife Rescue and Preservation Centre Bui Dang Phong said the first civet died in early February. On that day, the park organised the lunar New Year's Eve party, inviting all foreign experts. He waited for a long time for an Australian volunteer at the party. Finally, he went to the civet preservation zone, where the volunteer named Leanne worked, to find her. Leanne was in a civet cage at that time and she told him that a civet was ill. It died after that.
As the weather was cold, experts said the civet died of pneumonia or food poisoning but several days later, 3 more civets died.
Leanne brought samples of the four dead civets to HCM City for testing, which revealed that they died of H5N1. Cuc Phuong had only eight more civets and if they died of H5N1, the civet preservation project would fail and this species would be at risk of extinction because in Vietnam, just several tens of individual civets are preserved in rescue centres.
The centre immediately sent blood samples of the remaining civets to the National Veterinary Diagnosis Centre for testing.
The war begins
Those tests show that the living civets don't have H5N1, but preservation experts at Cuc Phuong consider that the war against H5N1 has just begun. The tenseness was partially relieved when they received the testing results but they still are taking strict bio-safety measures.
Between civet cages, experts place basins containing decontaminants and each civet has its own diary, which is hung on its cage door. Every move of the animal is recorded in the diary. Cuc Phuong currently preserves 12 civets, including 8 Owston's palm civets.
Taking journalists to a civet cage, Phuong said civets mainly eat beef, bananas, apples, earthworms, grasshoppers and frogs, so experts have to catch grasshoppers and earthworms for them every day.
Phuong has worked at the park since 2005 so Phuong knows clearly about each civet. He said Tiger Lyly, which died of H5N1, was the nicest civet in the park and didn't like rain.
Civets in Cuc Phuong park have beautiful names like New Girl, DD, Tiger Lyly and some are named after their care-takers, for example Dat, Quyen, Duc, and Susan.
Phuong said civets previously ate chicken but in 2005, when two civets died of H5N1, chicken was struck from the civets' menu.
As scientists don't know clearly how the civets became infected with H5N1, experts boil beef before feeding it to them. Civets are sensitive to diseases, not only H5N1. One civet here died of Japanese hepatitis.
Though different species of animals are bred in different areas, afraid of the spread of H5N1 from civet cages, all areas were sterilised. All care-takers must wear protective costumes and specialised glasses when they take care of animals. After leaving cages, they have to decontaminate themselves.
Thanks to effective protection measures, all remaining civets are very healthy.
Five provinces with bird flu
In a meeting of the National Steering Board for Bird Flu Control on March 25, representatives of two of 11 working groups who returned from provinces with bird flu presented their reports about the situations in the locations they inspected.
According to Nguyen Thanh Son, Vice Head of the Animal Husbandry Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, some provinces like Thai Binh, Ha Nam and Ninh Binh don't properly control poultry hatching and perform anti-bird flu activities.
Other working groups will finish their survey trips on March 30 and report to the National Steering Board for Bird Flu Control. The board will then report the general situation to the government.
By March 25, Hanoi hadn't detected any new site with bird flu for 21 consecutive days. At present, there are five provinces with bird flu: Quang Tri, Soc Trang, Quang Binh, Quang Nam and Ca Mau.
Meanwhile, foot and mouth disease in cattle has been reported in the central province of Ha Tinh.
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The Republican Party Must Answer for What It Did to Kansas and Louisiana
What's the matter? Photo: Getty Images
Over the course of 12 debates, the Republican presidential candidates were never asked to address the budget problems in Kansas. That may not sound like an odd omission but it is. To see why, let's take a quick trip to a parallel political universe:
In Bizarro America, the tea party never happened. Instead, the Great Recession sparked a left-wing populist movement that swept democratic socialists into statehouses all across the country. In Vermont, these Denmark-worshippers took full control of state government and implemented their radical agenda. They raised income taxes to unprecedented heights, upped the minimum wage to $15 an hour, made all state universities tuition-free, and established a single-payer health-care system. As he signed the last of these programs into law, Governor Bernie Sanders declared that Vermont would serve as a blue-state model, one that the Democratic Party's 2016 ticket could use to say, "See, we've got a different way, and it works."
But by 2016, that model had collapsed. Every warning that conservatives had made about Sanders's program proved prescient. The tax hikes chased all the job creators out of state. The new minimum wage didn't raise low-income workers' living standards; it raised their unemployment rate. The costs of free college and universal health care proved so onerous, the state was forced to raid its rainy-day funds and borrow at high interest rates just to keep the government running. Vermont now faced a billion-dollar deficit. Schools were shuttered. Pensions were cut. The state's department of social services could no longer afford to investigate child abuse. The legal system could no longer provide indigent defendants with representation. Nonetheless, in the race for the White House, every Democratic candidate ran on some version of Sanders's economic model.
Wouldn't it be important for those candidates to explain why their program wouldn't fail the country in the same way it had failed the Green Mountain State? If you think yes, then you should demand that Donald Trump, John Kasich, and Ted Cruz explain why their tax policies won't fail America in the same way they've failed the people of Kansas.
In 2010, the tea-party wave put Sam Brownback into the Sunflower State's governor's mansion and Republican majorities in both houses of its legislature. Together, they implemented the conservative movement's blueprint for Utopia: They passed massive tax breaks for the wealthy and repealed all income taxes on more than 100,000 businesses. They tightened welfare requirements, privatized the delivery of Medicaid, cut $200 million from the education budget, eliminated four state agencies and 2,000 government employees. In 2012, Brownback helped replace the few remaining moderate Republicans in the legislature with conservative true believers. The following January, after signing the largest tax cut in Kansas history, Brownback told the Wall Street Journal, "My focus is to create a red-state model that allows the Republican ticket to say, 'See, we've got a different way, and it works.' "
As you've probably guessed, that model collapsed. Like the budget plans of every Republican presidential candidate, Brownback's "real live experiment" proceeded from the hypothesis that tax cuts for the wealthy are such a boon to economic growth, they actually end up paying for themselves (so long as you kick the undeserving poor out of their welfare hammocks). Backers of the budget touted projections from the Kansas Policy Institute, which predicted it would generate $323 million in new local revenues by 2018. But marginal gains at the municipal level were dwarfed by the $688 million loss that Brownback's budget wrought in its first year of operation.* Meanwhile, Kansas's job growth actually trailed that of its neighboring states. With that nearly $700 million deficit, the state had bought itself a 1.1 percent increase in jobs, just below Missouri's 1.5 percent and Colorado's 3.3.
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Those numbers have hardly improved in the intervening years. In 2015, job growth in Kansas was a mere 0.1 percent, even as the nation's economy grew 1.9 percent. Brownback pledged to bring 100,000* new jobs to the state in his second term; as of January, he has brought 700. What's more, personal income growth slowed dramatically since the tax cuts went into effect. Between 2010 and 2012, Kansas saw income growth of 6.1 percent, good for 12th in the nation; from 2013 to 2015, that rate was 3.6 percent, good for 41st.
Meanwhile, revenue shortfalls have devastated the state's public sector along with its most vulnerable citizens. Since Brownback's inauguration, 1,414 Kansans with disabilities have been thrown off Medicaid. In 2015, six school districts in the state were forced to end their years early for lack of funding. Cuts to health and human services are expected to cause 65 preventable deaths this year in Sedgwick County alone. In February, tax receipts came in $53 million below estimates; Brownback immediately cut $17 million from the state's university system. This data is not lost on the people of Kansas — as of November, Brownback's approval rating was 26 percent, the lowest of any governor in the United States.
Louisiana has replicated these results. When Bobby Jindal moved into the governor's mansion in 2008, he inherited a $1 billion surplus. When he moved out last year, Louisiana faced a $1.6 billion projected deficit. Part of that budgetary collapse can be put on the past year's plummeting oil prices. The rest should be placed on Jindal passing the largest tax cut in the state's history and then refusing to reverse course when the state's biggest industry started tanking. Jindal's giveaway to the wealthiest citizens in the country's second-poorest state cost Louisiana roughly $800 million every year. To make up that gap, Jindal slashed social services, raided the state's rainy-day funds, and papered over the rest with reckless borrowing. Today, the state is scrambling to resolve a $940 million budget gap for this fiscal year, with a $2 billion shortfall projected for 2017. Like Bizarro Vermont, Louisiana can no longer afford to provide public defenders for all its criminal defendants. Its Department of Children and Family Services may soon be unable to investigate every reported instance of child abuse. Education funding is down 44 percent since Jindal took office. The state's hospitals are likely to see at least $64 million in funding cuts this year.
What has happened to these states should be a national story; because we are one election away from it being our national story. Ted Cruz claims his tax plan will cost less than $1 trillion in lost revenue over the next ten years. Leaving aside the low bar the Texas senator sets for himself — my giveaway to the one percent will cost a bit less than the Iraq War! — Cruz only stays beneath $1 trillion when you employ the kind of "dynamic scoring" that has consistently underestimated the costs of tax cuts in Kansas. Under a conventional analysis, the bill runs well over $3 trillion, with 44 percent of that lost money accruing to the one percent. John Kasich's tax plan includes cutting the top marginal rate by more than ten percent along with a similar cut to the rates on capital gains and business taxes. Even considering Kasich's appetite for Social Security cuts, his plan must rely on the same supply-side voodoo that Kansas has so thoroughly discredited. As for the most likely GOP nominee, even with dynamic scoring, his tax cuts would cost $10 trillion over the next ten years, with 40 percent of that gargantuan sum filling the pockets of Trump's economic peers.
If any of these men are elected president, they will almost certainly take office with a House and Senate eager to scale up the "red-state model." Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said of Brownback's Kansas, "This is exactly the sort of thing we (Republicans) want to do here, in Washington, but can't, at least for now." Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's celebrated budgets all depend on the same magical growth that has somehow escaped the Sunflower State.
This campaign cycle has inspired an unusual amount of soul-searching in Republican circles. The rise of Trump has forced many conservatives to reckon with the moral odiousness of Nixon's Southern Strategy — a blueprint for GOP electoral success that relied on coded appeals to white racial animus. Unfortunately, the fall of Kansas has failed to inspire a similar reckoning with the policies that those ugly advertisements were designed to sell. The GOP front-runner's praise of mob violence and religious discrimination has spurred much righteous outrage from the National Review. Kansas's shortened school-years have spurred none.
When Donald Trump makes a gaffe, reporters confront Republican leaders and demand a response. When the GOP's economic platform decimates two U.S. states, a similar confrontation is in order.
*An earlier version of this piece said that Brownback had pledged to bring 25,000 new jobs to Kansas in his second term. The pledge was actually to bring 100,000 new jobs (or 25,000 for each year of the term).
*This post has been corrected to show that KPI's revenue projections specifically pertained to local property and sales taxes over the proposed budget's first five years of operation.
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The Malefice es el álbum debut de la banda chilena de Death/Thrash metal, Pentagram Chile, grabado después de 28 años de trayectoria.  Contiene temas compuestos recientemente y también temas clásicos que aparecen en el Demo 1 y Demo 2.

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1.	 The Death of Satan — 05:22
2.	 La Fiura — 04:28
3.	 The Apparition	— 06:03
4.	 Horror Vacui — 04:08
5.	 Spontaneous Combustion — 05:02
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11.	 Fatal Predictions — 05:27
12.	 The Malefice — 04:23
13.	 Demoniac Possession — 04:11
14.	 Demented — 05:58
15.	 Profaner — 06:11
16.	 Temple of Perdition — 06:30
17.	 Spell of the Pentagram — 06:36

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Anton Reisenegger — voz, guitarra
Juan Pablo "Azazel" Uribe — guitarra
Dan Biggin — bajo
Juan Pablo Donoso — batería

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Álbumes de Chile de 2013

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In the quest to uncover and promote Korean dishes that are western-friendly and that step fully away from expats' well-versed mantras of 'bulgogi juseyo', 'galbi juseyo', 'samgyupsal juseyo', and occasionally 'bibimbap juseyo', we feel that something needs to be done to break down the comfort barriers preventing the discovery of some really great gems in Korean cuisine. For example, take Dakdoritang. A much less expensive sister to Jjimdak, you can find 닭도리탕 (pron. 'dahk-doh-li-tahng') a lot more abundantly than her Jjim eonni or even her cousin samgyetang. This hot little number carries the right kind of spicy chicken to potato ratio, to make the menu decision math simple for all Korean food newbs or aficionados. And is great for ordering on your own at a random bunshik jib to eating with friends while downing soju at Korean bars.
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uncube's editors are Sophie Lovell (Art Director, Editor-in-Chief), Florian Heilmeyer, Rob Wilson and Elvia Wilk; editorial assistance: Susie S. Lee, Leigh Theodore Vlassis and Fiona Shipwright; graphic design: Lena Giovanazzi; graphics assistance: Madalena Guerra. uncube is based in Berlin and is published by BauNetz, Germany's most-read online portal covering architecture in a thoughtful way since 1996.
In the wake of the Bologna Process, most European architecture schools are struggling to conform with the standardised educational models now required – not to mention rising costs, outdated bureaucracies and a rapidly changing profession. Today, most architecture graduates won't even become architects. Can architecture education catch up with reality?
This issue of uncube tackles the complicated status quo, with a focus on the European continent but an eye on the rest of the world. After talking to experts and experimenters across the board, there's only one thing everyone can agree on: the system needs a serious overhaul.
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rchitect and educator Odile Decq taught for 20 years at the École Spéciale d'Architecture (ESA) in Paris. Decq was dean of the university from 2007 until she resigned in 2012, when she found it impossible to implement the institutional reforms she felt necessary for teaching architecture students in today's world. This autumn sees the opening of her new private university in Lyon, the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture' where she hopes her reforms will be realised. In attempting to break the mould, Decq's "Confluence" has already drawn as much criticism as it has praise. uncube asked her to elucidate her plans and explain where she thinks architecture education needs to go.
Madame Decq, the very first sentence of the mission statement for your new architecture school is: "We believe that today it is fundamental to totally rethink architecture education." Why? What is wrong with existing models?
It′s not so much a question of what is wrong or not. It is rather that the world has changed dramatically and so too has the profession of architecture – and ultimately architecture itself. The only things that have not changed are the models for architecture education, which have not only proved very rigid and un-reformable but in Europe, due to the Bologna Process, they have been made even more inflexible in favour of a general bureaucratic compatibility and homogeneity. This is a serious problem for the variety of existing models. That's why I think that we really have to fundamentally rethink architecture education – and that′s why it is so exciting to start a new architecture school now.
How would you describe the predominant model of architecture education today?
I have taught at a lot of institutions over the last 20 years including SCI-Arc, Bartlett, Columbia, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Düsseldorf or the IUE in Madrid. I was sort of "analysing" the existing models from within and I found that these very different institutions are all trapped within the existing system. They either teach about designing architecture, with all these pointless discussions about forms and objects and very formal approaches, or they try to educate the students to become efficient, well-functioning professionals. It seems that around the beginning of the 1980s architecture schools started to focus more and more on building and designing objects instead of teaching architecture.
This, together with the rise of the starchitect, has worsened to the point that today many people think of architecture only as a discipline that produces shiny, spectacular objects. Yet architecture is a discipline that requires a deep cultural, sociological, economical, political and ethical understanding of the world. This is what students need to learn because, when we are in a state of crisis like we are today, we have to rethink the world. We have to act differently, which means that we have to look beyond building too; to help people and improve living conditions for mankind and this sometimes requires something different from a building. At our new school, we don't subtract anything from the usual architecture education. Students will still learn how to build. But we add other topics in order to broaden the picture.
This harks back to the 1970s when many institutions started to add subjects like sociology and economics to their curriculums. Are you suggesting reconnecting architecture education to these models?
Today this is a common ground, of course architects need to know about the society within and for which they are building. But architecture should not only analyse society, it should act within society too. We have to take a critical position and we have to take risks! It really frightens me when I notice that younger people are afraid of taking risks or of having their own position.
I strongly believe that architecture is about the human being. Very fundamentally the duty of an architect is to provide human beings with a shelter and to continuously improve living conditions. This is why I am so much against the starchitecture system, and against the understanding of architecture as an object. If you take a look at the generation of architects under 40 today, many of them are already involved in this model of "social action". They are acting in communities, developing projects directly with neighbours and activists. This is something our educational models need to react to.
If you create a new architecture school, then it raises the question of appropriate spaces. How did you design the Confluence?
The best space to teach architecture in is a simple box. When I look at some of the latest buildings for art or architecture schools, I must say that they are too designed. When architects design a school for architecture, they tend to turn it into a statement and the students are then trapped within this architecture. I think spaces like at SCI-Arc are perfect for education. Theirs is an industrial building from the twentieth century, basically a long rectangular box with a raw and robust interior continuously transformed by the students. We tried to create our new building in the structure of an old market building for the Confluence in a similar manner: it has three large surfaces stacked on top of each other offering very open spaces that can be re-arranged and re-organised in many different ways. The only specific spaces are in the basement where there are all the machines and workshops. We are also trying to create connections with the city and the people of Lyon as much as possible. The ground floor is very transparent and open. We'll have our lectures and exhibitions there, inviting people and passers-by in from the outside.
SCI-Arc in Los Angeles was also founded as an alternative education model in its time yet has meanwhile become an established institution. Have you considered why schools become "institutionalised"? Is there a way to prevent that happening to Confluence in the future – getting stalled in its own fixed system?
I really don't know. It is of course a very interesting process: how institutions are born and what becomes of them over time. Even the Ecole Spéciale in Paris was founded by Viollet-le-Duc in 1865 explicitly as an alternative model. Maybe it is just not so much about being against or outside the existing system. It's about offering alternatives. I believe its better to have niches alongside the mainstream in order to create options to choose from.
We don't mean to be elitist or exclusive in any way. Yet the Confluence is a private institution and we want to stay a little school, so I cannot reduce the costs by having more students. And in order to finance the quality that we want to achieve, we simply need money.
Basically in France everyone assumes that the state has to take care of education on all levels. That's also why we have been under attack from some public schools and the French Syndicat de l'Architecture for founding a private institution. In France, everything that is "private" is always immediately seen as elitist. But to be honest I just don't understand this question.
Odile Decq set up her own office just after graduating from La Villette in 1978 while studying at the Sciences Politiques Paris where she completed a post-graduate diploma in Urban Planning in 1979. International renown came quickly; as early as 1990 she won her first major commission: the Banque Populaire de l'Ouest in Rennes which was recognised with numerous prizes and publications. She was awarded a Golden Lion in Venice in 1996. Since then, Odile Decq has remained faithful to her fighting attitude while diversifying and radicalising her research.
Recently, she has completed the MACRO (Museum for Contemporary Art in Rome) in 2010, the Opera Garnier's restaurant in Paris in 2011, the FRAC (Museum of Contemporary Art in Rennes) in 2012 and has just completed the GL Events headquarters in Lyon.
With this wide range of fields to study, what will the experience be like for the students?
By staying a very small school we can ensure that there is someone to look after each student individually and help him or her develop their own interests, specialisations and in the end an orientation for how to continue. One of the main problems with existing models is that individuality, which is so important to an open society, is getting lost in the bureaucracy that tries to homogenise the people as much as possible only in order to make them administrate-able.
Is this then a very personal model, with one main tutor/teacher that guides each student through their studies?
The ongoing Radical Pedagogies research and exhibition project, first presented in 2013 at the Lisbon Triennale and then developed for the 2014 Venice Biennale, explores a series of pedagogical experiments that played a crucial role in shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the twentieth century. Operating as small endeavours, sometimes on the fringes of institutions, these experiments questioned, redefined, and reshaped the post-war field of architecture and challenged normative thinking. Much of architecture teaching today still rests on the paradigms they introduced. uncube asked the project's research collective to choose their five favourite radical pedagogies.
Active from 1973 to 1975 and founded by the members of the Radical movement, the nomadic school Global Tools explored architecture as a primordial creative act. As a nomadic school, Global Tools was founded in the editorial office of the magazine Casabella at the beginning of 1973. The collaborative project and magazine of the same name replaced the urban installations of late 1960s Florence with "didactic laboratories" open only to its members. Challenging the more canonical understanding of architectural pedagogies, the group's aim was to learn from the "archaic wisdom" of the uomo de-intellettualizzato, or de-intellectualised man.
"The Body and its Restraints", Global Tools performance by Franco Raggi' Gruppo Corpo' Milan 1975; from Casabella 411 (1975).
The Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis at Harvard GSD (LCGSA) was one of the first radical, long-lasting institutions to introduce the computer as a tool across all the design disciplines. It operated as part of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) between 1965 and 1991. Initially affiliated with the department of Regional and City Planning, it was founded by Howard Fisher as an experimental venue for the use of computers in the creation of maps. The lab also conducted courses, workshops and conferences. Despite the technical advances with which it is often credited (such as the "invention of GIS") the pedagogical innovations of the LCGSA have been often overlooked.
LCGSA student going through the steps of creating a computer map with the SYMAP programme.
The "Learning from Levittown" studio course taught by Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi was radical not only in form, but in teaching content as well. It applied the innovative and collaborative "learning from" style of pedagogy for students to explore the world of suburbia. Following their "Learning from Las Vegas" studio in 1968, Scott Brown and Venturi conducted this studio in the spring of 1970. Venturi recalls the scandal that arose during the class final review: "We forget how much suburbia was despised at the time by the idealists".
Scott Brown and Venturi treated architecture as a form of media. The course focused on how the inhabitants of Levittown decorated the exteriors of their own houses and also the way in which houses were represented in television commercials, home journals, car advertisements, cartoons, films, and even soap operas.
The Architecture School at Yale University was burnt down' allegedly by students' in 1969.
Moving off the grid both geographically and ideologically in 1953, the founders of the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm hoped to create a fundamentally different approach to design education that could re-democratise Germany after the war. Their highly rationalist approach was rooted in humanist functionalism aiming for "good design" to improve society. The HfG saw itself as an institution of dissidence in a country that was myopically rebuilding its cities yet failing to engage critically with its past. The school not only reformed architectural pedagogy but treated architecture as scaleless object of design – no distinction was made between shaping buildings and forming teacups or stools.
Architectural education in a time of disciplinary instability is the research topic of Radical Pedagogies. It is an ongoing collaborative research project set up by Beatriz Colomina together with PhD students at the Princeton University School of Architecture where she teaches architecture history and theory. Radical Pedagogies focuses on radically new models and experiments in architecture education in the second half of the 20th century. So far it has involved three years of seminars, interviews, archival research, guest lectures and contributions by protagonists and scholars from around the world. Currently on show as a part of the Monditalia section at the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, it has been awarded with a Special Mention.
The Valparaiso Architecture School offered both an elaboration on the intellectual project of modernity and a response to modern architecture. Led by the Chilean architect Alberto Cruz and Argentinean poet Godofredo Iommi, its pedagogy drew from a wide set of references within the avant-garde. Exercises initially pursued plastic explorations, which were developed through "poetic acts" and the so-called phalanes – which oscillated between public recitations of poetry and collective artistic performances including games, garments and other plastic manifestations. The phalanes were intended to load spaces with meaning and open them to the creation of new subjectivities. They questioned any "instrumentalisation" of architecture, dismissing the modern emphasis to "change the world" to pursue instead a "change of life".
Five years ago the Sandberg Instituut invited designer Jerszy Seymour to set up a new post-grad programme in Applied Arts to challenge students to "critically question the discourses structuring the field of art and design" and "engage with social reality as hybrid artist-designers". Inspired by radical school projects of the past Seymour responded by founding the Dirty Art Department in 2011 together with Catherine Geel, Clémence Seilles and Stephane Barbier-Bouvet as a launch pad for people and ideas. "[It is] concerned with individuality, collectivity, and our navigation of the complex relationship between the built world, the natural world and other people and ourselves", says Seymour. The 22 course students spend two years on a magical mystery tour that questions just about every convention. Last spring they and the teaching staff squatted a building where they can now live, work, party and exhibit.
Spontaneously founded in 1972 in a warehouse in Santa Monica, California by a small group of liberal educators and students, SCI-Arc – now one of the world's most highly rated architecture education institutions – developed a brand-new form of pedagogy almost by accident. Rejecting the established institutional models of the time, SCI-Arc - originally called the New School - advocated an unbiased, non-hierarchical learning environment where students, educators and administration could work together on an even platform.
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What's in a school, who should it serve and how? Architecture critic and publisher Andreas Ruby weighs up the pros and cons of an architecture school building conceived as a didactic tool vs. a functional blank canvas with two recent projects in France and Albania.
You would think that designing an architecture school would be a dream project for any architect, but actually it is quite tricky since a decision needs to be made quite early on about whether the building should be a place to learn in or also to learn from. The latter option seems a natural choice – to use the building as a didactic device and design it as a showcase for good architecture. But then, ideas of what is good and beautiful have a tendency to change over time – just think of the eighties. Thus an architecture school intended to represent the crème de la crème of the discipline can easily wind up as a period piece, a functional mess and aesthetic embarrassment for those who have to study in that building for decades to come.
So there are good reasons to discharge an architecture school building of any didactic mission and conceive it simply as a spatial enabler of educational activities, nothing more, nothing less. But is that even possible? Can an architect make a building that is not a statement in one way or another? Let's look at two recent architecture school projects that represent opposing approaches. For brevity's sake let's call them the "cool" and the "hot".
The École d'Architecture de Nantes by Lacaton & Vassal, completed in 2009, is a prime example of the cool attitude. The architects have no didactic mission to tell, but use a very basic observation as their starting point: the fact that every architecture school they knew invariably runs out of space quickly. Hence they simply multiplied the surface area defined in the competition brief by the factor two, complementing the required programme area to absorb any future spatial needs. To achieve this considerable extension without exceeding the given budget they use a type of construction normally used for parking garages: an arrangement of extra strong concrete floor plates (1000 kg/m² load capacity) and generous ceiling heights between seven and 12 metres.
This primary structure is partially filled with smaller volumes housing each programme, while the remaining free space is left unprogrammed. If this building has any architectural message to the students, it is "Use me!" It does not give a catalogue of solutions as to how to work with different materials nor does it revel in the fetish of daring details. Lacaton & Vassal obviously see the value of architecture less in the object of the building and more in the spectrum of appropriations that it enables.
The hot attitude is perfectly illustrated by the recently completed Epoka University Student Centre in Tirana, Albania. The project was actually designed in two phases and by two different teams. The general concept of the building was made by the Istanbul-based office Zambak, but the entire interior architectural design and detailing was done by CoRDA, the school's own architecture office. It is run by a number of professors from the faculty who, together with students and recent graduates, do actual construction projects as part of the school's educational curriculum. In other words, this architecture school was designed by the very people who work in it. CoRDA used this unique opportunity to turn the building into an architectural treatise featuring commendable architectural techniques for the students to learn from.
The images of the Architecture School in Nantes by Simon Menges were shot for the publication University building in France – Nantes School of Architecture, edited by Ilka & Andreas Ruby, pub. Holcim Foundation, Zürich, 2011.
For instance, the floor of the main hall is realised in coloured pieces of marble laid out in figurative patterns, which oscillate between flat and spatial effects, depending on where you stand – a kind of Escher for beginners. The interior walls are made of bricks laid in various ways to expose all their different faces to the viewer. Thus you actually get to see the brick as a three-dimensional object, which in turn transforms the wall into an exciting plastic relief. Other details of the building, such as doors, suspended ceilings and windows, are treated as examples of how to design and build those elements. This didactic approach makes particular sense in a country such as Albania, where there are not a lot of architecturally outstanding public buildings that students could learn from. Completed in 2013 the building is already a landmark of contemporary architecture and has garnered international attention through publications and awards.
The Zumtobel Group Award: Innovations for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment promotes social, technical, and environmental responsibility by rewarding innovative endeavours. Over the last three months, in collaboration with Zumtobel AG, uncube has been presenting the best of the shortlisted candidates in each of the 2014 award's three categories: Initiatives and Applied Innovations, Buildings and Urban Developments, and this month we announce the winners, who each receive a prize of €50,000.
In March 2013 the BIQ, a four-storey residential building designed by SPLITTERWERK architects, was completed as part of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) in Hamburg. It showcases the first Solar-Leaf façade: a building integrated system absorbing CO2 emissions, while cultivating microalgae to generate biomass and heat as renewable energy resources. The environment for photosynthesis is provided by glass photobioreactors installed on the southwest and southeast elevations. The façade has three main benefits: a) Generation of high-quality biomass for energetic use or as a resource for food and pharmaceutical industry (urban farming); b) generation of solar thermal heat; c) use as a dynamic shading device. Cultivating microalgae in flat panel photobioreactors requires no additional land-use and is largely independent from weather conditions, allowing installations in urban environments. The carbon required to feed the algae is taken from a combustion process in proximity of the façade installation to implement a short carbon cycle, preventing carbon emissions to contribute to climate change. Microalgae also contain high-quality proteins, vitamins and amino acids that make it a valuable resource for the food and pharmaceutical industry. This network of diverse reconstruction activities constitutes an effective method for rebuilding the region, and also suggests new ways for architects to engage with society, sometimes as collaborators, sometimes as advisors, and sometimes as rebels.
This category was introduced for the first time this year to help drive forward future developments. It includes innovative projects for application in, or around, buildings and urban infrastructure with approaches ranging from saving energy, using new materials or recycling, closed material and resource cycles to intelligent controls and software applications.
Jan Wurm from Arup Deutschland and Lukas Verlage, CEO Colt International, winners of the Applied Innovations category' explain their ground-breaking Solarleaf photosynthesising façade.
The Buildings category was open to built projects completed between 2011 and 2013 which met the highest aesthetic standards and featured innovative solutions that led to the more efficient use of resources, enhanced environmental protection and the creation of better living conditions.
The Port Sudan Paediatric Centre is located in a large desert between two hut settlements. It is a very poor area with a large concentration of refugees. This clinic is one of the few health outposts providing free health care to children of this large region. The building was designed for Emergency, an Italian NGO who provides free medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty.
Because of the extreme conditions involved, simplicity was a strategy priority for this project, but without losing sight of quality medical and architectural standards for the project.
The one-storey building has three outpatient clinics, a 14-bed ward, a dispensary, spaces for diagnostic exams and service areas. The building adopted the adaptive principles of many Arab houses: minimising sun-exposed sides and opting for a hollow space conformation. As the Sudanese climate is extreme (50 degrees Celcius and sandstorms) a natural air treatment inspired by Iranian traditional systems called a badgir was adopted and integrated into a system of mechanical cooling. The resulting reduction in electricity consumption for air conditioning is estimated at about 70 per cent.
The need to purify wastewater from the clinics presented an opportunity to build public gardens - the only public spaces in the area: treatment for the water, and for the souls of patients and staff alike.
Raul Pantaleo from Studio Tamassociati, winners of the Buildings category, talks about the special design challenges involved in building a clinic in a remote, war-torn region of Sudan with limited resources, and at the same time producing a thing of beauty with public spaces for the community.
The focus in this category is on projects in an urban context: city development/planning strategies, masterplans, public space projects and ongoing research projects and social initiatives designed to enhance urban and social settings.
When an 8.8 Richter scale magnitude earthquake hit Chile in 2010, almost 500 people died in the following tsunami. After this catastrophe Elemental was given 100 days to come up with a strategy to rebuild the city of Constitución, located 400 kilometres south of Santiago, which was almost completely destroyed.
The design process was participatory: asking residents to precisely define their needs and focus on establishing priorities. It was important to the designers that the community felt empowered enough to exert pressure on the authorities during implementation. One critical question was how to best protect the city against future tsunamis. The strategy was to dissipate, rather than resist the energy of nature: a geographical answer to a geographical threat. Elemental proposed planting a forest to protect the city from future tsunamis. When the waves first hit Constitución, they were 12 metres tall; a forested island to the north of the city dissipated their energy and, by the time they reached the city centre, they were only 6 meters tall. The idea was therefore to protect the city by redeveloping the riverfront with trees. This alternative was the most challenging, politically and socially, because it required the city to expropriate private land.
Alejandro Aravena from Elemental, Iván Chamorro from Arauco Forestry and Eugenio Tironi from Tironi Asociados, winners of the Urban Developments and Initiatives category, explain how they implemented the power of participatory design to rethink a Chilean town after a major earthquake in only 100 days.
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What do students want? During her final year of her masters programme at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Eugenie deLariviere was faced with an institutional upheaval that prompted her to reconsider her entire education.
Your 2013 thesis project for your masters in Contextual Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven was called "My Education Frustration". What was the situation at the school that prompted you to focus on education?
The Design Academy had been trying to reinvent its own system for several years. Nobody could agree on how to do this, which led to the resignation in June 2012 of the heads of three masters programmes. Part of the problem was the very hierarchical form of organisation that was developing – partially due to decisions the school was making, but also dictated by the Bologna Process, a system of standardisation that's pushing a lot of schools throughout Europe in the same direction. Decisions about education are being made at governmental level; we have to decide how to adapt without losing our own perspective.
"This is (not) a manifesto" is a visual project by deLariviere expressing the opinions that arose on all sides following "Dutch Resign Week," the week in July 2012 when three heads of the masters program at the Design Academy Eindhoven resigned.
The student perspective gets lost because of institutional hierarchy, but is it also because students don't feel accountable to the longevity of an institution they're only a part of for a few years?
Yes, this was part of my struggle in getting students involved. It's true that they don't feel very concerned – but also, until then, they'd just never been asked what they thought. Change is about rethinking the structures that include or exclude them from decisions about their own education. In general we need a system change.
What are the main things that need to be overhauled?
One of the main things is the diploma, this idea that some knowledge can be accredited and some cannot. How do you differentiate? Today, when you're looking for a job, it's more about how personalities work together. We have to think in formations. Is the name of the school on the diploma important? For designers and architects it may be less complicated, because we can show our portfolios, but for education overall the diploma is really outdated.
But aren't architects and designers the ones who need the most rigorous accreditation process, because they're liable for designing buildings and objects requiring real technical, safety, and environmental parameters?
Yes, definitely, we can't lose the technical part. But there's a whole other side to architecture and design. Both are moving out of their fields – they're not so much about buildings or objects anymore, but something much bigger. How can you accredit that type of knowledge?
Soft skills are much harder to transmit and measure than hard skills. What did you learn about teaching and learning them during your research?
That you learn the most from your peers: whether it's one class having an idea together, or a whole generation sharing values, we learn from each other. It's not a new idea, but it made me realise that sharing soft skills with each other depends on having a shared space. You need spaces to form groups of people, and groups of people to make education happen.
Is it possible for an established institution to adapt by creating new models, or is it necessary to go beyond or outside the institution to really create something new?
What I found is that new schools and temporary programmes die if they don't get institutionalised. If they're not accredited people don't trust them – even if it's a great idea and everyone is enthusiastic. Some programmes, such as Department 21 at the Royal College of Art in London, started well, but because they weren't incorporated into their own institutions, died out. Yet The School of Walls and Space at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in Copenhagen was also self-initiated, but in the end the academy assigned a budget and it became a proper department. The academy was smart, realised that something was happening within itself and gave it a chance.
After sending a letter to Eindhoven's creative director outlining her concerns' deLariviere held open discussions with students and faculty' and staged student interviews.
What about at Eindhoven? How receptive was the faculty to your initiative, and were there long-term outcomes?
I sent a letter to the school creative director, Thomas Widdershoven, explaining my complaints. Then we had a meeting and together organised a debate. All the mentors from the school were invited, but the students were the ones speaking. We also invited Timo de Rijk, who had published a very critical article on the academy. That evening led to other evenings where students were invited to speak about their projects, and so the perspective started to change a bit.
Is this resistance to including student voices because it seems like too much work to involve them?
Administrations think it will be more work, but they also think it's not worth it, that students don't have interesting things to say.
The hierarchy is clear – it's like if you don't have your diploma yet, you're not able to think. At the end of the first debate we organised, the creative director of the school came up to me and said, "I didn't know students had so much to say! They're actually smart!" I thought, come on, you just became the head of one of the greatest design schools in Europe, and you don't believe in the intelligence of your students?!
Is design education unique or should everything be interdisciplinary?
We need to be able to trespass out of our own disciplines. But we also need to be experts in our own area. It's not that we have to be designers plus something else; it's that we need to collaborate and make connections. Students very often have the drive to look into another subject, but don't have access to the relevant knowledge within their institutions.
Eugenie deLariviere is a young designer interested in how students can be the motor of active changes within their education. In her research she looks at how can educational systems be rethought from within, focusing on putting forward the vision and interests of the 'new generation'. She has moderated, co-organised and participated in various symposiums on the future of design, and is now a mentor at the Rietveld Academy.
What were you expecting from your education when you began?
I was expecting to become a designer making objects, and then midway through I realised what I was going to do with my life wasn't what I was being taught. I really started questioning what I wanted out of it: to rethink what design could be. I was concerned that schools weren't changing with the definition of the profession in the outside world. During my masters, several students were older than me, had experience and were ready to take on work that was important to them. I was still in this student-school relationship I'd been in since I was three! In my last year of study I realised I didn't care about getting the diploma anymore.
What goes around comes around. The AA Night School, founded in 2013, offers events such as book readings and discussions, cross-practice crits, architectural photography, workshops and talks. It takes its inspiration from the origins of the AA (Architectural Association) itself, which started as an evening school in the 1870s. Back then the programme was a radical mix of peer-directed learning and critique organised by young practitioners reacting against the system of office tutelage – effectively cheap labour (think unpaid internships today).
Founded in 2009 in a former chocolate factory on an island near Moscow, the Strelka Institute offers a free annual nine-month postgraduate research-based programme in urban design and development for 45 international students. It also hosts free summer-long public programmes of lectures, workshops, discussions, concerts, and film screenings, has a digital publishing arm, and a great bar overlooking the Moskva river.
re open source models the best way to democratise education? To learn more, we need to "unlearn" says architect, writer and publisher Ethel Baraona Pohl.
In the past decade the architect's role, and consequently the way knowledge about architecture is shared, has undergone a radical shift. Several pedagogical experiments that have emerged in the past years can be understood as a clear response to the generalised – and problematic – economic, social and political situation. Economic growth from the 1980s until 2008 transformed academia itself into a commodity system, in which not only education but also our social and cultural reality became "schooled". Yet before this period, in 1971 the philosopher, social critic and priest Ivan Illich published a book called Deschooling Society, in which he referred to the revolutionary potential of deschooling and outlined the possible use of technology to create institutions serving personal, creative, and autonomous interaction. Illich's concept of deschooling is clearly relevant today, given the contemporary relationship between digital tools and learning, free access to information, and new economic models.
Questioning the importance of an accredited academic curriculum is the leitmotif of contemporary initiatives such as The Public School, which began in 2007 and defines itself as: "a school with no curriculum" that is not accredited and does not give out degrees. Anyone with interest can join the courses without enrolling or paying, and anyone can propose subjects that they wish to study. Similarly, the Free University NYC was conceived as a type of educational strike one day before May Day 2012, International Workers' Day, with several days of free and open-source classes in parks and public spaces in New York City. Another model, the recently inaugurated [in 2012] Free University in Milan, offers biannual study cycles, based on face-to-face meetings with a multidisciplinary approach and with a mission to break down the hierarchies of traditional academia. But it is not just the concept of accreditation that is under reconsideration.
The crossover of architectural education with fields like politics and economics is the basis of the Forensik Mimarlik, founded in 2014, which is focused on critical spatial practices, methodologies and architecture in the geography of areas of Turkey.
The participants work in the context of borders, politics and law, developing a research practice that deals with sites of conflict. In the same way, The Silent University, an autonomous platform by and for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, was created in 2012 with the aim to address and reactivate the knowledge exchange of the participants. In particular sharing the experience of people who had a professional life and academic training in their home countries, but, now in the UK, are unable to use their skills or professional training due to their legal statuses.
Ethel Baraona Pohl is an architect and writer, who with César Reyes Nájera founded dpr-barcelona, an innovative research studio and publishing company based in Barcelona, dealing with three main lines: publishing, criticism and curating.
Far from site-specific academic practices, numerous non-site-specific initiatives have sprung up, from open-air classes to on-line courses. Practices of giving talks or teaching whole courses remotely and in real-time began a few years ago with wikis, blogs and podcasts, and have now evolved on a broad scale. One of the best-known formats currently in use is the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), in which professors offer courses or talks for an unlimited number online students to follow. #webinar[s], now found on Twitter, are invitations to a "web seminar" open for anyone interested in whatever topic is at hand.
Are these open-source models the best way to democratise education? As with any paradigm shift, people take extreme positions on all sides, providing profound critiques of the emerging ways to share knowledge. Despite the success of some courses, the MOOC model, for instance, has been severely criticised; its detractors refer to the difficulty of maintaining academic standards. Yet this criticism can be flipped in favour of the "emancipating teacher" a term used by the philosopher Jacques Rancière in his book The Ignorant Schoolmaster (1981). Rancière wrote that every person is of equal intelligence, and that the insights from which knowledge is constructed can be found in any collective educational exercise. It would not make sense, according to this logic, to discredit the whole concept of the MOOC; evaluation of a class should be based on content. If a class is badly taught, it will be worthless even if taught within the walls of some hallowed university. And regrettably, this happens with certain regularity even in classrooms.
The idea behind the original "Public School" (PSFA), initiated in Los Angeles in 2007, was to create an open online platform for autodidacts around the world to self-organise and exchange knowledge without college fees and without accredited teachers. The idea has blossomed and now groups of people organise in numerous cities around the world to do just that. Two of these have so far been geared specifically towards architecture.
Eugene Asse was born in 1946 in Moscow, Russia and is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARHI). In 1970 he worked as an architect in Moscow's Municipal Planning Office before completing his postgraduate studies in 1981 where he then headed the Urban Design Research Group in the State Institute of Design until 1986. In 1994 he founded the independent research and design group "Architectural Laboratory" and he is also a member of the European Cultural Parliament. Twice Commissioner of the Russian Pavilion at the Biennale of Architecture in Venice, he writes and lectures extensively on urban design and theory of architecture.
Our guest reviewer for this issue's bookmarked section is Eugene Asse, head of Asse Architects and founder and dean of the new Moscow Architecture School, MARCH which launched in 2012. MARCH aims "to build up a new model of architectural education in Russia that produces professionals trained to the highest international standards", says Asse. It was founded as a postgraduate alternative to the two poles of architecture currently available in city: the Moscow Institute of Architecture and the Strelka Institute. MARCH is validated by the London Metropolitan University. uncube asked Professor Asse to pick what he considers four essential books for the architecture undergraduate.
De Architectura, or Ten Books on Architecture as it was published in English, was written by the Roman author, architect and civil enginer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio during the first century BCE. Many copies existed in manuscript form during the Middle Ages (92 of which survive today) and interest in the work was revived again during the Renaissance. The first printed edition was published in 1486, and has lived on in various translations and edited versions throughout the centuries.
After two millennia, this is still the best book about our profession. Thanks to Vitruvius one can understand what it means to be an architect and what an incredible range of skills and knowledge is required. Vitruvius' trinity for an ideal building – utilitas, firmitas venustas (commodity, firmness, delight) – is still valuable even today.
This book is not strictly about architecture. It speaks of light and darkness, of East and West, of permanence and change, of old and new. Nevertheless I consider it to be one of the most important architectural books, which tells the extraordinary and poetic story of space, materials, feelings and values in architecture.
This book is about power of imagination. In it Italo Calvino designed fifty-five absolutely amazing cities, each one with its own history and fantastic architecture, populated by strange people living an extraordinary life. For the architect, this book is a unique lesson of freedom, poetry, courage and wisdom.
Choisy was the only historian who analysed architecture from an anatomical point of view. He described buildings as living organisms, discovering their skeleton, muscles and skin. It is no accident that Le Corbusier, who was not wont to ready praise, called Choisy's 1899 Histoire de l'Architecture "the most worthy book ever written on architecture".


Kejrival tried to woo the residents of unauthorised colonies, saying, "Sewer, proper roads, water and electricity were only in regularised colonies. After coming to power, we ensured that unauthorised colonies also get basic amenities."
He said his government delivered on the promises he made two years ago while campaigning for the Delhi Assembly polls.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today claimed his two-year-old government has done what the BJP dispensation in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh failed to do in 10-15 years. While campaigning for the upcoming MCD elections in Uttam Nagar, he tried to woo the residents of unauthorised colonies, saying, "Sewer, proper roads, water and electricity were only in regularised colonies. After coming to power, we ensured that unauthorised colonies also get basic amenities." "We have also sent a proposal to the central government for regularisation of unauthorised colonies. The issue is pending before the Delhi High Court," Kejriwal said.
He said his government delivered on the promises he made two years ago while campaigning for the Delhi Assembly polls. Meanwhile, a few residents of the area led by former Congress MLA Mukesh Sharma showed black flag to Kejriwal during his public rally there. People raised slogans against the Chief Minister and burnt his effigies, alleging the work which began four years ago was not yet completed.
Kejriwal retaliated, saying "the BJP governments is Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh failed to accomplish in 10-15 years what we have done in two years". "We promised we would reduce power and water rates by half, we did it," he said. Delhiites are only paying Rs 1,370 for 400 units of electricity, whereas in Gujarat it costs Rs 2,700. In Uttar Pradesh, it is Rs 2,600 for 400 units and people in Mumbai need to pay Rs 4,000 for the same, he added.
Appealing to people to vote for AAP in large numbers, he said, "We do not have money to contest election. You (public) have to help us. One person should tell 100 people to vote for the AAP. We have to clean Delhi. "Give all 272 seats to AAP. You have seen the Congress and the BJP. Both are corrupt. Only AAP works for you." In Delhi, there are three municipal bodies –- north, south and east corporations –- which has a total number of 272 wards will go to polls in April. The BJP has been managing the civic bodies in the national capital.


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SMEs 'regaining appetite for staff training and development'
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are once again seeking to invest in staff training, thanks to the ongoing economic recovery.
This is according to a recent study commissioned by HR software firm breatheHR, which polled 1,000 employees working for British SMEs and found that 58 per cent of respondents now feel their employer is taking their personal development seriously.
By contrast, this figure stood at only 52 per cent 12 months ago, showing this is a concern that is being treated as an increasingly important priority. Moreover, the study also indicated that 42 per cent of workers now have a structured personal development plan in place, up by eight percentage points compared to last year.
When asked whether they spoke regularly to their employers about training and development issues, 35 per cent of respondents said they had done so in the past six months, which is slightly up on the 34 per cent figure recorded in 2013.
Generally speaking, the study also indicated that male staff tend to be more engaged with these issues than their female counterparts, which is a reversal from the gender breakdown revealed last year.
According to the report, these findings suggest that many companies are realising that training and development are essential to keeping staff feeling motivated and engaged. However, a large percentage of SMEs are still not investing as much into these key functions as perhaps they should.
This is partly because many bosses made cutbacks in this area during the lean years following the recession, but Jonathan Richards, chief executive of breatheHR, observed that skimping on training could ultimately be counterproductive.
He said: "While cutting back on personal development may seem like the right thing to do in these circumstances, in reality training and mentoring can still be provided on a skeletal budget, using internal resources and knowledge held within the company."
It could be particularly important to spend time and money on these functions given that the UK is currently in the midst of a skills shortage, possibly making it harder for companies to attract external talent than to develop it from within.


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It's hard to tell how exactly you've structured your code but maybe you do do something like this:

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