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'A new life in the countryside awaits': interactive lessons in the rural utopia in 'farming' simulation games
Kate Stewart, Matthew Cole
This paper critically analyses the legitimation of exploitative human–nonhuman animal relations in online 'farming' simulation games, especially the game Hay Day. The analysis contributes to a wider project of critical analyses of popular culture representations of nonhuman animals. The paper argues that legitimation is effected in Hay Day and cognate games through: the construction of idyllic rural utopias in gameplay, imagery, and soundscape; the depiction of anthropomorphized nonhumans who are complicit in their own subjection; the suppression of references to suffering, death, and sexual reproduction among 'farmed' animals; and the colonialist transmission of Western norms of nonhuman animal use and food practices among the global audience of players. Hay Day thereby resonates with the wider cultural legitimation of nonhuman animal exploitation through establishing emotional connections with idealized representations of nonhuman animals at the same time as they inhibit the development of awareness and empathy about the exploitation of real nonhuman animals.
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Stewart, K., & Cole, M. (2017). 'A new life in the countryside awaits': interactive lessons in the rural utopia in 'farming' simulation games. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38(3), 402-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1306985
Stewart, Kate ; Cole, Matthew. / 'A new life in the countryside awaits': interactive lessons in the rural utopia in 'farming' simulation games. In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 2017 ; Vol. 38, No. 3. pp. 402-415.
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One man's Christmas tree empire sprawls across the Upper Valley
Tutthapong Sombatboon, a seasonal laborer from Thailand, walks among several trees damaged by browsing moose while dragging cut balsams to a baler in Lyme, N.H., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2019. Tree farmer Bill Nichols said he continues to work with the damaged trees, pruning their tops in the hopes that they can be cut for six-foot Christmas trees. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Bill Nichols, 74, of Orford, started working with Christmas trees for Fred Wagner, a Lyme timberland investor, while in high school, and now grows balsam and fraser firs for wholesale on about 250 acres in Orford and Lyme. Nichols carries a Fraser fir to the truck of a customer in Orford, N.H., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2019. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
A-kachai Chuenjai, a seasonal laborer from Thailand, cuts balsam firs for Christmas trees on Bill Nichols tree farm in Lyme, N.H., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2019. Nichols estimates that his crew will have cut 17,000 trees this season. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Bill Nichols, of Orford, left, helps Adam Stockman, of Tuftonboro, N.H., load Christmas trees for resale into his truck in Orford, N.H., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2019. It was Stockman's tenth trip to pick up trees from Nichols, having sold about 250 from his business, Spider Web Gardens, this year. "They are superior trees," he said. "People come from all over the place to get these." (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
By JOHN LIPPMAN
Valley News Business Writer
Published: 12/21/2019 10:23:29 PM
Modified: 12/21/2019 10:23:26 PM
That twinkling Christmas tree in your living room probably began and lived most of its life in a grove of evergreens much like those harvested by Bill Nichols. In fact, that grove might be where it came from.
Set deep in the woods of Lyme and 1,900 feet above sea level at the end of a rutted logging road navigable only in a pickup truck with chains on its tires, there is a 12-acre idyll of balsam fir trees that Nichols calls The Big Field.
One of five groves sprinkled across 50 acres that Nichols owns in Lyme, The Big Field echoed with the sound of chain saws last week as workers cut the trees and then dragged them to a clearing where they were pulled through a baler and neatly tied with twine before being loaded onto a flatbed trailer.
At the peak of Christmas tree harvesting season in November and December, "we need to cut 700 trees per day to meet what we need to sell," Nichols said from the cab of his red Chevy Silverado pickup as snowfall blanketed the tree branches like a thick layer of cake frosting.
But with orders from retailers slowing in the final weeks before Christmas, last Tuesday's harvest, hampered by the falling snow, was set at a more modest 150 trees, which Nichols hoped his two-man work crew would have wrapped up and off the hill by that afternoon.
"Cutting begins around Nov. 1, and last year we harvested right up to Dec. 23," Nichols said. "We're getting near the end."
By the time the season ended last week, Nichols estimated, his work crews cut about 17,000 Christmas trees this year — the biggest haul in 12 years — and making him one of the biggest tree farmers in the Northeast.
"It goes up and down, but this year is up," he said.
Nichols is a grower, harvester and wholesaler of Christmas trees and Christmas wreaths, selling to some 120 retailers, mostly around New England. In the Upper Valley, they include places like the Beaver Pond Farm Stand in Newport, Spring Ledge Farm in New London, Frazer's Place in Windsor and the Hanover Co-op in Lebanon and White River Junction.
His trees are also sold at the pick-and-cut Christmas tree farm of his son Ben and Ben's wife, Amy, on Route 10 in Lyme, and Christmas tree sales lot Bill Nichols operates in West Lebanon.
Nichols, 74, has been in the Christmas tree and wreath business since 1969, returning after a stint in the Army to Lyme, where his family owned the local hardware store. Working alongside as a partner in building the business has been his wife, Srimalai Nichols.
Despite more than five decades in business, Nichols continues to log 12-hour days and seven-day weeks over the last two months of the year, regardless of the weather. On a freezing-cold Tuesday morning last week, he lay on his back on a snow-covered, ice-slicked logging road to install, in bare hands the size of baseball mitts, chains on the rear wheels of his truck.
"The man has worked," said his nephew, Orford businessman Scott Nichols, who adds that his uncle "also relied heavily on the tirelessness of his wife (Srimalai) and son (Ben) over the years. The three of them have never shied from labor."
Working in the woods had always been a passion of Nichols, going back to high school in the early 1960s when he spent summers as a surveyor's helper for the late Lyme timberland investor Fred Wagner. When Nichols asked a co-worker one day what it would take to earn a livelihood in the woods, he was told, "If you're just going to do logging, you need 1,000 acres. But if you do Christmas trees and maple sugaring you'll need less."
(Nichols gave up sugaring a few years ago because, as he explained, "nobody eats breakfast anymore.")
Today, Nichols owns 2,800 acres of timberland on eight farms in four New Hampshire towns — Lyme, Orford, Piermont and Bath — across Grafton County. He estimates his land holdings includes some 250 acres of evergreen groves — 60% balsam fir and 40% Fraser fir — with 250,000 trees in all.
"No question the largest in Grafton County. You'd have to go to Coos County to find someone of similar size. Nothing in Vermont," he said.
Like any other kind of farming, however, there have been bad years and good years, lean times and fat times.
The past few years have been good for Nichols, although in the lag time between seedling and maturity, the present upswing is the result of a downturn a few years earlier. This season's high wholesale demand for his trees — about double what it was five years ago — is the result of suppliers in North Carolina reducing their harvest in reaction to overproducing a few years earlier.
Generally, balsam firs and Fraser firs require six to 12 years to grow before harvesting. The wholesale price of Christmas trees varies depending on their species, grade and size; this year it ranged from $19 for a #1 grade balsam fir to $35 for a premium-grade Fraser fir. Retailers tend to sell trees at double the wholesale cost.
There is also a national shortage of trees this year because financially strapped farmers were planting fewer trees during and after the recession — trees that would be trees now ready for harvesting.
"There was a year there when I netted $35,000," Nichols said of that not-long-ago time.
In an effort to begin winding down his business with an eventual view to retirement, Nichols stopped planting Fraser fir seedlings several years ago and instead is now relying upon his balsam groves to naturally seed themselves, which they appear to do with the relish of an enthusiastic propagator.
"Balsams grow like weeds," said Ben Nichols, Bill Nichols' son.
This year, Bill Nichols expects his business to have gross sales of about $600,000, of which 70% comes from wholesale tree sales and 30% from wholesale wreath sales. His $350,000 payroll eats up half of that.
For more than 20 years, Nichols has relied upon work crews hired from Thailand, where he was stationed during his time in the Army (when he learned in 1966 that he was being detailed to a base in Thailand, his commanding officer told him, "You're one of the lucky ones") and met his wife (they are now separated).
Initially, the Thai work crews, who work in both the wreath workshops and harvesting trees, were drawn from members of Srimalai Nichols' family, although that mostly is no longer the case. The crews hired on H-2A temporary agriculture work visas — which reach about 20 workers at peak — begin to arrive in April when the pruning and thinning of trees gets underway.
Nichols said he spends about $25,000 a season to fly in work crews from Thailand.
Then, in May, when the green growth starts, comes fertilizing and spraying, which is followed by picking cones off the trees toward the end of the month. June is given over to weed abatement. On July 5, crews set to "shearing," or shaping the trees with a machete-like knife into the classic cone that customers expect.
"A tree should be sheared in one minute, but a good shearer can do it in 20 seconds," Nichols said.
Wreath workers arrive in the middle of October, and the first tree harvesting begins two weeks later on Nov. 1. At the peak of harvesting, work crews under optimal conditions can cut and haul out of the woods 4,200 trees a week, which are taken to a "tree landing" near Nichols' home in Orford, where they are loaded onto tractor-trailers to be shipped to retailers.
One trailer load can squeeze up to 750 trees with a wholesale value of $15,000 to $20,000 per load, depending, among other things, on the grade of the tree — premium, first grade or second grade — and whether they are balsams or Fraser firs (Frasers tend to be $5 to $10 more per tree).
A couple days before Christmas, Nichols is done and the work crews have returned to Thailand. He spends January doing paperwork and preparing his H-2A visa applications for the next season's workers. In February, he travels to Thailand for a month of vacation and finishes making arrangements on his crew hiring.
Christmastime is a sorely needed respite of quiet for Nichols, although his own home in recent years now lacks one thing many people have this time of year: a Christmas tree.
No thanks. Come Dec. 25, Nichols says he has seen enough Christmas trees for a while.
"I don't have a tree, no," Nichols said when asked what kind of tree he has in his house. "Why the hell would I want to see a tree?"
John Lippman can be reached at jlippman@vnews.com.
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Research article | Open | Open Peer Review | Published: 25 May 2018
Attitudes of pediatricians toward Children's consumption of ionic beverages
Akihisa Okumura ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2447-28571,2,
Shinobu Ida3,
Masaaki Mori4,
Toshiaki Shimizu2 &
On behalf of the Committee on Pediatric Nutrition of The Japanese Pediatric Society
BMC Pediatricsvolume 18, Article number: 176 (2018) | Download Citation
The aim of our study was to clarify the attitudes of pediatricians toward children's consumption of ionic beverages.
A questionnaire survey of pediatric practitioners' attitudes toward the consumption of ionic beverages was administered to 537 doctors under 60 years of age who were members of the Japanese Pediatric Society.
We received 215 valid responses from 182 board-certified pediatric specialists and 31 non-specialists. Approximately 60% of respondents recommended ionic beverages either often or sometimes. About half of all respondents cautioned patients about excessive consumption. About 40% had experienced at least one instance of excessive consumption characterized by acute symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, and pyrexia. Specialists were more likely to recommend ionic beverages for oral rehydration than did non-specialists. Non-specialists more often recommended ionic beverages to patients with pyrexia.
Pediatricians' attitudes toward children's consumption of ionic beverages were generally appropriate. Pediatric specialists' attitudes were more appropriate than were those of non-specialists.
We have reported vitamin B1 deficiency (VB1D) caused by excessive consumption of ionic beverages in Japan [1]. The patients with VB1D were infants and young children who continued to drink a large amount of ionic beverages every day for several months, some of whom were raised in a non-nurturing environment [2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. VB1D caused by excessive soft drink consumption is presumed to be unique to Japan, where ionic beverages are popular and are widely used on a daily basis. It cannot be ignored that doctors' recommendations of ionic beverages have triggered excessive consumption by some children with VB1D [1, 2]. Oral fluid replacement is widely accepted as important in patients with dehydration caused by infectious diseases such as acute viral gastroenteritis [9, 10]. Several suitable ionic beverages are commercially available in Japan [11, 12]. Appropriate oral fluid replacement is essential to treat and prevent dehydration in children. On the other hand, the annual sales of ionic beverages are increasing in Japan. Some promotions target children, potentially creating a risk of excessive consumption. Parents and caregivers must learn how to prevent excessive consumption by children. However, the repetitive occurrence of VB1D due to excessive ionic beverage consumption among children suggests that parents and caregivers may lack adequate knowledge.
Few studies have evaluated the attitudes of pediatricians toward children's consumption of ionic beverages. The aim of the present study was to explore the attitudes of pediatricians toward consumption of ionic beverages; appropriate attitudes should help prevent excessive consumption. Thus, we surveyed the attitudes of pediatric practitioners toward consumption of ionic beverages.
We identified 537 doctors who met the following four criteria: 1) membership in the Japanese Pediatric Society; 2) working in Tokyo, Osaka, or Aichi Prefecture; 3) in daily practice; and, 4) under 60 years of age. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Japanese Pediatric Society. Informed consent was obtained from all participants when they returned the completed questionnaires by mail.
The questionnaires were mailed to 532 pediatricians; the other 5 had moved. All subjects were asked to complete the questionnaire and return it by mail. In this study, sports drinks, ionic beverages, and oral rehydration solutions were collectively termed "ionic beverages" to minimize the redundancy of questions and to simplify analysis of the responses. Brand names are not mentioned below; we are sensitive to possible marketing issues. Instead, brief mentions of each brand are provided in the footnote to Table 1.
Table 1 The frequency of recommending ionic beverage, recommended brands, consultation of excessive consumption, and knowledge of health problems
The contents of the questionnaire were as below.
Q1. Do you recommend ionic beverages to infants?
often, sometimes, infrequently, rarely, never.
Q2. Please write the brand names of ionic beverages which you recommend to infants.
Q3. Have you ever been consulted from the parents for excessive consumption of ionic beverages of their infants?
no, yes.
Q4. Do you know about the health problems of infants due to excessive consumption of ionic beverages?
know in detail, know, know a little, know very little, do not know.
Q5. To those who answered "often" or "sometimes" to Q1.
Which situations do you recommend ionic beverages to infants?
vomiting and/or diarrhea, pyrexia, failure to thrive, after bath, hot weather,
after sweating, others.
Do you warn caregivers for their children not to take ionic beverages excessively?
always, sometimes, infrequently, rarely, never.
We explored whether the responses differed between specialized pediatricians certified by the Japanese Pediatric Society and others. The chi-squared test was used to explore the significance of between-group differences; a p-value < 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. We excluded missing or invalid data, and we did not analyze between-group differences if fewer than 10 responses were received from either group.
We received 215 valid responses (response rate, 40%) from 182 board-certified pediatric specialists and 31 non-specialists. Of all responders, 34 (15%) frequently recommended ionic beverages, and 91 (42%) did so sometimes (Table 1). Brand A was the most commonly recommended (Table 1). Responders who recommended such beverages frequently or sometimes indicated that patients usually presented with acute symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, and pyrexia. Most respondents reported that they cautioned against excessive consumption (Table 2). Sixteen respondents (7%) reported that they were very familiar with the fact that health could be compromised by excessive consumption, and 96 (45%) replied that they were familiar to some extent with the potential problem (Table 1). Of the recommended beverages, the favorite brand for both specialists and non-specialists was Brand A. Brand B was recommended more frequently by specialists, while brand C was recommended more frequently by non-specialists (Table 1). We found no significant difference in the other variables between specialists and non-specialists (Table 1).
Table 2 Situation where the participants recommend ionic beverages and caution for excessive consumption
Of all respondents, 75 (35%) had been consulted on excessive consumption of ionic beverages (Table 1). Among them, non-specialists recommended beverages to patients with pyrexia more often than did specialists. We found no difference in terms of the frequency of cautioning against excessive consumption between specialists and non-specialists (Table 2).
We explored the attitudes of practicing members of the Japanese Pediatric Society toward consumption of ionic beverages by children. It became clear that most participants of this study have appropriate attitude towards ionic beverages among children. Approximately 60% of respondents stated that they recommended ionic beverages often or sometimes. The beverages most often recommended were those developed for oral rehydration (Brands A and B). Brands C and E, which are less suitable in this respect, were recommended infrequently (about 15% of the time). A 2008 survey of members of the Society of Ambulatory and General Pediatrics of Japan found that approximately 20% of respondents recommended inappropriate beverages such as Brands C and E [13]. In the present survey, the incidence of inappropriate recommendations was less.
Commonly, ionic beverages were recommended to treat acute symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, and pyrexia. Cautions against excessive consumption were given by about half of the respondents who recommended ionic beverages either often or sometimes. Therefore, a simple recommendation that an ionic beverage should be consumed is unlikely to trigger excessive consumption. However, about 40% of respondents had been consulted by patients about excessive consumption, suggesting that such consumption is not unusual. About 60% of the participants were familiar with the health problems attributable to excessive consumption; the extent of awareness thus seems to be adequate. A large majority of respondents prescribed ionic beverages in a responsible manner.
We found that specialists recommended appropriate ionic beverages more often than did non-specialists. In contrast, non-specialists recommended ionic beverages to patients with pyrexia more often than did specialists, suggesting that specialists recommended more appropriate beverages than did non-specialists and were more sensitive to the possibility of over-consumption.
It remains unclear whether doctor recommendations influence the consumption of ionic beverages. A survey of sports drinks consumption in nursery school children found that doctors' advice triggered such consumption in 65% of children, suggesting that the influence of doctors' recommendations was strong [14]. In a study on how excessive soft drink consumption could be curbed, parents replied that they would reduce consumption if a doctor so recommended [15]. Although the cited work was performed in an effort to control caloric intake and the purpose thus differed from that of the present study, the cited work showed that doctors' advice may alter the children's consumption behaviors. Kawashita et al. found that most parents of 3-year-old children who consumed sports drinks stated that pediatricians had recommended the drinks; however, the consumption levels of these children were significantly lower than those of children whose parents had not received such recommendations [16]. Annual ionic beverage sales are increasing in Japan, and children are targeted in some promotions. The effects of ionic beverages on children, especially infants and young children, needs to be better understood. Appropriate advice by pediatricians is important in this context.
There are several limitations to our study. First, both the number of subjects approached and the questionnaire response rate were inadequate. It would be unwise to seek to apply our results to all populations of pediatricians. It is important to survey more pediatricians and increase the response rate. In particular, the proportion of non-specialist respondents in the present study was low. Thus, the power of our statistical analyses may be inadequate. We targeted members of the Japanese Pediatrics Society. However, presently, many doctors who treat children are not members of the Society. Those doctors must also be surveyed to more accurately evaluate children's consumption of ionic beverages.
The attitudes of pediatricians toward children's consumption of ionic beverages were generally appropriate. The attitudes of pediatric specialists were more appropriate than those of non-specialists. To prevent excessive consumption, it is important that pediatric specialists impart correct information. Academic societies must encourage pediatricians to understand circumstances under which ionic beverages are required and the potential risks involved.
VB1D:
Vitamin B1 deficiency
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The members of The Committee on Pediatric Nutrition of The Japanese Pediatric Society were as follows; Shinobu Ida (chairperson), Setsuko Ito, Mikako Inokuchi, Toshihiro Ohura, Akihisa Okumura, Mitsuyoshi Suzuki, Kimitaka Takitani, Kazushige Dobashi, Mitsuhiko Hara, Toru Kikuchi, Shigetaka Sugihara, Nobuo Yoshiike, Tomoo Okadan, Kazunari Kaneko, Chiharu Tsutsumi, Yuriko Ohta, Keiichi Hanaki, Kazue Kawakami, Yoshio Hanawa, Hiroaki Inomata, Tatsuya Oguni, Atsuyuki Yamataka, Yuko Bito, Keiichi Uchida, Hiroko Kodama, Masaaki Mori, and Toshiaki Shimizu. We deeply thank all participants of this study. This study was supported by the Japanese Pediatric Society.
Data used in this study can be made available by contacting the corresponding author on reasonable request.
This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Department of Pediatrics, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan
Akihisa Okumura
Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
& Toshiaki Shimizu
Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Osaka, Japan
Shinobu Ida
Department of Lifetime Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Masaaki Mori
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, Mitsuhiko Hara
, Toru Kikuchi
, Shigetaka Sugihara
, Nobuo Yoshiike
, Tomoo Okadan
, Kazunari Kaneko
, Chiharu Tsutsumi
, Yuriko Ohta
, Keiichi Hanaki
, Kazue Kawakami
, Yoshio Hanawa
, Hiroaki Inomata
, Tatsuya Oguni
, Atsuyuki Yamataka
, Yuko Bito
, Keiichi Uchida
, Hiroko Kodama
, Masaaki Mori
AO conceptualized and designed the study, drafted the initial manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted. SI and MM collected data and performed the initial analyses, reviewed and revised the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted. TS coordinated and supervised the data collection process, critically reviewed the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted. This study was conducted by the Committee on Pediatric Nutrition of The Japanese Pediatric Society.
Correspondence to Akihisa Okumura.
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Japanese Pediatric Society, which granted a waiver of informed consent.
Masaaki Mori has received lecture fees from MSD K.K and Accvie LLC, and consulting fees from Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. and Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. For the remaining authors, none is declared.
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Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles (1973)
Billy Preston was a very talented guy, and he made a lot of great records of his own. He also played on a lot of records by other artists, and he helped to make those some great records too. That's my opinion, and I'm the first to admit that my opinion doesn't mean much in the scheme of things. Billy doesn't need my approval. His career can stand on its own.
Or can it? He was such a cheerful guy, unrelentingly cheerful, that we mostly missed the fact that he had a lot of unfortunate drama in his life. We missed it unless he got arrested. Towards the end I think that the memory of the records was being crowded out by the tales of arrests and drugs and court cases and underage boys getting assaulted. He died pretty young too, Billy did. Had the old hypertension, big time, he found out the hard way that cocaine is for horses, human beings don't have the body weight to deal with that kind of pressure.
These are some great records, though. "I wrote a song, it ain't got no moral. Let the bad guy win every once in a while." I've got a story like that myself. I might even finish it someday. Yeah, as soon as somebody can convince me that there's more than a plugged nickel in a self-published novel.
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Chet Baker She Was Too Good To Me She Was Too Good...
Rochell and The Candles - Once Upon A Time - Early...
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Q: "Delusions dispelled" What grammar construction is this? Is this an idiom? I don't understand the grammar of this: "You will be dazed by the shock of delusions dispelled." (by George Johnson)  I think it means, "He is dazed by the shock that naturally comes from your delusions being dispelled because of what stands right before him: reality." But I'm not sure about the grammar of "shock of delusions dispelled".
How does one derive what this means from English grammar?

A: It's an adjective: In "delusions dispelled" the participle is functioning as an adjective. This can cause confusion with language learners simply because there is a lot more emphasis and material on the role of the past participle as part of English verb conjugations.
How to decide between verb and adjective form? If a word answers "what action happened?" then it's acting as part of a verb (and this will typically be obvious as a verb conjugation). If a word answers the question "which?" or "what kind?" then it's acting as an adjective.
But it still retains a verb-like quality!  The adjectival participle describes "which" or "what kind?" by virtue of the state or action it has taken or been subjected-to.
Participles as Verbs: Let's first review some familiar verb conjugations. You can easily understand these as part of the action of the sentence.  "He had dispelled his delusion" and "He dispelled his delusion" both use 'dispelled' to simply describe the action (the verb of the sentence), forming the past perfect and past tense, respectively.
Participles as Adjective: In the sentence, "He was dismayed by his dispelled delusion", the word 'dispelled' describes which delusion and is therefore acting as an adjective. But even as an adjective, it describes it in a verb-like manner.
Rhetorical Usage/Elliiptical Construction: Placed after the noun (called postpostive position), participles often form an elliptical construction (omission of one or more words that are understood in context).  Rhetorically, this allows brevity, euphony (pleasing to the ear), and powerful punchy phrases.  This also allows an elliptical construction (dropping additional information) which creates a more passive and distant tone that can avoid naming responsibility.  Therefore, this form is often used in government and business documents to sound more authoritative and less connected to actual people or groups.  Statements made in the passive voice are weaker, but the missing words can make it more easily accepted (because there's less information to argue against) or hide the people responsible for making decisions.
Examples of Elliptical Constructions.

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*Many of the species involved are listed internationally
as endangered. (The species involved in the study...)

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References:
1. A Guide to Parts of Speech - Adjectives
Google Search "postpositive+adjectives"+participles.
2. Exceptions are idiomatic deverbal adjectives).
3. Postpositive Past Participles Used on Their Own (Furuta, Yae, International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, Vol 2, No. 6, 2012).
4. Bibliography for the quotes referenced by Faruta: (1.) R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum, G. Leech, and J. Svartvik, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, New York: Longman, 1985. (2.) M. Swan, Practical English Usage, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2005. (3) K. Araki and M. Yasui, Sanseido's New Dictionary of English Grammar, Tokyo: Sanseido, 1993.
5. Semantics of adjectival participles:  participles eventives resultatives statives.

A: Look at it this way: "You will be dazed by the shock of delusions that have been dispelled."
So, clearly you understand the sentence.  It looks like you didn't understand that "that have been" can be inferred by the context.  This sort of abbreviation is pretty common.  For example:

The goals scored in the current World Cup are among the finest in its history.
  The goals that have been scored in the current World Cup are among the finest in its history.

This is the same idea, and perhaps a more obvious example.

A: dispel by definition

to scatter and drive away; cause to vanish; disperse

So I suppose delusions dispelled refers to delusions that were made to go away. Probably that could mean a number of things. I suppose reality could be one of them.

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Nvidia investors should ignore its short-term issues and focus on the chip maker's long-term opportunities, according to Piper Jaffray.
The back story. Nvidia shares (ticker: NVDA) have rallied more than 30% year-to-date in anticipation of a sector recovery in the second half of the year. The chip maker's stock is down nearly 25% over the past 12 months, however, after it suffered from weakening demand from the cryptocurrency mining, data center, and gaming markets.
What's new. Piper Jaffray analyst Harsh Kumar on Tuesday initiated coverage on Nvidia stock with an Overweight rating, predicting growth in its gaming segment later this year.
Nvidia stock was up 2.3% to $177.85 Tuesday.
The analyst noted gaming represented 53% of the company's sales in fiscal 2019. He predicted a rebound in the segment's sales due to the fuller product range such as its mid-range graphics cards.
Looking ahead. Kumar started his price target for Nvidia stock at $200, representing 12% upside to the current stock price.
Last month, Barron'ssuggested there is risk to the company's valuation multiple as Nvidia's 2019 guidance is dependent on a sharp recovery in PC gaming-card sales later this year. Nvidia announced a $6.9 billion acquisition of semiconductor maker Mellanox Technologies (MLNX) earlier this month.


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Editorial: Reflecting on the end
By Stefanie Croley
As I drafted this column, it took every ounce of restraint in me to avoid the typical talk about the end of another year, but it's hard not to be reflective in December. Looking back on the ups and downs of the year can be cathartic and necessary. From a business perspective, it allows for re-evaluation of what worked well, and critical thinking about what flopped – and why. It's a good opportunity to set goals or make decisions for the coming season. And, it's a perfect time to celebrate the milestones, too.
I've been a part of the Top Crop Manager brand team for almost a decade, and during that time I've often used this space as an outlet to do all of those things. Our content is traditionally focused on field crop production, agronomy and research, so there's little room in our pages for commentary on current affairs, world events or other trends and happenings that relate to the greater ag sector.
But that doesn't mean we aren't paying attention; we're just responding a little differently. Our content approach means we take the long view. Rather than covering an issue as it happens, we aim to provide our audience with the resources needed down the road. Whether insect pest, disease, soil or market-related, most issues producers face aren't resolved in a day or two. While you're dealing with a challenge in July, we're listening – and figuring out how we can continue to help you overcome that challenge months later. And when the industry finds reason to celebrate, like a breeding breakthrough, a resolved trade conflict, or a much-needed rainfall, we're cheering right alongside you.
This December marks a personal milestone for me, as it's the last issue in which my name will appear. After nearly 10 years with the Top Crop Manager brand, and with the agriculture group at Annex Business Media, I've taken a new position within our company and will be handing the reins over to a new editor. The change is good, and welcome, but makes me even more reflective than usual. In nearly a decade, I've watched both our brand and Canadian agriculture grow and adapt in various ways. I've worked with an incredible brand and writer team, who work so hard through the year to help me bring these publications to your mailbox. I've learned intricate details about what producers do to help feed the world. I've interviewed some of the most influential and ground-breaking people in Canadian agriculture, translating their scientific lingo into something I can understand and relay to my readers. I've sat at tables full of welcoming strangers, willing to share their insights with me. I've heard heartwarming and heartbreaking stories.
To all of them, and all of you, I express my sincere gratitude. Leading the content charge for such a long-respected brand has been a career highlight, and being a part of a vibrant, resilient and important industry has been an honour.
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Castles › French castles
Fitou castle
Region: Pyrénées Orientales (Eastern Pyrenean Mountains)
Other names: Château de Fitou, Château Féodal de Fitou (Feudal Castle of Fitou)
Fitou castle is a small, stone castle high on the hill above the village of Fitou, known in Europe for his wine. The village itself has dramatically changed last years, as the wines from the Fitou appellation got a better name, and more and more people from the North of France and even Germany, Switzerland or England, bought the houses in the region known for its beauty, closeness to the Mediterranean Sea and a nice climate. Several tiny town houses in Fitou have been nicely restored. You may see them walking through the village up to the castle. The castle's museum, a slightly home made, may be attractive to visit by small children. They should not look only too close at the torture instruments. Still, they might like everyday court scenes and the alchemist's workshop.
History: A stone castle from early Middle Ages, probably from the 10th century. Mentioned for the first time it the testament of the Viscountess Adelaïde of Narbonne. Later in the property of the Perignan family. After the fall of the Cathars schism in the 13th century, Sir of Niort, a Cathar by religion, converted to Catholicism and established himself at the Fitou castle. Taken by the Catalan Kingdom of Aragon in the war of 1635, the castle remained in Spanish territory until the French Revolution of 1789. Burnt and robbed in 1843, remained just a ruin on a hill above the Fitou village until the modern times. Since 1974, again in private hands, slowly restored, the Fitou castle first served as a restaurant and the nightclub, now is a museum.
The feel: The Fitou castle is built from a local stone. The donjon raises high above the area. The castle is being ambitiously restored, with very small means.
Today: A French National Monument, usually called Le Chateau Féodal de Fitou, the Fitou castle is now a museum trying to show the scenes from the court life in the life Middle Ages, ancient arms, as well as mediaeval torture instruments. Descriptions are in French, English, German, and Catalan. The castle of Fitou is now offered for sale.
Opening hours: All days of the week, but the times may vary, depending on the month of the year. March: 11.00-17.30, April an May: 10-18 June 10-18.30, July and August 10-20 September 10-19 October 10-12 14 -18 November 10-12 14-17.30 December, January, February: open only in the weekends and during the French school holidays 10-12 14-17.30 14.00-17.00. Closed: January 1, May 1, November 1 and 11. Telephone: (+33) 04 68 45 65 92
Adults € 5,-, children € 2,50.
How to get there: By car – ca. 30 km from Perpignan by RN 9 direction Narbonne; on the Fitou village lights turn left onto D 50 and ride 3km uphill into the village. You will see the castle on your right. From Leucate by RN direction Perpignan, 14km; by freeway A 9 from Narbonne, accessible from exit 40 ( Échangeur de Leucate) and the N9 direction Perpignan, the castle is on the western side of the freeway.
Facilities: Parking accessible for the tourist busses.
Fitou castle pictures
Free pictures of the Fitou castle to illustrate your web site.
Nearby cities: Leucate, Narbonne, Perpignan
Nearby castles: Salses
Tourist office in Fitou
Fitou village page in several languages
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BURLINGTON CITY — Six figures for a pedestrian bridge proved to be too high for city officials.
While no one questions the need to replace the span over Pope's Run near the intersection of Jacksonville Road and the Burlington Bypass, the City Council decided Tuesday to pass on a proposal to replace the walkway after seeing the price tag.
The council voted to reject the lone bid of $118,000 submitted by West Bay Construction of Absecon, Atlantic County.
Mayor Barry Conaway said the bid was $64,000 more than the city engineer's estimate and far exceeded the budget.
Instead, the city will rebid the project in hopes of receiving a better proposal to install a 4-foot-by-60-foot aluminum pedestrian bridge over the small waterway. They are scheduled to be opened on Aug. 11.
Conaway said there is a gas line near the bridge that likely caused the cost to increase.
For some time, officials have sought to replace the walkway because of safety concerns for students and adults who walk in the area.
"It's unsafe for anybody to walk on it," said Kenneth MacMillan, the city's chief financial officer.
The municipality wanted to get the project done quickly because students use that stretch of road during the school year.
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The city did approach Burlington County since the span is on a county road, but the county said it had no plans to improve the bridge in the next couple of years, according to officials.
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Charlemagne Prize Laureate 1977 Walter Scheel
Born on 8th July 1919 in Solingen.
Apprenticeship as a banker; from 1939 to 1945 military service.
From 1945 to 1953 he was manager at several companies, afterwards worked as an independent management consultant.
From 1950 to 1953 he was a Member of the North Rhine Westphalia Regional Parliament for the FDP. From 1953 to 1974 he was a Member of the German Federal Parliament and also its Vice President from 1967 to 1969; in addition from 1955 to 1957 he was a Member of the Joint Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community and from 1958 to 1961 Member of the European Parliament.
In 1961 he was appointed Minister for Economic Cooperation, an office which he held until 1966. In 1968 he was elected Chairman of the FDP; from 1969 to 1974 he held the office of Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor. Afterwards he was elected Federal President of West Germany for 5 years (until 1979). During his political work of many years he campaigned for the consolidation of the European integration process.
Died on 24th August 2016.
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2019 Adelaide Fringe Offers Maximum Return From Sales To Registering Artists
BroadwayWorld.com Jul. 31, 2018
Established and emerging artists from all over the world are invited to join in the fun and explore the amazing opportunities provided by Australia's largest arts festival, Adelaide Fringe.
Event registrations are open from today for the 2019 Adelaide Fringe, which will again offer maximum return from ticket sales, an arts marketplace for future bookings and dedicated staff to assist artists with their Fringe season.
For the 2018 Fringe, the festival removed inside charges on tickets under $35 and halved the inside fees for tickets above that price. This price structure will be repeated in 2019 and will mean more money going into artists' pockets at the end of their Fringe season.
Adelaide Fringe Director and CEO Heather Croall said the Adelaide Fringe aims to deliver a supportive and financially viable experience to artists.
"We offer a range of services to make sure the Fringe artists have as rewarding a season as possible," Ms Croall said.
"The Fringe devotes enormous energy and resources to trying to sell as many tickets as possible for artists across the program - we have improved our ticketing services even further for 2019 to help achieve that goal - and the Honey Pot arts marketplace offers Fringe artists opportunities for future bookings and touring.
"We are pleased that we can again promise no inside charges for tickets under $35 and reduced inside charges for tickets above that price. It means that the box office settlements will be around 10 per cent bigger than if those fees had not been reduced.
"The wonderful thing about our festival is that it is open access; anyone with an idea for a show can take to the stage and present their work to our enthusiastic and engaged Fringe audiences.
"Our team are here to help the experience of putting on a Fringe show as fruitful as possible.
"Every year our program offers such a variety of highly entertaining and incredibly inspiring events, and I can't wait to see what's in store for 2019!"
The 2018 Adelaide Fringe attracted nearly 7000 artists across 1231 events covering a wide range of genres - everything from cabaret, children's, circus/physical theatre and comedy to dance, events, film/digital, interactive, magic, music, theatre and visual art/design.
Registrations for 2019 Adelaide Fringe events and venues are open until September 26, 2018.
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For more information, visit adelaidefringe.com.au or call the Artists and Venues team on (08) 8100 2022. The 2019 Adelaide Fringe runs from February 15 to March 17.
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In our annual calendar, each month is full of special days and weeks that commemorate one thing or an-other. Some are dedicated to heroes. Some are dedicated to a special cause. Others commemorate a special histori-cal event. Some are designed to prod our memory and others to stir our conscience. Some commemorations are religious; others historical; and yet others provide a challenge for us when we try to categorize them. Some deal with serious topics while others tilt the needle towards silly. For instance, religiously in March we have Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of Lent. Historically we celebrate National Women's History Month which bids us remember the contributions of women like Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, or Rosa Parks. On the silly side, we have days like "if pets had a thumb day" which asks that we contemplate what the world would be like if our pets had thumbs. I don't wish to be critical of special days but I really have better things to use my brain for.
(1) Do we commemorate it and rejoice in our freedom?
(2) Do we tell others that we have been freed?
(3) Do we share with others how they too may find such deliverance?
As we go about the business of life in the month of March, let us do so with a mind toward what we have found in Jesus Christ and how we can help others find that same joy.


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There is no doubt that SEO is important for healthy website growth. Despite lackluster starts over a decade ago and being one of the most underestimated terms in marketing, SEO has grown to make business leaders of early startup through growth and are leading actors among their industries.
Even though 2016 was all about the keywords and the traffic it brings, it is seen in 2017, that it is not all about keywords but with the intent themselves.
The truth being said that long-tail keywords are the richest to rank. Therefore it is not going to be hard to shift your strategy towards this. Instead of dropping keywords, think about content as a process in which you want to tell a story. If users find the information they are looking for, intent will prove its value in comparison to solo keywords.
Last year it was all about Amazon's Alexa and Siri and Cortona development along with development in Google Home. So we ask ourselves how is SEO changing itself due to these technologies for helping brand sustain their steady growth.
SEO strategies have moved towards taking advantage of these technologies. Not only is spotless images important for reaching a better rank, but so is the importance of titles and descriptions with precise keywords and use of bullet points for listing straight-to-the-point facts.
Between 51 to 60% of all mobile searches were performed over the smartphone over the last years and this trends seems to be growing for the past four years, hence it is important to improve the company's online website on the mobile platform.
There isn't anything as annoying as those websites which aren't mobile optimized, in which you have to go through menus and sub-menus to reach something that could have been displayed in a sidebar, or worse the Adobe Flash loving websites.
If you consider it that 80% of users look at shopping to acquire products during their spare time and over half of them access your site through mobile, you are losing a considerable client pool worth catching.
Consider rich snippet the answer for people who don't want to be looking around through the website: Google has spent a considerable amount of time and effort looking towards speeding up the search experience, with its most practical applications for product reviews, videos, books and many other daily search situations.
As for the mobile experience for snippet answers, there is still a lot of work to be done by developers to improve the user experience and to make the most of that website exposure. Mostly, we will see a varied layout in the way snippets are being displayed on the mobile device so that they can make them look attractive and increase CTR for websites.
If we said that there isn't anything more annoying as a non mobile optimized website, let us re structure that statement and say there is one thing and that's a website taking too long to load.
Users seek information most probably from jumping from one website to another. After a sustained period, it is seen that there is a reputation which is being crafted for these website as being reliable sources of information. So, if the website user has to wait for more than a minute for the website to start displaying information, they won't be coming back n the near future.
By not filling up your website with high-res images and unnecessary toolbars that will slow down the website's performance, consider investing time and resources in site optimization from media content to server. There's no need to install tons of toolbars for getting the job done – useful webmaster resources do not come in plug-in fashion.


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Boca Juniors Profile
Major Honours Primera Division (34), Intercontinental Cup (3), Copa Libertadores (6), Copa Sudamericana (2), Recopa Sudamericana (4), Supercopa Sudamericana (1), Supercopa Argentina (1), Copa Diego Armando Maradona (1), Copa Argentina (1)
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The Argentinian giants are known for their fierce rivalry with River Plate and the one and only Diego Maradona.
Boca Juniors are a sports club from the Boca neighbourhood of Buenos Aires predominantly known for their soccer team. They play in the Argentine Primera Division and are one of the most successful clubs in the league's history alongside city rivals River Plate.
Boca are famous for their iconic former players, including Carlos Tevez, Juan Roman Riquelme and, most notably, the late, great Diego Maradona.
Maradona played for Boca from 1981-1982 and again from 1995-1997. Most of his heyday was spent on the books of Italian side Napoli, as well as to a lesser extent Spain's Barcelona, but Maradona was never forgotten among the Boca Juniors faithful.
Boca have won 34 Argentine top-flight titles and six Copa Libertadores crowns. They are a club traditionally associated with Argentina's working class and an industrious approach to the game.
They play their home matches at the 54,000-capacity La Bombonero.
Boca Juniors' early history
Club Atletico Boca Juniors were founded in 1905 in the La Boca neighbourhood. In 1913, Boca won promotion to the Argentine top flight and they have remained there ever since.
Boca Juniors embarked on a famous tour of Europe in 1925. They played 19 friendly matches from March to June in Spain, Germany and France. Boca won 15 of those matches, drew one and lost three. Manuel Seonae was Boca's top scorer on the tour, netting 12 of their 40 goals during their time in Europe.
The 1925 tour was the first time an Argentine side played in Europe and the AFA (Argentine Football Association) awarded them an honorary championship title for their success abroad.
Primera Division success
Boca Juniors have been competitive in Argentina for more than 100 years, winning the first of their 34 Primera Division titles in 1919. They followed that up with titles in 1920, 1923, 1924 and 1926.
They managed to win a further seven league titles between 1930 and 1944.
Boca then went through 10 years without winning the title as River Plate enjoyed a highly successful spell. However, Boca were back on top in 1954.
After another drought - this time lasting eight years - Boca claimed four league titles in the 1960s.
Success continued in the 1970s but Boca then endured a barren spell between 1981 and 1992. However, in the late 90s, they played under the guidance of a man who remains their most successful head coach.
Carlos Bianchi was in charge from 1998-2001 and again from 2003-2004 and 2013-2014. A young Riquelme was involved in their success under Bianchi, who won nine trophies with Boca.
Oscar Tabarez was another notable figure to manage the club and he later went on to have tremendous success in charge of the Uruguay national team.
However, no Boca Juniors hero has ever been greater than Diego Maradona, who donned the club's colours in their 1981 triumph.
Boca Juniors on the international scene
Boca Juniors have won 22 international titles, including six Copa Libertadores triumphs.
Boca's first Copa Libertadores came in a 1977 final victory over Brazil's Cruzeiro. They followed that up in 1978 by thrashing Deportivo Cali 4-0.
In 2000, Boca beat Palmeiras in the final on penalties after a 2-2 aggregate tie. Rodolfo Martin Arruabarrena had scored both of Boca's goals in regulation time during a 2-2 first-leg draw, with the second leg goalless.
Boca claimed another penalty shootout win in the final the following year as they edged out Cruz Azul following a 1-1 aggregate draw.
In 2003, Boca beat Santos 5-1 on aggregate in the final of a tournament which saw Carlos Tevez claim the Best Player award.
Boca's most recent Copa Libertadores victory was in 2007, when they beat Gremio 5-0 on aggregate in the final.
Boca Juniors and the Superclasico
The Superclasico against River Plate is Boca Juniors' most fiercely contested rivalry. The clubs were both founded in La Boca, but River Plate moved to Nunez, which became a more affluent area.
The perception has always existed that Boca are a working class club and River Plate a wealthier side. Both teams have supporters from all walks of life, but that did not stop Boca from making their working class roots central to their identity as a soccer institution.
Boca's clashes with River Plate have often produced fan violence and fierce confrontations between players. In 2018, the second leg of their Copa Libertadores final was moved to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, in part after River Plate supporters ambushed the Boca team bus. That final was ultimately won by River Plate.
One rare example of Boca Juniors and River Plate fans coming together was to mourn the passing of Maradona. Boca and River fans were pictured embracing as they reflected on the life of one of Argentine soccer's finest sons.
Boca Juniors and their fanbase
Boca Juniors claim to be the most widely supported club in Argentina with 193,000 members. This figure is disputed, as River Plate also claim to be Argentina's best supported side.
Boca fans rejoiced when River Plate were relegated from Argentina's top flight in 2011. So deep is the hatred that they even made a song to celebrate it.
River Plate won promotion back up to the top flight a year later.
Boca Juniors and finances
Statista listed Boca Juniors as the fourth most valuable club at the 2020 Copa Libertadores with a value of $93.2million.
The club president is Jorge Amar Ameal, a gastronomic entrepreneur by trade. He won Boca's presidential election in 2019.
It has been widely reported in recent years that Boca Juniors' transfer budget dwarfs that of their Argentinian rivals, allowing them to have the pick of the domestic talent while also hanging on to their best players.
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Do not perform DNS resolution of the IP addresses in the log file (the default behavior). This option significantly speeds up processing.
Show detailed log chains (all log segments a log record consists of).
Display only events whose action is action, i.e., accept, drop, reject, authorize, deauthorize, encrypt, and decrypt. Control actions are always displayed.
Display only the log whose origin is the specified IP address or name.
Display only events that were logged after the specified time. (See format below.) starttime may be a date, time, or both. If the date is omitted, today's date is assumed.
Display only events that were logged before the specified time. (See format below) endtime may be a date, a time, or both.
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URBANUS都市实践
UPRD
Culture & Education
Small public
Office & Mixed use
Interior & Commercial
Urban design & Research
Beijing Olympic City Mark 2005
Principal Architect: Wang Hui, Liu Xiaodu
Designers: Liu Xu| Jin Dayong, Huang Zhiyi, Wang Peng, Zhang Miao, Zhang Yongqing, Sun Yimeng, Li Hui, Wu Xinxin | Zhu Qinghui, Sun Yimeng
Beijing is a city of axes. Its long row of horizontal axes inevitably needs a vertical landmark to end it. The 2008 Olympic Center is located right on the north end of these axes. On this spot a vertical landmark can be used as a platform for sight-seeing, and catching the best view of the city.
The first scheme provided by URBANUS is to integrate the axes and the landmark. This scheme, called "The Pole of Beijing", is suitable for the central axis of Beijing and also suitable for its specific site. As the whole Olympic center is built way over human scale, a 80 meters wide and 2.5 kilometers long pedestrian walkway is difficult to be used by people.
The horizontal element of "The Pole of Beijing" is an elevated monorail track to solve the problem of pedestrian path motorization. Its support structure can be an infrastructure to support many other functions in order to trigger different urban events on this broad walking path, for instance: open air exhibition, free trade market, dance parties, children's play ground etc. When this track enters the Olympic Green, it turns upwards pointing at the Polaris, so as to captureBeijing's geographic character. Unlike a normal sight-seeing tower only putting the platform on the top, the bent up part is a simple hollow square volume to form multi-level sight-seeing platform, in order to hold more commercial value. Therefore, it helps to ensure this landmark's normal operation costs. This method of using architecture to foster intriguing city life is an ongoing strategy of URBANUS.
Project Location: Beijing
Project Period: 2005
Project Status: Idea
Client: Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning