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The Anthology Film Archives moves forward with library and cafe expansion
From the outside, the Anthology Film Archives appears to be a modestly sized brick building cornering the busy streets of E. 2nd St. and 2nd Ave. in the Lower East Side. But inside the classical masonry cube exists one of the most enticing gems in the independent film world. The Anthology, equipped with one of the largest film archives, is a crucial cultural institution that supports young filmmakers as well as independent cinema research and education. Now, more than 30 years after its last transformation, the building is finally getting the makeover it was always destined to have. New York City–based Bone Levine Architects has been collaborating with the Anthology for the past four years to devise the best strategies for expanding the building to accommodate new programming and update the existing facilities. "We want to get the Anthology in shape for the next 50 years so this institution has viability," stated Kevin Bone. The final proposal for the renovations was recently approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) and construction is set to be complete by 2020. The brick building, originally constructed as a municipal courthouse in 1919, was reopened as the Anthology in 1988 after the institution moved from its former location in Soho. The initial transformation from courthouse to cinema was led by architect Raimund Abraham (1933-2010), although his plans for the full revival of the art house were put on halt, until now. Kevin Bone of Bone Levine Architects, who worked as an associate to Raimund Abraham, told The Architect's Newspaper that in 1988 "a lot of our ambitions were cut back in beginning [because of a limited budget]. It was 'let's make the basic building function the best as we can.'" Thirty-five years later, the building's transformation is finally happening. Primary features of the renovation consist of a one-story addition that will house the expanded library, a new roof terrace area, and the development of the site's alleyway space as a cafe. The firm settled on cladding the additional story with coated copper panels and a bronze wire mesh screen. "We felt that the notion of an architectural metal addition was the most appropriate so that the artifact, the masonry artifact... was best left as a pure artifact and the additional elements were clearly identified as belonging to their own vocabulary." This juxtaposition is also carried out in the development of the alleyway connecting the Anthology with its neighboring warehouse. Greatly inspired by Abraham's original designs, the 12-foot-wide alley space is going to be encased in a glass and iron cylindrical form. "In Raimund's case that cylinder became a stop, that was a filler within that void between the two buildings... and was not intended to be an opening to the building.... We wanted to reverse that language and make this cylinder a kind of lantern that can be illuminated, and provide a secondary entrance into the Anthology facilities and into [the] cafe." The isolated entrance allows the cafe to be distinguished as a separate space and opens it up to the public to provide "some badly needed public space." The approval from the LPC for the Anthology expansion was particularly uncertain due to the visibility of the renovations on a historic building. Bone praised the LPC for "recognizing that historic buildings that are occupied by cultural institutions might need to transform to remain viable and that may require a slightly more courageous strategy towards the architecture… we are really happy to be a part of that." Although the building is only in its fifth year of being a historic landmark, the architects are committed to preserving the Anthology's authenticity and respect the cinema's historical structure. "The integrity of the Anthology is impeccable," stated Bone, "[and] that was part of [the designs]. What could we do for ourselves, on our own, that is exclusively devoted to the mission of the Anthology Archives."
Politicians to sue if New York City approves three new riverside towers
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Councilperson Margaret Chin are pushing the Department of City Planning (DCP) to conduct additional reviews of three waterfront towers in the Two Bridges neighborhood. The pair said they will pursue legal action against the city if it doesn't stop the developments. Developers have set their sights on the Chinatown-adjacent area in recent years with a series of high-rise residential buildings. The 77-, 69-, and 62-story towers would sit less than a block away from the FDR Drive, near the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges from which Two Bridges gets its names. JDS Development Group, the same firm behind the troubled supertall on Central Park, is backing the 77-story, SHoP-designed skyscraper at 247 Cherry Street, which will rise next to an under-construction 80-story tower, Extell's One Manhattan Square, designed by Adamson Associates Architects. Two Bridges Associates is planning a double tower (69 stories each) with a shared platform at 260 South Street, and Starrett Development wants to build its 62-story structure at 259 Clinton Street. Last year, Brewer and Chin, whose district includes the proposed towers, asked DCP to assess the development via a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), a seven-month review that goes through the community board all the way up to the mayor for public comment, revision, and further assessment before the development is approved or denied. Here, though, current zoning allows the towers to be built as-of-right, so no scrutiny through ULURP was legally necessary. The developers of the tower trio are only required to do environmental review for their project, though they did hold voluntary community reviews (which were interrupted by protests). In response to community concerns, DCP is considering the projects together, instead of individually. "While the modifications sought for the Two Bridges sites do not trigger ULURP—in other words no new density or waivers are needed—a thorough environmental review which offers multiple opportunities for the public and elected officials to participate is being conducted," said DCP spokesperson Rachaele Raynoff, in an email to DNAinfo. "Moreover we are ensuring a coordinated review by the project applicants that looks at the cumulative effects of these three developments at the same time—an extraordinary but important measure that is not ordinarily required. This coordinated review will help produce the best possible outcome for this neighborhood. Much as we appreciate the desire of the community to do so, there are no grounds under which a ULURP could legally be required in this instance." Though there are many neighborhood groups across the city saying "no" to tall buildings, the political geography of downtown Manhattan lends the Two Bridges controversy a special edge. Restrictive zoning and landmarking shields wealthier and whiter neighborhoods downtown from skyscrapers, but those protections are missing in the Lower East Side or Chinatown, a condition that jeopardizes affordability and encourages what some see as out-of-scale development. Though activists are working to mitigate displacement, since 2002, Chinatown has lost more than 25 percent of its rent-regulated apartments. Now, neighbors are worried the developments will stress already over-burdened infrastructure, block natural light, and engender displacement in the low-income neighborhood by causing property values to spike. At One Manhattan Square, for example, prices for two-bedrooms start at almost $2.1 million.
Carriage Trade gallery exhibit delves into America's disturbing psyche
New York City's Carriage Trade gallery has had two homes in its short history and both were small spaces that director Peter Scott packed with intelligent, thoughtful exhibits. Scott is an artist who curates exhibitions as part of his practice and they have always had a strong organizing idea, engagement with issues of relevance, and connections to the current generation of New York artists. Now relocated to the Lower East Side, at 277 Grand Street, the gallery's first show American Interior is a response to the recent Trump election. Theorizing that the U.S. media and psyche have avoided looking honestly into its character and habits that led us to the election of Donald Trump, Scott highlights images that open up to interiors that Americans would rather not highlight. These images take on a recognizable but haunting specter, he writes, because the "media increasingly saturates day-to-day life, [and] politics adopts its techniques, shaping reality to suit its goals." The exhibit features recognizable but creepy domestic interiors, racism in its uniquely American expressions, and views into the American psyche. Taken on their own, many are striking—even seductive—images but together they raise the specter of a frightening uncomfortable reality we don't like to see or admit on a daily basis. The exhibition American Interior runs through June 3, 2017. Carriage Trade is located at 277 Grand Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York, 10002.
An expansive bronze-colored rainscreen covers Peterson Rich Office's latest Lower East Side project
Ten years ago, around 60 art galleries populated the Lower East Side. Today, that number has increased five-fold. Two architects, Nathan Rich and Miriam Peterson, have witnessed the area's cultural shift and are now working on two significant projects in the area under their firm, Peterson Rich Office (PRO), which they cofounded in 2011.
"Most of the current galleries only come to between 13 and 18 feet wide," explained Rich, discussing the gallery and residential block due to be built on Grand Street between Forsyth and Eldridge Streets. "What's interesting about this new building is that there is going to be a gallery space that's about 45 feet wide. Spatially it is more akin to what you see in Chelsea."
Rich and Peterson agreed that this gallery-residential building at 282 Grand Street—and their work on the forthcoming location of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin—are a response to rising costs in Chelsea, where many galleries are being forced to relocate.
PRO secured work in the Lower East Side after bumping into project partners Vito Errico and gallerist Marc Straus—the latter having a long family history of building ownership in the area. Not able to afford Straus's artwork, the pair offered its services instead.
"Because of Straus's history in the neighborhood, it was very important to us to do something that is conceptually contiguous to that history," said Rich. PRO conceptualized the building as a new tenement, retaining the proportional vernacular of 19th and 20th century tenement buildings common in the vicinity.
Covering approximately 20,000 square feet, the building will house 20 condos within seven stories, climbing to 80 feet. Aside from two penthouse apartments on the roof, the dwellings will all be one-bedrooms with around 550 square feet of space.
"The spaces are highly efficient, much like the original tenement buildings were," said Rich. "Efficiency was the driving concept. They're efficient, both spatially and environmentally." The tenement typology is further referenced through a perforated aluminum rain-screen facade system, which doubles-up as a shading device and louvered panel for air exchange. According to the architects, the facade will be coated with a bronze colored Kynar paint, emulating the surrounding yellow and red street signage.
Rich continued: "The screen became a way to achieve this environmental efficiency. There's also a language of sheet metal and cast iron used for awnings and fire escapes on traditional buildings that we wanted to reference with something that was much more contemporary."
"By using windows as opposed to a curtain wall and trying to relate the scale of those windows and openings to the adjacent building, we're trying to create something that's part of the existing fabric but that is also new."
Peterson, meanwhile, discussed why PRO proposed a full build-out of the site, which is currently occupied by a low-rise 19th century building housing a Chinese grocery store. "We basically found that the existing building was not suitable for renovation," she said. "After looking into the project we found tenants had been removing masonry walls without properly replacing them structurally. We said to ourselves, 'This is no longer made to last.'"
PRO also wants to set an example for future development in the Lower East Side—a movement that has already began. "Developers are not, as a blanket, known for always doing sensitive design or building things that have consideration beyond the status-quo," Peterson said. "We are hopeful that working with architects such as ourselves to design a building that everybody is proud of will also inspire the next wave of development to abide by those principles."
The building, due to break ground this spring, is slated to be complete in fall 2018. PRO's new relocation of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin on 130 Orchard Street is set to open fall this year.
Department of City Planning rejects residents' move to trigger ULURP on Two Bridges towers
The Department of City Planning (DCP) rejected a request from elected officials for a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) for the Two Bridges neighborhood on Manhattan's lower east side. Previously, The Architect's Newspaper reported on the profusion of skyscrapers set to blossom on the waterfront. L+M Development and the CIM Group (Two Bridges Associates) are planning a residential complex near JDS Development Group's SHoP-designed 77-story tower, while Starrett Corporation may build a riverside 60-story tower. Rounding out the developments is Extell's One Manhattan West, an 80-story luxury condo that will be open to residents in three years. In a letter to City Planning Commission chair Carl Weisbrod, city council member Margaret Chin asked for reform of the ULURP process for three planned towers along the East River. The ULURP would have sent developers' plans back to the neighborhood's community board, borough president, and ultimately the city council for review. Weisbrod responded August 11 to say that, because the towers are going to be built as-of-right, DCP sees the developments as "minor modifications" not the "major modifications" that would trigger a ULURP, The Lo-Down reports. He added: "I agree that the development contemplated here is significant when each proposed development is considered individually, and that the potential impacts to the surrounding neighborhood require unique consideration when the three proposed projects are assessed cumulatively." The developers have agreed to a "coordinated review" of the proposals, Weisbrod continued, and the city will mandate an Environmental Impact Statement with the applications. Chin released a statement following Weisbrod's memo:
We are disappointed by the decision not to treat this as a major modification to the Large Scale plan, but are encouraged by the requirement of an Environmental Impact Statement that will address the cumulative impact of these planned developments in the Two Bridges neighborhood. We look forward to working with City Planning, other elected officials, and the community to mitigate the impacts of development, and to make sure the community's voices are heard.
Weisbrod's full memo and Chin's response can be found here.
City analyzing two plans that would curb an explosion of skyscrapers on the LES
Residents of Two Bridges have come up with two plans to slow and manage development in their Lower East Side Neighborhood. Development in the neighborhood has boomed in recent months. In April, JDS Development Group revealed plans for a SHoP-designed 77-story tower, while L+M Development and the CIM Group (Two Bridges Associates) are planning a residential complex nearby. Starrett Corporation may build a 60-story tower on an East River parcel it owns, while Extell Development's One Manhattan West, an 80-story luxury condo, is expected to be complete in 2019. In light of this unprecedented high-rise explosion, residents and the pols that represent them have advanced two proposals that address the development in their neighborhood. One plan, initiated by the Chinatown Working Group proposes a neighborhood rezoning to cap building heights at 350 feet. It would require residential buildings to offer below-market-rate housing (possibly through MIH). The plan would also mandate harassment certification from potential developers, DNAinfo reports.
"We want rezoning, even though it may be a one-and-a-half to two-year process," said Trever Holland, president of the Two Bridges Tower Tenant Association told The Lo-Down, which first reported the story. "We need to look forward—we can't just say even though the zoning plan may take a while to implement, we're not going to pursue that." Elected officials, spearheaded by Councilwoman Margaret Chin, delivered a plan in letter form to the Department of City Planning that suggests skyscrapers planned for the waterfront should not be built as-of-right but should be viewed as "major modifications," not "minor modifications." This distinction would trigger a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) process, the months-long back-and-forth between larger stakeholder groups that include the community board, Borough Board, Mayor de Blasio, and the City Council. Chin argues that all four development sites should be considered together for these changes to occur. Residents are concerned that the neighborhood's existing infrastructure cannot adequately accommodate an influx of new residents. Moreover, the neighborhood's character could change if more high-rises are built. State Assemblywoman Alice Cancel is calling an emergency meeting of constituents to come up with a plan to stop the developments.
The Chinatown Working Group's plans are being workshopped by the Department of City Planning; the department concluded the plan was too broad and unfocused and is now reviewing three sections of the plan, although there's not community consensus on this approach. The plan as it's being revised by DCP emphasizes a rezoning that would encourage the development of more affordable housing via MIH, which is tied to the development of market-rate units.
Tenement Museum expansion underway at 103 Orchard Street
Scaffolding has been erected around 103 Orchard Street as part of the Tenement Museum's forthcoming expansion. Currently home to the Sadie Samuelson Levy Visitors Center on the ground floor, The Tenement Museum had been looking to expand for a while and will do so into the upper levels of the building. The Museum will also stay in its original home just down the road on 97 Orchard Street. Speaking with The Architect's Newspaper today, the museum's communication manager Jon Pace said the museum was scheduled to open in July of next year and that construction work was "on course." In a press release from 2014, the museum stated how it served 200,000 visitors per year but was forced to turn away "many others due to space limitations." The new space will be used to display re-created homes of past residents, combining "technology and immersive environments" in the process. Focus will also be set on Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, as well as Puerto Rican and Chinese immigrants who ventured to New York's Lower East Side post-World War II. The upper floors of the building will also host a visitor center, gift shop, and classrooms.
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Though bought in 2007 for $7 million, scaffolding was only put in place on July 5 this year, some nine years after. Work on 103 Orchard Street currently concerns the building's facade, with particular attention being payed to the roof. Here work is being done on the parapets and cornice. Pace said this was slated to run through until fall and that "phase two" of the construction will start with the interior with the elevator being extended to the fifth floor. "Whether it was Asian immigrants, Irish or German émigrés, or recently arrived European Sephardic Jews, the [Lower East Side's] tenements housed generation after generation of new arrivals to our city," Rep. Velazquez (D-NY) said in a press release in 2014. "The museum tells their story and by allowing it to grow, we can ensure visitors continue enjoying this local historic gem." Pace meanwhile said that further details of the exhibits are set to be released in the next few weeks.
"Our new facilities will help us tell some of America's best untold stories," said Tenement Museum President Morris Vogel. "We have aspirations to show how and why New York, and the U.S., became what it is today." Vogel added: "Now more than ever, the Tenement Museum's mission and work is deeply relevant. The story of our nation's immigrants is America's defining narrative, and the joys and challenges of establishing new lives and new communities continue for present-day immigrants around the world. We're proud and excited that we'll soon be able to explore a wider range of these stories for a larger audience."
New York City and NYCEDC announce conditional approval of world's first subterranean park
Last week New York City deputy mayor Alicia Glen and New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) president Maria Torres-Springer announced that the city has selected the Lowline to officially occupy vacant trolley tracks under the Lower East Side as the world's first underground park. Conceived by James Ramsey of raad studio and Dan Barasch, the Lowline will use a custom solar array to channel natural light into the windowless space, which sits adjacent to the J/M/Z lines at Essex Street. (The Architect's Newspaper toured the Lowline Lab, the park's freakily lush demo and educational space, last fall.) At the Lab, an above-ground solar array refracted onto a paneled canopy provides different light intensities to grow everything from pineapples to moss. Since its opening, the lab has hosted 2,000 schoolchildren and 70,000 visitors, an early indication of its potential popularity (it is slated to operate through March of next year). Last fall, NYCEDC, in conjunction with the MTA, put out a request for expressions of interest (RFEI) to develop the Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal, a 60,000-square-foot space below Delancey Street between Clinton and Norfolk streets, under a long-term lease. The RFEI stipulated that the developers must implement a community engagement plan that includes quarterly Community Engagement Committee meetings as well as five to ten design charettes; complete a schematic design to submit for approval in the next 12 months; and raise $10 million over the next 12 months. "Every designer dreams of doing civic work that contributes to society and to the profession. Over the last 8 years, we just stuck to what we thought was a great idea that could make our city and our community better. We're thrilled to move ahead on designing and building a space that people will enjoy for generations to come," Ramsey said in a press release. Principal Signe Nielsen of Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects is landscape designer for the project, working with John Mini Distinctive Landscapes. The Lowline's creators and backers hope that the park will showcase adaptive reuse possibilities for vestigial spaces, as well as provide the densely-populated neighborhood with additional green space. "We couldn't be more thrilled for this opportunity to turn a magical dream into reality," said Barasch, the project's executive director. "The transformation of an old, forgotten trolley terminal into a dynamic cultural space designed for a 21st century city is truly a New York story. We know with input from the community and the city, we can make the Lowline a unique, inspiring space that everyone can enjoy." (Courtesy raad studio)
Diana Balmori's Meditation Room at IDEASCity 2015 explores the possibility of expansive horizons in crowded cities
Stemming from the idea that a city is but a stack of layered horizons, landscape architect Diana Balmori's public installation for IDEASCity 2015 invites the viewer to contemplate where horizons occur in a pause-for-thought experience. Meditation Room: Horizon is a continuous constructed wall of paper where the overlapping of two dot matrix systems creates a visible horizon slightly above eye level. Presented by The Drawing Center, the installation expounds the revelations set forth in Balmori's book Drawing and Reinventing Landscape (2014), which explores horizon and peripheral vision to decode how designers perceive landscape and draw it accordingly. "The physical response to what you look at is vital; it activates the seeing," Balmori wrote. The pleasure of drawing, she then muses, does not come from the act itself but "from enormous concentration essential to the act of drawing; from the intense looking that produces interior quiet and an imagined silence around you." At the heart of Meditation Room is the concept that the landscape architect's onus is to create a sense of expansive horizons within a city's modest spaces. The piece will be installed at the Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side at Chrystie and Houston street on May 30 from 12–6pm. Balmori is the founder of New York–based Balmori Associates, an internationally recognized landscape architecture firm. An activist for sustainable architecture, Balmori is currently campaigning to widen and landscape the Broadway median between 72nd and 136th street to create a path with solar panels and wind turbines powered by the slipstream of passing cars.
DXA Studio designed this Lower East Side tower with a copper facade that changes over time
As this angular copper facade ages, its reddish brown skin will settle into a weathered green. It's a sort of physical embodiment of the changes playing out in Manhattan's Lower East Side and Chinatown as the city's voracious luxury residence market continually searches for a new frontier. The so-called LES Tower at 57 Orchard Street sits between Grand and Hester streets, on the doorstep on Chinatown where signs filled with exotic typefaces make neighbors with minimalist galleries and cafes. Designed by New York–based DXA Studio, the 15-story building is mostly covered in glass neatly framed by perforated copper. The 23,600-square-foot structure will be slotted into a slender mid-block parcel overlooking the predominantly mid-rise streetscape—a feature that helped developers amass air rights to push the tower up into the sky. A series of prewar buildings will also be rehabbed as part of the larger development, with a unified roof deck among the project's amenities. Architects at DXA declined to comment on the design, but did say the tower would likely be built as described in newly revealed renderings. According to the studio's website, "The razor-sharp copper-clad facade is a contemporary foil to the turn of the century context, and at night the perforated facade will be a back-lit lantern that will highlight the activity inside." The Lower East Side has become known for its high-design "finger buildings," including Bernard Tschumi's BLUE Tower, SANAA's New Museum, Norman Foster's Sperone Westwater Gallery, and Grzywinski + Pons' Hotel on Rivington. Herzog & de Meuron is also currently working on a tower farther north for hotelier Ian Schrager. These new luxury outfits are a marked departure for a neighborhood that got its start as home to New York's notoriously overcrowded tenements. The building is projected to open in 2017, pending approvals from the city. [via Yimby.]
Four towers by SHoP, Dattner, Handel, and Beyer Blinder Belle to break ground at Essex Crossing
Essex Crossing has been over four decades in the making, and now the plan to turn the six-acre swath of land in Manhattan's Lower East Side, known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), is gaining traction. The development team, Delancey Street Associations, along with the four participating architecture firms—Handel Architects, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, Dattner Architects, and SHoP Architects—just revealed the latest renderings for the project's first phase. This first phase, consisting of four of the total nine sites, will provide 1,000 units of affordable, market rate, and senior housing in addition to a mix of residential, retail, and community space, including the relocated Essex Market, a bowling alley, the Warhol Museum, and a rooftop urban farm. There will, however, be no parking so residents will have to get familiar with their public transit options. This, according to Curbed, concerned community board members the most. The developers explained that after talks with the DOT, they determined that with the congestion around the area of the Williamsburg Bridge, it wasn't safe to include more parking. One person at the meeting suggested increasing bus service to alleviate overcrowding. Other issues, such as accessibility to public amenities and bike storage, came up as well. The architects at a press preview cited the tenements as fodder for their designs with the goal of making the buildings contextual within the mostly low-rise neighborhood. The project has already gone through Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) and is expected to break ground by Spring. If all goes according to plan, the buildings will be complete in roughly three years from the start of construction.
Archtober Building of the Day #13> The Museum at Eldridge Street
Archtober Building of the Day #13 The Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge Street Archimuse The Columbus Day holiday and parade did not deter the Archtober faithful from attending a very special family event at the Museum at Eldridge Street. Archtober first visited the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue on on October 28, 2012 in the shadow of the looming Superstorm Sandy, to enjoy the fruits of a 20-year restoration project that culminated in the 2010 installation of the Kiki Smith rose window. Now, adding to the manifold riches to be found within is a fully realized Museum at Eldridge Street, the result of a collaboration of curators, historians, architects Archimuse, and graphic designers. Amy Stein Milford, the deputy director of the Museum at Eldridge Street, supplemented tour guides Reuben Jackson, Archimuse, and Los Angeles–based Kracauer in a recounting of the challenges of maintaining a tiny Orthodox congregation, who worship in the museum, and the imperatives of the interpretation of the Jewish immigrant experience. The Eldridge Street Synagogue, one of only two landmark synagogues in New York (the other is Central Synagogue on Lexington Avenue at 55th Street), was the first purpose-built synagogue in the city. Now surrounded by Chinatown, this city, state, and national landmark represents the epicenter of historic Jewish life on the Lower East Side, and hosts 40,000 visitors of all faiths annually, said Milford. Archimuse was challenged by five separate entrances to the structure that had to be rationalized on the street. Creating a coherent museum experience required that a maze of tiny spaces be opened up, exposing the original structure, and harmonizing the needs of a very contemporary exhibition with the needs of a small but dedicated congregation. The exhibition narrative starts with the map of the Great Jewish Migration, in the orientation experience. This map uses the traditional Jewish names from Eastern Europe to locate the sources of the two million Jews who left to freely practice their religion in the United States in the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The Journey is followed by "A New Home in a New Land," a watercolor rendering of the facade of the synagogue executed in the early 20th century. The original deeds to the property and an original Star of David finial are on display. "Such a City!" has Yiddish and Hebrew signs from the synagogue and local businesses, including one for Singer sewing machines. "Becoming American Jews" is split between "Order and Orthodoxy" and "Women and Children." "To the Brink and Back" recounts the further journeys of the community beyond the Lower East Side, and the subsequent rescue and restoration of the historic synagogue.
Cynthia Phifer Kracauer, AIA, is the Managing Director of the Center for Architecture and the festival director for Archtober: Architecture and Design Month NYC. She was previously a partner at Butler Rogers Baskett, and from 1989-2005 at Swanke Hayden Connell. After graduating from Princeton (AB 1975, M.Arch 1979) she worked for Philip Johnson, held faculty appointments at the University of Virginia, NJIT, and her alma mater. ckracauer@aiany.org


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Kashi, Sima, Hadigheh, S.Ali and Varley, Russell 2018, Microwave attenuation of graphene modified thermoplastic poly(butylene adipate-coterephthalate) nanocomposites, Polymers, vol. 10, no. 6, Special issue: smart and modern thermoplastic polymer materials, doi: 10.3390/polym10060582.
With the widespread development and use of electronics and telecommunication devices, electromagnetic radiation has emerged as a new pollution. In this study, we fabricated flexible multifunctional nanocomposites by incorporating graphene nanoplatelets into a soft thermoplastic matrix and investigated its performance in attenuating electromagnetic radiation over frequency ranges of C (5.85-8.2 GHz), X (8.2-12.4 GHz), and Ku bands (12.4-18 GHz). Effects of nanofiller loading, sample thickness, and radiation frequency on the nanocomposites shielding effectiveness (SE) were investigated via experimental measurements and simulation. The highest rate of increase in SE was observed near percolation threshold of graphene. Comparison of reflectivity and absorptivity revealed that reflection played a major role in nanocomposites shielding potential for all frequencies while the low absorptivity was due to high power reflection at nanocomposite surface and thin thickness. Subsequently, effective absorbance calculations revealed the great potential of nanocomposites for absorbing microwaves, reaching more than 80%. Simulations confirmed the observed nanocomposites SE behaviours versus frequency. Depending on thickness, different frequency dependency behaviours were observed; for thin samples, SE remained unchanged, while for thicker samples it exhibited either increasing or decreasing trends with increasing frequency. At any fixed frequency, increasing the thickness resulted in sine-wave periodic changes in SE with a general increasing trend.


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UCONN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Samarie Walker doesn't shy away from questions about leaving (videos)
March 26, 2012 Updated: Aug. 16, 2017 11:25 p.m.
Kentucky center Samarie Walker, right, responds to the idea of playing against her former team as guard Bria Goss listens during a media availability in Kingston, R.I., Monday, March 26, 2012. Kentucky is scheduled to play Connecticut in a women's NCAA tournament East Regional final college basketball game on Tuesday in Kingston. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP
KINGSTON, R.I. -- Barely a sound could be heard as Samarie Walker entered the Kentucky locker room on Monday afternoon.
It mattered little that the Wildcats' sophomore forward had already entertained questions about her brief stint playing at UConn last season just a few minutes earlier. Walker and her fellow Wildcats knew that if the seeds held true to form and the Kingston Regional final featured a Kentucky/UConn showdown that Walker would be the center of attention.
So when Walker stepped foot into the locker room, more than a couple players had just the trace of a smirk on their faces. It was evident that they all anticipated their previously tranquil locker room would soon be filled with strangers toting television cameras, notebooks and tape recorders.
Their hunch was correct.
Walker didn't shy away from any of the questions -- either in the official press conference or a few minutes later in the locker room. She cited homesickness as the major reason why she opted to leave UConn and transfer to Kentucky.
"I feel like I am answering questions everybody wanted to be answered," Walker said. "I feel like it is going to be over soon. They have been waiting for a year now.
"I was just homesick. I had a 6-year-old brother I am close with. I am close with both of my parents, and I am from Ohio. It's close, but not too close. I feel like when people ask 'Why would you want to leave UConn?' You have to be in that position to know. Everybody has an opinion, and of course you have to deal with it."
Walker was briefed by her university's sports information department as well as her coaches. There would be no attempt to shield her from the Connecticut media who wanted to talk to her about Tuesday's showdown as UConn coach Geno Auriemma would be coaching against a player who used to play for him for the first time.
"I told her you can't have it both ways," Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell said. "We can't want everyone to cover all of our games, cover our tournament, promote our tournament and shy away from the obvious storyline there. I just told her that the only thing we have to do is go answer questions, and there's a lot tougher things in life to do that answer questions."
Walker has crossed paths with several Huskies on occasion over the last couple of days, and said she has received nothing but positive vibes.
"I talked to all them (UConn teammates) before I left, and I talked to some of them now. I saw some of the managers in the hallway and I gave them hugs and we talked for a little bit. There are no hard feelings between me and the team and the coaches.
"I feel like some of them knew I was (unhappy), but they didn't know that is what it was. I told them it felt like I lost my passion, but I didn't know what it was and I was homesick. I realized when I came here and was able to go home on weekends, but there was some kind of miscommunication so hopefully answering these questions will help with all of this."
Speaking of miscommunication, that is what Walker considered the situation that played out in a Jan. 15 game against Louisville when UConn coach Geno Auriemma asked Walker if she wanted to go in. The response was not what Auriemma was looking for so she did not. When the team left for North Carolina a couple days later, Walker was left behind. She would never play for the Huskies again.
"I remember we were in a timeout, and he asked me if I wanted to play and did I want to go back in the game?" Walker said. "I nodded my head yeah, but he wanted a verbal answer and that was definitely a miscommunication between the both of us because I did want to play. I did want to go back into the game. He wanted a verbal answer, and I thought nodding my head was enough."
Auriemma has chosen not to go into many of the details leading to Walker's departure, but did not seem overly concerned about having to game plan to deal with Walker, who has had double-doubles in her last two games.
"I have heard that a lot about people losing their passion for basketball and then they end up playing somewhere else," Auriemma said. "Kids don't play basketball all their lives and all of a sudden they lose their passion for basketball. She lost her passion for what I wanted her to do at Connecticut and decided that her passion was somewhere else. She is where her passion is, and we are where we are regardless of the reasons. She didn't belong at Connecticut and she belongs at Kentucky.
"You look at the history of our program and we've never had a great player leave that has played there, been there, spent time there and after a year or two years say I don't want to be there anymore. The jury is out whether Samarie Walker will be a great player at Kentucky, but maybe she will be the first one."
If there is any lingering resentment towards Walker from her former UConn teammates, they did a nice job of hiding it. A few hours after UConn's loss to Notre Dame in the Final Four, UConn sophomore Bria Hartley and Walker both headed to the Steak&Shake in Indianapolis and exchanged a hug before placing their orders. There has been no snarkiness directed at Walker from any of the UConn players.
"We are definitely happy for her," UConn sophomore center Stefanie Dolson said. We are happy she is at a place she is enjoying (herself) and she is having fun and really adding to their program. It is definitely not easy leaving a program because you don't want to let your teammates down, but she is happy. It was hard when it happened, but we kind of all moved on."
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Mike Boettcher (born 1954) is an American journalist and war correspondent. He is often embedded in Iraq and Afghanistan.  He is also a visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma. Reporting from Key West, Florida on June 1, 1980, about the Mariel boatlift, he was the first reporter to present a live satellite report from the United States on CNN (coming after Jay Bushinsky's live satellite report from Jerusalem).  His work has won a Peabody Award, six Emmys, and a National Headliner award.

Boettcher and his son Carlos produced the 2014 film documentary The Hornet's Nest, depicting their experiences while embedded with American troops in Afghanistan.

Boettcher is a native of Ponca City, Oklahoma and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.

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Mike Boettcher, Gaylord Visiting Professional Professor, University of Oklahoma

American television news anchors
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1954 births
People from Ponca City, Oklahoma
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The polls have closed in Tennessee. Watch live as midterm election results for U.S. Senate and Governor come in.
Now that the polls are closed in Tennessee, watch live as results come in.
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Judge tells feds, ACLU to come up with asylum plan
Julie Watson
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Friday called on the U.S. government and the American Civil Liberties Union to come up with a plan to address the rights of parents and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum.
The request was made during a hearing a day after U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw extended a freeze on deportations of recently reunified families, giving a reprieve to hundreds of children and their parents who want to remain in the United States.
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Sabraw said "hasty removal of these children and their parents at the expense of an ordered process provided by law" would go against the public's interest and deprive the minors of their right to seek asylum.
During Friday's hearing, Sabraw asked the two sides to come to an agreement over whether some parents who were deported without their children should be returned to the U.S. to pursue asylum with the minors.
Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney representing separated families, said some deported parents should be allowed to return to accompany their children through the asylum process. He told the judge others should be let back in because they were misled into believing that if they agreed to be deported, they would be reunited with their children.
As many as 366 parents who were deported to their homelands have not yet been reunited with their children. Sabraw asked the government to provide a detailed report next week on the progress of its efforts to reunify those families.
The government has opposed delaying deportations, saying parents waived the rights of their children to pursue asylum claims after the adults signed deportation forms.
The order to extend the freeze, which Sabraw first put in place July 16, affects many of the more than 2,500 children who were separated from their parents.
Sabraw said delaying the deportations "would not unfairly or unduly tax available government resources."
He said claims of people persecuted in their homelands should at least be heard as they seek asylum. Many families have said they were fleeing violence in their home countries in Central America and planned to seek asylum.
"The court is upholding the rights provided to all persons under the United States Constitution, rights that are particularly important to minor children seeking refuge through asylum," Sabraw wrote.
In late June, Sabraw ordered that children under 5 be rejoined with their parents in 14 days and children 5 and older be rejoined in 30 days.
The order came days after President Donald Trump, amid public outrage about children being taken from their parents, halted the "zero-tolerance" policy implemented in the spring that split up families at the border.
The government so far has reunified at least 2,089 children with their parents or others, including sponsors. Nearly 600 were still separated.


Roger Allen, 2010 Norris graduate, spends a lot of time talking at UNL. He practiced a lot as a student at Norris helping his team to the Class B State title in 2009 and qualifying for national competition as a senior. He's still contributing by being one of the best "talkers" on the college level.
Roger's talent and effort, along with the rest of the team's, earned the UNL Speech and Debate team their third Big Ten Conference Championship on Oct. 12-13 at Northwestern University. UNL led the field with total of 293 points, ahead of second-place finisher Northwestern (163 points) and the University of Illinois (52 points). The Big Ten conference has a long-standing tradition of excellence in speech and debate.
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Welcome to the third Song Scare of the Week, myu fans! This week, it's the famous Beryl song "Yami Koso Utsukushii" (Darkness is Beautiful).
Hello myu fans! Time for another news update.
Starting today with some fan news. As you may have seen on the Facebook fan page and on Twitter, my friends at Miss Dream has been busy with Un Nouveau Voyage stuff, and I've been passing on the updates. They had issues getting the actual musical subbed and done as soon as they had planned (probably cause they were initially stuck with the same bad stream I tried to watch) but have compensated by giving fans a couple early treats: a full live-rip soundtrack (to make up for the lack of an official soundtrack; they did this with La Reconquista and Petite Étrangère too) and a full translation of the show's pamphlet, including a PDF version (good for e-readers or mobile devices). They also had a livestream of the sub yesterday evening (which sadly I missed cause I was at the movies watching He Named Me Malala – great film by the way!) and may do an encore this coming weekend. They hope to release the musical for downloading in a few days, after they do some final touches and fix a couple typos the livestream audience found.
She also shared a pic of her as Pluto with Saturn and Chibimoon and did another photoshoot.
She also had thoughts about graduating, and messages for all her fellow cast members.
The musical's star, Moon actress Satomi Ookubo, posted her own thoughts about graduating and later thanked fans for supporting her, and shared about her next project, a guest appearance in the play New Sengoku Advent Girl.
Ito Yui (Black Lady in Petite Étrangère) did a photoshoot in full kimono in Kyoto. She also shared about other stuff she saw there.
That's all I have this week. Tune in next week for more news. Hopefully by then I will have finally seen Un Nouveau Voyage and have something to say about it. Not sure if I will live-post about it or not; if I do, I'll tag for spoilers for sure, so don't worry. Keep your eyes on the Myu Corner social media at any rate. Myu Power, Make Up!
Hello myu fans…welcome to the second Song Scare of the Week. This week's scare is Mistress 9's theme "Seijaku no Hostie (Seitai)" from Mugen Gakuen.
Cause with Un Nouveau Voyage having just ended, why not some Death Busters?
Hello there myu fans! It's time for another news update.
The big news this week, of course, is the Osaka run of Un Nouveau Voyage this last weekend and the closing of another chapter in myu history as Moon actress Satomi Ookubo and her fellow Inners have now graduated from their roles.
Comic Natalie did a report on the final Osaka performance, which includes pictures. This report also reveals that the final show's service numbers were "Ai no Starshine," "Sanjou! Tuxedo Kamen," and "Moonlight Densetsu," and that for the Osaka performances, some of the dialogue was changed so it was in Osaka's native Kansai dialect.
Aside from the live performances, there was a livestream of the senshuuraku (final day performance) on NicoNico (which I attempted to watch, see the last section) and also a live viewing in a number of Japanese movie theaters. You can see more on the movie theater event here, including the merch that was sold.
Brad of Moonkitty.net has added a DVD buying guide for the new musicals to his site.
Miss Dream also added a bunch of Un Nouveau Voyage scans, courtesy of Wild Mushroom Land. They are translating the pamphlet also, though that isn't up yet. They're also working on subbing Un Nouveau Voyage as we speak…not sure where they're at yet, but they're asking for donations, so if you can help them out, that would be great!
Also the band Aggressive Dogs AKA Uzi-One will be guests on tour.
No site updates this week, I'm afraid.
I also succeeded in buying a ticket for the Un Nouveau Voyage NicoNico livestream, using a VPN to get around the region block, but sadly the stream was crazy slow and I only saw like 15 minutes of the stream before I gave up. Miss Dream's sub of the musical should be out soon though, so at least I have that to look forward to. You can see info on my attempt on Twitter and Tumblr. Just be warned, there is also commentary on the musical on the Myu Corner Twitter; it doesn't really reveal the plot or anything (I don't think) but just a heads up.
And so a new voyage begins…have a good week myu fans! Myu Power Make Up!
Hey there everyone! It's Song of the Week time again, and I decided to do something different for the month of October. In anticipation of Halloween, I'm going to feature scary songs from SeraMyu all month for Song of the Week, and call it "Song Scare of the Week." What do you think?
This week I am featuring "Muma no Odori," the Death Nightmares's song from Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi. You can read the feature here.


My two favorite movie scenes involving cocoa. The first is from Moon Over the Alley (1976) and the second is from Our Mother's House (1967). What, I like cocoa.
I feel like it's been a while since I posted any tunes. Here's a mix of recent listenings, mostly woozy glo fi cassettes and so forth, with some tropical detours. There's a lot of great music out there right now.
A book I found in Austria. At first I wasn't sure if this was a vintage find or some bespoke retrofitted present-day magazine. Joyce said it looks like the kids edition of Apartamento. I asked the bookseller and he said it was a 1979 collection of essays written in the spirit of Rudolf Steiner's theory of the "dignity of the child."
June in London, Salzburg, and Berlin. Man, we need to get over to Europe more often.
Across the way from the Barbican museum, where we saw the amazing Bauhaus retrospective. Super fun living out the new brutalist dream in the Barbican Centre. Took us about half an hour to figure out how to cross the moat, but I guess that's the idea.
Lamp in woods of Austria. We were there for bizness. It's not the worst place to be. Perhaps the wurst place ha ha. We stayed at the schloss where they filmed a lot of The Sound of Music.
Austrian TV was interesting. Learned a lot about Eurozone crisis through soccer programming and vice versa.
There was a record fair in Salzburg. Mostly purveyors of buttrock, but it was fun to just look around. Every dealer seemed to have a cheap copy of this. Found this but the guy knew what it was and priced it accordingly.
Still from film about outsider artist Morton Bartlett at Hamburger Banhof. Stripey jumper.
Austrian lemonade. So cold and lemony. I am now the world's expert on where to find pastries in Salzburg.
Weird treehouse outside Hansaviertel modernist enclave in Berlin. Thanks for telling me about this Raffael!
No, we did not go to a rave. These are from the Anthony McCall light sculpture show at Hamburger Banhof. Look at me channeling Ian Curtis.
"Marcel Breuer and his harem" (1927) or Marine Girls (1983)??
another one of Marine Girls, just 'cos.
Greetings from Ellowen Deeowen. Having great time and -- what is this? -- is this actually the sun I'm seeing this morning? So nice meeting Jonny Trunk and the folks at Resonance yesterday. Really lovely in fact. We did a prerecord for the OST show, which will air this Saturday (16 June), 4:30-6:30 London time. Listen here. I think Resonance also has a podcast if you look around. It was so much fun sitting at Jonny's feet as he needle-dropped possible upcoming Trunk releases. Afterwards ambled over to the Tate Modern for amazing Oskar Fischinger retrospective (pic above). Thanks for the tip Molly!
Hilda Jonas, internationally known harpsichordist, was inspired by her granddaughter, Rebecca, to share the magic of this instrument with children of all ages.
Lovely photos from her website. Also, Tiger Balm.
Living Music, a trades publication sponsored by The Association of Musical Instrument Industries. Some hilarious articles here. The writers purport to be objective journalists but are really just shilling for musical instrument suppliers. For excellent use of all caps and the phrase "sheer lunacy" (twice) take a look at the op-ed below. What begins as one teacher's report from the field becomes a blatant advertisement for the New Era diatonic alto glockenspiel. Sheer lunacy!
Yay, new kitchen shelves! It's so much brighter and happier in here -- check out the before and after. Oh my god, it was so bad before. Have spent the last month or so covered in paint and sawdust. Will do the "full reveal" of kitchen soon.


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Slow down glioblastoma
Brain cancer can be delayed by immune weapons
Kirill Stasevich, "Science and Life" (nkj.ru ) based on the materials of The Scientist.
Glioblastoma is one of the most frequent and, moreover, the most dangerous brain tumors. According to statistics, after the diagnosis is made, the patient has 6-9 months to live, and even if the tumor was cut out and then a course of therapy was carried out, the disease still returns within seven months. It is extremely difficult to treat it.
Firstly, if we inject some medicine into the blood, then we need to remember that there is a so-called blood-brain barrier in the blood vessels of the brain. The walls of the vessels here are arranged in such a way that they allow only the most necessary things that the brain may need. The barrier protects the brain from everything that can disrupt its physiological harmony, but if there is already some pathology in the brain, then the barrier turns out to be inappropriate - not every medicinal substance can break through it.
Secondly, glioblastoma cells, although they form the same tumor, can be quite different from each other, and then the drug that kills some simply will not work on others. In such cases, immunotherapy is called for help – after all, the immune system must recognize a variety of cancer cells. Immune cells can enter the brain, whose duty is to monitor malignant neoplasms, but glioblastoma, like many other tumors, is able to suppress the activity of the immune system, remaining unnoticed for it.
The activity of the immune system can be spurred with the help of special signals. For example, a patient can be injected with a protein called interleukin-12 (IL-12), which, among other things, stimulates the activity of immune cells that kill cancer. But if you just inject IL-12 into the blood, you can get a lot of strong side effects – "overheated" immunity can even disable completely healthy internal organs.
Researchers from Harvard University, the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and their colleagues from other scientific centers in the United States acted differently: they used adenoviruses that brought not the IL-12 protein itself, but its gene directly into the tumor. Adenoviruses are "tamed" viruses that do not cause harm, but which are still able to penetrate the cell, bringing DNA into it.
If the virus is supplied with DNA encoding IL-12, then the cells into which the virus particles have penetrated will begin to produce IL-12 themselves. But it is desirable that they do not synthesize it all the time, so the IL-12 gene was provided with a special "switch": cells began to synthesize an immune signal in the presence of a substance called veledimex, whose molecules are able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier into brain tissue.
In experiments on mice with glioblastoma, the tumor decreased after taking veledimex: it turned on IL-12 in the brain, which awakened the immune system, which, in turn, began to destroy tumor cells. But it wasn't limited to mice. At the next stage, the IL-12 gene in a viral package was injected into the brain tissues surrounding the excised tumor during surgery. Then the patients received different doses of veledimex for several days, which triggered the synthesis of interleukin-12.
The fact that IL-12 was actually synthesized was evident from the level of g-interferon in the blood – another signaling immune protein that reacts to IL-12. The amount of g-interferon increased when veledimex was taken, and decreased when veledimex was stopped, that is, the molecular switch and switch worked as it should.
Some patients then underwent another operation to remove the growing glioblastoma, and much more immune cells were found in their tumors than in the tumors of patients in whose treatment such a treatment regimen was not used. It was not possible to avoid side effects altogether, but since different doses of veledimex were used in the experiment, it was possible to choose a dose that would allow therapy to be performed without too serious consequences.
However, did all this help the patients themselves? An article in Science Translational Medicine (Chiocca et al., Regulatable interleukin-12 gene therapy in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma: Results of a phase 1 trial) states that with such experimental therapy, patients lived on average for another 12.7 months after surgery. Among them were slightly more than a quarter of those who lived for 18 months, and another 13.3% of patients lived for two whole years. These figures may not seem very large, but here it should be remembered that with recurrent glioblastoma (that is, when it returns again and again), only 1-2% of patients usually survive until the second year; against the background of these 1-2%, the effect of such therapy is very impressive. It remains to be hoped that the immuno-viral trick with the introduction and inclusion of the immune gene can still be improved so that patients with glioblastoma can live even longer.
Ultrasound against brain cancer: first results
Scientists have repeatedly investigated the interaction of ultrasound and chemotherapy in brain cancer, but the results of testing the device on humans have not been known to date.
Modified Skin cells against Brain Cancer
Transformation into neural stem cells gives fibroblasts the ability to find and destroy malignant brain tumor cells.
Gene therapy for brain cancer: new successes
The result of the new method of gene therapy using nanoparticles as carriers of the therapeutic gene was a reduction in the size of tumors and a significant increase in the survival rate of animals.
Brain cancer vaccine: the result is not final, but encouraging
"I don't have an answer whether it is possible to achieve complete disappearance of the tumor by continuing this treatment. But a patient with a similar glioblastoma, who was treated the same way as you, has been alive for six years," the American doctor told his Russian patient.
Poliovirus for the treatment of glioblastoma: details
Scientists from Duke University began looking for volunteers and announced a fundraiser for the first phase of clinical trials of a new method of glioblastoma therapy.


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St. Vincent Ambulance Services Acquired by Covalent Health's Century Ambulance
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Marks Fourth Add-On Acquisition Completed by Covalent Health Family of Companies
BOSTON– BUSINESS WIRE — New Heritage Capital ("Heritage") is pleased to announce that its portfolio company Covalent Health ("Covalent"), through its subsidiary Century Ambulance, has acquired St. Vincent Ambulance Service ("SVAS"), the dedicated transport provider for St. Vincent HealthCare facilities in the Jacksonville, Florida market. As part of the transaction, Covalent subsidiary Century Ambulance will become the primary ambulance provider to St. Vincent HealthCare and other local healthcare facilities previously served by SVAS.
Covalent Health is the nation's leading provider of innovative patient logistics solutions to hospitals, payors, physicians and health systems that transform non-emergent patient transport from a task into an opportunity for increased revenue, reduced costs, and increased patient satisfaction. Covalent's tools for more effective patient flow include dedicated transfer centers, on-site transport coordinators, and phone-app ordering, among others. Covalent operates throughout several key metropolitan areas across the United States.
"The acquisition of SVAS further ingrains Covalent as a leading patient logistics provider in the Northern Florida market," said Melissa Barry, Partner at New Heritage Capital. "Through its subsidiary Century Ambulance, Covalent will provide the highest quality patient care and innovative logistics solutions to the St. Vincent HealthCare hospital system as it has for many other leading health systems in the U.S. We at Heritage continue to enthusiastically support Covalent as it continues its growth in new and existing markets."
About New Heritage Capital
Heritage is a Boston-based private equity firm with a 20-year history of partnering with growing, middle market, founder-owned businesses. With its innovative investment structures like the Private IPO®, Heritage provides founders with a combination of liquidity and growth capital while allowing founders to maintain control of their business. With decades of experience at managing growth, Heritage gives its partners the strategic, operational and financial guidance to help its companies reach their growth objectives.
About Covalent Health
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Cotati, California, Covalent Health is the nation's leading provider of innovative outsourced patient logistics services. The company operates through subsidiaries ProTransport-1, PRN Ambulance, Century Ambulance, and ATS Ambulance in the Northern California, Southern California, Northern Florida and the Metropolitan Chicago / Indianapolis markets. Visit www.covalenthealthsolutions.com for more information about the company and its innovative suite of services.
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The Peter he speaks of is Peter Buck, of R.E.M., who was a key collaborator on Burn Something Beautiful, along with Scott McCaughey of the Minus 5. The three men co-produced and co-wrote the album together, decamping to Portland, Oregon, miles away from Austin, Texas – where Escovedo lived until recently and is so heavily associated with (he now resides in Dallas). Continuing the singer's penchant for a shadowy mixture of punk, roots and rock, the record is low on gloss and high on assertive guitars and restless percussion, mature in subject matter but never composition. Escovedo may be in his sixties, but he doesn't temper the distortion or feedback for aged ears.
Escovedo's brushes with mortality have had him thinking a lot about the legacy we all leave behind – as people, as parents, as a country in this most volatile of election seasons. There were times when the music didn't seem enough: as he sings in "I Don't Want to Play Guitar Anymore," "when there's no stories left to sing, say goodbye to everything." Now he's come to understand that even when he can no longer sing or write, there is still something beautiful burned into history.


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American Latino TV Premieres on LATV Networks Paving the Way for Latino Inclusion in 2020
NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- American Latino TV will premiere its record 18th season on Monday, December 9th at 8:30PM ET, 9:00PM PT on LATV Networks. Following a seventeen season run on national syndication, the landmark half-hour series known for profiling the biggest Latino names in music, film and television, the arts, sports, entrepreneurship and social activism, will air exclusively for broadcast on LATV and be hosted by entrepreneur and journalist Carolina Trejos.
American Latino TV's legacy of celebrating Latino pride is something LATV executives felt very strongly about featuring in primetime as a direct rebuke to mainstream Hollywood's continuing struggle with Latino inclusion. American Latino TV on primetime is just one part of LATV's strategy going into 2020 of providing entertaining, uplifting and empowering in-culture content on broadcast, social media, streaming and digital platforms.
Also premiering on LATV's primetime in December is LATV Fan Nation. Hosted by influencer and superfan Nour Milla, each episode brings hardcore fans weekly recaps, analysis and commentary from major sports leagues as well as off-pitch interviews with today's elite athletes from our culture. LATV Fan Nation airs Tuesdays at 8:30PM ET, 7:00PM PT.
And in January, LATV will premiere Pinkafé, a new TV show and podcast hosted by sisters, and renaissance Latinas, Carolina Trejos and Natalia Trejos-Herrera. With a background in People En Español and as the new host of American Latino TV, Carolina Trejos' entertainment business savvy paired with Natalia's creativity and corporate experience make them the ideal hosts for lively discussions with Latina entrepreneurs and jefas. Pinkafé will premiere in January on LATV. "Embracing my two cultures and telling our stories on American Latino is double the fun! And as a Latina entrepreneur, showing the importance of women breaking barriers and coming together for a common cause by joining my sister on the Pinkafé is a dream come true, but also a goal coming to fruition," said Carolina Trejos
In 2020 LATV will continue their legacy of empowering the Latino community with their voter registration and election season campaign "20Veinte," as well as joining the effort to drive Latino 2020 Census participation through the "Existence is Power" campaign. The campaigns will run throughout the year and will feature custom content on the all new LATV.com, LATV App, OTT streaming, LATV social media and broadcast television.
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Movies starring Jamie Kennedy
111 mins Horror, Thriller
Released back in 1996 "Scream" was a breath of fresh air when it came to horror movies and revitalised the genre of teen-horror which for some years had become stagnant. With horror director Wes Craven taking the helm "Scream...
120 mins Drama, Romance
So for those who haven't watched Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" it is an interesting idea, set in a more modern, flamboyant world but keep the original dialogue. And as I said for the first twenty minutes it had me with this ove...
120 mins Horror, Mystery, Thriller
I quite liked "Scream" when it came out with its balance of horror with parody working well together to deliver something fresh. So when "Scream 2" was announced I was quite looking forward to another dose of horror with a co...
Sparkler (1997)
96 mins Comedy, Drama
There are not many movies which I have switched off or walked out on, in fact I can count them on one hand but "Sparkler" almost added to that low number. It's not that there is anything repulsive about it or so bad that it i...
97 mins Comedy
If you want to watch a movie about the movie industry but don't want to sit through a heavy drama or anything close to seriousness then "Bowfinger" may brighten your day because movie making is what it's all about. Written by...
Three Kings (1999)
114 mins Action , Adventure , Comedy
As war movies go "Three Kings" is an experience I doubt you will forget because it is simply different. Shifting from tone we have dark humour, patriotism, gung ho soldiers, compassion, deep realisation and friendship as well...
Boiler Room (2000)
120 mins Drama, Thriller
Boiler Room (2000) Giovanni Ribisi stars as Seth who is seduced into the world of finance as he sees the flash cars of two friends. But whilst climbing the ladder he begins to question how the company he works for operates es...
116 mins Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Fresh, fun and shocking are not words that spring to mind to describe "Scream 3", what for a while was the final chapter in the "Scream" movies. I say supposed as like any horror bad guy, they keep coming back and with "Screa...
Son of the Mask (2005)
94 mins Comedy, Family
In a way I am glad "Son of the Mask" was made and trust me it's not because I thought it was good, in fact it is one of the worst movies I have watched. Nope I'm glad because it shows what a great comedian Jim Carrey is becau...
Bermuda Tentacles (2014)
89 mins Action , Adventure , TV Movie
Movie Review - Bermuda Tentacles (2014) when the president's plane crashed into the Bermuda Triangle a special forces team go in to rescue him only to encounter some thing not of this world....
The Sand (2015)
84 mins Horror, Sci-Fi
Movie Review - The Sand (2015) a group of hungover students who having had a graduation party on the beach, wake to find themselves trapped by something in the sand which devours anyone which dares to tread on it...
Little Savages (2016)
95 mins Adventure , Comedy
What I would love to tell you right now is that "Little Savages" is a family movie, something that after a family Sunday lunch everyone could sit down to watch. But truth be told I can't because whilst this inoffensive movie ...
* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Jamie Kennedy as one of the principle cast members.
Simple list of Jamie Kennedy movies


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Mustafa Bin Dardef (en árabe:مصطفىبندردف tr.; Bengasi, 1968 – Sirte, 18 de octubre de 2011) fue un militar libio, comandante de la Brigada Zintan de las fuerzas antigadafistas durante la Guerra de Libia de 2011. Murió por una ronda de mortero justo dos días antes de la caída de Sirte y la muerte del exlíder libio Muamar el Gadafi.

Vida
Bin Dardef fue un hombre de negocios en la ciudad mediterránea de Bengasi antes de unirse a la rebelión de 2011, importando equipo médico y juguetes para niños, y estuvo encarcelado por sus tendencias islamistas. Él comandó la unidad Fakhri Alsalabi, llamada así después de la muerte de este piloto a mediados de marzo, y luchó en la Segunda Batalla de Bengasi detrás de un hijo y 4 hermanos.

Estuvo activo en la Batalla de Sirte, siendo el comandante que anunció la toma del puerto de Sirte el 26 de septiembre y habló a equipos de noticias discutiendo los últimos avances. También anunció que Moussa Ibrahim (vocero del gobierno libio) había sido capturado en septiembre, aunque esto después se demostró ser falso. Se reportó otra vez que Ibrahim fue capturado cuando la caída de Sirte, aunque esto otra vez se demostró ser falso; el 22 de octubre fue reportada por tercera vez su captura junto con Saif al Islam Gadafi (hijo del dictador), cerca de Bani Walid.

Muerte
Bin Dardef murió cuando una impactante ronda de mortero entró a un vehículo lleno con munición. Una pieza de metal rota entró a su chaleco antibalas y otra atravesó su cuello matándolo al instante. Fue enterrado en el Cementerio de Mártires de Bengasi junto con otros luchadores que murieron en Sirte.

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Simtech is pleased to announce the release of SimMold 2010 with several graphical and solver improvements. New and improved features.
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Pope Francis prays at St. Paul's Grotto in Malta
Pope Francis visits St. Paul's Grotto in Rabat, Malta, April 3, 2022. | Vatican Media.
Vatican Media.
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Pope Francis' signature in the book of honor of the Basilica of St. Paul in Rabat, Malta. | Vatican Media.
Rabat, Malta, Apr 3, 2022 / 02:05 am
Pope Francis prayed on Sunday morning at St. Paul's Grotto in Rabat, where local tradition holds that the Apostle lived and preached during the three months he spent on the island of Malta in 60 A.D.
"Good Father, grant us the grace of a kindly heart that beats with love for our brothers and sisters," Pope Francis said in a prayer that he read during his live-streamed visit to the grotto on April 3.
Good morning from Malta's Basilica of St. Paul, where tradition holds that the apostle lived during his three month stay on the island in 60 AD.
Malta's rich Catholic tradition is on full display on the streets outside of the basilica this morning. pic.twitter.com/eWOryfq05X
— Courtney Mares (@catholicourtney) April 3, 2022
The Acts of the Apostles (Acts 27:27-28:5) records that St. Paul was being taken to Rome to be put on trial when the ship carrying him was caught in a violent storm. The vessel, transporting hundreds of people, was wrecked off the Maltese coast but all aboard swam to land safely. The Apostle stayed on the island for three months.
Malta's centuries-old Catholic faith and traditions were on display in the streets in front of the grotto, which were decorated with elaborate Maltese banners and flags depicting their patron saint.
Catholics of all ages lined the streets waving Vatican flags and cheering as Pope Francis entered the basilica.
Stefania, 23, tells us why she came out to see Pope Francis. She is studying English in Malta. #PopeFrancisinMalta pic.twitter.com/WK62MtHhm5
"God of mercy, in your wondrous providence you wished the Apostle Paul to proclaim your love to the inhabitants of Malta, who did not yet know you. He preached your word to them and he healed their infirmities," the pope prayed.
Fourteen religious leaders were present for the prayer, according to the Vatican.
Jacqueline Giordmaina is from Rabat, the town in Malta that Pope Francis is visiting this morning. She told me what it means to the Maltese to have the pope visit her country. pic.twitter.com/AGBAdOyqmY
"Saved from shipwreck, St Paul and his fellow travelers found here to welcome them pagan people of kindly heart, who treated them with rare humanity, recognizing that they were in need of shelter, security, and assistance," the pope continued.
"No one knew their names, their place of birth, or their social status; they knew only one thing: that these were people in need of help."
The grotto is accessed from a staircase inside the small church of St. Publius, which is a part of the Basilica of St. Paul complex. It is an important Catholic pilgrimage site for the Mediterranean island country of Malta.
Pope Francis has been suffering from a knee problem that has led him to forgo the stairs throughout his journey to Malta.
After praying in the grotto, the pope ascended to the basilica, where he greeted a series of people, including the frail and elderly. Local organizers confirmed that some prisoners were present in the basilica during the event.
The pope signed the book of honor in the grotto, writing: "In this sacred place, which remembers St. Paul, Apostle of the Gentiles and father in the faith of this people, I thank the Lord and I pray that He will always grant the Maltese the Spirit of consolation and the ardor of the proclamation."
At the beginning of Pope Francis' second day in Malta, the pope met with Jesuit priests and seminarians at the apostolic nunciature in Valletta setting off for Rabat to pray at the grotto.
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Pope Francis' largest public event is scheduled to take place upon the pope's return from Rabat. The pope will offer Mass and pray the Angelus at The Granaries in Floriana, Malta's largest public square, where more than 15,000 people are expected to be in attendance.
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Courtney Mares is a Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency. A graduate of Harvard University, she has reported from news bureaus on three continents and was awarded the Gardner Fellowship for her work with North Korean refugees.
Pope Francis in Malta: Christ himself appears to you in the faces of migrants
Pope Francis told Catholics in Malta on Saturday that when they offer charity to the migrants and refugees who arrive on their shores, they are serving Christ himself.
Pope Francis arrives in Malta calling for peace and the protection of life
Pope Francis urged authorities in Malta to protect life and appealed to the international community to work for peace in the midst of war, which he said has "swept down powerfully upon the lives of many people and affected us all."
Facing declining Mass attendance, Malta's Catholics hope papal visit will revitalize the faith
More than 85% of Malta's population are baptized Catholics.


14 experienced truck campers reveal where to go, what to see, and where to camp in Ouray, Silverton, Durango, and the Million Dollar Highway. The incredible off-road opportunities alone make this Southwest Colorado destination an absolute must. All aboard!
There are two areas in the United States that Angela and I return to again and again during specific times of the year; Florida in the winter, and the Four Corners region in the Fall. If you haven't put either of these destinations on your truck camping bucket list yet, do it now.
Florida in the winter requires months-ahead planning and often expensive campground reservations, but is truly truck camping paradise from November through March. If nothing else, join fellow truck campers at the Florida Flywheelers in Fort Meade in late February. That annual event and truck camper gathering is a must attend.
In contrast, the Four Corners area is full of free BLM camping opportunities and offers seemingly endless natural wonders to hike, explore, and photograph. Put another way, it would be a mistake to consider the Four Corners as anything less than a major destination that could easily fill a month or two with some of the best experiences possible in a truck camper.
For this destination article, we examine just one quarter of the Four Corner opportunity; the San Juan Skyway. Designated as an All-American Road in 1996, the San Juan Skyway is a 233 mile loop that includes the historic towns of Ouray, Silverton, Durango, Mancos, Dolores, Stoner, Rico, Telluride, and Ridgway.
Along this route you'll take in some of the most beautiful mountain, river, and wilderness views the United States has to offer. Just be sure to hang on to that steering wheel as you gawk at the San Juan Mountains. US Highway 550 (aka the Million Dollar Highway) between Ouray and Silverton is just a touch terrifying with its steep and guardrail-less sides. Honestly, it's not that bad, and the waterfalls and mining ruins along the way make the journey a truck camping favorite. You must go!
We have camped several times at South Mineral Creek, which is a Forest Service campground outside of Silverton. It's a beautiful campground with the South Mineral Creek running alongside it.
South Mineral Creek is at the end of a dirt road. There's a trailhead there for the hike to Ice Lake. Going to the lake is a strenuous three and a half mile hike that takes you above the timber line around 12,000 feet.
If you're going to hike to Ice Lake you will need a good pair of hiking boots and don't forget a camera. The views are incredible!
When we were at South Mineral Creek last year, we saw two moose while driving up to the campground. I had never seen moose in southwest Colorado before. That was an added bonus.
The campground is only about five miles outside of Silverton off of Highway 550 on the way to Red Mountain Pass and Ouray, Colorado – another beautiful place!
All the old mining buildings and mines alongside Red Mountain pass between Silverton and Ouray are a time capsule of the past and a great history lesson.


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Colonia man accused of ex-wife's murder still awaiting mental evaluation
Suzanne Russell
@SRussellMyCJ
Vito Nigro has been indicted on murder charges involving his ex-wife's death
Giorgina Cimino Nigro was found dead inside the Colonia home the couple shared
Vito Nigro allegedly tried to commit suicide after his wife's death
NEW BRUNSWICK - Arrangements continue in an attempt to fund a mental competency evaluation for a Colonia man accused of killing his ex-wife nearly two years ago.
Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Colleen Flynn met with Vito Nigro's attorney, Michael Policastro, and Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutors Kirsten Fochtman and Scott LaMountain at sidebar for about 10 minutes Friday to discuss the issue.
Policastro is trying to arrange funding through the public defender's office for the mental competency evaluation. He had originally sought the evaluation in November, but Flynn said there has been a delay in getting the records involved for the doctor to review.
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She said Policastro has promised to be diligent about getting the records in a timely manner and giving them to the public defender's office. Once a report on Nigro's mental competency is issued, the prosecutor's office's will determine if they go forward with their own expert or if there will be efforts to resolve the case, Flynn said.
While those arrangements could take up to four months, Flynn has asked Nigro and the lawyers to return to court April 7 to see if the process is moving forward.
She said Policastro plans to consult the public defender's office about which doctor should conduct the evaluation. Policastro has not indicated if he plans to argue his client had any mental competency issues at the time of his ex-wife's death.
Nigro is charged with killing his 32-year-old ex-wife, Giorgina Cimino Nigro, on July 22, 2015 in the home they shared in on Devon Road in the Colonia section of Woodbridge.
After the alleged murder, Nigro apparently attempted suicide by jumping off a Route 27 bridge onto the Garden State Parkway. He spent several months at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick undergoing treatment for his injuries.
Nigro has been indicted on charges of murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. He is being held at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick on $750,000 bail.
On Friday, Nigro sat handcuffed in the jury box, occasionally looking in the direction of his mother, Pasqualina Nigro, who was sitting in attendance.
Cimino Nigro was found dead in the home the couple shared with their three young children around 10 a.m. She was killed by blunt-force trauma, officials said. The type of weapon used in her death has not been disclosed by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.
Nigro and Cimino Nigro worked together as hair stylists at the former European Hair Design on Oak Tree Road in South Plainfield, a business owned by Nigro's mother. The salon has since changed ownership and has a new name.
The couple, who married when Cimino Nigro was 18 and Nigro was 28, reportedly had a stormy relationship marred by domestic abuse and drugs. They divorced in 2009 but still lived together. Cimino Nigro gave birth to the couple's fourth child, a son, in late 2014, but the baby died in early 2015.
Cimino Nigro's family has said she stayed in the abusive relationship to be near and protect her children, of whom Nigro gained custody in the divorce. The children are now in the physical custody of Nigro's mother.
Staff Writer Suzanne Russell: 732-565-7335; srussell@mycentraljersey.com