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Landscape PLANNING: Definitions Planning Agriculture Context theory Cycling EID Forestry Green Towns Greenways Landscape plans Minerals Parks POS Reservoirs Rivers Sustainability Transport Urbanisation Books on landscape planning Links
Environmental Impact Design (EID)
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Environmental Assessment Zoning Control Development Control EA Control Landscape EA The EID Process Drawing Types Web references
What is Environmental Assessment?
As the name implies, it is a technique for asssessing the environment. It is done with regard to development projects. 'Environment' comes from the French word for surroundings. All projects affect their surroundings. If they produce an improvement (better views, less pollution, more wildlife) we are all pleased to note the 'beneficial side-effect' or 'positive externality' or 'positive environmental impact'. If, as happens more often, the affect on the environment is harmful, society has a right to protest - and a need to employ environmental designers.
There are two main types of legislation which are used to regulate the impact of projects on the environment:
Zoning Regulations (including Land Use Plans and Town Plans)
EIA Regulations
As the Fig shows, landscape and visual effects can be thought of as sub-categories of external effects [grammatical note: 'affect' means influence and 'effect' means cause but the distinction between the two is not always clear in environmental assessment].
Control by zoning Top
Zoning plans reserve areas for defined land uses, but fail when they are exclusive.
Zoning laws were introduced in Germany in the late nineteenth century, to separate residential from industrial development. They produce what are now known as land use plans in Europe and as zoning plans in America. The existence of a plan confers legal certainty and fairness on contextual decisions. In much of North West Europe, a development will be approved if it accords with the land use plan and rejected if it does not. (Department of Environment, 1989:411). The British planning system is becoming more 'plan-led' but a land allocation on a local plan does not confer a legal certainty that planning permission will be granted.
Most of the large cities in Britain have been ringed by green belt zones since the 1950s. They have slowed the pace of development, driven up urban land prices, enriched some farmers and impoverished other farmers. But they have not halted the process of land development (Elson, 1986). Zoning plans fall into disrepute when they are subject to constant modification, and when powerful developers clutching fistfuls of gold can negotiate lucrative amendments. This is especially so when local people wanting to build apartments for their ageing parents cannot do likewise.
Another regrettable consequence of zoning plans is that they restrict land use diversity. In a natural habitat there is a web of interaction between individual plants and animals. The community gains mutual protection and re-cycles its by-products. Interactions of this type cannot occur if there is only one species in the habitat. Monoculture is inefficient, both in natural and human communities. If a residential area has a single use and a fixed density it will be occupied by people in a single socio-economic group. At 30 persons/hectare, they will probably have high-incomes, two children and two cars. This is less efficient than a mixed-use area with shops, businesses, schools and smaller homes for young people and old people.
Flexible zoning, as an alternative to singular zoning, is much closer to the patterns formed by natural habitats. Each habitat tends to have a dominant species (eg oak in an oakwood) and a wide range of associated species (birds, insects, fungi etc). One then finds a zone of transition where one habitat shades into another. Examples of the landscape zones which should guide contextual decisions were given in the previous chapter. They include zones for waterspace development, landform enhancement, habitat creation, greenspace, climate and scenery.
Development control is a UK system
In the UK land development rights were nationalised by the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act. Since they it has been necessary to apply for planning permission before carrying out development, though certain forms of development are permitted without the need for an application under the General Development Order. In recent years the system has become more 'plan-led' in the sense that development municipal countillors and development control officers have to act in accordance with an approved local plan.
Control by environmental assessment Top
Control by EA fails when it is too pragmatic.
When it became apparent that the zoning system was not creating or protecting zones of environmental quality, it was supplemented by a second approach. Basically, the new idea was to assess each project as it arrived on the development agenda and discover what impact it would have on its surroundings. This became known as Environmental Assessment (EA) or Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). [EA is the preferred term, partly because it leaves open the possibility that a development will have no impact whatsoever]. The concept of EA originated in America, partly because of its extra-rigid system of zoning. Planning control in some American states was much less comprehensive than in Europe and there was great public concern about the harmful affect which individual development projects were having on the environment. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 became a model for similar legislation throughout the world.
The key NEPA provision was that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) must be prepared for 'all major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment'. The word 'actions' included building a house, planting a forest, felling a forest, laying a pipeline or carrying out a military exercise. The great value of the EA approach was that it included every influence of every project on every aspect of its context. Interaction matrixes were produced . Land users were prompted to consider the affects of each aspect of a development upon each component of the natural, social and spatial environment. For example, 'Soldiers defecating' was included for an EA of a military exercise in a wilderness area. For a road-building project, the component actions would include construction of a site office, removing vegetation, hiring local labour, stripping topsoil, deflowering local virgins, excavating subsoil, laying a base course, adjusting drainage patterns, and so on for ever. It was and remains a bonanza for environmental lawyers and scientists. A distinction can be drawn between:
- Strategic Environmental Assessment, which is concerned with the assessment of general policies, plans and programmes
- Project Environmental Impact Assessment, which is carried out by organisations proposing specific development projects.
The Florida Power and Light Company, in preparing EIA's for new power stations, had to submit 5mm (¼") thick report in 1970, a 75mm (3") report in 1971, a 150mm (6") report in 1973 and a 600mm (24") report in 1977. To deal with this escalation, restrictions were placed on the total length of American Environmental Impact Statements and on the categories of project for which they were required. The scope of the European Community directive on EIA was restricted to medium scale projects. Small-scale buildings and large-scale forestry or agriculture were excluded. A proposal for a large church surrounded by a new forest could fall within Schedule 2 Section 10 of the European Community directive, as a significant urban development project. Scientists could then identify negative impacts on fauna and flora. The hillside church would have an extensive Zone of Visual Influence. The cultural landscape would be adversely affected. It is likely that the project would not be approved. Control by EIA has an anti-development bias. The inbuilt assumption is that the status quo ought not to change. Control by EIA has become a highly structured procedure. The authors of a textbook on Environmental impact assessment identify fifteen steps in the process of EIA (Glasson et al, 1994:3):
Project screening
Consideration of alternatives
Description of the project/development action
Description of the environmental baseline
Identification of key impacts
Prediction of impacts
Evaluation and assessment of significance
Public consultation and participation
EIS presentation
Review of the EIS
Post-decision monitoring
The EIA process is effective at permitting some projects and halting others. It is not as effective as it ought to be in securing improvements to a project design. This is identified as stage 9 in the above list but, as the authors note, mitigation 'is in fact inherent in all aspects of the process' (Glasson et al, 1994:137)
Environmental assessment for landscape Top
Landscape architects have a particular interest in the EA process. According to Thompson, G.F. and Steiner, F.R. in Ecological design and planning (1997, page 3) 'As a point of fact, Design with Nature (by Ian McHarg) laid the groundwork for the emergence of geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental impact assessments, which today dominate practice in both academic and public-policy spheres'. Other professions took the lead in EA work. Landscape architects can take it back. An EA project co-ordinator requires a broad understanding of the subject but an environmental assessor must be careful, for insurance reasons, not to stray outside their technical competence.[Liz Lake Associates comment that 'The emphasis on Professional Indemnity Insurance forms has shifted from liability for built construction to how much EA you do and what's your part in it. We have to be very careful not to get involved in anything outside our expertise (landscape, visual, nature conservation) unless we have people with special skills'.
If building yourself a house, a factory or a garden, you will think about your own needs. This is natural. It is what land owners and land users have always done. But as our planet becomes more crowded and more affected by its human population, we also have to think about the affect of land use development on other people and on our collective surroundings. In other words, we have to assess the impact of development on the environment. The technical term for this procedure is environmental assessment. Some of the impacts (eg noise, smoke and water pollution) are of more concern to scientists than to landscape designers. This is because scientists know how to measure some impacts (eg air pollution) and how mitigate them (by installing air filters). Other impacts (eg on scenery, vegetation and recreation) are of particular concern to the landscape profession. We can call them 'visual and landscape' impacts. The Landscape Institute published a book on this subject, which you should read. (Landscape Institute & Institute of Environmental Assessment (1995) Guidelines for landscape and visual impact assessment (London:E&FN Spon). You must also read Chapter 6, on Landscape, of Morris, P and Therival, R. Methods of environmental assessment. One of the old names for environmental impacts was 'side-effects' and the classic example was a smoky chimney (see Fig). A side-effect is described as positive if it benefits the environment and negative if it harms the environment. Good design can convert negative impacts into positive impacts. Economists often describe side-effects as 'external effects' or 'externalities', because their effect is external to the land use operation.
Landscape impacts need to be assessed, one-by-one, and then mitigated, one-by-one. The end result of this process will be a landscape design. Were this not the case, there would be no need for landscape designers to become involved with landscape assessment. It could be done by geographers and environmental scientists. There are in fact two reasons for carrying out a landscape assessment:
to assess, from an environmental perspective, whether a development project should be allowed to proceed ('authorised' under EA legislation, 'licensed' under zoning controls or given 'permission' under planning legislation). We can call this Landscape (or Environmental) Impact Assessment.
to discover what improvements can be made to the project design (eg the site planning of an industrial complex) to improve, or mitigate, its impact on the environment. We can call this Landscape (or Environmental) Impact Design.
Landscape Assessment and Design can be viewed as a special approach to landscape design with the following characteristics:
it is analytical
it is sequential
it usually begins with a development proposal which someone else has formulated
it reaches out to treat 'the environment' as a set of clients, at least as important as the conventional client who merely owns the land and funds the development project
for each category of impact, one has to go through a survey-assessment-mitigation procedure.
after a set of mitigation proposals has been prepared, they should be welded into a comprehensive landscape design
it uses the term 'mitigation' when it should use the term 'design'
For a conventional landscape design project, your client may be a Mrs Developer, who owns a company called Landspoil PLC. For a Landscape Assessment and Design project you may have another set of clients:
Mr Baron, who owned the site from 1330 to 1382
Mrs Hydrol, who cares deeply about water management
Mr Flora, whose roots go back a long way
Mrs Fauna, who is running all over the place
Mr and Mrs Neighbour, who live next door.
Each of these clients wants the landscape impact which affects them personally to be assessed and mitigated, usually with a single-purpose drawing. Note that the types of impact which concern us may be to do with the past, the present or the future. The Fig shows a 'layercake' approach with categories for each of these time periods.
Environmental Impact Design is a most interesting approach to landscape design. It works by dividing a project development project into components, thinking creatively about each component, 'adding up' the components and applying an additional burst of creativity to produce the landscape design. I represented a process of this nature on pages 35 and 39 of City as landscape (Spons, 1996). It is shown in another way on Fig 4, with the individual 'mitigation' proposals being added together to generate the basis for a landscape design.
The layered approach to design Top
Environmental Assessment provides another reason for adopting a 'layered' approach to design. It is set in the context of other reasons on page 57ff of City as landscape. A diagram showing a layered approach to contextual decisions is shown on page 115.
Jellicoe and the subconscious
Since writing City as landscape, I have written an essay on Jellicoe and the subconscious for the Landscape Institute monograph on Geoffrey Jellicoe (ed Shiela Harvey). Jellicoe is very interested in the 'evolutionary' layers of landscape experience which lie in man's collective subconscious. He described them as Transparencies in the Guelph lectures on landscape design (1983).
EA in relation to landscape planning
A real weakness of the EA process in the UK is that it operates without the benefit of a framework of policy guidance. At some point in the future, projects will be environmentally assessed with regard to policies for landscape conservation and development. At present, the EA process looks 'down' to the past rather than 'up' to the future. The Countryside Commission's Character Map of England could lead on to a policy framework for landscape planning.
The EID Process Top
The approach of starting with an already-designed development project is very common in professional practice. Clients frequently approach landscape firms when they have encountered a landscape problem. [It is not so often that they come saying, 'I have ten hectares and ten million pounds - have you any ideas?'.] For landscape assessment projects it is often the case that the developer has been refused planning permission or has been advised that the development project falls within Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the European Union's environmental directive (See appendix to Guidelines for landscape and visual impact assessment).
The Environmental Impact Design process can be subdivided into as few or as many stages as one likes. There is a complicated chart on p 97 of Landscape and visual assessment. I see EA as having five main stages:
Scoping study: this is a quick preliminary study which, as the name implies, seeks to identify the scope of the likely impact of a development project upon the environment. For example, it may tell you that the 'impact on surface water runoff' will be very significant but that there will be no significant impact on public rights of way. As the Fig suggests, it is a good idea to conclude the scoping study with a very preliminary mitigation proposal. An Interaction Matrix (Fig ASPECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT / ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT) be useful as a checklist and as a way of representing the pattern of likely impacts graphically. It should have Characteristics of the Environment on one axis and Development Actions on the other axis. Fig 7 makes the same point with a Venn diagram. There is an example of an interaction matrix on page 47 of Landscape and visual assessment.
Baseline study: the next stage is to establish the 'baseline' condition, for each aspect of the environment, before it is subjected to a fresh impact. A full survey of the site might take half a century. You are not going to do this: you are only going to investigate those aspects of the site which the scoping study has thrown up as likely to receive a significant impact. As the sequence of diagrams shows, you have to define the baseline condition for each assessment. There are a number of standard drawing types which you should use for this purpose eg a Phase 1 or Phase 2 Habitat Survey, a Zone of Visual Influence (ZVI) drawing, a Landscape Character drawing. If the impact on habitat is a significant problem, you should produce a Phase 2 habitat survey.
Impact assessment: the next stage is to make an assessment of each impact to discover whether it will be positive or negative. This assessment is a matter of judgement. But you should try to produce whatever evidence you can to support your judgement. The evidence might be statistics, a photomontage, cross-sections, sketches etc. Please be rigorous and ingenious. You are constructing an argument. Someday, the evidence may have to be presented at a public inquiry.
Mitigation: the next stage is to make a mitigation proposal. Personally, I do not like the word 'mitigation'. It suggests we are always trying to make development as similar as possible to the existing environment. In fact, development proposals can be Similar, Identical or Different to their surroundings. I have written an essay about this ('Context and design' in Turner, T., City as landscape, 1996). 'Design' is a better word.
Landscape design: the final stage is to take an overview of the individual mitigation proposals and integrate them to produce a landscape design. You should also produce a diagrammatic 'summary' drawing to show what the individual mitigation proposals look like when you bring them together. You can think of this procedure as being a Pattern Analysis approach to design (see essays 3 and 4 in City as landscape). My own view is that this approach can produce proposals which are more relevant and more exciting than a traditional landscape design methodology (eg SAD).
In preparing drawings and explaining projects you should use as much of the accepted technical vocabulary as possible. Test yourself by discovering if you can wrote definitions of the following:
Determining Authority
Direct Impact
Non Technical Summary
Indirect Impact
Impact Threshold
These and other terms are explained on pp90-3 of Landscape and visual assessment. See page 13 for the distinction between Landscape and Visual assessment. See also: the very full glossary in Morris and Therival (pp 335-341).
Survey and Evaluation Top
The distinction between Survey and Assessment drawings predates the idea of environmental assessment. Please see Ian McHarg's famous book on Design with nature. It has many examples of the pair. For example: a contour drawing merely shows survey information; an aspect drawing assesses this information to show the warmest south-facing slopes. In Environmental Assessment, one is assessing something different eg the extent to which the landform will be harmed by the proposed development.
At a public inquiry, the key issue is evaluation of impacts. One needs to evaluate both the magnitude and the significance of the impacts. Some impacts (eg 'disturbance of a rare bird') have a low magnitude but a great significance. Other impacts (eg 'arrival of visitors on opening day') have a great magnitude but a small significance. Specific design proposals can then be justified by reference to the evaluation. If, for example, there will be an impact on a water course one can, depending on the magnitude and significance of the impact argue for:
Replacement of the stream course elsewhere on site
Mitigation of the impact, by implementing a management plan for the stream
Compensation for loss of the stream by constructing a new wetland area
An audit is an 'official examination of accounts'. Its normal use is for the annual examination, by accountants, of company accounts. Scientists had the idea that it would also be good idea to examine a company's 'environmental account', to discover how much harm is being done to the environment (pollution, consumption of resources etc). This led to the term 'environmental audit'. The EA process is extends the idea to development projects, but usually on a once-only basis. The term audit can be used to describe the process of monitoring a project on an annual basis. It is important to make a distinction between impacts of the development process and impacts after the project is established and in full operation. Since it might take 20 years for new planting to become an effective visual screen, one can define an 'Opening Year' or 'Design Year' for the date at which the Developer's Proposal will have been completed.
Drawing types
There are a number of specific drawing types which are associated with the process of Environmental Assessment. You should try to make use of them where appropriate. If you analyse a landscape from a specific point of view, it is normal to couple the analysis with a proposal.
Zone of Visual Influence. A ZVI drawing always relates to a specific object. The drawing then shows all the points from which the object is visible. See page 49 & page 72 of Landscape and visual assessment for examples.
View envelopes: the envelope of land which can be seen from a defined viewpoint.
Scenic quality: you should use the Countryside Commission method to produce a map showing areas of quality graded from somewhere between 1-3 and 1-10. The method is explained on pages 38-9 of Landscape and visual assessment. People often call it 'landscape quality' but 'scenic quality' is the better term.
Viewpoints: see p 41 of Landscape and visual assessment.
Designations: a great deal of land is subject to official designations (eg Metropolitan Green Belt, AONB, SSSI etc). They should be mapped.
Land use: this relates to the use of land, not to its visual character. For example, a uniform area of moorland may be classified as 'agriculture' (if used by a farmer), 'industry' (if part-used as an electricity sub-station) and 'recreation' (if part of a country park).
Landscape character: show 'zones of visual homogeneity' (eg moorland, suburbia, coastal plain). [Note that p 42 of Landscape and visual assessment has examples of 'Landscape types and 'Landscape Character Areas', which are somewhat confusing). Almost always, boundaries of landscape character areas should overlap.
Photomontage: see page 51, page 71, page 118 of Landscape and visual assessment.
Colour impact, colour strategy, colour planning: see Michael Lancaster's Colourscape (eg pages 70 and 90). Also p 59 of Landscape and visual assessment.
Land Cover: the vegetation, and land use, which cover the land
Surface water runoff. see Appendix C (p317) of Morris and Therival on 'The rational method of runoff prediction'.
Phase 1 Habitat Survey See Appendix E (p 325) of Morris and Therival 'Outline of the NCC Habitat Classification' and the Nature Conservancy Council's own Handbook for phase 1 habitat survey.
Reminder: The above drawing types are very likely to find a place in an EA. But are not done for their own sakes. One should identify the need for them in a scoping analysis and then incorporate them into the argument, normally by using the specialised drawing as a 'stepping stone' to a mitigation proposal.
Web References The following book is available for download: Visual Impact Assessment Foundations for Visual Project Analysis
by Felleman, Palmer and Smardon. See http://www.esf.edu/es/via/
DETR on Assessment on Landscape Assessment and on Habitat Assessment
GIS Unit at deMontfort University on landscape planning and use of GIS in habitat assessment
Middlemarch Environmental on Landscape Assessment and Design
Hampshire Historic Landscape Assessment
Australian discussion of Landscape Evaluation
US Environmental Protection Agency overview of landscape ecology Countryside Commission Press Releases
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- Practical sail and seamanship training during actual ocean passages aboard 50ft Yacht .Cross Roads;
- Seminars and tuition programmes before departure and under sail. These include but are not limited to: voyage routing, meal planning and provisioning, electronic (MaxSea) and chart navigation, radar and AIS, watch schedules and tasks including logbook updates, emergency procedures, sail trim, heavy weather sailing, downloading and monitoring the weather and how to match wind and seas with the ships performance, communications, addressing all sorts of medical problems, cooking and cleaning and much, much more.
This is as comprehensive as it gets, combined with the actual/practical experience of sailing an ocean! And above all: safety will always our number one concern: We will always demonstrate or discuss every aspect of sailing and preparing and undertaking conducting an offshore passage in a way that our crew/passengers/apprenticeships so that our students feel safe and comfortable and once back home feel confident in sailing their own vessels.
Practical Training for Yachtmaster Ocean/Offshore
The ocean crossings offered will also and in addition accommodate the practical exam pre-requisites for Yachtmaster Offshore and Yachtmaster Ocean.
Yachtmaster Offshore practical requirements
50 days, 2,500 miles including at least 5 passages over 60 miles measured along the rhumb line from the port of departure to the destination, acting as skipper for at least two of these passages and including two which have involved overnight passages.
5 Days experience as skipper.
At least half this mileage and passages must be conducted in tidal waters.
All qualifying sea-time must be within 10 years prior to the exam.
Yachtmaster Ocean practical requirements
After the theory, the practical exam pre-requisites are:
RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence.
A GMDSS Short Range Certificate (SRC) or higher grade of marine radio certificate.
A valid first aid certificate.
All candidates must have completed a qualifying passage as skipper or mate in sole charge of a watch on a suitable vessel, which meets the following criteria:
The candidate was fully involved in the planning of the passage, including selection of the route, the navigational plan, checking the material condition of the vessel and her equipment, storing with spare gear, water and victuals and organising the watch-keeping routine.
During the passage a minimum non-stop distance of 600 miles must have been run by the log, the yacht must have been at sea continuously for at least 96 hours and the yacht must have been more than 50 miles from land or charted objects capable of being used for navigation/position fixing while sailing a distance of at least 200 miles.
To be eligible as an ocean qualifying passage the distance between departure and arrival points by the shortest navigable route must be more than 600 mile.
Curacao to Azores (Horta): 25 days
On arrival day in Curacao (20 May) we shake of the jet-lag and examine the yacht. We make our-self known with sail- and rope handling, the deck layout and the MaxSea navigation software. We translate the weather forecasts in the route-planning and discuss the watch system, the household tasks and the safety procedures. And we will have lots of fun including a welcome dinner.
The next 2 days we go out for training and learn how to manoeuvre the yacht under sail. Also we start with watch keeping that will continue through the following night and the following days. Knowing the yacht, being familiar with the yacht and the seas, is a number one safety-procedure which cannot be ignored. Changing land for the seas is switching your bio-rhythm which takes at least 48 hours.
For the first night we anchor of the small island Little Curacao and the second night we moor in Bonaire.
On day number 4 (the 23rd of May) we leave early morning. Pending the wind direction (NE or E) and the wind strength we will sail as much as possible in a westerly while heading at our destination. This passage can take 3,300 Nm or about 21 to 23 days with an expected ETA at the Azores (Horta) between the 12th and the 14th of June.
The ETA of this ocean crossing is not that easy to predict. The first part we will sail close to the NE trade wind and the second part might be confronted with calms once we try to pick up the westerlies.
ETA and communications
Please note that the ETA's on these passages is due to wind direction and strength is unpredictable. Also if needed, due to several reason varying to technical problems or on request of the crew, the yacht will enter a port that is not listed in the programme. So be flexible with planning your flights and/or other activities.
Regarding communications the following notes:
- All emergency communications from shore to the yacht and vice versa will be handled by the office that is 24/7 available and has 24/7 contacts with the yacht;
- All social communications like progress of the yacht, happenings during the past 24 hours, crew-stories and some images will be published on the websites of the yacht and the operating company.
- Direct telephone calls between crew and family/relatives/friends will only be possible in emergency situations. The costs need to be paid.
- There will be no Wifi on board.
- Selfies, video, photo's etc. can be taken by the crew outside the cockpit on open decks only after permission of the skipper who might require certain safety procedures before making of the footage.
Three days of training and passage preparation on board of the yacht;
Professional skipper;
All meals, coffee, tea and 2 cans of soft drinks per day for the duration of the Crossing;
Once every 24 hours a progress update on the website for the beloved ones at home;
A Crossroads Ocean Crossing T-shirt;
What is not included
Meals and drinks in port;
Flights;
Transfers;
Visa;
Medical and travel insurance (including camera's, Ipads, laptops e
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I have not tested this code, but it should give you the idea:
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songryosukeApril 21, 2022
Bangkok, April 18, 2022 – Thailand Tourism Board (TAT) has shown that Thailand has a prominent presence at the International Horticultural Expo (EXPO 2022 Floriade Almere) in Almere, the Netherlands, from April 14th to October 9th. I will report. Year.
"Thailand's participation in EXPO 2022 Floriade Armele is powerful for the Kingdom, following the success of the recent World's Fair in Dubai, where 2.3 million visitors experienced the Thai Pavilion. Continuing the global show. Top 5 pavilions of the event. It's also a great opportunity to celebrate 418.th This year's anniversary of diplomatic relations between Thailand and the Netherlands. "
TAT Governor Yuthasak Supasorn
EXPO 2022 Floriade Armele is the 7th edition of the International Horticultural Expo, an A1 level exposition scheduled every 10 years, with Thailand included in 50 countries and TAT participating in 60. It is one of the organizations.
The EXPO 2022 Floriade Armele's Thai Pavilion has three zones. Zone 1 Welcome to Thailand – Contains information on Thailand Tourism and Agricultural Tourism, BCG Model: Bangkok Green City, Thailand-Netherlands Relations. Zone 2 Future Products – Information on Thai Herbs and Orchids and Future Foods, and Zone 3 Showrooms – Information on Future Products.
The theme of the Thai Pavilion was inspired by the Thai people's lifestyle, traditions, beliefs, food and other connections to water.
The main concept of the Expo itself is to grow the Green City and provide eco-friendly technologies and innovations to the cities of the future. Thus, for Thailand, it is an opportunity to introduce sustainable management guidelines, including food innovation and kingdom's progress in agricultural products, sustainable development of food production processes, and lifestyles and cultural traditions.
If you cannot participate in the EXPO 2022 Floriade Armele directly, please visit the following site. www.thailandfloriade2022.com Experience a virtual reality tour of the Thai Pavilion.
https://www./tourism/89583-thailand-fields-strong-presence-at-expo-2022-floriade-almere-in-the-netherlands Thailand has a strong presence in the Netherlands EXPO 2022 Floriade Armele
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To create a team project or manage process templates on an on-premises TFS, you must connect using the same version level of Visual Studio or Team Explorer. That is, to create a team project on TFS 2013, you must connect from Team Explorer 2013.


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The Pandemic Transformed Brick-and-Mortar Retail
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Nearly one year ago this week, Sandy Sigal gathered all of his employees and read a letter he wrote on the possible impact the coronavirus pandemic and government shutdowns might have on their retail business.
"We're going into uncharted territory," said Sigal, the founder, president, and CEO of NewMark Merrill Cos., which owns and operates 85 shopping centers with 2,000 tenants across California, Colorado, and Illinois. "While people can make plans, plans rarely follow a predictable path. What makes a difference between success and failure is the strength of the team."
"Will we be proud of who we are after this pandemic?" Sigal added. "Leave no one and no tenant behind."
One year later, with the pandemic that is still going on and some see waning, Sigal read that same letter to his team of 100 employees as a reminder of how far they've come since the pandemic upended the brick-and-mortar retail industry.
"It's undeniable this has been a transformative year in our lives," Sigal told Spectrum News.
Of all the industries impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent government shutdowns, brick-and-mortar retail arguably suffered the most. The sector saw a record number of bankruptcies, vacancies, and store closures. But the pandemic also served as a transformation that could change how people shop and visit retail centers in the future.
"The pandemic forced us to accelerate our transformation and face the reality of our industry," Sigal said.
Before the pandemic, the brick-and-mortar retail industry was in the midst of the retail apocalypse.
Consumer habits were changing. With the rise of e-commerce, more people were opting for their goods to be delivered to their homes rather than having to get up and go to a physical store. Big box brick-and-mortar retail chain stores were closing at a rapid pace.
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Ири́на Евге́ньевна Дани́лова (17 февраля 1922 — 28 декабря 2012) — советский и российский учёный-, историк и теоретик искусства, автор многих книг по искусству Средних веков, Возрождения и Древней Руси, доктор искусствоведения, заслуженный деятель искусств РСФСР (1982), музейный работник и педагог. С 1967 по 1998 годы работала заместителем директора по научной работе Государственного музея изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина в Москве.

Биография
Ирина Данилова родилась в 1922 году в Полоцке. Училась в Московском государственном университете, в 1945 году окончила отделение искусствоведения исторического факультета МГУ.

После этого Данилова была принята в аспирантуру при Институте истории искусств АН СССР. В 1951 году она защитила кандидатскую диссертацию по теме «Дионисий и его творчество. К вопросу об искусстве Москвы периода образования Русского государства».

С 1947 по 1967 год Ирина Данилова преподавала в Московском высшем художественно-промышленном училище (бывшем Строгановском) — сначала в должности преподавателя, а затем доцента и исполняющей обязанности профессора кафедры истории искусств.

С 1967 года Данилова работала в Государственном музее изобразительных искусств имени  (ГМИИ). Более 30 лет, с 1967 по 1998 год, она была заместителем директора ГМИИ по научной работе, а в 1998—2010 годах работала главным научным сотрудником-консультантом директора ГМИИ. Кроме этого, с 1992 по 2011 год она работала главным научным сотрудником Института высших гуманитарных исследований при Российском государственном гуманитарном университете, а также была членом бюро Комиссии по проблемам культуры Возрождения при Научном совете по истории мировой культуры Российской академии наук.

По книге «Итальянская монументальная живопись. Раннее Возрождение», выпущенной в 1970 году, Ирина Данилова защитила докторскую диссертацию и получила учёную степень доктора искусствоведения.

Многие научные труды Даниловой связаны с искусством Средних веков и Возрождения. Отдельные монографии посвящены творчеству художников Джотто, Боттичелли, архитекторов Брунеллески, Альберти и других.

В 1982 году Ирине Даниловой было присвоено звание заслуженного деятеля искусств РСФСР.

Сочинения И. Е. Даниловой
 Иван Аргунов. Русский крепостной художник XVIII века. —: Искусство, 1948
 Старые мастера в Дрезденской галерее. : Искусство, 1959 (совместно с М. В. Алпатовым)
 К вопросу о развитии западно-европейской тематической плафонной живописи. , 1960
 Лекции по истории монументально-декоративной живописи. , 1960
 Орнамент в древне-греческой вазописи V века до н. э. , 1960
 Итальянская монументальная живопись. Раннее Возрождение. : Искусство, 1970
 Джотто. : Изобразительное искусство, 1970
 Фрески Ферапонтова монастыря. : Искусство, 1970.
 От Средних веков к Возрождению. Сложение художественной системы картины кватроченто. : Искусство, 1975
 Искусство средних веков и Возрождения. Работы разных лет. : Советский художник, 1984
 Боттичелли. : Изобразительное искусство, 1985
 Брунеллески и Флоренция. Творческая личность в контексте ренессансной культуры. : Искусство, 1991
 Судьба картины в европейской живописи. : РГГУ, 1996 (1-е изд.), СПб.: Искусство-СПб, 2005 (2-е изд.)
 Альберти и Флоренция. : РГГУ, 1997
 Итальянский город XV века. Реальность, миф, образ. : РГГУ, 2000
 Исполнилась полнота времен. : РГГУ, 2004, ISBN 5-7281-0701-X

Примечания

Литература
 Баткин Л. М. О работах И. Е. Даниловой // Баткин Л. М. Пристрастия: избранные эссе и статьи о культуре. М., 2002.

Историки искусства СССР
Историки искусства России
Выпускники отделения истории и теории искусства исторического факультета МГУ
Сотрудники Государственного музея изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина
Преподаватели МГХПА имени С. Г. Строганова


It's hard to believe that one year ago today, I launched my blog. The last 12 months have brought more milestones than I ever thought I'd reach and has allowed me to be part of an amazing community of writers and readers. My gratitude goes to all of you for deciding to follow my journey as a writer and creative spirit. Your presence as readers and commenters is so encouraging, inspiring, and very much appreciated.
As my muse and I grow, my blog continues to evolve, which means both new and old followers may not be aware of everything hiding in the nooks and crannies of C.B. Wentworth. So, it seems the only fitting way to celebrate my one year anniversary is to take a look at how far I've come and where I'm heading next. Let's take a tour!
There is a small menu of page links that divide the content of my blog.
About – Like most bloggers, I wrote a little blurb about myself and the purpose of my blog. Perhaps I got a bit too whimsical, but I stand by the arguments I have with my muse!
My Bookshelf – Did you know I keep a log of all the books I read? Books I've enjoyed from 2010, 2011, and the growing list of 2012 are all listed on My Bookshelf. This year, I started writing snapshot reviews and providing links for each title. I update this page regularly and leave comments open for book discussions, debates, and recommendations for further reading.
Home – The main page of my blog is where all new posts appear. I write on a number topics, which are represented with category links below the main header. Content is pretty random and that's largely because I don't believe in limiting where my muse can go. If anything, I like the element of surprise for both myself as a writer and for readers. My voice, however, is what ties everything together. I've been told I have a unique personality and it comes through in everything I write!
Blog Schedule – I post three or four times a week, typically Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. However, there are weeks where I'll post every day. It depends on how chatty my muse is and how much time is available to write.
Comments – Every post is open to comments and I make it a point to answer every single person who leaves a comment. Reader thoughts are important to me and I enjoy the conversation.
Wreck This Journal – This series documents the pages I complete in Keri Smith's groundbreaking book of the same title. I'm happy to say this series has inspired a number of people to buy their own Wreck This Journal and embark on a similar journey of reckless creativity.
Project Art Journal – This series showcases pages from a journal I created with paper lunch bags. Each page is constructed using mixed-media collage and I provide step by step instructions for the techniques I use to create each layout.
Sundays in London – A three week sojourn to London serves as the inspiration for poetry and musings. Every Sunday I post a photograph from my adventure, along with the words it inspires.
2012 Goals Status Report – At the end of every month, I hold myself accountable for the writing goals I've set for 2012. I document both successes and failures as they occur to keep myself on track for the year.
In between these regular series is where random topics run rampant. A post without the aforementioned titles is one where I've wandered into fiction, travel, books or any of the other categories listed under the main header.
The main photograph is my actual bookshelf. I took this shot with my cell phone and played with it on iPhoto until I got it to match the color scheme of my chosen theme. Every photograph on my blog is my own, unless otherwise noted.
Subscribing to my blog is as easy as clicking on the "sign me up" button. Thanks again to those who have already done so!
Over on Facebook I've create a writer page, where I post blog updates, links to other blogs and sites, announcements, and general musings about writing. Clicking "Like" button opens up these features and I love it when people write on my wall.
My Twitter Tweets chronicle my writing process, books I'm reading, and fantastic inspirational quotes I find in a variety of places. Click the button on my sidebar and we'll tweet together!
Pinterest is my newest obsession. The crafter and artist in me can't get enough of the visual inspiration this site has to offer. I pin everything from upcycling projects, photos of my dream flat in London, and art journal pages. Click the red button on my sidebar to see what I'm pinning and to follow along.
I recently joined the World Literary Cafe to network with other writers and readers. So far, it has been an amazing experience! I'm still learning the ropes of all it has to offer, but I highly recommend it to anyone looking for information about how to network.
I joined goodreads a few months ago, because I loved the idea of the 2012 Reading Challenge. I have a goal of reading at least 30 books this year and so far, I'm right on track.
Musings of a writer is a little section where I place random quotes that pop into my head. I don't change it very often, but I always try to come up with something that represents my philosophy of what it means to be a writer.
In the Recent Posts section, I keep a listing of the 50 most recent blog entries.
My tag cloud is just as random as my posts, so I guess that's another indicator of how my muse works! Clicking on any one of those tags will take you to all my posts relating to that topic.
I'm sorry to say my Blogroll is in dire need of updating! I have about 30 blogs to add, but the current list of blogs are still among my favorite. I visit them daily for a great read and endless inspiration.
The Campaign Shield serves as my badge for surviving my first Writers' Platform-Building Campaign. The campaign was worth participating in as I met so many wonderful bloggers and I really enjoyed the challenge of tough writing prompts and competition. I'm still in shock that I won the last competition, (See Fatespeak)!
Thanks to some fabulous bloggers, I've been lucky enough to receive several blog awards. There's nothing quite as encouraging or gratifying as another blogger acknowledging my work. I appreciate every single one and those who gave them to me.
I keep all the logistical information at the bottom. This is where the archives, calendar, and blog stats reside. I wish it was more exciting, but alas there is always a corner for the technical stuff!
My gravatar photo is the same photo I use for all social media. The meaning behind that black and white road can be found on a post entitled, One Photograph Changed Everything.
My icon photo is a collage I created and photographed. I pieced together magazine photos of trees, cliffs, and petroglyphs. The emphasis on the hand in the center is symbolic of the human journey in which we all travel.
Back in August, my post The Best Souvenirs Are Free was chosen to be Freshly Pressed. I wish I could properly convey how exciting that was, but I still can't find the right words.
Project Flash Fiction – As summer approaches, I'll be embarking on a challenge to write one piece of flash fiction every week.
Finish This Book – With Wreck This Journal winding down over the next couple of months, Keri Smith's most recent book will be my next source of reckless creativity. Pages and experiences will be posted on a bi-weekly basis.
Pinhole Camera Adventure – On a whim, I bought a kit for a pinhole camera and I plan on documenting the experiment from start to finish, including the photographs I take with this contraption!
Project Upcycle – Pinterest has turned me into an upcycling fanatic. I have several projects lined up and I'll be documenting each one as they are completed.
Q&A Journal – Another summer project where a question a day can lead to anything. A weekly post will document my answers and the inspiration that will likely ensue.
Thanks again to all my readers, new and old! This year has been an incredible experience and I can't wait to see what is yet to come.
Happy Blog-anniversary. I love your stuff, here's to the next year of posts!
Thanks so much! 🙂 I can't wait to see what my muse and I compose. Hopefully, another great year is in store.
Congrats on reaching your one-year! I just realized yesterday that mine is a month away, and I need to start planning something big (ish).
ooh, I can't wait to see what you do with Project Upcycle!
Oh, fun! 🙂 Can't wait to see how you're going to celebrate.
I worked on something for Project Upcycle last night and I cannot wait to share it!
Thanks! 🙂 I hope the next year is just as fun and inspiring as this one has been.
Congratulations on one year! And I enjoyed your "tour." 🙂 So often a person is flying through blog posts across many different blogs and doesn't take the time to stop and see what else each blog has to offer. Your tour has given me a few ideas for improving my own blog. Your blog has become one of my favorites, C.B. Thanks to Platform Builders for helping me find you!
Seriously, you have a great blog and I'm glad I've had a chance to read about your journey. Keep up the good work!
Blogging is a commitment, but one I enjoy very much!
What a good idea to recap your blog for newcomers (and those of us who don't notice details all the time.) Congratulations on your one year anniversary! I was also interested to read you have a sort-of blogging schedule 3-4 days a week. So much here to explore. Thank you, C.B.
Hopefully, the next year will bring much more to explore!
Awww, thanks! 🙂 It did not look this nice in the beginning! I did a lot of experimenting until I found my groove!
Blogging has inspired me to play with my camera a lot more and visuals are always key to inspiring words for me. With these elements in place, I'm excited to see what the next year brings.
Congratulations on a year of fantastic blogging. I look forward to watching you grow and share even more in the coming year of your blog.
Thanks! 🙂 I have so much planned, yet I'm leaving plenty of holes open for surprises to find their way to my muse. Stay tuned!
I wasn't sure if it would be fun, but I'm glad to hear you and others liked the tour!
GIANT congratulations on your one year anniversary, and kudos for all of the many wonderful things you do and are planning to do. Your regular posts always serve as inspiration to think, write, read, play, explore and enjoy all of the opportunities presented to us creative folks. It's been a pleasure to follow along, my friend, a great pleasure!
Thanks so much! 🙂 You are such an inspiration to me as your blog is always full of so many thought provoking posts. I'm so glad we've connected and continue to share our journeys of self discovery and creativity.
Congratulations on your 1st year. Here's to many more.
Happy Birthday C.B.! I'm so glad you were Freshly Pressed, 'cause that's how I found your blog. And you are one of my absolute favorites! I hope you find year two to be just as creative, exciting, inspirational, amazing, and whimsical – gotta keep that Muse happy!!!
Thanks so much! 🙂 Its amazing how having an outlet can inspire so much. May we both continue to find exceptional inspiration.
You've got a great thing going . . . keep writing!
Congratulations to your blog anniversary! You're very well organized here!
I started January 1, 2011, when I joined the Post-A-Day. Then, when the year was up, I moved [very briefly] to Blogger. Got sort of homesick for WP, so here I am .. back again, and today I noticed that I posted my 100th post with this blog I have now.
I have Goodreads too, but I only read romance novels before I fall asleep … light reading. I've just found a marvellous, British writer who really fits my taste [Erica James].
Congrats! One Year where does the time go. Looking forward to all your new adventures.
Thanks always for reading and for being such a positive force in my life.
Congratulations on your one-year anniversary! I look forward to your blog posts and am glad we've connected. I'm impressed by your dedication and consistency. Here's to many more years of blogging! Cheers!
May we both continue to find inspiration!
Thanks for sharing your many talents with the world!
Yes, the "Best Souvenirs are Free" blogpost got me here and I'm glad it did (thank you FP for getting it right!) And now I get to read all these short stories, your craft & stuff, that I really love here! Thanks for sharing!
Happy Blogobirthday, C.B. You give me so much inspiration, and are such a steady blog companion. I really appreciate your talents and your sharing of those talents and for spreading the love. Here's to another great year!
May we both have another prosperous year of blogging!
Truly inspirational, C.B. Wow, is about all I can say.
Happy Anniversary! So glad you are here doing what you do!
Thank you so much! 🙂 I'm always so glad I stumbled on your page – Yoda caught my eye and I've enjoyed visiting your site ever since. We have so much in common and I'm so glad we connected!
go you!! keep being so incredibly awesome and filled with the wisdom of words! xo.
Can't wait to see your upcoming projects!


sufficient to cause death • harmful or destructive.
That's an accurate description of what I've been going through ever since I started taking this drug. This worries me. What I can't figure out is why it doesn't worry my doctors at all. When I spoke to Rootsin Toobers on the Health in Hell Hotline he was a bit dismissive (as in he hung up on me immediately).
Thank you Old Pappy for your interest in our great product. I would strongly urge you to threaten to sue your doctor if he or she doesn't prescribe Lathalis to you in the highest possible dose.
Well boys, I went to my doctor for some of that Lethalis. I've got problems in my low spot. The doc examined me and I explained I can't even find it some days. If it's cold "he" kind of retreats into a little cave in my groin. I thought it was RSC although it wasn't too rapid. Anyhow the doc dismissed my request for the perscription!! I'm so mad. He said I had "old man pecker" and Lethalis was for young men. I'm going to get me a new doc and get some. I want a trial sample.
As a Physician Assistant, I have already written over 100 prescriptions for Lethalis. Why? Because it's a great product! Thanks Juggernaut. Oh, and thanks for the 18 holes of golf, the lobster dinner and the case of Merlot.
That's called, "being smart". Juggernaut Pharmaceuticals depends on customers, or 'Partners in Healing', like you, to reach our goal of creating a new world and reinventing life. Although Lethalis will not stop that cold of yours, it will serve as a gateway into a universe of therapies that will allow you to reach your dreams. and helping people reach their dreams is what we do everyday.
I have started takeing Lethlis when I feel a cold coming on. It doesn't help with the cold, but it makes me feel better for having taken something.
I took one dose of Stryreechlinstral and within 5 minutes the old boy had rolled up like one of those New Years Eve party favors. Thankfully Juggernaut came out with Lethalis. I'm hoping I'm in the percentage of patients that respond to Lethalis.
My cousin suffered from this terrible, terrible disease. Most people laugh at it, but this horrible disease was a nightmare. His wife finally divorced him, and he is now living on the beach painting old window panes and throwing sticks at the ocean.
I wish Lethalis wasn't so damned expensive. Stryreechlinstral is already costing me my arms and legs, literally.


This was a challenging environment in which to work as the planning and heritage issues were of the highest importance. Our design is a sophisticated and subtle addition to the streetscape and has been acknowledged by Newcastle Council planning and conservation officers as being of a exceptional quality.
Grey Street was described by renowned architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the finest streets in England', and has also been voted 'Best street in the UK' by BBC Radio 4 listeners, and we are proud of our contribution to this prestigious context.


The backlash was immediate and unforgiving, especially from those outside the school.
This is why women don't report, why women are scared, why women blame themselves. This ideology is being taught in our schools.
Hensley was placed on leave following the incident.
The story has gained traction nationwide, with high-profile celebrities including Cher denouncing the athletic director's words.
Some Soddy-Daisy students were grateful for the public outcry and believe Hensley deserves some sort of punishment.
Cher, I go to Soddy Daisy High and I can't thank you enough for your support and your defense. I'm crying right now. He has said some horrible things off camera as well and I just find it amazing that someone like you will stand up for us and in a way me. Thank you so much.
Other students, however, insist that Hensley is a good school official, even if his words were misguided.
As a FEMALE Senior at Soddy Daisy High School, I do believe that better word choice could of been used. But being a student- Athlete, Hensley is one of the Best VP and athletic director SDHS has had and no one fights for what we want as students. He actually cares about us.
These students are proposing something the internet isn't particularly equipped to handle: nuance. It's very that Hensley, while a good person with good intentions, was oblivious to the effect of his words and how they inadvertently perpetuate systemic biases with far-reaching effects.
Of course, on the internet, people tend to take sides.
I don't care if Jared Hensley is a "nice man". There's some things you just don't joke about. When I went to soddy, yes some of the girls did not know how to dress appropriate. But bringing the Bible into it, whew you're in for it.
How about he gets the unemployment line instead of a leave of absence. The video says it all.
His comments were undoubtedly sexist, no matter how you spin it. But what's worse than that is he said that in a statement to his students. Very unprofessional and unbecoming of an educator.
I have a daughter. But I also have a son. I see how schools make rules, and it is the girls who push that advantage. Wearing shorter shorts. Sleeveless shirts. If he was just to ban shorts from the girls you would be complaining for that too. He is actually a awesome teacher.
And, in many cases, some Twitter users' reactions were even more offensive than the initial controversy.
Let me just put this out there: I am receiving respectful emails standing up for Soddy-Daisy's athletic director and pointing out some potential problems with the story. And I'm also receiving rude, hateful emails.
Every single offensive one has come from a male.
We hold our employees and our leaders to a high standard, and these comments do not match the high expectations we have for our employees. We seek to prepare all children for success in life after high school and expect our employees to provide an atmosphere that will empower all children to reach their full potential.
Hensley will remain on a leave of absence until the conclusion of an investigation into the incident.
Just reading tweets from all the young men who are stating this man said nothing wrong should be enough for you to see that you need to make changes at that school, and fast. Failing to do so says you care nothing for the young women in that school.


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The metal skirt is powder-coated white for the Blonde Ash tabletop and is powder-coated black for the Black Ash tabletop.
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Every Friday, Now Mornings' Steve and MJ feature 6 new songs from artists you already know and love and artists you'll get to know and love. Which songs were featured this week (Jul 12)?
After the decidedly introspective Songs for the Saints, Kenny Chesney gears up for his first true Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville project with the release of "Tip of My Tongue," a decidedly grown up song from the man who Variety called "country music's only long-term stadium act." With its sweeping groove and an almost humid melody lift, "Tip of My Tongue" merges desire and connection over a figure of speech in a classic songwriting technique.
The inspiration for the song started out as a journal entry from notes Madeline wrote to her younger self, and the end result has amounted to an empowering track that resonates in the current cultural landscape, as many young women struggle to compare themselves to others with the pressures of social media. The track remains in the catchy pop-meets-country fusion that Merlo has become known for, and the song serves as a powerful reminder to girls and young women to be kind to themselves through difficult times, and to always be aware of their many strengths.
A new Chris Young and Lauren Alaina duet, "Town Ain't Big Enough," arrived Friday morning (July 12). As the song's title implies, the singers portray a couple of small-town exes who seemingly can't leave home without confronting pieces of the past.
Country trio Midland have officially announced their next album, Let it Roll, following the success of their full-length debut, On the Rocks, in 2017. That project earned the group a huge fanbase, as well as critical acclaim, nominations and awards.
Morgan Wallen will follow up his bourbon-soaked, back-to-back No. 1 singles, "Up Down" and "Whiskey Glasses," with the release of new single, "Chasin' You," on July 29.
"Chasin' You" is featured on Morgan's 2018 debut album, If I Know Me. The new tune showcases Morgan's smoldering vocals as he pines for a relationship that fell apart when his girl moved West to pursue her dreams.
Listen to brand new Filmore, "Other Girl."
Find it here.
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Murderers -- Japan -- Drama
Psychopaths -- Japan -- Drama
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Serial murderers -- Japan -- Drama
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Олег Анатолійович Вергеліс (5 серпня 1967, с. Мала Сквирка, Білоцерківський район, Київська область, УРСР — 30 вересня 2022, м. Київ, Україна) — український театральний та кіно журналіст, мистецький оглядач, письменник, публіцист, редактор відділу культури видання «Дзеркало тижня», педагог. Заслужений журналіст України. Член Національних спілок театральних діячів та журналістів України.

Життєпис
Народився 5 серпня 1967 року в селі Мала Сквирка Білоцерківського району Київської області.

По закінченню університету викладав зарубіжну літературу та драматургію на кафедрі світової літератури Національного педагогічного університету ім. Михайла Драгоманова у Бориса Шалагінова, видатного вченого, спеціаліста з античності та Відродження. Розробляв тему «Г. Ібсен та В. Винниченко: жанрова специфіка нової драми».

Доцент кафедри журналістики Київського інституту міжнародних відносин (НАУ).

З липня 2010 року був уведений до складу оновленого комітету з Національної премії України ім. Тараса Шевченка.

З 2014 року — член Експертної ради з розгляду та визначення культурно-мистецьких проектів «Взаєморозуміння» та Громадської ради при Державному агентстві України з питань кіно.

З 2015-го — член експертної ради Держкомтелерадіо з формування переліку книжкових видань, передбачених до випуску за програмою «Українська книга».

З 2016-го — член Експертної ради Міністерства культури України з відбору культурно-мистецьких проектів для надання державної фінансової підтримки. Того ж року увійшов до складу оновленої Національної спілки театральних діячів України (НСТДУ), очоливши напрямок інформаційного забезпечення та зв'язків із громадськістю.

З 2018-го — член Експертної комісії Міністерства культури України з питань надання статусу академічного творчим колективам України в галузі театрального мистецтва.

У період 2018-2019 років — експерт І та ІІ Всеукраїнського театрального фестивалю-премії «GRA».

Протягом кількох років входив до складу експертів театральної премії «Київська пектораль», з якої пішов через переход премії «від експертів до адміністраторів».

Хобі — колекція листівок артистів радянського та західного кінематографа 30-50-х років.

Останні роки
У травні 2019 року пережив інсульт та складну операцію. Друзі-актори зіграли благодійну виставу «Два анекдоти на вечерю» за п'єсами Антона Чехова (постановка В'ячеслава Жили), всі зібрані кошти від якої були передані на його реабілітацію.

За першої нагоди продовжив активно цікавитися життям театру (вже у серпні 2019-го на порталі «Театральна риболовля» вийшов спецпроект «На всі 100» до 100-річчя Національного театру ім. Івана Франка, в якому Олег Вергеліс давав «парадоксальні відповіді на найпарадоксальніші питання»), друкуватися в українській та зарубіжній пресі. Тексти виходили до останніх днів. Зокрема, у березні 2022-го опублікував огляд «Театр часів агресії та пекла» щодо ситуації українського театру перших місяців вторгнення Росії в Україну для польського журналу «Culture.pl», у липні 2022 року опублікував «суб'єктивний погляд на театральне майбутнє » під заголовком «Ми жили бідно, та був нас обікрали…» на порталі «Главком». У серпні 2022-го в Івано-Франківському Палаці Потоцьких відбувся мистецький перформанс «Розстріляне Відродження: голоси крізь час», складений з лірикою маловідомих для загалу поетів, яких знищив тоталітарний сталінський режимом у 20-30 роках XX століття, над збіркою та упорядкуванням яких працювали Олег Вергеліс та Олексій Гнатковський.

Помер 30 вересня 2022. Прощання відбулося 3 жовтня у київському театрі ім. Івана Франка, похований — на батьківщині, в селі Мала Сквирка 4 жовтня 2022.

Свої спогади про Олега Вергеліса опублікували Дмитро Дроздовський, Костянтин Рильов.

Творчість

Журналістика
Публікації на теми театру почали з'являтися наприкінці 90-х — в період викладацької роботи на кафедрі світової літератури Національного університету ім. Михайла Драгоманова (відразу після закінчення вишу). Першим опублікованим текстом стала рецензія «Любов не минає» на виставу Романа Віктюка «Дама без камелій» із Адою Роговцевою у головній ролі.

Далі активно друкується в українській та зарубіжній пресі, зокрема як театральний оглядач. Тексти на тему театру, кіно та телебачення виходять у таких виданнях як «Дзеркало тижня» (перша стаття для видання датована 23 лютим 1996 року, та має назву «Між двох берегів драматургії»), «Бульвар Гордона», «Профіль», «Главред», «Культура і життя», журнал «Український театр», «Українська культура», а також російських видань (журнал «Театр», «Независимая газета», «Театрал») та інші. Виступав у ЗМІ на теми театру та кіно. Загальна кількість матеріалів на теми театру перевищила позначку тисячі одиниць.

Працював редактором відділу культури у газеті «Київські відомості». Рубрика «Культура» видання 2002 року одержала премію «Золоте перо» Національної спілки театральних діячів України у номінації «найкраща газетна рубрика, яка висвітлює тему "Культура"».

З 2005 року завідував відділом культури видання «Дзеркало тижня», змінивши на цій посаді Олексія Кононенка.

У різні роки брав участь у роботі прес-центрів, зокрема керував піар-службою прощального туру Алли Пугачової.

Останні роки життя активно співпрацював з інформаційним агентством «Главком».

Літературна діяльність
Тексти низки статей, що виходили у виданні «Дзеркало тижня», сформувалися у матеріал, достатній для повноцінного окремого видання. Так з'явилася перша книга Олега Вергеліса про героїв українського театру «Квиток на вчорашню виставу». Жанр книжки за визначенням автора — «етюди у ностальгічних тонах».

Назва «Квиток на вчорашній спектакль» походить від рядка пісні Алли Пугачової «Я чекала на вас так довго» (Р. Паулс — І. Резнік). Книга містить нариси про діячів українського театру середини ХХ століття — Ларису Кадочникову, Сергія Данченка, Аду Роговцеву, Миколу Гринька, Нону Копержинську, Андрія Сову, Наталю Ужвій, Фаїну Раневську (київський період, де вона грала у виставах Миколи Куліша) інших. Перше видання вийшло у видавництві «Континент-Прім» та було відзначено Міжнародною літературною премією ім. Юрія Долгорукого у 2010 році. Друге, доповнене видання вийшло 2012 року в «Райдузі», Laurus, після чого було й третє перевидання.

Друга книга, «Анти-Раневська та інші явища фатальних нульових», вийшла у видавництві журналу «Райдуга» 2011 року. Назва відсилає до книги Тамари Катаєвої «Анти-Ахматова», «де образ великої поетеси було подано крізь темну призму забобонів та жовтих фактів. "Анти" — це те, що часто й визначає нинішню особу культури, її діагноз». Героями книги в листах стали публічні люди епохи «рокових нульових» — «співаючий ректор» Поплавський, «невдаха» Сердючка, «всюдисущий» Шустер. З іншого боку в книзі присутні «опоненти» у вигляді Фаїни Раневської, Кіри Муратової, Богдана Ступки Андрія Жолдака, Людмили Гурченко, Тетяни Дороніної….

За «Антиранівську» Олег Вергеліс отримав «Гоголівську премію», яка вручається за найпомітніші та найяскравіші літературні твори в Україні російською мовою.

Наступна книга «Українська драма. Епізоди» — це авторський погляд на тенденції, явища, образи, які визначають «температуру» нового сценічного часу. Книга містить три блоки: театр Ступки; режисерські пошуки Едуарда Мітницького, Ростислава Держіпольського, Андрія Білоуса, Дмитра Богомазова, Станіслава Мойсеєва, Віталія Малахова, Владислава Троїцького, Андрія Приходька; акторські звершення Анатолія Хостікоєва, Наталії Сумської, Петра Панчука, Ірми Вітовської, Віталія Лінецького, Давида Бабаєва, Валерії Заклунної. На XIII міжнародному книжковому фестивалі «Мистецтво книги» «Українська драма. Епізоди» стала переможцем у номінації «Серія».

Під назвою «Театр, де розбиваються серця» вийшла четверта книга Олега Вергеліса. Назва відсилає до п'єси ірландського драматурга Бернарда Шоу «Будинок, де розбиваються серця». Під обкладинкою із зображенням прими українського театру Марії Заньковецької зібрано 12 драматичних сюжетів про видатних українських акторів XX століття. Окрім Марії Заньковецької героями книги стали Амвросій Бучма, Наталія Ужвій, Микола Яковченко, Нонна Копержинська, Ольга Кусенко, Степан Олексенко, Андрій Сова, Зінаїда Дехтярьова, Богдан Ступка. Окремі розділи присвячені театрам імені Івана Франка та театру імені Лесі Українки.

Книги «Українська драма. Епізоди» та «Театр, де розбиваються серця» 2018 року були відзначені мистецькою премією «Київ» ім. Амвросія Бучми у сфері театрального мистецтва.

Остання з опублікованих книг автора стала робота «Народна артистка», яка вийшла із підзаголовком «Олег Вергеліс про Нонну Копержинську», яку опублікував у 2019 році журнал «Райдуга». Видання є книгою-мандрівкою у творчий світ народної артистки України Нонни Копержинської (1920—1999). Поряд із відомими сторінками життя актриси, автор відкриває й такі, які залишалися довгі роки в тіні.

Театр та телебачення
На українському телебаченні зробив серію програм про український театр — автор та ведучий циклів «Гравці» та «Головна роль» (Національний телеканал «Культура»).

Засновник проекту медійної театральної премії «Дзеркало сцени», яка визначає найкращі інноваційні проекти та яскраві відкриття в галузі сучасного театру, яка з 2016 по 2019 роки обирала тему дослідження, та за результатами експертного голосування визначала найкращих у театральному сегменті. Так у 2018 році розглядалися найкращі роботи молодих акторів у київських виставах, у 2019-му — акторська харизма.

У сезонах 2017-2018 років — куратор театральної програми фестивалю мистецтв «Кропивницький».

У 2018 році як ведучий записав серію програм «#NeoСцена», яка виходила в ефірі громадського телеканалу «UA:Культура». Гостями стали: Стас Жирков, Ярослава Кравченко, Тамара Трунова, В'ячеслав Довженко, Олександр Форманчук, Раду Поклітару, Наталія Сумська, Євген Ніщук, Роман Ясиновський, Віталій Малахов, Ірма Вітовська, Дмитро Богомазов.

Прийняв запрошення івано-франківського режисера Ростислава Держипольського взяти участь у виставі «Модільяні» у Івано-Франківському національному академічному обласному музично-драматичному театрі ім. Івана Франка. Вистава поставлена за мотивами . Олег Вергеліс у виставі виконав роль арт-критика, власне — власне камео. Прем'єра вистави відбулася 27 квітня 2018 року.

Заснував та вів Telegram-канал «Театр Мало Букв», яке позиціонував як «Що хочу, те й пишу. Про театр та його фігурантів». Перше повідомлення датовано 8 серпня 2018 року, останнє — «Літо та дим», присвячене народній артистці України Валерії Чайковській — опубліковано 14 серпня 2022.

З січня 2020 року керував літературно-драматургічним відділом Івано-Франківського національного академічного драматичного театру ім. Івана Франка.

Бібліографія

 Олег Вергеліс. Оповідання «Стара актриса на роль мільярдерши» (ж-л «Радуга» № 5–6, 2020)

Нагороди
 2002 — Премія «Золоте перо» Національної спілки театральних діячів України у номінації «найкраща газетна рубрика, яка висвітлює тему "Культура"» — рубрика «Культура», газета «Київські відомості»
 2009 — Спецвідзнака «Золоте перо» Національної спілки театральних діячів України «за творчий внесок та благодійність»
 2010 — Лауреат Міжнародної літературної премії ім. Юрія Долгорукого за книгу етюдів про театральних акторів «Квиток на вчорашній спектакль»
 2010 — Заслужений журналіст України
 2011 — Гоголівська премія Національної спілки письменників України
 2018 — Мистецька премія «Київ» ім. Амвросія Бучми
 2020 — Міжнародна літературна премія «Наше серце» до 170 річчя Гі де Мопассана — 2 місце у розділі «Проза» за оповідання «Стара актриса на роль мільярдерки»
 2020 — Міжнародний книжковий форум «Зелена хвиля» (м. Одеса) — диплом переможця за кращу книгу на культурну тематику («Народна артистка (Олег Вергеліс про Нонну Копержинську)»)

Примітки

Джерела
 Олег Вергеліс на сайті Національної спілки театральних діячів України
 Олег Вергеліс у «Киевскому календарі»
 Театральний критик та заслужений журналіст України — Олег Вергеліс у програмі «За чай.com» (5 канал, березень 2018)
 Олег Вергеліс, журналіст, мистецький оглядач, критик. Поле Тетру велике. І не все оране. Місця вистачає усім (Укрінформ, липень 2020)

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