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Pondering Malacanang's Priority
Posted by Action for Economic Reforms | Oct 16, 2006 | Yellow Pad
Mr. Sta. Ana coordinates Action for Economic Reforms. This article was published in the Opinion Section, Yellow Pad Column of BusinessWorld, October 16, 2006 edition, page S1/5.
Gabby Claudio is an articulate, intelligent person. Trained by the Jesuits, he is proficient in English, and he speaks clearly and coherently but without the Manglapus accent. So it may come as a surprise to hear or read a muddled statement from Mr. Claudio.
Take this statement that BusinessWorld (10 October 2006) quoted: "Regardless of its status as a priority bill, its timetable is tentatively affected by the delay … in other priority measures." Mr. Claudio is referring to the Senate bill 2411, sponsored by Senator Ralph Recto, regarding the rationalization of fiscal incentives.
What do we call a priority bill that has to give way to other priority measures? Second priority? Third priority? Fourth priority? Mr. Claudio enumerates the other priority measures: the anti-terrorism bill, the General Appropriations Act of 2007, the bio-fuels bill and the restoration of perks to certain economic zones.
It is striking to note that one priority bill that intends to restore perks to some eco-zones is the opposite of the rationalization of fiscal incentives. Senator Recto's bill calls for the repeal of numerous laws that grant overgenerous incentives to investors, resulting in huge foregone revenues for a cash-strapped government.
When Mr. Claudio's statement becomes muddled, it's not because he does not know what he's saying. He is no nitwit; to repeat, he's intelligent. So a muddled statement from him means that either:
1) He is stoned—but Mr. Claudio has been a sober and straight guy, even during his high school years when popping LSD was the norm. He did sport long hair, not an indication of being a dope, and he preferred playing Dave Clark Five music, which was neither heavy nor psychedelic.
2) Or he is engaged in the art of dissembling, which he may have learned from the Jesuits.
I do not wish to hurt an Atenean; so let a La Sallite, a former economic planning secretary, do the talking. This La Sallite—intelligent and articulate, too—says that double speak is the standard language of the Arroyo administration that Mr. Claudio represents.
While Mr. Claudio assures us that the rationalization of fiscal incentives is a priority, though not even a second priority, his president, Mrs. Gloria Arroyo tells the business community the following: "I want to assure you that our policy is to keep and to improve the incentives the Philippines offers strategic foreign and domestic
investors, especially exporters." Intended to please the business crowd, Mrs. Arroyo says: "I know some of you are worried, that's why I want to assure you that we will not support proposals that have that effect of reducing competitiveness."
Naturally, the businessmen applauded Mrs. Arroyo's statement. As BusinessWorld reported, "Businessmen present took this as meaning that Mrs. Arroyo was not supporting SB 2411, a stand confirmed by a Cabinet official who requested anonymity." A big section of the business community, including the foreign chambers of commerce, opposes the rationalization of fiscal incentives, invoking as justification the loss of competitiveness.
Worse, Mrs. Arroyo is said to favor the House version of the fiscal incentives bill (House bill number 3295), which provides more tax incentives. A friend in the Department of Finance says that the House bill is "the most irrational rationalization ever."
The truth is, many of the incentives granted by government are redundant. That is, even without the incentives, the investments would still have been made.
Renato Reside, Jr. sums up the arguments in his paper titled Fiscal Incentives and Incentives in the Philippines (2006). Two conditions make incentives redundant.
The first condition is a situation where the investments have above-average or high returns. Reside's research shows that the ex ante rates of return are 15 percent or above for at least 90 percent of projects approved by the Board of Investments. Such rates of return are high, by both international and national standards.
The second condition pertains to the underlying investment motivation. Drawing from the literature, Reside cites three main factors, namely market-seeking, resource-seeking, and efficiency-seeking motives.
Market-seeking investments are motivated by the size and the strength of the domestic market. In this case, the incentives are of secondary importance for the firms to do business in the domestic market. The highly lucrative telecommunications industry and the real estate sector are examples of the market-seeking category. Note that these industries are non-tradable and hence not affected by global competition
Resource-seeking investments are attracted by the presence of inputs that cannot easily be found elsewhere. Mining is a good example; mining corporations will seek the country's minerals, especially at a time that global prices of minerals are soaring, even without the fiscal incentives.
It is the efficiency-seeking motivation that has a high sensitivity to fiscal incentives. The costs of inputs adjusted for productivity are crucial to be competitive. Efficiency-seeking investments are in the main export-oriented, although not all exporters (mining corporations, for example) cannot be included in the efficiency-seeking category.
The Recto bill rationalizes incentives on the basis of the conditions defined above. Clearly, incentives should be narrowed and given only to the efficiency-seeking investments.
Sadly, Malacañang has rejected the Recto bill. We cannot, however, blame Mr. Claudio for his muddled statement on the priority given to Recto's incentives bill. He merely echoes the position of his President, whose priority is political survival. And her political survival is best served not by inchoate public interest but by well-organized and highly financed vested interests.
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Warrington Collegiate is a vocational learning provider in Warrington for students aged 16 and over. One of the college's values is that they are open to change and are constantly looking forward to the future. To support this value a new college building was opened in 2007 with 1600 fulltime students. The College now boasts a fully equipped Learning Resource Centre (LRC), combining traditional library services with the latest technology and facilities.
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Nick explained "As part of the new strategy towards innovation and the enhancement of student experience plus following on from consultation with colleagues; it was decided that the previous method of continually buying laptops for different departments in the college was no longer the best way forward. Sometimes, the laptops didn't get put back in the classroom trolleys or plugged in correctly, so when another student from the following class went to use them they were more often than not left with low charge. The decision was made to centralise the IT to ensure that there would be a laptop available to all students as they required them."
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Округ  Валлова () — округ (графство) у штаті  Орегон, США. Ідентифікатор округу 41063.

Історія
Округ утворений 1864 року.

Демографія

За даними перепису
2000 року
загальне населення округу становило 7226 осіб, усе сільське.
Серед мешканців округу чоловіків було 3615, а жінок — 3611. В окрузі було 3029 домогосподарств, 2084 родин, які мешкали в 3900 будинках.
Середній розмір родини становив 2,85.

Віковий розподіл населення поданий у таблиці:

Суміжні округи
 Гарфілд, Вашингтон — північ
 Асотин, Вашингтон — північний схід
 Нез-Перс, Айдахо — північний схід
 Айдахо, Айдахо — схід
 Адамс, Айдахо — південний схід
 Бейкер — південь
 Юніон — південний захід
 Уматілла — захід
 Колумбія, Вашингтон — північний захід

Див. також
 Список округів штату Орегон

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More than 525 people packed the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank in Brooklyn to applaud an impressive list of Moses winners from across the City. The Moses Awards are the Conservancy's highest honors for outstanding preservation and this year's awards ranged from major civic building restorations to saving a Lower East Side church from demolition.
Individual honors went to Charles Platt, FAIA, with the Preservation Leadership Award and Lola Finkelstein with the Award for Public Leadership in Preservation.
Charles A. Platt, FAIA has been an integral part of New York's preservation community for nearly 50 years. An architect and painter, he began his practice in 1960, and founded Smotrich & Platt in 1965. Throughout his career, Mr. Platt has been active in public affairs related to architecture and preservation. He has served as Vice-Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. His leadership of the Municipal Arts Society's Preservation Committee helped that organization fulfill its mandate as a watchdog of civic values.
As the founding partner of Platt Byard Dovell White, Mr. Platt's commitment to design and design appropriateness is the underlying tenet of his career, especially in projects involving landmarks and historic districts. With designs ranging from the Chanel headquarters and New 42 Studios to the ongoing restoration of the Park Avenue Armory, he has created the best of the new while preserving the best of the past. His firm has received numerous design awards and his work has been published around the world.
Mr. Platt has been a critic at Cornell University and an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He was a board member of the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, member of the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter, Executive Committee, and is a member and past president of the board of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial. Mr. Platt is an Academician of the National Academy of Design, a graduate of Harvard College and of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
Lola Finkelstein has been a steadfast civic advocate for over three decades, supporting preservation as a member and chair of Community Board 5 in Manhattan. In 2013, Ms. Finkelstein served as chair of the Multi-Board Task Force on East Midtown, and led a coalition of community boards, preservation groups, transportation advocates, and unions, who worked with elected officials to reject the flawed rezoning proposal for Midtown East, which would have encouraged the demolition of many landmark-quality buildings.
Community Board 5 includes some of the City's finest historic buildings and spaces, from Union Square, to Grand Central Terminal, Times Square, and Columbus Circle. As chair, Ms. Finkelstein fostered preservation by writing and voting to approve multiple resolutions of landmark designations, including the interior of the Four Seasons Restaurant. In 1990 she encouraged the efforts of Common Ground to acquire and reuse the historic Times Square Hotel at a time when Community Board approval was critical, triggering funding for the project, which was a catalyst of Times Square's revitalization. Her 1997 request to create a Historic District along Central Park South anticipated the supertower issue that we face today.
Ms. Finkelstein was involved in early efforts to catalogue the archives of The New York Times, committing historic documents to microfiche. She also wrote several "Talk of the Town" columns about life in the City during the 1970s for The New Yorker. She was born in Brooklyn and attended Cornell University. She has served as an Associate Trustee of NYU Langone Medical Center and as a member of the Bellevue Association.
In its designation report, the Landmarks Commission states that this 1891 eclectic-style structure "survives as a rare example in New York City of a small rustic late-nineteenth-century suburban church." By 2010, however, the church nearly closed due to severe water damage. A failing organ revealed that a roof collapse allowed water to damage the instrument and interior plaster; the tower was severely rotted. The small congregation was overwhelmed, but committed to saving the building. With a Conservancy grant, they engaged a roofing consultant. A contractor stabilized the building and patched the roof, allowing time for fundraising.
The project soon encompassed the entire building. Asbestos and wood shingle siding were removed, exposing rotted framing, sheathing and trim. Costs grew to $150,000, a daunting number to the church's thirty members. The Conservancy provided challenge grants totaling $50,000, which the congregation met and then some, holding luncheons, cake sales, a Fun Fair, raffles, a flea market, concerts, dinners, and lawn parties.
The roof has new architectural grade shingle, copper flashing and gutters. The facades have been clad with cedar shingle and the rotted wood trim repaired. The church was painted in a historic color scheme revealed during demolition: rich brick red with forest green trim. Even with the additional costs, the project still came in on budget. Church members became so effective at fundraising that there was money left over to rebuild the front porch and paint the interior before a rededication.
St. Brigid's Church has been an East Village anchor since 1848. The Gothic Revival building, designed by Patrick Keely, is thought to be the oldest surviving Irish immigrant-built church in New York City. A decade ago, St. Brigid's was suffering from severe structural damage and was no longer safe to be occupied. The community joined with parishioners and prominent Irish-Americans and argued publicly for its reopening.
A major financial gift from an anonymous donor in 2008 financed a rehabilitation that reused remaining historic elements. Work started when engineers underpinned the foundation to halt the structural deterioration and stabilize the building, and a survey identified architectural features of the building that could be preserved, repaired or needed replacement.
The facades were reclad in custom cast-stone units that match brownstone, while the rear wall was encased in a concrete "liner wall" that stabilized it and protected the rebuilt plaster reredos at the interior. Damaged plaster ceiling vaults were rebuilt. New stained glass windows incorporate original window medallions. Interior decorative stenciling was based on photographs from the early 1900s. The new color palette articulated elements of the interior, conveying a sense of awe and joy.
In 2013, hundreds of worshipers, including descendants of original Irish parishioners, gathered as Cardinal Timothy Dolan consecrated and rededicated a renovated building that houses a combined congregation, and is once again a mainstay of its community.
City Hall is one of New York's most beautiful and significant buildings, a National Historic Landmark and City Landmark. It was designed by John McComb and Joseph Francois Mangin, from 1803 to 1812, and has been in use ever since. The building houses the Mayor, City Council, and the Public Design Commission. An avalanche of plaster falling on Members' desks in the Council Chamber triggered this interior and exterior project, the first comprehensive rehabilitation in over fifty years.
Limestone facades were cleaned and repaired, and wood windows restored, while improvements to the roof and drainage systems will prevent chronic leaking that had caused much of the interior damage. The Council Chamber was brought back to its 1903 period of significance with the plaster ceiling reconstructed, mahogany wainscot restored, and central mural conserved. A new intervention was the state-of-the-art sound system. The rotunda dome was repaired after several decorative rosettes had fallen from the ceiling, and the stability of the elegant circular stair tested and improved. Public spaces were restored, and the basement retrofitted for offices that retain exposed brownstone bearing walls.
Critical upgrades, such as new fire detection and sprinkler systems, conduit and ductwork are cleverly concealed in the historic fabric. A more efficient HVAC system was placed in a newly-excavated subcellar. Going underground led to an archaeological dig that uncovered over 20,000 Revolutionary War-era artifacts. A British bayonet, wire eyeglass frames, and numerous coins and pottery shards were catalogued and conserved for future interpretation.
In a row of six Italianate row houses in Brooklyn Heights, this corner building was once the ugly duckling, with a brick-face facade that obscured and damaged the original brownstone. It has been 100% restored, with details to match long-removed historic elements at the facade, stoop, windows, doors, and cornice, and at the distinctive wood-clad bay on the side elevation.
Almost all of the interior details had been removed in a 1940s renovation that destroyed the exterior. The stoop was removed; parlor-level front door discarded and its opening partly bricked up; the cornice was eliminated; and the bay wrapped in asphalt siding. The most damaging offense was a double-wythe brick facade that hung from the lintels, covering the brownstone completely and masking the arched windows that defined the house. The only original element remaining was a section of the wrought iron fencing.
This project meticulously recreated decorative brownstone elements, the bay window, brick chimneys, the wood cornice, and painted metalwork. The brownstone facade was applied after a custom system of 240 stainless steel rods was installed to pin back remaining historic fabric. The original window and door configuration was re-established with new arch-headed wood windows and matching wood door. A handsome cornice finishes the facade and partially conceals a minimalistic roof top addition. Dedication from the owners, architects, contractors, and craftsmen has restored an elegant brownstone to its original appearance, punctuating this historic block.
The exterior walls were all that remained at this 19th century factory when new owners adapted the space, building offices within red-brick facades that reflect over 100 years of history.
Eberhard Faber founded the pencil company that bears his name in 1861, moving to Brooklyn in the 1870s. One section of the "Addition" was part of Faber's original factory. The central section dates to 1895, when architect Theobald Engelhardt designed a German Renaissance-Revival style edifice. The last was constructed from 1898–1904 in the German Romanesque-Revival style. In the mid-1980s the building's upper stories and interiors were demolished, leaving only battered brick facades, enlivened with remnants of dentil courses, header arches at the windows, and corbelling.
In 2011, the property was purchased for the development of new office space. The ruinous look of the building fascinated the new owners. The project had to address issues of water-tightness and stability, maintain the essence of the historic property, and balance the pragmatic needs of a modern intervention. Layers of history were preserved, from original brick and mortar to the contemporary graffiti, keeping anachronistic masonry repairs and spalled face-brick that reflect passing time.
The reuse of the Engelhardt Addition is a vital contribution to Greenpoint's renaissance. As newer companies migrate to this neighborhood, projects such as this unusual restoration will encourage rehabilitations that pay attention to historical accuracy, connecting Brooklyn's industrial heritage to its innovative future.
Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark, is New York's first pastoral cemetery and its first great work of landscape design. Starting in 1838, it established the pattern of open-air movement in a planned landscape that inspired Central Park and its successors. The circa-1876 Caretaker's Residence and Visitor's Cottage at the Fort Hamilton Parkway entrance were designed by Richard Upjohn & Sons, the same architects as the landmark Gothic entry gate at the main entrance.
Restoration work included new pitched slate roofs and copper drainage system, woodwork restoration, and painting at dormers, porches and original wood windows. A key feature of the Residence and Visitor's Cottage is the cast iron cresting that decorates each pitched roof ridge. Only a small portion of the original remained; using the few remaining pieces, and working with a cast iron fabricator, the configuration of each unique section of cresting was reproduced.
Another challenge was to replicate the widow's walk atop the Residence main tower. Dating to at least the 1920s, the widow's walk featured exuberant corner finials that echoed the ivy motif found in the cresting. Based on original photographs, the lacy design of the railing was recreated using modern laser cutting from sheets of steel.
Green-Wood has long been a model for preservation of historic cemeteries in the care of its picturesque buildings, monuments, markers, and landscape. Restoration of these gatehouse buildings continues in that fine tradition.
The building features limestone facades, bronze and glass storefronts, decorative bronze cresting, and niches displaying four life-sized marble statues created by sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder of popular actresses, representing artistic disciplines: Ethel Barrymore as Ophelia (drama), Marilyn Miller as Sunny (comedy), Rosa Ponselle as Norma (opera), and Mary Pickford as Little Lord Fauntleroy (film).
Following the departure of the Shoe Salon in 1972, the building was leased and underwent several insensitive alterations and years of deterioration. Now new owners have completed a restoration that returns the glamorous, unique I. Miller Building to its place of prominence, with cleaned limestone, repaired terra cotta trim and marble cornice, new storefronts that match the historic, and best of all, reinstallation of the famous bronze lettered signs and restoration of the marble statues. The use of materials such as shimmering marble dust, custom metallic bronze paint, and Italian marble allows the building to stand out once again among sometimes flashier neighbors in the heart of Times Square.
The Beaux-Arts facades of the Langham create a handsome presence along Central Park West, but the building's distinctive terra cotta cladding was severely deteriorated. The 13-story apartment building was completed in 1907 to the designs of Clinton & Russell Architects. Early tenants included the Bloomingdale and Saks families. Along with neighbors the Dakota and San Remo, the Langham is part of an iconic image along the Park's edge.
A previous project to restore the slate mansard roof received a Lucy in 2000. In the years since, inspections revealed that the original terra cotta ashlar blocks of the facades were failing at a rapid rate. Over 10,000 terra cotta units in 300 shapes were replaced in a custom color scheme that recaptured the historic variations which older manufacturing techniques created. The terra cotta decorative cornice and faux balustrade detailing were also replaced.
Taking the opportunity to complete a comprehensive restoration, the scope was expanded to include paint removal and repair of the limestone facades, restoration of cast iron, and the reconstruction of the top two floors of the distinctive round terra cotta chimneys. The metal and glass entrance canopy was dismantled and restored with new gold leaf and new glazing similar to the original reeded glass, based on a long-concealed fragment. The canopy was completed with the reintroduction of a lost egg-and-dart decoration, based on historic photographs. This grand building has been made even better than before.
The Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library is significant not only for its design and use of vibrant polychrome materials, but as one of the country's earliest adaptive re-use projects—a transformative event in the preservation movement. The High Victorian Gothic structure opened as the Third Judicial District Courthouse in 1877. When the closed courthouse was slated for demolition in 1958, preservationists orchestrated a successful campaign to convert it into a library. Architect Giorgio Cavaglieri restored the exterior and redesigned the interior. The library opened in 1967 but facing budget cutbacks in 1974, it nearly closed. Once again there was a public outcry and the decision was rescinded one month later.
Following several years of delay with a gloomy sidewalk bridge in place, this restoration improved many failing building elements. Crumbling sandstone ornamentation was re-carved in place by artisans, and replacement pieces were sculpted from the original Ohio sandstone. Ashlar stones were cleaned and repaired; the deep-red Philadelphia brick was repointed. The main tower's finial was secured and tied back to the tower substructure, using an elaborate pipe scaffolding erected around the top of the tower. Missing and broken slates were replaced at the slate roof and a new copper drainage system installed. And elements of the 1960s adaptation, such as the aluminum frame windows were preserved to represent that significant phase of the building's history.
Carrère and Hastings' one-room Carnegie Library was a charmer, but the Stapleton neighborhood had long outgrown this Neo-Classical Revival cottage. Now residents have the best of the old and new, with a restored historic library and a glass-and-wood addition that respects the original building's character and more than triples the usable space.
The red-brick facades and limestone trim of the 1907 library were restored. The tall, arched, triple-sash wood windows rebuilt and re-glazed with laminated, UV inhibiting glass. The projecting pediment, once covered in frayed painted canvas, was rebuilt. Historic photographs guided a brighter color scheme for the exterior, more in keeping with the original design.
The new structure expands the library from 2,225 square feet to a total of 12,700 square feet. It appears to be a discrete and complete entity but allows for internal circulation between the two sections. The Carnegie Library is now the Children's Reading Room. Its oak bookcases, trim, and casing were stripped and refinished and a new oak floor matches the original, long hidden under layers of flooring and carpet.
While the two buildings are visually distinct, they form a balanced union that follows the New York Public Library's goals: to be a center for the community, and to balance a respect for preservation with the incorporation of new technologies and resources into its collections.
The Board of Officers Room is the most recently restored interior within the National Historic Landmark Armory. The 1861 Armory was built by the National Guard's Seventh Regiment. Called the "Silk Stocking" regiment, it included prominent New York families such as the Vanderbilts, Van Rensselaers, Roosevelts, Livingstons and Harrimans. Built as both a military facility and a social club, the Armory's reception rooms were designed by well-known designers and artists, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, and the Herter Brothers.
After a long period of neglect and decay, the Park Avenue Armory Conservancy began to revitalize the building in 2006, securing and restoring the red-brick facade, and re-imagining the space as a cultural and performance venue. The Herter Brothers Board of Officers Room had suffered extensive water damage, with altered woodwork, inoperable doors and windows, and beautiful decoration obscured beneath layers of paint and unsympathetic repairs.
Now the rich colors and exquisite woodwork shimmer again, but the room does not replicate the original. Deferring to a history steeped in alterations, layers of change were carefully considered, and some retained. Delicate wall and ceiling finishes have subtle markers showing where original fabric meets rehabilitated elements, while later lighting fixtures have been refitted with new glass globes. Upgraded systems—lighting, acoustics, A.V. and theatrical installations—were carefully installed within the prized Aesthetic Movement interiors. The result is an intervention that balances the long-term preservation of the room and its vibrant reuse.
Pier A was a bastion of New York's bustling 19th century harbor that is now fit for 21st century uses. The former fireboat station was built in 1886 to serve the Department of Docks and Harbor Police. From the northern edge of historic Battery Park, overlooking the Hudson River, it provided a key vantage point to oversee development along shoreline and chaotic traffic in the harbor. Unoccupied since the departure of the FDNY Marine Division in 1970, Pier A became an eyesore that frustrated developers and residents, who saw the underutilized potential of this picturesque waterfront resource.
This comprehensive restoration has stabilized the building's internal structure, rehabilitated its exterior envelope, and installed all new systems. Historical elements, including wood stair railings, iron structural brackets, doors and door hardware, and ornamental metal sheeting were salvaged for re-use, as were materials left from a failed restoration campaign in the 1990s. Pier A's spaces have been modernized throughout with improved egress that allows for public assembly on all levels, respecting the original interior wall layouts. A new restaurant is expected to open in 2014.
The project has benefits beyond the building itself: it has created better pedestrian access to the water, established a sense of place connecting adjacent parkland, and maximized potential of the southern end of Battery Park City. The stunning result will return this charming building to active use, engaging New Yorkers and tourists along the Hudson shore.
The row of five stately Greek Revival structures at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center was one of the Landmarks Commission's first designations in 1965. Sailors' Snug Harbor, an 83‑acre site was built as a retirement community for sailors. Now a cultural complex housing multiple institutions, the site is composed of Greek Revival, Italianate, Victorian and Beaux Arts buildings set among a range of landscapes. However, the landmark row nearly lost its eastern end, as severe deterioration threatened Building E's viability.
In the late 1990s, a fire damaged several rooms and destroyed wood windows. A failed roofing and drainage system led to deterioration of the cornice, brickwork, wood windows and interior finishes. By 2007, the situation was dire. The City engaged a team of specialists to examine the building and develop a restoration plan. Research, a conditions evaluation, and paint analysis determined that although the deterioration was significant, much of Building E's historic fabric was intact and could be restored.
Construction included new copper roofing and decorative rooftop ventilators. The portico ceiling was re-plastered and granite portico steps reset. The marble, granite, and brick facades were cleaned, repaired, and repointed. Cast iron window pediments, the sheet metal and wood cornice, and wood doors and windows were restored. At the interior, water- and fire-damaged wood floor joists and flooring were replaced. Building E's transformation was completed with exterior painting that matches the historic yellow and white color scheme.
Completed in 1875, the Williamsburgh Savings Bank is an icon of an early New York neighborhood in its prime. The Beaux Arts Classical building by architect George B. Post, with Aesthetic-styled interiors by Peter B. Wight, shaped architectural trends throughout the nation.
After decades of banking use, the WSB suffered from neglect and inappropriate alterations. This project restored the structure and its stunning decorative elements, while transforming it for new uses. Work began with research to determine original finishes and materials, and missing details. Non-historic modifications were removed and unsympathetic repairs corrected.
The granite facade was cleaned and repointed, and the historic palette guided new painting at the dome, where the monumental clock works again. The original oculus, discovered in the cellar, replaced skylight covers from World War II. Wooden double-hung sash replicating the original replaced inappropriate WWII-era steel hopper windows. At the interior, 1980s-era partitions were removed. The original polychrome mural fresco was conserved. Etched-glass dome drum windows, wooden doors and cabinetry, mosaic marble and encaustic tile floors were all restored or recreated. Fluorescent lighting was replaced by period-appropriate gaslight sconces and chandeliers.
Systems were updated to meet modern codes without compromising historic features and spaces. Now an events and meeting space, the Williamsburgh Savings Bank dazzles with color, light, and beauty, its historic features ready for discovery by a new audience.
The New York Landmarks Conservancy has been a leader in preserving, restoring, and reusing New York City's architectural legacy for over 40 years. The Moses Awards are the Conservancy's highest honors for outstanding preservation work. Named in honor of dedicated New Yorker Lucy G. Moses, the annual Awards have recognized hundreds of leaders, organizations, architects, crafts people and building owners for their extraordinary contributions in preserving our City.
Preservation Awards are given to projects that demonstrate excellence in the restoration, preservation, or adaptive use of historic buildings, streetscapes, and landscapes that preserve commercial, residential, institutional, religious, and public buildings. The Conservancy is grateful for the generous support of the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund.
The Preservation Leadership Award is bestowed upon an outstanding individual in the field of historic preservation. Past honorees include Ruth Abram, Wint Aldrich, Tony Avella, Kent Barwick, John Belle, Simon Breines, Giorgio Cavaglieri, Kenneth Cobb, Stanley Cogan, Joan K. Davidson, Franny Eberhart, Kenneth K. Fisher, James Marston Fitch, Margot Gayle, Anne Van Ingen, Judith Kaye, Sarah Bradford Landau, Helen M. Marshall, Joan Maynard, Evelyn and Everett Ortner, Nancy and Otis Pratt Pearsall, Adolf K. Placzek, Jan Hird Pokorny, Henry Hope Reed, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Vincent Scully and Robert Silman.


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Spike Gerrell, Alex Bellos
Spike Gerrell, Alex Bellos - Author
Alex Bellos writes about maths for the Guardian and is the author of two works of popular science, Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Alex Through the Looking-Glass as well as the mathematical colouring book Snowflake Seashell Star. He has also written Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life, which was shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year, and he ghost-wrote Pele's bestselling autobiography. He lives in West London. Ben Lyttleton is a journalist, broadcaster and football consultant. He is the author of Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Perfect Penalty and his football articles have been published in over 20 countries. He is a director of Soccernomics, a football consultancy that helps teams improve their performance. He lives in North London. Spike Gerrell is a prolific cartoonist known for his spiky-nosed illustrations. His work has been published in the New Scientist, Independent, Times Educational Supplement and Guardian. Spike lives in North London.
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Football School Season 2: Where Football Explains the World
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Author: Spike Gerrell, Alex Bellos Illustrator: Ben Lyttleton Format: Paperback Release Date: 03/05/2018
This clever, hugely entertaining book is further proof, if it were needed, that football is the best game in the world, and that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, you can't learn from studying it. Authors Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton teach physics through looking at the shape of the ball and how it is constructed; geography by examining pitches; business studies via the transfer market (of course); and psychology by studying managerial techniques (from Klopp to Fergie). They also include a section on 'after school activities', chapters specifically designed to help you improve your health and concentration skills. Even if you don't much like football, you'll be inspired and informed by this book, and it's a real winner. ~ Andrea Reece
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Author: Alex Bellos, Ben Lyttleton Illustrator: Spike Gerrell Format: Hardback Release Date: 07/09/2017
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Chris Harris Children & Family
Chris Harris Married Life Explored
Who is Chris Harris, Top Gear presenter, wife? Tune in to find out.
Chris Harris is a racing driver and automotive journalist. Having presented various YouTube and Television Series, he has established himself as an excellent TV Presenter. Likewise, Harris has also worked as a writer and editor for companies such as Evo. He has even been a part of Autocar and Jalopnik.
With thousands of subscribers on his YouTube channel, Chris Harris on Cars, he is also a social media star. The content in his channel is mostly about automotive reviews. However, he doesn't seem to be that active on his channel nowadays.
Additionally, Chris is currently working as a presenter in Top Gear.
In this article, you will get an insight into Chris Harris' life. Let us learn about the TV Presenter in detail.
Chris Harris' wife stays out of the spotlight.
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No details about her have surfaced on the internet as of today. Apart from knowing that Chris' relationship status is married, nothing about Chris' wife is known. Even her name is a mystery.
As she has rarely made any public appearances, not much can be said about her. However, we will update you with the information as soon as it becomes available.
Since Chris has not dedicated his social media posts for his other half, learning about his wife has become an impossible task. He is active on Instagram as @harrismonkey, and his username is a reference to his nickname 'Monkey.' Likewise, he is an Instagram star with 732k followers on his account.
We might not have all the details regarding Chris' wife, but we do know that he lives in the hearts of his admirers.
Chris Harris has three children. Unfortunately, their names and ages have not been made public.
Talking about his family, Chris's mother is Angela Wilding and his father is Ian Harris. While his mother is an autocross racer, his father is an accountant.
Harris was born to his parents in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England in 1975. Furthermore, the 46-year-old automotive journalist attended Clifton College.
Chris Harris has kept his married life under the wraps. News about how he met his wife is a secret.
As the TV Presenter keeps his personal details out of the public eye, not much can be said about his marital life.


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Thought I would share it!
Super stoked for Last Guardian.
I closed my eyes to invision this as a bonus unlockable track as i finished both Masterpieces.
❤'d, added to one of my playlists 7 Reposted.
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EURO 2021 > Sport news > Football – Wolves part company with McCarthy
Football – Wolves part company with McCarthy
Wolves have terminated Mick McCarthy's contract following the humiliating 5-1 home defeat to Black Country rivals West Brom on Sunday.
McCarthy and his team were booed off the pitch after the loss and the club decided it was time for a change at the top, with Neil Warnock at 10/1 with bookmaker to succeed the former Republic of Ireland boss. Steve Bruce and Alan Curbishley are joint 4/1 favourites to take the hot seat.
A club statement confirmed: "The Board took the difficult decision to terminate Mick's contract after a run of form which has seen Wolves pick up only 14 points in the last 22 League games, after a promising start to the season, culminating in yesterday's 5-1 defeat at home to West Bromwich Albion."
McCarthy took up the reins at Molineux in July 2006 and oversaw promotion to the Premier League in 2009.
Soccer – Wolves vow to launch Milijas appeal
Football – Kean remains defiant
Football – Villas-Boas confident of progress
Soccer – Wenger keen to protect Van Persie
Football – Hernandez pens new Old Trafford deal


– Former WWE Diva Candice Michelle noted on her Twitter account this week that she's taking breastfeeding classes. Candice recently announced she will be giving birth to a baby girl in May.
– WWE announced on Twitter that next week, the WWE website will be releasing news about the next WWE theme music CD, WWE: The Music Volume 10.
– ECW General Manager Tiffany and WWE Intercontinental Champion Drew McIntyre are officially engaged and planning to be married in May.


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## Introductory

Welcome to the Undertailor documentation, the official documentation site for the Undertailor project.

Undertailor is a brand new engine built specifically for the creation of Undertale-styled fangames, written in Java using the libGDX framework. The engine reads Lua scripts to create games, within maps created in Tiled.

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TODO this

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Dr Chris joined Robina Town Medical Centre in 2012. Completing a degree in Biochemistry graduating with first class honours, Dr Del Mar worked at various hospitals in London prior to moving to Mackay in 1977. He was a full-time GP in Mackay for ten years, and then joined the University of QLD, becoming Professor of General Practice. Dr Chris is an internationally recognised researcher and academic. He is currently Professor of Public Health at Bond University. Dr Chris' research interests include respiratory infections and primary care of skin cancer.


I'm trying to open an .exe on a Mac via wine. When I open with wine and click go nothing happens - the file doesn't even open and there's no errors. I tried opening it via cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/foldername/filename.exe and wine filename.exe in Terminal I get the error down below.
This is the first and only .exe I've encountered a problem with. I've used wine with TVPaint and NotePad and have had no problems at all. The .exe operates smoothly on a normal Windows computer so I don't think it's the file itself.
0029:err:hid_report:process_hid_report Device reports coming in too fast, last report not read yet!
MacBook-Air-2:Program Files MyName$ 0029:err:hid_report:process_hid_report Device reports coming in too fast, last report not read yet!
"cd" means Change Directory, the argument has to be a folder.
That is a clear error. The location doesn't exists.
If there are weird characters in the name, use single quotes around the name.


Ace Roofing and Construction is a premier Northglenn roofing contractor. In 2002 Ace Roofing and Construction was established as the roofing division of Western Maintenance and Construction a 10M company. With more than 1000 satisfied customers Ace Roofing has a proven track record as a dependable Northglenn roofing contractor. The company specializes in all types of roofing from residential roofing to commercial roofing. Ace has many long standing contracts with building owners to preserve property value and integrity. Ace Roofing and Construction provides a premium roofing experience and industry leading product integrity.
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Leading the industry as Northglenn roofing contractors. Ace Roofing and Construction is an endorsed member of the National Roofing Contractors Association and holds an A+ BBB rating.
Certified to be an elite roofing installer. We can be trusted to deliver quality as your Northglenn roofing contractor.
The proposed Jefferson Parkway is proceeding towards becoming a reality, and one Jeffco municipality just provided significant funding to help it along.
Northglenn is a Home Rule Municipality in Adams and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census the city's population was 35,789.


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 ein ehemaliges Theater in Berlin, siehe Hansa-Theater (Berlin)
 ein Varietétheater in Hamburg, siehe Hansa-Theater (Hamburg)
 ein Theater in Dortmund-Hörde, siehe Hansa Theater Hörde
 ein ehemaliges Theater in Lübeck, siehe Hansa-Theater (Lübeck)


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Joseph (Joe) Mercer, the son of Joseph Powell Mercer, who played for Nottingham Forest and Tranmere Rovers, was born in Ellesmere Port on 9th August 1914.
Mercer played football in the streets of Ellesmere Port: "Back alley football is only a substitute for the real thing. We always have to right for bigger and better playing fields for children. But, all the same, the back alleys did hold some valuable lessons of their own. For instance, playing with a small ball. If you could control a small hall with certainty, you found later that bringing down a normal ball came more easily. It was wonderful training for the eye."
Mercer and his friend, Stan Cullis, both played football forCambridge Road School. Both showed outstanding ability and were selected to play for Ellesmore Port Boys against Chester Boys in January 1929. Two years later Mercer signed for Everton.
Joe Mercer made his debut at wing-half in April 1933. The team at that time included Dixie Dean, Cliff Britton, Ted Sager, Albert Geldard, and Jack Jones.
In December, 1936, Everton signed Tommy Lawton for a fee of £6,500. It was a record fee for a teenager. One of the attractions of the deal was that Lawton now had the opportunity to play with Dixie Dean. When they met for the first-time, Dean put his arm round Lawton and said: "I know you've come here to take my place. Anything I can do to help you I will. I promise, anything at all." Dean was thirty years old and after suffering several serious injuries, he knew that there was not much time left for him at the top. Dean kept his promise and spent a lot of time with Lawton on the training field.
Six weeks after joining the club, Tommy Lawton was brought into the first team for an away match against Wolverhampton Wanderers, as Dixie Dean was rested prior to a fifth round FA Cup tie with Tottenham Hotspur. Lawton found it difficult playing against the England centre-half, Stan Cullis, however, he did score a goal 15 minutes from the end.
Everton drew the FA Cup tie with Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 and it was decided to play Tommy Lawton alongside Dixie Dean in the replay. In the second minute Lawton scored with a tremendous shot from outside the penalty area. Dean turned to Mercer and said: "Well, that's it then. That's the swan song. That's the end of it." Dean realised that it would not be long before this talented player took his place in the side.
At the beginning of the 1937-38 season Tommy Lawton played at inside-right and Dixie Dean at centre-forward. The pairing did not work and Everton failed to win a game when they two men played together. On 8th September 1937, Dean was dropped and Lawton replaced him as centre-forward to play against Manchester City. Lawton scored in the 4-1 victory and Dean only played in two more games for Everton before leaving the club.
Everton finished in 14th place in the 1937-38 season with Tommy Lawton ending up as the club's top marksman with 28 goals in 39 league games. He was also the top scorer in the whole of the First Division. This was an amazing achievement for someone who was only 18 years old.
Mercer, who was only 24 years old, had developed into a great player for Everton. Tony Matthews in Who's Who of Everton points out that Mercer "was an outstanding wing-half with a biting tackle and a never-say-die attitude." Mercer won his first international cap for England against Northern Ireland on 16th November 1938. The England team that day also included Eddie Hapgood, Stan Cullis, Willie Hall, Tommy Lawton and Stanley Matthews. England won the game 7-0.
In the 1938-39 season Everton won the First Division league title, by beating Wolverhampton Wanderers by four points. Tommy Lawton was the club's top marksmen with 34 goals in 38 games.
Everton in 1939. Back row, left to right: Jock Thomson, Gordon Watson, Billy Cook,
Ted Sager, Joe Mercer, Norman Greenhalgh, John Jones. Front row: Torry Gillick,
Stan Bentham, Tommy Lawton, Alex Stevenson, Wally Boyes and Jimmy Caskie.
Joe Mercer won his fifth and last international cap for England against Romania on 16th November 1938. The England team that day also included Stan Cullis, Tommy Lawton, Frank Broome, Wilf Copping, Len Goulden and George Male. England won the game 2-0.
Tommy Lawton later commented: "Joe Mercer was a tremendous tackler, timing his interventions perfectly, and he loved nothing more than to bring the ball up and take part in an attack with his forwards. He had a deceptive speed, but then Joe was a deceptive player, probably due to those bandy legs of his."
The outbreak of the Second World War brought a halt to the Football League. The British Army invited some of the best footballers to became Physical Training instructors at Aldershot. This included Joe Mercer. Other top players at Aldershot included Wally Boyes, Cliff Britton, Matt Busby, Don Welsh, Billy Cook, Arthur Cunliffe, Archie Macaulay, Norman Corbett, Tommy Lawton, Bert Sproston and Eric Stephenson.
England's half-back line of Cliff Britton, Stan Cullis and
Joe Mercer played for Aldershot during the war.
Mercer returned to Everton after the war and stayed at the club until being transferred to Arsenal for a fee of £8,000 in November 1946. It was an excellent signing. According to Jeff Harris, the author of Arsenal Who's Who (1995): "Joe Mercer was one of the most influential players Arsenal have ever had." At the time the club was at the bottom of the First Division.
Mercer was appointed captain of the side and led Arsenal to the 1947-48 league championship and the 1950 FA Cup victory over Liverpool. That year he was voted by the Football Writers' Association (FWA) as their Footballer of the Year Award. Mercer won his third championship medal when Arsenal finished the 1952-53 season beating Preston North End on goal average.
Len Shackleton argued he was convinced that "Joe Mercer, as an Arsenal player between his thirtieth and fortieth birthdays, was a far better wing-half than in his younger days as an Everton and England player. When Joe Mercer discovered his legs would not allow him to run all over the field, when his physical condition hampered him, when he played almost entirely in his own half of the field, he was great. The service of wonderful passes that flowed from this spindly bow-legged genius was, I am certain, fifty per cent of the reason for Arsenal's post-war successes."
Joe Mercer at Arsenal
On 10th April 1954 Mercer played in a league game again Liverpool. Tommy Lawton, who had recently joined Arsenal, later described how he heard the "sickening crack" when Mercer collided with Joe Wade. His right-leg was fractured in two places and he was forced to retire from playing football.
Mercer ran a grocery shop in the Wirral before becoming manager of Sheffield United in August 1955. He moved to Aston Villa and in 1960 helped the club win the Second Division title. He resigned in July 1964 and the following year he joined Manchester City. He appointed Malcolm Allison as his assistant in 1966 and over the next few years he had great success winning the Second Division (1967), First Division (1968), the FA Cup (1969), League Cup (1970) and European Cup-Winners Cup (1971). In 1974 Mercer was the temporary manager of the England national side.
Joe Mercer died in Liverpool in August 1990.
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(1) Tommy Lawton, My Twenty Years of Soccer (1955)
Joe Mercer was a tremendous tackler, timing his interventions perfectly, and he loved nothing more than to bring the ball up and take part in an attack with his forwards. He had a deceptive speed, but then Joe was a deceptive player, probably due to those bandy legs of his.
This spindly-legged lad from Ellesmere Port is a football maniac. Even a bad break of his right leg failed to knock Joe out of the game. As soon as he could walk again - and it was a serious injury which kept him laid up for six months - Joe was out in track suit and training shoes. Yes, he wanted to get fit again so that he could take part in the odd game.
When you asked him whether he was finished with the game, Joe would tell you, "Not likely, but I suppose it has finished with me."
Joe has always been a great student of the game. He was even learning at the time he suffered the injury which necessitated his being carried from the Highbury ground on a stretcher, while the horrified spectators stood in silence.
He simply strode through a game. He had a thirst for the ball that could never be satisfied, and once he won possession - and they don't tackle any better than Joe Mercer - he would sweep forward and use the ball as it should be used. A short pass, a long pass, a high pass, a low pass. They all came the same to Joe Mercer, a great player, a great student of the game, and a great sportsman.
(2) Matt Busby, Soccer at the Top (1973)
Joe Mercer was an Everton player and I by now a Liverpool player. His name was Joe Mercer and he wasn't very happy. He was frustrated. He couldn't get into the first team. It was one of those spells all players suffer from sometime in their career, but it was unlike Joe Mercer to be miserable. Even by then I had found myself to be one of those people who apparently have a ready shoulder to cry on, although not many Everton players cry on the shoulders of Liverpool players. "I think I should be in the first team, Matt," he said. "I would like your advice." So I said: "The only thing to do is to force yourself into the first team. Get down to it, show them you have so much ability that they can't keep you out." He did, and he became an England wing-half.
I came across him later in the Army in Greece and Italy, where as "manager" of the Army team I put him in charge of rations, in which he was as good a provider of food as he was of telling passes. Next I met him when he was captain of England and I of Scotland, and there was never a craftier opponent. By the time he had moved from Everton to Arsenal I was manager of Manchester United. Only a broken leg ended his playing career at the venerable age of forty.
(3) Len Shackleton, Crown Prince of Soccer (1955)
I am convinced that Joe Mercer, as an Arsenal player between his thirtieth and fortieth birthdays, was a far better wing-half than in his younger days as an Everton and England player. When Joe Mercer discovered his legs would not allow him to run all over the field, when his physical condition hampered him, when he played almost entirely in his own half of the field, he was great. The service of wonderful passes that flowed from this spindly bow-legged genius was, I am certain, fifty per cent of the reason for Arsenal's post-war successes. How Joe was missed when a broken leg ended his long, illustrious career.
(4) Stan Mortensen, Football is My Game (1949)
Joe Mercer, of Everton and Arsenal. I think even above his half-back play I would place his captaincy-easily the best I have known. He has some trick of personality, perhaps connected with that broad grin of his, which made you pull out every little bit of effort that was packed within you. He has a level head, too. Sometimes I have seen a player shaping for a first-class row with a referee, but a couple of quiet words from Joe has soon put an end to that nonsense. He watches over his team-mates like a shepherd, always on hand. Those of us who played alongside him during and just after the war, learned a lot in the shape of on-the-field manners.
With his long, bow-shaped legs (we used to call him the Spiral Staircase), he seemed to be able to "steal an extra half-yard to reach a ball apparently well out of playing distance. Like Matt Busby, the present Manchester United manager, he never forgets a player. Once he has seen him, lie recalls his methods, his mannerisms, his likes and dislikes, and can therefore adopt strategy to meet any given set of opponents.
In 1947-8, Arsenal had a curiously mixed team. Some of the players were past their best, the forward line was never really settled - and yet they won the League championship with points to spare. I don't think they could have done it but for Joe.
Who's Who of Arsenal
Who's Who of Everton


I'm afraid I have a little confession to make. Since my last day of work at Ancestry on 11-July-2008, I have been out of town on vacation. I haven't been checking my e-mail. I haven't been posting any blog articles. All the articles you've been reading were writen before I left and scheduled for posting.
Unfortunately, my absence means that you didn't get an NFS rollout update last week and you won't get another this week, either. My tables and maps have gone unchanged as well, which never happens. Usually you get daily updates to the tables. Maybe Renee can post something after today's rollout and update you.
I'll be back to start work on 28-July-2008. I'll be in touch as soon as I can after that. And in the meantime, I've got some good stuff queued up for you each weekday for the remainder of this week.
You didn't miss anything today "Insider" because there were no new temples to go live due to the 24th holiday this week.
I did post on my blog the list for the next two weeks of temples scheduled to go live.
Thanks for filling in in my absence.


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A Tree Gets 14 Million Likes On Instagram
Watch out "egg" and Kylie Jenner
In honor of Earth Day on Monday, sustainable apparel brand tentree posted an image of this tree. They pledged to plant a tree for every 10 likes the post received- possibly underestimating the number of responses it would ultimately get. Within 24 hours the post had been overly shared on people's stories and had been liked by over five million users.
They wrote in an updated post after the initial unexpected surge, "We are absolutely blown away by the response to our Earth Week campaign starting on #EarthDay, and cannot thank the social media universe enough for helping us reach our initial goal of 500,000 trees in UNDER 24 HOURS!"
To put into perspective just how many likes that is, as of now it is currently the 15th most liked picture on the app. Coming before a selfie of Selena Gomez and after a picture of Cristiano Ronaldo's birth announcement of his son. For it to have made the list and top 20 is as unlikely as it sounds, which is why wondering if the post will keep climbing shouldn't be ruled out. If by Friday the tree image gets 20 million likes, tentree has promised to plant another 500,000 trees, which put it in second place behind the photo of the egg that pushed Kylie Jenner off the top. Stranger things have happened (like an egg getting 53.3 million likes).
Credits: Image Courtesy of Instagram
Premiere: Winona Oak Debuts With "He Don't Love Me"
Oak's anticipated debut track is paired with pulsating visuals.


I think my bathroom scales must be broken. I weighed 283 this morning, and two days ago I weighed 277. But I did overeat again yesterday afternoon and evening. I really have to cut that out.
Jake and I went running together this morning. I'm on Week 1, Day 3 of the Couch-to-5k running plan, so I did a five minute warm-up walk followed by 20 minutes of alternating 60 seconds of running with 90 seconds of walking. It was still dark out so I had to keep turning on the light on my watch to check the time. My hands hurt today after running too, but this time it was because they were cold. It was 40 degrees and windy, yet I still somehow managed to get sweaty.
In other news, I've been shopping for a Linux netbook that I'm hoping to get as a birthday present next month. So far, I'm enamored of this Asus Eee PC that I found on Amazon. For some reason, the white one is a lot cheaper than the black one. Hell, I'd take a pink one if I thought I could save money on it. I had been looking at the Asus since I saw one at the Target a few weeks ago, but Target is overpriced. They want $299 for the version with the 7″ screen and the 4 gig flash drive. The one I found on Amazon is a much better deal.


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Do you intend to die: Lauren Berlant on intimacy after suicide
Lauren Berlant
I) January 10, 2009
In the last two months, two people I know killed themselves; in the past few weeks, many people I don't know were reported to have killed themselves. Time to collect the bodies, I thought. I had the urge to create symptoms from all of them, to write a book that would make a pattern about what's impossible in contemporary life. That's how I manage things: I see a pattern, I ask why, then I find out what happened, describe, and conceptualize, to relieve myself of the feeling of too-closeness that makes certain stories and objects a mute-making threat and to produce scaffolds that can hold the event just so, so we (ok, I) can see it, walk around it, and move it somewhere else collectively. But it's not right to rush to take these deaths on pretending that their likeness is substantive just because they happened at the same time. We don't know enough about this time yet; what we know is what people do to continue keeping on, when they can.
The fiduciary suicides were events in the world because they're deemed auto-exemplary, self-evident illustrations of the unfolding meaning of the economic crisis that is becoming an atmosphere of social precarity that no one can disavow. Some people with power or fantasies of it, once covered in shame, cannot face the world with the face they have now lost. My personal suicides, on the other hand, might not have been examples of anything globally dramatic in the current historical moment – who knows? Anyone can be made exemplary, while also being singular beings trapped in life. Artists, as it happens, their precarity was affective more than economic, organized by a feeling of drowning in the impossibility of consequences. In their lives joys were brief interruptions from the disorganization of being that constant panic produces. No way out. That's what they all shared: not the end of optimism, but no end in sight of a pattern of being overwhelmed. No future horizon of flatness or self-forgetting. They were there with their noise. They lost the capacity for relief from it in absorption, coasting, and numbness.
That much I know. They couldn't detach from their situations. They couldn't tread water. They could not shut their minds up or down. They gave out. I don't want to numb with the details. This is a problem of method, ethics, storytelling.
II) February 17, 2009
I was by myself when I fell, but I wasn't alone.
— (Slogan for UK Telecare)
The question is about detaching. We are thinking about a particular case of the intention to die, that of suicide. There are other intentions related to risky addictive modes of physically self-undermining behavior that might also be characterized as part of the set of practices associated with intending to die (and writing in these tiny sixteenth notes makes me sound like a David Foster Wallace character, which scares me a little), but I think risky self-medicating behavior is as likely to be evidence of the drive to stay in proximity to life, to feeling, and to being present as it is to being dissociated and leaning toward the ultimate detachment. But one can't tell from the outside whether a given form of self-interruption moves toward life or its dissipation, for a little perturbation can mount a grand defense: a shift in the tonalities of dissociation can pretend to be a shift from absence or numbness to presence, while being actually a shift between dissociative modes.
My wonderful student Anil told me lots about this before he killed himself a few years ago. According to him, his warmth and presence intellectually, pedagogically, and intimately were just as detached as were his depressive recessions from life; according to him, each style of attachment-defense provided pleasure and armor of its own sort. I think he thought he would go on forever like this, living from a distance that often felt like too-closeness. But what he had no language for, and what I have some research language for developing now, is why those attachment-defenses might not have kept him in life, despite seeming both enervating and animating.
The work of being who you are, even if you take it for granted, depletes energy and produces those forms of lateral agency that your body (your brain, your nervous system) requires when you take breaks every few minutes, are incapable of more attention, devise ways of disappearing or being unreliable, and seek out opportunities for absorption that provide vacations from the will that is solicited in the guise of "your sovereignty". Thinking about suicide, the consequences of exhausted practical sovereignty are not about how people live, but how they no longer can do the work of gathering themselves up for one more round of being who they are, given everything. The financial suicides are another matter, I think.
III) March 21, 2009
The Campaign Against Living Miserably
Every day digs me deeper into the bumpy surface of this situation. Today, just for fun, I was reading a wonderful Open Democracy post on the women of Greenham Common and then the post turned suddenly from a discussion of women's emancipated political agency to a discussion of the global suicide epidemic among young men. The interviewee, an activist called Jane Powell, is now working in Manchester UK with a project called – heartbreakingly, really – "The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)".
"The Campaign Against Living Miserably" is aimed toward a – a what, a population, a world, a loose collection, a not-yet-formed intimate public – of young men who are alike not in their social location but in their styles of giving out so fast and so hard.
Are you male? Are you living miserably?
Abuse : Alcohol : Drug Problems : Bereavement : Bullying : Divorce and Separation : Eating Disorders : Exam Stress : Financial Stress : Homelessness : Impotence : Masturbation : Mental Health : Racism : Relationships : Self Harm : Sexuality Suicide : Terminal illness Work Issues : In care?
Drinking, doing serious drugs, hustling for life, they embody in extremity the paradox I talk about in my article "Slow Death": self-medicating activity that tilts toward self-destruction amidst overwhelming life. It can be seen as a refusal or embrace of sovereignty. But it can also be seen as a will to stay attached to a sense of unimpeded aliveness that can't be assimilated easily to ordinary or even physically possible projects of life building. The "Campaign Against Living Miserably" shows us how rapidly whole concepts of having and building a life can dissolve.
How much of this emergent discourse heralds the need to teach the formerly more protected economic classes how to adapt to poor people's ordinary stress? Or perhaps it manifests more simply a new deployment of popular culture's gift to the suffering: you are not alone. Each word of this piece could be linked to reportage on new precarious populations whose relation to "care of the self" tends pragmatically more toward affect management and material survival than politics, preserving something for futures, or making in the present a new affective and institutional infrastructure.
"Care" is a big buzzword in queer and feminist theory these days: in the U.S. the hope is that, rather than organizing the imaginaries of life and law around marriage and the couple form, durable relations of care could be protected so that people could make up modes of sociality that work best for them. I love the idea of getting the state out of the intimacy business by separating resource management from kinship, and therefore from sexual normativity. The idea of sanctioned social relations made by consensual practices of care rather than by law could really revolutionize the distribution of resources and legitimacy in these times of social democratic atrophy and transformed worlds of dependency and need.
At the same time, for many reasons I am bothered when "care" is defined as what happens among people face to face. It tends to assume that everyone has people and that everyone's people have sufficient resources. Because this rhetoric of care is affective as well as institutional it obscures the centrality of antagonism, alterity, ambivalence, and not-caring to the adjudication of responsibility in collective life. It represses money. It brackets exploitation. As a politics, care rhetoric obscures how difficult it will be to orchestrate a new norm of equality-in-democracy for which we would have collectively to be willing to risk status loss. This was Roosevelt's situation when Social Security was instantiated, and the tax-paying body politic's commitment even to that is deflating. It will be threatening to have contingency and precarity as the new universals, and it will be instructive to see how people adjust politically to replacing the flying carpet of the American Dream.
If you begin, as I do, where people are giving out, you see that care often does not produce optimism about living, because it feels merely palliative: people have lost their faith in adding up to something. In Cruel Optimism "adding up to something" is my definition of the good life: the whole book looks at different styles of trying hard to stay in the world where adding up still seems to happen, amidst depleted resources.
IV) March 23, 2009
We have been talking about two kinds of detachment from life: detaching from life absolutely, and also detaching from what counts as life, from a particular way of imagining adding up to something or mattering. These are only sometimes the same process. "Detaching from life absolutely" tends toward the suicidal, from the literalization of the death drive to the achievement of a negative affective state, for example in aspirations to become numb, cool, dispassionate, flat, dissociated, defeated, a machine, normotic – whatever it takes to feel invulnerable to surprise.
But giving up on a deeply sustaining idea of life as such or the good life in particular can be shattering and life-affirming at the same time. You can't know in advance whether you will want a feeling of negative liberty (freedom from) to be sustained indefinitely in the absence of maps. Stumbling around a landscape in the dark raises adrenalin that can tilt both toward thrill and threat. The economic crisis multiplies dramas of adjustment that register the cost of being in synch with crisis and out of synch too. Depression, both chemical and political, can have the same effect, producing the prisonhouse or the lightness of not caring; or the freedom or vertigo from detaching and seeing multiple horizons; or the excited scanning or dark melancholy that might saturate everywhere when desire no longer has an object to give living on a discrete shape.
But all of this description overdramatizes the state of being in the world not knowing how to live. It represses those coasting moments where one just gets by or takes things in. The numb, cool, dispassionate, flat, dissociated, defeated, normotic list above points us to the part of microadjustment that takes place as a bodily response, as proprioception, as mood, as a shadow in an episode, as coping, and not necessarily or usually in a causal chain or in consciousness or as an expressive symptom that can be read as a message. The activity of tightening and fraying the binding to life or life imaginary: these oscillations add up and subtract too. Detailing how is part of my project here.
So here's the frame-shifting story that gives this piece its name. I was to be in Melbourne last summer giving some talks, and my mother said to me, "Oh, your cousin is going to be in Australia too, maybe you can see each other!" Because I can be bratty-pedantic, I responded, "Australia's pretty big, Mom, I doubt it," but actually he was to be in Melbourne when I was.
This cousin is two or three years younger than me, but when we were growing up he seemed much much younger, partly because he was so irritatingly exuberant. We always had to perform for our families at Cousin's Clubs, and one kid after another was brought out to play the guitar, sing, or recite, and early on he became an amazing magician and thrilled the family, those "children of all ages" around whom I "loitered with intent to mope" until I left home for good.
So I didn't like him that much, because you couldn't have a real conversation with him: he was always too aspirational (trying to make you laugh or to be impressed or in awe of the spectacle). He was hilarious and explained things well, but it wasn't relaxing to be with him. Cuz left home at 14 to be a magician on cruise ships. Occasionally I would hear about him – the vast money he was making, his move out West, his apprenticeships with magicians, surgeons, and pop culture businessmen like Tony Robbins. Periodically we would talk on the phone, especially when he was beginning to turn his magic-related knowledge about what fools people into corporate-related knowledge about what binds people together. He began to help businesspeople understand how capitalist subjectivity works affectively.
We were deeply alike, but our audiences, styles, and aims remained starkly divergent. I'd see him on CNN explaining how sales were all about microaffective transactions between people more than about the qualities of the product, and I'd have to laugh at the fun-house mirror effect of it, because I was sure that we had both trained ourselves to understand – to develop knowledge and language for – what we really couldn't understand about the childhood environment we had both left earlier than our ages should have allowed.
I'm leaving a lot unsaid here, obviously. The point is that I grew a lot of abstract affection for him during the decades between conversations because, without knowing anything really, I understood the affective environment in which he operated. He became a motivational speaker and trainer of entrepreneurs who had only their mouths from which to create worlds, who had no institutional or inherited ballast or cultural capital, and who could rely on no help from anyone but the people to whom they might be able to connect now. All they needed were knowledge and skills about connecting, transmitting confidence, and sustaining reciprocity.
On the day after I gave my master class on affect theory, we arranged to meet at the hotel in Melbourne where he was giving his master class, training and critiquing other financial-motivational speakers. We sat down to breakfast, and I said something like, so do you like your life, are you happy you've made these choices, is all of this traveling and being away from all those children you've had working for you? Many astonishing stories tumbled out – in the middle of which was this one.
He has three children, two girls and a boy. They're all named after precious commodities: name brands – say, like Mercedes – and natural resources – say, like Goldie. At some point the girls started acting weirdly, and dissociated from their formerly happy ways of being in the world. "Mercedes," the oldest, stopped eating. "Goldie" went very quiet. Cuz and his wife interrogated them: nothing, nothing, nothing. Denial. Finally, the youngest admitted to being molested by a family employee. "Mercedes" refused to admit anything, but continued not eating. She reached a stage about two weeks away from hospitalization, he thought. Cuz and I then talked about my later-life anorexia and I mentioned that I had always thought that it was wrong to say that the subject of anorexia wanted to die, that the very act of controlling the world while never being in control enough was a way of staying in life, staying focused and formally together while so much else seemed so close to crumbling.
At this point he starts to cry, so I do too, and we're both a little confused about that, and then he says something like: "So finally my wife let me try this tactic, although she didn't think it would work. I sat down with 'Mercedes'. I said to her: 'Mercedes,' do you intend to die? Because, if you intend to die, I'll pull the other children out of school and we'll take a trip around the world, so that at least you'll have had some experiences before you die. What do you think, would you like that? If you don't intend to die, then we have to do something else about this."
At this point he says to me, "Why are we crying?" I say that my best guess is that if anyone had ever talked to us like that when we were little, not only granting us our perspective on the world but organizing the world around the way we understood things, we wouldn't have had to become what we have become, people who go around helping other people find a way to use their particular minds to make themselves and the world they're in more possible. If anyone had ever talked to us like that, well – actually, people did talk to us like that, later, otherwise we couldn't have known that our knowledge was anything. We had teachers – the kind who wanted us genuinely to develop our own set of skills to become who we were, not who they were. Such relations don't work for everyone, but they worked for us.
How does the habitation of an affective environment that would foment a sense of mattering produce the time/space for adjustment to what the conditions of mattering are, including an adjustment that refuses adjustment, that produces a politics of imagining mattering – "intending to live" – differently? What is the relation between flourishing materially and the will to affective reciprocity?
For most of my life it wasn't clear to me that living was better than not being alive, but I wasn't interested in not being alive, just in attending to what it is that people have to do to stay afloat. Staying alive was a given, but staying afloat wasn't. People need skills for that, and supports for that. The crisis of crumbling institutions of intimacy and durable consistency in the US at the present moment has something to do with a perceived loss of the relation of event to effect, so that it is harder and harder to know what it means materially to effectuate an intention to live, to float. My cousin was asking his daughter to state an intention that she didn't yet have, because that was the only way he could help her imagine mattering in the world. I am trying to learn what else there is to learn from that astonishing exchange.
Note: We are publishing here a series of lightly edited posts from Lauren Berlant's research blog Supervalent Thought.
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Gilded Birds interview: Jane Haynes
Gilded Birds interview: Christopher Prendergast
An interview with Michael Herzfeld: cryptocolonialism, the responsibility of the social sciences and Europe
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Gilded birds interview: Thomas Adès
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Jacqueline Rose on women in dark times
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Cinema of intimacy: Steve McQueen at Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo
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"A Pale Imitation: the new Turing biopic is a far cry from the fascinating truth"
Re-reading Trump's campaign book "Crippled America"
Hito Steyerl's "Liquidity Inc." and art under neoliberalism
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