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Premier League shirts row – fickle fashions of sponsorship
Former Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams spoke to Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday about the prevalence of gambling companies sponsoring football teams.
Asked whether he thought such sponsorship should stop, he said: "Yes utterly. I think it's day. Like the alcohol sponsorship of the past."
But actually, there is nothing to stop alcohol companies sponsoring football teams in the English Premier League – it is down to the clubs to select their sponsors.
The Football Association has intricate rules introduced in 2000 about how and where sponsorship may appear on football kit.
The regulations prohibit the display of "any distasteful, threatening, abusive, indecent, insulting, discriminatory or otherwise ethically or morally offensive message, or any political message".
However, the only items specifically forbidden from being advertised on kits are tobacco products.
Looking at Premier League shirt sponsors since the league began in 1992 tells us a lot about attitudes to particular products and the developing economy.
Since the league started, 60% of companies sponsoring shirts have fallen within four broad categories: fiscal, electronics/ technology, alcohol and gambling.
Electronics/ technology
When the Premier League started, it was the big consumer electronics companies that dominated the sponsorship.
Sharp would be Manchester United's sponsor until 2000 while JVC featured on Arsenal's shirts until 1999.
Media captionFormer England captain Tony Adams tells Today that gambling in football is destroying lives
In 1995 -9 6, which was the first season when the Premier League was down to 20 teams from the original 22, half the clubs were sponsored by electronics and technology companies, including AST Computer at Aston Villa, Hewlett Packard at Tottenham, Brother at Manchester City and the software and IT services company Sanderson, which sponsored both Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton.
But by the start of the new millennium that had fallen to three companies, and in the last 10 seasons there has been no more than one company from this category per season.
Despite that deterioration, more electronics and technology companies have sponsored Premier League shirts than any other category, with 94 seasons between them.
The second most common type of shirt sponsor is the financial sector, with 90 seasons of shirts. There has been a fiscal shirt sponsor in the Premier League in all but one season.
But the sector did not make a strong start in the new league, with Peterborough Building Society's sponsorship of Norwich City being the only deal in the first three years, followed by CIS Insurance's sponsorship of Blackburn.
In the noughties, the deals started building up, with the peak in 2010 -1 1 despite the financial crisis.
That year the foreign exchange broker FXPro sponsored both Fulham and Aston Villa( it now sponsors Watford) while Wonga was the sponsor for Blackpool's only season in the Premier League.
Northern Rock was Newcastle United's shirt sponsor, despite having been nationalised in 2008. It would remain so until January 2012, when it was replaced by Virgin Money, which had bought parts of it from the government. The 2010 -1 1 season was also the year that Standard Chartered took over as Liverpool's sponsor, which it has remained ever since.
The Premier League itself was sponsored by Carling from its second season until 2001, known as the FA Carling Premiership.
Companies selling alcoholic drink peaked comparatively early in its history, but have been almost ever-present, with only last season and this one having no club sponsored by a drinks company. In total there have been 62 seasons of alcohol sponsorship.
The season with the largest number of alcohol sponsorship deals was 1994 -9 5 with six: McEwans at Blackburn, Coors at Chelsea, Carlsberg, which sponsored Liverpool for the first 18 years of the Premier League, Newcastle Brown at Newcastle, Labatt's at Nottingham Forest and Holsten at Spurs.
Alcohol sponsorship went out of fashion in recent years, with Chang Beer's 13 -year deal with Everton being the league's merely one after 2010.
The Portman Group, which represents drinks producers, has a code of practise for alcohol companies wanting to get involved in sports sponsorship.
The big growth in gambling companies sponsoring Premier League clubs' shirts came after The Gambling Act 2005 allowed them to advertise on television and radio for the first time.
But gambling companies had advertised on shirts in the Premier League before then, with Betfair appearing on Fulham's shirts in 2002 -0 3 and 888 sponsoring Middlesbrough in 2004 -0 5 and 2005 -0 6.
They have gone from strength to strength since then, and in the past 10 seasons, one-third of shirt sponsors have been gambling companies. The peak was in 2016 -1 7, when half of clubs had a gambling company as their shirt sponsors. There have been 79 seasons of gambling sponsorship altogether.
Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has pledged that a future Labour government would ban gambling companies from sponsoring Premier League squads.
The Premier League responded by telling Reality Check that its clubs had always constructed sure they followed the regulations in the Gambling Act.
"We widened our own bet regulations, including the prohibition on betting on football to anyone working for the Premier League and its clubs, and improved our monitoring of integrity issues. We also remain fully committed to the advertising industry's guidance on betting advertising."
Shirt sponsorship in the Premier League by gambling companies was estimated to have been worth about PS50m this season. The Gambling Commission recently reminded companies of its rules about sponsorship.
There are stricter rules for clubs' youth squads consisting altogether of players under the age of 18, which may not wear shirts advertising age-restricted products such as alcohol or gambling.
Replica shirts in junior sizes are also banned from carrying such sponsorship, so they are either constructed without it, as with West Ham, or have an entirely different sponsor, as with Wolves.
An honorable mention goes to telecoms companies, which were particularly well-represented at the turn of the millennium. They peaked at six deals in 2002 -0 3 when O2 was sponsoring Arsenal and Vodafone appeared on Manchester United shirts.
Automotive companies had their big year in 1999 -0 0, with five deals, including Subaru at Coventry City, Autoglass at Chelsea and auto dealership Reg Vardy at Sunderland.
There are also a few interesting companies in the miscellaneous column: firms that were the only representatives of their industries to sponsor a Premier League shirt.
These include Draper Tools, which sponsored Southampton in 1992 -9 3 and the doll company Ty, famous for cuddly toys with big eyes, which sponsored Portsmouth for two seasons.
Waitrose was the only supermarket to sponsor a Premier League shirt when it appeared on the Reading kit in 2012 -1 3 while Crown Paints' three-year deal with Blackburn from 2008 -0 9 was the only one of its sector, although the company also sponsored Liverpool in the old First Division.
And I think we'll have to wait a long time to see a competitor of Laver sponsoring a Premier League shirt again – it appeared on the shirts of Sheffield United in 1992 -9 3 and 1993 -9 4. It's a lumber merchant.
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The PGA Tour heads to Charlotte, North Carolina for the Wells Fargo Championship this week and our man has the lowdown ahead of Thursday's start here...
"As many as three of the last seven winners have gone off at 1000.0 so if you fancy a rank outsider here, don't be afraid to go for it."
Tournament History
The Wells Fargo Championship was first staged as recently as 2003 and the tournament was cancelled last year because of the pandemic so this is just the 17th edition but it's already established itself as one of the strongest tournaments on the PGA Tour.
The Wells Fargo always attracts a strong field and it hasn't disappointed this time around with four of the world's top-five all in attendance.
Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina
Par 71 -7,554 yards
Stroke Index in 2019 -71.77
Designed by George Cobb in 1961 and built on a former dairy farm, Quail Hollow was the host course for the Kemper Open between 1969 and 1979 and, apart from 2017, when it was used for the USPGA Championship, won by Justin Thomas in eight-under-par, it's been the host venue for this event since its inception in 2003.
The course underwent an extensive renovation by Tom Fazio in 1997, well in advance of the first edition of this event, and in preparation for the 2017 USPGA and the Presidents Cup (to be staged here in September next year) there were several changes to the course prior to the 2013 and 2014 editions of this event.
The 8th hole was straightened and reduced to 346 yards and is now drivable and the 16th hole was changed dramatically. The fairway was shifted and lengthened to bring water in to play and the par three 17th hole, which was tough enough before the changes were made, was lengthened 223 yards. It was the hardest hole on the course in 2019 but it should play slightly easier this time around as the back tees won't be used.
After lots of negative publicity about the poor state of the greens at the 2013 edition, all the putting surfaces were changed from bent grass to Bermuda and tress were removed to allow light to get to them. The trees that framed the fairways were also thinned out considerably and prior to the USPGA in 2017, even more changes were made to the venue.
All the greens were changed from MiniVerde Ultradwarf Bermuda to Champion G-12 Ultradwarf Bermuda and prior to the 2018 renewal, they were also overseeded with poa annua and they should reach 13 on the stimpmeter
The par four 11th hole was extended by 36 yards before the USPGA but other than that, holes six to 18 remained the same. The major changes were to holes one to five...
Back in 2016, the first hole was a 418 yard par four and a birdie opportunity and the second was an innocuous par three averaging 3.1 but the two holes have since been combined to create a long par four measuring 495 yards but that's actually a reduction in length since the USPGA. It measured a monstrously long 524 yards then. In 2018 it ranked as the second hardest hole on the course - averaging 4.3 - but it played slightly easier in 2019 when it averaged 4.2.
The fourth and fifth holes (a par three and four) were brand new at the USPGA and the second and third holes now (both par fours) are the old third and fourth holes.
The last three holes have always played tough and are collectively they're known as the "Green Mile". They were the hardest three holes on the course in 2019, averaging 0.78 strokes over-par.
TV Coverage
Live on Sky Sports all four days, starting at midday on Thursday
Last Five Winners with Pre-event Exchange Prices
2020 - Event Cancelled
2019 - Max Homa -15 1000.0
2018 - Jason Day -12 23.022/1
2017 - Brian Harman -10 120.0119/1 (Played at Eagle Point)
2016 - James Hahn -9 1000.0
2015 - Rory McIlroy -21 4.67/2
What Will it Take to Win the Wells Fargo Championship?
Length has always been an important asset at Quail Hollow (Jim Furyk in 2006 is the only course winner to rank worse than 28th for Driving Distance) and recent evidence suggests it's even more so now. The 2019 winner, Max Homa only ranked 22nd for DD and James Hahn ranked 23rd when he won five years ago but Justin Thomas ranked first at the USPGA Championship four years ago and the two winners before Hahn in this event, Rory McIlroy and J.B Holmes, also ranked number one for DD the week they won. Jason Day ranked 14th in 2018.
Homa only ranked 45th for Driving Accuracy two years ago and eight of the top-ten and ties in 2018 ranked outside the top-30 for DA.
Historically, Greens In Regulation and Scrambling were the two main stats to concentrate on but I'd definitely favour the latter stat now.
Looking back, ten of the first 13 winners ranked inside the top-12 for GIR but three of the last five winners have ranked outside the top-20 for GIR. Homa ranked 17th in 2019 and in 2018, Day manged to win ranking 69th! The first three home in 2014 ranked inside the top-six for Scrambling and it was a similar story 12 months later with only one player inside the top-eight ranking worse than 16th for Scrambling. Hahn only ranked 53rd in 2016 but the last two winners, Day and Homa, have both ranked second for Scrambling.
Now that greens have been changed, there appears to be a much greater importance on putting. Hahn ranked fifth for Putting Average when he won this event five years ago, Thomas ranked second for P.A when winning the USPGA here in 2017 and Homa and Day both ranked first.
I suspect the winner will whack it miles, get it up-and-down regularly when greens are missed, and putt really well.
Is There an Angle In?
When staged at the Golf Club of Houston between 2003 and 2018, the Houston Open used to correlate very nicely with this event, but that tournament has moved to Memorial Park now.
Vijay Singh, Anthony Kim and J.B Holmes all won here at Quail Hollow and at the Golf Club of Houston and Houston winners Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott and even D.A Points have come very close to taking this title as well but form at Riviera looks like our best angle in.
When Max Homa won the Genesis Invitational at Riviera in February, he became the third winner of that event in the last six years to have also won this event at Quail Hollow. Hahn and Holmes have also won both events and all three were matched at a triple-figure price before the off at Riviera. Holmes was matched at a high of 400.0399/1, Hahn was an unconsidered 600.0599/1 chance in 2015 and Homa was matched at a high of 120.0119/1 before the off in February.
Holmes was an 85.084/1 chance when he won here in 2014 and Homa and Hahn won here having both been matched at 1000.0 before the off so it's not like we're looking at three well-fancied players winning both events in the last six years and that looks like a very interesting angle in.
We've seen three men win the Genesis multiple times in the last 13 years. Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott have both won it twice and Bubba Watson three times. Mickelson and Watson have both finished second at Quail Hollow and Scott was third in 2006.
Is There an Identikit Winner?
The roll of honour here is a real mixed bag. Major winners David Toms, Vijay Singh, Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods, Lucas Glover, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day have all won the title and we've seen several really top-class winners too but this event has produced four separate results that have had us all scratching our heads.
The 2004 edition saw 200/1 shots Joey Sindelar and Aaron Oberholser playoff to decide the outcome, in 2013, 1000.0 shot, Derek Ernst beat 350.0349/1 chance, David Lynn, in extra time, five years ago, another player matched at 1000.0 before the off, Hahn, beat 600.0599/1 shot, Roberto Castro, in a playoff, and as already stated, Homa was 1000.0 when he won two years ago, with 140.0139/1 shot, Joel Dahman, the only other player to trade at odds-on.
As many as three of the last seven winners have gone off at 1000.0 so if you fancy a rank outsider here, don't be afraid to go for it.
Winner's Position and Exchange Price Pre-Round Four
2019 - Max Homa tied for the lead with two others 9.617/2
2018 - Jason Day led by two 1.8810/11
2017 - Brian Harman T4th, trailing by two 21.020/1 (Played at Eagle Point)
2016 - James Hahn T3rd, trailing by two 16.015/1
2015 - Rory McIlroy led by four 1.132/15
In-Play Tactics
The last two winners have sat tied for 17th and just three and four off the lead, they both sat second at halfway, just one off the lead, and they were both in front with a round to go. Homa was tied for the lead with Joel Dahmen and Jason Dufner and Day led by two but a slow start can definitely be overcome at Quail Hollow...
Thomas sat tied for 44th and six back after round one in the USPGA and he was still five adrift at halfway. Hahn and Castro (first and second in 2016) were five and six back after round one and Hahn still trailed by five in a tie for 13th at halfway. The two winners before Hahn both opened up with 70s and trailed by four and five strokes and yet they won with ease. And one or two winners have come from a very long way back.
Rory McIlroy won here 11 years ago having only just made the cut. He sat tied for 48th and nine off the lead at halfway and he still trailed by four after day three but incredibly, he went on to win by four!
A total of 20 men have led or co-led through three rounds here but only seven have gone on to win and the likes of Phil Mickelson, Nick Watney, Webb Simpson and Zach Johnson have all failed to convert a 54-hole lead. The prize for the worst collapse goes to Sergio Garcia though. He managed to give up a six-stroke lead in 2005 so this is not an easy place to make the running.
If you're trading in-running, watch out for the tough finish. This year's Masters winner, Hideki Matsuyama, hit the front and hit a low of 1.9110/11 in the USPGA four years ago but failed to get home and in the 2016 renewal of this event, the third round leader, Rickie Fowler, was matched at a low of 2.0421/20 and Justin Rose hit 1.625/8 but both disappointed their followers. Mickelson led by one with three to play eight years ago and he was matched at just 1.42/5 but he didn't even make the playoff! And Holmes dropped two shots over the 'Green Mile' seven years ago but fortunately for him and his backers, he was far enough clear for it not to matter.
In addition to his USPGA win here in 2017, Justin Thomas has event form figures reading 7-MC-21 with his major win sandwiched between his two worst efforts.
Following a disappointing WGC-Match Play and US Masters, after his win at the Players Championship, Thomas was in great form tee-to-green last week at the Valspar Championship, where he eventually finished tied for 13th. The world number ranked first for Strokes Gained off the Tee, SG Tee to Green and SG on Approach but he ranked 67th for SG Putting, with a negative of 6.455! That's the worst his flat-stick's behaved in a very long while and it could easily be a one-off.
World number three, Jon Rahm, is playing here for just the second time, and for the first time in this event - although he finished fourth at Eagle Point in 2017. The Spaniard finished only 58th here in the USPGA Championship but there's every chance he'll improve on that considerably given how consistent he's been of late.
Including his seventh place finish alongside Ryan Palmer in the Zurich last month, Rahm has finished inside the top-10 in nine of his last 11 starts. This is only his third outing since the birth of his new son, so we can't rule out the boost of the Nappy Factor either.
Bryson DeChambeau has improving course form figures reading MC-33-4 but his last two starts have been poor. Following his win at the Arnold Palmer and his third behind Thomas in the Players, Bryson won just one of three group matches at the WGC Match Play before finishing 46th at the US Masters.
Having missed the cut in the USPGA here, Xander Schauffele finished 72nd in the event here in 2018 so he hasn't got any course form to speak of and he needs to rebound here in his first start since the US Masters where he held every chance to win before dunking it in the water off the tee on the par three 16th on Sunday. He looks like one to take on.
Rory McIlroy loves this venue and he's already won the event twice but his game has been in disarray for some time is perhaps best watched.
Although he's playing here for the first time, Norway's Viktor Hovland is playing too well to ignore. He finished third last week at the Valspar at an equally challenging circuit and I may yet have a saver on him before the off.
I've got a couple lined-up up here for the Find Me a 100 Winner Column and I'll be back tomorrow with those but for now I've just chanced two players that could have also qualified for the column.
Bubba Watson has been backed at a high of 120.0119/1 but he's been steadily shortening up since the market opened so he's too short now for the column. In addition to his course form and correlating course form, he appears to be in good heart if his 13th place in the Valspar last week is anything to go by so I've chanced him at 85.084/1 and I've had a had a silly little bet on 1000.0 shot, Bill Haas, who won the Genesis Invitational in 2012. His form has fallen off a cliff but he has a pair of fourth placed finishes here in 2006 and 2011.
Silliest bet of the week for me (so far). Bill Hass at 1000 in the Wells Fargo. Bill's bidding to become the fourth H to win at both Riviera and Quail Hollow in seven years following Holmes, Hahn & Homa. And two of those three also went off at 1000! More in the preview later...
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It's Time to Panic Now
John Bolton's appointment as national security adviser puts us on a path to war.
By Fred Kaplan
March 22, 20186:56 PM
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton speaks during CPAC on Feb. 22 in National Harbor, Maryland. Alex Wong/Getty Images
It's time to push the panic button.
John Bolton's appointment as national security adviser—a post that requires no Senate confirmation—puts the United States on a path to war. And it's fair to say President Donald Trump wants us on that path.
After all, Trump gave Bolton the job after the two held several conversations (despite White House chief of staff John Kelly's orders barring Bolton from the building). And there was this remark that Trump made after firing Rex Tillerson and nominating the more hawkish Mike Pompeo to take his place: "We're getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things I want."
Bolton has repeatedly called for launching a first strike on North Korea, scuttling the nuclear arms deal with Iran, and then bombing that country too. He says and writes these things not as part of some clever "madman theory" to bring Kim Jong-un and the mullahs of Tehran to the bargaining table, but rather because he simply wants to destroy them and America's other enemies too.
His agenda is not "peace through strength," the motto of more conventional Republican hawks that Trump included in a tweet on Wednesday, but rather regime change through war. He is a neocon without the moral fervor of some who wear that label—i.e., he is keen to topple oppressive regimes not in order to spread democracy but rather to expand American power.
In the early days of the George W. Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney finagled Bolton a job as undersecretary of state for arms control—an inside joke, since Bolton has never read an arms-control treaty that he liked. But his real assignment was to serve as Cheney's spy in Foggy Bottom, monitoring and, when possible, obstructing any attempts at peaceful diplomacy mounted by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
When Powell got the boot, Cheney wanted to make Bolton deputy secretary of state, replacing Richard Armitage, who resigned along with his best friend Powell. But Powell's replacement, Condoleezza Rice, who had been Bush's national security adviser, blocked the move, fully aware of Bolton's obstructionist ideology.
As a compromise, Bush nominated Bolton to be United Nations ambassador, but that move proved unbearable to even the Republican-controlled Senate at the time. It was one thing to be critical of the U.N.—it's a body deserving of criticism—but Bolton opposed its very existence. "There is no such thing as the United Nations," he once said in a speech, adding, "If the U.N. Secretariat building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a lot of difference."
More than that, he was hostile to the idea of international law, having once declared, "It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so—because over the long term, the goal of those who think that international law really means anything are those who want to constrain the United States."
These might be quaint notions for some eccentric midlevel aide to espouse, but the United Nations is founded on international law, Security Council resolutions are drafted to enforce international law, and—as even Bush was beginning to realize by the start of his second term, around the time of Bolton's nomination—some of those resolutions were proving useful for expressing, and sometimes enforcing, U.S. national security interests. How could someone with these views serve as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.?
In his confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bolton put on a dreadful show, grumbling and scowling through his walrus mustache. Finally, in a tie vote, the committee sent Bolton's nomination to the full Senate "without recommendation." Properly fearing that this foretold a rejection on the floor, Bush gave Bolton the job as a "recess appointment" after Congress went on holiday. But the law allowing this evasion gave the Senate a chance to take a vote 18 months later. In the second round of hearings, Bolton behaved even more obnoxiously than in the first. When one Republican senator asked him whether his year and a half in the U.N. had altered his ideas about the place, Bolton, rather than seizing the chance to mollify skeptics, replied, "Not really." The head counters in the White House withdrew the nomination, and Bolton headed back to neocon central at the American Enterprise Institute.
During Trump's presidential transition, Bolton made the short list of candidates for deputy secretary of state, but Tillerson—who would soon get the nod for secretary—expressed misgivings about working with the guy. (Trump might have recalled that conversation earlier this month, when he decided to fire Tillerson.) After Michael Flynn flamed out as national security adviser, Bolton was also on the short list to replace him. Gen. H.R. McMaster got the nod, but Trump publicly said he liked Bolton and that he too would soon be working for the White House "in some capacity."
And now, here he is.
In his one year and one month on the job, McMaster, who is still an active-duty Army three-star general, proved a deep disappointment to his friends and erstwhile admirers. He'd made his reputation 20 years ago, as the author of a dissertation-turned-book, Dereliction of Duty, which lambasted the top generals of the Vietnam era for failing to give their honest military advice to President Lyndon Johnson. And now, in his only tour as a policy adviser in Washington, McMaster has wrecked that reputation, committing his own derelictions by pandering to Trump's proclivities and tolerating his falsehoods.
But at least McMaster assembled—and often listened to—a professional staff at the National Security Council and insisted on ousting amateur ideologues, several of them acolytes of Flynn.
Bolton is not likely to put up with a professional staff, and the flood of White House exiles will soon intensify. One subject of discussion at Bolton's Senate hearings, back in 2005, was his intolerance of any views that differed from his own. He displayed this trait most harshly when, as undersecretary of state, he tried to fire two intelligence analysts who challenged his (erroneous) view that Cuba was developing biological weapons and supplying the weapons to rogue regimes.
Nor is Bolton at all suited to perform one of a national security adviser's main responsibilities—assembling the Cabinet secretaries to debate various options in foreign and military policy, mediating their differences, and either hammering out a compromise or presenting the choices to the president.
Then again, there may now no longer be many differences to mediate in this administration. The last of the grown-ups is Secretary of Defense James Mattis, the retired Marine four-star general, who got that job mainly because Trump had heard his nickname was "mad dog." He didn't know that Mattis regularly consulted a personal library of some 7,000 volumes on history and strategy, that (like most generals) he's not too keen to go to war unless he really has to, and that (also like most generals) he takes the Geneva Conventions seriously and opposes torture.
In recent weeks, Trump was said to be tiring of aides who kept telling him no. He might soon tire of Bolton, who, whatever else he is, can't be pegged as a yes man. But in the short term, Bolton may be just the man to excite Trump's darker instincts, to actualize the frustrated he-man who raged about pelting Kim Jong-un with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" or fomenting "the total collapse of the Iranian regime," which he somehow believes was about to happen, if only Obama hadn't signed the nuclear deal and lifted sanctions.
With Tillerson out, Bolton in, and Pompeo waiting in the wings for confirmation, Trump is feeling his oats, coming into his own, like Trump is free to be Trump. Finding out just who that is may make the rest of us duck and cover.


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In the process of any pursuit there are valuable lessons and unexpected detours. Some years back while working in LA I decided I wanted to leave the music business, at the time I was a music director of a small station. Faced with not knowing what to do next, I decided to reach out to help some friends promote a Jazz documentary they had completed and wanted to get aired. I talked them into doing a "premiere" at a fashionable night spot, putting televisions all over the place and have a social viewing. They were skeptical, but had no better suggestions.
One benefit of being a music director, even a former one, is that local businesses are willing to accommodate your requests, hoping that at sometime in the future the favor would be returned. I called in all the favors and made promises to return others. We managed to get a great location, an article in the local paper, the equipment we needed and invitations sent out.
A few days before the event, I began to worry about what would be on the screens while people arrived. So, I paid a visit to the promotion departments of various record labels. They gave me armfuls of short videos used to promote artists on TV in Europe and Australia. Television was until recently one of the major ways to break acts outside of the US. Calling in another favor, I edited them together.
The night was a success, crowds came, including television executives, we got reviewed, the producers had appointments set up, and I had my " Just Do It" moment. Throughout the evening I had people coming to me wanting to know where I got those short music clips from. In less than four hours I was seen as some expert in procuring music videos. In the weeks ahead I was offered and became the video curator of a Rock Art Museum, a consultant to entertainment chains including Disneyland and given a marketing study by record companies to assess the effectiveness of videos to promote unknown music acts. A year later, I was asked to be a consultants to a network television music video show, and so began a twenty year career in television and commercials.
The process of "just doing it" can lead to unexpected outcomes. The key is not to be wedded to a single idea, but open to suggestions, to say yes when you haven't a clue what you have just got yourself into. It is worth remembering that with any new idea, you are the expert, even if you make mistakes the only person who can fix them is you.
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Hans Wegner - Chinese Chair
cdsilva
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I was recently considering bidding on a Hans Wegner Chinese chair in an auction, and did a decent amount of research. I had been aware of the chair(s) for a while, but did not know the story behind it. Although I did not win the auction, I found the background history to be quite interesting, so I thought I'd post my findings here for others who might also be interested . . . and before I forget everything.
First things first, the Wegner Chinese chair is not one chair, but a series of chairs (between 5-7 designs) that were designed starting in the mid 1940's. Most of the designs are well known, and there is a decent amount of information out there in books and online. All of the information doesn't fit together perfectly, so I'll try to include everything with the supporting references. Reference abbreviations are:
(PP) - PP Mobler website and e-mail correspondence
(CH) - Carl Hansen and Son website
(FH) - Fritz Hansen website
(DD) - Danish Design website, which references the book, "Hans J. Wegner. A Nordic Design Icon from Tønder" - 2014
(JB) - "Hans J Wegner" book by Jens Bernsen - 1995
(CO) - "Hans J Wegner" book by Christian Olesen - 2006
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Many of Wegner's most iconic pieces incorporate a Danish cabinetmaker understanding of wood construction with a modern design aesthetic free from historical context. However his early designs were often a modern refinement of traditional chair designs. The J19 rocking chair and Peacock chair were direct descendants of the traditional Windsor chairs, respectively. And as the name obviously imply, Wegner's Chinese chair designs are also traced directly back to earlier examples in China.
Most of the literature I have read states that Wegner's inspiration for his Chinese chair design came from a Ming dynasty chair in the collection of the Danish Museum of Industrial Arts. The Quanyi chair, with its continuous backrest rail / armrest design, is the most common reference. There is also a painting of five Danish merchants sitting in this chair design which is often associated with Wegner's initial influence. This is the design from which most Wegner Chinese chairs (and future modern iconic designs) were derived. However, it appears that another traditional design, a high-backed version, was the source for his first Chinese chair design for Johannes Hansen.
The first documented reference I can find for a Wegner Chinese chair is for Johannes Hansen in 1943 for that year's Cabinetmaker's Guild Exhibition (PP). As the chair is not shown in any pictures or mentioned in the text of Grete Jalk's 40 Years volumes of the exhibitions, and the other designs from that year were not of the same style, I am not sure if the chair ever made it into the booth display. The only vintage documentation I can find for this design is from the 2006 Olesen book, which cites the design year as 1944 and provides a Chinese reference design from ca.1800 (CO). Since this text is in Danish, and the OCR pass in Acrobat failed miserably, there is probably more information in the text if someone would like to translate.
An Arne Jacobsen Chinese chair design for Fritz Hansen from ten years earlier (1934) is also shown in the section. With Wegner previously having worked in AJ's studio a few years earlier, one can assume that AJ also had some influence on Wegner's Chinese chair designs.
I've found a couple of online sales references for this design, so we know there are more out there than just the prototype. Based upon the minimal documentation and resale records, there were probably very few of the these chairs ever made. With the very traditional wood framing shapes and use of exposed upholstery nailheads (!!!), this design is firmly planted in Wegner's early career phase.
Around the same time his Chinese chair was being developed for Johannes Hansen, Fritz Hansen asked Wegner in 1943 to design a chair that incorporated steam bent wood. Thonet's Vienna #14 chair had been a top seller for quite some time, and WWII had caused disruptions in imports to Denmark. Since it was unclear in 1943 how long the war would last, FH wanted a modern design that utilized this technology to compete/replace the Thonet product (DD).
Apparently Wegner thought the continuous rail backrest/armrest design of an 18th century Quanyi chair (CO) would be a good choice for a steam bent chair. Whether the inspiration came from a specific chair in the DMIA, the Danish merchant painting, or a reference to Ole Wanscher's 1932 book "Mobeltyper" (JB/CO) (probably a combination of the above), Wegner designed at least four prototypes chairs for FH based on the Quanyi.
One of my favorite Danish Modern photographs is this one showing five Wegner chair designs (JB): four of them being direct modern interpretations of the Quanyi chair for Fritz Hansen.
The prototypes vary from more traditional to more modern, and one can see the distillation process happening as the chair designs are refined to an abstract representation of the original. This is the first step upon which the next (and greatest) generation of Wegner designs were built; chairs that removed the historical context altogether, and were designed to address human form, comfort, and construction. A perfect example is the fifth chair in the photo, which was designed later for Carl Hansen and needs no introduction.
If any photo can visually explain the essence and progression of the Danish Modern movement, it is this one.
Fritz Hansen decided to put two of the Wegner designs into production. One of the more traditional designs, model #4283 introduced in 1944, was offered in cherry and had a leather cushion seat. The more modern #1783 was made of local beech, incorporated Danish paper cord for the seat, and followed a year later in 1945. The backrest/armrest was designed to work within the manufacturing length limitation for FH's steam bending equipment (DD). The more modern design was not a commercial success, and "unfortunately" FH discontinued production a few years later in 1950 (DD).
The reason I put unfortunately in quotes is because the demise of the FH #1783 was a contributing factor in the development of the Wegner / Carl Hansen partnership; one that developed some of Danish Modern's most iconic chairs. When FH announced ceasing production of the #1783, CH wanted to step in and take over production of it (DD). However by this time, Wegner had bigger plans in mind, and instead proposed to create a whole new range of chair designs for CH.
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In 1949, Wegner designed the Round Chair (JH 501) for Johannes Hansen. This design is often credited as the first Wegner piece to be designed free of historical formal precedent. Even so, the continuous backrest/armrest rail concept from the FH Chinese chairs was adapted to be a feature part of the new design, and reformulated entirely for better sitting ergonomics.
Shortly afterwards in 1951, Wegner introduced his first set of designs for Carl Hansen. These chairs were intended to provide a level of quality close to the cabinetmakers, but with considerations that reduced cost and allowed for mass production for the burgeoning overseas markets after WWII. One of these designs, the Wishbone chair CH22, can be considered a direct descendant of the FH Chinese chairs (FH 1783 in particular), with the backrest support minimized even further to its signature "Y" wishbone shape. It is probably the most commercially successful chair in Danish Modern history.
Subsequent Wegner chair designs for multiple producers, even as recent as the 1980's, continued to incorporate an integrated backrest/armrest. This concept can subsequently be found in the chairs of many other modern designers.
Back to the Chinese chairs. . .
Although the more traditional design, FH 4283, was initally a poor seller like it's sister, FH 1783, Fritz Hansen kept it in production for another decade, until taking a break from 1960-63. It only became a commercial success and a mainstay in FH's portfolio after reintroduction in 1963. In addition to cherry, the chair has also been offered in special orders of mahogany, Brazilian Rosewood, and walnut (DD). It is still in production today, available in cherry and black-painted ash.
In 1976, PP Mobler acquired the rights to the discontinued FH 1783, and reintroduced it as PP-66. It remains in production today and available in ash, oak, cherry, and black painted. While the chair is essentially the same as the original FH production, the steam bent backrest/armrest was modified to a pre-compressed construction in 1991. Another small difference that I've noticed is that the framing ends of the PP Mobler chairs seem to be flatter versus the slightly rounded ends of the FH chairs. To me it looks like more of a fabrication difference rather than natural wearing of the older chairs.
In coordination with Wegner himself, a variation of PP-66 was developed in 1989. PP-56 incorporates an upholstered seat instead of Danish paper cord. The wood framing was modified around the seat to accommodate an upholstered seat, including elimination of the front stretcher (PP).
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thank you for sharing cdsilva.......much appreciated.
While flipping through various online archive listings of the PP-56, I noticed a few odd listings. These chairs appeared to be legit PP-56 chairs, including PP Mobler sticker, but with a handhold opening at the top of the backrest. The listings claimed that this was a limited edition design in 1989. As the listings were from Lauritz, I was initially a bit suspicious. However, upon contacting PP Mobler, they confirmed that these chairs were indeed a limited edition production "in the late eighties or early nineties". A custom production run of 75 chairs was made specifically for KPMG headquarters in Denmark (PP). Upon searching original Quanyi chairs afterwards, I noticed that some old versions also have a handhold incorporated into the design. Therefore, while this variation occurred almost 50 years after the original design, it is still consistent with historical precedent.
As with most things Wegner, my appreciation for the Chinese chairs has increased significantly after learning more about them. In isolation (and ignorance), they initially struck me as being an outlier in Wegner's iconic modern portfolio. However, in proper context, they can be viewed as a "Rosetta stone" that describes a pivotal transitional step in the development of Danish Modern.
leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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I've never considered that the Round One and later Wegner chairs can be seen as a continuation of Wegner's earliest Chinese Chair design. That is fantastic observation. It would be nice to extend the iconic photo of the range of Chinese Chairs culminating in the Wishbone chair to include the Round One, and further one. Left to right a visual timeline of Wegner chairs with the continuous curve backrest.
DrPoulet
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Cdsilva, thanks for that. It is very interresting.
The design museum of Copenhagen has the original chinese chair on display, alongside Wegner's take on it (plus a few explanations). Here is a picture of the chair (sorry I really do suck at taking pictures of furniture).
leif, the HW sketch in the first post is great. You can see the genesis for the Round Chair arms in the plan view, as well as the coat hanger front rail that appeared in a few chair designs afterwards.
Dr P, thanks for adding the actual Quanyi chair to the thread. Did you happen to see the five Danish merchants "painting" there as well? While all the documentation refers to this image as a painting, the photo actually looks like the piece is five miniature models on a pedestal, with a stone wall in the background.
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When people think of science, the words 'lucrative business opportunity' rarely spring to mind, and for quite a good reason; science tends to be isolated from the rest of human interaction and understanding.
Scientists, it so often seems, work in their stuffy labs with equipment with funny names and specimens that you need a Latin degree just to identify.
There have been several examples in the scientific world of how business and science can merge but they do seem to be few and far between.
The World Wide Web, for example, was a scientific creation and that's an incredibly lucrative business opportunity – never mind that its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, never sold or profited financially from his creation – in fact he gave away the 'formula' so everyone could use it.
The man still did rather well for himself as far as his career goes (creating the World Wide Web looks great on a CV), but he held no patents for his creation.
Other examples, like the use of many drugs in the pharmaceutical field, prove that there are areas of science that seem to profit very well from a business standpoint, but overall it seems that 'science' is just too separate by its very nature to be lumped into the same thought process as 'business'.
There are those, however, who disagree, and Alice Bentinck is one of them.
Alice is a co-founder of Entrepreneur First, an organisation which supports European technical talent to build their own businesses, and she is one of four scientists/science enthusiasts who addressed an Imperial College event about the importance of marrying science with business.
What Alice talked about specifically is 'deep tech'.
Deep tech, or deep science in general, is a highly specialised aspect of science, something that she calls "defensible technology"; something, in other words, "that would be really hard for someone else to copy".
The World Wide Web is a good example of this. Tim Berners-Lee created it and was really the only one who knew how it worked. If he hadn't released his idea of the web to the public it would have remained something that only he knew of and something he could market very successfully.
Similarly, in many areas of science today, including neuroscience, quantum physics, and others, scientists are diving deep into specific areas of specific fields to learn as much as they can. They are becoming incredibly well versed in niche areas. This is deep science.
This is where things also get complicated from a business point of view. Scientists who spend their lives researching one particular area are very rarely doing it for the money and therefore aren't thinking about making a business out of it.
Or they simply don't know how to become businessmen and women. They are, after all, scientists.
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That funding, almost undoubtedly, is there. The very fact that Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website, recently announced that it has reached 100,000 successfully funded projects.
Though not specifically science-based, it does show that there are plenty of people out there willing to invest in things they believe will succeed.
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For Alice, it is also important that both co-founders are scientists.
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A: Well, your student_id is primary key, clearly that table is already exist with some data with student_id=1 hence you cannot insert another row with the same primary key value.

A: You're specifying the primary key (student_id) and from the error it already exists.  You have a few options:

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*Don't specify the primary key.  It should be set to autoincrement anyway, assuming that this is the primary table that students are entered into, and from the name of the table (students) it seems like it is.  Then the query will be:

INSERT INTO students VALUES('Jack','Biology');

and then the table will autoincrement the primary key to the next pointer.

*Use INSERT IGNORE.  This will silently fail if you try to insert a student ID that already exists (or on any query that violates unique keys).

INSERT IGNORE INTO students VALUES(1, 'Jack','Biology');

This will not cause table changes, but it will also not cause an error that interrupts the script, and it will insert any rows that don't fail, say if you had multiple values inserted.  The plain INSERT will fail for the entire list, not just the erroneous value.

*Use ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.  This will update a list of values if it encounters a duplicate key.

INSERT INTO students VALUES(1, 'Jack','Biology')
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In this case, you will change the values in the table that match the key.  In this case, whichever student is student_id 1 will have its name and major updated to the supplied values.  For instance, let's say that Jack changed his major to Chemistry.  This would update student_id 1 to Jack, Chemistry and reflect his new major.

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Talking Residential Home Design Trends in Dallas with Seattle Architect Extraordinaire Tom Kundig
March 26, 2015 | Candy Evans | 2 Comments | starchitects
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Architect Tom Kundig may be the hottest number in Seattle. But he wowed Dallas this week, entertaining more than 400 people at City Performance Hall Tuesday night as a speaker for the Dallas Architecture Forum.
Kundig, an award-winning architect and principal at Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects, has a huge international following thanks to his ability to turn concrete, steels, cranks and pulleys into very livable spaces, sometimes carved right into natural surroundings. He certainly has designed some of the most talked about homes in recent memory, and is tip-top on every billionaire's list of most coveted architect for primary, secondary or subsequent homes.
He has a Louis Kahn-like affinity for bare concrete, but he throws in a passion for raw steel, or sometimes rusty metal, almost full-scale use of "the seven simple machines." It's a balance between refinement and rawness, which he told us comes from an influence of the aircraft industry and steel, all in the neck of the woods where he grew up. Automobiles also had a tremendous influence on the 60 year old baby boomer. His parents are Swiss, and his father was an architect.
"Architecture is supposed to be provocative," he said, "it's supposed to poke society."
His natural interest has always been with moving things, from logging to machines for daily living —
"A machine is not an inhuman thing," he said. "why can't a building change depending on the mood or circumstances?"
Kundig's creations are amazing, a stark contrast to the austere white box usually associated with modern architecture. He designs for tech and Wall Street titans all over the world, but sadly cannot mention names because of strict NDAs. His toughest clients, he said, are media titans who want uber privacy. Never did work for Steve Jobs, but knows people who did. I would almost put money on a bet he's done something for Bill and Melinda Gates.
(He is working on a project in Dallas. Shhh.)
Over the past five years, Kundig has continued to pick up commissioned projects as well as awards, including the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture Design. In 2007, he was recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Academy Award in Architecture.
Tom Kundig: Houses 2 features seventeen residential projects, ranging from a five hundred-square-foot cabin in the woods to a house carved into and built out of solid rock. In his new work, Kundig continues to strike a balance between raw and refined and modern and warm, creating inviting spaces with a strong sense of place. The houses seamlessly incorporate his signature inventive details, rich materials, and stunning sites'from the majestic Northwestern forest to the severe high desert.
Let's look at a few of his most famous projects: The Chicken Point Cabin, located on Lake Hayden in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, built in 2002, features an operable wall of windows, stunning site, rustic materials, and unique details, like a steel fireplace cut from a recycled section of an Alaskan oil pipeline. "Hammer House," in Madrona, was built in 2009. FYI, Dallas home builder extraordinaire Joe kain recently showed me a Dallas home with a fireplace made from hot oiled metal.
A load-bearing exterior wall comprised of windows set into a steel structural frame "frees the interior from the need for load-bearing walls, which maintains continuous access to the view within the space," according to a writeup by Kundig's firm. "The house opens up in multiple ways and directions, with a walled garden to the East and two decks to the West. Hanging steel stairs, suspended between the North wall and a steel plate, enhance this sense of transparency."
Photos: Paul Warchol/Olson Kundig
The Studio House in Seattle, Wash. circa 1998, has a tessellated glass facade, rusted steel support beams, and concrete interior walls. A combination home and photo studio, the house has a great room equipped with studio-grade ceiling lighting (above).
Tim Bies/Olson Kundig
This is the circa 2006 Skykomish, Wash., Tye River Cabin : "essentially a wooden tent on a platform that opens to the forest and river." It is only 600 square feet, (Kunwig is bullish on smaller homes) and like all his work, the cabin encourages an orientation toward nature with rotating glass panels, allowing walls of the structure to open. "The stuff I've been doing is not about the center."
Photos: Benjamin Benschneider/Olson Kundig
Talk about integrating a house into the surrounding landscape, here is a 2010 design in San Juan Islands, Wash. where Kundig drew up a low-profile design with a green roof and concrete exterior walls that blend with the nearby stone: The Pierre features his trademark steel windows to capture the water views.
Jason Schmidt/Olson Kundig
Built on the San Juan Islands, the Shadowboxx combines a conventional profile with oversized portals. The front windows can be completely concealed by a series of floor to ceiling corrugated doors, offering protection from nature, while a whimsical "bath house" wing has a roof that pivots up to allow for open air bathing. Is that not cool?
Note the size? Not gargantuan. When Tom and I spoke, I asked him about the biggest change he is seeing in residential architectural design today: a desire for smaller spaces.
He told me he had recently been retained by a client to make a 30,000 square foot home "feel" smaller — more like 7,000. He is designing a second home residence for a couple client in Rio de Janeiro that is 1500 square feet. He and his wife, Jeannie, a Seattle Realtor, live in 2200 square feet. People would rather have multiple smaller homes in special places, he said. 2500 square feet is the sweet spot for second homes, while he thinks trwo people can live comfortably in 2500 to 300 square feet.
"They want homes smaller but quality higher, much like a boat," said Tom, "neat and tidy."
When I pressed him on "quality", he said highest materials in flooring, walls, and details such as the way door handles open, the handles themselves, fixtures, and steel windows.
"People don't want low maintenance," he said, they want ZERO maintenance."
Oh and his clients want energy-smart homes, part of the whole downsizing thing. They understand energy costs and footprint issues. What about rooms?
Wine or Bourbon cellars — unless the client collects as an investment, these are smaller:
"We are asking people for the number of bottles they have and their consumption," said Tom. "You can always buy wine."
Media rooms — no value, he says, unless it's a home for a movie director or actor, both of which he has done. The TV is now in the family room, he says, where everyone watches movies. Master bedrooms, smaller, too, no need for conversation or sitting areas. We lamented the death of the classic Palm Springs bar (with stools, bartender space) that is so retro 1960's, but he did recently put one by request in a Sun valley home.
Kitchens are still huge and loaded with the highest end appliances that are seldom used.
"That is where the food is delivered," said Tom. "The big kitchen is more for gathering."
The family rooms are attached to the kitchens. It might be a west coast thing, but he is seeing a big trend for the living/dining/kitchen all as one big room. In LA, clients occasionally want a formal living and dining room. Because of the openness of the kitchen, a functioning Butler's pantry behind the kitchen is very popular — where food can be prepared and stored all at once.
We talked about closets, which in high end homes have become dressing rooms, or salons — like in the Hicks estate.
"Dressing rooms are being set up like boutique shops," he said.
And for all the trend to smallness, people still want good-sized closets. While the master bedroom is smaller, the master bath continues to be a strong spa-like retreat.
The most interesting take away for me was the garage: Tom says on the West Coast now it is becoming standard to outfit all garages for 220 circuits for electric cars. And people are wanting a space about the size of one garage stall for stuff — he called them big toy boxes — almost an extended mudroom where you can store toys and bikes but also fishing rods, ski equipment, skis.
"If the master closets have become mini boutique stores, the garage has become a mini sport store."
So if he is designing a home with a four-car garage, one of those stalls will be the sport store. And they are fully insulated, too. Of course, west coasters tend to be active when they can drive to the mountains to hike or ski. Still, this could be incorporated into Texas vacation homes.
Speaking of Texas, Tom Kundig is pretty bullish about us, too. As he told the forum, Texas is refreshing with it's attitude that hard work and risk-taking can still be done here.
"In California all these people and forces are influencing projects," he said. "Texas embraces the weirdos and risk takers with a political freedom philosophy much like I felt in Alaska."
He loves the culture in Dallas, the Kimbell in Fort Worth, and finds Texas to be one of the most optimistic, supportive and curious places to work.
"The support for architecture and the architectural community here is not typical in most states," he told me. "I love a culture that allows exploration and risk-taking. California used to be like that."
He also loves the fact that Dallas, like many cities (especially San Antonio), is finally embracing it's river.
"I spent time downtown with Joe Hines," he told me, "and there is a river in Dallas!"
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Candy Evans is one of the nation's leading real estate reporters, bloggers and consultants. She reports on Dallas real estate for WFAA-TV's Daybreak with Ron Corning, and is frequently called as a real estate expert by other Dallas media. She is also a real-estate editor for CultureMap Dallas, Modern Luxury Dallas, the Katy Trail Weekly and the White Rock Weekly. She even has her own web-based Real Estate show called, The Party Line. Candy has written for AOL Real Estate, and is a guest blogger for Joel Kotkin's The New Geography, Inman Real Estate News plus a host of national sites. Candy was a longtime contributing editor to Dallas' D Magazine and sister pubs, and in 2007 founded the wildly successful Dallas real estate blog, DallasDirt. That's where she broke the news on where former president George W. Bush bought his Dallas home in 2008. She is the founder and publisher of an exciting platform of Dallas-based real estate sites including SecondShelters.com, devoted to the vacation home market, and her signature CandysDirt.com, everything you need to know about real estate in North Texas. And yes, we are still psyched about the GOLD! In 2013, CandysDirt.com was named Best Blog by the venerable National Association of Real Estate Editors, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious journalism associations, and the only association for journalists covering real estate, home and urban design. We snatched silver in 2015, and who knows what 2016 brings...
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Candy, Thank you so much for so perfectly capturing the many facets of the talented Tom Kundig and showing everyone what fascinating speakers they can hear at Dallas Architecture Forum lectures!
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Very informative. Thank you for posting.
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Gibbons was a journalist and fashion writer, whose satire on esteemed Nineteenth Century writers, in her novel, Cold Comfort Farm, made her a best selling author.
Gibbons was born on 5th January 1902, at Camden Town, London, the daughter of a physician who practiced in one of the poorest districts of London. Her upbringing in this background was depressing and unhappy, but she relieved the situation by creating extravagant fairy tales, which she recounted to her younger siblings. She was educated at North London Collegiate School for Girls and University College, London, where she read journalism.
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