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ded the Arizona Cardinals for 182 yards on the ground in their season opener Youth David Long Jersey , most of any team in the NFL last week.Missed gap assignments, missed tackles, insufficient physical play, poor hand work at the line of scrimmage. There were plenty of reasons listed for the downfall by defensive coordinator Al Holcomb.Now the Cardinals have to face Todd Gurley and the Rams Sunday in Los Angeles, and that doesn't bode well for an Arizona team looking to find itself in a new defensive scheme with a new coaching staff."It's a big-time challenge this week again," Holcomb said after Thursday's practice. "We've got to address the mistakes, take the things that we didn't do so well last week and correct those things. We've got to accentuate the positives, the good things that we did and we've got to continue to grow and build on that as a defense."Gurley carried 20 times for 108 yards and caught three for 39 yards, including a 19-yard touchdown reception in Sunday's 33-13 win at Oakland.And the Cardinals know Gurley all too well.Last season Arizona had the sixth-ranked defense overall in the NFL and was sixth against the run, yet Gurley was outstanding as the Rams swept the two-game series with the Cardinals for the first time since 2012."We got our behinds kicked twice by this team," cornerback Patrick Peterson said.The first meeting was in Twickenham Stadium in London, where the Rams routed the Cardinals 33-0. In that game, Gurley carried 22 times for 106 yards and caught four for 48. The Rams rushed for 197 yards that day. Six weeks later in Arizona Womens David Long Jersey , Los Angeles won 32-15 as Gurley rushed for 74 yards in 19 attempts and caught six for 84 yards.Combine those experiences with the team's poor play in last week's 24-6 loss to the Redskins and the Arizona defense is in an ornery mood."We're a little salty right now so we have to come out prepared to play," Holcomb said. "It's a tremendous challenge in front of us but a great opportunity at the same time. We have to come out and play our brand of football like we're capable of playing."First-year coach Steve Wilks wants to build a team centered on tough, physical play, especially up front. That aspect of the opener was what bothered Holcomb most."Just not play, as Steve talks about, according to our DNA, the physicality," Holcomb said. "The effort was there. The physicality, playing with our hands and then obviously minimizing the run game and also the tackling aspect of it. It's early in the season but we have to do a better job of tackling."The Cardinals know they have to avoid one-on-one situations with Gurley."Todd Gurley is a great back, one of the best backs in the league," said nickel cornerback/safety Budda Baker. "So we know we're all going to have to swarm to the ball to get him down."Peterson, a Pro Bowl player in all seven of his NFL seasons has seen a lot of Gurley throughout his career, agrees."The biggest point of emphasis for us on defense to contain Todd is just be like flying missiles David Long Los Angeles Rams Jerseys ," Peterson said, "always hitting him and getting 11 hats on the ball."Of course they also have to contend with the potent passing game of Jared Goff and his group of talented wide receivers."We know with this team everything' starts with the run," Peterson said. ' 'You've got thee play-action boot game and they try to take the top off of the defense. We have to make sure we're gap sound this week and don't give up the deep ball.'It would be a great help to have defensive end Markus Golden, but he could be a week away from returning from major knee surgery. Golden practiced on a limited basis Wednesday and Thursday."It's definitely going to give us a boost," Holcomb said. "He brings a lot of energy, a lot of juice. He has the ability to hold up and set the edge and also rush the passer, so I can't wait to get him back."Golden led the Cardinals in sacks two seasons ago with 12 1-2. The other defense end, All-Pro Chandler Jones, led the NFL in sacks last year with a franchise-record 17 and had one in the season opener.NOTES: Johnson was limited in practice Wednesday and Thursday with a sore back. TE Jermaine Gresham also was limited as he returns from surgery to repair an Achilles tendon. Gresham, like Golden, has yet to play this season. Being cross-trained under OL Coach Aaron Kromer can only result in positives. Demby has the potential to play a key role in the OL room." 2019 Los Angeles Rams Regular Season2019 Los Angeles Rams Offseason2019 Los Angeles Rams roster preview: OL Jamil Demby trying to cement sixth-man roleNew,3commentsBeing cross-trained under OL Coach Aaron Kromer can only result in positives. Demby has the potential to play a key role in the OL room.CDTA 2018 NFL Draft sixth-round pick who spent time with both the Los Angeles Rams and Detroit Lions, OL Jamil Demby had quite the experience as a rookie in the NFL last year.After being waived in September Los Angeles Rams Jerseys Stitched , the Rams had the intention to stash Demby on the practice squad in an attempt to have the offensive lineman develop under star Offensive Line Coach/Run Game Coordinator/Co-Offensive Coordinator Aaron Kromer. The Lions had other plans as they claimed Demby on waivers with him spending time on the Lions' practice squad. Eventually, the Rams re-signed Demby, bringing him back safe and sound.Demby got to experience the highs and lows of the NFL in a whirlwind of a rookie season from spending time with a rookie head coach and struggling team in Detroit to one of the best teams in the NFL and a Super Bowl contender in the Rams.Roster BattleThe starting five offensive lineman are nearly set in stone as LT Andrew Whitworth, LG Joseph Noteboom, C Brian Allen, RG Austin Blythe, and RT Rob Havenstein. The backups that are likely to earn roster spots are 2019 NFL Draft third-round pick Bobby Evans, fifth-round pick David Edwards and Demby. Demby has the potential to be the sixth-man and first lineman off the bench as the swing tackle given that he's practiced as the starting left tackle with Whitworth out during organized team activities.ExpectationsDemby isn't likely to start barring any injury issues. If any of the starting five OL go down by way of an injury/suspension, Demby is likely the first man off the bench to get a crack at a starting spot. The potential for Demby to start if either Noteboom or Allen struggle is there too. Left guard is obviously the more natural position for Demby to replace, though Blythe does offer center experience meaning Demby could slide in at right guard if needed with Blythe taking over at center.Chances of making the final roster (8/10)Demby has the potential to play an important role in the offensive lineman room. The swing tackle is an important spot as they can get minor playing time in jumbo packages while also being the first player to be relied upon in the event of an injury.
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April 21, 2010 by Roy Johnson
short-lived but influential design from the Belle Epoque
Alastair Duncan points out in his introduction to this beautifully illustrated study, that Art Nouveau was not a style but a movement which was a reaction against the stuffy over-decoration of the nineteenth century. It took its early inspiration from the work of William Morris, Arthur Mackmurdo, and Walter Crane, and fused these with an enthusiam for Chinoiserie and Japonisme. And as a movement it errupted very suddenly in the 1890s, spread throughout Europe and even top the USA – and then ended just as abruptly in the first decade of the new century.
It was known by a variety of names in different countries – Jugendstil in Germany, Art Nouveau in English-speaking countries, Stile Liberty in Italy (after the famous London store) Modernista in Spain, and Style Metro in France, after Guimard's Underground entrances.
The main features of Art Nouveau were the adoption of flowing, organic forms and the use of floral or vegetable decorative motifs. Even those who followed the severely vertical forms of a designer such as Mackintosh nevertheless chose tulips, poppies, and dragonflies as their embellishments.
After a general introduction, separate chapters of this study are devoted to the manifestation of Art Nouveau in architecture, furniture, graphics, ceramics, jewellery, and sculpture. In architecture, many of the commissions gained by Guimard, Van der Velde, Mucha, and Gaudi are still visible in the Parisian storefronts, the Metro entrances, and of course Gaudi's buildings in Barcelona – plus the enormous Sagrada Familia which is still under construction (and currently giving town planners headaches).
The furniture that was created at the same time was supposed to be matched in its decorative detail with the buildings for which it was designed – to demonstrate an organic and integrated aesthetic. But most of the tables, cabinets, armoires, and sideboards tend to be illustrated in isolation from their surrounds. Too much ornamentation in a room tends to take it back into the Victorian excess from which Art Nouveau was supposed to be an escape.
Strangely enough, there was no Art Nouveau school of painting, mainly because it constituted an approach to design. It was in the realm of posters, woodcuts, illustrated books, and typography that it made its greatest impact, and there are excellent examples of posters by Lautrec, Mucha, and Bonnard. These were works which gave birth to the figure that came to symbolise fin de siecle Paris and la Belle Epoque – a young woman with serpentine hair, clad fashionably in jewelled or feathered headgear and wearing immense sweeping skirts, all of which flowed abundantly to fill the frame of the picture. It's amazing to realise that these romantically stylised images were being used to advertise such mundane objects as bicycles, wine, household soap, and cigarette papers.
The field of decorative glassware was dominated by two figures – Gallé in France and Louis Comfort Tiffany in the USA. The American developed new techniques from his foundry on Long Island:
By mixing up to seven colours, trown together from different ladles, his staff could produce a giddy range of blended hues, many mottled or deeply veined to simulate nature's ever-changing moods and palette. The sheets obtained were often treated with an iridescent surface finish created in a heating chamber, where an atomised solution of metallic vapours was sprayed onto the final piece. The process gave a kaleidoscopic lustre to the glass, which became a principal characteristic of the firm's domestic wares.
In ceramics the the novelty elelment was in the application of subtle and complex glazes, but the vases, plates, and jugs are still recognisable Art Nouveau from the curvilnear plant forms and decorative leaves and tendrils cast into their surfaces.
The jewellery section is dominated by the French master of jouillerie, Lalique. He brought the setting of precious stones to a high art by the intricacy of his decorations and the inventiveness of his symbols.
There's a good bibliography and index, but a future edition might usefully include a glossary of terms for the general reader. It's not always easy to work out the differences between a selette, a guéridon, and an étagère.
Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau, London: Thames and Hudson, 2010, pp.236, ISBN 0500202737
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June 16, 2009 by Roy Johnson
Design history: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin 1919-1933
The Bauhaus was a major landmark in the development of modernism in the early years of the last century. In concept it grew out of the German desire to form its own version of the English Arts and Crafts movement, but it quickly became influenced by constructivism and expressionism. As a movement it grew rapidly in Weimar, despite the economic recession in Germany in the 1920s – and it embraced all forms of design – typography, ceramics, furniture, architecture.
Its principal teachers and movers are now household names in their respective disciplines – painters Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Lionel Feininger; architects Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe; designers Joseph Albers and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. What made them different to earlier design movements was that they wished to make their products available for industrial production.
This is the first full-length study of the movement and its participants to be based on the papers of the Bauhaus archive – many of which are reproduced in this elegantly designed book which does its subject proud in terms of page layout and typographic design. Magdalene Droste traces both the artistic policies which were constantly changing as key personnel came and went, as well as the political and economic difficulties of keeping the institution afloat – most of which was achieved in its first phase by Walter Gropius.
The structure of the book follows the policies under its three directors – Gropius, Mayer, and van der Rohe on its three sites, Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin.
I hadn't realised before that the curriculum also included drama, which produced mechanical ballet and abstract theatre which still seems quite avant garde now, eighty-odd years later. There are some wonderful pictures of the products of the institute: the first really modern furniture; stained glass, pottery, and rugs; plus some exquisite tableware by Marianne Brandt, who for me is the outstanding discovery of this collection.
Gropius presciently observed: "Much of what we today consider luxury will tomorrow be the norm" – and its true that looking at the (for then) ultra-modern chairs, tables, and kitchen cabinets is hardly any different to thumbing through a contemporary IKEA catalogue. Some of their designs were commercially successful, particularly their best-selling wallpaper designs, many of which are still in production today.
The Bauhaus is perhaps known best for its influence on modern architecture, and yet strangely enough that subject was not taught there until a demand for it was made by students and then implemented by Mies van der Rohe. Droste's detailed accounts of the classes taught there and the examples of work produced make you wish you could sign up as a student.
The latter part of her story deals with the intense battles which went on between left and right-wing political forces over the future of the Bauhaus. These ended in 1933 with the victory of the Nazis and the closure of the institution.
If there is a weakness in this scholarly piece of work, it's that the story is not taken beyond there. For we know that many of the principal figures involved emigrated to America and continued their work in the New World . But you have to stop somewhere, and any shortfall is made up for by the quality of the illustrations,
I spotted this book in a display on modernism at Waterstone's, selected it as the best on offer, and was amazed when I saw the price. It's another in the astonishingly cheap and high quality publications from Taschen
Magdalene Droste, Bauhaus, London: Taschen, 2006, pp.256, ISBN 3822821055
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Bauhaus 1919-1933
October 22, 2009 by Roy Johnson
modernist design movement
Bauhaus was a design movement which sprang up in Germany in post 1914-1918 as a reaction to the efflorescent curlicues of la Belle Epoque. It emphasised (particularly in theory) rectilinear practicality, function over form, and a political element of art for the masses rather than a privileged few. Most of its designers were of course middle-class artists who were caught up in the revolutionary fervour of the Weimar Republic – but its greatest strength in terms of enduring design is that many of its creations are still in production today. Wallpapers are still in print, vintage retro table lamps are either being reproduced at exorbitant prices, or are trading on eBay for not much less.
This is an excellent presentation of the work done there – for a number of reasons. First, it shows a wide range of products – from paintings, furniture, and architecture, to photography and household effects. Second, the illustrations are fresh and well researched. There are illustrations here I have never seen before in books on the subject. And third, there is plenty of historical depth and context, including original photos of the Bauhaus studios and the people who taught there.
The staff list is like a roll call of modernism at its highest – architects Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, designer Herbert Bayer, painters Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joseph Albers, and Lionel Feininger, artists El Lizitsky and Moholy-Nagy, plus the constructivists Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. I was also glad to see that the book included work by the wonderful and much under-rated product designer Marianne Brandt.
The format of the book is simple and effective. Double page spreads are arranged with explanatory text on the left and colour illustrations on the right. Just the right sort of proportion for this type of book. Full details of each item are provided, and there are links to further information in the appendices.
The range of items is quite astonishing. There are buildings (the Bauhaus workshops themselves) designs and photos of completed architectural projects, furniture, wall hangings, paintings, advertising posters, household objects such as electric lamps and tea sets, rugs, children's toys, and photographs.
However, form and function were not always harmonised as successfully as they might have been. It has to be said that even a design 'classic' such as Gerrit Ritvelt's armchair (1918) looked as modern as modern could be in 1918 – but as design critic Victor Papanek observes
These square abstractions painted in shrill primaries were almost impossible to sit in; they were extremely uncomfortable. Sharp corners ripped clothing, and the entire zany construction bore no relation to the human body
But the overwhelming impression one takes from a collection like this is of design inventiveness working at all levels – from architecture, interior and furniture design, through fabrics and furnishings, down to graphics and typography.
In fact much of today's architectural design is directly attributable to the influence of the Bauhaus designers. Rectilinear buildings, minimalist interiors, walls made from glass bricks, bentwood furniture, ceiling to floor windows, uncarpeted hard surface floors. Moreover, the spirit of Bauhaus functionality lives on in the products and styles of stores such as Habitat and IKEA.
I got an email only the other day offering copies of the famous Barcelona chair (Mies van der Rohe 1929) for a mere $3000 – only they called it the 'Madrid' chair just to cover themselves. So the spirit of the Bauhaus is definitely alive and doing commercially well today thank you very much.
Andrew Kennedy, Bauhaus, London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2005, pp.384, ISBN 184451336X
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Charleston: Past and Present
official guide to one of Bloomsbury's cultural treasures
Charleston is the country house in Lewes, Sussex which was established as a family home by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. She was married to Clive Bell at the time and had children by both men, but this was how things were done in the Bloomsbury Group. They lived in the house for over fifty years, covering the walls and furniture with their paintings, designing ceramics, making rugs and wall hangings, cultivating the gardens – and generally forming what became a unique collection of domestic and interior design.
The house also became the country retreat for many of the Bloomsbury Group. Vanessa raised her children Julian, Quentin and Angelica there, and she was visited by her sister Virginia Woolf, as well as by her ex-lover Roger Fry, and at weekends her husband Clive Bell and his lover Mary Hutchinson. These people in turn brought their friends such as John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, E.M.Forster, and David Garnett. Their personal lives and relationships were rather complicated, but this joint artistic venture was one that helped cement their common interests in design, decoration, painting, and domestic arts.
The Bloomsberries were great supporters of modern art, and many of them had made judicious purchases long before the artists became well known. Consequently, the walls of the house came to be decorated not only with their own paintings, but with works by Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, and Modigliani.
The main part of the book is the official guide to the house and gardens, written by Bloomsbury expert Richard Shone. This contains details of the contents of all the main rooms, and is well illustrated by colour photographs of their principal features and objects.
The latter part of the book is a collection of letters and memoirs, written by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett, who was his sister but who didn't know that her father was Duncan Grant until she was eighteen. Quentin Bell's memoir is of an idyllic childhood, spent with his brother Julian, largely unsupervised by semi-absent parents. He gives a Swallows and Amazons type of account.
His sister Angelica's is more seriously thoughtful and reflective. It combines observations on Vanessa Bell's fabric designs with psychological analyses of her relationship with Charleston and its other inhabitants. She captures the spirit and the development of the house as if it were a living being. She also draws an interesting socio-political contrast with her Christmas visits to the conservative house at Seend, which was the home of Clive Bell's parents:
Even though it was at Seend that I celebrated my birthday – a birthday that belonged by rights to Charleston…the atmosphere of Victorian constraint could not have been tolerated for longer than the three or four days we spent there … it did not contain, as Charleston seemed to, the secret of creativity and renewal.
It's also a paean of appreciation for her mother, as the presiding spirit of generosity and creativeness that permeated the house. This chapter is an interesting addendum to the account of her childhood that she provides in Deceived with Kindness.
Miraculously, the house survived the second world war and was kept in more or less its original condition. Quentin Bell (who grew up there) describes the practical difficulties and strategic frustrations of restoring the property. Fortunately for the historical records of English modernism, the house was completely refurbished, then purchased from its original owners, and is now governed by The Charleston Trust.
Quentin Bell et al, Charleston: Past and Present: The Official Guide to One of Bloomsbury's Cultural Treasures, London: Harvest Books, 1988, pp.180, ISBN 0156167735
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July 8, 2009 by Roy Johnson
re-thinking the way we make things
Cradle to Cradle is the programme for a philosophy of ecological design principles based on a consciousness of the global environment. IT raises fundamental issues about sustainability, well-used resources, and sensitivity to eco-systems. The authors are an architect and a chemist who between them tackle issues from major construction projects, to the design of shampoo and re-cyclable running shoes. It's a work whose primary purpose it to make you think about design issues. Don't expect glamorous colour photographs or examples of slick kettles and toasters – but be prepared to have your notions of 'waste' and 're-usability' challenged in a radical manner.
Their stated aim is to re-think the way in which everything is made. And though they posit a very radical philosophy of using design intelligently, they are not reactionary when it comes to modern industry. In fact the book starts with an account of the Industrial Revolution which focuses on many of its good intentions – before listing its contemporary weaknesses in terms of the world's ecology. They make their case for eco-consciousness using the very book itself:
It is printed on a synthetic 'paper'…made from plastic resins and inorganic fillers. This material is not only waterproof, entirely durable, and (in many localities) recyclable by conventional means; it is also a prototype for the book as a technical nutrient', that is, as a product that can be broken down and circulated indefinitely in industrial cycles – made and remade as 'paper' or other products
Good you might think: but the book is surprisingly heavy, and (though most people don't know this) the biggest part of the cost of getting printed books to the public is transportation costs, based on weight.
They are also critical of what they see as shortsighted attempts to solve ecological waste by recycling:
your [recycled] rug is made of things that were never designed with this further use in mind, and wrestling them into this form has required as much energy – and generated as much waste – as producing a new carpet
The solution often proposed for these problems is called eco-efficiency – 'doing more with less'. But they suggest that this just gives the appearance of social concern without changing the basic systems of industrial production. As they put it, 'Being 'less bad' is not good: it is to accept things as they are.'
Examining the relationship of human beings to the planet at a very fundamental level, they come up with an interesting concept – that there is really no such thing as 'waste'. Because when we throw things away, they do not go away. Indeed there is and can be no 'away'. These things stay with us even if they are dumped in landfills, and even if they are incinerated we are still left with the by-products of combustion (including the CO2).
There is no need for shampoo bottles, toothpaste tubes, yogurt and ice-cream cartons, juice-containers, and other such packaging to last decades (or even centuries) longer than what came inside them
Some of the ideas they propose as alternatives seem rather fanciful. Recyclable televisions for instance: could their internal parts really be cost-effectively extracted and re-used? Running shoes with replaceable soles? But they do claim to have had a success with an upholstery fabric which is bio-degradable.
They are very much in favour of using local materials (think how wasteful it is transporting them from afar) and encouraging the use of local labour, which promotes the local economy.
It's a book crying out for graphic illustration – particularly when they come to describing the ecologically positive buildings they have designed – with grass-carpeted roofs and tree-lined interiors. Nevertheless, I think this may well be one of those modern design classics which will find its way alongside Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things and Viktor Papanek's Design for the Real World as a standard text on every design curriculum.
William McDonough and Michael Braumgart, Cradle to Cradle, New York: North Point Press, 2002, pp.193, ISBN: 0099535475
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Design for the Real World
human-centred and ecological design principles
Design for the Real World is often tipped in design circles as one of the best overall guides to ethical design theory and practice, along with Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things. Victor Papanek takes a radically user-centred approach to design, with a very strong emphasis on social and ecological consciousness. It's obvious to see why a book like this becomes a standard text – because all his questions are very fundamental. Essentially, he bases his design judgements on political criteria. What does this object do? Who is it for? What is it made of? And do the answers to these questions have any social consequences for the rest of society?
He is quite uncompromising in his approach. No objects are too humble to be considered in terms of good or bad design – a hammer, a teacup, even a simple cardboard box. He is amusingly critical of famous design objects such as de Stijl and Macintosh chairs:
These square abstractions painted in shrill primaries were almost impossible to sit in; they were extremely uncomfortable. Sharp corners ripped clothing, and the entire zany construction bore no relation to the human body … The thronelike Glasgow chairs designed by Charles Rennie MacIntosh in 1902 – with six-and-one-half-foot ladderbacks [had] all the soft comforts of an orange crate.
You won't get lots of ideas for fancy new designs, but you will get a radical method and a critical approach to design which means you will never look at a spoon or a sports car in the same way again.
En route he offers scathing analyses of multinational corporations such as fast food chains and motor car manufacturers for their often selfish and profligate policies. There's a detailed critique of MacDonald's packaging waste, and a clear link argued between gas-guzzling car design and US foreign policy in the middle-East. These ideas will appeal to anybody who wishes to combine design with an ecological conscience.
He also comes up with rather witty observations on 'fashion' and false aesthetics from time to time:
Because in any reasonably conducted home, alarm-clocks seldom travel through the air at speeds approaching five hundred miles per hour, streamlining clocks is out of place.
As an educationalist, he advances several useful problem solving techniques which could be applied in other disciplines, as well as design. But this book doesn't let you off the hook. Whatever is being designed, he wants to know 'Is it useful?', 'Does it do the job for which it is intended?', and 'Is it cost effective?'
If there's a weakness, it's that he spends a lot of time spelling out the problems of people with physical and social disabilities and calling for design solutions to them. We would all agree that these issues need attention, but personally I would rather he explained the principles of good design.
He gives plenty of examples of 'alternative' cheap and cheerful design solutions pioneered by his design studio and students
He's fairly unrelenting in his argument for ecologically sound, labour-saving devices to help the underprivileged of the third world, but few of them seem entirely convincing, even when they pass prototyping.
The latter part of the book takes on the issue of design and education. Here he makes an argument for what he calls integrated design – working in teams, tackling real problems (not fashion-related) and keeping an ethical vision in mind.
The main trouble with design schools seems to be that they teach too much design and not enough about the ecological, social, economic, and political environment in which design takes place.
If you are serious about product design, put this book on your reading list. It's full of attitude, full of ideas, and uncompromising in its approach. And it's got a very good series of bibliographies on all topics related to the issues he discusses.
Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World, London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, pp.394, ISBN: 0500273588
Filed Under: Product design Tagged With: Design, Design for the Real World, Ecological design, Product design, Theory, Viktor Papanek
Design in the USA
Product design in America 1800-2000
Design in the USA is much more interesting than its rather plain title suggests. It's a very scholarly approach to the subject, incorporating both the economic and social history of design in America from its revolutionary origins to the present day. Jeffrey Meikle's first chapters deal with America's ambiguous relationship with Europe (and England in particular) before native designers begin to emerge towards the end of the nineteenth century in the form of Charles Eastlake (furniture) and Tiffany (lamps) – though I was glad to see that the novelist Edith Wharton got a mention for The Decoration of Houses (1897). Then there's something of a leap from the end of the nineteenth century to the arrival of art deco in the 1920s.
Since the art deco designers were influenced by the motifs they picked up from "automobiles, airplanes, zigzag bolts of electricity, and Manhattan's skyscrapers", one wonders why the engineers and architects who produced them are not given more consideration.
He claims that "The profession known as industrial design emerged during the Great Depression of the 1930s", and he certainly provides a very detailed account of the design consultancies set up by Norman Bel Geddes, Raymond Lowey, and Henry Dreyfuss.
He's particularly good at documenting the sociology of his subject – the movement of designers within their profession, and the effect on design of economic and political changes in society.
The good part of this survey is that issues of design are firmly placed within the context of American history, economics, and social change. It's almost like reading an account of the social development of the USA in the last two centuries.
His account ends, quite tantalisingly, just as more-or-less universal access to the personal computers makes designers of us all. Now with the proliferation of web sites and blogs – plus the additional tools of digital photography and software to personalise everything from page layout to typography – the arts of design are truly democratised, which he points out is where they began in the USA two centuries earlier.
The book is very well illustrated, and there's also a full scholarly apparatus – references, further reading for each chapter and its principal topics, a timeline matrix of design and related subjects; and a list of museums and websites.
Jeffrey L. Meikle, Design in the USA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp.252, ISBN: 0192842196
Filed Under: Product design Tagged With: Design, Design history, Design in the USA, Product design
managing design strategy, processes and implementation
This new title from publishers AVA deals with the business aspects of design projects. I imagine the ideal readers would be students of design who were taking a serious interest in applying their theoretical skills to the practical demands of applying them in the world of commerce and manufacturing. The structure of the book follows that outlined in its sub-title – one section each on design strategy, then managing the design process, and finally design implementation. Each section is split into the knowledge required, a selection of case studies, and an outline of the skills needed for implementation. There is an underlying supposition that in addition to aesthetics, good design management will also take into account profitability, functionality, and even ecological issues.
So it's design with very much a practical business slant in mind. There's an illustrated timeline of design which starts at 1759 with Josiah Wedgwood, then takes in most of the best-known names in design – from Peter Behrens, Moholy-Nagy, Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, and Viktor Papanek, to the establishment of the design standards which have blossomed in the last ten years.
Although design is approached in the text as if it were a science or even a branch of sociology, it's quite clear that a lot of it is connected with marketing and publicity – though at least Kathryn Best admits this by discussing such issues as 'audience', 'market', and 'product life cycle'.
The case studies are interesting, well illustrated, and up to date – including for instance the Oyster smartcard for travel in London which eliminates the need for paper tickets, reduces queues, and keeps cash off the buses. She also has no problem illustrating all the positives of a company brand such as Apple with its iconic iPod (designed by UK's Jonathan Ives).
The extended analysis of real-world examples range from thermal imaging devices (heat cameras) to Camper shoes, and from ecological architecture to a new Honda motor scooter. There are also interviews with leading designers from companies such as Yahoo and the National Health Service.
There's a certain amount of idealisation in all this. Only projects launched by huge companies like AEG, Phillips, and Sony could afford such comprehensive planning of its developments. I'm sure that the majority of design projects have to make do with fewer staff and resources, and a shoestring budget compared with the methods being proposed here.
However, there are plenty of flow diagrams showing the stages of these ideal procedures – so anybody can see the models of good practice and adapt them for their own circumstances. There are also guidance sections on team working and managing creative designers. These include non-hierarchical systems of working and, it would seem, working conditions and design studios straight from the pages of Architecture Today.
The last section on project management in practice is closer to 'management studies' than to design. It reinforces the ideas mapped out recently by Chris Anderson in his influential essay The Long Tail – that manufacturers today are reducing their costs and increasing their performance by carrying the minimum of stock, delivering within hours instead of days or weeks, and responding instantly to the customer's needs. If you were wondering why some shops in the clothing trade only stock what's on display, that's the reason why.
It's an amazingly thorough production. It even finishes with practical suggestions for communication skills, based on the notion that designers need to be able to write effective reports and good business letters. There's a bibliography, a webliography, suggested design journals, and a glossary. It's also stylishly designed and produced, printed on thick matte paper stock with colour-coded pages, bound in an attractive paperback A4 format, and elegantly laid out throughout.
Kathryn Best, Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation, Lausanne: AVA, 2006, pp.215, ISBN: 2940373124
Filed Under: Product design Tagged With: Design, Design Management, Product design, Project management
Design of the 20th Century
pocketbook guide to major modern designers
These Taschen pocketbooks are very well produced, with high quality print, full colour illustrations, and they are amazingly cheap. I've bought several of them, both in the UK and abroad, and always been surprised at the integrity of the writing and the scholarship. But I have not been surprised at the quality of the illustration and the graphic design. It's always been first rate.
This one is a collection of major designers and design companies in the twentieth century, arranged in A to Z format. Each entry consists of a biographical sketch or a historical account of a company or movement, with well-chosen colour illustrations of typical products. The authors are both experts in industrial design, both ex-Sotheby's, and now running their own consultancy in London.
It's amazing how many of the people represented were teachers, students, or felt the influence of the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius (architect) Marcel Breuer (furniture) Moholy-Nagy (photography) – though there are plenty from other sources – Le Corbusier (France), Charles and Ray Eames (USA), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scotland). Entries run from Alvar Aalto (Finland) to Frank Lloyd Wright (USA) and Marco Zanuso (Italy).
Lots of other well known names are represented: Lalique (glass) Mies van der Rohe (architecture) and Paul Rand (graphics). The one new discovery (for me) was Raymond Loewy, though I wondered why they chose to illustrate his work with a ceramic tea-set when he is renowned principally for streamlining automobiles and Greyhound coaches.
This volume is a very comforting mix of interior design, consumer products, teapots, chairs, and other domestic objects. But the main thing to say about such a high-quality yet low-price product is that it's terrific value for money.
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Design of the 20th Century, Taschen, 2003, pp.190, ISBN: 3822855421
Filed Under: Product design Tagged With: Cultural history, Design, Design of the 20th Century, Product design
Design Since 1900
encyclopedia of modern design and designers
This is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of modern design. It covers graphics, consumer products, interior decor, furniture, print, advertising, plus industrial and architectural design. Entries run from the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto (who for obvious reasons always comes first in such listings) through Rene Lalique (glassware) and the multi-talented Hungarian Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, to typographist Hermann Zapf and Piet Zwart (who for the same reason always comes last).
Most entries are illustrated by thumbnail graphics. It's a shame they are not in colour, but you can't expect everything in such a good-value production. The entries are either brief biographical sketches of individual designers (Saul Bass, Charles Eames, Raymond Loewy, Alexandr Rodchenko) with notes on why they have been so influential. There are also short histories of companies famous for their emphasis on design (Bauhaus, General Motors, Olivetti, Wiener Werkstatte).
Others include influential artistic movements (art deco, constructivism, neo-plasticism, and post-modernism) and individual products which have become icons of modern design (the Citroen DS19, Dyson vacuum cleaners, Tatlin's Monument to the Third International).
There are notes on materials of manufacture (aluminium, formica, MDF, polyurethane) movements and schools (Deutsche Werkbund, Omega, and Black Mountain College) and explanations of technical terms such as anthropometrics, bit mapping, deconstruction, and third age design (which isn't quite what you might think).
He even includes individual shops such as Biba, Habitat, and the Body Shop; typographists such as Neville Brody, Eric Gill, and Jan Tschichold. The only thing missing is Information Technology. There are a couple of mentions of computer games, but curiously enough not a single reference to Web design.
The text incorporates extensive cross-referencing, suggestions for further reading, and a chronological chart of design highlights since 1900.
Guy Julier, Design Since 1900, London: Thames and Hudson, 2004, pp.224, ISBN: 0500203792
Filed Under: Design history, Graphic design, Product design Tagged With: Decorative arts, Design, Design Since 1900, Graphic design, Product design


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"It's not an omen, Allison," I say distractedly. The vomit warmth reaches through the shiny leather and as my toes begin to sweat, I pray that rental tuxedo shoes are water/puke proof. I wonder if they're Gore-tex lined? "It's just puke," I say, and to punctuate the point Dirk retches his remaining stomach contents onto my feet.
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Q: Creating a Youtube bot I have a problem that I need to solve.
I create Youtube videos and every time I'm on the upload page I have to :

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*remove the ".mp4" extension from every title

*change my video category

*put the same description in all of the videos

*put the same keywords in all of the videos

So, I firstly wanted to create this bot in C#, but I would have to learn C# (I already know C++, but again, I would have to learn all the libraries in C#).
I was wondering if this bot could be created in Javascript (because I already know Javascript) or in any other language that I know (PHP, C++)?
Maybe I can create a Mozilla Firefox extension that does it for me in Javascript? As I said, could someone just tell me in what programming (or scripting) language am I supposed to write this bot?
So, as I said, I would manually log in, bot would just need to access my already opened page in Mozilla Firefox and change that four things.
Thanks in advance!

A: I would definitely go with javascript on this one. Take a look at GreaseMonkey - Scripting add-on for FireFox, that allows you to add custom javascript code to pages.
I would create a script that does all your needed changes when you call this script.
Or if all these things are on the same page you can use simple bookmarklet that calls javascript and changes these things for you.
I'm not too familiar with video uploading on youtube, so can't help you there, but you mentioned that you are familiar with javascript, so finding input fields with values and changing them shouldn't be too much of a hassle.

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I attended last week's 19th annual conference and exhibition of the Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa (RAPDASA) in Johannesburg. About 220 people attended from several countries. The RAPDASA organization does a fantastic job with the event year after year, and this year was no exception. (I've attended all 19 of them.) Thanks to the fine people at Resolution Circle and the University of Johannesburg for hosting the event, and many others who worked hard to make it a success. Pictured in the following image are Ian van Zyl and Deon de Beer, both of Central University of Technology (CUT), and Amelia Du Toit of Lonmin, and me. CUT and Lonmin are a part of an interesting project named PlatForum, which involves the development and 3D printing of parts in platinum.
This week was Formnext, a trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, which included much of the best in additive manufacturing products and services worldwide. An estimated 26,919 people and 632 exhibitors filled two large exhibition halls at Messe Frankfurt. AM machines and parts dominated, but design software products for AM and post-processing machinery were also in abundance at this year's fourth annual event. The development of end-to-end process chains has never been more important and it was evident. The following image shows the XJet exhibit—one of the many impressive displays at Formnext.
On November 14 at Formnext, a half-day Additive Manufacturing Standards Forum was held. It was initiated by America Makes and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) with support from the U.S. Department of Commerce's U.S. Commercial Service in Düsseldorf. The purpose of the half-day session was to bring together key stakeholders and others to provide an update, answer questions, and discuss AM standards development worldwide. I had the privilege of moderating the session. The following shows the organizations that supported the event.
An important part of this session was the presentation of the America Makes and ANSI Standardization Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing (Version 2.0) and the Additive Manufacturing Standardization Collaborative (AMSC). Both could have a long-term impact on the adoption of AM around the world.
After 14 days on four continents, it was nice to return to Colorado. I like to meet with friends and make new ones, but it's also good to be home with family and friends, especially over the holidays. (Thanksgiving is next week in the U.S.) The ski season is underway, so it's time to visit the high country to take part in a sport that is relaxing and exhilarating. It's a great compliment to a full and rewarding year of travel and work.
Note: The following was authored by Doug Rhoda, CEO of DMS (Colorado Springs, Colorado). Rhoda was directly responsible for hiring more than 200 interns while CEO of Wolf Robotics (Fort Collins, Colorado). Today, an estimated 75% of Wolf's permanent employees came from internships.
Getting the right people "on the bus" is one of the most important tasks of a leader. Although not quick or expedient, I have found that building long-term mutual beneficial relationships with local universities and developing internship programs have been critical to getting the best people.
In spite of some of the headlines today, I have found reason for optimism with today's young people. I have had the privilege of hiring and coaching so many millennials that are bright, hard-working, and capable. Like anyone, they are looking for autonomy (not to be micro-managed), mastery (to learn), and purpose in their work.
Our recipe, refined over the years, challenges young people. Our student interns start on the factory floor, getting their hands dirty, and learning our machines from the ground up. While they are in the factory, they are being evaluated by senior factory floor leaders to determine whether the individual has the right work ethic, attitude, and ability to learn.
An internship is like an extended interview. It's an interview of the student by our staff, and it's an interview of the company by the student. During the internship, the intern can determine whether the company and industry are of interest for long-term employment.
If the person is right and the economics justify it, we will hire graduating interns into full-time positions. In the case of engineering students, they are hired into a field service role, where they learn how the machines are applied and what customers value. We have found that after their customer service stint, the former interns discern where their passion and interests lie, and self-select—with our involvement—key roles in the business. Among them are design engineering, project management, and software development. Because of their strong foundation in the business, they contribute in unique and precious ways.
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Resort parking is by valet only with a daily charge of $45 + tax paid directly to the resort.
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Fundraising Garage Sales Move Goods That the Thrift Stores Won't Take!
Have you tried donating used goods to places like Goodwill and the Salvation Army lately? Having recently moved, I've done so by the carload -- and often end up carting stuff right back home.
"No, we don't take cushions." "Sorry, no stuffed animals." "Not if it needs repairs."
I'm not blaming them -- they no doubt get a lot of plain old garbage, and have to draw the line somewhere.
At day's end, of course, you may need to get creative about disposing of things, as you yourself realize that Goodwill and Salvation Army aren't going to take all the leftovers. Scout around your community ahead of time. The local animal shelter, for example, may have a use for bedding that others won't take.


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Archidiecezja Lomé (łac. Archidioecesis Lomensis, fr. Archidiocèse de Lomé) – rzymskokatolicka archidiecezja ze stolicą w Lomé, w Togo.

Archidiecezja podlega metropolii Lomé.

Historia
 14 września 1955 powołanie rzymskokatolickiej Archidiecezji Lomé

Arcybiskup Lomé
Nicodème Anani Barrigah-Benissan (od 23 listopada 2019)
Denis Komivi Amuzu-Dzakpah (8 czerwca 2007 - 23 listopada 2019)
Philippe Fanoko Kossi Kpodzro (17 grudnia 1992 - 8 czerwca 2007)
Robert-Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh-Anyron (10 marca 1962 - 13 lutego 1992)
Joseph-Paul Strebler (8 listopada 1945 - 16 czerwca 1961)
Jean-Marie Cessou (11 stycznia 1921 - 3 marca 1945)
Franz Wolf (16 marca 1914 - 1921)

Bibliografia
 Informacje na stronie Giga-Catholic
 Informacje na stronie Catholic-Hierarchy

Lomé
Religia w Lomé


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The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the Colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their undergraduate students' performances in that year's examinations. Two colleges—Darwin and Clare Hall—do not have undergraduate students and do not feature in the list. It was created in 1981 by Peter Tompkins, then a third-year undergraduate mathematics student at Trinity College, who compiled it for many years. It was formerly published by The Independent. Since 2016, it has been published by Varsity, a student newspaper of the University of Cambridge. It is not an official University of Cambridge table. It does not take account of students who are not candidates for Honours degrees, or those who have failed to gain a degree. It was not published in 2020 or 2021 as a result of the restrictions to the examination process brought about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rankings

Current rankings
Initially, it only included final year exams but since 1997 has covered all exams for which grades are allocated. The table allocates 5 points for a First Class degree, 3 points for an Upper Second (known also as a 2.i), 2.5 points for a Second Undivided (A second class degree that isn't divided into Upper or Lower), 2 points for a Lower Second (a 2.ii), 1 point for a Third and no points for someone only granted an allowance towards an Ordinary Degree. The scores in each subject are then weighted to a common average, to avoid the bias towards colleges with higher proportions of students entered for subjects which receive higher average grades. The result is expressed as a percentage of the total number of points available. The differences between the highest places on the table are usually very slight. Christ's College was the top college in 2019, after coming top in 2018 following seven years in which Trinity College came top. The rankings are not officially endorsed by the University. Since Darwin College and Clare Hall admit only graduate students, they do not feature in this undergraduate ranking. Some of the mature colleges, including St. Edmund's College, Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, and Wolfson College, tend to perform relatively poorly in the Tompkins Table, but have significantly more graduate students than undergraduate students, so the results here are not representative of the majority of the student population of each of these colleges.

Below is the table for 2022:

Past rankings

Similar league tables

Baxter tables
Certain Colleges of the University of Cambridge commission similar tables called Baxter Tables from Martin Baxter who is a financial analyst specialising in mathematical modelling and who developed the Electoral Calculus web site. Baxter tables rank colleges' undergraduate students by their year and subject separately and are delivered in July or August. They are compiled using published Class Lists, which do not include students who are not candidates for Honours degrees, or those who have failed to gain a degree, or those whose names the Council have determined should be withheld from public display. They are meant for internal use of Colleges but not the University, being distributed to the Senior Tutors of the Colleges , with the full tables not being published publicly or outside of the Colleges, and some students being unaware of their existence. However, the rankings of Colleges in the Baxter Tables are sometimes referred to by Colleges in publicly available literature,  and the methodology used to compile the Baxter Tables is also available. There is also a 'value-added' table, which shows how students' results improve over the course of their years at Cambridge, and is intended to give a measure or indication of the quality of teaching at the different Colleges. However, with such small sample sizes, the amount of meaningful information which can be extracted from these tables is questionable.

Norrington table
The corresponding ranking for Oxford colleges is the Norrington Table. Since 1986, when the University of Oxford adopted split second-class degrees, the Norrington Table has adopted the same method of scoring as the Tompkins Table, but without the weighting attached to individual subject scores.

See also
Norrington Table

References

External links
Tompkins Table 2015
Tompkins Table 2014
Tompkins Table 2013
Tompkins Tables 2000–2007
Tompkins Table 1999
Tompkins Tables 1997, 1998

1981 introductions
Culture of the University of Cambridge
History of the University of Cambridge
University and college rankings
Universities in the United Kingdom


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(LONDON Oilprices.com) -	 Along with 3 billion other viewers around the world, I plan to tune in for the month-long World Cup to see whether the 22-year old Neymar can withstand the colossal pressure that has been put upon his shoulders to deliver a win for team Brazil.
Oil prices have risen to the highest level this year over fears of the violence disrupting exports from OPEC member Iraq.
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As the rapid advance south by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) towards Baghdad appeared to slow over the weekend, fierce fighting erupted in the town of Tal Afar 40 miles west of Mosul near the Syrian border.


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Art Gallery of Ontario,
Thomson Galleries
Designers: Frank Gehry International
Housing a Collection
One of North America's leading art museums, boasting a redesign by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, opened two new attractions: the Thomson Collection of Ship Models Collection, which features one of the largest collections of ship models ever assembled, and The Thomson Collection of European Art, featuring over 900 Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque artworks the crown jewel of which is Peter Paul Rubens' "The Massacre of the Innocents."  kubik maltbie was faced with unique display and casework challenges that pushed the limits of possibility in a museum environment.
Intricate Casework, Stunning Showcases, Exquisite Enclosures
The international design partnership of kubik maltbie and Click Netherfield worked in close collaboration with architects from Gehry International for nearly two years on design development, production, and installation of some of the most cutting-edge museum casework in the world.
The team's work is comprised of more than eighty-five showcases in total throughout the AGO, including six spectacular one-of-a-kind undulating curved glass cases, along with eleven other freestanding cases that house the Thomson Collection of ship models and protect this priceless collection.
Throughout the galleries, kubik maltbie fashioned cases that are exquisitely detailed in a range of beautiful finishes including granite, marble, wood, and copper to complement the beautiful objects on display. Several smaller enclosures – one clad in shining, overlapping copper tiles, the other in black slate -create intimate spaces for visitors to view exquisite works such as illuminated manuscripts. The team also engineered and fabricated twenty custom-built wall cases, eighteen free-standing cases for the European Art Galleries, and nineteen detailed glass cases framed in Indigenous Douglas fir millwork for the Canadian Art & First Nations Galleries.
The craftsmanship, detailing, and intricacy of installation, sets the AGO casework as an international standard for museums and galleries across the globe.
"The team's resources, both internal and external, are unparalleled within the industry. I would not hesitate to work with them again and can recommend them without reservation as a partner with the superior project management and fabrication skills that are required to bring a museum to life."
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Maui Wowi's Home Run at Salt River Fields!
Salt River Fields at Talking Stick® welcomes Maui Wowi® as a vendor during the 2017 Spring Training season, February 22 through April 1, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Maui Wowi will be serving freshly blended fruit smoothies to baseball fans from its tiki-hut style mobile cart inside the ballpark. This is Maui Wowi's first year at Salt River Fields, the spring training facility of the Arizona Diamondbacks® and Colorado Rockies®, which has an 11,000-seat capacity, 12 practice fields, and spans 140 acres.
Maui Wowi is proud to be among new and existing food and beverage vendors and to offer fans delicious smoothies that are gluten free and a healthier snack alternative.
"This is an exciting opportunity for the brand to share our premium quality products with baseball fans at one of the finest spring training complexes in the league," said John Wuycheck, senior vice president of franchise development at Kahala Brands™, parent company of Maui Wowi. "The mobility of the Maui Wowi cart makes it highly adaptable to any environment and allows us to bring the Aloha Spirit to just about anywhere."
Maui Wowi franchisees John and Shannon Portugal will be overseeing operations of their versatile mobile Maui Wowi cart at Salt River Fields. The couple, who lives in Temecula, California, own and operate a variety of units located at events and venues throughout their home state. This is their first time expanding their business across state lines and opens the door to future opportunities for their business and the brand in the Arizona market, where Kahala Brands is headquartered.
A variety of delicious smoothie flavors like Strawberry, Mango Orange, and Black Raspberry will be available at the venue throughout spring training. Just look for the festive Hawaiian-themed cart and say 'Aloha.'
For more information on Maui Wowi, please visit www.mauiwowi.com. For information on Salt River Fields, please visit www.saltriverfields.com.
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PV houses historic collection
The Daily Courier/Jo. L. Keener --- Prescott Valley Arts and Culture coordinator Rex Ijams adjusts a piece by Solon Borglum at the Prescott Valley Civic Center.
Originally Published: July 26, 2007 8:25 a.m.
PRESCOTT-For 100 years, Prescott area residents and visitors have enjoyed the Roughrider sculpture at the courthouse plaza in downtown Prescott.
Art critics recognize the statue as one of the best examples of horse sculpture in the world.
As impressive as this larger-than-life sculpture is, the Prescott Valley Civic Center is home to 27 other pieces by the same artist, Solon Borglum.
Prescott Valley Arts & Culture Coordinator Rex Ijams said the town acquired the sculptures through the efforts of Jerri Wagner, the founding member of the Prescott Community Art Trust.
Ijams said the sculptures sat in storage "from 1987 to 1998. Individual pieces would be pulled out for display, but the collection had no permanent home."
Prescott Valley officials signed a management agreement with the Prescott Community Art Trust, now the Prescott Area Art Trust, in February 2003, creating a permanent home for the collection.
Prescott Area Art Trust President Fred Wakeland said Wagner helped bring the Borglum collection to Prescott because of her relationship with the artist's family.
The Sharlot Hall Museum originally displayed the collection. The museum remodeled and the collection moved to First National Bank. When the art trust had to vacate the bank, it elected to surrender the collection to Prescott Valley.
The entire Borglum collection consists of 34 pieces, including bronzes, plaster casts, photographs, a child's Native American dress, ink drawings, an oil painting and furniture.
An alcove at the Prescott Valley Civic Center is the home for the furniture, plaster casts, photographs and child's dress, which Ijams said "Borglum's daughter wore and was probably made by Native Americans from South Dakota."
Solon Borglum lived from 1868 to 1922.
In the early 20th century, any mention of the 'sculptor Borglum' typically referred to Solon Borglum.
Today, most people associate the Borglum name with his brother, Gutzon, the artist who sculpted Mount Rushmore.
Solon, 15 months younger than his brother, earned international fame as an artist much earlier than Gutzon. Artistic rivalry flared between the brothers when Gutzon reneged on his promise to restrict his art to painting.
The Borglum family came to America from Denmark Danish immigrants and settled in Omaha, Neb., in 1869. Gutzon studied art in California, while Solon managed his father's 6,000-acre ranch. Later, Solon attended the Cincinnati Art Academy and sold enough sculptures to study in Paris.
He rapidly won recognition as "Le Sculpteur de la Prairie" for his realistic portrayal of horses, Indians and cowboys, subjects he was familiar with from living on the Great Plains.
In 1904, Solon turned away from Great Plains subjects and began creating monuments.
In 1906, Solon Borglum and his family moved to Rocky Ranch at Silvermine, Conn. For the rest of his life, he created sculpture of historical and classical subjects.
When World War I erupted, Solon was almost 50 years old. He joined the YMCA and served with the French Third Army as a manager for a mobile canteen. Members of the canteen gave soldiers chocolate, coffee, cigarettes and emotional support. The French government awarded Solon the Croix du Guerre medal for his work.
In January 1922, Solon died of a ruptured appendix at the age of 53.
Despite his early death and the fact that Gutzon was ultimately more famous, the beauty of Solon's work remains.
In June, officials from the Borglum Historical Center in Keystone, S.D., asked the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors for permission to make a mold and a bronze casting of the Buckey O'Neill statue at the Historic County Court House.
The supervisors are negotiating with the Borglum family and the historical center about the project.
Supervisor Carol Springer said the board supports the request, with a few stipulations. She said Yavapai County would own the mold and the historical center would be responsible for any damage to the statue.
Springer said county officials are also asking for a reciprocal agreement.
"We would like to choose one of the historical center's pieces to reproduce for one of our new county buildings," Springer said.
"What makes this piece so interesting," Springer said, "is the base. The base is local granite and adds to the majesty of the piece."
She said the Roughrider statue "has always been the symbol of Yavapai County; its history and its traditions. Its placement at the courthouse was an inspired decision by city fathers in the past."
However, to appreciate the talent of Solon Borglum, residents and visitors may visit the collection within the Prescott Valley Civic Center.
It is definitely worth the trip.
In July 1907, Salene Ayers Armstrong wrote the following about Solon Borglum.
"He is in sculpture what Walt Whitman is in literature, a force as virile, as elemental, and un-self-conscious as wind or rain. To study his art sympathetically is to thrill to the rugged truth and beauty of primal things."
Contact the reporter at prhoden@prescottaz.com
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The recent criticisms of CU students and New Era are shortsighted. We Boulderites owe New Era our thanks for caring about our future and doing so much to get CU students and other young people to vote. Over the last 10 years, New Era has registered thousands of voters in Colorado, which helped make Colorado a blue state in 2016 — when Colorado voted for Hillary Clinton rather than Donald Trump. Boulder and Colorado need New Era and these young voters.
Let's all remember that CU students spend millions of dollars in Boulder every year. Boulder has a robust economy in part because of them — which is why shopkeepers and restaurant owners are so glad to see them come back every August. And students pay for their energy use while in Boulder, indirectly or directly, so certainly they have a say in how it is produced and who produces it.
Boulderites who aren't frequently on campus might not know that Xcel Energy was also at CU this fall, talking with students about energy concerns. New Era was on campus from the first day of classes in August up until Election Day, talking to students about their energy future. All of this was entirely legal. It was good to see students engaging about energy issues.
Young people will inherit the climate chaos that older generations have made inevitable for them — we've known about climate change for 30 years and have done little to avert it. When it comes to energy and climate issues, young people should actually get two votes apiece.


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On the 5th and 6th of May 2020 the Adapt Northern Heritage 2020 conference went ahead digitally. Adapt Northern Heritage is an amazing project which supports communities and local authorities to adapt northern cultural heritage to the environmental impacts of climate change and associated natural hazards through community engagement and informed conservation planning. Running from June 2017 to May 2020, the project involves four Project Partners and eleven Associated Partners from Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Russia, Scotland and Sweden. It is supported by Iceland, Norway and the European Union through the Interreg programme for the Northern Periphery and Arctic.
The 2020 Conference Schedule was packed with leading heritage experts from across the Northern Hemisphere, including Historic Environment Scotland's Ali Davey. She spoke about the Traditional Building Health Check scheme, a five year pilot scheme run in Stirling through the Stirling City Heritage Trust (SCHT) from 2013-2018. Here we will recap what Ali had to say about this important project. The key aims of the pilot were:
To change the behaviours of Scottish traditional building owners, to support and encourage them to take a more pro-active approach to maintaining and repairing their properties
To test whether building owners would join a membership scheme
To see if joining a membership scheme would change their behaviour and/or have an impact on the historic built environment
Whether a scheme like the Traditional Buildings Health Check pilot could be a model for changing traditional building owner behaviour in other parts of Scotland
There are over 455,000 traditionally constructed dwellings in Scotland, which is roughly 20% of Scotland's total housing stock. It's estimated that 85% of existing traditional buildings will still be in use in 2050. However, the 2010 Scottish House Condition Survey carried out by the Scottish Government found that 76% of traditional dwellings needed repairs to 'critical elements'. This is particularly worrying as if a building is in a state of disrepair: its resilience to the effects of climate change are reduced, and it makes the building less energy efficient. This also means that high-level masonry falls, will become more and more common. Edinburgh City Council revealed that in 2019 there were c.180 reports of falling masonry, a figure which is only set to increase if we don't take action now. At present, there is no national strategy for the repair and maintenance of our traditional building stock, but if there were, climate change adaptation could be embedded within it.
Building owner behaviour is a key contributing factor to the high rates of disrepair we see across Scotland; few owners of traditional buildings regularly inspect their property and typically take a reactive approach to repairs which means that serious issues can go unnoticed for years. Even proactive owners often lack the confidence and knowledge to commission repairs and work with contractors. Multiple ownership buildings, such as tenements, add further complications to this situation, where high rates of occupant turnover and landlord apathy are additional barriers to regular maintenance. To that end, in 2012 Historic Environment Scotland commissioned Stirling City Heritage Trust to prepare a scoping study to set out the evidence for the need of a maintenance scheme to support building owners in Scotland. The scheme proposed by Stirling City Heritage Trust was based on the successful European Monumentenwacht model which has been operating for several decades.
Funded by Historic Environment Scotland, the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and Stirling City Heritage Trust; Stirling City Heritage Trust designed and delivered the Traditional Building Health Check pilot, which was operational from 2014. It was (and remains) open to any traditional (pre-1919) building within the Stirling city boundary. Membership gives access to impartial and expert advice, and from 2015 Traditional Building Repair Grants. The pilot findings can be read in more detail in a Historic Environment Scotland report which will be released in the coming months, but some highlights are:
Nearly 300 members joined
144 buildings were inspected
Repairs were commissioned at c.120 properties
£1.3 million was invested in the historic built environment
The Traditional Buildings Health Check scheme empowers owners, making them more confident, proactive, and motivated. A survey of Traditional Buildings Health Check members showed that the scheme encourages owners to use the appropriate traditional skills and materials, to do more repair work than they would normally, and carry out repair work quicker. Our Traditional Building Inspectors found that a shocking 88% of the buildings they inspected required repair works within the next twelve months, and 63% required urgent or immediate repair or maintenance.
So then, what does the future hold for the Traditional Buildings Health Check Scheme? Well, it continues to be delivered by us, here at Stirling City Heritage Trust as a core part of our operation. As the 2018 Scottish Housing Condition Survey reported that 73% of pre-1919 buildings required repairs to critical elements, there is clearly a need for a more proactive approach to traditional building repair and maintenance in Scotland. An Options Appraisal was presented in February 2020, which set out a series of recommendations for delivering the Traditional Buildings Health Check scheme in three additional locations; Fife, Perth& Kinross, and Falkirk, and identified working partners in those areas.
To learn more about the impact the changing climate is having on our heritage, Historic Environment Scotland has produced valuable and innovative research in this area, including their own Climate Action Plan, their Guide to Climate Change Impacts, and this Short Guide: Climate Change Adaption for Traditional Buildings which contains lots of practical advice for property owners, as well as planners and other construction and heritage sector professionals.
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2020 Audi E-Tron Price & Availability
2020 Audi E-Tron is proof that the company is committed to creating electrified vehicles. While it recently only exists in the form of concept, Audi indicates a mainstream version will get to the production process in the near future. It must good news for many electrified car enthusiasts out there.
We look forward to the aggressive bodywork to remain identical and avoid the bland styling of the current Audi E-Tron crossover. It will have wide and low dimensions like the Porsche Taycan with which the E-Tron is co-developed. Still, it's going to appear unique and stand out on the road.
However, we can't deny that we're now still in the early stage of learning the new Audi E-Tron. Fortunately, some spy photos are released after the car is got caught at the Nurburgring. For this reason, it's just about the time for the new E-Tron to hit the market.
2020 Audi E-Tron Engines, Interior, and Technology
The new Audi E-Tron is expected to incorporate two separate electric motors which generate a combined 590 horsepower and offer all-wheel drive. In common Audi styling and fashion, the Quattro system is able to distribute power to each wheel for sharper handling and enhanced traction.
Audi claimed that the E-Tron can hit 60 mph in approximately 3.5 seconds only and eclipse 124 mph in over 12 ticks. Plus, there will be a sophisticated cooling method which makes its battery pack able to handle continuous runs without compromising acceleration. Then, it features wireless charging technology as well.
When it comes to the interior, the 2020 Audi E-Tron will combine functional and fancy elements. Its cabin includes fabrics created completely from recycled materials. Moreover, it also fits in a number of digital displays on the dashboard. And luggage can be kept in either the rear or front trunks.
Outside, E-Trom seems to use a lower fascia and snazzier grille in order to bring a bit more attitude. There are also several massive brakes which are discovered behind its black wheels. But overall, this car looks incredibly dependable and cool despite some of the camouflage covers.
2020 Audi E-Tron Release Date and Prices
Unfortunately, there's no official statement about when the 2020 E-Tron is going to arrive on the market. Even though the roadmap of Audi's future products indicates that there will be a new model appearing in early 2020, we can't still be so sure about the release of a new E-Tron.
Similar to the release date, there's also no word related to the pricing of this upcoming car. We can't speculate the price yet as well. So, it's better to wait for the company to confirm when it will be released and how much the price is.
In conclusion, the upcoming E-Tron is another great vehicle to be taken into account. It will come with a bold concept and better performance. With some spied shots spread on the internet, it's just about the time to see this car introduced to the public. So, let's keep an eye to the 2020 Audi E-Tron.
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