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Last night, BAFTA brought together a panel to debate the evolution of TV news and, in particular, how to ensure that traditional broadcasters are reaching millennial audiences.
In mid-2015, Ofcom reported that, between 2008 and 2014, TV news consumption by people aged 16-34 dropped by 29%, with these viewers increasingly turning to non-traditional news outlets such as Vice Media, Facebook (26%), Google (22%) and Twitter (14%). And the BBC reported that 28% of UK 18-24 year olds cited social media as their main news source, compared with 24% for TV.
The American Press Institute reported that 85% of millennials say that "keeping up with the news is at least somewhat important to them": 69% consume news daily, with 45% following five or more "hard news" topics; 40% pay for at least one news-specific service, app or digital subscription; and, contrary to the idea that social media creates a polarizing "filter bubble", 86% report seeing diverse opinions through these platforms. The Institute reported that 88% of millennials get news from Facebook regularly, and more than half do so daily.
These stats – and recent evidence of passionate civic interest in this age group – show that millennials are engaged and hungry for news, so how do traditional broadcasters and emerging media outlets capture this critical group? And how do all makers and publishers of news and other content combat the rise of "fake news and alternative facts"?
Engaging millennials in news content
Jon Laurence – Digital Editor, Channel 4 News – commented that the broadcaster's news content received over two billion views on Facebook last year. He talked about the need to use social media as a destination in itself, rather than trying to direct people to another portal (although referral is obviously a key economic concern). He commented that Channel 4 News see Twitter as important for a breaking story, for expediency and to reach influencers; while emotional and identity-based content works best on Facebook; and on YouTube, mainly because of search algorithms, long-form content can work well.
David Gibb – Director, Digital, Sky News and Sky Sports – commented on the challenge to consistently tell broadcaster-branded stories across multiple platforms, and how to help an audience member navigate the paradox of choice.
Louise Ridley – BuzzFeed UK, News Editor, Longform and Special Projects – reported that 75% of their users are millennial, 70% come from mobile and 70% come from social media. Perhaps contrary to perception, Buzzfeed UK is investing heavily in news, current affairs and deep investigations as these really deliver in terms of numbers.
Nathalie Malinarich – Mobile and New Formats Editor, BBC News – discussed how the 'craft' of producing news has changed. Audience groups commonly reflect that TV is a formal medium, and digital allows users to feel part of a conversation. The format of news, and its delivery, needs to adapt to the platform of consumption: this might include vertical video, subtitles (85% of videos consumed on social media are on mute) or utilising FacebookLive or Instagram Stories, for example.
The rise of fake news
The panel noted that the speed at which all content can be socialised and shared – and the rise of "fake news and alternative facts" given credibility by traffic, volume and opinion – is creating a new pressure to promote trusted sources of quality journalism online. The panel discussed measures from the removal of advertising, transparency on algorithms, and kite-marking of proven sources.
The BBC and many others are working with Google on The Trust Project, which will prioritise content from reputable sources in search and listing algorithms. A final hopeful note from the panel was the opinion that quality journalism, exclusivity of stories and sources, and trusted known media outlets will be increasingly prized and sought-out by this highly media-literate audience group.
Category: Future TV
Tag: BBC News, BuzzFeed, millennials, Sky News, TV news
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Quebec government steps up police repression as student movement seeks to broaden struggle
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The opening salvo in a promised, summer of protest by Quebec's student movement was delivered at the annual, Montreal Grand Prix auto race and surrounding festivities from June 7 to 10. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of students and their allies used the high-profile event to press demands for a freeze in post-secondary tuition fees and an end to police and state repression.
The government of Premier Jean Charest answered with an unprecedented police mobilization that one Montreal Gazette reporter called "staggering." Thousands of police were omnipresent in the Montreal's subway system and at major intersections throughout the four days. They arrested or detained scores of protesters, particularly those wearing the symbol of the student movement - red cloth squares pinned to clothing.
The short subway line connecting downtown Montreal to two island parks in the middle of the St. Lawrence River where the race was run carried two police officers on every subway car on race day, June 10, and the preceding day. Entrance to the parks was by police permission only, with officers declaring that the public space was a "private park" for the duration of the race weekend. Those who challenged that call, especially if they were being turned away, risked being roughed up or arrested for their troubles.
The tensest moments of the weekend occurred on the Saturday evening. Several thousand pro-student demonstrators brought their message and their noisemakers to the center of the city and mixed in with tens of thousands of Grand Prix revelers. Tense standoffs with police went on until well after midnight. According to Radio Canada, there were 27 people arrested, of whom 16 face criminal charges.
Numerous witnesses told the broadcaster of police violence they witnessed.
Earlier on Saturday, several hundred women's right supporters mobilized to express anger at the decadence they say the Formula One race symbolizes. They staged a march against the trade in women's' bodies that accompanies the event each year.
They tried to take their case to the Sheraton Montreal Hotel, which they say is the preferred hotel for what they call the "international jerk-offs" that purchase sex during the weekend. The march was blocked and broken up by Montreal police.
The image of the race took a dive at the outset when former F1 driver and hometown hero Jacques Villeneuve publicly thumbed his nose at striking students, calling them spoiled because tuition fees in Quebec happen to be lower than in other provinces in Canada and some countries in Europe. Perhaps not coincidentally, the race failed to sell all the spectator seats for the first time in its 35 year history.
Post-secondary students in Quebec began a massive strike in February against a proposed 75 percent increase in tuition fees. The strike is on hold since May 18. That's when the Quebec government adopted the draconian Law 78 which suspends the school year at strike-bound institutions until mid-August and seeks to cripple protests and the student associations organizing them.
Unprecedented targeting by police
Police have come under intense fire for their now-routine practice of profiling for detention or arrest those wearing the red square. News websites are full of testimonials of people, mostly young, telling stories of harassment or assault by police while wearing the square. Some 40 people wearing it were detained on June 10 while entering the park from the subway at the Grand Prix site.
To test the hypothesis, the French-language daily Le Devoir sent two reporters on assignment on June 9 wearing red squares and backpacks. Sure enough, they were frequently stopped and searched. At the park/race site, they were illegally detained by police for 20 minutes.
When the undercover journalists asked one officer why they were detained, he replied, "Because you're wearing a revolutionary symbol and I'm fed up with people like you." They wrote that others they observed or interviewed wearing backpacks but without the red square were not searched or detained. They titled their article, "Red square? Papers, please."
The most prominent of the preventive arrests that have taken place was that of 19 year old Yalda Machouf-Khadir and four other students on June 7. She was arrested during a police raid on her family home at 6 am and spent five nights in prison before being released on bail. She and the others faces charges of mischief and property damage stemming from several protests in April. Her lawyers say detention for such charges is unheard of.
She is the daughter of Amir Khadir, the leader and sole elected member in Quebec's National Assembly of the left wing Quebec solidaire party. He was himself arrested and detained while participating in a peaceful, pro-student protest two days earlier in Quebec City.
Inspiration, if not direction, for the police targeting of opponents of the tuition hike and Bill 78 is coming right from the top. Quebec Premier Jean Charest declared last month that student protests were damaging the economy of the province and should cease.
His minister of culture, Christine St-Pierre, stated on June 8: "...we know what it means, the red square. It means intimidation, violence and preventing students from studying [referring to student picket lines that shut down education institutions during the three-month strike.] That's what it means to us and to the big, big majority of Quebecois." Nearly three thousand people in Quebec's vibrant arts and culture scene have signed an open letter denouncing the minister's remarks.
Montreal's English language daily, The Gazette, editorialized on June 12 in favor of police actions: "...the student protests have engendered vandalism, and thus it is not unreasonable for the police to assume that anyone wearing a red square could be a potential troublemaker. It appears the student protests have been infiltrated by violent radical elements, piggybacking on the student movement to indulge their penchant for anarchic vandalism. While student leaders have dissociated their cause from such actions, they have been reluctant to forcefully denounce them. Thus...the student movement must bear some responsibility for it."
Bill 78 challenged
The infamous Bill 78 requires advance police approval for any act of political or social expression involving 50 or more people. It imposes severe fines on participating individuals and organizations for actions declared "illegal" by police. It prescribes penalties against the organizers of protest events for the actions by individuals deemed illegal.
The law aims to weaken if not destroy student associations through financial penalties for violations of its provisions, including denial of membership dues check-off and denial of access to on-campus facilities.
A court challenge to Bill 78 on behalf of 70 organizations opened on June 12. The challengers include all four of Quebec's post-secondary student associations, several of Quebec's largest trade union centrals, and community and environmental organizations. They are seeking an immediate suspension of the application of the law and a ruling that it is unconstitutional.
Lawyers for the student-led challenge say the law is crafted in part to hobble student and other protests during an election that the government must call sometime between now and the end of 2013.
By all appearances, the government recognizes the dubious legality of Bill 78. Police have not laid any charges under it. Instead, they have used municipal or highway traffic regulations in the hundreds of arrests they have conducted since the adoption of the law. But they are using it to declare every student or Bill 78-related protest "illegal," possibly setting the stage for post-facto charges.
More than 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of the student strike.
At a recent convention of FECQ, one of the associations of junior college students, newly elected leader Éliane Laberge declared, "It's clear that we do not want to see a Quebec where elected members of the National Assembly are arrested, where young people are arrested in their homes, and where students spend days in prison."
"Neither do we want a Quebec where the government dismisses with a wave of its hand the heartfelt wishes of an entire generation..."
This is the first of a two-part update on the Quebec student strike. Tomorrow, Part II will examine strategic debates within the student and wider movements, as well as the issue of a possible election call by the Charest government later this year.
Roger Annis is a social justice activist and writer based in Vancouver, BC.
Negotiations collapse in Quebec, protesters take to the streets
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Maybe I am too eager to believe it, and...
..I expect to be smote down for saying it, but I think the two month old, mediocre, Case-Shiller number that came out today is consistent with the idea that the housing market will really come back big this year (I said so in the paper and on the radio today, so I might as well say it here).
Inventories in many hard hit markets are now low by historical standards. Time on market has fallen. HARP II can accelerate amortization (which is its most important feature). Prices are really cheap, both when the user cost they produce is compared with rent, and when compared with incomes (by World standards).
State growth and the composition of spending
Paul Krugman rightly calls out Arthur Laffer's junk economics on the impact of state and local taxes on economic growth (I have no idea about why anyone listens to Laffer about anything, but that is for another day). At the same time, however, a good, liberal friend of mine told me yesterday that for the first time in his life, he will vote against a tax increase in California--the temporary tax increase proposed by Jerry Brown that will be on the ballot on November 6.
My friend has no issue with government spending per se; his problem is that he gets to observe the doings in Sacramento quite closely, and as he puts it, "it is even worse than you think up there."
California's state and local governments spend a lot of money. We ranked 4th in 2010 among the 50 states in per capita state and local spending. Yet if one looks at education spending, we are only average. Even worse (from the standpoint of my parochial pride, anyway), we trail Texas in education spending per capita.
My understanding is that once upon a time, California had among the most efficient and accountable governments in the country. The public schools were a particular source of pride. But the vast amounts of money are not being well managed now--such mismanagement is harmful whether it occurs in the public or private sector. How well government money is spent may be just as important as how much money is spent.
Hannah Green:What is the purpose of protesting? - The Daily Northwestern - Northwestern University
As we took the Red Line back from the protest, I continued to have mixed feelings about it. I thought that the rally especially had been too disorganized and too angry. I thought that Salek was making fun of me when he said that a protest wasn't the same thing as an academic forum (He later told me that he wasn't). A rally isn't meant to convince people of anything, he said, but to get people who were already convinced energized. He said that there wasn't enough time during the rally for all those with important issues to completely clarify their positions subtlety. There had been forums and discussions earlier in the week for that.
I then became nostalgic for a time that I had never lived in. I thought of protests from the '60s and '70s that I'd heard about. Protesters were convincing because they made their cases by showing their humanity rather than their anger. But this is a different kind of protest, Salek said. There was a wider variety of problems on the table. Part of the point was to just make people aware of the diversity of the issues and stake, and, yes, to give people a place to (peacefully) channel their anger. That's how a movement can gain its momentum.
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My dear friend Steve Malpezzi on John Quigley
I first encountered Professor Quigley through his research; later, we connected through our mutual friend the late Steve Mayo. I was honored to count John as a friend, but he was also a professional and scholarly inspiration to me, and to many, many others. Professor Quigley was an active researcher and teacher for over four decades; a long career by some standards, but he left those of us who knew him, and his work, wishing we could have had a fifth, if not a sixth.
In the history of the allied fields of urban economics, real estate economics and finance, after the original generation of William Alonso, Richard Muth, Edwin Mills and John Kain, John Quigley shaped our field like no one else. The breadth of his contributions, in urban, housing, public finance, finance, and many other fields, is breathtaking.
I'm not alone in that judgment, and those of us that hold it can easily show that it's not simply sentiment for a passed friend. Many colleagues share my high opinion of John Quigley, and have said so, unbidden, for years, long before his illness. Several years ago, for fun, I asked six PhD students to write down the name of the person who, according to their study, all-in, made the greatest contributions to our field. (I told them they couldn't name anyone from Wisconsin, but of course that was to save face :-).
Five wrote "Quigley." Well, it wasn't all six, but I'm not going to stretch the truth for the sake of the story!
Yongheng Deng, Gary Painter, and Christian Redfearn on the Life of John Quigley
Yongheng, Gary and Chris write a lovely tribute for AREUEA:
Monday, May 14, the community of AREUEA was deeply saddened to learn that John Quigley passed away on Saturday, May 12, 2012.
Since our early years at Berkeley, John has been a wonderful mentor and friend to us. John has been a member of 84 PhD committees since 1990, chairing 26 of them (including the three of us). He was a distinguished academic, a mentor for his students throughout their entire career. He excelled in each of the areas we value: research, teaching, and service. He published 22 articles in just the past three years alone, and his work has earned more than 10,000 citations. His service to the profession is unparalleled.
Within AREUEA, John served in many capacities including President and most recently as the chair of the International Selection Committee. He served as the chair of the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley, the editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics, and as a role model to many. Beyond these which can be counted, John's mix of conviction, energy, and laughter made him a singular character in our worlds. We will remain ever grateful for his guidance and advice, but beyond all of it, we also just liked him. He was good company--on a panel just as he was on the train from Shanghai to Beijing. John made life fun. He not only helped us join a profession, but helped us become part of a community. Simply put, we would not be the academics that we are today, if it not for him. We feel so fortunate that we have had him as a teacher, mentor, friend and collaborator.
We will always cherish the memory of John in our heart as a great scholar, a wonderful human being, a man of great intelligence, kindness, dedication, generosity, and profound integrity. We will forever miss him and miss him dearly.
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$920 million for 12 mph
I have taken the new Expo line now three times from USC to downtown LA. According to Google Maps, the distance is 2.5 miles. The trip has, on average, taken 13 minutes. This works out to 11.5 mile per hour.
Metro spent $920 million on a line that does not get signal priority at traffic lights--in other words, it expended huge capital costs on a large bus that is stuck on one route.
Should Ohio Taxpayers assure that Ohio State students assume less debt?
The New York Times had a story yesterday about a "generation hobbled by the soaring cost of college."
The piece featured some disturbing stories--particularly about a student who had $120,000 in debt as the result of attending a college that I had never heard of before. On the other hand, I also read that, "Three out of five undergraduates at Ohio State take out loans, and the average debt is $24,840."
Ohio State is a world class research university. I am quite sure that graduates of Ohio State earn much higher lifetime incomes than the average Ohioan. So higher subsidies to Ohio State students from Ohio taxpayers would effectively be a regressive transfer.
Should the state subsidize the University? Almost surely, because its research and its college graduates produce positive externalities. But does an average debt load of $24,840 keep large numbers of students away from Ohio State? Enough that it diminishes the positive externalities created by their attendance? That would be a much tougher argument to make. My guess is that almost everyone who goes to Ohio State would go to some college, one way or another (just as it is the case that nearly every homeowner who takes the mortgage interest deduction would be a homeowner in its absence).
In order to stimulate upward mobility, there must be financial aid (in the form of grants, not loans) to students coming from low-income households. But for everyone else, well, it seems like $25K in debt in exchange for an Ohio State education is a very good financial proposition.
Dowell Myers: Those born in California stay in California. Nevadans, not so much.
From Dowell's piece in Zocalo Public Square:
Do Californians really care how many New Yorkers move back to New York or on to Las Vegas? For the most part, no. What local residents care about is how many of our own friends, especially our children, leave the state. If native Californians start fleeing, then we know we are in trouble. So what do the data tell us on this?
California, in fact, holds its own. When it comes to retaining native sons and daughters, California has the fifth-strongest attraction of all 50 states. Among California-born adults who were at least 25 years of age and old enough to have moved away, fully 66.9 percent were still choosing to reside in the Golden State in 2007, the last year of high migration before the recession held people down. Texas, with 75.1 percent of native Texans still living in the state, has the strongest loyalty, and the other three rounding out the top five are Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Georgia. California's top-five ranking is all the more impressive when you take into account the state's high living costs and other negatives. We must have something going for us.
Nevada, as you can see here, ranks in the bottom five of states' retention of native-born population, despite being touted as a beacon for those fleeing California. If you can't hold your own, you're not worth the chips you're built on. On this key measure, California is a full house, Nevada a busted inside straight. And yet you'd never know how enticing California is for its native-born residents from the overwrought narratives.
This is indeed cheering news for those of us who live in California. It is also striking how good Texas looks..again.
If it is all about age, what should the homeownership rate be?
Last week's report of a continuing drop in the homeownership rate to its 1997 rate of 65.4 percent made me decide to revisit a question I looked at in a paper some years ago: holding demographics constant, would should the homeownership rate be?
I don;t think anyone would argue that 1990 was a year in which the homeownership rate, at 64.2 percent, was unnaturally high. In fact, the rate had been stuck around 64 percent for around 20 years.
One of the reasons for this is that the country at the time was moving through a period with lots of young adults. In 1990, the homeownership rates by age were as follows:
15 to 24 years 17.1%
75 and more years 70.4%
Source: 1990 Census of Population and Housing
At the time time, the age shares of household heads at the time were:
15 to 24 years 5.5%
75 and more years 9.2%
Now let us look at age shares in 2010. They are:
If we apply those population shares to the homeownership rate by age in 1990, we get an "age-predicted" homeownership rate of 67.0 percent. This suggests that the rate has fallen below where it "should be." Why might this be? Let's look at the ownership rate among non-hispanic whites and everyone else in 1990:
White (non-hispanic) 69.1%
Non-white or hispanic 44.6%
Source: 1990 Census of Population and Housing and my tabulations.
In 1990, 80 percent of household heads were non-hispanic whites; according to the 2009 American Housing Survey, 70 percent of household heads that year were non-hispanic white. If we hold ownership rates by race constant (as well as age) and allow race/ethnicity of household heads to vary, we would have seen a decline in the ownership rate to 61.9 percent. Age by itself therefore pushed up the rate by 2.8 percentage points, and race/ethnicity reduced it by 2.3 percentage points, so if the effects of age and race stayed constant (and we ignore interactions of age and race for now), we would expect the ownership rate in 2010 to be about 64.7 percent.
I do wish to emphasize that the difference in ownership rates across races and ethnicities is NOT acceptable; one cannot explain difference by just looking at such things as economic status and marital status. My reading of the literature is that African-Americans and hispanics continue to suffer from discrimination in the housing market. All that said, it is not difficult to explain why the ownership rate is returning back to where it was. I also think there is no reason to believe it will settle at a much lower rate than where it is right now.
Who (or what) is an insider?
Christopher L. Foote, Kristopher S. Gerardi, and Paul S. Willen have a paper on the mortgage crisis that argues that most commentary about the sources of the crisis has been misguided, if not outright wrong. They produce twelve things they call facts in order to support their point of view. Among the most pointed is Fact 10: that "insiders" were the big losers in the crisis. Therefore, the argument goes, there could have been no "inside job."
But their evidence that the insiders lost is that large financial institutions--Citigroup, UBS, etc.--were large losers. But this suggests that the institutions--and their shareholders--were insiders. I think it more likely that the shareholders were outsiders. The insiders were corporate senior management, traders, and mortgage brokers. I don't know for sure whether they came out ahead or not, but I sure have my suspicions...
Update: the paper does note that Bear Stearns executives invested in (and lost money on) mortgage backed securities. That is the only evidence that executives might have been net losers from the mortgage business.
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Myanmar, from Monywa to Bagan
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Caryota is a genus of palm trees. They are often known as fishtail palms because of the shape of their leaves. There are about 13 species native to Asia and the South Pacific. One of the more widely known species is Caryota urens, the flowers of which are used to make one type of jaggery (an unrefined sugar), and also to make palm wine.
Monywa hotel: bungalows around small but nice gardens. From Monywa 112 km on road to Pakkoku
Toddy palm (Borassus flabeliferus) is by far the most common palm, and one of the most common plants. The fruits are used to make a drink called tanti. At first it is quite sweet and tasty but if you let it sit around for a day or longer it starts to ferment and becomes alcoholic. It's jokingly called jungle juice because it is the cheap way to get happy. The interior of the nuts taste somewhat similar to coconut jelly meat...very nice tasting. Every part of the palm is used. Even the roots can be roasted or boiled and eaten. A sugary sap, called toddy, can be obtained from the young inflorescence, either male or female ones. Toddy is fermented to make a beverage called arrack, or it is concentrated to a crude sugar called jaggery. The 'Borassus flabellifer leaves are used for thatching, mats, baskets, fans, hats, umbrellas, and as writing material. The stalks are used to make fences and also produce a strong, wiry fiber suitable for cordage and brushes. The black timber is hard, heavy, and durable and is highly valued for construction. The young plants are cooked as a vegetable or roasted and pounded to make meal.
Visiting a thanaka plantation A practice dating back to at least the 14th century, thanakha is a yellowy paste applied to the face and body. It is made by grinding the bark of trees, adding water and then turning it into a paste. Frequently, the tree of choice is Limonia acidisima also known as the wood apple. It has a pleasant scent similar to sandalwood. Purists will want to make their own thanakha, so you will also need a kyauk pyin , the circular stone slab you use to grind your wood into a paste.
Thanaka trees are perennials, and a tree must be at least 35 years old before it is considered mature enough to yield good-quality cuttings. Thanaka in its natural state is sold as small logs individually or in bundles, but nowadays also available as a paste or in powder form.
Thanaka cream is made by grinding the bark, wood, or roots of a thanaka tree with a small amount water on a circular stone slab called kyauk pyin which has a channel round the rim for the water to drain into.
The enormous monastery complex on the edge of Pakkoku town (more than 80 monasteries) prepare their monks to minister to the wider world in Myanmar. It's a great place to find out more about the strictures of Buddhist life in the country — some of the monks are English speaking and will be only too happy to answer your questions.
Pakkoku is located 30 km northwest of Bagan. It is a lively, typical Burmese town with a strong craftwork tradition, producing colourful woven blankets, mung beans and traditional sandals. A school
Pakkoku markets
the old town of Pakkoku was contemporary of Bagan
Pagoda in Pakkoku
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady, the chief river of the country
Teak is a tropical hardwood tree species Tectona grandis . It is sometimes known as the "Burmese Teak". Teak wood has a leather-like smell when it is freshly milled. Teak timber is particularly valued for its durability and water resistance, and is used for boat building, exterior construction, veneer, furniture, carving, turnings, and other small wood projects.
Natural teak forests grow only in four countries on the planet - Myanmar, India, Laos and Thailand. That's made it expensive and it's about to get way more expensive. Starting April 1, 2014, the Myanmar government will ban the export of virgin teak. That will deal a big blow to global supply; around 75% of the world's teak market originates from Myanmar forests. The country has long dominated the market despite import bans that the US and the European Union instituted in the early 2000s. Teak traders have evaded sanctions by shipping Myanmar logs to neighboring countries, which process the teak and sell it to the luxury boat industry and other luxury wood-working industries in Western countries. India is by far the biggest market, followed by China, Thailand and Vietnam
Burmese Tea Leaf Salad Recipe the Burmese like their salads "chin-chin, ngan-ngan, sut-sut", which means sour, salty and hot.
traditional Burmese fermented tea leaf salad (Lahpet Thoke pronounced "la-pay toe") is an eclectic mix of flavors and textures. The young green tea leaves are steamed and buried underground for around six months for the fermentation process to take place. For salad they are traditionally washed and pounded with garlic, seeped in oil, and then served with sesame seeds, nuts, fried beans, dried fish and fried garlic. It is considered an honourable dish and is served at all important ceremonies. But the Burmese are also said to eat it if they need a caffeine hit!
In Myanmar to be ei wuk kyay, which means to be hospitable, is the criterion of perfect social behaviour.
The original pagoda Bu Paya was completely destroyed in the 1975 earthquake and was fully reconstructed using modern materials
After two hours on Irrawaddy river , at sunset we are in Bagan
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Cassia leptophylla gold medallion tree (Ngu War)
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Khaung-yan)
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Q: How to fix permissions warnings in the root folder? Yesterday I noticed a warning my terminal window showed when I installed Samba. The warning was:
WARN: /etc/default/ufw is group writable!
WARN: /etc/default is group writable!
WARN: /etc is group writable!
WARN: / is group writable!
WARN: /lib/ufw/user.rules is group writable!
WARN: /lib/ufw is group writable!
WARN: /lib is group writable!
WARN: /etc/ufw/applications.d is group writable!
WARN: /etc/ufw is group writable!
WARN: /etc/ufw/after6.rules is group writable!
WARN: /lib/ufw/ufw-init is group writable!
WARN: /etc/ufw/ufw.conf is group writable!
WARN: /lib/ufw/user6.rules is group writable!
WARN: /etc/ufw/before6.rules is group writable!
WARN: /etc/ufw/after.rules is group writable!
WARN: /etc/ufw/before.rules is group writable!
WARN: /usr/sbin/ufw is group writable!
WARN: /usr/sbin is group writable!
WARN: /usr is group writable!

I don't know how long this problem has been around (although I don't think it has been more than a few weeks at most), since I don't use the terminal very often. And I don't know what caused the shift in permissions.
ls -l / output:
total 96
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 28 20:00 bin
drwxrwxr-x   4 root root  4096 Feb 19 21:44 boot
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun 22  2013 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root  4440 Mar  1 11:11 dev
drwxrwxr-x 158 root root 12288 Mar  1 11:12 etc
drwxrwxr-x   3 root root  4096 Mar  1 00:42 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 Feb 19 21:43 initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-46-generic
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 Jan  3 10:55 initrd.img.old -> /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-45-generic
drwxrwxr-x  27 root root  4096 Feb  8 12:01 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb  8 11:58 lib32
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root  4096 Oct 22 09:08 lib64
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root 16384 Jun 22  2013 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x  14 root root  4096 Mar  1 11:12 media
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr 19  2012 mnt
drwxrwxr-x   4 root root  4096 Sep  9 07:29 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 209 root root     0 Mar  1  2014 proc
drwxrwxr-x  16 root root  4096 Feb  8 11:55 root
drwxr-xr-x  22 root root   780 Mar  1 11:12 run
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar  1 00:18 sbin
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar  5  2012 selinux
drwxrwxr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 28 19:24 srv
dr-xr-xr-x  13 root root     0 Mar  1  2014 sys
drwxrwxrwt  17 root root  4096 Mar  1 11:15 tmp
drwxrwxr-x  11 root root  4096 Feb 20 21:20 usr
drwxrwxr-x  13 root root  4096 Mar  1 01:02 var
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    29 Feb 19 21:43 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-46-generic
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    29 Jan  3 10:55 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-45-generic

My question is, what are normal values for permissions in these folders? Would it solve the problem if I removed the group write permissions through the chmod command? And are there any other things I should look out for?
Thanks!

A: Yes, it would solve the problem if you remove group write permission through chmod.
sudo chmod 751 <files or directories>

A: I had the same problem. Try this
sudo -i
chmod 755 /etc /lib /usr

Anyone with the same problem, just replace the directories i.e /etc or /lib with the erroneous directories. If say, your affected directory is /svr then do chmod 755 /svr
More detail on 755 permissions
Good luck

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Should we blame wrongdoers who are merely conforming to widespread social practices?
Blame is a common part of human life and relationships. Despite blaming others and being blamed in turn, we find it difficult to understand. Is it anger, bitterness, or disappointment? Is its function to protest, punish, or demand?[I] When discussing blame philosophically, we distinguish between 'explanatory blame', for example the accidental spilling of a drink, and 'interpersonal blame' (the type that is relevant here), where people are judged blameworthy, and met with blame.[II]
Cheshire Calhoun is a philosopher who writes on morality and ethics. She sees blame as a form of 'moral reproach' which can be used to effect social change.[III] In her paper 'Responsibility and Reproach', she explores how blame fits into oppressive practices that occur at a societal level, yet go unrecognised. She argues that it may be reasonable to reproach people for acts of oppression even when they are not blameworthy (because they did not know better). Though knowledge that an action is wrong is not commonly understood, negative consequences of the action warrant some blame response to highlight negative repercussions and prevent reoccurrence. This could ultimately change oppressive practice. Such change cannot happen when you excuse: so blame, despite moral ignorance, is necessary. Specifically, she explores this idea in the context of gender injustice: for example, when women are referred to with unprofessional labels, which is wrong but not always recognised to be. However, Calhoun's discussion of blame and blameworthiness is relevant to other social contexts where we dispute the moral norms of oppressive practice.
When wrongdoing takes the form of unrecognised social oppression, there is no common social standard to measure actions against. Many of those who perpetuate the problem are simply 'ordinary characters' who know no better, so locating 'individual responsibility' amongst them is difficult. The problem with excusing such practices is this: if the excuse itself is the 'normalcy and social legitimacy' of the action, then that excuse will be repeated, so the wrong of the act is never brought to light.[IV] When there is a social practice that not everyone sees is wrong, excusing people for doing it because of that lack of common knowledge is not going to change it.
Calhoun describes cases of oppression as 'abnormal moral contexts', compared with cases of ordinary wrongdoing—'normal moral contexts.'[V] In the latter, those acting outside its moral parameters are recognised as wrong. In the former, those who carry out wrongdoing are not ignorant of a common moral knowledge, but of something realised only by a minority. In the case of oppression, Calhoun argues that excusing has two effects:
1. It functions as a sanction, and permits the behaviour to continue. Excusing can work in a normal moral context, where everybody knows that an act is wrong (and has been excused). However, in an abnormal moral context, excusing simply seems like an endorsement of the act – because the majority do not realise it is wrong.
2. It makes a practice 'appear unalterable', eliminating the idea that individuals can cause social change. Indeed, she suggests that excusing will only 'recognize those who cannot reasonably be further educated.'[VI]
So Calhoun claims that in abnormal moral contexts we should not excuse, but should show that individuals have the ability to rise above social conditioning, by blaming them and demanding they modify their behaviour. This blame has three benefits: it is educational,
motivates change, and conceptually confirms us as 'moral agents.' [VII] Nevertheless, while she makes a case for blame as a tool for moral improvement in society, Calhoun's position is not conclusive. She is unsure whether blame is always the solution, but wants to open up conversation about using blame, even when people aren't always expected to know better.
Is Calhoun's balanced stance here too soft? Can we still label those who act oppressively without knowing better as morally flawed or corrupt? They may be unaware of their moral shortcomings, and therefore less culpable than those who act with intent, but their actions are still wrong. There are certainly those who come to realisations on their own about right and wrong, even when it is in the details of an addressing term. Are we holding the rest of society to too low a standard? It is possible that we should expect people to be more objective, reflective, and empathetic. Otherwise, admittedly, we put an enormous responsibility on those in the minority (with the moral knowledge) to educate the rest of society.
The issue here is how to deal with preconceived ideas—prejudices—and Calhoun seems to trace them back to ignorance. However, Cicero, the Roman politician and philosopher, rooted prejudice in manipulation, not ignorance.[VIII] So if an oppressive wrongdoer's actions are a result, not of ignorance (not knowing better) alone, but of manipulation, then perhaps we can rightly claim that there is some blameworthiness. If we are manipulated to carry out prejudiced, oppressive actions, then the blame can be attributed to the manipulators. In fact, on Foucault's account of power, describing it as closely related to knowledge, this sort of manipulative action is an appropriation of power: 'in knowing we control and in controlling we know.'[IX] This supports the claim further that blame is an appropriate response, because it educates and therefore empowers the moral agent. Additionally, it may be that we should judge those (even a majority) blameworthy, who fail to self-reflect and examine the system they partake in. Since she discusses the subtler shortcomings of society, Calhoun claims that this 'ought to have known better' approach is difficult to apply; there are 'limits to the powers of moral self-critique.'[X]
It could still be argued, however, that in cases of oppression (and privilege), those on the privileged side are not so innocent; they could still be motivated by self-interest. Calhoun, in response, distinguishes between self-deception—'being motivated not to examine one's actions'—and simply 'lacking a motive to be morally reflective.'[XI] This lack of motive is what happens, she claims, in cases of oppression, where 'moral ignorance is the norm.'[XII] However, is there such a distinction between being not-motivated-to or motivated-to-not? Could we claim that moral reflection is the baseline, and that we are never without reason to be morally reflective? Aristotle, for example, deemed listeners responsible for their manipulation when they 'do not scrutinize the speaker's arguments.'[XIII] For him, acting intentionally, with agency, is 'to act for a reason.'[XIV] Actions, therefore, should be rationally grounded by a 'sound practical syllogism', using premises to come to an informed conclusion, as opposed to acting purely on intuition or testimony.[XV]
If we uphold this higher standard of moral reflection, we may be able to claim that people are in a sense blameworthy, though this may be too demanding. When thinking about current debates in society that call for moral blame—black lives matter, #metoo, environmental issues—the costs and consequences of a failure to meet moral standards are too high for anyone to hide behind ignorance, whether they mean to or not. In our fragmented and ever-dividing society, it seems wise to encourage and uphold a higher standard of critical and reflective thinking, and openness to opposition when forming opinions. As such, when we conform to poor social practices, we need (and possibly deserve) to be blamed, although hopefully, that blame will help us learn and change.
[I] Angela Smith, 'Moral Blame and Moral Protest', David Shoemaker, 'Blame and Punishment', Coleen MacNamara, 'Taking Demands out of Blame', in Blame: Its Nature and Norms, ed. by Neal A. Tognazzini and D. Justin Coates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), Chapters 2, 6, 8.
[II] Neal A. Tognazzini and D. Justin Coates, "Blame", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/blame/ [Accessed 10 December 2017].
[III] Cheshire Calhoun, "Responsibility and Reproach", Ethics, 99.2 (1989), 389-406 (p. 389).
[IV] Ibid. (p. 390, 391, 393).
[V] Ibid. (p. 393).
[VI] Ibid. (p. 402, 405).
[VII] Ibid. (p. 405).
[VIII] "The False Mirror", Philosophy Now, 2017, (p. 4).
[IX] Gary Gutting and Johanna Oksala, "Michel Foucault",The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/foucault/ [Accessed 25 May 2018].
[X] Calhoun, (p. 399).
[XI] Ibid. (p. 399).
[XII] Ibid. (p. 399).
[XIII] Gary Remer, "Rhetoric, Emotional Manipulation, and Political Morality: The Modern Relevance of Cicero vis-à-vis Aristotle", Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, 31.4 (2013), 402-443, (p.421).
[XIV] Markus Schlosser, "Agency",The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015 https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/agency/ [Accessed 24 May 2018].
[XV] Ibid.
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Omeprazole – Pulmonary Fibrosis News – Oct 3, 2017. Omeprazole (brand name Prilosec) is a proton-pump inhibitor that works by decreasing the amount of acid made in the stomach. It is used alone or with other medications to treat acid reflux, a condition in which acid from the stomach rises to the esophagus, causing heartburn and possible injury. Acid reflux.
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Q: How to tell if a folder is shared with GoLang or CMD? Is there a way to tell if a folder is shared For example I have folder D:/data1 I would like to know if it is shared or if is not. Is this possible to do with golang or CMD commands? Is there a example on how to do this?
My goal is to be able to pass in a root folder D:/data2 and tell if is a shared folder.
Example of what i would like to do.
if shared("D:/data2") {
 //handle if it is shared
} else {
 //handle not shared folder
}

I just have not bin able to find a way to detect if the folder is shared.
Thank you for your help!

A: Disclaimer: I'm far from a windows cli expert.
You're on the right path in terms of os/exec.Cmd to execute OS specific commands on your target system.
You should be able to use the net share command to display all current local shares. Unfortunately while you can check a sharename with that command too, there doesn't appear to be any reverse lookup, so you'll probably have to write some code that can poke through the results of net share and look for the relevant path.
The output is formatted nicely enough, so it shouldn't be that difficult to write a function that uses net share to create a map of all windows shares for easy look up.

A: The C# solution to this problem is to use WMI. Since this is very Windows-specific, I don't believe anything out of the Go standard library will help you here.
We can see in this answer that a third-party package does exist for using WMI, as well as another package from Stack Exchange. You can try to make something out of the combination of the C# solution and the API available with those WMI packages.


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SunGards AddVantage Named Top Trust Accounting Platform
Readers of The Trust Advisor Blog, focused exclusively on developments in the trust services industry, have named SunGard's AddVantage trust accounting system as the top choice among family offices and other wealth managers.
The rankings were compiled from balloting and interviews with industry consultants and users on the pros and cons of 12 systems from 10 separate vendors. The full rankings and accompanying explanations can be found at The Trust Advisor Blog web site at
http://thetrustadvisor.com/news/accounting2011.
Among the attributes that led to AddVantage's top spot were its full range of transaction support and processing, open investment architecture, real-time processing over the Web, and automated client communications through its integrated client relationship management (CRM) capability.
Scott Martin, senior editor, The Trust Advisor Blog, said, "This year our sources give the prize to SunGard's AddVantage for giving the biggest bang out there, bar none. Quite simply, AddVantage does it all, so a look under its hood reveals a lot of what modern trust companies are looking for."
Eileen Van Scoy, executive vice president of SunGard's wealth management business, said, "Accurate record keeping is important to trust companies' ability to improve operational efficiency and enhance the fiduciary-client relationship. SunGard's AddVantage gives wealth managers scale and flexibility to automate client communications and maintain a holistic approach to the client relationship."
About SunGard's AddVantage
An asset management, trust accounting, and securities processing solution, AddVantage helps institutions serve their customers by expanding access to data and services through the Web. Used by large and medium-sized banks and investment management firms across the U.S., AddVantage provides fund administrators, portfolio managers, and their customers with 24/7 Web access to real-time account information. It also provides a comprehensive set of investment management and trade processing capabilities.
The Tier 1 investor route sees dramatic decline in applications after tougher UK laws introduced
Nichola Carter, principal solicitor at Carter Thomas Solicitors, says that UHNWs do not generally take well to being grounded in the UK while an asylum application makes its way through the Home Office while applications made under the immigration rules are often approved far more quickly.
RBC Wealth Management launches new sustainable investing reporting tool
The regulatory environment around sustainability reporting continues to evolve and RBC believes that the 'Sustainability Profile' tool represents an important step forward in their approach to sustainable investing.


CAIRO - Egypt's top court will on Thursday examine a law which could disqualify one of two presidential candidates, in a legal crisis that threatens to derail an already tumultuous transition from Hosni Mubarak's rule.
The law applies to those who served in the 10 years prior to Mubarak's ouster on February 11, 2011 after a popular uprising.
If approved, the legislation will mean disqualification for Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak's last prime minister, who faces Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi in a presidential runoff on Saturday.
In the first round of voting on May 23 and 24-- which saw 13 candidates compete for the top job-- Mursi won 24.7 percent of the vote, slightly ahead of Shafiq's 23.6 percent.
The race has polarised the nation between those who fear a return to the old regime under Shafiq's leadership and those wanting to keep religion out of politics and who accuse the Muslim Brotherhood -- which already dominates parliament -- of monopolising power since last year's revolt.
At Thursday's hearing, the court will also examine a High Administrative Court appeal over the constitutionality of aspects of a law governing legislative polls between last November and February that saw Islamists score a crushing victory.


Over the Christmas and New Years holiday, we decided to head to Hong Kong to ring in the new year. And what better way to end 2014 than to fly into one of Asia's most cosmopolitan and richest cities, skip all the malls and tourist attractions that tourists come to Hong Kong to visit and head straight into the mountains?
Although Hong Kong is famous for her skyscrappers and shopping malls, 73% of the city is made up of forests, mountains, beaches and wetlands. In a city that is hustling and bustling 24/7, heading to the countryside is a great quick getaway from the fast pace of Hong Kong. Plus, you get a great workout while enjoying the scenery, that is if you don't pass out from the sheer number of steps you will need to climb.
Our day started at 8am when we left our CouchSurfing's host place in To Kwa Wan. Dragging ourselves out of bed, we had to take 2 buses to get to the start of the MacLehose Trail in Sai Kung. We finally started hiking around 11am.
The MacLehose Trail is a 100km trail that is broken into 10 stages, and the trail crosses over the New Territories, passing through a variety of beautiful scenery of mountains, valleys, reservoirs and beaches. Although I aimed to complete 80km in 4 days, I underestimated the difficulty of the trail and the length. In the end, we only completed Stages 1 and 2, which is slightly over 24km in 4 days.
Stage 1 is probably the easiest stage of the MacLehose trail, as it was just walking on a flat road around the High Island reservoir. We were still getting used to the heavy load on our backs, so despite the lack of uphills and rough terrains, our bodies were begging for rest quite a number of times. What started off as "Yeah, I am going to do this" quickly became "Why am I doing this". My ego got bruised even further when we saw runners running past us a number of times, some even gave us the obligatory "Don't give up" comments. Thankfully, a taxi driver gave us a honk and a thumbs up when he passed us, which instantly made me feel more accomplished.
We finally arrived at the end of Stage 1 at 3pm.
After resting for 15 minutes, it was time to head back on the trail towards the start of Stage 2. The goal was to reach the Ham Tin beach campsite by 6pm, which was located halfway into Stage 2.
Stage 2 started off beautifully as we passed through Long Ke beach, but this stage soon became our nightmare for the next 3 days. There were a few rough climbs – especially to the top of 314m-high Sai Wan Shan (Sai Wan mountain), although when we were at the top, we were treated to views of beaches, islands and the South China Sea to the east. Steps became our frenemies, a tribulation we had to overcome. We were alone on the trail 90% of the time, and it was hard imaging the trail ever ending.
Because we were hiking MacLehose trail during the winter month, the sun soon began to set around 5pm. We were still nowhere close to a campsite, and I swore paranoia set in. All I could think about was "Oh god, we are in the wilderness and it is getting dark". I'm amazed that AF did not get tired of my rants, because I would have pushed me over the cliffs.
We finally arrived at the Sai Wan beach campsite around 6pm, just in time to see that the campsite was full of other campers. In the end, we found a tiny spot under some trees and had to pitch our tent in the dark. By the time we were done cooking our dinner over a campfire, it was 9pm and we were exhausted.
That was the end of day 1 of hiking.


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Disparities in intensity of treatment at end-of-life among children according to the underlying cause of death
Wolff S; Christiansen CF; Johnsen SP; Schroeder S; Darlington AS; Neergaard MA
10.1111/apa.15713
Acta Paediatrica
children; palliative care; end-of-life; place of death; treatment intensity
Aim: To compare indicators of high-intensity treatment at end-of-life (HI-EOL) among children according to causes of death. Method(s): We conducted a nationwide registry study in Denmark among 938 children of 1-17 years of age who died from natural causes from 2006 to 2016. We identified and compared indicators of HI-EOL within the last month of life across diagnoses. Indicators were hospital admissions, days in hospital, intensive care unit admission, mechanical ventilation, and hospital death. Result(s): Proportions of each indicator of HI-EOL ranged from 27% to 75%. The most common indicators were hospital death (75%) and ICU admission (39%). Compared to children with solid tumours, children with non-cancerous conditions had an adjusted odds ratio of 3.5 (95% CI 2.1-5.9) of having >=3 indicators of HI-EOL within the last month of life and children with haematological cancer had an odds ratio of 11.8 (95% CI 6.1-23.0). Conclusion(s): The underlying diagnosis was strongly associated with HI-EOL. Children who died from solid tumours experienced substantially less intensive treatment than both children with haematological cancer and non-cancerous conditions did. Across non-cancerous diagnoses, the intensity of treatment appeared consistent, which may indicate, that the awareness of palliative care is higher among oncologists than within other paediatric fields. Copyright ©2020 Foundation Acta Paediatrica. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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http://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15713
2021, Acta Paediatrica, April 2021 List, Children, Christiansen CF, Darlington AS, end-of-life, Johnsen SP, Neergaard MA, Palliative Care, Place Of Death, Schroeder S, treatment intensity, Wolff S
Wolff S; Christiansen CF; Johnsen SP; Schroeder S; Darlington AS; Neergaard MA, "Disparities in intensity of treatment at end-of-life among children according to the underlying cause of death," Pediatric Palliative Care Library, accessed February 2, 2023, https://pedpalascnetlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/17522.


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Architecture NewsReviews
12 Design Books for Holiday Reading
This year, we have been glued to our laptops and TV's, following the twists and turns in news of an election and a once-in-a-century pandemic while keeping up with work on endless Zoom calls. As 2020 comes to a close, disconnect and unwind with a book on architecture. The editors of RECORD recommend these recently published monographs and collections of essays.
Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People, edited by Mateo Kries, Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, Jolanthe Kugler. Vitra Design Museum and the Wüstenrot Foundation in cooperation with Vastushilpa Foundation, 383 pages, $85.
Conceived as the catalogue for a traveling exhibition of the same name, this survey of the Pritzker Prize-winner's work nevertheless stands on its own. With essays by Kenneth Frampton and Juhani Pallasmaa, among others, it explores Doshi's fusion of classical modernism with India's vernacular. Richly illustrated, the book includes recent photos that show the buildings, created over the course of a nearly seven-decade career, not as static, pristine objects, but as lived-in environments that encourage change over time. Joann Gonchar
Jakob + MacFarlane, by Philip Jodidio with the architects. Flammarion distributed by Rizzoli NY, 304 pages, $85.
Partners Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane have been exploring the potential of digital technology since they launched their firm in 1998, challenging architectural norms in France with assertive structures that respond to context and to client needs, as well as to societal and environmental challenges. In English and French, this monograph examines 25 projects—completed and in progress—using 350 drawings and full-page photos of ebullient works like the Orange Cube and Euronews HQ in Lyon. Linda C. Lentz
Tom Kundig: Working Title, foreword by Mark Rozzo. Princeton Architectural Press, 368 pages, $80.
Principal of Seattle-based Olson Kundig, Tom Kundig discusses 29 projects that include high-performance mixed-use buildings, a museum and a winery in the Pacific Northwest, and private houses in Switzerland, Australia, and Brazil. Sumptuous large-scale photos convey his love of materials and the craft of his architecture, and, every now and then, one of his kinetic "gizmos" shows up. Josephine Minutillo
Studio Gang: Architecture, with an introduction by Jeanne Gang. Phaidon, 271 pages, $79.95.
Over the last 20 years, Jeanne Gang has built a thriving practice and a diverse portfolio of projects. What connects the work, says Gang, is a notion of "actionable idealism": visualizing big ideas and accomplishing them through design. Studio Gang's first comprehensive monograph presents 25 projects—from a surprising marble curtain installation to a diminutive community center to soaring mixed-use towers—organized in thematic sections that underpin the firm's sensibility. Succinct descriptions and abundant images—drawings, sources of inspiration, process photos, models, and diagrams—reveal the ideas and explorations behind the visionary work. Beth Broome
Adjaye: Works 1995–2007, edited by Peter Allison. Thames & Hudson, 300 pages, $90.
While David Adjaye's career has been on fire in recent years, with the completion in 2016 of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. and several international commissions for prominent cultural buildings since then (see page 24), this book looks back on his early career. Covering projects mainly in London that are less familiar to North American audiences—from conversions and interior remodels to his first new build, the curious Elektra House—they are, as Adjaye puts it, the foundation of the thinking for his current work. JM
Toshiko Mori Architect Observations, edited by Cristina Steingräber. ArchiTangle, 240 pages, $58.
As her firm is about to celebrate its 40th year in practice, Toshiko Mori reflects on observation as the foremost, indispensable method in developing her architectural process. The book not only presents her built projects across the globe, but her work as a curator and as part of the think tank VisionArc, which she cofounded in 2009. JM
Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership: Public/Private, foreword by Paul Goldberger. Pointed Leaf Press, 248 pages, $95.
The book, with two striking covers, compiles photographs from nearly 40 years of the integrated design firm's work across both the public and private sectors—from a children's museum to twin villas in Anguilla. (Its latest projects are featured on pages 41 and 86.) With text by founding principal Lee Skolnick, Public/ Private offers valuable insight into the planning and development of buildings as well as exhibition and graphic-design projects. JM
Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View, by Janna Ireland. Angel City Press, 224 pages, $50.
What began as a proposal from architect Barbara Bestor to shoot the buildings of the late Los Angeles architect Paul R. Williams (1894–1980) evolved into a personal journey for photographer and artist Janna Ireland, one that was inspired by the rigor and breadth of Williams's prolific 50-year career. The first African-American AIA and FAIA member and, posthumously, the 2017 Gold Medal winner, Williams designed celebrity houses (many, ironically, in segregated communities) as well as public projects, banks, churches, schools, and social housing. Enriched by Ireland's own reflections, along with those of the L.A.-based Bestor and architect and educator Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, the volume's collection of more than 200 black-and-white photographs goes beyond an academic documentation of Williams's architecture—it evokes the aura of his city and celebrates a body of work that helped to define it. LCL
Fusion: The Performance of Architecture, by Payette; foreword by Z Smith; introduction by Kevin Sullivan. Monacelli Press, 312 pages, $50.
This book explores the work and design philosophy of Payette, a firm known for its expertise in the technically demanding building types of laboratories and health-care facilities. Through essays and detailed project case studies, the monograph reveals Payette's process for successfully integrating aesthetics, programmatic and functional performance, and sustainability. JG
Château La Coste: Art and Architecture in Provence, by Robert Ivy and Alistair Hicks. Merrell, 255 pages, $70.
In 2002, businessman Patrick McKillen purchased a 17th-century vineyard outside of Aix-en-Provence, France. With the guidance of Tadao Ando, he has created a sprawling outdoor museum where artists and architects—from Ai Wei Wei to Sean Scully, Frank Gehry, and Renzo Piano—have dotted the verdant landscape with their inventive installations and pavilions. With vivid text, and photography by Alan Karchmer, the book transports readers to this experimental and experiential destination. BB
Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton, edited by Karla Cavarra Britton and Robert McCarter. Thames & Hudson, 352 pages, $60.
The Festschrift, essays celebrating a scholar, can hold the key to the intellectual history of a period—in this case, from the late 1960s to today, and epitomized by the contributions of architect, historian, critic, and educator Kenneth Frampton. During this time, theory and practice, and history and criticism became more intertwined, and Frampton, now 90, played a major role in that discourse. London, where he worked as an architect and editor in the early '60s, was the locus for critical and theoretical activity. As Mary McLeod insightfully writes in this collection, his social and political interests, joined to his strong commitment to Modernism, led Frampton to read such cultural critics as Walter Benjamin and the Marxist-oriented Frankfurt School leaders Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse. Those figures, as well as the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, influenced Frampton's critical approach to architecture and his questioning of Modernism's susceptibility to industrialization and corporate capitalism. In Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980), he brought together his research that was undertaken in England and, later, in Princeton and New York after his move to the U.S., on topics such as Russian Constructivism and Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre in Paris. Frampton also became absorbed with phenomenology—simply put, the kinesthetic and haptic experience of the body in space—which, as critic Alberto Perez-Gomez points out, came out of Frampton's rejection of "formalistic . . . and self-consciously stylistic attitudes." These are among the many illuminating moments in this collection of tributes from Joan Ockman, Anthony Vidler, Jean-Louis Cohen, and others, which add not only to our understanding of this major thinker but of the architectural culture of the time. Suzanne Stephens
The Architect and the Public: On George Baird's Contribution to Architecture, edited by Roberto Damiani. Quodlibet, 343 pages, $43.
This book of essays on the work of George Baird points out how, throughout a long career, the 81-year-old Canadian architect, planner, academic, and critic elucidated certain theoretical influences affecting architecture culture. Baird has proved to be a thoughtful and dependable guide along the ramparts of architectural discourse on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late 1960s, as a graduate student in London, to the present day in his hometown of Toronto. Baird took on early semiotics (he edited, with Charles Jencks, Meaning in Architecture in 1969). Yet, like his colleague, Kenneth Frampton, Baird was drawn to Hannah Arendt's concepts on communication and action in public space, which resulted in his 1995 book, Space of Appearance. The editor, Roberto Damiani, helps turn this investigation of Baird into an archaeological dig of ideas, movements, and lively debates, with essays by scholars such as Hans Teerds and Joan Ockman, and interviews with colleagues Frampton, Michael Hays, Peter Eisenman, and others. SS
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A couple of months ago, we took part in a film project to raise awareness of the devastating effect of the disease dieback on New Zealand's native Kauri tree population.
The plan was simple. Sort of. Track a camera down a kauri tree infected with dieback, and use the imagery to create a musical score, which will then be played by members of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.


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