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Punjab on high alert amid tension in Delhi; Capt Amarinder Singh urges genuine farmers to return to borders
The Punjab CM said the violence was apparently triggered by some people who violated the rules laid down for the tractor rally through mutual agreement between Delhi Police and the farmers' unions
Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh (IANS Photo)
Published: 26 Jan 2021, 7:12 PM
Amid tension in Delhi following the 'kisan rally', Punjab ordered a high alert across the state besides tightening security on its borders on Tuesday.
Taking a serious view of the situation, Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh directed state Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta to ensure that law and order in the state is not disturbed at any cost.
Terming as 'unacceptable' the violence perpetrated by certain elements during the tractor rally today in the national capital, Amarinder Singh also urged all genuine farmers to immediately vacate Delhi and return to the borders, where they have been protesting peacefully for the past two months.
Expressing grave concern over the situation, the Punjab Chief Minister said the violence was apparently triggered by some people who violated the rules laid down for the tractor rally through mutual agreement between the Delhi Police and the farmers' unions.
It was unfortunate that these elements disturbed the peaceful agitation of the farmers, he said, condemning the incidents that took place at the historic Red Fort and some other key points of the national Capital.
Pointing out that the most farmers' leaders had already and categorically dissociated themselves from the violence, Capt. Amarinder Singh said the agitating farmers should immediately vacate the national Capital and get back to their camps at the borders, and continue to engage with the Centre to resolve the crisis over the farm laws.
"Shocking scenes in Delhi. The violence by some elements is unacceptable. It'll negate goodwill generated by peacefully protesting farmers. Kisan leaders have disassociated themselves & suspended #TractorRally. I urge all genuine farmers to vacate Delhi & return to borders," the Chief Minister tweeted.
Capt. Amarinder Singh called upon the farmers to continue to exercise the remarkable restraint with which they had conducted their peaceful protests for the past two months at the Delhi borders, and in Punjab prior to that.
Pointing out that peace had been the hallmark of their agitation, and the reason for the support they had received from across India and the world, he stressed the need for law and order to be maintained at all cost during the democratic protests by the farmers.
Meanwhile, Director General of Police (DGP) Haryana, Manoj Yadava also issued a 'high alert' in the state. The DGP said that all Commissioners of Police, Range ADGP/IGs and district Superintendents of Police have been asked to be on high alert mode to deal strictly with rioters and miscreants. Additional force has been deployed in sensitive areas. The intelligence wing of the police is also monitoring the entire situation.
Yadava said that after the unfortunate incident in Delhi today, the farmers are returning to their destinations. For this, the police have been asked to be extra vigilant. The police will also ensure their safe return while keeping a close watch on all the people.
Yadava said that under the pretext of the present situation, some anti-social elements can also try to disturb peace through rumours. Police is also keeping a close eye on social media. Strict action will be taken if any kind of misleading, provocative, provoking and anarchic post is shared or forwarded on social media, he said.
People should not pay attention to any rumours and follow the Haryana Police website and Twitter handle for the latest updates, added the DGP.
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The Gemara in Tractate Berachos states based on a verse in Psalms, "G'd loves the Gates of Tzion more than the sanctuaries of Yaakov." The Gemara explains this to mean that G'd loves the location in which there is the study of definitive Halacha (Jewish Law) more than any other location. The Gemara continues, "After the destruction of the Temple the location of G'd's Presence in this existence is within the four cubits (dahled amos) of definitive law (Halacha)." Just as the Ark, that was the repository for the Tablets and the Torah, was the location of the Divine Presence, so too the location in which the Torah is elucidated is the location of the Divine Presence.
The Torah states regarding the building of the Holy Ark, which was the repository that contained the Torah, "…You shall cover it with pure gold, from within and from without you shall cover it…" The Gemara in Tractate Yomah explains that by specifying that the Ark must be covered with gold on the inside as well as on the outside, the Torah is teaching us that, "A Torah Sage whose inside is not the same as his outside is not a Torah Sage." Meaning, in order for one to be classified as a Torah Sage, his inner purity of commitment should be consistent with his outer demeanor and persona. A Torah Sage is not merely a repository of information, but rather, he must be genuine and sincere in his service of G'd in every aspect of his life. This classification applies only to the one who studies Torah for the sake of its actualization and not merely for the sake of its intellectualism. This is the symbolism of the Holy Ark being inlaid with gold on the inside and the outside.
The Torah Sage, being the equivalent of the Holy Ark, becomes the location of G'd's Presence in existence. Despite the fact that the Jewish people no longer have the Temple because they are in exile, G'd's Presence continues to dwell in their midst through the Torah Sage.
The Gemara in Tractate Berachos tells us that although one may be in a contaminated state, he is still permitted to engage in Torah study because the Torah itself is not subject to contamination. G'd dwells in the midst of the Jewish people although they are in exile and are in a spiritually contaminated state because the Jew is able to maintain his relationship with G'd through the study of Torah and through the Torah Sage who is the equivalent of the Holy Ark.
Reb Chaim of Volozhin in his work Ruach Chaim explains that a human being is comprised of three parts: the life source (Nefesh), spirit (Ruach), and soul (Neshama). All physical movement emanates from the Nefesh that is contained within the physical being. This life source is shared by all living creatures alike. The Ruach (spirit – which means wind) is the spirit that gives man the power of speech (ability of verbal expression). The Neshama is the spiritual essence that man possesses which is the basis for him to be classified as an intellectual being. Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin explains that just as each individual is comprised of these three elements, the Jewish people also possess these three components.
Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, the founding Patriarchs of the Jewish people, respectively represent each one of these components. Avraham, our Patriarch corresponds to the Nefesh (life source) of the Jewish people as we see his most prominent characteristic was chesed. This was expressed through his physical movement that emanates from the Nefesh. Avraham, as the Patriarch, perfected the Nefesh of the Jewish people through his selfless acts of loving kindness. Yitzchak, our Patriarch is referred to by Chazal as the "unblemished offering." Just as the Kohen needed to meet certain criteria regarding his intent when he brought the sacrifice (so that the offering should not be invalidated), so too was Yitzchak pure in thought when he was brought as an offering. Therefore, he corresponds to the soul of the Jewish people. Yaakov, our Patriarch who is personified as the one who studied Torah. As the Torah refers to him, "The perfect man who dwelt in the tent (of Torah)." Thus, he perfected the Ruach (power of speech) of the Jewish people because when one engages in Torah study it should be articulated.
If one would want to classify the Mishkan and the two Temples according to the understanding of Reb Chaim of Volozhin, (that there is a soul, spirit, and life source) one would say that the Mishkan of Moshe corresponded to the Neshama (soul) of the Jewish people. Moshe, being the most special Jew who ever lived had infused into the Mishkan an intent of the most advanced level. As a result of his involvement in the Mishkan, it was regarded by G'd as precious and beloved as gold. The purpose of the Mishkan of Moshe was to perfect the soul of the Jewish people because of its innate spiritual capacity.
The Temple built by King Solomon addressed and perfected the Ruach (spirit) of the Jewish people. The Gemara in Tractate Nidarim tells us that the first Temple was destroyed because the Jewish people did not recite the blessing of the Torah before they engaged in their Torah study. Thus, there was a deficiency in the spirituality of their Torah. They did not value the Torah as the wisdom of G'd; rather, it was studied as an intellectual pursuit. Since the Temple was intended to perfect the Ruach of the Jewish people and they failed in this area, it no longer had any relevance to them and was thus destroyed.
The Second Temple, which was the most deficient in spirituality, corresponds to the life source (Nefesh) of the Jewish people. It was thus intended to perfect the life source (Nefesh) of the Jewish people through the mitzvos of loving kindness specific to man and his fellow. The Second Temple was destroyed because the Jewish people failed in this area. The Gemara tells us that it was because of baseless hatred (sinaas chinam) among the Jewish people that caused the destruction of the second Temple. Baseless hatred towards one's fellow is the antithesis of chesed (kindness) which was addressed and perfected by Avraham's selfless kindness.
The forgiveness that comes through the sacrifice that is brought upon the Altar is more than the forgiveness that is given from one mortal to another, it is a rehabilitation of one's spirituality that had become deficient as a result of sin. For example, if a child was forewarned by his father not to drink a certain toxic solution, and he did not heed his father's warning, although the child apologizes profusely begging for forgiveness, regardless of his father's forgiveness, the child will die.
In contrast, the forgiveness of G'd brings about a spiritual healing that repairs the damage that was wrought upon the individual through his transgression. In order to achieve this result, the Jewish people needed to have the Altar made of Acacia wood, to draw upon the merit of Avraham, our Patriarch because G'd had promised him that the Jewish people would be the beneficiaries until the end of time of His Commitment.
Regardless of the worthiness of the Jewish people themselves, they can rely upon the merits of the Patriarchs in order to be atoned. By drawing upon these merits, the Jew may be cleansed of sin and advance his spiritually, despite the lack of his own worthiness.
Ramban explains that the Mishkan was a replication of Sinai. The intensity of G'd's Presence in the Holy of Holies in the Mishkan was the equivalent to that of the Sinai event. Just as G'd communicated to Moshe and the Jewish people at Sinai, He spoke to Moshe from between the Cherubs on the Holy Ark that was located in the Holy of Holies. Ramban presents many colorations, based on verses of how the Divine Presence in the Mishkan was the equivalent of Sinai.
The purpose of the Mishkan was to create a setting for G'd's Presence to dwell in the midst of the Jewish people. As the verse states, "Make for Me a Sanctuary so that I can dwell in your midst." One would think that such an important and crucial task of building the Mishkan would be incumbent upon every Jew. As we find regarding the giving of the Machtzis Ha'Shekel (the half silver coin that was compulsory for every Jewish male above the age of twenty to give for the sake of purchasing communal offerings). However, the Torah tells us that the materials that were presented for the building of the Mishkan were not given as a tax or obligation but only out of the generosity of the heart. In fact, this was the only circumstance under which they were acceptable. Why was this so?
When the Jewish people accepted the Torah at Sinai they unequivocally declared "Naaseh V'nishma – we will do and we will listen." The Gemara in Tractate Shabbos tells us that when G'd heard this declaration He exclaimed, "Who revealed this secret to My children?" They had spoken in the same manner as angels conduct themselves. The angels do the Will of G'd without first hearing His Command. Thus, the Jewish people at Sinai were the equivalent of angels because they accepted the Torah without knowing the extent of its obligation. They selflessly dedicated themselves to doing G'd's Will. However, as a result of the sin of the Golden Calf, the Jewish people forfeited their special relationship with G'd that they had established at Sinai. In order to reinstate that relationship, G'd instructed them to build the Mishkan. Just as the Jewish people at Sinai dedicated themselves to G'd selflessly, as angels do, so too did their giving of the materials towards the building of the Mishkan needed to have a semblance of that selflessness.
The only way the Jewish people could be reinstated to the level of "Naaseh v'nishma", is to once again assume the posture of the angel by giving to the Mishkan in a selfless manner. Because the Mishkan was built with materials that were given out of the generosity of the heart, it was able to function at the same level as Sinai. The Divine Presence dwelt in it to no less of a degree then It did at the time of the giving of the Torah.
Rambam, based on the Gemara in Tractate Moed Katan, writes, "When one chooses a rebbe (mentor/teacher) he should have a semblance of an angels." What characteristic of the angel should the rebbe reflect? An angel is epitomized through "Naaseh v'nishma." The angel selflessly executes the will of G'd without any hesitation or conflict. It is only through the individual who possesses this level of dedication that G'd's Torah is communicated. Therefore, one should choose a rebbe who is selflessly dedicated to G'd because it is only through a teacher with this degree of dedication that the Torah is properly transmitted.
The Torah states, "And these are the ordinances (Mishpatim) that you shall place before them…" The Midrash explains, "King Solomon writes in Proverbs, 'A King through ordinances (justice) establishes the land. But one who is as terumah (tithes) destroys the land.' The Torah sage who is proficient in every aspect of the Torah is the equivalent of the king. The justice that he brings about by engaging in Torah and adjudicating disputes establishes existence. However, if this individual acts in a manner that is similar to terumah (tithes), which is stored in the corner of the house, he is the one who destroys existence. This is the individual who despite his qualifications as a judge, chooses to remain uninvolved in the needs of his fellow and community. He is the one who says, 'Why should I be bothered or burdened by my community? Why should I be involved in resolving their legal disputes? Why should I heed their outcries? It is better for me to withdraw from my communal responsibility and only immerse myself in Torah study.' This person is the one who destroys the world by not serving his community as a Torah Sage. Just as terumah remains in the corner of the house undisturbed until it is given and consumed by the Kohen, so too does this individual recluse himself from the world.'" How does the Torah sage who chooses to withdraw from communal responsibility to only engage in Torah destroy the world?
The Midrash states, "If there is justice below, there is no need for justice from above. However if there is no justice below, then there will be justice from above." Meaning, if justice is served by the earthly court, then there is no need for Divine Justice. However, if man does not implement proper justice, then G'd will mete out His Justice, which is catastrophic and devastating. Divine Justice does not differentiate between the righteous and the evil. There is no individual who is perfect enough to withstand Divine Justice. If the earthly court implements justice as it is prescribed by the Torah, they are the guarantors of existence because G'd's Attribute of Mercy will be in place. This will allow existence to continue. However, if the qualified judge, who is the Torah sage chooses to withdraw from that responsibility, he contributes to the destruction of existence. His in action is the cause of Divine Justice.
The Torah states, "…Moshe sat to judge the people, and the people stood by Moshe from morning until evening." Despite his exalted level of spirituality and Torah knowledge, Moshe dedicated himself totally to the rendering of justice for the Jewish people. Rashi cites Chazal who explain that although the verse states, "from morning until evening" it does not actually mean that Moshe had spent the entire day adjudicating disputes between individuals. Rather, G'd values the rendering of a truthful judgment as if the individual giving the ruling was engaged in Torah study the entire day. If in fact the Torah sage was not engaged in Torah study while he had adjudicated the case, why does G'd value his time spent as the implementer of justice as one who had engaged in Torah study the entire day?
The Prophet Jeremiah states, "If not for My covenant, which is in effect day and night, the statutes of heaven and earth would not be put in place." The Gemara in Tractate Nidarim explains that "the Covenant" is referring to the study of Torah, which must be in effect continuously in order to maintain existence. G'd wills that existence should continue only the merit of continuous Torah study. The Torah sage who offers his time to render true justice, which averts Divine Justice, is in essence contributing to the continuance of existence. His contribution is the equivalent of continuous Torah study which also allows existence to continue from moment to moment. His rendering of justice has no less value then engaging in Torah study. Text Copyright © 2012 by Rabbi Yosef Kalatsky and Torah.org.


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These protestors were strangely silent, using chalk to scrawl their opinions on sidewalks by night.
This attempt to bring a heady social-issue discussion to the forefront is commendable, but it ultimately fails to raise consciousness.
Several factors render chalking an ineffective form of protest.
Generally, the aim of any protest is to force the community to listen to the concerns of those rallying.
Disruption is a key component of grabbing a community's attention.
The concerns posed by protestors can easily be ignored unless the action directly cuts into or disrupts the community.
Chalking doesn't force the passerby to recognize the humanity and concerns of those demonstrating.
In fact, people can literally walk all over the contentions both sides have raised.
Also, the anonymity provided by chalking means no one is held accountable for what is written.
This lack of accountability can lead to unhelpful, polarized discussion.
This is illustrated by the chalk-back of unidentified pro-choice individuals.
These vigilante chalkers wrote pro-choice quips and reactions to Bulldogs for Life's statements.
Unfortunately, the action has led to the misconception that Demia: Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance is responsible for these reactions, intensifying the campus debate.
Although Demia is pro-choice, it did not chalk back and discouraged members from doing so, said Kate Langdon, Demia executive board member.
Also, the full complexity of the issue cannot be boiled down to a basic talking point or one-sentence quip.
Ultimately, chalking limits meaningful discussion about abortion or any other issue instead of opening the field for future conversation.
Despite the limitations of chalking, Elizabeth Pieta, president of Bulldogs for Life, sees its benefits.
"I think it takes more than chalking to change someone's mind about abortion, but (chalking) does start the campus conversation on the topic," Pieta said.
Bulldogs for Life has the right to chalk, but this should be done in conjunction with more effective actions, events and protests.
Demia and Bulldogs for Life could host public forums and debates for students to hear fuller arguments from both pro-life and pro-choice students.
They could organize rallies where action is disruptive.
They could form actual protests where words are backed up by presence and accountability.
These different forms of political and social action will benefit the groups invested in these issues by raising awareness in more conducive manners.
Butler's campus will also be all the better for this change in political climate because legitimate, open discussion will begin.


MOORHEAD High School Year Seven Boys were crowned Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Schools Cross-Country champions.
CHAMPIONS... The Moorhead Year Seven winning runners: Sam Tattersall, Bryn Hargreaves, Elliott Neil, Ben Cryer, Josh Coo.
The team of Sam Tattersall, Bryn Hargreaves, Elliott Neil, Ben Cryer and Josh Coo raced to victory at Wilsons out of a number of schools.
Moorhead finished third overall in the competition with Year Seven Girls runner Sarah Walters finishing in seventh spot in her event, Year Eight Girl Tess Parkinson racing into ninth spot and Year 11 Girls runner Cleo Calverley recording a superb fifth place.
Acting Head of PE, Andy Kelly said: "The school has come a long way in the past few years in terms of sporting success. It is producing athletes who are representing their school, district and county in a number of areas."
Some of the Moorhead runners will go on to represent the district at the Lancashire Cross-Country Championships.


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President Mugabe delivers his speech during the official opening of the First Session of the 8th Parliament
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
President Mugabe has summoned Parliament for the official opening of the Second Session of the Eighth Parliament today, where he is expected to set the legislative agenda.
He summoned Parliament in a proclamation in the Government Gazette published last Friday. "Whereas it is provided by section 146 of the Constitution that "Each House of Parliament determines the time and duration of its sittings, other than its first sitting, and its periods of recess, but:
a) the President may summon Parliament at any time to conduct special business;
b) no more than 180 days may elapse between sittings off a House.";
"And whereas it is expedient that Parliament should be summoned to meet: now therefore under and by virtue of the powers vested in the President as afore said and as resolved by Parliament, I do by this, my proclamation fix –
a) Parliament Building, Harare, as the place at which the official opening of the Second Session of the Eighth Parliament shall be held; and
b) 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday the 28th October 2014, as the time and date at which the Second Session of the Eighth Parliament shall begin," President Mugabe said. Parliament has been on recess since last month when the First Session ended.
Zanu-PF Chief Whip Cde Joram Gumbo and his MDC-T counterpart Mr Innocent Gonese, have since said they expect Parliament to enact more laws after they passed fewer laws than expected in the previous session.
Some of the laws that were passed in the last session include the Electoral Act and the National Prosecuting Authority Act.
President Mugabe is expected to set the legislative agenda in his address amid expectations that Parliament should align laws with the new Constitution.
There are at least 400 laws that need alignment to the new Constitution and the delay in dealing with the problem has affected Government business.


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Mammoth supports up to 64 variable-length partitions. A partition is a segment of tape that is used as an entity into itself. Data within a predefined partition can be erased and new data written in its place. This feature will become more valuable as media capacity continues to grow, allowing Mammoth to support such applications as multimedia and video servers.
Preserving data is paramount in a tape storage product. Error correction can make or break the reliability of the device. Mammoth uses a two-level Reed-Solomon ECC. Exabyte's ECC corrects errors on the fly by rewriting the blocks within the same track.
Exabyte's Mammoth-2 drive set new standards of high speed and capacity in the tape market when it was introduced in late 2000. The drive has a quoted native transfer rate of 12MBps, while the 8MM AME tapes can store a maximum of 60GB. Along with an Ultra 2/LVD SCSI interface and a huge 32MB buffer, the drive uses a new multichannel helical scanning head, the latest ECC3 error-correction algorithms and offers a 2.5:1 compression ratio using ALDC (Adaptive Lossless Data Compression) for a maximum capacity of 150GB per tape. A subsequent fibre channel version offered an increased native DTR of 30MBps.
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Tropolism Books: Lucio Costa: Brasilia's Superquadra
Title: Lucio Costa: Brasilia's Superquadra
Author: Fares El-Dahdah
Publication Date: February 2005
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Speaking of Brasilia, one of the amazing books to come across my desk this year was the not-new-but-still-excellent Lucio Costa: Brasilia's Superquadra. The book is part of The Harvard Design School's also-excellent CASE series. Composed of ten essays about Lucio Costa's design for Brasilia, and how the resulting city has evolved since the majority of it was built. The essays, starting with an excellent interview with Costa himself, focuses on the specific, unique character of Brasilia. Costa sums it up well:
In a normal city, urbanism's objective is to create conditions that allow a city to sprout like a plant, unlike Brasilia, which is a product of reason imposed by an act of will that occurred with the expressed objective of transferring the country's captial. The intention was to create a city that had a pleasant way of life, yet remained truly administrative with its own characteristics well defined, meaningful.
By focusing on the Superquadra, Costa's brilliantly devised solution to residential living in Brasilia, the reader enters into the life of the city, and the uniqueness of its organization. The Superquadra are composed of housing blocks, and at its edges are commercial strips and public buildings. The aggregation of these building blocks works, and works well, creating a modern city that is unlike any other. Having just visited said Superquadra, I was struck by how well this book captures the very special nature of these neighborhood units. The housing blocks, suspended above the ground, leave the ground floor almost entirely open. The result is wonderful: one is truly moving through a park full of residential buildings. Some of the newer blocks compromise this aspect but overall the city is as intended. The essays do a good job of delineating this evolution, and the laws supporting them.
As a case study in how an entirely new urban idea evolved and played out, this book is valuable. Everything from the shape of the buildings to the politics underlying them, to the way laws shape buildings is captured here. Because Brasilia is so young, and is an entirely designed city, it is a good subject for this kind of case study: micro adjustments in code alter the buildings that go up immediately after. For those interested in diving into some good urban design reading, as well as those who love Brazil and Brasilia, or those who study city design, this book is a must.
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Tropolism Corrections: Oscar Niemeyer Did Not Design Brasilia
Tropolism Corrections: we almost never do them! But this merits one.
In my last post, I stated that Oscar Niemeyer designed Brasilia. This is wrong! In fact, the city was designed by Lucio Costa in 1956-7. It was Costa who developed the city's distinctive curved-cross shape and the shape of its blocks and transportation cores. Oscar Niemeyer was the principal architect, with Roberto Burle Marx as the lead landscape architect.
Thank you Adriana Marasca for being our Brazilian Architecture fact checker!
Rights Of Way: A New Politics of Movement in New York City?
As you know we generally don't announce events here on the Tropolism. However our trusty radio scanner came through with a discussion that is being led by David Smiley up at Barnard, and anyone who knows David knows his conversations are always productive.
So it's with pleasure that I invite you to Barnard College on November 12, 2009, at 6:30pm, on the 4th floor of Barnard Hall, to Rights of Way: A New Politics of Movement in New York City? The discussion will explore the possibility of an urbanism after that of the automobile-dominated city. In short, they are declaring the era of the auto over. Which is nothing short of a radical conversation, even in this era of Lawn Chairs In Times Square. Run or bike or MTA it up there.
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Video Life Of Small Urban Spaces
One of my favorite, formative books, The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces, was of course a transcription of many written, photographic, and filmed records of how people actually use public space. So you imagine my excitement when I saw that some of the video is now on youtube.
Via Landscape+Urbanism.
Tropolism Lectures: Gentrification Begins
Gentrification, suburban sprawl, homogenization----we all have our takes on it. Inflated rents, overpriced restaurants, and multiple Starbucks are the clear symptoms. At the Municipal Arts Society talk at the Urban Center on Wednesday night, Francis Morrone takes us back in time to examine the origins of gentrification in New York City. Strikingly, it may have been started by a handful of progressive and socially conscious women.
Click here to read the rest of the lecture report...
Less Stuff Is Better Design
I know I've been harping about this since I first got the idea for the Two Dozen list in 2004: the Roaring Two-Thousands created a lot of drek by designers because they were "designers", not because the designs were actually great. A lot of my writing has been focused on pushing designers to do better. What better opportunity for designers to really push design when all this money is sloshing around? Why not make things more efficient, more accessible, more inventively designed, and more beautiful, even if it costs a bit more? When the cycle downturns, we'll be happy to get scraps from the woodpile to make our stuff. Since September, most of us have been looking for that scrap pile.
Michael Cannell over at The Design Vote wrote a great article in the New York Times encapsulating these sentiments, looking quickly (as in long-blog-post quickly) at where product designers and architects are going to go from here. He champions sustainability in the production of goods and a good project by Lorcan O'Herlihy architects in Los Angeles that champions density over size of lawn. Welcome to the end of the decade, folks. We couldn't be more thrilled.
Harvard Dorms, The Sert Sequel
The new graduate student housing dorm has opened at Harvard. As a friend of ours put it: "I'd be stoked to live in that dorm". We would too! The dorm is by Kyu Sung Woo Architects. Woo studied and worked with Jose Luis Sert, whose iconic Peabody Terrace Housing is next to the new building. The new building does a lot to mitigate the sometimes harshness of Sert's buildings: Woo frames the courtyard entrances to the existing housing, and cantilevers the major masses to preserve sight lines for the community. More importantly, his buildings are rich in warm materials: wood ceilings and walls outdoors, well-detailed masonry above, in deep contrast to Sert's austere concrete and painted metal. Woo wisely continues Sert's tastes for highly patterned, textured building envelopes. What's best is that the old and new begin to work together as a city, probably as Sert originally intended, but in a way that is very livable. So stoked.
Click the slideshow to see larger pictures in our photo album.
Albert Ledner's Maritime Awesomeness
Regional Modernism, a great blog devoted to modernist buildings in the New Orleans Area, stopped by Albert Ledner's National Maritime Union while we were sleeping here at Tropolism. It sounds like some unwelcome modifications have been made to the exterior during its renovation.
Which then led us to more pictures of this freaky great building over at Alan Rosenberg's blog. Which of course led us back to good ole New York, where Ledner's other wacky building for the Union is in a preservation fight.
Tulane Continues With New Orleans House Prototypes
Tulane School of Architecture announced that its URBANBuild program has broken ground on yet another prototype house for New Orleans. The program was started in 2005 and has produced several houses to date. The houses can be see at URBANBuild's website, as well as a great overview from Life Without Buildings, who tipped us off to this.
Beautiful At Barnard
Recently the P/A Awards were announced, by whatever magazine is announcing them these days. Our enthusiasm for these awards faded not because of some nostalgia for the days of Progressive Architecture magazine. It's simply that the cutting edge of architecture has gone blog viral. By the time the print media gets to it, it's old news. The newest of the new gets chewed up and tested by the internets, and the increase in chaff is easily matched by the increase in voices talking about design.
The one highlight in this year's P/A award comes from old-fashioned great building design, from Weiss/Manfredi. It's their Barnard Nexus project, at Barnard College in Manhattan. It's not just a pretty rendering: the details of the glass curtain wall, mimicking the brick and terracotta of Barnard's and adjacent Columbia University's main building cladding, is sophisticated, beautiful, and yes, progressive.
NYC Bookstores
Awesome NYC bookstore alert: Storefront for Art and Architecture is having a micro-bookstore in the "eastern end" of the gallery. The bookstore is curated by Storefront luminaries known for their amazing book collections (ie Beatriz Colomina).
NYC has a dearth of great Architectural bookstores, at least in terms of the scale of those to be found on the west coast. Daily Dose, which pointed us to the Storefront bookstore, has also compiled a list of NYC bookshops.
Urban Age
We have long known about the conferences sponsored by Urban Age, but only recently did we discover their wonderful website. It's a handy repository of all the data generated do date from their conferences and research. Some of this work undoubtedly shows up in their new book (note to Phaidon: send us a review copy already), but it is irresistible to flip through it online.
Not only do they have pretty, if simple, comparisons of basic information of their key cities. They also have some extensive raw data from each city collected in both PDF and protected spreadsheet formats. Happy reading.
Library Of Congress Images Goes Web 2.0
Long fans of the Library Of Congress image website (which has been around for 8 or 10 years, they were one of the first free online image banks), we are now excited to see them moving to the next phase of the interwebs by creating flickr albums. This department obviously has gotten a lot of money to play with the 'net. Good for us!
Many of the images do not carry copyright restrictions, such as the pictured This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif., and they all include links back to the LOC website.
Bob Stern Gets Some Respect
We've made no secret about our admiration for Bob AM Stern's approach to education. The Times throws some respect his way today, too. Not enough to get mentioned in Ourousoff's article, but he probably prefers to be the sole subject of an article than to be grouped together with everyone else.
Wellness and Sustainability Tips For Design Students
Inhabitat gives us a list of ways design students can live sustainably. What is intriguing is that the tips include not only actions that affect our physical environment, global and local, but tips for personal wellness. Nothing earth-shattering, to those of us in the working world who must manage our time and commitments, but to students, this will be front page news.
AdHoc Charette
From Tropolism's inbox comes this:
I wanted to tell you about AdHoc: a 6 hour fast-and-dirty charrette competition for students resulting in the actual construction of a small-scale element for the school.
We're doing this to promote actualized design in an otherwise hyper-theoretical environment. We want to encourage students to think towards building instead of presentation boards. Vito Acconci is going to act as head juror in conjunction with a jury of faculty.
Next year we're going to expand the competition to include other schools in the hopes of spurring interactions among otherwise isolated institutions.
The charette is Saturday, March 31st, starting at noon, Princeton, New Jersey.
Iowa University's New Art Building
Iowa University's New Art and Art History Building is "opening" on September 8. At least that's what the press release said. The building appears to be knitted into its site the way only a Steven Holl-design building can be: smartly entwined with a touch of fussiness. We aren't complaining, the two pictures in this post (above and after you click Continue Reading) indicate something special. The slideshow at UI's website is more complete, yet also shows some skylights and stair details that appear to be a tad overdesigned. Overall, a gorgeous building. I'd want to study there. Or walk by it every day.
MOMA NAMES BARRY BERGDOLL ARCHITECTURE CURATOR
MoMA has named Barry Bergdoll the next Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. Mr. Bergdoll will take his post January 1, 2007; until then, Paola Antonelli will continue as interim curator.
The speculation about who would succeed Terrence Riley had us preemptively dejected about this position. However, this choice puts us squarely in the "interested" column, because it brings some weight and academic rigor back into the crazy dialogue of New York's architecture world. We had Mr. Bergdoll as an instructor in Architectural History I about ten years ago. He was the only professor who wasn't from Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation: he was from the Art History department. As such, his historical constructions were based on things that actually happened, not current theoretical speculation. Yet his views were always refreshing, particularly when applied to subjects I was just being introduced to. We're happy to see him elevated to a prestigious position. We hope MoMA can handle it.
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Los Angeles Downtown: Coop Himmelblau On Grand Avenue
More on Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Coop himmel-blau had an article in the sunday LA Times about their school for the arts that is starting construction, across the 101 freeway, but still on Grand ave. The New school is directly across from the Moneo Cathedral, creating architectural bookends, or a gateway at the 101. The image is pretty great, a little surreal, completely Los Angeles. The article also goes on to say that the school may go under a bit of value engineering in an attempt to cut back some of the bulging budget. This might actually have a positive effect on the building which is pretty wild. Excerpts of the article can be found at DesignShare
Another fabulous rendering of the crash landing after the jump. So LA.
Contributed by Colin Peeples.
Slice der Republik
Okay, last post about Eastern Block projects for a while, I promise.
Slice der Republik is an interesting little website about a student project to re-use the Palast der Republik, with a Gordon Matta-Clark-inspired cutting that would do two things: cut the building into useable chunks, while opening it up to the urban fabric. And, of course, "the angled cut expresses the violence the building has experienced in the years since its closure".
SCI_arc LIVE
If you are still attached to your computer tonight at 7:00 PST, click over to SCI-arc live. SCI_arc's lecture series is now being broadcast in real time over the web every week. SCI_arc's lectures run a wide swath of topics, and Tonight's lecturer Taft Green is no exception. A Los Angeles based sculptor recently featured in the fantastic Thing exhibition @ UCLA's Hammer museum. Taft's work is like cartography on silly putty.
I tuned in to the lecture last week and was impressed with the quality of sound and image, it's almost better than being there live. Special bonus for those of you who start at 7:00 sharp; Eric Owen Moss typically gives a baffling epic introduction occasionally focusing on the guest lecturer.
The New Real City, Future Architects Edition
I went to SCI_ARC's Thesis presentations this weekend.
It appears that Maya-, Nurbs-, and Script-based form making have established a strong place in the visual language of the school. The majority of the work has a quietness, a demur sexiness. In contrast to the explosion of splines and reflections it was a few years ago, to softly lit, smoke like models and renderings. The evolution and advancement of the work in this specific area is interesting, but it has sapped much of the chaotic energy that Thesis at SCI_ARC feeds from. Selected works will be on exhibit in the SCI_ARC Gallery JAN 20th -29th.
How-To, beta edition
Tropolism means discovering that construction is not mystical, just time-consuming.
While we prefer to let our friends over at The Gutter plumb the depths of the New York Times' House and Home/Garden section, today's how-to Q&A, while clearly intended to soften Mr. Meier's image as a cold-hearted spender of cash on shower doors, is useful because it demystifies design and disassembles the pieces of a home, creating a toolkit for designing your own place. Out of wenge, ipe, and corian, of course, with 1/4" reveals at the base of each skim-coated wall.
(Unlike last week's piece on what kind of ketchup he uses on his grill, which was completely mystifying.)
My favorite magazines are the ones that break it down. Martha Stewart Living, which is a fantastic source for things like making your own lamp shades (none of my lamps have shades, but hey, it's useful information anyway). Dwell, for lining your living room with gingerbread. And the list goes on. What's great about this piece is that it divulges secrets of the Very Famous, and for architecture, not just decoration. The possibilities are greater: a non-architect could create something original out of these secrets. More, please.
Design+Technology Exhibition
One of the people in my studio is an inventor/artist/circuit board designer/sex toy defacer. It's a fascinating profession. He'll walk over and ask what I know about injection-molded plastics (little) or to review the relationship between his circuit board performance diagram and his final footprint (which is so totally like how I model programs for big buildings, it's like I can do his job. Or not.)
At any rate, his milieu centers around the Design+Technology Annual Exhibition at Parsons. I have no doubt you'll find inspiration. Especially if you design big buildings.
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Architecture School Show
Graduates of Columbia University's School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation have a frenzy of work at the end of the year: they are working on their final portfolios (which are the tool the faculty uses to grant school awards) and models and drawings for the End of Year Show. The work always ranges from last-year to last-decade to next-year to next-decade. But it never fails to be inspiring in its exuberance. I like the show because I get to see the latest in modeling and drawing techniques. This year, I'll be taking names of people to contact as possible part-time employees of my office.
The opening reception begins at 6pm on Saturday, May 14, on Columbia University's main campus. The show is exhibited throughout Avery Hall and Buell Hall.
The show is up until May 27th.
Pratt Architecture School Nearly Done Nine Years After Fire
Nine years after a fire destroyed Pratt Institute's Architecture School (because someone propped open the fire doors), it's nearing completion. Higgins Hall, which houses the Architecture Department at Pratt, is becoming rejoined again by the Central Wing, designed by Steven Holl in 1997. The project is being executed with Rogers Marvel Architects (where I worked from 1997-2004) as the architect-of-record.
I was at Pratt monday for architecture reviews. What astounded me was that none of the critics had toured it, even though it's been under construction for at least a year. The building appears small, crafted, and beautiful. They're rumored to be done in the fall, but no one was clear on "fall" as in "before the fall semester" (aka August) or "sometime before the end of November". Because there aren't a great deal of interior finishes (budget and the program both dictate this) it's entirely possible a late August move-in date is possible. Until then, you'll have to enjoy the renderings and progress photos.
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Mies Says This Aint The Demolition Derby
Last week, IIT announced that they were auctioning a chance to smash the first pane of glass removed from Crown Hall.
The cheekiness of the whole event is nothing short of astounding to me. I am appalled, as if someone tried to mug me after I just moved to New York.
I have nothing against the renovation. I get that single-light windows don't meet today's energy code. And I'm not one of those people who thinks the Barcelona Pavilion should not have been re-built in 1986 because they didn't have the original stone slabs to work from. However, the idea that panes of glass that Mies specified and selected are going to be simply trashed, and turned into a public spectacle, makes me nothing short of angry. It strikes me as a rube's amusement, and I fail to see the implicit humor in it. It's just not funny to me.
I suppose being Chicagoans, the IIT folk are still in the Mies-hating period of the late 1980's, and bizarrely haven't read any of the critical theory written about Mies in the last twenty years, including Robin Evans' breakthrough essay from 1990, Mies van der Rohe's Paradoxial Symmetries. The importance of the single pane of glass to Mies' work is well-documented. Mies was influenced by the Crystal Chain, the German movement of the 1910's headed by Bruno Taut. Glass would come to be an almost mystical material for Mies, with transparency being the least interesting quality. It was its prescence, coupled by its transparency, that was important. Double panes of glass dilute this effect. Don't take my word for it, just go to the buildings and notice it.
Mies' frames for the glass are constantly presence-ing the glass, and he created reflections that consistently give one the sensation of having xray vision. The reflections from the Lakeshore Drive Towers (of the highway below: one thinks one sees the highway flowing through the buildings). The reflections from the Seagram Building (one thinks one sees McKim, Mead, and White's Athletic Club behind the facade). The reflections from the Farnsworth house (one thinks one sees through the glass mullion itself into the steel below it).
At IIT, the buildings resonate with each other. It's not difficult to see. When I was there with Juan Abalos and Inaki Herreros in 1997, we were in the very dark lobby of one of the IIT dorms, on a gray February day, and were suddenly presented with a strange red glow. There was no foliage anywhere on the campus, so we assumed the light was from a building across a walk, about 50 feet away. We looked out, and it was a reflection. We walked outside. The reflection was coming from a red neon 7-11 sign in the old student center, tucked deep inside that building, in plane with the building we were in, which means the light was doing a bank shot across 200 feet of dead grass. Every lobby between here and there had a laser-like red line reflecting on it. Some fellow students were tsssking the fact that neon had been allowed to sully a Mies structure, but not me. I cried, because it was so beautiful.
The panes of glass are not small at Crown Hall: they are many meters high and wide (sorry, my fact checker has to get a drawing set out this afternoon). Mies was pushing the boundaries of the glass manufacturing capabilities of his day. Mies conceived of this glass, apart from what the trades thought they could actually make at the time. They don't deserve to be smashed. This ain't a demolition derby.
What makes this all really difficult is that the auction was won by Dirk Lohan, the grandson of the architect of the building, for a measly $2,705. Obviously, being Chicagoan, he isn't reading writing about Mies either. The circle of patricide is complete.
I propse a different strategy to IIT. Auction that piece of glass for sale. Treat it as an artifact and make some serious dough. Either that, or have the students, or a real architect like Koolhaas (who at least has a fetish for Mies that tempers his patricidal tendencies), discover new uses for those crystals.
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The following is taken from the Methodist Church of Great Britain website
All can be saved
All need to be saved.
All may be saved.
All may know themselves saved.
All may be saved to the uttermost.
Methodists have always been clear that no-one is beyond the reach of God's love. Salvation is there for everyone who turns to God, and not just for a chosen few.
Do we need salvation?
As human beings we find ourselves part of an unjust, sinful and violent world, which we may feel individually helpless to change. We may feel driven by urges such as anger, lust or greed, that we wish did not control us. We may have personalities which are difficult to manage, for instance being prone to despair. We may be enduring poverty and hardship. The demands of modern life leave many of us stressed and overloaded, or isolated and feeling useless. Loss, fear, grief or guilt may be weighing us down. We need salvation.
What do Christians believe?
Jesus preached the Gospel - the good news of the Kingdom of God. Through Jesus' death on the cross, and his resurrection, Christians believe that God has broken the power of all that is evil, in the world and in ourselves. If we accept forgiveness and liberation, and are willing to be open to the Holy Spirit, God can enable us to resist evil and to live life to the full.
The doctrinal standards of the Methodist Church are as follows: (as outlined in the Methodist Deed of Union - Section 2 - para 4)
The Methodist Church claims and cherishes its place in the Holy Catholic Church (Catholic meaning universal - not Roman Catholic) which is the Body of Christ. It rejoices in the inheritance of the apostolic faith and loyally accepts the fundamental principles of the historic creeds and of the Protestant Reformation. It ever remembers that in the providence of God Methodism was raised up to spread scriptural holiness through the land by the proclamation of the evangelical faith and declares its unfaltering resolve to be true to its divinely appointed mission.
The doctrines of the evangelical faith which Methodism has held from the beginning and still holds are based upon the divine revelation recorded in the Holy Scriptures. The Methodist Church acknowledges this revelation as the supreme rule of faith and practice. These evangelical doctrines to which the preachers of the Methodist Church are pledged are contained in Wesley's Notes on the New Testament and the first four volumes of his sermons.
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Home Alien Life Russian 'space troops' are not ready for battle with aliens yet, says official
Russian 'space troops' are not ready for battle with aliens yet, says official
October 28, 2013 | A Strange Mystery | Alien Life
Russian space troops are not ready to battle with aliens yet! Should we be worried, not because they are not ready, but because we actually have space troops! – What do the Russians know ?
We are not ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations, says defence official – but we will be soon!
On top of the troubling news this week that the Twitter account of Nasa's Near-Earth Object Program, which monitors potentially hazardous asteroids and comets, isn't operational because of the US shutdown, today comes further worrying news from Russia regarding threats from space.
Russia's Aerospace Defence Troops, or 'space troops' as they have become known, are not prepared for an alien invasion, a defence official has said.
Russia Today reported that during a press conference at the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre near Moscow, the centre's deputy chief Sergey Berezhnoy was asked about extraterrestrial security.
"So far we are not capable of that. We are unfortunately not ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations," Berezhnoy replied.
"Our centre was not tasked with it yet. There are too many problems on Earth and near it," he added.
The Russian Space Forces were established initially in August 10, 1992 after the break-up of the Soviet Union. It was replaced in 2011 by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. This branch of the Russian military is responsible for air and missile defence and the operation of military satellites.
One of its tasks is also "monitoring space objects and the identification of potential threats to the Russian Federation in space and from space, prevention of attacks as needed."
Russia Today reassures readers that despite the inability to defend the country against attacks from outer space the Russians do have "extremely effective and high tech means for dealing with terrestrial issues and threats."
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