From the front porch of her office, Chief Diversity Officer Chon Glover can see the glossy new sign for Hardy Hall clearly.
It is more than just a locational indicator for a residence hall; it's an emblem of change at William & Mary as a result of work that was begun by the Lemon Project in 2009 to explore the College's racial past and seek ways to do better going forward. The work was continued most recently by the Task Force on Race and Race Relations, which completed its study and report last spring.
This semester, that work remains ongoing as a newly formed implementation team takes the task force's recommendations and develops a plan to put more of them into action.
"I want to keep the momentum up," said Glover, who is leading the team that began meeting earlier this year to determine what actions are possible now, what are long-terms goals and which of the task force's recommendations need further analysis.
Chaired by Glover, the Task Force on Race and Race Relations was created in early 2015 by President Taylor Reveley in response to a series of race-related incidents throughout the nation and in the campus community.
The group included faculty, staff, alumni and a member of the Board of Visitors. Graduate and undergraduate students also served on both the task force and its subcommittees, which were organized around the four areas of the president's charge: campus climate, prevention and education, recruitment of diverse faculty and senior administration, and bias reporting and incident protocol. Reveley asked the task force to provide him with a report by March 2016.
Soon after that report, which included a list of 51 recommendations, was delivered to Reveley, he announced several actions to be prioritized, including the renaming of the Jamestown Residence Halls to Lemon and Hardy Halls: Hardy in honor of the late Carroll Hardy, a longtime administrator at the university who worked to improve diversity, and Lemon in memory of a enslaved man owned by William & Mary in the 18th century.
The halls will be dedicated at an 11:30 a.m. ceremony on Oct. 15. The event, which will be free and open to the public, will take place in Jamestown Field.
Reveley also prioritized $1 million over the next two years as part of an initiative to increase the diversity of W&M's faculty. That funding was approved by the Board of Visitors in April, and Glover has been working with the implementation team and Provost Michael R. Halleran on how to best utilize it. The board also approved $100,000 to hire additional personnel in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and a search is underway this semester to hire a deputy chief diversity officer.
"With more staff and resources, it gives us the opportunity to expand our work and serve as a resource for departments and schools who are developing diversity action plans, better support affinity groups and increase the professional development opportunities on diversity and inclusion topics," Glover said.
School diversity action plans have been uploaded to the office's website, and the focus will now turn to administrative departments, she said.
"We want to get to a point where hopefully all faculty and staff are invested in promoting the university's diversity plans and are holding themselves and their staffs accountable for issues of diversity and inclusion," said Glover.
William & Mary is one among many colleges and universities nationwide that are taking a closer look at race relations on their campuses.
According to a January 2016 survey of college and university presidents conducted by the American Council on Education's Center for Policy Research and Strategy, 55 percent of respondents at four-year institutions said that racial climate has become more of a priority than it was three years ago.
As part of its work, the William & Mary task force sought input from the university community by holding six on-campus climate forums for students, faculty and staff and soliciting feedback through its website. The task force also worked closely with human resources to coordinate a campus climate survey the university sent to all W&M employees in September 2015.
Those survey results, which were released to campus last spring, echoed what the task force heard in other venues. Overall, African-American employees generally did not respond as favorably as the overall employee population. For example, 9 percent of African-American employees responded that they would not rate William & Mary as a good place to work, whereas only 6 percent of all employees responded the same way. In a separate question, 15 percent of African-American employees responded that they do not feel that they are treated with respect, compared to 8 percent for all employees. Among African-American faculty members, 64 percent disagreed with the statement, "At W&M, employees are treated fairly without regard to race, color or national origin." Seventy-three percent of African-American faculty, however, said they were proud to work at William & Mary.
As part of the actions announced last spring, Reveley prioritized the hiring of an external consultant to help the university better understand the concerns of black employees. That consultant, Amediate LLC, has been hired and recently began a series of 10 focus groups with employees in facilities management. Once those are done, the consultant will have 30 days to present a report to Glover and Van Dobson, associate vice president for facilities management. The findings will be incorporated into the plans being created by the implementation team, said Glover.
The implementation team itself was one of the action items that Reveley prioritized on recommendation from the task force. The team includes faculty, administrators and two students — people who, through their positions, have agency in getting the recommendations accomplished, said Glover. There is also engagement from the Board of Visitors. Kendrick Ashton '98 served on the task force while a member of the board, and Lisa Roday is currently serving as the board's liaison to the implementation team.
The team has already met twice since the beginning of September and created prioritized lists of what should be accomplished next. For the next meeting in October, the team's members have been tasked with organizing those into short-, mid- and long-range goals.
Among the recommendations the team is looking to implement are strengthening practices for considering diversity in hiring, training and assessment of campus climate, as well as implementing mandatory diversity training for faculty and staff and expanded training for students.
In the meantime, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion is working to increase the number of professional development opportunities available to the campus community, something the task force found was needed.
As part of that, the university's inaugural diversity symposium — "William & Mary: Building and Sustaining an Inclusive Community"— will be held on Oct. 22 at 9 a.m. in the W&M School of Education. The event, open to faculty and staff, will include a keynote on "Implicit Bias in the Academy" by Benjamin Reese, vice president of the Office of Institutional Equity at Duke University Health System and a licensed clinical psychologist. The event will also include workshops on topics from belonging to understanding gender and gender expression. The symposium is free, but attendees must register by Oct. 10 online.
The Lemon Project has held annual symposiums, open to members of the campus and local communities, each spring since 2010. This year's Lemon Project symposium, organized around the theme of "Jim Crow and Civil Rights in the Age of President Obama," was held in February and included a keynote address by civil rights pioneer Diane Nash.
Next spring, a Diversity & Inclusion Committee will be formed to take the place of the diversity and equal opportunity committees, upon recommendation from the task force. The new committee will absorb the goals of the two committees it is superseding, and it will continue the work of the implementation team when it concludes its efforts at a to-be-determined date. The committee will also create a five-year diversity and inclusion plan for the university, which will address not only race but other aspects of diversity, as well, said Glover.
As the implementation team prepares to keep the momentum started by the task force going, Glover said she is feeling positive about the steps that have been taken thus far.
"I think they have invigorated our faculty, students, staff and alums and community members, too," she said, adding that renaming the residence halls and committing $1 million to faculty diversity were significant first steps.
All members of the university community are encouraged to support W&M's diversity efforts. Below are a few opportunities for people interested in learning more and getting involved.
The dedication of Lemon and Hardy Halls will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. The event, which will be free and open to the public, will take place in Jamestown Field.
"William & Mary: Building and Sustaining an Inclusive Community," a diversity symposium for W&M faculty and staff, will be held on Oct. 22 at 9 a.m. in the School of Education. The event will include workshops and a keynote on "Implicit Bias in the Academy" by Benjamin Reese, vice president of the Office of Institutional Equity at Duke University Health System and a licensed clinical psychologist. The symposium is free, but attendees must register by Oct. 10 online.
Each month, members of the campus committee may nominate friends and colleagues who have been working to forward the cause of diversity for recognition by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Awardees will be honored at a reception at the end of the academic year.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion hosts a series of Lunch & Learn workshops throughout the academic year for faculty and staff. The sessions, which include a free lunch, focus on a variety of topics related to diversity. The next one, on "Understanding the Value of Supplier Diversity at W&M," will be held Oct. 3.
Faculty, staff and students looking to fund diversity-related efforts may apply for grants offered through the Innovative Diversity Efforts Awards (IDEA) program. The deadline for the next round of grants is Oct. 27.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion publishes VOICES, a monthly newsletter about diversity efforts and upcoming opportunities, and members of the campus community are encouraged to submit story ideas or articles.
The W&M Lemon Project, in coordination with WMSURE, the Counseling Center, the Office of Diversity and Community Initiatives and the Center for Student Diversity, hosts a series of Porch Talks — informal panel sessions — on various topics throughout the academic year. The talks are open to students, faculty staff and community members. Information on other events and programs hosted by the Lemon Project, including its spring symposium, may be found on the website as it becomes available.
The Center for Student Diversity strives to foster inclusion, collaboration and relationship-building within the campus community by providing academic, social and transition support for underserved and underrepresented students and promoting exchange and dialogue between individuals of diverse backgrounds and identities. Information on programs, events and other resources available through the CSD may be found on the center's website.
In addition to working with students from diverse backgrounds to provide them with faculty mentors and research opportunities, the W&M Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience program offers weekly workshops open to all students, a faculty conference and an introduction to research for prospective students. More information on those and other WMSURE opportunities may be found on the program's website.


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How to remove multiple records from one table based on the non-existence of a record in another table?
I have two tables, 'Products' and 'Details'.
4, 2, words, "go team"
5, 3, title, "Animals with wide angle lenses"
6, 3, price, "1 million dollars"
So say 'Team Shirt' gets removed from the Products table, and now I need to clean up (remove) the 3 leftover Details it used. Basically I want to look at each record from the Detail table and see if it's product_id corresponds to an existing ID in the products table. If I can construct a SELECT statement that returns only these orphaned Detail records, then I can change select to DELETE and remove them. That's my thinking anyway, any help creating the SQL query to accomplish that or suggestions on a different approach altogether if necessary would be much appreciated.
You can use Jehad Keriaki's SQL which looks like it would work very nicely.
Alternatively depending on your DB and engine type you may be able to enforce referential integrity (which is what you are asking about) by strongly defining the relationship between tables and cascading deletes so as to ensure no orphan rows exist in the second table. You would need to ensure that table2 rows cannot exist without table1 rows as parent. If you are using an engine that allows this then you could have the engine do clean up for you, automatically.
Otherwise just go with Jehad Keriaki's SQL which, as I said, looks like it should do the job very well.
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The information in this section is specifically designed to provide information for medical professionals treating patients with choroideremia or scientists researching CHM.
Clinical Differential Diagnosis
Choroideremia (CHM) Vs. Retinitis Pigmentosa
Many CHM patients are often initially misdiagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), as these two conditions have similar symptoms, ERG and OCT findings. To learn more about the differences, please see this Clinical Differential Diagnosis PDF.
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There are more than 260 genes known to cause these inherited retinal conditions, and the availability of genetic testing has opened doors and brought information and clarity to those living with one of these rare eye diseases.
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If you were previously tested more than five years ago and you didn't receive a conclusive result – or any result at all – think about getting tested again. Genetic tests have improved, research is advancing, and a person may learn more from a newer test, especially with the identification of new genes.
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The Choroideremia Research Foundation is happy to announce that for a limited time, FREE genetic testing is available to anyone who has received a clinical diagnosis of CHM but has not undergone genetic testing. This has been made possible through funding by the CRF and a generous donation by PTC Therapeutics (www.ptcbio.com). Anyone interested in being part of a Clinical Trial or eventually being treated for CHM must have a Genetic Test confirming their CHM diagnosis.
To have free genetic testing performed through Project CHM, you can follow the following steps:
Download the Project CHM Genetic Testing Voucher. The completed form will be sent with your patient's blood sample.
Complete the online request form at Carver Lab for your patient. For method of payment, select "Voucher".
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In an effort to increase insurance reimbursement for genetic testing, we are asking all Project CHM participants to submit their testing to their insurance company. Patients will receive an invoice from the Carver Lab marked PAID and should file this with their insurance carrier upon receipt.
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Physicians should receive results from the genetic testing within 3 months to share with their patients. If results have not been received within 3 months, please follow up with the Carver Laboratory.
If positive results are confirmed, as CHM is an inherited retinal disease, other family members should also be considered for testing.
Please note that the voucher expires on December 31, 2020. Subject to available funds, this program may be extended so feel free to check back after this date.
Project CHM is a collaborative program between the CRF and the Carver Laboratory at the University of Iowa to provide genetic testing for those affected with CHM. The Carver Laboratory is a certified non-profit laboratory that offers low-cost genetic testing for people with retinal diseases like CHM, and the CRF is proud to partner with them to assist people affected with CHM to complete genetic testing.
If you have diagnosed any patients with Choroideremia, it is important to have the diagnosis confirmed through genetic testing. A genetic test is typically performed on a blood sample and identifies the specific genetic mutation in the CHM gene. A positive genetic test with a mutation in the CHM gene provides confirmation that your patient has CHM and not another similar retinal disease. Genetic testing is mandatory for those who want to be enrolled in a clinical trial or other research study on CHM.
While there is no current treatment or cure available for Choroideremia, there are a number of clinical trials currently underway testing potential treatments for CHM. Individuals interested in being part of a clinical trial, or eventually being treated for CHM when a treatment or cure becomes available will need to have had a genetic test to confirm their diagnosis of Choroideremia. These tests involve a simple blood draw that is sent off to an accredited lab where a diagnosis of CHM can be confirmed at a genetic level. Please note that any information regarding clinical trials or genetic testing is being provided for informational purposes only. The Choroideremia Research Foundation does not endorse any specific company or clinical trial. Please discuss any questions you may have with your healthcare provider.
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Church of the Good Shepherd, Inwood, NYC.
On May 1, 1911 Reverend Patrick J. Hayes of the Archdiocese of New York granted formal approval for a new parish, to be located on the northernmost tip of Manhattan.
The announcement would change the lives, and test the metal, of the two Paulist fathers assigned to the task.
After being officially appointed Pastor of the new flock, Father Thomas A. Daly and his assistant, Father James Towey, scoured the neighborhood for a land deal, they hoped, would accommodate an ever-growing congregation.
Until a suitable location could be found, the small but steadfast flock of 150 parishioners found a temporary home in a small chapel located on the current site of the Christie Field House at Baker Field.
On January 1, 1912, inside the old Christian Brothers' chapel, named "Philip's Villa," 150 Catholic pioneers held their first Mass along the banks of the Spuyten Duyvil. The Villa would serve as the parish church until a suitable structure could be built.
After and intense search, which included the securing of financing for the project, Father Daly purchased a large plot of land on Broadway and Isham Street for the sum of $115,000.
Isham Park Celebration reprint from 75th Good Shepherd anniversary program.
But his announcement would have to wait.
On September 28, 1912, nearly one thousand New Yorkers gathered on a hilltop just north of Isham Street for another historic announcement—the gift of Isham Park to the City of New York.
The day was a magnificent occasion. It marked the first time in 136 years that private citizens, Mrs. Julia Isham Taylor and Miss Flora E. Isham, had donated any significant parkland to the city.
New York Tribune, September 29. 1912.
In the midst of a grand party, held in the former Isham family mansion, the time felt right for the Paulist fathers to share their glorious news—news that that would shape Inwood to this present day.
After a series of folk dances and speeches by Parks Commissioner Charles B. Stover and local dignitaries, including local historian Reginald Pelham Bolton, Reverend John J. Hughes took the podium.
Hughes, the national father superior of the Paulist Fathers, announced that his order, after a careful search, had secured a permanent home a stone's throw south of the newly formed park.
With much excitement, Hughes described his plan for the construction of a church, school and monastery to serve the growing urban community, which, just years earlier, had been sparsely populated farmland.
Hughes told a spellbound audience that, within weeks, work would commence on a temporary wooden church, capable of seating some one thousand parishioners.
The church, he announced, would be named the Church of the Good Shepherd.
Thus it was, on the same late summer afternoon, the neighborhood gained not only a park, but also a church, which would together bind the landscape and religious fabric of Inwood for generations to come.
Not long after the celebration, work began on the original white A-framed wooden country church that would serve as home until a more permanent structure could be completed.
Nearly two decades later it became clear that Inwood the time for expansion had arrived. Two subway lines had led to the development of apartment buildings to house an ever growing, and ever more urban, population. The church that had served the community so well had become too cramped to contain the growing Catholic, heavily Irish, community that had fled the tenement life of downtown Manhattan.
Source: Good Shepherd's 75th anniversary program.
By the early 1930's the quaint country church was moved west, across Cooper Street so congregants would have a place to worship as workers broke ground on the church we know today.
Commissioned in 1935 and designed by architect Paul Monaghan the church is Romanesque in style. Spectacular to behold from the outside, with its granite façade, terra cotta tile roof and three large stained glass windows overlooking a stepped porch leading to Broadway, the church the inside is a work of divine inspiration. Good Shepherd's cavern-like interior is capable of seating some 1,000 people.
First Baptism: Dorothy Emily Baird, 153 Vermilyea Avenue, born January 1, 1913, Baptized February 2, 1913, by Father Thomas A. Daly.
First Marriage: William Young to Terese Francis Hall, April 20, 1913.
First Spanish Mass: November, 1969.
Good Shepherd roof replacement in 2015.
Now it's your turn. I encourage everyone reading to submit their own photographs and memories of Good Shepherd and help flush out its history together.
Started 1st grade in 1943. Principal was Sister Jeanne who had been my mothers 6th grade teacher at St. Thomas in Harlem. Memories of mean little Sister David, tough Ms. Heinz, wonderful Sister Bernard,Pastor was Father Bergen. Rosalie McQuade from Park Terrace was a year ahead of me and was famous for playing the daughter "The Goldbergs TV show". Nothing was better then the Good Shepherd dances . They had a live band the boys would stand all around while we girls hoped we would get asked to dance. I remember great dancers like Matty Devine, Nancy Doyle etc. we all learned great dances there and in Rockaway. Great Parish, great memories and some not so great.
Correction, Arlene McQuaid played Rosalie on the Golbergs. Bless you Cole for this terrific site.
Seeing the photographs on the site brought back bittersweet memories. I attended GSS from 1969 to 1972 (5th to 8th grade) going on to Mother Cabrini High School after graduation. The quality of education was excellent and a few of my teachers devoted and memorable. On the downside, being only one of a handful of Latinos at the school I experienced the ugliness of bigotry from some of the students and surprisingly, from a few of the nuns on the faculty. Overall, however, I am grateful for the good.
I made my First Communion in the old original wooden church in about 1932. We lived in 585 Isham St. directly across the street. When we were older, and the new church was built, we used to enter the side entrance and fill our water pistols from the Holy Water font!
A 1935 newspaper clipping reproduced on this website announcing "New Church Planned by Inwood Paulists" mentions the Pastor Arthur Miller. He was Rev Arthur Raymond Miller, CSP. Father Miller was born Dec 29, 1885 in London, Ontario, Canada and entered the Paulists in 1909. He was ordained a Catholic priest on June 6, 1914. In 1929 he was assigned to St Paul the Apostle Catholic Church on Columbus Ave & W 60th St, the Mother Church of the Paulists. The parish was established in 1858 and the new church was dedicated on January 25, 1885, In 1935 he was appointed as the fifth Pastor of Good Shepherd. It was under his direction that the new Good Shepherd Church was built. In 1940 he was appointed Pastor of St Paul the Apostle Catholic Church established by the Paulists in 1935 in Los Angeles where he died September 20, 1951.
The first Pastor of Good Shepherd was Rev Thomas Augusine Daly, CSP, born in Co.Kerry, Ireland on July 23, 1864. He came to the US when he was 12. He was ordained a Catholic priest on June 9,1900. He served as pastor for 7 years. He died in New York on January 8, 1941. He is buried in the Paulists' Mother Church St Paul the Apostle on Columbus Ave & W 60th St. His parochial assistant was Rev James Towey, born on April 7, 1882 in Santa Rosa South, California. He was ordained a Catholic priest on May 25, 1907. He left Good Shepherd in 1918 to serve as a military chaplain with the US Army during World War I. He then was assigned to various pastoral duties in Minneapolis & California. He died in San Francisco on February 1, 1953. He is buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma, California.
When I graduated from Good Shepherd School the Pastor was Rev Claude Joseph Collins, CSP. Father Collins was born in Gueydan, Lousiana on September 7, 1907. He was ordained a Catholic priest on February 12. 1936. He was assignd to St Paul the Apostle Catholic Church on Columbus Ave & 60th St for 2 years after ordination. He next served as a missionary in Africa until 1945 when he returned to the US. He was Pastor at Good Shepherd from 1955 to 1961. He died in Boston on October 6, 1979 and is buried in St Joseph Cemetery in West Roxbury, Masachusetts.
My 8th grade teacher at Good Shepherd was Brother Gabriel Healy,FSC. He was born James Edward Healy in New York City on August 16, 1929. He entered the Christian Brothers Juniorate in 1943, the Novitiate in 1946, receiving the religious name Brother Andrian Gabriel, and pronounced his Perpetual Vows in 1954. He only spent one year 1957-1958 teaching at GSS. He was one tough Mick but I liked him. He put up with no no nosense. One day three of the class wisguys came back together late from lunch. He could smell tobacco on their breathes and did not react genteely. Another day he got made at someone in class and threw an eraser at him. The eraser went out the open window on the NW corner of the 3rd floor and landed flush on Isham Street. The chalk outline of the eraser could be seen on the street for days afterwards. That Spring it rained heavily for days and he gave us lots of homework, saying there was nothing else we could do in such weather. His standard reply when we complained about being overworked was "it's no skin off my nose". Brother Garbriel died in Lincroft, NJ on November 30. 2012 and is buried in St Gabriel's Cemetery, Marlboro, NJ. I wouldn't have missed having had him as a teacher for the world. He got us ready for high school. Requiescas in pace, Frater!
In all my years of Catholic education the only teaching nun I ever had was in 1st grade at Good Shepherd School 1951-1952. She was a Sister of Mercy (official name of the order is Religious Sisters of Mercy) known as Sister Alphonsa, RSM. I remember her telling the class that she had told her Mother Superior what room she wanted in the new convent on the SE corner of Isham Street & Seaman Avenue. This site has a photo above of Francis Cardinal Spellman blessing the new convent in 1952. Sister Alphonsa's secular name was Catherine Angela Burke. She left the Sisters of Mercy in 1969.
Good to read all the comments about a great school. I go a little further back than all of those, as I was in the class of '38. Sr. Jeanne was our Nun also for 6th grade. I also recall Sr. Blandina and her famous "Bell" to get our attention so that we all lined up with our classmates to enter the school in the morning and after lunch time. Many of us went home for lunch in those days. I remember one day in May 1937 as she rang her "Bell" the Hindenburg flew right over the school on her way to her destiny.
The days spent at Good Shepherd are wonderful memories in a lifetime that has spanned many years and places.
My parents moved into Inwood in 1939 and I entered Good Shepherd School in 1951 and I can remember all my teachers from Good Shepherd. My 1st Grade Teacher was Sr. Mary Una (she was my favorite teacher) 2nd Grade Teacher was Mrs. Marjorie Reynolds (her husband worked at the Colonial Funeral Palor), 3rd Grade Teacher was Miss Agnes Riley, 4th Grade Teacher was Miss Edith Heinsmann (she was not very nice to me and my Mom went up to talk to her and after that she was very nice to me), 5th Grade Teacher was Sister Mary Alphonsa, 6th Grade Teacher, Sister Mary Angela, 7th Grade Teacher was Sister Mary Vincenza and 8th Grade Teacher was Sister Mary Reparata (she left the convent) Sister came to our 8th Grade 50th Reunion at Good Shepherd. I also remember that when we were in 7th and 8th Grade we had dancing lesson with the 7th & 8th Grade boys once a week. I don not remember our Dancing Teacher's name. Today I live upstate New York and work for an oil company and one of our customer's is a Sister of Mercy. She taught upstate New York and is 93 years old. Recently she had fell at home as she now lives in the home that her parents had owned. She is in a rehabilitation center and she is hoping to gohome. On my lunch hour I go and see Sister Mary Florence as she is very special to me because she is a Sister of Mercy.


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Few cities face as many physical constraints as Singapore, but today the place is seen as a model of urban sustainability. Could we all be living like this in the future?
By Tom Vanderbilt on August 16, 2019
After stepping off the world's longest flight (19 hours on Singapore Air's I new direct route from Newark), I walked into Changi Airport, jet-lagged and disoriented. But almost before I knew it, I had sped effortlessly through customs, and was delighted to find my bag already circulating on the luggage carousel.
I probably shouldn't have been surprised. Changi is routinely named the world's best airport—and that was before the addition, earlier this year, of the vast, Moshe Safdie–designed Jewel, a retail-entertainment hub on the site of a former open-air car park. In Jewel's Changi Experience Studio, a flashy virtual-reality exhibition, one of the most popular attractions is something known as the efficiency game, in which players are awarded points for swiftly processing travelers and bags.
Lee Kuan Yew, the long-serving inaugural prime minister of Singapore, was famously obsessed with efficiency; after assuming power of the tropical city-state in 1959, one of his first acts was to install air-conditioning in government buildings to boost civil servants' productivity. He was also the man who envisioned Singapore as a "city in a garden" and, in 1963, launched a massive tree-planting campaign that resulted in the verdant metropolis you see today.
That dual legacy—efficient and green—not only continues to shape Singapore but has helped make it a sort of showcase of sustainability, one that the world is increasingly paying attention to. Several decades ago, Singapore may have been catching up with the West, but today it is seen as a model for urban cen- tersacross the globe, both developing and developed, that look to the city-state for road maps to their own futures.
"City in a garden" seemed an apt description of Jewel's 10-story glass, steel, and aluminum dome. The futuristic space teems with thousands of trees and some 100,000 shrubs and houses the soaring Rain Vortex—the world's tallest indoor waterfall and a marvel of hydraulic engineering. In a city short on water and long on sun, countless steps were taken to make the Rain Vortex work as efficiently as possible. The whole thing is powered by collected rainwater—abundant in Singapore—while the waterfall itself helps cool the space. The nearly 10,000 glass panels that make up the massive "gridshell" covering are coated to let in plant-friendly sunlight but reduce visitor-unfriendly heat. And all those plants just make people feel good; never has a bustling airport seemed so tranquil.
My arrival at Changi was the first of many moments in Singapore when an example of efficiency would leave me shaking my head in silent wonder. Driving around town, I would find myself marveling at how an electronic transponder automatically collected payment at every parking garage in the country—no more fumbling for cash or tickets. Taking public transit, I was impressed by the "linkways," as the covered walkways are known, that seemed present at almost every stop, sheltering pedestrians from blazing sun and abundant rain. (They say there are two seasons in Singapore: "wet" and "wetter.")
Someone cares, I kept thinking. One afternoon, I took a walk with a government planner through the fashionable neighborhood of Tiong Bahru, a British-built 1920s housing development now popular with expats. As we chatted, I idly noted a spot where the sidewalk ended abruptly. The planner immediately took a picture on his smartphone and uploaded it to OneService, a citizen-powered troubleshooting app. Somewhere in the bowels of the city, I imagined, a roadwork crew was being silently mobilized.
For a long time, many people's image of Singapore was: clean and strict. "I'm afraid in the States two things come up—chewing gum and Michael Fay," said Jane Iyer, owner of Jane's Singapore Tours, which offers itineraries exploring everything from the country's diverse religious identity to the history of its wartime occupation by the Japanese. That famous gum ban and the 1994 public caning of Fay, an American teen alleged to have vandalized cars, ensured that the city-state was often seen as little more than a straitlaced business destination, or a gateway to other, more culturally rich southeast Asian countries.
But that's changing, Iyer said. Word got out about the next-level street food served at the country's cherished hawker centers. Then came last year's headline-making Singapore summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. And shortly after that came Crazy Rich Asians, the blockbuster movie about Singapore's one percent with a majority Asian cast (Iyer runs a tour of the film locations). Although Singaporeans say its portrayal is skewed—and half of it was shot in Malaysia—the movie helped put the country on many people's mental maps. (There was apparently a post-release spike in "Where is Singapore?" Google searches.)
In a place where architects often live to see their own projects demolished to make way for new designs, the past decade or so has also seen a growing interest in preserving the city's architectural inheritance. Today, visitors can experience it first-hand in projects like the Warehouse, a boutique hotel housed in a 19th-century godown on the Singapore River that once served the spice trade, and Six Senses Maxwell, a high-end hotel in a renovated block of 19th-century shophouses.
"On the surface, you might think there's not that much going on here," said Vijay Mudaliar, proprietor of a bar named Native, which is set in a former shophouse in a neighborhood where numerous historic buildings have been repurposed as fashionable restaurants, boutiques, and galleries. "We're trying to change that perception." Mudaliar is part of a growing number of creative entrepreneurs looking to reconnect with Singapore's cultural heritage. At Native, drinks are made with locally sourced—sometimes even foraged—ingredients like candlenut and laksa leaves. "We've grown so fast in the last 50 years," he said, "that sometimes we don't slow down to see what we actually have."
After its reluctant separation from the Federation of Malaya in 1965, writes Nicholas Walton in Singapore, Singapura: From Miracle to Complacency, the city-state didn't look much like a viable country. "It had no ready market for whatever it wanted to sell, no place from which to draw labor, food, and water." But with the help of some "farsighted leadership and work and sense of vulnerability, it pulled itself up by its bootstraps." Today, the country boasts the world's third-highest GDP per capita. What happened in the intervening decades entailed "bold responses" to myriad problems, as Lim Hng Kiang, the country's former minister of trade, described them. Housing shortage? The country instituted a forced-savings plan and started a massive public-housing campaign; today more than 80 percent of Singaporeans live in a "haytchdee bee," as residents pronounce the initials of the Housing and Development Board. (HDB housing populations are carefully calibrated to prevent ethnic enclaves.) And while U.S. residents might balk at the idea of a national government controlling where they live, and next door to whom, the policy is a source of pride for many Singaporeans. When impassable traffic jams began to plague the city in the early 1970s, the city passed the world's first congestion pricing scheme—something that made it to cities like London and Stockholm only decades later.
It disincentivized car ownership itself by requiring a "certificate of entitlement" typically costing more than the vehicle itself. Fewer than 50 percent of households now own a car, and the government wants the figure lower still. It was precisely because Singapore faced a whole host of issues that are becoming more relevant for an increasingly urban world—a growing and aging population, land and resource constraints, the challenge of maintaining social cohesion among different ethnic and religious groups, the effects of climate change—that it became, suggests Johns Hopkins University scholar Kent Calder, a "de facto global laboratory for pioneering approaches to urban problems." Once famously dismissed by Indonesia's president as a "red dot" on the map, the city is no bigger than Hamburg, yet has a population of more than triple the size—plus an army, an air force, and all the other responsibilities of nationhood. Singapore has very few natural resources, so it must rely on global supply chains for most of its food, water, and energy—even the sand that helps it expand (the island is 24 percent bigger than it used to be).
That unique combination of size and fragility, suggests Calder, has forced Singapore to become especially nimble, responsive, and innovative. "Singapore has always had a radically practical approach," the architect Peng Beng Khoo, of ARC Studio, told me, "simply because we have to deal with a lack of resources." It helps that the same party has been in power since the country's founding. "You can't transplant Singapore," cautioned Michael Koh, executive fellow at the government's Centre for Livable Cities. "The values are different, the population is different." Like a true laboratory, what happens in Singapore happens under a very specific set of circumstances. But that doesn't mean the solutions and remedies forged in this "radically practical" laboratory can't help cure problems elsewhere.
Not he ground floor of Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority, an agency almost wholly responsible for the way Singapore looks today (and will look tomorrow), there's a special exhibit celebrating the draft release of the country's latest five-year master plan. I toured the space, which is filled with information kiosks and a huge city model, with Yvonne Lim, the URA's group director of physical planning. "It's our chance to tell Singaporeans how we see Singapore developing," she said, pointing out a flurry of forthcoming changes: a huge port relocating here, a dense new town being built there.
Every ten minutes, the lights dimmed, a video flickered to life, and a booming voice filled the space. "Space may be limited," it intoned, "but opportunities are not." Breathless buzz phrases filled my ears. "Growth sustained through careful planning." "We've turned water into land, suburbs into hubs." The video concluded: "Singapore. Invent the future."
There aren't many countries that would create such a glitzy showcase for urban planning; fewer still would have a "concept plan" stretching 50 years. Singapore's zest for strategizing is its soft power: Planners come from around the world to study it, and the country has exported its know-how to countries from China to Rwanda. The state-owned group that runs the standard-setting Changi Airport, for example, has now consulted on some 60 airports globally. Lim suggests that all cities are facing the same broad set of issues. "What's unique to us is that we are a small city-state," she said. "In major cities like New York, you don't have to think about defense land. We have no choice." Needing land for air bases, or to capture water, and yet still plan for growth, makes every square foot precious. And being forced to do more with less leads to innovative solutions.
Everywhere I went in Singapore, it seemed something was being pushed to its highest productive use. That beautiful park, rich with birds, along the Kallang River? It was once a concrete channel—and still is a concrete channel—but thanks to clever bioengineering, it's also now a sus- tainable floodplain and public green space. Semakau Island, the country's only landfill, is a veritable nature reserve, teeming with species. The former Malaysian-owned rail line, which until 2011 connected the city to Kuala Lumpur, is being reclaimed as a 15-mile-long nature trail. With space for solar panels in short supply, the country plans to develop the world's largest floating solar array at Tengeh Reservoir, one of its crucial water-catchment sites (the energy will power water purification). As companies like Comcrop set up greenhouses on the tops of parking garages to reduce near-total reliance on external food sources, the country is aggressively expanding its underground space for storage and utilities.
The Marina Barrage, a dam built to cordon off a supply of fresh water, has a visitor's center and rooftop picnic ground. In Singapore, infrastructure is more than just pipes; it's a cause for civic celebration. Water itself is being "endlessly reused," as I learned one morning at a high-tech water-treatment plant, which has been proudly turned into a tourist attraction. The country currently gets half its water from Malaysia, under an occasionally contentious agreement set to expire in several decades. Aiming for self-sufficiency, Singapore has been aggressively investing in desalination plants, rainwater-harvesting systems, and "reclaimed" water— whatever just went down the drain. Along the way, it's made itself into a global leader in water conservation.
At first glance, it seemed like the classic promenade one might see in any European capital. There were lovers embracing, children wobbling by on in-line skates. Then I remembered that this street is actually a "skybridge" 50 stories-high—the tallest in the world—with views stretching to Malaysia (visitors can enjoy it for $6). Somewhere below, in Chinatown, sounded the distant clanging of a lion dance, which marks auspicious occasions. This was the scene at Pinnacle@Duxton, a much-feted series of towers comprising some 1,848 apartments linked by the aforementioned skybridge.
When Pinnacle debuted ten years ago, its density broke all records, even for Singapore. The building was designed by ARC Studio, which is run by Belinda Huang and her husband, Peng Beng Khoo. Huang told me that when the couple sat down to design Pinnacle, they could barely comprehend its scale. But they strove to soften the building's impact by maximizing views and keeping the façade as "porous" as possible, using color and texture to break it up. Pinnacle's density informed ARC Studio's work on 1000 Singapores, the city-state's official pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2010. If the world's population lived at Singaporean density, Khoo suggested, it could fit into Texas; if it lived at Pinnacle density, it could fit into Florida.
Khoo understands this might sound dystopian, but he sees Singapore as an urban proving ground, exploring "what it means to be compact and livable at the same time." To me, what stands out most about the city is the sheer amount of green architecture. By green, I mean, yes, triple-glazed-windows, solar panels, and striking innovations like the massive wind scoop on top of the Toyo Ito–designed CapitaGreentower, which funnels cooling air into the building's core. But I also mean buildings positively bristling with vegetation, as if the tropics were reclaiming the built environment. Richard Hassell, a partner in the architecture firm WOHA, told me that a decade or so ago, the city passed a law calling for "100 percent replacement green." In other words, all new buildings needed to house as much greenery as the empty site could have contained. In their design for the 635-foot-tall Oasia Hotel Downtown, where the 12th-storylobby opens dramatically to the elements, WOHA went even further, covering the building in a screen of aluminum mesh interwoven with 21 species of plants. There's as much green on the building as would occupy 11 of the same-sized plots on the ground. This veritable forest in the sky isn't just aesthetically striking; it's also dust-absorbing and cooling. ("Plants are the only thing you can shine light on that don't heat up," Hassell explained.)
Sustainable doesn't mean only green. Kampung Admiralty, a WOHA-designed senior housing project that was the World Architecture Festival's Building of the Year in 2018, does include, prominently, a large stepped rooftop garden filled with native plants and a recorded 57 species of birds and insects. But it also has a bustling community space, a supermarket, and an on-site medical center. Similarly, SkyTerrace @ Dawson, a government-commissioned public-housing scheme designed by SCDA Architects, boasts green-building credentials (and lots of actual green), but the central idea is that it's a place where three generations of Singaporeans can live together in interconnected, separate-entry modules. Soo K. Chan, the founder of SCDA Architects, has lived and worked in New York City (he designed the Soori High Line condominium complex). He told me he can do things in Singapore he could never do in New York—largely because there, the government is more open to experimentation than the profit-minded private sector.
The emphasis at SkyTerrace, he said, "really was how to improve the way people live." It's an ethos underscoring the "Garden City" concept, originally devised by the 19th-century British reformer Ebenezer Howard—which in turn inspired Le Corbusier's concept of "vertical garden cities." For a long time, these ideas existed more on paper than in reality. But in Singapore, Howard and Le Corbusier's visions have come alive. A project like Kampung Admiralty, noted Hassell, is "not just an architectural outcome. It's an outcome of a whole lot of social and economic policies that architecture has made visible." It's the sort of thing, he suggested, that might be a bit "embarrassing for governments around the world. They look at this and think, 'Why can't we do that in our city?'"
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Sony has chosen the IFA expo in Berlin to debut its flagship phones for the year, announcing the Xperia XZ1 and the Xperia XZ1 Compact earlier today. They don't offer huge upgrades over last year's models, but could have enough to tempt Sony loyalists into a purchase.
New Colossus and old favorites: The best trailers of Gamescom 2017
Michael Irving August 22, 2017
On the gaming calendar, Gamescom is wedged between E3 announcements and the holiday rush of releases. Along with the odd surprise reveal, there's usually plenty of new tidbits and teases for upcoming games, so New Atlas is digging into some of the most exciting trailers we've seen so far this week.
Sony lights up digital cinema with new line of 4K HDR laser projectors
To keep movies looking sharp on the big screen, cinemas are increasingly going digital, either through digital projectors or huge backlit screens. Now, Sony has unveiled the SRX-R800 series, a new line of digital laser projectors capable of displaying in 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR).
Sony and IBM shatter magnetic tape storage density record
Michael Irving August 2, 2017
Storing data on magnetic tape might seem antiquated, but it's still one of the most energy efficient and secure storage methods. Now, Sony and IBM Research have teamed up to break the areal density record for the medium, cramming 201 billion bits of uncompressed data into each square inch of tape.
Sony a7S II shoots Earth from orbit in 4K
Michael Irving July 26, 2017
The amazing Sony a9 recently blew us away, but earlier cameras in the family still have plenty of life left in them. JAXA blasted a Sony a7S II into orbit, and now the first stunning snaps of its round-the-world trip have been sent back from its perch on the side of the International Space Station.
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Sony a9 review: This mirrorless DSLR-killer moves the goalposts
Loz Blain July 24, 2017
It's too early to say the DSLR is dead, but Sony's amazing a9 is proof that the mirrorless revolution is unstoppable. Smaller, lighter, faster, with excellent battery life, mind-blowing autofocus, unbelievable high ISO performance and exquisite image quality, the a9 puts mirrored cameras on notice.
Sony a9 first impressions: This imperfect world doesn't deserve a camera this good
Sony's new flagship, the powerhouse a9, has arrived at New Atlas HQ as the most highly anticipated piece of camera gear we've ever laid our hands on. It may be the most advanced camera you can currently buy; a full-frame mirrorless monster designed to prove that the days of the DSLR are numbered.
E3 2017: Biggest reveals from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo
Michael Irving June 14, 2017
With all the E3 press conferences done and dusted, it looks like there's a pretty exciting year ahead. From 4K remakes of classics to long-awaited sequels to intriguing new IPs, New Atlas rounds up the best looking trailers and news from the likes of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
E3 2017: Which games are confirmed, expected or unlikely to appear?
Michael Irving June 1, 2017
The biggest week on the gaming calendar is almost here – the E3 expo. New Atlas runs through the games we know, expect or hope will make an appearance this year, from the likes of Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft and Bethesda.


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Lowestoft Journal > News > Housing
Go-ahead for new shops and flats at site of former family-run business
Plans have been lodged for the former Cooks Furnishers, of Lowestoft, site. - Credit: Mick Howes
New shops and two new flats are set to be created at a prominent building in south Lowestoft.
Having been synonymous with a town for more than a century, Cooks Furnishers, of Lowestoft, closed in July 2019 as brothers Peter Cook and Michael Cook hung up their tape measures for a well-earned retirement.
Now, their former premises on London Road South in Kirkley looks set for a new lease of life.
After closing in 2019 and being vacant ever since, it marked the end of a popular independent family-run business that had been at the forefront of furniture retailing having traded in Lowestoft for 107 years.
Cooks Furnishers, of Lowestoft, which closed in 2019 after 107 years in the town. - Credit: Mick Howes
With a scheme lodged with East Suffolk Council in August for a "shop refurbishment" of the vacant building with "two additional first floor flats", the plans were approved under delegated powers earlier this month.
Centring around "Shop refurbishment and the forming of two additional first floor flats" at 198-206 London Road South, a design and access statement was submitted by agents Julian D Hood Ltd, on behalf of the applicant Global Asset International Ltd.
It said the development would see the large store divided "into separate units" - with one unit potentially earmarked to be a restaurant.
As the site area measures 634.00 sq m the premises is "formed from five original high street shops" as the proposal includes "refurbishment and subdivision of existing shopfront into five units."
It stated: "The Cooks Department Store building has new owners.
"The new owners are enthusiastic to turn the single large shops to separate units to bring more variety to the street scene.
"It is the intention that the shopfronts will be restored as part of separating the single large shop into individual small separate shops.
"The new owners are also a family business, who intended to refurbish and return the street scene to it's original look."
A report from a delegated officer at the council recommended that "planning permission be granted subject to conditions" as "the proposed scheme is considered to enhance the character and appearance of the Conservation Area via the re-introduction of original shopfront features and details and the overall refurbishment of the site."
In granting approval, a decision notice letter to the agents from the council stated: "Permission is hereby granted by East Suffolk Council," subject to conditions.
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September Davis Climate Strike Drew Students and Supporters: "Still Time for Change"
by Lynne Nittler October 5, 2021
Advocacy, Community, UC Davis
Greta Thunberg and the impressive worldwide youth group she founded, "Fridays for Future," called a second global Climate Strike on Friday, September 24th, 2021. This was not a light-hearted publicity event, but rather a somber and thoroughly researched warning to all countries to take immediate actions to curb CO2 emissions. Unfortunately, since millions joined the September 2019 climate strikes, the burning of fossil fuels has accelerated, and our climate has grown more erratic and dangerous. Our climate is increasingly unlivable as wildfires, flooding, and intense heat waves cause damage and deaths around the globe.
Despite the serious purpose of the Climate Strike, the Davis climate strikers were actually happy to meet together at Central Park at the corner of 5th and B Streets with their hand-made signs. Covid had kept us apart for over a year, and at last we could be outside together again, carefully socially distanced, to engage with the steady stream of drivers and lunch-time passers-by.
Our eclectic group consisted of a homeschooling cluster, one raging Granny without her costume, a handful of dedicated Davis folks who always make the effort for climate actions, a handful of folks from the faith community, one city council member who consistently turns out for climate events, our excellent photographer Johan, my organizing partner Scott, and a handful of other fellow activists. We waved our signs and most drivers acknowledged us with an encouraging wave or beep. It was rewarding and we relished the camaraderie.
Only one driver disliked our message so much that he snarled and drove around the block to drive by and growl again, honking his horn in protest. A climate denier?
Fifteen teens from the Davis High School Ecology Club showed up on foot with signs halfway through the strike! Their boost of energy made us a legitimate youth Climate Strike group and energized our engagement with traffic passing by.
Not long after, another youthful band waving signs approached from UCD, the Climate Reality Project members and other supporters. They immediately used their urgent signs to relate to drivers and boldly committed to strike on that corner every Friday at noon! Their leader this year, Natalie Aguilar, said, "As a second year at UC Davis, having my first year completely online from home, I had forgotten the thrill of meeting together with peers with a common goal. In this case, it was calling for action from UC Davis, and the City of Davis to decarbonize and electrify. I enjoyed chanting together, 'What do we want? Climate Justice!' as we headed up Third Street to Central Park. Although I hadn't even explored downtown Davis until the Climate Strike, it was a warm, welcome place ready for change."
Why did millions of children and adults across the world make the time to strike in solidarity on September 24th, abandoning school, work and other responsibilities?
The answer on the Fridays for Future website is compelling: "We strike because we have no choice. We are fighting for our future and for our children's future. We strike because there is still time to change, but time is of the essence. The sooner we act, the better our shared future will be. "
Their urgency is further explained, "We need to act right now to stop burning fossil fuels and ensure a rapid energy revolution with equity, reparations and climate justice at its heart." The website includes live talks by youth from countries like the Philippines where the changing climate is already devastating the social fabric of their society.
Students hold signs with powerful messages at the climate strike held at Davis Central Park Friday September 24, 2021. Photo credit: Johan Verink.
For those who need the science, the earth is already warming. In the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries committed to limit the long term temperature increase to 1.5°Celsius to assure fewer climate-related risks for natural and human systems. We are fast approaching that 1.5 limit and may reach it as early as 2030. Already higher levels of warming are causing worse heat waves, more droughts and floods, and higher sea level rise, causing destruction to the earth we leave our children. While these effects will impact everyone, rich and poor, they will be most devastating to our most vulnerable: the poorest and youngest people.
Fridays for Future calls on all governments to do more to limit warming for the sake of all those already suffering, such as coastal peoples, farmers, indigenous people, and many others. They explain that scientists believe limiting warming is still possible.
"With renewable energy technologies, changes in farming and transport, and other big changes, we can limit warming and avoid even worse outcomes." Fridays for Future youth protest in the streets to get leaders to try!
Please stay tuned for the next Davis climate action set for October 29 at Chase Bank.
Lynne Nittler is a local activist and lifelong environmentalist. She was a founding member of Cool Davis and served as the board Secretary for six years. She continues as a contributing writer and active collaborator in her role with the Yolo Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice, a Cool Davis working group which sponsors many community climate events. She played a significant role in stopping twice-daily, 100-car trains of explosive tar sands oil from Canada coming through Northern California to Bay Area refineries in 2014-16, regularly organizes and/or attends protests at the capitol and in town, sings with the Davis Raging Grannies, organized eight Interfaith Climate Summits and innumerable evening speakers, films, concerts, reading and discussion groups, assisted youth in the 2019 Youth Climate Strike, and is currently active with Fossil Free California urging the divestment of CalSTRS and CalPERS pension funds from fossil fuels, among her many passionate efforts to stem the tide of climate change.
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Kaipara District Council is reviewing the current Kaipara District Plan.
The Kaipara District Plan is designed to manage natural and physical resources that are important for our cultural, social, environmental and economic well-being.
The Plan identifies Kaipara's resource management issues. This includes controls and where certain activities can occur, how land can be used or developed and what natural and social assets must be protected for future generations.
The review process will be undertaken in two parts with different stages within them.
The review process will result in Plan Changes that have divided into key themes.
Stage One: seeks your views on what is important for your community well being. These views will help to influence the development of any new Plan changes.
Stage Two: Council will workshop draft changes with Mana Whenua, community and stakeholder reference groups to make sure we are on the right track.
Stage Three: Council will release the draft changes and draft section 32 evaluation report for community feedback. A section 32 evaluation report is important to include as it tells the story as to why we have put forward the changes.
Stage Four: Feedback will inform changes to the draft. The draft changes will then be taken to a Council workshop to make recommendations on the final draft document.
Stage One –How do you get involved?
Council will be travelling across the District, holding key events to seek feedback from Kaipara's communities.
Council will report back to you and Kapara's communities through the website and other media, highlighting the key messages we receive.
To know what is happening throughout the district please view this Calendar.


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By: kristimyblog October 19, 2020 January 4, 2021
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My Greatest Seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette
The Bachelor is due for a return tonight, and I have to say that I have mixed feelings about it. When I think about it, the reason I have mixed feelings is that I am not invested in Matt. Sure, it's great to have a "normal" person lead the show, but at the same time, I do not care if he finds love one way or another. My boyfriend thinks I'm blind, because when we saw the trailer for the season, I said I thought Matt was quite average.
While you might agree with him that Matt is smoking, I have always been the type of person who appreciates a sharp mind. Since I don't know anything about Matt other than the fact that he is friends with Tyler Cameron and Hannah Brown, I don't see what is so special about him. That will probably change as the season goes on, but for now, I'll watch because it has always been a good way to spend time with people I care about.
Since I'm not invested in this season yet, I didn't want to write a blog post with speculations and predictions. Instead, I wanted to take an idea The Bachelor producers had in 2020 and redo it with my input. Since they weren't able to film, they did season of looking back and declaring the most notable seasons, but I don't agree with the ones they chose.
Now that The Greatest Seasons is over, I actually have my own opinion on which seasons would be on my list. Keep reading to find out my top 3 seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
My Top 3 Bachelors
Ben Higgins: Perhaps I am biased, because Ben's season is the first one that I watched in real-time, but I would rank him first because I fully believed that he was a little angel man looking for love. It was so real for him that he gave his heart to two women, and even though it didn't work out for him, he's engaged and happy now. Things played out for the best when it comes to Ben's love story.
Chris Soules: I went back and watched this season, and even though I knew how it ended, I think it was very much worth my time. That is because the girls on this season were some of my favorites to watch, other than Kelsey, and many have made names for themselves. Kaitlyn Bristowe came from this season, and so did Becca Tilley. Ashley I recently married Jared Haibon, and even though Carly just announced a separation, she found happiness beyond the show..
Brad Womack (both times): Confession time: I have watched neither of these seasons entirely. I watched the version where ABC packed both seasons into 2 hours, which was a lot on my mind. He is on the list merely because I watched him, and the whole time my mind was playing the song "Cowboy Take Me Away." He's attractive, he's an entrepreneur, and he confessed to having mental health issues, which makes him brave. Moreover, Emily Maynard came from one of his seasons, and she had a great season of The Bachelorette; this is especially true of her wardrobe, because I think she had the biggest budget. Either that, or she just had the best stylists that knew how to maximize a budget.
My Top 3 Bachelorettes
Kaitlyn Bristowe: There is so much to say about Kaitlyn's season, but the first thing I want to mention is that she just won the mirror ball on Dancing with the Stars. Her season had me on an emotional roller coaster. It was also very annoying that they started the season by having the men pick their bachelorette. Accidents also happen, and she should not have gotten slack for sleeping with someone before the fantasy suites. Men never get that amount of heat for sleeping with anyone. Moreover, she set the stage for us to cheer on Hannah Brown when the issue of sex and intimacy came up. While people want to attack her character, Kaitlyn was real and authentic to who she is, and its hard not to champion that.
Rachel Lindsey: Like Tiana from The Princess and the Frog, Rachel is the first and only black female to lead the show (so far). She has definitely set a high bar for everyone who comes after her. She came in as a lawyer skeptical of the experience, and then came out with her now-husband. Like Kaitlyn, she has always been outspoken about how she feels and what she believes in, and that lawyer background has contributed to her always saying the right thing. The franchise always brings her back, and I think that's because she's one of the most intelligent and well-spoken people that they have ever had.
Jojo Fletcher: I can't say that she was the most interesting to watch, because I think her choice was very obvious from the moment that Jordan Rodgers walked out of the limo. She makes this list for me because I love her as a person, and after Ben broke her heart, all I wanted was the happiest ending for her. Moreover, it has been so satisfying to see her overcome the odds, because she and Jordan are still together now with the two cutest dogs. He re-proposed recently, and they are in the process of planning their wedding.
Honorary Mention
The main thing that The Greatest Seasons left out were the spin-off shows. I highly believe that season 2 of Bachelor in Paradise is one of the best seasons of the franchise.
This is the season where Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert met, and they are now married and expecting their third child. This season is where the love story of Ashley I and Jared Haibon started, and they finally got married last year. It is also the season where contestants brought up the issue of talking online before coming on the show, from Sam and Joe's situation.
Overall, this season of Bachelor in Paradise had a premium cast, and had the ideal balance between love and drama. It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I wish we could go back to these roots, because the drama now seems out of control and everyone seems to be an ad for flat tummy tea.
Are you a fan of The Bachelor franchise? If so, who are the Bachelors and Bachelorettes that make your list of greatest? Would you consider going on the show if you were single? How do you see your love story unfolding? Tell me in the comments below!
As always, thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog. Let me know that you enjoyed this post by liking it, sharing it with your friends, and telling me in the comments below. You can also make my day by subscribing to the blog so that you can get updates of when I post more content like this.
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