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Engineering Building University of Leicester, Leicester
Conservation of a heritage building to meet modern standards
Engineering Building University of Leicester
Building design Building envelope and facade design Materials Electrical engineering Facade engineering and design
The University of Leicester's Engineering Building is an early example of Post-Modernist design and continues to inspire architects today. The Grade-II* listed building was named among the ten best post-war buildings in Britain by Historic England in 2015, who described it as "a synthesis of traditional and modern elements that is wholly British".
After over fifty years of service, the University decided to replace the striking translucent roof and facade areas originally designed by James Stirling and James Gowan and refurbish and upgrade the existing building services. During this project, Arup led the building design, heritage consultancy, façade, building services and structural engineering.
1963 official opening
Grade-II* listed building
2,500glass panels on the roof have been replaced
Arup has been a key member of the Client team that led the Engineering Building project through countless technical challenges. They have maintained the highest design and conservation standards, and guided the heritage stakeholder negotiations with a sense of calm and clarity. Together with an excellent team of contractors Arup has delivered a spectacular finished product, preserving and sensitively upgrading this most exceptional of twentieth-century buildings. The University of Leicester is delighted with the result. "
Improvements on the building performance
The building was covered by a triangular trussed steel frame roof with distinctive diamond-shaped perimeter rooflights. It was thermally inefficient and the thin glass and roof structure made access for even basic cleaning and repair impossible in places. By upgrading the performance of the glazing systems we have provided an envelope which is watertight and airtight, with natural ventilation openings to relieve high temperatures at the top of the double-height volumes.
The new roof
The new glazing had to look right architecturally and perform to 21st century standards yet remain as true to the original as possible. Although it may seem relatively simple to remove an old roof and replace it with one of the same shape and of similar materials, the new roof had to take into account the movement of the older structure and much stricter performance and safety standards. 2,500 glass panels on the roof have been replaced, each unique to fit with the existing warped structure. As a listed building, this all had to be carried out to the satisfaction of the local authority conservation office, Historic England and the Twentieth Century Society.
The new double-glazed units are twice as heavy and more than twice as thick as the original single-glazing. The new glazing bars, however, are significantly narrower than industry standard, providing structural integrity yet replicating the original light structure.
The new roof had to take into account the movement of the older structure and much stricter performance and safety standards.
New building services with a better performance
Arup also replaced the original building services with new equipment to meet the functional demands of the department today. We refurbished and refitted original components where possible and new elements have been hidden in floor trenches or bespoke-made to complement the functional aesthetic of the interior spaces.
Following the University's commitment to reduce CO2 emissions across its campus, the Engineering Building's new control system will be tailored to its changing patterns of use in future, and synchronised with systems in the towers in a later phase of refurbishment.
Long term preservation
The University also devised a 'project charter' which compelled everyone to cooperate in preserving the historic status of the building. The minutiae of every detail was refined again and again to ensure the restoration was as authentic as possible.
The contemporary interventions to the services and the façade provide a comfortable environment with proper heating, cooling and ventilation, keeping its original function as an engineering building from which students can learn and be inspired by.
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'Nile water level stable despite Ethiopia's 2nd filling of dam'
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Khartoum, July 19 (IANS) A Sudanese official said that the water level in the Nile River has been stable despite Ethiopia's second filling of the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
"Since April, the Al-Daim station on the border with Ethiopia has not monitored any drop in the daily level of the water coming from the Ethiopian Plateau to Sudan," Hamid Mohamed Ali, director of Sudan's Al-Rusaires Dam, said in a statement on Sunday.
"Although Ethiopia started the second filling of the GERD, yet the daily water amounts are stable," he noted.
But Ali stressed that, despite Ethiopia's start of the second of filling of the GERD, a legal and binding deal should still be signed regarding filling and operating of the dam, reports Xinhua news agency.
The Al-Rusaires Dam on the Blue Nile, which lies some 100 km from the GERD, was established in 1966 with a storage capacity of 3.35 billion cubic meters.
Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia have been in talks for years, under the umbrella of the African Union, over the technical and legal issues related to the filling and operation of the GERD.
Sudan proposed a mediation quartet of the UN, the European Union, the US and the African Union on solving the GERD dispute.
Ethiopia, however, has rejected this proposal.
In February, Ethiopia said it would carry on with the second-phase 13.5-billion-cubic-metre filling of the GERD in June.
The volume of the first-phase filling last year was 4.9 billion cubic metres.
Ethiopia, which started building the GERD in 2011, expects to produce more than 6,000 megawatts of electricity from the dam project.
While Egypt and Sudan, downstream Nile Basin countries that rely on the Nile river for its freshwater needs, are concerned that the GERD will affect their shares of the water resources.
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The Department of Law at Northern University Bangladesh proudly declares the signing of MOU with Asian Society of International Law of the 58th Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2017 National Round Bangladesh on 22nd January, 2017. The MOU was signed by Professor Dr A W M Abdul Huq, Dean, Faculty of Law on behalf of NUB and by Professor Dr Borhan Uddin Khan on behalf of Asian SIL. Ms Afroza Bilkis, Head (Acting), Department of Law, NUB was also present at the signing.


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Ford Racing 2 è un videogioco pubblicato nel 2003 per PC, Mac, PlayStation 2 e Xbox. È il successore di Ford Racing e il predecessore di Ford Racing 3.
Nel gioco sono presenti 32 vetture Ford e 16 diversi tracciati, sbloccabili nella modalità "Ford Challenge".

Simbolo di FR2 è la Ford GT disponibile nei colori rosso-bianco, bianco-blu, giallo-nero e arancione-azzurro.

Modalità di gioco

Ford Challenge
In questa modalità i videogiocatori si mettono alla prova in differenti sfide, una per ogni automobile presente nel gioco le quali vengono suddivise in differenti categorie.
 Leggende Viventi (Mustang del '68, Thunderbird del '55, GT e altre),
 Stelle del cinema (Coupé del '49, Gran Torino del '76, Ford GT e altre),
 SVT (Cobra, Focus e Lightning),
 Concept-car (Powerstrike, EX, Indigo, GT90 concept e altre),
 Veicoli Fuoristrada (F-100, Pickup del '56)
 Stock Car (le Taurus da competizione usate negli ovali)
Non tutte le sfide sono immediatamente disponibili, ma necessitano di sbloccare un certo numero di sfide; è il caso della celeberrima Ford GT che richiede 17 veicoli sbloccati prima di poter utilizzare l'auto simbolo di Ford Racing.

Una volta portata a termine con successo una sfida, l'auto corrispondente è disponibile nella modalità "Collezione Ford".

Collezione Ford
Con "Collezione Ford" i piloti possono utilizzare i veicoli e i tracciati sbloccati nella modalità Ford Challenge. Una volta selezionata il tipo di gara si può scegliere una delle auto collezionate, catalogate in differenti sezioni e con colori differenti.

Multigiocatore
È disponibile la modalità multigiocatore a schermo diviso, con due tipi di gare: Gara standard o Eliminazione.

Tipi di gara
 Standard - Si tratta di una  gara classica contro altri avversari (minimo uno e massimo cinque) su un numero di giri da 1 a 9.
 Eliminazione - Si tratta di una gara contro 5 avversari su 3 giri.  Al termine di ciascuno dei primi due giri, le ultime due vetture vengono eliminate. Il giro finale si risolve in un testa a testa per conquistare la vittoria.
 Duello - Si tratta di una gara da 3 giri nella quale si devono affrontare tre avversari in successione; vincendo ciascun giro, si affronta in quello successivo un nuovo avversario.
 Inseguimento - Bisogna portarsi dietro l'avversario e seguirlo attentamente senza toccarlo. La barra di potenza sullo schermo diminuisce quando si insegue un avversario, mentre aumenta se si colpisce o si perde il contatto ravvicinato. Per vincere l'inseguimento bisogna portare la barra di potenza a zero
 Tecniche di guida - Ci sono delle porte posizionate lungo la pista e ciascuna di esse aggiunge un secondo al proprio tempo se si passa in mezzo. Bisogna terminare un giro prima dello scadere del tempo.
 Fuori i secondi - Lungo la pista si trovano dei bonus di tempo che, una volta raccolti, sottraggono un secondo al proprio tempo sul giro. Per vincere, si deve scendere al di sotto del tempo limite.
 Traiettoria - Si deve migliorare il tempo indicato seguendo la traiettoria di gara segnata da una riga verde: se ci si allontana troppo la linea da verde diventa rossa e si subisce una penalità di tempo.
 Attacco al tempo - Si tratta di una gara fra il giocatore e il cronometro: qui si deve semplicemente riuscire a scendere sotto il tempo limite indicato. Naturalmente con l'aumentare della difficoltà il crono da battere si abbassa.

Circuiti
Ford Racing 2 ha a disposizione 16 tracciati, suddivisi in diversi ambienti:
 Periferia: Route 50, Bay Bridge, Port Side
 Big Country (fuoristrada): Base Militare, Ghost town, Vecchia ferrovia
 Spring Break: Deer Creek, Palm view, Ocean Drive
 Mondo Perduto (fuoristrada): Rovine del tempio, Vulcano, Great falls
 Ovali: Rock city raceway, Black Ridge speedway
 Piste da corsa: International raceway, Club raceway.

Collegamenti esterni

 Scheda di ford Racing 2 sul sito http://www.macitynet.it/immagini/giochi/FordRacing2/FordRacing2.html

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MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 11, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- A planning meeting for World Congress of Families VIII (September 10-12, 2014) will take place in Moscow next week. The meeting at the Crown Plaza Hotel (October 15-16) will include representatives of pro-family groups from Russia, Italy, Spain, Venezuela, Australia, New Zealand, France, Serbia, and the United States.
World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs commented: "There is great historic significance and symbolic meaning in holding the Congress in Moscow. It was in Moscow in 1995, on a visit to Russia, that WCF founder Allan Carlson met with Professor Anatoly Antonov and other Russian leaders where they envisioned a World Congress of Families to restore the natural family and unite East and West in the post Cold War era. With the countries of the former Soviet Union emerging from more than 70 years of communist persecution of the church and family, it is even more apparent today that only family and faith can renew a free and stable society in Russia and in the post-modern Western countries."
Jacobs further commented; "Father Maxim Obukhov (who founded the pro-life movement in Russia over twenty years ago) was determined to make a bid for a Moscow WCF after attending the Warsaw Congress in 2007. Father Maxim and Alexey Komov drafted the first official proposal for Moscow as the site for a Congress at a 2009 meeting in Colorado Springs. Another milestone in this process was the world's first Demographic Summit, held at the Russian State Social University in 2011. Alexey Komov, World Congress of Families Representative in Russia and the CIS, has done a remarkable job as the head of the local organizing committee for WCF VIII."
Past Congresses have been held in Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004), Warsaw (2007), Amsterdam (2009), Madrid (2012) and Sydney (2013), World Congress of Families has also held regional events in Vancouver, Toronto, Port of Spain (Trinidad), London, Abuja and Lagos (Nigeria), Riga (Latvia), Ulyanovsk (Russia) and Manila.
"Each Congress is unique," Jacobs observed. "Each has its own focus. Each emphasizes concerns of the host country as well as international issues. Each promulgates its own declaration. Besides the 2010 Demographic Summit, World Congress of Families involvement with Russia includes support for its child protection law, overwhelmingly enacted by the Duma in June."
The theme of World Congress of Families VIII (September 10-12, 2014) will be "Every Child a Gift: Large Families, the Future of Humanity. WCF VIII will convene in the Congress Hall of the Kremlin (where the Communist Party of the USSR used to meet). The second day will be at the Christ the Savior Cathedral, the church that was demolished by the communists.
Jacobs noted: "This will be our first Congress in an Orthodox country. Along with Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Evangelicals and others, increasingly, our Orthodox brothers and sisters are taking leadership roles in the international pro-family movement." World Congress of Families has Partners in 15 countries and works with pro-life and pro-family groups in more than 80 countries on six continents.
Jacobs: "A discussion of demographics has figured in every Congress since Prague. I expect that to intensify at Moscow 2014. Russia currently has a well below-replacement birth rate and one of the highest abortion rates in the world. However, unlike most Western nations, it also has a government that's willing to confront this civilizational crisis with pro-family policies. Prior to the Moscow meeting, Komov and WCF Communications Director Don Feder, along with Srdjan Nogo of the Serbian group Dveri (WCF's newest Partner) and French pro-marriage activist Fabrice Sorlin, will be in Kiev for meetings with key Ukrainian leaders, including members of parliament.
A World Congress of Families leadership team was recently in Belgrade to lend support to a protest against a "gay pride" parade, which was ultimately cancelled.
For more information on World Congress of Families, please visit www.worldcongress.org. To schedule an interview with Larry Jacobs, contact Don Feder at dfeder@worldcongress.org, or call 508-405-1337 or 508-395-0142 (mobile).
The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society (www.profam.org) is located in Rockford, Illinois and is an independent, non-profit research and education center that provides sound scholarship and effective strategies to affirm and defend the natural family, thus renewing a stable and free society. The Howard Center is the publisher of the journal, "The Family In America" and is also the organizer of the World Congress of Families (WCF) project which is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and inter-faith people of goodwill from more than 80 countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). The WCF was founded in 1997 by Dr. Allan Carlson, President of The Howard Center. To date, there have been five World Congresses of Families – Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004), Warsaw, Poland (2007) and Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009). World Congress of Families VI was held in Madrid, Spain in May 25-27, 2012. World Congress of Families VII will be held in Sydney, Australia, May 15-18, 2013, www.wcfsyndney2013.org.au.


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Former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak has become the latest Democrat to enter the presidential race.
Former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak launches presidential campaign Former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak has become the latest Democrat to enter the presidential race. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2019/06/23/former-pennsylvania-congressman-joe-sestak-launches-presidential-campaign/39616075/
The Associated Press Published 6:26 p.m. ET June 23, 2019
PHILADELPHIA — Former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak has become the latest Democrat to enter the presidential race.
The retired Navy admiral who calls himself "Admiral Joe" on his campaign website joins a crowded Democratic field seeking the nomination to challenge President Donald Trump. He was launching his longshot candidacy Sunday afternoon at a veterans' museum in Waterloo, Iowa.
Sestak decries what he calls "America's retreat from the world" and says strong action is needed to deal with climate change, corporate accountability and China's geopolitical threat.
"The president is not the problem; he is the symptom of the problem people see in a system that is not fair and accountable to the people," Sestak said in his campaign video.
Sestak served two terms in the House, then defied party leaders by running against incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 primary. Sestak beat Specter but lost the general election to Republican Pat Toomey. Sestak sought a rematch against Toomey in 2016, but national Democrats recruited a primary challenger who defeated him.
He said he delayed his entry into the presidential race while his daughter battled brain cancer, which returned after she first beat it at age 4.
"Throughout this past year, Alex again showed she is stronger than me, heroically beating the single-digit odds once more, drawing on the fortitude of her mom," Sestak said.
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In ''The Fear of Taking Paternity Leave'' (Workplace section, May 31), you describe the plight of fathers who do not take paternity leave because they are afraid of being ridiculed, discriminated against or even of losing their jobs. The problem is not restricted to fathers. Many employers also question the career commitment of any woman who dares to take more than the briefest maternity leave.
I recently interviewed a group of highly distinguished women in science for a book about the factors affecting their success. All reported that young faculty members rarely feel free to take extended family leave, even if they can afford it, because they are afraid of jeopardizing their chances for promotion and tenure. They are still expected to follow career paths that were established at a time when most professional men had wives who were full-time homemakers and professional women were expected to remain childless.
Unfortunately, institutions whose employment policies truly meet the needs of today's two-career families with young children remain rare.


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One of the things that I found most disturbing about the recent failed bombing attempts in London and the car attack in Glasgow, aside from the terrorism and potential for huge losses of life, is this:
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — British police focused Tuesday on at least four physicians with roots outside Britain – including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket – in the investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London.
At least four of the eight suspects were identified as doctors from Iraq, Jordan and India. One of the doctors from India, 27-year-old Muhammad Haneef, was arrested late Monday at the international airport in the Australian city of Brisbane, where he was trying to board a flight with a one-way ticket late Monday, the Australian attorney general said.
Prime Minister John Howard said a second doctor was being interviewed in Australia, and British media reported that at least two of the others detained were trainee physicians.
Mark Shone, a spokesman for Halton Hospital in England, said Haneef worked there in 2005 as a temporary doctor, coming in when needed. He also confirmed a 26-year-old man arrested in Liverpool late Saturday – also Indian – practiced at the hospital but he would not provide the man's name or further details.
Amid increased security at British airports, train stations and on city streets, a bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious car parked outside a mosque in Glasgow.
That's right. A large percentage of the terror suspects arrested thus far are physicians or physician trainees. It bothered me enough that Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri is a high-ranking member of al Qaeda. Radio reports that I heard early this morning were claiming that as many as six of the suspects were physicians or physician trainees. Attention is now focusing on the large number of physicians who have of late immigrated to the U.K., many of whom work in the National Health Service from Muslim countries.
It just boggles my mind that physicians can become terrorists like this. It is antithetical to the very core of our purpose in becoming physicians: To relieve suffering and to help the sick and wounded. We're not supposed to produce more sick and wounded. A more disturbing implication than how those sworn to heal could so easily be drawn into planning and executing the mass killings of innocent human beings is the possibility that some of these physicians, rather than being involved in bombing plots, might turn their skills to terror, either through chemical or biologic attacks.
Make no mistake about it, any physician who leaves the path of healing and becomes an accomplice to mass murder and terrorism has committed an even worse betrayal than the run-of-the-mill terrorist because he or she will have abandoned everything that the profession stands for, even if they do not use their special skills in the attack itself. It just goes to show how powerful ideology and religion can be, corrupting even those who should normally be very resistant to killing in the name of God.
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EDITORIAL: Sierra Leone's Environmental Disaster: Can Liberia Learn Anything from It?
The people of Sierra Leone awoke on Monday, August 14 to a terrible disaster in Freetown, where mudslides claimed over 300 lives and destroyed properties worth millions of dollars.
Sierra Leonean Vice President Victor Foh presumes that the death toll may go higher than 300.
The mudslide, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), came amid heavy downpour of rain that began in the early morning hours when most people were asleep.
It occurred near the Sugar Loaf Mountain west of Freetown, where people have built houses both below and on the side of that mountain.
Building on the side of a mountain, depending on the way it is done, poses an environmental threat to the very residents as it is now the case with Freetownians. No one could have been told that such human activities near a steep mountain like the Sugar Loaf are dangerous.
As people dig to find space for building, so are the chances of erosion, sparked by the soil hanging. When rain soaks the hanging soil, it is possible that it will slide at any time, as it did.
According to BBC Freetown Correspondent, Umaru Fofana, authorities of Environmental Protection in Sierra Leone have consistently warned builders not to build residential structures near or on the mountain side; yet people have refused to abide by the Agency's warnings and advice. Fofana even disclosed that a senior government official who did not abide by the Environmental Protection Agency's advice is a victim of the disaster.
The Daily Observer joins the Mano River Union (MRU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Government of Liberia and the rest of the world in expressing profound condolences to the government and people of Sierra Leone for this horrendous loss of lives and properties.
The environmental disaster facing Sierra Leone must teach Liberians a lesson to take precautions against a similar situation. Like Sierra Leone, Liberia experiences heavy rainfall, especially along the coast, and residents in Monrovia encounter floods almost every year.
While we do not have a mountain in Monrovia as compared to Freetown, there are some activities Liberians carry out here that could result into the same flood disaster and mudslide that has afflicted Freetown.
For example, people are deliberately building in the mangrove swamps all around Monrovia without fear of what nature may bring and with total disregard for environmental laws.
Residents of Monrovia are in the constant habit of dumping water plastic and other kinds of trash in drainages meant to allow free flow of water and sewage. Sand mining at the beaches and in rivers is still dangerously rampant, despite measures pronounced by the Ministry of Lands & Mines to halt such activity.
Results of such activities manifested in Monrovia some years ago. A flood disaster hit the capital and its environs in 2014, leaving thousands of people homeless in the Sinkor, Bushrod Island and the ELWA belt. Public Works Minister Gyude Moore, in an interview with the Daily Observer, admitted that floods in Clara Town and Vai Town were due to structures built on watery and swampy slopes, and dumping dirt in drainages. He also mentioned that building in swampy areas was another cause of flooding in Monrovia.
It may also be recalled that in 2011, sea erosion damaged homes from the 19th Street beach to 24th Street in Sinkor. This, too, was the result of constant sand mining by residents of those areas coupled with building structures close to the ocean.
The disaster in Sierra Leone is similar to, or has greater effect than the one that occurred on October 6, 1982 in No Way Camp, Mano River in Grand Cape Mount County.
People are currently using shovels and diggers to dig into the mud in Freetown to find survivors or victims.
The BBC reported that government is unprepared to intervene promptly, as evidenced by the absence of excavators and other emergency equipment.
The time has come for Liberians to learn from Sierra Leone, and for the government to institute and enforce strong environmental policies to curb such activities which pose dangerous environmental threats that could lead to tragic consequences.
Point 4, West Point… The Sea Water is rising steadily . Couple with that, we have a MAN-MADE SEAPORT that is not DREDGED REGULARLY. That's a DISASTER in waiting Should there ever be a major storm. It could become a CATASTROPHY. * Liberia needs a WELL EQUIPPED ARMY ENGINEERS CORPES; deployed to tackle this problem.
I am worried about areas like Jallah Town situated right under or below the University of Liberia main campus. I do not know whether the Ministries of Mines, Public Works and concerned individuals are thinking about checking this area to avoid a possible disaster like the one which occurred in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Please forgive me. I am not a geologist or engineer. Other areas are those houses under Decour Palace Hotel. These houses or homes are right under the hotel. These houses or homes can be seen as you drive from waterside going up Mamba Point area. Remember that it took many years for the disaster that took place in Sierra Leone to occur. No one ever realized or thought that the mudslide would have ever occurred. It is about time that both the Ministries of Land and mines and Public Works to conduct a joint technical assessment exercise on those vulnerable areas around the city of Monrovia to avoid future disaster. The human lives lost in Sierra Leone due to the disaster will never be replaced or brought back. I am filled with deep grief and sympathy for one of the victims who lost his wife and five children in the disaster. This is a tragedy that he will never forget. My deepest sympathy and condolences to my brothers and sisters in Sierra Leone. May God Almighty and Allah console them in their bereavement.


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MEDIA ALERT for 4/17: Three Peaceful Protesters Including Dr. Sandra Steingraber to Face Judge Wed. Evening
For Immediate Release April 15, 2013
Contacts: Jack Ossont 607-243-7262, sandhill1@frontier.net
Chris Tate 607-351-3768, ctate@lightlink.com
Three Peaceful Protesters Including Dr. Sandra Steingraber to Face Judge Wed. Evening
Press event and rally will be held in Watkins Glen before 7 PM arraignment.
Who: Melissa Chipman, Michael Dineen, and Sandra Steingraber, PhD, of the Seneca Lake 12
What: Press Event 5:00 pm, Glen Harbor/Seneca Harbor Station Marina Park, south end of Seneca Lake off of N. Decatur St., Watkins Glen
Rally 5:30 pm, Same location
Hearing 7:00 pm, Reading Town Court, 3914 Co. Rd 28, Watkins Glen
When: Wednesday April 17, 2013, Three events, two locations, see above
The three defendants will explain their decision to engage in civil disobedience and announce their further intentions at a press event/rally before their court appearances. Both events will be held in the park next to the marina in the Glen Harbor area of Watkins Glen, beginning at 5 PM.
The hearing will take place in Reading Town Court at 7:00 pm and will include the arraignment of biologist and author Sandra Steingraber, PhD, distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College and a prominent critic of fracking and its related infrastructure, along with Schuyler County resident and businesswoman Melissa Chipman and Seneca County resident and farm owner Michael Dineen.
The "Seneca Lake 12" were arrested on March 18 for blockading the gas compressor station site at the southwest end of Seneca Lake. They did so to demonstrate their opposition to the intentions of Inergy, LLC, a Missouri-based company, to force industrialization of a lake that serves as the source of drinking water for 100,000 people—and eventually the entire Finger Lakes region.
Without consent from local affected communities, Inergy plans to turn the region into a fossil fuel transportation and storage hub for the Northeast. This threatens public health and safety, and would adversely affect the local tourist and agricultural economy. The protesters foresee that this is an early step in a build-out of infrastructure to support the distribution of shale gas from fracking, a dubious method of extreme energy extraction which has had myriad toxic consequences in other states.
Five of the Seneca Lake 12 have already appeared in court and were ordered to pay fines of $375 each. The previous arrestees paid their fines, with the financial support of the local community.
Further background, video, photos, quotes, https://ourfutureisunfractured.wordpress.com/
The next three Seneca Lake 12 defendants will appear in Reading Town Court on May 1.
For Melissa Chipman and Michael Dineen: Jack Ossont 607-243-7262,sandhill1@frontier.net
For Sandra Steingraber: Chris Tate 607-351-3768, ctate@lightlink.com
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Join us on 4/17 for Court Hearing for "Seneca Lake 12"
UPDATE: At 5 pm, we'll gather with music for a pre-hearing RALLY at Watkins Glen Harbor Park. The defendants will speak 5:30-6ish pm. Map available here.
Directions to rally: From Rte 414 ("4th St") in Watkins Glen, turn north on Decatur St; go the end, to edge of Seneca Lake.
After the rally, come to the court hearing for citizens who were arrested for blocking the gates of Inergy, on Seneca Lake. Arrive by 6:45; seating is limited to 47. Hearing dates:
April 17: Melissa Chipman, Michael Dineen & Sandra Steingraber
May 1: Jim Borra, Spike Jones & Margie Rodgers. And Jeremy Alderson of the "Seneca 3" whose action took place in September.
Past hearings:
March 20: KC Alvey, Dennis Fox & Jack Ossont.
April 3: Crow Marley, Katya Andersson & Mahats Miller. They were all fined the max, $375/each. Many thanks to everyone who donated. We raised enough to pay the fines for all 12, although some chose to pay it themselves. Any surplus will go to support future actions.
Why the blockade? Why should we be concerned?
Seneca Lake supplies drinking water for over 100,000 people. This is threatened by an out-of-state corporation that wants to store massive amounts of highly explosive NGLs (Natural Gas Liquids including Liquefied Propane Gas or "LPG"), Butane and Methane ("natural gas") in the salt caverns under the lake, caverns which have already been deemed unreliable for this purpose. http://www.inergylp.com/inergy-Services/NGLstorage/fingerlakes.asp
Inergy's stated business goal is to turn Watkins Glen into the NE hub of transportation and storage for NGLs. They plan to massively expand infrastructure support for fracking and fossil fuels at a time when we need to stop dangerous global warming and climate instability. Inergy's plan would industrialize our landscapes, clog our roads, adversely impact winery-tourism, and pollute our air and water. We say "NO" to Inergy, "NO" to more infrastructure for fossil fuels.
If you feel these citizens stood up for your interests, please show your support. We will post updates here. Thank you!
Not a Single Inch We'll Give
We will fight at the pipelines,
We will fight at the rigs,
We will fight at the compressors,
Not a single inch we'll give.
We will fight in Watkins Glen,
We will fight in Minisink,
We will fight in Horseheads,
10:00: Protesters have linked arms and deployed a banner reading "Our Future is Unfractured, We Are Greater Than Dirty Inergy", blockading the entrance of the Inergy facility in Watkins Glen. Sandra Steingraber PhD., biologist, author and Trumansburg, NY resident, is risking arrest alongside residents of Seneca Lake and local college students to oppose Kansas City, MO based Inergy, LP's natural gas and liquid petroleum gas storage facility, which would lock in natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale region. The blockade joins a growing national movement to call attention to environmental injustices caused by unconventional and extreme fossil fuel extraction techniques, including Inergy's hotly debated salt cavern gas storage facility proposed for Reading, NY.
10:21: Sheriff has just arrived on scene as eleven blockaders and their supporters sing: "We will fight on the pipelines, we will fight on the rigs, we will fight on the compressors, not a single inch we'll give."
10:30: Sheriff deputy: "I'm asking you to move, because there will be other people coming up here, and they might not be as nice to you as me."
10:35: One blockader, on the truck attempting to enter the facility: "I'm glad the truck's here, so we're risking arrest for actually doing something."
10:38: Police have asked blockaders to move, giving a ten minute warning. Blockade remains strong with another chorus of, "Not a single inch we'll give!"
10:41: Five minute warning.
10:45: Truck attempting to enter the facility has turned away and left, truck attempting to exit has not moved.
10:48: Police confiscate banner.
10:50: Five arrests, four blockaders and one legal observer. Legal observers are traditionally respected in their role as non-participants, but one has been arrested for accidentally having one foot on Inergy property.
10:54: Second round of arrests, four blockaders handcuffed. State trooper arrives on scene, joining four other police vehicles.
10:56: Truck leaves facility, passing three remaining blockaders.
11:04: Mother, biologist and author Sandra Steingraber, Green Umbrella organizer KC Alvey, and local organizer Jack Ossont are last of blockaders to face arrest. The facility was successfully blockaded for one hour. Jail support is tracking arrestees and our medics are making sure they have everything they need.
12:46: All arrestees released, cited with trespassing violations.
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Protect the Finger Lakes
Watkins Glen residents have been working hard to ensure the DEC gives adequate attention to legitimate scientific and socioeconomic concerns about the Inergy natural gas facility. The DEC's current draft analysis of the environmental impacts is completely inadequate, ignoring the local health impacts from air pollution. The DEC also neglects to mention the detrimental impact on the thriving wineries and tourist economy in the area.
Residents are committed to stand up for themselves if regulators won't. We will resist the fracking infrastructure that the industry is trying to sneak through the back door. This fight is key to deciding New York's energy future. Are we going to be won over by out-of-state energy companies? Or are we going to protect our health, our communities, and our economy by standing up to Inergy?
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Journey to the pearly gates of Heaven on this stunning Mountain bike adventure through mystical forests, enchanted lands, old ghost tracks and Golden bays!
Want to discover some of New Zealand's finest tracks, but can't commit to our 12-day Misty Mountain Hop? Join us for 6 days of the best riding at the top of the South Island, where you'll get to ride Kiwi classics like the Queen Charlotte Track and the Rameka, while also shredding lesser-known local favourites like Coppermine Saddle and Dunn Mountain.
The heli-bike shuttle to the top of New Zealand's longest and most epic slices of singletrack on the Old Ghost Road will have you in heavenly bliss.
Breathtaking scenery, world-class singletrack, heart-pumping heli-biking, unique charming stays and thirst-quenching local brews; we've got it all covered mates!
You are an experienced, skilled and fit mountain biker with solid mountain bike handling skills. You're comfortable in a variety of terrain - from rocky, rooty technical trails to fast and flowy hardpack - and can tackle challenging climbs and steep descents. You can ride for up to 5 hours a day and enjoy a good challenge if it means reaping great rewards!
Kia Ora! Welcome to New Zealand mates!
You'll be arriving into one of NZ's sunniest and warmest towns, home to tasty sauvignons blancs in the sun drenched valleys of The Marlborough Region.
We'll start this trip of a lifetime in the lobby of the The Blenheim Palms Motel at 9:30 a.m. Please be dressed for riding with your bike assembled and ready to shred at 9:30 a.m.
We'll hop in the shuttle and head north to the head of The Marlborough Sounds.
After driving through vineyards and lush countryside, we'll gear up to ride the epic Queen Charlotte Track! We'll ride one of the prettiest and most fun parts of the trail by riding through beautiful native New Zealand fern forests, past stunning green bays and golden sandy beaches.
We'll then arrive to the remote and beautiful Lochmara Lodge, right in the heart of The Marlborough Sounds, where we'll fall asleep lulled by the sounds of the ocean.
Rising to the sounds of Bell birds and the smell of the ocean, we'll embark on a chartered boat ride through the sunken river valleys of the stunning Marlborough Sounds. Once back at the van, well drive to Nelson & Motueka in the scenic Tasman Bay. From here we'll make our way over to the start of Golden Bay. We'll warm up with a loop on the fun Canaan Downs Track, then shred the famous Rameka Track. This trail winds through beautiful native bush before heading down through open pasture land then pine forest before hitting native forest again. You'll be begging for more. This track has been known to render riders "speechless". We'll ride into the hippie town of Takaka, where your worries will be washed away!
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After waking to the sounds of the wilderness, and enjoying the long white clouds rolls off the ridgelines, we'll enjoy a delicious homecooked breakfast before taking off on a wicked downhill. Enjoy NZ's longest downhill: 30km of ripping through a variety of terrain, forests, views and magic. It just keeps going and going and you'll be begging for more. Once back at the van we'll head north to the art and craft brew capital of the South Island, the funky town of Nelson.
Rising early to the smell of fresh flat white coffees, we'll be embarking on one of Nelson's most classic mtb tracks. Here we'll gear up and take on the local's Coppermine Saddle. A grunt of a 1000m climb, starting in pine trees, riding through native bush and then rising into the dry alpine with views across the Tasman Bay, this ride is a real goodie! Only to enjoy an awesome flowy red rocked downhill and back through Fern Gully! We'll hop in the river for a swim to cool off, then ride back into Nelson Township for a cold craft brew in one of our favorite apres-ride hang outs, before one delicious farewell dinner together.
This morning is a free morning for you to enjoy the funky town of Nelson, as it has lots to offer off the saddle. Between the organic Markets, loads of cool cafés, beaches and pubs, you'll get to enjoy some time to explore. Your guides will drive you to the airport for 2pm or earlier, so packing up your bikes will need to be taken care of sometime before your guides pick you up. A good idea would be to stick around Nelson for an extra day to discover the excellent mountain bike scene.


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Isabella is our public speaker, travel junkie and organizer. It's hard to come up with a country that she has not visited. With a background in Bioengineering and Entrepreneurship and Business Design she has a wide range of competences which all come in very handy at Mimbly.
Travelled all the way from Nancy, France to Gothenburg for the entrepreneurial life. With a background in Chemical engineering and a stop in the UK he took on his second master in Entrepreneurship and Business design. An amazing Lego builder with a weakness for a good hiking trail and wine, from France (obviously). .
The team member from the North of Sweden who loves design. Studied Industrial Design Engineering and at Mimbly works with everything related to design, including product design, market, UX. When away from the office, Emil builds his own surfboards and you will most likely see him in the middle of the waves on a surfboard or on a sailboat.


"These are not breasts" — image by FCM.
"What having breasts feels like" — image by FCM.
Women's culture/positive images. Here, the images illustrate the difference between men's objective (technically speaking) experience of women's breasts, and women's subjective experience of living in a be-breasted body. Men objectify the breast, and men's experience of women's breasts is by definition "objective" — meaning not subjective, although far from neutral or unbiased, obviously — and only from the perspective of an outsider observing them. Thus, men experience women's breasts as two roundish globes, located approximately in the center of the chest. Surely, men also experience women's breasts as something to be touched, rather than something that produces sensation when touched, as they do not and indeed cannot experience subjective feedback from women's breasts, but only from their own hands (or whatever) when they touch women's breasts.
Unsurprisingly, women do not report the same experience of their own breasts.
Breast augmentation surgery, where "breasts" are fashioned from whole cloth and using the woman's own tissue to visually obscure the reality of what was done to her, cause women to then experience their own breasts as men experience women's breasts: the breast no longer feels the same, and often the woman is left with little sensation to touch, while the sensation of the implants themselves surely approximates two roundish globes, located approximately in the center of the chest.
in pure lust, mary daly dissects the patriarchal process of erasing and replacing womens lived experience and female-centered reality with male-centrism: the psychic castration of women that removes the thorn of female knowledge and experience from the side of patriarchy. or…removes the burr of femaleness from under the patriarchal saddle? i dont know. but apparently womens lived experience as women, constituting sexual class:female and womens awareness of it all is irritating enough to the patriarchal powers that be that they willingly invest much time and energy into subverting and destroying it.
through brainwashing with patriarchal propaganda, and literally murdering women who dont comply with patriarchal mandates, women are taught from day one that womens reality isnt real. at least, its not the one thats going to get you anywhere, or anywhere worth being, and it could actually get you in quite a lot of trouble. "male-identify or die" is the law of the land, when you are female. obviously.
almost convincing…but not quite. the mountain always knows the truth doesnt it? well, i dont know about that, but i do know that women never forget we are women, not really. i mean, if you take a birth control pill every day, every day and can remember that much: that you are supposed to take it every day at the same time for some reason, that counts. doesnt it? and when a woman is "triggered" by depictions of male violence against women, medical experimentation, sexual torture, very likely because shes already been a victim of it herself…whats being triggered exactly? this is a serious question.
terrifyingly, men and their patriarchal medical machine can and do literally mold and shape womens bodies in their own image, or the image they have in their own heads when they think about us and experience female bodies, from the outside. and they have advanced their own medical technology to the point that they can make *us* feel what *they* feel, and they can make *us* experience our own bodies the way men experience womens bodies from the outside. yes!
a freshly-minted, male-centric female experience.
horrifying. just horrifying. and thats just one example, and an obvious one at that. all female experience, all female knowledge, even about things that men literally cannot know because they are men, is dismissed and obliterated and replaced with male-centrism and we are all required to go along with the program or face devastating consequences. this is what we are up against, as female-bodied persons under patriarchal rule. this is the process of male-identifying women.


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Modders get Half-Life running on an Android Smartwatch
The idea of gaming on your watch isn't a new one. Some low-cost kids watches have come equipped with simple games for years and developers have been experimenting with gaming on smartwatches from day one. Doom has long been the game that gets just about everywhere, even ATMs, but it's such an old game that it's not particularly impressive everytime somebody gets it running on an unexpected piece of hardware. The fact that modders have managed to get Half-Life running on an Android Wear device is very impressive however and although it's never going to be very playable on such a tiny screen it demonstrates the sort of thing these devices are capable of.
Smartwatches haven't been readily available for all that long and although the Apple Watch has definitely kick started interest not that many people are using them yet. It's unlikely you'd use your watch to play a full-blown PC game like Half-Life but seeing that this is possible gets us excited about what developers will be able to achieve in the future. Over the next few years smartwatches are expected to not only gain a lot more popularity but also improve massively.
Half-Life clearly wasn't created with this sort of device in mind and the menus and controls make it impossible to play properly, plus it's pretty buggy. These are early days though and it's not hard to imagine a similar title developed specifically for a smartwatch could be a fun little distraction. Currently smartwatches don't have anywhere near the power or memory of a high-end phone but with the way things are moving it won't be long before your watch is as powerful as your phone is now and you can only imagine what your phone will be capable of!
Battery life is probably the most disappointing thing about smartwatches right now and even the costly Apple Watch can struggle to last a full day. With that in mind playing games is probably the last thing you would want to do on your smartwatch right now or you'll be left with no power left to do anything else. As the hardware improves and developers come up with apps and games which suit a tiny screen smartwatches will become much more useful but in the meantime cool little projects like this are most welcome!
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Eshoo, Panetta, Padilla, Kiley, Schiff, Carbajal, And Sherman Lead Bipartisan Letter With 50 California Lawmakers Urging President Biden To Grant Major Disaster Declaration
PALO ALTO, C.A. – U.S. Representative Anna G. Eshoo (CA-16), U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) authored a bipartisan letter co-led by Representative Kevin Kiley (CA-03), Representative Adam Schiff (CA-30), Representative Salud Carbajal (CA-24), and Representative Brad Sherman (CA-32) with the majority of California lawmakers urging President Joe Biden to issue a major disaster declaration for the State of California in response to recent severe weather. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (CA-11) are cosigners of the letter. A major disaster declaration for California would provide a wide range of federal assistance programs for individuals and public infrastructure, including funds for both emergency and permanent work from FEMA and other federal agencies.
California has experienced multiple severe recent weather events, including as many as ten strong atmospheric rivers and a bomb cyclone system, which have caused significant and widespread flooding, mudslides, erosion, sinkholes, power outages, and evacuations for thousands of Californians across the state. In addition to extensive physical damages, these weather events have claimed the lives of multiple individuals. At one point, more than 34 million Californians, which makes up nearly 90% of the state's population, were under a flood watch and over 400,000 individuals had no electricity, threatening their livelihood and quality of life. On January 9, 2023, the state experienced its highest level of evacuation orders, impacting nearly 100,000 individuals, with an additional 56,000 individuals under evacuations orders.
"The magnitude of these weather systems has placed a severe strain on California's resources and its ability to swiftly protect public health and safety," the Members wrote. "Although the state has invested more than $738 million in flood protection programs in the last two years alone, it has been and continues to be increasingly difficult for the state and local governments to obtain the necessary resources to respond to the devastation caused by these storms.
The Members continued, "The size and scope of these storms require additional coordination and a wider range of long-term federal recovery programs. Therefore, we urge you to approve California's request for a major disaster declaration."
Additional Members signing the letter include: Reps. Pete Aguilar (CA-33), Nanette Barragán (CA-44), Ami Bera (CA-06), Julia Brownley (CA-26), Tony Cárdenas (CA-29), Judy Chu (CA- 28), J. Correa (CA-46), Jim Costa (CA-21), Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10), John Garamendi (CA-08), Mike Garcia (CA-27), Robert Garcia (CA-42), Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Josh Harder (CA-09), Jared Huffman (CA-02), Darrell Issa (CA-48), Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Ro Khanna (CA-17), Young Kim (CA-40), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Barbara Lee (CA-12), Ted Lieu (CA-36), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Doris Matsui (CA-07), Tom McClintock (CA-05), Kevin Mullin (CA-15), Grace Napolitano (CA-31), Jay Obernolte (CA-23) Scott Peters (CA-50), Katie Porter (CA-47), Raul Ruiz (CA-25), Linda Sánchez (CA-38), Brad Sherman (CA-32), Michelle Steel (CA-45), Eric Swalwell (CA-14), Mark Takano (CA-39), Mike Thompson (CA-04), Norma Torres (CA-35), David Valadao (CA-22), and Juan Vargas (CA-52).
Read the full letter here and below.
Dear President Biden:
As members of the California Congressional Delegation, we write to request that you grant the State of California's request for a major disaster declaration in response to recent winter storms, flooding, and mudslides. This severe weather and the resulting disasters began on December 24, 2022, and are currently ongoing. The intensity and damage of these storms require federal assistance, coordination, and action to supplement state and local efforts.
These recent weather events, which include as many as ten strong atmospheric rivers and a bomb cyclone system, have caused significant and widespread flooding, mudslides, erosion, sinkholes, power outages, and evacuations for thousands of Californians across the state. In addition to extensive physical damages, these weather events have claimed the lives of multiple individuals. At one point, more than 34 million Californians, nearly 90% of the state's population, were under a flood watch and over 400,000 individuals had no electricity, threatening their livelihood and quality of life. On January 9, 2023, the state experienced its highest level of evacuation orders, impacting nearly 100,000 individuals, with an additional 56,000 individuals under evacuation orders.
As detailed in California's request, these consecutive severe storms have resulted in significant flooding and other impacts in 49 counties: Alameda, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Kings, Inyo, Lake, Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Ventura, Yolo, and Yuba Counties.
The magnitude of these weather systems has placed a severe strain on California's resources and its ability to swiftly protect public health and safety. Although the state has invested more than $738 million in flood protection programs in the last two years alone, it has been and continues to be increasingly difficult for the state and local governments to obtain the necessary resources to respond to the devastation caused by these storms.
The size and scope of these storms require additional coordination and a wider range of long-term federal recovery programs. Therefore, we urge you to approve California's request for an expedited major disaster declaration and expeditiously provide all categories of public assistance, individual assistance, and direct federal assistance for all counties set forth in the Governor's request, as well as hazard mitigation statewide.


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Delhi Govt Cancels leaves of Doctors and paramedical staff
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September 14, 2015	State : New Delhi
In order to tackle the growing number of dengue cases in the capital, the delhi government has just announced that it has cancelled the leaves of all doctors, nurses, lab technicians and paramedical staff.
This move comes after a severe shortage of staff that the government hospitals are facing with the recent surge in dengue cases. Its not just the extra beds that is required, its also the manpower, sources say. The current strength is proving vastly inadequate to deal with the situation and as a result the government has cancelled all the leaves of existing workers
"In view of an exigency due to dengue outbreak, all leaves stand cancelled till the present situation improves," read a circular issued by Hindu Rao hospital.
According to the officials at the Health department of Delhi government, they had received requests from several hospitals for extra doctors and para-medical staff to deal with the increasing number of dengue patients visiting the hospitals.
"We have received requests from several hospitals demanding deployment of extra doctors and para-medical staff in their hospitals to deal with the increasing number of dengue patients.
"In view of that we directed them to cancel the leaves of their doctors and para-medical staff till this emergency situation prevails," said the official.
"The current strength of doctors, paramedics and lab technicians is proving inadequate to deal with the increasing number of patients visiting the emergency wards," said a senior doctor from Lok Nayak hospital.
"The staff is sanctioned as per the number of beds. But in this situation, hospitals are flooded with patients seeking treatment for dengue fever. Also, we have other cases of heart attacks and other serious diseases coming to us which also we cannot ignore. So we are really over burdened," said a doctor.
Delhi government has also ordered all government hospitals to open 'Fever Clinics' at their premises to detect the disease at the primary level.
As per the municipal corporation's fresh data, 613 cases of dengue have been reported in the last one week and a total 1,872 patients have tested positive for the vector borne disease till 12 September.
The Directorate of Health Services has issued an advisory to all government and private hospitals directing them not to deny admission to patients affected by the vector-borne disease.
Delhi government has further launched helpline number 011-23307145, to assist the dengue patients in the capital.
Source: PTI
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Design: To be accurate, or not to be?
To be accurate or not to be, designers wonder
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Production designer Tom Conroy chuckles over criticism from a British blogger objecting to what appeared to him to be radiators visible in the chambers of King Henry VIII during an episode of Showtime's "The Tudors." "We placed columns behind the king's throne that were fluted and painted gold," says Conroy. "They resembled radiators from a certain angle."
Conroy's experience is typical for designers on TV's handful of period shows, including "Tudors," Starz's "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," HBO's "The Pacific" and AMC's "Mad Men." They sometimes veer from perfect historic recreations but insist their departures from historical accuracy are focused on enhancing the drama.
Thus, some costumes in "Tudors" more accurately resemble Italian and French era garb than less ornate English finery. In "Spartacus," historically accurate drawings from ancient Rome are delicately, but inaccurately, etched onto leatherwear, and so on.
Often it's simply impossible to flawlessly replicate certain things. On "Pacific," for instance, filmmakers couldn't visit each battle location — the entire series was shot in Australia.
"We endeavor to get it right, but it is within parameters how we deal with particular logistics," says production designer Anthony Pratt. "At the end of the day, it's an approximation; that's inevitable."
Sometimes the sniping is misguided. "Tudors" costume designer Joan Bergin has been accused of taking liberties with women's plunging necklines but insists she found comments on low-cut dresses in an obscure ancient diary.
"We have many different references," she says. "I based Anne of Cleves' wedding dress on the painting of Holbein (Henry's court artist), but for Anne's family, I went with the influence of Cranach. They are much different perspectives."
"Mad Men" production designer Dan Bishop says simple cost savings were the reason he built a barbershop out of Masonite rather than laminates used in the period.
Refereneces to the '60s on "Mad Men" are plentiful but sometimes contradictory, and details can be murky. "In those cases, you rely on creative ingenuity of our ancestors," Bishop says. "If raw materials and manufacturing techniques were there, then you decide the particular thing could have existed, even if you don't have an exact example in your research."
Designers sometimes also take liberties for thematic reasons. Bergin says one important idea in "Tudors" was that Henry grows wealthier over time. So she purchased a collection of colorful vintage fabrics for the show at a charity auction. The fabrics were not Tudor but they were "so sumptuous that they fit the grandeur of the Tudors," she says.
"Spartacus" is largely a fantasy, so costume designer Barbara Darragh has leeway to mix and match liberally.
"You take elements of history and then add original things," she says. "Then it's a question of where do you go from there. (That's why) we made the leather etchings." Since the show's fight scenes are shot with high-speed HD cameras, "that (gives) viewers details of that beautiful work."
Darragh says mixing influences from different time periods and regions is often logical. "In Rome, Gauls, Germans, British and North Africans were all mixed up."
The bottom line, the designers say, is there's really no such thing as a totally accurate TV re-creation of any historical era. "You hope that you create a reality which is convincing onscreen in its own terms," Pratt says.
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2016 was a curious year. Politics ate itself and the internet took over all discourse. But personally, it was pretty good. I published two books, one a collection of short stories and one playscript. I wrote this blog every week, made a website and got in the habit of producing things regularly. I went to Skye for a long week and went to loads of gigs. It's odd having this dichotomy between the terrible news of politics and the quite good personal life.
The year end is a natural time to reflect, so following the lead of everyone else with a blog, I thought I'd take the opportunity to reflect on some of my personal cultural highlights.
This was a tough choice. Whilst The Shock Doctrine is still relevant to the modern world today as well as being elegantly written and packed with detail, I'm going to have to go with So You've been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson. This is an investigation into the after effects of being shamed on the internet and how witch hunts can lead to the devastation of lives. It's also a spectacular plea for empathy, which the internet consistently removes. More than any other book I have read this year, this book has informed my thinking on politics and on day to day life.
This was a little harder. I tend to read fiction for escape, reading a lot of science fiction. The book that had the greatest impact on me was The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières. It's funny and tragic in equal measures, telling the story of a fictional South American country and the civil war that erupts. It does not flinch from showing the horrors of living under a military dictatorship. It's brutal and unfair in parts, witty in others, with various unique characters and different narrative strands that weave in and out of each other. It's an incredibly powerful read and highly recommended. I have the other parts of the trilogy and intend to read them soon.
It's got to be The Sculptor by Scott McCloud. I almost put this in the best fiction category. It's that good. A struggling sculptor named David Smith gets powers from death to create whatever he likes with any material. The art is fantastic, the story is gripping and incredibly moving. I picked it up on a whim from the library but would recommend it to anyone, even if you don't usually like graphic novels.
Also recommended: The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil By Stephen Collins and Signal to Noise by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
Something about the world collapsing in on itself like a house of cards made me want to retreat to the solace and comfort of music. There was so much good stuff around this year. It has been a spectacular year for albums and music.There was Savages with Adore Life, starting off the year with fury and beauty. Bowie's last album, Blackstar, was a genre confounding dark jazz masterpiece. Radiohead, one of my favourite bands, released A Moon Shaped Pool, an excellent album filled with strange noises and wonderful instrumentation.
Wildflower, on the other hand, is a ridiculously fun party album. No one expected another Avalanches album, especially as their previous LP, Since I Left You, was released in 2000. It was well worth the wait. Mostly made up of samples from other records, it's an album that flows together to create a blissful state, where nothing is wrong. I've listened to it more than any other album this year. It's so fun, perfect for escape. It's tied with Skeleton Tree as my album of the year, as they both offer such a different emotional state.
I didn't see too many films this year. I find it hard to pick a favourite, mostly because I haven't kept track of what I've seen. Captain Fantastic was a charming film with excellent directing and performances. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story completely bypassed all my critical faculties and left me with a huge smile on my face. Next year I will try to keep better records.
Probably the best thing I experienced this year was Counting Sheep by The Lemon Bucket Orkestra and Aurora Nova at the Edinburgh Fringe. A stunning immersive experience that put you on the front line of the revolution, this was theatre at it's finest. It was intensely political but fun and full of music and dancing. Afterwards, Mel and I wandered out into the streets in a daze, amazed at what we had just witnessed and been a part of. One of my highlights of 2016 for certain.
I'm excited at what I've done so far this year. I feel I have a solid platform to build and hopefully do more creative stuff. I'm planning to read a few longer books this year, probably starting with Alan Moore's Jerusalem. I want to take my time over books this year, not rush through to get the numbers up. I am currently working on a book of short stories, which are going to be more science fiction inspired. One of the stories has got a bit long, so might be a novella or (gulp) a novel. We shall see. Whatever happens, I'm enjoying writing regularly and producing new work.
I'd be interested to hear your highlights of 2016 and plans for next year. May it be a peaceful and prosperous one.


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