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Sometimes that person you immediate dislike becomes, over time, a close friend. In fact, the very things you disliked about that person can end up becoming his or her chief virtues in your eyes.
That's been my experience with Serbia. The first encounter was certainly not auspicious. I first visited Belgrade in 1989, on my way south from Poland to the beaches of the Croatian coast. Or, at least, that's where I thought I was heading. I arrived in Belgrade that July only to discover that all the bus and train tickets to Dubrovnik were sold out. During that summer, even with the Yugoslav economy in difficult straits, Dubrovnik remained a popular destination. Air tickets were available, but I didn't have that kind of money. So, I ended up staying in Belgrade, disgruntled.
Belgrade seemed to me quite ugly, and I couldn't wait to leave. I rescheduled my flight but still had to pass three days there. I could never get the hang of the city's geography. Even with a map I was always getting lost. And everywhere I went I ran into the same two guys. Next to all the pictures of Tito hanging on the walls of restaurants and newsstands was this other fellow, Slobodan Milosevic, who looked like an apparatchik from central casting. I couldn't wrap my head around all the signs that proclaimed "I [heart] Serbia." I naively thought the creation of Yugoslavia had meant the death of nationalism. I obviously hadn't been following recent events in the country.
My next visit to Belgrade was a 1990 flight with Yugoslav Air that passed through the country on the way to Poland. In those days, JAT was the cheapest way to get to Eastern Europe, but many of the flights with connections to points north required an overnight stay in Belgrade. On that particular night, we arrived late at night, near 10 pm, and were driven from the airport into the city to a reasonably nice three-star hotel. Sixty or seventy very hungry people crowded into the hotel lobby, waiting for the distribution of room keys. We waited. And waited. After an hour, it turned out that the hotel didn't have rooms for us.
"Not to worry," said our JAL representative. He packed us back into our bus, and we drove in the direction of the airport again. Near midnight, the bus stopped at a no-star hotel. Again we waited for an hour for our room keys to be distributed. The hotel had rooms for us, just not enough. I spent a restless night in a small room in a double bed with another guy, sleeping head to foot. Dinner that night was a huge platter of grilled meat that, because we were all ravenous, we tore into with abandon. There was plenty of alcohol to make us forget our ordeal and then, the next morning, to remember it in painful detail.
They woke us early enough to get to the airport three hours before our flights left. The airport wasn't even open. I sat on a hard plastic seat and tried to sleep. Finally, it was time to check in.
"Ah," said the young woman behind the counter, "you have to pay the airport tax."
"Airport tax? No one had said anything about an airport tax." I didn't have any Yugoslav dinars, so I offered dollars.
"Oh no," she said, "it has to be in dinars."
"But the exchange booths aren't open," I pointed out.
She shrugged.
It turned out that I had a 15-minute window to exchange money, pay the tax, and, running with several other unhappy travelers, get onto the plane before it left. Goodbye and good riddance, I thought as Belgrade retreated into the distance.
An acquaintance later told me that she'd been in a similar situation at the Belgrade airport with one important difference: her early-morning flight left before the exchange booths opened. She waited until the last moment, walked up to the ticket-taking official, and threw a crumpled bill in his direction in lieu of the airport tax receipt. Then she ran through the turn style, down the ramp, and onto her plane just before they closed the doors. She became breathless all over again in the retelling, which made the improbable story believable.
Later that same year, I finally made it to Belgrade as part of my multi-country tour of the region. As soon as I arrived in the city, all of these bad memories flooded back. I had only one contact in the city. I called her up, interviewed her, and left for Zagreb the next day. There were even more pictures of Milosevic around, and the news of confrontations between Serbs and Croats in the Krajina region of Croatia were filtering in. Foreboding was thick in the air. The woman who owned the private flat where I was staying told me in a mix of Serbian and Russian that the Croatians were all fascists and the Albanians produced too many children. Civil society activist Sonja Licht, my one interviewee, provided me with an incisive critique of Milosevic and suggested that civil war had become increasingly likely. I couldn't wait to leave.
Now, on my return to the region to retrace my steps, I've decided to start with Serbia. This might seem strange, since it's the place where I talked to the fewest people. But I felt that I had been unfair to Belgrade. On a trip to the city a few years ago, I discovered that it wasn't such a bad place after all. In fact, the pedestrian area in the downtown was charming and festive. I talked with artists and activists who were doing difficult and important work. But this visit in 2008 had also been brief, and I still felt that I hadn't really seen Belgrade or Serbia.
I've already had several interesting encounters on this latest trip. I interviewed Sonja Biserko, once a member of the Yugoslav foreign ministry and long a sharp critic of authoritarian and nationalist politics. I ventured by bus to Pancevo, a suburb of Belgrade that NATO bombed repeatedly in 1999, to meet Sasa Rakevic, who writes comic strips under the name Alexander Zograf and published the wonderful book, Regards from Serbia. Later I'll write more about these fascinating conversations along with a return visit with Sonja Licht.
But this Sunday I had a chance to wander around Belgrade and appreciate its intriguing tangle of streets. The city has been repeatedly destroyed over the years, by the Ottomans, the Austrians, and most devastatingly during World War II. Some buildings damaged during the 1999 bombing have been left standing as a reminder. Despite all this destruction, you can still find some lovely architecture – an art nouveau building, an old palace, a stately Orthodox church.
I had dinner at a restaurant called Monument, located in an addition to an old haram, or Turkish bath, that once was part of the extensive quarters of Milos Obrenovic. The placards hanging near the restaurant describe Obrenovic's key role in Serbian history as a participant in the first uprising against Ottoman rule, a leader of the second uprising, and then a ruler who established the country as an autonomous dukedom.
Coincidentally, I was reading over dinner Helen Leah Reed's 1916 book, Serbia: A Sketch. Just as I started in on my trout, I came upon the passage about Obrenovic. Reed adds something that the placards leave out: that Obrenovic had likely betrayed Serbian resistance leader Karadgordge to the Ottomans. So, it is fitting perhaps that all that remains of Obrenovic's once vast estate – he was reputed to be one of the richest men of the Balkans – is this modest stone bathhouse, which now serves as a bathroom and storage facility for the restaurant.
Belgrade is not Prague. It's not a beautiful city set up to accommodate tens of thousands of tourists. You have to work a little harder to appreciate the charms of the city. You have to dig a little to uncover its quirky history. But in the end, this struggle becomes perhaps this gritty city's chief selling point.

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Dear Chris Mann's mother,
After meeting your son in Chicago, I've been wracking my brain for a proper way to share him with some of my bloggy friends.
Should I tell them that he is a classically trained opera singer, having studied in Italy???
Should I tell them that he has an EP out? (I'm afraid you'll have to google that like I did...)
Should I talk about the way he rocked the parties at the BlogHer Conference with his incredible voice? And dare I mention he has a blog?
In the end I decided, instead, to write you a note. I wanted YOU to know what kind of son you have.
At a tiny party held on a rooftop in Chicago, he spent a good amount of time chatting with a 50 year-old kindergarten teacher. He was gracious, humble, funny, kind, curious and thoughtful.
And when he told me that I reminded him of his best friend's mom? My heart swelled with the compliment, and I KNEW that HIS mother must certainly be incredibly proud of the man he has become.
I wish him well and will continue to watch him –with the fervent hope that he achieves great success.
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To celebrate 21 years of the Meccano Society of Scotland, those attending our all-day meeting in Menstrie on Saturday May 21st 2005, are invited to submit a 21-part model in challenge with fellow members. If you can't be with us, you're invited to compete by post or e-mail. (See below). Entries will be welcomed from anyone, anywhere.
The judge will be Chris Shute, who will consider various qualities of each entry, especially:
- Originality
- Surprise
- Ingenuity
- Good humour and adherence to the spirit of the rules below.
General Rules
- Entries shall be built from 21 Meccano parts.
- All parts of the construction must be Meccano or Meccano replica parts and appear in the ISM Inclusive Parts List. No motor may be used.
- A part of multiple components (e.g. Universal Coupling 140) shall be counted as one part provided it remains intact, in its normal configuration.
- The following parts shall not be counted: Nut 37a, Bolt 37b, Washer 38, Any Grub Screw or Set Screw 69, 69a, 69b, 69c.
Menstrie Meeting Entries
- The judge would prefer not to know the identity of any model's creator before results are declared. Accordingly, entries should remain hidden until 12.50pm.
- Entries may be simply labelled, remaining anonymous.
- At 12.50pm, the judge will walk his dog, while competitors display their entries at the competition table.
- Judging will commence at 1.00pm. Results will be declared at 2.00pm.
Postal or E-mailed Entries
- Postal or e-mailed entries for a parallel challenge are welcome, and will be judged separately, a winner being announced on the same day.
- Entries may contain such photographs, diagrams or text as necessary to allow the judge to assess it.
- The winning entry, and others may appear on our website or in our newsletter.
- No model should be sent.
- Posted material will be returned if the entrant encloses return postage.
- Entries should arrive no later than one week in advance of the Menstrie meeting.
- E-mailed entries should be sent to the challenge organiser
- Postal entries should be sent to the challenge organiser.
- The judge will acknowledge receipt of entries by e-mail and post if an S.A.E. is supplied. No other correspondence about the competition may be entered into.


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February 14, 2013
By GARY GRAVES Associated Press
Kentucky received the news it dreaded Wednesday when freshman forward Nerlens Noel was declared out for the season with a torn ligament in his left knee.
Noel tore his ACL on Tuesday night when No. 25 Kentucky lost at Florida. An MRI revealed the injury, and the 6-foot-10 forward will have surgery in the next two or three weeks.
The projected recovery period is six to eight months.
Noel's injury deals a serious postseason blow for the defending national champions, who had appeared to be gaining some footing after struggling earlier this season while trying to blend in four freshmen. Leading the way defensively for the Wildcats was Noel, who began Tuesday first in the nation with 4.5 blocks per game.
The rookie took a positive approach to the diagnosis, posting on Twitter, "Minor setback for a MAJOR comeback! I love you all and can't thank y'all enough for the prayers."
Noel was hurt with 8 minutes left in the Wildcats' 69-52 loss to the seventh-ranked Gators. He ran into the basket support after blocking a layup from behind. Noel landed awkwardly, dropped to the floor and started screaming while clutching his knee.
Noel had eight points, six rebounds and three blocks before the injury.
"I've been coaching for 22 years and this is the first injury we've had of this kind during the season, which makes it even more devastating," Kentucky coach John Calipari said in a statement.
"I met with Nerlens earlier today. The meeting was really positive, and I loved his attitude. The way he is already dealing with this injury lets me know that he is going to come back stronger than ever. ... Obviously this is not a career-ending injury and it's one that athletes bounce back from all the time."
The question is if Kentucky (17-7, 8-3 Southeastern Conference) can bounce back from the devastating loss.
With Noel out, 7-footer Willie Cauley-Stein now must man the post for Kentucky after spending most of the season as Noel's backup. Cauley-Stein missed four games last month after having a procedure on his left knee, an absence that meant even more minutes for Noel.
The Everett, Mass., native clearly relished the extra work, which gave him a chance to display an array of skills. Besides his shot-blocking prowess, Noel was averaging 10.6 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.1 steals per game, with the latter two statistics both ranking 26th nationally.
He entered the game with three consecutive double-doubles and on a four-week run as the conference's top freshman. In his previous five games, Noel had blocked 26 shots.
Projected as an NBA lottery pick by some scouting services if he were to leave after the season, Noel's draft stock seemed unaffected by his injury. Several blogs still consider him a top-five selection, with others projecting him as a first-rounder.
While Kentucky has lacked a bona fide team leader, there was no doubt that the Wildcats seemed to feed off of Noel's intensity and athleticism. Calipari's wish has been for other players to display those some traits.
Now, the Wildcats have to rework the rotation without their biggest star. Kentucky's tallest player besides Cauley-Stein is 6-10 sophomore Kyle Wiltjer, whose game had recently blossomed along with Noel's.
Former Wildcats center Sam Bowie believes the injury might initially affect the team's psyche, especially with so many young players.
"His teammates will start to second-guess themselves, and that's just human nature," Bowie said. "You always say, 'We'll regroup; people have to step up and take their games to another level,' and that's been the politically correct thing to say, but realistically speaking it will affect the team mentally."
Considered the nation's top recruit last season, Noel led a four-man freshman class also including Archie Goodwin and Alex Poythress that was expected to pick up where last year's championship team left off. Noel has often been compared to national player of the year Anthony Davis because of his size and shot-blocking ability.
While Noel downplayed the comparison, he made clear his pursuit of breaking Davis' single-season school record of 186 blocks set last year. A Kentucky-record 12 blocks during an 87-74 victory at Mississippi on Jan. 29 put him slightly ahead of Davis' pace, which was set over 40 games.
More importantly, Kentucky's victory over the then-No. 16 Rebels helped re-establish its credentials as an NCAA tournament team. Their first win over a ranked opponent was part of a season-best five-game winning streak that helped put the Wildcats back in the Top 25 on Monday for the first time since falling out Dec. 3 following consecutive losses to Notre Dame and Baylor.
Tuesday's game against Florida was supposed to be another big test, but Kentucky trailed by as many as 19 points before Noel's injury. The Wildcats seemed even more shaken afterward, and their winning streak vanished.
Kentucky visits Tennessee on Saturday before returning home next Wednesday against Vanderbilt, providing the Wildcats chances to sweep season series against both schools and stay in the SEC race.
Bowie believes Calipari is capable of motivating the Wildcats to overcome Noel's absence, band together as a team and return to the postseason — suggesting that urgency sometimes brings out the best performances.
"I still feel like they'll make the tournament," Bowie said, "but whether they have a legitimate chance of making a serious run, that will be determined. With Cal as coach, and I think they have plenty of personnel, they have a chance to be one of the 65 teams invited to the tournament."


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It's quite a bit of sock–from the top of the leg to just past the gusset. It has dear little cables in it, separated by something akin to moss stitch. Not bad work on the whole.
And yet I have no memory whatever of knitting it.
Possible explanations:
- Elves live in my gym bag and are knitting socks to pass the time.
- I was abducted by aliens. During my "lost hours" aboard the spacecraft I needed something to keep me occupied in between invasive, quasi-erotic medical experiments.
- It's actually a cleverly-disguised transmitter planted by the FBI, which hopes to collect enough material to finally bring Dolores to justice.
- Nothing sentient could survive for fifteen minutes sealed up in a bag with my gym shoes.
- I don't live anywhere near Roswell, New Mexico; and none of my orifices show signs of interference.
- Even the FBI has given up on trying to reform Dolores.
The pattern is once again the work of that sweetie-pie Charlene Schurch, and it's turning out to be just as much fun as this one. I wonder who it was that first said, "Charlene, honey, why don't you write a book about socks?" Whoever it was, we owe the person a debt of gratitude and a plate of cookies.
Back On the Air
After an inexplicably long hiatus (my fault, not Brenda Dayne's) I'm once again to be heard in an upcoming episode of Cast On: A Podcast for Knitters. Listen for me around Hallowe'en.
Advance warning: I'm reading a poem. That's all I'm saying. I can't believe I'm even saying that, because honestly I've always felt one of the most chilling sentences in the English language is "I have just written some poetry, and would like to share it with you."


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Do failing grades inspire more effort? Oxfam hopes so. The activist group on behalf of the poor has just handed out report cards to 10 of the world's top food companies, grading their commitments to protect the environment and treat people fairly.
Oxfam doesn't grade on the curve, evidently. Every company flunked. But two European-based companies, Nestle and Unilever, were at least better than the others.
Both companies have policies that are supposed to ensure that workers around the globe are treated fairly, for instance, and they're better than average at trying to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Nestle (Taster's Choice; Perrier) got especially high grades for its efforts to conserve water. Unilever (Lipton Tea; Hellman's mayonnaise) got extra credit for policies aimed at helping small farmers.
Oxfam also assigned grades for how companies protect women's rights, contribute to climate change and provide information about their suppliers.
Associated British Foods (Mazola corn oil; Twinings Tea) came in at the bottom of Oxfam's rankings, but Kellogg's (Pop Tarts) and General Mills (Cheerios, Yoplait) weren't much better.
These grades, it should be noted, are based on official policies, not actual behavior. Neither Oxfam nor any other independent group has the resources to travel the globe to see firsthand how these policies are implemented on, say, tea plantations in remote corners of Sri Lanka and Mozambique.
Oxfam calls its new campaign "Behind the Brands." This strategy — targeting companies that own popular consumer brands — is increasingly popular among environmentalists and other groups devoted to social change. Jason Clay, a vice president of the World Wildlife Fund, laid out the reasons a couple of years ago in a TED talk.
It comes down to what's practical, Clay said. We could try to convince millions of farmers to work differently. We could try to persuade billions of consumers to buy different products. But it's a lot easier to put pressure on a few dozen companies — huge conglomerates that order commodities from every corner of the globe.
Those companies are extraordinarily sensitive when it comes to the image of their consumer brands. They already have very specific rules for their suppliers when it comes to quality and safety. How about associating those brands with environmental quality and worker well-being?
Oxfam says it will be happy to revise its grades when companies improve their performance.
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Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 27, 1833. As a consequence of the early brethren using tobacco in their meetings, the Prophet was led to ponder upon the matter; consequently, he inquired of the Lord concerning it. This revelation, known as the Word of Wisdom, was the result.
1–9, The use of wine, strong drinks, tobacco, and hot drinks is proscribed; 10–17, Herbs, fruits, flesh, and grain are ordained for the use of man and of animals; 18–21, Obedience to gospel law, including the Word of Wisdom, brings temporal and spiritual blessings.
1 A aWord of Wisdom, for the benefit of the council of high priests, assembled in Kirtland, and the church, and also the saints in Zion—
2 To be sent greeting; not by commandment or constraint, but by revelation and the aword of wisdom, showing forth the order and bwill of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days—
3 Given for a principle with apromise, adapted to the capacity of the bweak and the weakest of all csaints, who are or can be called saints.
4 Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of aevils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of bconspiring men in the last days, I have cwarned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation—
5 That inasmuch as any man adrinketh bwine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves together to offer up your sacraments before him.
6 And, behold, this should be wine, yea, apure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make.
7 And, again, astrong drinks are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.
8 And again, tobacco is not for the abody, neither for the belly, and is not good for man, but is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill.
9 And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly.
10 And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome aherbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man—
11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with aprudence and bthanksgiving.
12 Yea, aflesh also of bbeasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used csparingly;
13 And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be aused, only in times of winter, or of cold, or bfamine.
14 All agrain is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth;
15 And athese hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.
16 All grain is good for the afood of man; as also the bfruit of the vine; that which yieldeth fruit, whether in the ground or above the ground—
17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.
18 And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, ashall receive bhealth in their navel and marrow to their bones;
19 And shall afind bwisdom and great ctreasures of dknowledge, even hidden treasures;
20 And shall arun and not be bweary, and shall walk and not faint.
21 And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the adestroying angel shall bpass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.


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This is a list of open-source projects built on top of Seaside. Also see the extensions and commercial applications.
- Churrasco, Marco D'Ambros
Supports collaborative software evolution analysis through visualization. - Gjallar, Göran Krampe
An advanced web based issue tracker. - Magritte, Lukas Renggli
A generic self described meta-model with Seaside integration. - Mewa, Adrian Lienhard (discontinued)
Meta-level Architecture for Generic Web-Application Construction. - Pier, Lukas Renggli
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Laryngology is a branch of medicine which involves injuries and sicknesses of the larynx, often referred to as the voice box. Laryngology as well addresses voice disorders and treatments. The larynx is located in the neck and houses the vocal cords. The larynx is essential in the body's generation of sound.
A laryngologist is a doctor with a specific interest in illnesses of the larynx and voice disorders. Laryngology is a subspecialty of otolaryngology that relates to the treatment of the throat, ears, and nose. Laryngologists, and Otolaryngologists are usually known as ENT (ear, nose, and throat), doctors.
Many disorders of the larynx may be due to injury or strain to the vocal cords by way of speaking too low or too loudly, smoking, throat clearing, singing, excessive talking, screaming, or coughing. Finally, regular vocal misuse and abuse vocal can lead to lasting changes in vocal function and probably the loss of voice.
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The early word from Syria is that "flashpoints of the 13-month uprising against President Bashar Assad were quiet Thursday ... suggesting a U.N.-brokered truce was starting to take hold and the regime was keeping a pledge to halt its assault on opposition strongholds," The Associated Press reports.
Still, NPR's Grant Clark reports from Beirut that some activists inside Syria say government forces did fire at least a few shells toward a suburb of Damascus and that there were other ceasefire violations by government forces in Idlib and Hama provinces. No casualties have been reported, Grant also tells our Newscast Desk.
Al-Jazeera starts its report with this:
"An internationally brokered ceasefire in Syria has come into effect with few reports of violence, but the government has not begun withdrawing troops and armored vehicles from civilian areas, leaving a key part of the peace plan unfulfilled."
The Guardian, which is live blogging as the day continues, calls the mood in Syria "tense" as the ceasefire hopefully goes into effect. Voice of America's headline says an "uneasy quiet" has descended on Syria.
Update at 10:50 a.m. ET. Annan "Encouraged."
This statement has been sent to reporters on behalf of former U.S. Secretary General Kofi Annan, who brokered the ceasefire deal:
"I am encouraged by reports that the situation in Syria is relatively quiet and that the cessation of hostilities appears to be holding."Syria is apparently experiencing a rare moment of calm on the ground. This is bringing much-needed relief and hope to the Syrian people who have suffered so much for so long in this brutal conflict. This must now be sustained. All parties have obligations to implement fully the 6-point plan. This includes both the military provisions of the plan and the commitment to move to a political process. I urge all Syrian to seize this opportunity."The international community is determined to work with the Syrian people to support this process."The Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, will be asking the Security Council for approval of the deployment of a U.N. Observer Mission as soon as possible. This will allow us to move quickly to launch a serious political dialogue that will address the concerns and aspirations of the Syrian people."This is the time for all Syrians to come together in the hope that they can begin to heal their wounds and initiate a political transition to a democratic, plural political system, in which citizens have equal rights and equal opportunities, regardless of their affiliations or ethnicities or beliefs."Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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With such versatile technology, your gaming systems can do more than play games and your other devices can double as fantastic gaming platforms. Take a few hours this weekend and supercharge your gaming experience.
Fine-Tune Your Gaming Hardware
Your gaming rig may be relatively powerful, but that only goes so far if it isn't tuned for optimal performance. If you're new to tweaking your graphic settings, our guide can tech you the basics. If you want to take it a bit further, overclock your graphics card. The performance gains are often minimal, and it might not be worthwhile, but if you need to eke out a little extra performance you'll want to explore this option and see. Before you go crazy with tweaks, just make sure you separate the myths from the facts. Of course, sometimes it's just time to get a new graphics card. If you're not sure, we can help you figure it out.
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You can do a lot with old consoles, or even newer ones. Streaming media centers make for one of the most popular hacks, and our guide will show you how to handle the task on virtually any console. That's far from the only gaming hack, however. People love turning old NES systems and cartridges into newer hardware like DVD players, wireless routers, arcade game players, USB controllers, and more. We've posted a lot of fun and practical game DIY projects, so check out the full list for plenty of other ideas.
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While you've likely played a few games on your phone or tablet, it can do a lot more than you might find in the app store. For starters, turning it into a retro gaming console is one of the most fun and exciting options, especially when you integrate classic controllers (such as the iCade 8-bitty). (By the way, you can do this with your computer, too.) Some mobile gaming systems can be hacked to do even more, too. Hacking the Nintendo DS for homebrew adds a lot of features, and you can supercharge it to do even more. If you're not satisfied with what's out there, you can always roll your own mobile gaming system as well. You have so many great options when it comes to mobile gaming.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A two-decade family feud came to a violent end when a man shot dead the two home invaders that killed his wife and son, not knowing the assailants included his long-estranged daughter, authorities said Sunday.
Though the investigation of Friday's shootings continues, authorities said it appears Josephine and Jeffrey Ruckinger planned to murder her family at their rural central Pennsylvania home — but it remains unclear what exactly led to the deadly confrontation.
"They parked at the bottom of a long driveway, and walked up, heavily armed," said Cambria County District Attorney Kelly Callihan.
Josephine Ruckinger was armed with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun and her husband had a Derringer pistol and a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun as they approached the Frew family home in Ashville, about 40 miles southwest of State College, according to investigators.
John Frew, his wife Roberta, and their son John Jr., 47, had just returned from dinner out, and were watching TV in the living room of the white mobile home when there was a knock at the door, authorities said.
Police say Roberta, 64, answered the door, and cried out something like "Oh my God, they have guns!" before her daughter shot her at point-blank range. John Jr. then may have attempted to arm himself with a gun, but Jeffrey Ruckinger shot him multiple times in the chest, killing him, police said.
The elder Frew, 67, grabbed a .22 revolver and came out from the bedroom to find the daughter he didn't initially recognize pointing the shotgun at him. Frew fired once, hitting her in the head, then turned and exchanged fire with Jeffrey Ruckinger, killing him. He then called police.
Josephine Ruckinger was still alive when police arrived, but later died at an area hospital. John Frew was not hurt.
Callihan said that the preliminary investigation suggests that the elder Frew and his family were victims "of a pre-planned murder" plot, and that he acted in self-defense. Police also found a can of gas and lighter fluid in the Ruckingers' car.
Ballistics and toxicology tests are pending, investigators said.
Authorities are still exploring possible motives, but say there may have been burglaries and robberies at the Frew residence in the past.
A relative, Virginia Cruse, said the daughter and mother did not get along, but that she had no idea what spawned Friday's tragedy. The daughter had "a hatred toward the family," she said.
When Josephine was about 20, she and a boyfriend trashed her parents' home and stole items including a pistol, then fled to Pittsburgh, Cruse said. After that, she said, "more or less, they disowned her."


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Counter Sheet from GDW's Snapshot |
My friends and I didn't always use the counters and maps when we played these game but we did so frequently enough that, whenever I think of them, my memories include pushing little pieces of cardboard across a poster-sized map. What's interesting is that, to a lot of people involved in the old school renaissance nowadays, this is anathema, much like the use of miniatures and dungeon tiles/floor plans. Back then, though, we never gave it a second thought, since not only was this the way these games were "supposed" to be played -- otherwise, why else did the games include these components? -- but that's how we saw them and, indeed, many other RPGs being played.
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I bring this up not just as a trip down memory lane, though I won't deny there's some of that at work in this post. I mention it as a mild corrective to the notions many of us have about the place and utility of miniatures and other similar representations in RPGs. I suspect there's some degree of contrariness at work here, since, in recent years, the use of miniatures has come to be associated with the post-TSR editions of Dungeons & Dragons and in a decidedly negative way. I think that's too bad, if only because I think it further divorces current discussions of old school gaming from part of how these games were played in the past.
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4 Reasons You Should Soak up the Sun This Summer
Lying outside in a swimsuit with your eyes closed and a cool lemonade in hand – summer doesn't get much better. But, if you're like me, you're also worried about having enough sunscreen, getting too hot and becoming dehydrated. How do you know if all this fun in the sun is good for you? Read more


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SEATTLE » Residents of Washington, Oregon and Colorado won't just be considering whether to let adults buy pot at state-sanctioned shops when they vote next month on legalizing and taxing marijuana.
They'll be voting on whether to let farmers grow marijuana's far less potent cousin — hemp — for clothing, food, biofuel and construction materials among other uses.
But don't expect farmers to start growing it, at least not immediately. The passage of the measures would create the familiar clash with federal law, which prohibits growing the plant for industrial, recreational or medicinal purposes.
Farmers who say they have enough to worry about with drought and crop diseases don't want to also be left wondering whether federal drug agents will come knocking.
"Farmers are already engaged in a high-risk endeavor," said Roy Kaufmann, a spokesman for Oregon's pot initiative. "That weariness of potentially facing federal action is just too much of a disincentive."
The three ballot initiatives to regulate pot like alcohol have garnered much attention, in part for the hundreds of millions of dollars they could bring into state coffers and for the showdown it could set up with the federal government.
No state has made recreational pot legal, and these measures would be the first to set up state-sanctioned pot sales. The Justice Department could try to block them in court under the argument they frustrate federal antidrug law enforcement efforts.
Less well known is the effect the measures would have on hemp and the possibilities they create for another fight with the federal government.
Nine states — Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Vermont and West Virginia — have passed laws allowing hemp cultivation or research, and supporters of the latest measures say they would be another shot across the federal government's bow.
Oregon's earlier law, passed in 2009, allows the state to regulate hemp production; the initiative on the ballot next month, Measure 80, would allow unregulated hemp production.
While medical marijuana patients and those who grow for recreational use have been willing to risk federal prosecution, a viable hemp crop would be much larger than many of those grow operations, putting farmers at risk of severe mandatory minimum sentences in federal court.
Hemp and marijuana are the same species, cannabis sativa, but are genetically distinct. Hemp has a negligible content of THC, the psychoactive compound that gives marijuana users a high. It's also grown differently, in tightly packed plots to maximize stalk height rather than widely spaced to maximize branching and flowering.
Marijuana growers generally don't want their plants anywhere near hemp fields because cross-pollination would create less potent marijuana, so the notion of farmers hiding marijuana plants among their hemp crop isn't much of a concern.
But Steve Freng, prevention treatment manager for the Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a federally funded antidrug effort, said having legalized hemp would nevertheless make marijuana enforcement trickier.
"What comes to mind immediately is how difficult it would be to regulate and oversee an industry like that," he said. "At this point in states that have medical marijuana, a good amount of marijuana is overproduced. It's not unusual for growers to sell out of state."
Freng questioned whether there's a serious market for hemp in the U.S.
A Colorado corn farmer who serves in the state Legislature, Republican state Sen. Greg Brophy, suggested hemp's commercial potential could be hampered by high prices for corn, wheat and soybeans. Growing corn right now is "like owning your own ATM," he said.
For most of U.S. history, hemp was an important agricultural product used for rope, fabric and even the paper Thomas Jefferson used to draft the Declaration of Independence.
But competition arose, first from the cotton gin, which made cotton easier to process, and then from synthetic fibers in the early 20th century. Americans became more concerned about the availability of marijuana, and the federal government imposed severe restrictions on hemp.
There was a brief resurgence during World War II, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched a "Hemp for Victory" campaign to replace Southeast Asian fiber sources cut off by the Japanese, but there has been no commercial hemp production in the U.S. since the 1950s, according to a January report from the Congressional Research Service. Technically, the DEA is authorized to grant farmers special permits to grow hemp. It just never does.
At least 30 countries produce hemp commercially, and most of the hemp imported into the U.S. is grown in China, Canada and Europe.
Rough industry estimates suggest that a few hundred million dollars' worth of hemp products, such as soaps, body lotions and hemp granola, are sold in the U.S. every year.
All of it is imported, which maddens David Bronner, chief executive of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap based in Escondido, Calif. His company uses 20 tons of hempseed oil in soaps every year and has contributed $50,000 to Washington's campaign and $50,000 to Colorado's.
"The Canadian farmers are laughing at us all the way to the bank," Bronner said. "We give $100,000 a year to the Canadians. If American farmers could grow industrial hemp here, we'd recognize 25 percent savings, for sure."
That kind of talk intrigues farmers like Ted Durfey, who has a seed press at his Sunnyside, Wash., farm to help turn the canola and flax he grows into biofuel.
"If it's sanctioned, it would lend itself pretty well to enhancing our local economy," Durfey said. "But I'm definitely not going to grow a commodity that's illegal under federal law."
Another central Washington farmer, Tom Stahl, said that if the initiative passes, he'd likely grow it until federal authorities caught on and warned him not to.
But even some farmers interested in experimenting with hemp aren't necessarily planning to vote for the ballot measures. They include Rob Jones, a southern Colorado potato farmer who has unsuccessfully lobbied the Legislature to permit industrial hemp.
Told the marijuana measure on ballots this fall would do the same thing, Jones scoffed. "It's going to be legal to smoke it in this state before we can grow it for legitimate purposes," Jones said.
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Doctors now have convincing evidence that they put HIV into remission, hopefully for good, in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus – a medical first that is prompting a new look at how hard and fast such cases should be treated.
The case was reported earlier this year but some doctors were skeptical that the baby was really infected rather than testing positive because of exposure to virus in the mom's blood.
The new report, published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, makes clear that the girl, now 3, was infected in the womb. She was treated unusually aggressively and shows no active infection despite stopping AIDS medicines 18 months ago.
Doctors won't call it a cure because they don't know what proof or how much time is needed to declare someone free of HIV infection, long feared to be permanent.
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"We want to be very cautious here. We're calling it remission because we'd like to observe the child for a l onger time and be absolutely sure there's no rebound," said Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, a University of Massachusetts AIDS expert involved in the baby's care.
The government's top AIDS scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, agreed.
"At minimum, the baby is in a clear remission. It is possible that the baby has actually been cured. We don't have a definition for cure as we do for certain cancers, where after five years or so you can be relatively certain the person is not going to go and relapse," he said. A scientist at his institute did sophisticated tests that showed no active virus in the child.
A government-sponsored international study starting in January aims to test early treatment in babies born with HIV to see if the results in this case can be reproduced.
Most HIV-infected moms in the U.S. get AIDS medicines during pregnancy, which greatly cuts the chances they will pass the virus to their babies. But the Mississippi mom got no prenatal care and her HIV was discovered during labor. Doctors considered the baby to be at such high risk that they started the child on three powerful medicines 30 hours after birth, rather than waiting for a test to confirm infection as is usually done.
Within a month, the baby's virus fell to undetectable levels. She remained on treatment until she was 18 months old when doctors lost contact with her. Ten months later when she returned, they could find no sign of infection even though the mom had stopped giving the child AIDS medicines.
Only one other person is thought to have been cured of HIV infection – a San Francisco man who had a bone marrow transplant in 2007 from a donor with natural resistance to HIV, and showed no sign of infection five years later.
In the Mississippi baby, "there's no immune mechanism we can identify that would keep the virus in check" like that bone marrow donor, said another stu dy author, Dr. Deborah Persaud of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, who helped investigate the case because she has researched treatment in children.
Dr. Peter Havens, pediatric HIV chief at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and a government adviser on HIV treatment guidelines, said the child may have an undiscovered genetic trait that helped her manage the virus.
"I'm just not convinced that her dramatic response would be replicable in a large population," he said. It's too soon to recommend treating other high-risk babies so aggressively without more study, he said.
In the upcoming study, doctors plan to give AIDS medicines for at least two years and watch for signs of remission before suspending treatment and seeing whether a remission results.
The Mississippi case "did open people's eyes further" about a possible cure, Luzuriaga said. "We might be able to intervene early and spare children a lifetime of therapy. That is the potential impact of t his case."
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The former neighborhood watch volunteer filed the lawsuit seeking an undisclosed amount of money in Seminole County, outside Orlando. Also named in the complaint were three reporters covering the story for NBC or an NBC-owned television station.
The complaint said the airing of the edited call has inflicted emotional distress on Zimmerman, making him fear for his life and causing him to suffer nausea, insomnia and anxiety.
The lawsuit claims NBC edited his phone call to a dispatcher in February. In the call, Zimmerman describes following Martin in the gated community where he lived, just moments before he fatally shot the 17-year-old teen during a confrontation.
"NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so set about to create a myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain," the lawsuit claims.
NBC spokeswoman Kathy Kelly-Brown said the network strongly disagreed with the accusations made in the complaint.
"There was no intent to portray Mr. Zimmerman unfairly," she said. "We intend to vigorously defend our position in court."
Three employees of the network or its Miami affiliate lost their jobs because of the changes.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder but has pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense under Florida's "stand your ground law."
The call viewers heard was trimmed to suggest that Zimmerman volunteered to police, with no prompting, that Martin was black: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black."
But the portion of the tape that was deleted had the 911 dispatcher asking Zimmerman if the person who had raised his suspicion was "black, white or Hispanic," to which Zimmerman responded, "He looks black."


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Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Definition
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) is a disorder of the heart's electrical activity. It causes the heart to beat with an irregular rhythm and faster than normal. This is called tachyarrhythmia.
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Causes
In a normal heart, electrical signals that cause the heart to beat begin in the area known as the SA node, located in the right upper chamber (atrium) of the heart. The electrical signal goes from the SA node down to the AV (atrioventricular) node which is between the atria and the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles). The AV node slows down the electrical impulse so that the ventricles have time to fill with blood before contracting.
In WPW, the electrical signals travel along an extra, abnormal pathway that go around the AV node. This causes the signals to be unregulated and to arrive at the ventricles too soon. The signals often alert the ventricles to contract abnormally. As a result, the heart beats much faster than normal.
The extra pathway is caused by abnormal growth of tissue that connects the heart's chambers. This occurs in the embryo—during the first eight weeks after conception.
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Risk Factors
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of developing a disease or condition. There are no known risk factors for WPW syndrome.
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Symptoms
Some people with WPW syndrome never have tachyarrhythmia and its associated symptoms. In those who do, symptoms usually begin between ages 11-50. The frequency and severity of the tachyarrhythmia varies from one person to another and may be associated with any or all of these symptoms:
- Palpitations (sensation of a pounding heartbeat)
- Chest pain or tightness
- Dizziness
- Fainting
- Shortness of breath
In rare cases, a person will go into cardiac arrest (the heart stops pumping) and lose consciousness.
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Diagnosis
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history, and perform a physical exam. If you are having a tachyarrhythmia due to WPW syndrome, you will have normal or low blood pressure and a heart rate of 150-250 beats per minute. (A normal heart rate is 60-100 beats per minute.)
If you are not having irregular heart rhythms during the exam, the results of the exam may be normal. In either case, an electrocardiogram (a test that records the heart's activity by measuring electrical currents through the skin) will usually show a "delta wave" that signals an extra electrical pathway.
Other tests may include:
- Monitoring with a Holter monitor for 24-48 hours to check for any episodes of irregular heart beat.
- Electrophysiology study, in which a catheter (a thin tube designed to be inserted into a blood vessel) is passed to the interior of the heart where it takes detailed measurements of its electrical activity. This will detect the extra pathway.
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Treatment
The goal of treatment is to reduce or eliminate episodes of tachyarrhythmia and associated symptoms. If you do not have symptoms, treatment is usually not necessary.
If you do need treatment, it may include:
Antiarrhythmics may be given to coordinate your heart's electrical signals. This can control or prevent episodes of rapid heartbeat. However, you must take the medicine carefully because it can sometimes make an abnormal heart rhythm worse.
Radiofrequency Ablation
This is a procedure in which a catheter delivers energy at a particular radiofrequency to your heart. This destroys (ablates) the abnormal electrical pathway. In most cases, ablation is successful and ends the need to take medicine.
Open-heart Surgery
Open-heart surgery is done to destroy the abnormal pathway. However, this procedure is rarely done.
This is done in the case of cardiac arrest, which is rare. Defibrillation gives the heart a brief electric shock. This procedure converts a rapid, irregular heartbeat back into a normal heartbeat.
If you are diagnosed with WPW syndrome, follow your doctor's instructions.
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Prevention
There is no known way of preventing WPW syndrome. However, symptoms can be prevented with proper treatment.


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Wake stuns No. 4 Duke
Published 12:00 am Thursday, March 6, 2014
WINSTON-SALEM — Mike Krzyzewski may have poured too much emotion into No. 4 Duke's trip to Wake Forest.
The rest of the Blue Devils didn't seem to have enough.
The Demon Deacons upset Duke 82-72 on Wednesday night after Coach K experienced enough dizziness and light-headedness to force him to kneel during a late timeout and skip his postgame news conference.
Associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski — who filled in for him — says Krzyzewski has not been sick, is in good shape and expects to make a full recovery.
"There was a great emotional investment in the game," Wojciechowski said, "and I think maybe the emotion got the better of him."
The rest of the team might not have had that problem.
Duke (23-7, 12-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) was playing for the first time in over a week — after going 4-1 in an 11-day span before that — and Wojciechowski says the Blue Devils simply weren't prepared emotionally.
After taking a late seven-point lead, Duke went without a field goal for 5 critical minutes while allowing the Demon Deacons (16-14, 6-11) to reel off 17 straight points and go up by double figures.
"I'm not sure that … we were as prepared from an emotional standpoint," Wojciechowski said. "I don't know if our guys had the needed edge to compete against a Wake Forest team that played their hearts out."
Tyler Cavanaugh scored a career-high 20 points, Travis McKie added 19 in his final scheduled home game and Codi Miller-McIntyre had 13 for the Demon Deacons.
They followed one of their worst performances of the season — a home loss to sub-.500 Boston College — with one of their best. Their first win over Duke since 2009 also marked their biggest upset since they knocked off No. 2 Miami last February.
"I couldn't picture a better ending," McKie said. "Everything was just perfect tonight. The fans were perfect. Me, being my last (home) game, everything we did was great."
Jabari Parker scored 19 points and Rodney Hood added 16 for the Blue Devils, who missed six straight shots down the stretch and were just 6 of 27 from 3-point range while falling to 4-5 in ACC road games.
Parker's dunk with just under 6 minutes left gave the Blue Devils their largest lead, 66-59, and by then, they appeared on their way to their ninth straight win in the series.
Instead, that's when Wake Forest took command.
"I knew we were going to win — it was just one of those feelings that you get down the stretch," Miller-McIntyre said. "You could see it in all of my teammates' eyes, that they weren't ready to fall over."
They didn't.
After Devin Thomas and McKie hit two free throws each, Cavanaugh — a sophomore backup forward — became unstoppable.
His left-handed jumper over Hood, who had four fouls, with 31/2 minutes left gave the Demon Deacons the lead for good at 67-66.
After Miller-McIntyre hit a pretty crossover layup, Cavanaugh followed by sticking back Thomas' miss to make it 71-66 with 21/2 minutes left.
Coron Williams ended the run with a layup that was goaltended by Parker and made it 76-66 with 1:08 left.
At the other end, Duke couldn't do anything right.
A key 3-point attempt by Rasheed Sulaimon went halfway down before rimming out — one of five 3-point attempts the Blue Devils missed during that untimely cold spell. And point guard Quinn Cook had a layup slammed hard off the backboard by Thomas.
"All five guys were on the same page today," Thomas said. "We didn't let them get the 3s, because we know they live and die with the 3-ball."
Sulaimon finished with 14 points for Duke, which had plenty of built-in excuses for perhaps taking the Demon Deacons lightly.
Maybe they were rusty after not playing since a Feb. 25 rout of Virginia Tech. Maybe they were looking ahead to exacting revenge from North Carolina on Saturday night. Maybe they were overconfident after beating Wake Forest by 20 points last month at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Or maybe the Demon Deacons simply aren't as bad as their record might indicate.
"Heart. We played with heart," Cavanaugh said. "We know we can play with anyone."
Williams and Arnaud William Adala Moto finished with 12 points each for Wake Forest, which led for all but about 3 minutes of the first half after holding Duke to one field goal in the first 71/2 minutes.
They went up by eight points and responded to their only deficit of the half by reeling off the final seven points.
Miller-McIntyre's steal and layup just before the buzzer put the Demon Deacons up 36-33 — just Duke's second halftime deficit of the season and first since the loss at Syracuse.
"I thought they outfought us," Wojciechowski said. "This time of year, if you're not tough and you're not together for 40 minutes, it can be some very hard lessons."


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Small Scale, Big Change explores 11 new architectural projects redressing the social responsibilities of architecture and debunking grand manifestos, it calls for a shift in reshaping the long-standing dialogue between architecture and society.
Gaston Bachelard once argued: "All really inhabited space bears the notion of home." It is a belief that cannot really be disputed. As Bachelard would argue, our memories are localised in space, not in time as such, but in the spaces surrounding us at that specific moment. The edifices and buildings that comprise our environment have a profound effect, psychologically and physically, on our behaviour. This is precisely why, especially in under-served and under-developed areas, affordable, efficient, and comfortable housing is needed. Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, opening at MoMA this October, brings together 11 projects that embrace the social aspects of architecture – of how it can serve and provide for the communities where it is situated whilst embracing more ecologically sustainable methods of construction. The projects, which are based around the world, from Burkina Faso to the United States, were selected for their ability to stimulate social change, whether it be the construction of a public transport system to connect the informal barrios of Caracas to the city centre, or the construction of affordable public housing for the residents of Hale County, Alabama.
The aesthetic mask of a building, once the driving force behind a building's desirability (look at Frank Gehry's Bilbao), has taken a back seat to functionality, affordability, and ease of maintenance. Andres Lepik (curator of the exhibition, in conjunction with Margot Weller at MoMA) argues that the future of architecture has changed in this regard. Whereas 20 years ago the idea of ecological sustainability was at the forefront of discussion (and, to be fair, still is), it is this idea of social sustainability married with ecological sustainability that has become the focus of architects and critics. Lepik pinpoints Diébédo Francis Kéré's design for a primary school in Gando, Burkino Faso (1999-2001), as exemplary of this fusion of concerns. Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, grew up in Gando (a village of around 2,500) and, as the first person from his village to study abroad, has advocated the importance of education in the community's improvement. Kéré designed the school building as a basic structure of unbaked mud bricks with a large roof, utilising traditional methods of construction combined with modern ecological building techniques with an emphasis on climatic conditions. The community of Gando not only supported the project, but also participated in its construction, and for them this building has become part of their identity: they have taken ownership and control of its continued maintenance as it represents the future of their community. For these reasons, Lepik argues that it is "exceptionally sustainable in materials and in the use of energy, but at the same time, 100% a social project – working and building the school with the community."
Anna Heringer's Handmade School project (Rudrapur, Bangladesh) echoes the same emphasis on traditional techniques combined with community support – not surprisingly both projects have been awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and are included in the exhibition. Handmade School, like the school in Gando, arose from a desire to create and uphold a sense of identity within the community. Heringer's design uses traditional building materials – earth, sand, straw and bamboo, but improves them for greater durability and endurance. The building is not just a shelter and structure for learning, but one that embodies the village's vision and hope for the future. The 11 projects selected by Lepik for the exhibition all exhibit this quality of hope, belief in the power of architecture and constructed space to provide for and increase a community's survival.
The future of architecture is intrinsically linked to urban planning and development, although the term "planning" is loosely applied to the organic development of highly-populated areas, as it is rarely controlled or planned. The shift from rural to urban has been rapidly increasing due to numerous economic and social factors and, as Lepik points out, 50% of the world's population is now living in cities. This rapid influx of population is concurrent with an increase in informal shanty-towns, favelas, and squats. The architecture of these communities is spawned out of necessity and affordability, and not efficiency of construction or desirability. Cities, like Caracas, in which 60% of the 5 million inhabitants live in impoverished barrios have grown organically from basic need. As such, a system of public transport and a basic infrastructure of design was never established to sustain the communities. The modern-day architect has to be aware of this change in the future of urban planning, as it is no longer the responsibility of the patron or client to approach them and commission a new structure, instead they are being called upon to be inventive and pro-active. Their role has been revised and reconsidered and Lepik says: "Architects can no longer wait for the commissions to come in, they have to do research, and they have to proactively find solutions for these developments." Those that do, such as Michael Maltzan, are opening up new areas and communities to possibilities of advancement and improvement.
Maltzan's Inner-City Arts (1993-2008), based on Skid Row in Los Angeles, is situated in an area that is run-down and impoverished – an area typically ignored by developers and architects. It was specifically for this reason that Maltzan chose the area, opening up the local community to structures and edifices normally reserved for the elite and developed areas of a city. As Lepik would argue, projects like Inner-City Arts "bring back social peace to the city, because then these communities don't feel segregated from the other parts of the city. Architecture is not only building with a singular function, but it also has a broader impact; a cultural institution, like the ICA, gives something back to the community that is normally reserved for the elite." Maltzan's design for the campus, which was built on a one-acre site in three stages, demands respect and commitment from the local community – not only for his choice of colour for the façade (a startling white which is the perfect canvas for graffiti artists and vandals) but in his creation of a collective human space that requires the community's involvement and participation. The centre is based on Maltzan's knowledge and understanding of the area it is located in and provides a space for at-risk youth to participate in art classes and activities. Maltzan designed the campus in conjunction with garden designer, Nancy Goslee Power, creating not just an aesthetically pleasing building, but one that reflects upon this idea of the city as a "concrete jungle" and creates collective spaces for the students to interact within. As do the other projects included in the exhibition, Maltzan utilises materials "native" to the environment: for Skid Row, this is stucco, concrete, and construction grade wood.
The improvement of a neighbourhood through the structures and buildings that comprise it is similarly echoed in Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal's transformation of Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris. The project began as a result of an architectural competition staged by the City of Paris in 2005 (the competition called for architects to remodel a public-housing high-rise located on the ring road surrounding Paris) of which Druot, Lacaton & Vassal won. The 16-story housing block was originally designed by Raymond Lopez in 1957 and had fallen into such a state of disrepair that it was meant to be demolished prior to the competition. The firm's winning design, which maintains the basic structure of the building, increases and individualises the living spaces of each apartment. The monotonous façade was redesigned with a complete new exterior shell surrounding the existing walls. This revitalisation of historic and existing buildings is the future of inner-city building, and an important tool for the upkeep and maintenance of affordable urban housing. The historians, Maarten Hajer & Arnold Reijndorp, argue: "Inner-cities have to safeguard their economic and socio-cultural future in the coming years and by recognising historic artefacts as assets, the historic centres make a strength of what used to be seen as a weakness." The strength of Tour Bois-le-Prêtre lies in its adaptation of the historic extant structure, because of its response to layout and design for the residents.
Affordable low-income social housing is becoming a major problem, and Paris is just one project selected by Lepik to illustrate this. The Quinta Monroy Housing Project in Iquique, Chile, also arose from the need for affordable housing in the city. Iquique is located in the Chilean desert, thus the architectural requirements of construction necessitated an understanding on the part of Elemental (the design firm) of the physical environment and of the long-term economic feasibility of the units. Each unit, which was completed on a limited budget of $7,500, was intentionally left incomplete. Elemental provided the basics – plumbing (but no fittings), doorways (but no doors), and electric fittings (but no lights). Residents were left to their own devices to adapt the space to their needs, requirements, and incomes – some taking months to be able to afford the required fittings. Each unit is therefore similar in basic structure but completely individual and tailored to the owners within; the building becomes an exterior aesthetic expression for the individual residents.
The middle-classes will, and historically have, tried to segregate themselves from areas of urban disarray and crime. Hajer & Reijndorp argue that this attempt at social segregation through urban planning will fail, because it produces a restrained, almost prison-like society: "If the modern city can be best understood as a collection of landscapes, and if the citizen is constantly occupied in keeping his own small network intact with as little friction with other groups as possible, then that does seem to mean the death of the public domain." The interaction between different cultural and social communities is what makes a city interesting, both for the inhabitants as well as visitors. The amoebic, slightly chaotic, quality of large, informal cities provide an attraction for tourists of the developed world: antithetical to the grid-like urban development of cities like New York, these cities are the metropolis unrestrained. Some critics, such as Harri Veivo, argue that the historical idea of the "city" is no longer valid: "The city is disintegrating, becoming depopulated, swelling beyond its shape and merging with the countryside, communication technology is making urban populations redundant, cities are usurped by danger that drives people into gated communities, tourists are making the life of ordinary citizens intolerable, gentrification is wiping out the working class and destroying the city's heterogeneity."
The 20th century city brought together people in a way that had never been seen before: as the physical proximity between people and their houses decreased, social and political problems increased. For Lepik, this show marks an important point of departure for both MoMA and architectural theory, as it shifts the emphasis away from the building purely as a structure, and towards an interest in the building as a conduit for social change. Specifically, he argues that the show illustrates the realisation that the study of architecture is "no longer only about design, style, or intellectual models – now it is also a platform to discuss ideas that lead into the future, not only for the happy few, but also for the other 90% of the world's population." Hopefully, the exhibition will succeed in calling the public's attention to the new requirements of architecture – social change and improvement.
Small Scale, Big Change ran from 3 October until 3 January 2011, at MoMA in New York City. www.moma.org
Niamh Coghlan