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90 Years and 18 Miles of Books and Counting: The History of Strand Books
Where it all began: Bound by a Family
The Strand was born in 1927 over on Fourth Avenue on what was then called "Book Row." Book Row covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. Ben Bass, the father, was all of twenty-five years old when he began his modest used bookstore. An entrepreneur at heart and a reader by nature, this erudite man began with $300 dollars of his own and $300 dollars that he borrowed from a friend. Ben sought to create a place where books would be loved, and book lovers could congregate. He named his bookstore after the London street where avant-garde writers like Thackeray, Dickens and Mill once gathered and interesting book publishers thrived. The Strand quickly became a Greenwich Village institution where writers went to converse, sell their books and find a hidden treasure to buy. Today, the Strand is the sole survivor of Book Row's colorful past.
Ben's son, Fred, was learning the family business by the age of 13. He too a lover of books quickly took to the book trade. After Fred completed a tour of duty in the Armed Forces, he came home to New York where he worked side-by-side with his father. By 1957, Fred moved the store just around the corner, to our current space at 12th Street and Broadway. Fred came to spend most of his time at the buying desk, cultivating relationships with regulars and scoping out the next great find…
The next in the Bass family to take to the business was Fred's daughter, Nancy. After college and a short stint in Louisiana, she came back to her roots and joined the Strand team at the age of 25. Today, she manages the store and is honored to carry her family's 90 year legacy forward. The jury's still out on whether one, two or all three of Nancy's kids will be next in line to join the Strand team.
Where we stand today: Guided by the Customer
Today, the Strand carries over 2.5 million used, new, and rare books, covering topics as far-ranging as occult to philosophy to finance. The store also offers an ever-changing array of literary gifts and goods from Moleskines to coffee mugs, and everything in-between. Really, we mean everything in-between, from a Shakespeare insult mug to the wildly popular Strand onesie.
Our employees are not only knowledgeable about books but they're also passionate about them. Not only can they help you find a book, they can also recommend something you might love if you give them a quick description of your literary tastes. With our famous dollar carts outside you can always find a gem but that doesn't mean there's not a hidden treasure inside the store, like a beautiful Rabelais for $15. Strand continues to house old treasures for reasonable prices while offering one of the largest, most diverse selections of books in the country.
Our in-store events feature some of today's most interesting and provocative personalities, from James Franco to Patti Smith and dialogues between such greats as Junot Diaz and Hilton Als. If you are looking for a relaxed, intimate evening where you'll be both engaged and entertained, we have the programming for you.
Where we're going: Driven by You
In all seriousness, at the Strand, you, our booklovers, are our number one priority. As we change and grow with the times, we will never lose sight of our roots – we are a community bookstore first and foremost. We are forever invested in you and want to make your shopping experience with us a memorable, enjoyable and easy one. The Strand is a place where books are loved and book lovers of all kind are always welcome.
Fred with an oil painting of himself painted by artist Max Ferguson.


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Someone had to write it! And I'm glad they did. I'm tired of everyone telling me about Trap and EDM... I smile and let them bury their own hole. Any way I found this great article via Disco Demons.... Well said fellas. I agree 100%
"Who'd have thought three little letters could make dance music look so wanky?", fellow blogger Clive from UK-based music blog Electronic Rumors asked on Twitter a few months ago. "What's happened to dance music?", Haezer asks his fans on Facebook. London music blog Too Many Sebastians recently declared the beginning of EDMageddon on Twitter.
In the meantime, Tiesto is still touring US universities for his Club Life College Invasion tour, Steve Aoki is still surfing underage crowds on an inflatable raft and David Guetta is still selling out every single show he plays. Skrillex and Avicii can still be heard blasting out of every kid's iPod, the top ten tracks for electro house on Beatport still have cheesy trance vocals and synths in the breaks and Rihanna or Pitbull's songs still sound like big-room club anthems. Madonna still keeps appearing at Avicii's shows. Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia still thinks SHM are the new Beatles. And above all, Paris Hilton still thinks she's a DJ now. What has electronic dance music become? Or is EDM just electronic dance music for douchebags?
After an entire summer spent traveling from one EDM festival to another, I obviously could go on for hours here, but let's just forget about all that for a second and step back to take a closer look at this thing called EDM. A few years ago, EDM had been a collective term for all kinds of electronic dance music (rather than a genre on its own), ranging from techno over house to drum&bass, and all other kinds of music created on computers and synthesizers with the purpose of making people dance. Except for some new genres (like dubstep or moombahton) that have recently joined the family, EDM is still the catch-all term for electronic dance music. So what exactly has changed, and why are so many people (including me) so upset about it?
"EDM has become an entire generation's pop music."
If you ask someone what kind of music they enjoy and the answer is rock, you can go on asking which kinds of rock music, and you would probably get stoner rock, indie rock, hard rock or any other kind of music with guitars as an answer. If you ask today's average EDM fan the same question, they will most probably have a hard time naming you three sub-genres of EDM they're into. If you don't believe me, go check the line-ups of dance events a few years ago: never before have artists such as Tiesto, John Dahlbäck, Richie Hawtin and Steve Aoki constantly shared stages, because each of them represented a different style (trance, house, techno, electro, etc.) back then, with completely different crowds. Today, it's all just EDM. For a large number of (young) listeners (mainly in the US), EDM has become a new genre, it seems. A genre characterized by simple melodies that immediately get stuck in your head and catchy vocals that you can sing along to after the first listen (wait, isn't that pretty much a definition of pop music?). Add a big drop with lots of bass, gritty synths and white noise to that, and you've got a pocket definition of 2012′s idea of EDM. I recently asked on Twitter "What has dance music become?", and one answer I got was from Andrew of Harder Blogger Faster: "One word: predictable." I couldn't agree more with this, remembering Skrillex joking about one of his fans commenting "Nice song, but where's the drop" after the prince of dubstep posted a video of Aphex Twin's Windowlicker on Facebook.
How could it have come to this, though? For years now, electronic dance music has been growing bigger and bigger, finally making the jump from music made for clubs to receiving attention on mainstream radio – outside of clubs. This process was sort of kickstarted between 2006 and 2008 when some emerging artists managed to build a big hype and make electronic music "socially acceptable" for people who have never been into dance music before: somewhere between alternative rock (which was huge back then) and dance music, indie dance was born. Think of: Justice's remix for Simian's We Are Your Friends, the early days of The Hype Machine, blog house, Kitsuné, the Ed Banger generation, Crookers, MGMT's Kids (Soulwax Remix). In fact though, this process has been going on for much longer, though: electronic music has always been drawing influences from other genres – think Bloody Beetroots collaborating with hardcore punk bands such as Refused. After this big hype back in 2006 – 2008 though, it started actually influencing other genres itself. For years now, electronic dance music has been influencing mainstream pop music – I don't think I need to give examples for that.
Today however, the situation has changed. Electronic dance music is no longer influencing mainstream pop music. EDM has become mainstream pop music.
Underground music has been influencing mainstream music for as long as music exists, probably. When underground music actually becomes mainstream music, though, some problems arise: long-time members of the original scene will feel irritated with lots of new people suddenly claiming to be part of the movement when they obviously have no idea what this scene is really about. What better example than old-school house legend Mark Farina being removed from the decks in Vegas after the club received complaints from its bottle-service VIP crowd for "too much house music"? Or deadmau5 ranting about Madonna, and his "we all hit play" statement, and Boys Noize tweeting "if you see a dj that uses a mic and screams 'put your hands up' throw a banana at him". Furthermore, artists who used to define and shape the scene for long years will start to "sell out" because of the big money that suddenly can be made when a genre blows up. These problems and others are of course typical side effects of a genre's commercialization, and no EDM-specific phenomenon.
EDM in the USA – a booming industry.
With the hype exploding and still growing, EDM has evolved from an underground movement to a big target market for all kinds of enterprises, attracting the attention of big companies who started pouring lots of money into the scene, hosting bigger, louder, crazier festivals all over the world (think Holy Ship, Ultra, EDC, Tomorrowland etc.). "It's just a marketing term to sell various genres of dance music to the US.", Clive of Electronic Rumors once tweeted, and he's totally right about that. With the massive marketing firepower of the entire event industry as a strong tailwind, EDM is getting bigger and bigger. In fact, the bigger it gets, the bigger it gets – a vicious circle.
Obviously what I'm talking about here is largely a US-based phenomenon. Of course it's swapping over to Europe, but the real big hype hasn't actually arrived yet (and I'm not sure if it ever will): even at European mainstream EDM festival like Tomorrowland you will meet more North and South Americans than Europeans combined. This is due to a strong, independent scene and a long tradition of electronic dance music in Europe: French house in, well, France, drum & bass and dubstep in the UK, techno and deep house in Berlin – just to name a few examples. There are lots of big artists in Europe who firmly stand against the EDM hype, who have always chosen quality electronic dance music over cheap music for the masses. I'm not going to do some namedropping here – if you've been following this blog for some time chances are that you already know who the good guys are. After being asked in an interview why Europe seems to be constantly ahead of the US when it comes to electronic dance music, techno legend Richie Hawtin explains that the club scene in Europe has not only a much longer tradition than it has in the States, but also complains about the mentality of the US scene: "I think music in America, and this emanates across the world, everybody wants to be a superstar. Everybody wants to actually cut themselves off from people. Everybody wants to be on a pedestal. [...] It's a little bit disappointing how that's happened in America. It's really like the whole rock star, hip-hop mentality. You know, these unreachable people."
Having said that, EDM's poster boys are of course in no way inferior when it comes to producing and DJing (except for some of the obvious douchebags), in fact I have all the respect in the world for artists like David Guetta: every single piece of music this man touches immediately turns into solid earworm gold. Also, he's French, so obviously I'm not just hating on the US music scene here, just to be clear about that too. The US music scene is clearly breaking new grounds with EDM at the moment, so obviously there are lots of people who are new to electronic dance music – and of course they can't be expected to immediately know and appreciate the more elaborate and sophisticated facets of electronic music, as Hawtin explains: "If you just got into Calvin Harris or you just got into Afrojack, great. You've stepped through the door, but there's so much more to learn."
This is the end?
However, at some point in the near future the EDM hype will probably collapse, as new (or old) genres will eventually start replacing it again. I remember asking Olle of Dada Life in an interview I did with them back in 2009 if he thought that electronic dance music would ever become as popular as indie rock, and he answered: "It already is, in some ways. On a regular weekend more people are partying to house and electro than rock. They just don't know what they're hearing at the club. I don't think that will change, but that's fine!" Obviously it did change, so why shouldn't it change again? Hopefully for the better, this time.
In my opinion, while quickly gaining lots of fans, electronic dance music has become less credible in the course of this big EDM hype. The (bigger part of the) underground clubbing scene (where it has been all about the music) has turned into a commercial hype focusing on festivals, fireworks and rockstar personality cult rather than on the music itself. It has become harder to spot the most interesting artists, and it has become harder for talented artists to reach an audience if their music is not big-room compatible. While introducing massive crowds to electronic music, this thing called EDM has been a major setback for electronic dance music, as it has changed the public's perception of dance music to something that dance music never wanted to represent.
Having said that, the scene has always been sort of re-inventing itself – and the bigger EDM becomes, the more up and coming artists start rejecting the hunt for the hardest drop, slowly developing a fresh underground scene, where it's all about the music again – for example the future techno movement. Facing the rapid commercialization of mainstream dance music, these small underground scenes are rapidly gaining fans who are fed up with the EDM hype. So let's all just sit back and wait for this whole thing to repeat itself again in a few years. Eurodance, EDM – I wonder what they will call it the next time.
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AURORA, Colo. (Aug. 1, 2011) - A University of Colorado School of Medicine scientist is completing a major clinical trial on a drug that could boost cognitive function in those with Down syndrome, significantly improving their quality of life and representing a potential milestone in research on this genetic condition.
"We are hoping to enhance memory and learning in those with Down syndrome," said Alberto Costa, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine and the neuroscientist leading the effort. "We have been studying this drug for three years and are now ready to analyze the data on our trial. Our team at the University of Colorado and Children's Hospital Colorado expects to have the results in the next two or three months."
Costa, whose work was chronicled in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, is testing the drug memantine, currently used to relieve symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, in 39 people with Down syndrome. About half received the drug and the others a placebo. In 2007, Costa demonstrated that memantine could improve memory function in mice with Down syndrome.
And now, for the first time, he is taking a drug effective in the treatment of learning and memory deficits in mice with Down syndrome and applying it to humans, a move described by the New York Times as "a milestone in the history of Down syndrome research."
Costa is no disinterested researcher. His 16-year-old daughter Tyche - named for the Greek goddess of Fortune - has Down syndrome. Like others with the condition, she faces the specter of a steady decline in mental functioning as she gets older and a roughly 20 percent chance of getting Alzheimer's in her 50's. After that diagnosis, death is often just five years away.
"I feel I am racing the clock to find something that will at least keep her functioning at the level she is at now," Costa said. "As they age, parts of their brain will shrink and their functions will diminish."
Costa is actively pursuing links between Down and Alzheimer's disease. He says babies born with Down often carry the biological markers for Alzheimer's.
"They have the disease from the get go," he said.
Costa says the world is awash in false assumptions about Down syndrome ranging from distortions on life expectancy to educational limitations. In fact, depending on the severity of their condition, those with Down can live into their 70s, attend college, live independently and hold down jobs.
"If we are successful, it will increase hope and expectations for those with Down syndrome," Costa said. "Right now there are drugs for the signs and symptoms of medical conditions more frequent in those with Down syndrome, but nothing to improve brain function. In fact, the prevailing wisdom has been that there is essentially nothing you can do to boost memory and learning in this group. Hopefully, we can prove them wrong."
But he and other Down researchers face an overall lack of federal funding, especially when compared to other diseases and disorders.
Costa has been supported by Forest Pharmaceuticals which is funding the clinical trial, the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome, the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities and the National Institute of Child Health and Development, part of the National Institutes of Health.
"Clearly these funding sources are the unsung heroes," Costa said. "They may not get the attention or publicity but I can assure you that our efforts and the future of those with Down syndrome would be seriously compromised without their continued generosity."
For more information on the clinical trial please go to NCT01112683 at http://www.
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New baby jealousy isn't uncommon in older siblings, but that doesn't mean you'll feel okay when your toddler starts looking at your newborn with green eyes. Happily, there are ways to help your older child feel better about her little brother or sister.
New baby jealousy can take a few different forms. Toddlers will sometimes say things about being tired of the baby or wanting you to send him back. Other times, they might get too close to the baby or hug him too hard, says Leon Hoffman, M.D., Director of The Pacella Parent Child Center at New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
To keep envy at bay, it's important that your toddler doesn't feel replaced by the new baby or left out of the picture. Here's how to make your older child feels just as loved as the new baby—and nip new baby jealousy in the bud.
Explain the new baby's needs
Up until the baby got here, your toddler was the center of your world. Now, he has to share your attention with someone else, which is (understandably!) frustrating. Let him know you love him and the baby exactly the same, but that babies need their mommies when they're so tiny (just like he did when he was smaller!). Make him feel extra special by pulling out his own baby pictures and pointing out the similarities between him and the new baby.
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Your tot most likely misses that special time he used to have with you before the new baby came into the picture, so try and split time among the children. Plan time to spend just with your older guy, like snuggling and reading together while daddy feeds the little one.
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Skytap, the application development and testing cloud that is funded in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is tweaking its service once again, adding a new management interface and other features to make it easier for IT departments that use Skytap to give coders a better experience and rein in the budget.
It is commonly believed that the lion's share of Amazon's customers for its EC2 compute cloud and related storage, networking, and load balancing services are doing application development, the Amazon Web Services cloud nonetheless has some customers who are using it to run real-world applications. But AWS, as Skytap has explained to El Reg before, has snapshotting facilities for compute and storage clouds that are too slow. And so just around the time that AWS was getting started in 2006, Bezos hedged his bets and kicked some money into Skytap, which was aimed explicitly at developers and which is trying to give them scalable infrastructure specifically tuned to the test/dev problem.
Skytap got its first dev/test cloud fluffed up in 2008, and it runs the Skytap Cloud in a co-lo data center operated by Savvis outside of Seattle, Washington. System integrator and IT services provider CSC has a white-label version of Skytap that it resells to IT shops under its own brand, which it runs out of its Chicago data center, and Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing at Skytap, is looking to expand into another location in the near term.
The Skytap Cloud is built on VMware's ESXi and Citrix Systems XenServer hypervisors and runs on a mix of blade servers from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM as well as various whitebox servers. At the moment, Skytap has nearly 200 customers and has launched over 1 million VMs as they work on code and test it. While the Skytap Cloud was designed expressly for developers, Goodwin says that companies are deploying software demos and virtual training applications on the Skytap Cloud. IBM, Accenture, and Tibco Software all use Skytap to host employee training, for instance. The company's number of virtual machines, bandwidth, storage capacity, and other salient metrics are all growing exponentially, says Goodwin, as it adds new customers and existing customers add new applications to the cloud.
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With the April 2012 release of the Skytap Cloud, Skytap has gone back to the drawing board and created a new SmartClient GUI, which is accessible through Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome browsers as well as through an RDP client on iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. The SmartClient interface has a dropdown toolbar that allows for fast switching between VMs and presents VMs in a variety of ways, including lists and thumbnails. The toolbar has a CTRL-ALT-DEL button if you want to restart an OS inside of a VM, and also has a pause and resume button for running VMs. Skytap has tested the SmartClient with hundreds of VMs, and says there is no scalability limits inherent in the tool. The company's largest customers are pushing up against a thousand VMs right now, says Goodwin, and the typical customer has a few hundred.
The SmartClient interface is in beta testing now, and depending on the feedback from testers, it could be rolled into production as the default interface into the SmartCloud in a month or two.
The April release has two other features that go immediately into production. The first is configurable virtual machine bursting limits. Capacity planning is a pain in the neck in either the physical or virtual world, and it is hard to get it just right, particularly as conditions change. So starting with the April release, Skytap administrators can not only set a given compute and storage capacity for a developer or tester, but can also allow coders to have a burstable limit that they can set for temporary capacity needs that the application will automatically have access up to and then also put a ceiling on how high coders can set this burst capacity with a maximum settable limit. These limits cover CPU, memory, and storage capacity.
The Skytap Cloud update now includes customizable reports that dice and slice usage on the cloud by individual, group, or time ranges. The reporting system is aware of capacity quotes set by the administrators and can automatically send a notice, with a usage report, to users or group managers when they are getting close to their weekly, monthly, or annual limits.
Skytap sells capacity on a month-to-month basis with no commitments or on an annual basis, which is obviously a longer-term commitment and therefore comes with lower costs for a given amount of cloud capacity. For $250 a month, you can have five users on the system and you get five virtual machines, each with one virtual CPU and 1GB of virtual main memory. You get 200GB of storage and 500 hours of compute with that $250 fee, and networking bandwidth is included in the price. Typical customers at Skytap are burning $1,000 to $3,000 per month, according to Goodwin. ®
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The window in the training room at Houston Sports Park provides a perfect view of the Houston Dynamo training pitch. For the first time in three months Tony Cascio is on the right side of that window.
The outside midfielder has been rehabbing and watching since having surgery on his torn right ACL on April 30. Last week that ended as he hit the field and started running and working with the ball and progressing towards what he hopes is a fast recovery.
"I don't really have anything to compare it to but when they said six to nine months my mind immediately said 'shoot for the six and hopefully come back faster than that,'" Cascio told MLSsoccer.com Tuesday. "I kept messing with the trainers and saying I'm going to make the world's fastest recovery. I think just putting that in the back of my head it might help. I don't want to rush it … but I would love to come back as soon as possible; I just don't want to push it."
Cascio's injury was tough to swallow for him and the club. He played well in preseason and earned a spot in the opening day starting XI. After showing promise through five games, he went in for a check-up on his knee and the ACL injury was found after he had played on it for several weeks. It was a blow to him and the team.
Since then, he has watched the team in the midst of an eight game winless streak and, until three weeks ago, were dressing as few as 16 players for games at times.
While he's still a long way off from helping on either of those fronts, his rehab is following his aggressive nature. He's taken positive steps in his rehab have him thinking of a possible return. His running is increasing and he's working with the ball.
"His recovery's been going great so far and he's out here running at pace where you're thinking 'You're crazy man,'" said forward Omar Cummings, who also played with Cascio as part of the Colorado Rapids in 2012. "You feel like maybe you're rushing and maybe doing a few things too quickly. One of the worst things that can happen is for Tony to do all the hard work and come back and have it happen again.
"First meeting Tony as a rookie in Colorado you felt like he was a kid with no fear. The way he plays he goes for it and that's the attitude Tony has and it's been wonderful."
There is no timetable for when he will be back, but getting Cascio in the fold would be a good sign for a team that has the option to extend his stay in Houston at the end of the season. For now, they're just glad to see him out of the A/C and under the blazing Texas sun.
"We all know he's still a ways from playing, but he'll probably tell you he's the happiest one of the bunch to get out here," said head coach Dominic Kinnear. "It's a step-by-step process the recoveries from these injuries and we want to make sure he's getting the best care. I'm not really thinking that far ahead … If he can surprise us with a late season visit that'd be nice."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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Musical trends come and go, and only few return to stay.
Then there's the ukulele. We are now in what musicologists are calling the "third wave" of renewed appreciation for the tiny, four-stringed instrument that makes such a sweet, gentle sound. Ukulele sales are skyrocketing – on track to jump nearly 100 percent this year from the last, according to figures from the Lanikai brand, a division of Hohner Inc. – and the instrument is prominently featured on the pop charts and television commercials.
The instrument is not just a staple on college campuses. Groups dedicated to the instrument can also be found everywhere from senior centers to kiddie camps to local ukulele orchestras.
"We're in the infancy of this," says Drew Lewis, fretted division product manager at Hohner. "First we had the influencers. Now everybody is picking it up."
The first and second wave of ukulele popularity dates back to 1915, the year of the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, which introduced Hawaiian culture to mainlanders. In subsequent years, the instrument became a staple of popular hits that came out of Tin Pan Alley during the Jazz Age. Jazz orchestras established the instrument as a mainstay of their sound, along with the lap steel guitar, another instrument the exposition popularized. Ukulele stars like Wendell Hall, the Hawaiian Quintet, the Duncan Sisters, and many others helped establish the instrument. The Depression helped usher the instrument into the home due to its cheap price. In time, an industry of instruction booklets and sheet music accompanied a creative renaissance for the instrument.
The ukulele's second revival emerged in the 1950s and continued through the Woodstock Era, through a series of movies that popularized tiki culture (think Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," which featured the singer with ukulele in hand for most of the film). From television star Arthur Godfrey to cult warbler Tiny Tim, the instrument once again entered living rooms as a novelty instrument that could be easily played by anyone.
This current revival is different because it doesn't rely on any ethnic clichés, and novelty plays less of a role in the instrument's presentation. Instead, musicians are using the instrument to add their own flavor to pop hits, hone a style of playing that may have more nuance than guitar, or add profundity to lyrics.
"People see the ukulele and think it's simple but there's far more going on there," says musicologist Daniel Goldmark, who teaches at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Mr. Goldmark refers to songwriters like Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields and Nellie McKay as examples of musicians who use the ukulele for songs that seem to go deeper than, say, Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." Their wry lyrics become disarming when accompanied by gentle strums and high-octave tunings.
"The thing about the instrument for them is it has no genre association with the guitar. It's complex enough [that] you can do anything you want with it, but at the same time, it's very simple. For songwriters, I imagine it's a great [instrument] to work through things," he says.
Paul McCartney is known to play one in concert in tribute to late band mate George Harrison, an aficionado of the instrument. Mr. Harrison can be seen playing a ukulele with Mr. McCartney and Ringo Starr in "The Beatles Anthology," the group's 1994 television miniseries. In concert, McCartney plays the Harrison song "Something." This summer, the ukulele revival was stoked from unexpected quarters: Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder, who launched a national tour based on "Ukulele Songs," a 16-song solo album that contrasts the instrument's cheery sound with songs infused with brooding and romantic longing. In May, Mr. Vedder told The Boston Globe that a primary challenge of making the album was "not necessarily [to] make this sappy little instrument sound evil, but to give it something that wasn't chipper."
What is also making this current revival different from the first two is YouTube. The online video-streaming site is allowing bedroom players to upload videos of them trying their hand at the instrument and it has already resulted in a bona fide ukulele star: Hawaiian musician Jake Shimabukuro, whose virtuoso renditions of familiar songs (most notably, Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps") is credited for boosting the trend. A stirring rendition of "Over the Rainbow" by late Hawaiian star Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole has piled up tens of millions of YouTube views. [Editor's note: The original version incorrectly stated that Jake Shimabukuro was Japanese.]
Legions of amateurs have been inspired by the relative ease of mastering the basics of the ukulele – and then sharing the results.
"I became obsessed with it," says Jessica Day, a marketing professional in Milford, N.J., who picked up the ukulele two years ago after graduating from college simply "to pass the time." She now regularly uploads videos of her playing her favorite songs, from artists like Coldplay to Taylor Swift, in front of her computer.
For her, the instrument "has such a beautiful sound. It is very peaceful and calming.... Every time I'm hanging out with friends, I pull it out and play for them," she says.
The ukulele seems to encourage community, either online or in person. Festivals and clubs have been launching across the United States to bring players together in a spirit of musicianship, but also to share their passion in workshops and performances.
The Milwaukee Ukulele Club started three years ago out of a private home and now boasts 200 members on Facebook and an annual festival, held this year on Sept. 24, that attracts over 300 people.
Milwaukee musician and club founder Lil' Rev, who writes books on the ukulele for the Hal Leonard music publishing company, says organizing around the instrument is common throughout the US.
"The time was right for people to empower themselves with the act of being a participant, rather than a consumer, in the culture we live in," he says.
Club members range from college students to retirees, Rev says, and their interests are just as varied. Some simply want to learn a favorite song, others want to hit new heights in performing. Both approaches are validated when the club gets together. The ukulele "almost has a punk rock vibe to it," he says. "It's an Everyman instrument. Everyone can [play] it."


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All along the coast of Maine you will find a host of different canoes, skiffs, rowboats and all different manner of small boats like this one tied up waiting to take working fishermen and lobstermen to their work boats. This weathered and worn canoe rests along the beach in at Pine Point in Scarborough, Maine.
The Bubbles
Just off the path leading to the Jordan Pond house in Acadia National Park you will find this scene of the iconic Bubbles. Twin mountain peaks rising behind the pristine waters of Jordan Pond (source of drinking water for local towns) provide a great backdrop for a great family hike around the pond. Sample the popovers at the Jordan Pond House. A treat that immediately brings me back to my childhood.
Sand Beach Nights
The Milky Way rises over Sand Beach in Acadia National Park, Maine. Local ordinances in Bar Harbor and other area towns are aimed at curbing light pollution keeping the skies around Acadia some of the darkest in the Northeast allowing for star shows that few on the eastern coast ever get to see.
This image was awarded Best in Show at the 2013 Maine Photography Show.
The Pier
Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Home to nightclubs, bars, mini golf and a waterfront amusement park. Old Orchard is pure beach kitsch . On a coast dotted with stately, reserved, upscale towns, OOB is a blast of touristy bedlam that makes it stand out from the crowd. Some people love it, some people hate it. I think it has it's place and you can't argue that the miles of beach that stretch north into Scarborough and south of the iconic pier into Cape Ellis will appeal to almost any visitor.
This image took home first place in the Maine Photography Show black and white category.
Nubble Nights
The Milky Way rises on a frigid night over Nubble Lighthouse . Windblown snow remains the day after "Superstorm Nemo" battered the coast and left behind 3 feet of snow as a friendly reminder of the power of Mother Nature.
Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona.
The shooting experience in the slot canyons of Page were nothing like what I expected. I wrote a blog post on it a few years back but the short story is that the canyons are filled to the brim with tourists on a daily basis. A good photo guide is essential as they know the schedule when the light beams fire into the canyon and will hold the hordes back while you take your shots. Regardless, the canyons are spellbinding and the colors, textures and layers that greet you around every corner are awe inspiring.
Wheel in the Sky Keeps on Turning
Yeah don't know what that title means exactly. This is the old ferris wheel at Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. This particular ferris wheel has since been replaced by a wheel with big generic plastic buckets. I miss these burnished burgundy cars and the old school bare bulbs of this version. So much more character.
Time Warp at the Portland Head Lighthouse
The Sun rises on a cloudy day over the Portland Head Lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
A long exposure helps smooth the water and add motion to the clouds in this take on the iconic lighthouse at Fort Williams. If you look closely enough you can see a fisherman out on the rocks to the left of the light. Only fisherman and photographers are crazy enough to be out before the sun rises along the coast in the summer. We do get the best views though.
And if you're wondering how a vertical panoramic print like this would fit in to your decor I have a large print of this image that fits perfectly in between two windows. Just sayin.
The Way
Biddeford Pool, Maine.
My 11 year old son had RSVP to go shooting with me this morning and after a surprisingly easy 2am wakeup call from his top bunk we made the trek down to Biddeford Pool. I had a few shots in mind but light pollution from nearby buildings (to the owner of the house on Fortune's Rock, let it be noted that 8 floodlights lighting up your yard, the beach, the driveway and your house are not strictly speaking necessary) rendered them all unusable. I had shot this location before but the boardwalk to the beach was a new feature. There's nothing more relaxing than firing off milky way shots while talking life with your son as shooting stars fire overhead. Always a pretty enjoyable experience.
5 shot focus stack here for the pathway.
Cobblestone Bridge
Jordan Stream flows below Cobblestone Bridge south of Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park. The stone bridges scattered throughout the park support the network of carriage paths that crisscross the park. As a kid we used to bike on the paths in the summer and ski them in the winter. When I got older they were a perfect way to get off the tourist filled roads on my bike. I used to know these paths like the back of my hand. Nowadays I barely remember where the entrances are located.
I love the way that fall colors sometimes look in black and white. In this case the brightly colored leaves turn white providing great contrast against the dark shadows of the stones.
Well technically a sunburst. But the sun is a star and a sunburst isn't a tasty candy so "Starburst" it is.
Taken along the Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine. One of my favorite stretches of coast anywhere, the Marginal Way runs from Perkinc Cove to Ogunquit Beach providing easy access to dramatic rocky coastline and sandy beaches alike.
The Burning Bush
Valley of Fire, Nevada. Storms like this don't roll in too often up here in the Northeast so when I get the chance to witness scenes like this it's always pretty special. I was actually in the middle of photographing the sunset to the West when I turned around and saw this storm system rolling in across the desert. I made a mad dash down into this little valley looking for some foreground interest and came away with this image. The clouds here look to me like tendrils snaking down from the heavens. What they're grasping for I have no idea.
Ocean Front Property in Arizona
On my last trip out to the Southwest my party and I made a couple attempts to get permits into the iconic Wave in Coyote Buttes North. We struck out both times but I'm happy to say I still found some waves out in White Pocket in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument area. Awesome awesome place and one of the most truly awe inspiring light shows that I have ever seen this night.
Very Superstitious
The superstition mountains at lost Dutchman state Park in Apache Junction Arizona. Watch out for those cholla cactus quills. Those tiny barbed needless will stick in you and never let go.
The Rock and the Milky Way
This image of the Milky Way rising over the Atlantic in Biddeford Pool illustrates one of the challenges of shooting the stars. The narrow depth of field afforded by shooting wide open (in this case f2.8) necessitates that you will need to take multiple pictures at different focal points to ensure you get a final image that will capture both a foreground and background that is sharp.
Under the Boardwalk
What goes on down here under the Boardwalk after all the revelers let out of the bars above on a hot summer night I don't want to know. However on frigid early mornings it's about as peaceful as you can get in Old Orchard Beach. A few joggers running by, a stray dog walker and most likely a couple fellow photographers to keep you company are all that you'll see here.
I Heart Maine
Pine Point Beach, Scarborough, Maine.
Pine Point is about a 10 minute drive from my house and the default beach for family afternoons on a sunny summer day. When the tide goes out little pools and ripples are left behind in the sand providing some great foreground interest. On this day my most loyal 11 year old assistant was along for the late night ride and we enjoyed listening to the fish jump in the cove, stomping in the sand to make the phosphorescence light up and watching the big crabs raid the little hermit crab colonies along the waterfront. Maine can be a pretty cool place.
The lights on the horizon are from the nearby towns of Old Orchard Beach and Cape Ellis.
Whaleback Lighthouse, Kittery, Maine.
Shot from the pier in Fort Foster Park, I had to get creative on this 100 second exposure shot at 200mm on a crop frame. My tripod couldn't handle the high crosswinds on the day and every exposure was coming out blurry. In the end I braced my camera and lens against the railing of the pier, held on tight and tried to hold my breath and make my heart stop beating for the duration of the 100 second exposure. In the end this was the only keeper.
The Bend
The sun sets over Horseshoe Bend in Page, Arizona. For me this was one of the most challenging shots to make ever... My fear of heights (which I feel is justifiable by the ever present possibility of plunging thousands of feet to a gruesome and twisted death) forced me to crawl on my stomach to the edge of the canyon to make this image. That experience alone was gut wrenching enough without having to endure the pitying stares of the other photographers lined up along the edge.
Custom House Tower
One of the oldest, proudest and most recognizable buildings along the Boston skyline is the Custom House Tower, now home to a Marriott Timeshare. At least the building is still in use I suppose.
Sunrise Explodes over Nubble Lighthouse in Cape Neddick, Maine.
Great sunrises are few and far between but this one was a scorcher. A long exposure saturated the colors even more here and I gotta say I love that little boathouse down on the rocks.
It wasn't until my second trip out to Death Valley that I made it out to Mesquite Sand Dunes. Truly a fantastic shooting experience. If you've got any water or weatherproofing gear use it! Blowing sand refreshes the landscape every day but will lodge in both gear and person in ways that will make your day uncomfortable. It should go without saying but it's hot and trudging up and down these dunes is more than a walk in the park.
Little Red Boat
People like boats. I like boats, you like boats, we all like boats. Here's a picture of a red one.
If you ever find yourself in need of a spot to shoot a sunset over the ocean in Southern Maine you are limited in options. The working docks here at Pine Point in Scarborough are the closest location to me and when I peek out my window around sunset and see the clouds gathering for a possible brilliant sunset I will often hop in the car and make a mad dash down to the waterfront. If the tides are right you can catch a whole beach full of these waiting to take the guys who work on the water out to their boats.
Boston Strong
Boston, Massachussetts. Our friendly neighbors to the South. Growing up in Bar Harbor Boston was THE big city to us. I remember it for the Science Museum gift shop where you could buy dinosaur erasers for a buck. Nowadays the Science Museum is still a great place to visit and this shot from across the bay in LoPresti Park shows off the great downtown skyline.
LoPresti by the way isn't in the greatest of neighborhoods so if you're going to be shooting at 5am, keep your eyes wide open.
This image reminds me of an EKG reading or something.
Portland Head Lighthouse, Fort Williams, Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
How do you get a unique image of an icon? Make your images when nobody is watching. It will take some special maneuvering to make your way into the PHL at night but in this event I was rewarded with a spectacular view of the Milky Way rising over one of America's most historic lighthouses.
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
The breakwater in Rockland juts out almost a mile into the ocean protecting the harbor from the worst of winter storms. I'm astounded by the feats of engineering required to produce something as aesthetically simple as a breakwater.
I like in this image how you can see the chop on the left and get a feel for how the whole contraption works with the glass smooth water on the harbor side to the right.
Sunsets on Kettle Cove in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
I wouldn't really categorize this image as a "driftwood" picture. Really this is just a piece of tree that happened to have fallen in the ocean. Give it a few months and as the bark gets stripped bare by the endless tides and the combination of salt and sun bakes it to grey, then it will earn the title of driftwood.
For now, here's a stick in the water.
Well, not really any real rattlesnakes. This image was taken in Rattlesnake Canyon, Page, Arizona. Unlike nearby Upper and Lower Antelope canyons Rattlesnake Canyon was completely deserted. Partially because only certain guide companies are permitted to lead people through, partially because it had just dried out from flooding and partially because you need a 12 foot ladder to get in and out. After the chaos of Upper Antelope it was a great respite to just wander through the tighter confines of Rattlesnake. Our guides sat at the entrance eating their lunch and just let us explore the colors and textures to our hearts content.
Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California
Sublime isn't a description of an image, it's a description of the feeling I had as I was making these images. Coming at the tail end of a day where I had spent the morning several hours away shooting the slot canyons in Page, AZ, the experience here at Badwater was one of those moments in life that you remember forever.
As I stood for the first time on the salt flats, the temperature still well over 110 degrees and the hot breeze sucking the moisture from my skin, completely alone on the playa, the sun set, the colors came out and a wash of pure awesomeness rushed over me. Sometimes it's pretty cool to be alive. Mother nature kicks ass.
First Light
The sun rises over Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine.
During the fall and winter months, those who brave the howling winds and frigid temps at Cadillacs' peak are rewarded with the first touch of the suns light in America. If you decide to see it for yourself, come prepared. Dress warm and expect crowds bigger than you would reasonable expect for an experience that requires a pre dawn wake-up call and a winding drive around the mountain.
Nobody who's been to Old Orchard Beach during high tourist season will ever mistake it for being serene. This is one of the things that I love about photography, it's up to you as an artist to convey mood, place, emotion. It's all within your control.
Sun rises over Spring Point Ledge Lighhouse in Portland, Maine.
This is one of the first long exposure images I ever made. Armed with just a 4 stop ND filter and a polarizer I still managed to squeeze out a decently long exposure under the cover of pre dawn darkness. The smoothness of the water I had anticipated, the intensity and saturation of colors that comes along with long exposures was a surprise.
The Tower
Well... Not sure what else to say about this one. It's the Tower. It's the Portland Head Lighthouse. It's in Cape Elizabeth , Maine.
Not a Lighthouse Pic
Technically there are two lighthouses in this image. To the left is possibly the most famous of all lighthouses The Portland Head Lighthouse (just the very edge) and in the far far distance is Ram Island Ledge Lighthouse (fairly recently purchased for $190,000 by a local surgeon). So technically I suppose this is a lighthouse pic. That being said, PHL is situated on some of the best publicly accessible seaside real estate for miles. Jagged rocks, steep cliffs, decent surf, they all add up to a great place to shoot seascapes with or without a lighthouse or two.
Into the Storm
From the Saco Heath in Saco, Maine.
Since this image was taken the boardwalk here has been completely replaced by an engineered wood path. I suppose it's safer, sturdier and will last a whole lot longer but the weathered personality of this old boardwalk will certainly be missed.
Shooting notes: The mosquitos this evening were out of control. I spent half my time shooing bugs off the front lens element. Every time I adjusted my tripod I would drag a few mosquitos into the ball head and I walked out of the heath with a remarkable number of mosquito bites considering I was wearing thick pants and a hooded sweatshirt in the middle of summer specifically to ward off the bugs.
Portland Bug Lighthouse
Portland Bug Lighthouse, Maine.
With great views across Casco Bay of Portland, Bug Light Park in South Portland, Maine is a popular place to walk your dog or fly a kite (I say this because every time I'm there I see somebody walking their dog or flying a kite...). Also home to Portland Bug Lighthouse. This was actually the first image that I sold as a print so it does hold a special place in my heart.
The moonlight illuminates the cliffs along the Atlantic at Fort Williams. This early morning shot was one of my first attempts to capture the stars and opened my eyes to the opportunities of making fresh images of often shot icons along our coast. My favorite part of this image to this day remains the pure gold rock on the beach.
This image recently graced the cover of Downeast Magazine, one of my favorite local publications.
White Pocket Sunset
I live on the coast of Maine so if I want to see great color in the sky it generally means a 4am wake up call to make the drive to a coastal location to watch the sun come up over the ocean. For me it's a real treat to watch the sun set at 7 pm at an amazing location like White Pocket in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument area here in northern Arizona desert.


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Four crew has conducted three spacewalks during its stay onboard
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17 hours and 49 minutes outside the station. Thirty-four spacewalks
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Cosmonauts and Astronauts and Suit IDYury Onufrienko: red stripes (Spacewalk 1), blue stripes (Spacewalk 2)
Carl Walz: blue stripes (Spacewalk 1), red stripes (Spacewalk 3)
Daniel Bursch: blue stripes (Spacewalk 2), solid white suit (Spacewalk 3)
Yury Onufrienko, Carl Walz
Actual time: 6 hours, 3 minutes
Start time: 2:59 p.m. CST (2059 GMT) Jan. 14, 2002
End time: 9:02 p.m. CST Jan. 14, 2002 (0302 GMT Jan. 15, 2002)
and Walz relocated the cargo boom for the Russian Strela crane.
They moved the boom from Pressurized Mating Adapter 1 to the exterior
of the Pirs Docking Compartment. The crew also installed an amateur
radio antenna onto the end of the Zvezda Service Module. The space
walk was based out of Pirs and used Russian Orlan spacesuits.
videos show the locations of equipment moved during the spacewalk.
Yury Onufrienko, Daniel Bursch
Time: 5 hours, 59 minutes
Start time: 9:19 a.m. CST (1519 GMT) Jan. 25, 2002
End time: 3:18 p.m. CST (2118 GMT) Jan. 25, 2002
During Expedition
Four's second spacewalk, Onufrienko and Bursch installed six deflector
shields for the Zvezda Service Module's jet thrusters. Also, they
installed an amateur radio antenna, attached four science experiments,
and retrieved and replaced a device to measure material from the
thrusters. Like the first EVA, this one was based out of Pirs,
and the spacewalkers used Orlan suits.
Carl Walz, Daniel Bursch
Time: 5 hours, 49 minutes
Start time: 5:38 a.m. CST (1138 GMT) Feb. 20
End time: 11:25 a.m. CST (1725 GMT) Feb. 20
This spacewalk
was based out of the Quest Airlock, using U.S. spacesuits. Walz
and Bursch tested the airlock and prepared for the four spacewalks
that will be performed during STS-110 in April. The STS-110 crew
will install the S0 Truss onto the station. This spacewalk was
the first spacewalk to be based out of Quest without a space shuttle
at the station.
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Swieca necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 268 diseños de 66 diseñadores freelance.
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The Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre is a well-established clinic, for the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders. Our motto is "We look at sleep differently", reflecting the varied conditions we treat and the range of approaches we employ. Increasingly, our referrals come via our (home grown) website but we recognise the need for a parallel web offering, with blogs, discussion groups and timely news from the world of sleep medicine and science. We have called this Sleep Central.
There are at least 4 different audiences for our Sleep Central service: existing patients of the clinic who want to learn more, prospective patients, referring doctors and those who are fascinated by sleep disorders. We treat patients from the age of 12 to 100 but this site will potentially appeal to a younger demographic. Updates to the site will be communicated via customized email, RSS feeds, Twitter, FaceBook and LinkedIn. Using the SquareSpace environment, we can adjust the experience for different targeted audiences. Using professional medical journalists, we will provide up-to-date and punchy information on sleep and its disorders, in a way that keeps people clicking through, week after week. A proportion of those will become patients of our clinic or, more importantly, become loyal referrers of their patients to our service. Sleep Central's aim is to keep our clinic at "top of mind" for prospective patients and referrers.
We require a bright, modern logo, with appropriate typography and tag line, to embody the blend of healthcare and social connectivity, that reflects the way we now inform ourselves about a range of issues, including our health. This logo will be suitable for our website, email campaigns, stationery and print advertising, in a way that stands out from the crowd. The title and tag line are currently: Sleep Central: discuss, learn, connect - although we would be happy to take advice on a different tag line. The design should be quite abstract and reflect a sense of sleep, conversation, learning and healing. Please avoid obvious iconic solutions, such as the moon and stars (see attached logos for our main business and two affiliated services for the sort of solutions we envisage). Feel free to use color in the solution, even if this makes it bold or lyrical, rather than classically calm or relaxing. Relaxed, fun and modern shapes and typography are important. Like many others, I like the Laura Rauch Photography design, also attached.
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The main centre for the eastern Bay of Plenty, Whakatane is one of the sunniest towns in New Zealand. Just off shore is White Island, a spectacular active volcano that can be visited by launch or helicopter. Guided tours of the island necessitate a gas mask and hard hat. Whakatane is also known for its fishing – more yellow fin tuna are caught here than anywhere else in the country.
Other Whakatane attractions include the museum, an observatory and Maori historical sites. The Nga Tapuwae o Toi walkway leads to pa sites, native forest and seabird colonies. Dolphin and Seal tours, which can include swimming encounters, start in November. There are guided Kayak tours on offer around Ohiwa Harbour and Whale Island.
Whakatane is also very close to Ohope, a 10km white sandy beach, which has a small settlement and is perfect for camping, surfing, walking and relaxing in the sun.
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Tennessee head coach Bruce Pearl was fired earlier this week. And while he may have trouble finding a job next season, he could land on his feet as the Iowa Hawkeyes head coach in 2012.
Pearl was an assistant coach at Iowa, under Tom Davis, from 1986 to 1992. Ironically, it was at Iowa that Pearl was at the center of another recruiting violation in which he recorded a phone conversation with a recruit that implicated Illinois in a violation. Many believe that incident kept Pearl from getting a head coaching gig at a big school for a number of years.
Meanwhile, in 2007, one year after taking the job at Tennessee, Pearl was Iowa's top choice to replace Steve Alford. Pearl turned down Iowa and stayed with Tennessee.
Iowa has struggled to find a winning coach since the departure of Pearl's former boss. In the 12 seasons since Davis retired, Iowa has employed three head coaches and only has three 20-win seasons and three trips to the NCAA tournament. They haven't had a winning record since the 2006-07 season (17-14).
Iowa finished the 2010-11 season 11-20 and 4-14 in the Big Ten under first-year coach Fran McCaffery. With five years remaining on his contract, Iowa will certainly give McCaffery the 2011-12 season to show signs of improvement. But if the Hawkeyes finish near the bottom of the Big 10 again, things could change.
One problem with hiring Pearl may be money. Iowa already gave Todd Lickliter a $2.4 million buyout in 2010 when he was fired. They also paid Siena College $240K to buy out current coach Fran McCaffery's contract. And following the 2011-12 season, Iowa will still owe McCaffery approximately $5 million.
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Architecture: 'The Artistic and the Beautiful': Frank Lloyd Wright's Wide-Ranging Views (audio interview): "..In 1957, two years before his death, Frank Lloyd Wright sat down with WNYC (ndlr: radio) to discuss his design philosophy, exhibiting his trademark eloquence and blistering opinions. The year of this interview marks an explosion of commissions for Wright, who by then had been practicing architecture for 70 years..
Wright mainly designed homes until 1957-58, when he took on 90 new projects, many for public buildings. Over all, Wright's last decade was his most prolific, accounting for nearly one-third of his oeuvre. This interview was recorded in his Plaza Hotel apartment where he'd moved two years earlier in order to oversee construction of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on which he had been working for 14 years. Here, Wright neatly dismisses the project's many critics, promising "…a new point of view…it's going to be so enlivening and refreshing that it will make some of these painters quite ashamed of the protest that they issued against it."
In this interview, Wright also expresses distaste for the nascent designs of Sydney Opera House, as well as the U.S. Air Force Academy structure, whose designers he lambasts as "Poetry Crushers with a capital P." The Academy's use of an advisory committee of architects prompts Wright to remark that "an architect is either an inspiration or…he's merely a committee-mind…a liability."
Asked whether he's acquainted with New York's planned Lincoln Center complex, Wright remarks, "I think it wouldn't do me any good to become acquainted with it. I suggest the other way around: they become…acquainted with the ones that I'm doing."
Two notable influences on the young Wright were his itinerant childhood (his father was a traveling minister), and years spent on his uncle's Wisconsin farm where he "learned…the region in every line and feature…the modeling of the hills, the weaving and fabric that clings to them, the look of it all in tender green or covered with snow or in full glow of summer." His mother, a school teacher, enhanced his understanding of structure by giving him a set of newly invented blocks developed by revolutionary German educator Friedrich Fröbel whose theories laid the foundations for modern education.
Beyond architecture, Wright is also noted as a singularly influential and innovative urban planner, interior designer, architectural writer, and educator. He is noted for his often prescient, sometimes embattled philosophical and social views, a range well displayed in this broadcast, when in the middle of describing his new designs for homes with children's playrooms, he can't help but point out that "the American family should be three, not four…and above that, heavily taxed, more and more as they increase in number." (Wright fathered seven children.)..
Recognized by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time," Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wis., and went on to design 1,141 structures — including houses, offices, churches, clinics, schools, libraries, bridges, and museums — 532 of which were built. Today, 409 are still standing, nearly one-third of them listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wright died in 1959, six months before the Guggenheim opened.
Asked what architects could do to help build "a better society and civilization," Wright slips into an uncharacteristically heartfelt tone, suggesting they "study nature, seriously, intelligently, and with feeling, and appreciation." He also warns that if New York City doesn't acquire more green space immediately, it will be "uninhabitable."
At least four of Wright's descendants became architects, one of whom, his son John Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs. Other descendants include an architecture professor, two interior designers, a master woodworker, and the actress Anne Baxter, who is Wright's granddaughter.." Fascinating…
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Iowa Proves Fertile Ground for Youth Leadership
Sunshine, 17, was bullied by her classmates before enrolling in Futures Alternative School in Boone, Iowa.
While there, she began working with the Iowa Rural Opportunities and Connections (ROC), a project supported by the Family Youth Services Bureau. She helped launch Caring Hearts, a lawn care and snow removal business that employs runaway and homeless youth.
Recognizing her natural leadership ability, ROC encouraged Sunshine to take part in the Rural Homeless Youth Annual Meeting held in Denver, Colo.
During the meeting, Sunshine suggested ways to expand the lawn care business. This led to a plan that would create employment opportunities for youth in a variety of areas.
On July 5, 2011, eight ROC youth started work across four job sites. These included a community school, child care facility, nursing home and an emergency/homeless shelter.
As for Sunshine, her social skills have improved, and she continues to motivate and advocate for her peers in rural Iowa.


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700,000-Year-Old Horse DNA Found
Dr. Ross MacPhee, curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, joins Lunch Break to discuss the discovery of horse DNA that is 700,000 years old.
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