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Wit's End presents Michael Arenella, creator and founder of the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island, at the debut party at St. Cloud in the Knickerbocker Hotel, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016.
He is the bandleader of the world's premier Jazz-Age dance orchestra, steeped in the hot-dance band tradition of the 1920s and early 1930s. Arenella transcribes by hand their entire repertoire from period recordings. Their delivery, as well as their instruments, attire, and equipment — are faithfully accurate.Arenella's baritone lacks pretense or sarcasm. He treasures each lyric, and has faith in the songs he sings. Even the most optimistic Tin Pan Alley tune has a disarming quality in his hands. Arenella entertains thousands every summer at his Jazz Age Lawn Party; tonight dance in the intimate setting of a 1906 hotel rooftop in Times Square.
Wit's End is New York City's longest-running monthly vintage dance party. Since 2009, the soirée has been held faithfully the last Saturday each month January-October in speakeasies around New York.
Tonight the party moves to its new home, the Knickerbocker Hotel, 6 Times Square, opened by the legendary John Jacob Astor IV on the corner of Forty-second Street and Broadway. After a 95-year break, it reopened in early 2015 to glowing reviews. Wit's End will be ensconced in St. Cloud–called "New York's greatest rooftop lounge" with sweeping views of Times Square–sixteen stories above Broadway.
Also on the bill tonight is DJ Mike Will Cut You, New York's vintage music DJ who plays classic sounds from 80-year old recordings. He is the host of "Ragged But Right" on WFMU Radio and performs at the Jazz Age Lawn Party. The hostess is glamorous showgirl Kita St. Cyr, channeling Mae West, Yma Sumac, and a dash of Lili St. Cyr. The co-sponsor of the party is the Dorothy Parker Society, the drinking club with a book problem.
Ticket Prices:
$15.00: in advance online via Brown Paper Tickets (entry 8 pm)
$20.00: at the door
$15.00: 11 O'Clock Frolic (entry 11 pm) at the door
Must be 21 to attend.
About the Wit's End Party:
Doors open at 8:00 pm. At 9:00 pm is a free dance lesson, taught by professional instructors Jeri Lynn Astra and Neal Groothuis. Learn classic steps such as Balboa and Lindy Hop that will be useful once the live music begins. The band begins at 10:00 pm.
Wit's End serves cocktails made with fresh ingredients and premium spirits following the classic cocktail recipes of the Prohibition Era. St. Cloud will present a classic cocktail menu to transport you back to the speakeasy era, when guests such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Florenz Ziegfeld were on the premises. Table service is available and reservations are highly recommended. After you buy tickets, call 212-204-4980 to reserve a table at St. Cloud.
About the Wit's End Pre-Party Dinner:
The pre-party dinner is served at Charlie Palmer at The Knick, on the 4th floor. The pre-fixe dinner menu is $45 for a delicious three-course meal. Wit's End will have tables reserved beginning at 6:00 pm. (Cost of dinner is separate from the party admission). After you buy tickets, call 212-204-4983 to make a dinner reservation (singles are welcome).
The Wit's End Dress Code:
Vintage and vintage-inspired clothing is recommended. Gentlemen must wear coat and tie. Not permitted: Denim, tennis shoes, flip-flops, T-shirts, shirts with graphics, tank tops, baseball caps.
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @clubwitsend @stcloudnyc. On Facebook: facebook.com/clubwitsend and facebook.com/theknickNYC. Follow #clubwitsend #stcloudNYC


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She earned her Masters in Applied Social Research at Ateneo de Davao University. She's a hard-core pluralist, an eternal optimist, a 40ish realist and a frustrated florist. She's a mother, a teacher, a dreamer and who knows one day a potter.
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A Reason to Smile again – Diana's Story
Ms. Diana, (real name concealed to protect identity of client) a young woman and trader hails from a rural community in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa State. Her family has been devastated since the loss of her husband to AIDS. Diana and her two year old son are also HIV positive. After her husband's death, she was left with no hope of survival; but that was before she met the USAID funded SIDHAS project team who were on one of their targeted service activation visit to one of the facilities in her community. This encounter was to mark a turning point in her life.
This life changing encounter happened during a routine community mobilization and HIV testing and counseling outreach in Yenagoa as part of an anti – retroviral therapy (ART) site activation exercise. She was identified to be positive and she acknowledged she had known about her status. Unfortunately, due to fear of stigma and discrimination, she had kept it to herself and so was not accessing care and support services.
According to her, her husband had died of the same condition and nobody in her community suspected the cause of his death. She had already lost considerable weight and had skin rashes. Her two year old son was equally in a bad state.
Sustaining herself and her child was proving increasingly challenging. According to Diana, "My condition dey very bad. I get cold and serious pains for my body. I dey skinny and to waka na problem. I no know say treatment dey for my condition. I think say I go die"
During the post-test counselling, she initially declined going to the health facility to access treatment due to ignorance and for fear of having her status known by the community. She was reassured of outmost confidentiality and provided with all necessary information to enable her make an informed decision. Eventually, she consented to enroll for care, had all baseline assessments done and was commenced on ART.
Diana's health has improved remarkably and she is now able to take good care of her positive child and reports his progress to the clinic routinely. ""Now I dey okay ooo. I thank USAID and FHI 360 staff for the good thing then do for me. In my village, I hear say one of my friend get HIV and she no know say the sickness get cure. I come carry myself go see the person to tell am say the sickness get cure" Diana says. She reported to the SIDHAS project team that she will support her and help her access treatment despite the family's denial. Diana has indeed found a "reason to smile again."


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The volume of gas supply from Central Asia to China, through the gas pipeline "Central Asia - China" reached 30.57 billion cubic meters in 2015, which is 5% more than in 2014, according to Xinhua.
Supply of gas from Central Asia to China through the pipeline, which originates at the border of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and reaches China (Khorgos) through central Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan, started in late 2009. To date, the lines A, B and C have been put into use.
It is reported that in the past year along the lines A and B, 23.54 billion standard cubic meters of gas were supplied and along the line C - 7.03 billion standard cubic meters.
The pipeline connects Khorgos to the second and third lines of the Chinese gas pipeline "East-West ", which continues to the relevant regions of China, allowing 400 million people have access to natural gas.
According to customs data, at the end of last year the total supply of Central Asian gas to China reached 130.39 billion standard cubic meters.


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2018 Case Study Competitors
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The Sport Entertainment and Venues Tomorrow (SEVT) conference is pleased to announce its 5th annual undergraduate student case study competition, which will take place on Thursday, March 8, 2018 in Columbia, SC at the USC Alumni Center.
The competition will consist of team members compiling a 15-minute oral presentation to a panel of expert academic and industry judges. Competing teams will be randomly assigned to one of two groups, from which the top team from each group (as decided by group's respective judges) will be announced Thursday, March 8, 2018. The two teams will present their solutions to all of our judges at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, March 9th.
Further details and the official undergraduate case study competition rules are listed below.
The winning team will be awarded a trophy at the awards luncheon on Friday, March 9th after the two top teams compete and the judges deliberate. In addition, the team's school will be awarded five (5) registration passes (four students, one advisor) for next year's SEVT conference.
Teams should be comprised of no more than four (4) currently enrolled undergraduate students. A total of eight (8) teams can be accommodated and are selected on a "first come, first served" basis.
Academic Advisor
Each team should have an academic advisor to serve solely as a liaison between the team and the SEVT Case Study Coordinator. The advisor should not be involved in the case study analysis or presentation preparation, and must be identified and approved by the organizers of the 2018 SEVT conference.
Registration Deadline
Each advisor should send a registration e-mail to Dr. Khalid Ballouli, the Case Study Coordinator for the SEVT conference, at firstname.lastname@example.com by 5:00 p.m. ET on Monday, January 8, 2018. E-mails should contain the institution name, names of all team members (if available), and an agreement to register for the competition. For details concerning registration fees please visit the registration page.
Competition Timeline
The case study and guidelines will be sent to each team's advisor one week prior to the conference. All oral presentations will be given starting at 8:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 8th at the USC Alumni Center, unless otherwise noted.
Each team's presentation should be no longer than 15 minutes in length and will be followed by approximately five (5) minutes of questions from the judges. The use of PowerPoint or other presentation technology is permitted and encouraged.
Additional details about the case study competition will be distributed to all registered teams on January 31, 2018. Please submit any questions related to the student case study competition to Dr. Khalid Ballouli at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Those first few weeks of your baby's life pass by in a blur, and you will never have those precious moments again. A newborn portrait session is the perfect way to capture the sweet innocence, delicate features, and angelic expressions that fill your heart with joy. A newborn marks a fresh chapter in the life of a family. Preserving this special time with artistic newborn photography is truly an act of love.
I've been in love with photography since I was a little girl. Falling in love with newborn photography started in 2014 when a friend of mine was pregnant and I wanted to photograph her babies. Ever since that moment I don't want to do anything else but photographing tiny little newborn wonders.
I love the little details, the squishiness, sleepiness and cuddliness of a newborn. I enjoy photographing them so much.
It's a pretty awesome job. I love to capture babies in their first few days of life and provide keepsakes and memories that are passed down from generation to generation. Bringing a newborn baby into the world is one of the most amazing experiences in life and to be trusted with these delicate little humans is a big job. A great job.
Thank you for your interest in my photography sessions. If you would like to book a session with me, the price guide is shown below.
To book your newborn photography session, or to buy a newborn photography Gift Voucher for a friend or relative, just drop me a line.
I look forward meeting you and your gorgeous new arrival soon.
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Newborn babies tend not to arrive on time, so I do recommend booking well in advance of your due date to secure plenty of space in my diary!
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Hi everyone!
Hope you are doing well.
As most of you know I am expecting my first baby at the end of next month, and because of this I am planning to do my Christmas mini sessions a bit earlier this year with the help of my lovely friend photographer, Sian.
Our Christmas Magic Mini Sessions this year are THREE DAYS ONLY on the 28th, 29th of October and the 4th of November!
Booking is now open. These sessions sell out fast so book now to save your slot!
These pictures make brilliant Xmas presents or just beautiful keepsakes for years to come!
Please contact us with any questions or to book your session.
The mini sessions will be held in my studio:
Agnes Forrai Photography
Witch Lane Farm, Deans lane
Charter Alley
On the day we'll be busy in the studio and won't be able to take phone calls so please ring with any queries beforehand.
Who are the sessions for?
Babies, Children, families (up to 5 people).
What to wear?
The overall theme will be winter wonderland - think white and pretty! The set up will contain soft neutral colours of creams, white, silver, golds and browns. Try to coordinate where possible.
When will the online gallery be available?
Your online gallery will be ready within 2 weeks of your session, It will be live for 5 days for you to make your choices. Online galleries will be emailed to the email address you supply.
Can I order more?
Of course, if you want more than the 5 digital images included in the session fee then you are welcome to purchase extra. We have canvas options available also. The last date to order canvases from these sessions will be the 30th of November.
Session times?
Sessions are 20 minutes long. As sessions run back to back all day please avoid being late for your booked slot as this will then go into your own session time.
28th of October
29th of October
04th of November
Can digital images be printed?
Digital images included in your session fee are high resolution and come with full printing rights, which means you can print them as many times as you like and use them on social media if you wish.
How do I reserve a time slot?
Please contact us to find out available spaces. We have limited availability so please book early to avoid disappointment. Once you have decided what time slot you would like, you will then need to pay a £10.00 non-refundable deposit to secure it.
The remaining balance of £40.00 will be then due in cash at the time of your session when you arrive.
Please contact us with any further questions.
Looking forward seeing you all there.
Agnes & Sian x
Agnes Forrai Photography, Witch Lane Farm, Deans Lane, Charter Alley, Tadley, RG26 5SE
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There is a reason why Michael Jordan is considered the greatest basketball player of all time. He is in a league of his own. There have been and will be many others, but there is only one Michael Jordan.
And he's been able to carry that off court, becoming an ultra-successful entrepreneur, with a Billion Dollar plus net worth.
None of that is by accident. Success never is.
Here Are Michael Jordan's Top 10 Rules For Success
1. Keep Working Hard
Michael Jordan would be the hardest working player on the team. First in the gym, last one to leave. Always working on getting better.
2. Ignite The Fire
You don't just wake up one day and become the best in your sport, or in any endeavor. Michael worked every single day on being the best.
3. Be Different
Too many people want to emulate others. What made MJ different, is he wanted to be different. There were other greats at the time, like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Michael Jordan looked at how he could be different and better than they were.
4. Fail Your Way To Success
Michael Jordan says:
He missed 9,000 shots in his career.
He lost almost 300 games.
He missed 26 winning shots which he was trusted with.
In his own words – I failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
5. Have High Expectations
Always strive to do more. Never be complacent. Even after multiple championship rings, and MVP awards, he still had a lot to prove, and was never satisfied with what he achieved.
That hunger for more, for being great is what drove him to become unstoppable.
6. Be Positive
It's not what happens to you, it's how you perceive what happens to you. Bad things happen to us all, yet Michael Jordan, like most successful people looked at the positives that come out of the situation.
It's easy to look at a negative or a bad situation and see it for what it is. But the mark of a champion, is to look for the good, the positive.
Brian Tracy says to look at everything that happens to you and ask – What's the gift here? What's the opportunity? What can I learn from this?
7. Be Who You Were Born To Be
"It's not about the shoes you wear" – says Michael Jordan.
Know where you're going. Have the courage to fail. Take everything you've been given and make it better.
8. Have A Vision
When you have a vision that drives you, it'll give you the mental toughness and the edge you need to persevere. Even when you're tired and don't feel like going for it anymore.
MJ had a vision. A goal to win the championship. That vision drove him, and his team to pull of "miracles" on the court.
9. Stop Making Excuses
You can get results or you can make excuses.
No one said it would be easy. Jordan says – "Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation."
There was no room for excuses in his book.
10. Practice
What no one saw are the countless hours of preparation. Blood, sweat and tears that went into every practice, when no one was watching.
Michael Jordan treated every practice like it's the championship. As a result, during the game it was all instinct.
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Desert Point ∙ Ostácoli ∙ Sinfonia per archi
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[01] Desert Point (1981)
[02] Ostácoli (1987)
[03-05] Sinfonia per archi (2001)
Arcos Chamber OrchestraViolin I: Elissa Cassini (concertmaster) ∙ Andrew Eng ∙ Joe Puglia ∙ Shaw Pong Liu ∙ Megumi StohsViolin II: Jennifer Curtis (principal) ∙ Keats Dieffenbach ∙ William Harvey ∙ Ana Milosavljevic ∙ Marc UysViola: Margaret Dyer (principal) ∙ Jason Fisher ∙ Stephanie Fong ∙ Todd LowVioloncello: Dane Johansen (principal) ∙ Samsun van Loon ∙ Jeremiah ShawContrabass: Thomas van Dyck (principal) ∙ George Anthony Flynt
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"IT TAKES NO PRISONERS" Anders Eliasson and the Art of Infinite Presence
"Music was the only way I could survive in this world." Even as a young boy, Anders Eliasson used to arrange his toy soldiers into an orchestra, sit in front of them and sing, imitating the sounds of the instruments. The earliest music he can remember is "my own singing". At the age of nine he was given a trumpet, received some lessons from experienced jazzmen, and soon became the leader of his own combo (two clarinets, trombone, drums, guitar and trumpet.
By the time he was fourteen, he was taking lessons in harmony and counterpoint). "I didn't have much luck back then. I suffered incredibly. When I was sixteen or seventeen I became very ill. I had to be sent to hospital – with a psychosis."Two years later Eliasson moved to Stockholm, where he found a mentor in Valdemar Söderholm: "He put me on the right track. I spent five years studying counterpoint with him. Bach, Bach, Bach – the most powerful energy you can possibly touch."
At the same time he also composed, but "it amounted to nothing: 'music theater', 'kinetic music', and I got to know the aesthetics of the classics and the modernists. There were a lot of idiotic attempts, but I had to get my hands on it and become familiar with it in order to know what I'm doing." Then he entered the composition class of Ingvar Lidholm, a leading member of the 'Monday Group' that had an iron grip on Sweden's modernist aesthetic: "I was shocked, because I suddenly lost all connection with the music within me. There was no way to avoid this training; I understood that, and was even quite interested in electro-acoustical music. But at the same time, I knew that it was not for me. I set out in search of my own 'musical alphabet'."
In the early 1970s, Eliasson discovered the foundations upon which to erect his own music. The remarkable thing is that his music cannot be categorized stylistically – indeed, this becomes less and less possible the more one delves into his music. "Questions of style are immaterial. Clinging to ideas like that means having to ask someone else what to do. And of course I experienced that often enough; whenever I have tried to impose my will on the music, it was always a disaster."
What is Eliasson's 'musical alphabet'? "It's nothing special, absolutely simple, and the point of departure for everything: modes as simple as D-F-B-C-B-F-D, a sort of Lydian, and D-E-A-Bb-A-E-D, a typical Dorian used both horizontally and vertically. Both modes are very closely related, so it's easy to switch from one to the other. To me, though, they're neither Lydian nor Dorian; no other constellation offers so many possibilities. I don't know any that have so much leeway.
It leads directly to infinity. The underlying basis is severe restraint. Once you enter into its realms and learn to exploit it, however, it turns out to be absolutely unlimited. The simpler the basis, the more multiform the potential lines of development. Conversely, the more complex a system is, the more limited it is as the same time. It's a paradox. This tonal system can be extremely far removed from its fundamental, yet it's always related to it."
The compositions Eliasson has produced since the early 1970s are largely instrumental: four symphonies (the second being unfinished) and other symphonic pieces; solo concertos for violin, clarinet, alto saxophone (for John-Edward Kelly), bass clarinet, trombone, violin, piano, bassoon, horn, and trumpet (with percussion ensemble); several works for string orchestra; compositions for chamber ensemble; a great deal of chamber music; such vocal works as the large-scale oratorio Dante Anarca (based upon Dante and his six masters); his most recent work, Quo vadis?; the symphonic mountain-journey Canto del vagabondo; a setting of Tranströmer's Breathing Room – July, and many others. All in all, his œuvre forms one of the central pinnacles in the great symphonic tradition.
In music as substantial as Eliasson's, sound is only the outward guise of a deeply felt, highly complex, finely-wrought mental process. Its essence, rather than being the sound it is wrapped in, is unveiled in the mind of the listener through the bundling of a rich panoply of phenomena, forming a compellingly coherent experience. This is music that thrives not on sound, but rather through sound. It does not overwhelm the listener who grants it his full attention, but rather keeps him in a constant state of tension without repose. Immediately after completing his Fourth Symphony, Eliasson was asked to describe it.
He replied: "It takes no prisoners. It grabs the listener by the throat and drags him along to the very end." Eliasson has indeed discovered a new tonality – or rather a previously unknown principle of tonality that expands space into the infinite. This new tonality transcends the duality of the modes and the obvious grounding of the major-minor system in the tonic. It is music of pure energy. Conditioned by the 'triangulated harmony' (every third fifth is directly related), it seems constantly poised between all worlds, always in contact and in continuous interaction with mutually antithetic centers of gravity; never yielding to the magnetism of a particular center, but always orbiting between them with the self-assurance of a sleepwalker.
This music is an uninterrupted act of liberation: "The most important thing is the emotional force-field – the propulsive truth, the being behind the semblance of things. Music, unlike sound, is not a matter of physical representation. That's why there are so many sounds without a soul today. Sound is a long way from being music. Sounds can be described, classified. Music can only be experienced. It is even impervious to liking or disliking. It stands above – or moves outside of – space and time. How could anyone put that into words? Timeless presence, infinite presence – always in paradoxes, for reality is incompatible with the pragmatism of human thought. Not everyone understands this. It cannot be understood at all."
Listening to the three works on this CD, it becomes obvious that Eliasson's style has changed over the years. It is a long way from the vehemence and timbral extremes of Desert Point to Ostácoli, which has become a sort of classic for string orchestras, or the broadly reverberant introspection of Sinfonia per archi, circumscribing a huge, delicately gossamer arc of tension. Yet no one can foresee what will come next, for each piece is a self-sufficient entity that poses its own demands.
What is the creative act of composing? "Naturally, a piece is more personal at the beginning than at the end. I try, after all, only to trace the emergence of the music – a quite objective pro-cess. One might say that I wander beneath the skin of the music. Where it is heading depends upon it, not me. It is not I who reaches the end, but the music itself; I try to keep my fingers out of it."
The intensity of the musical process in Eliasson's music is unique. This is perhaps because he doesn't speak about himself, but lends resonance to powers that are greater than humankind: "Who do we think we are in the cosmos? Even 'grains of sand' is an extreme exaggeration. But perhaps one or another of us, given sufficient skill and open-mindedness, will prove receptive to energies and intelligences unimaginable in our little world, and to manifest them in the here-and-now."
Christoph Schlüren
Sinfonia for Strings - Ostácoli - Desert Point
Anders Eliasson is one of a body of European composers, mostly Scandinavian, who continue to operate at the forefront of large-scale symphonic music. He has written many concertos, four symphonies, and a number of pieces for string orchestra. Three of the latter may be heard on this release: the single-movement Desert Point (1981) and Ostácoli (1987), and the Symphony for Strings (2001), a 38-minute work in three connected movements.
Eliasson's music is less about process than it is about mood. Utilizing a dense polymodal harmonic system, he creates an ongoing cycle of tension and release, usually with a melancholic strain. You might say he is a subdued Allan Pettersson. His polyphonic string writing (most notable in the lengthy first movement of the Sinfonia) expands and develops a tradition established by Bartók in his Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta—a work that turns out to be more influential than ever in contemporary music. Like several composers of his generation, Eliasson composed in a restrictive serial idiom until he embraced an albeit complex tonality. Nevertheless, Schoenberg is an influence, too; the long thematic lines within dense string textures are a dissonant reflection of the sound and soul of Transfigured Night.
The earlier works on this disc suggest Eliasson's avant-garde background, with greater timbral variety in the string writing and sudden changes of mood, whereas the Sinfonia is overwhelmingly concerned with organic development. The journey through the Sinfonia's yearning, heightened first movement via the restless second to a gentler but still troubled resolution in the third is prolonged and intense, but ultimately satisfying. Quite simply, this is a major work. There is no denying that it takes several run-throughs to become familiar with the musical terrain, partly because rhythm and pulse play a negligible role in the argument.
The composer was new to me when I received this CD, and my attitude to this program has changed with each listening: at first I found the early works harsh and the Sinfonia more involving, but subsequently the tautness and variety of the shorter pieces (particularly Ostácoli) functioned as a refreshing contrast to the emotional intensity of the longer work: a splash of cold Nordic water after an anxious, sleepless night.
Although this release is from a Spanish company, the Arcos Chamber Orchestra is based in New York. It displays the highest standards of ensemble, understanding, and commitment to the music, bringing out all possible light and shade under the sure guidance of John-Edward Kelly. (Kelly is a world-renowned classical saxophone soloist who has turned increasingly to conducting; Eliasson's Saxophone Concerto was written for him.) The musicians are recorded closely but with a nice ambience and clear separation of the orchestral sections. (I have not heard the five-channel SACD version, but it sounds excellent in stereo.)
The CD booklet states that this is the premiere recording of the Sinfonia. As it was taped last year, their claim is incorrect: the enterprising cpo company released a recording from 2006 by the Swedish RSO under Johannes Gustavsson (reviewed in Fanfare 32:5). I was curious as to how different the Sinfonia would sound with full strings, so I purchased a copy. As anticipated, the string section of the Swedish orchestra produces a mellower cushion of sound, reinforced by a distant and reverberant recording. This certainly softens the work's intensity, but the Arcos forces separate contrapuntal strands more clearly and make more of contrasts. One example is a passage in the second movement, where solo violin is pitted against a staccato accompaniment from the lower strings. With the large orchestra, it registers as a thinning out of the massive texture, whereas the chamber players add a lightness of touch and a subtle dance-like quality.
I definitely prefer the sharply nuanced Arcos, but matters are complicated by the couplings: the cpo Sinfonia comes with Eliasson's Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra, another recent and significant work I am delighted to have discovered. For that reason, both discs are equally and seriously recommended.
Phillip Scott


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Entrepreneurship has become a hot subject in recent years on the college and university campuses across Southeast Michigan. As interest grows, the schools are meeting the demand by launching, expanding and considering new programs that teach entrepreneurship to all students, not just business majors.
"Student demand for entrepreneurship courses is continuing to increase," said Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies within University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
UM is an example of the growth in interest. The university has had to add another section of its Entrepreneurial Business Basics course to its fall catalog based on student demand this year, and nearly 400 nonbusiness majors are expected to take the course, up from 228 last year, said the institute. Because of the interest in entrepreneurship, UM also launched an entrepreneurship minor specifically for nonbusiness students last year.
"Students recognize that knowing how businesses operate and how to operate them is very beneficial," said Thornhill.
UM is not the only school to add to or expand its offerings. In the past year, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn introduced entrepreneurial programs open to all majors, and Wayne State University is in the process of approving an entrepreneurship and innovation certificate for nonbusiness undergraduate students and community members.
Those are among the many area schools that are investing in entrepreneurship courses and programs. Here is a sample:
New offerings
Since its 2015 launch, 75 nonbusiness students have completed UM's new entrepreneurship minor, and 379 are currently enrolled in the program, according to the Zell Lurie Institute. The main driver of the growth is student enthusiasm, said Thornhill.
For example, he said, many students are involved in entrepreneurial programs and organizations outside of their academic transcript, such as the student-run organization called OptiMize, which has hundreds of members from all areas of study. OptiMize's website, optimizemi.org, says it is "a supportive community for student innovators working toward a just and sustainable world. ... With the right mentorship and support, we believe anyone can learn to turn their ideas into impact."
Performing arts majors in UM's School of Music, Theatre and Dance also have an exclusive program, called Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career Empowerment and Leadership, which offers courses, mentoring and networking opportunities in entrepreneurship and career development.
The program, which launched last fall, offers two practicums for the entrepreneurship minor, including a record industry workshop that resulted in a student-run record label, called Maize Collective, said Jonathan Kuuskoski, assistant director of entrepreneurship and career services in the SMTD.
"I think the next new thing (for the entrepreneurship program) will come from students," said Thornhill. "We will do what we can to make it successful."
Michigan State began in January a multidisciplinary entrepreneurship minor, open to both business and nonbusiness undergraduates. The program was designed to be inclusive of all majors to encourage nonbusiness students to participate, said Neil Kane, director of undergraduate entrepreneurship at MSU.
"The way I view it, entrepreneurship is cross-functional," said Kane. "The concepts it teaches are applicable across all industries."
Kane said around 200 students committed to the minor in the first semester, with about two-thirds coming from majors other than business. The minor is expected to grow this semester — enrollment in the Intro to Startups course has increased from 90 its first year three years ago to 650 students this fall, he said.
What makes MSU's program unique is its collaboration between departments, Kane said, as the minor is not housed in any one college on campus, and students take classes related to their major to complete it.
As the new program develops, Kane said, two priority areas to expand are international entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, which requires a slightly different skill set than for-profit entrepreneurship.
This year, University of Michigan-Dearborn launched an entrepreneurship certificate through its College of Business that is open to all students regardless of major as well as people not formally enrolled.
Tim Davis, instructor of entrepreneurship at UM-Dearborn, said the certificate was started because the school recognized that having an entrepreneurial mindset benefits more than those students who plan to open their own businesses.
"Thinking entrepreneurially can help people in many aspects of their life because it involves problem solving," said Davis.
The certificate is made up of three required entrepreneurship courses and one elective course from another discipline.
Before adding the certificate, UM-Dearborn offered business and nonbusiness students a class titled Entrepreneurial Thinking and Behavior, now one of three required courses in the certificate. Davis, who teaches the course, said the class regularly hits its 40-student capacity and often has a waiting list.
Judging by the demand, Davis said he expects the university to expand its entrepreneurial classes.
Existing programs
Eastern Michigan University also has an entrepreneurship minor open to all students. The introductory entrepreneurship courses have no prerequisites to encourage nonbusiness students to take them, said Fraya Wagner-Marsh, management department head in the College of Business, which houses the programs.
About half of the 25 students enrolled in this fall's introductory course are from nonbusiness majors, such as criminal justice, interior design and journalism, said Wagner-Marsh, who said she has seen an increased interest in entrepreneurship as more students see it as a viable career path. She said she believes this outlook has been spurred by more resources being available at universities and through the state through grants and programming.
EMU also is one of the many local schools that hold business plan and pitch competitions for students through its Center for Entrepreneurship.
Lawrence Technological University offers students in the College of Engineering the option of taking a certificate specializing in entrepreneurial engineering skills. The college also has integrated entrepreneurial concepts into the undergraduate engineering curriculum, said Cristi Bell-Huff, director of LTU's Studio for Entrepreneurial Engineering Design.
Bell-Huff said the college has put a focus on teaching the entrepreneurial mindset because students, besides being able to build products, need the business know-how to decide if there is a market and then how to reach it.
During engineering students' sophomore year, they build a working product prototype in the studio class Bell-Huff oversees and then test that product out with actual customers.
"Students are really uncomfortable doing that at first, but it's a really important skill to develop," she said.
The engineering college also partners with a local nonprofit each year, giving students the experience developing products for specific customers, said Bell-Huff.
Funding for the entrepreneurial programs came largely from a grant by the Kern Family Foundation, said Bell-Huff.
A grant from the Chicago-based Coleman Foundation in 2009 created a fellows program to teach students across all disciplines how to start a business, said Karen Evans, who was co-director of the Coleman Fellows Program.
As a result of the program, which ended in August, faculty members across the university began introducing more entrepreneurial concepts into their coursework, said Evans. That includes a chemical biology professor who added a unit on entrepreneurship to a science class, she said.
Oakland University since 2007 has offered an entrepreneurship minor to nonbusiness students through its School of Business Administration. In 2011, the program was redesigned to reach both business and nonbusiness majors.
The program begins with introductory business courses and the theories behind entrepreneurship, then builds into implementing those concepts, said Jae Hyeung Kang, who teaches entrepreneurship at Oakland.
Kang said students in his advanced entrepreneurship course, called New Venture Creation, work in teams to develop a business model and plan. About half the students enrolled are nonbusiness majors, he said.
In the four years he has taught the course, Kang said, he has seen a growing interest by nonbusiness students. Around 25 students take the minor each year.
Schoolcraft College has had since 2012 a small-business entrepreneur certificate program open to all its students as well as community members through its Small Business Development Center.
The five-course certificate is meant to teach those looking to launch successful small businesses the basics of entrepreneurship, including writing a business plan, financial management, marketing and business legal issues, said Jodie Beckley, SBDC director.
Beckley said more than 202 participants have completed the program.
Schoolcraft also offers several classes through its Continuing Education and Professional Development department that complement the certificate, such as Cooking Up a Successful Food-Related Business and Social Media Strategy to Maximize Growth.
The SBDC also puts on short seminars about the startup success and the center's free business counseling resources to students in those programs by working collaboratively with the instructors, she said.
Walsh College teaches business courses to College for Creative Studies students to assist those who have businesses or plan to open them. The partnership began in 2013.
Walsh also has LaunchPad, which assists aspiring entrepreneurs in developing and launching their businesses. The LaunchPad is available to current students, faculty and degreed alumni of Walsh.
Washtenaw Community College has an entrepreneurship certificate available to all students through its Business and Computer Technologies department. The certificate has three entrepreneurship courses, all of which can be completed in a short amount of time to cater to business owners and those wanting help launching their businesses, said Kristin Gapske, director of the community college's Entrepreneurship Center.
Gapske said the certificate teaches business skills, how to recognize market opportunities, and how to develop a business plan, among other topics.
"It's a great way for business owners to get practical experience and be done," she said.
The community college also has an Entrepreneurship Center, run by the business and computer technologies department, which has numerous free resources, such as personal business advice, a co-working space, workshops and all-day industry-focused boot camps.
Gapske said she has seen a growing interest in the creative industry seeking the center's services, including Mark Ducker, executive director of YPSI 24-Hour Film Shootout, who sought advice for how to promote his annual filmmaking event.
Beyond the certificate and resources, many other noncredit programs exist at WCC to help students and outside entrepreneurs, including courses in digital marketing and how to make a YouTube video or Wordpress website, Gapske said.
Future plans
Wayne State University could approve the entrepreneurship and innovation certificate this fall and then begin offering entrepreneurial courses as part of the certificate as soon as January, said Margaret Smoller, associate dean of WSU's Ilitch School of Business.
Smoller said students could participate in the certificate program after they complete prerequisite business courses, while nonstudents will need to have an undergraduate degree.
The proposed program would begin with an introduction to entrepreneurship and build to a hands-on capstone such as pitching a business idea to potential funders, said Smoller.
Smoller said many nonbusiness students have asked about entrepreneurial courses, including participants in the university's Blackstone LaunchPad and its business accelerator TechTown Detroit.
"So I know there's a lot of interest in Detroit for this type of program," she said.
Wayne State's School of Engineering got approval for a revamped entrepreneurship certificate this summer that is available to graduate and undergraduate students. The certificate was revised to better match the engineering students' curriculum needs, said Gary Witus, associate director of the Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute at WSU. Witus said students who take the certificate could have their tuition for the program subsidized through the institute.
University of Detroit Mercy has had an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship minor available to all undergraduate students for many years. About half the students who take the minor are nonbusiness majors, said Joseph Eisenhauer, dean of UD Mercy's College of Business Administration, which manages the minor. He said the college could soon expand its entrepreneurial offerings to students based on increased campuswide interest.
"In the modern world, more students are thinking of starting their own business," he said.
Beyond expanding entrepreneurial course offerings, UD Mercy recently opened a Center for Social Entrepreneurship, housed in the School of Business Administration, to provide the skills local practitioners need to grow their businesses, said Eisenhauer.
Henry Ford College does not currently offer specific entrepreneurship programs for nonbusiness students, said Paul Fisher, associate dean of business and computer technology, but he said it could offer such programs based on student interest.


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Keynote speaker Bill Reed, internationally recognized proponent of sustainable and regenerative development and design, will headline the 17th annual Alberta Sustainable Building Symposium, set for May 6 in Calgary. Read more . . .
With more than 35 years' experience as an architect in the U.S., Bill will challenge our thinking about the built environment. Bill believes sustainability goes well beyond the built environment to include sustaining all life.
A next, vitally important target is to change the way we think so we can reintegrate our buildings with life on Earth so our built environment becomes a process of healing and restoration.
Bill, a practicing architect in the U.S. for 35 years, will explore the practical concepts of integrating technical perspectives with the living systems that support life to achieve truly regenerative buildings and communities.
More than 25 other speakers chosen from a call for presenters will offer case studies ranging from discussions of green roofs to commissioning, and from designing for density along transit corridors to the impact of architectural form on building energy performance. Check out the full program.
The theme of this 17th annual green building symposium, hosted by the Alberta Chapter - CaGBC, is "change, challenge and opportunity."
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Also speaking to the theme of change, challenge and opportunity, a luncheon panel will explore our changing climate and how to manage these challenges to make our built environment more resilient in the face of increasingly severe weather patterns. Panel members will speak to the issue from a provincial government policy perspective and from the perspective of the insurance industry.
Participants will also hear the latest on LEEDv4 and its implications for Canada's green building industry. The updated LEED version features greater emphasis on performance while addressing new issues such as integrative design, envelope commissioning and acoustics. In fact, LEED v4 addresses 21 different market sector adaptations including new and existing data centres, new and existing warehouse and distribution centres, hospitality, existing schools, existing retail and multifamily midrise.
The symposium will offer learning credits for GBCI and most other professional organizations.
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What an opportunity! Teams from Alberta's design community — professionals and students — are invited to unleash their creativity as they design a house for RRRibbitt, recycling mascot for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB). Read more . . .
Yes, RRRibbitt is a frog — and passionate about being a good environmental steward. Since 2005, RRRibbitt has helped the Wood Buffalo partners in recycling, the Municipality and Suncor Energy, spread the word about eco-friendly behaviours.
The partners in recycling now want to help Wood Buffalo residents better understand the whole product cycle and highlight ways they can positively impact that cycle through choices they make in their own homes and everyday lives.
Where do design team come in? Using one or more worksite trailers, teams are invited to design a house for RRRibbitt that showcases eco-friendly practices and materials — and becomes a living museum that will attract the attention of Fort McMurray residents with its innovative material reuse applications from the reuse of the trailer itself to the products and systems (energy, water, etc.) incorporated into the design.
The Alberta Chapter – Canada Green Building Council is managing the Challenge for Wood Buffalo's recycling partners.
"The Wood Buffalo EcoHouse Design Challenge is a truly unique opportunity for our industry to get creative in a fun way with our green applications," says Tanya Doran, Executive Director of the Alberta Chapter. "I am delighted to be working in collaboration with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and Suncor Energy and I am confident we're going to see some very innovative ecohouse designs."
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Tanya Doran, Alberta Chapter Executive Director, is offering a new series of articles based on thoughts and advice from her role serving Chapter members in their work on LEED green buildings.
You have registered your LEED project online with the Canada Green Building Council and received your confirmation e-mail. This is the first step in a documented, multi-phase process toward LEED certification of your project — and every step involves a human element. Read more . . .
The LEED certification process is also an exercise in communication among all involved green building professionals. Effective communication ensures fewer speed bumps on the path to certification. Remember, we all connect at a human level – something spreadsheets and e-mail just cannot do.
If you do hit that speed bump, refer first to the LEED reference guide and the CaGBC website. If those tools don't answer your questions, contact your project LEED Coordinator at the CaGBC. LEED Coordinators are the lifeline for LEED information. They answer your specific questions and liaise with the independent review teams. Get in touch by e-mail or pick up the phone. These individuals are the human at the other end who genuinely wants your project to succeed. The answers to your questions are often a short conversation away with your CaGBC connections – either at the head office or at your Chapter.
The CaGBC is run by humans for humans! (OK, there are some exceptions. There are a few kennels, penguin exhibits, elephant enclosures and other buildings that also reap the benefits of green building). There are actually about 35 staff who support the nearly 3,000 projects seeking certification in Canada. That's more than 46 million square metres of LEED-registered floor space the CaGBC staff want to see complete the certification process.
The CaGBC staff in Ottawa and Vancouver take the lead with LEED projects in Canada but the team extends outside these head offices to include eight regional Chapters – Cascadia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ottawa, Greater Toronto, Quebec and Atlantic.
In Alberta, the Chapter offers green building and LEED-specific education, works with policy and decision makers regarding green building policies and supports our green building professionals with their LEED projects and specific LEED project questions.
The Alberta Chapter has two staff members, a team of nine dedicated Directors, two Emerging Green Builder Coordinators and many dedicated volunteers and committee members working behind the scenes to transform Alberta's built environment to high-performing, healthy green buildings, homes and communities.
We strive to be your first source for green building information and education or to assist our green building industry at the local level. We want to hear from you. Drop us an e-mail or just call us at (780) 669-3825. We would love to hear from you.
In our effort to design, construct, operate and certify high-performing buildings in Canada, let's remember the most important reason we do what we do – for people! – and that LEED is, in fact, a human process.
Spray Lake Sawmills has earned Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for its Forest Management Agreement area, giving green product suppliers an Alberta option for certified wood products. Read more . . .
According to an announcement by Spray Lake Sawmills, operating out of Cochrane, the operation's Forest Management Agreement area and northern timber quota consists of approximately 300,000 hectares of Crown land. The SmartWood™ auditing team assessed the company's sustainable forest management system against the FSC® Canada's National Boreal Standard.
"Spray Lake Sawmills is excited to be the first sawmill in Alberta to be recognized by the environmental community for our leadership in sustainable forest management," offered Jason Mogilefsky, the firm's Environment and Safety Manager - Woodlands.
The FSC's stringent social, economic, and environmental criteria are considered the most far-reaching when compared to other certification programs, and FSC-certified wood products are increasingly favoured by the sustainable building industry, clients and consumers who want to make their buildings more efficient and sustainable with a reduced carbon footprint.
The move to the international FSC® certification program demonstrates Spray Lake Sawmills continued commitment to forest certification and sustainable forest management. From 1996 through 2009, Spray Lake Sawmills was certified under the Alberta ForestCare certification program.
The firm was awarded FSC certification in October 2013.
Congratulations to the team involved with the Habitat for Humanity Edmonton Net Zero precast concrete duplex. The duplex has been named winner of Alberta Construction Magazine's Top Projects Awards' 2013 Project of the Year as well as winner in the Sustainability category. Read more . . .
Created by Lafarge North America Inc. in partnership with Stantec, the duplex is the first of its kind in Canada.
Key features of the project include:
The Alberta Construction Magazine's feature about the duplex says researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will monitor the building's energy performance for the next two years to determine whether the high-efficiency design delivers from an operational perspective.
The project team includes the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) which sponsored the LEED certification fees for the duplex and the Alberta Chapter - CaGBC which paid for registration and provider fees for the project.
For more details on the project, check out a documentary and the Perspectives issues from November 2012 and March 2013.
Alberta Construction Magazine's impressive list of 2013 award winners includes several LEED-registered builds. Read more . . .
Bow Valley College, the Markin Macphail Performance Training Centre (WinSport Athletics & Ice Complex, Pine Creek Wastewater Treatment Plan Campus Site and the Eastgate offices for Environment Canada made the list.
Architectural firm Manasc Isaac rounded out 2013 in grand style by taking home three prestigious awards. Read more . . .
Highlights of the awards:
For more information, e-mail Kent McKay, Manasc Isaac Communications Director, or call him at (780) 784-1169.
As well as accepting awards in late 2013, Manasc Isaac was at the podium handing out awards — to the winners of the 3rd Annual Blue Sky Architecture Award. Read more . . .
Created to help Albertan non-profit organizations overcome their building/infrastructure changes or setbacks, the Blue Sky Award offers $10,000 in consulting time from Manasc Isaac.
The 2013 winners were:
SKILLS Society of Edmonton, which assists children and adults with developmental disabilities and adults with acquired brain injuries realize their full potential, by fostering opportunities for individuals to contribute their skills, knowledge and gifts to the mosaic of talents and personalities that make our communities strong and healthy."
Fulton Child Care Association, which has provided pre-school and before/afterschool care in the community since 1974. Fulton is the second largest non-profit daycare in Edmonton and was one of the first daycares in Alberta to become provincially accredited.
Edmonton is one of three Canadian cities chosen as finalists in WWF Canada's Earth Hour City Challenge 2014, selected by an international jury of sustainability experts for impressive city actions on climate change. Read more . . .
According to a news release distributed by WWF Canada, Edmonton was selected as a finalist because of The Way We Green, "which uses community-centric commitments and publicly engaging actions to achieve a carbon neutral future."
The Way We Green is the City of Edmonton's award-winning environmental strategic plan. Judges said the plan's focus on energy efficiency, reducing emissions and saving money while ramping up plans on renewable energy secured Edmonton's place as a finalist.
WWF created the Earth Hour City Challenge initiative in 2011 to celebrate cities that are taking innovative actions toward creating greener, cleaner and more sustainable cities to live in, while inspiring other cities to do the same.
This year, WWF's city challenge focuses on supporting cities in the global transition toward a sustainable future powered by renewable energy. WWF has worked closely with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability in mobilizing cities to join the challenge and enabling their reporting through carbon Cities Climate Registry (cCCR).
The winner of Canada's Earth Hour Capital will be announced March 27.
Vote for Edmonton!
Vote for Edmonton as your favourite green city in the We Love Cities campaign by posting photos, videos and climate-friendly suggestions. Check out the details. Don't delay! Voting deadline is March 20.
Maple Rose Furigay: her experience at USGBC Greenbuild
Remember reading of Maple Rose Furigay's USGBC Greenbuild scholarship that allowed her to attend Greenbuild 2013 in Philadelphia in November? She loved the whole experience! Read more . . .
Perspectives: Who did you meet (and talk to) at Greenbuild?
Maple Rose: I met so many people! Students, architects, engineers, chemists, building scientists, software programmers, not-for-profit directors, product innovators, manufacturers and civil servants.
What they had in common was their passion toward correcting the negative impact built environments are having on our planet. They feel a sense a responsibility to lead the movement toward more green building.
Perspectives: What did you learn?
Maple Rose:
I attended a very interesting presentation by a panel from the Living Building Challenge, Interface, Columbia Green Technologies and Centre for Sustainable Landscapes in Pittsburgh. They spoke about transforming the building materials market through radical transparency.
After many years of lobbying, the food industry transformed its industry by demanding that food manufacturers label the nutritional content of the food they package. The Living Building
Challenge, through their Declare program, are aiming to impact the building industry in the same way by asking manufacturers to disclose the individual contents (ingredients) in their products and materials.
So far, the results from this disclosure from manufacturers is the awareness of what these products really contain. If an ingredient is hazardous, the manufacturer has the opportunity to discover healthier options.
For example, formaldehyde is a very common ingredient in insulation, carpet, etc. — and it is proven to cause cancer. Manufacturers and chemists have discovered that in some product cases, formaldehyde can be replaced by sugar and perform to the same capacity. This discovery would not have been made if the manufacturer didn't know, or care, about making a healthier product for its consumers and end users.
Most importantly, the Declare program is a platform for the public to start demanding built environments that are healthier and more resource efficient. Radical transparency, similar to the food industry, is needed to advance real change in the building sector.
Perspectives: Was the event what you were expecting? Any surprises?
Maple Rose:
I was amazed I was the only Canadian chosen for the scholarship. There were other foreign scholarship recipients from Jordan, Australia, the Philippines and South America. The remaining recipients were from across the U.S. This really underlined what a great honour it was to be chosen for the scholarship.
Perspectives: What was the highlight for you?
* Editor's note: Perspectives is proud to list all recently certified LEED projects in Alberta in each issue. You will note, beginning with this issue, the certifications are organized according to LEED rating system. Occasionally, Perspectives will showcase one project per category as a special feature.
Calgary's new South Calgary No. 5 Fire Station pays tribute to its rich history as part of the community, at the same time representing the future of sustainable design and construction. Read more . . . .
Officially opened in November 2012, the new No. 5 fire station incorporates several features from the original No. 5 fire station, located adjacent to the site of the new station. Calgarians who know the area will recognize the Fire Station No. 5 sign and the original red brick, both incorporated into the new facility. Even the antique firefighting equipment moved to the new station.
These integrated aesthetics were part of a comprehensive plan to complement the attractive community — and reinforce that the station is very much a part of the community. The Calgary Fire Department consulted extensively with area residents during the design process. As a direct result of citizen feedback, the new structure presents a lush exterior with green space, pathways, benches and a permanent public art component.
Its attractiveness is equaled by the station's Gold standard environmental features. These include:
Need for the new station was clear: the community was growing rapidly, and the original station was too small to house many models of modern firefighting apparatus. From the original site's two narrow and short apparatus bays, the new building has three bays sized for the larger fire apparatus and has room to grow into to accommodate the changing needs of the community
As well, the new station has moved its vehicle access to 30th Street S.W. to improve the safety of motorists and pedestrians and its firefighters
The Province of Alberta's Municipal Sustainability Initiative funded $10.25 million of the total cost of $14.8 million cost for the station, land and required apparatus.
Other New Construction certified projects:
Acden Corporate Headquarters - LEED Gold
Our Lady of Wisdom School - LEED Gold
Monsignor Fee Otterson Catholic Elementary/Junior High School - LEED Silver
Saddle Ridge School - LEED Silver
Sister Annata Brockman Catholic Elementary / Junior High - LEED Silver
Calgary Courts - LEED Certified
SFCRA facility expansion - LEED Certified
Teams worked collaboratively to develop a range of sustainable design strategies for EPCOR Tower, the first multi-storey office building constructed in Edmonton in 20 years. Their efforts paid off as the distinctive 30-storey building has earned LEED Gold. Read more . . . .
Editor's note: the following feature summarizes an EPCOR Tower Case Study. Printed with permission from Kasian, prime consultant. Check out more about the Tower.
Locating the EPCOR Tower downtown is arguably the most important step in creating a sustainable building because it prevents urban sprawl and helps build density, which is important in the creation of a vibrant, safe and walkable community. The EPCOR Tower is close to public transport, including the LRT. It has installed on-site bike storage and shower facilities to promote the advantages of an active lifestyle for building occupants and visitors and to reduce dependence on private vehicles.
Building orientation, a critical first step in sustainability, was determined early because it has repercussions in the overall design, and in energy performance. The orientation, in conjunction with glazing, minimizes glare and heat gain/loss. The slender shape of the floor plate allows more natural light to penetrate and maximizes access to natural light, a critical component to occupant health.
The building envelope is vital to maintaining adequate occupancy comfort, providing a thermal barrier to the outdoors and minimizing the effects of extreme swings in temperature. It features:
EPCOR Tower is a conventional cast-in-place concrete structure featuring:
The tower boasts a long list of building features. Following is a summary of those features.
Building materials also helped the team earn LEED Gold. The team used local, sustainably harvested materials wherever possible. Non- or low-volatile organic compound (VOC) emitting materials in interior adhesives, sealant, paints, carpets and agrifibers create a healthier indoor environment. FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) wood products have been used wherever possible.
Outside, more than a quarter of the total project area is devoted to natural landscaping features including drought-tolerant trees, shrubs and grasses to reduce the need for irrigation.
Finally, the project team took diligent care to divert as much material as possible away from the landfill. About 87 per cent (roughly 285,000 m3 or 3.065 million cubic feet) of 'impacted' material was available for use at other locations after additional segregation and testing was undertaken.
Other Core and Shell certified projects:
Deer Valley Market Place - LEED Certified
Parkside A & B - LEED Certified
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Gibbs Gage Architects Interior Space - LEED Certified
Commerce Place - LEED Gold
Following is a selection of recent media articles that feature a variety of topics of interest to Alberta's sustainable building community.
Net zero home a solar testing ground (Edmonton Examiner, January 26) — Edmonton is no stranger to solar-powered homes, but Paul Horsman has big dreams for his Net Zero house, currently under construction in Old Strathcona.
U of A urban planning graduates can help reshape city, prof says (Edmonton Journal, January 25) — Sandeep Agrawal hopes graduates of a new University of Alberta program will help Edmonton fight its reputation as one of Canada's most spread-out cities.
Out-besting the Nest (The Globe and Mail, January 24) — Whether considered from the standard of design innovation or public popularity, the 2010 Winter Olympics' most successful venue was the $178-million Richmond Oval, and the world of engineering agrees.
Sick of congestion? Build roads, not transit (The Globe and Mail, December 27) — Few ideas have proven more powerful in shaping Canadians' thinking about urban transit than this: Building roads is self-defeating. Like those famous South Sea Islanders who built crude wharves thinking that it was the wharves that caused cargo ships to appear and unload valuable goods, those holding this view believed that building highways could never solve our transit woes because the mere existence of the roads would conjure up more cars.
For more information on the Alberta Chapter of the CaGBC visit: www.abcagbc.org


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Explore Uganda and Rwanda in 18 Days Adventure
Safari Itinerary
The 18 days Uganda Rwanda Safari will enable our visitors experience the true African wildness. The Safari will take you to unspoiled corners of Uganda and Rwanda. Expect to encounter lots of animals and birds on game drives: Expect to encounter the Big 5; African lion, Elephant, Buffalo, and Leopard. Enjoy boat trips to explore more of the prolific bird life and animals, primates trekking, Gorilla tracking in Uganda and Rwanda, Cultural walks, Forest walks, excellent bird watching, Mountain climbing, and excellent photography and so on. You will also have city trip in Kigali (the capital city of Rwanda) and Kampala (the capital city of Uganda). The safari starts and ends at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
Day 1: Arrival in Kampala
Upon arrival at Entebbe Airport, your professional safari guide / our company representative will be waiting for you. He will transfer you to Kampala Serena Hotel/ Cassia Lodge/ Holiday Express Hotel / Kampala Forest Cottages for dinner and over night.
Day 2: Kampala – Murchison Falls National Park
Take early breakfast and depart for Murchison Falls National Park. We shall take a short excursion to the top of the falls before you check in at the lodge. Dinner and overnight at Paraa Safari Lodge/ Murchison River Lodge / Red Chili rest camp.
Day 3: Game Drive and Boat trip in Murchison Falls National Park
Today to explore the best of Murchison Falls Park. After a cup of tea / coffee in the morning, we shall embark on a game viewing drive in the park that will reward you with the view of animals like elephants, giraffes, Leopard, buffaloes, lions, Uganda kobs, Oribis and waterbucks. Return to the lodge for full breakfast and relax as you wait for lunch. We shall later proceed for an afternoon launch cruise to the bottom of the falls. You will see a variety of crocodiles and hippos basking along the shores, many buffaloes and Elephants having a drink, plus birds on the river banks like kingfisher, cormorants, bee-eater and the rare shoebill stork. Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4: Murchison Falls – Kibale Forest National Park
Have early morning breakfast and connect to Kibale forest while enjoying the scenic beauty of the Western arm of the rift valley and the Butiaba escarpments, have lunch in Fort portal town and reach Kibale in late afternoon. Check-in Ndali lodge, Kyaninga Lodge, Chimp Nest Lodge, Chimpanzee Guest House or primates lodge, relax in the evening as we wait for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Kibale Primate tracking and Bird watching
Wake up early morning and go search for chimpanzees in the Kibale forest. This will enable you see other primates the colobus monkeys, Mangabeys, baboons, Red tailed monkeys, the L'Hoest's monkeys, Bush-babies and many more. You will move with a guide who will make your walk informative and productive making it interesting. The Guide will provide information on both flora and fauna. Then return for lunch and in the afternoon, go for a nature walk to Bigodi sanctuary for plenty of birds and rare fauna and flora. Return to your previous Lodge.
Day 6: Cultural Excursion in Pygmy Villages
Today we visit the pygmies in the pygmy villages located near the Ituri Rainforest. We shall start our drive early with packed lunch, which will take us 2-4 hours. The visit to the villages has proven to be an appealing cultural experience. You take a tour to the Hot Springs from where you will visit the Pygmies. You will transfer back to Fort portal for dinner and overnight at Mountains of the moon Hotel.
Day 7: Toro Cultural Tour – Connect to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Have early breakfast and take a short excursion to Karambi Royal tombs including many cultural groups such as the Burungu community which is rooted in Traditional Toro culture that will entertain you with music, dancing and story telling. After lunch, transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park with a clear view of the mighty Rwenzori Mountain (Mountains of the moon) with game viewing en route. For Dinner and over night at Mweya Safari Lodge, Enganzi Lodge, Bush Lodge, Twin Lakes Lodge or Simba safari camp.
Day 8: Game Drive and Boat launch in Queen Elizabeth National park
Have morning cup of tea/coffee, you will go for an early morning game drive along Kasenyi track and Queens mile in the park and expect to see Lions, Elephants, cape buffalo, Warthogs, leopard, hyena, mongoose, water bucks, Uganda kobs, Topi and lots many small animals and birds. Return to the lodge for late break fast, relax as we wait for lunch, after which we shall enjoy the unique afternoon 2-hour boat trip on the Kazinga Channel. This trip passes through possibly the highest concentration of Hippos, Nile crocodiles and many animals are seen drinking at the water's edge. This launch cruise offers an excellent platform for photography, bird watching and game viewing. The prolific bird life is colorful and stupendous with well over 610 resident species. Return for dinner and over night at your lodge.
Day 9: Queen Elizabeth – Ishasha sector – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Early morning after breakfast, depart for Bwindi, through the Ishasha sector in the southern part of the park; here expect to see the famous tree climbing lions as they rest up in the large forest trees, reach Bwindi Forest by late after noon, dinner and overnight stay in Kitandara Camps, Mahogany Springs Lodge, Nkuringo Gorilla Lodge, Gorilla Mist Camp or Buhoma Bandas.
Day 10: Bwindi Gorillas Tracking Excursion
After early breakfast, we shall proceed to park offices with packed lunch for a briefing about the Dos and Don'ts while with gorillas. Tracking can take 2-9 hours depending on their movements. You will stay with these Giant apes for 1 hour for observation and photography. If the evening is free, we can take a cultural walk to nearby Batwa communities. Return to your previous Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 11: Cross to Rwanda Volcanoes National Park (Home of mountain Gorilla in Rwanda)
After breakfast, depart for Rwanda for another gorilla tracking excursion. Crossing Rwanda border requires $60 visa fee (for those who require Visa), arrive at the Virunga Lodge, Sabyinyo Silver back Lodge, Mountain Gorilla View Lodge, Gorilla Nest resort or Kinigi Guest House by late afternoon. Your guide will brief you about the gorilla trek for the next day as you wait for dinner and overnight.
Day 12: Meet Rwanda Gorilla in Mist
An early breakfast after which you proceed to Kinigi park station for a 30 minutes briefing about Gorilla tracking, then continue for the trek with packed lunch and water. If time allows, you take an excursion to the beautiful twin lakes Burera and Ruhondo, or vist local market in Musanze town. Return for dinner and over night at the lodge.
Day 13: Golden Monkey tracking – Gisozi Genocide Memorial Site in Kigali
After breakfast, you will proceed Golden Monkey tracking and later after lunch, connect to Kigali for a city tour with a visit to Gisozi Genocide memorial museum, cultural museum, curio markets and the Kimironko fruits markets where you have a chance to meet the local people and choose your fruit basket. Dinner and overnight stay in Hotel Gorillas / Kigali Serena Hotel.
Day 14: Transfer to Uganda (Lake Bunyonyi)
After breakfast you will leave Kigali and drive to Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda. Dinner and overnight at the camp or Arcadia Cottages.
Day 15: Lake Bunyonyi Excursion – Boat Ride
Early breakfast will be followed by a nature walk in the morning and in the after lunch you will go for a boat ride to one of the neighboring islands. Dinner and overnight at the Camp or Arcadia Cottages.
Day 16: Lake Bunyonyi – Lake Mburo National Park
After breakfast you will drive to Lake Mburo National Park, arrive by lunch time. You will proceed for an afternoon boat safari on Mburo Lake, an excellent place for birding. Other animals include Hippos crocodiles. Dinner and overnight at Rwonyo Camps or Arcadia Cottages.
Day 17: Early Game Viewing Drive – Kampala
Wake up early for a cup of tea/coffee and embark on a morning game drive to catch up with early raisers and predators returning to their hideouts. Retire for full / late breakfast and thereafter, drive to Kampala with game viewing en- route, stop at the Equator for photography, enter Kampala by late afternoon. Dinner and overnight at Holiday Express or Kampala Forest Cottages.
Day 18: Departure
Depending on the flight schedule, you can take a city tour in Kampala- visit Kasubi Tombs, Bahai Temp, or Nakasero fruit market before connecting to Entebbe International Airport for your scheduled flight.
The tour quotation Includes:
– Gorilla and Chimpanzee tracking permits
– Ground transport in a comfortable 4WD safari van equipped for game viewing, photography and touring
– Full board accommodation
– All park entrance fees to include government taxes
– Full time English speaking professional driver/guide
– All tour activities as detailed in the itinerary
– Bottled water while on safari
– Airport transfers
The tour quotation excludes:
– Tips
– Laundry services
– Beverages/Drinks
– International flights
– Visas
– Items of a personal nature
-Optional activities and any other extras not detailed in the above itinerary


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