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All prices are inclusive of Value Added Tax ("VAT") per local regulations.
Trax is equipped with the most advanced connectivity, including support for Apple CarPlayTM , on the Premier trim offering a smarter way to make calls, get directions and more all through your 7" diagonal touchscreen display.
The Trax Premier is stacked with advanced technologies like support for Apple CarPlayTM*. Link your compatible iPhone to access your iMessages, Apple Music, select apps and more - all through your 7-inch diagonal color touchscreen display
* Vehicle user interfaces are products of Apple and their terms and privacy statements apply. Requires compatible smartphone and data plan rates apply. Apple CarPlay™ is a trademark of Apple Inc. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Trax is equipped with a 140 horsepower 1.8L engine, offering an estimated 13.2 km/l. Or if you choose all-wheel-drive available on both the Premier and LT trims, you'll have the help of extra traction in challenging conditions.
The Trax offers serious protection with up to 6 available air bags* and available advanced safety technologies that scan the road for potential hazards.
* Always use safety belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.
Available technologies like Side Blind Zone Alert and Rear Cross Traffic Alert and Rear View Camera work together to warn drivers of potential hazards on the road.
Up to 6 available air bags*, including front knee and side-impact air bags for rear-seat passengers, offer well-rounded protection in the event of a collision. The high-strength steel safety cage adds even more peace of mind.
Safety features are no substitute for the driver's responsibility to operate the vehicle in a safe manner. The driver should remain attentive to traffic, surroundings and road conditions at all times. Read the vehicle Owner's Manual for important feature limitations and information.
* Always use safety belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.
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Marketing21 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 405 designs submitted by 91 freelance designers.
VoiceVoice (was: maestroconference.com)
MaestroConference (http://maestroconference.com), a leading edge social conferencing start-up, is changing its name to VoiceVoice and needs a new corporate identity.
Bored with the passivity of traditional conference calls, webinars and TV, and frustrated by the lack of genuine human relationships in social media, we created a new technology platform for social conferencing. By blending the simplicity of a traditional conference call with social features, our platform enables real conversation within large groups of participants. The conference host can move thousands of people into small groups of any size, and group people by region, interest, or other characteristics. We are experts in the art of facilitated conversation. We help our clients leverage mingling, networking and dialogue to better engage constituents, donors and customers. This and other social features differentiate us from competitors like WebEx and places us more in the social media / social marketing space.
Name Change: We are changing our name to reflect our focus on the power of the many authentic voices on our social conferences, rather than emphasizing the role of the conference host or "maestro."
We want to reach marketing managers and decision makers at organizations that want to move people into action (donate, volunteer, or change their behavior), to create real community, to create an emotional impact (inspiration), or to really engage people in a mission -- which has been the holy grail of the social media marketing trend. We want to appeal to leaders responsible for marketing, fundraising or community development at relevant organizations including political organizations, nonprofits, cause marketers and agencies, associations and socially conscious corporations.
(FYI) logos we like:
Wikipedia (but we don't need it so serif'd)
About the Identity Design: We are in the Bay Area and are part of the Web 2.0 technology wave. We would like our identity to have a fresh, contemporary feel, however we don't want to veer into the childlike or cartoonish realm. Rather, we want to convey that this is a sophisticated, reliable platform that can enable deep conversation and authentic relationships between people.
Marketing Soundbites:
Social Conferencing
Social Meets Conferencing
The Art of Conversation
A Conversion Engine for Causes
1. Develop a website "masthead" that will replace our existing Maestroconference two-tone blue masthead (logo plus color for nav bar). See http://www.MaestroConference.com.
2. Develop a complementary logo that will work on white. Should include the words "VoiceVoice"
3. You may use the same color scheme (attached) or you may modify. We do like blue as a primary color but are open to your ideas.
4. The ability to submit right away. We plan to move very quickly both providing feedback and making a decision.
We like the idea of playing off the existing MaestroConference logo (vector attached). We like that the brand implies a forum and conversation. We like the idea of the graphics of the current MC logo (the dots in top right "radiating dots") coming through to VoiceVoice - possibly with two sets of radiating dots - one for each "Voice" in "VoiceVoice".
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Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Federal Co-Chair Earl F. Gohl has announced the creation of Appalachian Community Capital (ACC), a new central bank for development lenders that will increase the availability of capital to small businesses in the organization's 13-state area. Gohl made the announcement at the Clinton Global Initiative's America conference with Ray Moncrief, ACC board chair and other officials. The Initiative considers the ACC initiative vital to economic development efforts in Appalachia.
Shaw Canale, CEO of Mountain BizWorks, serves on the ACC board. "Mountain BizWorks' participation in the founding and oversight of this initiative translates into a greater ability to make more loans to small business in the Western North Carolina counties we work in," she said.
Industry analysis indicates that over the past several years, banks across the United States have instituted tighter credit requirements for small-business lending and been less likely to assume risk. Combined with a challenging economic environment, these conditions have left many financially sound businesses seeking new sources of capital.
For growing businesses in Appalachia, finding capital is even more difficult, as a number of factors have limited the sources of available capital. According to recent studies, Appalachian small businesses receive only 82 percent of the loans of their comparable counterparts nationally, while businesses in Appalachia's economically distressed counties receive less than 60 percent.
To address this gap, ARC, along with participating community-loan fund partners, has committed to establishing a new source of funding for development lenders and helping capitalize it with $42 million over the next 24 months. This new central bank — ACC — is expected to leverage $233 million of private bank capital and help create 2,200 jobs.
The bank will raise grant capital and leveraged debt from funding sources not available to or underused by individual funds, such as regional and national banks, utilities and national foundations. Because it will pool the capital needs of all its members, it can attract investors that are seeking to place larger amounts of money.
Gohl underscored the innovative nature of this initiative, saying, "It is better do things together than individually on our own."
Moncrief added that the community development financial institutions that practice in Appalachia are grateful to Gohl and ARC for their leadership in forming Appalachian Community Capital: "This will be a very valuable source of capital for Appalachian businesses that struggle to access funding," he said.
— Anna Raddatz is development and communications coordinator at Mountain BizWorks, which helps small businesses start, grow and create jobs through loans, classes and coaching. For more information, call 253-2834 or visit mountainbizworks.org.


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After encountering earlier difficulties, the AAFP has successfully launched an enhanced website security system designed to safeguard the identifiable personal information in all AAFP member and customer accounts, including account holder name, home and e-mail addresses, and member ID number.
In keeping with online security best practice standards, the new aafp.org authentication process functions much like what users are accustomed to seeing on other websites that handle sensitive customer information, such as bank and online retailer sites.
Users logging in to the new system for the first time will be prompted to complete an easy two-step process. First, each user will be asked to establish a new Web password, which must be a minimum of eight characters long and include at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter and one numeral.
Second, the user will be asked to set up a security question and response, a step that allows the system to verify the user's identity should he or she want or need to reset his or her AAFP account password (for example, if a user forgets the password).
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Outdoor Hostel Adventure (OHA) is an educational program of the nonprofit 501(c)3 organization Hostelling International USA.
Our Mission
To help all, especially the young, gain a greater understanding of the world and its people through hostelling.
Our Vision
Hostellers become caring global citizens who are catalysts for intercultural exchange and understanding and stewards of the earth.
We work to achieve our mission and vision by:
- Promoting global awareness through a network of welcoming, comfortable, and affordable hostels that encourage exploration, and nurture cross-cultural communication.
- Offering programming that encourages intercultural exchange through friendly interaction among hostellers and community members.
- Encouraging educational travel through information, activities, and services that facilitate safe, affordable, and culturally sensitive hostel travel for people of all ages.
- Inspiring protection of the environment through programs that promote meaningful, low-impact travel using hostels, and that focus on the conservation and interpretation of the built and natural environment.
- Broadening community participation through involvement of all members of the community in hostel travel, programs, and volunteer participation.
History of Outdoor Hostel Adventures
For more than four decades, Hostelling lnternational USA has developed and operated hostels and programs which encourage environmental exploration and cultural exchange for people of all ages in the Bay Area.
The hostelling movement began in 1909, when Richard Schirrmann, a teacher in an industrialized city in Germany, began taking his students for overnight trips to the countryside for fresh air and to introduce them to the natural world. He utilized empty farm and school buildings to house them for his "wandering school," and thus the concept of student hostels was born. His town of Alteena donated the town castle to Mr. Schirrmann, to establish the first permanent hostel. A network of hostels for young people quickly grew in Germany and then spread to other European countries.
Two American school teachers, Isabel and Monroe Smith, brought hostelling to the United States in 1934, when they established the first American hostel in Northfield, Massachussetts. Within a year more than 30 hostels sprung up in Massachusetts, and the movement spread west across the country
The Golden Gate Council, established in 1958, embraced hostelling ideals by leading outdoor activities and developing a chain of hostels. In 1971, the AYH Ecology Club was established in San Francisco at Galileo High School, and a second club soon after at Mission High. Like Richard Schirrmann, the high school advisors (and AYH Board members), Nate and Miriam Schaffler and Alan and Adrienne Scroggie, took these high school students on environmental adventures both camping and hostelling outside the confines of the City. The students raised money for these trips through recycling glass and aluminum, and were in fact part of one of the earliest recycling programs in San Francisco.
In 1986 the Hostel Adventure Program (now called Outdoor Hostel Adventures) was born. Fashioned on the same ideals as the first Schirrmann wandering school and the AYH Ecology Club, the Hostel Adventure Program reached out to inner-city children in San Francisco, Richmond, and Oakland to introduce environmental conservation on overnight adventures using the Council's coastal hostels as a base of exploration. Two decades later, more than 20,000 children have participated.
Travel education programs were introduced in the 1990s in conjunction with the Council's travel store, to educate first-time travelers about how to travel safely, affordably, and responsibly. These programs were institutionalized as World Travel 101, and have been adopted by Councils around the United States. The audience for these programs varies from high school seniors and college students to older adults who are embarking on their first overseas trip. Travel education programs now include World Travel 101, Women Traveling Solo, Travel Planning, Hostel USA, and Hostel California. Special versions of these programs have been developed for Girl Scouts.
Together, these environmental, cultural, and community-oriented programs help us to realize the vision that "hostellers become caring world citizens who are catalysts for intercultural exchange and understanding, and who are stewards of the earth."


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TEL AVIV, Israel, July 6 (UPI) -- Israel's Spacecom Satellite Communications plans to replace the Amos-2 commercial communications satellite with the 5-ton Amos-6 craft to be built by Israel Aerospace Industries, the Jewish state's leading defense and aerospace company.
The $200 million Amos-6, Israel's 14th satellite since its first successful launch in September 1983, is scheduled for liftoff in the first quarter of 2015. It's designed to have an orbital life of 16 years.
It will replace the 1.4-ton Amos-2, also built by IAI, whose operational life is expected to end in 2016, in its geosynchronous orbit 22,500 miles above the Earth.
By way of comparison, U.S. satellites usually weight around 25 tons.
Amos-2 was launched atop a Russian Soyuz booster rocket Dec. 28, 2003, from the former Soviet cosmodrome at Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
The satellite "will incorporate new technologies that represent a significant leap forward in the capabilities of IAI and the state of Israel in space," observed IAI's new president and chief executive, Joseph Weiss, following Spacecom's announcement.
The Amos series -- it stands for Affordable Modular Optimized Satellite -- is designed for civilian use, although it's probable that it also has some military applications to advance the Jewish state's capabilities in space.
IAI's main military focus in space is embodied in the Ofek series of highly sophisticated surveillance satellites. Several are among the 10 Israeli satellites still operational in space.
Under the deal with Spacecom, state-owned IAI, flagship of Israel's defense industry, will build Amos-6 and its ground control systems, as well as provide operating services.
Spacecom's a subsidiary of the Israeli-owned Eurocom Group, controlling shareholder of the Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Co.
IAI is Israel's only satellite manufacturer and has played a key role in developing Israel's military surveillance craft.
These are focused primarily on Iran and Syria, the Jewish state's most implacable foes in the Middle East., to monitor their ballistic missile capabilities and, in Iran's case, its nuclear program.
Indeed, military satellites have had the lion's share of the funding provided by successive Israeli governments.
The country's satellite program was initiated to meet military requirements for improved optical reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities against Israel's regional foes.
Ofek-1, the first military satellite, was launched into low orbit atop a three-stage Shavit rocket Sept, 19, 1983. The Shavit is believed to be the civil version of Israel's nuclear-capable Jericho ballistic missile.
Ofek-2, the first fully functioning military satellite, was launched in 1990.
After two failures, the first satellite with optical transmission capabilities, Ofek-3 went into orbit in 1995.
From this Israel's space program emerged, despite the misgivings of the military establishment, with the focus on commercial communications.
IAI is the lead contractor in satellite and space projects, with Elta, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Elbit Systems' El-Op division, Israel Military Industries, Tadiran, Elisra and Specterlink the main subcontractors.
Haim Esher, former director of the Defense Ministry's space program and a retired brigadier general, is the father of Israel's satellite program and has been largely responsible for the development of commercial satellites such as the Amos series.
In 1981, he convinced Prime Minister Menachem Begin that Israel should have a space program to maintain its technological supremacy over its regional adversaries.
But funding for space program projects has largely been far less than the finances lavished on military satellites.
In September 2011, as Esher was due to retire as head of the military space program, he warned that Israel was in danger of losing its regional superiority in space because the government of rightwing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu refused to free $420 million in promised funds for the high-tech industry.
That had been pledged in 2010 as part of a plan to elevate Israel into what the Jerusalem Post called "a space superpower."
Esher then became director of the Israel Space Agency, a state body that coordinates all Israeli space research with scientific and commercial goals.
Despite Israel's advanced technological achievements, he said, sales of space platforms over the past two decades had earned the country less than $2.5 billion.
The international space market is worth $250 billion a year and Israeli aerospace companies could secure at least 5 percent of that, he maintained.


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The Collins/Kaufmann Forum for Modern Architectural History is a seminar-format lecture series stressing works-in-progress and is organized by PhD students in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia.
All events are free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
Fall 2018
María González Pendás
Holy Modern: East, West, and the Constructs of Empire in Fascist Spain
Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 6:30pm
Room 934, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
An opaque and hovering concrete cube that opened to an interior of richly ornamented patios, the building was readily celebrated as the "the jewel" of the fair, exemplar of a refined modernism unlike much of the technological kitsch taking over the grounds of the 1964 Worlds' Fair in New York. The reception of the architecture that the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco brought into the world scene in 1964 echoed the praise stirred by the Spanish pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels, a gridded structure of steel and glass likewise applauded as an "unexpected gem of architecture." Despite the formal and material discrepancies between the two buildings, both were quintessentially modern—and seemingly at odds with the fascist regime they were called to represent. As the Italian Bruno Zevi put it in 1958: "The Spanish Pavilion makes one wonder: maybe this country is no longer fascist? Or, is Franco now tired and allows artists an unusual freedom?"
Fascism was of course alive and well, and architecture continued to be as crucial an instrument for its production as it had been in the 1930s across Europe. Only now the world stage was shifting under Cold War dynamics and with it the ideological configurations, images, and techniques of fascism. In this talk, I will chronicle how architects, State officials, and intellectuals worked together to redefine the cultural narrative and aesthetic register of fascism at mid-century in Spain, a project aimed at securing the regime a place within the modernizing and modernist West all the while retaining, and in many ways reinforcing the myth of empire and religious essentialism that was at the core of the Spanish radical right. The historian and Secretary of Censorship Florentino Pérez-Embid coined this two-sided ideal most fittingly as "Westernization in the means, Hispanization in the ends." This talk will focus on the architectural strategy that Pérez-Embid proposed to project, namely, the re-inscription of the country's Islamic past into an abstract and modernized representation of Catholicism. With this synthesis, architecture was called to perform the Spanish Reconquista and western modernization in the very same aesthetic breadth and, in doing so, to transfer a colonial campaign then definitely waning in North Africa to the realm of cultural politics. Beginning with a series of historical revisions on the architecture of Al-Andalus and the Mudejar style between 1944 and 1952 and concluding with the 1958 and 1964 pavilions, this talk follows Spanish architects in navigating the East/West, Islam/modern divide as a predicament to the regime's imperial imagination—and a Western scene in welcoming this agenda within its ranks.
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
From Sri Lanka to the World: Minnette De Silva, Architecture, and History
Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 6:30pm
Room 934, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
Few careers lay open the complexities of architectural entanglements with gender, labor, and the politics of cultural heritage in the twentieth century as does that of Minnette De Silva (1918-1998): R.I.B.A. Associate, Sri Lanka Institute of Architects Gold Medalist, C.I.A.M. participant, and co-founder of the journal MARG. She combined progressive and revivalist thrusts together, from her student work in the 1940s at the Sir J.J. College of Architecture and the Architectural Association to later studies of Asian architecture for MARG, Ekistics, and Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. Her designs combined reinforced concrete technology and Surrealist composition techniques with Ceylonese arts and crafts and a gendered, village-based system of fabrication.
Though she was a fixture in modernist Bombay and London and engaged in some of the most important modern architectural interventions in South Asia, her appearances in the institutional record, and thus the history, are erratic. No formal archive documents her practice or professional biography, but her international itineraries and localized productions appear in her scrapbook-style memoir, The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect. Part Bildungsroman and part architectural portfolio, the lone volume of the two she intended to publish offers an amputated narrative of engagements with significant institutions and figures and a similarly remarkable body of built works and writings. This aborted map offers a possible model for historiography—for histories of women, of South Asia, of architecture, of modernism—by throwing into question the reliance upon the catalogue raisonné and instead giving space to its occlusions, which may better serve to trace the creative life and intellectual labor of an architect in the world.
Basile Baudez
Between Convention and Seduction: European Architectural Drawings and Color
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 6:30pm
Room 930, 9th Floor, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
This talk will trace the use of color in European architectural drawing and prints between the Renaissance and the early nineteenth century. Its most basic premise posits that color was never an essential feature of architectural drawing but made so by an increasingly codified and precise system of architectural representation that responded to the demands of political institutions and the general public. Color provided a visual means of communication that sidestepped textual explication of technically and structurally complex building programs. Looking across national borders yet attentive to the eventual supremacy of a French model, this talk will address color as a key player in the long history of rivalry and exchange between European traditions in architectural representation and practice.
Anna Bokov
Institutionalizing the Avant-Garde: Vkhutemas, 1920-1930
Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 6:30pm
Room 832, 8th Floor, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
Red Sleeves A Lacy Skirt with Line Tokichoi In his canonical 1936 chart mapping the development of modern art, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the founding director of MoMA, prominently placed Constructivism and Suprematism right beneath Cubism. The two Russian avant-garde movements were considered its two more prominent outcomes, along with De Stijl and Neoplasticism – all of which drew on what he called, the "machine esthetic." The Staatliche Bauhaus is placed just below—in turn, a product of these, also powered by the esthetic of the machine. Notwithstanding the prominent role assigned to the avant-garde, Barr chose to omit a contemporary of the Bauhaus—a school that, arguably, played a central role in articulating both the theoretical programs and the practical outcomes of its movements.
Conceived by the Bolshevik government as a "specialized educational institution for advanced artistic and technical training," the Higher Art and Technical Studios, collectively known as Vkhutemas (Вхутемас), were created to "prepare highly qualified artist-practitioners for the modern industry." From its establishment, this interdisciplinary school offered free education and accepted students from underprivileged backgrounds. While similar, according to Barr, to the Bauhaus in its "communistic spirit," Vkhutemas, with an enrollment of over 2000 students, was an unprecedented modern undertaking, an institution that "focused on developing the masses." The mandate for mass education was framed within the larger project of the industrialization of the Soviet economy and the grounding of everything—from artistic to labor practices—in science. Vkhutemas faculty emphasized the link between design practice and the so-called "objective method." Continuous feedback between educational process and tests performed at various "research laboratories" at Vkhutemas facilitated an enormous leap in the development of both the theory and practice of modern space and form.
Shiben Banerji
The Financial Ties that Bind: Paul Otlet's Mundaneum and the Fraternal Spirit of Global Capital
Monday, April 23, 2018, 6:30pm
Room 930, 9th Floor, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
Paul Otlet's Mundaneum, and Le Corbusier's pyramidal design for it, confounded critics as soon as it was published in L'Architecture vivante in 1929. Lost in the clamor to denounce the project as needlessly monumental, and in Corbusier's vehement, if incredulous, defense of its functionality was the equivalence that Otlet drew between the pursuit of financial profit and the acquisition of higher consciousness. How was it that Otlet came to equate financial speculation and spiritual attainment? Why did he characterize both processes as democratic, and how did he so readily identify these twin and simultaneous processes of subject formation with the logic of the pyramid? Presenting a genealogy of cosmic imagining in architectural discourse stretching back to William Richard Lethaby's iconoclastic history of architecture from 1892, this paper addresses a blind spot in left criticism of the Mundaneum and opens an examination of the architectural designation of fraternity as a spirit animating economic globalization.
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Lynnette Widder
"Sep Ruf, Hans Schwippert and the Culture of Building in West German Modernism 1949-59"
Wednesday, November 1, 6:30pm
Room 832, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
The transformations in West German architecture between 1949 and 1959 were fast-paced and comprehensive, its idiom moving away from the light, filigree style of the early post-war period towards the robust, material expression that characterized International High Modern Architecture from the mid-1950s onwards. Despite the pace and intensity of these changes, however, they cannot be ascribed to a singular rhetorical program or movement. Instead, they represent the interplay of architectural expression and building construction developments, both influenced strongly by contemporary American precedents exported to West Germany through official and popular channels. The work of Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf, friends and professional affiliates throughout the period studied, offers important insights into the pathways these transformations took through rhetoric, construction, reception and architecture expression. The comparison of these two architects' construction practices and architectural expression is underpinned by an analysis of three decisive documents, which describe the changing manner in which West Germany defined its self-image through architecture between 1949 and 1959.
Martino Stierli
Tuesday, November 14, 6:30pm
Room 832, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
Marta Gutman
"How to Design a Junior High School": Examples from the 1960s in Berkeley and Harlem
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 6:30pm
Room 832, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Title TBA
Wednesday, October 26, 6:30pm
Sarah Schlachetzki
Affordable Housing During the Weimar Republic. Modernism in Breslau
Thursday, March 3, 6:30pm
930 Schermerhorn Hall
During the Weimar Republic, Breslau was Germany's seventh biggest city. The conflicts following World War I caused an exceptionally severe housing crisis in the region. Located at Germany's eastern periphery a few miles from the Polish border, Breslau protagonists had to negotiate their visions for the modern city against the backdrop of shifting boundaries, social unrest, and an increasingly nationalist discourse of self-justification. The talk will address both architectural propositions in a climate of extreme political tension as well as historiographical questions regarding a dual marginality.
Dirk van den Heuvel
Contested Spaces of the Open Society - Growth and Change in the Work of Jaap Bakema (1914–1981)
Tuesday, April 5, 6:30pm
832 Schermerhorn Hall
Tuesday, October 20, 6pm
832 Schermerhorn Hall
Eleonora Pistis
"Architecture, Antiquarian Studies and Learned Credulity: Scipione Maffei, Filippo Juvarra and the Ancient Licentia"
Tuesday, November 24, 6pm
832 Schermerhorn Hall
Nicholas Adams
"The Architecture of Gunnar Asplund and the Uses of Humor"
Tuesday 10 March, 6pm
Stronach Center, Schermerhorn Hall
Joan Ockman
Loos and Loss
Monday 6 April, 6pm
Stronach Center, Schermerhorn Hall
Itohan Osayimwese
"Tropical Architecture in the Service of Tropical Agriculture: Systems-Building and Foreign Aid in Post-Independence Nigeria"
Monday, April 13, 6pm
Stronach Center, Schermerhorn Hall
Lukasz Stanek
Architects from Socialist Countries in Ghana (1957-1967). Modern Architecture and Mondialization
Thursday, April 23, 6pm
Schermerhorn 934, Schermerhorn Hall
Ulrich Müller
Exhibiting Contemporary Architecture
Thursday, November 6, 6PM
Stronach Center, Schermerhorn Hall
Anthony Vidler
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Archive Fever from Latour to Ledoux
Thursday, December 4, 6PM
Stronach Center, Schermerhorn Hall
Sonja Dümpelmann
Up in the Air and Down to Earth:
On the Dialectics of Aerial Vision in Landscape and Urban Design
Concentrating on the period between 1920 and 1940, the talk will present ideas and practices central to the design professions that were either supported by or that emerged from aerial vision. It will show how viewing the earth from above redirected attention to bodily experience on the ground, and illustrates how design professionals understood the aerial view as simultaneously abstract and experiential, detailed and contextual, harmful and essential.
Sonja Dümpelmann is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She holds a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of the Arts, Berlin, and has held research fellowships at the German Historical Institute, and at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC. Her publications include a book on the Italian landscape architect Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (VDG Weimar, 2004), and most recently Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design (University of Virginia Press, 2014) as well as the edited Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire (Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013), and the co-edited Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2011).
Thursday, March 27, 5:30 p.m.
612 Schermerhorn Hall
Vladimir Kulić
Skirt Red Lacy Line with Tokichoi A Sleeves The Scope of Socialist Modernism
The lecture will discuss the aesthetic and discursive limits of socialist modernism by focusing on architecture in Yugoslavia between 1950 and 1980. It will present Vjenceslav Richter's neo-avant-garde work and Bogdan Bogdanović's Surrealist-inspired war memorials as different manifestations of the surviving leftist culture from the prewar period.
Vladimir Kulić holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin and teaches architectural history and theory at Florida Atlantic University. His publications include Modernism In-Between: The Mediatory Architectures of Socialist Yugoslavia (with Wolfgang Thaler and Maroje Mrduljaš, 2012), Unfinished Modernisations (edited with Maroje Mrduljaš, 2012), and Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities (edited with Monica Penick and Timothy Parker, forthcoming 2014). He is the current ACLS-NEH International and Area Studies Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Tuesday, March 4, 6:15 p.m.
612 Schermerhorn Hall
Mario Carpo, Yale University & the École d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette
The Second Digital Turn: The Style of Big Data
Mario Carpo's research and publications focus on the relationship among architectural theory, cultural history, and the history of media and information technology. His Architecture in the Age of Printing (2001) has been translated into several languages. His most recent books are The Alphabet and the Algorithm, a history of digital design theory (2011), and The Digital Turn in Architecture, 1992-2012, an AD Reader.
Tuesday, February 25, 6:15 p.m.
612 Schermerhorn Hall
Wolf-Dietrich Löhr, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz & Freie Universität Berlin
Dare la Regola: The Architect as Painter in the Lives of Alberti and Brunelleschi
An event organized with the Howard Hibbard Forum for Renaissance/Baroque Art and Architecture.
Monday, October 14, 6:30 p.m.
612 Schermerhorn Hall
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Toward an Education of Vision
Reto Geiser will discuss art historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion's persistent advances to improve visual literacy by offering students from all fields deeper insight into the history of art and architecture. From early proposals for an "education of vision," to his involvement with the "Explorations Group" in Toronto, to attempts exerting influence on the formation of the Visual Arts Center at Harvard, Geiser will trace how visual sensibilities that originated in the early twentieth century not only provided Giedion with a methodological framework to overcome disciplinary specialization, but also formed the basis for a broader dissemination of the principles of modern architecture.
Tuesday, March 26
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois at Chicago
"News from the Living Room: Storytelling and Participatory Architectural Writing"
Wednesday, April 17
Alex Bremner, University of Edinburgh
"Architecture, Religion, and British Global Expansion in the Nineteenth Century: Rethinking Empire and the Built Environment"
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Wednesday, September 19
Juliet Koss, Scripps College
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Juliet Koss is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and the author of Modernism after Wagner (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), a finalist for the College Art Association's Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. Her essays on modern European art, architecture, and related fields have appeared in journals and edited volumes in Europe and the United States and she has received fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Humboldt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. In 2008 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and, in 2009, a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; in 2011 she was the Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin, where she taught seminars on the Bauhaus and on the Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes. Her current book project, "Model Soviets," addresses the visual culture of the Soviet obsession with construction in the 1920s and 1930s and explores how documentary images of architecture—of models, of buildings covered in scaffolding, and of completed edifices—emblematized the role of construction more generally within the Soviet state.
"Filming the Future Perfect, Moscow 1938" explores the utopian grammar of architectural models in the Soviet 1920s and 1930s, focusing especially on Alexander Medvedkin's film The New Moscow, released in 1938 and removed from circulation by the censors. Showing architects looming over models for the Soviet capital, scenes filmed in Moscow's newly built metro and on its newly constructed streets, and Muscovites experiencing the built environment in a state of constant flux, The New Moscow tells the story of the design of a "living model of Moscow," a combination of large-scale architectural model and film projection that is presented to the Soviet public in the film's final scene. Possible reasons for the film's censorship abound; contravening Soviet cultural mandates to celebrate construction achievements through visual documentation, it includes documentary footage of large-scale destruction, reveals characters' confusion and nostalgia for the disappearing urban fabric, and overtly mocks construction propaganda. By poking fun at both Soviet technology and the utopian vision of the "living model," The New Moscow ridicules Soviet construction ideals and, by extension, the model Soviet future.
Wednesday, December 5
Jeremy Aynsley, Royal College of Art
"A Tale of Two Germanys: Design in the 1950s and 60s in the GDR and FRG"
Wednesday, February 15
Juan José Lahuerta, Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)
"Ornament, Crime and Architecture: Loos the Architect Faces Loos the Writer"
Juan José Lahuerta is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). His primary interests include Gaudí, Dalí, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos and Mies van der Rohe. His most recent publications are Le Corbusier (Milan, 2011), Estudios Antiguos (Madrid, 2010), and Humaredas. Arquitectura, ornamentación, medios impresos (Madrid, 2010). He is an editorial member of Casabella Milano, director of Mudito & Co. publications (Barcelona), and curator of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.
Wednesday, March 7
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale School of Architecture
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Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen is Associate Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, where she is also Director of the Master of Environmental Design Program. Her most recent works include Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity and Geopolitics (Yale University Press, 2009) and Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture (MIT Press, 1996). She is the editor of Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment (Yale, 2011), and coeditor of Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale, 2006).Bill Puffins Sleeve Amnesia Top Factorie Long Graphic wEqpIBnXP
Wednesday, April 11
Guido Montanari, Polytechnic University of Turin (POLITO)
"Architecture and Fascism: An 'Other' Modernity in Italy Between the Wars"
Guido Montanari is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin. His primary interest is in the fields of modern and contemporary architecture and city planning in Italy and Europe. His most recent publication is Architettura e cittá nel Novecento (with Andrea Bruno, Rome 2009), and his recent publications have focused on the neglected work of Amedeo Albertini (Skira, 2007) and Guiuseppe Momo (Celid, 2000).
José Lira, University of São Paulo
"Avant-garde, the City and Real Estate: Gregori Warchavchik, Odessa-São Paulo"
Monday, October 24, 5.30 p.m.
Judith Lee Stronach Center
José Lira is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planing in the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), where he presented both his PhD and PD Dissertations (1997 and 2008). He has served as a visiting scholar at GSAPP, Columbia University (2009), and as a Research Affiliate at the National Council of Research, Brazil (CNPq-BR). He is the author of Warchavchik: Fraturas da Vanguarda (Cosac & Naify, 2011), and edited Caminhos da Arquitetura, de Vilanova Artigas (Cosac & Naify, 2004), Tempo, Cidade e Arquitetura (FAU-USP/ Annablume, 2007) and Cidade: impasses e perspectivas (FAU-USP/ Annablume, 2007). He has also published chapters in books such as L'Aventure dês Mots de La Ville, Arquitetura + Arte + Cidade, Les Mots de la Stigmatisation Urbaine, and Rediscutindo o Modernismo, as well as articles in several journals in Brazil and elsewhere. He is currently the director of the University of São Paulo Center for Cultural Preservation (CPC-USP).
Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan
"Activist History: Architectural Surfaces, ca. 1914"
Wednesday, November 2, 6 p.m.
Judith Lee Stronach Center
Claire Zimmerman is Assistant Professor of art history and architecture at the University of Michigan. She teaches courses on 19th and 20th century European and America architecture with emphases in Weimar Germany and the United Kingdom. Research interests include architecture culture as it interacts with commerce and industry, and the infrastructures of globalization that underpinned the spread of modern architecture throughout the 20th century. Her co-edited essay collection, Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond (with Mark Crinson) appeared as Volume 21 in the Yale Studies in British Art (Yale University Press) in fall 2010; an earlier monograph, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was published by Taschen in 2006. Zimmerman's recent work has appeared in OASE, AA Files, Perspecta, the Journal of Architecture, and Harvard Design Magazine. She is completing a manuscript on photography in modern architecture in 2011. She was the 2009-2010 Helmut F. Stern Professor at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.
John Harwood, PhD Columbia '06, Oberlin College
"Danger Zones: Aerial Bombardment and the Politics of Risk Analysis in 1930s-40s Britain"
Wednesday, November 16, 6 p.m.
Judith Lee Stronach Center
John Harwood is Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Architectural History at Oberlin. His research centers on the architectural articulation of science, technology, and corporate organization. His articles have appeared in Grey Room, AA Files, and do.co.mo.mo. He is co-author, with Janet Parks, of The Troubled Search: The Work of Max Abramovitz (2004), and co-author with Jesse LeCavalier and Guillaume Mojon of This - Will This (2009). His essays have also appeared in catalogues for the Venice Biennale for Architecture 2008, the V&A's exhibition Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970 (2008), and several forthcoming edited volumes. His book, with Tokichoi Line Red Skirt A Lacy Sleeves The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976, will be published in November 2011 by The University of Minnesota Press. He has been a visiting scholar or fellow at the National Gallery of Art, the University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Queensland, and received Oberlin's B. Wade and Jane B. White Fellowship and the Class of 1957 Distinguished Professor Award.
Kurt W. Foster
"Architecture in Print: How Karl Friedrich Schinkel Invented the Oeuvre Complète"
Thursday, March 24, 6.30 p.m.
Schermerhorn Hall, room 612
Among Schinkel's numerous professional credentials, an architectural treatise is missing. But he must be recognized as the inventor of a new and singularly successful format of promotion, the oeuvre complète. A gifted designer of public displays, panoramas, and stage sets, Schinkel fed the visual avidity of his contemporaries (and continues to do so today) with ingenious images of his projects and buildings. A biographical thread replaces the categorical order among architectural projects and suggests a conspectus of works across time and place.
Kurt W. Forster is director of doctoral studies at the Yale School of Architecture. He has held professorships at Stanford, M.I.T., the Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich, and the Gropius Chair at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He has organized major exhibitions, including the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004, and is now collaborating on exhibitions of Carlo Mollino (Munich) and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Berlin). He also writes on historiography and contemporary photography.
Alice Friedman
"American Glamour: Mid-century Modern Installation"
Thursday, April 28, 6.30 p.m.
Schermerhorn Hall, room 612
Professor Friedman will discuss collaborations between architects, sculptors and lighting designers in mid-20th century American design. Specifically, she will elaborate projects between Richard Kelly, Richard Lippold and Harry Bertoia on the one side and Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) on the other. This talk represents a work-in-progress, drawing on her recent book American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture (Yale 2010).
Friedman is the Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the History of American Art and Director of the McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College. She is the author of numerous books and articles including House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family (U. Chicago, 1989), Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History (Abrams, 1998), and most recently, American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture (Yale, 2010).
The Frankfurt Kitchen
Wednesday, December 1, 6:30 p.m.
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Join MoMA's Design Curator Juliet Kinchin for a private tour of the new show "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen," and its centerpiece, an unusually complete example of the Frankfurt Kitchen (1926), designed by Austrian Architect Grete Schütte-Lihotzky. Columbia GSAPP Professor Mary McLeod, who has written on Lihotzky for MoMA's recent publication Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, will comment.
Colin Rowe's "Space Talk"
Tuesday, December 7, 6:30 p.m.
832 Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia Professor Christoph Schnoor will discuss seminal architectural historian Colin Rowe's notion of "space talk," or his unique interpretation of urban and architectural space, and its vital legacy for architectural history. Schnoor is lecturer in architectural history, theory and design at Unitec New Zealand, and has written extensively on 20th architectural history, German colonial architecture, and Le Corbusier (most recently "La Construction des villes," gta, Zürich 2010).


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From: David Aju Kanyara, JUBA, SEP/24/2014, SSN;
As the war enters its tenth month, South Sudanese undercover security dogs have caused significant miseries to the ordinary law abiding citizens of this great nation from North to South and from west to east. In the Ma'di corridor, this had started even before the outbreak of the Juba Massacre, Our Head Chief in Nimule was gunned down and as is the hallmark of the Juba government, this was a blackmail, they then twisted the stories leading to humiliating, jailing and torturing of our leaders including the supreme leader of the Ma'di people.
The horror has now returned in full swing hanging over the Madi people. The lawless security apparatus have now intensified their unlawful targeted arrests of Ma'di young people, men in general and business community in particular.
I wish to bring to the attention of the South Sudanese people, the number of our community members disappearing is alarming, this includes members of the business community, opinion and community leaders.
Many of the Ma'di business community in particular have been targeted, tortured, arrested, bullied, intimidated by Kiir security dogs operating in the peaceful Ma'diland where there are no rebel activities reported.
Since the beginning of August till September 12 -2014, there have been more than 7 high profile arrests of Ma'di businessmen, some have been detained in secret security locations for unknown reasons, families have not been informed neither are they given explanations.
Others have been snatched in bright daylight from their homes, taken to unknown location, interrogated by security forces for reasons never revealed to them, while others were harassed, beaten and made to pay high ransoms for their freedoms.
This is happening while the local offices of chiefs were not notified; some were hunted on their ways from their business locations back to their residential areas. The most recent alarming case has set the community in high alert and anger and since then no government representative nor the police in the areas came to inform the family about the disappearance of a prominent business man by name Bosco Wayi who has residence both in Nimule, Loa, and has businesses in Nimule and Elegu.
On Friday the 12th September 2014, in early evening, Mr Bosco Wayi, a well-known, respected Ma'di businessman since 1980's and a law abiding citizen, who never hold any grudge with anyone nor with the security officers in the areas, was returning from Nimule where his main business is based, and while passing the Aswa River, a journey he repeated every morning and every evening for the last 7 years or so without having problems with traffic police.
On 12 September after passing the traffic police at Aswa river station as usual, this time it was reported that he was followed by men who according to eye witnesses dressed in traffic police uniforms.
The men in traffic police uniforms according to eyewitnesses followed Bosco Wayi up to Orobe village a distant of about 4 kilometer from Aswa River police station. The eyes witnesses have reported seeing the men in traffic police uniform stopping Bosco, and proceeded to beat him until he was unconscious.
They threw him and his motor bike into a white Toyota Pickup which arrived at the scene 15 minutes after the men in white police traffic uniform had stopped Mr. Bosco. After bundling him into the pickup they then headed back to the direction of Nimule.
The men in white traffic police uniforms were heard by the eye witnesses speaking in both Dinka and Arabic.
A woman who was passing by, coming from fetching water from nearby borehole heard Bosco crying in Ma'di "why are you killing me?" and "what have I done wrong to be tortured?"
According the woman who doesn't want her name to be made public due to fear of repression, she said Bosco did not resist but he was pleading to be brought to Loa chief if there is anything he did wrong, but after the men in uniforms had cocked their guns and pointed it to Bosco's head.
The cry subsided and at that point she said she too ran quickly to avoid being noticed and beaten by the men.
Since 12 September an attempt to look for Bosco through the public police office in Nimule did not yield any result, as the police there said they have no record nor a name of such individual in their custody.
This raised severe concerns about the security detention center where Bosco could be kept, and the question that begged to be answered is why traffic police are arresting and torturing people? Why traffic police are arresting someone passing the same route without breaking traffic law?
Since 12 September the people of the area and specially the family members of Bosco and his business associates are living in fear and they are worried that something bad has happened to their son, since the police in Nimule denied that Mr. Bosco Wayi has been brought to their custody, and they couldn't confirm anyone arrested by their police on Nimule–Loa road.
The fact that these arbitrary arrests and tortures are happening exactly one year after the paramount chief of Nimule was gunned down cold blooded that fateful night of 8 September, whose death was blamed on Ma'di community elders by both governments in Juba and Torit, and since then innocent Ma'di Supreme leader, the 'Lopirigo" Yaba Ret Ambassador Vugo and his deputy Lagu Jabakana and many other community leaders were falsely blackmailed by Juba Security with the help of Dr Anna Itto Leonardo and Amb. John Andruga Duku.
After months of nightmares in Torit prison the leaders were one by one released without any charges and there were no compensation by the government for the tortures inflicted on them by the prison ward while in Torit in particular. This was done to humiliate the Madi leaders to passiveness and their goal has been achieved!
The fact that this unlawful and targeted arrests are happening again, coinciding with the event of killing of late chief has raised serious concerns and furor, and perhaps the hard question that needs to be answered is what does the government gain by torturing Ma'di people who so far have been peaceful and have accommodated the Dinka internally displaced persons without violence despite the constant humiliations of the Madi people by the Dinkas in our ancestral land?
What is the objective of this Dinka led government towards the existence of minority tribes in South Sudan, but the Ma'di people in particular? Could it be that they are preparing another blackmailing in order to jail more of our people as they did last year, could it be they are provoking the Madi people to anger so as to give the Dinkas the excuse to massacre the Madi people as they massacred the Nuer in Juba?
We want our fellow countrymen to be informed about this evil the Dinkas are doing and planning in the Madi land.
Until the security officers who snatched Bosco on his motor bike brings him back unhurt and alive, we the Ma'di community will hold the Commander in Chief accountable for his indifference to the suffering of the Madi people who unanimously voted for him during 2010 presidential election.
President kiir is deaf and blind when it comes to Madi issues, hundreds of letters were sent to his office in regards to IDP roaming with their animals and AK47s in agricultural lands and in market places in Nimule, from the day the late Chief Ajugo was killed, to the forceful imposition of Nimule Town council designed to license and legitimize his Dinka cattle kraal to illegally remain in Nimule now 9 years after CPA and three year after south Sudan gained its independence.
Until now several people have been tortured and Bosco Wayi snatched on his motorbike by none other than Dinka security operatives in Nimule, while they, these Dinkas are unable to control insecurity in Warrap, Lakes state and the violent states of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile.
Why are they importing their insecurity in all parts of South Sudan?
These abusive security personnel in Nimule and other Ma'di areas being paid by public money, have also targeted the people who contributed money to help the widow and the children of late chief Ajugo.
The question is why the government is targeting the individuals for helping a widow, while the government should have been the one looking after the family of the late because he was killed while on duty for this government.
Doesn't this make it plain that the government was the one that gunned down late Ajugo for renouncing the bloody dirty game created by then deputy interior Minister Salva Matok?
We the community want to summon all the Ma'di politicians, Ma'di MPs both from Torit and Juba to press the security personnel and minister for the security of our people and all those that have disappeared.
We ask Mr. Obote Mamur to find out why the Dinka Security men grabbed Bosco and his whereabouts? What happened to him and others like him? Who ordered his arrest? What kinds of charges are brought against him… etc?
Until these are done in a constitutional manner, we will hold the police traffic at Aswa River station accountable, we will not cease until justice is done and Bosco is given back to us in healthy condition and we want the government to guarantee his security after his return.
Furthermore, we want anyone who is found guilty of carrying out these unlawful targeted arrests, tortures and intimidation on high profile Ma'di businessmen should be brought to face justice, and the government to stop repressions going on in Ma'di corridor against our business community and opinion leaders across the Ma'di land.
The Voice for the voiceless
David Aju Kanyara,
Juba, South Sudan


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With 40 precisely calibrated grind settings – ranging from the coarse grind used for a French press to an ultra-fine espresso grind – the Virtuoso makes quick work of transforming whole roasted coffee beans into uniform grounds. It is fitted with Italian-made conical burrs that ensure commercial-grade consistency for optimal flavor extraction every time you brew.
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In a pitcher or bowl, combine the coffee and the 3/4 cup sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves. Pour the mixture into a 9-by-13-inch glass baking dish or other shallow container. Place in the freezer. When the mixture starts to get icy around the edges, after about 1 hour, use a spoon to stir and break up the ice crystals. Return to the freezer. From that point, stir well every 15 minutes until the mixture forms fine, firm, icy flakes, 2 to 2 1/2 hours more.
In a bowl, using an electric mixer or a whisk, whip the cream until soft peaks form. Beat in sugar and brandy to taste.
To serve, scoop the coffee ice into glasses or serving dishes. Top with the whipped cream, dividing it evenly. Lightly dust each serving with cocoa.
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Talk:Ithaca (New York)
This is a great page. Really nice work. I'd love to feature it on the Main Page, if we could maybe get some more lodging listings and clear out that boilerplate at the end. Fabuloso! What a showcase guide! -- Evan 23:02, 17 Nov 2003 (PST)
Drink[edit][add listing]
Some information about Ithaca Beer and Finger Lakes wines really should be added to the currently empty "Drink" section.
Please Wikitravel:Plunge forward! Sounds like you at least know a little bit about them, so add the info! Majnoona 23:42, 7 Oct 2004 (EDT)
Someone said something about Ithaca and Syracuse. I thought "Is that Ithaca in Greece or New York?". (Syracuse is in Sicily but was a Greek city.) Should we make a disambiguation page?
Usable, not Guide (yet)[edit]
Sorry, but this isn't quite up to Guide standards yet. It's certainly good work, but there are a large number of entries that are missing contact information, business hours, etc. Getting there, though. If somebody is interested in seeing the article get that accolade, go for it! With the content in good shape, it should be just a matter of adding stuff you can find in a phone book. (Try adding a good photo or two while you're at it.) -- Bill-on-the-Hill 08:55, 24 May 2006 (EDT)
Real estate[edit]
I've rolled back most of the information about real estate and relocating; I think it's not really useful for the typical traveler. --Evan 16:57, 29 November 2006 (EST)


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JonBenet Ramsey's Brother Gives First Ever Interview
It was the murder that rocked the world. Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey found bludgeoned to death in her family's basement in 1996.
It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since the heartbreaking discovery and still no one knows exactly who was responsible for the little girl's tragic death.
Her brother, Burke Ramsey is speaking out for the first time. Burke was only nine when his sister was murdered.
His life changed for ever that day. The now 29-year-old not only had to contend with losing his sister, but intense public scrutiny that he and his family were involved.
The family have long maintained their innocence and in 2008 were cleared of having any involvement after DNA testing eliminated them from enquiries.
Sadly, Jonbenet's mother Patsy Ramsey died of cancer two years before her name was cleared.
In an interview with Dr Phil that's set to air next week, he asks Burke: 'Has it ever occurred to you that your parents actually thought you did this and didn't ask you because they didn't want to know?'
The 29-year-old calmly responds, 'I know people think I did it; that my parents did it. I know that we were suspects.'


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The purpose of this site is to present Cal State Fullerton's many nonprofit resources on one comprehensive website. You can browse the resources available to you by either looking for specific services, such as internship opportunities and workshops (see the bottom portion of the menu at left) or you can search for information by your group, be it students, faculty or community nonprofit agencies (see menu at top left).
The Orange County nonprofit sector is made up of organizations that meet the community's social, educational, cultural and research needs. The University houses many centers, programs and research facilities that support nonprofit organizations, just as local nonprofits support the University by offering students jobs, internships and volunteer opportunities.
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The National Civil Rights Museum has filed a $7.5 million permit application with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for facility renovations.
General contractor Flintco LLC filed the permit for 450 Mulberry St. in the South Main Historic Arts District on behalf of the museum and its owner, the state of Tennessee.
The Civil Rights Museum last year set a goal of $40 million for a capital campaign to renovate the 20-year-old museum as well as establish an endowment.
During last fall's campaign kickoff, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam renewed the state's commitment to an expanded and updated museum with state funding of nearly $2.5 million. The first half of the $5 million in state funding came during the last year of Phil Bredesen's tenure as governor.
The museum – housed in the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 – now draws 200,000 visitors annually.
But that number is limited by the museum's size, Civil Rights Museum executive director Beverly Robertson said last year.
Robertson also expressed concern about the aging technology that once was considered cutting edge but now is difficult to find replacement parts for and maintain.
Of the $40 million total for the museum project, $27 million would be for construction and renovation that will give the museum a new look, inside and out.
The remaining $13 million would be for an endowment.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Daily News staff
Memphis-area home sales for September rose 17.1 percent from the same month a year ago, with 1,287 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of Realtors MAARdata property records database.
Total sales decreased 15 percent from August.
Average sales price year over year was up 1.6 percent at $128,971.
Inventory declined 2.1 percent, with 7,392 units listed for sale. Sales volume year to date increased 17.6 percent to $1.46 billion.
"Average sales price for September topped $132,000 and was at almost $155,000 for non-bank sales," MAAR president Carol Lott said in a written statement. "That's encouraging. Year to date we're up in sales, pricing and sales volume."
The database includes records of all property transactions in Shelby, Fayette and Tipton counties.
To see real estate information company Chandler Reports' September totals for Shelby County, see Monday, Oct. 15's edition of The Daily News.
– Sarah Baker
Notices are going out in the mail to an estimated 37,000 Tennessee borrowers who may be eligible for payment under a $25 billion national mortgage foreclosure settlement.
Eligible borrowers will be receiving claim forms in the mail this month and Attorney General Bob Cooper of Tennessee urged residents to complete the forms and return them by the Jan. 18 deadline.
Those eligible include people who lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2011, to five of the nation's largest mortgage services, which is Ally/GMC, Bank of America, Citi, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
The packages will be mailed through Oct. 12.
– The Associated Press
HR Professionals Magazine, in partnership with the Memphis chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management, will present a seminar on strategic leadership for HR executives Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave.
The seminar will be from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. with a wine and cheese reception to follow.
The keynote speaker is Jim Wachtel, national sales director with HealthCheck 360. He will discuss selling wellness to a company's chief financial officer and the CFO's role.
Cristie Upshaw Travis, CEO of Memphis Business Group on Health, will discuss the status of health care reform since the Supreme Court ruling and health care exchanges.
Cynthia Thompson, principal and consultant with The Thompson HR Firm and editor of HR Professionals Magazine, will discuss strategies to reduce compensation expense.
Sponsors of the event are Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance, DataFacts Inc., the Kiesewetter Law Firm PLLC, Jackson Lewis LLP and Waddell & Reed Financial Advisors.
First Tennessee Advisory Services is sponsoring the wine and cheese reception.
The cost of the seminar is $45 for SHRM members and $50 for non-SHRM members.
The deadline to register is Tuesday, and pre-registration is required. Visit www.HRProfessionalsMagazine.com to register.
For more information contact Thompson at email@example.com or 598-0123.
– Andy Meek
Comcast Corp., one of the nation's leading providers of information and communications products and services, has launched Business Class Signature Support, a new technical support and equipment protection program for small-business customers.
With this new offering, Comcast Business Services now provides its customers a single source of support for the computers, tablets, mobile devices, servers and networks that power their small business. Small-business customers will have access to experienced information technology specialists who can provide advanced technical support online, over the phone, or in person at their convenience.
Customers will be able to choose from several monthly packages ranging from round-the-clock remote support, onsite assistance and extended warranties.
Comcast also will offer one-time services such as virus removal, system set-up and wired and wireless network connectivity.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and American Express are rolling out a prepaid card that they say offers unique services designed to help customers manage and control their everyday finances.
The two companies said Monday, Oct. 8, that Bluebird, which began during a pilot program late last year, will have no minimum balance and no monthly, annual or overdraft fees. They say that the only fees that will be associated with the card will be transparent and within the user's control, such as out-of-network ATM withdrawals by consumers who don't use direct deposit.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and American Express Co. say the card is an alternative to debit and checking accounts and will include such features as the ability to deposit a check to one's Bluebird account by simply taking a picture with a smart phone.
It will also offer the same fraud protections in an event the card is stolen or lost as other standard cards.
The companies say Bluebird was built on feedback from consumers who said they were bothered by rising fees related to checking accounts and debit services.
The move comes as American Express is looking for new ways to expand its customer base beyond its traditional wealthy clientele. For Wal-Mart, the Bluebird service is the latest financial product offering to be pushed by the world's largest retailer, but it's also the most comprehensive.
Prepaid cards are a fast-growing segment of the payments industry. While the cards are aimed mainly at people who don't have bank accounts or whose credit ratings are damaged, they also are becoming popular with consumers seeking to avoid surprise bank fees and keep from accumulating credit card balances.
But prepaid cards are typically not linked to a checking account. Monday's announcement shows how the financial service landscape is changing in light of the rising popularity of smart phones and other technological advances, and evolving needs of consumers, who want on-the-go financial services.
Bluebird will be available next week at www.bluebird.com and in more than 4,000 Walmart stores.
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Brainstorming doesn't work, the best teams are tightknit but not too tight, and geographically close collaboration is more effective than working together from a distance.
These are among the intriguing conclusions in a new New Yorker article on teamwork by Jonah Lehrer.
The story, headlined "Groupthink," is a must-read for HR pros and managers wrestling with how to get the most from their people. In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Lehrer mines academic literature to unveil finding after surprising finding about collaboration.
For instance, studies have shown that brainstorming is overrated and fundamentally misguided. People can generate more ideas on their own, research that dates back to the 1950s has found.
Lehrer notes that many complex challenges today require multiple minds, but brainstorming isn't the best way to make good ideas rain down. It turns out the "don't criticize others' ideas" ground rule at the heart of brainstorming sessions hurts, rather than helps, innovation. "Criticism allows people to dig below the surface of the imagination and come up with collective ideas that aren't predictable," Lehrer writes.
A second fascinating point in the story is that there's an ideal level of social cohesiveness on work teams. Research on the collaborations behind Broadway musicals found that outright strangers weren't effective together. But neither were teams of ultrafamiliar colleagues.
Consider the 1920s, when Broadway had superstars like Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Nine out of 10 musicals that decade flopped—a far higher rate than the historical norm. "Broadway had some of the biggest names ever," sociologist Brian Uzzi says in the story. "But the shows were too full of repeat relationships, and that stifled creativity."
What is needed on teams, the article indicates, is a threshold of comfort and a dose of strangeness. West Side Story nailed it, when veterans Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, and Arthur Laurents teamed up with newcomer Stephen Sondheim.
Lehrer also offers up a geography lesson on teamwork. A study on academic collaboration found that partnerships where researchers worked within 10 meters of each other tended to be more successful than those where co-authors were located a kilometer or more apart. The work of the geographically near teams was cited more frequently, indicating its relative influence on the field. "If you want people to work together effectively, these findings reinforce the need to create architectures that support frequent, physical, spontaneous interactions," researcher Isaac Kohane says in the piece.
This is a disturbing finding to the many organizations setting up virtual teams these days. But could the barriers to remote work be dropping so fast—through such things as video chats, instant messaging and shared files—such that this conclusion is fast becoming obsolete?
Hard to say. Face-to-face encounters were such a priority to Steve Jobs that he obsessed over the design of film company Pixar's headquarters. Jobs went so far as to try to locate the building's only bathrooms in the atrium to spark chance conversations among employees (he later had to compromise with a second set of bathrooms). Pixar's track record of hit after hit indicates Jobs was on to something.
"I get more done having a cup of coffee and striking up a conversation or walking to the bathroom and running into unexpected people than I do sitting at my desk," one Pixar producer told Lehrer.
A major takeaway of Lehrer's story is to remain open minded about management. Some enduring tricks of the trade are really feel-good gimmicks that deserved to be mere fads. In thinking about how to help groups think better, beware of groupthink.
Ed Frauenheim is senior editor at Workforce Management. To comment, write to email@example.com.


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- Washington D.C.
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- Jan 01, 2017
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- Apr 03, 2017
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Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL): Lead, Discover, Develop, Deliver
The Air Force's only organization wholly dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of warfighting technologies for our air, space and cyberspace forces. AFRL traces its roots back to the vision of early airpower leaders who understood science as the key to air supremacy. The passionate commitment of our people to realize this vision has helped create the world's best air, space and cyberspace.
These positions are being filled under the Expedited Hiring Authority for Acquisition Positions and are for anticipated vacancies.
The positions may be filled at the DR-02, DR-03, or DR-04 level.
The pay band equivalencies are as follows:
DR-02 is equivalent to GS-12 through GS-13
DR-03 is equivalent to GS-14
DR-04 is equivalent to GS-15
Basic Pay Range DR-02: $61,289-$96,239
Basic Pay Range DR-03: $84,589-$119,539
Basic Pay Range DR-04: $107,889-$133,444
Pay will vary by pay band and geographic location.
This is a public notice and may be used to fill anticipated permanent, temporary or term vacancies with a full-time or part-time work schedule at various locations as vacancies occur during the open period. Modified Term, Term, and Temporary appointments may be extended without further announcement. A modified term appointment may be non-competitively converted to a career appointment.
Your application material will only be reviewed for vacancies received by the closing date of this public notice which match your desired geographic locations, experiences and competencies. After the closing date you will no longer receive consideration for this public notice.
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- Travel expenses may or may not be paid
- Recruitment and/or relocation incentives may or may not be used
- Must obtain/maintain appropriate security clearance required for position
- A 3-year probationary period is required for permanent positions
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SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower pay band or equivalent. Specialized experience must include experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization and as described in the MAJOR DUTIES section.
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§ The employee must meet the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) requirements applicable to the duties of the position.
§ Employee is expected to meet Continuing Acquisition Education requirements.
§ The work may require the employee to occasionally travel away from the normal duty station via military or commercial aircraft.
§ This may/may not be a Testing Designated Position. The incumbent may be subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participateion in random drug testing.
§ Employee may be required to work overtime; other than normal duty hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays.
§ The selectee may be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 450), prior to entering on duty and annually thereafter.A 1-year supervisory probationary period is required, if applicable. All newly-assigned first-level supervisors are required to complete Mandatory Supervisory Training (MST) within 120-days of assignment.
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I think the CCBF (Caked Crusader's Boyfriend) knows me pretty well and knows that anything involving oodles of cake will make me happy. He booked afternoon tea, for my birthday, at the very posh Browns Hotel in Mayfair instantly earning lots of Brownie points – who wouldn't want to go for a lovely tea...especially at the winner of the Tea Guild's "Best Afternoon tea 2009" title?
The cake stand had yummy little finger sandwiches on the bottom tier, warm scones (the jam and cream came in little china bowls) on the middle tier, and a selection of divine little pastries and sweet meats on the top:
We managed two platefuls of sarnies and scones but could only manage one plate of the pastries!
The mini scones were delicious and still warm so that the jam oozed over them:
The pastries had a lot of finesse to them; here's a rundown. Some of the pictures aren't great, it was a gloomy day and I was torn between taking great photos and eating great cakes...you can probably tell which option won!
Apple cream filled macaron – quite exquisite; the apple cream was so fruity and tangy.
Lemon curd mousse sponge with meringue topping – the CCBF tackled this one and seemed to enjoy it a lot!
Pistachio sponge filled with a light chocolate cream – it was made in a mini bundt mould and the sponge was so rich and moist.
Chestnut cream tart – very pretty. All the creams were whipped and light as air. Didn't get a great photo of this one, you can just see it poking out from behind the pistachio sponge:
Chocolate mousse with pear – this one had the CCBF's name all over it (not literally, that would've been weird) as he adores any chocolate desserts. It came in a tiny glass but he said it was exceedingly rich. Yes, that's his spoon plunging into it!
We finished the lovely day off with cocktails at the Skylon bar, part of the Royal Festival Hall complex on the South Bank – here's my favourite, a Prunelle:
Thank you CCBF for a wonderful day!


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