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Serendipity: a fortuitous discovery made by accident while you are looking for something else.
This is an older definition, closer to the origins of the word from the fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip ( if you enjoy word origins, do a metasearch on this; its good for at least a half hour of entertainment). I find this older meaning especially apt to the process of worldbuilding. When I've been working and thinking about Khasran, almost any new piece of information may sprout a whole new aspect of the world. The latest serendipity gave me a the setting for the holiday story. And I wasn't even looking, because I thought I had one.
Step 1: I love to watch all kinds of cultural and historical documentaries in any time and place other than the one I live in. So I was watching PBS's "The Story of India" which breezes through thousands of years of the subcontinent's history of empires and the mingling of cultures-with frequent stops along the way to show how many of these cultures survive in bits and pieces right down into modern India. Some of the most fascinating bits: ancient books written on palm leaves (humans use the materials most readily available); a medicinal garden that's been tended by the same family for generations; brass sculptors working in the same spot and with the same lost wax techniques that have been used by their own direct ancestors for over a thousand years.
All fun and fascinating, but not particularly relevant to my current worldbuilding. Then the narrator walked through an Indian souk and described a lost empire, built on the riches of the silk route, which brought together people of all cultures in a flourishing melting pot of trade and artistry. And I thought: "Trade! Why did I never think about that before? Of course Khasran's world has trade."
Step 2. That of course jump starts all the questions and speculations: Many Khasrani are nomadic, so they lead the trade caravans that traverse the grasslands carrying goods to the civilizations on both sides. And the boat people traffic on the rivers and the ocean, and the great cities of Rikkat to the south have their huge markets and fleets and caravans coming to supply them. Maybe the city of Khasran itself was built on that spot originally because it's the highest navigable point on the river, so it has a port where goods are transferred from barges to caravans.
What do they trade? I started coming up with lists of trade goods: glassware from Shunnar, pearls from the south seas, the rare wild garlic from the deep grasslands, the finest Khasrani bows and arrows. And horses. Of course, horses, the Khasrani breed the best in the world.
Step 3. Go back some years, to when I was reading extensively about Irish history and culture. Among other things, I learned a little about the Irish horse fairs, where people came from all over (and maybe still do) to buy and sell horses of all kinds.
"Horse fair" collided with my ideas about Khasrani trade, and serendipity exploded in my brain like a fireworks display.
I had been imagining a small nomadic camp beside a creek as the setting for the holiday story. Here's a little glimpse of the new setting:
"When the clans come to the horse fair at Half Wheel Lake, you can stand on your pony's back and turn a full circle, and see tents and wagons and herds of horses stretching to the hem of the sky in every direction. Banners strung from pole to pole snap in the spring breeze, and the clan banners rise on poles higher than the rest, in every color with their long tails swirling around the poles.
Everyone who has anything to sell lines their wagons along the main gallops, and they're selling anything you could want, anything you could think of. New bows, arrows, quivers; coats and boots and hats in styles from every clan; beaded hair laces, bridles, saddles harnesses, tent poles, blankets, lutes and flutes and drums and bells, and kargat sets made of rare stones from the far west and the south over the mountains.
At the Flood Moon fair you can get food from all over the world. Flatbreads, apricots and tangerines and honey wines and cheese curd; dried strips of red fish and strange fruits with purple flesh or spiky skin, cocoa paste like strange coffee, and shaggy nuts as big as a baby's head.
And the horses. Most of all, the horses. Thousands and thousands, bay, brown, black or gray, spotted, dappled, piebald, or roan, all sizes from the great draft horses that pull the wagons, to the coursers that can race an arrow, and herders that can turn quicker than a nimble colt. If it were summer, the dust from a herd so big would rise higher than a thundercloud. But it's Flood Moon and spring, so the river and the Half Wheel are brimming, and the grass on the prairie is so thick and green that even the trampling of thousands of hooves can only mash it down a little."
For a child of Khasran, the horse fair is Christmas, Disneyland, a cosmopolitan city, and a trip around the world, all rolled into one week on one patch of ground. This is where my holiday story takes place.
Serendipity. Nothing sweeter!


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He answered with a discouraged gesture. "What was the use? We couldn't have talked."
"Not as well as here," she assented; adding, after a meditative pause, "As you didn't come I talked to Aunt Virginia instead."
"Ah!" he returned, the fact being hardly striking enough to detach him from the contemplation of her hands, which had fallen, as was their wont, into an attitude full of plastic possibilities. One felt them to be hands that, moving only to some purpose, were capable of intervals of serene inaction.
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I just finished reading The Touchstone again, in conjunction with reading Henry James's The Aspern Papers. I believe that The Touchstone may have been Wharton's first published work of fiction too.
The novella tells the story of Stephen Glennard a youngish gentleman of New York's upper-crust soci...more
Edith Wharton is probably one of best story tellers I have come across. Gilennard sells letters of a deceased author who once loved him to finance his way to marriage. The accrued guilt is a theme similar to that of Nostromo - but gets a much better treatment from author.
"The sensation was par...more
In 1900 New York, a wannabe so-called gentleman named Glennard secretly sells off a collection of letters he received from a now dead, now famous authoress. The public reaction is to despise the man who would sell these letters but also of fascination of their content. Glennard is initially happy...more
How can he betrayed his ex gf's (though dead) personal privacy and trust by publishing her love letters to him just to get rich and marry someone else? Hmm...more
Only her second published work, The Touchstone shows all the promise that Edith Wharton would later realize in her longer novels and short-stories. The central character, Stephen Glennard, sells for publication the private letters of a former, deceased lover, who had become a famous writer, so th...more
I vacillated between three or four stars for this novella and opted for three simply because the story didnt stay with me after I had finished the book, thought the writing did. It was Edith Whartons first published novella, her second published book (her first being a short story collection).
Maybe Wharton's charm and acerbity wear with the more of her books that you read or maybe this one just is not her best.
Lovely writing, some interesting insights but ultimately difficult to be invested in. The idea is compelling: selling out a not-love to secure your true love--who eventually fa...more
What is it with Edith Wharton and "unromantic" love? In The Age of Innocence we see love thwarted and denied; in Ethan Fromme, misguided and perverted; in Summer, disgraced and hardened. In The Touchstone, the theme of love continues to be unidealistic. It is betrayed and exposed, even sold.
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Extension cords are tacky and might fall short, or cause a tripping hazard; playing loud music from inside the house doesn't work at all. Tune into these steps and learn how to safely and properly set up an outdoor entertainment area.
1. Figure out where to put the speakers
To optimize the party sounds during party time, one speaker will ideally go up high (not more than ten feet) on one side of the patio, and the other speaker will sit at the same height on the opposite side.
This will ensure maximum coverage of the patio or party area, but be careful not to separate them by more than twenty feet.
This will cause your guests to only hear one half of the song and that's just against the party code. There are also structural elements that must also be taken into consideration.
At the very least, there should be some wood under that siding. Be sure of what's underneath, because this will determine how and where to mount the speakers.
If there is indeed wood, like plywood sheets under the siding, then you will be able to easily drill into it. When drilling right into plywood we recommend using anchor bolts, as they are designed to ensure a sturdy, reliable hold.
Ideally, your speakers will be as close to the audio source as possible, to minimize the amount of wiring needed.
Outdoor speakers will come with a set of installation instructions, but there are things to consider before you purchase them. There may be 2×4 studs that you can drill into.
There's a handy tool called a Stud Finder available at home improvement stores. Unfortunately, it doesn't find handsome men, but will certainly find a plank of wood in the wall.
Simply hold it up against the wall, press in the button to activate the sensor, and drag it horizontally until it beeps and indicates a stud. Then release the button and move up a foot or two, and go horizontally again, until you reach where the stud should be.
You will have to drill the speaker bracket into the stud because vinyl siding alone is not strong enough to hold speakers. The wood bracing your home will be strong enough. Trust it.
Mark where the hole(s) will go, and then do the same along the rest of the wall, wherever you want your speakers to go.
If there are no studs in your walls, at least none that are available to drill into, get yourself some anchor bolts.
To drill into siding, go near the top of the siding where it's most narrow. Siding itself is not strong enough to hold a speaker; try it, and the siding will sag and potentially drop your speaker.
So drill a hole, insert an anchor, and then bolt the mounting bracket into place. It is crucial that your screws are galvanized, so as not to wear down, and are long enough to penetrate the siding and the frame of the house to keep sturdy.
Another option is a mounting block, which is an industry standard for mounting all equipment (like lighting, etc.) to exterior surfaces. No matter what you use to mount the speakers, you will have to seal each hole with silicone to prevent moisture getting in.
3. Wiring
Any wiring will ideally be hidden in the wall to maximize aesthetics but also to protect it from the elements. Water and electricity do not mix, as we all know.
We don't want the wires to rust, either. You will drill a hole behind where the speaker will go, so that the hole is hidden, and feed the wiring through this and out the other side to an electrical outlet.
Any good outdoor speakers will come with some kind of mounting system. You may want to hide them up under the eave (soffit) or under an overhang.
Just remember: all good homes will have a wooden frame with studs that you can drill into. Find the studs, and use long enough screws, and your speakers should be good to go.
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I feel it necessary to note, the "chat with us" option at no point in my process produced an actual chat with assistance, which I find quite misrepresented. Given that other platforms offer an immediate live chat, rather than a link to another page, I would request that you rename that to something more accurate.
I sought that chat in an attempt to fix an email "bouncing as Suspended" for an account I know to be accurate. I've emailed Constant Contact requesting that they remedy the problem, but it seems a highly, highly inefficient system, particularly pending the number of accounts that may be unnecessarily bouncing and thereby missed entirely.
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We understand how important sending out your emails is and how you want to make sure that your contacts are receiving your emails. Unfortunately, we do see suspended bounces happen but we do have ways to look further into these bounces. I recommend that you contact our Deliverability department who is specialized in handling these types of contacts. Here is a link to their numbers and hours of operation.
Dear Constant Contact, One of OTTO's reps is not able to receive our e-blasts because his status is suspended. He has been a rep for OTTO for 10 years and wants to receive the eblasts, but I can't seem to unsuspend his account. His e-mail address is What do I need to do? Thank you, Karen Marketing Coordinator, OTTO Engineering Inc.
I am having a similar issue. We use Constant Contact internally, specifically for our weekly safety bulletin, and a few employees with valid e-mail addresses are in a "Suspended" state. What would cause this, and what's the best way to get these individuals back on track to receive the e-mails?
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This FAQ will help you understand what Suspended Bounces are, and how best to handle those addresses. We ask that if you do have a larger list of addresses you would like to unsuspend, that you call in to our Deliverability specialists, as they are best equipped to help with this issue. As a courtesy, @OTTO I was able to unsuspend that contact for you (though I removed the email address from the post due to privacy), but if you do have more, give us a call and we can help from there!
I am very disappointed to learn that Constant Contact (CC) apparently has a rule that, if ever an email is repeatedly suspended in one CC user's account, then CC suspends that email from use by any other user--without the knowledge of the other users. I added an approved email from a client this morning and it bounced back; when I clicked on it to see why, it came back as suspended. I had typed the address in correctly and the email owner had approved its use, so I called CC and learned about this system-wide action. It is patently unfair for CC to suspend a client in MY email list because some other client--In 2009, by the way--did not have approval to use that email. Or, if that is going to be a CC policy, why can't CC indicate, when the client clicks on 'suspended,' that it is a systemic suspension, not a client-specific suspension? Doing otherwise is NOT fair. That means I am probably paying for suspended emails that had nothing to do with people who decide to not open my emails but, apparently, it is something CC decided to do. At least let your paying customers like me know THAT is what you're doing and why. So, in other words, when I click on 'suspended,' the reason that should pop up, if it applies as in this case, is that 'this email was suspended by CC in 2009 because of repeated bounces. Please call CC for more information.' I would like a reply to this email from the Deliverability Team at . Thanks, Marian Dozier,
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I apologize for any inconvenience you've had with reaching out to these emails that have bounced as suspended. Also, I'd like to clarify what a suspended bounce is. An email can bounce as suspended not because you aren't allowed to email them, but because our ISP system is having trouble delivering the email. In fact, here is a helpful FAQ we have to help with Understanding, Managing, and Removing any of the reasons a contact may bounce.
We would be happy to look into emails that may be bouncing in your account. If you did want to speak further about your contacts that are bouncing, we do have a Deliverability Team that specializes in this. Here is a link to the best hours and numbers to reach this team.
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He has reportedly been offered the movie if he wants it, and will take until after Christmas to decide.
The Little Mermaid has been scripted by Kick-Ass writer Jane Goldman and will have new songs written by Moana's Lin-Manuel Miranda alongside Alan Menken, who has composed tracks for Disney's Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and 1989's The Little Mermaid.
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Dumbo is being directed by Tim Burton (above) and will star Eva Green, Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito and Alan Arkin.
Aladdin will be helmed by Guy Ritchie and stars Will Smith, Naomi Scott and Mena Massoud.
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HYDERABAD: An Indian Navy aircraft participating in an aerobatic display as part of the India Aviation 2010 exhibition at the Begumpet airport crashed into a building in the densely populated Bowenpally locality here on Wednesday. Two pilots and one unidentified person on the ground were killed instantly. Two residents of the two-storey building, a mother and son, were injured. Hyderabad could be said to have escaped a bigger catastrophe: had the aircraft fallen even a few metres away, the casualty figure would have been much higher.
The pilot was Suresh Maurya and the co-pilot Rahul Nair. C. Vijayeshwari (38) and Shyam Krishna (16) were hospitalised.
The crash occurred soon after Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel inaugurated the event and moved on to the tarmac to witness the display. Four aircraft were flying in formation and had done difficult manoeuvres, when one of them broke off. As a battery of cameramen filmed the scene, the aircraft crashed: from the airport, a thick plume of smoke was visible in northern Hyderabad. The aircraft spiralled out of control and smashed into the second floor of the building which had 10 tenements. Vijayeshwari and Shyam Krishna were at home when the plane rammed it. As a green liquid from the aircraft drenched them, they jumped on to the roof of a neighbouring building. Minutes later the roof of their house collapsed. Eyewitnesses said the co-pilot tried to eject. His mangled body was found a few metres away with the chute strapped on. The other pilot's body was also mutilated. A shocked P. Suguna, who was drying green chillies on the terrace when the wreckage fell on her, said: "I fell on my back. And then a body fell next to me."
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As part of her annual State of the City address, on February 9 City Council Speaker and potential mayoral candidate Christine Quinn announced her support for the future growth of New York's design industries: "We have more designers than any city in the United States, with nearly 40,000 New Yorkers working in everything from graphics to movie sets, architecture to interior decorating. We'll grow our design sector by stealing an idea from the fashion industry. Fashion Week, which starts today, brings 300,000 visitors and nearly $800 million into our city every year. Working with Council Member Karen Koslowitz, we're going to give that same kind of boost to our design industry by creating and hosting a New York City Design Week."
The next mayoral election is still over a year in the future, but the speech does raise the question of what a new mayor will mean for the city's departments of Planning, Transportation, Parks and Design and Construction not to mention our dynamic design community. It is common knowledge that Mayor Bloomberg's administration made a conscious effort to bring architectural and urban design thinking into city government more than at any time since Robert Moses and John Lindsay in the late 1960s. In the same way that Lindsay's two terms as mayor coincided with a remarkable transformation of urban life in New York, Bloomberg's three terms have witnessed a profound change in the life of the city. It will of course be up to future historians to assess the current mayor's ultimate success and failures but his quartet of Commissioners at City Planning, Transportation, Parks, and Design and Construction have overseen a total transformation in how citizens move about, experience, and live in the city.
Then again it may be that Bloomberg only happened to be mayor when architecture was taken up for the first time by New York property developers as a salable commodity and when they commissioned some of the world's best architects to design Manhattan luxury housing. The mayor certainly did not directly create anything of great civic architectural quality for our public sphere, but as a believer in the private market supported by public, philanthropic initiatives of high design quality like the High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Governors Island development, and the DOT's bike lanes and "parks in a street" maintained by Business Improvement Districts and other non governmental agencies. These are of course heavily Manhattan-centric in their geographic reach and influence, so Bloomberg's new city is less visible the farther one travels from Midtown. We all remember when he pinned his legacy to an Olympic master plan, West Side Football stadium, and the possibility of a really great World Trade Center development.
Or it may be that Bloomberg happened to be mayor when New York emerged as the most important design hub in the United States if not the world. Last summer we commented on the Growth by Design report assembled by the Center for an Urban Future that detailed the growing importance of the design sector to New York's economy. It revealed how design sector jobs in the New York metropolitan area grew by 75 percent over the past decade. In fact the report claimed that in New York the design field (architecture, graphic, interior, fashion and industrial design) has nearly twice as many designers as Los Angeles, the nation's second largest design hub.
But back to Speaker Quinn and her support for design in New York City. Really, is a week-long design festival the best that the Speaker can do to support and encourage this dynamic sector of the city's economy? We need to hear what she proposes for the various departments like City Planning and Parks. Its hard to imagine that department heads like Amanda Burden, David Burney, Janette Sadik-Khan, and Adrian Benepe will stay on after 12 years of public sector employment, but will the new mayor even want them to stay or will she/ he replace them, and what types of policies will new commissioners be pursuing? Will the next mayor continue to support new bicycle lanes and curbside park development from the DOT and the ambitious architecture policies of Commissioner Burney? We have heard almost nothing from Quinn and the two or three other likely candidates about their potential policies. Proposing a week-long festival is not really enough of an initiative to tell us much about what a new Quinn administration might mean for the city. In the coming months, we need to hear much more from the Speaker and all the other candidates.
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Nonstop Shopping
In late October, the MTA announced it would lease 70,000 square feet of retail at the $1.4 billion Fulton Street Transit Center to a single operator who will manage and rent out the space. With the announcement, downtown Manhattan's vast multi-grade retail landscape comes further into focus. After the MTA makes their firm selection, three major shopping centers will be connected via underground transit hubs and pedestrian passageways. The Westfield Group is in the midst of planning 365,000 square feet of World Trade Center (WTC) retail, and Brookfield is revamping 200,000 square feet at the World Financial Center. On completion, commuters will be able to shop and eat indoors all the way from Broadway to the Hudson River. A grand total of 635,000 square feet does not include 90,000 planned for the pending Two World Trade.
At Fulton, the MTA, in a departure from |its landlord role at Grand Central, will focus on running trains, not curating vendors. The main building, designed by Grimshaw Architects with Arup, employs a multifaceted circular glass atrium within a glass cubed-shaped curtain wall. At street side, market cafes will wrap around the atrium, dubbed the oculus, and retail will take up the interior walls. The second level is intended for destination restaurants, while the third floor awaits an anchor tenant. More retail can be found below at concourse and platform levels. The underground Dey Street passageway, devoid of retail, will take commuters toward the Calatrava-designed WTC Transportation Hub.
With much of the focus on the oculus, the project's incorporation of the 1888 Francis Kimball-designed Corbin Building next door tends to be overlooked. MTA renderings show a restored 19th century clubby interior revived as a destination restaurant.
Westfield will be responsible for all retail at the World Trade Center. The company expects to finalize their agreement with the Port Authority next month and will spend more than $612 million on the retail environment, which will run over many levels at the WTC Transportation Hub, connecting concourses through to Three and Four World Trade. At Three and Four, the stores will meet the street and continue above grade. Retail intended for Two World Trade awaits financing for the tower as a whole. From the Hub, commuters can shop in concourses that lead to the World Financial Center, where Brookfield then takes up the baton.
Courtesy Brookfield
Brookfield's $250 million renovation of Cesar Pelli's late 1980s World Financial Center ensemble includes preserving the Grand Staircase and balcony overlooking the World Trade site. Both are contained in a pavilion that juts out east toward West Street. The prime spot beneath the staircase is expected to be leased by a fashion or luxury tenant. Overlooking the Hudson, Brookfield plans a "locavores marketplace" featuring locally grown produce. Here, pedestrians may finally be enticed to come up for air and take a café seat overlooking the Hudson—outdoors!
Into the Deep with the Port Authority
This much we know: On October 20, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed Patrick J. Foye on Governor Cuomo's recommendation to be the new executive director of the bi-state agency overseeing a 2011 budget of $7.2 billion with $3.9 billion in capital spending. We also know that Foye is a Skadden Arps ("recovering" in his own words) lawyer with Long Island Republican roots who spent less than 15 months as the downstate chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation under Eliot Spitzer and more recently was Cuomo's deputy secretary for economic development.
We also realize that out-going PA executive director Chris Ward, who two months ago was the hero-du-jour for getting stalled projects at the World Trade Center up and building smoothly enough to pull off the 9/11 decennial, is currently serving as an all-round scapegoat for the cost overruns associated with that achievement. An audit begun on September 30 promises to thoroughly finish the job of tarnishing his legacy.
That the Port Authority is an unwieldy bureaucratic behemoth should come as little surprise; it manages the ports for two states, five airports, two tunnels, four bridges, a commuter railroad, a small police force, and a major planning agency. Established by Congress in 1921, the PA was a fiscal sinkhole until 1931 when it took over the Holland Tunnel. Even Robert Moses considered it an intimidating adversary of labyrinthine complexity and impenetrable means.
A recent opinion piece in the New York Post written by former PA executive director (1995–1997) George J. Marlin described an agency of career turf-fighting bureaucrats admitting little accountability to directors who come and go (on average at a 2.5 year clip) eager to get capital construction projects going before they have been appropriately planned because "once construction starts it's almost impossible to stop." Bluntly, Marlin also wrote: "PA employees are political animals who view the executive director and the governors they serve as meddling interlopers, and will fight to the death to protect their power, perks and pensions." (Pensions apparently include lifetime guarantees of annual salaries ranging from $125,000 to $196,000.)
Knowing this casts a pall on Cuomo's latest suggestion that the murky Port Authority amass even more responsibility by taking charge of the Moynihan Station Development and the LMDC. And while it's good news that Cuomo is trying to redirect attention to the no-brainer but somehow long-idling Moynihan Station, it seems too early to think of LMDC as winding down, as Senator Charles Schumer put it in commending the consolidation. With a majority of the site still incomplete and unrealized—the board of the mega-performance center by Frank Gehry won't even be announced until the end of the year, there's miles to go before either State or City can let up their guard. In fact, even as I write, Bloomberg's people and the Governor's people are wrangling over who's going to pay for all the security at the site; the City said it always assumed the PA had the money.
Foye is known to be a bit of a number cruncher and, according to a press release from the agency's chairman of commissioners, his job will be to "re-prioritize future construction to limit money-losing projects and identify new revenue sources besides the region's residents and businesses." At the same time, Cuomo calls the PA: "a major economic engine that plans for the region and attracts business on an international scale."
So let's get this straight. The mandate is to keep costs in check at the same time as making a splash? Sounds like Foye has his work cut out for him. Then again, there's always the $3.4 billion-and-counting transportation hub by Calatrava. Renting it out for wedding receptions could be just the ticket to having it both ways.
The Stimulus Blues
Obama's jobs speech was music to the ears, but for architects the music is still playing in another room.
Perhaps you sat up at the president's call for a "world class transportation system" competitive with China's, and salivated at the prospect of "modernizing" 35,000 schools (although Obama quickly established the modest scale of renovation at fixing roofs and caulking windows and "installing science labs".) Rebuilding schools still comes closer to design work than filling potholes. It was slightly dispiriting to hear Obama quickly—in the next breathe, actually—go from talk of re-establishing our status as an "economic superpower" through rebuilding to citing a trucking bridge in Ohio in need of a fix. (Sounds like the powerful U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lobby is still calling the shots.)
Obama did not once utter the word "infrastructure" in his speech although some tealeaf readers found implied support for the Infrastructure Bank that architects once thought was going to be the ticket to the kind of ambitious capital investments in which they long to participate—housing, courthouses, libraries, and multi-modal transportation hubs. Many more architects seemed resigned to the fact that the second stimulus, like the first, is going to pass architects by, because the work of making architecture—that's vertical construction in job-friendly speak—with all the advance prep work from site analysis to public review, takes too long at a time when the economy needs immediate help.
But could it also be that the president believes the American public is wary of Grand Projects, and therefore of capital-A architecture? Two New York projects could easily fuel that impression: One is "New York by Gehry."
The problem is not that Frank Gehry's shimmery supertower doesn't add some glamorous swag to the skyline: it most certainly does. The sorry part is the awful brick box that Gehry designed for the public school at the base. For the rental tower, he was working with $875 million. Surely he could have insisted on spreading some of the joy to the public school. He had the chance to show the world that superstar though he be, he can still do the amazing with a small budget. As it happened, Swanke Hayden Connell did their best with $65 million to fit out more than decent interiors for which they are getting zero credit. At the first day of school, it was Bloomberg and Gehry welcoming the kids. In other words, it was the usual architecture as marketing.
More worrisome still is the World Trade Center transit hub by Santiago Calatrava. If Obama never said infrastructure, he did say transportation, several times. Now under construction, most would agree that Calatrava's hub will be world class, some ten long years after breaking ground. But as far as stimulus, this winged white elephant is an egregious overproduction. And as soon as the political group hug—also known as the tenth anniversary of 9/11—is a few weeks behind us, someone is going to start wondering why this station serving 80,000 PATH commuters—originally budgeted for $1.9 billion with expected completion by 2006—is now costing $3.44 billion (the memorial and museum cost $925 million). Charles Bagli of The New York Times—the first canary in the coal mine?—notes that Penn Station serves seven times as many people. There is a real danger of this project becoming a Red Letter A for architectural extravagance, and precisely the kind of fancy work that the country cannot afford. And that's a real pity because the disappointing Spruce Street School cereal box and the bloated transit-osaur do not represent the highly engaged and smart long-term planning that most architects we write about today are working towards. I wish Obama had had some words of encouragement for the important work they are already doing, stimulus or not.
Making Meaning
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"Surely, we can afford to make Ground Zero a place of peaceable assembly for everyone. Indeed, if terror demands a civic reply, what better than a solemn memorial to those lost and a space for the most fundamental exercise of democracy in space, the freedom to gather in a place that is our own."
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"The first and most difficult problem is so obvious that it is amazing that none of the brilliant architects assembled in the design competition dealt with the issue. The site of Ground Zero slopes down 30 feet from Broadway to West Street and the Hudson. This means that the site must be dealt with as a series of platforms from east to west and that north-south cross streets like Church and Greenwich must act as a series of steps across the site. Minoru Yamasaki's World Trade Center design for the PA completely ignored the island's topography."
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"Over the past two years, the tower has gradually been stripped of its best attributes. The final blow was delivered earlier this summer by the New York Police Department, which forced a total redesign when it demanded a greater setback from the street and a heavy barricade to resist potential bombs. Now, just after the fourth anniversary of 9/11, the Freedom Tower has become a bland prism with a forbidding 200-foot-high concrete base."
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The eloquence of the void at Ground Zero will never be surpassed. Walking past the site almost every day, I am always moved by its immense formal authority and grandeur, its presence. Its scale and proportion are not unfamiliar: Times Square, the Zocalo in Mexico City, Red Square, the great plaza of Isfahan are in the same family of spaces, profound settings for public assembly and crucial city symbols. I imagine Ground Zero transformed into such a space of gathering, something between a plaza and a park, a permanent memorial to an event that was so terribly public.
To build such a place requires both an excellent design for the square itself and careful attention to its perimeter, the solid edges that enclose it. The basic envelope is fundamentally sound and includes many superb and historic structures, such as the Barclay-Vesey building, St. Paul's Chapel, and the beautiful post office. Many opportunities to further shape this envelope also exist, particularly to the south where virtually the entire edge might be reconstructed. There are also sites both east and west that—rebuilt—could dramatically reinforce the sense of place. These sites would be logical for cultural institutions, commercial space, and housing.
Although there were many who immediately called for the dedication of this entire place to public use and public commemoration, this option was quickly removed from consideration as "impractical." The Lower Manhattan Development (not memorial) Corporation decided early on that the only "vision" they would support was one that replaced all of the commercial space lost on September 11 on the site itself. The LMDC has been remarkably adroit in stifling any other suggestion and has been equally canny in their use of architecture to obscure the fundamental exclusion of the public from a meaningful role in decision-making.
When the public responded with outrage to the series of diagrammatic solutions to the site design offered two summers ago, the LMDC feigned responsiveness by staging a "competition"—whose winner was selected by administrative fiat—in which a number of architects proposed designs for exactly the same program. None had the courage to suggest that massive amounts of office and shopping space might not be the only possibility. With their fawning connivance, the public was distracted from a discussion of fundamentals and invited instead to debate the finer points of architectural style, which version of 12 million square feet of commercial space it preferred. Now, even the winner of the competition enjoys the indignity of seeing his ideas winnowed away by the growing committee of high-style designers hired by Larry Silverstein, who uncritically seek to bolster their reputations and bank accounts on the site.
Why build skyscrapers here? The main argument is commercial—pulling Silverstein's and the Port Authority's chestnuts out of the fire—but this flies in the face both of a lack of demand (vacancies are high all over town) and of many alternative sites for such buildings. There is, of course, also an argument that the restoration of what was there is the appropriate riposte to terror. This has unfortunately yielded the stupid machismo of yet another "world's tallest building"—a title the Trade Center held only briefly, an equally likely result for any successor. This is simply too preening a response, without gravity, without respect. Finally, it's argued that skyscrapers are the preeminent symbol of New York. Certainly they are the highest architectural achievement of our commercial life. However, I believe that Central Park is the greatest symbol—and the greatest repository—of our public culture.
The last act of the LMDC's roughshod arrogation of downtown's future has been the memorial competition—its finalists just announced—which attracted over 5,000 entries, a clear indication of the pent-up desire for participation. This competition, however, can never substitute for what should have happened, an open competition for ideas at the beginning of the process, throwing it wide open for invention and debate and allowing the memorial to function as the driver. The LMDC has instead waited until the very end and offered competitors a site that is luridly constrained. Submerged below grade, hemmed by the glass-covered slurry-wall and a gigantic waterfall, over-hung by cantilevered cultural institutions, surrounded by Daniel Libeskind's elaborate and banal iconographic program, and lying beneath the looming bulk of the world's tallest building, the memorial—whatever it turns out to be—will suffer the consequences of being an afterthought, an appendage to the big plans of the LMDC, the Port Authority, and Larry Silverstein.
But this need not be. Let the winner of the memorial competition—the only open competition held so far—build his or her winning entry in a great space of public assembly, not in the midst of a clutch of slick office towers. Let those who are so eager to build do so on the perimeter of the site, or in Midtown South, or in Queens or Brooklyn or the Bronx. Let us have a wonderful hub of transportation—the means of bringing people together—under and near Ground Zero. Let cultural institutions gather around the site, as they do around Central Park. But stop the demeaning arrogance of business-as-usual and the construction of an architectural zoo on this hallowed ground.
Can we pay for this? We must. It is time for the federal government to step in: No less than Gettysburg or Pearl Harbor, this is the site of a national trauma and, whatever its ownership, a place that "belongs" to us all. To be sure, the price tag would be several billion dollars but we are about to spend $87 billion reconstructing Iraq, to make that country whole after the devastations of tyranny and war. Surely, we can afford to make Ground Zero a place of peaceable assembly for everyone. Indeed, if terror demands a civic reply, what better than a solemn memorial to those lost and a space for the most fundamental exercise of democracy in space, the freedom to gather in a place that is our own.
Blast of Personal Truth from Port Authority's Chris Ward
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An abstract vision of the site's future is also a high-tech marketing display.As work at the World Trade Center site progresses steadily, a matryoshka-like replica of it has taken shape on the 10th floor of 7 World Trade. With a view of the construction below, the Silverstein Properties marketing suite occupies the same floor as the WTC architects' annex offices, providing a tableau of the working architects as well as the completed site to prospective tenants of towers Two, Three, and Four. Scaled architecture studio Radii Inc. have been designing models of the site since its earliest phases, so Silverstein's senior VP of marketing and communications approached Radii partners Ed Wood and Leszek Stefanski with his conceptual ideas for the diorama. "He wanted it to be big," said Wood. "Our first questions was, 'What are the ceiling heights?'"
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Buzz and hype have surrounded China's recent building boom, but to the east, South Korea is becoming the next hot spot for international architecture.
Far from deferring to China's hectic development, South Korea is positioning itself to be the East Asian country that grows not only faster but also smarter. In 2010, Engineering News Record ranked Seoul as home to six of the 75 top international contractors—a significant number for a nation so small. The juxtaposition of major construction corporations side-by-side with government support and a growing national interest in architectural design is producing opportunities inevitably attractive to international players.
From big corporate firms from the United States to young, internationally-trained Koreans, architects are capitalizing on opportunities in the East Asian nation and particularly Seoul as it rises to compete with China and assert itself as a business hub for northeastern Asia.
After generations of political turmoil, South Korea can now guarantee a degree of economic stability. As a result and on a grand scale, Korean companies that went abroad to build some of the tallest buildings around the world (Samsung led construction on the Burj Khalifa) are now looking to field monuments on their own native soil. Even at the grass-roots level, there is a growing interest in avant-garde architecture and design—home-brewed as well as imported—providing opportunities for small firms and young designers to have an impact on the street by designing art galleries and small homes.
Off the coast of South Korea and not far from Seoul, Songdo represents a new kind of large-scale planned city. A joint venture between Cisco Systems, Gale International, and the New York City office of Kohn Pederson Fox, New Songdo City could be the prototypical aerotropolis—a city defined as much by its proximity to an airport as by its livability—as described by authors John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay in their new book Aerotropolis: How We'll Live Next.
Since 2001, when Gale International signed a $35 billion dollar loan from Korean banks to develop a city right by Incheon International Airport, Songdo has grown rapidly on landfill in the Yellow Sea. Today, it's home to the tallest building in the country —KPF's 68-story Northeast Asia Trade Tower—and it's still growing. Construction on KPF's masterplan will be completed in 2015. Fitting to the city's mission to attract foreign business, its architecture includes work by multiple American firms: KPF's own nine buildings in the central business district include a convention center and an international school, and there are also six residential towers and a hotel by HOK.
Songdo is intrinsic to the South Korean government's vision of the future, according to Richard Nemeth, a KPF principal: "[They] realized that to compete with China, they needed a platform to work internationally. [Songdo] is connected to the new airport, one of the busiest in the world."
If its proximity to an international airport gives Songdo the futuristic moniker "aerotropolis," its vast scale represents a first in international sustainability. Under the USGBC's LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Program (KPF engaged with USGBC to certify the masterplan and develop a new LEED category), Songdo boasts a central non-potable water canal, electric vehicle charging stations, and a city-scale co-generation plant—elements that operate on a larger scale than traditional single-building LEED certification. The city also takes some of its literally green inspiration from American roots: a large public park in the middle of Songdo is named Central Park. The city also attempts to offset the effects of massive new construction by recycling 75% of construction waste and using local materials to minimize transportation costs.
Elsewhere on the western edge of Seoul and in the coastal city of Busan, another American firm is hard at work: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill is constructing what will be two of the tallest buildings in Asia. To be completed in 2013, the Busan Lotte Tower will stand 126 stories high and the Seoul Digital Media City Landmark Tower—renamed Seoul Light Tower—will rise over the capital at 133 stories as the tallest building in East Asia when completed. While the two high-rises began differently—the developer Lotte Group directly offered SOM the Busan tower, while the Seoul Light Tower was won in an international competition (with Gensler plus the local Samwoo Architects on the team)—both towers respond to the demand from public and private sectors in Korea for skyscrapers to represent a new Korean identity.
"We have seen a larger demand for super high-rise buildings out of Korea than from most other countries," said Mustafa Abadan, an SOM design partner. "This has been driven by the fact that Korean contractors have been involved in the construction in the world's tallest buildings. Part of this desire to build a homegrown super-tall tower is for the contractors to establish themselves as the contractors who will be building the super-tall buildings of the future." Several such towers from Korea will be featured in the upcoming exhibition "Supertall!" this July at the Skyscraper Museum.
Busan, like Seoul, is becoming the launching pad for something of a skyscraper arms-race: another New York City firm, Asymptote Architecture, was commissioned in 2007 to build the World Business Center Solomon Tower, a set of three jagged spires, now under construction, designed to culminate 131 feet higher than SOM's Busan Lotte.
Because Seoul and Busan are mostly horizontal metropolises, sprawling laterally rather than vertically, permits for these high-rises were individually negotiated as anomalies to existing zoning laws. When issuing permits for such major projects, local Korean public authorities require that a certain amount of square footage be dedicated to public amenities. For example, KPF's 110-story Hyundai Tower in Seoul will house a museum, an orchestra hall, and a cineplex. These policies exemplify a growing public demand for cultural centers and high-end public spaces.
Public interest in art and design is also creating opportunities for architects at smaller scales, including institutional and residential projects. The APAP Openschool, an art school built of eight bright yellow shipping containers, was recently completed by New York-based architects LOT-EK in the city of Anyang. Joel Sanders' New York office in collaboration with the Korean firm Haeahn Architecture designed the Seongbuk Gate Hills, a complex of 12 private homes in Seoul's chic Seongbuk-dong neighborhood. Also working in Seongbuk-dong is the Brooklyn-based firm SO-IL, whose design for the new Kukje Art Center is currently in construction.
Far from the corporate glitz of the super-tall towers, Sogyeok-dong is filling up with independent coffee shops, boutiques, and galleries that are a hub for young creative professionals. SO-IL's "campus plan" for the Kukje Gallery infiltrates the low-rise neighborhood by occupying different sites within walking distance of one another. The main gallery is designed to house live performances and large-scale installations in the open-plan first floor.
Comparing Korea to Japan over a decade ago when architects from Aldo Rossi to Steven Holl were working there, SO-IL principal Florian Idenburg said, "I think the same thing is happening in Korea, there is a growing appreciation for design and also for being Korean."
SO-IL has two Korean staff on the Kukje Gallery team, part of a growing trend wherein local designers who studied abroad then practice in Korea with local or international firms.
Jae K. Kim, the young founder of Counterdesign, recently completed his own first project in Seoul. Kim studied architectural engineering in Seoul before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he currently studies. Kim's approach to the Bikyoshoki House was born of his work experience at a local construction company and his education at MIT. "People [in Korea] are now starting to be interested in design itself," said Kim. "Before, it was really profit-oriented. Now things are changing, and I'm not talking just about developers, I'm talking about people. They're more interested in environments between architecture and people."
The concrete and steel Bikyoshoki House defies both conventional traditional Korean and American housing typologies: it is a single-family dwelling in a place where most city-dwellers prefer high-rise condominiums, and its spatial organization is provocative. With angular concrete forms paired with glass railings and glazing, the design seems to herald a new Korean architectural identity free of overt historical iconography. While in the past few years, there were few opportunities for small firms to work on single-family residential projects—in the way young architects do in the States—such projects are becoming a common testing ground for young talent.
"There is a new trend in Seoul to have a house as primary residence," said architect Francisco Sanin, chair of graduate programs at Syracuse University's architecture school. "Before that, the trend was for apartment buildings, and an incredible number were built, but in more recent times there is a feeling that you can have a private house."
Sanin is currently working on the construction of ten such private houses in Jisan Waldhaus, a townhouse development of 50 houses built by five architects, all Koreans apart from Sanin. The homes at Jisan Waldhaus—which uses contemporary materials like steel and cast concrete—show off the growing collaborative relationships between international and Korean architects resulting in a new modern suburban typology.
"I think there is a new sense of critical and intellectual discussion about what is best for Korea," said Sanin, adding that there is increasing confidence, especially among architects, in engaging with their own history objectively and creatively.
Brant Coletta, an SOM managing director working on the Seoul Light Tower, noted that rather than building a Korean cultural identity drawn from well known historical icons or philosophy, there is a desire to look forward and build toward a vision of what Korea could be in the future. And that, not surprisingly, is of considerable interest to architects both inside and beyond South East Asia.


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Church First Lady Famous Quotes & Sayings
List of top 17 famous quotes and sayings about church first lady to read and share with friends on your Facebook, Twitter, blogs.
Top 17 Church First Lady Quotes
#1. They are learning a way of feeling connected in which they have permission to think only of themselves. - Author: Sherry Turkle
#2. No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. - Author: Quintus Ennius
#3. Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides. - Author: James A. Baldwin
#4. I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse. - Author: Tahar Rahim
#5. And she pressed closer to me and we were silent and I smelled her, and felt her and listened to her, and knew that if I had nothing else but this, this would be enough. - Author: Robert B. Parker
#6. The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process. - Author: Robert A. Agresta
#7. I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer. - Author: Abbas Kiarostami
#8. While he was in Utah, Obama discussed immigration reform with leaders of the Mormon Church. Obama introduced the first lady. Then the church's president introduced HIS first lady. And his second lady. And his third, fourth, and fifth ladies. - Author: Jimmy Fallon
#9. You are the only person who can decide how you wish to live your life. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else. - Author: Richard Dawkins
#11. The existence of God is infinite love itself ... - Author: Masahisa Goi
#12. Men who have much to say use the fewest words. - Author: Josh Billings
#13. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. - Author: Francis Chan
#14. Never let anyone tell you a dream isn't possible. - Author: Jennifer Dean
#15. The guitar," I said, "will only obey its master."
"Yeah," Cole agreed, "but Grace isn't here." He grinned at me slyly. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater
#16. I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest. - Author: Tamar Braxton
#17. Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again. - Author: Lady Gregory
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It is the normal E.coli found as part of the normal microflora in every intestinal tract. But even normal E.coli do not belong in the bladder and urinary tract. In these areas they can multiply and become an undesirable infection.
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Wo can use Natural D-Mannose?
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Is the City bending the rules?
Has a new breed of advisers crossed the line while preparing companies to float on the stock market?
As he walked out through the revolving doors and into the autumnal chill, Jerry Sloan was troubled. It was last October, and the veteran banker had finished a pitch for what was sure to be one of the biggest stock market listings of 2014. The mandate for Poundland, the high street discount retailer owned by American private equity giant Warburg Pincus, would mean tens of millions of pounds in fees.
There was a catch. In a few days another employee from his bank would be marching into Warburg's St James's office, nestled in a side street of London's clubland. The meeting was a potential deal-breaker.
Warburg had already hired investment bank Rothschild as its "independent adviser". The role was a relative novelty in the City,


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When To Consider Hiring Specialized Medical SEO Service
There's nothing surprising about companies these days treating digital marketing as an integral part of their operations. The future is, after all, the Internet. There is no denying that more and more people are choosing to spend most of their time inside their homes, staring at their computer screens.
Even for hospitals and other medical institutions, it would be hubris to expect that patients would go to them whenever they need services. The first thing that patients and clients would go to are clinics and hospitals that they're familiar with.
However, it's well worth noting that there are some institutions and businesses that prefer to incorporate Internet marketing into their operations. It's not exactly a wise idea. Usually, outsourcing the service to experts make more sense. Here are a few reasons why.
Too Little Time To Tend To Digital Marketing
Nobody in their right mind can claim that medical professionals are slackers. The very thought of learning the jargons and technical aspects of the complex human anatomy itself can be very daunting to normal folks.
Unfortunately, that's the very reason why medical professionals shouldn't even bother trying to delve into the world of Internet marketing. Unless, of course, they want to make it their job instead of doing medical practice.
It makes more sense to hire search engine optimization specialists since they can make the best of the time spent trying to build the brand. Doctors already have their hands full, time-wise.
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Stefno Polla (Universiteit Leiden, Casimir Research School) will deliver a seminar on Wed, 25 July 12.00 at AQM room @ LITA 5th floor:
Towards cluster states from single photon sources
Stefno Polla (Universiteit Leiden, Casimir Research School) will deliver a seminar on Wed, 25 July 12.00 at AQM room @ LITA 5th floor:
Towards cluster states from single photon sources
Heinz-Peter Breuer (University of Freiburg, Germany) is visiting the group from 29 to 31 May 2018.
On Tue, 29 May at 12.30 in Aula Polvani, he will deliver a seminar about:
Mixing-induced quantum non-Markovianity, system-environment correlations and information flow
In May we will host a series of seminars; here's the list (timings and locations will be added).
Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Sofia Zebboudj (University of Bejaia)
"Deterministic measurement device independent quantum key distribution with two secret bits per shared entangled pair"
Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Filippo Troiani (CNR – Modena)
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Nicola Piovella (University of Milan)
Sofia Zebboudj from University of Bejaia is joining us on Thu 9/5, as a visiting PhD students, to pursue a common project on experimental quantum key distribution. She will stay us for the next two months.
Welcome Sofia!
In April we will host a series of seminars; here's the list (please note the different timings).
Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:00 Aula Polvani (piano 1 LITA)
Alessio Serafini (University College London)
"Quantum Control of Continuous Variables"
Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:15 Aula Polvani (piano 1 LITA)
Patrick Hofer (Lund University)
"Fundamental limits on low-temperature quantum thermometry"
Monday, 16 April 2018 14.30 Aula Polvani (piano 1 LITA)
Sebastian Deffner (University of Maryland)
"Quantum fluctuation theorems go Quantum Computers"
Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:15 Aula Polvani (piano 1 LITA)
Nicola Dalla Pozza (University of Padova)
"Naimark extension for phase-measurements"
Tuesday, 24 April 2018 14:30 Aula Ottica Quantistica (piano 5 LITA)
Nathan Shammah (RIKEN, Japan)
"Efficient open-source simulation of open quantum systems with both collective and local dissipation"
On Thur 5 April, 14.00 in Aula Polvani, Alessio Serafini (University College London) is going to deliver a talk about
Quantum Control of Continuous Variables
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Antonio Mandarino from the Polish Academy of Science will be with us from 17 to 21 July.
On Tue 18 Jul 2:30PM (auletta QO, 5th floor LITA) he
will deliver the following seminar
Sabrina Maniscalco (University of Turku) is visiting the group from 29 to 31 May 2017.
On Tue, 30 May at 14.30 in Aula A, she will deliver a PhD colloquium about Quantum probes for complex systems.
Alberto Porzio from the SPIN institute of CNR (Napoli) will be visiting us on Wed 26 April, 2017.
Alberto will deliver a seminar at 12:30 room A5/S2, LITA Building
CV entangled beams carrying OAM are successfully generated by converting entangled polarization modes into vortex beams. Entanglement is detected by homodyning in the OAM space with the homodyne local oscillator switching between different OAM states.
Konrad Banaszek from University of Warsaw is going to visit us from Monday 27 Feb (afternoon) to Thursday 2 Mar 2017.
On Tuesday, Feb 28th, 12 AM Konrad is going to deliver a seminar entitled


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First Federal Lakewood Moves to New Location in North Ridgeville
First Federal Lakewood Moves to New Location in North Ridgeville
October 06, 2017 | Lakewood, OH
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First Federal Lakewood, the largest independent depositor-owned bank headquartered in Ohio, today announced the opening of its new branch at 33701 Center Ridge Road. As the city continues improvements to make the community more accessible to residents, First Federal Lakewood is excited to reinvest in the community at this new location.
"First Federal Lakewood has been serving a growing North Ridgeville community for over five decades. We're thrilled that we'll continue to be a part of the community for many years to come," said Thomas J. Fraser, president and CEO.
The new branch will open on October 10 and is located at 33701 Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville, Ohio.
"To celebrate our move, we'll be hosting a customer and community appreciation event at our new location from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 13," said Kathy Murphy, branch manager. "We hope the community will come share this momentous occasion at our new branch with games, food and giveaways."
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The currently undisputed but outlook-wary wearable champion of the world is looking to turn the page to a new chapter in the company's product lineup evolution, with a device that aims to bring the best of smartwatches and fitness bands together.
Billed as a "smart fitness watch" rather than a full-fledged smartwatch or basic activity tracker, the Fitbit Blaze rolled on the Las Vegas stage for a glitzy CES introduction back in January, being available for pre-orders ever since.
But now it's time for shipping and actual sales to start, with the US price tag still set at $200. The thing is the Blaze isn't stylish enough to take on the Apple Watch, Samsung Gear S2 or second-gen Moto 360, and it's not packed with as many sensors as, say, the slightly cheaper Microsoft Band 2.
Nonetheless, the color LCD touchscreen is a standout feature, and you do get a 3-axis accelerometer, optical heart rate monitor, altimeter, ambient light sensor, and vibration motor. No built-in GPS, unfortunately, so you need to stay connected to an Android handheld, iPhone or Windows Phone if you want your runs accurately tracked.
Sweat, rain and splash proof, the Fitbit Blaze is not also swim proof, and its manufacturers even recommend you take it off before showering. On the bright side, the battery should last up to five days, and Fitbit's proprietary athletic-friendly software remains a tough act to follow for Android Wear.
Fashionistas will be happy to hear the flexible, durable elastomer band is available in your choice of black, blue and plum colors, while backup leather straps and metal links cost $100 and $130 respectively with matching frames.


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2017 Award of Merit Winner – Design Plus Architecture Inc.
CBC Radio Canada Moncton, NB.
Charged with the daunting task of relocating the iconic CBC Radio Canada, architects avoided a potentially controversial change by handling the consultation with care. Based on the Eiffel Tower and La Rambla, this modern facility maintains the heart and soul of the institution through its unique design.


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APDS is a professional, student-run organization at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. It was founded in 2008 with the launch of the joint degree in international relations and public relations at Syracuse University. Since its inception, APDS has evolved into one of the most active on-campus student organizations, conducting the annual public diplomacy Symposium, and publishing Exchange: The Journal of Public Diplomacy.
Mission: The purpose of this organization is to support the exploration and practice of public diplomacy through scholarship, outreach, and campus and community activities
PAIRA is the official graduate student organization representing the needs and interests of Public Administration and International Affairs (PAIA) graduate students at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Mission: In its organizational capacity, PAIRA exists for the purposes of fostering an inclusive community that expands PAIA student opportunity and provides an open forum through which the legitimate concerns of the PAIA graduate student community can be addressed. Additionally, PAIRA obligates itself to the provision of opportunities and activities that stimulate a growth of both PA and IR graduate students.
To accomplish this mission, PAIRA establishes itself in an inclusive, open organizational format. This format takes form in a number of issue oriented standing committees as well as in PAIRA's general membership. The open committees are bound together by the PAIRA Executive Board. PAIRA believes that this structure provides a unique sense of communal leadership that suits the vast needs of the growing PAIA community. In its incarnate capacity, PAIRA pledges to represent the views of its constituency to all inquiring parties in matters before the PAIA community.