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Josiah Conder (architect)
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Josiah Conder
28 September 1852
London, England
21 June 1920 67) (aged
Tokyo, Japan
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|Order of the Sacred Treasures
Josiah Conder (28 September 1852 – 21 June 1920) was a British architect who worked as a foreign adviser to the government of Meiji period Japan.
Conder designed numerous public buildings in Tokyo, including the Rokumeikan, which became a controversial symbol of Westernisation in the Meiji period. He educated many award-winning Japanese architects (notably Tatsuno Kingo and Katayama Tōkuma), earning him the nickname "father of Japanese modern architecture."[1]
Early career
Conder was born in Brixton, Surrey, London to Josiah Conder, a banker, and his wife, Eliza. Conder was educated at Bedford Modern School.[2] After studying at the South Kensington School of Art and graduating from the University of London, Conder worked for the Gothic Revival architect William Burges for two years.[3] In 1876 he was awarded the Soane Medal.
Career in Japan
Recruited by the Japanese government to become Professor of Architecture at the Imperial College of Engineering, 24-year-old Conder arrived in Tokyo in January 1877 and quickly established a reputation as a dedicated and highly skilled teacher. His curriculum included not only extensive training in architectural practice but also drawing, technical draftsmanship, and architectural history and theory.[4] Conder taught five of the most famous Meiji-era Japanese architects: Tatsuno Kingo, Katayama Tōkuma, Sone Tatsuzō, Satachi Shichijirō and Shimoda Kikutarō, who were among the first Japanese architects to build western-style buildings in Japan.[5][6]
Conder was charged with transforming the Marunouchi area into a London-style business district. Despite residing in Japan, he kept up a professional affiliation with the Royal Institute of British Architects, becoming an Associate in 1874 and a Fellow in 1884. He became a part-time lecturer until he set up his own practice in 1888. Some of his former students set up the Architectural Institute of Japan and made Conder its first honorary president.[7] He was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasures (3rd class) in 1894.
Conder developed a keen interest in Japanese arts and after a long period of petitioning, was finally accepted to study painting with the artist Kawanabe Kyōsai. Kyōsai dubbed Conder Kyōei (暁英), incorporating the character ei (英) from the Japanese name for Britain. Conder also studied Enshu school ikebana. His studies led to a number of publications, among them "The Flowers of Japan and The Art of Floral Arrangement" (1891), "Landscape Gardening in Japan" (1893) and "Paintings and Studies by Kawanabe Kyosai" (1911). He wrote the first after a lecture at the Asiatic Society of Japan.
In 1915, the Tokyo Imperial University awarded Conder an honorary doctorate.[8] He remained in Japan for the rest of his life. His grave is at the temple of Gokoku-ji in Bunkyo, Tokyo.
Notable buildings
Conder's architectural designs incorporated a wide variety of styles, including European and colonial elements. Although he designed over fifty buildings during his career in Japan, many no longer exist.
Notable buildings surviving today are the residence of Iwasaki Yanosuke, founder of the Mitsubishi group in Yushima (1896, now the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden) and the Mitsui Club in Mita (1913).
- Kummo-in school for the blind (1879)
- Ueno Imperial Museum, Tokyo (1881)
- Rokumeikan, Tokyo (1883)
- University of Tokyo's faculty of law and literature building, Hongo, Tokyo (1884)
- Iwasaki Villa, Fukagawa, Tokyo (1889); Burnt down by 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
- Holy Resurrection Cathedral (or Nikorai-do, 1891)
- Navy Ministry Building, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo (1895)
- St. Barnabas' Church, Ushigome, Tokyo (1897) (subsequently enlarged by Conder and reopened in 1907)[9]
- Christ Church, Yokohama (1901), second church building at Yamate Bluff. (Destroyed in 1923 Great Kantō earthquake).
- Seisen University Main Hall (1915)
- Furukawa Toranosuke Villa, now Kyu-Furukawa Gardens,Tokyo (1917)
- Tokyo Imperial Household Museum
- Rokumeikan
- Navy Ministry of Japan
- No1 Mitsubishi Office Building Tokyo
- Iwasaki-old-house
- Mausoleum of Yanosuke Iwasaki's Family
- Tsunamachi Mitsui Club
- Rokkaen Yo-kan
- Myouhouji tetsumon
See also
- ↑ Watanabe, Toshio (2006). "Japanese Imperial Architecture". In Ellen P, Conant. Challenging Past And Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art. University of Hawaii Press.
- ↑ "Bedford Modern School of the Black And Red", by Andrew Underwood (1981)
- ↑ Checkland, Olive (2004). "Conder, Josiah (1852–1920)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/73023. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Conant, Ellen (2006). Challenging Past And Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. p. 241. ISBN 0-8248-2937-9.
- ↑ National Diet Library: "Imperial Household Museum of Kyoto – Western-style Building from the Meiji Era."
- ↑ Checkland, Olive (2003) Japan and Britain after 1859: Creating cultural bridges RoutledgeCurzon, London, page 78, ISBN 0-7007-1747-1
- ↑ Stewart (2002), p36
- ↑ Stewart (2002), p37
- ↑ Nish, Ian (1997). Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits (Volume 2 ed.). London: Japan Society Publications. p. 361. ISBN 1-873410-62-X.
- Dallas Finn, Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan, Weatherhill, 1995 ISBN 978-0-8348-0288-9
- Dallas Finn, 'Josiah Conder (1852–1920) and Meiji Architecture', Ch. 5, Britain & Japan: Themes and Personalities, ed. Hugh Cortazzi and Gordon Daniels, London: Routledge, 1991. ISBN 0-415-05966-6
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
- Shuichi Kato (translated and adapted by Junko Abe and Leza Lowitz), Japan: Spirit & Form, 1987–88 (1994), ISBN 0-8048-1969-6
- Stewart, David B (2002). The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture, From the Founders to Shinohara and Isozaki. Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4770029331.
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The Autobot Headmasters prove to be a smashing success, but the Decepticons soon find Nebulan partners of their own.
Japanese title: "Destron Strikes Back"
Detailed synopsis
On Nebulos, the modifications to the Autobots' heads are nearly complete. All that is left is to select their partners. Duros, the combat veteran, takes Hardhead; Arcana, the oldest and wisest among them, takes Brainstorm; Stylor takes Chromedome; Gort takes Highbrow; and Daniel is placed in Arcee. Upon activating, the Autobots feel different and decide to make a test run. The Headmaster process is thus proven as good an idea as Brainstorm believed, as with the rebels' guidance, the Autobots trash the Hive's machines. Satisfied with their trial run, the Autobots and rebels decide that it's time to get the Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber. But the Hive is watching and recognizes Gort and Arcana within the robots. Some of them decide it's time to bring the pain, but their leader decides to watch...
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Back on Nebulos, Scourge is torturing the captive Autobots for the key, to the amusement of Apeface. However, Cyclonus realizes that these Autobots don't have the Key, or the others would be all over them. Bad choice of words, as the Autobot Headmasters appear. They quickly overwhelm the Decepticons and free the captives, taking the Decepticon ship in the process. Some of the Hive members believe that the Decepticons should be destroyed as well, but their leader has other plans. Capturing the Decepticons, Lord Zarak offers them a deal: Submit to the Headmaster process and allow the Hive to be their partners, giving them the strength to destroy the Autobots. Scourge tells them to get bent, but Zarak reveals that the offer was only a formality. Grabbing the Decepticons, Cyclonus and Scourge agree to deal, but only with the heads of the animals. Apeface unsurprisingly objects to the idea of ripping his own head off but his opinion is changed when Cyclonus shoots him in the chest and threatens death. The "vehicle" Decepticons offer their weapons. Zarak agrees, and the modifications begin.
Back on Cybertron, Optimus and Magnus have reached the source of the Autobot leader's quest: the chamber of Vector Sigma. Using the Matrix as an interface, Prime activates the supercomputer to communicate with the spirit of Alpha Trion. Alpha explains that the Key is on Nebulos, and that Vector Sigma arranged for Galvatron to learn of it. All of this is being done to bring about a second Golden Age, which depends on the merging of a human with an Autobot. Before the discussion is ended, Alpha Trion tells Prime to preserve the key at all costs. Prime is confused, but it's kinda hard to argue with God's will, after all. Optimus departs for Nebulos, leaving Ultra Magnus in command of the Autobots until his return.
On Nebulos, the modifications are complete, and the Hive members bond with the Decepticons. Zarak, however, remains behind, having plans for the Hive's city. Meanwhile, the Autobots are dragging the ship to the rebel base, when Cerebros arrives, badly damaged and mumbling that he found a city. The Autobots are able to stabilize him, but the Decepticons show up. Brainstorm is pissed that the Decepticons have their own Headmasters. He's even more pissed when Mindwipe takes the Key from him. However, Brainstorm manages to run a scan on Nightstick before the Decepticons run off. Using the scans gives Hot Rod and Kup an idea. Sometime later, Optimus Prime lands and is introduced to the Headmasters and the Targetmasters. With this force, the Autobots prepare to retake the Key.
Elsewhere, the Decepticons are getting grumpy, having to wait for Zarak and with nothing to shoot. Their boredom is relieved when Prime leads the Autobots in an attack. Arcee and Daniel manage to take the Key and get it to Prime. The Autobots circle Prime and Arcee, vowing to let nothing get through. However, from beneath them, Zarak raises the Hive's city. Suddenly, it begins to transform into something else. The city lands on the ground, and from the dust rises...Scorponok!
Original airdate: November 10, 1987
Production number: 6701-2
Written by: David Wise
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Notable quotes
"Yuck. Noble Autobots make me want to puke."
- —Apeface is not impressed by Kup and Hot Rod's valor.
"I am Zarak. I have a little deal to offer you, one which will enable you to defeat your adversaries. And all it will cost you is...your heads!"
- —Zarak, addressing the Decepticons.
"Did you get your questions answered?"
"Yes. And every answer led to a bigger question."
- —Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime after the Autobot leader's communion with Vector Sigma.
"The boys all call me Nightstick. I hope ya like bustin' heads! AHAHAHAHAHA!!"
"I like busting Autobot Headmasters better."
- —Nightstick and Cyclonus see eye-to-eye.
"It's me, I'm Fracas! And if you think Blowpipe was bad, I'm worse!
"And you're louder.
- —Fracas fails to impress Scourge.
"Autobots! Prepare to feel the sting of....SCORPONOK!!!!!"
- —Zarak attacks the Autobots.
Animation and/or technical glitches
- While not necessarily an error, several Hive members resemble Kranix and other Lithone inhabitants.
- Brainstorm's face is completely gray when he says "Go hang upside down from a tree, Mindwipe!"
- There are various times when the Headmasters and Targetmasters are almost as big as the Transformers themselves.
- The animation scheme seems to miss the entire point of the Headmasters, treating the heads as cockpits rather the Nebulons' bodies.
Continuity errors
- Right after the Decepticons steal the key from the Autobots, Spike says that "they can fly and you guys can't". Granted none of the Autobots can fly in humanoid mode with the exception of the Dinobots, but Brainstorm can transform into a jet and Highbrow can transform into a helicopter, so obviously they can.
- When the Decepticons are abducted by the Hive, one of the machines seen near the conveyor belt has a Decepticon symbol on it, despite no alliance between the two factions until a few moments later. Foreshadowing, perhaps?
- When Krunk is removing the key to the Plasma Energy Chamber from Brainstorm's body and declares, "The key, I have it!", Brainstorm's Headmaster partner Arcana replies, "Ah ha, but I have you, Nightstick!" before Krunk leaves with the Key. Why not just, you know, grab Krunk?
- In the Autobots' counterattack after Prime's arrival, how does Arcee know Scourge has the key? Cyclonus is the highest-ranking Decepticon in the bunch.
- Shouldn't the Matrix be unusable as an interface with Vector Sigma? The Matrix was shown empty in the end of "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2" after the hate plague was cured by the accumulated wisdom from within it? After all, it was months after it was emptied and the accumulated wisdom used was millions of years old. There's no way it could have returned to its original shining state as seen in the episode.
- This isn't an error per se, but Optimus seems rather dazed and confused throughout this entire episode. It's as if coming back from the dead left him as more of an old man than the hero from earlier episodes.
Transformers references
- Vector Sigma first appeared in "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1".
Real-world references
- The Hive line "exterminate, exterminate" is the catch-phrase of the Daleks, which is appropriate because the Daleks were also alien beings who lived in mechanical bodies to compensate for the severe atrophy of their real bodies.
- Optimus correctly guessed that the Matrix could activate Vector Sigma. Yet that idea doesn't strike him when Alpha Trion sacrifices his life to activate it in The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2.
- Gort claims that "the Hive's bodies are withered and useless" due to their extreme hibernation and dependency of technology as a means of survival. Yet Lord Zarak is freaking jacked and ripped like Franco Columbo when we finally see him. Intel must not be too good on Nebulos.
- This episode marks the debut of the new Decepticon city-bot Scorponok.
- Cyclonus seems frightningly willing to murder Apeface over a disagreement. That seems a little extreme, doesn't it?
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Since some of these can also be symptoms of treatable illness, you need to discuss your pet's welfare with your vet. They will be able to advise you and help you to make the right decision for your loved one, but they cannot make the decision for you.
A Last Goodbye Sometimes it is possible to delay euthanasia for a while without causing suffering, for example where the your pet has a terminal illness or is extremely old and the euthanasia is planned in advance. You may wish to give your pet a last night of pampering, its favourite foods or foods that were normally forbidden. This is a time in which to say goodbye and reassure them that they are much loved. However, if your pet is suffering, or is already under anaesthetic, they will not enjoy having their misery prolonged. We understand how very difficult this decision is and we are available to speak with regarding your decision.


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TwitchTV Partners with ESL and Team Dignitas
Yesterday we announced that eSports luminaries djWHEAT and 2GD have joined the TwitchTV team. Welcome!
Today, we're proud to announce that we've scored exclusive partnerships with two eminent eSports organizations: Electronic Sports League (ESL) and Team Dignitas. See below for the official press release.
We're so happy to be working with people and organizations of this caliber.
Be sure to check out the live ESL action at Intel Extreme Masters now.
TwitchTV Scores Exclusive Global Partnerships with Leading eSports Teams and Leagues
Electronic Sports League (ESL) and Team Dignitas join the ranks of other top eSports organizations to stream content exclusively on TwitchTV
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — TwitchTV, the world's largest video game broadcasting community, today announced exclusive partnerships with Electonic Sports League (ESL), a prominent and pioneering eSports league, and Team Dignitas, one of the premier teams in the eSports industry. These highly revered organizations will provide streaming video of their players and events as part of a revenue sharing deal that will benefit both the teams and the network.
"TwitchTV has been an amazing partner for our team," said Michael O'Dell, owner and managing director of Team Dignitas. "They clearly have the best streaming tools for both broadcasters and viewers, with unmatched quality and service. They've really helped us expand our viewership and community. This official partnership highlights the relationship we've had for quite awhile."
"At the ESL, we all have an overwhelming passion for eSports, and we know we share it with the TwitchTV team," said Sven Hoffmann, managing director at ESL TV, web TV service of the ESL. "We're happy to partner with them to bring all ESL content to the TwitchTV platform. Their audience of gamers, high quality video platform and passion for gaming makes them the best choice."
These new partnerships extend a long list of other exclusive contributors, including:
— New: Electronic Sports League (ESL)
— IGN Pro League (IPL)
— Major League Gaming (MLG)
— North American Star League (NASL)
— Many others…
— New: Team Dignitas
— EvilGeniuses (EG)
— Complexity
— TeamLiquid
— Many others…
"As the leader in eSports broadcasting, it's critical that we continue to attract and showcase the industry's top talent," said Emmett Shear, CEO of TwitchTV. "These two new partnerships are the latest in a long list that includes the largest, most reputable organizations in electronic gaming. I'm so proud that teams and leagues of this caliber see fit to partner with us. We're here to support them in everything they do."
About Team Dignitas
Based in Great Britain, Team Dignitas is considered one of the best professional gaming teams in the world.i" Dignitas was formed in 2003 after the merger of two excellent Battlefield 1942 teams, but has expanded its forte to include many other games. In addition to the big franchises under their belt, they have a reputation for being one of the few major teams to support games with much smaller communities.
About Electronic Sports League (ESL)
The Electronic Sports League (ESL) is the largest and most important league for gamers in Europe consisting of more than 3 million registered members and more than 740,000 registered teams. ESL is operated by the company Turtle Entertainment GmbH since 2000 and offers more than 3,500 professional leagues and amateur ladders from a variety of games. http://www.esl.eu
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Tim Farley With P.O.T.U.SPosted: November 8, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment News | Tags: POTUS, SkyNews, Tim Farley Leave a comment
In my humble opinion: Tim Farley (yeah he's my dad and I might be biased) is one of those rare News reporters/commentators that I can listen to and not be annoyed. I have a short list honestly; Joe Scarborough, Lester Holt, Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper and of course…Tim Farley. Maybe it's because I know that when Tim Farley discusses politics he truly does his homework and ensures he knows what he's talking about. He's also able to make a point or convey a certain point of view without sounding like a condescending ass (Yeah, you know who I'm talking about Bill O'Reilly). Tim Farley obviously has opinions, but he's level-headed enough to hear both sides of a position or argument and present his own perspective in a cool, calm manner which is something that's missing in News nowadays. For a little glimpse of the man himself click the link below:


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