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Can Architecture Fail Better?
This weekend just passed I spent in Warsaw, in a hotel just on the edge of the massive square under the Palace of Culture. I don't possess a camera these days so there was no way I could really make a documented journey that I could share with you, but of course Owen has already done so rather bloody well. I must say that I really enjoyed my coffee outside of Powisle station, ruminating on certain particularities of Warsaw pact urbanism, which I've picked up in previous travels to Poland, the Czech Republic, East Germany and Slovakia. Such features include the width of the pavements, always generous, the unfussy borders between pavements and grass / shrubbery, and of course the accentuated distance between buildings. Top that all off with a windswept plaza and you're really somewhere.
My reason for being there was a talk to be given at the Museum of Modern Art, which awaits its eventual relocation into a building by Swiss architect Christian Kerez. I've previously interviewed him over the phone, and his English sounds uncannily like that of Werner Herzog's, which was eerie to say the least… I must say I'm impressed with his Warsaw project, which has hints of the best of post-war Brazilian Brutalism, and I hope that when it is realised it is as good a building as it appears in the drawings and renders.
Anyway, I'd like to share with you my notes for the talk, which I ended up kind of ad-libbing in the end. It's an early attempt to push ideas a bit further than they go in my book, but at the same time is a little bit of an elucidation into some of the ideas contained in it. Please forgive the conversational tone.
As you may have noticed, we are at the current time experiencing a new period of ruinenlust. But the subject of this passion for ruins is modernism; many of the 20th century's experiments in changing the spatial patterns of politics, aesthetics and life still exist, ever more poignant due to the faded urgency of their expressions of tomorrow. The ruins of modernism figure heavily in the work of contemporary artists such as Jane and Louise Wilson, Cyprien Galliard, Tacita Dean, or Jeremy Millar. To that you should add the new book by Owen Hatherley, and the recent film by Patrick Keiller 'Robinson in Ruins'.
So there are a number of strands of what we might call ruin-thought currently at work. To these I would like to add my own area of research, which in a very clichéd way might be described as a history of the future.
I too am interested in the ruin, but in my research the ruin has cometo signify something more abstract than the abandoned and the decayed. I might be able to talk about the 'abstract ruin', but I think that a better word to describe my research is perhaps the word 'failure'. To me, 'failure' is a word which describes not only its literal meaning, not achieving one's goals etc… but also a certain way of seeing.
One might call it 'urban romanticism' perhaps, or maybe 'architectural melancholy', but it refers to, and is drawn to a certain active repression of negativity in architectural culture, a repression that one can uncover through the examination of fragments. I contend that this constant repression is not only a process of aestheticisation but is also a politically charged repression as well. Hopefully I can give you a few examples here tonight.
I will look at a number of different types of building and discuss ways in which this 'failed' condition appears in them. What I will be trying to tease out is a certain 'radical weakness'.
Iron and glass palaces
I will start from what are often attributed as the very beginning of modern architecture, the iron & glass palaces. Made possible through the development of industrially mass-produced cast-iron and plate glass, these buildings evolved from the construction of small orangeries attached to the sides of aristocratic housing till by the middle of the 19th century they had become the largest enclosed spaces in the world, accommodating massive exhibitions, huge displays of flora, as well as covered shopping streets and railway stations. It is not to exaggerate to say that they accommodated some of the most significant changes in ways of life that were occurring at the time; the birth of consumer capitalist culture, the beginnings of mass transit and mobility.
Perhaps the most famous of these buildings is the Crystal Palace, built in London in 1851 to house the Great Exhibition, which in the words of Prince Albert, was "to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived." the Crystal Palace was a gigantic web of mass-produced iron & glass, a vast display cabinet containing over 100,000 exhibits, ranging from industrial machinery to raw materials, from fabrics to furniture. Over 6 million people visited the exhibition in six months, one of the most significant early moments in mass culture.
On the one hand the Great Exhibition was a way of symbolically demonstrating Britain's lead in the industrial race, but at the same time it was an event that was born from elite fears of insurgency; conceived in the wake of the failed European revolutions of 1848 and the Chartists revolt, a fear of the working class was a prominent accompaniment to the exhibition. However, not only did the Exhibition help to placate working class anger, it also united the aristocracy and bourgeoisie behind the banner of free trade, inaugurating a new regime of spectacular capitalism: Walter Benjamin wrote that at the Great Exhibition "the masses, barred from consuming, learned empathy with exchange value".
It is frequently thought of as the definitive example of proto-modernist architecture, the work of an engineer-genius who defined a new language of prefabrication and minimal regularity. Overall these iron & glass buildings ushered in a whole new regime of spatial qualities. Compared to the prevailing mood for beaux-arts eclecticism, massive, monumental, a language belonging to the initiates, the weightlessness and lack of conventional language made these buildings highly controversial. For many there was no way that they could be considered architecture at all, examples of 'mere engineering', unsuitable for existing in cities. Very soon aesthetic cowardice would prevail and iron and glass buildings would be constructed behind monumental masonry facades, (take, for example the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, which marked a return to Beaux-arts aesthetics, and about which the modernist Louis Sullivan would remark: "The damage wrought by the World's Fair will last for half a century from its date, if not longer")
It is not at all difficult to understand the transition from the great exhibitions on to buildings such as shopping malls and other such vast commercial spaces, but there is far more to them than that.
First of all, there were a number of more utopian views of the Crystal Palace. One can be found in Chernyshevsky's novel 'What is to be Done?'. In a celebrated passage the Crystal Palace (which Chernyshevsky visited in 1859) appears to the heroine in a dream; functioning as a symbol of a peaceful socialist future brought about through rationalism and technology. (Later, Tatlin's monument to the third international would be described by the critic Victor Schklovsky as being "made of iron, glass and revolution") The transparency, lightness and rationalism of iron and glass was seen by many radical critics in the early 20th century as a forward looking counter to the eclectic styles of the bourgeoisie. (See German Expressionism, or Siegfried Giedion etc...)
A less avant-garde attitude was that of the well meaning 19th century concept of 'improvement', whereby the lower classes were to be given access to culture in the hope not only of improving their lot, but also reducing the risk of working-class discontent. When the Crystal Palace was rebuilt after the exhibition was over, its owners were adamant that this massive building would be used as a space for, as described in its charter, "the illustration and advancement of the Arts, Sciences and Manufactures, and the cultivation of a refined taste amongst all classes of the community." Try to imagine a building that housed a massive concert venue (20,000+ capacity), with a series of museum spaces in which various architectural styles were rebuilt and mimicked, along with gardens, displays of art and sculpture as well as an art & engineering school. It basically contained every artistic and cultural activity that you might think of, all contained within a gigantic display case.
But far from the glorious monument it is often remembered as, the Crystal Palace itself lurched from crisis to crisis, never actually living up to its lofty intentions, and never managed to make any money, prompting the following comments:
"Glass, as we know, is an excellent non-conductor of heat; it is possible that it is also a non-conductor of coin & prosperity."
It slowly became dilapidated (like so many other buildings of its kind) and eventually burned down in 1936.
I recall a visit to the Crystal Palace during a summer in the mid 1930's; it presented a most woe-begone picture, peeling and sun blistered paintwork, the glass grimy, ironwork encrusted with rust and stonework suffering from erosion. Overall was a film of black dust that seemed to invade everywhere.
And against monumentality, weakness is, perhaps, one of the defining characteristics of the palaces and their culture. From the very simple sense that compared to all architecture that had gone before the palaces looked as delicate as a spider's web, "the most fairy-like production of Architectural Art that had yet been produced" ethereal, almost completely transparent, to the worries before the Great Exhibition that the building would collapse at the first heavy wind, to the very word 'Crystal', with its connotations of the fragility of glass, to their susceptibility to fire and collapse, to their pathetic fights against commercial decline, we should stress the strong narratives of weakness that attend the culture of the iron & glass buildings.
Eventually, nearly all the iron and glass buildings of the 19th century were demolished, or were destroyed, victims of neglect and a number of other conditions.
"these buildings vanished from the mental horizon like a fata morgana, like a shimmering soap bubble that could not survive the forces of the times and burst into tiny pieces."
Now, at this point I would like to note various other buildings with these qualities, failed, ruined architectures, bearers of the qualities that couldn't be allowed to happen.
Perhaps the next time that a pure aesthetic of this kind would appear would be in the work of the most radical left-wing architects. Takes Hannes Meyer, head of the Bauhaus from 1928-30, who was fired by the fascist mayor of Dessau for donating money to striking workers, and who would design buildings for trade unions as part of a collective practice with his students. His competition entry for the League of Nations (1927, unbuilt) made great play of the egalitarian overtones of modularity and repetitive units; compared to Le Corbusier's heroic modernist entry to the same competition Meyer's was rough and full of radical commitment, with a gigantic steel & glass dome over the assembly. Critic Kenneth Frampton makes the connection explicit: referring to Meyer's radically democratic deployment of prefabricated units and the privileging of process over composition, he wrote that
"All unity is now seen to reside not in some pre-ordained static ideal, as in antiquity, but in process itself, as made manifest through the proliferation of rationalized technique in response to changing need. Hannes Meyer's design for the League of Nations building of 1927, with its systematic modular assembly of components, clearly intends little else but such a manifestation. In this respect one can hardly overlook its significant derivation as technical method from Paxton's Crystal Palace." This is a very strong deployment of the aesthetic, naked prefabrication coming to stand as a metaphor for socialist organization.
Now of course the building is crude, and lacks a certain sophistication compared to Le Corbusier's more celebrated entry. But there is a certain charge to the rudimentary grid and its deployment, and considering the function of the building, the political message that would be put across can be seen to be almost unbearable; there is not a political organization that one can imagine that would be able to send the message that their power is prefabricated and generic.
British architect Cedric Price was in some ways perhaps the ultimate 'functionalist' - he had the required faith in technology and the belief in a changing society, but compared to his contemporaries Buckminster Fuller, Archigram in the UK and the various radial architecture groups at that point, his projects were based on a level of analytical rigour that was a world apart from his fellows.
Price was well known for commitment to indeterminacy, his aversion to style, his absolute rejection of monumentality and detail. Bearing in mind that a non-aesthetic is still an aesthetic, if we examine Price's built work we can begin to see remarkable parallels with the iron & glass palaces, with their immateriality and their un-ruined dilapidation.
Price's Aviary at London Zoo (1961-) is a spacious wire tent, so immaterial as to be almost non-existent. Filled with trees, it was intended to be quickly removed once the birds had made their permanent home, but is still standing, dirty yet proud.
His famous 'Fun Palace' project is very similar to the system of courts we discussed inside the Sydenham Palace; a minimal superstructure was to be filled with a shifting set of fragmented spaces for various leisure purposes. But while the courts of the Sydenham Palace were nominally static, the Fun Palace was to be structured in such a way that it could be reconfigured at any time. The Fun Palace has become a very significant project, highly popular with those in the art world with a passion for interdisciplinarity or relational aesthetics etc. For this reason I think it's important to not let it be an intellectual plaything of jet-set curators justifying their own patronisingly class-less and whimsical collaborations. In fact, contrary to the repeated injunctions, I think it's vitally important to consider the aesthetics of the fun palace, consider what kind of political and ideological message a building of its kind expresses. In fact, until recently there was an opportunity in London to do just that.
The InterAction Centre (1976-2003) was a scaled down version of the ideas from the Fun Palace. A lightweight and stripped down frame was constructed into which containers and other industrial objects were inserted to create an evolving and adaptable set of activities. Again, the comparisons to iron & glass are telling; the spindle-like frame, the sense of potential for expansion and contraction, the incomplete spaces made up by fragmentary units within, the dirt and grime that collected around the permanently-temporary structure, all these things were visible in the Crystal Palace, while the programmatic concerns of activity & delight were modern versions of the 'people's palace'. Price built little, and would probably reject this assessment of his work, but I suggest that what you can see there is an example of what a genuine future would look like, if the revolutionary change of the late '60s had been more successful. Dirty but not ruined, dream-like and un-monumental – Fantastically dreary.
Now of course one might see certain tendencies that are currently active; it's true that the exhibition culture of the late 19th century did lead to the shopping mall capitalism, and also true that the culture & fun palaces as described before also provide roots and glimpses of the worldwide phenomenon of the contemporary art museum, There's another, more hidden route that these histories lead forward to. I'd like to talk here about LSSB's, or 'Large Single Story Buildings', or otherwise known as 'Big Sheds'.
These are possibly the most exemplary buildings of contemporary capitalism, functioning as distribution centres for goods. These buildings occupy space with high infrastructural density, and are perhaps the closest things to 'pure' architecture that exist any more. They are very difficult to love, almost entirely lacking in aesthetic reference points, significantly, these structures are almost entirely ignored by the architectural press in a manner that cannot help bring to mind that manner in which iron and glass architecture was ignored. Although they were described by the late British critic Martin Pawley as 'the architecture of the future' in 1998, this was not necessarily a recommendation. These buildings represent some of the only spatial manifestations of globalised capitalism, moments in the networks of container ships, automated container ports and so on. They are rare points where immaterial capitalism 'touches down'.
But if they have been ignored by architects themselves, they have been approached by artists. Patrick Keiller's 1997 film 'Robinson in Space' goes in search of the spatial qualities of contemporary British capitalism, expecting to find decline but instead being confronted with the blank faces of a then-thriving culture. Distribution parks built on former coal mines, the cheapest and most efficient spaces possible. More recently, Chris Petit's film 'Content' (2010) also attempts to aesthetically approach these almost entirely blank spaces. In the words of Petit, the big sheds 'render architecture redundant'. Is it possible to look to these buildings with a similar eye to those that saw fragments of the future in iron & glass?
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- ctrebor said...
I see big sheds as a version of the favourite 60's science fiction concept of the dome, the mediated environment within which climate is controlled and the safety of people and goods is controlled. I was very struck by the space created by a 56m portal I worked on as an architect. Is it more than just a cheap way to enclose the most space?
- 19 March 2013 at 16:59
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Phil Baugh was one of the best session guitarists in Nashville during the 1970s and '80s. Born and raised in Northern California, he began playing guitar and performing in churches as a child, which led to band and nightclub gigs. He got his first big break playing with Ray Price, who helped him get a recording contract with Longhorn Records in Dallas. In 1964 Baugh and Vern Stovall recorded the album Country Guitar, which contained two major hits, "Country Guitar" and "One Man Band." In 1965 he was named Best Guitarist by the ACM, Outstanding Instrumentalist of the Year by Billboard, and Instrumentalist of the Year by Cashbox. Baugh rejoined the Ray Price band as a lead guitarist in 1969. He moved to Dallas two years later and became a prominent studio musician for commercial jingles and album projects. Baugh moved to Nashville in 1975 and there became one of the hottest session players in town. His unique sound stemmed from his invention of the "Phil Baugh Pedal," comprised of six pedals that bent the strings of an electric guitar to produce sounds similar to that of a steel pedal guitar. Baugh formed the Superpickers in 1980, which included steel guitarist Buddy Emmons, drummer Buddy Harmon, bassist Henry Stryzlecki, pianist Willie Rainsford, and percussion/harmonica player Terry McMillian. During the early '80s, Baugh also embarked on a successful producing career. He suffered a coronary in 1985, but continued working on the Nashville Network's Church Street Station. However, he never fully regained his health and died in 1990 at age 53. ~ Sandra Brennan~ Rovi


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Pupils at Sacred Heart Catholic school in Camberwell have been getting into the festive spirit with several charity projects this year.
This year the school initiated a new project called the 'Sacred Heart Giving Tree' where students and staff could buy gifts for a number of children who are currently living in poverty in London. During the last week of term Katie Waring from the Catholic Children's Society came into school and collected over 20 gifts to help fulfil these children's Christmas wishes.
During the last two weeks of term, pupils have also been engaged in their annual Christmas hamper campaign, donating food and other Christmas treats which are then wrapped in special hampers and delivered to local pensioners. Many students made complete hampers themselves at home and brought them in to donate.
"Thank to the generosity of our students there will be a lot of happy elderly people and children this Christmas tucking in to some lovely Christmas goodies," said RE teacher Mr Alex White, who organised the charity campaign along with his Chaplaincy team colleague Mr Richard Price. "This year Sacred Heart has really got stuck in and have embraced the season of giving!"
Additionally, Sacred Heart pupils this year also raised £850.00 with their annual Carol Singing at the Oval Tube Station and Waterloo Tube Station a further £2635.00 from the school's annual Christmas raffle. These sums will be donated to the school's next charitable mission to the Pattaya Orphanage in Thailand in 2017.


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High court makes right call in cross case
In a recent and rare victory for veterans, our Constitution and common sense, the Supreme Court ruled that a World War I memorial cross standing 76 years in the wilds of the Mojave Desert did not violate the establishment clause ("Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion ..." ) of the First Amendment.
In the latest outrage, thieves have literally ripped the cross from the ground in the Mojave National Preserve.
For an ordinary person, it is mind-boggling to believe that the presence of a cross could establish a religion; yet 44 percent of the justices, and every court en route to the Supreme Court did — further proof of lingering Neanderthal genes in humans.
Abraham Lincoln warned: "Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." Ignoring Lincoln's wisdom, today's court jesters have interfered with the First Amendment, perhaps the most significant 46 words in the history of civilization, to legalize pornography and flag burning while denouncing Christmas, God, the Boy Scouts and prayer. They will not allow the 10 Commandments to be posted in American courtrooms — even though it is posted in the Supreme Court.
How to explain such lunacy? There are two dominant schools of thought on interpreting the Constitution: those who believe the Founders meant what they wrote and those who believe that the Constitution is what they say it is — an amorphous document subject to progressive morality, personal bigotry, current trends, fashions and similar circumstances in foreign countries. Never play poker with the latter; they will change the rules in the middle of a pot.
The head of the spear for these amorphous constitutionalists is the American Civil Liberties Union. Within the ACLU are coffined vampirelike beings who go berserk at the sight of a cross.
Hidden from the public square, in dark courtrooms, they convince like-minded judges that crosses on public land establish a religion.
Of course, the cross does not establish a religion. It is an icon used on national flags and countless symbols across the world. It covers the remains of American warriors in many foreign cemeteries. Those crosses symbolize their courageous service and sacrifice for those freedoms; and that is the meaning of a cross — courage, service and sacrifice.
Because of their courageous service and sacrifice, many of those warriors wore Distinguished Service Crosses and Distinguished Flying Crosses. Do these medals establish a religion?
Veterans saved the Mojave cross. They live and die to protect and defend the Constitution. We need to drive a stake through these vampires' hearts and stop them from sucking the blood out of our Constitution.
Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady (U.S. Army retired) was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam. He was later the Army chief of public affairs.


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By Teachers, For Teachers
In the teaching profession, we tend to find certain favorite phrases or quotable quotes that encapsulate a certain thought they want to impress upon their students. Well, that's at least true for me. Over the years I've caught myself returning to a few favorite statements that – I hope – turned an important thought into a pithy nugget of wisdom students could take with them.
Here are a few of favorite "Teacher phrases" of mine. I hope to hear some of yours as well.
I found that my students often thought that they needed to know all the answers, or else they were "Dumb." Students were often cowed into silence simply because of the misconception that they needed to know more than they did. Sure, smart people have plenty of answers, but that's not what makes them smart. "Smart people," I tell students, "have questions because they don't know something. They're smart because they're curious and willing to ask."
This makes the feeling of "Smartness" so much more much accessible and so much more human. I found that this statement helped liberate students from feeling like they weren't smart or weren't allowed to ask questions. Instead of questions being a clear indicator of one's ignorance, questions in my classroom were praised as signs of authentic curiosity and intelligence.
I often found my students operating under the assumption that they were expected to memorize strictly what I taught them and use that information to ace the next exam. What a narrow way of looking at education! I remind students frequently that my job wasn't just to hand them a list of information to memorize, but rather to introduce them to skills, processes, perspectives, techniques, and the wide world of ideas. This was my way of inviting students to a challenge. I wouldn't just give them the answers, but rather nudge them into thinking for themselves utilizing the skills and content we have studied.
I reminded students with this statement that I wasn't just interested in their grades. I was interested in whom they were becoming as people. Grades usually identified a student's academic proficiency, but so much more went into how they earned their grades and how they operated as an individual within their broader school community. Giving up in the face of a challenge was not OK. Sacrificing one's integrity was not OK. Acting selfish or condescending was not OK. Doing the minimum to pass was not OK. It never hurts being a strong student, but it's far more important to consider who our students will be once they graduate as well.
We rarely value silence. It's awkward and feels so unproductive. We idealize the "Loud" classroom where students are collaborating and ideas are bouncing around the room. Sure, thinking out loud and having active discussions are great. But silence is its own virtue. If we value thinking, then we also need to give students the space and permission to think.
That's why I remind students that silence isn't awkward, or a sign of zoning out. Silence grants our minds with room to breathe and process. So when my class was having a discussion and the room went quiet for a few awkward moments, I used this phrase to encourage students to live in the silence without straining for someone to break it. When I wanted students to read, or write, or brainstorm, or do any sort of sustained thinking, I made sure the environment was quiet so their minds could wander freely to discover new thoughts without interruption. I want my students to know that silence is OK.
I would routinely have students tell me something like, "Oh my gosh, I'm terrible at writing!" or "My math teacher hates me. I can't do math!" Yes, students exaggerate, but rooted inside of their hyperboles are the hidden fears of inadequacy. Some students feel like they need to openly acknowledge where their deficits are so as to make excuses for their forthcoming failures. This mindset, however, was unacceptable with me. These phrases represent a fixed mindset, the notion that they are innately bad at whatever task they're naming.
As a simple response, I would utter something like this as my retort: "Of course you're not a good writer … that's why you're in this class. If you were already an expert at it, you wouldn't need to be in school!" This makes sense to students, but they hardly arrive at this conclusion on their own. This statement helps remind students that they're in school to learn, to develop skills and acquire knowledge they didn't have before. In one moment, a student is flipped from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset and ready to take better advantage of their time at school.
This one's a little weird, but I like the comparison. While much of the time we might focus on how important a given test is – like an Advanced Placement exam or the SAT – I feel like it's important to remind students they are worth more than a test score. I make the comparison between a picture of them when they were a kid and a picture of them today. "Do you look the same?" I ask. The students shake their heads no. "That's sort of like how your brain works, too. A test helps us take a picture, in a way, of how much skills and knowledge you have today. But the score you earn doesn't mean that's the score you're destined to get for the rest of your life. Your skills and knowledge will keep growing, just like your body."
When sharing this with students, I'll often tell them what I got on certain tests when I was their age, and then how much more I've learned and how capable I am now as an adult, all because I kept learning and didn't let a score define me. Students, I hope, will begin to put less pressure on themselves to perfect a given test and instead focus their attention on their own lifelong development.
These are some of my favorite phrases I've used off and on with students over the years. Of course, they don't work out as magically as I sometimes imagine. Students roll their eyes, argue back, or just don't understand what I've getting at. That's OK, though. As a teacher, I do my best each day to inculcate students with new and simple ways of understanding education, life, and themselves.
I know we all have our favorite phrases we use in the teaching profession. What are some of yours? Share with us your own favorite sayings in the comments below!
Jordan Catapano taught high school English for twelve years in a Chicago suburb, where he is now an Assistant Principal. In addition to being National Board Certificated and head of his school's Instructional Development Committee, he also has worked with the Illinois Association of Teachers of English and has experience as a school board member for a private school. You can follow him on Twitter at @BuffEnglish, or visit his website www.jordancatapano.us.


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Cameroon / Bank Group Mission Discusses Regional Financial Integration with COBAC Officials
YAOUNDE, Cameroun, December 26, 2008/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A Bank Group mission led by ONRI Lead Financial Economist, Michael I. Mah'moud, and comprising Messrs. Gabriel Mougani, Principal Financial Economist; and Jian Zhang, Principal Macroeconomist, held discussions, from December 18-19, 2008, in Yaoundé, with the Central African Banking Commission (COBAC) on the Bank's ongoing study on regional financial integration and ways of enhancing collaboration between the Bank and COBAC on support to financial integration efforts in the CEMAC region.
The mission also encouraged COBAC to participate in the forthcoming forum on Partnership for Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A). The mission signed an Aide-mémoire with the Advisor to the COBAC Secretary-General, Léandre Djummo, on the discussions and the way forward aimed at facilitating progress.
The mission also included CMFO Chief Country Economist, Racine Kane.
SOURCE : African Development Bank (AfDB)


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Memorial-Saint Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church
|2 Samuel 7:22: How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
Prayer ...
Heavenly Father, we hold you in the highest place in our heart. Forgive us when we do not hold you in the highest place in our life. Allow us with your Holy Spirit to give up all the small things that distract our loyalty to you and interfere with you being the highest and Sovereign God in our day to day life. In Infant Jesus' name. Amen.
Today's Readings ... (October 15, 2012)
|Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church
|First Reading:
|Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1
|Responsorial Psalm:
|Psalm 113:1b-2, 3-4, 5a and 6-7
|Second Reading:
|Luke 11:29-32
Meditation on Today's Gospel:
Jesus came to set us free from slavery of sin and upsetting desires. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit he pours his love into each one of us hearts that we may appreciate his will for our lives and walk in his way of sanctity. God searches our hearts, not to condemn us, but to show us where we require his saving grace and help. He calls us to look for him with true regret, humility, and the sincerity to see our sins for what they really are a refusal of his love and will for our lives. God will change us if we listen to his word and allow his Holy Spirit to work in our lives. Ask the Lord to renew your mind and to increase your thirst for his wisdom. A double-minded person cannot get this kind of wisdom. The single of heart wish one thing alone – God's happiness. God wants us to joy in him and to know the liberty of his truth and love. "Loving Infant Jesus, give us a heart that loves what is good and in harmony with your will and fill us with your understanding that we may understand your ways. Give us the grace and the guts to reject whatever is evil and opposing to your will.


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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This past Sunday, we took a powerful and transformative look at the table flipping practice of Jesus. We were invited to protest through examining what we are FOR. We pray that the resources below would aide you in the journey of protest, especially for those of you who experienced the stirring to be broken open for the sake of reconciliation. May you this week take a step towards closing the gap between your desire and reality, and may we continue practicing together the rhythms of Eucharist as Mission.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/1″][vc_text_separator title="Resources" title_align="separator_align_center"][text-with-icon icon_type="font_icon" icon="icon-laptop" color="Accent-Color"]An excellent place to explore more of what Austin Channing Brown shared with us, is through her blog which can be found below. Another fantastically helpful resource created by Austin is her guide to 8 Conversation Deflections and Responses. She specifically tackles common issues that are brought up in conversations about race and offers suggestions for loving Christian response.
[/text-with-icon][divider line_type="Full Width Line" custom_height="40″][text-with-icon icon_type="font_icon" icon="icon-youtube-play" color="Accent-Color"]For those who were with us this past Sunday, one of the highlights in response to receiving the Eucharist was to have Austin Channing Brown read the prayer of St. Francis to and over us. For a beautiful artistic rendering of the prayer in visual form, click here.[/text-with-icon][divider line_type="Full Width Line" custom_height="50″][text-with-icon icon_type="font_icon" icon="icon-book" color="Accent-Color"]Finally, we wanted to suggest a few books that those of you who are wrestling with what protest might actually look like in your life. As Austin shared, protest is not simply about dramatic stands (though it certainly can be), but instead, true protest is lived in one's day to day life. One of the most practical and tangible ways that each of us can be FOR things is in our conversations and so below are a few resources we've found to be helpful in being intentional in our daily conversations with people about the things that really matter.
- Disunity in Christ by Christena Cleveland
- Winner of a 2013 Leadership Journal Book Award ("Our Very Short List" in "The Leader's Outer Life" category) 2014 Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with us, don't look like us, don't act like us and don't even like what we like. Though we may think we know why this happens, Christena Cleveland says we probably don't. In this eye-opening book, learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions.
- Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
- The title is helpfully explanatory: We each need help to reexamine the conversations that fill our days and be encouraged in why and how they could matter. A must read especially for anyone who might struggle feeling that their protest is really known by others in their lives.
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
- This final resource offers us tools for remaining intentional, even when conversations become tense or overwhelming. This book expands on the ideas presented by Austin Channing Brown in her guide mentioned above and helps you dive deeper into having meaningful conversations with your life.


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When we heard that there was a Pixar exhibition in town, Raquel and I rushed to the ACMI at the Federation Square in the CBD to see it. As a wanna-be artist/cartoonist, I found the exhibition itself very educational and inspirational. It was amazing to see the miniature figurines (called maquettes) and the various pastel-drawn work used as reference by the Pixar artists and animators.
It's just too bad we weren't allowed to take photos of the actual exhibit so the best we could do was take photos of the replica of Pixar movies' characters such as Sulley and Mike from Monsters, Inc., Sally from Cars and Luxo Jr., Pixar's mascot.
By the time we were finished at the exhibit, it was already dark outside but not too dark. So, we figured we might as well take a few more photos of Melbourne just as the light in the horizon was fading. I've added a few of those photos with the Pixar album if you are interested.
Pixar at the ACMI
Anyway, for those of you interested in seeing the Pixar exhibition, the event is officially called Pixar: 20 Years of Animation and will end on October 14. Here are some pertinent details of the exhibit from the ACMI website:
Until Sunday 14 October 2007
Full $15 Concession $10
Book your exhibition tickets online
Family tickets available from $44 (2 adults, 2 children).
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Forum Post: Breaking: Source At DOJ Leaks Documents In Fast and Furious Scandal
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Breaking: Source At DOJ Leaks Documents In Fast and Furious Scandal
Anthony Martin March 24, 2012
"Citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh, who first broke the Fast and Furious scandal story in December 2010, is reporting this afternoon that a source inside the Justice Department has leaked a series of documents to Congressional officials who are investigating the scandal. The leak would be a major break in the case and would fuel an escalation in the investigation into the scandal in which the Obama Administration placed U.S. guns directly into the hands of Mexican criminals in order to make a case for new gun control laws.
According to William Lajeunesse at Fox News, the investigation into Fast and Furious now includes the FBI.
Records show that the FBI failed to inform the ATF that its own confidential informants were helping pay for the purchase of the firearms that were sent to Mexico…"


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Whose NFL Jersey Is The Biggest Seller? (No Real Surprise)
With one of the THE most tumultuous and eventful off seasons in NFL history fading away, there are new faces in new places. So whose new jersey is ringing up the coffers of the NFL?
Peyton Manning went from Indianapolis to Denver (part of one of the biggest house cleanings in NFL history!) Tim Tebow went from Denver to the Jets, and of course, RGIII (Robert Griffin III), the Heisman Winner from Baylor who was No. 1, to the Redskins, and Andrew Luck from Stanford. He has the unenviable job of making Colts fans "forget" Manning!
So, with all the new jerseys, who's selling the best? Not surprisingly, Manning's #18 Broncos attire is #1, followed closely by the #15 in new Jet colors for Tebow. RGIII and Luck round out the top four.
Coming home 5-10 are Peyton's little bro, Eli Manning and the Giants, Packer QB Aaron Rodgers, Patriots Tom Brady, and Cam Newton (Panthers) 9th. The highest seller for any non-quarterback is 49'rs linebacker Patrick Willis; Steelers safety Troy Palomalu is also in the top ten as is Willis.
Interestingly, according to the NFL, the only "true" lineman in the top 20 for jersey sales was Cowboys Defensive End DeMarcus Ware, and he's really more of an outside linebacker.


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For the record, I liked the Obama speech. I thought it was well written, well executed, and most importantly, incredibly effective. For that matter, I agree with John from Dymaxion World about the headshaking nature of the entire situation.
And yet there was one little passage that made me want to go down there and knock some sense into
both Obama and his speechwriters him:
I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.I'm no fan of patriotic rhetoric in general, but this particular flavour of it always makes me want to retch. The ignorance in it is astonishing. The kind of story Obama is talking about is no more and no less unique than the story of any mixed-race individual in any immigrant nation. There are plenty of Canadians with variants on this story, plenty of Australians, plenty of New Zealanders. Cut the historical timeline down a bit, and these days, there are even Germans, Belgians, French with it. The U.S. just isn't all that special in this regard, sorry. And you know what? That's okay. You don't have to be the "best little country in the whole wide world" in order to produce great leaders with compelling personal stories.
So yes, great speech. Wonderful achievement. But please, I'm begging you, put a lid on the over-the-top exceptionalism. You're embarrassing those of us who actually know something about the world beyond the borders of the United States.
[Update: Apparently, he wrote the speech himself. Oh good, only one person to knock some sense into, then!]


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Take it from someone who literally has felt nothing, you dont want to be emotionless. Feeling something is better than nothing trust me please. Being emotionless, for me, was one of the lowest times in my life.
look, i do too. But think about the good things in life. Have somethin to cling to. I used to be emo and cut but im all better now. We all have our ups and downs but what feels right doesnt always turn out right.


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The King's School in Macclesfield
About the Department
The Science Department consists of 15 full-time and 1 part-time specialist science teachers. Each member of the department is an experienced teacher with a proven track-record of outstanding academic results.
A large number of students elect to study science at A Level and the department produces a steady stream of pupils who choose to study Science-related degree courses at university; including many who study Medicine, Veterinary Science and Dentistry as well as the Physical Sciences. Over the last 2 years the faculty has produced around 25 medics, 5 vets and 8 Oxford and Cambridge entrants.
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Subject Content & Syllabus
In Years 7 and 8 students follow a general science course developed by the school. This focuses on developing King's Learning Habits alongside a broad-based science education. Practical content is high and there is a firm emphasis on student-based learning. Students also follow the CASE (Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education) programme. This is a course developed by King's College London to improve students' thinking and analysing skills and involves practical work, problem-solving and analysing tasks. Students have either 7 or 8 lessons per fortnight with one member of staff. Classes are taught in form groups, with class sizes typically around 18 - 24.
In Year 9 the students follow courses in the individual Sciences with specialist subject teachers. After an introductory course students will start their GCSE studies in all three Sciences. Again, there is a high emphasis on practical work and developing essential learning skills. Students receive 4 lessons per fortnight in each of the Sciences.
At GCSE we offer Separate Science and Dual Award Science. Over half of students follow the Separate Science programme and students are placed in sets across the whole year group. This course leads to three Science GCSEs (Biology, Chemistry, Physics). The rest of the students follow the Dual Award Science programme (Trilogy) and receive the same teaching time allocation as the Separate Scientists. This leads to two Science GCSEs and allows students more time to gain confidence in each of the Science subjects. We follow the AQA for the triple award and the Edexcel iGCSE for the trilogy course. The three departments work closely together in developing novel and innovative teaching methods. Students are assessed and monitored regularly and each department provides weekly support clinics and revision classes to help students achieve their potential.
At A Level all three Sciences follow the AQA course. Class sizes in Years 12 and 13 are typically between 5 and 15. Practical work makes excellent use of the school's wide variety of university level equipment and students are entered for a range of national competitions. There are systematic programmes in place to help prepare students for Veterinary/Medicine/Dentistry courses as well as for Oxbridge entry. For the Sixth Form, we recommended a minimum of grade 7 at GCSE level to embark on any of the Science courses, ideally alongside a 7 grade in Mathematics. Dual award students will need to achieve at least a 7-7 grade to move onto A level sciences.
Monitoring & Assessment
At Key Stage 3, all pupils are assessed each half-term. Pupils are tracked against National Criteria for KS3 and regular feedback is given to parents. At Key Stage 4, pupils are monitored and assessed at the end of each half-term.
End of year examinations are taken in the summer term of Years 7 -10. Public exams (GCSE and A Level examinations) are taken in Years 11 and 13.
Enrichment Opportunities
Studying Sciences can open the door to a wide range of professions, including medicine, forensic science, pharmaceutical research, engineering, architecture, finance and many more. Science A Levels are among the most highly regarded academic A Levels and form the basis of more degree courses than any other subjects.
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Tellurian believes that families play an important role in supporting the life changes required for long-term recovery. By understanding the challenges that face a recovering alcoholic or drug addict, you may be better prepared to assist with recovery and offer support to decrease the chance of relapse.
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All photos: Jason deCaires Taylor
Jason deCaires Taylor is famous for his surreal underwater sculptures that double as artificial reefs, and his latest work draws on the story of the mythical Greek titan, Atlas, who is believed to hold the cosmos on his shoulders.
Installed along the western coast of Nassau, Bahamas, the sculpture, titled "Ocean Atlas," alters the typical Atlas narrative by depicting a young Bahamian girl holding up the ocean just below the water's surface.
In light of all the threats to Earth's oceans and coral reefs — overfishing, acidification, water pollution, habitat loss and global warming — Taylor intends for "Ocean Atlas" to symbolize "the burden we are currently asking future generations to carry and the collective responsibility we have to prevent its collapse."
The statue, which is significantly grander in scale than much of Taylor's other work, appears especially surreal at low tide, when a mirror image of the piece can be seen reflecting on the underside of the water's surface. To make sure that marine life will colonize and thrive on the statue for years to come, the artificial reef is constructed with sustainable pH-neutral materials.
The work was commissioned by the Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF) as part of an underwater sculpture garden built to memorialize the organization's late founder, Sir Nicholas Nuttall. In addition to "Ocean Atlas," the garden also includes an artificial reefball trail and sculptures by local artists Willicey Tynes and Andret Jones.
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The Intel Education Service Corps (IESC) is a short-term service and career development opportunity for a select group of Intel employees to support the deployment of Intel classmate PCs in developing countries. In this blog, Andris Roze, a product analyst at Intel, recaps his team's first week working with World Vision in Zambia.
A red dust cloud trails our Land Cruiser as we bounce along this dirt road in rural Zambia leading to Jonathan Sims Chikanta High School. Corn and cotton fields line the road, but no signs can be found. If you aren't careful, you'll drive all the way to Zimbabwe.
Luckily for us our journey has been expertly coordinated by Alf and his World Vision Zambia colleagues. World Vision supports Jonathan Sims, a school that changed dramatically in May 2011 when Hoops of Hope provided funding for a solar-powered computer lab with 20 Intel classmate PCs. The first IESC team set up the lab and provided initial training, and this year's team returned to build on the foundation of PC literacy skills and help the school's teachers integrate technology into their curriculum.
We hit the ground running, and in our first week we worked with teachers using Open Office Calc, Impress, and other software to teach PC literacy classes to more than 300 students. We demonstrated resources like Khan Academy and the Intel Learning Series classroom management software as well as the eGranary (a hard drive containing Wikipedia and 14 million educational resources). We even helped the deputy headmaster create the school's first student ID cards.
We also demonstrated WeDo Robotics kits donated by the LEGO Foundation, showing the teachers how to create a program that lifts a robot man using a LEGO crane. The headmaster and teachers were excited about helping the students organize a robotics competition, as they were looking for an engaging, hands-on way of teaching engineering concepts.
After a year of having classmate PCs at the school, change is already palpable. Charles, the World Vision regional coordinator, noted that "enrollment is up this year because word is spreading that Jonathan Sims has a computer lab." This is a significant leap since high school students in Zambia rarely have a chance to interact with computers. In fact, we were told that even university students often don't get to use computers until their final year of studies.
During the second week, our team would travel to Makonkoto Basic School, but not before enjoying a rousing farewell assembly organized by the school's headmaster, Mr. Kanjambo. Add a few speeches, a photo session with students, a final lunch with teachers, a few more speeches, and we were starting to feel like Justin Bieber. But it was time to get back out onto that dirt road, tired, but satisfied with what we accomplished.


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• Olivia Palermo is the face of Tibi's newest campaign. [Refinery29]
• Last night, at her fall 2011 runway show, Betsey Johnson unveiled two new lines: a lower-priced collection called Pink Patch and an "elevated contemporary line" called Black Tag. [Racked]
• Footwear designer Christian Louboutin has named a shoe after Blake Lively. [Vogue UK]
• Demi Moore has reportedly dropped her longtime stylist, Rachel Zoe, in favor of Zoe's former assistant, Brad Goreski. [NY Post]
• Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is rumored to be the next celebrity ambassador for Lancôme. Meanwhile, Emma was named 'Style Icon' at the annual Elle Style Awards. [WWD, The Telegraph]
• Karl Lagerfeld has taken his Gramercy Park apartment off the market. [WWD]
• Purple editor Olivier Zahm has said Carine Roitfeld's next move will be to start her own magazine. [NY Mag]
• Nail color brand OPI is launching a line of nail lacquers inspired by the fourth Pirates Of The Carribean movie. The collection will include a shade called Skulls & Glossbones. [@EvaChen212]
• Tyra Banks will launch a new fashion and beauty website called typeF.com on March 15. [People]
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Much of the discussion at yesterday's MetLife Investor Day conference took a deep dive into the company's variable annuity line and how it's managing those currently troublesome products. Though stressing it was a business the company is committed to, MetLife executives detailed the various strategies it now employs and others it may consider to compress risk in its variable annuities.
"There are risks there, no question," said Steven A. Kandarian, chairman, CEO and president of MetLife. "But they are manageable risks and we are managing them. We are taking proactive steps. There is actually upside to that business. In a more normal interest rate environment with equities continuing to perform well over time, that business has significant upside."
Risk-lessening strategies include raising fees, reducing benefits and clamping down on overall sales. However, Eric Steigerwalt, executive vice president and head of U.S. Retail, acknowledged in response to a question from an analyst in attendance that the firm has considered whether to tender buyout offers to VA holders.
"We are researching everything," he said. "But given what you have heard here today, we don't need to buy back what we've put on the books. We think we have a pretty good risk profile here. As a result, if we can find a couple of places where it would be appropriate for the client and helpful to MetLife, we could do something like that. Right now, we have not announced anything. We don't intend to announce anything tomorrow. But we're thinking about every possibility." Steigerwalt then went on to reiterate the firm's commitment to the product line. "We're still in this business, and we're committed to running it properly."
The company has targeted a lower VA sales goal of between $10 billion and $11 billion in 2013, down from a high of $28.4 billion in 2011 and $17.7 billion in 2012. For its GMIB MAX V variable annuity, the roll-up rate was lowered to 4 percent from 5 percent, and the withdrawal rate was reduced from a range of between 4.5 percent and 5 percent to 4 percent.
Both Hartford and Transamerica have already introduced voluntary buyback programs, which, if accepted, give policyholders cash if they void their lifetime benefits. Many variable annuity carriers have also raised fees and pared down rich benefits as well.
MetLife executives were also queried on the possibility of a third-party reinsuring its VA line. John C. R. Hele, chief financial officer and executive vice president, replied that "there's only major player who has a balance sheet large enough to offer variable annuity reinsurance." His reference was to Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, which recently reinsured Cigna's VA death benefit run-off business.
He said such a deal would be "pricey," and "wouldn't make economic sense" to do at this time. "We are in a low interest rate environment," Hele said. "You can see huge cash-flow economic upside by interest rates moving up a bit over time. So we'd rather retain that risk rather than doing a transaction now and giving it to somebody else."
Hele also expressed no interest in moving the firm's fixed annuity business off the books. "We have good returns on those today in a relative sense," he said. "It's contributing to our business. MetLife's been very selective. We're not selling many fixed annuities now. With lower interest rates, we can't get the margins. When we can get the margins, we want to be back in that business."
Another tactic MetLife announced yesterday to further de-risk the VA business is the merging of its offshore captives into one U.S.-based entity. Regulators have expressed concern that these offshore captives are not subject to the same regulatory oversight as U.S. reinsurers.
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Lycett Warns About Upcoming ASRT DLCby Tristan Oliver November 27, 2013
"I know there will be controversy around this one"
The good news is that Sega and Sumo Digital have another bit of DLC lined up for the PC version of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, now a year after its original release. The bad news is that all indications are it will only be for PC, and even the game's EP Steve Lycett has admitted in various venues what's coming may upset Sonic and Sega fans in want of something more ideal.
A few weeks back, a new package presumably containing the DLC was uploaded to Steam servers for vetting. In a post on the Sega forums yesterday, Lycett there's nothing to report on the console front yet:
Anyone wanting console news is going to be disappointed though, not through any lack of trying however.
In a second, separate post on the Steam community forums, Lycett attempted to hint at what's coming:
You see, I know there will be controversy around this one, I fully expect it. What's going to be amazing though is something else I have planned that is rather secret. That's going to be a full on popcorn moment but you might have a small wait.
I'll probably get into trouble, but it'll be worth it 🙂
We'll know for sure in due time. If you want to get in on the PC action, now is a good time; as part of a larger Steam sale, ASR Transformed is 50 percent off on the service.