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AUSTRALIA #69 FEBRUARY 2017<br />
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VINTAGE COMICS: LITTLE NEMO<br />
WORDS AND ILLUSTRATION: WINSOR MCCAY<br />
Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams<br />
that were interrupted by his awakening in the final panel. The strip is considered McCay's masterpiece for its experiments with the form of the comics<br />
page, its use of color, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels, perspective, architectural and other detail.<br />
Little Nemo in Slumberland ran in the New York Herald from 1905, until 1911; the strip was renamed In the Land of Wonderful Dreams when McCay<br />
brought it to William Randolph Hearst's New York American, where it ran until July 1914. When McCay returned to the Herald in 1924, he revived the<br />
strip, and it ran under its original title until 1926, when McCay returned to Hearst.<br />
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CONTENTS: FEBRUARY 2017 EDITION<br />
Publisher/Designer<br />
David Shapter<br />
Welcome to the online edition of the<br />
Australian magazine VIEW February 2017.<br />
viewmag@bigpond.com<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
04 Profile Akihiko Hoshide<br />
10 Hotel Hopping Hôtel des Trois Vallées<br />
18 Recipes Neil Perry’s Good Cooking<br />
22 Design Supersonic Business Jet<br />
28 Fashion Grace Crich<br />
34 From Above Las Vegas<br />
36 Travel OS Germany<br />
50 Concept Car Setsuna<br />
60 Landscaping Wagner Partnership<br />
66 Science Coral<br />
68 Innovation Affordable Housing<br />
76 Tiles Ceramic Wood<br />
80 Fashion The Handbag<br />
84 Disasters San Francisco 1906<br />
94 Transport Electric Bike<br />
98 Architecture Sweden<br />
104 The Bookshelf<br />
106 Opinion Climate Change Direction<br />
108 Regional History Cowra 1919<br />
The publisher accepts no responsibility for any statements or claims made by advertisers. The information contained<br />
within this publication was correct as at the time of publishing. This publication is copyright. “View Magazine” is<br />
registered as the name of this publication. No part may be reproduced by any process without written consent from<br />
the publisher.<br />
Contents of an Ostrich’s Stomach (ca. 1930)<br />
Taken by Frederick William Bond, photographer at<br />
the Zoological Society of London, this unusual<br />
image shows the contents of an ostrich’s stomach<br />
extracted after its death. While the bird is more<br />
commonly known to feast on a diet of roots, leaves,<br />
seeds, and flowers (with the occasional snake or<br />
lizard thrown in if needed), this ostrich seemed to<br />
have had a particular penchant for the high street<br />
fashion accessory. Amongst the items retrieved and<br />
noted down by Bond on the back of the photograph<br />
were two handkerchiefs (one lace) and a buttoned<br />
glove — presumably items expelled from the daily<br />
stream of visitors to the zoo, a sad consequence of<br />
the bird’s urban existence. Also found were a length<br />
of rope and various metal items, including assorted<br />
coins, tacks, staples and hooks, and a four-inch nail.<br />
It’s perhaps not too surprising to learn that this last<br />
item was the cause of death.<br />
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PROFILE: AKIHIKO HOSHIDE<br />
Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide takes a<br />
space selfie during extravehicular<br />
activity which goes viral<br />
STARMAN<br />
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February 1999 saw the very personable and International<br />
Baccalaureate Diploma recipient Akihiko Hoshide selected by<br />
NASDA (now JAXA) as one of three Japanese astronaut<br />
candidates for the International Space Station (ISS).<br />
Born in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan, he went on to achieve a bachelor's degree<br />
in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University in 1992, and a Master of<br />
Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Houston<br />
Cullen College of Engineering in 1997.<br />
He started the ISS Astronaut Basic Training program in 1999 and was<br />
certified as an astronaut in 2001. Since April 2001, he has participated in<br />
ISS Advanced Training, as well as supporting the development of the<br />
hardware and operation of the Japanese Experiment Module Kib and the<br />
H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV).<br />
In 2004, he completed Soyuz-TMA Flight Engineer-1 training at the Yuri<br />
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia and then<br />
transferred to the Johnson Space Center. He completed NASA Astronaut<br />
Candidate Training and was assigned to the crew of STS-124, the second<br />
of three flights that launched components to the International Space<br />
Station to complete the Japanese Kib laboratory in 2008.<br />
After successfully making it back to Earth after mission STS-124, Hoshide<br />
spent a good deal of time talking to enthusiastic students about his<br />
mission. He visited many schools such as Thomas Jefferson High School<br />
for Science and Technology.<br />
The following is an edited interview at a preflight press conference at<br />
NASA's Johnson Space Center.<br />
Aki, at different points in our lives we, we choose particular paths. Can<br />
you tell me about how you chose a path, that’s lead to space?<br />
When I was small, from age three to seven, I lived in New Jersey. My<br />
father worked in New York and he took me down to Kennedy Space Center<br />
one time. That had a huge impact. I also watched science fiction movies,<br />
animation cartoons and Star Trek, Star Wars. All that influenced me and by<br />
the time I was probably ten, you know, I was set for space.<br />
Once you made that decision to pursue a career in spaceflight, can you<br />
recount for us how you got to JAXA?<br />
Originally I was thinking about being an astronaut when our first JAXA<br />
astronauts were selected. But at that time I was in high school and<br />
thought, “Well, this is only a one-time thing for Japan.” After a while in a<br />
newspaper article it said that NASDA (at that time the Japanese Space<br />
Agency) is thinking about having a next selection. So I thought, "This could<br />
be a career.” And after that I just pursued it and when I was in college the<br />
next selection happened and I applied but I didn’t have the right<br />
certification so, instead of going to a different area, I decided to join the<br />
Japanese Space Agency and wait for my turn.<br />
What were you doing initially when you joined the space agency?<br />
Initially I was working for the H2 Launch Vehicle for two years and then I<br />
was transferred to the Astronaut Office, working as a support engineer<br />
and, as a matter of fact, I supported Koichi Wakata for his first mission. He<br />
was our first Japanese commander of the International Space Station.<br />
Can you give us an idea of what it was like growing up in your hometown<br />
and how that place influenced who you’ve become?<br />
Well, it’s kind of hard to say. As a kid, you know, you just play around with<br />
your friends and watch TV but always in the back of my mind it was there.<br />
I really wanted to go out into space.<br />
Can you tell us how you found out that you were going to be making your<br />
first spaceflight and what your reaction was?<br />
Well, that day I was in a simulation as part of my space station training. It<br />
was a whole day and then we were having a debrief. My cell phone rang<br />
and it was Steve Lindsey, our Astronaut Office chief. He called and said,<br />
“Hey, could you come down in 30 minutes because you’re getting<br />
assigned?” So it was like, from simulation to reality in 30 minutes.<br />
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Akihiko Hoshide, attired in a training version<br />
of his spacesuit, is submerged in the waters of<br />
the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near<br />
NASA's Johnson Space Center<br />
So how long did it take for it all to sink in?<br />
A while, yeah.<br />
Do you have a favourite hobby or activity?<br />
Yes, I played rugby football in college and after I joined the space agency I<br />
played a little bit, but then I broke my leg. I still watch it whenever I have a<br />
chance. When I’m back in Japan I go to the stadium and watch it.<br />
It’s pretty big in Japan?<br />
Not really. It’s a minor sport.<br />
Could you summarise for us the, the main goals of STS-124?<br />
The main goal is to bring up the Japanese Pressurized Module, Kibo.<br />
That's the main module for our space agency and to install it and activate<br />
it. That is the prime goal and objective of our mission.<br />
Can you introduce us to the JEM module? What is it? What’s it for?<br />
Basically it’s the Japanese lab. We have the U.S. lab already on orbit so<br />
we’re installing the, the Japanese lab. We’re hoping to accomplish a lot of<br />
scientific experiments on board and that includes material science, life<br />
science and outside we will eventually get a exposed facility so that we<br />
can do like space, environment measurements, astronomy, astronomical<br />
experiments, and so on.<br />
In addition to being a science lab, Kibo has an airlock. What’s that going<br />
to be used for?<br />
When you say airlock you imagine a spacewalk, a crew member going out<br />
that airlock. The JEM airlock is a little smaller and it’s mainly used to<br />
exchange small devices inside and out. If you have a failure of equipment<br />
outside, you can use the JEM robotic arm to bring it over the airlock and<br />
then close the hatch, open the hatch on the inside and then bring it back<br />
in and bring a new piece of equipment outside. So that’s the main purpose<br />
of that airlock.<br />
Okay. Kind of a temporary storage. And the Logistics Pressurized Module,<br />
that’s also a part of the whole deal. What's its purpose? How will it be<br />
used?<br />
For the mission we will have some racks installed and there will be some<br />
system racks to power up one channel. The JEM has two strings of power<br />
channels. The JEM pressurized module itself is too heavy to have that<br />
installed and launched so STS-123 will bring up those racks inside the<br />
logistics module and we’ll transfer it into the pressurised module and get<br />
that string activated. But the module itself has a purpose of being like a<br />
storage module.<br />
Tell us about the arm. Could you describe its characteristics and how it<br />
compares to the station arm that’s there now?<br />
Well as you know, the station arm has seven joints. The JEM robotic arm<br />
has six, just like the robotic arm on the shuttle, and it’s attached to the<br />
port side of the JEM pressurized module. It’s not going to move around,<br />
not like the station arm. It’s going to sit there. It will be used to exchange<br />
payload equipment on the exposed facility.<br />
Do you know when JEM will do its first work and can you tell us what that<br />
will be?<br />
Unfortunately we won’t be doing any science on our flight but we will be<br />
getting ready and activate the JEM and then transfer some of the payload<br />
racks inside the JEM pressurised module. And then once we undock and<br />
then the station crew will take care of it and start checking out the payload<br />
equipment and hopefully will get some science soon.<br />
How would you characterise what it means for Japan to finally be a fullfledged<br />
contributor to ISS?<br />
I think this is a big mission in that we will have our own module up there.<br />
This is a big step for the Japanese community, the science community<br />
especially, because that means that they can start their own science. We<br />
also have the payload open to any other partners in the station program,<br />
so we’ll be conducting different experiments for everywhere.<br />
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On August 30, 2012, Hoshide<br />
became the third Japanese<br />
astronaut to walk in space<br />
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It’s got to be pretty big for the education community too.<br />
It would be, yes, definitely and it’s a big milestone for Japan.<br />
Kibo, the nickname for the JEM module, means ‘hope.’ Once this<br />
mission’s completed what do you hope that it will be for the bigger<br />
mission of space exploration?<br />
Well, I hope the Japanese science community will further be engaged<br />
in space exploration and we can accomplish a lot of scientific<br />
activities. But more than that I think it would expand the possibility on<br />
orbit, especially for the Japanese community. So that is my hope.<br />
It could be said that the measure of fortitude is in how well we adapt<br />
to unforeseen situations and surprises. There have been a lot of<br />
opportunities to do that with some things happening up on the space<br />
station. How would you say that everybody’s done in that endeavour,<br />
in adapting, or in thinking of inventive ways to get around things?<br />
I think this will be a new experience for the Japanese flight control<br />
team. But I think in any case in the past we’ve been prepared and been<br />
inventive once something happens and we overcame that, that<br />
challenge. I think that’s the main advantage of human spaceflight. If it’s<br />
unmanned, then you have some limitations and if it’s manned human<br />
spaceflight then you do have some capability that no one really thought<br />
of but you can do that real time.<br />
Hoshide is still with NASA and has since his time in space he has<br />
had a spell as command of the NEEMO 18 undersea exploration<br />
mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory and works as<br />
capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for the ISS at the Johnson<br />
Space Center.<br />
During his stay in the ISS, he successfully recorded the first voice<br />
acting performance in space for a cameo appearance in the 31st<br />
episode of the anime television series, Space Brothers. A man of<br />
many talents.<br />
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HOTEL HOPPING: HÔTEL DES TROIS VALLÉES<br />
Good Things<br />
Come in Threes<br />
The epitome of post-war modernist design, the renovated Hôtel des Trois<br />
Vallées is the ultimate gateway to some of the best skiing in the French Alps.<br />
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Perhaps the best archetypes of good<br />
design are those that don’t ignore the old<br />
in favour of the new. Such was the case<br />
in this first prototype of 1950s post war<br />
modernism - the Courchevel resort and<br />
its very first hotel, Hotel des Trois Vallées<br />
(meaning three valleys hotel). From the outside,<br />
this French Alps hotel is the very picture of<br />
traditional mountain architecture - a wooden<br />
chalet that subtly blends in with its breathtaking<br />
surroundings. While the natural materials<br />
continue inside, the furniture, which is worthy of<br />
a modern museum, creates a grand urban inn.<br />
The hotel is situated at the foot of the resort’s<br />
world-class ski slopes. At the time of its<br />
construction in the 1950s, post-war modernists<br />
contemplated a new way of mountain living -<br />
this landmark hotel came to epitomize just that.<br />
With its recent renovation, the spirit of Hotel des<br />
Trois Vallées has been carefully preserved,<br />
including most of the hotel’s original furniture<br />
by the likes of Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé,<br />
and Pierre Paulin. These iconic designs greet<br />
guests at a lobby that opens out to the bar and<br />
dining room that serves traditional cuisine. The<br />
spa, with sauna, Turkish bath and a large<br />
Jacuzzi, is awash in natural materials and is a<br />
great showcase of modernist mountain design.<br />
Valéry Grégo is the man behind three hotels in<br />
the French Alps, one in Pigalle and on the<br />
French Riviera, success lies in embracing<br />
whatever history and location give him.<br />
“When I buy a property, the first thing I want to<br />
know is its history. The place must fit the<br />
purpose.”<br />
Pushed to explain how this philosophy of his<br />
relates to his three hotels in the French Alps -<br />
Le Fitz Roy, Le Val Thorens, and Hôtel des Trois<br />
Vallées - or his Le Pigalle hotel in Paris or his<br />
Hôtel Les Roches Rouges in the South of<br />
France, he mentions the Incas of Peru. The<br />
reference might seem odd at first, but to hear<br />
Grégo discuss the connection is to understand<br />
why his properties are so special.<br />
“The Incas weren’t thinking about making<br />
something that looked nice, they were thinking,<br />
‘Where is the sun, the wind? What is the<br />
structure’s purpose within its environment?’<br />
That’s why their buildings have remained over<br />
time. Likewise, with my hotels we start with the<br />
original purpose of the structure, the history of<br />
the neighbourhood, the personality of the place.<br />
The concept evolves from those things<br />
organically. We never have a concept before we<br />
start.”<br />
Take Hôtel des Trois Vallées as a example. It<br />
was built in the 1950s as an auberge, an inn,<br />
for the engineers working on the development<br />
of the Courchevel resort area. Grégo and his<br />
team tried to retain this unique genetic<br />
structure as they transformed it into a luxury<br />
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experience. The result is a stunning marriage of function, location, and<br />
history.<br />
The goal with Le Pigalle, Grégo explains, is to help people understand the<br />
neighbourhood. “We didn’t want to make a hotel that simply reflected<br />
what Pigalle is becoming, but what it was and still is. It still has the grit.<br />
The point is to bring the neighbourhood inside the hotel. All the people<br />
who interact with Le Pigalle, who contribute to it creatively, are from the<br />
neighbourhood. So as the customers experience the property they get to<br />
understand what Pigalle was 100 years ago and a few moments ago.<br />
Purpose-built specificity is certainly the harder road, but the only one<br />
Grégo would ever take. “We spent a full year buying furniture from the<br />
period,” he says of his Alps hotels. “But at the same time, I was very clear<br />
with the designers that I didn’t want mere concepts and decoration. There<br />
is no nostalgia. It is not about going back. I want the past to tell me what<br />
to do in the present and the future. We use design to make a link between<br />
past and present. We build on the past but are not confined by it.”<br />
If that sounds like a good rule of thumb not only for designing hotels but<br />
also for living, that’s because it is. As a university student in Paris, Grégo<br />
trained both in business and in the humanities, while also pursuing his<br />
passion for skateboarding. “I did both disciplines because I didn’t want to<br />
choose,” he says. “I wanted to go as far as I could with both.”<br />
Grégo is certainly going as far as he can in the hospitality world. What<br />
brings all of his places together – the Alps, Pigalle, the South of France –<br />
is, as he says, “the drive to help people understand where they are going.<br />
We want them to get the specific personality of a building or the sea or a<br />
quarter. We try to make sense with what we have. That is our recipe.<br />
www.designhotels.com/hotels/france/french-alps/courchevel/troisvallees<br />
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RECIPES: NEIL PERRY’S GOOD COOKING<br />
For renowned Australian chef Neil Perry, cooking has always been<br />
about one thing: using the best-quality produce. This philosophy<br />
guides not only how he cooks in his restaurants, but also the meals he<br />
makes at home for family and friends.<br />
Good Cooking features over 110 simple yet sophisticated recipes that<br />
will entice you into the kitchen and inspire you to cook. They draw on<br />
culinary influences both global and local to create amazing flavours for<br />
every occasion, with seasonal produce always taking the starring role.<br />
Images and recipes from Neil Perry’s Good Cooking (Murdoch Books) RRP $49.99<br />
Photography: Earl Carter<br />
SEAFOOD ANTIPASTO Serves 4-8<br />
600g clams (vongole)<br />
330g whole octopus with<br />
tentacles, gutted and cleaned,<br />
thawed if frozen<br />
2 small squid with tentacles,<br />
about 330g, cleaned<br />
450g raw prawns, shells on<br />
80ml ( 1 ⁄3 cup) white wine<br />
30ml lemon oil, or to taste<br />
sea salt and freshly ground<br />
black pepper<br />
2 celery stalks, leaves reserved,<br />
finely chopped<br />
1 tablespoon finely chopped<br />
flat-leaf (Italian) parsley<br />
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped<br />
Soak the clams in cold water for 15 minutes, then drain and rinse well.<br />
If you are using fresh octopus, beat it with a meat hammer to tenderise it (you don’t need to do this if you are using frozen octopus,<br />
as freezing has a tenderising effect). Rinse well under cold running water, wiping with a clean sponge to remove any excess<br />
saltiness. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil (do not add salt as this will toughen the octopus). Add the octopus, cover and<br />
reduce the heat to low. Gently simmer for 20–30 minutes or until tender. Drain well and cut the octopus into bite-sized pieces.<br />
Meanwhile, bring another saucepan of water to the boil. Add the squid and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes, then remove with a<br />
slotted spoon. Allow to cool, then separate the tentacles from the squid and slice the squid bodies into strips.<br />
Add the prawns to the pan of squid water and simmer for two minutes or until they have changed colour and are just cooked.<br />
Remove with a slotted spoon. Allow to cool, then peel and devein.<br />
Place the clams and white wine in a large saucepan over high heat. Cover and cook, shaking the pan occasionally, until the clams<br />
have opened. Remove from the heat and strain, reserving the cooking liquid and discarding any clams that haven’t opened.<br />
Whisk 50ml of the strained clam cooking liquid with the lemon oil, sea salt and black pepper to taste.<br />
Put the octopus, squid, prawns, clams, chopped celery and celery leaves in a shallow serving dish. Drizzle the dressing over the<br />
seafood. Scatter with the parsley and garlic and serve immediately.<br />
Note: If the clams are packaged and prewashed there is no need to soak them – just remove them from the packet and rinse.<br />
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SLOW-ROASTED RACK<br />
OF LAMB WITH<br />
QUINOA SALAD AND<br />
TAHINI SAUCE<br />
Serves 4-6<br />
2 x 8-bone racks of lamb<br />
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper<br />
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil<br />
20g thyme sprigs<br />
8 unpeeled garlic cloves<br />
1 teaspoon ground sumac<br />
135g ( 1 ⁄2 cup) tahini<br />
grated zest and juice of 1 ⁄2 lemon<br />
Quinoa salad<br />
200g (1 cup) red or white quinoa<br />
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper<br />
grated zest and juice of 1 ⁄2 lemon<br />
80ml ( 1 ⁄3 cup) extra virgin olive oil<br />
100g pitted green olives, roughly chopped<br />
100g ( 2 ⁄3 cup) roasted pistachio nuts,<br />
roughly chopped<br />
1 handful flat-leaf (Italian) parsley leaves,<br />
roughly chopped<br />
1 handful mint leaves, roughly chopped<br />
Preheat the oven to 90°C. Trim off the fat<br />
from the lamb and season the meat with<br />
sea salt.<br />
Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in a<br />
frying pan over medium–high heat. Gently<br />
pan-fry the lamb racks until golden brown<br />
all over.<br />
Make a bed of thyme and garlic in a<br />
roasting tin and put the lamb racks on top.<br />
Sprinkle the sumac over the lamb. Roast<br />
for 45–50 minutes or until a meat<br />
thermometer registers a core temperature<br />
of 54°C. Remove from the oven and allow<br />
the lamb to rest somewhere warm for 10<br />
minutes. Check the garlic and return to the<br />
oven if needed to cook until very soft.<br />
Meanwhile, to make the salad, add the<br />
quinoa to a saucepan with plenty of water<br />
and a pinch of sea salt. Bring to the boil,<br />
then reduce the heat and simmer,<br />
covered, for about 15 minutes or until<br />
tender. Drain off any remaining liquid and<br />
allow to cool. Dress the quinoa with the<br />
lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil, sea salt<br />
and black pepper.<br />
Squeeze the purée from two of the garlic<br />
cloves into a food processor and add the<br />
tahini, lemon zest, lemon juice, remaining<br />
olive oil, sea salt and black pepper. While<br />
the processor is running, add 125ml ( 1 ⁄2<br />
cup) warm water in a steady stream. Stop<br />
and scrape down the side of the bowl,<br />
then continue to blend, adding enough<br />
water to give the sauce a dolloping<br />
consistency. Check the seasoning.<br />
Just before serving, mix the quinoa with<br />
the olives, pistachios and herbs. Carve the<br />
lamb and serve it with the tahini sauce,<br />
quinoa salad and extra garlic cloves for<br />
those who love their roast garlic!<br />
Note: Sumac is a dark crimson, almost<br />
purple spice that comes from the outer<br />
flesh of berries from a tree found in the<br />
Middle East.<br />
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BERRY, SAUTERNES AND MASCARPONE TRIFLE Serves 8-10<br />
185g (½ cups) fresh raspberries<br />
375g (½ cups) strawberries, hulled and quartered<br />
375g savoiardi (lady fingers)<br />
525ml Sauternes<br />
75g dark chocolate<br />
Mascarpone<br />
cream<br />
3 free-range egg yolks plus 4 free-range egg whites<br />
120g caster sugar<br />
375g mascarpone cheese<br />
150ml thin cream<br />
To make the mascarpone cream, use an electric mixer with a whisk attachment to whisk the egg yolks<br />
and half the sugar together until light and pale. Add the mascarpone and mix on low speed until just<br />
combined. Whip the cream until soft peaks form, then fold through the mascarpone mixture.<br />
Put the egg whites in a clean bowl and beat until foamy. Add the remaining sugar and beat until soft<br />
peaks form, then gently fold into the mascarpone mixture.<br />
Spoon half the mascarpone cream into a 3 litre trifle bowl. Mix the berries together and scatter over the<br />
mascarpone cream. Dip the savoiardi into the Sauternes, then arrange on top of the berries. Spoon the<br />
remaining mascarpone cream over the top, cover and refrigerate for several hours.<br />
Finely grate the chocolate over the trifle to serve.<br />
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Neil Perry<br />
Neil Perry AM is one of<br />
Australia's leading and most<br />
influential chefs. He has<br />
managed several awardwinning<br />
restaurants in<br />
Australia and today<br />
concentrates on his flagship<br />
brand, the Rockpool Group,<br />
which includes Rockpool Bar<br />
& Grill, Sydney, Melbourne<br />
and Perth; Eleven Bridge,<br />
Sydney; Spice Temple,<br />
Sydney and Melbourne;<br />
Rosetta Ristorante,<br />
Melbourne; and various<br />
Burger Project venues across<br />
Australia. Neil has been<br />
creating menus for Qantas<br />
since 1997, continually<br />
redefining their dining and<br />
service, and is the author of<br />
Rockpool, Simply Asian,<br />
Good Food, Balance &<br />
Harmony, Rockpool Bar &<br />
Grill, Easy Weekends,<br />
Simply Good Food,The<br />
Food I Love and Spice<br />
Temple. He has also been a<br />
major television presenter for<br />
a number of series on the<br />
LifeStyle Channel.<br />
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DESIGN: SUPERSONIC BUSINESS JET<br />
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Future Flight<br />
Aerion is planning on the first flight of the<br />
AS2 in 2021 and entry into service in 2023<br />
Supersonic natural laminar flow (SNLF) is the<br />
enabling technology that makes the Aerion jet<br />
practical, efficient, environmentally responsible and<br />
flexible in terms of operational utility. It conserves fuel and reduces<br />
emissions versus other potential or proposed supersonic designs. It allows<br />
for efficient cruise just below the speed of sound and at supersonic speeds<br />
up to Mach 1.5. The technology is a breakthrough in supersonic design and<br />
is patented by Aerion. For all of these reasons, SNLF technology is the one<br />
solution that makes supersonic flight practical and efficient.<br />
The unique Aerion unswept wing has SNLF on a majority of its surface<br />
(where it offers a reduction in friction drag by 70 percent or more). Under<br />
laminar flow conditions, air flows smoothly across wing surfaces without<br />
creating turbulent layers, as do conventional swept or delta wing designs.<br />
Achieving the precise wing contours necessary to achieve supersonic<br />
laminar flow requires new materials such as carbon fibre and new<br />
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analytical tools. In 2012, Aerion acquired Desktop Aeronautics (renaming it<br />
Aerion Technologies), a Silicon Valley high technology company that<br />
develops specialised codes for analysing supersonic airflows and<br />
optimising airframes for efficient operation in subsonic and supersonic<br />
realms. Performance predictions based on these computer tools have<br />
been verified in flight by NASA and in transonic wind tunnels.<br />
Aerion’s SNLF wing reduces total airframe drag by as much as 20 percent<br />
versus a delta wing configuration such as that used by the Concorde. Less<br />
power and fuel are therefore required to sustain supersonic flight, enabling<br />
a substantial reduction in gross weight for a given mission.<br />
Moreover, the SNLF wing has excellent low drag characteristics at<br />
subsonic speeds, allowing for efficient cruise on overland routes where<br />
supersonic flight is prohibited.<br />
With joint engineering efforts accelerating on the Aerion AS2 supersonic
usiness jet program, Aerion and Airbus Group, Inc. announced a new<br />
agreement that will expand North American-based Airbus Group, Inc.<br />
resources to the AS2 program. Support from Airbus Group operations in<br />
North America will include engineering, procurement and supply chain<br />
management, logistics planning, program management and<br />
government relations. These new resources will augment engineering<br />
support from Airbus Defence and Space (AIRBUS D&S) in Spain.<br />
“The collaboration between Aerion and Airbus Group has been extremely<br />
beneficial and productive,” said Allan McArtor, Chairman and CEO of<br />
Airbus Group, Inc. “The further we proceed along the development path<br />
with Aerion, the greater our enthusiasm for this program and the deeper<br />
our commitment.<br />
Under our new agreement, our two companies are working as one to bring<br />
Aerion’s supersonic AS2 to the business jet market,” he added.<br />
“This undertaking is completely in line with Airbus Group’s legacy of<br />
developing innovations in flight,” said McArtor, “such as our current work<br />
on the Perlan Mission II glider - the world’s first engineless aircraft<br />
designed to reach the edge of space - which made its successful flight<br />
recently, and the E-Fan technology demonstrator - which this summer<br />
became the first fully electric, twin-engine aircraft taking off under its own<br />
power to fly across the English Channel.”<br />
“Airbus Group has a long history of supporting innovation and Aerion’s<br />
innovative aerodynamic technology unquestionably offers long-term<br />
benefits to the industry in terms of performance and efficiency,” said Doug<br />
Nichols, Aerion CEO.<br />
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This will be a supersonic jet that operates efficiently within today’s regulatory environment,<br />
including rules regarding supersonic flight over land. This takes advantage of the ability of the<br />
AS2 to operate efficiently just below the speed of sound at Mach 0.95 to 0.98 and at speeds up to<br />
Mach 1.5 over water and other areas where supersonic flight is permitted.<br />
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FASHION: GRACE CRICH<br />
Pockets,<br />
the Difference<br />
Grace Crich is a Nottingham born menswear designer<br />
based in Manchester. A recent graduate of Manchester<br />
Metropolitan University with a BA(Hons) in Fashion<br />
Design and Technology, Crich pays particular attention<br />
to pattern design and fit when designing with the<br />
garment developed in 3D form. After spending time at<br />
both University in England as well as at Ryerson<br />
University in Toronto, Canada, she approached the<br />
market with an international mind-set.<br />
Japanese inspired design received a fresh approach<br />
in Grace Crich’s Autumn/ Winter 2016 Menswear<br />
Collection. Creating timeless pieces for men of all<br />
ages that can be styled across any other pieces in<br />
the range.<br />
Inspired by ancient Japanese design and in particular<br />
the rare book ‘History of Contemporary Japanese<br />
Photography’ the collection features an array of both<br />
simple and complex layered designs. All of which put a<br />
twist on tradition, fusing clean, contemporary<br />
aesthetics with clever interactive details.<br />
Unconventional fastenings such as magnets and nuts<br />
and bolts change and adapt original garments into<br />
something completely new as well as connect layers.<br />
Working in different shades of black to achieve designs<br />
with finer details in the form of double bartacks and<br />
unique pocket designs. Crich sees the wearer as<br />
integral to the garments worth, raising its importance<br />
as soon as it is worn and developing its aesthetic by<br />
both the wearer and each piece.<br />
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FROM ABOVE: LAS VEGAS<br />
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Persistent drought has contributed to the ongoing drawdown of Lake<br />
Mead—a large reservoir straddling the Nevada and Arizona border. The<br />
decline is visible in these images, acquired 15 years apart with<br />
instruments on Landsat satellites.<br />
The top image was acquired July 24, 2015 with the Operational Land<br />
Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. The middle image was acquired<br />
July 6, 2000, with the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus on Landsat 7.<br />
During this period, the lake’s elevation (measured near the Hoover<br />
Dam), dropped by about 37 meters (120 feet). Turn on the image<br />
comparison tool to see how the drop in water level has changed the<br />
lake’s perimeter.<br />
Lake Mead formed in 1930s following construction of the Hoover Dam<br />
on the Colorado River. At maximum capacity, the reservoir would hold<br />
36 trillion litres; water in the vicinity of the dam would have an elevation<br />
of about 372 metres above sea level. In July 2000, the lake level was<br />
relatively high at 366 metres. By July 2015, however, the level had<br />
dropped to 329 metres.<br />
Most of the water comes from snowmelt, which travels from the<br />
mountains into Lake Powell, through the Grand Canyon and into Lake<br />
Mead. Arizona, Nevada, California and northern Mexico all rely on water<br />
from the reservoir. The Las Vegas Valley alone counts on the reservoir<br />
for about 90 percent of its water supply.<br />
This is not the first drought to cause a drawdown of Lake Mead’s water<br />
levels. The longer-term record shows drops in water elevation<br />
associated with a drought in the mid-1950s and again in the mid-<br />
1960s. The water level in 2015, however, is part of a decade-long<br />
decline and has reached lows not seen since the 1930s when the lake<br />
was first filling.<br />
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Las Vegas, to the left, and Lake Mead, to the right, as seen on July 21,<br />
2014 by the Landsat 8 satellite<br />
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TRAVEL OS: GERMANY<br />
Eine kleine Nachtmusik<br />
Charlottenburg Palace is the largest palace in Berlin and is<br />
located in the Charlottenburg district. The large formal garden<br />
is surrounded by woodlands which include a belvedere, a<br />
mausoleum, a theatre and a pavilion.<br />
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Germany is well known for its<br />
diverse tourist routes, some of<br />
which are known as the Romantic<br />
Road, the Wine Route, the Castle Road and the<br />
Avenue Road. The German Timber-Frame Road<br />
(Deutsche Fachwerkstraße) connects towns<br />
with examples of these structures.<br />
There are as many as 41 UNESCO World<br />
Heritage Sites in Germany, including the old<br />
town cores of Regensburg, Bamberg, Lübeck,<br />
Quedlinburg, Weimar, Stralsund and Wismar.<br />
Germany's most-visited landmarks include<br />
Neuschwanstein Castle, Cologne Cathedral,<br />
Berlin Bundestag, Hofbräuhaus Munich,<br />
Heidelberg Castle, Dresden Zwinger,<br />
Fernsehturm Berlin and Aachen Cathedral. The<br />
Europa-Park near Freiburg is Europe's second<br />
most popular theme park resort.<br />
Germany was a founding member of the<br />
European Union in 1993 and became a cofounder<br />
of the Eurozone in 1999. Germany is<br />
also a member of the United Nations, NATO, the<br />
G8, the G20, and the OECD.<br />
With its rich cultural history, Germany has been<br />
the home of influential artists, philosophers,<br />
musicians, sportspeople, entrepreneurs,<br />
scientists, engineers and inventors.<br />
With its central position in Europe, it is a<br />
transport hub for the continent. Like its<br />
neighbours in Western Europe, Germany's road<br />
network is among the densest in the world. The<br />
motorway (Autobahn) network ranks as the<br />
third-largest worldwide in length and is known<br />
for its lack of a general speed limit. Germany<br />
has established a polycentric network of highspeed<br />
trains. The InterCityExpress or ICE<br />
network of the Deutsche Bahn serves major<br />
German cities as well as destinations in<br />
neighbouring countries with speeds up to 300<br />
km/h. The German railways are subsidised by<br />
the government.<br />
The largest German airports are Frankfurt<br />
Airport and Munich Airport, both hubs of<br />
Lufthansa, while Air Berlin has hubs at Berlin<br />
Tegel and Düsseldorf. Other major airports<br />
include Berlin Schönefeld, Hamburg,<br />
Cologne/Bonn and Leipzig/Halle. The Port of<br />
Hamburg is one of the top twenty largest<br />
container ports in the world.<br />
The German cuisine varies from region to region<br />
and often neighbouring regions share some<br />
culinary similarities. International varieties such<br />
as pizza, sushi, Chinese food, Greek food, Indian<br />
cuisine and doner kebab are also popular and<br />
available, thanks to diverse ethnic communities.<br />
Although wine is becoming more popular in<br />
many parts of Germany, especially in German<br />
wine regions, the national alcoholic drink is<br />
beer. German beer consumption per person<br />
stands at 110 litres in 2013 and remains<br />
among the highest in the world. German beer<br />
purity regulations date back to the 15th century.<br />
Also it can be said Germany is a leader in the<br />
fashion industry. The German textile industry<br />
consisted of about 1,300 companies with more<br />
than 130,000 employees, which generated a<br />
revenue of 28 billion Euro. Almost 44 per cent<br />
of the products are exported. The Berlin Fashion<br />
Week and the fashion trade fair Bread & Butter<br />
are held twice a year.<br />
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Architectural contributions from Germany include the Carolingian and<br />
Ottonian styles, which were precursors of Romanesque. Brick Gothic is a<br />
distinctive medieval style that evolved in Germany. Also in Renaissance and<br />
Baroque art, regional and typically German elements evolved (e.g. Weser<br />
Renaissance and Dresden Baroque).<br />
Among many renowned Baroque masters were Pöppelmann, Balthasar<br />
Neumann, Knobelsdorff and the Asam brothers. The Wessobrunner School<br />
exerted a decisive influence on, and at times even dominated, the art of<br />
stucco in southern Germany in the 18th century. The Upper Swabian Baroque<br />
Route offers a baroque-themed tourist route that highlights the contributions<br />
of such artists and craftsmen as the sculptor and plasterer Johann Michael<br />
Feuchtmayer, one of the foremost members of the Feuchtmayer family and<br />
the brothers Johann Baptist and Dominikus Zimmermann. Vernacular<br />
architecture in Germany is often identified by its timber framing (Fachwerk)<br />
traditions and varies across regions and among carpentry styles.<br />
When industrialisation spread across Europe, Classicism and a distinctive<br />
style of historism developed in Germany, sometimes referred to as<br />
Gründerzeit style, due to the economical boom years at the end of the 19th<br />
century. Regional historicist styles include the Hanover School, Nuremberg<br />
Style and Dresden's Semper-Nicolai School. Among the most famous of<br />
German buildings, the Schloss Neuschwanstein represents Romanesque<br />
Revival. Notable sub-styles that evolved since the 18th century are the<br />
German spa and seaside resort architecture. German artists, writers and<br />
gallerists like Siegfried Bing, Georg Hirth and Bruno Möhring also contributed<br />
to the development of Art Nouveau at the turn of the 20th century, known as<br />
Jugendstil in German.<br />
Expressionist architecture developed in the 1910s in Germany and influenced<br />
Art Deco and other modern styles, with,for example, Fritz Höger, Erich<br />
Mendelsohn, Dominikus Böhm and Fritz Schumacher being influential<br />
architects. Germany was particularly important in the early modernist<br />
movement: it is the home of Werkbund initiated by Hermann Muthesius (New<br />
Objectivity), and of the Bauhaus movement founded by Walter Gropius.
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The Lutheran Reformation and its aftermath left their<br />
mark. Northern Germany is predominantly Protestant,<br />
the south more Catholic, yet the division is not clear cut.<br />
Staunchly Protestant towns alternate with devoutly<br />
Catholic ones, while in some places the two traditions<br />
share a single church.<br />
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CONCEPT CAR: SETSUNA<br />
Isn’t it good?<br />
Last year Toyota made a fittingly stylish first appearance at<br />
Milan Design Week by debuting the Setsuna, an attractive new<br />
concept car made primarily of wood.<br />
The decision to use wood - a material that is durable yet prone<br />
to change over time - reflects Toyota’s efforts to give form to the<br />
developing relationships between people and their cars. The<br />
Setsuna symbolises how cars undergo a gradual transformation<br />
over the years, as if absorbing the aspirations, memories, and<br />
emotions of multiple generations of a family. With the Setsuna<br />
concept, Toyota is expressing the notion that, as a family<br />
accrues time and experiences together with their car, lovingly<br />
caring for it and passing it on to the next generation, that car<br />
will acquire a new type of value that only the members of that<br />
family can appreciate.<br />
The car’s name - Setsuna, meaning “moment” in Japanese -<br />
was chosen to reflect that people experience precious, fleeting<br />
moments together with their cars. Toyota believes that, over<br />
time, these collective moments make their cars irreplaceable to<br />
their owners. To embody this concept, Toyota picked a variety of<br />
distinctive types of wood for different parts of the car, including<br />
the exterior panels, frame, floor and seats. Wood provides<br />
uniquely appealing characteristics that are not offered in<br />
conventional cars: it can last for many generations if properly<br />
taken care of and it also changes in colouration and texture in<br />
response to its environment (particularly temperature and<br />
humidity) and conditions of use, taking on a unique character<br />
and depth.<br />
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Kenji Tsuji, the Toyota engineer<br />
overseeing development of the Setsuna,<br />
said of his process: “We evaluated<br />
various ways to express the concept<br />
and selected different lumber materials<br />
for specific applications, such as<br />
Japanese cedar for the exterior panels<br />
and Japanese birch for the frame. We<br />
also paid particular attention to the<br />
sizes and arrangements of individual<br />
parts. For the assembly structure, we<br />
adopted a traditional Japanese joinery<br />
technique called okuriari which does<br />
not use any nails or screws. The<br />
completed body line of the Setsuna<br />
expresses a beautiful curve reminiscent<br />
of a boat. We would also like the viewer<br />
to imagine how the Setsuna will<br />
gradually develop a complex and unique<br />
character over the years. The car<br />
includes a 100-year meter that will<br />
keep time over generations and seats<br />
that combine functional beauty with the<br />
gentle hue of the wood.
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LANDSCAPING: WAGNER PARTNERSHIP<br />
IMAGES: H. KEITH WAGNER PARTNERSHIP<br />
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Shelburne Farms was originally built in 1886 by William Seward and Lila<br />
Vanderbilt Webb. It was created as a model agricultural estate. With the<br />
help of architect Robert H. Robertson and landscape architect Frederick<br />
Law Olmsted, the Farm grew to a formidable 3,800 acres demonstrating<br />
innovative agricultural and land use practices. In 1972, the descendants of<br />
the Webb family formed an educational non-profit for the practice of<br />
sustainable farming and forestry and public education through<br />
sustainability and conservation programs. In order to fund the educational<br />
programs, a small number of parcels were sold within the estate as home<br />
sites. In the 1970’s a Webb family member built a home on this site.<br />
The existing house built over 40 years ago, was not energy efficient,<br />
awkwardly sited and turned its back on the dramatic views to Lake<br />
Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains. The clients, an art collector and<br />
an entrepreneur, were attracted to this parcel for the outstanding 10 acre<br />
house site and the option to lease an additional five acres of adjacent land<br />
for their hobby, raising English Shire draft horses.<br />
The house site included many mature shade trees and a ten foot grade<br />
change gently sloping to the lake. The clients wished to create a<br />
compound including a main house, convert an existing barn into a guest<br />
house, an arrival court, entertainment terraces, an outdoor hearth, a small<br />
vegetable garden and a water feature. In addition, the clients were<br />
interested in becoming involved with the Farm and their mission.<br />
Design Intent<br />
After careful site investigation, the landscape architect created a master<br />
plan for the compound including the adjacent parcel for a separate horse<br />
barn and pasture. Working closely with the architect, builder and client, the<br />
landscape architect sited the house to take full advantage of the views of<br />
the lake and mountains beyond. Orchestrating the flow of indoor rooms<br />
with the outdoor spaces and creating a marriage between the house and<br />
the grade change offered by the promontory - the distinctions between the<br />
disciplines were blurred and the new elements integrated with the site.<br />
The outstanding views and the history of Shelburne Farms were a<br />
constant inspiration and focus for the entire design team. In order to<br />
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accommodate the new house and outdoor areas, two mature sugar<br />
maples were moved during the first winter over the frozen ground and<br />
placed prominently out in the meadow, framing the views towards the<br />
lake and mountains. The architect took advantage of the natural slope of<br />
the site which resulted in two distinct house levels. The upper level<br />
contains the public spaces for entertaining and the master suite, while<br />
the lower level contains guest rooms, a spa and pool. The architect and<br />
builder are a Vermont design/build company which has many in-house<br />
craftsmen that work in metal, glass and wood. This collaborative process<br />
between builder, architect, landscape architect and interior designer was<br />
critical as they worked toward achieving the design intent.<br />
Materials and Installation<br />
The grand 19th century structures of Shelburne Farms were built with<br />
locally available materials, slate, stone and locally harvested wood, out<br />
of necessity. The owners wanted to continue the tradition of using local<br />
materials while introducing Corten steel. This material eludes to the farm<br />
equipment relics that are peppered throughout the site, a homage in<br />
material to the agricultural past, present and future of the Farms.<br />
Much attention was initially given to setting the finish floor elevation of<br />
the main house, establishing optimal solar orientation and creating a<br />
strong horizontal plinth. It was critical to get this relationship right in<br />
order to accentuate the horizontality of the view, site and architecture.<br />
The two plinth walls form an arc with a lawn ramp between them to<br />
access the lower level of the site and the meadow established as a<br />
foreground to the lake.<br />
The location of the existing barn foundation/guest house offered the<br />
opportunity for the arrival court to be the link between it and the main<br />
house. A stone dust auto court was created with a segmented bluestone<br />
walkway creating the link between the two structures. Local ledge stone<br />
was quarried in large slabs and used to delineate parking spaces for<br />
guests and to transition into the native landscape.
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Rainwater falls off of the long horizontal roof of the house into a Corten<br />
steel basin and runnel filled with pebbles from Lake Champlain. A lilac<br />
bluestone slab forms a bridge to the front entry from the arrival court and<br />
is illuminated by linear LED lighting underneath. Native fern planting<br />
provides a field for the runnel as it flows north along the façade. A series<br />
of Corten steel & stone weirs/falls guide the water as it turns west toward<br />
the lake. The falls create a meditative calm for the adjacent master and<br />
guest suites, visible from the bathrooms. The water ends in a Corten basin<br />
with a ledge stone bridge linking the lower level terrace and a walking<br />
path to the woods.<br />
Photovoltaic panels were installed on the horse barn to significantly reduce<br />
the electricity required for the house. A pump was installed, powered by<br />
these panels to circulate the water and create a wonderful amenity of<br />
sight and sound.<br />
At the centre of the house on the west side is a stone dust sculpture court<br />
with a lone Honey Locust providing dappled shade. The sculpture court is<br />
visible upon entering the house, a foreground for the distant views. The<br />
concrete retaining wall that transitions to the lower level of the house has<br />
Corten steel panels floating off of the face. Stainless steel cables provide<br />
support for vines while at night internal lights make the steel appear to<br />
float off the wall.<br />
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SCIENCE: CORAL<br />
SURVIVAL<br />
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Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2<br />
million years ago, probably due to drastic environmental changes. Which<br />
ones survived? Scientists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research<br />
Institute (STRI) think one group of survivors, corals in the genus Orbicella,<br />
will continue to adapt to future climate changes because of their high<br />
genetic diversity.<br />
“Having a lot of genetic variants is like buying a lot of lottery tickets,” said<br />
Carlos Prada, lead author of the study and Earl S. Tupper Post-doctoral<br />
Fellow at STRI. “We discovered that even small numbers of individuals in<br />
three different species of the reef-building coral genus Orbicella have<br />
quite a bit of genetic variation and therefore, are likely to adapt to big<br />
changes in their environment.”<br />
“The implications of these findings go beyond basic science,” said Monica<br />
Medina, research associate at STRI and the Smithsonian’s National<br />
Museum of Natural History and associate professor at Pennsylvania State<br />
University. “We can look forward to using similar approaches to predict<br />
demographic models to better manage the climate change threatened<br />
Orbicella reefs of today.”<br />
To look back in time, the team of researchers working at the Smithsonian’s<br />
Bocas del Toro Research Station and Naos Molecular and Marine<br />
Laboratories collected fossils from ancient coral reefs and used highresolution<br />
geologic dating methods to determine their ages. They<br />
compared the numbers of fossilized coral species at different time points.<br />
One of the best-represented groups in the fossil collections were species<br />
in the genus Orbicella. In addition to the fossil collections, they also used<br />
whole genome sequencing to estimate current and past numbers of<br />
several Orbicella species.<br />
Within a single individual there are two copies of their genetic material, in<br />
some instances, one copy is different than the other and is called a<br />
genetic variant. The authors first assembled the full genomic sequence of<br />
an individual from Florida and then, using it as an anchor, reconstructed<br />
the genetic variation contained within single individuals. Depending on the<br />
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amount of the genetic variation at certain intervals across the genome, the<br />
authors were able to recover the population sizes of each species at<br />
different times in the past.<br />
Between 3.5 to 2.5 million years ago, numbers of all coral species<br />
increased in the Caribbean. But from 2 to 1.5 million years ago, a time<br />
when glaciers moved down to cover much of the northern hemisphere and<br />
sea surface temperatures plunged, the number of coral species in the<br />
Caribbean also took a nosedive. Sea levels fell, eliminating much of the<br />
original shallow, near-shore habitat.<br />
“Apart from the species that exist today, all species of Orbicella that<br />
survived until 2 million years ago suddenly went extinct,” write the<br />
authors. When huge numbers of species die out, it makes room for other<br />
species to move in and for new species to develop to occupy the space<br />
the others held.<br />
Two species that grow best in shallow water doubled in number at about<br />
the same time that their sister species and competitor, the organ pipe<br />
Orbicella (O. nancyi) disappeared.<br />
When a species declines during an extinction event, it loses more and<br />
more genetic variation and sometimes does not have much to work with<br />
during the recovery period. Scientists call this a genetic bottleneck.<br />
Orbicella was able to recover after the bottleneck. “It’s incredible how<br />
predictions from genetic data correlated so well with observations from<br />
the fossil and environmental record,” said Michael DeGiorgio (assistant<br />
professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University).<br />
“We see hope in our results that Orbicella species survived a dramatic<br />
environmental variation event,” said Prada. “It is likely that surviving such<br />
difficult times made these coral populations more robust and able to<br />
persist under future climatic change.”<br />
“The in-depth analysis of population size in a now ESA-threatened coral,<br />
as well as the release of its genome and that of its close relatives (which<br />
are also threatened) would be of great interest to coral reef researchers<br />
addressing conservation issues,” said Nancy Knowlton, senior scientist<br />
emeritus at STRI, currently at the National Museum of Natural History.<br />
Authors are from STRI, the National Museum of Natural History,<br />
Pennsylvania State University, University of Iowa, U.S. National Oceanic<br />
and Atmospheric Administration, Hudson Alpha Institute of Biotechnology,<br />
Universidad Nacional Autónoma, Australian Research Council Centre of<br />
Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and University of Queensland School of<br />
Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Natural History Museum, The<br />
Systems Biology Institute.<br />
Prada, C., Hanna, B., Budd, A.F., et al. 2016. Empty niches after<br />
extinctions increase population sizes of modern corals. Current Biology<br />
Pictured Carlos Prada, lead author and post-doctoral fellow at the<br />
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.<br />
Photo Credit: Diana Beltrán.<br />
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INOVATION: AFFORDABLE HOUSING<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY: YVONNE WITTE<br />
Cardboard Cut-out<br />
Since Wikkelhouse is primarily a system for enclosing<br />
space, you can use the space however you like. It can be<br />
a home, office, workshop, showroom or vacation house<br />
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A cardboard house that doesn’t need a foundation, lasts<br />
at least 100 years and takes a single day to install.<br />
Sounds too good to be true? It does … but it’s true.<br />
Wikkelhouse is made by wrapping 24 layers of high<br />
quality cardboard and glue around a form. It’s made in<br />
sections and each module is 1.2 metres deep. By adding<br />
multiple modules together you get a longer/larger home.<br />
Inside you can finish it out however you like. The end<br />
walls can be solid or glass. The exterior is covered in a<br />
layer of aluminium and wood.<br />
Since Wikkelhouse is primarily a system for enclosing<br />
space, you can use the space however you like. It can be<br />
a home, office, workshop, showroom or vacation house.<br />
Wikkelhouse is the invention of the folks from Fiction<br />
Factory, a company of creative makers in Amsterdam.<br />
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Named Wikkelhouse, which translates from Dutch as Wrap House, the<br />
completed prototype comprises a series of interlocking cardboard<br />
segments that each weigh 500 kilograms.<br />
Each of these tubular components is 1.2 metres deep, and can be<br />
connected and disconnected to extend or reduce the length of the<br />
building. They also make it easily transportable.<br />
Each section is made from 24 layers of cardboard. These layers are<br />
wrapped around a house-shaped mould to achieve a rounded gabled<br />
form, before being bonded together with "eco-friendly" superglue to<br />
create a robust and insulating shell.<br />
"Using cardboard as its main building material, Wikkelhouse is a cuttingedge<br />
sustainable house with a beautiful design and exceptional<br />
constructive strength."<br />
The cardboard is protected from weather by a waterproof but breathable<br />
film and finished with wooden cladding boards to create a weatherproof<br />
enclosure.<br />
As the structure does not require a foundation, it can be built on a chosen<br />
site in just one day. Slot-in sections include a kitchen, shower and<br />
bathroom and there are options for glazed or opaque facades.<br />
The structure is made only from recyclable material and designed to last<br />
for at least 50 years.<br />
Wikkelhouse by Fiction Factory<br />
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TILES: CERAMIC WOOD<br />
BEST OF<br />
The similarity between ceramic<br />
wood and natural wood, which it<br />
reproduces, is so perfect that it is<br />
almost impossible to distinguish<br />
between them.<br />
Novoceram has five different wood<br />
effects from which to choose.<br />
BOTH WORLDS<br />
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Following the launch of<br />
Napami in 2016, with the gres<br />
porcelain stoneware series for<br />
outdoor Tablon, Novoceram<br />
once again broadens its range<br />
of ceramic woods for 2017.<br />
Tablon is inspired by wood whose original look<br />
has been totally transfigured by the long<br />
period of time exposed to the outdoors and the<br />
rigors caused by direct sunlight and adverse<br />
weather conditions.<br />
In the creation of the three colours of the<br />
Tablon collection we have tried to reproduce,<br />
in the most faithful and trusted way possible,<br />
all the marks and scars left by the passage of<br />
time on a live matter that is subject to the<br />
elements, changing itself and its look, until it<br />
reaches an ephemeral condition full of<br />
fascination: furrows, stains, cracks that replace<br />
the characteristic traits of the original<br />
essences, thus becoming distinctive elements<br />
and marks of a new nobleness.<br />
The realisation in full body porcelain stoneware<br />
in 20 mm thickness, that catapults Tablon into<br />
the Outdoor Plus range of Novoceram, means<br />
being able to combine the charm of this<br />
painstakingly achieved natural look and<br />
naturally unstable look, with excellent technical<br />
performance and exceptional durability and<br />
stability over time.<br />
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Tablon comes in three colour hues:<br />
Clair: a warm white and extremely luminous oak-wood<br />
Naturel: a natural oak-wood, whose original colour has been tempered by<br />
the long exposure to the elements, creating some areas that are greyer<br />
and others that are brighter.<br />
Gris: originally a fully veered teak completely in a grey colour with silverlike<br />
reflections<br />
Each colour is available in two formats. As well as the classic 60×60<br />
format, which features across the entire Outdoor Plus range of Novoceram<br />
– 20 mm thickness outdoor floor-tiles that can be used for floating<br />
installation – laminated timber planks secured by three listels of the same<br />
width and which are slightly marked by a really thin dark grout-line, Tablon<br />
is also available in the innovative 30×120 size: this format can also be<br />
used for raised installation, using the Outdoor Plus adjustable supports.<br />
www.novoceram.com<br />
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FASHION: THE HANDBAG<br />
BAGGED<br />
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100% brass metal, nickel or<br />
gold plated. Custom made<br />
hardware with black calf<br />
skin leather lining<br />
Egyptian design duo siblings Aya and Mounaz Abdelraouf launched their<br />
brand Okhtein – meaning, appropriately, “sisters” in Arabic – because of<br />
their vision to bring true luxury back to their home country as well as<br />
drawing international attention to the inherent refinement of Egyptian<br />
artisanship, sensing a gap in the market for true luxury accessories<br />
produced in Egypt. Launched in 2013, Okhtein seeks to set new trends,<br />
promoting Egyptian artistry as well as presenting new designs to the world.<br />
Born and raised in Cairo, Aya and Mounaz’s fascination with fashion began<br />
at a young age with Aya studying communication and media arts along<br />
with digital arts and design at the American University of Cairo. Her sister<br />
Mounaz, studied marketing and art at the same institution. As well as this,<br />
Mounaz is a highly skilled painter and has exhibited her work in galleries in<br />
Egypt and Paris.<br />
As a brand, Okhtein is remarkable due to its hyperlocal manufacturing<br />
process. Each Okhtein product has a unique provenance with deep cultural<br />
associations. To manufacture their products, Aya and Mounaz felt<br />
compelled to take a philanthropic approach to their work out of a desire to<br />
incorporate more handmade embroidery and straw into their leatherwork.<br />
This led to a highly mutually rewarding collaboration with several local<br />
NGOs that work to provide assistance to skilled female workers who have<br />
faced considerable financial hardship.<br />
Okhtein stands apart as a luxury brand that is truly committed to<br />
supporting the cultural value of Egyptian craftsmanship and to giving back<br />
to those in need while promoting innovative, cutting-edge design on an<br />
international scale.<br />
www.okhtein.com<br />
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DISARTERS: SAN FRANCISCO 1906<br />
THE<br />
FALL<br />
OF<br />
CITY<br />
HALL<br />
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Photographs of the 1906 San<br />
Francisco earthquake that struck<br />
the coast of Northern California at 5:12<br />
a.m. on April 18 with an estimated<br />
moment magnitude of 7.8 show the<br />
devastation nature can dish-up.<br />
Severe shaking was felt from Eureka on the<br />
North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural<br />
region to the south of the San Francisco Bay<br />
Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in the<br />
city and lasted for several days. As a result,<br />
about 3,000 people died and over 80% of the<br />
city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events<br />
are remembered as one of the worst and<br />
deadliest natural disasters in the history of the<br />
United States. The death toll remains the<br />
greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in<br />
California's history and high in the lists of<br />
American urban disasters.<br />
A strong foreshock preceded the main shock by<br />
about 20 to 25 seconds. The strong shaking of<br />
the main shock lasted about 42 seconds. There<br />
were decades of minor earthquakes – more<br />
than at any other time in the historical record<br />
for northern California – before the 1906<br />
quake. Widely interpreted previously as<br />
precursory activity to the 1906 earthquake, they<br />
have been found to have a strong seasonal<br />
pattern and have been postulated to be due to<br />
large seasonal sediment loads in coastal bays<br />
that overlie faults as a result of the erosion<br />
caused by hydraulic mining in the later years of<br />
the California Gold Rush.<br />
At the time, 375 deaths were reported, partly<br />
because hundreds of fatalities in Chinatown<br />
went ignored and unrecorded. The total number<br />
of deaths is still uncertain today, and is<br />
estimated to be roughly 3,000 at minimum.<br />
Most of the deaths occurred in San Francisco<br />
itself, but 189 were reported elsewhere in the<br />
Bay Area; nearby cities, such as Santa Rosa<br />
and San Jose, also suffered severe damage.<br />
The San Andreas Fault is a continental<br />
transform fault that forms part of the tectonic<br />
boundary between the Pacific Plate and the<br />
North American Plate. The strike-slip fault is<br />
characterised by mainly lateral motion in a<br />
dextral sense, where the western (Pacific) plate<br />
moves northward relative to the eastern (North<br />
American) plate.<br />
The 1906 San Francisco earth -<br />
quake toppled Agassiz's statue<br />
from the façade of Stanford's<br />
zoology building.<br />
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Souvenir Hunters after<br />
the 1906 San Francisco<br />
Earthquake<br />
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Union Street Car Line<br />
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During the first few days after news of the<br />
disaster reached the rest of the world, relief<br />
efforts reached over $5,000,000. London<br />
raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.<br />
Individual citizens and businesses donated large<br />
sums of money for the relief effort: Standard Oil<br />
gave $100,000; Andrew Carnegie gave<br />
$100,000; the Dominion of Canada made a<br />
special appropriation of $100,000 and even the<br />
Bank of Canada in Toronto gave $25,000.<br />
The U.S. government quickly voted for one<br />
million dollars in relief supplies which were<br />
immediately rushed to the area, including<br />
supplies for food kitchens and many thousands<br />
of tents that city dwellers would occupy for the<br />
next several years. These relief efforts were not<br />
enough to get families on their feet again and<br />
consequently the burden was placed on<br />
wealthier members of the city, who were<br />
reluctant to assist in the rebuilding of homes<br />
they were not responsible for. All residents were<br />
eligible for daily meals served from a number of<br />
communal soup kitchens and citizens as far<br />
away as Idaho and Utah were known to send
daily loaves of bread to San Francisco as relief<br />
supplies were coordinated by the railroads.<br />
Insurance companies, faced with staggering<br />
claims of $250 million, paid out between $235<br />
million and $265 million on policyholders'<br />
claims, often for fire damage only, since shake<br />
damage from earthquakes was excluded from<br />
coverage under most policies. At least 137<br />
insurance companies were directly involved and<br />
another 17 as re-insurers. Twenty companies<br />
went bankrupt. Lloyd's of London reports having<br />
paid all claims in full, more than $50 million<br />
and the insurance companies in Hartford,<br />
Connecticut report also paying every claim in<br />
full, with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company<br />
paying over $11 million and Aetna Insurance<br />
Company almost $3 million.<br />
William Del Monte born January 22, 1906 - and<br />
died in January 2016 at age 109, was thought<br />
to be the last survivor.<br />
Camp in Golden Gate Park<br />
under military control<br />
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TRANSPORT: ELECTRIC BIKE<br />
Extreme<br />
Performance<br />
ebike<br />
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Riders can reach top speeds of 100 km/h, a range of 50 to 100 km<br />
Neematic, a new player in the e-bike market made its first public appearance of their extreme<br />
performance electric bike - FR/1 - at Intermot 2016 in Germany.<br />
With its 20 kW peak power brushless motor, lightweight mid-drive aluminium frame and<br />
hardcore off-road suspension, the FR/1 is the perfect fusion of MTB and dirt bike. Riders<br />
can reach top speeds of 100 km/h, a range of 50 to 100 km and experience great<br />
handling whether they’re climbing uphill or shredding the trail.<br />
As Domas Zinkevicius, co-founder and chief engineer, explains: “We wanted to<br />
create a top performance e-bike for rough terrain. Most importantly, we’ve been<br />
able to integrate the motor in the frame and remove unsprung mass in the rear<br />
wheel. It is this weight distribution alongside the bike’s immense torque that<br />
puts Neematic at the frontier of high performance e-bikes.”<br />
FR/1 is also equipped with a 2.2 kWh Li-ion battery, and uses only topnotch<br />
bicycle components such as Fox 2017 shocks, Hope tech3 V4<br />
brakes, Pinion drive and DMR pedals.<br />
Initial design and engineering for the bike was commenced in<br />
early 2014, with Neematic then being established in 2015 with<br />
backing from Practica Capital, a venture capital fund. The<br />
engineers behind the bike, Domas and Linas, leverage 12<br />
years of experience in electric bicycle builds and race<br />
suspension engineering.<br />
Neematic is set to launch a pre-order campaign for<br />
FR/1 and start serial<br />
production in 2017.<br />
As Domas Zinkevicius, co-founder and chief engineer, explains:<br />
"We wanted to create a top performance e-bike for rough terrain.<br />
Most importantly, we've been able to integrate the motor in the frame and remove<br />
unsprung mass in the rear wheel. It is this weight distribution alongside the bike's<br />
immense torque that puts NEEMATIC at the frontier of high performance e-bikes."<br />
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ARCHITECTURE: SWEDEN<br />
Stop in for a bite<br />
Color is used extensively in the design, outside<br />
and in. Shoppers are directed through the three<br />
story space in a “figure eight” pattern which<br />
can create a bit of disorientation<br />
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The developers of Emporia, a new<br />
mixed-used development in Malmö,<br />
Sweden, wanted to attract<br />
commuters from the local train station to the<br />
combination mall, supermarket, office tower,<br />
and apartment building they planned to create.<br />
Realising that a stunning design could be a way<br />
to attract pedestrians they commissioned<br />
Wingårdhs a 170 person architecture firm<br />
based in Göteborg, Sweden to use the<br />
$390,000,000 construction budget to create a<br />
landmark that would act like a beacon to<br />
pedestrians. The result is a colourful collection<br />
of interior spaces, wrapped in a sinuous,<br />
psychedelic surface that appears to be on fire<br />
when the sun strikes it right<br />
The structure’s most distinctive features are two<br />
colourful glass-clad entrances inspired by<br />
nature—an amber coloured entrance pays<br />
homage to Sweden’s trees and the semiprecious<br />
stones produced by their resin and a<br />
swirling blue entry that echoes a nearby strait.<br />
The serpentine surfaces of the building are<br />
jolting, but are also notable achievements in<br />
structural engineering.<br />
Glass walls and curved forms have become<br />
common features of modern architecture, but<br />
rarely do the two go together. Even on buildings<br />
where glass appears to curve, they’re often<br />
faceted and only appear curvaceous from a<br />
distance, but each of the Emporia’s 804 panes<br />
was individually designed and manufactured<br />
with a complex curvature to maintain smooth<br />
lines throughout the surface.<br />
In partnership with a forward-looking glass<br />
fabricator Crícursa, the individual panes were<br />
formed by placing glass sheets into molds that<br />
were heated to 540°C, allowing the glass to<br />
slump into its new shape under its own weight.<br />
Once cooled, 3-D data from the molds was<br />
compared to a digital scan of the finished glass<br />
part to ensure that the final form met all of the<br />
mechanical tolerances.<br />
Bold hues are a signature theme, but many of<br />
Wingårdhs’ decisions are less obvious. The<br />
designers adopted a motto “no intermediate<br />
scale,” which basically means, go big or go<br />
small, but “avoid the in-between scale, from<br />
one centimetre to one metre, to direct attention<br />
to the products behind the glass shopfronts,”<br />
says Wingårdhs.<br />
Practically, this meant replacing tiled floors with<br />
a terrazzo covering that allows for larger<br />
partitions and specifying handrails wrapped in<br />
fine grain leather. Elements in the Emporia will<br />
either command shopper’s attention or escape<br />
their notice entirely.<br />
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In the US, malls are synonymous with sprawl and the situation is similar in<br />
Malmö. The growing city is expanding into some of northern Europe’s<br />
most fertile farming land and the designers decided to try and give some<br />
of that space back by constructing a 290,626 square-foot roof park. This<br />
green roof will help alleviate flooding, reduce noise and add thermal<br />
insulation to the building while providing a habitat for birds, plants and<br />
insects. It will also be used to host concerts and other events.<br />
The unconventional covering also gave the architects an opportunity to<br />
hide the ugly HVAC systems underneath man-made “hills,” creating a<br />
seamless environmental experience. Green space extends into the<br />
Emporia as well in the form of Plantwires, an innovative hanging garden<br />
system that suspends giant columns of jungle vines, flowers and verdant<br />
leaves.<br />
The Emporia is open to shoppers now, but represents only a quarter of the<br />
master plan for the site which will soon be filled with similarly ambitious<br />
structures.<br />
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BOOKSHELF<br />
Winter Traffic Stephen Greenall Text $29.99<br />
Sutton doesn’t like the three a.m. phone calls. He<br />
should change his number - that way Rawson<br />
wouldn’t have it. Sutton’s best mate is a hero<br />
cop, but strife flows through him like a highway.<br />
He was supposed to die young. Maybe Millar will<br />
do it for him: she’s the hot young detective from<br />
Internal who still thinks intellect and integrity will<br />
take her places. If she doesn’t watch her step,<br />
she might find out what they are.<br />
This is the story of good dogs living in a badnews<br />
town - a fragrant harbour city where the<br />
judges are dead, the vendettas lively and every<br />
glittering fortune hides a sin. An epic novel of<br />
corruption, murder and the true nature of justice, Winter Traffic announces the<br />
arrival of a compelling new voice in literary crime.<br />
promises he has made.<br />
The Restorer Michael Sala Text $29.99<br />
After a year apart, Maryanne returns to her<br />
husband, Roy, bringing their eight-year-old son<br />
Daniel and his teenage sister Freya with her.<br />
The family move from Sydney to Newcastle,<br />
where Roy has bought a derelict house on the<br />
coast. As Roy painstakingly patches the holes in<br />
the floorboards and plasters over cracks in the<br />
walls, Maryanne believes, for a while, that they<br />
can rebuild a life together.<br />
But Freya doesn’t want a fresh start - she just<br />
wants out - and Daniel drifts around the<br />
sprawling, run-down house in a dream,<br />
infuriating his father, who soon forgets the<br />
Some cracks can never be smoothed over, and tension grows between Roy and<br />
Maryanne until their uneasy peace is ruptured - with devastating consequences.<br />
I didn’t say it was your fault,<br />
what I said is<br />
I’m just blaming you.<br />
Everybody's Fool Richard Russo<br />
Allen & Unwin UK $32.99<br />
The great American master Richard Russo, at<br />
the very top of his game, returns to the<br />
characters who made Nobody's Fool a<br />
contemporary classic.<br />
Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the<br />
decaying American town of North Bath over the<br />
course of a very busy weekend, ten years after<br />
the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully'<br />
Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist's<br />
estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth,<br />
his long-time lover, is still married to Zach and<br />
running Hattie's lunch counter, though she's<br />
increasingly distracted by her former son-in-law, fresh out of prison and intent on<br />
making trouble. Police chief Doug Raymer is obsessing over the identity of the<br />
man his wife might have been about to run off with before she died in a freak<br />
accident, while local wiseguy Carl Roebuck might finally be running out of luck.<br />
Add a funeral, an escaped cobra, a collapsed building and a lot of beer to the<br />
equation and you have a novel which is a pure pleasure to read - genuinely<br />
funny, enormously heartfelt and imbued with the warmth and wisdom that are<br />
Richard Russo's stock in trade.<br />
Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman<br />
Bloomsbury $27.99<br />
Bestselling and much loved author Neil Gaiman<br />
brings vividly to life the stories of Norse<br />
mythology that have inspired his own<br />
extraordinary writing<br />
The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric<br />
of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and<br />
Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and<br />
Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for<br />
Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling<br />
fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the<br />
original source stories in a thrilling and vivid<br />
rendition of the great Norse tales. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the<br />
page - irascible, visceral, playful, passionate - and the tales carry us from the<br />
beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised by<br />
Gaiman's prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are irresistible forces for modern<br />
readers and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an<br />
open fire on a freezing, starlit night.<br />
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders<br />
Bloomsbury $29.99<br />
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling,<br />
Folio Prize-winning, National Book Awardshortlisted<br />
George Saunders, about Abraham<br />
Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son,<br />
Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War<br />
February 1862. The American Civil War rages<br />
while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-yearold<br />
son lies gravely ill. Days later, Willie dies and<br />
is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.<br />
Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln<br />
returns to the crypt several times alone to hold<br />
his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an<br />
unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering<br />
a supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself<br />
trapped in a strange purgatory - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - where<br />
ghosts mingle, squabble and commiserate and a monumental struggle erupts<br />
over his soul.<br />
Written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace, Lincoln in<br />
the Bardo invents a thrilling new form and confirms him as one of the most<br />
important writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic<br />
panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional -Lincoln in the Bardo<br />
poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that<br />
everything we hold dear must end?<br />
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep Beatrice Colin<br />
Allen & Unwin $29.99<br />
Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower,<br />
a marvel of steel and air and light, this novel<br />
charts the relationship between a young<br />
Scottish widow and a French engineer who,<br />
despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in<br />
love.<br />
In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile<br />
Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high<br />
above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But<br />
back on firm ground their vastly different social<br />
strata become clear. Cait is a widow who,<br />
because of her precarious financial situation, is<br />
forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Emile is expected to take on<br />
the bourgeois stability of his family's business and choose a suitable wife. With<br />
these constraints of class and wealth, Cait and Emile must decide what their<br />
love is worth.<br />
Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention, Beatrice Colin evokes<br />
the revolutionary time in which Cait and Emile live--one of corsets and secret<br />
trysts, duels and bohemian independence, strict tradition and Impressionist<br />
experimentation. To Capture What We Cannot Keep, stylish, provocative and<br />
shimmering, raises probing questions about a woman's place in that world, the<br />
overarching reach of class distinctions, and the sacrifices love requires of us all.<br />
One Leg Over: Having Fun - Mostly - in Peace<br />
and War Robin Dalton Text $29.99<br />
At the age of ninety-five, Robin Dalton looks<br />
back on her life, particularly on her love life.<br />
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OPINION: CLIMATE CHANGE DIRECTION<br />
Not Everything<br />
You See Is Real<br />
Dr Timothy Ball can’t wait for the political climate to<br />
change in America. He tells us why, after many years of<br />
politically driven science, cooler heads must prevail.<br />
Many people, including my wife, ask why I continue to fight for the truth<br />
about the greatest deception in history, the claim that humans are causing<br />
global warming. The answer is simple; I don’t want any politician to be<br />
able to say they weren’t told. I have written a multitude of articles in every<br />
medium possible, published books, done countless radio and TV<br />
interviews, and given hundreds of public lectures. It is in the record and<br />
readily available with the simplest of Internet searches. If they didn’t know,<br />
they didn’t look very hard or were deliberately selective.<br />
Despite that, there were times when I questioned the efficacy of my<br />
actions. This was brought home recently when in one of the many Internet<br />
interviews I do with students around the world a young woman asked if, in<br />
retrospect, I would follow the same path. After very little contemplation I<br />
said no and quoted the old saying that if the world wants to be fooled, let it<br />
be fooled. However, I then added, that it is of no consequence because of<br />
the path already taken and so you must follow Winston Churchill’s dictum.<br />
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great<br />
or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour<br />
and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently<br />
overwhelming might of the enemy.”<br />
Nothing has happened to challenge my “honour or good sense.” Indeed, I<br />
steadfastly kept the idea in the front of my mind that if evidence of ‘good<br />
sense’ appeared that showed I was wrong, I had to be the first to<br />
announce it to the world.<br />
Over the last 40 years, I saw events come and go that I thought would<br />
expose the greatest deception in history: The claim that human CO2 is<br />
causing catastrophic global warming, known as anthropogenic global<br />
warming (AGW). I kept thinking and hoping that something or someone<br />
would appear to expose the entire thing. It needed an event or person who<br />
could go to the heart of the problem that was established and firmly<br />
protected within the realm of government. I watched the Chapter Eight<br />
debacle in which sections of a final report agreed on by the committee<br />
were drastically altered when it was released to the world. I thought the<br />
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leaked emails, first 1,000, then 5,000 and finally 220,000 from the<br />
Climatic Research Unit (CRU) that became the control centre for the<br />
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would open people’s<br />
eyes. The exposure of malfeasance, collusion and manipulation of data,<br />
publications and even scientific journals should have stopped the<br />
corruption. It didn’t.<br />
The disclosures should have converted the valiant supporters of the IPCC<br />
and CRU. It didn’t. For the few of us who already knew, it was just<br />
confirmation. It is a measure of the tunnel vision of left-wing ideology that<br />
the Guardian reporter George Monbiot, a strong supporter of both<br />
agencies and their work wrote,<br />
It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by<br />
a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia<br />
could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are<br />
genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.<br />
But this didn’t trigger a campaign by him to demand the truth as it would<br />
in a less doctrinaire person. As Clive Crook wrote in The Atlantic<br />
“I had hoped, not very confidently, that the various Climategate inquiries<br />
would be severe. This would have been a first step towards restoring<br />
confidence in the scientific consensus. But no, the reports make things<br />
worse. At best, they are mealy-mouthed apologies; at worst, they are<br />
patently incompetent and even willfully wrong. The climate-science<br />
establishment, of which these inquiries have chosen to make themselves<br />
a part, seems entirely incapable of understanding, let alone repairing, the<br />
harm it has done to its own cause.”<br />
I thought the leaked emails from the CRU that exposed the corrupt<br />
activities of the central scientists at the IPCC would stop the juggernaut.<br />
Instead, they hired PR people and set up controlled whitewash<br />
investigations as Crook noted. None of it stopped and only marginally<br />
slowed the AGW deception.<br />
The marginal delay occurred because the emails were leaked in November
2009, a month before the Conference of the Parties (COP) 15 meeting in<br />
Copenhagen that planned to agree on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.<br />
A year later COP 16 in Durban, South Africa, they approved the<br />
replacement for Kyoto, the great socialist transfer of wealth scheme<br />
based on use and abuse of CO2, with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Too<br />
many people had too much invested, and most of the public didn’t<br />
understand what was happening.<br />
A major factor in perpetuating the deception was the claim that 97<br />
percent of scientists agreed. This was another falsehood deliberately<br />
created to perpetuate the myth. A Queensland University researcher<br />
claimed to have surveyed 11,944 papers and concluded 97.1%<br />
expressed an opinion supporting climate change. In fact, by their<br />
definition, only 41 agreed with their hypothesis or 0.3%. The only 97%<br />
figure of relevance is the 97% who have never looked at the IPCC science.<br />
The 3% who have, were shocked. For example, Emeritus Professor of<br />
physics, the late Hal Lewis wrote in his resignation letter to the American<br />
Physical Society (APS) in October 2010<br />
"the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it,<br />
that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a<br />
rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I<br />
have seen in my long life as a physicist."<br />
German meteorologist and physicist Klaus -Eckart Puls had a similar<br />
experience as he explained.<br />
“Ten years ago I simply parroted what the IPCC told us. One day I started<br />
checking the facts and data – first I started with a sense of doubt but then<br />
I became outraged when I discovered that much of what the IPCC and the<br />
media were telling us was sheer nonsense and was not even supported<br />
by any scientific facts and measurements. To this day I still feel shame<br />
that as a scientist I made presentations of their science without first<br />
checking it.”<br />
For most, it is so bad they think they are misreading it, so they reach out<br />
to others for confirmation. This was the experience of people like Albert<br />
Jacobs who contacted me several years ago to speak to a small group of<br />
Albertans. Their concern about the proposed Kyoto Protocol led to<br />
examining the scientific justification and found it wanting. I met the group<br />
at the Calgary airport and after convincing them that the science was<br />
worse than they surmised the discussion turned to the real issue. Should<br />
they stick strictly to the science or be aware that the issue was science<br />
corrupted and used for a political agenda. The other issue was making the<br />
science understandable to the 80% of the public who are Arts students. To<br />
their credit, they stuck to the science and did it with great success.<br />
A few years later I got a call from Malcolm Roberts a recently retired<br />
Australian engineer and businessman who also looked at the climate<br />
science. I helped him work with others to create the Galileo Movement,<br />
an organization that has achieved the same impact as Friends of<br />
Science. Malcolm wanted to become proactive, and as we<br />
communicated, he became aware that the real problem was in the<br />
deliberate use of bureaucrats.<br />
He learned that Maurice Strong set up the IPCC through the World<br />
Meteorological Organization (WMO) and as Strong knew the politicians and<br />
public would not challenge the bureaucrats. This culminated in Roberts<br />
running for office under a new Australian Party banner – One Nation.<br />
Meanwhile, he also learned that everything presented to the public was<br />
computer generated; there was not a shred of empirical evidence to<br />
support the AGW hypothesis. His campaign as the Senator from<br />
Queensland was successful, and his maiden speech started the search for<br />
empirical evidence. To my knowledge, it is the first open challenge to the<br />
bureaucrats who control the global warming agenda by a politician. He<br />
asked the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization<br />
(CSIRO), the agency responsible for climate change, to produce empirical<br />
evidence for global warming.<br />
They produced a report that failed to provide any evidence. Instead, they<br />
countered with English TV celebrity Brian Cox showing a temperature<br />
graph from NASA GISS showing the temperature rising. Apparently, he<br />
didn’t know that a temperature graph is not empirical evidence of AGW.<br />
Worse, he didn’t know the graph was altered to exaggerate the gradient. If<br />
he had done even minimal research, he would have come across<br />
Tony Heller’s explanation of what and how the ‘adjustments’ were made to<br />
create exaggerated warming.<br />
Because of these events Senator Roberts arranged for Tony and me to<br />
appear with him at the Australian Parliament with a public presentation.<br />
The Senator spoke about the failure of CSIRO to provide empirical<br />
evidence. Tony explained the extent of the corruption of the temperature<br />
data, and I provided the entire development and objective of the AGW<br />
deception from the Club of Rome through Agenda 21 and the IPCC.<br />
Then, as the ancients would say, the stars aligned. While in Australia with<br />
Senator Roberts Donald Trump won the US Presidential election. It will<br />
change everything, but especially with the climate corruption.<br />
A measure of Trump’s acumen and developer’s sense was that he<br />
appointed various people to head transition teams before the election. He<br />
knew you need everything ready to go on the first day of construction.<br />
Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), who both Tony<br />
and I knew, was appointed to lead the transition team dealing with the<br />
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and climate change. He invited the<br />
three of us to appear at a meeting on Capitol Hill to make similar<br />
presentation to those we made in Australia.<br />
We appeared on the Hill on December 12 before Senators, Congressmen,<br />
Aides, and members of the public. We then went to the CEI to participate<br />
in discussions with a group called “Cooler Heads” that included other<br />
members of the EPA transition team. Considerable discussion ensued with<br />
many questions related to positive actions. President-elect Trump wants<br />
clean air and water, so some form of EPA is required. What is not needed<br />
are bureaucrats creating regulations and enforcement without scientific<br />
evidence for a political agenda.<br />
It is likely Trump will advocate withdrawal from the Paris Climate<br />
Agreement. Ironically, because of Obama’s need to bypass the US Senate, it<br />
was an Agreement, not a Treaty. Then, to satisfy less committed nations<br />
and reach an agreement for the publicity it was made non-binding. This<br />
means the US can walk away and there is nothing any other nation can do.<br />
The exploitation of environmental concerns and global warming to push a<br />
political agenda is coming to an end. Control of bureaucracies is critical<br />
because they are the massive army of unaccountable control. As American<br />
author and social commentator, Mary McCarthy said,<br />
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of<br />
despotism.<br />
Two actions are required to drain the Washington environmental and<br />
climate change swamp; reduction of funding and changes to legislation.<br />
Both are scheduled for implementation by the Trump administration under<br />
the guidance of the transition teams. Nothing cleans out a swamp better<br />
and quicker than a tsunami.<br />
Dr Timothy F Ball<br />
Born: 1938<br />
Citizenship: Canadian<br />
B.A., (Honours), Gold Medal Winner, University of<br />
Winnipeg, 1970<br />
M.A., University of Manitoba, 1971<br />
Ph.D. (Doctor of Science), Queen Mary College,<br />
University of London (England), 1982<br />
Special Academic or Professional Honours<br />
Gold Medal, Honours Geography, University of Winnipeg<br />
Twice Runner-Up for the Clifford Robson Award for<br />
Teaching Excellence<br />
Clifford Robson Award for Teaching Excellence<br />
Atchison Award for Community Service<br />
Graduate Fellowship, University of Manitoba<br />
Humboldt Award, Geography Department, University of<br />
Winnipeg<br />
Research Fellow George Morris Centre<br />
Paul Harris Fellow Rotary Canada<br />
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REGIONAL HISTORY: COWRA 1919<br />
Farm Training<br />
for Women<br />
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These photographs were taken<br />
towards the end of World War I on an<br />
experimental farm in the Cowra<br />
district of New South wales.<br />
Cowra is located in the Central West region of<br />
New South Wales, on the banks of the Lachlan<br />
River in the Lachlan Valley. The township of<br />
"Coura Rocks" had its beginnings in 1844.<br />
Around 1847, the township site became known<br />
as Cowra and in 1849 was proclaimed a village.<br />
Rainfall is mild and distributed fairly evenly all<br />
year round, however it slightly peaks in summer<br />
with thunderstorms and again in winter with cold<br />
fronts. The average annual rainfall is 598.3mm.<br />
William Farrer is regarded as the Father of the<br />
Australian wheat industry. He had very strong<br />
views on how Research Farms could be best<br />
used to help farmers develop agriculture in NSW.<br />
He was instrumental in the formation of the new<br />
“Experiment Farm” at Cowra in 1903, where he<br />
could conduct his wheat breeding trials<br />
unencumbered by others.<br />
In 1905 George Sutton, agricultural scientist,<br />
took over and managed an experimental farm at<br />
Cowra to further the wheat-breeding work of the<br />
Department of Agriculture.<br />
The Department of Lands decided that the Pitt<br />
Town Farm 59 kilometres north-west of the<br />
Sydney, was a most suitable institution for returned<br />
soldiers to get experience in farming operations<br />
before-taking up land on their own account.<br />
The Cowra farm up until then had been used for<br />
training lads brought out from the United<br />
Kingdom under the auspices of the<br />
"Dreadnought" scheme. Since the outbreak of<br />
the war, however, there has been no immigration<br />
of this kind, and the lads who were in residence<br />
when the war commenced had either enlisted or<br />
have taken up farm work.<br />
It was some years later in 1917 that the<br />
Agricultural Department took over from the<br />
Department of Labor and Industry the training of<br />
20 women students who had been in residence<br />
at the Pitt Town Agricultural Training Farm and<br />
moved them to Cowra in NSW.<br />
Mr. Grahame, Minister for Agriculture considered<br />
the Cowra farm admirably suited for the purpose<br />
of training women students, as the operations<br />
embrace wheat growing, fruit growing, dairying,<br />
sheep and pig raising, poultry farming, bee<br />
keeping, and vegetable gardening.<br />
The Minister at the time hoped in the near future,<br />
to be able to provide accommodation for a much<br />
larger number of students.<br />
Timely notice would be given of the extension, so<br />
that applications may be received from women<br />
who desire this class of training.<br />
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The following is a piece published in the Sydney<br />
Morning Herald on Saturday 4th May 1918<br />
MAKING GOOD AT COWRA.<br />
For eight months the experiment of training women to<br />
do farm work at Cowra Experiment Farm has been in<br />
progress, and the manager of the farm, when asked<br />
whether they were adapted for farm work,<br />
emphatically answered "Yes." He does not, however,<br />
think they will oust men from their place, though they<br />
will be helpmeets.<br />
During those eight months they have been engaged in<br />
the orchard, the vegetable garden, the piggery, the<br />
poultry yard, the milking byre and dalry, the apiary, and<br />
amongst the sheep, as well as in the general work of a<br />
mixed farm. This last Includes the handling of small<br />
and large ploughs, cultivators, reapers and binders,<br />
harvesting machlnery, driving oil engines, harnessing<br />
and driving horses, and in comparison with their<br />
strength they do quite as well as men.<br />
These women are not above the average physique, but<br />
they have given their minds to their work, are doing It<br />
quite as faithfully as their brothers, and as there are<br />
20 women there at work the experiment of training<br />
them shows that they are capable. A wornan is in<br />
charge of the sheep, looking after them altogether,<br />
others are in the milking pen and sore udders have<br />
disappeared from the cows. Moreover there Is not now<br />
a mishap amongst the cattle - the women handle<br />
them more gently than men.<br />
Another student has been sent to the apiary at<br />
Wauchope to leam the management of bees and at<br />
the conclusion of her term she will probably be placed<br />
in charge of an apiary, where other girls will be trained<br />
under her. Others do the orchard work by themselves;<br />
others take their turn in the fields.<br />
Their capacity for doing detail work makes them useful<br />
in the vegetable garden; indeed, they apply themselves<br />
to whatever they are asked with a determination to<br />
succeed. Two of them not long ago took charge of a<br />
waggon drawn by seven horses, drove it from the farm,<br />
through the town to the goods shed at the railway<br />
station, delivered their load there, and returned home.<br />
These women are all highly respected; the appearance<br />
of the two with a team excited no comment. Already<br />
some of the earlier students have gone out from the<br />
farm and secured good situations. Especially In the<br />
coastal districts, where labour on dairy farms is scarce<br />
and dear, these women students can fill a want that<br />
has been felt for a long time. The war has taken a<br />
good proportion of the manhood, and like their sisters<br />
In England, these women are taking their places for<br />
the time.<br />
On the Cowra farm they work as a rule by themselves,<br />
but a man is sent to do the heavy lifting. Within the<br />
limits of their strength and physique they do excellent<br />
work and the farm manager Is highly pleased with<br />
their capacity. During war time they are doing as good<br />
patriotic work as any of those In the city who interest<br />
themselves in Red Cross or War Chest concerns. An all<br />
round average of the work shows that three women<br />
can do rather more than two men.<br />
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