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    The Gardens Looks To The Future – Texas A&M Today – Texas A&M University Today

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The Gardens at Texas A&M is not currently hosting events, but remains open to visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Texas A&M Division of Marketing & Communications

    With a hope to foster greater connections betweenThe Gardens and Texas A&M Universitys campus, Texas A&M AgriLife recently appointed Michael Arnold, professor of landscape horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, to be the director of the public garden and green space.

    Positioned with world-leading expertise in gardens and strong business acumen, Arnold will work to ensure the space continues to grow and serve the Texas A&M community.

    Michael Arnold, director of The Gardens and professor of landscape horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

    Texas A&M AgriLife

    Arnolds passions are a unique intersection of teaching and researching horticulture. A popular professor of plant materials at Texas A&M, Arnold is a former president and chairman of the board for theAmerican Society of Horticultural Sciencesand former chair of theTexas Superstarscommittee.

    His research has primarily focused on the landscape establishment of container-grown plants and transplant establishment factors as well as new plant development. Now, he is looking forward to extending his passion of teaching and horticulture into the community.

    I have unwavering confidence that Dr. Arnolds passion for horticulture, business savvy and dedication to teaching will elevate The Gardens as a destination, ensuring the space continues to grow as a unique treasure to this community, saidPatrick J. Stover, vice chancellor ofTexas A&M AgriLife, dean of theCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciencesand director ofTexas A&M AgriLife Research.

    Arnold and Joseph Johnson, the manager of The Gardens who oversees the day-to-day construction, maintenance and management of the space, are looking forward to seeing Phase II the development of the 20 acres adjacent ot the Leach Teaching Gardens come to fruition. In conjunction with the landscape architect, White Oak Studio, the team is close to completing the program of requirements and will soon start feasibility studies.

    Along with the continued planning for Phase II and a renewed focus on greater collaborations, Arnold and the rest of The Gardens team hope to encourage opportunities for classes and research groups across campus to utilize the space. He also hopes to extend the impact across the state and continue engaging with their many invaluable partnerships like theJunior Master GardenerandMaster Gardenerprograms.

    Although The Gardens is not currently hosting in-person events due to COVID-19-related restrictions, it is open to visitors.

    The Gardens is a great place to visit while conducting physically distancing, Arnold said. This semester, we are serving as an outdoor classroom space for courses from across campus and we are encouraging students to study while enjoying this beautiful green space. We have a great opportunity to be a safe haven for our students across campus who are looking for a bit of normalcy while coping with challenging times.

    For those who cannot physically join us, we are continuing to offer online media experiences. Like we are every semester and especially with the current climate, we hope to be a valuable safe resource for all, he said. We look forward to the future when we can all join hands to continue building upon the wonderful efforts of all who have helped us achieve the dream of realizing The Gardens.

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    Ease into autumn with these virtual lecture series and talks – The Architect’s Newspaper

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    While theres certainly no replacement for the intimacy of an in-person lecture attended by a captivated crowd, there is one distinct upside to having talks, symposiums, and other academic events be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic: the potential for a significantly larger audience unrestrained by pesky practicalities like geographic locale.

    With most major architecture schools having fully transitioned their event programming to an online format, their fall 2020 lecture line-ups are now more accessible than ever, allowing participants to attend lectures hosted by said schools by simply signing up and opening a new Zoom window at a designated date and time. Unless otherwise noted, all lectures mentioned here are free and open to the public with advance registration required. Most, but not all, are hosted on Zoom Webinar.

    Below are a dozen lecture series scheduled for fall 2020, presented by the likes of Harvard GSD, the University of Southern California, the University of Pennsylvania, and more to get this very different academic season started. While topics vary, the worldand the United States, in particularis a much different place than it was in the fall of 2019 and thats duly reflected in the programming.

    AN will continue to add to this list as more lecture series are finalized and announced. Specific dates and times can be confirmed on the events pages of each respective school/program.

    The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York

    For this years fall lecture series, the Spitzer School of Architecture is trying something a bit different with the new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture Series. Titled Far South, the series, curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch, presents talks with leading South American architects who, per the school, will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they face. Among the featured lecturers are Teresa Moller (Chile), Paulo Tavares (Brazil), Diego Arraigada (Argentina),and Patricia Llosa Bueno (Peru).

    Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture

    Per the SoA at Carnegie Mellon, the schools fall 2020 lecture series will focus attention on architecture and activism, and the role that architecture can have towards social equity and spatial justice. Scheduled speakers include Mabel O. Wilson (Bulletproofing Americas Public Space: Race, Remembrance and Emmett Till), William Gilchrist (Urban Design as a Catalyst for Environmental Equity), and Toni Griffin (Design and the Just City).

    Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

    Launching September 21, the fall 2020 public lecture series at Columbia GSAPP is set to include Tatiana Bilbao, Toshiko Mori, Majora Carter, Stephen Burks, Yasmeen Lari, the Black Reconstruction Collective, and Bryan C. Lee Jr. of Colloqate, among others.

    Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas

    While additional details are forthcoming, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design has added virtual lectures from Sara Jensen Carr, Mira Henry, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, Lesley Lokko, Michelle Joan Wilkinson, and Irene Cheng to its event calendar for fall 2020.

    Harvard Graduate School of Design

    Kicking off on September 10 with a lecture from Linda Shi, assistant professor at Cornell AAP, on the intersection of social justice and urban flood mitigation, Harvard GSDs roster of fall 2020 public programmingall talks and webinars are held via Zoomalso includes conversations with, among others, Emmanuel Pratt, co-founder and executive director of Chicago nonprofit the Sweet Water Foundation; Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town; and landscape architect Everett L. Fly.

    Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    While additional details are still forthcoming, MIT Architectures fall 2020 lecture series is slated to include Walter Hood, Derek Ham, Charles Davis II,and Veronica Cedillos.

    Rice University School of Architecture

    Kicking off on September 2, Rice Architectures fall 2020 lecture series revolves around a central themeRace, Social Justice and Allyshipand includes Zoom-based talks from a range of academics, activists, and architects including Ana Mara Len, Jess Vassallo, and Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff of South Africa-based firm Wolff Architects.

    Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Penn State University

    With on-site events currently on hold, Penn States Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has opted to livestream its fall 2020 lecture series. Scheduled speakers include Jenny Sabin, professor of architecture at Cornell AAP and founder of experimental architectural design studio Jenny Sabin Studio; Mark Jarzombek, professor of the history and theory of architecture at MIT; and Zrich-based architect and artist Pia Simmendinger.

    University of Southern California School of Architecture

    The USC School of Architectures fall 2020 virtual lecture series recently commenced with a lecture from Sara Zewde of Harlem-based landscape architecture, public art, and urban design practice Studio Zewde. Upcoming lectures will find architect Michael Maltzan, Yale professor and architectural historian Dolores Hayden, Tokyo-based structural engineer Jun Sato, and others taking the Zoom mic.

    The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

    Described as playing an integral role in fulfilling the schools commitment to fostering intellectual curiosity and the open exchange of ideas, the University of Texas at Austin School of Architectures fall 2020 lecture series will be livestreamed on the schools YouTube channel and touch down on societys most pressing issues, including race and spatial justice, ecology and climate change, computation and the proliferation of new and emerging technologies, and more. Upcoming talks include Peter Eisenman in dialogue with Mario Carpo and a lecture from Oakland, California-based designer, urbanist, and spatial justice activist Liz Ogbu.

    Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania

    Beatriz Colomina, Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University, is slated to give the inaugural talk in the Weitzman School of Designs robust fall 2020 lecture series. As evidenced by its title, Architecture and Pandemics: From Tuberculosis to COVID 19, its a topical one. Other scheduled lectures tackle a wide range of topics outside of the pandemic including Non-Traditional Green Architecture (Michael Webb, cofounder of Archigram) and The Freedom Colony Repertoire: Promising Approaches to Bridging and Bonding Social Capital Between Urban and Rural Black Meccas from Andrea Roberts, assistant professor of Urban Planning at the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University.

    Yale School of Architecture

    Kate Wagner, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Rebecca Choi, and Walter Hood are among those appearing on the calendar for YSOAs Zoom-based fall 2020 lecture series, which kicks off on October 1. Additionally, the first roundtable in an ongoing, open-to-the-public series of discussions organized by the M.E.D. Working Group For Anti-Racism will commence on September 9 with POLICING.

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    Why SoFi Stadium is revolutionary for the NFL and L.A. – Los Angeles Times

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    In less than two weeks, if the NFL moves forward as planned, SoFi Stadium will open in Inglewood after more than five years of design and construction.

    Finally, the Rams will no longer have to play in the sun-baked L.A. Coliseum. Finally, the Chargers will no longer have to be squatters in the tiny Dignity Health Sports Park (formerly the StubHub Center and the Home Depot Center). Finally, owner Stan Kroenke will see his dream of a $2 billion (well, make that more than $5 billion now) sports and entertainment park begin to come true.

    For the record:

    12:42 PM, Sep. 02, 2020An earlier version of this article misstated the weight of SoFis Oculus screen as 2,000 pounds. It weighs 1,000 tons.

    But heres the more important news: From a design and urban planning standpoint, SoFi is, potentially, revolutionary.

    Thats because, in many ways, this stadium is not really a stadium. Its not a solid concrete and steel bowl where fans park cars and push their way in and out eight times a year. And its not a themed shopping mall and mini amusement park grafted onto a sports facility.

    SoFi Stadium is a porous, indoor-outdoor, year-round complex featuring, yes, a 70,000-seat stadium and lots of parking, but also a 2.5-acre public plaza, an adjacent 6,000-seat performance space and a layered landscape filled with hills, trees, places to pause and sit and eat all connected to a vibrant 25-acre community park surrounding a 5.5-acre lake.

    A view of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.

    (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

    SoFi Stadiums landscape, designed by Mia Lehrers Studio-MLA, includes an arroyo and a Mediterranean biome plant palette.

    (Studio-MLA)

    The 300-acre complex, to be called Hollywood Park, is slated to phase in over many years more than 1.5 million square feet of retail, restaurant and office space (including the almost-complete NFL Network headquarters and studios), at least 2,500 townhomes and apartments and a hotel.

    The idea of a stadium as the focal point for a mixed-use project is not new. So-called sports-anchored developments are becoming the norm nationwide, from Patriot Place in New England to the Arlington Entertainment District in Texas. But more than any of those developments (including downtown Los Angeles L.A. Live), this complex its stadiums faade curving like the sweep of the coast is authentically inspired by, and caters to, its setting.

    We were trying to create an expression of Southern California, said Lance Evans, principal with HKS Architects. Something that would resonate with this climate and with this place.

    This is something that only Dodger Stadium embedded into the earth, obsessed with the future and surrounded by palm trees, the landscapes of Elysian Park and, alas, a heroically scaled parking lot has managed to accomplish in terms of local sports venues.

    Workers have been putting the finishing touches on SoFi despite the risk of COVID-19 infection (more than 50 have tested positive) and two deaths on the site, including one caused by a fall from the roof.

    Under SoFi Stadiums fritted roof, Studio-MLA has created canyons planted with trees, creating a classic California indoor-outdoor environment.

    (Studio-MLA)

    Citing the pandemic, the Rams, Chargers and SoFi jointly announced Aug. 25 that games will be played without fans until further notice. Once fans are allowed to come, they will approach a stadium whose field level is embedded 100 feet into the earth, reducing the buildings bulk as seen from the rest of the neighborhood and making a trip inside reminiscent of a trek down bluffs to a beach in, say, Malibu. Along the way they will proceed via a fractured landscape of textured pathways, gardens, patios and food stalls, descending through what the projects landscape architect, Studio-MLA, calls canyons terraced trails filled with earthen mounds and plants and trees from around California, weaving in and out of the stadium.

    Its all about how the stadium is part of the landscape and the landscape is part of the stadium, said Studio-MLA founder Mia Lehrer, who has designed green spaces for Dodger Stadium and for Banc of California Stadium in Exposition Park. She also is imagining the surroundings for the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

    In classic SoCal fashion, the stadium, its edges open to the outdoors along the sides, blurs the line between interior and exterior, inviting visitors, and views, inside. It pulls in ocean breezes through its aerodynamic shape, its permeable flanks, the lifting of its seating bowl above the ground-level concourse and massive (60 feet by 60 feet) adjustable openings in its roof that can slide like sunroofs on cars. These openings can tune the wind flow, according to HKS, which designed recent stadiums for the Minnesota Vikings, Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys.

    The roof, which covers and unifies the stadium bowl, plaza and adjacent arena, is clad in ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, or ETFE, a tough, translucent plastic that, thanks to its dotted frit pattern, shades fans from about half of the suns heat. (If youve roasted at the Coliseum or at Dodger Stadium, you will appreciate that.) The ETFE also will allow concerts, community gatherings, e-sports, the Super Bowl and the Olympics to carry on in the rare case of rain.

    Exterior of SoFi Stadium, designed by HKS Architects.

    (SoFi Stadium)

    The fritted pattern on part of the SoFi Stadium roof allows in fresh air while offering protection from the sun.

    (SoFi Stadium)

    One bummer: The roofs tempering of the sun means that the field had to be made of artificial turf, although such surfaces have progressed light-years since the days of AstroTurf.

    The seating bowl itself is not revolutionary, but its proximity to the field is as close as the NFL will allow a good thing for fans. A massive, oval-shaped screen hangs from steel rafters, projecting images on both sides, which makes it readable from a wider range of sightlines and seat locations. It weighs more than 1,000 tons and traces the circumference of the field level, making SoFi the new champion of the NFLs Jumbotron wars.

    The playing field and overhanging electronic display at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.

    (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

    The stadium sits under a major LAX flight path, and as seen from above that roof bears an uncanny resemblance to the Rams former shield-shaped logo. (Attempts to confirm this connection were rebuffed by both the designers and the developers, perhaps to protect the Chargers feelings?) But where the roof bends down, meeting the ground at a few distinct points, you can see its lightweight aluminum faade panels, consisting of thousands of unique triangles, perforated with millions of holes to admit breezes and create intricate dappled light patterns.

    Connected to the stadium via textured pathways and a grove of palm trees is Lake Park, the other focal point of the development. The park has the potential to be a profound amenity for Inglewood.

    An artificial lake which collects water runoff from around the complex was inspired by the lake at Hollywood Park Racetrack, which used to stand on the site. Its surrounded by a mix of flora thats even more robust than what is along the stadiums edge, including some plants that are quite exotic. Lehrer calls them Dr. Seuss plants, including the strangely fractured monkey puzzle tree and the jug-shaped bootle tree. All are part of the Mediterranean biome, an effort by Studio-MLA to connect Southern California to similar environments worldwide, including the Mediterranean region, the Cape of Africa and Chile.

    For the SoFi Stadium landscape, Studio-MLA chose plants from the Mediterranean, the Cape of Africa and Chile.

    (Studio-MLA)

    Visitors can experience, among other things, long alles of trees edging the water, undulating arroyos, seats built into angled planters, impressive views across the lake to the stadium and a deck projecting over the water.

    The park, and much of the stadiums periphery, will be open to the public every day, not just on game days, making the landscape part of the neighborhood. The complexs ability to host almost any type of event should help energize the site most of the year. It has the potential to become a real civic place, not just a sports-fueled fan zone. But just how civic is up to Kroenke and his team.

    Despite many positive signs, much of the 300-acre site remains a question mark. The landscaping, as fantastic as it seems, is so young its hard to tell just how effective it will be. And its still unclear how much of the immediate stadium area will remain open when events arent taking place. Parking lots dominate the sites future development areas, and because of the incredibly uncertain economy, theres no guarantee that all of these elements ever will come. (Nor is it a sure thing that this development, if it does come, will be welcoming.)

    Looking at toward the park at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.

    (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

    Football is a sure thing, and the Super Bowl and the College Football National Championship seem likely, as do the Olympics. But many other events like those catering to the local community are a long way from being programmed. How will the place interact with the neighborhood around it, including the Forum to the north and a planned complex for the Clippers to the south? Also: Can a stadium with 260 luxury suites and 13,000 premium suites really be considered civic?

    For now, public transit connections to the stadium are problematic. A so-called transportation hub along the sites west edge, amassing buses from nearby neighborhoods and the Metro Crenshaw Lines Downtown Inglewood light rail station (delayed until late 2021), is just a parking lot. (The Inglewood Transit Connector, an elevated tram running from the Metro station to SoFi, the Forum and other destinations, is still just a plan.)

    Thanks to COVID-19, we probably wont know for more than a year how the whole complex performs. Not until a game day with actual fans, actual concessions, actual crowd noise, actual traffic.

    So, like everything else in our current state of suspended animation, well have to wait and see whether SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park are a success, for fans, for the region, and for the concept that a stadium can become a true community asset. Well have to keep a close eye. Whats been achieved so far is impressive, but its just the beginning.

    The fritted roof allows for SoFi Stadium to glow different hues of light at night.

    (SoFi Stadium)

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    Noted educator and architect William Bill McMinn passes away at 89 – The Architect’s Newspaper

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    William G. Bill McMinn, an architect and educator who served as dean of three architecture schools, died August 21 in Asheville, North Carolina, of complications from a stroke. He was 89.

    In 1974, McMinn was named the founding dean of the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University (MSU), part of the College of Architecture, Art and Design, and stayed there until 1984. In 1997, he was named founding dean of the School of Architecture at Florida International University (FIU) now part of its College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts.

    In between, from 1984 to 1996, he served as dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University. While at Cornell, he founded the Cornell in Rome Program for students, taking advantage of the expertise of Professor Colin Rowe and others, and was instrumental in establishing an undergraduate program in the colleges Department of City and Regional Planning. He also helped raise funds to improve the colleges facilities and served on the board of the I. M. Pei-designed Herbert F. Johnson Museum on campus.

    Bill McMinns contributions to the stature of the college cannot be overstated, write Meejin Yoon, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of AAP, in an article posted on the schools website.

    As a founder of the Cornell in Rome program, he enriched the lives of so many as the program has grown into a vital component of many architecture, art, and planning students education. He was a practitioner as well as an educator, and his influence will continue to be felt beyond scholarship to the underpinnings of the culture at AAP and well beyond.

    According to the Cornell article by Patti Witten, McMinn was modest about his accomplishments as an educator, insisting that colleges cant really teach architecture. At best, he would say, we provide a place for students to discover it, Witten wrote.

    Bill was the right person to start a program in Mississippi, said Robert V. M. Harrison, an early faculty member and founder of the schools advisory board, in an article on the MSU website.

    He was a people person and brought in the right people. He had the knack to communicate with everyone. Architects,accreditation teams and legislators respected him. He got a full accreditation for the school at the earliest possible date, which is miraculous. A miracle worker.

    As part of his effort to give the new Mississippi school a national presence and broaden the students perspective, former students and faculty members say that McMinn established a lecture series that brought big-name architects and critics to campus in the 1970s and 1980s, including Stanley Tigerman, Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, Rem Koolhaas, Charles Moore, and writers Ada Louise Huxtable and Paul Goldberger.

    One story that has made the rounds for years is that McMinn was so eager to bring luminaries to campus that he would play one architect off the other, calling Michael Graves and telling him that Peter Eisenman was coming to campus and then calling Eisenman and telling him that Graves was coming.

    McMinn was a strong supporter of architects who wanted to use their education to influence other fields, said alumnus Janet Marie Smith. She used her MSU degree to carve out an unconventional career in sports architecture, building or renovating stadiums including Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Fenway Park in Boston, and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

    After 12 winters in upstate New York, McMinn moved to Florida in 1996 to become director of FIUs program in architecture, then part of its School of Design.

    A year later he was named founding dean of the FIU School of Architecture. Under his leadership, the school earned full accreditation from the National Architectural Accrediting Board, changing its status from a department to a school. McMinn initiated a competition that led to the construction of the Bernard Tschumi-designed Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture Building on the FIU Modesto Maidique campus.

    According to FIU, the curriculum under McMinn incorporated pre-professional undergraduate programs in architecture and interior design, graduate programs in architecture, landscape architecture and environment and urban systems, and study-abroad programs. McMinn stepped down as dean in 2000 to return to teaching. He retired in 2004 and moved to North Carolina.

    Born in Abilene, Texas, McMinn earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1953 from Rice University and a Master of Architecture degree in 1954 from the University of TexasAustin. He began teaching in 1956 at Texas Tech University and then held teaching or department leadership positions at Clemson University, Auburn University, and Louisiana State University.

    In 2006, he received the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), the highest award for outstanding contribution to architectural education in the U.S.

    A Fellow of the AIA and the American Academy in Rome, McMinn received the ACSAs Distinguished Professor Award in 1991 and the Educational Leadership Award in Architecture from the AIA Miami chapter.

    According to the AIA, he helped establish a School of Design at King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia, was a U.S.-appointed consultant to the School of Architecture at the University of Jordan, and helped improve the curriculum at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul.

    Bill McMinn has, throughout his career, served as a strong bridge between practice and education. His vision has always been to provide a seamless transition between the two realms, said John McRae, then-dean of the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design, in nominating McMinn for the Topaz Medallion.

    I have known dozens of deans, said FIU president Modesto Maidique in his nomination letter. Seldom have I found one with the passion, dedication and sophistication that Bill exhibited during his tenure.

    In addition to his teaching career, McMinn practiced architecture professionally from 1968 to 1971 as director of design at Six Associates in Asheville, North Carolina. In 1980, he was appointed to the National Architectural Accreditation Board and was elected NAAB President in 1983. He chaired NAAB reviews of 24 architecture programs, including those at Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California, Berkeley.

    Following his retirement to North Carolina in 2004, McMinn continued to advise on architectural design competitions and projects. He served as the professional advisor for a national competition to design a Performing and Visual Arts Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina, a contest that drew 58 entries. In 2004, he helped select the dean of the architectural school at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

    Of all his achievements, one that made him especially proud was the Cornell in Rome program and the creation of the Cornell Center in Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, dedicated in 1997. In addition to Colin Rowe, early faculty members included architecture professor John Shaw and sculptor and fine arts professor Jack Squier. Roberto Einaudi was Cornell in Romes first director.

    Bill was firmly convinced that Rome, this most ancient and complicated of cities, is the ideal laboratory for the disciplines of architecture, art, and planning, said Jeffrey Blanchard, the current academic director for Cornell in Rome, according to the AAP article. While Bills distinguished career as an educator unfolded in a number of institutions and was marked by many achievements and awards. I believe he always considered the creation of Cornells Rome program to be one of his most important and enduring accomplishments.

    McMinn is survived by his wife of 64 years, Joan; his son Kevin, and his daughter Tracey.

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    Norwalks Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum virtual Starlit Gala includes talk on bioethics in the pursuit of immortality – Thehour.com

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Glenn E. McGee, PhD, will discuss biotech advances toward immortality at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum virtual Starlit Gala on Oct. 17. Tickets are $50 to $100.

    Glenn E. McGee, PhD, will discuss biotech advances toward immortality at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum virtual Starlit Gala on Oct. 17. Tickets are $50 to $100.

    Photo: Hamerman Photography, 2017 / Contributed Photo

    Glenn E. McGee, PhD, will discuss biotech advances toward immortality at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum virtual Starlit Gala on Oct. 17. Tickets are $50 to $100.

    Glenn E. McGee, PhD, will discuss biotech advances toward immortality at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum virtual Starlit Gala on Oct. 17. Tickets are $50 to $100.

    Norwalks Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum virtual Starlit Gala includes talk on bioethics in the pursuit of immortality

    Norwalks Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will celebrate science and history at its virtual Starlit Gala on Saturday, Oct. 17, that will include a presentation on humanitys pursuit of immortality by award-winning expert on bioethics, Glenn E. McGee, PhD.

    Along with McGees talk, the 8 p.m. event, co-chaired by trustees Trudy Dujardin and Mickey Koleszar, will honor David Westmoreland, a longstanding supporter of LMMM and its preservation.

    There will be a catered dinner and silent auction. All all proceeds will benefit the museums educational and cultural programs. Tickets are $50 to $100.

    During these uncertain times, this educational and cultural icon needs support from all of our communities, and the gala is a major opportunity to step up to the plate, Dujardin and Koleszar said in a news release.

    McGee will discuss revolutionary advances in biomedical science technology in pursuit of immortality, and the ethical, legal and social questions they pose.

    McGee is the author of three books, The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics; Beyond Genetics; and Bioethics for Beginners, and more than 100 articles. He is the founder and served for 11 years as editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Bioethics, the leading publication in its field. He has served on the board of directors of the American Society for Bioethics and on more than a dozen federal and state advisory panels. He has received the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Cellular and Molecular Devices Advisory Panel Outstanding Service Award. McGee is Deputy Provost for the University of New Haven and received a B.A. from Baylor University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

    Born in Houston, Texas, Westmoreland graduated from Baylor University with a bachelors degree in Computer Science and worked for 23 years in the field of Information Technology at such corporations as American Airlines and Arrow Electronics. He completed his Master of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University in 2006 and is a registered landscape architect and co-owner, with Mike Mushak, of Tuliptree Site Design, Inc. in Norwalk.

    Westmoreland serves the community in Norwalk in a number of roles, including: Chairman of the Second Taxing District Commission (SNEW), Redevelopment Agency Commissioner, and on the Norwalk Historical Society Board of Directors, among others. He has served as chairman of the City of Norwalks Historical Commission, overseeing the relocation and development of the new Historical Society Museum, the renovations of the buildings and park at Mill Hill, and three city-owned cemeteries, along with the historic buildings at Mathews Park, including the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum.

    The virtual Starlit Gala is sponsored in part by Fairfield County Bank and David Scott Parker Architects. The graphic design sponsor is Miggs B Design.

    LMMMs cultural and educational programs are made possible in part by funding from LMMMs Founding Patrons: The Estate of Mrs. Cynthia Clark Brown; LMMMs Leadership Patrons: The Sealark Foundation; LMMMs 2020 Season Distinguished Benefactors: The City of Norwalk and The Maurice Goodman Foundation; LMMMs 2020 Distinguished Benefactors for Education: The Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Memorial Foundation, Inc.

    For more information on the gala, visit lockwoodmathewsmansion.com.

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    It’s time to figure out the riverfront. Planning begins at Hazelwood Green with public input – NEXTpittsburgh

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The Monongahela riverfront at Hazelwood Green stretches 1.3 miles, sloping and overgrown in places, pockmarked with abandoned industrial structures. An active rail line runs through it.

    Yet once reclaimed, it holds promise for recreational use, says Todd Stern, managing director of U3 Advisors in New York City, development advisors for the site.

    The riverfront plan is something weve long set our sights on, and we want to open that space to the public again as we anticipate future private and other mixed-use development on the site, says Stern. We feel that this is the time to begin to figure out the riverfront.

    That effort begins after Labor Day with a master planning and public input process, led by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council which received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and landscape architect Environmental Planning & Design (EPD) of Pittsburgh.

    The mantra of Hazelwood Green is being a place of innovation.The 1.3 miles ofriverfront present an opportunity to blend engineering, technology, ecology, culture and recreation in innovative ways, says Andrew JG Schwartz, studio director with EPD. This creative fusion will celebratethe riverfronts legacy while developing a meaningful, soul-satisfying and funky public space that is uniquely Pittsburgh.

    When completed in summer 2021, the master plan will guide the development of land along the river and decisions about the use and preservation of industrial heritage pieces along the rivers edge, including a pump house, mooring cells, platforms, coal loaders and catwalks.

    Industrial use of the riverfront property about 21 acres that vary in width from 55 to 200 feet has created a barrier between the neighborhood and the river for more than a century, Stern says.

    This master planning process is founded on the view that the riverfront is common ground. The project team will be asking for public input and feedback at each stage of design, to ensure that we create an inclusive place that users of all abilities and interests can enjoy, he says.

    Gathering public input begins on September 8 with a presentation by EPD at the Greater Hazelwood Monthly Community Meeting, hosted by the Hazelwood Initiative. Then a design charrette is scheduled for October 15-17, at a time and place still undecided. During these three days, technical experts will present maps and models to help solicit input from the public.

    We do hope to do this in person and are figuring out ways that people can come together in small groups safely because of the pandemic, says Stern. Its almost going to be like well have office hours, where people will be able to drop in at different times and well try to manage the flow of people so that its not too crowded.

    Additionally, the organizers will distribute surveys and engage with people through social media to familiarize them with the site. Public engagement activities will be posted onlinethroughout the fall and the duration of the project.

    An advisory committee of neighborhood, city, regional and site representatives has toured the riverfront and hopes to allow others to do so at some point, Stern says. The committee will lend guidance to the design process.

    Its an amazing location that offers everything from city views and connection to the river to economic opportunity, says Terri Shields, a committee member and chair of the Greater Hazelwood Community Collaborative. The community process will be critical to ensuring that neighborhood input is not only heard but integrated throughout the entire design phase.

    The Hazelwood Green Riverfront Master Plan will ultimately be presented to the DCNR for review.

    Part of the restoration is to address environmental impacts of past industrialization on the ecosystem. Any use of the property will follow Hazelwood Greens pledge to do sustainable development.

    We dont want anything we do to change the nature of that landscape materially, other than providing access, says Stern. And well have to manage access, in terms of volume; we dont want hundreds of people at one time, so lower-impact uses that manage traffic flow and the programming that we put on there is one way we manage sustainability. The other is plantings and other landscaping for stormwater runoff.

    Additional challenges includethe riverfronts steep grade, and the railroad tracks and fencing. There are different easement rights and ownership conditions along the track, Stern says, so the group will work with rail partners.

    Theres no simple convert it all to a trail, he says, so the existing rail ownership and easement rights have to be factored into our ultimate solution.

    Sam Reiman, director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, says restoring the communitys connection to the river is a longstanding goal of the development that until recently was called Almono.

    This master planning is the first step in activating the riverfront to support outdoor recreation, public health and local businesses along an extensive trail system that extends all the way from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., Reiman says.

    Its too soon to put a cost to the project, Stern says. Much of that depends on the scope of the master plan and the degree to which existing physical and legal constraints restrict whatever development ideas come from the effort.

    I assume that will be low-impact activities that provide recreational access to the Monongahela, he says.

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    MAD Architects’ first US project echoes a lush mountaintop village in the heart of Beverly Hills – The Architect’s Newspaper

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    MAD Architects has formally revealed Gardenhouse, the Beijing-headquartered firms first completed project in the United States. Located at 8600 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, the 48,000-square-foot mixed-use complexstreet-level commercial at its base, luxury residential up topmanages to both politely blend into its well-groomed environs while and also bringing something playful and new.

    With a series of white gabled facades poking up from above a vegetation-wrapped base, the visually arresting building is meant to be reminiscent of a small, remote village perched on a lush mountainside. The semblance is visually quite effective, if a bit puckish, even though the five-story building isnt towering or intrusive, as it tops out at just under 60 feet.

    The illusion of a summit-topping hamlet carries through to Gardenhouses range of housing typologies: eight condominiums, five villas, three townhouses, and two studio apartments. Per the firm, this diversity is meant to offer residents a high sense of community, and a feeling of individuality and exclusiveness even in this small-scale development. And in lieu of a central corridor, the units, most sporting pitched roofs and all clustered around a tree-lined second-floor courtyard, have their own independent entry/exit circulation routes as if they were standalone houses.

    MADs mountaintop village in the heart of Beverly Hills does, however, have a ground-floor central entry point tucked away on Stanley Drive that makes entering Gardenhouse from the street sound like a rather heady experience. The entrance adopts the atmosphere of a cave digging into the hillside; a dim, surreal environment where residents are led on a journey through a fairyland of light, shadow, and the sound of water, reads a statement released by MAD. Further ahead, the softness of the cave meets a bright conclusion, with natural light flooding through a connected water feature from the courtyard patio above.

    The most verdant and profuse element of the complex isnt necessary the inner courtyardor a secret garden as the firm describes it. From almost top to bottom, the buildings street-facing exterior is clad in an impressively generous swath of greenery thats composed of vines, drought-resistant succulents, and an array of native plants. This defining feature is described by MAD as one of the largest living walls in the U.S. Seasons Landscaping is credited as the projects green wall specialist, working alongside landscape architecture-helming Gruen Associates.

    Los Angeles and Beverly Hills are highly modernized and developed. Their residences on the hills seemingly coexist with the urban environment, said MAD Architects founding principal Ma Yansong in a statement. However, they also see enclosed movement at their core. The commune connection between the urban environment and nature is isolated. What new perspectives, and new value, can we bring to Los Angeles? Perhaps, we can create a hill in the urban context, so people can live on it and make it a village. This place will be half urban, half nature. This can offer an interesting response to Beverly Hills: a neighborhood which is often carefully organized and maintained, now with a witty, playful new resident.

    In addition to Gruen Associates, who also served as executive architect, and Seasons Landscaping, the project team includes Rottet Studio (interior design), John Labib + Associates (structural engineer), Breen Engineering Inc. (MEP Engineer) and DHC Builders, Inc. (general contractor). The project was developed by the Santa Monica-based Palisades Capital Partners.

    Not surprisingly, much like the topography that Gardenhouse evokes, prices for the units are similarly steep and start at $3.7 million.

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    Taking It to the Streets – Harvard Medical School

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    For more than 28 years, the Family Van has been a familiar sight in some of Bostons most under-resourcedneighborhoods. The Harvard Medical School-affiliated mobile community health program works to reduce health disparities in Boston by bringing medical services directly to neighborhoods with the largest prevalence of preventable disease.

    Four days a week, the mobile health clinic visits neighborhoods in Roxbury, Dorchester and East Boston. Van workers screen clients for blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, glaucoma and depression, also offering family planning services, pregnancy testing and HIV counseling.

    One-on-one counseling is provided to help clients make healthier choices for better health outcomes. Clients may also ask for help understanding a diagnosis or treatment plan. Referrals are provided for health insurance, housing, employment and other needs.

    The services are furnished in clients preferred languages and with an understanding of their cultural backgrounds.

    The Family Van is the knowledgeable neighbor, said Rainelle Walker-White, the Family Vans assistant director.

    In her 26 years working with the Family Van, Walker-White has become close with many clients, some of whom call her Aunty Rai.

    We are there each and every day, she said, meeting the needs of each and every person, touching the lives of people that other people would look over.

    When the coronavirus pandemic hit and public health guidelines encouraged physical distancing to slow the spread of the virus, Family Van workers and volunteers had to rethink a service model that relied on face-to-face interactions.

    Pre-Covid people would get on board [the mobile clinic], said Walker-White. We would give hugs. We would give touches. Its a part of healing and people had an opportunity to just speak what they needed to speak, feel what they needed to feel and say what they needed to say, and be heard.

    During the pandemic, we had to really think creatively, she added.

    The Family Van began began calling their clients at home to check in.

    A lot of them were isolated, said Walker-White. A lot of them did not have family members that could look after them. They loved that somebody called them each and every day just to say how are you. They loved us for just reaching out and touching them via phone call.

    New clients can call the Family Van seven days a week and be connected with volunteers who can answer their questions about COVID-19 and provide counseling and health care referrals.

    The Family Van has also gone into communities to distribute COVID-19 information in multiple languages, along with face masks, diapers, baby formula and grocery store gift cards with funding from the Boston Resiliency Fund.

    Much of the creativity and flexibility to respond to the coronavirus came from volunteers, according to the Family Vans volunteer program manager, Beatrice Antoine.

    Our volunteerseven at a time that is so difficult to graspthey still want to help and encourage our clients as much as they can and empower them in any way they can, said Antoine.

    Masks were needed at the time and a lot of the Family Vans clients did not have them, Antoine said. So, one volunteer, a local college student who had returned home after her Boston-area campus shut down, organized a mask-making drive at her university.

    All of a sudden I would open the door and see all of these boxes of masks arrive at my door, Antoine said. I could have 500 masks delivered. This was all organized by one person. This was an effort to show that anything counts. Anything you can do to help is something worth acknowledging.

    Joanne Suarez joined the Family Van almost a year ago as a community health assistant. Living in East Boston she had seen the Family Van in her neighborhood and heard from neighbors about the work the program did.

    I said, I have to be a part of that, said Suarez. When I came on board, I just felt alive. I still feel alive today.

    Suarez completed a masters degree in in bioethics at Harvard Medical School this spring. She values the work she does with the Family Van and the way it allows her to support her community.

    Every daywhether Im on my computer coordinating services or Im out in the communityI know that Im doing what I need to do to take care of my community.

    While the impact of the coronavirus is unprecedented in recent memory, in many ways the extraordinary circumstances brought about by the pandemic have laid bare the circumstances that necessitated the Family Van program in the first place.

    This pandemic has really highlighted some of the issues that we already know are existing in our communities, said Suarez. It has widened the chasm of how health disparities are impacting Black and brown communities.

    Justice is a long haul, and Im very fortunate to be a part of the Van, that were doing this work, Suarez said.

    Nancy Oriol, the Family Vans leadership council president and faculty associate dean for community engagement in medical education at HMS, co-founded the Family Van in 1992. At the time she was the director of the Division of Obstetric Anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. One of her patients had been hospitalized after having a seizure, she said. The patient had been experiencing headaches for weeks but hadnt wanted to "bother her doctor," Oriol said.

    The experience made clear for Oriol the importance of meeting patients where they are and of treating all patients with respect and care.

    Our students learn firsthand that trust, cultural humility and respect are essential components of health care, said Oriol of the medical students who have volunteered with the Family Van.

    Looking back over the service the Family Van has provided for almost 30 years, Oriol is awed to see how the program has grown.

    Working with the Family Van team has been amazing, Oriol said. Seeing how a simple idea has had ripples that went across the cityin fact, across the countryand into generations of medical students. Its justits awesome, thats all I can say.

    Reflecting on her own tenure with the Family Van, Walker-White echoed Oriols gratitude.

    It has humbled me, Walker-White said. If we look at people with eyes of love then were going to be able to prepare them, and were going to be able to take care of them the best way that we can.

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    Today’s Headlines: A ‘defund the police’ story – Los Angeles Times

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The experience of activists in Santa Ana who pushed to change funding priorities for police shows the fragile nature of such movements.

    A Defund the Police Story

    Years ago, the jail in Santa Ana became a rallying cry for a political reform movement that eventually led the City Council to phase out immigrant detention at the facility, improve police accountability and spend more money on badly needed community services. In many ways, the effort foreshadowed what is happening in Los Angeles and other cities around the U.S. today as protesters call for an end to police brutality and sweeping social reforms.

    But Santa Ana offers a cautionary tale for the defund the police movement.

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    Among the police ranks, resentment grew. Santa Ana officers installed a new union president who accused the council of ignoring the citys silent majority. In the November 2016 election, the unions political action committee spent more than $400,000, public filings show. At the same time, the city was experiencing a surge in shootings; it saw 23 homicides that year, nearly double the previous year. Voters elected two new council members supported by the union.

    After another election cycle in 2018, the new City Council granted officers a generous package of raises and the police department, after years of reductions, went on a hiring spree, adding 50 officers.

    Vaccine Scenarios

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nations top infectious disease expert, said a COVID-19 vaccine could become available earlier than expected if at least one of the three trials underway in the U.S. returns an overwhelming signal that it is safe and effective.

    The independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board would make that call, as it does in all clinical trials. But critics say that stopping trials early could eliminate the chance to detect dangerous side effects, recruit more Black and Latino volunteers and understand the full results. Some public health experts are concerned President Trump will push for the trials to end before election day. But Fauci said he trusts the independent monitoring board, composed of nongovernment scientists, to be transparent with its recommendations. Trial results may be available as soon as mid-October.

    Is the U.S. ready for a vaccine? An early rollout may make life more difficult for the state and local agencies that will be tasked with getting a vaccine out to their communities. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told them to be ready to go by Nov. 1, the earliest possible release of one. But decades of funding shortfalls have left them struggling.

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    The Trump administration is canceling some of its remaining orders for ventilators after having rushed to sign nearly $3 billion in emergency contracts in the spring. The Department of Health and Human Services says the national stockpile has now reached its maximum capacity.

    Schools in L.A. County can reopen small classes beginning Sept. 14 for students with disabilities and English-language learners.

    L.A. County officials are keeping shopping malls shuttered while allowing barbershops and hair salons to operate indoors again under certain restrictions.

    For more, sign up for Coronavirus Today, a special edition of The Times Health and Science newsletter.

    Stuck Behind the Fire Lines

    Scores of residents throughout the California towns of Boulder Creek and Bonny Doon defied evacuation orders as the CZU Lightning Complex fire moved through the Santa Cruz Mountains during the last two weeks of August. But now theyve found themselves stuck in the mountains, reluctant to leave, fearing that public safety officers wont let them return home if they travel out to secure food, water and other necessities.

    Under normal circumstances, evacuated residents would be allowed back in a few days. In the CZU fire, the flames are so spread out and in such rugged territory, the process is different. Evacuation orders are slowly being lifted for some areas, but authorities have suggested that the hardest hit parts of the fire zone could be shut down for weeks as power lines and roads are repaired.

    A Long Sanctuary Stay

    Shortly after President Trump took office and lowered the bar for who would be targeted for deportation from the U.S., about 45 people across the country sought refuge in churches. Most of those remain there to this day.

    Rosa Sabido is one of them. She took sanctuary on June 2, 2017, inside the Mancos United Methodist Church in a deeply conservative corner of Colorado. In the more than three years Sabido has spent in the church, her mother has died, along with five elderly dogs she left with a stepfather. Two food trucks she once operated sit idle behind her empty mobile home in a nearby town.

    I think we are all surprised that shes been here over three years, said the church pastor. Hopefully, it wont all be for naught.

    In 1984 and 1985, Richard Ramirez, who would come to be known as the Night Stalker serial killer, evaded police as he committed murders, sexual assaults and burglaries across the Los Angeles area. But on Aug. 31, 1985, an East Los Angeles neighborhood worked together to stop a car theft, successfully capturing Ramirez in the process.

    He attempted to steal a womans car on Hubbard Street and several neighbors came to her aid. One told The Times he yanked Ramirez from the car. Another beat him with a steel rod. They held him until police arrived and only later discovered the man had been the Night Stalker suspect. Ramirez was ultimately convicted of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries in 1989. He died in 2013.

    Police cordon off the area on Hubbard Street in East L.A. where Richard Ramirez was captured after trying to steal a car on Aug. 31, 1985. Ramirez pulled a woman out of the car at left, but the womans husband came out of the house with a pipe and started to beat him. Ramirez ran and was tackled by a 21-year-old neighbor.

    (Los Angeles Times)

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    Prosecutors have begun dismissing felony cases that relied on the work of Los Angeles police officers charged this summer with falsifying records and obstructing justice by claiming without evidence that people they stopped were gang members.

    The L.A. City Council voted to seek furloughs for more than 15,000 city workers, despite warnings that the move would harm critical city services and push police officers out of patrol cars and into desk duties.

    A year after a fire aboard the Conception dive boat killed 34 people off Santa Cruz Island, the victims families are mourning and looking for answers.

    For the first time in its 50-year history, Christopher Street West, the nonprofit organization that produces LA Pride, has named a Black transgender woman as president of its board.

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    After Trumps visit Tuesday to Kenosha, Wis., Joe Biden said he would visit the city in his first campaign stop in the state since securing the Democratic presidential nomination.

    The former vice president raised $364 million for his election effort in August, a record-shattering sum that will give Biden ample resources to compete in the final two months of the campaign.

    Mississippi voters will decide whether to accept a new state flag with a magnolia to replace an old one legislators retired under pressure because it included the Confederate battle emblem.

    Migrants are increasingly crossing a treacherous part of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Canary Islands. Its a newer route to European territory that has become one of the most dangerous.

    Netflix and ... Sussex? Prince Harry and Meghan have signed a deal with the streaming service to produce movies and series, including documentaries, features and childrens programming.

    Running a dance studio in L.A. was notoriously challenging. Months into the pandemic, GoFundMes and goodbye announcements paint a picture of a dance landscape in crisis.

    Hollywood has a new mogul in town: Steven A. Cohen, a Wall Street titan whose former hedge fund pleaded guilty to criminal insider trading.

    Californias AB 5 was supposed to help gig workers but wound up hurting artists. Lawmakers have embraced a new plan that would loosen the rules for musicians and magicians.

    Facebook says it is taking more steps to encourage voting and minimize misinformation, including restrictions on new political ads in the week before the election.

    Its not clear what two pilots saw when they recently reported a man with a jetpack above Los Angeles International Airport. But what is clear is that jetpacks are real technology.

    Teslas first true competitor is here: The Polestar 2. The Times Russ Mitchell says theres a lot to like about the electric car.

    Tom Seaver, the Hall of Fame pitcher who helped transform the expansion New York Mets from lovable losers to World Series champions in 1969, has died from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19, the Hall of Fame announced. He was 75.

    Online workouts, virtual training sessions, new platforms for recruiting: Sports social media was changed by the pandemic and the new norms are here to stay.

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    Schools in California are off to a better start than they had when they first switched to distance learning. But problems persist.

    Legal affairs columnist Harry Litman calls Trump our first pro-vigilante president. Now stop and think about what that means.

    Trump encouraged North Carolina residents to attempt to vote both via the mail and in person, seemingly urging them to commit voter fraud as a test of mail-in voting systems. (Politico)

    How can concerts safely restart? A 1,500-person study in Germany, complete with soft rock, aims to find out. (The Hollywood Reporter)

    It was the blowout that turned into a blowout. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went to a San Francisco salon to get her hair done on Monday, and by the next day, Fox News was showing security camera footage of her inside the salon, passing by with wet hair and a mask wrapped around her neck while being trailed by a hairstylist who was wearing a mask. On Wednesday, Pelosi said she was set up by the salon owner, who in turn denied that allegation. But hours later, the stylist who blew out Pelosis hair released a statement through an attorney contradicting the owner and supporting Pelosis side of the story.

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    LED Indoor Lighting Market Research 2020: Region Wise Analysis of Top Players in Market by Its Types and Application – The PRNews Pulse

    - September 3, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    TheLED Indoor Lighting Marketis expected to grow from USD 3.79 Billion in 2018 to USD 10.55 Billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 12.52%. The high use of light emitting diodes as an alternative to florescent, HID and incandescent lighting has paved the way for large scale lighting of indoor light emitting diodes.

    COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the world and has brought about an economic slowdown. The report covers an impact analysis of the COVID-19 crisis on the overall industry. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the changing dynamics of the market and emerging trends and demands due to the pandemic. It also offers a current and future impact estimation of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    Key players of the market mentioned in the report are:

    Digital Lumens, Inc. (United States), Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. (United States), Philips Lighting (Netherlands), General Electric Company (United States), OSRAM Licht AG (Germany), Honeywell International (United States), Cooper Industries, Inc. (Ireland), Legrand (France), Schneider Electric SE (France), among others.

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    The research report is formulated by extensive primary and secondary research gathered by the research analysts. The data is further validated and verified by industry experts and have assisted in compiling the parametric estimations of the market for a comprehensive study. The competitive landscape data is provided by SWOT analysis of each market player along with feasibility analysis, investment return analysis, and Porters Five Forces analysis.

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