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CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010: Why The Haiti Earthquake Wasn’t As Strong, But Far More Devastating

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month – yet the death toll in this Caribbean nation is magnitudes higher. The reasons are simple. Chile is wealthier and infinitely better prepared, with strict building codes, robust emergency response and a long history of handling seismic catastrophes.

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CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010: Why The Haiti Earthquake Wasn’t As Strong, But Far More Devastating

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Chile-Haiti Earthquake Comparison: Chile Was More Prepared

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month – yet the death toll in this Caribbean nation is magnitudes higher.

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Chile-Haiti Earthquake Comparison: Chile Was More Prepared

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Chile-Haiti Earthquake Comparison: Chile Was More Prepared

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month – yet the death toll in this Caribbean nation is magnitudes higher. The reasons are simple

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Chile-Haiti Earthquake Comparison: Chile Was More Prepared

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Phone Sex & Architectural Modernism: Your Weekend To-Do List

Friday, February 26th, 2010

For the rest of the best in art and culture this weekend, check out Flavorpill LA Easier with Practice To the Hollywood films that portray women as ball-busters, constantly demanding commitment from aloof men, director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s first feature offers a rebuttal.

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Phone Sex & Architectural Modernism: Your Weekend To-Do List

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Haiti Needs Schools: Who Is Helping And How You Can Too

Friday, February 19th, 2010

With learning institutions across Haiti wrecked by the earthquake and many indefinitely out of session, Haiti’s students are fearing that their futures have been buried among the rubble. CNN reports that thousands of students are missing and years of learning were lost, exacerbating the educational situation in a country already struggling to produce qualified graduates.

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Haiti Needs Schools: Who Is Helping And How You Can Too

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Helping Haiti & Healing Your Heartache: Your Weekend To-Do List

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

For the rest of the best in art and culture this weekend, check out Flavorpill LA The Ballad of Emmett Till $15 – 28 The Fountain Theatre 5060 Fountain Ave 323.663.1525 Info In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime box office manager of the Fountain Theatre, 59-year-old Ben Bradley, was recently bludgeoned to death in his home on New Year’s Day. While a manager at the theatre, Bradley also produced and directed numerous plays, including The Ballad of Emmett Till, Ifa Bayeza’s soulful musical inspired by a 14-year-old black boy who was murdered after whistling at a white woman in 1955.

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Helping Haiti & Healing Your Heartache: Your Weekend To-Do List

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

For the rest of the best in art and culture this weekend, check out Flavorpill LA The Ballad of Emmett Till $15 – 28 The Fountain Theatre 5060 Fountain Ave 323.663.1525 Info In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime box office manager of the Fountain Theatre, 59-year-old Ben Bradley, was recently bludgeoned to death in his home on New Year’s Day. While a manager at the theatre, Bradley also produced and directed numerous plays, including The Ballad of Emmett Till, Ifa Bayeza’s soulful musical inspired by a 14-year-old black boy who was murdered after whistling at a white woman in 1955. While the Fountain’s excitement over its 20th season instantly waned with news of its friend’s shocking death, in true thespian spirit, Bradley’s colleague and friend Shirley Jo Finney rescued the beleaguered production and took over as director, paying respect to Bradley’s legacy by revisiting the ghost of Emmett Till.

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Helping Haiti & Healing Your Heartache: Your Weekend To-Do List

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Deal reached to save landmark LA hotel

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles hotel that hosted a welcome-home party for the Apollo 11 astronauts and other historic events will remain standing under a deal reached between the mid-century landmark’s owners and preservation groups that sought to stave off the structure’s demolition. Michael Rosenfeld, who leads the partnership that owns the glass and aluminum Century Plaza Hotel, said his group has agreed to preserve the crescent-shaped building, which it previously planned to replace with two soaring towers

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Deal reached to save landmark LA hotel

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(video) Hats off to MGM Mirage for their use of public art at City Center [and the 12,000 jobs created]…

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Take a moment and watch this video of the public art at City Center, the city within the Las Vegas strip.  I always applaud corporations who not only include public art in their development but truly include it from the onset as MGM Mirage has clearly done with the public art sprinkled throughout the 67 acre development.  Fantastic!

For those readers unfamiliar with City Center I will provide some bg. and some text links for further exploration and discovery.

City Center is a 67 acre parcel that is anchored on one end by Bellagio and on the other end by the Monte Carlo resort, both anchor properties are also MGM Mirage properties. City Center consists of luxury hotels, condo. hotels, condominiums and the beautiful Crystals retail shopping at the Strip front of the property.

Aria hotel is the flagship and at just over 4,000 rooms and suites it is also the largest. It’s sister property is the Vdara which is a condominium hotel (when you’re not using your unit you can put it into inventory as a ‘hotel room’ thus generating some level of income from the unit, the jury is of course out on that one, in light of the global economy).

The ultra-luxurious Mandarin Oriental hotel and residences (only the hotel rooms are open at the time of this post, its my understanding the residences are being built as I write this).

The eye-catching Veer Towers, two condominium towers that literally veer in opposite directions; very striking but then I love modern architecture!

There is also The Harmon which anchors the other front corner (The Mandarin Oriental anchoring the other front corner with Crystals shopping in between them at the strip from on C.C.).   The Harmon Hotel’s opening has been delayed due to construction issues, which ultimately shortened the tower’s height, and eliminating the condos. that were part of the original design. What started out as a problem for the Harmon actually, in my opinion will make it a better and more interesting hotel option amongst the sea of hotel options lining The Strip. Now, the Harmon will be the only boutique hotel at City Center, which makes it special and the new, lower height must improve sight lines for the hotel guests and residents of City Center condos. having the Harmon as a shorter tower.

City Center has it’s own monorail which starts at Bellagio, has one stop at City Center and that’s perfectly positioned within Crystals which is the retail shopping & dining space at City Center and the final stop is at Monte Carlo.

City Center also has it’s own co-generation electrical plant. CityCenter is the world’s largest environmentally sustainable, mixed-use new construction development to achieve LEED certification. USGBC has awarded six distinct LEED Gold certifications to ARIA Resort & Casino’s hotel tower, convention center and showroom; as well as Vdara Hotel & Spa, Mandarin Oriental, Crystals, and Veer Towers.

Myself and two friends were in Las Vegas in January 2010 celebrating my friend’s birthday and although we didn’t stay at City Center we did use the new tram which begins at the Bellagio, had one stop at the Crystals shopping at City Center, and a final stop at the Monte Carlo resort which anchors the other end of City Center this is where we got off the tram.  It’s impressive, worked well and seems very well thought out feeds you right into City Center shopping and dining; from there it’s your choice and there are serveral but we wanted to check out the new casino at Aria.

We wandered through Crystals and wandered through a small portion of Aria until we found the casino. We played in the Aria casino for an hour and we loved it!  The modern architecture is a sight to behold and I really like the interior design of the few spaces we had time to see. We’ll go back the casino is beautiful, modern, inviting and quite fun!  It’s modern and the casino is dark but it all works for me, it warms up the modern spaces while also keeping players focused on the gaming, which is of course the point in the casino but it works in the lobby space too — it plays off the vast height of some of the ceilings creating intimate spaces with a nice luxurious warmth that’s modern and welcoming; nothing cold at all.  Stunning.

Kudos to MGM Mirage for their vision and use of thought-provoking, public art so beautifully and organically with the spectacular architecture!

Also, a big hats off to MGM Mirage for creating a development that added 12,000 jobs to the economy.

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U.S. Speeding Up Missile Defenses In Persian Gulf

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration edges toward imposing tougher sanctions on Iran, it has begun upgrading its approach to defending its Persian Gulf allies against potential Iranian missile strikes, officials said Saturday.

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U.S. Speeding Up Missile Defenses In Persian Gulf

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Baghdad Crime Lab Rocked By Suicide Car Bomb

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber killed at least 18 and injured dozens more Tuesday in a strike against a police crime lab in central Baghdad, a day after several hotels were also hit by suicide attacks, officials said.

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Baghdad Crime Lab Rocked By Suicide Car Bomb

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Landscape Architecture Around America (PHOTOS)

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Living in a big city, it can be hard to find refuge from the daily grind.

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Landscape Architecture Around America (PHOTOS)

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Stockton, California Is Foreclosureville, USA, Has One Of The Worst Foreclosure Rates In The United Sates

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

STOCKTON, Calif.

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Stockton, California Is Foreclosureville, USA, Has One Of The Worst Foreclosure Rates In The United Sates

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The Best And Worst Architecture Of The ’00s

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Architecture is symbiotically linked to the flow of money, and so it was a topsy-turvy decade, beginning in exuberance, and ending with talk that perhaps the days of the great mega-project are over.

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The Best And Worst Architecture Of The ’00s

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