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 Rule Of Law2 comments
picture29 May 2009 @ 14:52
May 29 2009
friday
red deer
morning

Dear Editor

In regards to North Koreas nuclear ambitions...
Well just off the cuff it is saddening that this sort of activity still need go on.
I had dearly hoped that humanity had or would have learnt its lesson with the events of the cold war and the chernobyl disaster in 1986.
I am under advisement that the international law community of the time shortly came to conclude that these sorts of things were inherently against and an offense and affront to the rule of law but wonder why then that charges against the North Koreans and possibly Iran have not been laid. In addition to being against the rule of law some find them as well to be an offense or crimes against humanity which also could be argued as an additional charge not to mention a crime against the planet itself but that said we'll we just have to leave to our leaders to make their moves in this regard I suppose.

Alfred G Jonas
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 Joan Chittister on America1 comment
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 The Architectural Divide3 comments
category picture11 Dec 2006 @ 20:00
Dec 11, 2006
Canada
Noon
Monday

THE ARCHITECTURAL DIVIDE

I was asked to review a new book on architecture,
" A Theory of Architecture" by Nikos A. Salingaros
I felt it wasn't up to snuff but had potential.

I think I felt that because it seemed to lack a basic premise
or thought. A crutial architectural insight.

Reading the article on open sources cars ming found, brought back the architectural idiom and reference "Form follows Function" that was instilled in me in Arch school and then bingo the insight...

Thats possible but only in egotistical or fashion architecture not natural or sustainable architecture. In truth or maybe not truth but in practice "Function follows Form" Its the building that ultimately determines the function and not the function
that determines the building. It perhaps sematic somewhat but then it isn't. I think Form will alway "over ride" function because forms are more sustainable than functions as form is the noun and function the verb. There is a bit of synthesis between form and function in terms of the architect. The architect is like a form/function anaylist who must take both form and function as equals and create a formal expression or "form" of the conclusion. Different "forms" for different "functions". Effective architecture as it were.
So to the architect form is function and function is form but to the legacy, Function follows the built or expressed form.

I think the closest this has found expression is in the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Conscious architecture of Douglas Cardinal. Closest because neither seemed to have much luck with roofs but achieve a immortal form below the roofs.

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 Imagine 20 comments
category picture2 Jan 2005 @ 11:19
Imagine 2

Imagine this is now,
It's easy if you try,
Imagine this is real,
and not somebody's lie...
Imagine most of the people,
Living for today...

Imagine this real planet,
It isn't hard to do,
Realize the earth and sky,
Should be shared by me and you,
Imagine most of the people,
Living life in peace...

Imagine few possessions,
I wonder if we can,
Just the basic needs,
So that we can understand,
Imagine most of the people,
Sharing all the world...

You may say that we are dreamers,
But we're not the only ones,
We hope some day you'll join us,
In this moment that is one.

Words by John Lennon and A. Jonas
1975 - 2005



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