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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Residential Project in Mexico Advocating Deconstructive Design: Casa G?mez

The idea of distorting and fragmenting walls, roofs or interior volumes is the basis for the architecture current called ?Deconstructivism?. Casa G?mez developed by SO Studio in Cancun, Mexico is a residential project exhibiting the up-mentioned characteristics. The avant-garde building seems to be visually created by broken rhythms, randomly positioned walls and unexpected inclinations.According to the architects, ?the design is organized by combining interior and exterior areas as a single space through big hidable windows, thus favouring the main views to the canal and the hotel zone of Cancun. The choosing of materials and textures was key to create unusual environments of marked avant-garde tendency, combining the balance among the apparent concrete walls, granite and wood floors, big windows and the glass and alluminum covers, besides specific Bisazza mosaic accents?. Clearly visible from far away, Casa G?mez adds to the list of highly modern Mexican landmarks.

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

NFL notes: Eagles arrange sensitivity training for WR Cooper

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By The Associated Press

Published: 2:00 AM - 08/02/13

PHILADELPHIA ? The Philadelphia Eagles are setting up Riley Cooper with sensitivity training after the wide receiver was caught on video making a racial slur.

"In meeting with Riley yesterday, we decided together that his next step will be to seek outside assistance to help him fully understand the impact of his words and actions," the team said in a statement Thursday. "He needs to reflect. As an organization, we will provide the resources he needs to do so."

Cooper apologized profusely Wednesday after a video of him using the N-word at a Kenny Chesney concert last month surfaced on the Internet. The Eagles immediately fined him, and the league plans no further discipline.

"I know Riley made a heinous mistake," coach Chip Kelly said. "I was appalled by it. I was actually shocked by it because since I've been here since April, that's not the Riley Cooper I know. He accepted responsibility for it and he has to live with it, but I hope at some point in time we'll have a chance to move on from it.

"But right now I don't think it's going to be something that's going to go away very quickly."

Cooper, who grew up in Clearwater, Fla., was selected in the fifth round of the 2010 draft by the Eagles out of the University of Florida. He has just 46 catches and five touchdowns in three years with the Eagles, but has been practicing with the starters since Jeremy Maclin's season-ending injury last week.

Teammates Michael Vick, Jason Avant and others expressed forgiveness for Cooper. LeSean McCoy also said he forgives Cooper, but he doesn't view him the same anymore.

"Just on a friendship level, and as a person, I can't really respect somebody like that," McCoy said. "I think as a team, we need to move past it. There are some things that are going to be hard to work with, to be honest."

Millionaire Brees amazed by reaction to cheapskate tip

METAIRIE, La. ? Drew Brees says he's amazed his $3 tip on a $74 takeout order last month has become a talking point on national television and the Internet.

The quarterback was in the locker room at Saints headquarters Thursday morning when he noticed a discussion on a network morning show about tipping on takeout orders, referencing a photograph of his takeout receipt that was circulated online.

Brees said he figures the person who initially photographed the receipt did so innocently because he visits the San Diego-area restaurant regularly and poses for photos with staff.

The quarterback said he was disappointed "that it actually got spun and perceived as ? you immediately jump to the conclusion that he stiffed a waiter or waitress. That's the part that bothers me."

Brees responded to the blog himself on the social media site Twitter, writing, "In case anyone still cares about this report: I tipped $3 on a takeout order. Had we sat down it would have been 20% (plus)."

Brees suggested the headline to the initial blog post, which referred to him as "cheap," could have just as easily stated instead that he typically gives restaurant staff a few extra dollars on takeout orders, "but nobody's going to read that."

Brees' contract with the Saints pays $100 million over five years.

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Former 'Smash' Star Says 'We Didn't Stand A Chance'

NEW YORK ? The subject of bad dates comes up during an interview with Krysta Rodriguez, and she offers up a doozy.

A few years ago, she and her boyfriend spent a ton of money on an expensive meal to celebrate their one-year anniversary. Around the dessert course, a man at a nearby table had a seizure and collapsed.

An ambulance was called and the man was taken away. He turned out to be OK, but Rodriguez's romantic date was a casualty that night.

"My boyfriend was so upset by it that he vomited the whole dinner. He had to run outside in the flower bed out front of the restaurant and throw up," she says, laughing. "I ended up taking care of him all night long on our anniversary while he literally vomited $400 worth of food."

Rodriguez tells the story because romantic missteps are on her mind these days: The Broadway and "Smash" veteran is starring in a new musical about a blind date opposite Zachary Levi, who starred in the TV show "Chuck."

In "First Date," by "Gossip Girl" writer Austin Winsberg, Rodriguez plays Casey, an artsy-cool downtown hottie who is a little abrasive after years of serial dating. She meets the sweet but slightly nerdy Aaron, played by Levi, at a bar.

Over the course of 90 minutes (no intermission), the two try to get to know each other despite dreamlike interruptions from relatives, friends and old lovers. It's a seemingly doomed relationship ? she likes bad boys and the only thing he's done wrong is download music illegally. But there's always hope.

Rodriguez, a California native who just turned 29, is single and can relate to some of Casey's frustrations with men in the city. But they don't see eye to eye when it comes to bad boys.

"While I've not always made the best decisions in my dating life, I wouldn't say I'm attracted to bad boys. I like men that love their mothers and follow rules," she says, laughing. Take that un-bad boy who threw up their anniversary dinner: They dated for almost three years more.

"Hey, I couldn't fault him for it," she says.

`HER TIME'

Rodriguez may be only a year shy of 30 but she's a stage veteran, having prepared for 20 roles since making her Broadway debut at age 19 in "Good Vibrations." In that show she was a swing who understudied no less than nine roles.

"I got thrown into the fire immediately," she says.

She was soon in the Broadway casts of "A Chorus Line," "In the Heights," "Spring Awakening" and "The Addams Family," originating the role of Wednesday Addams alongside Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth.

Rodriguez had actually been acting long before ? she had starred in Francis Ford Coppola's musical "Gidget" in 2000 and, even earlier, the TV show "Colby's Clubhouse." She is the product of a "lovely, sun-filled, love-filled childhood" but admits she's a bit of a workaholic.

"A very strong theme in my life has been `Setback First, Success Second.' I usually don't get in the first time. So I try again and I get in the second time," she says. "It's made me who I am. I know that I'm more appreciative of every experience I have because of all those things."

It was that confidence and those experiences that impressed Bill Berry, who directs her in "First Date." The team was looking for an actress who had the singing chops and the ability to be both emotional and still a bit secretive.

"When we were going through the audition process, she was one of the first people that we saw that we said, `Aha! That's the first piece of the puzzle,'" he says.

"She's got ideas. She comes to the table with thoughts and that's always so much more interesting than with someone who's waiting to be told exactly what to do."

She was cast before Levi, even though he's arguably the bigger star, having been on TV for five years. But there's something about Rodriguez that signals a new star has arrived and is ready to headline for the first time.

"This is her time," says Berry.

She almost missed it.

SMASH EFFECT

Rodriguez sought new challenges in 2012 after six years of Broadway and went to Los Angeles to audition for TV. She tested for six pilots ? one that even featured Levi as her brother-in-law ? and then was forced to come back or lose her New York apartment.

Out of nowhere came her most famous part ? a role on the second season of "Smash." She had gone across the country to land a TV show, only to come home and find one ? about a Broadway musical.

Rodriguez played Katharine McPhee's roommate Ana Vargas and got to show the world a smart, sexy, funny beauty in a cool blunt cut who could belt out gorgeous versions of "Broadway, Here I Come!" and "If I Were a Boy."

Fans lining up outside the "First Date" theater have come to cheer Rodriguez because of "Smash," but the experience of the show is bittersweet. Sweet because of the exposure and the people she met. Bitter because she couldn't stop the show from cancellation.

She cites a number of reasons for its demise ? internal problems, too many cooks in the kitchen and a time slot from hell, Saturday night. Many fans recorded the show on their DVRs ? therefore not helping the ratings ? and many critics were unwilling to give the show a second chance.

"We kind of didn't stand a chance. We were trying to please a group of people who didn't want to be pleased. They had already made up their minds," she says. "In its afterlife, it's so well received. But when we were doing it, we were in the crossfires of everybody's anger."

But she loved doing the show, and it inevitably led to "First Date." She's enjoying every minute of her return to Broadway, even if her co-star's dressing room is larger.

"He was on five years of television," she says, laughing. "I was only on one."

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Online: http://firstdatethemusical.com

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Mark Kennedy can be reached at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits

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Friday, August 2, 2013

The 100-Year-Old Charlie Chaplin Mashups That Are Lost Forever

Mashups, intellectual property laws, bootlegs, copyright. While those are all valid concerns today, they're hardly anything new. Just ask Charlie Chaplin.

Apple Fires Back at DOJ with New Terms for E-Book Sales

Apple is not happy with the Department of Justice and friends. On Friday afternoon, just a few hours after the DOJ and 33 state attorneys general proposed a series of remedies for Apple's anticompetitive behavior over e-book pricing, the company struck back with some proposals of its own.

House sale expectations hit record highs - Business News | TVNZ

Published: 12:46PM Thursday August 01, 2013 Source: Fairfax

Sellers' expectations for the price they can sell their properties have again hit record highs across the country, particularly in Auckland, Canterbury and the West Coast.

According to industry website realestate.co.nz, the average price vendors were asking for their houses last month jumped to $465,191, up 3% on the previous month.

Although asking prices are not the actual sales price, realestate.co.nz's marketing manager Paul McKenzie said it was still a substantial increase in expectations.

July's asking price was up more than $10,000 from the previous record which was set in May, and an 8% increase on July last year.

"It's really the confidence of sellers, that they believe that they can get the higher prices and a lot of them are, especially in the main centres where there is a lack of quality homes coming on the market each month."

Selected regions also hit new records, with Auckland's soaring housing market pushing asking prices there to a new average high of $639,685, beating the previous record by 1.3%.

Canterbury and the West Coast also set new highs of $422,043 and $318,816 respectively.

McKenzie said that a contributing factor appeared to the low level of stock on the market.

"As a whole New Zealand has quite low inventory and in June we had an all-time low in inventory. So that would have flowed into a change in asking prices as well and definitely affected it."

However, July's listings were much improved, up 9% on the previous month.

It was matched by an easing in inventory, which was up 7% from June's record low.

The market now has 26.7 weeks worth of properties to sell, although that is still well below the long-term average of 38 weeks.

McKenzie said July was unusually early for a pickup in listings, which ordinarily happened in September.

"It was quite a good July and I would say it's a good sign for the rest of the year in terms of getting a good number of listings onto the market."

Realestate.co.nz's figures are based on the 10,000 new listings on its website last month.

Source: http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/house-sale-expectations-hit-record-highs-5524632

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New variants at gene linked to kidney disease, sleeping sickness resistance

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study involves a classic case of evolution's fickle nature: a genetic mutation that protects against a potentially fatal infectious disease also appears to increase the risk of developing a chronic, debilitating condition.

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