Want Lasting Love? First, Take This Test

After her marriage unravels, a woman seeks answers in personality testing and the science of compatibility.

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Life Lessons From Jarrod and Briony Lyle

This week’s Australia Letter hands over the reins to the sportswriter Karen Crouse for a story of golf, love and Aussie resilience.

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Youth on Course’s Strong 2018 Performance Highlighted by 55% Membership Growth, $985,000 Reimbursed Back to Courses

(PEBBLE BEACH, CALIF.) — Youth on Course — the non-profit organization providing young people with subsidized golf, college scholarships, paid internships and a caddie program – continues remarkable growth with significant increases to its junior golf program in 2018.
 
National membership grew by 55 percent and 374 new courses were added to the organization’s impressive roster totaling 992 courses across 26 states. Fueling the golf economy, nearly 150,000 rounds of golf were played for $5 or less and $985,000 were reimbursed back to golf courses. To date, 765,390 rounds have been subsidized and Youth on Course has reimbursed $5.2 million dollars back to partner courses.
 
“With nearly 50,000 members, we exceeded our years-end goal of serving 40,000 young men and women,” says Adam Heieck, Youth on Course CEO. “As the demand for affordable access to golf continues to grow exponentially, we're happy to play a key role in making that a reality in local communities nationwide.”
 
Eight additional state associations added throughout the year include Golf Association of Philadelphia, Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado, Iowa Golf Association, Maryland State Golf Association, Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association, North Dakota Golf Association, Rochester District Golf Association, South Dakota Golf Association.
 
To properly service and support partner associations, Youth on Course has expanded internal staff, promoting Jeff Clark to Chief Development Officer and Michael Lowe to Vice President of Programs.
 
In addition to subsidized rounds, Youth on Course also facilitates paid internships, a caddie program and nationwide scholarships. They have awarded 223 students with college scholarships totaling more than $1.4 million in financial support. The current Youth on Course scholarship retention rate is ninety-eight percent, with 53 students already graduated.

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How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. But there are steps people can take to acknowledge their biases and move beyond their own worldviews to try to understand those of other people.

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How to Speak in Public

Does the thought of speaking in public make your pulse quicken? We’ve broken down the art of public speaking to make it less overwhelming and a more enjoyable experience.

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How to Get Strong

You don’t have to lift like a bodybuilder (or look like one) to benefit from resistance training. And the best part is that it’s never too late to get started.

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How to Fall in Love With Art

Want to find meaning and inspiration in art but aren’t sure where to start? Even if you’ve never set foot in a gallery before, we’ll help you learn how to trust your inner critic, how to appreciate the big ideas and small details of a piece, and how to discover new art, both in and out of the museum.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

You don’t have to be a doormat. With simple tricks and a bit of practice, you can learn to ask for the things you want at home, at work and even with complete strangers.

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‘I Wish I Was One of Your Mother’s Old Boyfriends.’ Oh Boy.

A reader wonders whether to tell Mom about Dad’s dark feelings.

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What the ‘10-Year Challenge’ Might Say About You, and Me

It couldn’t have been easier: Post an early profile photo on Facebook from 2009 next to a recent one — as proof positive of how you’ve aged or, miraculously, not aged.

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A Woman, Her Best Friend, and a Quick Walk Down the Aisle?

Lilly Smartelli always wanted a “big Italian wedding.” But with no fiancé in sight, she’ll symbolically marry her dog Bernie, hoping to draw attention to organ donation and supporting dog shelters.

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Cutting Matta-Clark

Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation
Mark Wigley
Lars Müller Publishers in collaboration with CCA and Columbia GSAPP, June 2018



Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches | 528 pages | 813 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3037784273 | $39.00

Publisher Description:

The Anarchitecture group show at the fabled 112 Greene Street gallery – an artistic epicenter of New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s – in March 1974 has been the subject of an enduring discussion, despite a complete lack of documentation about it. Anarchitecture, a collective challenging all conventional understandings of architecture, has become a foundational myth, but one that remains to be properly understood. Cutting Matta-Clark investigates the group through extensive interviews with the protagonists and a dossier of all the available evidence.

Stemming from a series of meetings, organized by Gordon Matta-Clark and reflecting his long-standing interest in architecture, the Anarchitecture exhibition was conceived as an anonymous group statement in photographs about the intersection of art and building. But did it actually happen? It exists only through oblique archival traces and the memories of the participants.

This publication features unpublished archival evidence; The dossier is subjected to ever deeper forensic analysis – cutting into both the concepts and the cuts to see what the elusive, mysterious, seductive, yet viral word Anarchitecture offers us today.

dDAB Commentary:

Gordon Matta-Clark, who died way too young in 1978 at the age of 35, is a favorite of architects, if for no other reason than the way used buildings as canvases. But were the buildings that he sliced up before they were demolished the art? Or was it the photographs documenting the relatively short lives (relative to the time span of the buildings he cut up) of his interventions? Or going further, was it his preparatory notes and sketches? One answer, filtered through Mark Wigley's thorough yet circuitous and at-times perplexing investigation of a 1974 exhibition that involved Matta-Clark is yes, his art was all of these things. The buildings are gone, but the photographs (the primary way people become familiar with and envision his art) remain as do the preparatory materials and other artifacts in the archives of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which Wigley raided for his forensic investigation.

The exhibition that is the subject of Wigley's book -- and the source of its perplexity -- is Anarchitecture, a group show at 112 Greene Street in New York's SoHo area in 1974. Turns out there is voluminous evidence of the exhibition's preparation and promotion but none that it ever took place. What was the exhibition like? What is the meaning of its name and how did it end up labeling Matta-Clark's art to such a great degree? And did it actually happen? The show and the mystery surrounding it is are excuses for Wigley's scouring of CCA's archives, unearthing of "evidence," and interviews with "accomplices," but they also allow him to run through many of Matta-Clark's artworks (especially the famous Splitting) that led up to the Anarchitecture show, as he does in the book's first section. While following Wigley's prose is for die-hard Matta-Clark fans, the hundreds of illustrations make for a revealing look at an artist who still holds our attention, even though he's now been dead longer than he lived.

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Mark Wigley is professor of architecture at Columbia University. He was born in New Zealand, trained there as an architect then as an architect then as a scholar, and is based in New York.

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Massaging Away a Potential Complication of Birth?

A reader asks: Does the a perineal massage do anything to prevent the risk of tearing during birth?

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Listen: Rachel Weisz and Willem Dafoe Read From Modern Love

In a special episode, the Modern Love podcast pulls together readings by two Academy Award nominees.

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E-Cigarettes Are Effective at Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says

A yearlong, randomized trial in England showed that e-cigarettes were almost twice as successful as products like patches or gum for smoking cessation.

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Rotavirus Vaccine May Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes

An Australian study found that in children up to 4 years old, the rate of Type 1 diabetes decreased by 14 percent in the years following the rotavirus vaccine’s introduction.

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How to Make Your Office More Ergonomically Correct

If your office leaves you with pain in your wrists, back or neck, it doesn’t have to be that way — in fact, it shouldn’t. Here’s how to fix it.

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The Gym as Clubhouse

It will take more than a credit card and a pair of sneakers to join the Performix gym.

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ZERO FRICTION RECEIVES ING INDUSTRY HONOR FOR ITS POPULAR LINE OF SUPERTUBES™

OAKBROOK TERRACE, IL (January 30, 2019) – Zero Friction Golf Products, widely known for its colorful line of one-size compression fit gloves and Spectra distance golf balls, has once again been recognized by peers in the golf industry.  Zero Friction won an ING Industry Honor award in the Product Ingenuity – Miscellaneous Products category for its growing line of Supertubes.
 
The ING Industry Honors program recognized outstanding achievement in the golf business on Thursday as part of the PGA Merchandise Show. The non-profit, media-based networking organization International Network of Golf conducts the awards program. This was the 25th Anniversary of the ING Industry Honors.
 
Nominees in 12 categories are submitted throughout the year from anyone in the golf industry. Sub-committees that include people with expertise in specific categories then trim the entries to the top three in each category. ING members then vote electronically to determine the winners, who are announced and recognized at the Industry Honors Presentation Press Conference each January.
 
“When we released the Supertube last year, we forecasted sales at 10,000 units.  Within a few months, we had sold 50,000 units.  It was beyond my wildest dreams that this product would be such a big hit among consumers,” said John Iacono, President and Founder of Zero Friction. “And now, we are receiving an Industry Honor award from our peers. I am honored and humbled at the same time.”
 
Zero Friction Spectra Supertubes include a golfer’s favorite accessories in one convenient tube: one men’s performance universal compression fit glove, 3 Spectra matte finish golf balls and 10 ZFT Maxx 2 ¾” 3-prong tees.  Supertubes are available in 6 cool neon colors (neon lime, neon red, neon orange, neon fuchsia, neon white and neon yellow) as well aslicensed team emblems featuring NFL, MLB, NHL and the top 20 collegiate teams.
 
Last week, Zero Friction announced that the popular Supertube line had expanded to include the new Super Sleeve, which has 7 matte finished distance golf balls in one clear tube and can be custom logoed for tournaments and events.

This is Zero Friction’s second ING Industry Honor award. The company received a 2016 Industry Honor Product Ingenuity award for the DistancePro GPS glove at the 2017 PGA Merchandise Show.
 
For more information about the Supertube line, visit www.zerofriction.com, or call 630-317-7700.
 
About Zero Friction
Based in Oakbrook Terrace, Il, Zero Friction is known industry wide for being on the cutting edge when it comes to introducing new products to players and creative packaging for its retail partners. Zero Friction provides high-quality, technologically advanced products for golfers worldwide, including gloves, performance golf tees, balls and accessories. The company established the performance golf tee market, creating the first and only performance tee to ever carry the PGA TOUR logo. Zero Friction’s most recent success story is in the golf glove segment. Zero Friction’s colorful line of compression-fit gloves for men, women and juniors takes the guesswork out of sizing.  Compression-fit technology means a universal fit within the various models, and the glove that will hold its shape longer than any on the market.  To view the entire line of Zero Friction golf products, visit www.ZeroFriction.com.

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Full Swing Simulators and World No. 1 Justin Rose Announce Multi-Year Ambassador Partnership

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Full Swing Simulators, the largest US-based producer of multi-sport simulators, today announced a new partnership with major champion and current world No. 1, Justin Rose, fresh off his latest win at The Farmers Insurance Open.

As Rose finished his historic 2018 season, winning the FedEx Cup, reaching world No. 1 status and playing a key role in Europe's victory at the Ryder Cup, he returned to his home in the Bahamas and realized it was time to transform his space. "Living in the Bahamas, people wouldn't think I need a simulator," Rose said. "It's great to have the option to play outside, but it's more important to get the most out of my practice and that means getting my numbers dialed in with the most accurate solution out there. This why I have partnered with Full Swing and will use both their Simulator and Virtual Green in my home."

Full Swing Simulators' CEO, Ryan Dotters commented, "After speaking to Justin at the end of last season, we knew that the Pro 2 Simulator and Virtual Green would be the perfect fit to create one of the most advanced home practice studios in the world." Dotters continued, "Justin's influence is truly global, playing both PGA & European Tours, made this partnership a great step towards Full Swing Simulator's continued global expansion."

Full Swing Simulators will be installing the best of their product offering with the Pro 2 Simulator and Virtual Green, a patented putting green that can change slope and mimic any putting contour in golf. He will support the brand through various marketing initiatives and accompanies Full Swing Simulator's all-star roster of professional athletes from the NFL, NBA, MLB, and LPGA. Specifically, he joins the Team Full Swing global golf ambassadors including: Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth, Jason Day, Brandt Snedeker, Jim Furyk, Brooke Henderson and 2020 European Ryder Cup captain, Padraig Harrington.

About Full Swing

Full Swing Simulators revolutionized the golf simulator in 1986 and now is the largest US-based producer of multi-sport simulators. Patented dual-tracking technology, combining high-speed cameras and infrared light wave technology provide unmatched swing data and real-time ball feedback, has made Full Swing the official simulator partner of Golf Channel & Topgolf SwingSuites. Users can dynamically experience more than 13 sports including golf, which features 84 Championship Golf Courses. Team Full Swing boasts PGA TOUR Players Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth, Jason Day, the LPGA's Brooke Henderson & the NBA's Steph Curry.

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Bentley Golf North America Introduces Bentley BC2 Irons

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA, January 30, 2019 — Bentley Golf North America, LLC, the exclusive distributor of the entire line of Bentley Golf Equipment throughout the North American market, announced today the introduction of the Bentley BC2 Cavity Irons.

 

“This is the most forgiving iron in our line,” said Simon Wilson, partner at Bentley Golf North America, LLC. “It’s a great club for golfers with higher handicaps and we’re excited to add this to our collection of premium Bentley irons.”

 

The Bentley BC2 Cavity Iron is hand forged in Japan from an ultra-premium S25C mild carbon steel body and a 3.5mm carbon steel face that helps in delivering exceptional feel and performance. The use of carbon steel for the single thickness cup face gives ultimate forgiveness yet maintains the feel that comes from soft carbon steel.

 

The head has been designed utilizing multi-piece construction. This enables the face to be a constant thickness and makes the head very forgiving no matter where on the face the ball is hit.

 

The wider sole, longer body, progressive offset and thicker top line of the BC2 irons are mixed perfectly with handcrafted shafts made from Japanese Steel/Graphite. The irons also feature Bentley’s proprietary, ultra-soft, luxurious PU pin hole grip, coupled with a premium metal Bentley medallion in the grip cap.

 

The BC2 Cavity irons are available in sets of 4-PW or 5-PW with seamless Japanese steel shafts or proprietary 40T multidirectional layer graphite shafts in flexes of lite/ladies, regular/strong regular or stiff/x stiff. Shaft upgrades are available.

 

About Bentley Golf

 

Developed in partnership with Professional Golf Europe, market leaders in the global golf industry, Bentley Golf offers the finest in cutting-edge manufacturing processes and expert hand-forging. The collection features irons hand-forged in Ichikawa, Japan, a town with a historical heritage of forging which goes back to the period of Samurai sword production. This forging technique produces the most stunning feel, consistency and performance, and lends itself perfectly to golf club production of the highest quality. Japanese forging, fused with modern day CNC Milling techniques, delivers the ultimate performance for aficionados. Detailing from Bentley models is featured across the collection of clubs, luggage, accessories and gifts. For more information, visit www.bentleygolf.com.

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Seeking the Genetic Underpinnings of Morning Persons and Night Owls

Researchers identified hundreds of gene variations that may be connected to when people go to bed.

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City Unseen

City Unseen: New Visions of an Urban Planet
Karen C. Seto, Meredith Reba
Yale University Press, September 2018



Hardcover | 9 x 10 inches | 268 pages | 188 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0300221695 | $35.00

Publisher Description:

Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhance readers’ understanding of the shape, growth, and life of urban settlements of all sizes—from the remote town of Namche Bazaar in Nepal to the vast metropolitan prefecture of Tokyo, Japan.

Using satellite data, the authors show urban landscapes in new perspectives. The book’s beautiful and surprising images pull back the veil on familiar scenes to highlight the growth of cities over time, the symbiosis between urban form and natural landscapes, and the vulnerabilities of cities to the effects of climate change. We see the growth of Las Vegas and Lagos, the importance of rivers to both connecting and dividing cities like Seoul and London, and the vulnerability of Fukushima and San Juan to floods from tsunami or hurricanes. The result is a compelling book that shows cities’ relationships with geography, food, and society.

dDAB Commentary:

I remember the first time I saw the Keyhole technology, what eventually became Google Earth. A friend who got his hands on it showed it to me and I was blown away at being able to pan and zoom around the globe so effortlessly; I recall it being hard to pull me away from it. Now, roughly 20 years later, the ability to see satellite imagery of any spot on the globe at any time on any device is taken for granted, as if we all have the right to see the earth from space. But as Karen Seto and Meredith Reba put it in their introduction to City Unseen, "with access [to satellite imagery] comes responsibility – to make more informed decisions about how to design, plan, construct, and operate cities in better, healthier, more sustainable ways." They have assembled satellite imagery of 100 places around the globe as an expression of that responsibility.

The 100 places are put into three chapters that focus on the landscapes around cities, more detailed views of urban agglomerations, and the way "demand for urban resources is changing landscapes." But first is "views from space," a chapter that explains why, for instance, the cover image (of Detroit, Michigan) looks the way it does. By combining visible and nonvisible wavelengths of light in various ways, Seto and Reba are able to emphasize certain characteristics, which they spell out in the text alongside the images. The choices of location, time, scale, and wavelengths of light combine to create an illuminating if often dour depiction of how we inhabit the earth. But it's also powerful. Two nighttime satellite images one day apart draw attention to the island-wide power outages that plagued Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria – just one of many examples where satellite data holds deeper meanings.

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Karen C. Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Meredith Reba is research associate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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Can Low-Impact Sports Like Cycling Be Putting Your Bones at Risk?

Research has raised concerns that activities like cycling and swimming may put too little pressure on bones.

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Lessons From Behind the Curtain

Listening to the experience of my roommate in the cancer ward was like a kind of sonar, an echo bouncing back to me from my own future path, hinting at what’s to come.

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Awake on the Table

Could a medical procedure you don’t even remember give you a stress disorder?

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Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Pink Was Wrong. The Name Was Too.’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

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Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise

Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies
Stefan Al
Island Press, November 2018



Paperback | 8 x 9 inches | 160 pages | 150 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781610919074 | $35.00

Publisher Description:

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy floods devastated coastal areas in New York and New Jersey. In 2017, Harvey flooded Houston. Today in Miami, even on sunny days, king tides bring fish swimming through the streets in low-lying areas. These types of events are typically called natural disasters. But overwhelming scientific consensus says they are actually the result of human-induced climate change and irresponsible construction inside floodplains.

As cities build more flood-management infrastructure to adapt to the effects of a changing climate, they must go beyond short-term flood protection and consider the long-term effects on the community, its environment, economy, and relationship with the water.

Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise, by infrastructure expert Stefan Al, introduces design responses to sea-level rise, drawing from examples around the globe. Going against standard engineering solutions, Al argues for approaches that are integrated with the public realm, nature-based, and sensitive to local conditions and the community. He features design responses to building resilience that creates new civic assets for cities. For the first time, the possible infrastructure solutions are brought together in a clear and easy-to-read format.

dDAB Commentary:

It seems like it wasn't so long ago that architects, landscape architects, and urban designers were designing for sustainability in an effort to keep carbon emissions from increasing global temperatures to the generally agreed upon ceiling of 2 degrees Celsius. But this decade resiliency has usurped sustainability this decade, since at least Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the strong impacts of climate change being felt each year since, and the realization that the carbon already released into the atmosphere will move us past that 2-degree scenario anyways. Therefore designers of the built environment must deal with the impacts of climate change (rising waters, sever weather occurrences, water shortages, etc.), as well as designing energy-efficient buildings, landscapes that clean the air and water, and cities that prioritize walking over driving. With this in mind, it's no surprise to see a book guiding designers and decision makers in one aspect of the crisis we find ourselves in: adapting cities to rising sea levels.

Pulling from a number of international case studies, Stefan Al's abundantly illustrated book walks through the various strategies that designers and cities can consider now and in the coming years as rising sea levels pose a threat to waterfront developments. After an introduction that summarizes clearly how we got into this situation and broadly what can be done about it, Al hones in on four cities (Rotterdam, New York City, New Orleans, Ho Chi Minh City) and examines their strategies for dealing with storm surges, coastal flooding, and the like. (Recent news illustrates how implementing these strategies is both slow-moving, highly contested, and even politically vexing.) The second part of the book presents various "local strategies" of the four types outlined in the introduction: hard-protect strategies, soft-protect strategies, store strategies, and retreat strategies. No one strategy is universally ideal, and in many cases multiple strategies can be used in one place. Al's clear, consistent diagrams mean that politicians and other decision makers -- not just designers -- can understand how the strategies work and what would be the best fit(s) for their situation.

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Stefan Al, PHD, is an architect, urban designer, and infrastructure expert at global design firm Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York. He is a native of the Netherlands, a low-lying country that would not exist without flood protection.

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Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness Through Music

An orchestra in which all the musicians are dealing with mental health issues is working to harness the healing power of music.

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DeChambeau Dominates In Dubai To Take Bridgestone’s Hot Streak Global!

Tour Star Bryson DeChambeau Wins His First-Ever European Tour Title Using Bridgestone’s TOUR B X Golf Balls

 

(COVINGTON, GA) – Bridgestone Golf Tour star Bryson DeChambeau continued his and the brand’s winning ways with a convincing 7-shot victory at the PGA European Tour’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic this weekend. The win is DeChambeau’s first ever title abroad and the 7th professional victory of his career. DeChambeau’s victory in Dubai complements a run of 7 wins on the PGA TOUR and 1 on the LPGA Tour over the last 5 months for Bridgestone.

 

Using Bridgestone Golf’s TOUR B X balls, ‘the golf scientist’ blew away the field in Dubai with prodigious driving and pinpoint approach shots throughout the week, on his way to finishing a record 24-under par for the tournament.  Starting the final round with a 1-shot lead, DeChambeau once again proved he’s one of the best closers in the game – firing an 8-under par 64 that included 7 birdies and an eagle to finish with the largest margin of victory in the event’s history.  

 

“We are excited for Bryson to get his first-ever professional international win this weekend and his 4th worldwide victory in the last 7 months,” said Dan Murphy, President & CEO of Bridgestone Golf. “What the Bridgestone brand is experiencing at the Tour level right now is almost surreal.  When you add this Tour success to the incredible reception our brand received this past week at the PGA Merchandise Show, 2019 is shaping up to be a special year for Bridgestone Golf.”

 

DeChambeau switched to the TOUR B X in late 2017 after extensive experimentation revealed a significant impact on his driving, iron play, short game and putting.  He also wears Bridgestone’s new TOUR B FIT Glove featuring high-end Cabretta leather with FIT technology to ensure a soft feel, consistent grip and excellent durability.

 

The TOUR B golf ball series is a result of Bridgestone’s continued commitment to providing premium tee-to-green performance to players of varying swing types. Bridgestone owns over 800 golf ball patents and fully leverages the company’s heritage of excellence in polymer science worldwide to design the industry’s most cutting-edge golf balls.

 

For more information on Bridgestone Golf’s award-winning TOUR B family of golf balls and the entire Tour team that relies upon them, visit www.bridgestonegolf.com.

 

 

About Bridgestone Golf

Based in Covington, GA, Bridgestone Golf USA manufactures premium golf balls, clubs and accessories under the Bridgestone and Precept brands. The company started making golf balls in 1935 and today has more golf ball design patents than any other company. Beginning in 2006, Bridgestone revolutionized golf ball selection with its custom ball-fitting program, identifying a golfer’s ideal golf ball based on personal swing characteristics. Today, as the #1 Ball-Fitter in Golf, Bridgestone has conducted over 2.1 million fittings via a combination of live-fitting, online selection and its B-FIT App.  The consumer data gathered from ball-fitting continues to inspire Bridgestone’s innovative new golf ball designs, yielding industry-leading performance products for the entire range of players, from recreational golfers to the best in the world. Bridgestone Golf is proudly represented on international professional tours by icons such as Tiger Woods, Fred Couples, Matt Kuchar, Bryson DeChambeau and Lexi Thompson.  Bridgestone Golf USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bridgestone Sports Co. Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo. More information:  bridgestonegolf.com.

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Ornament and Identity

Ornament & Identity: Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Hatje Cantz, March 2018



Hardcover | 9-3/4 x 11-1/2 inches | 336 pages | 260 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3775742153 | $85.00

Publisher Description:

Ornament and Identity is the successor of the well-received At Work, a publication by renowned Rotterdam based architecture firm Neutelings Riedijk. In their new publication they convincingly demonstrate that buildings with a powerful expression create new local identities in a globalized world.

In twelve themed chapters Moiré, Image, Seam, Emblem, Letter, Pattern, Cutout, Ridge, Grid, Lozenge, Relief and Filigree, readers are guided on the exploration of the connection between form, meaning and contemporary ornaments.

Images of realized buildings, intriguing scale models, material samples, and unique ornaments designed by Neutelings Riedijk Architects illustrate the craftsmanship and their search for expression and identity.

dDAB Commentary:

Neutelings Riedijk's buildings are easily recognizable: covered in dimples, ripples, and other surface textures, and with complex, sometimes Piranesi-like interiors that belie their relatively straightforward exteriors. The Dutch firm presents their palette of formal maneuvers in Ornament and Identity, a title that clearly expresses why they design buildings the way they do. To fully explain what drives their practice, partners Willem Jan Neutelings, Michiel Riedijk, and Carl Meeusen fill the book's introduction with a series of paired terms (order and type, abstraction and figuration, whole and fragment, etc.) that argue for "fresh views" as a means of constructing local identities. Following are twelve chapters that "can be interpreted as the architectural representation of the binary terms" from the introduction.
The twelve chapters, with names like emblem, pattern, and lozenge, are used to structure 36 buildings and projects, three per chapter. The buildings are presented solely with full-color photographs (no plans or other drawings), while the projects are described with model photos rather than renderings or drawings. The former's photos put the emphasis squarely on the various types of ornament -- such as the hands on the facades of the City History Museum MAS -- while the models convey the porosity and spatial ingenuity of their projects. Each chapter is prefaced by a grid of four detailed images, but those images do not necessarily refer to projects in the same chapter. Without an index or table of contents for the projects, therefore the only way to find a particular building or project is to flip through the book, slowly absorbing the many ways Neutelings Riedijk use ornament to infuse their buildings with identity for its users and residents.

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Neutelings Riedijk Architects was established in Rotterdam in 1987. Its partners are Willem Jan Neutelings, Michiel Riedijk, and Carl Meeusen.

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For Real Weight Control, Try Portion Control

If you’re serious about losing or maintaining weight, learn the size of a healthful portion and treat restaurant servings as enough for two or more.

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Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Opioids for Children

Experts say opioids are sometimes warranted for kids, in cases like severe burns or major trauma. But doctors should prescribe carefully, and parents should never keep leftovers in the house.

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Body, Memory, and Architecture

Body, Memory, and Architecture
Kent C. Bloomer, Charles W. Moore, with a contribution by Robert J. Yudell
Yale University Press, September 1977



Paperback | 10-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches | 148 pages | English | ISBN: 978-0300021424 | $X.00

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As teachers of architectural design, Kent Bloomer and Charles Moore have attempted to introduce architecture from the standpoint of how buildings are experienced, how the affect individuals and communities emotionally and provide us with a sense of joy, identity, and place.

In giving priority to these issues and in questioning the professional reliance on abstract two-dimensional drawings, they often find themselves in conflict with a general and undebated assumption that architecture is a highly specialized system with a set of prescribed technical goals, rather than a sensual social art historically derived from experiences and memories of the human body. This book, an outgrowth of their joint teaching efforts, places the human body at the center of our understanding of architectural form.

Body, Memory, and Architecture traces the significance of the body from its place as the divine organizing principle in the earliest built forms to its near elimination from architectural thought in this century. The authors draw on contemporary models of spatial perception as well as on body-image theory in arguing for a return of the body to its proper place in the architectural equation.

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Briefly mentioned in Avigail Sachs's history of environmental design in architecture schools in the United States last century, Body, Memory, and Architecture summarizes how Kent Bloomer and Charles Moore taught fundamentals of architecture to students at Yale School of Architecture. Although I didn't have it as a textbook in the Midwestern architecture school I went to (in one class we did read Chambers for a Memory Palace by Moore and Donlyn Lyndon), some of the ideas entered into my education: namely, to consider the experience of the body in space over the geometric, formal attributes of a building.

Published in 1977, and with the guiding hand of Moore, the book arrived on the hinge between Modernism and Postmodernism, obviously coming down for the latter rather than the former. After chapters that take a historical look at the book's two broad approaches to architectural design -- sensual, bodily experience vs. cerebral, formal geometry -- and argue for considering the movements and feelings of bodies in space, the authors discuss Kresge College, which Moore designed with William Turnbull and is now in the process of renewal. The laid back plan in the midst of a redwood forest was a strong counterpart to strict Modernism. But with projects like the Portland Building (1982) by Michael Graves and Moore's own Piazza d'Italia (1978) pushing Postmodernism into formal irony and two-dimensionality, the spatial interest of Kresge College, which embodied the lessons of Body, Memory, and Architecture, unfortunately got lost in the ensuing years.

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XPOSITIONS

XPOSITIONS: Pavilion Dialogues
Studio Link-Arc
Actar, June 2018



Paperback | 7-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches | 176 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1945150623 | $39.95

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In May 2015, Studio Link-Arc completed its most prominent work to date, the China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015. The project was China’s first free-standing Expo Pavilion outside of its own borders. XPOSITIONS is not conceived as a monograph that focuses on one project. Instead, it carefully examines the larger ideas woven into the design of the China Pavilion and explores their implications for design and global culture. In addition to presenting the story of the project—from conception through construction and occupancy—the book addresses the larger design forces at play via discussions with key figures in the architecture community: Stefano Boeri, Xiangning Li, and Daniel Libeskind.

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One of the most photogenic pavilions at the Expo 2015 in Milan was the China Pavilion designed by the Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University and New York's Studio Link-Arc. The team conceived of the pavilion as "a field of spaces located beneath a floating cloud." The roof, serving as the cloud surrogate, was the most striking formal aspect of the pavilion, undulating gently toward the Expo's main circulation spine and stepping sharply, like a city skyline, at the other end. Made of latticed bamboo panels above glulam beams and a translucent membrane, the roof filtered light to the spaces below, which consisted of cultural, dining, and other functions. The careful balance of complex formal geometries and more traditional materials (wood and bamboo), as well as the fact the pavilion was up for only six months, warrants a book-length case study to explain the design process to those who did and did not attend Expo 2015.

Edited by Original Copy, XPOSITIONS is a two-part narrative told in four acts. One of the two intertwining parts is "Dialogues," interviews with Studio Link-Arc as well Daniel Libeskind, who designed a pavilion for Vanke at the same Expo; Stefano Boeri, who worked on the masterplan for the Expo; and Xiangning Li, who curated the Chinese Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. These interviews -- turned horizontally on the page, apparent in a spread below -- are split into four themes: borders, digital, time, and place. Alternating with them is the second part: "Pavilion," Link-Arc's documentation and explanations of the competition-winning concept, the development of the design, the pavilion's construction, and its final state. An appendix includes drawings, a timeline of the project, and data on the pavilion and its design team. The whole is thorough, insightful, and handsome, making me wish I would have experienced the pavilion during its all-too-brief run on the outskirts of Milan.

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Studio Link-Arc is an international team of architects and designers based in New York, led by Yichen Lu, Principal and Associate Professor at Tsinghua University.

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