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1,400-year-old temple discovered at Suffolk royal settlement

A rare, possible pre-Christian temple from the time of the East Anglian Kings, has been found at Rendlesham, near Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.

The discovery was made this summer by Suffolk County Council’s Rendlesham Revealed community archaeology project, which is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by National Lottery players.

Last year the project uncovered the remains of a large timber Royal Hall, confirming the location as a royal settlement of the East Anglian Kings.

This year’s excavations also uncovered evidence of fine metalworking associated with royal occupation, including a mould used for casting decorative horse harness similar to that known from the nearby princely burial ground at Sutton Hoo.

The royal compound was found to have been more than twice the size than was previously thought, bounded by a 1.5 kilometre-long perimeter ditch that enclosed an area of 15 hectares (the equivalent to about 20 football pitches).

The royal residence was part of a wider settlement complex covering 50 hectares which is unique in the archaeology of 5th to 8th century England in its scale and complexity.

This year’s breakthrough caps a three-year campaign of excavation that transforms expectations and understanding of the period.

Everyone involved in the project can take pride that together we have achieved something remarkable. Councillor Melanie Vigo di Gallidoro, Suffolk County Council’s Deputy Cabinet Member for Protected Landscapes and Archaeology

Professor Christopher Scull (Cardiff University and University College London), the project’s principal academic advisor, said:

“The results of excavations at Rendlesham speak vividly of the power and wealth of the East Anglian kings, and the sophistication of the society they ruled. The possible temple, or cult house, provides rare and remarkable evidence for the practice at a royal site of the pre-Christian beliefs that underpinned early English society.

The site at Rendlesham is identified as an East Anglian royal centre by The Venerable Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Bede records that King Redwald, who died c AD 625 and whose grave is thought to be the Sutton Hoo ship burial, maintained a temple in which there were altars to pre-Christian Gods alongside an altar to Christ – although he does not specifically say this this was at Rendlesham.

This summer’s excavations also revealed:

The foundations of three new timber buildings (including the probable cult house, or temple)

Evidence of 7th century metal working, including the discovery of waste products and a fired clay mould to make decorative horse harness

Two graves of unknown date

Enclosures and evidence of earlier settlement and activity from the Neolithic (4th millennium BC), Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman periods

A Second World War searchlight emplacement

These archaeological discoveries show that Rendlesham has been a favoured location for human settlement and activity for 6,000 years from the fourth millennium BC to the present day, but that it was most important when a royal centre during the 6th to 8th centuries AD.

The most recent archaeology encountered was a Second World War searchlight emplacement, part of a searchlight battery recorded on US Force aerial photography from December 1943.

Councillor Melanie Vigo di Gallidoro, Suffolk County Council’s Deputy Cabinet Member for Protected Landscapes and Archaeology, said:

“This year’s findings round off three seasons of fieldwork which confirm the international significance of Rendlesham’s archaeology and its fundamental importance for our knowledge of early England.

“Everyone involved in the project can take pride that together we have achieved something remarkable. Over 200 volunteers from the local community were involved this year, bringing the total number of volunteers to over 600 for the three-year fieldwork programme, including from the Suffolk Family Carers, Suffolk Mind, and local primary school children from Rendlesham, Eyke and Wickham Market.

“I’d like to thank the landowners and Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service for enabling this project, along with the archaeological contractors Cotswold Archaeology. And of course to all National Lottery players who made possible the grant of £517,300 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.”

Excavations are now complete and the trenches at the site backfilled, with work already underway to analyse the finds with provisional results in 2024.

To find out more about the Rendlesham Revealed project visit: heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/rendlesham

-- That feeling when a tiny fandom of which you're a part collides with real life and you get 'spooky shenanigans' feelings...

Julian Simpson, creator of The Lovecraft Investigations series of podcasts Tweeted this just now and my immediate thought was 'Is this going to wind up in a later series?'

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RIBA Awards 2022 News

RIBA Awards 2018, Winning Buildings, Shortlist, UK Architecture, Links, Projects, Architects

RIBA Awards 2022

Royal Institute of British Architects: Prize Winners News – Architectural Information

27 Nov 2020

RIBA Awards in 2022

RIBA confirms 2021 and 2022 UK Awards programme plans

Friday 27th of November 2020 – The RIBA has today announced that the next call for UK awards entries will be next year – for the 2022 RIBA Awards.

The 2021 RIBA UK Awards (including Regional, National and the RIBA Stirling Prize) will be selected from the shortlist for the 2020 RIBA Regional, RIAS, and RSAW Awards.

The RIBA will continue to build on its rigorous eligibility and judging criteria, and, from the 2022 RIBA Awards, will require all project entries to have been in use for one year. This change will enable judges to assess projects with even more detail on their performance, more extensive client feedback, and a better understanding of how the project functions within its civic, communal and environmental context. It will also add greater focus to the sustainability criteria – further aligning them with the standards set out in the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge.

RIBA President Alan Jones said: “I am pleased that the 2021 RIBA UK Awards will focus on judging and celebrating the exceptional projects that we were unable to visit this year. Not only is this the fairest outcome – reached after detailed consultation with entrants and jurors – but it provides an unexpected opportunity for us to bring forward plans to significantly refresh our judging criteria – with projects having to be in use for one year. The RIBA and our members are committed to the best, sustainable design that will serve generations to come, and I am pleased that from 2022 we will be able to further demonstrate this through our awards programme.”

Previously on e-architect:

May 2018

RIBA Awards in 2018

RIBA National Awards Winners in 2018

RIBA South East Awards Winners 2018 photo © Quintin Lake

RIBA East Awards Winners 2018 photo © Nick Kane

RIBA Yorkshire Awards Winners in 2018 photo © Phil Grayston

RIBA North East Awards Winners 2018

RIBA West Midlands Awards Winners 2018

RIBA International Award in 2018

RIBA Awards for International Excellence 2018

RIBA National Awards Shortlists in 2018

Arranged by region, alphabetical:

RIBA East Awards Shortlist 2018

RIBA London Awards Shortlist 2018

RIBA North East Awards Shortlist 2018

RIBA North West Awards Shortlist 2018

RIBA South Awards Shortlist 2018

RIBA South East Awards Shortlist 2018

RIBA West Midlands Awards Shortlist 2018

RIBA Yorkshire Awards Shortlist in 2018

23 + 22 Jun 2017

RIBA Awards in 2017

RIBA National Awards Winners in 2017

49 projects across the UK have been announced as winners in the 2017 National Awards for architecture, which distinguishes the UK’s most outstanding buildings and offers insight into construction, design, and investment trends in the country.

A shortlist for the prestigious Stirling Prize will be selected from this list.

Arranged by region:

RIBA East Awards Winners in 2017

• Carrowbreck Meadow by Hamson Barron Smith – Norwich, Norfolk, England – Housing development – private photo © Jefferson Smith

• The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia by Architype – Norwich, Norfolk, England – University photo © Nick Caville

• Peacock House by BHSF Architekten with Studio-P Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England – Individual house photo © Benedikt Redmann

• St Albans Abbey by Richard Griffiths Architects – St Albans, Hertfordshire, England – Place of worship photo © Richard Griffiths

• Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre by Walters & Cohen Architects Walsham le Willows, Suffolk, England – Place of worship photo © Dennis Gilbert – VIEW Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre Building in Suffolk

• The Welding Institute Eric Parry Architects Great Abington, Cambridge, England Research institution photo © Dirk Lindner The Welding Institute Building

• Leicester Cathedral’s Richard III Project ‘With Dignity and Honour’ by van Heyningen and Haward Architects – Leicester, England – Place of worship photo © Carlo Draisci

RIBA London Awards Winners in 2017

• The Laboratory, Dulwich College by Grimshaw – Dulwich, south London, England School – independent/public

• No 49 by 31/44 Architects – Hither Green, southeast London, England – Individual House

• The Loom by Duggan Morris Architects – Whitechapel, east London, England – Workspace/office

• 8 Finsbury Circus by WilkinsonEyre – City of London – Workspace/office image courtesy of architects 8 Finsbury Circus

• 40 Chancery by Lane Bennetts Associates – Holborn, central London, England – Mixed use building – Workspace/office and retail photo ® Hufton+Crow Saatchi & Saatchi Chancery Lane HQ

• King’s College School by Allies and Morrison – Wimbledon, southwest London, England – School – independent/public

• New Scotland Yard by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris – Embankment, central London, England – Workspace/office picture from London Metropolitan Police Service New Scotland Yard by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

• Paradise Gardens by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands – Hammersmith, west London, England – Housing development – private

• Photography Studio for Juergen Teller by 6a architects – Ladbroke Grove, west London, England – Mixed use building – workspace and residential photo © Johan Dehlin Photography Studio for Juergen Teller wins a RIBA Award 2017

• Silchester by Haworth Tompkins – Notting Hill, west London, England – Housing development – social

• Barretts Grove by Amin Taha + Groupwork – Stoke Newington, north London, England – Housing development – private photo © Timothy Soar Barretts Grove wins a RIBA Award in 2017

• Dujardin Mews by Karakusevic Carson Architects with Maccreanor Lavington – Ponders End, north London, England -Housing development – social

• Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building by Herzog & de Meuron – Bankside, central London, England – Museum Switch House, Tate Modern © Iwan Baan Tate Modern Blavatnik Building by Herzog & de Meuron

• The British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners – Bloomsbury, central London, England – Museum image © the Trustees of the British Museum British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre / British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre

• Walmer Yard – P Salter and Associates with Mole Architects + John Comparelli Architects – Holland Park, west London, England – Housing development – private

RIBA North East Awards Winners in 2017

• Live Works by Flanagan Lawrence with Tench Maddison Ash Architects – Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Theatre Live Works Newcastle Building

• Shawm House by MawsonKerr Architects – West Woodburn, Northumberland, England – Individual house

• The Word by FaulknerBrowns Architects – South Shields, South Tyneside, England – Library and cultural venue

RIBA North West Awards Winners in 2017

• Chetham’s School of Music – Stoller Hall by stephenson STUDIO – Manchester, England School – independent/public photograph © Daniel Hopkinson Chetham’s School of Music Building

• Finlays Warehouse by Stephenson Studio – Northern Quarter, Manchester, England Housing development – private

• Liverpool Philharmonic by Caruso St John Architects – Liverpool, England – Theatre

• Maggie’s at the Robert Parfett Building by Foster + Partners – Christie Hospital, south Manchester, England – Healthcare photograph © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners Maggie’s at the Robert Parfett Building

RIBA Northern Ireland Awards Winners in 2017

• Fallahogey Studio by McGarry-Moon Architects Ltd – Kilrea, Northern Ireland – Workspace/office photo : Adam Currie

RIBA South Awards Winners in 2017

• Bedales School of Art and Design Building by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios – Petersfield, Hampshire, England School – independent/public photograph © Hufton+Crow

• The Berrow Foundation Building and New Garden Building, Lincoln College by Stanton Williams University of Oxford – Oxford, England – University photograph © Nick Hufton

• Magdalen College Library by Wright & Wright Architects – University of Oxford, Oxford, England – University photograph © Dennis Gilbert

• Warwick Hall Community Centre by Acanthus Clews Architects – Burford, Oxfordshire, England – Community space photograph © Andy Marshall

RIBA South East Awards Winners in 2017

• Caring Wood by Macdonald Wright Architects Rural Office for Architecture – near Maidstone, Kent, England – Individual house

• Command of the Oceans by Baynes and Mitchell Architects – Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent, England – Museum photo : Hélène Binet Command of the Oceans in Chatham

• Hastings Pier by dRMM Architects – Hastings, East Sussex, England – Leisure photo : Alex de Rijke Hastings Pier Building

• British Airways i360 by Marks Barfield Architects – Brighton & Hove, England – Leisure British Airways i360 Drone image : Visual Air British Airways i360 Building

• South Street by Sandy Rendel Architects Ltd. – Lewes, East Sussex, England – Individual house

RIBA South West Awards Winners in 2017

• Dyson Campus Expansion by WilkinsonEyre – Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England – Workspace/office

• New Music Facilities for Wells Cathedral School by Eric Parry Architects – Wells, Somerset, England School – independent/public image : Smoothie New Music Facilities for Wells Cathedral School

• Wolfson Tree Management Centre by Invisible Studio – Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England – Leisure

RIBA North Awards Winners in 2017

• Remembrance Centre, National Memorial Arboretum by Glenn Howells Architects – Lichfield, Staffordshire – Memorial

• Blackburn Meadows Biomass by BDP – Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England – Energy infrastructure

• Derwenthorpe Phase One by Studio Partington – York, north Yorkshire, England – Housing development – private

• Victoria Gate Arcades by ACME – Leeds city centre, England – Retail

RIAS Awards Winners in 2017

• City of Glasgow College by Reiach and Hall Architects and Michael Laird Architects – Cathedral Street, Glasgow, Scotland – Further education college City of Glasgow College Building

• Newhouse of Auchengee by Ann Nisbet Studio – Meikle Auchengree, North Ayrshire, Scotland – Individual house

• Rockvilla by Hoskins Architects – Speirs Wharf, Glasgow, Scotland – Workspace/office

RIBA president Jane Duncan said,

“The lack of high-quality new housing is a huge issue in the UK so I am particularly pleased to see great examples of well-designed, sustainable new homes amongst our award winners,” she added.

“We all deserve a well-designed, affordable home, wherever we live in the country. I encourage other local authorities, developers and clients to look at these projects as exemplars.”

She praised the inclusion of a number of high-quality schools – including The Laboratory at Dulwich College and new music facilities at Wells Cathedral School – but said it was disappointing to see no new state school buildings included in this year’s awards.

“Well-designed schools support improved student achievement, and staff and student wellbeing and should be part of educational aspirations for all our schools, not just those in the fee-paying sector,” she said.

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8 Apr 2017

RIBA Awards Shortlists 2017

RIBA Awards Shortlists in 2017

The winners will be announced at an Awards event at Ascot Racecourse on Thursday 25 May.

RIBA London Awards 2017

RIBA West Midlands Awards 2017

RIBA South East Awards 2017

RIBA South Awards 2017

RIBA South West Awards 2017

RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards 2017

RIBA East Awards 2017

RIAS Awards 2017 Shortlist

RIBA Northern Ireland Awards 2017

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14 Jul 2016

RIBA Stirling Prize 2016 Shortlist

23 Jun 2016

RIBA Awards 2016 Winners

RIBA National Award Winners 2016

The UK’s best new buildings

RIBA Awards 2016

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today, Thursday 23 June, announced the winners of the 2016 RIBA National Awards, the most rigorous and prestigious awards for new buildings in the UK.

RIBA National Award-winning buildings set the standard for good architecture. The shortlist for the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best building of the year will be drawn from the 46 award-winning buildings announced today.

image : Timothy Soar

RIBA Awards Past Winners

RIBA Awards 2013 – Winning Buildings + Architects

RIBA Awards 2013 photograph © Studio cento29

Britain’s 50 best new buildings – 2012 RIBA Award winners

RIBA Awards 2012 photograph © Hufton+Crow

Location: UK

Winners Archive

RIBA Awards 2011 photograph © Tim Soar

Stirling Prize

RIBA Special Awards Shortlist – Client of the Year award + Stephen Lawrence Prize

RIBA International Awards : Winners photo : Patrick Bingham-Hall

RIBA Special Awards

RIBA Royal Gold Medal

RIBA Awards Scotland

Architecture

Previous Winners 2005 – 2010

RIBA Awards 2010

RIBA Awards 2009

RIBA Award 2009 Scotland – Scottish winners

RIBA Awards 2008 – winners online

RIBA Awards Scotland 2008

RIBA Awards 2007

RIBA Awards 2006

RIBA Awards 2005

RIBA Awards – Past Overall National Winners

RIBA Award 1992 : Sackler Gallery RIBA Award 1991 : Broadgate Centre RIBA Award 1990 : Queen’s Inclosure Primary School, Hampshire RIBA Award 1989 : Nelson Mandela School, Birmingham RIBA Award 1988 : St Oswald’s Hospice, Newcastle

RIAS Award for Architecture – Best Building in Scotland

Comments / photos for the RIBA Awards 2022 – UK Architecture Prize page welcome

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Loïs Mailou Jones: Painter

The Harlem Renaissance was a time for artistic expression and a fight against oppression. It was an era that allowed many Black lives to channel their culture into art and spread their personal experiences through various compositions. Considered a rebirth of Black Art, the Harlem Renaissance had many major players that advanced the era and allowed it to become one of the biggest periods of Black Art in the entirety of U.S. history. An artist in particular that has made waves for this movement of art is Loïs Mailou Jones.

Born November 3, 1905, in Boston Massachusetts to parents Thomas Vreeland and Carolyn Jones. Her father became the first African-American to earn a law degree from Suffolk Law School while her mother was a cosmetologist. Loïs Mailou Jones’ parents encouraged her to pursue art at a young age, especially painting and watercolor. The family bought a house on Martha’s Vineyard, later becoming the very place where Jones met many of her biggest inspirations in the field such as novelist Dorothy West, composer Harry T. Burleigh, and sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller.

During high school, she attended the High School of Practical Arts in Boston taking night classes at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts through a scholarship. She then held her very first exhibition at just seventeen in Martha’s Vineyard, experimenting with African mask influences and eventually creating costume designs for Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. After high school, she attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where she studied design, winning the Susan Minot Lane Scholarship in Design each respected year she attend college, and also took night courses at the Boston Normal Art School.

After graduating, she received her graduate degree in design from the Design Art School of Boston in 1928 and began working at the F. A. Foster Company in Boston and the Schumacher Company which was located in New York City. She then attend Howard University which allowed her to focus on painting rather than design and continued to take multiple classes relating to art throughout her life, even taking classes on various cultural masks at Colimbia University. Eventually, Jones received a BA in art education form Howard University, graduating magna cum laude, in 1945.

Not only was Loïs Mailou Jones a painter and artist, she was also an educator. She began her career in teaching shortly after finishing college and was ultimately hired by Charlotte Hawkins Brown who was the founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute, a historically Black prep school in Sedalia, North Carolina. She was then recruited by James Vernon Herring to join the art department for Howard University, moving her to Washington D.C., where she remained as a design and watercolor painting professor, becoming a strong advocate for African-American art, all the way until she retired in 1977.

Her true career in art started in the 1930s, continuing on to her death in 1998, and throughout her life her style has shifted and evolved through time. Responding to influences from her life and travels, her work continuously grew and expanded across mediums and techniques. It was said that she wished to be referred to as an American painter with no labels as her work echoed the pride she took in her African roots and American ancestry, stating that her greatest contribution to the art world was “proof of the talent of Black artists.”

She began to exhibit more of her work with the William E. Harmon Foundation in the early 1930s using charcoal drawing, officially steering away from her previous concentration in design. During this time and throughout her development as an artist, Jones spent her summers visiting Harlem where Aaron Douglas, a well-known Harlem Renaissance artist, influenced her piece The Ascent of Ethiopia. She continued to study African designs and African masks to aid her pieces as she continued to draw inspiration from the culture and the period itself. During this period she also collaborated with poet Gertrude P. McBrown where Jones would create illustrations that coincided with McBrown’s work.

(The Ascent of Ethiopia, 1932)

In 1937, Jones received a fellowship at Académie Julian that would grant Jones to study in Paris, France. During her single year there, she produced over 30 watercolor paintings and completing roughly 40 pieces of work altogether while studying. Her time at Académie Julian also helped her polish new art techniques that she carried with her throughout her career. Two of her pieces were even accepted at the annual Salon de Printemps exhibition at the Société des Artists Français. Jones stated that she valued her time in Paris as she felt that she was more accepted in society compared to the United States during the time and was granted an extension on her fellowship to travel to Italy before returning back to Howard University.

(Les Fétiches, 1938)

In 1938, she created Les Fétiches which was an African-inspired oil painting that was later owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She painted the piece using inspiration from what she studied about different African masks and objects at the Musée de l'Homme and various galleries during her fellowship in Paris. This work of hers was pivotal in transitioning "Négritude," providing an important link to Négritude authors in that time period.

Jone’s first solo exhibition was hung in the Whyte Gallery in 1938 and would later make it’s appearance at the Howard Univerity Gallery of Art exactly ten years later.

Loïs Mailou Jones’ career only skyrocketed throughout the remaining 50 or so years all the way until her death, continuously winning award after award for her brilliant work. Her contribution to the art world is far more extensive than this blog covers but her work during the Harlem Renaissance (spanning from the 1920s to the 1930s) serves as a lasting testament to her brilliance and her impact on the most significant era of Black Art in American history. Loïs Mailou Jones remains a legend in the art community and a role model for Black female artists all across the world and her memory encourages everyone that greatness can be achieved even if society seems late to progression.

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The Duchess of Cambridge + Patronages (1/?)

Action on Addiction ( Patron || 2012 )

Action on Addiction is a charity which takes action to disarm addiction through research, prevention, treatment, family support, professional education and training.

www.actiononaddiction.org.uk

East Anglia Children's Hospices ( Patron || 2012 )

EACH is a charity that supports families and cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. They provide care and support wherever the family wishes (in families’ own homes, in hospital or at one of ther hospices in Ipswich, Milton and Quidenham).

www.each.org.uk 

Evelina London Children's Hospital ( Patron || 2018 )

Evelina London cares for children and young people from across south London and south east England.

They offer a unique range of services from antenatal diagnosis through to childhood, into adolescence and on into adult life.

Children's services at Evelina London are mainly located in their state-of-the-art building alongside St Thomas' Hospital, but they also provide care to young patients in the community in Lambeth and Southwark.

www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk

The National Portrait Gallery ( Patron || 2012 )

The National Portrait Gallery opened in 1896 and features portraits of the most famous people in British history. 

www.npg.org.uk

Nursing Now ( Patron || 2018 )

Nursing Now is a major global campaign aimed at raising the profile and status of nursing and nurses worldwide. The Nursing Now campaign will support more nurses to play a greater role in health policy decision-making, helping countries meet the pressing health challenges of the 21st century. The three-year global campaign is being run in collaboration with the International Council of Nurses and the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is a programme of the Burdett Trust for Nursing.

nigelcrisp.com

Place2Be ( Royal Patron || 2012 )

Place2Be works in schools providing early intervention mental health support, without stigmatising children, young people or families and at a point where they need it most.

www.actiononaddiction.org.uk

Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists ( Patron || 2018 )

The RCOG is a medical charity that champions the provision of high quality women’s healthcare in the UK and beyond, by setting standards for clinical practice, providing doctors with training and lifelong learning, and advocating for women’s healthcare worldwide.

https://www.rcog.org.uk/

The Royal Foundation ( Patron || 2011 )

The Royal Foundation is the charitable foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

www.royalfoundation.com

The Scouts Association ( Volunteer || 2012 )

Young people in the Scouts take part in an exciting programme of activities from kayaking to coding. They develop character skills like resilience, initiative and tenacity; employability skills such as leadership, teamwork and problem solving; and practical skills like cooking and first aid. And research proves it really works. A 2018 report says Scouts are 17% more likely to show leadership skills and work well in teams. They’re a third more likely to support their communities too.

https://www.scouts.org.uk/home/

100 Women in Finance ( Patron || 2013 )

100 Women in Finance supports charities in the field of family health, mentoring and education.

https://100women.org/

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Dirty window coverings stand out and can throw off the aesthetic of a complete room. Have you appeared around your home recently and puzzled why it feels so old and dull? Start by closing or lowering the slats to reveal the mud particles. You may must secure the underside slat with a string for stability when dusting vertical blinds. Next, use a non-abrasive microfiber cloth to softly wipe off the dust shifting from prime to backside for vertical shutters and left to right for horizontal blinds. Use the vacuum cleaner with a gentle brush attachment to filter leftover particles. This method is very helpful for eradicating mould from blinds which might be in a humid room – a relaxation room, maybe. When dusting or vacuuming vertical blinds, brush downward only, because the slats often turn into unhooked if you brush upward. These are good for homes with giant floor-to-ceiling windows. A defining characteristic of these blinds is the vertical slat which pulls to one aspect of the window. 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Video Call with Lucy Clark

Recently my class was lucky enough to have a video call with Lucy Clark, an award-winning Graphic Designer and Illustrator. Lucy took her Art and Design Foundation course at West Suffolk College, as well as a course with University of Suffolk, both of which are run out of West Suffolk College premises. It was great hearing from someone that has been very successful in the field I’m interested in, more so when they have previously been in the same location and situation I am in now.

Lucy Clark is also the winner of the D&AD New Blood Award 2020. Upon winning the award, Lucy received a D&AD Yellow Pencil. This is something that is “awarded only to the most outstanding work that achieves true creative excellence”, make it an amazing achievement. Navus, her game concept that won the award, is an idea for an open world, multiplayer navigation game. The challenge for this game concept was put forward by Rare and Xbox, with the condition being it must focus on bringing people together. The players find themselves separately lost in an open world without any tools, and they must use their environment and communication to reunite with each other. This game feature is obviously the connection to the focus of bringing people together. However, it was not the concept alone that won the award. It was also an array of amazing concept art, with designs featuring user interface within the game, as well as first person snapshots. Some examples of these can be seen below.

It was amazing hearing from Lucy Clark, especially with the ability to ask questions about her and her work. She is obviously a very talented Graphic Designer so hearing her discuss her work and process was very rewarding. I will be sure to keep an eye out for her work in the future.

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Wu, Campbell direct parade of hopefuls for mayor's chair

Mayor Walsh’s likely departure for Washington, D.C., could pull as numerous as 5 new candidates into a race to be successful him this summer season or fall, depending on the timing of his envisioned resignation, which would comply with his affirmation by the US Senate. Two metropolis councillors, Michelle Wu and Andrea Campbell, who have been by now waging spirited and well-funded strategies to compete versus Walsh will very likely be joined by at minimum two council colleagues and other hopefuls from in just metropolis and point out governing administration.

When he measures down, Walsh’s vacant seat will be crammed right away by Town Council President Kim Janey on an interim foundation. She would be the 1st Black human being — and the initially woman— to serve as the city’s main government. Janey has not nevertheless reported whether or not she will find a entire, four-calendar year time period, but preparations have by now begun for her changeover into the mayor’s place of work.

At-substantial Councillor Annissa Essaibi-George, a Dorchester resident who has steadily developed her citywide profile and electoral overall performance above her a few phrases in business office, is also critically weighing a mayoral campaign, in accordance to resources close to her. A former Boston General public College teacher and the proprietor of the Sew House on Dorchester Avenue, Essaibi-George has been a longtime ally of Walsh, whom she has regarded since childhood. She is one particular of numerous people with ties to his political corporation and donors who could mount a viable candidacy.

John Barros, the city’s main of economic development, is also witnessed as a probable candidate. A Dorchester resident who ran for mayor in 2013 and completed fourth in that year’s preliminary election, is now a seasoned City Hall veteran with sturdy connections to the city’s small business and civic leaders. Of Cape Verdean descent, Barros was the longtime chief of the Dudley Street Community Initiative just before becoming a member of the Walsh cabinet.

William Gross, the city’s law enforcement commissioner, explained to reporters this week that he is “90 percent” in as a candidate himself. Gross was promoted to the BPD’s leading spot by Walsh in 2018 and is a well-known figure amid officers and their families. A indigenous of Dorchester, Gross lived in Milton in more latest many years ahead of going back again into the city— to Roslindale— after his appointment to Walsh’s cabinet. 

“I just can’t give you an reply 100 p.c,” Gross stated on Monday when questioned about his candidacy. “But out of respect, I’m heading to give this deep thing to consider. If there’s a single detail that rings correct, I would hardly ever be as presumptuous as just to toss my hat in the ring when the mayor was just announced. 

“I will have to talk to my family, the mayor, and my mates about this. … I adore my city… there’s no way I would make that conclusion in 3 days,” he included.

Also considering a candidacy is Marty Martinez, who prospects the city’s Overall health and Human Services section, its greatest company and a critical one in the context of the however-unfolding pandemic crisis. A indigenous of Nebraska, Martinez moved to Boston far more than 20 several years in the past and settled in Dorchester past yr.

At least 3 point out lawmakers— House Approaches and Implies Chairman Aaron Michlewitz of the North Close, Sen. Nick Collins, who signifies South Boston, most of Dorchester, and components of Mattapan, and Rep. Jon Santiago of the South Conclusion – are all thinking of candidacies as nicely.

Walsh’s nomination by Biden activated a brief endorsement for Michelle Wu from a sizeable ally two times later, on Saturday. US Senator Elizabeth Warren, who observed that she has recognized the councillor due to the fact Wu attended her course as a Harvard Legislation student.

“Michelle is not just a lady comprehensive of excellent concepts and a passionate coronary heart, she is a female who receives out and does the operate that demands to be accomplished to make a distinction in people’s lives,” Warren stated in a assertion.

“Sen. Warren has been a buddy, mentor, and an extremely efficient adjust-maker for Boston and for the whole nation, so I’m thrilled to keep on partnering with her and to have her support in this race,” Wu told the Reporter in a cellphone get in touch with on Saturday. 

Campbell, who life in Mattapan, has represented District 4 on the council given that unseating longtime incumbent Charles Yancey in 2014. She jumped into the race for mayor last September, citing her plan get the job done on the council and her roots in the town. In the past two months, her campaign claims she has lifted $160,000, bringing her complete money to far more than $467,000 given that asserting, additional than any Black candidate has at any time elevated overall for a mayoral marketing campaign in Boston. According to the Office environment of Marketing campaign and Political Finance (OCPF), Campbell has $513,731 funds on hand, driving Wu, who has $535,589, in accordance to the most new available report.

On Monday, Campbell’s crew declared notable marketing campaign endorsements from the subsequent: 11th Suffolk District Rep. Liz Malia Bill Walczak, co-founder of the Codman Sq. Wellness Heart Diana Hwang, founder of the Asian American Women’s Political Initiative Dr. Atyia Martin, founder and CEO of All Aces, Inc. and previous chief resilience officer of the Town of Boston and Makeeba McCreary, previous chief of workers at Boston Public Colleges. 

Campbell reported previous weekend that Walsh’s departure and the concern about a particular election in the summer months or a common campaign in the fall “hasn’t transformed anything” for her staff. 

“We launched this marketing campaign in September with the target of running a grassroots motion and connecting with voters all across the city,” she advised the Reporter. “I’ve been telling citizens that if we want this city to function for every person, we’re heading to have to do the difficult and at times uncomfortable get the job done of addressing our possess heritage in regard to racism. And if we do that together, we can in fact eradicate inequities in housing, schooling, the setting, you name it.”

The timing of selecting an electorally long-lasting replacement for Walsh remains unsure this 7 days. By metropolis statute, if Walsh have been to resign prior to March 5, his departure would mechanically result in a specific election— a preliminary followed by a runoff in between the two greatest vote getters— that would likely be scheduled for early summer months.

But District 5 Councillor Ricardo Arroyo has filed a Home Rule Petition requesting the Legislature to let Boston officers to override the specific election need in the function of a emptiness in the office environment of the mayor just before March 5. He argues that the metropolis ought to just wait for the by now scheduled September and November municipal elections to opt for Walsh’s successor.

Arroyo took to Twitter final 7 days to say that he filed the petition since he thinks a particular election would more drain the town spending plan create unsafe circumstances with citizens going to the ballot box in the course of the pandemic make limitations to accessibility and maintain an “unnecessary and redundant” election. 

His petition is scheduled to go ahead of the City Council for evaluation at their conference on Wednesday of this week. 

When she was asked about how the petition could influence the race, Wu reported “there are several various variables that we still do not have information and facts on. One is the timing of the affirmation procedure in D.C., and when we listen to much more on the proposal at this week’s council meeting, my colleagues will be weighing all of the various things to consider,” she claimed, including:

“This has been an extraordinary year and there have been a tremendous amount of prices to seeking to tackle all of the requirements all through the pandemic, and so this is a second exactly where we have to be wondering about how to continue to keep persons safe and sound first and foremost and the finest use of metropolis methods when making sure that we’re shielding obtain to the ballot and democratic accountability.” 

Explained Campbell, “We have however to receive our official council agenda, so waiting around to review it and specifically the language in advance of taking any future steps.”

Reporter editor Invoice Forry contributed to this report.

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Supremely Conservative

Chief Justice John Roberts rules the roost €”and while he may be a swing vote, make no mistake: Roberts is no liberal. "There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America The U.S. Supreme Court's 2018-19 term made it clearer than ever that Chief Justice John Roberts rules the roost behind the high tribunal’s regal red curtains. Roberts has replaced the retired Anthony Kennedy as the panel’s most critical swing vote, and he is making full use of the power that comes with that pivotal role. But make no mistake: Roberts is no liberal. He may be more cautious and less dogmatic than some of his brethren, but each and every Republican-appointed Justice—from Roberts to Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh—is staunchly conservative. And that’s bad news for progressives. “With the confirmation of Kavanaugh last October, we now have five current or former members of the Federalist Society on the Supreme Court,” Michael Avery, professor emeritus of law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, says in an interview. “If Trump is reelected, there probably will be a sixth at some point.” Avery, a former president of the National Lawyers Guild, is the co-author of the definitive study The Federalist Society: How the Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals, published in 2013. The book charts the group’s rise from a law-school debate club at Yale and the University of Chicago in the early 1980s to a nationwide network of 70,000 economic, social, and Christian conservatives, along with rightwing libertarians, scattered in lawyers’ chapters in eighty cities, and with student affiliates in nearly every major law school. Federalist Society members attend conferences, seminars, and meetings, and participate in “practice groups” where they learn the contemporary right’s gospel on civil rights, labor, the First Amendment, and other important areas of substantive law. No longer a shoestring operation, the society’s 2016 budget exceeded $26 million, raised in large part from contributions by rightwing philanthropists like the Koch brothers and other deep-pockets like the Mercer, Scaife, and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations. Though Roberts claims he can’t recall belonging to the Federalist Society, the group listed him as a member in its 1997-98 directory. The Court’s other Republican appointees remain active participants in society events and conventions. Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all attended the organization’s annual black-tie gala in November 2018 at the Main Hall of Union Station in Washington, D.C. The event was held in honor of the late Antonin Scalia, who served as one of the society’s first academic mentors during his teaching days at the University of Chicago. With the exception of Thomas, the Federalist Society has had a hand in selecting all of the Court’s GOP-appointed conservatives. According to The Washington Post, in 2005 and 2006, the society’s executive vice president, Leonard Leo, a devout Catholic and outspoken critic of abortion rights, raised about $15 million from his well-heeled patrons to pay for ads, telemarketing, and the mobilization of astroturf advocacy groups to support the nominations of Roberts and Alito. Leo took a formal leave of absence to help Trump secure the confirmation of both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. It’s not just party affiliation and the Federalist Society that link Roberts and his Republican colleagues. They are also united by judicial philosophy. Each, to varying degrees, embraces “originalism,” the legal theory that posits the Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning for the Founding Fathers, rather than read as a “living document” that can and should accommodate contemporary values, social needs, and evolving traditions. Any doubts about Roberts’s influence or the ideological orientation of the Court’s conservative wing were laid to rest on June 27, the last open session of the just-concluded term, when the two most highly anticipated and sharply contested decisions of the year were announced: the first, Rucho v. Common Cause, dealing with partisan “gerrymandering,” and the second, Department of Commerce v. New York, concerning the U.S. Census. The justices divided 5-4 in both cases, with Roberts writing the majority opinion in each. Although the legal issues raised in each case are distinct, they are related, as states with more than one Congressional district are required to redesign their voting districts every ten years in accordance with new Census data.

AP Images Activists at the Supreme Court opposed to partisan gerrymandering hold up representations of Congressional districts from North Carolina, left, and Maryland, right, as Justices hear arguments about redistricting in Rucho v. Common Cause. Because redistricting is basic to the functioning of democracy, it often sparks heated litigation. Unfortunately, the Rucho ruling dealt democracy a body blow, as the Court held that partisan gerrymandering, no matter how extreme, presents a non justiciable “political question” beyond the jurisdiction of federal judges. As Roberts noted in his opinion, gerrymandering has a long history. The term itself is a portmanteau coined after the salamander-like voting districts created by Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry in 1812 to give an advantage to his Democratic-Republican Party. The term is used today to refer to abusive forms of redistricting aimed at entrenching a particular party in power. Political gerrymandering is especially acute in the thirty states currently controlled by Republican legislatures. In the 2018 elections, Republicans won about 50 percent of the popular vote for U.S. House Representatives in North Carolina, but were accorded 70 percent of the state’s Congressional delegation due to how the maps were drawn. But both parties have historically been guilty of the practice. In Rucho, the Court consolidated two lawsuits initiated, respectively, by Democrats in North Carolina and Republicans in Maryland. Each alleged their state’s redistricting plan unconstitutionally discriminated against their own party. Federal district judges in both cases agreed, but their rulings were appealed to the Supreme Court. Because of the bipartisan nature of the challenges, there was some hope following oral arguments in March that the Supreme Court would uphold the challenges based on longstanding precedents. In Baker v. Carr (1962), the Court outlawed population-based gerrymandering, establishing the doctrine of “one person, one vote.” And by the mid-1980s, the Court had forbidden “racial gerrymandering”—the designing of districts to dilute the voting power of minorities. But the Court has never overturned an instance of purely partisan gerrymandering. And, with the Rucho ruling, it appears the practice is here to stay. Roberts argued that some degree of partisan gerrymandering is inherent in any electoral system, and there is no objective standard by which judges can distinguish permissible from improper forms of partisan gerrymandering. He also invoked originalism to bolster his opinion, writing, “Partisan gerrymandering is nothing new. Nor is frustration with it. The practice was known in the Colonies prior to Independence, and the Framers were familiar with it at the time of the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.” The Framers, he continued, left the issue to be resolved by the states and, if need be, by Congress. But, he admonished, for judges “o hold that legislators cannot take partisan interests into account when drawing district lines would essentially countermand the Framers’ decision to entrust districting to political entities.” Roberts’s ruling will likely keep contested Republican gerrymanders in place for the 2020 elections, not only in North Carolina, but in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. In dissent, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, speaking for herself and the Court’s liberals, rebuked the majority for endorsing partisan gerrymanders that have “debased and dishonored our democracy, turning upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people . . . . For the first time ever, this Court refuses to remedy a Constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities.” In the census question case, the majority Roberts cobbled together was far more fractured, with the conservatives joining some sections and the panel’s liberals—Kagan and Associate Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor—endorsing other portions. The central issue was whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted lawfully when he directed the Census Bureau, which his department oversees, to add a citizenship question to the basic “short-form” that will be sent early next year to all U.S. residents. The Census, which the Constitution requires be conducted every ten years, is used to set the number of votes each state is accorded in the Electoral College and the number of seats allocated to each state in the House of Representatives. It has not included a question regarding citizenship since 1950. Citizenship data is available to the government from other sources, such as the American Community Survey, which the Census Bureau sends out to 3.5 million households each year, and Social Security Administration and state voting records.

AP Images Immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as the Justices hear arguments over the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. Reviving a citizenship question in an era of heightened immigration law enforcement, one study found, would lead to an undercount of more than six million Hispanics, about 12 percent of the country’s Hispanic population. This undercount could potentially dilute the political power of blue states like California and New York that have large numbers of immigrants. Appearing before the Ways and Means Committee in March 2018, Ross testified under oath that he revived the citizenship question at the request of the Department of Justice, which, he said, wanted more precise citizenship data to better enforce the Voting Rights Act. Ross’s directive spurred federal lawsuits in New York, California, and Maryland. In each case, federal district court judges struck down the citizenship question, rejecting Ross’s stated justification. (The Trump Administration has yet to file a single Voting Rights Act enforcement case.) In fact, evidence discovered during the lawsuits proved that the idea for reinstating the citizenship question came not from the Department of Justice but from discussions between Ross, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, both of whom have long histories of anti-immigrant vitriol. (As head of Trump’s since-abandoned Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, Kobach propagated the myth that millions of undocumented people had voted in 2016.) The Department of Justice endorsed the citizenship question only after Ross asked it to. After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in April, documents released by the daughter of Thomas Hofeller, a Republican redistricting strategist who died in 2018, provided shocking new evidence of the administration’s racial animus. They showed that in early 2017, Hofeller pushed Trump officials to reinstate the citizenship question to give “white Republicans” a redistricting advantage. Despite these disclosures, Roberts and his conservative bench-mates held that there was nothing illegal in resurrecting the citizenship question for the upcoming Census, even if it depresses Hispanic responses. But Roberts, to his credit, joined with the Court’s liberals to temporarily block the question, saying its rationale “seems to have been contrived.” He gave the government another chance to justify its actions. Trump, predictably, condemned the Court’s decision as “ridiculous” in an angry tweet on the day the decision was announced. He later called the ruling a “very sad time for America,” and threatened to find a way to sidestep it, but ultimately ended up backing down. Appointed Chief Justice by President George W. Bush in 2005, Roberts has long been at the center of speculation about the Court’s future. “Roberts cares a lot about the Supreme Court as an institution and his own historical legacy,” says professor Eric Segall, who teaches constitutional law at Georgia State University. “At times, I think he might feel that he’s the only thing that prevents the Court from losing all legitimacy in the eyes of the public.” “Roberts cares a lot about the Supreme Court as an institution and his own historical legacy. At times, I think he might feel that he’s the only thing that prevents the Court from losing all legitimacy in the eyes of the public.” Last November, after Trump blasted a federal judge as an “Obama judge” for overturning his new restrictions on political asylum, Roberts issued a biting reply: “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best those appearing before them. The independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.” But while such words are welcome, Roberts remains “deeply conservative,” Segall says. “Apart from his opinion upholding the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in 2012, he rarely votes with the liberals in the most critical 5-4 cases. People tend to forget that in the same case, he also struck down the ACA’s mandatory expansion of Medicaid.” Adam Feldman, who holds a law degree as well as a doctorate in political science from the University of Southern California, spends his days combing through the Supreme Court’s cases, crunching the numbers and discerning the trends behind the Court’s decisions for his Empirical Scotus website. “There are in fact some glaring differences in the voting patterns of the Justices that align with the party of the President who appointed them,” Feldman says. His research shows that during the Court’s 2017-18 term, Kennedy’s last stint on the Court, the Justices voted along party lines at a 73 percent rate. Roberts’s 5-4 majority opinions also include Shelby County v. Holder (2013), regarded by Segall as “one of the Court’s worst” recent decisions for striking down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. In June 2018, Roberts swung sharply to the right again, penning the Court’s 5-4 opinion that upheld Trump’s Muslim travel ban. Segall’s 2018 book, Originalism as Faith, traces the evolution of the concept as a tool for interpreting the Constitution. Initially, as popularized by Reagan-era Attorney General Ed Meese and the late failed-Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, the doctrine asserted that the flowery but ambiguous terms in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights like “freedom,” “liberty,” “due process,” and “cruel and unusual punishments” should be understood according to the “original intent” of the Founding Fathers. The current version—call it Originalism 2.0—was popularized by Scalia and others, who recognized the difficulty of ascertaining the Founders’ actual intent. They chose instead to focus on the original “public meaning” of Constitutional provisions, as revealed in the recorded debates from the Constitutional Convention as well as dictionaries from that time. Proponents of both versions insist their approach restrains judicial discretion, limits subjectivity, and prevents judges from behaving like legislators, as Scalia alleged in his blistering dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), which recognized a Constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Roberts wrote a separate dissent. Kennedy’s majority opinion in Obergefell affirmed the “living Constitutionalist” view, declaring: “The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.” The originalist position, Segall says, is “so dumb it’s hard to respond.” There is “no grand theory or intellectual construct” that can determine the outcome of all Supreme Court cases. Yes, history and text matter, but in the end “originalism is just another result-oriented approach dressed up as objectivity.” For instance, Segall notes, “There is nothing persuasively originalist about the Court’s recent decisions on campaign finance or affirmative action.” And so the decisions rendered ultimately reflected the Justices’ life experiences, personal values, and political beliefs. He says it’s no wonder that the opinions of Clarence Thomas—considered by many to be the Court’s most ardent originalist—“are remarkably similar to the platform of the Republican Party.” Not all progressives reject originalism as an unworkable scam. The lawyers at the scrappy Constitutional Accountability Center, based in Washington, D.C., actually used it to secure a rare win for workers in a case decided earlier this year. “Progressives too often concede the founding of the Constitution to conservatives,” says Brianne Gorod, the center’s chief counsel. “That’s a mistake. We emphasize not only the text and history of the Constitution, but also the values it expresses, particularly those embedded in the Reconstruction-era amendments, which are both democratic and egalitarian.” The case concerned the definition of an “employee” under the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act, and Gorod’s brief urged the Justices to consult dictionaries and other texts from the 1920s to find that a group of truck drivers were employees rather than independent contractors, and were thus entitled to file a class-action lawsuit over wage and hour disputes. The Justices agreed and, in a unanimous ruling written by Gorsuch, held that the drivers were not required to file individual arbitration claims. The Court’s conservatives also occasionally broke ranks to join with liberals in other cases this term. In Apple Inc. v. Pepper, for example, Kavanaugh drafted the 5-4 majority opinion, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, ruling that iPhone purchasers can sue Apple for allegedly monopolizing the retail market for the sale of iPhone apps. Similarly, in Herrera v. Wyoming, Gorsuch joined a 5-4 decision written by Sotomayor that held Wyoming’s statehood did not abrogate the Crow Tribe’s 1868 federal treaty right to hunt in the Bighorn National Forest. The Roberts Court isn’t just conservative; it’s also activist. Nonetheless, progressives are understandably worried about the future. The Roberts Court isn’t just conservative; it’s also activist. In two 5-4 decisions this past term, the Court overruled two of its own recent precedents to hand significant victories to rightwing and business interests. In Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt, written by Thomas, the Court held that states must be accorded “sovereign immunity” to protect them from private lawsuits brought in the courts of other states. And in Knick v. Township of Scott, written by Roberts, the Court decreed that property owners may bring federal lawsuits against state and local governments for the taking of property by means of eminent domain. In another significant development, Justices Alito and Gorsuch wrote concurring opinions that suggested discarding the longstanding doctrine that advises judges to defer to executive agencies in interpreting the scope and meaning of federal regulations. Although the Court left the deference doctrine in place, many observers anticipate future efforts to weaken agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and further deregulate the economy. And throughout the recent term, Thomas called for overruling some of the most cherished liberal precedents of the last seventy years, urging his colleagues to revisit both Gideon v. Wainwright, on the right to court-appointed counsel in criminal prosecutions, and New York Times v. Sullivan, which affords vital protections to individuals and the media against defamation actions brought by public figures. Thomas also attacked Roe v. Wade this term in Box v. Planned Parenthood, in which the Court upheld Indiana’s new law mandating the burial or cremation of fetal remains. In his bizarre concurrence, Thomas compared abortion to eugenics. It’s likely that the Roberts Court will agree to reconsider and perhaps overturn the Roe decision. In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, decided in 2016, the Court invalidated harsh restrictions Texas had imposed on abortion clinics. The opinion was written by Breyer and joined by Kennedy. Roberts, Alito, and Thomas voted to uphold the restrictions. “We’re very concerned that Thomas is staying on the Court so that he can do whatever needs to be done to either overturn Roe or gouge it out piece by piece,” says Nan Aron, the president of the Alliance for Justice, one of the country’s leading progressive advocacy organizations. “It’s long been the dream of the far right to turn back the clock on liberties that we’ve all taken for granted for a long time.” Although the Supreme Court has yet to schedule an abortion challenge for next term, it has agreed to take up polarizing cases on LGBTQ rights and Trump’s attempt to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. As we look ahead, one thing is certain: The law is dynamic and ever-changing. Just how far and how fast John Roberts and his rightwing cohorts are willing to go is the big question. Sidebar: Highlights of the Supreme Court's 2018-19 Term

Shutterstock The Death Penalty Bucklew v. Precythe: 5-4, Gorsuch. The Eighth Amendment’s ban against “cruel and unusual punishments” does not require that executions be pain-free. An inmate who claims he would suffer excruciating pain under a state’s lethal injection protocol must prove that alternative methods of execution are readily available. Flowers v. Mississippi: 7-2, Kavanaugh. Following existing precedent, the Court reversed a capital murder conviction, holding it unconstitutional for prosecutors to exclude jurors from serving in death-penalty trials on the grounds of race. Labor Relations New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira: 8-0, Gorsuch. In a sharp departure from recent trends, the Court held that a group of truck drivers were employees rather than independent contractors and thus not barred from filing a federal class action lawsuit to resolve their disputes. Immigration Nielsen v. Preap: 5-4, Alito. Legal residents who have committed deportable crimes may be detained by the government indefinitely without a bail hearing, even if their crimes were committed years in the past. Anti-Trust Apple Inc. v. Pepper: 5-4, Kavanaugh. iPhone purchasers may sue Apple for allegedly monopolizing the retail market for the sale of iPhone apps. Overruling Precedent Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt: 5-4, Thomas. Overturning a case decided in 1979, the Court held that states must be accorded sovereign immunity from private lawsuits brought against them in the courts of other states. Knick v. Township of Scott: 5-4, Roberts. Overturning a case decided in 1985, the Court held that pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, property owners may bring federal lawsuits against state and local governments for the taking of property without having to first seek remedies in state court. First Amendment American Legion v. American Humanist Association: 7-2, Alito. The Court ruled that a cross erected as a memorial to fallen soldiers in World War I near Bladensburg, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., does not violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Political Gerrymandering Rucho v. Common Cause: 5-4, Roberts. In a pair of consolidated cases from Maryland and North Carolina, the Court held that political gerrymandering is not a matter over which federal courts have jurisdiction. The 2020 Census Department of Commerce v. New York: 5-4, Roberts. In a defeat for the Trump Administration, the Court temporarily blocked a controversial, and arguably racist, citizenship question from being added to the basic form used to conduct the U.S. Census. The case was sent back to a lower court to give the government another chance to justify its actions. Abortion Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc., per curiam. The Court upheld Indiana’s law requiring the disposal of fetal remains by burial or cremation while refusing to review a lower-court ruling invalidating the state’s ban on abortions undertaken on the basis of sex, race, or disability. This Piece Originally Appeared in Progressive.org Read the full article

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Greek Architects Select Over 130 Designs For New Buildings And Urban Planning Projects In The United States And Abroad For The 2020 American Architecture Awards

The Nation’s Highest Public Award for New Architecture and Urban Planning by the Most Prominent Architecture Firms in the United States Are Honored by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies

November 1st 2020 – A new skyscraper and transportation center in San Francisco by Cesar Pelli; a stunning restoration of an historic Washington D.C. library by Norman Foster; a Cadillac Showroom in Shanghai by Gensler; a visionary ‘cloudscape’ San Francisco tower by orm4Architecture; the rehabilitation of an old Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn by Practice for Architecture and Urbanism; a minimalist house in Connecticut by Roger Ferris + Partners; a sleek Conrad Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. by Herzog & de Meuron/ Rottet Studio; a new Chicago zoo building by Ross Barney Architects; two new vineyards in California and Umbria, Italy by Piechota Architecture and Hughes Umbanhowar Architects; new affordable housing in Los Angeles by Eric Owen Moss; and two New York skyscrapers by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. head an impressive list of awarded buildings and urban planning projects in the United States and abroad for 2020.

Over 130 buildings and urban plans from a shortlist of over 400 projects have won the prestigious 2020 American Architecture Awards® for the best new architecture designed and constructed by American architects and by international architects with offices in the United States.

Now in its 26th year, The American Architecture Awards are organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—jointly presenting this annual, prestigious program for Design Excellence and for the best and next contributions to innovative contemporary American architecture.

The American Architecture Awards are the nation’s highest public awards given by a non-commercial, non-trade affiliated, public arts, culture, and educational institution.

This year’s American Architecture Awards went to exceptional buildings designed for every stage of our lives: skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, governmental buildings, science and technology centers, transportation centers, airports, hotels, parks, pavilions, restorations and renovations, retail facilities, housing projects, private homes, schools, universities, art, cultural and health buildings, urban planning and landscape architecture, interiors, and other humanitarian and educational initiatives.

“For 26 years, The American Architecture Awards have recognized the best new American architecture by the nation’s leading architects for their approach, research, innovation, and vision by design practitioners, developers, and their clients,” states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Architecture Critic and Museum President, The Chicago Athenaeum.

“In a matter of 26 years, this program has become the single, most important recognition for Design Excellence in the United States, honoring known and celebrated firms, as well as young upstart offices for their smaller scaled, more challenging projects.”

“This year, the selected firms for these awards again celebrate the value of architecture to communities across the country and reaffirm American architects’ commitment to the highest standards of design.”

“Land developers, builders, architects, and engineers have dissected the most brilliant deliveries of single buildings and master planned communities, evaluating the challenges ahead and discussing solutions that will shape tomorrow’s communities well into the future,” continues Narkiewicz-Laine.

“For 2020, The American Architecture Awards recognize the visionary work of several hundred architecture offices, associate architects, landscape architects, and urban planners for projects in every region of the United States, as well as aboard in Italy, China, Lithuania, Switzerland, South Korea, Latvia, New Zealand, Uganda, Mexico, and Brazil.”

“Also, it is interesting to note that this year, there were a record number of awards given for restoration, renovation, and historic preservation of old buildings, thereby reaffirming the importance to conserve American history and heritage, a well as heralding the prominent conservation position that handsomely recycled buildings are the best sustainable Green examples of what can be made revitalized and renewed again for contemporary use.”

“The Chicago Athenaeum champions better buildings, communities, and the environment through which architecture can flourish. The Museum’s awards provide one of the most powerful ways of promoting architecture and the work of architects to the public. I am delighted with this year’s selection, which shows a great variety of imagination and ingenuity,” Narkiewicz-Laine concludes.

This year, the 400 shortlisted entries were selected by a smaller, restricted jury because of the Corona Virus Pandemic and composed of the following Thessaloniki-based Greek architects and educators:

• Eleanna Makridou, Architect, P. Makridis + Associates S.A.

• Ifigeneia Konstantinidou, Communications Expert, Responsive

• Maria Tsaftari, Architect, Urban Soul Project

• Simos Antoniadis, Architect, Urban Soul Project

“The over 130 Awarded American Architecture projects for 2020 are:

BRIDGES

inFORM studio + Buro Happold – Providence Pedestrian Bridge, Providence, Rhode Island

LMN Architects – University District Gateway Bridge, Spokane, Washington

Cordogan, Clark & Associates, Inc. – 41st Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois

CIVIC AND COMMUNITY

Overland Partners – ChildSafe Harvey E. Najim Children and Family Center, San Antonio, Texas

COMMERCIAL

Belzberg Architects – Aurora, México City, México

Piechota Architecture – Silver Oak Winery, Healdsburg, California

Hughes Umbanhowar Architects – Tasting Room, Umbria, Italy

HOK – Consumers Credit Union Headquarters, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Adjaye Associates – The Webster, Los Angeles, California

Skylab – Sideyard, Portland, Oregon

CORPORATE

LEVER Architecture – Redfox Commons, Portland, Oregon

SmithGroup – Guangshun University Labs, Guiyang, China

CULTURE AND MUSEUMS

Johnsen Schmaling Architects – OS Gallery and Studio, Racine, Wisconsin

Belzberg Architects – USC Shoah Foundation-Institute for Visual History and Education, Los Angeles, California

HGA – Boise State University Center for the Visual Arts, Boise, Idaho

OSA Open Source Architecture – Tautos Namai, Lithuanian National Concert Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania

archimania – Ballet Memphis, Memphis, Tennesse

Michielli + Wyetzner Architects – The Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, Bronx, New York

Form4 Architecture – The Museum of No Spectators, Black Rock City, Nevada

Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc. – MuseumLab, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP. – LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, New York, New York

Deborah Berke Partners – 122 Community Arts Center, New York, New York

Adjaye Associates – Ruby City Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas

DISPLAY/INSTALLATIONS

Studio Joseph – New Glass Now, Corning, New York

ENTERTAINMENT

Marvel Architects – TheatreSquared, Fayetteville, Arkansas

Ross Barney Architects – Searle Visitor Center Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois

EXPOSITION

Lake|Flato Architects – Marine Education Center at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi

HOK – Kentucky International Convention Center, Louisville, Kentucky

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill/ Mark Cavagnero Associates – Moscone Center Expansion and Improvement, San Francisco, California

GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS

Roth Sheppard Architects – Montezuma County Combined Courts

HEALTH CARE/HOSPITALS

Trahan Architects – The Ochsner Center for Innovation, New Orleans, Louisiana

ikon.5 architects – Health and Wellness Center, Suffolk County Community College, Riverhead, New York

Paul Lukez Architecture – Uganda Dental and Vision Clinic, Bwindi, Uganda

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP. – David H. Koch Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York

HIGH RISES/SKYSCRAPERS

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.– 55 Hudson Yards, New York, New York

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.– 390 Madison, New York, New York

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects – Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, California

FitzGerald Associates Architects – 727 West Madison, Chicago, Illinois

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP. – One Dalton: Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, Boston, Massachusetts

Solomon Cordwell Buenz – Park Tower at Transbay, San Francisco, California

Pininfarina – Yachthouse by Pininfarina, Balneário Camboriú, Brazil

HOTELS/HOSPITALITY

Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design – Kimpton Hotel Palomar South Beach, Miami, Florida

Montalba Architects, Inc. – Whitepod, Les Cerniers, Switzerland

UNITEDLAB Associates LLC. – Round Retreat, Kurzeme, Latvia

Herzog & de Meuron/ Rottet Studio – Conrad Washington, DC., Washington, D.C.

INDUSTRIAL

Arch11 – DynaEnergetics, Blum, Texas

Tryba Architects – The Glass Lab, Portland, Oregon

LIBRARIES

JRA Architects – Louisville Free Public Library Northeast Regional Branch, Louisville, Kentucky

MONUMENTS

Handel Architects – Emanuel Nine Memorial, Charleston, South Carolina

MIXED-USE

Jonathan Segal FAIA – The Continental, San Diego, California

Form4 Architecture – Cloudscape, San Francisco, California

Ennead Architects – Taopu HERO Innovation Hub, Shanghai, China

HOK – 4th and Harrison Mixed-use Development, San Francisco, California

Belzberg Architects – West Olympic Science Hub, Los Angeles, California

Eric Owen Moss Architects – Reese Davidson Community, Los Angeles, California

MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING

University of Arkansas Community Design Center – 7Hills Day Center Complex, Fayetteville, Arkansas

University of Arkansas Community Design Center – New Beginnings Homeless Transition Village Prototype, Fayetteville, Arkansas

SHoP Architects – PIER 4 Project, Boston, Massachusetts

DLR Group – The Triumph – Community-Based Short Term Family Housing, Washington, District of Columbia

PRIVATE HOUSES

Messana O’Rorke Architects – The Jewel Box, New York, New York

Engelking Architect – Wuehrer House, East Hampton, New York

Belzberg Architects – Camelback Residence, Paradise Valley, Arizona

CCY Architects – Meadow House, Aspen, Colorado

MINARC – Mildred Residence, Venice, California

Aidlin Darling Design – High Desert Retreat, Palm Desert, California

David Jameson Architect – Manifold House, Arlington, Virginia

Alterstudio – Highland Park Residence, Austin, Texas

ISA – Interface Studio Architects – XS House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

David Jameson Architect – Wildcat Mountain Residence, The Plains, Virginia

Snow Kreilich Architects – X House, Minneapolis Minnesota

XTEN Architecture – Skyhouse, Los Angeles, California

Abramson Architects – The Palisades House, Pacific Palisades, California

Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects – Ridge Mountain, Palm Springs, California

Roger Ferris + Partners – Pool House, Westport, Connecticut

Swatt | Miers Architects – Cheng-Brier House, Tiburon, California

Lake|Flato Architects – Aegean Pool House, Mineola, Texas

Lake|Flato Architects – Ishawooa Mesa Ranch, Cody, Wyoming

Charles Rose Architects – Bluff House, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, New York

SsD – Simgok Place, Seoul, South Korea

PUBLIC SPACE

designLAB architects – Worcester Blackstone Visitors Center, Worcester, Massachusetts

Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects – The Culver Steps, Culver City, California

Metcalfe Architecture & Design, LLC. – Whiting Forest of Dow Gardens, Midland, Michigan

Lake|Flato Architects + Matsys – Confluence Park. San Antonio, Texas

Stack + Co. – Warp House, Boston, Massachusetts

UNITEDLAB Associates – Cloud Forestsm Pavilion for Children’s Play, Hwaseong, South Korea

RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS

Archimania – Garden Chapel Pavilion, Memphis, Tennesse

Mark Cavagnero Associates – Saint Mary’s College High School Student Chapel, Albany, California

BNIM – Lutheran Church of Hope-Grimes, Grimes, Iowa

RETAIL/SHOWROOMS

Dake Wells Architecture – Sunshine and National Retail Center, Springfield, Missouri

David Jameson Architect – Sherber + Rad, Washington, DC

atelierRISTING llc. – Glass Cabin, Fairbank, Iowa

Gensler – Cadillac House in Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Montalba Architects, Inc. – BLDWN, Los Angeles, California

Desai Chia Architecture – AFNY Project 6 Showroom, New York, New York

RESTORATION/RENOVATION

Woofter Architecture – PSU Stott Center Renovation + Viking Pavilion, Portland, Oregon

Aidlin Darling Design – Terrace House, San Francisco, California

Spectorgroup/ Perkins Eastman Architects – Audible Innovation Cathedral, Newark, New Jersey

Foster + Partners – Apple Carnegie Library, Washington D.C.

Alexander Gorlin Architects – Bell Works, Holmdel, New Jersey

Hughes Umbanhowar – Mashta, Key Biscayne, Florida

Roth Sheppard Architects – Rabbit House, Denver, Colorado

Practice for Architecture and Urbanism – Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, New York

Bone / Levine Architects – Anthology Film Archives Completion Project, New York, New York

Touloukian Touloukian Inc. – Terminal B, Boston, Massachusetts

SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES

Centerbrook Architects and Planners – Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Mitchell Giurgola – 370 Jay Street, New York University, Brooklyn, New York

Gensler – Columbia College Student Center, Chicago, Illinois

Payette – Amherst College New Science Center, Amherst, Massachusetts

KieranTimberland – Brown University, Engineering Research Center, Providence, Rhode Island\

Ennead Architects – Stanford University, Denning House, Stanford, California

William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. with Arrowstreet Architecture & Design – King Open Elementary / Cambridge Street Upper Schools and Community Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Weiss/Manfredi Architects – Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

CO Architects – University of Arizona Health Sciences Innovation Building, Tucson, Arizona

BVH Architecture – Nebraska Center for Advanced Professional Studies, Fairfield, Nebraska

Montalba Architects, Inc. – Headspace SM Campus, Santa Monica, California

The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP. in collaboration with Lord Aeck Sargent, a Ketterra Company – Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, Georgia Institute of Technology

SPORTS AND LEISURE

FGP Atelier/ Taller ADG – Centro Deportivo Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium, México City, México

Elkus Manfredi Architects – The Auerbach Center, Boston, Massachusetts

BVH Architecture – Niobrara River Valley Preserve Center, Johnstown, Nebraska

BLUR Workshop – Colorado Active Sports Entertainment Facility, Centennial, Colorado

TRANSPORTATION

Dake Wells Architecture – Springfield Underground Command Station, Springfield, Missouri

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects – Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco, California

URBAN PLANNING/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. – NYCHA Red Hook Houses Sandy Resiliency and Renewal Program, Brooklyn, New York

W Architecture and Landscape Architecture LLC. – The Edge Park, Brooklyn, New York

SurfaceDesign, Inc. – The Auckland International Airport Landscape, Auckland, New Zealand

PWP Landscape Architecture – Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland

All Awarded buildings can be viewed at The Museum’s website in an on-line exhbition at chi-athenaeum.org.

The American Architecture Awards, founded 26 years ago, is a centerpiece of The Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre’s efforts to identify and promote best practices in all types of architectural development and to bring a global focus to light of the best new designs from the United States. It is the only national and global program of its kind.

The 2020 Awards Presentation/Gala Dinner was to be held in Los Angeles, but has been postponed until next year due to the Corona Virus/COVID-19 Pandemic. A notice will be sent when the event is rescheduled.

All awarded buildings and urban planning projects are presented in (Global Design + Urbanism XX) New American Architecture 2020 published by Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.

Books can be purchased by contacting The Chicago Athenaeum or on-line at metropolitanartspress.com.

The deadline for the 2021 American Architecture Awards is February 1, 2021.

Applications for 2021 are available on line at chi-athenaeum.org.

About The Chicago Athenaeum (www.chi-athenaeum.org) is a global nonprofit education and research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to provide public education about the significance of architecture and design and how those disciplines can have a positive effect on the human environment.

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BBC News Health 6 Feb 2017 Article text at 7.30am ----- Unexpected mental health deaths up 50% in three years Leo Jacobs Leo Jacobs' death was deemed to be "unexpected" The number of unexpected patient deaths reported by England's mental health trusts has risen by almost 50% in three years, figures suggest. The findings, for the BBC's Panorama programme, are based on FOI results from half of mental health trusts. Unexpected deaths include death by suicide, neglect and misadventure. The Department of Health said the increase was "expected" because of changes to the way deaths were recorded and investigated. Thirty-three mental health trusts out of a total of 57 in England responded to the Panorama Freedom of Information request. In 2012-13, the trusts reported a total of 2,067 unexpected deaths. By 2015-16 that had risen to 3,160. The increase comes at a time of decreased funding for mental health trusts, which provide the bulk of mental health care in England. Exclusive new analysis for Panorama from the think tank, the Health Foundation, indicates that mental health trusts in England have had their funding cut by £150m over the past four years, compared with a rise in national spending on health of £8bn. Mental health and stigma: 'You're not alone' Mood self-assessment: Could I be depressed? The death of Sheila Preston's son Leo (Jacobs) is classed as an "unexpected death". Leo, who had schizophrenia, was 39 when he died of a suspected accidental overdose at his flat. Leo Jacobs Leo Jacobs' mother feels he was let down Sheila took me to his flat on her first visit - four days after her son's death. She told me: "I begged the trust to help him but they thought he was living well - he was managing but I knew that he wasn't. "I knew that he was going to get iller and iller and iller. And he died and when they came to tell me I was not surprised. I was expecting it. "The idea that people would be better living in the community is a very good idea - but the support is not there to help them maintain their health." Leo was a patient at Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust where Sheila is a lay governor. "I literally am sitting on the chair that my son died in, said Sheila. "And I know, I know, that my son and I know that people in the trust, good people in the trust, know that my son could've been saved." Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has recently been removed from special measures despite concerns over high numbers of patient deaths. It redesigned its services in 2013 after substantial cuts to its funding. Its chief executive Michael Scott said: "Five years ago before I joined the trust, the trust was under financial pressure, there's no doubt about that, and it had to respond to that financial pressure by changing the way it ran its services. "And my personal view is I think mistakes were made in that period." He said of the trust "we're on a journey of improvement". "What the facts actually show is that one of the reasons that those numbers (unexpected deaths) are changing is that we are providing more services than we ever did before. "We've acknowledged that people are dying, what's important is that we understand the causes." Missing out Anita Charlesworth, economist at the Health Foundation, said mental health trusts were receiving a falling share of funding. "The NHS has not set out to cut mental health services but as they've got rising patient demand elsewhere, they've had to look for cuts to make up that budget shortfall and often it is mental health services that have borne the brunt of those." Almost every mental health trust in the country is currently in the process of redesigning its services and restructuring is under way across England as part of 44 STPs or Sustainability and Transformation Plans. But there is concern about what those redesigns will mean for care. The President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Sir Simon Wessely has concerns that services may be about to get worse. "I've been in meetings with chief executives and chairs of trusts who are openly talking about that they'll have to decommission services next year," he said. "What is I think tragic is that it's the time when we have been promised increased funding and there is no doubt that this is not yet getting to where it is intended." Marjorie Wallace, from the mental health charity Sane, said she was shocked by the rise in unexpected deaths. She said: "We are particularly concerned because these are the most vulnerable people that we have entrusted into the care of mental health services and they are so often being failed - both them and their families." A Department of Health spokesman said: "This increase in the number of deaths is to be expected because the NHS is very deliberately improving the way such events are recorded and investigated following past failings. "From April all NHS trusts will be required to publish both numbers of avoidable deaths and how they are improving care. "We also dispute the funding figures used in this programme."

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Government injects £2.7bn to build six hospitals

The Government has pledged to fund the largest hospital building programme in a generation with potentially more than 40 projects.

At its core, the new Health Infrastructure Plan will see £2.7bn injected into publicly funding six new large hospital projects by 2025.

A further 21 NHS Trusts will get a share of £100m of seed funding they need to develop business cases for 34 upgrade and new-build projects within the next decade.

Six projects to be publicly funded with £2.7bn Region Trust Site Location London Barts Health NHS Trust Whipps Cross University Hospital North East London London Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust St Helier Hospital South West London North East and Yorkshire Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds General Infirmary Leeds East The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Princess Alexandra Hospital Harlow Midlands University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester General, Leicester Royal, Glenfield Leicester East West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Watford General Watford 21 trusts to share £100m seed funding for plans (2025-2030) East Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Addenbrookes Cambridge South West Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Various (potentially 12) community hospitals Dorset South East East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Conquest, Eastbourne District Hospitals Hastings; Eastbourne South East Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital Winchester; Basingstoke London Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The Hillingdon Hospital North West London London Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Charing Cross, St Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospitals West and Central London East James Paget University Hospitals NHS Trust James Paget Hospital Great Yarmouth Midlands Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust Kettering General Hospital Kettering North West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Preston Hospital Preston East Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust Milton Keynes Hospital Milton Keynes South West North Devon Healthcare NHS Trust North Devon District Hospital Barnstaple Midlands Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham City Hospital Nottingham North West Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust North Manchester General Hospital North Manchester South West Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust Derriford Hospital Plymouth South East Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading South West Royal Cornwall NHS Foundation Trust Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro South West Royal United Bath NHS Foundation Trust Royal United Bath Hospital Bath South West Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton South West Torbay and South Devon Health Care NHS Trust Torbay District General Torquay North West University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Furness General Hospital Lancaster; Barrow- in-Furness East West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust West Suffolk Hospital Bury St Edmunds

Fresh investment is on top of the extra £33.9bn a year by 2023 to 2024 that the government is providing to the NHS.

It follows the government’s recent commitment of £1.8bn in capital funding for 20 hospital upgrades and other critical infrastructure works for the NHS.

Chief executive of NHS Providers, Chris Hopson said: “We welcome the government’s intention to fund a further 21 schemes between 2025 and 2030 and the £100m for those organisations to start work on developing those projects, noting that the funding to actually compete those schemes remains to be allocated.

“The NHS has been starved of capital since 2010. There’s a £6bn maintenance backlog, £3bn of it safety critical. It’s not just these six hospitals who have crumbling, outdated, infrastructure – community and mental health trusts, ambulance services and other hospitals across the country have equally pressing needs.”

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Government injects £2.7bn to build six hospitals

The Government has pledged to fund the largest hospital building programme in a generation with potentially more than 40 projects.

At its core, the new Health Infrastructure Plan will see £2.7bn injected into publicly funding six new large hospital projects by 2025.

A further 21 NHS Trusts will get a share of £100m of seed funding they need to develop business cases for 34 upgrade and new-build projects within the next decade.

Six projects to be publicly funded with £2.7bn Region Trust Site Location London Barts Health NHS Trust Whipps Cross University Hospital North East London London Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust St Helier Hospital South West London North East and Yorkshire Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds General Infirmary Leeds East The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Princess Alexandra Hospital Harlow Midlands University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester General, Leicester Royal, Glenfield Leicester East West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Watford General Watford 21 trusts to share £100m seed funding for plans (2025-2030) East Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Addenbrookes Cambridge South West Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Various (potentially 12) community hospitals Dorset South East East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Conquest, Eastbourne District Hospitals Hastings; Eastbourne South East Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital Winchester; Basingstoke London Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The Hillingdon Hospital North West London London Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Charing Cross, St Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospitals West and Central London East James Paget University Hospitals NHS Trust James Paget Hospital Great Yarmouth Midlands Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust Kettering General Hospital Kettering North West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Preston Hospital Preston East Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust Milton Keynes Hospital Milton Keynes South West North Devon Healthcare NHS Trust North Devon District Hospital Barnstaple Midlands Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham City Hospital Nottingham North West Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust North Manchester General Hospital North Manchester South West Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust Derriford Hospital Plymouth South East Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading South West Royal Cornwall NHS Foundation Trust Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro South West Royal United Bath NHS Foundation Trust Royal United Bath Hospital Bath South West Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton South West Torbay and South Devon Health Care NHS Trust Torbay District General Torquay North West University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Furness General Hospital Lancaster; Barrow- in-Furness East West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust West Suffolk Hospital Bury St Edmunds

Fresh investment is on top of the extra £33.9bn a year by 2023 to 2024 that the government is providing to the NHS.

It follows the government’s recent commitment of £1.8bn in capital funding for 20 hospital upgrades and other critical infrastructure works for the NHS.

Chief executive of NHS Providers, Chris Hopson said: “We welcome the government’s intention to fund a further 21 schemes between 2025 and 2030 and the £100m for those organisations to start work on developing those projects, noting that the funding to actually compete those schemes remains to be allocated.

“The NHS has been starved of capital since 2010. There’s a £6bn maintenance backlog, £3bn of it safety critical. It’s not just these six hospitals who have crumbling, outdated, infrastructure – community and mental health trusts, ambulance services and other hospitals across the country have equally pressing needs.”

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Report: Reimagine Prosecutor Role Through Pushing for Reform

As a new wave of reform-driven prosecutors make their mark across the country, a report released this week outlines a framework that all prosecutors can use to “unwind the machinery of punitive excess, promote equity, and affirm the human dignity of all who are impacted by the justice system.”

The report, “Prosecutors, Democracy, and Justice: Holding Prosecutors Accountable,” sponsored by the Executive Session of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College, points to major shifts in the idea of what a prosecutor’s role should be in society.

There is a “deep irony” in the expectation that prosecutors should be expected to lead the way, becoming change agents, the report acknowledges. “There is necessarily a reckoning with what it means for prosecutors to play a role in dismantling a system they helped to create.”

Yet change is in the air, and reform candidates for office are “vying to show their commitment to ending mass incarceration and ameliorating other harms associated with the criminal justice system,” said the report, co-written by Jeremy Travis, executive vice-president of Criminal Justice, Arnold Ventures; Carter Stewart, managing director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation; and Allison Goldberg, policy advisor, Institute for Innovation in Prosecution.

The report recommends the aspirational goals for prosecutors as these three guiding principles: unwind punitive excess, promote equity, and affirm human dignity.

Prosecutors currently pursuing these goals can face “an enormous challenge” as they run up against resistance in some states. One example given was the result of  State Attorney Aramis Ayala of Florida’s Orange-Osceola announcing she would not seek the death penalty early in her term. “After her announcement, then-Florida Governor Rick Scott removed more than two dozen cases from SA Ayala, the state legislature cut $1.3 million from her budget, and the state prosecutor’s association filed an amicus brief against SA Ayala.”

The report states that “This resistance has been focused, in particular, on women of color. In addition to SA Ayala, Kim Foxx, SA of Cook County (IL); Rachael Rollins, DA of Suffolk County (MA); and other women of color serving as prosecutor have experienced unprecedented retaliation, including personal threats, as they takes strides towards reform.” As of 2015, 95 percent of elected prosecutors were white.

Underscoring this critical debate is the fact that as the elected chief local law enforcement official, prosecutors exercise enormous influence, with “the power to convene, inform, and guide public discourse on criminal justice policy,” said the report.

Reform-minded prosecutors can “leverage empirical evidence, their growing power in numbers as well as their public mandate to resist political pushback and continue their work towards a more just system.”

Specifically, prosecutors, through everyday practice, can affect many, many lives and the public’s perceptions of justice by the exercise of discretion in five domains:

Charging. “In the modern reform era, outcomes should encompass a goal of shrinking the justice footprint in order to garner trust and legitimacy, while promoting public safety and equity.”

Bail Recommendations. “By confronting the harsh realities of pretrial detention, a reform-minded prosecutor can make a significant contribution to reducing mass incarceration.”

Plea Policy. “Reform-minded prosecutors can refine their plea policies in order to ensure transparency and constitutional protections of the accused.”

Sentence Recommendations. “Prosecutors should consider what sentence will be the most effective and least harmful for the individual convicted, their family, and their community.”

Post-sentence reviews. “Prosecutors play an important role in the decisions of parole boards in those states with indeterminate sentencing systems.”

Beyond the specifics of courtroom action, the report urges prosecutors to see themselves as serving in five distinct capacities: “As CEO of their office, a leader in the jurisdiction’s criminal justice system, a respected voice in times of crisis, a ‘minister of justice’ knowledgeable about the issues of crime, and a leader of the broader justice reform movement.”

The full report, “Prosecutors, Democracy, and Justice: Holding Prosecutors Accountable,” can be accessed here.

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